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Alcohol Related Diseases
In Europe alcohol is the 3rd leading risk factor for disease and death.
Alcohol is a cause of some 60 different types of disease and condition, including:
- cancers
- liver disease
- cardiovascular diseases
- gastrointestinal conditions
- immunological disorders
- lung diseases
- skeletal and muscular diseases
- reproductive disorders
- pre- natal harm, including and increased risk of prematurity and low birth
Both the amount of lifetime alcohol use and frequency of drinking and amount drunk per incident increase the risk of alcohol related harm, largely in a dose dependent manner.
Alcohol is neurotoxic to brain development. leading to structural changes in the hippocampus in young age and reduces brain capabilities.
Alcohol is a intoxicant affecting a wide range of structures and processes in the central nervous system; the process of dependence occurs through its reinforcing properties and neuroadaptation
Eurocare Press Releases
Alcohol and Cancer- the forgotten link
The World Health Organisation has warned about the growing burden of cancer at an alarming pace and emphasised the urgent implementation of efficient prevention strategies.
Eurocare strongly supports World Cancer Day
Eurocare (European Alcohol Policy Alliance) strongly supports the World Cancer Day and hopes that combined efforts of all stakeholders will lead to significant reduction in cancer cases.
Landmark EU report shows the full burden of alcohol in Europe
Each year alcohol kills 115.000 people in Europe and costs 125 billion euros to EU society. This is equivalent to 1.3% GDP.
Brussels, 1 June 2006:A 400 page report analysing the health, social and economic impact of alcohol in Europe, has been released today by the European Commission, setting out the scientific evidence that will inform the Commission's first-ever strategy on alcohol due out later this year.
Alcohol and Cancer- the forgotten link
Cancer is the second most common cause of death in Europe, nearly around 2.5 million EU citizens are diagnosed with cancer yearly. As many as 30% of cancers can be prevented if we make the healthier choices.
Publications and Resources
Alcohol and Cancer website
It is a product of collaboration between ECL and Eurocare and which aims to inform European populations about the link between the two.
10% of cancers in men and 3% in women can be attributed to drinking alcohol. First conclusive links between alcohol and cancer were established back in 1987 yet 25 years later only 36% of EU citizens are sure of this link. The 2010 Eurobarometer report found that 1 in 5 European citizens do not believe that there is a connection between alcohol and cancer and 1 in 10 do not know about the link.
European Association for the Study of the Liver
Excessive alcohol consumption is the cause of severe liver diseases such as liver cirrhosis, fatty liver and cancer.
Alcohol consumption and the risk of morbidity and mortality for different stroke types - a systematic review and meta-analysis
Patra et al. BMC Public Health 2010, 10:258
The relation between different dimensions of alcohol consumption and burden of disease: an overview
Rehm J, et al, Addiction 105:817-843, 2010
The cardioprotective association of average alcohol consumption and ischaemic heart disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Roerecke M, Rehm J, Addiction, 107:1246-1260, 2012
www.alcoholandcancer.eu - new website on alcohol and cancer
This website is a product of collaboration between ECL and Eurocare and which aims to inform European populations about the link between the two.
Alcohol and cancer the forgotten link
4th of February marked the World Cancer Day, this disease is the leading cause of death in several European countries. Alcohol increases the risk of getting cancer
NCDs high on the agenda in the European Parliament
Alcohol is one of the top four risk causes and need to be acknowledged and get the needed attention
New research on breast cancer and moderate alcohol consumption
Low or moderate alcohol consumption increases the risk of breast cancer by 15%
Alcohol and Cancer- the forgotten link
The World Health Organisation has warned about the growing burden of cancer at an alarming pace and emphasised the urgent implementation of efficient prevention strategies.
The often forgotten link in the prevention efforts is the one between alcohol and cancer. There is no level of consumption that is safe as far as cancer is concerned.


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- Good Riddance to Breast Cancer
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Good Riddance to Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Thank god Breast Cancer Awareness Month is almost over.
There. I've said it: the unspeakable, the cynical, the
curmudgeonly. It feels like a betrayal of my gender and of all of
the truly well-meaning and kind hearted folks who have swathed
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When I woke up this morning, the internet was ablaze with kudos
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bilateral mastectomy. The cheers were loud and immediate. And they
made me really, really uncomfortable.
Before I get too far, I will say this unequivocally… Read full post »
On Loudmouths and The Failure of Tactical Ignorance
Monday night, just minutes after the final Presidential debate, (aptly summed up by one of my friends as a "word salad of talking points"), a well-known conservative loudmouth tweeted that she was glad Romney went easy on "the retard." I won't mention the loudmouth&rsquo… Read full post »
I spent three hours last night watching the Republican National Convention. Given that I already know whom I'm going to vote for in the general election and given that we all know modern "nominating" conventions are just marathons of pandering and self-congratulation (on the incumbe… Read full post »
When Kate Met Eric (Thanks, Nora Ephron)
Almost everyone who knows me has heard the story of how my husband and I met. The response to the polite inquiry at a cocktail party invariably leads to a longer story. The Reader's Digest version: Yes, we've known each other since we were tw… Read full post »
The Power of Personal Narrative
Early each term, I let my students in on a little secret: some of the writing tasks assigned in college are about as far from any real-world application as can be. Most often in the real world, one person writes for an audience of many -- whether it's a novel, a… Read full post »
My college prides itself on the motto, "Find a need and endeavor to meet it." We all proudly embrace the notion that everyone deserves a college eduation, and we can provide it. I've written many times about the obstacles to that optimistic view: about death&/… Read full post »
A week or so ago, while slurping watery soup from a styrofoam cup and taking a twenty-minute break from grading the fifty portfolios on my desk, I came across an article in the Washington Post titled "Do College Professors Work Hard Enough?" by David Levy. The author's answer to tha… Read full post »
I know a seventeen-year-old boy who stays at his dad's house sometimes. He's a good kid, but like all kids his age, he can be impulsive and a little stupid. He loves to play Xbox, he's good to his siblings, and he loves his mother. His grades fluctuate -- sometimes a… Read full post »
I'm late to the conversation about Trayvon Martin. Or rather, I'm late committing to writing the conversation that's been going on in my house and in the media and in my head for weeks. Last weekend, I read Leonard Pitts' column to my husband at the breakfast table and choked/… Read full post »
Davy Jones' Autograph
I was four years old when I fell in love with Davy Jones. He had been around for a few years by then (the Monkees were born the same year I was), but that's when I discovered him.
