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Marginata enjoys areas where it will be exposed to bright light; however avoid direct sunlight as it might burn the plant.
Diningroom, Bedroom
Water Habits
Marginata will grow best when watered thoroughly and then allowed to dry completely. Water the soil until it becomes very dark. Allow the soil to dry before the next watering. Potting the plant to allow for proper drainage will help guard against over watering.
Ideal Temperature for Marginata: 60-80°F (15-27°C) Min: 40°F (4°C)
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The Dracaena Marginata goes by the name Madagascar Dragon tree suggesting that it originates from the Island Nation of Madagascar. As this plant grows over the years the lower leaves will fall giving the trunk a long and slender look.

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The Post Office on Middle Street at Exchange Street in Portland was built between 1866 and 1871. It was designed by Alfred B. Mullett.
Made of marble, the building was designed to be built in the South, but he government wanted to help Portland rebuild after the fire of 1866, so put the building in Portland.
The marble was unsuitable for the Northern climate and began to disintegrate. The building was demolished in 1965.
The photo was taken in the spring of 1898.
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The consequences of texting while driving has been hammered home to students in Preston.
A car crash scene was set up at Preston College's Fulwood Campus to give an insight into the dangers.
The scene was based on a car that had crashed as the driver was texting, hitting a cyclist and injuring those travelling in the car.
It was set up by Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service in collaboration with North West Ambulance Service, Lancashire Constabulary and staff and students from Preston College.
Theatrical make-up students created injuries for the casualties, played by performing arts students while media students captured the action for a promotional video to be used by Lancashire Fire and Rescue and the College in highlighting the dangers.
Firefighters arrived with specialist cutting machinery to help free the casualties and were joined by paramedic crews and police to make the scenario as realistic as possible.
Firefighter Dave Newton, who works from within the college one day a week as part of its community engagement, said: "What we were really trying to do is give the students a scenario that they will be familiar with.
"I'm sure that many of them have been in the situation before where they've got a text while driving and many will have replied or been tempted to reply and we want to highlight the very real danger of doing anything distracting while at the wheel.
"We go to too many road-traffic collisions that involve young people who have been killed or injured."
A spokesman for Preston College added: "The fact that our students have got involved from acting as casualties, creating the injury effects and ultimately producing an awareness video for the fire service to use is brilliant."


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Antidepressants for Bipolar Disorder: Page 3 of 3
Antidepressants for Bipolar Disorder: Page 3 of 3
The results from the study by Post and colleagues11 were confirmed in a long-term continuation treatment follow-up phase lasting up to 1 year.13 Hence, more caution appears indicated for patients with bipolar depression for use of venlafaxine than use of bupropion or sertraline as adjunctive treatment to a mood stabilizer, especially if there is a history of rapid cycling. It should be noted that all of these antidepressants are FDA-approved for the treatment of major depression but are not FDA-approved for use in bipolar depression.
Effect of antidepressants in preventing relapse
The other compelling clinical issue in bipolar depression is the risk of recurrence and prevention of relapse. Bipolar disorder is known to be a recurrent disorder, and more than 90% of patients with bipolar disorder experience recurrences.16
However, available data are scarce on the clinical features associated with the risk of recurrence. Interesting findings resulted from the Systematic Treatment Enhancement Program for Bipolar Disorder (STEP-BD), a national longitudinal public health initiative funded by NIMH.17 One of the main aims of the trial was to look for the features associated with risk of recurrence.18 The study prospectively enrolled patients with bipolar disorder who were receiving treatment according to contemporary practice guidelines and observed them for up to 24 months.
Of the 1469 participants who were symptomatic at study entry, 858 subsequently achieved recovery (58.4%). During the 24-month follow-up period, 48.5% of patients experienced recurrences, and depressive episodes developed in more than 34.7%, compared with manic/hypomanic/mixed episodes in 13.8%. Furthermore, in this study, residual depressive or manic symptoms at recovery and proportion of days depressed or anxious in the preceding year were significantly associated with shorter time to depressive recurrence.
Unfortunately, we found just one systematic review investigating the effectiveness of long-term use of antidepressants, which did not provide sufficient evidence to assess the ability of antidepressants to prevent relapse of bipolar disorder.19 The review found 7 randomized controlled trials that enrolled 363 people with BDI or BDII. Data were found only for imipramine, desipramine, bupropion, and fluoxetine (antidepressants) and lithium (a mood stabilizer).
The review provided a narrative overview of the studies, because the variety of comparisons did not allow researchers to perform a meta-analysis or to quantify reliable conclusions. The available evidence suggested that there was no clear benefit for routinely adding long-term antidepressants to ongoing treatment with lithium. Moreover, the same review found that antidepressants may be less effective in preventing relapse when they are prescribed without a mood stabilizer (in this case, lithium).19
Clinical implications
There is some evidence20 that antidepressants are effective in the short-term treatment of bipolar depression, but a large recent trial reported no benefit10 and caution should be paid to the risk of manic switching. Alternative agents, such as quetiapine or lamotrigine, should be considered. When using an antidepressant, it may be prudent to use an SSRI or bupropion rather than a TCA or venlafaxine as first-line treatment. However, the patient history (ie, response to antidepressant treatment without adverse effects, including treatment-emerging manic switch) should be the best guide for choosing the individual treatment strategy.
Looking at the randomized evidence, there is no support for the addition of long-term antidepressants to ongoing treatment with a mood stabilizer for maintenance treatment in persons with bipolar depression. Early discontinuation following resolution of the acute episode should be con-sidered. Recurrence is frequent and associated with the presence of residual mood symptoms at initial recovery. Targeting residual symptoms in maintenance treatment may represent an opportunity to reduce the risk of recurrence. Given the limited evidence, there is a compelling need for further studies with longer follow-up and careful definition of the risk/ benefit profile in terms of efficacy and tolerability.
Recent evidence found conflicting results about possible correlates between suicidality and antidepressant exposure.21,22 This aspect is of crucial importance when using antidepressants not only for bipolar disorder but also for unipolar disorder,23 and it indicates important directions for further research. New pharmacological strategies with agents different from antidepressants are under investigation (quetiapine, lamotrigine, olanzapine, olanzapine plus fluoxetine) and need to be carefully evaluated to improve our therapeutic skills for treating bipolar depression.
1. Ostacher MJ. The evidence for antidepressant use in bipolar depression. J Clin Psychiatry. 2006; 67:18-21.
2. World Health Organization. WHO Collaborating Centre for Drug Statistics Methodology. Available at: http:// www.whocc.no/atcddd/. Accessed May 31, 2007.
3. Judd LL, Akiskal HS, Schettler PJ, et al. Psychosocial disability in the course of bipolar I and II disorders: a prospective, comparative, longitudinal study. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2005;62:1322-1330.
4. National Institute for Clinical Excellence. Depression: Management of Depression in Primary and Secondary Care. London: National Institute for Clinical Excellence; 2004.
5. National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE). Bipolar disorder: the management of bipolar disorder in adults, children and adolescents, in primary and secondary care. London: NICE; 2006. Available at: http://guidance.nice.org.uk/page.aspx?o= 384826. Accessed May 29, 2007.
6. Thase ME. Pharmacotherapy of bipolar depression: an update. Curr Psychiatry Rep. 2006;8:478-488.
7. Goodnick PJ. Bipolar depression: a review of randomised clinical trials. Expert Opin Pharmacother. 2007;8:13-21.
8. Blanco C, Laje G, Olfson M, et al. Trends in the treatment of bipolar disorder by outpatient psychiatrists. Am J Psychiatry. 2002;159:1005-1010.
9. Gijsman HJ, Geddes JR, Rendell JM, et al. Antidepressants for bipolar depression: a systematic review of randomized, controlled trials. Am J Psychiatry. 2004; 161:1537-1547.
10. Sachs GS, Nierenberg AA, Calabrese JR, et al. Effectiveness of adjunctive antidepressant treatment for bipolar depression. N Engl J Med. 2007;356:1711-1722.
11. Post RM, Leverich GS, Nolen WA, et al, for the Stanley Foundation Bipolar Network. A re-evaluation of the role of antidepressants in the treatment of bipolar depression: data from the Stanley Foundation Bipolar Network. Bipolar Disord. 2003;5:396-406.
12. Leverich GS, Altshuler LL, Frye MA, et al. Risk of switch in mood polarity to hypomania or mania in patients with bipolar depression during acute and continuation trials of venlafaxine, sertraline, and bupropion as adjuncts to mood stabilizers. Am J Psychiatry. 2006;163:232-239.
13. Post RM, Altshuler LL, Leverich GS, et al. Mood switch in bipolar depression: comparison of adjunctive venlafaxine, bupropion and sertraline. Br J Psychiatry. 2006;189:124-131.
