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Don't Let Bugs Dampen Your Outdoor Fun
Posted 17 Apr 2017 by Drugs.com
SATURDAY, April 15, 2017 – If you've spent any time outdoors recently, you may have found yourself swatting away a fly or mosquito – and that means it's time to bone up on bug avoidance. "Although most bug bites are harmless, some can spread dangerous diseases like Zika virus, dengue, Lyme disease and malaria," said Dr. Lindsay Strowd, an assistant professor of dermatology at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C. "Particularly if you're visiting areas with known insect-borne diseases, it's important to take steps to reduce your risk," Strowd said in an American Academy of Dermatology news release. Here are Strowd's tips to avoid unwanted bites. Your best defense against insect bites is to cover yourself – with bug spray and clothes. Apply insect repellent with 20 to 30 percent DEET. If you're also wearing sunscreen, apply your sunscreen first, let it dry, and ... Read more
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Marathon Running May Cause Short-Term Kidney Injury
Posted 28 Mar 2017 by Drugs.com
TUESDAY, March 28, 2017 – Any marathoner will tell you that the grueling 26-mile races can do a number on the hips, knees, ankles and feet. Now, a small study suggests that these tests of endurance are also tough on the kidneys. "Marathon runners demonstrate transient or reversible short-term kidney injury," said Dr. Chirag Parikh, professor of medicine at Yale University. In his study of 22 participants in the 2015 Hartford, Conn. Marathon, Parikh found that 82 percent showed acute kidney injury after the race. In this condition, the kidneys fail to filter waste from the blood. The good news is that the kidney injury seems to clear up within two days of the race, he said. "On day 2, they are all fine," Parikh said. Runners likely don't even know they've had this transient injury, Parikh said. "For the short term, I don't think they would notice anything," he said. Parikh isn't certain ... Read more
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Kids' OD Risk Rises When Opioids Left Out at Home
Posted 20 Feb 2017 by Drugs.com
MONDAY, Feb. 20, 2017 – A child's risk of a potentially fatal drug overdose more than doubles if a parent brings home a prescription opioid painkiller like oxycodone, codeine or morphine, a new study reports. When their mother is prescribed an opioid for pain as opposed to a non-narcotic drug like aspirin, ibuprofen or acetaminophen, young children are about two-and-a-half times more likely to accidentally overdose, the researchers found. "The opioid epidemic has not skipped children," said Dr. Yaron Finkelstein, a pediatric emergency doctor with the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. "They are also vulnerable to it, even as a third party or innocent bystander." Finkelstein is lead researcher on the study, published online Feb. 20 in Pediatrics. Another study in the journal helps explain the source of some of this risk. Nearly 70 percent of prescription opioids in homes with ... Read more
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Chronic Pain More Likely for Poor, Less Educated: Study
Posted 18 Feb 2017 by Drugs.com
FRIDAY, Feb. 17, 2017 – Chronic pain is much more common among poor, less educated older Americans than their wealthier, more educated peers, a new study suggests. "I found that people with lower levels of education and wealth don't just have more pain, they also have more severe pain," said study author Hanna Grol-Prokopczyk. She's an assistant professor of sociology from the University at Buffalo in Buffalo, N.Y. "I also looked at pain-related disability, meaning that pain is interfering with the ability to do normal work or household activities. And again, people with less wealth and education are more likely to experience this disability," she added in a university news release. In the analysis of 12 years of data from more than 19,000 people aged 51 and older, those with the least education were 80 percent more likely to have chronic pain than those with the most education. People ... Read more
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Health Tip: Keep Neck Pain in Check
Posted 13 Feb 2017 by Drugs.com
-- Neck pain can be triggered or worsened by poor posture. So make sure posture is on your mind as you sit at your desk and go about your day. The Mayo Clinic suggests: Keep a straight line from your hips to your shoulders and your shoulders to your ears. Take regular stretch breaks. Get up, move around and stretch your body. Move your computer monitor level with your eyes. Keep your knees slightly below your hips, and rest your arms on armrests. Opt for a speakerphone or headset. Don't hold the phone between your ear and shoulder. If you have heavy bags, don't carry them over your shoulder, which may strain the neck. Practice good posture when asleep, with your head and neck in alignment. Read more
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Low Back Pain? Relax, Breathe and Try Yoga
Posted 10 Feb 2017 by Drugs.com
FRIDAY, Feb. 10, 2017 – For people experiencing low back pain, the thought of exercise often seems daunting. But yoga may be a natural fit in the quest to relieve an aching back, a new review indicates. The findings come from an analysis of 12 studies that included more than 1,000 participants with lower back pain. The studies compared yoga to physical therapy or patient education. There was some evidence that yoga led to small improvements in pain, and small to moderate improvements in back function at three and six months. "We found that the practice of yoga was linked to pain relief and improvement in function," said review author L. Susan Wieland. She is an assistant professor of family and community medicine at the University of Maryland. "For some patients suffering from chronic non-specific low back pain, yoga may be worth considering as a form of treatment," Wieland added in a ... Read more
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Common Painkillers Don't Ease Back Pain, Study Finds
Posted 2 Feb 2017 by Drugs.com
THURSDAY, Feb. 2, 2017 – Painkillers like aspirin, Aleve and Advil don't help most people with back pain, a new review finds. The researchers estimated that only one in six people gained a benefit from taking these nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). Meanwhile, previous research has suggested that another common painkiller, Tylenol (acetaminophen), isn't very useful either, the study authors added. The findings raise the prospect that no over-the-counter painkillers really ease back pain, at least in the short term, and some may raise the risk of gastrointestinal problems. "There are other effective and safer strategies to manage spinal pain," said review author Gustavo Machado. He is a research fellow with the George Institute for Global Health in Sydney, Australia. Back and neck pain are the leading cause of pain worldwide, the researchers said. For the review, the ... Read more
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Low Back Pain Common Among Kids
Posted 30 Jan 2017 by Drugs.com
MONDAY, Jan. 30, 2017 – Low back pain is common in school-age American children, and rates increase with age, researchers say. By the time they're teenagers, nearly two out of five kids will have suffered lower back pain, a review of prior studies found. But only 7 percent of teens with low back pain seek care, said researchers from Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. Most cases of low back pain in youngsters are not serious, but they can affect school attendance and participation in gym class or sports. Also, teens with low back pain are at increased risk for low back pain when they're adults. For this report, researchers analyzed previously published studies. They found that back pain affects 1 percent of 7-year-olds, 6 percent of 10-year-olds and 18 percent of teens ages 14-16. There is no single risk factor or factors for low back pain in school-aged children. Likely ... Read more
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Health Tip: Signs of a Sprained Wrist
Posted 25 Jan 2017 by Drugs.com
-- If you feel like you're falling, it's a reflex action to put your hand out to break the fall. That's why wrist sprains are so common. The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons mentions these potential symptoms: Swelling. Pain, especially when the wrist is moved. Soreness and tenderness. Bruising. A feeling of warmth at the injury site. A tearing or popping sensation when you move the wrist. Read more
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Truckers' Poor Health: An Accident Waiting to Happen?
