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The weather is warming up here in Arizona and spring is right around the corner; that means lots of outside play. Whether you take a bike ride, a stroll through the park, or your son or daughter decides to climb a tree, the more active they are the more exercise they get, which is a great thing! However, it also leaves us prone for accidents. Here is a list of items you should keep handy in a first aid kit, either in your car, a diaper bag, or somewhere convenient that is easily transportable. A plastic sandwich container is a great place to keep it, or even an old metal lunchbox. However you creatively package it, here are the basic supplies for your kit:
Adhesive-strip bandages - Whether colorful bandages, cartoon bandages, or flesh colored bandages with or without antibiotics, make sure you have a variety of sizes. Include in your kit, half-inch, three-quarter-inch, and one-inch sizes, as well as some round "spot" bandages.
Gauze pads - (2"x2" and 4'x4" sizes). These should be individually packaged and sterile. You can use them to cover small wounds, using adhesive tape, and to apply pressure to stop bleeding.
Adhesive tape - Porous-paper adhesive tape works fine and is easier to remove than cloth adhesive tape.
Tweezers, needles, and matches - These are for removing splinters. Use the matches to sterilize the needle.
Thermometer - There are a variety of thermometers on the market. Something simple and compact will fit in the kit.
Rubber-bulb syringe - This can be used to rinse wounds and sometimes eyes. (It doesn't provide enough of a flow to dilute chemicals in the eyes). The three-ounce size is adequate.
Ipecac syrup - You can buy a one-ounce bottle without a prescription. Use it to induce vomiting, but only on the advice of a poison-control center or your pediatrician or doctor.
Antibiotic ointment - Include this in your kit, even if you use bandages with antibiotic ointment on them.
Fever, allergy, and cough and cold medicines - Use as recommended by your Doctor.
A list of emergency phone numbers - Put these numbers in your phone, and print a list to keep in your first aid kit. Include the phone numbers to your doctor, emergency medical services, poison-control center, and dentist.
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To most good Vishnuites, and to most Hindus, the Bhagavad Gita is what the New Testament is to good Christians. It is their chief devotional book, and has been for centuries the principal source of religious inspiretion for many millions of Indian. In this two-volume edition, Volume I contains on facing pages a transliteration of original Sanskirt and the autor's close translation. Volume II is Mr. Edgerton's interpretation in which he makes clear the historical setting of the poem and analyzes its influence on later literature and its place in Indian philosophy. Sir Edwin Arnold's beautiful translation, "The Song Celestial," is also includes in the second volume. Mr. Edgerton is the author of many books and articles in the fields of Egyptology and Oriental languages and literature. He is an editor of the American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literature.
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|Notes on the Bibliography and Exegesis of The Gita
|The Bhagavad Gita
|Notes to the Translation
|Interpretation of the Bhagavad Gita
|Preliminary Chapters
|The Origins of Hindu Speculation
|The Upanisads, and the Funddamental Doctrines of Later Hindu Thought
|Prehistory of the God of the Bhagavad
|The Teachings of The Bhagavad Gita
|Soul and Body
|The Nature of God
|Action and Rebirth
|The Way of Knowledge and the Way of Disciplined Activity
|The Way of Devotion to God
|Attitude Towards Hindu Orthodoxy and Other Religious Beliefs
|Practical Morality Third Part: Summary and Conclusion
|Index of Words and Subjects
|Index of Passages Quoted
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|Bachelor in Physik und
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|Forschungsassistentin und
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|(1987 Umzug in die USA) Techn. Mitarbeiterin am Mathematics Research Center der AT&T Bell Laboratories.
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Professorin am Mathematics Department and Pgram in Applied and Computational Mathematics der Princeton University und seit 1997 deren Direktorin.
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|Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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WAVELETS - The basis of digital image coding
In information technology, signals, images and videos frequently are not directly represented in chronological order, but rather in a transformed sequence. A well-known example is the Fourier Transform, by which a signal is transformed into its Fourier spectrum. This spectrum shows how much of the bandwidth the signal consumes on a communications channel. Two-dimensional images are commonly transformed by a two-dimensional Cosine Transform. The transformed image displays the energy content, thus enabling image compressiontechniques to assign binary symbols (bits) only to those areas where thy are needed. this means the images use less storage capacity on a disk and can be transmitted faster via Internet..
During the last twelve years Professor Daubechies has worked on such a transformation, the "Wavelet Transform", which can perform the task of image transformation in a much better way. Ingrid Daubechies not only carefully investigated the mathematical properties of these wavelet functions, but also further developed them in her paper of 1988 so that they allow perfect reconstruction using filter banks. Her work together with that of Mallat enabled the breakthrough of this transform technique for image and video recordings. The success of her fundamental work was underscored by the definition of a new image compression standard, called JPEG 2000. This new standard has been defined by an international group of experts and was finally released in December of 1999. therefore the wavelet based method will become the standard compression technique for image and video storage and for transmission through Internet and World Wide Web (WWW). When transformed using wavelets, the images need even fewer bits for their representation. Furthermore, the new technique avoid annoying artifacts during reconstruction and allows hierarchial image transmission. The latter feature means that a few packets are sufficient to obtain a crude picture; the following packets a re used for the enhandement of the image quality. This is an important feature for Internet transmission where packets can get lost on their way.
The wavelets investigated by Professor Daubechies are used in many other areas, such as time-frequency analysis, multi-carrier data transmission, radar, biomedicine and computer graphics.
Ingrid Daubechies is not only an innovative researcher, but also a good communicator in her papers and talks. Her award-winning book "Ten Lectures on Wavelets" contributed greatly to the popularization of the wavelet theory.
The Eduard Rhein Basic Award
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Safety When No One is Looking
Have you ever been speeding down the interstate and spotted a State Trooper on the side of the road? If you were going over the speed limit you immediately slowed down. As you pass the car and watch as it slowly disappears from your rear view mirror, you speed up again. Whew! You didn't get caught. Even those people who are not speeding, they slow down at the sight of that marked car.
