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8 Sped Up Videos That Shatter Your Idea of Ordinary Things
I'm not the type of person who gets fascinated easily. My view of the natural world tends to lean toward the practical: a storm cloud means water for crops, a tree is something to piss behind if I'm not near a toilet, the sun is just a moon that God accidentally set on fire while drunk. But if you take even the most boring shit and view it in a time lapse video, suddenly it becomes awesome. That's when you realize that absolutely everything is in a state of frenzied, sometimes terrifying activity -- it's just happening on a different time scale.
Trust me, speeding things up will completely change your opinion of ...
Warning: Some of these can be a bit gross and graphic.
#8. Ants Eating
Warning: If swarms of insects make you feel all creepy-crawly, you'll probably want to skip this one. And maybe stop using phrases like "creepy-crawly," because it makes you sound like a child. A child who is a huge pussy and probably needs his ass spanked. If you're worried about seeing animal guts, don't be, because once the ants find the carcass, you won't see it again until it's nothing but bones:
That's a time lapse video of a dead gecko being completely devoured by a colony of ants in a matter of hours. And while even just the idea of that sounds kind of dark and fucked up, it doesn't do justice to the nightmare-inducing images of seeing it in full motion. Especially when those demonic little bastards swarm in and completely cover its body.
If you want to imagine a scenario even creepier, pretend there's no gecko under there.
Pardon me for a second, I have something I need to do real quick ... GAAAAAAH! MOTHERFUCKER! NO, FOR THE LOVE OF CHRIST, NO! I CAN FEEL THEM ON ME!
Sorry about that -- what were we talking about again? Oh yeah, the GAAAAAAH! FUCK, THAT'S DISGUSTING! FUUUUUUCK! Sorry, that was the last one. I think I'm good now.
Oh, yeah, the ants. It's not just the way they devour it so quickly. Around the 26-second mark, notice how the toes start to move around as the ants push and pull them into a better eating position. Then casually saw them off with their freakish, razor-sharp ant faces and carry them away. Little toes, disappearing in time lapse, one at a time, to feed to their bastard ant babies.
Watch the way the rest of the little lizard's body slowly moves as the flesh disappears. It almost looks like it's still alive under that writhing eating frenzy. But the end of the video is really what gets me. Even after it's been picked clean, right down to bleach-white bones, they still search for meat and tissue, going so far as to carry off some of the intact bones and moving the skull completely out of frame.
And not one of those assholes left a tip. But hey, at least it didn't happen on the sea floor. That's where the real nightmares take place.
#7. A Retired Dam
This is one of my favorite videos of all time, and why wouldn't it be? It's a dam being breached with a big, controlled explosion. Now, before you make this point, allow me to make it for you: Exploding dams are exactly the opposite of mundane. I totally understand that. But what is mundane is the several hours' worth of water draining out after that. Yes, for the first 15 minutes or so, I'm sure it's mesmerizing to watch tens of thousands of gallons of water shooting out of that thing like it's the end of the goddamn world. But after that? It's just a bunch of water shooting out in a seemingly endless stream. Like a good piss after your first six beers of the night.
That's not water coming out, by the way. That's dust and smoke from the initial blast.
THAT is the water.
However, the thing that's surprising is that the time lapse recording of the "boring" stuff turned out to be the most interesting part of the whole video. It's watching that lake drain out into a free-flowing river. Seriously, watch the water behind that dam go from this:
To this:
It's incredible to see that perfectly serene body of water turn into a soupy, turdy mess that collapses in on itself. Just when you think you're looking at somewhat solid ground, the whole bed breaks loose and flows like a river of shit, and you realize that it's still like 80 percent water. That if you tried to walk on that thing, you'd be sucked down to an inescapable death.
Could you imagine being a fish caught in all of that chaos? Words couldn't adequately express the level of "WHAT THE FUCK?!" that went through your mind as you were ripped from your home and shot a thousand feet from where you were just innocently swimming and enjoying being a stupid fish. "This sure is awesome. I love the fact that I don't have to worry about much because my limited intelligence as a fish prevents me from having to d- OH JESUS CHRIST, WHAT DID I DO?!"
#6. Braces
This is a video that, judging by the incredibly stupid hair, appears to be the 1980s or early '90s. Or possibly from last month. It's an 11-year-old girl who had some fairly bad teeth problems, along the lines that they looked to be assembled by drunken gnomes. Or maybe she was the spawn of the Rock Biter from The NeverEnding Story.
"Mom, we need to get to the dentist. Bruce Campbell just tried to fight me with a shotgun and a chainsaw."
Now don't take those little jabs as me making fun of her looks. Getting braces in a case like this isn't so much a vanity thing as it is a "being able to chew my fucking food correctly" thing. The sucky part about them is that they take so long to work. They're pushing and pulling teeth into their correct spots without using surgery, so obviously it's going to take forever. If we could just yank our teeth around at a moment's notice and place them where we want, we'd have no need for braces -- and I'd have mine sticking straight out at a 90-degree angle at all times so that I'd have to chew my food by pecking at it like a bird.
But the point is that since it does take so long, you never really notice a change in the person who has them until it's time to get them taken off. It's such a gradual thing that even after they get them removed, you have to see a before-and-after shot to notice the difference. Like this:
Holy crap, it even made her hair grow!
The video itself is 18 months of ongoing correction crammed into a 30-second span. And watching those things slowly slide into place is both awesome and cringe-inducing at the same time. You can almost hear them creaking like a sumo wrestler on a hardwood floor as the back ones are pulled from a 30-degree inward slant to facing upright, the way her stupid DNA failed to do. Hey, don't worry about it, God. We got this one.
#5. The Sky
Space dorks like me will instantly get a hard-on from this video. Even the women. But it's another case of being mundane based on perspective. For instance, a night sky is beautiful, and there are many people, including myself, who can stare up at it for long periods of time, just taking in the complexities and the scale of our universe. View it through a telescope, and it becomes almost frightening in its depth and majesty. But no matter how you look at it, even in real time, it just looks like a calm, serene backdrop, painted by a really, really big dude. Infinite miles of infinite stillness.
That's because the further you are from an object, the less motion you can detect. It's why storm clouds seem to just sit there until they're right on top of you, and then they kick into turbo mode, whipping past at "get your ass in the basement" speeds. And why the guy a mile and a half away from you seems to be a frozen speck on the horizon, but in your crosshairs, the little fucker won't stand still long enough to get one good shot off.
But put that same night sky on time lapse, and suddenly, you can feel it. Tell me you can't actually feel Earth's rotation when you watch that. It's almost dizzying. I'm not sure it's possible for a person to see the night sky the same after watching that video. And as long as we're on the subject of space ...


