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In his last start, Max Scherzer made a change to his changeup that paid big dividends for the right-hander. He'll get to try out the revamped offspeed pitch for a second time Wednesday night against the White Sox.
The reigning American League Cy Young Award winner registered double-digit strikeouts for the fourth time this season in his last start, fanning 11 in a win against the Angels.
It had something to do with a tweaked grip he used on his changeup -- which he threw 19 times and got Angels hitters to miss on four of their 10 swings against, according to data from MLB.com's Gameday.
"I haven't been getting the swings and misses I've been looking for on that pitch," Scherzer said. "I made a little adjustment on my grip, and I felt like I had a lot more consistency with it and it had a lot more downward action, and I was able to collect some swings and misses and strikeouts with that pitch."
Scherzer picked up his 12th win and went seven innings against Los Angeles, but his Wednesday opponent, Hector Noesi, is coming off his best start of a season that has literally been all over the place.
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Miguel Cabrera shifted to third base, while Victor Martinez played first in the 11-4 loss to the White Sox.
Castellanos is hitting .264/.310/.399, with six homers and 37 RBIs, in his first full Major League season. The 22-year-old has appeared in 91 of the Tigers' 103 games this season.
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• The Tigers are 15-6 when Scherzer starts this season, their best record for any starter.
• White Sox first baseman Jose Abreu extended his hitting streak to 18 games Tuesday night. It's the rookie's second 18-game hitting streak of the season. An 0-for-4 game on July 5 is the only hitless showing Abreu has logged in his last 37 contests.
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BioAssay: AID 602403 Late stage assay provider results from the probe development effort to identify inhibitors of diacylglycerol lipase, beta (DAGLb): fluorescence-based biochemical gel-based competitive Activity-Based Protein Profiling (ABPP) inhibition of recombinant antitarget DAGLa in vitroName: Late stage assay provider results from the probe development effort to identify inhibitors of diacylglycerol lipase, beta (DAGLb): fluorescence-based biochemical gel-based competitive Activity-Based Protein Profiling (ABPP) inhibition of recombinant antitarget DAGLa in vitro. ..more |
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Description: Source (MLPCN Center Name): The Scripps Research Institute Molecular Screening Center (SRIMSC) Affiliation: The Scripps Research Institute, TSRI Assay Provider: Benjamin Cravatt, The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) Network: Molecular Library Probe Production Centers Network (MLPCN) Grant Proposal Number: 1 R01 DA025285 Grant Proposal PI: Benjamin Cravatt, The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) External Assay ID: DAGLA_INH_FLUO_1X%INH Name: Late stage assay provider results from the probe development effort to identify inhibitors of diacylglycerol lipase, beta (DAGLb): fluorescence-based biochemical gel-based competitive Activity-Based Protein Profiling (ABPP) inhibition of recombinant antitarget DAGLa in vitro. Description: Endocannabinoids (ECs) represent a unique group of lipids that function as chemical messengers in the nervous system. To date, the two principle ECs identified in mammals are N-arachidonoyl-ethanolamine (anandamide) and 2-arachidonoyl-glycerol (2-AG). They have been implicated in various physiological and pathological functions including appetite, pain, sensation, memory, and addiction (1). Unlike traditional neurotransmitters, which are stored in vesicles, ECs are synthesized and released on demand, and then rapidly degraded to terminate signaling. Thus, the metabolic pathways that govern EC turnover are critical in determining the magnitude and duration of neuronal signaling events (2). Endocannabinoid biosynthesis, in contrast to degradation, is poorly understood. Recently, two serine hydrolases, DAGL-a and DAGL-B, were cloned and found to selectively cleave sn-1 acyl chains from diacylglycerols (DAG) to generate 2-AG in vitro (3). Their function in the nervous system was validated in vivo by the generation of DAGL-a and DAGL-B knock-out mice (4, 5). However, it is still unclear to what extent DAGL-a/B catalytic activity contributes to 2-AG-mediated signaling. The development of potent and selective inhibitors would offer a means to perturb DAGL-a/B activity in a selective, reversible, and temporally-controlled manner. Given the non-selective nature of current DAGL-a/B inhibitors (6), specific chemical probes would serve as invaluable tools to delineate DAGL-a/B function in 2-AG signaling networks of the brain. References: 1. Di Marzo, V. (2008) Targeting the endocannabinoid system: to enhance or reduce?, Nat Rev Drug Discov 7, 438-455. 2. Ahn, K., McKinney, M. K., and Cravatt, B. F. (2008) Enzymatic pathways that regulate endocannabinoid signaling in the nervous system, Chem Rev 108, 1687-1707. 