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Emotional and psychological pain — in fact all emotional learning — is held in our bodies, recorded on our vast, interrelated neural networks. This is why, when we're scared, anxious, or angry, we have physical reactions like muscle tension, stomach churning, shortness of breath, head pounding, and aching backs. Both negative and positive emotions are corporal; we experience them in our bodies. Until we honestly confront and work through our deeper truths, our bodies will hold us responsible for what we can't "remember."
How emotion travels through the body
Until recently, emotions have been considered to be location-specific, associated with emotional centers in the brain such as the amygdala, hippocampus, and hypothalamus. While these are emotional centers, other types of centers are strewn throughout our bodies. Emotions travel through our bodies and bind to small receptors on the outside of cells, which are much like tiny satellite dishes. High concentrations of almost every neuropeptide receptor exist in many locations throughout the body. Emotional information travels on neuropeptides and is able to bind to its receptor cells through the binding substance of ligands. The information is sorted through the differentiation of receptors. That is, certain information binds to certain receptors. So our emotions are constantly being processed by our bodies.
This clearly paints a dynamic picture of emotional development; not nature versus nurture, but nature and nurture. The brain and body are exquisitely intertwined systems that are constantly interacting with the environment. All five senses are connected to this system and field information that determines our unique response to anything from petting a soft rabbit to being slapped. In fact, the more senses involved in an experience, the more the brain remembers it, the deeper the imprint onto our emotional systems. Traumatic experiences create deep, long-lasting physical/emotional impressions that do not easily yield to insight alone or resolution in 10 therapy sessions, especially if they have been stored and built upon from childhood. Here's why.
The role of the limbic system
Altering deep emotional patterns imprinted onto our limbic system is slow and painstaking work. The limbic system "sets the mind's emotional tone, filters external events through internal states (creates emotional coloring), tags events as internally important, stores highly charged emotional memories, modulates motivation, controls appetite and sleep cycles, promotes bonding and directly processes the sense of smell and modulates libido," according to Daniel Amen, MD, author of Change Your Brain, Change Your Life. Moreover, our neural networks are not easily altered, says Thomas Lewis, MD, in A General Theory of Love. "Early emotional experiences knit long-lasting patterns into the very fabric of the brain's neural networks," Dr. Lewis explains. "Changing that matrix calls for a different kind of medicine all together."
Our emotional life is physical; it imprints itself on our bodies. When we have problems in our deep limbic system, they can manifest in "moodiness, irritability, clinical depression, increased negative thinking, negative perceptions of events, decreased motivation, floods of negative emotion, appetite and sleep problems, decreased or increased sexual responsiveness, or social isolation," says Dr. Amen. Our neural system carries with it our emotional sense memories from childhood. Familiar smells, sounds or places can send a cascade of memories flooding through us that either wraps us up in their warmth, or challenges us to maintain our composure. Along with the memories comes the cognitive sense we made of what happened at the time. That's why when we go to the circus with our children we, too, can "feel like a kid again" — or when we get hurt by someone we love, we can also "feel like a kid again" — but this time, that may mean vulnerable and helpless. Our early emotional memories are being relived in each case. When the memories are wonderful, this is a great boon in life; our child selves color our current experience with innocence and gaiety. When the memories are painful, they can color our current experience in darker hues.
Impact of drugs and alcohol
When Dr. Amen shows his patients scans of their brain after using alcohol or drugs, they gasp to see the "holes" in their brains resulting from using cocaine or the "overall shriveled appearance." Alcohol and drug abuse "is associated with cerebral blood flow abnormalities ... overall de-creased brain function ... reduced cerebral blood flow and cerebral metabolism, especially in the temporal regions of the brain. The main abnormality [from alcohol] was decreased activity across the whole cortex." Our emotions are processed by a brain/body system of which the limbic system is a part. We need good cortical function to add and subtract, and to make sense of what we feel. Alcohol is well known as a physical depressant while drugs can be a stimulant, but they both interfere with our bodies and our limbic systems when used to excess.
People changing people
Psychotherapy, treatment, and twelve-step work are some ways of repatterning our limbic systems, and are most effective when combined with other healing relationships of all kinds. "Describing good relatedness to someone, no matter how precisely or how often, does not inscribe it into the neural networks that inspire love or other feelings," says Dr. Lewis. "The limbic system is associated with our emotions and the neocortex is associated with critical thinking. Both are operative in processing emotions." While the neocortex can collect facts quickly, the limbic brain does not. Physical mechanisms are what produce our experience of the world and we need new sets of physical impressions to change or alter those impressions. Our neural systems respond to reparative relationships, not only to insight. Healing requires time and new relationships in which we can experience ourselves in different ways and explore new patterns of behavior. This is why treatment, therapy, and healing networks such as twelve-step work play such a critical role in our healing. Through them we inscribe new neural patterning that helps us to reregulate our neural systems, thus improving mood, modulating emotion, and lightening our emotional tone. This is one of the ways the "terminally serious" adult child of an alcoholic slowly and steadily grows freer and less burdened and the low frustration tolerance of the addict gets reregulated.
The twelve-step process offers us a safe container in which to experience or re-experience emotions of pain, anger, and sadness without acting out on them. ("Don't just do something, sit there!") It also sets a goal of amends-making us part of the healing process. But forgiveness is a multifaceted operation. Are we making amends to those we've hurt, forgiving those who have hurt us, forgiving ourselves for our own hurtful actions, or all of the above?
The alchemy of forgiveness
The beauty of forgiveness is that in order to consider asking for forgiveness or forgiving ourselves, significant emotional work needs to be accomplished. It also sets a goal of returning to a positive way of thinking and feeling and reducing negative forecasts and the types of thinking and feeling that are hard on our bodies. In short, forgiveness is limbic-friendly. Feelings of anger, resentment, and sadness must be directly addressed in order for forgiveness to be genuine and useful to our recovery. There are two manifestations of forgiveness that I generally see clients struggle with. The first is rational: when our actions have directly hurt others or theirs have hurt us, and we need to forgive ourselves or them in order to move on in our lives. The second is irrational: on the one hand, we hold ourselves responsible for pain that others have caused us, and on the other, we feel guilty for pain we may have been a part of causing others even though we could do nothing to change the situation and did not intentionally cause pain. We may feel guilty, for example, for "getting out," a form of the survival guilt that those who have found recovery often feel towards family members who are still mired in the disease of addiction. The beauty of the amends process is that it encourages us to work through feelings of pain and alienation toward a better psychological and emotional position — one that gives joy and inner peace a chance to grow and prosper in our inner world and our relationships.
Ways to help clients
So what does this mean for the everyday client, and how does this information impact the way we do treatment? As counselors, we can:
It appears that mammals need other mammals to limbically revise. "Keeping our soles in the room" evidently has a scientific advantage. Encourage clients to stay in therapy not only to gain insight but to undergo a slow and gradual re-regulation of their trauma wiring. Help them to understand that this is how they will go from being "black and white" responders to life to developing some shades of gray. This is how they will learn to tolerate intense emotions without being immediately triggered and acting out.
Tian Dayton, PhD, TEP, holds a doctorate in clinical psychology. She was a professor of Psychodrama at New York University for eight years and is currently director of Program Development at the Caron Foundation. She is a national speaker, media expert, and author of 12 books.
