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> One interesting difference is that N900 is the main product, while Android Developer Phone is just that, a side product. In general one cannot select any Android phone from the market because of the limitations, instead having to trust there will be sensible... no, even cool dev phones from Google.
I think you nailed it here. Nokia produces both the software, and the hardware of the N900. Google only does the software. So the ADP, *promoted* by Google and actually produced by HTC, have this aspect of "secondary" product to it (and it sucks).
The G1/ADP hardware has now the advantage that so many people bought it, that it is very well supported by the community. So the "side product" issue was mitigated, but it is uncertain how we are going to have well supported recovery images when the Android FOSS-fans user base becomes fragmented into many different handsets. Nokia could win big time here.
I am curious about how well integrated and easy to use will be the N900. My wife has a Nokia smartphone, and I find it *very* poorly executed in some places. Nokia didn't even release this new Maemo, and (if I got it right) its API is already marked as deprecated.
Also, there is at least one company advertising another Free Android phone: http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/10/03/geeksphone-one-i... but most likely Nokia hardware would be better built. But in any case, we *may* have other devices will be released with root access, and decent support.
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Posted Oct 7, 2009 18:25 UTC (Wed) by brouhaha (subscriber, #1698) [Link]
Sorry, but no.
Posted Oct 7, 2009 18:33 UTC (Wed) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]
Google doesn't manufacture the hardware, but Google did most of the hardware engineering that went into the G1 and ADP1.
Not really
They provided this as a reference platform to HTC. So Google was much more "in control" of the hardware than you might think.
Not even close. HTC designed and provided the hardware. Sure, Google supplied requirements, but details were left to HTC - result is usual HTC crazyness (instal of 2.5mm jack and mini-USB or even normal 3.5mm jackand min-USB there are this strange combination favored by HTC).
Posted Oct 7, 2009 18:44 UTC (Wed) by brouhaha (subscriber, #1698) [Link]
Posted Oct 8, 2009 1:25 UTC (Thu) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]
Sure, HTC changed the audio jack, but the reference hardware platform was designed by Android before Google bought them, much less before HTC got their hands on it.
You are correct,of course. Google guys have developed initial version of the device. This is how it looked like. Find ten differences between Google's creation and G1...
Even the mechanical design was done by Android, as one can see by the patent on the slide mechanism. Certainly HTC made some minor changes, but it was not fundamentally hardware designed by HTC.
Hard to believe if you compare Google's creation and HTC's one. The only common thing they have is hardware keyboard! It was probably hard requirement at that stage so HTC was forced to design a slider. But other stuff... there huge number of differences between engineering prototype and G1...
Posted Oct 8, 2009 1:42 UTC (Thu) by brouhaha (subscriber, #1698) [Link]
This is not photo.
Posted Oct 8, 2009 16:22 UTC (Thu) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]
I can't find any photos of it, which isn't too surprising since Android was still in "stealth mode" at the time.
You can't find any photos if it because they don't exist. What I showed above is not even photo - it's default skin from the very first public release of Android SDK! Why it looks like that? Well - it's the render of actual developer device. Hundred of these or so were produced at the end 2006 (not 2007, but 2006!), but even if HTC produced them (and they even beed spotted in the wild eventually) HTC hated them. And so HTC developed Dream (aka G1) - with Google's guys help, of course, but it's not Google creation.
Later Android SDK stopped using this skin and switched to G1-like skin. Why? Google finally got sizable number of new HTC-developed devices and dropped support for it's own development platform and form-factor. First prototypes were ready by the middle of 2007, but developers got sizable number of them closer to the end of 2007. Public, of course, got them in 2008. That's the story and please don't try to rewrite it. If you are correct and initial creation was like Dream and later ones were like aforementioned developer platform,then how come we never got anything like the development platform? Why it was used by default in the very first release of the SDK and not in the later ones? Why all photos of the "later design" (by your interpretation) are shown with early versions of Android (ribbon-like interface was in the first release of SDK and in the first presentation video) and never with modern UI design? Facts just don't add up to your crazy story, sorry.
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The conversations always include this line: "I'm a social liberal and a fiscal conservative."
Sounds reasonable; I might have said it myself 30 or 40 years ago. I hear it from friends, acquaintances and strangers. Trouble is, there ain't no such thing. Liberals are for helping people, for providing support to those unable to help themselves, and that costs money.
Conservatives want low taxes and debt reduction and few (if any) social support programs. The two positions are mutually exclusive.
That same speaker will often also say: "I'm conservative but not a Republican. I'm registered Independent." A good response would be: "And when's the last time you voted for a Democrat in a national or statewide election?"
The thing that conservatives/Republicans have to remember is that you get only one vote. A vote for a fiscal conservative cannot be made without also voting for:
n Assault rifles in every pickup truck and carrying handguns into church.
n A Supreme Court hell-bent on overturning Roe v. Wade.
n The overturn of Obamacare, to be replaced by, well, nothing. Nearly 50 million Americans will remain without health insurance.
n The denial of scientific achievement. Casting your lot with the Christian crazies who insist that science is a series of unproven myths ("the world is 6000 years old.
n Homophobia.
n Privatizing social security (Bush's idea; how would that have worked out in the crash of 2008-09?)
n Wars started for no apparent reason.
n The continued destruction of the American middle class.
I could go on, but you get the point. You simply can't compartmentalize your political support by casting votes for the positions you favor but withholding votes for those you do not. You get but one vote (except in Florida, where you frequently get none), not a series of mini-votes.
Remember this on Nov. 6: If low taxes and debt reduction are that important to you, more important than anything else, then cast your only vote for Romney because lower taxes is the one campaign promise Republicans will keep. (Not debt reduction; debt will rise regardless of who's in the White House.) Just don't forget that you're buying the whole package. You don't get one without all the others.
And, yes, if Republicans complete the dismantling of over 80 years of social progress - it will be your fault. Not mine. But we'll both suffer for it.


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Thanks Sophi, you were a pretty damn good mod!
Hopefully the next mod can carry on the tradition of being a badass ninja.
Thanks Sophi, you were a pretty damn good mod!
Hopefully the next mod can carry on the tradition of being a badass ninja.
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Genkai is playing her 3DS and watching BBC America...er studying math.
Starting school with class M/W/F from roughly 11AM - 5PM, will be slightly busier but always on the look out for active RPs to escape reality.