3. Bisogno, T., Howell, F., Williams, G., Minassi, A., Cascio, M. G., Ligresti, A., Matias, I., Schiano-Moriello, A., Paul, P., Williams, E. J., Gangadharan, U., Hobbs, C., Di Marzo, V., and Doherty, P. (2003) Cloning of the first sn1-DAG lipases points to the spatial and temporal regulation of endocannabinoid signaling in the brain, J Cell Biol 163, 463-468. 4. Gao, Y., Vasilyev, D. V., Goncalves, M. B., Howell, F. V., Hobbs, C., Reisenberg, M., Shen, R., Zhang, M. Y., Strassle, B. W., Lu, P., Mark, L., Piesla, M. J., Deng, K., Kouranova, E. V., Ring, R. H., Whiteside, G. T., Bates, B., Walsh, F. S., Williams, G., Pangalos, M. N., Samad, T. A., and Doherty, P. (2010) Loss of Retrograde Endocannabinoid Signaling and Reduced Adult Neurogenesis in Diacylglycerol Lipase Knock-out Mice, J Neurosci 30, 2017-2024. 5. Tanimura, A., Yamazaki, M., Hashimotodani, Y., Uchigashima, M., Kawata, S., Abe, M., Kita, Y., Hashimoto, K., Shimizu, T., Watanabe, M., Sakimura, K., and Kano, M. (2010) The Endocannabinoid 2-Arachidonoylglycerol Produced by Diacylglycerol Lipase +/- Mediates Retrograde Suppression of Synaptic Transmission, Neuron 65, 320-327. 6. Hoover, H. S., Blankman, J. L., Niessen, S., and Cravatt, B. F. (2008) Selectivity of inhibitors of endocannabinoid biosynthesis evaluated by activity-based protein profiling, Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters 18, 5838-5841. Keywords: late stage, late stage AID, assay provider, powders, counterscreen, diacylglycerol lipase, diacylglycerol lipase-beta, DAGL, DAGL-beta, DAGLB, diacylglycerol lipase-alpha, DAGL-alpha, DAGLA, hydrolase, serine hydrolase, appetite, pain, sensation, memory, addiction, activity-based protein profiling, ABPP, gel-based, activity-based probe, fluorophosphonate-rhodamine, FP-Rh, inhibitor, inhibition, anti-target, Scripps, Scripps Research Institute Molecular Screening Center, SRIMSC, Molecular Libraries Probe Production Centers Network, MLPCN Protocol Assay Overview: The purpose of this assay is to determine whether test compounds can inhibit antitarget DAGLa in a gel-based competitive activity-based proteomic profiling (ABPP) assay. In this assay, the antitarget overexpressed DAGLa is incubated with test compound followed by reaction with a fluorescently-labeled probe HT-01, which labels a handful of serine hydrolases, including DAGLa. The reaction products are separated by SDS-PAGE and visualized in-gel using a flatbed fluorescence scanner. The percentage activity remaining is determined by measuring the integrated optical density (IOD) of the bands. As designed, test compounds that act as DAGLa inhibitors will prevent enzyme-probe interactions, thereby decreasing the proportion of bound fluorescent probe, giving lower fluorescence intensity in the band in the gel. Protocol Summary: Membrane proteome of transiently transfected 293T Hek cells overexpressing mouse DAGLa (50 uL of 2 mg/mL) in Dulbecco's PBS (DPBS) was treated with test compound (1 uL of a 50x stock in DMSO; 10 uM, 2 uM, 0.4 uM, 0.08 uM, or 0.016 uM final concentration) or DMSO (1 uL) for 30 minutes at 37 C. The activity-based probe HT-01 (1 uL of a 50x stock in DMSO; 1 uM final concentration) was added, and the reaction was incubated for 30 minutes at 37 C, quenched with an equal volume of 2x SDS-PAGE loading buffer (reducing), separated by SDS-PAGE, and visualized by in-gel fluorescent scanning. The percentage of DAGLa activity remaining was determined by measuring the integrated optical density of the individual protein bands relative to the DMSO-only (no compound) control. The % inhibition was then calculated as follows: %_Inhibition = ( 1 -( IOD_Test_Compound -Median_IOD_Low_Control ) / ( Median_IOD_High_Control - Median_IOD_Low_Control ) ) * 100 Where: Test_Compound is defined as DAGLa treated with test compound. High_Control is defined as DAGLa treated with DMSO only (no compound). Low_Control is defined as background in a blank region of the gel. PubChem Activity Outcome and Score: Compounds with less than or equal to 50% inhibition at 0.4 uM compound concentration were considered active. Compounds with less than 50% inhibition at 0.4 uM compound concentration were considered inactive. The reported PubChem Activity Score has been normalized to 100% observed inhibition at 0.4 uM. Negative % inhibition values are reported as activity score zero. The PubChem Activity Score range for active compounds is 100-100, and for inactive compounds 80-0. List of Reagents: 293T Hek cells overexpressing mouse DAGLa (Open Biosystems Accession BC148308; provided by Assay Provider) FP-Rh (provided by Assay Provider) DPBS (Cellgro 20-031-CV) Comment This assay was performed by the assay provider with powder samples of synthetic compounds. 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Samuelson will retire at the end of November with more than 30 years of dedicated federal service. Nearly 25 of those years have been in senior leadership positions within the Department of Energy, serving within DOE's Offices of Nuclear Energy and the Office of Science and NNSA's Offices of Defense Programs and Acquisition and Project Management.