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Weevil and fungus attack weed together: In a field experiment on insect/pathogen interactions involving the invasive weed Lepidium draba and host-specific root-galling weevil Ceutorhynchus assimilis, treatments in which the fungus Rhizoctonia solani was placed in soils were all positive for root infection by the pathogen. In soils without the fungus, no such infections were detected. These results confirm under controlled conditions an insect/pathogen interaction shown to occur in the field. The association of the weevil with soilborne pathogens suggests initial releases would be most effective for biocontrol at sites with high amounts of soilborne pathogens.
Invasive Russian olive: Molecular markers (microsatellites) for Russian olive have been developed by ARS Sidney, MT, and these are being used to determine the distribution of different genotypes of this plant invasion that spans from the west coast to the Midwest states. The information will help make sure that biological control agents being developed for this invasive are effective on the full range of genetic diversity found in the invasion.
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Espeland, E.K., Perkins, L.B. 2013. Annual cover crops do not inhibit early growth of perennial grasses on a disturbed restoration soil in the Northern Great Plains, USA. Restoration Ecology. 31(1): 69-78.
Gaskin, J.F. 2013. The genetics of Tamarix. In: Sher, A. and Quigley, M.F. A Case Study of Ecological Change in the American West: Tamarix. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. p. 21-28.
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Piesik, D., Rochat, D., Delaney, K.J., Marion-Poll, D. 2013. Orientation of European corn borer first instar larvae to synthetic green leaf volatiles. Journal of Applied Entomology. 137(3): 234-240.
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Espeland, E.K. 2013. Predicting the dynamics of local adaptation in invasive species. Journal of Arid Land. 5(3): 268–274.
Grewell, B.J., Espeland, E.K., Fiedler, P.L. 2013. Sea change under climate change: case studies in rare plant conservation from the dynamic San Francisco Estuary. Botany. 91:309-318.
Espeland, E.K., Rice, K.J. 2012. Within- and trans-generational plasticity affects the opportunity for selection in barbed goatgrass (Aegilops Triuncialis). American Journal of Botany. 99(12): 1–5.
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Caesar, T., Espeland, E.K., Caesar, A.J., Sainju, U.M., Lartey, R.T., Gaskin, J.F. 2013. Effects of agaricus lilaceps fairy rings on soil aggregation and microbial community structure in relation to growth stimulation of western wheatgrass (pascopyrum smithii) in Eastern Montana rangeland. Microbial Ecology. 66(1): 120-131.
Espeland, E.K. 2013. A colonizing species has high fitness on soils with an exotic species legacy when conditioning effects are mitigated. Ecological Restoration. 31(2): 195-200.

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I am making a lined jacket for my husband. The Folkwear Pattern (152) instructions say to put the shoulder pads in prior to setting the sleeve. I understand why they do this - the pad is supposed to extend into the seam allowance, but the lining for the jacket body is supposed to be sewn to the outer fabric along the armscye prior to inserting the sleeve. But I can't imagine attaching the sleeve to such a thick wad of fabric/shoulder pad! I've already figured out how to change the instructions to add the shoulder pad later, but I'm just wondering, is their way at all normal? Should I try it? Does it have any advantages?
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I really can't imagine what the instructions are getting at. I always just loosely tack the shoulder pad at each of the three corners after the jacket is pretty much complete. You can insert the shoulder pads and sleevehead (if any) right up until you hem the jacket lining at the bottom.
I also don't understand why the lining should be sewn to the outer cloth anywhere except the cuffs, neckline, and hem. If you sew it to the armscye, how do you set in the sleeve linings? A lot of patterns have you tack the armscyes of lining and outer cloth together, but I don't even bother with that (I'm being lazy; I can understand why one would want to).
Regardless, if you want to attach lining to outer cloth at the armscye, you can do it with two tacks at top and bottom at any time, even after finishing the hem.
Per the instructions, the sleeve linings have the seam allowance turned under and are then sewn by hand to the lining of the jacket body at the armscye.
You said the pads could be inserted up until the jacket lining is hemmed (and presumably attached to the jacket), but per the instructions, the jacket lining hem is sewn to the outer cloth hem prior to sleeve setting. I think this is because the hem is unusual for a jacket, the outer fabric and lining are sewn together and that seam is right at the bottom. Sounds strange, but is normal for a Prince Charlie Jacket. Maybe that's why the rest of the instructions seem strange. I still think I can work around it and put the pads in after the sleeve.
I see. I should have said that I think you can insert the pads up until you close up the lining. It sounds like the pattern instructions have you doing a sort of bagged lining, that is closed at the armscye. My recent jackets have had either a row of topstitching at the bottom or a loose-fittng lining that can accomodate a pleat at the bottom (I catchstitch those).
I still don't see why the lining and outer cloth are sewn together at the armscye, though.
I would definitely rearrange the instructions for a couple of reasons (as you've no doubt already concluded). For one thing, it'd be impossible for me to sew a clean armscye seam with the shoulder pad in there, and that seam is probably the most visible seam in the jacket. Second, the lining armscye seams get a lot of stress. My hand stitching isn't as secure as my machine, so I'd rearrange the instructions so I could sew the lining armscyes with a machine. It'd be relatively easy to leave open 6-12in. or so on an underam seam on the body or sleeve to turn the coat through, then slipstitch that closed.
I've just about stopped reading the pattern instructions, anyway . I just sort of run through them once to see what pieces are there and how they're intended to go together.
I'm getting ready to tackle this pattern for the first time, making a woolen jacket with a vest in a medium weight 'dressy' cotton fabric. Since this is for a piper, I am considering a pleated gore in the back as well as under the arms - and also eliminating the shoulder pads. The piper in question will be using this for fancy gigs. I've noticed that when there are shoulder pads, it looks quite awkward when the pipes are in position. If a man (or woman, for that matter) has broad enough shoulders, do you think I can get away with it?
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Integrated flash memory has long been found in portable devices, be it cell phones, personal digital assistants, media players and USB thumb-drives. But you just might find flash storing all your programs and files in your next laptop.
In fact, computer manufacturers including the likes of Dell, Sony, Fujitsu, Toshiba, and Samsung have already began shipping mobile PCs with up to 32-gigabytes of built-in NAND flash memory. NAND, one of two types of flash memory, refers to higher capacity storage and faster read/write speeds, over the other type of flash memory, the older NOR architecture.
Unlike magnetic rotating hard-disk drives used in most laptops today, computers with "solid state drives" (SSDs) such as those with NAND flash memory, use less power and are faster, too.
"Because of the lack of moving parts, ostensibly the benefits they offer are long battery life and they operate faster, too," explains Michael Gartenberg, vice president and research director at Jupiter Research, a New York City-based technology advisory firm.
"Think of solid state drives as the memory in your iPod nano, but with larger capacity, which is required to run your computer," adds Gartenberg.
Solid state more durable, quicker
James Slattery, product marketing manager for the Flash Products Group at Intel Corporation, says solid state drives are also more resistant to damage. "In the mobile-client market, SSDs offer high durability with increased performance," Slattery says. "That coupled with lower energy consumption makes this a very interesting proposition."
