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Re: plotting fourier amplitude versus frequency
On Aug 14, 2007, at 7:15 AM, Indrani Sinha wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to extract frequencies from a data set of
> length versus time.
> Dataset:
> time bondlength
> I am using the following script:
> data = ReadList["length.dat",{Number,Number}];
> plain=N[Transpose[data][[2]]];
> f=Fourier[plain];
> s=OpenWrite["fourier_tmp.dat"];
> WriteString[s,"#"];
> Do[Write[s,Abs[f[[i]]]],{i,1,Length[f]}];
> Close[s];
> !sed 's/*\^/e/g' fourier_tmp.dat > cfourier.dat
> Quit
> This gives me an output file cfourier.dat with the
> fourier amplitude values, but how do I get the
> corresponding frequencies?
The times are the first elements of data, presumably your data is
sampled equispaced or the fourier analysis would make no sense so you
can get the period as:
period = data[[2,1]] - data[[1,1]]
Your frequencies are then
0..(Length[f]/2-1) / (Length[f] period)
for the first Length[f] / 2 points and
-1/(2 period)..-1/(Length[f] period)
for the last Length[f]/2 poiints.
> Also the first line in the output has a number; what
> does that signify?
I have no idea, your script outputs a # on the first line of the
output file with the command WriteString[s,"#"].


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A crook and a tough-as-nails gal are hunted by a ruthless lawman in this Wild West tale. After killing her abusive husband, Sarah (Linda Fiorentino) is forced aboard a stagecoach by her cruel father-in-law, Marshall Speakes (Sam Elliott). By happenstance, a thief named Cooper (Craig Sheffer) is also on board. When bandits attack, Sarah escapes with Cooper's stolen loot. He tracks her down, and they wind up forming a united front against Speakes.

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September Truck of the Month: Plum Mist Mack
SASKATOON, SK — Andy Zary of Saskatoon bought a 1959 B61LT Mack from Chuck Fitzgerald of Edmonton in 1968, when it was a day cab with one million miles on the odometer. Zary put the truck to work through Saskatchewan and Alberta pulling a flat bed until 1974, when he decided the rig needed a rebuild.
Zary repowered it with a ENDT-673-C Mack; tweaking the motor to 300 hp. He also lengthened the frame to 235 in. and added a 54-in. sleeper. And kept it on the road.
By 1980, the Mack had travelled 2.3 million miles.
Nineteen eighty-two was time for another upgrade. That meant:
- an air-over-spring front axle;
- a rebuilt rear axle;
- a 64-in. standup sleeper;
- tinted and etched windows;
- 16 chrome gauges;
- chrome and stainless steel engine components;
- chrome and stainless step boxes, light panels, full length deck plate, rear fender brackets, rear light panel, stainless steel air-line box.
Saskatoon Welding custom-fabricated all the stainless work. Cliff Johnson of 5 Star Truck Collision in Saskatoon painted the truck with "Endura" paint, from Edmonton.
A.L. Zary Transport Inc., ran from 1963 until 1999. In 2000, Zary and his wife Irene started showing the Mack throughout North America and by 2013 they had accumulated more than 100 trophies.
On March 16, 2009, Irene Zary passed away. And you can't talk to Andy for more than 15 seconds without her name entering the conversation.
"Irene and I worked together for 36 years," Zary says. "I would be out driving and she ran the show—dispatching, doing the books, everything—from home.
"When we expanded to six trucks, she said 'you're coming home,' and that's exactly what I did."
Zary was born in Alvena SK, in 1933.
He left the family farm when he was 17 and moved to Sioux Lookout, ON., to take a job cutting pulp wood. From there, he tried Toronto, Saskatoon and eventually Kitimat, where he met Irene. They have two children, Randy and Laura, and a granddaughter Ebonie.
"So," I asked Zary, "Was your granddaughter named ebony after the color of this truck?"
"The truck," he responded, "is not black.
"It's my color."
When they were refinishing the Mack in 1982, Zary painstakingly worked with the paint supplier, blending purples and black until he arrived at what he calls "plum mist."
"I don't know what it's really called, but it changes depending one what time of day you're looking at it. It's dark purple at night and black in the sunlight."
That's the same precision he and Irene took to their trucking operation. "When our guys pulled into a yard, people would know it was us. They'd come down and look at our equipment.
"Our drivers were always very neat and our equipment was always clean."
Although he's soft-spoken and very polite, Zary is one of those people who commands instant respect.
Commented one trucker who met Zary recently: "He's very well liked, by everyone. He's so nice you're almost afraid of disappointing him.
"Everybody wants to meet him."
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FC Barcelona have stated that they are preparing to offer Ronaldinho a new long-term contract to ward off would-be suitors as speculation over the Brazilian's future continues to mount.
With reports continuing to surface that AC Milan are preparing to make an offer, Blaugrana vice-president Ferrán Soriano has moved to nip the stories in the bud.
"We want to continue as we are with Ronaldinho until the end of the season," he told COM Radio.
"Our intention is to hold a meeting to negotiate a new deal until 2014. I am optimistic and believe the player is happy at Barcelona, which has been an important question recently. There are no problems between us."
Ronaldinho has often said that he is keen to remain at Camp Nou and will likely be a key figure in next year's presidential elections at the Catalan club.
The Barça director also reflected on paper talk linking both Deco and Lionel Messi with a move during the summer and vehemently denied that the duo would be allowed to leave.
Deco is said to know how much Chelsea would be prepared to offer him and asked Barça to match it only for the club to refuse because they do not want to break their pay structure.
Messi has also been linked with a lucrative switch to Internazionale, but Soriano quoshed both stories.
"This is just not true," he said. "We need these players for next season."


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John Dewan recently read the 2010 THT Annual on a plane trip and here's what he had to say:
I recently had a chance to sit down with The Hardball Times Baseball Annual 2010 and was completely captivated by the quality writing and analysis it contains. I cannot recommend a book more highly than this year's THT annual.
Yes, John is the Co-Publisher of ACTA Sports, the guys who publish our Annual, so he's just a tad biased. On the other hand, John sent me an email that made it clear his feelings were sincere; he's never really given us public (or private) feedback like this before. It was nice to hear.
I know you're probably already done with your Christmas shopping and Amazon is out of stock right now. Very frustrating. But you can probably find the Annual at your local bookstore, and I think the baseball fan in your house will thank you profusely for it. Plus, ACTA can ship it to you quickly.
If you've gotten the book and have some feedback for us, please leave it in the comment section. One reader left a review at Amazon, but we'd like to have more reviews posted there. Feedback is always welcome. For instance, one of the ideas I'm thinking about for next year's Annual is cutting down the size to a more manageable 6×9, which can be carried and read more easily. This was mentioned in the Amazon review, and I've toyed with the idea before. What do you think?
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This video is pretty funny. Matt Damon demonstrates for us how difficult it is for those who are trying to learn what it means to give our best for the poor. I love how celebrity holds no status for kids! They are really not interested in it! My personal favorite is when the kids says he knows who Ben Affleck is. A close second is when the little girl is faced with the choice between a plain water bottle, or a water bottle signed by Matt Damon & she chooses the plain water bottle. Just for the record, if I were in the desert… I would not pick Justin Bieber. Under no circumstances… I hope you are finding a way to invest in those who are poor, or on the margins of our culture this time of year!
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Made for Fall 09 PAC, I did choose not to use Frozen Corn as I don't care for the texture of it, using canned corn drained instead. This is a really great salsa, and healthy too. The only thing I might do is add a bit more heat by adding a bit of Jalapeno next time. Thank you for a wonderful recipe.
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Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 7, No. 0328. Thursday, 2 May 1996.
Date: Tuesday, 30 Apr 96 12:58:00 PDT
Subject: Schoenbaum Memorial
A memorial fund has been established in Sam Schoenbaum's memory at the Folger
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Indians Season Ends With Loss To Carrollton
The Stephens County Indian football season comes to a close.
The Indians lost 40-7 to Carrollton on the road Friday in the first round of the AAAA football playoffs. Carrollton ran for well over 200 yards on the night and added another 150 yards passing, while holding the Indian offense to under 150 total yards on the night.
Stephens County Indian Head Coach Travis Noland said it is a tough way to end the season.
"I am just very disappointed for our kids and how we played tonight," said Noland. "We had some opportunities that we could not execute on. Just disappointed to come here and play the way we did and not play any better than we did. But, hats off to Carrollton. They have a great program."
Carrollton jumped out early on the Indians, taking a 14-0 lead in the first quarter on touchdown runs of 55 yards by Jarvis Terrell and 5 yards by Dan Harris.
The Indians got on the board with eight minutes left in the first half on a 2-yard touchdown run by Chaz Thornton, cutting the Trojan lead to 14-7.
However, Carrollton answered right back, going 80 yards in 13 plays, while converting two third downs and a fourth down, before Malik Sheppard scored on a 23-yard run to make 21-7 with 1:41 left in the first half.
Carrollton then got the ball back with less than a minute to go in the first half and was able to add on a 28-yard field goal by Tyler Newsome to make it 24-7 at the half.
Neither offense got much going to start the second half, but Carrollton pinned the Indians deep in their own territory and got a safety off of an intentional grounding call to make it 26-7 with 2:11 to go in the third quarter.
Two plays after the ensuing free kick, Will Hesterlee found Trey Chivers (Shivers) for a 58-yard touchdown pass to make it 33-7 late in the third.
A Sheppard punt return to the Indian 2-yard-line set up Carrollton's final score, a Harris touchdown run on the next play.
Chivers had 150 total yards running and receiving to lead Carrollton.
Meanwhile, Thornton had just over 60 yards rushing to lead Stephens County. Thornton finished the season with more than 1,500 yards rushing and 22 touchdowns.
The Indians finish the year 8-3. Besides Thornton's year, Tomas Colbert ended the year with more than 1,100 yards receiving and 15 touchdowns, while Dionte Mayfield had 17 touchdown passes.
Carrollton moves to 8-3 on the year and will face Marist in the second round.
It was not a good night for Region 8-AAAA in the first round as only region champ Monroe Area advanced to the second round with a close 21-14 win over Shaw. Chestatee lost to LaGrange 59-46 and Eastside was shut out by Sandy Creek 55-0. Elsewhere in northeast Georgia, Hart County kept its season going with a 32-11 win over Adairsville, while Rabun County ended its year with a 56-29 loss to Heard County.
Player of the Game: Chaz Thornton
Lineman of the Game: Casey Dickerson
Sub of the Game: Darrin Crawford
Spirit Award: Devin Burns


