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PHILADELPHIA –- Frederick A. Murphy has been selected as the 2009 recipient of the Penn Vet World Leadership Award. Murphy is the James W. McLaughlin Professor in Residence, Department of Pathology at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.
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Frederick A. Murphy Honored With $100,000 Penn Vet World Leadership Award
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Penn Museum to Open "Painted Metaphors: Pottery and Politics of the Ancient Maya"
PHILADELPHIA –- A world-renowned collection of ancient Maya painted pottery, excavated by the University of Pennsylvania Museum nearly a century ago and reinterpreted in light of recent research, provides the centerpiece for "Painted Metaphors: Pottery and Politics of the Ancient Maya," an exhibition opening at Penn Museum April 5 and running through December before beginning a multi-city national tour.
Penn Research Team Tests Bedside Monitoring of Brain Blood Flow and Metabolism in Stroke Victims
PHILADELPHIA – A University of Pennsylvania team has completed the first successful demonstration of a noninvasive optical device to monitor cerebral blood flow in patients with acute stroke, a leading cause of disability and death.
The ultimate goal of this research is to improve the management of patients with stroke and other brain disorders by providing continuous bedside monitoring of brain blood flow and metabolism.
Penn Evolutionary Biologist and Computer Scientist Awarded Sloan Research Fellowships
PHILADELPHIA -– Joshua Plotkin, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Pennsylvania, and Steve Zdancewic, associate professor of computer and information science at Penn, have been named Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellows for 2009.
Penn Opens Center for Particle Cosmology to Study Early Nature of the Universe
Leading experts in physics and astronomy will gather for a reception celebrating the launch of the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Particle Cosmology, a joint venture between cosmology and particle physics which provides an incubator for research into dark matter, dark energy and the nature of the early universe, fostering the development of new theoretical approaches.
It's The Network: Penn Researchers Examine Behavior, Consensus Building Influenced By Network Structure
PHILADELPHIA –- A team of computer scientists at the University of Pennsylvania investigating the political, social and economic struggle between individual self-interest and the need to build a consensus have learned that, depending only on the structure of the network of participants, they can engineer surprising experimental results.
Brain Structure Assists in Immune Response, According to Penn Vet Study
PHILADELPHIA –- For the first time, a team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine have imaged in real time the body's immune response to a parasitic infection in the brain.
Just Living With Females Extends the Reproductive Life of the Male Mouse, Says Penn Veterinary Researcher
PHILADELPHIA –- Living with a female mouse can extend the reproductive life of a male mouse by as much as 20 percent, according to a study conducted by Ralph Brinster and a team of other researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine. The study was reported online today in the journal Biology of Reproduction.
Embryonic Heart Cells Thrive Only in an Environment That's Just Right, Penn Study Says
PHILADELPHIA –- Cellular engineers at the University of Pennsylvania have determined that cardiomyocytes, the specialized cells that form the heart muscle, thrive when cultured in an environment that mimics their own elastic nature but falter, weaken or die when "grown" on stiffer or softer materials.
A Microscale System to Study Frustration in Buckled Monolayers of Microspheres Is Demonstrated at Penn
PHILADELPHIA –- A team of University of Pennsylvania physicists has demonstrated a simple system based on micron-sized spheres in water to study and control geometric frustration. Their research, published today in the journal Nature, elucidates open questions about frustration and frustration relief and provides a new tool for scientists grappling with these issues in a variety of fields from magnetism to basic statistical mechanics.


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Man dies after shooting in southeast Houston January 25, 2015 Moderator A man was killed Sunday after being shot four to five times in southeast Houston.
Traffic accident happens in same location as fatal wreck that killed firefighter January 25, 2015 Moderator Another accident happened in the same location Sunday as a fatal accident that killed a 20-year-old volunteer firefighter Saturday.
Watt gets 2 turnovers, dances in friendly Pro Bowl January 25, 2015 Moderator The Texans star defensive end adds some more credentials in his campaign to be the NFL's Most Valuable Player.
20-year-old firefighter killed in car crash January 25, 2015 Moderator A young firefighter was killed in a car crash in Plantersville on Saturday afternoon.
Man gives away money at Houston hospital waiting room January 25, 2015 Moderator Several people sitting in the emergency waiting room at Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital on Beechnut got the shock of a lifetime Friday.
James Harden gets 37, Rockets rout spiraling Lakers 99-87 January 25, 2015 Moderator James Harden had 37 points and eight rebounds, and the Houston Rockets rolled to a 99-87 victory over the Lakers on Sunday
Miss Colombia crowned Miss Universe in Miami January 25, 2015 Moderator Miss Colombia Paulina Vega has been crowned Miss Universe, beating out first runner-up Miss USA Nia Sanchez and contestants from more than 80 other countries at Sunday's pageant in Miami.

