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Ben also shows how to obtain accurate color balance in tungsten and fluorescent lighting situations, and how to postprocess the images in Photoshop to remove noise caused by higher ISO settings. He also demonstrates accessories that can greatly expand your low-light photography options.
- Understanding how low light affects exposure, shutter speed, color temperature, and more
- Preparing for a low-light shoot
- Shooting in dimly lit rooms
- Using the flash indoors
- Shooting in the shade
- Taking flash portraits at night
- Controlling flash color temperature
- Focusing in low light
- Light painting
- Manipulating long shutter speeds
- Correcting white balance
- Brightening shadows
- Sharpening and noise reduction
Skill Level Intermediate
As you should know by now, as you increase ISO, you also increase the amount of noise in your image. This means you can't just necessarily crank the ISO up until you get your shutter speed down to where you want it. If you do, you may end up with an unacceptable amount of ugly noise in your image. Fortunately, these days, most new cameras offer very good noise response. On my SLR, for example, I can go all the way up to ISO 400 with no perceptible increase in noise, and I regularly shoot all the way up to ISO 3200 without worrying about unacceptable noise in my final shots.
Beyond that though, I find that my images simply get too grainy and noisy, so I only use ISOs higher than 3200 when I absolutely have no other choice, and I alter my expectations to assume that the images that I get will be compromised by noise. If all I am trying to do is document something then that's not a problem, but if I am going for a high-quality fine-art level of output, then I know that I will probably be disappointed above ISO 3200. Before you go out shooting, therefore, it's a good idea to have an understanding of how high you can push ISO on your specific camera before you get a noise level that's not acceptable for the work that you are doing, and that's something you can easily determine with a few simple tests.
You can do this anywhere in your house. I had some flowers delivered. I've got them set up here just in a normal room. I have got kind of a moderate amount of lighting. What I am going to do is just take some pictures of these flowers at different ISO settings. I am going to take the same frame at all of my ISO settings, actually. So I am starting out here at ISO 100. I have got my camera set at aperture priority because I want as much depth of field as I can get. I dialed into about f/9. That's going to give me a pretty slow shutter speed at this light level.
So I am going to take that shot. It's about 3 seconds. And I am just going to crank my ISO up to 200, the next stop, and I am going to shoot the same shot again. So nothing fancy about my setup here. I am just on a tripod and again, I am just chosen an object. It doesn't have to be flowers, although these are very nice. And I am just trying to get shots at all my ISOs so that I can go look at them later and see how bad the noise gets. So here I am up to ISO 400. That's down to half a second. When I get done with this, what I am going to do is lower the light in the room.
You are going to be shooting in lots of different levels of low light. Some are going to be levels that are actually pretty reasonable for your own eyes, a little rougher for your camera; others are going to be darker than what your eyes can see, but your camera is going to be able to pick up stuff. So you want to, after you shoot this set, turn down the light in the scene and do the exact same set again. Same shots, same ISO settings, and run through all of those combinations. When you get all done, then it's time to assess the results.
This next bits pretty easy; all you got to do is get your images into your computer and look at them. So to do that, you need an image browser or an image editor that will let you see your images at 100%, and that will provide you with an EXIF display so that you can see exactly what ISO you were using with each shot. Now you might also need a printer, because to accurately assess your camera's noise response, you want to be evaluating your images in whatever form that you will ultimately be outputting them in. The thing is, an image from your camera has millions of pixels, megapixels, and if you were to take any one individual pixel and print it out, it would be invisible.
They are so small by themselves that they're almost irrelevant. So it doesn't make a lot of sense to, on my monitor, zoom into 100% and really worry about each and every pixel. What I want to do is get my test images out in the way that I will ultimately be delivering them. If that's print, then I want to print them out at the size that I expect to deliver them. If I'm going to be sizing them to a particular size and posting them on the web, then I want to look at them that way. That will give me a more accurate assessment of whether noise is really a problem in the way that I intend to output my pictures.
As far as doing the actual assessment, I tend to just open my images up, print them, or get them the sized the way that I want onscreen, and then look at each image that I shot at each ISO. Noise is a really subjective thing. What is acceptable to you may not be to somebody else. It's up to you to decide if an image is too noisy or not. Look for luminance noise--those are the bright speckly kinds of noise; chrominance noise, those are the color swatches; and stuck pixel noise, those are going to be individual little white spots.
If you decide that at a particular ISO, boy, that's just too crunchy and noisy, I don't like it, then you know that that's not an ISO that you want to go to when you're out in the field. So try to identify that upper level of ISO that you're comfortable shooting with.


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From these crosses the true seed will be germinated to produce approximately 8-10,000 sugarcane seedlings per year by scientists at the USDA-ARS Sugarcane Field Station. Seedlings will be transplanted to the field to select superior clones at Canal Point. From these seedlings approximately, 500-750 clones, which have superior vigor, and are free of diseases and growth defects, will be selected per year. These selected clones will be planted in Stage I plots at up to three locations of non-organic soils outside the present EAA at the decision of the Biomass-Energy Cultivar Committee. The committee will appoint one of its members to manage the test at each location. The Biomass-Energy Cultivar Committee will select from the Stage I clones, a set of 50-75 clones which have superior vigor, high stalk numbers and have no noticeable pest, disease, and growth defects to be advanced to Stage II trials at the same location. Eight stalks will be planted in un-replicated 2-row, 3-m plots at the same location and maintained and managed by a member appointed by the Biomass-Energy Cultivar Committee. The Stage II clones will be selected for agronomic vigor, growth characteristics, fiber and sugar content and composition, adequate disease and pest resistance, estimates of yield (based on stalk counts of the plot and the weight of a standard number of stalks) and other parameters determined by the Biomass-Energy Cultivar Committee. From the Stage II clones the top 10 to 20 clones will be advanced for yield testing in replicated yield trials at locations determined by the Biomass-Energy Cultivar Committee.
The Stage III trials will be planted using three replications in two rows plots, 5 m long. The clones in the yield trials will be rated for agronomic traits and yield estimates, as indicated previously. Based on their plant crop yields, other agronomic characteristics, disease susceptibility, and visual observation of the growth superior clones will be selected for increasing in vegetative plots by the Sugarcane Energy Variety Committee. These clones will also be tested by ARS for their reaction to the major sugarcane diseases in Florida using standard procedures. Additional yield trials may be established by the Biomass-Energy Cultivar Committee.
Superior clones will be selected for seedcane increase by either vegetative or by micro-propagation managed and coordinated by the FSCL and jointly released by the three cooperating agencies.
There were 61 bio-energy crosses made during the 2011/2012 crossing season. A total 2251 grams of fuzz (true seed) was produced with 142,525 viable seeds produced. There were an average of 2336 seeds per cross. Approximately 10,000seedlings from 70 crosses were transplanted for subsequent selection of vigorous grown on sand soils.
Various numbers of clones were advanced in the program from previously installed trials: Stage I trials consisting of 432 US 10 series clones (single row 8 ft) were planted with two replications at two locations. Stage II trials consisting of 33 US 09 series clones (two rows 15 ft plots) were planted with 2 replications at two locations. Stage III trials consisting of 6 US 08 series clones (four row 25 ft plots) were planted with 4 replications were planted at two locations. In addition to the regular energy cane development program, sixty energy cane selections were made from the cold tolerant collection of 280 clones at the Sugarcane Field station and planted at two locations: one in South Florida and one in North Florida for evaluation on sand soils.

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Welcome to the final part of this six-part series on creating your first website. This tutorial shows you how to set up a remote site in Dreamweaver. A remote site is usually a web server on a remote computer that holds copies of your local files. Users access the remote site when they view your pages in a browser.
