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Richmond Traffic Operations Center expands
The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) recently expanded the Richmond Traffic Operations Center (TOC) in Chester. The size of the center's video wall was doubled, allowing staff to better monitor traffic in VDOT's Fredericksburg District, a portion of I-95 in the Hampton Roads District and all 14 counties and 4 cities in the Richmond District, including Henrico.
The changes also improved the center's backup generator capability and lighting to increase reliability during inclement weather and other emergencies; and reconfigured the work area to accommodate staff needed to dispatch units of the Safety Service Patrols.
The TOC operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week dispatching and coordinating functions for transportation emergencies within the 26 counties in central Virginia. Another significant responsibility is updating of accident, work zone, and road weather information, which flows to the public through VDOT's 511 system. Staff at the Richmond TOC operate and maintain 54 traffic cameras, 15 permanent overhead variable message signs, 13 trailer-mounted variable message signs, six highway advisory radio sites and 10 pavement sensors.
For more information, visit http://www.virginiadot.org/travel/smart-traffic-center-richmond.asp.
Short Pump Rotary volunteers help with rebuild, repair
On June 13, the Short Pump Rotary Club partnered with Schnabel Engineering for a day of volunteer work with Rebuilding Together Richmond. Team members (among them [from left] Chris Rufe, Melissa Abraham, Rick Naschold, and Micky Ogburn) completed a variety of repairs and home improvements ranging from painting and landscaping to cabinet installation and fence building.
"It was a privilege to be involved in this project," said club president Melissa Abraham. "The homeowner kept thanking the volunteers, but I think all of us would agree we are the ones who actually benefited. It was an opportunity to help a community member, fellowship with great people and improve our handyman skills." > Read more.
'Proof of Heaven' coming to Glen Allen
Dr. Even Alexander, a New York Times best-selling author who has been featured on Oprah and Dr. Oz, was in town last week to promote his June 27 talk, "Proof of Heaven," at Glen Allen High School.
Alexander (pictured, at right, while Unity of Bon Air church member Harry Simmons interviews him) has written about what he considers to be his journey through the afterlife.
Tickets to this month's event are $25 and will support the new Bon Secours Hospice House being built later this year. > Read more.
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There's no need to order Chinese takeout when you can make your own (and healthier!) dishes at home. Chinese cooking needn't be a difficult task. In fact, stir fries are best when leftover rice is used instead of fresh, and you can throw just about anything in there to make a delicious meal. Below are some of Foodista's tastiest Chinese-style dishes from Sweet and Sour BBQ Spare Ribs and Crazy Good Kung Pao Chicken to Asian Shrimp Stir Fry and General Tso's Chicken.
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Hamburg Travel Guide
No matter when you visit, the possibilities of what to do in Hamburg are endless.
Summer travelers can visit the festival of Alstervergnugen, a music festival on Alter Lake featuring more than 400 artists, athletes and acrobats. In the fall, Hamburg draws thousands of visitors for Oktoberfest.
Looking for what to do in Hamburg to take advantage of warm weather? Visitors can rent sailboats or rowboats to explore it harbor waters. If you are into cycling, you can rent a bike, and even take a guided tour.
Things to do in Hamburg with timeless appeal include trips to the city's history museum and its resident International Maritime Museum. For a more sobering look at the past, travelers can also visit the memorial in Konzentrationslager Neuengamme, which stands on the site of a World War II concentration camp.
For couples, a list of romantic things to do in Hamburg includes an evening at the Hamburgische Staatsoper, which showcases opera and ballet performances.
Hamburg is also primed for wandering. Window shop through its boutiques and markets and stop in for mid-afternoon kaffe und kuchen (coffee and cake) at one of its specialty shops.
This café and bookshop in the old Jewish quarter has become a meeting place for artists.
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Donald Katz's Critically-Acclaimed HOME FIRES Now Available as E-Book and Digital Download
Donald Katz is best-known today as the visionary behind Audible, the world's largest seller and producer of audiobooks and other spoken-word content. Prior to founding the Amazon subsidiary, which today serves millions and includes more than 150,000 digital audio titles, Katz was an award-winning author and journalist for twenty years. His 1992 book Home Fires, called "mesmerizing, important" by The New York Times, was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award. Home Fires is now available as an ebook and a digital audiobook; both editions include a new introduction by bestselling author Jonathan Alter, who calls the book "an astonishing record of the last four decades of the 20th century." Katz produced the audiobook, narrated by award-winning actor Joe Barrett, via Audible's Audiobook Creation Exchange (ACX). The ebook, made possible via author services company Archer, and the audiobook download will be followed by a wide trade paperback release in fall 2014.
"I may have moved on from the writing life, but I continue to hear from readers who only relate to me as the author of Home Fires, by far my best book, and a labor of love that occupied many years of my life-as has Audible.com. People continue to tell me how much Home Fires has meant to them," said Katz. "When Audible introduced ACX, which enables authors to create audiobooks online using talented narrators who sign up to be part of the system, it seemed like the perfect opportunity to give the book a new life and a new audience while experiencing firsthand how user-friendly the ACX platform is for authors. I am also thrilled Home Fires is now available again to a new generation of readers thanks to Archer, Lisa Weinert's innovative new service for professional creators."
"When I heard Joe Barrett's masterful interpretation of John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany, I knew he had to narrate Home Fires," added Katz. "His ability to embody characters, and add a profound interpretive intimacy to my prose, transcends the text."
Home Fires is the debut release for Archer, a custom cross-format author services company, founded by Lisa Weinert/LWC, whose marketing approach puts the author back at the center of the process. The ebook is available for purchase on all platforms, and the audiobook is available for download at Audible, Amazon, and iTunes. Home Fires is also enabled for Whispersync for Voice, which means that readers and listeners can switch seamlessly between the Kindle ebook and the Audible audiobook without losing their place.
All proceeds from the sale of the ebook and audio editions of Home Fires will go to the Audible Scholars Program, which has provided internships and financial support to Newark students since 1997.
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SanDisk Digital Audio Player 512MB
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Price, drag and drop music onto your player
Lacks character, uses AAA battery
If any company is going to compete on price against Apple's new flash memory music player, it's SanDisk. The company invented flash memory and continues to produce ingenious and ever smaller storage cards that have all but replaced film in cameras. When it comes to MP3 players, SanDisk's 512MB player almost matches Apple's iPod Shuffle 512MB player on price. It is also extremely simple to use with a set of Janet and John instructions that begins with 'How to Find the USB Ports On Your Computer and Player'.