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9 Here is the mind which has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman is seated: | 9 "This calls for a mind with wisdom. The seven heads are seven hills on which the woman sits. |
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See Polica Play Motel Housekeeper in Dreamy 'I Need $' Video
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Poliça have completed their de facto trilogy of music videos supporting last year's Shulamith album. Following the torture-porn nightmare seen in "Tiff" and the dream-like paradise depicted in "Warrior Lord," we have a new visual for upcoming single "I Need $." Directed by Isaac Ravishankara, the video casts singer Channy Leaneagh as a motel cleaning woman who longs for a different kind of life, who'd rather daydream than scrub away strangers' messes. We won't give away the ending entirely, but know that the six-and-a-half-minute piece includes a coda of "So Leave," the closing track from Poliça's sophomore LP.
"Having 'So Leave' in the video felt as natural as a continuation of the story as it does musically on the album," Ravishankara said in an official statement, explaining the addition. Check out the video above, scroll down for Poliça's tour dates, and watch for the official "I Need $" single, which drops on March 3.
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January 23 - Oslo, Norway @ Bla
January 24 - Copenhagen, Denmark @ Vega
January 25 - Hamburg, Germany @ Uebel & Gefährlich
January 27 - Berlin, Germany @ Heimathafen
January 28 - Cologne, Germany @ Kulturkirche
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February 15 - Tlaltizapán, Mexico @ Las Estacas Natural Park
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Staying Traditional at St. Joseph Cathedral, Part 1
Show 49-1
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In this edition of the SVC Podcast, SVC Contributing Editor Bennett Liles talks with Peter Borchard of MuSonics about the sound system and acoustics upgrade designed by him with the help of Dr. Dennis Fleisher at St. Joseph Cathedral in Sioux Falls, S.D. Borchard outlines the concept of maintaining lofty sounding reverberation for the pastors while improving speech intelligibility. MuSonics and Audio Connections of Brookings, S.D., installed a new wireless microphone system and convinced the priests to use head worn microphones for better sound.
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Want to discover which former White House official's firm now lobbies on behalf of Pakistan? Or which prominent lobbying group makes $400,000 a year helping China get its way on international trade issues? It's public information, but it has been held virtually out of reach for most Americans until now. Records showing which American firms lobby on behalf of foreign interests are now available online. For years, those records have been held in the files of an anonymous windowless office tucked away in a nondescript building on Washington, D.C.'s New York Avenue, all but unavailable to the majority of Americans to whom the documents are supposedly public. The bureaucratic cubbyhole known as the Foreign Agents Registration Unit is open to researchers just four hours a day, and its obsolete computers have been known to break down. Despite the fact the office's records are public, the office charges a $.50-per-page copy fee, making a 20-page document yours for only $10. Officials have blamed the idiosyncrasies of the office on chronic underfunding. "I've wasted many days of my life there," said Nathaniel Heller, who researches foreign lobbying for the nonprofit watchdog Center for Public Integrity. While the odd location, hours and computers were annoying, Heller said the document cost was the most frustrating aspect of the office. "I heard stories of journalists bringing in digital cameras to take pictures of the computer screens so they didn't have to pay the cost," Heller told ABC News. But that's all changing. Last week, the Justice Department quietly posted a link on its Web site to an online search engine, which can pull up the very same documents from any computer connected to the Internet. So you can discover that former Clinton White House aide Jack Quinn signed an agreement to lobby for Pakistan. A spokesman for the firm says that despite the filing, the firm recently severed ties with the country and will submit new paperwork this month. Or that the well-known firm Hogan and Hartson gets $400,000 a year to "render strategic advice" to China on global trade issues. "It's huge," Heller said of the new online tool. "It makes [the information] much more accessible. Daily beat reporters can access this stuff and still make their deadlines." Now, too, foreign reporters can more easily find out who is representing their country in Washington, Heller observed. "It's something to celebrate," he said of the new database. Do you have a tip for Brian Ross and the Investigative Team?
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Perhaps inflated insurance company profits were the culprit.
Maybe it was all of these factors. Or could it be some combination of them, plus the fact that American healthcare is so much more meticulous and effective that the high cost is simply the product of caring for the sick better than any other country does?
The truth is, I had no idea. But I thought I could find out if I could dissect a bunch of bills, then trace the money back to who got paid what and look at who was making what levels of profit or sustaining what levels of losses.
