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Best Buy Unveils Evolved Viewing Experience for Sports Fans
Minneapolis, MN (PRWEB) September 19, 2012
Best Buy Co., Inc. launched today the Best Buy Evolved Viewing Experience. Making its debut for the Geico 400 in Chicago, the Best Buy Evolved Viewing Experience showcases what you can do when you combine normal technology with some imagination and innovation resulting in an out-of-this-world experience. Optimized for racing, Best Buy partnered with Two Bit Circus to create a fully immersive experience for fans that makes them feel like they are actually part of the race.
âThe Best Buy Evolved Viewing Experience exemplifies our efforts of âmaking technology work for you,â said Stephen Gillett, President, Best Buy Digital, Global Marketing & Strategy for Best Buy. âAt Best Buy, we want to push the limits of how technology works for our customers and make it easier for them to experience their passions. With the Evolved Viewing Experience, Best Buy is helping consumers imagine - and experience - the ultimate in sports viewing.â
Best Buy is launching the Evolved Viewing Experience in Chicago as part of its Roush Fenway Racing sponsorship activation program. It will be on display for fans to experience in a unique Best Buy Sky deck interactive environment that includes gaming kiosks where visitors can engage in Xbox 360, PS3, Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS. There is also an Augmented Reality Station featuring unique display technology that allows visitiors to interact with different Best Buy brand logos for a Best Buy gift card give-away. Fans can also snap photos of themselves sitting in the Evolved Viewing Experience which will be texted to them to post to their social networks.
In addition to the Chicago launch, the Best Buy Evolved Viewing Experience will be at track in Charlotte and Homestead during the Chase races this season. Best Buy has been a team sponsor for the past eight years, and the 2013 season will mark the companyâs ninth year with the sport.
Best Buy Evolved Viewing Experience
To begin, the fan hears the sounds of the race as the seat reclines and three HD monitors lower around the viewer, creating an immersive viewing experience, offering three unique perspectives on the race. The fanâs body is the remote and can alternate between camera angles with a simple swipe of the hand. Viewers experience the rumble of a stock car engine under the sea, while special surround-sound speakers make them feel like they are on the track. Bladeless fans under computer control add haptic feedback to the experience, blowing wind through the userâs hair. An ASUS CM 6830 computer outfitted with three graphics cards, powers a detailed simulation racing game used by pro drivers to prepare for actual races. Fans become the driver in the game, using an accelerometer-based steering wheel as the race is projected onto the three separate screens. Fans are also able to switch between the race simulator and the actual race footage.
A series of five Webisodes of the âbehind-the-scenesâ making of the Evolved Viewing Experience can be found on the Best Buy YouTube channel. Fans can also visit the Evolved Viewing Experience tab on the Best Buy Facebook page. For additional media information, b-roll and photos, check out http://www.bestbuyevolvedviewingexperience-media.com.
About Best Buy Co., Inc.
Best Buy Co., Inc. is a leading multi-channel global retailer and developer of technology products and services. Every day our employees - 180,000 strong - are committed to helping deliver the technology solutions that enable easy access to people, knowledge, ideas and fun. We are keenly aware of our role and impact on the world, and we are committed to developing and implementing business strategies that bring sustainable technology solutions to our consumers and communities. For information about Best Buy, visit http://www.bby.com and to shop at Best Buy, visit http://www.bestbuy.com.
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Now That I've Read Michael Crowley's Cri De Wee in...
Now that I've read Michael Crowley's cri de weein The New Republic (it was side-splittingly entitled "Michael Crichton: Jurassic Prick"), as well as the original piece Crowley wrote about Crichton, I can say with certainty what I only suspected last night: Anne Lamott got it right, and complaining you've been the victim of a fictional drive-by can only make you look small.
To review: Crowley, a reporter for TNR, trashed author Crichton in a 3,700 word cover story in The New Republic, a magazine with a tiny but influential subscription base best known, these days, for its plagiarism scandals.
Crowley's piece derided Crichton as a "pulp novelist," who is guilty of writing "for the coach-class set," a "plot machine" with risible visions of being taken seriously, a Bush administration anti-intellectual lap dog and, worst of all, a man who turned his back on Harvard Medical School because he "couldn't resist cranking out sci-fi thrillers." (Those sci-fi thrillers! They're like crack with words!)
Crichton allegedly battled back with a character named "Mick Crowley," who shows up in his current novel. Mick has a small penis. Mick rapes a two-year-old. This doesn't seem to trouble his alleged inspiration as much as the small-penis part, or that Mick is a pharmaceutical industry profiteer (insert your own aristocratic har-har-har here).
Amusing as it is to watch Crowley play the virgin at the key party, fluttering for his smelling salts, aghast at the way he's been violated, he shouldn't be surprised that he was attacked by an author with a reputation for salving his hurt feelings by savaging his opponents in print.
You can't call a man a hack who writes for the masses while foolishly yearning "for intellectual stature beyond the realm of killer dinosaurs and talking monkeys," and expect his next novel to be made up of mash notes. (In fact, I actually think Crowley got off easy. Crichton might have made his fictional doppelganger a poorly-endowed pedophile, but at least he didn't send him to a state school).
And here's the thing: would anyone have connected Mick Crowley, baby-buggerer, with Michael Crowley of The New Republic unless Crowley had gone tattling to Teacher? Doubtful. As Crowley himself would probably hasten to point out, there is little overlap between TNR's erudite readers and those coach-class-flying boobs who put Crichton's books on the best-seller lists.
"I confess to having mixed feelings about my sliver of literary immortality," Crowley allows. "It's impossible not to be grossed out on some level--particularly by the creepy image of the smoldering Crichton, alone in his darkened study, imagining in pornographic detail the rape of a small child."
True enough – but is it really that much creepier than the image of a smoldering Crowley, alone in his own darkened study, frantically Googling "small penis law?"
"And," Crowley continues, "I'm looking forward to the choice Crichton will have to make, when asked about the basis for Mick Crowley, between a comically dishonest denial and a confession of his shocking depravity."
I don't think readers will Crichton's depravity quite as shocking as Crowley does, given that his own article mentioned numerous instances of Crichton attacking fictional versions of his foes.
Nor do I think Crichton would have any trouble should the question come up. If it were me, I'd just smile and say, straight-faced, "The character has nothing to do with Michael Crowley. Michael Crowley is enormous. Why, after that piece he wrote about me, I could barely walk for a week."
Meanwhile, Jennifer Hudson is earning raves all over the place for performance as Effie in "Dreamgirls." The Times' A.O. Scott writes it's not often you go to the movies and see a big-boned, sexually assertive, self-confident black woman — not played for laughs or impersonated by a male comedian in drag — holding the middle of the screen. And when was the last time you saw a first-time film actress upstage an Oscar winner, a pop diva and a movie star of long standing? Ms. Hudson is not going anywhere. She has arrived."
But here's my question: now that she's arrived, where does she go next? Where are the parts in Hollywood, or even on Broadway, for an actress like Hudson, in an era where Kate Winslet's being cast as the mousy best friend?
I hope I get to see more of her. I worry that I won't.
Update: I'm writing, and Lu is supposed to be napping, in preparation for our latke bash tonight, but I don't think she's asleep, given that she just called down the stairs, "Mommy? What are Cinderella's sisters names?"
"Anastasia and Drizella!" I called back.
"Oh. Okay."
Happy Hanukkah to everyone who's celebrating tonight.

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With the novel being released, I figure it's time I talk a little bit about it on here.
I wrote Twilight of the Wolves back in November of 2011, a few weeks before I left Korea and returned home. Back then it was called To Live, which is a title I still love. To be precise, it looks like I finished it November 1st, 2011 and if you look at this post you can see how quickly I wrote it. And if you want to get an idea of what was happening in my brain whilst writing the novel at that relentless pace, you can check out this post where I lost myself, just a few days before completion of the novel. It was actually incredibly illuminating to read that again. To remember what writing for two weeks almost nonstop will do to you. I sent it to Phil Jourdan, the genius behind Perfect Edge Books, last March, and the rest is me getting it ready for release.
The world of Twilight of the Wolves is immense, and it's the setting of what will likely end up being several more novels. This is a world I've been constructing in my head since I was about ten, and I've been working on my first novel in this world for so long inside my head that I don't know if I'll ever be able to write it down. This novel, Twilight of the Wolves, was actually only meant to be about 20,000 words, and it was meant to be a complementary piece to that larger forever unfinished cathedral of a novel. It expanded exponentially in the writing, becoming so much more than I ever imagined. It began from a simple vision I had alone at night in Korea, while staring out into the mountains past my window. I saw a child following a man with wolf ears through a forest, and that's still a central image to this novel, but so many more visions fell inside it, including the vision that's in everything, but maybe I'll talk about that another time. But this novel was meant to be short and quick and easy, and it was meant to be 1/5th as long as it is now. As you can see from those long ago posts, it became quite a different beast. In a sense, this is the world's introduction to this fantastic world, but there will be many more. Hopefully soon.