14. Smith D, Dempster C, Glanville J, et al. Efficacy and tolerability of venlafaxine compared with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and other antidepressants: a meta-analysis. Br J Psychiatry. 2002;180: 396-404.
15. Hansen RA, Gartlehner G, Lohr KN, et al. Efficacy and safety of second-generation antidepressants in the treatment of major depressive disorder. Ann Intern Med. 2005;143:415-426.
16. Solomon DA, Keitner GI, Miller IW, et al. Course of illness and maintenance treatments for patients with bipolar disorder. J Clin Psychiatry. 1995;56:5-13.
17. Sachs GS, Thase ME, Otto MW, et al. Rationale, design, and methods of the systematic treatment enhancement program for bipolar disorder (STEP-BD). Biol Psychiatry. 2003;53:1028-1042.
18. Perlis RH, Ostacher MJ, Patel JK, et al. Predictors of recurrence in bipolar disorder: primary outcomes from the Systematic Treatment Enhancement Program for Bipolar Disorder (STEP-BD). Am J Psychiatry. 2006; 163:217-224.
19. Ghaemi SN, Lenox MS, Baldessarini RJ. Effectiveness and safety of long-term antidepressant treatment in bipolar disorder. J Clin Psychiatry. 2001;62: 565-569.
20. Geddes J. Bipolar disorder. Clin Evid. 2005;13: 1158-1181.
21. McElroy SL, Kotwal R, Kaneria R, Keck PE Jr. Antidepressants and suicidal behavior in bipolar disorder. Bipolar Disord. 2006;8:596-617.
22. Bauer MS, Wisniewski SR, Marangell LB, et al. Are antidepressants associated with new-onset suicidality in bipolar disorder? A prospective study of participants in the Systematic Treatment Enhancement Program for Bipolar Disorder (STEP-BD). J Clin Psychiatry. 2006;67:48-55.
23. Cipriani A, Barbui C, Geddes JR. Suicide, depression, and antidepressants. BMJ. 2005;330:373-374.


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Mary T. Salama, M.D.
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|I joined the faculty in 2003, I am a staff psychiatrist at Midtown Mental Health Center –the primary focus of my clinical practice is psychotic and severe mood disorders. A great amount of time is spent helping our patients reintegrate into society through case management and community based services programs. I also worked with the Stars program that address the psychiatric needs of patients with mental disorders and developmental delays.
|Medical School: Cairo University School of Medicine
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LIVINGSTON manager John McGlynn admitted he was "very, very surprised" to see a Hearts team-sheet that contained ten changes to the side that defeated Hibernian on Sunday. McGlynn's team were convincing winners in the end in last night's Petrofac Training Cup second round tie after Hearts head coach Robbie Neilson opted for a nearly complete shake-up.
"Never in my wildest dreams did I think there would be so many changes," McGlynn said, after Livingston progressed to the last eight at the expense of a much-changed Hearts team that included five debutants. "I thought the young lads in the Hearts team did very well – they were passing the ball well. But we were coping with that and on the counter attack we were dangerous. Certainly I was very, very surprised [at their team]. I did not think he would change as much as that. But that's up to him. The fear is that my lads see a team full of young players and they have the wrong attitude."
Neilson said the experience had been a valuable one for his young players since it prepares them for future outings in the league. He described the Petrofac Cup as a "development" cup as far as Hearts are concerned. Other priorities are at the forefront of their minds, such as promotion.
"It was a great learning curve for them," he said. "We used this tournament as a chance for these guys to get out and play and see what it is like. Once it goes to 2-0 down it becomes a different game. If these boys to come and play for us in a league game they will know what to expect.
"The Petrofac Cup for us is a development cup. It would have been easy for us to come here and play our strongest XI. But that is not going to develop players."


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How would Gene Tunney versus Marciano have gone?
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This is a real good match up.
I have to admit that I never had a whole lot of love for tunney because I liked Dempsey so much. But I've since read the biography of Tunney & he really was a GREAT fighter! He's still not one of my favorites, but I under-rated him back in the day.
I'm a big fan of Marciano. But all the guys who fought Rocky were either old or not really a serious threat to beat him. Charles & Walcott were old & they still gave him trouble. That right there is a big deal to me.
I'll take Tunney by a decision. Of the two, I like Rocky much more, but I have to respect Tunney's talent.
Its quite amusing but I am the exact opposite here. I'm a Tunney fan, much more so than Marciano, but I've got a feeling that Marciano would grind him down late.
They match up well in size terms. Tunney has the advantage in speed, technique and ring smarts, Rocky the advantages in workrate and power.
I just fancy that prime Marciano is much more of a force than Dempsey was in 1927.......and if Dempsey could come close to stopping Tunney; Well?
For whats its worth I will say one thing, Tunney would be probably ahead on points at the time.
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Enjoy some e-cards from Glee's most adorable bisexual Cheerio -- and Santana's girlfriend -- Brittany (Heather Morris), and just in time for the holidays!
As huge fans of Glee's Brittana–ship, we know that all Brittany really asked Santa for this year was more quality time with the lovely Santana (Naya Rivera).
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These cookies taste like mini hand-held Banana Cream Pies! It's a cookie (made with graham cracker crumbs) topped with pudding and cream cheese whipped cream. A perfect summer treat for a crowd!
A friend of ours dropped off his son to play at our house on Saturday so they could go car shopping. I had literally just walked in the door from a 15 minute run and was looking red faced and sweaty. I answer the door. "Hi guys, come on in!" He looks at me. Confused. "Hi…are you Karen's sister?"
And that was the moment that I decided I would never leave the house without eyeliner again.
Actually, what am I saying. This is a clear sign that I should never exercise again. NO SWEATING AGAIN, EVER.
Instead I will eat Banana Cream Pie Cookies while I ruminate on the fact that I turn 30 this year. I SAID RUMINATE, NOT SOB.
Last month we got together with my extended family for Easter Sunday. My cousin Amber brought these cookies AND I ATE 5 OF THEM. Not even exaggerating. (Not much anyway. Okay maybe it wasn't 5, we had a big dinner, but that's how many I wanted. Eric is always getting on me for exaggerating. He says he automatically cuts whatever number I provide in half. He's justified.)
Amber's husband requested a Banana Cream Pie for dessert on Easter, but it was a pretty big gathering and pies are not good desserts for a crowd. (Unless you want to make like 3 of them, and she did not.) So instead she made these cookies. After eating 5 of them (okay maybe 3) I asked her what was in everything so I could make them at home. She said she used a Spritz cookie recipe and replaced some of the flour with graham cracker crumbs.
People, I need to tell you that I do not even like Banana Cream Pie. Like, if there was a choice between Banana Cream Pie and…okay this example is going nowhere. I would still eat Banana Cream Pie if there were no other dessert options. But the whole time I'd be wishing it was chocolate cake. But these cookies are AMAZING. I love them so much. They have a much better filling-to-crust ratio than a regular pie. There's never enough crust! (or filling-to-cookie ratio in this recipe, I suppose.)
My recipe notes to myself :)
If the cookie puffs up, just tap with a spoon or spatula.
Whipped cream on the left, and on the right is after I mixed in the cream cheese.
The cookies themselves are soft and super buttery. The graham crackers add just the right touch. They are a bit crisp on the edges, just how you would want the edge of your pie to be.
Obviously these are an assemble-last minute type of cookie. The pudding will make the cookie soggy eventually. But if you have a bunch left over, you could always trifle it for later. Or serve it this way to begin with! It's so pretty! Break up the cookies and throw it all in a trifle bowl.
Oh my gosh, I almost forgot about the cream cheese whipped cream. It's cream cheese that is beaten, then you make regular whipped cream and fold in the beaten cream cheese. It's so much more interesting than regular whipped cream! I love it!
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Banana Cream Pie Cookies:
fresh bananas, to top cookies
Preheat your oven to 350. Line 2 large baking sheets with silpats or parchment paper.
Let cool on the pan 5 minutes, then remove to a wire rack and let cool completely.
Meanwhile, make the pudding according to package instructions. Chill in the fridge.
If you have leftovers, throw it all in a bowl and call it a trifle!
*I used almond extract because that's what I usually put in Spritz. And I forgot that I was going for Banana Cream Pie flavors. I really liked it with the almond though, so I'm leaving it, but feel free to replace with an equal amount of vanilla.
More Banana goodness!
Butterscotch Pudding with Roasted Banana Whipped Cream << this photo is a sin guys. But I STILL make this pudding all the time. It's so easy and people are always impressed.
Nutella and Banana Stuffed Crescent Rolls << These are so popular! I just saw that they passed half a million pins on Pinterest. Crazy!
Banana Macadamia Pancakes << have you ever had these in Hawaii? It's a thing.
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The city's former police commissioner, Bill Bratton, says he's met with several mayoral candidates and would "actively entertain'' an offer of returning to the NYPD top job if it was offered.
