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If your summer plans include making the trek to Universal Studios Hollywood for a little harmless escapism entertainment and you aren't at all fazed by the daily $88 ticket price, then here's a little spot of good news for you. In addition to enjoying perennially popular attractions like their Revenge of the Mummy roller coaster and Simpsons-inspired theme ride, the park is now unveiling a dynamic new experience plucked straight from the mind of filmmaker Peter Jackson — King Kong 360 3-D, based on the not-exactly well received 2005 remake of the epic ape flick starring comedian Jack Black, Aussie beauty Naomi Watts and newly crowned action star Adrien Brody.
Fans of Universal Studios Hollywood probably recall that a previous incarnation of the Kong legend existed in the park until a fire destroyed it two years ago, but its photo-realistic 2 ½ minute $200 million replacement is apparently better than ever. Here's what visitors can expect:
- A tram descends into a darkened cave at which time everyone is instructed to wear their 3-D glasses by none other than the famed Kiwi director himself…or at least his huge mug projected on large video monitors above.
- Further along their journey, the lush jungle sensation of Skull Island comes to life thanks to the movie magic of mammoth 40 feet high X 200 feet long curved screens.
- In addition to horse-sized spiders, velociraptors and three T. Rex mounting various assaults on the tram, the vehicle rocks and shakes via a system of plates below and visitors experience additional sensory triggers such as shots of funky scent (Kong's stale breath), bursts of air, and catapulting jolts of liquid (meant to represent dinosaur drool) every step of the way.
An extra bonus for all the greenies out there – the behind-the-scenes components that control Kong 360 3-D's movements, light and sensory goodies are all controlled via compressed air-conduction tubes, making for an entirely oil-free process (aside from the diesel powered trams). Film geeks might appreciate the Jackson-narrated dialogue below which details what went into making this new entertainment experience. Enjoy!
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Highest Rents Found in Oil Boom Towns of North Dakota
2:06 PM, Feb 14, 2014 • By MICHAEL WARREN
The highest rents in the country aren't in major metropolises like New York, Los Angeles, or Chicago--they're in Williston, North Dakota. Business Insider reports that the highest average monthly rents for entry-level, one-bedroom apartments can be found in Williston, a small town in northwestern North Dakota that's the central city in the state's oil boom of recent years. According to the website Apartment Guide, the average monthly rent there is $2,394, topping rents in San Jose and San Francisco. Fourth on the list is another town on the edge of the Bakken oil patch of North Dakota, Dickinson, where rents average at $1,733.
I spent a week in North Dakota last year reporting on how the oil boom is changing the social landscape in the region, as well as how the boom's economic opportunities have transformed the state into the frontier for America's new pioneers. The topic on everyone's minds in Williston and its environs, I found, was how expensive housing was:
Sometimes, there just aren't good housing options for people who find work, even with higher-than-normal wages:
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We are owned. No freedom. No choice. Leashed from our necks thrown and replaced. We live in a world we do not rule. The land, the water, the trees, they aren't ours any more. We are slaves of our own people.
Reed Dawson is a fugitive in the forest. The only family she has is her brother, Cameron. She is not the only runaway, groups meet time and time again, and when Cam dies Reed decides her only option is to join one of them. This group is different. Reed is used to only having the forest as her food and shelter but they they steal from the watchers. Our owners.
It took three meetings, two smiles and a kiss for Reed to fall in love with one of them.
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Hi lovlies! Hope you enjoyed the pictures of my characters! Bare in mind, they wouldn't be in fancy clothes, but simple, practical ones, and they'll be in the forest... well some of them ;) I'm hoping you'll stick around for the story. The audio file with this is Roulette by System Of A Down <3 x
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In new stats from the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), China now has 591 million internet users and 460 million mobile web users.
Those new numbers for June 2013 show good growth from 420 million netizens in mid-2010:
The mobile web number of 460 million has doubled since December 2009. Of course, a lot more people in China than that have phones, with over 1.1 billion phone subscriptions at the last count. It's worth remembering that, as we've reported before, China has over 300 million 3G users, which will help push forward smartphone usage and shift even more web browsing and other activities to phones:
While China's mobile web usage might seem a bit low, that's due to good broadband connection infrastructure across many parts of the nation. But mobiles could seen become the main vehicle for accessing the internet, with 70 percent of China's new web users doing so via their phones:
There's still room for growth in China as more people in rural areas come online, either via computers, feature phones, or smartphones. The proportional split in web users between urban (pictured in blue) and rural (in red) isn't changing much and is still skewed strongly towards urban areas:
Almost inevitably, China's urban internet users are more likely to be on PCs or laptops than their rural counterparts:
China's gender imbalance is even more pronounced when it comes to netizens, with only 44.4 percent female in these new statistics:
If you can read Chinese and like ugly graphs, there's plenty more demographic data in CNNIC's 32nd national web report.
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State and Federal Laws Regarding School Tobacco Policy
— A Summary —
New York Education Laws
Article 9 School Buildings and Sites, Section 409
School building regulations in relation to health and safety states that tobacco use shall not be permitted and no person shall use tobacco on school grounds. School grounds are defined as any building, structure and surrounding outdoor grounds contained within a public or private pre-school, nursery school, elementary or secondary school's legally defined property boundaries as registered in a county clerk's office.
Article 17 Instruction in Certain Subjects, Section 804
All schools shall include, as an integral part of health education, instruction so as to discourage the misuse and abuse of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs and promote attitudes and behavior that enhance health, well being, and human dignity. Instruction shall be included in health education provided for all elementary school pupils taught by regular classroom teachers or teachers certified to teach health education. Instruction in junior high and senior high schools shall be an integral part of required health education course at each of these levels in the secondary school's curriculum.
Commissioner's Regulations, New York State Department of Education Subchapter G, Part 135 Health, Physical Education and Recreation It is the duty of the trustees and boards of education to provide a satisfactory program in health education in accordance with the needs of pupils in all grades. This program shall include but not limited to instruction concerning the misuse of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs.
New York Public Health Laws
Article 13-E Regulation of Smoking in Certain Public Areas
The New York State Clean Indoor Air Act, 2003
Effective July 24, 2003, the amended New York State Clean Indoor Air Act prohibits smoking in virtually all workplaces, including all schools, school grounds, and places of employment where services are offered to children. School grounds means any building, structure, and surrounding outdoor grounds contained within a public or private pre-school, nursery school, elementary or secondary school's legally defined property boundaries as registered in a county clerk's office, and any vehicles used to transport children or school personnel. The changes in the Act reflect the state's commitment to ensuring that all workers are protected from secondhand smoke. "Smoking" or "No Smoking" signs, or the international "No Smoking" symbol, which consists of a pictorial representation of a burning cigarette enclosed in a circle with a bar across it, shall be prominently posted and properly maintained where smoking is regulated by this article, by the owner, operator, manager or other person having control of such area.
Article 13-F Regulation of Tobacco Products and Herbal Cigarettes; Distribution to Minors
Adolescent Tobacco Use Prevention Act (ATUPA)
This law was enacted to help stop the sale of tobacco products and herbal cigarettes to anyone under 18 years of age. Included are cigarettes, cigars, bidis, chewing tobacco, powdered tobacco, any other tobacco products, pipes and rolling papers. Herbal cigarettes are made primarily of an herb or combination of herbs and are intended to be used in the same manner as tobacco.
United States Department of Education
Title IV Part A — Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities
Part C — Environmental Tobacco Smoke No Child Left Behind "Pro-Children Act of 2001"
This law supports programs that prevent the illegal use of alcohol, tobacco, and drugs, involvement of parents and communities, and are coordinated with related Federal, State, school, and community efforts and resources to foster safe and drug-free learning environments that support student academic achievement. Requires that no person shall permit smoking within any indoor facility owned, or leased, or contracted for and utilized by such person for provision of routine or regular kindergarten, elementary, or secondary education or library services to children.
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Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 2004 Section 204 Wellness Policy
This law requires all schools participating in a program authorized by the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1751 et seq.) or the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1771 et seq.) to establish a local school wellness policy by school year 2006-07. The law requires community involvement including parents, students, representatives of the school food authority, the school board, school administrators, and the public in the development of the school wellness policy.


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Welcome to Worthington Family Dentistry!
We are committed to listening to your concerns and desires regarding your smile. Together, we will carefully plan your treatment, using state-of-the-art computer and digital imaging technology. We are a general dentistry practice; therefore, we can address all of your concerns associated with your oral health, from baby teeth to smile preservation with age. Our staff will always treat you with the utmost respect and compassion. We understand that dental treatment can be intimidating, and we will do our best to maintain a peaceful and relaxing environment in which to serve you.


