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by Rick Pendergraft | May 30, 2012 8:21 am
The Facebook (NASDAQ:FB[1]) IPO[2] has been a huge disappointment to say the least. Individual investors are disappointed, and some are filing lawsuits[3] after what they believe was an unfair advantage for institutional investors.
Personally, I feel investors are whining because they expected to make a ton of money on the IPO, and when it didn't happen, they were looking for someone or something to blame. Let's face it, they bought into an investment with no guarantees. Because it was one of the most hyped IPOs in history, the investors that were able to get in expected to make a ton of money in a short period of time — when that didn't happen, they wanted somebody to pay.
My personal feeling is — tough. I have made so many recommendations and investments over the years that I felt had a great chance to make a lot of money and been disappointed many times too. But I have yet to file a lawsuit because things didn't work out like I expected.
Regardless of how I feel about the Facebook IPO — or how anyone else feels, for that matter — there could be something positive happening for Facebook shareholders. Yesterday, options were introduced for FB[4] … and judging by the initial trading, we could see the stock settling down a little in the near future.
On the first day of options trading, there were 78,055 June calls traded and 87,713 puts traded. For the July options, there were 48,197 puts traded compared to 24,686 calls. If we combine these front two months of options, it gives us a put/call ratio of 1.32.
While there isn't any history to which we can compare this put/call ratio, it is unusual to see such a high ratio on a new issue. This suggests pessimism toward FB is rather high. From a contrarian viewpoint, this is a good sign that things might be getting carried away with the selling. You also should keep in mind that these figures came on a day when the stock dropped almost 10%, so there was a definite bearish bias in the options pit.
Another thing that happened with the options trading is that some potential options-related support levels were established. Historically with options trading, support and resistance levels can be created if there is a large discrepancy in open interest at a certain strike. Let me explain. With FB, the June 28 strike put saw 14,393 contracts change hands. The June 28 call only saw 3,153 contracts change hands. This is a ratio of 4.5 puts for every call. If this trading volume should translate into accurate open interest figures, we could see the $28 level acting as support until the June options expire on June 15.
On the flip side, the June 32 strike saw similar numbers in reverse. There were 15,091 calls traded at the strike with only 3,513 puts traded. Should the stock start to rise, we could see the $33 level acting as resistance based on the discrepancy between calls and puts. At this point, I think some shareholders would be happy if the stock rallied to $33 between now and June 15.
Yesterday was only the first day of options trading, and I didn't even have the open interest figures when I wrote this article. But watching what happens with the options open interest in the next few days could give you some support and resistance levels to watch on Facebook. When you have a new issue without a historical chart to look at, the options can give you some support and resistance levels to work with.
Keep an eye on the options activity in the coming days to see where the open interest builds up.
As of this writing, Rick Pendergraft did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned securities.
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What Every Parent Needs to Know about Bullying
What Every Parent Needs to Know About Bullying
It happens at every school: About a third of children are be bullied sometime during their school years. Whether they're the victim, the perpetrator, or a bystander, it's something almost all kids have to face. Do you and your child have a plan for how to deal with bullying?
It's been on my mind since reading The Great Brain with my son. In that story of three brothers growing up in rural Utah in the 1890s, you deal with bullies by learning to out-fight them. The end. That's not going to work here in the 21st century! Now we have to resolve those conflicts very differently. Find out what you need to know to protect your child and help create a safe school environment this year.
1. Get ahead of the game. Sometimes kids are reluctant to report bullying because they're embarrassed or confused or don't have the words to describe what's happening to them. Have a conversation with your child about what bullying is before the school year starts. Make sure they understand they will have your support if they feel threatened by another child at school -- and that this is not something they simply have to endure.
2. Find out your school's policy. What are your school's rules? Who do you report bullying behavior to? What is your school's history with dealing with bullies? Do they have an anti-bullying program?
3. Know your anti-bullying strategies. There are many ways to handle a bully. KidsHealth.com lists several: Build up your self esteem, stick with a buddy, ignore the bully wherever possible, use a loud, strong voice to tell the bully to stop, don't bully back, learn to control your emotions and not react, and tell an adult. (And if that adult doesn't do anything, find another, and another, until you find someone who will.) It helps if your child knows what to do BEFORE a bullying incident.
4. Introduce an anti-bullying program. If your school doesn't already have a program or even a plan for handling bullies suggest a few. Find other parents who feel it should be a priority to help you.Research shows that anti-bully programs can be effective, but some programs are better than others. Many are variations of the Olweus Program. Ask around through your own network of friends and family to see what programs and policies have worked well.
Many parents are watching the movie Bully and discussing it with their children. The websiteTheBullyProject.com has many resources for kids, parents, and schools.
5. Make sure your own kid doesn't bully. No parent wants to believe that their own child is capable of terrorizing another child. But kids have a way of surprising you -- sometimes in disappointing ways. When you talk about bullying with your child make sure they understand what actions are considered bullying, and that these actions are unacceptable, even if their friends are doing the same thing.
Have you talked with your children and school about bullying?
Our plan was 'keep them out of school.'
I never expected my kids to be able to control the behaviour or demeanor of any other child... nor to be able to convince an adult that what was happening was real or important (and a great many teachers believe neither)...
I also know for a fact that teachers are sometimes bullies, too.
My anti-bullying strategy was 'supervise the children all the time.'
good point :)
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Our plan was 'keep them out of school.'
I never expected my kids to be able to control the behaviour or demeanor of any other child... nor to be able to convince an adult that what was happening was real or important (and a great many teachers believe neither)...
I also know for a fact that teachers are sometimes bullies, too.
My anti-bullying strategy was 'supervise the children all the time.'
Someone brought a chain to school to whip my daughter with. It was taken from him by the principal and I never even heard about it til a few weeks ago. It's really important to talk to your kids about their day because obviously you can't count on the school to inform you.
And when I was in highschool, I had a teacher that was bullying me, he wasn't even MY teacher. But he went out of his way to single me out, it was the only time in high school that I felt seriously suicidal and it lasted the whole year and then some. I never told my parents cause they never asked how I was doing :(


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Graded stakes winner Major Gain has been retired from racing and will stand the 2016 breeding season at McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds in New York.
Graded stakes winner Major Gain has been retired from racing and will stand the 2016 breeding season at McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds in New York.
The withdrawal of Boys At Tosconova leaves a wide open field of nine sophomores to contest the $400,000 Holy Bull Stakes (gr. III) at Gulfstream Park Jan. 30, the first major step toward the Florida Derby (gr. I) this spring.
Battling between horses in the long stretch duel, the maiden Santiva inched away in the final strides to edge odds-on favorite Astrology and Major Gain in the $165,000 Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes (gr. II) Nov. 27.
Astrology, the Steve Asmussen-trained winner of the $150,000 Iroquois Stakes (gr. II) at Churchill Downs last month, tops the field of seven 2-year-olds entered for the Nov. 27 Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes (gr. II).
Grade I winner Here Comes Ben, who is expected to be one of the favorites for the $1 million Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile (gr. I), breezed six furlongs in 1:12.20 on the Keeneland Polytrack Oct. 21.
Carolyn and Karen Scisney's homebred Maybesomaybenot, winner of the Sanford (gr. II), headlines a field of 11 in the $400,000 Dixiana Breeders' Futurity (gr. I) for 2-year-olds going 1 1/16 miles on the Polytrack.
Gary and Mary West's homebred Major Gain broke his maiden in the $100,000 Arlington-Washington Futurity (gr. III) Sept. 11, coming from off the pace to win by a length on the Arlington Polytrack.
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As the eight-year, $5.25 billion project to expand the Panama Canal moves toward a 2015 completion, seaports all over the U.S. are gearing up to compete for the lucrative import trade.
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What Is Love
Love has multiple aspects. It manifests itself as care, tenderness, devotion, self-sacrifice, active service to God, which is realized through service to other people called Karma Yoga (work not for reward, but in order to please God), and in many other ways.
