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|MAD publisher William M. Gaines
I somehow got the day off from school and was pretty nervous when I arrived at the MAD offices at 485 Madison on 52nd St, but was welcomed by a friendly female receptionist who ushered me right into Bill Gaines office. Gaines, 52 at the time, was a bearded man with long, gray hippie-like hair, (legend has it that the newly divorced Gaines, who sported a crew cut up until the late sixties, woke up one morning and decided he no longer wanted to shave or have his hair cut. The rest is history), hugely fat with loose- fitting, sloppy clothing-- quite the sight and intimidating at first, but he instantly put me at ease by enthusiastically shaking my hand and enquiring about MY artistic goals.
|Bill Gaines receiving a Japanese bath, art by Jack Davis
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|the Vault Keeper by Johnny Craig
|Bill Gaines at his desk
|Alfred E. Neuman morphing into Bill Gaines by Jack Rickard
I had my hopes high that I'd get to meet some of the MAD artists on my visit, especially some of my heros including Mort Drucker, Don Martin, Sergio Aragones and Al Jaffee, all cartooning Gods to me. Based on so many of the contributing artists and writers posing in MAD's parody ads over the years, my assumption had always been that the "the Usual Gang of Idiots" basically hung out all the time at the MAD offices, it being their "official clubhouse", creating their work their, an ongoing cartoonist community, not taking into account that the artists actually created their work at their homes, mainly in the suburbs.
|A back cover parody ad featuring the MAD staff (the young blonde actress on the lower left was the late Annie Rachel who co-starred, (mostly nude), with Tony Perkins in my father's play "Steambath" in 1970)
Departing Bill Gaines office, the next office door along the hallway belonged to longtime MAD editor Al Feldstein...
|MAD editor Albert B. Feldstein
|Al Feldstein art from "Tales From the Crypt" #26
"Oh well" I thought, onward...
|MAD's hallways
|Associate editor Nick Meglin
|Art production head Leonard ("The Beard") Brenner
|Lenny Brenner, "The Beard"
was in the middle of laying out some pages, but took the time to engage me while he was working and explain to me what he was doing. Also wandering around in the art dept was associate editor Jerry De Fuccio, who's distinctive Italian face I also recognized from many MAD ad parodies.
De Fuccio conversed with me a bit and it soon became clear to me that he had been briefed by Bill Gaines about my visit. He went on about how much he admired my dad's writing.
|Art director John Putnam
|the gregarious Sergio Aragones
|art by Sergio Aragones
|My personal cheap, crummy souvenir (click to enlarge)
Among my many contributions to MAD was this parody of the then popular Joan Osborne song "What If God Was One Of Us?". The MAD editors decided that the perfect stand-in for GOD would be... the late William M. Gaines himself, who had died several months earlier.
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Cruising sailors visiting countries like Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia, which have become popular destinations for medical tourism, may take advantage of the excellent facilities and low cost of basic medical care, elective surgical procedures and emergency care which are available there.
When Judy needed back surgery we visited Putra Medical Center in Kedah Province, Malaysia and we were impressed by the clean and modern facility with its state-of-the-art MRI and CAT-Scan diagnostic equipment, the obvious competence and efficiency of the staff, and, more than anything, the confidence exuded by of the surgeon who examined Judy and who would later perform the operation.
Judy chose to have her surgery there was admitted two days later. Her operation was very successful and it was about one eighth the cost of a comparable procedure in the USA. What was more important to us was the attention and personal care she received; we were very impressed with Putra medical Center.
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During Judy's hospital stay at Putra we talked with Dato Dr. Lim Kim Huat, the founder and owner of Putra Medical Center, and his wife, Dato Lee Gaik Cheng, who is CEO.
Both Dr. Lim and his wife grew up in Alor Star and they are committed to providing the best, most cost effective, care they can for the people of this area. Dr. Lim, while a medical student, once had to take his mother on a long and rough motorbike trip to Penang to obtain the medical care she needed because no facilities were then available in Alor Star. That was when he made a promise to himself to someday build a hospital in his home town; a promise which, with the support and encouragement of his wife, he has kept.
Dato Dr. Lim Kim Huat, and Dato Lee Gaik Cheng told us that the 14-year-old, 230 bed, Putra Medical Center had 13 resident specialists, a total staff of 375, eight operating theaters, and is part of the comprehensive network of hospitals and clinics, which provides care to Malaysians and foreigners as well.
Malaysian medical tourism annually attracts over 300,000 foreign patients and brings in approximately USD80 million in revenue to Malaysia.
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posted on Monday, August 20, 2012 - 3:37 am
Dear Drs Muthen,
I have a problem with my data for which I haven't been able to find a satisfactory solution so far. The problem concerns data of people who have filled out a questionnaire at 8 time points. The main variable in my analysis is the sum score per time point. Now, some of the data is missing. This is partly because of the sum scores at the previous time points so that the higher the scores at previous points, the higher the probability that such subjects will drop out at later time points. This is MAR. However, the missingness probably also depends on variables that were not measured. How do I deal with this missingness, with the MAR part and the non-observed part? Thanks for your help.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Monday, August 20, 2012 - 9:04 am
I think the best thing would be treating them as MAR. If you think there are other variables that may be related to missingness, you could consider the AUXILIARY (m) option.
posted on Monday, August 20, 2012 - 12:03 pm
Thanks Linda. If I consider all missingness to be MAR, and the missingness is assumed to be caused either by variables that are part of the model or by variables that were not measured; am I correct to argue that no model for the missingness should and can be specified? Just do listwise deletion, or am I mistaken? Thanks again for your advice.
Bengt O. Muthen
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Even if you don't measure all variables that might influence missingness, it is likely that MAR does better than listwise even though the MAR assumptions are not fulfilled. See for instance
Muth�n, B., Kaplan, D. & Hollis, M. (1987). On structural equation modeling with data that are not missing completely at random. Psychometrika, 52:3, 431-462.
which is posted on our web site.
posted on Friday, August 24, 2012 - 5:59 am
Thanks Drs Muthen. I'm opting now for multiple imputation. My question is what exactly is meant with multiple imputation with an unrestricted H1 model: what is the unrestricted H1 model? Further, after the MI procedure, I want to estimate a linear ALT model (Bollen) but as I understand it, I cannot get the factor scores for intercept and slope for each participant when using type=imputation. How can I solve this because I need these factor scores for subsequent analysis? Thanks again for your advice.
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posted on Friday, August 24, 2012 - 8:35 am
The H1 model is a model of means, variances, and covariances.
If you want factor scores, you would need to use TYPE=MISSING, the default, instead of DATA IMPUTATION. I would suggest using the factors in the ALT model instead of factor scores. Unless factor determinacy is one, the two are not equivalent and the factors are preferable.
posted on Friday, August 24, 2012 - 1:00 pm
Thanks Linda. But when I would use TYPE=MISSING I would not be able to use multiple imputation, right? Or am I mistaken? Would it then be a solution to manually estimate my model in the 10 datasets created with MI; and then create average estimates in the Rubin way? Is it a technical reason why factors in the ALT model are not computable with multiple imputation? Thanks again.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Friday, August 24, 2012 - 2:30 pm
Right. Your choice is the methodology of TYPE=MISSING or multiple imputation. The two methods are asymptotically equivalent. Factor scores are not available with multiple imputation. They have not been implemented. If you want factor scores, you would need to use TYPE=MISSING. As I said, I would use multiple imputation and use the factors in the model not do the analysis in two steps.
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TRADEMONSTER, AN ONLINE BROKERAGE THAT caters to options traders, has introduced a new analytical feature called tradeLAB. Barron's got an early peek at the new tool, which will be available on tradeMonster's Website Nov. 16.
Skip Shean, a vice president at the firm, explains that the device takes three complex pieces of information about an options strategy—the underlying stock price, implied volatility and time to expiration—and distills them for less sophisticated options traders. This fledgling investor most likely has an opinion about the underlying security—bullish, bearish, or neutral. TradeLAB will then show the prospective trader whether an options transaction selected—either from the site's strategy menu or its spreadMaker tool that helps create strategies—would be profitable if the stock pick turns out to be correct.