It's difficult writing down what is, in all seriousness, your Dream. The Dream that's most deeply a part of you.
But that doesn't yet tell you what this novel is about. I'll give you the back cover copy first:
Twilight of the Wolves is an epic fantasy following a man cursed by a dying god's blessing, a mute eunuch carrying the dead to the Goddess of Death, and a young girl saved from a burning metropolis only to be raised by the cursed man and two wolf gods. These three lives intersect and become bound together as they walk with gods, watch them die, and hide from the terror that is humanity's lust for violence and destruction. Wandering across countries and cultures, the characters discover the cacophony and contradiction of visions and values that define humanity. They see the collision of cultures highlighting the definitions of civilization and try to find their place within and without them. The past, present, and future haunt the people of this world as they wander on, hoping to find an answer to the questions buried deepest.
So that gives you an idea, but this epic fantasy is one told by those who are powerless. You'll find no kings and queens, no knights in shining armor or fancy lords and balls with pretty dresses. You'll find the ugly grime of living in subjugation, of the impoverished, of slaves while a war raging across a continent tears civilisations apart. This isn't the brutality of George RR Martin, but it's certainly full of its own horrors. Of gods and demons and slaves and imperialism and war neverending. Despite all that, I hope that it's beautiful. There's a deep darkness in this novel but there are, I think, true and lasting moments of beauty, and I hope that you're left with some hope and love when you close this book.
I think the best novels to compare it to are Ursula K Le Guin's Earthsea Cycle, Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun, Samuel R Delany's Neveryon, George RR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire. So if you like those series, I think you'll dig this as well, though I'm not egotistical enough to really compare my own writing to people like Le Guin, Wolfe, and Delany, who are among the finest writers in America. It's darker than Earthsea, more focused than A Song of Ice and Fire, less academic than Neveryon, and keeps less secrets than The Book of the New Sun, but I strongly believe that fans of these novels will dig Twilight of the Wolves. It's the longest thing I've written. Almost double the length of each of my other novels, but much shorter than all of these books mentioned in this paragraph.
It made me cry three separate times while I wrote it. And not just insignificant tears, but real sobs. I love these characters. I love all of them, and that's why it hurt so much to watch them live in an uncaring world.
And here are a few blurbs for Twilight of the Wolves:
Like a Terrence Malick film set in a universe as rich as Game of Thrones, Twilight of the Wolves is a different kind of fantasy novel: endlessly inventive, thoughtful, and almost painfully beautiful.
–Kyle Muntz, author of VII and Green Lights
Twilight of the Wolves is an unusual and poetic epic fantasy, with a world, civilizations, and mythologies all of its own, yet unmistakably reminiscent of our past and current world. Best of all, Twilight of the Wolves puts on center stage the people and socioeconomic classes who are often marginalized, suppressed, or overlooked in other types of epic fantasy and secondary worlds, in a passionate and compassionate study of love, languages, and humanness.
—Berit Ellingsen, author of Beneath the Liquid Skin
I think these two blurbs capture exactly how it feels to me, and exactly what it means to me. I've always said that I'm more influenced, stylistically, by film than I am by literature, and I've always strived to capture that beautiful cinematic poetry of Terrence Malick, and I think, with this novel, I finally reached it. It's an aesthetic I've worked for years to reach, and Twilight of the Wolves is the most perfect representation of that. And then there's all the postcolonialism surging up through the cracks in the novel. My whole life is in this novel. My entire heart. I'm so immensely proud of it that I want to share it with the entire world, but a part of me fears no one will love or understand it.
I hope this novel surprises you. I hope it surprises you over and over again. I hope it reminds you of beauty. I hope it shines over you and breathes new life into you. I hope it swallows that light. I hope it crushes you and tears you apart. I hope it changes you. I hope it's something you'll remember always.
Order from Amazon or from Barnes and Noble.
Review from Speak Without Interruption
As soon as Twilight of the Wolves begins, you know it's music. Music made by the hands digging deep into the underground, into determined earth-dirtying of the senses. The symmetry of notes makes this crystalline, each clause engineered into mantra-like potential. "And then he fell away, his life drifted away, the vision inside him, growing, rebuilding, creating newness, wholeness out of neverness. The song, nothing but the song, and Her eyes, ephemeral and purple, galactic dust swallowing him, and he swam in that twilit world of nothings and nowheres until it thickened, viscous, and filled him again."
An absorbing read that offers readers a grim, bleak and dark tale. It paints a word in flames, dying from within. Imagine a dark night sky, with a sole star. You know something's there but you can barely make it out. Well that star will grow and become a brighter star and perhaps light up the night sky until it is day. Well, that star is Sao.
And then here's the beginning of the novel:
He dug and dug and dug some more. He dug until his back was sore. His hands turned black and then they bled, his mouth grew thick and dry, his face wet with tears and mud. The scent of ash, of war and hate surrounded, and he dug, hole after hole. For a day and a night and one more day, through the rain and the darkness, he dug holes in the ground and laid them to rest. One by one and shovel by shovel, he buried the dead. The dead who were once brothers, who were once mothers, who were once fathers and lovers and sisters and daughters. For each body he dug a hole and for each hole he planted a stick. Covered in mud, in forgotten blood, with newly scabbed knees, with hands torn raw, bleeding, slicking the handle of his shovel. Holes and holes and holes. Dug and filled. The soldiers all gone but their wreckage remained, the stink of war in his lungs, in his eyes, in his skin, beating through his body, coagulating in his lungs. By the first nightfall, he no longer cried. By morning his lips no longer moved. By moonlight he no longer stopped. A constant pace, digging and digging and lifting and dropping and burying. Burying. Burying. Morning again, the air thick with rain, the scent heavy with Death, the Deathwalkers watched. Fifty crows scouring the ground, slow, crossing meaningful looks but silent, speaking no words, communicating through something beyond language. The boy did not stop but dug on though he could no longer hold the shovel. On his knees, elbow deep in mud, he dug, hand over hand, the mud caking on his face, filling the wounds of his hands, his knees. Covered in mud, shivering, digging, wet, alone, eyes wide and empty, they found him. The Deathwalkers surrounded and they sang. They sang their song. Tenebrous, haunting, a disjointed melody, a ghastly harmony, far away, like piano keys across a river. The notes swirled round the boy and entered, filling him, echoing through him, opening the doors within him, in the house he built inside, one shovel of mud after another. He opened and the song blossomed and bloomed, unlocking the boy he was two days before, releasing him in tears and screams and bloody hands and knees. The boy clawed at his eyes until a Deathwalker restrained him, kept his arms spread until the boy kicked and then other hands were on him, the Deathwalkers, surrounding, singing, holding him up, holding him against himself as he thrashed, screamed, his voice cutting through, a knife through water, the rain dancing against his skin, resonating with the notes, with the otherworld melody and he opened his eyes, staring at a bleeding moon and a girl, younger than him, with ravenhair and purple eyes at the shore of infinity. She sang with them but her voice was different, high where theirs was low, low where theirs was high, always in opposition, and his heart gave way, melted into his veins, his lungs on fire, seizing, then relaxed, full of water, drowning in the Ocean, the echoes of all the dead filling him, playing before his eyes, projected on the Oceansky behind Her, the Goddess. And then he fell away, his life drifted away, the vision inside him, growing, rebuilding, creating newness, wholeness out of neverness. The song, nothing but the song, and Her eyes, ephemeral and purple, galactic dust swallowing him, and he swam in that twilit world of nothings and nowheres until it thickened, viscous, and filled him again. And then he opened his eyes and he was nowhere but it was home.
