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|Inter-digital capacitive electrodes working as electric field sensors have been developed for touch panel applications. Evaluation circuits to convert variations in electric fields in such sensors into computer compatible data are commercially available. We report development of an Interdigital capacitive electrode working as a sensitive pressure sensor in the range 0-120 kPa. Essentially it is a touch/proximity sensor converted into a pressure sensor with a suitable elastomer buffer medium acting as the pressure transmitter. The performance of the sensor has been evaluated and reported. Such sensors can be made very economical in comparison to existing pressure sensors. Moreover, they are very convenient to be fabricated into sensor arrays involving a number of sensors for distributed pressure sensing applications such as in biomedical systems.
|An inter-digital capacitive...pdf
|This manuscript describes the first example of silver ion complex of a dendritic tetranitrile ligand catalyzed one-pot three component Mannich reaction and 1,5-benzodiazepine synthesis. The catalyst can be separated from the products by a change in the solvent. The catalyst is reusable.
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|Extensive use of the Internet coupled with the marvelous growth in e-commerce and m-commerce has created a huge demand for information security. The Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol is the most widely used security protocol in the Internet which meets this demand. It provides protection against eaves droppings, tampering and forgery. The cryptographic algorithms RC4 and HMAC have been in use for achieving security services like confidentiality and authentication in the SSL. But recent attacks against RC4 and HMAC have raised questions in the confidence on these algorithms. Hence two novel cryptographic algorithms MAJE4 and MACJER-320 have been proposed as substitutes for them. The focus of this work is to demonstrate the performance of these new algorithms and suggest them as dependable alternatives to satisfy the need of security services in SSL. The performance evaluation has been done by using practical implementation method.
|Use of novel algorithms MAJE4 and MACJER-320...pdf
|Laser induced plasma (LIP) emissions from some metal oxide targets were studied with corresponding metal targets of pure quality as a reference. Atomic emissions in the visible region were used in the spectroscopic procedures of LIP characterization. The studies were meant to throw light into LIP dynamics and they provided many experimental results which improved the general awareness of plasma state.When target materials were photo-ablated with an energetically suitable laser pulse, they developed electric charges in them.An electrical signal which was delivered from the target served as an alternative probe signal for the diagnostics of LIP and to track different charged states in the plasma. The signal showed a double peak distribution with positive polarity and a modified time of flight with various voltage levels of a given polarity.The expansion dynamics of LIP in magnetic field were also investigated by monitoring the voltage transients generated at the target.
|International School of Photonics, Cochin University of Science and Technology
|Hydroxyapatite (HAp, Ca10(PO4)6(OH)2) bioceramic and chitosan (poly [( -1-4) D-glucosamine]) biopolymer show good biocompatibility in vivo. They have biological origin and show excellent interactions with microwave. Microwave study of HAp made using different drying techniques and their composites with chitosan in the ISM band is presented. Pastes are made using HAp and chitosan with different ratios of mixing. The dielectric properties of this composites match with that of human fat, collagen tissues. Some of the compositions exhibit dielectric property close to that of natural bone. This makes them more biocompatible and better substitutes for natural bone. Thus composite bioceramics can be considered as phantom model constituents for imaging purposes. Their dielectric properties prove that they are biocompatible.
|Biocompatibilit ... oxyapatite-chitosan....pdf
|Polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) optical fibres are fabricated by a preform drawing process. The Raman spectra of PMMA fibres are recorded using a diode pumped solid state laser emitting at 532 nm and a CCD-spectrograph in the 400–3800 cm−1 range. The variation of the Raman intensity with the length of the optical fibre is studied. Investigations are carried out on the variation of FWHM of the Raman peak at 2957 cm−1 with the length of the optical fibre and pump power. The differential scattering cross section and gain coefficient of the Raman peak at 2957 cm−1 in PMMA are calculated in relation to that of toluene
|Raman spectra of polymethyl.pdf
|Holographic technology is at the dawn of quick evolution in various new areas including holographic data storage, holographic optical elements, artificial intelligence, optical interconnects, optical correlators, commerce, medical practice, holographic weapon sight, night vision goggles and games etc. One of the major obstacles for the success of holographic technology to a large extent is the lack of suitable recording medium. Compared with other holographic materials such as dichromated gelatin and silver halide emulsions, photopolymers have the great advantage of recording and reading holograms in real time and the spectral sensitivity could be easily shifted to the type of recording laser used by simply changing the sensitizing dye. Also these materials possess characteristics such as good light sensitivity, real time image development, large dynamic range, good optical properties, format flexibility, and low cost. This thesis describes the attempts made to fabricate highly economic photopolymer films for various holographic applications. In the present work, Poly (vinyl alcohol) (PVA) and poly (vinyl chloride) (PVC) are selected as the host polymer matrices and methylene blue (MB) is used as the photosensitizing dye. The films were fabricated using gravity settling method. No chemical treatment or pre/post exposures were applied to the films. As the outcome of the work, photopolymer films with more than 70% efficiency, a permanent recording material which required no fixing process, a reusable recording material etc. were fabricated.
|Dopamine D2 receptors are involved in ethanol self- administration behavior and also suggested to mediate the onset and offset of ethanol drinking. In the present study, we investigated dopamine (DA) content and Dopamine D2 (DA D2) receptors in the hypothalamus and corpus striatum of ethanol treated rats and aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) activity in the liver and plasma of ethanol treated rats and in vitro hepatocyte cultures. Hypothalamic and corpus striatal DA content decreased significantly (P\0.05, P\0.001 respectively) and homovanillic acid/ dopamine (HVA/DA) ratio increased significantly (P\0.001) in ethanol treated rats when compared to control. Scatchard analysis of [3H] YM-09151-2 binding to DA D2 receptors in hypothalamus showed a significant increase (P\0.001) in Bmax without any change in Kd in ethanol treated rats compared to control. The Kd of DA D2 receptors significantly decreased (P\0.05) in the corpus striatum of ethanol treated rats when compared to control. DA D2 receptor affinity in the hypothalamus and corpus striatum of control and ethanol treated rats fitted to a single site model with unity as Hill slope value. The in vitro studies on hepatocyte cultures showed that 10-5 M and 10-7 M DA can reverse the increased ALDH activity in 10% ethanol treated cells to near control level. Sulpiride, an antagonist of DA D2, reversed the effect of dopamine on 10% ethanol induced ALDH activity in hepatocytes. Our results showed a decreased dopamine concentration with enhanced DA D2 receptors in the hypothalamus and corpus striatum of ethanol treated rats. Also, increased ALDH was observed in the plasma and liver of ethanol treated rats and in vitro hepatocyte cultures with 10% ethanol as a compensatory mechanism for increased aldehyde production due to increased dopamine metabolism. A decrease in dopamine concentration in major brain regions is coupled with an increase in ALDH activity in liver and plasma, which contributes to the tendency for alcoholism. Since the administration of 10-5 M and 10-7 M DA can reverse the increased ALDH activity in ethanol treated cells to near control level, this has therapeutic application to correct ethanol addicts from addiction due to allergic reaction observed in aldehyde accumulation.
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|The question of stability of black hole was first studied by Regge and Wheeler who investigated linear perturbations of the exterior Schwarzschild spacetime. Further work on this problem led to the study of quasi-normal modes which is believed as a characteristic sound of black holes. Quasi-normal modes (QNMs) describe the damped oscillations under perturbations in the surrounding geometry of a black hole with frequencies and damping times of oscillations entirely fixed by the black hole parameters.In the present work we study the influence of cosmic string on the QNMs of various black hole background spacetimes which are perturbed by a massless Dirac field.
|Department of Physics, Cochin University of Science and Technology
|HIV/AIDS is one of the most destructive epidemics in ever recorded history claims an estimated 2.4 –3.3 million lives every year. Even though there is no treatment for this pandemic Elisa and Western Blot tests are the only tests currently available for detecting HIV/AIDS. This article proposes a new method of detecting HIV/AIDS based on the measurement of the dielectric properties of blood at the microwave frequencies. The measurements were made at the S-band of microwave frequency using rectangular cavity perturbation technique with the samples of blood from healthy donors as well as from HIV/AIDS patients. An appreciable change is observed in the dielectric properties of patient samples than with the normal healthy samples and these measurements were in good agreement with clinical results. This measurement is an alternative in vitro method of diagnosing HIV/AIDS using microwaves.
|A novel method of detecting...pdf
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I want create a task on my Capistrano deploy to put my public IP on geo module configuration of my NGINX server without restart NGINX, is it possible? Example, my /etc/nginx/nginx.conf:
geo $geo {
default no;
include /home/deploy_user/appname/shared/ip_list;
The file /home/deploy_user/appname/shared/ip_list I will provide during deploy. I need this because my public IP can change many times.
Regards, João