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? Construction companies that received awards at ABC of Wisconsin's 21st Annual Projects of Distinction banquet Feb. 6 in Wisconsin Dells include Altmann Construction of Wisconsin Rapids for work on the Rennes Health and Rehab Center in Rhinelander, honorable mention; and Blenker Co., Amherst, for their work on multi-unit Westlawn Gardens in Milwaukee, silver award.
Associated Builders & Contractors of Wisconsin is a construction trade association representing general contractors, subcontractors, manufacturers, material suppliers and other professional construction-related firms.
? REI Engineering Inc. recently announced the promotion of Tom Radenz to vice president. Radenz joined the REI team in 1992 to develop the Land Surveying Department.
Patrick Bailey and Michelle Guoin, project managers and team members of the REI Civil Engineering team, Wausau, attended the WisDOT North Central Region Annual Utility Conference in Rothschild. The workshop was presented by the American Transmission Company.
The conference provided an opportunity for roadway and utility designers, builders and maintainers to get together, share ideas and learn the most current roadway transportation industry information relative to utility utilization of highway right of way.
? William Weiland has joined Time Federal Savings Bank as executive vice president, bringing more than 27 years of community banking experience in the areas of lending, operations and technology. Weiland will assist in managing the loan and investment portfolio as well as new loan and deposit product development.
The 80th annual meeting of Time Federal Savings Bank was held Jan. 15. At the meeting, Dr. Perry Arndt and Jeffery Mueller were reelected as directors for three-year terms. Other directors include David Goessl, Thomas Lindow, Patrick Pleus and W.P. Scharrschmidt. In the organizational meeting, officers appointed were Thomas Lindow, president/CEO; William Weiland, executive vice president; Daniel Krause, executive vice president; Jeffrey Mueller, senior vice president Lending; Bryan Stark, vice president Lending; Timothy Jari, vice president Lending; Barbara Thompson, vice president Deposit Services; Debra Kapfhamer, vice president Administration; Rhonda Kelley, controller; Colleen Guzinski, vice president/Phillips manager; Mark Steevens, vice president/Marshfield manager; Linda Susa, vice president/Owen manager; Harvey Dobbs, vice president/Wausau manager; and Jennifer Strama, Eau Claire manager.
? Stephen Mathie received the President's Club Award Feb. 8 at Catholic Financial Life's annual Sales Award ceremony. Randy Quiring received the 2013 John Schneiger Rookie of the Year Award in the ceremony. The award is presented to life sales leaders among advisers who have been with the society for two years or less. Quiring also received Vice President's Club honors for his outstanding sales and service throughout the year.
Mathie and Quiring are advisers with Catholic Financial Life's North Western Wisconsin Agency in Wausau.
? April Krueger, a 20-year employee at Krause Publications, has joined its advertising sales team. Krueger will work with numismatic customers on their marketing efforts through magazines like "Numismatic News," "World Coin News" and "Bank Note Reporter," email newsletters and the NumisMaster.com website, as well as other marketing vehicles.
Krause Publications, a division of F+W Media Inc., provides antiques, collectibles, outdoors, hunting and numismatics enthusiasts with trusted content, industry news and pricing information.
? The Midwest Renewable Energy Association has earned the designation of "Green Professional," in the Green Masters Program established by the Wisconsin Sustainable Business Council.
As a Green Professional, MREA has demonstrated continued commitment to sustainability. Their wind turbines, solar hot water and hot air systems, masonry heater, PV systems and the use of passive solar energy are among the initiatives designed to reduce the organization's carbon emissions. MREA also has taken steps to reduce individual employees' impact on the surrounding environment by limiting the amount of electronics used in the office space, reducing phantom loads by utilizing power strips and powering off workstations/electronics when not in use. Employees also compost and often travel with the organization's hybrid plug-in electric vehicle powered by a solar car charging station.
The Green Masters Program is Wisconsin's largest and most recognized sustainability program. Applicants to the Green Masters Program are judged on a range of sustainability issues, from energy to water use to educational outreach and governance. More than 125 Wisconsin businesses are participating in the program, and the top 20 percent achieve the highest "Green Master" designation. For more information or a complete list of Green Masters Program participants, visit www.greenmastersprogram.com.


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'Unique Perceptions: Microscopic Reflections' at Allegory Gallery
A new art exhibit will decorate the project wall of Allegory Gallery starting Saturday. Nick Conti's abstract designs promise to fascinate those who visit the exhibition.
The 'Unique Perceptions: Microscopic Reflections' exhibition will feature a series of Conti's digitally-manipulated photographs of glasswork pieces created by his business partner and friend, Andrew Tischler.
"The results are stunning abstract images that resemble colorful, psychedelic Rorschach tests," said Andrew Thornton, who co-owns Allegory Gallery along with William Jones, both of Bolivar.
The show opens with a reception from 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday. The public is invited to view 10 of Conti's original works, on display in the gallery until Dec. 5.
"I'm looking forward to having my work at the exhibition," said Conti. "The images bring a beautiful new angle on glass displayed on screen and in print, allowing the viewer to discover new layers and an opportunity to travel up close to these fascinating fumed particles."
Conti, who resides in Pittsburgh, said he was encouraged and given great creative opportunities in high school by his art teachers, motivating him to pursue a career in a creative field. Conti holds a degree in graphic design from California University of Pennsylvania.
It was in college where he met his creative collaborator, Tischler, and the two formed Unique Perception Glass Experience to share their work with the world.
"I love that it's collaboration," said Thornton. "Nick takes pictures of Andrew's pieces of glass and turns it into a swirling nebula of organic lines and undulating forms. He engages the smallest particles and the largest of constellations in his abstract images, and I think there's something spiritual in that. The viewer is transported to other realms and how often do we get to do that in our everyday lives?"
Conti's fine art photographs each portray a unique piece of glass and are priced around $100 each.
Cami DiBattista is a contributing writer for Trib Total Media.
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The popular open source blogging and content management platform, WordPress, has announced that it will now accept Bitcoins as a method of payment for its optional premium features.
Bitcoins – which make up an independent, but controlled, digital currency which operates on the international marketplace – have been accepted by WordPress owner, Automattic, in order, it says, to help facilitate transactions from those parts of the world where the standard WordPress payment terms of credit card or PayPal have not been made available to purchasers. A spokesperson from the company said.
"Whatever the reason, we don't think an individual blogger from Haiti, Ethiopia, or Kenya should have diminished access to the blogosphere because of payment issues they can't control. Our goal is to enable people, not block them. With Bitcoin we join a new digital economy that doesn't leave anyone behind, essentially making financial transactions open source – something WordPress.com is behind 100 per cent."
Bitcoins have been in circulation since 2009 but have thus far not achieved wide acceptance owing to software complications, exchange rate uncertainty, and question marks over how or whether the currency will eventually be subject to any governmental controls at a national level.
The payments system has however been recognised in many quarters as a reliable, convenient and relatively speedy means of conducting financial transactions.
Bitcoin payments to WordPress will be managed via a specialist Bitcoin intermediary organisation based in Florida – BitPay.com. BitPay.com ensures that any Bitcoin payments made for goods or services are converted into cash when they reach the vendor.


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Today's Pick: The Mp3 Experiment Ten on YouTube
The Topic: More than 7,000 New Yorkers downloaded the same MP3 file, gathered at the South Street Seaport, simultaneously pressed play, crawled on all fours, gave away money and did whatever else the omnipotent voice on the Mp3 file said to do. Check out the tenth annual Mp3 experiment organized by the New York City based prank collective Improv Everywhere.
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hair stories
Hair Stories chronicles
hair growth after chemo
through sequential photos
and stories about hair.
This project received a grant from the Mass. Cultural Council and has been exhibited at
Simmons College,
Wesleyan University,
DeCordova Museum,
University of the Arts and
Capital Region Center for the Arts.
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Concerned Women of America strenuously opposes marriage equality, and like most of our outrage-sputtering opponents, they're not much worried about small technical issues like honesty or truth. We've seen this before with Janice Shaw Crouse, and now we're seeing it in the financial reform debate. This is from their blog post, "Senator Levin Needs His Mouth Washed Out with Soap":
Eleven times. That's how many times the Honorable Senator Carl Levin (D-Michigan) used the word "sh***y" when grilling an executive from Goldman Sachs yesterday in a Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Investigations hearing regarding the company's financial dealings.
Are you kidding me? What an embarrassment to our country to have a sitting U.S. Senator, on public television, use such coarse language. How dare Senator Levin, no matter how angry he was, use a string of expletives when interrogating a witness. This isn't the men's locker room. Get over yourself and have some decency Mr. Levin.
That's a straightforward smear of Senator Levin. Yes, he said "shitty" a bunch of times. But CWA wants you to think he did it because his anger got the better of his language, and he lacks decency.
That's a lie.
He said "shitty" over and over while grilling Goldman Sachs because he was throwing their language back at them. A Goldman employee had written an email about Timberwolf, a mortgage-based deal:
That Timberwolf was one shitty deal.
Goldman then proceeded to sell the deal to its customers.
Now you may or may not believe it was okay for Goldman to do that. But the issue here is CWA's character assassination of Levin for bringing this information to light and aggressively pursuing a slick and slippery witness. Does CWA really think Goldman's choice of language was irrelevant? Come on. Thinking of it in terms closer to my own life, I'd certainly be outraged if a salesperson at Best Buy were pushing me to lay down money for a product its staff called "shitty" amongst themselves.
As always, I have to wonder what's going on in the minds of the CWA staff.
- Did they know the context of Levin's remarks and choose to ignore it so they could make a dishonest point?
- Are they so freaked out by this breach of decorum that they're incapable of understanding its source?
- Do they simply not realize that context matters?
As ever, they lead us to the usual three options: dishonest, crazy, or dumb. Boy, I wish I could sit in on their staff meetings to see which it was.