Will be catching up ASAP on RPs as I am; dealing with school, video games and lack of active RPs. The more active a RP is or an OOC at least, the more often I find time to pop on. Sorry for any delays or concerns I may have caused. If I haven't PMed you with an intent to drop our RP, assume it's still on, granted our interest and motivation are on track.
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I think that Sora or Brovo would be a good mod.
Thanks for the siggy Harby san. You definitely know my tastes.
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Thanks, Sophi. We didn't talk all that often but when we did, you were a pretty cool cat all things concerned.
Izael, I never even knew you. Not once. At all, in fact. Still, you put up with the responsibilities of being a moderator, so for that you have my thanks.
Farewell Sophi to whatever life brings you. May it not be lemons.
I regret I have to echo Brovo when I say I can't say I knew you Izael, but thanks for your good work. (Indeed, a moderator not on everyones lips must be VERY good at their job... or have a good team of brainwashing agents.)
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'Cause I know I can go. Where no-one's ever gone and I'm not looking back.
But how will I know when I get there? And how will I know when to leave?
We've all gotta start from somewhere. It's like that for me!
The possibilities are, never-ending!
I see it! I see it! And now it's all within my reach! (Endless Possibilities!)
I see it! I see it now! It's always been inside of me! (And now I feel so free!)
Endless Possibilities."
Soph I am very sorry to see you go. Thank you for everything you've done! You have been one of the biggest helps on these forums for me.
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The basis of median channel work is rooted in Isaac Newton's third law of motion that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. A brief history of the methodology tells us that pioneers in applying these laws to the technical analysis of financial markets were Roger Babson and George Marechal.
It was Marechal who copyrighted a famous Dow forecast chart that Alan H. Andrews, the founder of Andrews' Pitchfork, described in his original course as a "chart no government economist, no college professor has enough knowledge to even approach or courage to try to duplicate." It was a chart created in 1933 that turned out to be an accurate forecast over the next 15 years.
Most charting packages will include Andrews' Pitchfork and calculate it for you. You simply set it at three points in the direction of a trend starting with a low or high and then the following low and high. According to Andrews, the median lines attract the price action 80% of the time. It's really a simple method, but it is largely overlooked as just another indicator on most software packages. However, it is as powerful as it is simple, and here we will look at some of its more advanced applications.
Word of warning
Parallel warning lines are the same distance from the median line, or mid-line. The best application of the parallel warning lines is to project long-term support or resistance. On a long-term chart of crude oil, we have the classic median channel drawn from a low in 1986 to the next most important high in 1990 and then the next important bottom in 1998 (see "Oil lines," below).
As you can see, a channel formed that was close to the high in 2005 and the congestion area in 2006. The mid-line also came close to catching the exact bottom of the pullback in early 2007. Given that the channel lines did work, we can have confidence to use them again.
Just because the slope isn't steep doesn't make the channel lines less valuable. They turned out to be invaluable in identifying the top. The pattern went out exactly three channels, or warning lines, before it almost perfectly caught the top. At the point in time where the 147 top came in, the channel line was sitting at approximately 144. If that wasn't enough, the original median channel helped capture the bottom of the commodity crash several months later. There was no other method that came close to this kind of accuracy.
For another example, consider the complete bear market in the BKX banking sector index (see "Over the edge," below). The common channel was drawn to accommodate the bull market from 2002-07. There are at least three and possibly four good validations. Notice how most of the pattern resides in the lower, weaker portion of the channel. This is an important point that we'll return to later. For now, notice how the bear market raced down four equidistant levels to catch a perfect bottom. The parallel warning lines can cluster with other data or indicators to make a stronger magnet point. When we understand that the BKX and crude oil are responding to an important warning line, it has broad implications for the entire market. A reversal in oil on a parallel line can affect trading decisions on just about any energy or commodity/inflation-based chart.
Another key use of parallel warning lines is navigating through a parabolic drop. One of the best examples materialized in May 2010 during what became known as the "flash crash." Any parabolic event is emotional. One of the biggest reasons traders lose money is because they make emotional mistakes. Emotional mistakes generally are made because traders don't understand the pattern in play.
The flash crash was a unique event because of the parabolic drop and recovery. It was so unique, in fact, that market participants and the media blamed it on an institutional trader's fat finger. Most market participants had no idea what happened, and the exact cause probably never will be known. However, by navigating the drop with the parallel warning lines, you would at least have an understanding of what was happening.
The bottom finally materialized at the drop of two full median channels. Probably just as important was the aftermath of the event. That period was even more difficult to understand because it's difficult to estimate support and resistance levels after any kind of a crash. In this case and many others, the parallel warning lines will act as support and resistance until the market gets back into a normal flow again. There also was another flash crash event in cocoa at the end of September 2010, and that one found a low close to the parallel warning line.
The parallel warning lines that come off the basic pitchfork channel are useful in identifying a trend in any time frame, but this is not the only application of this tool.
Applying ADX
Many traders use the ADX indicator to determine the strength of an underlying trend. That may work well on a daily or weekly basis, but the ADX does not work well on intraday trends.
To determine the underlying strength of a trend on an hourly time frame or smaller, it may be helpful to think of the median channels as a flowing river. Bodies of water flow into larger bodies of water because they follow the path of least resistance. Median channels work much the same way. Think of the zones on either side of the mid-line as the path of least resistance. In a bull move, the zone north of the mid-line will have greater relative strength than the zone south of the mid line. In a downtrend, it is just the opposite. This may seem obvious, but take away the pitchfork entirely and you couldn't tell the difference.
A good example of determining the strength of an intraday pattern can be seen in a recent pullback phase in the biotechnology sector index (BTK) (see "Bio break," below). In the initial phase, the pattern is attracted to the lower, weaker zone of the bearish median channel. After a couple of retests over the next month, the pattern finally spends the majority of the time in the upper portion of the channel. The downtrend is not confirmed over until it breaks out of the channel. Behavior leading up to the breakout can be viewed as an advance warning or indicator of what is to come. That is a warning that a bearish sequence is not going to be sustainable.
On the flip side is a median channel of the greenback that immediately catapulted itself and spent the majority of time in the stronger part of the channel, north of the mid-line (see "Strong-side dollar," below). When it pulled back, it did so close to the mid-line. The best way to answer whether a pullback is buyable is if the pattern spends its time north or south of the mid-line.
