text: Expertise and rankings By Mayo Clinic Staff Print Mayo Clinic experts provide comprehensive care for more than 300 people with brain arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) and other vascular abnormalities affecting the brain each year. Stereotactic radiosurgery for brain AVM teamwork at Mayo Clinic Teamwork. At Mayo Clinic, neurologists, neurosurgeons, neuroradiologists and other specialists work together as a multidisciplinary team to provide expert, individualized care to every person with brain AVM. This means that you're not getting just one opinion — you benefit from the knowledge and experience of each specialist. Close collaboration enables the team to have your test results available quickly and to coordinate all necessary appointments. Diagnostic tools. MRIs and other types of brain imaging are crucial to effective treatment. Mayo Clinic neuroradiologists devote their careers to evaluating brain conditions. This deep experience results in more accurate imaging and interpretation. The latest techniques and technology. Mayo Clinic neurosurgeons have pioneered surgical techniques for AVM as well as noninvasive stereotactic radiosurgery. With this expertise in surgery and noninvasive treatment as well as in embolization and watchful waiting, the AVM team at Mayo Clinic provides people the widest range of treatment options available. Nationally recognized expertise. Mayo Clinic's neurology and neurosurgery program has earned a national reputation as a top treatment center. The program is recognized for its multidisciplinary approach to diagnosis, treatment and patient care as well as for its advanced research into improved treatments. Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., ranks No. 1 for neurology and neurosurgery in the U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals rankings. Mayo Clinic in Phoenix/Scottsdale, Ariz., and Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla., are ranked among the Best Hospitals for neurology and neurosurgery by U.S. News & World Report. Mayo Clinic also ranks among the Best Children's Hospitals for neurology and neurosurgery. Learn more about Mayo Clinic's neurosurgery and neurology departments' expertise and rankings. Request an Appointment at Mayo Clinic Departments & specialtiesLocations, travel & lodging June 29, 2016 Print Share on: FacebookTwitter References Arteriovenous malformations and other vascular lesions of the central nervous system fact sheet. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/avms/detail_avms.htm. Accessed Jan. 6, 2015. What is an arteriovenous malformation? American Stroke Association. http://www.strokeassociation.org/STROKEORG/AboutStroke/TypesofStroke/HemorrhagicBleeds/What-Is-an-Arteriovenous-Malformation-AVM_UCM_310099_Article.jsp. Accessed Jan. 6, 2015. Singer RJ. Brain arteriovenous malformations. http://www.uptodate.com/home. Accessed Jan. 6, 2015. Neurological diagnostic tests and procedures. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/misc/diagnostic_tests.htm. Accessed Jan. 6, 2015. Van Beijnum J, et al. Treatment of brain arteriovenous malformations: A systemic review and meta-analysis. Journal of the American Medical Association. 2011;306:2011. Meyers P, et al. Indications for the performance of intracranial endovascular neurointerventional procedures. Circulation. 2009;119:2235. Bendok B, et al. Advances and innovations in brain arteriovenous malformation surgery. Neurosurgery. 2014;74(suppl):S60. Let's talk about emotional changes after stroke. American Stroke Association. http://www.strokeassociation.org/idc/groups/stroke-public/@wcm/@hcm/documents/downloadable/ucm_309718.pdf. Accessed Jan. 9, 2015. Bendok BR (expert opinion). Mayo Clinic, Phoenix/Scottsdale, Ariz. Feb. 5, 2015. Rice EM. Decision Support System. Mayo Clinic. Rochester, Minn. Jan. 20, 2015. RelatedComputer-assisted brain surgeryCT scanHeadache Mayo Clinic in Minnesota has been recognized as the best Neurology & Neurosurgery hospital in the nation for 2016-2017 by U.S. News & World Report. Learn more about this top honor Brain AVM (arteriovenous malformation)OverviewSymptoms & causesDiagnosis & treatmentDiagnosisTreatmentRequest an appointmentDepartments & specialtiesExpertise & rankingsLocations, travel & lodgingClinical trialsResearchCosts & insurancePreparing for your appointmentSelf-managementMore aboutIn-DepthMultimediaResources Diagnosis & treatmentRequest an appointmentDiagnosisTreatmentDepartments & specialtiesExpertise & rankingsLocations, travel & lodgingClinical trialsResearchCosts & insurancePreparing for your appointment CON-20129955 Patient Care & Health Information Diseases & Conditions Brain AVM


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Awwww fuck...I'm gonna turn around and go home with my carbonite han solo figure and jedi robe now....*mope* *mope*.

Actually...j/k...I don't have any star wars shit. Those guys are like the tina turner's of mad max's thunderdome...just eye candy. I do have a star trek engineer uniform, am building a sonic screwdriver out of stainless steel (because those plastic ones that come in the little package suck serious ass), and have that tron suit thing.

And as a sidenote - you rule for multiple reasons Danny - A) for dealing with an annoying albeit hilarious situation and B) for making me squirt coffee/oj/milk out of my nose every time I read one of your e-mailz...

Xoxo,
 Sean

On Jul 16, 2011 12:20 AM, "Danny O'Brien" <email@example.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 11:21 PM, Jason Dusek <email@example.com> wrote:
 >> It is strange that someone with a Tibetan title and robe is
>> "activating" a Chinese Buddhist (and Daoist) folk diety. It is a
>> little like a priest holding forth over a traditional Torah
 >> scroll. Not completely without sense -- the text of the Torah
>> being substantially included in the Old Testament -- but very,
>> very fusion. To say he "activated" it is a little ridiculous and
 >> imparts a strange quality to the shrine -- which is no more
>> "active" than it was before he did anything with it.
>>
>> Naturally, as a follower of Zen, I would like to see Buddha's
 >> way more widely known. For some time, I lit incense for Saintly
>> Emperor Guan and some members of Noisebridge would join me. Not
>> too many did, though, and I set aside the practice. Everyone's
 >> karma is different. For those who love temples, there are
>> temples.
