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I know that this is by no means traditional Phở, but instead think of it as a tasty interpretation of traditional Phở.
Phở is a Vietnamese noodle soup that has linguine like rice noodles, fresh herbs, a delicious broth and meat (typically beef or chicken…I prefer beef). Given my current situation of lets face it being extremely poor, there was no way that I could go out and buy all the ingredients to make the broth from scratch (it is on my list to do at some point though), so I used a Phở "starter" broth…it was a concentrated liquid broth that you add water to from Savory Choice. Pacific Naturals also has several Phở to choose from (which are delicious, if you haven't tried them yet, you should).
I started off by sauteing some fresh ginger, garlic, and turmeric in a large pot, then adding a whole bunch of vegetables, the liquid broth, and water, brought it to a simmer and let it hang out for a while. I was going to leave it just like that but remembered that in my little freezer I had a small piece (about 3 oz) of hanger steak. I defrosted that and quickly marinated it in some 50% less Sodium Tamari from San-J and about a tablespoon of chili paste. This turned out so delicious especially with the added Thai chili peppers and chili paste. You can add whatever vegetables or meat you wish. I would have added some cilantro, green onions, and bean sprouts if I had them.
"Phở" – Spicy Asian Vegetable Soup w/ Seared Hanger Steak
- 12 oz of hanger steak
- 1/4 cup 50% less sodium Tamari
- 2 Tablespoons Chili Paste
- 2 teaspoon oil, divided
- 2 garlic cloves roughly chopped
- 1/4 inch fresh turmeric minced
- 1/2 inch of fresh ginger minced
- 4 Thai chili peppers
- 1/2 cup diced carrots (purple, orange, white, etc.)
- 2 large portabella mushroom caps diced
- 1/2 cup shredded cabbage (green and/or red)
- 1/2 cup chopped baby bok choy (white parts. Green tops – chiffonade)
- 1/2 cup summer squash, julienne
- 3 packets of Savory Choice Pho Liquid Broth (Chiken)
- 6 cups of water
- 4 oz Sorghum noodles, broken in half
Toppings (optional):
- Bean Sprouts
- Cilantro
- Green Onions
- Lime Wedges
- Chili Paste
Method of Preparation
- In a container or bowl marinade beef in tamari and chili paste – set aside.
- In a large stock pot heat oil over medium heat.
- Add garlic, turmeric, ginger, and Thai chili peppers, cook for 2 minutes.
- Add carrots and mushrooms, and cook for an additional 3 – 5 minutes.
- Next, add shredded cabbage, bok choy (white parts), summer squash, liquid broth packets and water. Bring to a simmer
- Add in bok choy tops and sorghum noodles, continue to simmer until noodles are soft but not over done, about 10 minutes.
- In a small pan heat 1 teaspoon oil over medium-high heat.
- Once the oil is nice and glossy and moves easily around the pan, add steak.
- Cook for 3-4 minutes per side, depending on the thickness (you want a nice sear but not cooked throughout as it will finish cooking in the soup).
- Remove steak from pan, and let rest.
- Thinly slice steak against the grain.
- Ladle the soup into four bowls, top with 3 oz of sliced steak and any additional toppings mentioned above (optional)
- Serve immediately
This recipe is gluten-free and dairy free and can easily be made vegetarian!

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(CNN) -- A Kentucky mother stepped outside of her home just for a few minutes, but it was long enough for her 5-year-old son to accidentally shoot and kill his 2-year-old sister with the .22-caliber rifle he got for his birthday, state officials said.
The shooting that took the life of Caroline Sparks in southern Kentucky has been ruled an accident, Kentucky State Police Trooper Billy Gregory said.
"It's just one of those nightmares," he said, "a quick thing that happens when you turn your back."
Young children in the area are often introduced to guns at an early age, Gregory said.
"In this part of the country, it's not uncommon for a 5-year-old to have a gun or for a parent to pass one down to their kid," he said.
Her family kept the Crickett rifle in what they considered to be a safe spot, Cumberland County Coroner Gary White told the CNN affiliate.
The boy was playing with it Tuesday when it accidentally went off and killed his sister, White said.
"The little Crickett rifle is a single-shot rifle, and it has a child safety," White told CNN. "It's just a tragic situation."
The Crickett website features three .22-caliber rifle models for kids, with shoulder stock colors ranging from pink to red, white and blue swirls. "My first rifle" is the company's slogan.
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"He just picked (the gun) up before he realized it," grandmother Linda Riddle told WLEX.
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Riddle said she is devastated, but comforted knowing that her granddaughter is in a better place.
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Feb. 19, 2013-RORC Caribbean 600 Race
Yet even in this sheltered harbor we feel the wind. It sweeps over the island of Antigua and moans in tops of the rigs of the nearby yachts. A gust causes Wings to shudder, like a dog giving a little shake.
It must be rough out in the Atlantic.
And on this night there is a race going on out there, the Caribbean 600. It is the second night of Caribbean 600 race, which will take three or four days in total to complete. So on this night, while we contemplate a quiet evening of wine and good books and after that, a snug night in our warm bunks, there are sailors out there crouched down on the weather rail of their race boats, in their foulies, shivering maybe as the night's chill sets in. They are facing another night of pounding to weather and ducking spray. Probably there will also be some hard work when "all hands" are called to change a sail or put in a reef. Little sleep can be expected for those sailors tonight.
Start of RORC Caribbean 600.
And I am glad I am not out there.
Maybe I could have been. We were there in Falmouth Harbor the weeks prior to the start and some crew positions might have been available, for someone who wanted to hustle for one. I didn't do that. I even made up my mind that if I was offered a spot, and at one point it seemed likely that I would be, I'd turn it down. The Caribbean 600 is one of the prestige races in the world, like the Sydney Hobart almost, or Fastnet. Something most sailors would like to have on a CV, me included, and at one time in my life I would have done anything for the chance. But not now. However I have to admit that as the preparations reached a fever pitch I was excited, and I felt the pull. I am glad that the offer did not come through and my will power was not put to the test.
Because when night comes and sleep calls I want to be in my bunk, not out on the rail of a race boat pounding into the dark Atlantic Ocean.
We did go out for the start on Wings. It was rough. We set the main and sailed around the starting area taking a few photos and looking at the scene. The boats were mostly big ones, 80 to 200ft in length, crewed by a dozen or more hands. A few smaller ones, 48 to 50 ft. Everyone was dealing OK with the conditions prior to the start, even us on Wings, but it was a handful for us with the waves, the wind, the traffic, and trying to get some shots. We did it, see here for some of the photos, but afterwards, when the racers set off to weather towards Barbados, we turned downwind and sailed to Jolly Harbor, glad to get into port before nightfall.
I guess I've gotten lazy, hopefully wiser, probably just older, but I'm OK with it.
Click here for a few photos.
Fred & Judy, SV Wings, Antigua.