As those who have read the article or heard about it now know, I found that all my initial suspicions were wrong. By following the money, I discovered that our healthcare prices are out of whack for a reason that was hiding in plain sight — a reason that should be obvious to anyone who has ever been a healthcare consumer, which means all of us: There is no such thing as a free market in healthcare, if one defines a free market as a place where there is some balance of power between the buyer and the seller. Instead, healthcare is — except when Medicare is the buyer — a lopsided seller's market. That became clear at both ends of the money trails I followed — from the patients' lack of any knowledge of what they were buying or its prices, much less any leverage to bargain over it, to the sellers' ability and willingness to charge absurdly high prices on everything from gauze pads to ambulance services to cancer wonder drugs.
To take one example, when I decoded a line in one bill to find that $1.50 was being charged for a generic version of Tylenol, while Amazon sells bottles of 100 for $1.49, the explanation offered by the MD Anderson Cancer Center was that the profit on the pill helped defray the costs of all the other care involved in housing and treating the patient. That seemed logical enough until I found another line item for $1,791 just for each night of the patient's stay, along with dozens of other ridiculously high charges for everything from blood tests to cotton swabs. But the best evidence — what allowed for a final verdict — was found at the bottom line, in the financial report the hospital has to file with the government every year. The revered nonprofit Houston cancer center had an operating profit of $531 million — an astounding 26 percent margin. That certainly meant they could have thrown in the Tylenol with the $1,791 room charge.
When I followed the money trail behind the drugs, medical devices, or CT scan equipment that the patients or their insurance companies were billed for, the profit margins for the hospitals that supplied them, as high as they were, were eclipsed by the margins of the manufacturers that sold them to the hospitals. In the case of the drug companies, their research and development costs, it turned out when their securities filings were examined, were not nearly high enough to justify prices whose only real justification seemed to be that in the United States, unlike other developed countries that control drug prices, they can charge whatever they want because their patents give them a legal monopoly.
In other words, everyone along the supply chain — from hospital administrators (who enjoy multimillion-dollar salaries) to the salesmen, executives, and shareholders of drug and equipment makers — was reaping a bonanza. The only exceptions, I found, were those actually treating the patients — the nurses and doctors (unless the doctors were gaming the system by reaping consulting fees from drug or device makers or setting up diagnostic clinics in their practices in order to steer patients there for expensive tests).
It really mattered that I was so curious about all this, and that I became almost obsessively curious as I began to discover what was behind these bills. For there was a mountain of grunt work involved in following the money line by line, from the patient, to the doctor's office or the clinic or the hospital, and then back to supplier.
That brings to mind another lesson I push on my students, which, because they are a bunch of smart Yalies, sometimes rubs them the wrong way: In journalism, hard work is a lot more important than a high IQ.


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Well, I think I may have an issue with my M&P9c. I have the full size mag with the grip extender for it that I use at the range and it seems to be releasing the mag after almost every shot. At first, I was sure I must be bumping the mag release with my thumb, but now I'm not so sure. 3 other people tried it with the same result, and beyond that, I would think the mag release shouldn't be so soft as to release the mag on a slight nudge during recoil.
Now, it releasing the range mag is more of an annoying more than anything since that mag is only used at the range, not in SD; however, I think it may be doing it sometimes when I'm shooting it with the short magazines that came stock with the gun. This would be a problem as they are what I carry it with and have loaded for SD in my home as well. I'm still not sure that I'm not bumping the mag release with my thumb occasionally, but I still wonder if a mag release should be that sensitive.
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In the span of 34 concert dates, with each show running approximately two-and-a-half hours long, The Throne performed "Ni**as In Paris" a total of 168 times. (That's an average of 4.94 times a night!) Here are some handy numbers in regards to all their "Paris" plays:
168: Total number of times "Ni**as in Paris" played in concert.
11: In Vancouver (12/17)
10: Los Angeles (12/14)
9: Chicago (12/1); Los Angeles (12/13)
2: Atlanta (10/28)
0: Paris40:25: Running time, in minutes, of "Paris" in Vancouver, after being played 11 times.
613.2: Total live running time, in minutes.
194: Running time, in minutes, of the movie Titanic.
705: Running time, in minutes, of Band of Brothers miniseries.
26.7: Full House episodes one could watch, in that time.
2: Seconds of "married Kate and Ashley" per "Paris."134: Total times Jay-Z said, "Again!"
1,680: "Don't let me get in my zone"-s.
2,856: "Ball so hard"-s.
0: New Jersey Nets' regular-season games so far this year.
2,184: "CRAY"-s.
Over 2,000 "cray"s? That shit cray. If you missed out on their live show, just play the below track 168 times to catch up to the rest of us.