>
> I think this is probably the key point here. The guy *has* a temple.
> Actually, I think he has at least two: Macang Monastery, and Hua Zang
 > Si, just around the corner, also run by his group. Hua Zang Si is very
> beautiful. I frankly will miss Guan Yu. I think most people had grown
> to like him.
>
>>
>> Just the same, our community's feeling about religion is
 >> hypocritical and counter productive. We embrace sci-fi beliefs
>> and cherish symbols of popular culture in a way that can only be
>> characterized as folk religion, rejecting the symbols of other
 >> cultures and times in the manner of provincial extremists.
>>
>
> I don't think you can gloss over the whole our community that way (not
> anymore, too many people -- and not even in Ancient Times, when we had
 > long discussion about Guan Yu and his appropriateness).
>
> About the only thing I could glean consensus on was that the whole
> Church-clearing and proselytising was getting pretty irritating and
 > unsettling to a lot of people, and everyone seemed to agree that this
> stuff was better off taking place at Free School (and if there was
> some disagreement about that, it came from the Free School, who were
 > probably sitting down the road going: hey, you know what, those guys
> have a SHRINE over there).
>
> I know what you mean about pop cult symbols, but honestly, I think if
> we had a bunch of ultra-serious Jedis clean out Church to erect some
 > carbonite they'd dug out of the lasercutter room, tempers would have
> begun to fray by now.
>
> Actually, you're right, maybe that would have taken a lot longer.
>
> PLEASE NOBODY TEST THIS OUT.
 >
>> --
>
>> Jason Dusek
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Scott Kelly returns to earth, but science for NASA's journey to Mars continues
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly paved the way for future missions when he embarked on a one-year mission in space along with Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko. Kelly will be the first American to complete such a long-duration mission, and one of the first humans in more than 15 years to embrace the challenge. Russian cosmonaut Sergei Avdeyev was the last person to spend a year in microgravity in 1999. The 2015-2016 mission builds upon that past knowledge. While every space mission is historically significant, this one stands out. Twenty-first century technology, approaches and techniques are employed. NASA has partnered with other space agencies to conduct numerous human research investigations to see how the human body changes during a year in space. Two of these investigations, which deal with the effects of long spaceflights on the human body are fluid shifts and field tests. Fluid shifts deal with changes in the visual system and field tests with post-landing capabilities of astronauts immediately after long spaceflights. These investigations break down technological and logistical barriers while increasing international collaboration. The mission unites world-renowned scientists to conduct groundbreaking research on the human body.
"Working with additional partners is not necessarily easy because different countries have particular processes they follow," said John Charles, chief scientist of the NASA Human Research Program, who has a doctoral degree in physiology and biophysics. "Differing approaches to solving problems must be considered, but when new processes are learned that can benefit future missions or reduce duplication of tasks, that is considered a successful partnership."
This collaborative effort tests not only the human body but also the integration of partners, technologies and techniques. The good news is it is working so well it will be a model for future long-duration missions.
Preparing for a three-year journey to Mars requires innovative thinking, which is why NASA involved the best and brightest investigators from the U.S. and the International Space Station partner space agencies. Their expertise paired with the new data collected from this mission will help NASA create appropriate countermeasures to safeguard future astronauts against the stresses of space to the human body.
Coinciding with the one-year mission is the twins study. For the first time, identical twins are providing opportunities to study the effects of spaceflight at a molecular level. Scott's identical twin brother Mark, himself a former astronaut, is spending the year on Earth, enabling researchers to focus on a near-identical comparison of the brothers' genomics and omics profiles, something never captured before in human space research. This new field of study, akin to personalized medicine, produces so much information and data to analyze that it's hard to imagine.
"The mission will continue even after Scott returns," said Charles. "For the one-year mission research, we will be collecting post-flight medical data three-months and six-months after he is back on Earth. For the twins study research, we will continue to collect data as far out as a year after his return. The post-flight data are as important as the inflight data to help us learn how to send humans safely to Mars and return them safely to Earth."
To date, NASA has approximately 15 years of data from the space station about how space affects the human body on six-month missions. Now the Human Research Program is building on that foundation by proposing more international collaboration on future one-year space station missions. This will help evaluate the effectiveness of the countermeasure approaches being developed to offset spaceflight-related changes to the body during a mission to Mars.
"We would be happy to see no difference in a six-month mission versus a year-long mission," said Charles. "But we do anticipate changes. This was the first time we have done in-depth omics profiles on twins. The longer a human is in space, the more that individual is exposed to risks such as radiation and weightlessness. Our integrated team of researchers are addressing those risks to create countermeasures to enable more advanced space travel. By integrating international collaborative science, and thus emphasizing the 'I' in International Space Station, our combined efforts can yield the biggest benefit."
NASA's Human Research Program enables space exploration by reducing the risks to human health and performance through a focused program of basic, applied, and operational research. This leads to the development and delivery of: human health, performance, and habitability standards; countermeasures and risk mitigation solutions; and advanced habitability and medical support technologies.
Amy Blanchett Laurie Abadie NASA Human Research Engagement & Communications
Source: NASA/Johnson Space Center
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Rachel Zoe And Brad Goreski's Divorce May Be Bitter After All
Yesterday Rachel Zoe announced that she and her gay husband, Brad Goreski, were splitting up … amicably. That may not be the case after all. As it turns out, Brad's frou-frou statement about "spreading his wings and soaring" was code for he's sick of doing all the work and having Rachel take all the credit. The word 'round style town is that the s**t hit the fan when Brad was featured on the cover of The New York Times magazine and Rachel didn't like being out-shined by him. So, basically Rachel can't handle it when anyone around her gets good press? This explains so much about her split with surrogate daughter Taylor Jacobson. [Racked]


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Environment rangers
In the early light that filters through the cold morning air from a huge yellow-white sun still hanging low over the horizon to the east, the tiny chapel of Tal-Kunċizzjoni, sitting atop the cliffs at L-Irdum tal-Madonna, looks like it could be on a hill outside a little Mexican border-town, rather than the cliffs of a small Mediterranean island.
