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Type of Document Dissertation Author Hulathduwa, Yasoma Dhammika Author's Email Address firstname.lastname@example.com URN etd-04052006-130421 Title Role of Hydrocarbon Pollutants, Salinity, Tidal Height, Bioenergetics and Competition in Colonization of Oyster Reefs by Commensal Assemblages Degree Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Department Biological Sciences Advisory Committee
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Date of Defense 2006-03-21 Availability unrestricted AbstractEffects of hydrocarbons, salinity, tidal height, bioenergetics and competition on the oyster reef fauna were studied. Dried oyster shell was exposed to crude oil in the laboratory and plastic trays filled with control and oil-exposed shell were then deployed at two locations, in two seasons and at two tidal levels, with immersion periods of two and five weeks. Salinity exhibited a significant effect with sub tidal site having higher diversity. Hydrocarbon effects were less prominent. To determine effects of cleaners, Corexit 9580 was applied both alone and in combination with oil on cultch. At high concentrations, the cleaner ameliorated hydrocarbon effects. Hydrocarbon effects seemed to be less prominent than salinity and aerial exposure.
In the next chapter, effects of salinity on the survival and bioenergetics of mud crabs Panopeus simpsoni and Eurypanopeus depressus were examined. Crabs were exposed to a range of salinities to determine the effects of salinity on tolerance. P. simpsoni exhibited a 28d LC50 of 6.97 PSU while E. depressus had a 28d LC50 of 0.19 PSU. Crabs were exposed to four salinities for bioenergetic measurements. Energy expenditure was highest at the lowest salinity and decreased as salinity increased. Scope for growth declined below 17.5 PSU. E. depressus was capable of surviving lower salinities than P. simpsoni. However, the physiological responses do not significantly differ between the two species.
In the next chapter laboratory experiments were conducted to see if these two crab species differ in resource holding potential. Crabs were placed in aquaria at two salinities and refugia were checked daily for shelter occupancy. To determine if resource holding potential for refugia influenced predation risk, a second laboratory experiment was performed with a blue crab predator in each tank. The numbers of mud crabs of each species surviving were recorded. E. depressus was dominant over P. simpsoni in occupying the shelters at both salinity levels. E. depressus exhibited a higher survival in the presence of the predator. E. depressus's ability to tolerate lower salinities, and its dominance in resource holding potential, may lessen predation risk and allow colonization of more estuarine sites.
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What's hot: Recent heavy west winds have put the kibosh on fishing off St. Pete Beach, where Spanish mackerel, flounder, snapper, sharks, cobia and catch-and-release gag grouper have been the norm. After this wicked weather settles down, look for those fish to still be abundant and eager to take white bait, greenbacks and cut squid. Outgoing tides have produced the best bites.
Strategy: Getting on the lee side of the Mangrove Islands will produce redfish (red drum) and the occasional gator-speckled trout on the full moon hide tides. The key to fishing these islands is finding big mullet. Use cut mullet or greenbacks, which will bring strikes if presented properly. Rig an unweighted 2/0 circle or J-hook and put the bait as close to the bushes as possible. The scent might draw in pinfish activity as well, but it also will draw in what you're looking for. Tarpon are still in back bay canals and bayous that are protected from the wind. They can be finicky. Cast a free-line pinfish in front of them when they roll.
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HUNTINGTON, Ind. -- Two companies dedicated to serving the Catholic Church are coming together to offer solutions for parishes.
Our Sunday Visitor, Inc. has acquired the assets of Zartarian Publishing, Inc. in a move to provide products and services to a greater number of parishes in the Archdiocese of Boston and throughout the northeastern United States.
Our Sunday Visitor offers a full array of materials and services for Catholic parishes and dioceses. The company is the nation's leading provider of offering envelopes, serving well over half of the Catholic parishes in the United States.
Zartarian Publishing has been one of the largest providers of offertory envelopes to parishes in the northeast, particularly in the Archdiocese of Boston.
Our Sunday Visitor Offertory Solutions will provide all of the services previously offered by Zartarian Publishing.
"The Zartarian business was built with a reputation for service and quality and we believe that Our Sunday Visitor's product and service offering can provide solutions that these parishes will value. We are actively changing our marketing approach to coordinate electronic giving, web site solutions, an increased offertory program, and print and mail communication services with our industry leading offering envelope service," said Kyle Hamilton, president of Our Sunday Visitor Offertory Solutions.
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A CANCER centre, which is to offer radiotherapy and chemotherapy in a new state-of-the art building, could be built on the outskirts of Basingstoke.
As previously reported in The Gazette, the cancer centre, which is being championed by a team from Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation trust, is being built to provide life-saving treatments closer to home for patients in North Hampshire.
Vickie Randall, manager of the Ark Cancer Centre Charity, said there are two options for where the £18million centre will be based- near junction 7 of the M3 in Dummer, or at Basingstoke hospital.
Mrs Randall said: "We do not yet know where it will be based, but our preferred location is near junction 7.
"It would be in a field, although obviously we do not yet know which field."
She said: "If, for whatever reason, that land is not suitable, then Basingstoke hospital is our plan B.
"I don't know what land at the hospital would be used.
"The land near junction 7 would be the preferred location as it is in the centre of the three hospitals run by the trust.
"Logistically that would be the best option."
The centre will offer vital treatments such as radiotherapy and chemotherapy alongside palliative care and more general support, including hair care, beauty treatments and financial and employment advice.
Currently, cancer patients have to travel to Guildford or to Southampton to receive radiotherapy, enduring 60-mile round trips, often daily, for up to six weeks.
The Ark Cancer Centre Charity is hoping to raise £5million in fundraising towards the building, while HHFT is footing the bulk of the £18million cost.


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ORLANDO, Fla. - A woman was arrested in Orlando on allegations of allowing a toddler to steer a car, which crashed at an apartment complex.
According to police, the car crashed into several vehicles Sunday in the 4800 block of Cypress Woods Drive in Orlando.
A witness told police he saw a 3-year-old boy with his hands on the wheel, steering the car while he sat in the lap of a woman.
Police arrested the woman, identified as Volanda Cousar, 47, on charges of careless driving and child abuse.
The Florida Department of Children and Families was notified of the incident.
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96% of parents say a 'pro-abstinence message' is best for teens, concludes a poll commissioned by Focus on the Family. Another 91% expressed the view that teens should be taught that it is best for sexual activity to be linked to love, intimacy and commitment. (United Press International, 1-28-04)
Kansas City schools pay students for C grades. Over the summer, Kansas City became the first large school district in the country known to pay students for grades. With good attendance and at least a C average, students received gift cards worth up to $150. Some 67 Missouri school districts offer financial incentives to students. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 9-5-04)
Denver limits display of Mexican flags in schools after flap. An August back-to-school newspaper photograph of a classroom depicting a Mexican flag next to a U.S. flag sparked complaints that spurred officials to restrict the display of foreign banners. The principal removed two Mexican flags from the 84% Hispanic high school, and a policy is being developed to require any display of foreign flags to be temporary and related to what is being taught in class. (Associated Press, 8-20-04)
College bases freshman grades 60% on 'effort.' Columbia, SC's Benedict College now bases grades for freshmen 60% on "effort" and 40% on academic performance. For sophomores, the ratio is 50-50. Two professors have been fired for refusing to follow the policy. (wistv.com, 8-20-04)
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A shorthanded Ohio State defense more than held their own against Buffalo in the Buckeyes' season-opening 40-20 victory over Buffalo. That doesn't mean head coach Urban Meyer isn't welcoming back All-American cornerback Bradley Roby and safety C.J. Barnett.