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In an interview with Las Cruces Sun News, newly appointed Public Regulation Commissioner Doug Howe stated he supports a number of the recommendations made by "Think New Mexico" for restructuring the New Mexico regulatory agency. Howe stated he felt the PRC should focus on its core responsibilities of utility and telecommunications regulation. He also supports establishing some additional criteria for persons elected to the position, a key recommendation from the bi-partisan Think New Mexico group. Democrat Jason Marks and Republican Patrick Lyons favor some reductions in the agency's responsibilities while Democrat Theresa Becenti Aguilar and Republican Ben Hall believe reforms can come from within. Any changes to the responsibilities or qualifications for the Commissioners would have to come from the legislature and from the NM voters, since the PRC's responsibilities are derived from the NM Constitution and not merely from statutes. Howe, an Independent, was recently appointed by Governor Susana Martinez to fill the position vacated by Jerome Block Junior. Howe's term lasts through December 31, 2012. In the interview, Howe indicated he had not decided whether he would run for re-election in November 2012 for a full four-year term.
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Nichole Robertson roams the French capital capturing its browns, yellows, blues and more, for a blog and book
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KOCHI: The Kerala high court on Friday declined to intervene in the challenge raised against entrance test conducted for admission to post graduate medical courses.
Dismissing a batch of petitions highlighting that the answer key relied upon by the authorities were wrong, justice T R Ramachandran Nair said that the cut-off date for admissions was already over and therefore the court could not intervene.
Citing several decisions of the Supreme Court, the judge ruled that the court would not be justified in intervening at this stage as the cut-off date for admissions was over.
Stressing the importance of cut-off date, the court clarified that it need not go into the contention of the government that candidates who got admission and included in the rank list have not been impleaded in the case as well as the counter-argument by petitioners that an application to furnish details of candidates who got admission so as to implead them had already been filed.
The court also declined to look into the contention raised by petitioners that the answer key relied upon by the authorities is wrong.
The petitioners had alleged that the textbooks and authorities relied upon by them will show that some of the answer keys are not correct. The government had contended that the argument is not correct if reliance is placed on other textbooks.
The court held that it could not venture into an exercise of verifying correctness of answer keys and is not going into the merits of the contentions. Relying on apex court's decisions, the court pointed out that it would not act as an expert. It will have to be done by academic bodies or individual experts in the field. Though the court can order for such an exercise, it cannot be done in the present case in view of the cut-off date, the court clarified.
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curving, beautiful,
ocean cloudy,
yet when you imagine them
they shine the clearest ideal blue.
Salt on your tongue and in your eye
reminds you there is no escape
from grit, from the salty sand ashore,
there can be only less or more.
It's enough to make you contemplate
a seaweed's fate or fish's story
seen from it's ugly marble eyes,
how the ocean shallows
shift distant horizons
into whole alien
beyond, behind.
You contemplate waves,
take mental snapshots, recall
precise amounts of sand stirring
at the shuffle of your foot, floating
to the top of the wave like white pepper
in a scratched kitchen glass. You are
limited, terribly limited at counting
grains of sand upon the shore.
Only god has time for that, so
just enjoy the screams of
pleasure, fun, perhaps
a little hidden, silent
panic as the
waves crash
To read Enoch's bio and more of his poetry published on WIZ, go here.
Photo by Jon Sullivan
]]>We hit something
she said "a raccoon?"
I said, "opossum."
I said, "turn around,
let's turn around."
and there it was lying in the street
a silhouette of sharp snout and feet
orange on grey on black, the colors fade.
A cat, we hit a cat.
So this is death, bulging, leaking red eyes
protruding from its crushed and swollen head.
She, distraught
me, disturbed
so this is death.
I've been punished
now to forever drive
and hold a breathe
at every shadow
across the road.
Enoch Thompson is an aspiring poet and storyteller. A grave robber, a pirate, a wizard, an ugly shambling skeleton, he trudges the paths eighteen million other better men have skipped down. Always, as new words become published and new voices shout to be heard, his anxieties grow. He is a modern-day writer and encapsulates all of the insecurities society has placed on the cliched profession.
To see more poetry on WIZ by Enoch, click here.
]]>While I'll take life in any season, the transition from summer to fall is bumpy for me. This year, the melancholy I often feel during these pre-winter months has been accented by various family crises. Still, as the song goes, How can I keep from singing?
