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Many symptoms of Narcolepsy mimic the symptoms of other common medical disorders, especially sleep disorders. Symptoms like daytime sleepiness and moodiness are common, and often go untreated because they are unrecognized. Many patients who experience the problems do not seek medical treatment; they brush the problem under the rug making diagnosing Narcolepsy very difficult. Many medical professionals also misdiagnose Narcolepsy with other sleeping disorders, depression, and even epilepsy. Because Cataplexy is the only symptom really unique to Narcolepsy, it is often its only identifier.
If a medical professional diagnoses you with Narcolepsy, or other common sleeping disorders, they are likely to refer you to a sleep specialist for further testing. Sleep clinics and sleep labs are equipped with the facilities and technology needed to evaluate the specific constrictions that accompany your individual Narcolepsy case. Sleep tests are also recommended to many patients who experience symptoms of other sleeping disorders; they can are a great tool for separating the identifying symptoms of many different disorders.
Narcolepsy Testing
Not all hospitals are equipped with sleep labs, so you may have to do a little hunting. Many universities have medical campuses that house the necessary facilities. If the university closest to you does not have a sleep clinic, they should be able to point you in the right direction. Choosing a sleep lab for your Narcolepsy testing should be a delicate, well-researched venture. Choose your sleep specialist like you would you psychiatrist; it must be someone that you can trust and are comfortable with because you will be sharing a lot of personal information.
The most commonly administered Narcolepsy test used to diagnose and understand the sleeping disorder is the polysomnogram. The polysomnogram is a rather routine test and is also used to test patients with other sleep disorders like Sleep Apnea and Parasomnia. The polysomnogram is an overnight sleep study; the patient sleeps at the facility under the care and supervision of a trained medical professional.
The patient is attached to machine through electrodes and wires. The electrodes are placed on various parts of the sleeper's body are able to pick up electrical energy from the sleeper and send the information to a machine where the activity is analyzed and interpreted into data that the test administrator records. Brain activity, eye movement, heart rhythm, breathing patterns, oxygen level changes, and even physical movements of the body can all be interpreted and recorded during sleep through a polysomnogram. Because patients with Narcolepsy enter the REM stage of sleep almost immediately upon falling asleep, the polysomnogram is a useful tool for identifying this symptom.
Multiple Sleep Latency Test
Second to the polysomnogram, the Multiple Sleep Latency test is the second most common of all Narcolepsy tests for patients who are experiencing symptoms and signs of the debilitating disorder. This test, also performed in a sleep lab under medical guidance, is used to measure the amount of time that lapses between attempting to fall asleep and actually falling asleep; Multiple Sleep Latency Testing can identify the first physical changes in the body that occur when actual sleep takes place. Like the polysomnogram, this test is often used to diagnose an array of other sleeping disorders, but the MSLT is especially effective at measured the effectiveness of current treatment methods in previously diagnosed patients.
In most cases, Multiple Sleep Latency Tests are performed the day following a polysomnogram test. Performing the test the following day allows you sleep professional to gain a more complete and accurate understanding of your unique symptoms and habits. The test is many hours long, and within this period of time, the patient is given periodic segments of twenty minutes in which he is prompted to nap. If they fall asleep, they are awakened after twenty minutes by the test administrator; if they fall asleep during their scheduled waking time, the test administrator will also wake them. The different changes and reactions that take place in the body upon falling asleep and awakening are recorded for further analysis.
Maintenance of Wakefulness Test
The third most common form of sleep testing used to identify the symptoms of Narcolepsy is the Maintenance of Wakefulness Test. Like the name of the test suggests, this sleep study is used to record a patient's ability to stay awake. Narcoleptic patients are able to use this test specifically to identify the severity of their sleep attacks, and whether or not they could be a danger to themselves or others. The Maintenance of Wakefulness Test is similar to the Multiple Sleep Latency test in that it is usually administered the day after a polysomnogram and is many hours long.
During the test, the patient is asked to try their best to maintain wakefulness; this way, the administrators are able to tell how well her body is able to stay awake naturally and without any outside influences that might alter the results. If and when a patient falls asleep, the test administrator will wake them up after ninety seconds. The test consists of periodic sessions throughout the day, and if the sleeper does not fall asleep within the first forty minutes of each session, the session will discontinue.
The Maintenance of Wakefulness Test is pretty boring. In most cases, the test is performed in a modest, quiet room that is commonly set up to look something like a hotel room. The test will probably commence a few hours after waking up from the polysomnogram. There are no sounds or distractions in the room; it is meant to be free of any outside influences that may disrupt the patient's natural ability to stay awake. The patient is placed in a bed sitting upright comfortably (most facilities will offer pillows for the patient's comfort).
Hypocretin Test
Some Narcolepsy patients, or prospective Narcolepsy patients, are recommended for Hypocretin testing. The fluid that encompasses the spinal cord is called Hypocretin, and testing the levels of Hypocretin around the spinal cord can help doctor's diagnose Narcolepsy in more difficult cases.
Hypocretin testing takes place through a spinal tap. During a spinal tap, the doctor inserts a needle into the lower back of the patient. The needle reaches the Hypocretin around the spinal cord and is able to retain some of the fluid found there. The fluid is extracted and used for Hypocretin level testing. It is an uncomfortable procedure, and is usually a last resort for patients who may be suffering from Narcolepsy.


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If the left and right limits of a function $f$ differ, do we then say that "$f$ has no limit at $c$"? (This sounds wrong considering that f has both left and right limits... but we obviously can't claim that $f$ has two limits either, since limits are unique.) Or is it simply not meaningful to be talking about the limit of $f$ at $c$ (because that would imply that the left and right limits at c are identical)?
(I do understand the concept, but linguistically, it's akin to saying that I have a left hand, and I also have a right hand, but I don't necessarily have a hand.)

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He is moving to Chicago to sell CM Punk t-shirts full time
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Actually he is in better shape recently. and lost weight plus his calves are sick!! Hopefully he can get Devon on weight loss program and reunite team 3D for one last run in WWE. Maybe put Stephanie McMahon through a table lol
This will be classless on my part but…open a nail salon…ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Did you watch TNA in 2013? Bully Ray was the #1 heel in the business during his Aces & Eights/Title reign. Your comments are ridiculous!
You know it is guys like these commenting that makes me wonder why; 1 i bother with news sites as the comments have become totally negative and asinine and 2 how the reporters hold their tongues when such idiots sprout their moronic gibberish. Bully Ray is a guy who has worked hard to get to a spot where many of you insightful tools 10 years ago wouldn't have believed it was the same guy. Comments like those from jdl. Lay your life and aspirations down so we can all have a good little chuckle. Enjoy Wrestling for what it is, a show, and stop with all your BS bleating. When Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby Heenan where calling Manias we neverhad the negative turd on everything disease that is the keyboard fans of today. Hell i will even go back to Solie. There used to be a time when respect for others in all walks of life meant something. Not so much these days.
Is that you, Bootista?
Bully Ray? Hasn't he heard the B.A. STAR campaign?
I'll take a guess too. He's calling it a career.
I take it as, he really misses the crowd reactions. Monday's crowd was off the chain. did you hear them chant C.M. Punk evertime Triple H & Stephen came out? I think "Bubba" realise he won't get that type of reaction in TNA anymore. I'm pretty sure when his contract's. up, he's going back to WWE. Hopefully Devon will go alone.
He'll never get back to WWE. Triple H and he don't get along at all from what I understand. Plus, he'd have a tougher time than Bootista. He's definitely not one of those who could return and be "over." Add to that his rather long stint and TNA and he's DOA.
Oh My God, he cant be thinking of………. doubling his training on his calf muscle, dont do it youll only crap your jeans, or the more plausible he is leaving Impact Wrestling


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Lehigh Valley Phantoms owners, announced the restaurants that will occupy Allentown's downtown hockey arena. These restaurants, in addition to the concession food stands, will be housed along the Hamilton Street side of the arena, allowing them to be open seven days a week, even when the arena is not sponsoring an event.
Chickie's and Pete's sports bar was announced last week, this Philadelphia favorite serves beer,wings, and world famous crabfries. It will house 275 in its interior, have another 50 seats on the exterior,and can be entered from inside or outside the arena.
Crust, a coal-fired pizza shop, that hold 100 patrons, will offer both sidewalk and mezzanine seating. This pizza shop is new to the region, the first in Pennsylvania, and personal favorite of Rob Brooks, who co-owns the team along with his brother, Jim.