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Increasing its audience for a third consecutive week, ABC's The Chew hit series highs in total viewers and all key demos last week: total viewers (2.156 million), women 18-34 (179,000), women 18-49 (500,000) and women 25-54 (658,000). After a curiosity spike for its September 26 premiere, which drew 2.5 million viewers and 590,000 women 18-49, the ratings for The Chew, which replaced canceled soap All My Children, took a slide over the course of its premiere week. But the lifestyle series has been on an upswing lately. For now, fans of General Hospital shouldn't worry much as the only surviving ABC daytime drama is comfortably ahead in the ratings, averaging 679,000 women 18-49 last week (though at a much higher production cost). That puts an enormous pressure on the upcoming weight-loss series The Revolution, which will replace One Life To Live in January. Because come September, something's got to give to make room for Katie Couric's new syndicated daytime talk show.
ABC's 'The Chew' Posts Series Highs
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Rising quickly to the top for All Time Worst TV Show Titles.
Maybe the spinoff could be "The Cud".
Over at Country Music TV their new talker is going with "The Chaw".
There are too many food channel on t.v get the chew off and bring all my children back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I just had the experience of turning on my TV at 1:58pm today, after the last person who used the TV left it on ABC's channel 506. I therefore had the misfortune of being exposed for the last few minutes of The Chew. I finally found the remote to switch channels. Those two minutes I saw of that show could not possibly be representative of this daily show, for the simple fact that the show would have been cancelled the first week of airing.
Is it possible they are counting oltl veiwers as veiwing the chew.Several have complained it is running right at the time oltl should be on.Wouldn't doubt abc trying any dirty tactic possible for ratings.
No they are not counting OLTL viewers. OLTL comes on right at 2:pm on the east coast, it comes on the same exact second that ANDERSON comes on over on channel 2 the NBC Afill right after DOOL.
It was and still is running over into OLTL time (well, except OLTL breathed its last today) in the central time zone. The Talk is on for a good 30 seconds and there is plenty of time to switch the TV over and The Spew is still running into the time OLTL should be running… And no ads in between, as there normally would be between shows…
And the FCC has been said to be looking into this. ABC is shady.
Now that OLTL is off the air, they are pushing some characters over to GH to swing viewers there and will probably run the Revulsions time into GH's, too. Until GH goes off in September for Katie Couric's show.
Would like to see 2 stronger women on the show. The guys are fine, but both women are fluff!!
This is one of the worst shows I have ever seen!! I'm not just saying it because it took the place of my favorite soap. The ones on stage act silly not entertaining. They are just there for an hour for themselves. Why do they even need an audience?
I like the cooking channels but this show grates on your nerves with their attempts at cutsie comments. I guess this suits the crowd that wanted it. I watch other networks. Put it on PBS. Worst show ever to be followed by an even worse one probably.
This is probably one of the worst shows ever conceived. Mario Batali should walk away while his reputation as a legendary Italian chef is still in tact. His culinary acumen is way beyond this garbage they call a cooking show.
What is wrong with ABC to replace a legend All My Children soap opera with one of the worst shows on TV. Where on earth are these people they say are watching this fiasco and what's wrong with them? ABC might be saving money by cancelling All My Children, but they certainly lost their taste in programming.
One of the worst shows ever!!! Love Clinton Kelly he is fantastic but he can not hold the show together!!! Good move ABC.
Contrary to the above opinions, we really enjoy watching this. Both my husband and myself have many years in the food industry and we look forward to seeing this on most days. The 5 different personalities mesh well and there are some great recipes and tips in between the laughs. Come on – it's not the Culinary Academy — it's supposed to be entertainment. Lighten up, people!
the worst show around. all are boring and no one cares if your having sex in the kitchen. give me rachel ray. topic today
Really, AMC & OLTL is greatly missed they should just put it back on,like was said,we have enough food programs and other talk shows,why the best 2 SOAPS? It don't make since and as for the food I like cooking shows don't get me wrong,I'm planning to open me a Elegant Restaurant but still,do us a favor and meet w/the ppl or what ever it takes to get our show back on it's no to late PLEASE!!!!!lol…..
Really, AMC & OLTL is greatly missed they should just put it back on,like was said,we have enough food programs and other talk shows,why the best 2 SOAPS? It don't make since and as for the food I like cooking shows don't get me wrong,I'm planning to open me a Elegant Restaurant but still,need my amc/oltl


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|A big mug o' reviewin' strength tea? Why, that must mean this article
is being reviewed by:
UU - natter
(While you're welcome to review it as well, you might like to consider helping someone else instead).
(Also, if the review hasn't been finished within 24 hours of this tag appearing, feel free to remove it or clout UU athwart the ear'ole).
OK, I want this one off the queue, so I'll give it the treatment. --SirU.U.Esq. VFH | GUN | Natter | Uh oh | Pee 10:37, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
Right, first comment: create the article, put the {{PeeReview}} tag on it to keep it from deletion until the review's been done, then just link to it from the review request. Don't put the article text on the review page!
OK, now for the review itself...
|Ah. Well what you have here, my friend, is Bandcruft. Y'see, unfortunately we see articles like this a lot round here. And many of them get deleted. This is not intended to be a personal attack, I'm just telling you how it is. See HowTo:Write A Funny Band Article for an explanation of many of the problems you face here. Also take a look at HTBFANJS - this article is very random, which doesn't equate to humour around here - although there are other wikis that are fine with such things.
|Articles about real people are welcome here, if they have a coherent idea and are well written. Unfortunately, this is just kinda random, with the usual fan-centric stuff.
|Prose and formatting:
|OK, the formatting is fine, so points for that. But the writing is littered with typos, and rambling instead of flowing. And there's the section of album tracklistings at the end: see UN:LIST for several reasons why lists are a bad idea.
|OK, there are several, and they're relevant. Points there. And none of them are horrendous MS Paint ones, or obvious hate pics, so more points there. But they're not funny or adding anything to the article either. And is it just me, or does he look like Richie Sambora on one of them?
|Averaged per what I do when I have no other idea what to put in here.
|Final Score:
|OK, that's not a good score, I can't disguise that. Your problem here is you've picked a difficult topic to make work - good band articles are as rare as new Guns 'n' Roses albums. The problems tend to include: lots of references that only fans of the band could ever understand, random shit about how the individual concerned is either god or the biggest loser on earth (often in the same article) and some references to other bands and how much they also suck. And unfortunately, you've fallen into a few of those traps here. I've made a few comments below, but my advice to you really is to leave this and try starting another article about something else - something you have less connection to, so you can avoid these traps and try to write something properly funny instead.
|--SirU.U.Esq. VFH | GUN | Natter | Uh oh | Pee 11:12, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
OK, if you want to save this, remove the discography completely, rework it so it's more consistent, get rid of the more blatant "fan only" references, read this - please read it - and try to remove any of your personal opinion from it. Have a look at our best articles as well (and see how few band related articles are on it - that's what you're up aginst!) and see if any of them give you more ideas.
Finally, if you're serious about making a good uncyclopedia article out of this, give me a shout and I'll try to give you some more advice, or nip through it and make a few changes to try and give you a few ideas.
As always, this is only my opinion, others are available, and good luck! --SirU.U.Esq. VFH | GUN | Natter | Uh oh | Pee 11:12, 7 February 2008 (UTC)


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From being a reporter at a newspaper in the country of Myanmar to teaching in an inner city school in Indianapolis to exploring their creativity through digital media, art, and theater, many of the students graduating this spring have plans that will make their mark on the world.
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Fadi Saleh is a UT pre-med sophomore from Memphis who's making a name for himself in the Internet music mash-up world. His recent video of President Barack Obama "singing" Carly Rae Jepsen's hit "Call Me Maybe" has been an Internet and media sensation this summer, earning mentions on CNN and in Us Weekly magazine, The Huffington Post, New York Daily News, and dozens of other outlets.


