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To me, this episode harkened back to the days of the "art of the stall." For example, Kate's statement that she didn't know why everybody else came back but she knew why she came back. But of course she didn't go on to explain exactly what that was. Typical LOST bullshit.
It was abundantly clear to me that she was talking about Sawyer. Seemed abundantly clear to him, too.
Well I guess I"m just dense then, because it wasn't clear to me. You may be right, but I'm not convinced it's that simple, if for no other reason than we don't know what happpened to Aaron. It looks like to me there's more going on with Kate than just a desire to come back and bone Sawyer.
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Orange Azalea
There is a shrub blooming in a nearby yard that I think is an azalea. It is spectacular-pure tangerine orange. Does anyone know what variety it could be? I've seen coral or peachy colors before, but never this shade. Thanks for any help.
Its a deciduous azalea.
It might be the exbury azalea called 'gibralter' or there's another one with the word 'reynolds' in it which is another orange exbury azalea. Its probably one of those two or it could be 'aromi sunset' which is as you describe, I have that one in my yard.
I've only seen one orange orange azalea, Orange Beauty, and that was in a bonsai show. I don't believe that I have ever seen it sold in this country for some reason. It's a karume.
There are plenty of red/orange evergreen azaleas but I've yet to see another orange orange one!!
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There are some native azaleas which are orange both naturally and in cultivars.
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I am betting it is Gibraltar. It is a very popular deciduous orange azalea.
Here is a link that might be useful: Photo of Giibraltar.
I have an orange azalea that is so spectacular, passers-by stop to ask what it is, where I purchased it, etc. It is a huge plant and has bright tangerine-orange blossoms and some people have suggested that it's an "old fashioned azalea." I purchased the plant without a label to identify it and bought it for only $1.00. I am going to attempt to root a cutting this year.
While I do have orange decideous azaleas (calendulaceum, prunifollum most notably, and some exbury's (gibralter, berryrose and a few others that were orphan resuces), I do have a Beltsville dwarf evergreen azalea 'Salmon elf' which is a real nice orange. Beautiful dark bronze/plum foliage in the winter.
They're out there. Just got to be patient and there's always new things being developed.
I googled for orange evergreen azalea and found one in the UK; Leanardslee Plants, called Azalea "Squirrel". Haven't inquired about shipping, but the plant is listed for 12.50 pounds. Check the link and tell me if that's close to the color you're looking for.
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Trying again for AZALEA SQUIRREL!
Here is a link that might be useful: Azalea Squirrel
Leonardslee Plants lists eleven orange evergreen azaleas.
Hope the link is successful.
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here in ky. you are seeing what everyone calls honeysuckles. but it is a FLAME AZALEA. I have been trying for years to get that glowing orange, but every flame I have ordered is not the orange I desire.Your best bet probably is to see if they would let you take some cuttings Sept.-Nov. and send to Van Veen Nursery they will root them for you and it is a top notch business.


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|Feb 01, 2012, 09:10 AM
Help!!!!!!!! Horizon just UNLOADED, DX18 & Blade Helis too
umx mig: http://www.e-fliterc.com/Products/De...rodId=EFLU1680
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|Feb 01, 2012, 09:13 AM
WOW, OMG that Cub is Sweet!!!! I will have to get that one. wow it looks great for a micro plane 24" span. it even has flaps. Yes! nice.
|Feb 01, 2012, 09:21 AM
Here is the big one:
They designed the umx Carbon Cub to TOW the new umx ASK-21 glider
...and they designed the Cub with Flaps and Nav lights; floats are an extra option. Incredible
|Feb 01, 2012, 09:22 AM
yeah I seen that on the video. I would think that cub would need more battery or it gets really short flights
|Feb 01, 2012, 09:57 AM
Add H9 Tigermoth 20cc and H9 P-40B (50-size) to the list... Kinda funny, I thought they always announced their new products on Thursdays.
|Feb 01, 2012, 09:59 AM
I'm almost afraid to look. I'm sure there is something I will want. (Gotta tell myself NO new planes before SEFF).
|Feb 01, 2012, 10:13 AM
I have told myself the same thing... even though that cub on floats with lights would look great on Lake Hodges! Due out early April too.
|Feb 01, 2012, 10:28 AM
The glider is plain cute. Did you see how it's been equipped to be aerotowed behind the Carbon cub? Micro aerotowing in front of your house.
|Feb 01, 2012, 12:34 PM
i like the cub and the umx spit but that price on the cub doesnt really make it apealing
For those with hangar9 experience do they include the stuff in the kits to build both electric and gas?
|Feb 01, 2012, 01:34 PM
The Cub is pricey, but considering it has AS3X, LED set, Flaps, and enough power to tow, I dont mind the price on this one as much as some of the pricing on other micros bother me.
In regards to H9, it really depends on what airframe you are looking at. I have had two, the H9 Hellcat .60 and the Sundowner 50. The SD 50 was designed around both electric and gas power so it came with both gas and electric hardware. I will add that the hardware packages are very thorough. You will only need loctite, CA, Canopy Glue, Epoxy, and a few tools that you probably already have. Pushrods, connectors, linkages, control horns, motor mounts, gas tanks, etc. are all included and do not leave you with needing to go to the store.
The .60 size Hellcat was designed for glow and gas and many modifications were going to be required for electric (including making battery hatches, new standoff's for the motor, battery trays, etc). But I feel that most of the newer models over the last 4-5 years are designed around both gas and electric and will include all hardware packages for whichever route you go.