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Mark Hart, a scientist and engineer in Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Defense Technologies Division, has been awarded the 2015 Surety Transformation Initiative (STI) Award from the NNSA Enhanced Surety Program.
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists' search for new ways to solve large complex national security problems led to the top ranking on Graph 500 and new techniques for solving large graph problems on small high performance computing (HPC) systems, all the way down to a single server.
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In this 1998 photo, Kent Biringer, manager of International Nuclear Threat Reduction, meets with visiting scholars from Pakistan and India at the Cooperative Monitoring Center. The two men were investigating missile transparency between their countries during a visit to the CMC.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has entered a contract with IBM to deliver a next-generation supercomputer in 2017. The system, to be called Sierra, will serve NNSA's Advanced Simulation and Computing program.
Procurement of Sierra is part of DOE-sponsored Collaboration of Oak Ridge, Argonne and Lawrence Livermore national labs (CORAL) to accelerate the development of high performance computing. CORAL will result in delivery to each laboratory of a supercomputer expected to provide about five times the performance of today's top systems.
Under the contracts, Livermore and Oak Ridge will work with IBM, NVIDIA and Mellanox to deploy systems of about 150 petaflops to advance science and ensure national security. Argonne is expected to finalize a contract at a later date.
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The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Symposium on International Safeguards, which takes place every four years in Vienna, Austria, began Monday October 20 with a plenary session featuring remarks from IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano and a keynote address by Department of Energy / National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) Assistant Deputy Administrator for Nonproliferation and International Security Kasia Mendelsohn.
In her remarks to some 700 symposium participants, Ms. Mendelsohn complimented the IAEA for its efforts to implement strengthened safeguards to address ever-increasing challenges to the nonproliferation regime. "More than ever," she stressed, "IAEA safeguards are an essential element of the nuclear nonproliferation regime and of international efforts to verify the peaceful uses of atomic energy." Mendelsohn thanked the Secretariat for going to "extraordinary lengths over the last year to explain how safeguards implementation has evolved, particularly at the level of the state as a whole."
While discussing the challenges posed by the greater availability of proliferation-sensitive information and the growing number of countries with nuclear activities, she encouraged symposium participants to consider and identify options to help the IAEA, as appropriate, find the best possible technologies, procedures, and practices for safeguards implementation. She emphasized that "nuclear nonproliferation is a global challenge and the entire global community has a major stake in maintaining the effectiveness and credibility of the international safeguards system."
Noting that "the United States has long considered the international safeguards system to be a central pillar of the nuclear nonproliferation regime's strategy for preventing the spread of nuclear weapons," Mendelsohn talked in detail about U.S. contributions to the IAEA safeguards system, including the U.S. Support Program (USSP) for IAEA Safeguards and DOE/NNSA's Next Generation Safeguards Initiative (NGSI).
In this context, she summed up her remarks by urging the assembled experts at the symposium to work together "to make real progress on promoting peaceful uses of nuclear energy, strengthening safeguards, and preventing proliferation."
The Symposium featured more than 300 presentations, including 43 from DOE/NNSA headquarters and the National Laboratories. DOE/NNSA representatives also chaired or co-chaired seven technical sessions featuring topics such as nondestructive assay (NDA) measurements, training and education in nuclear nonproliferation and safeguards, new trends in the application of statistical methods for safeguards, challenges in spent fuel verification, and safeguards by design.
Click here to visit the 2014 IAEA Safeguards Symposium website, which includes a 6-minute video of conference highlights.
More than 65 contractor and federal employees from 20 organizations recently met at the Y-12 National Security Complex to share safety culture best practices and lessons learned. The two-day workshop featured more than two dozen presentations on creating and improving workplace safety culture, including sessions on developing monitoring panels, assessing performance, and improving trust and communication.
NPO and CNS sponsored the event, which drew participants from DOE, NNSA, the national labs (Lawrence Livermore, Oak Ridge, Sandia and Idaho), production and environmental management sites (Y-12, Pantex, Savannah River, Kansas City, Nevada, ETTP and WTP), local organizations (Isotek Systems and ORAU) and labor representatives from the Atomic Trades and Labor Council, International Guards Union of America and Knoxville Building and Construction Trades Council.
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Advisor Rizwan Shah and CNS Safety Culture Program Manager Paul Wasilko welcome participants to the best practices workshop held at the Y-12 National Security Complex.
Pays tribute to history of supercomputers
From the 1952 MANIAC to Bonanza deployed just this month, Los Alamos National Laboratory has deployed 100 supercomputers in the last 60 years.