Afternoons, while my sisters were at school, my mother played… Read full post »
I went to my first sit-in yesterday. I had no idea when I headed off to campus that I'd spend part of my afternoon sitting crosslegged on the floor of the college library with my back to someone who was explaining to the assembled… Read full post »
My little rustbelt city has been hit hard by the recession. When I started teaching community college in the early aughts, very few of my full-time students were over 25. Now, there are displaced workers in every section of every class I teach. Many of them haven't set… Read full post »
Chaos Theory, February Style
February is always hard for me. I don't like the gloom, or the cold, or the grayness. But usually, I'm able to surrender to it and tough it out.
Maybe this particular February is even harder precisely because it doesn't feel like… Read full post »
Reversal or no, I just keep getting more and more angry at the Susan G. Komen Foundation.
I've always been a little uncomfortable with Pink October. My sister was diagnosed in that month, and not an hour after receiving her phone call, while doing my grocery shopping and trying… Read full post »
Looking for Jesus
Christmas is not a religious holiday for me; it's a sentimental one. Funny, then, that the only two items of holiday paraphernalia in my home that have anything other than decorative significance are an Angel for my tree, and a tiny, three-piece Nativity scene.
The angel was… Read full post »
Last week, a smart and funny 20 something blogger wrote a list of 15 Things White Girls Love to do on Facebook. Herewith, an homage to her list, amended for the 40-something crowd:
Fifteen Things Middle-Aged Women Love to do on Facebook
1. Post lines from John Hughes movies or… Read full post »
The Tragedy and Pathos of JoePa
I have been trying all morning not to write the rant that has been percolating in my head ever since yesterday afternoon. That wasn't the first time I'd heard of the Penn State tragedy (and it is one, by every definition) but that was when, for whatever reason, it crashed through… Read full post »
Eating the Apple: RIP, Steve Jobs
Did you ever have a crush on a guy who was just too good looking to be trusted? One who was just a little too conscious of his looks? One who possessed an effortless cool that probably required quite bit of effort? And yet, you couldn't help but
… Read full post »Pat Robertson's Stunning Reversal on "Choice"
Pat Robertson actually said something that made sense this week. He of the 9/11-was-God's-punishment-against-a-city-populated-by-homosexuals-and-abortionists, he of the Haitians-got-what-they-deserved-for-making-a-pact-with-the-devil proclamations, actually admitted that a certain questio… Read full post »
It is a worn out story at my house: the one where I confess to the crying jag that occurred when my first child was three days old. My husband came in the room and asked, "Are we happy?"
It was hard for him to know during those first few… Read full post »
My dad is a big, serious guy. Or at least he was when I was growing up. He worked for almost forty years at the same corporation. I hadn't the vaguest idea what he did at work, only that when the company said, "Go," we went: from the Midwest to the… Read full post »
It's June 16th. If you were not an English major, are not a lover of all things Irish, or if you don't listen to NPR, perhaps this date means nothing to you, but to lit nerds everywhere, it's the day we celebrate James Joyce, his greatest novel, Ulysses, and the day/… Read full post »
Over the past several years, I've developed a small ritual during finals week at the community college where I teach. I go to the bookstore on Monday, the day the paper avalanche starts in earnest, and pick up my Josten's packet -- black robe, mortarboard with tassel, and Mast… Read full post »


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass — Level 5 gymnasts from Atlantic Gymnastics Training Center (AGTC) of Portsmouth recently returned home from the Starlight Invitational competition hosted by Massachusetts Gymnastics Center's Masstars held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Notable meet results in the Child division: Tellez took third place on vault and beam, first place on floor exercise, fourth place on uneven bars; combined scoring gave her second place in the all around. Carter followed with seventh place on uneven bars and sixth place on floor exercise providing seventh place all around finish. Ross took sixth place on uneven bars; fourth place on beam, and seventh place on floor exercise giving her eighth place overall rankings. Mitchell took accolades on vault (tenth); uneven bars (eighth) and floor exercise (ninth). Mitchell was specially recognized for her effort on vault with a Judges Award for "Best Come Back". |


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It's Valentine's Day! I went through my archive and looked up a few comics I made over the years with a Valentine theme. These two appeared in H/Link, student magazine of the Haagse Hogeschool, in 2012 and 2013:
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A study suggesting ways to improve communication between schools and children's services is discussed. The study 'Multi professional communication: making systems work for children' by Georgian Glenny and Caroline Roaf, examined case studies over a seven year period in order to identify the ingredients of successful communication systems.
Document reporting and discussing the results of a survey of mental health service users conducted to discover how isolated people with mental health problems felt, to determine the causes and triggers and how people overcome isolation.
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is the UK's leading research funding and training agency addressing economic and social concerns. They aim to provide high quality research on issues of importance to business, the public sector and government.
The Key Capabilities (KC) in Child Care and Protection are designed to allow students within social work degree programmes to map their specific learning in this area whilst achieving the more generic Standards in Social Work Education (SiSWE). The KCs further allow social work students to evidence their learning in child care and protection by their progress being assessed at the mid and end points of the programme.
This report sets out the role and remit of an independent Commissioner to champion the rights of children and young people. The Commissioner's work is laid out in four main areas: promoting and safeguarding children's rights; communicating with children; investigations and the promotion of good practice.
These policy and procedures acknowledge that child protection services must be part of a continuum of services available to children in need and their families. They also reflect the increasing recognition of the social context in which the protection of children takes place.
Guidance containing information and advice to help social work departments and other agencies support people with learning disabilities who become parents.
