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- Barbara L.
Because of Tori's reluctance to smile, we decided it was time to pursue some orthodontic treatment. Her teeth were pretty bad, and definitely affected her self confidence. We were referred by some neighbors, and couldn't have been more pleased with each visit. The staff were amazing. Her braces are now off, and we are not only happy with the results but proud that her smile is back! Thanks to you all.
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I have been very satisfied with the process and particularly the efficiency of the staff and time. It has been a very positive experience for my daughter and I appreciate the care for each and every visit.
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We've been very pleased with our daughter's care. The staff has been very friendly and capable, and any emergencies have been quickly accommodated. Our two oldest children now have gorgeous straight smiles, and we'll definitely be bringing our youngest to Dr. Sheffield as well.
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Thank you! Everyone deserves a beautiful smile. It inspires confidence and presence before a word is spoken. Our first child looks amazing and handsome, and now our second child, too. I will spend my life adoring theses two, handsome men and their beautiful smiles!
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We have completed Joseph's second phase with Dr. Sheffield. We are thrilled with the results! Thank you to all the staff who have always been courteous, friendly & helpful. Thank you to Dr. Sheffield for the excellent care and attention to our son's treatment.
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Dr. Rob + Staff were very gentle and kind. It was such a great orthodontic experience. We are very happy with our beautiful new smile. We never felt any pressure to proceed with treatment. The kids really love all the fun prizes and the feeling of fun & family!
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Our experience has been wonderful here at Dr. Sheffield's office. All the dental assistants have been extremely wonderful. Sarah has been especially instrumental in this experience for Cecilia. She has always answered all questions, and has demonstrated professionalism and extreme patience with both Cecilia and us. Dr. Sheffield has been very nice to work with, and Cecilia loves his personality. We would like to thank you all.
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As far as braces go, this experience was much better than my first time when I was a child. The fact that I had to have them again is an indicative of how much they didn't know 20 years ago. I am confident that this time will be the last time!
The staff are excellent and Dr. Sheffield's observations and treatment were spot on! I now have a great smile that I have no doubt will last forever. Thank you all!!!
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Serves 5 |
Prep Time 10 minutes |
Cook Time 10 minutes
8 ounces any Eden Soba
1/2 cup carrots, finely julienned
1/2 cup fresh daikon radish, finely julienned
1/2 cup scallions, finely chopped
1 Tbsp Eden Toasted Sesame Oil
1 Tbsp Eden Sesame Oil
1 Tbsp Eden Brown Rice Vinegar
1/2 tsp fresh ginger root, finely grated
1/2 cup shallots, finely minced
Combine the ingredients for the vinaigrette in a small jar and shake well.
Cook the noodles as package directs. Rinse, drain and plunge into ice water. Drain again and place in a bowl. Add the dressing, carrot, daikon and scallions. Toss to mix. Season with additional shoyu, if desired.
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UGG Australia Women's Bailey Button Triplet Winter Boots
NOW: $149.99 (31% off!)
Was: $219.99*
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Elevate style and comfort in the UGG® Australia Bailey Button Triplet winter boot. A sheepskin suede upper lends style and protection in cold winter weather, while the interior sockliner wicks away moisture for lasting dryness. A soft foam insole cushions for comfort, and a molded EVA outsole maximizes traction. Wear high, folded over or rolled down to a cuff for customizable style. Take on winter in style in the Bailey Button Triplet boot.
Sizing tip: UGG® recommends ordering one full-size down or a 1/2 size if you're in-between sizes for a perfect fit.
- Twin-faced Grade A sheepskin upper ensures protection in cold winter weather
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Rated 5 out of 5 by shari warm and comfy Love the boots..They fit great and are warm and comfortable. February 2, 2016
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Rated 4 out of 5 by Mickymouse This is a Christmas present for our Granddaughter, and won't be given until Christmas day. I will not know the real review until my granddaughter receives the UGG boots. These are not something I would have purchased for myself. I was however very disappointed that the 30% off offer, was reneged at the time of checkout. I have shopped at Dick's Sporting Goods here and in New Hampshire, with my husband and son, and have never been as disappointed as I was when ordering online, (only to find there was no discount). I checked "no', on "recommend this product", because it is not for me. Also I gave 4 stars because it hasn't been given yet. I don't know what the reaction will be. December 17, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5 by darlene Most comfortable boot ever.. Highly recommend this boot to anyone..Comfort anf feel is A February 20, 2014
Rated 4 out of 5 by A love it very warm and comftable but the draw back is that if you choose black color, your sock will be black too because the fur inside is stained black. To have button is good because it is easier to wear especially if you have quite big legs. February 6, 2014
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Rated 1 out of 5 by DOGLOVER778 Horrible! not the best boots in the world. your better off going for the normal tall because it is impossible to go anywere without getting one of the buttens stuck on something, and two of the buttens fell off! March 3, 2012


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It has been announced today by Berlin Film Festival organizers that Cherrybomb is up for consideration as "Best First Feature Film!"
It will be competing against other first-time features in all categories (meaning not only the Generation 14plus). The winner will be chosen by a three person jury, and will be announced at an official awards ceremony on February 14th.
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text: The Biggest Myths Surrounding Disaster Recovery Thu, Oct 4, 2012 - Read in 3 Min There are a variety of reasons businesses either do not have a disaster recovery plan or their current plan is substandard. The beliefs of the people in charge of developing these processes (business owners and IT department) play a significant role in how effective the overall strategy will be. This is problematic when the decision-makers have bought into one or more of the common myths surrounding disaster recovery. Myth – Disaster Recovery is Expensive and Resource Intensive One of the biggest reasons businesses put off developing a disaster recovery strategy is because they believe it will become too expensive and resource intensive.


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Fonterra's Tankers Drive to the Moon and Back
Fonterra's Tankers Drive to the Moon and Back
For Darfield tanker operator Rowly Stewart it's hard not to get attached to a tanker you've driven for six years – especially when you've travelled the equivalent of getting to the moon and back - twice. On average one of our tankers will rack up around 1.6 million kilometres on the road and pick up 239 million litres of milk before being retired. "When you drive the same tanker about 500 kilometres each day you become quite attached to it. At the start of every shift I always take my tanker through all the safety pre-checks and make sure it's clean and polished before I take it out onto the road," says Rowly.
Volvo tankers in the Darfield fleet and an older retiring Scania.
Fonterra General Manager National Transport & Logistics, Barry McColl says the tankers are known for their reliability on the road and are always well-serviced and comply with safety standards. "However there is a point in their life where you need to replace them with new ones to maintain overall fleet condition and reliability." "The Co-op regularly upgrades our fleet because of the vast number of kilometres travelled – and next season will be no different with around $30 million set aside for 79 new tankers in 2013." The 79 new Volvo tankers will replace some of the older tankers as part of the Co-operative's ongoing programme to upgrade its 500 strong fleet – the largest bulk liquid transport operation in New Zealand.
"The new Volvo trucks are more fuel-efficient, have lower running costs and improve the environmental and economic efficiency of our milk collection operation," says Mr McColl. "Their stability and braking systems are also very sophisticated, making them safer to operate."
The new tankers are due to arrive in June 2013, with a gradual phasing out of the older tankers from February next year. The tankers are primarily assembled at the Fonterra Morrinsville Service Centre and by mid-August 2013, the full fleet of 79 is expected to be fully operational. Most of the older tankers will be sold for less intensive use with some being dismantled for parts. Fonterra has also provided a few of its retired tankers to rural fire services around New Zealand.