The "foundation" of living in the state of love is constant staying with the consciousness in anahata, transforming oneself (as consciousness) — through this — into constant emotion of love which is being radiated to all people, all living beings.
One of the principal manifestations of love is tenderness, including the sexual aspect of it. It should be noted here, that the ethically correct sexual life directly contributes to developing the ability to love.
God is Love. If we want to Merge with Him, we have to transform ourselves into Love as well — into consciousness, constantly living in the state of Godlike Love. This is when we become these disciples of God whom He grants all other aspects of wisdom and then accepts us in Himself. This is the principal pre-condition for the ability to walk the Straight Path to Him.
But those who oppose love — oppose God.
Upon developing the spiritual heart, a follower of the Straight Path learns how to expand it beyond the bounds of the body — first, for several meters, then filling the entire Earth with it and then — even wider. This is the optimal way of breaking the identification with the body, the correct way of developing the consciousness, and of gaining experience of being and acting without the body while it is still alive.
Those who have developed themselves to such a level, shed all attachment to the body and do not fear death anymore: they find out that now it does not matter to them whether they possess a body or not and that the death of the body will be liberation from unnecessary earthy troubles.
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The game I'm referring to is Overwatch, but I think some of the concepts can be applied to other games and engines.
Overwatch is a game which suffers from input lag due to frame buffering(?). I think it might be something similar to the onethreadframelag option being enabled in UE3 games. From my understanding, it causes some input lag when the framerate is being limited by the GPU.
1. Does this mean that when capping framerate ingame so that the GPU is not being fully utilized, there is less input lag than not capping?
2. When/if the framerate dips below the cap, would there be a difference in input lag between when the GPU caused the fps drop vs the CPU?
3. Finally, if this frame buffer could be removed or reduced (which is an upcoming option in the game), would this option normalize input lag in all situations (ie. framerate capped or uncapped, framerate dipping below cap or not)? Would there be universal input lag reduction or would there still be more lag when the framerate drops below the cap?
Also, Overwatch has an ingame setting for render scale (internal resolution?), presumably similar to Battlefield and UE4's options. If you used a setting other than the one corresponding to 100% of your resolution, could it inherently cause input lag due to having to scale the internal resolution to the output resolution, even if the GPU is not being maxed out?


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I can't for the life of me get my phone to connect to rogers' LTE. Proper APN is selected, network mode is set properly. I have yet to see my phone show LTE since updating to 10.1. It sometimes gets into H+ though.Other than this, its running amazingly!! GREAT work!
I'm still very new to this site and android, I'm pretty sure everything is set properly!
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I'm also on Rogers...
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Peyton Manning would rather swim in the ice-cold Hudson River than talk about himself. But there he was Tuesday morning, sitting at Podium 2 in the middle of the floor of the Prudential Center in Newark, surrounded by hundreds of reporters armed with recorders, cameras and microphones, sometimes 10 or 12 deep, trying to ask him questions.
Super Bowl Media Day featured more than 100 players and coaches from the Broncos and the Seahawks. More than 5,000 media members showed up and 7,000 fans paid $28.50 to watch it from the stands.
All eyes were on Manning.
Super Bowl week in New York has become all about a New Orleans native who became famous in Knoxville, a star in Indianapolis and a legend in Denver. Now, he can become immortal Sunday in New Jersey.
But first he had to face the media horde that descended on Newark. He was asked about his pregame playlist, his favorite Real Housewife, hosting "Saturday Night Live" this week and, of course, "Omaha." The questioners ranged from an Olympic gold medalist to a former All-Pro wide receiver with plenty of entertainment reporters in between.
The 37-year-old Manning handled it all with the ease of breaking down a high school defense.
Hosting SNL this week: "This week? I probably won't be there this week. I don't think so."
Favorite Real Housewife — Orange County or New Jersey: "I have not had a chance to see either show."
As for his pregame playlist, he said he rides to home games with wide receiver Eric Decker and tight end Jacob Tamme: "We have mixed it up. We put Jacob Tamme in charge of the music. Late in the season, the playoffs he was going with 'XM Coffehouse.' It's kind of those cover songs. I'm not sure what that means, how that's going to damage our reputation by any means. It's good music. I like it. It's been working for us."
As for his famous "Omaha" call, he said plenty of other teams use the same call and they were using it in Denver before he got there.
Gymnast Gabby Douglas, who won gold two summers ago in London, was at Prudential Center working for "Inside Edition." She asked Manning if he's nervous (he's not). Former NFL receiver Randy Moss made his way through the crowd of reporters in his role for FOX. "What's up old timer?" Moss said to Manning.
Manning answers everything with his folksy, "aw shucks" style that has made him millions in endorsements and kept him as a fan favorite for more than a decade.
"I think he's just a very personable guy," Broncos wide receiver Eric Decker said. "He's just a good guy. You can't hide that."
While Manning dealt with more than his fair share of Media Day silliness, he also talked about football.
This is Manning's third Super Bowl and many people view this game as the one that will define his legacy. He won it all with the Colts after the 2006 season, then lost to the Saints three years later. A Super Bowl win over the Seahawks would be another line on his résumé and another argument for him being the best ever to play quarterback.
Not that Manning wanted to talk about that.
"I've been being asked about my legacy since I was about 25 years old," he said. "I'm not sure you can have a legacy when you're 25 years old or even 37. I thought you had to be like 70 to have a legacy. I'm not 100 percent sure what the word even means.
"I'm still in the middle of my career … let me rephrase that: I'm in the homestretch of my career, but I'm still in it. It's not over yet. It's still playing out. This has been the second chapter of my career and it's an exciting chapter. I'm certainly excited to be back at the Super Bowl on behalf of the Denver Broncos."
Manning has the chance to be the first quarterback to win a Super Bowl with two different teams. He is the third to make it to the big game with two teams (Kurt Warner, Craig Morton are the others). Manning had no interest in talking about an individual achievement.
"I really feel that we've gotten here as a team, as an organization," he said. "I'm part of that team. For me personally I really try to not get into that as much because I need the team this week. I've needed the team all season long. I need to do my part to help the team. That's really how I look at it."


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CALGARY - Vomitting in a cab will now cost you $100.
City council approved changes to the taxi bylaw Monday that will allow drivers to charge a $100 cleanup fee if a passenger pukes or expels other bodily fluids in a cab.
The purpose of the change, according to a report presented to council, is to entice more drivers to work late-night hours, as it will allow them to recoup a portion of their out-of-pocket costs to sanitize their taxis after illness incidents.
Council was told police will be used to enforce the rule, but Coun. Joe Magliocca questioned whether that will be the best use of officers time.
We have to come up with a better solution than that, he told his council colleagues.
We just cant be relying on police to start hunting a guy down for $100 at two oclock in the morning when theres all the bars letting out.
Id like to investigate that a little further.
Mario Henriques, an official in the citys licencing department, told council further proposed changes coming later this year or early in 2015 could remove the need for police to get involved.
We can discuss that particular issue of making it a bylaw offence rather than a Criminal Code offence, he said.
Mayor Naheed Nenshi questioned whether $100 is enough of a deterent.
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SpaceX's Dragon capsule returns from historic ISS mission
SpaceX guides supply capsule into the Pacific after first operational trip to space station
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An unmanned space freighter carrying a stash of precious medical samples from the International Space Station has parachuted into the Pacific Ocean, completing the first official shipment under a billion-dollar contract with Nasa.
The California-based SpaceX company successfully guided the Dragon capsule down from orbit to a splashdown a few hundred kilometres off the Baja California coast.
"This historic mission signifies the restoration of America's ability to deliver and return critical space station cargo," Elon Musk, the billionaire founder and head of SpaceX, said.
Nasa administrator Charles Bolden praised the "American ingenuity" that made the endeavour possible.
Several hours earlier, astronauts aboard the International Space Station used a giant robot arm to release the commercial cargo ship 410 kilometres above earth. SpaceX provided updates of the journey back via Twitter.