The rocky landscape around the chapel is decidedly desert-like, with succulent spiky leaves of agave and aloe plants protruding from between the stones and cactus-like prickly pears dotted around. Small trees, bent and gnarled, cling to the ground to keep from being blown away in the strong winds that blow in from the sea.
The warm sunbeams highlight the cross on top of the chapel and turn the sand-coloured stone gold for a moment. It wouldn't be surprising to see a tall man ride into this scene on the back of a pale horse.
A gull cries as it flies overhead and several sparrows chatter and chase each other across the car park and into acacia trees.
Then, around the corner of the chapel, stepping out of the long shadows and into the bright sunlight, which glints off the badges they wear on their chests, comes a group of schoolchildren, aged between 10 and 11, to look at them, armed with gloves and black bin-liners, attentively scouring the ground and stopping to pick up bits of litter, occasionally racing against one another to get to the next bit first.
These kids are here to help clean up L-Aħrax. Their badges mark them as Rangers. They are not alone. They are here with their teachers from Mellieħa Primary and Mosta Primary B and they have joined representatives of Birdlife Malta and Bank of Valletta for an activity which is part of the environmental education programme, Dinja Waħda. This activity was carried out with the support of the European Commisssion Representation in Malta.
But why clear up litter? And why here? In the words of one of the young Rangers: "We are stopping rats from coming here and eating the birds and their eggs."
The birds are the two species of shearwater, the Yelkouan and Scopoli's (Cory's) Shearwaters, which nest in colonies on the side of the cliffs below us. Malta is an important breeding place for both species. The Maltese Islands are home to 10 per cent of the global Yelkouan Shearwater population and five per cent of the global population of Scopoli's Shearwater.
Approximately 500 pairs of Yelkouans breed at the L-Irdum tal-Madonna colony every year.
It isn't only seabirds that enjoy the wild natural environment of the sea-cliffs. L-Aħrax is a popular spot for campers and picnickers, especially in summer, and unfortunately lots of people leave a mess of uneaten food, packaging and other rubbish behind them. This attracts rats.
It might look impossibly dangerous for a person to climb down from the top of the cliffs, but the rats manage it. They find the nests of the shearwaters and eat the eggs, or even the young chicks themselves. The Dinja Waħda Rangers have come to clean up the rubbish and keep the rats at bay.
But it's not all about seabirds and rats. As they walk around the site, guided by Warden Fiona Burrows, the children learn about the different plants and habitats: wild thyme growing on the rocky garigue – not in flower now, but covered with bright purple blossoms which attract bees and butterflies in the spring. They hear about the Ocellated Skink and much more common Maltese wall lizard. Then the children start looking for these creatures in the low rubble walls.
L-Irdum tal-Madonna is one of Malta's richest Natura 2000 protected sites. There are more than 26,000 Natura 2000 sites in Europe, covering 18 per cent of the continent and surrounding seas. Malta has 35 Natura 2000 sites (34 on land and one at sea), which cover 13.25 per cent of Maltese territory.
The cliffs are home to rocky garigue and sand dune habitats, numerous native plants and animals, and some notable endemic species, such as the Pyramidal Orchid, found only in the Maltese Islands. Thanks to the incredible biodiversity supported by the different habitats the site is protected as a Special Area of Conservation, as well as being a Special Protective Area for its important breeding colonies of shearwaters.
The desert agaves, the acacias and eucalyptus, which have been planted here over the years, are actually invasive species that don't belong here at all and pose another threat to the indigenous plants and habitats.
Back at school the pupils will be sharing their experience and what they have learned by giving a presentation on conservation in Natura 2000 sites.
Thanks to their school's participation in this activity these children are helping to increase public awareness of Maltese nature and the threats of human activities. They provide a shining example to the rest of us about how we should care for our natural environment. Even doing something as simple as taking your rubbish away with you and disposing of it correctly can make a valuable contribution to conservation.
Dinja Waħda is Birdlife Malta's and Bank of Valletta's environmental education programme for primary schools, carried out in collaboration with the Directorate for Quality Standards in Education.
For more information about the Dinja Waħda environmental education programme, visit www.birdlifemalta.org.
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On the other side of my plate was a smaller plate, on which was heaped a blackish substance which I did not then know to be caviare. I was ignorant of what was to be done with it but firmly determined not to let it enter my mouth.
Marcel Proust. A La Recherche du Temps Perdu (1913-1927).
At the start of a love affair, the bed becomes a raft of pleasure, adrift on an ocean of expectations. Midnight discoveries and drowsy revelations at dawn are the common currencies of discourse.
At such a time, in the depths of our first passion, Marie-Dominique murmured, "I have a secret."
Could there be yet more to discover from this sorceress to whom I was so completely in thrall?
"Tell me."
She wriggled closer. "I will whisper it."
She brought her mouth close to my ear. "I love…"
I held my breath. What erotic revelation hovered on those delicious lips?
"No . . . I adore . . ."
Yes? Yes?
" . . . caviar."
I grew up with no concept of caviar, except as a symbol of luxury and excess. Before arriving in Europe, I'd not only never tasted it, I'd never even seen it. This was hardly surprising, coming from a country where any food not recognisably derived from a sheep, cow, pig or chicken was regarded as Satan's Work.
If any had been offered, I might have reacted like Tom Hanks in the film Big. A 12-year-old boy in the body of a man, he retains his juvenile prejudices against new flavours. At his first taste of caviar, he spits it out in disgust. But then Proust didn't like it either. Some pleasures are not simply wasted on the young but incomprehensible to them.
As puberty invades the body, so do new appetites. Bitter, salt and spicy no longer repel. Olives, oysters and anchovies, wine and whisky reveal their attractions. The first experience of alcohol is a male rite of passage since it marks the moment at which you no longer want to spit it out.
