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In 1982 Reagan got rolled on a $3 in spending cuts to $1 in tax increases. The spending cuts never were to materialize. Again no spending cuts in 1986. Then Bush 41 got rolled - no spending cuts materialized. Somehow we are to believe that the draconian cuts will materialize and not just the defense ones.I say, if the cuts are REAL then lets go over the cliff to prove it. Click Here if you Like this Comment
Problem is they are taking all of us with them!!! Click Here if you Like this Comment
Whatever happens in this lame duck the Repubs must make it permanent. Never again should we hand such a huge cudgel to our opponents as the automatically expiring Bush tax rates became. For over a decade we have been fighting against the "Bush tax cuts for the rich" as every dem since Gore has droned on and on about how to spend all that revenue Bush bestowed on the millionaires and billionaires.Why is there a fiscal cliff at all? For a decade the media has reported that Bush´s tax cuts only helped the wealthy, not the middle class. So wouldn´t allowing them to "expire" simply accomplish what Obama promised?The absolute worst outcome, and one the RHINOS will probably walk right into would be anothe extension, expiring right about election time in 2014 so the left can demagogue this issue one more time.Face it the left never ever wants the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy to expire, it is their strongest class warfare campaign issue. An automatic tax hike on everyone that can be portrayed as an evil republican plot to protect the uber rich.Whatever happens, whatever the cost, kill the sunset clause once and for all. Click Here if you Like this Comment
Always wondered where this "cliff" came from? Found out that the "cliff" refers to Bush tax cuts expiring AND the "sequestrations" from that Joint Select Committee of Congrees in 2011. The "going over the cliff" will hurt the middle class and working poor, a majority (when combining the 2 classes) who elected the Won. Maybe it´s time to call the bluff and go over the cliff to see what really will happen with the spending cuts?Too bad, that Joint Select Committee did not add the requirement for Obummer to send up a budget. Click Here if you Like this Comment
Great article. I totally agree. In the end going off the cliff and letting ALL the Bush Tax Cuts expire strengthens the pubblies hand. Shared sacrifice is vital right now. Click Here if you Like this Comment
Who do the rich Democrats in Hollywood, Wall Street and the multi-million black sports figures give their money to? Not the Republicans. Wake up Republicans, you have been hit over your head for years for all the wrong reasons. Let the taxes go up and you might have a chanch to win the next election. Click Here if you Like this Comment
Yes, if the Bush tax cuts are to expire, let them ALL expire, not just the ones for the wealthy. Let´s call their bluff. Click Here if you Like this Comment
Do it! Click Here if you Like this Comment
you need to know this...hollywood actors and actresses and the wonderful sports figures will not have their taxes increased.. they are "independant contractors" so they dont pay the in crease in taxes...why do you think they are all for the tax increase...because it does not affect them...i.e. Babs Striseand..Whoppied Goldberg...Barbar Walters..Shawn Penn..they dont pay the increase... Click Here if you Like this Comment
I´m all for spending cuts, too. The problem is that Defense is going to bear the brunt of them. However, I found myself commenting during several conversations this weekend that "we apparently haven´t hit bottom yet." Obama wanted sequestration so let´s give it to him - it will be last we hear about his sidekick Shecky running in ´16. Click Here if you Like this Comment
Remember "targeted tax cuts?" I think it´s time we had "targeted tax increases!" Pass a new bill that sets a 99% rate on all movie stars and just for grins make it retroactive to 2008, then, after we see how much revenue that brings in we can talk about other revenue measures! Click Here if you Like this Comment
"Americans had a choice this November, and they voted for bigger government. Rather (than) shielding voters from the consequences of their decisions, let them pay for it."Exactly right. Click Here if you Like this Comment
AMEN!! Yes it will hurt. But it will hurt the very dumbasses who elected this clowncar for a second round the MOST. Maybe then they´ll learn a little something about economics. DO IT REPUBS--for once, please GROW A PAIR and shove this right down their throats. Ironically, it´s the only hope we have of saving this country... Click Here if you Like this Comment
Alex, I´ll take "Over the Cliff" for a thousand. Click Here if you Like this Comment
Exactly! I have been saying this very thing for awhile now! Click Here if you Like this Comment
Wilberforce, in the Parliament of old, argued against slavery in the British realm. It took him 20 years to make his point, which means he had to survive a number of election challenges. Oh, to have statesmen that didn´t fold like a rookie at a poker table full of card sharps. Stay with principle...even if you LOSE! Click Here if you Like this Comment