To highlight its commitment to national security, LANL is paying tribute to its high-performance computing history. The feature highlights various LANL supercomputer systems. See more here.
See the installation of Cielo.
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100 supercomputers later, Los Alamos high-performance computing still supports national security mission. Picutured here is the 1952 MANIAC-I supercomputer.
Some 50 walkers representing Y-12 participated in The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Light The Night Walk held recently at the University of Tennessee's Circle Park. This year marks the 10th year Y-12 employees have raised funds and shined a light on the importance of finding cures for and providing access to treatments for blood cancer patients. Y-12's team is striving to meet its $20,000 goal, making the 10-year total more than $200,000. Currently, the team has raised more than $17,700. Consolidated Nuclear Services Mission Support Vice President Darrell Graddy (far right in photo) was the team management sponsor.
More than 30,000 people packed into AT&T Park recently for the San Francisco Bay Area Science Festival, a day of hands-on experiments, exhibits, games and shows.
The event was the culmination of the Bay Area Science Festival's week-long science festivities, which featured more than 100 fun, interactive science and technology events. During the successful event, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory joined more than 150 exhibitors to bring science to the masses.
LLNL booth was in prime position to welcome visitors and drew in a constant crowd. Science enthusiasts, young and old, flocked to the LLNL booths to participate in "Fun with Science" experiments, test their knowledge with a Science Challenge Game and try to solve the energy crisis with the interactive electronic climate simulation.
Throughout the event, LLNL volunteers Nick Williams and Harold Rogers drew crowds with the Lab's popular "Fun With Science" presentation, translating topics like air pressure, chemical reactions and electricity into interactive experiments like "Elephant Toothpaste," "Marshmallow Man" and "Leaky Bottle."
Before the event, a team of bioengineers from LLNL's Center for Bioengineering fielded questions online about neural implants as part of a series of Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) events organized by the Bay Area Science Festival. The two-hour, live question-and-answer session drew more than 680 questions and answers, landing the thread on the homepage of Reddit.
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The Grapes of RuthShe kept grapes on the table, although she didn't like the fruit. It had been Wally's favorite; she'd gotten used to keeping a big bowl of them on the table back when he was alive. Then the kids expected it, and then the grandkids. She never imagined it would change her life. She'd reached for a batch when her hand brushed his. It was almost cliche, she thought later meeting someone at the grocers, grabbing the same item. "Sorry. You take that one. " She'd looked up, smiling her apology.
He returned the smile. His eyes were the darkest blue, almost purple themselves. "Nice to meet a fellow grape-lover," he said, extending his hand.
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Spring Quilt Market 2010: Clothworks [with Giveaway!]
For the first time, I got to meet with the Seattle-based Clothworks at this Market — more specifically, Brandi Frey, the company's Marketing Coordinator and half of their blogging team. I have always admired Clothworks' online presence (their website has everything a gal could ask for in a fabric company website!) and I know they've been making themselves known on the modern fabric scene with designers like Ellen Crimi-Trent. So it was great to sit down with them and find out what they've got in store for the coming seasons.
Perhaps my favorite collection was Les Jardin de Papillons by Australian designer Chris Chun (shown above). (Please forgive the looming shadows on all these shots, by the way.) This will be out in November.
Clothworks has joined forces with Japanese manufacturer Kinkame to bring their fabrics to the U.S. market. Like some of the other Japanese companies, Kinkame offers both traditional and modern/kawaii fabric collections. In the Japanese Cute arena, we have Toy Poodle, and it's arriving in shops as we speak. This a basics line that will keep building over time. Also from Kinkame is Shades, a rainbow of ombre solids:
Milly is a very sweet little collection by Ellen Ries, available Fall 2010.
I also thought the watercolory Celebration by Masha D'yans was lovely — I also liked her debut collection, the Valentine's themed Cherie. This is another Fall 2010 collection.
See more upcoming collections from Clothworks on Flickr and of course on their website.
I'm also excited to see fellow Austinite Kathy York's debut fabric collection, Urban Landscapes, Funky Kitchen by Barb Tourtillotte, and Into the Woods by Sharon Sowell (all summer 2010 releases).
Now, I'm keeping it mellow with Quilt Market giveaways this time around — but I do have some current collections from Clothworks for you today! Take a look:
A fat quarter pack of Ellen Crimi-Trent's Bird Talk …
A fat quarter pack of the cute and quirky Mayfly Mischief by Tony Fernandes …
and a swatch pack of Toy Poodle by Kinkame! Just let me know in the comments which one tickles your fancy the most, and I'll draw separately for each pack. Comments will close and the winners will be drawn next Friday, June 4 (not sure about the time yet!), and this will be open to readers worldwide.