In theory, the stronger the brew, the more firmly it cements your maturity. Americans favour whisky, "that bitter liquor that only men drink", though I tend toward Samuel Johnson's opinion that "claret is the liquor for boys, port for men, but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy". In Australia, we got beer. That says a lot.
Returning from London to France not long after I moved there, I ate a quick lunch at the seafood bar in London's Heathrow airport. A refrigerated cabinet behind the counter was stacked with small, flat cans. I remembered my new wife's murmured confession.
"Tell me about the caviar," I said to the waitress.
Her manner changed. No longer just a man eating a smoked salmon sandwich and a glass of chardonnay, I displayed aspirations.
On the counter she placed three cans, as seductively coloured as poker chips: sky blue, an orange red, and deep oceanic green.
"Beluga, Osetra and Sevruga," she said.
With the help of pictures in a brochure, she explained the three types – pea-sized Beluga, golden Sevruga, and small, grey Osetra.
"They come in 4 ounces (113 grams) and 12 ounces. "
"How much for the 4 ounces of Sevruga?"
I forget what I paid, but in 1990, Beluga sold for $32 an ounce in New York, Osetra was $13 and Sevruga $10, so my 4 ounces of Sevruga probably cost about $40.
At the time, it seemed a lot. The waitress obviously thought so too, since it came with a warm smile and, more practically, a styrofoam travelling pack with dry ice inside to keep it cold.
You never got that kind of attention with baked beans.
As a coming-home gift, the little can could not have been more successful.
"Caviar!" Marie-Dominique hugged me. "It's so long since I had any!"
"We can eat it tonight."
"Oh, we can't have it tonight."
"Why not? I'm curious to know what it tastes like."
"You don't understand," she said, placing it into the fridge. "Let's save it for the weekend."
The only way to eat caviar
By Saturday, it was already apparent that dinner would be An Event. The table was set with candlesticks, the best Limoges china, linen napkins rather than paper, and a wine cooler. As a final touch, she unearthed an ancient spoon from the depths of the china cupboard.
"It belonged to my great grand-father."
The bowl was moulded of some beige organic substance.
"What's it made of?"
"Deer horn. You never serve caviar with metal."
That evening, the lights of the dining room were dimmed, the candles lit. The tiny can nestled in ice beside a bowl of crème fraiche and a metal dish with something wrapped in a napkin. I peeked. Fat bite-sized pancakes, blinis, warm from the oven. Almost the last thing brought to the table was a bottle of vodka, straight from the freezer, and coated so thick in frost the label was unreadable. A single green stalk floated in the clear spirit; the herb Anthoxanthum nitens or bison grass.
Cracking the cap, Marie-Dominique filled two tiny glasses – more treasures from her grandparents. The spirit was so close to freezing it poured syrup-thick.
"Nasdrovia," she said.
We downed the vodka at the same instant. It flooded the mouth with a delicious freshness, followed by a burst of alcohol heat as it trickled down the throat.
Taking a blini, she added a dab of crème fraiche, then scooped some caviar with the horn spoon. So did I. At the same instant, we popped them in our mouths. On palates cleansed by the vodka, the tiny eggs ruptured – multiple explosions of delight.
Aaaaah! Now I understood.
This, then, is the secret of caviar. It's not good because it costs a lot; it costs a lot because it's good. When Edward Fitzgerald mused in his Rubiayat of Omar Khayyam "I often wonder what the Vintners buy/ One half so precious as the Goods they sell", he was articulating a thought all of us share on learning that something which gives us pleasure can be had for mere money.
Caviar excited just this reaction – $5 a teaspoonful? Is that all? I'd happily have paid double. Triple.
Caviar isn't a single product but several. The best is Golden, from the eggs of the Sterlet sturgeon. Once common in Russia and Asia Minor, the Sterlet now survives only on the Caspian coast of Iran. Its caviar almost never reaches the west. When it does, connoisseurs fall on it. In the 1970s, during the rule of the Shah, the certainty of Sterlet at Iranian receptions drew every celebrity in New York or Washington, from Elizabeth Taylor and Henry Kissinger to Andy Warhol.
Art critic and writer Robert Hughes sneered about "Warhol and the Inter/view crowd at the tub of caviar in the consulate, like pigeons around a birdbath."
Until the 1910s, the best European and American hotels served only Sterlet. But after World War I, supplies dwindled. Any arriving in the United States usually did so by mistake, included in a shipment of the more common Beluga or Sevruga.
In 1915, a one-kilo can fell into the hands of Antoine Dadone, who ran Vendome Table Delicacies on Madison Avenue. He'd just learned from the Russian consul, Mr Tretiakoff, that, because of the war, all exports of caviar from Russia would cease. Dadone sent a pound (0.45 kilos) of Sterlet to Tretiakoff, with his compliments. Shortly after, Tretiakoff advised Dadone that the embargo would not apply to Vendome, whom he promised to keep supplied from his personal stock, shipped in under diplomatic cover.
In 1937, another can of Sterlet arrived at Vendome in a consignment of Beluga from Astrakhan. Beluga was selling for $15 a pound; add two zeros for today's prices. For the Sterlet, Dadone asked a preposterous $50 –two months' rent on the average house.
"Who would pay such a sum?" demanded a journalist.
Dadone shrugged. "Who buys diamonds at Cartier?"
Secret caviar fanatics
Many people avoid caviar for fear they won't "get" it; that it requires a cultivated palate. We say of something too good for the public that it would be offering "caviar to the general". Plenty of anecdotes bolster this assumption. A British officer, after capturing a Nazi HQ during World War II, found a refrigerator filled with cans of caviar. Deciding his men deserved a taste of this luxury, he gave one to the mess sergeant. He returned almost immediately. "Excuse me, sir," he said, "but this blackberry jam tastes of fish."