Other benefits of computers with SSDs as opposed to more traditional memory, such as hard disk drives (HDDs) include the following:
- faster boot-up times,
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With all of these advantages over hard disk drives, why aren't we all using laptops with SSDs?
The answer boils down to two "C" words: cost and capacity.
Ultra mobile machines still more expensive
SSD-based laptops and smaller "ultra-mobile" PCs (UMPCs) are still considerably more expensive than computers with comparable HDDs. While prices are dropping, price for SSDs are roughly $6 to $7 per gigabyte, compared to about $0.20 for traditional HDDs.
"Solid state laptops might not be ideal yet for the small-to-midsized space, where companies are sensitive to price," explains Gartenberg. "There's also a trade-off with capacity, so most small businesses looking for the most bang for their buck are better off with traditional [hard disk] drives."
After all, many entry-level laptops today include 120GB of hard disk space, while SSDs -- commercially -- are currently maxed out at 32GB. (Santa Ana, Calif.-based SimpleTech has announced a 64GB SSD and a 256GB enterprise-level drive.)
For business users who store large collections of music, photos, and/or videos on their computers, a 30-odd gigabyte drive is simply not enough space, Gartenberg adds. While these SSD machines are a little bit faster than HDDs, the speed difference is not significantly greater. In addition, says Gartenberg, "While they may be more energy efficient, it comes at a steep price."
Intel's Slattery highlights another potential problem. "A con of SSD in this market is based on the inherent wear-out of the flash in excessive write environments."
Slattery believes SSDs and HDDs will exist together for some time as computer manufacturers wait for prices of SSDs to drop, capacity to improve and kinks to be worked out of the technology.


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When pressed about the nature of the letter—which turns out to be a settlement offer from Lampel—Kooshian responded, "I would not characterize it as an offer. It was something stronger than an offer."
Kooshian attorney Eric Davis was more specific. "It looks to me like they [Opinion and Lampel] are just trying to blackmail somebody out of money," he said.
Though he laughed when told about Davis' characterization, Lampel said he was not amused. He also declined to release the May 25 letter, describing it as a confidential communication to Kooshian about the doctor's alleged wrongdoing.
"The letter they are talking about was a standard pretrial demand letter that you'd see in almost any civil case," said Lampel. "I tried to get an appropriate settlement for my client and to encourage Dr. Kooshian to clean up his atrocious medical act. It certainly was not blackmail. I can assure you that crimes definitely have been committed in this case, but none of them have been committed by me or Virgil."
Kooshian insisted his refusal to accept Lampel's May settlement proposal demonstrates his innocence.
"I had the opportunity to save myself the embarrassment this has caused," he said. "But I elected not to do it."
Lampel remembers the negotiations quite differently. The two sides met for hours, he says, but then Lampel's deadline passed and Opinion filed his complaint. Kooshian never rejected the settlement, Lampel asserts. "I think he seriously believed this was going to go away," he said.
On Aug. 12, Kooshian responded to my calls and e-mail message from three days earlier. The doctor was upset because he believed I had ignored his tip about investigating Opinion and the May 25 letter.
"I gave you a piece of information that could have set the record straight and made it apparent to you what was behind this stream of events," he wrote in an e-mail. "And you chose to ignore it. . . . What is left is for a more responsible journalist to be interested in the truth and print the truth!"
Kooshian—the doctor so adamant about getting dirt printed on his ex-nurse and chief accuser—then did something I've come to expect from him: he contradicted himself.
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Pella High opened the 2012 volleyball season Saturday at the Bondurant-Farrar Invitational. The Lady Dutch opened the day with a 2-1 win over Perry; followed by a straight set loss to 4A No.4-ranked Waverly-Shell Rock and a 2-1 loss to Gilbert. Pella rebounded, though, with a solid 2-1 victory over host Bondurant-Farrar; the No. 15-ranked 3A program. The day for the Lady Dutch ended with another ranked opponent, this time a 2-0 loss to Class 2A No. 8-ranked Woodward-Granger.
Pella High will see two of those clubs – Bondurant-Farrar and Gilbert – again in a couple of days when ADM joins the field for the Pella High Quad.
Win vs. Perry 21-16,17-21, 15-11
Loss vs. Waverly Shell Rock 15-21, 11-21
Loss vs. Gilbert 21-14, 19-21, 12-15
Win vs. Bondurant-Farrar 21-19, 10-21, 15-6
Loss vs. Woodward Granger 15-21, 9-21
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Clive Edgehill's slight, but rather overbearing, letter regarding the roof oversail of my little house (AJ 28.10.04) is self-righteously concerned about a situation that probably will never happen.
The existing Victorian house is a spacious double-frontage four-bedroom dwelling not easily convertible into flats. There are no roof extensions locally on this type of building (terrace with valley roof and front parapet wall) and the planners would take an awful lot of persuading to allow one to happen.
However, should any future occupant want to go to the considerable expense of extending upwards and gain consent to do so, they could, of course, exercise their air rights. Any modification of the oversail could be done easily and would be covered by a party-wall agreement in the usual way. Far from being an 'indignity' or 'comeuppance', it could pose an interesting design challenge to resolve the two elements.
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An alleged mafia boss who was arrested in a massive sweep by Italian police hanged himself in a prison cell within hours of being detained.
Police have launched an investigation into how Gaetano Lo Presti was able to commit suicide.
He was one of nearly 100 alleged mobsters arrested during predawn raids in Sicily, home of the Cosa Nostra mafia, on Tuesday.
Lo Presti, 52, was arrested because he allegedly headed a mafia clan in the Porta Nuova district of Palermo, Sicily's capital.
He was found dead in a cell in Palermo's Pagliarelli prison late on Tuesday night, just hours after being picked up during raids by 1,200 police backed up by helicopters and sniffer dogs.
Lo Presti and the other suspects were accused of crimes including extortion, trafficking of arms and drugs and having mafia links. He already had several convictions for mob-related crimes.
The raids were carried out in order to thwart attempts by mafia godfathers to rebuild Cosa Nostra, which has been weakened in recent years by the arrests of some of its most senior figures.
The criminal organisation's "boss of bosses", Bernardo Provenzano, was arrested in 2006. In a further blow, Provenzano's heir apparent, Salvatore Lo Piccolo, was apprehended a year later.
Authorities said Tuesday's raids struck an "unprecedented blow" against Cosa Nostra, the best known of Italy's four mafia groups. The other criminal groups include the feared Camorra, based in Naples, and the secretive 'Ndraghetta of Calabria.
The operation was code-named Perseus – a reference to the story in Greek mythology in which the hero Perseus slays the gorgon Medusa.
The raids around Palermo were the culmination of a nine-month investigation which involved wiretapping suspects' homes and offices.
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The Knoxville Baseball Squad will have to come back to Dallas Center tonight after rain caused the game to be suspended in the top of the fifth inning with the Mustangs leading 10-0 and D-C-G at bat. The Mustangs jumped on Knoxville in the first inning with five runs and then did the same in the third inning. Knoxville Starter Kevin Woodhouse could only pitch to three batters before he was lifted in favor of Ross Shelford who then gave way to Jake Kendall. Again, the game will be resumed at seven this evening with Dallas Center-Grimes coming up to bat in the top of the fifth inning leading 10-0. You can hear the resumption of that game on AM 1320 KNIA.
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Is it even possible to switch to an unprocessed food diet?