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Creating a Workflow Service in Approximately 60 Seconds
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Thanks for the quick walkthrough. My installation won't get past the svcutil step. It generates the error:
Unhandled Exception: System.IO.FileLoadException: Could not load file or assembly 'svcutil, Version=188.8.131.52, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. Strong name validation failed. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8013141A)
File name: 'svcutil, Version=188.8.131.52, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' ---> System.Security.SecurityException: Strong name validation failed. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8013141A)
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Quality Education in the Benedictine Tradition
Inspired by the New York Herald Tribune's Roger Kahn who wrote a popular memoir, The Boys of Summer, about his relationship with his father and their love for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Dr. Anthony Serapiglia was sure he wanted a career in sports writing. "But my father wanted me to be an attorney so we split the difference and I pursued study in physics because I enjoyed it and found it easy to understand," he explained. "I found my ability to communicate science in an understandable fashion became a skill that I developed while I was an undergraduate at Allegheny College. I also became involved with the campus radio station where I could pursue my love of jazz and all of a sudden I was the news director and then the general manager." What started as a summer job at the former WDUQ-FM in Pittsburgh soon led to his first regular job as a radio DJ with his own show – Jazz in the Afternoon – while he completed his education. After he earned a bachelor of arts degree, Dr. Serapiglia started teaching high school physics as a substitute until a "temp service" offered him a challenging job in computing with an oil drilling company that required extensive use of global internet research. At the same time, he decided to pursue a master's degree in communication and information systems at Robert Morris University. He moved to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review as webmaster just as the worldwide web was coming to life. "We built a new website, PittsburghLive, and branched out into the new media while I was there. We were supporting seven newspapers and 13 different offices. Mixing old and new media was quite a challenge!" He had an opportunity to join an Internet service provider, Nauticom, when that part of the industry was starting to boom. "I helped them develop the ability to process credit card orders which was a major service expansion and a great revenue generator. I learned a lot about the computing services industry during my five years there." Working as a consultant for PC Network Services expanded his knowledge of that area of the computing world. "I was the lead project manager," he said, "and spent several years flying all over the country providing managed services to companies and organizations including aircraft, manufacturing, international business, even law firms. I absolutely loved it." After eight years of teaching college courses as an adjunct professor part time, he decided to return to his original plan to be a teacher, joining the Computing and Information Science Department in the Herbert W. Boyer School of Natural Sciences, Mathematics, and Computing as assistant professor of computing and information science at Saint Vincent College. He is teaching two basic programming classes for freshmen and advanced networking and database course for juniors and seniors. "I really enjoy exciting other people, seeing them pick it up and get that spark," he said. "I get to make a difference in young peoples' lives and I get to see what they become. And I like to integrate all of my varied experience into my teaching – even jazz." He is currently involved in a research project involving communications technology. "I presented a paper at the Information Systems Educators Conference (ISECON) in Wilmington, North Carolina November 3-6. I have published twice with them previously. This paper involves methods of communication outside of the classroom that teachers have been using. It is a longitudinal study that involved a survey at another college to see the methods teachers would use such as email, instant messaging, social media and all these other platforms where the students are. As a professor it is where we need to be. I am also on a panel for the conference that will discuss integrating social networking into the classroom." Dr. Serapiglia reports that the career prospects in the computing field are unlimited. "I talk to my peers in the information technology industry and they all tell me they have open positions but cannot find qualified people to fill them," he said. "They always have openings. I want to make sure students coming out of my classroom are the ones they will want to hire. I know the skills they need. The internships we do here are fantastic. They put students in an excellent position to succeed by getting something on their resumes that will be meaningful." A native of McKees Rocks, he and his wife, Wendy, now live in the North Hills with their two children, Amanda, 10, and Alex, 3. In his spare time, he still enjoys playing baseball in a "38 and over" wooden bat league and fencing. He is a member of St. Sebastian's R.C. Church.
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Voters Tuesday night defeated the 3-mill continuous permanent improvement levy 661 (58.91 percent) to 461 (41.09 percent). The levy would have generated $376,700 annually for projects that extend the life of the item by five years, such as boilers, windows and roofs.
Schools Superintendent Steve Viscounte said the board will have to decide how to proceed considering the defeat, but remained optimistic.
"We have to huddle back up and see how the board wants to approach it," said schools Superintendent Steve Viscounte. "But to me, 200 votes, swing 100 votes and you're in good shape. Obviously we were hoping to get it through the first time, but I'm certainly not deterred...if the board is willing to go that route (another attempt)."
In addition to safety measures such as security gates, a new door system and enhanced lighting, the levy would have funded purchases such as text books and buses and projects such as parking and building renovations, relieving pressure on the general fund, Viscounte noted.
Those building renovations are not going away, either, he said.
"Sooner or later voters are going to have to decide," he said. "Things are going to start breaking down and there's only so much (money) in the pot."
The board attempted the permanent improvement levy in an attempt to address costs of renovations to the K-12 campus after residents twice defeated a bond issue for a partially new school in 2011.
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Elkins City Clerk Sutton Stokes was appointed for two more years, made a full-time employee and given a pay raise by City Council Thursday.
Councilman Mark Scott, 3rd Ward, was the only dissenting vote against the pay raise, but still voted to appoint Stokes for two more years.
"I think Sutton has done a fine job as city clerk," he said during the meeting. "I am concerned moving him from part-time to full-time. Plus, we are giving him a raise and benefits."
Councilwoman Marylinn Cuonzo, 4th Ward, made a motion to increase Stokes' salary, which was seconded by Councilman Tom Hensil, 2nd Ward. The motion passed, increasing Stokes' base salary from $18 an hour to $19 an hour. Stokes will be making $39,520 with the pay raise and the move to full-time. In addition, Stokes will be eligible for health and retirement benefits.
"It looks as though the base amount has been increased," Scott said, "In addition, he is going to receive full benefits."
The pay raise and benefits also required the city to have a budget adjustment of $30,192.15, with $15,692.15 being moved from the city's "rainy day" fund and $14,500 being moved from the clerk's regular salary.
Scott questioned moving money from the "rainy day" fund. Hensil said when the city crafted this year's budget money was placed into the fund. City Treasurer Lisa Daniels-Smith explained the fund to council members.
"The money came from capital outlay the administrative officers built into their budgets," she said. "All capital outlay was moved into the rainy day fund. It is not taking money from capital reserve."
Scott was the only council member to vote against the raise.
The next item on council's agenda was to appoint Stokes to a new two-year term. City code states the city must appoint a clerk during the first meeting in December of every even year. Councilman Jim Bibey moved to appoint Stokes to the term in a full-time position. Councilman Bob Woolwine, 1st Ward, seconded the motion that passed unanimously.
Elkins Mayor Duke Talbott said the recommendation to move the clerk into a full-time position was made by the Personnel Committee and the pay rate was recommended by the Finance Committee.
"It is important to note that the city clerk was a full-time position for several years," Councilwoman Nanci Bross-Fregonara said.
Talbott said there will be additional job duties added to the clerk's job description. He said the personnel committee will discuss the additional job duties during their January meeting.
All nine council members present during the meeting voted for the measure. Scott, who is a member of the personnel committee, said after the meeting that the committee recommended moving the position to full-time and that is why he supported the measure during council.
City Council moved into executive session twice during the meeting. The first was for an agenda item titled, "Legal matter regarding pension plans." Woolwine made the motion to move the meeting behind closed doors and Councilman Carman Metheny, 3rd Ward, seconded the motion. Council was in executive session for approximately a half hour, When they returned Talbott announced no decisions were made.
The second executive session was for "Attorney consultation regarding city elections." Metheny made the motion to enter into private session and it was seconded by Woolwine. After about 10 minutes, First Ward Councilman Charles Kinnison returned to council chambers and said, "I voluntarily left."
A few minutes later, Stokes, who was invited into the private session, came to chambers and asked Kinnison to return to the executive session. After approximately 15 minutes, council returned to open session and Talbott announced no decisions were made.
Councilman Van Broughton, 2nd Ward, did not attend Thursday's meeting.


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(The following is the complete text of the Saint Vincent College Spring Honors Convocation Address delivered by Sister Margaret Carney, O.S.F., S.T.D., President, St. Bonaventure University, at Saint Vincent College on Wednesday, April, 25, 2012 in the Saint Vincent Basilica after she was awarded an honorary doctor of humane letters degree.)