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March 6, 2013
UW-USC Quotes | Videos: Suggs, Andrews, Wilcox | Romar & Jarreau
By Gregg Bell
UW Director of Writing
SEATTLE - The Scott Suggs Senior Victory Tour continues.
More than coincidentally, so does Washington's late-season surge.
The revitalized, fifth-year veteran made shots when no other Husky could early - and kept making them from all angles late. Suggs made a career-high eight field goals in 13 tries for 18 points. Jernard Jarreau had a career-high 12 points and swished eight consecutive free throws when no other Dawg could make one. And Andrew Andrews threw himself at the rim for a career-best eight rebounds as the rising Huskies won again Wednesday night 65-57 over USC at Alaska Airlines Arena.
"That," pleased coach Lorenzo Romar said, "was a good team win."
Suggs has scored 57 points in his last three games. He had 12 points in four games combined before this reawakening.
C.J Wilcox was cold again, going 2 for 9 for 11 points, so instead he grabbed eight rebounds. That was one short of the junior's career high. Senior Aziz N'Diaye had 11 rebounds in his next-to-last home UW home game, as the Huskies (17-13, 9-8 Pac-12) manhandled the rugged Trojans inside with a gaping, 48-29 rebounding edge.
"That was the first stat we mentioned to our team after the game," Romar said.
UW rallied from five points down early and still trailed 41-39 with 11½ minutes left before Jarreau swished his third and fourth consecutive, sweetly high-arcing free throws. They were the cure for a team that began the night 1 for 6 from the line but finished by making its last 16. And those foul shots by Jarreau tied the game for the 11th and final time with 11:28 remaining.
From there, Suggs made a jumper in the lane, Jarreau made two more free throws, then Suggs stepped back over two Trojans and nailed a 3-pointer. Washington led 48-41, and USC never got closer than five points the rest of the night.
These three consecutive wins leave the Huskies with a chance Saturday to rise to finish in fifth place in the conference. That would mean an opening-round game against the last-place team next Wednesday afternoon to begin the Pac-12 tournament in Las Vegas.
These three wins also suggest the annual late-season push characteristic of Romar's UW teams may just be a few weeks late this season -- but perhaps just in time for the most meaningful games of the year.
"Yes we're definitely getting close to playing the way that we're supposed to play, especially at the right time," said Wilcox, who is getting more help around his cooled shooting with each game. "Our team usually does it, but we started a little late.
"It seems like we're starting to get (going)."
Washington improved to 15-4 since 2009 in the final four league games of a regular season. That's a large reason why UW has won the last four conference regular-season or league tournament titles.
"It's not as if we've got `it' now," Romar said, "but we are getting closer."
Jarreau is becoming a February-March revelation, much like his team. The 6-10 forward has been getting increased minutes lately after starting the first seven games of this season but sitting after looking jittery and like, well, a redshirt freshman.
Now, when he gets the ball at the high post coming off the bench, he takes advantage of space to swish 17-footers. He did that two more times against USC. His shot is smooth like a guard's, which figures since he was one until he grew eight inches in about a year while at McDonough 35 Senior High School in New Orleans.
And when defenses are coming out to contest those shots, as the Trojans did in the second half, Jarreau now bolts down the lane to the rim with undeniable force.
He was so good in so many areas Wednesday - perfect on free throws, swatting a USC shot into the cameras along the baseline, deflecting the ensuing inbounds pass away - Romar smiled to him after the game and said, "Man, should get some gumbo for that!"
When Romar replaced him for a stretch late in the game with UW leading, the home crowd gave Jarreau one of its largest exit ovations of the season. "Yeah, I heard it," he said, smiling. "I appreciate those fans."
USC big men Omar Oraby and Dewayne Dedmon tried to push around the lanky Jarreau during the second half, to try and move him away from scoring areas as much as to intimidate him. Jarreau just kept on driving, kept on getting fouled, and kept on making free throws to keep Washington in front.
"A lot of guys just think I'm slim and that they can handle me," Jarreau said. "Nah, that's not goin' to happen."
Another redshirt freshman, the fiery Andrews, was as determined and aggressive as he's been at UW. And it had nothing to do with scoring.
Three of his career high rebounds came on one possession in the second half. That started the decisive 7-0 run put on by Suggs and Jarreau.
"I just don't want to run 17's (a series of sprints in practice) for not rebounding," Andrews said, "so I just go to the boards."
USC (14-16, 9-8) built its early lead when every Husky not named Suggs could barely make a shot. And even by the end, take away Suggs and Washington made just 14 of 48 shots. That's 29 percent.
But now, in his last weeks as a Husky, suddenly no one is able to take away Suggs. More than his scoring, his body language has completely turned around in the last two weeks. Wednesday, he was again pumping his fists after his many made baskets, as he did while scoring 23 points Sunday while beating Washington State.
After Washington's energized defense forced a USC shot-clock violation late in the game, the usually reserved Suggs actually crouched and flexed in a muscle-man pose while yelling in celebration of the team showing strength on D.
Now, the fun part - at least far more fun than, say, that blowout loss at Arizona last month just before this win streak:
The Huskies need to beat UCLA - which lost at Washington State Thursday - plus a Colorado loss in Boulder to either first-place Oregon Thursday or 11th-place Oregon State Saturday. That would create at least a three-way tie for fifth place with UW, USC and Colorado. The tiebreaker then comes down to best records versus the teams that finish the regular season atop the league. Currently, Washington owns those tiebreakers.
If Colorado loses once this weekend, a Washington win over UCLA would mean the Huskies are the fifth seed. They would have a Wednesday afternoon game against the 12 seed to begin the Pac-12 tournament in Las Vegas.
"If we won five of our last six games, that's would be a good way to end the regular season," Romar said. "But it's going to be a long 40 minutes come 11 o'clock Saturday."


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From a topcoat that instantly waterproofs any mascara to Mermaid Mane Sea Salt Spray, this limited edition Modern Mermaid kit from Birchbox ($44) contains everything you need to look like a real-life Ariel at the beach this summer. Inside you'll also find an SPF 30 lip balm, a citrusy body spray, a pretty nail polish trio, waterproof eyeliner, and a travel mirror. Really, all that's missing is a dinglehopper.
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Jun 19, 2013 9:15 AM
If you don't know who Eros is, you obviously didn't spend prom night at home reading up on Greek mythology the way we did. Eros is the basis for our modern-day Cupid, and he must be a rotten shot if Derek asked that skank Becky to prom instead of you!
EROS White Raw T-Shirt ($24).
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College Hockey:Pegula tells Penn State officials he's committed to new arena, programs
It stands to reason that the new Penn State men's and women's hockey programs will be affected in at least some way by the sex abuse scandal that has enveloped the school and athletic department.
The school's president, Graham Spanier, who appeared at the introductory press conference for the program last September, is out. Athletic director Tim Curley is on leave and facing perjury charges. So a new-look administration awaits the hockey programs when they start Division I play next fall.
But it appears the development of the programs and the arena they will share will not be halted. Terry Pegula, whose $88 million donation is funding the men's program and the arena, to be named the Pegula Ice Arena, has told Penn State officials that his family's commitment is "as strong as ever."
That's according to Joe Battista, the associate athletic director for ice arena and hockey development, who responded to an email by first acknowledging that hearts are heavy for the victims and their families.
The Penn State men's program is scheduled to start varsity play next season before joining what will be a six-team Big Ten league in 2013-14. The women's team also is ready to start next season as a member of the CHA.
Pegula Ice Arena is scheduled to open in the fall of 2013.
UPDATE: Pegula released a statement through the Buffalo Sabres, which he owns. Here is the full text:
The events that are unfolding at Penn State University are deeply troubling and a matter of great concern to me and my wife Kim. As many have expressed, our primary concern is for the individuals and families who may have been victimized.
Penn State's reputation has been severely tarnished. We are encouraged to see the University trustees have begun the process of restoring integrity and trust in the institution. This process will take a period of time and trust will need to be re-earned as a result of these recent disclosures.
Penn State is supported by millions of students, alumni, faculty, staff and administrators. Our own support for Penn State and its hockey program is well known and will continue. We expect the University will carry out its educational mission with high standards and integrity.
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text: Finalists for the 2013 Automobile Advertising of the Year awards have been picked, and Ron Burgundy from Anchorman 2 with the 2014 Dodge Durango is one of them. So is the underside of a cat (it's more interesting than it sounds), which is seen through a Kia Optima panoramic sunroof. There are 15 other entertaining advertisements to be watched and looked at, ranging from the "Hands" and "Illusions" spots from Honda to a Land Rover commercial that doesn't feature a single one of its vehicles. And