What just happened here? Do we obey the traffic laws only when there is police enforcement around?
So as Director of Safety, my questions are these; when do we comply with the rules and who is responsible for safety?
The first response might be the Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S) Department. However, we are not the cops in the rear view mirror. Our job is to help you go home as healthy as you came to work. But we can't do it alone. If you only wear your safety glasses when someone else is watching you, are you like the motorist I referred to above? This is what I call pathological compliance. This mindset includes thoughts like, the rules are slowing me down. Most at Carnegie Mellon don't feel this way, but there are a few outliers.
How does one learn safety habits and procedures? You might have had a safety class from EH&S but that was very general. You may have learned the proper safety procedures from a peer. I call this inbred training. There is a third leg of the stool necessary for stability.
In California a faculty member is facing 4.5 years in prison for not properly training a staff member who ended up dying from her injury. The reality of our world is that faculty is responsible for students and staff under their supervision to fully understand dangerous process.
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The striped bass is the largest member of the sea bass family, often called "temperate" or "true" bass to distinguish it from species such as largemouth, smallmouth, and spotted bass which are actually members of the sunfish family Centrarchidae. Although Morone is of unknown derivation, saxatilis is Latin meaning "dwelling among rocks." As with other true basses, the dorsal fin is clearly separated into spiny and soft-rayed portions. Striped bass are silvery, shading to olive-green on the back and white on the belly, with seven or eight uninterrupted horizontal stripes on each side of the body. Younger fish may resemble white bass (Morone chrysops). However, striped bass have two distinct tooth patches on the back of the tongue, whereas white bass have one tooth patch. Striped bass have two sharp points on each gill cover, and white bass have one. Additionally, the second spine on the anal fin is about half the length of the third spine in striped bass, and about two-thirds the length of the third spine in white bass.
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BOWLING GREEN, Ohio — It was Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Night at the BG Ice Rink on Friday night, held to raise awareness of the disease and organized in part by BG netminder Jordan Sigalet, who was diagnosed with the malady earlier this season.
On the ice, though, it was Jordan Sigalet awareness night, as he convincingly stopped 27 of 28 shots en route to BG's 4-1 win over the Western Michigan Broncos. Sigalet earned the Perani Cup number-two star for his efforts.
With the victory the Falcons (14-11-4; 11-9-3 CCHA) kept themselves in contention for home ice in the first round of the playoffs; they currently sit in fifth place in the league.
The Broncos (11-16-2; 6-15-2 CCHA), meanwhile, severely damaged any chance they had of home ice, remaining in 11th place in the league, two points behind Ferris State.
While BG held a lead through most of the final two periods of play, the outcome of the game was in doubt for most of the night, especially late in the third period, when the Broncos held a man-advantage for five minutes. Bowling Green's James Unger was given a five-minute major for checking from behind and sent to the showers with a game misconduct.
The Falcons were able to kill off the five-minute penalty, but not without a lot of help from Sigalet.
"At one point, there were at least four, five, six whacks right there in the crease, and he just fell on the puck, saving every single shot," said BG winger Alex Foster.
"[The] game wasn't over by any stretch at 4-1," said BG head coach Scott Paluch. "That's a real big kill against the second-best power play in our league. There's a lot of skilled players out there on that power play. To go for the whole five minutes and hold them off was big."
The Broncos struck at the 7:31 mark of the opening period. Sophomore winger Kevin Labatte notched his fourth goal of the season by pushing the puck through the legs of Sigalet on a scrum in front of the net. Brent Walton and Jason Moul assisted on the play.
The Falcons tied the game on a power play at 14:53 of the period. Sophomore James Unger, standing at the bottom of the circle fired a shot at a sharp angle that found the net to knot the game at one. Ryan Minnabarriet and Michael Hodgson assisted. For Unger, it was his 10th goal of the year.
The game winner came early in the second period for the Falcons. Steve Brudzewski notched his eighth goal of the year at the 3:30 mark of the period, getting his own rebound off a shot between the circles and depositing into the glove of Western goalie Dan Bellissimo, who allowed the puck to trickle out and into the net. John Mazzei was credited with an assist.
The Falcons made it 3-1 halfway through the stanza on an Alex Foster goal that came from the left circle. Mike Nesdill picked up the assist on the goal.
"I just jumped on the ice for Steve Brudzewski. I look up and the puck is just flying through the air," said Foster. "I just knocked it down with my stick, and once I had it on my stick in the slot, I saw the lower-left corner and scored. I really don't know how it got on my stick, but once it was on the stick, it was in the net."
Jonathan Matsumoto scored at 3:52 of the third period to increase Bowling Green's lead to 4-1. He notched his 14th goal of the year, picking up a rebound off Foster's shot and depositing the puck top shelf. Mike Falk added an assist for the Falcons.
The Falcons were 2 of 7 on the power play, while the Broncos were shut out in five attempts.
Bellissimo stopped 38 of 42 shots on the night.
The Falcons and Broncos will face off again Saturday night. The puck is set to drop at 7:05 p.m.
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Relationship of Biology to other Sciences
There is relationship between different biological sciences we are going to discuss here. As naturally both living and nonliving organisms exits, therefore various branches of science study the different aspects of life. For an example there is stuff to study about living and nonliving organisms in physics. Various information are integrated in biology involving to organism's life, are also related to other branches of science. Due to this relationship between the sciences "Interdisciplinary Sciences" arouse. Some of Interdisciplinary Sciences to biology are as under:-
In this branch of science we study about various biological phenomenon according to principles of physics. For example, we observe the realistic principles of "Lever" and demonstrate these principles in movement of muscles and bones.
The study of different compound and chemical reactions in cells of organisms is called biochemistry. For example use the knowledge of chemistry to understand the principles of photosynthesis and respiration.