I really don´t know what the best answer is now as the folks in Congress clobberjaw this thing to death.WHAT I DO KNOW is this:Whatever them criminals in Congress come up with, it´ll be wrong. It´s hard to believe they got themselves a string of doin´ the exact wrong thing on every decision goin´ back twelve years now. Click Here if you Like this Comment
Go for it! Time for America to see what they voted for! Click Here if you Like this Comment
Go for it. The people demand it. That´s what they voted for so GIVE IT to them. Click Here if you Like this Comment
Lets have Republican electors boycott the electoral college too. If enough do it there won´t be a quorum to elect Soetoro again. Click Here if you Like this Comment
I agree with all of these comments but you all need to contact your congressman and senators and state your opinion. They don´t read these posts. A snailmail is the best way to do this. Click Here if you Like this Comment
This country died on 11-6-2012.Now we are just sitting around waiting for the corpse to implode under it own rotting weight of ´´cool free stuff´´.Let it go over the cliff. The Demon-RATS own this one, and it´s inevitable anyway... Click Here if you Like this Comment
I´m happy to see this column and Marc Thiessen´s column from earlier this week get support from my fellow conservatives.Republicans have protected the people who voted for bigger government for too long. All the spending has just been passed on to future generations. Let´s see what happens when their taxes go up too and they have to pay for their choices. Click Here if you Like this Comment


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Curtis lives out of a suitcase and his diary reflects it. He's always seems to be on an plane travelling or in front of a camera filming. But he wouldn't have it any other way. See what Curtis is up to (and where) with a glimpse into his diary blog.
There are people who say that the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden was actually a pomegranate, not an apple. It makes sense. The pomegranate's super juicy ruby red seeds taste so good they're almost sinful. Pomegranates have long been a staple in Middle Eastern food, but it took a while for the ancient fruit to become popular in the West. People have become fascinated in recent years not only with the fruit's amazing flavor—who could resist that sweet tartness?—but how good they are for you, too. Loaded with antioxidants, studies have shown that pomegranates can help fight heart disease, cancer and aging. People sometimes find it a struggle to pick all the seeds from the bitter membrane. It does take a little time, but the process is quite simple. First, choose a pomegranate that's heavy for its size with a bright, unblemished shell. (Pomegranates can last up to 2 months in the fridge.) Slice the pomegranate in half and dunk in a bowl of water. Using your hands, loosen the kernels. The dry flaky membrane will float to the top, making it easy to scoop up and throw away, as the fruit sinks to the bottom. Scrape away the membrane pieces as you work. When finished, drain the fruit and you're ready to go. There are a million ways to use pomegranate seeds in your everyday meals: toss them into a salad, mix with all natural plain yogurt, sprinkle on granola or crush into a smoothie. One of my favorite ways to enjoy this tempting fruit is in a cocktail. Try this festive Pomegranate Martini at your next party.

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May 29th, 2012 03:54 PM
The injury issue might not be a problem. I ALWAYS heal new injuries after a fight and still the joiner bonus is there. So this might not be the problem.
May 29th, 2012 02:59 PM
i did the long recalibrate but i did not try the quick one. it only works in single player. this might be another clue about the joiner bonus problem.
May 29th, 2012 05:36 AM
Ah, by the way: Do you use the quick-recalibrate (by simply pressing the O-button) or do you do the longer process to increase the speed?
May 29th, 2012 05:30 AM
That sounds interesting... does the recalibrating only work in the single-player mode and the fitness-pack-mode?
I found the Duke-sparring-sessions in the fitness pack to be slower than the normal single-player fights. Is it the same with you?
May 29th, 2012 12:52 AM
I have found a way to increase speed in training events and the fitness add on. All you have to do is recalibrate at anytime and your speed goes up every time. In online fights you can't do this. I was in some super glitchy fights today. the joiner lost 5 of 6 fights and did not seem to be moving.
March 13th, 2012 05:39 PM
sounds like a decent theory, it'd be easy to test that too I think. But it just seems more pervasive and consistent to me. Sometimes previous injuries are minor and the bonus seems to still be there. I'll definitely watch for injuries and see if that drives any perceivable change in the bonus.
March 13th, 2012 05:28 PM
From my experience, forgetting to heal an injured chest on either side will let you die within seconds of a new match. Injuries to the head are pretty bad as well.
If this wasn't an added feature, then it is an unintended modification to a players stats. So, it is likely a temporary stats modification that CAN happen (meaning the developer has a method for increasing/decreasing theses stats), and the modification doesn't revert normally like it should. Injuries seem the most likely candidate to me, without knowing how they actually handle stats in the source code.