The second-ranked team in the nation doesn't just have a stable of running backs. They also possess a plethora of defensive backs. Armani Reeves played adequately but was picked on for all four quarters and missed several tackles.
Still, it doesn't mean Roby will start immediately. Meyer indicated all suspended players must earn a starting spot. The offense will welcome back a bigger faction of personnel as well. Running back Rod Smith served a one-game suspension against Buffalo and center Corey Linsley played less than a quarter due to complications from a prior foot injury.
"We are starting to get our roster back intact," Meyer said.
Ohio State only had the use of 70 scholarship players, essentially making them an FCS program. Division I's second tier can have 65 scholarships.
The quickest route to becoming a valued member of the Ohio State football team is to make an impact on special teams, which was pointed out by Meyer, running backs coach Stan Drayton and cornerbacks/special teams coach Kerry Coombs.
How focused is Roby on his return? As his teammates spent last week preparing for Buffalo, Roby scouted San Diego State and broke down film on the Aztecs.
A full secondary means San Diego State Adam Dingwell could have another rough outing. In a shocking 40-19 loss to FCS member Eastern Illinois, Dingwell attempted 63 passes, was sacked four times and tossed zero touchdowns compared to four interceptions.
The running backs situation involves more intrigue than the comings and goings in the defensive backfield. Smith's presence brings a bruising back into the picture, something the Buckeyes didn't possess against the Bulls. It adds another peg in the backfield's rotation and means Jordan Hall, who's coming off a career-high 159 rushing yards, could shift to H-back.
"Last spring I had the intention of making Jordan Hall more of an H, but an H that can come in motion, and that's when he can cause issues for defenses," Meyer said. "We'll see how [Smith] practices, I hope he does earn the right to carry the ball, because that will free up Jordan Hall to maybe help us in some other areas, as well."
Hall earned offensive player of the game honors and helped spur the Buckeyes' 23 first-quarter points. After that, though, came a lull. Ohio State was outscored 20-17 the rest of the game.
It left a sour taste in the perfectionist head coach's mouth.
"Very high expectations. I want to score every time we touch the ball," Meyer said. "I'm disappointed if we don't score. That's, once again, high expectations.
However, we have some talented guys. Our coaching staff has been together and we should have been better. We came out of the gate the way I kind of envisioned, and we finished the game kind of like I imagined we would, too."
Another lowlight came from the offensive line. Taylor Decker was beat consistently, but perhaps the most surprising routine of the day was Jack Mewhort's underwhelming play.
Decker's first career start included matching up against a potential All-American and first-round draft pick in Khalil Mack. Allowing Mack into the backfield was not part of the script, though. On Mack's interception, Mewhort missed a block.
"Well, we get beat a couple times and it gets exposed," Meyer said. "For the most part we played OK. You just can't get exposed. The player they had, his stock in the draft just went up a little bit after playing against us. He did a very good job. He manhandled some guys and did a good job. So whenever that happens, what do you do, you go back to your fundamentals and keep working and keep grinding. I have the utmost confidence in our offensive line and their position coach. What he did with them a year ago and what he is doing with them now, that they will play much better, and they have to. "
Coaches often say they are teachers at the core. On the practice fields at Ohio State, the Buckeyes' second week of the season will consist of plenty of educating.
Said Meyer: "I'm anxious to see a lot of improvement."


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TAIPEI (TheStreet) -- Microsoft (MSFT) has scored a landmark license to sell the Xbox One game console in China, where several million machines are expected to move in the first quarter or so. Stage two: More difficult.
China's nod to its first legally available gaming console such as the Xbox effectively lifts a 14-year-old ban on the high-end electronic toys. The country had prohibited the sales of most consoles to protect the mental health of young people, who may otherwise find the deliciously violent game content addles their attention to what Beijing cares about -- mastery of hard sciences and socialist ideology.
But Chinese gamers had already learned to order foreign-made console illegally on local e-commerce sites, says Gu Haoyi, game market senior analyst with the consultancy Analysys International in Beijing. A lot are content playing on PCs and smartphones instead. Is the game for consoles over before it starts?
United Results Impress Wall Street; Pilots Are Doubtful
Microsoft has cozied up to China since last year with an out-of-the-way research and development center, and Shanghai-based manufacturer BesTV New Media said in April that it will bring Xbox One to China in September. Microsoft got an elusive China Compulsory Certification from the government, valid until 2019, the official China Daily newspaper said on its website.
Any measure of success will beckon rival game console makers such as Sony (SNE) and Nintendo (NTDOY), which had also been blocked from selling in China, the paper noted. Chinese developers may start to make their own consoles, Gu said, though so far the Xbox One is peerless in China.
Microsoft sold 7.4 million Xbox consoles to retailers in the fourth quarter last year, including 3.9 million Xbox One consoles.
An old hand at forming partnerships in China, Microsoft will take Xbox One pre-orders through popular Chinese Internet icon Tencent Holdings (TCTZF) and online retailer JD.com, China Daily noted.
The console stands to rack up a high score in China given the 1.3 billion population country's fast-growing $13 billion gaming market. Several million Xbox Ones will sell in China during the product's first few months, Analysys International predicts.
Still, Microsoft's license, comfort level in China and pre-order channels do not necessarily mean that Xbox will win the console sales game.
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The competition regulator has approved Nestlé's $US11.8 billion ($11.4 billion) acquisition of global infant nutrition company Pfizer Nutrition, handing the company control of the majority of Australia's $200 million infant formula market.
But the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has also imposed strict conditions on the merger, including requiring Nestlé to enter an exclusive 10-year licence for Pfizer's market-leading S-26 brand to a "credible" third party to be approved by the regulator.
Potential buyers include Mead Johnson, Abbott Laboratories, Heinz and Bayer.
The licence would be followed by a further 10-year "black-out" period during which Nestlé would not be permitted to re-enter the markets, with Pfizer's products expected to be re-branded once a new purchaser acquires the licence.
"This is a classic case of three players becoming two in the supply of infant formula and toddler milk," ACCC chairman Rod Sims told The Australian Financial Review.
"While normally you would have a problem with such a merger, here it is part of a global merger and so we were willing to look at practical remedies.
"Because there are other credible global players who could buy the S-26 brand and re-brand it in Australia, we believe consumers would still be given a choice of three respected alternatives," Mr Sims said.
A Nestlé spokesperson acknowledged the ACCC's decision and said it "looked forward to continuing to compete with S-26 in the Australian market".
"As a global acquisition it remains subject to completion," the Nestlé spokesperson said.
Nestlé and Pfizer Nutrition are two of the three largest suppliers of infant formula and toddler milk in Australia.
If the acquisition went ahead without the undertakings, Nestlé and Nutricia would control about 90 per cent of the Australian market.
Pfizer Nutrition, (formerly known as Wyeth Nutrition), makes S-26 Original and S-26 Gold and accounts for about 38 per cent of the infant formula market. Nestlé, which makes NAN and Lactogen, holds 21.5 per cent, and Nutricia, which makes Karicare and Aptamil, 30.7 per cent.
Australia is one of several countries that have raised concerns about the impact of the transaction in the high-margin and high-growth infant nutrition market. Brazil, India and Ireland have cleared the transaction.
South Africa is understood to be reviewing the deal, while Mexico is understood to have knocked back the transaction.