Posted 19 Jan 2017 by Drugs.com
THURSDAY, Jan. 19, 2017 – Truck drivers spend long hours behind the wheel and often eat less-than-healthy food at roadside stops. These behaviors can raise their risk of multiple health conditions, which boost their chances of getting into a crash, a new study suggests. Researchers examined data from more than 49,000 commercial truck drivers and found that 34 percent had at least one of several health problems – such as heart disease, low back pain and diabetes – that have been linked with poor driving performance. Truck drivers with three or more of the flagged medical conditions were two to four times more likely to be in a crash than their healthier peers, the University of Utah researchers found. For example, the rate of crashes resulting in injury among all truck drivers was 29 per 100 million miles traveled, but was 93 per 100 million miles traveled for drivers with three or ... Read more
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Everyday Pain Relievers May Be Linked to Hearing Loss in Some Women
Posted 19 Dec 2016 by Drugs.com
MONDAY, Dec. 19, 2016 – Long-term use of over-the-counter pain relievers may be associated with increased risk of hearing loss in some women, a new study says. Women who used ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin) or acetaminophen (Tylenol) for six years or more were more likely to suffer hearing loss than those who used the pain relievers for a year or less, said researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. They found no significant association between long-term aspirin use and hearing loss. "Although the magnitude of higher risk of hearing loss with analgesic use was modest, given how commonly these medications are used, even a small increase in risk could have important health implications," study senior author Dr. Gary Curhan said in a hospital news release. "Assuming causality, this would mean that approximately 16.2 percent of hearing loss occurring in these women could be due to ... Read more
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'Fake Pills' May Help Ease Back Pain
Posted 20 Oct 2016 by Drugs.com
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 19, 2016 – Even if they know the pills are fake, chronic back pain sufferers may get relief from placebo drugs, a new study indicates. Researchers found that patients who knowingly took a placebo pill while undergoing traditional treatment for lower back pain had less pain and disability than those who received traditional treatment alone. "These findings turn our understanding of the placebo effect on its head," said Ted Kaptchuk, a joint senior author of the study and director of the Program in Placebo Studies and the Therapeutic Encounter at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. "This new research demonstrates that the placebo effect is not necessarily elicited by patients' conscious expectation that they are getting an active medicine, as long thought," Kaptchuk added in a hospital news release. "Taking a pill in the context of a patient-clinician ... Read more
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Nanoparticles Ease Aching Joints in Mice
Posted 27 Sep 2016 by Drugs.com
TUESDAY, Sept. 27, 2016 – New research in mice suggests that tiny nanoparticles might one day be a better way to deliver medicine to inflamed joints in humans. The therapy may reduce the risk of osteoarthritis in people who have suffered joint injuries, the study authors said. About 12 percent of osteoarthritis cases stem from previous joint injuries. The experimental treatment may also benefit people who already have osteoarthritis, according to the study team from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. While nonprescription painkillers – such as acetaminophen (Tylenol) and ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin) – help reduce the pain of joint injuries, they don't stop cartilage destruction caused by inflammation. "I see a lot of patients with osteoarthritis, and there's really no treatment," study senior author Dr. Christine Pham, an associate professor of medicine, said in a ... Read more
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Opioid Abuse Fueling Drug-Related Heart Infections: Study
Posted 1 Sep 2016 by Drugs.com
THURSDAY, Sept. 1, 2016 – The number of Americans hospitalized with heart infections caused by use of injected opioid drugs is on the rise, a new study indicates. Researchers from Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston said the finding is a disturbing outgrowth of a rising tide of opioid addiction in the United States. For the study, the researchers reviewed U.S. hospital admissions for infective endocarditis, a sometimes deadly infection of the heart valves. Although people born with abnormal valves and older adults with valve problems are at added risk for the condition, it can also result from injecting drugs. Injections can introduce bacteria into the bloodstream, the researchers said. In 2013, 12 percent of hospitalizations for infective endocarditis were related to injection drug use, compared to 7 percent in 2000, the study team found. The actual number of cases rose to ... Read more
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Health Tip: Reading the Label on OTC Medications
Posted 30 Aug 2016 by Drugs.com
-- Knowing how to properly use over-the-counter medications can help prevent serious reactions and interactions. Here's how to read labels, courtesy of the American Academy of Family Physicians: The active ingredient, or ingredients, is the first thing on the label and it is the chemical that works to manage the symptoms. Uses, or indications, explain what conditions this medication can treat. Warnings provide safety information, including whether or not you should consult a doctor, side effects and what to avoid when you take this medication. Directions tell you how often to take a medicine and exactly how much to take. Other information explains other important details, such as storage recommendations. Inactive ingredients explain chemicals included that don't treat symptoms. This includes things such as binding agents or preservatives. Questions and comments provides information ... Read more
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- What is triamcinolone injection (Aristospan 5 mg)?
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What happens if I miss a dose?
Call your doctor for instructions if you miss an appointment for your injection.
What happens if I overdose?
Seek emergency medical attention or call the Poison Help line at 1-800-222-1222.
Since this medication is given by a healthcare professional in a medical setting, an overdose is unlikely to occur.
What should I avoid while receiving triamcinolone injection?
Do not receive a "live" vaccine while using triamcinolone injection. The vaccine may not work as well during this time, and may not fully protect you from disease. Live vaccines include measles, mumps, rubella (MMR), oral polio, typhoid, chickenpox (varicella), BCG (Bacillus Calmette and Guérin), and nasal flu vaccine.
Avoid being near people who are sick or have infections. Call your doctor for preventive treatment if you are exposed to chicken pox or measles. These conditions can be serious or even fatal in people who are using steroids.
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- antibiotics such as azithromycin (Zithromax), clarithromycin (Biaxin), erythromycin (E-Mycin, E.E.S., Ery-Tab, Erythrocin), and others; or
- aspirin or other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin), naproxen (Aleve, Naprosyn), diclofenac (Voltaren), indomethacin, piroxicam (Feldene), nabumetone (Relafen), etodolac (Lodine), and others.
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Police report spice bust at B Street Smoke Shop
EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. - The Colorado Springs Police Department says one person was arrested and synthetic marijuana was recovered after a sting at a smoke shop near Fort Carson. It was part of law enforcement's efforts to tackle the spice problem in the area.
The bust reportedly happened at the B Street Smoke Shop, 2051 B Street, in El Paso County.
According to police, undercover officers repeatedly purchased synthetic marijuana, or spice, from one employee at the shop. Officers then obtained a search warrant, which was executed by the El Paso County SWAT team.
Colorado Springs Police say 69.28 grams of suspected spice was seized, along with $578 cash.
The staff member who allegedly sold the spice to undercover officers was arrested. Cynthia Sinclair, 56, is facing felony charges. Police say additional arrests are possible.