A large scale study was conducted to examine whether Local Safeguarding Children Boards (LSCBs) have successful in overcoming some of the weaknesses in Area Child Protection Committees. This interim report draws upon research undertaken over the first 12 months (January 2008 - January 2009) of the research study.
This consultation exercise was conducted as part of the wider Child Protection Review. It was undertaken in 2001/2002 and comprised of a questionnaire circulated to a wide range of statutory and voluntary sector agencies involved with and concerned about matters relating to child protection; and a web site that was available for members of the general public to record their views and comments on, about matters relating to child protection.
This learning object is one of a set of exercises and activities taken from the book 'Modern Social Work Practice' written by Mark Doel and Steven Shardlow. This activity looks at 'statements of concern' and that people often express their problems and concerns in fuzzy, unclear ways which often need unravelling.


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Social Security In 1935: How Today's Health Law Should Evolve
Imagine how social security was first administered. Now imagine how the Affordable Care Act could look in 75 years.
In Georgia, Cheers For Their Shutdown Congressman
Undeterred, U.S. Rep. Tom Graves is stepping up his criticism of President Barack Obama's health care law and defending his role in last month's partial government shutdown, even though tea party demands weren't met to dismantle it.
Wha Gwan?!
On Power Talk with Lorraine Jacques- White we think we have found out why John Boehner used to be so sensitive and crying! His daughter just got married to a dreadlock having, accused weed smoking, Rasta! Dominic Lakhan […]
Price: House Needs More Red-State Republicans
U.S. Rep. Tom Price says the House GOP is divided between red-state Republicans and blue-state Republicans.
Opinion: Sore Losers
Members of the House of Representatives bolted town on Thursday after rejecting a plan advanced by House Speaker John Boehner.
Opinion: GOP Too Extreme
More than a month after the election, things continue to get worse for the GOP brand. The lead Republican spokesperson during the fiscal cliff negotiations, House Speaker John Boehner, has a 34 percent approval rating. President Obama has a 54 percent approval rating.
Opinion: GOP A Party Without A Plan
With one month to go before we reach the fiscal cliff, Republicans are going to have to figure out how to do something serious for a change instead of grandstanding and avoiding specifics.
Opinion: The Fourteenth Amendment Solution
Speaker John Boehner believes he holds a strong hand in fiscal cliff and debt limit talks. He is, once again, taking the global economy hostage and playing politics with the U.S. debt limit.
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Cleansweep heading for Rossall ward
Published on Monday 16th May 2011
Rossall ward in Fleetwood is to benefit from a Cleansweep, an intensive clean-up that restores pride to the neighbourhood and gets communities working together.
Organised by the Wyre Community Safety Partnership, the multi-agency operation will run from 23 to 27 May.
Community activities confirmed so far include litter picks and beach cleans, graffiti removal, dog fouling operations and a stepping-up of enforcement action.
A free bulky waste collection is also being offered to residents in the ward for items too large to be collected by bin crews. Details of how to arrange collection will be dropping through the letterboxes of eligible households shortly.
Two community reassurance sessions will take place at Chatsworth Avenue shops on Wednesday 25 May and Larkholme shops on Thursday 26 May for people to raise their concerns and learn how to make the community safer. Officers from various organisations, including the police, fire and Wyre Council, will be on hand between 10.30am and 2.30pm.
Councillor Roger Berry, Chairman of the Wyre Community Safety Partnership, said: "Every time we hold a Cleansweep in Wyre we are encouraged by some very positive results and I'm sure the same will be true in Rossall.
"Despite the name, the operation goes far deeper than a spring clean of the streets; we also get to deal with the less obvious issues such as advising people about fire risks or addressing the fear of crime.
"Contrary to some people's perceptions, crime is going down. Concentrated initiatives like Cleansweeps give us an opportunity to get this message over to the public, to reassure them and to reiterate that organisations are working together to improve the neighbourhoods they live in."
Prior to the Cleansweep, volunteers will walk down every street in the designated area, making a note of everything that needs to be addressed, however small. The bulk of these will be tackled during the week itself, but anything that can't be resolved quickly will be added to an action plan for the appropriate agencies to deal with as soon as possible.
For further information or to become involved, visit the community safety pages online at www.wyrebc.gov.uk, email email@example.com or contact 01253 891000.
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Here's a corporate-sounding bio for all of you myopic ladder-climbers that would dismiss me without one.
A forward-thinking innovator, I possess expertise and experience at the crossroads of emerging media,, business development, and technology.
I currently work for Mastercard, where I support efforts within MasterCard Labs focused on engaging directly with early stage companies driving innovation in and around commerce and payments. It's a lot of fun, albeit challenging at times. More importantly, I like it because I believe our charter represents the right way to treat people and companies. Everybody benefits.
Sort of like stakeholder theory
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In the past, I focused on developing and executing forward-thinking interactive campaigns utilizing emerging technologies designed to deliver sustainable engagement for brands and agencies activated across all media. What a mouthful!
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In a world marked by exponential change and evolution, success requires a combination of subject matter expertise and strategic guidance. I leverage both. Consistently.
Huh? Look, friend - things are constantly changing. I meditate at the forefront of change. It's a good fit.
In a today's professional climate, somebody needs to protect fragile ideas from corporate conservatism and myopic thinking. Might as well be me.
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I am actively involved with these fine organizations
Young Executive Board Member, Mentor
iMentor's mission is to improve the lives of high school students from underserved communities by providing them with mentors who are dedicated to helping them succeed in college, and beyond.
As a mentor, I had the pleasure of working with Miguel R., a charasmatic, intelligent, thoughtful young man that will be attending City Tech in the fall of 2014.
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quote:The Yankees and Cubs are nearing a deal that would send Alfonso Soriano to the New York, according to George A. King III of the New York Post. Soriano is owed roughly $24.9MM over the remainder of his contract (roughly $6.9MM in 2013 and $18MM in 2014), and King reports that the Cubs would pick up the majority of the remaining tab in exchange for a mid-level prospect.