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PULLMAN, Wash. - Kyle Anderson totaled 19 points and 11 rebounds as UCLA lost at Washington State, 73-55, in its final regular-season game in Beasley Coliseum on Saturday evening.
The Bruins (23-8, 12-6 Pac-12) opened the game on a 9-0 scoring run and maintained a 15-5 lead with 14:08 to go before the break, but the host Cougars (10-20, 3-15) outscored UCLA by a 29-11 margin to close the first half and secure a 34-26 cushion at halftime.
Anderson logged his conference-leading 15th double-double (19 points, 11 rebounds), while Bryce Alford was UCLA's only other double-digit scorer, finishing with 10 points.
Que Johnson and Ike Iroegbu each scored a team-leading 14 points for Washington State. Dexter Kernich-Drew and D.J. Shelton logged 10 points apiece to round out the Cougars' list of four double-digit scorers. Shelton grabbed a game-high 14 rebounds for Washington State.
Trailing by eight points at halftime, UCLA emerged from intermission by reducing Washington State's advantage to five points (34-29) at the 18:20 mark. The Bruins never got any closer from that point in the second half.
Washington State pushed its margin to 16 points (45-29) on a 3-point basket from Johnson with 14:40 left in regulation.
The Bruins opened the game making four of their first five shots, but finished the opening half having made three of their final 16 field goal attempts. UCLA scored a season-low 55 points while being limited to a 33.3 overall field goal percentage.
UCLA will return to action as the No. 2-seeded team in next week's Pac-12 Tournament at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. The Bruins will play on Thursday, March 13, at 6:00 p.m. against the winning of Wednesday's matchup featuring No. 7-seed Oregon and No. 10-seed Oregon State.


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The unusual symmetry of musicians: Musicians have equilateral interhemispheric transfer for visual information
Previous behavioural research has shown that spatial attention is bilaterally represented in musicians, possibly reflecting more equal neural development between the hemispheres. We investigated this theory electrophysiologically ...
Heart, Honesty and Discipline: Mask Training and the Foundation of Lab: Research Theatre Company
The culture of actor training is central in the work of LAB: Research Theatre Company. This paper explores the principles behind the development of the company's own theatre language and the ethos that informs the utilization ...
Missionaries and Chinese Gongche Notation
(Sichuan Yinyue Xueyuan,Sichuan Conservatory of Music, 2013)
Gongche is the traditional and ancient form of musical notation in China.
Misreading, Omission and Exaggeration in Studies of Sino-Western Musical Interaction - The Case of Molihua
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Molihua, musicology, East-West interactions
Louis Laloy and His La Musique Chinoise
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French musicologist Louis Laloy, author of the first biography of Debussy and his study of Chinese music.
Adventures in International Collaboration: Facilitating Globally-Created Student-Generated Mobile Movies Using a Blend of Online Tools
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The burgeoning of international connectivity has, in the last few short years, opened up new arenas of artistic collaboration. The next generation of filmmakers will certainly engage with an ever-greater degree of remote ...
THX 1138: (Re-) Made in God's Image
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It is, perhaps, a little, hyperbolic to refer to George Lucas as 'the greatest artist of our time', responsible for closing 'the gap between art and technology more successfully' (Paglia, 2012) than any other; yet it is ...
More than a bridge builder
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For around thirty years, from the early 1980s to the present day, Jack Body has been the single most powerful force in the introduction of China's multi-faceted musical culture to New Zealand. As far as I can now ...
"他者审视":明末至民国 来华西人眼中的中国音乐
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近年来,随着学界关于"中国音乐研 究要走向世界"、"中国音乐研究要与国际 接轨"、"中国学界应与国际学界争夺话语 权"讨论的不断深入,国内音乐学界与文 学、历史、社会等学界一样,对域外学者 的著述多有译介。事实上,现代意义上的 中国音乐史研究,从一开始便是一个具有 国际面向的学科。以最早采用现代学术方 法研究中国音乐史的王光祈为例,20 世纪 30 年代初,王光祈在德国柏林撰写"中国 古代音乐史学科完成现代学术转型的第一 ...
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The author tackles the Catholic and Protestant missionaries musical life after Shanghai opened as a port city from the mid-19~th century to the early 20~th century, touching these churchs', as well as their schools', musical ...


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So I've been having some trouble installing updates lately because my boot partition has run out of space. I did some research to try and find the best way to expand the partition, but after looking at gparted, I'm not sure if it's possible for me to do it without reformatting everything.
Since I can't post pictures here's a little description of what I've got going on on /dev/sda:
Partition - File System - Mount Point - Size - Used - Flags
/dev/sda1------ext4--------------/boot---------94MB - 94MB - boot
/dev/sda2---extended---------------------- 465.67GB
/dev/sda5-----ext4------------/home----465.67GB - 66GB -
Just as an aside, my / partition is installed on the ssd portion of the hybrid drive.
Any comments/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.


