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"Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease with a Mediterranean Diet" NEJM, February 25, 2013
A total of 7447 persons were enrolled in this Spanish study (age range, 55 to 80 years). Three groups: (1) control diet, (2) Meditteranean Diet with Nuts, and (3) Meditteranean Diet with Extra Virgin Olive Oil.
Significantly less cardiovascular events and death in group (2) and (3) (P=0.009 and 0.02) but only group (3) showed a noticeable (P=0.11) reduction of death from all causes.
|Fig.1 from the Spanish study.
Please notice no reduction of death from all causes in the nuts group!
To me this study is a clear endorsement of the type of fatty acids characteristic of olives, as being unequivocally healthy, while nuts may lower one risk while increase some other.
Why were nuts as good as extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) for cardio but not as good in terms of total death? Was there some other cause of death that was positively correlated with nuts (but not with EVOO), which neutralized the benefit of eating nuts for cardio-vascular health? I am guessing here but it is quite possible that polyunsaturated fat from nuts may have contributed to cancer risk whereas the mono-unsaturated and saturated fats from the olive oil did not!
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These photographs of a Borg clan were taken by Winnie Au were at a Las Vegas Star Trek convention. Said Au of the shoot, "Everyone i met there was super friendly and down to earth, and they all knew each other and had been going to these conventions every year for many years. They really were like a big family, and it was cool for me to see how Star Trek can bring so many people together in a real manner." But does a Baby Borg get carried around in Baby Björng? I'll be here all night!
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A year and a half after 10 men with AK-47s debarked on India's commercial capital and launched a rampage that killed 166 people, the trial of the lone surviving gunman is all but over.
On Monday, a judge in a high-security Mumbai court pronounced Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab guilty of murder and waging war against India. He will deliver the sentence in 10 days, after which the defendant can appeal.
The verdict brings closure to one of the worst terror attacks in Mumbai's history.
But the impact of the attack on India's counterterrorism policy has barely begun to be felt.
The 2008 attack on Mumbai triggered a shift in Indian antiterrorism law, inducing the government to bring back some of the harsh post-9/11 measures it had repealed just four years earlier.
Kasab is among the first to be tried under an altered legal framework, one that reflects a worldwide struggle to reconcile national security with human rights after the 9/11 attacks.
"Following [former President George W.] Bush's example, many countries implemented harsh antiterror laws," says Colin Gonsalves, a New Delhi-based civil rights lawyer. "But many regret passing those laws now, because of the setback they represent for a democratic state."
Most countries passed or amended their laws after 9/11 to comply with a United Nations Security Council resolution that called on members to implement counterterrorism measures, criminalize terrorism, and share intelligence. Many of these new laws undermine human rights norms, the International Commission of Jurists said last year.
Both the United States and Britain, for instance, have since 2001 expanded the government's powers of surveillance and preventative detention, broadened definitions of terrorism-related offences, and made sentences harsher. The US authorized military tribunals that curtail defendant rights. More recently, Russia passed a law allowing terrorism trials to proceed without a jury, says Kim Lane Scheppele, director of the Program in Law and Public Affairs at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
"Few states have seen their constitutional sensibilities remain intact in the panic over terrorism," Ms. Scheppele said by e-mail.
Rights vs. security
Though India's legal system enshrines due process and judicial review, some of its antiterror laws rank among the harshest for a constitutional democracy. It permits, for instance, one of the longest periods of pre-charge detention.
Indian security laws are a legacy of British colonialism – the Indian Penal Code under which Kasab is charged with waging war predates its 1947 independence. But it has a more recent record of using antiterrorism laws to intimidate political or popular opposition that makes these measures especially controversial.
Since the 1970s, the central government has used such laws to suppress, sometimes violently, regional insurgencies and separatist movements in Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, the northeast, and more recently, Maoists in central India.
"In some respects, like Israel, India has been dealing with significant national security concerns since its independence," says Sudha Setty, associate professor at the Western New England College School of Law in Springfield, Mass., adding that this may explain why Indian "counterterrorism laws have been so robust."
India's first nationwide terrorism law was adopted in 1985, replacing a law targeted at Sikh separatists in Punjab. The law was allowed to expire 10 years later after widespread complaints about human rights violations. But in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, in 2002, a similar law was passed by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party-controlled parliament.
The 2002 Prevention of Terrorist Activity Act (POTA) set up special courts to speed up trials, tightened conditions for bail, and relaxed evidence standards. Like the 1985 law, it broadened the definition of terrorist activities, allowed authorities to hold suspects without charge for 180 days (the norm was 90 days), and shifted the burden of proof on to the defendant.