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Seoul (AFP) Dec 13, 2012
The satellite launched by North Korea's long-range rocket is in operational orbit, South Korea's defence ministry said Thursday, confirming the apparent success of Pyongyang's stated space mission.
The satellite sent into space by the North's Unha-3 rocket on Wednesday, is "orbiting normally", ministry spokesman Kim Min-Seok told reporters.
"It is not yet known what kind of mission the satellite is conducting. It usually takes two weeks to evaluate whether a satellite is successful. For the time being, it is working normally," Kim said.
North Korea said Wednesday's launch was a purely scientific mission aimed at placing a polar-orbiting earth observation satellite in space.
Most of the world saw it as a disguised ballistic missile test that violates UN resolutions imposed after the North's nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009.
For the international community, the precise nature of the satellite -- along with the question of whether it is operating properly -- is largely immaterial.
The main concern is that the rocket succeeded in delivering its payload successfully, marking an important step forward for Pyongyang's long-range missile programme.
Analysis by the Korea Aerospace Research Institute showed the satellite was moving between 494 and 588 kilometres above the Earth -- nearly in line with the figures announced by the North on Wednesday-- Yonhap news agency said.
The UN Security Council has condemned the launch and warned of possible measures over what the US called a "highly provocative" act.
The council made it clear it considered the North had used proscribed "ballistic missile technology" and highlighted a warning made after a failed launch in April that it could take "action" if there was a new attempt.
N. Korea rocket launch casts shadow over South election
Although analysts are divided about the impact of the launch on the actual outcome of the December 19 ballot, they largely agree that the eventual winner will now face new constraints in moulding his or her own North Korea policy.
The conventional wisdom suggests that the conservative front-runner Park Geun-Hye from the ruling New Frontier Party will benefit from any heightened public concern in the wake of Wednesday's launch.
Park is the daughter of South Korea's late military strongman Park Chung-Hee and her party is traditionally seen as strong on national security and North Korea in particular.
By contrast, the liberal opposition candidate, Moon Jae-In, is best known as a top aide in the administration of former president Roh Moo-Hyun who had pursued his predecessor's "sunshine policy" of engagement with North Korea.
"Overall the launch will work in favor of Park Geun-Hye," said Baek Seung-Joo of the Institute of Defense Analyses in Seoul.
"It will fan hostility and disappointment about the North under the leadership of Kim Jong-Un and will help boost the argument of conservative hawks in the South," Baek said.
Both candidates condemned the launch, with Park urging voters to remain calm and pick a leader with "a firm determination to guard our nation and sovereignty."
Some analysts however suggested the launch also provided Moon's camp with some ammunition, allowing it to cast doubts on the benefits of the ruling party's hardline stance on Pyongyang under outgoing President Lee Myung-Bak.
When Lee came to power in 2008 he cut off aid to the impoverished North, saying future food and other shipments would be conditional on progress in persuading Pyongyang to halt its nuclear programme.
But the policy had little success in bringing Pyongyang to heel.
In 2009 it carried out its second nuclear test, in 2010 it shelled a South Korean border island, and in April this year conducted a failed long-range rocket launch which was eventually followed by Wednesday's success.
"These are clear signs of security incompetency by the ruling camp," Moon said Wednesday, accusing Park's party and Lee's administration of intelligence failures in predicting the timing of the latest launch.
"Many voters are now sceptical about the current government's hardline policy toward Pyongyang," said Park Kie-Duck, a former president of the Sejong Institute think-tank in Seoul.
"Park Geun-Hye has accused the Sunshine Policy of the past liberal governments as appeasement, but it has also turned out that pressure and containment simply did not work," Park said.
Whatever spin the candidates place on the launch, most analysts agree the event will have little impact in determining the actual election outcome.
The majority of South Koreans, largely inured to the provocative acts of their communist neighbor, took the launch in their stride and are far more focused on issues like economic reform, job creation and welfare.
"The time has long passed when the so-called 'North Wind' had a sway over the South's election results," said Kim Neung-Gou of consulting company, Polinews.
The greater impact will be on the policies followed by the eventual winner of the ballot.
Both Park and Moon have signalled a desire for closer engagement with Pyongyang and even a possible summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, though Moon has gone further with a vow to resume aid without pre-conditions.
Lee Tai-Hwan, a researcher at the Sejong Institute, said whichever candidate enters the presidential Blue House would be constrained by global sentiment over Pyongyang's flouting of UN resolutions.
"They will certainly not abandon their current approaches wholesale just because of the rocket launch, but they will have less room to formulate policies on North Korea on their own," said Lee.
"Coordination with the international community, especially the United States and China, will be the top priority in dealing with North Korea for a while," he added.
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SHANGHAI — A deep gulp. That's what an American has to take, more than ever in 2010, after exposure to this city of rapid-fire growth and development.
While the U.S. stews over how mad its citizens are at government, agonizing over lost jobs and official deficits, Shanghai and China are basking in the warmth of a highly successful World Exposition. It's been a grand exhibit of culture, ideas and technology from 189 countries and many corporations. Already visited by a record setting 66 million people, this world expo hopes for 70 million before it finally closes next Sunday.
But it's Shanghai's intended follow-through that stuns one. No longer just a factory town for exportable goods, the city says it's poised to pour some $15 billion into bio-pharmaceuticals, new energy, new materials, information technology and high-end manufacturing. "It's a must model," Mayor Han Zheng told an international business group last week, "for Shanghai to shift its growth model from investment driven to innovation driven."
And check the infrastructure. Shanghai boasts one of the planet's most extensive subway systems — now 268 miles, scheduled to grow to 370 miles by 2015. And this is home to the world's only "maglev" system, trains hovering just above the tracks and propelled by magnetic force. Passengers are transferred between the airport and downtown at speeds of up to 268 miles an hour.
With all that and lit skyscrapers by the dozens, it's hard to believe this is the same Shanghai I first visited in 1979, when everyone wore Mao suits, Western visitors were oddities, and the roadways were literal rivers of bicycles interspersed by a few motor vehicles.
So while in Shanghai, what news do I hear about New York, America's top metro region? It's that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, in the name of saving taxpayer dollars, has sought to pull the plug on the largest and arguably most important public works project underway in America — the second tunnel under the Hudson River, in the planning for 20 years.
It's true cost projections on the tunnel have nearly doubled to $9 billion since 2005. New Jersey's expected to pay a third. But bids are currently coming in under budget and the project would create 6,000 jobs in the hard-hit construction industry. Its two tracks would take the ugly crush off seriously overcrowded Jersey-to-Manhattan commuting, adding some $600 million to the region's yearly economy by enhanced access of Jerseyites to jobs in New York's prospering pharmaceutical, financial and business sectors.
Plus, if a design change were now made to have the tunnel connect to Penn Station (instead of a dead end under 34th Street), Amtrak could use the tracks to enhance efficiency of its Northeast rail corridor.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is working hard to get Christie to reverse his position or negotiate some compromise on financing. Washington, he can note, is actually putting up an unprecedented $3 billion for the project.
Barack Obama has made history as the first president to urge high-speed rail in America. His initial request was $8 billion — tiny potatoes compared to China's avowed national goal of $100 billion a year for dozens of high-speed rail lines including 3,000 miles that can handle trains running at 215 miles per hour. And just a fraction, too, of what the Europeans have spent and aim to spend on high-speed rails that serve as vital connectors for business and personal travel.
But like Christie, the Republican candidates for governor in three states selected to get the biggest federal assist for high-speed rail — Wisconsin ($810 million), Ohio ($400 million) and California ($2.25 billion) — are dragging their feet, the New York Times reports. Their complaint: there could be significant state expenses to complete the lines or operate the trains once they go into service.
Are we sticking our heads in the sand, ignoring the immense economic benefits of high-speed rail — the potential, says Secretary LaHood, "to transform transportation in America, much like the Interstate Highway system did under President Eisenhower"? And that at a very time when interest rates for capital borrowing are at an historic low, and unemployment at record post-World War II highs?
The communications director for California's outgoing governor, Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger, notes trenchantly of current GOP candidate Meg Whitman's opposition to high-speed rail funding: "To say 'now is not the time' shows a very narrow vision."
The reluctant Republican governor candidates should tour the stunning railway pavilion at the Shanghai Expo. It's a powerful high-tech vision of rapid rails undergirding and advancing the economy of our new and major international competitor. True, China lacks personal liberties or environmental protections to match ours. But the new American patriotism has to look reality in the face: it's primarily economics, not military power, that will determine the wealth and welfare of nations in this century. It should be intolerable to think we'll accept second-class status.
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The author's complaint against OK! magazine was upheld by the Press Complaints Commission.
The pictures, taken with a long lens camera, showed Ms Rowling and her eight-year old daughter on a beach in Mauritius.
Ms Rowling said that the photographs were an invasion of her privacy.
She said they broke newspaper guidelines that ban pictures of children just because their parents are famous.
JK Rowling has become a world famous figure since the publication of her Harry Potter books - which have now sold more than 100 million copies.
But the author has always fiercely guarded her privacy and that of her daughter, whose picture had never previously been published.