We tested the Blue 512MB version. There are blue and silver versions with 256MB and 1GB storage respectively. The player has the familiar three button controls for switching on and off and changing between MP3, FM radio and voice recorder modes. A hold button locks the player and a joystick controls volume and navigating tracks. The 4 line LCD screen is easy to read and, in MP3 mode, displays directory and track information. It runs on a single AAA battery, which will not last long - about 12 hours playback in our tests.
SanDisk includes MusicMatch software on CD but the player works just as well with programs that are already on Windows-based PCs. If you want to fill your player with MP3 and WMA tracks already on your computer, copied from your CDs, then it is well worth thinking twice about using dedicated music management software. We used the player like a removable drive. Once plugged into the USB port, it appears and acts like a hard drive and shows up in My Computer. Double click on the drive to open it and then create named folders for your music. This is just the same as creating, renaming and moving files and folders as you would on your computer hard drive. Copying music to your player is then a case of dragging and dropping files from the folder where you save your music files - in our case, the My Music folder - to the folders on your removable drive. Do the opposite to take files off the player. Transfer rates were very quick and we managed to fit about 180 tracks on SanDisk's 512MB player. Sound was good and since flash memory has no moving parts, unlike rotating hard drives, the player was unfazed by jogging, jumping, even trampolining.


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Renovations to bring Disney World's Hall of Presidents into 21st century
Scott Powers |Sentinel Staff Writer October 31, 2008 Barack Obama or John McCain -- here's one more issue for voters to consider: Which one would they rather listen to at Walt Disney World in the Magic Kingdom's Hall of Presidents show?
One of them will get to address visitors each day in the theme park once the animatronic attraction undergoes a renovation.
To make room for a new, robotic version of the 44th president of the United States, Disney will close the 37-year-old Hall of Presidents after today for an extended refurbishment. The show will stay shuttered for more than eight months so Disney can update the hall's aging light, sound, mechanical, projection and show systems, just as the company has done in recent years with other "classic" Magic Kingdom attractions such as It's A Small World, Pirates of the Caribbean and The Haunted Mansion.
"We're about to get a new president. And so, since we have to shut down the show anyway to welcome No. 44, we're going to take the opportunity to . . . refurbish the attractions and the facility and also kind of wave the magic wand around a little bit," said Pam Fisher, senior show writer for Walt Disney Imagineering."
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A&M-Corpus Christi plays in Lake Charles on Thursday
CORPUS CHRISTI - What: A&M-CC (1-11, 0-2) at McNeese State (6-7, 0-3)
When: 7:30 p.m. today
Where: Burton Coliseum; Lake Charles, La.
The matchup: The Islanders will face two of the Southland Conference's other three winless teams over the next three days in McNeese and Lamar. After some dreadful losses in its past three games, A&M-CC was a little crisper against Sam Houston, in falling by four on the road. But the Islanders still don't have more than one or two offensive weapons on a consistent basis. Aside from point guard Johnathan Jordan (11.9 ppg, 4.2 apg) and forward Will Nelson (13.2 ppg), no one has been a constant threat. Forward Joy Williamson (10 ppg) shows signs now and again, but guard Hameed Ali (7.4 ppg) has been slumping after a nice start, going 10 for 44 from the floor over his past six games. A lot of McNeese's woes stem from 3-point shooting. The Cowboys are barely hitting 28 percent from beyond the arc, while knocking down 47 percent inside the line. McNeese is a much rebuilt bunch from the team that challenged for the league title the past couple of years. Wing Desharick Guidry (12.5 ppg., 8.7 rpg), a part-time starter and fifth-leading scorer last season, has staked a claim as one of the team's go-to players.
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Things went wrong, quickly, for St Louis in Game 1
BOSTON Carlos Beltran reached over the bullpen wall to deprive David Ortiz of a second-inning grand slam, then rubbed his right side in pain. He soon left the game and the ballpark, headed to the hospital for X-rays.
Even the good defensive plays were costly for the Cardinals.
One of the best-fielding teams in the league over the regular-season, the NL champs bungled their way into an early deficit in Game 1 of the World Series and went on to lose 8-1 to the Boston Red Sox on Wednesday night. St. Louis committed three errors in all, with several other misplays that spotted Boston to a 5-0 lead after two innings.
"That is not the kind of team that we've been all season," manager Mike Matheny said. "They're frustrated, (and) I'm sure embarrassed to a point. We get an opportunity to show the kind of baseball we played all season long and it didn't look anything like what we saw tonight."
Shortstop Pete Kozma botched a potential inning-ending double play relay to load the bases in the first. Center fielder Shane Robinson bobbled Mike Napoli's double, allowing the bases to clear. Pitcher Adam Wainwright and catcher Yadier Molina, both Gold Glove winners, allowed an easy popup to fall between them at the start of Boston's two-run second.
Wainwright, who waved his arms but then made no attempt to catch the ball, said the responsibility for the misplay was "with the starting pitcher."
"I called it. I waited for someone else to take charge. That's not the way to play baseball," he said. "It was totally my error."
Kozma made another error on a bouncer to his right in the second inning. Asked in the clubhouse afterward what happened, the Cardinals shortstop said, "Which one?"
The three errors and four unearned runs both matched season highs for St. Louis.
"That's the game in the playoffs: You give them extra outs, they're going to score," said Kozma, who made only nine errors all season and had never made two in a game before. "That's how the games work: one thing happens and then you're down 3-0."
But Beltran's catch, which turned a grand slam into a sacrifice fly and saved three runs, might actually turn out to be the most damaging. After finishing the half-inning, Beltran left the game with what was called a bruise and was taken to the hospital for X-rays and a CT scan.
Matheny said the tests were negative and Beltran's availability would be evaluated daily. Game 2 is Thursday night in Boston.
"Obviously, he's sore," designated hitter Allen Craig said. "But hopefully he can get back tomorrow."
Beltran, who is in the World Series for the first time in his 16-year career, batted .296 with 24 homers and 84 RBIs in the regular season and has 12 RBIs in the playoffs this year. An eight-time All-Star, he hit.337 with 16 homers and 37 RBIs in 45 career postseason games heading into the World Series.


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[News release] How we make emotional decisions
From the 28 May 2015 MIT news item
Neuroscientists identify a brain circuit that controls decisions that induce high anxiety.
Some decisions arouse far more anxiety than others. Among the most anxiety-provoking are those that involve options with both positive and negative elements, such choosing to take a higher-paying job in a city far from family and friends, versus choosing to stay put with less pay.
