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What Is Intelligence?
Beyond the Flynn Effect
- Author: James R. Flynn, University of Otago, New Zealand
- Date Published: March 2009
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Professor James Flynn is one of the most creative and influential psychologists in the field of intelligence. The 'Flynn Effect' refers to the massive increase in IQ test scores over the course of the twentieth century and the term was coined to recognize Professor Flynn's central role in measuring and analyzing these gains. For over twenty years, psychologists have struggled to understand the implications of IQ gains. Do they mean that each generation is more intelligent than the last? Do they suggest how each of us can enhance our own intelligence? Professor Flynn is finally ready to give his own views. He asks what intelligence really is and gives a surprising and illuminating answer. This book bridges the gulf that separates our minds from those of our ancestors a century ago. It is a fascinating and unique book that makes an important contribution to our understanding of human intelligence.Read more
- Expanded paperback edition of James R. Flynn's acclaimed What Is Intelligence, which has sold over 6,500 copies world-wide
- The style is simple and direct, yet even experts will find their understanding of intelligence enhanced
- Boxes and figures make IQ trends easy to comprehend
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"Flynn is a cautious and careful writer. Unlike many others in I.Q. debates, he resists grand philosophizing. His books ("What Is Intelligence?") consist of a series of plainly stated statistical observations, in support of deceptively modest conclusions, and the evidence in support of Flynn's original observation is now so overwhelming that the Flynn effect has moved from theory to fact...average I.Q.s shift over time ought to create a "crisis of confidence," Flynn writes in "What Is Intelligence?", the latest attempt to puzzle through the implications of his discovery.The best way to understand why I.Q.s rise, Flynn argues, is to look at one of the most widely used I.Q. tests, the so-called WISC (for Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)."
--Malcolm Gladwell, The New YorkerSee more reviews
"It is not just the fascinating effect that makes the book special. It's also Flynn's style. There's an unusual combination of clarity, wit, apposite allusion, and farsightedness in making connections and exploring unexpected consequences. The Flynn effect, in Flynn's hands, makes a good, gripping, puzzling, and not-quite-finished story…"
--Ian Deary, Edinburgh University
"This book is a gold mine of pointers to interesting work, much of which was new to me. All of us who wrestle with the extraordinarily difficult questions about intelligence that Flynn discusses are in his debt.."
--Charles Murray, American Enterprise Institute & co-author of The Bell Curve
"This highly engaging, and very readable, book takes forward the Dickens/Flynn model of intelligence in the form of asking yet more provocative questions. . . A most unusual book, one that holds the reader's attention and leaves behind concepts and ideas that force us to rethink all sorts of issues.."
--Sir Michael Rutter, Kings College London
"Flynn provides the first satisfying explanation of the massive rise in IQ test scores. He avoids both the absurd conclusion that our great grandparents were all mentally retarded and the equally unsatisfactory suggestion that the rise has just been in performance on IQ tests without any wider implications.."
--N. J. Mackintosh, University of Cambridge
"Citing many scholarly works, Flynn paints a dynamic picture of what intelligence is and the role of a person's genetic background, physiology and neurology, immediate environment and broader social factors...he has produced an impressively multidimensional and often wise look at the elusive topic of human intelligence."
--Publisher's Weekly
"Mainstream IQ researchers, who are used to being demonized when they are not being ignored, admire Flynn, who is politically a man of the left, for his fairness, geniality, insight, and devotion to advancing knowledge."
--Steve Sailor, vdare.com
"In What is Intelligence? James R. Flynn...suggests that we should not faciley equate IQ gains with intelligence gains. He says that it's necessary to 'dissect intelligence' into its component parts: 'solving mathematical problems, interpreteing the great works of literature, finding on the spot solutions, assimilating the scientific worldview, critical acumen and wisdom.' When this dissection is carried out, several paradoxes emerge, which Flynn in this engaging book attempts to reconcile."
--Richard Restak, American Scholar
"The 20th century saw the "Flynn Effect" - massive gains in IQ from one generation to another."
--Scientific American Mind
"In a brilliant interweaving of data and argument, Flynn calls into question fundamental assumptions about the nature of intelligence that have driven the field for the past century. There is something here for everyone to lose sleep over. His solution to the perplexing issues revolving around IQ gains over time will give the IQ Ayatollahs fits!."
--S. J. Ceci, Cornell University
"What Is Intelligence? is one of the best books I have read on intelligence—ever...This is a brilliant book because, first, it helps resolve paradoxes that, in the past, seemed not to lend themselves to any sensible solutions...one of the best things about the book is Flynn's sense of humility...this is a masterful book that will influence thinking about intelligence for many years to come. It is one of those few books for which one can truly say that it is must reading for anyone."
--Robert J. Sternberg, PsycCRITIQUES
"...In this thoughtful, well-written book, Flynn offers an account of why the so-called Flynn effect occurs and what it means (and does not mean)....This is the clearest, most engaging work on intelligence....All will learn from the author's nuanced arguments. Some may quibble with Flynn's observations, but their work is cut for them: one cannot fault his clarity or ingenuity. Essential.
--D.S. Dunn, Moravian College, CHOICE
"...James Flynn is best known for having discovered a stubborn fact...he established that in every country where consistent IQ tests have been given to large numbers of people over time, scores have been rising as far back as the records go, in some cases to the early 20th century. What Is Intelligence? is Flynn's attempt to explain this phenomenon, now known as the Flynn effect... an important take on what we have made of ourselves over the past few centuries and might yet make of ourselves in the future."
--Cosma Shalizi, Assistant Professor in the Statistics Department at Carnegie Mellon University and an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute, American Scientist
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- Date Published: March 2009
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521741477
- length: 274 pages
- dimensions: 227 x 162 x 14 mm
- weight: 0.44kg
- contains: 5 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface to the expanded paperback edition
1. A bombshell in a letter box
2. Beyond the Flynn effect
3. Towards a new theory of intelligence
4. Testing the Dickens/Flynn model
5. Why did it take so long?
6. IQ gains can kill
7. What if the gains are over?
8. Knowing our ancestors
9. The art of writing cognitive history
10. About GUT: the grand unification theory of intelligence
11. Howard Gardner and the use of words
Appendix I. Tables
Appendix II. Declaration in a capital case.
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Mellinger: Enoughs enough: Clark Hunt must make major changes now
Enoughs enough: Clark Hunt must make major changes now
By SAM MELLINGER
The Kansas City Star
The Chiefs lost their last bit of reasonable hope in a loss so head-shakingly embarrassing it pushed this season from merely awful to pathetic, and some rich men are going to lose their jobs over this.
They need to, anyway, or else a fan base that deserves better is suffering for no reason. If this season were a meal, youd send it back. Or end up really sick.
Either way, you wouldnt go back to the restaurant, and thats the part that has the legs to create some real change after only a few of the Chiefs closest friends stuck around to see the end of an embarrassing 37-20 loss to the Chargers at home on Sunday.
Because this is beyond hope, beyond excuses, beyond any explanation that isnt a fireable offense for everyone who can be fired. This is gross, and imagining it improving requires a stiff imagination or a stiffer drink.
Romeo Crennel needs to fire Matt Cassel as the starting quarterback, because Cassel is now not only bad but hopeless.
Pioli needs to fire Crennel, because hes building a convincing case as the worst head coach in the league.
And Clark Hunt needs to fire Pioli, because every stitch of progress with this roster is undermined by fundamental flaws in quarterback, head coach and philosophy that are a direct reflection of the general manager and serve as something like a parking brake on the franchises stated goal of winning championships.