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Paris issued a statement denying Sizemore's claim on his newly DVD, Tom Sizemore Sex Scandal, that he once shared an overnight experience with her
Another day another scandal for Paris Hilton. But, the much-publicized star can get through it. Slowly but sure, she solves her problems and walks her life straightly with her head ups showing her confident. She really deserves two thumbs up.
As Paris ready to get back on the market, there exists Tom Sizemore's newly released DVD, titled "Tom Sizemore Sex Scandal," in which the actor claims that he once shared an overnight experience with the socialite. During an interview, Sizemore mentioned Paris' name, whom he claimed to share an intimate evening with him after a party at his home, saying "She knew what she could do to people."
As of her side, Paris definitely denies the claim adding, "It's disappointing that Mr. Sizemore has to use my name to sell his DVDs. He is not an acquaintance of mine nor have I ever had intimate relations with him."


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PrayersRead by the Lord Bishop of Southwell.
The right honourable Christopher Francis Patten, CH, having been created Baron Patten of Barnes, of Barnes in the London Borough of Richmond, for lifeWas in his robes, introduced between the Lord Hurd of Westwell and the Lord Carrington.
Lord Marlesford asked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether they regard active service in Her Majesty's Armed Forces as a factor to be taken into account in deciding whether an applicant should be granted a British passport.
The Minister of State, Home Office (Baroness Scotland of Asthal): My Lords, British passports are issued in the United Kingdom under Royal prerogative by the UK Passport Office. Citizenship is a matter of law, primarily under the British Nationality Act 1981, that is usually determined by the facts of a person's date and place of birth and those of their parents. Active service in Her Majesty's Armed Forces is not a factor usually taken into account when determining eligibility for a British passport.
Lord Marlesford: My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness for that Answer. She will be aware that the noble and gallant Lord, Lord Craig of Radley, raised two examples of this problem in the debate on defence on Monday. On that occasion, the Minister did not have time to respond to them. I do not want to refer to individual cases other to say that the one which has caused most outrage recently has, I understand, now been satisfactorily settled. However, I note that the Government were reluctant even to answer questions from the person's Member of Parliament, until directed to do so by the Speaker. My point is that the rules need to be changed, so that active service in Her Majesty's Armed Forces is indeed a very good qualification for earning British citizenship.
Perhaps I may ask the Minister a more important question. Is she aware that there is increasing concern and frustration at the way in which the Home Office, instead of reassuring and serving the British public as it is meant to, seems again and again to irritate and provoke them by making apparently foolish decisions? Is there some way in which Ministers can get a grip on the Home Office?
Baroness Scotland of Asthal: My Lords, first, I reassure the noble Lord that Ministers have a grip on
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this issue. I disagree with the noble Lord in his assessment of the way in which applications are dealt with. Secondly, I reassure the House that the law will apply equally to all, irrespective of whether they are within or without Her Majesty's armed service. I inform noble Lords too that settlement is possible under favourable terms for those who are members of the Armed Forces. If they serve this country for four years, they can apply to be settled and thereafter obtain citizenship on favourable terms.
Lord Dholakia: My Lords, I am delighted that the Minister has spelt out the legal requirement for passports. Does the Secretary of State have any discretion in waiving the qualifying residential period when deciding the issue of British citizenship, which then leads to a British passport?
Baroness Scotland of Asthal: No, my Lords. The rules apply equally, but the noble Lord should know that in the exercising of discretion about what will count, there can be variations. So, for example, we changed the rules so that those who serve in our Armed Forces, but who do not spend the whole of the period here in the United Kingdom, are given very advantageous terms, so that long periods spent outside this country would not count against them if they were serving this country's ends. For example, the five-year criterion would now be met if the person so serving spent one year in the United Kingdom. Those are very favourable terms.
Baroness Gardner of Parkes: My Lords, as a Member of this House who is not a British passport holder, I presume that the first criterion for gaining a British passport is to be a British citizen. Is that correct?
Baroness Scotland of Asthal: My Lords, the first thing is that you have to be settled here. You could then use the fact that you have been settled to obtain British citizenship, as the noble Baroness rightly said. Once you have got British citizenship, of course, you can then apply for a British passport.
Baroness Seccombe: My Lords, I have listened carefully to what the Minister has to say, but does she not agree that there is a real problem with the way in which the Home Office deals with these sensitive issues?
Baroness Scotland of Asthal: My Lords, I do not agree with the noble Baroness. These issues are very sensitive and they have to be dealt with very carefully, but the noble Baroness must understand that they have to be dealt with equally. It is very difficult when various people are saying "We should do this, we should do that, we should change our rules". We have to be consistent. Of course we have to be flexible. I hope noble Lords have found that, in relation to these measures, we have amended the rules so that they are proportionate and very well applied.
Lord Faulkner of Worcester: My Lords, can my noble friend assure me that if a national of a country who would have some difficulty in returning to that country
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serves in the Armed Forces and applies for British citizenship, that person's application would be given particularly favourable treatment? I am thinking in particular of someone, for example, from Zimbabwe, who clearly would find it very difficult in present circumstances to return to Zimbabwe if he did not have a British passport.
Baroness Scotland of Asthal: My Lords, I have to reiterate that we treat each application equally. It would be quite improper to favour one group above another. I can reassure the noble Lord that the circumstances of each individual case are of course taken into account in exercising any discretion that there may be in relation to any particular group.
Baroness Turner of Camden asked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether they will establish a trustee task force to improve the governance of occupational pension schemes and to promote lay trustees.
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Work and Pensions (Baroness Hollis of Heigham): My Lords, the recent Pensions Act includes many changes which are designed to ensure good governance in pension schemes and which recognise the crucial role of lay trustees in managing those schemes. We have also been discussing with those organisations which currently run trustees' groupsNAPF, PMI, TUCwhether and how a standing trustees' forum could work actively further to promote and support lay trusteeship. We are considering how best to take this forward. My noble friend's Question is very apt.
Baroness Turner of Camden: My Lords, I thank my noble friend for that response. Does she not agree that it is very important that suitable people should be encouraged to come forward and take on this important function for their fellow employees? If there were a task force or something similar available for them, it would provide them with the necessary support in many instancesand possibly access to trainingand give them the confidence to take on this important function.
Baroness Hollis of Heigham: My Lords, I agree entirely with my noble friend. Whether one calls it a task force or a forum, it is the case that trustees in this country are managing something like £750 billion-worth of assets. Some trustees, particularly those in the smaller schemes, have had no training at all, even though they are hungry for it. We certainly want to encourage more training. We shall be issuing through the regulator codes of guidance to ensure that the appropriate knowledge
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and understanding that trustees need will be exercised. If the forum is the right way to do it, I am sure we will have widespread support.
Baroness O'Cathain: My Lords, should not the training of trustees be mandatory rather than merely encouraged by the Government? The whole issue of trusteeship of pension schemes at this stage is so convoluted and difficult, even for people with financial acumen, that longer termparticularly in view of the amount of money that has been mentionedthere really ought to be some statutory obligation for proper training.
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In this age of Google, YouTube, Facebook and Silicon Valley startups churning out 20-something billionaires, even tech companies like Apple and Microsoft can seem ancient by comparison. And companies that started the tech revolution, giants such as IBM, seem older still. All of these relative business newcomers have a long way to go before they can match the longevity of these 10 iconic American brand names.
10. Brooks Brothers (Founded 1818)
The oldest clothier in the United States, Brooks Brothers is known not just for its fine men's suits, but its innovation. If you've ever worn a wash-and-wear dress shirt, a shirt with a button-down collar, argyle socks or madras clothing, you can thank Brooks Brothers. Founded by Henry Sands Brooks in Manhattan, the company picked up its current name when his three sons inherited the business in 1850. Although the Brooks family sold the company in 1946, the brand lives on.
9. Remington (1816)