MIT researchers have now identified a neural circuit that appears to underlie decision-making in this type of situation, which is known as approach-avoidance conflict. The findings could help researchers to discover new ways to treat psychiatric disorders that feature impaired decision-making, such as depression, schizophrenia, and borderline personality disorder.
The new study grew out of an effort to figure out the role of striosomes — clusters of cells distributed through the the striatum, a large brain region involved in coordinating movement and emotion and implicated in some human disorders. Graybiel discovered striosomes many years ago, but their function had remained mysterious, in part because they are so small and deep within the brain that it is difficult to image them with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).
[News release] Air pollution linked to increased risk of anxiety and stroke
Remember, correlation does not mean cause! See also the rebuttal below
From the 24 March 2015 MedicalExpress item
Air pollution is linked to a higher risk of stroke, particularly in developing countries, finds a study published in The BMJ today. In a second article, new research also shows that air pollution is associated with anxiety.
Stroke is a leading cause of death and kills around 5 million people each year worldwide. Common risk factors include obesity, smoking and high blood pressure. But the effect of the environment, such as, air pollution is uncertain because evidence is lacking.
In a systematic review and meta analysis, a team of researchers from Edinburgh University looked at the association between short term air pollution exposure and stroke related hospital admissions and deaths. In total, they analysed 103 observational studies that covered 28 countries across the world.
Gaseous pollutants included in the analysis were carbon monoxide, sulphur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and ozone. In addition, particulate matter was included: PM 2.5 (fine particles less than 2.5 µm in size) and PM 10 (coarse particles less than 10 µm in size).
Results showed an association between carbon monoxide (1.5% increased risk per 1 ppm), sulphur dioxide (1.9% per 10 ppb) and nitrogen dioxide (1.4% per 10 ppb) and stroke related hospital admissions or death. The weakest association was found for ozone.
Both PM 2.5 and PM 10 were associated with hospital admissions or deaths due to stroke, by 1.1% and 0.3% per 10 µg/m3 increment respectively. The first day of air pollution exposure was found to have the strongest association.
Low- to middle-income countries experienced the strongest associations compared to high-income countries. Only 20% of analysed studies were from low- to middle-income countries – mostly mainland China – despite these countries having the highest burden of stroke.
Both studies were observational and no definitive conclusions can be drawn about cause and effect, and the teams of researchers call for more research.
[Press release]Friends know how long you'll live, study finds
Friends know how long you'll live, study finds [University of Washington at St. Louis]
Peer estimates of your personality can predict longevity – January 20, 2015By Gerry Everding
Young lovers walking down the aisle may dream of long and healthy lives together, but close friends in the wedding party may have a better sense of whether those wishes will come true, suggests new research on personality and longevity from Washington University in St. Louis."You expect your friends to be inclined to see you in a positive manner, but they also are keen observers of the personality traits that could send you to an early grave," said Joshua Jackson, PhD, assistant professor of psychology in Arts & Sciences.
Published Jan. 12 in an advance online issue of the journal Psychological Science, the study demonstrates that your personality at an early age (20s) can predict how long you will live across 75 years and that close friends are usually better than you at recognizing these traits.Male participants seen by their friends as more open and conscientious ended up living longer. Female participants whose friends rated them as high on emotional stability and agreeableness also enjoyed longer lifespans, the study found.
"Our study shows that people are able to observe and rate a friend's personality accurately enough to predict early mortality decades down the road," Jackson said. "It suggests that people are able to see important characteristics related to health even when their friends were, for the most part, healthy and many years from death."
It's no secret that a person's personality traits can have an impact on health. Traits such as depression and anger have been linked to an increased risk of various diseases and health concerns, including an early death.
Men who are conscientious are more likely to eat right, stick with an exercise routine and avoid risks, such as driving without a seat belt. Women who are emotionally stable may be better at fighting off anger, anxiety and depression, Jackson suggests.
While other studies have shown that a person's view of his or her own personality can be helpful in gauging mortality risk, there has been little research on whether a close friend's personality assessment might also predict the odds of a long life.
To explore this question, Jackson and colleagues analyzed data from a longitudinal study that in the 1930s began following a group of young people in their mid-20s, most of whom were engaged to be married.
The longitudinal study included extensive data on participant personality traits, both self-reported and as reported by close friends, including bridesmaids and groomsmen in the study participants' wedding parties.
Using information from previous follow-up studies and searches of death certificates, Jackson and colleagues were able to document dates of death for all but a few study participants. Peer ratings of personality were stronger predictors of mortality risk than were self-ratings of personality.
"There are two potential reasons for the superiority of peer ratings over self ratings," Jackson said.
"First, friends may see something that you miss; they may have some insight that you do not. Second, because people have multiple friends, we are able to average the idiosyncrasies of any one friend to obtain a more reliable assessment of personality. With self reports, people may be biased or miss certain aspects of themselves and we are not able to counteract that because there is only one you, only one self-report."
The study also revealed some gender differences in self-assessment: Men's self-ratings of personality traits were somewhat useful in predicting their lifespans, whereas the self-reports of women had little predictive value.
Jackson suggests this gender difference in self-reporting may be a function of the era in which the study began, since societal expectations were different then and fewer women worked outside the home.
Young women seen as highly agreeable and emotionally stable may have increased odds for a long and happy life since their personalities were well suited for the role of a supportive and easy-going wife, which would have been the norm in the 1930s. It is likely that fewer gender differences would arise in more modern samples if we were able to wait 75 years to replicate the study, he said.
"This is one of the longest studies in psychology," Jackson said. "It shows how important personality is in influencing significant life outcomes like health and demonstrates that information from friends and other observers can play a critical role in understanding a person's health issues. For example, it suggests that family members and even physician ratings could be used to personalize medical treatments or identify who is at risk for certain health ailments."
The study is co-authored by James J. Connolly, PhD, and Madeleine M. Leveille, PhD, of Connolly Consulting, Waterford, Connecticut; S. Mason Garrison of the Department of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University; and Seamus L. Connolly of College of Medicine, Touro University, California.
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[Press release] Wealth, power or lack thereof at heart of many mental disorders
From the 8 December 2014 EurkAlert!
UC Berkeley study finds self-worth key to diagnoses of psychopathologies
Donald Trump's ego may be the size of his financial empire, but that doesn't mean he's the picture of mental health. The same can be said about the self-esteem of people who are living from paycheck to paycheck, or unemployed. New research from the University of California, Berkeley, underscores this mind-wallet connection.