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SUNRISE, Fla. -- The Washington Capitals resorted to a familiar formula against the Florida Panthers -- find Alex Ovechkin and let him do the rest.
Ovechkin recorded his 12th career hat trick and added an assist, and the surging Capitals survived a late rally by the Panthers for a 4-3 victory on Saturday night.
Ovechkin scored twice from in close on the power play, and weaved through traffic for his other goal, as the Capitals (19-17-2) improved to 8-2-1 in their last 11 games in completing a four-game season sweep of the Panthers.
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The Southeast Division-leading Capitals, who scored at least five goals against Florida in their previous three games, struck quickly with a pair of goals from Mike Ribeiro and Ovechkin within 1:41 early in the second period.
Braden Holtby made 27 saves in posting his fifth career victory over the Panthers (12-20-6) without a loss.
Holtby continues to be impressed with Ovechkin, who has 13 goals in his last 10 games.
"He brings us energy. He's doing what we expect him to do," Holtby said. "That's the player we expect out of him and he's doing a great job of it."
The Panthers, who were seeking their fourth straight victory, rallied in the third period behind two goals from Tomas Kopecky and another by Peter Mueller.
Ovechkin, who has 23 goals this season, started his night by beating Jacob Markstrom from the stick side following a 5-minute boarding penalty to Panthers' defenseman Erik Gudbranson in the first period. Ovechkin tipped in a cross-ice pass from Ribeiro just over a minute following the major.
"The guys did a great job to find me. I just had to put it in the net," Ovechkin said.
Gudbranson's penalty, which included a game misconduct, followed a hit from behind to right-winger Martin Erat at the 14:37 mark of the first period.
Erat, who came over from Nashville and made his debut with the Capitals on April 4, was down for several minutes and had to be helped off the ice with a lower body injury. He did not return and will be re-evaluated Sunday morning.
Florida Head Coach Kevin Dineen made a critical error when he failed to send a player to the penalty box following Gudbranson's major. The result left the Panthers a man short even after the five-minute penalty had expired.
"That was a big changing, turning point in the game. It gets hung on me," Dineen said. "I didn't put a guy in the penalty box, the penalty expires, we have nobody to come out of the box, so we're still short and we ended up taking another [penalty]. They scored one at the beginning of the second. Bad coaching error by me."
The league's top power-play producers struck again with the man advantage just 43 seconds into the second period when Ribeiro was able to tuck in a loose puck after Markstrom made the initial save off a blistering slap shot by Mike Green from the high slot.
Washington coach Adam Oates felt the Gudbranson major set the tone for things to come.
"A five-minute power play, you obviously want to score a goal during that. We did; got us a little life," Oates said. "Then we got one to start the second period, so obviously the game is going in our favor there."
Washington made it 3-0 when Ovechkin maintained possession of the puck despite two poke-away attempts by Panthers' defenseman Filip Kuba and connected on a wrist shot past Markstrom.
Ovechkin then took a perfect feed from Marcus Johansson and sent a quick wrist shot past Markstrom for Washington's third power-play goal in five attempts.
The Capitals outscored Florida 32-12 in the four games.
"We play our way," Ovechkin said. "When everybody gets into the play and everybody plays hard and plays simple, it's going to work, especially with the kind of opportunities we had on the power play."
Markstrom surrendered four goals on the Capitals' first 22 shots.
Niklas Backstrom added three assists for the Capitals. He leads the team in assists with 33.
- The Capitals have won six straight games against Florida.
- Panthers' center Nick Bjugstad made his NHL debut, taking the ice at the 1:15 mark of the first period. He logged just over 13 minutes of ice time.
- Green, who had five goals in the past four games, was held scoreless.
- Florida forward Jack Skille returned to action following an upper body injury.
- Washington improved to 17-9-1 in its last 27 games following a 2-8-1 start.


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County reimbursed for industrial recruitment costs
WILSON � A check for more than $1 million that Sanderson Farms sent to Nash County is intended as compensation for costs incurred in a failed attempt to locate a chicken processing facility there.
The total reimbursement � $1,000,389.22 � was received in a letter from Bob Billingsley, director of development and engineering for Sanderson Farms, and announced by county officials Friday.
The money is intended to replenish Nash County and Carolinas Gateway Partnership funds used for legal and consulting fees to lure the new industry, attempts that were ultimately unsuccessful.
Sanderson Farms officials announced in November their decision to abandon plans to open a large-scale chicken processing plant in Nash County on N.C. 97 just north of the Wilson County line.
Bob Billingsley, Sanderson�s director of development, has said the company�s decision was related to the ongoing legal challenges that did not allow Nash County leaders to meet Sanderson�s project schedule without the possibility of delay.
�Being reimbursed for our legal fees and other project costs was not the outcome we had hoped for,� Nash County Commissioner Robbie Davis said in a written statement. �However, it makes the bitter pill of having lost the plant easier to swallow. This gesture is just another example of what a great company Sanderson Farms is and what an exemplary corporate citizen they would have been in Nash County.�
The city of Wilson had previously launched several lawsuits directed toward the Sanderson project due to concerns about area water supplies. City leaders joined with residents opposed to the plant who lived near the proposed site.
The Sanderson Farms project � more than two years in the making � has been embroiled in controversy because of health, environment and quality-of-life concerns but equally supported by Nash-area officials due to the economic boost the project could bring to the region.
�This reimbursement is great news for Nash County taxpayers,� Frank Harrison, chairman of the board for the Carolinas Gateway Partnership, said in a statement. �But it pales in comparison to the benefits that the actual Sanderson plant could have provided not just for Nash County, but for our entire region.�
Wilson Mayor Pro-Tem James Johnson III said he�s happy some of the taxpayers are being reimbursed.
�Our concern all along was the water,� Johnson said.
The city was particularly concerned about the unregulated proliferation of factory chicken farms and the waste they would produce, Johnson said.
�Hopefully, our state will step up to the plate and other cities won�t have to suffer a loss like the city of Wilson has money-wise,� Johnson added.
Sanderson officials have walked a fine line trying to balance company interests in expanding the corporation while keeping distance from local concerns. The project has been surrounded by three lawsuits, all designed to challenge the Sanderson project. And even though Nash County has won each lawsuit, Sanderson officials still made a decision to pull out.
Two prominent farmers had also sued, asking the courts to make Nash County�s purchase of 145 acres for the project void because the county bought the land without holding a public hearing.
The planned 185,000-square-foot processing plant was promised to create 1,100 jobs and a company investment of $95 million. Project supporters touted the significant economic impact of the project for a region suffering from chronic double-digit unemployment.
Mike Cockrell, Sanderson�s chief financial officer, did not say where the company would seek to locate its next plant.
Sanderson Farms has previously considered other areas of the state, including Wayne County, where an incentive draft was prepared but later removed when the company decided in 2011 to put the project on hold. The majority of the company�s work has been in Nash County where tests have been performed on the proposed plant site on N.C. 97 and property purchased for a hatchery.


