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An astronaut floats in space all alone. This is a song that represents loneliness and isolation. It's in 3/4, so it's easy to dance to, if you're from the 18th century, and have a big white wig on your head. =P
I really enjoyed writing this song, and I hope that I can take this back to the traditional form of composition, and notate it out, because I made sure that when I was writing this, it would be possible to perform on a piano/keyboard, unlike some of my other compositions that would require more than two hands to play. So, I'd like to learn how to play my own composition, lol, but for now, here's what I made with my computer. A live recording wouldn't have the delay and panning, so I think it'll work out well as a performance piece and as a digital composition.
I hope you like it, the first 5 (or so) notes are quite random, and are there to break the mood before the actual song begins. So, sit back, relax, and enjoy, take your mind to the deepest corner of space, where you are all alone.
Don't forget to rate and review, I'd love to know what you think of my music, all reviews are appreciated.
Rated 5 / 5 stars
I'm using this in my game :)
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amazing song.
Rated 5 / 5 stars
I just love how it has that traditional waltzy undercurrent but with that nice, simple tune on top. I was never quite one for waltzes, but man. Awesome.
Rated 5 / 5 stars
And I thought your techno was good...
I started out listening to your DnB songs and your Techno/Trance. But i decided to check out your classical stuff. Dude...you blow me away with this stuff.
Keep up the phenomenal work!
Rated 5 / 5 stars
Blown away...
Dude... there is so much that you could do with this, talking from an animator's point of view. Wow, I am really inspired, as I always am, by these lonely, emotive pieces, I feel an urge to animate to it. Thanks a LOT for the inspiration, I really feel I can do something great with this. I hope I dont let you down.
Be my guest.
Thanks for the review, and the 10.
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Absolutely beautiful. Please don't be put off by my 7/10 but I'm a very harsh critic and 7/10 for this is pretty damned good!
I was totally drawn into this song and got lost in it. I feel some kind of inner contentment after listening to it.
A kind of lonely happiness. A feeling of solitude comes from having the one instrument, but it works for me wonderfully.
I am an artist (of sorts) and in early staged of working on short animations, and I thought this track would fit well into one of them, having it as the only sound, no FX or voice. Would you be willing to maybe change a couple of notes towards the end to make it feels like there's a climax rather, a feeling of an end to a hardship/endevour? If not, I can still work with this track just maybe cut a couple of seconds of it? Msg me if you like :)
Now, onto the rest of your work ... :)
Hey, sorry it took me so long to respond to this review. Thanks for the criticisms. I'm guessing that by now you've long forgotten about this review, but I'm humbled by your offer.
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Meyer, Frederick W. (1971) Seepage beneath Hoover Dike southern shore of Lake Okeechobee, Florida. Tallahassee, FL, Florida Geological Survey, (Report of Investigations - Florida Geological Survey, 58)
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Future water needs in southern Florida call for an increase in the storage capacity of Lake Okeechobee. Seepage from the lake is expected to increase as a result of raising the lake level. Data concerning the occurrence and amounts of seepage are needed for the design and operation of flood-control works which will remove excess water from the rich agricultural lands along the southern shore. Intensive studies at five sites along the southern shore of Lake Okeechobee between the Caloosahatchee Canal and the St. Lucie Canal indicate that seepage occurs chiefly through beds of shell and limestone which underlie the Hoover Dike at shallow depth. Seepage rates at the five sites range from about 0.1 to 0.9 cfs per mile per foot of head across the dike. Seepage beneath the 50-mile length of dike should increase from about 22 to 50 cfs if the average stage of the lake is raised from 14 to 16.5 feet. Seepage is greatest between Moore Haven and Clewiston, where deep borrows have been excavated on the landward and lakeward sides of the dike. Most of the seepage from the lake can be controlled by properly spaced toe ditches which would intercept the seepage and return it to the lake. (PDF contains 108 pages.)
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Title: | Seepage beneath Hoover Dike southern shore of Lake Okeechobee, Florida | ||||
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Series Name: | Report of Investigations - Florida Geological Survey | ||||
Number: | 58 | ||||
Date: | 1971 | ||||
Publisher: | Florida Geological Survey | ||||
Place of Publication: | Tallahassee, FL | ||||
Issuing Agency: | Florida Geological Survey | ||||
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Lake Okeechobee; Florida; water seepage; water supply | ||||
Subjects: | Limnology Engineering Planning |
Item ID: | 1867 | ||||
Depositing User: | Stephanie Haas | ||||
Date Deposited: | 01 Mar 2009 23:33 | ||||
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Dial's art is dynamic, intense and cut with social and political references. Work he's done since 2000 is on view in "Thornton Dial in the 21st Century," organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Tinwood Alliance. Five years seems like a fairly brief time span to cover in a show that fills most of the downstairs galleries of the MFAH's Beck Building, accompanied by a massive catalog. But Dial is prolific: The show includes 78 works. In addition to the artist's constructions on panels, there are drawings and freestanding sculptural works.
The front of Everybody's Welcome in Peckerwood City (2005) is pieced together from boards painted in crisp blue and white to depict the quaint facade of a wooden house. Dial has attached a little carved arch over the doorway. The whole thing looks cute, until you notice the spill of blood-red paint at the base of the work. Walk around the sculpture; the back side is raw, jagged wood and wire with scraps of fabric stained a blood-red. Peckerwood City could also be Cracker City or White Trash City; Dial's title mocks the twisted hypocrisy of small Southern towns where "everybody" was definitely not welcome. The charming, Potemkin-village exterior obscures the brutality that lies behind it.