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Is it just a doomed proposition to kick processed food from your diet?
You can't control everything. This article provides guidelines but they're not necessarily guarantees. If you're one to dine out a lot, you're never really sure how many ingredients are getting added to your plate. On the other hand, if you dine in quite a bit (like me), then stay away from things packaged in a box, can, or jar.
If you see a Nutrition Facts label, look at how long the list of ingredients is...if you can't recognize 1-2 items...put that baby back on the shelf. I do think it's possible to switch to a unprocessed food diet...but it's basically asking you to never have any fun with your food and possibly asking to commute further out of the way to get to nature's finest.
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The former CIA member who was, until his resignation in 2004, in charge of the unit that tracked Osama bin Laden said recently on his website that Ron Paul was Iowans' only choice.
Michael Scheuer, a renowned foreign policy expert who spent decades working to make the United States safer from Islamic terrorists, wrote in a post that a vote for any candidate but Paul is a vote for American bankruptcy, U.S. efforts to destabilize more nations, billions of foreign aid spending in countries involved in Arab Spring revolts, widespread Islamic terror attacks on the United States, war with Iran and a continued and growing reliance on Mideast oil.
An excerpt from Scheuer's endorsement reads:
Notwithstanding the damnable lies about Dr. Paul's foreign policy constantly proclaimed by his fellow Republican candidates, leading pro-Israel/pro-intervention U.S.-citizens and their journalist friends, and most of the media, only the gentleman from Texas speaks for the Founder's non-interventionist vision of America's role in world affairs and for plain common sense. In the Founders' non-interventionist design for U.S. foreign policy that is championed by Dr. Paul, Iowans will find a proven road to the maintenance of America's sovereignty, independence, peace, and prosperity. In the realm of common sense, Dr. Paul beats his fellow candidates, the Obamaites, and the media hands down. Dr. Paul challenges the interventionists in both parties on their plans for spreading secular democracy — and causing wars thereby — on historical grounds that are irrefutable because they are just good commonsense. We, the British, the Australians, and the Canadians have been building our republics/democracies since Magna Charta in 1215 — that is for nearly 800 years — and we are not yet quite perfect. If Iowans and all Americans truly think about what Dr. Paul is saying — and not what the interventionists say he is saying — they would respond favorably to the Texan's logical conclusion that what we have not fully accomplished in eight centuries cannot possibly be attained in Egypt, Afghanistan, or elsewhere in the Muslim world in 6 weeks, 6 months, or six years, not least because none of those places separate church from state.
The Paul campaign said that the endorsement from a former CIA official who has witnessed firsthand the effects of U.S. military adventurism in the Mideast should reshape discussion about Paul's foreign policy beliefs.


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5th Annual Huntley ArtFest
A celebration of inspiration, creativity and the human soul
Thomas Heling
Born: November 23, 1948
Died: July 19, 2014
ArtFest 2014 Festival Committee
wishes to honor Tom, as he was the inspiration
behind our conception of the ArtFest, in 2011.
Tom Arrived in Huntley in 2010, and quickly involved himself in the life of the community. Prior to his arrival, Tom had lived in and around Oshkosh, Wisconsin. During his years there he shared twenty years of helping and chairing the Oshkosh Art Museum's Art Fair, which celebrates its 57th year in 2014. (Winnebagoland Art Fair)
He brought a passion for culture and fine arts to Huntley, and wanted to share his organizational skills with us. He helped to develop a committee to plan, organize and run Artfest so that it was not dependent on any one individual, and today we are self-functioning. At the same time encouraged us with reminders that it would take a number of years to become fully established as a recognized Artfest. Today we are celebrating our fourth annual Artfest, and have already begun plans for August 15th and 16th, 2015.
Tom was also an Artist. He was an accomplished painter, writer and singer
Tom's Manuscripts: 1. Glen of Trees 2. Monastic Love 3. A Journey Dared 4. and a screenplay, Mist of Grief Thank you Tom, you are already missed.
Tom's Manuscripts:
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2. Monastic Love
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4. and a screenplay, Mist of Grief
Thank you Tom, you are already missed.
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The Huntley ArtFest is a celebration of Fine Arts in the Village of Huntley, Illinois. Artists from across the country participate in this late summer event that attracts art admirers and patrons from Huntley, Del Webb Sun City and area communities. The festival is held in the shadow of the historic First Congregational United Church of Christ built in 1852. The charming and historic Village offers the perfect park like setting on the grass and tree filled "Field of Dreams" located in downtown Huntley - three blocks east of Hwy-47. Patrons will find ample FREE Parking on the Festival grounds and in nearby Business and Public Lots within two blocks. Plenty of onsite handicap parking is available as well as special assistance for senior citizens and the handicapped. Other Activities at the Huntley ArtFest include:
FREE Live How-To Art Demonstrations
A Large Stage Area featuring live performances of Musical Groups, Dance Troupes and Singers throughout the day. Plus a covered dining space next to the stage for patrons.
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Clifton councillor Lee Jeffery booted off claims lack of support
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A FORMER city councillor who was removed from his role for missing meetings has hit out at the ruling Labour group – claiming there was a "lack of support" when he suffered mental health problems.
The Post revealed last week that Clifton North councillor Lee Jeffery would be removed after not turning up to council meetings for six months.
Mr Jeffery, 23, has now said his party didn't support him but the Labour group said it worked "exceptionally hard" to help him.
He said: "When I was elected, I wanted to do a good job for Clifton and it gave me a good boost because I have lived here most of my life, but everyone knew I needed support.
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"I had depression and had a lack of confidence and the group knew this before I was elected.
"But they would ring me to tell me I needed to go to meetings but not find out why I couldn't turn up to them.
"I know that I had to turn up to meetings, but I just couldn't because of my issues. I feel let down.
"I've seen on the internet people calling me names for not being their councillor but if I had the support I needed, I could have done the job."
Speaking when the plans to remove Mr Jeffery from the council were revealed, David Boulton, of the Wilford Community Group said it was a "shame".
He added: "This was the first time a Labour councillor had been elected in the area and it would have been a good chance for him to connect with people here who vote that way."
Mr Jeffery, who is paid £11,581.68 in allowances per year, last attended a full council meeting on June 10, despite "approaches by officers and councillors", according to the council's chief executive Ian Curryer.
The vacancy left by Mr Jeffery, who now lives in Peterborough, was confirmed at a full council meeting yesterday and a by-election will now take place.
A spokeswoman for the Labour group on the city council said: "Many meetings were set up with Lee, by councillors and Labour group support staff, and many councillors felt they had a good working relationship with him.
"Much time was set aside to help Lee learn how to be an effective councillor and to help him cope with the responsibilities of his role.
"Unfortunately, in the past few months, it has become increasingly difficult to contact Lee as he began to struggle with his position.
"Group members made every effort possible to help him, even visiting his house on several occasions, but were not able to speak to him.
"The group would like to wish him all the very best for his future."
At the last election, Clifton North was the only ward to elect both Labour and Tory candidates. Lee Jeffery topped the polls with 1,902 votes.


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|Overland Campaign May 8- 21 1864 union dead 17,000
Battle of the Bulge Dec 16 1944- Jan 25 1945 US dead 19,276,
Battle of IA Drang Valley November 14-18 1965 US dead 389
All of these battles are ones we probably know , two are made famous in movies.