Check on the website, if it has recommendations for gas, glow and/or electric, then it will have that hardware included.
Which one were you looking at? Are you planing on an electric or gasser? I am a big fan of H9, but I will tell you they do fly a bit on the heavier side. My SD 50 weighs just under 10lbs... but it flys great.
|Feb 01, 2012, 02:09 PM
got to see a smaller sundowner fly this weekend...that thing was crazy fast i couldnt imaging flying it.
I am itching to put a nice warbird in my collection but have zero interest in gas or glow, which is good if H9 puts that stuff in their kits.
|Feb 01, 2012, 02:30 PM
I really like the H9 warbirds, and the quality of the wood, kits, finish, etc, really is top of the line.
Devils advocate:
However, the one thing that always bugged me with the H9 warbirds was the glossy covering. To me, I just dont think it looks right, especially when people try to weather it.
If I had not gotten the Top Flite giant, I would be assembling an ESM or a TroyBuiltModels. If you have not yet looked at them, take a peak. They also offer most of their planes in several different schemes and a "Frank Tiano" version- the Frank Tiano versions are more for the person that wants to really be unique with the trim, make their own markings, mods, etc. While the other versions are more like your traditional ARF.
For me, I think they have just an unbeatable line of 30cc planes at very fair prices. All can be converted to electric, but likely it may not be as easy as with H9.
If you are going for an electric H9, just be sure you get one that was designed with electric also in mind... It was a PIA to have to install hatches and access and trays into the .60 hellcat. Notice how they list "hatches" as a feature on the new 50 size P-40, this was designed with electric in mind
|Feb 01, 2012, 03:01 PM
Blade just Announced a 300 and 500 series helis~ looks like the 500 will be in X and 3d versions
|Feb 01, 2012, 08:52 PM
I heard about the blade 300 while at work I like to see them. got to check those out.
the cub being 24" WS doesn't bug me on the price I think its fair for what all it has. can't wait I am sure it be in my hanger. Im going to just keep flying smaller planes might just keep one larger one but that be about it.
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Flags: whose land is it, anyway?Wednesday, February 18, 2015 by: Maurice Switzer
By Maurice Switzer
Flags have always fascinated me.
How amazing that a single piece of cloth, fluttering in the breeze, can represent the past, present and future of millions of people who call themselves nations.
Pennants of all shapes and sizes have prompted the most ordinary of men to summon up courage they never knew they had and charge headlong into almost certain death on the battlefield.
Strategically positioned within camera range, flags bestow credibility on televised speeches by politicians, perhaps making their words sound more articulate or insightful than they really are.
Even hanging limp on their standards behind judges and civil servants, flags seem to endorse decisions and justify rulings.
My adolescent card collections included athletes like Jackie Robinson and Rocket Richard, Canadian prime ministers and American presidents, great historic figures like Thomas Edison and Sir Francis Drake, and flags of all the world's independent nations.
There were only 100 countries then, at least double that today due to the shedding of much of the colonization imposed by European powers. Just three of them — Britain, France and Spain – competed for centuries to see who could plant the most flags in vast territories around the globe whose occupants regarded the Europeans in much the same way as today we would view alien invaders from another planet.
My social studies texts contained etchings that depicted lost sailors like Jacques Cartier in heroic pose, swords pointed skyward, flags firmly planted in ground their feet had just touched, but who were already claiming it in the name of their foreign kings.
The textbooks are more thorough these days, and students learn that "spreading civilization" does not equate to killing indigenous populations or stealing their land. Empires have morphed into Commonwealths, and former colonies have become sovereign nations – with their own flags.
In Canada, high court decisions are forcing governments to consider the inevitability of living up to constitutional pledges to recognize the inherent rights of First Peoples to manage their own affairs in the way they did for 10,000 years before the Vikings, Champlain, and Sir John A. Macdonald washed up on their shores.
Along with other trappings of nationhood, First Nations have always had banners to identify themselves as distinct peoples, ornately-carved staffs bearing Eagle feathers in equal number to their member communities or council fires.
So far, the consensus among First Nations envisions self-governing Indigenous entities functioning within the Canadian federation. Indians are not de facto separatists, at least not if Canada is willing to live up to its treaty obligations to share the land and its bountiful resources.
That's why visitors to 600 band offices and public celebrations like pow-wows are likely to see First Nations demonstrating respect by allowing federal and provincial flags to be unfurled alongside their own Eagle Staffs or contemporary-style community banners. That's appropriate, given that our ancestors agreed by treaty to permit peaceful settlement in our traditional territories.
Unfortunately, that respect is not always reciprocated.
Flags are primarily intended to represent the territories of nations. So in North Bay, for example, you might expect to see federal and provincial flags flapping above city public spaces. But one city park also showcases a British Union Jack, an Italian tri-colour, a banner designed to represent Francophone presence in the province, and the flag of the air wing of the Canadian Armed Forces.
North Bay should be proud of its ethnic heritages, and of the longstanding presence and community contributions made by personnel stationed at the local Armed Forces base. It is entirely appropriate for these groups to celebrate their membership or history by designing flags to fly in their offices, clubs or parade squares.
But in no way do such flags identify who has title to the lands over which they fly.
Sudbury, a more enlightened community to the west, decided to erect 100 poles on both sides of a major downtown overpass and display the flags of many of the world's nations as a local landmark. The first two flags motorists see when approaching the overpass from the north are those of the Anishinabek Nation – a white Thunderbird on a red ground – and the Metis – a white infinity symbol on blue background.