UC Berkeley researchers have linked inflated or deflated feelings of self-worth to such afflictions as bipolar disorder, narcissistic personality disorder, anxiety and depression, providing yet more evidence that the widening gulf between rich and poor can be bad for your health.
The social self. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
"We found that it is important to consider the motivation to pursue power, beliefs about how much power one has attained, pro-social and aggressive strategies for attaining power, and emotions related to attaining power," said Sheri Johnson, a UC Berkeley psychologist and senior author of the study published in the journal Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice.
In a study of more than 600 young men and women conducted at UC Berkeley, researchers concluded that one's perceived social status – or lack thereof – is at the heart of a wide range of mental illnesses. The findings make a strong case for assessing such traits as "ruthless ambition," "discomfort with leadership" and "hubristic pride" to understand psychopathologies.
"People prone to depression or anxiety reported feeling little sense of pride in their accomplishments and little sense of power," Johnson said. "In contrast, people at risk for mania tended to report high levels of pride and an emphasis on the pursuit of power despite interpersonal costs."
Specifically, Johnson and fellow researchers Eliot Tang-Smith of the University of Miami and Stephen Chen of Wellesley College looked at how study participants fit into the "dominance behavioral system," a construct in which humans and other mammals assess their place in the social hierarchy and respond accordingly to promote cooperation and avoid conflict and aggression. The concept is rooted in the evolutionary principle that dominant mammals gain easier access to resources for the sake of reproductive success and the survival of the species.
Studies have long established that feelings of powerlessness and helplessness weaken the immune system, making one more vulnerable to physical and mental ailments. Conversely, an inflated sense of power is among the behaviors associated with bipolar disorder and narcissistic personality disorder, which can be both personally and socially corrosive.
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[Press release] Study shows integrative medicine relieves pain and anxiety for cancer inpatients
Study shows integrative medicine relieves pain and anxiety for cancer inpatients.
From the 6 November 2014 EurekAlert!
Study shows integrative medicine relieves pain and anxiety for cancer inpatients
Pain is a common symptom of cancer and side effect of cancer treatment, and treating cancer-related pain is often a challenge for health care providers.
The Penny George Institute for Health and Healing researchers found that integrative medicine therapies can substantially decrease pain and anxiety for hospitalized cancer patients. Their findings are published in the current issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute Monographs.
"Following Integrative medicine interventions, such as medical massage, acupuncture, guided imagery or relaxation response intervention, cancer patients experienced a reduction in pain by an average of 47 percent and anxiety by 56 percent," said Jill Johnson, Ph.D., M.P.H., lead author and Senior Scientific Advisor at the Penny George Institute.
"The size of these reductions is clinically important, because theoretically, these therapies can be as effective as medications, which is the next step of our research," said Jeffery Dusek, Ph.D., senior author and Research Director for the Penny George Institute.
The Penny George Institute receives funding from the National Center of Alternative and Complementary Medicine of the National Institutes of Health to study the impact of integrative therapies on pain over many hours as well as over the course of a patient's entire hospital stay.
"The overall goal of this research is to determine how integrative services can be used with or instead of narcotic medications to control pain," Johnson said.
Researchers looked at electronic medical records from admissions at Abbott Northwestern Hospital between July 1, 2009 and December 31, 2012. From more than ten thousand admissions, researchers identified 1,833 in which cancer patients received integrative medicine services.
Patients were asked to report their pain and anxiety before and just after the integrative medicine intervention, which averaged 30 minutes in duration.
Patients being treated for lung, bronchus, and trachea cancers showed the largest percentage decrease in pain (51 percent). Patients with prostate cancer reported the largest percentage decrease in anxiety (64 percent).
Pain in Infancy Alters Response to Stress, Anxiety Later in Life
From the 30 October 2013 ScienceDaily article
Early life pain alters neural circuits in the brain that regulate stress, suggesting pain experienced by infants who often do not receive analgesics while undergoing tests and treatment in neonatal intensive care may permanently alter future responses to anxiety, stress and pain in adulthood, a research team led by Dr. Anne Murphy, associate director of the Neuroscience Institute at Georgia State University, has discovered.
n estimated 12 percent of live births in the U.S. are considered premature, researchers said. These infants often spend an average of 25 days in neonatal intensive care, where they endure 10-to-18 painful and inflammatory procedures each day, including insertion of feeding tubes and intravenous lines, intubation and repeated heel lance. Despite evidence that pain and stress circuitry in the brain are established and functional in preterm infants, about 65 percent of these procedures are performed without benefit of analgesia. Some clinical studies suggest early life pain has an immediate and long-term impact on responses to stress- and anxiety-provoking events.
The Georgia State study examined whether a single painful inflammatory procedure performed on male and female rat pups on the day of birth alters specific brain receptors that affect behavioral sensitivity to stress, anxiety and pain in adulthood. The findings demonstrated that such an experience is associated with site-specific changes in the brain that regulate how the pups responded to stressful situations. Alterations in how these receptors function have also been associated with mood disorders.
The study findings mirror what is now being reported clinically. Children who experienced unresolved pain following birth show reduced responsiveness to pain and stress.
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Expressing Your Emotions Can Reduce Fear, UCLA Psychologists Report
From the 7 September 2012 article at Medical News Today
"Give sorrow words." – Malcolm in Shakespeare's "Macbeth"
Can simply describing your feelings at stressful times make you less afraid and less anxious?
A new UCLA psychology study suggests that labeling your emotions at the precise moment you are confronting what you fear can indeed have that effect.
The psychologists asked 88 people with a fear of spiders to approach a large, live tarantula in an open container outdoors. The participants were told to walk closer and closer to the spider and eventually touch it if they could.
The subjects were then divided into four groups and sat in front of another tarantula in a container in an indoor setting. In the first group, the subjects were asked to describe the emotions they were experiencing and to label their reactions to the tarantula – saying, for example, "I'm anxious and frightened by the ugly, terrifying spider."
"This is unique because it differs from typical procedures in which the goal is to have people think differently about the experience – to change their emotional experience or change the way they think about it so that it doesn't make them anxious," said Michelle Craske, a professor of psychology at UCLA and the senior author of the study. "Here, there was no attempt to change their experience, just to state what they were experiencing." …
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Should Your Boss Encourage You to Take Drugs?
And if so, is the workplace still drug free??? And if an employee would prefer not to follow advice on using a drug??