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Just when you thought Green Day didn't make albums like this anymore – 12 blasts of hook-savvy mosh-pit pop, cut hot and simple with no operatic agenda – singer-guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt and drummer Tré Cool do three at once and issue them in rapid-fire installments. It's lunacy, of course, in what now passes for the music business.
In fact, Green Day's triple play with longtime co-producer Rob Cavallo is the way things used to be. In 1964 alone, the Beatles put out two albums, three singles and two EPs in Britain; the next year, the Rolling Stones whipped out five singles and three LPs in the U.S. ¡Uno! is Green Day's first studio album in three years, but they deliver it like late-breaking news, with mid-Sixties-guitar clamor, '77 velocity and no breathing room. Every track is written like a single – the glam-Jam jolt of "Nuclear Family," the Cheap Trick-style zoom and vocal sunshine of "Fell for You" – then thrown at you like a grenade. From what I've heard so far of ¡Dos! and ¡Tré!, the same goes for them too.
After the Quadrophenia-like weight and worry of 2004's American Idiot and 2009's 21st Century Breakdown, ¡Uno! feels like plain relief. There are strong whiffs of Green Day's biggest seller, 1994's Dookie, in the honed buzz of Armstrong's and Jason White's guitars, Dirnt and Cool's airtight gallop, and Armstrong's lyric emphasis on girl troubles and starting the party that never stops. There is also a hipper, richer grip in the details. The martial clip of "Carpe Diem" is an exuberant throwback to the Mod-era Who. "Troublemaker" jumps like a dirty-glitter union of U2's "Vertigo" and the Knack's "My Sharona," and has a liquid-fuzz guitar break that starts like the drone in David Bowie's "Heroes" and ends with a vicious tremolo-bar spasm, as if Jeff Beck has taken over straight from theYardbirds.
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An investigation into an improper relationship between a Churchill County School District employee and a 17-year-old student has been turned over to the Fallon Police Department.
On Friday, FPD Cpt. Vern Ulrich said he has not discovered any evidence to support claims of criminal activity. The allegation, he said, was disclosed by a former significant other of the CCSD female employee last month.
Once CCSD became aware of the allegations, district officials notified police, Ulrich said. He said the names of the individuals involved would not be released because of the investigation and no evidence has been found to support the claim.
"The claims are unsubstantiated," Ulrich added. "From a criminal stand point, there is nothing. We just can't substantiate (the claim)."
When asked if charges could be levied against the significant other for false reporting, Ulrich said no evidence has been unearthed to prove a false a claim has been made.
He said numerous individuals including the employee and student have been interviewed, but those discussions did not reveal any wrongdoing.
CCSD interim Superintendent Bus Scharmann, meanwhile, released a statement Friday absolving the employee after an internal investigation was conducted.
"The internal investigation did not establish that there had been sexual relations between this employee and a student, although it did establish that policies had been violated," Scharmann said. "Appropriate personnel actions have been taken. Additional procedures have been implemented with regard to this employee."
Scharmann said allegations of the relationship surfaced recently, and the district took "immediate and decisive steps."
It is against district policy and regulations for a CCSD employee and student to engage in a sexual relationship.
The District's policies and practices are gender-neutral regarding allegations of sexual relations between employees and students.
Scharmann said the district reported the allegations to law enforcement, placed the employee on leave, ran its own investigation and notified and worked with the parents of the suspected victim and the student.
District officials also counseled the student and parents of the student, Scharmann said.


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to bugger someone until you have no energy, it doesn't matter when you spunk, you battle on until your nackered
Up for a bugger lug
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Grumpy person - usually older, can be attributed to any person who is being a grumpy pain in the bum.
Ask buggerlugs over there, he'll proabably know the answer.
Come on buggerlugs, lagging behind again...
Come on buggerlugs, lagging behind again...
easyman tarafından 30 Ağustos 2006, Çarşamba
Affectionate term for a child
You're a Buggerlugs.
Hiya Buggerlugs
Hiya Buggerlugs
Kaede351 tarafından 3 Kasım 2008, Pazartesi
An affectionate term for a female friend, if you're from up north!
Hey buggerlugs
Julie Steel tarafından 23 Ocak 2004, Cuma
An affectionate term for a child, particularly when it isn't listening to the adult, the implication being that the child's ears (lugs) have been fucked (or buggered) and can no longer hear as a result.
"Oy, buggerlugs, are you listening?"
Minjeeta tarafından 28 Temmuz 2009, Salı
1.Someone with very large ears.
2.Ears ideal for use as handles which afford a sodomiser extra purchase and thus enable the delivery of a more thorough, forcefull bumming.
2.Ears ideal for use as handles which afford a sodomiser extra purchase and thus enable the delivery of a more thorough, forcefull bumming.
"Dude that supple boy has bugger-lugs!"
TheGayMaker tarafından 13 Aralık 2007, Perşembe
extremely ugly!
Urghh!! Your face offends my mirror bugger-lugs!
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Although most shoppers are well aware of potential dangers during the holiday season, local law enforcement officials said it can't hurt to heed some friendly reminders when it comes to keeping one's belongings, purchases and self safe.
Austintown Police Chief Robert Gavalier acknowledged that traditionally, many people associate the holidays with an increase in crime.
"But fortunately, that hasn't really been the case, at least not in recent years and in our area," he said. "I think more and more people are aware of what can happen so they take more precautions to avoid it, which is a good thing."
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Ka'Daja Walker, left, and her mother, Crystal Spiva-Walker, shop for Christmas presents and holiday supplies Monday afternoon at the Eastwood Mall Complex.
Still, as Gavalier and Niles Police Chief Robert J. Hinton pointed out, stores attract more shoppers as the holidays get closer. They said shoplifters, purse-snatchers and identity thieves remain areas of concern.
"With more people out and about, you have the potential for more crime,'' Hinton said. "You have more people out at the mall and other shopping areas this time of year, which can increase the risks of being victimized."
Police said staying alert and paying attention to your surroundings at all times is a good step to take to avoid becoming a victim.
"If you're in line or at a counter and using a credit card, make sure you pay attention if you think someone is trying to get your information from your card or receipt," Gavalier said. "Just always be aware of who's around you."
Likewise, pay attention to who's around your vehicle as you're trying to load packages into your trunk.
"And try not to load yourself up with too many packages," Hinton said. "Sometimes a thief will strike when you're loaded up with packages, when you have to put something down or turn away briefly or you're distracted by a child. It doesn't take long. They can move in pretty fast."
Police suggest that you don't shop alone and that you only carry as much money as you think you will need.
Rosemarie Parisi said she applies those principles to her own shopping habits.
"Sometimes you might think it would be a lot quicker and you can get more done if you go alone," the Girard woman said. "But if someone else can go with you it's a lot better."
Parisi spent some time shopping at Eastwood Mall in Niles with a friend this week. She said she takes shopping safety advice seriously and applies those tips when she can.
"It's important to be vigilant and try to pay attention to what's going on around you," she said. "I try to shop during the day. I don't shop alone at night anymore. I park close to entrances. I keep my purse strap over my shoulder. I do what I can."
Gavalier said some local stores increase security around the holidays in an effort to stave off crime.
"They hire off-duty police officers to patrol inside the store, outside and in the parking lot, so that helps," he said.
Hinton said increased public awareness has helped many people avoid becoming victims and to be on look out for could-be thieves.
"Often the best defense is going with your instinct and using your own common sense," he said. "Pay attention, take precautions, be prepared. It really is better to be safe than sorry. You'll find that the general rule is that most (criminals) look for convenient, easy targets. Make it as hard for them as possible. Don't be an easy target."
Teri Smith said she learned a few years ago the importance of parking close to the store entrances, near lighted areas, and keeping packages out of sight. The Youngstown woman said she was at a Pennsylvania shopping center when she became a crime victim.
"I wasn't even thinking and I realized I had forgotten something, so I put the gifts I had purchased on the back seat of my car," she said. "It had been light out when I went in and out the first time, but when I came out of the store the second time it had already gotten kind of dark. A back window was broken, my packages, some CDs and a few other things were taken. I'm a lot more careful now."
Ken Kollar, manager at Eastwood Mall, said that although his staff works year-round to deter crime, security and services are increased during the holidays.
"The main thing we do is to stay visible," he explained. "We want people, the good people as well as the bad people, to see us as much as possible. We let them know we're here."
Kollar said mall security is on-hand to walk customers to their cars, patrol inside and outside the mall including the parking lots. A few years ago the mall established a canine patrol.
"We'll also help you carry your packages and help you find your car if you can't remember where you parked it," he said.
He said the efforts have helped as crime incidents at the mall have steadily declined over the past few years. He advises customers to make several trips to their vehicles instead of loading up with packages.
"Have your keys handy and remember where you parked," he said. "If you can't remember where you parked ask security for help. You don't want to be wandering around the parking lot, especially loaded up with packages, looking lost or distracted because you can't find your car. And go out the entrance you came in, the one closest to your car."
Also, don't flash a lot of cash and contact security immediately if you become a victim, he added.
"Mall security is here to help, and on site," he said. "You can call 911 as well. But by all means, contact mall security. Security can be there, in many cases, in a matter of seconds.
"The main things is don't put yourself in a position for someone to take advantage of you. Today's world is different than it used to be, no matter where you are. Crime very often is about opportunity. Do everything you can to avoid giving anyone the opportunity."


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The ninth residential college of Rice University (or tenth if you are only counting dormitories). McMurtry has a plethora of punted pandas, a war conch, and the ownership of the University's finest pizza oven and a majority share of West Servery.
What is that loud conch and yelling about? / Oh it's just McMurtry College being INTENSE.
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The best college at Rice University by far. Our building pwns, as does our food. MUUURT!
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A BANK, city tax collectors and the FBI have all come calling for Chaka "Chip" Fattah Jr. this year, and now Harrah's casino in Chester is looking for him, too.
According to a complaint filed Monday in Common Pleas Court in Philadelphia, Harrah's is seeking to recoup a $16,000 line of credit it extended in April to Fattah - the son of U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah - and $917.92 in interest. Two months after getting the line of credit, Fattah repaid the casino, but his checks bounced, according to the complaint.