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Just back from Explorer of the Seas - 11 days - Caribbean: Explorer of the Seas Cruise Review by JimInBuffalo
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Just back from Explorer of the Seas - 11 days - Caribbean
Destination: Eastern Caribbean
Embarkation: Bayonne (Cape Liberty)
Overall we found the trip to be excellent.
We drove from Buffalo to Bayonne and stayed overnight in Stroudsburg, PA.
WE parked at PREMIER PARKING about 1 mile away from the port. Our experience with this company was excellent.
Embarkation: Smooth and quick until it was time to actually board the ship. We got a card with number 22 for our order to get on the bus to the ship. The process was very slow. It took over an hour for our number to be called. Part of the reason for the delay is that all handicapped pax or those needing assitance were allowed to board first.
Cabin: We had an inside cabin on deck 9 which was conveniently located near the forward lifts. Our steward was excellent.
Dining was in the Megellan MDR . Food was excellent. Service was too.
Entertainment: Not the best that we have seen but good-very good. On exception was Norm Crosby, the veteran comedian who is More now 86 years old. He put on a great show. I heard many people rave about the show afterwards, however, I did hear some younger pax who didn't know who he was and didn't appreciate the show. I guess it was a generational thing.
Ports: Great variety of ports. WE got off the boat at every port and did a couple of excursions. Our favorite was our day resort stay at the Marriot in Antigua.
Disembarkation was good. We did the express and took our own bags. there was a bit of delay at the elevators. After waiting at the Center Ice for 10 minutes, they allowed us to go to the first deck to exit but there were too many people for the elevators. We dragged our bags down the two floors and were off the ship in five minutes. Customs was fast and we got our van to Premier parking within 10 minutes. We were on the road to Buffalo by 9:00 AM.
overall experience: Excellent Less
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Excellent inside cabin. Great steward (Rolando)
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Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University
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Dr. T.G. Nieh is currently a professor in Department of Materials Science and Engineering at The University of Tennessee. From 1980 to 1992, he worked at Lockheed Missiles and Space Co. (now Lockheed-Martin Corporation) as a Senior Fellow of Research Laboratory. He subsequently worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as a Senior Research Fellow until he joined UT in 2004.
Nieh is a world leader in superplasticity and superplastic forming. He is also widely recognized for his work in several material science disciplines, including multicomponent complex alloys (including high entropy alloys and bulk metallic glasses), nanocrystalline materials, lightweight alloys, metal-matrix composites, intermetallics, refractory metals and nanolaminates. He published over 400 papers and a textbook on "Superplasticity of metals and ceramics'. He is now serving as Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Intermetallics., has served as Editor, Materials Letters, 2008-2013.
Nieh received the Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Stanford University, the M.S. degree in Physics from University of Washington, Seattle, and the B.S. degree in Physics from National Cheng-Kung University in Taiwan.
Research Areas
• Metallic glasses (amorphous alloys)
• High entropy alloys
• Nanostructured alloys
• High temperature materials
Selected Awards and Honors
2004 Fellow of TMS (The Materials, Minerals, and Metallurgical Society)
1992 Fellow of ASM International (American Society of Materials)
Professional Activities
• Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Intermetallics
• Board member of International Advisory Board on Superplasticity
• Consulting Professor of University of Science and Technology-Beijing, China
• Visiting Chair Professor of National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan
• Advisory Board, Department of Applied Physics and Materials, Hong Kong City University
Selected Publications
C. Zhu, Z.P. Lu, and T.G. Nieh, "Incipient plasticity and dislocation nucleation of FeCoCrNiMn high-entropy alloy," Acta Mater, 61 (2013) 2993–3001.
Y. Wu, W. H. Liu, X. L. Wang, D. Ma, A. D. Stoica, T. G. Nieh, and Z. P. Lu, "In situ diffraction study of deformation behavior of a multi-component high-entropy alloy," Applied Physics Letters 104 (2014) 051910.
J. Y. He, W. H. Liu, H. Wang, Y. Wu, X. J. Liu, T. G. Nieh, and Z.P. Lu, "Effects of Al addition on structural evolution and tensile properties of the FeCoNiCrMn high entropy alloy system," Acta Materialia 62 (2014) 105–113.
J. Y. He, C. Zhu, D. Q. Zhou, W. H. Liu, T. G. Nieh, and Z. P. Lu, "Steady state flow of the FeCoNiCrMn high entropy alloy at elevated temperatures," Intermetallics, 55 (2014) 9-14.
D. Wu and T. G. Nieh, "Incipient plasticity and dislocation nucleation in body-centered cubic chromium," Mater Sci Eng A, 609 (2014) 110–115.
X.D. Xu, P. Liu, S. Guo, A. Hirata, T. Fujita, T.G. Nieh, C.T. Liu and M.W. Chen, "Nanoscale phase separation in a fcc-based CoCrCuFeNiAl0.5 high-entropy alloy," Acta Materialia 84 (2015) 145–152.
D. Wu, J.R. Morris and T.G. Nieh , "Effect of tip radius on the incipient plasticity of chromium studied by nanoindentation," Scripta Materialia 94 (2015) 52–55.
Z.P. Lu, H. Wang, M.W. Chen, I. Baker, J.W. Yeh, C.T. Liu, and T.G. Nieh, "An assessment on the future development of high-entropy alloys: Summary from a recent workshop" Intermetallics, 66 (2015) 67-76.
W.H. Wang, Y. Yang, T.G. Nieh, and C.T. Liu, "On the source of plastic flow in metallic glasses: Concepts and models", Intermetallics, 67 (2015) 81-86.
Y. Wu, H. Wang, Yongqiang Cheng, X. J. Liu, X. D. Hui, TG Nieh, Yandong Wang, and Z. P. Lu, 'Inherent structure length in metallic glasses: simplicity behind complexity,' Scientific Reports, 5, 12137; doi: 10.1038/srep12137 (2015).
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Buried on page 3 of today's Metro section (and apparently absent from the national edition entirely) is the NYT's first whisper of the financial scandal at left-wing radio network Air America. The crack NYT staff got to the story less than three weeks after the New York Daily News first picked up on it July 26.
Not that the headline or subhead of the Times' story actually mention "Air America." Instead it reads: "Bronx Boys Club's Finances Investigated -- Officials Look Into Loans Made to a Liberal Radio Network." The two words "Air America" presumably couldn't fit into that 15-word space.
Reporter Alan Feuer picks up the scandal from the boys club end, not emphasizing the juicy Air America angle: "The state attorney general's office and the city's Department of Investigation are looking into whether a boys and girls club serving poor children and ailing elderly people in the Bronx had improper financial dealings, including loans to the Air America radio network, state and city officials said yesterday. The separate investigations are trying to determine whether the Gloria Wise Boys and Girls Club, run from an office in Co-op City in the Bronx, made improper loans of up to $875,000 to the radio network, known for its liberal programming and hosts like the comedian Al Franken, the officials said."
And Michelle Malkin points out there's a curious piece of quote missing from Feuer's story. Feuer quotes a transcript made by New York City's Department of Investigation on Monday featuring Al Franken talking about Evan Cohen, the former chairman of the board of Air America at the center of the "loan" controversy: "I don't know why he did it. I don't know where the money went. I don't know if it was used for operations. I think he was borrowing from Peter to pay Paul."
But Malkin points to blogger Brian Maloney, who broke the story among the blogs and has an audio file of what Franken actually said (quoted material missing from the Times in italis): "I don't know why they did it, and I don't know where the money went, I don't know if it was used for operations, which I imagine it was. I think he was robbing Peter to pay Paul."
