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Talking to Your Doctor
Work with your doctor
You and your doctor are a team. Be sure to tell your doctor about the pain you have been experiencing. Make this discussion a priority, and don't be afraid to ask questions so that he or she understands what you are going through and can decide on the best way to help relieve your diabetic nerve pain. The tips below will help you prepare for your appointment.
At your next doctor visit
Tell your doctor exactly how your diabetic nerve pain affects you
Your doctor is there to help you manage your diabetes and can also help treat your diabetic nerve pain. If you're experiencing painful symptoms in your hands and feet, don't wait to share this information with your doctor. Explain exactly how the pain impacts you. And ask about LYRICA – a specific treatment for diabetic nerve pain.
Discuss what you are already doing to treat your diabetic nerve pain
You may already be taking something for your diabetic nerve pain. Tell your doctor about any medicines or other approaches you are using for your diabetic nerve pain. Ask what you can do to relieve this distinct pain.
Ask if LYRICA can help relieve your diabetic nerve pain
LYRICA is approved by the FDA to treat diabetic nerve pain. So your doctor may recommend LYRICA to help treat your diabetic nerve pain. Ask your doctor if LYRICA is right for you.
Between your doctor visits
Maintain a healthy blood sugar level
Uncontrolled blood sugar over time or fluctuations in blood sugar can damage your nerves. This damage is what causes your diabetic nerve pain. Maintaining the blood sugar level your doctor recommends can help prevent further damage.
Monitor other parts of your care as well
There is more you need to pay attention to besides your blood sugar and diabetes. Along with your doctor or specialist, keep a careful watch on:
- Your feet—check frequently for cuts or bruises or infection
- Your vision—high blood sugar can cause damage to your eyes
- Your pain—tell your doctor how pain affects you
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LYRICA is not for everyone. LYRICA may cause serious, even life threatening, allergic reactions. Stop taking LYRICA and call your doctor right away if you have any signs of a serious allergic reaction. Some signs are swelling of your face, mouth, lips, gums, tongue, throat or neck or if you have any trouble breathing, or have a rash, hives or blisters.
Drugs used to treat seizures increase the risk of suicidal thoughts or behavior. LYRICA may cause suicidal thoughts or actions in a very small number of people, about 1 in 500. Patients, family members or caregivers should call the doctor right away if they notice suicidal thoughts or actions, thoughts of self harm, or any unusual changes in mood or behavior. These changes may include new or worsening depression, anxiety, restlessness, trouble sleeping, panic attacks, anger, irritability, agitation, aggression, dangerous impulses or violence, or extreme increases in activity or talking. If you have suicidal thoughts or actions, do not stop LYRICA without first talking to your doctor.
LYRICA may cause swelling of your hands, legs and feet, which can be serious for people with heart problems. LYRICA may cause dizziness and sleepiness. You should not drive or work with machines until you know how LYRICA affects you. Also, tell your doctor right away about muscle pain or problems along with feeling sick and feverish, or any changes in your eyesight including blurry vision or if you have any kidney problems or get dialysis.
Some of the most common side effects of LYRICA are dizziness, blurry vision, weight gain, sleepiness, trouble concentrating, swelling of your hands and feet, dry mouth, and feeling "high." If you have diabetes, tell your doctor about any skin sores.
You may have a higher chance for swelling and hives if you are also taking angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors so tell your doctor if you are taking these medications. You may have a higher chance of swelling of your hands or feet or gaining weight if you are also taking certain diabetes medicines. Do not drink alcohol while on LYRICA. You may have a higher chance for dizziness and sleepiness if you take LYRICA with alcohol, narcotic pain medicines, or medicines for anxiety.
Before you start LYRICA, tell your doctor if you are planning to father a child, or if you are pregnant, or plan to become pregnant. Breastfeeding is not recommended while taking LYRICA. If you have had a drug or alcohol problem, you may be more likely to misuse LYRICA.
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Review: Robin Wright shakes loose reality in Ari Folman's animated science-fiction 'The Congress'
Ariel Folman's "Waltz With Bashir" was a strong use of animation to express something personal, a worldview that tried to paint an emotional picture of what it's like to have gone through something harrowing, tied to both your religious and national identity, something that skews your perception for the rest of your life. I was quite taken with the film when it came out, and I have seen it a few times since on Blu-ray, and find it quite beautiful and sad.
One of several films to premiere at Cannes this summer before playing Fantastic Fest in Austin this month, "The Congress" is something else entirely. Loosely working from a novel by Stanislaw Lem, whose work was also the basis of "Solaris," Folman has made the movie that Andrew Niccol was desperately straining to make with "SimOne." The result is a beautiful, eccentric science-fiction story about the liquid nature of identity in the digital age and what it is that defines performance in the first place. Robin Wright stars as a savagely fictionalized version of herself, facing the end of her career in the form of industry-wide indifference thanks to years of meltdowns, rejected offers, and questionable creative decisions. Her agent, played by Harvey Keitel, comes to her with what is described as "the last offer you'll ever get," delivered by the unflinchingly blunt Danny Huston as a studio head who remembers the promise of the young Buttercup and who is angry at the reality of who Wright has become.
The offer is very direct. They want to make a digital Robin Wright who they can do whatever they want with for as long as they want. It's an insult at first, and why not? Wright makes the entirely accurate point that the one thing a digital version of her will never have, no matter what, is the ability to make the same choices she would make, and Huston suggests that is a good thing, that she doesn't know what's best for herself. Her life is focused on her two kids, Sarah (the precocious Sami Gayle) and Aaron (Kodi-Smit McPhee), a dreamy kid preoccupied with airplanes and kites. The implication is that he's somewhere on the autistic spectrum, and Wright would much rather be there to help her son than work on a movie she doesn't really care about.
The first 40 minutes or so is about Wright wrestling with the choice, then coming to grips with it and reporting for the actual scanning process. That's portrayed as basically one long beautiful sequence involving her and Christopher B. Duncan and Keitel, and it's one of those scenes that totally hinges on human performance, something which seems directly tied to Folman's thought process here. The film jumps forward in time after that scene, anad we catch up with society after we've made the jump to people being able to make a choice about how they want to live… physically or digitally. Of course, the choice is really only available to some people, not everyone, and the world that is left behind by the people who choose to push completely into a fantasy realm is a dreary nightmare. Wright ventures into this fully animated world where anyone is anything they want, free of any kind of restriction, and she ends up meeting Dylan (Jon Hamm), the animator who just spend a decade in love with the digital Robin Wright, desperate to meet the "real" one. What is the real you in a world like this, though? "The Congress" digs down past the Hollywood stuff to get to the real nature of who we are as we interact in a space where we are defined by ideas and words and avatars, a world where our physical identities are secondary, not primary. Lem's novel really only dealt with a small part of what Folman does in the film, and It's a beautiful, sexual, melancholy utopia that Folman imagines.
It's hard to describe the film's specific imagery because it doesn't always make literal sense, nor should it. If people could make the world anything they wanted, it would look nothing like the literal world around us. People would express themselves in the most extreme ways possible, and it would be shocking and beautiful and strange and upsetting. Folman's world doesn't look a thing like what I'd imagine, but that's the point, isn't it? Creating something as big and bold and expansive as the entire world of fantasy made flesh is an exercise that's going to say far more about the filmmaker than anything else, and I love what the film ultimately has to say about how we will recognize the essence of someone we love in this brave new world, no matter what form they wear.
Animation and science-fiction are both genres that are frequently given far less respect in terms of what gets made than they deserve, and "The Congress" manages to be a great example of the freedom afforded by both. Folman is a thoughtful filmmaker who is genuinely concerned with questions about the soul, and "The Congress" is not just brave for him, not just brave for Wright, but it's brave for the medium itself. I love seeing something that refuses all easy categorization like this, but in a way that feels thematically sound and not just for the sake of being crazy. This one's going to linger.
"The Congress" will be released by Drafthouse Films in 2014.

