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Own Your Health: Choosing the Best from Alternative and Conventional Medicineby Roanne Weisman, Brian Berman
Almost everyone is concerned about health these days, but the more information that is available, the more confusing it all becomes. Conventional medicine? Millions of people are dissatisfied with the care they receive from their doctors, including: The lack of personal attention; drug side effects; contradicting advice on diet, cancer treatments and hormone
Almost everyone is concerned about health these days, but the more information that is available, the more confusing it all becomes. Conventional medicine? Millions of people are dissatisfied with the care they receive from their doctors, including: The lack of personal attention; drug side effects; contradicting advice on diet, cancer treatments and hormone replacement, the list goes on.
Alternative medicine? Millions have turned to it: yoga, vitamins and herbs, traditional Chinese medicine and others. But are they safe?
So what really works-and what doesn't? How can we live longer, healthier lives? How can we draw on the best from both alternative and conventional medicine and, yes, own our health? The answers are here in one volume that breaks through the confusion of how to reduce stress, prevent heart disease, treat chronic pain or illness, combat depression, fight cancer, manage menopause, and much more.
Written by an award-winning medical writer and the distinguished physician in charge of one of the first complementary medicine programs supported by the National Institutes of Health, this is an indispensable resource for understanding the best of both approaches. Containing interviews with-and stories from-more than 100 doctors, practitioners and patients, and filled with practical advice, easy-to-follow tips, reference sources and Web sites, this is the one book on health every family needs.
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This is a book about healing journeys. It is not just a "how to" book, but an inspiration derived from the deeply moving stories of individual people, both patients and practitioners, who have grasped the challenge of illness and sought a meaningful way of achieving and owning health. In large part the book is an exploration of an approach to medicine that is broad and inclusive of many healing traditions. This vision of medicine embraces all of the wonders of modern medicine and the huge strides it has made in overcoming life-threatening diseases and acute trauma, but it also embraces the rich diversity of life itself by including approaches from other cultures and schools of thought. Perhaps most importantly though, it is an approach that attempts to right what has been called "the leaning Tower of Pisa of modern medicine." For all of the advances and great technological breakthroughs in health care over the last century, medicine has fractured the person it aims to cure into parts, even infinitesimal parts. In its focus either on the germ that causes the disease, the system or organ of the body that has been attacked, or the gene that predisposes a person to be susceptible to that germ, modern medicine has come to neglect the patient as a whole being with emotions, thoughts, beliefs, and cultural and environmental influences-all of which can also contribute to making that person sick, and . . . well and healthy again. Ultimately, this book is a celebration of the desire of people to re-humanize medicine, to reclaim a role in their own healing, and to be educated about and have access to choices in treatment.
My own journey to find a new way of healing began with the stories told to me by my own patients. It also began out of the frustration I felt when, as a young, fully trained and qualified doctor, I listened to these stories and felt the only thing I had to offer was a prescription pad or a surgical procedure. Like most aspiring doctors I had started out in medical school with all the altruistic ideals of alleviating human suffering and bettering the lot of my fellow man. Fortunately, my experience as a medical student only whetted my passion. Out of a desire to experience cultures other than my own in the United States, I had chosen to go to medical school in Ireland, and there I was embraced by a way of life that at that time was less technologically advanced than in the United States but was rich in unhurried time for personal interaction and storytelling.
Tagging along on the ward rounds of some of Dublin's hospitals, I saw the value of this emphasis in some of the clinicians who were my mentors and teachers. These caring individuals taught me that medicine was much more than the test results we were interpreting or the diseases and drugs we were trying to match up. Each patient had a story to tell, and the doctors were there to listen. I realized at the time that I was privileged to be witnessing true masters practicing the art of medicine, and though I took these gems with me when I went on to my residency training in the United States, disillusionment began to creep in.
Residency is a grueling experience with long hours, yet little time to give to each patient because of a hectic and overloaded schedule, and a great deal of information to learn and incorporate. By the time I finished my three years of training in family practice I was respectful of the tremendous achievements of medicine, but I was also exhausted and frustrated, ready to quit a profession that I felt had lost its heart.
On the one hand, I was aware that we have made huge advances in diagnostic testing and in understanding how the body functions down to the molecular and genetic levels as well as in improving public health and the management of acute trauma. On the other hand, however, I felt medicine had become a slave to technology, economics and the large machine of the pharmaceutical business. What was more, chronic diseases continued to baffle us, and in all truth, we had little to offer to alleviate symptoms, let alone cure. If anything, our powerful drugs were at best only giving us a false sense of accomplishment that we were "doing something" and at worst were allowing us get people in and out of our offices quickly, not to mention causing problems of their own, so-called "side effects." There had to be a different way of practicing medicine, I thought, one that was more fulfilling and effective than this.
From these beginnings I went on to dedicate much of my career to learning about other medical traditions and approaches. Many of these therapies fall under what we call in Western countries "alternative" or "complementary" medicine. I began to integrate these techniques into my medical practice and, as I did so, felt a greater sense of satisfaction with what I had to offer my patients. In learning about systems of medicine, such as traditional Chinese medicine and homeopathy, I gained new insights into illness and healing patterns and how to consult with my patients. At one level I felt my practice was enriched because I now had more tools added to my medical black bag, but at another level I realized I was being challenged to reevaluate my thinking and my role as a doctor.
First of all, these approaches did not fit neatly into the scientific paradigm of my conventional training. They talked of concepts such as Qi and vital force and used diluted medicines or techniques such as acupuncture, which were almost impossible to comprehend. What was this idea they shared of a life force that if blocked could cause illness and if stimulated could restore health? It is a concept that continues to fascinate me and one that I hope my own research and that of other medical scientists or even physicists will begin to decipher. Perhaps we will gain new insights that are as groundbreaking as the discovery of the nervous system! However, at this point in time, life force is not too far-fetched when we think of it in terms of the healing response, or the natural ability of the body to cure itself. Put differently then, the focus of these therapeutic approaches is on activating the body, the individual, to self-heal. And this is the important emphasis.