In this branch of science we study the biological phenomenon with the help of mathematics principles to obtain maximum biological research results. For an example after conducting tests biologists use mathematical procedures to complete their statistics.
is a branch of science involved with the study of various species and organisms spread over a particular geographical region and study of plants and animals on the basis of geographical distribution is called Biogeography. As geography knowledge is used to carry out study.
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To Build a Fire
by Jack London
To Build a Fire To Build a Fire Summary
- An unnamed man is making his way through the white snow of Alaska. And it's really, really cold out.
- He's not concerned about the cold or the lack of sunlight, but not because he's used to it. He's actually a chechaquo, or "newcomer" to the Yukon.
- The narrator then tells us that the man's "trouble" is that "he is without imagination" (3).
- See, the guy knows the day is cold, but doesn't really spend any time wondering about how his frail human body will stand up to it. He doesn't seem to grasp how tiny and ant-like he is in this giant abyss of arctic snow.
- Spitting into the air, the man hears a sharp crackle and realizes that his saliva has frozen before hitting the snow. This means that it must be colder than fifty degrees below zero.
- The narrator tells us that the man is heading for a mining camp on Henderson Creek, where a bunch of his buddies are waiting for him with a nice fire and some tasty bacon.
- Traveling alongside the man is a native husky, which is closer to a wolf than your average dog. The husky isn't all that happy about traveling in such chilly weather, but it stays on the man's heels, hoping that the man will soon stop to make a nice cozy fire.
- There are nine hours of hiking ahead of the man, so we readers get the sense that he's a pretty tough dude, even if he doesn't know all that much about the Klondike.
- When he finally reaches Henderson Creek, the man starts walking along the ice. The creek is frozen to the bottom, but there are some underground hot springs that make little pockets of water in the ice, and it's very dangerous to get your feet wet when it's so cold out. Did we mention that it's really, really cold?
- Always the gentleman, the man decides to send the dog ahead of him.
- As expected, the dog breaks through the ice and gets it legs wet. The man helps get the ice off the animal's feet, and is surprised by how quickly his fingers go numb when he takes them out of his mittens.
- After he stops to build a fire (Title!), the man whips out his half-frozen biscuits and chows down.
- When he gets up, the dog is reluctant to leave the fire, for obvious reasons.
- After walking for a while longer, the man breaks through the ice himself and has to stop and build a fire all over again to dry his boots and warm his feet.
- As he builds a new fire, he thinks about an old man from Sulphur Creek who told him that folks should never travel alone in the Yukon when it's colder than fifty degrees below zero.
- But he thinks the old-timer is a little too "womanish" and gives himself a big pat on the back for being a "real" man. Of course when he tries to build his next fire, he can barely grip a twig with his fingers. Yeah, super manly.
- The man gets another fire going; but he's made a mistake by building it under a spruce tree.
- When he keeps pulling twigs off the tree, he shakes the thing so that a bunch of snow falls off its branches and buries his fire. He almost freaks out at his bad luck, but stays calm and starts to build another fire.
- The man has more trouble this time around because his fingers are so numb he can't pull a single match away from his pack of seventy. He tears one out with his teeth, but when he tries to hold the lit match to a piece of birch bark, the smoke goes up his nose and almost makes him cough up a lung.
- For his next attempt, he lights all of his matches at once and just holds them to the kindling by using his hands as stumps.
- The fire kindles, but when the man tries to load some more fuel onto it, he breaks up the fire with his clumsy hands and scatters the pieces in all directions. They all go up in smoke, and now the man knows he's in really big trouble.
- He starts to wonder if the old-timer from Sulphur Creek might have been right about this never-travel-alone business.
- When it seems like he's out of options, the man gets a crazy idea and starts to look at his dog as if it were a giant mitten. He thinks that if he can kill the dog, he can plunge his hands into its body and warm them until the feeling comes back.
- Next thing you know, he tackles the dog, only to realize that there's no way he can kill the animal. He can't use his hands to grab a knife or strangle the thing, so he gives up and the insulted dog runs forty feet away and stops there to watch the man.
- The man realizes that there's a pretty good chance he's going to die, so he starts running as fast as he can in the direction of the mining camp.
- He feels his body heat up at first and grows optimistic. But then he runs out of gas and realizes that he'll never make it. He feels ashamed for running around like some shmuck, so he decides to meet death with dignity.
- Lying down in the snow, the man drifts off into sleep.
- As he dies, he has a vision of himself with his crowd of buddies discovering his own body the next day. Then he thinks of the old timer who warned him against traveling alone, and admits that he was world-class idiot to do so.
- The man dies.
- The dog doesn't know what's going on at first, but after it catches the smell of death, it howls for a while and then trots off toward the camp, where it knows it can get food and have a nice fire. And bacon.
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Terrance Howard has had a busy year! ee Daniels' "The Butler" and "Prisoners" were both summer box office hits and Howard played vital supporting roles in both movies. Howard's character is true to his outspoken, wild-humored self and he raised the bar on the stirring trouble in the company of his college buddies.
I was hesitant and skeptical to see this movie. After Tyler Perry's "Why Did I Get Married Too," I thought there was no hope for Black directors and their sequels. "Why Did I Get Married Too" had a dry plot and a surprise ending that was not conducive to movie's sequence of events.
"The Best Man Holiday" initially had the same feel but Director Malcolm D. Lee transformed the movie with a strong climax and it turned out to be a remarkably impressive movie.
I found myself crying ('cause y'all know I'm a softy) as some of the movie's shocking moments hit close to home.
4 STARS: The holiday season always emerges with some wonderful movies like "Home Alone" (1990), "This Christmas" (2007), and "Elf" (2003), and you can add "The Best Man Holiday" to the list.
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College Hockey:Providence positioning itself atop next band of Hockey East teams
Few people around Hockey East will deny that this was one pretty crazy first half of the season.