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This tutorial presents a very broad example of connecting to a remote server. It contains troubleshooting hints, but much depends on how your remote server is configured. When in doubt, consult your hosting company's help desk or your system administrator.
After you create a website, the next step is to publish it by uploading the files to a remote server. This is where you store your files for testing, production, collaboration, and publication (depending on your environment).
Before you can proceed, you must have access to a remote web server—such as a hosting company's server, a server owned by the client you're working for, or an intranet server within your company. Also, some Internet Service Providers (ISPs) provide access to free web space as part of your contract for internet connection. If you don't have access to such a server, contact your ISP, your client, your system administrator, or one of the many hosting companies that provide web hosting packages. Some hosting packages are free, but they usually insert advertisements into your site. An advertisement-free package can cost as little as a few dollars per month.
Alternatively, you can run a testing server on your local computer or network. For more information, see Setting up a local testing server in Dreamweaver CS5 (the process is the same in both CS5 and CS6). The rest of this article is focused on connecting to a remote server using FTP (file transfer protocol) or SFTP (secure file transfer protocol).
You also need to have a local site defined before you proceed. For more information, see Part 1 of this tutorial series, Setting up your site and project files.
Note: For more information about Dreamweaver sites, see Set up a local version of your site in Dreamweaver Help.
Dreamweaver site management is based on the principle that your local files are an exact duplicate of your live site on the Internet. So, index.html in your
check_cs6 folder becomes the front page of your remote site. If you already have a live website that you don't want to overwrite, use your site's control panel to create a folder named
check_cs6 where you can upload the Check Magazine files.
Dreamweaver CS6 lets you set up multiple server definitions for both remote and testing servers. However, only one of each type can be active at any given time.
Note: For details of how to set up FTP over SSL/TLS (FTPS), see the FTPS instructions in Connect to a remote server in Dreamweaver Help.
As I noted earlier, Dreamweaver site management is based on the principle that your local files are an exact duplicate of your live site on the Internet. The value of Root Directory should be the path you need to enter after logging into your server to get to the folder where you want to install index.html.
public_html. Others might use
wwwroot, or even nothing at all. On my remote server, it needs to be
/home/username/public_html. If in doubt, ask your hosting company or server administrator.
check_cs6, you need to type the path to that folder. For example, on my server, it would be
http://www.example.com/ or
http://www.example.com/check_cs6/ (see Figure 4). Dreamweaver might have tried to guess the correct value, but it's only a guess. Do not accept the default value without checking it carefully.
Dreamweaver selects the Remote checkbox automatically.
The icons at the bottom of the Servers panel let you add another server, or to delete, edit, or make a copy of the selected server definition. Making a copy is useful if you need to change only a few details to connect to a different server.
You can now upload your files from your local folder to the remote web server to make your pages publicly accessible. However, you don't need to upload the two text files in the assets folder nor the original comp for the site design. You can exclude them from being uploaded by cloaking them in your Dreamweaver site.
Note: To learn more about cloaking, see Cloaking files and folders in your Dreamweaver site in Dreamweaver Help.
assets folder, and select Cloaking > Cloak from the context menu. Dreamweaver puts a red diagonal line through the folder and file icons to indicate that they won't be uploaded.
images folder, right-click check_comp.jpg, and select Cloaking > Cloak from the context menu. Dreamweaver puts a red diagonal line through the file icon (see Figure 7).
check_cs6) at the top of the Files panel.
Note: In the Files panel, the local root folder actually begins with "Site – Check Magazine" because that's the name of the site. If you hover the pointer over that title, Dreamweaver shows you the full path to the
check_cs6 folder.
Dreamweaver connects to the remote server you just defined, and copies all of the files, except the cloaked ones, to the remote folder.
Note: Normally, you select the local root folder and upload the entire site only the first time you upload. Afterwards, you can upload only the files you've changed.
A web server can be configured in many ways. The following list provides information about some common issues you may encounter in setting up a remote server and how to resolve them:
check_cs6 subfolder) as the Root Directory. If you have problems connecting, and you've specified the host directory using a single slash (
/), you might need to specify a relative path from the directory you are connecting to and the remote root folder. For example, if the remote root folder is a higher-level directory, you may need to use
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public_html subdirectory of your home directory on the server may really be a link to another part of the server entirely. In most cases, such aliases have no effect on your ability to connect to the appropriate folder or directory; however, if you can connect to one part of the server but not to another, there may be an alias discrepancy.
Note: In general, when you encounter a problem with an FTP transfer, examine the FTP log by choosing Site > Advanced > FTP Log. For more information, see the extensive tech note on FTP troubleshooting on the Adobe website.
You've created your first website and published it! Now you're likely eager to create your second website—one with your own content and style—using Dreamweaver. As you do, you may want to keep this list of additional resources at hand:
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The job requires the toughness of a traffic cop, the warmth of a den mother and tact of a diplomat. On January 5, the first day of the 2011 legislative session, it will belong to Rep. J. Brendan Sharkey, D-Hamden.
Sharkey, 48, a five-term legislator best-known as an advocate of "smart growth" and regionalism, becomes House majority leader on a day when the spotlight will be on Dan Malloy, who takes the oath as governor.
For the first time in 20 years, the governor will be of the same party as the House majority, meaning that Sharkey will have advantages and burdens not faced by his immediate predecessors.
"You can't compare the job of majority leader today with what it was last year or five years ago or 10 years ago. Instead of playing defense, you're playing offense," said Rep. Michael P. Lawlor, D-East Haven, one of the senior lawmakers.
It will fall to Sharkey keep the legislature's largest and most diverse caucus unified as Malloy undertakes the challenge of trying to restructure government and erase a $3.3 billion deficit.
"That's always a challenge," Sharkey said. "We are such a big tent, and we have so much diversity."
Even with the recent loss of 14 seats, the Democrats still will hold 100 of the 151 House seats -- barring vacancies caused by legislators who might resign and join the Malloy administration.
"I feel as though that's my job, to make sure we hang together," Sharkey said. "The majority leader needs to ensure that all the voices within the caucus are heard and participating and part of a team."
It sounds easy. Lawlor likens it to herding cats.
"It certainly is an imperfect science," Sharkey said. "It can't be completely mastered."
House Majority Leader Denise Merrill, D-Mansfield, who is leaving the legislature to become secretary of the state in January, said some caucus members will find their loyalties tested, especially if Malloy's restructuring plans run afoul of Democratic constituencies.
"The majority leader is going to try to navigate all that," Merrill said. "There will be different alliances forming all over the place."
Another new factor will be a more robust Republican minority. Holding only 37 seats for the past two years, the GOP caucus was too small to attempt coalitions on any issues with conservative and moderate Democrats.
With 50 seats, the Republicans can try to block legislation by drawing 26 of the 100 Democrats to their side on any issue. From the late 1980s to the mid-1990s, when Republicans held 60 or more seats, a moderate Democratic caucus often acted as a swing vote, particularly on fiscal issues.
"To the extent folks feel they are not being heard, it enables those fault lines to become chasms," Sharkey said. "My job as majority leader is to prevent that from happening."
Sharkey was narrowly chosen as majority leader over a more liberal legislator, Rep. Andrew Fleischmann of West Hartford. But Merrill said she sees Sharkey as ideologically in tune with the majority, which is liberal.
"I think he basically has very progressive instincts. Regionalism, I consider that a progressive vision," Merrill said.
But Sharkey was among a minority of Democrats who sided with the business community in 2009 by voting against a bill requiring businesses to provide paid sick days. No other state has such a law, and opponents said it would add to the perception of Connecticut as hostile to business.
And he was among the House Democrats who agitated during the last session for the majority to better communicate an understanding of the state's fiscal crisis and a willingness to make spending cuts.
