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Our Yoga Alliance certified 200 hour yoga teacher training course in India takes place at our Yoga ashram in Khajuraho, central India. It is a professional yoga training which enables the graduates to teach Classical Yoga through out the world. Our professional yoga training course ; 200 hour yoga teacher training India -meets and exceeds the international standard and syllabus criteria of 200 hour international yoga teacher certification requirements. It is a professional and extensive yoga training course which is designed and developed by our senior teachers over a period of time through personal teaching experience and thorough research.
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Our course covers 200 contact hours and an extensive syllabus of 160 Hatha yoga asanas, vedic philosophies, extensive teaching skills and unique correction techniques, meditation, basic anatomy and physiology. For full details please visit: 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training India Curriculum
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In the end of the course there will be a theory and a practical test. On passing these exams and enough attendance hours you will receive Yoga Alliance and International Yoga Federation accredited certificate.
The certificate enables you top teach worldwide and register with any Yoga federation and Yoga Alliance.
All our teachers are well experienced and experts in their fields. The course is run under direction of our head teacher Yogi Ram. Yogi Ram has an invaluable teaching experience of fourteen years at some of most prestigious yoga institutions worldwide.
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Eating Disorder Referral and Information Center
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Anorexia Nervosa
Defining characteristics of Anorexia Nervosa:
Individuals with anorexia nervosa are unwilling or unable to maintain a body weight that is normal or expectable for their age and height (most clinicians use 85% of normal weight as a guide). Individuals with anorexia nervosa typically display a pronounced fear of weight gain and a dread of becoming fat although they are dramatically underweight. Concerns and perceptions about their weight have a extremely powerful influence and impact on their self-evaluation. The seriousness of the weight loss and its physical effects is minimized or denied (women with the diagnosis of anorexia nervosa have missed at least three consecutive menstrual cycles).
Diagnostic criteria of anorexia nervosa include two subtypes of the disorder that describe two distinct behavioral patterns. Individuals with the Restricting Type maintain their low body weight purely by restricting food intake and increased activity (i.e. compulsive exercise). Those with the Binge-Eating/Purging Type usually restrict their food intake but also regularly engage in binge eating and/or purging behaviors (i.e. self-induced vomiting or the misuse of laxatives, diuretics or enemas). Binge-Eating/Purging Type of Anorexia Nervosa is also frequently associated with other impulse control problems and mood disorders.
People who suffer from anorexia often have low self-esteem and a tremendous need to control their surroundings and emotions. The eating disorder is often a reaction to external and internal conflicts (i.e. anxiety, stress, and unhappiness can be leading factors).
Profile: Anorexia Nervosa
The person suffering Anorexia is generally extremely sensitive about being fat, or has an intense fear of becoming fat, and of losing control over the amount of food he/she eats. This hyper-sensitivity is accompanied by the desire to control his/her emotions and reactions to these emotions. Low self-esteem and the constant need for acceptance leads to obsessive dieting and starvation as a way to control not only weight, but also feelings and actions regarding their emotions. Many anorexics feel they are not deserving of life's gifts and pleasures. They often deprive themselves of situations that offer pleasure. Starvation or restriction, obsessive exercise, calorie counting, a constant obsession with food and health issues, self-induced vomiting, the use of excessive amounts of laxative, diuretics, and/or diet pills, and a persistent concern with body image can all be some of the physical indications that someone suffers from Anorexia Nervosa. People suffering with Anorexia may also go through periods of Bulimia (binging and purging) as well.
There are numerous ways a person with Anorexia can exhibit their disorder. The anorexic attempts to maintain strict control over food/caloric intake. Periods of starvation, obsessive counting of calories, compulsive exercising, and/or purging after meals are among the most common symptoms. In some cases, an anorexic will seem to eat normal meals with only periods of restriction. They use diet pills to control their appetite, or laxatives to attempt to rid their body of food, both of which are dangerous and useless in producing weight loss results. Anorexics will deny hunger, make excuses to avoid eating, will often hide food they claim to have eaten, or attempt to purge the food away with self-induced vomiting, or by taking laxatives.
Diagnostic Criteria: Anorexia Nervosa
The following definition of Anorexia Nervosa is used to assist mental health professionals in making a clinical diagnosis. The clinical criteria is not always representative of what one living with anorexia feels. Please note, you can still suffer from Anorexia even if one of the below signs is not present. One can not simply read the criteria and think "I don't have one of the symptoms, so I am not Anorexic" or "I don't have a problem with food."
1. Refusal to maintain body weight at or above a minimally normal weight for age and height (e.g., weight loss leading to maintenance of body weight less than 85% of that expected; or failure to make expected weight gain during period of growth, leading to body weight less than 85% of that expected).
2. Intense fear of gaining weight or becoming fat, even though underweight.
3. Disturbance in the way in which one's body weight or shape is experienced, undue influence of body weight or shape on self-evaluation, or denial of the seriousness of the current low body weight.
4. In postmenarcheal females (the absence of at least three consecutive menstrual cycles.
Restricting Type: during the current episode of Anorexia Nervosa, the person has not regularly engaged in binge-eating or purging behavior (i.e., self-induced vomiting or the misuse of laxatives, diuretics, or enemas).
Binge-Eating Type or Purging Type: during the current episode of Anorexia Nervosa, the person has regularly engaged in binge-eating OR purging behavior (i.e., self-induced vomiting or the misuse of laxatives, diuretics, or enemas).
Definition/Review of Anorexia Nervosa:
Anorexia Nervosa is an eating disorder effected by a complex mixture of social, psychological and physical problems.