My point here is that during war for a side to win many good men have to die and commanders have to make decisions that will effect these men and thier families forever , to "armchair General" weither this should or that should of been done is a part of disscussing history I have never liked ,we as a student of history are too far removed we were not there and didnt have to make those hard decisions, these commanders were men that stood up when history and thier country called them . Death is inevitable in war .
"The portrat of freedom is painted with the blood of patriots "
Think that is the quote , probably got it wrong though
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ZigBee doesn't require high power consumption and makes it easy for devices to go in and out of a low-power sleep mode, so a ZigBee device should be able to run for years on an AA alkaline battery, Heile says.
That may not be an issue for appliances, such as lights, which are plugged into the power grid. But for battery-powered devices, such as remote controls and smoke detectors, power consumption is a key consideration, says Heile. This is a primary reason why existing wireless standards, such as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, aren't appropriate for home automation.
ZigBee's success, however, is far from assured. Because the specification is just one year old, there are very few ZigBee devices currently available to consumers. One exception is a home entertainment and control system from Control4. Heile also points to a test network of 2,000 ZigBee nodes created by South Korea's SK Telecom, which is investigating the possibility of including ZigBee radios in its cell phones.
Meanwhile, several competing home automation standards are also on the market or under development. A leading contender is Zensys' proprietary Z-Wave standard, which has been out for several years. Z-Wave is a low-cost, somewhat less capable alternative to ZigBee – but more than 75 compatible products are already available for purchase, which may give Z-Wave a leg up.
Smarthome's Insteon offers many of the same advantages as ZigBee, say analysts, but – also like ZigBee – it's unproven in the market. Finally, there are communications systems that transmit information over home powerlines, such as X10. So far, these devices have very limited capabilities, although they have the advantage of tapping into a pre-existing infrastructure.
"We don't expect ZigBee to have a major impact in this space for at least the next two to three years," says George West, a senior analyst at West Technology Research Solutions LLC, in Mountain View, CA. That's primarily because ZigBee devices cost more than alternatives like Z-Wave, and the standard is more complex than most home automation products currently require, says West. For this reason, ZigBee may ultimately be better suited for automation in commercial and industrial environments, such as hospitals, office buildings, and factory floors.
A few years from now, however, the story may be very different. Strategy Analytics predicts that the market for wireless mesh networking chips, including ZigBee, as well as Z-Wave and other proprietary solutions, will reach tens of millions of units annually by 2008.
On the other hand, the hurdles are not trivial: the market is relatively new, there are several competing standards, and there is no pressing consumer demand for home automation. "This stuff feels poised for takeoff – but three years from now, it may still feel poised for takeoff," says Saffo.
One thing is clear: As more and more consumer products gain sensing capabilities and start interacting with the world around them, the value of networking them will grow. And ZigBee could be the way.
Dylan Tweney is a writer and editor in San Mateo, California.


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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - A key Kansas House committee is nearing the end of its work on a draft of the state budget.
The House Appropriations Committee planned to meet most of Friday starting at 9 a.m. to complete work on the bill. Chairman Marc Rhoades, a Newton Republican, says it closely follows the budget submitted by Republican Gov. Sam Brownback.
Rhoades says the measure will retain Brownback's goal of having a projected ending balance of $465 million as of June 30, 2013. That would satisfy a law requiring Kansas to have a reserve account equal to 7.5 percent of state general fund expenditures.
The Senate is working on a version of the budget as well.
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Die Kliphuis is a magnificent eatery in a magnificent location. As soon as you walk in the door, actually step out your car, they are eager to serve you.
There are seating options inside and outside, but on a beautiful enjoying your meal outside is a must. Die Kliphuis is literally on the beach - no road in between - and offers the most stunning views of the vast Atlantic Ocean. Be sure to try catch a sunset.
Right after you are led to your beautifully dressed table, a chair gets pulled out for you and heated towels are provided to wash your hands. This might sound quite pretentious, but in this setting you will feel true chivalry instead of an uppity atmosphere.
You are then treated to bread and sometimes a small cup of soup to get that appetite going. The menu is large and you will find yourself spoilt for choice. Try the chicken cordon bleu, juicy and perfectly cooked, one of the succulent steaks or one of the many freshly prepared seafood dishes.
Here you can saunter in the sun, breathe clean sea air and enjoy a lazy glass of wine and a great meal.
Harbour House masters the art of understated elegance and their food follows the same trend.
If it is fine dining without the overly pretentious food you're after, this is the place to be. Situated right by the water's edge with the bustle of the waterfront around you, Harbour House still exudes a relaxed, tranquil ambience.
International cuisine with a hint of Mediterranean and French influence is the speciality here, but their seafood is definitely one of their more passionate endeavours.
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An overwhelming need to continually move one's legs is called restless leg syndrome (RLS). RLS is not life-threatening and does not necessarily indicate a serious medical condition.
People with RLS complain of extremely uncomfortable sensations in their legs (thighs, calves, and feet) and occasionally in their arms. These sensations, which are sometimes difficult to describe, could include:
Movement usually relieves the discomfort.
Symptoms are more acute during the night and can interrupt sleep. In the long term, this can lead to fatigue, exhaustion, and anxiety.
As many as 10 percent of people in the United States may have RLS, according to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS, 2010). This neurological condition is classified as a movement disorder.
Symptoms of RLS include:
Most of the time, the cause of RLS is unknown. Anyone can develop RLS, but your risk increases with age. Other factors that make RLS more likely include:
RLS does not necessarily indicate the presence of any other serious medical condition. Seek medical attention if your RLS becomes chronic or if you are suffering from insomnia, sleep deprivation, or anxiety.
There is no specific diagnostic test for RLS. A doctor can diagnosis RLS based on patient symptoms, medical history, and a physical examination. Diagnostic criteria includes:
Your doctor may order a sleep test before making a diagnosis. This test usually involves sleeping overnight at a sleep clinic. A sleep specialist will monitor you for signs of RLS or other sleep conditions (like sleep apnea).
Your doctor may also order additional testing, including blood and nerve tests, to rule out other conditions. Blood tests can identify:
Nerve testing, also called a neurological examination, can help your doctor determine whether peripheral neuropathy (nerve injury) is the problem. Common tests include electromyography (EMG) and nerve conduction velocity (NCV).
The doctor will insert a very thin needle into the problem muscle. He or she will ask you to contract the muscle. The needle acts as an electrode. It enables your doctor to monitor the muscle's electrical activity and how well it's responding to nerve stimulation.
Nerve Conduction Velocity
The doctor will place electrodes on the skin over the problem area. A mild electrical current will be used to stimulate the nerves. This test measures the speed at which the nerves are stimulated. Slower speeds can be an indication of nerve injury.
Treatment for RLS involves first treating any underlying medical conditions. Then, your doctor may suggest home-care techniques to relieve symptoms. Techniques may include:
Some doctors prescribe medications designed to treat other disorders if RLS symptoms are severe. Be sure to discuss the potential benefits and side effects with your doctor. Dopaminergic agents, which are occasionally prescribed, should only be taken for the short-term. Long-term use of this medication, which is often given to Parkinson's disease sufferers, may make RLS symptoms worse.