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The competition among fighters is fierce, that's a no brainer. But the competition among strength and conditioning gurus can get pretty down and dirty as well.
Alex Ariza, the man who oversees S & C for Manny Pacquiao and Amir Khan, and Victor Conte, who advises Nonito Donaire and Andre Berto on proper training methods and supplement intake, got at each other pretty good a couple days ago. I wrote a lengthy look at Conte's status as a hot S & C guy in boxing for ESPN.com. Check that out here http://es.pn/n237WY.
I was interested in Conte's interest in Ariza, as I'd noticed that the ex BALCO badboy tweaked Ariza regularly on Twitter. He insinuated that maybe Ariza took shortcuts to help prep his fighters. Conte, who said he thinks illegal PED use in boxing is "rampant," said he is indeed skeptical of Ariza, because of Pacquiao's late-age performance spike and ability to jump weight classes. "It doesn't mean it can't be done," Conte told me. "I expect Nonito to move up in class. It can be done." But...
Conte said that many boxers are blood doping, essentially getting blood extracted, having their red blood cells concentrated, and then getting the red blood cell re-infused into their body. Red blood cells carry oxygen from the lungs to the muscles, so having more of them will increase aerobic capacity and endurance. "Basically, the guys that are out there throwing punches for 12 rounds non-stop, I'm suspicious," Conte told me.
Conte said he's been told by sparring partners of big name fighters that EPO, a hormone which spurs red blood cell production, is a favorite of fighters. "I'm not going to talk names," he said.
Conte cast a doubting eye on any boxer who protests that the testing protocol they agree to is what the athletic commissions call for. "That position is suspect," he said. "I'm trying to say, around the camps, there are a lot of dead bodies. As soon as accusations start, the defamation suits start to fly. It costs money, and they're trying to muzzle people."
Speaking of suspect. Ariza is clearly no fan of Conte. Reached on the phone Wednesday night, the Californian who started in the game about six years ago working with Diego Corrales, dismissed Conte as a phony.
"I don't think he's a conditioning coach," Ariza scoffed. "I don't know where he went to school. We all have education and credentials."
Ariza says that because fighters often aren't in structured systems, they aren't subject to the same level of education that say college football players are. That leaves them open, he says, to people who prey on their ignorance. "Conte can sell stuff, say 'take this pill, this powder.' I don't train fighters like that. I go to hard work. Victor's a salesman."
Ariza says he takes Conte's slams as a compliment, because his fighter's are excelling to the point where people think they must be cheating. "Is it jealousy? Absolutely. He should go back to playing guitar and leave the real work to the real people. I and and my fighters are clean. I have nothing to hide."
Damn, I'd like to see that level of heat and fire in some of the fighters we've seen stink out the joint in marquee bouts as of late.
Conte is a drug-pushing clown, who has never been able to get down. Dude is also a fake. And he'd serve and sell you a steriod-poison cake. It looks like someone has dumped his arse in a lake. Dude is all wet. Not a penny on this sucka being honest, can you bet. He is in self denial yet. And would bite the hand that feeds him like a deadly pet. For certain, the scum chump is a snake. And down the drain, your career he will take. Da sucka is rotten to da core for goodness SAKE! Sooner before longer, a ride every athlete should tell this con man to TAKE! Holla!
PED's or whatever you call it, if they help an athlete become better, I don't see what's wrong with that. If it allows one fighter to be able to throw more punches over 12 rounds, to me that means that fighter's in better shape and the fans get a better fight. If PED's truly made a fighter be able to "walk through bullets," then that's something to be happy about. To me that makes the sport is safer. Legalize these so-called PED's, if they truly had that effect (which they don't). Boxing is desperate for excitement. These same goons who are masquerading as champions of virtue should keep their mouths shut for the sake of the sport. The sport is hurting not because there are too many Pacquiao's out there but because there aren't enough. If legalizing PED's means every fighter will fight like Pacquiao, so be it. And if PED usage was as rampant haters claim it is, then who are all these fighters? It's only logical that if PED's were the miracle drugs that give one fighter an unfair advantage over others, that the champions MUST be the ones using it. Otherwise, if the non-champs are on PED's, that means they are useless. This whole PED thing is a sea of contradictions. It's just a matter of jealousy, and jealousy towards one man that is Pacquiao.
Danggit! FJC! What has gotten into you? You are comically wildin' ya' arse off, nowadays. Hehehehehe! Maybe you've been in City of Angeles hanging out with Bobby C. October is supposed to be a horror month of the living death or some jive like that. But I thought it was all fun for originally eating with the dead and leaving them treats. All Saints Day is around the corner. OOPS! My BAD! I musta' fo'got! The AmerKanos call it Holloween.
Nonetheless, don't believe the HYPE! If a sucka cannot fight, steroids, PEDs, EEDs, His-mamma Ds and no other Ds will help his arse. Ninety-nine percent of the athletes on Steroids and PEDs ain't Jack, Jill or could climb a molehill. Holla!
ever researched peds, or taken an anatomy class?
when you take steroids or hgh then not only do your muscles grow, but also your organs.
and no offense, but i think i trust god and his invention of the body to conduct itself without a foreign substance making organs GROW which do not grow after maturity and adulthood has reached.
also, blood doping is unsafe as well..
i am a physical therapist. not a wikipedia guru.
im not acting like a tough guy by calling you out and allowing yourself to look dumber with each post.
lastly, im a huge pac fan.....
but what does that have to do with your ignorance asking for steroids and peds?
I don't know why Conte gets such a major platform to comment on fighters, trainers, and coaches....while proposing some boxers to move up in weight and others to go down in weight, as if he has the magic key to fulfill thier dreams... The guy is a nutritionalist... not a boxing guru. He's seeking a new audience to peddle his wares to(and there's certainly nothing wrong with that in a capitolist society). Of course a nutritionalist can help fighers...and they have thier place. But it's only 10% of what boxers need to succeed.
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How to Do an Eye Exam
"Who would believe that so small a space could contain the images of all the universe? O mighty process!" - Leonardo Da Vinci
"The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness. Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be 'not darkness'." - Jesus
An eye exam is a series of tests typically performed by an ophthalmologist or optometrist to check vision as well as structures and functions of the eye. Examination of the eye is of paramount importance in diagnosis of eye disease.
1Check visual acuity (VA). VA is the acuteness or clearness of vision, typically checked at a distance of 20 feet (6.1 m). VA is denoted by a fraction, with the numerator referring to the distance at which the tested eye can see, compared to the denominator, which refers to the distance at which a normal healthy eye can see. For example, a visual acuity of 18/20 means that the tested eye can see at 18 feet (5.5 m) that which a normal eye can see at 20 feet (6.1 m). The higher the denominator, the poorer the visual acuity of the tested eye. VA less than 20/20 may be due to refractive errors, or intrinsic eye disease.
- A Snellen chart is commonly used to check VA. Check the VA in each eye individually, by covering one eye while testing the other.
- Check VA by first having the examinee wearing his or her corrective lenses (VAcc, where "cc" stands for cum correction), then re-check without correction (VAsc, where "sc" stands for sine correction). Finally check each eye individually and record results In order to pass DOT, the examinee must have distant visual acuity of 20/40 in each eye w/ or w/o corrective lenses or distant binocular acuity of at least 20/40 in both eyes w/ or w/o corrective lenses.
- Check near visual acuity. Have the examinee read a card held approximately 14 inches (35.6 cm) away, at a normal reading distance. Use bright lighting during this test. Decreased near visual acuity may be caused by central cataracts or presbyopia, the latter affects most people after age 40, as the lens loses its ability to accommodate to focus at near with age.
2Test peripheral vision by checking visual field. With index finger horizontal to each eye, move finger to lateral side until examinee can no longer see it. He/she should have at least 70 degrees of vision in the horizontal meridian in each eye.
3Test for color vision. Ask the examinee to look at the colors on the eye chart and identify them.
4Test for stereopsis for depth perception by checking binocular vision and monocular vision. Depth perception is the visual ability to perceive the world in three dimensions (3D). We do not have a specific test for depth perception but we do ask the patient if he is able to see with both eyes or with just one. Binocular vision is required for driver license, important for catching a thrown ball, and many other coordinated operations.
- Conjunctiva. Inspect the bulbar conjunctiva (on the globe) and palebral conjunctiva (on the internal aspects of the lids) for blood vessel, secretions, or redness, and presence of any foreign bodies or granulations. For the bulbar conjunctiva, note the color of the underlying sclera, as well as any unusual vascularity and prominences.
- Cornea. Inspect the cornea for deposits or defects, surface thinning, cloudiness, or presence of blood vessels invading the surface. Examine the tear film for both quantity and quality. Gently pull down the lower lid to check the quantity. A normal amount of tear film should leave 1-mm meniscus between the globe and the edge of the lower lid. Check the tear break-up time to check the quality of the outer oily layer to prevent evaporation.
- Anterior chamber. Check for presence of white blood cells floating in the aqueous humour, representing iritis, by focusing a thin oblique beam of light on the anterior chamber and observing passing cells (like dust particles seen in a projector's light path). Look for flare (scattering of the slit lamp beam), representing leakage of proteins into the anterior chamber. Cells and flare indicate anterior chamber inflammation, e.g., from uveitis. Check for presence of blood (hyphema), pus (hypopyon), and foreign bodies. Also check for presence of pigmented cells, indicative of pigment dispersion syndrome or possible retinal detachment. Check the clarity of the aqueous humour and the depth of the anterior chamber.
- Iris. Note the color of the iris color, presence of any nevi or adhesion of the iris to the lens capsule (known as posterior synechiae), and any blood vessel growth on the surface (known as rubeosis iridis), which may occur in diabetes or other vascular diseases. The color of the iris is due to amount and distribution of pigment in it. Persons with darker skin and hair tend to have darker irises as well. In albinism, the iris is translucent due to a lack of pigment.
- Lens. Look for any lens opacities or cloudiness, which may indicate presence of a cataract.
6Do a fundus exam. To see the fundus better, dilate the pupils by use of an eyedrop containing an agent to dilate the eyes, such as atropine. Carefully examine the following:
- Macula: look for any drusen (tiny yellow or white build-up of extracellular material in Bruch's membrane of the eye; an early sign of macular degeneration), micro-aneurysms, pigmentations, and foveal reflex (movement of light in the opposite direction to the movement of your ophthalmoscope, a result of the concave shape of the fovea). Absent of a foveal reflex may be due to drusens, retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) migration, or swelling, and may indicate age related macular degeneration (ARMD).
- Vessels: examine their appearance, caliber, presence of attenuation, and venule to arteriole diameter (normally 3:2). In hypertension, look for thickening of the arterioles (causing "copper-wire" or "silver-wire" appearance) and arteriovenous nicking (AVN) (constriction of the venule where it crosses a rigid arteriole hardened from long-standing hypertension).
- Optic nerve: check for a sharp disc margin (blurred disc margin may indicate papilledema from increased pressure inside the brain), as well as any swelling or blood. Determine the cup-to-disc (C/D) ratio, which is used to monitor for progression of glaucoma. The disc is the eye's blind spot, where the optic nerve and blood vessels enter the retina; the cup is an area devoid of nerve fibers. Glaucoma destroys the nerve fiber layer of the retina, leading to increased cup-to-disc ratio as the disease progresses.
- Peripheral retina: check the peripheral retina for any breaks, tears, or thinning (known as lattice degeneration).
- Vitreous humour: check for blood, pigment, or detachment. Blood (or hemorrhage) may be seen in proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR), where the newly formed blood vessels are leaky. Pigmentation may indicate retinal detachment.
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- Before checking the eye itself, it is often helpful to take in account the general physical condition of the person being examined. Look for any evidence of skin lesions, paleness, yellowing of the skin, pain or discomfort, and intolerance to light.
- The reason why 20 feet (6.1 m) is used for checking visual acuity is that this distance is essentially infinity from an optical perspective (difference in optical power required to focus at 20 feet versus infinity is only 0.164 diopters), so 20 feet (6.1 m) satisfactorily represents human distance vision.
- It is important to keep in mind that the two eyes should be symmetric. Any asymmetry is most likely to be abnormal. Look for any facial asymmetry, or difference in size, movement, and appearance between the eyes.
- It is possible to have better than 20/20 visual acuity. For example, a 20/10 visual acuity means that the person can recognise an object at 20 feet (6.1 m) away which a normal (or average) person can recognise at 10 feet (3.0 m) away.
- Stereopsis perception for depth perception typically involves binocular cues that require input from both eyes and monocular cues that require the input from just one eye. Binocular cues include stereopsis, yielding depth from binocular vision through exploitation of parallax.
- Monocular cues include the visual perception of size with distant objects subtending smaller visual angles than near objects. This is related to classical perspective representations on a two dimensional (2D) surface.
- A third class of cues requires combining by synthetic integration of binocular and monocular cues in the mind for coordination of vision.
- Note that a visual acuity less than 20/20 on the Snellen chart may be due to refractive error (most common), or to a disease process in the eye. Refractive errors are typically myopia, hyperopia, and astigmatism.
- This article is intended to be used as a guide; it should not in any way replace the advice of your health care provider.
- While the more basic components of the eye exam (such as test for visual acuity) can be done by anyone, the more advanced components (such as the slit lamp exam) may require training and proper use of special equipments, best done by eye professionals.
- Eye drops to dilate the eyes cause blurry vision and make the eyes susceptible to sunlight damage. Have the examinee wear dark glasses or shade the eyes until the dilation wears off.
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- A light source (e.g. a flashlight pen)
- A visual acuity chart (e.g. a Snellen chart)
- A pinhole
- A slit lamp (biomicroscope)
- Ophthalmoscope
- Pseudoisochromatic plates to check colour vision
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Good morning, it's Sunday, May 18, the 138th day of 2014. There are 227 days left in the year. Temperatures will be in the lower 60s at the start of the day and should rise into the lower 80s this afternoon before falling back into the 60s overnight.
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On May 18, 1953—61 years ago today—pioneer aviator Jacqueline Cochran became the first woman to break the sound barrier as she piloted a Canadair F-86 Sabre jet over Rogers Dry Lake, Calif. With the encouragement of lifelong friend Chuck Yeager, she flew the jet, which was borrowed from the Royal Canadian Air Force, at an average speed of more than 652 miles an hour. She was also the first woman ever to land and take off from an aircraft carrier, the first to fly at speeds of Mach 2, the first to fly a bomber over the North Atlantic, among a long list of other accomplishments. She also piloted the Goodyear Blimp. She was a sponsor of a program in the 1960s aimed at testing the ability of women to become astronauts, although she later argued against admitting women to the astronaut program, saying time was of the essence in the Space Race against the Soviet Union. (On the same date in 1991, coincidentally, Helen Sharman became the first Briton to rocket into space as she flew aboard a Soyuz spacecraft with two cosmonauts on an 8-day mission)
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Today's Highlight in Local History:
On May 18, 1992, crews remained at the scene of a fire that engulfed Marlin's historic bathhouse and burned through the night.
Today's Highlight in History:
On May 18, 1944, during World War II, Allied forces finally occupied Monte Cassino in Italy after a four-month struggle with Axis troops.
On This Date:
In 1642, the Canadian city of Montreal was founded by French colonists.
In 1765, about one-fourth of Montreal was destroyed by a fire.
In 1896, the Supreme Court, in Plessy v. Ferguson, endorsed "separate but equal" racial segregation, a concept renounced 58 years later in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.
In 1910, Halley's Comet passed by earth, brushing it with its tail.
In 1926, evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson vanished while visiting a beach in Venice, California. (McPherson reappeared more than a month later, saying she'd escaped after being kidnapped and held for ransom.)
In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a measure creating the Tennessee Valley Authority.
In 1934, Congress approved, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed, the so-called "Lindbergh Act," providing for the death penalty in cases of interstate kidnapping.
In 1969, astronauts Eugene A. Cernan, Thomas P. Stafford and John W. Young blasted off aboard Apollo 10 on a mission to orbit the moon.
In 1974, India conducted its first nuclear test explosion.
In 1980, the Mount St. Helens volcano in Washington state exploded, leaving 57 people dead or missing.
In 1994, Israeli troops completed their withdrawal from the Gaza Strip as Palestinian authorities took over.
Ten years ago:
Former New York City fire commissioner Thomas Von Essen and former police chief Bernard Kerik, lionized after the 9/11 attack, came under harsh criticism from some members of the September 11 commission who said there'd been an initial lack of cooperation between their departments. Stunning supporters, Sonia Gandhi announced she would "humbly decline" to be the next prime minister of India. Randy Johnson, at age 40, became the oldest pitcher in major league history to throw a perfect game; the lefty retired all 27 batters to lead the Arizona Diamondbacks over the Atlanta Braves 2-0.
Five years ago:
President Barack Obama told Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu during a White House meeting he needed to stop Jewish settlements and should grasp a "historic opportunity" to make peace with the Palestinians. Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi went on trial, charged with violating conditions of her yearslong detention by sheltering an American man, John Yettaw, who'd swum to her lakeside home. (Suu Kyi was convicted and sentenced to three years of hard labor; the sentence was later commuted to 18 months of house arrest. Yettaw was sentenced to seven years in prison but released on humanitarian grounds.) Spacewalking astronauts completed repairs to the Hubble Space Telescope.
One year ago:
A car driven by an 87-year-old man plowed into dozens of hikers during a parade in Damascus, Virginia, injuring about 50 people. French President Francois Hollande signed a law authorizing same-sex marriages and adoption by gay couples. Oxbow, ridden by Hall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens, led from start to finish to win the Preakness; Kentucky Derby winner Orb came in third.
Today's Birthdays:
Actor Bill Macy is 92. Hall-of-Fame sportscaster Jack Whitaker is 90. Actor Robert Morse is 83. Actor Dwayne Hickman is 80. Baseball Hall-of-Famer Brooks Robinson is 77. Bluegrass singer-musician Rodney Dillard (The Dillards) is 72. Baseball Hall-of-Famer Reggie Jackson is 68. Actress Candice Azzara is 67. Country singer Joe Bonsall (The Oak Ridge Boys) is 66. Rock musician Rick Wakeman (Yes) is 65. Actor James Stephens is 63. Country singer George Strait is 62. Rhythm-and-blues singer Butch Tavares (Tavares) is 61. Actor Chow Yun-Fat is 59. Rock singer-musician Page Hamilton is 54. Contemporary Christian musician Barry Graul (MercyMe) is 53. Contemporary Christian singer Michael Tait is 48. Singer-actress Martika is 45. Comedian-writer Tina Fey is 44. Rapper Special Ed is 40. Rock singer Jack Johnson is 39. Country singer David Nail is 35. Rhythm-and-blues singer Darryl Allen (Mista) is 34. Actor Matt Long is 34. Actor Allen Leech (TV: "Downton Abbey") is 33. Christian-rock musician Kevin Huguley (Rush of Fools) is 32. Christian singer Francesca Battistelli is 29. Actor Spencer Breslin is 22.
Thought for Today:
"People find life entirely too time-consuming." - Stanislaw J. Lec, Polish writer (1909-1966).