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Just bought myself an ASUS UX32VD and it was running fine for about a week, installed AVG and some other programs (VLC, utorrent etc) computer still running fine. Then I decided to try Civilization V on it and had some issues installing it, finally got it working, at the same time windows updater and ASUS updater is running in background (extremely slow internet here) the next boot after this takes about ten minutes and the computer keeps freezing on easy tasks, VLC or Mozilla constantly.
What I've tried so far.
-Looking for driver updates, nothing found.
-Do a system restore to before the CIV 5 install, no change in performance
-Did a clean install of win7 with all of ASUS updates, still 10min boot
-replaced ram with a new 8gb one, still 10min boot
-replaced HDD with a 120gb SSD and made a new install of win7, still 10min boot.
-updated all the drivers from ASUS again, still 10min boot.
tried memory diagnostic tool, says no errors, tried running the windows experience index, but it fails to complete.
ran event viewer as some forum suggested... lots of errors, but how to fix???
about ready to tear my hair out or blow the laptop to pieces.
What else could possibly cause this boot time? event log.jpg 337.54KB 19 downloads
edit: the UX32VD comes with a second SSD of 32gb, tried to initialize this in disk management, but only get the message "The drive cannot find the sector requested" it's not in the boot priority at all, I removed it to see if that helped, but no change, still wondering if this error can be connected somehow.
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Encounter Photobook
A Worthwhile Time-Stop Animation
I apologize for the large file size, but I'm sure that's it's well worth it. Here is Ralph Lorenz, one of the Cassini mission scientists, who is also involved with DISR, looking at some obviosly rather disturbing piece of paper. I would like to take this opportunity to open a contest to see who can come up with the best captions for this series of pictures. If you have a suggestion, please e-mail me with "contest" as the subject of your message. The winner will get a nice piece of DISR history.
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Have you ever felt like you should just give up?
Have you ever wanted to end the world of pain that you live in?
Have you ever attempted something you will regret forever?
When I seem like the girl that doesn't care, think again,
When I seem like I am happy, one in five times I am,
When I seem like i do my class work, all I'm doing is trying to get over it.
Maybe you all should think twice,
Maybe you should have more details,
Maybe you need to know us all better.
When they yell and scream it hurts my head,
When they call me names it hurts my heart,
When they act like they care I know they don't give a damn.
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Codel Entry Systems, Corp
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|SEALING SPLINE CONNECTOR - A door frame system including a spline. Each door frame section includes a brickmould and a jamb each having a groove on at least one side and the door frame sections are joined together by the spline. The spline includes a polymeric material having a shape such so as to form a moisture-resistant seal along the length of the joint. The spline is concealed from view when the brickmould and a jamb are connected together to form a frame including a uniform reveal.


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As noted in a recent TechPresident article, you can now see interesting statistics on where videos are most popular from various YouTube accounts, including the official White House channel on YouTube. For example, President Obama's video message to the Iranian people on the Nowruz holiday was our third most viewed video overall and our most viewed in Iran.
The President's speech to the Muslim World in Cairo was also widely viewed and was especially popular in the US, Egypt, Nigeria, and Tanzania (in addition to being our most-viewed live-stream broadcast, despite beginning around 6:00 AM EDT):
And not surprisingly, the President's speech in Ghana was most popular in Ghana, although you can see the pick-up in various countries throughout sub-Saharan Africa as well:
Lastly, when the President welcomed 2009 Major League Soccer Champions, the Columbus Crew, to the White House the majority of the video traffic came from ... Argentina!
To see these kinds of insights and trends, go to the official White House channel on YouTube, click on the video you are interested in, click "View comments, related videos, and more" and then click the "Statistics & Data" link."