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text: Share: Comments Print June 2, 2009 at 8:49 AM Storm center Suzy Batkovic-Brown wants baby before 2012 Posted by Jayda Evans Don't get too attached to the reuniting of the "Great Barrier Reef" inside for the Storm this season. After marrying Mat Brown on May 30, Storm C Suzy Batkovic-Brown disclosed to Australian reporters that she wants to have a baby before the 2012 Games. While she's not certain when that'll happen, and isn't trying during this WNBA season, it could put a crimp on the future. Of course Batkovic-Brown, like Los Angeles star Candace Parker, is completely entitled, but with the WNBA paying less than overseas, Batkovic-Brown, who's contracted to play again in Europe, would probably try to miss the WNBA season if she can. That gives Seattle a second season of championship-or-bust with another solid lineup that could be separated after one run. Last year it was aging MVPs Sheryl Swoopes and Yolanda Griffith, who are no longer in the lineup. "I'm going to try to make it through to the next Olympics, but I also want to have a kid," Batkovic-Brown, 28, told The Daily Telegraph. "I think if I had a kid I'd be fine, as long as I had a personal trainer to keep me in shape and tell me what I can and can't do if I had a baby before the Olympics. "As for having someone to babysit while I'm playing, that's why you get married, to have a husband to look after the kids. I warned him before we married." Batkovic-Brown was injury plagued during the Beijing Games. Coupled with ankle injuries from fellow Aussies Lauren Jackson and Penny Taylor and the Opals had a miserable showing they'd like to redeem. On a side note, isn't Batkovic-Brown's statement about "that's why you get married" refreshing? I'm sure this was said with a laugh of some sort, but remember when that was why men got hitched? Anyway, just thought that was a hoot I'd highlight in case you glossed over it. Comments


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If you have a BlackBerry and are located outside US or carry an unsupported model of BlackBerry (like the Pearl or Curve 8600 series), continue reading.
Evernote, the popular web clipping software, is now available for BlackBerry mobile phones as well in addition to iPhone and Windows Mobile.
With Evernote installed, you can create new text notes or edit existing ones, upload pictures (aka Snapshot note) or record voice memos (audio recording). You can also access your existing Evernote notes, search by keywords, filter by tags, or simply browse.
Since Evernote can easily sync notes across all devices, anything that you clip inside the BlackBerry will instantly become available on the web or your Mac / Windows PC.
Initially, Evernote for Blackberry was available for download only through the BlackBerry App World (under the Productivity & Utility category) but since the store is not available outside US or Canada, Evernote has now provided direct download links to the software as well.
BlackBerry Storm users can either download this ZIP or visit s.evernote.com/stormota from the mobile browser for OTA installation. BlackBerry Bold and BlackBerry Curve (8900) users can get Evernote on their phones via s.evernote.com/bbota or this ZIP.
The other advantage is that with direct links, you can install Evernote on older BlackBerry models as well (like BlackBerry Curve 8600 with OS 4.5).


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A talented young performer from Peterhead is currently making her professional debut in a popular musical at the world's largest arts festival.
Erin Murray has secured a role in a new production of The Great American Trailer Park Musical at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
The 19-year-old recently graduated with a diploma in Musical Theatre from The MGA Academy of Performing Arts in Edinburgh and will spend her summer taking to the stage as part of the fun show, which will run at the city's C Venues throughout August.
The hilarious off-Broadway musical, which explores the relationships between the quirky tenants of the Armadillo Acres Trailer Park in Florida, has been given a new lease of life from Beyond Broadway Productions and the team behind 2015's standout Fringe hit Zanna, Don't!
Erin, a former pupil of Peterhead Academy, said: "I have been cast in the ensemble and as a TV presenter in the show, which has been great fun. This is the first time I've performed at the Fringe and I'm really excited to embrace the whole experience."
Erin has spent the past three years honing her craft at the renowned Edinburgh institution, which earlier this year became the first full-time professional training academy in Scotland to be awarded accreditation by CDET, the UK's quality assurance and membership body for the professional dance, drama and musical theatre industries.
She graduated with a diploma in Musical Theatre in June.
Erin, who grew up performing in shows with Peterhead Pantomime Group and Aberdeen Youth Music Theatre, said: "I've has a great time training at The MGA Academy and am really looking forward to auditioning for more professional gigs now that I've graduated.
"Ideally, I'd love to get a job working on a cruise ship as a singer so I can travel the world while doing what I love."
Andrew Gowland, director of The Great American Trailer Park and Managing Director of The MGA Academy, said: "Everyone at The MGA Academy is very proud of Erin and all she has achieved since she started training with us.
"We are confident that the training she has received here will ensure she goes on to be a great success in the future and we look forward to supporting her during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival."
The Great American Trailer Park Musical runs daily as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe until Monday, August 28, 8.40pm-10.15pm at C Too (St Columba's by the Castle, Johnston Terrace).
Tickets, priced £13.50/£11.50, can be purchased via edfringe.com or via 0131 226 0000.


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I have heard before that when some people find out that a person living with invisible illness does not work, or works less than others, they think "Oh how lucky!" If you have ever thought this, or if you wonder what it is we do with all of our time, here is the answer. We wait. It's true that we go to a lot of doctor's appointments, and make a lot of phone calls (to doctor's offices and insurance companies mostly), and that can take up a lot of our time. Most of the time though, we spend waiting.
There is no Princeton-Plainsboro in the real world. You can't just check into a hospital for a week and have Dr. House and his team fix you, or at least solve the puzzle that is your complex and multi-faceted illness. Medical care in the real world is disjointed. This becomes especially apparent if you have more than one chronic illness, like I do. I have approximately 20 different doctors and therapists* and they don't communicate all that well. I realize that HIPPA can create barriers, but I've signed a billion and six waivers**. They still rely a lot on me to carry information between them. I realize that my doctors are busy people, and likely overworked. I am not naive about that. I just wish there was a solution. I wish I didn't have to be my own caseworker.
Yesterday I made 24 phone calls to doctors offices, 24. I am still waiting for many of them to call me back. In the between times, between the phone calls, and the appointments – I wait. I wait for the medicine to work, for the pain to subside (even just a little), for a referral to go through, for my phone to ring, for the "on hold" music to stop, for the nurse or the pharmacist to call my name, for the room to stop spinning, for someone to care.
When you live daily with symptoms that would send most people to the ER, you learn patience. You learn that sometimes you have to sit with the pain instead of fighting it. I can use techniques like meditation and deep breathing to calm myself, but I still can't wrap my head around the fact that I'm doing what I can, that waiting is my job now. There's still something in the back of my mind that constantly urges me to fix this immediately, even though I know I can't. The ER doesn't get us, its not for people like us unless there's an abrupt change in our condition. Even then they often don't know what to do with us, so we stop going or try to avoid it if we can. We wait months to see specialists who may or may not understand our condition(s). We travel to different cities and states to find the people that do. We hope that while everything might not be OK right now, it will be someday. And we wait.
*You're probably thinking -"20 that seems outrageous! That has to be exaggeration!" Let me assure you it's not. I have a primary care doctor, 3 neurologists, a gastroenterologist, a pain specialist/anesthesiologist, a psychiatrist, a pain psychologist, an allergist/immunologist, a doctor of integrated/functional medicine, 2 rheumatologists, 2 physical therapists, an ObGyn, a neuro-ophthalmologist, a geneticist, a genetic counselor, and an ENT. In the past I have also seen dermatologists, and in the near future I may need a cardiologist.
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Gene-Altered Fish Closer to Approval
The U.S. has moved closer to approving a laboratory-tweaked salmon that grows twice as fast as conventional farmed fish and would become the first genetically modified animal to appear on American dinner plates.
An FDA advisory committee discussed Monday whether the fish was safe to eat and whether it posed any threat to the environment. The meeting ended without any decision about the fish. But in some ways, the FDA has already drawn its conclusions: In the run-up to the meeting, the FDA posted an analysis online that concluded the genetically altered version was as safe to eat as traditional Atlantic salmon, and posed little risk to the environment.
The AquAdvantage Atlantic salmon contains a growth hormone gene from the Chinook salmon, which accelerates its development in the first year. It also contains a fragment of DNA from the eel-like ocean pout species, which helps to switch on the Chinook gene. The altered fish stops growing when it reaches normal size.
In its analysis, the FDA said the modified fish was chemically and biologically no different from a conventional Atlantic salmon. It offers a commercial advantage because it can reach market weight in 1.5 years to two years, about half the time required for a regular Atlantic salmon.
"There's an opportunity here to re-establish a domestic salmon industry with land-based aquaculture," said Ronald Stotish, president and chief executive officer of the fish's developer, AquaBounty Technologies Inc. of Waltham, Mass., who attended the FDA meeting. Out of some 1.5 million tons of Atlantic salmon produced globally each year, the U.S. consumes about 450,000 tons, almost all of it imported, according to Mr. Stotish.
But Jaydee Hanson, senior policy analyst at the Center for Food Safety, an advocacy group in Washington, D.C., that is campaigning against the salmon, said some of the safety studies were based on sample sizes that were too small. Several of the key studies were based on sample sizes of about 30 fish, while others had slightly more.
"A minimum of 100 fish should have been required," said Mr. Hanson, who spoke at the meeting. "The data isn't enough—the FDA should ask for more."