The argument to make major changes goes something like this: Crennel is overmatched trying to be head coach and defensive coordinator, and a roster top-heavy with stars but lacking in depth cannot drag a leaking quarterback through todays pass-happy NFL. Pioli has not earned the right to choose the next quarterback or a third head coach.
The argument to maintain status quo goes something like this: hey, its the NFL, and maybe the Chiefs can get really, really, really lucky.
Tickets are already sold for games that are already scheduled, so the Chiefs will go ahead and play out the last three-fourths of a meaningless season, but by now the only drama is whether games will be blacked out, how bad Cassel has to stink before he gets benched, and whether a bumbling product thats now lost three games by two touchdowns or more will be enough to convince Hunt that his broken franchise needs major fixes.
That win last week in New Orleans felt good for a moment, like a candy bar for that afternoon crash, but were going to end up remembering it as empty calories keeping the Chiefs from a higher draft pick a pick that needs to be made by whomever Hunt hires after he fires Pioli.
Because, enough. Weve seen enough. The quarterback hand-picked and made apparently untouchable by Piolis faith and New England nostalgia has been booed in both stadiums at Truman Sports Complex and now has 10 turnovers in four games.
Piolis Chiefs continue to spit into the NFLs wind, and the franchises fans deserve better than to slog through a 19th consecutive season without a playoff win while wasting more productive years from Tamba Hali, Dwayne Bowe, Justin Houston and the other good players stuck in a slogging Process that might max out at mediocre.
A roster so galvanized 10 months ago by its beloved Romeo is now a stumbling mess, three blowout losses in four tries, only a comeback win over one of the few organizations in football with less direction keeping them from being winless.
Cassel isnt up to the demands of championship quarterback, and its not his fault that his bosses are slow to recognize hes just good enough to get beat. Crennel is now 27-44 as a head coach, and Pioli still hasnt been in charge of a playoff win without Tom Brady starting at quarterback.
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My favorite summertime haunt as a child was the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, a timeworn amusement park about an hour south of San Francisco. It featured a creaky wooden roller coaster (The Giant Dipper!), carnival games, and corn dogs. I loved the relaxed atmosphere and laid back California beach style of the boardwalk. Everyone wore flip flops and puka shell necklaces. Surfers in wetsuits ate ice-cream on the pier, while hawkers sold neon tee-shirts that said "Hang Loose".
Now that I live in New York the name of the boardwalk may have changed, but I still love going to the beach every chance I get. I relish in the carefree attitude of summertime at the seaside, whichever coast I'm on!
With beach season fast approaching, I wanted to honor this breezy style with a special summer accessory. A canvas wallet seemed like the perfect thing, a simple way to hold some bills and cards in order to pay for all that funnel cake and skee ball! This wallet is durable and quick to make, so you don't have to be too precious with it or worry about it getting wet. Plus, as a nod to my eco-conscious northern California roots, it's made from 100% organic Cotton Duck, which comes in a rainbow of pretty colors. –Molly
ps- These would make a great gift for dads and grads!
To make one wallet:
- 1/4 yard Carr Textiles Organic Cotton Duck in Natural
- 1/4 yard Carr Textiles Organic Cotton Duck in a contrasting color. I used Marine Blue in the example.
- 100% Cotton Thread in color 1040
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Note: You can make up to five wallets using this amount of fabric.
8 1/2 by 3 3/4-inches
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- Cut one rectangle 2 3/4-inches by 9 1/4-inches. This is piece C.
From the contrasting duck:
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Sewing the Inside
Zig zag stitch around all four sides of pieces B and C.
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Being part of law enforcement is like a brotherhood.
Being part of law enforcement is like a brotherhood. There are official and unspoken rules that non-police officers will never fully understand.
But Thibodaux Police Chief Scott Silverii set out to escort the outsiders through the unknown police culture in his new book, "A Darker Shade of Blue: From Public Servant to Professional Deviant; Policing's Special Operations Culture."
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Silverii has a Ph.D. in urban studies from the University of New Orleans. His degree specializes in cultural anthropology.
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Silverii said he became fascinated with the culture and randomly decided one day during a class discussion to use it as his dissertation topic.
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"Law enforcement is a lot like a club," Silverii said. "That's what I discuss in the book. For example, there are so many similarities between cops and outlaw bikers."
Taking his readers through a brief history lesson on the origin of the biker gang, Hell's Angels, Silverii compares and contrasts the group's customs to that of a police force.
"These were all military veterans. They were used to living life on the edge, but not they were not criminalistic. A lot of them served the country overseas and they came back to the U.S. and were bored," he said. "So they started getting together on their bikes and eventually had a run-in with law enforcement. It was a small confrontation, but they became known as bad guys from then on."
Silverii said members of law enforcement are primarily white males in the "middle and lower class and socioeconomic status." They have a rank structure, a code of silence and adorn themselves in attire that represents what group they belong to and what status they hold, similar to the way gangs do.
"Bikers' vests tell everything you need to know. They focus their cultural identity based on patches and pins and ribbons, the same as cops do," he said. "This book explores what it means to, as we call it, 'become blue.' How do you come into that first day of police academy as an idealistic, na�ve guy and eventually be able to stand over a dead body and laugh, not at the victim, but as a defense mechanism?"
To find this out, the chief traveled across the country for about two years to observe hundreds of cops. He paired that with his personal experiences and education to produce a thought-provoking, informational book.
"I like to write. It was kind of a natural progression," he said. "It's my life's work, and I thought it's a great message, so let's get it out there."
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I am pleased to announce the next forensic challenge: Forensic Challenge 8 - "Malware Reverse Engineering".
The challenge has been created by Angelo Dell'Aera and Guido Landi from the Sysenter Honeynet Project Chapter.
Submission deadline is June 15th and we will be announcing winners around the third week of July. We have a few small prizes for the top three submissions.
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Folks, Guillame and Hugo have judged all submissions and results have been posted on the challenge web site. The winners are:
1. Dev Anand
2. Fernando Quintero & Camilo Zapata
3. (3 submissions) Matt Erasmus, Joseph Kahlich and Kevin Mau
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With challenge 7 completed, we are getting ready to launch challenge 8 on May 9th. This challenge has been prepared by Guido Landi and Angelo Dell'Aera from the Sysenter Chapter and it deals with Read more »
An important update for Forensic Challenge 7 challengers. For reasons related to reviewers' everyday job committments the challenge results will be announced on Friday, May 6th 2011 and not on Friday, 29th April as announced in the previous blog post.
Thanks for your patience and regards.
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Folks the submission deadline for the Forensic Challenge 7 – "Forensic Analysis of a Compromised System" - put up by Hugo Gonzalez from the Mexico Chapter and Guillaume Arcas from the French Chapter - has passed. We have received 16 submissions and will be announcing results on Friday, Apr 29th 2011. The winners will get a copy of the book "Virtual Honeypots - From Botnet Tracking to Intrusion Detection" written by Niels Provos and Thorsten Holz.
UPDATE: Forensic Challenge 7 results will be announced on Friday, May 6th 2011.
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A new improvement in PHoneyC DOM emulation code was committed in SVN r1624. The idea is to better emulate the DOM behaviour depending on the selected browser personality. Let's take a look at the code starting from the personalities definition in config.py.