Bratton headed the NYPD for over two years during the 1990s under Rudolph Giuliani.
Bratton also has served as police chief in Los Angeles and Boston.
He told the Wall Street Journal that if the job of police commissioner in New York was offered he would "have to seriously consider it.''
Bratton currently is chairman of Kroll, an international intelligence and information management company.
He's known for reducing crime, combating gang violence and improving police-community relations.
The NYPD's current police commissioner, Raymond Kelly, has declined to say if he'd consider serving under Mayor Bloomberg's successor.
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Gardner Denver PZ-9 Mud Pump (Gardner Denver PZ-9)
Model OEE PZ-9 mud pump is a horizontal triplex single acting piston pump which has the advanced structure and small in size. It has the reliable performance, good exchangeability, easy maintenance.
The pump consists of two main sections: power end & Fluid end. Power end includes pump case pinion shaft, crankshaft, back cover, connection rod, crosshead etc.
Fluid end includes valve pot assembly, valves, cylinder liners, pistons, discharge manifold and suction manifold, Etc.
In order to prevent the water-hammer and reduce pressure difference in the outlet side of the pump,
In order to prevent the over-pressure, there fixed a shear safty valve in the outlet side of the pump.
The gears, bearings, crosshead in the power end adopt splash system and pressure lubrication system. This guarantees a good lubrication.
The cylinder liners & The pistons in the fluid end is cleaned and cooled by a centrifugal spray pump with lubrication water.
This pump has a complete set of special tools for general maintenance & repair.
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(2) Rated Input Power: 1000HP
(3) Rated Speed: 130SPM
(4) Stroke Length: 9"(228.6mm)
(5) Rated Speed of Pinion Shaft 582 rpm
(6) Gear Ratio: 4048:1
(7) Valve Standard: API7#
(8) Suction Inlet: 10"
(9) Discharge Outlet 5-1/8" (5000PSI)
(10) Overall Dimension 205 x94 x100.5in (5200 x2388 x2550MM)
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Worst 15 Minutes Ever!!!
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Yesterday was the first time I left my flat for the year. See, I didn't really have a choice, I had to get cat chow and there's a mini mart about one hundred meters (100m) from where I live that sells the chow. I actually had to prep myself for this journey which took a while but at the end I had a bit of help, plus the cats were starving.
As I entered into the sunlight I immediately started sweating and once I passed the front gate I was aware of how warm the air was, which then quickly became so oppressive the I was finding it hard to breathe but I continued (all for the cats). My hundred meters journey wasn't a simple one. I soon started feeling a bit dizzy which forced me to slow down making my already long journey even longer (ahahahaaa).
So, I finally get to the shop where I then had to endure the chatter of the kindly old man who owns the mini mart, "I thought you moved girl" or the workers, "we slow down every time we pass by your house to make sure we don't smell a dead body" URGH!!!! So I grab a bag of chow and ready myself to pay for the item and leave but what I didn't anticipate, was the line @[email protected] that's when I could feel the movements in my tummy. I looked at the doorway feeling a desperation like nothing else.
As I left the dreaded mini mart, the urgent need to get home flooded me till I could hardly even walk but found my self almost at a trot. As I stepped inside my flat, relief wasn't the only thing that flooded me as I ran to the bathroom.
The entire journey must have taken about 15minutes maybe less but it was the longest, worst 15 minutes ever!!!!
Someone told me don't let the fear hold you back but do the opposite and rush into it, pfft, reminded me of the time I stood on the side walk in Cambodia and shoved an assortment of bugs into my mouth. ahahahahahahaaaaaaaa


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With no expansion, Superior refinery doesn't need new oil source
While the new Alberta Clipper pipeline technically ends in Superior, the Murphy Oil refinery there doesn't need and really can't use any of the new oil moving south from Canada.
Dave Podratz, Superior refinery manager for Murphy Oil USA, said existing pipelines bring his refinery enough oil.
"It won't affect us at all. We won't be using any of that capacity,'' Podratz said.
Murphy's proposed $6 billion refinery expansion has been shelved - apparently permanently - as several factors have combined to cut U.S. demand for gasoline, Podratz said.
New oil moving on the Alberta Clipper will probably keep moving south, on another Enbridge pipeline - called the Southern Access - to refineries in Illinois and Indiana, such as a new BP refinery outside Chicago.
Had Murphy Oil decided to build its massive expansion in Superior, first unveiled in 2007, the Alberta Clipper probably would have supplied Murphy. Experts say U.S. demand for gasoline may have peaked in 2007 and may never get that high again. Gas demand is down because of the recession, higher gas prices, higher-mileage cars, older Baby Boom drivers driving fewer miles, conservation efforts and other reasons.
Meanwhile, Podratz said the U.S. is importing more and more refined gasoline from refineries overseas, lowering demand for U.S. refineries even more.
"There have been some U.S. refineries closed in the past year, three I think. ... So we've decided that it's not the best time to be expanding, especially at that kind of cost,'' Podratz said. "Unless things change substantially I don't see it (the Superior expansion) happening.''
The $1.2 billion U.S. segment of the pipeline is part of an $8 billion, 1,000-mile pipeline system expansion that will bring oil from Alberta into the U.S., across Minnesota and into Wisconsin. From Superior, the oil could either be refined at the Murphy Oil facility or piped another 450 miles to Illinois.
The pipeline will carry about 450,000 barrels of oil, or 19 million gallons, into the U.S. every day. That's in addition to the 67.2 million gallons the company already moves through existing pipelines along the same route.
More than 3,000 construction workers, many of them skilled union tradesmen, were on the job since September, including welders making more than 40,000 pipe connections.
Two pipelines were laid side-by-side, one 36 inches in diameter and another 20 inches. Crude oil will flow south while a refined product used to dilute thick tar-sand crude oil will flow north.
There were 326 miles of pipe laid in Minnesota. Each piece is 72 feet long. That's 21,516 pipes for each of the two lines, or more than 43,000 pieces of pipe.
More than 1,000 excavators, bulldozers and other pieces of heavy equipment were on the job.
Enbridge, based in Canada with a U.S. subsidiary based in Houston, Texas, is the largest transporter of Canadian oil into the U.S. Even before the new pipeline, Canada is already the largest supplier of oil to the U.S., topping Venezuela, Mexico and Saudi Arabia.
The company says it obtained more than 60 federal, state and tribal permits for the pipeline and that the federal environmental impact statement totals more than 3,700 printed pages.


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The passage of Pennsylvania's $27.8 billion budget on Oct. 9 after a 101-day stalemate was good news, but it still leaves Penn State and other state-related institutions without an appropriation.
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The following is a statement from State Representative Marc Veasey, candidate for Texas' Congressional District 33, on this morning's ruling from the Supreme Court on the Affordable Care Act:
"Today's decision is a victory for all Americans and I'm excited about the prospect of joining the fight in Congress to continue this work. America is now closer than ever to the day when no one need worry about the catastrophic consequences that can result from getting sick without insurance. However, there is much work to be done and, if elected, I will be proud to join our President in completing that work."
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The Aiken County Coroner's Office has identified a man killed early Saturday in a single-car accident and they suspect the car had been stolen.
The driver, who died at the scene, was identified as Ivory Kirkland Jr., 36, of Aiken. the vehicle he was driving was alleged to have been stolen some time that night, the coroner stated in a news release. There were no other details.
According to a news release from Coroner Tim Carlton, the accident took place about 1:45 a.m. near 200 Outing Club Road.
The vehicle, a Saturn with a Georgia license plate from Chatham County, appeared to have been traveling north when it left the road and struck a drainage culvert. It overturned, partially ejecting the driver – the only known occupant of the vehicle.
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Jon Stewart was in rare form during the latest segment of "Gaywatch" on last night's episode of The Daily Show.
The hilarious host started off his segment on LGBT issues with a warm-up, mocking former Vice President Dick Cheney's daughter Liz Cheney — who is currently running for Senate — for failing to support her lesbian sister's marriage during a recent interview by stating that she believes in "traditional marriage."
Next Stewart cranked up the heat by unleashing a wave of LOL-inducing one-liners aimed at greeting card company Hallmark for removing the word "gay" from the lyrics of a Christmas carol printed on one of the company's new keepsake ornaments.
"Why stop there, Hallmark?" Stewart chided. "There are so many other terms that are open to interpretation — yule log, candy cane, stocking stuffers. Come to think of it, I don't think any holiday has gayer verbiage. What about Santa going down the chimney? That could mean something else. Especially if there's a guy named Chimney."