Father Earl Henry, Brother - President Norman, Faculty and Students: Thank you. With all my heart – thank you. I am so grateful for these honors and so pleased to receive them in the company of family and friends who are part of the strong circle of affection and credentials that tie us to Saint Vincent. With me are two siblings who hold Saint Vincent degrees: my brother, Ed Carney and Sr. Sheila Carney. Sr. Barbara Jean Donovan and my sister-in-law, Vickie Kalisz Carney bring to mind Fr. Paul Kalisz and Archabbot Egbert Donovan whose memories I invoke today. Let me say that the bond I feel for Saint Vincent is due, in part, to similarities between our two colleges. Both were founded in the 19th century by missionary priests who were courageous to their fans, crazy to their foes and charismatic in the pages of American Catholic history. Both boast a visceral commitment to the liberal arts and a constant search for good professional studies to place on those strong foundations. Both take pride in an ancient religious pedigree – Benedictine / Franciscan. Yours is older than ours by almost 700 years, but who's counting? And, in a marvelous twist of historic luck, years before you, we were host to training camps for the Steelers. The Bonnies lost them. The Bearcats kept them. I salute you, Bearcats! The Hunger Games meets The Honors Convocation For weeks, American movie-goers have been breaking box office records by their attendance at The Hunger Games. Suzanne Collins' novel-turned-film is quickly taking over the niche once held by Titanic, Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter. As you know, the narrative takes place in a country called Panem. It is a time in the future. In that country a deadly rebellion has been crushed and its survivors terrified into submission by the Capitol powers. The strategy for this totalitarian success is the annual conduct of The Hunger Games. In these Darwinian, high-tech, televised spectacles, youngsters from the various districts of the land are selected in a grim lottery to battle each other to a bloody death. These grizzly contests claim the flower of Panem's youth and keep other citizens frightened and compliant. The fast-paced violence is offset by the cartoon-like colors and visual excesses of costumes that separate the social classes. When I first read about the film's success I wanted to learn more about the attraction the stories hold, especially for our students. It did not take me long to get hooked myself. The heroine, Katniss Eberdeen, comes from the bottom rung of Panem's people. She comes from District 12 – a place that resembles our own Appalachian coal fields. She confronts the powerful elite by a combination of simple, humane bravery, skill as a huntress, and unblinking clarity about the soul-less system in which she is trapped. As I reflected on the film's impact, I came to suspect that part of the fascination of The Hunger Games is perhaps – and I stress the perhaps – due to the extraordinary pressures our students face in the task of reaching the goal of a college degree. The same might be said of the pressure of reaching any of the high goals of life that we set for the next generation. Of course, the brutal competition depicted in The Hunger Games is obscene and exaggerated. But might it be true that as we construct the challenges of the collegiate race to the commencement ceremony, that we, too, are creating a path that demands a fiercely competitive spirit and a desire for superiority that can, if we are not careful, become obsessive. We create continual demands to navigate the white waters of making wise choices that must strike a balance between being self-centered and selfless while holding to ethical imperatives. While we strive for community, we are inviting each other – faculty and students – into a series of contests for a succession of sought-after prizes. The manipulation and exploitation of The Tributes – as The Hunger Games contestants are called – is repulsive. But I have found myself asking ever since the lights went back on in our theater in Olean: Is this depicting the "shadow side" of our quests of superiority in any of life's endeavors? This quest can so easily submerge the light of our best values if we are not vigilant. Your Benedictine motto is Pray and Work. Our Franciscan motto is Peace and Good. Yet, we know how to do battle for our goals and prizes: For high SATs in the incoming class For championship trophies on our athletic fields and courts For lucrative fellowships or publication in the best juried journals for our faculty For LEED certifications for our buildings For high rankings from US News & World Report For high marks on any Google analytics we choose to run…. The list goes on. Do I advocate that we abandon this necessary evil of competition to be the best we can be for our students? Not at all. I am as guilty as the next person. I simply point out that we may not be as innocent of this kind of gladiatorial compulsion as we would like to imagine ourselves in contrast to Katniss and company. Might it be that each constituency of our college has its own "hunger games" moments in trying to keep up with the pressure? I believe that if were very, very honest with ourselves, we would be forced to admit that this might be true. The Favor of Benedictine Odds I have extended this mental exercise that has engaged me for weeks in order to be able to draw today – with great relief – the opposite picture. We are here today to celebrate the outcomes of many competitions and exercises of this academic community. We are here to witness a cornucopia of wonderful awards, achievements, honors. Celebrate we must. We will. It is my privilege to put into words the awe that your efforts inspire today and the happiness we feel in your success. I also have the obligation of affirming to all within hearing that the rules of engagement for winning these awards at Saint Vincent College are the very opposite of the fictional Panem The rules of engagement here are burnished by centuries of Benedictine commitments fulfilled in every age: To civilizing the worst instincts of the ignorant and aggressive ones To cultivating everything that builds up a society from rocky soil to raucous students To preserving intellectual resources while inspiring pastoral service Most of all – To never forgetting the primacy of the human's need to bow in worship before our Maker precisely as an antidote to one's need to be worshiped for what I make. Surely at times along the pathway to this convocation, you have tasted the lash of extreme pressure within and without. You've flaunted the laws of nature with all-nighters and those ubiquitous energy drinks. You've mastered algorithms and the ablative absolute, analogies and allegories. You've aced an exam; excelled in a concert, completed a sculpture, made that catch or shot that turned you into a team hero. Most rewarding of all – you have seen the look in a professor's eye or caught the timbre of the teacher's voice that told you: you have arrived. Your work matters. If you are a faculty member you have juggled teaching, advising, endless rounds of committee assignments, meetings, family and community obligations. You have continued to excel in your research, your pedagogical skill, and your leadership functions. You do this with a generosity that takes my breath away when I see it in my faculty colleagues. You have made it your solemn obligation to improve and lift up the art of teaching that is the blessing and burden of our life's work. And you are doing this at a time when the respect due to this vocation is in peril in this country. All over the USA in weeks to come, ceremonies like this will take place. Here, the ceremony takes on a luster that is unique in being rooted here. Westmoreland County… Latrobe… Route 30… Fraser Purchase Road…. This place has about it a wonderful particularity. It is grounded, centered by the monastic community now spanning three centuries of presence and entrepreneurial zeal for Catholic education. This place is also a portal to the planet. It is blessed in the labor of the nuns from Eichstatt, Germany, who spent years cooking here. It is touched by a missionary presence in Beijing and Taiwan. It is linked to Vinhedo on the outskirts of Sao Paolo, Brazil. It remembers Sisters of Mercy from Carlow, Ireland, who were here to welcome those bearded Bavarian monks upon their arrival in these hills. In this confluence of centered energy and constant outreach, Saint Vincent is – as T.S. Eliot would remind us – here and everywhere, a "still point" of the turning world. This still point will anchor your life if you but choose. I urge you to choose. In so choosing you enter into a stream of life that weaves past and present in an endless procession of providential gifts. While the colossus of Boniface Wimmer towers over all, each generation advances its own inimitable contribution while remembering his words: "Forward, always forward, everywhere forward. We cannot be held back by debts, by difficulties of the times, by unfortunate years. Man's adversity is God's opportunity." Boniface would tell us that, in God's time, the odds are always in our favor. Some years ago Ronald Tranquilla reflected upon the spirit of the college in these words: I look out over Father Melvin's trees, remembering students and colleagues now departed, and think the trees might symbolize something important about us: our history is less important than our heritage, a living tradition of extravagant faith and outrageous hope…It's early April: the seniors are restless; the trees in Melvin Platz grow upward toward the light, their branches spiked with buds about to break into leaf yet another year. (Saint Vincent: A Benedictine Place. Saint Vincent Archabbey. Latrobe, Pa. 15650. p. 89) You, the very fortunate members of this community, this school of service – service of the Lord, of the neighbor, of the nation – go forward with that same extravagant faith and outrageous hope. Congratulations and God Speed!


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In this video, Mick Alberts shows you how to embed type information into an application that uses Automation objects from Microsoft Office. Embedding type information enables you to run the same build of an application with different versions of Microsoft Office on different computers, without needing to deploy a primary interop assembly (PIA) for each version of Office. For more information, see the Help topic:
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Green Mountains (Vermont) > Mount Ellen > Climber's Log
Mount Ellen Climber's Log
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|Quick and EZ
Date Climbed: Aug 2, 2015
|Climbed in tandem with Abraham.
|Posted Aug 4, 2015 5:24 pm
|Second summit of the day
Date Climbed: Jun 7, 2015
|Took ninety minutes to get here from the summit of Abraham. On top I met with an older lady with a hint of southern in her accent from Bow NH and a younger guy from Manchester NH who had both completed the NH 48. We all had one thing in common; very few 4000 footers in Maine climbed apart from Katahdin. The entire 12.6 mile hike from Lincoln Gap took me six hours, with only thirty minutes spent relaxing at the summits.
|Posted Jun 9, 2015 9:04 am
|worth doing once
Date Climbed: Sep 8, 2012
|The weather report called for thunderstorms in the afternoon but we lucked out and they started just after we got back to the car. Not much noteworthy about this summit except it's above 4000 ft for those knocking it off a list. The Jeruselum trail is very easy, but boring. The ridgeline is all in the trees and the summit views consist mostly of the ski lodge. I'd recommend Mt Abraham if anyone is making a choice about what to climb and doesn't have to do this one for a list.
|Posted Sep 9, 2012 12:10 pm
|Pretty nice
|Went sometime in 2009, Jerusalem. Sweet wildflowers near the top. True summit is completely in the trees. I want an Ellen-->Abraham traverse.
|Posted Sep 21, 2011 4:47 pm
|Great Views
Date Climbed: Jul 15, 2011
|Hiked in from Appalachian Gap, normally don't like ski-lift summits, but these were quiet and the wildflowers were awesome, great hiking along the ridgeline views all along the way.
|Posted Jul 16, 2011 5:09 pm
|Mt Ellen
Date Climbed: Jul 8, 2010
|Ski area but nice little peak. Hit it on LT SOBO.
|Posted Dec 29, 2010 7:11 pm
|Via Long Trail
Date Climbed: Jun 12, 1975
|Climbed this peak as part of a 50 miler hike when I was in scouts.
|Posted Jan 29, 2010 9:28 am
|my last vt 4k footer
Date Climbed: Sep 16, 2009
|Went up via the Jerusalem Trail -- very cool, humid, and foggy at the peak.
|Posted Sep 16, 2009 10:28 pm
|Going North
Date Climbed: May 20, 1990
|Part of my End to End quest.
