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I'm a worrier by nature. And every time I worry about something, I think of the worst case scenario, and then I start to believe that that's actually going to happen.
For example, about a week ago, I made plans with my boyfriend, Matt, and a few friends to go to the beach. I told Matt the previous day (via text) that we were all going to meet up at the beach at 1, but that I would stop by his place first to drop off my stuff. That morning came, and I decided to call Matt at 10:30 to let him know when I would be leaving…no answer. At this point, I was fine, he'd probably call me back within an hour. An hour later, no call from Matt, so I called him back…no answer. Finally, it was 12:30. Still not having heard from him, I called again. Nothing! By this point, I was starting to freak out a little because he hadn't responded the previous day when I texted him our plans…so, that meant I hadn't heard anything in 24 hours. Who knows what could've happened in 24 hours time? My head was racing. Did he even make it home last night? What if someone high jacked his car? What if someone came into his place of work with a gun and everyone at his office was waiting for a hero?
I did the next logical thing and packed my bags and jumped in my car on a quest to find him. I couldn't help it. Matt is usually really great a communicating with me, so I felt funky when he hadn't even texted me back. I searched the area around his apartment and couldn't find him or his car. So, he's somewhere with his car or someone stole his car and he's wandering hopelessly on the street, was my thought. Then, I checked the beach, thinking that maybe he'd lost his phone and was waiting for us there. There were so many cars and people as there happened to be multiple festivals going on near the lakefront that day…just my luck. After spending what seemed like years in traffic, I headed to one of his friend's homes, nope, not there. Then, I texted a few of his other friends, no one had heard from him. I stopped at the mall, and lastly, his office. Nothing. It was almost 4pm.
I called my father and told him that I couldn't find Matt. I stated that I was coming home and we were going to have to call the police, his parents, or form a search party…something, anything to make sure there wasn't another wasted second that went by without having others know of his absence. As I drove home, I started crying my eyes out and I screamed at God, "Please let me find him!! He's my everything! You might as well take me too! Where did you hide him? Why are you doing this? This isn't ok." Then, I began to think of what my life would become once he'd been pronounced dead, what I would say at his funeral; and I asked myself how I would feel if we never found the body. Would I be able to move on? No, probably never. Yes, I would take the oath to never date again and live the rest of my life as a spinster. Hell, my grandmother was a widow for 40 plus years before she died and she never dated, remarried, or showed interest in anyone after my grandfather passed away. If she could do it, so can I.
Then, the call came through. It was Matt's face that showed up on my phone. But, I didn't even rejoice at first. I thought, what if it's the police calling to tell me they found him dead, or that he's at the hospital and probably won't make it? I picked up the phone and screamed, "HELLO?"
"Hi, what's going on?" the other end answered back. It was Matt, he was alive…for now!
"WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN? WHERE ARE YOU NOW? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?…" I went off. I've known Matt for almost 9 years now, and in all of those years I've NEVER, NOT ONCE, yelled at him. Unfortunately, that streak has been broken.
In the end, I went back to Matt's apartment and we talked it over, but sweet Jesus did he scare me. It turns out that he was participating in one of his weekly activities, sailing down at the yacht club. He left his phone in one of the club's lockers, thinking he would be back by noon. As it turns out, that wasn't the case.
I spent the next few hours being as close to him as I could, hugging him, smelling him, cuddling with him. Good God, if you don't know if you love someone, try thinking about what your life would be like without them, then you'll know if you want them to stick around. It sounds stupid, but I realized that losing him would mean losing myself.
I also learned a few other things during that crazy day:
-Communication is so important, especially when you're in a relationship: Terrible communication has got to be my number one pet peeve…and it's probably why so many people piss me off! If you have plans and forget, that's one thing, but if you deliberately ignore people because "you don't feel like it," then we can't be friends anymore. I have a friend who gets invited to many things and just doesn't respond. She figures, if she's available that day, she'll come, if she can't, whatever. I'm sorry honey, but with that attitude, I can't invite you to a big event… like my wedding. I understand if it's just a bonfire where you don't really need to RSVP, but if you NEVER respond to ANY event and you still won't respond when people personally text you and ask, "hey, you comin?" Inappropriate. People have actually stopped inviting her to things because of her attitude. Be polite and at least give someone some sort of a response. Even if you don't know right then, say it. Don't make people assume! In the working world, shit like that doesn't fly, and it shouldn't in real life either.
-Worrying is interest paid on something that hasn't happened: My dad literally says this to me all the time, but I don't listen because it's a part of my personality to freak out over just about everything. This is the part of me that I can't stand. I work at a radio station part-time, and if you've ever worked in broadcast media, you know that those guys and gals are some of the calmest people on the planet. They have to be! There are hundreds of factors that can make everything NOT go as planned, and you have to have a plan B while being calm about it. You just need to take things one week at a time, one day at a time, and then one moment at a time. And just remember, if there is a lack of preparation on someone else's behalf, then there should not be any case of urgency on yours. Try your best to live in the moment, sniff out danger, but it is OK to let some things fall by the wayside.
What about you? Are you a worrier? How do you deal with your worries?
Granny Smith – over and out