"The message is critical," Sharkey told The Mirror in late February. "If you say we can get out of it without draconian cuts, you are whistling past the graveyard."
The quote caused some momentary friction between Sharkey and the top leader in the chamber, House Speaker Christopher G. Donovan, D-Meriden, who had been resisting deep cuts.
But two days later, Donovan publicly backed recommendations made by a Sharkey-led task force to reduce costs through regionalism and efficiencies. Donovan had named Sharkey, a former chief administrative officer in Hamden, to lead the group in January.
Sharkey said his relationship with Donovan is solid, forged when they were part of a group that was effectively exiled for a time after backing the loser in a leadership fight.
"That's where Chris and I forged our relationship and our friendship. That's a relationship that's endured over the years," Sharkey said. "We can talk honestly with each other, and we don't have to pull punches."
It was Donovan who named Sharkey as the co-chairman of the planning and development committee after becoming speaker.
With his own background in municipal government, Sharkey has backed better funding for towns. He was one of 46 Democratic legislators who proposed raising the hotel tax this year to provide $20 million to help fund regional initiatives that could save municipalities money.
He is a graduate of Georgetown University and the University of Connecticut Law School. He owns a consulting business, AmeriZone, which expedites obtaining building permits nationally. He said most of the company's business is out of state.
Sen. Edward Meyer, D-Guilford, the co-chairman of the environment committee, accused Sharkey of a potential conflict of interest this year when Sharkey let die a bill that would have transferred the approval of telecom tower sites from a state siting council to the towns.
Sharkey said he had not had a telecom client in more than five years. Meyer congratulated him after he won the race for majority leader.
"He was very gracious," Sharkey said.
Rep. Robert Godfrey, D-Danbury, a deputy speaker and one of the few Democrats who has served under a Democratic governor--the last, William A. O'Neill, left office in 1991--said Sharkey will be the only new legislative leader, but all the leadership roles will change under a new governor.
"It's going to be an interesting dynamic," Godfrey said.
Donovan and Senate President Pro Tem Donald E. Williams Jr., D-Brooklyn, no longer will be the top Democrats in the building. Instead of reacting as opposition leaders to a Republican governor, they will have to define a partnership with a Democrat.
With the departure of Gov. M. Jodi Rell, House Minority Leader Lawrence F. Cafero Jr., R-Norwalk, and Senate Minority Leader John McKinney, R-Fairfield, become the highest-ranking Republican office holders in the state.
On both sides of the aisle, the legislative leaders say they expect Malloy to be a more activist governor than Rell and more engaged with the legislature.
"We are excited about the prospect of a governor who is engaged," Sharkey said.


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Bulimia Nervosa. Edition No. 1
- November 2010
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During the last few decades, eating disorders have been rising in prevalence mainly due to environmental and cultural factors. This rise, which reaches public health significance, calls for literature to inform and educate people about risk factors, clinical picture and treatment options of these disorders. In the first section of this book, we present important facts related to Bulimia Nervosa, such as prevalence of the disorder, comorbitity, theoretical frameworks for understanding the development of the disorder as well as treatment options. To enhance the understanding of the development and treatment of Bulimia Nervosa, a case study is presented and analyzed in the second part of this book. The case analysis follows the cognitive-behavioral model of treatment, since cognitive behavioral therapy has been found to be among the most effective for treating eating disorders, and provides a complete case conceptualization and treatment plan. This book is addressed to both mental health professionals and the general public, as it provides a comprehensive overview of Bulimia Nervosa.
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Nicoletta Georgiou, M.A.: Studied Clinical Psychology in University of Indianapolis, U.S.A. Clinical Psychologist in private practice, Athens, Greece.


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Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Thursday, 21 of February 2008, Jan Willies wrote:
>> Since 2.6.25-rc1 I have a lot of wakeups/s (â134191,4) and spend 100% in C0.
>> It worked fine with 2.6.24 and commandline nolapic. Without nolapic I had 80k
>> wakeups/s after some time, but not right from the start like now.
> We have a regression from 2.6.24, apparently interrupts-related.
After a lot of bisecting I've found the bad commit:
9b12e18cdc1553de62d931e73443c806347cd974 is first bad commit
commit 9b12e18cdc1553de62d931e73443c806347cd974
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ACPI: cpuidle: Support C1 idle time accounting
Show C1 idle time in /sysfs cpuidle interface. C1 idle time may not
be entirely accurate in all cases. It includes the time spent
in the interrupt handler after wakeup with "hlt" based C1. But, it will
be accurate with "mwait" based C1.
Reverting the commit brings my laptop back to C2.
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At a county fair there is a betting game that involves aspinning wheel. As the drawing shows, the wheel is set intorotational motion with the beginning of the angular section labeled''1'' at the marker at the top of the wheel. The wheel thendecelerates and eventually comes to a halt on one of the numberedangular sections.
(A) Given the initial angular velocity and the magnitude ofthe angular deceleration, which one of the equations of rotationalkinematics would you use to calculate the angular displacement ofthe wheel? a) ω^2 =ωo^2 +2αθ b)θ= 1/2(ω0+ω)t c) θ=ωot +1/2αt^2
(B) When using the equations of rotational kinematics, can theinitial angular velocity ω0 and the finalangular velocity ω be expressed in rev/s and theangular acceleration α be expressed inrev/s2, or is it necessary to use radian measure (i.e.,rad/s and rad/s2)?
a) The units for ω0, ω,and α must be rev/s and rev/s2. b) Theunits for ω0, ω, andα must be rad/s and rad/s2. c) Eitherrev/s and rev/s2 can be used, or rad/s andrad/s2 can be used.
(C) Does a greater initial angular velocity necessarily meanthat the wheel comes to a halt on an angular section labeled with agreater number (8 versus 6, for example)?
a) The wheel may, or may not, come to a halt on a sectionlabeled with a greater number. b) The wheel will always come to ahalt on a section labeled with a greater number. c) The wheel willalways come to a halt on a section labeled with a smallernumber.
The wheel in the drawing is divided into twelve angularsections, each of which is 30.0°. The deceleration of the wheelhas a magnitude of 0.172 rev/s2.
(D) Determine the numbered section on which the wheel comes toa halt when the initial angular velocity is +1.17 rev/s.
(E) Determine the numbered section on which the wheel comes toa halt when the initial angular velocity is +3.00 rev/s.


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Police are seeking a man wanted for grabbing a woman's rear end at a West Chester gas station.
Officers said a woman was followed into Sunoco on Tylersville Road by a man, who then walked past the woman and squeezed her buttocks.
The man then left in a gray or silver-colored SUV, likely a Cadillac Escalade or Chevy Suburban with dark-colored custom wheels, police said.
Anyone with information about the case was asked to call police at 513-759-7266.


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|Baked Product Tests
Wire Cut Cookie
(AACC Method 10-53, Macro Method)
This method determines the texture (hardness) of the cookies. The use of high-fructose corn syrup and lower sucrose concentration allows for a texture more similar to standard commercial cookie formulations. Differences in hardness reflect differences in flour quality, with softer cookie texture produced with better soft wheat quality.
Baking Quality of Cookie Flour
(AACC method 10-52, Micro Method)
Cookie spread determined within a location is a reliable indicator of the source cultivar's genetic characteristics. However, cookie spread, unlike milling quality, is greatly influenced by environmental conditions. An absolute single value for cookie spread could be misleading. Within a location the single value is significantly important in comparison to known standards. The average cookie spread for three different examples of a cultivar is representative of that wheat.
Chemically-leavened Cracker Baking Procedure
Soft wheat flours with greater gluten strength are typically preferred for commercial cracker production. The purpose of developing a benchtop baking method is to predict the contribution of gluten functionality to overall flour performance for chemically-leavened crackers.