If the best a pattern can do is rally up to the mid-line, chances are it will fail when it tests the lower rising line. If it rallies up to the higher outside line, chances are good it will be buyable when it comes to the mid-line. What about the intraday charts? The smaller channel line on the dollar chart is representative of an hourly chart where the pattern spends the majority of time in the upper, less-bearish part of the median channel. That is an indication of internal strength, and eventually the price action did explode higher.
True pattern recognition comes from understanding what clues the pattern is giving. To gain a true edge in trading financial markets it's important to anticipate what can happen before it actually does. Whether you use the parallel warning lines or just the positioning of the pattern inside the channel, the pitchfork methodology is a tool that will help accomplish that goal with a high degree of precision.
You may not trace a forecast that the market will follow for the next 15 years, as Marechal reportedly did, but you will put the odds on your side if you learn to wield Andrews' Pitchfork adeptly.
Jeff Greenblatt is the author of "Breakthrough Strategies for Predicting Any Market," editor of the Fibonacci Forecaster, director of Lucas Wave International LLC and a private trader.


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5 Things Hurricane Sandy Reveals About Global Warming
It's tempting to link the nature of this week's "Frankenstorm" to human-caused climate change, but the scientific realities are nuanced. Here are five surprising takeaways.
Hurricane Sandy pummeled the eastern United States with unprecedented storm surges, rainfall, and howling winds Monday. Making matters worse: A cold front strengthed the cyclone into a snowy "Frankenstorm," while an Arctic weather system trapped the storm over densely populated regions.
Mounting scientific data suggests that decades of human activity is altering weather patterns, warming and rising oceans, worsening droughts, melting glaciers and more.
It may seem reasonable, then, to assume this year's record-breaking weather event was tangible evidence of human-caused climate change. But is that accurate?
Below are five truths about the connection between climate change and storms such as Hurricane Sandy courtesy of Andrew Freedman. Freedman is a climate science writer and spokesperson for Climate Central, a non-profit organization that both conducts climate change research and communicates the results to the public.
Hurricane Sandy's extremely large size (about 2,000 miles wide) is rare but not unexpected.
When tropical hurricanes crawl north into the Atlantic Ocean, they tend to expand in size as they transition into "extratropical" storms. These systems can link up with colder weather fronts, transforming their behavior and powering them as they move north or south of tropical latitudes.
"There have not been studies done showing links between storm sizes and climate change," Freedman wrote in an email to Popular Science. "[T]here is anecdotal evidence suggesting that purely tropical storms/hurricanes could be expanding in size, but how that might be tied to climate change is unclear."
In the future, North Atlantic hurricanes will drop in frequency, but grow in intensity.
Climate change is warming oceans around Earth, evaporating more water into the atmosphere and feeding storms that could brew into hurricanes.
According to the latest climate models, however, the frequency of these north-drifting extreme storms will drop in the coming decades--but their intensity and likelihood for causing damage will worsen.
"[T]he ones that do form may contain stronger winds and heavier rains," Freedman says. "As sea surface temperatures warm up, hurricanes may be able to sustain themselves farther north than they used to, making the prospect of more New England landfalls a bit more likely."
Hurricane Sandy, says Freedman, fed off of tropical surface temperatures between 2 and 5 degrees Fahrenheit above average for this time of year.
Hurricanes outside the North Atlantic, however, may grow both in size and frequency.
The U.S. East Coast may endure fewer but more powerful hurricanes in the future, yet the tropics--including the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico--may see more powerful storms more often.
"[S]tudies of storm intensity/frequency in a warming world show changes on the order of 5 to 10 percent several decades from now," Freedman says.
Attempts to weaken hurricanes intensified by climate change don't work.
Over the years Popular Science has told the stories of people trying to control and monitor Mother Nature's wildest weather.
Most recently we detailed a plan to fly water-sprinkling robotic drones above oceans that spawn hurricanes. The concept: seed thicker clouds, reduce sunlight to the ocean's surface, and ultimately reduce evaporating water that feeds hurricanes.
No one has tried out the idea, but Freedman says history is against human meddling with nature. "Efforts at modifying hurricanes through cloud seeding or other methods have always been a spectacular failure."
Compared to other sets of climate data, historical knowledge of hurricanes is weak.
Tree growth rings, ice cores, weather stations, and other continuous, land-based sources of data help researchers study the effects of natural vs. human contributions to climate change.
Unfortunately, says Freedman, "A big impediment to making firmer conclusions on the link between hurricanes and climate change is that the historical record is not very reliable prior to the 1950s or so, when hurricane reconnaissance missions became more commonplace."
"If you go back to the 19th and early 20th centuries, if a storm missed land and didn't affect many ships, it probably went undetected. That means that scientists don't have a very long record of good data with which to detect trends."
Scientists haven't given up on recovering what ocean-based records they can. One effort called Old Weather, for example, asks people with spare time to translate ships' logbooks and extract weather data, which researchers can then use to both understand historic weather patterns and model future ones.
Don't miss PopSci's live coverage of hurricane Sandy.
Additional reporting by Suzanne LaBarre.
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I love it when the tree hugers get proven wrong! There have been warm times in the past and there have been cold times in the past AND there still is no solid proof to global warming!!!
Glory to GOD, HE is still in control!
And all the Al Gore's and Obummer's in the world will still end up with egg on their faces!
Hurricane's are Nature's response to an overheating ocean. Bill Gates has their control half right suggesting the dumping of some of this heat to deeper water. The most efficient way to move this heat is with a heat pipe, just as a hurricane is an atmospheric heat pipe that moves between 3 and 12 times the amount of energy we use each year in a single storm. Stick a turbine in a heat pipe which inverts the hurricane to condense the working fluid at depth, rather than in the stratosphere and you can produce all of the energy we will ever need, draw down the source of the hurricane's strength and resolve the thermal stratification problem that is devastating phytoplankton that are the lungs of the planet and the base of the ocean food-chain. A video of how this is accomplished is available at http://www3.telus.net/gwmitigationmethod/You%20Tube.htm
Who's surprised that the religious fantasists fail at reading comprehension? From the article:
"[T]he ones that do form may contain stronger winds and heavier rains," Freedman says. "As sea surface temperatures warm up, hurricanes may be able to sustain themselves farther north than they used to, making the prospect of more New England landfalls a bit more likely."
Hurricane Sandy, says Freedman, fed off of tropical surface temperatures between 2 and 5 degrees Fahrenheit above average for this time of year.