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Lt. Col. John Darin Loftis, 44, was deployed to Kabul working with the Afghan national police when he was killed Feb. 25, 2012.
HURLBURT FIELD � One year after Air Force Lt. Col. John Darin Loftis was killed in Afghanistan, he spoke.
His voice, his image, his crystal blue eyes appeared on a video screen before about 200 people packed into an auditorium that was being named in his honor on Monday, the anniversary of his death.
�I don�t like the term hearts and minds because that can be twisted to just about anything, but what I do believe is that the people are the objective and enabling the government to serve the needs of its people is how the war is going to be won,� Loftis said.
His life, although cut short, had been dedicated to doing just that.
View a slideshow of images from the ceremony and Loftis' life.
View a video of Loftis' military career.
Loftis, 44, was deployed to Kabul working with the Afghan national police when he was killed Feb. 25, 2012.
He was shot while at his desk inside the heavily guarded Interior Ministry. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.
Loftis was on the last month of his yearlong deployment, he was set to return home to his family in Navarre in March.
On Monday, the Air Force Special Operations School at Hurlburt Field named an auditorium after Loftis, who had spent many hours teaching there.
It was a fitting tribute to a man who had been devoted to learning and teaching, both at home and abroad, said his wife Holly, who attended the ceremony with his two children, Alison, 14, and Camille, 11.
�And on today, the one year anniversary of his death, it means a lot to do something positive,� she said after the ceremony.
In 2009, Loftis volunteered for a nine-month deployment to work in Afghan communities, helping to set up schools and other infrastructure and educating and connecting with people living there.
He was one of only a few people in the Air Force fluent in Pashto, the language indigenous to Afghanistan and Pakistan.
In 2011, he was selected to be a part the AFPAK hands program, which was made up of people especially familiar with Afghan culture and regional issues. He was sent to Kabul.
In the video tribute, Loftis stands, smiling and holding hands with young Afghan boys, his machine gun at rest across his arm.
In another clip, he speaks Pashto to a group of men, then they all break into laughter.
An interviewer asks him what they were talking about.
�Oh just everything, everything,� he said, excitedly. �We talked about religion. We talked about the purpose of America here. I wanted to get their idea and I shared my idea.�
His death was a violent end for a man whose goal was forging peace through education and personal connection.
�He knew education opens doors and minds and that is the key to people understanding each other,� Holly said.
She said he had spoken about stopping to greet and wish well the Afghan security officers on Islamic holidays, such as Eid. He said if he were working on Christmas he hoped someone would do the same for him.
Army Col. Jim Green, now retired, was director of national police coordination during one of Loftis� deployments and worked closely with him.
He said there was never a stranger at the International Security Assistance Force in Kabul when Loftis was around.
�I think he was an introvert, really, but there was so much about him �his quest for knowledge and his quest to be an ambassador for America �anytime he saw a new person or someone who looked out of place or who simply looked lonely he would approach them and engage them in a meaningful conversation.�
He said Loftis would leave those conversations with a new friend and new knowledge and he would leave the person feeling like they mattered.
�He�s one of my personal heroes,� Green said, choking back tears. �I�m so happy to be here today and I�m sorry that I�m crying, but I just can�t help it.�
He was one of several dedicated officers who struggled to speak about Loftis as a man and as a warrior.
Air Force Col. Bill Anderson was commander of the Special Operations Training School during Loftis� tour.
�He challenged me often in difficult questions in our mutual hunt for the truth and what was right to do,� he said. �We are all better for Lt. Col. J.D. Loftis having tread these halls. ... We should be thankful for having known him.�
Anderson said he was still struggling to deal with the loss.
Holly said it�s been a really rough year for her and her daughters.
In parenting situations she tries to think of what her husband would do. It�s hard, though, because he was always surprising her or challenging her thinking.
He was a great father, she said.
When she asked her girls what they loved to do the most with their dad, Alison replied �everything.�
Her youngest, Camille, said fishing. She�d chosen that as her outing for daddy-daughter days on more than one occasion. She named every fish they caught.
Holly said events like Monday�s ceremony allow her to see people who knew her husband and hear them speak about him.
�That means a lot, just keeping his memory alive and his goals and dreams alive, too,� she said.
Holly said she hopes her late husband�s efforts at connection, at reaching out and trying to bridge gaps, and putting himself where he could try to make a difference, even if one handshake at a time, will be remembered.
The solemn group of men and women gathered for the ceremony seemed evidence that she had nothing to fear.
She stood at the end of the ceremony and thanked them.
She said shortly after her husband was killed she found a quote he had set aside.
�It said, �A man goes to war not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what�s behind him,�� she said, tears finally spilling over. �I just want to thank everyone for being here today and for being behind him.�
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Produced by the Canadian Children's Opera Company (CCOC), in association with Luminato, Laura's Cow: The Legend of Laura Secord is a musical extravaganza about the War of 1812's most famous story.
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Research in Motion (RIM) has teamed with cross-platform SDK specialist Marmalade to produce a special offer designed to highlight the power of BlackBerry 10 as a gaming platform built around open standards.
With RIM's BlackBerry developer conference season not far away, the firm has invited programmers to register to receive a Marmalade SDK license for the BlackBerry platform as well as a free BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. Once a developer has published an app on the BlackBerry App World storefront, the option to upgrade to the full Marmalade Indie license is then offered for free.
Developers are reminded that they can also use the Marmalade SDK to target other platforms, as the Marmalade SDK offers developers the option to develop natively with C/C++ or create hybrid apps in HTML5, thus targeting mobile devices as well as desktop and laptop computers.
The offer is hoped to show programmers that they can use these technologies to manage content across multiple operating systems. For its part, RIM is hoping that it will deliver what it estimates to be "thousands of new apps" in the lead up to the launch of BlackBerry 10.
RIM VP of developer relations Alec Saunders bullishly states that BlackBerry App World is one of the "most profitable mobile app stores" for developers, with more than 6 million applications downloaded every day. According to market analysis and strategy firm Vision Mobile, BlackBerry developers generate, on average, 4 percent more revenue per app per month than iOS developers and almost 40 percent more than Android developers.
NOTE: Many popular mobile games rely on Marmalade, from "Cut the Rope", "Plants vs Zombies", and "Draw Something" to high-performance titles like "Call of Duty", "Need for Speed", and "Pro Evolution Soccer". Beyond games, the Marmalade SDK sets out to allow developers to build "rich engagement apps" using features such as location, notifications, social media links, camera functionality, etc.