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The Morning Ledger: Fed Backs Away From Tapering
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The Fed is holding back on tapering and markets are cheering. Asia and Europe are soaring after the Dow closed at a record high yesterday and yields on 10-year Treasury notes dropped to 2.701%. And DJIA futures are pointing to a higher opening. Fed officials got cold feet after spending months signaling that they might begin to pare their $85 billion-a-month bond-buying program at the September policy meeting, the WSJ's Jon Hilsenrath and Victoria McGrane write. At the end of their two-day meeting, they actually lowered their growth estimates for this year and next and expressed worry that the recent jump in long-term interest rates could squeeze an already-weak upturn. "The tightening of financial conditions observed in recent months, if sustained, could slow the pace of improvement in the economy and labor market," the Fed said in a statement after the meeting. "The [Fed] decided to await more evidence that progress will be sustained before adjusting the pace of its purchases."
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke also sounded the alarm on the potential economic damage that could result from looming brinksmanship in Washington. "A government shutdown, and perhaps even more so a failure to raise the debt limit, could have very serious consequences for the financial markets and for the economy," Mr. Bernanke said in his press conference following the policy meeting.
Meanwhile, it's looking more likely that President Obama will nominate Janet Yellen to take over from Mr. Bernanke. Two Democratic aides said Ms. Yellen's name has come up in at least two of those conversations, and a White House official confirmed the Fed vice chairwoman is the front-runner for the post, the WSJ's Damian Paletta and Peter Nicholas report.
Weekly jobless claims are expected to jump—but the previous week's report was affected by computer problems in two states, which drove a plunge in the number of claims. And existing home sales for August are expected to come in slightly weaker that July's figures, the Calculated Risk blog notes.
SEC offers 'flexible' proposal on pay ratio. The SEC voted to propose a long-awaited rule that would require companies to disclose a ratio of CEO compensation to median worker pay, saying that companies could choose from a number of statistical methods to arrive at the figure, Emily Chasan reports. The proposal, which offered avenues for companies to use statistical sampling or estimation to come up with the figure, divided the SEC commissioners. They voted 3-2, along party lines with support from the Democrats, to issue it. The SEC staff said the law's lack of a specific methodology for determining the "median employee" gave it leeway to propose that companies select one appropriate to their size and structure. Companies would have to disclose the compensation measures used to calculate the ratio. SEC Chairman Mary Jo White said the proposal offered "significant flexibility while still fulfilling the statutory mandate." But SEC Commissioner Daniel Gallagher slammed the rule, calling it "another Dodd-Frank mandate having nothing to do with the SEC's mission."
Money-market funds ready for battle with regulators. The money-market-fund industry initiated a fresh round of attacks yesterday on an overhaul proposed by U.S. securities regulators. At a hearing before the House Committee on Financial Services, corporate treasurers and money-market-fund representatives urged Congress to prevent further regulatory changes, Emily Chasan reports. Their argument is that the SEC's proposal that funds float their prices with the volatility in their assets wouldn't prevent a run on money-market funds and would diminish the industry and hurt the market for commercial paper. This "is another case where the medicine may kill the patient," James Gilligan, assistant treasurer of utility company Great Plains Energy, which runs Kansas City Power & Light. The SEC's proposal to float NAVs "will not necessarily reduce the risk of widespread redemptions during times of market stress."
BlackBerry to slash work force. BlackBerry plans staff cuts by the end of the year that could cost up to 40% of its employees their jobs. The scale of the planned layoffs, which will cut across all departments, paints a stark picture of just how far the company has fallen, says the WSJ's Will Connors. Two years ago, BlackBerry had more than 17,000 employees and 14% of the U.S. smartphone market. Now, it has less than 3% of the U.S. market and roughly 12,700 employees. BlackBerry's board continues to review strategic alternatives that include a sale of the company.
Wison CFO resigns as bank accounts frozen in China probe. Wison Engineering Services, supplier to PetroChina, said China's authorities froze certain bank accounts and that its CFO resigned, as investigations into company executives continue, Bloomberg reports. The oil-services company said CFO Chen Wenfeng resigned "to pursue other business opportunities." In a statement today, Wison said regulators asked about "certain projects," took records and froze bank accounts, some of which have since been unfrozen. The company wasn't given reasons for stopping its bank accounts, it said in the statement.
Big insurers skip health exchanges. When the consumer marketplaces for insurance go live Oct. 1, don't expect to see much of familiar names like Cigna or Aetna, writes the WSJ's Timothy W. Martin. The biggest health insurers are eschewing many of the exchanges out of concern that many of the individuals who will purchase coverage need it because they have chronic illnesses or other medical conditions that are expensive to treat. Their expected absence creates an opening for small regional players such as Molina Healthcare, Centene and Magellan Health Services to grab market share across multiple states in the rollout of the new federal health law.
Icahn vs. the imperial boardroom. Carl Icahn takes to the WSJ's opinion pages today to argue against what he calls a "board-centric system" in corporate America. Mr. Icahn says that voting rights really don't apply to public corporations because even though shareholders can vote, boards can just ignore them under the "business-judgment rule" backed by state laws and courts. Mr. Icahn calls Dell an example of a "ridiculously dysfunctional system," saying the buyout deal "deprives long-suffering shareholders from benefiting from the green shoots of its newer businesses that Mr. Dell has just recently been touting." He also takes aim at executive-compensation practices. "Is it fair that CEOs make 700 times what the average worker makes, even if the chief executive is doing a terrible job and thousands of workers are laid off? Why do CEOs get awarded huge bonuses by friendly boards when the share prices are down by double digits and then get their options reset to lower levels as an 'incentive'?"
J.P. Morgan fine put at over $900 million. Regulators in the U.S. and U.K. are expected to fine J.P. Morgan more than $900 million for actions tied to its 2012 "London whale" trading debacle, the WSJ reports. The SEC, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Fed and the U.K.'s Financial Conduct Authority are expected to charge the company with poor controls surrounding the giant bet, which ultimately cost it more than $6 billion. The OCC, J.P. Morgan's front-line regulator, is expected to get the biggest slice of the settlement, about $300 million. The other three agencies are expected get about $200 million each. The bank is still wrestling with the CFTC over the trading matter, and criminal prosecutors are still pursuing their own investigations.
Regulator warns of threats from cyberattacks. Hackers and other cybercriminals pose as grave a threat to the financial system as the recent financial crisis if banks and government officials don't mount an effective response, Comptroller of the Currency Thomas Curry warned in a speech, the WSJ's Michael R. Crittenden reports. "Each new product can introduce a new set of weaknesses into the system, and our early adoption of new applications and technology could outpace our ability to identify and mitigate the vulnerabilities," Mr. Curry said.
Magellan Midstream Partners, an oil and petroleum product transport and storage company, said in a news release that CFO John Chandler will leave the company at the end of March "to spend additional time with his family and church and community causes." A spokeswoman said Mr. Chandler, who is 43 years old and will be 44 when he steps down, "envisions this to be a true retirement" and has no plans to return to a full-time career. In 2012, Mr. Chandler received total compensation valued at nearly $1.8 million, including a salary of $375,038, an equity award valued at $889,484 and a $417,342 bonus, according to its most recent proxy statement.
Starbucks said on Tuesday that CFO Troy Alstead, who is also its chief administrative officer, has been promoted to the added title of group president of global business services. The company said in a news release that the promotion "is a recognition of the increasing responsibility and complexity of his role overseeing Starbucks global financial, technology and supply-chain operations." A spokesman declined to comment on whether the new title will come with a boost to his compensation. For its fiscal year ended last September, Mr. Alstead, who joined the company in 1992 and has been CFO for about five years, received compensation valued at about $4.1 million, including a salary of $697,702, stock and option awards valued at a combined $2.8 million and a bonus of $613,522, according to its proxy.