In incorporating these approaches into my practice, I realized I would lose their essence if I saw them only as other potential magic bullets. When it came down to it, whether using conventional techniques or alternative approaches, my role as a doctor was to be a partner with the person who will do the healing-my patient. The word doctor comes from the Latin docere, to teach, and as I altered and broadened my practice, I realized it was more important for my patients to feel in control of their own self-coping than rely on my treatment.
In Own Your Health the stories you will read are about people who have come to a similar realization as my own about a new approach to medicine and healing. The stories weave together themes of human suffering and dignity, and they uplift and as a whole paint a picture of the possibilities contained in the mysteries of life and the potential contained within each one of us. Sometimes it takes the experience of adversity, such as sickness, for us to realize we need to open our horizons as well as reclaim our own power. For me as a newly trained doctor I had felt gravely wounded and had to embark on a journey that led me to question many of my ingrained beliefs and turn away from some of my medical indoctrination in order to heal. In taking responsibility myself for what was right for me as a doctor and healer, I felt a great deal more strength and satisfaction even though initially I was really out on a limb and ostracized by many of my colleagues.
Fortunately, things are changing and the idea of "integrative medicine" is beginning to take hold. In the early 1990s when I first started a program at the University of Maryland School of Medicine dedicated to scientifically evaluating complementary and alternative therapies and investigating their integration into a mainstream medical setting, we were pretty much lone wolves. Now, however, many medical institutions are taking up the challenge (including the National Institutes of Health) and have centers or programs looking at integrative medicine. The academic institutions with integrative medicine centers have also formed a consortium to promote the advancement and understanding of integrative medicine with committees focused on research, education and clinical care. This is an important first step and opens the way for a cooperative effort to look at the best of both worlds, conventional and alternative, in order to transform medicine.
The Chinese have a character Wei Ji which translates as "crisis." This character can be broken down into two parts, the top part meaning "chaos," and the bottom part "opportunity." Health care in the United States and many other Western countries is at a point of crisis. Increasingly it has become depersonalized, expensive and overly focused on drugs and technology. In facing its own adversity and chaos, however, the medical establishment has its own unique opportunity to look beyond its boundaries to seek positive change. By exploring that which is unfamiliar or foreign, medicine may have the opportunity to rediscover meaning in its own practice; a practice that not only incorporates new tools that may be gentler and less invasive, but one that also puts the patient, the individual, squarely back into the center of focus. By and large, it is people such as those who have shared their stories in this book who are driving the greatest changes in medicine. They are demanding to be seen as whole, complex and multifaceted individuals who wish to be in control of their lives, know about their choices, and be involved and valued as partners in a healing relationship.
Brian Berman, M.D.
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Meet the Author
Roanne Weisman is an award-winning writer specializing in science, medicine and health care. Her clients include Harvard Medical School hospitals and many other major Boston universities. She is principal of Words That Work, a communications consulting company that provides writing services to medical, academic and corporate clients. She is based in Newton, Massachusetts.
Brian Berman, M.D. is founder and director of the Complementary Medicine Program at the University of Maryland, the first university-based center of its kind in the U.S. focusing on research. He is professor of family medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and has trained extensively in complementary therapies. He is principal investigator of a National Institutes of Health (NIH) center grant for the study of alternative medicine in the treatment of pain. In addition to publishing widely, Berman also helped establish and now directs the Complementary Medicine Field of the International Cochrane Collaboration, an organization dedicated to evaluating all medical practices.
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The Trinity Fellowship Lions have no starters returning from last year's TAPPS Class 2A Final Four team.
But Trinity sixth-year coach Roger Trennepohl doesn't want his team resting on the excuse of a rebuilding year.
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Replacing two-time all-state post Paul Goddard, along with gaining confidence during a tough non district schedule, will be Trinity's top priorities before starting district games.
Trennepohl is pleased to have senior Teel Merrick and junior Tanner Beggs returning with varsity experience from a year ago. The 6-foot-2 Merrick will play forward, while the 5-10 Beggs will handle the point guard duties.
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Benton saw playing time on the varsity last year. The 6-1 Simpson is a move-in from Spearman.
"Matt and Taylor are very good shooters from 3-point range," Trennepohl said.
Chris Hill, a 6-foot-5 senior, will give the Lions a strong presence in the paint.
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After doing a bit of research on how to reduce computer-related eye strain, we stumbled upon this tip from Discovery's Planet Green:
One good idea is to follow the 20/20/20 rule: every twenty minutes, look at something at least twenty feet away for at least twenty seconds.Easy to do and easy to remember, that's our kind of tip! Here's our breakdown plan for today:
- Every 20 minutes... We're going to install Dejal Time Out on our MacBook Pro. It's free! Plus it lets you set "micro" and "normal" breaks. We'll use micro breaks for our 20/20/20 rule and normal breaks to get up and stretch. For Windows, check out Workrave (Also free!).
- ...look at something at least 20 feet away... We're not great at measuring distance, so we needed a frame of reference for this step. From our desk, we've picked a focus point 7 paces away (we've guessed that our stride is about 3 feet long, from right step to right step). You can also estimate that 20 feet is about the length of a parking spot.