Tom Horton's Cafe and Bake Shop, which specializes in baked goods--such as doughnuts, muffins, and bagels--as well as offering coffee and sandwiches, is the number one fast food restaurant in Canada. This franchise boast over 900 restaurants, and the arena establishment will be its first in Pennsylvania, also.
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Stevie and the Wolf!!! Is there really anything more to say than that?
It's like the Three Wolf Moon shirt but with twirling, feathered hair and a lot of scarves. And it's not a shirt. But you get what we're saying, right?
Sigh, we should've just left it at Stevie and the Wolf ($32)
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Brandon Belanger enters his first season with the Green Wave coaching staff, but is no stranger to the Tulane baseball tradition.
A 1999 first-team Louisville Slugger/Collegiate Baseball All-American and Tulane record holder, Belanger has an understanding of the goals and objectives of the Tulane baseball program after spending two years under current head coach Rick Jones as a player from 1999-2000. In his first season as a collegiate coach, Belanger will work with Tulane outfielders, instruct base running, serve as the first base coach and assist with hitting. In addition to his coaching duties, Belanger is also responsible for the many baseball camps and clinics hosted by Tulane University.
Noted as one of the most fierce competitors ever to wear a Green Wave uniform, Belanger left his mark on the program right away, setting single-season records for saves (16) and appearances (41) while finishing 11th in the nation with a Conference USA-best 2.45 ERA. He concluded his collegiate career as Tulane's all-time saves leader with 27 and ranks eighth on the ERA list with a 3.12 mark.
During his career, Belanger helped the Green Wave to back-to-back NCAA Regional appearances, including a No. 1 seed in the 1999 Auburn Regional where Tulane advanced all the way to the championship game.
Prior to joining the Green Wave as a player, Belanger spent two seasons at Copiah-Lincoln (Miss.) Community College where he was named to the Junior College All-Star Team as a sophomore.
At the conclusion of his collegiate playing career, Belanger signed with the San Diego Padres organization where he played for two years, and was being promoted to the Advanced-A level when he retired to complete his degree and begin a coaching career.
A native of Houma, La. Belanger was a standout at Vandebilt Catholic High where he starred on the baseball, soccer, football, and track and field teams. On the diamond, he earned all-state, all-district and all-region honors, and set a school record with 19 strikeouts in a game.
Belanger graduated from Tulane last December with a degree in social science. He is married to the former Angie Mullins of Monticello, Miss., and the couple is expecting their first child in June.


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what is a relation between rdf and wsdl?
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Seriously, see this link: http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl20-rdf/
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The work of the Semantic Annotations for WSDL (SAWSDL) Working Group which was started by W3C in April 2006 and finished in August 2007 as a recommendation, may be relevant to your question.
The Semantic Annotations for WSDL and XML Schema (SAWSDL) W3C Recommendation defines mechanisms using semantic annotations that can be added to WSDL components. SAWSDL does not specify a language for representing the semantic models, e.g. ontologies. Instead, it provides mechanisms by which concepts from the semantic models that are defined either within or outside the WSDL document can be referenced from within WSDL components as annotations. These semantics when expressed in formal languages can help disambiguate the description of Web services during automatic discovery and composition of the Web services.
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You can also refer to this link for further reading: WS-RDF
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In Diablo 3, when does deckard Cain discuss "Leah and Cain's travel (Act 1)"?
It becomes available after you return from the Drowned Temple with the second glowing sword shard, before you take the ferry to Wortham. The easiest way to get to this point is to start your game at "7. The Doom in Wortham". The dialog option will be immediately available from Cain at this point.
Be sure to talk to Cain before accepting the next quest from The Stranger as when you do so Cain walks into his house and then you can't talk to him anymore.
I was able to talk to him right after placing the stones in the pillars before entering into the temple, I think that that is the best time to complete this challenge


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C5th B.C., British Museum, London
THE ASTRA PLANETA were the gods of the five wandering stars or planets. They were named Phainon (the planet of Kronos, Roman Saturn), Phaethon (the planet of Zeus, Roman Jupiter), Pyroeis (the planet of Ares, Mars), Eosphoros (the planet of Aphrodite, Venus), and Stilbon (the planet of Hermes, Mercury).
In Greek vase painting they were depicted as youths diving into the river Okeanos with the rising of Helios the sun.
The planets invisible to the naked eye--Uranus, Neptune and Pluto--were only discovered and named in modern times. They were unknown to the ancients.
Hesiod, Theogony 378 ff (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or C7th B.C.) :
"And Eos (Dawn) bare to Astraios (the Starry) the strong-hearted Anemoi (Winds) . . . a goddess mating in love with a god. And after these Erigenia [Eos] bare the star Eosphorus (Dawn-bringer), and the gleaming Astra (Stars) with which heaven is crowned."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1. 8 - 9 (trans. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) :
"The Titanes had children . . . Eos and Astraios were parents of Anemoi (Winds) and Astra (Stars)."
Plato, Cratylus 400d & 409c (trans. Lamb) (Greek philosopher C4th B.C.) :
"[Plato constructs philosophical etymologies for the names of the gods :]
Sokrates : Let us inquire what thought men had in giving them [the gods] their names . . . The first men who gave names [to the gods] were no ordinary persons, but high thinkers and great talkers . . . But why should you not tell of another kind of gods, such as sun, moon, stars, earth, ether, air, fire, water, the seasons, and the year? . . . I think the stars (astera) get their name from astrapê (lightning). But astrapê, because it turns our eyes upwards (ta ôpa anastrethei), would be called anastrôpê, which is now pronounced more prettily astrapê."
Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1. 498 ff (trans. Rieu) (Greek epic C3rd B.C.) :
"He [Orpheus] sang of [the creation of the cosmos] . . . how the Astra (Stars), Selene (Moon), and travelling Helios (Sun) keep faithfully to their stations in the heavens."
Aratus, Phaenomena 454 ff (trans. Mair) (Greek astronomical poem C3rd B.C.) :
"But of quite a different class are those five other orbs [the Planetoi], that intermingle with them and wheel wandering on every side of the twelve figures of the Zodiac. No longer with the others as they guide couldst thou mark whee lies the path of those, since all pursue a shifty course, and long are the periods of their revolution and far distant lies the goal of their conjunction."
Philostratus the Elder, Imagines 1. 11 (trans. Fairbanks) (Greek rhetorician C3rd A.D.) :
"[From a description of an ancient Greek painting depicting the fall of Phaethon :] In his passion for driving this son of Helios (the Sun) [Phaethon] ventured to mount his father's chariot, but because he did not keep a firm rein he came to grief and fell into the Eridanos . . . Look! Nyx (Night) is driving Hemera (Day) from the noonday sky, and the Sun's orb as it plunges toward the earth draws in its train the Astera (Stars) [i.e. the five Planeta]."
Orphic Hymn 7 to the Stars (trans. Taylor) (Greek hymns C3rd B.C. to 2nd A.D.) :
"To the Astron (Stars) [both fixed stars and planets], Fumigation from Aromatics. With holy voice I call the stars on high, pure sacred light, and Daimones of the sky. Celestial stars, dear progeny of Nyx (Night), in whirling circles beaming far your light; refulgent rays around the heavens ye throw, eternal fires, the source of all below. With flames significant of fate ye shine, and aptly rule for men a path divine. In seven bright zones ye run with wandering flames, and heaven and earth compose your lucid frames: with course unwearied, pure and fiery bright, for ever shining through the veil of Nyx (Night). Hail, glittering, joyful, ever wakeful fires! Propitious shine on all my just desires, these sacred rites regard with conscious rays, and end our works devoted to your praise."
Anonymous, Hero and Leander Fragment (trans. Page, Vol. Select Papyri III, No. 126) (Greek poetry C3rd to 1st B.C.) :
"`Stars (asteres), bow to my prayer, and become sightless; Moon (mênê), suffer your light to sink swiftly and depart!' So she [Hero] spoke, for to see Laandros was all her heart's desire. Then did he too make supplication : `Back, Hesperos [i.e. the star Venus], to hiding!' (thus prayed Laandros). `Ride backward, all the stars, that night and heaven and sun and earth may grow dark!'"
Pseudo-Hyginus, Astronomica 2. 4 (trans. Grant) (Roman mythographer C2nd A.D.) :
"Planets. It remains for us to speak of the five stars which many have called wandering, and which the Greeks call Planeta.