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The New Zealand dollar is heading for a 0.7 percent weekly decline as improving prospects for global growth buoyed the greenback, and left traders to mull the prospect of a slower cycle of local interest rate hikes.
The kiwi fell to 85.62 US cents at 5pm in Wellington from 86.21 cents last Friday in New York. It traded at 85.61 cents at 8am, down from 85.82 cents yesterday. The trade-weighted index was at 79.91 from 79.98 yesterday, and is heading for a 0.4 percent weekly decline.
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Better than expected manufacturing indicators in the US and China helped buoy the greenback yesterday after minutes to the latest Federal Reserve policy meeting this week showed there was scope still scope for the US to run near-zero interest rates. Tepid inflation In New Zealand has caused investors to question whether the central bank will hike interest rates as aggressively as thought, and are looking to the next monetary policy statement in June for guidance. Traders are betting the Reserve Bank will lift the official cash rate 84 basis points over the coming 12 months, down from 90 points in early May before governor Graeme Wheeler threatened he may intervene in currency markets if the kiwi doesn't follow falling commodity prices.
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The No Child Left Behind program (NCLB) initiated by the Bush administration had minimal effects on the rates of job satisfaction among teachers. This is the conclusion of a study conducted by Jason A. Grissom of Vanderbilt University, Sean Nicholson-Crotty of Indiana University, and James R. Harrington of the University of Texas at Dallas. The study was published in the June 10, 2014, edition of the journal Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.
The study examined the morale, desire to continue in the teaching profession, and workload of four waves of teachers from the National Center for Education Statistics' Schools and Staffing Survey. The participants were a nationally representative sample of 140,000 regular, full-time public school teachers. The sampling was spaced ten years and two years prior to the implementation of the NCLB program and one year and five years after the implementation.
The researchers claim that the assumption that added accountability was the source of extra stress and a decrease in morale that led teachers to leave the teaching profession was anecdotal at best. The study compared previous studies of the effect of the NCLB program on teachers and found no previous large-scale study that justified low morale or a high desire to abandon teaching as a profession. "Simply put, our results do not support media accounts or policy rhetoric that portrays NCLB as undermining teacher morale and intent to stay in the profession." the study concludes.
Eight percent more people in the regular, full-time public school teaching profession planned to stay in the profession five years after the NCLB was implemented than did eight years before the program began. The majority of teachers involved in the study claimed they had a higher workload but did not fault the accountability aspects of the NCLB. A majority of teachers claimed that the NCLB gave them more autonomy in the classroom. The NCLB has been decimated by waivers since 2012.