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Starring Jessica Alba, Alexa Vega, Daryl Sabara, Antonio Banderas, Jeremy Piven, Rowan Blanchard, Mason Cook, Joel McHale
The Spy Kids series is back with a whole new story—and brand-new spies. Jessica Alba stars as Marissa Cortez Wilson, the aunt of the original Spy Kids and a retired secret agent of the Organization of Super Spies (OSS). Marissa left the agency when she became a mom to a baby girl and twin stepkids, Rebecca (Blanchard) and Cecil (Cook). The twins don't get along with their new stepmom, but that may change when Marissa is thrown back into action.
A new villain, the Timekeeper (Piven), is threatening to take over the world. Now Rebecca and Cecil must put aside their differences with Marissa and help her stop the Timekeeper, before he stops time.
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+1 on the belly heat. I don't like heat lamps for snakes.
+1 on feeding every 5-7 days. They need food more often when they're young.
I've never had an issue with my corn snakes and humidity. As long as it's not desert dry it shouldn't be a problem. If you're worried though, just make sure the little guy has a water bowl big enough for him to fully submerse in. You can also offer him a moist hide (plastic box with moistened sphagnum moss inside).
As far as naming goes, unless you plan to breed you don't really need to worry about the sex of the animal. He won't care what you call him. As long as he gets his meals and stays healthy he'll be happy.
|if it's a baby def feed more often. until mine are about 15" I feed small meals every 5 days
|I would not do the heat lamps. I have 6 corn snakes myself and they need belly heat. You should get an under tank heater. Check out www.cornsnakes.com
probing is the only way I know of determining sex with any accuracy.
I'll let you google it.
Thanks for the info! I'll get a spray bottle of regular water to mist with for humidity during the day when the main light/heat lamp comes on. I was using the spray stuff that came with the zilla enclosure but it has a very odd smell to it and I don't really want to use it till I learn more about it.
So I supposed I'll be feeding this little snake sooner than later, they said they fed every other wednesday and this wednesday would be it's normal feed day.
Oh and for those interested till I get a pic on here, I am almost 100% sure it would be considered an Anerythristic color pattern. It looks a LOT like the snake in the top right of this little pic:
Any way to tell gender at this young age? We want to name him or her, but don't wanna get gender wrong lol.
if it is a baby i would feed every week. misting the substrate 1x a day works well for humidity, esp make sure the substrate in the hide box gets a good mist. substrate should be 100% dry by the afternoon/evening.
feeding can be tricky. when small i would feed mine, wait till the 'bulge' in their belly was gone, wait 2 more days then feed again. this may start as 1x per week then advance to 2x per week as they get bigger. after 2-3 weekd of 2x a week feeding it's time to move up to the next larger size mouse.
HTH and that is what I did with success
My New Herp...
Hey everyone... New to Herp here. I have been working on an aquarium journal for a while, and in the meantime, my fiance and I got a snake... well she really is taking the reins on this one mostly, but I get to do some of the research lol.
Anyway, we got a baby corn snake... I used to have a corn back when I was just a kid, my parents took care of it. I don't remember a whole ton about them.
We got a zilla snake starter kit for it, is a 20 gallon long enclosure, daytime light/heat lamp, and night time heat lamp. Also a little rock hide, a water dish, and we picked up a fake tree thingy for it to climb on.
So now I'm wondering, what did we do wrong? And what do I need to replace? lol. From my research it seems they like humidity between 40-50%, and temperature around 75ish? Does that seem right? We live in so-cal, and so we tend to have a dry climate... what's the best way to add humidity? Mosses? Wet substrate? Misting? Suggestions? lol
In general, is there anything I should really really know to make sure I do right by this snake? We plan to feed it once every other week with thawed frozen mice. That's what the pet store has been doing. Does that seem like it's enough feeding? Or should it be more frequent?
Thanks for any and all info!
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Yargman - a name given to any person who contains the essence of yarg(see the definition of yarg). In order to obtain the essence of yarg, one must go on a journey to the outer most mountainous region of the Yargman Range located in the innermost section of your country wherever that may be. The destination within the Yargman Range is Yargstand mountain. When one arrives at the Yargstand Mountain, which is in itself an arduous journey,(see Yargman Range; Yargman Journey, Yargstand Mountain definitions) the seeker must complete a series of tasks (see Yargman tasks definitions), and after completion the seeker must be recognized by another named Yargman. After this recognition will the seeker only be named.
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Olson's book received phenomenal reviews from the varied likes of the New York Times and the Onion AV Club. Dense as it is, beyond the book's code and jargon is a human story of the crew that trolled the likes of Sony and the FBI: Hector "Sabu" Monsegur, the 29-year-old Puerto Rican hacker from the Lower East Side of Manhattan who flipped for the feds; Ryan Mark Ackroyd of England, whose longtime avatar, "Kayla," was a teenage girl; Jake "Topiary" Davis, Olson's main source, from the remote Shetland Islands in the United Kingdom.
While Olson chose to narrate through a few bright vessels, she also stresses that token plot lines don't always reflect the big picture. McGill University professor and Anon anthropologist Biella Coleman agrees, adding that one common cop-out when it comes to covering Anonymous is assuming that the group is too ambiguous to process. "It is a pain," says Coleman, "and one can't follow all networks and nodes, but . . . there are stable networks and nodes, and not some amorphous Internet goo that is impossible to find, much less study."
NATURALIZE. There are cultural if not journalistic standards to ignore when covering Anonymous — for starters, you should forget about striving for objectivity, and also desensitize yourself to ass-rape jokes. For Olson to adjust, she spent countless hours hanging out in chat rooms and emailing with individuals. To an even nerdier degree, this also was the tactic used by author Cole Stryker, whose Epic Win for Anonymous: How 4Chan's Army Conquered the Web predates We Are Anonymous by 10 months. An independent release, Epic Win garnered less critical acclaim than Olson's book, but is of great esoteric value, as Stryker has an intimate awareness of the backchannels that power Anonymous.
The degree to which one becomes immersed in the story may vary. For Barrett Brown, the line between journalism and activism was erased years ago. A former contributor to Vanity Fair and occasional Guardian columnist, Brown has also assisted in numerous Anonymous raids. Because of that, he's provided some of the most introspective coverage of the group, even if he has since disowned them, and even he if claims to just be "some jackass who has helped a lot of journalists with the messages that [Anons] want to get out." "Some things are very unconventional," says Brown, who is currently co-authoring a book on Anonymous with Gregg Housh. "So I'm happy with the situation I'm in."
OVERTHINK. It took overreacting to some false alarms, but in time Olson learned to not overestimate the threats and promises that permeate Anonymous IRCs. In a section of We Are Anonymous about a less-than-triumphant LulzSec attack on Bank of America, she notes that the effort — though touted for days beforehand — was ultimately deemed a failure by outlets ranging from Slate to USA Today. "This was perhaps the moment when the media learned a disappointing lesson about Anonymous," writes Olson. "The collective had done damage, to be sure, but it was just as good at creating hype about secrets it had found as it was at finding anything secret at all."