Characteristics are:
A. An intense drive for thinness
B. An intense fear of gaining weight or becoming fat
C. A disturbance in body image
D. In women- a cessation of the menstrual cycle for at least three months
E. In men- a decreased sexual drive
Facts About Anorexia Nervosa:
A. There are two types of Anorexia Nervosa:
1. Restrictive type
2. Binge eating/purging type.
B. 90-95% of individuals with Anorexia Nervosa are female.
C. It affects about 1 in 2400 adolescents.
D. It typically develops in early to mid-adolescents.
E. Psychological problems are displaced onto food.
F. It is usually preceded by dieting behavior.
G. Unusual food behaviors are practiced.
H. Need to vicariously enjoy food by cooking it, serving it, or being around it is common.
I. Preoccupation with body weight and image.
J. Dieting becomes increasingly important.
K. Denial of the condition can be extreme.
L. Body image disturbance (misperception of body size and shape) is common.
M. Pronounced emotional changes are common.
N. One-third of anorexics subsequently develop Bulimia Nervosa.
Common purging behaviors include:
A. Self-induced vomiting
B. Diuretic abuse
C. Laxative abuse
D. Emetic abuse
E. Excessive exercise
F. Fasting
Both Anorexia and Bulimia:
Eating disorders are very complex emotional issues. Though they may seem to be nothing but a dangerously obsessive dietary concern on the surface, for most men and women suffering with an eating disorder there are deeper emotional conflicts to be resolved.
Things that can increase your chances of getting anorexia are called risk factors. Here's a list of some of them. (From the British Medical Journal)
To begin your search for help and referrals CLICK HERE
American Psychiatric Association (1998), Eating Disorders.
ANRED, www.anred.com
Dept. of Health and Human Services (1987, 1995). Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia.
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. (4th ed.). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 1994.
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Dewar says stop the arms sales to Russia
The NDP says Prime Minister Stephen Harper should order Canadian industry to stop selling military weapons and equipment to Russia, as long as the Russians continue to occupy Ukrainian territory.
Most Canadians are not aware that while Harper and his MPs were denouncing Russia for invading Crimea and imposing political and diplomatic sanctions against it, Canadian companies kept right on doing business with Russia as if nothing had happened.
NDP Foreign Relations critic Paul Dewar said this week that it makes no sense to impose political sanctions at the same time we continue to sell weapons and military equipment to Russia.
Canada sells military electronics, aircraft parts and spare parts for communications equipment to the Russians.
Dewar says suspension of trade in military equipment with Russia should remain in force until there is a diplomatic solution to the crisis.
This week, Germany led the way and announced that it was suspending military trade with Russia. Germany is the leading supplier of weapons to Russia.
Combined with the recent travel bans against senior Russian officers and politicians has sent a very clear message to Russian President Vladimir Putin that Canada 's solidarity with the Ukrainian people is important.
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When Jesus reads from the scroll in his local synagogue, he is exegeting the opening lines from Isaiah 61. The book of Isaiah is huge and it basically breaks into two halves – a prophecy about judgment and a prophecy and comfort. Isaiah 61 comes right in the middle of this comfort section.
The whole portion of scripture sounds like this:
The Lord God's spirit is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me. He has sent me to bring good news to the poor, to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim release for captives, and liberation for prisoners, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor
and a day of vindication for our God, to comfort all who mourn, to provide for Zion's mourners, to give them a crown in place of ashes, oil of joy in place of mourning, a mantle of praise in place of discouragement.
Isaiah's prophecy is about a new King and a new Kingdom, it is about renewal and rebirth, it is about hope and restoration. It sounds a lot like Christ's message and his beatitudes doesn't it? It's a passage about optimism, about building up, about healing and giving people a strong foundation to stand on and encouragement for their future.
Jesus takes this ancient text and he says – "This is me. This is what I am going to do."
"The Lord God's spirit is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me. He has sent me to bring good news to the poor…"
You can just picture Jesus reading this and pointing to himself while he does it.
"…to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim release for captives, and liberation for prisoners…"
To bind up, would mean to "heal" this is a foreshadowing of all of Jesus' healing miracles – releasing the captives looks forward to all the times Jesus will tell someone that their "sins are forgiven" and liberation of the prisoners – will be Jesus' ultimate mission – to be a sacrifice for sin and to release the world from the curse of darkness.
And then Jesus says that his mission includes "…to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor
and a day of vindication for our God."
What is that?
Well the year of the Lord, or the Sabbath year was something that the Jews were supposed to observe. Every 7th year they would not reap or harvest or prune the fields, it was a year of rest for crops. And then every 50th year was to be a Year of Jubilee or the Year of the Lord's favor. In short it was a year to cancel all debts, return leveraged land to their rightful owners and to free slaves. It was a clean slate – it was a fresh start – it was a year of do-over.
And that's a pretty tall order, cancel all debts? Free all slaves, return borrowed land? Can you imagine? Not surprisingly, historians can find no evidence that the year of the Lord's favor was ever put into practice. It's a hard thing to do, looks great on paper, but I doubt people were excited about it.
But Jesus steps onto the scene and he says, "the year of freedom – the year of cancelled debts" starts with me and it starts right now.
Wouldn't that be gospel to your ears if you were poor? Wouldn't that be good news if you were a slave? So, obviously, the gospel needs to be something that Jesus preached, it was a message – and it had something to do with debt cancellation, the year of jubilee, slaves being set free and the healing of infirmities. Right?