We mentioned weeks ago that the league began separating into two parts: a top three and a bottom seven.
Truth be told, at some point a middle will almost inevitably be defined. And the leader of that pack might just be Providence.
The Friars aren't very close to third place (five points behind) and are just two points ahead of a fifth-place trio of Merrimack, Massachusetts and Vermont. But having seen all of those teams thus far, I can definitively say that the talent level on the Friars stands out from the rest of the bottom six.
Last Friday night, that was on display at home when the Friars battled to a 3-3 tie with Boston College. Providence rallied from a two-goal, third-period deficit and, most importantly, played with composure.
That's something that coach Nate Leaman didn't see last season.
"We struggle sometimes executing the game plan for 60 minutes," Leaman said. "We could've easily imploded [against BC]. They kept coming back in the game. That's a good learning tool for us. In the past, if you look at our record, when we get down by a goal, it hasn't been very good.
"I thought it was a good sign for our team sticking with the game plan and showing some mental toughness."
Even as the team entered overtime and BC had the better of the chances to score, Leaman said he believed that the result wasn't going to be indicative of how he felt about the game.
"I was going to be proud of the guys no matter what because they stayed in the process and they executed," Leaman said. "For our team it's about the process right now. We want to keep getting points in the league, but our goal is to be playing our best hockey in February and keep improving. I saw improvement in our team in some key areas [against BC]."
All of the positives said, Leaman is conscious of the fact that his Friars team isn't where he wants it to be. That said, when you look at the makeup of the league right now — with BC, Boston University and New Hampshire seeming like consensus top-three teams — being in position to take the fourth and final home-ice spot could be one of the most valued commodities come the second half.
"We're just trying to stay in the process and make sure that we're trying to get better every time," Leaman said. "We're just trying to give them the little things to focus on."
Are the River Hawks back?
If Maine weren't in Hockey East, Massachusetts-Lowell easily would be the biggest disappointment in Hockey East through the first half of the season.
The River Hawks began last weekend 2-6-1 in Hockey East and 4-7-1 overall, that after coming off an NCAA tournament season and losing few key players from the lineup.
Things, though, haven't gone as planned for coach Norm Bazin through the holiday break. So last week's two victories — through which the River Hawks didn't allow a single goal — could be a motivating factor for Bazin and his club.
Lowell whitewashed Northeastern on Saturday with a 2-0 win, a game in which the Huskies posted just 10 shots in the first two periods. On Monday, Lowell blanked Harvard 5-0 on the road to close the first half just a game below .500 overall.
Both shutouts came from rookie goaltender Connor Hellebuyck. Realizing that Doug Carr was the man between the pipes that carried this team last season, you would wonder if there might be a goaltending issue in Lowell.
That is difficult to determine, but watching the River Hawks play on Monday, it seems this is a team that has a renewed defensive focus. While Hellebuyck stood his ground and played well, he hardly had to steal the game.
If anything, Lowell seems like a team that is more focused on how to score goals. That's something that Bazin admitted was a major focus in recent days.
"When things aren't going your way, you talk to your team about a lot of stuff," Bazin said. "We really talked to our defensemen in the last few weeks to contribute because we only had one goal from the back end."
On Monday, three different defensemen found the back of the net, music to Bazin's ears. But there still is a long way to go for this club, their coach said.
"You don't have enough time to go through the things [that have impacted the team]," Bazin said. "When things aren't going well, it's a domino effect.
"But we finish off [the first half] with two wins and I think that's a great place to be. I wish we could keep playing. But we still have a mountain to climb. We worked ourselves into a hole and we have to work ourselves out of it."
OK, seriously, where is Maine?
I mentioned the Black Bears and their offensive troubles earlier. But a quick talk about struggles doesn't sum up where this team is right now.
Last Saturday night, Maine played an excellent game against a very good Boston University team. Maine came out slow, fell behind 1-0 on an early BU power-play goal and then lost by that same 1-0 score.
What was mind blowing was that the Black Bears had a five-minute power play for much of the closing minutes and couldn't even come close to converting.
So the question is, what the heck happened to this Black Bears team's offense?
Maine lost two talented players in Spencer Abbott (a Hobey Baker Award finalist) and Brian Flynn. Joey Diamond is the only returning player from the team's top five scorers but everyone believed that Maine had one of the nation's top offensive recruiting classes.
Thus far, rookie Devin Shore has more than done his job. He has scored seven points in 15 games as a rookie. The problem is, Shore's numbers lead the team.
Maine's offense is anemic. It has averaged just 1.33 goals per game, last in the country. The Black Bears' power play, one of the best in the nation last year, ranks second to last (only Harvard is worse), and was a major contributor to last Saturday's loss at BU.
It's difficult to say why Maine is this bad. Youth is a crutch a coach can lean on through the first-half break, in this writer's opinion. Once the calendar turns to 2013, the fact is Maine needs to show some improvement.
If not, this could be a very long, cold winter in Orono.
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On our way home I noticed the large anchor which sits at the edge of the Parker Mountain Cemetery. The anchor as a form of lawn art is something unique to communities who have made their living from the sea. Anchors are an interesting symbol. As I drive around Nova Scotia I always smile when I find an anchor sitting on someone's lawn. They clearly show a connection to the community's past. Like many communities along the Bayshore, Parker's Cove has a tradition of both fishing and shipbuilding. At the end of the age of sail, many of the shipyards closed and these communities turned to the fisheries to sustain them. Anchors were an essential piece of shipboard equipment and were often needed to keep the crew safe. Ironically, these weathered anchors are often the only surviving evidence of ships and men who have long since passed into history.
The anchor is also an interesting symbol as it currently stands. The anchor sits on land in quiet defiance of the wind and elements. This would mirror the spirit of many maritime communities who have eked out their existence despite harsh climate and countless hardships.