The brand name Remington means different things to different people. Older writers, reporters, secretaries and college students grew up using the company's typewriters. The Remington brand's electric shaver starred in some memorable 1980s TV commercials (remember Remington CEO Victor Kiam's commercial boast? "I liked the shaver so much, I bought the company"). But since the beginning, the Remington name has been synonymous with firearms and ammunition, driving American and Allied firearms supremacy in several wars. Today, Remington Arms is the largest producer of shotguns and rifles in the United States. And even if you have never wielded a firearm, or seen a typewriter or electric razor, you probably use a Remington innovation several times each day — in 1872, Remington developed the first typewriter with the "QWERTY" layout we still use today on computer keyboards and PDAs alike.
8. The Hartford (1810)
The Hartford boasts one of the most famous logos in the business world, but the company admits it isn't sure when the image of a majestic stag first appeared. The earliest one on record is rather famous, appearing on an 1861 insurance policy issued to Abraham Lincoln. The insurance company traces its roots to 1810 in Hartford, Connecticut. Today, the Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. is one of the world's top insurance and financial management firms, with 2010 net income of $1.7 billion.
7. Colgate (1806)
A candlemaker named William Colgate founded the William Colgate & Co. in 1806 in New York City. Business was good, but it took almost a century for the company to begin mass-producing its most famous product. In 1896, Colgate introduced the sales of toothpaste in the type of tubes still used today. In 1928, Colgate merged with the Palmolive brand (itself a famous American brand dating to 1864) to create the current Colgate-Palmolive Co. Colgate toothpaste remains an iconic toothpaste brand, sold in 200 countries and territories worldwide.
6. DuPont (1802)
Think of the brand name DuPont, and you probably picture scientists peering into microscopes, developing amazing new chemicals or materials. The company developed many of the substances we take for granted, such as nylon, Teflon, Mylar, neoprene, Lycra and nomex. DuPont also developed Kevlar, the material used in bulletproof vests and helmets that have saved thousands of lives since Kevlar's development in 1965. That's ironic, given DuPont began in 1802 as a producer of gunpowder, and supplied much of the gunpowder used by the Union army in the Civil War. Today, DuPont is the world's third-largest chemical company, employing some 60,000 workers.
5. Jim Beam (1795)
Seven generations of the Beam family have been involved in making Jim Beam Bourbon, which began production in 1795. The family-owned company took a few years off in the early 20th century — that whole Prohibition thing obviously wasn't good for business — but has since grown into one of the largest distilleries in the world as part of Beam Inc., headquartered near Chicago. But tourists can still get a look at the brand's roots with a tour of the grounds at Jim Beam's Clermont, Kentucky, distillery, where it all began more than 200 years ago.
We perhaps took a liberty in including CIGNA on this list, because the company's original name, Insurance Company of North America (INA) changed after a 1982 merger with Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. (CG). From those modest roots as a marine insurance company in 1792, CIGNA has grown into a health-insurance company with some 30,000 employees in 2010. CIGNA maintains 66 million customer relationships in 29 countries.
3. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (1786)
The surprising thing here is that when the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette began publication 225 years ago, Pittsburgh was a tiny outpost located in the desolate outback of colonial America, far from civilization. Yet the Post-Gazette — which ran a feature story on the adoption of the United States Constitution in its first year — predates more famous Eastern Seaboard daily newspapers such as the New York Times (founded in 1851), the Boston Globe (1872) and the Philadelphia Inquirer (1829). The paper has won four Pulitzer Prizes through the years.
2. Bank of New York Mellon (1784)
Alexander Hamilton is probably best known to many people for his fatal pistol duel with Aaron Burr in 1804. Before that, Hamilton played a key role as one of America's "founding fathers," and he later served as the first United States Secretary of the Treasury. Often overlooked is his role in founding the oldest bank in the United States, the Bank of New York, in 1784, which adopted its current name following a 2007 merger with Mellon Financial Corp. Bank of New York shares were the first corporate stock to be traded on the brand-new New York Stock Exchange in 1792.
1. The Greenbrier (1778)
This luxury resort in Southeastern West Virginia welcomed its first guests in 1778. Among the visitors in those early years: George Washington, who became the first of 26 presidents to stay at the famous resort. In recent years, the Greenbrier name has been synonymous with luxury resorts — AAA has awarded it a Five Diamond Rating. For those who don't think they can afford a weekend stay, tours are available, including tours of the massive underground bunker the federal government built during the Cold War as a relocation site for Congress in the event of nuclear war.
(Editor's note: This is not an inclusive list of the oldest companies in the United States, merely a list of 10 well-known brands that are essentially unchanged since the company's formation. For example, J.P. Morgan Chase Bank, better known as Chase, traces its roots to 1799, but didn't make the list as it was originally known as The Manhattan Co.)
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Tim Ruskell admits that if he had his druthers, he would shy away from selecting an offensive tackle with the fourth pick in April's NFL draft.
Second in an eight-part series looking at the Seahawks' needs for next season and the moves they might make.
NEXT: Receivers.
"I have never been fond of the high (pick) offensive lineman," Ruskell said, offering an expression to match the sentiment.
"It's not a sexy pick and you can't really show highlights."
Watching Andre Smith, the highly rated but portly 340-pound tackle from Alabama, jiggle around the field plays into Ruskell's assessment.
But this year, with that pick, un-sexy might be the way to go.
The Seahawks do need to address at some point the fact that future Hall of Fame left tackle Walter Jones can't play forever. The sixth pick overall in the 1997 draft, Jones will enter his 13th season having turned 35 in January and coming off microfracture surgery on his left knee.
Besides Smith, who might not be the best fit for the Seahawks, three other tackles could allow them to scratch this long-range itch: Mississippi's Michael Oher (6 feet 5, 320 pounds), Virginia's Eugene Monroe (6-5, 315) and Baylor's Jason Smith (6-5, 300).
"The reality is, there are guys who warrant that pick," Ruskell said. "Just looking at it, the offensive linemen in this draft are pretty strong."
But one thing you won't get Ruskell to buy into is that the Seahawks can find "the next Walter Jones" in this draft.
"Well, you're not going to find a Walter Jones, that's for sure," Ruskell said. "I can say that right now."
He was laughing, but he was serious.
Jones has played at an exceptional level from the first time he stepped onto the field in a Seahawks uniform. It was the team's third preseason game against San Francisco, a few days after Jones reported to training camp after an extended contract negotiation. Jones lined up opposite Chris Doleman (since retired with 151 career sacks) and more than held his own.
He has been doing pretty much the same thing for the past 12 seasons.
"My future? I guess I'm cool," Jones said. "I'm still under contract. My surgery went real good. Hopefully, I'll come back and be healthy and be strong. That's the plan."
Don't read too much into Jones being beaten for two sacks by the Cowboys' DeMarcus Ware in the Thanksgiving Day loss in Dallas — his final game — because he was coping with a knee so painful that he should not have played.
"It was pretty tough," Jones said. "It was a tough situation. You play this game for so long, you kind of get used to playing with pain.
"It was a situation where I was out there trying to play on one leg. Should I have sat out the game? I don't know. But it was a tough situation."
Worrying about who might play left tackle after Jones finally calls it a career is just the tip of what became an iceberg-sized problem for the offensive line in 2008.
The injury bug began gnawing at the team's starters and depth in training camp, when center Chris Spencer injured his back and veteran backup Chris Gray suffered a back injury that forced him to retire. Right guard Rob Sims tore a pectoral muscle in the season opener and needed season-ending surgery. Before the carnage was over, left guard Mike Wahle (shoulder), Spencer (back), right tackle Sean Locklear (toe) and Jones had joined Sims on injured reserve.
This season-long surge of injuries allowed the Seahawks to give long, hard looks at their backup linemen. Guard Floyd Womack and tackle Ray Willis were the best of the backup bunch, but they're scheduled to become unrestricted free agents.
So, maybe a tackle at No. 4 isn't such a bad idea, despite Ruskell's initial reservations.
"I don't know if that is a correct way to look at it, with the increased importance placed on the left tackle," he said.
A look at the position as Jim Mora takes over as head coach and the Seahawks move on without Mike Holmgren for the first time since 1998:
WHAT THEY HAVE: Question marks, and concerns. Walter Jones might be the best left tackle to ever play the game, but he's not getting any younger and is coming off microfracture surgery on his left knee. Right tackle Sean Locklear, once thought to be the eventual replacement for Jones, regressed last season after signing a five-year, $32 million contract. The addition of Mike Wahle as a free agent helped fill the void created when All-Pro left guard Steve Hutchinson was allowed to leave in free agency in 2006, but Wahle also was guilty of some costly penalties. Center Chris Spencer and right guard Rob Sims, first- and fourth-round draft choices in 2005 and 2006, did little to convince anyone that they are the long-term answers at those positions.
WHAT THEY CAN GET: The Seahawks could have their pick of what is being hailed as a once-in-a-football-generation litter of tackles with the No. 4 selection in April's draft. If they decide to go in that direction, the player would have time to adjust to life in the NFL, because Jones isn't close to being finished. Perhaps a bigger question is should the club go after a veteran center in free agency — like the Colts' Jeff Saturday? Or, will Spencer finally "get it" in his fourth season as the starter?
WHAT THEY NEED: Continuity. It's the cornerstone for any offensive line, the staying-together/playing-together ingredient that allows five fingers to play as a fist. In his first season with the club, line coach Mike Solari never had his expected starting unit on the field together.