Malkin explains: "The omission of those five little words matters because Al Franken's actual statement suggests that the money was in fact stolen from poor kids to pay Air America's bills -- a speculation that the Times attributes to 'conservative-leaning blogs,' but not to the Times' favorite liberal talk show host who said it himself." Whether the fault for the deleted words lies with the city's transcript or the Times itself isn't known.
But there's no disputing the Times' double standard when it comes to the travails of left-wing talk show hosts as opposed to conservative ones. When Rush Limbaugh announced his addition to prescription painkillers on his October 10, 2003 radio show, it made the front page of the New York Times the very next day, and the paper followed up with several stories referencing Limbaugh's addiction.
In a twist, the last Times story on Air America, from June 15, dealing with Al Franken's Senate prospects (yes, you read that correctly), allowed the left-wing talker to criticize Limbaugh's addiction.
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recto: Achi Baba, from Tommy's Trench, Helles; verso: The top of the Taurus Mountains
Lambert wrote on 8 March 1919: "The old Bean [Charles Bean] had a great day among the old trenches about the plain before Krithia. Achi Baba makes a fine contour in the background and the plain is covered with bushes of heather and sage-brush with a few small thorn trees and olives, with one or two only of short pine. The whole landscape is a dull mauvey grey with a sage green admixture and very delicate if sombre in tone. The dead, or rather their bones, spoil it, of course, and the melancholy is ready for him who lets his thoughts wander. I got my subject by about lunch-time and settled to it at two p.m., getting a panel ready with a preparatory lay-in so as to get a quick shot at the evening light. The dramatic advance of the Australians... here came off about 5.30, evening, and I got the same time and effect to finish with. I made a very carefully considered landscape and one from which I can do a big one if necessary."


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Replacing foreign oil with domestically grown "biomass" would revolutionize world politics and economies, and states such as Nebraska would potentially emerge as huge winners, says a former Clay County farm boy who's now one of the world's leading biotechnology scientists.
Keasling was the final guest in the 2011-12 Heuermann Lectures at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
In 2009, Keasling said of the 94.5 quadrillion BTUs of energy used in the United States, 83 percent came from fossil fuels.
The U.S. now imports about half that oil, and those oil imports account for roughly half of the nation's trade imbalance. And, of course, fossil fuels emit high levels of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
Future oil shortages are predicted, as China and India increase use at a time when oil production levels off and drops. Prices could reach $200 a barrel, doubling the price of gasoline, Keasling said.
Ethanol from corn already is making some inroads into dependence on foreign oil, but that's only part of the answer, Keasling said. Indeed, corn is far from the ideal biofuels crop, since it requires lots of water and fertilizer and also is important as a food and feed crop.
So, other forms of biomass are in development, including switchgrass, which can produce four times the amount of energy it takes to grow it, Keasling noted.
Keasling's research team at a firm he founded, the Joint BioEnergy Institute, is involved in ethanol-from-biomass efforts.
Scientists engineered a strain of Escherichia coli bacteria to produce biodiesel fuel from biomass such as switchgrass, without the need of enzyme additives. His team now is working to increase the efficiency and speed by which its engineered E. coli strain can be cost-effective and economically competitive in the quantities needed to meet the world's needs.
"We need to rely on dedicated energy crops" such as switchgrass, said Keasling, who received his bachelor's degree from UNL.
"This would be a huge change in our balance of trade, a huge change in world politics," he added, noting that the money now going overseas to purchase oil could be going into economies of farm states such as Nebraska.
Miscanthus giganteus is a particularly promising biomass crop. It's a perennial that grows 12 feet tall; it also fixes nitrogen in the soil.
"It looks to be a great crop for the future," Keasling said.
Scientists such as Keasling are focusing on making more efficient the process for getting energy out of biomass crops.
Sugars which comprise about 70 percent of plants' content are the key, but extracting them and processing them is tricky. Goals are to develop plants that contain more of the so-called "good sugars," and less of the bad, with fewer lignins, which are organic polymers in plant cell walls that make them rigid and woody.
Research efforts are focused on improving pretreatment processes to remove lignins and engineering plants to have less lignin.
"This is a very exciting area of research," he said.
While bioenergy has successfully produced gasoline substitutes, future research also must produce diesel and jet fuel substitutes.
Keasling said he also expects biomass production to result in chemicals from those plant sugars to replace other substances that now come from petroleum.
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Responding to a question from the audience, Keasling said government's role in this process will be a "steady hand ... steady policies over many decades" and not playing favorites among the different crops and technologies. "Government shouldn't be picking winners and losers. Let the marketplace do that."
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The Heuermann Lectures will resume in the fall, with four former secretaries of agriculture invited to speak about the land-grant university tradition on Sept. 28.
Heuermann Lectures in UNL's Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources focus on providing and sustaining enough food, natural resources and renewable energy for the people of the world, and on securing the sustainability of rural communities where the vital work of producing food and renewable energy occurs.
The lectures feature diverse speakers who are working to meet the world's food and food-related challenges in a variety of fields.
Heuermann Lectures are made possible through a gift from B. Keith and Norma Heuermann of Phillips, longtime NU supporters with a strong commitment to Nebraska's production agriculture, natural resources, rural areas and people.
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To Request a DEMO contact Ron Crompton by email here. You Need to Tell him "El Dave, Six Degrees …" sent ya!
I first heard about this "must have" software from my buddy ol pal, Shally "Elvis" Steckerl, Chief Cybersleuth and Founder of JobMachine Inc. Since that time, I've been utilizing one of the better kept secret in recruiting technology for the last two years and it's time to sing its praises.
Ron Crompton is Vice President and Co-Founder of Intelligent Algorithms, makers of Internet productivity search software under the trademark name infoGISTâ"¢.
Crompton entered the information industry in 1982 when he joined Lexis-Nexis. Obviously, he has seen a lot of changes during the past 25 years – especially the advent of Internet-based applications around 1996. Before the Internet revolutionized the Information industry, online information vendors would collect, standardize and store information, and then make it accessible to their end users through a proprietary user interface.
But the Internet broke that mold Crompton said. The complexity of the Internet placed the burden on the user to find relevant sites, figure out how to search each site, and combine information from multiple sites. The process was less efficient, extremely time-consuming, and lacked many of the features available in earlier information. Intelligent Algorithms was created to fill this void. And, with the proliferation of job boards in the mid to late 90's, it made perfect sense for IA to focus on the recruiting industry.
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If you ask Crompton, he will tell you that Platinum Recruiter is an Internet recruiting productivity application that allows users to quickly find relevant resumes from hundreds of Internet sites in a fraction of the time it would take using your Internet browser. In fact, he recently received an email from a customer who, after using the product for 30 days, reduced the amount to time they were spending on sourcing from 3 days to one hour.
If you ask Dan Hilbert at Valero Energy, he will tell you how infoGISTâ"¢ is one of several components he uses to achieve industry leading recruiting metrics that have been documented on ERE. Using search agents to monitor job boards is a key feature to his success.
In July, 2006, infoGISTâ"¢ released a new product called Platinum Recruiter that replaced the family of Resume infoFinder products. Crompton said their main focus was to improve the user interface with easier navigation and an emphasis on results management. Examples of results management are Search Manager and Smart Retrieve. The Search Manager feature allows you to organize results around saved searches and setup search agents while the Smart Retrieve feature alerts you to resumes retrieved in prior search sessions without needlessly retrieving the resume a second time. Since most subscription-based sites are on pay-per-view models, Crompton said Smart Retrieve helps users avoid paying for the same resume a second time.