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The views of the river from the trails are spectacular and deserve more camera power than the small "point and shoot" I usually carry while skiing.
I brought the heavyweight camera along, stored it securely in the public relations office and planned to take photographs with it in the afternoon after scoping out shooting spots in the morning. Once on the mountain, I could see that the snow was on the way and the view would soon be gone.
I made a few feeble photo attempts with the point and shoot, but it was so bitter cold that my ungloved fingers wanted no part of it. It warmed up a little in the afternoon, but the view was history. . . history I did not capture. Yes, I let you blog readers down big time, but if you read the fine print, there are no refunds of the admission price into this blog.
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By Chelle Delaney: Quay County Sun
Clean up from a fire Sunday night that engulfed the Family Dollar store and its neighbor, Movie Gallery, appears to be underway.
The stores will reopen, said representatives of both retailers.
A large waste container was placed in front of the Family Dollar on Tuesday.
The New Mexico State Fire Marshal and Tucumcari Fire Chief Mike Cherry looked over the fire damage on Monday morning.
On Tuesday, Cherry said the fire was still under investigation by the state's fire marshal and that the occupant and the building's owners would also be calling in their own fire cause and origin specialists to investigate.
Early indications are that "it does look accidental," Cherry said.
Also, on Tuesday, firefighters were called out again to put out a small fire that re-ignited at the Family Dollar store, said Cherry. One fire truck responded to the fire.
Ten emergency fire vehicles, including one EMS unit, were called out about 8 p.m. on Sunday night to fight the blaze at Route 66 and Third Street, said Cherry. Twenty-one firefighters extinguished the blaze about 11:30 p.m. and left the scene early Monday morning, he said.
"It could possibly be two to four months before we open for business again," said Family Dollar store manager Rhonda Kandel.
"We are still waiting to see how extensive the damage is. The rear of the building and roof were damaged by the fire and there is smoke damage throughout the building," she said.
At Movie Gallery, "we got the electricity back on," said Felicia Rodriguez, store manager. "We're waiting to see what the maintenance evaluation will be."
Officials from the store's corporate headquarters in Dothan, Ala., will be coming to do an inspection, Rodriguez said.
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After jumping ahead an hour and touching down in Southeastern Michigan at a quarter past one last night, the the team buses pulled into our downtown Detroit hotel at two in the morning after deliberately navigating Interstate 94 during a light snowstorm. After unseasonably warm temperatures early in the season – balmy and stormy in St. Paul to start the season, and warm enough in New York that dining outside in a sweater was a comfortable option – the last several extended trips have been quite cold, which comes as no surprise. It's January. Most of the country is very cold in January.
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Due to a manufacturing glitch, certain boxes of its unfrosted and Frosted Mini-Wheats may contain fragments of metal mesh.
"We have initiated a voluntary recall due to the possible presence of fragments of flexible metal mesh from a faulty manufacturing part," Kellogg's said in a statement released through the U.S. FDA. "Recalled products include only Frosted Mini-Wheats Bite Size Original and Mini-Wheats Unfrosted Bite Size with the letters KB, AP or FK before or after the Best If Used Before date."
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Lately the weather has been a little cooler, which means fall is on its way and with fall comes the hockey season.
This coming hockey season is a big one for the Detroit Red Wings and their fans because of the Winter Classic and the Alumni Showdown.
After a night of staying up too late on New Year's Eve, the only thing I like to do on New Year's Day - every year - is watch the Winter Classic.
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For those of you who don't know what that is, it's an outdoor hockey game played by two lucky teams. This hockey season the Detroit Red Wings and the Toronto Maple Leafs have the privilege of playing in the game. But the best part of this year's hockey season, and the part I'm most excited about, is the Alumni Showdown.
I grew up watching Red Wings hockey - and no other sport, really. That's just the way my family was. Through them, I learned a lot about the hockey greats and I'm more excited for the alumni to play than for the Winter Classic itself.
Seeing Mickey Redmond, Larry Murphy, Sergei Federov, Ted Lindsay, Igor Larionov, Dino Ciccerarelli, Mike Vernon - just pretty much the whole alumni lineup - play is just going to be amazing.
The coach for the Red Wings alumni team is going to be Scotty Bowman. I grew up watching that man lead the Red Wings to a Stanley Cup win in 1997, ending a 42-year drought. Then he continued to lead them through winning season after winning season. I'm pretty geeked to see this game, to say the least. I'm going to try my hardest to see it in person.
I can't even begin to explain how great it is to see all of those names on a roster together. Any hardcore Red Wings fan will understand what I mean and just how unbelievable this game is going to be - no matter what happens.
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The latest instalment in Benbecula's Music series, Music Volume Four, is now out, featuring a track of mine entitled 'The Everywhere Air'. The compilation also features some fantastic tracks by Christ. and Prhizzm, and is quite frankly a steal at a fiver. Head over to Benbecula to buy a copy.
2 thoughts on "Music Volume Four Out Now"
Yes. I bought this little collection from the rather cool benbecula. That Prhizzm track is particularly niche kebab – the nicheness compounded somewhat by the fact that he was apparently unaware that his track was released on said collection! the humour!
The Everywhere Air is another quality sojourn in that fluffy place I call Ochre. On a more general note, with regards to you musical outputthus far, and I mean this as no disrespect (and i trust you will not interpret it as such) – I get a similar warm fluffy feeling as that of lighter-hearted Plaid musings; I hear many commendable parallels.
well-the funk-done.


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Mobile home owners in Pennsylvania now have some protection against hasty evictions caused by the sale of their mobile home communities, but super-inflationary rent increases are another matter. If a park owner doubles or triples the rents charged for the lots that mobile homes occupy, there's not much the homeowner can do.
Like many people who have invested in manufactured homes, residents of the Greenbriar Village development in East Allen Township find themselves at the mercy of a complex owner who may raise land rents at will, without worrying about consumer price indexes or rent control laws. This week Greenbriar residents called a meeting to protest a pending rent increase by Equity LifeStyle Properties, a Chicago-based corporation chaired by real estate and media mogul Sam Zell.
According to Randy Schaffer, president of the Greenbriar homeowners association, Equity LifeStyle has subjected homeowners in other developments to rent hikes exceeding 100 percent. One Greenbriar resident, Tom Blackton, said his monthly rent has gone from $374 to $539 a month in 10 years.
While that doesn't seem like much to people paying market rents for apartments or houses in the Lehigh Valley, mobile home owners are in a unique situation. They usually buy their home and rent a lot in a mobile home community. Picking up and moving to get a better deal on rent is next to impossible. Also, the more a park owner boosts the land rent, the less competitive the sale price for a mobile home. Some homeowners find they can't afford to stay and can't find a buyer, even at discounted prices. For people on fixed incomes who have relied on low-cost housing for decades, that's a recipe for homelessness.
State Rep. Robert Freeman, D-Northampton, who was invited to speak to Greenbriar residents, is familiar with the challenges facing mobile home owners — particularly those expected to vacate their lots quickly when a park owner sells out to a developer. After a six-year legislative struggle, a bill sponsored by Freeman was signed into law last year, guaranteeing mobile home owners a grace period to find a new location or new housing, and requiring developers to help with relocation costs. That reform was prompted by the sudden, unannounced sale in 2006 of the Barbosa Mobile Home Park in Bethlehem Township, Pa.
Is there hope for mobile home owners facing steep, recurring rent increases? Local rent-control ordinances are complicated and impractical. Freeman believes mobile home owners should be extended the same rights as condominium owners, and that rent hikes should be limited to increases in the consumer price index. He also says the attorney general's office needs to take another look at its responsibilities to assist mobile home owners under the Consumer Protection Act.
These are starting points for the debate. Let's hope the legislature doesn't need another six years to extend sensible consumer protections to this vulnerable segment of the housing market.