|Posted Oct 20, 2008 1:45 am
|Mount Ellen
Date Climbed: May 26, 2007
|Climbed with Abraham via the Long Trail from Lincoln Gap. A great hike along the crest of the Monroe Skyline. Lots of mud. Reached the wooded summit a few hours after Abraham. Had some really nice views of the surrounding mountains from the ski area.
|Posted Aug 12, 2008 12:16 pm
|Long Trail form the north
Date Climbed: Sep 14, 2000
|Cowle's Cove Shelter to Battell Shelter.
|Posted Nov 18, 2007 9:47 pm
|Long Trail from Lincoln Gap
Date Climbed: Oct 1, 2007
|The morning fog never lifted completely. But it's still a nice hike. I was happy to see the sign at the summit, because there's a lot of up and down as you get closer to it.
|Posted Oct 7, 2007 11:52 am
|Matt K
|Long Trail hike
|Hiked a small portion of the Long Trail while visiting relatives.
|Posted Oct 1, 2007 12:32 am
|Along the LT
Date Climbed: Jul 10, 2007
|Reached this forested summit twice. The first with my parents when we were day hiking the entire ridge from Lincoln Gap to App Gap. The second being along the Long Trail. It's hard to imagine that this mountain is the same exact height as Camel's Hump, which is just a two day hike to the north.
|Posted Sep 15, 2007 10:11 am
|Route Climbed: Up Jerusalem Trail to Long Trail
Date Climbed: Jul 20, 2007
|Well, I made it to the summit, that was the good part. Rained mosted of the hike. Only on the ridge walk out did the clouds lift enough to see into the valleys, and then they settled right back in. Completed last of VT's 4000 footers.
|Posted Jul 22, 2007 4:56 pm
|Beautifaul Day-finally!
Date Climbed: Sep 10, 1998
|the last day of a multi-day peak-bagging trip turns out to tbe the best. Lots of fun.
|Posted Jan 5, 2007 10:24 pm
|Up from Appalachian Gap
Date Climbed: Feb 21, 1983
|Down ski trails from Lincoln Peak after bagging Abraham
|Posted Jul 10, 2006 10:35 pm
|Route Climbed: LT North
Date Climbed: Oct 11, 2005
|Picked this up on my LT thru. Wish I could have seen something.
|Posted Nov 28, 2005 2:26 am
|Route Climbed: Long Trail from Lincoln Gap Date Climbed: 10/7/05
|No views from this forested summit (i guess) found 6.3 miles from Lincoln Gap. Just a orange and black rod in the midst of a clearing in the woods. Nearby Cutts Peak 0.4 miles back on the trail has some pretty good views. 12.6 mile round trip for this one, but the hike includes Mt. Abraham 4006, Lincoln Peak 3975, Nancy Hanks Peak 3812, Cutts Peak 4022 and finally Mt. Ellen at 4083. Nice hike on the Monroe Skyline.
|Posted Oct 11, 2005 11:32 am
|Route Climbed: Lincoln Gap -> LT -> Mt. Abraham -> Mt. Ellen RT Date Climbed: August 23, 2005
|I hoped the weather man was right about the rain clearing up and in fact I did get about 20 minutes with the sun shining through but I was socked in most of the time and breathing clouds with a downpour finale passing over the top of Mt. Abraham on the way back down. Long hike and Mt. Ellen's top is not very impressive unless you continue past to the top of the lift line. Had to use GPS just to figure out when I crossed Cutts Peak since I was tracking the 4000' peaks.
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Prison slang for a guy who looks at other guy's dicks while they are in the shower.
AKA Shower Shark or Peter Gazer
AKA Shower Shark or Peter Gazer
Gary didn't like to go into the shower with the other guys because there were too many pecker checkers in jail.
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A US Navy Hospital Corpsman who is assigned to the STD clinic, to conduct a short arm inspection or otherwise inspect scores of human genitalia for signs of sexually transmited disease.
Corpsman: Dude, they just made me the new pecker checker at Balboa.
Shipmate: It's easy, just tell 'em to drop their skivvies, pretend to look interested, and tell 'em not to wave that thing so close to your cigar.
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by Mister Priapus June 01, 2005
A U.S. Army medic or hospital personnel assigned to inspect soldierss' genitals for signs of sexually transmitted diseases, a process otherwise known as a short arm inspection.
After the actor Robert Mitchum was drafted into the Army in 1945, he spent his year in the service as a pecker checker at a Tarzana induction center.
by Tummy AuGratin February 24, 2006
A loose slang term for Navy Corpsman (medic) who takes care of the medical needs of Marines and Sailors, known for handing out the silver bullet (a magical cure all shot in given in the buttocks). Given this name because he or she is the first person a military member goes to when there is something wrong with the genital area of the body.
You're joining the Navy to be a peckerchecker?
by Sean from Doc in the Box September 20, 2007
A man, regardless of sexual orientation, who has a habit of glancing (or checking out) at other men's penises.
John makes me feel uncomfortable. Have you noticed how he looks at everyone's dick? I think he's a pecker checker.
by Jack Shepard June 10, 2006
To grab a man's crotch in order to check for male genitals.
That dude was talking like a female so I had to pull a pecker checker.
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A sort-of synonym for size queen, this is a chick who checks out dudes' packages like men check out tits. She's not always very subtle, either, and there are more of them than you think. She will befriend a male of average to less-than-average penis size, but she only dates/fucks well endowed men.
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Celebrity Central / Top 25 Celebs
Zac Efron
- 1987
Welcome, Zac
David, an electrical engineer, and Starla Baskett, a former secretary, welcome son, Zachary David Alexander Efron. Younger brother Dylan soon joins the family, who lives in Arroyo Grande, Calif., 190 miles north of L.A.
- 1998
The Acting Bug
Efron, 11, tries out for a minor role in the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts (PCPA) musical Gypsy and lands the part. "From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter," he tells his hometown newspaper The San Luis Obispo Tribune in 2006. He goes on to audition for a slew of local plays, and undertakes singing lessons and drama classes.
- 2002
Trying Out
Efron and his mother Starla drive to L.A. three days a week for auditions, while he studies at Arroyo Grande High School in San Luis Obispo, Calif. "For every role that I have done on TV and movies, I've auditioned for 30 or 40," he tells the Tribune. The young actor makes the jump from local plays to national TV with TV series guest spots on Firefly, ER and The Guardian.
- 2004
Landing Summerland
Efron lands a recurring role as sweet-natured Cameron Bale on the short-lived WB show Summerland with Lori Loughlin and teen heartthrob Jesse McCartney. Efron eventually becomes a series regular, but the show is cancelled in July 2005. He continues acting though, making guest appearances on CSI: Miami and NCIS.
An Applauded Performance
Efron stars in the Lifetime original TV movie Miracle Run as one of two autistic twins (the other played by Thomas Lewis). The film also stars Mary-Louise Parker and Aidan Quinn, whose daughter is autistic. Efron gets nominated for a Young Artist Award for Best Supporting Actor. "I was kind of amazed at the job they did," Quinn tells the Chattanooga Times of Efron and Lewis. "In a short period of time, they learned certain looks, ways of walking and holding their hands – things that are particular to autistic kids that, when you're the parent of an autistic child, you know inside and out."
- 2006
A Surprise Hit
Disney Channel's original TV movie musical High School Musical draws in 26 million viewers in its first six airings, becoming the channel's highest-rated show ever. Efron stars as Troy Bolton, a jock who secretly makes music with beautiful brainiac Gabriella Montez (Vanessa Hudgens) in the tween set's Grease! update. The film also stars Ashley Tisdale, Corbin Bleu, Lucas Grabeel and Monique Coleman. "This is crazy," Efron tells the AP. "I never expected the movie to be this big."
A Tween Dream
Millions of tweens crush on Efron, who becomes Google's second-most-searched celebrity in January, even ahead of American Idol. "If I head into a mall, I should expect to have some extra company on the way," Efron tells PEOPLE. "But if you're ready for it, it's very gratifying." The humble hunk also wins Breakout Star at the 2006 Teen Choice Awards.
A Record-Breaking Soundtrack
The HSM soundtrack generates five Top 40 singles, sells some 4 million copies, and becomes the first TV show soundtrack to land at No. 1 in SoundScan's history. Efron and Hudgens' "Breaking Free" shoots from No. 86 to No. 4, becoming Billboard's biggest chart climber to date.