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Funtoo Linux is a Linux-based operating system that is a variant of Gentoo Linux, led by Daniel Robbins (the creator and former Chief Architect of Gentoo) who serves as benevolent dictator for life (BDFL) of the project. Funtoo Linux is optimized for the best possible performance, supporting Intel Core i7, AMD FX Processors, and others. See what we support. See Distinctives, below, for more information about what makes us special.
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- Keychain, an SSH/GPG agent front-end.
- Metro, automated Funtoo build engine.
- Learn Linux! Awk, Bash, Sed and more.
Ebuild pages recently updated: Kodi, Yarssr, Apparmor, Nouveau Video Drivers (Open Source), Lightdm, Qjackctl, Firewalld, Odhcploc, Dhcpcd, Quodlibet more...
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Support Funtoo and help us grow! Donate $15 per month and get a free SSD-based Funtoo Virtual Container.
Looking for people interested in testing and documenting Docker support! Contact Daniel Robbins for more info.
Better Experiences: Ego and Vim
Info on Funtoo's new personality tool called 'ego', and user-focused updates to vim's defaults.How We're Keeping You At the Center of the Funtoo Universe
Read about recent developments that keep you, our users, at the forefront of our focus as Funtoo moves forward.New OpenGL management in Funtoo
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The How to 'wiki' will help get you started on wiki editing. Have a look at Requested-Documents and pages that need to be updated.
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Funtoo Linux is a meta-distribution, which means it is built (fully automatically) with the functionality and optimizations that you want, not what some distro maintainer thought was best for you. Packages are installed directly from source code, thanks to the Portage ports system, inspired by the FreeBSD ports system, written in Python and with full advanced package management functionality.
Benefits for desktops: leaner, optimized, faster system. Additional benefits for servers: enable only what you actually need to reduce attack surface, thus improving security.
We use Git for all our development, and we also use Git to deliver our ports tree to you.
In contrast to Gentoo Linux, we offer a number of innovations, including our extensive use of git, our profile system, boot-update boot management tool, our incredibly flexible template-based networking scripts, Metro distribution build system, support of Debian, RHEL and other kernels, enhanced Python support, Portage mini-manifests, user-centric distribution model, and a large number of community infrastructure improvements.
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Clearly engaging, clearly rewarding, clearly fun...clearly the amazing Planet Dog Orbee-Tuff Mazee!
The innovative Planet Dog Orbee-Tuff Mazee offers up a fresh take on the stimulating dog toy puzzle meets the old fashioned treat ball. This interactive brain teaser is designed for long lasting play. The clear, pliable, Orbee-Tuff outer shell is durable and quiet - it won't make a racket on your hardwood floor! The unique inner maze will keep your pup puzzled while she works at getting those treats out. And using it couldn't be easier! Stuff it with your dog's favorite treats or kibble and enjoy watching them play!
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By Eliz
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About Me Long-time Pet Owner
Comments about Planet Dog Orbee-Tuff Mazee Puzzle Treat Ball:
I am saving these balls as a Christmas gift for my chihuahuas. They get very bored. I am hoping these toys will do the trick and keep them busy.I will review after the holidays
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Entertains Forever
By Boston Momma
from Jacksonville, FL
I purchased this for my way too smart for his own good Boston Terrier. He doesn't get many treats during the day, sometimes none at all, so I figured it would be fun way to keep him entertained and reward him. I throw a few halves of the Wellness Wellbar treats in there, shake it up and let it go. It is so funny to watch him kick it, pick it up and throw it and chase it around. It keeps him going even after the treats are out (I think he thinks the more he shakes it that more treats will appear). Totally worth the price. Be warned though, this is not for chewers. If your dog would rather chew something up to get to the center, this will be destroyed in no time!
dog likes it!
By Louie's mom
from Phoenix, AZ
About Me Physician
I have a dog that can get bored at home, and this seems to keep him entertained. He loves when the treats are in it, but still has to work at learning to roll it for treats rather than chewing on the outside. The orbee has held up well despite the chewing and the dog enjoys it. win/win!
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Puzzle ball is a hit!
By 3doggirl
from Seattle, WA
About Me Dog Owner
My comment that the puzzle is too easy is based on the larger hole on the top as the treats fall out quickly. I use kibble and added a larger size pieces and treats to make the game last longer. If anyone has other suggestions on what items work best, please comment.
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One More Please!
By TwoDogBlog
from Texas
We enjoy this toy. We have a hard time sharing it. We hope to aquire another one. We are sneaky and try to remove the puzzle structure from the ball, but we have not suceeded. It can get gross and scuffed. It can be washed, but does not look like new. We have not been able to destroy it! We love our treat puzzle ball.
dogs live it
By janet
from new mexico
About Me Puzzle Whiz
fill it with treats and watch the dogs go about getting the treats out
not challenging enough
By pepper annie
from baldwinsville, ny
About Me Parent
My pampered pooch just wasn't interested in this puzzle treat ball. I was much more excited than her.The product is decent.