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Sarah Katherine Schmidt, of Elkins, has been chosen as a princess in the 76th Mountain State Forest Festival by Board President Mark Tomblyn.
Schmidt is the daughter of John and Jean Schmidt. She is the granddaughter of Freda and the late Dr. Houston Lowry of Madisonville, Tenn., and Marjorie and the late John Schmidt of Sanford, N.C.
She and has a brother, Paul Thomas Schmidt, who was Royal Boy Scout in the 67th Mountain State Forest Festival.
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A 2011 graduate of Elkins High School, Schmidt was a four-year member of the swim team. She was named to the NCAC All Conference Team her sophomore and junior years, and she was on the Big Ten All Conference Team as a senior. She also was on the All Regional Team as a senior and was caption her senior year. She was a four-year member of the Class Council, a three-year class vice president and a four-year member of EHS Student Council. She was a two-year member of Elkins SADD and attended Rhododendron Girls State in 2010.
Schmidt volunteers with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service with tree planting and garlic mustard pulls, organizes American Red Cross blood drives, coaches the Elkins Otters Swim Team, lifeguards and teaches swimming lessons at the YMCA. She is a member of the First United Methodist Church and has gone on mission trips to Costa Rica and Pittsburgh, Pa. Her hobbies include swimming, bike riding, deer hunting and skiing.
She is a sophomore at Fairmont State University, majoring in exercise science. She also is a member of the college swim team.


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5 Innocent Gestures That Make You Look Like a Dick Overseas
So you're not making as many friends as you would like in your world travels. You've practiced some local phrases, you've stopped humming "America the Beautiful" during pauses in conversations, you've even personally apologized about the drone that ruined Hashim's wedding last week. But your foreign friends still don't accept you. What's going on? Maybe you're doing one of these ...
#5. Blowing Your Nose
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Nobody likes the sound of mucus being sucked into somebody's nose hole. And the worst part about sniffling is that, like the drops of water to the forehead in a round of Chinese water torture, you know it's going to happen again. After the guy sitting behind you on the bus sniffs once, you are going to spend the rest of the trip waiting for the next irregularly timed nose-vacuuming, right up until you finally snap and choke him with a Kleenex. And you'd understandably assume that people all over the world feel that way.
But in some countries, you'd be wrong: In Japan, for example, it's considered extremely rude to blow your nose in public. Instead, people will just sit for hours and sniffle away. All those Japanese Zen gardens and meditation techniques that you assumed were for attaining enlightenment? They actually grant people the inner peace to put up with the constant sniffing.
Seriously, what do you think the green parts represent?
Similar nose-blowing taboos exist in Korea. And when you think about it, this attitude isn't all that weird. If you're sitting on public transportation after an unwise visit to the taco stand outside the adult bookstore, nobody's going to toss you an adult diaper and say, "Dude, just get rid of it already," no matter what loud, unpleasant growling noises your stomach might be making. And that's what blowing your nose seems like to most people in these countries. You're ejecting a mass of gross, disease-ridden bodily fluids into a bit of paper and then putting that bit of paper back into your pocket. Frankly, I'm not surprised that the Japanese make fun of us with racist party gags.
Debito Arudou
"The Gaijin Nose: Soon with exploding snot!"
#4. Accepting Gifts
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Gifts have got to be one of the most straightforward parts of human life. You hand your present to the recipient and they say thank you, open it, and then pretend to appreciate your taste.
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"I, uh, love it. Thank you."
But gift giving is one of those areas that American visitors overseas tear through like a herd of fanny-pack-wearing buffalo, leaving baffled foreigners and torn wrapping paper in their wake. In China, it's usually rude to accept a gift unless it's been offered to you three times -- anything less than that, and the gift offerer was just being polite and didn't really want to give you that panda. For Iranians, the "three times or I don't mean it" rule extends not only to gifts, but also to things like invitations to people's houses, which has almost certainly led to a lot of awkward dinner parties, movie nights, and marriages.
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God help you if you down some bad hummus and need to use someone's restroom.
In India, China, and most other parts of Asia, it's also considered impolite to open a gift in front of the person who gave it to you. I'm pretty sure this doesn't apply to gifts among family members, otherwise these countries must be home to the most depressing birthday mornings ever. But at other times the "unwrap in private" rule makes perfect sense. It demonstrates to everyone involved that the important thing is the giving, not what's inside the package. Also, if you open gifts alone, you're always able to hide the brief despair in your eyes as you see the ill-fitting sweater or Christmas ska album that your closest friend chose for you and realize that you are utterly alone forever and no one will ever, ever understand you.
#3. Not Standing Close Enough to People
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A foreign person is talking to you at an uncomfortably close distance. You step back. They step forward. You step back until you're pressed up against a wall and reaching for your rape alarm or anti-bad-breath machete. As the police drag your foreign acquaintance away, he shoots you a betrayed look and you realize that he was just trying to compliment your hat.
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Some hats will never have to worry about this scenario.
This problem is so common that it's been given a sciencey-sounding name: proxemics. See, the distance between two people when they're talking to each other is not universal: In some regions (like Latin America and the Mediterranean), people tend to stand closer to each other than North Americans do, while in others (like Scandinavia), they leave more space. The problem is that this kind of space-decision is entirely unconscious, so that rather than thinking to ourselves, "Oh, he's standing too far away. I will accommodate his cultural needs," we think, "This person seems standoffish and I don't know why. Probably because he's a jerk. Look at his stupid jerk face."
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"If he doesn't come over here, I'm going to start waving with fewer fingers."
And that's the better scenario. Often, when faced with unfamiliar proxemics, we'll simply edge forward or backward, unconsciously trying to enforce our own culture's personal space. So the next time you're talking to a person in another country and the conversation ends with them suddenly tumbling off a cliff, you will know why.


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A former Milwaukee County sheriff's deputy pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to six counts of production of child pornography.
Philip Wentzel is scheduled to be sentenced Dec. 21.
Prosecutors said Wentzel brought young girls to a Campbellsport campground where he created the child pornography and then swapped it with pornographers across the country.
"Allegations of criminal activity by those who are sworn to enforce the law are especially troubling as such activities are an affront to the public, the justice system, and the many hard-working and honest men and women who serve in law enforcement," U.S. Attorney James Santelle said in a news release.
Prosecutors plan to recommend that Wentzel face a maximum of 45 years in prison.


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when you fart, and some diarreah comes out, and coats the inside of your butt cheeks.
I was eating mcdonalds and all of a sudden i got mud butt.
de ipfreely 05 Martie 2004
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excessive diarrhea; made popular by Dave Chappelle on "Chappelle's Show," in such skits like "Ribs" and "Black Man on a White Toilet". Could also be spelled "muddbutt."
I got mudbutt from eating chilli and spent a long time on the toilet.
de Fry 11 Mai 2004
The sensation of having a greasy and unwipeable ass usually occuring after consumption of large quantities of fried or fatty foods. A result of oily anal discharge, leakage, or extremely tacky fecal matter. Often accompanied by, or preceded by, 'The Itis.'
I ate two plates of ribs and a half pound of fudge last night. I keep wiping my ass today but I just can't shake this Mud Butt.
de thehairlessgorilla 19 Martie 2009
Simply put, diarhea, a horrible shit that you cant hold in any longer.Commonly used on the Chappelles Show.
Aw shit, I knew I shouldnt have ate that burger, now I got Mud butt and no place to shit.
de neverrusty 22 Octombrie 2006
mud butt is when you eat sumthing that dont agree wtih you. then maybe an hour later u get cramps in ur ribs and u start to fart every 2 minutes. then ur stomach hurts and every fart is wet and hot, and sonner or later it isnt safe 2 fart, u need to shit. the moment u pop a squat on the throne, ur butthole opens up and it runs right out....and the smell is horrible!
a yo, them tacos and grape juice gave me mud butt at school.
de makaveli tha don 19 Ianuarie 2008
The sensation of your rectum filling up with shit that's less than solid. Impending diarrhea.
We drank a lot of booze mixed with prune juice to make it go down easier and an hour later we were startin' to get some serious mud butt.
de E-boy 01 Mai 2006
Explosive diarrhea from "Chappelle's Show." First on the skit, "First black man to use white toilet"
"I had gone out to buy a roast beef sandwich from a boy who used to sell them up front. A little bit later, I could feel a bubblin'. Little did I know, that roast beef sandwich would change my life."
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Freshman Danielle Horgan scored the first two goals of her career as the Stetson lacrosse team (0-3) fell to UC Davis (1-1) by a score of 18-4 on Sunday afternoon. The four goals were a season best for the Hatters.
"This game was definitely much better than our first two," Stetson head coach Nicole Moore said. "We're seeing development within our program and with our individuals. What's most important for us as coaches is helping our players understand what our goals are as a program. We left this game focused on the positives that came out of it."
For the second time in Stetson's first three contests, the Hatters scored first on Sunday. Just over four minutes into the game Stetson was awarded a free position. Freshman Noelle Morabito stepped up to the circle, took a few strides, and put the Hatters up 1-0 early on.
The Aggies countered with a score less than 30 seconds later and then tacked on two more to take a 3-1 lead less than seven minutes into play. Stetson fought back though, as Horgan scored the first of her two goals on the day with 23:04 left in the first. Freshman Mary Kate O'Sullivan found Horgan in the middle of the field before the midfielder went in for the first score of her career.
UC Davis then rattled off seven straight goals to take a 10-2 lead with 9:22 remaining in the half. Hannah Mirza highlighted the run with three goals during the stretch.
Stetson came back with a goal with just 4:08 remaining in the first half to make it 10-3. Horgan tallied her second score of the game, this time on a free position. Unfortunately, UC Davis scored three more to go into the break with a 13-3 advantage.
The Aggies outscored the Hatters 5-1 in the second half. Five different UC Davis players found the back of the net in the final 30 minutes of action. Freshman Paige Levesque was the Stetson player who put one on the board, scoring her second goal of the year off of an assist from sophomore Samantha Akl.
UC Davis outshot Stetson 43-11, forcing the Hatter goalkeepers to make 16 saves. Freshman Whitney Meyers recorded six in the first half, while freshman Caili Guilday stopped 10 shots in the second 30 minutes.
Stetson turned the ball over 23 times to the Aggies' 12, which led to a 25-16 UC Davis advantage in ground balls. Stetson was 2-of-5 on free position attempts and held the Aggies without a free position for the entire game. UC Davis finished with 18 draw controls to Stetson's five.
Horgan led the Hatters with two goals, and added one ground ball and one caused turnover. Freshman Maylis Broderick led Stetson with three ground balls and added two caused turnovers. Morabito also caused two turnovers and picked up two ground balls. Akl and Levesque each finished with two draw controls.
The Hatters will now look forward to a busy week beginning with a home tilt against William & Mary on Saturday, March 2 at 10:00 a.m. Stetson will then host Presbyterian on Tuesday, March 5, and welcome Campbell to the Athletic Training Center on Friday, March 8.