For all of us who feel the approach of autumn in the lowering of summer's flame, WIZ is starting a haiku chain. So far in my part of the world the year has delivered a mixed bag of weather. Summer was cooler than usual and cooler than the ones we first experienced when we moved to the Four Corners region 9 years ago. Yet here we are three weeks into September with nary a hint of frost. Last winter was cold and windy, crackling with drought. The character of this winter seems anybody's guess. If your summer-autumn transition seems unusual, you might remark on that in your haiku. Traditionally, haiku mention the season under consideration, but the season under consideration might be shifting in character. Feel free to explore that in haiku if you feel so inclined, but please emphasize the sensory detail of your experience–the sights, sounds, tastes, feel, and odors of the difference.
Many of you know what a haiku is: a classical Japanese poetical form, usually 17 syllables all in a single line in Japanese, but there are longer and shorter forms. In English, a haiku stacks lines, often in the order of one short line of 5 syllables on top, a long line of 7 syllables in the middle, then another short line of 5 syllables on the bottom. But there are many variations. Pick what you feel comfortable with.
How a WIZ haiku chain usually goes is this: Someone starts the chain. This year, I'm stepping up to do that. Somebody follows me, adding a single haiku in the comments, and then another person takes a crack, and 'round we go. You may link your haiku to an image in the previous haiku or stud the chain with something wholly original. I enjoy seeing other people's individual expressions of how the arrival of this season strikes them and linking them up with mine. Other than the informal, one-at-a-time-please tradition, there's no limit to turns a participant can take and no deadline for this activity.
My first link:
Fall, when light acquires
a drawl, when it slurs through leaves,
twangs in spider silk.
Patricia Karamesines lives with her family in the Four Corners region of the southwestern U.S. She has won many awards for her poetry, essays, and fiction. She is the author of The Pictograph Murders, a mystery set in the area where she lives. An adjunct English professor for Utah State University-College of Eastern Utah, she teaches English composition but acts at the college mainly as an English tutor, working mostly with the school's Native American students. She is founding editor of Wilderness Interface Zone and a passionate advocate for the environment of human expression.
]]>I don't know the names—
No very names.
Oh, chapparal. Oh, sage.
Vague names.
Oh, cactus, tumbleweed.
Oh, scorpion.
Oh, coiled up shaker of a shaman's bones.
Oh, crook-limbed walker on the knuckled sands.
Oh, day-lived blossom, thirsting in its death.
Oh, winged portent of the flight of breath.
Bright shadows
In a sun
That beats its laundry past the need of clean.
I am the rag-post.
Mummied graves
Croak the long story of my ignorance.
Mark Penny has poetry on WIZ and Everyday Mormon Writer and in Sunstone and Dialogue, and fiction on Everyday Mormon Writer and Lowly Seraphim. He was winner of the Wilderness Interface Zone 2012 Spring Poetry Runoff Admin Award, a finalist in the Everyday Mormon Writer Four Centuries of Mormon Stories Contest, and a semi-finalist in the 2014 Mormon Lit Blitz. He hopes the trend will bounce.
Current projects include a poetry collection, a Mormon spec fic collection, a dozen or so novels, a collaboration that will blow your spirit right out of your brain, and a unified theory of narrative.
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]]>The universe is
Cold tonight
A winter of stars
Illuminate the world
Its heaven
Full of danger
And mystery
Just tonight
An asteroid
Three football
Fields in length
Slipped by
Missed us
By 1,500,000 miles
Small margin
Experts say
Enough for us
For now, maybe
Before one hits
We live and die
Hearing the stories
Of our ancestors
Similar tribes before
Us and we wander
Days and nights
Find more by Bob Gill here.
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]]>Just a moment
Full of happiness
Just an instant
You may have missed
Compared to drought
The water
Of life pours over you
In a torrent
For centuries
It seems
And may have been
To bubble forth
And thunder
Bob Gill resides in Berkeley, California.
Photo of the Strokkur Geyser in Iceland by Andreas Tille via Wikimedia Commons.
]]>Phallic shafts shock nocturnal
waters, wave fingers like fireworks,
flags of welcome, of final embrace
to small fish daring to flutter about
these make-shift flowers.
They are their own
entertainment, brilliantly blowing,
blooming in belligerent pantomime
of lighted breath. This crown
ring of kings rejoice in banishment,
openly celebrating their midnight world.
Photo by Nick Hobgood via Wikimedia Commons, 2005.
Follow the links for Huffman's bio and more of her work at WIZ.
]]>is a delayed growl standing several
steps behind the starring flash. Backup-
singing, supportive round of applause. Darker
partner waiting in invisible wings. Eruptive
echo marks the distance to point
of contact, countdown after-strike.
Photo by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration via Wikimedia Commons, 2005.
Follow the links for Huffman's bio and more of her work at WIZ.