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Watch out.... just when you least expect it, someone will go off and release a new version of XFS! This one is a little different... for a few reasons. Now that XFS is in both 2.4 and 2.6, the notion of a "point release" of XFS loses some meaning. On the other hand, people are often asking for XFS code that has had some soak time, i.e. a release branch. Inside SGI we obviously release products that use XFS on Linux, and the releases are qa'd and managed as you might expect. So, even though XFS is now in the kernel.org trees, we felt that we may as well put out the XFS codebase that is shipping with our products as a more formal release. This is the result of that plan. ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/testing/release-1.3.3-pre1 The XFS code in the above dirs reflects the state of the tree from roughly January, with bugfixes merged in along the way. It is the same XFS codebase as is being finalized for commercial SGI linux products. We were a bit late in getting this to oss, so those SGI products are in their final phase of QA, so really only showstopper bugs can be addressed at this point. Still, we hope you find this release to be useful. Released are RH9- and RHEL- based kernels for x86 architectures, as well as a tarball that contains fs/xfs/* which should be able to overlay any kernel.org kernel >= 2.4.21 (although the RPMs have had the most testing). Also, userspace rpms & tarballs. Please see the README in the above dir for more information, and fire away with questions on the list. Thanks, -Eric -- Eric Sandeen [C]XFS for Linux http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs sandeen@xxxxxxx SGI, Inc. 651-683-3102
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Wilde Sapte and Clifford Chance are to lose six more lawyers to Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft, as the US firm's aggressive recruitment drive continues.
Last week four assistants from Wilde Sapte: Vincent Keaveny, Timothy Hailes, James Warbey and Matthew Cain; and two from Clifford Chance: Philip Hertz and Lyndon Norley, said they would be joining the firm in August.
Cadwalader announced it was setting up a London derivatives office in June this year and immediately poached four leading City lawyers: James Starkey from Freshfields, Russell Jacobs and John Walker from Wilde Sapte, and Andrew Wilkinson from Clifford Chance. At the time, the firm, which is believed to be offering a very attractive pay package, said it wanted to recruit at least 25 UK-qualified lawyers.
Keaveny said the Wilde Sapte assistants had worked with Jacobs and Walker as a close-knit team and had decided to follow them. "We have been very successful at building up the structured finance and capital markets team at Wilde Sapte but there are certain constraints about how we can grow with the firm here which we will not have at Cadwaladers."
Wilde Sapte managing partner Steven Blakeley said: "It is disappointing when people choose to leave us. We have had our best ever year and yet we are still being outbid by US firms."
He added: "Our structured finance and capital markets practice is successful and we will continue to expand."


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Saturday, January 10 2009 - Resources and Materials
National Archives to Open 9/11 Commission Textual Materials
Media Alert
January 8, 2009
WHAT: The National Archives will open more than 150 cubic feet of records of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, known as the 9/11 Commission, an independent, bipartisan commission created by Congress. The Commission's mandate was to provide a "full and complete accounting" of the attacks of September 11, 2001, and recommend how to prevent such attacks in the future.
On January 14th at 9 AM EST, Memoranda for the Record (summaries of 709 interviews conducted by the Commission), series descriptions, and folder title lists will be available online (www.archives.gov). These records include information on the terrorists, past terrorist events, al Qaeda in general, and related subjects. The records also include information concerning the emergency responses to the attacks in New York City and Washington, DC.
WHO: Steven Tilley, Director of the National Archives Textual Archives Services Division, will brief the media about the review process and content of the records.
WHEN: Wednesday, January 14, 2009
WHERE: West Research Room, National Archives Building
Please Note: No artificial light may be used in the Research Room.
When the 9/11 Commission closed on August 21, 2004, it transferred legal custody of its records to the National Archives. Before it closed, the Commission voted to encourage the release its records to the fullest extent possible in January 2009. Because the Commission was part of the legislative branch, its records are not subject to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
The records that will open on January 14th represent 35% of the Commission's archived textual records. Review and processing focused on the portion of the collection that contains unique documents created by the Commission and those that reveal the most about the scope of the investigation and the internal workings of the Commission and its staff. The arrangement of the records reflects the organization of the Commission with series consisting of front office files, team files, and files of individual staff members. Due to the collection's volume and the large percentage of national security classified files, the National Archives staff was unable to process the entire collection by January 2009. The National Archives will continue to process materials.
These records have been screened for personal privacy and national security.
Summaries of the interviews with New York City First Responders are closed under
an agreement reached between New York City and the Commission. Graphic personal
details concerning the victims of the attacks have been withheld.
All researchers, including the media, must have a valid National Archives researcher card prior to gaining access to the records. Researcher cards may be obtained at the National Archives Building with a photo ID. Clean research room rules apply. Laptop computers and scanners are permitted.
The National Archives facility in Washington, DC, does not currently provide wireless access to the internet. Limited power is available. (Please charge computers before arriving.) For those who do not have Internet access, on the day of the opening the Public Affairs office will distribute DVDs containing summaries of the 709 interviews. The National Archives New York City Regional Archives, located at 201 Varick Street, 12th Floor, New York, NY 10014, will also distribute these DVDs.
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The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head.
Earthworms have "bristles" they use to try to hold themselves in the ground when robins tug them out. And earthworms, by the way, do not belong here. The non-natives were carried here, mostly from Europe, by fishermen and imported soils.
These are the types of factoids that emerge when a collection of college biology professors descend upon a Quad-City nature preserve.
The 350-acre Green Valley Nature Preserve in Moline was at the center Saturday of a bio-diversity day, which sent scientists and their volunteers into the woods and watersheds in search of bugs, birds, plants, amphibians, even earthworms. The goal was to get a basic inventory of the species present in the habitat.
Teaming up with the group was River Action, which is in the process of restoring a wetland area between Moline's softball complex and the Rock River.
Amy Blair, a biology professor at St. Ambrose University, Davenport, spent several hours Saturday morning trying to coax worms out of the drought-hardened ground. She took her two gallons of water and package of dried mustard seed into right field of one of the baseball diamonds at Green Valley, hoping the irrigated ground would produce better results.
With her young assistant, Ismael Chambers, she poured the dried mustard seed into a gallon of water, which she poured onto the ground. Mustard seed burns earthworms' skin, which, along with the water, encourages them to move to the surface. But the worms weren't biting.
She ultimately captured just one worm, which she found near a creek bed.
Placing the worm on one of the microscopes that were set up on a picnic table, Blair and Chambers took turns counting the number of "sections" from its head to its clitellum, which is part of its reproductive system. An earthworm guidebook then helped identify, by the number of "sections," the species of worm.
"I counted 24 from the head to the bump," Chambers announced, before counting again. "Actually, I think I count 28."
Blair also counted 28, declaring it a leaf worm.
She explained other earthworm details, such as the fact they are both useful and potentially harmful to your gardens at home. While their movements help aerate soil and also prevent it from clumping, earthworms also eat dirt, sometimes consuming plant seeds, too.
Meanwhile, another group came out of a wooded area of Green Valley, carrying nets over their shoulders.
Tierney Brosius, an entomology professor at Augustana College, Rock Island, carried part of the insect bounty, which included two healthy looking praying mantises.
"I'd like to take them to class, and I'd like to keep them alive," she said. "They're much more interesting alive."
Michael Reisner, director of the Upper Mississippi Studies Center at Augustana, said he hoped the day of study would produce a preliminary map of the "hot spots" in the preserve for various plants and animals.
"Next time, we'll get some counts — understand the abundance," he said. "We'd like to know the dominant species. You don't want the invasives dominating."
Ultimately, he said, an inventory would help guide future wetland maintenance plans and conservation efforts.
Kathy Wine, executive director of River Action, pointed out the group also is interested in what happens in Quad-Citians' yards and not just in large parks and preserves.
"For instance, just look at tax assessments, and you'll see that homes along urban forests (ravines) have higher values," added Reisner. "These kind of habitats also improve people's attitudes. They are happier, living among the canopies and near wildlife."
In fact, a sociology professor also was part of Saturday's team, looking into the attitudinal effects the area has on humans.
"It's truly an interdisciplinary effort today," Reisner said.
Back at the microscope, Blair continued her assessment of the day's lone earthworm.
"Some burrow deep, others feed off the surface, and some never go underground," she said. "Minnesota is interesting, because they shouldn't have any earthworms at all. Discarded fishing bait accounts for a lot of it.
"The classic night crawler, the big one, is from Europe. Some worms are one inch long and never get bigger. When it gets this hot, some go into estivation, which is like a mini-hibernation. They go way down deep and take a snooze."