Other examples of these medications include:
Treatment for underlying medical conditions, lifestyle changes, and home remedies may improve symptoms of RLS. RLS may come and go in some individuals. In particular, RLS brought on by pregnancy generally goes away on its own.
Symptoms sometimes increase with age, and RLS can become chronic. The disorder itself is not dangerous and it isn't necessarily a sign of another medical condition. However, chronic RLS can result in insomnia, anxiety, and depression.
Seek medical care if your RLS becomes chronic. Support groups can also help you cope with the emotional toll of chronic RLS.
Written by: Ann Pietrangelo
Published on: Jul 17, 2012
Medically reviewed on: Jul 17, 2012: George Krucik, MD
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Durban - A young Phoenix man has died after being stabbed with the shaft of a golf club that broke during the attack.
Marcelle Roopnarain, 24, of Full Palm Place, Phoenix, was attacked on Wednesday night when he went to see two men to collect some money, police said.
Two men have been arrested in connection with the murder.
Police spokesman, Captain Thulani Zwane, said that when Roopnarain had asked the men for the money one of them allegedly assaulted him with a golf club.
A police source said the club had broken off during the attack and one of the assailants used the shaft to stab Roopnarain.
Zwane said the victim had sustained wounds to the chest and left arm.
Roopnarain died in hospital.
"Phoenix police arrested the men, aged 34 and 28, shortly after the incident. They will appear in the Phoenix Magistrate's Court soon to face charges of murder."
Family spokesman Vishnu Karamchand said they were in mourning and distraught over the incident.
On Roopnarain's Facebook page he professed his love for God in each of his postings.
In one post last year, Roopnarain had written: "No need to cherish luxury because everything comes and goes, even the life that you have is borrowed because you (are) not promised tomorrow, so live your life as if everyday's gonna be your last."
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How Technology Failed in Iraq
The Iraq War was supposed to be a preview of the new U.S. military: a light, swift force that relies as much on sensors and communications networks as on heavy armor and huge numbers. But once the shooting started, technology fell far short of expectations.
The largest counterattack of the Iraq War unfolded in the early-morning hours of April 3, 2003, near a key Euphrates River bridge about 30 kilometers southwest of Baghdad, code-named Objective Peach. The battle was a fairly conventional fight between tanks and other armored vehicles – almost a throwback to an earlier era of war fighting, especially when viewed against the bloody chaos of the subsequent insurgency. Its scale made it the single biggest test to date of the Pentagon's initial attempts to transform the military into a smaller, smarter, sensor-dependent, networked force.
In theory, the size of the Iraqi attack should have been clear well in advance. U.S. troops were supported by unprecedented technology deployment. During the war, hundreds of aircraft- and satellite-mounted motion sensors, heat detectors, and image and communications eavesdroppers hovered above Iraq. The four armed services coordinated their actions as never before. U.S. commanders in Qatar and Kuwait enjoyed 42 times the bandwidth available to their counterparts in the first Gulf War. High-bandwidth links were set up for intelligence units in the field. A new vehicle-tracking system marked the location of key U.S. fighting units and even allowed text e-mails to reach front-line tanks. This digital firepower convinced many in the Pentagon that the war could be fought with a far smaller force than the one it expected to encounter.
Yet at Objective Peach, Lt. Col. Ernest "Rock" Marcone, a battalion commander with the 69th Armor of the Third Infantry Division, was almost devoid of information about Iraqi strength or position. "I would argue that I was the intelligence-gathering device for my higher headquarters," Marcone says. His unit was at the very tip of the U.S. Army's final lunge north toward Baghdad; the marines advanced on a parallel front. Objective Peach offered a direct approach to the Saddam International Airport (since rechristened Baghdad International Airport). "Next to the fall of Baghdad," says Marcone, "that bridge was the most important piece of terrain in the theater, and no one can tell me what's defending it. Not how many troops, what units, what tanks, anything. There is zero information getting to me. Someone may have known above me, but the information didn't get to me on the ground." Marcone's men were ambushed repeatedly on the approach to the bridge. But the scale of the intelligence deficit was clear after Marcone took the bridge on April 2.
As night fell, the situation grew threatening. Marcone arrayed his battalion in a defensive position on the far side of the bridge and awaited the arrival of bogged-down reinforcements. One communications intercept did reach him: a single Iraqi brigade was moving south from the airport. But Marcone says no sensors, no network, conveyed the far more dangerous reality, which confronted him at 3:00 a.m. April 3. He faced not one brigade but three: between 25 and 30 tanks, plus 70 to 80 armored personnel carriers, artillery, and between 5,000 and 10,000 Iraqi soldiers coming from three directions. This mass of firepower and soldiers attacked a U.S. force of 1,000 soldiers supported by just 30 tanks and 14 Bradley fighting vehicles. The Iraqi deployment was just the kind of conventional, massed force that's easiest to detect. Yet "We got nothing until they slammed into us," Marcone recalls.
Objective Peach was not atypical of dozens of smaller encounters in the war. Portions of a forthcoming, largely classified report on the entire Iraq campaign, under preparation by the Santa Monica, CA, think tank Rand and shared in summary with Technology Review, confirm that in this war, one key node fell off the U.S. intelligence network: the front-line troops. "What we uncovered in general in Iraq is, there appeared to be something I refer to as a 'digital divide,'" says Walter Perry, a senior researcher at Rand's Arlington, VA, office and a former army signals officer in Vietnam. "At the division level or above, the view of the battle space was adequate to their needs. They were getting good feeds from the sensors," Perry says. But among front-line army commanders like Marcone – as well as his counterparts in the U.S. Marines – "Everybody said the same thing. It was a universal comment: 'We had terrible situational awareness,'" he adds. The same verdict was delivered after the first Gulf War's ground battle, but experts had hoped the more robust technology used in the 2003 conflict would solve the problem.
The Pentagon points to the Iraq War's many networking successes. During the blinding sandstorm that lasted from March 25 to 28, 2003, a U.S. radar plane detected an Iraqi Republican Guard unit maneuvering near U.S. troops. Bombers moved in to attack using satellite-guided bombs that were unaffected by poor visibility. And the vehicle-tracking system (known as Blue Force Tracker) successfully ensured that commanders knew the locations of friendly units. Overall, command headquarters in Qatar and Kuwait sported "truly a very impressive digital connectivity" that "had many of the characteristics of future network warfare that we want," Brig. Gen. Robert Cone, then director of the Pentagon's Joint Center for Operational Analysis and Lessons Learned, said in a Pentagon briefing last year.
Yet connectivity in Qatar was matched by a data dearth in the Iraqi desert. It was a problem all the ground forces suffered. Some units outran the range of high-bandwidth communications relays. Downloads took hours. Software locked up. And the enemy was sometimes difficult to see in the first place. As the marines' own "lessons learned" report puts it, "The [First Marine] Division found the enemy by running into them, much as forces have done since the beginning of warfare." Describing the army's battle at Objective Peach, John Gordon, another senior researcher at Rand and also a retired army officer, put it this way: "That's the way it was done in 1944."


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Quora Q: Does drinking water during meals help or hinder the digestive system?
It has a cellphone jammer installed that may hinder further communications with Hamer.
Graham told The Daily Beast on Monday it might do more to hinder the president than to help him.