"Dionaea is meant to be a Nepenthes successor, embedding Python as scripting language, using libemu to detect shellcodes, supporting IPv6 and TLS" (taken from Dionaea homepage). Besides being the most interesting project for trapping malware exploiting vulnerabilities, Dionaea supports a really cool feature which allows it to log to XMPP services as described here. TIP now exploits this feature receiving and storing such logs (really thanks to Markus Koetter for his help and support). Read more »
A few weeks ago I started reviewing the PHoneyC DOM emulation code and realized it was turning to be hard to maintain and debug due to a huge amount of undocumented (and sometimes awful) hacks. For this reason I decided it was time to patch (and sometimes rewrite from scratch) such code. These posts will describe how the new DOM emulation code will work. The patch is not available right now since I'm testing the code but plans exists to commit it in the PHoneyC SVN in the next days. Read more »
Challenge 3 - Banking Troubles - (provided by Josh Smith and Matt Cote from The Rochester Institute of Technology Chapter, Angelo Dell'Aera from the Italian Chapter and Nicolas Collery from the Singapore Chapter) is to investigate a memory image of an infected virtual machine.
The challenge has been completed on May 12th 2010.
Skill Level: Difficult
The Challenge:
Company X has contacted you to perform forensics work on a recent incident that occurred. One of their employees had received an email from a fellow co-worker that pointed to a PDF file. Upon opening, the employee did not seem to notice anything, however recently they have had unusual activity in their bank account. Company X was able to obtain a memory image of the employee's virtual machine upon suspected infection. Company X wishes you to analyze the virtual memory and report on any suspected activities found. Questions can be found below to help in the formal report for the investigation.
hn_forensics.tgz Sha1: 8178921fd065ad2de9c6738fe062d2b37402c04a
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The Winners:
Challenge 1 - pcap attack trace - (provided by Tillmann Werner from the Giraffe Chapter) is to investigate a network attack.
Send submissions (please use the MS word submission template or the Open Office submission template) [email protected] no later then 17:00 EST, Monday, February 1st 2010. Results will be released on Monday, February 15th 2010. Small prizes will be awarded to the top three submissions.
Skill Level: Intermediate
The Challenge:
A network trace with attack data is provided. (Note that the IP address of the victim has been changed to hide the true location.) Analyze and answer the following questions:
attack-trace.pcap_.gz Sha1: 0f5ddab19034b2656ec316875b527d9bff1f035f
Sample Solution:
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The State of California will put its "Tax Cannabis Act 2010" on the November ballot. It has posted numerous reasons on its official website. Most importantly, "California's laws criminalizing cannabis (marijuana) have failed and need to be reformed. Despite spending decades arresting millions of non-violent cannabis consumers, we have failed to control cannabis or reduce its availability."
In lay terms, "Cannabis is a $36 billion market. We're almost bankrupt, so we might as well give the people what they want, while we cash in and tax and control the product."
How this will affect the U.S. Rasta, or Rastafari Movement is another issue for debate.
Rastifarians are a strict religious sect that only accepts Haile Selassie I, the former Emperor of Ethiopia as "Jah" (God). It uses cannabis in many of its religious ceremonies and has a large following in California, where members hold religious ceremonies on Hollywood Boulevard, in LA.
Rastifarians are not political. Many of them can't stand long enough to go to the polls. Ras Sam Brown, of Jamaica was the first Rasifarian in history to run for political office in 1961. He formed the Suffering People's Party and only received 100 votes.
I think Billy Bob Thornton made a movie about a similar character. You know the one; he would assume a prone position out on the tarmac as jumbo jets were taking off, so that he could sail with the draft.
The group fears a drop in membership once the Tax Cannabis Act passes.
Recently, there have been international crack-downs on cannabis coffee shops in the Netherlands, as rich Californians, who were not Rastafari, had been taking regular vacations there to take advantage of the relaxed cannabis laws. Now that the State is going bankrupt, many are no longer financially able to make the constant trips and have lobbied for change. They don't accept I.O.U.s in Denmark.
Will the Tax Cannabis Act pass?
An overwhelming majority of Californians say "yes," as they were getting fed-up with the folks in Denmark, who used to rub it in every time they saw Americans visiting their country and even put a video up on YouTube to torment them.
Folks near Joshua Tree National Park are hoping the State makes cannabis its National Tree. They will introduce a forest mascot soon.


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Weekend TV: A New Doctor Who, Intruders, Smashing Ray Donovan
Aug 22, 2014 10:02 AM EDT
"How do we change him back?" Such impulsive words, which "Impossible Girl" companion Clara will eventually be forced to swallow as she, and we, learn to adjust to yet another fabulous new Doctor, the 12th in his incredible line. As Doctor Who devotee… Read more


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As desperate refugees continue to try and make their way to Europe many Britons have used social media to spread their message that those fleeing persecution are welcome in the UK.
The tragic image of a young Syrian boy washed ashore on a beach in Turkey went viral, and prompted people to call on the Government to address the plight of those trying to escape war-torn countries.
A petition urging the Government to accept more asylum seekers and increase support for refugees in the UK has gained more than 50,000 signatures and an associated social media campaign #refugeeswelcome has been a top trend on Twitter.
Actor Douglas Booth, who is also a supporter of the UN Refugee Agency, tweeted the shocking image of the three-year-old boy, named as Aylan Kurdi, lying dead on the beach and said: "This is about our common humanity. No person fleeing war or persecution should have to die crossing a sea to reach safety."
RAF veteran Harry Leslie Smith said he was shocked, aged 92, to see a refugee crisis he likened to that which affected Europe at the end of the Second World War.
He wrote: "By not making #refugeeswelcome Cameron's gov't has shown that it doesn't want to be a true partner with Europe or with the human race.
"70 years ago at end of WW2 I witnessed that #refugeecrisis in Europe @ 92 didn't think I'd see it again."
Sarah Brown, wife of former Labour prime minister Gordon, told of her sorrow at the death of Aylan and his five-year-old brother Galip.
She wrote: "My boys are tucked up safely tonight. Every child deserves to feel safe and loved. RIP Aylan and Galip."
Television presenter Richard Bacon was heavily critical of Britain's current stance on refugees, tweeting: "Let's call Britain's attitude to refugees what it is. Selfish. Inhuman. Indifferent. Uncharitable. Unchristian. Unpleasant."


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I go through this every year when I receive my Agatha Awards nomination ballot prior to the Malice Domestic mystery convention. What should I put on it? Short stories are easy enough to choose, but I'm always bewildered about the kind of books that do and don't fit the Agatha Award criteria.
The task became more difficult last year when historical mysteries were placed in a separate category. So: if I think a historical mystery was one of the best books of the year, will it be removed from my ballot if I place it in the Best Novel category instead of Best Historical?
Decisions, decisions. The completed ballot is due no later than Saturday.
I could fill up the ballot with books by friends. Some of my friends write some of the books I consider best. But not all are that good. I want to nominate books I genuinely believe rose above the competition. Without having read everything that was published during the year, I can only choose from those I did read, and that always makes me wonder what marvelous work I've missed.
I have three sure candidates for the nonfiction category. First is The Grand Tour: Around the World with the Queen of Mystery, a collection of Agatha Christie's travel letters edited by her grandson, Mathew Prichard. Second is More Forensics and Fiction: Crime Writers' Morbidly Curious Questions Expertly Answered by D.P. Lyle, MD. The third is Books to Die For: The World's Greatest Mystery Writers on the World's Greatest Mystery Novels, edited by John Connolly and Declan Burke. (The latter two books were nominated for Edgar Awards. The Christie book, inexplicably, was not, and it will be an outright crime if Christie's own words don't earn an Agatha nomination.) Those are the only nonfiction crime-related books from 2012 that I am both familiar with and consider award-worthy, so I will only list the three on my ballot.