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|Aberrant CYP1A1 induction: discrepancy of CYP1A1 mRNA and aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase activity in mutant cells of mouse hepatoma line, Hepa-1.
MedLine Citation:
|PMID: 8071113 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE
|We have isolated new benzo[a]pyrene-resistant clones, cl-21 and cl-32, of the mouse hepatoma line, Hepa-1. CYP1A1-dependent aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase activity is not inducible by 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin or 3-methylcholanthrene in these two cell lines. However, mRNA of CYP1A1 is inducible in cl-21 and cl-32 cells, as in the wild-type cells, in spite of an undetectable level of cytosolic Ah receptor. The cl-21 cDNA of Cyp1a-1 was found to have a single mutation leading to an amino acid substitution from Leu (118) to Arg (118). However, the CYP1A1 protein band was not detected on Western immunoblots. The cDNA of cl-32 was found to have a single mutation leading to an amino acid change from Arg (359) to Trp (359). The presence of the mature protein in cl-32 was confirmed by Western blot analysis. Somatic cell hybridization experiments demonstrated that the phenotype of cl-21 and cl-32 is recessive and that these clones belong to the same complementation group. These data suggest that there may be a non-Ah receptor-mediated mechanism of CYP1A1 induction.
|H Kikuchi; M Usuda; I Sagami; S Ikawa; M Watanabe
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|Title: Japanese journal of cancer research : Gann Volume: 85 ISSN: 0910-5050 ISO Abbreviation: Jpn. J. Cancer Res. Publication Date: 1994 Jul
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|Created Date: 1994-09-29 Completed Date: 1994-09-29 Revised Date: 2006-11-15
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|Department of Molecular Genetics, Tohoku University, Sendai.
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Aryl Hydrocarbon Hydroxylases / metabolism*
Base Sequence
Benzo(a)pyrene / pharmacology
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If you've been to a tech conference in the past five years, there's a good chance you've also been to an "unconference". Unconferences work to break down the barrier between speakers and audience, inviting all attendees to participate in shaping the program, offering sessions or contributing to the discussion that's taking place. Done well - Foo Camp, the various Bar Camps, blog unconferences - they're a great way to tap the expertise of everyone in the room, to ensure that discussions focus on topics people care about. Done badly, they're chaotic and frustrating, dominated by the loud and self-confident (I'm both, and I'm well-aware that I need to be moderated.)
So I approached Mastermundo, a day-long conference following on the end of PICNIC with some trepidation. The conference organizers were emphatic in making the point that this was an unconventional conference, designed to break the rules of conferences as we knew them. Instead of having a stage, podium and audience, we'd meet in the modern art museum, on a train, in public spaces, moving from Amsterdam to the Hague during the day, with speakers delivering talks to an audience listening on headphones. Not an unconference as I've attended them before, but certainly not a conference like PICNIC, with a stage, an audience, the performative act of making your case with your words and a few sides.
What the hell. As it turned out, I was planning on spending my Saturday in Amsterdam visiting the modern art museum and taking a train to the Hague to meet a friend for dinner. Why not attend a conference while I was at it?
Two surprises about Mastermundo. First, I had a great time… and I wasn't sure I would. Second, it's really hard for people to break from their scripts, even if you beg them to.
Mastermundo Conference at Stedlijk Museum
At the (temporary location of) the Stedelijk Museum, we were given headsets and told that we could wander anywhere in the gallery while listening to the speakers. The first speaker, a Dutch designer, immediately broke script, asked people to sit near him, so that we could see the images on his laptop screen. When subsequent speakers encouraged attendees to wander through the galleries - showing a fantastic show of contemporary African photography - they were rapidly defeated by the short range of the headphones and the tendency of people to want to see who's speaking to them. Try as you'd like to break this rule - when someone tells a story, people will sit and listen to her.
And despite promises of breaking all the rules, we eventually found ourselves in a conference room in the Hague, looking at the speaker in the front of the room and watching a slideshow on a giant screen. You may be creative, rebellious Dutch artists, but you are no match for the power of Powerpoint.
I'd chosen to give my talk on the train from Amsterdam to the Hague, figuring this was the only way I'd be guaranteed the opportunity to read my notes. As it turned out, I probably had the most unusual experience of all the speakers. I sat in the front seat of a train car, wedged in next to the equipment necessary to broadcast my voice via FM, looking at the end of the car or out the window. As I delivered my talk, the only person I could see was the technician, who was trying so hard to keep the transmitter attached to its battery that I couldn't get any emotional feedback from her at all. It felt more like one of the recording sessions I've done for reading for the blind than like giving a lecture.
I found the whole experience so strange that when my friend Rafi took my place as the next speaker, I perched myself within his field of vision so that he'd have a face to look at and the reassurance that someone was hearing what he was saying. I don't know whether this was helpful or simply made him more self-conscious. I simply hope he doesn't think I'm stalking him.
A few folks seemed to connect well with the talk so I thought I'd share it here, more or less as I delivered it. Envision yourself sitting on a train looking out the window as I read this to you. Or while you're wandering through a gallery of contemporary African photography. Or don't. That will work too.
When I was twenty years old, I'd just finished university, and I'd won a scholarship to study in Ghana, West Africa for a year to study Ghanaian music.
I knew more about Ghana than the average American. For four years, I'd studied Ghanaian drumming in university and had worked with some of the best musicians in that country. I'd read books, magazine articles, newspapers, talked to lots of Ghanaians in the US, people who'd traveled there before.
Which basically meant that I knew nothing. As the plane from London descended, I looked out the window expecting to see the bright lights of the city of Accra, one of the largest and most populated cities in West Africa. It took me a moment or two to notice that there weren't that many lights and that very, very few of them were on top of one another.
In that single moment, I realized that my vision for how I'd be spending this year was entirely wrong. I'd been planning on finding a part of Accra where young urban professionals lived in apartments. I'd get an apartment, make friends with the neighbors and live basically the same way that I would had I left college and moved to Boston or New York.
This, of course, turns out not to be possible. In 1993, it was pretty uncommon to rent an apartment in Ghana with less than 10 years rent in advance. And besides, people didn't really rent apartments - they lived with their families until they were able to build their own houses. The young, up and coming Ghanaians I wanted to meet were either making their fortunes in the UK or the US, or living with their parents.
I ended up renting an apartment from a guy named Patrick Fiachie. He'd left Ghana for the Soviet Union as a youth, studied at Patrice Lumumba People's Friendship University in Moscow, and eventually sought political asylum in the US, in Minnesota. For twenty years, he worked as a counselor to undergraduate students at a small college in Minnesota… which meant kids like me were very familiar to him, and he was very familiar to me.
Patrick Fiachie, Osu, Accra, Ghana. 1993
Patrick had come home to Accra, and found himself in the business of translating between the realities of Americans who'd come to study in Ghana and Ghanaian realities. He was a bridge figure - he was able to explain to the owner of the building he lived in why it made sense to make foreign visitors pay rent one month at a time… and as a result, the building she'd built as an investment filled up with international scholars who were paying far more rent than Ghanaians would have… despite the fact that I was paying $100 a month for two bedrooms, a living room, kitchen and bathroom, which had power most of the time, though no running water.
Patrick acted as a bridge in different directions. I mentioned to him one night, as we were playing chess together, that I felt like a stranger in the neighborhood. The kids kept calling me "brofunyo" - white man - even though I stopped in the streets and introduced myself in Ga. A couple days later, I noticed that everything had changed - people were greeting me by name and being much friendlier. I overheard a conversation at a local market stall - a woman said to another market woman, "Oh that white man - he's uncle Pat's nephew."
I didn't make any sense in the neighborhood until someone had claimed a relationship with me. It was pretty obvious that I wasn't Patrick's nephew - I'm white, he's black, we don't look very much alike. But in introducing me to the neighborhood as his nephew, I became his responsibility. If I did something wrong, they could contact Uncle Pat about my behavior. And once I was connected like this, it made sense to treat me differently.
The view from my apartment window, Accra, 1994
It would have been pretty hard to figure all this out without getting on an airplane. I can tell you what it's like to go from being a stranger, an outsider, to being part of the neighborhood. I can even tell you what it smells like when you get off the airplane, wet earth and burning plastic, but I can't explain why it's one of the most wonderful smells in the world, why it brings tears to my eye when I catch a whiff of it.
A few years later, I had the chance to go back to Ghana in some very different circumstances. I'd gotten very lucky in the dotcom boom in the US, and I had some money in the bank. And I wanted to do something to help this nation, which I'd fallen in love with. My bright idea was that Ghana might be able to participate in the same sort of Internet revolution that the US and Europe had been living through. I realized that one of the gaps Ghanaian businesses were dealing with was a skills gap - there were very few people who knew how to design a webpage, set up a database or manage an internet service provider. So I started raising money to bring American and European volunteers to come live and work in Ghana for a few months at a time. We called it Geekcorps because it was a little like the American Peace Corps, except it was staffed with geeks.
This worked out pretty well, actually. There are lots and lots of burnt-out geeks in the world who are excited about the chance to work in Africa. And African businesses are often pretty receptive to the idea of low-cost consulting on technical issues. It worked well enough that we ended up running projects in more than a dozen nations, mostly in Africa. Some succeeded, some failed, but I noticed something in the long run: whether or not a project was successful, it almost always had some sort of transformative effect on the volunteer's life.
Several of the people we worked with decided to stay in Africa for good. A handful got married to people they met while they were volunteering. A large number changed the direction of their careers and a few are now leading people involved with the world of technology transfer in the developing world. Having the chance not just to visit as a tourist, but to work in countries like Ghana, Rwanda or Mongolia gave them a chance to make connections that ended up changing their lives.
Me. Dzolo-Gbogame, Volta Region, Ghana, 1994.