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text: I finished assembling a SA MG53 a couple of weeks ago and I am just waiting for better weather to try it and my SA Bren I finished a couple of months ago. Weather here has prevented me from going out to the desert and trying them. Snow, Snow, Snow! The local covered range kind of frowns on those types of guns even though they are semi-auto and 100% legal.:nono:


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Entire Team Let Eli down today - NYG4l
Seems like the best case scenario for Nassib is not a good scenario for Eli Manning.
As much as I dogged the pick, though, if Eli goes down for a couple games, and Nassib plays well enough to win, then all of a sudden Reese looks like a genius for spendnig a 4th and 6th to rescue our season.....and Nassib becomes the next Matt Flynn, which translates to some serious trade bait.
Still though, if Nassib goes the Aaron Rodgers route, he's on the bench 3 years....and Eli is 35. He might become a great QB, but the Manning genes would suggest it's for another team.
"I like linebackers. I collect 'em. You can't have too many good ones." - Bill Parcells
"Name the starting linebackers from 2007." - Jerry Reese
NE picked Ryan Mallet in the 3rd in 2011. good teams do this fellas.
That will also happen to Nassib if he doesn't get a shot to start down the road.
This notion that we will trade Nassib for value is highly unlikely.
He was drafted to be a back up QB and "possibly" the heir apparent down the road.
"Typical Morehead!"..................and he didn't even mean that as a compliment..
1. He develops into a legit QB
2. He doesn't get a chance to play with us.
Contracts are shorter for 4th round picks.
For the record.....GB didn't take Favre back because they knew that if they did, they would lose Rodgers the next year when his contract was up.
If it can happen to Favre, (the most beloved Packer in history) does anyone really think it can't happen to Eli.
"Typical Morehead!"..................and he didn't even mean that as a compliment..
Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience. MB Rule # 1


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Mike Garafolo @MikeGarafolo
Plus the fact he has full knowledge of the playbook. Playoff contenders would love that.
he would come back a man on fire,,I say hell yes,,i mean we signed torrain and lunpkin, right? I think his presence would fire the whole team up.
"I like linebackers. I collect 'em. You can't have too many good ones." - Bill Parcells
"Name the starting linebackers from 2007." - Jerry Reese
A shame they treated him like manure over there. Man helped us get 2 SB rings & played a vital part in both runs. I will always consider him a NY Giant right along with Tiki, who IMO, is the greatest RB in NYG history.
....Kyle Bonagura of CBSSports.com reports that Jacobs is no longer with the 49ers. Comcast SportsNet Bay Area says Jacobs was seen packing his car in the 49ers parking lot Monday afternoon..
The 49ers recently lost backup Kendall Hunter for the season but remain stocked at running back with younger talent like LaMichael James and Anthony Dixon. A regular fixture on the inactive list, Jacobs finally lost his cool last week, complaining he was "rotting away" by the Bay. He has five carries all season.
The move makes sense after listening to Jim Harbaugh's Monday meeting with reporters.
Harbaugh was asked if Jacobs was still with the team.
"I don't ... I really don't have a comment for you on that at this point," Harbaugh said, via Matt Barrows of The Sacramento Bee. "No comment."
Reporter: "Have you spoken to him?"
Harbaugh: "No comment."
Reporter: "Is he still part of the team?"
Harbaugh: "I invoke the Fifth Amendment. I have no comment on that."
(Very persistent) Reporter: "Did you know when you acquired him that he had a tendency to complain about playing time?"
Harbaugh: "Yeah, at this time, at this hour, I choose to have no comment."....
"I like linebackers. I collect 'em. You can't have too many good ones." - Bill Parcells
"Name the starting linebackers from 2007." - Jerry Reese


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#1 Thu 12 Sep 13 4:10am
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An idea for jamie
I'm quite new to this site, so I may be doing some things wrong, I'll try not to though;)
First of all, I would like to say I'm a huge fan of Jamie, it probably sounds stupid, but I feel connected to him, he's a great example of mine.
Now what I have been thinking: I've noticed that a lot of chefs find it necesarry to peel tomatoes, take the seeds out of chilis, dispose edible stuff etc...
I have the feeling that this is something Jamie rarely does, he doesn't throw the inside of tomatoes away, if the stems of a herb contain flavor, he uses them, I've even seen him throw the green leafs of a cauliflower in the blender.
Now I would love to see a show where the focus is on economic cooking, with which I mean, showing tricks to use 'garbage' in different ways, learning us about things people tend to dispose but that are actually useful/tasty/edible. I'm sure there are things that can be eaten, but people simply do not know it. Since Jamie often lives by 'keep it simple' and 'good food doesn't have to be expensive', this may be a project that he would support.
The small tricks we learn from Jamie, are one of the things I love about him, it's a small example, but because of him, I stopped peeling my garlic
I'd love to learn more of these useful things and I would personally love watching a show in which unconventional (parts of) products are used.
Kind regards and sorry for the long text!
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Hi Sjarels! Funnily enough that's exactly what Jamie's latest book and TV show are focused on. If you take a look at the website we set up for it it's full of tips and tricks to help you make the most you can out of your food and minimise your waste.
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What a coincidence, I had no knowledge of this, thanks!
#4 Fri 13 Sep 13 11:06am
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Re: An idea for jamie
I cannot stand tomato skins and seeds in things. The little rolled up bits of skin in mostly pureed soup is the worst as I can't even fish those out.
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The statistics of death show leaps in modern life expectancy but fail to answer the question: Why do we die?
Robert L. Dorit
I do not often picture my own death. When I do, however, the details vary. I can picture my death as being unexpected: a stroke, a heart attack, an auto accident. Some kind of testament to life's unpredictable character. But I prefer to picture the other sort of exit, one far in the future, where I have worn out my body without overstaying my welcome. Either way, I know that my story will end—I just don't know how.
We may be the only species that is aware of its own mortality. Yet despite death's central role in shaping human self-consciousness, mortality remains an elusive biological phenomenon. Fate and accident shape some ends, but these things aside, we cannot answer what seems like a straightforward question: Why do we die? The question, of course, is not really simple, nor does it yield a single answer. We will each die in our own way. But an answer collected from individual stories is not what we are after. We are, instead, seeking a more general explanation, rooted in material cause, which accounts for the patterns of human mortality. For now, we will leave out deaths that come from external causes—accidents or acts of violence—for they tell us little about the biological underpinnings of mortality.
The pattern of death has changed through history. We can infer something about this pattern from fossils of early Homo sapiens. Judging by the condition of their skeletons and the extent of tooth wear, their life expectancy has been estimated at around 25 years. Tens of thousands of years later, as written records and gravestones become available, our ability to estimate life expectancy takes a major leap forward. The story told by these later records is dramatic: In the past 1,000 years, life expectancies and, presumably, their underlying causes have fundamentally changed. In the United States, for instance, the Social Security Administration has predicted life expectancies for the year 2050 will reach 77 years for men and 83 years for women.