One of them is the star of Jove [Zeus], Phaenon by name, a youth whom Prometheus made excelling all others in beauty, when he was making men, as Heraclides Ponticus says. When he intended to keep him back, without presenting him to Jove as he did the others, Cupid [Eros] reported this to Jove, whereupon Mercurius [Hermes] was sent to Phaenon and persuaded him to come to Jove and become immortal. Therefore he is placed among the stars.
The second star is that of Sol [Helios]; others say of Saturnus [Kronos]. Eratosthenes claim that it is called Phaethon, from the son of Sol. Many have written about him - how he foolishly drove his father's chariot and set fire to the earth. Because of this he was struck with a thunderbolt by Jove, and fell into the river Eridanus, and was conveyed by Sol to the constellations.
The third star is that of Mars [Ares], though others say it belongs to Hercules . . . Since she [Aphrodite] inflamed him violently with love, she called the star Pyroeis, indicating this fact.
The fourth star is that of Venus [Aphrodite], Luciferus [Eosphoros] by name. Some say it is Juno's. In many tales it is recorded that it is called Hesperus, too. It seems to be the largest of all stars. Some have said it represents the son of Aurora [Eos] and Cephalus, who surpassed many in beauty, so that he even vied with Venus, and, as Eratosthenes says, for this reason it is called the star of Venus. It is visible both at dawn and sunset, and so properly has been called both Luciferus and Hesperus.
This fifth star is Mercurius' [Hermes], named Stilbon. It is small and bright. It is attributed to Mercurius because he first established the months and perceived the courses of the constellations. Euhemerus says that Venus [Aphrodite] first established the constellations and taught Mercurius."
Ovid, Metamorphoses 2. 112 ff (trans. Melville) (Roman epic C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) :
"Aurora [Eos the Dawn], watchful in the reddening dawn, threw wide her crimson doors and rose-filled halls; the Stellae (Stars) took flight, in marshalled order set by Lucifer [Eosphoros] who left his station last."
Ovid, Metamorphoses 7. 192 ff :
"[The witch Medea invokes the Sun, Moon and Stars in a spell :] When she [Selene the moon] shone in fullest radiance and with form complete gazed down upon the sleeping lands below, Medea, barefoot, her long robe unfastened, her hair upon her shoulders falling loose, went forth alone upon her roaming way, in the deep stillness of the midnight hour . . . Then to the stars she stretched her arms, and thrice she turned about and thrice bedewed her locks with water, thrice a wailing cry she gave, then kneeling on the stony ground, `O Nox [Nyx the night], Mother of Mysteries, and all ye golden Astra (Stars) [probably the five Planets] who with Luna [Selene the moon] succeed the fires of day, and thou, divine three-formed Hecate, who . . . dost fortify the arts of magic . . . be with me now!'"
Cicero, De Natura Deorum 2. 15 & 20 ff (trans. Rackham) (Roman rhetorician C1st B.C.) :
"We must also assign the same divinity to the Stellae (Stars) [fixed and wandering], which are formed from the most mobile and the purest part of the aether (upper atmosphere), and are not compounded of any other element besides; they are of a fiery heat and translucent throughout. Hence they too have the fullest right to be pronounced living beings endowed with sensation and intelligence . . .
The Stellae (Stars) occupy the region of aether, and as this has a very rarefied substance and is always in lively motion . . .
Most marvellous [of all the stars of heaven] are the motions of the five Stellae, falsely called Planeta or Stellae Errantes (Wandering Stars)--for a thing cannot be said to wander if it preserves for all eternity fixed and regular motions, forward, backward and in other directions. And this regularity is all the more marvellous in the case of the Stellae we speak of, because at one time they are hidden and at another they are uncovered again; now they approach, now retire; now precede, now follow; now move faster, now slower, now do not move at all but remain for a time stationary. One the diverse motions of the Planets the mathematicians have based what they call the Great Year, which is completed when the sun, moon and five planets having all finished their courses have returned to the same positions relative to one another. The length of this period is hotly debated, but it must be necessarily be a fixed and definite time.
For the Stella (Star) that is called Saturnus', the Greek name for which is Phaenon (the shiner), which is the farthest away from the earth, completes its orbit in about thirty years, in the course of which is passes through a number of remarkable phases, at one time accelerating and at another time retarding its velocity, now disappearing in the evening, then reappearing in the morning, yet without varying in the least degree throughout all the ages of eternity, but always doing the same things at the same times.
Below this and nearer to the earth moves the Stella of Jupiter, called Phaethon (the blazing), which completes the same circuit of the twelve signs of the zodiac in twelve years, and makes the same variations during its course as the star of Saturnus.
The orbit next below is that of Pyroeis (the fiery), which is called the Stella of Mars, and this covers the same orbit as the two planets above it in twenty-four months all but (I think) six days.
Below this in turn is the Stella of Mercurius, called by the Greeks Stilbon (the gleaming), which completes the circuit of the zodiac in about the period of a year, and is never distant from the sun more than the space of a single sign, though it sometimes precedes the sun and sometimes follows it.
Lowest of the five Stellae and nearest to the earth is the star of Venus, called in Greek Phosphoros (the light-bringer) and in Latin Lucifer when it precedes the sun, but when it follows it Hesperos; this planet completes its orbit in a year, traversing the zodiac with a zigzag movement as do the Stellae above it, and never distant more than the space of two signs from the sun, though sometimes in front of it and sometimes behind it.
This regularity therefore in the Stellae, this exact punctuality throughout all eternity notwithstanding the great variety of their courses, is to me incomprehensible without rational intelligence and purpose. And if we observe these attributes in the Stellae, we cannot fail to enrol even them among the number of the gods."
Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3. 19 :
"You say that Sol the Sun and Luna the Moon are deities, and the Greeks identify the former with Apollo and the latter with Diana [Artemis]. But if Luna (the Moon) is a goddess, then Lucifer (the Morning-Star) [Hesperos] also and the rest of the Stellae Errantes (Planets) will have to be counted gods; and if so, then the Stellae Inerrantes (Fixed Stars) as well."
Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 6. 442 ff (trans. Mozley) (Roman epic C1st A.D.) :
"[The witch Medea casts a spell :] Medea . . . than whom is none more potent at the nightly altars [i.e. casting magic spells]; for responsive to her cry and to the juices she scatters in desolate places the Stars [probably the five Planets] are halted trembling."
Statius, Thebaid 6. 237 ff (trans. Mozley) (Roman epic C1st A.D.) :
"Now nine times had Lucifer [Eosphoros the morning-star] chased the dewy Astra (Stars) from heaven."
Statius, Silvae 3. 3. 53 (trans. Mozley) (Roman poetry C1st A.D.) :
"But even deities have their laws : in thraldom the swift choir of the Astra (Stars), in thraldom is wandering Luna [Selene the moon], not unbidden is the light whose path so oft returns [Helios the sun]."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 2. 170 ff (trans. Rouse) (Greek epic C5th A.D.) :
"[The monster Typhoeus approaches to attack heaven :] It was night, sentinels stood in line around Olympos and the seven zones [i.e. the moon, five planets and fixed stars], and as it were from the summit of towers came their nightly alarms; the calls of the stars in many tongues were carried all abroad, and Selene's turning-mark received the creaking echo from Kronos' starting-point [planet Saturn]--here the celestial watchword is passed from star to star through the seven zones to the lowest [the Moon]. Now the Horai (Seasons), guardians of the upper air, handmaids of Phaethon [Helios the Sun], had fortified the sky with a long string of covering clouds like a coronal. The stars had closed the Atlantean bar of the inviolable gates lest some stealthy troop should enter the heavens while the Blessed ones were away . . . Eosphoros (Morning Star) watched the east, Hesperos (Evening Star) the west [N.B. the two were originally regarded as distinct stars]."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 38. 149 ff (trans. Rouse) (Greek epic C5th A.D.) :
"As he [Phaethon son of Helios the sun] sprang from the childbed, the daughters of Okeanos cleansed him, Klymene's son, in his grandsire's waters, and wrapt him in swaddlings. The Stars (Asteres) in shining movement leapt into the stream of Okeanos which they knew so well [the stars set in the river Okeanos], and surrounded the boy, with Selene Eileithyia [the Moon, Goddess of Childbirth], sending forth her sparkling gleams."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 38. 222 ff :
"[Helios instructs his son Phaethon in the drivine of the sun-chariot :] There are twelve houses in all the fiery aither, set in the circle of the rounded Zodiakos (Zodiac), one close after another in a row, each separate; though these alone is the inclined winding path of the restless Planeta rolling in their courses. All round these Kronos [planet Saturn] crawls from house to house on his heavy knees along the seventh zone upon the circle, until at last with difficulty he completes thirty circuits of returning Selene [Moon] [that is, two & half years]. On the sixth, quicker than his father, Zeus [planet Jupiter] has his course opposite, and goes his round in a lichtgang. By the third, fiery Ares [planet Mars] passes [one sign of the Zodiac] in sixty days, near your father [the sun]. I myself [the Sun] rise in the fourth, and traverse the whole sky garland-wise in my car, following the winding circles of the heavenly orbits. I carry the measures of time (khronos), surrounded by the four Horai (Seasons), about the same centre, until I have passed through a whole house and fulfilled one complete month as usual; I never leave my journey unfinished and change to a backward course, nor do I go forward again; since the other Asteres (Stars), the Planeta, in their various courses always run contrary ways: they check backwards, and go both to and fro; when the measures of their way are half done they run back again, thus receiving on both sides my one-sided light [i.e. as half the planets including the moon are above and half below him each of them gets his light from one side only] . . .