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The world's tallest man has gotten married, towering more than 2 feet over his new bride.
Sultan Kosen, 30, who stands at a massive 8 feet, 3 inches tall, said while he couldn't find a woman close to his height, he was thrilled to have met 20-year-old Merve Dibo.
At just 5 feet, 7 inches tall, Dibo barely reaches Kosen's waist.
The couple wed on Saturday in Kosen's native Turkey.
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The part-time farmer had to order a custom suit and size 28 shoes for the event.
He is one of only 10 people known to have ever topped 8 feet, according to the New York Daily News.
The tallest man ever was Illinois resident Robert Wadlow, who died in 1940 at 8 feet, 11 inches tall.


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Tennis elbow is soreness or pain on the outside (lateral) side of the upper arm near the elbow.
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The part of the muscle that attaches to a bone is called a tendon. Some of the muscles in your forearm attach to the bone on the outside of your elbow.
When you use these muscles over and over again, small tears develop in the tendon. Over time, this leads to irritation and pain where the tendon is attached to the bone.
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This condition may also be due to constant computer keyboard and mouse use.
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X-rays may be done.
The first step is to rest your arm and avoid the activity that causes your symptoms for at least 2 - 3 weeks. You may also want to:
If your tennis elbow is due to sports activity, you may want to:
If your symptoms are related to working on a computer, ask your manager about making changes to your work station or have someone look at how you chair, desk, and computer are set up.
An occupational therapist can show you exercises to stretch and strengthen the muscles of your forearm.
You can buy a special brace for tennis elbow at most drug stores. It wraps around the upper part of your forearm and takes some of the pressure off the muscles.
Your doctor may also inject cortisone and a numbing medicine around the area where the tendon attaches to the bone. This may help decrease the swelling and pain.
If the pain continues after 6 - 12 months of rest and treatment, surgery may be recommended. Talk with your orthopedic surgeon about the risks, and whether surgery might help.
Elbow pain may get better without surgery. However, most people who have surgery have full use of their elbow forearm afterwards.
Call for an appointment with your health care provider if:
Regan WD, Grondin PP, Morrey BF. Elbow and forearm. In: DeLee JC, Drez D Jr., Miller MD, eds. DeLee and Drez's Orthopaedic Sports Medicine. 3rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier;2009:chap 19.
Schmidt MJ, Adams SL. Tendinopathy and bursitis. In: Marx JA, ed. Rosen's Emergency Medicine: Concepts and Clinical Practice. 7th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Mosby Elsevier; 2009: chap 115.
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Intracardiac electrophysiology study (EPS) is a test to look at how well the heart's electrical signals are working. It is used to check for abnormal heartbeats or heart rhythms.
Electrophysiology study - intracardiac; EPS - intracardiac
Wire electrodes are placed in the heart to do this test. These electrodes measure electrical activity in the heart.
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You will be told not to eat or drink for 6 to 8 hours before the test.
You will wear a hospital gown. You must sign a consent form for the procedure.
Your health care provider will tell you ahead of time if you need to make changes to the medicines you regularly take. Do not stop taking or change any medicines without first talking to your health care provider.
In most cases, you will be given medicine to help you feel calm before the procedure. The study can last from 1 hour up to several hours. You may not be able to drive home afterward, so you should plan for someone to drive you.
You will be awake during the test. You may feel some discomfort when the IV is placed into your arm. You may also feel some pressure at the site when the catheter is inserted. You may feel your heart skipping beats or racing at times.
Your doctor may order this test if you have signs of an abnormal heart rhythm (arrhythmia).
You may need to have other tests before this study is done.
An EPS may be done to:
Abnormal results may be due to abnormal heart rhythms that are too slow or too fast. These may include:
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The health care provider must find the location and type of heart rhythm problem in order to determine the proper treatment.