From the 6 June 2012 article at The Health Care Blog
A top executive I know recently decided to takeInderal before making high-pressure/high-anxiety presentations. The impact was immediate. She felt more relaxed, confident and effective. Her people agreed.
Would she encourage a comparably anxious subordinate to take the drug? No. But if that employee's anxiety really undermined his or her effectiveness, she'd share her story and make them aware of the Inderal option. She certainly wouldn't disapprove of an employee seeking prescription help to become more productive.
No one in America thinks twice anymore if a colleague takes Prozac. (Roughly 10% of workers in Europe and the U.K. use antidepressants, as well). Caffeine has clearly become the (legal) stimulant of business choice and Starbucks its most profitable global pusher (two shots of espresso, please).
Increasingly, prescription ADHD drugs like Adderall, dedicated to improving attention deficits, are finding their way into gray market use by students looking for a cognitive edge. When one looks at existing and in-the-pipeline drugs for Alzheimer's and other neurophysiological therapies for aging OECD populations with retirements delayed, the odds are that far more employees are going to be taking more drugs to get more work done better….
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That Anxiety May Be In Your Gut, Not In Your Head
From a 17 May 2011 Medical News Today article
For the first time, researchers at McMaster University have conclusive evidence that bacteria residing in the gut influence brain chemistry and behaviour.
The findings are important because several common types of gastrointestinal disease, including irritable bowel syndrome, are frequently associated withanxiety or depression. In addition there has been speculation that some psychiatric disorders, such as late onset autism, may be associated with an abnormal bacterial content in the gut.
"The exciting results provide stimulus for further investigating a microbial component to the causation of behavioural illnesses," said Stephen Collins, professor of medicine and associate dean research, Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine. Collins and Premysl Bercik, assistant professor of medicine, undertook the research in the Farncombe Family Digestive Health Research Institute.
The research appears in the online edition of the journal Gastroenterology. ….
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Discrimination creates racial battle fatigue for African-Americans
Discrimination creates racial battle fatigue for African-Americans
From the Penn State March 3 2011 news release
University Park, Pa. — Just as the constant pressure soldiers face on the battlefield can follow them home in the form of debilitating stress, African-Americans who face chronic exposure to racial discrimination may have an increased likelihood of suffering a race-based battle fatigue, according to Penn State researchers.
African-Americans who reported in a survey that they experienced more instances of racial discrimination had significantly higher odds of suffering generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) some time during their lives, according to Jose Soto, assistant professor, psychology.
Generalized anxiety disorder has both psychological and physical symptoms that are so severe that they can significantly affect everyday tasks and job performance. People with the disorder may have chronic worrying, intrusive thoughts and difficulty concentrating. Physically, the disorder may manifest such symptoms as tension headaches, extreme fatigue and ulcers. Some of these symptoms are associated with "racial battle fatigue," a term coined by William A. Smith, associate professor, University of Utah….
Broader psychological impact of 2010 BP oil spill
Broader psychological impact of 2010 BP oil spill
Spill caused significant psychological impact even to nearby communities not directly touched by oil
From the February 15, 2011 Eurkea news alert
Baltimore, MD – Feb. 17, 2011. The explosion and fire on a BP-licensed oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010 had huge environmental and economic effects, with millions of gallons of oil leaking into the water for more than five months. It also had significant psychological impact on people living in coastal communities, even in those areas that did not have direct oil exposure, according to researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine who worked in collaboration with the University of Florida, Gainesville. Study results will be published in the February 17 online edition of Environmental Health Perspectives, a publication of the National Institutes of Health.
"We found that people living in communities with and without direct oil exposure had similar levels of psychological distress. People in both groups showed clinically significant levels of depression and anxiety. Also, where compared to people whose income was unaffected by the disaster, people with spill-related income loss in both groups had higher rates of depression, were less resilient and were more likely to cope using 'behavioral disengagement,' which involves just 'giving up' trying to deal the problem," explains Lynn Grattan, Ph.D., associate professor of neurology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
The Maryland investigators, who traveled to the region soon after the spill, worked with Gulf Coast community leaders to get "real-time" assessments of the acute impacts of the spill. Their goal was to measure the acute psychological distress, coping resilience and perceived risk (concerns about the environmental impact and potential health consequences) of people living along the Gulf Coast. By doing this, they could help identify the potential mental health needs of the Northwest Gulf Coast communities. They examined the psychological impact in two fishing communities: Baldwin County, Alabama, and Franklin County, Florida. Baldwin County had direct oil exposure; Franklin County did not. The researchers defined indirect impact as a place where oil did not physically reach the coastline, but where anticipation of the oil spread significantly affected the community's recreation, tourism and fishing industries.
"The findings of these University of Maryland researchers may have important implications for planning public health response in similar situations, suggesting that a broader approach may needed," adds E. Albert Reece, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A., vice president for medical affairs at the University of Maryland and dean of the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
The people in Florida, where oil had not reached shore, showed similar elevated levels of anxiety and depression as those living in Alabama who had direct oil exposure. Both groups had similar high levels of worry about the impact of the spill on the environment, health and seafood safety.
However, the levels of psychological distress were higher in both communities among people who had suffered income loss because of the spill. They had significantly more tension, anger, fatigue and overall mood disturbance than those whose income was not adversely affected. These people also had lower scores on resilience and may have fewer psychological resources to bounce back from adversity.
"From a public health standpoint, we need to understand that when there is a significant environmental crisis, we need to extend public health outreach and education, psychological monitoring and mental health services beyond the immediately affected areas, paying particular attention to people at risk for income loss. There are things that can be done to help people manage their stress and anxiety, and cope in these situations, so these interventions need to be available immediately in the communities where the impacted individuals live," adds Dr. Grattan, who is also a neuropsychologist at the University of Maryland Medical Center.
The study on psychological impact built on a research program by University of Florida investigators who were already in the area to study the acute environmental and health impact of the spill. Through contacts with local community and religious leaders, trade associations, the University of Florida extension office and other agencies, the Maryland researchers recruited 71 residents in Florida and 23 from Alabama for the psychological assessment.
The team evaluated the participants through interviews and standardized assessments of psychological distress, resilience and coping. The team also looked at whether the participants had cognitive symptoms of neurotoxicity as a result of exposure to oil and chemical dispersants. These included assessments of attention, memory, and dexterity and speed (through a pegboard puzzle task). The researchers also asked the participants about what they were doing to cope with the situation, which could range from prayer and meditation to increased use of alcohol and other drugs.