Five Truths about hurricanes and climate change sounds a lot more like Two Conjectures. Other than the two postulates about hurricane frequency and size, the rest says nothing about the connection between hurricanes and climate change. And if you've paid attention to the wide variability in computer climate model predictions, the most productive thing you can do with the Two Conjectures about future hurricane frequency and size is pause for a moment with a noncommittal "huh" and go about your business. Oh, and stock up on bottled water and food in case one is headed your way.
The earth has been heating up and cooling down for millions of years (without our intervention). I love the fact that we think we are oh so ever powerful that we truly have an effect on climate change.
If it gets really cold one year its global warming, if it gets really hot the next its global warming. Never do any of these so called climate scientists ever give a guarantee of anything its always "This MAY happen, we MAY see more hurricanes". Heck I can forecast like that too! Give me a break and stop with the scare tactics. Move on, live your life and then die.
@SilverBird man-made global warming is a straight up lie. Deal with it. And the term "climate change" is funny to me because guess what, the climate has always been in a state of change….LOL Climate Change is a pseudoscience. I can't belevie popsci is still printing these lies.
@Cubicle..lol exactly, "It may rain tomorrow". This whole article is a joke.
I love it when the Republitards try and say Global Warming is a hoax lol. Many scientific studies have proven it to be real. When was the last time the glaciers in Antarctica melted so fast? It may be a natural re-occurrence but our continued burning of fossil fuels is not helping but making it far worse. To hell with your fossil fuels, we need true green energy like Hemp and Teslas free energy concepts back in society. The tards also need to be ousted, nothing good ever comes from them.
I love how people still think this, Yes, there were warm periods in teh past where the planet warmed to even higher than it is today, but these changes happened OVER A THOUSAND YEARS OR MORE.
We, on the other hand, will emiit enough greenhouse gases over the next couple hundred years to recreate that warming, in ONE-FIFTH the time or less. Think about that and tell me there's no proof!
Also, wanted to add, read a study today, apperently through severe weather climate change has already reduced the GLOBAL GDP by 1.3% (or $1.3 trillion US) and is estimated at causing 5 million deaths per year (weather and pollution related). The funny this is, the estimated cost of moving the entire world to a green energy source this decade is estimated at 0.5% Global GDP (or $500 billion US).
Go figure, Hey Policy makers, get your heads out from under those rocks and get this fixed!
Why do dumb people read this scientific magazines? Go read the Bible and stay with 2000 year old knowledge... Argh this Foxnews uneducated lambs!
So apparently CO2 levels rising and historical hard data collected in the Pacific is false, but talking snakes and shrugs in the BIBLE are REAL?... (spank in the back of the head)
Overpopulation, combustion, industrialization and deforestation are measurable and real... If there is more CO2 it also means there is less free O2.
Religious (or ignorant) people will keep deforesting and burning fossile fuels and wasting time praying that nothing bad happens... FUNNY lunatics!!!
Keep fracking and debilitating the cortex, leaving hollow areas below with less support. (logical).. Keep poisoning the air, land and sea and Keep praying to a clueless primitive GOD and nothing bad will happen!... Midwayfilm dotcom
I love the fact that we have turned this to politics and religion. I said nothing of religion or politics, I simply stated FACTS. You are stating information from studies where people use different input variables into a computer. Every single study has some different outcome based on variables put into a computer! Again, I can forecast like that too!!!
For as many studies that have been done to say that man has sped up or increased global warming there is another one that says we didn't. Who's to say which is correct? Oh that's right it was PRsurfer, Harr1son, and Sud0 so it MUST be true! Sorry for my ignorance.
Calling people names because someone doesn't share YOUR views is the typical Liberal reaction. We Liberals are SO progressive and in tune with the times, we think EVERYONE deserves a fair chance and a voice, but ONLY if that voice agrees with my views. Go crawl back in your little hole, everyone is entitled to their opinion, that's what makes this country great, its people like you that are killing our great nation.
@cubicle, actually, it's the GOP's mentality that is killing this great nation. A study is a hard fact but one does not need a scientific study for proof that there is change in the air. What do you think happens when you add warm water to a hurricane? If intensifies it. Now, what is happening to the ocean? It's warming up, why? Too much CO2 in the air. Why is there so much CO2 in the air? First of all we are burning too much fossil fuels and second, we are cutting down too much of the earth's natural air purifiers "trees". I heard this once by a GOP "When you cut down a tree and turn it into a house, it is still a tree." WRONG! A house is a dead tree; it does not breathe in CO2 and breathe out H2O. Here's another one, what happens when too much of the glaciers melt and all that fresh water spills into the ocean? it destabilizes the oceans conveyor belt. What happens when you destabilize the oceans belt? it stops circulating warm water to certain areas in the globe and you get a mini ice age.
There are many factors causing the advancement of global warming and it all ties back to many of the big corrupt corporations and the GOP's mentality of more fossil fuels, the use of natural resources that do not work, and the demonizing and suppressing of those natural resources that are free and that will work. Cannabis/Hemp is a great example; it grows fast and cleans up the air from CO2 fast. Popsci knows this, they had an article back in 1938 called the Billion Dollar Crop, after this article was published is when some of these corporations started demonizing it with their reefer madness. Why do you think it has been demonized so much? because it is easy to grow, requires no pesticides, etc. but one of the main reasons is because it will take many of these big corporations out of business for the simple fact that it can replace many of these fail resources that do not work, even fuel. There are deeper reasons but the people are not ready to hear them. Hemp is not the only natural resource that will work, there are many many more out there. You will find it hard to know about them unless you research because these same corporations backed by the GOP have been eliminating them swiftly with their propaganda and corruption. We cannot be fooled anymore; we have been working on our own propaganda by spreading many truths and facts, to the masses. These corrupt corporations and politicians have their MSM to spread their lies. We have the internet to spread many truths.
I apologize to all here about the politics here but there are some that are pushing the envelope.
Sud0 - Really? It's ALL the GOP's fault?! I'm not taking a political side here, you are just so obviously Liberal that you see no one else's side but your own.
You are right, the GOP wants nothing more than to warm this planet up so much so we all become extinct. Think about that for a minute.....does that REALLY make sense to you?!?!? Maybe if you would get off of your holier than now (sorry that wasn't mean as a religious term, wouldn't want to offend you)podium you could probably come to some better conclusions than that.