But POTA became better known for targeting political opponents and religious minorities than for delivering speedy justice.
Less than a year after it had passed, a prominent opposition leader in the southern state of Tamil Nadu was arrested for speaking favorably about the Sri Lankan Tamil Tigers separatist group. Of the 240 arrested under the act by early 2003 in the western state of Gujarat, 239 were Muslim (the only non-Muslim was Sikh).
The Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) repealed the unpopular law when it came to power in 2004. But the 2008 Mumbai attack led the coalition government to backtrack. A month after the attack, it reintroduced measures such as specialized courts and longer precharge detention.
In some ways, the new measures are worse, says Ms. Setty of Western New England College. For one, they are more permanent because the government incorporated the measures into existing law instead of creating special laws with an expiry date. They also have less "meaningful judicial scrutiny regarding the decision to put a defendant in the ordinary courts or in a specialized court," she says.
One policy that wasn't revived: allowing confessions to the police to be admitted as evidence, which Mr. Gonsalves calls an "obnoxious" measure widely considered to incentivize police brutality.
A showcase trial
Lawyers like Gonsalves argue that normal criminal laws are adequate to try terrorist suspects.
In Kasab's case, the prosecution would agree. Ujjwal Nikam, the special public prosecutor for the Mumbai terror attacks, declined to use a state antiterror law that would have admitted police confessions as evidence, for example.
"We have enough evidence to do the job with regular laws," Mr. Nikam says. That evidence is unusually exhaustive – including video and photographic footage, forensic evidence, cellphone transcripts, GPS tracks, and the examination of 658 witnesses – and suggests this case is the exception, not the rule.
Kasab's trial has also been one of the quickest in a country where speedy trials are not the norm, even under antiterror laws. The trial in a series of bomb blasts in Mumbai in 1993 took 13 years. Another regarding the 1996 bomb blast in New Delhi ended just last week.
"The US still hasn't brought the 9/11 accused to trial," Nikam emphasizes.
And though Kasab is a Pakistani citizen, he gets the same rights as an Indian, Nikam notes. Indian law makes no distinction between citizens and foreign nationals except in wartime. (Post-9/11 laws in the US, by contrast, permit indefinite detention of foreign citizens labeled "illegal enemy combatants.")
"With a foreign national, there is a greater responsibility to demonstrate that legal treatment is neither discriminatory nor doubtful," says Majeed Memon, a prominent Mumbai lawyer who has defended terror suspects. Any thing other than a fair trial would prompt an outcry from longtime rival Pakistan, he adds.
From the beginning, the Indian government has been conscious that this is also a trial for the world, and an opportunity for India to distinguish itself as a democracy (not unlike how some in the US see the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed). In the months following the 2008 attack, many Mumbai lawyers refused to defend Kasab, and those who volunteered were threatened by right-wing activists. Some Indians called for Kasab to be hanged without trial.
But India's home minister P. Chidambaram dismissed that notion.
There can't be "kangaroo courts" in India, he declared.
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This post is authored by Michael Schapira. (It is the first in a series of two posts.)
In this post, I'll outline work on Internet routing and sketch important areas for future work, both on routing itself and, more broadly, on mechanism design, game theory and distributed computation.
The Internet comprises administrative domains known as Autonomous Systems (ASes), which vary in size, from large (multi)national networks to small networks servicing schools or small businesses. The task of establishing routes between ASes, called interdomain routing, is currently handled by the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)—the core routing protocol of the Internet. BGP is one of the most critical pieces of the Internet's infrastructure and can be regarded as the glue that holds the Internet together.
Over the past decade, routing with BGP has been studied from engineering, computational, game theoretic and economic perspectives. Combining algorithmic and economic considerations in the study of interdomain routing is natural, because the many separate domains that make up the Internet are independent economic agents that must jointly execute a distributed algorithm in order to route traffic. In addition, interdomain routing motivates exciting new questions in computer science, game theory, and economics.
A (Simplified) Model of Interdomain Routing
The following is a simplified model of interdomain routing, based on the seminal work of Thimothy Griffin and Gordon Wilfong, and on the game-theoretic model of Hagay Levin, Michael Schapira, and Aviv Zohar There is a connected AS graph G=(N,L), where he set of nodes (vertices) N represents ASes and the set of links (edges) L represents communication links between ASes. Because BGP computes routes for each destination AS independently, without loss of generality, we assume that N consists of n source nodes {1,…,n} and a unique destination node d.