text: Hi Nadav! I'm BCCing this message to my friend, co-student and former partner from the Technion. Thanks for your email! I'll reply to your comments here and later integrate i into the article. (to prevent further critique). On Thursday 22 March 2007, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Thu, Mar 22, 2007, Shlomi Fish wrote about "[hackers-il] My opinion on the Technion - revision 1.5": > > http://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/computers/education/opinion-on-the-t > >echnion/ > > For the sake of fairness, I would mention the department you studied in. > Right. > Because my experience in the Math department couldn't be more different > than the one you encountered. Most (although unfortunately not all) of the > professors were excellent teachers, and I really admired both their > knowledge (which you also admit is good) and their teaching method. I got > the feeling that most of them really loved teaching, loved the material > they teach, and cared about the students. > > Of course, the fact that most Math courses had 5-30 students in them - not > the hundreds you probably had in many of your courses - did a lot to > improve the situation. Sometimes even with a good teacher, if you're in a > "stadium" of 200 students, you feel neglected and lost, and it's easy to > blame the teacher. I know I have (in huge courses like Physics 1M). Of > course, with a really gifted teacher, you'll enjoy even a course in a > stadium, but these are obviously rare. > Indeed. It is possible that the lecturers didn't seem enlightened and seemed narrow-minded to me, while in fact they were to some extent enlightened only they did not show it. Like I said I find it hard to believe that someone can become a professor in the EE department, without being very intelligent, as even graduating with a B.Sc. is hard enough. Many of the professors probably were just trained not to become an authority on anything except their fields of interest, and so delegate stuff to other professors with this particular field. That or after being enlightened students they were crashed by "reality" as they grew older: http://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/philosophy/advice-for-the-young/#growth_death In a sense like I said I gave up on some of my aspirations, and decided to study material I mostly have the knack for. I'm not saying I was crashed by reality - I'm still excited about stuff, learn a lot everyday, have an ever growing list of things I'd like to write or read about, etc. But I gave up on the Technion's EE faculty on teaching me things that I did not know nor had the knack for, and which were not part of the corriculum. For example, I took the course "[Elctromagnetic] Waves and Conduits", which was badly managed, without any good reference material, without a website, with an unclear lecturer, with a good T.A., but whom without him I would not have been able to solve the homework, and with two tests that I did not know how to solve, and as a result recieved a close to 0 grade. After it, I decided that Maxwell's equations and their manipulation into optics scared me, and so eventually did not take any course in Electro-optics, which I intended to learn. (And is supposedly a very hot topic nowadays, optical fibers, optical computers and all considered.) > My other comments about your essay: > > Your section about the faculty is confusing: did you find them enlightened, > or not? I found most of them un-enlightened. Many T.A.'s seemed more englightened and less narrow-minded than most of the lecturers with a Ph.D. or Prof.. It is possible that what I consider being "rehav-ofakim" (wide-minded, the antonym to narrow-minded) has a generation gap, because the lecturers were not interested in the same things that I am when they were B.Sc. students. So they may not know a lot about UNIX or XP or OOP&D or FP/Scheme/Haskell/etc. or dynamic languages (Perl, Python, Common Lisp, etc.) or all of the latest hacker culture and technologies, but they are knowledgable about the hot technologies of their day. > > I agree with you about the *huge* load during my studies (many days I > did not go to sleep before 3am...), but in previous discussions here, we > agreed to disagree about the merits of "pair programming" ;-) The most > basic problem with this method is that it's *not* pair programming - > usually the pair doesn't work together, but rather divide the exercise and > do each part separately. I wrote about my more fundamental problem with > this approach in http://nadav.harel.org.il/homepage/musing/educooperation I read it and let me try to convince you why are wrong, as I wrote then: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/hackers-il/message/3493 It's better to reach a real agreement than to agree to disagree. 1. First of all let's see what's the worst case scenario is. One partner does all the work. The other one slacks. Then test day come. The one partner passes (hopefully with blazing colours), and the other one gets 0. Test is at least 60% of the grade. So the other student fail. 1b. The slacker prepares for the exam intensively close to the end of the semester, while not learning before that. So he passes. Does he deserve the grade? I suppose - as he still knows the material and worked hard. 1c. So if someone slacks he still fails the course. (factors and other monsters non withstanding.) 2. Is the Technion should do anything that it can to prevent students from not doing their homework properly? After all, they can just copy from references. At a course I did - "Image Analysis and Processing" (I told you about it extensively) , my partner and I sat for days on end solving each of the four exercises. Since we didn't do some things properly (or according to what the one who graded the test expected - ;-)) we were graded below 94 and above 80. But there were many 100's in the grades list. So my guess was that they copied it from a reference. I don't think a university should be concerned with that, because there are many ways to cheat, and the grader's time is precious. 3. You do agree that when the two partners are compotent and they both sit down to solve it, there can be wonderful synergy. I've experienced it first hand many times. Often I was more successful at getting the exercises right and often the opposite (varying from course to course and from exercise to exercise) but we both had an easier time, and we both learned a lot from each other. 4. And it's more fun, than solving it all by alone. Man is a social animal. One is alone, two is a company. Psychology matters. 5. I'm not implying something stupid like it will prepare people for pair programming in their work (which may or may not happen). People can get used to pair programming or pair solving very quickly because it's natural. 6. As an analogy, most scientific articles have more than one writer. 7. I believe people will have enough chance to "work on their own" during their studies, as you say. There are many such courses, and some students solve each their own version and then compare it, for peer review and criticism. (There's a documented teamwork "pattern" for this too.) > > What you write about the test difficult baffles me. Do you claim that > working hard on the exercises should be enough to get a 100? Should it be > enough to be a "hard working" to finish the university with a 100 GPA? > Shouldn't the tests really be just hard enough to differenciate between > people who work hard (and have a lot of free time...) but have a shallow > understanding, and "geniouses" who got deep understanding of the material? Maybe. However, don't you think hard work and spending a lot of time should be as equally rewarded as talent and "genius". Usually hard work will result in understanding at least in most EE courses. This is not Medicine, where all you have to do is memorise a lot of things by heart. Or humane studies in many universities (but not all) where you can easily fake it very well: http://www.paulgraham.com/resay.html (look for "physicists" and "French literature"). So if he worked hard he deserved it. Tests should quantify the knowledge and understanding of the material, not your intelligence level, however you want to "measure" it. If you already knew the material (say Theo de Raadt (hi Elad!) taking a Technion's "OS Design" course.) and slacked off completely, and then aced the test, then he also deserves to get 100%. > You know, there's an even an opposing view which says that the tests should > not be too similar to the problems encountered in the exercises (which is > what you suggest). The problem with that suggestion is that it strongly > emphesizes memory - not understanding or even hard work; Your best way to > pass these tests is to memorize all the exercises - if you do, you'll > finish the test in an hour and get a 100, but if you don't, there's a high > chance you'll do something wrong and get less than a 100. I agree that tests should tests should not show exact exercises that were shown in class. After all, you need to be able to understand it enough. But in the Technion they are many times completely off-tangent. Here's an example: I took the "Intro to Algorithms and Data Structures" course which a crash course on basic and more complex data structures (up to a hash), graph algorithms and other algorithms for EE students (who cannot take the CS course due to Technion politics.) There were almost no correction proofs which to be done correctly are very tedious and require more sophistication and mental prepartion. The exercises were satisfying, the lecturer conveyed the material well (at least I thought so), and the test was fair. I received 100, as I spent some time before the test explaining the material to a friend's friend who relatively slacked off, and teaching is the best way of learning. He receive a grade in the 70's and 80's Now a different friend of mine took the course, did all the homework and when he came to the test it was littered with having to do correction proofs. They weren't shown and they weren't prepared for that. Maybe Cormen-Leiserson-Rivest covers them somewhere superficially, but it's not what you expect from a "Hashmelator" (= Electrician) (not that CS students are better when they come but they are better prepared in the course for such proofs.). So this is one case where it doesn't hold. > In fact, you can even memorize exercises which you never did yourself. I'm > sure that you know the (assumed) difference between P and NP, right? > Solving an NP problem is hard, but once you know the solution, verifying > that it is correct is easy (polynomial time). Math homework (for example) > is the same - solving it is hard, but once you see the solution, reading > it, memorizing it and even understanding it - is easy. Practicing the skill > to understand someone else's proofs is *not* the same as practicing to > create new proofs. I hate memorising stuff. I had bad memory. I can never remember if it was -1 or 1 in what context. I want to have pages and I want to have all the material at hand. I don't want to have to recreate a 10 page proof in a Game Theory exam (which I understood, but would be damn if I remember). A math student I knew (a friend of OrrD) told me she once memorised a proof, and wrote it down at the test, and that after she recieved the test back she compared it to what was written in the notebook and she said they had been virtually identical. Math is not about memorising a lot of obscure proofs and theorems. That's what books and formulae pages are for. While important, I don't think you can expect someone to recreate a 10 (or was it 20) proof in the duration of a 3 hours test. Math is about remembering concepts, knowing how to attack problems, applying these problems, doing analogies, implementing what you've learned elsewhere (including more real life situations). If you thought a lot about a problem (say this one: http://www.shlomifish.org/MathVentures/3d-outof-4d-mathml.xhtml or its ASCII art version http://www.shlomifish.org/MathVentures/3d_outof_4d.html ) then later you will remember its technique of solution everytime and can utilise it as a tool in your growing mathematical arsenal. But passively reading a long proof from a book or copying what the professor said is not as effective as doing it yourself. I don't suggest you prove everything from scratch, but you gain more insights from the exercises you solve, and so memorising the proofs you've passively digested is suboptimal. Another thing is that those who are good at maths (people with audible memory, who remember sounds, speech, songs, etc. very well) have worse and more accurate memory than people with a visual or even photographic memory. I once briefly tutored someone with a photographic memory who could memorise entire pages for a time (until he forgot them). He had no problem acing his History Matriculation exam where he memorisd the whole book. But then when he did 5 units of Physics, he kept finding he had a small amount of time to do the tests properly. I initially thought his teacher was a nazi, but then after looking at the returned test saw that he did it all wrong, and she was right in grading him improperly. Now I would have found this test relatively trivial and come up with an accurate solution (minus some typos), because I have a better knack for math, partially because I have an audible memory. > > > Note that I still haven't added the section "Should I study in > > University", where I basically say "I don't know.". > > I think the answer is obvious, YES with a capital Y E S. Even if you think > that it didn't change the way you think for the better (I believe it did) > then at least it changed the way that employers think about you, which is > important in today's job market... Well this question is more complex. What should I learn? CS? EE? Math? IE? CE? SE? Philosophy? Linguistics? Physics? Should I do it straight out of high school? Should I work before that? Nadav, FYI, Ori here never went to university. And on the ride to and from Haifa he was fully aware and understood the data structures and algorithms I used in Freecell Solver (hi Muli!), version control systems, etc. He was very computer literate, that even many EE graduates can learn from. Also, Randal L. Schwartz wrote this: http://use.perl.org/~merlyn/journal/29946 It's not so simple, Nadav. ----------- Thanks for your response. This email was a braindump and too much verbose and recursive. I'll put the relevant parts after repharsing back into the article to clarify it, but I'm in no condition to do it now. And I'll finish with a joke (from an IRC conversation: EE studies. In the Technion. Been There. Done That. Forgot a lot. Remember too much. Rashi: ------ Forgot a lot of useless stuff (but also important stuff). Remember too much useless stuff. Regards, Shlomi Fish --------------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish shlomif at iglu.org.il Homepage: http://www.shlomifish.org/ Chuck Norris wrote a complete Perl 6 implementation in a day but then destroyed all evidence with his bare hands, so no one will know his secrets.