The novel nominations are the ones that drive me a little batty, not only because I know so many talented authors but also because the Agatha guidelines don't explain what a "traditional" mystery is, beyond specifying that it is best exemplified by Agatha Christie's books and has no explicit sex or excessive violence. However, some books that have been nominated – and won – have borne little resemblance to Christie mysteries. I don't think my first novel, The Heat of the Moon, is anything like a Christie book, and it has a sex scene, but no, I won't give back my teapot.
I always consider Margaret Maron's latest book, whatever it is, one of the best mysteries of the year, so The Buzzard Table from 2012 is guaranteed a spot on my ballot. I don't read many cozies, but I read Written in Stone by Ellery Adams and loved it, and it's a strong candidate for my Best Novel nominations list. Another is Racing from Death by Sasscer Hill, who received some nominations (including the Agatha) for her first novel, Full Mortality, but still isn't getting the attention she deserves. And I mustn't forget G.M. Malliet's A Fatal Winter, an English village mystery in the Christie mold that is more beautifully written than anything Christie herself ever produced. I'll put my own 2012 book, Bleeding Through, on my ballot because, after all, doesn't every author write in his or her own title? I'm guaranteed at least one mention.
I haven't read many historical mysteries lately, and most I've read have been gritty and violent, so I don't have a lot to choose from. Joanna Campbell Slan's Jane Eyre novel Death of a Schoolgirl is a shoo-in, though. Jeri Westerson's books featuring a disgraced knight as a private detective are billed as "medieval noir," but last year her 2011 book, Troubled Bones, received an Agatha nomination, so I guess it's permissible to put Blood Lance from 2012 on my ballot. Anatomy of Murder by Imogen Robertson and The Anatomist's Wife by Anna Lee Huber are already on it. But I hesitate over including The Orphan Master by Jean Zimmerman, however highly I regard it, because a foray into cannibalism might push the Agatha boundaries.
Best First Novel? Oy. Here's where I feel a strong impulse to simply write in the titles of five friends' books – whether I've read them yet or not. I'll try to resist, but I won't tell you what my ultimate choices are.
Children's and Young Adult mysteries are foreign territory for me, and I'll leave that category blank. This is a category where I suspect a small number of voters determine the nominees and winner.
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Three of my favorite 2012 crime novels are Criminal by Karin Slaughter, Dare Me by Megan Abbott, and The Gods of Gotham (historical) by Lyndsay Faye. But I'll save them for my Anthony Award nomination ballot when it arrives. I don't think they fit the Agatha Award definition of traditional mysteries.
I may be wrong.
And I am not the only one who doesn't know exactly what a traditional mystery is. Ask a dozen people for a definition and you'll get some interestingly varied answers. Some people think "cozy" and "traditional" are interchangeable terms. Some think all traditional mysteries take place in small towns, or have amateur sleuths.
As I said, if Christie's books provide the form, some novels that deviate from it have been nominated and have won. If explicit sex and excessive violence are the only forbidden elements, a lot of suspense novels and thrillers could be relabeled traditional mysteries, but if a publishing house is putting a lot of effort and advertising money into branding a book a thriller, I won't argue with the labeling.
Maybe you don't care about awards, but if you do, you want to know which books are eligible for which honors. Do you think we need a clearer definition, for award purposes, of the traditional mystery?


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The state of being a refugee is temporary, in theory, but without a place to go back to -- a nation, a city, a home -- limbo begins to look permanent, a designated space carved out of someone else's country, where the basic needs of physical survival might be provided, but the rights of citizenship are forfeit, and human aspirations lose both their means and their direction.
Refugees are not only sequestered in space, they are incarcerated in time, walled-in between a past that's been obliterated and a future that no longer exists. But things can get worse. Intense suffering from disease and starvation can render strictures of time and space merely negligible, and what might have been purgatory becomes a living hell. With the refugees from Syria, thankfully, that is not the case.
The international community has responded. Neighboring countries, Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey, have extended hospitality and NGO's have organized food, shelter, water and medical assistance. And people have each other. Whole communities have been uprooted and have managed to stay together. But will they ever be able to safely return to Syria? If they cannot return, then how will the rest of the world accommodate not only their basic survival, but meet the challenge of establishing new citizenship, and the opportunities for self-determination inherent in that responsibility, rather than accepting the creation of another stateless people?
James Nachtwey is a TIME contract photographer, documenting wars, conflicts and critical social issues.


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I'm embarrassed to admit that six years ago, when a couple of dealers tipped me off that an Indian vehicle manufacturer named Mahindra & Mahindra intended to enter the U.S. market, I had no idea who Mahindra was.
We keep up with all corners of the auto industry here at Automotive News, whether we write about them or not, tracking what folks are up to around the world. And I had never heard of Mahindra.
They were very small players. They supplied what appeared to be a low-tech Jeep-like vehicle to the Indian military. Dealers told us that they wanted to send over a compact pickup from India.
But back in that era, before 2008 spike in gasoline prices, Mahindra's plan had a twist: It would have a four-cylinder diesel engine, they said, that rivaled the muscle of a Dodge Ram six.
Mahindra would go through an independent U.S. distributor rather than attempt to import and set up field operations on its own.
Now, six years later, the plan is a mess. Mahindra said back in 2010 that its deal with its American distributor was dead, and that was about all they said.
The situation went to arbitration in England, leaving 350 would-be dealers clueless about their future for almost two years. And this month the British arbitrators finally concluded that Mahindra was correct: Its deal with its U.S. distributor is kaput.
A U.S. district court judge in Missouri has reached the same conclusion.
Mahindra clearly didn't know the American auto market well enough in 2006 to try entering on its own. If I had never heard of Mahindra, I'm willing to bet most American consumers hadn't either -- something Mahindra execs later told me they were a bit worried about.
Although Mahindra didn't have the expertise to enter the America auto market on its own, a network of 350 American retailers did. Eager dealers from New England to the Pacific signed up to invest, assume the risk, build the showrooms, spend the sweat equity, film the TV commercials, hire the sales personnel and train the service technicians to establish the Mahindra brand.
Those dealers are now out of luck, apparently. If the courts consider Mahindra to be free of its 2006 distributor agreement, the logical assumption is that Mahindra also has no obligation to the dealers who signed agreements with that distributor.
So maybe this is when America really gets to know the still-unknown Mahindra.
What judges rule and what one's higher conscience urges are sometimes two different things.
Will Mahindra now walk away, which appears to be its legal right, and abandon a group of American retailers who committed to the automaker and invested their time and money over the past six years?
Or will Mahindra honor the spirit of those dealers by making them all part of whatever business plan comes next?
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Annuities made headlines last week, which gives us a good opportunity to review who might benefit from immediate annuities and what to consider before buying one.
The Treasury Department last Tuesday issued new rules that will enable people to purchase deferred-income annuities, or so-called longevity annuities, within a 401(k) or individual retirement account. Such products are frequently purchased in one's 60s, and begin payouts 10, 15 or even 20 or more years into the future.
Sales of deferred annuities currently account for less than 2% of annuity sales overall. In contrast, sales of immediate annuities – which represent close to 10% of all annuity sales – jumped 47% in this year's first quarter over the same period last year, according to Limra, an industry-funded research group. Sales are projected to grow steadily over the next few years.
Why the surge? As Walter Updegrave reported recently in The Wall Street Journal, immediate annuities – despite their shortcomings – fill a need for guaranteed income among the thousands of boomers retiring each day.
With an immediate annuity, you hand over a lump sum to an insurer, which invests the money and makes a predetermined payout to you each month for the rest of your life. Among the downsides: Once you hand over your money, you would no longer have access to it, say, for emergency expenses.