I don't run that nonprofit anymore for a very simple reason - it's really, really expensive to buy airline tickets. Not just the tickets - it's expensive to get visas, to house people, to make sure they've got health insurance and enough money so they eat. But if I could find a way to do it that wouldn't bankrupt me and destroy the environment, I'd be looking for as many opportunities as possible to take people out of their everyday context and bring them into different parts of the world where they can be helpful. This doesn't need to cross international borders, by the way - the US is big enough and diverse enough that I've seen people get a full dose of cross-cultural contact by going urban to rural or vice versa. But it needs to be for a long time, and it needs to be in the course of doing a project, otherwise you're a tourist, and it's hard to connect in that circumstance.
What I'm looking for are the sorts of experiences that forces someone to confront the reality that the way they, personally live, isn't the only way to live… and that it may not be the best way to live. That's something easy to understand consciously, but it's harder to feel. Personally, that feeling wears off for me fairly often - I need to spend a lot of time with people I admire, people who are living very different lives from my own to be reminded that my way of seeing things isn't the only way.
Basically, what was so great about Geekcorps was that it put me in a position where I could help create xenophiles. Xenophiles are people who are fascinated by the whole world, by things other than their ordinary experience. They're people who want to connect with people who see the world very differently. Some of these people are born this way, lots more are made - a good recipe for xenophilia is to raise a child in a culture deeply different from that of her parents - people call these kids "third culture kids". Third culture kids have one foot in each of two cultures - the culture of the country they grew up and the culture of their parents, and as a result they don't really live in either, but a little bit in both. Some kids hate this - many love it, and they end up bridge figures, natural xenophiles who can help translate cultures for other people. Barack Obama's one of them.
It's my theory that xenophiles are going to be very powerful in the future. We're living in a world that the pro-globalization folks refer to as "flat". That's bullshit, obviously. The world is flat as far as stuff is concerned. In my hometown of 3000 people, I can get water from Fiji and fish from Chile, but I'm not going to encounter any Fijians or Chileans. I'm not even likely to encounter information from those countries, news, opinion or cultural influences like films or TV… not unless I very actively go looking for it. So the world's flat in terms of stuff, but not in terms of human interaction. It's flat, but in the least important ways - in the ways that matter, in the ways that would allow us to connect with people from other cultures, allow us to share ideas and solve problems together, the world is disconnected. It's lumpy.
Xenophiles are good at making connections in this lumpy world. It's a good idea to have them if you're trying to do business in another country - some of the people who are making lots of money in this economy are people from developing nations who study in Europe or America and then return home. They can bridge between cultures in a way that helps them make smart economic decisions. They're even more important if you're concerned with security or with diplomacy, because their ability to cross cultures makes it far more likely that they can collaborate and create solutions with people from other cultures.
So here's the question I'm interested now: how do we build real, productive connections with people across national, cultural and linguistic boundaries… without putting people on airplanes? Or trains? How do we efficiently manufacture xenophiles?
And since you guys can't answer, I'll go ahead and offer one solution that works really well - intermarriage. If you fall in love with someone from a very different culture, you've got a strong incentive to connect with that person's family, learn their culture, change your perspectives. And while I've thought about this, it's even harder to figure out a scheme to make intermarriage mandatory on a massive scale than it is to figure out how to put a substantial fraction of the world's population on airplanes.
I'd been hoping the internet could be a solution to these problems. After all, it's now possible to read the newspapers in another country, to read the blogs of people who live in these countries and hear what they're thinking about. We can go to flickr and see the photos that people take, we can surf youtube and watch the videos that are making people laugh in other countries. Shouldn't this help us connect with people around the world?
That's what I thought a few years ago. I helped start a website called Global Voices, which is basically a site designed to help you find citizen media from other countries, especially the developing world. Want to know what people in China are talking about online? We filter through thousands of Chinese blogs, try to find the conversations that are interesting, translate them into English… and then into over a dozen other languages. If you read the site, you'll end up getting a much better sense for what the hot topics are in other parts of the world… and you may find yourself emotionally invested in someone else's blog, and by extension in their life and ideas.
But you probably won't. That's one of the biggest things we've discovered with the project - it's hard to care, even if you want to. I can point you to a lively conversation taking place in another corner of the blogosphere and even if you can read the language, you're probably not going to connect with the conversation. You don't have the context. And beyond that, you don't have any connection to the people or events involved.
It's not your fault. Human beings are tribal by nature. There's a sociological phenomenon called "homophily" - it's the tendency of birds of a feather to flock together. Let people organize themselves and people will form into groups, usually by race, nationality, religion, level of education. In the US, there's a lot of mobility - people move all the time - and we're starting to see this happen politically - Bill Bishop calls it "The Big Sort". It ends up meaning that left-leaning people live with other leftists, conservatives with other conservatives and we'll each understand less about each other. We do this with information as well. If information affects people like us, we pay attention to it - if not, we're almost hard-wired not to care.
It turns out that there's an art to getting people to care. It's about telling stories, stories that introduce us to people we care about, whose pasts we speculate about, whose future we worry about. Most of the world's problems can't be summed up by a single story about a single person… but unless you can attach a story to a problem, it's likely that you won't get anyone to pay attention to the larger problem. The problem with this art is that it can turn into a trick. The trick works by oversimplifying, turning stories into good versus evil, black and white. If we tell the story and lose the subtlety, at a certain point we're lying.
We've got the infrastructure that makes it possible to connect to one another, to tell stories to one another, to share films and family photos and things that make us laugh or cry with people anywhere in the world. And so far, we're pretty bad at using it. At the worst, we use it to hurt each other - think of the guy in Lagos who wants to rip you off while promising you millions of dollars… or the guy in London who makes sport out of humiliating and punishing him.
So here's where I'm asking for help - we need bridge figures, people who can help build connections between cultures. We need xenophiles, people who are interested in the whole world and in building conversations that break out of the homophily trap. We need tools that let us use this infrastructure to connect. Help me figure out how to bridge people and how to build these tools.
This piece originally appeared on Ethan Zuckerman's excellent personal blog, My Heart's In Accra.
Why are only the American taxpayers bailing out the whole global economy?
A billion members of the human family exist on resources valued at less than one dollar per day. Africa is suffering from "slow drip" problems. Europe is getting warmer fast. Arctic ice is retreating and the arctic coast of Alaska is eroding.
Where are the new ideas, the financial backing, and the innovations needed to address these problems? There are tens of trillions of dollars in the global human economy. Where has all that money gone?
The front page of the NYTimes tells the family of humanity that we are on the verge of a global economic catastrophe. Are the taxpayers of the American family, acting alone, to become responsible for the problems now presented to the human community by the greed of a small group of rich and powerful people worldwide?
Why are an astonishingly small number of greedy people, holding hundreds of billions of dollars of ill-gotten gains from what are now recognizable as failed business models and Ponzi-like financial schemes, not taking responsibility for their avarice?
Who are the people behind the mess we see splashed across the front pages of newspapers around the world this morning? Perhaps they need to be named, shamed and held to account.
Some greedy people are easy to identify. They are ones who have proclaimed themselves "Masters of the Universe" or Bohemians or the Greedy Boys of Greenwich or the Bilderbergers or members of The Trilateral Commission or the many too many outrageously enriched 'experts' and politicians who say and do anything to enhance wealth and power of themselves and their benefactors.
At least to me, it appears the problems in the global economy we are seeing today are the results of greed having reached its limits or, to put it another way, having "hit the wall" of unsustainability. That is to say, greediness of self-proclaimed Masters of the Universe and their minions has reached the point of greed's unsustainability. The global economy can no longer support the conspicuous, patently unsustainable behavior of a small segment of the family of humanity.
Yes, definitely yes, something new and different needs to be done. Bold action is needed; but, more of the same, old business-as-usual behavior appears insufficient. Limits need to be placed on patently unsustainable behavior. People who are responsible for the mess need to account for their behavior.
The American family is not responsible for the world's economic mess; but at the moment American taxpayers are being held solely accountable. There is something not quite right about such unfair and inequitable circumstances.
Steven Earl Salmony
AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population,
established 2001
Real issues, and straight talk for a change, about a $700 billion dollar bail-out as well as abject failures of one generation to accept responsibility for its own patently unsustainable behavior.
Have the self-proclaimed Masters of the Universe among us adopted a behavioral repertoire characterized by unconscionable super-human greediness, the likes of which this world we are blessed to inhabit has never before endured and cannot much longer sustain?
What is to become of our children, whose future is being mortgaged once again this week and threatened more seriously with every passing day?
When is my not-so-great generation of rapaciously consuming and relentlessly hoarding elders going to stop its disturbing behavior of dropping problems of our own making into the laps of our children?
The financial engineers who manufactured the spurious business models and Ponzi-like schemes that are undermining the functioning of the global economy today need to take some responsibility for their greedy behavior rather than pass along the colossal debt derived from their subterfuge for our children to repay.
Steven Earl Salmony
AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population, established 2001
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Very well written and I fully agree with this point:
"It turns out that there's an art to getting people to care. It's about telling stories, stories that introduce us to people we care about, whose pasts we speculate about, whose future we worry about."
That's exactly what Third Culture Kids have learned to do through discussion groups. Studies have shown that TCKs are more welcoming of newcomers. At http://tckid.com, members all grew up in completely different cultures, and yet, they can all relate to each other. Having that sense of belonging is the crucial element to create bridges between cultures.