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It's no secret that MLB prospect success rates are rather low. There's been a couple great studies on prospect success rates like Scott McKinney's study on the success of BA's top prospects and Matt Garrioch's study on the draft's success by round; however, I have not seen any studies on the success rates of draft picks by each individual slot. This has peaked my interest recently as the Cubs are tanking the 2012 season for as high of a draft pick as possible. Many of you already know I am working on a Ph.D. in History so something like this is right up my alley (too bad I chose a Civil Rights topic for my dissertation instead of a topic on baseball or I'd be done already). I decided to do my own study tracking the success rate of every draft pick in the first round from 1990-2006.
I separated the 17 years into three separate brackets. 1990-1995, 1996-2000, and 2000-2006. I chose to stop at the year 2006, because many of 2007's prospects have their fates yet to be decided. The number 3 pick for instance, Josh Vitters, just hit the majors. Is it fair to call him a bust when he's had 25 plate appearances and is still only 22 years old? Granted the more recent years will still be a little shady as well, especially players drafted out of high school, but at this point successful players should be performing at the majors.
Establishing what would be deemed a "successful" draft pick was the most difficult part of this study. I asked a few of the popular prospect experts how they would define success of an MLB draft pick, and the responses all came back similar; it depends on each individual case, the money involved, and where they were selected. There was no one way to define "success" that would cover every draft pick. So instead I chose three separate approaches.
First, I went with a similar methodology to Scott McKinney's study on BA's top 100 prospects. I used FanGraphs' Wins Above Replacement (WAR) as the tool for measurement. I took the average of WAR at the MLB level during the player's controllable years excluding seasons under 100 plate appearances or 25 innings pitched if they occurred in the first 1 or 2 consecutive seasons of reaching the majors. McKinney wrote that he "was attempting to account for the fact that many players get very little playing time in their first or second season, and I did not want to give them equal weight in the average WAR calculation. At the same time, I didn't want to omit all short or partial seasons over a player's cost controlled years because they are often due to injury or poor performance." I agreed with this premise and decided to keep this stipulation. This is labeled as cWAR.
That means for a player to be deemed a "success," they must post at least a 1.5 WAR average in the 6 years before they could hit free agency. In addition, there would be a "superior" category in which the player would need a 2.5 WAR average over that same time period.
Second, I looked at the peak of the player's career. I evaluated the players' best 5-year stretch using higher minimum WAR requirements than the first approach and labeled it as pWAR. Since I cherry picked the best 5 consecutive seasons of a player's career, I increased the WAR to fit the basic definitions for a league average and superior player. That means the minimum success WAR was raised to 2.0, while the minimum superior WAR was raised to a 3.0 average. This would give "late-bloomers" a chance at being called a success, or some successes to be bumped up to superior players.
Lastly, I looked at the longevity of a career. To play in the majors for an extended period of time shows a player had enough skill to stick around at the highest level. I wanted a number high enough that the player received either a multiple year contract or multiple contracts after they hit free agency. I decided to use 10 years as the amount to be deemed a success for draft picks. There were 2 players in the next bracket who are both still active and sitting at 9 years, I decided these 2 players deserved the success as longevity; they are R.A. Dickey and Matt Thornton. After 1999 there were no players who were successful via only the longevity clause which was expected as there's just not enough time to develop through the minors and reach 10 seasons yet. The same minimum requirements of 100 PAs or 25 innings pitched for the first year or two apply. I also decided to add a similar stipulation to the tail end of careers to eliminate failed comeback attempts to avoid artificially inflating a player's length of career. Overall, a very small percentage of players were deemed a success via only longevity so I was very happy with how this approach turned out.
Without further ado, the results spreadsheet for your viewing pleasure
As you probably expected, the further the study went, the more fuzzy the picture became on some draft picks. These were guys, usually called up within the past few seasons, who sat on the fringe of success and could go either way depending on how the rest of their career goes. There wasn't a significant amount of players affected to alter the results but there will definitely be an influx of more successful players as time goes by in addition to the handful of the successful by longevity guys as well. This type is actually rather easy to predict. Usually they are just on the border of being a good player. The majority were actually converted starting pitchers who went to the bullpen and found some success there after failing as a starter. Guys I would expect to see hit the 10 year mark include Phil Hughes, Chris Volstad, and Carlos Quentin among others. The study predicted players that I perceive as borderline very well. In all, I agreed with nearly every determination in the study. The few that I disagreed with, tended to have injuries skew their statistics.
One question I wanted definitively answered was if tanking actually helped teams rebuild quicker. I would answer that with a resounding yes after seeing how successful the higher draft picks were compared to the mid to low picks especially when separated into the brackets.
Teams that chose in the top half of the draft had at least a 36% to find a successful player moving forward. Teams choosing in the top 5 had nearly a 50/50 chance. While teams had a little better than a 1 in 5 chance to land a quality player in the 16-25 range, if you weren't making the playoffs, you absolutely wanted to draft as high as possible.
As you can see the chance to find a superior player also drastically decreases the further you get in the draft. It was even more important for rebuilding teams to stay in the bottom 10 in the standings to have the best chance at acquiring impact talent. After the top 10, there is a significant drop off that levels off until the final bracket.
The second question I wanted to answer was if drafting had improved over the years as scouting and saber metrics had advanced. This is a little more difficult to answer but based purely on my research I would lean towards no. In the 90-95 bracket teams found a successful player 34% of the time and a superior player 18% of the time; however, those numbers dropped in the 96-00 bracket to 27% and 16%. In the final bracket, those numbers rebounded to 30% and 20%. While the successful player percentage is still lower than the first bracket, if you take into account that many players drafted between 00-06 have not been in the majors long enough to get out of their controlled years and there were zero longevity successes in this bracket, you could predict an increase of 12 more successes. That would increase the success percentage to 37% still within 3% of the 90-95's success rate. With modern medical advances, nutrition awareness, and less general wear and tear on players, I think there's a case to be made that we are seeing more successful players because injuries are less career threatening than ever before and players were able to keep a higher production and hang around the majors longer. You could also make the case that the 02′ and 05′ drafts are two of the best draft classes ever and those are skewing the numbers more positively. Moreover, there were a few cases like Brian Bogusevic who haven't been in the majors very long, put up a really good season, and that one year that carried him to a success result. In any case, there's no definitive evidence to conclude there was an improvement in scouting.
As for the Cubs, the organization wasn't as bad as I expected. Out of 17 draft picks in the first round, they came away with 5 good picks and 2 superior players for just shy of a 30% success rate. The average success rate was 30.64%, and the Cubs were tied for 14th, right in the middle of the pack. However, there were two problems. Foremost, three of their picks' careers were derailed by injury – Kerry Wood, Corey Patterson, and Mark Prior – and the team traded away Doug Glanville and Jon Garland for past their prime veterans. Second, there were zero successful picks after 2001. As Scouting Director from 1996-2002, Jim Hendry chose 4 of the 5 successful picks for a 57% success rate. The guy that assumed the role after Hendry, John Stockstill, went 0-3 before he left to join the Orioles. After Hendry turned to Tim Wilken, you can see a noticeable difference in talent through the draft with all four of his first picks already playing in the majors. Speaking of Tim Wilken, there's a good reason he's so highly regarded around the major leagues. While with Toronto and Tampa the two organizations went a combined 9-16 (56%). I am very happy the new front office kept him on board and have expanded his roles with the team.
I enjoyed working on this quite a bit. It was fun to take a stroll down memory lane, and it was also interesting to see what players I perceived as better or worse than they actually were. I had to triple check Corey Patterson's numbers after they said he was a success… and he wasn't the only player/team I was surprised by.
I'm not done with this study. I'm already expanding to the team stats and I will definitely revisit the study in a few years to update and expand it for more recent drafts. I will probably go back earlier than 1990 as well to continue to investigate if the success rate of organizations has improved or diminished over the decades.
If you have any suggestions how to improve the study, found an error or want to share any surprises you found, please leave them in the comments.