On the plus side, purchasing an immediate annuity with a portion of your nest egg could help you cover – when combined with Social Security benefits and perhaps a pension – essential retirement expenses. You could then leave the balance of your retirement savings in more liquid investments (like stocks, bonds and mutual funds) and, if you wish, still set aside money for your heirs.
If you're thinking about buying an immediate annuity:
Browse before buying. The same lump sum can generate different payouts from different insurers. You can get quotes from several companies by going to ImmediateAnnuities.com, an online annuity brokerage firm. A number of large investment firms – including Fidelity Investments, Charles Schwab and Vanguard Group – sell immediate annuities.
Don't go all in at once. A low-interest-rate climate – as is the case today – typically results in smaller payouts. Buying immediate annuities in stages over several years will reduce the chances of you committing all your money at a time when interest rates are working against you. A phase-in strategy also gives you time to assess your retirement expenses and determine how much guaranteed income you really need.
Emphasize security. Buy only from insurance companies that receive high financial-strength ratings from firms like Standard & Poor's and A.M. Best. Equally important, diversify – both by spreading your money among annuities from two or more highly rated insurers and by limiting the amount you invest with any single insurer to the coverage limits of the life-insurance guaranty association in your state, typically $100,000 per insurer.
Also on MarketWatch:
How to declare your financial independence
How to go 40 years without a paycheck
Rebalancing: How much is too much?
Glenn Ruffenach edits The Wall Street Journal's guide to planning and living the new retirement. Reach him at email@example.com.


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|Allegro CL version 9.0
Unrevised from 8.2 to 9.0.
8.2 version
Arguments: clipboard-format
This generic function returns (or sets with setf) the value of the Windows clipboard for a
specified format. The argument may be either
:rich-text, or
:pixmap to
indicate the format.
When using the setf, the value should match the specified
format, where
:text indicates a regular Lisp
:rich-text indicates a regular Lisp string
that happens to be in rich text format (such as can be retrieved by
calling rich-edit-range on
widget or
rich-edit-pane), and
:pixmap indicates a Common Graphics pixmap
object. (Common Graphics uses the "device-independent bitmap" Windows
clipboard format to pass pixmaps on the Windows clipboard to and from
other applications.)
The setf of this function has an additional keyword parameter
empty-clipboard, which defaults to t. When true,
this causes the clipboard to be completely cleared before placing the
new value onto the clipboard. This ensures that no values of other
data formats are left on the clipboard along with the new value. If it
is desired to place data of multiple formats onto the clipboard, then
specify this argument as
nil when adding
successive formats, as in:
(setf (clipboard-object :text :empty-clipboard nil) "foo")
Note that the setf of this function does not modify the Lisp clipboard
stack. To modify both the Windows clipboard and the Lisp clipboard
stack, use a function such as push-lisp-clipboard or copy-command rather than
(setf clipboard-object).
The older functions clipboard-string and clipboard-pixmap are deprecated in favor of this newer single function.
See cg-clipboard.htm.
Only the
:text format is supported for passing
information on the system clipboard between Lisp and other
applications. The
:pixmap format may be
supportable in the future, but the
format (or formated text in general) does not appear to be
supportable. Arbitrary lisp objects may still be passed on the lisp
clipboard within a lisp application by calling push-lisp-clipboard and pop-lisp-clipboard.
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By request, here's some advice on how to read tabs:
- Tabs reflect what notes are being played on the guitar
- Learning to read tabs would help you learn how to play songs
- The way tabs are expressed are from 1st (e) to 6th (E) string i.e. bottom to top of guitar
- Each number on a string represents which fret to press on which string
- When the numbers are in a vertical line, it indicates that all the notes are played at the same time i.e. strum or pluck
- When the numbers are arranged consecutively, it indicates that individual notes are plucked one at a time (Read from left to right)


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ON MARCH 1, 1954, at 6:45 a.m., the U.S. government detonated a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb in the Bikini Atoll. Within a few hours, the ash-like radioactive fallout from the "Bravo" test explosion began to descend on the nearby inhabited atolls of Rongelap and Rongerik. An Air Force witness said the fallout resembled "a snowstorm in the middle of the Pacific."
A two-inch-deep layer of radioactive dust accumulated on Rongelap, contaminating its food supply and drinking water. Children playing in the powder experienced skin eruptions on their arms and faces. By the end of the day, the residents of Rongelap had begun to exhibit the symptoms of acute radiation exposure: burns, severe vomiting, diarrhea, and hair loss.
The islanders were not evacuated from Rongelap until two days after the blast. They and other Marshallese people have suffered the insidious long-term effects of radiation exposure because of the contamination of their land and the cumulative effects of radiation on their bodies. For example, the rate of stillbirths and miscarriages among Rongelap women who were exposed to the fallout rose to more than twice the rate in unexposed Marshallese women for the four years following the Bravo detonation. ...
More than 2,000 Marshallese people were contaminated with radiation, becoming unwilling laboratory specimens for the U.S. government's gruesome nuclear experiments.
Liane Rozzell was a Sojourners editorial assistant when this article appeared.
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Hubble Finds a New Black Hole - and Unexpected New Mysteries
Confirming the presence of yet another super-massive black hole in the universe, astronomers using the Hubble telescope have found unexpected mysteries. The black hole and an 800-light-year-wide, spiral-shaped disk of dust fueling it are slightly offset from the center of the host galaxy, NGC 4261.
Prior to Hubble observations, astronomers did not think dust was common in elliptical galaxies like NGC 4261, which were thought to have stopped making stars long ago due to the absence of the requisite raw materials: gas and dust. However, Hubble is showing that dust and dust disks are common in the centers of elliptical galaxies.
Dust Disk Around a Black Hole in Galaxy NGC 4261
Confirming the presence of yet another super-massive black hole in the universe, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have found unexpected new mysteries. The black hole, and a 800 light-year-wide spiral-shaped disk of dust fueling it, are slightly offset from the center of their host galaxy, NGC 4261, located 100 million light-years away in the direction of the constellation Virgo.
This discovery is giving astronomers a ringside seat to bizarre, dynamic processes that may involve a titanic collision and a runaway black hole. This relatively nearby galaxy could shed light on how far more distant active galaxies and quasars produce their prodigious amounts of energy.
The results are being presented by the team, consisting of Laura Ferrarese and Holland Ford of the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD., and Walter Jaffe of Leiden University, The Netherlands, at a press conference at the European Space Agency, Paris, France, in conjunction with the Science With Hubble Space Telescope II workshop.
"I'm delighted by this new finding. It doesn't fit our expectations, and this should lead us to a new understanding of black holes," said Holland Ford. "The new Hubble observations have moved us beyond the question of whether black holes exist. Now we can work on the demographics of black holes and address a number of other questions: does every galaxy have a black hole? How do these extraordinary engines work?"
Predicted by Einstein's general theory of relativity, a black hole is an extremely compact and massive object that has such a powerful gravitational field that nothing, not even light can escape. This is the second super-massive black hole confirmed by Hubble. By measuring the speed of gas swirling around the black hole, the team of astronomers was able to calculate its mass to be 1.2 billion times the mass of our Sun, yet concentrated into a region of space not much larger than our solar system.
The strikingly geometric disk - which contains enough mass to make 100,000 stars like our Sun - was first identified in Hubble observations made in 1992. These new Hubble images reveal for the first time structure in the disk, which may be produced by waves or instabilities in the disk.