These were the first peoples to live on the land in this part of the world. It is most fitting for Sudbury to recognize that fact, as well as the places of origin for the thousands of imigrants who came later.
On June 26, 2014, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled for the first time that a First Nation can claim title to specific tracts of land within its far-reaching traditional territory. There are over 800 more outstanding land claims to be resolved across Canada.
Communities like North Bay need to be mindful of the winds of change, and ensure that the flags blowing in those breezes are ones that truly reflect the past, present, and future of their citizens.
Maurice Switzer is a citizen of the Mississaugas of Alderville First Nation. He flies an Anishinabek Nation flag over the North Bay home where he lives and pays city, provincial, and federal taxes.


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Jim Calhoun stood on the podium, maybe it was a smile - more likely a smirk. UConn's Hall of Fame coach was anxiously waiting to accept the national championship trophy from the head of the NCAA, Mark Emmert, whose organization hit his program with major sanctions just six weeks prior.
Calhoun didn't have to say a word. His "kiss my ass" expression said it all.
Calhoun won his third national title on Monday night over Butler in what could either be termed a defensive masterpiece or contest between a pair of inept offensive performances that someone had to win.
In doing so, the 68-year-old Calhoun became the oldest coach to ever cut down the nets in the NCAA championship. He also joined exclusive company, becoming the fifth coach to win three national championships, joining John Wooden, Adolph Rupp, Mike Krzyzewski and Bob Knight.
"The sweetness of it," Calhoun said after the 53-41 victory. "It was very sweet."
Now it's time. Time for Calhoun to call it a career, and walk away.
There would be no more fitting way for him to end it. A litany of circumstances has brought him to this point.
There have been a couple of bouts with cancer, a nasty bike accident in 2009 in which he broke several ribs – and a medical leave of absence last season.
His sister-in-law and college roommate both passed away recently. And his program, the one he built basically from scratch, was showing signs of falling apart.
"The stress of everything, losing so many close games last season and the drawn-out process with the NCAA, it took its toll on him," said UConn assistant Andre LaFleur, who also played for Calhoun at Northeastern. "But he's tough. He wants to take punches and come back at you. He doesn't have a glass jaw."
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Calhoun loves a good fight, even yearns for confrontation, but leaving the game now would mean he'd get in the last laugh against the sport's governing body. The same one which also whacked him with a three-game suspension to begin Big East Conference play next season as part of the decision stemming from the program's relationship with former student manager-turned-agent Josh Nochimson and ex-UConn recruit Nate Miles.
He could go out on top with his middle finger up in the direction of the NCAA.
But Calhoun wouldn't commit to anything Monday night, saying he learned years ago from former North Carolina coach Dean Smith to take some time before making an emotional decision fresh off a season.
"I have no idea," UConn athletic director Jeff Hathaway said of Calhoun's future after the win. "I really don't know."
People close to Calhoun felt the right time would have been after last season, but the stubborn Bostonian wouldn't give in and refused to call it quits even when it clearly appeared to be the intelligent decision. Instead, he signed a four-year contract extension this past offseason that almost no one believed would ultimately see its course.
This season came and Calhoun lost three seniors – Jerome Dyson, Stanley Robinson and Gavin Edwards – off a team that underachieved badly and went to the NIT.
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He had a quick, solid point guard coming back in Kemba Walker and a ton of question marks. Other coaches were crushing him on the recruiting trail, saying his health wouldn't allow him to go even another year.
It became difficult to haul in the elite kids – as he had been accustomed to doing over the past decade in Storrs. They struggled to beat Drake for freshman big man Michael Bradley and were forced to take a pair of overseas kids late just to fill the roster.
But Calhoun's improbable ride began in Maui as the Huskies pulled off an unlikely championship with a win over Michigan State and a rout of Kentucky.
That's when Calhoun realized he had a star in Walker. But it wouldn't be enough to sustain this staggering start.
The Huskies did eventually came down to earth, losing four of their last five in the regular season to earn a No. 9 seed in the Big East tournament, which meant they would have to win five games in five days to claim the title.
After the regular-season finale, a loss to Notre Dame on Senior Day, this team was toast. Kemba had run out of gas, and the kids surrounding him couldn't climb the freshman wall.
However, somehow Walker performed more magic – and Kemba's Kids – nine freshmen and sophomores – grew up in Madison Square Garden.
"We needed that badly," Calhoun said. "We wouldn't be here without that."
Then came the NCAA tournament ride and six more wins, including one over his former rival, John Calipari, and Kentucky in the national semifinals.
Even better, Calhoun won't have to share the limelight this time – as he did in 2004 – with UConn women's coach Geno Auriemma, who isn't exactly a drinking buddy.
Walker and Calhoun embraced on the court moments after the final buzzer sounded Monday night, a tough New York City point guard and an even tougher coach from Boston.
Neither could have fathomed this back in November. No one could.
"It's unreal," Walker said. "I feel like I'm dreaming."
"This is as sweet a ride as I've ever been on in my life," Calhoun said.
And now is the ideal time for it to end.
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My friend, Marty, is such a creative person . . . and a great gal, too! She's a finalist in her (Ohio) city's online Halloween costume contest this year.