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Erie Times-News Breakout Girls Track and Field Athlete of the Week: Nia Clark, Fairview
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The use of paper towels in Humboldt State University's public restrooms is wasteful, messy, and costly. This project aims to reduce the amount of paper towels consumed by Humboldt State University by installing at least one Dyson Airblade dB hand dryer in each of nine selected high-traffic restrooms. Installing one hand dryer in each proposed restroom will pay for itself in an estimated 2.3 to 4.6 years by reducing the amount of money spent on paper towels, custodial hours, and waste disposal. If all nine hand dryers are installed, the average calculated greenhouse gas emissions reductions will be 4 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year, equivalent to the emissions of burning 9.3 barrels of oil (EPA Energy).
b. LED Retrofit for Science D and the Library
This report proposes an implementation timeline for various light emitting diode lighting retrofit options for the Humboldt State University Library and Science D buildings. The report includes a background of the existing locations and technologies, as well as an energy, cost, and emissions analysis for the alternatives. It is recommended that the 16.5 Watt four foot Philips LED T8 InstantFit Lamps be used to replace all of the existing four foot fluorescent lamps in Science D as soon as possible. It is recommended that these remain for their lifetime unless advanced lighting controls are installed in Science D, at which point it is recommended that the Axlen eZ-series or equivalent retrofit be installed and the Philips lamps repurposed. For the Library, it is recommended to wait until 2018 to commence the retrofit, at which point various Cree LED (detailed below) or equivalent fixtures be installed. It is also recommended that advanced lighting controls be installed in the library to further improve energy savings.
c. Virtual Green Office
Similar to the previously implemented Virtual Green Room project, the Virtual Green Office will serve as a showcase for sustainability in the workplace. The Virtual Green Office will be a highly accessible demonstration informing current and future members of the campus community of the available resources and appropriate behaviors and actions that lead to zero waste, water and energy conservation, alternative transportation, monetary savings, human health, and community building.
d. Dorm Energy Monitoring
It is proposed that the HEIF Committee fund the Creekview Residence Hall Electrical Metering project to educate students about their own energy use and encourage its reduction. By purchasing, installing, and maintaining 48 suite level meters, a kiosk, and a single access point for collected data via a web interface system, students will be able to track and compare their energy use to that of their peers. In conjunction, it is asked that the HEIF form a partnership with the Humboldt State University (HSU) Housing Department and PowerSave to develop new strategies for better engagement in energy reduction competitions that are the key for project success. With success, HSU can gain greater recognition for sustainable practices and for its innovative resolution of energy monitoring in the broader community. With a total expected project lifetime of 10 years, the net present value of the project is $80,184. The project payback period is highly dependent on student engagement in the energy reduction competitions mentioned. Over the project lifetime a ~7% (20,400kWh/yr) average decrease in energy would be needed before project pay back.
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The purpose of this project is to create a more efficient energy monitoring system for Humboldt State University (HSU). This monitoring system will be able to aggregate gas, electricity, and water consumption by each campus building in real time and relay said information into the Johnson Controllers. To accomplish this goal, an array of devices are researched and their prospective connections relative to one another are established. Cost analysis is then executed on three alternatives, all varying in the devices that comprise them. Through the cost analysis, it is determined that to achieve the most cost-effective energy monitoring system, each building should have a Modhopper tranceiver installed to transmit data from each building's electrical, gas, and water meter into two data acquisition servers, the Acquisuite A8812. This mode of energy monitoring will accrue a cost of approximately of $122,362. The project at hand will serve as a stepping to stone to create a more diverse and accessible energy monitoring system, one that will have the capacity to serve as a tool for learning, system diagnosis, and data collection.


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Watch: Robyn takes you on the touring roller-coaster ride in 'Hang with Me'
We already fawned all over Swedish pop star Robyn when it came to her "Dancing on My Own," culled from her "Body Talk Pt. 1" EP.
Now it's on to "Pt. 2," as she teases the track "Hang with Me" by taking viewers on the road. There's a whole history of music videos trying to make touring look sexy, when 90% of the time the very nature of touring is boring and dangerously samey-samey. But the singer sure does make that 10% seem liveable, even when it comes to the cheap road food and staring out of tour bus windows. The track itself is "blissfully, painfully" '80s.
"Body Talk Pt. 2" comes out Aug. 17 and "Pt. 3" of the trilogy comes out some time after that.
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It has been a while since we last uploaded a video from one of our U.S. research trips. The question we asked in March as to whether the Fed would hike interest rates this year or not has still not been conclusively answered. Although a 2015 hike is not completely off the table, as we are entering the final two months of the year it seems a lot less likely than it did back then. Nonetheless, fr…Read the article
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Linux for Suits - Unusual Suspects
Building infrastructure for a search engine like Technorati's, which scours and archives the "live" Web of RSS and similar feeds, is like building a series of barns, each after the last one burns down. When recounting the brief history of his company, David Sifry usually says, "Well, after the first infrastructure fell down...and after the second infrastructure fell down...and after the third infrastructure fell down...." No wonder he also says, "Scaling is everything." Instructive failure is a less-glamorous description of trailblazing.
Technorati's trail started in David's basement, on a server that Penguin Computing loaned to David and me for a feature on blogs for the March 2003 issue of Linux Journal. See "Building with Blogs" and "The Technorati Story" in the on-line Resources. The service instantly was popular and has continued to grow steadily. By the time you read this, Technorati will be watching nearly four-million syndicated sources, mostly Weblogs, and well over a half-billion links. (Disclaimer: I'm on Technorati's advisory board.) Think of Technorati as a search engine for stuff that's too new for Google—plus a platform for free and paid services based on the company's growing archives and countless potential forms of derived data.
One can look at Technorati as another fast-scaling LAMP hack. But when I talk to Technorati's techies, it turns out some of the most interesting applications are from open-source suspects outside the familiar LAMP list of Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, Perl, Python and PostgreSQL. I recently asked the company's new VP of Engineering, Adam Hertz, who came over from Ofoto in July 2004, to tell me more about one or two of those useful but low-box-office tools. He immediately pointed to Memcached and handed the explaining over to Ian Kallen, senior architect on his staff.
"A lot of what we're doing has never been done before", Ian told me. "But a lot of the scaling problems we hit along the way have been experienced before. And the result is open-source freeware, often very robust, that eases exactly the pain we're experiencing." One such result is Memcached, a distributed caching system developed by Danga Interactive, the folks behind LiveJournal, which accounts for a very large percentage of the blogs Technorati follows. Ian explains:
Lookup queries in a large data repository can be expensive. If lookups are repeated at a rate near or less than the rate of change, it makes sense to spare the application repeated round trips to fetch the data. An obvious solution is to have the application process keep lookup results in a cache. The downside is that caching is typically resource consumptive; in a multiprocess application such as a Web service, having each process (or thread) keep its own cache reduces the cache efficiency and bloats the application resource footprint. The solution to this is a shared cache.