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Fed Says Banks Tightened Lending in Second Quarter
By Craig Torres
Aug. 17 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. banks tightened standards on all types of loans in the second quarter and said they expect to maintain strict criteria on lending until at least the second half of 2010, a Federal Reserve report showed today.
Most banks cited reduced risk tolerance and "a more uncertain economic outlook" as the main reasons for restricting credit to businesses, with 35.2 percent saying they "tightened somewhat," the Fed said in its quarterly Senior Loan Officer survey.
The report suggests that lenders and borrowers were wary of taking on more risk until the U.S. economy showed clearer signs of growth. Since the survey, economists have raised their outlook for the economy as data suggested home sales and manufacturing were stabilizing, and the Fed said last week that the economy is "leveling out."
"The report tells us that credit is not becoming more readily available, but also that the credit freeze is at least moving in the direction of a thaw," said Carl Riccadonna, senior economist at Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.
The survey of 55 U.S. banks and 23 U.S. branches of foreign banks found that demand for loans continued to weaken "across all major categories" except prime residential mortgages, the central bank said. Two banks, or 3.7 percent, reported eased lending standards to large businesses in the survey, held from July 14 and July 28.
Taking Less Risk
Thirty-seven of 38 banks said a less favorable or more uncertain economic outlook was the reason for tighter credit standards on commercial and industrial loans over the previous three months, while 29 of 37 banks cited reduced risk tolerance as a reason for keeping strict standards on industrial loans.
None of the 51 respondent banks eased standards on prime mortgages in the latest survey, while 39 said demand for mortgages was about the same, moderately stronger or substantially stronger.
"Most banks have woken up to the fact that there is a lot more risk in their loan books than they ever thought possible,"said Joel Conn, president of Lakeshore Capital LLC in Birmingham, Alabama. "That has caused them to recalibrate what their requirements for future lending are going to look like."
Loan originations by the top 22 banks receiving capital injections from the U.S. government rose 12.7 percent in June to $312.1 billion from a month earlier, the Treasury Department said in a separate report today.
Getting Aid
In its monthly report on the banks getting aid from the Troubled Asset Relief Program, the Treasury said total loan balances averaged $4.30 trillion in June, down 1.1 percent from the previous month. Bank of America Corp. in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Citigroup Inc. in New York are among the banks still receiving aid.
Total home mortgages were nearly unchanged in the first quarter compared with the final quarter of 2008 at $10.4 trillion, according to the Fed's second-quarter Flow of Funds report. Consumer credit decreased at an annual rate of 5.25 percent in the second quarter, the Fed said Aug. 7 in a separate release.
The Fed today extended by three to six months an emergency program aimed at restarting credit markets, a move that may cushion the commercial real-estate industry from rising defaults and falling prices.
Tighter standards mean less access for consumers to all types of consumer credit. Now we have consumer credit falling at an annual rate of 5.25%! That is faster than the following charts that were last updated on 8/7/09… This chart shows total consumer credit expressed in change from a year ago in billions of dollars:
Here's the total consumer credit outstanding expressed in yoy percent change. While it may not look that dramatic, note that the rate of credit destruction is faster than at any time since the early 1940s:
This is a chart from the Fed's Monetary Trends. It is a close in look of the percent change from a year ago going back to 1992.
Contracting credit is a central banker's worst nightmare. Again, credit dollars are much more numerous than real dollars and thus a contraction in credit does not create a growing or inflationary environment.
Oh, I know what all you good consumers are thinking… "hey man, don't me down!"
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2007: Apple puts the iPhone on sale. It sells … fast.
Everybody knew it was coming. But nobody, not even Apple, predicted how the iPhone would change the way we look at phones forever.
First announced Jan. 9, 2007, by Steve Jobs, the iPhone is considered one of Apple's worst-kept secrets, but still the most anticipated gadget of all time. Prior to the unveiling at Macworld Expo, tech blogs published rumors purporting to contain details on the iPhone. Apple fans dreamed up illustrations of the fabled device. And days before the iPhone finally landed June 29, hundreds of fanatical consumers camped outside Apple and AT&T stores for the $600 gadget.
(Queueing up for the latest tech gizmo is not unknown: New Yorkers swarmed a department store in 1945 to buy the first commercially available ballpoint pens. And they paid the equivalent of $150 in today's money. For a pen, not a superphone that connects you to the universe.)
Despite drawing a horde of fans, the iPhone didn't immediately charm its way into the mainstream because of its high price tag. Just two months after the iPhone's initial release, Apple trimmed the handset's price down to $400. That helped a little, but it wasn't until 2008 — when Apple unveiled the iPhone 3G with a new $200 price tag and access to the faster 3G network — that the smartphone exploded in popularity. Apple sold over 10 million iPhone 3G units worldwide in just five months.
(You may have noticed that the price of ballpoint pens has dropped, too.)
But it wasn't the faster network or the price tag that really set the iPhone ahead of its competitors. Apple's core philosophy is that software is the key ingredient, and the operating system lying beneath the iPhone's sleek and sexy touchscreen broke new ground. Unlike other cellphones' software, the iPhone's operating system was controlled by Apple rather than a mobile carrier.
Just as the Apple II in 1977 was the first computer made for consumers, the iPhone was the first phone whose software was designed with the user in mind. It was the first phone to make listening to music, checking voicemail and browsing the web as easy as swiping, pinching and tapping a screen — pleasant like a massage.
"An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator," Jobs said when preparing to introduce the iPhone in 2007. "An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator…. These are not three separate devices!"
Just like that, Apple put a miniature computer in consumers' pockets.
And then Apple put another miniature computer in more consumers' pockets with the release of the iPod Touch in September 2007 — a phoneless iPhone for those unwilling to pay a monthly fee but craving the iPhone's mobile computing powers.
But that wasn't enough for iPhone users. Operating on a closed platform, the iPhone was limited to the few apps that Apple offered — and the handset was restricted to one U.S. carrier, AT&T. The iPhone's software limitations gave birth to an underground world of hackers seeking to add third-party applications for the iPhone, known as the Jailbreak community. And the AT&T exclusivity created a subset of the hacker community focusing on unlocking the iPhone to work with various carriers — today famously known as the iPhone Dev-Team.
Apple wasn't pleased about the infiltration. At the launch of the British iPhone in September 2007, Steve Jobs said Apple would work to suppress unlock hacks.
"It's a cat-and-mouse game," Jobs said. "We try to stay ahead. People will try to break in, and it's our job to stop them breaking in."
That game involved Apple issuing software updates that, once installed, effectively bricked unlocked iPhones, rendering them useless. The Dev-Team is winning the battle, as it keeps publishing unlock hacks for each iPhone software update.
Apple did, however, benefit tremendously from iPhone hackers. The company learned from the Jailbreak community that third-party applications were in high demand, and would thus add even more appeal to the phone. This revelation led to Apple opening its iPhone App Store, which launched concurrently with the second-generation iPhone, iPhone 3G.
With the launch of the App Store, Apple shook up the mobile industry again by reinventing software distribution. Apple designed the App Store's model with a do-it-yourself mentality: All software developers had to do was code an interesting app, submit it to the App Store for approval and market the app however they wished. Then, Apple gives developers 70 percent of each app sale, keeping 30 percent to cover credit-processing fees.
The App Store's method is proving far more effective than the old-fashioned computer shareware model, where developers would offer a free trial of their apps and then cross their fingers that consumers would eventually pay. The shareware model especially didn't help independent coders, whose apps got trampled on by large software companies with fatter marketing budgets.
Of course, the App Store has seen its share of problems, too. Apple's questionable approval policy has caused some developers to lose sleep over arbitrary, unexplained rejections. Other than that, Apple's approval of an app called Baby Shaker — a game that involves shaking a baby to death — sparked parental outrage. Apple later pulled the app, apologized and called its approval a mistake.
Despite a few hiccups, Apple's App Store now features over 50,000 applications available, and over 1 billion apps have been downloaded, according to Apple. The App Store has spurred some smartphone companies to launch their own application stores as well — but they're far behind.
Apple has already sold 40 million iPhone and iPod Touch units worldwide, meaning developers have the biggest shot to strike it rich with Apple's App Store. And some already have: Ethan Nicholas, for example, earned $600,000 in a single month with his iPhone game, iShoot.
Apple isn't holding back with the recent release of its third-generation iPhone, iPhone 3GS, whose performance is over two times faster than its predecessor. And another missile in Apple's arsenal is iPhone 3.0, the third version of the iPhone operating system, which enhances the software even further. Most significantly, it enables third-party accessories to communicate with applications, opening doors to even more technological (and money-making) possibilities.
Just like that, Apple flipped the cellphone industry on its head and transformed mobile software into a viable business. What's next?
Ссылка на источник: http://www.wired.com/2009/06/dayintech_0629/


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The Developer Release for MySQL Cluster 7.2 includes a new feature that allows the system data required for checking user access to be shared amongst all of your MySQL Servers. By default all of the tables holding these credentials are stored in MyISAM and so are local to that MySQL Server.
This can become painful to manage – every time you want to create a new user or change their permissions you need to repeat it on every server, miss one out and the user won't be able to access that server (or will still be able to access it after you withdraw their privileges).
This is illustrated in Fig.1 – The user "fred" is created on one MySQL Server but when Fred attempts to connect to one of the MySQL Servers they're blocked. This maybe what you wanted to happen but probably not.
In this post, we'll see how to change this behaviour but first we'll confirm the default behaviour.
Obviously, it makes sense to try this out for yourself and you can download the source or binaries from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/cluster/ (select the sub-tab for the Development Milestone Release).
The first step is to run Cluster with multiple MySQL Servers – if you're not comfortable with how to do this then refer to this post on how to distribute MySQL Cluster over multiple hosts.
Four mysql client connections will be used – one for root to connect to server 1; one for Fred to connect to server 1; one for root to connect to server 2 and one for Fred to try connecting to server 2.
So, let's create Fred on server 1 and a table for him to access:
$ mysql -h 192.168.1.7 -P3306 -u root --prompt 'server1-root> ' server1-root> GRANT ALL ON *.* TO 'fred'@'192.168.1.7'; server1-root> CREATE DATABASE clusterdb; USE clusterdb; server1-root> CREATE TABLE towns (id INT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, town VARCHAR(20)) ENGINE=NDBCLUSTER; server1-root> INSERT INTO towns VALUES (1,'Maidenhead'),(2, 'Reading');
Next we confirm that Fred can access this data when connecting through server 1:
$ mysql -h 192.168.1.7 -P3306 -u fred --prompt 'server1-fred> ' server1-fred> SELECT * FROM clusterdb.towns; +----+------------+ | id | town | +----+------------+ | 1 | Maidenhead | | 2 | Reading | +----+------------+
Now try the same thing from server 2:
$ mysql -h 192.168.1.7 -P3307 -u fred --prompt 'server2> ' server2-fred> SELECT * FROM clusterdb.towns; ERROR 1142 (42000): SELECT command denied to user ''@'ws2.localdomain' for table 'towns'
What we need to do next is to run a script (as MySQL root) and then a stored procedure to convert 5 tables from the mysql database ("user", "db", "tables_priv", "columns_priv" & "procs_priv") from the MyISAM to the ndbcluster storage engine:
server1-root> SOURCE /usr/local/mysql/share/mysql/ndb_dist_priv.sql; server1-root> CALL mysql.mysql_cluster_move_privileges();
We can confirm that the storage engine has changed, for example:
server1-root> SHOW CREATE TABLE mysql.userG *************************** 1. row ***************************
Table: userCreate Table: CREATE TABLE `user` ( `Host` char(60) COLLATE utf8_bin NOT NULL DEFAULT '', .... .... ) ENGINE=ndbcluster DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_bin COMMENT='Users and global privileges'
Note that "ENGINE=ndbcluster".
Now that these tables are stored in MySQL Cluster, they should be visible from all of the MySQL Servers. So now, whichever MySQL Server Fred attempts to connect through, that MySQL Server will fetch the privilege data from the shared data nodes rather than using local information and so Fred will get the same access rights. As our clusterdb.towns table was created using the ndbcluster storage engine as well, it is accessible from all servers and so Fred should now be able to see the contents of the table from server 2 as the access rights on server 2 now allow it. Note that the data already stored in those 5 mysql tables survived the migration from MyISAM to MySQL Cluster.
So the final test is to confirm that Fred really is allowed to get to this data from server 2:
$ mysql -h 192.168.1.7 -P3307 -u fred --prompt 'server2-fred>
server2-fred> SELECT * FROM clusterdb.towns;
| id | town |
| 1 | Maidenhead |
| 2 | Reading |
Note that if "fred" were already connected to server2 then he would need to disconnect and reconnect.
Once server1 has been set up in this way, changes to the user privileges data can be made from any one of the mysql servers in the Cluster (not just server1) and they will be enforced by all of the MySQL Servers.
You can find the official documentation for this feature here.