I was totally blown away by her troll costume and all the time she put into the tiny details of it, and was hoping that you might be willing to check out the site (which is sponsored by a local radio station) and if you agree, vote for my friend Marty's costume. The voting is open to everyone and you can vote as many times as you like.
The prize is $500 and, believe me, she could sure use it (for utility bills, etc., not splurges)!
Obviously, the head was borrowed, but she's made most everything else herself with thrift store finds and lots of creative sewing and gluing. Marty, being divorced and an empty nest mom to 3 great guys, is forced to always be frugal . . . but she's also very creative.
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Marty in her costume ;^D
You all are so sweet! A BIG, BIG thank you for your votes . . . and for just taking the time to check out her costume in the first place. I appreciate it and so does Marty. In fact, she's totally floored that so many strangers would care enough to vote for her costume. I told her that it's because she did such a fantastic job creating it . . . and because the gals and guys here on this forum are so darn nice.
I'll be sure to let you know how the voting went. 11:59PM, this evening, is the cut off for voting.
Again, thanks for helping out my friend. Marty's such a nice (and very deserving) person and I'm really glad that we could help her out.
Thanks, Bella! I think so, too, but feel that everybody had to make up their own mind about it. I can't believe how small those pics on the radio station's site are, though!
I'll let everyone know the results as soon as I hear, on way or another.
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I've just gotten off the phone with one of the managers at the radio station and . . . Marty did not win. I'm heartbroken for her and, frankly, floored that someone else received more votes. Partially because of all of our help here, but even more so because her costume was really, really good.
I could only get a thumbnail view of the gal who won, but this is her:
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Zinnias- Cost of Seed
bluwave1(z7 LI)March 30, 2010
Does anyone have a source for relatively inexpensive zinnia seed? Seems ziinia seed prices from certain vendors have gone throught the roof.
diggerdee zone 6 CT
Are you looking for a specific zinnia? If I recall correctly, the Benary's Giant seed went up for some reason - can't remember exactly why. I know Johnny's was recommending another variety as a substitute. I think it is the giant dahlia-flowered zinnia.
Hope this helps!
Here is a link that might be useful: giant dahlia-flowered zinnia


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Lotus drivers pleased with practice performance
Mar 22, 2013, 7:00 PM EDT
Kimi Raikkonen is pleased with his performance in practice having finished quickest in FP2, underlining the pace of the Lotus E21 ahead of qualifying on Saturday.
"It was a pretty good day," the Finnish driver said. "We tried changing a few things on the car and made progress with where we wanted to be at the end of the sessions. We had some running in the wet which you often get around here and the car feels fine."
Raikkonen topped the second session ahead of Sebastian Vettel and Felipe Massa, and he also finished P2 in the first session, less than one-tenth behind Mark Webber. Regardless, the Lotus driver refused to make any predictions for qualifying.
"We ran pretty heavy today so I don't know how we'll be when everyone is light for qualifying, but I'm happy with where we are and expect we'll be reasonable tomorrow."
Teammate Romain Grosjean has set his sights on bettering his P10 finish in Australia, stating that he is happier with the new aerodynamic configuration of his E21.
"The new front wing does feel better than the one before so that helps. Kimi was running an updated aero package which looks to be an improvement so we know there's more pace to come in that area."
Grosjean also hopes that the hot and humid conditions in Malaysia will work in his favor this weekend.
"It was pretty hot out there – quite a contrast to Melbourne – but I felt comfortable and I'm looking forward to making some improvements tomorrow before we head into qualifying."
Lotus will be keen on building upon Raikkonen's impressive win in Australia, and if Grosjean can support his teammate throughout the season, the Enstone-based team could be in the running for the constructors' championship come the end of the year.
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Establishing lunar colonies seems like the next logical step, it's our closest celestial body after all, however it might surprise you to learn that doing that might in fact be a lot harder than establishing a similarly sized colony on Venus or Mars. Without an atmosphere to speak of our Moon's surface is an incredibly harsh place with the full brunt of our sun's radiation bearing down on it. That's only half the problem too as since the day/night cycles last 2 weeks you'll spend half your time in perpetual darkness at temperatures fast approaching absolute zero. There are ways around it however and recent research has led to some rather interesting prospects.
Whilst the surface of the Moon might be unforgiving going just a little bit below the surface negates many of the more undesirable aspects. Drilling into the surface is one option however that's incredibly resource intensive, especially when you consider that all the gear required to do said drilling would need to be sent from Earth. The alternative is to use structures that are already present on the Moon such as caverns and other natural structures. We know that these kinds of formations are already present on the Moon thanks to the high resolution imagery and gravity mapping we've done (the Moon's gravity field is surprisingly non-uniform) but just how big these structures could be has remained somewhat of a mystery.
Researchers at Purdue university decided to investigate just how big structures like these could be, specifically looking at how big lava tubes could get if they existed on the Moon. During its formation, which would have happened when a large object collided with the then primordial Earth, the surface of the Moon would have been ablaze with volcanic activity. However due to its much smaller size that activity has long since ceased but it would have still left behind the tell tale structures of its more tumultuous history. The researchers then modelled how big these tubes could have gotten given the conditions present on the Moon and came up with a rather intriguing discovery: they'd be huge.
When you see the outcome of the research it feels like an obvious conclusion, of course they'd be bigger since there's less gravity, but the fact that they're an order of magnitude bigger than what we'd see on Earth is pretty astounding. The picture above gives you some sense of scale for these potential structures, able to fit several entire cities within them with an incredible amount of room to spare. Whilst using such structures as a basis for a future lunar colony presents a whole host of challenges it does open up the possibility to the Moon having much more usable space than we first thought.