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Left bicep tendon, forearm, wrist pain - two months now
1960sDJ (Guest)
October 6, 2005 7:57 AM
I'm 48 years old and until just over two months ago I was working out with weights a couple of times a week, and bike riding for cardio (and lower body strength) most every day.
I've had weight problems all my life, and even with a high-protein, low fat, moderate carb no-junk food diet, I can only keep fit if I maintain this routine, or else the weight starts piling on.
I've gotten myself in such good shape at times that people don't believe I have a weight problem, but the same people don't believe what they see if I stop exercising for a few months and I'm wearing pants six sizes larger.
I'm right handed, and my left arm has always been much weaker, had less range of motion, and been much more injury prone than my right. The difference has increased as I've gotten older.
I pretty much gave up on doing curls with a barbell or curlbar a few years ago because of the difference, and I was doing curls only with dumbells to customize the weight and workout to the strength of each arm. My left upper arm usually doesn't fill t-shirt sleeves that were tight on my right upper arm no matter what I've done.
My left forearm, wrist and bicep tendon has had intermittent tendonitis after lifting over the years many times (while my right arm has always been seemed invulnerable even with heavier weights), but in the past, it's always gone away if I quit lifting for a month or so.
It happened again to my left arm over the summer, though I don't recall any specific incident or strain that suddenly caused it. It just seemed to slowly come on. I stopped lifting a couple of months ago, and it's not going away this time.
If I lift any light object in a curl motion with my left arm, the bicep tendon, forearm and wrist hurt badly, and working out is out of the question (unless I only want to build my right side). I can still bike ride as long as I'm very careful not to stress the left arm.
I've been to doctors with this in the past (when it wasn't as bad as this time), I've been x-rayed, etc... they said it was just tendonitis and suggested painkillers, which don't do much for me (and I'm not going to take knockout ones). I've also been to physical therapists to no avail.
Anyone have any further suggestions? I'd really appreciate it. Thanks!
tom.c (Guest)
October 7, 2005 6:52 AM
a lot of times with these kind of injuries it can be a LOT of things, from what I hear i would think 1- from the spine\neck (so you could some massage and see if during you feel numb in your left arm or relieve
2 supraspinatus (shoulder muscle) could be weak\inflamated and thrusting some pains through the arm, but the wrist ?
3-have some acupuncture (that´s what I would do, ) the pain your prescribing sounds a lot like nerve pains and they do magic with those (the good ones anyhow)
4- your diet (scince your going up and down sooo many years now , I m sure there´s something wrong there,... and the body just says NO (i hope you KNOW what is good for you , so try to stick to a healthy plan - vegetables and fruit work wonders against inflamation, protein for muscle regrowth, 50% fruit and vegetables, 25% protein , 25% carbs (we tend to take too much protein ,(but try this for a healthier body)
keep track on fitday.com to see how many call your eating daily,...
when you stop for a coupple of months your workouts, and you start again , do you pick on where you left or do you start from scrach,with light weights ? cos that could be also one of the reasons, you drop everything and after a few months you attack the muscle with too much
try doing NOthing for 2 weeks, eat well !!!!
just massages and accupuncture
then start doing streching exercices (arms ) go to
or another to find some exercises \ streching whithout weight
then like a beginner start after the forth week (if everything worked alright and you re not having too much pain-but even little pain will maybe be inevitable) with learning from the beginning all the moves with very low weights and high reps slowly , very controlled exercises to strenghten your body (maybe you become overweight and the day you start working out you get over exited ?)
do 4 times 20 times any exercise with low weight every other day
SLOWLY going higher , but remember slow, slowly and with perfect form, you have to learn your body not to hurt itself , visualize the muscle you are using and "tell" the muscle to work relaxed whithout pain
yes sounds maybe weird to you but it might work (IT DOES) so you might as well try it , anyway start from t6he beginning I wish you good luck, if you ´re p+ossitive about the end result you´ll make it !!
\\(but for weight loss you CAN do throughout all this time do your LEGS (whithout weight but high reps, (go low in a squat, jump up)- travelling lunges,etc , ABS , swimming (crawl if that doesn t hurt you)running,walking uphill\downhill,....\\
1960sDJ (Guest)
October 7, 2005 8:03 AM
Thanks for the suggestions!
It doesn't seem to be coming from the shoulder, though I'm sure it could affect it. Pain is all in bicep to forearm tendon (inner elbow), forearm, and forearm to wrist.
I'd like to try massage and acupuncture. I've had acupuncture in the past for other problems, I do respect it, and I've found it effective for some things, though not as much for others. It does also vary with the skill and knowledge of the practitioner. I would have to pay for those out of pocket, maybe if I can work more hours I could scrounge up the extra money.
Diet: I've been a high-protein vegetarian (NOT vegan!) most of my life. For protein I eat lowfat (preferably organic) dairy products, lots of soy products, and use whey and/or soy protein powder at times. I also love natural peanut butter, though the fat in it hangs right on me. I make sure to get daily veggies, fruit, and some whole grains as well, though I try to keep carbs under 25%. No junk food or junk drinks.
Re: your question about when I stop working out: When I stop for a couple of months, there's no way I could ever start where had I left off! After just one month, it feels like I've never even worked out in my life! I have to start over with 1/4 of the weight amounts I was lifting before!
I will try your suggestions, definitely acupuncture, maybe massage (if I can afford both), and no-weight stretching exercises. Maybe the acupuncturist may have some suggestions from light Tai-Chi or Qi-Gong as well.
Fall and winter are approaching, so I can hide behind flannel shirts and down jackets for awhile, but I hope that within a few months during the winter the pain diminishes enough to begin using light weights as you suggest very carefully. I'd like to be in some sort of half-decent shape again by next spring or summer. (I may be screwed when it snows and I have to shovel my long driveway out, can't shovel without using the left bicep and forearm. That may set me back).
As for cardio for weight loss, I've never been able to be much of a runner or long-distance walker because I was born with flat arches and "loose" knee and ankle joints, but I can bicycle ride all day because there's no impact, and I ride at least a few miles almost every day. I commute to work by bike if it's not raining or snowing. Unfortunately, I work two sit-down jobs. I find I usually need both cardio and weights to keep in shape and my weight down, but one is better than nothing.
Soon the weather will make bike riding unsafe around Boston (not because I can't ride in the snow, but because so many drivers are crazy in it), and I'll put my bike on my indoor training stand for the winter. That'll be even better, because I won't have the reflex to strain that left arm whenever I stop short because someone (either car or pedestrian) has suddenly darted out in front of me without looking. I can also continue lower body exercise indoors as you mention...
Thanks again! Once I'm hopefully through this bout by next year, any suggestions on dealing with the chronic discrepancy between my left and my right? There must be some underlying problem that has caused by left arm to be weaker, stiffer, and so much more injury prone than my right for decades. My left arm also often trembled for a few minutes after a workout, though my right arm never did. I need to find out how to make this less likely to happen to my left again in the future (I never seem to have to worry about my right, it's always been like Superman compared to my left).
tom.c (Guest)
October 7, 2005 9:53 AM
1 do try fitday to really count the call you´re taking fitday.com
2 use a swiss ball to sit on
3 try to be consistent in your diet , cardio and weightlifting (even if you´re just doing legs, do them every 2,3,or 4 days,(depends on what you do,..)\
4 keep everything logged,food ,cardio and weights--aswell as -feeling better after»food,exercise,sleep
feeling worse after»food, weather,exercise etc
in the mean time save up some money and try by asking around ,to find a good specialist,cos if it s not getting better maybe you need some serious testing, not just your house doctor, but do that after you experiented with the above.
genetics are often problems we don´t all look great on both sides(some sports men have still baby arms but with good care\exercises they get by great !!
so don t give in there´s hope
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NBA notes: Nets trade Jason Terry; could Hayward land in Boston?
The Brooklyn Nets were a little shorthanded Wednesday in Salt Lake City after trading veterans Jason Terry and Reggie Evans to Sacramento in exchange for Marcus Thornton.
As the NBA's deadline approaches, the deal was the first of what could be several before Thursday afternoon.
"It's a business," Nets forward Kevin Garnett said to reporters at EnergySolutions Arena.
But for players and coaches, this is an unsettling time.
"I played. I've been on teams at this time of year," said Jazz coach Ty Corbin. "It's difficult. You don't know. You don't know what calls are coming in, what makes sense for [the organization]. Something may come out of nothing. ⦠As a player, you try as much as you can to get it off your mind. But you do think about it."
Jazz forward Gordon Hayward has named as a possible target for teams, particularly the Boston Celtics. But the Jazz are reportedly uninterested in dealing Hayward right now.
Hayward says he's not paying attention to any rumors right now.
It's nothing we can worry about, nothing we can control," he said. "We're all Jazz players right now, and that's how we've got to look at it."
The Jazz, meanwhile, will benefit some from the Nets' trade.
As Brooklyn continues to add to its payroll, the team will have to pay a greater luxury tax to each team below the tax line.
'Like we're coming home'
Andrei Kirilenko was all smiles Wednesday at ESA as he returned to the place where he started his NBA career.
"Me and my wife, always when we land in Utah, we feel like we're coming home. It's the same feeling now," he said. "It's a lot of great memories here, a lot of nice moments. Of course I'm going to feel it for the rest of my life no matter what."
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A woman fought off a kidnapper, enabling law enforcement to arrive at her apartment and take the man into custody April 30.
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A woman fought off a kidnapper, enabling law enforcement to arrive at her apartment and take the man into custody April 30.
Placerville Police Department received a 911 call from an apartment at 2838 Schnell School Rd. at 8:03 a.m., a press release stated. The caller stated than an unknown man was in her apartment, threatening to take her 15-month-old daughter. Police dispatch was told she was struggling with the man.
Three minutes later, PPD and El Dorado County sheriff's deputies arrived and found the man still inside the apartment. They quickly took him into custody.
Jason Wayrynen, 44, followed the caller into the apartment, where he focused his attention on the woman and the 15-month-old. He forcibly took the girl from her mother and held the child to the ground.
The mother fought back and was able to wrestle her daughter away from Wayrynen. She secured her daughter in a bedroom, where other children in the apartment were already hiding. She fought him off and closed the door, holding him at bay until officers arrived.
Wayrynen was booked into county jail on charges of kidnapping and burglary with a bail of $250,000.
After he was arrested, his DNA was collected and sent to Calavaras County "as a matter of procedure," said PPD Capt. Mike Scott. "Nothing has come of it," Scott said, but they are still hopeful.
They hope for a match for the mysterious murderer of 8-year-old Leila Fowler. They sent the DNA "based on some similarities" and that it's "a shot in the dark, but it's something." Both suspects, Scott said, were unknown intruders who had an intent of harming children.
"Both (cases) are very bizarre," he said.
As for Wayrynen, "Our community is safer knowing this individual is in custody," he said.
Anyone with information on the case is encouraged to contact the Placerville Police Department at 530-642-5280 in reference to Case No. 13-540.