The supply ship brought back nearly 900 kilograms of science experiments and old station equipment. Perhaps the most eagerly awaited cargo is nearly 500 frozen samples of blood and urine collected from station astronauts over the past year.
The Dragon is the only delivery ship capable of returning items, now that Nasa's shuttles are retired to museums. Atlantis made the last shuttle haul to and from the station in July last year.
SpaceX - more formally Space Exploration Technologies Corp - launched the capsule three weeks ago from Cape Canaveral, full of groceries, clothes and other station supplies.
It's the second Dragon to return from the orbiting lab; the first mission in May was a flight demo. This flight is the first of 12 deliveries under a US$1.6 billion contract with Nasa.
A Russian supply ship, meanwhile, is set to blast off this week. It burns up upon descent, however, at mission's end. So do the cargo vessels provided by Europe and Japan.
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Report: Cost to raise child now $234,900
A middle-income family may spend $234,900 to raise a child born in 2011 to the age of 18, a 3.5 percent increase in a year, according to a government report.
Expenses for child care and education, transportation and food represented the biggest jumps, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Thursday in a report.
Adjusted for anticipated inflation, a child in a middle-class family would cost $295,560 to raise, the department said.
"It's not just the cost, it's the pressure," said Ellen Galinsky, president of the Families and Work Institute based in New York. Competitive educational environments and an awareness of what it takes for children to succeed are prompting more spending, she said in a telephone interview.
The typical two-parent middle-income family spent $12,290 to $14,320 in 2011 on each child, the study found. Households that make less spend less, USDA researchers said. A family earning less than $59,410 a year will probably spend $169,080 in 2011 dollars to rear a child, while parents earning more than $102,870 may pay $389,670, according to the study.
"Families receive little support as they navigate" the child-rearing process, Galinsky said.
Housing accounts for the biggest portion of expenses, averaging 30 percent over 17 years, the USDA said. Child care and education costs at 18 percent and food, at 16 percent, are the next biggest costs. The estimates don't include college expenses.


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Don't Be an Optimist: The Stockdale Paradox9 February 2016, 12:00 am
Up until recently, I had no idea who Admiral Jim Stockdale was and had never heard of the Stockdale Paradox before. But now that I have heard of Admiral Stockdale and his Paradox, I can't stop thinking about it. More importantly, I can't stop thinking about you and how it applies to your current situation.
Allow me to introduce Admiral Stockdale to you, through the words of Jim Collins and his book Good to Great, from which this excerpt was taken:
The name refers to Admiral Jim Stockdale, who was the highest-ranking United States military office in the "Hanoi Hilton" prisoner-of-war camp during the height of the Vietnam War. Tortured over twenty times during his eight-year imprisonment from 1965 to 1973, Stockdale lived out the war without any prisoner's rights, no set release date, and no certainty as to whether he would even survive to see his family again. He shouldered the burden of command, doing everything he could to create conditions that would increase the number of prisoners who would survive unbroken, while fighting an internal war against his captors and their attempts to use the prisoners for propaganda. At one point, he beat himself with a stool and cut himself with a razor, deliberately disfiguring himself, so that he could not be put on videotape as an example of a "well-treated prisoner." He exchanged secret intelligence information with his wife through their letters, knowing that discovery would mean more torture and perhaps death. He instituted rules that would help people to deal with torture (no one can resist torture indefinitely, so he created a step-wise system–-after x minutes, you can say certain things–-that gave the men milestones to survive toward). He instituted an elaborate internal communications system to reduce the sense of isolation that their captors tried to create, which used a five-by-five matrix of tap codes for alpha characters. (Tap-tap equals the letter a, tap-pause-tap-tap equals the letter b, tap-tap-pause-tap equals the letter f, and so forth, for twenty-five letters, c doubling in for k.) At one point, during an imposed silence, the prisoners mopped and swept the central yard using the code, swish-swashing out "We love you" to Stockdale, on the third anniversary of his being shot down. After his release, Stockdale became the first three-star officer in the history of the navy to wear both aviator wings and the Congressional Medal of Honor.
How on earth did he deal with it when he was actually there and did not know the end of the story?"
"I never lost faith in the end of the story," he said, when I asked him. "I never doubted not only that I would get out, but also that I would prevail in the end and turn the experience into the defining event of my life, which in retrospect, I would not trade."
Finally I asked, "Who didn't make it out?"
"Oh, that's easy," he said. "The optimists."
"The optimists? I don't understand," I said, now completely confused given what he'd said earlier.
"The optimists. Oh, they were the ones who said, 'We're going to be out by Christmas.' And Christmas would come, and Christmas would go. Then they'd say, 'We're going to be out by Easter.' And Easter would come, and Easter would go. And then Thanksgiving, and then it would be Christmas again. And they died of a broken heart. This is a very important lesson. You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end–-which you can never afford to lose–-with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be."
Let that sink in for a second, folks. The Stockdale Paradox states that you have to have faith that you will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties, and at the same time, must confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.
Herniated disc? Yes…but you will prevail.
Degenerative hip? Yes…but you will prevail.
Torn meniscus in your knee? Yes…but you will prevail.
Chronic, debilitating migraines? Yes…but you will prevail.
I don't know when you'll prevail, and I would caution you against setting a timeline…but you will prevail. Stay the course. Trust the system. Believe in your body's innate, amazing, remarkable ability to heal itself…and you will prevail.
By Easter?
By Thanksgiving?
By Christmas?
Perhaps. But, perhaps not.
That's not for either of us to say. It is our job, however, to confront the brutal facts yet retain faith that you will prevail in the end.
If you're looking to start the process, contact us now to start the process! I don't know when your journey will end, but I do know that it can start today.
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The Missing Piece of the Headache Puzzle6 October 2015, 12:00 am
If you're like many of our clients, you suffer from headaches on a regular basis. Some clients get them a few times a month while others suffer from them on a daily basis. Some are linked to allergies, others are migraines, and some are kid-related. AmIRight...?!?
Yet regardless of the type and regardless of the timing, you know how debilitating they can be. Clients who suffer from migraines can be out of commission for days at a time, a scenario that doesn't exactly lend itself to a high level of productivity. The key with headaches is to determine why you have them. As usual, we want to get to the source of the pain, rather than just treating the pain itself. For a lot of you, I'm sure the treatment is medication. Most of you pop an Advil, maybe an Excedrin, or…better yet…Excedrin Migraine! What about those of you who carry around Imitrex in your purse or backpack just in case you get a really bad one? Think about this: When your car is making a "clunking" noise, simply turning the music up louder so that you don't hear the noise isn't going to fix the problem. The same is true with that headache. We can't pop an Excedrin simply to "mute" the headache pain. We have to address the underlying problem…just like you would do with your car.
Headaches are caused by a misalignment of your upper back, shoulders and head. When your shoulders and upper back are rounded forward (like most of ours are), your head naturally follows. If you could see yourself from the side view, you'd notice that your ear is sitting in front of the middle of your shoulder. In case you didn't know, this isn't a functional position. Because of your rounded upper back and forward shoulder position, your lungs are being compressed and your heart is being compressed. Bottom line–your respiratory and circulatory systems are completely compromised.
Yet your body, with its perfect design, knows that despite the position that your upper back, shoulders and head are in, it still needs to get blood and oxygen to your brain in order to keep you alive. However, with your body being in the position it's in, getting blood and oxygen to your brain becomes a difficult task. It is like trying to navigate a four-lane highway in Los Angeles where three lanes are under construction–sure, everyone is getting from Point A to Point B, but not very efficiently.
As a result, the capillaries, the tiny vessels that know they must get blood to the brain and facilitate the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide, expand in an attempt to push their way through from Point A to Point B. They are essentially bulldozing their way through traffic, and it's that expansion of the capillaries that causes the headache pain. The capillaries are expanding out of necessity, because they know they have to keep you alive!