In fact, an appreciation of caviar is independent of class or character. The first time Louis XV of France tasted it, he spat it out. Yet in the 1980s, tiny snack stalls scattered around Moscow's Red Square offered only two things; a sugary ice cream, and a slice of rye bread topped with a heaped spoonful of caviar. Both cost the same – in those days, about 25¢ – and sold equally well.
And you would never suspect from her poetry that Sylvia Plath, while working on Mademoiselle magazine in her student days, haunted buffets at press launches, gorging caviar. "Under cover of the clinking of water goblets and silverware and bone china," she wrote in her autobiographical novel The Bell Jar, "I paved my plate with chicken slices. Then I covered the chicken slices with caviar thickly as if I were spreading peanut butter on a piece of bread. Then I picked up the chicken slices in my fingers one by one, rolled them so the caviar wouldn't ooze off and ate them."
Marie-Dominique and I were enjoying caviar in the twilight of availability. The female sturgeon cannot be "milked" like the salmon. She must die before her eggs can be extracted, washed, sieved, and packed, sometimes lightly salted, into cans.
It comes at a price
I was haunted by a scrap of film showing Russian fishermen netting a giant sturgeon. Struggling sluggishly in the muddy water, she looked clumsy and unthreatening, dumbly unaware of the precious few kilos in her belly, for which she would shortly be slaughtered. What if, for every kilo of butter, a cow had to die? Would we enjoy our croissant au beurre or buttered toast quite so much? On the evidence of the sturgeon and caviar, it appears we would relish it all the more.
In the 1990s, the Soviet Union and Iran both gave belated thought to the dwindling sturgeon population and severely limited caviar sales overseas. In 2005, the United States banned Caspian caviar altogether. From 450 tons (408 tonnes) a year, Russia's exports fell to 87 tons in 2007, all from non-Caspian fisheries, and Iran's to 45 tons from a 1997 peak of 105 tonnes. Prices in the West soared to £9000 a kilogram.
We can gauge caviar's growing rarity from the way it's packaged. Until the 1890s, it was shipped in wooden casks holding three or four kilos. As supplies dwindled and prices rose, the packers moved to porcelain jars of about half that volume. In the early 20th century, these gave way to 1 kilogram cylindrical cans, with a rubber band to keep the unpasteurised contents airtight. Today, although French producers still use these, the trickle of Russian caviar reaching the West does so in smaller batches, in 100g cans.
To fill the vacuum, all sorts of products annexed the name. The puree of eggplant known for centuries around the Mediterranean as baba ghanoush was renamed caviar d'aubergine, and a salsa with black beans and black-eyed peas became "Texas caviar".
In supermarkets, jars of red and black fish eggs promised the delights of sturgeon caviar at a fraction of the price. They came from the lumpfish, otherwise known as the sea toad. One look at this morose bottom-feeder was enough to convince anyone that it could never produce anything so subtle as caviar. Sceptics put lumpfish eggs in a strainer and ran cold water over them. The black or red dye sluiced out, and with it all flavour.
A New York restaurant startled everyone by offering caviar with ice cream and chocolate syrup. The Golden Opulence Sundae came in a crystal goblet with an 18-carat-gold spoon. It included five scoops of ice cream made from the world's most expensive ingredients, wrapped in sheets of edible gold leaf, and topped with a dish of "Grand Passion Caviar", a form of "American golden dessert caviar, sweetened and infused with passionfruit, orange and Armagnac." The price was $1000, making it, for a while, the world's most expensive dessert.
Mixing caviar with fruit sounded like the worst waste since Jermaine Jackson, brother of Michael, staying in a Swiss hotel, doused a bowl of Beluga with ketchup.
However, a little research unmasked "American golden dessert cav iar" as something much less precious: eggs from the whitefish, a cousin of the salmon, common in the Great Lakes. Retailing at $18 an ounce, whitefish eggs are fat and pink, like those of the salmon, and share the look, though not the taste, of Sterlet. Once you wash off the goo that coats them, they're as bland as the roe of the Sea Toad.
At one time, caviar was as common a component of a great meal as foie gras. Escoffier served it liberally, always Golden Sterlet. What a coup if I could somehow find any kind of caviar for my dinner, however imaginary.
French-born caviar?
The week I started my quest to create the perfect banquet, my friend Boris had chosen to hang out at L'Chai d'Abbaye, on Rue Buci in Paris. He was in a booth at the back, and reading, or affecting to read, a copy of Le Monde. Since he took no interest in recent news, I looked more closely at the headlines:
795 arrests, and 456 injured in overnight rioting."
The paper was dated May 24, 1968.
I glanced around the cafe. "Did the soixante-huitards meet here?"
It wasn't impossible. The Chai has a long political tradition. During the 1930s, it was a favourite with the emigres who lived in rented rooms along Rue Jacob.
Many were on the run from informers and assassins sent by Franco, Stalin, or the secret police of half a dozen Balkan monarchies. A big mirror on the rear wall reflects the whole cafe and the sidewalk outside. If you sit in the rear booth, with your back to the door, you can see everyone, but, unless you move your head slightly, to show your reflection, the cafe looks empty. Boris obviously knew this, since he had chosen just this spot in which to sit.
"I heard this story . . ." I began.
"I hate stories."
Ignoring him, I went on, "A Russian princess in the 1920s is driving through Charente . . ."
"Oh, the fisherman and the sturgeon."
"Yes. What do you think?"
"Probably true."
"Really? You know the one I mean? A Russian princess just happens to be driving across a river in France when a fisherman hooks a sturgeon . . . ?"
"And to her horror, he rips out the insides, including the caviar, and throws them away. You doubt it?"
"Well . . . it's a bit unlikely."
"The unlikely is almost always true. Nobody has taken the trouble to make it plausible. It's the obvious you need to worry about. Anyway, I'm told they even kept the princess's parasol. It's in the local museum. Proof."
"But . . . sturgeon in France?"