Think of it like this, when Jesus preached the gospel, there was no New Testament, and so there were no gospel writings. In fact, at the time that Jesus preached, there was no cross. So the gospel of Jesus existed before the cross and before the bible. So it had to be "good news" to the people who lived then, right?
And all of this starts with the scroll of Isaiah, which for us, is the Old Testament. So we could say that the Gospel begins there – the gospel begins with the Old Testament, it begins with those hopes and those promises and those dreams.
The Book of Genesis, the very first book of the bible begins, "In the beginning" and it is there in those pages that the gospel begins, because it is there in those pages that the waiting begins. God makes his creation, and he gives it to the inhabitants – us – people. But those people rebel, they fail their tests and the relationship between God and humanity is broken. So then the bible takes a new turn, it becomes a book about waiting – about hoping – about the coming King who will one day restore the world BACK to the way it should be.
The same book of Isaiah contains the passage we read at Christmas time:
Isaiah 9:6-7
"For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given. And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end. Upon the throne of David and over His kingdom, to order it and establish it with judgment and justice from that time forward, even forever. "
This is who everyone was waiting for.
This Messiah will be a wonderful governor, a King on a throne – with a Kingdom; and not just any Kingdom, but a Kingdom of God that has no end.
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Have these men no shame? Do they feel so entitled, so unique in their abilities, that they won't just slink quietly off the public stage? How ill-informed and easily manipulated do they think voters are? It's been said that voters get the leaders they deserve. We soon shall see.
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Reader Josh Greenberger writes (Letters, July 5) that one can prove the existence of God. Why then is there a hugely disproportionate number of brilliant Jews, including Albert Einstein, who did not and do not believe in the personal God of Judaism? Wikipedia has a lengthy list of Jewish atheists and agnostics. Only emunah – faith – can make a Jew believe, especially in the post-Holocaust era.
Even if one could somehow prove that a powerful being created the universe, that still would not mean he is the God of Judaism, whose greatness one cannot even begin to conceive. The being could be omnipotent but not omniscient, or omnipotent and omniscient but not all-good.
The path to belief in God is in appreciating that God is not only the Creator of the universe but also its constant Sustainer. As we declare in Shacharit: "And in His goodness He renews daily, perpetually, the work of Creation."
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A beautiful piece of jewelry is hard to resist, so it's not surprising that jewelry has inspired pieces for the home as well, including several new mirror designs.
"The current use of gleaming metallic and romantic crystal jewelry on the runway is being echoed in the home--particularly in accent pieces, such as mirrors, frames, pillows, portables and all kinds of lighting," said Maria Scutaro, president, Feiss, which has always looked to jewelry as an inspiration. "This all demonstrates our increased confidence in the economy and the optimism it brings--we become more playful and bolder with our own sense of style." Feiss's line includes the company's popular Valentina mirror, bedazzled with crystals.
At Alden Parkes in April, the company debuted two jewelry-inspired styles: the handcarved Necklace mirror, embedded with Swarovski crystal accents, and the Bracelet mirror.
"Jewelry is elegant," said Lynne McArdle, president, Alden Parkes, and translates easily into home decor. "Our customers love it." Available in 28-, 38- and 48-inch sizes diagonally, the Necklace mirror was inspired by a Harry Winston necklace she saw with designer Jon Spurlock and told him it would look "amazing as a mirror." It comes in two finishes, each in three tones and two accent colors. In four finishes, the Bracelet mirror is customizable, available in two mirror sizes and a stainless steel cuff that can link them together, so one or more mirrors can be used.
From Currey & Co., the Betty June collection by Marjorie Skouras was inspired by a 1960s bracelet and earrings that Skouras inherited from her grandmother. For use either indoors or out, the collection is made of cast aluminum with a high-quality powder coating and along with the mirror includes console, cocktail and occasional tables.
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- 1/2 teaspoon salt
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- 1 cup peeled and finely chopped fresh apple
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- COMBINE shortening, brown sugar and eggs in medium bowl; beat at medium speed of electric mixer until light and fluffy.
- WHISK together flour, baking powder, cinnamon and salt in small bowl. Add to shortening mixture. Add milk, apple and cranberries; stir just until blended.
- SPOON batter into muffin tins to three-quarters full. Sprinkle with coarse sugar and chopped nuts.
- BAKE 15 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 2 minutes in muffin pan. Serve warm.
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Serving Size (1 muffin), Calories 150 (Calories from Fat 50), Total Fat 6g (Saturated Fat 1g, Trans Fat 0g), Cholesterol 25mg, Sodium 130mg, Total Carbohydrate 23g (Dietary Fiber 1g, Sugars 13g), Protein 3g; Percent Daily Value*: Vitamin A 2%, Vitamin C 2%, Calcium 6%, Iron 4%.
*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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A journey to alternative and integrative medicine apostasy
I've been blogging for over a decade now, a fact that I find really hard to believe looking back on it right now. I've told the story before, but it's worth briefly recounting again because doing so will explain why the story I'm about to discuss caught my attention. My "gateway drug," if you will, into skepticism was discovering Holocaust denial in the late 1990s on Usenet, a vast and sprawling conglomeration of thousands of discussion forums that began to fade away at the turn of the century with the rise of web-based forums and Google providing an interface to it to make it Google Groups. The forum where I first discovered Holocaust denial and learned to combat it, alt.revisionism, still exists, but long ago degenerated into a cesspool of racism, spam, and trolling. A couple of years later, around 2000 or so, I discovered quackery and the antivaccine movement, thanks to a Usenet newsgroup known as misc.health.alternative, which is where I honed my early skills applying science to medical claims. It's also where I first encountered Peter Moran, a regular commenter here who greatly inspired me back then with his full-throated criticism of cancer quackery and his website that taught me reasons why cancer quackery could appear to work even when it did nothing to impact the progression of the cancer.