Mr. Stotish of AquaBounty defended the test data as sufficient. But during Monday's meeting, several panelists expressed concerns about the data, though they said there was no reason to believe the salmon wasn't safe.
The fish story is part of a larger global trend. Driven by a growing population, higher food prices and the lack of clear-cut evidence that genetically modified food is harmful to human health, there has been a growing global acceptance of products once derided as "Frankenfoods." That's especially true in developing countries.
Genetically altering food can offer several benefits, scientists say. A crop can be engineered to provide larger yields, to be more tolerant of pesticides, or to better resist drought or pests. Sometimes, they may be cheaper to produce. Many countries are racing to take advantage of genetically modified (or GM) food.
In a significant but little-noticed move last December, China declared that certain strains of GM rice and corn were safe to produce and consume.
That step endorsed the use of biotechnology for the planet's most important food crop, rice, which feeds half of humanity, and the biggest animal-feed crop, corn. While further field trials are needed, industry experts expect Chinese GM rice and corn to be produced in two to three years.
South Africa grows GM corn. Brazil and Pakistan grow GM soybeans and corn. India has been growing GM cotton for several years. A recent push to commercialize India's first GM food crop—a pest-resistant eggplant—was recently put on hold on safety grounds.
In 2009, global acreage used to grow GM crops rose 6.8% to 330 million acres from 309 million acres in 2008, according to the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications, a GM industry group. Almost half of the global acreage was planted in developing countries.
Farmers world-wide pay roughly $9 billion annually for GM seed, according to seed-industry estimates. There are several developers of genetically modified crops, of which Monsanto Co. of St. Louis is the largest.
Europe has long been extremely cautious about planting GM crops. But in late July, the European Commission approved the import of six GM corn varieties for use in food and animal feed, though not for cultivation in Europe itself. In the same month, the commission also proposed new rules allowing each of its member states to choose whether or not to grow an approved GM crop within its borders. So far, the only EU-approved GM crop is a high-starch potato engineered for industrial use.
On the animal front, scientists at the University of Guelph in Canada have created a genetically modified pig that can better digest and process phosphorus, reducing production costs. The animals are cheaper to feed because they don't need phosphorus supplements—a chemical vital to a pig's diet but expensive for farmers to buy. The pig's developers also claim that because animals release 30% to 70% less phosphorus in their waste, they're good for the environment. Swine waste is a significant source of pollution.
Enviropig, which some critics have already dubbed "Frankenswine," is still under review by two Canadian regulatory agencies, Health Canada and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. A few months ago, another agency, Environment Canada, approved production of the animals as long as they are strictly contained. The FDA and Canadian authorities are still reviewing data about the pig to see if it's safe to eat.
In the U.S., GM crops were introduced in 1996, and are a regular part of the food supply, including corn, soybeans and sugar. "If you eat any of those products, you have an 85% or greater possibility that you are eating a GM food," said Marion Nestle, professor of nutrition at New York University.
AquaBounty created its first genetically altered salmon in 1989, and submitted its initial set of data to the FDA in 1995. So far, it has accumulated data from 10 generations of the animals. The company has far-flung operations—it is based in the U.S., its stock trades in London and it has fisheries in Canada and Panama.
Fish grown from the engineered eggs are all female and sterile. To prevent an accidental escape into the sea, AquaBounty wants the FDA to approve the fish only for inland fisheries.
In its scientific assessment, the FDA said that the genetically altered salmon posed "no additional allergenic risk than control Atlantic salmon."
Still, worries abound. Some 20 environmental and consumer groups have submitted joint comments to the FDA panel identifying what they believed were flaws in how AquaBounty sterilizes and isolates the modified fish, and the high volume of antibiotics that may be required to produce them in factory farms.
AquaBounty's Mr. Stotish said, "That's preposterous and totally designed to frighten people. The data doesn't support their accusation at all."
On Tuesday, the FDA will hold a hearing on how the fish and products made from it should be labeled for consumers. It's not clear when the FDA will make a final decision about the fish.
If approved, the fish likely won't show up in the nation's food supply for two or three years.
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Well, there are good guys and there are bad guys
And there are crooks and criminals
There are doctors and there are lawyers
And there are folks like you and me
So, let's get high while the radio's on
Just relax and sing a song
Drive your car up on the lawn
Let me play your guitar
—Camper Van Beethoven, "Good Guys and Bad Guys"
To see the whole picture, we have to travel back in time, and many miles away. California's Inland Empire in the early '80s was a hardcore haven—not the sort of place you'd expect a bunch of cagey, cultish pop-rockers to flourish. Camper Van Beethoven, is often cited as stylistic forbear of what would come to be known as "indie" or "college rock," but the terminology is less significant than the attitude.
"It [was] sort of a joke, but sort of not," says the band's frontman, David Lowery, perched in front of a computer in the den of the historic Cobbham house he shares with his wife and manager Velena Vego. "Camper Van Beethoven was a very odd band to be in in 1983."
In person, Lowery exudes a certain jaded awareness, the same brash and cloudy self-satisfaction that is at the heart of his music. His wordy lyricism has often bordered on the banal (see the beloved "Take the Skinheads Bowling") but has also always seemed weirdly sagittate, aimed at some partially obscured (internal?) target.
"Even at their most lysergic… they were always pretty studently," wrote Jon Dolan in a 2003 Chicago Reader article. "When indie rock rolled around, we'd call it 'snarky,' but Lowery's mean spirit seemed to come from a real sense of disappointment; he could poke fun at hippies and punks and pseudointellectuals all he wanted, but he was staring in a mirror."
The band's quirky, literate rock bore signs of ska and world music but was grounded in a decidedly Californian jangle—think a marginally more polished Pavement, years before that group cheekily debated the merits of having "Two States"—and Camper, in the mid-'80s, churned out ultra-weird, insta-classic records at a steady clip. Consider Telephone Free Landslide Victory, a scrappy pop album that appeared amidst a sea of blistering West Coast punk and whose first song was called "The Day That Lassie Went to the Moon."
The just-released La Costa Perdida, Camper's eighth official studio album (its first since 2004), is perhaps the most straight-up record the band has ever made, a 10-track mixture of earnest, melodic love songs ("Come Down the Coast") and classic CVB cheek ("Peaches in the Summertime"). It is a fine addition to an enviable discography, and Lowery is quick to compliment his cohorts.
"Those guys are really good, quick, fast players," he says of his bandmates. "What they have up here [pointing to his head], getting it into their hands, that's the good thing about Jonathan [Segel], Victor [Krummenacher] and Greg [Lisher]."
La Costa Perdida sounds, too, like a band revitalized by the realization of its own influence. Vego recalls that, prior to returning to the stage in 2002 after a decade of inactivity, Lowery fretted that perhaps Camper had been abandoned to time. A string of sold-out shows—and the support of modern indie masters like Modest Mouse—proved otherwise.
The approval of Lowery's fellow artists clearly means something to him. He is enthused about the new album, but he's equally jazzed to discuss the highlight reel. Throughout our conversation, tales of early successes—opening for Minutemen, for Dead Kennedys, for R.E.M.—abound, as do memories of networking in a pre-Internet age.
"One of them, I don't remember who, wrote a review for Maximumrocknroll, basically making it cool for the punk rock kids to like us," he recalls. "These are the small things—you're like, wow, if we hadn't had that, I don't know if we would've gotten our chance."
Lowery recalls the first comment that appeared under "Letter to Emily White at NPR All Songs Considered," the most-viewed post by far on his Trichordist blog.
"We're gonna turn you into Lars Ulrich," the comment read, a reference to the Metallica drummer who took on then-filesharing giant Napster and quickly became Internet enemy number one.
ICYMI: Last June, White, a young NPR music intern, wrote a blog post about having no connection to physical music and innocently proposed a "universal database," where "everyone would have convenient access to everything that has ever been recorded."
Lowery's unsolicited response was a passionate, pedantic indictment of the system ("the new boss," as he likes to call it), that murky, quasi-legal miasma of online streaming and sharing that has led to a dramatic decrease in artists' revenues. His letter lamented the "fundamental shift in principals and morality… about who gets to control and exploit the work of an artist." Controversially, Lowery linked the new boss in no uncertain terms to the suicides of two longtime—and debt-burdened—musician friends, Mark Linkous and Vic Chesnutt.
The response was swift, a barrage of online attacks from tech folks and free culture adherents—"Freehadists," as Lowery not-so-subtly calls them—who took issue with his comments and aimed, not so subtly, to take him down.