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India Journal: Spitting Distance in Jodhpur
By Sarah Khan
There were countless other places where the boy could have spit.
The road we were on was certainly no stranger to all manner of human emissions. The walls and stoops nearby were already mired in layers of filth. Open gutters were practically issuing invitations for his saliva. I wasn't standing between him and any of these options.
Sarah Khan is an editor at Travel + Leisure in New York. Read her blog …By Sarah Khan or follow her on Twitter at @BySarahKhan.


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I feel like I want a touch of spring in my hair soon. I searched youtube for the cutest and best flower headband tutorials that I could find, so I can go and make one on the upcoming weekend. Flower headbands are something that you can totally wear on a daily basis if you make them subtle enough to actually match your clothes. They always give the image of a very enchanted and fairy-like look, add a bit of the feminie side to your style (which is why I think they totally match jeans too, some kind of boyish Tinkerbell look). If you want to go a bit further, I would try to get some soft weaves or thighter curls into your hair, they would round off the whole look and frame your face nicely. Ah, can´t wait to make one!
5 things I am grateful for today:
- It seems like people have been in a post-full-moon-dizzyness today. Nobody was really "present" with their mind and people kept bumping into me. (No I´m not THAT small!) But yet I used every single opportunity to just smile at them and don´t make a big fuzz about it.
- skipping dinner for the second night now and so much looking forward to my big breakfast.
- It´s always a pleasure to meet old friends and work together with them.
- My nerdy family, who totally gets me when I come home to turn on the laptop and write a blogpost, even though I just sat in front of a computer screen for the last hours at work.
- rainy mornings that fill the sky with soft coulds.
Happy Monday to you!


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29 January 2012
Press Release
Following a thrilling and somewhat chaotic testing and practice session on Thursday evening , which saw several cars damaged in high speed incidents and remarkable all night work by the mechanics to get the cars repaired, Bassam Kronfli and Raed Hassan driving their Radical SR8 romped away to win both Radical Cup races held at the Yas Marina Circuit. In the more hotly contested Radical SR 3 class, Tony Wells and James Littlejohn were the class act and also scored wins in both races.
Whilst the two cars dominated both races in their respective classes, there were tightly fought contests throughout the field. In race one Perry Johansson the Swedish driver from Qatar recovered from a very poor start to catch and pass the new driver pairing of Hassan Dargahi and well known local driver Tarek Elgammal in the final few laps to secure second place in the SR3 class.
Race two saw Johansson repeat his second place but this time having to fend off strong competition from local driver Juma Al Dhaheri and Qatari Abdulrahman Al Thani. Further back in the field, newcomer to the Series, the experienced Dutch driver Rob Frijns racing a Radical for the first time had an exciting and closely fought race with AUH Motorsports driver Sean Stevens until spinning out of contention in the final stages.
At the Awards ceremony after the final race, Carl Rolaston, Managing Director of AUH Motorsports, the Radical Cup promoters announced the establishment of a new trophy to be awarded in the UAE Radical Cup Series to commemorate the life of popular local driver Christophe Hissette. Jean Louis Hissette, Christophe's father , said, "Christophe lived life to the full and whether racing cars or karts he was always trying to achieve the perfect lap. This award will therefore be awarded annually to the UAE registered driver that achieves the most number of fastest race laps in the Radical Cup Series."