]]>The garden sogs under persistent downpour. Green
grows with a sickly gray clinging like shadows,
cloud contamination. In a quiet corner, lone
hibiscus stretches petals toward sky, embraces
drops battering against brilliance. Resilient
as the solar power color emulates, it remains open,
a burst of warming reassurance that the sky cannot fall
Photo by the poet. Follow the links for Huffman's bio and more at WIZ.
after "Age of Abundance," by Osnat Tzadok
Flares of imaginary fire burn across forest's crown.
Light and leaves come alive, collectively breathe
in mirrored mist, rising like smoke from absent flame.
My eyes begin to water in belief. This is the image
of sulfured Hell. I pray for the salvation of sun-
A.J. Huffman has published seven solo chapbooks and one joint chapbook through various small presses. Her eighth solo chapbook, Drippings from a Painted Mind, won the 2013 Two Wolves Chapbook Contest. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee, and her poetry, fiction, and haiku have appeared in hundreds of national and international journals, including Labletter, The James Dickey Review, Bone Orchard, EgoPHobia, Kritya, and Offerta Speciale, in which her work appeared in both English and Italian translation. She is also the founding editor of Kind of a Hurricane Press.
Photo by Albert Herring via Wikimedia Commons: "89 Mesa Fire, 5/6/10." Tzadok's landscape can be seen here.


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Earlier doctors had to travel all the way to UK to obtain the international degree. Once aspiring doctors clear the exam, they will be allowed to use the designation 'MRCPCH (UK)' in their practice. While written examinations for MRCPCH have been taking place at the hospital since 2009, this is the first time the clinical examination will be held here on June 16 and 17.
A team of senior consultants from the National Health Service (NHS) in UK led will oversee the examination in partnership with a team of senior consultants from India. Dr Ramesh Mehta, principle regional examiner of South Asia for the Royal College said, "The MRCPCH is a prestigious international examination that is recognised by the Indian government and gives Indian doctors the opportunity to get an international post graduate examination without leaving the country".
Consultant paediatrician at Kokilaben Hospital Dr Santanu Sen, also an examiner said, "MRCPCH is a rigorous examination where even the examiners have to train and be evaluated." Sen said 48 paediatricians from all over India and even other countries like Singapore, Australia, Muscat, Brunei, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia would be taking the examination in Mumbai.
"We even have a large number of candidates from the UK itself who are very keen to take the examination here in India," he said.
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Oculus Rift Racing Simulation
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Time: 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Age Group: 7 and Up
Step into a 2014 Porsche Panamera in this student created virtual reality racing arcade machine. This student built arcade machine and video game simulation are not only a way to test your driving skills but a way to experience the future of game immersion by means of virtual reality with the Oculus Rift.
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There is no warm and fuzzy about current display trechnology. It would be better if the gov would stay out of it and let the marketplace do its thing. This includes requlations on what must or must not be a part of every monitor. The other mess is display manufactures bowing to the studios whims for DRM. Stop this and consumers will come running.
Crystal Ball
Where is flat-screen technology headed?
I have a first-generation Pioneer Kuro in my bedroom and a Sony SXRD rear-pro in my den. Sony has discontinued SXRD technology, and I can't tell where Pioneer is headed with the Kuro now that it has outsourced production. I would like to replace the Sony with a flat panelit's picture quality is actually pretty good, but having such a bulky item between my speakers degrades the sound of my stereo. But lately, I'm feeling a little snake-bit from spending good money on televisions only to wonder a year or two after the purchase whether I'll still be able to buy parts in five years.
So for now, I'm on the sidelines, wondering when the next big jump in picture quality will occur, what it will be, and just as importantly, what the length of its product life cycle will be. What do you foresee?
Ah, the perennial questionbuy now or wait for the Next Big Thing? I'm with you in my curiosity about Pioneer's Kuro sets now that Panasonic is going to be making the glass. What I saw of Panasonic's new "Neo PDP" plasma panel at CES was quite impressive, and I'm guessing it will be the technology used in the next-gen Kuros. If so, they should look great, but it's all conjecture at this point. I'll have to wait to see an actual set before I can say for sure. I suspect that will be sometime next year.
Another observation from CES is that flat-panel picture quality saw incremental improvementand reduced thicknessbut nothing truly revolutionary. Sure, there were OLED TVs at the Sony and Samsung booths, but those are years away from being viable large-screen TVs, and even more years before they are anything approaching affordable.
Meanwhile, Pioneer Kuros get very close to true blackthat is, 0 foot-lambertsand local-dimming LCD sets actually achieve it, so how much better than they get? The color gamuts of these TVs are very close to correct, and most other measures of their picture quality are equally good, so any improvement in the near term is going to be marginal.