In December 2004, intrigued by all the news stories about blogging and having discovered a number of good blogs, I decided on one dark, gray Saturday afternoon to dip my toe in the blogosphere. On the spur of the moment I created the first iteration of my not-so-super-secret other blog on—what else?—Blogger. Much to my own amazement, over the course of a year I got my little hobby noticed, to the point where I was invited to join a blog collective; by late 2007 I had become prominent enough to be invited by Steve Novella to join this very blog at its founding, where I have remained for seven years, with no plans to move on any time soon. During my early days, though, there was one person who also inspired me, helping me to learn about the pseudoscience that undergirds the antivaccine movement and, in particular, the quackery making up what is known these days as the "autism biomed" movement. His name is James Laidler, and he was one of the ones who introduced me to this topic which I've written about many times both at my not-so-super-secret other blog and, of course, right here on SBM. In doing so, over the years I've catalogued why "autism biomed" seems compelling to many parents with children with autism, how antivaccine groups use fake "medical conferences" to sell autism biomed by giving a patina of medical respectability to rank quackery like bleach enemas, and providing a place where those selling unscientific treatments can find willing customers and where disreputable discredited "scientists" like Andrew Wakefield and Mark Geier can find adoring fans who believe their quackery.
I bring this up because last week WIRED published an excellent article about Jim Laidler, "An Alternative-Medicine Believer's Journey Back to Science." Appropriately enough, it's by Alan Levinovitz, an assistant professor of religion at James Madison University. I say "appropriately enough" because, as has been noted here on a number of occasions, there are many religion-like aspects to alternative medicine in general but to the autism biomed movement in particular. Indeed, the two are often tied together, with the motivation for some alt-med being explicitly religious and belief in alt-med sharing some major characteristics with religion, particularly belief in miracles against evidence, charismatic leaders (like Andrew Wakefield) who can do no wrong, and mutually-supportive communities of believers who reinforce each others' beliefs and ward off skepticism. Add to that the magical thinking, and it's not for nothing that I've referred to the central dogma of alternative medicine as being that wishing makes it so. Indeed, it's for good reason that I frequently point out that most "energy medicine" (particularly reiki) is basically faith healing that substitutes Eastern mysticism for Judeo-Christian religious beliefs.
In Levinovitz's profile of Jim Laidler, we see a lot of this, and I learned some details that I didn't know about Laidler before. Levinovitz also grasps the religion-like nature of alt-med by starting the article bluntly saying:
Jim and Louise Laidler lost their faith on a trip to Disneyland in 2002, while having breakfast in Goofy's Kitchen.


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I have a CM friend that sums up re-igniting relationships this way: "Only dogs go back to their own vomit."
Another friend likens it to watching re-runs: "Even if it's your favorite program, you know exactly what's going to happen – including how it's going to end. Why bother?"
So I was reluctant to tell either one of them that I started seeing someone that I dated three years ago, especially because I thought I'd never go out with him again.
But interestingly enough, I had an image from a television program my sisters often re-watched. In it, the heroine declares to her parents that she wouldn't go out with a certain young boy "even if he was the last fool on earth."
The next scene is her wedding. To the young man she swore off. Aren't women known for changing their minds?
This relationship was different. Although it ended with me in the midst of depression, he, in a relapse – it didn't end entirely.
Six months after we'd broken up, I got a text from him asking about the roses he gave me. I quickly found out he'd hand-delivered nine white roses to the front desk of my building; not forgetting that he never knew how to get to my neighborhood, much less my home. I then found out my mother had finished a novena to St. Therese of Lisieux the same day he delivered the roses. He was unaware of what my mother had done.
One would think this would soften even the hardest of hearts.
But I wasn't ready. I'd still been running my fingers over the scars from dating him. I couldn't give him my heart again, not yet.
A softened heart
A few months ago, however, I was asked to write an article about the intercession of a saint. The roses was the best story I had, so I re-lived it in writing about it.
The scars were completely faded. I softened. I emailed him and thanked him once again. His only response was to send a link to an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum, where I'd been working when we dated. We never missed an exhibition during that time.
It seemed as if we picked up where we left off, minus the issues: the angst, the depression, the fear, the anxiety and the unrest.
It just felt right – calm and positive. We both looked at each other and thought, "Why not? What is there to lose? If worse comes to worse, we walk away."
The next morning, however, we each emailed that maybe it wasn't a great idea. He said, "It is a brave experiment," fully acknowledging the need for hesitation. We took a few days to pray about it.
In addition to asking for divine guidance, I thought of my standard go-to exercise, the pro/con list. It is an exercise taught to me by my sister, who is an endless source of good advice and level-headed thinking.
We both told ourselves that because we'd already gotten to know each other, there would be no surprises; particularly because each of us saw the other in their darkest moments. This was a good thing, something to add to the "pro" column.
But we were both concerned about settling into old patterns again – reacting to things the way we used to, starting up the same old arguments, re-living some of the old issues. This was most definitely a "con."
There were a few other items on the "con" list; namely, that if it was going to work, we might resent the time we'd spent apart. But if life had taught me anything, it was not to regret the time that was lost. Chalk it up to preparation time.