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FLAVIA DOMITILLA:(Redirected from FLAVIUS CLEMENS.)
Convert to Judaism and martyr at Rome. An early branch of the imperial Flavian house was at one time inclined toward Judaism and Christianity. Even Titus Flavius Sabinus, Vespasian's elder brother, led during his last years a life that may be called Jewish or Christian. One of his four children, Titus Flavius Clemens, later consul and martyr, married Flavia Domitilla, who was a granddaughter of his uncle, the emperor Vespasian, and therefore a cousin of Titus and Domitian. Clemens' two children, called Vespasian and Domitian, were educated by the famous Quintilian ("Institutio Oratoria," iv. 1, § 2), and were secretly destined as successors to Domitian (Suetonius, "Domitian," § 15). This arrangement, however, was disturbed when it became known that both Clemens and Domitilla leaned toward the despised "Oriental superstition." Dion Cassius relates that Domitian had many persons executed, including the consul Flavius Clemens and his wife, Flavia Domitilla, although both were his own relations. He adds: "Both had been accused of atheism [άϑεότση], a charge under which many who had followed Jewish customs and laws were executed, while many others were deprived of their property; Domitilla, however, was only banished to the island of Pandataria" ("Hist." lxvii. 13). Clemens and Domitilla may be regarded as converts to Judaism.
The incident is alluded to in rabbinical writings. An eminent senator, a son of Titus' sister, and hence Domitian's nephew, is said to have adopted Judaism; even traces of the name "Clemens" are visible in the account (Giṭ. 56b). The tradition is again mentioned in 'Ab. Zarah 10b, but with the allegorical name Ḳeti'a b. Shalom" (
- Grätz, Die, Jüdischen Proselyten im, Römerreiche, pp. 28 et seq.;
- idem, Gesch. 3d ed., iv. 403;
- Lebrecht, in Geiger's Jüd. Zeit. xi. 273;
- Berliner, Gesch. der Juden in Rom, p. 39;
- Kraus, Roma Sotterranea, p. 41, Freiburg-in-Breisgau, 1873;
- Reinach, Fontes Rerum, Judaicaram, i. 195;
- Prosopographia Imperii Romani, ii. 81.


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What to do, where to go? Well here's the answer, Caravan Attractions! A definitive guide to caravan events and attractions around the UK. Take advantage of our simple search options, browse for attractions that meet your needs and become a member to shortlist them in your Personal Profile. Select a caravan site and view surrounding points of interest, upgrade and become a Privileged Caravan Owners Club Member so you can use the discounts offered at the Caravan Attractions.


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Cisco, the quintessential IT hardware maker, wants you to start thinking about it as software and services company.
CEO John Chambers told analysts in New York today that the switch/router manufacturer that is also heavily invested in video and server gear that the company plans to double its revenues from software over the next five years from $6 billion to $12 billion, according to a Reuters report.
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Even so, the software will become just 25% of the company's revenues, which Chambers says will grow steadily at 5% to 7% per year long-term.
The majority of engineering done at Cisco is already software engineering, producing results that are bundled with hardware, according to slides accompanying his remarks to financial analysts.
Other software offerings are wrapped up with custom chips and services that result in intelligent IP networks, the slides say. The game plan calls for expanding software across the Cisco portfolio of switching, routing, cloud, data center, mobility, video, services and security, they say.
This includes its IOS software, its software defined network initiative, its Nexus OS, Star OS, WebEx, Call Manager, IronPort and ScanSafe platforms, according to the presentation.
Chambers says the company will move from its software defined network toward an application-centric intelligent network that can harvest data from networks, analyze it and create policies based on that analysis in order to improve network security and application performance.
That doesn't mean Cisco is abandoning its hardware past, just that software and the intelligence it brings to networks will play a stronger role.
That's necessary to bring about a change in how the company defines IT, from the study, design, development, application, implementation support or management of computer-based information systems to the same definition to something else by substituting the word "network" for "computer".
This new model of IT is based on two major parts: applications and a unified infrastructure, according to slides accompanying his presentation. Applications will include those developed by third parties as well as traditional business processes and enterprise applications, applications for vertical markets and Cisco video and collaboration platforms.
The unified Cisco infrastructure the applications will ride on includes unified data centers, core networking, access networks and security.
In his presentation Chambers addressed the company's future under the banner "Why We Will Win."
The reasons:
- Cisco is at the center of a world moving to IP
- A transition is ongoing toward network-based IT
- The combination of Cisco ASICs, hardware, software and services yield required intelligent IP networks
- Cisco unifies networking, computing and storage
- Cisco's culture, track record, size, installed base, financial stability and innovation are all strengths.
(Tim Greene covers Microsoft for Network World and writes the Mostly Microsoft blog. Reach him at firstname.lastname@example.com and follow him on Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/Tim_Greene.)
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High-level doctrinal talks between the Society of St Pius X (SSPX) and officials at the Vatican started about two and a half years ago, in September 2009. Now, according to Bishop Bernard Fellay, superior general of the SSPX, the negotiations are almost over, and nothing concrete appears to have been achieved.
Bishop Fellay says that the aim of the talks was to make the faith "understood in Rome" – yet he accepts that the Vatican participants have not changed their minds about any of the disputed issues. Another SSPX bishop, the disgraced Bishop Richard Williamson, described it as a "dialogue of the deaf", in which neither side went into the discussion with any notion of compromise or of budging on their positions.
On the other hand, Pope Benedict XVI is determined to heal the divisions within the Church. In his Motu Proprio, Summorum Pontificum, he wrote that every effort must be made to achieve unity. The SSPX and the Vatican talking to each other brings the prospect of that unity closer than if there were no dialogue at all. Bishop Fellay himself says the talks were of "capital importance" – even if he is only interested in persuading Rome that he and his SSPX followers are right.
So, were the negotiations a waste of time? Or were they an important step on the long road towards unity?
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Study Suggests Mothers' Stress Can Affect Daughters Later
"Mothers, be good to your daughters," sings John Mayer, because as it turns out, when moms are under stress, it may lead to long-term emotional strain for their daughters.
(Happy Thanksgiving!)
According to a new study by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, teenage girls demonstrated higher levels of anxiety when born into homes with stressed mothers. Those mothers may have been experiencing high-anxiety events during reporting, such as postpartum depression or financial woes. The findings build on earlier work conducted as part of a longitudinal study begun by UMW over two decades ago.
The study contains ramifications for schools, of course. Another study shows that feelings of boredom in school directly relate to stress. Indeed, research indicates that boredom and stress continuously feed into each other. And surveys of Nordic countries found teenage girls more susceptible to academic burnout, as measured by exhaustion and disengagement derived from stress.
The science behind UMW's newest conclusions hinges on two pieces of evidence. First, teenage girls from higher-stress homes possessed higher levels of cortisol, a hormone produced in response to stress. And second, fMRIs showed diminished connections between the amygdala (your brain's lil' emotional regulators) and the prefrontal cortex (That's your brain's executive function area. Fans of "The Walking Dead" will note that these are the areas listed as nonfunctional in zombies, which explains their relative low-maintenance.)
But the brain scans refuted the notion that teenager-reported stress levels corresponded to the reduced brain connections, and instead, the latter actually aligned more closely with the stress levels reported during infancy. Higher cortisol levels from childhood, therefore, may have altered those brain connections responsible for emotional regulation.
In normal speak: Infant girls in stressed-out homes may experience higher levels of anxiety throughout adolescence. This isn't to say, of course, that mothers are actually responsible—correlation is not causality—but it's an interesting connection nevertheless.
"This will pave the way to better understanding of how the brain develops, and could give us insight into ways to intervene when children are young," said Dr. Richard Davidson, director of the Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior at UWM, in a press release.
Nature Neuroscience published the results Nov. 11.
Males didn't show similar patterns, because, you know, typical.