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Optimization of Microstrip Patch Antenna using Particle Swarm Optimization/IE3D
This is a very good ECE project report on optimization of Microstrip patch antenna using particle swarm optimization/IE3D and submitted to in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Electronics and communication engineering. An inverted E-shaped Microstrip patch antenna designed for IMT-2000 band is utilized to demonstrate the optimization technique. The data for curve fitting is obtained from Zealand IE3D software by varying different geometrical parameters of the antenna. You can also Subscribe to FINAL YEAR PROJECT'S by Email for more such projects and seminar.
Microstrip antenna falls into the category of printed antennas: radiating elements that utilize printed circuit manufacturing processes to develop the feed and radiating structure. The Microstrip antenna is constructed from dielectric substrate and patch metal and that a portion of the metallization layer is responsible for radiation. Use it for your reference and study only.
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From a Jewish perspective, his wrongdoing falls into (at least) two categories g'neivat mammon, stealing money (prize money and endorsements, and perhaps contributions too by people who may not have given money if Armstrong was not who said he was) and g'neivat da'at, deceiving, by giving the impression that he was someone that he was not. The question is, to what degree are these sins forgivable or unimportant given the effect that they had.
In general, there are three different halachic concepts to be considered here for guidance. They are extremely complicated and well argued in rabbinic literature, such that a full treatment can't be given in this space, but they offer a good frame for discussion:
What is the status of a mitvzah that comes about by someone doing a transgression — mitzvah ha-ba'ah ba'aveirah?
Might this be considered an aveira lishmah — a sin that is condoned because it is for the sake of a mitzvah?
To what degree does pikuach nefesh docheh hakol — saving a life justifies everything —apply here?
In order to see to what degree these ideas could be applied, I spoke to Rabbi Jeremy Wieder, a member of the rabbinical faculty at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University. What follows is a very condensed summary of our conversation:
With regard to the first halachic concept, mitzvah-haba'ah ba'aveirah, in general, the rabbis do not condone a transgression done for the sake of a mitzvah. For example, if you steal a lulav in order to fulfill the mitzvah of waving it, you have not fulfilled the mitzvah (See BT Sukkot 30a). There are some limited cases where committing transgressions do not invalidate the mitzvah itself, but the propelling actions are not excused, they are considered transgressions. If one steals money in order to save one's own life (more on this later, some make this a strict case of pikuach nefesh as opposed to a mitzvah-haba'ah ba'aveirah), that may be permissible (or excusable, after the fact), but one still has committed a transgression, stealing, and needs to atone for that (including paying it back). It is permissible or at least an understandable sin.
From the other direction, instead of considering the mitzvah, we can consider the sin itself because there are sometimes that aveirot are condoned outright — an aveira lishma. Rabbi Wieder strongly warned that this is "an explosive subject," (which makes sense because it might be used by people justifying their own bad behavior).
A paradigmatic example of this comes from BT Horayot 10b, which cites the story of Yael, who slept with Sisera in order to lull him to sleep and kill him (Judges 5:23-28). This sin was done for the sake of saving the Jewish people. Perhaps Armstrong's sin, systematically cheating in order (remember this is the hypothetical) to help cure cancer and save the cancer patients is analogous.
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Good to see our Sheriff is interested in arresting drug dealersSubmitted by GrandOldParty (not verified) on Thu, 07/08/2010 - 7:39pm.
Good to see our Sheriff is interested in arresting big drug dealers and taking their drugs instead of their money. This has been a fresh change and one that needed. Congratulations and keep up the good work NHSD. People notice the job your doing. Now if we can stop the flow of illegals before they get here, I bet it would help local law enforcement out tremendously. »
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True Average (TAv) is a measure of total offensive value scaled to batting average. Adjustments are made for park and league quality, as such the league-average mark is constant at .260.
True Average incorporates aspects that other linear weights-based metrics ignore. Reaching base on an error and situational hitting are included; meanwhile, strikeouts and bunts are treated as slightly more and less damaging outs than normal. The baseline for an average player is not meant to portray what a typical player has done, but rather what a typical player would do if given similar opportunities. That means adjustments made for parks and league quality. True Average's adjustments go beyond applying a blanket modifier-players who play more home games than road games will see that reflected in their adjustments. Unlike its predecessor, Equivalent Average, True Average does not consider baserunning or basestealing.
Here is an example of the True Average spectrum based upon the 2009-2011 seasons:
Excellent - Miguel Cabrera .342 Great - Alex Rodriguez .300 Average - Austin Jackson .260 Poor - Ronny Cedeno .228 Horrendous - Brandon Wood .192


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An[other] OS X 10.6 to 10.8 Survival Guide for Editors
"It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine." Well, mostly.
By Adam Wilt | August 14, 2012
Thinking Different
Safari is quite different in 10.8: it has a unified search / URL field; the Delete key no longer does double-duty as "previous page" as well as "delete"; the Activity Window has disappeared; lots of options have changed menus (you'll need to turn on the Develop menu if you want to empty caches, for example). See Safari 6 reader reports on Macintouch for more details.
You can no longer set default fonts in Safari preferences; you have to use terminal commands instead.
Disappearing apps: starting in 10.7, OS X may automatically terminate an app that isn't the frontmost (active) application and doesn't have any windows open. For example, if you open Preview because you want it handy in the Dock to scan some papers, then switch to Mail or Finder or FCP or something else, you may find that Preview silently goes away while you're not looking.
If this bothers you, there's a fix.
No alphanumeric keyboard repeat: in 10.8, holding down an letter or number key doesn't cause it to repeat. Instead, as on iOS, characters with alternate forms (such as accented letters) will pop up a character-picker window. Characters with no alternates just sit there sullenly.
Punctuation, special characters, and navigation keys still autorepeat: arrows, periods, at-signs, Command+V, and the like happily keep on spewing out. It's only letters and numbers that are affected.
If this bothers you, there's a fix.