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11th February 2007, 02:20 PM
Well we travelled over 200 miles yesterday to pick up Belle, She is really tiny, much smaller at 9 weeks then Holly was. She travelled really well home and I managed to ger her to eat a very little last nite. We introduced Belle and Holly on neutral ground and it went well, Holly barked at first but soon settled down. Last night belle was in her crate with the door open. We left her in the kitchen with a nappy pad down. Holly was kept to her usual routine sleeping in her bed in our room. Belle really cried so Ive been up half the night cuddling her. Its really early days yet so I havent been lucky enough to get Belle to wee in her toilet place. As soon as I can I will post a photo of her. :D


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Stace-Naughton '11, Th'13 Pays It Forward as CEDC Fellow
By Anna Fiorentino
June 2013 • Thayer By Degrees: BE
This month, just one year after filing a patent for her vacuum-assisted tissue stabilization device designed to prevent tissue damage during endoscopic surgery, Alison Stace-Naughton '11, Th'13 was named Thayer's 2nd Cook Engineering Design Center (CEDC) Fellow. Now Stace-Naughton will be the one fostering innovation opportunities for other students, as was done for her two years ago leading up to the formation of her company Spiral-E Solutions, LLC.
She will spend this summer, after just receiving her BE, working with CEDC Director and Professor Ron Lasky, Professor William Lotko, and Professor Ryan Halter to coordinate alumni and industry sponsors. Sponsors submit $5,000 for student groups to solve a workplace problem—a hardware prototype, software program, a biotech process or a manufacturing process—in the fall and spring during the two-term capstone engineering design course, ENGS 89/90.
"I am hoping to explore more of the entrepreneurial focus at Thayer by finding the projects," says Stace-Naughton. The CEDC was established in 1978 with the support from John Brown Cook '29 to create a bridge between industry and Thayer School. "My job, which will end in September, is to fill the database with 70 good projects for ENGS 89/90, in biotech, biomed and mechanical and electrical engineering," she added. Stace-Naughton will be joined by the 3rd Thayer Design Fellow, Annie Saunders '12, who traveled to Haiti last year to research a cost-effective water pump for post-earthquake Haiti for her ENGS 89/90 project.
Her own biomedical company has, in the past year, made significant progress with help from Thayer School in creating a working prototype with fiber-optic capabilities that allows surgeons to effectively close an incision without complication, using vacuum pressure to stabilize tissue around the area. Ongoing fundraising, combined with $25,000 in prize money after placing first in the 2012 Greener Ventures Entrepreneurship Contest held by Tuck School of Business, has also allowed her to refine the prototype and add optional retractor blades to the device to help keep the working platform space open.
"We recently did a lab with Dr. Santiago Horgan, Chief of Division of Minimally Invasive Surgery at UC San Diego Health System and the Center for the Future of Surgery, who did some clinical validation for us that jump-started some more prototype development," says Stace-Naughton. She now manages Spiral-E Solutions after co-founding the company with ENGS 21: "Introduction to Engineering" classmates Ihab Basri '13 and Brenna Gibbons '12 and Ph.D. candidate Scott Snyder '00 Th'01.
Scott Schorer '90 Th'91, a medical-device industry professional, and Gregg Fairbrothers '76, founding director of the Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network, helped Stace-Naughton establish the company, file the patent, and connect with clinicians like Horgan to perform an ex-vivo study to validate the concept. Schorer, along with Ted Bertele, chief engineer at SB Technologies, LLC continue to work with Stace-Naughton on business and prototype development to meet a fundraising goal of $400,000 and ultimately get FDA approval so her device can land in clinics. Stace-Naughton also received a few pointers from Errik Anderson, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer for Adimab—an integrated antibody discovery and optimization company founded by Professor Tillman Gerngross—where she'll also be working part-time this summer, in addition to honing her management skills at the CEDC.
"My plate will be full as Cook Fellow, running my company and working at Adimab, but I am excited to dive into all of these jobs and see where it takes me," she says.comments powered by Disqus


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Competitions Robotics 3 - The Build and a Fast Line Follower using PID
by, 04-25-2011 at 02:16 AM (329715 Views)
Last time we covered the hardware we needed to assemble our robot. This time lets assemble it quickly and get it moving. And do some hello world in robotics , which is Line Following.
We will start with the Video of what we are going to achieve -
If you are building this and already have bought the parts I will assume that you will need little help assembling it , but I would like to give some pointers so that you dont make the mistakes which are usually made by people and things proceed fast for you.
Lets start with the PCB as it is the heart of your robot, the PCB files can be downloaded here.
Schematic and Board files in Eagle
Either get the PCB made by a PCB vendor or simply do it yourself using the Ferric chloride method ( tutorial ). This PCB is made for easy fabrication at home with all components available locally. Also this Board can easily be used for any of your own robots. And has been made with libraries compatible to orangutan so you have a good framework to fall back on.
We will first start off by assembling the electronic component and then in the end putting everything together. So starting out if you have made the PCB yourself you can TIN it yourself, doing it is quite simple and will stop your PCB from oxidizing. To do so simply put a small drop of Solder on our copper side of board and then rub it across using your hot solder head ( With Max possible temprature). This will create a very fine layer of solder on the copper.
Also you can print the top silk side on a paper cut it to size and paste it to make it look neater and to label everything.Next solder the components, start with the small ones and move to the bigger ones, this allows for easy soldering. Also use ample flux while soldering to get good joints.
To make FRC cables simply use a plier and put the cable in between it to make the connections, it works well. And with FRC cables you get a very neat robot.
So here is the final robot once again with the battery and the Orangutan Board from Pololu mounted on it -
Lets start moving
Since we are using a framework and our PCB is built for it most of the things are already taken care of
To move your robot forward for a second at speed 30 here is the code .
Now Lets do the hello world in robotics , which is line following , the code is self explanatory. If you need a introduction on PID please read here ( PID Tutorial ).Code:#include <pololu/orangutan.h> int main() { set_digital_input(IO_D4, PULL_UP_ENABLED); while(is_digital_input_high(IO_D4)) {} // Wait for user to press button red_led(1); // Indicate robot is ready delay_ms(1000); set_motors(30,30); // Go straight delay_ms(1000); // 1 second set_motors(0,0); // Stop while(1) {} }
We are using the following line sensors as they give good price/performance. Other than that the allow for low ground clearance with minimal interference.