Much to the surprise of many I used to be a childcare worker back in the day. It was a pretty cruisy job for a uni student like myself, being able to show up after classes, take care of kids for a few hours and then head off home to finish off my studies (or World of Warcraft, as it mostly was). I consider it a valuable experience for numerous reasons not least of which is an insight into some of the public health issues that arise from having a bunch of children all packed into tight spaces. The school which I worked at had its very first peanut allergy ever when I was first there and I watched as the number of children who suffered from it increased rapidly.
Whilst the cause of this increase in allergic reactions is still somewhat unclear it's well understood that the incident rate of food allergies has dramatically increased in developed countries in the last 20 years or so. There are quite a few theories swirling around as to what the cause will be but suffice to say that hard evidence to support any of them hasn't been readily forthcoming. The problem for this is the nature of the beast as studies to investigate one cause or the other are plagued with variables that researchers are simply unable to control. However for researchers at the King's College in London they've been able to conduct a controlled study with children who were at-risk of developing peanut allergies and have found some really surprising results.
The study involved 640 children who were all considered to be at a high risk of developing a peanut allergy due to other conditions they currently suffered from (eczema and egg allergies) aged between 4 and 11 months. They were then randomly split into 2 groups, one whose parents were advised to feed them peanut products at least 3 times per week and the other told to avoid. The results are quite staggering showing that when compared to the control group the children who were exposed to peanut products at an early age had an 80% reduced risk in developing the condition. This almost completely rules out early exposure as a risk factor for developing a peanut allergy, a notion that seems to be prevalent among many modern parents.
Indeed this gives credence to the Hygiene Hypothesis which theorizes that the lack of early exposure to pathogens and infections is a likely cause for the increase in allergic responses that children develop. Whilst this doesn't mean you should let your kids frolic in the sewers it does indicate that keeping them in a bubble likely isn't protecting them as much as you might think. Indeed the old adage of letting kids be kids in this regard rings true as early exposure to these kinds of things will likely help more than harm. Of course the best course of action is to consult with your doctor and devise a good plan that mitigates overall risk, something which budding parents should be doing anyway.
It's interesting to see how many of the conditions that plague us today are the results of our affluent status. The trade offs we've made have obviously been for the better overall, as our increased lifespans can attest to, however there seems to be aspects of it we need to temper if we want to overcome these once rare conditions. It's great to see this kind of research bearing fruit as it means that further study into this area will likely become more focused and, hopefully, just as valuable as this study has proven to be.
Vaccines are responsible for preventing millions upon millions of deaths each year through the immunity they grant us to otherwise life threatening diseases. Their efficacy and safety is undisputed (at least from a scientific perspective anyway, which is the only way that matters honestly) and this mostly comes from the fact that they use our own immune system as the mechanism of action. A typical vaccine uses part of the virus to trigger the immune system to produce the right antibodies without having to endure the potentially deadly symptoms that the virus can cause. This response is powerful enough to provide immunity from those diseases and so researchers have long looked for ways of harnessing the body's natural defenses against other, more troubling conditions and a recent development could see vaccines used to treat a whole host of things that you wouldn't think would be possible.
Conditions that are currently considered terminal, like cancer, often stem from the body lacking the ability to mount a defensive response. For cancer this is because the cells themselves look the same as normal healthy cells, despite their nature to reproduce in an uncontrolled fashion, which means that the immune system ignores them. These cells do have signatures that we can detect however and we can actually program people's immune systems to register those cells as foreign, triggering an immune response. However this treatment (which relies on extracting the patient's white blood cells, turning them into dendritic cells and programming them with the tumour's antigens) is expensive and of limited on-going effectiveness. However the new treatment devised by researchers at the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering uses a novel method which drastically increases this treatment's effectiveness and duration.
The vaccine they've created uses 3D nano structures which, when injected into a patient, form a sort of microscopic haystack (pictured above). These structures can be loaded with all sorts of compounds however in this particular experiment they loaded them with the antigens found on a specific type of cancer cells. Once these rods have been injected they then capture within them the dendritic cells that are responsible for triggering an immune response. The dendritic cells are then programmed with the cancer antigens and, when released, trigger a body wide immune response. The treatment was highly effective in a mouse model with a 90% survival rate for animals who would have otherwise died at 25 days.
The potential for this is quite staggering as it provides us another avenue to elicit an immune response, one that appears to be far less invasive and more effective than current alternatives provide. Of course such treatments are still like years away from seeing clinical trials but with such promising results in the mouse model I'm sure it will happen eventually. What will be interesting to see is if this method of delivery can be used to deliver traditional vaccines as well, potentially paving the way for more vaccines to be administered in a single dose. I know that it seems like every other week we come up with another cure for cancer but this one seems to have some real promise behind it and I can't wait to see how it performs in us humans.
Vaccines are incredibly beneficial for two reasons. The first is the obvious one; for the individual receiving them they provide near-immunity to a whole range of horrendous diseases, many of which can prove fatal or have lifelong consequences for those who become infected. The risks associated with them are so small it's hard to even connect them with the vaccines themselves and are far more likely to simply be the background noise than anything else. Secondly, when a majority of the population is vaccinated individuals who can't be vaccinated (such as newborns) or those idiots who simply choose not to gain the benefit of herd immunity. This prevents most diseases from spreading within a community, providing the benefits of vaccinations to those who don't have them. However there's a critical point where herd immunity stops working and that's exactly what's starting to happen in northern California.