Reopening windows: by default, reopening an app reopens whatever windows it had open when it was closed. If you had two documents open in TextEdit when you quit it, for example, restarting TextEdit will reopen those two documents. Don't like this? Turn it off in System Preferences: General > Close windows when quitting an application.
Also by default, OS X will now reopen windows that were active when you shut your Mac down. There's a checkbox ("Reopen windows when logging back in") in the shutdown dialog that controls this behavior.
You can't just drag apps out of Applications any more. Instead, you have to hold down the Command key to drag an app out of Applications. Just dragging an app creates a shortcut (alias) in 10.8.
Sandboxing, a security measure (and a requirement for new apps on the App Store) segregates app data in its own iOS-like container folder, stored at
. Normally it's not an issue, until you need to hack a preferences file or dig into the Library. Regular, non-sandboxed apps have their data rooted in your home folder; for example, you'll find your FCPX prefs at
. Mail is sandboxed in 10.8, and its container folder is ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data
, so you'll find its preferences in ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist
.Gatekeeper is another security measure, designed to keep you from running dodgy code from unapproved places. Downloaded installers and apps that are (a) not from the App Store or (b) do not have a registered Apple Developer signature are not allowed to run.
With Gatekeeper at its default setting, you're simply told "no, you can't do that".
If this blocks you from running something you think is OK, or you just want to revert to pre-10.8 behavior (where OS X warns you about "apps downloaded from the Internet", but lets you run 'em anyway), go to System Preferences > Security & Privacy > General and change "Allow applications downloaded from:" from "Mac App Store and identified developers" to "Anywhere".
The Fixes
Terminology and Tools
Some of the things you'll want to fiddle with are accessible in System Preferences, Mail Preferences, and the like, and are indicated using the symbology:
App > Tab or Pane > Setting
e.g., System Preferences (the app) > General (the pane) > Close windows when quitting an application (the setting)
Many of the other fixes described (and many more besides) can be tweaked simply and easily using one or another of these tools:
TinkerTool, a freeware system tweaker. Highly recommended.
Onyx, a donationware system tweaker / cleaner / checker / maintainer with additional functions not present in TinkerTool. There are versions for OS X releases back to 10.2. Highly recommended.
Mountain Tweaks, a donationware system tweaker. Light on documentation and it doesn't show the current state of the tweakable parameters, but it's useful nonetheless. Has some settings that Onyx and TinkerTool don't yet support.
If these tools can't do it, you're back to the command line in a Terminal session; such commands are shown
in "code" typeface
and can be copied and pasted into a Terminal window (watch out for wrapped lines caused by PVC's narrow columns; some long "defaults" commands are wider than PVC can display on a single line).Most commands can be reversed should you not like the result by substituting "true" for "false" or vice versa. You can also use "yes" in place of "true" and "no" instead of "false".
Some terminal commands take effect immediately, while others won't show up until you [re]launch affected apps or log out and in again.
As always: proceed at your own risk... and make full backups first!
These are my fixes, in priority order. Pick and choose from them as you see fit. Where I can, I've listed source for fixes, in case you want to explore the topic further.
Required if you use Mail
Mail: show duplicates
defaults write com.apple.mail AlwaysShowDuplicates -bool true
(Source: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3755752)
Sanity Preservers
Make your Library folder visible in the Finder
chflags nohidden /Users/USERNAME/Library
where USERNAME is the name of your home directory.
(Source: http://gizmodo.com/5928208/the-os-x-mountain-lion-survival-guide other,s).
Turn off time-wasting smooth scrolling
defaults write -g NSScrollAnimationEnabled -bool false
(Sources: http://www.maclife.com/article/columns/terminal_101_5_mountain_lion_ui_tricks; also in Mountain Tweaks)
Turn off time-wasting window animations
defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticWindowAnimationsEnabled -bool false
(Source: http://www.maclife.com/article/columns/terminal_101_5_mountain_lion_ui_tricks)
Replace ugly skins in Calendar and/or Contacts
Standalone installers at http://macnix.blogspot.com/2012/05/change-mac-os-108-mountain-lion.html
(source: http://gizmodo.com/5928208/the-os-x-mountain-lion-survival-guide)
Mountain Tweaks has its own installers for new skins.
Sadly, there aren't cleanup skins yet for Notes. Or for Game Center, gack!
Mail: be given the possibility of seeing that dupes exist, if not the certainty thereof, assuming you haven't made the fix above
Mail > Preferences > Viewing > Show header detail > Custom... (and just hit "OK" on the popup)
Mail: see where dupes live, without having to select individual inboxes
Mail > Preferences > Viewing > Use classic layout
or, in Mail's menu, turn off View > Organize by Conversation
Mail: show the Format bar in the message-composer window
Mail in 10.7 and 10.8 offers a rich text formatting bar just below the toolbar, but if you've upgraded from 10.6 you'll probably never see it or even know it's available. The only way I know of to get it in this case is to:
- Open a New Message window, then right-click / control-click the toolbar and select "Customize Toolbar..."
- Drag the "Format" button onto the toolbar.
- Hit "Done" to close the customization sheet.
- Click "Format" to reveal the Format bar.
You can customize the toolbar again to remove the Format button, or you can leave it there. Mail isn't clever enough to hide/show the Format bar based on whether your message is plain text or rich text the way TextEdit does, but at least now there is a Format bar.
Reverse the vertical scrolling direction (if it's backwards for you in 10.7/10.8)
System Preferences > Mouse > Scroll direction: natural
System Preferences > Trackpad > Scroll direction: natural
as necessary for your pointing device(s).
Stuff that may or may not be useful to you
Change the OS version number to let Canon XF installers (and possibly others) work
Temporarily change the version number in /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist to what the installer expects; install; change it back. Details at fcp.co's forums. I tried this out using the Canon XF importer plugins for 10.7, and it worked. Just be careful editing SystemVersion.plist, and make sure you change it back or replace it with a backup when you're done—and remember, you proceed at your own risk!