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Deadline to apply for area grants is Friday
MARTINSBURG – The Eastern West Virginia Community Foundation will award more than $100,000 in youth & education grants to area nonprofit organizations, schools, churches and other charitable groups this year.
Michael Whalton, executive director of the Community Foundation, said area charities serving Jefferson, Berkeley and Morgan counties are eligible to apply.
Those organizations interested in the 2013 Youth & Education Grants may submit an application online or by mail up until Friday's deadline.
Grant applications and instructions can be found on the community foundation's website at www.EWVCF.org or by calling 304-264-0353.
Most of the Youth and Education grants range from $500 to $5,000, with a wide variety of projects and programs funded during the past 17 years.
"Thanks to steady growth of our endowed funds, we'll award more than $100,000 in youth and education grants in 2013," Whalton said. "The average endowment at the Community Foundation grew by nearly 12 percent last year thanks to strong market returns and a prudent investment policy."
The Eastern West Virginia Community Foundation, founded in 1995, provides financial stewardship for more than 150 endowed funds and manages approximately $15 million in total assets. Grantmaking during the past three years has exceeded $3 million, with a large portion of that being granted to Martinsburg/Berkeley County Parks and Recreation by the W. Randy Smith Family Fund to construct the new South Berkeley Rec Center, which is slated to open this summer.
More information is available by visiting www.EWVCF.org, calling 304-264-0353 or writing to 229 E Martin St., Suite 4, Martinsburg, WV 25401.
– From staff reports


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Swiss bike producer Zaboo Bikes has introduced for 2011 one of their new models, the 29er hardtailed carbon fiber built Zombie bike.
The Zamboo's Zombie sports a 12k carbon fiber structure along with an in-frame cable routing and is currently available right now in sizes ranging from 17, 19 and even 21". Color choices include Green, white and black and is priced at $1729.
The bike's fork uses a Rock Shox Reba team while the frame weighs around 1400g. Mountain bike enthusiasts can order in advance through Zaboo's official website.


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No dial tone?
The cause could be affecting your whole neighborhood or it might only be inside your home. You might be able to fix the problem without waiting for a visit from CenturyLink.
Is the dial tone problem inside or outside of your home?
Plug a traditional corded telephone into the "test jack" on the box where the outside and inside phone wiring connect (also known as the Network Interface Device, or NID). Depending on your home, your NID (and the test jack) may be inside or outside of your home.
Not sure where your NID is? Go ahead and skip to the next step.
- If there is no dial tone OR the dial tone doesn't sound clear, then the problem needs to be addressed by CenturyLink, with no expense to you. All you need to do is create a repair ticket.
- If there is a clear sounding dial tone, then the problem is somewhere inside your home and you should continue with the next steps.
Check the phone jacks and equipment inside your home.
The problem could be inside your home, either with your phones or your wiring. Here's how to isolate the potential problem.
First, make sure all phones are hung up correctly. If you find any phones off the hook, hang them up, give it a moment and then see if this corrects the problem.
Next, anything that is plugged into a phone jack should be unplugged from the phone jack and the electrical outlet. Then using a corded phone that you know works properly, plug it into each jack, one after the other. Check for a clear dial tone.
- If all jacks have a clear dial tone with a corded phone, then you may simply need to replace the phone that is not working or replace a dead phone battery.
- If you find one or more of your jacks does not have a clear dial tone, then usually it is an inside wiring problem. You can either request a CenturyLink repair (additional charges may apply) or hire an electrician to fix the problem.
Need a little more detailed instructions? Learn more about how to troubleshoot for static or noise on your phone line, or no dial tone.
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Get rid of annoying noises on your phone line
Static, hissing, echoes and other noises you hear on your landline are often caused by simple things you can check and correct on your own.
Do you have CenturyLink Internet service? Your phone signal and your data signal are both transmitted over the same line. DSL filters split the signal going through the line between your voice or phone service and your data or internet service. They are essential to getting the best possible results from both, your phone and internet connection.
Double check that you have DSL filters connected properly to all devices, including:
- Telephone answering machine
- Caller ID box
- Television receivers
- Home security system
- Fax machines
- Automatic water meter
Find and replace any damaged or bad DSL filters.
- Leave your telephone and your modem attached to the phone line, but disconnect all other devices from all phone jacks. Check the sound on your phone to see if the noise has cleared.
- One at a time, reattach the filtered device to its phone jack and check the sound on the line again. If you find that the sound gets bad after reattaching a particular filtered device then replace that filter.
Using a cordless phone? You may be experiencing interference or there may be problems with the phone.
Other electronic products can cause interference with your cordless phone. Try installing your phone as far away as possible from these types of electronic devices:
- modems
- wireless networking equipment
- personal computers
- radios and televisions
- cell phones
- other cordless phones
- intercoms and room monitors
- kitchen appliances
If your cordless handset has a CHANNEL (or CHAN) button, press it in order to improve the sound quality. You many need to press the button more than once.
Move the handset closer to the base.
- The operating range may vary with environmental conditions and time of use. There may be places within your home that a cordless phone will not work well.
- To get better reception, try moving the telephone base to higher location.
Your phones battery may not be fully charged or the batteries may be flat (not holding a recharge), try replacing the battery.
Check phone cords for damage or cracks and replace if necessary.
Avoid using line splitters - adapters that allow two phones to fit on one phone jack. They can cause phone line noise.


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LAKELAND, Fla. -- First it was Anita Bryant. Now it's Rush Limbaugh. The Florida Citrus Commission here is embroiled in a controversy the likes of which it hasn't seen since 1977 when Florida orange juice spokeswoman and former Miss America contestant Anita Bryant made national headlines for starting an anti-gay campaign. As a result of her campaign, gays and their supporters protested the citrus commission's contract with Bryant and initiated nationwide boycotts of Florida orange juice. ...
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I'm starting to actually feel this stock. I knew it was going to shake down. We may see $.50 before $1...very weak hands in the stock and MM manipulating it! Be strong...
Sentiment: Strong Buy
Yeah, we'll be hearing the dreaded "delisting" talk any day now followed by "reverse split" talk. I outsmarted myself when I bought this after the dip from the dilution thinking it would just go right back up to the $2 mark. I'm feeling like a real #$%$ now!
Same here my friend. I bought afterth the initial rally up through $2. I think I paid $1.75 and then after dilution I dubbed down at 1.25 and I'm still way under water. Don't hate me but I hope she hits $.50 so I can double down again.
mee too, but as soon as all the longs are squeezed out, which looks like is happening right now, there will be a bounce back. for me it looks manipulated as well. what we need is news news news news. sales figues. in 6 months this stock will be worth 0.10 or 2 usd(without a reversed split), I still believe in it and I add some more.