Basic Cable to Big Screen
Efron makes the jump from small to big screen in director Adam Shankman's remake of the musical Hairspray, which opens in July 2007. He plays hunky Link Larkin in the star-studded cast that includes Amanda Bynes, John Travolta, Queen Latifah and Michelle Pfeiffer. "I've gotten as far as the fifth or sixth callback on movies," Efron, who beat out as many as 200 other contenders for the role, tells Variety. "But it is more than I could imagine to get the role in a film like this."
- 2007
Wrapping the Sequel
The whole gang reunites to film High School Musical 2, set to air on the Disney Channel in August. "We were close in the first movie, but we're like a family now," says Ashley Tisdale of the cast's dynamic. "It's like living with brothers and sisters...Vanessa's like my shopping sister. Monique's the sister you go to advice for, Corbin's like the brother you always go to if [you need to talk] and Zac's the goofy one."
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8. Otacon - Metal Gear series
Hal "Otacon" Emmerich is a total geek. He works with computers, loves watching animes, and he pisses himself in terror when he's threatened by semi-invisible robot ninjas. In short, he's one of us, and his lovable nature makes him a geeky foil to Solid Snake's tough guy act throughout Metal Gears 1, 2 and 4. Whether he's helping you out directly through the use of a remote-controlled Metal Gear, blathering with you over the radio or mourning the death of a loved one (poor guy), Otacon is one of those gaming allies who permanently etches himself into your mind.
7. Urdnot Wrex – Mass Effect
Wrex liked killing people. Lucky for him, he was extremely adept at doing it. It wasn't just his huge frame, or his deep, booming voice, or his skill with a shotgun that made him tidy in a scrap. It was all of these qualities added together. Wrex followed Shepard just for the hell of it ("a storm's coming, and you and Saren are right in the middle of it"), and for that we loved him. But the Krogan Battlemaster's blood lust often made you laugh, too. He didn't speak often, but when he did, you'd listen, and you'd take him out on missions just to see if he had something particularly brutal to say about the carnage Shepard and co were causing. Our favourite Mass Effect character and a worthy companion on your quest to save the galaxy.


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I sent the following email to our "Friends of Zappos" mailing list today:
Dear Investors, Employees, Partners, and Friends of Zappos:
It's been awhile since I last sent an update to our "Friends of Zappos" list. So much has happened over the past year!
Despite a tough economic environment, we continued growing in 2009, finishing the year doing nearly $1.2 billion in gross merchandise sales.
As many of you know, back in July 2009 we announced that Amazon was acquiring Zappos: http://blogs.zappos.com/ceoletter
The transaction officially closed on November 1, 2009. True to their word, Amazon has continued to allow us to run Zappos independently, with our own unique culture, brand, and way of doing business. From our point of view, it's been as if we swapped out our previous board of directors with a new one, but we now have access to a lot more resources so we can continue to build the Zappos business even faster. In fact, over the past few months, we've actually seen our growth rate accelerate compared to the prior year.
In January, we were excited to learn that we made Fortune magazine's "Best Companies to Work For" list again, moving up 8 places to the #15 spot!
A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to present to about 2000 people at Amazon's "All Hands" meeting in Seattle, in which I talked about our focus on the 3 C's at Zappos:
- Clothing
- Customer Service
- Company Culture
As many of you know, we're making a big push into apparel (which is 4 times the size of the footwear market) as well as other product categories including bags, accessories, and housewares. We think we're just at the tip of the iceberg of what's possible as we continue to build the Zappos brand to be about the very best customer service and the very best customer experience.
The slides from my talk at Amazon are available here:
Our sister web site, 6pm.com, has been growing even faster than Zappos.com. From a business perspective, it's been a great way to clear out the older and discontinued inventory that we didn't sell through on Zappos.com.
You can take a look at the 6pm site here:
Over the past year, we've made many, many improvements to the Zappos.com web site. If you haven't visited us recently, I would definitely encourage you to play around with the latest incarnation of our web site:http://www.zappos.com In addition to better navigation and a new look and feel, in 2009 we added over 10,000 video product descriptions to the site, and we plan on adding over 50,000 more this year.
We also relaunched our couture web site:
And we relaunched our Zappos Insights web site, where we share how to build strong company cultures with other businesses: http://www.zapposinsights.com
I'm also excited to announce that we have just started a new TV ad campaign, featuring puppets and real phone calls to our (unsuspecting) Customer Loyalty Team:
Here's the first of our TV spots (with more to come):
Probably the biggest question I've gotten lately has been "How's the Amazon acquisition been? How have things changed?"
The truth is, there have been a couple of minor annoyances. We're now part of a public company, so moving forward, we aren't able to disclose our financial numbers as freely as we were able to do before (but that would have happened anyway had we gone public on our own). We also have more travel restrictions for various legal and tax reasons.
On the flip side though, we've retained our independence and our culture is as strong as before the acquisition. We've been learning a lot from each other and the new partnership has enabled us to move even faster towards the Zappos vision of delivering happiness to the world.
Over the next several months, I'll be focusing a lot on a personal project of mine: the launch of my first book, "DELIVERING HAPPINESS: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose". The official launch date is June 7, 2010, but I'll be traveling around the country to promote the book both before and after the launch date.
If you're interested in keeping up with the progress of the book, you can visit the book's web site and sign up to receive updates by email and/or Twitter: http://deliveringhappinessbook.com You can also pre-order the book on Amazon: http://amazon.com/deliveringhappiness
The goal of the book is to inspire other companies to think about how to they can use happiness as a guiding principle to make customers happier (by focusing more on customer service) and employees happier (by focusing more on company culture), which ultimately can lead to sustainable profits and long-term financial performance.
It's hard to believe that Zappos will turn 11 years old this year. Going through the process of writing the book made me realize how much we've been through, yet things are as exciting as ever because there's so much growth and opportunity ahead.
Thank you everyone for all your support through the years. We couldn't have gotten this far without you -- there's a lot more to come!
Tony Hsieh
CEO - Zappos.com, Inc.


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The CEO Who Didn't Know Too Much
Ask Bank of America's Brian Moynihan about the inner workings of Countrywide Financial, the mortgage lender BofA bought in 2008, and this what you get:
"We have people taking care what legal entities do and that is their job," he said. "My job is to run this company and that is not one of (my) day-to-day tasks."
Ask Mr. Moynihan, who before becoming chief executive of the bank was head of its investment bank and securities business, about Countrywide's own securities business and whether it was integrated into the business he ran, and this is what he has to say:
"I think most of it got shut down ultimately," he said. "We already had a business engaged in that, we just shut it down, I think."
You shut it down?
"I don't recall specifically. I'm not sure, but it wasn't much to do with the (overall) transaction."
If you get the feeling that Mr. Moynihan is somewhat aloof to the inner workings of the bank he runs, you're not alone. His answers, taken from a deposition in May 2012, are strikingly thin on knowledge.
The transcript of the session has been public since November, but its lessons are timely. It is a summer of settlements on Wall Street. J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. is nearing a deal to pay an estimated $11 billion to settle civil and criminal investigations related its own mortgage-securities practices. Settlements totaling $920 million stemming from its disastrous "London whale" trade were criticized for not holding its senior executives accountable.
At BofAa there is a rare glimpse into how those executives slip away from culpability. Mr. Moynihan ran a major division, served on credit committees and integration committees and eventually was tapped to become CEO, but in recalling one of the biggest and transformational deals in the bank's history, his memory was painfully short.
When presented a financial report, Mr. Moynihan is unsure if he's seen it or if the numbers are correct. He asks the questioner to direct the question to whoever prepared the report.
"Somebody reported to somebody that reported to me would have been the people working on this," Mr. Moynihan said. "This is very small part of what they did. I was on the steering committee, I was one of the direct reports, but it was not something that I was involved in day-to-day."
On and on it goes like this. Dates are forgotten. Documents are sketchy. Decisions were made by someone else. Discussions? What discussions. The transcript is a tangled and frustrating mess of amnesia.
Mr. Moynihan's defenders argue that as CEO he has sought to eliminate some of the complications that tripped up his recollections last year. BofA has eliminated many of the legal entities that Mr. Moynihan referred to, not the least of which was Merrill Lynch, the other major acquisition of 2008. Moreover, there's been streamlining. The bank has sold "non-core assets" including its parts of its commodities business and its stake in China Construction Bank earlier this month. These moves have made the bank less complicated and confusing, his defenders say.
Perhaps we expect too much of senior executives such as Mr. Moynihan. After all, as he noted, BofA has 280,000 employees and thousands of legal entities. A top executive has to trust his team and their team's teams to run the business effectively.