So what are we to make of so drastic a change, a tripling of life expectancy at birth in 50 generations? It's a common misconception that a 30-year-old in the year 1000 would have been both old and rare. However, a 30-year life expectancy doesn't mean that at all. Many 50-year-olds walked the roads in the year 1000. Life expectancy at birth is an artificial construct, a statistical measure that averages survivorship across all age groups and that predicts how long an infant born today is likely to live given the death rates in effect today. That less-than-intuitive definition is worth pausing for, because its implications are profound. In effect, in the year 1000 your chances of making it to a ripe old age depended above all on surviving the first years of your life. If you turned 5, you were quite likely to turn 60. Life expectancy a millennium ago was determined primarily by rates of infant mortality. Over the next 800 years, and most particularly over the past 100 years, gains in life expectancy have come primarily from greater survival of infants and small children, often because of public sanitation and better treatment and prevention of infectious disease. A sad caveat: 27 of 136 countries in the world still have life expectancies at birth of under 50 years. For the half billion people in those countries, the gains in infant and child survival have yet to take deep root, or else have been offset by the dramatic increases in the mortality of young adults brought about by war and the HIV pandemic.
More recent increases in life expectancy in the developed world no longer stem from better infant and child survival. Increased life expectancy now comes about through two unrelated causes: a decrease in the number of children (which reduces the impact of child mortality on the calculation of life expectancy at birth) and an increase in the survival of older adults. Today, our life expectancy is greater not because we make it to adolescence, but because we are actually living longer, and the survivorship of older adults now has a far greater influence on the calculation of life expectancy.
Given the many factors that enter into the calculation of life expectancy, however, this measure may not be the best way to understand death. Instead, we may want to look more closely at what demographers call age-specific measures, which quantify the probability of surviving a particular interval of life (usually a five-year span—ages zero to five, for example, or 40 to 45). We have known for a long time that surviving the first five years is a struggle, whereas the intervals between 5 and 30 are far less hazardous. We can also focus on the rate of mortality at a specific age, also known as the force of mortality.
Much of our understanding of the force of mortality is rooted in the work of a brilliant 19th-century English mathematician, Benjamin Gompertz. Unable to enter the English university system because he was Jewish, Gompertz taught himself mathematics and was eventually elected into the Royal Society in 1819. In 1825, he published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London "On the Nature of the Function Expressive of the Law of Human Mortality, and on a New Mode of Determining the Value of Life Contingencies." This 70-page paper with its sexy title was Gompertz's effort to help underwriters calculate life-insurance rates. In preparing the paper, Gompertz had examined death records from several English towns and noticed a clear pattern for age-specific death rates. This pattern, now known as the Gompertz curve, shows a well-behaved, exponential increase in the force of mortality with age. He argued that death, seemingly shaped by so many chance events, nonetheless follows a simple and predictable path. And so simple a path could only arise from an equally simple, age-dependent, underlying force that operates throughout our lifetimes.
It took almost 150 years for Gompertz's curve to be seriously questioned. In part because of increased life expectancy in certain parts of the world, more individuals were living longer, providing sufficient data to examine the force of mortality in later years—data that Gompertz didn't have. The result of adding the long-lived to the analysis was startling: The force of mortality, which grows exponentially throughout most of one's lifetime, actually moderates after age 75. Equally unexpected was the discovery that the dramatic differences in age-specific mortality around the world virtually disappear after age 75. In effect, if you are born in Bolivia, your chance of seeing 75 is significantly lower than if you had been born in Canada. But if you make it to 75 in either place, your chance of seeing 90 is virtually the same. Past a certain age, the imprints of birth and circumstance seem to give way to universal forces and constraints.
Keep in mind that we have been speaking of age-specific rates of death, and not the cumulative probability of death, which, like it or not, always sums to 100 percent. In the end, we all die. But in the meantime, we seem to be succeeding in delaying the inevitable. For optimists and narcissists, the trend of increasing lifespan extends over the horizon. Conversely, demographers, biologists and politicians have asserted over the past century that human beings cannot possibly live beyond 70, or 80, or 85, or the nice round number of 100. Yet as they speak, the maximum age at death continues to climb in many parts of the world. For what it's worth, Jeanne Calment lived to be 122 years old, died in 1997, and remembered meeting the abrasive and ill-smelling Vincent Van Gogh when he came to live in her hometown of Arles, France. Although this trend of ever-lengthening lifespans cannot continue indefinitely (even for optimists and narcissists), the actual limit—and even the demonstrable existence of a limit—is a subject of continuing controversy among demographers and gerontologists.
This controversy arises in part because convincing statistics about centenarians remain hard to come by, increasing the temptation to extrapolate from isolated cases. Until recently, the number of people aged 95-110 was so small that reliable age-specific mortality rates for that age bracket were hard to estimate. People living past 100, moreover, might represent a small, but unique, subsample of the human population. Their age-specific mortality rates, buried for the first 80 or so years in the mass of data from the shorter-lived, may well have been different throughout their entire lives, only coming to dominate the statistics as the rest of the population drops off.
But for now let's leave aside the question of how long humans can live and concentrate instead on why most of us will not live to see the century mark. In 1990, the illustrious Russian biologist Zhores Medvedev sought to classify the more than 300 theories that had been put forth to account for this ineluctable reality. Many of these theories, compelling in their own right, likely capture some of the underpinnings of our mortality. Their sheer number, however, suggests as much about the complexity of the question as it does about the difficulty of thinking dispassionately about death. Scientists, after all, are people who are going to die too.
Theories of death are also deeply embedded in their culture of origin. Let's consider, for instance, the class of mechanical explanations of death. These hypotheses invite us to accept the metaphor of the human body as a machine with many parts that must work in concert. In this metaphor, we die either because a key component gives way (the catastrophic failure model) or because several interacting parts begin to wear out and no longer work properly (the systems failure model). These metaphors of failing machinery compel, but data supporting them are harder to obtain. Catastrophic failures, like heart attack and stroke, are major killers in the developed world, particularly in the United States. Many of these deaths, however, are preventable and linked to a sedentary lifestyle, and not to an inherent age-dependent failure of a particular organ system.
The systems-based explanation argues that complex machinery fails because many things go wrong. According to this model, as with your Toyota, so too with your body: The force-of-mortality curves for automobiles (called failure-rate curves) complied by demographers James W. Vaupel and Cynthia R. Owens at Duke University bear an uncanny resemblance to their human counterparts. Both human and automobile curves show an exponential increase in the force of mortality that tapers off in later years—the same violation of the Gompertz Law we spoke of earlier. Surprisingly, mortality in the early years is eerily similar in people and automobiles: Defects in manufacture (machines) or development (organisms) reveal themselves early on. But if you (or your car) make it past the first year, you're likely to motor along for a good period thereafter. The patterns are tantalizing in their similarity and may reveal some fundamental features of failure in complex systems. Such systems, whether we speak of Toyotas or biologists, are characterized by redundancy brought about by engineering (in the first case) or evolution (in the second). But, as University of Chicago gerontologists Leonid Gavrilov and Natalia Gavrilova have argued in their influential bookThe Biology of Life Span: A Quantitative Approach, the very redundancy that permits complex systems to endure a constant rain of light damage also allows such damage to accumulate, resulting in aging and eventual failure. Surprisingly, the higher the level of redundancy, the faster the force of mortality accelerates with age. The irony is that the redundant mechanisms that ensure survival during our early years are the same ones that speed our twilight exit.