"The intent is to arm our customers with better, more actionable information to analyze a position and decide whether or not to place the trade," Shean says,
Like most of the tools on tradeMonster's site (http://www.trademonster.com), you can get to it from anywhere in the application, including the positions screen, the quotes window, or even an order ticket, before you push the Send button. There are also links from spreadMaker and adjustTrade ("Hardly a Lazy Summer for Brokers," Aug. 10). Once you've popped a tradeLAB window open, the Analyze button loads the strategy you're considering into tradeLAB.
TradeLAB has two components, a snapshot analysis of how the trade could look at expiration, and a spectral analysis, which shows a range of possibilities from the date of the trade through to expiration.
There are tools similar to the snapshot analysis on most options-trading Websites, although tradeMonster's version makes key events (such as ex-dividend dates and earnings dates) easier to view. You can change the purchase price or the implied volatility of the strategy to see how that affects your profit possibilities.
The spectral-analysis feature is obviously where tradeMonster has focused its proprietary work. In spectral analysis, tradeLAB lays out the characteristics of a strategy in a way that makes the possibilities much easier to understand. The initial display is a standard candlestick chart, showing pricing in the recent past. The chart then extends into the future to show a color map of the characteristics of your strategy and how it will perform in any scenario.
The spectral chart is color-coded, so that deep green is a 50%-plus gain and deep red a 50%-plus loss, with lighter shades of green and red in between. When you point your mouse cursor to a particular point, tradeLAB shows what the exact gain or loss is. The chart style can be changed. You can display the earnings dates or blow up the entire chart to see a more detailed view. You can also alter the volatility forecast, using a drop-down menu box that lets you pick from the 30-day average, 52-week high or low implied volatility, or any possible volatility you enter yourself to see how the strategy responds.
Shean says that tradeLAB hammers home the effect of volatility on a trader's potential profits. "Being able to change the volatility forecast and immediately see how it affects the profitability potential of a position helps people take it to the next level of understanding," Shean observes. "We think it's a really revolutionary tool."
The spectral chart is made up of multiple calculations for every trading day in the forecast, so there's a lot of number-crunching going on. All the analysis performed by tradeLAB is done on your local machine, not tradeMonster's server, which should keep the site from bogging down when trading volume is high. Once you've tweaked the options strategy to your specifications, hit the Create Order button in the lower right corner to generate an order ticket. (Fees are $7.50 per stock trade; options fees begin at 50 cents per contract with a $12.50 minimum.)
This very interactive and graphical tool allows a trader to stress-test a position, and assesses the potential profitability of a trade under a variety of conditions. TradeMonster officials doubt that they will make tradeLAB available for hypothetical, or paper-trading, use; you will have to fund an account to use it.
Another feature just added to the tradeMonster site is the ability to detach windows, which allows the user to separate out, say, a favorite chart or watch list, from the overall platform and run it independently. That capability can come in handy for those using multiple monitors. Shean notes that the platform behaves like a downloadable software system, but in fact is accessible through your Web browser. "Every time a customer logs in, they have the latest version and they don't have to download any patches or reconfigure their system. It runs on any browser or any operating system, as long as it has the [Adobe] Flash plug-in," he says.
When tradeMonster was launched a year ago, I expressed some reservations about its survival, given the stock market's gyrations. Shean says the privately held company, a unit of optionMonster, turned a profit in early October, a milestone it didn't expect to reach given the headwinds in late 2008 and early 2009. It looks like tradeMonster will be around for a while yet.
CAN'T WAIT FOR NEW YEAR'S: Retail investors surveyed during the last week of October by online broker TradeKing (http://www.tradeking.com) believed that an economic recovery won't happen until next year. TradeKing conducts a quarterly survey of sentiment; this time around, 47% of the respondents described their market outlook as "neutral" or "not sure." The firm says those are the highest readings for those sentiments since the survey began in July 2007.
U.S. unemployment claims continue to be the top trade trigger for both equities and options traders, with 41% of those surveyed saying that this is their primary concern. U.S. housing, consumer spending and interest rates tied for second, at 30%. These concerns knocked quarterly earnings from the No. 2 spot in the prior quarter, falling sharply from 36% to 27% in the most recent survey.
The two most popular sectors for long investments are energy, registering with 58% of respondents, and technology, with 47%. And what are the most prevalent short-selling sectors? Transportation and travel topped the list, followed by finance and retail.
"One thing is certain: Uncertainty dominates right now," says Don Montanaro, chairman and CEO of TradeKing. "We see at TradeKing how investors' bullishness comes in the form of very specific moment-in-time opportunities, but the overall sense is that the market could go either way on any given day until we see some solid trending data signaling long-term recovery."
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Necessity is often said to be the mother of all invention, but is it perhaps also the driving force behind adaptability?
"Reduce, Recycle, Reuse", three little words that have become the battle cry of the Green-minded set, have been reinforced in recent times by the plain and simple necessity that comes with living through trying economic times. Over the past months, as stocks were plummeting and jobs were steadily disappearing, the amount of garbage produced by the normally consumer crazy American public was following suit. By some estimates, the amount of waste inundating our landfills has decreased by as much 30 percent.
Between vanishing 401Ks and the dwindling job market it is hard for even the most optimistic among us to not feel a little hopeless on occasion. While living life in the lean lane does not necessarily mean grabbing a shovel and burying our family valuables in the backyard, it does mean that people are adjusting the way in which they live on the most fundamental of levels. People who may have never given much thought to where their abundance of belongings came from, let alone where it went to after they disposed of it, are now forced to consider the realties of our sometimes disposable society. Slowly but surely, frugality has birthed a new, more green minded nation.
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Pre-Recession you would buy six motorcycles at a time, in an effort to let your friends know that you are in fact cooler than both James Dean and The Fonz combined. Post-recession you peruses pictures of the cast of Happy Days on the internet at your local library. Hey, it is a recession, not everything is gonna be unicorns, rainbows and Harleys!
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So if you are looking to trade the crypto coin Viberate (VIB) and make some good profit we have a free guide here to help you do that. The price of altcoins like Viberate (VIB) are very volatile and so go up and down a great deal and you can set up a bot to buy at the lows and sell near the highs so you can make a lot of money trading Viberate (VIB).
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So below we will run through the guide to trading Viberate (VIB) or other crypto altcoins so that you can make good daily profits and grow your investment very well (much better than simply holding as this does not grow your investment, it just relies on the coin value increasing so with trading you get both so much bigger profits).
- The first thing that you are going to need to trade Viberate (VIB) is some Bitcoin as that is usually your base currency for crypto trading. You can get that from Coinbase and we recommend starting with a small amount but an amount big enough to trade properly with so around $150 is good for that as it's also usually affordable and you can add more later when you are making good profit so you know it works well.
- You then need a Binance account which is the crypto exchange, you can't buy Bitcoin directly there and so you have to buy it from Coinbase and then send it over to Binance. So in Binance find your Bitcoin wallet address and use that on Coinbase to send your Bitcoin to your Binance account, make sure you get that address right.
- So once you have the funds in your Binance account you need to learn how to trade and indicators are what bots use to make decisions and so they are what you should study first. By far the best way of doing this is to go to TradingView and play around with the indicators (look at the chart for Viberate (VIB)) as doing this you can see first hand what is going on, use indicators like RSI, MACD, SMA, EMA, Bollinger Bands and any others that you like and just experiment with the settings of each so that you can see the effects that your changes have and very importantly try to match up the lows and highs of the price with your indicator. So for example RSI is a nice simple one as when the RSI is low the price is usually low and when it's high the price is usually high, so setting the bot to buy when the RSI is low is likely to be successful and you can set the bot to sell when the RSI is higher or when a set profit percentage has been made. It's very important that you understand these indicators as they will drive your bot so put aside a lot of time to study them and use Youtube to learn more about them or the TradingView Wiki.
- So once you understand your indicators and have a good idea of the settings you want to use, you just need your crypto trading bot and by far the best is Profit Trailer. It's the best because it's so fast and feature packed, most other bots are slow and so miss trades which can leave you in a mess so it's worth having the best bot and it's also good value for money too which is great. It runs on your local computer (it can also run on a VPS server) so you just need to install it and enter your settings like the Binance API details and your other settings, have a very good read through the Profit Trailer Wiki and then read it again so that you are very familiar with all of the settings as that is very important.