I have SO much more that I would like to say to you but I don't want to bother the rest of the PopSci community with your obvious lack of understanding of government, you obviously just hate to hate instead of understanding BOTH sides. (I know I know, republications just want to carry their bibles and produce dirty air and create more hurricanes). I also don't have time to type anymore as I must put some hemp in my car's tank so that I may go back to my big corrupt corporate job so that I can afford to live in my dead tree house. Thanks for playing.
Bull Sh**! Is San Diego under water? No, Al said it would be by 2010! Just where is the water that was supposed to raise the ocean levels? I live 14 feet above the shore and have for 30 years, no sea rising here. All of the computer models relied on by the whacks failed to take into account the normal raising and falling cycles of temperature. They failed in many regards all to promote the enviro whack agenda, FAIL. Ovomit and his ilk should be packing and getting ready for the hurricane coming next Tuesday nation wide, that WILL be the storm of the century!
Unlike the top responder here, I don't see this as proving anyone wrong; the writer clearly stated that Global Warming will have an effect and that one circumstance that made Sandy last so long was warmer than usual waters. While it makes no claims that Sandy was generated by Global Warming, it does point out that warming could well be a factor in Sandy's ultimate power.
As such, there is also no proof that there is no such thing since conditions were unusually ripe for the storm's growth--Sandy clearly bigger and more powerful than any previous storm on record--even going back to historical data prior to our Hurricane Hunters.
During the Cretaceous the Gulf of Mexico extend clear up through Colorado--looking at the deposits we can see those left by the hurricanes that came through. What we see is that, even though it was warmer then, the hurricanes were not larger--"warmer" increases sheer, and sheer limits the size to which hurricanes are able to grow. Also, on a warmer earth we will see the oceans evaporating more than on a cooler Earth. What goes up must come down--a warmer Earth is a wetter earth--no way around it. Any "late season" hurricane has the potential to merge with a cold front--the last major time it happened was hurricane Hazel (which followed almost the exact tract of Sandy) which, after merging, continued over 600 miles over dry land--ending up the the middle of Canada
5 Things Hurricane Sandy Reveals About the political theory of Global Warming
1. Human suffering can (and often does) become a political tool.
2. If you tell a lie (See #3) long enough, there are those who will begin to believe it.
3. You can convince some people that hurricanes never existed before Al Gore. (Same goes for summers, winters and in-between.)
4. Next year, male patter baldness and ingrown toenails will be blamed on global warming.
5. PopSci, no matter how otherwise attractive and thoroughly enjoyable, is still fully owned.
What warmists get from this article: more proof that CO2 drive climate change!
What skeptics get from this article: more proof that the warmists are wrong!
What real scientific thinkers get from this article: nobody knows jack about the climate.
I can provide a direct example that humans do affect our climate.
Go back to the days immediately after September 11th, 2001 and look at the differences between weather forecasts and actual weather for the week that all civil aircraft were grounded over the US. On average, measured temperatures fell from 5- to 10 degrees below forecast--especially in the northeast corridor.
Don't tell me humans don't have an effect on weather. I've seen the difference.
A fox preys on sheep. Don't be a sheep.
@cubicle: The simple fact that you've been calling the Global Warming people "Liberals" clearly states that you consider the issue a political one only--based only on YOUR opinion and no demonstrated facts that haven't been doctored to achieve a desired conclusion. Simple, measurable facts--historical facts, not conjecture--can prove you wrong in your views, should you only bother to do the research yourself. I'm not one of these so-called "Liberals" and I witnessed the effects of climate change for myself.
Yes, we all do know that our planet works in cycles of warming and cooling and we've seen how natural catastrophic events can affect global weather for years at a time--just research the cause of the "Little Ice Age" from about 250 years ago and try to imagine the effects of that one short-term volcanic burst occurring over a 150-year period. Study the researched histories of the historical climate changes we do know about and apply that information to what is happening now--today--in our lifetimes.
Mankind may not have created the cycles, but mankind in its arrogance has managed to accelerate and intensify those cycles.
A fox preys on sheep. Don't be a sheep.
I do not believe weather conditions are caused by "global warming". We are seeing changing patterns, and the reason, in my opinion, is linked to the eruption of the volcano in Iceland a few years ago. It was such a strong eruption that is even caused airports as far as New York to close down because of the dense ash and the altitude it achieved. It also caused something else which many took for granted: It caused the EARTH to change its rotational axis by a very small amount of degrees. Scientists shrugged it off, but I believe it is that shift in the axis rotation that is bringing about the change in patterns. Richard Frank
@Vulpinemac: Couldn't it be that we are simply in a pattern of natural warming now and we didn't and don't have anything to do with it?
The oceans have warmed 1.3 degrees over the last 100 years. So you are telling me that in no other time in millions of years we have not seen this kind of change? Give me a break.
Seriously, I get there's a job security factor that all these scientists have to have but the bullying and fear mongering needs to stop. Could we be more responsible with certain things? Sure. But what we are doing today doesn't have nearly the effect that volcanoes and meteors have that plagued this place for millions of years.
If you and your buddies want wind and solar powered cars and houses by all means, this is America, go build them. Leave my dirty oil and coal alone I like the way they work. Well except for my hemp powered car, I'll keep taking that to work every day.
Seriously we are not that important or significant just get over it.
The "hurricany" parts of Sandy at landfall near NYC did not seem that severe. As with all hurricanes since the early 00s, the wind bordered on Cat 1 strength. And the precipitation numbers from NOAA are minuscule.
That leaves the storm surge which seems to have caused almost all of the coastal damage. Thus the effect being more like a tsunami than a hurricane.
The reasons given for the storm surge are the record low pressure. This pressure lets the wind "pile up" the water on top of itself and blow into land (or so Wikipedia tells me).
So then the question becomes, why the record low pressure? And why is the low pressure and the accompanying flood water still there in places?
"What to do? What am I going to do now? I know. I've got it! I'll sell my leftover BS to the mental cripples who voted for me. They'll buy anything! I'll be rich! I'll be rich as a king! MMM MMM MMM" --- Al Gore after losing to GW Bush
Why can't you non-believers understand that climate change is both a natural occurrence and ALSO being exaggerated by the activities of mankind? This is not an either or scenario. It is both! Yes, climate change has occurred since the earth was formed. It has also been greatly enhanced by the pollution we spew into the atmosphere especially since the Industrial Revolution.