text: 06/20/2013Music Veteran Releases 'Unforgettable' Covers Home to a diverse collection of artists from every genre, Syntax Distribution expands yet again to partner with contemporary Christian music legend and comedian Mark Lowry as he releases Unforgettable Classics. The album features pop standards from the era of Frank Sinatra and Nat "King" Cole. Syntax gives these vinyl favorites a new life through digital distribution.


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Today's guest is Billy Marshall, co-founder and CEO of rPath, a company that's pioneering the virtual appliance approach for application distribution and management. Virtual appliances are a key enabler of cloud computing.
DDJ: Billy, is there anything unique about lifecycle managing when it comes to clouds?
BM: What is unique about lifecycle management for a distributed application in a cloud environment such as Amazon's EC2 or any other hypervisor enabled cloud is the opportunity to streamline the management approach.
With a hypervisor as the bottom layer that abstracts the hardware (instead of a general-purpose operating systems), the application can be pre-defined as a set of coordinated virtual machines -- totally independent from the physical infrastructure. This helps lifecycle management in two ways:
- The OS shrinks to simply support the application. A reduced footprint means fewer components to manage relative to security and compliance issues. This is an opportunity to lower the burden of lifecycle management.
- When the virtual machine (or virtual appliance) is the unit of management (instead of the physical host), deployment and scale-out/up can be accomplished quickly and easily -- on multiple different datacenter clouds. This flexibility for deployment, scale-out, and retirement was unthinkable when each application had to be installed and configured on a general purpose OS running on the physical server systems.
DDJ: Can you tell us about "JeOS" -- "Just enough operating system"?
BM: When a hypervisor cloud is the target for deployment of the application instead of the general-purpose operating system, the role of the OS itself is to "bind" to the application and provide all of the system services required by the application. When you eliminate all of the utilities associated with managing the hardware and include only components required to support the application, the OS shrinks by about 90 percent -- which is great for better security and lower patch management costs. Also, the OS can be tailored to the unique needs of the application without affecting other applications because of the isolation of the virtual machine. Each application gets the "correct" OS instead of a "standard" OS that represents the lowest common denominator for every application.
DDJ: When it comes to tools for managing the lifecycle in clouds, did you have to build new ones from scratch or were you able to adapt existing ones?
BM: Some tools are different, and some remain the same. The best way to describe the change is that the virtual machine is now the unit of management instead of the physical host (the server plus a general-purpose OS).
In this new approach, the virtual machines need to bring with them information and management agents that can communicate to the virtual infrastructure regarding the application requirements. For example, an application server will need to communicate how much hardware resources it needs along with its requirement to allow web server connections and the requirement to send queries and receive responses from a certain database. The virtual infrastructure needs to enable this configuration and communicate certain parameters for setup to the application server virtual machine. This represents a new management capability for configuration. On the other hand, the approach you use for CPU monitoring and alerts can probably remain pretty consistent with the approach you used in the legacy model.
DDJ: Where can readers go to find out more about this?
BM: To learn more, readers can go to www.rpath.com. To create their own application images for free, they can try www.rpath.com/rbuilder/. Finally to create and deploy images to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), go to www.rpath.com/corp/rpath-supports-amazon.


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ProMed now carries Biofreeze Singles on the go
The power of Biofreeze while on the go
Three top benefits including:
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Performance Health has expanded its Biofreeze® product line with the introduction of Biofreeze Pain Relieving Singles, the perfect complement to at-home and in-clinic Biofreeze applications. This innovative packaging provides the power of Biofreeze in an ultra portable, no mess application providing pain relief—anytime, anywhere. Simply snap open the small pouch, apply Biofreeze to the painful area and continue with daily activities.
"We are very excited to launch this truly innovative addition to our highly respected and effective Biofreeze product family," stated Jeff Mathers, product manager for Performance Health. "Pain can strike at inconvenient times and inconvenient places, and it's not always feasible for patients to carry our larger patient-sized Biofreeze products. We encourage hands-on health care practitioners to recommend Biofreeze Singles as a complement the patient-sized products so that patients are protected no matter where they go. This stamp-sized packet fits in a wallet or purse and provides immediate access to Biofreeze pain relief. Even when patients are on-the-go, they don't have to wait to treat pain."
Biofreeze Pain Reliever is the number one clinically-used and recommended topical analgesic. It delivers targeted pain relief with the benefits of cryotherapy (cold therapy). Doctors, therapists and patients are shifting toward topical analgesics and away from systemic pain relievers, which can affect the gastrointestinal tract, heart, kidneys and other organs, as well as cognition. Conversely, topical analgesics deliver targeted pain relief with low levels of systemic absorption, which may result in less risk for systemic toxicity and/or drug interaction.


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About sarcoma
Soft tissue sarcoma is a cancer that develops in the tissues that support and connect the body. It can occur in fat, muscle, nerves, tendons, joints, blood vessels, or lymph vessels. Cancer begins when normal cells change and grow uncontrollably, forming a mass called a tumor. A tumor can be cancerous or benign. A cancerous tumor is malignant, meaning it can spread to other parts of the body. A benign tumor means the tumor will not spread. In general, sarcoma is uncommon, accounting for about 1% of all cancers.
About rhabdomyosarcoma
Rhabdomyosarcoma is a type of soft tissue sarcoma (STS) that begins in mesenchymal cells, which are immature cells that normally become muscle. This disease develops in a type of muscle called striated muscle. Striated muscles are the skeletal voluntary muscles, which are those muscles that people can control.
Rhabdomyosarcoma can occur anywhere in the body:
- Head and neck: about 39% of all rhabdomyosarcoma cases. This includes parameningeal sites, near the membranes covering the brain, 24%; eye socket, 8%; and other head and neck locations, 7%.
- Urinary or reproductive organs: about 29% of cases
- Arms or legs: about 15% of cases
- Other sites: about 17% of cases. This includes the trunk (torso), intrathoracic (inside the lung and/or chest), biliary tract, retroperitoneal, pelvic, and perineal sites (close to the anus, vagina, and urinary structures).
Types of rhabdomyosarcoma
Each rhabdomyosarcoma tumor is classified as either favorable or unfavorable based on its histology, which is what the cells look like under a microscope. The terms "favorable" and "unfavorable" refer to the appearance of the cancer cells. In general, the more cancer cells look like normal cells, the more "favorable" they are and the greater the chance that treatment will be successful.
Favorable histology tumors include the following:
- Embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma.This is the most common type of rhabdomyosarcoma, frequently found in the head and neck and in the reproductive and urinary organs.
- Botryoid rhabdomyosarcoma. This is one subtype of embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma, found most often in hollow organs, such as the bladder or a girl's vagina.
- Spindle rhabdomyosarcoma. This is another subtype of embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma, found most often in the area around a boy's testicles.
Unfavorable histology tumors include the following:
- Alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma. This is a more aggressive type of rhabdomyosarcoma, found most often in an arm, leg, or the trunk of the body.
- Pleomorphic and undifferentiated rhabdomyosarcoma. These are the rarest types of rhabdomyosarcoma, found most commonly in an arm, leg, or the body's trunk.
Rhabdomyosarcoma is most often found in children and young adults. This section covers rhabdomyosarcoma diagnosed in children. Learn more about soft tissue sarcoma in adults.
Looking for More of an Overview?
If you would like additional introductory information, explore these related items. Please note these links take you to other sections on Cancer.Net:
- Cancer.Net Patient Education Videos: View short videos on childhood cancer and sarcoma led by ASCO experts that provide basic information and areas of research.