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Are you addicted to Candy Crush Saga? I don't blame you. I was introduced to this game by a friend and my gaming instincts quickly took over. By the way you may not know this but I did the Strengths Finder 2.0 exam and found out that my strength is focus. Having focus as my strength means that when I begin working on a task, I get so immersed in it that hours can pass without me recognizing it! Knowing this I decided that I would need to limit my involvement in this game. Long story short … Fail! I still had to delete Candy Crush Saga … again … for the fourth time. Here is why.
My Attempt At Limiting Candy Crush Play Time
Have you ever had those moments when you were just standing somewhere waiting on something or someone? Being a game lover I normally long for something to do in these moments. Maybe Candy Crush Saga could be the perfect fit! So I made a pack with myself that I would only play Candy Crush just in those moments.
This is where I must make a confession. The above decision was made only after I already had quit playing Candy Crush Saga a few times because it was talking over my life! At every spare second I was playing Candy Crush Saga! I had realized that something had to change. So … this was my attempt at cutting back. I narrowed down my play to just those specific moments when I really could not do anything productive. Normally this would be when I am waiting in the car, waiting outside a department store dressing room, waiting for an event to begin etc. It worked … for a while. Then I noticed something that made me quit again for the fourth time even though I did not stray outside my play time boundaries.
Why Quit Candy Crush Saga Again?
Here is what I noticed. Before I started playing Candy Crush Saga I was using all those dead blocks of time to reflect on life and God. I would come up with new ideas and theories and write them down in my phone for later reference. Once I started playing Candy Crush Saga this all changed. At time I noticed a down moment I couldn't wait to get back to playing. My mind was constantly occupied with the thought of getting back to the game. My normal brain chatter with God throughout the day decreased and my focus had changed.
Are You Saying Candy Crush Saga Is Bad?
Let me say that there is nothing wrong with playing Candy Crush Saga in itself. There are no real moral issues related to this game. However, I am starting to think that all of these social and cellphone games and activities that are popping up are having a grave effect on Christian stewards. It is keeping us distracted from real life. More importantly it is keeping us from thinking about our purpose here on earth and our relationship with God.
As Christian stewards we must recognize that our time is one of the most important resources that we have. We must be careful not to waist it on things that are trivial and unimportant.
Do you want to identifying where you might be wasting time in your life? See Stephen Covey's Four Quadrants of Time Management for Christian Stewardship
Have you noticed anything else that is taking over our free time and keeping us distracted? I would love to hear from you. Please leave your comment below.
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It's a big week for Cobra Golf Staffer! Seven of our Tour Staffers (and one on an alternate list) are playing in tournaments this week, we don't know we'll keep up with all of them - but we will!
Lexi Thompson, Anna Nordqvist and Lee-Anne Pace are all playing in The Evian Masters in France this week. In last year's Evian Masters, Anna finished 5 under at T19, Lee-Ane finished even par for the T44 slot and Lexi put up a 13 under for the T2 position. This will be the last Evian Masters played before it turns into a Major in the 2012 season. Johan Edfors is also playing across the pond in his native Sweden in The Nordea Masters. He'll be playing his S3 Driver, S3 Fairway, Baffler Pro 1/R and S3 Pro Irons.
Stateside, Blair O'Neal will be playing in The International at Concord in New Hampshire at the Beaver Meadow Golf Course. Blair will participate in junior clinics and the pro-am ahead of the 54 hole event. And for the boys we have Jonas Blixt and Diego Velasquez playing in the Children's Hospital Invitational. Manny Villegas is on the alternate list for the same event.
We're excited to keep tabs on everyone all week, be sure to check back here for photos of the Cobra gang and stay up to date with all of the action at http://twitter.com/cobragolf and http://facebook.com/cobra


text: Despite the mushrooming growth of e-commerce transactions in the country, sluggish payment gateways have been one of the biggest deterrents. To begin with, there weren't too many choices—apart from the payment gateways provided by banks, CCAvenue, PayPal and EBS were the only big players ruling this segment till a couple of years ago. Besides, almost all of them had either high sign-up costs or inferior technology, or both. In an attempt to bridge this gap, Upasana Taku and Bipin Preet Singh launched Zaakpay.com in September 2010.


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When you make ice cream at home what type of freezer-safe container do you transfer the ice cream into after it's done its thin in the freezing container?
Last summer I started making ice cream at home. Everything seemed to turn out o.k., but never quite the ice cream consistency I hoped for. I wonder if part of it had to do with the freezer-safe container I was using. I didn't really know what to put the icre cream, so I just put it in a square Pyrex dish because I knew that was freezer-safe. I have the ice cream bowl and attachments from Kitchen Aid and I typically make CL ice cream recipes. I don't have the old-fashioned churner or anything like that.
It's been quite some time since I've been on the boards. Hope everyone is doing well and having a good spring!


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Exclusive: Liam Neeson on The A-Team 2
The A-Team didn't exactly set the box office alight last year, but there may yet be a possibility of a sequel, according to star Liam Neeson…
We recently had the good fortune to speak to Liam Neeson about his film Unknown, which is released this Friday in UK cinemas. We'll bring you the full interview on Wednesday, in which he discusses some of his favourite early films, as well as talking about his incredibly busy slate of current and future work.
As a rather substantial fan of Mr Neeson, as well as growing up with The A-Team on TV, I have to say that I really liked the recent feature film version, and if ever there was a brand with the word 'franchise' attached, then what better than one based on a TV show that ran for years.
Unfortunately, critical reaction and box office results were quite mixed, leaving the future for any potential sequels in doubt.
I think it's a great shame, as I thought Joe Carnahan (who is currently re-united with Neeson while filming The Grey) did a fine job at putting together the best possible cast (despite some people's grumblings about Quinton "Rampage" Jackson's mumblings), while recalling the kind of over the top, fun blockbuster spectacle that made parts of 90s cinema so great.
When I mentioned this to Liam Neeson, he said, "Yeah, I thought it was a really good movie, you know? And thought it would've done much, much better at the box office in America, but the studio released it the day after the World Cup started, and I think that probably affected the overall performance of the film."
To be honest, it was quite a surprise that the A-Team film didn't do better, with the marketing push it was given and all the public appearances that the actors put in (as well as the van), especially with the current blockbuster climate allowing for some truly awful films to flourish and get sequels greenlit.
So I asked him if there was a chance of a sequel. The answer? "Well, there's nothing planned at the minute, but the studios certainly aren't saying no. I personally would love to get on the horse again, you know? With Bradley and Sharlto and Rampage - we all would. But with the studios and the studio system it's a question of dollars and cents."
It's interesting that the door isn't completely shut, and it's reassuring to hear that the cast are all behind making another. Despite Neeson joking elsewhere in the interview about his shortening ability to make action films, I can't help thinking that onset of age and grey hair can only help make Liam Neeson an even more authentic Hannibal Smith...
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Laid Off? Heal Your Chakras
One of my iterations is as an energy healer, so I have a unique perspective on seeing the effect of the economy on our chakras.
A friend's husband was laid off a year ago from his newspaper job, and she told me recently that he is becoming more and more depressed and she is worried about him. I didn't think of his depression in terms of chakras until I myself was laid off, but over the next few days I realized that my third chakra, the solar plexus and seat of my personal power in the world, felt sucker punched. It completely deflated.
I first became aware that we hold old energy in our bodies when, after starting yoga, I was astonished to find myself feeling grief for my father every time I entered a certain posture, and this was a decade after he had died. This was a wake-up call for me: I needed to do some emotional work or the energy would be squirreled away and block the free flow of chi.
What is a chakra?