Each source node (AS) i has a ranking function <i that expresses i's strict preferences over all simple (loop-free) routes from i to d (including the "empty route'' Ø). ASes' route preferences can be quite complex and reflect both ASes' business interests and engineering considerations (e.g., ASes' desires to route traffic through specific neighbours, avoid sending traffic through competitors, load balance traffic, minimize congestion, etc.). In particular, nodes do not always prefer shorter paths to longer ones.
BGP allows ASes great expressiveness in selecting routes; a routing tree to each destination is built, hop-by-hop, as knowledge about how that destination can be reached propagates through the network. Generally speaking, in a BGP execution nodes continuously "best-reply'' to neighbouring nodes' most recent actions. Importantly, BGP operates in an asynchronous computational environment in which nodes can potentially select routes simultaneously and in an uncoordinated manner.
The above high-level description is formally captured as follows: there is an infinite sequence of discrete time-steps t=1,… In each time step t, a subset of the source nodes is activated. Each activated node chooses its single best available route. That is, each activated source node i examines the current routes of i's neighbouring nodes (after time step t-1) and selects to forward traffic to the neighbor whose route i likes the most, given its ranking function. There is an adversarial entity named the "Scheduler'' that decides which nodes are activated in each time step. The only restriction on the "schedule'' chosen is that each node must be activated in infinitely many time steps (i.e, no node is indefinitely starved from selecting routes).
Consider, for means of illustration, the small network in Fig. 1 (system "DISAGREE" from here). Consider the case that the schedule chosen is such that node 1 is activated at time t=1 and node 2 is activated at time t=2. Observe that at time t=1 node 1 will choose its direct route to d (for lack of other options), and at time t=2 node 2 will choose the route 21d (which it prefers to the direct route 2d). Observe that, from this moment forth, no matter how nodes are activated, this routing state will remain constant (an "equilibrium'', or "stable state'', was reached).
We will mention now two main challenges in this area. We will discuss these challenges in more detail in the second part.
Challenge I: The Quest for Network Stability
Informally, a "stable state'' is a global routing state that, once reached by BGP, remains unchanged. Researchers seek conditions (on the network and ranking functions) that ensure BGP safety, i.e., guaranteed BGP convergence to a stable state (for every schedule). In a landmark paper, Lixin Gao and Jennifer Rexford proposed simple guidelines that are naturally induced by ASes' business relationships and are sufficient for BGP safety.
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Internet Service Providers (ISPs) like AT&T and Comcast make revenue from selling connectivity to customers. Can an ISP do better for itself (and its customers) by not executing BGP? That is, can an AS better its routing outcome by "deviating'' from BGP? Joan Feigenbaum, Christos Papadimitiou, Rahul Sami, and Scott Shenker initiated an economic, or "mechanism design'', approach to BGP.


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These are the kinds of things I want them to understand and/or be able to do:
- what physical property you are actually calculating when you calculate a volume or a surface area
- why the formulas are what they are
- how changing a 2D or 3D figure's dimensions affects its area or volume. for example, I think they understand that if you order a pizza that has twice the diameter, you get way more than double the amount of pizza. But I don't think that intuition has any ties to math class.
- isolate a variable in a formula. for example, solve S = lw + wh + lh for w.
1. Design a new label for a given tennis ball canister, oatmeal canister, or soda can. (a) Create a prototype label so that it covers the entire lateral surface of the canister with little to no overlapping paper. (b) Congratulations! The company chose your design and wants to produce 100,000 labels. Calculate how much material (paper, aluminum, whatever) you will need to order.
2. This game at NLVM is quite nice for challenging your intuition about how volumes are related to dimensions.
3. This video features people with charming accents complaining about how the volume of their chocolate bar decreased even though it appears that the surface area stayed the same or possibly increased. I've shown this in the past and found that students are unable to articulate what these people are upset about using the word "volume" (much less intelligently discuss surface area.) The word "volume" from math class is not connected in their brains to "how much stuff inside."
4. Starting with a piece of copier paper, roll it into a cylinder both the long way and the short way. Will it contain the same amount either way? If not, which way holds more? Mathematically justify your response.
5. Starting with a sheet of copier paper, cut four congruent squares out of the corners and fold up the sides to make a box. Who can make the box that holds the most? Kristen Fouss did something like this but in pre-calculus. Geometry probably doesn't need to get into deriving and optimizing a polynomial equation.