Maybe we're also fooled by the tales of CEOs who have a remarkable ability to know every part of their business no matter how large. Steve Jobs, the former CEO of Apple Inc., was famous for knowing every part of every product. Jamie Dimon, at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., has a similar reputation for knowing the intricate machinations of his bank – although it has suffered after revelations about the bank's "London whale" trading scandal.
The reality for most corporate leaders is something else. The fact is a CEO can't know it all, even if he or she is paid to know it all.
That said, there is something disturbing about Mr. Moynihan's inability to recall even the most basic information about the Countrywide deal and its integration. For instance, when asked if he knew that Countrywide Bank originated all of the mortgages for Countrywide Financial, Mr. Moynihan said, "I don't recall that, no."
Big banks seem to place a premium on forgetfulness. They settle fraud cases stemming from the financial crisis for billions of dollars and hope investors will forget, if not forgive.
In June, Bank of America agreed to pay $8.5 billion to investors who took a beating on mortgage bonds originated by Countrywide. It also agreed to buy back up to $5.5 billion in bonds Countrywide originated.
Since Mr. Moynihan ascended to the role of chief executive in 2010, Bank of America has paid out more than $50 billion in settlements, the vast majority of them tied to its mortgage business or those of Countrywide.
Ultimately, the Countrywide deal wasn't Mr. Moynihan's. It was his predecessor, Ken Lewis, who bought Countrywide for $2.5 billion.
And there's no reason to believe Mr. Moynihan wasn't being truthful about his recollections of buying and integrating what was, at the time, the nation's biggest home loan originator. It could very well be that despite being on multiple committees and teams overseeing the deal that it wasn't part of his "day-to-day" work.
You can bet, however, that spending $50 billion for mistakes made during that time has been part of his daily routine since.
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She was given less than a 15 percent chance of surviving.
Darian eventually beat the disease, but spent the next 14 years of her life in and out of emergency rooms battling Behcet's syndrome, a rare disorder that causes blood vessels to become inflamed, and receiving radiation treatments, chemotherapy and undergoing a bone marrow transplant.
"I couldn't really do much," says Darian, 19, of Nashville. "I couldn't go out. I had to always stay with my mom. It wasn't a normal childhood."
Just when she thought she was cancer free, she was diagnosed with Myelodysplastic Syndrome, a rare blood and bone marrow failure disorder, in September 2011.
But with the help of Delete Blood Cancer doctors found a match in donor Evander Holyfield Jr., 29, son of the heavyweight boxing champion who shares his name. And if it weren't for his unlikely donation, Craig likely wouldn't be here today.
"I was trying to impress a girl at the time, so I ended up attending this donor event, not even thinking I could save a life," says Holyfield of attending a bone marrow drive in New York City in January 2011. "But when I got the swab, I got this feeling that I would be a match."
Eleven months later, Darian received the critical bone marrow transplant. Holyfield and Darian met for the first time on May 1, at the Delete Blood Cancer's seventh annual gala in New York City (see video of their emotional meeting below).
"It's just amazing to me that I can live again," a tearful Darian told PEOPLE backstage at the event. "I have one more chance at living – to actually be able to do something."
Darian's mother is just as grateful.
"I didn't know who he was," says Tina Craig, 43, a patient relations administrator. "It didn't matter to me if he was tall short, white or black – he's my daughter's angel. For whatever reason he did it, he saved her life."
Having a racially mismatched donor recipient pair is rare but it does happen, says Dr. Gail J. Roboz, director of the Leukemia Program at NY-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, who treated Robin Roberts.
"It just goes to show that absolutely everybody should really consider participating as a donor," says Dr. Roboz (who did not treat Darian). "It certainly crosses race, gender, culture … all possible lines of whose life you can end up saving."
As for Holyfield, he says he feels incredibly grateful he took a chance – and saved a life. He and the Delete Blood Cancer organization hope that his story will inspire others to donate bone marrow in the hopes that they, too, can give someone a second chance.
"You have to be courageous enough to go through the process," he says. "I had to get out of looking at myself and focus on that person. I had to have faith to know that I can help someone and save a life. I thank God I made the right decision."
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Authorities in Dodge County said one person is dead after a crash that has closed Highway 26 since 6:10 a.m.
The Dodge County Sheriff's Department said the crash between a semi tractor-trailer and a car occurred on Highway 26 near 5 Mile Road.
A representative with the department said the crash was a head-on collision and the driver of the car was killed.
Investigators believe the car, a Dodge Intrepid, crossed the center line just south of 5 Mile Road and struck the semi.
The truck driver was not injured, and deputies said there were no passengers in either vehicle.
The semi was hauling hydrogen peroxide, but there were no leaks reported.
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"Anthony Ward's spare and sumptuous design transports us economically between Cymbeline's palace, a room in Rome and a Welsh cave, by means of a billowing sheet that spreads out across the floor or curls up towards the roof. This ancient Britain has a distinct oriental feel. When servants run on, they take little steps in their espadrilles, and bow with their hands clasped in front. The soldiers, with wide belts and thick robes, suggest Samurai warriors and half the battle sequences take place in silhouette, against the white sheet." Robert Butler, Independent on Sunday 2.3.97
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Isaac pounds the Gulf Coast
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While Isaac lost its hurricane status and has since been downgraded to a tropical storm, it continues to pound the Gulf Coast with heavy winds and unrelenting rain. See images from the powerful storm.
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Men are notorious for not taking their personal health as seriously as women.
Now, a survey demonstrates that men are guilty of not paying as much attention to sun exposure and suspicious moles or other skin spots.
In 2012, the American Academy of Dermatology took a survey and found that most men are "lax" when it comes to proper sun protection and are unsure how to examine their skin for cancer.
The survey showed that 29 percent of men say they "always" protect their skin, compared with 43 percent of women, while 39 percent of men and 28 percent of women agreed that they prefer to enjoy sunshine and not worry about protecting themselves from it.
And fewer than half of the men, 46 percent, indicated they knew how to examine their skin for signs of cancer, compared with 59 percent of women.
"This survey demonstrates that many men do not protect themselves from the sun ... and that some still believe that sun exposure is good for their health. This is a very troubling combination in light of the fact that the major risk factor for melanoma is exposure to ultraviolet light," says Dr. Thomas Rohrer, associate professor of dermatology at the Brown University School of Medicine. "Men need to examine their skin and see a dermatologist if they spot anything changing, bleeding or growing."


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A top budget official for County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz brought this message to the Erie County Legislature on Tuesday: If you want to eliminate a proposed tax increase, it's going to have to come out of popular programs such as parks, libraries, or road and bridge repair.
Deputy Budget Director Timothy C. Callan warned county legislators that the Poloncarz administration believes there is little room in the budget to cut outside of $102 million of county spending that is not mandated by state and federal governments.
Those areas, he said, include some of the most popular services – including libraries, funding for cultural organizations, road repair, sheriff's road patrols and police services, parks and senior services.
"You'll be forced to take a hard look at the nonmandated sections of the budget, the services that the public very clearly wants," Callan told members of the Legislature's Finance, Management and Budget Committee on Tuesday as they opened a series of hearings on Poloncarz's 2013 proposed budget.
The message came as legislators begin the hard work of picking through a $1.38 billion budget plan that would trim jobs and raise county property taxes by 3.4 percent next year to help offset declining revenue and increasing expenses. That tax increase will help plug a budget hole left after the county executive's staff made cuts, used surplus funds and took other measures to balance the budget.
"None of us took this decision lightly on proposing this revenue increase, this tax," Callan said. "This was the last option after we did everything else."
Several county legislators have said they hope to eliminate the proposed tax increase before the Legislature finalizes the spending plan in early December. To do that, however, they'll have to identify more than $8 million in spending they are willing to cut.
Legislator Kevin R. Hardwick, a City of Tonawanda Republican, questioned the suggestion that budget cuts will have to come entirely from areas that aren't programs mandated by the state and federal governments.
"I guess I just reject the notion that these are the only places we can save money," Hardwick said. "There are places that we should be looking. We owe it to our constituents to look, and mandated services, the service is mandated, but the level of cost is not necessarily mandated."
The message legislators heard from county department heads on Tuesday was that cuts already proposed in the budget will be felt.
The county has chosen to end a pilot program next year that provided weekend meals for senior citizens because of rising costs and decreasing aid, and officials in the Department of Senior Services told legislators they are concerned that deeper funding cuts might be coming from the state and federal government next year that could significantly impact nutrition programs for senior citizens.