Dial was born in 1928 in Emelle, Alabama -- not the best year or location to be born poor, black and illegitimate. He had to work from an incredibly early age and never received an education. As a toddler, he was sent to live at a cousin's farm, and by age five he was tending animals and working in the fields. He went on to work as a housepainter, carpenter and pipefitter, and then to spend 30 years welding boxcars for Pullman. He used those skills to make his own objects and constructions. Following in the rural Southern tradition of creativity from poverty, he made art from cast-off objects.
As with many artists, Dial's background and experiences are integral to the making of his work. His life story is particularly powerful and heartwrenching. But Dial's work also stands alone as independent artwork -- it's not dependent on biography for its interest or success. Dial emerged in the late '80s as an "outsider" artist, but his work has been included in the 2000 Whitney Biennial, the ultimate mark of being an "insider." (The ongoing handwringing about what to call art made by people without a formal art education who do not come out of the art world is migraine-inducing. Let's just call it art and go from there.)
Stars of Everything (2004) is a spectacular work in which a figure constructed from old clothes levitates in the center of a massive canvas. A paint-encrusted rug is hunched up around his shoulders, and his anteaterlike head is made from a dented bicycle seat. His legs are splayed out in a broad stance, the pants legs draping baroquely. A shirt is stretched over his distorted torso. He's surrounded by masses of starlike/flowerlike shapes made from the colored interiors of paint cans, cut down the sides and splayed out like petals or rays of light. There's something powerful and awesome about the piece, a mixture of wrath and glory.
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The number and strength of works Dial has created during a little more than five years is impressive. Although his approach to materials remains consistent, his ideas and subject matter are continuously evolving. Overall, the work resists becoming formulaic and repetitive, a danger with high-productivity artists. But there are less successful works in the show -- ones that feel overworked and could have been edited out for a tighter presentation. What Dial really needs is a retrospective. It would be wonderful to see the evolution of his work. And he's pushing 80.
Why isn't a show of this grand scale a retrospective? The current exhibition really should be called "Works from the Collection of the Tinwood Alliance." According to the exhibition checklist, Tinwood owns 65 of the 78 works on view. Rather than organizing the show independently, the MFAH seems to have relied too heavily on Tinwood.
William Arnett, the director of the Tinwood Alliance, brought Dial's work to the world stage. Under Arnett's enthusiastic promotion, Dial's pieces now garner five and six figures a pop. But Arnett's financial relationship with Dial has raised questions in the past. A note in the front of the catalog states that unless otherwise noted, "all works of art photographed in studio settings are from the William Arnett Collection of the Tinwood Alliance, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation dedicated to advancing the understanding of vernacular art and artists." It seems unusual for such a large portion of an artist's recent body of work to be immediately acquired by one organization.
A 1993 60 Minutes profile of Arnett by Morley Safer raised questions about the nature of Arnett's financial relationship with Dial, asserting that Arnett exploited Dial and essentially had him as a tenant artist in a $340,000 house Arnett owned. Essays in the catalog state that Arnett took out a second mortgage on his own home for Dial, who had difficulty buying in the all-white neighborhood.
Amazingly, the MFAH's exhibition catalog features four essays that contain rebuttals of the 12-year-old TV segment. The editor of the catalog is William Arnett's son Paul; Paul wrote one of the essays; and the catalog was published by Tinwood Books, Atlanta, in association with the MFAH. One essay implies that the program's questioning of Arnett's motives was demeaning to Dial, while another implies that the show was "foiling black artistic progress." Still another describes a monthly stipend agreement between Arnett and Dial that counts toward the purchase of works. Arnett gets right of first refusal up to the value of the stipend and can purchase additional work at a "mutually agreed upon" price. While it sounds a little "company store," the deal might be highly equitable. 60 Minutes may have been patronizing and nasty toward Dial, but the fact that Arnett is also using an exhibition catalog he produced as his own platform is strange, to say the least.
Letting collectors generate exhibitions brings in agendas that have nothing to do with the work itself. A similar situation happened with the Pigozzi Collection show, in which one Swiss guy's collection became the definition of "African Art Now." It's good that the MFAH is bringing in more diverse exhibitions, but it needs to go a step further and put the money out there so it can self-organize and take the curatorial lead. That's what the MFAH Latin American Art Department has been empowered to do, and the results have been stunning.


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Rick certainly had an off-year at the plate for the Cardinals in 2009, but we believe that the Pirates could provide Rick with an opportunity to re-establish himself. We have let Rick's representative know of our interest.
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Hey, guys! I've been a Mac user for 3,5 years. My current system is MacBook Pro 13" Mid 2009 and I want something with a bigger display and more powerful. Of course I'd prefer Mac in any other conditions but I found a very interesting PC laptop at the one of the local shops.
This PC is Clevo P150EM branded as DNS Extreme (the name of this local company which sells these computers is DNS). It has following config: -Intel Core i7 3610QM (Quad-Core and HyperTreading) -AMD 7970 GPU with 2 GB of RAM -16 GB DDR3 1333 MHz RAM (4x4 GB) -500 GB hybrid HDD -Matte Full HD 15.6" display And the most important thing about this laptop is it's price - about $1300. For example, the minimum rMBP 15" costs here about $2650. I'm an Apple fan. No doubt. But I'm not as wealthy as I want and because of that I'm thinking about price of the computer. Can you persuade me not to buy this PC (it's hard to fight this sneaky feeling alone). Thank you! PS: Probably better to fix my PS3 and buy something like Air?