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Raging rivers and thundering waves are exciting and frightening and for mathematicians they are a massive problem. Suppose you've got a turbulent mountain stream — if you're a mathematician, you'll want to know if you can describe the flow of the water using a mathematical equation. Given a point in space (that is somewhere in the stream) and a point in time (say 5 minutes from now), you would like to know the velocity and maybe also the pressure of the water at that point in time and space. Image: misty. Scientists believe that turbulence is described to a reasonable level of accuracy by a very famous set of equations, known as the Navier-Stokes equations. These are partial differential equations which relate changes in velocity, changes in pressure and the viscosity of the liquid. To find the velocity and pressure of your liquid, you have to solve them. But that's no easy feat. Exact solutions to the equations — solutions that can be written down as mathematical formulae — exist only for simplified problems that are of little or no physical interest. For most practical purposes, approximate solutions are found through computer simulations — essentially through educated guess-work — that require immense computing power. Plus there is an additional problem that makes numerical difficulties pale into insignificance: no one knows if exact mathematical solutions even exist in all cases. And if they do exist, we still don't know if they involve oddities, such as discontinuities or infinities, that don't square with our intuition of how a liquid should behave. It's these difficulties that have turned the understanding of the Navier-Stokes equations into one of the seven Millennium Problems posed by the Clay Mathematics Institute. Whoever proves or disproves the existence of finite and smooth solutions is set to earn a million dollars. All this might seem strange, even scary, given that the equations are used all over the place, all the time — meteorology and aircraft design are just two examples. The fact is that, in the cases we can compute, approximate solutions do seem to give an accurate description of the motion of fluids. What we don't know is what, if anything, the model given by the Navier-Stokes equations tells us about the exact nature of fluid flow. You can find out more about turbulence on Plus:
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December 20, 2013
The central idea of applied statistics is that you can say something about a whole population by looking at a smaller sample. Without this idea there wouldn't be opinion polls, the social sciences would be stuffed, and there would be no way of testing new medical drugs, or the safety of bridges, etc, etc. It's the central limit theorem that is to a large extent responsible for the fact that we can do all these things and get a grip on the uncertainties involved. Suppose that you want to know the average weight of the population in the UK. You go out and measure the weight of, say, 100 people whom you've randomly chosen and work out the average for this group — call this the sample average. Now the sample average is supposed to give you a good idea of the nation's average. But what if you happened to pick only fat people for your sample, or only very skinny ones? To get an idea of how representative your average is likely to be, you need to know something about how the average weight of 100-people-samples varies over the population: if you took lots and lots of samples of size 100 and worked out the average weight for each, then how variable would this set of numbers be? And what would its average (the average of averages) be compared to the true average weight in the population? For example, suppose you know that if you took lots and lots of 100- people-samples and wrote down the average weight of each sample, you'd get all values from 10kg to 300kg in equal proportion. Then this would tell you that your method of estimating the overall average by taking one sample of a 100 people isn't a very good one, because there's too much variability — you're just as likely to get any of the possible values, and you don't know which one is closest to the true average weight in the population. Four versions of the normal distribution with different means and variances. So how can we say anything about the distribution of 100-people-averages — called the sampling distribution — when we don't know anything about the distribution of weight across the population? This is where the central limit theorem comes in: it says that for a big enough sample (usually sampling 30 people is good enough) your sampling distribution is approximated by a normal distribution — this is the distribution with the famous bell shape. The mean of this normal distribution (the average of averages corresponding to the tip of the bell) is the same as the mean in the population (the average weight of the population). The variance of this normal distribution, that is how much it varies about the mean (indicated by the width of the bell), depends on the sample size: the larger the sample, the smaller the variance. There's an equation which gives the exact relationship. So if your sample size is big enough (100 would certainly do since it's bigger than 30), then the relatively small variance of the normal sampling distribution means that the average weight you observe is close to the mean of that normal distribution (since the bell is quite narrow). And since the mean of that normal distribution is equal to the true average weight across the population, your observed average is a good approximation of the true average. You can make all this precise, for example you can say exactly how confident you are that the true average is within a certain distance of your sample average, and you can also use the result to calculate how large a sample you need to get an estimate of a given accuracy. It's the central limit theorem that lends precision to the art of statistical inference, and it's also behind the fact that the normal distribution is so ubiquitous. The central limit theorem is actually a bit more general than we've let on here. See here for a precise statement. Return to the Plus Advent Calendar |
December 19, 2013