March 13th, 2012 05:26 PM
that might be - but do injuries really affect how much damage you take or does it just cost money to fix? Something else to test!
When the guy who originally discovered this issue brought it up, he and I "systematically" tested it. We took turns starting the fights and we took turns just throwing punches against the other guy who just held his arms out to his side, no punching, no blocking. The health meters definitely dropped quicker on the starter than on the joiner. Then of course we field tested it by actually fighting, and similar results as I've described resulted.
March 13th, 2012 05:16 PM
you know what... I'll bet you the game is keeping your injury modifiers active when you host (or is failing to reset them until you join). It might be worth a use case...
Preventing this could be as easy as entering a single player match, or training, before playing online... but that remains to be seen.
March 13th, 2012 04:46 PM
I'm sure this is what you noticed. The thing is I believe this wasn't there upon launch, or it just wasn't as noticeable since everyone had different stats, we were doing single player to rank up, etc. Now when your own stats are static and if you fight the same person start/join you should see it. I think it was introduced though when they first patched the game.
I have emailed Coldwood and they wouldn't confirm this problem, but did say they have no resources to work on a patch. They did make marked improvements to their tech with Move Fitness (I had to import it as it is not available in the US). As a fitness game Move Fitness is excellent, but no online fighting. If there were to be a Fight 2 I think it would be incredible.


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Today, some colleagues and I went to for some "afternoon tea" at Ariel Le Cafe in Q-Square, Taipei. It felt pretty classy, compared to the weekly night market trips I've been making. Food wasn't as great but I guess we paid for a good setting and good service (despite the fact that there was a hair in our Nova Lox Brick Toast thingy.. gross). Afterwards, we went to Zara to look around, and some of us started fooling around with our fancy smartcameraphones. Some took it more seriously than others, but nevertheless, it was a fun day. :)
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The KidKraft Deluxe Big & Bright Kitchen model # 53100 will make kids feel just like mom and dad when they cook up fun. The Deluxe Big & Bright Kitchen 53100 is a wooden kitchen that is very cute, colorful and built to last. The Kitchen features ...* Refrigerator, freezer, oven and microwave that open and close. * See-through doors on oven and microwave. * Removable sink for quick and easy cleaning. * Knobs on the oven and sink that turn and click. * Convenient storage above and below the sink .* Large enough that multiple children can play at once.* Water graphics on the dishwasher. * Sturdy construction. Item Weight: 88.15 lbs.* 42.25"L x 15.5"W x 43.13"H.* MDF, PVC, T-MoldingKidKraft pretend play kitchens are educational, fun and offer an opportunity for parents and kids to have great bonding moments where the parent would act as guests and the child is the host. KidKraft is a leading creator, manufacturer and distributor of childrens toys, wooden furniture, gifts and room accessory items. KidKraft was established in 1968, and has been a proven pioneer in the industry for over 40 years, emphasizing creative design, excellent quality, dependability and competitive pricing.
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I did A LOT of research on kitchens, looked at some cheaper ones and different versions...overall this was the highest quality one and i love the bright colors, and no cheap stickers,...Read complete review
I did A LOT of research on kitchens, looked at some cheaper ones and different versions...overall this was the highest quality one and i love the bright colors, and no cheap stickers, all the knobs turn and click. i have 2 girls (2yrs & 5months) so it's perfect and will be used for years to come. my daughter plays for HOURS and i also bought her the matching kidkraft bright toaster and baking set, and a different brand of stainless steel pots and pans. she plays for hours in her kitchen and the clock on the side is an added educational bonus. putting together was NOT fun but with a handy husband we got it done-or you can just pay toysrus to put it together for you! enjoy
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Bought for my two older girls and it was cute at first, but shortly after the counter top shifted and does not stay in place, not good when you want it for younger children....Read complete review
Bought for my two older girls and it was cute at first, but shortly after the counter top shifted and does not stay in place, not good when you want it for younger children. should have bought the more expensive true wooden kitchen like the one I plyed on when I was a child, this is constructed of press board a warps if you spill water of it.