Disable Auto Save with versioning
defaults write -g ApplePersistence -bool false
For a given app only, e.g. TextEdit:
defaults write com.apple.TextEdit ApplePersistence -bool false
or, try (in the case of Numbers):
defaults delete com.apple.iWork.Numbers ApplePersistence
With this change, OS X seems to consistently take an additional 15 - 17 seconds to show the desktop after logging in, whereas without this change, I notice a 15 second delay only sometimes. The reasons for either behavior are unknown.
(Sources: http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/mountainlion/index.html#d14aug2012 https,://discussions.apple.com/thread/3216589?start=705&tstart=0, http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/27544/how-to-completely-disable-auto-save-and-versions-in-mac-os-x-lion/52390#52390)
Disable Automatic Termination
defaults write -g NSDisableAutomaticTermination -bool yes
(Source: http://tidbits.com/article/13174; also settable in TinkerTool, Mountain Tweaks)
Setting default fonts in Safari
An example for the proportional font:
defaults write com.apple.Safari com.apple.Safari.ContentPageGroupIdentifier.WebKit2StandardFontFamily 'Lucida Grande'
defaults write com.apple.Safari com.apple.Safari.ContentPageGroupIdentifier.WebKit2DefaultFontSize 14
An example for the fixed width font:
defaults write com.apple.Safari com.apple.Safari.ContentPageGroupIdentifier.WebKit2FixedFontFamily Monaco
defaults write com.apple.Safari com.apple.Safari.ContentPageGroupIdentifier.WebKit2DefaultFixedFontSize 12
If your desired font name contains a space, you need to wrap it in quotes, as shown with 'Lucida Grande'.
(Source: multiple references on Macintouch.com, ArsTechnica.com, Macworld.com, etc.)
Turn on alphanumeric key repeat
defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false
(Sources: http://www.maclife.com/article/columns/terminal_101_5_mountain_lion_ui_tricks http:,//gizmodo.com/5928208/the-os-x-mountain-lion-survival-guide)
Turn off reopening windows
When restarting apps: check System Preferences > General > Close windows when quitting an application
When restarting the system: in the Logout, Shutdown, or Restart dialog, uncheck "Reopen windows when logging back in"
Make Auto Save apps behave slightly more like traditional apps
System Preferences > General > Ask to keep changes when closing documents
This option pops up a warning dialog when you close an edited document, giving you the option to save your changes or revert to the last save. It also brings back the "edited" dot on the window's close button.
Move Growl notifications into Notification Center
Hiss will do this, or so I'm told by http://gizmodo.com/5928208/the-os-x-mountain-lion-survival-guide I hav.en't tested it myself.
If you're excited by the new stuff like iCloud, Notifications, the new Auto Save model, and so on, you might find 10.8 a compelling upgrade. If you find the increased complexity of multiple document persistence models, the removal of useful status indicators and affordances, the embarrassingly buggy Notes, and the user-abusive iCloud-enabled Save dialogs distressing, you might feel equally compelled to stay on 10.6.
I'm in the middle: I thought that 10.7 broke more things than it fixed, while 10.8 adds enough shiny new features to offset the inelegant deficiencies of the post-10.6 era. I'm hugely annoyed by the inconsistencies in Auto Save behavior depending on where a document is stored, but that annoyance is more academic than practical; once I understood the persistence model, I easily adapted to it. I'm gobsmacked by the aggressive way Apple "encourages" me to keep my data in iCloud, yet I find iCloud's ease of use compelling: I've built this article using TextEdit and Pixelmator on multiple Macs, with both apps keeping their data in iCloud, and it all Just Worked.
(I should note that I use iCloud for short-term "working storage" only; once I'm no longer actively using a document, I move it to a folder "On My Mac". Apple doesn't have the world's best track record when it comes to long-term provisioning of cloud-based storage: AppleLink, eWorld, iTools, iDisk, .Mac, MobileMe, and iWork.com have all come and gone, and those who trusted these cloud services as data repositories wound up unhappy in the end.)
I'm not switching my Macs wholesale to 10.8, not yet: I still have data in PowerPC apps that I need to migrate to modern formats and applications first. Besides, Apple usually smooths off the jagged edges of a new OS with the follow-on point releases; if they hold true to form you might want to wait for 10.8.3 just on general principle.
But even this first release of 10.8 interoperates well with 10.6 and 10.7, so I can keep a mix of machines cohabiting with minimal stress. When push does come to shove, I won't have any problems upgrading.
Good luck!
Macintouch has quick, easy-to-digest reviews of the new stuff in 10.7 and 10.8:
Macintouch.com: 10.7 review
Macintouch.com: 10.8 review
Ars Technica has much deeper, detailed, techno-geeky reviews:
ArsTechnica.com: 10.7 review
ArsTechnica.com: 10.7 review
Other stuff:
Macintouch.com: Safari 6 reader reports
TidBITS.com: Mountain Lion is (Still) a Quitter [discussing automatic termination]
Apple: iCloud: Configuring Mail with Mac OS X v10.6 or iOS 4
Apple: iCloud Mail overview
Apple: iCloud help
Gizmodo.com: How to Fix Every Mountain Lion Annoyance With Third Party Apps
Gizmodo.com: The OS X Mountain Lion Survival Guide
digitalrebellion.com: Making Lion and Mountain Lion more like Snow Leopard (The last tip, "Turn off autosave", doesn't actually turn off autosave, it simply turns on a prompt when you close a document without first saving the changes, and brings back the "edited" dot on the window-close button.)
MacLife.com: Terminal 101: 10.8 UI Tricks
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Stephen Few doesn't like radar graphs, and he's not the only one who has written against them.
In a recent discussion on Twitter, Jon Peltier said that they are "worse than pies" —ouch! Even Andy Kirk, who is usually as polite as a British gentleman can be, doesn't have nice words about this kind of display. Most of the arguments against radar graphs can be summarized in a couple of sentences from this post by Graham Odds: "Even with a common scale between axes, comparing values across them remains cumbersome and error-prone. This is because rather than the simple straight-line comparison our visual perception is hard-wired to perform that is found in "conventional" chart types, comparison in radar charts requires conscious thought to mentally project a sort of arc of rotation to map a value from one axis onto another, something we are not particularly adept at. " Infographics as an Assessment.