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Crime Stoppers chief Richard Masten received a contempt of court ruling Thursday after refusing to release an anonymous tip to the court. To prevent the paper from falling into the wrong hands after his arrest, he ate it. Anonymous tips are the backbone of Crime Stoppers and Masten is not going to allow one judge's poor judgement to ruin the future of his organization.
"If I I have to do it again next week I will, next month, I will," Masten said Thursday according to The Miami Herald.
Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Victoria Brennan decided on a grade-school punishment rather than jail time. She ordered Masten to study the laws surrounding anonymous tips and return to the court with an essay on what he learned. The "Honorable" Judge Victoria also said he would likely be subject to probation before this is over.
I believe your motives are good," Brennan said. "But I believe you lack certain understanding. There's nothing honorable ever, about ignoring a court order."
Apparently, the judge thinks the term "honorable" that is usually added in front of a judge's name automatically makes the judge's actions honorable. That is not the case.
When anonymity is promised, the honorable thing is to protect that anonymity, regardless of who is telling you not to. If a court tries to compell you to do something against your beliefs, it is not honorable at all to sacrifice those beliefs because someone with a black dress and a hammer told you to. It is, in every sensible definition of the word, actually DIShonorable to follow orders that directly contradict your beliefs.
If courts can punish people for not providing the sources of anonymous tips to Crime Stoppers then how can a journalist ever hope to protect their sources? No person, regardless of government position or title should ever be allowed to force someone to surrender a source.
This is supposedly a free country. It's time for government officials to start acting like it.


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A man so enraged with jealousy for his ex-girlfriend that he eliminates his competition by killing him isn't a rare occurrence. However, police in South Africa say a man described only as a "Zimbabwean" murdered his rival and then ate the deceased's heart with a knife and fork.
The Times Live reported June 12 that the former lover of Cape Town resident Nomonde Soloshe allegedly killed her new suitor, businessman Mbuyiselo Manona, by attacking him at his home Tuesday evening. A witness to the incident, a man who rented a room at the rear of Manona's house, alerted his neighbors as he fearfully ran to find help.
Many saw the body of the deceased as they later peered through the windows of the house. Some witnessed the mutilation of the body.
One neighbor, who said the former boyfriend had been hired to install windows in his ex-girlfriend's house, told the Times Live, ""When we got there the man kept muttering 'I am the king' and declaring his undying love for the woman.
"He then cut the heart out and ate it before the police came and took him away," they added.
According to Sowetan Live, another witness recounted, "The whole situation was crazy. We were shouting at him to stop, but he did not listen. Even when the police got here... the guys were scared to go in. They had to call for back-up."
The neighbor pointed out: "You can't really blame them - how do you go into a room with someone dripping another person's blood out of his mouth?"
West Cape commissioner Sharon Jephta said there was "definitely a love triangle" between Soloshe, Manona, and the alleged murderer.
Nomonde Soloshe reportedly had been with the two men earlier in the day. They had been chatting when she was given money to go buy some liquor. By the time she returned, Manona had been stabbed and her ex-boyfriend was devouring his heart.
Police were called to the scene at 10:30 p.m. When they arrived, they encountered a gruesome scenario.
"On the scene they found a suspect, a Zimbabwean, eating the heart of a human with a knife and fork," Western Cape police spokesman Captain Frederick van Wyk said. "[The police] were informed that the victim had been stabbed on the left side of his chest and in his neck, and had a bite mark on the right side of his face."
Clinical psychologist Ian Meyer told Times Live that cannibalism "was not common [in South Africa] but it exists" and concluded that the act of cannibalism in this instance was a "primitive symbol of triumph." As for the particular case in question, he noted, "The police will have to determine if he was mentally defective when he allegedly committed the offence."
A close relative said that Manona had been in a relationship with Soloshe for four years.
This is the second time tragedy has struck one of Nomonde Soloshe's partners. In 1996, wealthy Cape Town businessman Bhekizulu Tshabalala, her husband at the time, was murdered by her alleged lover, Xolani Hobongwana.
The South African case marks the second reported occurrence of cannibalism in a week. Just four days prior, a former meat plant employee in Tennessee was arrested after killing, dismembering, and eating parts of a woman he had recently met. He was in the process of burying the leftover remains in his own yard when he was taken into custody.
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MSU Homecoming 2015 Home » Programs & Events » Homecoming
2015 Homecoming
Homecoming 2015 was a huge success! Many great times occurred throughout the week, including student activities, the MSU Homecoming Parade, college events, a win against the Purdue Boilermakers and beautiful fall weather.
Parade awards were given to six different groups and the winners are:
- Best Float: MSU Forestry Club
- Best Banner: MSU Bug Club
- Best Group: MSU Horticulture Club
- Best Spartan Spirit: MSU Hospitality Business Association
- Best Community Group: Sorority House Moms
- Best Campus Department: Residential & Hospitality Services
To see photos of the winners, please click here. Congratulations winners!
To see photos of the parade, as well as other Homecoming photos, click here. To see a video of the Homecoming Parade click here.
The "Glow Green" tradition continued this year and to see photos of Spartans glowing green across the globe click here.
Grand Marshal
As a top musical arranger and orchestrator, 2015 Grand Marshal and 1955 MSU alumnus William Brohn has composed scores for some of the most popular shows on Broadway including Miss Saigon, Ragtime and Wicked. He won a Tony Award for Best Orchestrations for Ragtime and has won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Orchestrations three times.
Many activities are scheduled for Homecoming, including week-long campus and student events, the Homecoming Parade, college events, the Grand Awards Gala, the Green and White pre-game brunch, the MSU Families @ Homecoming pre-game tailgate and the Homecoming football game versus the Purdue Boilermakers! Don't forget to show your Spartan Spirit by "glowing green."
2016 Homecoming
Save the date! We hope you'll join us on campus for Homecoming 2016.
- Homecoming Week – Monday, October 10-Saturday, October 15, 2016
- Homecoming Parade – Friday, October 14, 2016
- Homecoming Football Game vs. Northwestern Wildcats – Saturday, October 15, 2016