The only area I see any possibility for dramatic improvement is resolution. People are starting to talk about 4K displaysthat is, roughly 4096x2301but such displays are bound to be ultra-expensive. Also, there is no commercially available content at that resolution, and there isn't likely to be for several years at least. Thus, I don't think it's something to wait for at this point.
As for product life cycles, they've been getting shorter and shorter over time. That's just the nature of the industry, so my best advice is to get the best display you can afford now and enjoy it as long as you can. It's not going to change just because something better comes alongit will still perform just as well as the day you bought it for years to come. The only thing that will change is your attitude toward it, and that's something over which you have complete control.
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"But lately, I'm feeling a little snake-bit from spending good money on televisions only to wonder a year or two after the purchase whether I'll still be able to buy parts in five years." I believe tech companies are required to stock an adequate number of parts for repairs with anything they sell for a number of years after a product is discontinued. The only thing you really need to worry about is when a company goes out of business...
Mr. Wilkinson, Thanks for answering my question. I purchased both my Sony SXRD and my Pioneer Kuro based on reviews in UAV and have been pleased with those purchase decisions - other than my worries about the parts issue - so I have confidence in the information this web site provides. Sounds like we should expect evolution and not revolution for awhile. You state "The only thing that will change is your attitude toward (the display), and that's something over which you have complete control." That's not quite correct. I find Mrs. Spencer is very effective at changing my attitude if she decides that large rear-projection television does not really fit in her den anymore. (lol) Mr. Robertson, I did not know about the legal requirement manufacturers have to stock parts on discontinued models. Do you know how many years the manufacturer is required to carry parts from the date of discontinuing a product?
There is no federal law about parts and only a few states have such a statute: http://www.nesda.com/consumers/parts.html Nothing is said in the laws about the price of the parts.


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A Terrible place in my marriage
I came to Yasmin Abouelhassan when I was in a terrible place in my life concerning my marriage. I knew intuitively I did not want to go to a psychiatrist who is doing marriage counseling. I don't know how I knew that but I just did.. I wanted someone with "life skills", I did not even know there is such a thing called life coaching, or relationship coaching, I did not even know what she does,, all I knew is saw her on TV. a couple of times and she made sense., and she was not talking about relationships, it was about dealing with grief. The process she recommended made sense.
I never thought I would actually find her and talk to her, but I tried and found her on the web, and took an appointment.
What a journey, it's been almost 3 years, but from day 1 I trusted her, and she has not failed me once. I am not easy to please, and consider myself well read, especially in human relations, so she has to be good for me to continue.
She has coached me into a much better place, she managed to pretty much keep me on track, and at the same time flexible enough to deal with crisis whatever they are, and there were a few.
Not once did she falter, or did I feel she does not know what she is talking about, it seemed to me everything was scientifically backed with research and she really knows what she is doing.
My relationship is miles away from where it started, and I am personally cities away. We did self discovery and wow was that so comforting to know that what I hazily felt, was real, backed by processes and coaching to discover them inside me. She helped me put into words what is missing, develop my passion and be daring enough to take it to the world.
Yasmin's excellent scientific background, and her high ethical values, come together to make a highly skilled, genuine, honest and credible person to trust as a life coach. I recommend her to everyone – and I mean everyone—everybody needs a relationship/life coach.
This is the best investment one can make, to understand one's self, one's needs, hopes, passions, to learn relationship skills, and to have the tools and support, and very important the accountability to a coach to move forward. Yasmin thank you does not say it; my heart says I love you.
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Barclays Plc said its underlying profits fell 8 percent in the second quarter as the British bank's attempts to crack down on high-risk trading and subdued market activity took a toll on investment banking revenue.
Barclays said it had made good progress in cutting costs and hiving off assets it no longer wants. It has cut 5,000 jobs this year, leaving it with fewer staff than at any time since 2007.
Its shares were up 3.2 percent at 226.2 pence by 0745 GMT, the top performing European bank stock. Some analysts said the drop in investment banking revenue was less severe than they expected.
Chief Executive Antony Jenkins has pledged to make Barclays leaner and more profitable and stamp out wrongdoing, but his turnaround efforts are being dogged by problems from the past and the weak investment bank revenues.
Barclays said the U.S. Department of Justice had requested an extension to a non-prosecution agreement (NPA) that was due to expire last month, to allow it to continue to investigate possible misconduct in foreign exchange trading. The NPA was put in place after the bank was fined $450 million for the alleged rigging of Libor interest rates, and means if the DOJ finds any wrongdoing in FX activities it could come down harder on the bank.
The bank also set aside a further 900 million pounds to compensate customers mis-sold loan insurance, taking its total bill for the scandal to 4.85 billion.