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By Malia's Mommy
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This was a gift from her Godmother, but she and I definitely discussed which one would be best for my daughter. My daughter is very active and loves to explore things. So when we were looking for a kitchen we knew that a cheaper plastic one would get demolished, flipped over, and pushed around the room like all her other toys so we were looking for something sturdy. And this fits the bill!! It is bright with out being too crazy. It is well manufactured, it is heavy (so she can't scoot it around the room like she does her toy shelf) The accessories such as knobs and door handles are of good quality. She enjoys opening the cabinets over and over and they are holding up great. She uses it every single day, it is the first thing she runs to in the morning. We have had it for 4 months now and it has held up amazingly with an active and spirited child. It took me about 2.5 hours to put together. It was a challenge since I am not that great at building things from scratch, but the directions were detailed and the screws and bolts came in the best packaging!! Each step was packed in it's own little bubble, clearly marked, with letters and the directions had pictures!!! It doesn't come with many accessories (two spoons and a oven mit) and doesn't make any special sounds except the clicking when you turn the dials. But my daughter doesnt seem to mind. I would recommend this product to anyone looking to invest in a quality, sturdy product, that they intend to have for a few years. We ordered it online and had to pay almost $90.00 in shipping alone. So I promise, if this didnt live up to my expectations you'd definitly hear about it. Worth every penny!!
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Excellent Kids Kitchen
By Bruce
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About Me Parent Of Two Or More Children
Took me about 45 minutes to put together, everything fit nicely. Daughter has played with it for a few years, and since She is careful and doesn't destroy everything She touches, this has lasted and stayed in mint condition.
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your paying for the weight!
By Detroit mommy
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To many pieces. A lot of areas weren't meeting up with the nail. The "wood" started splitting..
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My daughter and her friends absolutely love this kitchen!!! We had the throw her old kitchen out because it was falling apart from day one. KidKraft kitchen is durable and beautiful, which is EXACTLY what my rough princess needs :-)
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nice but..
By bbjeter
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Nice set but sooooo many pieces to put together. Very time consuming.
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Best Kitchen Out There!
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I also did a lot of research and this was the best kitchen out there. It is heavy, but it's durable and not bulky looking. Adorable colors and really cute. Stove looks real. Amazing kitchen!! Well worth the money. A++
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Adorable, colorful and fun fun fun
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My daughter cooks for us daily. The kitchen is so colorful we redesigned her room around it's color scheme. She plays with it for hours on end.
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I LOVE this kitchen set! It's very bright, attractive and cute. My 2 year old daughter loves it! She's a little too short right now to reach the microwave but it's an overall best buy! The only little minor downside I have is the knobs. We just put it together and she was playing with it for a little bit and turning the knobs and now they don't make the clicking noise anymore. It feels a little loose now. But it's a great product!
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Car Crashes . . . Criminals . . . Cancer . . . Black Swans? AAAAAIIIEEEH!
Sometimes our biggest fear is not knowing what to fear most. Fortunately, the weird science of risk analysis can teach us to judge better and fear smarter
On December 27, 2004, while the world was focused on the Indian Ocean tsunami, a few astronomers were contemplating the possibility of an even deadlier disaster: that of a massive asteroid striking Earth. A fifth of a mile wide—heftier than the space rock that leveled a vast swath of Siberian forest in 1908—Near-Earth Asteroid 2004 MN4 had grabbed the attention of NASA scientists just before Christmas. They put the chance of an April 13, 2029, collision at 1 in 2,700 and two days later upped the odds to 1 in 165. On the morning of the 27th the astronomers elevated their assessment again, this time to an alarming 1 in 38. On the Torino scale, which measures the likelihood and potential severity1 of an asteroid impact, they gave the asteroid a 4, the highest alert ever issued. Like most people, I was oblivious to this maybe menace. These days, it can be hard to keep your hazards straight. There are the usual suspects—car crashes, crime, cancer—and a seemingly endless parade of new threats. Breakneck global warming, bioengineered smallpox, gray goo? Sometimes my worst fear is not knowing what I should fear most.
Assessing and avoiding risk is a Darwinian imperative; mitigating risks that can't be dodged is ancient as well.2 With current science, medicine and technology, we know more and can do more about risk than ever before, and in the past century, American life expectancy has jumped from 47 to 77 years. Somehow, though, the good news hasn't gotten out. A recent study showed that nearly 80 percent of us think the world is more dangerous than it used to be, not less. Earlier this year, I launched a risk-research study with a subject pool of one: me. First I kept a diary, recording and ranking every hazard I encountered for two weeks. Then I submerged myself in accident, mortality, epidemiological and toxicological data; purchased a small library of scholarly books; and interviewed the country's foremost risk experts. I sent them a copy of my diary for review. The key questions: How accurate was I at rating risks, and how could I do better? Sure, I'll never live risk-free, but maybe I could learn to live risk-smart. Did I? Let's take a look.