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With a tough love that breeds a deep loyalty, UNLV baseball coach Tim Chambers is bringing the program around the bases
Tim Chambers demanded that someone open the cherrywood casket. He wanted one last look at his father. He asked the grieving widow, Mrs. Chambers, to open it. She refused. He asked the priest. In front of the mourners who'd gathered at the funeral home, Chambers threatened to fling it open himself. Finally, the place was cleared, the lid lifted. His father, Connie Chambers, lie in repose, a soft pack of Marlboro Lights and a square of chocolate cake on a napkin on his chest. Tim nodded. He sat next to his wife Kim, finally satisfied. Good riddance, Tim thought.
Good riddance to the man Tim says he had once hit in the head with a cast-iron skillet after Tim found his pregnant mother Rena on the kitchen floor — after she'd been kicked into submission by Connie. Good riddance to the deadbeat dad who favored the bar stool over his family, the man who never saw his son play in one of his many athletic events. The man who used an extension cord as a whip. The man who'd make Tim stand naked in the corner, hands on his ankles, for hours. Near the end of his life, the frail father cowered in the presence of his adult, athletic son; but Tim only ever struck in defense. The grating shrill of that voice would never again ring in Tim's ears.
Or so he thought. It is the epic paradox of the son's life, then, that the old man still lingers in Chambers' mind 16 years after his death.
"I hope he's up there, watching," the 49-year-old UNLV baseball coach says with contempt. "I want him to be crying right now as he sees me. I don't know if you go somewhere 'after,' but I hope so. I live my life to be everything he wasn't."
That everything includes an unabashed love for his wife Kim, his daughters McKenzie and Chase, and scores of "sons" who've played baseball for him at Bishop Gorman High School, the College of Southern Nevada and UNLV. His success will result in Chambers becoming the first active coach to be inducted into the Southern Nevada Sports Hall of Fame at the end of the month.
"There are a whole bunch of people who can't f---in' believe that I'm doing what I'm doing right now," says Chambers.
The hat trick
A simmering anger drives him, but Chambers is also animated by a host of desires and compulsions that keep the already-restless baseball coach relentlessly busy. An attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder has something to do with Chambers's innate aggressiveness, and he's open about treating his ADHD with Adderall because he wants others with the affliction to know that they can still lead rewarding lives. His intense phobias of mice, snakes, heights and airplanes (his players constantly soothe him in the last row) are legend. He only needs three hours of sleep, tops. He's a clean freak of the highest order and can be found sweeping the aisles of his own stadium.
While honored by the call from the Hall of Fame, Chambers is far from finished. He can't name anyone who has coached high school, junior college and university baseball in one town, much less won at each stop. Call it the Chambers Hat Trick. That legacy will be crowned, he predicts, when he takes the Rebels to the College World Series in Omaha, the penultimate stage of the NCAA Tournament. The first weekend, the regionals, is followed by the super regionals, and then eight teams go to Omaha. UNLV has played in eight regionals, but never advanced. In his fourth season, Chambers says he won't be surprised if UNLV gets to Omaha this season. It has become a program of such national significance that it could host its first regional in late May, too.
Chambers isn't the only one with high expectations. M Resort President Anthony Marnell III is so bullish about his former Bishop Gorman coach's performance at UNLV that he's overseen plans for the construction of a multi-million-dollar baseball facility to rival the complexes at the country's premier colleges. Watching Chambers transform UNLV's Wilson Stadium from a shoddy yard into a shiny jewel with $1 million in private donations and trade-outs over four years convinced Marnell that investing in Chambers would be a wise financial move for his family. Indeed, Before Chambers arrived, a right fielder could only view the batter from the knees up; dips and bumps littered the diamond, an atrocity in a game that demands an even playing field. A Bobcat excavator scraped it flat. Today, the Bermuda with rye over-seed is full and manicured. It's the finest diamond in the city.
Central Michigan visited in mid-February and Chippewas coach Steve Jaska told his players, "This is the epitome of college baseball right here, boys."
"That's why I do it," Chambers says. "I don't do it for me, I do it for the kids."
As long as he wants it
The new complex, with 11,000 total square feet on two levels, will feature separate plush clubhouses for coaches and players, 26 flat-screens, batting cages and a host of state-of-the-art luxuries just past the right-field foul line. As of this writing, a shovel could have already split the earth open over there, and Chambers also might have inked a new five-year contract extension. That would culminate a delicate three-way dance in which Marnell hasn't been certain about UNLV's commitment to Chambers, whose existing contract takes him through 2015, and UNLV hasn't been certain about Chambers; at least one Big 12 Conference program has shown interest in him. Chambers isn't entirely certain either. He doesn't want to leave Las Vegas, but his priority is his family's security.
When Neal Smatresk was the president of UNLV, he and several associates met with Chambers, Rebels athletic director Tina Kunzer-Murphy and Marnell to discuss his proposal for a new complex. The 40-year-old Marnell oversaw the proceedings inside his spacious, elegant presidential office of the M Resort. Marnell told everyone that he was only pursuing this for one person.
"Because of that guy" — Marnell looked at Chambers — "and what he did for me." His loyalty isn't blind; he played for and matured under Chambers at Gorman. Marnell pressed Smatresk about Chambers. According to multiple attendees, Smatresk glanced at Chambers and said, "It's his job for as long as he wants it." For her part, Kunzer-Murphy raves about Chambers. She says UNLV is committed to making a long-term investment in him and that a contract extension is imminent.
Moreover, Kunzer-Murphy reacted just as strongly about the possibility of Las Vegas playing host to a regional. In mid-April, UNLV owned a stout Ratings Percentage Index of 16 and Baseball America, the bible of the college game, projected UNLV as one of 16 regional venues — although a five-game losing streak dropped the Rebels to 25-15 at press time.
"We'll do whatever we can to host a (baseball) regional," Kunzer-Murphy says. "(Wilson Stadium) is such a great park. We want to showcase that. What other place has four hotels across the street? I'm not buying that the NCAA 'has to look at it.' There's nothing on their record books saying that they can't come here. The time is now. This nonsense has to stop."
Marnell believes it would be just as nonsensical to misconstrue his generous gift as leverage to get Chambers a sweet deal with UNLV. It's a simple matter of Chambers, UNLV and Las Vegas deserving such an amenity, Marnell says. Marnell recalls being in an 0-for-30 slump at Gorman, certain he'd get benched. Instead, Chambers told him, You're still my guy. You'll get through this. You know what you're doing. Have fun. That day Marnell collected three hits. He went to the University of Arizona and played three seasons in the San Diego Padres' system, and he wishes he never played for anyone but Chambers.
"This isn't just about baseball, it's about life," Marnell says. "Everything he says and does helps you. I'm a big believer in results. I'm happy he's having success. He's worked for it and he's earned it. He has a phenomenal way of turning boys into men. Again, it's not just about baseball. It's life."
Wes Hunt discovered that truth. He had lived with his mother in Texas, where he abused drugs. He moved in with his father in Las Vegas, played baseball at Shadow Ridge High School, but still hung out with the wrong crowd and kept doing drugs. Chambers gave him a scholarship to play at CSN. He continued smoking marijuana. Chambers took him by the collar and shook him.
"He isn't afraid to get in your ass and tell you the truth. I thank the Lord for that every day," says Hunt. Today, as Chambers' student manager, his various duties include tending to the diamond year-round. He also records the coach's insights in a diary. Before an April game, Chambers turned to Hunt in the dugout and said, Wesley, this is a national powerhouse. "Yeah, it's gonna be," answered Hunt. "No, right now," Chambers said. "This team has some swagger. It's this close. Once we get the new clubhouse, it'll go nowhere but up."
They'll bleed for you
As a kid, Chambers wore his brown hair to his shoulders, stole bikes and got booted from school after school in Southern California. His mother moved him, his brother and sister to Utah. At Pleasant Grove High School, baseball coach Jon Hoover tamed the wild thing. Chambers figures he had been in 150 fights in his rudderless, largely fatherless youth. He has called Hoover "dad" for decades.
He was still combative when he took over the Gorman program; once, he spat a lip full of Copenhagen at the face of an umpire who dared to point a finger at his chest. "All young coaches want to change the world. He came out fired up. We laugh about (his ferocity) now," says Kevin Higgins, a UNLV assistant coach who first met Chambers at Gorman in 1992 and went on to play one major-league season for San Diego.
That summer, Chambers heard famed manager Sparky Anderson speak at a convention in Anaheim. Call your kids names if you need to, and belittle them as much as you want, Anderson said, and they'll win for you. But if you love them, they'll bleed for you.
Those words still resonate with Chambers. Every day, the UNLV dugout looks as if a 30-year reunion of an Army platoon is taking place. Hugs are countless. Betray him and know eternal scorn, but Chambers is buoyed by the legions of former players who return for advice or to just say hello.