Platinum Recruiter is a Windows-web application so it installs and runs on your desktop. It comes pre-loaded with nearly 800 Internet sites, both free and subscription-based sites like Monster, Dice and CareerBuilder. The recruiter's usernames, passwords, and resumes are all kept securely on the local PC, and no documents are stored on in-between servers – an industry exclusive. You can also search resumes on your hard drive or on a LAN-connected PC – even your resumes in popular Applicant Tracking Systems.
Platinum Recruiter's simple and powerful Boolean-based search language makes it easy to build a precise query. After you initiate a search, Platinum Recruiter will translate and submit your search to hundreds of the best resume sites on the web. Platinum Recruiter retrieves and analyzes each resume and assigns a real-time relevancy score. Within seconds, you begin viewing resumes that best match your search criteria. Platinum Recruiter shows you a "cleaned-up†version of the resume and highlights your key terms – including fuzzy matches. You can even narrow your search using different search criteria without re-visiting the web.
Platinum Recruiter also integrates your answer set with desktop, enterprise and web applications. You can create email message templates and send batch emails to all candidates that meet your criteria in just a few mouse clicks and import and export your contact email addresses between Platinum Recruiter and other mailing systems. Platinum Recruiter not only lets you search many leading Applicant Tracking Systems for candidates, it also lets you export resumes into your ATS by file, direct web access, or email.
Platinum Recruiter also provides comprehensive logging to help you maintain compliance with The Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP).
Recruiters who are interested in taking advantage of Platinum Recruiter can register to download the software at: http://www.infogist.com/PlatinumRecruiterTryIt.aspx Once you register, you can take advantage of a complimentary training session and use the fully-functional product for free for 7 days.
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Bay of Plenty, 13 May 2014 - The driver killed after a crash at the Taupō Motorsport Park Monday afternoon has been named.
Andrew Gordon Bass, aged 61, of Napier died in Taupō Hospital from injuries received when his vehicle collided at high speed with a tyre wall.
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- "We have scholarships for team members!"
- People are going to treat you like crap, routinely.
|Just 89 cents! Wow, why don't we buy 60$ worth! Through the fucking Drive Thru!
- People are going to regularly order 60$+ dollars of food and then expect it through the drive-thru.
- People are always "sick" when they ought to be at work.
EDIT: I got a bit of back chatter a little bit ago via Facebook private messages about my cruelty towards the Obese in this entry. So, I feel compelled to apologize to anyone that felt insulted by my comments. It's not my intent to mock the obese.
There are a few things I learned very quickly working at Taco Bell. The biggest was that new items are driven by tests establishing how often people will return for an item. In a sense, the more addictive the food is to you, the better it will sell. And so, top chefs (I use those words with amusement) put together these items and market them out. People try them out at various corporate locations (stores, corporate offices, test pilot shit that team members never see) and the higher they rate with the public in terms of taste and a desire for the repeat, the more they get brought out as new items.
We wanted to sell you the closest equivalent of food-crack that we could. It doesn't matter how bad it is for you, how it will affect you if you eat too much, etc. These just aren't concerns. The concern is that you spend as much fucking money on us as possible. Then we would pull those items off the market for 6-8 months, and cycle them back in again later. This would often upset many people, who felt entitled to their crack. It made things unpleasant, to say the least. "We just don't have that," was never taken happily as an answer. In some cases, we couldn't even approximate the product, because it came with unique ingredients that we wouldn't carry any longer. People would throw fits about this, as if whoever they were whining to could fix it.
But. The addictive part of this business is what I'm talking about. It created a very unhealthy dynamic between workers and those they're serving on many occasions. People would be upset it was taking too long to get their food. They'd be upset because they lacked their fix. Sometimes, they just had bad days and took their anger out on you. I was a cashier for those full two years, and so I was always a half-assed public relations consultant. I was paid because I had curly, golden locks and a winning smile. And hopefully, I could convince you to calm down, fix the problem, etc.
But then, there are just some people who feel entitled to looking down on you. Ironically, they're not always the rich or those in expensive cars. Often, they're obese, or lower class (based on what they're wearing and driving, which is hardly concrete proof), or... Whatever. I had a few goths get on my case for working for the man once, even. It was somewhat funny, honestly.
But the more the other person might be used to being treated like crap (such as for being fat), the more likely they were to go nuts on you. And for some reason, half the people ordering too much food and expecting instantaneous results had a higher likelihood of being poor or larger in weight. I have no idea. They also had the highest chance of flipping out on you over something.
If you're larger in weight, and I can say anything to you, it's this, I hope. Avoid fast food. It was created to make you fat, feel terrible, and keep coming back for more. I know it's hard, but find a way to fight the habit. Because it will fucking kill you in the end, just like smoking cigarettes or drinking too much will. In the end, the choice is yours. But if you choose to continue an addiction to fast food, please. Please, please, please. Be nice to the poor folks that work there. They aren't paid crap. They get treated like shit all day. They're struggling, just like you. And they don't need you screaming at them about some small error or another. Most - anyone with sense - will want to correct the error, if you ask. You don't need to fucking scream at them about it.
And don't ever order more than $30 worth of food in the drive-thru. That's just fucking lazy, and annoying. Be an adult and walk inside the fucking restaurant and wait like a decent human being. You lazy fucking wanker.


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Flying snakes—the stuff of comic books or science fiction movies? No, they're real. Five species of Asian snakes are believed to fly (or, more accurately, glide) from the tops of trees. A new study shows how they perform this seemingly impossible feat.
A biologist from the University of Chicago filmed several paradise tree snakes as they leaped from a branch on a tower at the Singapore Zoo. He found that a snake takes off by forming its body into a loop beneath the branch and jumping, and then flattens itself while airborne.
But while in flight, it not only flattens its entire body, it moves at the same time," says the biologist, Jake Socha. "It's actually undulating in the air."
The sidewinding movement helps the snake glide, and allows it to turn as much as 90 degrees while in the air, despite a lack of wings. The snakes "flew" more than 70 feet and landed without obvious injury, Socha reports in his study, published in the journal Nature.
Why do the snakes fly? Possibly to move quickly between trees, chase birds and other prey, or avoid predators, Socha says.
If snakes can take to the air, can pigs be far behind?
Paradise Tree Snake: © JAKE SOCHA


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Study of Total Body Irradiation and Fludarabine Followed By Allogeneic Peripheral Blood Stem Cell or Bone Marrow Transplantation in Combination With Cyclosporine and Mycophenolate Mofetil in Patients With Inherited Disorders
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OBJECTIVES: I. Determine the safety of total body irradiation and fludarabine followed by allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell or bone marrow transplantation in combination with cyclosporine and mycophenolate mofetil for establishing mixed chimerism in patients with inherited disorders.
II. Determine whether this regimen can establish mixed chimerism in these patients.
III. Determine whether mixed chimerism is sufficient to reverse disease symptoms in these patients.
IV. Determine the safety of donor lymphocyte infusions to eliminate persistent disease in these patients with mixed chimerism.
|Metabolism, Inborn Errors Granulomatous Disease, Chronic
|Drug: cyclosporine Drug: fludarabine Drug: mycophenolate mofetil
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|Study Design:
|Primary Purpose: Treatment
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|Study Start Date:
|November 2000
|Primary Completion Date:
|April 2007 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
PROTOCOL OUTLINE: Patients receive fludarabine IV over 2 hours on days -4 to -2 followed by total body irradiation and peripheral blood stem cell or bone marrow transplantation on day 0. Patients also receive oral or IV cyclosporine 2-3 times daily on days -3 to 50 (related donor) or 100 (unrelated donor) and oral mycophenolate mofetil twice daily on days 0 to 28 (related donor) or 40 (unrelated donor).