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Feb 8, 2013, 06:24 AM | #2 |
Doesn't matter how much hardware they pack into a machine with terrible battery life if the software that runs it blows.
If you're looking to play games or something, that machine will probably run just fine, but you're WAY better off building a desktop PC of your own. If you're not looking for games and stuff, you'd be much better off with a macbook air. Don't let the specs fool you, especially with a cheap price tag. It'll suck to buy a laptop only to have it run for 35 minutes on battery power. |
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Feb 8, 2013, 06:55 AM | #3 |
Buy the best tool to use for your needs - simple.
If you're having trouble spending over 2k for a MBP and a cheaper laptop will fit your needs then buy it. Only you can make this decision as its your money.
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Feb 8, 2013, 07:18 AM | #4 |
I understand this but I want to have an advice from "the other side". From people who don't share my amazement of significant characteristics =) One part of my mind knows that OS X is much more comfortable environment but the other part thinks that I can live with Windows and even enjoy the power =)))
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Feb 8, 2013, 08:15 AM | #5 |
If bad battery life, weight and probably fan noise wont be a problem for you then theres no reason not to get it. It will very much be a portable desktop rather than a laptop tho.
Windows can always be altered to make it more OSX like in whatever way you want, I'm sure you'd adapt to that fine. |
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Apple's policy is 14 days (except on phones) for items bought directly from Apple. Other vendors (e.g. Amazon) may have different policies. The next thing to do is to make a genuine attempt at evaluating whether you can live with your purchase, in the trial period stated by the return policy. If it takes you longer to evaluate it than the time period allows, then you learn that being an adult means dealing with the consequences of your choices, whether good or bad. |
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Feb 8, 2013, 03:29 PM | #9 |
What do you want more power for? Do you run some application that uses a lot of CPU and/or GPU? Your sig says you have a 5400RPM HDD. If you just want a general performance increase that you will actually notice while using your machine, then just buy a SSD and install it in your MacBook Pro and you will notice a world of a difference. You'd be stuck with the 13" screen, but maybe an external monitor could help with that?
Personally, I think spending over $1000 on a laptop that is not a Mac is a waste of money. Remember, Macs keep their value much longer. Look into how much you can get if you try to sell your MBP, maybe that will inform your decision. Also look at refurbs on Apple's site, maybe a refurb 15" uMBP could be affordable combined with selling your 13" MBP. Do try to get a SSD in any case, but avoid buying it from Apple, and instead get a 3rd party drive and install it yourself (BTW use Trim Enabler to enable TRIM). The MBA is fantastic, but do note that if you need a lot of storage space (e.g. 512GB), the SSD options get expensive, and you have no choice but to get the SSD from Apple (well, there are 3rd party options, but they don't save you money).
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Feb 8, 2013, 03:50 PM | #11 |
Windows 8? (for the OP's challenge)
The modern business ethos: "I'm worth it, you're not, and I'm a glutton!" MBP, 2.2 GHz intel i7, Radeon HD 6750M, Bootcamp: W7.
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Feb 8, 2013, 06:38 PM | #12 |
I'll think about things you guys said =) Thanks. But I can't buy a referb Mac because we don't have here an Apple retail (Russia).
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Feb 8, 2013, 06:50 PM | #13 |
As another poster said, powerful PC's are like trucks. They're bulky and aren't as smooth. But as I pointed out to them, sometimes you need the power of a truck, not the handling of a porche.
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Feb 8, 2013, 07:18 PM | #14 | |
I'll pretty much back up everything everyone else in this thread has said. If you end up buying a good computer, you'll likely end up about as happy as you would a Mac. I use both on a regular basis, and while I find Macs and OSX give you a better...er...holistic experience compared to Windows, they're both equally as good when it comes to getting the job done. Depending on what you're doing, Windows can be a better choice at times. Though there are a few things to keep in mind when buying a Windows laptop. First, crapware. The bane of Windows. I hear Clevo/Sager machines are fairly good on this front, but I'd still recommend researching to see what pointless software they'll try and stuff down your throat. There are times when the crapware can and will compromise the stability of the entire OS. Cuz, you know, the basic controls for brightness and volume settings that come with Windows aren't good enough. Oh no. You need a setup with pointless flashy animations and giant icons that eats up a full gig of ram. God, I hate that. Secondly, Windows PCs are usually less expensive than Macs, but don't settle for cheap. 99.9% of people griping about how crappy Windows is are usually doing so because they bought a $300 laptop from Wal-Mart. Remember, lower cost doesn't necessarily equate to cheap. Do your research. To me, the one biggest barrier to getting a Windows PC vs. a Mac is you know the Mac is going to be good 99% of the time, whereas the Windows machine may not be. Windows covers everything from complete crap no one in their right mind should buy to high end quality machines that'll last you 20 years without a hitch. It requires a little bit of digging and knowledge to get the most for your money. If this seems like a little too daunting, get the Air and fix your PS3. If you want a great machine for a good bit less than a Mac at the cost of having to spend a couple days trolling the internet to see what you're getting into, go with the PC. |
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Feb 8, 2013, 11:10 PM | #15 |
Here is exactly the reason you should not buy that machine: you are here begging us to convince you not to buy it. Clearly you don't want to.
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Joseph Mercola, D.O., who practices in Schaumburg, Illinois, also operates one of the Internet's largest and most trafficked health information sites. In 2012, Mercola stated that his site had over 300,000 pages and is visited by "millions of people each day" and that his electronic newsletter has close 1,500,000 subscribers [1]. The site vigorously promotes and sells dietary supplements, many of which bear his name.