6. Starting with a sheet of copier paper, design, cut out, and assemble a right pyramid with a square base. First pass: any pyramid will do. Second pass: make the area of the square exactly ___. Third pass: make the overall height of the pyramid a specified length. Present your best-looking pyramid, including the area of its base, its overall height, its lateral surface area, its total surface area, and its volume.
7. Investigate what happens to area when dimensions change. What happens to volume when dimensions change. (Somehow.)
8. The car talk fuel-tank problem.
9. Some version of the PCMI volume/surface area problems. (If you know the perimeter and area of a rectangle, can you determine its dimensions? Are there any rectangles whose perimeter = area? If you know the surface area and volume of a rectangular prism, can you determine its dimensions? Are there any rectangular prisms whose volume = surface area?)
10. Derive the formula for the volume of a sphere without calculus. From Exeter Book 3. Would pose quite a challenge for my students. They would not be able to do it on their own. In fact, as it is written, it would completely mystify them.
What I am struggling with and probably will be for the next week or so is, how do I take any of these things and fit them into a logical, coherent unit of study of surface area and volume? NY/my district/my school does not provide us with a curriculum. We have : a list of standards, a collection of previous exams, a pacing calendar, and a kind-of crappy textbook, which are all useful in their own limited ways, but none of them tells you what to do in class. I have lessons already written that get it done, so there is no incentive to bother, other than it bothers me when I feel I could be doing a better job. Part of the dilemma is, I feel that any of this would have to be added to what I already do, not replace it. I still need them to be able to, for example, identify that the bases of a prism are the parallel sides, even if they are not on the top and the bottom. And I'm already about two weeks behind in this course.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) _ A former vicar at a Topeka church will be sentenced Sept. 27 after pleading no contest to sexually assaulting a boy who attended the church.
Thirty-two-year-old Hugh Denton Cranford was taken into custody Tuesday after entering the plea to one count of aggravated indecent liberties with a child. He had been scheduled to go to trial Sept. 23 on three counts involving boys ages 7 and 9.
At the time of the crimes, Cranford was vicar at Faith Lutheran Church.
The Topeka Capital-Journal reports (http://bit.ly/14lT0kj ) the boys and their parents attended the church, and Cranford and the boys' father were friends.
Cranford, a student at the Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, was suspended by the seminary in June 2012.
Information from: The Topeka (Kan.) Capital-Journal, http://www.cjonline.com


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Gimpel Tam (Gimpel the Fool) by Nobel Prize for Literature winner, Isaac Bashevis Singer is being performed by the Folksbiene Theatre through December 28, 2008 and you would be quite smart not to miss it. This is a new production written and directed by Moshe Yassur.
Do not pass up a chance to see the work of the very beloved writer I.B.Singer, which is produced so well, and in his native language, and performed on the Upper West Side where he lived and fed the pigeons on Broadway for so many years. Take along a few friends…talk over tea on Broadway afterwards. Perhaps you will attract a few of IB Singer´s more social dybbuks to join you.
Gimpel Tam asks us to question what is truth, what is reality, and to examine our ideas about good and evil. This moving production is well staged, an entertaining and is a funny klezmer musical in Yiddish with English and Russian supertitles. Please go to the theatre´s site for many more details.
I saw this with five friends, including an UWS therapist who said that ¨Gimpel received love, but perhaps not enough from his mother, and that we see the story as through his eyes, that is, as if everyone in town was against him¨ …oh, oh, oh…and just when you thought that you ¨got it¨.
I.B. Singer´s story of Gimpel Tam challenges the fool in all of us and in ordinary society.


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As evidence linking pollutants and cancer becomes increasingly clear, scientists around the world are calling for something to be done — and they're getting downright pushy about it.
Well maybe not pushy, exactly. But definitely pointed and impatient as they urge policymakers to take steps now to protect us from chemicals that cause cancer.
First there was the President's Cancer Panel report, released in early May of last year. As I've pointed out in earlier posts, the scientists that pulled this report together called on the White House to craft much stronger policies to cut down our exposure to cancer-causing chemicals — and the sooner the better.
Then earlier this month, Dr. David Christiani (a preeminent cancer scientist from Harvard's School of Public Health) endorsed the Cancer Panel's findings in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine. He echoed the authors' urgent call on the Obama Administration to tackle cancer by tackling the pollutants that cause it.
And just last week, medical experts pulled together by the World Health Organization for a cancer summit in Spain called on the governments of the world to "adopt and enforce national and international legislation for protection against environmental and occupational carcinogens." In other words, to get serious about preventing cancer by protecting people from things that cause it.