When you begin your course, pass close by the side of Kerne, and take Phosphoros (the Morning Star) as guide to lead the way for your car, and you will not go astray."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 41. 339 ff (trans. Rouse) (Greek epic C5th A.D.) :
"[Harmonia describes the tablets of Phanes, ancient stones which contained prophecies about the cosmos set down by the primordial creator-god Ophion-Phanes :] I have oracles of history on seven tablets, and the tablets bear the names of the seven planets. The first has the name of revolving Selene [the Moon]; the second is called of Hermes [planet Mercury], a shining tabled of gold, upon which are wrought all the secrets of law; the third has your name [Aphrodite the planet Venus], a rosy tablet, for it has the shape of your star in the East; the fourth is Helios [the Sun], cental navel of the seven travelling planets; the fifth is called Ares [the planet Mars], red and fiery; the sixth is called Phaethon [the planet Jupiter], the planet of Kronides [Zeus]; the seventh shows the name of highmoving Kronos [the planet Saturn]. Upon these, ancient Ophion has engraved in red letters all the divers oracles of fate for the universe."
The five Planeta were sometimes worshipped in conjunction with the Sun (Helios) and the Moon (Selene) as gods presiding over the seven zones of heaven.
I) NEAR SPARTA Chief City of Lakedaimonia (Southern Greece)
Pausanias, Description of Greece 3. 20. 9 (trans. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) :
"On the road from Sparta to Arkadia . . . is what is called the Tomb of Horse. For Tyndareus, having sacrificed a horse here [to the Sun, Moon and five Planets], administered an oath to the suitors of Helene, making them stand upon the pieces of the horse. The oath was to defend Helene and him who might be chosen to marry her if ever they should be wronged. When he had sworn the suitors he burried the horse here. Seven pillars, which are not far from this tomb . . (lacuna) in the ancient manner, I believe, which they say are images of the Planeta [i.e. the five Planets, plus the Sun and Moon]."
II) THEBES Chief City of Boiotia (Central Greece)
The seven gates of Thebes were dedicated to the Sun, Moon and five Planets (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn). This naming is only recorded in late antiquity by Nonnus and may not be authentic.
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 5. 67 ff (trans. Rouse) (Greek epic C5th A.D.) :
"He [Kadmos founder of Thebes] dedicated the seven gates [of the new-founded city] to the seven planets. First towards the western clime he allotted the Onkaian Gate to Mene [Selene the Moon] . . . The second gate he gave in honour to Hermaon [the planet Mercury], the shining neighbour of Mene. The fourth he traced out and named for Elektra Phaethon's [Helios the Sun's] daughter, because when he appears, Elektra's morning gleam sparkles with like colour; and the midmost gate opposite the Dawn he dedicated to fiery Helios, since he is in the middle of the planets.
The fifth he gave to Ares [the planet Mars], the third to Aphrodite [the planet Venus], in order that Phaethon [the Sun] might be between them both on either side, and cut off his neighbour the furious Ares from Aphrodite. The sixth he made an image of Zeus [the planet Jupiter], shining high with more glorious craftsmanship. The last fell to the lot of Kronos [the planet Saturn] the seventh planet."


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Well after a 2 month rest cycle I should be starting my 2nd IUI. My AF should be here tomorrow and then I will go on day 3 for my baseline and I hope to start Follistim. Is anyone else going to be looking at IUI the 2 week of October?
October IUI's
Well i will be right behind you. we can try and get thru this 2ww together! This is the worst part for me...
Brittany (28) and Steve (37)
Grayson Phillip 03/06/2015
oh yes its just a rollercoster for everyone :)
i hope we get our BFPsss
my major prb is my hubby is deployed
so...... its all taking too much effort !! but i pray it to be fruitfull
Bilss- I never used menopur either and if you have to do ivf next cycle you may not be alone, that is my plan too.
Brittany- Wow that is great. I hope your E2 stays as it should and you can trigger! Sunday can't come soon enough.
AFM: I had a bad day yesterday. My Dr called to tell me my FSH raised and its 14.7 now. If iui doesn't work this cycle we need to go onto IVF. That is fine with me as this so draining! I go in sunday for my monitoring so lets hope i have more then 2 follicles!!
DH 3/14/08, DD Morgan 2/25/10- DS 9/20/13 10 weeks early -EDD 11/28/13
14 weeks of SBR-SU,IC,IU, PTL with DD, placenta abruption with DS
FSH 14.7, AMH .16 IUI's BFN- 4 th attempt IVF 3/13 BFP!
best of luck, i hope everything goes perfect :)
i am having my iui tommorow with only 1 follicle at 18 mm
michelle- My last amh level was only .49 so I guess that makes me DOR, right? I just had 9 follicles on CD 2. I had 7 the cycle before that.
bliss- Best of luck with your IUI!!! I am taking menopur with my follistim this cycle. My first estrogen level came out too low. On just follistim my level is over double at this point.
Kim :)
Twin girls born 2/6/14 at 37w2d!!! 6 lbs 13 0z & 6 lbs 8 oz
Baby Girl born 1/26/16!! 8 lbs 13 oz
brittany- hoping you can do the IUI on Sunday.
afm- I am CD 5 today and I go in tomorrow for bloodwork and an u/s. This is my first cycle using menopur with my follistim. It is more complicated than simply just using the follistim pen and it is soooooooo expensive. Well, I got bad news from my CD 4 bloodwork that my estrogen is only at 94 (it was 72 on CD 2) which means that the dosing was too low. I took 100 of follistim and one menopur for the first two nights. I've never had a problem with low estrogen when taking just follistim. I just had to order another set of menopur ($1500) and my RE doubled my doses so that's 200 follistim and two menopur vials yesterday and tonight.
I am really worried about my u/s and bloodwork for tomorrow. I sure hope the follicles, lining, and hormone levels are appropriate for my cycle day. I will be super upset if I'm spending soooo much money on this cycle and it doesn't work. $3000 for menopur, $1200 for follistim, and I might need to buy a couple cetritides and progesterone. My insurance does partial reimbursement but even with that it will still cost me a lot. Of course, the money isn't important if I end up with a healthy baby.
Good luck everyone!!!
Kim :)
Twin girls born 2/6/14 at 37w2d!!! 6 lbs 13 0z & 6 lbs 8 oz
Baby Girl born 1/26/16!! 8 lbs 13 oz
kim: i understand the $$$ goes too much with all this, i wish you luck!
i did my 3 iuis in USA and it wa hell of money, since my insurance was not covering infertility. this cycle im out of usa , my husband is deployed and i am lucky that im here and its soooo damn affordable here.
im paying everything out of pocket and its soooo much easy to pay this price for medicines and IUI.
i hope it works, this whole entire cycle costing me just less than 500 $
bliss- Wow! That is so much less money! What country?
Kim :)
Twin girls born 2/6/14 at 37w2d!!! 6 lbs 13 0z & 6 lbs 8 oz
Baby Girl born 1/26/16!! 8 lbs 13 oz
3,000 for menepour?!? Is it derived from diamonds? Jeesh.
I found that if I get the "cash" price on meds, it's cheaper than if I use my insurance that's supposed to cover half. But for some reason, that means the doctors office and pharmacy, double or triple the price of everything, so it doesn't even help. So frustrating.
Me (39) DH (38),
RPL w/ 5 MC 7 IUIs (3 mc) , IVF#1 CP, IVF #2 - 1 normal XX on ice, IVF #3 2XX, 2XY on ice
Babybee arrived July 25, 2015
bizzybee- I believe that menopur is made from the pee of menopausal women. I should have just asked my grandmother to give me a sample. Sorry, that's gross but I have a weird sense of humor when I'm stressing.