QTR-8RC Reflectance Sensor Array
Our Robot with Line Following setup -
The final robot
Now the Code -
The above code is for a decently advanced line follower written by me over a Sunday evening. Most of the code comes from Pololu Documentation with some customizations for my Robot. The compiler is AVR-GCC being run inside AVR Studio.Code:#include <pololu/orangutan.h> unsigned char qtr_rc_pins[] = {IO_C0, IO_C1, IO_C2, IO_C3, IO_C4, IO_C5}; unsigned char qtr_rc_count = 6; unsigned int qtr_rc_values[6] = {0}; // Ideas is to keep line in the center void follow() { int position = qtr_read_line(qtr_rc_values, QTR_EMITTERS_ON); int center = (( (qtr_rc_count - 1) * 1000) / 2); int error = position - center; int leftMotorSpeed = 50; int rightMotorSpeed = 50; if (error < -(center/2) ) // the line is on the left leftMotorSpeed = 0; // turn left if (error > (center/2) ) // the line is on the right rightMotorSpeed = 0; // turn right set_motors(leftMotorSpeed,rightMotorSpeed); } float KP = 3 ,KI = 50000 , KD = 16/1; int integral = 0; int last_proportional = 0; void followPID() { int position = qtr_read_line(qtr_rc_values, QTR_EMITTERS_ON); int center = (( (qtr_rc_count - 1) * 1000) / 2); int proportional = position - center; int derivative = proportional - last_proportional; int power_difference = proportional / KP + integral / KI + derivative * KD; last_proportional = proportional; integral += proportional; const int max = 200; const int max_diffrence = 20; const int factor_diffrence = 2; if(power_difference > max) power_difference = max; if(power_difference < -max) power_difference = -max; // if diffrence is too much robot skids int leftMotorSpeed = max; int rightMotorSpeed = max-power_difference; if(power_difference < 0) { leftMotorSpeed = max+power_difference; rightMotorSpeed = max; } if(leftMotorSpeed - rightMotorSpeed > max_diffrence) { leftMotorSpeed -= (leftMotorSpeed - rightMotorSpeed)/factor_diffrence; } else if(rightMotorSpeed - leftMotorSpeed > max_diffrence) { rightMotorSpeed -= (rightMotorSpeed - leftMotorSpeed)/factor_diffrence; } set_motors(leftMotorSpeed,rightMotorSpeed); } int main() { set_digital_input(IO_D4, PULL_UP_ENABLED); while(is_digital_input_high(IO_D4)) {} // Wait for user to press button qtr_rc_init(qtr_rc_pins,qtr_rc_count, 2000, 255); // 800 us timeout, no emitter pin red_led(1); delay(1000); int i; for (i = 0; i < 100; i++) // make the calibration take about 2 seconds { if(i%25==0) { if((i/5)%2==0) set_motors(20,-20); else set_motors(-20,20); } if(i%5) { if((i/5)%2==0) red_led(0); else red_led(1); } qtr_calibrate(QTR_EMITTERS_ON); delay(20); } set_motors(0,0); red_led(1); while(is_digital_input_high(IO_D4)) {} // Wait for user to press button delay(1000); while(1) { //follow(); // If you want to use non PID method followPID(); } }
The robot does self calibration based on environment to optimizes its sensor reading for line following, this can be seen in the video. Once calibrated it waits for user input to start.
There are basically two choices available -
void follow()
This is the simple line following function which just goes left and right based on the location of the line.
void followPID()
This is a PID based line following mechanism with some of my own customization to prevent robot from skidding. Please do optimize the code if you ever use it. The built robot is quite fast , but due to the small course we are not able to see the real speed.
For the documentation of functions and idea used please refer to the link below
Pololu QTR Sensor Functions


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April 12, 2012
Striped Circle Skirt
17 comments:
- Melissa said...
Love it - so cute!
- April 13, 2012
- Olyveoil said...
Thanks so much for this tutorial. I love learning new ways of creating goodies for my two granddaughters. This weekend I'll be sewing two of these.
This is totally awesome!
- April 13, 2012
- email@example.com said...
This is so cute! I love the colors you picked.
- April 13, 2012
- Jenna said...
What a lucky girl!
- April 13, 2012
- Emily said...
OMG, I did this recently too! I love your color choice. I also use the pattern and cut it into wedges instead of rows.
- April 13, 2012
- Lee said...
I'm very impressed with the circle stripes on your circle skirt!! And I LOVE how your top clearly fits so well. Kudos!
- April 13, 2012
- Anna said...
My daughter love it.
A hug.
- April 13, 2012
- Kat @ sewchibi.blogspot.com said...
I did something similar with my circle skirt too! Great minds think alike!
- April 14, 2012
- michelle@somedaycrafts said...
Love this! My daughter would have so much fun twirling in it! I am featuring this at somedaycrafts.blogspot.com.
- April 15, 2012
- Rach H @ FamilyEverAfter said...
Did you see that Ruffles and Stuff just have your blog a big shout out on FB? This skirt is sooo darling. You've got me wanting to make one for my girls! Thanks!!!
- April 15, 2012
- Emily said...
Love the stripes. :) Glad she likes it too!
- April 16, 2012
- Dixie n Dottie said...
This is adorable! Looks comfortable too! Great job!
- April 16, 2012
- Sarah said...
This is adorable! I love the colors. I think I want to make one for me AND my daughter! I would love for you to share this at my link party
p.s. I love your blog banner!
- April 17, 2012
- Jennifer said...
I love this! I love everything about it, especially the colors!
- April 17, 2012
- mrslauralynn said...
So simple! I always look at a picture of the finished product and think 'I could never do that!' but then I read the tutorial and realize - I can!! Thank you for explaining it in a way I understand :) now I can make one myself yay!!
- April 17, 2012
- cheapcraftymama said...
That is so adorable and looks fun to spin in. I don't have a daughter but might need to make one for me! I would love for you to share this (and any other creations) at "Pin It & Win It Wednesday" at www.cheapcraftymama.com!
- April 18, 2012
- neslininatölyesi.blogspot.com said...
so simple and cute, thanks for sharing,
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Obama budget projects record $1.6 trillion deficit
Monday, February 14, 2011; 4:26 PM
President Obama rolled out a $3.7 trillion budget blueprint Monday that would trim or terminate more than 200 federal programs next year and make key investments in education, transportation and research. The plan is aimed at boosting the nation's economy while reducing record budget deficits.
In a news conference at a Baltimore County middle school, Obama cast the document as a responsible alternative to the deep spending cuts that Republicans will urge in a vote this week on the House floor. Obama's plan would trim domestic spending by hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decade, striking hard at programs long favored by Democrats to make room for targeted increases in energy and medical research, corporate research and development and a new network to bring high-speed Internet access to 98 percent of Americans.
However, Obama also would rely heavily on new taxes, to a degree unacknowledged by administration officials in recent days. His budget request calls for well over $1.6 trillion in fresh revenue over the next decade, much of it through higher taxes on the wealthy and businesses.
Households with income of more than $250,000 a year would immediately see new limits on the value of their itemized deductions. And starting in 2013, they would lose the lower tax rates and other breaks that were enacted during the George W. Bush administration and recently extended.
The president proposes to hit businesses with an array of proposals he has offered in the past, including an end to subsidies for oil and gas companies, new taxes on hedge fund managers and a $30 billion fee on financial institutions aimed at repaying taxpayers for the federal TARP bailout.
The cuts target defense, heating assistance and the environment.
The announcement was Obama's opening argument in what is likely to be months of debate with congressional Republicans who want to see deeper cuts.
He cast the reductions as necessary but also said that more funding for scientific research, innovation and education were essential to keep American competitive with other nations.