A Case Study In How Infographics Can Bend The Truth. We've made the point time and time again that charts and graphs, though they feel official and true, can lie.
Rarely do you get to see that at work, but the good folks at Hyperakt have sent us a prime case study in infographic deception. The subject, of course, is politics--and in particular, the raging debate over whether the rich should be made to pay more taxes. "Using the same data, very different stories can be told depending on different agendas," says Deroy Peraza, one of the founders of Hyperakt. A story from the Wall Street Journal's far-right op-ed page gets us started, with a chart showing how much taxable income is made by Americans ranging from the rich to poor: Looking at that, the conclusion seems glaringly obvious: The rich don't make so much money! 10 Steps To Designing An Amazing Infographic. Information can be useful--and even beautiful--but only when it's presented well.
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Bill Nye Explains the Scientific Feasibility of Lightsabers, Jurassic Park & More
By Dan Casey on June 14, 2013
Back in 2012 when Man of Steel was first flying into our collective consciousness, we posed the question of "how does Superman shave?" Recently, Gillette wanted to know the same thing, so they sought out the best and brightest from the fandom and scientific communities to find the answer. Theorizing that the Man of Steel whittles down his whiskers thanks to a mechanical engineering principle known as asperity, in which one substance can grind down another even if the former is more brittle than the latter, was none other than Bill Nye (the Science Guy) himself. We found ourselves wondering what his scientific explanations for other burning questions in fandom would be, so we turned to you guys for questions and had Bill answer them. So, prepare to chant "Bill! Bill! Bill!" and have all your creeping queries put to rest.
Nerdist: We've seen the Flash, he's the fastest man alive. He can move through solid matter by vibrating his molecules. Is that something that'd be possible to do in real life?
Bill Nye: I'm pretty sure it depends on the matter; I'm pretty sure water is not especially suited to that. I'm open minded, but I believe the polarity of water's molecules are just attracted to too many other things and you'd be, if I may, stuck.
N: You'd be stuck halfway through that brick wall?
BN: Maybe not even halfway; maybe only a fifth of the way.
N: Whoa, that's even worse.
BN: Could be. I've seen it take a man's leg off.
N: We'll try to dissuade our readers from attempting something like that. Similarly, Star Trek Into Darkness recently hit theaters, and we see them teleporting all over the place; is it feasible to take someone apart at the molecular level and reassemble them on the other side? Would you be the same person?
BN: You got to look at the data. These people are beaming around all the time. Continually beaming around. They're fine. If I may, open your eyes. There's the evidence, clearly. As a guy who has not seen the new movie yet, I cannot help but hearken back to the original Star Trek series where there's all kinds of trouble with the transporter. The captain gets divided in half, people disappear and have to wait for the next inter-phase. Aw, man, the (something I can't hear) Web, it's nothing but trouble. And Dr. McCoy, you may remember, is very concerned about beaming people around. So that conceit, as we say in comedy writing, and the idea that everybody speaks English, really saves a lot of time in the land – the quadrant – of Star Trek.
N: You can only boldly go so far if you start losing viewers because they don't understand what's going on.
BN: Pretty much, yeah. Yeah. But it's just a great idea. It's a huge – if you had to go in a shuttle craft to go up and down every time, you'd be in trouble. But, of course they did. There's some shuttle crafting and that leads to trouble, the primitive people don't recognize it. Are you morg or I morg, and it's just an issue.
N: Staying in the realm of Star Trek, the idea of warp speed is a pretty common trope in sci-fi. Hitting warp speed, faster-than-light travel. Perennial question: Is that possible, is that a technology we could see in our lifetime? Could it come true or is that pure science fiction?
BN: Let me say that we absolutely cannot see it from here. As far as we know, in physics, that is not possible. However. A long time ago I was at a symposium with Carl Sagan and Kip Thorne, who's an astrophysicist, and they talked about matter falling into black holes and ending up in another part of the universe at another time. So the problem as you may know with falling into a black hole is that you'd be stretched fantastically; you'd be killed by the gradient of gravity. Just the difference between the gravity of your heels and your head would rip you into spaghetti. You'd be "spaghetti-fied." And so this would be troubling for most of us.
When my father was young, the Big Bang was discovered. Edwin Hubble and Matt Wilson in Altadena, outside of Sierra Madre, CA. Looking at the sky, measuring the stars, discovers that they're all moving apart, in fact, everything is moving apart. Not apart from a place, just moving apart. Then, quite recently, people started speculating and speculating about how much gravity there is, how much mass there is in the observable universe, and they expected to observe the rate at which the universe is slowing down. But that's not what they discovered, in long about 2004. They discovered the universe is expanding. And do you know why?
N: I don't know why.
BN: Nobody knows why! There is a whole astrophysics-physics science that has yet to be understood. And people will say quite recently it's dark energy and dark matter that's causing this. But what is dark energy and dark matter? It's matter you can't see, it's energy you can't detect. "Oh, cool. So what is it?" We are poised to make another astonishing discovery in physics akin to Isaac Newton and the motion of particles and Albert Einstein and the speed of time. And who knows what the relationship of dark matter and dark energy is to us, beings that seem to be made of positive matter rather than anti-matter? There's a whole world out there to be discovered. But, no; as of right now, no warp speed.
N: I guess we'll just have to settle for flying coach.
BN: Unless you throw money at the problem and then you can fly business or first class, but if it's a short flight then it might be diminishing returns and then you get Southwest Airlines.
N: I just hope they're not reading this interview.
BN: Well, they provide a great service. What's not to love about Southwest Airlines?
N: That's true, it just depends on what number you get after you check in.
BN: If you want to get a better number, hustle! And, it's an hour flight. Deal. My dad was in a Japanese prisoner of war camp for four years, and so I often reflect on what problem I think I might have.