- So once you have all of the settings set the bot will then run (it can run in test mode if you'd like so that you can see how it would work) and so make buys and sales using the settings that you have given it. From within the software (it runs in your web browser) you can see lots of useful information like the current status of your open positions and stats like the percentage of profit you have made (you can use that to forecast future gains if you are getting a similar gain per day using a site like Compound Daily to get some quite shocking future predictions).
- So by now you are making good daily gains so you will want to withdraw at some point and you can't do that directly from Binance and so you will need to send some of your Bitcoin back to Coinbase and then from there into your local currency and to your bank account.
So you can see how easy it is to trade altcoins like Viberate (VIB) and make a great deal of money, if you are getting just two percent per day or more you will be making a great deal of money over time.
There are also a lot of scams in crypto so be sure not to fall for any of them, all of the companies listed here are 100% safe and very big companies and you can verify that very easily online.
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Profit trailer has become well famous for the returns that it has provided to its users. It has accomplished this by way of a mixture of its friendly interface, and the amazing community surrounding it. It has a simple user interface that make it easy for the beginners to make an investment in the cryptocurrency.
2017 was the best year for crypto coins. Every coin returned amazing returns. But because of many malinvestments 2018 has been a red market for most of the coins. It grew up to 30,000% in 2017 which shows its potential. XRP is looking good right now and it has potential to blow up in the future. Invest in this coin and you will get a good return on your investment. Sometimes for the beginners choosing the right crypto coin is a big issue to face through. So here we are sharing with some of the essential and central top tips in choosing with crypto coins easily.
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They will be asking the users to provide away the wallet address to send the purchased cryptocurrency. The creation of this coin is a small fairy tale Internet. The Bitcoin proof of concept first emerged in 2009 and was created by the mysterious figure of Satoshi Nakamoto , who really do not know anything, because not only gives interviews and communicate via email . Your personal data are so scarce that many think his name is a pseudonym for a group of people who created the currency.
So this is obviously all about Viberate (VIB) trading but there are also other altcoins that you can trade so see our other pages about Trade crypto. So choose the altcoin that you'd like to trade and you can trade and many as you would like.
Before you make the final mind on committing with the business with an exchange, you should be taking into consideration the types of payments that are accepted. For this purpose, you have to spend some course of time on the exchange to look for the payment method. Try to figure out that whether your selected payment method is accepted at checkout or not. Some of the crucial exchanges accept major credit cards, wire transfers, cash or Paypal.Another option is using the volume filter which would block coins not worth trading.…


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Alone at his computer, drool sliding down his chin, Tom Hill searched the Internet for anything that could save him.
His 55-year-old body was gradually shutting down. His muscles twitched uncontrollably. He could no longer talk, so he scribbled notes to communicate with his wife, Valerie.
Seven months earlier, he had been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease -- an incurable deterioration of the nervous system that spares the cognitive parts of the brain, leaving its victims sharply aware as they slowly die.
The doctors told him there was no way to reverse the disease -- no drugs, no surgeries, no other therapies.
Tom refused to listen.
He had been a successful real estate developer in Atlanta, a hard charger who always got things done his way.
Now, he spent most of his time in a makeshift study above the garage, searching hour after hour.
Valerie could hear Tom's muffled movements. She rarely interrupted him. After nearly 29 years of marriage, it pained her to see him like this.
She knew there was little hope, but there was no point in arguing. She threw herself into the final preparations for their daughter's wedding and left Tom alone to search.
In the spring of 2003, he found www.biomark-intl.com.
BioMark International offered a stem cell injection for a variety of illnesses, including Parkinson's disease, muscular dystrophy, depression and ALS.
"All ALS research now cites the promise of stem cells as the only answer," the website said.
Tom had been reading about stem cells for months and knew them to be the next frontier of medicine, the primordial cells that could become unblemished tissue of any type. He was convinced they could replace the deteriorating nerve cells in his body.
He pored over BioMark's material, dozens of pages of patient testimonials, scientific references and news reports on the vast promise of stem cells.
Could this be his chance to be reborn?
Valerie could hear her husband's printer churning out page after page.
"It is worth a try," he scrawled in the margin of one printout.
Tom Hill was just the type of patient BioMark was looking for.
The company was launched in the summer of 2002, less than a year before Tom found its website. It began small, in a rented condominium shared by its founders, Laura Brown and Steve van Rooyen, just a few miles from Tom's house.
At first, the company survived patient to patient, each paying as much as $21,000 per treatment.
Word was spreading. It was a good time for a stem cell business.
The once exotic science was in the news almost daily. In August 2001, President Bush allotted federal funds for stem cell research but said they could not be spent on the study and development of new lines of cells from human embryos. It was a compromise to address the concerns of religious conservatives and others who opposed any destruction of human embryos.
The restrictions came under attack from high-profile figures, including former First Lady Nancy Reagan and actor Christopher Reeve, fomenting a national debate that turned "stem cell" into a household term.
Reports of each new scientific advance circulated rapidly -- in the media and on Internet message boards for people with incurable diseases. Stem cell clinics began popping up in China, Ukraine, Barbados and other places.
Brown and Van Rooyen built their business on the idea that science had already proved the therapeutic power of stem cells. BioMark was simply making it available to the world.
The company had a scientific advisory board, a professional-looking website and doctors to administer the therapy in Atlanta.
"When something this powerful, this beautiful, is laid in your hands, in your path, you give everything you have to it," Brown said in an interview with The Times last fall.
At least 220 patients had received BioMark injections, she said.
The therapy, as advertised, was simple: an injection of 1.5 million stem cells in the abdomen. Everybody got the same type of cells, regardless of their disease.
"Once in the body, cells migrate to the site of the disease and begin producing the needed cells," explained a BioMark information packet.
BioMark cells, Brown told patients, were free from the "right-to-life issues" slowing the development of stem cell cures in the U.S. The cells did not come from embryos, but from blood harvested from umbilical cords after childbirth.
One BioMark brochure carried a disclaimer that the treatment was not approved by the Food and Drug Administration.
But some patients saw that as a badge of honor. Someone was working to help them, even if that help ran afoul of the government.
It infuriated Tom that politics had trumped science.
"People suffering from disease are told they have to wait for their cures," he wrote in a letter to his U.S. senators. "Many of these patients do not have time to wait and a research delay could be a death sentence."
Tom created a website to protest the federal restrictions. After 25 years as a Republican, he renounced his party membership.
He told Valerie about BioMark and instructed her not to tell his doctors.
She didn't know what to make of all this. She had never heard of anyone being cured of ALS, and she gingerly questioned his plan.
Tom stabbed at the keys on his voice synthesizer. An electronic retort pulsed back at her: "I've done a lot of research."
He felt sure: This was science.
It began 50 years ago with the discovery of an odd lump on the scrotum of a lab mouse.
Researchers at the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, were investigating whether cigarette paper could cause cancer. One lab mouse had an unusual tumor.
Most tumors are made up of one type of tissue that grows out of control. But this one was a grotesque clump of budding muscle, bone, nerves and fat.
It was biology gone haywire.
After many experiments, the scientists found a smattering of unfamiliar cells mixed in this mad stew of life.
These tumor cells, they surmised, were transforming into other tissue types.
The cells gave scientists a chance to look at one of the most mysterious processes of life.
All the complexity of the human body -- hearts, lungs, brains, limbs -- starts from a single fertilized egg. As it divides, an unknown set of biochemical signals tells the multiplying cells to differentiate into the diverse tissues of the body.
When the cells are primitive, they have the ability to become any tissue -- "pluripotent" in medical terminology.
The mouse tumors offered a crude glimpse of these "stem cells" and their power to transform.
It would be decades before researchers possessed the technology to find them in embryos.
In 1981, scientists isolated embryonic stem cells in mice and successfully grew them into a kind of suspended animation in which the cells would indefinitely divide but not differentiate.