High application availability requirements are typically met with server redundancy. Now if each server instance has a cache of its own, the cache efficiency reduction becomes as ridiculous as having individual processes share a cache on a single host. The solution there is a distributed cache and that's where Memcached comes in.
Listening on a network socket and utilizing very simple parameters to instrument memory allocation, Memcached maintains an in-memory dictionary of keys that is dynamically populated with values. Technorati uses search parameters as keys and search results as values. The payback comes when search results that are duplicative of previously run queries return; they come back at least an order of magnitude faster.
In addition to its speed and simplicity, Memcached's other principal strength is its flexibility. It can store objects in language-native serialization formats such as Perl's Storable or Java's Serializable. Technorati uses PHP's native serialization to store cache results. However, Memcached can store any bytes that can be used interoperably; one cache client implemented in Java can access and read a cached XML document stored by another client written in Perl, Python or PHP. This can be a huge win for heterogeneous development environments.
Application stabilization and performance optimization is a critical concern for burgeoning data repositories such as Technorati's. Caching isn't the only thing in the software toolbox. Application architectures can still benefit or suffer from the quality of other design decisions. However, the integration challenge posed by Memcached is so low as to make it a primary consideration for data retrieval acceleration.
When I asked Adam again about other less-known tools that might be in his box, he said the company also was about to use the Spread Toolkit—a language-independent messaging system that allows updates, events and information to flow through distributed systems. He explains:
When a blog pings us, think of that as an event. Our spider responds and goes and gets the new content. It then puts the update on the message bus, so any application can see the message as it goes by. Each subscriber—a Technorati application or service—gets a chance to see every message that goes by. It can either pick it up or pass on it. An application can say, "hey, am I interested in this update?" This way, we reduce the internal query load on the database, and we also make the applications more real-time. This is called multicast. It's a service similar to what TIBCO has been for financial systems.
For example, a blog post about a political book might be interesting to Book Talk, News Talk and Politics Today. Rather than having all three applications querying the database to find relevant updates in the last five minutes, that blog post would travel across the system and be picked up by all three applications.
This not only speeds up performance for users and applications, but opens lots of new service opportunities for users, outside applications and services using the Technorati API.
Jonathan Stanton, one of Spread's creators at Johns Hopkins University, added this:
Spread (also) provides fault-tolerant messaging. Meaning if some machines that are part of a Spread group crash or are partitioned from the others, Spread guarantees that all the machines that are still connected will see the same set of messages. This strong semantic group messaging can be used to build replicated databases (one open-source project building a replicated database using Spread is Postgres-R) and guarantee consistency in clustered caching systems (like Technorati's).
Five interesting things here. First, note where the Technorati doesn't look for answers. The old industrial model assumes that you obtain the expertise you need internally (from a responsible position on the company org chart), or you buy products and expertise from outside vendors and consultants. Here, we have a CIO and a lead engineer looking outside the company for infrastructural building materials, plus experts and expertise that are both in the marketplace yet not for sale. In other words, tools like Memcached and Spread are part of a larger conversation, and a larger set of relationships, than a corporate customer like Technorati would get from a commercial vendor. This isn't a knock on vendors, but it reminds us how markets defined in terms of vendor relationships, and of sales volumes in product categories, fail to include a large and growing part of the market ecosystem.
Second, the advantages of using open-source tools, and of participating in development projects like Memcached and Spread, are likely to be lost on traditional IT shops that discourage trailblazing DIY work. Adam Hertz explains:
Two themes: BigCoIT is all about standardization and isolationism.
Standardization, so the story goes, reduces risks and costs. It certainly reduces complexity, but it can take a huge toll on flexibility and responsiveness. Standardization often involves using one multipurpose tool or platform to accomplish lots of different purposes. This often involves customization, which is done by in-house experts or professional services firms. Great examples are Siebel, Lotus Notes and so on.
DIY shops tend to be cynical, or even downright frightened, of systems like that, because they're so inflexible and unhackable.
Another form of standardization is what people are allowed to have on their desktop PCs. In a lot of big shops, everyone has the same disk image, with all applications pre-installed. There's a huge suspicion of anything that comes from the outside world, especially open source. It's regarded as flaky, virus-laden, unscalable and so on. This produces isolationism, which means that there are major barriers merely to try something.
In more open environments, there's a permeable membrane between the corporate IT environment and the Net. People tend to get new tools from the Net, usually open source, and just give 'em a spin. Culturally, this keeps the organization open to innovation and new approaches. It builds bonds between the employees and the development community at large.
Standardized, isolationist shops miss out on all of this. The maintain control, but they inevitably fall behind.
Third, Technorati isn't only solving problems, although problem solving does soak up a lot of IT cycles. It's also looking to tools like Memcached and Spread to open new business and other opportunities. When I asked Adam about using Spread to expand Technorati's Web service offerings, he said the opportunities, already wide open, only get wider:
It would also be very useful to implement customized watchlists, for example. Suppose you had some weird-assed query...or more accurately, filter. Like, very specific sorts of posts you want to find out about—posts that mention you, Linux Journal and open source, for example. We could set that up as a subscriber to updates. It could watch all the updates come by, discard the 99.99% of updates that aren't relevant, and when it gets a relevant one, it could send you mail or something. Contrast that with our current watchlist implementation that queries the database. Then and imagine if—or when! —we have 100,000 watchlists.