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For many years, Dr. Mercola and other staff members saw patients at his clinic, which was called the Optimal Wellness Center. However, in 2006, an article in Chicago Magazine reported that Mercola had stopped practicing medicine to focus on his Web site [3]. I did not see any mention of this on his Web site, and the site invited patients to come to his clinic—which was renamed Dr. Mercola's Natural Health Center—for detoxification, chiropractic, Dispensary, Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), Functional Medicine Program, homeopathy, Neuro-Structural Integration Technique (NST), nutritional consultation, Nutritional Typing Test, thermography, Total Body Modification (TBM), and Active Isolated Stretching. In September 2014, the site announced that he had closed the clinic "in order to devote his full time and attention to research, education and increasing public awareness." [4]
Many of Mercola's articles make unsubstantiated claims and clash with those of leading medical and public health organizations. For example, he opposes immunization [5] fluoridation [6], mammography [7], and the routine administration of vitamin K shots to the newborn [8,9]; claims that amalgam fillings are toxic [10]; and makes many unsubstantiated recommendations for dietary supplements. Mercola's reach has been greatly boosted by repeated promotion on the "Dr. Oz Show."
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Mercola.com does NOT accept any third-party advertising or sponsorship, and I am in no way tied into any pharmaceutical company or any other corporate "interest" whatsoever. So you get the real inside scoop on health issues, with practical advice that matters to you untainted by outside influence! [1]
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Mercola.com is not . . . a tool to get me a bigger house and car, or to run for Senate. I fund this site, and therefore, am not handcuffed to any advertisers, silent partners or corporate parents. . . .
Profit generated from the sale of the products I recommend goes right back into maintaining and building a better site. A site that, startling as it may be with all the greed-motivated hype out there in health care land, is truly for you [11].
I don't doubt Mercola's sincerity—and I know nothing about how he allocates his income. But I recently made some interesting observations. The word "Mercola" on the labels of his "Dr. Mercola Premium Supplements" is service-marked. Records at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office say that he began using the mark in commerce in 2000, applied to register it in 2009, and was granted registration in 2010. The registration address is for his home in South Barrington, Illinois, which the BlockShopper Chicago Web site states has 5,083 square feet and was purchased by Mercola in 2006 for $2 million. The Bing Maps aerial view indicates that it is quite luxurious. |
In 2011, Mercola announced the formation of Health Liberty, a nonprofit coalition whose goals include promoting organic foods and targeting fluoridation, vaccination, genetically modified foods, and the use of amalgam fillings [12]. In a video accompanying the announcement, Mercola stated that he planned to donate $1 million to catalyze the project. In addition to Mercola.com, The coalition members are:
- National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), which understates the benefits and exaggerates the risks of vaccination
- Fluoride Action Network (FAN), the leading promoter of misinformation about fluoridation
- Institute for Responsible Technology, which understates the benefits and exaggerates the risks of genetically modification of foods
- Consumers for Dental Choice, which vigorously attacks amalgam use with misinformation, propaganda, lobbying, and lawsuits
- Organic Consumers Association, which irresponsibly promotes unpasteurized milk and spreads false alarms about food irradiation, agricultural biotechnology, and vaccines.
The "health freedom" argument involves deception by misdirection. It focuses on individual freedom but does not consider how people who fail to protect their health put the rest of society at physical and/or financial risk. Failing to vaccinate, for example, decreases herd immunity so that contagious diseases spread more widely. In 2012, Mercola becan calling his newsletter "Health Liberty Newsletter."
In 2013, Williamette Week reported that Mercola had donated a total of $26,975 in cash and in-kind contributions that included polling and a YouTube video to support the efforts of the antifluoridation group that is opposing a fluoridation referendum in Portland, Oregon. The report also stated that "Mercola has questioned whether HIV causes AIDS, suggests that many cancers can be cured by baking soda, and warns parents not to vaccinate their children. He also says that animals are psychic." [13]
Better Business Bureau Report
Mercola markets his supplements through Mercola Health Resources, LLC. In 2011, after a customer complained that she thought a product she purchased was overpriced, I began checking whether the Better Business Bureau had received any complaints. I found that the company was rated C- on a scale of A+ through F. On February 1, 2012, the BBB reported that during the previous 36 months, there were 26 complaints—which is not an unusually high number for a high-volume business—but the report contained the following comments:
A recent review of consumer complaints filed with the BBB of Chicago & Northern Illinois against your Mercola Health Resources, LLC delineates a pattern of consumer allegations. Consumers are alleging that Mercola Health Resources does not honor the 100% money-back guarantee listed on your website. Customers have reported that refunds have not been provided for returns that were specifically covered under this guarantee. Consumers have also reported that they have experienced delivery issues. While www.mercola.com states that orders ship within 10 business days, consumers say they have waited much longer for their products. Customers allege that the company's service staff has been unable to provide explanations regarding this delay. Some consumers have also reported that Mercola provided them with shipment tracking numbers that were not valid with their respective carriers [14].
On November 26, 2013, I checked again and found that during the previous 36 months there had been 34 complaints, complaints but the Mercola Health Resouces was rated A+.
FDA Warnings
In 2005, the FDA ordered Mercola and his Optimal Wellness Center to stop making illegal claims for products sold through his Web site [15]. The claims to which the FDA objected involved three products:
- Living Fuel Rx, claimed to offer an "exceptional countermeasure" against cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, autoimmune diseases, etc.