They later found that slight chemical changes could make the cells suddenly transform into a mishmash of tissue.
It took 17 more years before researchers at the University of Wisconsin isolated the cells from days-old human embryos.
The floodgates of medical fantasy were thrown open.
If scientists could decode the complex series of biochemical signals used to command the cells, they could create any type of tissue.
Doctors could grow new nerve fibers to patch a severed spine. They could make new organs to replace damaged ones without fear of tissue rejections. They could grow brain cells to help patients with Alzheimer's disease.
Science has made some progress.
At the National Institutes of Health, mouse embryonic stem cells were transformed into neurons that made the brain chemical dopamine. The new cells were used to treat symptoms of Parkinson's disease in rats.
At Stanford University, the same type of cells was used to make insulin-producing cells that kept diabetic mice alive.
At UC Irvine, human embryonic stem cells were transformed into nerve-wrapping cells known as oligodendrocytes, which helped rats with spinal cord injuries.
But scientists say the complex biochemistry of humans means that medical therapies are years, if not decades, away. Therapies could lead to cancer if the stem cells migrate to the wrong place.
There are currently no trials underway for human therapies using embryonic stem cells in the U.S.
"It's still in its infancy," said Gail Martin, a developmental biologist at UC San Francisco who was one of the first scientists to isolate embryonic stem cells in mice.
Valerie had never really noticed how life was balanced on a knife point, ready to topple her into darkness at any moment.
She was a 23-year-old stewardess for Delta Airlines when Tom spotted her at a wedding in 1973. Eleven months later they were married -- and on the path to the good life they both wanted.
Over the next three decades, they built a house in one of the toniest Atlanta suburbs, bought a vacation home on nearby Lake Burton, joined a country club and took ski trips to Aspen. Their two children attended private schools. Tom pushed hard for these things.
He was always so sure. That was one of the things that had attracted Valerie. He had a smooth, confident voice that put people at ease.
His voice was the first thing to go.
Valerie noticed in the spring of 2002 that his speech had begun to slur ever so slightly sometimes, as if he were drunk. She hoped the doctors were right, that he was suffering from allergies or stress from his business.
In October, a doctor told her that Tom probably had no more than a few years to live. She let out a scream. The doctor put her on an antidepressant.
Tom had bulbar ALS. The disease starts in the cranial nerves that control the lower face, tongue and palate, reaching the vital organs more quickly than a slower-killing variety that starts in the limbs.
Tom approached his illness like another real estate deal.
Early on, he walked into the office of Dr. Jonathan Glass, a neurologist who heads the ALS Center at Emory University, and announced: "I'm going to help you cure me by raising millions of dollars for your research."
Valerie didn't want to stand in his way. Still, there were so many things to do and talk about in the time Tom had left. There was their daughter's upcoming wedding, and plans for their son, who was in college.
Tom didn't want to discuss those things.
One day, he presented Valerie with a stack of printouts on BioMark.
The information seemed to make sense -- until she started reading the patient testimonials. One stood out: a 26-year-old ALS patient who had added 20 pounds of muscle in the two weeks after his treatment. "He feels incredible and is regaining strength," it said.
Valerie was dumbfounded. "This is a joke," she said. "If this is true, then everybody should be doing it around the world."
But it was futile to argue with Tom and always had been.
He was taking 28 pills and lozenges a day. No therapy seemed too outlandish. He tried curative magnetic insoles. He spent two weeks in Tijuana getting ozone treatments that were supposed to remove toxins from his body.
By the spring of 2003, he had dropped to 146 pounds, down from his healthy 172.
There was still time for hope. In June he summoned the energy to walk his daughter, Meredith, down the aisle at her wedding. He danced with her to the song "My Girl" while tearful guests looked on at the reception.
Tom threw himself into setting up a BioMark injection.
"They normally charge $21,000 but they want to be listed on my website," he wrote on a notepad.
He got the fee down to $10,000.
At least he had bargained, thought Valerie, who was starting to worry about all the money that seemed to be disappearing into a black hole of cure-alls.
On July 18, Tom received an e-mail from BioMark. For the time being, the closest place he could receive an injection was Toronto.
"I Am spending so much for my HEALTH NOW," Tom wrote on instructions to wire the $10,000 to BioMark's account at Bank of America in Atlanta.
The next week, Tom and Valerie flew to Toronto and took a taxi to a clinic. In the waiting room, Dr. Christopher Goddard was finishing up with another patient, a man with multiple sclerosis who had just received an injection.
For the next hour and a half, Valerie grilled the doctor about his credentials and the treatment. He told her he was a physician with a doctorate who worked at Lifebank Cryogenics Corp., a Canadian company that stores umbilical cord blood. BioMark paid him to fly from Vancouver, British Columbia, to administer the injections.
There was still time to back out and get their money returned.
Valerie looked at Tom hunched in a wheelchair. She knew this was his last hope.
"No, we'll do it," she said.
Valerie was still skeptical, but she felt a little better. Goddard seemed to know what he was talking about.
The stem cells could be injected into a vein, which BioMark said would bring the biggest results in three months, or into the fat of the abdomen for improvements that would come later but last longer.
Tom decided he would split the cells and do it both ways.
From the week he was diagnosed, he had told everybody that he would survive. He had fought so hard. This was a cure whose power nobody could deny.
At that moment, Valerie decided to duck out for a quick lunch.
Alone with the doctor, Tom felt the sting of two needles. In a few minutes, it was over.
Restoration had begun, he thought.
Laura Vanessa Brown, a co-founder of BioMark International, is 34 years old, tall, thin and blond.
"My background wouldn't naturally point me in this direction," she said in a telephone interview from a location she refused to specify. "I modeled for a long time."
Her father, Douglas Brown, an investment advisor in Waxhaw, N.C., said that Laura's job as a runway model sent her around the world through much of the 1990s. He said that she grew interested in nutrition and alternative medicine while watching her weight.
Laura Brown double-majored in speech and in radio and television at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She said her science education came unconventionally.
"I got to do a lot of studying and reading and writing while I was bouncing around not using my brain for work," she said.
In the late 1990s, she said, she landed in Los Angeles and studied yoga.
There, she met Steve van Rooyen. He had no science degree either, Brown said.
They became partners and headed to Atlanta in 2002 to work with Mitchell Ghen, an osteopath who had once treated Brown's father and had become interested in stem cells from umbilical cord blood.
But after a few months, the pair broke away to form BioMark, eventually relocating to an apartment in Miami Beach.
They worked hard to build their business, visiting doctors and alternative medicine practitioners to explain their treatment.
Dr. Alawode Oladele, an Atlanta oncologist, said he met with Brown at an Atlanta hotel, where she questioned him about cancer treatments.
Brown told him that BioMark had a team of scientists and reams of unpublished data showing the effectiveness of its treatment. Oladele was impressed.
That was the last he heard from BioMark.
Later, he was perplexed to see himself listed on BioMark's website as a member of the scientific advisory board. He found it odd but figured it didn't really hurt him.
Five other people said they were also surprised to find themselves posted as scientific advisors.
BioMark sent blood to Howard Wajchman, an Atlanta immunologist, who said he isolated the stem cells and sent them to doctors working with the company.
Dr. Dowman Covington, who worked at an Atlanta clinic, said Brown and Van Rooyen convinced him that a 1997 Georgia law -- the Access to Medical Treatment Act -- would allow him to try experimental therapies for people with incurable illnesses.
One of his first patients, he said, was Laura Brown, who wanted the cells as an anti-aging treatment. It was reassuring that Brown seemed to believe so strongly in the therapy.
Covington said he injected 46 patients for multiple sclerosis, ALS and cancer, receiving $300 or $400 per patient.
But after several months, he became suspicious when BioMark sent him a patient with a severed spinal cord, a condition that he saw no point in treating with the cells. He stopped working with the company in the spring of 2003.
BioMark started sending Atlanta patients to a clinic in Canada.
In October, the family of Craig Lauver, an ALS patient in Mifflintown, Pa., who was convinced that a BioMark injection could cure him, called the FDA with concerns about the company.