"Basically, none of our services are mandated. It's just something that, obviously because one in six in our community is a senior, it's something that the county has a mission to take care of," Commissioner of Senior Services Ellen E. Grant told legislators. "As the dollars don't come in, we'll have to look at putting a cap on the number of seniors that can be served at some point."
Commissioners for the Board of Elections told legislators they are concerned about a proposal to cut elections personnel by 13 percent next year.
"We're attempting at this point to continue to decrease the expenses as best that we can," said Democratic Elections Commissioner Dennis E. Ward. "Everybody has to do that at this point, and we don't believe that we're any different than anybody else. We have to be careful with the taxpayers' money. Having said that, here we are with a budget decrease."
Of the county executive's $1.38 billion budget, $903 million is spent on programs that are required by the state and federal governments, compared with $102 million spent in other areas over which the county has more control, according to his staff. The remaining portion of the budget is sales tax that is passed on to local towns, villages and school districts.
Some areas of nonmandated services include jobs within the county executive's office, the Legislature and the Comptroller's Office.
Several legislators on Tuesday questioned why Poloncarz has targeted for elimination a top job within the Comptroller's Office that is held by former Budget Director Gregory Gach. Gach was the budget director under former County Executive Chris Collins. He was replaced by Poloncarz in January and is now the director of grant accounting services in the Comptroller's Office.
Comptroller David J. Shenk, who will leave the office in January after losing the election last week, told legislators he believes the $93,987 job is needed.
"It is an important position, and I don't really think it could be cut," Shenk said. "I just don't see there is much fat in the Comptroller's Office."
Poloncarz, as county comptroller, last year fought against job cuts within that office proposed at the time by Collins. Now, Callan said, Poloncarz believes the job is no longer necessary.
"We believe this position can be very adequately handled by the deputy comptroller," Callan said.
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BERKELEY SPRINGS - A 53-year-old man who died Wednesday night after accidentally shooting himself in the head at his residence in Morgan County was a U.S. military veteran who was believed to be a master weapons instructor, police said.
David J. Holiday Jr., 53, who was originally from Gallitzin, Pa., was pronounced dead after the incident that investigators are describing as a tragic accident.
Sgt. Seth Place of the Morgan County Sheriff's Department said that Morgan County 911 received the call reporting the accidental shooting at 7:05 p.m. Wednesday night.
The accident occurred at Holiday's residence, located on Amoretta Lane off Highland Ridge Road in Morgan County. Place said it is believed that Holiday, described as a gun enthusiast, had invited some friends over to his residence for the purpose of either selling or giving away some firearms.
Place said it is believed the friends arrived sometime between 5:30 p.m. and 6 p.m. Wednesday. While Holiday was showing the pistols to his friends, witnesses told police that he stated he always keeps the firearms in his house unloaded.
According to Place, a witness said at one point Holiday picked up one of the pistols and raised it just above his head.
At that point the gun, which Holiday believed to be unloaded, discharged and he suffered a gunshot wound to the head. Place said Morgan County emergency medical services personnel arrived at the scene within 10 minutes of receiving the 911 call and worked extensively for 20 to 25 minutes to try to resuscitate Holiday.
While Place said the shooting was determined to be accidental and not a suicide, he said the investigation is technically still open at this time. Police do not believe there was any foul play involved. Holiday's body has been transported to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for an autopsy. Place said some amount of alcohol was believed to involved in the incident, but said police don't know yet to what extent.
Place said a total of six pistols were found on Holiday's kitchen table at the scene and said all were secured and returned to family members.
He said Holiday was employed by Sheetz as a maintenance worker and was a veteran of the U.S. armed forces.
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Ohio State University is the state's flagship institution of higher learning and research, respected throughout the nation. Its president, E. Gordon Gee, seems to be well-regarded among his peers.
But Gee seems to have a problem understanding the ivory tower is no place for gutter humor. In 2010, he raised the hackles of some by boasting the OSU football team wasn't playing the "Little Sisters of the Poor." He apologized, visited the real Little Sisters of the Poor, and made a donation to them.
Last year, Gee jokingly compared OSU's many divisions to the Polish Army. Another apology.
Now, Gee is back in hot water for ill-chosen remarks about Roman Catholics, including those at the University of Notre Dame - and Southerners in general. Gee, in a speech to the Ohio State Athletic Council, referred to "those damn Catholics" and suggested some in the Southeastern (athletic) Conference cannot read or write.
Of course, Gee has apologized. Again.
OSU trustees have, in effect, told Gee to get some coaching on political correctness. They also have ordered him to think more carefully about accepting invitations to speak.
And the trustees have told Gee that if something like this happens again, he'll be fired.
It is worth $2.1 million a year to Gee to avoid that. Let's hope he cleans up his act. And let's hope someone suggests to him he may misjudge his audience when he assumes those interested in athletics think ethnic, regional and religious slurs are funny.
Gee is an educated, allegedly intelligent man. He has done much for OSU and higher education in the Buckeye State. But the trustees were right to tell him enough is enough.
He's already been allowed three strikes, in effect. The fourth, if it comes, should mean he's out.


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For Dr. Neumann, the Blink studies provided a new view of how DC-SIGN is organized. "We found that DC-SIGN localized to a small nanodomain of ~80 nm capable of binding viruses. Further, these nanodomains can be clustered into larger microdomains capable of forming a receptor platform for larger pzathogens such as yeast."
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Dr. Haaland and colleagues developed a special type of technology called hyperspectral confocal fluorescence imaging."This technology overcomes these challenges by recording the complete emission spectrum of the entire volume of the image voxels (i.e., 3D pixel). It allows imaging hundreds of spectral wavelengths per image using a custom prism spectrometer. By eliminating autofluorescence and crosstalk, the new technology can identify in the image all emitting fluorescent species and their concentrations without prior information."
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The sophisticated microscope generates highly complex data that requires an equally sophisticated mode of analysis. To handle the mounds of data collected, the researchers developed multivariate curve resolution (MCR) software.
"Our algorithmic approach provides for dramatically faster computation of the rigorous, constrained alternating least-squares MCR analysis. With the hyperspectral microscope and MCR analysis, we often discover features and components in living samples that no one has seen before."
Sounding like something out of a science fiction novel, atomic force microscopy (AFM) and its cousin, mode synthesizing AFM (MSAFM), provide a powerful means to probe the subtleties of solid surfaces. "This is a new approach to material characterization over a wide frequency range. It can provide a wealth of information on the physical properties of the surface and subsurface of materials such as plant cell walls," says Laurene Tetard, Ph.D., Wigner Fellow, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Dr. Tetard and colleagues from the BioEnergy Science Center are utilizing MSAFM on plant systems. "Multifrequency AFM technologies are still in their infancy, but they are emerging as important tools. MSAFM was imagined to offer a multimodal platform for nanoscale spatial resolution of complex materials such as plants."
The first application of this technology to study plant cell walls was reported by Dr. Tetard and colleagues in Industrial Biotechnology and Nanotechnology. "We are employing this technology to learn how to improve the effectiveness of further chemical treatments that are involved in the conversion of polysaccharides to simple sugars for fermentation into ethanol and for biofuel."
How does MSAFM work and what's its resolution? "A standard episode of MSAFM consists of mechanically actuating the probe (a microcantilever) and the sample. The nonlinear nature of the tip-sample interaction results in synthesizing new operational modes in the system. The phenomena can be compared to difference and sum frequency generation in nonlinear optics. The resolution capability is similar to that of the atomic force microscopy, but offers the advantage of simultaneously mapping the properties of the sample with the same resolution."
According to Dr. Tetard, the new technology has a number of advantages and applications. "Today, electron microscopy and scanning probe microscopy are the main techniques used to image and study materials at the nanoscale. MSAFM offers the advantage of simultaneous channels over a wide frequency range to study the properties of the sample at the nanoscale.
"In addition, MSAFM is nondestructive, can be operated in air or liquid, and can be configured for subsurface imaging. Possible applications for the new technique include cracks and defects detection for the semiconductor industry, studies of nanoparticles-cell interactions in nanotoxicity, and in plant cell biology."
Since this is a young and emerging technology, there are some issues that need addressing. "Some of our current work involves quantitative calibration and development of the technique for liquid imaging."
According to Dr. Tolar, fluorescence microscopy will continue to break the barriers of resolution limitations and interface with other technologies.
"As resolution continues to improve, it will eventually reach into the subnanometer range where it can see the architecture of cellular complexes, much like electron microscopy. It also is a nice complement to the atomic resolution of crystallography, nuclear magnetic resonance, and cryo-electron tomatography. One of the most compelling prospects is the further delineation of mechanistic processes of molecular signaling."