All of the above is predicated on the assumption that climate zones will continue creeping northward at the present rate of about 4km per year. If, as the Arctic Ocean becomes a zone of rising air due to the increased absorption of heat by the ever more open ocean, all bets are off. Instead of creeping northward, climate zones may lurch northward. This will likely bring tropical storms into what was once temperate areas. Of added interest, at present the ice sheet tends to keep Arctic hurricanes (such as the one of Aug6) away from the coast of Greenland. Low pressure areas beside Greenland give rise to Katabatic winds which cause increased melting. It will be interesting to see the effect of a full hurricane (the one of Aug6 was on the border between a force 2 and a force 3) snuggled up to the shore of Greenland. Could the rate of melting of this huge block of ice be the next prediction that our scientists have grossly underestimated. There is 7m of sea level rise available in that little ice cube. Imagine Sandy or worse when the sea level is a meter higher than it is at present.


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A girl plays in a bed of coca leaves in the village of Trincavini in Peru's Pichari district.
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Soldiers stand in the rain during a flag-raising ceremony, backdropped by a sculpture depicting coca leaves, in Pichari.
Every Sunday, counterinsurgency troops in combat gear march out of the army base in Pichari, a remote town at the center of the world's No. 1 coca-growing valley.
It's a show of force in a region with a vibrant trade in the leaf used to make cocaine, and where Peru's government is trying to expand its presence and combat an illegal drug trade.
Coca is the lifeblood of the economy of this mostly rural municipality of 40,000 people. So much so that Pichari's central square features a sculpture of coca leaves.
Peru last year displaced Colombia as the world's leading producer of coca leaf, the United Nations announced last month. But unlike Colombia, most cocaine produced in Peru is exported not to the United States but to Brazil, Argentina and Europe. Read the full story.
-- The Associated Press
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A man with castanets joins members of La Roca Eterna, an evangelical orchestra, as they perform during an annual church festival in Pichari.
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The Apurimac river cuts through a long valley that the United Nations says yields 56 percent of Peru's coca leaves. The government says it will soon begin destroying coca crops in the region.
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Coca leaves are spread out on tarpaulins on the basketball court that doubles as a soccer field at the community center in Pichari.


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You can't just add a new tech for every unit of building that doesn't have a 'perfect' tech - you end up with a huge number of uninteresting techs that have no 'oomph'.
I think I saw marines in one of the screen shots with Penicilin. I miss Marines, I love airbourne, I want medics. It would be cool if they added a flamethrower unit with a bonus against cities and fortified units but I dunno. Seems Civilization 5 will get a whole lot more complex. Looking forward to it though.
Penicilin has to be a Modern Tech. Marines could be another 'specialty' unit, like Paratroopers perhaps?
What were good about marines previously?
Marines had the amphibious promotion when they where made. You used them to attack by sea, but they could still be useful in land. They will probably be the best thing since sliced bread this game, Coastal cites beware I have marines. Marines are kinda like late berserkers.
In this picture:
There is a unit in the city of Cardiff that looks like some kind of Missile vehicle.
I'm not sure of the icon for Mobile SAM but I think this might be new.
Browsing through the screenshots, I noticed an unknown civ. If you look carefully on the minimap, there is a civ with a blue and purple color scheme. Does anyone want to guess or know what civ that is?
Blue and purple... Well we don't know for CERTAIN what the Mayan color is, though I'm pretty sure it's yellow and deep green. It's a bit unlikely the Huns will be colored powder blue. The Byzantines ought to be yellow and red, but that may have ended up looking to similar to Persia... My guess would be Byzantine?
In other games I've played that included the Byzantines, they were usually colored purple. Purple being the traditional color of royalty. Yet Rome is already purple, so it could be Byzantium.
If you notice Carthage, they also have purple. This has probably less to do with a direct link to royalty and more to do with the dye itself, since it was a Phoenician product; the Carthaginians came from Phoenicia so I see the correlation.
Maybe it could be a hint at a Hebrew civ? I say this considering that blue is a color associated with Judaism, and I really can't think of most other civs that are not already in the game who used blue.
Sure you have Prussia and Sweden, but I doubt their inclusion since Sweden is 'kinda' included with Denmark, and Prussia being in Germany (Bismark being Prussian before he created Germany).
Then you have America and France, who as mentioned are already in the game.
Mmmm Hebrew would be blue and white, not blue and purple. Also, it's the wrong kind of blue. I'm sticking with it being Byzantine, I think.
Israel today is blue and white, but so is Greece. I don't think we can disqualify them based on that. Plus America already has the blue and white color scheme, so I can't imagine them reusing that.
It could very well be Byzantium, but I don't see the blue connection to them. The purple connection is strong though.
I think looking at the colors of existing civs could be misleading too. What does light yellow have to do with France for instance? Or gray with Carthage? If certain civs use colors that are not strongly correlated with them, and since we are guessing, it means the possibilities are greater.
This is contrasted with some civs like the Dutch, where orange is a no brainer. If Orange wasn't their color I would have been disappointed.
Hmm... Blue & White... Finland ?!
One can always dream - here are my ideas for the Finnish Civ
Lol you're right! I think Finland would be a nice choice as a civ btw.
I was just thinking that the Hebrews (not modern Israel necessarily) would be an appropriate choice for a new civ in this expansion as well since there is a new emphasis on religion, and their influence on religion (at least for Western ones) is significant to say the least.
But if it's not the case, I guess we can both continue dreaming ^_^
Jerusalem's in as a religious CS, I'd highly doubt we'd see Israel
Well that's better than nothing it seems.
But what is the evidence for it? What would have been the article's source?
I think the article's source is an actual beta-test play through lead by one of the developers. It's likely that they were told what they could and could not publish about the game so as to develop the expansion's marketability over the course of the spring.
I'm somewhat interesting though in just what triggers normal Great Prophet formation as random generation does not seem likely (since there is a cap on the number of religions, it seems more likely that those that put effort into founding a religion would have priority).
What the link here: http://i.imgur.com/KYdkN.jpg
Seems to suggest is that neither Wonders nor a "spawn great person instantly" social policy (notice on the right that is says he has a social policy point to spend, meaning he hasn't spent it yet on any specific social policy) are immediately needed to produce a great person. It doesn't seem like the player used the Oracle for a free (and hidden, icon-wise) social policy to spawn a perhaps "spawn great person instantly" policy, as the oracle is not within either of the two cities nor does it seem likely that the player was able to fill the liberty tree completely by 1080 BCE. It also does not appear that golden ages are linked to Great Prophet generation.