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Two very different worlds collide in this new video imagining what it would be like if the guy from Fallout took on Skyrim's Dovahkiin.
Can a Pip-Boy hold up against the power of a well-placed "Fus Ro Dah?"
Who can eat his rations fast enough to regenerate health?
Watch the video to find out.
This is just the latest matchup from AndrewMFilms, who previously paired up Mario and Minecraft Steve.
Overall the graphics are really well done, and just as a heads up, it gets a little gruesome towards the end.
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CHRIS POWELL: Mental illness isn't such a crime issue
More treatment for mental illness is the most pious appeal resulting from the Newtown school massacre. But as with the appeals for more restrictions on guns -- outlawing scary-looking rifles and large-capacity magazines, prohibitively taxing ammunition, requiring background checks for gun purchasers -- there is little relevance to what actually happened in Newtown. The massacre is just being adapted to longstanding political agendas.
Even as more treatment for mental illness is being sought because the massacre's perpetrator appears to have been a severely withdrawn young man, the mentally ill and their caregivers are warning against stigmatizing them, since few mentally ill people are dangerous, perhaps proportionately no more dangerous than the general population, most murders being committed by people who qualify as sane.
Further, the many sad testimonies about mental illness given since the massacre have established that even when treatment is readily provided it fails as often as it succeeds. Ordinary decency demands greater availability of treatment for troubled young people as well as for the alcoholic, drug-addicted, and generally crazy people who live without homes. But none of this will make society any safer than it would be made by, say, life sentences for chronic criminals. After all, with about 70 percent of parolees committing serious crimes within two years of their release, how is mental illness suddenly ranking first among criminal-justice issues in Connecticut and nationally?
The rage and grief arising from the slaughter of so many children are blinding people to relevance and making them more vulnerable to political exploitation.
State Sen. Beth Bye, D-West Hartford, is the latest state legislator to be accused of paying more attention to her laptop computer than to the proceedings taking place in front of her -- a hearing held the other night at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford by the committee considering gun violence.
Bye admits working on her Facebook page during the hearing but says she was posting observations to keep constituents informed.
In any case Bye is not a member of the committee and was not obliged to attend the hearing at all, though she stuck with it long into the night. In fact she was rebuked not because of any inattentiveness but because she would pretty much outlaw guns and the gun-rights people were eager to embarrass her.
While the gun issue may be angry enough, it would have been nice if Bye had dared to reply to the criticism more relevantly -- dared to note that at a hearing on a single issue with dozens of people taking turns speaking for hours, all the worthwhile arguments are covered fully in the first hour or so. The remainder of the hearing is only tedious repetition as the competing interests just try to make themselves feel good by venting and to intimidate legislators with their numbers. Any legislator who does nothing but sit through this repetition and intimidation is wasting his time and risks losing his mind.
Opponents of raising the federal debt ceiling are being accused of risking default on the government's debt and even the government's incapacitation. This is nonsense.
Even without raising the debt ceiling the government's revenues will remain adequate to cover the interest on the debt and basic government operations.
The real objection to enforcing the debt ceiling is that it would require the government to start making choices -- to question, for example, the war in Afghanistan and the American empire generally, corporate welfare and welfare for anti-social behavior, and the political pork that people sneer at in general but forgive when their congressmen bring it home.
Repealing the debt ceiling, as now seems likely, means unlimited debt, and unlimited debt means unlimited government -- which may explain why most people in government are so hot on the idea.
Chris Powell is managing editor of the Journal Inquirer in Manchester, Conn.


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Sydney Boys High School
Syncretism: 'The combining of different, often seemingly contradictory beliefs, while melding practices of various schools of thought.'
Syncretism documents a performance exploring the role of technology through dualities of old and new, man and woman, East and West. I was inspired by my Japanese heritage, Japan's ultra-conservative values within an ultra-modern society, and Stelarc's take on technology as 'an evolutionary energizer'. Fiona Hall's use of recontextualised materials particularly resonated with me and informed my practice, from handcrafting my costume out of cables and computer detritus to adhering to Kabuki traditions in choreographing my performance.
Influencing artists: Stelarc, Shaun Gladwell, David Altmejd, Yayoi Kusama, Fiona Hall
Marcus James, 'Syncretism' (3:01)
What is the role of peformance in the creation of Syncretism by Marcus James and Woolloomooloo Night by Shaun Gladwell? What contribution does the medium of film and video make to the success of each work?
Choose three artists with diverse art practices and cultural backgrounds. Create a series of works that show the influence works of your own as well as your own unique style.


text: Green Gogol #1 Posted January 27, 2019 Surfing the web, reading people's opinion, browsing through forums, I always stumble upon the same type of comments. It goes something like this: A song of fire and ice is more realistic because the characters are complex, because it's gritty. Dragonlance bwa ha ha, that's for children. Noble bright, that's childish... I just don't get it. I know that some people are unpleasant. But how can a world where everybody is unpleasant and it is always raining can be thought of as more realistic than rainbows and unicorns? I mean, in real life you have people with complex motivations and others who have simple motivations. Some are pleasant, some are unpleasant, some are silly, some are complete idiots, some are genius, some are heroic, some are selfish, some are generous etc. The world is not black and white, but's it's not in shades of grey either. It's a world full of colors. And I find it annoying when I read that gritty fantasy is fantasy for grown ups. Fantasy for real men. And that the rest is considered childish. To quote C.S Lewis: "Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." What do you think about such attitude? About realism and grimdark? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Investors' "fiscal cliff" worries are likely to give way to more fundamental concerns, like earnings, as fourth-quarter reports get under way next week. U.S. lawmakers narrowly averted the "fiscal cliff" by coming to a last-minute agreement on a bill to avoid steep tax hikes this weeks -- driving the rally in stocks -- but the battle over further spending cuts is expected to resume in two months.
Financial results, which begin after the market closes on Tuesday with aluminum company Alcoa (AA.N), are expected to be only slightly better than the third-quarter's lackluster results. As a warning sign, analyst current estimates are down sharply from what they were in October.
That could set stocks up for more volatility following a week of sharp gains that put the Standard & Poor's 500 index on Friday at the highest close since December 31, 2007. The index also registered its biggest weekly percentage gain in more than a year.
Based on a Reuters analysis, Europe ranks among the chief concerns cited by companies that warned on fourth-quarter results. Uncertainty about the region and its weak economic outlook were cited by more than half of the 25 largest S&P 500 companies that issued warnings.
Negative-to-positive guidance by S&P 500 companies for the fourth quarter was 3.6 to 1, the second worst since the third quarter of 2001, according to Thomson Reuters data. In the most recent earnings conference calls, macroeconomic worries were cited by 10 companies while the U.S. "fiscal cliff" was cited by at least nine as reasons for their earnings warnings. "The number of things that could go wrong isn't so high, but the magnitude of how wrong they could go is what's worrisome," said Kurt Winters, senior portfolio manager for Whitebox Mutual Funds in Minneapolis.
Investors also have seen a revival of worries about Europe's sovereign debt problems, with Moody's in November downgrading France's credit rating and debt crises looming for Spain and other countries."You have a recession in Europe as a base case. Europe is still the biggest trading partner with a lot of U.S. companies, and it's still a big chunk of global capital spending," said Adam Parker, chief U.S. equity strategist at Morgan Stanley in New York.
Among companies citing worries about Europe was eBay (EBAY.O), whose chief financial officer, Bob Swan, spoke of "macro pressures from Europe" in the company's October earnings conference call.
One of the biggest worries voiced about earnings has been whether companies will be able to continue to boost profit growth despite relatively weak revenue growth.
S&P 500 revenue fell 0.8 percent in the third quarter for the first decline since the third quarter of 2009, Thomson Reuters data showed. Earnings growth for the quarter was a paltry 0.1 percent after briefly dipping into negative territory. On top of that, just 40 percent of S&P 500 companies beat revenue expectations in the third quarter, while 64.2 percent beat earnings estimates.
For the fourth quarter, estimates are slightly better but are well off estimates for the quarter from just a few months earlier. S&P 500 earnings are expected to have risen 2.8 percent while revenue is expected to have gone up 1.9 percent. Back in October, earnings growth for the fourth quarter was forecast up 9.9 percent.
In spite of the cautious outlooks, some analysts still see a good chance for earnings beats this reporting period. "The thinking is you need top line growth for earnings to continue to expand, and we've seen the market defy that," said Mike Jackson, founder of Denver-based investment firm T3 Equity Labs.
Based on his analysis, energy, industrials and consumer discretionary are the S&P sectors most likely to beat earnings expectations in the upcoming season, while consumer staples, materials and utilities are the least likely to beat, Jackson said.
Sounding a positive note on Friday, drugmaker Eli Lilly and Co (LLY.N) said it expects profit in 2013 to increase by more than Wall Street had been forecasting, primarily due to cost controls and improved productivity.