"It would mean cutting things that I care deeply about," Obama said. "But if we're going to walk the walk when it comes to fiscal discipline, these kinds of cuts will be necessary,"
He said that "while we are absolutely committed to working with Democrats and Republicans to find further savings ... we can't sacrifice our future in the process."
Obama described his education initiatives as "investments in the future" and said he would fight for more funding. His budget proposal includes $40 million for training math and science teachers in elementary, high school and college classrooms.
Although Obama seeks an overhaul of the corporate tax code to lower the 35 percent rate on corporate profits, his budget does not make that costly adjustment. Instead, it offers previous proposals to eliminate tax breaks for corporations that do business overseas, reaping $129 billion in new revenue through 2021.


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U.S. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission
Federal Agency Also Charges Illegal Retaliation Against Employee Who Filed EEOC Charge
MILWAUKEE – Chubb & Son, a property and casualty insurance giant, unlawfully refused to consider an Asian employee in its Milwaukee underwriting office for promotions based on her race, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. The suit further asserted that Chubb illegally retaliated against the employee, Kong Chee Vang, for filing a discrimination charge with EEOC, and she was again passed over for job openings as a result.
The case, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Federal Insurance Company, d/b/a Chubb & Son, Case No. 10-c-0849 (E.D. Wis.), has been assigned to U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman. It will be litigated by attorneys in the EEOC's Milwaukee Area Office.
"This case is about fairness to those, like Ms. Vang, who seek promotion and don't get considered because of their race," said John Hendrickson, regional attorney for the Chicago District Office, which oversees the agency's Milwaukee operations. "We hope this case demonstrates that business decisions based on negative racial assumptions or stereotypes are wrong and illegal. And reacting negatively to someone who speaks up about such prejudice is just compounding the problem. The EEOC expects employers to root out this sort of conduct, but if they do not, we will take appropriate action in court."
Jean P. Kamp, EEOC associate regional attorney in Milwaukee, added, "Retaliation is a special concern of the EEOC. We depend on discrimination victims to bring charges, and the law protects them from negative reactions in the workplace when they speak up. That's one of the main issues at the heart of this lawsuit."
The EEOC's Chicago District Office is responsible for processing charges of discrimination, administrative enforcement, and the conduct of agency litigation in Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and North and South Dakota, with Area Offices in Milwaukee and Minneapolis.
The EEOC is responsible for enforcing federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.


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Not two months after its release of the "thinnest and lightest" tablet, the Toshiba 10 LE, Toshiba is back with a new 10-inch tablet: the Toshiba Excite 10.
It's not thinner or lighter than the LE, but the Excite 10 does bring Android 4.0, a Tegra 3 CPU, and an 128GB expandable storage option to the table. That may be enough to outclass the LE, but what about tablets that offer more than just a thin profile?
As the second 10-inch tablet released by Toshiba in the last two months, it feels only natural to compare it with the Excite 10 LE. The LE is both thinner and lighter than the 10, but the 10 feels like more care was put into the tablet's actual construction as it has none of the exposed edges the LE produced. In addition, the Excite 10's smooth, wide, rounded corners and textured metal backside make it comfortable to hold in my hands.
The tablet is quite bendy though. Not a deal breaker, but also not something I appreciate in a tablet. Also, the edge casing feels like it could be stripped off if I pulled hard enough. Granted, I'd need to pull really hard for that to happen. To be clear, these are more nitpicks that I noticed than serious design flaws.
|Toshiba Excite 10
|Toshiba Excite 10 LE
|Asus Transformer Pad TF300
|Acer Iconia Tab A510
|Weight in pounds
|Width in inches (landscape)
|Height in inches
|Depth in inches
|Side bezel width in inches (landscape)
When holding the tablet in landscape, along the right side edge sit the headphone jack, Micro-HDMI, Micro-USB, and a full-size SD card slot. The slot supports SD cards up to 128GB capacity, which matches the storage capacity of the Toshiba Thrive and trumps the 32GB capacity most microSD tablet slots support. Theoretically, with the 64GB version of the Excite 10, 192GB of storage is possible. Granted, that could cost you about $800, but still, if the need of storing multiple seasons of "24" ever arose, this is one avenue to consider.
On the tablet's left edge are the power/sleep button, a rotation lock, and a volume rocker. Along the bottom edge are two speakers, located at the far, opposite ends. In the middle is a dock connector that uses Toshiba's oversize proprietary connection standard that connects with an appropriately oversize cable. At the far end is a downstream USB connection. The cable is longer and fatter than most and feels unwieldy and cumbersome as a result. Hopefully Toshiba implements something more streamlined in its next round of tablet designs. Beyond the design problems, despite an attempt on four different PCs, I couldn't get the tablet to show up as a drive after plugging it into either computer's USB ports.
At the top middle of the bezel you'll find a 2-megapixel front-facing camera, and along the top edge, about an inch away, is a small microphone slit. On the back of the tablet at the top right is a 5-megapixel camera with an LED flash light directly to its left.
Software features
The Excite 10 is the first Toshiba tablet to ship with Android 4.0.3 installed. The UI is identical to what we've seen on other Android 4.0 tablets for the most part, with a few small changes. Chief among them is the Enable Balanced Power setting that appears to dim the backlight, regardless of the current brightness setting, ostensibly to save battery life.
The other is Audio enhancement, which allows access to SRS sound settings like volume boost, clarity enhancements, and others. The audio enhancement feature clearly improved the sound quality of all audio when turned on, enhancing the previously muffled sound to something with more clarity. At the highest volume we still heard some static interference, however. In addition, Toshiba says its Ambient Noise Equalizer adjusts the tablet's volume based on the amount of noise in the area. We tested this by playing sound from other tablets right next to it, but didn't notice a change in the volume of the music the Excite 10 was playing.
There's also Toshiba's own file manager application, which makes it easier to find and organize files stored in the tablet's internal flash or expanded memory.


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Famed on Wall Street as a member of junk bond trading firm Drexel Burnham, Leon Black and his private equity firm Apollo Global Management may buy junk food brand Twinkies out of the Hostess bankruptcy, according to reports on Tuesday.
Price talk around Twinkies -- one of the crown jewels of the Hostess pantheon of sugary snacks -- is $400 million, but other bids are possible, The Wall Street Journal reported. Apollo Global Management is teaming up with C. Dean Metropoulos & Co. to buy the brand, according to reports citing people familiar with the talks.
The deal could be disclosed as soon as Tuesday and would serve as the opening bid in a coming bankruptcy-court auction for the assets, which include Dolly Madison and other brands.
The deal for Twinkies would include several factories as well as the iconic Twinkies brand.
Irving, Texas-based Hostess announced in November it would shut down and sell off its assets.
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Chilly winds and stormy skies could not dampen the high spirits of the 238 graduates of the Columbus School of Law's Class of 2013, who concluded their law school careers to the cheers of family and friends during the law school's 124th Commencement on May 24 at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington.