Prior to Hubble observations, astronomers did not think dust was common in elliptical galaxies like NGC 4261, which were thought to have stopped making stars long ago due to the absence of the requisite raw materials: interstellar gas and dust. However, Hubble is showing that dust and beautiful disks are common in the centers of elliptical galaxies. The most conventional explanation is that the disk is the remnant of a smaller galaxy that fell into the core of NGC 4261. The black hole will swallow the gas from the intruder over the next 100 million years, and in the process produce spectacular fireworks, researchers predict.
Such collisions may have been more common in the past, when the expanding universe was smaller. This would help explain the abundance of quasars and active galaxies in the distant past. However, according to theoretical simulations, it's difficult, dynamically, to get an intruder galaxy to plunge directly into a galaxy's core. Another possibility is that dust ejected from ancient stars in the galaxy has fallen into the core and formed a disk. But this does not explain why the disk is off-center, which is evidence for a dynamic close encounter.
Equally as puzzling is the discovery that the black hole is offset from the center of the galaxy, and the disk's center as well. Because the black hole is the astronomical equivalent of the proverbial "1,000-pound gorilla" - how do you move it around? Presumably, the black hole was at the center of the galaxy, but something has pulled it 20 light-years from the center, according to the Hubble observations. However, the black hole is so massive it's hard to imagine how it could have been moved.
One exotic idea is that the black hole is self-propelled. The cold, dusty disk serves as a rocket "fuel tank" by feeding material onto the black hole where gravity compresses and heats it to tens of millions of degrees. Hot gas exhausts out from the black hole's vicinity producing the radio jets observed by radio telescopes as twin-lobe structures extending far beyond the galaxy. This exhaust may be pushing the black hole across space just like a rocket engine which propels an object by rapidly ejecting mass.
Hubble is ideally suited for hunting super-massive black holes in the universe. With the astronomical equivalent of surgical precision, Hubble's spectrographs can measure the rotation of gas near enough to a suspected black hole to capture its unmistakable gravitational signature. The speed of gas orbiting a back hole will rapidly increase toward the center of the disk - just as the planets closer to our Sun orbit faster.
To date two other galaxies have confirmed black holes. Hubble detected a 2.4-billion-solar-mass black hole was identified in the core of elliptical galaxy M87 in 1994, and later that year, astronomers using a radio telescope array to examine the dynamics of a thin, warped disk of molecules deep in the core of spiral galaxy NGC 4258 measured a 40-million-solar-mass black hole.
Ford and his colleagues continue using Hubble to survey both active and quiescent galaxies to determine if black holes are commonly found in most galaxies.
L. Ferrarese (Johns Hopkins University) and NASA
Ray Villard
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After volunteering for three months in a Costa Rican jungle, I came home with an unwelcome souvenir: worms as long as spaghetti noodles. Malcolm and Liddy convinced me to lick a 9-volt battery. Malcolm, who grew up in England, reassured me that he licked batteries routinely as a kid as a de-worming remedy. So, I licked the battery. I also drank a Slovakian tea prepared by my then-girlfriend's mother that tasted like liquid vegemite. I wondered if she was trying to poison me with such a vile brew. It was as bitter as grapefruit peels and burned like chlorine all the way down my esophagus where it promptly set fire to my stomach.
After returning from Costa Rica, I had become accustomed to nearly shitting my pants on a daily basis. The cramps that left me curled up in a tight shrimp ball were also considered normal. I remember lying on the front lawn of Pat and Rene's lakeside cottage in the kind of position that someone would assume when fired out of a cannon. Pat Lane came out with a spoon and some Pepto Bismol. I said I was fine, but I couldn't really move from my position. So, she brought me a beer. That's what friends are for.
It was Cindy and Louise who convinced me of an old wives tale that would surely work. Louise said she had a tapeworm as a child, and her mother successfully lured the worm out with a piece of bread soaked in milk. After several months of intestinal agony, I thought, why not?
When I got home that night, Kate (whose mother made the poison tea) assisted in the worm-removal operation. Unfortunately we had no bread—only multigrain bagels and freezer-burned hot dog buns. We both figured the bun would be better, especially because the bagel had a hole in it. She put the white Wonderbread bun in the microwave and soaked it in a dish with skim milk. And then, while I rolled over prone in bed, she used hockey tape to secure the milk-soaked hot dog bun to my ass.
Milk ran down my legs and soaked the sheets. I was wide awake thinking of how big of a worm might crawl out of me in the night. And then what? If the worm ate the entire bun, then it would be taped to my ass until I woke up.
I'm not sure how I fell asleep with something so soggy attached to me, and come morning, there was nothing but a bun still attached to me. That's when I gave up and went to the Tropical Disease Center at McMaster University. Six Vermox pills later and I was given a promising prognosis: I was no longer feeding a thousand.
Travel always brings about unexpected surprises, like intestinal worms that arrive months later like a misdirected postcard. It's the Tumbu flies of Congo that give me a mild case of the heebie jeebies though. The adult flies lay eggs on drying laundry and when the eggs come in contact with your skin, they hatch and bury themselves under your skin. "Here they form a crop of boils, each with a maggot inside," the Bradt guide to the Congo reports. But, by smearing Vaseline on the breathing holes, you can suffocate the suckers out of your skin. As they emerge to the surface of the skin, they can be squeezed out but the larvae also have spines which help them hold on. Ew. I have jungle stories about a similar maggoty fly, but that's for another time. There are many other gruesome things to report on that are endemic to the Congo. Like the pneumonic plague.
The plague is transferred from small animals to the fleas that bite them. Humans can get transmission from flea bites, direct contact with the animal with the fleas, inhalation—or by eating the animal. This is why you shouldn't eat your pet dog or cat.
The most common and infamous form of the pneumonic plague is the bubonic, acquired by the bite of an infected flea. Jungle towns and crowded mining camps are breeding grounds for such a plague, and Ituri, Congo, is the most active plague region on the planet. My hometown, Brantford, Ontario, proudly boasts about being the home of Wayne Gretzky. I wonder if Ituri has a welcome sign indicating "Most Active Plague Region on the Planet!"
Plague symptoms aren't as dramatic as I thought: chills, diarrhea, fever, headache and swollen lymph nodes. The most obvious sign that you have the plague? Death in one week. There are antibiotics to treat the bubonic plague, but in the middle ages, millions of Europeans died of measly flea bites. Shame.
The Bradt guide has provided an intriguing breakfast read for me over cups of tea. I have learned that if I am bitten by an animal suspected to be rabid, I should scrub with soap, strong iodine, gin, whisky or rum, to stop the virus from entering my body. Traveling with the rabies immunoglobin is recommended, but I should be prepared to drop $800 US. However, "mortality is 100% and death from rabies is probably the worst way to go."
Of greater concern is the Ebola virus. In 2001 and 2003 there were outbreaks near the Gabonese-Congo border with 302 infected. Of that number, 254 died—with many family members contracting Ebola during burial ceremonies due to handling bodies in unsanitary conditions. It is fatal three weeks after transmission and can be contracted from infected bodily fluid exchange, contaminated needles, or eating (or handling) contaminated meat of gorillas, chimps, antelopes and porcupines. All have been crossed off my must-eat list.
Ebola presents like malaria and typhoid with a high fever, headache, exhaustion, dizziness and sore throat. But the bleeding from every opening in the body is the best indication of Ebola. Death occurs from organ failure or blood loss.
Chantal is fearful of the day the Congo is put in quarantine because of an Ebola outbreak. With no incoming or outgoing flights, the Congo would have to rely on its own water sources and produce–much of which is shipped in from South Africa, Kenya and Belgium. They would be shut-off from major supply sources, creating an even greater outbreak of starvation and violence.