Fourth, Adam is quick to defer to his engineers' expertise, among which is finding useful and free open-source tools in the marketplace. The sounds Adam makes when he talks about his work remind me of those Linus Torvalds makes when he talks about kernel maintainers. Linus said:
It is very hard to find people who don't flame and are calm and rational—and have good taste. I mean it's like...give me one honest man. It doesn't happen...too much. And at the same time, when it happens, it matters a lot. Just a few of these people make a huge difference.
Fifth, it becomes clear that trailblazing work by tasteful flameproof engineers is what gives the world the infrastructure it needs to supports real business, in addition to maintaining the mundane internal operations of enterprises.
Just in the last few days, while I was writing this column, two other open-source tools came to my attention. They're interesting because they represent two extremes in the marketplace: one external, one internal.
The external one is the Gallery Project, which appears to be establishing itself rapidly as the Apache of photo gallery software. Within a week, Gallery went from something I barely knew to something it seemed everybody was telling me about. It's an extraordinarily rich and deep system that surely will be far more rich and deep by the time you read this. It shows that Apple, Adobe and Microsoft aren't the only ones who care to provide users and photographers with useful tools—and that the tools that matter most aren't those that live on clients or vendor hosting services, but rather on photographers' own servers, or those of their friends, relatives and other parties, including businesses. Gallery is pure DIY infrastructure and another dramatic example of how the Net and open source allow the demand side to supply itself.
I also think it's significant that Galley scratches an itch that isn't only technical. Although it's a bit of a hack to install, it's what marketers call a consumer-facing service. It will be interesting to watch the market effects over the coming year or two.
The internal tool is Yum (Yellowdog Updater Modified), an automatic updater and package installer/remover for RPM-based distributions, developed by the mathematics department at Duke University—specifically by Seth Vidal, the Senior Systems Programmer there.
Yum is public code, with public source repositories and a GPL license. Yet it was developed by Duke for its own internal requirements. Richard Hain, chair of the Math department, recently told me more than 100 Linux machines run in that department alone, with a serious commitment to running Linux on the desktop, as well as on larger machines for serious number crunching. Most office staff are running Linux desktops. Microsoft Windows users are running on Win4Lin. Yum is a necessity in their environment, Hain explains. Frequent hardware updates alone require a "departmental distro that runs Yum every day and maintains packages".
So, it seems to me, the unusual suspects that matter most in open-source markets aren't only the tools, but the independent spirits that create and use them.
Resources for this article: www.linuxjournal.com/article/7806.
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|Reviews for Hug Me Tender
| angellec chapter 7 . 1/8/2014
now you have seen the record number of hugs in season eight, my favorites in 8-1 when Dean comes home and the unforgettable 8-23 finale. What are yours?
| ccase13 chapter 7 . 1/6/2013
I'm sure there were actual hugs after the mental ward, we just needed someone to show them.
| SupernaturallyEgocentric chapter 7 . 12/30/2012
Good hug!
| pandora jazz chapter 7 . 12/30/2012
You picked the perfect episode for a hug.
I always love how you write Dean and his thoughts. You remind everyone that it wasn't all Sam's fault for letting Lucifer out and Castiel did also break Sam's wall.
I wish we could have seen Dean respond when Sam called his brother's name and a hug.
Thanks for the smile!
| sarahbear88 chapter 7 . 12/30/2012
i like how you added this hug in just the perfect spot.
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You really improved this ep. I like this a lot!
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Perfect! This is exactly how the episode should have been done!
Thank you so much for writing this hug for me. You are awesome! :)
| sammygirl1963 chapter 7 . 12/29/2012
Definitely the perfect scene for a hug to occur. What a shame the writers didn't give it to us, but hey, thankfully you did!
| AshleyMarie84 chapter 7 . 12/29/2012
I always wished that episode included a hug, it certainly warranted one! Loved this story, nothing is better than a big ol' Winchester hug. :)
| Winchesters4Me chapter 6 . 12/8/2012
so lovely. i really like this hug series you are doing. i sure wish the writters would take note!
| pandora jazz chapter 6 . 12/6/2012
What a wonderful chapter. Your right! A hug would have worked in this scene on the show. :)
You know how I feel about "Swan Song", so loved this thought from Dean. 'He knew in his heart that if he had the chance to go back and repeat the whole thing, he would have stopped Sam from doing what he did.'
You wrote a wonderful brothers moment here and perfect last line.
'He took his place at his brother's side as in complete synch they walked towards the door and to what they would find beyond it, secure in the warmth of their brotherly bond.'
Thanks for the smile. I needed this warm moment between the brothers after this week's episode.
Until next time, take care.
| kjdw chapter 6 . 12/6/2012
Great hug!
| zekeschance chapter 6 . 12/6/2012
This was beautiful! You did a fabulous job.
| mb64 chapter 6 . 12/6/2012
This hug should definitely have been in the episode. Thank you for adding it for us! :)
| Casismyfavorite chapter 6 . 12/6/2012
That hug is exactly what Sam needed at that moment. It made Dean all the more real- I loved it.


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Stealing Jane
Combining the in-your-face energy of the Foo Fighters and Sublime, the pop sensibility of Maroon 5 and the soul of a James Brown backup band, Stealing Jane emerges from the fertile breeding ground of Long Island with a fresh new sound sure to make you move.
Most of the six members of Stealing Jane started their musical careers in the dive bars of the North Shore of Long Island. After playing marathon length cover sets for over five years, the band reinvented itself in 2007 as an original pop-rock group. Stealing Jane left the bar scene with a strong understanding of pop music, and a vigilant desire to create something really new, and accessible to listeners of all walks of life. The smooth vocals of singer Bryce Larsen, who cites influences such as Dave Grohl, Elvis Costello, Frank Sinatra, and Stevie Wonder, combined with the alternative rock sound of the rhythm section is accented by brass to create a truly unique flavor. Stealing Jane will fit right in anywhere from top 40 stations to rock or indie.