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Friendliest. Most polite. No. 1 tourist destination in North America in 2011. No. 1 tourist place on the planet in 2012.
The accolades have been pouring in for years on Charleston, with its rich history as the birthplace of the Civil War, bounty of great restaurants and baskets of coastal charm.
With 4.5 million tourists flocking to the city every year, a number thats expected to grow as low-cost air carriers line up to bring them here, it was only a matter of time before developers saw the need for more rooms at the inns.
Close to 1,500 new hotel rooms are being built or are in the planning stages on peninsular Charleston, a staggering 43.6 percent increase over the existing 3,281 rooms in the Holy Citys downtown area.
With the Conde Nast rankings, the general consensus is that visitation is only going to be on the rise and we will get more group business in with conventions, said Kevin Smith in the College of Charlestons Office of Tourism Analysis.
In 2011, readers of the high-profile travel magazine voted Charleston the No. 1 tourist destination in North America. This year, they selected the Holy City as the top tourist place in the world.
The addition of low-cost airlines has helped as well, flooding the city with new visitors from across America.
Southwest Airlines started serving the city in 2011, bringing in tourists directly from Houston, Chicago, Nashville and Baltimore, while JetBlue Airways will open up direct paths to the heavily populated Boston and New York markets in February.
Charleston International Airport reported a 30 percent increase in passengers last year with 2.5 million people passing through the terminal.
In April, the busiest tourist month in Charleston, peninsular hotel rooms showed 92 percent occupancy with an average daily rate of $203. Through October, downtown hotels have been booked nearly 82.5 percent for the year, the highest of any part of Charlestons metro market with its more than 15,000 rooms. The average daily rate for the year on the peninsula is nearly $170 per room.
You see these sort of numbers, and developers hope they can do the same, Smith said.
On the rise
From a new boutique inn on George Street to a planned high-rise at the base of the Ravenel Bridge, new hotel projects are covering a lot of ground.
Rising first to welcome new guests is the five-story Holiday Inn Charleston Historic Downtown at 425 Meeting St. The 80,000-square-foot hotel will open Jan. 10 in an area booming with new restaurants and apartments adjacent to the rapidly redeveloping Upper King Street corridor.
There is definitely enough growth in the market to justify the additional rooms, said Matthew Miller, a former longtime employee of the Mills House Hotel who is the general manager of the new Holiday Inn.
Earlier this week, Miller and Jewel Oxner of Tara Investments, which owns the new Holiday Inn, pointed out the new pool, workout room, conference area and restaurant as they navigated around construction workers putting the finishing touches on the hotel, where all parking will be by valet off Woolfe Street.
The lodging will create 35 to 40 new jobs downtown when it opens, with about 40 more during peak tourism periods.
We have already had a lot of requests for meetings, corporate functions, reunions and other groups, Oxner said.
At almost the same time, a totally refurbished 153-room Holiday Inn Express will open on Lockwood Drive. It used to be a Best Western, but it closed in August and fell off the monthly room-count roster on the peninsula. Charlestowne Hotels now manages the all-new eight-story lodging. Its already taking bookings.
Not far away, a new 141-room Hilton Garden Inn is rising on Lockwood along the Ashley River, while 96 rooms are planned in two Calhoun Street projects, 185 rooms are slated for the former Charleston County Library site near Marion Square and a 100-foot-tall unnamed hotel could rise at the foot of the Ravenel Bridge.
Charleston is sitting pretty for future expansion, said Vic Mills, CEO of Blanchard and Calhoun Commercial of Augusta, which develops property throughout the Southeast, including the Hilton Garden Inn on Lockwood.
Our primary consideration is job growth, Mills said. With Boeing, we think the prospects over the next 10 years for Charleston are very good. And few cities in the Southeast have received such notoriety as Charleston as a tourist destination.
With the State Ports Authoritys commitment to redevelop its cruise-ship terminal, Charlestons publicity as a top-notch tourist destination and the proximity of the hospital cluster to Lockwood, Mills said the new hotel and its a rooftop bar overlooking the Ashley River should do well. Its set to open by late fall 2013.
Meeting demand
On Meeting Street, the former Mendel Rivers Federal Building, owned by Dewberry Capital, will add 161 rooms to the mix once it is converted. Farther north on Meeting, a nine-floor, 160-room unbranded hotel is in the works on a vacant lot between Huger Street and the on-ramp to the Ravenel Bridge off Meeting Street.
Jupiter Holdings of Charleston wants to build the uptown high-rise hotel with six floors of adjacent parking in an area it believes already has been discovered by Revolutionary Eating Ventures popular nearby restaurant, Taco Boy, and other projects.
The hotel is at least a year away from breaking ground, said Fred Whittle, chief operating officer for Jupiter Holdings.
We are looking for the right hotel to dance with, Whittle said. Its like a dating game. Weve had offers made to us, but we want to keep looking.
He said they cant move forward with design approval from the city until the brand is nailed down.
The reasons for flourishing interest in the downtown area by Jupiter Holdings and other developers for more hotel space are simple: The area is beautiful and the demand is there, Whittle said.
There is almost never a bad time of year for people to come to Charleston, and people want to feel like they are on the peninsula, Whittle said. There is a psychology about it. It will cost more to build and be down there, but people are willing to pay more. Thats why you see people willing to invest downtown.
Midtown rising
The biggest project coming to the peninsula, most likely breaking ground by early spring, is the Midtown redevelopment on the southeast corner of King and Spring streets.
Rising nine stories will be a 305-room as-yet-unflagged hotel with 18,000 square feet of retail on the ground floor and 20,000 square feet of office space above it, said Stuart Coleman with CC&T real estate services. Parking will be accommodated in a 405-vehicle deck.
The hotel project has received approvals from the city, Coleman said. Its just waiting for permit approval.
Though the project has been in the works for years and its progress stunted by the steep recession, Coleman believes the newfound interest in the peninsula is being driven by the low hotel vacancy rates and strong average daily room rates.
The development is now moving up King Street, and there has been a lack of major hotel construction since the Renaissance (on Wentworth) was built in the late 1990s, he said.
Near the South Carolina Aquarium, another tourist draw in the city, Dolphin Architects and Builders hopes to build a high-end, 70-room hotel, restaurant, spa and shops at Concord and Calhoun streets as part of the Concord Park redevelopment plan.
Also on the way is a 20-room inn recently approved as an addition to the Not So Hostel all-age hostel on Cannon Street, while an 18-suite upscale boutique hotel called Zero George Street, named after the address, plans to open next year in five restored buildings built in 1804 in the Ansonborough neighborhood.
Charleston has shown itself to be a really resilient market, said Perrin Lawson, deputy director of the Charleston Area Convention and Visitors Bureau. Hotel occupancy remains high, and the city continues to get more accolades in the travel media. That has just fueled a desire to have a presence on the peninsula.
Reach Warren L. Wise at 937-5524 or twitter.com/warrenlancewise.
Aaron Hartwell with Dargan Construction cleans up trash left in the hallways as work crews finish the final touches on the new Holiday Inn on Meeting Street that is scheduled to open in January.×
General Manager Matthew Miller points out the LED lighting and individual temperature control unit that is installed in the rooms of the new Holiday Inn on Meeting Street.×
Several new hotels are popping up on peninsular Charleston, including the new Holiday Inn on Meeting Street that is scheduled to open in January.×
Jewel Oxner tours a fifth-floor suite in the new Holiday Inn on Meeting Street that is scheduled to open in January.×