Kim :)
Twin girls born 2/6/14 at 37w2d!!! 6 lbs 13 0z & 6 lbs 8 oz
Baby Girl born 1/26/16!! 8 lbs 13 oz


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I am using wget to download files and on multiple servers (same provider) I get "connection closed", socket errno 4, errno 4 socket error timed out, etc.
What can I do to show the provider it's a problem on their side? Or if I am wrong, how can I find out more about the cause?
Thank you for your help, much appreciated
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Did you know..
by Kate Smith
Some background on the Barclays Premier League Asia Trophy.
- The Barclays Asia Trophy is held every two years
- It's the only Barclays Premier League affiliated competition to be staged outside of England
- It is a friendly four-team pre-season football tournament contested by three Premier League football clubs and a home team
- The tournament is played in line with Barclays Premier League rules, with English referees officiating the fixtures alongside their Hong Kong counterparts
- The competition began in 2003 and has previously been held in Bangkok and Beijing
- This is the third time it's been held in Hong Kong
- Chelsea won the last tournament back in 2011
- In 2009 Tottenham were Barclays Asia Trophy winners, defeating Hull City in the final
- This is the first year Sunderland have been involved in the competition. Previous English entrants include, Portsmouth, Everton, West Ham United, Liverpool, Blackburn Rovers, Fulham, Bimingham City, Bolton Wanderers, Newcastle United, Aston Villa and Chelsea.


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JWC TO THOMAS CARLYLE ; 31 August 1843; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18430831-JWC-TC-01; CL 17: 103-106
Thursday [31 August 1843]—
The enclosed note from John1 arrived last night along with yours announcing his departure for Liverpool.
I wish he had been coming after you instead of before you or even with you— I had set my heart on your hanselling the clean house yourself—and that there would have been a few days in peace to inspect its "curiosities and niceties" before he came plunging in to send all the books afloat, and litter the floors with first and second and third and fourth scrawls of verfailed [sic: verfehlt: uncompleted] Letters! But like Mademoiselle L'Espinasse, son talent est d'être toujours hors de propos [his talent is to be always unsuited to the occasion]!2— If he cared about seeing oneself it would be quite different—but if the house would go on like those charming palaces one read of in the fairy tales, where clothes are found hanging ready at the fire to be put on by the wearied traveller, and a table comes up thro the floor all spread to appease his hunger; oneself might be a thousand miles off, or like the enchanted Princess of these establishments might be running about in the shape of "a little mouse" without his contentment being disturbed or indeed any thing but increased by the blank— Howsomeelever!— Only, when you come I shall insist on going into some room with you and locking the door; till we have had "a quiet comfortable talk about time and space"3 untormented by his blether [foolish talk]— Meanwhile "the duty nearest hand"4 is to get on the stair carpets, which have been off all this while, that he may run up and down more softly!— There came also last night a note from Bolte which put me about considerably— She accepted the Bullers proposal wrote me a very nice letter to that effect, which I immediately forwarded to Mrs Buller—but along with it I sent a letter from myself stating that until they heard from me again they were to hold the engagement as unconcluded—the Macreadys having proposed to take her at a salary of £100—and I must communicate with her on that proposal before taking her acceptance of theirs, given in ignorance of the other, as difinitive. I wrote to herself telling all I knew of the Macready situation—the number of little children—apt to fall sick—and every now and then needing to take medecine and have their stomachs rubbed with warm flannel—drew in short as fair a comparison as I could between the Buller situation at £60 and the Macready one at £100—desiring her if she inclined towards the latter to come up from Brentwood5 on this evening and I would give her a bed—that she might be in readiness to go to the Macreadys tomorrow at an hour they had appointed for seeing her— As Mrs Macready could not be easy unless "William had sounded her depth" before setting out to America.
She answered me by return of post—very sensibly—that the salary would be dreadfully counter balanced by the tender years and multitude of the children—that she feared the tone of the house would not suit her—and that having been in the family of an Actor might be "a terminus" to her carreer as Governess— I however, she thought, knowing them personally and knowing how far the english prejudice against actors extended was better able to decide for her than herself was—and so she ended by bidding me "take her fate into my own hands and send her where I thought she would be best"—I decided at once as I would have done had it been for myself—that she should adhere to the Bullers—and an hour after having received her letter yesterday forenoon I had written to Mrs Buller that she would be ready for her on the 1st of October and to Mrs Macready that for the present she declined taking charge of such young children— And at five when I was complaisantly reflecting that there was another piece of business fairly wound up—comes another note from Bolte—apparently quite reconciled to the Macready situation by merely having slept upon it—and asking, would it suit me to have her, and them to see her on Sunday?6 I wrote her a long letter before going to bed—telling her that as she had empowered me to act for her I had done so with decision and promptitude that she might not fall down between two stones—and that now she was to go to the Bullers and no more about it— But I must off to my Staircarpets Helen you know cannot drive a nail tho' it were to save her soul alive— I sent on a letter from Alick (?) to John yesterday which I rather felt tempted to break open—kindest regards to all— Poor Mary her illness lasts long—and she can so ill afford to be sick—
Affectionately yours
Jane Carlyle


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Sword of the Highlands
Veronica Wolff
2008, Time Travel Romance (1630s Scotland)
Berkley, $6.99, 320 pages, Amazon ASIN 0425222489
While Magda Deacon - an art restorer for the Metropolitan Museum in modern Manhattan - cleans a painting of James Graham, the 1st Marquis of Montrose, she falls through the portrait into 1638 and into his bed. James is intrigued by the woman who lands on top of him. He calms her down (she is rather hysterical) and decides to help her with her problems, whatever they are. However, James is busy organizing an army to fight against Charles I because he is turning the Church of Scotland "too popish."
After a round of golf, James and Magda take off for his country estate. Along the way, Magda confides that she is from the future. James takes this with amazing calm and believes her. He has some ideas about how it may have happened, ideas that will have him tracking a traveling monk. But there is no time for him to do so, as he must go off to do battle for his religious beliefs.
The greatest difficulty I had with the hero was his occupation as a religious warrior, a Covenanter. He sees his cause change from religious rights into a land grab by his greedier "allies" over a course of a few battles and becomes disenchanted. So he leaves to make a deal with the king and begins to fight for him. When I read the author's note, I figured out another problem: James Graham was a real person and the novel was based on twelve years of his life story, but the major events are all crammed together, so that the reader goes from one incident to another in rapid succession. A smaller issue, but one that niggled nonetheless, was his annoying habit of calling the heroine "hen," even after she asks him to stop.
Since the story revolves around James, Magda appears less frequently than in a normal romance. Around him she lacks much personality of her own, but when she is kidnapped by the villain, she becomes more resourceful and very nearly interesting, though when she is reunited with James, her inner wimp re-surfaces. Then, when he is in danger, she again becomes active. It is almost as if she has a split personality or maybe a Wonder Woman complex.
In this novel, absence makes the heart grow fonder. The hero and heroine are physically separated for much of the novel - they just do not have enough time together - so when they declared that they are in love, it failed the believability test. It was as if the author shoe-horned the romance into the plot. It was not a good fit.
Some of the story's pacing bothered me. James goes off to visit the king, a journey that will take about a month, at roughly the same time Magda is kidnapped. Her adventures seem to take about at week at most, and yet they are still able to meet up at the same time. The time-travel and warrior plots do not mesh or come to a logical conclusion. The ending totally negated the reason for the heroine being a time-traveler - Magda could have come from the same time period as James and the story would have been the same.
Reading the author's note made it obvious that she fell for James Graham, who appears to have had an interesting life and came to a tragic end. Yet by sticking too closely to real events, Wolff greatly lessened the romantic tension and dramatic moments in the story. The parts that are not based on fact are the best parts of the story. I don't enjoy giving bad reviews, but with so much going wrong in this novel, I can't help it.
-- Carolyn Esau


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Brangelina made their first post-breakup-rumor appearance by smooching in their VIP Super Bowl seats. Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher were chased into the stadium by cameras, while Tom Cruise and Suri casually moseyed up an escalator. Never one to crave the limelight, Kim Kardashian made sure to kiss Reggie Bush in front of the cameras following the Saints' victory. Cameron Diaz was "grinding with A-Rod" at CAA's party in Miami, while TomKat lingered nearby. Carrie Prejean is engaged to Rams quarterback Kyle Boller, but no one really cares because he didn't play in the Super Bowl and it doesn't involve her sex tape. And Levi Johnston continues to disappoint with the latest photos from Playgirl.