A message that's long overdue
It's about time. Knowledge about links between the environment and cancer is hardly new — yet it's long been neglected by researchers and policymakers alike. As Christiani notes in his article:
The knowledge that environmental factors play a role in carcinogenesis dates back centuries. Dr. Percival Pott described scrotal tumors in young chimney sweeps of 18th-century London, demonstrating that cancer could be caused by environmental factors. This discovery led to the passage of public health legislation regarding disease prevention.
Christiani reminds us of the devastating toll cancer takes every year in this country: 1.5 million new cases and 560,000 deaths. Too many of those affected are children, as kids' cancer rates continue to climb. His solution? We need:
. . . a new national cancer-prevention strategy emphasizing primary prevention that redirects both research and policy agendas and sets tangible goals for reducing or eliminating environmental exposures implicated in cancer causation.
Experts at the WHO meeting delivered a message that was even more pointed and urgent. These scientists estimate that roughly 19% of all cancers are linked to environmental factors; globally, cancer causes 1.3 million deaths each year.
In their Asturias Pledge participants in the global cancer meeting urge all sectors of society — industry, government, civil society (that's us) and UN agencies — to join forces to:
. . . tackle known and preventable causes of cancer, using scientific evidence to raise awareness and promote environmental and occupational interventions in support of primary preventive measures.
Breaking through the 'status quo': Corporate interests & the ACS
It's very, very good news that we're finally breaking through the longstanding logjam in public discussions about the links between cancer and chemicals. Real progress still has major hurdles to overcome though, as there are significant forces (read: corporate interests) that benefit greatly from the status quo.
According to some, like cancer prevention advocate Dr. Samuel Epstein, mainstream cancer groups such as the American Cancer Society (ACS) have a long history of promoting that status quo, fastidiously keeping the focus of research and policy discussions away from the dangers of cancer-causing chemicals. Chair of the national Cancer Prevention Coalition and past president of the American Public Health Association, Epstein recently authored a scathing critique of ACS's record on cancer prevention entitled More Interested in Accumulating Wealth than Saving Lives.
Be that as it may, policymakers are going to have a tough time ignoring the ever-louder and more urgent calls from cancer scientists around the world to reduce the risk of cancer from environmental pollutants. We "civil society" folks are calling for action too. If you haven't already signed our petition to President Obama calling for a national cancer prevention plan, please take a minute to add your name to the list today.
Is n't it a bit hypocrital to ask that we-homo sapiens-should stay free of chemicals-while continuing polluting and violating nature on the other hand? Ofcourse somewhere one should begin.But how many did do this already?At least the ones that are for eks. eating organic and are living very conscious about spending (on) (cheap)energy.Behind it is an other filosophy than just the market economy system which thrives under the democratic system.These two are completely backed up by the capitalisitic world we live in.When one has a p.c. , you are part of this system (of destruction)
As long as we continue destroying biodiversity we our selves will be a part of it with our 1.3 miljon cancer death's around the world.And this will be more in stead of less.And in a way we ''deserve no better''.Even wild animals have more cancer than before.We are also polluting ourselves, is n't it.
When we will notice Nature is recovering through our own actions we also will be of better health and supposedly walking around in amounts less than we do now.Cancer death's are also related to the luxurian way we live in and the peculiar manners of behaving and of customs .
Great article, and good points made by both Marc and donlouis. The political corruption that goes behind keeping the status quo alive runs so deep....layers upon layers of beaurocracy. Recently, I got involved with a grassroots environmental health org focused on the environmental health hazards imposed upon children (in some of the most upscale, affluential areas of the U.S.!). I spoke out at a County level meeting....and what I heard frightened me to my toes. "We don't have the budget to post signs warning people at parks pesticides were sprayed, we don't have staff to manually pull those weeds at prks/schools so have to use weed killers". I worked with an MPH combing through chemicals USED AROUND SCHOOLS that are scientifically linked to cancer, reproductive helath problems, are neurotoxins...I had to stop working there, my heart sank so low. Money (or more like percieved profit) takes precedence over humanity in the U.S. Sad thing is, we would be doing better economically if they all went green...less cancer, less money spent on trying to "cure" cancer, less asthma and other disease. War also causes cancer....another part of our deep rooted culture that has got to stop. It's a small world, and what is happening in mid east physically, emotionally, in every way negatively effects us all. Obama says he wants to curb cancer causing chemicals, yet he still makes same mistake all U.S. Presidents have made, using the Pentagon profitable marketing spin "we are fighting for our security and freedom". NOT!