There are many definitions of chakras, but they all evolve from the Sanskrit meaning of the word: "wheel of light." Most authorities agree that they are subtle energy centers that branch from the nervous system, according to Cyndi Dale, the author of the new book The Subtle Body, the new encyclopedic book about your energetic anatomy called. Chakras hold the chi energy we need to evolve spiritually and to be emotionally healthy, so the clearer they are, the more chi we have available to us for our growth. Spiritual healing is all about clearing out the chakras.
Is it possible that my friend's husband is experiencing a chakra energy deflation and doesn't know how to re-energize them, leaving him more and more emotionally out of sync? Is chakra-health related to why some people roll with the punches, and others don't?
Three months after being laid off, I can tell you that my third chakra is still weak, as is my second.
Get to know the three lower chakras
The lower chakras are very interrelated with how we interact with the world:
- The first chakra, at the bottom of the spine, is associated with personal survival.
- The second chakra, located about two inches below the belly button, is connected with the development of our unique personalities and connection to family.
- The third chakra, the solar plexus, is about personal power in the world.
Try these exercises to rebalance your lower chakras
If the economic downturn has affected you, why not try these two exercises to shore up the lower three chakras.
1. Imagine color filling the wheel of light of the chakra. Spend a few minutes on each chakra, starting with the first and ending with the third.
First Chakra: Red
Second Chakra: Orange
Third Chakra: Yellow
When you see yellow, orange, and red in the world, feast your eyes on the color. Imagine the sun filling your third chakra with yellow.
2. Intone to the lower chakras — meaning, practice vocalizing sounds thought to help activate and unblock energy associated with each of the chakras. Spend a few minutes with each of the chakras. Just repeat the sound over and over again, drawing out each sound as you vocalize it, as you would a mantra.
First Chakra: UH (rhymes with "huh")
Second Chakra: OOO (rhymes with "you")
Third Chakra: OH (rhymes with "go")
Repeat these exercises for as long as feels comfortable, and as often as possible.


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Mitt Romney is offering us a sketchy deal for the next four years, but Barack Obama is offering us a real deal. His deal is a balanced and practical plan, and his plan is already laying the base for an economy built to last.
First, Obama's plan limits greed and risk-taking while it opens opportunity for innovation and success.
The Dodd-Frank bill bans the risky practices of Wall Street and sets even stricter standards for the biggest banks. To eliminate the unreasonable administrative costs and profits of the health insurance companies, the Affordable Health Care Act requires companies to use at least 80 percent of collected premium dollars to provide actual medical care. If they don't, they must give rebates to their customers. Approximately 12.8 million Americans have received such a rebate this year. Obama championed small businesses by increasing loans available to them and by giving them tax breaks. In addition, his actions enabled the survival of the big automobile industry with its 1.4 million jobs.
Second, Obama's plan balances respect for the three Ps: people, place, and profit.
With such laws as the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, Obama upholds workers' rights and the principle of equal pay for equal work. Obama's policies have promoted production of our fossil fuels, but his administration is also making sure that environmental protections are in place. Taking a long view, Obama has used stimulus money to encourage the development of green energy and its many related jobs.
Third, Obama's plan invests in infrastructure for the good of both small and large businesses.
The American Reinvestment and Recovery Act built and repaired structures and strengthened civic services. In just our area, the funds went toward the projects of the Route 33 bypass around Nelsonville, Ohio, and the In-Synch Reporting System for the Wood County Sheriff's Department. To ensure that future workers will have the necessary skills for good-paying jobs, Obama doubled the Pell grant funds available to college students. Many students at local colleges have benefited from that increase.
These are just a few accomplishments of Obama's balanced, practical plan.
Obama has brought us back from the recession's brink and has started us on the path toward an economy built to last. Keep the United States moving forward. Vote for Obama. His deal is the real deal.
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War Is Kind
by Stephen Crane
Stanza 2 Summary
Get out the microscope, because we're going through this poem line-by-line.
Lines 6-8
Hoarse, booming drums of the regiment,
Little souls who thirst for fight,
These men were born to drill and die.
- Ah, now we get some battle scenes. We'll see war in action, and figure out if it actually is kind.
- The speaker sets the scene for us Just imagine a montage, containing a horse, booming drums, and a bunch of young guys itching to fight.
- These young guys sound like a bunch of drones to us, because according to the speaker, they were born to drill and die.
- This does not mean that they were born to drill holes with a power drill from Home Depot, but that they were born to be drilled by a sergeant—ordered and bossed around like cattle, doing repetitive exercises like target shooting and crawling through barbed wire mud pits. Or something.
- This is a very bleak picture, dear speaker. But it's effective, too. The idea here is that the fates of all these soldiers seem to already have been determined: they're going to drill and they're going to die, and there's not much anyone can do about it.
- But let's break down this image even more. First, what are the drums doing there? Well, back in the day, military regiments had drums and other instruments that were meant to spur the men into battle. Sure, it's weird to think of war as something that needs or has music, but once upon a time that's how it was.
- When the speaker says "little souls," he doesn't want us to imagine a bunch of little souls running around armed for battle. What would that look like anyway?
- He's probably just referring to the young (little) men (souls) who fight battles, using a metaphor.
- Actually, we think he's using a specific type of metaphor, in which a word (souls) that's closely related to something (men) is being used to refer to that something. The fancy word for this type of metaphor is metonymy.
- Strangely, the speaker switches to the present tense in this stanza. It's almost like he's going back in time, or putting himself at the scene of the lover's death.
- It's like a movie: speaker talks to maiden, the scene changes, and boom, we're on the battlefield with drums pounding and soldiers ready to go.
- All this raises one key question: who exactly is this speaker anyway? We're not too sure, but his attitude, while critical, makes him sound like a military man, a superior of some sort who sees his men as his cattle or something. But be sure to head over to our "Speaker" section to read more about this fellow.
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The unexplained glory flies above them.
- The unexplained glory? What's that about?
- Here are a couple theories Shmoop drummed up:
- It could be glory in the abstract, as in "the glory of fighting and dying in battle." It's unexplained because once you get out there and starting murdering people it all seems kind of pointless.
- Or—and this version's more likely—glory could refer to the flag, which explains why it's flying.
- A lot of folks refer to the American flaf as "Old Glory," though this poem isn't necessarily about a war that the United States was in. But since Stephen Crane was American, the theory's definitely plausible.
- And that flag is unexplained because, again, the idea of dying for it just seems kind of ridiculous once you get out in the field and start killing people.
- Did you note the contrast between the flag and the soldiers? They're down on the ground, fighting it out, and it's up there in the wind, just hanging out. That points to a huge gap between the gory fighting on the battlefield and the grand purpose of the war, high above all the mess.
Lines 10-11
Great is the battle-god, great, and his kingdom—
A field where a thousand corpses lie.
- The battle-god is a really great guy, just… great.
- And his kingdom? Ironically, it's just a field where a thousand corpses lie (that little dash might as well be an "is").
- Battle-god does not necessarily mean any specific god, just some presiding battle spirit.
- But, here's a list of some battle gods from various mythologies for your, um, pleasure: Ares (Greek), Huitzilopochtli (Aztec), and Odin (Norse).
- Again, our speaker seems really into this war business, calling the battle god great and all. We'd think a kingdom with a thousand corpses usually means its leader is kind of a deadbeat, but our speaker thinks differently.