The Bradt guide advises that if a hospital visit is required while in Congo, "you may be exposing yourself to even more risk." Poorly sanitized and supplied, the book recommends flying to Johannesburg. "Under no circumstance should you receive a blood transfusion unless the option is your own demise."
Sean Rorison, who bravely pieced the Congo guide together over a span of five years offers this gem: "whatever you think you may need in the Congo, bring it. It is not the country to be lean on what you bring." The usual advice is to bring half the stuff and twice the money. In the Congo? Bring twice the stuff and three times the money. And a lot of Q-tips.
Rorison speaks of the corruption that I have been a witness to since the day I arrived. He suggests "unless an officer is standing in front of your vehicle, with his hands waving, blowing his whistle so hard a vein is going to pop—just drive around them. If stopped later, apologize and say you didn't see them."
Chantal's advice—give them the 500 francs ($1 US). Although their guns are likely from the 1940s and sans ammunition, no sense in testing the theory.
And, under no circumstance should you perform any magic tricks (and I don't mean a disappearing act). Rorison writes that being able to perform magic implies that you are possessed and communicating with otherworld spirits which is totally not cool with the Congolese. They will cast away their own children into the streets if there is suspicion of sorcery or magic. Luckily, I don't know any magic tricks—in fact, I never did learn how to make a loon call with a blade of grass or make that really authentic farting sound by cupping your hand in your armpit and pumping your arm up and down. I think I'll be safe.
I've already breached the traveller's maxim of how to determine what to safely eat: PEEL IT, BOIL IT, COOK IT OR FORGET IT. Curiously, I stopped having diarrhea the day I arrived in the Congo. But, as Rorison scolds, "other fecal-oral diseases come from getting other people's feces in your mouth." (But your own is okay?) This happens when cooks don't wash their hands after a dump, or you touch a contaminated door handle and possibly bank notes (as my friend Andrea warned me in Uganda—Congolese women keep money up their bums to hide it from their husbands). Gives a whole new meaning to safety deposit boxes and automatic withdrawals.
Dr. Jane Wilson-Howarth wrote a very graphic article in the guide about how to identify what intestinal creepy-crawly you might have, characterized by if you are passing "blood or slime. If the diarrhea is greasy and bulky and is accompanied by sulphurous (eggy) burps, one likely cause is giardia." She suggests Coke or orange squash (??) with a three-finger (and wash those three fingers!) pinch of salt to rehydrate. I think Wilson-Howarth should write children's books, the content would be a genuine crowd-pleaser. What kid wouldn't love talk about eggy bum burps? Or was she talking about burps from one's mouth?
I do hope to remain worm-less this time 'round, but if I do inadvertently find myself eating shit or licking bank notes, I know the remedy (which does not involve hot dog buns taped to my ass or Congolese money up my ass). I have been chimp-licked, French-kissed by a giraffe and shared cooties with four cheetahs in Kenya, so I'm crossing my sanitized fingers.
Please wash your hands after reading this, and remember– absolutely no magic tricks or porcupine burgers in the Congo. Sleep tight, and don't let the bed bugs bite.


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Torrey Smith has heard it before. About three months after the wide receiver was drafted, the Ravens released three popular and productive offensive players, and Smith remembers the talk that the team was headed for some struggles.
"They had cut [Derrick] Mason, [Todd] Heap and Willis McGahee [and] everybody was panicking and saying, 'Oh, you're going to be terrible,'" Smith said Saturday before hosting his charity basketball game at Stafford High School, his alma mater. "We were a couple of plays away from the Super Bowl. You just have to trust the guy."
'The guy' is Ravens' general manager Ozzie Newsome, who has built two Super Bowl championship teams. However, it hasn't been an easy ride for Newsome and the Ravens since they beat the San Francisco 49ers, 34-31, to capture Super Bowl XLVII on Feb. 3.
The Ravens have already lost eight key players from that team, including six on the defense. That group, of course, is headed by linebacker Ray Lewis, who retired following his 17th season, and safety Ed Reed, who signed with the Houston Texans on Friday.
"I think the hardest thing for the fans is just the connection between the guys that we lost," Smith said. "We lost Ray, and also Ed, who were icons and Anquan [Boldin] played a great role over the past few years, and Bernard Pollard plays like a Raven. It takes a lot out of the fans, but it's just the business side of it, and they get to experience it first-hand. We'll be fine."
Fullback Vonta Leach, one of several of Smith's teammates at Saturday's event, feels that reports of the Ravens' demise are premature.
"Games still have to be played," Leach said. "They're going to put the schedule out, and I'll make sure we're going to be ready."
Leach was cut by the Houston Texans two offseasons ago despite being considered one of the best fullbacks in the NFL, so by now, nothing in the league surprises him, not even a mass exodus from a Super Bowl-winning team.
"Guys know what kind of business this is," Leach said. "Nobody's job is ever secure. You know people are moving around. ... When you win a Super Bowl, when you got a lot of good players on your team, they get a chance to get paid. Everybody sees that talent. Other teams want somebody who has been to a Super Bowl, who has won a Super Bowl. Players that were free agents got the most of it."
The Ravens have numerous holes. They could use a slot receiver to take Boldin's spot. They are looking for a left tackle, a pass rusher and at least one inside linebacker and a safety.
But Smith, who has gotten to the AFC championship game in both of his seasons, isn't sweating it.
"You just have to trust and believe in [Newsome]," he said. "He can cut me today and I'd still be a firm believer in him. He has a track record and there's nothing you can take from that. He's won two rings, he's the mastermind behind that. When a guy has that type of reputation, you just have to trust it."
NOTE: Smith's third annual celebrity all-star game pitted a team made up mostly of Ravens against a team featuring several past and present Washington Redskins. The Ravens' team won the game, 98-79, and Smith anointed backup quarterback Tyrod Taylor as the game's Most Valuable Player for a second straight year. The other Ravens who played were quarterback Joe Flacco, running backs Ray Rice and Damien Berry, wide receivers LaQuan Williams and Tori Gurley, linebacker D.J. Bryant and defensive tackle Bryan Hall. Boldin, who was traded to the 49ers' earlier this month, was also on the Ravens' team. The event, which benefits the Torrey Smith Foundation, sold out in a couple of days. Smith said the response has been so great that he is considering moving the event to a bigger venue next year.


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Gourmet Basics Pop Rings - The makers of Smart Fries have a new snack, and this one will obliterate onion-ring cravings! In Original, Hatch Chile, and Mediterranean Herbs, each 1-oz. serving (about 32 rings!) has 110 calories, 1.5g fat, 160 - 290mg sodium, 22 - 23g carbs, 0g fiber, 0 - 1g sugars, and 2g protein (PointsPlus® value 3*). And there are single-serve bags! Find them in East Coast stores, or order online. Hello, Funyuns swap...
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According to new research, more than a third of Americans are eating meat alternatives... but only 7 percent are vegetarians! As meat-eating lovers of many meatless products, this makes total sense to us. Check out a few more interesting points the study uncovered... Some of the top reasons consumers are trying meat alternatives? Perceived healthiness and taste. Plus, 31 percent reported buying meat alternatives as a way to reduce meat consumption. Meatless burgers take the lead! Sans-meat burger patties are the most popular choice. (Boca Original Vegan is our go-to meat-patty swap.) Meatless breakfast alternatives are also mega-successful among frequent chewers of meatless products. Click here for all our favorite meat substitutes! The best-selling brand in the biz? MorningStar Farms, commanding over 60 percent of sales. Speaking of MF, new product alert! Check out the Parmesan Garlic Wings -- have five for 190 calories and 7g fat (PointsPlus® value 5*). Pass the marinara!