While I do not know the history of this particular anchor, I can tell that it is from the end of the age of sail. This anchor was probably made sometime around 1900. The top shaft on earlier anchors would have been made of wood rather than metal. The anchor itself is made from iron. You can tell that it is iron by the parallel lines which run the length of the anchor. You do not see this type of feature on items made from steel.
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Hookah smoking is soaring in popularity among teens and young adults in the US. Researchers at the UCLA School of Nursing visited three Southern California hookah lounges to assess whether patrons were aware of the harmful effects of inhaling the smoke. They found that many of the water pipe smokers were unaware that it was harmful. They published their findings in the July–August edition of the journal Nursing Research.
Last December, the California Department of Public Health issued a warning that hookah smoking was at least as harmful as cigarette smoking. Smoke from hookah tobacco retains all the carcinogens of cigarette smoke; furthermore, it contains more carbon monoxide and added carcinogens from the use of burning coals that are used to keep the nicotine flowing. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), during a typical hour-long session, a hookah user inhales 100 to 200 times the volume of smoke inhaled from a single cigarette.
Despite a growing body of evidence that hookah smoking can be even more dangerous than cigarette smoking, many young adults believe that using them is not harmful to their health. The UCLA investigators queried patrons between the ages of 18 and 30 at the lounges and found that many were totally unaware that the practice was harmful. They asked the patrons whether they belied that hookah smoking is harmful to your health. They found that 57% said they thought that it was not. When the patrons were asked why they thought hookahs were not harmful, 47% said they believed that the smoke gets filtered through water, and 35% said they thought that fruit used to flavor the tobacco detoxified tobacco's harmful chemicals. Some (16%) made the ridiculous statement that hookahs are not harmful because the tobacco is not addictive and does not contain nicotine. All of these responses were glaring misconceptions.
"With hookah smoking on the rise, particularly among young adults, our goal was to identify factors influencing perceptions, attitudes and preferences toward hookah smoking," explained lead researcher Mary Rezk-Hanna, a UCLA nursing doctoral student. She noted that other recent studies have reported that even as cigarette use continues to decline, hookah smoking is increasing, particularly among college students. It is the only tobacco use practice that is not regulated in the US; furthermore, its exemption from clean indoor air legislation, such as the California Clean Air Act, is fueling its rapidly growing popularity. California alone contains more than 2,000 shops that sell hookah tobacco and related products; furthermore, a disproportionate number (175) of hookah lounges and cafes are in Los Angeles, near universities and colleges.
The investigators queried the hookah lounge patrons why they considered hookah smoking to be a more attractive to cigarette smoking; 60% said that it was a trendy way of socializing. Although 43% were aware that hookah smoking was harmful, they were of the opinion that socializing with friends outweighed the health concerns. Ms. Rezk-Hanna explained that hookah smoking is heavily marketed in the US to young adults of all ethnic backgrounds as an attractive social phenomenon and a non-addictive, healthier alternative to cigarette smoking. She noted, "This study underscores the urgent importance of more research and campaigns to increase public knowledge on the dangers of hookah smoking, especially among young adults. Understanding the basis of these perceptions and beliefs is of particular relevance for helping healthcare professionals design effective prevention and intervention strategies that target young-adult hookah smokers."


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It is becoming increasingly clear that Karl Rove is what's wrong with the Republican Party and has about the same level of credibility in my estimation as do James Carville and Dick Morris. All hyper-partisan spin doctors who have been significantly wrong about political matters and policies. It appears that Rove may be backing a Jeb Bush candidacy although the Republicans and the rest of America have not fared well under the Bush leadership. Bush 41 was all about insiders, crony capitalism, spending, and secrecy. Bush 43 was all about insiders, crony capitalism, spending, and super-secrecy. Bush 43 being responsible for the events that gave us a nobody President, Barack Hussein Obama! While a Bush Presidency is preferable to another corrupt, socialist, ideologue being elected President, trusting another Bush and their cadre of insiders is foolhardy.
I also found Karl Rove's attack on a fellow Republican interesting …
Karl Rove Attacks Fellow Republican
In June, Karl Rove was speaking at the Aspen Ideas Festival when he made a comment that is now shocking the conservative world:
"The most liberal Republican is Justin Amash of Michigan. Far more liberal than any other Republican… And why? Because he is a 100 percent, purist libertarian… and if it's not entirely perfect, 'I'm voting with [House Minority Leader] Nancy Pelosi.'"
Open Congress, a website that tracks all of the votes of our Congressmen, rates Justin Amash as the House Republican who votes least with Nancy Pelosi. He also noted on twitter that he has a lifetime conservative score of 100% from the Club for Growth, Freedom Works, and the Cato Institute (which is a conservative leaning libertarian think tank).
To be fair to Rove, Representative Amash is a libertarian Republican. He does oppose the Republican Party more than most of his colleagues… but what does it say about Amash when he is the Republican who votes least with the Democrats and least with his own Party?
If Justin Amash is voting less with the Democrats than his own Party is, doesn't that say something about the state of our Party?
It's high time that we cut RINO's like Karl Rove, John McCain, and Lindsey Graham from the Republican Party. They are dragging us ever closer to the Democrat Party on issues across the board, staring with our economic principles.
Let me ask it this way – Does the fact that Justin Amash is the Republican who votes least with his own party mean he is a liberal? Or, does the fact that Justin Amash is the Republican who votes least with Nancy Pelosi mean that the Republican Party in general has become too liberal? More at: Karl Rove Attacks Fellow Republican : The Last Resistance
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WBC and WBA light welterweight champion Danny Garcia (29-0, 17 KOs), defeated Rod Salka (19-4, 3 KOs) by knockout yesterday at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
The bout was the featured main event of the evening on a card presented by Golden Boy Promotions, and televised live on Showtime Boxing.