Last edited by Martinoguy; 03-12-2012 at 02:07 PM.
Notice the Adviser suggests you use the Great Prophet to found a religion, meaning there are other things you can do with them. Certainly start a Golden Age, but perhaps other things as well?
Also, their faith is completely depleted, which further proves that GPs cost Faith, and are not on a Great Person Point system.
That makes sense, since Israel would be a 'political' issue for some gamers. Then again other modern flashpoints like Korea didn't prevent the developers from creating a Korean civ, and upgrading Seoul from a city state to a capital in the process. So if Jerusalem will be a city state, maybe it can become a capital or just another city in the future.
Whether the mystery civ in the photos I linked is a Hebrew civ or not, I still think that now would be an appropriate time to give the Hebrews some sort of representation in the game beyond just a religion. I was surprised that in the Wonders of the Ancient world scenario that thee were no Israelite city states for instance.
Regardless, I'd like to hear more guesses as to what the mystery civ with blue and purple colors would be.
Yeah, I'm going to assume Golden Age, Found Religion, Improvement that gives Faith for the Great Prophet as well.
After you have a Great Prophet make a religion, though, what else would they do? Is it possible you'd birth a GP during the Colonial Era? It's so strange to me that Great Prophets are not made through GPP, but by getting 200 Faith.
Well, one interview said that end game faith can be used to get great people of any type. I'm not exactly sure how that would work, though. Plus, they said they've designed it so only a few civs actually found a religion in a game (I think their example was 5 out of 10 civs). How is this limit imposed? After the 5 religions are found are people just out of luck if they spawn a prophet?
Last edited by istry555; 03-12-2012 at 02:04 PM.
It seems to be the case. But if they have other uses, especially in the late game, they may still be worthwhile. Faith will be useful in other ways, and probably in ways undisclosed so far.
I think what will happen is that a new sort of rush will occur in the early game, that of founding a religion. You will be able to set the course of the religion you found, so its in your best interest to do so. They already helped facilitate this by giving the Celts faith bonuses starting in the early game.
But can you mix and match religions? What is the process of adopting a religion you didn't found; can you only do it if one of your cities converts first, or can you just pick and choose whenever? What will be the effects of cities with different religions compared to your 'state religion'? And what happens if you are forced to convert religions or convert others, do you lose all the benefits? Lets say two civs are the only ones with a particular religion, and one is wiped out. Do you become the new leader? Or what if only one civ has a particular religion. Is the religion lost forever, or can it be 'refounded'?
They created Korea not North Korea and made Seoul the Capital not Pyongyang. So there is 0 controversy on that, nor is Kim Jong Il the leader. Therefore Korea shouldn't be used as an example.
It's not Hebrew and IF it is I will be very suprised. I'm still waiting for the Zulu and Polish empires.
The Great Prophet can probably spread religion to, I couldn't see why not
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New article. Not a lot of new information, but I highlighted some things I think weren't mentioned before.
a new religion requires the spawning of a Great Prophet, which you won't be able to do until you've accrued a minimum of 200 points in faith. It's a random occurrence after that, so you'll just need to cross your fingers and… err… pray.
missionary units allow for the spreading of religion while inquisitors, which appear later in the game, stamp out competing religions in one city or another.
Spies are a limited resource. You'll get your first one when the Renaissance starts and then another one with each new era after that. You'll also get one for building a national intelligence agency.
Hey Good find!
In addition the author makes note of a religious perk I don't think was mentioned yet:
God of War: "bumps up your faith — a religion-based stat, analogous with culture and the like — whenever you win a battle within four tiles of a city tied to that belief system"
Also, for religion the game mechanics, according to the article, may make a distinction between "founder" benefits ( I.E bonuses to you) and "follower" benefits (bonuses to any city that the religion is in).
I guess that mean there are normal Intelligence Agencies too, and the National Wonder gets you the bonus spy.
GPP after the first one? Newbies rarely ever look at those tickers. Honestly I'd be unhappy for Great People to be generated in a way besides great person points.
What would a second great prophet even do that would be useful?
Give you a free perk to your religion in addition to the standard golden age or +faith building tile?
How do you get the extra belief perks after Follower and Founder? The screenshot shows a 2nd Follower and an Enhancer belief, both saying available when religion is enhanced. Maybe they're selectable with an additional Great Prophet.
translated as follows on CivFanatics
-50 ''beliefs'' total to customize your religions
-1st level of belief : Pantheon (choice of 20 weak beliefs), 1 pick, land oriented(optimized)
-2nd level with a prophet after a floor of a ''couple of hundreds'' points : 2 new beliefs
-3rd level with a new prophet : 2 more beliefs
Diplo & Spying :
-AI's affinities with religious ''parts'' until renaissance, and more and more ''social'' for the modern eras
-At first glance, it's more at the end of the renaissance era
-Limited number of spies : 1 per era
-missions : tech stealing, tech protection(if we are a leader in this domain), useful informations (to know)about AI intentions(and sell them or abord the AI for diplo), manipulations of elections for city-states(UN votes), takeover(putsch).
I think it's in such a way that you have to select one before the next, eg:
Founder > Follower > 2nd Follower > Enhancer
In much the same way as a Social Policy tree. Also, from the aforementioned article:
Pantheon Beliefs:
- The God of the Sea provides +1 production from fishing boats
- God of War provides faith whenever you win a battle within four tiles of a city tied to that belief system.
Religious spreading and units:
- Any cities within 10 hexes of the source — whether or not they're part of your own civilization — will slowly convert over to the new faith.
- Missionary units allow for the spreading of religion
- Inquisitors, which appear later in the game, stamp out competing religions in one city or another.
- First Great Prophet requires a minimum of 200 faith
- Founder beliefs offer boosts as your religion spreads across the land
- Follower beliefs bring specific benefits to the cities that worship your gods, whether or not they're part of your civ.
- One such follower belief boosts the fighting power of your civ's troops whenever they're close to a city that worships your religion.