- Tropical Traditions Virgin Coconut Oil, claimed to reduce the risk of heart disease and has beneficial effects against Crohn's disease, irritable bowel syndrome, and many infectious agents
- Chlorella, claimed to fight cancer and normalize blood pressure.
In 2006, the FDA sent Mercola and his center a second warning that was based on product labels collected during an inspection at his facility and on claims made on the Optimum Wellness Center Web site [16]. This time the claims to which the FDA objected involve four products:
- Vibrant Health Research Chlorella XP, claimed to "help to virtually eliminate your risk of developing cancer in the future."
- Fresh Shores Extra Virgin Coconut Oil, claimed to reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, and degenerative diseases.
- Momentum Health Products Vitamin K2, possibly useful in treating certain kinds of cancer and Alzheimer's disease.
- Momentum Health Products Cardio Essentials Nattokinase NSK-SD, claimed to be "a much safer and effective option than aspirin and other pharmaceutical agents to treating heart disease."
The warning letters explained that the use of such claims in the marketing of these products violates the Federal Food Drug and Cosmetic Act, which bans unapproved claims for products that are intended for curing, mitigating, treating, or preventing of diseases. (Intended use can be established through product labels, catalogs, brochures, tapes, Web sites, or other circumstances surrounding the distribution of the product.)
In 2011, the FDA ordered Mercola to stop making claims for thermography that go beyond what the equipment he uses (Medtherm2000 infrared camera) was cleared for. The warning letter said that statements on Mercola's site improperly imply that the Meditherm camera can be used alone to diagnose or screen for various diseases or conditions associated with the breast, they also represent that the sensitivity of the Meditherm Med2000 Telethermographic camera is greater than that of machines used in mammography. The statements to which the FDA objected included:
- "Revolutionary and Safe Diagnostic Tool Detects Hidden Inflammation: Thermography"
- "The Newest Safe Cancer Screening Tool"
- "[b]ecause measuring inflammation through thermal imaging is a proactive, preventative method you can use for detecting disease, which significantly improves your chances for longevity and good health."
- Additionally, thermograms provide: "Reliable and accurate information for diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis…"
- "Yes, it's true. Thermograms provide you with early diagnosis and treatment assistance in such problems as cancer, inflammatory processes, neurological and vascular dysfunction, and musculoskeletal injury."
- Thermography can benefit patients by detecting conditions including: Arthritis: "[d]ifferentiate between osteoarthritis and more severe forms like rheumatoid." Immune Dysfunction, Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue, "Digestive Disorders: Irritable bowel syndrome, diverticulitis, and Crohn's disease…" and "Other Conditions: including bursitis, herniated discs, ligament or muscle tear, lupus, nerve problems, whiplash, stroke screening, cancer and many, many others." [17]
In 2011, the Chicago Tribune reported that Mercola had not complied with the FDA's order and intended to "fight the FDA . . . if they decide to take it further." [18] In 2012, the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation asked Mercola to attend an informal conference to discuss a complaint that he was "making deceptive claims promoting thermography as a standalone diagnostic tool for detecting cancer and other diseases and is attacking the use of mammograms." Mercola's Web site still promotes thermography and trashes mammography, but the site stopped offering thermography appintments later that year—and Mercola's special report, "The Safe Breast Cancer Screening Test Your Doctor Isn't Telling You About," is no longer apparent.
For Additional Information
- The Respectful Insolence Blog has many articles that criticize Dr. Mercola's ideas.
- Mercola, the Sun, Tanning Beds, and Melanoma (Skeptic's Dictionary Newsletter)
- Mercola JM. Health website rankings: Mercola.com is now world's most visited natural health site. Mercola.com, accessed Feb 1, 2012.
- Joseph Mercola: The physician as entrepreneur. Medical Economics, August 20, 2004, p 37.
- Smith B. Dr. Mercola: Visionary or quack? Chicago Magazine, Feb 12, 2012.
- Buttram H. Vaccine safety and benefits not scientifically proven. Optimal Wellness Center Web site, Jan 15, 2003.
- Dr. Mercola's Natural Health Center home page, accessed Sept 2, 2014.
- Mercola JM. Is fluoride as safe as you are told. Optimal Wellness Center Web site, Feb 2, 6, and 9, 2002.
- Mercola JM. Mammograms don't save lives. Mercola.com Web site, Oct 1, 2000.
- Mercola JM. The dark side of the routine newborn vitamin K shot. Mercola.com, March 27, 2010.
- Jones C. Separating fact from fiction in the not-so-normal newborn nursery: Vitamin K shots….. Science-Based Medicine, Dec 6, 2013.
- Mercola JM. The experts get it wrong about mercury again! Optimal Wellness Center Web site, Dec 9, 2004.
- Mercola JM. Why trust me? Mercola.com Web site, March 19, 2011.
- Mercola JM. New plan to help you take back your health freedoms. Mercola.com, Oct 3, 2011.
- Mesh A. Dr. Joseph Mercola gives $15,000 to anti-flouride campaign. Williamette Week, May 6, 2013.
- BBB reliability report for Mercola Health Resources LLC. Better Business Bureau, Feb 1, 2012.
- Walker SJ. Warning letter to Joseph Mercola, D.O., Feb 16, 2005.
- MacIntire SJ. Warning letter to Joseph Mercola, D.O., September 21, 2006.
- Silverman S. Warning letter to Dr. Joseph Mercola, March 22, 2011.