Stealing Jane is a tireless touring machine. They created an underground sensation by making available the live recordings of every show they play. In this "Underground Series" you may find recordings of their shows from well known New York City clubs like Bowery Ballroom, Blender Theater, Highline Ballroom, The Bitter End, BB Kings, and the Knitting Factory. They've also performed at The Crazy Donkey (NY), Giants Stadium (NJ), Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel (RI), Crocodile Rock (PA), The Stone Pony (NJ), The Higher Ground (VT), Petrus Night Club (KY), Webster Theater (CT) among many others.
Stealing Jane has shared the stage with many well known artists such as: Ryan Cabrera, Onerepublic, The Spin Doctors, Life House, Hanson, Tower of Power, Ninedays, Antigone Rising, Pepper, Tantric, As Tall As Lions, Toots & the Maytals, Catch 22, Big D and The Kids Table, George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Steel Train, State Radio, Zox, RX Bandits, The Wailers, and Eve 6 just to name a few. They pride themselves on their dedicated and loyal street team that boasts members from across the United States and beyond.
Stealing Jane has already received acclaim from high profile New York publications such as Good Times (who awarded them first place in the Long Island Music Festival) and the Inside Connection. The band has also received extensive radio play in over fifteen states and were also featured with an on air interview with XM radio's Opie and Anthony during which their single "Heartbreaker" was played and reviewed. The song received much positive response from the often harshly critical audience of the show.
Stealing Jane is a band that is on its way to the top. They have created a sound that is unique to the music industry today, and their hard work is paying off.
Colleges Stealing Jane has performed
Hofstra University (NY)
Five Towns College (NY)
CW Post College (NY)
ST. Joseph College (CT)
UMass Lowell (MA)
Umass Dartmouth (MA)
Monmouth University (NJ)
Montclair State University (NJ)
New York Institute of Technical (NY)
North Eastern University (MA)
New Heaven College (CT)
University of Florida (FL)
Wagner College (NY)
Union College (NY)
Framingham State College (MA)
Husson College (ME)
Plymouth State University (NH)
Roger Williams University (RI)
University Of Vermont (VT)
University of New England (ME)
Central Connecticut State University (CT)
Assumption College (MA)
Elmira College (NY)
Conferences and Festivals Stealing Jane has attended/ will be attending
Millennium Music Conference (2005) - Showcase
Millennium Music Conference (2006) – Showcase
Millennium Music Conference (2007) – Showcase
Millennium Music Conference (2008) - Showcase
Atlantis Music Conference (2007) – Showcase
Vans Warped Tour (August 2007) – Performed on Ernie Ball Stage
Written By: Stealing Jane
You're on the outside!
You're on the outside!
We're moving too fast, for this to last
You tell me to relax, but I'm bracing for the crash
And I don't buy it, You're not in love.
I'm not the one you've been dreaming of.
Well it's too late, and I won't change my mind
Because I'm tired of chasing something that is just not mine,
And I'm closing all my doors to you in record time, and
You're on the outside.
You're on the outside.
So what is his name?
Did you not think that I knew we were playing this game?
I was infatuated, but I'm not blind...
All the crazy excuses just to find the time,
Written By: Stealing Jane
I sympathize with a parasite, cause I know how it feels to hurt the one you love.
I sympathize with a cancer, cause I know how it feels to be hated where you live.
I sympathize with a parasite, how many bodies do I need to break before I learn to live alone.
I can't bear the pain that I know I've caused
And this guilt inside me grows till it's all I've got.
Believe me when I say that I love you more than I love myself
I just can't stand, to hurt you, but I know I won't survive on my own.
You need to realize that the parasite, in your case, seems to be the one you love
And I can't help but hurt you, see it's all I am, the kind of thing that's written in my blood.
And you're not the first I've tortured, but how many bodies do I need to break before I learn to live alone.
I can't bear the pain that I know I've caused
And this guilt inside me grows till it's all I've got.
Believe me when I say that I love you more than I love myself
I just can't stand, to hurt you, but I know I wont survive on my own.
Written By: Stealing Jane
I'm such a mess, I don't know how you can stand it.
I should have guessed you'd have ended it.
I'm Such a mess, I can't give you life like you planned it.
I should just let you move on with it.
Cause I just can't seem to keep from letting you down.
And I don't pretend to know why you're still around.
Oh the better part of me wants to relieve you of this misery,
But I know that I won't close that door.
I'm such a mess, I don't know how you can stand it.
I'm Such a mess, I can't give you life like you planned it.
I'm such a mess, I don't know how you defend me,
I would make such a great enemy.
I'm such a mess I'll waste your life with my dreaming,
I'll let your love fall between the seams
And when you get old and time is running you down,
I'll be behind you with my head still in the clouds
The better part of me wants to save you from that future me,
But I know that I won't close that door.
I'm such a mess, I don't know how you can stand it.
I'm Such a mess, I can't give you life like you planned it.
The Signal - (2009)
Say Something - (2007)
Set List
You Let It Die
The Devil In New York
These Streets
Crash and Burn
Don't Waste My Time
Take it Easy
This is Goodbye
Better Things
Bare feet
All My Moments
The Rain
So Many Years
Same Page
Life Support
We Could Take the World On
Dead Sure
Boys of Summer (Don Henley)
Eleanor Rigby (The Beatles)
Open Up (Dispatch)
General Set Length: 10-12 songs, about 45 minutes


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Twinkle, Twinkle, Vogel Staar: On Mozart's Feathered Collaborator
If you whistle a tune often enough to a starling, the bird will not only sing it back to you, it will improvise its response and create something new. On May 27, 1784, Mozart whistled a 17 note phrase to a starling in a Viennese shop and to his delight it spat the tune right back — but not without taking some liberties first. So he bought it and brought it home. That bird lived with him for the three most productive years of his life, during which he completed more than 60 compositions, including Eine Kleine Nachtmusik. The piano concerto as we still understand it was built in those rooms. The "Jupiter" Symphony began and Figaro ended. Melodies that two centuries of humans have since whistled could have first been volleyed between a genius and his pet bird.