- A lone catapult, for example, could conceivably survive an enemy attack
- Recieve one spy from national intelligence agency (National Wonder)
- Spies are off-map units
- Recieve XP and Promotions
- Assigned to a city
- Intrigue system: "There's also a new intrigue system in the game, which brings you a steady flow of random information. For example, your spy might bring word that "[leader X] is building up a naval force and plans to launch a sneak attack on another nation." It could also be more specific: "[leader X] plans to declare war on [leader Y]."
- Reach out to potential targets and warn them in advance about war plans learnt via espionage
- The above causes a positive Diplo modifier with the targeted nation
My understanding is that Great Prophets can be used to unlock enhancers to your belief system. They may also help spread religion like a super missionary as well as other things. There was mention that faith can be spent on building Cathedrals and perhaps Great Prophets can do this too. Founding religions and unlocking belief enhancers is the only thing I'm sure of though.
- "missionary units allow for the spreading of religion while inquisitors, which appear later in the game, stamp out competing religions in one city or another."
- "Follower belief boosts the fighting power of your civ's troops whenever they're close to a city that worships your religion."
Excellent additions! Inquisitors are my most anticipated new unit along with Medic and Crusader (not sure if these two are confirmed though). Getting harder and harder to wait to get my hands on to the expansion...


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When it comes to matters of health, it may seem as though everything you love is bad for you. For some people, it's dessert. For others, it's wine with dinner or smoking. The notion that a particular food or habit is all good or all bad is often a myth. Believe it or not, even smoking has a good side (although not nearly enough to recommend it!). Here's more on cigarette smoking and other behaviors that may provide surprising benefits. Cigarette Smoking and Digestive Health When I learned about a potential health benefit of cigarette smoking, I was skeptical. But it turns out that people who smoke have a lower incidence of ulcerative colitis, a serious condition marked by inflammation of the lower digestive tract. It often requires immune suppressing medication to control. For example, in a 2006 analysis of prior studies, researchers found that smokers had a 40% lower risk of ulcerative colitis compared with nonsmokers. It's not clear whether it's the nicotine or some other component of cigarette smoke that might be responsible for the protective effect. However, studies of people with ulcerative colitis treated with nicotine patches suggest it's the nicotine: While wearing the patch, their symptoms improved. Interestingly, smoking seems to have a different effect on another form of intestinal inflammation, Crohn's disease. In this condition, smoking appears to increase the risk of disease. And, among those who already have the disease, smoking is associated with recurrence. It's important to emphasize that smoking increases the risk of many other serious health problems, including heart disease, stroke and lung disease, so no one should take up smoking or delay quitting in the hopes of avoiding colitis. In fact, besides a long list of other health problems associated with smoking, certain cancers of the digestive tract are increased by smoking. Still, it's an intriguing observation that could provide useful to the investigation of the cause of ulcerative colitis. At the current time, the cause remains undiscovered. Alcohol -- The Case for Moderation Excessive alcohol ingestion is associated with a long list of health problems, including:
Even modest amounts of alcohol can be associated with motor vehicle accidents and risky sexual behavior. But there's good evidence that people who drink in moderation have a lower risk of cardiovascular disease, including heart attack and stroke, than people who do not drink at all. Researchers studying a representative sample of the U.S. population surveyed between 1987 and 2000 found a 38% reduction in cardiovascular death among moderate alcohol drinkers compared with nondrinkers. This has led some experts to actually recommend moderate alcohol intake to teetotalers (with a healthy dose of warnings about the risks). And there may be other health benefits of enjoying alcoholic beverages. A study published in 2010 found that non-drinkers had four times the risk of having rheumatoid arthritis compared with those who drank at least 10 days a month. In addition, among those with rheumatoid arthritis, milder disease was associated with higher intake of alcohol. It seems that in recent years, studies assessing the health effects of drinking coffee have found little negative impact and a number of health benefits. For example, studies show lower rates of diabetes, gout and liver disease among regular coffee drinkers. Several groups of researchers have found up to a 60% reduction in the incidence of diabetes among heavy coffee drinkers. An 2007 analysis of prior studies found a 43% reduction in liver cancer among people drinking at least 2 cups of coffee daily compared with nondrinkers. And gout incidence was reduced by nearly 60% among heavy coffee drinkers (more than 6 cups a day) according to a 2007 study. Researchers are looking hard at some preliminary data suggesting that exposure to hookworms (parasites that live in the human intestinal tract) may lessen the incidence and severity of allergies. Interest in studying this treatment comes from:
One theory suggests that people raised in developed countries have had so little exposure to parasites and other infectious or foreign proteins. This causes their immune systems to "overreact" to pollen and other triggers, causing the "allergies" that make life miserable. Another theory is that parasites have figured out how to turn off our immune reactions to them. While this allows them to survive, it may also reduce the immune reaction that we experience as seasonal allergies. While there is a significant "ick factor" associated with intentionally exposing allergy sufferers to worms, it's reminiscent of using leeches to treat certain wound infections, a practice that has seen a resurgence is recent years. There are many examples of everyday exposures, habits or foods that have both positive and negative effects on your health. The way they affect you may depend on your genetic makeup, the amount of the exposure or other factors we've yet to discover. I think it pays to keep an open mind. We may someday learn that a component of cigarette smoke can safely be given to prevent ulcerative colitis in a high risk person or to treat it once it develops. When I was a kid, I thought medication had to taste bad or else it wouldn't work. The converse also seemed true — if something was unusually fun or tasted exceptionally good, there must be a catch. Yet, there are enough exceptions to this notion to make it a myth. Not only can healthy foods be delicious and healthy habits fun, but some 'bad' habits may have an upside. The trick, of course, is moderation and balance. While I would never suggest smoking to avoid colitis, it does pay to keep an open mind about how to reasonably avoid risk while being prepared to take advantage of unexpected benefits. Robert H. Shmerling, M.D. is associate physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and associate professor at Harvard Medical School. He has been a practicing rheumatologist for over 20 years at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He is an active teacher in the Internal Medicine Residency Program, serving as the Robinson Firm Chief. He is also a teacher in the Rheumatology Fellowship Program.


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I'm sure that I'm not alone when I say that I only tell my mom 'thanks' on Mother's Day or my Dad on Father's Day. I think I'm going to make it a goal in my life to let people know how much I appreciate them more often. I think everyone should show their gratitude for everyone who has touched their lives. We have these great new blooming plants and Bonsai Trees that are perfect. Or take a look at our Thank You Gifts page and you will find so many Gift Ideas to show your appreciation.
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