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It sounds serious: According to a 2011 response plan, Pennsylvania is already at "Threat Level 1," the maximum danger for the deadly, contagious animal illness called chronic wasting disease.
With deer season just a week away, hunters outside Adams and York counties - the disease's ground zero in Pennsylvania - shouldn't expect changes yet, state Game Commission officials said. But if the illness spreads, sweeping changes to hunting rules could be implemented in seasons to come.
"There's been a lot of concern," Game Commission regional Law Enforcement Supervisor Richard Danley said last week.
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Since two captive deer died from Chronic Wasting Disease at an Adams County farm, the disease, which doesn't appear to affect humans, has seemingly remained manageable: State officials quarantined farms that had hosted deer with even remote connections to the Adams County case, the first ever in Pennsylvania.
But amid news that two connected deer had escaped into the wild, including one near Alexandria, Huntingdon County, some experts have said it's only a matter of time before the little-understood brain disease takes hold outside the quarantine.
"We knew that it would eventually work it's way here ... that it would walk across the border," Danley said.
The animal disease, which causes lesions, emaciation and bizarre behavior ending in certain death, first approached Pennsylvania in fall 2010, when a hunter in Allegany County, Maryland, killed an infected deer, Maryland Department of Natural Resources Deer Project Manager Brian Eyler said.
Allegany County lies across the border from Bedford County.
"The writing's on the wall," Eyler said.
The upstate Maryland infection so far hasn't been detected in any other deer there, he said, noting that the diseased animal may have wandered from West Virginia's widely affected Eastern Panhandle.
"They're slowly documenting the spread in West Virginia," Eyler said - since the first case there in 2005, Chronic Wasting Disease has spread from county to county and ultimately to wild deer across the Virginia border.
In Pennsylvania, state wildlife officials have moved swiftly to stamp out the threat. Hunters in a wide swath of York and Adams counties next week will be ordered to check all kills with testing stations, with citations for those caught ignoring the rule.
State officials will also step up testing of deer heads from butcher shops along the Maryland border, including in Somerset and Bedford counties, Danley said. Hunters outside the York-Adams zone won't be subject to forced tests or additional restrictions, he said.
Meanwhile, Game Commission officers are keeping an eye out for the escaped Alexandria deer, for whose corpse private citizens have already issued rewards.
"Searching for a single deer is like a needle in a haystack," Danley said. "The best-case scenario is that it was struck on the road and picked up by PennDOT."
According to the state's Chronic Wasting Disease response plan issued in summer 2011, rules changes could ultimately be implemented to keep the deer population - and with it, the likelihood of transmission - down.
The plan lists "removal of protection for deer and elk" and "altering existing hunting seasons" as possible policy changes, followed by renewed limits once the population is cut sufficiently.
Facing an outbreak more than 10 years ago, Wisconsin attempted similar methods to keep population density down. They didn't work, Eyler said.
A recent map by the National Wildlife Health Center shows more than a dozen affected counties there.
Many experts, including government officials, game officers and deer farmers, express an obvious sense of fatalism when discussing the disease's arrival in Pennsylvania. Once it starts, they say, it's difficult to stop.
"It's not a matter of 'if,'" Eyler said last week. "It's a matter of 'when.'"
Mirror Staff Writer Ryan Brown is at 946-7457.


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The PLUS crew will be at the T.N.T travelshow in Earls Court London on held on Saturday 19th of March. The T.N.T show is traditionally one of the biggest shows on the backpacking calendar and is famous for having the best bargains pre Summer. It's a free show, so there's now excuses for not coming! For more info check out the link http://www.tnttravelshow.com/. The PLUS Crew will be at stand D72.


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on October 7, 2012 - 5:14 PM
A Rite Aid pharmacist was robbed as he tried to enter the store early Saturday, Buffalo police said.
As he knocked on the front door of the Bailey Avenue store at 8 a.m., the pharmacist was surrounded by three men who demanded money and threatened to hit him on the head with a beer bottle, police said.
The pharmacist gave the men $30 and one of the men took his iPhone before the group fled west on East Delevan Avenue.


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Woman's body found in hotel water tank
Elisa Lam was reported missing in early FebruaryUPDATED 5:02 AM EST Feb 21, 2013
Tourists staying at a Los Angeles hotel bathed, brushed teeth and drank water from a tank in which a young woman's body was likely decomposing for more than two weeks, police said.
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International Food Photography Day 2013
November 14th, 2013. That's today! And… today is international food photography day! So, to celebrate such a day we have scoured the internet and found our top 5 favorite food photography blogs.
Click each of the links and be prepared to make your tastebuds jealous of your eyes!
First off, www.learnfoodphotography.com. Can't go wrong with these basics and tips and tricks. There's even some for the advanced photographer.
This photographers photos make even the most exquisite meals look even more exquisite. Check out Michael Ray Photography on his blog www.foodportfolio.com.
www.kissmyspatula.com has the most beautiful, colorful, and fresh food photos we could find! Hope you enjoy them as much as we did.
Last, but not least in the department of food blogs, www.whiteonricecouple.com. Stories of food, travel, life, and photography (including recipes!).
Don't fret! We did say top 5 favorite food photography blogs, but how could I leave out Pinterest! It's a haven of beautiful food photography. Just search "Food Photography" and you'll see for yourself.