For two centuries, biology has profited from Rene Descartes's conception of the human body as a machine, subject to, and more importantly, explainable by, material laws. Compelling as the Cartesian metaphor of the body-as-machine might be, it may, however, conceal some important differences between my automobile and me. Repair, for instance, is a process central to survival. I depend on my excellent mechanic, an agent external to my automobile, to keep my car on the road. In contrast, bodies, for the most part, repair themselves: More than 100 genes in our genome are devoted to detecting and repairing DNA damage.
This notion of the body as a self-policing, self-correcting system has spawned a second class of death explanations, those related to maintenance. Although the human body can detect and remedy a startling array of defects, this capacity to self-renew declines with age. Even the raw materials for repair—those stem cells recruited to replace exhausted counterparts—become depleted. The damage to our bodies, meanwhile, continues unabated throughout our lives. Much like the inventive mechanics in Cuba who keep Edsels and Cadillacs from the '50s running without spare parts, the body struggles to patch up broken functions as replacement cells decline. But it is, ultimately, a losing battle. In a final ironic twist, the repair process, like the existence of redundancies, becomes a source of trouble as we get older. The inflammation that accompanies injury and repair is itself a source of further damage. Aging and death may come about when we can no longer keep up with the maintenance required to stay alive.
A third class of evolutionary explanations for aging and death suggests that natural selection focuses largely on the young and the fertile and is indifferent to those past their reproductive years. In the years prior to reproduction, for instance, natural selection appears to suppress many genes that underlie disease. After reproduction, however, when such genes have comparatively minor effects on an organism's reproductive success (though not on its health), they are free to exert any malign influence. This scenario may explain why so many diseases, notably cancer and cardiovascular disease, increase precipitously in the fifth decade of our lives. Mutations that benefit the young—even if they cause problems later in life—will always gain traction.
Further support for an evolutionary approach to understanding death comes from the demonstration that fruit flies prevented from reproducing until late in life evolve significantly longer lifespans. By delaying reproduction, the experiment keeps natural selection in play for a longer amount of time, favoring genetic changes whose deleterious dark side is also delayed. In just a few generations, average lifespan increases. Nevertheless, harmful mutations eventually, inevitably accumulate into insurmountable, irreparable damage. These models lead to one conclusion: Aging and death occur when natural selection takes its eye off the ball in the later years.
A newer set of theories, prompted in part by our predilection for molecular explanation, have recently come on the scene. Such arguments—we'll call them fatalistic theories—suggest that a series of clocks tick away at the cellular level, marking our remaining time. They argue that evolution has programmed organisms to know when it is time to die. Critical to this argument is the observation that in a lab dish, most mammalian cells divide about 50 times and then die. We now know that chromosomes, those densely packed spools of DNA inside each cell, get shorter every time they're copied. Past a certain point, this chromosomal shortening kills the cell.
But we still can't connect the mechanisms of cell death with the mechanisms of our death (or, for that matter, the death of any other multicellular organism). Once again, the body is not just a collection of cells that behave independently. Our ability to repair and regenerate, to conscript circulating stem cells—whose chromosomes don't shorten when copied—into regenerating tissues and organs significantly complicates these hypotheses of aging and death.
More recently, some weight has been given to the idea that longevity is simply the result of certain trade-offs. Experiments showing that very low caloric intake (starvation) significantly increases lifespan suggest that there is a tradeoff between lifespan and active metabolism (which produces damaging chemical waste). Many studies in other species show a negative correlation between reproduction and longevity, suggesting that energy spent in reproduction would otherwise be spent in living a longer life. Some find in these trade-offs a guide for living. To me, their emphasis on the longevity benefits of an ascetic lifestyle sound slightly puritanical.
Ultimately, what does it suggest to have so many competing theories of death? I would argue it is the hallmark of a vibrant field, one in its early phases. The many explanations jostle and compete, driven by our shared belief that death may be inevitable, but it is not incomprehensible. The identification of genes involved in determining lifespan, the demonstration that lifestyle and environment can delay death, the technologies that extend life—all fuel our fascination with the topic. But the aging population in the developed world (including its scientists) also propels the field. In the end, however, if our real motivation is to loosen death's grip on humanity, we need to go beyond a material understanding of the biology of aging, lifespan and death. Most of humanity still does not die of old age, "sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything," as Jaques laments in As You Like It. Instead, most of humanity dies young, of preventable causes brought about by poverty and unequal access to health care. Any account of the causes of death that focuses solely on biology without considering the social and economic settings in which our biology plays out is at best incomplete, and at worse, misguided. Over my lifetime, cheating death may not be about tricking the limits of our biology, but instead about changing how we live our lives.
You can find this online at http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/num2/the-undiscovered-country-1/3
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Team Name
Project Name
Novus Dawn
Brief Description
Novus Dawn is a fantasy based tactical RPG in the isometric perspective. It is a story driven game that has been influenced a lot by early tactical RPG's such as Final Fantasy Tactics. It is also not MMORPG, because we all know how well those end up. Although still in it's early stages, quite a bit has been accomplished and we have some great plans for the future. But for the moment, this is where the project stands.
Game Engine
The game engine is starting to take shape, being programmed by a very talented programmer with over seven years experience. The current high level capabilities of the game engine are:
- Isometric Rendering.
- Movement and Path finding.
- Skills Framework and Implementation.
- Animations.
- Special Effects such as particle and heat displacement effects.
- Radial Menu for action selection.
- User Interface panels.
Story Development
We have a story being developed under the title Novus Dawn. The following documentation has been developed:
- Synopsis
- Character Biographies
- World Documentation
Artwork Development
At the moment we have two artists, and as this thread states, are seeking a third concept artist. The two artists we do have are creating concept art for the following:
- Character Portraits, based of the biographies.
- Environments, creating isometric sketches and landscapes. Will be used to translate into final pieces.
Target Aim
At the moment, our goal is to have a working demo created by June 30th that consists of roughly 2-3 hours of gameplay over the course of a few battles. With this demo, the aim is to encompass all features about the final product which range from battle systems, menu systems, sound/music, and story progression to name a few. We believe this is a very reachable goal.
Upon completion, we plan on allowing people to play the game through an account based service, though pricing is yet to be decided.
Because this is a portfolio driven project, there is no up front payment. However, upon release of the demo, we have plans set in place to set up a project with IndieGogo in order to earn some early funding. With that said, if you are interested in joining the project, do so without the intention of being paid but with the hopes you can help us create something great that you can be paid in the future!