He left Gorman to start the program at what is now the College of Southern Nevada and vowed to make it a national player within five years. In his fourth season, in 2003, it won a Junior College World Series championship. In 2010, Chambers coached the precocious 17-year-old Bryce Harper, making a pit stop at CSN after his sophomore year at Las Vegas High School en route to the major league draft. The strategy worked to perfection, and Ron and Sheri Harper say it couldn't have been accomplished without Chambers, who had known the Harpers for 10 years.
Still, that season was laced with conflict. Harper was a tempest, tossing his helmet and kicking water coolers. In Carson City, Chambers nearly benched the irascible Harper, which could have led to irreparable damage between Ron Harper and Chambers. Sheri Harper mediated, calming both sides.
The season that launched Bryce Harper to pro ball also springboarded Chambers to UNLV. He brought a dozen players from CSN, but that wasn't a recipe for success. Many of them played above their station in Division-I ball, and the cliquish clubhouse became caustic. The Rebels were mediocre. Worse, a spinal disc issue threatened to sever Chambers's sciatic nerve. A delicate surgery enabled him to get back on his feet last season, when UNLV went 37-20. This season, he is back to coaching third base full time as the de facto face of his team on his diamond during games.
Effort will not be negotiated
Chambers constantly fine-tunes the tension of his leash on the Rebels. He forbids facial hair, but slugger Pat Armstrong, a leader, grew a mustache. Teammates followed the trend. Somebody slapped signs around the park over winter break: FEAR THE 'STACHE. Chambers relented; he even sported a salt-and-pepper goatee for a while. But he outlaws jeans on the road, and players get a face full of Chambers if they turn their caps around backward. It's about perception, he says. He doesn't want anyone to think he's coaching a bunch of miscreants. Everyone knows what Chambers expects of his players by the words on the inside of the scarlet I-beam above the stadium entrance: ENERGY AND EFFORT WILL NOT BE NEGOTIATED PERIOD.
The players resort to all sorts of rally tactics in the dugout. They wear their belts around their heads. They do a collective mime act in which ace pitcher Erick Fedde tosses an imaginary grenade and everyone ducks in unison. They get every Rebel to gather on the far right side of the bleachers — known as the Right Side Rally. The shenanigans can irk assistant coaches, but Chambers quietly tells them to chill, to let the players develop their own vibes.
Chambers earns their devotion. In the season opener, he whistled — upper front teeth hard on his lower lip — at right fielder Edgar Montes to scoot in five or six steps. A heartbeat later, a right-handed batter flailed a liner to Montes, who sprinted in to make a diving catch that he wouldn't have made otherwise. "Gut feeling," said Chambers. Montes and the rest of UNLV's fielders glove-slapped Chambers on his backside as they stepped down into the dugout after the inning. "Just got to listen to him," Montes said as he shook his


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He is very considerate and treats me like a queen. He insists on dropping me off right at the door when it rains, then he will go park the car. He makes tea for me when I don't feel well. We got along great on our 5000+ mile road trip this summer, even during our fender bender accident on an interstate!
We go to the gym together, which I really really like! No other man has ever been willing to go to the gym with me. We are going through his younger brother's slow fade from cancer together and will be taking our 3rd trip to see him since early July. He just hands me the phone so I can coordinate travel arrangements with his sister. He (my SO) has had a surprise hospitalization and we stayed in harmony during that.
In other words, we have been through several BIG stresses/strains since he first told me he had feelings for me eight months ago! And we just grow closer and closer.
I know that our beginning, not too long after my husband died, was worrisome to some here. Especially since my SO was "only" separated (had been for well over a year). And it worried some that he appeared to be courting/"grooming" me before my husband died. What I have found so far is that he does not seem to be the cold, calculating type. I've known him now for over two years (first as only neighbors and friends). He is what he says he is and does what he says he will do.
We still share a commitment to help our elderly neighbors as much as we possibly can. We give rides, he looks at cars for folk, we help a friend by paying for vet care for her dog, etc. He volunteers with the state department of emergency management and just completed a course with county where he got to use the jaws of life, learned search and rescue technique, got to use a fire hose, etc.
My message: trust your gut. Mine said and still says that he's a truly good guy.....even though there were a few yellow flags. Besides....everybody likes a happy story around here!
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Mar 23, 2009 - 11:46 pm
HI Everyone:
My sister has been diagnosed with T3 N0 M0 squamous cell cancer of the throat. I have gotten all the information I can from her. She was a bit dazed today at her doctors and didn't retain a lot of the more terminological sounding details.
In October 2008 she started having problems with her voice. She and her family had just moved to Texas, so she thought it was an allergic reaction to the change in climate. She decided to go to the doctor and have it checked a little later on (can't remember when) and her doctor told her she had a polyp on her vocal chords that needed to be removed. So surgery was scheduled, and at the beginning of March she had it removed. It turned out to be malignant, and the PET scan she had provided the above results.
I am wondering if anyone here has any information to share, or has survived this diagnosis. Of course, we are worried about her voice box and would like to avoid a laryngectomy.
She is scheduled to go in on April 2 for a combination of chemo/radiation treatments, and will have to undergo these for 7 weeks, every single day.
I would appreciate any feedback anyone can give. She is 51 years old and has never smoked. She has also never drank excessively, however, at this point we're not all that concerned as to what caused it, we'd just like to know the chances if it going away after treatment, with her voicebox intact. Has anyone out there survived the same diagnosis, and does the treatment really work? I have read a lot on the internet already, but need inspirational stories of survival to share with her. We are extremely grateful to God that it hasn't spread to her lymph nodes or any of the surrounding area.
I'm a bit confused, because at first I thought they had removed the entire tumor, but tonight she said they had only removed the part that had wrapped around her vocal chord. So I am not completely clear as to whether or not the tumor was ON the vocal chord or just near it. She said something tonight like it was above the vocal chords, which to me sounds like a Supraglottal tumor. She also said there is some of the tumor left, and that is why she needs radiation and chemo. I had thought earlier that they had gotten most of the tumor, and there were cells left at the site of attachment.
At any rate...any feedback that can be provided will be appreciated. God Bless...
Mar 24, 2009 - 12:16 am
jeff i think you could call what your sister has as squamous cell, im not a pro but from the sounds of what you decribed thats what it sounds like, if you look or search youll see many differnt stories, advice, help , support under that wording of cancer.
There are many people here on this site who have beat this and are doing absolutely well.
here is my story
Mom was so worried about losing her voicebox that they told her they would do everything to save it. Well they only took out the top and said they were positive they got all the cancer after removing ALL lympth nodes. (i swear they should have removed it all and it never would of came back) Well in Jan 08 cancer came back and had metasisided to both lungs NSCLC. They were going to keep an eye because it was to soon to do treatments and she wasnt able to have anymore raditation to much scar tissue and she wasnt healed yet form surgery. so in April 08 we tried taxotere chemo was having hard time breathing had to put trache tube back in (the edema(swelling) of her face got to be so bad at days that she couldnt even open her eyes she looked like elephant woman. in June 08 pet showed chemo wasnt working stop all treatments. She was a fighter and tried really hard for me and my sister to survive and beat this.
My mom went through alot in just that short time It was alot of hospital stays back and forth doctors numerous treatments but I was always there with her right till the last morning.
May God bless you all during this terrible time and may he find you peace and security throughout your ordeal and fight.. I will say prayers for you ,
Mar 24, 2009 - 12:37 am
Thank You Tracy for your hope and your story. I know my Sister can get through this. I am going to do all I can to support and help her. Thank you also for your prayers...My Best to You, Jeff
Mar 24, 2009 - 2:47 am
Jeff, there are a host of inspirational folks on this site, and reading the board here will enforce that for you, if you are patient enough.
In the meantime, I am an SCC survivor of tongue and neck cancer, as of the first of September, 2005. I was a stage 3 survivor when they got to it, and I am now NED (no evidence of disease), here in March of 2009, although I will admit to a couple of hard knocks along the way.
Perhaps more importantly, in your sister's case, I play golf with a guy on a regular basis who had, not surgery, but chemo and radiation for his vocal chord cancer, and this was at least six years ago, because it pre-dates my own first bout with cancer by quite some time. He was about your sister's age at the time and he was strong and healthy and beating me on the golf course (a rather easy thing to do, but still).
I am not so sure about some of what YOU say your sister says about what the DOCTORS say. It sounds as though, perhaps, as in my case, they did the surgery and now want to do chemo and radiation to assure that they get all of the 'stray's'.
It may also be that they simply could not get all of the cancer, although in that location I would be perplexed...except for the desire to save the chords.
Riding from one hole to another one time, my friend advised that he would rather die than let them take his vocal chords. Pre-cancerous me insisted that this was totally out of character for him, that his vocal chords were not necessary to live a quality life.
A lot has happened to me since then, but I stick by that.
I once worked with a guy in his 60s, in the COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE INDUSTRY where you HAVE TO BE ABLE TO TALK who had one of those voice gadgets, and all that it did was make him more memorable, more distinctive, and more courageous, in the eyes of all he dealt with.