Many painted a picture of Lowery as a bitter, vengeful failure. "Why don't you face it. Most people don't want to hear your music," replied a particularly animated Bob Lefsetz, the industry contrarian who has made a career out of, well, ranting on the Internet.
One of the most widely shared responses came from DigSin CEO Jay Frank, who concocted a post titled "Is Stealing Music Really the Problem?" that cited Google figures purporting to show "less than 50 people per month in the entire world are even showing intent to steal [Lowery's] music." The problem, Frank argued, was not piracy but indie "neophytes" like Lowery, who resist change while major labels adapt and benefit.
Lowery, an early proponent of new technology and filesharing who has long offered up free audio recordings of Camper concerts online, laughs that last charge off and explains that what he is against is a furtive and widespread sort of corporate profit that occurs without artist compensation.
"There's this nihilistic version of freedom that these companies are peddling, and it supports a commercial entity," he says. "And you have a lot of people who are basically paid to argue those points by these commercial institutions."
It was Frank's statistics that bugged Lowery. In a claim that he acknowledges smacks of "far-fetched, tinfoil hat stuff," he says the tech CEO's dismissive response was engineered by Silicon Valley itself. So convinced was he of this, in fact, that he called Frank to verify his hunch.
"I called him and asked him how he got his facts, and he was obviously taken aback… And he goes, 'Are you sure?' And I go, 'Yeah, this doesn't work, that's not really right.' And he says, 'But I talked to Google that day, and they showed me how to do it.'"
Lowery smiles incredulously. "Why the fuck is Google, a company that made $34 billion in profit last year, worried about a fucking indie rocker like me?" he asks, before adding, righteously, "That's kind of cool, man."
Three decades in music is a long damn time. Let's take a moment to really dig the fact that Camper Van Beethoven, a 30-year-old band of 50-year-old weirdos, is still going strong. Here, smack-dab in the middle of the future, where fanzines have been replaced by blogs at a thousand-to-one ratio and a fair to good amount of human discourse takes place in the form of animated .gifs, is a band led by David Lowery. The Cold War is over, but he is still singing and playing guitar, still negotiating, in his own way, the world of good guys and bad guys, of crooks and criminals.
People still get high, but the "radio" of the classic Camper tune quoted above has given way to Spotify, while Lowery's faux-hippie sentiment has shifted, given way to a serious war waged on an emerging culture that would seek to discredit art by quite literally devaluing it.
Paradoxically, the backlash to Lowery's blog screed not only engendered an important conversation, but also established its author as one of that conversation's most influential voices: a simple Google search for "David Lowery" reveals pages and (presumably undoctored, but you never know) pages of passionate debates on piracy, filesharing and the new frontier of music.
Likewise, Vego recounts the phone calls that have arrived in Cobbham from artists with godly names like Waits and Burnett—supporters, even if they remain mostly in the shadows, afraid, perhaps, of being Ulrich'ed.
"I don't think people realized, when David wrote that letter, it wasn't against [Emily White] per se, it was just kind of a door to be able to express this," says Vego. "But, as David pointed out in his letter to her, he was very close to Mark Linkous. He [was] very close to Vic Chesnutt."
"They're right there," Lowery says, gesturing toward a picture window that frames a lush Georgia yard. Across the way sits a house—Chesnutt's house.
"That was the thing," Vego continues. "We've made our money. Cracker [because of that band's hit song "Low"]—we get paid. But a lot of our peers do not. And we're seeing it still, to this day."
Paid or not, the sudden weight of the creative world—and the impact of the Internet's ire—is enough to wear on a man, and Lowery half-jokes about allowing himself just one year of martyrdom, of blog warfare, before he passes the torch to some equally fervent, equally like-minded soul. Of that deadline, he notes, "It's getting close."
WHO: Camper Van Beethoven, Muuy Biien
WHERE: 40 Watt Club
WHEN: Thursday, January 24


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To Wisconsin and Back!
What better way to train for the Ironman than to spend a weekend in Iron County, Wisconsin? I was lucky enough to be invited by my friend, Laurie (who is also training for IMoo), to head down to Hurley, Wisconsin, via bicycle. But the real icing on the cake? We were to sign up for the Paavo Nurmi marathon as a relay team the next day. This may sound like a nice, easy, breezy training weekend, but it's more than 100 miles from Houghton to Hurley, over glacial cut mountains. And so the story unfolds…
Laurie, along with a few other women (Ann and Diane), Adam, and myself met at Laurie's mother's place in Atlantic Mine, about three miles west of Houghton. These ladies are extreme! Like I said, Laurie is training for IMoo, too, and she's already done it before in 2007. She knows the ropes, and was able to give Adam and I some excellent insight during the ride down, our downtime, and the ride back home. Ann and Diane (along with Amy, who joined us for the half-marathon on Saturday) train with Laurie and on their own. They are easily convinced to be put through the ringer, all for a little athletic fun, I suppose. Ann and Amy are excellent runners; I remember when I first moved back to Houghton in '07, I raced against Ann in the Canal Run. She's one tough cookie. And Amy kicked my butt last year at the Canal Run. I tried so hard to keep with her, but she dropped me at mile 5 and I never caught back up. Diane joined Ladies' Road Riding nights a few times, and she is very excitable and can hammer hard on her Orbea. So I knew these chicks were some serious business. Adam and I were in for a real training treat.
On Friday morning, we loaded up the Durango (Amy would be meeting us that evening in Hurley and was Diane's partner for the relay) and headed off on our bikes. It was a lot of climb climb climb, descend descend descend, not in that particular order. The roads were great, though. I absolutely love the route along M-26 from Atlantic Mine toward Ontonagon. It's great pavement, typically not too much traffic, and rolling hills with great scenery. The trees kind of canopy the road. Just outside Toivola, along a beautiful stretch of highway, a deer popped out of the woods and ran along side of us. It was a little unnerving not know when he'd want to cross the road, but we gave him space and the little guy jumped across the highway. We flew down the hills just east of M38, but once traffic started picking up a little more (there seemed to be a lot of RVs out there this weekend), things got a little more hairy.
The ladies, myself, and Adam pushed through the rolling terrain. Some of the hills were long and gradual, and some were the out-of-the-saddle approach. It was good practice in getting in and out of the saddle, and I am so excited to be comfortable on my race bike. There were some downhills that we'd fly on, and it was great to be riding such a long distance with a group of people that were so excited to be out and doing something like that. We would enjoy our breaks, and Adam and I had a chance to hammer out +20mph in some areas.
We stopped every 20 miles or so at gas stations for a stretch and a snack, and it made for the perfect rest intervals. Adam and I told each other we didn't want to push it too hard with the race the next day, but we found ourselves cruising at 21-23mph on some stretches… which brings me back to the rest intervals- very well deserved! Unfortunately, I disobeyed all rules about race-day nutrition and was a little too excited to eat garlic rice crackers and dill pickle chips from the grocery store in Bruce Crossing. Luckily, the IMoo aid stations probably won't have garlic crackers and dill pickle chips. If they do, I think I will still be ok… because I really don't want to eat either of those anytime soon. You can check out the bike route that we took here on my Garmin Connect. I didn't get the entire route, because after starting off from some of the gas stations I didn't always hit the start button on my watch, but you'll get the drift (and 103 out of 106 of the miles).
Anyway, by the time we got to
Ironwood, it was just around 3pm, Laurie, Ann, and myself went for a quick transition run. We then settled into the hotel room where we enjoyed a well-deserved rest. Amy arrived around 630pm, and we ventured to The Liberty Bell for some food. The claim to fame of the Bell is their pizza, and Laurie was really excited to go. Unfortunately, the service was terrible. Win some, lose some, I suppose. I had the chicken Cordon Bleu, which wasn't the most delicious pre-race meal I've ever had, and I was still quite hungry afterward. Luckily for me, and the rest of the group, there was a gelato stand right next door! Cherry chocolate almond screamed my name.
We got ready for the morning and went to bed. In the morning, Diane drove Laurie, Amy, and Adam to the bus pickup. I ended up getting really bad stomach cramps (usually get them from not eating enough) and was balled up on the bed while Diane was away. It cleared up about an hour before we were to leave to go to the half-way point. Phew! That's the last time I'm eating a high-protein, no carbohydrate dinner pre-race, and I am sure the junk food all day didn't help.
The halfway point of the marathon, where the handoff was located, was in Gile. This was a really cool park near the flowage.
The half-marathon point, in Gile, was right by a park and was a great spot for a relay transition. The leaders came through while Ann and I were warming up, and it was exciting to see the mix of marathoners, half marathoners, and five person relay folks. I was jogging along the route that the first-half follows, and saw Amy coming in. She was cookin'! I hurried back to the handoff location and waited for Adam.