Then something occurred to me: We had a most extraordinary gift in this experience, the opportunity to forgive.
I was reminded of my mother's words to me once: "All love leads to the Cross."
Was this opportunity not the best example of living the love of Christ? In forgiving our past wrongs and accepting each other, weren't we acting on the words of Jesus? Here was a chance for a wonderful moment to live out His Word.
This was the biggest "pro" and was what sent me back to the computer to answer an email to him: Well, really, why not? It truly is a brave experiment. And it's a chance to live out His word.
Isn't that worth a try?
Further reading
Our Jessica Zimanske breaks down a Psychology Today article on dating an ex. Read it here.


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After eight years and one of the rockiest starts the league has ever seen for a former No. 1 overall quarterback, Alex Smith has finally asserted himself as a starter in the NFL—for the team that drafted him, no less.
The San Francisco 49ers quarterback had a career year in 2011 under rookie head coach Jim Harbaugh. In his best season as a 49er, Smith saw highs in virtually every statistical category except touchdowns (and interceptions). After ending a decade-long playoff drought, the team went 13-3 with Smith at the helm, and expectations are high going forward.
If Smith can improve and deliver in 2012, the 49ers will be Super Bowl Champions again. His progress, or lack thereof, could make or break San Francisco's chances this coming season. The odds are that he will continue to take steps forward in this new regime, and with that in mind, it will be interesting to see where he develops.
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Brooklyn Dodgers. Then and Now. Johnny Rutherford
Johnny Rutherford then
Johnny Rutherford was born on Tuesday, May 5, 1925, in Belleville, Ontario, Canada. Rutherford was 26 years old when he broke into the big leagues on April 30, 1952, with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Rutherford pitched both as a starter and reliever for the pennant-winning 1952 Dodgers. He made his major league debut in relief against the Cardinals at Sportsman Park. His first major league win came a week later, also in relief, in a 5–4 decision over the Cincinnati Reds at Ebbets Field.
At the plate, he batted .290 (9-for-31) with 3 runs batted in and 3 runs scored.
Rutherford made one appearance in the 1952 World Series He pitched one inning in Game # 4 and gave up one hit (a Mickey Mantle triple) and one earned turn.
Johnny Rutherford now
I looked everywhere for a current picture of Johnny Rutherford but I could not find one😦
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Sorry I can't provide a recent picture of Johnny R. I've been enjoying your postings about Dodgers of the past. You should read this article in Sunday's L. A. Times about two great, but forgotten, Dodgers:
Hope I'll see you at our SABR meeting Saturday,
"El Loco Rojo de Anaheim", Chuck Carey
Your postings are very entertaining. Have any passed between Jan. 12 and now?? You have more than distracted me from a boring Dodger game. Tonight we're making Jason Marquis look like Bob Gibon.


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Rihanna's Met-Gala Ensemble Explained, Somewhat
She originally wanted to wear the Louis Vuitton boots Madonna wore.
The puffy-sleeved Dolce & Gabbana tux Rihanna wore to the Met gala was not her first choice of outfits. She originally had her eye on Madonna's thigh-high Louis Vuitton boots. However, Madonna got to them first. Obviously, no two divas can wear the same thing to the illustrious Oscars of the East Coast, and when it comes to divas, Madonna takes precedence over Rihanna. Rather than pull another Vuitton look, Rihanna, as you know, went with the Dolce tux. "Page Six" thinks Madonna did RiRi a favor. But we think she would have been better off in the boots and a froufrou dress. That said, we admire her fearless willingness to wear shoulders that looked to have been inflated with a tire pump on the red carpet.
Rihanna did get her Louis Vuitton moment last night, however. She wore a different pair of Vuitton boots to an event in New York, along with a froufrou fall 2009 dress also by Vuitton (see it on the runway here). Could this pink number have been what she wanted to wear to the ball? It sure beats some of the stuff she's been wearing lately. She has a tendency to pile on 500 strange pieces at a time, like the bat-girl jacket, Rodarte stockings, arm warmers, and mullet denim shorts she wore all at once the other day. This look is minimal for her.
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Transition and solutions - Nov 28
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Copenhagen plans bike superhighways
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Copenhagen, one of the world's most bicycle-friendly cities, has begun turning its extensive network of cycle paths into bike highways in an effort to push more commuters to leave their cars at home.
Considered one of Europe's two "bicycle capitals" along with Amsterdam, Copenhagen has more bicycles than people, and cycling is so popular that the city's numerous bike paths can become congested.
... The creation of bike highways "comes right on time," says Danish Cyclist Federation spokesperson Frits Bredal. "Copenhagen's roads are overloaded with people who want to ride their bicycles in all kinds of weather," he says.
If in the 1960s Danes viewed the car as the symbol of freedom, the bicycle has assumed that role today, Bredal says. "It's a mode of transportation used by all social classes; even politicians ride bikes," he says.
It is on crowded Noerrebrogade -- the busiest bicycle street in Europe, according to the cyclist association -- that city planners have decided to build the first of Copenhagen's environmentally friendly boulevards.
The jammed bike paths will be widened up to four yards on either side of the road, which will itself will be reserved for buses only.
... Copenhagen's bike highways of tomorrow will be dotted with pit stops where it will be possible to pump up a tire, fix a chain, and have a drink of water, Roehl says.
And synchronized traffic lights prioritizing bicycles over cars will bring riders from the suburbs into Copenhagen "quickly and safely," he says.
(28 November 2010)
The "Transition Town" Movement's Initial Genius
Craig K. Comstock, Huffington Post
Can we get beyond denial about peak oil, climate change, and economic troubles as long as we don't find forms of action open to us?