Tiger Woods is slated to make his first post-scandal golf appearance at Florida's Tavistock Cup next month. Following last month's Golden Globe PDA action, Jennifer Aniston celebrated her 41st birthday in Los Cabos, Mexico, with Gerard Butler. Keira Knightley fled the U.K. two years ago when she had five stalkers there, and now she's dodging another, who's been lingering outside the West End theater where she's starring in The Misanthrope. The release of Usher's new CD is getting delayed because he's in a fight with his mother, who's also his former manager. MTV is trying to put a stop to the Jersey Shore castmembers' lucrative bar and club appearances, but they're not listening. Pauly D, meanwhile, was offered $50,000 to walk a couple down the aisle at their wedding. And Conan put his Central Park West penthouse on the market for $35 million.
Woe is Heidi Montag: Her post-cosmetic surgery massages, therapy, and exercises aren't aiding her recovery. "I'm very fragile," she reports to People. "My insides were just throbbing and pounding but I know it's part of what I had to go through." Once again, Beyoncé works her curves. Lee Daniels was so groggy Tuesday morning that he almost slept through his Oscar nomination. Jacques Torres noticed that his chocolate hearts with "Love" written on them weren't selling, so he wrote "Spank Me" on the other side, at which point they flew off the shelves. And Taylor Swift's mother told John Mayer to back off on wooing her daughter, though we can't imagine why.


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First Bank and JACAM Sponsor New Scoreboards
When SC Warrior fans enter the Gleason gymnasium this year, they immediately notice something new. Due to the generosity of First Bank and JACAM, Sterling College has been able to purchase two new basketball and volleyball scoreboards for the Gleason Center.
"We are incredibly thankful for this gift. Without the teamwork that exists between the school and the community, the student athletes would not have near the opportunities that they do currently. We are blessed to have the chance to partner with people and businesses in the community" said Athletic Director Gary Kempf.
The renovation allows Sterling College to meet a new NAIA requirement that standardizes the scoreboards in gymnasiums across the division. The two local businesses have been great supporters of the college, which is evident through their gifts for the scoreboard upgrade.
"The college makes such a huge difference in the vibrant activity of our community - economically, culturally, and overall quality of life - that it is clearly deserving of our support," said First Bank Chairman of the Board Carl Dudrey.
Sterling College will have a presentation to recognize those who made the scoreboards possible during half-time of the men's basketball game versus Tabor College this Saturday, January 14.
"There is a symbiotic relationship between the college and the community in which it resides," said Sterling College President, Paul J. Maurer. "A major part of the College's identity comes from the Sterling community—many of our fans and supporters are from the area. We are indebted to those in the community who have given so much to this campus like First Bank and JACAM. We look forward to having a special recognition during half-time of a basketball game to show our deep appreciation to these businesses that made the scoreboards possible."
First Bank and JACAM find great value in giving back to the community.
"We seek to assist our customers in succeeding, and we look to share our own success with the greater community by partnering on projects like these," Dudrey added.
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The continued evolution of the global wine marketplace has made many things possible for many people. Small regional wineries that couldn't survive, let alone exist twenty years ago are now thriving because there are folks out there like me and you that are looking for just the type of wines they are producing. Likewise, the proliferation of estateless wineries (bonded, licensed wineries that own no land and may even rent their winemaking facilities) has exploded in California in particular. Finally, a relatively recent phenomenon for California and the US (though old news to the negociants in France) has surfaced in... continue reading
The Japanese have a national love affair with robots of all kinds. One of the coolest things I ever waited on line for five hours to see was the Tokyo Robot Show, where along with tens of thousands of cameraphone toting young Japanese I got to see the debut of Sony's Qrio and Honda's Asimo bipedal robots. While perhaps not so glamorous as a robot that can walk around, play soccer, and dance, the latest robotic technology out of Japan is perhaps more practical. NEC corporation has developed a robotic sensing apparatus that is capable of analyzing wine samples accurately... continue reading
When it comes to winemaking there's New World, and there's Old World. There's new school, and of course, there's old school. And then there are a select few people and wines who make the old school winemakers look like young tykes with newfangled toys. In a world where "traditional" or "natural" winemaking has now become a self imposed designation of the most extreme proponents of biodynamic and non-interventionalist winemaking, Josko Gravner puts them all to shame. These people proclaim how in touch they are with the "traditional" methods of winemaking, but they're still using what Gravner would call modern technology:... continue reading
International diplomacy is a tough business. Apparently you need to go around walking on eggshells all the time -- never knowing quite when the right time would be to bow, to cough in your sleeve, or to give a fellow diplomat a few bottles of wine. Take the case of France's president Jacques Chirac. Over the past year or so, he's sent his buddy across the channel (Prime Minister Tony Blair) some wine on several occasions. Unfortunately, though, it looks like it hasn't gone over too well. This could be for any number of reasons. Britain could be pulling the... continue reading
No system of awards and ratings for restaurants can ever be perfect. From Zagat to Michelin to the James Beard Awards, they've all got their own way of doing things that any number of people can object to. Having said that, it's clear that all award systems are not created equal. You'll often find me criticizing the Wine Spectator for this or that, and while I've often wondered exactly what goes into their restaurant awards (my Dining Issue just appeared in the mailbox recently) I haven't lost much sleep over it. Not so for Mark Fisher of the Dayton Daily... continue reading
There's a variety of hipness that's universally understood in the early twenty first century, at least among first-world nations. Expressed through the convergence of modern industrial architecture, deep house music, exotic cocktails, great wine and great food, this essence of contemporary culture springs up in every major city, and attracts the beautiful, the adventurous, and the well heeled like moths to the flame. Its street address in Buenos Aires is Sucre 676. Sucre Restaurant, ripped neatly off its foundations and settled down intact and operational, would be an instant success in every major metropolitan area I've ever been to, from... continue reading
If we're reasonably perceptive people, we all have moments in life where things are revealed to us that provide a whole new layer of understanding and complexity to the world. One that I only vaguely remember took place in sixth or seventh grade, but outside the context of school. I think it was a friend's father who was trying to help me understand that we don't really "see" the world, rather, he was trying to get me to understand that what we see is only a tiny slice of "reality." He then proceeded to show me a series of images... continue reading
Occasionally I get asked how this whole Vinography thing got started, and there certainly is a story (though, I'll warn you in advance, not a very gripping one). Various snippets have come out in the media coverage that I've received over the past couple of years, but one of the more in depth articles has just appeared on a nice little website called The Blog Reader. I had a very nice conversation the other day with P.G. Sittenfeld, who asked me all sorts of interesting questions about how Vinography got started and what I'm doing with the site. There are... continue reading
When the temperatures are topping out above 90 nearly every day in San Francisco, you know it's hot. The poor folks in the rest of the country are usually anywhere from ten to twenty degrees hotter than we ever get, so we have no reason to complain. But we might have reason to heavily chill some rosé and take off all our clothes. It's no wonder then, that in addition to seeing more publicly bared flesh within the San Francisco city limits than I can remember in a long time, I also found myself at the RAP Pink Out Rosé... continue reading
When I was a kid, I didn't have a television, but whenever I got the chance at a friend's or neighbors house, I loved to watch Looney Toons. In particular, I loved the Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote cartoons. They were amazing in their ability to make you laugh with absolutely no dialogue whatsoever. It was the strangest thing when one day they actually had the first episode where Wiley talked. Initially I was shocked and outraged. But then he uttered what is still one of my favorite lines ever: "Allow me to introduce myself. Wile E. Coyote, SUPER Genius!".... continue reading
Serious applicants only please. It has come to me through the top-secret grapevine that Linda Murphy, long-time wine editor at the San Francisco Chronicle just announced her imminent departure. This surprise move opens up one of the most prominent wine writing positions around. The weekly dedicated Wine section of the San Francisco Chronicle is the only one of its kind in the nation, and most recently won the 2004 James Beard Foundation Award for Best Food and Wine Section in any U.S. newspaper. It also has an incredible amount of readership outside of the San Francisco metro area, making it... continue reading
Regular readers know I jump at any opportunity to try interesting wines, especially from regions that I'm unfamiliar with. I've been hearing about Indian wines off and on for a while now, and I took special note when I saw recently that some famous winemakers like Michel Rolland were going there to help people make wine. India is such a huge country with such a wide range of topography that there just have to be places that are good for growing wine grapes, provided there were people with the interest and the expertise to do so. Apparently, the Nashik region... continue reading