Thanks for sharing your story! And your point re priorities & budget goes straight to some of the debates raging now in DC. It's easy to get discouraged - but so important to stay involved! The more of us who are talking about these issues, the harder to ignore..
For the past 3 decades, officials in this country have been saying that environmental pollutants cause just 2% of all cancers. Amazing. In their report last year, the President's Cancer Panel scolded US regulators for using data that was "woefully out of date." manager of burn a dvd from mov, the harder to ignore.
You state that scientists at a WHO meeting estimated that roughly 19%of all cancers are linked to environmental factors. This is considerably different that other scientific quotes. For example, the American Cancer Society estimated that only 5 to 10 % of cancers are clearly heritable. The National Cancer Institute stated that "most of the cases of cancer are linked to environmental causes, and, in principle, can be prevented. The International Agency for Cancer Research had earlier (I do not have the date) concluded that at least 80% of all cancer is attributable to environmental influences."
There is undoubtedly considerable uncertainty about the per cent of environmental causal factors. Nevertheless, it is obvious that it is wise to keep ALL toxic chemicals out of our bodies. Thanks for your blog.
Don Hoernschemeyer http://toxicfreehealth.net
Thanks for your thoughtful comment. It's even worse than you think: For the past 3 decades, officials in this country have been saying that environmental pollutants cause just 2% of all cancers. Amazing. In their report last year, the President's Cancer Panel scolded US regulators for using data that was "woefully out of date." For more info & links, check out this page on our site: http://www.panna.org/your-health/cancer.
Hopefully that on the basis of these researches scientists would find a perfect cure that will heal all those people who struggle with cancer. Thank you for this post, it was pretty interesting to get this info, there is a lot to think over in it.
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CLEVELAND -- Nick Swisher put on a show for the Indians on Friday. He launched a game-changing home run in Cleveland's home-opening win over the Twins, fired up the crowd with his on-field antics and entertained reporters in the postgame interview session.
One year after joining the Tribe as a free agent, there is no denying Swisher is comfortable with his surroundings.
"I just feel like I'm the luckiest dude on the planet, man," Swisher said. "I've got a beautiful wife. I've got the most amazing daughter. I've got the greatest job ever. I just don't see what putting a frown on my face is going to do. I'm going to be who I am. I'm going to smile. I'm going to have fun."
Last season -- the first under the four-year, $56 million contract he signed with the Tribe -- Swisher hit .246 with 22 home runs, 27 doubles and 63 RBIs in 145 games. His average was his lowest since 2008 and the 63 RBIs marked the fewest for Swisher in a full season. Throughout last year, Swisher dealt with a left shoulder issue.
Indians manager Terry Francona feels things will be different for Swisher this season.
"I think you'll see more consistency, which will lead to probably better numbers," Francona said. "He had such a good September that his numbers -- some of the categories -- were kind of what his career marks were. I think you'll see more consistency out of the chute, which will lead to better numbers."
Swisher said there was certainly more of a comfort level entering this year.
"I feel like there's not that awkward period of meeting everybody," Swisher said. "Everybody in this organization, top to bottom, knows who each other are, knows what their job is and we take a lot of pride in that. We take a lot of pride in the locker room that we have. That's not something that comes overnight. That's something that we've really worked on and something we're continuing to build on.
"I just know I'm so happy in my life, where I'm at. I'm so happy that I made the choice to come here to Cleveland, man. It's been absolutely amazing. We've had a lot of fun just in the first year alone."


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In the rough-and-tumble of a town hall-style debate, not all of the presidential candidates' claims stood up to scrutiny Tuesday night.
Yet again, President Barack Obama claimed that ending the Afghanistan and Iraq wars makes money available to "rebuild America," even though it doesn't. And he pointed to a string of job creation while ignoring the job losses that came before it, on his watch.
Republican Mitt Romney actually corrected some of the errant claims he's made before, while stretching the facts on the auto bailout he opposed.
A look at some of their claims:
OBAMA: "Let's take the money that we've been spending on war over the last decade to rebuild America, roads, bridges, schools. We do those things, not only is your future going to be bright, but America's future is going to be bright as well."
THE FACTS: What Obama didn't mention is that much of the money that has been paying for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan was borrowed. In fact, the government borrows nearly 40 cents for every dollar it spends. Thus using money that had been earmarked for wars to build schools and infrastructure would involve even more borrowing, adding to the federal deficit.