The FDA began a fraud investigation, persuading the Lauver family to help set up an undercover operation. Craig Lauver's brother, Nelson, said he asked BioMark to send somebody to inject the cells.
When a BioMark representative arrived from Arizona on Nov. 14, an FDA agent was there posing as Nelson's business colleague. The representative talked about the therapy, while two FDA agents in a bedroom controlled a video camera hidden in a lamp. After about 20 minutes, they entered the living room and pulled out their badges.
The FDA questioned and released the BioMark representative.
The same day, the FDA raided BioMark's office in Miami Beach, according to an e-mail the company sent to a patient.
The FDA froze BioMark's Bank of America accounts, which held $264,554.12, court documents show.
The company was shut down, but on the Internet it still looked like a thriving business. The website was dense with links to news articles about stem cells and diseases. The words "BioTech Advances" were bannered across the top, alongside the image of somebody peering into a microscope. A DNA double-helix spiraled down the left. There were links for "Research and Development," "Scientific Support" and "Testimonials."
Research by Catherine Verfaillie, the website said, proved the power of BioMark stem cells.
But Verfaillie, director of the Stem Cell Institute at the University of Minnesota, explained in a March 2004 letter to the FDA that her work had been misrepresented.
"The information has no scientific credibility and it may mislead people who are seeking treatment and cures for serious diseases," she wrote of the BioMark website.
Several stem cell experts who reviewed the website for the Los Angeles Times agreed.
Cord blood stem cells have been used to treat some blood diseases and to rebuild the blood-forming system after chemotherapy. But scientists doubt they would be useful for neurological diseases because current evidence suggests that any ability to transform into non-blood cells is limited.
On the Internet, satisfied BioMark customers described improvements, such as smoother skin, better sleep and more energy -- sometimes within hours of their injections. Scientists leave open the possibility that the patients are experiencing more than the placebo effect, but without controlled clinical trials it is difficult to know what is happening.
"This is just evil," said Lawrence Goldstein, a professor of cellular and molecular medicine at UC San Diego School of Medicine.
Dr. Irving Weissman, a Stanford University professor and the first person to isolate blood-forming stem cells, concluded: "It's totally disgusting."
After the FDA search, Brown and Van Rooyen left the United States.
Amonth after his injection, Tom swore that it was easier to close his mouth.
Valerie was skeptical, but Tom told her to be patient. "Six to eight weeks," he would say, echoing BioMark's claims about how long it would take to start seeing the biggest benefits.
By the two-month mark, his breathing had plunged to 46% of normal.
When Tom could no longer climb the stairs to his office, he spent his days in a living room recliner, a computer in his lap.
His son, Thomas, had taken the year off from college to help care for his father. Thomas struggled now to transfer him in and out of the lift installed in the stairwell. His father's body was turning to dead weight.
At this late stage, Valerie wished that Tom could help patch the holes of their life -- apologies, advice for their children, regrets, kind words that could help her carry on without him.
She begged him to make peace with his life.
"Why are you so mean to me?" Tom typed on his synthesizer. "You want me to die soon."
"No, we want you to talk with us," Valerie said. "Isn't there something you want to tell us?"
Tom just shook his head.
She asked whether he wanted to be buried or cremated. He turned up the volume on the television to drown her out.
One night Tom plowed his wheelchair into furniture, knocking over lamps and chairs. Valerie called the police, telling them that he had tried to ram into her too.
After that, she refused to guard his secrets and told Dr. Glass about the stem cell treatment.
The neurologist understood. Tom was not his only patient who had sought unproven stem cell therapies abroad.
Valerie asked a lay minister from her church to talk with her each week.
All that fall, a pungent odor wafted through the house -- a brew of Chinese herbs that Tom poured into his feeding tube.
In early November, Tom received an e-mail from BioMark stating that the board of directors wanted to offer him a second treatment. He would only be required to pay about $1,000.
"Please do not contact them and tell them it doesn't work," Tom typed in a message to Valerie. "I need anything now to help me and I will try anything."
Perhaps the first stem cell injection just needed a boost. He was ready to wire the money as soon as BioMark scheduled an appointment.
Then the news arrived. Tom showed Valerie the e-mail from the FDA. BioMark was under investigation for fraud.
"I guess you won't be going for that second treatment," Valerie told Tom.
He lowered his head.
He still believed in BioMark, but there was nothing he could do on his own. Valerie could barely listen to him anymore.
She dug up the number for the Canadian doctor who had injected Tom, and demanded a refund.
Dr. Goddard sent $1,920, which he told her was his fee from BioMark. He did not return several phone calls from The Times.
The money arrived with a note saying, "I love my patients." There was also a book, the 1969 classic by Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, "On Death and Dying."
Valerie glanced at the book and deposited the money.
On March 23, 2004, Tom Hill died at Haven House Hospice in Atlanta. He was 56.
At a memorial service at Northside United Methodist Church, old friends spoke about their fraternity days at the University of Georgia. The minister remembered how happy Tom had been to walk his daughter down the aisle at her wedding.
Valerie decided to have his body cremated. Half his ashes were scattered on Lake Burton. Valerie plans to disperse the rest in a memorial garden at their church. For now, they are on a shelf in his office, surrounded by pictures of the multimillion-dollar office complexes he had built around Atlanta.
Two months after Tom died, Valerie put a recording of his memorial service into a cassette player at home. The last two years had nearly destroyed her memories of their marriage. The old stories helped. She replayed the tape every few days.
"Eventually, I'll hopefully be able to remember the good times," she said.
She has begun training to become a Stephen Minister, a church counselor like the woman who had helped her through Tom's final months.
The FDA recently sent her a check for $6,896, part of the money the government seized from BioMark. The company remains under investigation.
One afternoon in December, Valerie returned home to find a message on her answering machine from BioMark.
It was for Tom.
Valerie didn't know it, but the company had set up an office in London and found doctors in Tijuana and Rotterdam, the Netherlands, to start administering their injections again. It set up a Swiss bank account to receive payments from patients.
The caller said she would phone back but never did.
The patients arrive every few weeks at the Corporativo Oncologico in Tijuana -- Americans slumped in wheelchairs, hobbling on crutches or carried by loved ones toward the stem cells inside.
The clinic's main business is providing low-cost radiation treatments. But recently Dr. Armando Garcia, the head of the clinic, began administering stem cells for BioMark.
He stepped into the waiting room with an orange-and-white bag labeled "biohazard." He reached into the bag and pulled out a frosted vial.
"These cells are very good," he said.
Marsha Weeks arrived from Anacortes, Wash., in September, hoping to ease her bouts of pain from multiple sclerosis. Living on Social Security, the 29-year-old single mother maxed out her credit cards to pay for a single $10,000 treatment.
A few weeks later, 25-year-old Richard Welsh leaned into his crutches and ascended the ramp to the clinic. He prayed the cells could repair his spinal cord, crushed in a car accident five years earlier.
His hometown, Klemme, Iowa, had rallied behind him. A dentist donated electric toothbrushes for a fundraiser. The local Wal-Mart chipped in $750.
Greg Evans journeyed to Tijuana from Robesonia, Pa., hoping to save his only child. Eleven-year-old David was withering from Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a fatal degenerative disease.
"We're staking our lives on this working," Evans said.


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Judging from the comments pouring in from all over, I guess ya'll are really enjoying these special pride month podcasts, huh? The last two weeks I featured the brilliant work of Mike. from MikeMen. Today and next week we have as our guest a gay visual artist of a completely different stripe. As you know, these podcasts are part of The Erotic Mind
series. We converse with noted erotic artists from all over the world in an effort to try to uncover something of the creative process involved in this specialized art form.
Today I have the honor of introducing you to a friend, someone I've known for several years. He is charming, funny and oh so talented. He is René Capone.
René is both an artist and a storyteller. In fact, I think he's best described as an artist-storyteller. He imbues his creations, both lifelike and fantasy, with something of his own nature and life experience. He says it's the job as an artist to explore the fundamental emotions of life; love, hate, jealousy, fear, anger and passion. And he does his job with a childlike simplicity, which is absolutely remarkable.
René's work is a refreshing departure from the more explicit work of some of the other artists I've featured in this series. But as we'll find out from René himself, eroticism has many dimensions. If art is truthful, he says, it will also be erotic.