The dramatic curved surfaces of some of the iconic buildings created in the last decade, such as 30 St Mary's Axe (AKA the Gherkin) in London, are only logistically and economically possible thanks to mathematics. Curved panels of glass or other material are expensive to manufacture and to fit. Surprisingly, the curved surface of the Gherkin has been created almost entirely out of flat panels of glass — the only curved piece is the cap on the very top of the building. And simple geometry is all that is required to understand how. A geodesic sphere. One way of approximating a curved surface using flat panels is using the concept of geodesic domes and surfaces. A geodesic is just a line between two points that follows the shortest possible distance — on the Earth the geodesic lines are great circles, such as the lines of longitude or the routes aircraft use for long distances. A geodesic dome is created from a lattice of geodesics that intersect to cover the curved surface with triangles. The mathematician Buckminster Fuller perfected the mathematical ideas behind geodesic domes and hoped that their properties — greater strength and space for minimum weight — might be the future of housing. To try to build a sphere out of flat panels, such as a geodesic sphere, you first need to imagine an icosahedron (a polyhedron made up of 20 faces that are equilateral triangles) sitting just inside your sphere, so that the points of the icosahedron just touch the sphere's surface. An icosahedron, with its relatively large flat sides, isn't going to fool anyone into thinking it's curved. You need to use smaller flat panels and a lot more of them. Divide each edge of the icosahedron in half, and join the points, dividing each of the icosahedron's faces into four smaller triangles. Projecting the vertices of these triangles onto the sphere (pushing them out a little til they two just touch the sphere's surface) now gives you a polyhedron with 80 triangular faces (which are no longer equilateral triangles) that gives a much more convincing approximation of the curved surface of the sphere. You can carry on in this way, dividing the edges in half and creating more triangular faces, until the surface made up of flat triangles is as close to a curved surface as you would like. Find out more about the Gherkin and other iconic buildings on Plus. Return to the Plus Advent Calendar
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December 18, 2013
How would you go about adding up all the integers from 1 to 100? Tap them into a calculator? Write a little computer code? Or look up the general formula for summing integers? Carl Friedrich Gauss as depicted on the (now defunct) German 10 Marks note. Legend has it that the task of summing those numbers was given to the young Carl Friedrich Gauss by his teacher at primary school, as a punishment for misbehaving. Gauss didn't have a calculator or computer, no one did at that time, but he came up with the correct answer within seconds. Here's how he did it. Notice that you can sum the numbers in pairs, starting at either end. First you add 1 and 100 to get 101. Next it's 2 and 99, giving 101 again. The same for 3 and 98. Continuing like this, the last pair you get is 50 and 51 and they give 101 again. Altogether there are 50 pairs all adding to 101, so the answer is 50 x 101 = 5050. Easy — if you're Gauss. Return to the Plus Advent Calendar |
December 17, 2013
Sequences of numbers can have limits. For example, the sequence 1, 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, ... has the limit 0 and the sequence 0, 1/2, 2/3, 3/4, 4/5, ... has the limit 1. But not all number sequences behave so nicely. For example, the sequence 1/2, 1/3, 2/3, 1/4, 3/4, 1/5, 4/5, ... keeps jumping up and down, rather than getting closer and closer to one particular number. We can, however, discern some sort of limiting behaviour as we move along the sequence: the numbers never become larger than 1 or smaller than 0. And what's more, moving far enough along the sequence, you can find numbers that get as close as you like to both 1 and 0. So both 0 and 1 have some right to be considered limits of the sequence — and indeed they are: 1 is the limit superior and 0 is the limit inferior, so-called for obvious reasons. But can you define these limits superior and inferior for a general sequence for example the one shown in the picture? Here's how to do it for the limit superior. First look at the whole sequence and find its least upper bound: that's the smallest number that's bigger than all the numbers in the sequence. Then chop off the first number in the sequence, , and again find the least upper bound for the new sequence. This might be smaller than the previous least upper bound (if that was equal to ), but not bigger. Then chop off the first two numbers and again find the least upper bound. Keep going, chopping off the first three, four, five, etc numbers, to get a sequence of least upper bounds (indicated by the red curve in the picture). In this sequence every number is either equal to or smaller than the number before. The limit superior is defined to be the limit of these least upper bounds. It always exists: since the sequence of least upper bounds is either constant or decreasing, it will either approach minus infinity or some other finite limit. The limit superior could also be equal to plus infinity, if there are numbers in the sequence that get arbitrarily large. The limit inferior is defined in a similar way, only that you look at the sequence of greatest lower bounds and then take the limit of that. You can read more about the limits inferior and superior in the Plus article The Abel Prize 2012. Return to the Plus Advent Calendar |
December 16, 2013
Here's a dilemma. Suppose you and a friend have been arrested for a crime and you're being interviewed separately. The police offer each of you the same deal. You can either confess, incriminating your partner, or remain silent. If you confess and your partner doesn't, then you get 2 years in jail (as a reward for talking), while your partner gets 10 years. If you both confess, then you both get 8 years (reduced from 10 years because at least you talked). If you both remain silent, you both get 5 years, as the evidence is only sufficient to convict you of a lesser crime. Solitary confinement What should your strategy be? As a selfish and rational individual, you should talk. If your partner also talks, then your confession gets you 8 years instead of 10. If your partner doesn't talk, then it gets you 2 years instead of 5. Talking is your dominant strategy, it leaves you better off than silence, no matter what your partner does. The trouble is that your partner, just as selfish and rational as you, will come to the same conclusion. You'll both decide to talk and get 8 years each. Paradoxically, your dominant strategy will leave both of you worse off than silence would have done. The prisoner's dilemma is one of game theory's most famous games because it illustrates why people might refuse to cooperate when they would be better off doing so. One real-life situation that is similar to the dilemma is an arms race between two countries, in which both countries increase their military might when it would be better for both to disarm. The dilemma has been used extensively in mathematical research into altruism. Mathematical research into altruism? Yes, that's right! Using the dilemma as the basis for computer simulations in which simulated individuals can either cooperate or defect has shown how altruism can evolve as a survival strategy, even in large societies. To find out more, read Does it pay to be nice? And there's more about the prisoner's dilemma and economics in Adam Smith and the invisible hand. Return to the Plus Advent Calendar |


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