Patients may also receive donor lymphocyte infusion for continued treatment of symptoms in the event of mixed chimerism and in the absence of graft-versus-host disease.
Patients are followed weekly for 1 month, monthly for 2 years, and then annually thereafter.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|up to 55 Years (Child, Adult)
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|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
--Disease Characteristics--
- Inherited disorders treatable with allogeneic peripheral blood or bone marrow transplantation At high risk for regimen related toxicity with a conventional transplant
- No severe CNS involvement of disease, defined by IQ score less than 70
- HLA matched donor Sibling donors must be a confirmed match at HLA-A, B, and DRB1 Other related and non-related donors must be matched at HLA-A, B, C, DRB1, and DQB1 A donor homozygous for one allele only at HLA-A, B, C, DRB1, or DQB1 allowed (1 antigen mismatch for graft-versus-host disease, 0 antigen mismatch for graft-rejection)
--Prior/Concurrent Therapy--
- No concurrent growth factors with mycophenolate mofetil
--Patient Characteristics--
- Age: Under 55
- Performance status: Not specified
- Life expectancy: At least 100 days
- Hematopoietic: Not specified
- Hepatic: No evidence of synthetic dysfunction No severe cirrhosis
- Renal: Not specified
- Cardiovascular: LVEF at least 30% No poorly controlled hypertension on multiple antihypertensives
- Other: No organ dysfunction that would preclude survival Not pregnant or nursing Fertile patients must use effective contraception during and for 12 months following study
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00010361
|United States, Washington
|Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
|Seattle, Washington, United States, 98109
|Study Chair:
|Ann Woolfrey
|Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
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|February 2, 2001
|Last Updated:
|December 8, 2014
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Chronic Disease
Metabolism, Inborn Errors
Granulomatous Disease, Chronic
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Pathologic Processes
Genetic Diseases, Inborn
Metabolic Diseases
Phagocyte Bactericidal Dysfunction
Leukocyte Disorders
Hematologic Diseases
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Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
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Mycophenolic Acid
Mycophenolate mofetil
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Antimetabolites, Antineoplastic
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Immunosuppressive Agents
Immunologic Factors
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Enzyme Inhibitors
Antifungal Agents
Anti-Infective Agents
Dermatologic Agents
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Featured Nukapedian - Limmiegirl
Leon: Tell us a little bit about yourself
Freija: Well, my real name is Freija, after the Norse goddess of love and death :) I was born on April the 4th of 1990, and grew up in a small farm on the outskirts of Aachen, near the Belgium/Netherlands border, at least until I was enrolled in a boarding school when I was around 12. After highschool graduation I studied Nuclear Physics for two years. I really loved the course as physics had always been my favorite subject in school, but with the whole anti nuclear-energy nonsense going on in Europe I decided it was better to try another career while I still had the time. So I went instead to study Economics in Munich, where I'm currently living. I actually live in a nearby little town about 30 minutes away, but Munich is a lot more placeable than "Wolfratshausen" right? :P My main hobbies, apart from video games and editing the wiki obviously, are anime and Warhammer 40K. On a less geeky side, also snowboarding and shooting at the firing range, and occasionally camping.
Leon: How did you first discover Wikia and which wikis do you spend the most time on?
Freija: I was a minor lurker ever since the Duck and Cover days, mostly to get info on the Fallout Bible and the odd recap on quests for my replays of F1 and F2, but not much else. After Bethesda's Fallout 3 was released I learned the Vault had relocated to Wikia, and again became a minor lurker with a few edits wikifiying articles and fixing grammar and typos, and occasional blog comments. Only a few weeks prior to the split would I become a regular contributing member.
While I browse a lot of other Wikia wikis, I don't usually contribute much unless I happen to stumble upon something I could help with. I did however used to help out with Wikipedia. By the time I stopped contributing my account had around 700 edits on the English version, and about 200 in the German one (mostly from translating articles). It's not really particularly remarkable, but it did help me a lot with gaining know-how about wiki-editing, which I applied editing here.
Leon: How has this wiki inspired you and what influences have kept you here at Nukapedia as a productive member of the community?
Freija: I guess what really drives me to continue contributing is the community here, how thriving it is. It's been through a split during which most of the administrators left, there hasn't been any real news regarding the franchise ever since Bethesda won the FOOL trial, not even a hint of Fallout 4, and still we're one of the top wikis here in terms of activity. We've got as much as 500 edits a day on average, and between 700K-1M daily views according to the admin dashboard. That's a really impressive feat considering we're in the downtime of a between-games hiatus.
That's really the greatest motivation to contribute I think, because you that know what you're doing is going to be appreciated by lots of people, that the content you're writing is going to be read. There's really motivation nor point in writing top-notch quality articles that are going to be read by nobody, after all.
A lot of the credit has to go to the people who came up with and maintains all the different community segments and events that keep the wiki interesting and busy despite the fact that Fallout 4 is still far beyond the horizon. I have no doubt that Agent C's weekly news digest, the polls, the SNM and the other segments were the differential that tipped the balance in our favor despite the odds.
Leon: What would you consider your greatest accomplishment(s) here at Nukapedia?
Freija: I believe I really helped kickstart the Bug Verification Project back into gear and organizing the efforts to clear up most of the mess that were the bug sections. Although I can't take all the credit of course, a lot of people helped achieve that. Toci, Hawk and Zerg for instance come to mind.
Right now my pet project is overhauling and expanding the Miscellaneous World Objects page. My goal is to have all objects in both Fallout 3 and New Vegas cataloged, identified, described and photographed by the time Fallout 4 comes in.
Leon: Continuing from the previous question, what is your drive? What has motivated you to make Nukapedia a better wiki? How did this drive help you become an Administrator here?
Freija: Like I answered on the previous question, my drive to contribute comes from the community. If it weren't for it I'd be only an on-and-off occasional contributor like I am in other wikis. On around September last year I decided I'd start helping out on a more consistent basis, mostly with wikification and GECK-based info (such as filling in ID codes). Unfortunately, soon came the split that turned everything upside down and really threw a bucket of cold water on my enthusiasm to contribute. Tempers were overheated, flame wars raged on an hourly basis, Wikia had put the wiki almost under martial law, and vandals and trolls took the opportunity on the absence of admins to go to town almost immediately, festering like a boil outbreak that happens when your immune system is down. The only stable element here was pretty much just Jspoelstra, who in the middle of all the convoluted mess kept on with his silent, machine-like daily editing. He said it wasn't right to just turn his back and leave the community here at the mercy of trolls, and I don't want to sound like I'm sucking up to the boss here, but that really struck a chord with me. I was at first supportive of the split, but his example (combined with the retraction of the message wall imposition from Wikia, which was my biggest beef with them) made me want to stick around and help out as well.
From then on the path was pretty much linear, with me trying to fill the gaps left on staff structure as the need arised. The vacuum left by the leadership and lack of enforcers meant vandalism and trolling was still at an all-time high, so I applied to be a patroller to help fight that wave, and was the first one to be appointed one under the new rules. Later as I begun to frequent chat more it was obvious trolls were taking advantage from the lack of mods during the late night/early morning timeslots to disrupt the chat, so I later applied to moderator. After all that the adminship seemed natural, seeing as the admin staff was still undermanned and not many other mods were interested in filling it.