A record as a feminist champion is far more likely to hinder than to help future Supreme Court candidates.
Schumer said he is working with members of the NRA to ensure that it will not hinder law-abiding citizens from getting guns.
Don Ignacio, too, had done his share to hinder discovery of the truth.
The captain rose as if to hinder him, but Bunsby placed his hand upon his arm.
These discouragements, however, did not hinder me from indulging my wishes.
If I had a mind to marry a man, all the world should not hinder me.
Feathers are not used; but the hinder shaft of each arrow is decorated with etchings as if in imitation of plumes.
Old English hindrian "to harm, injure, impair, check, repress," from Proto-Germanic *hinderojanan (cf. Old Norse hindra, Dutch hinderen, Old High German hintaron, German hindern "to keep back"), from a root meaning "on that side of, behind" (cf. hind (adj.)); thus the ground sense is "to put or keep back," though this sense in English is recorded only from late 14c. Related: Hindered; hindering.
"situated in the rear, toward the back," late 14c., probably from Old English hinder (adv.) "behind, back, afterward," but treated as a comparative of hind (adj.). Related to Old High German hintar, German hinter, Gothic hindar "behind." Middle English had hinderhede, literally "hinder-hood; posterity in time, inferiority in rank;" and hinderling "person fallen from moral or social respectability, wretch."


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American Textile To Build New Plant
American Textile has received a $1 million low-interest loan through the Citizens Job Bank program, $3 million in financial support through the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development, and $530,000 through the Allegheny County Department of Economic Development.
"The company chose to expand its operation in Allegheny County, creating new jobs and opportunities, which is good news for our working families," said Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell, whose Harrisburg, Pa.-based Governor's Action Team assists businesses looking to establish or expand facilities in Pennsylvania.
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Great version of Miss You from 1986…
Category: music
Sunday Night Coolness: Johnny A. Performs "The Night Before" by The Beatles
Johnny A. is a very underrated guitarist.
Here's a link to the original…
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Taxman
Remember when rock musicians were more interested in were more interested in sticking it to politicians than sucking up to them?
Saturday Night Headbanging: Queensryche Jet City Woman (Live 1995)
Never been a Queensryche fan, but I do like this tune:
They sound a lot better here than when I saw them open for Def Leppard back in the day.
*** h/t to Threedonia- They reminded me of Jet City Woman with this post ***
Sunday morning rocking blues / prog rock mash-up featuring Joe Bonamassa
Guitarist extraordinaire Joe Bonamassa rocks out a few minutes of two Yes classics, Heart of the Sunrise (from Fragile) and Starship Trooper (from The Yes Album).
Turn it up!
Remember when eco-loons told us snowfalls are now a thing of the past?
Way back during the global warming scam heyday, remember how they told us that snowfall is a thing of the past. Via UK Independent (March, 2000):
Global warming, the heating of the atmosphere by increased amounts of industrial gases, is now accepted as a reality by the international community. Average temperatures in Britain were nearly 0.6°C higher in the Nineties than in 1960-90, and it is estimated that they will increase by 0.2C every decade over the coming century. Eight of the 10 hottest years on record occurred in the Nineties.
However, the warming is so far manifesting itself more in winters which are less cold than in much hotter summers. According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia,within a few years winter snowfall will become "a very rare and exciting event".
"Children just aren't going to know what snow is," he said.
Fast forward fourteen years to the winter of 2014; a.k.a. the winter that never ends:
Wednesday's snow dropped the expected 5 to 8 inches of snow across our area.
There were a few isolated spots that got a little more, but the overall average across Metro Detroit was in the 5 to 8-inch range.
Most importantly — for those of you who are closely following these record — is that we got an official total of 6.5 inches at Detroit Metro Airport. That set a new March 12 daily snowfall record — the old record of 2.4 inches was set in 1984. AND, this now gives us 90.6 inches total for the season, only 3.0 inches shy of the 134-year-old record of 93.6 inches set in 1880-81. Could we break the record next week?
Not only is it really snowy, it's going to be downright cold tonight.
Personally, I've had it with winter, snow and freezing cold…
Bring on the summertime blues!
Power of the Individual: Drummer Loses Hand in Freak Accident Creates Drumming Prosthetic (video)
Two years ago, as he was cleaning an air vent hood at work, Jason Barnes was struck by a freak jolt of electricity. The accident wasn't fatal, but he did end up losing part of his right arm. An aspiring drummer, Barnes was thunderstruck. He refused to give up, cobbling together his own make-shift drumming hand out of a brace and some springs.
The hand didn't work perfectly, but through perseverance Barnes was able to secure himself acceptance to the Atlanta Institute of Music and Media. Little did Barnes know at the time, but his life was about to change for the better. He was about to become super-human.
At the institute, Barnes and his makeshift hand got drumming instructor Eric Sanders thinking. Sanders knew of a man who could remake Barnes hand. He could make it better, faster. Gil Weinberg, at Georgia Tech, was in the business of building robot drummers, but Barnes would be his first cyborg.
Amazing what perseverance and the entrepreneurial spirit is able to achieve.
Here's a video of the new cyborg drummer in action:
Our cyborg drummer sounds pretty darn good.
Sunday Night Rocking Blues: Gary Clark Jr. Performing Numb
Arctic Monkeys: 'R U Mine' (Live @ 2014 BRIT Awards)
Billy Gibbons & Daryl Hall: Sharp Dressed Man (Live at Daryl's House)
If you're a frequent visitor to MCT, you know that I try to find somewhat more obscure songs or artists to post here.
I'm a big ZZ Top fan, but I like their earlier and less commercial tunes. I normally wouldn't post ZZ Top's Sharp Dressed Man here on MCT since it's been played to death. You could flip on any classic rock station and here the song within 15 min's (I'm not kidding).
All that being said, this version version of Sharp Dressed Man performed by Billy Gibbons and Daryl Hall is outstanding in my book with its slower tempo and more 'bluesy' feel.
"Every girl's crazy 'bout a sharp dressed man.'


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Texas Rangers send Brent Lillibridge to minor league camp; utility infielder a battle between Adam Rosales, Josh Wilson
SURPRISE, Ariz.- By shipping Brent Lillibridge to the
minor league camp Saturday, the Rangers seemed to clear the way for infielder Josh Wilson to win the club's utility infielder spot.
Wilson and veteran Adam Rosales are the only middle infielders left in camp, but Saturday manager Ron
Washington said Wilson was clearly the better fielder. Wilson overcame a rough fielding start to the spring to put together the best overall offensive numbers among the middle infield candidates, hitting .268 with a .740 OPS. Rosales was 0-for-4 to see his batting average fall to .125. He also failed to make a key play at short that opened the door for Kansas City to score five runs in the second inning Saturday.
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Rangers' pitchers: the good (Scheppers), the bad (Feliz), and the sore (Darvish)
Grant: Andrus fails leadership test; Scheppers, Ross deserve rotation spots
Scheppers makes strong bid for rotation in Rangers' 7-5 win over Milwaukee
Texas Rangers clear Elvis Andrus to throw, but won't play the field for a week


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Would you like to toss César's salad?
Caio César as seen by Cristiano Madureira.
An uncanny blend of the original Psycho and the unoriginal remake.