So…what's the solution? Change your upper back, shoulder and head position and you'll eliminate your headaches once and for all. If you reestablish a direct route from Point A to Point B, there will no longer be a need for the capillaries to expand, and you'll be much more comfortable!
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Senate Again Fails to Approve Fix to 21% Cut; Payment Reductions to Begin
Physicians hoping to see a postponement at last of a 21% cut in Medicare and TRICARE reimbursements faced disappointment on Thursday as the Senate failed to pass a new "doc fix" amendment to the jobs bill (HR 4213). The Senate is not likely to vote on the provision again until next week.
Thursday was significant because it was the last day that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' contractors would hold claims so that the 21% reduction would not be removed from payments made to physicians for service claims provided on and after June 1. (June 1 was the deadline for the previous extension of the doc fix by Congress.)
While CMS is expected to cut 21% on fees starting with Friday claims, providers can expect to eventually get that cut amount back if Congress approves a sustainable growth rate (SGR) fix that is retroactive to June 1. CMS also is expected to release guidance on whether it will be giving physicians permission to waive small beneficiary co payment amounts linked with a retroactive fix.
However, that action is unlikely to appease many of the major physician groups who have become increasingly vocal for a fix to permanently drop the SGR formula.
The change to the SGR proposed this week in the Senate would provide a shorter timeframe for a payment raise than the proposal under consideration last week: With the latest version, a 2.2% raise was called for physicians through Nov. 30 of this year—rather than the 2.2% over 19 months proposed in an earlier amendment. The shorter period would create in part a less expensive jobs bill (which declined from a $140 billion package the previous day to $118 billion on Thursday).
The drop in cost, however, failed to sway Republicans for supporting the bill. The jobs bill was unable to get the needed 60 votes to avoid a filibuster on Thursday: Voting along party lines, the bill eventually was defeated 56-40. The House's jobs bill—which included a 19-month SGR postponement—was passed three weeks ago.
In comments made before the Senate vote, new American Medical Association President Cecil Wilson, MD, said that implementing the 21% cut in Medicare payments will impact seniors' healthcare" as "physicians are forced to make difficult practice changes to keep their practice doors open."
Referring to the six-month delay proposed in the latest amendment, Wilson said that "continued short term actions are creating severe instability" as physicians make decisions to "protect their practices from Medicare's volatility."
The American College of Physicians, in a statement, was critical that this was the third time this year that Congress considered short-term patches to stop the payment cut.
ACP said that it initially supported an approach proposed by Congress last month that guaranteed no cuts in payments for three years—as a more permanent system to Medicare updates was considered. It said, though, it will "continue to apply maximum pressure on Congress" to stop cuts "by enacting legislation that provides stable and predictable payments—with the goal of a permanent fix."


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Overview of the Award Scoring System AFOTYA Standings
...The IM Affiliation of the Year Award is given to those affiliations who may not have the best athletes, but are the most responsible, reliable, and active participants throughout the MIT Intramural community...
The Intramural Executive Committee has reinstated the competition for the IM Affiliation of the Year Award. The last time this award was presented was in May of the 2001-2002 academic year. The 2006-2007 AFOTY Award will be presented to the winning affiliations in May at the end of the 2007 spring semester.
There are 3 divisions of competition - each of an approximate equal number of affiliations - divided by affiliation size: small, medium, and large. The small division is for affiliations with 40 or less members; the medium division is for affiliations with 41 to 99 members; and the large division is for affiliations with 100 or more members.
There will be a total of 4 winning affiliations: the overall champion (best score from all divisions) plus three division winners. The overall champion will be ineligible to win a division award. The winning affiliations will have their names engraved on the IM Affiliation of the Year championship plaques, which will be displayed in the IM showcase / bulletin board at the Z-Center.
AFOTYA Scoring System
+10 points for attending bi-monthly meetings
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STARKVILLE — A professional gathering of about 80 international authorities on computer modeling and simulation will be sponsored June 22-25 by Mississippi State University's (MSU's) Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems at the Cochran Research Park.
For the second year, the university's Symposium of Predictive Science and Technology of Mechanics and Materials brings together representatives of academia and industry with counterparts in the U.S. departments of Defense and Energy. This is the second of three such CAVS-hosted events held biannually.
Emerging research, new techniques and high-performance computing in engineering can lead to better designed manufacturing facilities and procedures, said event co-organizer Mark Horstemeyer, an MSU professor of mechanics and CAVS chair in computational solid mechanics.
While not a public event, sessions are open to interested members of the news media.
The schedule includes a summary of CAVS' scientific and technical progress. Also, at various sessions during the week, participants will present research findings on a variety of areas, including fracture of materials, multi-scale modeling of metals, polymers, composites and biological and bio-inspired materials.
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All About That MAJOR Moment On "The Mindy Project" Premiere
Spoiler alert! If you haven't watched the season-four premiere of "The Mindy Project" on Hulu, then stop reading and come back to this later. Something so major happened at the end of the episode that we certainly don't want to ruin it for you here. If you have seen it, then please continue — because we visited the set on Friday and bombarded "Mindy Project" executive producer Matt Warburton with every question you've been dying to ask!
Glamour: What a way to kick off season four! Tell me, what was behind the decision to have Danny propose?
Matt Warburton: Mindy [Kaling] wrote the premiere and was the driving force behind all of it. Mindy [Lahiri] has come to the conclusion that marriage isn't as important as she thought it was. What's interesting is that this is a character who has always wanted to get married, ever since the pilot. Danny proposes just as Mindy realizes there is bigger things in the world. The engagement is a much bigger deal for Danny than it is for her. It was a really tricky episode to write, and she did it [marvelously].
Glamour: Danny has established himself as anti-marriage for so long that it was going to take something big to get him to change his views. It made perfect sense in this instance.
Matt: The fact that they are engaged ... it's a big part of the season, but there's so many other things going on. Everything is happening to Mindy at once, and that's good because she's finally getting all of these amazing things, but it's a problem too because it's all happening at the same time and you can't do it all.
Glamour: Eliza Coupe is coming on board as a friend of Mindy's. What more can you tell us?
Matt: [Her] character comes early on as this really fun publicist, and she's the kind of friend people always dreamed Mindy would have, including her, and it's just the wrong time. She thinks Mindy is lame because she's hanging out with the baby all the time.
Glamour: Casting Kunal Nayyar from The Big Bang Theory as a potential husband for Mindy was genius. Mindy [Kaling] loves "Big Bang," so I was thrilled he was able to make it work in his schedule.
Matt: He was so great. That's one of the genius things about Mindy — she loves to cast actors in roles that maybe you normally wouldn't think of an actor or actress for, and you get to see them in [a different light].
Glamour: Will Mindy and Danny have a long engagement or will we see a wedding in season four?
Matt: I will not answer the second part of that question, but the first part I will! They're not going to rush into the wedding simply because they have so many other things to do. The baby comes first — and will come sooner than the audience thinks. The baby, when it comes, will take up so much oxygen in the relationship that it will bring up all kinds of arguments and fights about who to raise it. Also, fighting about the wedding is too much for these two, so they gotta figure out the baby thing first. But we will definitely deal with both halves of it.
Glamour: By the way, Danny had this gorgeous ring for Mindy, but he just got back from India when he proposes. When did he buy the ring?
Matt: I bet he bought it at some blood diamond market in India. [Laughs] That's a great idea for a story down the road. The story of where the ring came from. Maybe we should do that. I'll give you credit. [Laughs]
Glamour: I took note of some things that happen to see what would fly with Hulu and what wouldn't with Fox. Let's start with the Tom Brady comment. Danny says, "I don't hate him, I just think he's an ugly cheater." My guess is Fox would have said, "Fumble!"
Matt: Nothing that damages the NFL is ever OK with Fox, so I think [you're right]!
Glamour: Morgan mentions Isis and the Taliban. Would that have been allowed?