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The program is specifically targeted to Latino men who attend Latino-identified gay bars and events in the Mission District and surrounding areas in San Francisco and the Bay Area at large.
We provide services to men who self-identify as gay or bisexual in the Latino community, rather than the more inclusive "men who have sex with men" (MSM) category.
We believe that more appropriate interventions targeting heterosexual-identified MSMs are beyond the scope of the present project. However, many of our targeted self-identified gay/bisexual men are not publicly-identified as such. Therefore, our interventions are sensitive to and take into account the specific difficulties of "coming out" for this group of men. Of special concern are issues related to coming out to families for whom their children's homosexuality is typically a source of shame and dishonor.
We are targeting Spanish-speaking, non-acculturated men, mostly of low socioeconomic status. Unlike Latinos who actively participate in the mainstream gay community, for example, non-acculturated men participate in a unique culture of homosexual behavior that is typical of rural Latin America and non-industrialized countries.
Our interventions are designed taking into account unique aspects of this culture, such as the fact that homosexuality is defined as a "gender" rather than an "orientation" issue — homosexuals are seen as women in men's bodies or as less than "real" men — with a high prevalence of transvestite and transgender persons (hence the program name "of Moon and Sun" with implicit reference to the integration of masculine and feminine characteristics).
In addition, many non-acculturated men retain strong ties to their families and the straight Latino community, often at the price of silence about their lives and a sense of personal isolation and alienation. This sense of isolation is reinforced by a lack of integration to the mainstream (mostly-White) gay community due to issues of racism and classism, and a lack of integration to workplace, church, or social organizations because of strong homophobia in the Latino community.
The program is available also to Latino gay male clients of Mission Neighborhood Health Center's HIV Program and their partners.
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After hitting commuters with record fare hikes on its trains and buses earlier this year, NJ Transit now wants to raise parking fees at dozens of its lots by as much as $1 a day.
Agency officials, while acknowledging the tough economic times, said fees at many of its 140 parking lots have not increased in more than five years, while utilities, insurance and other costs of maintaining them keep going up.
The increases would take effect Feb. 1 and raise parking costs by a third or more for some commuters who saw a 25-percent fare hike — along with various service cuts — in May.
"We do understand that these are tough economic times for our customers," said Penny Bassett-Hackett, an NJ Transit spokeswoman. But, she said, "we want to be able to provide them with quality facilities, and we need to offset the expense of providing parking."
Bassett-Hackett said the increases are necessary to pay for the operation and maintenance of the lots, including lighting, snow removal, resurfacing and other upkeep and insurance.
The increases would apply to daily and monthly fees, with some daily rates rising from $3 to $4 and monthly fees going from $25 to $40, depending upon the lot.
Bassett-Hackett said the proposed increases are unrelated to NJ Transit's plan to lease 37,000 parking spaces at scores of lots it owns around the state to a private firm, a strategy proposed by Executive Director James Weinstein to help close a $100 million budget gap.
Weinstein first discussed raising the parking fees during remarks to the NJ Transit board last week.
The increases would apply to about three dozen lots at NJ Transit bus and train stations throughout the state, Bassett-Hackett said. The agency is still finalizing the list and she declined to provide locations. The agency hopes to finalize the list by the end of the year, she said, adding that the increases do not require board approval or public hearings.
Bassett-Hackett acknowledged the increases could lead some people to change their commuting habits.
The proposed increases were criticized by Assemblyman John Wisniewski (D-Middlesex), who chairs the Assembly Transportation Committee and the state Democratic party.
"It would seem that Governor (Chris) Christie and the NJ Transit Board of Directors have gotten into the holiday spirit just in time for Christmas — giving commuters a 33 percent fee hike for the privilege of parking their car to take the bus or train," Wisniewski said in a statement.
A spokesman for Christie declined to comment.
Staff Writer Mike Frassinelli contributed to this report.


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For decades, the streets of the Bowery, Manhattan's skid row, were filled with down and out individuals hung-over, panhandling, homeless and without hope. In 1971, a small group of these men came together and bravely decided to change their lives through recovery, caring professional support, and community action. The Bowery Residents' Committee (BRC) was born.
BRC's legacy still resonates in our programs and the people we serve, even as both have grown and changed, adapting to the needs of those we serve. BRC is where change happens – where individuals change their lives and where our programs adapt in response to new challenges and changing needs. We engage men and women who have serious and complex problems at a point when they are ready to take the risk inherent in trying to turn their lives around. Our programs empower our clients with the knowledge and skills to permanently overcome poverty, addiction, physical and mental illness, homelessness, and unemployment.