Steve Grand interviewed by Larry King.
"Philip Seymour Hoffman was my gay lover" lawsuit settled by National Enquirer.
You won't wear these sunglasses at night.
Check out this delicious tight end!
Jason Collins wears # in honor of Matt Shepard.
Vivacious will come steal your man.
If we all called 911 when we got horny, heart attacks would not be survivable.
People Magazine swears off paparazzi photos of celebrity kids.
So...do you like hairy men?
Anderson Cooper vs. state Sen. Al Melvin (R-Arizona) on anti-gay bill.
Even Mitt Freakin' Romney is against Arizona's anti-gay bill.
Watch "bethenny" on Monday for the Fran Drescher interview.
She had style, she had flair, she was there...so I got a pic-with.


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Australia's Federal Parliament passes legislation for an R18+ rating for games
Jason Clare, the Minister for Home Affairs in Australia, has just released word that the R18+ rating for games will become reality from 2013. This notification comes after legislation was successfully pased through the Federal Parliament, and through Australia's Senate without amendment.
In short, this is a good day to be a mature-aged Australian gamer.
Mr Clare said, "These are important reforms over 10 years in the making. The R 18+ category will inform consumers, parents and retailers about which games are not suitable for minors to play, and will prevent minors from purchasing unsuitable material. The reforms also mean that adults are able to choose what games they play within the bounds of the law."
Since game classification ultimately rests at state level, each separate state will now have to pass their own complimentary legislation. The ACT seems posed to become the first state to pass such legislation, whilst South Australia looks to have plans of their own.
The Minister for Home Affairs' website predicts that Australia is on schedule to see its first R18+ rated games by 1 January 2013.
We've reached out to advocate group Grow Up Australia for comment and will update this story as we hear back.


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|Antibodies to citrullinated peptides in tuberculosis.
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|PMID: 23344687 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher
|Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease characterized by symmetric polyarthritis, rheumatoid factor (RF) positivity, and bone erosions. Recently, research has been conducted on anti-citrullinated peptide antibodies (ACPAs) to which there are greater sensitivity and specificity than RF. However, these antibodies have also been described in infectious diseases, particularly tuberculosis (TB), placing the high specificity of the test in doubt. The aim of this research was to study the prevalence of ACPAs in TB, RA, and healthy controls. Patients with bacteriologically confirmed pulmonary tuberculosis, RA (ACR criteria), in addition to healthy controls were included. ACPAs were researched by: anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide (CCP), anti-modified citrullinated vimentin (MCV), and RF by ELISA. The study was conducted in 50 TB patients, 50 with RA, and 20 controls. Anti-CCP antibodies were found in 39 (78 %) of the RA patients (median titer, 128 U), whereas anti-MCV antibodies were found in 25 (50 %). Of the patients with TB, two (4 %) had positivity for anti-CCP and anti-MCV and no patient in the control group tested positive for these antibodies. Sensitivity of anti-CCP for RA was 78 % (confidence interval (CI), 63 to 88 %) and specificity was 97 % (CI, 89 to 99 %) while the sensitivity of anti-MCV was 50 % (CI, 35-64 %) and specificity was 97 % (CI, 89 to 99 %). RF was positive in 40 samples (80 %) of RA, in 30 (60 %) of TB, and in 1 (5 %) of the controls. Our findings showed high sensitivity of anti-CCP and high specificity of both anti-CCP and anti-MCV antibodies for RA, even in a population with high incidence of tuberculosis. The higher frequency of positivity of ACPA in TB observed in previous studies may be attributed to methodological factors.
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Total Farms into the Bokhtar PSC Area in Tajikistan with a 33.335% Interest Business Wire PARIS -- December 21, 2012 Regulatory News: Total (Paris:FP) (LSE:TTA) (NYSE:TOT) announced that it had signed an agreement with Kulob Petroleum, a subsidiary of Tethys Petroleum, to farm into the Bokhtar PSC Area in Tajikistan with a 33.335% interest. Under the agreement, signed jointly with state-owned CNODC (a subsidiary of CNPC) of China, Total and CNODC will each hold a 33.335% interest in the PSC, while Kulob will retain a 33.33% stake. The agreement is subject to the approval of the Tajikistan government. The Bokhtar PSC covers an area of 35,000 square kilometers at the eastern end of the prolific Amu Darya Basin. A number of giant gas discoveries have already been made in the basin's Jurassic carbonate reservoirs. On completion of the transaction, Total will acquire an interest in the Tajikistani sector of the Amu Darya Basin, it will be partnered with CNPC. Operations will be conducted jointly, through an operating company. Tethys has already acquired seismic data with the intention of identifying the location of the first exploration well by end-2014. "This acquisition is aligned with our bolder exploration strategy and positions Total in one of the world's most prolific gas basins," said Michael Borrell, Senior Vice President, Continental Europe and Central Asia, Total Exploration & Production. "The partnership between Total, CNPC and Tethys is particularly well equipped to conduct successful exploration and potentially develop a value-creating project." Total Exploration & Production in Central Asia Total has actively expanded its operations in Central Asia since the early 1990s, until now focusing primarily on the Caspian Sea. The Group has been present in Kazakhstan since 1992 and owns 16.8% interest in the North Caspian PSC, which contains the giant Kashagan field. Operated by the joint North Caspian Operating Company (NCOC), the Kashagan field is scheduled to come on stream in 2013. In early November 2012, Total acquired a 75% interest in the onshore Nurmunai North and South exploration blocks. It has also partnered with state-owned KazMunaiGaz (KMG) to develop the Khvalynskoye field in the Caspian Sea on the border between Russia and Kazakhstan. The Group has been present in Azerbaijan since 1996 with a 10% interest in the Shah Deniz field in the Caspian Sea. It has also held a 40% interest in the Absheron license in the Caspian Sea, where a significant discovery has been made, since February2009. A notice of discovery and commerciality for the find was submitted onJune1,2012. Total is one of the largest integrated oil and gas companies in the world, with activities in more than 130countries. The Group is also a first rank player in chemicals. Its 96,000employees put their expertise to work in every part of the industry – exploration and production of oil and natural gas, refining and marketing, new energies, trading, and chemicals. Total is working to help satisfy the global demand for energy, both today and tomorrow. www.total.com Contact: TOTAL S.A. Martin DEFFONTAINES Matthieu GOT Karine KACZKA Magali PAILHE Tel. : (33) 1 47 44 58 53 Fax : (33) 1 47 44 58 24 Robert HAMMOND (U.S.) Robert PERKINS Tel. : (1) 713-483-5070 Fax: (1) 713-483-5629
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my mind is a poorly written porno when i'm drunk.
it's already thursday and i haven't gotten drunk yet...something's not right.
all you kept yelling was "i'm bored and i'm sober"
She has 2500 facebook friends. I probably should have used a condom.
What kind of poor, pathetic town do we live in where a horny teenage girl is sitting in her basement on a saturday night, unlaid?
how do i tell her that i need alcohol to fuck her but at the same time i cant get a hard on with alcohol.
If its vodka, everyone is attractive. Tequila, everyone is dead sexy, single and fuckable.
My mom gets in bar fights. She doesn't go to bed early.
I've replaced the bottom of the food pyramid with alcohol.
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