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Ex-Missouri trooper agrees to plea deal
James Hall ordered to serve 2 years of probation
A retired Missouri State Highway Patrol trooper who had been charged with child molestation has been ordered to serve two years of probation after agreeing to a plea deal.
The Joplin Globe reported that 71-year-old James "J.D." Hall, of Neosho, was scheduled to go to trial Tuesday in Newton County Circuit Court on charges of first-degree child molestation and misdemeanor assault.
But Hall avoided trial by accepting a plea offer Monday from the Missouri attorney general's office. As part of the deal, Hall pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor assault and to a misdemeanor offense of child endangerment rather than the felony charge of child molestation.
The Attorney General's Office was prosecuting the case because Hall had a working relationship with the Newton County Prosecutor's Office over the years.


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Dazzling fireworks lit up Australia's Sydney Harbor, communist Vietnam held a rare Western-style countdown to the new year and Japanese revelers released balloons carrying notes with people's hopes and dreams as the world ushered in 2011.
Crowds were gathering in New York's Times Square, where nearly a million New Year's Eve revelers were expected to watch a ball with 32,000 lights descend in the run-up to midnight, despite the debilitating blizzard that paralyzed the city just days before.
In Europe, Greeks, Irish and Spaniards began partying through the night to help put a year of economic woe behind them.
As rain clouds cleared, around 50,000 people, many sporting large, brightly colored wigs, gathered in Madrid's central Puerta del Sol square to take part in Las Uvas, or The Grapes, a tradition in which people eat a grape for each of the 12 chimes of midnight. Chewing and swallowing the grapes to each tolling of a bell is supposed to bring good luck, while cheating is frowned on and revelers believe it brings misfortune.
Police had painstakingly screened all those arriving to make sure drinks and bottles were left behind to avoid injury in the crowded square, so many quickly downed their sparkling cava wine before joining the animated party.
"It's an annual tradition and I'm here to make my wishes for the new year, if you eat the grapes your wishes will come true," beautician Anita Vargas said.
As the 12th grape was swallowed, the skies above most Spanish cities lit up with fireworks that slowly filled the air with smoke and the smell of gunpowder.
'What can I say?'
2010 was a grim year for the European Union, with Greece and Ireland needing bailouts and countries such as Spain and Portugal finding themselves in financial trouble as well.
"Before, we used to go out, celebrate in a restaurant, but the last two years we have had to stay at home," said Madrid florist Ernestina Blasco, whose husband, a construction worker, is out of work.
In Greece, thousands of people spent the last day of 2010 standing in line at tax offices to pay their road tax or sign up for tax amnesty.
"We can see that the quality of life is being degraded every day," Athens resident Giorgos Karantzos said. "What can I say? I don't see the light at the end of the tunnel."
New Zealanders and South Pacific island nations were among the first to celebrate at midnight. In New Zealand's Auckland, explosions of red, gold and white burst over the Sky Tower, while tens of thousands of people danced and sang in the streets below. In Christchurch, partyers shrugged off a minor 3.3 earthquake that struck just before 10 p.m.
Multicolored starbusts and gigantic sparklers lit the midnight sky over Sydney Harbor in a pyrotechnics show witnessed by 1.5 million spectators.
"This has got to be the best place to be in the world tonight," Marc Wilson said.
Hundreds of thousands of people gathered along Hong Kong's Victoria Harbor to watch fireworks explode from the roofs of 10 of the city's most famous buildings.
In Vietnam's capital, Hanoi, an estimated 55,000 people packed a square in front of the city's elegant French colonial-style opera house for their first New Year's countdown blowout, complete with dizzying strobe lights and thumping techno music spun by international DJs.
Vietnamese typically save their biggest celebrations for Tet, the lunar new year that begins on Feb. 3. But in recent years, Western influence has started seeping into Vietnamese culture among teens, who have no memory of war or poverty and are eager to find a new reason to party.
At Japan's Zojoji temple in Tokyo, monks chanted and revelers marked the arrival of the new year by releasing silver balloons with notes inside. The temple's giant 15-ton bell rang in the background.
In Seoul, South Korea, more than 80,000 people celebrated by watching a traditional bell ringing ceremony and fireworks, while North Korea on Saturday welcomed the new year with a push for better ties with its neighbor, warning that war "will bring nothing but a nuclear holocaust."
In Dubai, the world's tallest building was awash in fireworks from the base to its needle-like spire nearly a half-mile (828-meters) above. Sparkling silver rays shot out from the Burj Khalifa in a 10-minute display.
In France, police were on alert for terror attacks and for celebrations getting out of hand. Rampaging youths typically set fire to scores of vehicles on New Year's Eve. Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux said 53,820 police officers were mobilized, 6,000 more than usual.
France has been extra vigilant following threats from al-Qaida and the kidnapping of five French citizens in Niger.
Italians were ringing in the new year with illegal fireworks, shot off in squares and alleys — a tradition that usually results in numerous hand and eye injuries. Naples police Chief Santi Giuffre appealed to citizens to "give up or at least cut back on this" practice.
In central London, an estimated quarter-million revelers saw in the new year as red, white and blue fireworks — the colors of the Union Jack — shot from around the London Eye, lighting up the sky over the River Thames.
In Scotland, the four-day Hogmanay festival began Thursday night with a torch-lit procession through the streets of Edinburgh. Around 25,000 people took part, marching to the top of a hill to watch the burning of a model Viking ship. Hogmanay is derived from the winter solstice festival celebrated by the Vikings.
The Dutch celebrate by eating deep-fried dough balls covered in powdered sugar and washed down with champagne. The Danes jump off chairs to "leap into the new year." And the Austrians twirl in the new year with a waltz, carrying radios so they can dance to Strauss' "Blue Danube" as the clock strikes midnight.
In the United States, people said they would be setting aside concerns about the economy, bad winter weather and even potential terrorist threats to ring in 2011 at large and small gatherings.
Even more than most years, New York was the city in the spotlight as it battled back from a severe snowstorm and security concerns eight months after a Pakistani immigrant tried to detonate a car bomb in Times Square.
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said the city wasn't the target of a New Year's Eve terror threat. But police had a strict security plan in place, with sealed manhole covers, counter-snipers on rooftops and checkpoints for partygoers to pass through on their way to the country's largest annual New Year's celebration.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg has endured days of withering criticism for the city's slow response to the Dec. 26 storm, which dumped 20 inches of snow. But holiday tourists helped clear streets, said Tim Tompkins, president of the Times Square Alliance.
"We have the best snow plow ever invented — 500,000 pairs of feet walking through Times Square," Tompkins said. "That's been melting our snow."
Associated Press writers around the world contributed to this report.