I never really planned on ending up as an admin, and had the split never happened I doubt I'd have applied seeing there wouldn't be much need. But I believe in the end of the day I helped making this wiki better than it would have been otherwise, even if only a bit, so I'm satisfied that things turned out the way they did :)
Leon: What would your top 5 tips for new editors on this wiki be?
Freija: The first one would definitely be bold. If you see something wrong that should be corrected, just do ahead and correct, and if you see something that could be improved or added to, just go ahead and do it. Trial and error is pretty much the best way to get the hang of almost everything in life, and wiki-editing is no exception. Even if you do screw up majorly, it can be easily fixed with the press of a button. Our pages are literally patrolled around the clock, so there will always be somebody to catch and correct your mistakes and point you in the right direction. As long as you're acting in good faith there's nothing to fear regarding repercussions. So just go ahead and do what you think will improve the articles.
Being bold is of course important, but it's important to always demonstrate good faith so as to not come off as careless, or worse, a vandal or troll. So the second place has to go to always listening to tips, corrections and suggestions given to you, specially if they come from an experienced user. Don't take them personally nor as an offense, instead pay attention to what they have to say. They're just trying to help out the wiki and you as well.
Thirdly, understand that in a wiki, your edits are going to be reedited and reverted eventually. It's easy to feel frustrated and angry at seeing your work being erased or altered, but please don't take that personally and don't feel discouraged by it. It happens to everyone all the time in a wiki. Try to learn from that as well, and if you still disagree with the change, by all means, feel free to debate with whoever did the change. Just make sure to do so maturely and objectively.
The fourth one is something that's often overlooked by even experienced editors and admins (I'd giving myself an accusing glare right now if I had a mirror nearby :P ), but that's an extremely good habit to have when editing: always leave summaries explaining your edits. They help patrollers immensely, make it easier to locate specific edits in the future, and most importantly, help establishing good faith. For that reason it should go hand-in-hand with being bold. It doesn't have to be anything overlong, just a brief explanation for or a summation of what you did will suffice.
Lastly, I'd like to point everyone to the tongue-in-cheek Wikipedia essay Please be a giant dick. What is says is basically that you should either be a good editor and mindful member of the community, or be a massive dick outright. For instance, if you had an edit removed, then discuss it properly and afterwards respect in good faith the consensus reached, be it in your favor or not. Or just go postal and fill an admin's talk page with the word "penis" so we can ban you and be done with it. But please, don't go around removing things vaguely similar to your removed edit from other articles and then repeat the explanation given to you to get back at them. This type of passive-aggressive stealth sabotage is really the worst thing to do, not only because it's harder to deal with and all the more disruptive, but also specially because the one doing it may not even be aware of how damaging that is and how dickish they're being. So be either be a genuinely helpful and good-faith driven user, or by all means, be a massive, unapologetic dick. But please, PLEASE, don't do the flimsy kind of dickery that's always skimming the line without actually crossing it. :P
Leon: What would you like to see that isn't on this wiki already?
Freija: One thing that springs to mind really is a mod/admin notice board that would send update warnings to all mods and admins. Sort of like the community messages, but directed to staff only. It's been proposed many times before, but unfortunately it's not currently doable :(
Another minor thing, and that may be a surprise coming from me, would be improved FOBOS articles. Because of its (well deserved, IMO) reputation, and the general lack of fans the game has, FOBOS' articles are ghastly incomplete. While I feel no love for the game, it's still a Fallout game, and as a Fallout wiki not having many proper articles on FOBOS reflects poorly on us. I'd help myself, but
unfortunately I've only played the game for about 5 hours, so there's really nothing much I can contribute in that regard.
Leon: Thank you for your time, Limmie.
Freija: No problem, thanks for thinking of me for this interview as well! :)


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This article was published 23/11/2013 (1363 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
WASHINGTON -- Remember when juice was just juice? It has become so much more. A verb, for one thing, and, as the Wall Street Journal reports (what you already know), a status symbol. Thanks to cleansing celebrities like Gwyneth Paltrow, Owen Wilson and Blake Lively, cold-pressed blends of kale, celery, lemon, chard and ginger are the new ambrosia of the stars. Bill Clinton juices. Hip-hop ambassador Russell Simmons extolled green juice in the New York Times. Entire workplaces juice together. Bridal parties juice. Juice (the unpasteurized designer stuff, not your standard OJ) has become a $5-billion industry, projected to grow by four to eight per cent a year.
According to Barron's, more than 6,200 juice bars are now churning out swamp-coloured elixirs across the United States. Starbucks recently spent $30 million to acquire Evolution Fresh, a cold-crafted juice operation, hoping to capitalize on what one spokesman called "a major lifestyle trend" of seeking "healthier alternatives." Chairman Howard Schultz says he intends to glamorize juice "in the same tonality that we have reinvented, over the last 40 years, the basic commodity of coffee." But the nutrient-rich fruit and vegetable potions may not need his help. In premium supermarkets like Whole Foods and boutique outfits like Organic Avenue and Juice Gallery, 12- to 16-ounce bottles of liquid produce already sell for around $10 apiece. If our bodies are our temples, juice is what we worship -- and no form of prayer is more American than opening up our wallets.
Yet juice is a jealous god. True devotees don't just chug it alongside their organic quinoa -- they go on juice cleanses. (JC: also the initials of Jesus Christ. Coincidence?) These programs, which exclude solid food and might last anywhere from three to five days to a couple of weeks, have names like Renovation, Excavation, Glow, Clean and LOVE Deep. They promise to flood your cells with hydration and nutrition, restore your alkaline balance, and "gently rid your body of impurities." (A rosary of the best-known companies: Clean Program, Master Cleanse, Life Juice, BluePrint and Clean Cleanse.)
Participants quaff six or seven bottles of product a day, in a predetermined sequence. Some recipes contain cashew milk and hemp seeds (for protein), while others fuse ingredients like beets, chlorophyll and dark leafy greens. They taste... well, it depends on whom you ask. Testimonials range from "delicious" to "incredibly delicious" to "war on everything delicious" to "like kissing a cow" to "like drinking everything bad that ever happened to me in high school." But the payoff is supposedly great. Juice, say the websites, and your hair will shine, your skin will shimmer with vitality, you'll have tons of energy and a clear mind, your immune and digestive systems will recover and approach an indestructibility heretofore associated with Norse gods. Those are some of the humbler claims: The BluePrint program, which charges $75 per day, also mentions "clients who have more serious cases or are using (BluePrint Cleanse) in cancer therapy have continued on a cleanse indefinitely, until they are healed."
One thing that actually will happen to most juicers, though of course it is not their motivation, is they will lose weight. At around 1,000 calories a day, the cleanses resemble religious fasts -- purifying rituals undertaken during Ramadan or Yom Kippur or by medieval Christian mystics.
But juice cleanses accomplish exactly none of their physiological or medical objectives; they fetishize a weird, obsessive relationship with food and are part of a social shift that reduces health (mental, physical, and, sure, spiritual) to a sign of status. They're annoying as hell.