Matt: That would have been OK. Fox is the home of Fox News. I think they like talking about that stuff. [Laughs]
Glamour: In the next episode, Danny is seen massaging Mindy's breasts and she calls them "tits." Definitely would not have flown with Fox!
Matt: You're correct. Fox would not let have us do that probably. [Laughs] We have to be the standards department now and make our own calls on this now. We have to be responsible perverts! Mindy also says she's spent a lot of time on Danny's carpet [by his desk], and I don't think Fox would have allowed that. [Laughs]
Glamour: Mindy's mother is hysterical. Can we see her and Danny do a Bollywood performance? Danny will dance and Mrs. Lahiri will sing.
Matt: That's a very fun idea! We've never seen him do Bollywood dancing! One fun thing we see this season is that Danny has danced a lot, and it's gotten him out of a lot of trouble, but he'll find that it can't get him out of everything and he's got to find a new thing to do to get him out of trouble with Mindy.
Don't miss next week's major episode of "The Mindy Project" on Hulu, and stay tuned for our interview with Ike Barinholtz. He'll tell us all about Morgan's huge bombshell!
More From Glamour:
• The Mindy Project Is Back and Betta Than Eva on Hulu
• Get Your First Look at All Your Favorite Returning Fall TV Shows
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by InvestorPlace Staff | April 10, 2012 12:38 pm
Most people who visit Las Vegas happily ignore the admonishment "hang on to your wallet," but if MGM Resorts International (NYSE:MGM[1]) sticks by its proposal to install a few zip-lines across The Strip, hanging on to your wallet, car keys, loose change, sunglasses, and slot-machine tokens will become standard operating procedure.
Basically, MGM has floated the idea as an attraction for those who don't mind heights or climbing a few stairs, but "have decided that bungee jumping is a bit too rich for their tastes," as project consultant Greg Borgel explained it to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
MGM's plans, which were submitted to county officials in December, include a 950-foot run beginning at 339 feet and ending at 238 feet above street level. Another run would stretch 340 feet with a 20-foot drop, and a third would send riders 1,440 feet with a 107-foot drop. Ziptrek Ecotours, based in Whistler, British Columbia, would operate the rides, which would take about two hours to complete.
Construction costs and ride fees have not yet been disclosed.
Because the zip-lines would be strung between buildings relatively close to McCarran International Airport, plans for the project also have been submitted to the Federal Aviation Administration for review.
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I prefer the original revels, without the raisins, with the peanuts, absolute original version.
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I live in Cyprus and have done for the last 15 years and every time my family come over they bring me Revels as they are my favourite, but since they have changed the original revels and replaced with raisins and taken out the peanuts and coffee centres? they are not the same.
Does anyone in Cyprus sell them?


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8 month old has 103 fever under the arm, help!
My son is 8 months old. he will be 9 months on 10/12/13. he has a 103 fever under the arm. hes been running a fever for the past 24 hours now. i gave him two rounds of tylenol so far, which has brought down the fever to 100. he's very lathargic,fussy and sleeping alot and not wanting to eat or drink. ive got a decent amount of food and liquid into him today, 15oz of formula, and 15 oz of applejuice and 2 jars of baby food. he also has a rash on his chest and back, but that could be from baby eczema which he has had since he was a newborn. i called his 24 hour nurse and she said to call her back if his underarm temperature gets higher than 104, and that he should be seen in the next 24 hours. i have also given him a lukewarm bath, and put cool rags on his head, and have him in only a diaper. it makes me so sad to see him so miserable.is there anything else i can do to soothe him, and should i wait till morning to bring him in like the 24 hour nurse said, or should i take him to the er? im pretty nervous about this because this is my first child, and im only 18 and not very experienced with sick children. also, if it matters at all, he was not a preemie. thanks!
no, i didnt. his temperature wouldve been 104 with a degree added.
I would take him in to the ER...but I'm a worry wart, some moms would let him sleep it off...not me! Good luck!!!
ER won't do anything but give Tylenol. My son had a 106.9 fever & thats all the did, even tho he was having febrile seizures in the waiting room.
I'd use a luke warm wash rag on his body to help cool him off a bit & take him to his PCP in the morning.
Keep us posted hope he feels better soon.
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no, i didnt. his temperature wouldve been 104 with a degree added.
Have you tried ibprofin or motrin? I can't remember which one it is they reccomend you do every otther dose with tylenol when they are babies. That should help bring it down. Also like pp mentioned try wiping him down with a luke warm rag. Sadly the ER probably won't do a whole lot. But the rash part with the fever would worry me.
Hope your LO feels better asap.
my baby is doing a little better, his temperature went down to 100.7 under the arm(which would be about 101.7) without tylenol. hes less lathargic, drank some applejuice, and has had a wet diaper. also the rash is getting better on his abdomen, ive been applying aveeno baby eczema lotion every 2 hours, and checking on him hourly. im gonna call at 8am to see if the doctor can see him, and if he cant i will either call another doctors office to see if they can get him in, or take him to urgent care or ER. thanks for all the responses!


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Keith Hunt is one of three Georgia Perimeter College students who were selected from among 500 students nationwide to receive a Benjamin Gilman International Scholarship for Study Abroad during the summer of 2011. The three were chosen from more than 2,600 scholarship applicants from across the United States.
This was the first time GPC students have won this award, says Adrienne Langston, study abroad advisor at GPC's Center for International Education.
Hunt came to GPC as a nontraditional student, after taking time to raise his family and work. A Dunwoody Campus history major, he will focus on courses in religious studies and Spanish while in Madrid.
"I'm 36 years old, and after a very long break, I'm now in college," Hunt says. "I love it here—I've learned a ton, and GPC is very diverse, which I like." Hunt received $4,500 for his study abroad experience.
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The GoodI remember the days of KOEI games and highs of PTO and the lows of Operation Europe. KOEI also make several horrible asian games that would try your patience. So when I first saw this title in stores I overlooked it. When I saw it in the used game section with a hint book for 15$ I gave it a chance. (only because there was nothing else to choose from) When I got home and first saw the intro I was totaly hooked. Just the campain alone was enough for me but then I tried to command the soldiers directly. WOW!! I loved the background and the easy controls. I took me a while but when I became the undesputed shogun WOW!! again. The ending movie was great. Now time to take my armies ON-LINE.
The BadOverall the problems of this game in no way detract from the game. They are only just possible ways the game could have been even better. 1.better use of diplomacy 2.more options on throne room 3.A way to elimate poor talent generals
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For details on the content and structure of the programme, check here.
Application procedure
The application goes in two phases:
- a short cv containing the education and experiences which are relevant for this program
- a motivation letter of no more than 2 pages, which addresses the applicant's interest in the program and the research topics it introduces, and sketches a first idea on how the participants' interests and possible research could connect to the program
- 2 reference letters by professionals who are active in the field
- links to a video with an excerpt of relevant work, which should be no longer than 10 minutes.
- An indication of which date and place the candidate could be present for the audition
Dossiers should be sent in by email to Steven De Belder, firstname.lastname@example.com.
The dossier will be studied by the selection committee.
Deadline for application:
Dossiers will be treated as they come in, and an answer can be expected within approximately 2 weeks. In order to be able to organise yourself well to eventually travel to Brussels to participate in the final audition, it is advised to send it in as early as possible.
2/ Final audition
Profile of the applicants
PARTS is looking for a group of young choreographers, dancers and dramaturges who value experimentation and collaboration, who are interested to associate their own research and questioning to the topics and practices proposed and to the research of the other participants. Participants should have an active affinity with the fields of poetry and music, but formal knowledge of music is not required.
PARTS is interested in people whose practice is grounded in working in the studio, and is open to different modes of collaboration, different aesthetic approaches, and various definitions of authorship.
Formal requirements:
Choreographers/makers: BA in dance, choreography, performance, or a MA in a different field, or at least 3 years of professional experience. Candidates must have experience in making/authoring work.