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Social is as video does -- or at least it would appear so, what with Google+'s Hangouts video chat jumping into a spot where they weren't, all while building some sexy buzz. And Apple's FaceTime lets users do the lean-back vid chat in a strong, seamless manner, too, in a person-to-person setting (as well as via desktop).
Tuesday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a new partnership with Skype that will allow all of its users to directly video chat with friends without ever leaving the social network.
Now Facebook has (finally) integrated a video chat into its interface in such a way that it may leapfrog to the fore of letting others see you from your office chair, poorly lit, and/or with some Doritos powder on the corner of your mouth. The partnership with Skype may well pay off after all.
While FaceTime is utility with the potential for more fun use, it's still a mobile app -- otherwise it's Skype, isn't it? And with Hangouts, users can effortlessly chat in something akin to the opening credits of the "Brady Bunch."
The real win -- unlike the free version of Skype -- is that both Facetime's and Google+'s engines are solid and seamless, allowing for very little, if any, latency and zero user frustration. In Google's case, the interface is tied solidly to the browser, allowing for limited skipping or transmission delays, according to GigaOm.
While Facebook may be late to the video-chat space, the critical strategic and business question is whether they are limping into the space, or leaping in and differentiating. Unless there's a quick Phase Two, there's not too much in here to make Google+ worry about its new-found status as being the sexy social net -- at least for now.
The ability to share assets -- GIFs or PDFs or whatever -- while maintaining the video chat is critical, especially since Google+ has already provided that function.