Seapoint Farms Dry Roasted Edamame 100 Calorie Snack Packs - These crunchy snacks are CRAMMED with protein and fiber. They come in two flavors -- Lightly Salted and Spicy Wasabi -- and each pack has 100 calories and 3 - 3.5g fat (PointsPlus® value 2*). Find 'em in stores and online. P.S. We also love this brand's steamable 90-calorie packs of frozen soybeans in the pod. Wholly Guacamole 100 Calorie Minis - WG's snack packs of guac now come in super-convenient li'l cups, perfect for baked-chip or veggie dipping. And get this: They come in Classic, Spicy, and AVOCADO RANCH. Whoa. Each 2-oz. mini cup has 100 calories and 9g fat, plus 3g fiber (PointsPlus® value 3*). There's also a Wholly Avocado version, which is avocado only. Break out the baby carrots! In grocery stores now. Mamma Chia Organic Chia Squeeze Vitality Pack - If you need to squeeze (har-har) some extra nutrition into your day, give these tasty treats a try! Each 3.5-oz. pouch has just 70 calories and 2g fat, not to mention 4g fiber (PointsPlus® value 1*). Slurp on Strawberry Banana, Green Magic, Apple Cinnamon, and Blackberry Bliss. Click to find, or buy online.
LIVE CHAT ALERT! Get ready for a Q&A with Lisa (a.k.a. Hungry Girl herself) on the StarKist Facebook page this Wednesday, 8/28! She'll be yapping about quick-meal staples, easy recipe ideas, and more. Come with your questions, and HG will answer. Plus, five lucky chatters will receive a signed copy of HUNGRY GIRL TO THE MAX! It all goes down Wednesday at 2 p.m. ET/11 a.m. PT. Be there! ***Oh no! Recall alert from one of our favorites: Justin's Nut Butter. Certain 16-oz. jars of the Chocolate Hazelnut and Maple Almond are being recalled due to the possible presence of metallic fragments. Click here for the full info, and check your jars. ***Exciting fast-food news: At Sonic, America's Drive-In, you can now order any egg-based breakfast item with egg whites! The switch will save you up to 60 calories. We suggest the Jr. Breakfast Burrito. ***Listen up, coffee maniacs... If you drink more than four cups of regular java (not decaf) on a daily basis, you might be at a higher mortality risk. From what? From anything and everything, apparently, suggests a recent Mayo Clinic study. We'll stick with two cups or less, just to play it safe... ***Lastly, in things-that-are-good-for-you news, GARLIC. Recent study findings show that eating raw garlic could help prevent lung cancer. Just remember to pop a mint afterward, because raw garlic can be stinky. And that's all we've got. HG out!
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It was the swig heard �round the world.
It was the swig heard �round the world.
Following President Barack Obama�s State of the Union address, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., gave a vigorous reply during the official Republican response.
Rubio spoke of his middle-class values, his belief in smaller government and cutting federal debt. But as he spoke, it became clear that dry sound between sentences was Rubio feeling the heat from those TV lights.
He leaned down to his left, while trying to look into the camera, and drank from his water bottle. It was a bit awkward. Social media, Rubio critics and news networks pounced.
�Career-ender?� CNN asked the next day.
Ian Crouch of The New Yorker said reviewing the speech shows �a full narrative arc of dread, desperation, decision and regret.�
The reaction to Rubio�s swig was just a bit over the top. Does anyone realize the nation is $16.4 trillion in debt, and that the economy shrank last quarter?
Yet again, a media storm drowned out Rubio�s message. In Tampa at the Republican National Convention last summer, Rubio gave an inspiring speech, but few people remember it. That�s because the rising GOP star was preceded by Clint Eastwood�s empty-chair shtick skewering Obama.
The State of the Union response was a big confirmation to Rubio and his supporters that the Cuban-American was being groomed by party bigwigs for a possible shot at the GOP presidential nomination in 2016.
But the masses love a televised mistake or an awkward moment caught on camera. Late-night comedians love them even more. Some predictable jokes were made, and some pretty good ones, too.
�Marco Rubio needs his throato lubio,� David Letterman said during his Top 10 segment. Jon Stewart chugged a bottle of Jack Daniels.
But even the liberal-leaning Stewart couldn�t completely ignore Obama�s State of the Union speech, noting that the president gave a surprisingly dour speech, focusing on much that is wrong with America while proposing little. It was an opening Rubio could have exploited better � had he not committed the crime of being parched.
But give Rubio credit for rolling with the punches. Following the speech, he unleashed a new fundraising pitch featuring the �Rubio water bottle,� a refillable container costing $25.
The Rubio campaign � which could either be a re-election effort in Florida or a run for the White House in 2016 � billed a purchase of the bottle as a way to get back at Rubio�s water-bottle critics.


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Greatest Slam Dunk Contest Champion Ever- Part Three
Read parts one and two of this series here. In ranking these champions, I want to completely exclude their overall skill as basketball players, and focus solely on their ability to dunk the basketball. Also, I think era in which they were dunking in is very significant, as is height. With those parameters laid out, let me throw the second five names at you, in no particular order. Of these five, I will rank them by reader comments via Hoopsvibe.com, Facebook and private emails. The player who gets the most vote moves into the "Final Four" of great dunkers, from which a mythical champ will be crowned; open wide, here they come!!
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Choosing the right frame and mesh is critical to achieving quality prints. This overview looks at different frame types, mesh parameters and performance criteria, screen-preparation tips, and recommendations for ensuring long-lasting screens.
The screen-printing process derives its name from its key component—the screen. The screen consists of a strongly made wood or metal frame and a fine woven mesh stretched tight and securely glued or otherwise attached to the four sides of the frame.
A good frame has the following characteristics:
• slim enough to fit in the clamping device of the press system
• strong enough to withstand the pressures of the stretched fabric.
• constructed so water and cleaning do not affect it or interfere with the mesh tension or adhesion.
Originally, screen-printing meshes were made of silk, hence the name silk screen printing, and the Greek root for silk, seri, which gives us the European terms serigraphie, serigrafica, or serigraphy. In modern usage the screen meshes are made of precision woven polyester or, for some applications, metal.
Frames types
Frames come in three main forms: rigid wood, rigid metal, or retensionable. Understanding the primary differences between these frame types will help you select the best on for your applications.
Wood The original and still the easiest and cheapest type of frame to make is wood. Wood frames are still used heavily in the garment industry, for hobby and art printing, for small jobs, and in non-critical large-format work. Early screen-printing with wood frames used staples or cord-in-groove for mounting hand-tensioned mesh. But hand stretching does not allow adequate or even mesh tensioning, and it is not recommended because of the problems slack screens create during coating, printing, and reclaiming.
Metal Thin profile aluminum or steel frames are superior to wood due to their resistance to warping or bowing, their resistance to water, their light weight, and longer usable service life. They are most commonly found in print operations with automated printing equipment or where quality printing is a requirement. Many are manufactured to fit common press sizes, or as custom creations to fit specific jobs or formats. Mesh is pre-stretched and glued to the frame using a special stretching device.
Retensionable A number manufacturers offer retensionable frames, sometimes referred to as roller frames (Figure 1). On these frames, mesh is attached using a locking strip and tightened on the frame itself using two wrenches. One wrench rotates the entire the side roller of the frame, and the other tightens a locking nut which holds the frame at the desired tension.
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