- Tsouderos T. FDA warns doctor: Stop touting camera as disease screening tool. Chicago Tribune, April 26, 2011.
This article was revised on September 2, 2014.


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After the latest round of attempted negotiations with Yahoo and investor Carl Icahn, Microsoft is once again saying that it is moving on from trying to acquire the second-place search engine.
Addressing the attendees at Microsoft's financial analyst meeting, Ballmer explained Microsoft's Plan B for building search and competing with Google. And like Joel McHale on E!'s The Soup, I've read the transcript so you don't have to. Here are the sound bites.
First up, the reason why Microsoft thinks it can compete in a Google-dominated search marketplace:
Search is ripe for innovation. It has not been the most innovative category in the world. I mean, think back, what did search look like five years ago, 10 blue links on the left, some ads on the right, and maybe some ads on the top. What does it look like now, 10 blue links on the left, some ads on the right, and maybe something on the top. It is ripe for innovation. If you say to yourself, five years from now, 10 years from now will search be as humdrum, hard, 50 percent of searches don't actually lead to an answer to somebody's problem, is this an area that's ripe for innovation, in user experience, natural language, semantic understanding, consumer experience? The business model hasn't been touched.
Give Google credit, they invented the business model that supports the modern search business, and yet it hasn't been touched. How do you involve the consumer? How do you move to a pay-for-action model? How do you reward the consumer, and involve the consumer economically? This is a category that's ripe for innovation. And that's important, because if it's not ripe for innovation, we shouldn't be doing what we're doing. We will not be able to be very successful by only doing what the market leader does.
Next Ballmer says that Microsoft is ready to get in the ring with Google:
Second strategy for us I call it focus, but in my own mind I think of it as kind of our Mohammed Ali, float like a butterfly, sting like a bee strategy. Pick focused areas of search, really innovate, change those areas, differentiate from the market leader. That doesn't mean Google won't come back and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Ballmer says blah a lot.
And last, but not least, we will work to reinvent the user model and the business model. I know this from past experience, it's often harder for the guy who is market leader to reinvent their category than it is for somebody who is, so to speak, the Avis of the business, number two and trying harder.
Of course, competing in search is all about making a profit from ad dollar$.
We need more relevant ads. It turns out that one of the big advantages the market leader has is they have more advertisers in their system.
You don't say?
So if you look at two pages today, one from Google and one from Microsoft, the thing that's perhaps most interesting is, because they have more people bidding on advertising, they have more opportunity to serve up a relevant ad. A lot of our discussion around Yahoo! really centered as much on this issue as any other issue. How do we get enough advertisers to have a pool of advertising to change the whole advertising approach.
Buy AOL, whose Platform-A is the leading online ad network? Pony up the money for Yahoo?
And last, but not least, we're going to have to invest in search and advertising, in fantastic brand, and fantastic marketing.
That's two last but not leasts. Not sure which not least is the most not least.
Later, Ballmer handed over the stage to Satya Nadella, Senior Vice President heading up Microsoft's search, MSN and ad platform engineering efforts.
When it comes to best results, we have to ante up to create the core infrastructure. That allows us to have a very rich index, a deep and broad index, that helps us actually experiment on the relevance improvements, which is a continuous game. You can think of it as, like, drug discovery, where you continuously are in the game of improving your relevance.
So we have made progress on all of those. In fact, if you look at it, last fall is when we reached a huge milestone for us. We increased the index many-fold. Our relevance improved. We today believe we are comparable to the best in the United States when it comes to the core relevance. And that was not something that we could have said last year at this time when you were here. So that's substantial progress.
Nadella echoed a Yahoo researcher's recent article on Semantic search. Microsoft acquired semantic search company Powerset earlier this year.
We think the Search experience is going to evolve to really understand the query intent, as well as the document content, in rich ways. So this is where we're building the algorithm and capabilities to be able to get to that deeper level of semantic understanding, natural language understanding, so that we can really help users of search engines with their tasks, because nobody does queries in isolation. Queries are always done in the context of some task.
Microsoft has big plans for image search:
One of the nice things about our image search is that we've been able to sort of take an experience where we have infinite scroll capability, so you can – you don't have to paginate to be able to see, you know, hundreds of thousands of images. You can just keep going down. And we have a nice experience for infinite scroll here.
Want to refine those images searches? Ok.
We have the ability for you to refine by size. So if I'm looking for a specific size, I can refine that and find that. So in the case I'm looking for some large images, I can look for color. So if I'm looking only for black and white, I can go ahead and hit black and white. And if the demigods smile, I will actually get that. So, in any case, the idea is to be able to have rich filtering capabilities with your image search to get filtering.
The other thing that I can also do is to be able to drag and drop. I can open up the scratch pad and I can go ahead and drag and drop these images and make a new collection, because if I wanted to come back to a collection of images that I used in this project, then I can have a series of collections.
No offense, but that's not innovative. That's done by Google and Flock, too.
That's ok. Let's just move on to video search.
One of the things that we have done, working with MSR, Microsoft Research, is to do what we've done, all of us in the Search business have done for Web search, in terms of creating previews of content before you click on the link. We've done that for video. So we crawl all of the videos on the Web.
We created something called the Smart Motion Thumbnails, which, in fact, are basically summaries of video content out there. And we call them Smart Motions because we can actually do scene detection. So if it's a news clip, we can actually summarize the news clip. If it's a video of a sports event, we can make sure that we do the scene detection to get the complete shot, and what have you. So this is – so all you have to do is hover over the video. You get the summary before you actually click on it. And this is, again, best in class or first in class when it comes to creating video summaries that are semantically smart.