Amadeus, visualized
Confutatis K.626 - Scrolling Score (Amadeus + musical notation)
Mozart: the early years
Enjoy this animated webcomic about Mozart's early exploits... up to age nine, along with those of his sister Nannerl.
Listen closely, we'll only play this once (and very fast)
The Extreme Minuet is "the world's fastest coin-toss orchestra of 43 people" performing one of Mozart's minuets in about 3 seconds, then played back at a much slower speed to hear the performance stretched to its usual length and speed. [SLYT, Suntory commercial shot with Phantom 4K camera] [more inside]
Mozart's 40th Symphony
Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducts the Chamber Orchestra of Europe in Mozart's 40th Symphony. Second movement. Third movement. Fourth movement. The famous chromatic bit at the start of the development of the fourth movement. Program notes written for a performance of the piece by Redwood Symphony. [more inside]
Voca me cum benedictis
There was of course the famous(ly spurious, although informative for showing how orchestration works) scene in Amadeus where the ailing Mozart dictates the Confutatis maledictis to Salieri.
Well, here is a more recent example of teaching the Confutatis via call-and-response.
Something tells me Wolfie would approve.
Well, here is a more recent example of teaching the Confutatis via call-and-response.
Something tells me Wolfie would approve.
A little night music with interpretive dance
And now, conducting the 'The Marriage of Figaro'....
Last week, Improv Everywhere set up the ACJW Ensemble Orchestra (of Carnegie Hall and The Juilliard School) in Herald Square in New York City and placed an empty podium in front of the musicians with a sign that read, "Conduct Us." [more inside]
Rejoice, resound with joy!
The Three Versions of Mozart's Exsultate, jubilate. "Obviously, the 16-year old Mozart was not conversant with all of the theological ramifications of the Milano text when he created the music for Exsultate. Nonetheless, he wrote music which illuminated and even enhanced the spirituality of the text. How a sixteen-year old could create music of the beauty and elegance of this piece is difficult enough to comprehend. That he could match the music so perfectly to the text, playfully enhancing and amplifying its meaning, is mind-boggling, and a clear augury of the genius to be presented to the world in later years in such works as Le Nozze di Figaro, where the perfect matching of music with text is acknowledged by many musicologists today as virtual perfection." [more inside]
Stalin's Favorite Pianist
Maria Yudina (1899-1970) born Jewish, devout Christian, staunchly anti-Soviet, and one of the greatest Russian pianists. "Yet she was hidden behind Soviet Russia's iron curtain during her lifetime and was unknown to what is now a rapidly growing and wildly enthusiastic international audience." [more inside]
Mozart in Turkey: parts biography, history, documentary, and performance
Mozart in Turkey is film made of three distinct, but related, elements. First, it is a look into Mozart at the time of his courting Constanze, a bit on his new patron, the "enlightened monarch" Joseph II, and other influences, including the Turkish music and culture, along with thoughts on Mozart's opera as a work created in the Age of Enlightenment, all through the running commentary by opera director Elijah Moshinsky, who also interviews Alev Lytle Croutier, the author of Harem: The World Behind the Veil. Then there is the production of an opera in Turkey, specifically set in and around the Topkapi Palace (virtual tour; Wikipedia). And the last piece is the performance of Die Entführung aus dem Serail, or The Abduction from the Seraglio. You can watch the entire film online on Vimeo, thanks to Directors Cut Films.
The 225th anniversary of Mozart's "Don Giovanni"
225 years ago today, in the Teatro di Praga, there premiered a new opera - conducted by the 31 year old composer, who was in demand after his success in Vienna the year before. Although he had completed the overture less than 24 hours earlier, the opera was an instant smash - with the composer being "welcomed joyously and jubilantly by the numerous gathering". In the years to come, Kierkegaard would agree with the French composer Charles Gounod that the opera was "a work without blemish, of uninterrupted perfection". Flaubert would call it one of "the three finest things God made". Today, it is the 10th most performed opera in the world. It is Mozart's Don Giovanni (spoiler). [more inside]
Two Particularly Wonderful Mashups for Your Morning
Mashup-Germany - "The Day the Music Died" (YouTube/Soundcloud) and "Hey Jude, I'll Be There".
A New Piece From Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is well-known for having been a child prodigy. A previously unknown composition of his, dated c. 1767, when he would have been 11 years old, (PDF of score) had it's premiere earlier this week. [more inside]
Encarta Resurrected
"We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey..." -from the final three Diaries Of Robert Falcon Scott (p. 166/167) which are now available scanned, transcribed, and narrated in fully searchable form by the British Library.
Other books in the collection include:
- Leonardo Da Vinci's 500+ page Codex Arundel scanned in its entirety.
- William Blake's Notebook with explanatory notes (text & narration).
- Mozart's Musical Diary with explanatory notes (text & narration) and playable musical pieces.
- The original Alice's Adventures Underground scanned, transcribed, and narrated.
Mozart had some underground shit people don't know NUTHIN about.
Jack White has worked with everyone from Alicia Keys to Loretta Lynn to Brendan Benson to Alison Mossheart. His new single, "Leck Mich Im Arsch," utilizes a 230-year-old Mozart melody. Oh yeah, his co-conspirators on this one? MeFi favorites Insane Clown Posse.
Kristian Bezuidenhout introduces Mozart's fortepiano
wrong concerto
The lunch concerts in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw used to be (possibly still are) often public general rehearsals for the big evening series. Here we can see the mental transformation of pianist Maria Joao Pires, who expects another Mozart concerto than conductor Riccardo Chailly begins to conduct. [more inside]
It's got a good beat and you can dance to it, finally.