"There are sturgeon all over the world, or used to be. I expect the river was the Gironde. Lots of sturgeon there. And Russians settled in that region after the revolution; those that got out with any money. It reminded them of the Black Sea."
"Do French sturgeon really produce caviar?"
"Why not? French and Russian cows make the same milk. Why shouldn't French and Russian sturgeon make caviar?"
"Then why isn't it sold?"
"What makes you think it isn't?"
"Have you ever tasted it?"
"Of course. So have you, probably. When French growers first started producing, all the snob restaurateurs turned up their noses. So they routed their product through a cannery in Odessa. Once it had Cyrillic on the lid, the grosses tetes couldn't get enough."
We start our search
Later that summer, Marie-Dominique and I went in search of French caviar along the lazy rivers of Charente. Even with directions, the fishery took some finding – probably by intention. For more than an hour, we cruised narrow country lanes where two cars could barely pass. The voice on the GPS unit seldom let up.
Our route dwindled down to a rutted dirt lane running parallel to a narrow river – the Isle, which flowed eventually into the Dordogne – and petered out in a pot-holed dirt parking area. A big 19th century house filled the space between us and the river. Opposite was a more recent and nondescript two-storey brick building. Only a small printed sign on its front door, "No caviar for sale", told us we'd arrived.
Boris was right. French caviar did exist, but only just. By the time the French realised the commercial potential of sturgeon, only the Gironde still had a population. Growers imported Russian sturgeon and bred them with the local fish. Now there were fisheries scattered around south-west France and northern Spain, producing about 50 tonnes of caviar a year.
"There's not a lot going on at the moment," said the manager as he showed us around the building. "It isn't the season. They grow through the summer, and we harvest between October and April. You'll want to see them," he said, and led us out into the sun.
The ponds, more than 20, each as shallow as a child's wading pool, filled the space between the road and the river. The bottoms of most were painted blue or white, though a few were black, making it hard to see the sturgeon that swam sinuously, dark-backed and velvety.
I reached down towards the cool water, then pulled my hand back.
"They don't bite," said the manager. "No teeth.They're bottom feeders. Not like salmon. More like sharks. No real skeletons. Their bones are . . ." He made a flexing motion with his hands, as if bending an invisible rubber hose.
We walked between the ponds in the hot sun, sweating, longing to join the sturgeon in the cool water that gushed, purified, from the river just beyond the trees. Their numbers were uncountable; scores in each pond, the size of big salmon, gliding and slithering. Young men patrolled, scooping pellets from large bins and scattering them across the water.
Facts flowed from the manager like water from the river. These fish were young, these older; these were males, so of no use except for their meat (very tasty; marinated in yogurt, then barbecued. Some Russian visitors had cooked it for him). These were females, though two years away from producing a worthwhile quantity of eggs. And one pond held Sterlet, imported from Siberia as an experiment. If they thrived, the company might soon be selling the Golden Caviar currently hogged by commissars and imams.
"Do you like caviar yourself?" I asked.
He looked incredulous. "Of course."
"How do you eat it? With vodka and blinis?"
"No. Dry champagne, and a little black pepper."
I recognised the hunger in his tone. We faced each other like two men over the table at a buffet supper, united only by appetite. It wasn't death that was the great leveller, but food.
"And how much do you produce?"
"Altogether? In a good year? About six tonnes."
All these creatures, sacrificed for just six tonnes. I thought of the female sturgeon in the scrap of film, struggling in the Caspian mud. Hundreds of thousands of lives, snuffed out for the 450 tons once eaten in a single year. How to weigh that against our delight as we relished Beluga in the Paris candlelight, each pearl a tiny death?
I would like to say it put me off caviar for life. But within 24 hours, I was lifting a spoon heaped with Beluga, ready to see if it really tasted better with black pepper and champagne than with vodka.
Somewhere in my notes was the fishery's price list. They sell their best caviar for €1614.60 a kilo; roughly $2000. Four ounces is 113 grams, so my can from 1990 would now cost me about $130 – $13 for each teaspoonful.
Was there any better appetiser than caviar with which to begin my imaginary banquet?
I couldn't think of one.
Was it worth the fortune it would cost? I engulfed the delicious mouthful.
Definitely yes.
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The upcoming episode of Star Plus Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon (IPKKND) is bringing more dramatic change in Arnav and Khushi's life.
Present tracks showed that Khushi succeeded to get to know the whereabouts of Arnav with the help Manorama Mami. But unfortunately she could not reach Arnav because of goons.
Now the upcoming episode will unfold more drama where Khushi will figure out that Shyam is responsible for Arnav's kidnapping by his changing behavior and some other clues.
Khushi will decide to follow Shyam but Shyam is just one step ahead Khushi's thinking. He will come to know about Khushi's plan to trap him.
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Beautiful Visualization: The BookJune 23rd, 2010
Had the opportunity last fall to contribute a chapter to the recently released book "Beautiful Visualization" by Julie Steele and Noah Iliinsky. So for my chapter I did visualizations of two large datasets. One was of the Netflix Prize, which was an updated version of a visualization I did a couple of years back. And since I was working at AT&T Interactive R&D at the time, the other visualization I did was of the query logs for Yellowpages.com, a local search engine owned by AT&T.
Julie Steele was wonderful to work with as an editor. And O'Reilly is kind enough to allow the chapter authors to release their own chapters in digital form. So if your interested, you can download the chapter here.
Here's the Netflix visualization from the chapter. Click it to enlarge.
3 Responses to "Beautiful Visualization: The Book"
Liam McGee Says:
September 3rd, 2010 at 2:28 pm
'query logs for Yellowpages.com' – no images of the visualisation?
Liam McGee Says:
September 3rd, 2010 at 2:29 pm
Oops, just found 'em. http://abeautifulwww.com/visualizations/
john Says:
November 16th, 2010 at 4:49 pm
Is there a tool to make a version of the graphs that are interactive and can be navigated – e.g. by panning, zooming, clickable nodes with more information etc? It'd be nice to look deeply into a few of these nodes for viewers.