ROMNEY: "I know he keeps saying, 'You want to take Detroit bankrupt.' Well, the president took Detroit bankrupt. You took General Motors bankrupt. You took Chrysler bankrupt. So when you say that I wanted to take the auto industry bankrupt, you actually did. And I think it's important to know that that was a process that was necessary to get those companies back on their feet, so they could start hiring more people. That was precisely what I recommended and ultimately what happened."
THE FACTS: That's not precisely what he recommended. The restructuring unfolded with a huge government bailout, a critical difference from Romney's recommended path. He wanted private financing to rescue the automakers in bankruptcy. Few think the private sector, raked then by the financial crisis, would have nursed Detroit back to health without a massive infusion of federal aid. In late 2008, banks weren't making many loans, much less to companies that were out of cash.
OBAMA: "And what I want to do is build on the 5 million jobs that we've created over the last 30 months in the private sector alone."
THE FACTS: As he has done before, Obama is cherry-picking his numbers to make them sound better than they really are. He ignores the fact that public-sector job losses have dragged down overall job creation. Also, he chooses just to mention the past 30 months. That ignores job losses during his presidency up until that point. According to the Labor Department, about 4.5 million total jobs have been created over the past 30 months. But some 4.3 million jobs were lost during the earlier months of his administration. At this point, Obama is a net job creator, but only marginally.
ROMNEY: "The proof of whether a strategy is working or not is what the price is that you're paying at the pump. If you're paying less than you paid a year or two ago, why, then, the strategy is working. But you're paying more. When the president took office, the price of gasoline here in Nassau County was about $1.86 a gallon. Now, it's $4.00 a gallon. The price of electricity is up. If the president's energy policies are working, you're going to see the cost of energy come down."
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Other energy prices have fallen during Obama's term. Electricity prices, when adjusted for inflation, are down, and homeowners are finding it much cheaper to heat their homes with natural gas. That's because natural gas production has surged, reducing prices both for homeowners and for utilities that burn gas to generate electricity.
ROMNEY: America has "23 million people struggling to find a job."
THE FACTS: With that remark, Romney properly stated the number of people who are out of work, who want to work but gave up looking, or who are working part time when they want to have full-time jobs. At times, he's erred in saying there are 23 million unemployed.


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Highly recommended book.The Way to Buddhahood: Instructions from a Modern Chinese Master by Venerable Yin-shun
If you like the FPMT Gelug approach, then this book by Ven. Yinshun will also probably strongly appeal to you. The general structure owes a lot to the Gelug Lamrim style, and all the sources referenced are Indic sources from Agamas, Mahayana Sutras and Sastras (and actually a little bit from the Lamrim, too).
It's not Chan, but it serves as the best example of modern Chinese Buddhism which is placing more emphasis back on Indian sources. For this reason, it will have more in common with other Mahayana traditions.
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Escalating the amusement park arms race, Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia said it would open the world's tallest and fastest looping roller coaster next spring.
The debut of Full Throttle will bring the number of coasters at the park to 18, widening Magic Mountain's lead over its longtime rival Cedar Point. The Sandusky, Ohio, amusement park has 15 coasters.
For years, Cedar Point and Six Flags Magic Mountain have battled for the title of "roller coaster capital of the world" by adding and operating the most coasters of any amusement park.
Magic Mountain took the lead in that battle when Cedar Point removed two coasters recently to make room for a stage show and the addition of what Cedar Point is calling the world's longest "winged" coaster, set to open in May. (A winged coaster straps passengers to seats that hang over the side of the rails so that their feet dangle over the ground.)
Magic Mountain plans to counter with Full Throttle, which will launch passengers up to 70 mph over a loop that towers 160 feet in the air and through a "special effects tunnel."
"Six Flags is known worldwide as the industry leader in next-generation thrills," said Bonnie Rabjohn, president of the park.
This summer, Magic Mountain unveiled a 400-foot drop-tower ride dubbed Lex Luthor: Drop of Doom, advertised as the tallest drop-tower ride in the world.
Six Flags Entertainment Corp., Magic Mountain's parent company, announced a "record" revenue of $375 million for the April-through-June quarter, up 11% from a year earlier. The company said attendance at its 19 parks in North America increased by 1 million, or 12%.
Cedar Point officials concede that their Ohio park has fallen behind Magic Mountain on the quantity of roller coasters but, they say, not on quality. The new coaster set to open in May, dubbed GateKeeper, will carry riders to the top of a 170-foot peak and turn them upside down before racing them toward the ground at up to 67 mph.