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With the onslaught of blue, yellow and multicolored sports drinks, many of which contain high fructose corn syrup, artificial flavors and artificial colors, there is one nutritious post workout drink that has flown below the radar.
Low-fat chocolate milk.
For years I've consumed low-fat chocolate milk to refuel my body after a Body Under Construction Fitness Adventure workout, I prefer it to many sports drinks because it contains:
– Protein – For muscle growth and repair
– Vitamin D – For strong bones
– A solid carb to protein ratio
– Essential fluids and electrolytes including calcium, potassium, magnesium and sodium
Drinking plain water after exercise replaces sweat losses — and that's it. "Chocolate milk provides carbohydrate replenishment to your muscles — something they can metabolize," says the leading researcher of Johns Hopkins Hospital.
In a recent study, chocolate milk's performance was tested as a workout recovery drink on nine cyclists. In the lab, an number of athletes biked until exhaustion, and then each rested for four hours. During this break, each consumed low-fat chocolate milk, Gatorade, or the high-carbohydrate sports drink Endurox R4. Afterward, they cycled to exhaustion again.
The results were positive. The research team concluded that the athletes who consumed chocolate milk performed just as well or better as those who drank the other beverages. The high carb and protein content in milk make it an incredibly effective recovery drink — even though it's never been marketed as one.
Here's a quick recipe:
– 1-2 Tablespoons of Ground Raw Cacao Beans (~6-10 beans ground)
– 8 oz of unsweetened vanilla Almond Milk
– Ground Cinnamon to taste
– 1 pinch of nutmeg
– 1 Teaspoon of honey, agave nectar, or some all-natural sweetener
– A touch of Vanilla Extract
Consuming the organic version will help you to avoid many of the artificial ingredients contained in sports drinks that can contribute to weight gain and conceal your six-pack. So, drink low-fat chocolate milk after a tough workout. It refuels your body and taste great, too!
By Sloan Luckie, BDO Fitness Expert
Sloan Luckie, a Certified Personal Trainer and Certified Public Accountant, is the author of the optimal health workbook, Body Under Construction. Body Under Construction shows how to use nutrition, exercise and sleep to build the body of your dreams, reduce your risk to chronic illness and look and feel your absolute best.
His unique philosophy on building and maintaining optimal health has garnered significant media attention. Sloan has appeared on NBC's "The Talk" with Marion Brooks, NY1 News with Cheryl Wills, graced the pages of Syd Jerome magazine, and conducted nutrition and fitness demonstrations for corporations, not-for-profit organizations, and various other groups throughout the United States.


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2009-10 Terriel Cannon Photo Gallery
2009-10:Appeared in 25 games... Tallied a career-high 14 points on 6-of-8 shooting and hit two three-pointers in the overtime win over Buffalo... Added four rebounds and two steals against the Bulls... Poured in 10 points of 4-of-5 shooting with two three-point makes at Bowling Green... Made her first career start versus Western Michigan, totaling four rebounds and four points in 20 minutes... Led NIU in free throw percentage, hitting 12-of-14 for 85.7 percent... Tied for first on the team in three-point field goal percentage at 34.8 (8-of-23) and ranked four for overall field goal percentage at 46.5 (20-of-43)... Lifted her scoring average from 0.9 points per game in non-conference action to 3.6 in league play... Tallied at least four points on six occasions, all in MAC games... Hit a three-pointer, the last field goal of the first half, against UNI... Knocked-down a three-pointer with less than two seconds on the first-half clock against Eastern Michigan.
2008-09: Suffered a mid-season injury that limited her to nine games, averaging 8.1 minutes per contest... Set a career high with three blocked shots and sunk a three-pointer against Wagner (11/22)... Recorded a career-high four rebounds, one offensive, in the next game against Bradley (11/25)... Knocked down 2-of-5 three-pointers to score a season-best six points against the Braves... Also hit threes against Western Illinois (11/18), UMBC (11/21), and Illinois State (12/15)... Shot 35.7 (5-of-14) percent from behind the arc... Five of her six field goals were from distance.
2007-08: Played in 20 of Northern's 28 games, starting
2006-07: Saw limited action due to a stress fracture, playing in 12 of the Huskies' 31 contests...Scored a season-high three points in NIU's victory over Illinois State (11-11-06)...Shot 71.4 from the free throw line for the season (5-of-7)...Also rebounded well for a guard with six boards.
Prep: Lettered three years at Proviso West High School...Senior year co-captain made the All-Conference Academic Team and joined the 1,000-point club over four seasons...In 2005-2006, averaged 13 points and eight rebounds per game...No. 3 guard on the Chicago Tribune's list of the Top 50 girls basketball players...Scored 23 points and grabbed nine rebounds for season highs and sank a total of five buckets behind the arc in her best game of the year...Her sophomore year, earned All-Tourney MVP honor at the Moline Tournament...In 2003-04, named All-Conference West Suburbs, Most Outstanding Shooter, and All-Tournament Christmas Tournament Mother-Guerin...Earned adidas Top Ten Camp Underclass All-Star recognition in 2004 and was also recognized as scoring the most three-pointers in a single game her sophomore year...In 2002-03, named freshman MVP, Moline Holiday Tournament MVP and All-Area by the Chicago Sun-Times.
Personal: Only child for parents Michelle Cannon and Gregory Miller...Played AAU basketball for Chicago Hoops Express under Coach Jerald Davis...Involved in African-American Club, Key Club, and Student Council...Earned A & B Honor Roll each semester and belonged to National Honor Society...Also involved with church group St. James COGIC Children's ministry, and feeding the homeless.
Birthdate: April 21, 1988.
Major: Communications.


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HLAA Applauds Senators Warren, Hatch for Introduction of the TEACH Act
United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) introduced the Technology, Education, and Accessibility in College and Higher Education ("TEACH") Act February 27, 2014. This bipartisan legislation would help strengthen the accessibility of educational technologies for college students with disabilities. Senator Warren announced her introduction of the legislation at a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) hearing on "Promoting College Access and Success For Students With Disabilities."


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Suppose $(M,\omega)$ is a compact symplectic manifold and $C$ a closed curve in it. Is there a Lagrangian submanifold containing $C$? I have a sequence of $J_i$-holomorphic maps from a disk to $M$, and all the maps are identical on the boundary of the disk. So, if I know that the image of the boundary is contained in a Lagrangian submanifold, I can apply Gromov convergence.
Yes, such a Lagrangian submanifold does exist. The isotropic neighborhood theorem (see for instance p. 24 of Weinstein's Lectures on Symplectic Manifolds), together with the fact that all symplectic vector bundles over the circle are trivial, implies that any closed curve in a symplectic $2n$-manifold has a neighborhood symplectomorphic to the standard product $(S^1\times(-\epsilon,\epsilon))\times B^{2n-2}(r)$, via a symplectomorphism mapping the curve to $S^1\times \{0\}\times\{0\}$. Here $B^{2n-2}(r)$ denotes the standard symplectic ball of dimension $2n-2$ and some small radius $r$. Now let $T$ be a Lagrangian torus in $B^{2n-2}(r)$ which contains the origin (for instance you could use a product of small-radius-cirles containing the origin in each of the $n-1$ factors of $\mathbb{R}^2$ in $\mathbb{R}^{2n-2}$). Then the image of $S^1\times 0\times T$ under the Weinstein symplectomorphism will be a Lagrangian submanifold containing your curve.