As with most commencement ceremonies, the class was offered plenty of heartfelt and well-meaning advice from speakers about how to thrive in their personal and professional lives in the years to come.
Law school Dean Daniel Attridge urged the departing students to use their newly minted J.D. degrees to "solve problems big and small, and make a difference in the lives of other people."
A similar message was offered by Colin Carmello, who gave the address on behalf of the graduates. "The Columbus School of Law has done few things better than remind us of our obligation to justice," he told his classmates.
The Commencement Address was offered by William T. (Bill) Robinson III, former American Bar Association President (2011-12) and currently member-in-charge of the Northern Kentucky offices of Frost Brown Todd LLC, a regional law firm with offices in Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Indiana.
Robinson (left) focused his message on the twin virtues of professionalism and volunteerism, reminding the audience that neither attribute ever goes out of style, and both help to shape a practitioner's reputation and public image.
"Be a professional of the highest standards in whatever career path you choose. How you conduct yourself in all that you do will be the cornerstone of your professional reputation," said Robinson. "Each of us has just one reputation, so treat yours like precious glass which, once broken, is almost always impossible to reconstruct to its original luster."
Robinson reiterated that lawyers are uniquely well suited to address society's problems and injustices, and he proposed that any caring legal practitioner—not just senior or highly successful attorneys—can work for the social good.
"Your individual success in the years to come will largely be driven by the extent to which you make a positive difference in the lives of those you have the privilege to serve … not by the cost of the car you drive or the size of the house in which you live," he said.
The Class of 2013 is already making a positive difference in the lives of others if their financial generosity is any measure. It boasts the 2nd highest giving participation rate in the CUA Law Graduation Gift Campaign history. Sixty-four percent, or 139 members of the Class of 2013, donated to the campaign and raised a total of $18,679.
At the end of the commencement ceremony, hundreds of the law school's newest alumni and their families and friends streamed out of the Shine and back to the law school for a reception; for most of them, a welcome and relaxing prelude to buckling down to study for the summer bar exam.
But before they left, they were treated to a poignant thought from Catholic University President John Garvey, who delivered short remarks to conclude the annual rite of passage.
"Now, I have a last word for you. Enjoy yourselves this weekend. You have been in school for 20 years, some of you continuously. It's now time to leave. But it's been a lovely place to be, and you should enjoy the last few moments before you step out."
Selected Student Awards
Alumni Award – Day Division
Michael J. Burns
Alumni Award – Evening Division
Jenifer R. Stach
Michael F. Curtin Pro Bono Award
Hannah Cartwright
For #1 Academic Rank in Class
John L. Garvey Faculty Award – Evening Division
Zachary A. Swartz
John L. Garvey Faculty Award – Day Division
Charles Garrison


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Federal drug review nettles biotech industry
Concern evident on eve of Boston expo
Federal drug regulators found themselves under the spotlight Monday as the massive Biotechnology Industry Organization's annual convention opened in Boston.
As more than 15,000 life sciences professionals converged on the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center for four days of panels, networking, and business dealing, a Food and Drug Administration plan to make decisions on new drugs more transparent and consistent drew criticism from industry skeptics.
Drug makers have long complained about what they consider a needlessly complicated and sometimes risk-averse review process for experimental medicines. But a proposed framework for evaluating drug candidates did little to quiet their concerns.
"They move too slowly, and this is very disappointing," said Vladimir Shnaydman, president of Orbee Consulting, an Ashland firm that advises life sciences companies, after one panel. He likened the FDA's proposal to "kindergarten."
In a separate panel, David Verbraska, vice president of drug maker Pfizer Inc., while claiming the FDA remains the "golden standard" for drug regulation, said industry leaders often grouse about "the mystery, the black box nature" of the agency's process for reviewing and approving drug candidates.
The drug review process has been a perennial bone of contention between the industry and its regulators. Patrick J. Frey, director of planning and analysis at the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, said the goal of the FDA's proposed "benefit-risk framework," which has been in the works since 2009, is to improve the consistency of the agency's review criteria for new drug candidates and make them easier to communicate.
Under the proposed criteria, FDA reviewers would describe a medical condition, list other therapies used to treat it, assess the effectiveness and safety of the existing treatments, and compare them with those of the experimental drug.
The framework mirrors what the FDA staff already does, but it would create a formal structured framework for the first time.
In its current reviews, Frey said, "Oftentimes, the table can be littered with benefit-risk considerations. But when you boil them down, this is what really matters."
Critics have called on the FDA to make more "quantitative" decisions on drug candidates, using data to make the decisions less subjective. Such data-driven outcomes are common in other industries, they contend.
But not all in the industry agree that final decisions on new drugs should be based entirely on quantitative data.
"Quantification can be useful in drug development to help structure go or no-go decisions," said Rebecca Noel, senior research scientist at Eli Lilly & Co. in Indianapolis. "But I don't think any of us have reached the stage where we think quantification can make the decision on a regulatory review. It can help inform the decision, but not make the decision."
Brian G. Atwood, managing director of Versant Ventures, a venture capital firm in Menlo Park, Calif., said the FDA's review process and decision criteria should be simple enough to communicate to members of Congress and the media. Unless such outside parties "buy in" to the integrity of the process, he said, they can derail new drugs by focusing on safety problems.
"Bomb throwers and the media really hurt the industry," Atwood said. "You need to find some way to immunize the industry. We're doing something that's great for society."
Panels related to FDA regulation were among more than 100 scheduled at BIO, as biotech representatives from 48 states and 65 countries set up exhibits and meeting space in a cavernous hall larger than four football fields.
Strategically located at the bottom on the main escalators to the exhibition hall was the 7,700-square-foot Massachusetts pavilion, where Governor Deval Patrick, Mayor Thomas M. Menino of Boston, and state Senate President Therese Murray will be among the government officials planning to be on hand for news announcements scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday.
Murray was set to disclose Tuesday a multinational collaboration on throat cancer research and detection, with a Massachusetts connection, as well as a US-European Union health care conference planned for Boston this fall. Patrick, meanwhile, will team up with Israel's chief scientist, Avi Hasson, to award the first round of grants under the Massachusetts-Israel Innovation Partnership rolled out at last year's BIO convention in Washington.
Conventioneers flocked Monday night to a dozen private parties and receptions, from Kendall Square in Cambridge to the South Boston Waterfront, where companies such as Cubist Pharmaceuticals Inc., Amgen Inc., and Bayer AG hosted visitors from around the globe. More than 70 parties and special events related to BIO will be held this week.
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Novel Strategy to Restore Brain Cell FunctionMay 2006
By Russell Martin
Over the past 10 years, scientific studies have revealed the remarkable effects that fish consumption has on neurological function.