Garcia had no trouble from Salka, he was in control from the first bell. In round two, it was the beginning of the end for Salka as Danny Garcia landed a crushing right that stunned Salka.
Soon after, Garcia landed a series of blows that dropped Salka for the first of his three knockdowns, Salka beat the count, but was clearly dazed by the shots thrown by Garcia.
Just over a minute into round two, Garcia continued his punishment on Salka, walking him down and landing shots at will. Salka did the best he could, but could only throw a few punches, and was forced to fight in a defensive mode. A hard right by Garcia sent Salka to his knees for a second time, but he again beat the count.
Salka continued fighting with heart, but could do little against the dominant Garcia and his barrage of incoming punches. At 2:31 of round two, the final knockdown for Salka would come as Garcia threw a looping left, dropping Salka to the canvas on his back. His corner quickly threw in the towel, as Salka could take no more.
The fight was clearly a mismatch, but a needed win for Garcia. A controversial win in March of this year over Mauricio Herrera tested Garcia, and many felt Herrera did enough to win that fight.
As we all know, boxing is business more than it is a sport, many fights never happen due to many factors. For Garcia, this win sets up a possible match against Lamont Peterson, a bout boxing fans truly want to see.


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There are few things as exciting as the upset in professional sports. On Saturday, May 24 2014 the world of mixed martial arts experienced what is perhaps the biggest upset in the sport as T.J. Dillashaw defeated Renan Barao to become the new bantamweight champion.
Coming into UFC 173 Dillashaw was a 9-1 betting underdog in some places, but that didn't stop him from beating Barao handily. From the start of the contest he would dominant the Brazilian champion in a way that had never occurred. The end came at 2:26 into the fifth round when Dillashaw landed a head kick then followed up to punches on his grounded opponent.
Barao had not been defeated for nearly ten years as he put together a 33 fight unbeaten streak that was nearly three times as long as T.J.'s entire career.
Daniel Cormier put on a showcase in the co-main event of the night as he trounced former champion Dan Henderson. Henderson was outclassed right from the start as he was thrown around by another former Olympic wrestler. Cormier would become only the fourth man to submit Hendo when he forced the tap out via rear-naked choke at 3:53 in the third.
Cormier would waste no time as he would call out the current light heavyweight champion, Jon Jones, once again. Even though Henderson is 43 years of age and has accomplished a lot in the sport of MMA, he would mention that he may return to the 185 pound division to continue his fight career.
Robbie Lawler would get back on the winning track as he stopped Jake Ellenberger in the third round of their welterweight affair. "Ruthless" had an answer for everything that Jake brought to the table and has solidified his place as one of the top contenders at 170 pounds.
Lawler started out strongly as he landed multiple body kicks that forced Ellenberger to back peddle. From that point forward, Jake struggled to get any offense going until the third round when he started to land heavy shots. That was until Robbie would land a crisp jab followed up by a jumping knee to drop his opponent and set up the finish.
Takeya Mizugaki and Francisco Rivera both had a lot on the line coming into their fight at 135 pounds as both competitors have been on length runs. In a back and forth bout, Takeya would get the division victory and move further up the ladder.
Mizugaki and Rivera would trade on both the feet and on the floor with Takeya looking to be a slight favorite on the judges's cards at the sound of each bell. He would seal the bout in the third round when he would spend most of the time in Rivera's guard. This would be Mizugaki's fifth straight win in two years to improve to 20-7.
James Krause and Jamie Varner would open up the night in the lightweight division. While Krause would get the win due to an ankle injury, it would be Varner who would walk out of the cage to cheers.
At some point in the first round Varner would misstep and severely damage his ankle. From that point on he would basically fight on one foot as he stumbled and fell throughout the cage. Still, he would never stop fighting back and it wouldn't be until the end of the round that the referee had the opportunity to check his ankle and see how bad the damage actually was. The fight was immediately stopped and Varner was helped out of the cage to a standing ovation.
When UFC 173 was announced the original idea was to place Chris Weidman against Vitor Belfort which would change to Lyoto Machida. An injury would force that fight from the card and it was replaced by Renan Barao versus T.J. Dillashaw. Fans did not believe the fight was as exciting as promoted but all of the bouts on the evening delivered from start to finish. With so many stories to come out of the results, it will be interesting to see how the MMA world will respond to the underdog turned champion in T.J. Dillashaw.


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Alabama Power, a subsidiary of Southern Company, owns and operates Plant Barry located in Mobile, Alabama.
The carbon capture plant, recognized as the largest facility of its kind in the world, uses the KM CDR Process capture technology, which was co-developed by The Kansai Electric Power and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. Southern Company partnered in the development of the carbon capture facility, which can capture nearly 500 tons of CO2 per day in a deep saline geologic form for permanent underground storage.
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Lizamoon mass injection attack hits Apple iTunes
While you've been browsing around the web, you may have noticed that a few web URLs have been exhibiting a similar name in the address, Liza Moon. That's because of a new malicious mass injection campaign that has been targeting thousands of sites with insecure code.
Lizamoon is an SQL mass injection attack that inserts a line of code into the URL ( ), and was discovered and identified by the Websense Security Labs and the Websense Threatseeker Network. They're not sure what the effects of the attack are, because the site it points to is down at present, but have reported that over 28,000 sites have been hit, including many iTunes RSS/XML feeds for podcasts and lists of episodes:
"While it was up, the script contained simple JavaScript code that redirected the user to a well-known Rogue AV site: hxxp://defender-uqko.in," said WebSense. "That site is also unavailable right now, so we don't have the actual binary analysis information available yet."
The domain lizamoon.com was registered several days ago with "clearly fake information".
The Inquirer reminds us that it was an SQL mass injection attack, undertaken by hacker Albert Gonzales (currently serving 20 years at Her Majesty's pleasure), that broke into the files of UK retailer TK Maxx and stole over 130,000 credit card numbers - some of which are still being cloned to this very day.