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• Made in America with gemstones from around the world
These lovely drop earrings curve in toward your face, prompting those around you to lean in for a closer look. The soft hue of genuine aquamarine adds just a subtle touch of color. An intriguing swirl design in oxidized sterling silver provides the perfect framework for these lovely earrings.
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it is the brazilian currency
how much can i buy wit one real?
you could buy a small cachaça.
muita obrigada!
you could buy a small cachaça.
muita obrigada!
โดย pablo bvs 07 กันยายน 2006
Champions Of Spanish FOOtBALL
REAL Madrid MakE BArcelona fc LOOK LIKE fertilizer
โดย tothemax 19 มิถุนายน 2007
Hillbilly speak for "really".
He'll be here real soon.
โดย Intelligence: The Anti-N00b 19 กุมภาพันธ์ 2005
someone that is or does somthen cool as shit
one day this kid was sitting on his chair in middle of class, then out of no where he trips, and the hole class laughs then wonders how did he trip like taht, then someone says HES REAL
โดย misamoe 02 พฤษภาคม 2005
Denotes homosexuality within the realm of our school's band. Very rarely used offensively, mostly just messin around.
Only real men wear pink, man...
Ah, he is so real...
Yeah, tell me about it...
Ah, he is so real...
Yeah, tell me about it...
โดย Goth 17 ธันวาคม 2004
people who try too hard to act like they're not trying too hard. see psuedo-conformist. people who shop walmart and drink starbucks are real while people who like indie are trying too hard to be real.
i'm real because i shop at walmart.
โดย eazy-x 19 กุมภาพันธ์ 2008
Down to Earth; Authentic. Typically defined by not letting wealth or fame make you forget who you are and where you came from. In the context of relationships, it means that you stayed true to your significant other and did not cheat or break their trust. It can also mean that you don't let things like social status or economic status change the way you treat a person.
Little Johnny stayed real to his friends and family despite his newfound wealth and fame.
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A South-West Asian persion, (i.e. Indian, Sri Lanken or Pakistani) who, just because they may have dark skin, emulates their Hip Hop culture and style through "Bling" fashion and generally accepted "thug life" guiding principles.
"Heyr, arn't ve goeing to get arll the bitches tonaight"
"Yes, ve're pimpin"
"Shuttup, indianniggers"
"Yes, ve're pimpin"
"Shuttup, indianniggers"
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A racist word for a Native American/Indians. White people tend to tack on the word nigger to something that the Non-white race.
The guy from the 99cent store was a real Indian Nigger
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Milwaukee Rep holds garage sale
Group offers props, costumes at end-of-season sale
Published 6:21 PM CDT Mar 30, 2013
The Milwaukee Repertory Theater cleaned its closets Saturday, and the community benefited.
Once a year, the theater has an end-of-season garage sale, where it offers up props and costumes from popular shows over the past year to the public.
Organizers said about 200 people showed up as the doors opened, making it their biggest turnout ever.
"This has been completely amazing. We had people lined up from our front door all the way out the doors on Water Street," said props director Jim Guy.
The Rep has been holding the sale for 12 years.
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|Irradiation Effects on Human Cortical Bone Fracture Behavior
Human bone is strong but still fallible. To better predict fracturing in bone, researchers need a mechanistic framework to understand the changes taking place on different size scales within bone, as well as the role of sustained irradiation damage. Combining in situ mechanical testing with synchrotron x-ray diffraction imaging and/or tomography, is a popular method of investigating micrometer deformation and fracture behavior in bone. However, the role that irradiation plays in these high-exposure experiments, and how it affects the properties of bone tissue, are not yet fully understood. A team of researchers led by Robert O. Ritchie at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California, Berkeley used synchrotron radiation micro-tomography at Advanced Light Source Beamline 8.3.2 to investigate changes in crack path and toughening mechanisms in human cortical bone with increased exposure to radiation, finding that exposure to high levels of irradiation can lead to drastic losses in strength, ductility, and toughness.
Cortical bone is the hard outer layer of bone that is designed to resist fracture. It is a unique and highly complex biomaterial due to its being both light and tough. At the molecular level, bone is made up of fibrous polymer collagen and hard mineral nanoparticals of hydroxyapatite that reinforce it. At the micron level, bone contains osteons - bone cylinders ~100µm in diameter with a central, longitudinal, tubular cavity (Haversian canal), blood vessels, and nerves. Bone's mechanical behavior is a function of this multi-scaled, hierarchical structure.
Human bone is exposed to irradiation for a wide range of medical and scientific research. For example, bones are sterilized through gamma source irradiation for bone allograft surgery, where the standard dose is between 25 kGy to 35 kGy (a fatal dose received by the body is 5 gray, where 1 gray= 1 J/kg). Despite this established standard dose, the effect of irradiation on the mechanical integrity of bone remains controversial.
Irradiation effects resulting from experiments using in situ testing with high-energy synchrotron x-ray diffraction and tomography imaging remain a concern for researchers. A typical tomography experiment involves irradiation at a rate of ~100 Gy/s, leading to as much as ~MGy of irradiation resulting from long exposure times.
Synchrotron radiation microtomography was employed to evaluate the changes in the fracture resistance of bone exposed to high levels of irradiation. Researchers collected three-dimensional images of the crack paths and microstructures in bone subjected to different degrees of irradiation (0 kGy, 50 Gy, 70 kGy, 210 kGy, and 630 kGy); the higher doses were comparable to the x-ray irradiation levels typically encountered during x-ray computed microtomography (µXCT) scans.
The effect of irradiation is to dramatically degrade the strength and toughness of bone together with any capacity for plastic deformation (which relates to bones' ability to break and reform bonds). For example, bone toughness decreased by a factor of five after 210 kGy of irradiation. This is associated with degradation mechanisms at numerous length-scales. Specifically, at the nanoscale, irradiation leads to a marked increase in collagen cross-linking and molecular damage (assessed using Raman spectroscopy), resulting in a loss in strength and plasticity. Additionally, at length-scales above a micron, toughening mechanisms can be markedly changed. Cortical bones' resistance to fracture in the transverse (breaking) orientation can be associated with radical changes in the crack path, such as crack deflection and twisting, as a growing crack encounters the boundaries of the osteons. The technique of X-ray microtomography has been utilized here to identify changes in these toughening mechanisms at this significant length scale.
The three-dimensional tomographic images show the crack path and the microstructure for both the non-irradiated human cortical bone and the bone irradiated with 210 kGy. It was observed that the crack path in cortical bone following significant levels of irradiation, still displayed crack deflection at the boundaries of the osteon; however, the frequency of such deflections increases with irradiation, leading to smaller amplitude deflections and less tortuous crack paths, both of which lessen the toughening from this mechanism.
This study shows that when biological tissue such as bone is exposed to high levels of irradiation, serious deleterious effects to the collagen can occur, leading to drastic losses in strength, ductility and toughness. It is therefore critical that studies on bone using in situ tests involving radiation, such as deformation and fracture testing coupled with x-ray diffraction and/or tomography, take this into careful consideration.
Research conducted by H.D. Barth and R.O. Ritchie (Berkeley Lab and University of California, Berkeley), M.E Launey, J.W. Ager III and A.A. MacDowell (Berkeley Lab).
Research funding: Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Operation of the ALS is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Basic Energy Sciences.
Publication about this research: H.D. Barth, M.E Launey, A.A. MacDowell, J.W. Ager III and R.O. Ritchie, On the Effect of X-ray Irradiation on the Deformation and Fracture Behavior of Human Cortical Bone, Bone, Vol. 46 (6), 2010.
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AESOP's request for a swimwear pattern-maker (an advertisement in the Sydney Morning Herald*) jumped out of the newsprint. I spend most days doing just that. I am a freelance pattern maker and business advisor to the clothing industry. Swimwear and lingerie are two of my specialisations.
AESOP's efficiency astounded me. My application was processed and my assignment to the Cook Islands was finalised within days, even to having a telephone interview and receiving my password to undertake a web-based cross-cultural training course.
Ellena, the owner of the business in the Cook Islands (AESOP's client), welcomed us at the airport in Rarotonga. A former beauty queen, Ellena was resplendent in her original hand painted dress with a beautiful 'eis' – a circle of fresh flowers - on her head. She set a positive tone and had a frangipani welcoming eis for us too.
The following morning Ellena took me to see the factory before we sat down to assess the assignment and organise the workplan. I had expected sewing machines under trees and I was relieved that this was not the case. Swimwear requires complicated machinery so the challenge was to make good swimwear with the machines and components that were available.
The relatively simply process of rolling paint over an intricately carved board prints the fabric and the designs encompass traditional symbols of Cook Islands' culture. The wet cloth is then spread out on the grass to dry before going into a machine that sets the print. Ellena's small swimwear range needed to be updated, restyled and altered to incorporate bra support. The fit also needed upgrading. This brief was expanded to include new styles.
Initially the staff seemed wary but this attitude changed as they realised that I was keen to improve the range and show them how to use different methods to make their work easier. I introduced the cutter to a new method of cutting small pieces suitable for bra manufacture. She is a very fast learner. I had to adapt to the fact that new attachments, which increase output, were not as important as employing more people.
The machinists were great fun, telling me that they gossiped about me in Maori! The banter that followed led to great merriment and made for a good working relationship. We all worked like demons, six days a week to make a rudimentary collection suitable for sale in the Tahitian market.
When Ellena took the new collection to Tahiti I was gratified to learn that the new samples sold out there! Ellena has commissioned a new carved board with Tahitian design for printing the extra fabric required.
I spent the last week of the project reinforcing Ellena's new found pattern-making and grading skills and further reassuring her that she can do all that is needed to make good garments. I also offered methods that could assist her to transfer manufacturing knowledge to the appropriate members of her staff.
* AESOP remains very grateful to the Sydney-based charity FIDO (Friends in Deed Organisation). FIDO generously provides AESOP with advertising space nearly every week in the Help Desk section of the Sydney Morning Herald. This has often enabled us to recruit hard-to-find volunteers


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The 5 Most Ridiculous Products Made for Crotch Maintenance
Genitals are perhaps the only thing in the world that everyone loves and most people don't mind sharing with others. That's why they also tend to be fairly well-maintained, be it by rigorous daily training using the ... um, workout material we find on the Internet, or by flat out gluing our junk full of Swarovski crystals.
I'm not saying that taking care of our fun bits is a bad thing. For the most part, it's the best thing. It's just that some of the stuff we subject them to seems a tad ... overkill.
#5. Chai-Yok
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For the male reader, the above picture probably conjures awkward memories of the torture scene in Casino Royale, aka the real reason we all find Mads Mikkelsen more than a little unnerving (Hannibal is a close second). However, those chairs are actually meant for women, and for a much more pleasant reason: boiling-hot steam.
Hold on, that doesn't sound pleasant at all.
There is a Korean procedure known as chai-yok, and it's all about slowly steaming the vagina with boiling herbal water. Basically, you squat on a bottomless chair and some herbalist steams your fun parts with a scalding concoction that has wormwood and mugwort and turducken and other things with Harry Potter names in it. You do this for up to 45 minutes at a time, but it's OK because chai-yok is said to help with menstrual cramps, stress, fertility issues, and hemorrhoids. Wait, did I say hemorrhoids and stress? Looks like the thing can be used by men, too! Hooray!
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I'll just leave this here.
The data and professional opinions on the subject of chai-yok's effectiveness are divided at best. People who have tried it describe it as terrifying heat hell on your nether regions. Still, it wouldn't cross my mind to claim that it's a hokey treatment. That's not my place, any more than that goddamn steam chair is. I'm just saying that if you choose to buy one of the many, many DIY vagina-steaming kits out there, be damn sure your knowledge of herbs is up to the task. Although my personal experience on the subject of genital steaming is limited to that one time I'm not legally allowed to discuss until 2027, I feel that when you find out the $20 bag of "relaxing herbs" you bought online and liberally administered to your hot water is actually ground naga morichi chilies and dried ferret poop, teetering at the brink of first-degree burns is going to be the least of your vaginal worries.
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#4. Ballbra
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(Fair warning: Although it's safely censored, there is an actual picture of this product a bit further down the line. Proceed with caution.)
Ballbra. BALLbra. Ball ... BRA. It sounds like something Chandler Bing might drunkenly come up with, just before the rest of the cast of Friends finally snaps and beats the snot out of him. It definitely doesn't sound like a real product, because who on earth would want to wear a bra on their balls? Oh, right. Crazy people. Behold:
It's like a jockstrap and a hammock had a fight and everyone lost.
The product's most prominent feature -- the ridiculous gap that makes your pubes and the root of the dong look like a tiny dude with an Afro -- is not there because the nut-brassiere concept requires it, by the way. It's there because the manufacturer felt the need to provide an option to ... freely hang out.
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Creating an effect not unlike this.
Why this is, no one knows. Some sources suggest that the Ballbra's design is supposed to reduce the risk of testicular cancer, but if this is true, the product website certainly goes to impressive lengths to hide this particular benefit. The front page greets you with a series of mildly worrying fortune cookie one-liners endlessly streaming from a dude's screen-filling crotch bulge. "See the difference, because feeling it will surprise you!" is kind of a red flag. "Don't let them get away -- use Ballbra" definitely is.
"You read that right -- we just told you to go swing this thing in front of your neighbors. BUY ALL OF THE BALLBRAS NOW."
It would be nice to be able to chalk up the Ballbra as a novelty product, or maybe a supportive thing to keep older dudes from tripping over their nuts. But from what I can tell, the bra for balls is a completely serious product, and the intended market segment is youngish bro types. They're buying, too: I've actually had the misfortune to witness some otherwise sane-looking guy proudly wearing one in a locker room, dick flopping about and all. It was no one's proudest moment.
Oh, and of course the manufacturer seems real keen on accentuating the sexy potential of the product. Because what prospect of erotic affection wouldn't fall head over heels for a man who proudly wears his testicles in a sling? A sling that openly, clearly reads "Ballbra"?
#3. Semen Flavor Enhancers
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I don't know if you've heard about it, but oral sex has been kind of popular for a while now. Provided that everyone's hygiene is at a passable level, it's one of those things most people genuinely enjoy, yet somehow it's one of the most common sources of sexual bickering between couples. Many men seem uncertain whether they should give any (answer: Yep!), while the trouble most (straight) women face appears to be of the "spit or swallow" variety (answer: If the dude whines about this crap after you just gave him a blow job, chances are he's not exactly boyfriend material).
If you've ever had this discussion, readers of the male persuasion, chances are you've learned that a major reason for your partner's unwillingness to gargle your man juice is the fact that it generally tastes like rancid ass. Sure, you can help this by maintaining a somewhat healthy diet and avoiding certain foods that are thought to adversely affect the taste, but since the "don't eat this" list contains stuff like garlic, booze, and protein-rich foods, the chances of your average dude actually managing to stick to said diet are slim to none.
So why not keep on stuffing your face with those Jameson-infused garlic McRibs, and artificially spice up your semen instead?
Via Amazon
What, did you think I was kidding?
Semen flavor enhancers are a whole host of mildly dubious pill-shaped products the manufacturers of which swear blind can turn even the foulest of man-goos into a veritable buffet of taste sensations. Most of the products out there consist of your average dietary-supplement fodder, such as acai berry extract, combined with ingredients that enjoy a flavor-enhancing reputation, like spices and pineapple. And if for some reason your significant other isn't impressed by what basically amounts to a dong-administered fruit salad, you could just go for straight green apple:
Via Chemist Direct
Because nothing says "I love you" like an orgasm laced with the tang of malic acid.
All you need to do now is combine your flavor enhancer of choice with the Monster Xplosion ejaculate volumizer and after a week neither of you will ever want to see fruit soup again.