Adam coming into the exchange
Laurie coming into the exchange
Adam came into the exchange quickly, and the chip-relay was smooth. His time was around 1:47, which is a 3:33 marathon. Being that his "goal race" would be a marathon under 4hrs, I'd say he'd be able to crush that goal. So, that's exciting!!
After I wrapped the chip around my ankle, I took off and headed through the rolling hills. I felt good the whole race. There were a few climbs that seemed to keep going, but nothing too daunting for the 13.1miles until the end. I tried to stay relax, not push it too hard at any point, just keep focused. I paid attention to my form, keeping my shoulders relaxed, and running forward. I kept an average 7:27 pace, which is about a 1:37.35 half marathon. There were a few miles that were over 7:30s, with one even at 7:53, but there was also a steep hill in that one, so I wasn't too worried about it. Having a strong finish really ma
de the whole race worthwhile. My time was not too bad at all for such a hilly course, and had I run the half marathon open, I am confident I would have placed in the top spots. It made for a great marathon-pace run, because for me to do a 7:27min/mile pace on a flat marathon course would give me a personal best (right on 3:15, which is my current goal). Check out the elevation chart:
Post-race, it started to rain a little, and I was cold but not really that excited about the Mojakka (fish) stew. I found a cup of Mountain Dew and a banana, and waited for Ann to come through. I tried to cool down with a quick jog, but my legs were tired and I wasn't too excited to run anymore. We finally found Amy and Adam, so Ann, Diane, and I were able to shower at the hotel before leaving Ironwood. We stopped at the Dairy Queen in Bessemer for some ice cream (and lunch, I suppose). Yay for a well-deserved M&M blizzard!! I slept the entire way home…
The Paavo Nurmi would be a sweet marathon to do, it would definitely be challenging and not necessarily something I'd try to get a PR for. All in all it was an extraordinary weekend with some awesome athletes.


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Q. What are some cures for heart burn?
Heartburn (or GERD) is more common in people who are overweight, so exercising and the proper diet can help with weight loss, thereby decreasing the pressure on the stomach. Avoiding tight-fitting clothes also helps to decrease abdominal pressure.
As for diet, one that is high in refined carbohydrates has been implicated in heartburn symptoms. Therefore, switching to complex carbohydrates may be helpful (ie. brown rice instead of white, whole wheat bread, etc.). Those who consume the most fiber have a lower chance of developing GERD. Other people notice that their heartburn is worse when they consume the following: alcohol, fatty or spicy foods, coffee and caffeine, and chocolate. Consuming smaller meals has also been effective.
And finally, do not lie down after eating. Many people also find that raising the head of their bed 6-8 inches can be helpful. Pillows do not have the same effect though, so make sure that you are actually raising the bed itself.
As heartburn may be indicative of more serious issues, it is always best to get it checked out.
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My husband had reflux so bad that it made his aesophogus raw. My grand son has the same problem from babyhood is it an inherited problem


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The Replace Battery light is on (picture 1), but as you can see in picture 2, there never was a battery to begin with. This is just used for internet, and has been working fine for the 6 months that I've lived here. At some point today, the box decided it wants a battery. I've tried unplugging it and plugging it back in, but it really wants a battery for some reason. How do I convince it that it has never needed a battery? Thanks for any help.
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As long as it is not beeping then just ignore it. There will be no impact to your internet service. Otherwise you will have to schedule a tech to come out and install a newer power adapter.
Thank you for your response. Unfortunately, the internet has not been working since the light came on.
The battery is only used for phone services. It should have no impact on internet.
try simply turning the ont off and back on and it should reset.
or call 1-800-VERIZON and they can restart it from their end.
The issue was that the router needed to be restarted. I saw the "Replace Battery" light and assumed that was the issue, but I guess that's always been red and I never noticed. Thank you for your help.


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Newcastle Gateshead's bid to become Capital of Culture in 2008 has been given a boost after a leading UK tourism expert was recruited to promote the region abroad.
Jeff Hamblin, the former chief executive of the British Tourist Authority, has been hired to raise the profile of the bid overseas.
Mr Hamblin, 57, who was born in Newcastle, said: "I think there is a confidence developing because the actions that have been taken have been dynamic and very visible.
"Twenty years ago people didn't want to go onto Newcastle Quayside, but now it is the focus of the city and provides the link which pulls the bid together.
"Already in the past two weeks I have been to Madrid, Copenhagen and Amsterdam, talking about the progress we have made here."
Claiming the title of European Capital of Culture will create an estimated 17,000 jobs and bring £640 million into the North East economy.
Newcastle Gateshead Initiative bosses believe Mr Hamblin's role will prove a vital tool in their bid to win the title.
Neil Rami, chief executive of NGI, said: "What has been lacking is the resource and perhaps the focus to give this region the visibility areas like Wales and Scotland have enjoyed."
Mr Hamblin began his career in tourism with the Northumbria Tourist Board in the early seventies, before heading up the East Midlands Tourist Board in 1978. He moved to the British Tourist Authority in 1985.
He was awarded an OBE in the New Year's Honours List in 1999 for services to the British Tourism Industry and received a British Hospitality Association Award in 2002.


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The Tremendous Value of Growth Hormone Pills
You have probably seen a number of advertisements online for growth hormone pills and are wondering whether or not they can deliver on expectations. Such pills do promise a lot so you are considering your options to actually make a purchase.
You might even be considering purchasing a several month supply – not a bad idea provided the supplement does deliver on your expectations.
Most consumers that are new to the world of health and fitness supplements just might be a bit overwhelmed at the sheer volume of different products being offered so it is no surprise some might be a bit wary of whether or not HGH capsules are for them.
To help out those that might be on the proverbial fence regarding whether or not they should make a purchase, a closer look at what growth hormone pills have to offer can reveal the answer.
What Do The Growth Hormone Pills Do?
As with any other supplement, growth hormone pills are intended to help provide the body with support in areas where it is deficient. Once the deficiency is corrected, the body can function in the harmonious manner it is intended.
Human growth hormone (HGH) is produced by the body natural and it has an effect on all manner of different aspects of the human body's metabolism. As we age, our body begins to slow down its production of HGH.
This means it becomes harder to burn fat, sleep properly, build lean muscle mass, maintain energy and mental clarity levels, and recuperate injuries. Conversely, when you take supplement pills capable of boosting HGH production, your body might no longer have to suffer from the aforementioned problems.
Does this mean that HGH pills are a wonder solution to all your metabolic problems?
Well, making an assessment such as that would be somewhat of a hyperbole. However, if are taking quality HGH pills, you might experience different improvements in the way in which your body functions. While you won't be able to turn the hands of time back again, you can maximize the efficiency of how your body works.
The Capsule Options
Originally, HGH was only capable of receiving HGH supplementation via injections. Not many people are interested in having injection therapy performed on them no matter how potentially beneficial HGH may be.
They also might be less than thrilled about taking a synthetic product that might not mesh well with the natural harmony of the human metabolism. This is why capsule versions of HGH are appealing. It is not exactly like taking a capsule is an invasive strategy.
Best of all, many of the growth hormone pills on the market are all-natural.
Natural Ingredients
Many of the different growth hormone pills on the market are made from all-natural ingredients. There are many natural herbs that can have an amazing effect on the body's ability to produce HGH. When these herbs are combined into a stack. their effect can be quite significant.
This is not to say a manufacturer can mix and match a host of ingredients and end up with a top of the line supplement. Each manufacturer will have its own proprietary blend crafted via a unique lab process. Quality levels will vary among the different name brands on the market. Look for the one with the best reviews to ensure you get the best one.
So, what would be the best way to get the most out of these capsules?
Follow the Directions
It might seem to be somewhat of a cliche to say you should just follow the directions on the packaging. It may be a cliche but many consumers will make the common error of dismissing those directions and opt to make their own judgments on how to use the supplement.
Doing so is really little more than guessing and guessing is never the right way to use anything much less supplements that are intended to work a specific way.
Taking anything less might undermine the ability to get any benefits from it and taking too many will not deliver any extra improvements.
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Definition of Activity
Definition Last Updated 17-Dec-2015 12:51
Activity is continuous change in one or more observables during a specified period of time, which, if the activity is current, is open-ended to the future and may be open-ended in the past; an entity engaged in activity has that activity as a behaviour is an performer.An activity is recognised pattern of change, i.e. a mapping from particular initial states to particular outcomes, which may or may not be goals.
Activity is a defined term of Enterprise Architecture. Activity is a defined term of Business Analysis.