Thankfully, iTunes users shouldn't worry though as the code will not directly affect them: "The good thing is that Itunes encodes the script tags, which means that the script doesn't execute on the user's computer," WebSense states.
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The late 80's found R&B rapidly morphing into raps less raucous cousin and two of the artists who spearheaded that charge were Bobby Brown and Al B. Sure!
Brown's acrimonious split with his Boston brethren, New Edition immediately spawned the relatively lackluster King of Stage. Two years and a shifted production team later though (with up and coming producer Teddy Riley in the mix), Brown lifted R&B to edgier heights with the classic Don't Be Cruel. The album was a slick mix of old school soul, new school rap and tweener pop that put Brown on the superstar map both critically and commercially. It also had a hand in getting tongues wagging about a new blend known as new jack swing.
Don't Be Cruel would have stood head and shoulders over everything sonically similar if it wasn't for another album by newcomer Al. B Sure that was released a month prior. In Effect Mode's move up the chart wasn't quite as quick as Brown's LP, but once it splashed into the mainstream, it was heavy duty competition for the already seasoned young crooner. In Effect Mode was smooth and soulful while pushing the envelope of appropriate content. And you know Teddy has a production credit buried in there as well. However, one has to be seen as the foundation of the market that Riley cornered.
Presenting Brown dramatically as the cool bad boy of the NE family, Don't Be Cruel was a pounding thrill ride through a new subgenre. However, Brown, L.A. Reid and Babyface still managed to insert just enough lovey dovey panache to balance the release perfectly. No longer was Bobby looking for a girlfriend.
He found her, rocked with her and then blasted her because she needed to chill with the attitude. The production came with whispers of 70's soul, bubble gum pop, funk laden dance numbers and plenty of drum swing for the solo new jack who went on to sell over 8 million copies. However, some late 80's aficionados believe that Bobby was edged out on the album quality tip.
In Effect Mode was the debut album from a then unknown Al B. Sure and even though the lead single "Nite and Day" got more than its fair share of airplay, Sure was still seen as a untested commodity. A crack production team including Kyle West, Andre Harrel and you guessed it… Teddy Riley took Sure and his multi octave voice from satin sheet anthems to running man dance specials with a healthy dose of Teddy's soon to be swing sound sprinkled all around.
Al B. Sure sang in Spanish, covered Roberta Flack before Lauryn and even chased a lesbian around in introduction. Yet the album managed a tight sonic cohesion that ribboned through the entirety of the concise offering.
Of the pair though, one has to be better. Is it Brown's sophomore offering that established his prerogative of R&B domination while coining one of the last innocent girl nicknames in the realm of urban music. Or is it Al B.Sure's sexy debut that laid the foundation of Riley's climb to swing svegali and made uni-brows totally cool? You decide.
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No general tickets left for Newcastle fixture.
The Stadium of Light will play host to a capacity crowd for the forthcoming Wear-Tyne derby on Sunday 21st October (KO 1.30pm) with the game now sold out.
Supporters have been quick to snap up tickets for the game against Newcastle United which will see the entire lower bowl packed with only home supporters for the first time in a Wear-Tyne derby at the stadium.
Only a small number of hospitality packages remain available for the game - however, supporters are reminded that these are not available to purchase from the ticket office.
Supporters wishing to purchase hospitality packages can do so be contacting a member of the club's hospitality team on 0871 911 1500.
Cash turnstiles will not be in operation on the day of the game, however the Stadium of Light ticket office will be open from 10am on the day of the game for supporters wishing to collect tickets that have been pre-ordered over the phone.
Turnstiles will be open from 12 noon and supporters are advised to arrive early to avoid any possible queues or delays in accessing the stadium.
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Letter from Burgundy, 2-15: Out of Africa, not
out of the 'African Dance' Ghetto
Bienvenue to the Francophone Scene
By Marisa C. Hayes
Copyright 2008 Marisa C. Hayes
LE CREUSOT (Saone et Loire), France -- As part of
its second annual Francophone series, L'ARC Scene
Nationale presented a contemporary West African
choreographers platform January 19. Well, sort
The event was billed as "a day dedicated to the
vitality of African choreographers." So imagine
my surprise when the curtain opened to reveal
Xavier Lot's "Welcome to Bienvenue." Lot is an
established French choreographer with no real
visible ties to West Africa unless, like most of
his countrymen, he has visited the former French
colonies on vacation. While he did conceive the
piece as a solo for a dancer from Burkina Faso,
its inclusion in the program was confusing.
With so few opportunities to see examples of
contemporary West African choreography, and only
three slots on the entire program, surely an
additional choreographer from the 17 countries
that make up West Africa was available.
According to Joan D. Frosch, director of the new
dance documentary, "Movement (R)evolution
Africa," the African continent as a whole (with
particular emphasis on its Western regions) is
home to an active contemporary dance scene,
struggling but vibrant. If the dynamic
pre-performance discussion is any indication,
there are a lot of up-and-coming West African
choreographers whose work sounds varied and
intriguing, making it all the more regrettable
that audiences didn't get a better chance to
sample them on this program.
Notwithstanding its questionable presence at an African choreography
platform, "Welcome to Bienvenue" is 40 minutes of
quality dance. It begins with small lamps that
descend from the ceiling, hung on loose cords in
neat rows of five. Dancer Bienvenue Bazie enters
and completes various actions with the lights:
sometimes illuminating them, sometimes swinging
their cords so that the lamps themselves dance of
their own accord. Bazie's tall, muscular frame
first works its way through a long series of
intricate floor postures before undergoing a set
of contemplative standing sequences. With his
back painted in white numbers and letters
representing his French visa application -- a
difficult process that took six months to
complete in real life -- he finishes the dance by
slowly rubbing against the floor, undulating and
articulating his shoulders and back until the
paint eventually wears off and is spread across
the black stage in large smears. This is the
most memorable section of "Welcome to Bienvenue,"
and not as contrived as it sounds. The
sequence in question is without climax, and as a
result, avoids becoming excessive. Instead, the
piece sustains an ambient pulse. It's never
really clear when the paint has been removed or
if it's ever completely wiped away. Certain
aspects of the performance could easily lead to a
literal discussion of immigration policies and
ethnic identity in France (certainly hot topics
in the country today), but more than that,
"Welcome to Bienvenue" retains an abstract sense
of journey, as if the audience were privy to a
personal tour of the dancer's interior landscape.