I don't know a lot of things, but during my short time on this earth, I have observed what I believe to be some predictable tendencies of the particular animal we call human beings. The males of the species are arrogant and proud, yet they have the most tender of egos. They swell with self importance, and rage when insulted. Both males and females are born defensive and only become less so through careful conditioning. When they collect in the groups we know as communities they have a tendency to squabble, opine, piss off, and otherwise make fools of themselves... continue reading
In the category of "it's about time" comes a recent announcement that seems to make perfect sense. At least to me. When I was working in Japan for some time, I couldn't really watch TV for very long, as my command of the language was pretty limited. I would get a laugh out of the crazy game shows they had on, but they were only entertaining for about ten minutes. After that, I needed to do something else to relax, and inevitably that meant curling up with a good book and a glass of wine. So why has it taken... continue reading
I first learned about Arista Winery late last year when I had the opportunity to taste what the winery called it's "first commercial release." They had made some wines before, under different ownership and with different fruit, but the winery had recently been revamped, and its owners were aiming for a fresh start. And quite a start they got. Their initial wines were excellent across the board, and their new tasting room, set back among the oaks and rock outcroppings in the rolling hills near Healdsburg, was stunning. The winery has just released its "second" vintage under the new ownership... continue reading
Excuse me if I seem dazed, but I'm still in shock after reading that the World Wildlife Fund has actually made a public statement suggesting that winemakers should continue to use cork stoppers, if only for the good of the planet. I hope that made you do a double-take, too. Apparently not only do screwcaps fight cork taint, they also cause forest fires, economic depression, and harm endangered species. You always suspected that, didn't you? Actually, to be more precise, the WWF suggests that a thriving cork industry prevents such things, by offering jobs to the locals, well maintained forests... continue reading
The wine world needs more people like Terry Theise. It's easy to get caught up in the stuffy, over-intellectualized world of wine geekery, where people endlessly debate the smallest aspects of winemaking or vintage ratings. All of us who spend enough time talking, thinking, and reading about wine get sucked into that world occasionally, and I find myself attracted to those who fall into that trap with the least regularity. As luck would have it, there are several simple cures for me readily at hand whenever I forget that wine is first and foremost fun. One of them arrives... continue reading
Have you ever read some tasting notes (maybe mine) and then tried the wine and thought to yourself, "this doesn't taste ANYTHING like what he described?" Well scientists are on the way towards validating something that many folks have anecdotally believed for a long time: we all perceive smells differently. Scientists have long known that each of us processes colors in the visible spectrum uniquely -- my perception of orange may be similar to, but is just slightly different than your orange. But now they are coming to the same conclusion with aromas. Unveiled at a recent wine conference in... continue reading07.11.2006
August marks the second anniversary of the blogosphere's virtual wine tasting event known as Wine Blogging Wednesday. I can remember when its founder, Lenn e-mailed me to ask whether I thought people would even participate in such an event! At the time I had no idea, but I gamely signed up to host the second ever version of the event. Now after two years we're still regularly getting twenty to forty participants every month. The themes have ranged far and wide, from esoteric to simple, but my favorites are always the straightforward appellation tastings. So with that in mind... continue reading
Whenever people find out that I write about wine, the first question is always "Wow. Do you make a living at that?" The answer, people, is no. The second question (if I get one and people don't smile knowingly and start discussing the weather) varies, usually with the intellect and sensitivity of the individual. Inevitably, no matter how subtle a conversationalist or how knowledgeable a wine lover, the questioner poses some variation of "So what do you like to drink?" Which really, most of the time, means "So what do you recommend for me to drink?" And this is the... continue reading
There's an extravagance that's hard to avoid among wine lovers. The more experience people get with wine, and the deeper they fall for it, the more they tend to spend per bottle and the more wine they tend to amass. Some wine lovers, of whom you know or at least have heard, spend staggering amounts of money on their passion (or habit). For some of these folks, there is no wine that is too expensive, no bottle too rare, no wine list that is too overpriced. Many of these folks exercise their habit and their pocketbooks at lavish wine dinners... continue reading
What do wine and food bloggers drink while they barbecue? Once this was an elusive and top secret fact, but no more. More than twenty of us have confessed what we'd prefer to, or at least have tried successfully, to drink with grilled stuff and BBQ as part of Wine Blogging Wednesday #23. Hosted by Joel over at Vivi's Wine Journal, the wrap-up for this month's virtual wine tasting event has been posted and the choices of wine are quite interesting. Zinfandel and Syrah were obvious popular choices, but we also saw several roses, sparkling Chardonnay, a surprising number of... continue reading
Surely you've heard of the "wine lake" ? This lovely phrase refers to the millions of gallons of wine produced in Europe, but primarily France, which has no sales outlet. It can't be sold because there's just too much of it made, too little of it consumed, and no matter what they mark it down to, the price just ain't right to buy. This is, of course, the reason that a lot of winegrowers in France are upset, and why a few of them have turned terrorist and are doing awful things like blowing up buildings and toppling tanker trucks,... continue reading
There are endless stories of winemakers (and those who dream of becoming winemakers) spending their careers and lives waiting for the chance to finally buy a piece of land in Napa and start their own label. Markus and Liz Bokisch did just the opposite. It wasn't necessarily that they wanted to flee Napa. Markus was having a fine time as a viticulturalist working for Joseph Phelps, and in particular in his role on what Phelps called the "Le Mistral" program. Markus' job was to scour Northern California for out of the way growing areas planted with old vines bearing Grenache,... continue reading
I'll skip all the clichés. You're getting enough of them from the mainstream wine media at this point in the summer. Let's just get right to it: pink wines rock. You might not think so, but you're wrong. And eventually you'll see the light. They're great with food, very tasty, and the good ones don't taste anything like White Zinfandel. Which is why it might be fun for you to join those of us who need no convincing at the second annual Rose Avengers and Producers Pink-Out tasting on July 17. Started by a group of winemakers who had... continue reading
May marked the 30th anniversary of the famous 1976 Paris Tasting in which French wine experts selected California wines over their French counterparts in a blind tasting. Those of you who follow wine news know, of course, that in the rematch of the original red wines that was staged to commemorate the anniversary, California wines won again, and decisively. So I've been wondering, what the impact will be. Of course it's too soon to know if it will really have any impact on the wine world from a market perspective, but I've been watching to see what effect it has... continue reading
As a San Francisco food lover, I always look forward to January when Dine Around Town gives us all a chance to eat out at some great restaurants without breaking the bank. Recently, these sorts of deals, and the sponsored events that make them possible have started to spring up at other times of the year. Case in point: the Dine Out With Visa promotion that starts today in San Francisco. Roughly fifty restaurants are offering special four-course meals for $54.95 if you ask for the "special menu" and you pay with your Visa. Be aware that many of these... continue reading
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Cameron Hughes Wines, San Francisco: Current Releases Wine Tasting Robots From Japan 1999 Gravner Ribolla Gialla, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy Note to Self: Don't Send Wine to Tony Blair The Spectator Grand Award Wizard Speaks Restaurant Review: Sucre, Buenos Aires It's The Bee's Knees. Er. Nose. Vinography Profiled Drinking Pink: Notes From the RAP Pink Out Rose Tasting The Blogger and The Critic's Golden Tastebuds
Wine Will Never Smell the Same Again: Luca Turin and the Science of Scent Forlorn Hope: The Remarkable Wines of Matthew Rorick Debating Robert Parker At His Invitation Passopisciaro Winery, Etna, Sicily: Current Releases Should We Care What Winemakers Say? The Sweet Taste of Freedom: Austria's Ruster Ausbruch Wines 2009 Burgundy Vintage According to Domaine de la Romanée-Conti Charles Banks: The New Man Behind Mayacamas Wine from the Caldera: The Incredible Viticulture of Santorini Why Community Tasting Notes Sites Will Fail Chateau Rayas and the 2012 Vintage of Chateauneuf-du-Pape A Life Indomitable: The Wines of Casal Santa Maria, Portugal Bay Area Bordeaux: Tasting Santa Cruz Mountain Cabernets Forgotten Jewels: Reviving Chile's Old Vine Carignane The First-Timer's Guide to Les Trois Glorieuses of Hospices de Beaune


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p>With such a plenty of braided hairstyles available for the girls and ladies to sport, it seems the best occasions of ones life will come to an end but the hairstyles available for you to flaunt will never be over! The pretty part is that almost all of the braided hairstyles that are seen till now are so very charming and elegantly created that any lady keeps the capacity to dazzle in those. cheap Paxil
Lets? do a countdown of some of the best braided hairstyles today and you rate them according to your likes. I know you will long to know the tips on getting such mesmerizing hairstyles as well?..