The genius of the "transition town" movement is that it starts with a positive vision, focuses on local scenes, teaches skills, invites people to develop plans, gives them other obviously useful things to do together, and thus provides the added-value of intensifying community. You can find this in its handbook, of which the second edition will soon be published.
Despite the joys of social networking, community happens when we see people who are not on a flatscreen, and gather with them; work, share, argue, and celebrate with them. This can happen anywhere, but is perhaps easiest in a small town.
The transition movement has limitations; everything does. It does not directly challenge the corporate and political elites whose actions or inactions determine the context within which localities exist. But the movement does offer a way forward. As one of my English friends said when I was grumbling, "let's get on with it, now, shall we?"
(27 November 2010)
Green Property: The Power of Community Spirit
Sarah Lonsdale, Telegraph/UK
Llangattock is a small village scattered along a fold in the Brecon Beacon mountains - the softly wooded slopes, high hay meadows and streams making the area one of the loveliest parts of Britain.
The 1,300 inhabitants in the 420 homes have, however, more than the view to be proud of. They are on track to making Llangattock Britain's first ''carbon-negative community'' by 2015. This is no new eco town, but an established settlement alongside the River Usk with a mixture of traditional hill farms and 20th-century bungalows. Yet with energy-saving and energy-creating measures, the community has shown what can be achieved when everyone pulls together.
The woodland group manages and coppices 20 acres of mostly ash and alder for the village's wood-burning stoves; the residential group coordinates distribution of home energy-saving devices from insulation to solar panels. In just one year, 55 homes will have solar panels installed on their roofs.
(17 November 2010)
Code Green Community
Eric Stewart, TEDxYouth
Eric Stewart, founder of Code Green Community, an online community of over 230 individuals in the Tampa Bay area working collaboratively to transition away from fossil fuel use.
About TEDx, x = independently organized event
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)
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Heroes of the web changing the world
Aleks Krotoski, Observer/UK
A generation of political activists have been transformed by new tools developed on the internet. Here, a leading net commentator profiles seven young radicals from around the world
... The invention of the web is comparable to Gutenberg's invention of the printing press in 1450.
Like the printing press, the web has already been credited with ushering in an age of enlightenment; it is hailed, too, as the most powerful harbinger of social change the world has ever seen.
... So is the web over-hyped?
... everything did change in 2003 with the advent of a new crop of publishing platforms, blogs and social networks, that net pundits described as an entirely new phenomenon.
Stripping the hype away, this version of the web gives a new crop of cyber-revolutionaries access to a printing press, a radio station, a cable TV channel and more. Rather than virtual pamphleteering, they are developing technologies that take seed in grassroots communities.
The 28-year-old Chinese professional rally driver, bestselling author, singer, creator of a literary magazine and China's most popular blogger – indeed, possibly the most popular blogger in the world.
... How do you think internet-based social change is different in China?
The only difference is English-speaking countries treat the internet as technology, while Chinese-speaking countries treat the internet as medicine.
How did you decide the internet was the best mouthpiece for your views? You already had a profile in traditional media, so why not use them?
It's faster and more direct. It's almost impossible to publish sensitive articles in traditional media. Even though others might delete your writing online, at least you can publish your opinion completely. I don't write articles to oppose a specific party or government; my articles could criticise any party. I'm a writer. How can I call myself an intellectual if I can't write and publish words as I wish?
Why do you feel you can get away with statements against the government that other people wouldn't?
The atmosphere is not as terrifying as people in the west may think. Sometime my articles do get censored, but besides those who advocate policy changes and democratic reform, the government actually doesn't often control or censor writers. The writers here have become smarter: they know what to write and what not to write.
The 33-year old founder of mySociety, which has developed websites in the UK including TheyWorkForYou and WriteToThem, aiming to bring greater transparency to government.
... How can the web be used as a tool to influence people?
The internet enables you to help people to achieve things they might want to get done in their lives and in their communities on a scale that is not possible unless you are using such a cheaply scalable digital technology.
How has it transformed the political process?
There is no one thing that is "internet politics". There really are two worlds: partisan campaigning to exert power and to beat your opponents into a pulp; and the creation of what you might call empowering platforms using general-purpose tools that let people communicate, act, exert power or achieve goals like requesting information out of the government. These two really different things often get bundled together. There's actually quite a big difference between the way that Barack Obama used what was essentially an extremely good credit card form to raise $500m through his website, taking that money and using it to buy TV adverts and posters to beat the Republicans, versus services like those that we run. We build platforms so that people can achieve potentially smaller things that are not so single-minded in purpose.
What it is that you want to change by building these platforms?
We get people who've never tried to campaign on anything, they've never written to a politician, but if you make the barrier low enough and give them a reason, you'll push them over the edge.
Is the best way to influence the public to give them the tools or the messages?
If I was running an election campaign and I had £10,000, I would still spend it all on TV adverts, leaflets and posters. The internet isn't massively good at making people think things they don't currently think. It's very good at helping people to do things when they decide that they want to. I think that TV and adverts on the side of buses will be playing a dominant role in politics for a long time to come. But I'm a great believer that the internet will strengthen the community on your street because it can bring together people who care about an issue who didn't previously have a voice, so that they can then shout loudly enough to make political bodies and organisations pay attention.
(28 November 2010)
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Please check out the first article from the trilogy called Prescott: The Last of the Mohicans? (Pentium 4: from Willamette to Prescott) here.