Dramaturges: BA in dance, choreography, performance or theatre/dance/performance studies, or an MA in a different field or at least 3 years of professional experience in dramaturgy. Candidates must have experience with the practice of dramaturgy.
PARTS aims at a predominantly young group, aged between 22 and 30. Exceptions to this are possible.
Candidates can apply as a team with a research proposal, but each individual should send a dossier, and the selection will be individual as well.
The Research Studios has place for max. 12 participants.
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Registration fee: 2500€
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A daily macrobiotic lunch (during the periods in which the program is active) is included in the tuition fee.
The living expenses (accommodation, food, other) are estimated between 600€ (minimum) and 1000€ (more comfortable) per month, not including travel to and from Belgium.
Accommodation has to be sought on the private housing market in Brussels. Sharing an apartment with others is usually the most economic option. The student administrator at PARTS can provide information to help with searching for accommodation.
A good number of scholarships are available; the budget is limited, but we can help those who need it.
In order to qualify for a scholarship, a candidate must prove that s/he has searched for scholarships at other funding bodies. Hopefully this will help you to be totally or partially independent of our scholarship fund. Moreover, by searching a scholarship with third bodies for yourself, you will also support all other students! Because the more candidates find support in other places, the more those who need(s)a PARTS scholarship the most, can actually benefit from our scholarship fund.
PARTS will accompany the candidates in this search. It is strongly advised to start searching for scholarships before the final audition!
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A Novel
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Vivien Kovacs, sensitive and bookish, grows up sealed off from the world by her timid Hungarian refugee parents. She loses herself in books and reinvents herself according to her favorite characters, but it is through clothes that she ultimately defines herself.
Against her father's wishes, she forges a relationship with her estranged uncle, a notorious criminal, who, in his old age, wants to share his life story. As he reveals the truth about her family's past, Vivien, having endured unbearable loss, learns how to be comfortable in her own skin and how to be alive in the world.
Linda Grant is a spectacularly humanizing writer whose morally complex characters explore the line between selfishness and self-preservation. In vivid and supple prose, Grant has created a powerful story of family, love, and the hold the past has on the present.
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Vivien Kovacs, a sensitive and imaginative girl, grows up sealed off from the world in a London apartment building full of eccentric recluses. Her timid parents conceal the details of their escape from Hungary during the Holocaust and shy away from any encounter with the outside world, so Vivien must learn to navigate society on her own. With the help of a large wardrobe of vintage clothes, Vivien sets out for college and transforms herself into a beautiful and educated young woman. But, when tragedy strikes, Vivien returns home to her parents and to a routine of lonely, empty days and nights. A chance encounter leads Vivien to her estranged uncle, notorious criminal and slum lord, Sándor Kovacs. Against her father's wishes she helps Sándor record his life story, which he is anxious to share in his old age. As Sándor reveals the surprising truth about her family's past, see more


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Stolen vehicle–Dec. 30, 2:58 p.m. Homestead and N. Stelling roads. A gold 2008 Honda Accord was reported stolen. It was revealed the next day the vehicle had been towed rather than stolen.
Stolen vehicle and reckless driving–Dec. 30, 5:34 a.m. Stevens Creek Boulevard and De Anza Boulevard. A suspect stole a 1998 Nissan pickup truck, sped off with the vehicle and recklessly drove through traffic. The suspect was apprehended by sheriff's deputies after trying to flee on foot.
Stolen vehicle–Dec. 29, 7:45 a.m. Newsom Avenue. A blue 1994 Honda Accord was stolen.
Firearm destruction–Dec. 28, 2:46 p.m. Dumas Drive. A woman surrendered three rifles to sheriff's deputies for destruction. The firearms had belonged to her late husband.
Public intoxication and trespassing–Dec. 28, 4:28 a.m. Columbus Avenue. An intoxicated man tried to enter a home that he did not live in. The suspect tried multiple keys at the door before going around to the back yard to try to enter the home. He was arrested.
Drugs–Dec. 28, 1:50 a.m. Tantau Avenue. A driver was cited for possession of marijuana.
Theft–Dec. 27, 7:44 p.m. N. Wolfe Road. An Apple iPhone was stolen from the locker room at a health club on Nov. 5. The victim reported an unknown person opened a new account for the stolen iPhone.
Theft–Dec. 27, 6:30 p.m. Stevens Creek Boulevard. A Samsung Galaxy 3 phone was lost or stolen at a gas station.
Trespassing–Dec. 27, 2:18 p.m. La Mar Court. Someone saw two suspects in their back yard checking windows. The individual confronted the two suspects, who then fled. A second individual flagged down a sheriff's deputy near Wilson Park, who found the suspects hiding in bushes. They were arrested.
Vandalism–Dec. 27, 11:24 a.m. Stevens Creek Boulevard and California Oak Way. An unknown person spray-painted a 1997 GMC truck.
Lost property–Dec. 26, 10:33 p.m. Stevens Creek Boulevard. An Apple iPhone was missing at a restaurant.
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Get ready for some nostalgia. One of the last decade's most famous TV couples reunited on the red carpet Monday for the Television Academy's "An Evening Honoring James Burrows."
Debra Messing and Eric McCormack, who last appeared together on NBC's barrier-breaking "Will & Grace," hugged and posed for photos at the North Hollywood event, seven years after their hit sitcom went off the air.
"JOY Is reuniting with a dear old friend and feeling like no time has passed," Messing tweeted, alongside of photo of herself with her former costar.
Messing also spotted former "Will & Grace" directed Jim Burrows:
McCormack tweeted another snap of the pair, as well as an impressive group of Hollywood luminaries like Bob Newhart, Danny DeVito, Christopher Lloyd and former costar Megan Mullally's husband Nick Offerman.
The ICONIC JIM BURROWS!! Our W & G director !And my guy @EricMcCormack ! #reunion #gala http://t.co/adXj9lqeCl— Debra Messing (@DebraMessing) October 8, 2013
Messing told Access Hollywood last month that she and McCormack have a lasting friendship.
Feast your eyes on this incredible group backstage at the Jim Burrows tribute. Nobody else got this shot. pic.twitter.com/lxZpbmzx4L— Eric McCormack (@EricMcCormack) October 8, 2013
"The bond between Eric [McCormack] and I, it's incredibly, incredibly special," she said. "I mean all four of us, we're family forever," she said of former costars Mullally and Sean Hayes.


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Sep 09 2013
Another Sighting
You are driving down a dark road at 5:30 AM. Chances are, you're a bit sleepy. Something suddenly runs across the road in front of your car. Your headlights catch it briefly as it dashes into the woods on the other side of the road. What was it?
That, apparently, was the question faced by a 15 year old Nebraska boy – why a 15 year old was driving was not addressed by the article. It seems his early morning brain processed the unexpected sensory input into – Bigfoot.
There is no credible evidence, after decades of search, that anything like Bigfoot exists anywhere, least of all Nebraska. The flat state does not contain the vast forests that would be necessary to conceal a breeding population of large primates. Despite that, there have been 14 reported sightings in Nebraska since 1957.
The report, of course, had to consult a "Bigfoot expert" and so they went to Jeff Meldrum, an anthropology and anatomy professor at Idaho State University and author of the 2009 book "Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science." He is quotes in an interview as saying:
"There's ample evidence to indicate there has to be something out there. What it is exactly is yet to be determined."
This, of course, is where believers and skeptics disagree. Meldrum acknowledges that it is unlikely Bigfoot exists in Nebraska. Therefore the sightings there, including the most recent one, have to be mistaken. If those sightings are in error, then why can't all such sightings be in error? In other words – such sightings are not reliable as evidence. People misinterpret what they see, and they fill in the gaps with their expectations.
There are numerous historical examples of this. In 1978 a red panda escaped from the Rotterdam zoo. Although it was found dead shortly thereafter, on train tracks just outside the zoo, the zoo had announced the panda was missing, spawning numerous reported red panda sightings over the next year. This is now sometimes called the "red panda effect."