Best wishes to your sister and her family, with special kudos to her caring brother!
Take care,
Mar 24, 2009 - 12:46 pm
Hi Soccer:
Thanks for the inspirational story, and also congratulations on your NED status. Just got off the phone with my Sister and she is so strong. I know she is going to get through this. And you are right, they got the tumor out
Thanks again for sharing,
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Issue 40 Hair Winter 2010/11
The Cinematic Spasm
Aaron Schuster
Rub your hands thrice across your foreheads—blow your noses—cleanse your emunctories—sneeze, my good people!
Hitchcock's Missing Sneeze Alfred Hitchcock in conversation with François Truffaut: "I made North by Northwest with tongue in cheek; to me it was one big joke. When Cary Grant was on Mount Rushmore, I would have liked to put him inside Lincoln's nostril and let him have a sneezing fit."1 Imagine Cary Grant, pursued by James Mason's goons, sliding down the presidential proboscis, then hiding in the gaping nostril; or else, suddenly finding himself beneath the massive granite protuberance and pausing to catch his breath. Either way, the gambit is blown by an untimely bout of sneezing. This exquisite nose gag, however, was never filmed. As screenwriter Ernest Lehman recounts: "The Parks Commission was rather upset at this thought. I argued until one of their number asked me how I would like it if they had Lincoln play the scene in Cary Grant's nose. I saw their point at once."
Hitchcock was essentially a comic filmmaker. During a 1967 interview, when asked by an audience member why he'd never made a comedy, the director countered, "But every film I make is a comedy."2 Along these lines, I believe it is one of Hitchcock's minor films that provides the key to his oeuvre. The Trouble with Harry, a film about the upheavals caused in a tranquil rural community by the appearance of an inconvenient corpse, exemplifies two of the defining elements of Hitchcock's cinematic technique: the art of dialectical reversal—the bucolic countryside as the setting for a murder mystery or, in other films, Hitchcock's penchant for cold blondes who signify fiery sexual passion—and the eminently English capacity for understatement, as when the lady who stops a man dragging a corpse ask matter-of-factly, "What seems to be the trouble?" Even Vertigo, a cinematic version of Freud's "Mourning and Melancholia" if there ever was one, contains plenty of humorous touches. Think of the droll exchange near the beginning about a brassiere designed by an "aircraft engineer" on the principle of the cantilever bridge—no doubt a reference to the amply bosomed Kim Novak, who replaced the more modestly chested Vera Miles, Hitchcock's first pick for the role of Madeleine/Judy.3
Did the master of suspense have a favorite comic scene? In the same interview we read: "I think one of the funniest films I have ever seen is Laurel and Hardy in a film called Bonnie Scotland. The longest take I have ever seen on the screen comes when the two of them are standing on a Scottish bridge and Laurel is taking snuff. And he sneezes right into the snuff box. And all the snuff goes into Hardy's face. It was then the longest take I have ever seen before anything happens. And finally, this long sneeze comes. The sneeze is so big that he tilts backwards into the river below. Laurel is left on the bridge and nothing came up but water and fish every few seconds." Perhaps it was this delightful slapstick sequence, with its impeccable timing and exaggerated gestures—Laurel, still on the bridge, is drenched by water launched by Hardy's vigorous sneezes (indeed, at one moment the camera itself is drawn into the whirlpool)—that set Hitchcock's comic imagination into motion. Lehman wanted to write the "Hitchcock picture to end all Hitchcock pictures." What would it mean to film the ultimate sneeze?
The Philosophy of the Sneeze This impressive respiratory reflex, which can spew some forty thousand particles at a rate estimated between 90 and 650 miles per hour (nearly eighty-five percent the speed of sound), has long inspired the human imagination and given rise to all kinds of mythic beliefs and speculations. There is a whole "romance and tragedy" of sneezing across cultures and history, a seemingly universal fascination with the explosive bodily phenomenon as remarkable sign, omen from the gods, or vehicle for the soul's passage.4 And though a marginal topic, it has even on occasion elicited serious philosophical inquiry.5
The philosophy of the sneeze can be said to have begun with Aristotle, who in the History of Animals wrote that "sneezing is the only sort of breath that has divinatory significance and is supernatural."6 In the section of Problems concerned with the nostrils, the philosopher analyzed questions such as: Why does sneezing stop hiccups? (The violence of the sneeze breaks up the trapped air which causes hiccups); Why does looking at the sun provoke sneezing? (Aristotle attributes what we now call the "photic sneeze reflex"7 to the heat of the sun evaporating bodily moisture, producing an excess of breath which is then expelled through the nose); Why is sneezing considered divine, but not farting and burping? (The head is the most sacred part of the body); and, Why does man sneeze more than any other animal? (Human beings have a unique combination of wide breath channels and small, short nostrils).
In contrast to this classic systematic approach, Aristotle's teacher presented the sneeze in a much more playful fashion, as a figure of humor and romance in a dramatic scene. Plato's Symposium, one of the great texts on love in the Western tradition, is also the site of one of its most profound sneezes, occurring at a crucial turning point in the dialogue.8 During the speech of Pausanias, Aristophanes suffers from a fit of hiccups, forcing a rearrangement of the order of the speakers (the pure slapstick aspect of the Symposium is highly underappreciated—one has to imagine Pausanias lecturing the half-inebriated party guests about Athenian law on pederasty with Aristophanes all the while hiccupping in the background). Eryximachus, a medical doctor (whose name means hiccup- or belch-fighter), takes Aristophanes' place after counseling the comedic playwright on various hiccup cures—hold your breath, gargle with some water, or else tickle your nose with something and sneeze. At the end of his discourse, in which love is portrayed as harmony and proper order, the good doctor observes that Aristophanes' hiccups have finally stopped. "Indeed," Aristophanes remarks, "[the hiccupping] did cease, yet not before in fact the sneeze was administered to it, so as to cause me to wonder that the orderly part of the body desires the sort of noises and ticklings of which the sneeze itself consists. For [the hiccupping] ceased just as soon as I administered the sneeze to [the orderly part]."9 Before launching into his tragic theory of love as the search for the missing half, the hiccuping-sneezing episode allows Aristophanes to open with a quick satire of Eryximachus's medical wisdom: as the sneeze cure would seem to demonstrate, the restoration of order in the body is ironically produced through the combination of two disorders. What else might Plato be telling us if not that, in the case of Eros, only one spasm can "cure" another?
The Modern Sneeze: Duchamp and Warhol Plato's playful linkage of the sneeze with Eros has been confirmed in later approaches to the phenomenon. The properly modern, twentieth-century sneeze is best exemplified by a pair of artworks, one by Marcel Duchamp, the other by Andy Warhol, which have some remarkable, if unintended, resonances between them.
Duchamp's assisted readymade, Why Not Sneeze Rose Sélavy? (1921), consisting of blocks of marble shaped like sugar cubes, a thermometer, and a cuttlebone shut inside a birdcage, all painted white, is one of the stranger of his constructions, doing for sneezes what his jagged cubist painting did for staircase-descending nudes. "Of course the title seems weird to you," Duchamp remarked, "since there's really no connection between the sugar cubes and a sneeze. First of all there's the dissociational gap between the idea of sneezing and the idea of Why not sneeze? because after all, you don't sneeze at will; you usually sneeze in spite of your will. So, the answer to the question, Why not sneeze? is simply that you can't sneeze at will!"10 If the first part of the title plays on the involuntary nature of the sneeze,11 the second conjures its erotic quality: Rose Sélavy is a wordplay on Eros c'est la vie, "Eros is life," and the pseudonym adopted by Duchamp in the 1920s, which he later spelled Rrose to underline the pun. If Rose/Eros does not sneeze, it is perhaps because, true to her nature as the child of Lack and Craftiness, the final satisfying release is left in abeyance.12
But there's more: "And then there's the literary side if I may call it that, but 'literary' is such a stupid word, it doesn't mean anything … but at any rate there's the marble with its coldness, and this meant that you can even say you're cold, because of the marble, and all of the associations are permissible."13 Like perhaps catching a cold (if I may be allowed this association, which does not, however, work in the original French)? This brings us to Warhol's Kitchen (1965), a film meant as a vehicle for Factory superstar Edie Sedgwick, and scripted by Theater of the Ridiculous inventor and key Warhol collaborator Ronald Tavel. Kitchen is one of the artist's lesser-known films, and it is still difficult to see a copy today; a year later, Tavel and Warhol would make the more renowned Chelsea Girls. Despite its obscurity, Kitchen is noteworthy for its aimless witty dialogue and its claustrophobic atmosphere. Norman Mailer enthused that "one hundred years from now they will look at Kitchen and see the essence of every boring, dead day one's ever had in a city and say, 'Yes, that is the way it was in the late Fifties, early Sixties in America. That's why they had the war in Vietnam. … That's why the horror came down.' Kitchen shows that better than any other work of that time."