The game is being developed in Actionscript 3.0, for no particular reason other reason than we hope to host this game online and put the demo through some large game portals such as Kongregate.
Talent Needed
We are in need of two different types of artists to join our team.
- Concept Artist - User Interface. This person will be in charge of designing the assets for the game in terms of menus and buttons both in battle and out.
- Spriter. We need a high quality artist to do the spritework for the game. This person will be working closely with our concept artists to translate their works into objects, tiles and characters for the game.
Team Structure
- Matthew Ostil : Project Manager
- David Labbe : Programmer
- David Lee : Writer
- David Evans : Concept Artist - Environments
- Simon Kim : Concept Artist - Character Portraits
- Trevor Hewes : Composer
We do have a website, though it's not being used. Instead we are using the WIP forums for discussion: devWorld Forums.
If you want to know more about the project in general, feel free to email me directly or post on this thread. If you think you are interested to help us out, then please email me directly at: matthew.ostil(at)gmail.com.
Additional Info
We do have documentation as well as a recent update report on the project which includes screenshots, concepts and story development details. If you are truly interested in the project, then email me and we can discuss it further!
Any feedback is welcomed.


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Published to coincide with a major exhibition in April 1998 at the Victoria and Albert Museum, this is an account of the evolution of the poster, from its early beginnings in the 1870s to the increasingly radical approach of the late-20th century. The book is divided into three parts: "Issues and Ideas" examines the political poster; "Products and Services" takes a look at the poster in the context of advertising and consumerism; while "Arts, Events, Performances" covers posters used to promote artistic activities, and looks at the poster as a work of art in its own right. Contributors from all three fields provide insights into how posters have been used as a communications tool in the 20th century, while the illustrations offer some of the best examples of poster art.
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Alternative therapy (or alternative medication) is a non-conventional approach to healing. Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) are usually discussed together, but are actually two different therapy approaches:
Some people use complementary treatments to relieve symptoms or side effects while undergoing standard/conventional treatment (such as pain relief during cancer treatment). Standard/conventional medicine refers to medical treatments that have been scientifically tested and found to be safe and effective. The standard/conventional treatments have been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Other people may decide to pursue either complementary or alternative therapy. It is highly recommended that you consult your child's physician before beginning any treatment regime, as these treatments are not scientifically tested or proven.
Many different fields make up the practice of complementary and alternative medicine. In addition, many components of one field may overlap with the components of another field (i.e., acupuncture). Examples of CAM include:
Most complementary and alternative medicine fields are not standardized or controlled by any Western medical guidelines. Always consult with your child's physician before beginning any complementary or alternative medicine therapy, because some therapies may interfere with standard treatment.
Being an informed healthcare consumer when considering complementary or alternative medicine is important. Ways to gather information before starting any therapy include:
According to the American Cancer Society, if a treatment has the following warning signs, it is better to avoid:


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"As expected, Buick's product renaissance will continue with the reveal of the 2013 Enclave. The crossover that started Buick's revitalization will be getting a reworking for the 2013 model year, something the brand is showing off in April at the New York Auto Show. Until then, Buick has provided a small teaser image of the new interior."LINK
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much of that, except for the lighting and touch screen, looks the same
..**Chevy Cruze Eco****Black on Black****6 speed manual**
I can't lie... besides the lighting, I don't really see much different.
...---..."I've got an idea so smart my head would explode if I even knew what I was talking about!"-Peter Griffin
TRON is coming to Buick!!! Buick owners will be lining up for this wristwatch:
____________________________Edgy, Controversial, Dangerous...
Hopefully materials are improved too.
The Enclave is the big one, right? What was the small one's name again? Encore?
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The little ugly thing is the Encore, and the Enclave is like the Acadia.
Zzzzzzzzzzzz..like rest of the line-up.
westys:The Enclave is the big one, right? What was the small one's name again? Encore?Is that the one that looks like a sitting rabbit?
...---..."I've got an idea so smart my head would explode if I even knew what I was talking about!"-Peter Griffin
Doesn't look much different, but I like the current interior so that's fine. And I highly recommend reading the comments lol.
__________________1997 Ford Taurus GL 223,000 miles and counting2013 Ford Taurus SEL 23,000 miles1989 Chrysler LeBaron 55,000 milesR.I.P Mercury and the Grand Marquis 1/4/11 @7:46 a.m.Ford Panther Platform: 1978-2011Broughams are meant for cruising the highway and the boulevard, not the quarter mile. Enjoying the ride, instead of getting it over with as soon as possible.
westys:The Enclave is the big one, right? What was the small one's name again? Encore?ktkof09:Is that the one that looks like a sitting rabbit?
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I like the Outlander Sport but would so get this over it.
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The current Enclave looks like a bloated pig like the Traverse. They nerd to cut down on the curves to make this anywhere near as good-looking as the Acadia.
I think the enclave is a very good looking vehicle. I really hate crossovers but its definitely one I wouldn't mind if my gf picked to get.This teaser can be summed in 1 word just like westys saidTRON(btw that watch is actually pretty cool)
Whoops. Just convinced a soccer mom at work to look at the 2012 Enclave to replace her ancient Odyssey. She loved it, guess she's going to be getting either a Leather or Premium package here in the next couple weeks.Dealer here is advertising about $7,000 off brand new ones.
--------------------For Chai: 2013 Mustang V6 Premium, Pony Package"Too bad we can't re-write our own history."


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They can sure make a racket. In fact, Parkway Drive rock, thrash, pummel, grind and growl in all the right places. Imagine an Aussie version of masked metallers Slipknot and you come close to their supreme doom-laden sound. On recent single Dark Days the Byron Bay five-piece proved they have the precision and force to create an unwavering, fist-pumping anthem ready to ignite summer moshpits - something that will no doubt go down well with fans when they bring their apparently brutal live show to New Zealand next week. But there's one major problem with Atlas - the band's fourth studio album - that reveals itself after several listens: the vocals of frontman Winston McCall. McCall can't contribute the variation to his aggressive posturing needed to elevate Parkway Drive's shapeshifting metalcore into the top tier.
Old-school riff-fests like Old Ghost/New Regrets and Sleight of Hand are begging for a sing-along chorus - something Gallows nailed recently on their excellent last album - to help temper the repetitive growling that McCall seems to rely on. When they finally do it in Wild Eyes, which marries a football sing-along to a glorious riff with excellent results, Parkway Drive prove just how spectacular they would be with a front man who could deliver the goods more often.
Stars: 3/5
Verdict: Aussie metallers bring the noise
Click here to buy a copy of Atlas by Parkway Drive.
- TimeOut


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Chronic underfunding has forced transportation departments to defer much-needed bridge maintenance and repair for years. Inspecting decks and other components is standard operating procedure for flagging incipient problems and initiating timely repairs.
To guide asset-management plans most effectively, though, inspections need to be performed as objectively and consistently as possible. The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials' (AASHTO) Bridge Element Inspection Manual is designed to help agencies achieve that goal. Although it replaces the AASHTO Guide for Commonly Recognized Structural Elements, the new manual builds on the element-level condition assessment methods its predecessor espoused.