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The rules are simple. Please follow them, and we should all get along just fine!
1. Don't be an annoying jackass. That means treat others with respect, no personal attacks, no sexual harassment, no deliberate trolling, etc. etc. I have enough faith that I don't feel the need to spell this out further.
2. Don't talk about illegal stuff. More specifically, don't talk about pirating movies/software/whatever, and don't talk about where to get pirated stuff. You can certainly talk about the evils of piracy, but please don't engage in discussions that glorify it.
3. Display some self-control with regard to topics that could result in pointless drama. By this, I'm specifically thinking of the "Other Geekery" forum -- and, more specifically, topics about touchy stuff like politics and religion. If it's a real-world issue that naturally turns the "rationally minded human being who knows when to back off during a stupid and heated debate that's actually impossible to 'win' if you stop and think about it for just one damn second" switch in our heads off, it's probably best to avoid it. I don't want this forum to become a cesspool of stupid arguments.
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Pasta and Chicken Gratin
Serves10 to 12
- Active time:2 hr
- Start to finish:4 hr (includes poaching chicken)
December 2005
Think macaroni and cheese—only ten times better. This sophisticated version combines the nuttiness of Gruyère with the intense flavor of parmesan, juicy poached chicken, and a crisp, cheesy crust. If you're short on time, feel free to use cooked rotisserie chickens (see cooks' note, below). In that case, though, don't add salt to the sauce, as the stock made from the rotisserie chickens will already be salty.
For chicken and stock
- 2 (3 1/2- to 4-lb) chickens
- 10 cups cold water
- 1 celery rib, quartered
- 1 carrot, quartered
- 1 medium onion, quartered
- 1 large garlic clove, smashed
- 2 fresh thyme sprigs
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon whole black peppercorns
For cheese sauce and casserole
- 1 stick (1/2 cup) unsalted butter plus additional for greasing gratin dishes
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 3 cups whole milk
- 1 cup crème fraîche (8 oz)
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon cayenne
- 1 lb Gruyère, coarsely grated (6 cups)
- 1 oz Parmigiano-Reggiano, finely grated with a rasp (1 1/4 cups)
- 1 lb penne rigate or other short tubular pasta
- 6 cups fine fresh bread crumbs (from 14 slices firm white sandwich bread)
Special equipment:2 (2 1/2- to 3-qt) shallow gratin dishes (13 by 9 inches)
Poach chicken and make stock:
Cut backbones, wing tips, and second joints of wings from chickens, then cut each chicken into quarters. Put backbones, wing tips, second joints, and giblets (except livers) in a 6- to 8-quart pot with water, celery, carrot, onion, garlic, thyme, salt, and peppercorns and bring to a boil. Add chicken quarters and return liquid to a boil, skimming off any foam, then reduce heat and simmer, uncovered, 10 minutes. Remove from heat and let stand, covered, 40 minutes.
Transfer chicken quarters with tongs to a shallow baking pan. When chicken is cool enough to handle, remove meat from skin and bones, transferring meat to a cutting board and returning skin and bones to pot. Cut chicken into 1-inch pieces and reserve in a large bowl. Boil stock 40 minutes, then pour through a fine-mesh sieve into a large bowl, discarding solids. Let stand 5 minutes, then skim off fat and set aside 4 cups stock for making sauce. (Reserve remaining stock for another use.)
Make sauce, cook pasta, and assemble casserole:
Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 425°F. Butter gratin dishes.
Heat butter (1 stick) in a 4-quart heavy pot over moderate heat until foam subsides, then add garlic and cook, whisking, 1 minute. Add flour and cook, whisking, 1 minute. Add milk and reserved stock (4 cups) in a slow stream, whisking, then bring to a boil, whisking. Reduce heat and simmer, whisking occasionally, until sauce is slightly thickened, about 10 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in crème fraîche, salt, pepper, cayenne, 2 cups Gruyère, and 1/2 cup Parmigiano-Reggiano.
While sauce simmers, cook pasta in a 6- to 8-quart pot of boiling salted water , uncovered, until not quite al dente, 8 to 10 minutes (pasta should still be firm), then drain in a colander. Return pasta to pot, then add chicken and sauce, tossing to coat. Divide pasta mixture between gratin dishes.
Toss bread crumbs with remaining 4 cups Gruyère and 3/4 cup Parmigiano-Reggiano, then sprinkle evenly over pasta mixture. Bake gratins until crumbs are golden brown and sauce is bubbling, 20 to 30 minutes. Let stand 10 minutes before serving.
Cooks' notes:
- If using rotisserie chickens, pull meat from bones and reserve, then make stock by cooking skin and bones with celery, carrot, onion, garlic, thyme, salt, peppercorns, and 8 cups water 40 minutes total before straining.
- Chicken can be poached and stock can be made 1 day ahead and cooled completely, uncovered, then chilled separately, covered.
- Bread crumbs can be made 1 day ahead and kept in a sealed plastic bag at room temperature.
- Cheeses can be grated 1 day ahead and chilled separately in sealed plastic bags.
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Did you know that there are more than 58 muscels in each human foot?
We love the way sneakers can keep our feet cushioned and well protected, but just how much of all this is really good for us?
The simple act of walking uses more than 200 muscles; cushioning the feet in shoes all the time can throw you off balance, weaken the foot muscels, ligaments and tendons. Keeping shoes on our feet all the time, may inhibit sensory input from thousands of nerve endings in the soles of our feet, which can lead to many problems in the foot, leg, and back..
I was introduced to barefoot training at a fitness conference in New York City over 10 years ago. I was excited to bring back this concept to my group fitness class, but was uncomfortable to ask my student to take off there sneakers. It was and is a common misconception by most, that the more cushioning and stabilization for your feet the better it was to protect your ankles, knees and back.
In actuality, its the exact opposite. An imagery I often tell my students is imagine your hand is fitted in a stiff glove, and all around the glove are lots of cushions, gels, and air pockets. With all the "stuff" around your hands it brings limited movement to your fingers. Your palms won't be able to open and close. Your fingers won't be able to spread open. In time, the muscles, ligaments and tendons will loose its strength. The wrist will weaken, and so will the elbow and shoulder. Everything is connected.
The same concept can be used for our feet. When you take off your shoes, the toes are able to spread out more easily, balance of the body improves, you can use your joints, ankles and hips more. A benefit of going barefoot is that it stimulates the circulation in your feet and can have a positive effect on all your organs.
Try doing a lunge with your supportative sneakers and see how that feels. Now, try the same lunge barefoot. Notice how much more control you need to contribute in order effectively do the same exact movement. Did you "thump" on the landing of your lunge knowing the supportative sneakers will protect you from the floor below?
Working out barefoot takes control, poise and mind fullness.
Try a few times a week to walk around the house barefoot. Engaging in muscles that are usually covered up.Its no wonder that babies kick off there booties- they know in order to learn to walk properly-they need there toes to touch the ground.
About 5 years ago, I had an amazing opportunity to conduct my summer classes in a karate studio in long branch new jersey.
Upon taking the space, the terms were that students must take off their sneakers in order to protect the delicate matting of the studios' floor. I was hesitant to accept, but was way into the summer season and needed to act fast.
I agreed- we exercised 5 days a week with classes ranging from Cardio Fusion, Med ball and sculpting classes. It was a huge success. Women still come over to me with wonderful barefoot memories of that summer.
In the fall of the same year, I was determined to keep my sneakers off. I did and encouraged my students to do the same, until I stubbed and broke my toe on a dumbell while I was instructing. Since then, I will only teach barefoot training in an equipment free class to promote safety.
I was in search of a sneaker that would allow my foot the freedom yet protection from injuries.
After dozens of sneakers and years later I was finally introduced to "nike free" sneakers. These sneakers improved balance, agility, and foot strength. Thinner, lighter and more flexible designs mimic the foot's natural form.
I encourage all my students to work out in them. If you do buy them, start off slowly-first once a week and little by little add more nike free time to a full week. At first you may feel cramping, that's normal. In a few weeks time your feet will adjust to the new demands.
More manufactures are following suit. As I give them a try I will send you my feedback.
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Hi everyone,
Here is some information for you about balance.
Some changes we are planning in the nearest updates:
- I guess one of the most nice: re-balance Т110Е5. The most interesting is commander's turret changes. Now it will be similar to М48 Patton commander's turret.
- We are going to make some improvements of tier 8 premium tank Lowe. No detailed information for now.
- We are going to improve Indien-Panzer as well. Likely we will make the gun more comfortable.
- We continue improvements of tier 6 TDs (ARL V39, Jackson, Churchill GC).
- Pz.Sfl.IV is going to be more comfortable.
Maybe I'll be able to share some other changes soon, so stay tuned.
What other tanks do you think need improvements? Let's discuss!
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"...He is blood thirsty, wants to kill his family and name everything after him.. but I believe Commodus is essentially a good lad and is being misjudged by society..He will be a great Emperor as soon as he has served his imperial ASBO order ..."
"It vexes me, I am terribly vexed."
Commodus (full name : Loonicatus Marcus Commodus 'Look at Me ! I'm Mad' Caesar) is widely credited with destroying the Roman Empire and giving actors like Christopher Plummer and Joaquin Phoenix the chance to chew the scenery by playing him as a crazy man in movies.
First Signs of Nuttiness[edit]
The reason for Commodus's later full on lunacy can be blamed on his mother Faustina. She really doted on 'Commie' as he grew up in the Imperial court of his father Emperor Marcus Aurelius. Whereas his father liked writing a lot of very boring books - the young Commodus preferred to run wild in Rome with his equally dissolute friend - the poet Juvenile (founder of the Urinal School of Poetry). At this stage Commodus seemed reasonably sane - he enjoyed going to see criminals being executed live and a partook in a few modest teenage orgies - nothing exceptional for rich kids in that age or indeed this age.
However Commodus was already showing signs that he believed he was the "bees knees" and would command everyone to worship him as a Living God. However when his father heard of his sons behavior, he confiscated his chariot and banished him to a remote nightclub in Glasgow as punishment. But Faustina intervened and Commodus escaped punishment. Instead he was obliged to spend Saturnalia with his dreary dad on the Roman frontier in the deepest winter snow. Dragging his feet and whining , Commodus went and was pleased when his father died on the second day of the holiday after opening a present with a Dagger-in-the-Box. Officially a story was put out that old Marcus had died from hypothermia and Commodus quickly hid the knife under his imperial pillow.
Hail Fruitcake ![edit]
As soon as he became Emperor in 180 A.D. , Commodus quickly showed that he was going to have fun at everyone's expense. A huge party was thrown to start the reign which saw the usual circus of freaks, basket cases and psychopaths applying for jobs in the Empire. Commodus agreed and replaced the sane with the insane and so started off the collapse of the Roman Empire.
It was probably about this time that Commodus had further delusions of grandeur, though being the Supreme Ruler of the Roman Empire he was in a position to make this a reality. And no one batted any eyelid as he insisted that from now on everything and everyone was to named 'Commodus'. So from 183 A.D. The Roman Empire was rebranded as the Commodian Empire and also renamed all the months of the year in his honour:-
- January - Madtime
- February - Barking
- March - Looney Tunes
- April - Gibbering
- May - Kooky
- June - Frothing
- July - Foaming
- August- Batshit
- September - Barmy
- October - Off Me Rocker
- November - Deranged
- December - Demented
The days of the week were just listed 'Wackaday 1 - through to Wackaday 6 when Sunday became 'Wacked Out'. Rome also renamed Commodium Central and the provinces had various stupid names like 'Shittitania' , 'Asia Arsehole' and 'Transvestite Gaul'.
Did Anyone Notice?[edit]
That is the strange thing. No Romans seemed to mind the Emperor's name changing but they were surprised when he started walking around in animal skins and said he wanted to be a top gladiator. This really offended many Romans who paid good money to watch their leader dispatch a stream of pensioned off fighters in the name of ratings. When the Colosseum authorities ran out of crocked gladiators - they emptied the zoos but first drugged the wretched animals before they were thrown into the arena with the emperor. At least the crowds in the cheap seats (the' Vulgars' ) liked it at the time though soon taking bets agains Commodus were deemed treasonable and worthy of a no expenses paid tour of duty as an imperial galley slave.
Tell Me More Crazy Things ![edit]
Commodus didn't like his sisters much except Cruella . She liked skinning dogs for her own fashion range , the prestigious Charnel House Number 5 Label . Commodus also got rid of anyone who got in his way or didn't like. His favourite trick was to stand in front of the Senators and their wives sitting in the posh seats in the Colosseum and decapitating a live chicken. He would then throw the bloodied head into the seats and made a cutting action across his throat to everyone watching to show that he meant murderous business that day !
Operation : Non Compost Methanol[edit]
Eventually.....well twelve years later - and not like in the movies after about two hours before Christopher Plummer/Joaquin Phoenix get their just deserts - a conspiracy was hatched, matched and dispatched against the frenzied Emperor. His estranged girlfriend Marcia (she being just 'estranged' and not strangled like her predecessor) and her boyfriend - a fashion model named Narcissus - finally did away with the imperial unhingedness. Commodus wasn't offered counselling or a retraining course or even a spell in a rest home - no ... he was strangled in his bath by Narcissus - which was at least a clean way to go.
Oops..Almost forgot ! The Church[edit]
Marcia (now Saint Mascara) had become a Christian when she had her boyfriend bumped off in the bathroom. It is also related by the Christian authors that Commodus was nice mad emperor unlike Caligula and Nero as he didn't persecute the church. It seems he was so busy naming everything after him and saying he was a Living God - he forgot to indulge in any mild mass killing of Christians. So perhaps thanks to Marcia - Commodus's memory wasn't especially damned until the historian Edward Gibbon blamed him for everything and the movie industry took their cue from that - and went about turning this otherwise normal lunatic into Neronic Grand Madness instead.
The Romans celebrated the death of Commodus by honouring all their bathrooms as 'Commodes' - but we should note - this was meant as a very grave insult. Naturally everyone ditched calling each other Commodus and would have lived happily every after - just like in the movies - but the Praetorian Guard decided that now that Rome was without an imperial ruler - they were going to start a new tv show : 'Who Wants To Be a Roman Emperor ?'
- Commodus's mental health has been the subject of a very very long article by a professor in Imperial Psychology at Kings College, Cambridge. If you want to read it - the link is http://www.crazyman.com/
- The Urinal Poetry School is still going strong today.
- Commodus's other sisters were called Vanilla and Sarsaparilla .You will meet them later !
- With everyone called Commodus - life became confusing if very interesting.
- Or according to Juvenile. No
- Rome Zoo was closed down shortly afterwards.
- Saint Marcia/Mascara was later killed by emperor Didius Julianus when she defaulted on a bank loan. Narcissius survived longer until Emperor Septimius Severus turned him into to lion food to appease the angry and incoherent spirit of Commodus.
- A Funny Thing Happened On My Way to the Colosseum - a now lost play by Atticus Ovus Billious.
See Also[edit]
- Russell Crowe
- Mad
- Mental
- Hollywood
- Murder
- Sonic the Gladiator
- Intellectual Challenge of Truth
- Prince John
|Preceded by:
Marcus Aurelius
|Roman Emperor
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