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Uncertainty a huge source of anxiety in patients
From a December 3 Reuters Health news item by Fran Lowry
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS (Reuters Health) – Uncertainty about a diagnosis causes more anxiety and can be more stressful than actually knowing that you have a serious illness, researchers reported here at the 2010 annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America.
"Once people have the diagnosis, they gain some understanding and control, but without it, all they have is anxiety, and they do not know how to handle it," Dr. Elvira V. Lang, from Harvard Medical School, Boston, told Reuters Health. "It is important for physicians and others who work in the health care field to realize this and find ways to alleviate this anxiety and stress. Not only will they help patients, they will also be helping their institutions to provide more cost effective care."…
We were very surprised to see that the women having breast biopsy were significantly more anxious than the women who came for treatment for malignant cancer and those who came for fibroids," Lang said in an interview.
Health care professionals tend not to be aware that diagnostic tests can be stressful, she added.
The researchers recognize that for a woman awaiting breast biopsy, the fear of being diagnosed with cancer and uncertainty about what the outcome will be can create higher anxiety levels than even those experienced by patients undergoing a "much riskier and invasive treatment of a known cancer."
"People in health care and also family members may judge what is minor or major by how much risk is involved. But that is not what the patient is experiencing. That is why we want to alert them," Lang said.
There are simple ways to diffuse this anxiety prior to procedures, she added. "People want to make patients feel better but they use language that is not helpful. For instance, they will say 'oh, it's not going to be that bad', or 'it's just going to be a little sting', but using such vocabulary only increases anxiety and pain."
Training health care providers to use the right language with patients about to undergo diagnostic procedures will not only reduce their anxiety levels, it will also save the health care system money, Lang added.
"Sometimes patients are so anxious they can't complete a test….
Kids of Deployed Soldiers May Face More Mental Health Woes
Study found they needed more doctor visits to handle issues from parent's absence
From a November 8, 2010 Health Day news item
MONDAY, Nov. 8 (HealthDay News) — Mental and behavioral problems cause children of U.S. soldiers deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan and other war zones to need considerably more outpatient medical visits than those with non-deployed parents, a new study suggests.
Researchers examined the medical records of more than 640,000 military children between the ages of 3 and 8, and found that those separated from deployed parents sought treatment 11 percent more often for cases of mood, anxiety and adjustment disorders. Visits for conditions such as autism and attention-deficit disorder, whose causes are not linked to deployment, also increased.
The study, reported online Nov. 8 and in the December issue of the journal Pediatrics [article is free through this link], also revealed larger increases in mental and behavioral visits among older children, children with military fathers and children of married military parents.
"It's statistically significant, but I also think it's clinically significant," said lead researcher Dr. Gregory Gorman, an assistant professor of pediatrics at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md. "These are also probably the worst cases."
Gorman said he was surprised to find that while these types of medical visits went up, the rates of visits for all other medical conditions dropped.
"I have no direct evidence, but we hypothesize that when a parent is deployed . . . and the other parent has to do all of the duties, they may want to handle other problems at home," Gorman said. "These parents who remain at home need to multi-task even more."…
…In Gorman's study, the most frequent primary diagnosis during mental and behavioral health visits was attention-deficit disorder (ADD). Adjustment and autistic disorders came next, while farther down the list were mood and anxiety disorders, oppositional defiant disorder, developmental delays, post-traumatic stress disorder, bedwetting and separation anxiety.
SOURCES: Gregory Gorman, M.D., assistant professor, pediatrics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Md.; Rick Olson, retired Army general, director, strategic communications, Child, Adolescent and Family Behavioral Health Proponency, Fort Lewis, Wash.; December 2010 Pediatrics
Treating Anxiety Disorders
From the Fall 2010 issue of the NIH magazine NIH MedlinePlus, Treating Anxiety Disorders
Anxiety disorders are generally treated with medication, specific types of psychotherapy such as "talk therapy," or both. Treatment depends on the problem and the person's preference. Before any treatment, a doctor must do a careful evaluation to see whether a person's symptoms are from an anxiety disorder or a physical problem. The doctor must also check for coexisting conditions, such as depression or substance abuse. Sometimes, treatment for the anxiety disorder must wait until after treatment for the other conditions.
How Medications Can Help
Doctors may prescribe medication, along with talk therapy, to help relieve anxiety disorders. Some medicines may take a few weeks to work. Your family doctor or psychiatrist may prescribe:
- Antidepressants. These medications take up to four to six weeks to begin relieving anxiety. The most widely prescribed antidepressants for anxiety are the SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors). Commonly prescribed: Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Lexapro, and Celexa.
- Anti-anxiety medicines (or "tranquilizers"). These medications produce feelings of calm and relaxation. Side effects may include feeling sleepy, foggy, and uncoordinated. The higher the dose, the greater the chance of side effects. Benzodiazepines are the most common class of anti-anxiety drugs.Commonly prescribed: Xanax, Klonopin, Valium, and Ativan.
- Beta blockers. These drugs block norepinephrine, the body's "fight-or-flight" stress hormone. This helps control the physical symptoms of anxiety, such as rapid heart rate, a trembling voice, sweating, dizziness, and shaky hands. Because beta blockers don't affect the emotional symptoms of anxiety, such as worry, they're most helpful for phobias, particularly social phobia and performance anxiety. Commonly prescribed: Tenormin and Inderal.
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She cheated on her husband Hephaestus with Ares, Hermes, and Dionysus.
But Hermes also delivers on his stated objective, to carry out a broad-stroke chronology of "music made new" in '70s New York.
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Olympian messenger and god of commerce, son of Zeus and Maia, identified by the Romans with their Mercury, from Greek Hermes, of unknown origin.
The messenger god of classical mythology. He traveled with great swiftness, aided by the wings he wore on his sandals and his cap. Hermes was a son of Zeus and the father of Pan.
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COLUMBIA CITY — The first transcontinental highway in the U.S. turns 100 this year.
Columbia City will be part of a celebration ceremony spanning the entire state of Indiana in July.
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Lincoln Highway Association is working to gather 100 participants who will ship their historic vehicles (pre 1980) and spend four weeks crossing the American continent on the Lincoln Highway.
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Aretha Wheeler, 31, was arrested in November for allegedly dealing a schedule 2 controlled substance, a Class B felony.
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Superintedent Steve Clason gave board members an update on specific legislation that would have an affect on WCSC.
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Gwen Stefani was spotted looking rather daring and stylish with a sheer top as she was out and about with her boys in Los Angeles, Calif. on Saturday afternoon.