René and I discuss:
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- The distinction, if any, between an artist and an illustrator.
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Mountain Biking and coffee go together like mountain biking and beer!
Ever wonder how coffee (or any other caffeine filled stimulant, Redbull, Monster, various teas, etc) gives you energy? I have, being extremely caffeine sensitive I only use it a few times a month for the powerful drug that it is (it really helps me focus when I am trying to get stuff done!). Many of our coaches and students however can't get through the day without a cup (or six of coffee), especially if they plan on mountain biking. I found an interesting article on how caffeine doesn't actually give us energy (which makes sense, energy come from the right combination of exercise and recovery, how could something give you energy?) it is all in the mind! The article also talks about how mountain bikers second favorite beverage, beer affects us too.
Before I get to the article though a few reasons caffeine can be bad for mountain biking and some experiments you may want to try.
1. Caffeine can make you jittery and tense causing you to not ride as smooth and relaxed as you can without it, this often counters the extra energy effect as you are now less efficient and possibly even a little clumsy. With no caffeine in your system practice trackstands for a few minutes and note your longest, calmest trackstand. Then drink your caffeine of choice, wait 15 minutes and practice trackstands again. After the caffeine can your trackstand longer? Are you more or less twitchy on your bike after the caffeine?
2. Caffeine allows you work a little harder than your body really wants to work. This can be good by pushing you to new heights on your mountain bike but can also lead to feeling sluggish or worn out and next day and possibly even over training your body if you don't manage your recovery. I once heard a trainer describe using caffeine as "borrowing energy from tomorrow"! After reading the following article I believe he may be right!
What has been your experience with caffeine and riding? Do you drink beer while or after riding?


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Vortex Online is a next generation game in which you can do a vast array of activities, from adventure to fighting in a world war two shooter. Your story starts as being awakened from a deep slumber, in a cold and dimmly lit laboratory dorm. You soon find our your a US Government test subject for its most highly classified Black Program. Your role, to be the first to travel through time and space. With this new super weapon, players can travel to any dismension, or time. Players can play through multiple games and styles. This list includes anything from Racing, to MMORPG's, to FPS's, to anything else you can think of. This style lets players switch from game to game within a couple of seconds, saving the need to download another game to join your friends. The first style we are doing is a Medieval RPG, where players will experience new styles of gameplay that pushes your abilites to the brink.
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This is one of our first music pieces arranged by our musician, David Gray. He will be arranging more pieces in the coming weeks, which will be posted here and our website in the Gallery Section. www.Play-Vortex.com


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Breast Cancer Awareness
Breast cancer survivors get guidance for their post-treatment lives
Judith Cornille survived breast cancer. The lumpectomy. The radiation. The utter shock.
But even as she recovered from treatment, her mind was on the future: Now what?
"Everyone was telling me to get on with my life, but I was still reeling emotionally," recalled Cornille. "This wasn't what I had planned."
Cornille, 65, was lucky. She enrolled in the new Breast Cancer Survivorship Clinic at the University of Miami's Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, a 3-month-old program that supplements routine care provided by a breast oncologist with a multi-disciplinary approach to managing the long-term effects of cancer and the side effects of treatment. The program offers nutritional counseling, physical rehab and fitness training, psychiatric counseling and integrated medicine, including acupuncture, yoga and Tai chi.
"It's like a GPS after treatment," Cornille said. "It helps me to know what I should expect and what I can do to feel better. It does a lot for the psyche."
The Breast Cancer Survivorship Clinic is part of a growing movement within the healthcare system to help survivors adjust to their new life, post cancer. As more of them lead longer, healthier lives, hospitals are reorganizing their services by offering a one-stop shop that gathers together various disciplines.
"We're moving toward a collaborative model," said Dr. Beatriz Currier, who heads up the psychiatric part of the clinic. "We are all tackling the symptom from our different expertise and a major asset is that everything is centralized."
For years, breast cancer patients were released with little guidance on how to deal with post-treatment issues, everything from depression to weight gain to sleep problems and sexual dysfunction. But that is changing as more patients of all cancers survive.
There are almost 14 million cancer survivors in the United States and that number is projected to increase by 31 percent, to almost 18 million, by 2022, according to the National Cancer Institute. The medical community has realized such encouraging numbers demand follow-up guidelines to ease the lives — and the worries — of these former patients.
That's why the influential Institute of Medicine issued a report in 2005 recommending that all patients, after completing treatment, receive a survivorship care plan (SCP), a blueprint that helps a survivor steer her way through the maze that is post-treatment life. A care plan includes both a record of care the patient has received and a follow-up plan about psychosocial effects of treatment, prevention of new cancers and surveillance of recurrent cancers, among other things.
The American College of Surgeons considers these survivorship plans such an important part of post-treatment cancer care that in 2011 its Commission on Cancer announced that it would require all of its accredited facilities — where about 70 percent of new cancer patients are treated — to provide these plans to all patients by 2015.
Because breast cancer survivors comprise the largest percentage of survivors, 22 percent, it was a natural step for local hospitals to begin implementing SCPs with them. "They have a spectrum of issues but they are also more open, more motivated to deal with them," Currier added..
At the Sylvester clinic, the initial visit includes a two-hour screening to determine the issues a patient is facing. If, for example, she suffers from fatigue, she might see the psychiatrist, exercise physiologist or nutritionist, perhaps even an integrated medicine specialist for acupuncture or yoga. All these disciplines can offer help.
The Breast Cancer Survivorship Clinic sees about five new patients a week. It is now open only to Sylvester patients, but Currier says it might one day open to other breast cancer patients who have been treated in other cities and institutions.
Cornille's first appointment was with the exercise physiologist. Eager to get her life back on track, she had tried the gym on her own, but her efforts were short-lived "I was on the elliptical for five minutes and my legs were like jelly," she recalled.
So she registered with the U Survive & Thrive program at the survivorship clinic, where exercise physiologist Stacy Cutrono tailored an exercise routine and followed her through 16 supervised sessions. Cornille said she was "very encouraged" to see her endurance and strength improve on every visit to the gym.
"It starts as hand holding than it takes off," Cutrono says. "They take what I teach them and they go from there."
Heidi Rowland, a 57-year-old breast cancer survivor, has seen both Cutrono and the nutritionist for follow-up care. In a couple of months she will visit Currier for a cognitive assessment. These appointments are in addition to her follow-ups with the breast oncologist.
"To have to see several physicians who don't talk to each other and are in different places would be very stressful," she said. "It would be daunting, so it's great to have everyone gathered in one place and everyone talking to each other."
Other local hospitals have launched survivorship care plans for their breast cancer patients. Advanced Medical Specialties oncologist Dr. Grace Wang, who chairs the Commission on Cancer (COC) committee for Baptist Health, has worked on the survivorship plan template the hospital gives to survivors for more than a year. To those guidelines she plans to add a list of available community resources as well as a financial component because cancer "can cause financial distress to so many of our patients."
Wang sees SCPs as a vital part of "a team effort" to reduce the recurrence of cancer and offer support to survivors so they can comply with post-treatment care.
"You're educating and keeping them on task about what they should be doing," she added.
At the Memorial Center Institute in Broward, psychiatrist Patrick Reynolds, who heads a multi-disciplinary oncology support system, has been supervising the rollout of the SCPs for breast cancer patients. Like other centers, Memorial plans to add other cancer survivors in the future.
"In the past people fell through the cracks," he said. "The pieces were there, but the care tended to be fragmented. What we're doing now is formalizing the process so survivors don't get lost in the follow-up."


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March 12, 2012 -- The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries will host six public meetings around the state to present proposed 2012-14 hunting season dates, Wildlife Management Areas (WMA) general rules and regulation changes, and waterfowl zones and splits options.
Public comment will be taken on all items under consideration by the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission through May 3. The meeting dates and locations include:
- March 13 at 6 p.m., Alexandria Convention Hall located at 915 Third St.
- March 13 at 6:30 p.m., LDWF Office in Minden located at 9961 Hwy. 80.