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According to eMarketer, last year, U.S. companies spent more than $3 billion on Facebook brand pages and social media advertisements and the return has been universally abysmal. GM went on record in May of this year in the Wall Street Journal saying that FB ads don't pay off and that GM was ending all investment in FB advertising.
That said, The CMO completed a survey in February 2012 and found "…that marketers continue to increase spend on social media. In the next 5 years, marketers expect to spend 19.5% of their budgets on social media, almost three times more than the current level! Within a year, marketers expect to spend 10.8% of their budgets on social media."
Unless the results change, however, marketers are going to lose interest in this "shiny new toy" and eventually drop or at least significantly reduce their investments in social media.
That would be a mistake.
The problem doesn't lie with FB et al per se. The underlying problem, in my opinion, and what has recently been corroborated by research is that your social media strategy needs to include authentic customer engagement and not be viewed and used as yet another one-way digital advertising channel.
To help make this case, one of my portfolio investments, Get Satisfaction!, will hold an event on Thursday, July 26th to unveil recently completed research in this area.Continue Reading …


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$10 for $20 worth of deli food

$15 for a bagel bucket (a $30.45 value), which consists of:
- A baker's dozen of bagels
- A half pound of deli meat
- A half pound of deli salads
- Two half-pound tubs of cream cheese

For breakfast, more than 25 kinds of bagels come topped with eggs, cheese, and bacon ($3.99) or lox, cream cheese, lettuce, tomato, and onion ($6.89). At lunchtime, other types of bread form sandwiches of corned beef and chopped liver ($7.99) or the classic bacon, lettuce, and tomato ($5.99).

The Bagelry
The word bagel serves as an umbrella term, describing a whole host of flavored doughs, just so long as they have a hole in the middle. The bakers at The Bagelry take full advantage of that potential for variety, pairing more than 25 flavors of bagel with 11 styles of cream cheese. They also top their circular creations with breakfast goodies such as eggs, bacon, and shredded Sunday crossword puzzles. For lunch, they turn to a wider variety of grains to make sandwiches such as the meat-free Yenta with cucumbers and muenster cheese and the Zadey with corned beef and pastrami in thousand island dressing.


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Applanix User Group Meeting
June 17, 2014 - June 20, 2014
Applanix is holding a User Group Meeting June 17-20 in Toronto, at the Toronto Rogers Centre / Renaissance Hotel. The meeting will have two main themes: Advanced Product Training and New Product Announcements.
The program will include opportunities for:
- Advanced Training on Applanix Products
- Discovering New Products from Applanix: learn about the latest technologies and product roadmaps for future development
- Addressing business or operational challenges
- Re-acquainting with the people at Applanix
- Networking with other users
- Learning about industry trends and different customer experiences
Early Bird Pricing of $300 USD is available until May 2. Click here to register.
Applanix, a Trimble Company, develops, manufactures, sells and supports products and solutions for mobile mapping and positioning. Applanix' products and solutions are used in a variety of applications, including road profiling, GIS data acquisition, aerial surveying and mapping, railroad track maintenance and seafloor mapping.


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PICO RIVERA - A man was electrocuted Sunday while trying to pull down a canopy that ended up on his roof, deputies said.
Lt. Joe Mendoza of the sheriff's Pico Rivera station identified the man as 34-year-old Rodolfo Camacho.
Deputies headed to the 8300 block of Coral Avenue at 1:45 p.m. Sunday on a rescue call. A resident saw his neighbor lying on the ground, Mendoza said.
Deputies found the man unresponsive.
Mendoza said the man's canopy got blown onto the roof where it made contact with a power line.
"He was pulling the canopy down and got electrocuted," Mendoza added.
Los Angeles County firefighters treated the man who was taken to Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital. He was pronounced dead at 2:49 p.m., Mendoza said.


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The Yanks lost to the A's 7-0 today at The Stadium. The Yankees managed only one-hit and have lost 8 of 10. Brian should be coming back from his vacation this weekend and I'm sure he'll have a lot to say about the State of the Yankees.
In the meantime, check out my recap of this mess at greenpinstripes.com.
Player of the Game: Johnny Damon, 1 for 3 with a walk and a save for keeping the Yanks from suffering through a no-no.
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November 9, 2001
RDA offers first peek at 48 Hours scene
Richard Dean Anderson's October 12 appearance on the Vicki Garbereau Show in Canada provided fans with the first look at the upcoming Season Five episode, "48 Hours." During the actor's interview, two clips were shown: one from the already aired season premiere, "Enemies," and a 10-second clip from what appears to be "48 Hours."
The clip featured Jack O'Neill (Anderson) at a gas station with Harry Maybourne, where Jack confronts him about something:
MAYBOURNE: "Come on, would I have come back here like this if I had done it?"
O'NEILL: (still angry) "You might!"
MAYBOURNE: "I swear, Jack."
O'NEILL: "Well, then who did it?"
MAYBOURNE: "I don't know."
O'NEILL: "What DO YOU know?"
(Thanks to Morjana for the tip, and The Crazy RDADS Home Page for the photo!)
The first set of SG-1 trading cards was published in February of 2001, and included Seasons One through Three.
The Best Visual Effects award went to "Nuremberg, Part 1," defeating two Season Four episodes of SG-1: "Small Victories" and "Tangent." The award for Best Production Design or Art Direction in a Dramatic Program or Series also went to "Nuremberg, Part 1," beating out Season Four's "Beneath the Surface."
Finally, Babz Chula took home the award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuuing Leading Dramatic Role, for "These Arms of Mine." Amanda Tapping ("Major Samantha Carter") was nominated for her work in "2010."
(Thanks to Morjana and Kelly for the tip!)
"['The Torment of Tantalus'] sort of embodied all the aspects of Stargate SG-1 that I thought would be successful," Shanks said. "I thought that was the path that we should be going down, involving that discovery of something that gives us insight into our past, that basically asked more questions than it answered."
When asked when he got his big acting break, Shanks laughed, "Still waiting for it!"
Shanks also talked about his acting roots, his young daughter, working against a blue screen for special effects shots, and more. Read the entire interview at MGM.com. (Free registration is required to view the article.)
Gatecon 2001 - Spoofpark.com has posted two different reports on the biggest SG-1 convention of the year, complete with photos! Gatecon 2002 is coming to Vancouver next fall.
Dragon*con - Check out Marcia Patterson's report on this general sci-fi convention, which included panel discussions on Stargate SG-1! Dragon*con was held in Atlanta, Georgia between August 31 and September 3.
Wolf SG-4 - Tickets for this big U.K. convention are already sold out. Wolf SG-4 will be held February 1-3, 2002, and will feature appearances by Michael Shanks and Amanda Tapping.
Chevron 8 - In The Netherlands, this Dutch Stargate convention is currently being organized. Visit the site for more info.
If you have a report from a recent convention available on the Web, or info on another con, send us the link!
(Thanks to Keith Lawler, Marcia, Rene Jantschik, and Andrew Clarke for the info!)
One winner and three guests will be treated to a special concert by the rock band, for which no tickets will be made available to the general public.
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WinDev Camp
Saturday, April 20, 2013 from 8:00 AM to 5:30 PM (EDT)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
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Event Details
Think Code Camp, but focused on Windows Store and Windows Phone app development.
Saturday, April 20, 2013 from 8:00 AM to 5:30 PM (EDT)
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The Tampa Bay area has a lot of great user groups run by impassioned and dedicated people. TampaDev is here to unite those user groups so that you, the members of the broad developer community, have a single and centralized resource to find meeting and user group information. Think of us as your one-stop-shop for all your development user group needs.
Unlike most user groups, we don't hold regular meetings. Instead, we aggregate meeting information and can help those groups we work with in finding speakers, sponsors, and other adminstrative trivia (so they can focus on running a great group). We also sponsor several major developer events throughout the year.


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Facebook is reportedly in talks to buy a US drone maker, in a move that appears to be aimed at the company's initiative to bring internet access to remote and rural areas of the world.
Technology blog TechCrunch reported the social network giant, fresh from its recent $US19 billion ($21 million) acquisition of messaging service WhatsApp, is preparing to pay $US60 million for Titan Aerospace, which makes solar-powered drones.
The drones, which travel up to 20 kilometres above the Earth, are capable of flying for up to five years without landing and are aimed at replacing services usually reserved for satellites at a much lower cost. The company plans to begin commercial operations next year.
Though neither Facebook nor Titan Aerospace have publicly confirmed a deal, news of the talks have sparked speculation the social network could be planning to use the drones as high-powered internet access points for remote and rural areas and entire countries which do not yet have access.
Facebook's key rival Google has similarly experimented with technology that would allow it to launch wireless hotspots providing free internet services in the Earth's atmosphere. The company last year launched prototype air balloons in New Zealand that it plans to control remotely, and it is reportedly planning to launch similar trials in Tasmania in future.
TechCrunch quoted anonymous sources as saying Facbook's plans could ultimately involve launching 11,000 of the drones.
Titan has already worked with non-profit organisations as part of a plan to use the drones to serve internet access to African countries.
The acquisition would fold directly into plans from Facebook, which currently has 1.23 billion users, to connect the remaining two-thirds of the world that are not yet connected to the internet. The Internet.org initiative, started last year, sees the company work with several major hardware and software makers to develop ways of providing cheap access or improving access to under-served areas.
At the international Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last week, founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said connecting developing countires to the internet would increase productivity by 2 per cent and generate $US2.2 trillion in GDP.
"We're still a small part of the world's population," Mr Zuckerberg said during a recent earnings call with investors. "Helping more people get connected is important to developing the global knowledge economy.
"Once people are connected, they can access tools like basic financial services, health information and education tools that help them take care of their families and join the worldwide economy."
He said the company planned to expand efforts on the program this year.
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Evan Bayh is the junior Senator for the state of Indiana.
For years he tried to form a kennel for his Blue Dog Democrats, but Evan never seemed to be able to scare up enough support. It wasn't until 2008, when The Secret Muslim hypnotized America and materialized in the White House that Evan was able to finally convince enough moderates to join his cause.
Evan vows to one day be influential in Washington!
|This article is a stub of a Congressperson who does not have the balls to be on "The Colbert Report".
Until Evan Bayh gets the balls to get nailed by Stephen, help America "Better Know" Evan Bayh by unloading your gut onto this page.