"Impro-Vise 2" followed suit, choreographed and
performed by Andreya Ouamba (Republic of the
Congo) and Fatou Cisse (Senegal). Inspired by
their experience with street children in Dakar,
the Senegalese capitol where both young dancers
are based, the pair used themes of displacement,
sense of space and physical violence as starting
points to develop an improvisational practice
that evolved into the structured and abstract
work performed here. The only clear references
to street children are the opening music sung by
Richard Bona -- afterwards
silence and ambient soundscapes accompany the
choreography -- and a sculpted pile of discarded
newspapers from which the dancers initially
emerge that remains softly lit in the corner.
Ouamba and Cisse possess a strong knowledge of
how to use the stage as a vast territory. In
"Impro-Vise 2" the dancers work with a variety of
impressive directional changes and spatial
configurations, while exploring underused areas
of the traditional stage such as the extreme rear
proscenium and places where their bodies remain
partially concealed in the wings. Using a
handful of movement influences, from a startling
Butoh-like moment that leaves Ouamba hovering
center stage, to a more athletic physicality, the
two dancers are decidedly contemporary, without a
trace of the folkloric ritual that so often defines
the way we envision African dance. Ouamba even
laughingly admitted during the pre-performance
discussion that his earliest dance training came
from watching Michael Jackson. He relayed how
most children and teenagers in West Africa today
aren't interested in traditional dance and music,
creating a strong generational divide in the
population. This simple observation is
important, not in order to discourage
preservation of folkloric traditions in Africa,
but because the household stereotype of African
artists as "ancient guardians of tradition"
undermines the work that choreographers like
Ouamba and Cisse are doing today to share their
lives in a contemporary context.
The rift in age and attitude became readily
apparent during the third and final performance
of the night, "Le Sacre du Tempo." Mid-career
choreographer Irene Tassembedo is a native of
Burkina Faso, but currently works in Paris while
retaining strong ties with her native country and
working frequently in neighboring West African
regions. She was recently introduced to American
audiences through her work with the Dayton
Contemporary Dance Company. Tassembedo developed
"Le Sacre du Tempo" in relation to attitudes
about mental balance and instability after the
subsequent deaths of her mother and brother
within a short time period. She relies heavily
on traditional Burkinabe motifs -- both visual and choreographic --
to examine the rituals of trance as a source
for finding one's equilibrium. In a recent
interview with "Journal de L'ARC," she cited
tradition as the essence of her identity and as
her constant source of inspiration. Live
drumming and polycentric movements with intensive
use of the shoulders and upper back characterize
the prominent features of West African folk
dance, and Tassembedo doesn't depart much from
these traits except to use the floor from time to
time. Her contemporary approach lies not in the
movement itself, but in its application to modern
situations that fall outside the traditional
purpose of long established ceremonies.
Tassembedo also employs a multi-cultural cast of
dancers, emphasizing that her work is not simply
"African." Unfortunately, in this performance,
her global endeavor took on the mishmash
qualities of a world fusion CD. Sangeeta
Isvaran, a classically trained Indian dancer, was
clad in the vibrant silk garments and ankle bells
of the Bharatanatyam dance style. Her skill was
readily apparent, but her relevance to the show
was entirely unclear. For over an hour, the cast
of seven (including Isvaran, five African dancers
and one Franco-Italian) rotated, appearing in
pairs, short solos, or as an ensemble, recycling
their respective movement vocabularies at length.
Aside from an opening scene during which the
dancers approached a small ritual table, there
was little structure to "Le Sacre du Tempo." Its
physically rigorous choreography, however, was
admirably performed by an able cast of dancers.
Judging by the increasingly strong African
presence at important venues in France
like the Montpellier Dance Festival,
there are numerous other West African
choreographers of the same caliber as Andreya
Ouamba and Fatou Cisse. Next time, I hope to see
them presented for their own artistic merits and
not just as part of an African diaspora event.
We do ourselves a disservice by ignoring the
contemporary voices of a vast and ethnically
diverse continent (yes, remember Africa IS a
continent NOT a country) of which we have far too
little exposure outside media coverage of an
ill-fated humanity torn apart by poverty and
political instability (now more than ever with recent crises
in Chad and Kenya added to that of Darfur).
Choreographers like
Ouamba, Cisse, and even Tassembedo refute any assigned third
world identity, claiming their rightful place on
stage as contemporary artists.
Marisa C. Hayes narrowly missed being dismissed
from her first ballet class at the age of six
when she announced, "I can jump like
Baryshnikov!," ran to the center of the studio
and attempted to execute her best grand jeté.
Marisa has since avoided further
catastrophic events in the studio and even
managed to obtain a degree in contemporary dance
and video/film studies from Goddard College
(Vermont) and Virginia Commonwealth University.
She also studied Butoh in Japan with Kazuo and Yoshito
Ohno. Marisa primarily creates dance for the
screen. Two of her video-dance films were
recently selected for Japan's
International Dance Film Festival and the Moscow
Video Festival. This year she received grants
and awards from Arts Link New York, the New York
Theatre Communications Group and the Ella Lyman Cabot Trust.
Marisa also teaches improvisational dance to adults with
disabilities. She is currently completing a
screen-dance installation for the National
Theatre in Burgundy, France where she lives and
co-creates with her husband and a small army of
rescue cats.
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