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Activity vs. Behaviour
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All behaviour is activity, but not all activities are behaviours: behaviour requires the identification of an entity to which the activity can be attributed; activity does not.
- "The lioness is creeping through the long grass." describes a behaviour: the lioness is attributed the activity
- "Some of the long grass is waving." describes an activity: some grass is not an entity to which the activity can be attributed
- "There is movement in the long grass." is ambiguous: "in" suggests that only part of the long grass is moving, but it is not well-identified enough to be an entity; but, if the emphasis were on "the long grass", suggesting a defined border separating long grass from shorter grass, the long grass might be in fact be an entity in its own right1If this type of ambiguity (not some actual threatening movement in long grass somewhere) turns out to be a significant problem for anybody I would a) be surprised b) like to know about it. .
An Activity
Note that the performer engaged in an activity need not be aware of or even capable of recognising the initial states or outcomes that define an activity: activity may just happen.
Is Waiting an Activity – or the Absence of Activity?
According to the definition given here, when a performer does not engage in a particular activity, or perform a particular action until caused to do so by some external event, the performer is simply not doing a particular thing, the performer is not necessarily inactive: the performer may be doing something else.
When, for example, a piece of hardware or software is said to be waiting for input it may be:
- Polling (repeatedly observing) the input channel as fast as possible (e.g. in a tight causal loop) or it may be
- Polling a timer prior to checking the input channel at particular intervals
- Inactive until triggered into activity by a specific signal such as an interrupt
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|If this type of ambiguity (not some actual threatening movement in long grass somewhere) turns out to be a significant problem for anybody I would a) be surprised b) like to know about it.


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"Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you." Isaiah 49:15 ESV
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Reconstruction of NW 4th Street from Jackson Street to Washington Street with re-configured lanes, inclusion of a median from Jackson Street to Washington Street, and a roundabout at Jackson Street.
In 2017, the City of Brainerd, along with Crow Wing County, consulted with Bolton and Menk to conduct a traffic study on this corridor to identify needed safety and traffic improvements in this area. From the study, the City applied for Local Road Improvement Program funds and was awarded $800,000 for this outlined improvements. The City has contracted with Bolton and Menk for design and construction engineering services for this project, to be constructed in 2020.
The traffic study documents from the study can be seen at the below links:
Preliminary Concept Drawing (PDF)
Preliminary Cost Estimate (PDF)
Existing Traffic Condition Memo (PDF)
Future Traffic Condition Memo with Improvements (PDF)
Connection and designation of the Cuyuna Lakes State Trail in Brainerd along Trunk Highway 210 from 5th Avenue NE to N 8th Street and along Norwood Street from S 8th Street to the Buffalo Hills Trail.
The City of Brainerd has been appropriated $1,100,000 for the connection of the Cuyuna Lakes State Trail in Brainerd through the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. This money was appropriated in 2014 for construction of the trail in Deerwood. The left over funds were re-appropriated to the City for the trail connection in Brainerd. It is anticipated after this connection is constructed, the City of Brainerd will enter into a Joint Powers Agreement with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources for designation of this segment and other existing trails in Brainerd as the Cuyuna Lakes State Trail. The City has contracted with Short Elliot Hendrickson, Inc. for design and construction engineering services on this proposed trail segment.


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Topic : Strategic plan dashboard examples.
Author : Claudius Slater.
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To make a business plan template usually begins with the name and the details of the owners of the plan. This is followed by a table of contents that constitutes an executive summary, a general description of the company, the products and services the company offers, the marketing plan, the operational plan, and the management and organizational structures. These elements complete the narrative part of the business template. The financial part of the template should contain a financial statement, startup expenses and capitalization details, and a complete financial plan that encompasses the goals of the company.
With a wide range of free business plan templates available online, be sure to search for one that suits your business. There is no point using a plan designed for an accountants firm when you are starting a fast food franchise. Plans suitable for Windows users are available as MS Word documents and Excel spreadsheets. While Excel can be daunting if you are not familiar with it, plans on Excel are often very good to work with. Since Excel is one of the best spreadsheet programs out there it is well worth learning how to use it.
There are a number of ways of going about the process of writing a good business plan. One of the most tried and time tested ways that works well is using a business plan template. While these are easily available online, some of them are way better than the others. A lot depends on the approach that goes into writing the business plan. However, the best business plan template is that which meets all your business needs and requirements by offering you a high level of customization and a professional layout of all the content that you would like to include. So, rather than looking around for an existing plan and then designing your own plan along the same lines, it would be a better idea to use software that allows you to create your own template.


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Invisible System
Street Clan (Harper Diabate Records, 2011)
Following up on their Songlines World Music Award Best Newcomer nominated CD Punt (Made in Ethopia), Invisible System, headed up by Dan Harper, is back with their sophomore recording Street Clan. Recorded in Ethiopia, Mali and the United Kingdom on Mr. Harper's off time from his gig as an aid worker, Street Clan is another fantastical ride with guest appearances by Portishead's Adrian Utley, Skip McDonald, Eat Static and The Ozirc Tentacles and percussionist Stuart Fisher. Delving into a razor-sharp otherworldliness, Invisible System tumbles headlong into an edgy course filled with plenty of twists and turns.
Packed with 17 tracks, Street Clan is a whopping crossbreed of genres, covering the map from dance to dub to reggae to rock to post-punk and to psychedelia. With such a daunting cornucopia of sounds and divergent directions, I wonder if perhaps it wouldn't have been wiser to break up the tracks into two different recordings.
Personally, I found some of the post-punk, thrash tracks a little discordant with the overall sound. It's one of those things where you have an idea of where the artist is going, but you're not sure you want to follow. Listeners shouldn't be discouraged because there are some excellent tracks on Street Clan.
Invisible System's vocalist Zewditu Tadesse hits the mark on opening track "Tizita" against an eerie background of electronic, shadowy guitar and clever percussion. Equally good is the track "Ambassel" with Mimi's Azmari traditional band and backed by some slick guitar licks. Dipping into the edgy, "Bone Flaps" is all guitar fire, drums, bass and Zewditu's vocals in a sort of African punk homage.
Standout gems include the trippy reggae tinged "Woman's Love," the electronica charged "Live Up to Love" that screams trance joy and the hypnotic "Oumabetty" with its mix of rhythms, mournful sax lines and liquid vocals. "Teenage Lion" gets a jacked up treatment by Invisible System's vocalists Zewditu Tadesse and the husky voiced Dennis Wint against a sway-backed reggae beat that pulses with sheer goodness.
Street Clan is akin some wild and wonderful underground cave club where the musical colors keep shifting and you just can't help jumping into the very center.
Buy the album:
- In North America: Street Clan. Other recordings available: Punt
- In Europe: Street Clan. Other recordings available: Punt
Author: TJ Nelson
TJ Nelson is a regular CD reviewer and editor at World Music Central. She is also a fiction writer. Check out her latest book, Chasing Athena's Shadow.
Set in Pineboro, North Carolina, Chasing Athena's Shadow follows the adventures of Grace, an adult literacy teacher, as she seeks to solve a long forgotten family mystery. Her charmingly dysfunctional family is of little help in her quest. Along with her best friends, an attractive Mexican teacher and an amiable gay chef, Grace must find the one fading memory that holds the key to why Grace's great-grandmother, Athena, shot her husband on the courthouse steps in 1931.
Traversing the line between the Old South and New South, Grace will have to dig into the past to uncover Athena's true crime.


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Best time to travel
The season in France is from May until the end of October where you get a great combination of warm weather with plenty of sunshine and consistent swell. From June until the end of August is what we call the peak season, this is when France really turns it on, the weather is perfect with hot temperatures during the day, and mild temperatures at night. The surf during these months is also epic. After August the temperatures start to drop a little both during the day and at night, but in return you are also rewarded with empty beaches, and even better waves.
The mild winters and long, warm summers along the Atlantic coast are reminiscent of a sub-tropical Mediterranean climate.
Air & Water Temperature
Air temperature along the French coast varies between 23 to 27°C in the peak season, and between 21 & 24°C in the surrounding months. Water temperature never gets over 20°C, and can be as low as 16 at the very beginning & end of the season.
We always recommend wearing a wetsuit in France, the water isn't super cold so a 2mm wetsuit will usually suffice, but the team will chat with you and give you some advice about what type of wetsuit will be the best fit for you, and the time of year it is.
On especially warm summer days it is possible to surf in a bikini or wetsuit.
Surf Spots
The French Atlantic Coast is a melting pot of locals and international travellers who may just be visiting, or who have decided to call this piece of paradise their home. The beautiful golden sand beaches, the perfect weather & the fun waves make it hard to leave. There are plenty of breaks in the area that cater to plenty of different skill levels.