- March 14 at 6:30 p.m., Yambilee Festival Bldg., 1939 W. Landry, Opelousas
- March 15 at 6 p.m., Bastrop Visitor Center, 124 N. Washington St.
- March 15 at 6:30 p.m., LSU Ag Center, 7101 Gulf Hwy., Lake Charles.
- March 21 at 6 p.m., St. John Parish Council Chambers, 1801 W. Airline Hwy., Laplace
To view the full notice of intent and all proposed hunting season dates and regulations changes for the upcoming hunting season, please visit http://www.wlf.louisiana.gov/action-items [4].
Public comment will be accepted at LWFC monthly meetings from now through May 3 or can be submitted directly to Randy Myers, Wildlife Division, LDWF, PO Box 98000, Baton Rouge, LA 70898-9000, or via email to firstname.lastname@example.com [5] until May 3.
For more information, contact Randy Myers at 225-765-2359 or email@example.com [5].


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HINEINI (Hebrew for 'Here I am') chronicles the story of one student's courageous fight to establish a gay-straight alliance at a Jewish high school in the Boston area and the transformative impact of her campaign on her entire community.
Longing to connect more deeply with her Jewish identity, Shulamit Izen enters 9th grade at The New Jewish High School (now Gann Academy) in Waltham, Massachusetts. She also starts school as an out lesbian.
Using interviews with Shulamit, her family, teachers, and other students – both those who support her campaign and those who oppose it – the film allows the members of this community to tell their own stories. What emerges is a potent and inspiring story of Jewish pluralism and a community navigating the cross-currents of Jewish tradition and social change.
Beyond the struggle to create a supportive environment for gay and lesbian students and teachers at the school, this is the story of a community wrestling with the very definition of pluralism and diversity in a Jewish context.
From sanctifying same-sex marriages to ordaining gay rabbis, discussions of LGBTQ identity and inclusion are taking place across the Jewish religious spectrum. Hineini: Coming Out in a Jewish High School offers a vital new framework in which to understand these issues and a powerful catalyst for discussion and dialogue in all communities.
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Wearing jeans, sneakers, and a T-shirt that read "I'd rather be fighting the man," Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban last night defended his view that YouTube is eroding support for copyrights and that its actions should not qualify for "safe harbor" under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Calling it the "cockroach in the kitchen," Cuban argued forcefully that YouTube, like Napster before it, is training up an entire generation to think that "anything goes" in the realm of copyright, and that Google's recent purchase of the company only gives their actions more legitimacy.
The occasion for the remarks was the EFF's annual "Pioneer Awards," which were this year handed out at the ETech conference in San Diego, where I'm on location. Cuban squared off for a friendly debate with the EFF's Fred von Lohmann on the YouTube issue. von Lohmann made his own impassioned case for the importance of DMCA safe harbors to companies like YouTube, and said he worried that if the recent court case with Viacom goes against YouTube, the entire concept of the safe harbor could be weakened dramatically.
Cuban, who was involved in negotiations around the DMCA when it was first drafted, countered that the law was never meant to apply to a company like YouTube that offered anonymous access to its hosting. It was designed, he said, for ISPs that know their customers and don't derive large portions of their traffic from infringing content. Von Lohmann countered that anonymous Internet speech is an important principle; there's no reason to require a company like YouTube to require name and address information simply to let users participate. Besides, the DMCA already gives companies an easy way to address the problem—the takedown notice.
The debate then shifted to "red flag knowledge," or the level of knowledge that a company must have about infringing uses of its services before it is no longer liable for DMCA safe harbor protections. von Lohmann pointed out that "general knowledge" that infringement does occur simply cannot be the standard, or every Web company from Amazon to eBay would be in serious jeopardy. The question then becomes: how much infringement is too much? According to Cuban, "everyone knows" that YouTube is stuffed with infringing content, and that level of knowledge should be good enough to revoke their claimed DMCA exemption.
Should YouTube start filtering content before it goes up, Cuban claimed he would have no problem with the company, even if infringing material made it through the screen. "At least they would be trying," he said.
Cuban is an interesting spokesman for copyright concerns since he has a broad perspective; as the owner of HDNet, he worries about having his content given away for free without his consent, but he's also someone who has funded EFF campaigns in the past, especially when the group defended Grokster's claim to legality.
But it wasn't Cuban who was cutting the big checks this time around. Mitch Kapor, who made his money designing Lotus 1-2-3, was an EFF cofounder, and he has just agreed to endow the group with another million dollars out of his personal piggybank. That kind of money should keep the EFF litigating (and debating the DMCA) for decades to come.
One of the strangest aspects of the debate was seeing an EFF lawyer defend the DMCA, which usually comes in for a drubbing due to its anticircumvention provision. But von Lohmann told Ars Technica after the debate that the safe harbor section has actually allowed plenty of businesses to flourish that might otherwise have been mired in legal problems, and that it has generally worked well. If that protection is yanked away from YouTube, though, the scope of the safe harbor rules would be dramatically limited. With several cases against YouTube pending (and several of them due to be decided by the end of the summer), we may know sooner rather than later how the courts choose to interpret this section of the law, and that guidance will condition how tech companies behave.


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Let's face it: The Nobel Prizes aren't for everyone. That's why we celebrate the Ig Nobel Prizes, which were handed out Thursday night at Harvard's Sanders Theater.
Among this year's winners were scientists who discovered that alcohol makes people think they're attractive and that the longer a cow has been lying down, the more likely she is to stand up.
These awards are handed out by the folks who publish the Annals of Improbable Research. Though the discoveries they recognize can seem obvious, inconsequential or just plain goofy, the awards do have a purpose: To "honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think."
Here are the achievements that earned the 2013 Ig Nobels:
The Medicine Prize was awarded to a group of Japanese researchers who determined that mice who got heart transplants survived longer if opera music or Mozart was playing in the background during their surgeries, compared with mice who went under the knife to Enya or to a single-frequency tone. The beneficial music seemed to stimulate production of helpful immune system cells. Their results were published in the Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery.
The Psychology Prize went to European researchers who figured out that beer goggles can be trained on oneself. This team conducted two experiments that found that the more alcohol a person consumed, the more highly they rated themselves for attractiveness, intelligence and cleverness. Their study appeared in the British Journal of Psychology.
The unusual Joint Prize in Biology and Astronomy recognized vision scientists who tested the ability of dung beetles to roll their balls of manure under clear and cloudy nighttime skies. Their findings, published in the journal Current Biology, demonstrated that the insects use the Milky Way to navigate.
The Physics Prize was handed out to a European team that wondered whether it would be possible for people to walk on water — actually, to run across the surface of a hypothetical pond — under the low-gravity conditions that exist on the moon. Their calculations revealed that the answer is yes. You can read the report from PLOS ONE.
The Chemistry Prize investigated the age-old mystery of why onions make people cry. The winning team, from Japan, showed that the plant biochemistry at work involved a previously undiscovered enzyme called lachrymatory-factor synthase. If onions could be engineered without that enzyme, it may be possible for them to retain their flavor and nutritional value without causing eyes to water, they wrote in the journal Nature.
The Archaeology Prize went to two adventurous researchers who took a cue from Jonas Salk and turned themselves into experimental guinea pigs. In order to figure out how bones are damaged when digested by mammalian carnivores, one of the researchers – they don't say which – swallowed shrew that had been skinned and eviscerated. The resulting bone remains were thoroughly scrutinized and described in the Journal of Archaeological Science.
The Public Health Prize recognized researchers in Thailand who responded to an epidemic of penile amputations in the early 1980s by improving the surgical method for reattaching these penises. The amputations "were usually performed by angry wives on philandering husbands," they explained in a study they published in the American Journal of Surgery.
On the mathematics front, the Probability Prize went to researchers at the Scottish Agricultural College in Edinburgh who wanted to get a better understanding of what made cows decide when to lie down and when to stand up. The question isn't entirely trivial: A cow's posture can indicate whether she is in heat or if she has a health problem. After observing nearly 11,000 "lying episodes," they determined that the longer a cow has been lying down, the sooner she will stand up. However, they were surprised to discover that the reverse was not true. Their report was published in Applied Animal Behaviour Science.