Like Why Not Sneeze Rose Sélavy?, the movie takes place entirely in its own cramped little "cage": sound- and cameraman Buddy Wirtschafter's wholly white SoHo loft kitchen. The "mollusk-memoried" actress (in the words of Tavel) had trouble learning her lines, so parts of the script were hidden strategically throughout the set, and the starlet was told to sneeze whenever she didn't know the text. This made Sedgwick seem like she had a cold, and her many sneezes ended up providing the film with an unexpected comic dimension, punctuating the half-improvised, disjointed conversations bathed in blasé sexuality and downtown disaffection. Between the suspended sneeze of Rose Sélavy and the flurry of them let loose by the sniffling "It girl" lies the sneeze as object of modern conceptual cool.
Death, Sex, and the Origins of Cinema Let us now return to Hitchcock: the missing sneeze in "The Man in Lincoln's Nose" (one of the original titles of North by Northwest) in fact belongs to a venerable cinematic tradition. The Laurel and Hardy snuff-box gag that so delighted Hitchcock was effectively updated in Woody Allen's 1977 film Annie Hall, where Allen's character, Alvy Singer, pokes his nose in a cocaine-filled receptacle at a New York soirée, then sends a pricey plume of white powder into the air with a powerful sneeze. Behind all these nasal convulsions lie the antics of the early short film That Fatal Sneeze (1907). Directed by Lewin Fitzhamon for Hepworth and Company—Fitzhamon was a master of the emerging cinematic form, directing about four hundred pictures in his career—this madcap one-reeler is to my knowledge the most sustained filmic treatment of the subject. This time it's neither coke nor snuff that sets off the sneezing hijinks, but that classic nasal irritant, pepper. A middle-aged gentleman pours it liberally over his nephew's plate at supper, triggering a sneezing fit and much malicious laughter. The boy exacts his revenge later that night, sneaking into his uncle's room and sprinkling pepper on his personal effects, including his handkerchief. When the uncle awakes in the morning and gets dressed, he quickly succumbs to a sneezing fit, which precipitates an increasingly zany series of events: a bed is overturned, a vegetable stand knocked down, a policeman thrown to the ground, a house destroyed, an old woman's wig propelled into the air, and so on. Eventually, the sneezing becomes so violent it causes the whole world to shake (early special effects technique: the camera is placed on a rocking board).
The exaggerated explosiveness of the sneeze was also exploited for comic effect by the Marx Brothers. In fact, Harpo's only onscreen "line," occurring in At The Circus (1939), is a thunderous "Achoo!" which sends the furniture flying across a cramped little room. But That Fatal Sneeze goes one giant sternutation further. At the very end of the film, the poor man literally sneezes himself into oblivion, exploding in a cloud of white smoke—an optical illusion created by stopping the camera and replacing the actor with a small smoke pot. This scene may be viewed as staging a fundamental nasal fantasy: the supreme sneeze is a lethal one. And indeed, there is a long history connecting sneezing with death.
In the Middle Ages, the Bubonic Plague lent an aura of evil to the sneeze; Pope Pelagius II allegedly perished from the disease while sneezing. During the same period, the common practice of blessing a person after sneezing gained a new urgency; Pope Gregory VII enjoined his followers to say "May God bless you" as an equivalent to "I hope you may rid yourself of the bacillus."14 The Greeks considered sneezes to be miraculous signs; in the Odyssey, Penelope interprets her son's sneeze as a divine confirmation of her death wish against her suitors. Sneezes without prophetic relevance, on the other hand, were viewed as a disturbance of the gaseous or windy life-soul—the Greek word for soul is etymologically related to the word for blowing—and following a sneeze it was customary to say, "Zeus, save me."15 The Romans similarly saw sneezing as a potentially dangerous departure of life-spirit from the head, the passing away of what they called genius. In the Jewish tradition, there is an old belief that before the time of Jacob, the first man to perish from illness, sneezing was instantly fatal: a strong nasal blast expelled the life force from the body, reversing the movement of divine animation recounted in Genesis 2:7, "God blew into Adam's nostrils the soul of life." Such was the "surprising" nature of human mortality in ancient times: no sickness, no debility, no warning signs of any kind, just one sneeze and you're done for.
Cinematic interest in this highly charged reflex may be traced back to the very dawn of filmmaking. One of the first copyrighted motion pictures, inspired by Eadweard Muybridge's photographic studies of motion, was in fact a study of a sneeze. Made by W. K. L. Dickson at the Edison Laboratory and composed of eighty-one frames, this filmic "primal scene" features Fred Ott, an Edison employee who had a penchant for practical jokes. The film, titled Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze, or simply Fred Ott's Sneeze, developed a kind of mythical status, in part due to Ott's tireless self-promotion as the world's "first" movie star, with the sneeze footage put forward as the world's "first" movie. Like all origin stories, this one is mired in exaggerations and half-truths, which were eventually debunked by film historian Gordon Hendricks in a short article published in Adolfas and Jonas Mekas's avant-garde journal Film Culture. As Hendricks explains, the movie began as the brainchild of Barnet Phillips, a contributor to Harper's Weekly who proposed to Thomas Edison to write an article about the new peephole kinetoscope for which the journalist wanted the recording of a sneeze. The publicity-savvy Edison replied that he would be happy to furnish the requested footage. Two months later, after additional prompting by Phillips, Edison asked his assistant Dickson to shoot Sneeze. The film was copyrighted on 9 January 1894, not quite the first of its kind, as Dickson had already copyrighted several other short subjects in the previous months. Phillips's article, "Record of a Sneeze," appeared in Harper's Weekly on 24 March, accompanied by a reproduction of the entire footage. An excerpt of the article reads: "The Edison kinetoscope gives the entire record of a sneeze from the first taking of a pinch of snuff to the recovery. As seen in this wonderful mechanical device of Mr. Edison's invention, when he exhibits the series of photographs the figure actually sneezes, and the phonograph as an accompanist sounds the precise 'as–shew'. The illusion is so perfect that you involuntarily say, 'Bless you!'" One crucial detail: in the original proposal for the film, the sneezer was meant to be not the ruddy mustachioed Ott but "some nice-looking young person," "a woman." To paraphrase Godard: all you need to make a movie is a girl and a pinch of snuff.
In reference to Fred Ott's Sneeze, Mary Ann Doane writes that "contortions of the body and especially its involuntary and violent movement were perceived as particularly cinematic."16 It is the unique capacity of cinema to capture and break down movement, to reveal the secrets of normally imperceptible transitions and variations, that makes the sneeze such an attractive filmic subject. In his article, Phillips analyzed the roughly two-second gesture ("this curious gamut of a grimace") into ten constituent stages, each one identified with a corresponding frame: priming, nascent sensation, first distortion, expectancy, premeditation, preparation, beatitude, oblivion, explosion, and recovery. This remarkable phenomenology—practically indistinguishable from a description of religious or sexual ecstasy—again highlights the erotic character of the sneeze, and in her study of pornography, Linda Williams claims that the film ought to be situated between "the prehistoric scientific motion studies of Muybridge and the sensationalist later spectacles that were to mark the more advanced stages of primitive cinema and the primitive hard core."17 In effect, Edison's film is a rudimentary "money shot" that may be seen as part of the then-emerging scientia sexualis which aimed at revealing the secrets of bodily pleasure—especially female pleasure—through the use of photography and clinical observation.
A final cinematic reference makes this link between sneezing and feminine jouissance explicit in a totally ridiculous way: in a scene from the Steve Martin romantic comedy The Lonely Guy (1984), Larry (played by Martin) finally beds his love interest Iris, who confides that she has never had a "you know what." Larry's initial amorous advances produce no effect, until an inadvertent sneeze sends an ecstatic shudder through Iris's body. Capitalizing on this discovery, the hapless lover performs a series of sneezes in order to induce pleasure in the woman, thereby reversing the standard cultural obsession about female simulation. In this case, man has fake sneezes, woman has real orgasms.
Aaron Schuster is a writer based in Berlin, where he is a fellow at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry. He completed a PhD in philosophy at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, in 2010.
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Institute of Cell, Animal, and Population Biology, Ashworth Laboratories, University of Edinburgh
Mol Biol Evol 19:1407-20. 2002..2-0.6 per generation...
- Genome evolution: sex and the transposable elementS Wright
Institute of Cell, Animal and Population Biology, University of Edinburgh, King s Buildings, EH9 3JT, Edinburgh, UK
Curr Biol 11:R296-9. 2001..This is supported by recent studies which indicate that asexual genomes may be structured very differently to those of sexual species...