Moliets Plage
The beach break is a local favourite for the team from our nearby surf camp. It's ideal to catch your first waves. You start by catching some white water and mastering the take-off, then once you get more confident you work your way out and start on getting green waves. Like all beach breaks, the sand banks wander and move along the coast so every year the break is slightly different after big winter storms.
Saint Girons Plage
Here you have 12 kilometres of beach, with countless peaks and breaks that range from hollow Hossegor-esque waves, to mellow beachbreaks. There are areas perfect to catch your first waves and also peaks perfect for more advanced surfers to catch the wave of your life.
Côte Des Basque
This spot is near Biarritz, and is essentially the original surf spot of the entire French surf industry. The first surfers started surfing this spot 60 years ago, and since then the French surf scene has exploded. The spot is sheltered from annoying northerly onshore winds and has 2 main peaks, the first is by the channel directly in front of the beachfront promenade, the second is further south. The long beach has plenty more peaks however, and it's not uncommon to share a peak with just you and your friends if you get lucky.
Grande Plage
The city surf spot in Biarritz is a local favourite because of its location directly in the heart of town for not only surfers, but also beach goers. At the south end of the beach you have some impressive boulders, and when you are out waiting for a wave you can look towards land and see the impressive architecture of a historical French town. Along the beach you have plenty of lefts & rights, and the best waves seem to roll in between low to mid tide. Another interesting point about this wave is that the lights on the promenade reach out into the line-up so you can surf well past sunset.
Le Penon
The loved stretch of sand is at the northern end of Hossegor and is a spot where you will find cliché French beach breaks waves like you would find in any international surfer magazine. The spot picks up any swell, so if it is too small everywhere else, you are likely to find a wave at one of the many sand banks at Le Penon. And when it gets big, it gets really big, and really hollow here, especially from low to mid-tide.
Travel Info
Travel Documents
When travelling to France we advise adults, as well as children, to take a valid passport.
All of our camps are easily accessible by bus, train, car & flights. The bus goes along the coast and will stop near all our locations. If arriving by train you have the best option is to head to Bordeaux, same applies if you are flying. RyanAir & EasyJet both fly to Bordeaux as do plenty of other airlines, so finding a cheap flight through websites such as skyscanner is no problem at all.
If you plan to bring your pet on holiday, make sure our pet has all the necessary travel documents, including certification that it has been immunised, especially against rabies.
So that your Puresurfcamps trip to France is a total success, we have put together a small list of do's and don'ts.
Definitely check out a small Boulangerie (Bakery), the smaller the better, to try some of the French pastries and croissants.
Get a good bottle of local wine with some grapes, cheese and crackers, and enjoy a relaxing sunset along one of the many beachfront promenades.
Take a trip to Hossegor and check out one of the many surf outlets there.
Go to Biarritz and check out the beautiful French architecture of the old beachside city.
You can also jump across the border into Spain and go to one of the European culture capitals of San Sebastian. Here you can go visit amazing tapas bars, explore the twisted and architecturally stunning alleyways, visit museums & art galleries, or party into the early morning at one of the many nightclubs.
Visit Dune de Pilat, a massive sand dune wedged between a pine tree forest and ocean.
Spend an afternoon in Rue de Lac, where you can go mountain biking through the mountains, take paddle or SUP tours along the rivers and lakes in the region or go hiking.
Don't start fires down on the beach, and don't freedom camp. The locals don't appreciate it.
The French are a proud bunch, and sometimes get a little annoyed by having to speak English. If you can learn a couple of key phrases it will work wonders in warming the locals up.
Bikini and Boardshorts are perfect for the beach, not so much for cafés and bars however.
The French Atlantic Coast
Surfing along the French coast has developed into a vital part of the international surf scene over the last 60 years. The majority of all major surf labels have a European office along the French coast, and the pro tour makes a stop at least once a year. There are waves perfect for professionals who travel from around the world to surf the solid beach breaks, but also spots with ideal mellow waves for those who are looking to learn.
The majority of the coast consists of endless golden sand beaches dotted with the odd rock outcrop or breakwater that provides a selection of reef & pointbreaks for more advanced surfers. There are countless sand bars that are constantly shifting and creating new, and even more perfect surf spots along the beaches, which the team keep an eye on as to make sure you always get onto the best waves.
With the picturesque, yet very developed, French countryside right next to the surf you have an option for a surf trip for every type of traveller, for those looking for a luxurious apartment with lots of time spent exploring the surrounding wine region, to those looking to get as much surfing is as possible on a budget by staying in one of our camp grounds.
Learn to Surf in France
France, just like all our international surf camps, only hire the best surf coaches with not only plenty of experience and a fun attitude, but also the highest level of training and qualifications. We have years of experience along the French Atlantic, which means the guides and coaches know the coast like experienced locals. They will find the best waves for you and your skill level, and get you progressing quickly, while always keeping you smiling.
The price of our surf courses in France cost barely more than you could rent a surfboard and wetsuit for at most board rental stores, but you not only learn how to surf with professional coaches, but you also learn about the ocean theory including some basics on swell, tide and currents, as well as about being able to read conditions, picking the right waves & how to read weather reports.
Surf & Yoga Le Pin Sec
This surf camp offers it all: epic waves and qualified surf coaches, yoga with experienced teachers, a beachside location and amazing home cooked meals.
The surf & yoga camp is a perfect option for those of you looking for an active surf holiday to a warm, sunny climate. You not only get to enjoy plenty of time out in the surf, and taking part in rejuvenating yoga sessions, but there are also things like beach volleyball tournaments, longboard skateboards to rent, a miniramp onsite for you to learn on, as well as plenty of beach games for you to use. In the afternoons, you get to enjoy the teams home cooked gourmet meals, then retreat to the onsite bar with your new friends to enjoy a local wine & a perfect French sunset.
Nights are spent in comfortable wood cabins, referred to as sheddies, where you get at double bed and storage space to share with a friend or partner, where you get plenty of peace and quietto get your strength back for the following day of activities.


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Raspberry Lemon Roulade Recipe
This recipe makes two roulades.
A roulade, that is a rolled sponge cake, is one of the easiest desserts to make. The only ones I can think of that are easier or as easy are éclairs or perhaps a mousse. This recipe is for a lemon curd raspberry roulade. You can use cherry or what I do alot is mix 4 berries together to create a unique recipe. I decorate the outside of the roulade with a raspberry whipped cream, which I love. I would not recommend using a chocolate ganache as that would overpower the delicate filling. But if you're mad about chocolate, why not? Give it a try.
Before we begin, the hardest part of this recipe will be the cutting. The second hardest part will be rolling the roulade and keeping it nice and round.
The first step is to make the roulade sponge. The sponge cake is very similar to a pastry cream with flour. Brush the sponge with simple syrup. You can flavor the simple syrup if you wish.
The next step is to make the Lemon Curd.
Now, coat the sponge cake first with some raspberry jam or puree, depending on taste. I prefer a nice jam. Of course, you can make your own jam or reserve or preserve. I coat the whole sponge with the jam, enough to color the cake. And remember, this will be the inside of the roulade.
Make some whipped cream, using 1 cup of heavy cream and fold that into the lemon curd. Next, take the chilled lemon curd/whipped cream and spread it on the sponge.
What I like to do is to first pick a direction to roll the sponge and then coat the roulade leaving a 1/2 inch on three sides and about 1 1/2 inches in the direction of the roll, that is, at the end. That way, if you roll the roulade too lightly, you'll have some squish room. I like a 1/4 to 1/2 inch on the sides because I'm going to cut this off anyway and it's a little squish room. I like the 1 inch to 1/2 inch on the top so I can fold the center tightly.
Coating the sponge with lemon curd.
Now, gently roll the sponge into as tight a roll as you can manage, trying to make it nice and round. Then wrap the roulade in plastic and freeze. Freezing the roulade will make it easier to cut.
You may serve this dessert either completely thawed, it takes about 1 hour or you may serve it very chill. I like serving it almost frozen.
When you are going to serve the roulade, take it out of the freezer and decorate with whipped cream. I add raspberry liquor to my whipped cream and pipe it on with a decorating tip and then cut immediately. I also have the space and like plating immediately.
Now for the hard part, cutting. When I cut the roulade, I do not slice. I like to gently press down on the roulade and I make sure I dry wipe my blade before each cut so that the shipped cream does not stain the faces of the roulade. I also cut off the edges about 1/8 to 1/4 inch, so that each face is nice and flat.
There you have it. A beautiful dessert.
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