Biking the Urban Snowstorm
Yesterday, New York was slammed by one of the worst January blizzards in a century, a frigid nor'easter that dumped a foot and a half of snow. After such an onslaught, there's really only one sensible activity: sledding. Friends of mine are meeting in Brooklyn's Prospect Park, and I'm running late. I decide to bike. "I'll wear my helmet," I promise my girlfriend, Anne, as I rush out the door.
In my diary, I record biking as being highly risky. But riding very carefully, I reason, offsets the danger. When the risk experts review my journal, however, they cry foul at this rationalization.3 "Sometimes we decide how we want to live our lives and then invent reasons why certain things do or don't worry us," says George Gray, executive director of the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis. It seems that I've fallen prey to a couple common perceptual traps. Canadian psychologist Gerald Wilde might see my actions as an example of the risk-balancing process he calls homeostasis—the helmet makes me feel safe, so I engage in a more dangerous behavior than I would have otherwise.4 Other researchers have demonstrated that feeling in control—as you do at the handlebars of a bike—provides a false sense of security. In a 1989 study, Hofstra University psychologist William Sanderson had panic-prone patients breathe air that was 5.5 percent carbon dioxide, which is known to provoke panic attacks. Half of them were informed that they could lower the carbon dioxide concentration by twisting a dial, and this group reported fewer and milder attacks—even though the dial was a dummy.
Flatbush Avenue, my primary route to the park, is only partially plowed. I ride over slush, a foot or two from buses and cars, with slipping tires. The good news: I'm not drunk. A recent Johns Hopkins University study found that one in three fatal bicycle accidents in Maryland was linked to alcohol; a blood-alcohol level of 0.08 or higher was found to increase the risk of serious or fatal injury by 2,000 percent. The bad news: I'm a man. Of the 800 bicyclists killed in accidents with cars each year, 90 percent are male; 80 percent of the 500,000 injured are men. Male cyclists do slightly outnumber female ones, and men tend to bike more often, but these factors alone don't account for the elevated death and injury rates. Men, it seems, simply take more risks. For anyone, though, bikes can be dangerous: Traveling a mile by bike is almost 14 times as likely to be fatal as a mile by car.5
In the park, it's a full Norman Rockwell scene, with kids in mittens and scarves towing sleds across sparkling snow. I meet my friends, and we head to a crowded bunny slope. Some 33,000 Americans a year are injured while sledding, but the sport registered little concern in my diary. This time, the facts are with me—after all, millions of people go sledding every winter and don't get hurt.
Risk assessors rip their hair out at the general public's innumeracy; many people jump to conclusions based only on absolute numbers and don't consider ratios as well. For example, the average number of people killed each year in hot-air balloon accidents is 2.6, while the number killed in hunting accidents is 600. But there are two million hunters in the U.S. and just 3,000 hot-air balloonists, which makes ballooning's death rate 30 times as high as that of hunting.


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By Jessica Silver, L.Ac. NCCAOM
At Aiyana Acupuncture and Chinese Herbs, we work with patients to resolve a wide variety of health conditions.
We also make recommendations for lifestyle and dietary changes based on individuals' concerns and wellness goals. One healthy and easy adjustment that
benefits almost every health condition is drinking green tea daily
. Green tea is one of the three main types of tea, along with Black and Oolong. All three come from the leaves of the camellia sinesis plant, but each type differs in the processing.
Green Tea for Beauty
Some say that beauty is only skin deep, but inner-body balance will always lead to a natural and radiant outer beauty that shines with health!
Cosmetically, green tea can beautify the skin when taken both internally and applied topically to reduce puffiness. It evens out the complexion by reducing acne, smoothing the skin and tightening the pores. Also, give
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Also, green tea is an excellent part of an effective weight loss plan! Chinese Herbs and acupuncture for weight loss
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A study from the December 1999
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Results from recent studies suggest that green tea may be useful for the following conditions:
- the antioxidant properties of green tea may help prevent atherosclerosis, particularly coronary artery disease.
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- green tea has demonstrated an ability to lower total cholesterol and raise HDL ("good" cholesterol) in both animals and people.
- research is showing that polyphenols in green tea help kill cancerous cells and stop progression.
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- male bladder cancer patients in a study by the Saitama Cancer Research Institute who drank green tea had a substantially better five-year survival rate than those who did not.
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- polyphenols in green tea inhibit the growth of breast cancer cells. Studies have shown that women with early stages of the disease who drank at least five cups of tea every day before being diagnosed with cancer were less likely to suffer a relapse after completion of treatment.