Barclays said adjusted profits in the three months to the end of June fell to 1.7 billion pounds ($2.9 billion) from 1.8 billion a year ago. First-half earnings were 3.3 billion, down 7 percent on the year but above the average forecast of 3 billion from analysts polled by the company, as operating costs fell.
Analysts said the bank had beaten expectations on its cost cutting and on losses from bad debts, and reported a stronger-than-expected leverage ratio of 3.4 percent, up from 3 percent at the start of the year.
Barclays, which last year raised 5.8 billion pounds to bolster its capital and meet tougher regulatory demands, said its core tier-one capital ratio had risen to 9.9 percent at the end of June compared with 9.1 percent at the end of 2013.
The bank's shares are down about 20 percent this year, the third worst performer among Europe's top 47 banks, which are on average up 1 percent. Barclays shares trade at 0.6 times book value, well below the average of 1 times for its European peers, according to Reuters data.
Its valuation is being depressed by the threat of more litigation costs, weak returns and its still hefty reliance on the investment bank, which is seen as more volatile than retail and corporate banking.
Revenues fell 16 percent at the investment bank, where business has been hit by a decline in fixed-income trading and tougher regulation.
Revenue from credit and macro products in the second quarter was down 17 percent, a steeper drop than at U.S. rivals which saw a fall of 9 percent on average.
That was due partly due to a strong British pound, and analysts said the investment bank's overall performance was in line with expectations, or slightly better. Advisory revenues jumped 35 percent, outperforming Barclays' competitors.
Jenkins is cutting 7,000 jobs in the investment bank as part of 19,000 job cuts across Barclays in the next three years. (Reuters)
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This comment will be unpopular in this forum, but here goes: The government is out of control. Rather than specifically blame Bush or someone else, I think it's better to blame everyone in Washington right now. There are checks and balances that are supposed to prevent this sort of thing from happening, but somehow the government is working around those things right now. Plus, there is an election coming up Real Soon Now and, let's face it, you either vote Obama/Biden or you vote McCain/Palin. No third-party or independent candidate has a prayer of a chance of winning the presidency. Now look at my sig -- don't think for even one moment that I think McCain is anything special. My vote will be going to him only in the hopes that he will actually appoint Palin to some task that involves cleaning up the shit that's happening in Washington. I believe that if she gets such an appointment, she will make a tremendous difference, even if it's only a small percentage of the total waste going on right now (because a tiny percentage of trillions if still billions of dollars). About Obama -- he looks sharp, dresses sharp, has a great haircut, and speaks marvelously, but although he touts "Change" and "Hope" I really think he's more of the same bullshit we've seen from Washington. He's just really awesome at marketing himself. Kind of like the way Microsoft is really great at marketing their "more of the same" products that everyone continues to buy when better alternatives are out there. The testament to Obama's marketing prowess is how many people are enamored with him, but I know there are certain facts behind the scene that negate the marketing bullshit. With McCain -- let's just say that until he brought Palin in, I thought this election and what followed was going to suck no matter who won. Now I think there's a chance. Because this country needs more people like Palin in Washington -- people who don't know that things are supposed to be corrupt and fscked up over there, and therefore will help clean up the mess. In this upcoming election, we really need to think about who we have in office, not just in the presidency, but across the board. And I think that as many incumbents as possible should be changed for new people who haven't been to Washington yet. McCain in the presidency only because Obama is the worse choice (I know this is making me unpopular but look beyond the great looking guy and see what he really stands for) and nobody else has a chance. Bottom line, I'm voting McCain/Palin to get Palin into Washington and because Obama, although excellent at marketing himself,


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Bruce's fantasy pistol reminded of the Semmerling.
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Semmerling LM-4 ($1600 - $ 4950) Produced from 1978 to 1982, approximately 600 of these firearms were manufactured. It is the smallest .45 ACP repeating handgun made. The original US Army contract pistol cost $5000.00. It is now being produced by American Derringer Corporation in stainless steel. It is 5.2 inches long by 3.7 inches tall, which does not meet the size requirement set forth in SB 15 for pistols.
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The 19-year-old recorded herself addressing her fans in a video, which shows a compilation of beautiful imagery, like the ocean, the sun and the sky. She doesn't appear in the clip, but offers a heartfelt explanation about the single.
"It seems like in that brief time that I've been alive that I've lived through more emotions than some people twice my age," she says, adding, "I think that's why I sing about love so often ... I've sung about loving someone so much that it takes your breath away ... 'Give Your Heart a Break' isn't a song about having a broken heart ... This is a song about faith."
Check out Demi's video letter below, and get ready for the 'Give Your Heart a Break' video, which is expected to arrive soon.


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