A recent study conducted by researchers working for Kaiser Permanente analysed the vaccination records for some 154,000 individuals in the Northern California region. The records cover approximately 40% of the total insured individuals in the area so the sample size is large enough for it to be representative of the larger whole. The findings are honestly quite shocking showing that there were multiple pockets of under-immunization (children not recieving the required number of vaccinations) which were signficantly above the regional mean, on the order of 18~23% within a cluster. Worst still the rate of vaccination refusal, where people declined any vaccinations at all, was up to 13.5%. It's a minority of people but it's enough to completely eradicate herd immunity for several horrible diseases.
For diseases like pertussis (whooping cough) and measles the herd immunity rate may only start kicking in at the 95% vaccination rate, mostly due to how readily they can spread from person to person. That means that only 5% of the population has to forego these vaccinations before herd immunity fails, putting at risk individuals directly in harms way. Other diseases still maintain herd immunity status down to 85% vaccination rates which some of the clusters were getting dangerously close to breaking. It's clusters like this that are behind the resurgence of diseases which were effectively eradicated decades ago, something which is doing far more harm than any vaccine ever has.
It all comes down to the misinformation spread by several notable public figures that vaccinations are somehow linked to other conditions. It's been conclusively proven again and again that vaccines have no link to any of these conditions and the side effects from a vaccination rarely amount to more than a sore arm or a fever. It's one thing to make a decision that only affects yourself but the choice not to vaccinate doesn't, it puts many other individuals at risk, most of whom cannot do anything to change their situation. You can however and the choice not to is so incredibly selfish I can't begin to explain my frustration with it.
Hopefully one day reason will prevail over popularity when it comes to things like this. It's infuriating to think that people are putting both themselves and others at risk just because some celebrity told them that vaccines were doing them more harm than good when the reality is nothing like that. I know I've beaten this horse several times since it died but it seems the bounds of human stupidity is indeed limitless and if I can make even just a small difference in those figures than I feel compelled to do so. You should to as the anti-vaxxers need a good and thorough flogging with the facts, one that shouldn't stop until they realise the error of their ways.
All life as we know it has one basic need: water. The amount of water required to sustain life is a highly variable thing, from creatures that live out their whole lives in our oceans to others who can survive for months at a time without a single drop of water. However it would be short sighted of us to think that water was the be all and end all of all life in our universe as such broad assumptions have rarely panned out to be true under sustained scrutiny. That does leave us with the rather puzzling question of what environments and factors are required to give rise to life, something we don't have a good answer to since we haven't yet created life ourselves. We can study how some of the known biological processes function in other environments and whether that might be a viable place for life to arise.
Researchers at the Washington State University have been investigating the possibility of fluids that could potentially take the place of water in life on other planets. Water has a lot of properties that make it conducive to producing life (as we know it) like dissolving minerals, forming bonds and so on. The theory goes that should a liquid have similar properties to that of water then, potentially, an environment rich in said substance could give rise to life that uses that liquid as its base rather than water. Of course finding something with those exact properties is a tricky endeavour but these researchers may have stumbled onto an unlikely candidate.
Most people are familiar with the triple point of substances, the point where a slight change in pressure or temperature can change it from any of its one three states (solid, liquid, gas) instantly. Above there however there's another transition called the supercritical point where the properties of the gaseous and liquid phases of the substance converge producing a supercritical fluid. For carbon dioxide this results in a substance that behaves like a gas with the density of its liquid form, a rather peculiar state of matter. It's this form of carbon dioxide that the researchers believe could replace water as the fluid of life elsewhere, potentially life that's even more efficient than what we find here.
Specifically they looked at how enzymes behaved in supercritical CO2 and found that they were far more stable than the same ones that they had residing in water. Additionally the enzymes became far more selective about the molecules that they bound to, making the overall process far more efficient than it otherwise would have been. Perhaps the most interesting thing about this was that they found organisms were highly tolerant of this kind of fluid as several bacteria and their enzymes were found to be present in the fluid. Whilst this isn't definitive proof for life being able to use supercritical CO2 as a replacement for water it does lend credence to the idea that life could arise in places where water is absent.
Of course whether that life would look like anything we'd recognise is something that we won't really know for a long time to come. An atmosphere of supercritical C02 would likely be an extremely hostile place to our kind of life, more akin to Venus than our comfortable Earth, making exploration quite difficult. Still this idea greatly expands our concept of what life might be and what might give rise to it, something which has had an incredibly inward view for far too long. I have little doubt that one day we'll find life not as we know it, I'm just not sure if we'll know it when we see it.
There's no doubt that the media we consume has an effect on us, the entire advertising and marketing industry is built upon that premise, however just how big that impact can be has always been a subject of debate. Most notably the last few decades have been littered with debate around how much of an impact violent media has on us and whether it's responsible for some heinous acts committed by those who have consumed it. In the world of video games there's been dozens of lab controlled studies done that shows consumption of violent games leads towards more aggressive behaviour but the link to actual acts of violence could not be drawn. Now researchers from Stetson University have delved into the issue and there doesn't appear to be a relationship between the two at all.