Chapter VIII: How We Heard about Replay
No matter how exciting the mysteries of the Pentium 4 performance are, the article cannot be endless. But, it is high time we described something we discovered during our Pentium 4 micro-architecture investigation. In fact, this something is exactly the reason why we decided to write this article. Well, this something anyway turned out a pretty mysterious thing from the structural point of view as well as according to the official documentation.
This is how the whole thing happened.
Awhile after we started working on this article, when we had a sort of draft write-up of the first seven chapters of the article, it seemed that the major traits of the Pentium 4 micro-architecture were already quite known to us. We were very happy about the article being almost finished and applied all our efforts to polishing off the small details: checking cache latencies and comparing the results with what the documents stated. Although we didn't question the data in the official papers, we had our own measurement techniques developed while working on the previous article about Athlon 64/Opteron micro-architecture, so we really longed for a fair comparison. Especially, since at the time we were writing the article called "AMD: Per Aspera Ad Astra", we noticed that the Pentium 4 processor behaved kind of weird: the results of the L2 cache latency measurements didn't make any sense. We had to find an explanation to this phenomenon.
The test of Northwood based Pentium 4 processor was carried out by a dependent commands chain, like move eax, [eax] (the co-called pointer-chasing). Theoretically, everything was supposed to be predictable here: according to the documentation, the L1 cache latency equals 2 clocks, and the L2 cache latency – 7 clocks. In other words, we expected to get the total latency of 9 clocks.
Our reaction to the actual results we obtained can best be described with the phrase "struck dumb". The problem aroused from where no one would expect it to. Instead of the firmly stated latency value from the white-paper, we were facing something unbelievable, looking more like a cardiogram of a heart patient.
First of all, we never saw anything similar to the expected (and claimed by the documentation!) 9 clocks. The CPU managed to somehow generate tens of clocks of latency time instead.
It seemed that we had to undertake pretty evident measures to find out where this whole show was coming from: check the white-paper again. But, it was not that simple. There was no mention of any phenomena like what we were witnessing. The optimization guides also didn't contain any answers to our numerous questions.
Moreover, this behavior of our CPU made us ask ourselves: did we really study all the principal subsystems of the Pentium 4 micro-architecture carefully enough? Maybe there is some important subsystem, which hasn't been described yet? Does this effect we have just discovered affect the processor performance in any way? And if it does, then how big is this influence? Will we see the same in any real applications at all?


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April 9, 2010
Apple to deliver advertising to iPhone apps with iAd
Apple revealed its plans to get more directly involved in the mobile advertising business. It announced a new service called iAd, which is built into the upcoming version 4.0 of the iPhone operating system. MobileBeat reports.
Chief executive Steve Jobs said iAd will allow advertisers to deliver an unprecedented combination of interactivity and emotion in iPhone ads, according to Gdgts liveblog. By emotion, he seems to mean the high-quality, media-driven experience that you might get with, say, an iPhone ad. He showed off a Nike ad with high resolution video as an example.
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Washington, D.C.
Chairman Bingaman, Ranking Member Murkowski and Members of the Committee, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today to continue the conversation we began at my confirmation hearing.
During that hearing, I touched on the enormous challenges and threats we face - to our economy, our security, and our climate. In the 20th century, America's economic engine was powered by relatively inexpensive domestic fossil fuels. Today, we import roughly 60 percent of our oil, draining resources from our economy and leaving it vulnerable to volatility in oil prices. Additionally, the potentially adverse effects of global greenhouse gas emissions and their cost to the world economy were not widely realized until the end of the past century but are well-established today.
If we, our children, and our grandchildren are to prosper in the 21st century, we must decrease our dependence on oil, use energy in the most efficient ways possible, and decrease our carbon emissions. Meeting these challenges will require both a sustained commitment for the long-term and swift action in the near-term.
During his address to the Joint Session of Congress last week, President Obama reiterated his commitment to reducing our dependence on oil and sharply cutting greenhouse gas emissions. I look forward to working with others in the Administration, this Committee, and the Congress to meet the President's goal of legislation that places a market-based cap on carbon pollution and drives the production of more renewable energy in America. Such legislation will provide the framework for transforming our energy system to make our economy less carbon-intensive, and less dependent on foreign oil.
In the near term, President Obama and this Congress have already taken a key step by passing the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. This legislation will put Americans back to work while laying the groundwork for a clean energy economy.
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
I would like to highlight a few of the energy investments in that law.
First, the Recovery Act will put people to work making our homes and offices more energy efficient. It includes $5 billion to weatherize the homes of low-income families; a $1,500 tax credit to help homeowners invest in efficiency upgrades; $4.5 billion to "green" federal buildings, including reducing their energy consumption; and $6.3 billion to implement state and local efficiency and renewable programs.
The Recovery Act also includes $6 billion for loan guarantees and more than $13 billion in tax credits and financial assistance instruments (grants and cooperative agreements) that may leverage tens of billions in private sector investment in clean energy and job creation. This will help clean energy businesses and projects to get off the ground, even in these difficult economic times. The bill also makes investments in key technologies, such as $2 billion in advanced battery manufacturing, and $4.5 billion to jumpstart our efforts to modernize the electric grid.
Getting this money into the economy quickly, carefully, and transparently is a top priority for me. I know that your constituent states, cities, and businesses are eager to move forward, and are seeking more information about how to access this funding. I have met with many of them already, and we will have much more detail in the coming weeks.
I know the Title XVII loan guarantee program is of great interest and concern to this committee. We are already in the process of making improvements to this important program that I believe will satisfy many of these concerns.