The Safety Engineering Prize went to the late American inventor Gustano Pizzo, who was way ahead of his time. In 1972, he filed a patent for what he described as an "anti hijacking system for aircraft" that would trap would-be hijackers, seal them in the belly of the plane, then drop them through bomb bay doors to parachute to the ground, where they'd be met by law enforcement authorities. He received U.S. Patent 3811643 in 1974.
And just like the Nobel Prizes, the Ig Nobels aren't all about science and medicine. They have a Peace Prize too, and it went to Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko for banning applause in public. The award was shared with the Belarus State Police, "for arresting a one-armed man for applauding," according to the Ig Nobel citation.
Now that the 2013 Ig Nobels are in the bag, it's time to start thinking about the 2014 awards. If you'd like to make a nomination, you can do so here.
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Voyages Longitude 131, at Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Australia, is a resort featuring a cluster of 15 luxurious solar-powered tent cabins overlooking Uluru (Ayers Rock). What a setting!
And the children's characters are modified to the 21 st century | The 1980s Strawberry Shortcake has been updated to spend her time chatting on a cellphone instead of brushing her calico cat.
Ken Tomita, of Tomita Designs, draws inspiration from traditional Japanese forms and the multi-cultural context of his upbringing when designing his furniture.
FEATUREDSurfmonk ~ eco-friendly bamboo terry robes, coverups, and towels (with adorable straps)... a super cozy line that's calling out to my inner beach bum.
The Nokia Global Animation by Universal Everything
The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss, by Claire Nouvian ~ i just rediscovered this coffee table book i've been meaning to buy!
Loving this Surface Tension Master tee from Green Sustainabilitees - i was just sent one of their other tees and they are incredibly comfy, and have a cute little green tee printed in the bottom back corner
These are the rest of the "Crying Men" portraits by Sam Taylor-Wood that shows Hollywood actors crying. It was first posted in #11253.
An amazing combination of audio and visual display, Getty Images Moodstream™ presents something new and entertaining to suit your style.
FEATUREDGorgeous Israeli stamps depicting environmental concerns from 1975 ~ here is Air Pollution one... check out Water and Noise Pollution as well...
FEATUREDSee the little bouncing raccoon balloon on the bottom right corner? We're one of the stops in the upcoming "World's First Internet Balloon Race"! Read more about how it works...
First tower in Amsterdam. By Foster + Partners, it features several sustainable features that made it 10% more energy efficient than dutch building codes.
At Shinjuku Takashimaya Department Store they created a 3.2 x 2.1 metre work of Astro Boy pixel art made from 138,000 recycled Tokyo Metro tickets.
Love the simplicity of the die-cut label packaging of Waitrose's mustard line designed by Lewis Moberly ~ also check out their other packaging work and innovative way of showcasing them.
Turbo Stirrers ~ a fun way to really mix up your drinks!
Korg's new nanoSeries includes the nanoKEY, the nanoPAD, and the nanoKONTROL and are designed for ultimate portability in music production.
These are the tourism brands and logos from countries from all over the world.
These high rise multi-level "Farmscrapers" offer a much more sustainable way to farm, and could ultimately ease the world's food, water, and energy crises. Not to mention giving urbanites tasty fresh locally grown veggies.
Denmark isn't famous for cars, but that is about to change with the Sondergard kit car roadster. The brainchild of danish business man Ricky Søndergaard and designed by the BMW designer Jesper Hermann
FEATUREDIt all starts with a lamp made of bread, and a candle made of butter... Dine on Design ~ see how this 8 course designer feast unfolds!
The Lilypad, by Vincent Callebaut, is a concept for a completely self-sufficient floating city intended to provide shelter for future climate change refugees.
The Ford Company created an ingenious campaign where a Ford Focus car is dismantled and the parts are transformed into musical instruments played by an orchestra of real musicians
A research project from architect Phu Hoang Office seeks to address site specific issues in the Dead Sea with a series of artificial islands that would provide recreation, tourist attractions, renewable energy, and create fresh water.
Jason Tozer's amazing images of soap bubbles were posted here last week – here's how they were done
IKEA has converted the cardboard box into a street showroom. Spectacular.
FEATUREDCul is Cool ~ check out this expanded polypropylene stool from Ramon Ubeda and Otto Canalda for ABR ~ as well as many other playful pics i have from the Conran Shop's ROJO Exhibit.
FEATUREDLuis Eslava's Face to Face ~ for the Conran Shop ROJO Exhibition he showcased lamps and space dividers made simply from strips of velcro! Beautiful and ingenious use of velcro!
Lomo and Staple Design collaborated on a colorsplash lomo camera and a book, showcasing the works of over 100 lomographers.
New work by Marti Guixe for Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin. PFIC the public fountain ice cube bar.
Woodenlegs is a nice, solid lamp by Belgian designer Benoit Deneufbourg. Also check out is two wooden coat hangers, 120° CoatHook and 120° CoatStand, after the jump!
See the work of Central St Martins BA (Hons) Product Design Students 2008. The show is up until Thursday 19th in central London.
Oooooh super cute, tiny, 4gig, WATER RESISTANT + SHOCKPROOF ~ USB key ~ and under 30$ - Corsair Flash Voyager Mini
New Hunter Douglas building in Chile by Mathias Klotz.
Good news, the Louis Vuitton x Takashi Murakami Monogramouflage pattern actually appears on product and comes to stores this week.
Hennessy got together with Japans Devilock to work on some limited edition Palmboy figures, which are holding the Hennessy bottle behind their backs!
A group inspired by the urban prankster group Improv Everywhere took over a subway car in Prague and turned it into a living room. This is spontaneous theater at its best and very hilarious!
FEATUREDThe Upholstered Chair from Keeseh Studio.
Alexy Titarenko's long exposures date from the early 1990's up to the present, and capture the moody, ghost-filled bustle of the urban Russian landscape.
How i'm dealing with the TasteSpotting situation? A lot of Boom Blox right now ~ my new favorite game on the Wii ~ (second to rabbids!) ~ from EA and Stephen Spielberg... adorable creatures + blocks = puzzles!
FEATUREDEmil Kozak's Barok'n'roll Wallpaper ~ for Wall Collection is AMAZING ~ i could stare at the details for hours... from afar it certainly resembles a pattern, but up close it has so much to explore...
Ooh west elm has designed some lacquered charging stations ~ with hinged back for surge protector, rear cutout feeds cords to outlet, and a nice large drawer for all those little extras!
FEATUREDMix one part Emil Kozak, one part Kelly Slater, and one part Al Merrick at Channel Islands ~ and you end up with some reallllllly slick surfboards!
The International Fauna Dossier describes a schaffas (Marcum-Schaffidius) as a gentle and un-aspiring creature of great mystery - this exhibition shows off 80 variations of this creature...
Now fly has a chance - Fly Swatter 1:1000 - Idea: Denis Belenko, Alexandr Braszensiy - Model: Dmitriy Nkolaenko
"Kiss Your Little Girlfriends Golden Lunchroom Face Raise Your Middle Finger High Special Afterschool Embrace", Ivan Witenstein at Dere Keller Gallery.
Collection of images from New Zealand based photographer Ben Smith, in and around the Syrian Arabic Republic
With Dynamic Architecture buildings are now able to change their shape.
The Ring Stadium in Maribor, Slovenia. Very impressive, i like it better than the World Cup/Olympics stadiums for its simplicity. By OFIS arhitekti & Multiplan arhitekti.


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Just wondering who all has sworn off male underwear and only wear women's panties, thongs?
My wife who I recently came out to has thrown out my male underwear and is replacing them with women's underwear right now I am wearing a thong in muddy girl camo. She has bought me all kinds of frilly , lacey mostly on Pink's and lavender. She also has me shaving from neck to toes


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Are you wanting to learn how to begin doing genealogy? Are you looking for a refresher on research basics? The Genealogy Center offers two online tutorials on getting started in genealogy.
The Mystery of Your Family History features a basic course on beginning your search, while How to Start Researching Your Family Tree offers a more in-depth tutorial.
Check out these online offerings and begin charting your family tree.


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