It helps inspectors identify every piece or element of the structure, specifically defines four standard condition states (good, fair, poor, and severe) for each element, and outlines clear reporting methods. It's intended to make it easier to perform comprehensive inspections, and for managers to understand and compare the reported information.
It also provides specific guidance for assessing two sets of structural elements.
National Elements are primary structural components. They conform to the Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA) Recording and Coding Guide for the Structure Inventory and Appraisal of the Nation's Bridges, and are intended to provide consistent information across the country.
Management Elements are components like joints, wearing surfaces, and protective coating systems that are often tracked using bridge management systems (see sidebar). Because they're not used to make national policy, agencies can modify the condition-assessment language for these elements to meet their particular needs.
An example: deck inspection
Let's look at how you'd use the manual to inspect a reinforced concrete deck.
As a National Bridge Element, the deck should be considered separately from substructure and superstructure components as well as any joint-filling materials or applied wearing surface.
The following steps go into the deck element inspection.
1. Determine the area in square feet or square meters, measured from edge to edge, including any median areas and accounting for any ramps or flares. Report the prevalence of each defined condition state as a percentage of the overall area.
2. Examine the deck for manual-defined defects — cracks; spalls, delaminations, and patched areas; efflorescence; and reduced load capacity. Refer to Table 1 to determine what level of severity the defects represent, then to Table 2 to find the corresponding condition state.
3. The evaluation is meant to be three-dimensional; that is, defects observed on the top and bottom surfaces of the slab should be captured using the defined condition states.
You can use the condition of visible surface to assess the surfaces that aren't visible. If neither the top nor bottom surface is visible, you'll need to use destructive methods, nondestructive testing, or indications provided by the material covering the surface.
4. Report the percentages of surface area you've found to be in each of the standard condition states.
This methodology generates data that allows for a simple comparison between different bridges both within and across jurisdictions. When the data are fed into the Bridge Health Index and from there into FHWA's nationwide condition and performance report, the results provide:
Convincing evidence that more resources must be devoted to bridge repair and rehabilitation
Released in 1992 and repeatedly updated since then, Pontis is the nation's predominant bridge management system, used by 44 state DOTs. It was developed for the Federal Highway Administration but is now owned by the American Association of State and Highway Officials (AASHTO).
Agencies use the comprehensive Windows-based program to record inventory and inspection information, project service requirements and deterioration rates, model the effects and costs of various maintenance and repair alternatives, and develop an optimal preservation policy.
The system is maintained through the association's joint software development program, which pools resources to produce a complex system that's far less expensive than a comparable custom-designed tool would be.
At the same time, though, it supports a high level of customization. Agencies can define their own elements, deterioration models, and business rules to run in simulations. They design their own screen layouts, reports, and data-entry forms. The system's open architecture allows users to add database tables and build their own interfaces between the Pontis database and other agency databases.
A new version of the software, due for release this month, will accommodate the element structure outlined in the recently released AASHTO Bridge Element Inspection Manual. Visit www.aashtoware.org for more information.
Confidence that transportation managers will deploy resources to benefit the nation as a whole.
The AASHTO Bridge Element Inspection Manual is available for purchase at www.bookstore.transportation.org.
— Hooker is a freelance writer based in Oak Park, Ill.
For links to AASHTO's inspection manual and a Pontis software demo, click here.


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South Korea: Land, Food and Democracy
This is a Food Sovereignty Tour brought to you by Food First/the Institute for Food and Development Policy in partnership with Global Exchange Reality Tours.
Known as the "land of the morning calm", South Korea is a fascinating mix of ancient and modern, tradition and innovation. This unique Food Sovereignty Tour allows you to explore South Korea's world-renowned cuisine and the centuries-long struggle of South Korean farmers for land and democracy. This fall, join Food First, the Korean Peasant's League and the Korean Women's Peasant Association for a once in a lifetime experience.
On this tour, you'll experience the ancient culinary traditions that set this region apart, from famous regional dishes such as "Chuncheon Dakgalbi", a spicy red chili barbecue, vegetarian meals at a serene Buddhist temple, and the age-old tradition of kimchi- a Korean staple of fermented vegetables spiced with flavorful seasonings, considered the country's national dish.
Today, South Korean peasants are at the forefront of the global food sovereignty movement promoting local food, native seed preservation, democracy, and women's rights. South Korean farmers have also become famous for their persistent struggle against global trade liberalization. In recognition of these struggles, the Korean Women's Peasant Association was awarded the 2012 Food Sovereignty Prize in New York City.
On this tour you will visit the contemporary and historical sites of peasant struggles that have defined the modern history of Korea. You will also visit farmer operated cooperatives and speak to peasants and activists who are working to promote a democratic local food system that respects the history, tradition, and food culture of the Korean people as an alternative to the hyper-modernization that Korea is known for in mainstream media. Along the way, you will get to taste the rich heritage of Korean food, visiting fish markets, Songnisan National Park, famous for its mountain vegetables and medicinal herbs, and even take a cooking class to learn the basics of Korean cooking.
This Food First tour is brought to you in collaboration with the Korean Peasant's League, the Korean Women's Peasant Association and the highly acclaimed Seoul-based culinary tourism agency Ong'o Food Tours. With a Food First expert as your guide, you will experience a Korea rarely seen by outsiders. You will explore some of the most serene areas of the "land of the morning calm", experience Korea's unique food traditions, and meet the people of this beautiful country to learn about their struggles for food, land, and democracy.
- Visit to traditional local food markets in Seoul
- Experience the culinary traditions of Korean food and try the famous regional cuisines of Korea such as "Chuncheon Dakgalbi", a spicy red chili barbecue
- Take a Korean Cooking class
- Visit a beautiful Buddhist mountain temple and share a vegetarian meal
- Meet with leaders of the Korean Peasant's League, Korean Women's Peasant Association, and law-makers supporting Food Sovereignty in Korea.
- Learn about the historical struggles of Korean peasants since the Donghak Peasant Revolution of 1894 that shaped the modern history of the Korean peninsula.
- Learn about the devastating impacts of neoliberal trade liberalization and Free Trade Agreements and how small farmers resist.
- Meet the inspiring women of a CSA cooperative in Sangju run by the Korean Women's Peasant Association
- Visit the Native Seeds program, a farmer initiative to protect native biodiversity as well as offering farmers access to non-GMO seed varieties from the US corporations dominating the Korean seed market.
- All in-country transportation during the tour including airport transfer to and from Incheon International Airport, outside Seoul
- Three-star hotel accommodations
- 2-3 meals per day
- Food First trip leader (country expert/policy analyst), local guides, guest speaker honoraria, translators and drivers
- Preparatory reading materials ("Reader") and Orientation Packet
- All scheduled program activities, presentations and workshops
- Food First membership
- NOT INCLUDED: International airfare, most beverages, tips, insurance, personal expenses
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