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- scientific studies suggest that components in green tea have anti-inflammatory and anticancer properties that may help prevent the onset and growth of skin tumors.
Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
- Crohn's Disease and ulcerative colitis can be helped by the anti-inflammatory agents in green tea. Also, if green tea proves to be helpful in preventing colon cancer, this would be an added benefit for patients suffering IBD, as they have a risk for colon cancer.
- green tea has been used traditionally to control blood sugar in the body and help regulate glucose levels.
Liver Disease
- green tea appears to protect the liver from the damaging effects of toxic substances such as alcohol.
In addition to the illnesses mentioned above, green tea boasts the following benefits:
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blocking key receptors in producing allergic reactions
aiding Parkinson's disease sufferers
slowing the HIV infection process
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Originally titled Journey Beyond the Stars, 2001: A Space Odyssey evolved over several years of close collaboration between director Stanley Kubrick and the English science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke. The screenplay was based on Clarke's story "The Sentinel," in which astronauts on a roving mission to extract mineral samples from the mountains of the moon discover a pyramidal structure left by space travelers eons before, presumably as a kind of cosmic signpost for those terrestrial creatures who might evolve sufficiently to be able to journey to the moon and find it.
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Early ancestors of humankind are struggling to survive, and it appears that they will succumb to extinction. Moon-Watcher, who leads a tribe of these primates by virtue of his massive size, encounters a "new rock." The new rock is a Monolith, a sentient entity in the form of a rectangular block with perfect proportions—the ratio of its depth to width to height is exactly 1 to 4 to 9. The Monolith conducts experiments on Moon-Watcher and his tribe, ultimately providing Moon-Watcher's people with the ability to utilize and create rudimentary tools. As a result, Moon-Watcher's tribe learns to hunt and defeats a competing tribe, ensuring humanity's eventual existence.
Millions of years later, Dr. Heywood Floyd is sent by the president of the United States to a base on the moon in order to investigate mysterious magnetic fluctuations. The source of the fluctuations is another Monolith found buried in the moon's Tycho crater. Floyd and other scientists refer to the moon's Monolith as Tycho Magnetic Anomaly One (TMA-1) and prepare to conduct experiments on it. Uncovered, the Monolith is exposed to a sunrise on the moon and immediately emits a signal that disrupts almost all nearby electronic equipment. Distant communication satellites record the signal, and its destination is pinpointed.
In 2001, the spaceship Discovery travels through space toward Saturn. Discovery was initially scheduled to travel only to Jupiter,...
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Summary (Magill's Survey of World Literature, Revised Edition)
2001: A Space Odyssey is Clarke's best-known work, partly because of the popularity of the 1968 film version. From 1964 to 1968, Clarke and director Stanley Kubrick collaborated on the novel and the screenplay, with Kubrick having control over the film and Clarke being responsible for the novel. Both works were extensively revised, and Clarke later published some material cut from the novel in The Lost Worlds of 2001 (1972).
In the epilogue to 2001: A Space Odyssey, Clarke says the book "was concerned with the next stage of human evolution." The beginning of the book describes creatures not yet human, the middle shows modern humankind, and the ending speculates on what humanity might become. Black monoliths appear in each section and provide connections between each section.
When the book opens, three million years in the past, man-apes have reached a crucial point in their development. Unable to obtain enough food, they will perish if they do not learn to use tools to hunt. Space-traveling extraterrestrials recognize their potential and teach them how to use bones as weapons. The first monolith is a teaching device, but it also transforms Moon-Watcher, one of the smarter apes; the structure of his brain is altered and the change will be passed on to his descendants. Without this almost divine intervention, the human race would not have evolved. Moon-Watcher also discovers, on his own, that the weapons can kill...
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Dear Roger: Here we are at Thanksgiving, and we haven't had enough frost to kill my impatiens and begonias. Even my coleuses, which usually die at the mere thought of a frost, are still looking good.
Do you think some of our hardy plants will be hurt when it turns really cold after this mild fall? I think my camellias have not hardened up to cold, and I have some other evergreens that look mighty soft.- Nervous Nelly
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We've had drop-dead gorgeous fall-flowering camellias this year. ManyCamellia japonicacultivars are in bloom early. In fact, the Cape Fear Botanical Garden is worth a visit right now, before we have intense cold. Many varieties are in bloom.
In my own garden, 'Berenice Boddy' has been in bloom for three weeks, 'Lady Clare' is in full bloom and glorious.
And then there's the fall foliage. Much of it is still colorful. We've had one of the most blazing autumns ever. And one of the longest lasting for leaf color. This autumn, in short, probably is the most dazzling you'll ever see in your lifetime. Even though I did say that in column during a brilliant autumn four years ago.