The study, which was a retrospective analysis of reports of violence and the availability of violent media, was broken down into two parts. The first part of the study focused on homicide rates and violence in movies between 1920 and 2005 using independent data sources. The second then focused on incidents of violence in video games using the ESRB ratings from 1996 to 2011 and correlated them with rates of youth violence over the same period. Both periods of study found no strong correlation between violence in media and acts of actual violence, except for a brief period in the early 90s (although the trend quickly swung back the other way, indicating the result was likely unrelated).
Violent video games are often used as an outlet for those looking for something to blame but often the relationship between them and the act of violence is completely backwards. It's not that violent video games are causing people to commit these acts, instead those who are likely to commit these acts are also likely to engage in other violent media. Had the reverse been true then there would have been a distinct correlation between the availability of violent media and acts of real world violence but, as the study shows, there's simply no relationship between them at all.
Hopefully now the conversation will shift from video games causing violence (or other antisocial behaviours) to a more nuanced discussion around the influences games can have on our attitudes, behaviours and thought processes. There's no doubt that we're shaped by the media we consume however the effects are likely much more subtle than most people would like to think they are. Once these more subtle influences are understood we can then work towards curtailing any negative aspects that they might have rather than using a particular medium as a scapegoat for deplorable behaviour.
For much of my childhood people told me I was smart. Things that frustrated other kids, like maths, seemed to come easy to me and this led to many people praising my ability. I never felt particularly smart, I mean there were dozens of other kids who were far more talented than I was, but at that age it's hard to deny the opinions of adults, especially the ones who raised you. This led to an unfortunate misconception that stayed with me until after I left university: the idea that my abilities were fixed and that anything I found hard or difficult was simply beyond my ability. It's only been since then, some 8 years or so, that I learnt that any skill or problem is within my capability, should I be willing to put the effort in.
It's a theme that will likely echo among many of my generation as we grew up with parents who were told that positive reinforcement was the way to make your child succeed in the world. It's only now, after decades of positive reinforcement failing to produce the outcomes it decried, we're beginning to realise the folly of our ways. Much of the criticism of our generation focuses on this aspect, that we're too spoilt, too demanding when compared to previous generations. If there's one good thing to come out of this however it's that research has shown that the praising a child's ability isn't the way to go, you should praise them for the process they go through.
Indeed once I realised that things like skills, abilities and intelligence were primarily a function of the effort and process you went through to develop them I was suddenly greeted with a world of achievable goals rather than roadblocks. At the same time I grew to appreciate those at the peak of their abilities as I knew the amount of effort they had put in to develop those skills which allowed them to excel. Previously I would have simply dismissed them as being lucky, winning the genetic lottery that gave them all the tools they needed to excel in their field whilst I languished in the background.
It's not a silver bullet however as the research shows the same issues with positive reinforcement arise if process praise is given too often. The nuances are also unknown at this point, like how often you should give praise and in what fashion, but these research does show that giving process praise in moderation has long lasting benefits. I'd be interested to see how well this translates into adults as well since my experience has been vastly positive once I made the link between effort and results. I can't see it holding true for everyone, as most things don't in this regard, but if it generally holds then I can definitely see a ton of benefits from it being implemented.
If you've ever spent a decent amount of time playing a MMORPG chances are you've come up against the terror that is the Random Number Generator (RNG). No matter how many times you run a dungeon to get that one item to complete your set or kill that particular mob to get that item you need to complete that quest it just never seems to happen. However, sometimes, everything seems to go your way and all your Christmases seem to come at once and the game has you in its grasp again. Whilst RNGesus might be a cruel god to many he's the reason that many of us keep coming back and now there's solid science to prove it.
It's long been known that random rewards are seen as more rewarding than those that are given consistently. Many online games, notably those on social networks, have tapped into that mechanic in order to keep users engaged far longer than they would have otherwise. Interestingly though this seems to run contrary to what many players will tell you, often saying that they'd prefer a guaranteed reward after a certain amount effort or time committed. As someone who's played through a rather large number of games that utilize both mechanics I can tell you that both types of systems will keep me returning however nothing beats the rush of finding a really good item from the hands of RNGesus.
Indeed my experience seems to line up with the recent study published by the University of Chicago which shows that people are more motivated by random rewards than they are by consistent ones. It sounds quite counter-intuitive when you think about it, I mean who would take a random reward over a guaranteed one, but the effect remains consistent across the multiple experiments that they conducted. Whilst the mechanism of what triggers this isn't exactly known it's speculated that randomness leads to excitement, much like the the infinitesimally small odds of winning the lottery are irrelevant to the enjoyment some people derive from playing it.
However the will of RNGesus needs to be given a guiding hand sometimes to ensure that he's not an entirely cruel god. Destiny's original loot system was a pretty good example of this as you could be bless with a great drop only to have the reveal turn it into something much less than what you'd expect it to be. Things like this can easily turn people off games (and indeed I think this is partly responsible for the middling reviews it received at launch) so there needs to be a balance struck so players don't feel hard done by.
I'd be very interested to see the effect of random rewards that eventually become guaranteed (I.E. pseudo-random rewards). World of Warcraft implemented a system like this for quest drops a couple years ago and it was received quite well. This went hand in hand with their guaranteed reward systems (tokens/valor/etc.) which have also been met with praise. Indeed I believe the mix of these two systems, random rewards with guaranteed systems on the side, seems to be the best mix in order to keep players coming back. I definitely know I feel more motivated to play when I'm closer to a guaranteed reward which can, in turn, lead to more random ones.