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[QUOTE=VxZeroKnots;20738585]Have you used a compressed nitrogen/air welding rig or are you extrapolating the performance of using a heat gun as a welder to be equal? I'd go carbon fiber long before fiberglass just for looks alone, fiberglass is ugly and this piece will be pretty visible. There are already ugly options out there should I decide to be less vain.
Yes. I started welding with a nitrogen gun (worked in the modeling shop at Rubbermaid Commercial, Pretty big projects like the rolliing garbage bins). They're nice, but costly. The heatgun rig I have now works OK and I've done some projects with it, Sinks, etc.
I agree on transferring force, A rigid GRP plate is just like steel in that respect. But you can soft mount it on rubber bumpers if you want. (maybe something like ethafoam blocks.) it may be a thin flexible peice will work fine. it may flex back far enough to touch the cases but it will prevent abrasion of the metal and spread the blow enough to prvefent puncture of the case.
Carbon fiber is a pain in the ass to work with. (I have some along with some carbon/aramid blends). it is a LOT more difficult to turn a corner with it than glass (often you need special clamping or a vacuum setup) because it is so stiff. it also transfers stresses all over the place making design with it tricky. On top of all that, those slick carbon fiber things you see are complete crap. They are made by taking the resin/fiber ratio way up (to the resin side) to give that smooth glossy surface. This makes for a heavier, weaker part. Properly done FRP has a very spare resin ratio, you should be able to see each strand in the finished surface. of course this doesn't look all that great despite being the strongest way to go. Also, the CF stuff you see has been vacuum bagged, again to give that sheet-of-glass-with CF-in-it look. It's window dressing.
Personally if I was going to use sheet material I would use riveted construction. You can do that very cleanly so it looks right. use big head pop rivits and backing washers. The trick is to work out the shape of your plates so when you assemble everything comes together into the right shape. Use thin cardboard (construction board from the craft shop or some office supply places) or 1/8" foamcore board to sort this out. A combination of thermoforming and riviting can be very effective.
If you're determined to weld having a hot air gun (self contained blower) will definitely do you. And they are handy as a spot heat gun (rusted on nuts) as well. The only trick I can really offer beyound following the directions and using native material as rod, is to use a small planer blade as a scraper to clean up exterior welds. You want one about 1" wide by 3" or so if you can find it. they come in sets of 2 or 3 for portable hand (electric) planers). Stiffer than a utility knife blade and very sharp. I use them for finishing the edges of plexi too.
Kydex is killer stuff. Used to line hockey rinks among many other things, You may have difficulty finding it in thick sheets however.
You bend nice strait lines with a plexi bender (from platic supply place) or if you have a vacuum source you can vacuum form it in your kitchen (the largest sheet being the size of your oven unless you want to build a heater)
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Test System:
The test system for the GTX 580 was previously designed around middle-of-the-pack GPUs like the GTX 450/460/465 and Radeon HD 4850/4870/4890 and 5830. As such, the system components do not represent the absolute ideal environment for a GTX 580. The Tuniq case is a bit small, the power supply is no hot-rodded Gold unit, and the LCD is a relatively-pedestrian 24 1920x1080 unit. BUT, there are plenty of potential GTX 580 purchasers out there with similar hardware. Some have not upgraded their case, power supply or monitor yet, and will likely run their new card with components similar to these for a while before they finish their upgrade cycle. At least CPU limitation won't be an issue with six AMD cores humming along full-time at 4 GHz.
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Obviously it's a very tight fit for a large video card, but given that this case is adequately-cooled and ventilated enough to help a 1.4625v 4 Ghz x6 chip to idle at 36C and peak at 55 during Prime95 torture testing, everything should be kosher. So, this card will fit in mid-tower cases, but it'll be a little tight, and will likely require very optimal cooling.
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Benchmark results for both synthetic benchmarks and game tests are the results of averaged multiple runs. Most gaming tests were performed at a resolution of 1920x1080 resolution with 4x Antialiasing and 16x Anisotropic Filtering enabled. Where applicable, higher AA modes are tested to assess performance impact.
Regarding Performance Testing:
We had planned on comparing the GTX 580 to a GTX 480 or other high-end card, but could not secure one in time. The only other cards in the author's possession at this time is a GTX 460 768 and a Radeon HD 5830, and neither one of those can really serve as much of a performance comparison. If we obtain a 480 or similar card to compare soon after this review is published, we will add to the review. However, what we did do in applicable cases was investigate the performance hit of the various levels of Antialiasing that should be available to the user with a high-end GPU such as this. So suffice to say, the depth in this review might be in a different area than some of the other reviews out there, and it is our hope that you the reader find some benefit in it.
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Taipei is generally a very noisy, busy and dirty city. The streets are very compact and Taipei has a high population density, be very careful when crossing the streets the drivers occasionally ignore the red lights and scooters are everywhere. Also some roads have little or no pavements/sidewalks.
Money Changers
Money changers/money exchange outlets are not abound in Taipei. Transactions are limited to intl. airport, dept. stores, banks (weekdays only) and hotels. Don't expect money changers in every street corner. If you splurged all your NT$ on your night market shopping spree, tough luck!
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Motorbikes and scooters everywhere
Motorbikes and scooters are a popular form of transportation with young Taiwanese. You will find them parked along the sidewalk in most roads. Do be careful when crossing the road especially at non traffic light controlled junctions. Motorbikes and scooters may emerge from a small lane nearby without you knowing.
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Beware of what you eat
Unfortunately getting food, or rather clean food can be hard. There are many street vendors and "charming" side street restaurants with cheap prices and tasty morsels, but there could be deadly consequences. I discovered in my research that Taiwan is a hot bed of Hepatitis A and B, typhoid, dysentery and host to many other delightful illnesses. All of these diseases (except Hepatitis B) can easily be passed from an infected person through contaminated food, especially when food is handled in an unsanitary way. Taiwan does this is spades! So, no street vendor foods and if the restaurant looked unclean I wouldn't go in (I'd do the same in the states). No fruits. No cold vegetables, only steamed or thoroughly cooked. No cold meats and for that matter no cold meals or food that had been standing in the open air for a long period (like buffet style).
Stinky tofu!