For instance, in both middle-aged and older study subjects, cognitive decline occurs less frequently in those who eat the most fish. In elderly subjects, the risk of dementia is reduced in those consuming as little as one fish meal a week.1 Even in children, a deficiency of the fatty acids found in fish is associated with learning disorders.2
The omega-3 fatty acids in fish oil are vital to brain cell structure and function. Based on the brain's critical need for omega-3 fatty acids, scientists have developed a compound that takes the DHA found in fish oil and binds it to a lecithin extract that has been shown to reduce the risk of cognitive dysfunction in the elderly.
Laboratory studies document that this patented compound delivers higher DHA concentrations to brain cells. When humans with learning disabilities consumed this DHA-lecithin extract for three months, the clinical response was 2.4 times greater compared to placebo.3
The good news is that this exciting compound has been added to a popular formula used to enhance cognitive function. This means that consumers can avail themselves of this novel technology without spending additional money or swallowing extra pills.
The omega-3 fatty acids in fish oil have been documented to provide multiple health benefits. As a result of numerous scientific reports, consumers are gobbling down record amounts of fish oil supplements to protect against heart attack and relieve inflammatory disorders. Most people are unaware, however, of research showing that the DHA fraction of fish oil is of critical importance for brain function in both young and old individuals.
As the major structural and functional component of the central nervous system, DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) constitutes as much as 30-50% of the total fatty acid content of the human brain.
At the beginning of life, DHA is essential for the growth and functional development of the brain. DHA deficiencies in infancy have been associated with visual impairment and the later development of disorders including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). DHA is required for the maintenance of normal brain function in adults, including learning and memory. Low levels of DHA have been shown to be a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease.4
Impressive Animal Research
Experimental studies of mice and rats have been conducted to clarify the effects of DHA on learning and memory. These studies clearly indicate that DHA deficiency is associated with a loss of discriminative learning ability, while omega-3-enriched diets increase learning ability in elderly animals.5
The Japanese research team Lim and Suzuki demonstrated superior maze-learning ability in young and old mice fed a DHA-supplemented diet. After four months on the diet, the mice made significantly fewer mistakes and spent less time in the maze than the control group. They even performed better than young rats on the control diet.6
When the researchers studied the relationship between the time of DHA intake and maze behavior, they found that an improved maze-learning ability was evident at one month after the feeding started, whereas increased DHA levels in the brain were apparent as early as two weeks. These results suggest that improvement in learning ability occurs rather quickly after DHA is incorporated in the brain.7
By controlling chronic inflammation, omega-3 fatty acids may help reverse brain impairment associated with aging and degenerative diseases. In studies with aged and young rats, DHA supplementation significantly decreased free radical-induced levels of lipid peroxide in the hippocampus, a brain region involved in memory, and also reduced errors in maze learning.8
DHA Deficiency Linked to Dementia
Changes in the fatty acid composition of brain lipids during aging appear to be correlated with a deterioration of the central nervous system. Knowing that DHA constitutes a major portion of the fatty acids in the brain, it may not be surprising that low DHA levels are shown to be a significant risk factor for the development of Alzheimer's disease.
In a study tracking DHA levels in 1,188 elderly American subjects for 10 years, Alzheimer's disease was 67% more likely to develop in individuals with DHA levels in the lower half of the distribution.9
Brain cholinergic systems are generally thought to be critical for memory function. Dysfunction of the central cholinergic system has been seen both in patients with vascular dementia and in those with Alzheimer's-type senile dementia.
In a study of stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rats, DHA was demonstrated to increase choline and acetylcholine levels in the brain, while improving passive avoidance performance.10
Interesting results from a Japanese clinical trial on DHA and dementia provide encouragement for further research. This pilot study involved 20 elderly people (average age of 83) with moderately severe dementia induced by ischemic stroke. The participants all lived in the same home for the elderly and ate the same food. They were divided into two groups according to age and baseline scores on psychometric tests. The individuals in the treatment group received 720 mg of DHA daily for one year. Significant improvement in the dementia scores was noticeable after three to six months of DHA supplementation. The control group showed no improvement.11
In a study of 815 Chicago residents who were 65 years of age or older, the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease over four years was 60% less for those who ate fish at least once a week than for those who rarely or never ate fish.1
Lecithin Extract Counters Brain Aging
At one time, soy lecithin was an enormously popular supplement. People would literally eat lecithin granules or sprinkle it on their cereal every morning. With the discovery of extraction methods that concentrate its active constituents, lecithin has fallen out of favor, since consumers can now obtain its cognition-enhancing benefits in a pill.
One of lecithin's most effective brain-protecting extracts is phosphatidylserine, a naturally occurring compound found in every cell membrane in the body. Phosphatidyl-serine supports healthy levels of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, facilitates brain cell energy meta-bolism, and provides structural support for brain cell membranes. While phosphatidylserine has demonstrated impressive results in clinical trials, you will soon learn how combining it with DHA can improve its efficacy even more.
Several studies confirm the benefits of phosphatidylserine as a key component in fostering healthy brain function. Additional studies suggest that phosphatidylserine is helpful not only in treating cognitive decline, but also in avoiding its onset.
For example, a clinical study was conducted of dementia patients aged 65-91. One group received 300 mg of phosphatidylserine daily while the other was given a placebo. At the end of the six-week trial period, the phosphatidylserine group showed significant improvement over the placebo group in all measured tests of memory and cognition.12
In another placebo-controlled, double-blind study, Alzheimer's patients taking 300 mg of phosphatidylserine daily performed significantly better on standardized memory tests at the end of the 12-week trial period than did the study participants who received placebo. Importantly, those patients who were the least afflicted by dementia demonstrated the greatest benefit from phosphatidylserine therapy. These results suggest that beginning supplementation very early on, or perhaps even before the appearance of symptoms, can help prevent age-related loss of memory and other cognitive impairments.13
Another study compared the effects of phosphatidylserine to placebo in 425 elderly patients, each with some degree of cognitive decline. When compared to a control group taking placebo, those receiving 300 mg a day of phosphatidylserine significantly improved their scoring on tests measuring both cognitive and behavioral performance. The people taking phosphatidylserine also showed markedly improved motivation, initiative, interest in surrounding environments, and socialization. Throughout the six-month trial, no one taking phosphatidylserine exhibited any side effects.14
Positron emission tomography (PET) imaging measures energy production across the brain. In advanced-stage Alzheimer's patients, PET scans revealed that after taking 500 mg of phosphatidylserine each day for three weeks, every study participant showed significantly enhanced glucose metabolism across all brain regions, compared to baseline scans.15


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Product Details
Eyelet curtain is very popular and is so easy to make using this plastic ring which simply clips together. The inner measurement of the eyelet ring is 45mm and comes in two parts. The eyelet ring can be used on poles up to 28mm in diameter.
- Features snap fix eyelet, no tools needed to install
- Can be used on poles up to 28mm in diameter
- Smoothly slide on curtain rod and protect the rod with low noise
- Great addition as curtain accessories
- Inside Diameter: Approx. 45 mm
- Outside Diameter: Approx. 70 mm
- Material: ABS
- Color: Silvery
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