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Risk Assessment of E. coli O157:H7 in Beef
Quarterly Progress Report November 1998
This is the first formal quarterly report of the Food Safety and Inspection Service Office of Public Health and Science (FSIS/OPHS) Risk Assessment of E. coli O157:H7 in Beef. The risk assessment project was initiated on June 16, 1998.
The overall goals of the assessment are to: 1. quantitatively model, with attendant uncertainty, human illnesses caused by E. coli 0157:H7 in beef in the United States and to compare these results with national estimates of illnesses derived from observed epidemiological data; 2. identify the occurrence and levels of the pathogen at points along the farm-to-table continuum and the contribution of these points to the number of human illnesses; 3. quantify the effects of various mitigation strategies in reducing the number of human illnesses; 4. identify future research needs; 5. document risk assessment methods and evidence for future assessments; 6. document changes in the risk assessment model and its inputs; 7. effectively communicate the results to all interested parties--government, consumer groups, industry, the scientific community and the general public.
In the past five and one-half months FSIS has: (a) formed a risk assessment team and formalized the team's charter; (b) issued a public announcement of the risk assessment (Fed. Reg., Vol. 63, p. 44232); (c) begun gathering background scientific literature and data on E. coli O157:H7 and the beef production process; and (d) held a public meeting on October 28 to solicit input and advice from interested parties and released a draft report, "Preliminary Pathways and Data for a Risk Assessment of E. coli O157:H7 in Beef."
Risk Assessment Team and Team Charter
The core risk assessment team consists of a multidisciplinary group of analysts with proficiency in the methods of risk assessment and graduate training in veterinary medicine, epidemiology, microbiology, ecology, economics, and public policy. The team consists of seven members: Peg Coleman, MS, FSIS/OPHS Epidemiology and Risk Assessment Division (ERAD); Peter Cowen, PhD, DVM, FSIS/OPHS/ERAD and North Carolina State University; Eric Ebel, DVM, MS, FSIS/OPHS Emerging Pathogens and Zoonotic Diseases Division (EPZDD); Clare Narrod, PhD, American Association for the Advance of Science (AAAS) Fellow, FSIS/OPHS/ERAD; Tanya Roberts, PhD, US Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service; Wayne Schlosser, DVM, MPH, FSIS/OPHS/EPZDD. The team is led by Mark Powell, PhD, AAAS Fellow, FSIS/OPHS/ERAD.
The team charter states that a baseline risk assessment will serve to identify risk factors and high-risk pathways under current practices of production, slaughter, processing, transportation, storage, and preparation. The baseline risk assessment will inform a distinct FSIS policy analysis that will identify feasible risk mitigation options for further comparative analysis. A subsequent comparative risk assessment will provide decision-makers with information concerning the efficacy of the alternative mitigation strategies and a tool to evaluate these strategies to decrease the number of human illnesses resulting from E. coli 0157:H7 in beef. FSIS's goal is to issue a draft report for external review and comment in June 1999, a final technical report in July 1999, and a final report for the general public in August 1999.
Public Announcement
A public announcement of the risk assessment was published in the Federal Register on August 18, 1998 (Vol. 63, p. 44232, ). The purpose of the notice was to: (1) give public notice of FSIS' intent to conduct the risk assessment; (2) solicit from the public scientific information and data that would
be relevant to conducting the risk assessment; and (3) announce the October 28 public meeting. The Federal Register announcement also established a docket (Docket #98-037N) for receiving public comments and submissions of data or analyses regarding the assessment.
Public Meeting and Release of Preliminary Pathways and Data
A public meeting was held in Arlington, VA on October 28, 1998. The purposes of the meeting were to: 1. solicit comment and input regarding the scope of the risk assessment, the analytical framework to be used in conducting the risk assessment, the scientific evidence acquired by the risk assessment team to date from the available literature, and the existing data gaps identified by the risk assessment team; 2. release the Preliminary Pathways and Data for a Risk Assessment of E. coli O157:H7 in Beef. The draft report was not intended to present results, preliminary or otherwise. Comments and additional data identified during the public meeting or submitted to the docket in response to the August 18, 1998 Federal Register Notice by January 8, 1999 will be evaluated for inclusion in the development of the draft risk assessment model. An electronic version of the draft report can be located at: Preliminary Pathways and Data.
The public meeting was attended by more than 60 individuals. After a welcome from Margaret Glavin, FSIS Deputy Administrator for Policy, Program Development, and Evaluation, Dr. Patty Griffin, the Chief of the Epidemiology Section at the National Center for Infectious Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, gave an overview of E. coli 0157:H7 microbiology and epidemiology. CDC currently estimates that each year in the U.S., there are 20,000 or more E. coli O157:H7 infections, with 500-1000 cases of hemolytic uremic syndrome, and 50-100 deaths. Dr. Griffin reported that CDC is in the process of revising these estimates. Dr. Richard Whiting of the Food and Drug Administration Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition gave a presentation on modeling growth and decline of E. coli O157:H7. Dr. Mark Powell gave an overview of the risk assessment team's goals for the meeting and described the proposed analysis plan. Dr. Eric Ebel, Dr. Tanya Roberts, Dr. Wayne Schlosser, and Peg Coleman provided, respectively, overviews of the production, slaughter, preparation, and public health segments of the farm-to-table risk assessment model. Each core team presenter underscored the significant data gaps identified in the draft "Preliminary Pathways and Data" report and the need for additional data (e.g., data on the prevalence of E. coli O157:H7 in raw beef trim prior to grinding). Public presentations were made by: Dr. Ann Hollingsworth, Keystone Foods Corporation; Dr. Larry Borchert, American Meat Institute; Dr. Peter Mrozinski, Qualicon, Inc.; Dr. Harless McDaniel, American Veterinary Identification Devices; Dr. John Sofos, Colorado State University; Richard Wood, Food Animal Concerns Trust; Nancy Donley, President, Safe Tables Our Priority; and Caroline Smith Dewaal, Director of Food Safety, Center for Science in the Public Interest. A complete transcript of the public meeting is on file in the FSIS docket.
A major theme running through the public comments was concern that the proposed scope of the analysis was limited to foods containing ground beef and thereby omitted other important sources of E. coli O157:H7 infections such as vegetables, produce, juice, water, and person-to-person transmission. FSIS officials explained that in order to make the analysis tractable and in light of resource and time constraints, the scope of the assessment would necessarily have to be delimited. The risk assessment model will be constructed to permit future iterations to incorporate a broader set of beef products. Furthermore, CDC is currently charged with estimating the total disease burden of E. coli O157:H7 from all products based on epidemiologic surveillance data. The scope of the assessment will be finalized after the January 8, 1999 close of the comment period on the draft preliminary pathways and data report.
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|[TowerTalk] Keeping Beverages Straight?
|firstname.lastname@example.com (Mike Walker)
|Wed, 12 Nov 1997 10:57:23 -0500
Bill I have to agree. We run our 1000ft beverage (measured with a GPS so, plus and minus SA) through the woods, and terminated at each end. This one of those things where you don't need to measure it with a micrometer...just do it. Mike VA3MW At 02:44 PM 12/11/97, Richard L. King wrote: >At 08:40 PM 11/11/97 -0500, W4AN wrote: >> >>I think I am doing an OK job of keeping my beverages straight. But much of >>it is done by trial and error. I string a beverage... start walking back >>to the feedpoint and realize that I made a few degree turn at some point >>during the run. My problem is that the woods are so thick that I can't get >>a bearing on anything far away. My compass (low quality) hasn't been much >>help either. Maybe I need a new one? Any other suggestions appreciated. >> >>73 >> >>Bill, W4AN > >Good morning Bill. > >In New York I had six beverages running through thick woods up and down >over ridges, etc. I ran them by setting up the roll of wire on sawhorses so >that I could pull it out easily. Then with my trusty 40-year-old boy scout >compass and the end of the wire over my shoulder, I would start pulling it >through the woods. > >From the starting point I would use the compass to sight the furthest tree >I wanted to go towards. Along the way I would lay the wire over limbs to >keep it off the ground. When I reached my target tree, I would again use >the compass to sight another tree as far away as possible (remember that >these were thick woods). Eventually I got to where I couldn't go further >(Usually streams or cliffs). > >The beverages all worked excellent. Yes, there were wiggles and bends. But >the overall direction was consistent and I could hear things that I >couldn't hear on the transmit antenna. The beverages (all terminated) had >excellent front to back, front to side, etc. > >If you are a purist, then you might prefer to clear a few acres of flat >terrain and run the beverages straight as an arrow. They will work a little >better that way but not enough to make it worth your while, especially at >your QTH. > >Good luck. > >73, Richard >firstname.lastname@example.com ================================================= Mike Walker VA3MW Corbeil Contest Club -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/towertalkfaq.html Submissions: firstname.lastname@example.com Administrative requests: firstname.lastname@example.com Problems: email@example.com Search: http://www.contesting.com/km9p/search
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TRAVERSE CITY -- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service published a rule Wednesday that formally returns gray wolves in the upper Great Lakes region to the endangered species list.
The rule fulfills a deal made with environmental groups in July, when the agency promised to reinstate the wolves' protected status while considering its next move.
Earlier this year, the government dropped about 4,000 wolves in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin from the list, turning over management of the predators to state wildlife regulators.
Activist groups sued, saying state plans were inadequate and would open the door to future hunting and trapping. The federal agency agreed to put wolves back on the endangered list for now, in part because it erred by removing them without a legally required public comment period.


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Ronald Mallett, Ph.D., is a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Connecticut. He is also a member of both the American Physical Society and the National Society of Black Physicists. He has a BS, MS, and PhD in physics from Pennsylvania State University. The oldest of four children, Ron's life changed forever when his beloved father died of a heart attack. The ten-year-old was overwhelmed with grief-until he read a copy of The Time Machine by H.G. Wells. He was determined to make Wells' fantasy a reality by going back in time to see his father.
Remarkably, not only did the boy from the Bronx stick with this vision, becoming one of the country's few African-American Ph.D.'s in theoretical physics, but Mallett has, according to many peers in the field, developed new theories relating to Einstein's general theory of relativity that plausibly argue for the existence of time travel into the past. In addition, Ron's time-travel research has been featured in an hour-long TV special on the Learning Channel, "The World's First Time Machine."
Past Shows:
Time Travel & Physics
Professor of theoretical physics at University of Connecticut Ronald Mallett presented an update on the work at the Large Hadron Collider, as well as the latest in his work on time travel, and the centennial celebration of Einstein's general theory of relativity. First hour guest, naturopathic physician, health-talk radio host, and lecturer Peter Glidden shared updates on alternative health... More »Host: George Noory
Time Travel/ Mojave Desert Tales
In the first half, Professor of theoretical physics Ronald Mallett gave an update on his quest to develop a time machine (he was originally inspired to do this after the early death of his father). In the latter half, clairvoyant, and earth mysteries investigator Betsey Lewis discussed her work researching bizarre tales of the Mojave Valley in California including underground tunnels,... More »Host: George Noory
Time Travel
Physics Professor Ronald Mallett discussed his breakthrough research on time travel, which is based on Einstein's theories of relativity. "If we can control gravity with a device, then we can actually control time, as well, and that could lead to a machine," he said. First hour guest, Internet privacy and technology expert, Lauren Weinstein, commented on a new kind of electronic... More »Host: George Noory
The Quest for Time Travel
Professor Ronald Mallett spoke about the feasibility of time travel, overcoming its limitations, and his plans to build a time machine. After the early death of his father, he became obsessed with the idea of creating a time machine so he could go back and see him. He suggested that gravity can be thought of as a medium rather than a force. Black holes control gravity, and if a person was close... More »Host: George Noory
Developing Time Travel
Professor of Physics at the Univ. of Conn., Dr. Ron Mallett shared his research into time travel. ... More »Host: George Noory
Towards a Time Machine
Professor of Physics at the Univ. of Conn., Dr. Ron Mallett shared his concept for a time machine, based on Einstein's two theories of relativity. ... More »Host: Art Bell