Vadrum drums over some familiar classics ... Mozart's overture to The Marriage of Figaro (original). The William Tell overture (original). Rossini's overture to The Barber of Seville — you'll recognize it at 1:20 (original). Mozart's "Rondo Alla Turca" a.k.a. "Turkish March," from Piano Sonata No. 11, K. 331 (original). [more inside]
Mitsuko Uchida
Three-time Gramophone Award winner, Dame of the Empire, and, by consensus, the world's greatest living performer of Mozart's keyboard works, Mitsuko Uchida also gives great piano face. [more inside]
probably my heart
"Maybe, just maybe, we've found the next Mozart." Not just a six year old virtuoso, but a composer as well, Emily Bear seems likely to keep us listening longer than most precocious child pianists. As one tv talk show host has learned, as a composer Emily is both speedy and prolific.
A New Mozart?
5 Year Old Adopted South Korean Blind Piano Prodigy Yoo Ye-eun can play songs after hearing them once. Watch her perform with Britain's Got Talent's Connie Talbot in a South Korean TV show called "Star King".
...So the musician would have a place to put his beer.
A lovely free online text on the Fundamentals of Piano Practice. (Tuning, too.)
Carved Eggshell Art
Christel Assante carves eggshells into extraordinary pieces of art. SculptorRon Cheruka , who goes by the nickname "the egg man," also works in the medium of eggshell, but he is not quite as talented in my opinion, a Salieri to Assante's Mozart.
Search the complete works (including 8000 pages of critical commentary) of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a gift by the Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum on the occasion of his 250th birthday. (German links are also available).
Requiem in M
All Mozart, all the time. "To celebrate Mozart's 250th birthday Swedish Radio launched a new service on the Internet: SR Mozart - a channel dedicated to the music of Mozart."
Mozart's famous symphonic theme in G minor played on bottles with rollerblade extensions
The opening theme of Mozart's symphony in G minor, K. 550 - on rollerblades and downhill.
So, most people know that Friday was the 250th birthday of some musical dude you might've heard of. But! Did you realise that this year also marks the 100th birthday of Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich? Debate over whether Shostakovich was a tortured artist, rebelling against Stalinist Russia, or a Soviet Sympathiser continues, but the fact remains he was a brilliant composer who left a lasting impression on film music, and composed complex works from 2 cello concertos, 15 string quartets, 15 symphonies Warning!: Last four links are direct to the BBC "Discovering Music" Real player streams.
Mozart's diary
Mozart's musical diary - kept between 1784 and 1791 - goes online today courtesy of the British Library. There is a helpful audio commentary if you can't decipher his handwriting, plus excerpts from some of his music. The same site also has works by artists and authors such as Jane Austen, Leonardo da Vinci and Lewis Carroll.
Death and the Iron Maidens
Rondo Alla Iron Maiden (Program Notes, mp3s). As the name suggests, this new work for string quartet is a classical rondo in the style of the British heavy metal band Iron Maiden. Composer Kurt Mortensen might rather you pay more attention to some of his other works, like this charming folk-tinged trio, but I had to go straight for the silly stuff.
It's 25 Years Ago Today Since Maria Callas Died.
It's 25 Years Ago Today Since Maria Callas Died. There's a badly designed but well-intentioned and informative Italian website to commemorate the anniversary and there's the film Callas Forever, directed by one of her best friends (and the director of many of her most memorable operas, Franco Zefirelli. It premiered today. Mozart's Requiem was also played at the concert held in her honour tonight in Athens. I can't help thinking, though, that the Web is sorely lacking in resources about one of the greatest, most goosebump-provoking singers who ever lived. In fact, classical singers and classical music in general seem very (increasingly) badly served. Even the glorious Andante magazine, which I recently linked to, looks like it's disappeared...
Shot Chord Heard Round the World!
Shot Chord Heard Round the World! On the morning of Nine Eleven 2002 at 8:46am, over 160 choirs across the world will sing Mozart's "Requiem" to metaphorically stand in for the thousands of voices silenced a year ago. Among all the ideas I've heard to commemorate this occasion, this one seems the most dignified, and least cringeworthy. They mentioned it on NPR's Morning Edition (caution: Real Audio file).
Not Salieri but Schnitzel
Not Salieri but Schnitzel the latest theory about what did in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is that he might have contracted trichinosis from some spoiled pork cutlets. "Why Antonio, I'd just die for some wiener schniztel right now," Wolfgang exclaimed. "Yes, you would," sneered Salieri.......
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Macdonald hotspot
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The Macdonald hotspot is a volcanic hotspot in the southern Pacific Ocean. The hotspot was responsible for the formation of the Macdonald Seamount, and possibly the Austral-Cook Islands chain.[1] It experienced a second eruption in 1989 (ibid).
Macdonald seamount has a shallow summit below sea level, at approximately 20m deep. It is named after Gordon A. MacDonald.[2][3] It erupted explosively in 1987, during which a specimen of floating lava composed of alkali basalt was sampled by researchers on the R/V Melville and subsequently analyzed.[4] It experienced a second eruption in 1989.[4]
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- ^ W. Jason Morgan and Jason Phipps Morgan. Plate velocities in hotspot reference frame: electronic supplement (PDF). p. 111. Retrieved 2010-04-23.
- ^ John P. Lockwood (May 1980). "Gordon A. MacDonald, 1911–1978". Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research. 7 (3–4): 177–188. doi:10.1016/0377-0273(80)90028-1.
- ^ a b K.H. Rubin and J.D. Macdougall (1989). "Submarine magma degassing and explosive magmatism at Macdonald (Tamarii) seamount". Nature. 341 (6237): 50–52. doi:10.1038/341050a0.
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Wrath Of Chelly-O: Pres. Obama Snaps Selfie At Mandela's Funeral, Gets Checked By Michelle & Twitter Explodes
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Pres. Obama is usually the coolest person in the room who found himself on the wrong end of a vicious Chelly-O side-eye at Nelson Mandela's memorial service. Why he was snapping selfies and laughing it up at a globally-televised funeral, we're not quite sure, but the First Lady wasn't having it and sparked pure hilarity on Twitter.
Here are the funniest Twitter reactions to Michelle checking Pres. Obama at Mandela's funeral. Take a look.
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