Just to compare that to what Google has, Google has, you know, a video search product where they have images. They don't have the summary capability. The one other difference is the selection. If you look at our selection, we have from MSN, AP, MSNBC, you know, and CNBC, ESPN -- lots of different sources, as well as YouTube – whereas the selection in video for Google is a lot more biased toward their own owned-and-operated indexes.
Nadella moves on to talk about travel search. This must be part of Ballmer's ideas about focusing on specific parts of search and innovating them:
Whenever you're booking a flight, one of the specific things you're looking for is to time your purchase. We know that airline fares are volatile, so the idea of being able to purchase when we think is the best time to get the best fare is fairly critical. So in this case, if I go ahead and click flights from Seattle to San Francisco, what I do is I get back on something called an Instant Answer. It says that there are many results of flights from Seattle to San Francisco. It also has this prediction algorithm.
Enter in the Farecast acquisition and re-launch.
In this case, it looks like it's a good time to buy. Let's go ahead and look at the actual flights. It takes me to something called a Smart Calendar. I can actually pick the date pair, so when I want to leave and when I want to come back. So let's say I want to leave Thursday and I want to come back on Saturday; I can go ahead and do that. I will hit Find Flights. And at this point, Farecast is going out to all the agencies and all the airlines and bringing back search results that meet the criteria of the dates I picked.
But Microsoft's plans for the HP Toolbar is where they hope to take some precious market share away from Google.
How do we really get more people to know about Live Search and get the taste for some of the value, like, in particular, the cashback value? So the place where we are innovating is in the toolbar. We have recently done a distribution deal for our toolbar with Hewlett-Packard. So this is the toolbar that Hewlett-Packard will carry with some customizations of their own. It's the MSN toolbar.
And so let's say I'm on Google and I type in Xbox. I can go ahead and search for Xbox, and automatically the toolbar detects that you're searching for Xbox on Google and a Gleam view that there is a cashback on Live Search. And so I can go ahead and at this point click on that Gleam and it'll take you to Live Search, or it's supposed to take you to Live Search. Oh, it is on Live Search. See, I didn't even notice the transfer. So it's so seamless that now you're on Live Search. You can get the cashback for a particular Xbox that you want to buy. So that's just an experiment on how we get the word out, get more users trying Live Search, and getting the value of things like Live Search cashback.
What do you think of Microsoft plans? Can they gain market share? Let it fly in the comments.


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Information | |
Creator(s) | Imperial Japanese Army |
Owner(s) | Slade Wilson (Formerly) Sebastian Blood (Deceased) |
User(s) | Slade Wilson (Cured) Cyrus Gold (Deceased) Roy Harper (Cured) Isabel Rochev (Deceased) |
Function | Super-Soldier Serum |
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[show]Characteristics Edit
Its exact effects are unclear, though so far every individual injected with the serum has begun bleeding from the eyes immediately after injection. If the subject survives, they awaken after a few hours with the serum in full effect with strength, endurance, durability, agility, stamina, reflexes, speed, increased to superhuman levels; in addition to a healing factor. The Mirakuru also enhances the user's senses, as Slade was able to smell the TNT that was planted in an attempt to kill him. In order for the serum to work properly, a sedative must be administered along with it, otherwise the recipient will die. However, in some cases a subject can survive the Mirakuru injection without the sedative, as demonstrated with Slade Wilson and Roy Harper. Sebastian Blood takes advantage of this as a form of natural selection, to allow only those "worthy" serve him whereas those who aren't worthy, die.
According to Sara Lance, the serum has serious side effects even on those who survive injection, either deforming their bodies or warping their minds. A person can keep themselves from completely losing their control with intense focus. The Mirakuru's ability to drive a person to insanity appears to occur as a hallucination, which takes on the form of the person the victim cares for most and tells them to commit horrendous acts.
History Edit
According to Anthony Ivo in "Keep Your Enemies Closer", the Mirakuru was a serum that caused increased strength and rapid cell regeneration created by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II, in hopes of creating an army of super soldiers. They transported their only supply by submarine, and when it was under heavy fire by the Allied Forces, it ran aground on Lian Yu. After Ivo's men invaded the island, they were slaughtered by Oliver, Shado and Slade. Because of the picture they had, he managed to find the cave they were seeking. In the cave, they found a number of bodies of Japanese World War II soldiers, all with deformed skulls. Next to the body was a Hozen with scriptures. Some time later, Oliver was kidnapped by Ivo, and forced to take him to the Hozen. After an ambush, Oliver and Sara were rescued by both, and they discovered a series of coordinated proceedings of the stone. When they reached the abandoned submarine, Oliver found a box with several injections containing Mirakuru, and so they inject in Slade, who was dying, due to previous injury, even without the necessary anesthetic. After Slade's apparent death, Ivo's goons found the submarine and collect the serum, as well as taking Oliver, Sara, and Shado as hostages. Hours later, Slade awakened, his wounds healed completely, and with massively enhanced abilities. After running up to Oliver and others, Slade used his abilities to kill all of Ivo's men.
Sometime later, Ivo tested the serum in several men, however all died. Oliver also managed to recover the remaining samples, and burned them. Slade later offer his blood to mass produce the Mirakuru to Sebastian Blood, who used it to create an army of superhumans. Unlike Oliver and Slade's relationship, Sebastian is somehow able to maintain control over men he injected with the Mirakuru.