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Dirk, I'd pay a maximum of $15 for 3 plate holders and $30 for a Rada or Rollex roll film back, you'd also need to find some film inserts.
I'll check out what plate holders I have, there's two boxes and over 150 of various sizes & edge fittings, I've only done a quick sort and still need to identify them. I should have some for a Maximar.
With roll film backs you need to be careful as they were available for 620 film as well as 120. I really need to compile a good table of the different types/edge fittings with photos/illustrations & measurements. It'll take a few days then I can do more accurate identifications.


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Paige Sultzbach, 15, plays second base for Mesa Preparatory Academys baseball team in Mesa, Ariz. / By Carlos Chavez/The Arizona Republic/The Associat
On the playground at my elementary school, you passed over Laurie Smith at your own risk.
First, in a big school filled with boys who knew how to play whatever game was going on during recess, Laurie Smith was as athletic, as strong and as willing to win as anyone on the blacktop. Swinging on the monkey bars what many girls of my era did during recess wasnt her thing. She was about a game that kept score.
Second, if you took her with anything past the second or third pick, she knew how to make you pay. And the score tended to tilt her way.
Granted, she was one of the few exceptions at my school, a girl mixing in games dominated by boys. But I feared her (I spent parts of enough recesses being held upside down by my ankles as she laughed at my shrimpy-ness) and was in awe of her in all the right ways. She did more than hold her own. She won.
I wanted her on my team.
So now comes the story about Paige Sultzback. Youve heard about the 15-year-old by now. She plays second base for Mesa Preparatory Academy, a team that took Arizonas 1A charter school state baseball championship last week when Our Lady of Sorrows Academy forfeited rather than play the final game against a team with a girl in the lineup.
Our Lady of Sorrows, part of a fundamentalist split in the Catholic Church called The Society of Saint Pius X, lost to Mesa Prep twice during the regular season. But Sultzbach sat on the bench out of respect for the other teams beliefs, according to The Arizona Republic.
By the time the state finals came around, Sultzbach planned to be on the field for more than the toss-around. So the fundamental part of the church doctrine kicked in, with the school offering a line about (promoting) the ideal of forming and educating boys and girls separately during the adolescent years, especially in physical education.
Our school aims to instill in our boys a profound respect for women and girls, the school said in a statement. Teaching our boys to treat ladies with deference, we choose not to place them in an athletic competition where proper boundaries can only be respected with difficulty.
Or as Pamela Sultzbach, Paiges mom, told The Arizona Republic: It wasnt that they were afraid they were going to hurt or injure her, its that (they believe) a girls place is not on a field.
So what are we talking about here? Proper boundaries, according to a school that gave up a shot at a state championship and cheated another set of kids out of a shot of winning one cleanly.
The Our Lady of Sorrows episode isnt so much about the state of Title IX, the 1972 federal legislation that attempted to put girls sports on equal footing at least in ways to participate with the boys. Forty years is a long time and still not enough, apparently.
But for my money its less about gender equality as about being willing to go up against the best competition, no matter who it is or what the configuration of the X and Y chromosomes happen to be.
Our Lady of Sorrows begged off for reasons of doctrine. And who am I to get in the way of that? The school, to its credit, forfeited on principle. The team didnt demand a trophy it didnt earn because the other school fielded a team that was out of their comfort zone.
But how many guys from the PGA Tour to high school sports to Thursday night softball under the lights at Lafayettes Lyboult Field still have a beef about playing head to head with women in leagues set up primarily for men?
(For that matter, how many still have a problem with going head to head with a woman in a position of power in the workplace? Then again, thats another column sort of for another day.)
I have one other story about proper boundaries before I let this go.
In college, we played pickup basketball in the afternoons in a gym that dated to the 1920s. The baseline ran along the bottom of the wall and the bricks under the basket were out of bounds. The call of Next we all dreaded most came whenever members of the universitys womens basketball team showed up for some off-season running.
We didnt hate it because they were women. We hated it because we knew the court wouldnt be ours in about 15 minutes. And during those 15 minutes, wed taste bricks whenever we tried to drive baseline. Deference earned you nothing but scorn, a hard foul next time down the court and a seat on the sidelines when the score hit 12.
Any preconceived notions about playing like a girl evaporated pretty quickly in that cauldron. No one accused the guys on my dorm floor of being top-flight competition average intramural talent would have been stretching it. But right then I figured: Why shouldnt the strongest and the best make the team and be on the court? And why shouldnt they have a shot at the best competition? Or play for championships at any level?
If Im on that elementary playground right now, Id still go with Tom Hayes first. Laurie Smith, Id take her next.
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|A randomized double-blind controlled study of laninamivir compared with oseltamivir for the treatment of influenza in patients with chronic respiratory diseases.
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|Influenza infection tends to be severe in patients with chronic underlying diseases. This study evaluated the efficacy and safety of laninamivir octanoate, an inhaled neuraminidase inhibitor, for the treatment of influenza patients with chronic respiratory diseases; we conducted a double-blind, randomized controlled trial to compare the efficacy and safety of laninamivir octanoate and oseltamivir for the treatment of influenza in these patients. A total of 203 patients aged ≥20 years were randomized to receive either laninamivir octanoate or oseltamivir. The primary efficacy endpoint was the time to illness alleviation. This study is registered with JapicCTI; the registration number is JapicCTI-090940. The full analysis set (FAS) included a total of 201 patients (laninamivir group, n = 101; oseltamivir group, n = 100). Most patients had underlying bronchial asthma and 170 patients were infected with influenza A(H1N1)2009. The median time to illness alleviation was 64.7 h in the laninamivir group and 59.7 h in the oseltamivir group, with a difference of 5.0 h between the two groups (95 % confidence interval, -13.6 to 16.1 h). No adverse events specific to laninamivir octanoate were observed, and adverse events such as bronchospasm, which has been reported to be observed with other inhaled drugs related to laninamivir octanoate, did not occur. Laninamivir octanoate showed similar efficacy and safety to oseltamivir in the treatment of influenza, including that caused by influenza A(H1N1)2009, in patients with chronic respiratory diseases.
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Monday, October 8, 2012
Coleus Cuttings
It was such a short ago that these tender plants were transplanted from 4 inch pots into larger containers in the garden. They've grown many times in size over the course of the Summer, and well into the early Fall, when they seem to thrive in the cooler days and nights. Now it's just a question of time before the first frost wipes them out, and so it is time to collect cuttings to winter-over plants for next year.
Posted by Barry Parker at 1:15 PM
3 comments:
- Paul Jung said...
It doesn't seem that long ago when summer started. There's certainly a resignation that winter is not too far away, sigh... Maybe that's the reason why I haven't thrown out my potato vines yet!
- October 8, 2012 at 4:38 PM
- Barry Parker said...
Hi Paul,
Looking on the bright side, this is a great time of year to be editing planting and moving things around.
- October 11, 2012 at 8:51 AM
- cheryl said...
Coleus was amazing this year. I had two plants in back of planters and they grew 4' high spreading nearly 3' wide. Unfortunately they were kissed by the frost this week before I could take cuttings, next year :)
- October 14, 2012 at 12:38 PM
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Bari is a Chibchan language of South America, spoken by 3000 people in in northeastern Colombia and western Venezuela. It is not to be confused with an African language also called Bari, which is spoken by nearly half a million people in the Sudan--most of the Bari language information you will find online is related to the African language. Also, although both the Bari tribe and the Yukpa tribe are commonly known as "Motilones" and their languages are both frequently called "Motilon," the two languages are entirely unrelated to each other. "Motilon" simply means "shaved head" in Spanish, and has been used to refer to several different South American tribes who wear their hair this way.
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text: Last night I was approached by a young man (21-ish), and was asked if I play for money. I said a cheap set of race to 5 on the bar box (8-ball) would be OK for $20. He agreed. After the first 2 games I realized he had no business playing for money. A Wal-Mart cue and shaking hands showed up quite clear.(Although he could have been baiting me.) I thought it was best to offer him to stop at two games and just pay $10. I'm not up for robbing the kid. He responds "We'll play the whole set. You're not that good." So ... it was 5-0. Is is rude to offer a "pre-buy out"? I thought I was just being nice.


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Majors, Courses, and Student Resources
PC's History Department offers students a full and quality academic experience. Central to the liberal arts, the study of history provides a life enriching course of study that prepares students for a broad range of career and educational goals.
When students major in history, they study the peoples and nations of the Americas, Asia, and Europe. Courses are often organized around themes such as race, gender, violence, revolution, and religion. PC's history professors utilize lecture, discussion, and seminar formats to help students develop essential skills such as critical reading, strong reasoning, and clear communication. To round out the students' liberal arts experience, they complete a minor or second major. Study abroad opportunities to places far and near are offered; faculty-supervised but student-driven independent and honors research and internships are likewise available.
At graduation, therefore, the student who majors in history will have completed a program of study that spans the globe and yet focuses on important topics and themes within the historical story, while strengthening key skills that will have application for their lives after PC.
Dillard Stephens ('14), who majored in history and minored in English and chemistry, makes the following observation:
'Choosing a major isn't about potential salaries, but about studying a subject that satisfies your thirst for education.'
If you have any questions, please contact the department chair, Dr. Michael A. Nelson, who will be pleased to answer them.


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Coastal Connections, the young professionals program of the Sheboygan County Chamber of Commerce, will host an afternoon of family fun at Quarry Beach from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 17. The event is open to family and friends of both Coastal Connections and members of the Sheboygan County Chamber.
Lounge in beach chairs, build sand castles, play in the shallow water or venture out to the SportsPark. Water games and activities will be available for all ages. ItBikes, kayaks and stand-up paddle boards are also available for rental. This event is $7 per person, and children 5 and younger are free. Register at sheboygan.org or coastalconnectionsypn.com.