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CLEARWATER, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Dieting is an American pastime. About 45-million of us diet each year, and we spend about 33-billion dollars on weight-loss products. There are more ways to diet than ever and some are pretty extreme.
For the past 3 years, Heidi Templeton has used her 150 dollar juicer every day. Every morning she is religious about her juicing routine. Templeton told Ivanhoe, "I felt sluggish before I started juicing."
Experts say an over-jolt of juicing could be a recipe for trouble [because] fiber and grains could fall to the wayside.
Registered dietician Nancy Maza told Ivanhoe, "The average person should get 25 to 30 grams of fiber a day, and if the fiber is being extracted, and you're not getting any fruits and vegetables, you might have trouble getting that 25 to 30 grams of fiber a day."
Maza also tells her patients to stay away from extreme diets that restrict certain foods, like the elimination diet. It excludes coffee, dairy, eggs, sugar, shellfish, wheat, potatoes, corn and artificial ingredients. There is also the "five-bite diet" where you take just five bites of any meal at any one time. The doctor who created it claims to have lost 60 pounds in 40 days.
Maza also told Ivanhoe, "It's another way to sell books. People are looking for quick fixes."
Other extreme methods include the tapeworm diet. Followers consume a tapeworm in a pill and the idea is that the worm digests what you eat.
There's the baby food diet, where you simply substitute 2 to 3 meals a day with jars of pureed baby food.
Maybe most extreme is the feeding tube diet. For 10 days, a tube in your nose delivers a liquid-only mixture of protein, fat and water to your stomach.
But experts say these diet fads aren't leading to long-term weight loss. Despite more than 45-million Americans reporting being on some kind of diet, nearly 70-percent are overweight or obese. So maybe the best diet isn't a diet at all, but a healthy lifestyle that includes a variety of whole foods.
Maza explained, "Usually, it has taken your whole life to get where you are as far as your weight and your health. It's not going to change overnight."
A study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that vegans are usually thinner and have a lower risk of heart disease, diabetes and cancer. Another study found that people who followed the Paleo diet — which consists of lean meat, fish, vegetables and fruit had lower blood pressure, cholesterol and improved insulin sensitivity after just 10 days.
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Rockstar Games has big plans in 2014 for both Grand Theft Auto 5 and, particularly, GTA Online as the multiplayer mode continues to expand with new additions. According to a report by MP1st from Jan. 2, new information concerning the highly anticipated GTA Online Heists mode has been discovered in GTA 5's code, which reveals heist locations and payouts.
A member of the GTA Forums by the username "funmw2" has posted alleged details about GTA Online Heists, which includes a mission name, Heist description, map of locations, and even the payout rate for completion.
While perusing the game's code, a secret heist mission titled Ornate Bank Heist was noticed, which led to the discovery of a payment of $80,000. This sum would be distributed between 4-to-6 players. Furthermore, this particular job would also give players with 1140RP and would require a rank of 60. Find the full description of the heist below:
Get a team together and break into the vault of Vinewood's Maze Bank and steal the gold held there. You'll need a hacker, a couple of crack shots and your best getaway driver. You'll also need to get some wheels which can outrun the cops
A map of other potential GTA Online heist locations has been shared, which you can view here. Seeing as though this information was gathered from the game code, consider it a rumor until Rockstar shares official GTA Online Heists details.
Rockstar is expected to share official detailed about Heists. The company shared in Dec. that Heists missions were being developed and information regarding them would be shared in the New Year. Find Rockstar's full comment below:
We know many of you in the GTA Online community are super excited for the debut of co-operative Heists. Heists are currently in development and we are working very hard to get them as polished and as fun as they can be. Stay tuned for much more detail in the New Year.


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The image of a woman who tried to unlock the handset after it was stolen is sent to the owner, through a "rather cool" app.
09:00, UK, Tuesday 11 December 2012
A woman has unwittingly taken her own picture as she attempted to unlock a stolen phone.
The image was automatically sent to the owner via the iGotYa app which was downloaded on to the phone. The owner then called the police.
Sussex Police described the app as "rather cool" because it takes a picture of anyone who tries to unlock the phone, maps their location and then sends the information to the owner in an email.
The phone was stolen from the Coalition nightclub in Brighton, East Sussex, earlier this month.
Police said they do not know whether the woman pictured was responsible for the theft but they appealed for her or anyone who recognises her to contact them.
"We know where and when the photo was taken and it appears to be in a vehicle with quite a large sunroof," PC Gavin Crute, of Sussex Police, said.
"We don't know that the woman is the person who stole the camera, but she obviously has had some connection with it in the meantime and I'd like to speak to her about it," he added.
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Students in search of funding for a global opportunity, including health related projects, should apply through the new Carolina Global Initiative Award.
|The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
FedEx Global Education Center
The mission of the Center for Global Initiatives is to expand global opportunities at UNC through collaborative programs + projects and competitive awards + fellowships that connect people across borders and disciplines.
We are especially interested in opening access to global opportunities to students, faculty, and staff traditionally underrepresented in this sphere.


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Lògosh of Mug' thol said...
Hello Markco i would just like to say a way i am making money from leveling Jewelcrafting. On my server thorium goes for 28g a stack while all the gems that come from it go from 10-18 gold. Just from prospecting i make a profit. I made about 200 gold back from out of 400 leveling my jewelcrafting. It is quite funny how i can make a profit from it.
This is a great point and maybe if you get bored of collecting all that titanium ore you can go take a lap around darkwhisper gorge and gather some easy money.
You should also make it part of your daily routine to be buying out thorium ore on the auction house.


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The Catholic Church has recognized at least three different Saint Valentines. They were all martyrs, and are listed in the early martyologies under February 14. St. Valentine of Rome is often associated with Valentine's Day.
St. Valentine of Rome was a priest who served during the third century in Rome. At that time, Emperor Claudius II decided that single men made better soldiers than married or engaged men, so he outlawed engagement and marriage for young couples. Realizing the injustice of this law, Valentine secretly married couples. He enjoyed helping them unite. As soon as news about Valentine got to Claudius, Valentine was thrown in jail and was sentenced to death.
Many asked Claudius to free Valentine, but he refused. He locked him up, and he died on February 14, 270. His relics can be found in the Church of Saint Prexedes in Rome.
Patron: affianced couples, bee keepers, betrothed couples, engaged couples, epilepsy, fainting, greetings, happy marriages, love, lovers, plague, travellers, young people
The traditions around St. Valentine's Day are a little bit of a mystery. One legend states that Roman boys and girls had little contact with each other. In mid February, they had a celebration where boys drew names of the girls in honor of the fertility goddess, Februata Juno. They were then able to communicate and spend time together. Since this isn't Christian, Pastors baptized this holiday by substituting the names of saints to suppress this practice. They used the name St. Valentine.
Another belief is that birds begin to pair on this date, February 14. The English people in 1477 associated lovers with the feast. Because every bird chooses a mate, they celebrated love and lovers.
On February 14th, nowadays people send messages and trinkets of love.


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Be aware of the difference between CURRENT_DATE and SYSDATE
By Kevin Smith-Oracle on Sep 20, 2012
I was running some queries in SQL Developer against the WebCenter Content (WCC) schema that included date fields such as dInDate. I was comparing the dates against CURRENT_DATE. I was not getting the expected results. I did some googlng and didn't find a solution, but I did run across a reference to SYSDATE. I tried SYSDATE in my queries and got the expected results.
I did a TO_CHAR on the two date fields and found they returned different times. CURRENT_DATE returned the time from my laptop which was in the EDT time zone. SYSDATE returned the time from the database server which happened to be in the PDT time zone. I guess if both the database server and my laptop were in the same time zone I would not have seen any problem.
Here is the query I ran to display the two fields.
select to_char(current_date,'DD-MON-YY HH:MI:SS'), to_char(sysdate,'DD-MON-YY HH:MI:SS') from dual;
As you can see from the screen shot from SQL Developer they definitely returned different times.
I'm sure there is some command or setting you can use to prevent this problem, but for me the take away is to use SYSDATE in your queries when you want to do any date comparison.


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This week is National Infant Immunization Week. Experts state that giving babies the recommended immunizations by age two is the best way to protect them from 14 serious childhood diseases, like whooping cough and measles. Illnesses, like whooping cough have become prevalent again in this country, reaching epidemic proportions in California in 2010 and resulting in 10 infant deaths. Yet, vaccinations remain such a confusing issues for families. Parents should talk openly with their healthcare professional about their concerns, including the benefits and potential risks of immunizations.
Aside from the decision of whether or not to vaccinate, many parents are anxious about discomfort their baby might experience during and after the injections. A recent study demonstrated the benefits of a non-pharmecuetical technique for easing baby's discomfort. Dr. Karp, a pediatrician in California and author of The Happiest Baby on the Block, pioneered his 5 S's technique over a decade ago. Since then, thousands of parents have used his methods to effectively calm and comfort their infant. Dr. Karp's 5 S's, Swaddling, Side-position, Sushing, Swinging, and Sucking, are easy for parents to learn and can help trigger baby's calming reflex. This recent study published in the May journal Pediatrics, divided 230 babies, aged 2 months and 4 months, into 2 groups following injections. One group of babies received the 5 S's, the other group did not. According to Dr. John Harrington, principle investigator for the study, babies who received the '5 S's' interventions stopped crying much sooner than the infants who received traditional 'comfort care' from their parents. Their pain scores were also much lower.
How can parents learn the 5 S's? Some baby care classes at Chicago maternity centers, such as the ones offered Swedish Covenat Hospital, provide this education as a standard part of their class. Parents can also search for a trained educator or purchase Dr. Karp's books/DVDs to teach themselves.