N: On a bit of a lighter note, in Star Wars, lightsabers are the quintessential sci-fi weapon. Everyone wants one; they're super cool. How feasible is that? Could you generate a non self-contained beam of light that was a certain length and shape and sustain it? Do you need something like an electromagnetic field? Is that even possible?
BN: Let me remind us that light is an electromagnetic field. Let's start with that. I used to work for a company called Micro Encoder that exploited a fabulous invention in which you measure distances – are you familiar with machinist's calipers?
N: Not off the top of my head, no.
BN: They're for precisely measuring objects zero-to-six inches long.
N: Gotcha.
BN: You can measure the diameter of a ball bearing to within a couple ten thousandths of an inch.
N: Wow.
BN: Anyway, this company Micro Encoder manufactured these using nothing, if I can use the term, nothing but circuit boards. Circuit board technology is very mature. You can manufacture beautiful, precisely-made circuit boards very inexpensively in our world today. So, they can measure a few thousandths of an inch, or a few tenths of a fraction of a millimeter using a wave of electricity going this way and another wave of electricity going that way.
So, perhaps there is a technique by which you could cause light to destructively interfere with itself at a meter or meter and half away from your hand and this would be a lightsaber. And when this beam of self-destructive electromagnetic energy passed through matter, like that guy's arm in the cantina on Tatooine, I presume it would take energy out of the saber, but by then, it appeared, they have some pretty nice battery packs.
We know nothing of this technology, but my experience with counter-rotating beams of laser light and laser gyros, and standing waves destructively-interfere with each other to allow you to properly measure distances, leads me to think that perhaps someone could come up with a destructively self-interfering lightsaber mobile thing. It's so dramatic, the way they come out of the sheath or the handle, the hilt at way below sub-light speeds, which is very sexy and cool, but I'm not sure how that would work. But I'm no expert on lightsaber technology, I'll tell you that.
N: Well, it's good to know it's not totally off the table yet.
BN: Yet is the optimum qualifier.
N: I think people would be willing to make certain cinematographic sacrifices for the sake of owning a lightsaber.
BN: Compare a lightsaber to a modern ballistic weapon, which is to say, a gun. To me, watching the trilogy with my ignorance, a gun looks pretty doggone effective. And this brings us by association to Stargate where they have handguns and lasers, a mixture of technology. They kept guns in Stargate because they are so effective.
N: Sometimes the old ways are the best.
BN: Hah, yeah, it was really great before antibiotics.
N: Break out the jar of leeches. So, Jurassic Park, there's a fourth one on the way. There have been rumors swirling around. Everyone loves dinosaurs, everyone loves theme parks; Is it remotely possible that given the right set of tools and the right DNA….?
BN: It's great science fiction, I'll say that. Michael Crichton lost my respect later in life.
N: Was it because of Timeline?
BN: What was his global climate change hoax book? State of Fear. I lost respect for him there. But, with that said, ER was a great show, Andromeda Strain was great science fiction, and so was Jurassic Park. I'm not saying you could use frog DNA, I'm not sure that's possible, but if you're manipulating DNA on some crazy level, perhaps it is possible.
N: One last question for you. What would be inside your ideal burrito?
BN: Tomatoes, fresh vegetables. Tomatoes, avocados, some happy cheese. Moderation, you don't want to end up with too much food. Fish, tilapia. A tilapia protein source might be good.
N: You don't want the Chipotle effect where it's bursting out the sides like an alien.
BN: Well it's tough to eat. Those things originally were designed for people working on farms and they needed calories on the go. In the U.S. when people use the term "Farm Breakfast," there's a lot of calories there because picking cotton will wear you out. So, so many burritos, at least in the US, strike me as oversized. My preferred burrito is manageable.
See how Man of Steel shaves in theaters today and keep up with Bill Nye's many scientific endeavors on his Twitter.
I just wanted to compliment you on finding the OLDEST picture of lightsabers on the internet. I remember having that saved on my desktop in 1999. I'm amazed it is still around.
I'm glad you asked Nye questions of which he has no clue. He is a mechanical engineer and therefore not the right "science guy" to ask quantum and relativistic physics questions. He was wrong on almost every answer. In the comic Superman used his heat vision and a crystal from his ship to shave. Warp drive was proven possible within the realm of Physics in 1994. Instead why don't you ask Nye about global warming. He seems to think he knows a lot about that.
I am a home schooled girl that is doing a project on light sabers, the possibility of their existence and so on. I found this page every useful for my research. I have one question: Is it possible for light to act as a solid, as represented in the Star Wars movies? I ask that because the Jedi can block attacks using the weapon, but you would think that it would just pass right through.
April, to answer your question about light sabers being solid, I guess I would have to point out that they wouldn't need to be solid to deflect attacks, at least the "bullets" of the guns.
Those were pretty much light projectiles which could be deflected using light. As for blocking another lightsaber… well, I think that one is beyond possible in Bill's model of the lightsaber.
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Green Day bailed on their headlining slot at the Voodoo Music + Arts Experience festival — which Metallica happily filled in for — but the No Cal punks blaze ahead on the promotional trail for their back-to-basics album trilogy with an official trailer for ¡Dos!. The preview, clocking in at just under a minute, features footage of the self-described "Biggest Rock Band in the World" running, jumping, and sweating on stage. ¡Dos! entries "Stop When The Red Lights Flash," "Fuck Time," and the Britpoppy "Stray Heart" soundtrack the clip, which also has bits of the band recording sprinkled throughout.
This trailer follows the drama-free video for "Troublemaker," the newest single off of ¡Uno!, and a preview of "Lazy Bones" off ¡Dos!. It remains to be seen whether the band will be able to keep pace with the triology's aggressive marketing strategy now that frontman Billie Joe Armstrong is in treatment following his profanity-ridden rant on stage in Las Vegas. Green Day's long-time producer and Warner Bros. chairman Rob Cavallo recently hinted to Rolling Stone that the band may have to miss some shows on their upcoming arena tour. "His rehab is no joke," Cavallo said. "He's under medical supervision for a while to get him clean."
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