It's always interesting to investigate these non-intuitive behaviours as it can give us insight into why we humans act in seemingly irrational ways when it comes to certain things. We all know we're not strict rational actors, nor are we perfect logic machines, but counter-intuitive behaviour is still quite a perplexing field of study. At least we've got definitive proof now that random rewards are both more rewarding and more motivating than their consistent brethren although how that knowledge will help the world is an exercise I'll leave up to the reader.
For all of my working life I pined for the ability to do my work from wherever I choose. It wasn't so much that I wanted to work in my trackies, only checking email whenever it suited, no more I wanted to avoid having to waste hours of my day travelling to and from the office when I could just as easily do the work remotely. Last year, when I permanently joined the company I had been contracting to the year previous, I was given such an opportunity and have spent probably about half the working year since at home. For me it's been a wonderfully positive experience and, to humblebrag for a bit, my managers have been thoroughly impressed with my quality of work. Whilst I've always believed this would be the case I never had much hard evidence to back it up but new research in this field backs up my conclusions.
Researchers at the University of Illinois created a framework to analyse telecommuting employee's performance. They then used this to gain insight into data taken from 323 employees and their corresponding supervisors. The results showed a very small, positive effect for the telecommuting workers showing that their performance was the same or slightly better than those who were working in the office. Perhaps most intriguingly they found that the biggest benefit was shown when employees didn't have the best relationship with their superiors, indicating that granting flexible working arrangements could be seen as something of an olive branch to smooth over employee relations. However the most important takeaway from this is that no negative relationship between telecommuting and work performance was found, showing that employees working remotely can be just as effective as their in office counterparts.
As someone who's spent a great deal of time working from various different places (not just at home) with other people in a similar situation I have to say that my experience matches up with research pretty well. I tend to be available for much longer periods of time, simply because it's easier to, and it's much easier to focus on a particular task for an extended period of time when the distractions of the office aren't present. Sure after a while you might start to wonder if you'll be able to handle human contact again (especially after weeks of conference calls) but it's definitely something I think every employer should offer, if they have the capability to.
It also flies in the face of Marissa Mayer's decision to outright ban all telecommuting in Yahoo last year, citing performance concerns. Whilst I don't disagree with the idea that telecommuting isn't for everyone (I know a few people who'd likely end up like this) removing it as an option is incredibly short sighted. Sure, there's value to be had in face time, however if their performance won't suffer offering them flexible working arrangements like telecommuting can generate an awful lot of goodwill with your employees. I know that I'm far more likely to stick around with my current company thanks to their stance on this, even if I probably won't be able to take advantage of it fully for the next couple years.
Hopefully studies like this keep getting published as telecommuting is fast becoming something that shouldn't have to be done by exception. Right now it might be something of a novelty but the technology has been there for years and it's high time that more companies started to make better use of it. They might just find it easier to hold on to more employees if they did and, potentially, even attract better talent because of it. I know it will take time though as we're still wrestling with the 40 hour work week, a hangover over 150 years ago, even though we've long since past the time where everyone is working factories.
One day though, one day.
The Sailing Stones of Death Valley have been a scientific curiosity for numerous decades. These rocks seemingly spring to life at various times throughout the year, blazing long trials across the desert's floor before coming back down to rest. Whilst there have been numerous theories as to what causes this movement, ranging from the plausible to the downright insane, no one had managed to verify just what exactly was going on with these strange rocks. Well now thanks to researchers at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography we now have evidence of just what's causing this to happen and it's pretty fascinating.
The video largely supports the theory put forth by Ralph Lorenz some years ago whereby the the rocks are trapped within ice sheets which are then moved by the prevailing winds. What's interesting about this video is that it shows why the previous experiments, which were largely inconclusive as to ice sheets being responsible, produced the data that they did. It also shows why there seems to be similarities between some movements whilst others seem to be completely random. Pretty much all of these can now be explained by the ice sheets breaking up and bumping off each other, leading to the wide variety of patterns and behaviours.
Like the video says this might not be the most exciting experiment to conduct however it's always interesting when a long standing phenomena like this finally gets explained. We might not be able to use this knowledge to further other research or develop some novel product, however as we begin to explore further out into our universe knowledge of strange things like this becomes incredibly valuable. When we see phenomena like this elsewhere we'll be able to deduce that similar processes are in action over there and thus further our understanding of the places we explore.


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The three airports in Moscow handled more than 70 million passengers in 2013.
Warsaw Chopin Airport beat earlier forecasts that traffic would drop in 2013 to serve more than 10 million travellers in 2014.
A co-ordinated plan to protect the short-eared owl has been started by the Allegheny County Airport Authority (ACAA).
The transformation of San Francisco International Airport's Terminal 3 will begin on January 28 with the opening of its new-look Boarding Area E.
Travellers to Warsaw Chopin Airport will soon have 25 new stores to shop at after a contract was awarded for outlets to be operated.
A new indoor digital media network has been launched at Philadelphia International Airport (PHL) to amplify traveller experience and brand exposure.
New state-of-the-art advertising products are set to be put up at Birmingham Airport after a new contract was awarded.
Sochi International Airport has officially declared itself ready for the Winter Olympics after successfully completing tests on its temporary 'Games Terminal'.
Airport chief executives at the UK's two busiest airports locked horns over how airport capacity should be expanded in the South East of the UK.
Miami International Airport is set to scale back its ambitious 'airport city' project to ensure that it has enough space available for future expansion of its aviation facilities.