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Google DC Hosts ACTA Panel Discussion
On Monday, January 11, 2010 Google's DC offices hosted a panel discussion about the secretive Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) moderated by the Washington Post's Consumer Technology columnist Rob Pegoraro. The panel consisted of Steve Metalitz, a partner at Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp LLP who represents numerous clients in the publishing, recording, motion picture, software, music and database industries, James Love, the Director of the non-profit Knowledge Ecology International, Ryan Clough, legislative counsel to Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren from San Jose, CA and Jonathan Brand, from Jonathan Brand PLLC who represents organizations such as the Library Copyright Alliance and the Computer & Communications Industry Association.
The panel began by looking at the problems that ACTA is attempting to resolve. Metalitz emphasized the extent to which the economy relies on the copyright industries for both maintenance and growth. He maintained that ACTA is necessary to protect these industries and therefore to protect the economy. Clough reminded us that the industries that rely on exceptions to copyright also contribute heavily to the economy and that ACTA might limit their ability to function, especially internationally. He underlined the need for a balance between enforcement of copyright and exceptions to copyright to maintain a healthy economy. The concern articulated by Clough and echoed by Band and Love was that ACTA falls too heavily on the enforcement side of the balance and disregards the necessity of exceptions.
The discussion then turned to the possibility that ACTA would require changes to the current state of US law. Metalitz explained that since ACTA is being negotiated as an Executive Agreement, by definition it must be consistent with US laws. Clough contextualized the point by stating that although Metalitz was technically correct, an Executive Agreement still imposes obligations and constraints on the government and on its ability to change copyright laws in the future. Band went on to describe the complexity of the current state of the law given that it is judge-made and constantly in flux. It is therefore hard to know if something is consistent with US law when US is always changing. Metalitz believed that it is not a matter of specifics within a law. Rather, ACTA is about broad principles that all countries must agree upon and therefore no specific changes will result. Love strongly disagreed. He believed that the lack of transparency in ACTA negotiations is clear proof that governments are embarrassed by the changes being proposed.
This began a point of contention between Metalitz and Love. Love specifically asked Metalitz to concede that ACTA negotiations ought to be made public. Love maintained that the lack of transparency is a blatant attempt to marginalize the public while empowering those who have access to the information. Additionally, he insisted that transparency would likely result in a more consumer-friendly agreement, and this is why the Chamber of Commerce wants to preserve secrecy. Metalitz countered by arguing that the level of transparency surrounding the ACTA negotiations is actually higher than in most trade agreement negotiations. He believed that the secrecy is necessary in these types of governmental negotiations and that transparency could only be achieved with the consent of the other negotiating parties. Band did not think that transparency would lead to a collapse of the negotiations, although it might lead to a narrowing of the issues. Clough furthered the discussion by reasoning that transparency will likely be forced in the future in order to defend against the allegations being made against ACTA. He added, however, that transparency ought to come sooner rather than later, and that if it only comes after an agreement has been signed by the President, then it has come too late.
The panelists went on to answer questions from the Google Moderator and from audience members. The first question was about safe-harbor protection for uploads, and Band explained that ACTA will still include safe-harbors and that the US will probably not have to change its laws. Metalitz hoped that, given that most countries involved in ACTA have safe harbors, those that do not (including Canada) would be "brought in to the 21st century". The next question asked was about anti-circumvention exceptions and Clough offered that the issue is fundamentally about how exceptions are articulated. If exceptions are permitted while enforcement is required, this might result in an unbalanced understanding abroad of American copyright interests. Band explained that the long term goal of ACTA is to pressure those countries who are not participating to eventually agree to the negotiated terms. Love warned that the unintended consequences of ACTA could be the most harmful and this is why transparency is so important.
Pegoraro had the last word and gave the example of watching a DVD on his Linux laptop. He reminded us that banning copyright infringement technology entirely, some of which has legitimate uses, may not make any actual difference in the real world.
Jessica Weiss is a law student from the University of Ottawa working this semester as a Fellow at PIJIP. The teaser image was placed online under a creative commons license by mfophoto.


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Wednesday, February 11 2009 - 9/11 Consequences
Study shows Ground Zero link to lung ailments
by Leo Standora
Many Sept. 11 first responders - most of them cops, firemen and construction workers who took ill after working at Ground Zero - suffered lung problems more than five years later, according to a new study.
Experts say findings by Mount Sinai Medical Center's medical monitoring program prove those exposed to toxic dust in the twin towers' collapse suffer persistent illnesses, ranging from asthma to reactive airway disease and shortness of breath.
The study could help experts who have long been struggling to set standards for defining a post-Sept. 11 illness and how long it takes to develop.
The monitoring program examined more than 3,160 WTC responders between 2004 and 2007, repeating exams conducted between the middle of 2002 and 2004.
Slightly more than 24% of those examined had abnormal lung function, the study found.
In the earlier examinations, about 28% of the patients had had similar results.
"We know people we are following are still sick. It's confirming what we've been seeing clinically," said Dr. Jacqueline Moline, who treats ailing responders and is a co-author of the study.
The growing medical fallout from the WTC attacks was the focus of the Daily News Editorial Board's groundbreaking editorial series, "9/11: The Forgotten Victims," that won the Pulitzer Prize in 2007.
As a result of the series, the federal Department of Health and Human Services released $75 million to monitor and provide health care to 9/11 volunteers - the first federal funds dedicated explicitly to 9/11 health problems.
Then-Gov. George Pataki later signed a bill to provide line-of-duty death benefits to responders' families, Mayor Bloomberg committed more than $37 million to monitor and treat victims, and Congress filed legislation seeking an additional $1.9 billion over five years.
Mount Sinai's program has treated more than 26,000 people who were at the site or worked there in the days after Sept. 11.
The study's authors note that the participants all asked to be enrolled in the program and may be more symptomatic than others who were exposed but didn't enroll.