Someone should design a comedy routine in which nutritionists are lined up and asked to complete the sentence: Juice cleanses are... The responses I got included "nonsense," "unsustainable," "bone-headed," and "not the answer" -- and I think my interlocutors were trying to be polite. We need protein and fat in our diets. We also need to consume enough calories to reassure our bodies we aren't starving or we risk all kinds of metabolic and electrical freak-outs. Plus, liquefying fruits and vegetables means getting rid of fibre, which aids digestion by sustaining the microflora in our gut.
"We have cave-people bodies that are built for survival," says Dr. Elizabeth Applegate, a senior lecturer in the nutrition department at the University of California-Davis. "We do a good job recouping our losses but that doesn't make juice cleanses at all healthy." Nor are they effective at keeping off pounds. "On a cleanse diet, you shed water weight as your body breaks down its glycemic stores but it comes back once you start eating adequately again."
Yet the real JC sales pitch is not about microflora or nutrients or even -- ostensibly -- weight loss. It's about toxins. You cleanse to flush your system of impurities, flecks of blight lodged in your cells. "We live in an age of what William James called 'medical materialism,' so instead of fretting about a fallen world, we speak of a poisoned one," observes Judith Shulevitz in the New Republic. BluePrint and Life Juice are meant to scrub away the effects of our pizza Mondays, our martini weekends, our polluted air and water. Get right with your gut, the cleanse companies urge. Get right with God.
Which is pretty vague and perhaps explains why after days of Googling I still have no idea what a toxin is. "It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality," wrote Virginia Woolf, another woman with a tortured relationship to food. The juicing industry is counting on that.
"The whole cleansing concept is silly," Applegate told me on the phone. "The body doesn't need any help getting rid of compounds it doesn't want. That's what your liver and kidneys are for."
What about the advertised psychological benefits of cleansing? The euphoria?
"Placebo effect," Applegate replies firmly. "Or ketosis. It's a survival mechanism. You're all amped up and alert because you need something to eat."
And the popular claim that, during a fast, energy normally used in digestion flows to the brain, "enhancing one's ability to solve problems"?
"If every time we ate, our brains shut off, there'd be no more working lunches," Applegate says.
But the cleanse mentality is more than just judgmental and irritating: It's dangerous. Making each meal a drama of discipline, deprivation and control? Floating along on a superior high that isn't really about how much weight you're losing (but actually kind of is about how much weight you're losing)? Seeking to express your achievements, be they moral, social, or financial, in the most visible terms you can manage? Does anyone else think this sounds a lot like an eating disorder?
"There are certainly commonalities if we consider who is likely to develop an eating disorder and who is likely to undergo a cleanse," says Linda Antinoro, a nutrition specialist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. "The diets seem compulsive and perhaps addictive. The restrictive tone is the same." While Antinoro notes "few people can sustain that level" of deprivation for long periods of time, which would be necessary for full-blown anorexia, she worries about juicers "getting hooked on the immediate gratification" of weight loss. "Suddenly you can fit into your tiny dress."
Anyway, I wasn't surprised to read that Dr. Pauline Powers, who directs the scientific advisory committee for the Global Foundation for Eating Disorders, considers cleanses "the perfect pathway to disordered eating." Like traditional eating disorder symptoms, cleansing has an almost magical power to structure our chaos. As Slate's June Thomas recently noted, the "liberation" of cleansing comes from "feeling disciplined, in control, and... able to resist temptation." Or, as Vanessa Grigoriadis put it in New York Magazine: "With juice, you can wash everything away, all the things that make you feel helpless... You are above it all. You spent the money on the juice... and you will be a success. There's no reason to be anxious, because you have everything under control."
This is not to say everyone who cleanses has, or will soon have, an eating disorder. Nor am I suggesting all juicers are being disingenuous about their interest in health. But both cleansers and people who struggle with disordered eating show a tendency toward enfolding their dietary choices in myths and religiosity, poetry and rapture. The author Francine du Plessix Gray discovered "mental clarity and spiritual worth" in anorexia. A quarter of a century later, Juice Press owner Marcus Antebi achieves "remarkable physical, emotional, and spiritual status" by sucking down six atomized salads a day. Maybe we've always sought the holy in our daily rituals, whether those small routines are good for us or not. But if juice cleanses make us feel so special, it's worth asking why that is -- and whether any of our woozy, kale-fueled enlightenment comes at a price.
Well, duh it comes at a price, you are saying. An astronomical, absurd, $10-per-bottle price, not counting all the herbal tea you have to buy to cut the hunger pangs and the $125 colonic. And that's the final piece of odiousness in juice cleanses -- that their purity and excellence is inevitably tied to wealth. Unlike timeless forms of salvation, salvation by vegetable goop is only available to the well-heeled. (In this way, it resembles salvation by Soul Cycle or salvation by marked-up yoga gear.) So while the apotheosis of juice may speak to a new wave of health consciousness, trendy spirituality, and eco-activism, it also, as Noreen Malone suggests in the New Republic, owes a debt to American puritanism -- the fusion of virtue with "a sharply competitive spirit." Virtue, in this case a Pilates-toned body or a pricey green drink, is something to flaunt. Want to really show your neighbours who's No. 1? Pull the BMW into the garage and leave your juice in the driveway.
-- Slate


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Those of you who have been reading the Daily News for several years may remember the fitness column I used to write. I no longer write the column, but I still try to stay fit. However, truth be told, I fall off the wagon now and then — usually after my routine is interrupted by prolonged travel — and then I have to start reminding myself to eat more carefully and exercise regularly.
There are a variety of technology tools that can help but none of them can take weight off, build up your muscles or improve your cardio-vascular system. For that, you have to spend less time lifting your fork and more time lifting weights, cycling, walking, playing basketball or whatever else you can do to get your heart rate up and burn some calories.
Still, I have found some tech that helps motivate me or at least track my progress.
There are lots of apps and websites that help keep track of food intake, exercise and daily weight. The one I use is LoseIt, which is available at LoseIt.com and as both an iOS and Android app. You use the app or site to indicate your height, weight, gender and age and set your weight goal and — if you want to lose weight — how many pounds (up to 2) you want to lose weekly. It figures out a calorie budget and keeps you on track based on what you eat and how much you exercise. The "budget" is based on net calories, so the more your exercise, the more you can eat and still be within budget.
Another tool is the Fitbit Force ($150), which is a type of smartwatch that tracks the number of steps you take and — based on that — calculates how many miles you've walked or run and how many calories you've burned. Fitbit and LoseIt, by the way, work together so that you can sync your Fitbit data to LoseIt. LoseIt also works with other gadgets, including the Withings Wi-Fi scale which can also tweet your weight.
The Fitbit connects via Bluetooth to a computer or a compatible smartphone. For computers without built-in Bluetooth, it comes with a little Bluetooth dongle that plugs into a USB port.
My biggest problem with Fitbit Force and its predecessor, the Fitbit flex, is its horrible clasp. Even after watching an instructional video, I haven't been able to get the clasp to shut and — based on what I've seen online — some of those who have succeeded have had the clasp open up on them.
The simple solution is a few pennies' worth of industrial strength Velcro attached to both bands. While Velcro can come lose, it typically doesn't, especially if you use the industrial strength variety. This isn't my the only tech use for Velcro. The same industrial strength Velcro is the best way I know of to mount a smartphone to the dashboard of a car. I use my phone as my GPS and my audio entertainment system, and even though I use it hands-free (I control it with voice commands), I still want it nearby so I can glance at the screen if I'm using it for navigation. The Velcro keeps it in place even on bumpy roads and, unlike all those mounting devices you can buy, it's extremely cheap.
Email Larry Magid at email@example.com.