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National editor's pick of the top news stories in the nation and world at this hour:
Nidal Hasan guilty on all counts in rampage that killed 13
Army Maj. Nidal Hasan was convicted Friday of all charges against him in the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, that left 13 people dead and more than 30 wounded. The Army psychiatrist acknowledged that he was the gunman, leaving little doubt of his guilt. The goal of prosecutors in his court-martial was to ensure that he receive the death penalty. The federal government wants to see Hasan executed, believing that any lesser sentence would deprive his victims' families of justice. A jury of 13 high-ranking military officers deliberated for about seven hours before unanimously finding Hasan guilty of 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted murder. In the next phase of the trial, they must all agree to give Hasan the death penalty before he can be sent to the military's death row, which has just five other prisoners. If they do not agree, the 42-year-old would likely spend the rest of his life in prison. Hasan, a Muslim born in Virginia, said the rampage was a jihad against U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Before the case went to jury, Hasan bristled at the judge's suggestion that the attack resulted from a sudden flash of anger.
Robert Bales sentenced to life without parole
Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, who gunned down 16 Afghan men, woman and children in a shocking nighttime rampage in Kandahar province in 2012, was sentenced Friday to life in prison without parole -- a sentence that relatives of the dead said was insufficient. A military jury at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington gave Bales the most severe punishment possible after he pleaded guilty to avoid the death penalty. Afghan villagers who testified in the trial said they were far from satisfied with the sentence. Hajji Mohammad Wazir, who lost 11 family members, says the Afghans wanted Bales executed. Bales showed no emotion as the verdict was read. His mother, sitting in the front row, bowed her head, rocked in her seat and wept.
Mosque bombings in Lebanon kill 29
Car bombings Friday at mosques in Tripoli, Lebanon, killed at least 29 people and injured more than 350 in what was seen as a widening of Syria's war. Preachers at both of the mosques were virulent opponents of Syrian President Bashar Assad and his allies in Hezbollah, the Shiite militia based in Lebanon. Most of the rebels in Syria are Sunni, and Tripoli is a predominantly Sunni city that has seen frequent clashes between Sunnis and Alawites, the Shiite sect to which Assad belongs. A prominent Salafist sheik, Dai al-Islam Shahhal, said Sunnis in Tripoli would take security in their own hands from now on, blaming the Syrian regime and its Hezbollah allies in Lebanon for the bombings. Hezbollah swiftly condemned the attack, calling it a "terrorist bombing." A witness, Samir Darwish, said he heard the explosion at the Salam Mosque and ran toward the fire. "I came here and saw the catastrophe," he said. "Bloodied people were running in the street, several other dead bodies were scattered on the ground. It looked like doomsday, death was everywhere."
Obama sticks to a go-slow policy on Syria
President Barack Obama said Friday that while a presumed chemical weapons attack in Syria is a "big event of grave concern," the U.S. cannot rush to retaliate without international support. "This is something that is going to require America's attention," Obama said in an interview on CNN. But he said the idea that the U.S. can single-handedly end Syria's civil war has been "overstated," and he indicated he would seek international support before taking decisive action. "If the U.S. goes in and attacks another country without a U.N. mandate and without clear evidence that can be presented, then there are questions in terms of whether international law supports it, do we have the coalition to make it work," he said. Obama has come under sharp criticism from some lawmakers, including Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who say the U.S. has lost credibility by calling the use of chemical weapons a "red line" and then taking no action when the line was crossed. Obama replied to that criticism by saying: "Sometimes what we've seen is that folks will call for immediate action, jumping into stuff, that does not turn out well. We have to think through strategically what's going to be in our long-term national interests, even as we work cooperatively internationally to do everything we can to put pressure on those who would kill innocent civilians."
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Teri, I have been having tightness/stiffness/discomfort in my neck and running up into the back of my head for a couple weeks. I went to a doctor, the ER, and a neurologist. The ER did a CT scan and blood work. Nothing showed. I am 27, male, young, and very healthy. I live an active lifestyle. The ER ruled out anything "serious" as far as meningitis. The neurologist said he didn't think they were migraines; he thinks stress and tension in the neck are causing the headaches. I am on Flexirol and Ibuprofen and waiting for this to leave. It is usually pretty bad when I wake up, and throughout the day it fluctuates. Sometimes it is not so painful, and other times it is. What should I do? Any idea?READ MORE
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There are a few things that come to mind here...
Tension-type headaches can start with the type of feeligns you describe in your neck. You can read mroe about that in Tension-Type Headaches - The Basics.
Waking with this could mean a couple of things, both related to sleep...
1) Positioning or your pillow could be causing some neck problems.
2) Waking with a headache or Migraine is very often a sign of a sleep problem. Too much, too little, disrupted, and poor quality sleep are all strong potential triggers for headaches and Migraines. We have a video on this - Migraines, Headaches, and Sleep.
Flexeril is sometimes used for Migraine and headache prevention. The ibuprofen, on the other hand, should be limited to two or three days a week. If used more often, it can contribute to the problem by causing medication overuse headaches, aka rebound. You can find more information on this in Medication Overuse Headache - When the Remedy Backfires.
Everything I've mentioned are starting points, but only a doctor who can work with you in person can really answer your question. Hopefully the links I listed for you will give you some information to discuss with your doctor.
Was the neurologist you mentioned one you saw in the ER? If you've only been seen in the ER for this, the next step is to see your regular doctor. You really do need to get a confirmed diagnosis and work with a doctor on treatment to get this under control.
If your doctor isn't able to help you, it may well be time to consult a Migraine and headache specialist. It's important to note that neurologists aren't necessarily Migraine and headache specialists. Take a look at the article Migraine and Headache Specialists - What's So Special? If you need help finding a Migraine specialist, check our listing of Patient Recommended Migraine and Headache Specialists.
I hope this helps! Please keep me posted?
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Hello Teri, I have kinda the same pain as blake. Neck pain and headache I have suffered through this for about 5 years.. I had a serious snowboarding accident. anyways I came to the point where I need my life back, I miss work alot due to the pain, Dr. visits and rehabilitation. Its been several years after the accident... But I am Carefull on how I sleep, my posture, my diet etc. I wake up with pain and my neck is tight and have a headache. I wake up and go to bed with a headache 6 out of 7 days out of the week. My dr. prescribed flexeril ofcourse and topamax and then propranolol both which kept me up...... ughhh!!! Anyways the flexeril helps a lil but still have pain what would be more helpfull? because the flexeril helps with the muscles buth still have a headache from my spine I think which is called an oscitle headache spelling wrong maybe.. Help!!!
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Hello, caregiver,
I would recommend to you, as I did above, seeing a doctor who truly specializes in headache disorders.
Something else to check into is the possiblility that at least part of your problem is cervicogenic headache. Take a look at Cervicogenic Headache - The Basics for some information.
I think the word you're looking for my be occipital headache, which tells us the location, but not what type of headache it is.
Sincerely, getting to a specialist is the best advice I can give you. Neurologists aren't necessarily Migraine and headache specialists. I can't tell you how many people have seen a huge improvement when they actually get to a specialist.
Hope this is at least some help,
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Gary Moore, a legend of blues-rock guitar and a former member of the Irish group Thin Lizzy, was found dead in a hotel room in the Costa del Sol region of Spain today (6 February). He was 58 years old.
Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, the left-handed Moore learned to play righty. Influenced by players as disparate as Albert King, George Harrison, Peter Green and Jimi Hendrix, he joined the Dublin band Skid Row in 1969 at the age of 16.
In 1973 he signed on to play with Thin Lizzy following the sudden departure of guitarist Eric Bell. His first stint with the band lasted just four months, but he would return four years later to play on the group's Black Rose album.
After leaving Thin Lizzy for good, Moore embarked on a successful solo career, issuing a string of highly acclaimed discs, such as 1990's Still Got The Blues.
"That was the one that did it for me," Joe Bonamassa told MusicRadar after being informed of Moore's death. The young blues-rock titan, who has made a considerable name for himself as a solo artist and more recently as a member of the supergroup Black Country Communion, recalled hearing Still Got The Blues for the first time: "I said, 'OK, it's cool to be a Les Paul hero. This was when a lot of people were playing Strats. Man, I couldn't get over that album. Gary played with unbelievable fire and passion."