Season 2 Edit
In "Crucible", Xavier Reed is captured by Brother Blood and injected with Mirakuru; he dies after bleeding from his eyes, unable to control or resist the effects. Also, Sin's friend, Max Stanton was found in an alley, dead with blood running out of his eyes, revealing that he was injected with the serum, but was unsuccessful and died.
In "State v. Queen", Cyrus Gold appears to be the only one of a group of Blood's test subjects to survive injection, and when asked by Sebastian Blood how he feels, he said "Stronger".
In "The Scientist", Cyrus Gold is shown to have super strength and superhuman durability, as implied by the drug's assumed effects. Furthermore, while he defeats Oliver twice, Oliver claims he has beat at least one user of Mirakuru on Lian Yu. He also states that all of Ivo's test subjects are dead, and that he burned the rest of the serum that they found on the Japanese submarine.
In "Three Ghosts", it is shown that Sebastian Blood recreated Mirakuru using samples from Slade Wilson's blood. Also, Brother Blood forcefully injects Roy Harper with the serum, causing his eyes to bleed until he dies. Oliver though is convinced by a hallucination of Tommy Merlyn to keep fighting and he manages to kill Gold by blowing up the centrifuge, spilling chemicals all over him. Oliver then manages to revive Roy. Later, while resting, Roy discovers that the wound on his knee from where Arrow shot him is completely healed.
In "The Promise", Sara and Oliver burn the box that the Mirakuru belonged in, believing the Mirakuru to be inside it, it is later revealed that Slade hid it, and kept it on him in case he needed it.
In "Deathstroke", during a meeting with Slade Wilson and Sebastian Blood, Isabel Rochev explains that since taking full control of Queen Consolidated she has devoted all resources of Queen Consolidated's applied sciences division to mass-producing the Mirakuru.
In "The Man Under the Hood", Team Arrow blows up Queen Consolidated's Applied Sciences Division, forcing Slade to find an alternative means of administering Mirakuru to his army of prisoners. He captures Roy and steals a "bio-transfuser" from S.T.A.R. Labs and uses it to transfuse the Mirakuru from Roy's blood into the prisoners. The Arrow interrupts the process and rescues Roy, but Slade manages to use his own blood to successfully infuse Isabel Rochev and the prisoners with Mirakuru.
During the island flashbacks, Ivo reveals that he created a cure that could reverse the effects of the Mirakuru and gives Oliver and Sara the key to the safe where it is hidden. In the present day, Oliver steals a sample of Mirakuru from Slade and gives it to Felicity, who asks Cisco Ramon and Caitlin Snow to help her analyze it and synthesize the cure.
In "Streets of Fire", S.T.A.R. Labs successfully finishes creating a cure for the Mirakuru. After the cure was stolen in transit by Slade Wilson, Sebastian Blood steals it from Slade and gives it to Oliver after Sebastian realizes Slade wants to destroy the city. Oliver begins to administer the cure to Roy but hesitates wondering if it might kill him. When Amanda Waller tells him she will destroy the city if he doesn't stop Slade and his army by dawn, he decides he's running out of time and that he needs Roy and not just for himself but for Thea as well, and injects him with the cure.
In the island flashbacks, Oliver rescues Sara from the Amazo and attempts to get the cure to use on Slade, only to be captured by their former friend, who shows them he has already taken the cure out of the safe.
Known users Edit
Successful Edit
- Cyrus Gold (deceased)
- Roy Harper (cured)
- Isabel Rochev (deceased)
- Slade Wilson (cured)
- Iron Heights prisoners (cured)
- Caleb Green
- Japanese Soldiers (deceased)
Unsuccessful (Deceased) Edit
Cure Edit
- Main article: Mirakuru cure
It has been proven possible to develop a cure for Mirakuru. One was previously developed by Anthony Ivo prior to 2009 and another by S.T.A.R. Labs in 2014. The first time, Oliver Queen was given the choice between killing Slade Wilson and curing him, opting for the former (only to later find he had not been killed). In 2014, Oliver and his team mass-spread the cure through arrows they shot in to Mirakuru-enhanced soldiers, curing them all. Felicity Smoak also injected it in to Slade, causing him to finally be rid of superhuman powers and destroying the last known source of the formula.
Appearances Edit
Arrow Edit
Season 2 Edit
- "Crucible"
- "Keep Your Enemies Closer"
- "State v. Queen"
- "The Scientist"
- "Three Ghosts"
- "The Promise"
- "The Man Under the Hood"
- "Streets of Fire"
Season 3 Edit
- "Guilty" (mentioned)
- "Midnight City" (mentioned)
- "Broken Arrow" (mentioned)
Trivia Edit
- In the comics, Deathstroke was injected with a experimental serum by the US government which left him in a coma for months. When he awoke the serum had enhanced his body giving him the strength of ten men along with heightened speed, agility, stamina, and reflexes. It also increased his capacity to use up to 90% of his brain at any one time. The serum also provided him with a healing factor in his blood that enabled him to heal from physical injury much faster than a normal person; however, it did have limitations, as he could not heal his missing eye and was unable regenerate entire limbs.
- Mirakuru is similar to other drugs used in DC comics such as Venom, a steroidal compound used by Bane to enhance his strength. Venom was derived from Miraclo, a serum used by the hero Hourman which lasted only one hour. Another serum used in the comics was Blockbuster, which permanently enhanced Mark Desmond and his brother Roland Desmond into hulk-like monsters.
- The drug's regenerative powers and negative effects to the recipient's psyche makes it similar to the RL65 serum from Smallville.