Reshaping Energy Research, Development, and Deployment
With that, I would like to turn to a topic that is near and dear to my heart: how we can better nurture and harness science to solve our energy and climate change problems. I have spent most of my career in research labs - as a student, as a researcher, and as a faculty member. I took the challenge of being Secretary of Energy in part for the chance to ensure that the Department of Energy Laboratories and our country's universities will generate ideas that will help us address our energy challenges. I also strongly believe that the key to our prosperity in the 21st century lies in our ability to nurture our intellectual capital in science and engineering. Our previous investments in science led to the birth of the semiconductor, computer, and bio-technology industries that have added greatly to our economic prosperity. Now, we need similar breakthroughs on energy.
We're already taking steps in the right direction, but we need to do more.
First, we need to increase funding. Dan Kammen of U.C. Berkeley has conducted studies showing that while overall investment in research and development is roughly three percent of gross domestic product on average, it is roughly one-tenth of that average in the energy sector. As part of the President's plan to double federal investment in the basic sciences, the 2010 Budget provides substantially increased support for the Office of Science, building on the $1.6 billion provided in the Recovery Act for the Department of Energy's basic sciences programs.
We also need to refocus our scarce research dollars. In April, a more detailed FY 2010 budget will be transmitted to Congress. This budget will improve energy research, development, and deployment at DOE: by developing science and engineering talent; by focusing on transformational research; by pursuing broader, more effective collaborations; and by improving connections between DOE research and private sector energy companies.
Developing Science and Engineering Talent: Several years ago, I had the honor and privilege of working on the "Rising Above the Gathering Storm" report commissioned by Chairman Bingaman and Senator Alexander. One of the key recommendations was to step up efforts to educate the next generation of scientists and engineers. The FY 2010 budget supports graduate fellowship programs that will train students in energy-related fields. I will also seek to build on DOE's existing research strengths by attracting and retaining the most talented scientists.
Focusing on Transformational Research. The second area that I want to discuss is the need to support transformational technology research. What do I mean by transformational technology? I mean technology that is game-changing, as opposed to merely incremental. For example, in the 1920's and 1930's, when AT&T Bell Laboratories was focused on extending the life of vacuum tubes, another much smaller research program was started to investigate a completely new device based on a revolutionary new advance in the understanding of the microscopic world: quantum physics. The result of this transformational research was the transistor, which transformed communications, allowed the computer industry to blossom, and changed the world forever.
DOE must strive to be the modern version of the old Bell Labs in energy research. Because the payoffs from research in transformational technologies are both higher risk and longer term, government investment is critical and appropriate.
Here is an example of current DOE transformational research. As this Committee knows, we have funded three BioEnergy Research Centers - one at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee; one led by the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin, in close collaboration with Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan; and one led by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Each of these centers is targeting breakthroughs in biofuel technology development that will be needed to make abundant, affordable, low-carbon biofuels a reality. While these efforts are still relatively new, they are already yielding results, such as the bioengineering of yeasts that can produce gasoline-like fuels, and the development of improved ways to generate simple sugars from grasses and waste biomass.
We need to do more transformational research at DOE to bring a range of clean energy technologies to the point where the private sector can pick them up, including:
- Gasoline and diesel-like biofuels generated from lumber waste, crop wastes, solid waste, and non-food crops;
- Automobile batteries with two to three times the energy density that can survive 15 years of deep discharges;
- Photovoltaic solar power that is five times cheaper than today's technology;
- Computer design tools for commercial and residential buildings that enable reductions in energy consumption of up to 80 percent with investments that will pay for themselves in less than 10 years; and
- Large scale energy storage systems so that variable renewable energy sources such as wind or solar power can become base-load power generators.
This is not a definitive list, or a hard set of technology goals, but it gives a sense of the types of technologies and benchmarks I think we should be aiming for. We will need transformational research to attain these types of goals. To make it happen, we will need to re-energize our national labs as centers of great science and innovation. At the same time, we need to seek innovation wherever it can be found - the new ARPA-E program will open up research funding to the best minds in the country, wherever they may be. I pledge to you we will have this program up and running as soon as possible.
Broader, More Effective Collaboration: DOE also needs to foster better research collaboration, both internally and externally. My goal is nothing less than to build research networks within the Department, across the government, throughout the nation, and around the globe. We'll better integrate national lab, university, and industry research. And we will seek partnerships with other nations. For example, increased international cooperation on carbon capture and storage technology could reduce both the cost and time of developing the range of pre- and post-combustion technologies needed to meet the climate challenge.
Speeding Demonstration and Deployment: While we work on transformational technologies, DOE must also improve its efforts to demonstrate next-generation technologies and to help deploy demonstrated clean energy technologies at scale. The loan guarantee program will be critical to these efforts by helping to commercialize technologies, and the Recovery Act funding for weatherization and energy efficiency block grant programs will accelerate the deployment of energy efficient technologies.
I am excited about the prospect of improving DOE's clean energy research, development, and deployment efforts. The Nation needs better technologies to fully meet our climate and energy challenges, and DOE can be a major contributor to this effort.
We already have ample technology to make significant, near-term progress toward our energy and climate change goals. The most important of these is energy efficiency, which will allow us to reduce costs and conserve resources while still providing the same energy services. The potential there is huge, as is the potential to increase the use of existing technologies such as wind, solar, and nuclear. We will move forward on all of these fronts and more, as we invest in the transformational research to achieve breakthroughs that could revolutionize our Nation's energy future.
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