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New jobs numbers released Friday showed more than 142 million Americans at work in February, the most since January 2009, but the unemployment rate stayed put at 8.3 percent. Ray Suarez discusses the latest numbers and general trends in hiring with Brandeis University's Lisa Lynch and Mesirow Financial's Diane Swonk. Continue reading
Ground was broken Wednesday on the National Mall for the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, set to open in 2015. Jeffrey Brown discusses the pivotal moment in the long, $500 million effort to showcase the stories and experiences of black Americans with journalist and author Isabel Wilkerson. Continue reading
Black History Month originated in 1925 when the second week of February was made Negro History Week since it contained the birthdays of abolitionist Frederick Douglass and President Abraham Lincoln. Hari Sreenivasan reports on how some African-Americans now oppose the idea of dedicating a special month to black history. Continue reading
Calling his years working with President Obama an "honor and a privilege," Robert Gibbs announced Wednesday that he will step down to become an outside adviser to the president. Judy Woodruff talks to Political Editor David Chalian about the latest departure from the administration and the anticipation of more personnel changes. Continue reading


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Friends of Animal Care and Control Chicago 5-K
Elk Grove, IL
Sat 07/20/2013
5-K, Trail Run
500 Participants
Online Entry Available
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The men of the Nu Iota Chapter of Tau Kappa Epsilon at the University of Illinois at Chicago are putting together a 5-K run and or walk to raise money for the Chicago Friends of Animal Care and Control Organization. All the money raised will help to help buy supplies for the Animals in the Chicago Pound. The Run will take place at Busse Woods in River Forest, Illinois on the 20th of July. The sign up fee is 25 dollars and sign ups can be completed at tkepups.org. These animals desperately need better food and services. The Animals spend the majority of their time in their cages and are only walked by volunteers. If there are no volunteers able to walk the animals, then they do not get walked. The money raised will help to buy better food, treats and toys for the animals. Please come support this cause. These animals did not choose to be where they are. Many are strays or their owners gave them up willingly to the shelter. They need all the help we can give them. Even if you can not run the 5-K you are more than able to donate on tkepups.org. one hundred percent of the proceeds goes to the Friends of Animal Care and Control organization.
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15lbs...3weeks, Day 9
Bear with me as I am behind in posts. I'm in the process of moving and I have just enough time and energy left over to get my workouts done.
Day 9. I woke up Saturday excited for my going away party later in the evening. I started my day with a bootcamp class which was a great change from my daily routine. I was frustrated when after the workout I realized I had forgotten my post workout meal. Fortunately, there was a restaurant at the location in which I was able to order a 3 egg white omelet with vegetables (NO cheese), whole wheat toast (no butter), and fresh fruit. Later that evening I met with friends for a going away dinner. I went to the dinner with my usual thought that I would find the healthiest option on the menu and stick to water. I usually allow myself 1 treat meal per week but I wanted to stick to my diet plan so that I can achieve my goal of loosing 15lbs in 3 weeks. At some point I lost sight of the plan and decided to live large for my last night out in Milwaukee. I let loose enough to indulge at dinner and have a few cocktails, I had not had liquor in 2 years prior to this night. I've had the occasional glass of wine, but I usually stay away from liquor since one leads to two which leads to a few....and that is exactly what happened to me last night. By the fourth cocktail around 1am I was regretting this decision. I just felt sick and a bit hungry. This helped me realize how easy a night out for most people can turn into consuming empty calories through alcohol then grabbing a bite of something greasy before going home to pass out. I still managed to refrain from greasy food. I simply came home to consume as much water as I could before I passed out. Naturally I woke up the next morning feeling miserable from the night before. I thought perhaps I had put on a pound or two from the night before and would be able to put in some extra time in the gym on Sunday and work them off. I stepped on the scale to see an additional 5lbs! I was incredibly upset. It took me an entire week to drop those 5lbs and only 1night to put them back on. I was frustrated because I know better. I know that proper nutrition is 80% of the weight loss equation. I let my guard down and thought one night would not derail my progress. Not only did I consume empty calories on Saturday night, but I felt so bad on Sunday that I didn't workout. I spent Sunday consuming water, and vitamins, resting and getting back on my diet. I spent a few minutes being upset over my actions from the previous night and then got over it and will use it as a learning experience. I have been living a healthy lifestyle for over 2 years and I have found it difficult to relate to people that go out to eat and drink on a regular basis. Last night was an opportunity for me to remember what that lifestyle is like so that I can better relate to people and to remind me of how far I have come in my own journey to a healthier life.


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King Deco's DS Lite decal is disgustingly girly
That's it, I have lost all hope in mankind. This is proof that the world has gone to complete and utter shit. Not the statistics on murders or iPod thefts, no, the proof lies in an utterly horrifyingly decorated DS.
When I came across this, atrocity, I do believe there was a moment where I let out an audible shriek of horror. Did they have to put fake pearls on it?! I mean really, the pink heart, numerous amounts of rhinestones and a few scattered flowers weren't enough?


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I am a 33 year old male and doctors told me I have diastasis recti. I have mid to lower back pain and my stomach muscles are weak. A little bulge appears when doing situps. I am an active person. I workout 3-5 times a week. (yoga, boxing, basketball league, tumbling, running, track, etc..) I keep it interesting. I had this problem for 4 months now. Why are HMO doctors not educated about this? Is the tummy tuck the only effective option? Will my stomach be strong again after the procedure?
Will my Stomach Be Strong Again if I Have Surgery to Correct Diastasis Recti? - Male 33yrs
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Diastasis recti
It is possible that you have a diastasis recti. This is something that is diagnosed on physical exam and usually by a plastic surgeon. Depending on the severity there may be several different ways this can be approached for you.
Learn more: http://www.stevenwallachmd.com
Limited incisions possible repairing diastasis recti.
Men can be effected by a congenital diastasis recti, and depending on the severity of the separation, a variety of approaches using limited incisions can be used to repair a diastasis recti.
Learn more: http://www.bodysculptor.com/body-surgery-chicago/tummy-tuck/
Correcting Tummy Muscle Separation (Diastasis) does NOT Strengthen the Muscles
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Muscle strength should not improve but it will align better.
This is an interesting question and I agree with the other surgeon's posts. If you compare this scenario to holding a bucket of sand. If the bucket weighs the same and you hold it out straight, it gets heavy very quickly. Simply lowering your arm makes the bucket manageable yet muscle strength did not increase, it is simply in the way you are holding it.
When muscles are aligned properly, the ability to flex at the waist should become easier yet exercise is the real way to increase muscle mass and therefore strength. I have had patients state that back pain is improved with an abdominoplasty.
Diastasis repair and muscle strength
Your muscle strength should be at least as good as it is now, if not better. the reason it might be better is that the muscles are aligned in a more efficient direction for effective use.
The reason back pain may be improved with tightening of the abdominal muscles is that the weight is pushed farther back in the center of gravity where it should be. The spine is curved in such a way that there are centers of gravity that minimize the strain on the back muscles. When these centers are moved forward(as in cases of abdominal muscle weakness) the back gets strained.
Help for low back pain with abdominoplasty
Interestingly, I have had a number of patients tell me that their low back pain improved after an abdominoplasty with repair of rectus diastasis. I have never done an abdominoplasty for the purpose of treating low back pain, but the patients who have reported back that they were better was certainly an added bonus to their cosmetic enhancement. Dr. P
Tummy tuck
Improving the diastasis recti will not have much of an impact on strengthening of you abdominal muscles. If the diastasis is so wide, it may, however. Strengthening through exercise will strengthen you back and abdomen more than a tummy tuck. Improving the diastasis recti will; however, improve the appearance of the abdomen and give it a more flat and athletic appearance.
These answers are for educational purposes and should not be relied upon as a substitute for medical advice you may receive from your physician. If you have a medical emergency, please call 911. These answers do not constitute or initiate a patient/doctor relationship.