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Walking the beaches of Lake Erie this summer will bring the usual. Fresh air. Exercise. Good memories. Even sunburn.
What it won't bring – thankfully – are some of the sights and smells of 10 or 20 years ago.
That's when botulism left thousands of birds massacred along the shore.
It was when trash was at a high tide.
And it was when some native fish and wildlife – which had long since disappeared under decades of pollution – remained far away from home.
Problems remain with Lake Erie.
Sewage overflows and stormwater runoff. Pharmaceuticals. Invasive creatures. Lake levels. Fertilizer and algae. Dead zones.
But the efforts of concerned people are making a difference in cleaning up the water and the shore.
Botulism has subsided.
There's less trash.
And with the emergence of some once-endangered fish and wildlife in Buffalo Niagara – from the bald eagle to the prehistoric lake sturgeon – hope has sprung.
The scenes from the front lines of Lake Erie's botulism outbreak a decade ago were reminiscent of a battlefield.
Waterfowl carnage was everywhere.
Loons, ducks, geese and gulls washed ashore by the thousands along beaches between Erie, Pa., and Buffalo.
They picked up the bacteria that causes botulism by feasting on contaminated prey or by other means, and then they became unable to fly.
Shortly afterward, neck paralysis set in, and the waterfowl struggled to keep their heads above the surface of the water.
Their fate was sealed. They drowned.
For people along the shore who witnessed that sight, it is a troubling memory that is difficult to forget.
"It's an awful, awful thing to watch," said Sharen Trembath, an Angola resident and lake advocate who roamed a stretch of beach from Point Breeze to Sturgeon Point Marina, collecting hundreds of the dead birds during a die-off in December 2000. "Watching one die is horrible. It's horrible."
For people like Trembath, the aftermath of a botulism outbreak is a spectacle they hope to never see again.
The number of bird carcasses washing up on Lake Erie's eastern shores today are not what they were in the early 2000s.
That sounds encouraging – unless you consider the possible reasons why.
"There just aren't that many birds," said Helen Domske of New York Sea Grant, a statewide university-based advocacy program promoting aquatic conservation. "We have seen die-offs every year, but much, much less than what we'd seen lately."
From time to time, botulism rears its ugly head in isolated pockets, including Scajaquada Creek, especially between Cheektowaga and Forest Lawn, according to Jill Jedlicka, executive director of the Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper.
Jedlicka pointed out that when water conditions, temperature and sediment – where the botulism-causing bacteria is concentrated – mix up in just the right – or wrong – way, botulism reappears in the form of waterfowl death along the creek.
"Botulism hasn't gone away, and it won't go away," Domske cautioned. "The bacteria itself is in the ecosystem."
Ripe conditions
Botulism, a bacterial illness in which activated neurotoxins result in paralysis, is still being studied.
There are seven types of bacterial classifications, including types A and B, which most commonly affect humans through food-borne illness. Type E botulism is most associated with the devastation of birds and aquatic life in Lake Erie and throughout the Great Lakes.
The bacteria exists naturally but can turn toxic when conditions are most ripe – warmer water temperatures, a specific water chemistry, less oxygen in the water. It becomes most visually and odoriferously apparent when dead birds or fish wash ashore.
Botulism spreads through the food chain.
After the invasive, but now ubiquitous, quagga mussel picks up the bacteria, the mussels are eaten by round goby fish, some of whom get sick from the toxin and become unable to swim. The sick goby fish, which wallow near the water's surface, then become easy prey for predators such as loons or other birds.
"All the loon needs to eat are two round gobies with that toxin in them, and the loon dies," Domske said.
It remains unclear why there's been a lull in botulism on Lake Erie's shores locally. It may be just luck.
"It's just under the right conditions that it produces the toxin," he said.
Scientists have some theories.
One involves quagga mussels. Experts theorize that increased numbers of the mussels in the lake might mean that the bacteria is spread around more, leading to less concentrated contamination per mussel and then lesser doses for the gobies that consume them.
A second theory has to do with the birds themselves. Some experts think there is less avian wildlife, thanks to the botulism die-offs in recent years.
Finally, others theorize that the conditions that foster botulism have just not been favorable to the spread of the toxin in recent years.
But if and when it will sweep across the shoreline is anyone's guess.
"I don't think you have any idea when this is going to happen," said Trembath, who keeps her fingers crossed. "This botulism thing was scary. I do hope it never happens again."
It's thanks to people like you cleaning up area shorelines.
Whether by carrying a trash bag on a beach walk, volunteering at one of many "beach sweeps" or just using a trash can, people are making trash disappear from the dunes, cliffs and waves along Lake Erie's shore.
"I think we're training people to clean up after themselves," said Trembath, who has dedicated decades of her life to advocating for shoreline issues and who leads many of the nearly 1.000 local volunteers every September for the area's annual Great Lakes Beach Sweep.
Not long ago, hypodermic needles by the thousands washed up along Lake Erie shores.
So did fluid-filled dialysis bags, other medical waste, diapers and tires.
It was a time when beach bums discarded their metal "pop tops" from canned soda and beer, without knowing many would wind up slitting the throats of fish who mistook them for shiny food.
That also was when getting rid of a used tire meant, for many, heaving it into the lake; when fun at school meant releasing helium-filled balloons into the open air; and when colorful Styrofoam packaging from empty fast-food containers blew across the sands of the beach.
All of that has changed, thanks to people like Trembath and others fighting to change the attitudes of those messing with the shoreline.
New challenges
But there are always new challenges.
Plastic water bottles have replaced those Styrofoam containers on the beach, and every year they show up by the hundreds. Instead of "pop tops," there are plastic rings from six-pack containers.
But the Beach Sweep, which is a national initiative through the American Littoral Society – a half-century-old national organization promoting conservation and protection of marine life, coast and shorelines – and the Ocean Conservancy, an ocean advocacy group, has brought about significant changes to our daily lives in ways many don't even realize.
Those include getting fast-food restaurants to use biodegradable cardboard for fast-food packaging; modifications to tampons, which often found their way onto beaches; new tab designs for soft drink cans; and the end to festive balloon releases into the environment.
Work is also under way in the bottling industry to develop a bio- degradable six-pack ring.
"The best thing is, there is more awareness," Trembath said. "People are finally getting more aware of the importance of the lake."
Not all is bleak with Lake Erie.
Efforts continue on the part of environmental advocates and public and private entities to help lift Lake Erie, its watershed and the surrounding Buffalo Niagara region.
Parts of the lake and some of its inhabitants seem to be feeding on a few of humans' recent successes.
The re-emergence of a couple of once-endangered fish and birds around Buffalo Niagara has brought hope.
More and more residents are catching sight of a bald eagle along local shorelines as well as inland, including the appearance this year of a nest on Strawberry Island.
"For the first time in a long, long time, we have a nest on the Niagara River," said Mark Kandel, a local wildlife manager for the state DEC, who added that others have settled on Navy Island, Ont., not far from Niagara Falls. "Lake Erie and the Niagara River are cleaner and are able to sustain eagles again."
Other birds are also rebounding.
Osprey are inhabiting island areas in the Niagara River, and toxin-sensitive cormorants have re-established themselves in Buffalo Niagara, so much so they now often irritate fishermen with their voracious appetite.
"We've had the habitat," Kandel said. "The final piece was the quality of the prey, which is directly related to water quality."
Several native fish species are also on their way back, while others are still struggling.
Perch and walleye are headed toward re-establishing healthy populations. And lake sturgeon – frequently hailed as "a living dinosaur" – seem to be spawning in the river on their way back into the local aquatic habitat.
The sturgeon remain a protected species and are, themselves, adapting to their new environment. The bottom-dwelling sturgeon, apparently irked by the sharp shells of the quagga mussels that have colonized the lake bed, now seem to travel just a little bit above them.
On the other hand, despite efforts by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to stock the lake with 120,000 lake trout over the last three decades, evidence shows they have failed to reproduce effectively on their own in Lake Erie, according to Kofi Fynn-Aikins, a fishing biologist with the service.
Don Einhouse, a DEC fish biologist, said part of the reason for that might be the invasive parasitic sea lamprey, which seems to prefer sucking the blood from lake trout.
Einhouse noted that steelhead trout are also experiencing a downturn in Lake Erie.
"It's kind of a mixed bag," Einhouse said of Lake Erie's fish populations. "There is a fair amount of good news."
Taking care of the lake
In general, the recovery of many species of native fish and wildlife is rooted in the habitat restoration efforts, the Clean Water Act and decrease in industry, according to the Riverkeeper's Jedlicka.
"Our region is undergoing a transformation not seen in a generation," Jedlicka said. "Our transformation is from rust to blue."
Jedlicka credits a "collaborative community vision" and numerous local public-private initiatives for the comeback.
Some of those initiatives include:
• A $70 million cleanup of the Buffalo River.
• The installation of porous pavement in a green infrastructure demonstration project on Clarendon Place and rain gardens on nearby Windsor Avenue that seem to help in eliminating stormwater runoff into the Buffalo Sewer System.
• Mobilization of thousands of volunteers in tidying up the 14,000-square-mile Niagara River watershed.
• Ecological restoration efforts of the 37-mile Niagara River Greenway.
"We've done a lot of work," said Dick Smith, the former Hamburg assemblyman who helped found the Southtowns Walleye Association. "But Mother Nature always bets last. As soon as we get something solved, something else comes along."
Cautioned Smith: "If we don't monitor it and take care of the lake, it's not going to take care of us."
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Hollywood was rocked Monday by the news of Robin Williams's death by his own hand.
"He had been battling severe depression of late," his rep said in a statement. "This is a tragic and sudden loss."
That loss was felt among his fans, friends and former costars, and many took to social media to mourn the loss of one of the industry's greatest legends – one who, as fellow comedian Mike Myers said in a statement, "will be remembered in the company of Chaplin, Keaton and Groucho."
For more on Robin Williams's tragic death and his legacy of comic genius, pick up the latest issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday
If you or someone you know is considering suicide, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255).
The Williams family is asking well-wishers to send contributions to charities close to the actor's heart in lieu of flowers. Suggested organizations include St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Challenged Athletes, USO, the Muhammad Ali Parkinson Center, the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation and Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco.