So I'd say it's time to say thanks, and let the chips fall where they may when the cold comes. Chances are all our beloved beauties will recover.
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Among the standouts here this week are big yellow daylilies, reblooming azaleas and the very tender angel trumpets that come from South American.
Dear Roger: Could you please send me information on the Confederate rose? What kind of soil do you plant it in? Can you root it?- Kirstie
Dear Kirstie: These very showy, tall plants prefer rich soil and good drainage. Our Cape Fear region sand, with the addition of a little compost and fertilizer, is perfect. Water is needed every four days or so in very sandy soil. Full sun is best, but the plants will produce some blooms even under the shade of tall pines.
Watch out for voles. They are small mice with short tails. They eat plant roots, including daylilies, hostas, cannas and all members of the hibiscus genus. This particular hibiscus is namedHibiscus mutabilis, which means changeable hibiscus. Perhaps the name comes from the fact that the flowers in some forms lighten to nearly white, or show ever deeper rose tints, as they age.
The stems root easily in a glass of water in a sunny windowsill. But take cuttings before frost. After the stems freeze, they're dead. Plants die to the ground each winter.
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First, we should assess my starting hardware environment. Figure 1 is a schematic illustration of the physical hardware of my the IBM Power Systems™ server detailing much of the hardware as viewed from the rear of the rack. You can see from the schematic that there is color coding that indicates how I allocate the various buses to each of the partitions. There are two partitions, IS0470 and IS0471, with bus and card allocations. Resources colored magenta for IS470 and resources colored blue for IS471. You notice that bus 11, color-coded green, has an 2844 IOP that is driving a SCSI bus contoroller and a fibre channel tape controller. These system bus resources are the resources that are shared (and thus switched) between the two partitions. The SCSI disk controller controls all 12 drives within the lower expansion unit.
Figure 1. Rack layout schematic
Wanted and required allocations
We now need to configure the hardware according to the layout illustrated. On the Hardware Management Console (HMC) partition profiles, we set them up so that the allocations that are magenta or blue are set as wanted resources for their respective partitions. The remaining bus 11, shown in green, should be marked as wanted for both of the partitions.
Figure 2. Allocations for IS0470 (Primary Partition)
Now we need to configure an I/O pool for each of the partitions, so that we can add our shared resources to it in order to allow the server to switch them dynamically. On the Partition screen for the server, select one of the two partitions by clicking the adjacent twisty and select Properties from the drop-down menu.
Figure 3. Select Properties for a partition
Now select Hardware and then I/O. At the bottom of the list of adapters, select I/O Pools.
Figure 4. Partition I/O pools
You then see the I/O Pools panel, which allows you to generate additional pool IDs for a partition. If you click the down arrow for the pool number field, you can see the next allocatable pool number. Select this number and click Add. You can see your new pool in the list.
Figure 5. Defining a new I/O pool
Click OK to accept the addition of the new pool.
You will need to repeat the pool-addition process for the other sharing partition. You use the same pool ID for the sharing partition.
Adding shared resource to the I/O pool
Now we need to add the shared (required) adapters to the pool we have just created. Select your primary partition in the partition list on the HMC. And select the twisty as before, but this time, select Manage profiles.
Figure 6. Select the configuration profile for a partition
To edit the profile, select your partition profile, then Actions -> Edit. I'm assuming this is familiar to you. Select the I/O tab and scroll down to the adapters that we have marked as desired. Click on the link for one of the shared adapters. You will see the following panel. Select Use in I/O Pool and input in the pool ID for the pool that you generated earlier. Then click OK.
Figure 7. Associate card resource with your I/O pool
You have to repeat this for each adapter that you want to share, in my case all those on bus 11.
Now you have completed the process of adding all shared adapters to the I/O pool and you are back to the I/O panel within the profile configuration.
Select OptiConnect and select Use virtual OptiConnect for this partition profile.
Figure 8. Enable virtual Opticonnect
Click OK to save the profile.
You need to then select the profile for the backup partition and repeat the steps above to add the adapters in the profile for that partition to the same I/O pool and enable virtual OptiConnect.
For both partitions, we have added a shared I/O pool with the same identification number for both to enable each to participate in the sharing of the adapter resources and any peripheral devices attached, in our case a number of disk drives. In addition, within both partition profiles, for each shared adapter, we added them to the I/O pool that has been defined and we enabled virtual OptiConnect within each of the partition profiles.