Bonamassa met Moore on only two occasions, their initial encounter taking place backstage during a festival show. "I saw him and thought, This might be my only chance," he said. "So I went up to him and said, 'Hi, I'm Joe Bonamassa, and I owe you a lot of royalties from the riffs I stole from you.' He shook my hand and said, 'No problem, I illegally downloaded all of your albums!' He said it in a joking way, but I knew he was serious - and that was fine, because he was Gary Moore. I wouldn't be doing what I do if it wasn't for him. I'm sure I'm not the only person who can say that."
Bonamassa even named one of his Les Pauls after the Irish guitarist. "It's a '59 reissue that I play the song Sloe Gin on. Every time I play it, I think of Gary Moore."
Eric Bell, whom Moore replaced in Thin Lizzy, told the BBC that he was "in shock" at the news of the guitarist's death. "I still can't believe it," he said. "He was so robust. He wasn't a rock casualty.... He was a healthy guy.
Guitarist Scott Gorham, who played with Moore during the Black Rose era of Thin Lizzy, said, "He was a great player and a great guy. I will miss him."
One of rock's most underrated guitarists (both from a technical and compositional point of view), Gary Moore remains relatively unknown in the U.S., while his solo work has brought him substantial acclaim and commercial success in most other parts of the world -- especially in Europe. Born on April 4, 1952, in Belfast, Ireland, Moore became interested in guitar during the '60s, upon discovering such blues-rock masters as Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, and perhaps his biggest influence of all, Fleetwood Mac's Peter Green. After relocating to Dublin later in the decade, Moore joined a local rock group called Skid Row, which featured a young singer by the name of Phil Lynott, who would soon after leave the group to double up on bass and form Thin Lizzy. Skid Row persevered, however, eventually opening a show for Moore's heroes, Peter Green and Fleetwood Mac, and making such an impression on the veteran group that Green personally requested their manager help secure Skid Row a recording contract with CBS (in addition, Green sold Moore one of his most-used guitars, a maple 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard, which would become Moore's primary instrument).
Skid Row would go on to issue several singles and albums (including 1970's Skid and 1971's 34 Hours), and although the group mounted a few tours of Europe and the U.S., it failed to obtain breakthrough commercial success, leading to Moore's exit from the group in 1972. Moore then formed his own outfit, the Gary Moore Band (along with members drummer Pearse Kelly and bassist John Curtis), for which the guitarist also served as vocalist. But after the trio's debut album, 1973's Grinding Stone, sunk without a trace, Moore hooked up once more with ex-bandmate Lynott in Thin Lizzy. Moore's initial tenure in Lizzy proved to be short-lived, however, as his fiery playing was featured on only a handful of tracks. Moore then set his sights on studio work (appearing on Eddie Howell's 1975 release, Gramaphone Record), before joining up with a prog rock/fusion outfit, Colosseum II. But once more, Moore's tenure in his latest outfit was fleeting; he appeared on only three recordings (1976's Strange New Flesh, plus a pair in 1977, Electric Savage and War Dance), as Moore accepted an invitation by his old buddy Lynott to fill in for a Thin Lizzy U.S. tour, playing arenas opening for Queen.
Moore proved to be quite busy in 1978, as the guitarist appeared on three other artists' recordings -- Andrew Lloyd Webber's Variations, Rod Argent's Moving Home, and Gary Boyle's Electric Glide. The same year, Moore issued his second solo release (almost five years after his solo debut), Back on the Streets, which spawned a surprise Top Ten U.K. hit in May of 1979, the bluesy ballad "Parisienne Walkways," and featured vocal contributions by Lynott. Moore joined forces with his Lizzy mates once more in 1979, appearing on arguably the finest studio album of their career, Black Rose, which proved to be a huge hit in the U.K. (for a fine example of Moore's exceptional guitar skills, check out the album's epic title track). But predictably, Moore ultimately exited the group once more (this time right in the middle of a U.S. tour), as a rift had developed between Moore and Lynott. Undeterred, Moore lent some guitar work to drummer Cozy Powell's solo release, Over the Top, in addition to forming a new outfit, G Force, which would only remain together for a lone self-titled release in 1980.
During the early '80s, Moore united with former ELP guitarist/bassist/singer Greg Lake, appearing on a pair of Lake solo releases (1981's self-titled release and 1983's Manoeuvres), in addition to guesting on another Cozy Powell solo release, Octopuss. But it was also during the '80s that Moore finally got serious with his solo career -- issuing such heavy metal-based works as 1982's Corridors of Power, 1983's Victims of the Future, 1984's Dirty Fingers and the in-concert set We Want Moore!, 1985's Run for Cover, 1987's Wild Frontier, plus 1989's After the War -- establishing a large following in Europe, despite remaining virtually unknown stateside. The decade wasn't all rosy for Moore, however -- although he was able to patch up his friendship with Phil Lynott (appearing with Lizzy for several tracks on Life/Live, and teaming with Lynott for a pair of tracks in 1985, "Military Man" and "Out in the Fields," the latter a U.K. hit), years of hard living finally caught up with Lynott, leading to his passing in January of 1986. Moore would subsequently dedicate "Wild Frontier" to Lynott, and honored Thin Lizzy's former frontman on the track "Blood of Emeralds" (from After the War).
Fed up with the pressure to pen hit singles and tired of his metallic musical direction, Moore returned to his blues roots for 1990's Still Got the Blues, the most renowned and best-selling release of his career, as the album featured such special guests as Albert Collins, Albert King, and George Harrison. Moore continued in his newly rediscovered blues style on such subsequent releases as 1992's After Hours and 1993's Blues Alive, before forming the short-lived supergroup BBM along with Cream's former rhythm section -- bassist Jack Bruce and drummer Ginger Baker -- which lasted for a single album, 1994's Around the Next Dream. Up next for Moore was a tribute album for Peter Green, 1995's Blues for Greeny, which saw him put his own personal stamp on 11 tracks either penned or performed at some point by Green. Moore experimented with different musical styles on his next two solo releases, 1997's Dark Days in Paradise and 1999's A Different Beat, before embracing the blues once more on his first release of the 21st century, 2001's Back to the Blues.
Over the years, Gary Moore has been the subject of countless compilations, the best of the bunch being 1998's metal-oriented Collection and 2002's blues-based Best of the Blues, as well as Out in the Fields: The Very Best of Gary Moore, which was split 50/50 between his metal and blues excursions. Teaming with Skunk Anansie bassist Cass Lewis and Primal Fear drummer Darrin Mooney, Moore started work on much harder and alternative-influenced rock in the spring of 2002 and released the results as Scars. The powerful Live at Monsters of Rock from 2003 proudly declared "no overdubs used" while 2004's raw Power of the Blues featured nothing but the blues, as did 2006's Old New Ballads Blues on Eagle Records.
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Linda,I have just enough experience to be dangerous. And I love being unconventional.Seriously, I'd like to hear your idea. If it was just a small amount, I was thinking I'd ease a little fullness where a regular dart would go since I'm using a knit fabric. But I need to FBA for a D/DD cup, so it's more than I think could be handled by ease (alone).
Linda, I'm not sure how you're doing your FBA. Making the FBA as shown in Fit for Real People should not do that, though it may require taking just a pinch in where the bust angles toward the armhole, but I've never had that problem. I am also a DD so I understand how difficult it can be to get clothes that actually fit. I haven't bought a shirt in years, only sweaters.
you say that doing a traditional FBA curves the armhole a little too much. I'm trying to understand what technique you're using to make your fba, what is "traditional" that it would do anything at all to the armhole.
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