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The 5 Weirdest Things You Learn When Driving Across America
#2. Nothing Works in Wyoming
I guess I'm not sure why I found this surprising, but holy shit, if you're traveling through Wyoming, you might as well be traveling in a Third World country. And by that, of course, I mean you won't have cellphone reception. At all. These days, that's all it takes to make Americans feel like they're stranded on a desert island. Just cut off their smartphone access.
Because I'm nothing if not a supremely dedicated employee, I decided I would work throughout the entire trip across the country, as opposed to taking paid time off. At the end of the day, I do this because I love it, not because of the money. Also, Cracked doesn't give me paid time off. But the uniforms are free!
I'm not thrilled with the "progressive" office layout, though.
Unfortunately for my work-from-the-road plans, though, most of western Wyoming is land that time forgot. Granted, it's unspeakably beautiful, striking a blow against my statements about national monuments from that article that made Ian Fortey cry. Mountains are a lot damn cooler when you're driving through them. But I refuse to rescind my previous comments about national monuments out of pure stubbornness and nothing more. And besides, pretty is meaningless if I can't check my email. Then I just spend the entire time frustrated that celebs are dying and memes are being created without me knowing about any of it.
That's not to say I didn't enjoy myself in Wyoming. For one thing, drinks at the hotel (who am I kidding, motel) bar were like 38 cents each, and they had Rocky Mountain oysters on the menu. I didn't eat any, as that wasn't an adventure I felt comfortable embarking upon. But at least I can say I know where to find them in case someone ever asks. That's the kind of question you want to have an answer to, if only to discourage people from asking you any further questions.
Also, the room had Wi-Fi access, so I was able to compensate for the lack of technological advancement in most of the state by staying up until 4 a.m. working in my room before getting back on the road at 8 a.m. If not for the constant reminders about the dangers of drowsy driving that littered the highway between Cheyenne and my next stop, I surely would have fallen asleep at the wheel.
Sorry for not taking a picture of my own, I was too sleepy to grab a camera and drive at the same time.
It added a nice element of danger and excitement to what was an otherwise uneventful drive through the kind of terrain where most slasher films take place.
#1. Northern Nevada Is Creepy as Hell
If Wyoming is the land that time forgot, northern Nevada is the land that Satan realized everyone else forgot and took over for his own. Upon crossing the state line, everything seems to turn red and unsettling. It takes about four feet before you see your first casino, and the stench of misguided souls blowing their kid's lunch money on slot machines hits you like, well, like the wind that's creepily roaring at all times, unimpeded by anything resembling landscape. Otherwise perfect road conditions become an adventure in white-knuckle driving when you're struggling to keep a top heavy vehicle from just blowing off the road like whatever scene in Twister you care to use for reference here. I've never seen the movie.
No matter how sunny it may be, you're never quite sure if you're going to be able to keep your vehicle under control. But you are certain that if you fail, the accident will occur somewhere near this sign.
Those signs are everywhere. Combined with cellphone reception that's every bit as sketchy as what you find in Wyoming, those signs make the prospect of blowing a tire or running out of gas downright terrifying. It didn't help that before departing I did some lighthearted Googling about the city in Nevada where we'd be stopping and stumbled across this headline:
Oh man, let's hope there is! How awesome would that column be? "5 Things I Learned About Horror Movies by Getting Attacked by a Serial Killer in Nevada." That's the kind of journalism that wins awards, even if the work is only discovered because I scrawled it in my own blood on the walls of the trunk in which I spent my final days.
Things didn't improve much when I touched down at the motel in Nevada that would be my last stop before pulling into San Francisco. For one thing, picking Elko as a stopping point is apparently an idea that nearly every big haul trucker on the road also has. So, while it was comforting to know that I was off the road and outside that mysterious serial killer's wheelhouse, the feeling didn't survive my realization that truck drivers make great serial killers and even they need to stop and rest somewhere. Oh, and my room had a camera in it.
OK, fine, there was a sticker on that contraption that clearly stated it had something to do with the heating and cooling or the lights or some shit, and there's probably been one of those in every motel room I've ever stayed in. But you know what? That's exactly the kind of label I'd affix to my nationwide network of motel room torture porn surveillance cameras, too. So it did little to ease my concerns.
Thankfully, I made it out of Nevada the next morning without once having to escape from the cabin of some methed-up trucker's rolling murder studio and was in California mere hours later.
Now, someone point me to all that medical marijuana I've been hearing so much about. My nerves are shot!
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GlaxoSmithKline is expanding its arthritis alliance with Galapagos with a €6.5 million (about $9.45 million) fee. The broadened deal will include additional drug discovery programs based on a new drug target called GT622.
Besides the up-front extension payment, Galapagos is eligible for additional success-based fees of about €12 million (roughly $17.48 million) tied to candidates developed against GT622. The collaboration is now worth more than €200 million (approximately $290.85 million) in milestones plus up to double-digit royalties.
Earlier this month Galapagos advanced the first clinical candidate under the agreement with GSK for arthritis called GLPG0555. The molecule was based on GT622, identified through Galapagos' target discovery platform. Encouraged by this target's promising mode of action, GSK and Galapagos have now expanded the scope of the GT622 program to increase the chances of developing a new medicine based on this target.
Galapagos and GSK inked the original deal in June 2006. The current expansion marks the third time GSK has broadened the scope of their agreement. Galapagos has received a total of €41 million (roughly $59.62 million) from GSK in the form of an equity investment, an up-front payment, and preclinical milestones.
The companies have a separate partnership focused on developing anti-infectives. It began in December 2007 with €3.5 million (approximately $5.17 million) up front. After an expansion in January, Galapagos achieved its first success and obtained €500,000 (roughly $737,488 million) in October. Further milestones could reach €95 million (about $140.12 million) for each drug candidate. If a product is commercialized, Galapagos may receive up to €120 million (roughly $177 million) for achievement of specific sales milestones. Galapagos is also eligible to receive up to double-digit royalties on worldwide sales of alliance products.
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