Let?s make a royal start with the royal lady Kate Middleton?s braided hairstyle! She is sporting a Braided Chingnon Updo and is a perfect up do that you can thin of sporting in an elegant and royal function. Getting it would be to create five sections of hair- two on top, two in the middle and the bottom section will be made a chignon. Take the two middle sections and either make a French braid or a normal braid and then wrap them around the chignon. Repeat the same thing with the top two sections and pin them together!
Jennifer Aniston is looking pretty like a princes in this Partial Headband Braid which looks pretty lovely in hair like that of short length. As the braid takes the look of a partial head band so is it named and is perfect to be sported for special occasions with any floor sweeping length dress or those of the glittering mini dresses.
For occasions like an award ceremony or for a movie premier, the Glamorous Side-Braid will be the best option as you can see Jessica Alba sporting it glamorously. The tips to creating it would be to first French braiding the side section of your hair and then pull it into a sophisticated chignon. purchase misoprostol
Check out this mesmerizing Fishtail Updo getting gorgeous on actress Dianna Agron. Another amazing hairstyle for the red carpet looks, your hair remains the best managed without a chance of bothering you while you are enjoying a dinner or are enjoying a chat with your friends.
Scarlett Johansson is looking like a princess in this Braided Halo and is going pretty tidy by not letting a single strand of hair mingle around.
Last but not the least, it is the French Braid Updo and Emily Blunt is looking the charming ever in it. If you are planning for a wedding, prom or a dinner party then go for it


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EMERGING MARKETS While the global economy could still be healthier, a new study by logistics specialist Agility reveals increased confidence among logistics professionals with regard to the world's emerging markets
MANUFACTURING Mauser anticipates future growth for steel drums. Meanwhile, it has now harmonised it European plastics portfolio and opened a new fibre facility in North America
MARKETS Although the world's major emerging markets were unable to escape all the ravages of last year's economic instability, they remain bright spots for investors, manufacturers and logistics executives still wary of the uncertain outlook for the US and Europe, a new report finds
CONFERENCE REPORT It is an interesting time for those involved in the global bulk liquids supply chain. High profile representatives from various participants in the chain gathered recently in Rotterdam at the T5 event


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Mazzulli JR, Xu YH, Sun Y, Knight AL, McLean PJ, Caldwell GA, Sidransky E, Grabowski GA, Krainc D. Gaucher disease glucocerebrosidase and alpha-synuclein form a bidirectional pathogenic loop in synucleinopathies. Cell. 146(1):37-52. Jul 8, 2011.
Tinkle B. Joint Hypermobility Handbook: A Guide for the Issues & Management of Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Hypermobility Type and the Hypermobility Syndrome. Greens Fork, IN: Left Paw Press; 2011.
Drs. Grabowski and Keddache, together with the Division of Biomedical Informatics, collaborated with the Institute for Blood Disorders and Cancer to establish two new National Centers at Cincinnati Children's, the Center of Excellence in Molecular Hematology (Dr. Y. Zhang, P.I.) and the Progenitor Cell Biology Consortium Characterization Core (Dr. P. Malik, P.I.). These two Centers provide support for the molecular and genetic characterization, and potential new therapies for major disorders of childhood.
Drs. Grabowski and Keddache have upgraded the genotyping and sequencing capabilities and analyses of the Genetic Variation and Gene Discover Core as part of the Cincinnati Children's effort to enhance Genomics. These are accomplished in close collaboration with the Division of Rheumatology and Dr. John Harley, and the Division of Biomedical informatics through joint hiring of new faculty, cross-platform development, and combined grant applications. Additional joint hires of faculty with Experimental Hematology and Allergy Research provide enhanced bioinformatic analytic capabilities for Cincinnati Children's.
In addition to Dr. Zhang's research and translational work with Dr. Grom in Rheumatology, she and Dr. Keddache worked closely with Dr. Clint Joiner and Theodosia Kalfa to establish a clinical panel for testing Red Blood Cell Skeleton Disorders. This panel will provide a unique resource for Cincinnati Children's, national, and International patients with these types of disorders. Such approaches currently are being extended to the hemoglobinopathies. An additional collaborative program includes the Division of Pediatric Dermatology and is focused on the genomics of Epidermolysis Bullosa.
Dr. Keddache is the lead of the Genetic Variation and Gene Discovery Core (GVGDC) of UC/Cincinnati Children's. During the past year, he has expanded the Investigator base of this laboratory to >350 that includes Cincinnati Children's, UC, regional, governmental, and international clients desiring state-of-the-art genomic characterization by SNP genotyping and Sanger and NextGen massively paralleled DNA and RNA sequencing. The GVGDC provides these services, but also collaboration, design, development, and initial analyses and consultations for large and small projects for UC/Cincinnati Children's investigators. Together with our quantitative genomics team (Drs. Lisa Martin, Ge Zhang, Siva Theru-Arumugam, and Sunghee Oh), investigators have interactive access to modern genomic analyses that is supplemented by faculty in bioinformatics and jointly appointed faculty in Experimental Hematology (Dr. K. Komurov).
Dr. Burrow has established two major collaborative clinics at Cincinnati Children's. Together with Dr. Ton DeGraw and Barbara Hillinan, he established an expanding multidisciplinary neurometabolic clinic to service Cincinnati Children's, national, and international patients with such conditions. Similarly, he and Drs. K. Shah and A. Lucky have initiated a Dermatogenetics Clinic that focuses on patients with such conditions, their molecular diagnosis, and developing new therapies.
Gregory Grabowski, MD, You-Hai Xu, PhD, and Ying Sun, PhD have collaborated with researchers in Boston and Ottawa to show a mechanistic link between Gaucher disease and Parkinson's disease. Based on these results, additional ongoing studies provide a framework for the dissection of the pathogenesis and potential novel treatments of Parkinson's disease and other common neurodegenerative diseases.
Kejian Zhang, MD, MBA, has collaborated with the National Institutes of Health and Stanford University on studies that have delineated the phenotype and molecular genetic characteristics in the development of familial hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) and associated lymphoproliferative syndromes. These studies expand basic knowledge about the pathogenic mechanisms of these diseases and point toward targets to improve their treatment outcomes.
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Format: All 11 teams qualify. The top five seeds get byes into the quarterfinals, while seeds six through 11 play first-round series to determine the final three teams in the quarterfinals.
First round: Best-of-three series, March 4-6 at campus sites: Seed 11 at 6, 10 at 7, 9 at 8. Schedule/results
Quarterfinals: Best-of-three series, March 11-13 at campus sites: Lowest remaining overall seed at 1; second-lowest remaining overall seed at 2, third-lowest remaining seed at 3, 5 at 4. Schedule/results
Championship: At Blue Cross Arena, Rochester, N.Y. March 18: Semifinals, 5 p.m. EDT and TBA. March 19: Semifinal winners, 7 p.m. EDT. Schedule/results
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Usually in probability theory, for a random variable whose value is in $\mathbb{R}$, we talk about its cumulative distribution function $F(x)$ and then its density $f(x)$, in good enough cases $F'(x)=f(x)$.
That's the setup I'm familiar with, so I got annoyed when physicists talk about unnormalized "densities". E.g. if the probabilistic density of the position of a particle on $\mathbb{R}$ is equal to 1 everywhere, that means it is equally likely to appear anywhere. More generally you can imagine them talking about a non-negative function $f(x)$ being the density of something with the density $f(x)$ is not integrable on $\mathbb{R}$ but locally integrable, i.e. $\int_{[a,b]}f(x)dx$ make sense for $a\leq b, a, b\in\mathbb{R}$. As $\int_{\mathbb{R}}f(x)dx$ is undefined ($=\infty$), one cannot divide by it to normalize.
Is there a mathematical way to make sense of such statements? There is one I have in mind, namely, one can talk about the density of some random variable $X$ up to a scalar multiple, such that for any intervals $[a,b]\subset [c,d]$ we can express the conditional probability as a quotient of integrals:
$$P(X\in[a,b] \big| X\in[c,d])=\dfrac{\int_{[a,b]}f(x)dx}{\int_{[c,d]}f(x)dx}.$$
I only know very basic probability theory so I don't know if this makes sense. Am I allowed to interpret unnormalized probabilistic density functions this way? Is this what physicists mean? Or are there any other interpretations? Do I have to worry about something else when thinking about things in this way?