Activate primary and backup partitions
You now need to activate each of the partitions using the profiles configured, restore the licensed internal code (LIC) and operating system as normal, being careful on each partition to only allocate and format drives to ASP1 that are not attached to the adapters on the shared bus, in my case bus 11. Allocation and formatting of the shared drives will be done later.
after you have two operational and fully patched servers running, we can proceed to set up the object definitions to support a clustered environment. Clustering is the support mechanism to allow you to manage a switched IASP environment.
TCP/IP support for a clustered environment
Before you begin, you need to make sure that you have an operational TCP/IP environment. In my case, I took the recommended advice and allocated separate IP addresses for the IASP control to those used for regular Telnet, FTP and other services. In Figure 9 you will see that I have two interfaces on my primary partition 172.19.78.98 for regular TCPIP activity and 172.16.78.99 that will be used for Clustering support (with addresses 172.16.78.102 and 172.16.78.103 respectively used on my backup server). I have however had this working with a single interface on each partition.
Figure 9. Separate IP interface for Clustering Support
In order to support the communications for clustering, I started the TCPIP INET Daemon, on both servers, which is the fundamental support for cluster monitoring.
As shown in Figure 10, I then went into operations navigator and changed the settings to autostart this daemon for both servers.
Figure 10. AutoStart INET Daemon
Configuration of the clustered environment
Now we are in a position to create the clustered environment. These are the commands that I used to generate the objects required. It should be noted that I only needed to run the CRTCLU
and CRTCRG
commands on the primary partition because the INETD was started and replicated the configuration to the backup partition.
Add both nodes, IS0470 and IS0471 to the cluster. For each node, we nominate a dedicated TCP/IP address to use for cluster communications and signaling.
We need to add each of the Nodes that appear in the cluster to the device doman entity.
Create a device description for the IASP
Create a device description, on each partitions by running the following command on both partition (INETD does not replicate this command). I kept the name and the resource name the same and made the DEVD name on each partition the same.
CRTDEVASP DEVD(IASPDEVICE) RSRCNAME(IASPDEVICE) TEXT('IASP device to be switched')
Create the cluster resource group
Finally we create the cluster resource group, which links the the operating system switchable object (in my case IASPDEVICE) to the cluster and defines what role each of the nodes in that cluster plays (primary, backup, etc)
All of the operating system objects have now been generated
All that remains is to create the disk pool itself, format the drives and link them to the IASPDEVICE device description. You can only do this using the operations navigator Disk Pool Wizard.
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If you do not already have a connection to your server, create one so that it is shown in My Connections.
Click iSeries Server to expand it (you might need to sign on). Click Configuration and Service, then Hardware, then Disk Units (you will be prompted for the Dedicated Service Tools user ID and password).
Figure 11. SST signon
Supply this to enable disk configuration
Right-click Disk Pools and select New Disk Pool.
Figure 12. Launch the Disk Pool wizard
Figure 13. New Disk Pool wizard welcome
Click Next. Then click New Disk Pool.
Figure 14. New disk pool definition
For the Type of Disk Pool, select Primary.
Enter the name of the IASP device that you created earlier. (In my case, IASPDEVICE). Select or clear Protect the data in the disk pool as appropriate (I chose unprotected). Click OK.
Figure 15. Device description already found
All being well, you should receive this message, that the device description already exists (I created it earlier on both servers). Click OK to continue.
The new disk pool is shown in the right-hand pane. Highlight it and select Next.
Figure 16. Select disk pool
You see the Add Disk Units window. Select Add Disks
Figure 17. Add disk units
Highlight the disks that you want to add to the IASP and select Add (I selected all 12 devices).
Figure 18. Device description already found
Figure 18 will continue to be shown while the disks are formatted and added to the IASP (ASP number 144 if this is your first IASP).
Note that moving IASP content from one server to another is not an instantaneous switchover and does not maintain application availability. IASPs on their own do not meet the high-availability requirements of most customers, for this IBM recommends a combination of IASP with a high-availability replication technology, such as IBM PowerHA SystemMirror for i, which exploits clustering technology to provide high availability, whether this be on native local DASD or external fibre channel-attached storage.
Ian Marshall is an IBM i Consultant at the IBM Hursley Innovation Centre facilitating IBM ISV Solutions Enablement for the IBM i platform, engaging on all aspects of the operating system. He joined IBM in 1991 working, in a support role, for 8 years with AS/400 customers. Followed by a 10-year role working as a technical consultant on IBM WebSphere® Commerce products across platform, Ian has rejoined the IBM i brand within the Innovation Centre.