Sightings of any kind – Bigfoot, UFOs, other cryptozoological creatures, tend to wax and wane with media attention and public awareness. Belief seems to drive sightings, not the other way around.
If sightings are not credible evidence, then what is? How could we ever know if a previously unknown creature exists? The answer, of course, is physical evidence.
The most definitive evidence, of course, would be an actual specimen. This could include a living creature, a recently dead specimen, a skeleton or even a fossil skeleton. Believers and skeptics acknowledge that no such smoking-gun evidence exists.
There is debate surrounding other kinds of physical evidence: hair samples, skin samples, DNA, tracks, photos and videos. None of this evidence is compelling either. Photos and videos are often blurry (leading to the name "blobsquatch" to describe many of them), or at the very least are not incompatible with a person in a costume. Tracks are easily hoaxed. Hair samples always wind up being from other animals, or simply not animal fibers. The DNA evidence is nothing but pseudoscience.
Meldrum and other believers are falling for the "where there is smoke there is fire" fallacy. This is misleading because our brains are smoke machines, and worse, it assumes there must be a fire so it just confabulates one.
Our brains work by filling in the perception and memory gaps with whatever details are necessary to construct our preferred narrative. That is why we need rigorous methods to sort out what is real from what is neurological illusion.
Large amounts of low-grade evidence is exactly what we would expect, and see over and over again, with phenomena that are not real but have large numbers of believers none-the-less. That is what we see with Bigfoot.
What you do not see with phenomena that are not real is even a single piece of unequivocal evidence. There are no specimens of Bigfoot, no demonstrably alien artifacts, no clear psi phenomena.
So what, then, did our precocious driver see? I'm not familiar enough with the local fauna of Nebraska to guess. If this were in Connecticut where I live I would say a deer, very probably. It could even have been something unusual, like an early morning hunter in camo. What it wasn't, however, is evidence for the existence of an otherwise unknown creature.
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# Flailon 09 Sep 2013 at 9:13 am
"why a 15 year old was driving was not addressed by the article."
He likely has a school permit, which is fairly common in the midwest. I had one to drive to early-morning sports practice in high school.
Bigfoot in Nebraska, eh? I think Donald Prothero noted you simply don't have large ape species ranging over an entire continent, in a vast range of very different environments. You don't, for example, find mountain gorillas in North Africa. You either have not just one species but dozens of undiscovered large ape species in North America alone. Or you have one ape species unlike anything. Ever.
# JScarryon 09 Sep 2013 at 10:22 am
Someone on the intertubes made the comment that with the ubiquity of high quality cell-phone cameras, surveillance videos, and dash cams, phenomena like bigfoot, Loch Ness, UFOs, fairies, angels, and leprechauns are essentially ruled out.
Look at all the high quality footage of the recent Russian meteor. If there really were UFOs, it almost a certainty that multiple high quality videos would exist. The photos of the Boston bombers were clear and identifiable. It's extraordinarily unlikely that these things wouldn't be captured on high-quality images—if they actually existed.
# FacelessManon 09 Sep 2013 at 12:06 pm
If anyone needs a laugh, check the last comments on Dr. Novellas link on DNA evidence, apparently some believers found the post 4 months after it came up. Although I suspect "squatchy" is just trolling, but you never know.
# ccbowerson 09 Sep 2013 at 1:42 pm
Your comment on the waxing and waning of these sightings had me thinking about where we are in the ups and downs of bigfoot sightings and belief. Of course the idea of the entire population of 9-foot 500-pound ape-like species managing to say hidded in the Pacific Northwest of the US is ridiculous, and from my perspective it seems that the belief among the general population is at a low point.
The recent polls that I've come across, put the figure at 20-25% have a belief that such a creature exists. To me this a pretty low figure, since I think you will get double-digit % for the belief in nearly anything, and beliefs in ghosts and astrology are much higher (about double). One would think that the proliferation of cameras would make the question absurd to most, but there have been examples of trail/game cameras that have caught odd looking pictures of animals. Anomoly hunting just got easier for those who want to hold onto the idea.
# tedwon 09 Sep 2013 at 9:21 pm
I was driving in the country, on a dark night. I saw two red lights. I thought that it was the brake lights of a car on the road in front of me, how far away, I'm not sure. Then, as I drove (not much) farther, It appeared that it was reflectors that were at the head of a driveway. As I drover (again, not much) farther, it turned out that it was a truck in a driveway, with its lights on, at a farm. Not that I cared what it was at each stage of my driving, it is just an example that we try to make sense of what we see based on limited information. Our mind will try to interpret information, subject to what we "want" to believe. I knew that it wasn't something "abnormal," but I, nonetheless, wanted to make sense of it based on things that I would expect to see on a dark country road.
# The Other John Mcon 10 Sep 2013 at 12:54 pm
I did some rough number crunching awhile back, figuring out how many Bigfoots should have been hit/killed by cars, or accidentally shot by hunters, assuming they exist in the numbers that would be required for a stable breeding population (at least a couple hundred to a few thousand). For those interested, see here:
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Venison can contain E. coli bacteria
From Atlanta, at the International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases
A study in Connecticut finds that deer can harbor Escherichia coli O157:H7, the strain of bacterium that causes severe diarrhea in people. The report bolsters a 1997 study by scientists in Oregon who traced E. coli to elk and deer meat. The findings suggest E. coli may be widespread in venison and raise concerns about preparation of wild-game meats.
Microbiologist Douglas W. Dingman and his colleagues at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station in New Haven learned of a case of E. coli poisoning in November 1998, during deer-hunting season. A 7-year-old Connecticut boy had become sick after eating undercooked venison.


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Poor mans bike stands, tools, ect..
lets see your poor mans stands, tools, wheel truer.. ect.. i need ideals..
I once made my own cheap dishing tool out of wood. It had one rigid board about two feet long, with a reference line at the hub position. One end had another piece of wood which contacted the rim at one point, and the other end had a longer piece of wood which contacted the rim at two points. Using a thin six inch rule, dish could be set to some small fraction of an inch from perfect, and it cost pennies. I was careful to cut the two end pieces from the same board so they were the same width.
I just hang my bike up from ropes tied to my garage door rails... or use my trainer as a stand for other stuff. Some day I might make an actual bike stand.
Investing in a decent quality bike stand and some real tools is a worthwhile investment. I know it's a lot of money to spend but cheap tools at best don't work well and at worst can actually damage your bike.
If you can, find a bike co-op / collective near you, and make use of their stuff. Volunteer and get free stand time, or just pay the nominal fee as you need to. Either way, these are the greatest.
Wait till Bike Nashbar has the Spin Doctor Essential II bike stand on sale, you can pick it up for $50. I buy tools from Amazon, they have most Park Tools Pedro's and Icetoolz, as well. Now and again i choose Avenir, Spin Doctor, or the like (can you say BROKE? I KNEW you could). As for general tools, that you can buy anywhere, I buy Neiko (battery powered drill, metric wrenches, allen wrench set), or Stanley (saws, hammers, pliers and the like).
this thread has failed... i am lucky to make 20$ a year.
For most of us, we'd rather skimp in other areas than halfass our hobby, and given that this hobby requires specific specialized tools, the alternatives are limited.
$20 a year?You need motivation not cheep tool ideas.
get a job, maybe then you can afford to support a hobby. in the meantime, make some friends that share your hobby and maybe they will be nice enough to lend you their equipment.
You can't improvise around basic tools like wrenches, allen keys, and screwdrivers, and a decent set of those will cost more than $20. Borrow someone else's tools maybe, but not improvise around.
Here's my cobbled up work stand made from Unistrut and hardware scrounged on construction projects at the plant where I work and some square tube pulled from a dumpster. I don't remember purchasing anything to build it. Since these pics, I've added some rubber tubing to both rails on the "cradle" instead of using the blue shop towel.