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Baggage (not luggage), or baggage train, can also refer to the train of people and goods, both military and of a personal nature, which commonly followed pre-modern armies on campaign.


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Neil deGrasse Tyson on Space Mining
April 25, 2012
Jon Stewart added a new segment tonight: "Bullshit or No Bullshit" with Neil deGrasse Tyson.
I adore Neil deGrasse Tyson. And the fact that he is now the star of a new segment on the Daily Show where he not only answers Jon's question about space mining, but he casually solves a Rubik's Cube AND calls out Jon for the earth in his opening credits rotating incorrectly makes me swoon even more.
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From Willie MacKenzie, Greenpeace UK oceans campaigner.
Imagine you are an Atlantic bluefin tuna. You've been out at sea most of the year, in cooler waters, feeding away, and you know generally getting on with being a big ol' fish at the top of your food chain. Save from the occasional orca or shark scare, not much to worry about really.
Then spring springs, and the urge takes you. Forces you don't really understand compel you to head back to warmer waters, and a certain key place, sacred to you bluefin. For it has to be just right, the bluefin equivalent of a romantic dinner and some subdued lighting, is a sheltered warm sea. But even that's not enough. Because of the, er, messy, way most fish reproduce, they congregate together, and only release sperm and eggs when the time and the temperature is right. 23 degrees Celsius, it's the perfect temperature for a bluefin love-in.
Atlantic bluefin, like many other animals, are very particular when it comes to getting frisky. And as anyone who knows anything about saving creatures who are on the brink of extinction will tell you, protecting their habitat, and allowing them to breed successfully is the key to starting to stop the decline. That's as true of bison and pandas as it is of bluefin. Bluefin, being hugely migratory, aren't as easy to breed in captivity as some other animals. That makes protecting the areas important to them in the wild so important. And it's why I keep banging on about them.
The best known example is the seas around the Balearic Islands. To most of us these islands are a holiday haven for hordes of European tourists, and one of the few places you can find somewhere proudly claiming to serve 'British' or 'German cuisine'. To the Atlantic bluefin, this area is vital. When the time and temperature are right, fertilised eggs hatch into baby bluefin and this is their nursery. They will then float in the plankton, and hide amongst weeds til they are big enough to hold their own.
So – if you want to protect bluefin, you should protect the Balearics (and the Sicilian Channel, and the Gulf of Mexico too, for starters…). At the very least you should be protecting these nursery grounds from large-scale fishing, targeting the very fish that come here to breed.
The science is sound. The rationale clear. It makes sense to anyone you tell it to - whether they want to save bluefin as a species, or as a future fishery.
So why hasn't it happened? The Balearic bluefin sanctuary (described here in a Spanish newspaper) has been proposed and endorsed by a number of NGOs, including Greenpeace. It has been backed by the regional government of the Balearics. Heck, it's even been supported by Mitsubishi Corporation, the largest trader in Mediterranean bluefin. But as yet, the government of Spain (not known as the best friend to the fish, it's true…) hasn't agreed.
It's yet another scandal in a sea full of them. How come it's okay for purse-seiners around the Mediterranean to wait and pounce on an endangered species just when they come together to breed? Why are our governments defending the vested fishing interests instead of the fish?
For an Atlantic bluefin tuna, answering that natural call to mate has never been so crucial.
Join the call for a network of marine reserves that will protect 40% of the world's oceans.
Image: Bluefin tuna © Greenpeace/ Gavin Newman
Amazing creatures. I recommend to anyone to get to know them. From up close, from afar with accurate first, second hand reporting, get to understa...
Amazing creatures. I recommend to anyone to get to know them. From up close, from afar with accurate first, second hand reporting, get to understanding Bluefin Tuna.
Here is some of National Geographics perspective:
And here, some inspiration from NG on what can be done:
We have been sharing this planet with Tuna for ... a very long time. Sharks, Tuna, Boreal Forest, Mountain Gorillas... All part of a web of life. Without any one of them we would all be poorer indeed.
Thanks, LisaV. Amazing creatures...
If y'all haven't signed yet Greenpeaces call for Marine Reserves here's an opportunity to do so:
Let's support marine reserves as best as we can.
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PRIVATE 25 | SAINT PETERSBURG – The Inner City
St. Petersburg is a utopia constructed... It's strange living in this city, but only for guests. St. Petersburg residents are used to strange things and take no notice. Amongst them, only those for whom strange things are a must take notice: painters and photographers for example.