Yes, it is actually called stinky tofu, or so that is how it is written on the few English menus I saw. You might be wondering what kind of smell stinky tofu emits. Well I will tell you. As I was walking along I smelt dog s@%t. There are lots of dogs around in Taipei, some stray, others being sold at the night market . I saw a few dogs that were shaved and looked quite diseased. Not sure what that was all about. Anyway, I looked around on the ground but I didn't see any crap so I kept walking. The smell got stronger, so I stopped and checked the bottom of my shoes, thinking I must have stepped in a big pile of steaming poop, but they were clean. I walked a little farther and I swear to god I thought I was going to throw up. The smell of dog s@%t was now over powering. I was practically gagging. At this point I was informed that it was the delightful smell of tofu. At first I didn't believe it. There is plenty of tofu in Japan and I have smelt it a plethora of times. In fact, I have eaten tofu and it didn't smell like that. But sure enough we passed a food stand and the smell dissipated. Now, the only thing worse than the smell of stinky tofu is the realization that people actually eat stinky tofu. Yuck!
water water everywhere, but not a drop to drink!
Be careful about what you drink in Taiwan. Tap is a big no no! As well, avoid ice and fountain drinks (like coca-cola at a restaurant, they just mix the syrup with tap water). Don't even use tap water to wash your toothbrushes. I threw out my toothbrush every night after I used it (luckily the hotel provided us with free toothbrushes everyday). There were even warnings against drinking bottled water, but I found some that was made in Japan. Most milk and dairy is un-pasteurized, so also be careful about that.
Beware of motorcycle bikes
They are everywhere. People ride them everywhere from back alley to the walkway in ximending. I am also pretty amaze to see that people carrying ladders, gas tanks and even their dogs while riding. Watch out for the motorcycle coming from behind!
Be careful of the scooters
There are loads of scooters in Taipei, and so when you are crossing the road, you need to be extra careful - you'll need to look out for the cars and the scooters - as they have a tendency to zip right past only inches away from you on roads or pavements.
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Tip for your own safety
When you're about to cross a street and the walk signal just turns green, make sure there's no thru traffic coming from your left. People here normally catch the very last moment of yellow lights and some even run red, and they may not clear the intersection in time.
So, bear in mind that you'd better wait an extra one or two seconds after the "little green man" starts to walk(i.e., green signal) and look left (at least peripherally) before you can walk more safely.
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Tip for your own safety
When you're about to cross the street and the walk signal just turns green, make sure if there's any thru traffic coming from your left. People here normally catch the very last moment of yellow lights, and some even run red lights. They may not be able to clear the intersection in time.
So, bear in mind that you'd better wait an extra one or two seconds after the "little green man" starts to walk (i.e., green signal), and look left( at least peripherally) then you'll walk more safely.
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Just as the Atlantic is known for Hurricanes, the western Pacific is known for its frequent typhoons. Each year, between six and eight typhoons will barrel into and make landfall on the island of Taiwan. Typhoons are tropical storms with winds exceeding 74 mph (118 kilometers per hour) Originating near Guam, these tropical cyclones are named by a committee of many different nations. While I was in Taiwan (one month), four typhoons made landfall in Taiwan, two of which passed near Taipei. At one point, there were three typhoons on the Pacific at once (one hit Japan, two hit Taiwan and went on to hit mainland China).
Typhoons can cause you to be stranded in your hotel for a day or two, but generally don't cause too much damage; after typhoons pass, the air quality will generally become better so you get better views of the region.
Crazy traffic
Taipei has the craziest traffic in all of Taiwan, with the possible exception of Kaohsiung. Although many people in Taiwan now own and drive cars, cars are still rather expensive and unaffordable for many people; so a lot of people ride scooters and motorcycles. This means that pedestrians and drivers will be sharing roads and sidewalks with thousands of scooters. Scooters generally don't obey many traffic regulations (then again, neither do cars). Somehow, the Chinese are amazingly able at avoiding each other right before a crash; I've never seen a car accident in Taipei.
Understand that in Taipei, pedestrians NEVER have the right of way, whether the light is green, red, or otherwise. Drivers will expect you to stop for them, not vice versa; also realize that yellow lines mean nothing and sometimes drivers will drive on either side of the road (a rare case, but it happens).
Things to Know
To avoid exhaustion under the hot sun, feel free to use cabs. They are very cheap. However, make sure they understand where you want to go. Sometimes, they can bring you to a destination other than the desired one, perhaps on purpose to get a hire fare from you.
Alternatively, you can use the metro. But, don't eat, drink or even chew gum in the metro system, lest you get a fine!
Finally, you can simply walk about the city. However, if you do, watch out for the hardcore traffic. The scooters are especially problematic as they often zigzag in between cars and are easily missed until the very last moment. And they often go on the sidewalks.
Don't drink tap water and watch what you eat. Pay for a decent hotel if you don't like roaches.
Traffic: Bad in Four Dimensions!
There are many cities with bad traffic but no city has bad traffic the way Taipei has bad traffic: with scooters. Not only are the streets clogged with cars, but swarms of scooters buzz in and out of any nook and cranny left by the bigger vehicles. Add pedestrians to the mix and what you have is ery volitile. I have never been anywhere where I've seen so many accidents happen right in front of my eyes. I saw a scooter wipe out. I saw a scooter slam into a truck, spilling oranges all over Linsen St. I saw two cars collide. Most of these accidents I saw from a speeding taxi who spent much of his time onthe wrong side of the road. Traffic in Taipei is a unique if frustrating experience!
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Taipei is surrounded by mountains, shaping like a basin. The result is we ALWAYS have a sweating-hot summer. And also some air pollution remain on top of our city, at least it makes it easier to observe the signs of the zodiac. Generally speaking, the air is clean and breathable, except sometimes in spring, the sand comes with seasonal wind from northen China.
The weather in Taipei can be very dramatic. It can change hugely within a few days. Sometimes it may be as hot as 35"c ++ in autumn; it can also be as cold as 9"c-- in spring. Never expect stable weather during the seasonal interchange. The best way is to pay attention to weather report.
This year is one of the most strange years ever. In March, it was EVEN colder than winter, Taipei snowed in suburban; this autumn, we have 35 degree so far. Well, things change, nothing can be predicted as before.
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NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 19: Jorge Gutierrez #2 of the California Golden Bears drives past Kris Joseph #32 of the Syracuse Orange during their semifinal game of the 2K Sports Classic on November 19, 2009 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. (Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images)
After Syracuse defeated Marquette on Saturday, coach Jim Boeheim was asked if he had a go to guy. He said he'd rather have multiple reliable options at the end of games, but the question was hinting at Kris Joseph carrying the team in big moments. Boeheim realized it, and replied: "We don't have Carmelo Anthony."
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