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The 21st Portage County Cultural Festival on May 11 was a great success! Though the weather was a bit chilly, the warmth of the community joining together to recognize and appreciate the diversity we have here in Portage County was felt by all. The food, music, demonstrations and exhibits enabled thousands of attendees to gain cultural understanding in a fun and festive environment.
The festival is only possible due to the volunteers and donors. The volunteers - 400 plus - spend thousands of hours for set-up, take down and work during the day. Many community members, businesses and service organizations provide the financial support for the festival. A special thanks to the steering committee members who meet monthly throughout the year. It is through their work and organization that the festival runs smoothly. Anyone interested in joining the committee is welcome. Please visit www.portagecountyculturalfestival.org to let us know of your interest.
Last, but not least, we thank all who came to the festival and hope to see you and others at the 22nd Portage County Cultural Festival on May 10, 2014!
Terri Greuel, Liz Fulton, Mitch Fisher, Mary Cayford, Marc Fang, Constance Fang, Mike DeMarco, Patty Noel
Portage County Cultural Fair Executive Committee members


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From James Roelke,
Mountain Home:
It appears that we have come to the end of an extremely rainy period for this area. Even though many of us have saturated lawns and fields, we were fortunate to have escaped the devastating flooding of our unfortunate neighbors to the north.
For those of us that sit in low-lying areas, we have to wonder how we might have fared if we had gotten more rain. Some time ago, the subject of obtaining National Flood Insurance came before the Quorum Court, asking that we opt into the program. Unfortunately, certain members of the Court, determined to serve only their own selfish and short-sighted needs, blocked the effort.
I sincerely hope that this issue will again be considered, and that those persons on the Court would "man-up" and publicly state why they are opposed to making affordable flood insurance available to those of us that would suffer great financial losses from flooding.
And to the people that had previously come to the Court requesting that we opt into the program, let's meet and organize, for the next time we may not be as lucky.


text: I recently got a new thinkpad t41 (23739FU), and have been working on FreeBSD 5.2-RC2. Everything has been excelent, except of course for suspend/resume. In both ACPI and APM suspends, I get a hang on resume. With APM, occasionally it would resume safely. This appears to be a common problem, across multiple fbsd releases. I've been tinkering with that ata driver, which seems to be at least involved with the problems. I'm at an impasse at this point, and am wondering if anyone would like to help, or has input. Here are my findings: with both ACPI and APM, if i suspend in single user mode, resume works fine. in multiuser mode, booted normally it crashes on resume. Notibly the hard drive light stays on during this crash. I cannot escape to the kernel debugger from this state. According to intel's docs on the ICH4-M: (http://www.intel.com/design/mobile/datashts/25233701.pdf section 18.104.22.168) " Native Mode IDE/ACPI S3 Resume Hang Avoidance: System BIOS must clear the interrupt bit (Bit 2) in Bus Master IDE Status Register for BOTH primary and secondary channels prior to passing control to the OS during resume from S3 state (STR). This ensures that the pending IDE interrupt(s) are cleared when the control is passed to the OS. The registers are locked in I/O space via BM_BASE register (Bus 0: Device 31: Register 20- 23h) at offset 02h and offset 0Ah, respectively. Failure to do this may result in system hang when the OS starts executing resume sequence from S3 (STR) under certain conditions. These conditions include a combination of the following: - Only a single channel of IDE is enabled (either Primary or Secondary) - Native IDE Mode capability is reported by the BIOS - OS is capable of dynamically switching from Legacy IDE Mode to Native IDE Mode. A system hang may occur if there exists a pending IDE Interrupt status bit during the legacy IDE Mode to Native IDE mode sequence, the OS software may not clear the IDE interrupt(s), resulting in an apparent hang condition (interrupt storm). " This seems to be about whats happening. Of course I dont really have the ability to change things like that in the BIOS, but I attempted to clear those bits in the ata driver on in ata_resume(). It did't make a difference. I noted that sometimes the interrupt bit is set before I change it, but most of the time it isnt. Another thing I ran across, which could possibly be related: (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;323153) " SYMPTOMS A computer with two IDE drives on one cable may stop responding (hang) when the computer resumes from standby. CAUSE The IDE disk driver does not check the busy bit in the drive status before resetting the drive. This creates a problem with computers that use the S3 sleep state for standby. This state cuts power to the drive instead of issuing a sleep command to the drive as in the S2 standby state. This causes the drives to be reset before the drive negotiation is finished when the drives restart. The specification for ATAPI drives calls for checking the busy bit before resetting the drive. The specification also states that the drive ignore resets until the drives are synchronized and ready to operate after negotiation. Some drives that are currently being sold do not do this. This can cause computers with two drives to start with both drives programmed to be the master on the same cable, causing the computer to hang. " Its really not the same situation, but it seemed related enough to include. >From what I can tell, ata_reset() does not check the busy bit before issuing a reset, but does wait for it afterwards. As far as i can tell from kernel debugging attempts, the system hangs immediately after queueing the command to change the master device on ata0 from PIO_MAX to DMA_MAX. A paraphrased trace looks something like: ata_controlcmd() ata_intel_new_setmode() ata_identify_devices() ata_reinit() ata_resume() ... Other related ACPI problems: usb is unhappy on resume. This is also documented in the ICH4-M spec, something about "SE0 during Resume Causes Disconnect". It implies that depneding on OS handling, the device will latently resume or not resume at all. when i acpiconf -s 3, the system actually doesnt really go to sleep. the harddrive spins down, the LCD backlight powers off, the fan spins down, but at the right angle you can tell that the LCD is still displaying text. The sleep light doesnt come on, The dvd drives power light stays on. with APM, the system really goes to sleep. I cant find it this moment, but i ran across something that mentioned that if the AC97 Audio stuff is enabled on shutdown, that the machine will not really enter acpi S3. If i remember right, the document reffered to the ICH4 rather then the ICH4-M, but they seem pretty similar. I've run into and read about a few problems with X11/AGP and APM/ACPI resume, and have run into them occasionally, but i'm trying to tackle the possible ata problems first. It'd be great if anyone has advice on insight into any of this stuff, I have plenty of time to work on this, but i'm running low on knowledge. Feel free to email me for other/further info. Thanks much, -t12


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The Broken Bow Board of Education will meet tonight at 7 p.m. in the board room at the high school. Agenda items include:
• Election of board officers
• Presentation of District report card
• Resignation of teacher Jim Hartman
• 2nd reading of four new policies
• Closed session for possible real estate acquisition
The Board will also be hearing from TeamMates, Alternative Education Program and Early Childhood Program with updates.
A full agenda of tonights meeting can be found on the school website.


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Two lifelong Oklahomans have effectively halted construction on an active work site for TransCanada's Keystone XL tar sands pipeline in Bennington, Oklahoma.
Eric Whelan, 26, who grew up in McLoud, Okla., has ascended 40 feet into the air in an aerial blockade that began at dawn this morning.
Gwen Ingram of Luther, Okla., 56, has locked herself to heavy machinery and shut down the construction site.
Today's event marks the fourth act of civil disobedience by Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance and comes in the wake of the disastrous tar sands pipeline spill in Mayflower, Arkansas. For the last three weeks, over 300,000 gallons of tar sands diluted bitumen have spilled into a residential neighborhood and local waterways.
"Keystone XL sounded like a bad idea from the beginning," explained Whelan. "The Mayflower spill proves that we shouldn't be trusting these multi-national corporations, like Exxon or TransCanada, because every spill further exposes their criminal incompetence.


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Former President Bill Clinton said at the 2013 Fiscal Summit in Washington Tuesday that Americans should stop speculating about his wife's future political ambitions.
Clinton said that he didn't see any reason to believe Hillary Clinton, the former Secretary of State, will run in the next Presidential election, quipping "Hillary hasn't mentioned it to me, either."
The former President said that now is no time for speculation about the 2016 election, as Americans are facing more pressing issues that need to be addressed.
"[W]e need to be worried about the work at hand — all of us do," Clinton said. "So whoever the next president is has an easier set of choices before him or her to build America's future."
The idea of counting the former first lady, New York Senator and Secretary of State out when it comes to running for President probably sounds pretty good to Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.). He told an audience at a Missouri fundraiser last week that, after the Benghazi incident, Clinton should not be allowed to hold public office again.
"I think her dereliction of duty and her lack of leadership should preclude her from holding any office," he said.
The Kentucky Senator added that Clinton admitted to not doing her job when she claimed the Benghazi cables expressing concern about a possible terror attack never came to her attention.
"I don't think she should read every cable. Maybe from Estonia and Bulgaria an assistant should read it," he said. "But from one of the five most dangerous countries in the world, there's no excuse for her not reading the cables."