- Population dynamics of an Ac-like transposable element in self- and cross-pollinating arabidopsisS I Wright
Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1B1, Canada
Genetics 158:1279-88. 2001..lyrata than A. thaliana, which is consistent with a reduction in transposition rate, reduction in effective population size, or reduced efficacy of natural selection against element insertions in selfing populations...
- Subdivision and haplotype structure in natural populations of Arabidopsis lyrataStephen I Wright
Institute of Cell, Animal and Population Biology, University of Edinburgh, King s Buildings, Edinburgh, EH9 3JT, UK
Mol Ecol 12:1247-63. 2003..Complex population histories in both A. thaliana and A. lyrata complicate theoretical predictions and empirical tests of the effects of inbreeding on polymorphism and molecular evolution...
- Effects of recombination rate and gene density on transposable element distributions in Arabidopsis thalianaStephen I Wright
Institute of Cell, Animal and Population Biology, University of Edinburgh, Ashworth Laboratories, Edinburgh, Scotland EH9 3JT, UK
Genome Res 13:1897-903. 2003..thaliana. High rates of self-fertilization may reduce the importance of recombination rate in genome structuring in inbreeding organisms such as A. thaliana and Caenorhabditis elegans...
- Breeding systems and genome evolutionD Charlesworth
Institute of Cell, Animal and Population Biology, University of Edinburgh, Ashworth Laboratory, King s Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JT, UK
Curr Opin Genet Dev 11:685-90. 2001..Theoretical models predict how such populations are expected to differ from outcrossed populations, and DNA sequence data are being collected and used to test the predictions...
- Recombination and base composition: the case of the highly self-fertilizing plant Arabidopsis thalianaG Marais
Institute of Cell, Animal and Population Biology, University of Edinburgh, EH9 3JT Edinburgh, UK
Genome Biol 5:R45. 2004....
- Recombination: an underappreciated factor in the evolution of plant genomesBrandon S Gaut
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, USA
Nat Rev Genet 8:77-84. 2007..Much additional study of recombination in plants is needed to investigate these ideas further...
- Effective population size and tests of neutrality at cytoplasmic genes in ArabidopsisStephen I Wright
Department of Biology, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Genet Res (Camb) 90:119-28. 2008....
- Selection on amino acid substitutions in ArabidopsisJohn Paul Foxe
Department of Biology, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Mol Biol Evol 25:1375-83. 2008..Highly expressed genes show a reduced ratio of amino acid to synonymous change for both polymorphism and fixed differences, suggesting a general pattern of stronger purifying selection on high-expression proteins...
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Genetics 179:581-92. 2008..arenosa than in related diploid taxa but a near complete population bottleneck associated with the origins of A. suecica...
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Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JT, United Kingdom
Genetics 179:985-95. 2008..thaliana. Our data rule out balancing selection in the pericentromeric regions, suggesting that hitchhiking is more strongly reducing diversity in the chromosome arms than the pericentromere regions...
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J Mol Evol 64:136-41. 2007..The results suggest that composition evolution is caused by a change in mutation bias or biased gene conversion, rather than by a reduction in the efficacy of natural selection in selfing Arabidopsis...
- Selective constraints on codon usage of nuclear genes from Arabidopsis thalianaBrian R Morton
Department of Biological Science, Barnard College, Columbia University
Mol Biol Evol 24:122-9. 2007..Overall, the study supports previous suggestions that selection plays a significant role in determining codon usage of nuclear genes in A. thaliana...
- Testing for effects of recombination rate on nucleotide diversity in natural populations of Arabidopsis lyrataStephen I Wright
Department of Biology, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Genetics 174:1421-30. 2006..lyrata populations is not related to recombination rate, including genic recombination hotspots, and low gene density in the low recombination rate region...
- The effects of artificial selection on the maize genomeStephen I Wright
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
Science 308:1310-4. 2005..If we assume that our sample of genes is representative, approximately 1200 genes throughout the maize genome have been affected by artificial selection...
- Molecular population genetics and the search for adaptive evolution in plantsStephen I Wright
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, USA
Mol Biol Evol 22:506-19. 2005..Eventually, candidate loci should be confirmed by explicit consideration of phenotypic effects...
- The HKA test revisited: a maximum-likelihood-ratio test of the standard neutral modelStephen I Wright
Institute of Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Ashworth Laboratories, Edinburgh EH9 3JT, United Kingdom
Genetics 168:1071-6. 2004..The method is also applied to polymorphism data in maize, providing support for the hypothesis of directional selection on genes in the starch pathway...
- Effects of gene expression on molecular evolution in Arabidopsis thaliana and Arabidopsis lyrataStephen I Wright
ICAPB, University of Edinburgh Ashworth Labs, Edinburgh, UK
Mol Biol Evol 21:1719-26. 2004....
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Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America
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Division of Plant Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211, USA
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NIS America had been saying it was going to release the Hyperdimension Neptunia iOS app outside of Japan and now it's happened. Hyperdimension Neptunia The App, aptly named so you don't get confused about what you're getting, has opened up players to a new world in which Neptune and Noire, the anthropomorphic console goddesses that champion the nonexistant Sega Neptune and the very real PS3. For the low price of free, you can start interacting with the two characters.
Don't get your hopes up, as these interactions aren't incredibly in-depth. Hyperdimension Neptunia The App is a mix of a day planner and virtual girlfriend. Players can pick which of the two characters they'll interact with and that character will greet him or her whenever they log in to update their schedules and check the time. Depending on how often you visit and spend time with Neptune and Noire, they'll even start to like you and get a bit more chatty.
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Hyperdimension Neptunia The App is clearly a gimmick app of the highest order. Believe it or not though, people will download it and pay or the bonuses. The series has become a cult classic with a surprisingly large fanbase and Noire is often considered to be the most popular of the goddess characters. So while you're rolling your eyes, someone out there is splurging on Hyperdimension Neptunia The App extras. I say, good for them. Whatever floats their boat. And that isn't just because I would totally do the same if Aksys brought over some Hakuoki app like this.
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Dynasty Warriors 6 - PS2 - Preview
No hack-n-slash series is as famous (or infamous) as Dynasty Warriors. This weapon-based, button-mash-until-your-thumb-stops-moving adventure began with great success. The gameplay style differed from other well-known hack-n-slash titles, such as the Gauntlet series, and was considerably different from beat-'em-ups like Bad Dudes and Streets of Rage.
Over the past few years, Dynasty Warriors has fallen victim to ROILS: Resting On Its Laurels Syndrome. Once thriving with addictive pummel-to-no-end combat, the series began to rehash itself with sequels that didn't play any different from the current releases.
Dynasty Warriors 6, the newest chapter in this long-running franchise, won't change that. It doesn't showcase any radical differences. But if you've loved every game in the series and can't wait for each sequel, KOEI might have just the thing to satisfy your cravings.
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One of the selling points for Dynasty Warriors 6 will no doubt be its vast lineup of characters. All 41 of the characters present in the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions will be included in this PS2 port.
In the beginning, only 15 of them will be available, including Yue Ying and Sima Yi, two of the series' more unique characters. Each warrior comes with a different weapon (expect some overlap), and if you've been following the series carefully, you may notice that a few of the characters have had their traditional weapons swapped for something new.
Regardless of their recurrence in the series, some of the weapons manage to exert a bit of coolness that'll inspire players to take a second look. As Sun Shang Xiang you'll wield a multi-target-striking crossbow that fires three arrows simultaneously. The arrows fan out, with only one of them shooting straight down the middle. That's the arrow that will take out most of the enemies you come face-to-face with. Meanwhile, the other two will rain undying pain on nearby enemies who just happened to be standing within your bow's range.
Lucky for them, the health meter is a permanent part of Dynasty Warriors. Thus, you won't be able to kill off most enemies in one or two blows. Many will take several hits, while the average foe should be killed in about three or four assaults. This differs among characters, as the oversized sword-wielding Ma Chao may be able to pull off a close kill much faster, while Cao Pi (whose weapon resembles a spear) could take a little longer but have greater reach among his adversaries.
New Ranks
Calling upon the wisdom of RPGs, Dynasty Warriors 6 features a Renbu rank system that allows players to improve the strength and performance of their warriors. With every enemy who is struck and defeated (and laughably humiliated), your rank will start to grow. The game uses a 10-bar system, and more than 10 enemies must be defeated in order to fill every bar. Once full, you'll grow to the second rank, the only new status available in the early stages of the game. After that your warrior can achieve the third rank, followed by the final (infinite) rank that expands your ability to use elemental attacks.
Renbu won't change the way you play or look at the Dynasty Warriors series, as the gameplay is a mirror image of Dynasty Warriors 5. But if that game was to your liking, this sequel should be as well.
Pushing its way into retailers on November 18 (kind of like you will a week later on Black Friday), Dynasty Warriors 6's release is just around the corner. Stay with GameZone for our full review of the PS2 version in the coming weeks.