Still, Norman Edelman, chief medical officer of the American Lung Association, said the study is "probably an important finding" of long-term post-Sept. 11 illness.
"The most reasonable explanation is that there's a subset of people who, for whatever reason, were more sensitive to the stuff that was inhaled," Edelman said.
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An inverse relationship between KAI1 expression, invasive ability, and MMP-2 expression and activity in bladder cancer cell lines
You, Jingjing, Madigan, Michele, Rowe, Alexandra, Sajinovic, Mila, Russell, Pamela, & Jackson, Paul (2010) An inverse relationship between KAI1 expression, invasive ability, and MMP-2 expression and activity in bladder cancer cell lines. Urologic Oncology: Seminars and Original Investigations, Online(Online), pp. 1-7.
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Quote Unquote Records
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|Jeff Rosenstock
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Quote Unquote Records is a donation-based online independent record label, founded and run by Bomb the Music Industry! and The Arrogant Sons of Bitches frontman Jeff Rosenstock. The label is an example of Rosenstock's DIY ideals. Many of the label's artists have personal connections, and all of the music released by the label is available as a free download from its website, along with an array of lyrics and photos. In fact, the label does not sell any material of any kind, and the website's headline bills the label as "The First Ever Donation Based Record Label".[1][2][3][4][5]
Rosenstock explains the modest success of Quote Unquote Records by stating, "The donations that come in are not huge, but since we don't spend that much money they pile up." Most donations are more than the $5 suggestion.[6] During October 2008, the Quote Unquote Records web site was shut down over alleged copyright infringement in publishing its own songs;[7][8] however, the site was quickly restored.[9]
- Antarctigo Vespucci
- Archipelago
- The Arrogant Sons of Bitches
- Barnaby Jones
- Binary Heart
- Boboso
- Bomb the Music Industry!
- The Brass
- Cheap Girls[10]
- Cheeky
- Chewing On Tinfoil
- Chotto Ghetto
- Cold Electrics
- Hard Girls
- Kudrow
- Lee Hartney Sex Drive
- Lenin/McCarthy
- Let Me Crazy
- Laura Stevenson and the Cans
- The Livingbrooks
- The Matt Kurz One
- The Max Levine Ensemble
- Mike Huguenor
- O Pioneers!!!
- Pegasuses-XL
- Pteradon
- The Riot Before
- Roar
- Rick Johnson Rock and Roll Machine
- Shinobu
- The Taxpayers
- Very Okay
- The Wild
- The Riot Before
- We Versus The Shark
See also[edit]
- ^ ::-::Quote Unquote Records::Rock And Roll For Donations::-::
- ^ Bomb The Music Industry! - 10.11.06 - Interview - AbsolutePunk.net
- ^ Punknews.org | Bomb The Music Industry! Part 2
- ^ Punknews.org | About Quote Unquote Records
- ^ JUICEBOXdotcom - Oh, You Found Our Party. » Worst Mondays/Best Fridays » WORST MONDAYS: with Jeff Rosenstock of Bomb the Music Industry! and Quote Unquote Records
- ^ Razorcake - Interview With Bomb The Music Industry
- ^ "Record Label 'Infringes' Own Copyright, Site Pulled". TorrentFreak. 2008-10-19. Retrieved 2008-10-20.
- ^ p2pnet news » Copyright monster gets Quote Unquote Records
- ^ QUOTE UNQUOTE RECORDS DOWN FOR A MINUTE. - MySpace-blog | Quote Unquote Records
- ^ Cheap Girls Release Album Digitally – S A L


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Forum:"On this day" could use some work
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"On this day" could use some work, in my opinion. There's some good stuff, but a lot of the jokes are on the level of time travel, celebrity references, impossible events, for instance "1912- Chipmunks discovered on Mars" or "1958 - Oprah eats the entire population of Koreans". Stupid-not-funny, random, huffable crap, in other words. I've been doing a bit of editing lately- not that I think my stuff is great, just that it's better than much of the crap on there. It's also a good way to get a bit of your writing on the front page.
Anyhow, my suggestions:
- themed histories can be good, for example, "August 3: Vague Day" is a bunch of extremely vague events.
- real events are a good inspiration. Go over to Wikipedia and type in "August 21" or whatever date you want to edit to see what happened, it may give you an idea. Making fun of something that really happened is often funnier than making up random, stupid, impossible events.
- when you throw in links, try to throw in a link to a good article- a VFA or classic that maybe hasn't been looked at in a while. Someone did "air guitar was invented on this day" for instance. (a) it's amusing, and (b) it puts a good article where it's visible on the front page so people are more likely to read it and get something funny if they visit the site.
InfiniteMonkey 19:48, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
- By all means, feel free to delete the crappier entries. Most of them are leftovers from last year, anyway. --Algorithm 02:54, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
- As creator of the section back in April of '05, I agree that mostly it's retarded Chuck Norris jokes and random anachronisms. I haven't really added to it since the first few days of its existence, but most of my better entries involved jokes that were about real history and fit with it (as opposed to twisting it and mostly f*cking it up). Be my guest and change any entries you want. Right now it's servicable as a filler to allow Uncyc to look like Wiki, but if we can make it actually funny, I'm all for it. -- » Sir Savethemooses Grand Commanding Officer ... holla atcha boy» 13:04, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
What do you think about putting the first couple of paragraphs (and pic) of the top UnNews story on the main page on top of the headlines and On this Days? It would make the front a bit more colourful and topical and would shrink the space left for headlines and On This Days, thus making the On This Day overhaul less onerous and stuff. -- Sir Armando Perentie KUN FP 14:33, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
- Just as links to real articles make In The News and Did You Know more functional, economical, and funny, including events as described in QUALITY articles would greatly increase On This Date's everything-ness. -- » Sir Savethemooses Grand Commanding Officer ... holla atcha boy» 05:58, 12 August 2006 (UTC)


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