Australian researchers are utilizing GE Healthcare's super-resolution microscope, the Delta Vision OMX Blaze™, technology to probe the process of bacterial cell division, a project that may ultimately contribute to the development of novel antibiotics. A recent paper in PLoS Biology described research conducted at the ithree institute at University of Technology Sydney that used this technology.
Because of the tiny size of bacterial cells, it is a challenge to image the spatial organization of cellular proteins. In their study, the investigators used the GE Healthcare system, which is a new type of super-resolution microscopy called three-dimensional structured illumination microscopy, to localize cell division bacterial proteins in both the spherical Staphlococcus aureus and the rod-shaped Bacillus subtilis. Using this new technology, the researchers say they've completely revised the model of how bacteria divide and multiply.
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PITTSBURGH - Can you wait a minute?
Or maybe a week?
The baseball season is one week old, and the Pittsburgh Pirates have had major problems getting hits and scoring runs.
In their first six games, the Pirates were shut out twice, had two games where they scored one run and scored two runs in another. Their "breakout" was a 3-0 win in the season' s second game.
You want reasons? The first three home games were played in winter temperatures. The Chicago Cubs actually hit for a lower average than the Pirates did while winning two of three.
When the Pirates got into a better climate in Los Angeles, the pitching got a lot better, too. The Dodgers' first two starters were Zach Greinke and Clayton Kershaw, two former Cy Young award winners. The third starter was Korean Ryu Hyun-Jin, who cost the Dodgers a $26 million "posting fee" just to open negotiations that led to a six-year, $36 million contract.
In other words, they faced some pretty good pitching in four of the first six games (including Cubs opening day starter Jeff Samardzija).
The 2013 Pirates aren't a championship-caliber team. But they're also not a team that will have a .200 batting average all season and hit one home run every six games.
They've been off to a terrible start offensively, but it won't last. They won't be confused with the old "Lumber Company" teams of the 1970s, but this is basically the same group that hit 170 home runs last season.
Stay calm.
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After what happened at Rutgers, Robert Morris decided to investigate Mike Rice's time as head coach for its basketball team.
Robert Morris reported yesterday that only one of the 17 people interviewed could recall any inappropriate behavior by Rice. That person remembered Rice throwing a basketball at a player and using inappropriate language.
So Rice only turned into a raving, man-handling maniac when he arrived at Rutgers? That's possible, but it might not be very likely.
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Blast from the past: What Kaipo Spenser is doing these days
March 15, 2013 - Robert Collias
The story is a little over the top PR-wise, but here is a cool update on former St. Anthony baseball standout Kaipo Spenser, who had a meteoric rise to a 10-0 freshman season at Arizona State to just as quick an end to his career due to frustrating injuries.
This from early on in the story:
Growing up the youngest of seven on the Hawaiian island of Maui, you'd think surfing would be his sport. But Kaipo, raised in an extremely sports-driven and fiercely competitive family, heard the call for baseball, not the beach. In his small town of approximately 15,000 people, and sheltered by ocean in every direction, life on the island was simple and a bit isolating.
Playing hoops or picking up a bat and ball, for Kaipo, was his only outlet as he dreamed of discovering the mainland, experiencing the world, and the novelty of such things as snow. As he juggled time between his basketball and All-Star baseball teams, he developed a fast ball that would prove to be his ticket off the island.
"I think it's every little ball player's goal to play at the next level," says Kaipo, crediting his high school baseball coach as being one of the most influential in his life. "At the time, I realized I could have a future in this sport, and became set on playing collegiate baseball…I opened some eyes and started receiving letters from scouts and college coaches," he adds.
The St. Anthony coach he credits later in the story is Lew Awai.
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If I didn't have a sense of
If I didn't have a sense of humor after all this time watching this team, I'd be dead by now. Nice toon, as usual.
That's pretty funny Tim! I
That's pretty funny Tim! I don't know why, but this one remind's me a bit of Lynda Berry's earlier "Ernie Pook's Comeeks" from the early 90's.
"Genius" is a bit of a
"Genius" is a bit of a stretch. But I'll go with damn creative and pithy.
Do they still play the blues
Do they still play the blues in Chicago...
I'm concerned about the man
I'm concerned about the man in the back left. He appears to be consumptive.
If the Cubs are the cause, that could be a big-time law suit.
And if the Cubs get the
And if the Cubs get the Wrigley Field renovations done according to plan, their own estimates at one point last year suggested at least $95 million of additional annual revenue, according to a team source.
Even the financing of the renovations, according to internal club documents, will result in tens of millions of dollars in Stadium Investment Credit against their revenue-sharing bill through MLB.
Also some interesting bits on the financing the Rickett's used to purchase the team.
40 degrees in Pittsburgh at
40 degrees in Pittsburgh at the moment, rain/snow mix...
looks like rain will pass though.
Barney to 15 day DL. Alberto
per Bruce Miles...Barney to 15 day DL. Alberto Gonzalez added to roster, including 40 man. Rob Whitenack DFA. The Cubbery of it is this may have been Junior Lake's opportunity and I'd still rather see Logan Watkins for 2 weeks.
Not sure if someone will take a flyer on RW given his poor spring albeit he's still in recovery mode from TJ surgery. My guess is he'll stay with the organIzaton.
I agree, it's a perplexing
I agree, it's a perplexing decision. Even setting aside the exposure of Whitenack, how is Gonzalez a better choice than Lake or Watkins? At least we're flexible, aka able to lose in multiple configurations.
Lake is hurt (and doesn't
Lake is hurt (and doesn't play 2B) and Watkins hasn't had an AB above AA? He wasn't go to get the starts, so what's the point to sit on the bench?
Indeed, cracked rib, IIRC.
Indeed, cracked rib, IIRC.
Won't be able to do much at the plate with that.
So no one can start without playing above AA?
I'd rather see a decent prospect get some time. Watkins hit well at AA last year, and it's not like
they have $$$ invested in him. Lillibridge is a nice reserve. I just prefer to see someone with a shot at being a decent player get the time.
I know, I know...got to get the 500 at bats in AAA. I get it. Lol.
well no one should start
well no one should start without some AAA AB's unless they're really good, which Watkins isn't.
Where's this Watkins love coming from? Other than his ability to take a walk, he seems really uninteresting. Did he even last in spring camp that long?
Well...he seems to be a
Well...he seems to be a decent fielder...has a little more pop and speed, and takes more walks
compared to darwin barney.
(shrug) I guess I'd rather see that than Gonzalez, or even 3 weeks of Lillibridge.
It's more like "compared to
It's more like "compared to two weeks of a 30-year-old replacement-level MLB retread whose legitimate role on this team is to be a utility reserve." I'd rather let Watkins have the two-week lesson to take back to Iowa and work on.
As for the status of Watkins as a prospect, not really, but he's the guy who if he ends up being in the right place at the right time can make a tidy little career out of it. There's more long-term value to the org there than with Lillibridge, which Theo Corp knows, which is why I don't get this. It must be what you're saying Rob, that the jump would be too much for him at this point. And I think that's fair. But given the temporary nature of the situation re Barney, I still would've liked to see it.
I'm not sure of the long term
I'm not sure of the long term value of watching Watkins get overwhelmed by major league pitching is or sitting on the bench. Could he do as poorly as Lillibridge? Absolutely!!!
Lillibridge and Gonzalez at least worked with Castro a little on the double play over camp (I presume). If there was a guy that played some AAA last year and was at least a C-level prospect, I'd be all for it, but no reason to throw guys up there that are probably not going to succeed. Watkins hardly set AA on fire last year, although he's certainly showing improvement.
Hey..Gonzalez career line is
Hey..Gonzalez career line is .242/.279/.317. When you can add a guy like that, you...er...
The Whitenack this is a
The Whitenack thing is a headscratcher from what everything AZ PHIL has told us.
He was one of, if not the only Cub young pitcher that had starter potential a couple years ago and got sidelined with the TJS.
So since I have not seen him at all, I'm wondering if his rehab just showed no promise?
I don't get it...
I can't imagine anyone will
I can't imagine anyone will use up a 40-man spot on Whitenack...I'm sure he'll be a Cub next week.


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A tool typically constructed by guerrilla pimps to keep their prostitutes in line. Pimp sticks are made from two wire coat hangers where one has the end cut of and the looped though the first one. Finished tool should have a slight "Y" shape to it.
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After inspecting my attire for the club, I came to the conclusion I needed my pimp stick to keep me fly.
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