Here's my homebuilt truing stand based on plans from Roger Musson's online wheelbuilding book.
Here's my homebuilt dishing gauge I threw together
there is a pile of metal, along with doors, down the road someone dumped... ill go pick up some stuff from there to make something....
turtlemilk....I feel you finacial pain. Really I do. A family of 4 on a single incomes makes for tough times. I've been trying to scrounge up an extra $20 for an extra seat post since July. Just can't justify spending money on something like that when I need to put food on the table. Also been wanting a larger bag (frame or behind the seat, havent decided), cell phone mount and a set of smooth road tires for my extra set of rims. While I agree its with most the other posters, its best to do it right, sometimes you just can't afford too. What would be nice, course you could always do the leg work yourself, if someone would post some of the home built contraptions like what kknh3 did. But the problem with that, for some ppl, unistrut, metal tubing, etc can be hard to come by. But great job on that stand! Unistrut is great stuff!
I like the dishing tool and truing stand. Thanks for posting them.
I got lucky and bought my maintenance stand from this old guy's estate.
My question is why are you not making any $. How old are you? Where do you live? Can you sell recyclables?
I did make a headset remover (piece of steel conduit cut with a hacksaw and spread a bit) and a headset installer (threaded rod with some large washers and a couple nuts).
No pics though, sorry.
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my bike stand is a bike rack tied with rope to my patio railing
it looks like you spent more time designing and making assembly instructions manual than it took to build the stand LOL
PS I am sure you thought of this but a toestrap or two will really anchor the bike in place
I currently use a rubber bungee cord, but have an idea for something a little more permanent and easier to use. I'm scheming in my head how to make some rubber straps and their anchors that would be similar to those used on many of the automobile bike racks.
Apparently, an old fork and a zip tie can do a half-decent job at truing wheels.
That unistrut stand is awesome.
Wheel dishing aid:
1/2" or thicker plywood, 6" wide by 30" or so.
mark and skil-saw cut a V out of it; leave 3 to 6" flat at each end - bottom of V is 20" wide or so for 26" or 700c
at the middle of the V, drill an undersized (slightly) hole for a 4" or so bolt.
to use, lay this across the wheel, run bolt in until it touches end of axle. then, check the other side of the wheel. If both touch, and the wood is flat on the rim, the ends of your axle are centered on the rim.
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Emerging Market Pension Funds and International Diversification
Many countries are currently increasing the advanced funding of their public pension systems to improve their sustainability in the face of rapidly aging populations. When pensions are funded, the issue of asset allocation becomes of paramount importance. Through compound interest, the rate of growth for pension fund assets will have enormous implications for the level of pension contributions that will be needed to fund a desired level of benefits. Standard portfolio selection theory provides a fundamental justification for international diversification: by widening the pool of potential assets, investors can potentially increase returns while possibly even reducing risks through the selection of complementary assets with low correlations. Nonetheless, many emerging market countries have regulations that strictly limit the choice of investments for pension funds, in some cases excluding international assets entirely. This paper seeks to determine what economic theory suggests is the optimal asset allocation for public pension systems in emerging market countries, and in particular, what role international assets play in the optimal portfolios. We find that on average, about half of the portfolios of emerging market countries should be in world assets. The paper then quantifies the costs of prohibiting international diversification.
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ANNE P LadeeAnne MURRAY
Are You Knocking - Poem by ANNE P LadeeAnne MURRAY
I seem to have lived my life in thrice written scrolls
flowing throughout the eternal winds
in bits and pieces of torn paper
I've searched my heart for you my love
I've sent your name to the stars
Sending it throughout the Universe…
floating across the essence of time
I seek my heart's desire…
Bidding him to send the mysteries of his soul
I search and search -
Oh, there must be more
Is that you knocking at my door?
Why is love so hidden
we think it has arrived, Only to find…
it was not for our heart - our soul
In my dreams -
you've come a thousand times
Your spirit sings
I'm aroused by the gentleness of your touch
I feel the passion of your caress
My heart keeps searching
My soul yearns for the sweet taste of your kiss
Where are you my love...
There must be more
Is that you knocking at my door?
You sleep in the recesses of my mind - my heart
Come fill the emptiness within -
draw me into your warm embrace
I'll wait a lifetime...
There must be more
Is that you knocking at my door?
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Machinery and clothing stolen in ram raid at rural supplies store
11:58am Wednesday 26th February 2014
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11:58am Wednesday 26th February 2014
By SNJ Reporter
THOUSANDS of pounds worth of garden machinery and branded clothing have been stolen in a ram raid at a rural supplies store in the Cotswolds.
Thieves 'hot-wired' a Land Rover in Baunton Lane, Cirencester, and drove it to the Cotswold Agricultural Centre in Driffield. The lock to an access gate at the Countrywide Store was cut open and the stolen vehicle was reversed into the metal shutters of the building, causing them to buckle open.
Thousands of pounds worth of goods were taken and the offenders left the scene, leaving the Land Rover running in situ.
The incident happened between 7pm on Monday, February 17 and 7.30am on Tuesday February 18.
Anyone with information about the thefts should call 101, quoting incident no 57 of 18/2/14.
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They seem to be well on schedule. I think they prioritized one area to polish up a bit for showing off, but most importantly the HUD is functional and working, as are other gameplay areas.
The area they'll show is the agricultural center, written by Chris Avellone, and they'll show the HUD, dialog, skill tests, combat. Should be good!
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Before you can understand nanoscience, Branden Brough was saying, you need to understand the derivation of the word. Nano is short for nanometer, a metric measure of length.
"You know what a millimeter is, right?" he said. "It's about as close as you can get your finger and thumb without touching. If you divide that space by a million, that's a nanometer."
Brough is senior communications and outreach specialist for Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Molecular Foundry, where good things come in unbelievably small packages. Research there has led to stunning advances in biomedicine, renewable energy, light modification and carbon capture, among other things.
It's not a particular discipline of science, like physics or chemistry, but the study of all science at the molecular level. As a knowledge-based users facility funded by the Department of Energy, it is available to researchers worldwide through a peer-reviewed proposal process. At root is the principle that if you make something smaller, its properties and applications can be changed.
To explain his point in terms even a journalist could understand, Brough pulled out a tiny vial filled with gold flakes. They are distinctive in color, brightly reflective and good electrical conductors, he said. Then he pulled out two other vials — one filled with a clear red liquid, another a murky rose color.
"These are also gold," he said. "They're gold nanoparticles in solution — these particles are 20 nanometers, the others are 80 nanometers. The first thing you notice is the difference in color. The other is they're no longer metallic in property. Instead of conducting electricity, they now behave more like semiconductors. "
Because I did science homework last and generally turned it in late, I can't claim to comprehend every aspect of what I witnessed in the six-story, glass-and-chrome Molecular Foundry — so named because it's used to build things — but the one constant is molecular manipulation. By slightly changing how a component is structured at the molecular level, it can be repurposed.
One such development is electrochromic glass — "smart windows," if you will — which, when embedded with a thin coating of nanocrystals, can permit visible sunlight into a room while deflecting its near-infrared heat, or block out visible light while allowing in the heat. All it takes is the flick of a switch and some low-voltage current.
Another intriguing discovery, particularly to the Department of Energy, is a Metal Organic Framework (MOF) designed to capture carbon dioxide. Brough described it as a high-tech sponge, made of metal joints connected by organic components, that could be fitted inside a smokestack.
"Most things will pass through it," he said, "but because you have these little chambers that capture and bind carbon dioxide, it will stay there."
A recent medical innovation is an artificial, self-assembling beta sheet, only two molecules thick, that could be customized to detect biomarkers characteristic of diabetes, cancer or any number of illnesses.
Nanotechnology has been used to make solar cells more efficient and less costly. It's been used to make microchips smaller. It's been used to observe how light energy converts into electric energy, which converts into chemical energy in photosynthesis.
For a science that's all about small things, it's making a big impact. Makes me wish I'd paid more attention in science class.
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