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Last week, the conservation organization American Rivers released its annual list of the nation's most-endangered rivers.
I got to thinking, what if we had a sister list of most-endangered aquifers?
After all, water from underground meets 20 percent of U.S. water demand for drinking, crop irrigation and everything else. It also provides the base flows that keep many rivers and streams from drying up during the summer months.
So groundwater is crucial to our economies and ecosystems, yet it's out of sight – and usually out of mind, as well.
Which is why a most-endangered aquifers list might help.
On such a list I would name the Ogallala Aquifer beneath the Great Plains, which supplies 27 percent of the nation's irrigated farmland and has undergone decades of depletion. I would include California's Central Valley aquifers, which are greatly over-pumped to grow the nation's fruits and vegetables.
I would add coastal aquifers in Florida and the Carolinas, which are threatened by the intrusion of seawater. In some areas, heavy pumping from those aquifers has reversed the hydraulic gradient: instead of groundwater flowing out to sea, ocean water moves in, polluting fresh drinking water with salt.
And then there's the groundwater I sipped for seventeen years while growing up on New York's Long Island. For most of that time, all I knew was that our household water came from the big water tower elevated high above our community. I didn't know that the source of water for our backyard wading pool, Saturday night baths and summer lemonade was beneath my feet.
But it was, and that made our water vulnerable to so many things we Long Islanders did on the land above it – from applying fertilizers to dumping waste products to paving over wetlands and woodlands. All that and more could damage the quality of the water we bathed in and drank. And it did.
Today, 3 million people call Long Island home. Some 80 percent of Nassau County, where I grew up, is developed. Most of the wetlands and open space are gone. But the sole source of drinking water remains the layered aquifers beneath the fish-shaped island.
In a wonderful new video, New York-based GRACE Communications Foundation lays out the unique challenges Long Islanders face in safeguarding their drinking water.
"As important as clean water is to economic health, it's even more important to human health," GRACE program director Kyle Rabin reminds us in the video.
Among the solutions put forth – curbing fertilizer and pesticide use, responsibly disposing of pharmaceuticals and hazardous waste rather than flushing them down the drain, maintaining septic systems to reduce nitrogen pollution, and protecting open space to promote rainwater infiltration and aquifer recharge.
"We have no Plan B once our drinking water is gone," warns Robert K. Sweeney with the New York State Assembly, who also appears in the video. "It's up to us to make sure that this resource is available for the future."
The video's opening segment is a must-see: on-the-street Long Islanders answer where they think their drinking water comes from.
Have a look. Have a laugh. And learn about the precious waters beneath our feet, and what we can do together to protect them.
Sandra Postel is director of the Global Water Policy Project and lead water expert for National Geographic's Freshwater Initiative. She is the author of several acclaimed books, including the award-winning Last Oasis, a Pew Scholar in Conservation and the Environment, and one of the "Scientific American 50."


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A Historic Debate on Free Love and Morality
Tuesday, April 17th, 2012
What's this, you say? Former Pepperdine University President Bill Banowsky standing—all smiles—with Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner? What occasion could have produced such strange bedfellows? The answer lies in our new digital collection of Historic Sound Recordings. On October 8, 1967, Dr. Banowsky, then minister of the Broadway Church of Christ in Lubbock, Texas, engaged in a much-publicized debate with Anson Mount, the religion editor for Playboy, on the topic of sex and morality. The photo above—with Mr. Mount on the left—was used to publicize the event.
Billed as a "clash of philosophies" between "Christianity and hedonism," the debate was held in Lubbock before an audience of 3000 college students. As the moderator suggests, the event showcased "two perspectives on how 1967 should be," as Mr. Mount argued for a humanist approach to sex based on situation ethics and Dr. Banowsky countered with a Christian perspective. As he put it during the debate: "I am affirming the moral principles of Christ, which honor the power, and majesty, and beauty of sex as the sacred, limited, exclusive gift of married love."
For Dr. Banowsky, who had already expressed an interest in returning to Pepperdine to oversee the move to Malibu, the debate was a catalytic moment in his meteoric career. Within four years he became President of Pepperdine University at the age of 34.
The recording of the debate is at once historic and timeless—it captures the public discourse on morality typical of the late 1960s, while maintaining relevance for today's listener. It is a frank, well-articulated, and thought provoking discussion on both sides of the issue. You can listen to this debate in its entirety in Pepperdine University's digital collection of Historic Sound Recordings. Enjoy.

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WASHINGTON (Circa) -- Kylie Jenner, 20, graces the August cover of Forbes Magazine where it is revealed that Jenner could become the youngest self-made billionaire ever.
As of now, she is estimated to be worth over $900 million. In comparison, Kim Kardashian West is worth $350 million. Jenner is expected to take over for Mark Zuckerberg, who previously held the throne of youngest self-made billionaire through Facebook.
"Even using a conservative multiple, and applying our standard 20% discount, Forbes values her company, which has since added other cosmetics like eye shadow and concealer, at nearly $800 million. Jenner owns 100% of it," Forbes author Natalie Robehmed said in the original article.
Jenner began selling Kylie Cosmetics in 2016. Since the company's launch, she has sold more than $630 million worth of makeup. In 2017 alone, the company made $330 million. Jenner also benefits from her family's reality show on E! Entertainment Television and her own deals with Puma shoes and PacSun clothing.
The entrepreneur credits social media for much of her success. She boasts over 100 million followers on Instagram.
"Social media is an amazing platform," Jenner said. "I have such easy access to my fans and my customers."


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DeKALB – If you walk down the Nature Trail, you might see the yellow tags still on the hundreds of shrubs crews planted Thursday.
The efforts represent much of the restoration that ComEd, the DeKalb Park District and the DeKalb County Forest Preserve have planned in response to the public outcry last year over ComEd clearing taller trees from around the power lines.
The 1.3-mile trail runs from North First Street near Timber Trail to Sycamore Road near Greenwood Acres Drive in DeKalb.
"What we did [Thursday] is a sustainable plan," DeKalb Park District Executive Director Cindy Capek said. "The plant material that was put in was selected to work with the transmission lines but also to beautify the Nature Trail."
They plan to plant about 25 trees within the next week and plant prairie seed within the next month or so, Capek said.
Crews will prepare the ground before planting the seed, but Capek expects it will take a few summers for the prairie to grow to full height.
Two temporary signs explaining the restoration effort will be posted on the site.
It was a collaborative effort. ComEd provided more than 400 plants, as well as some of the labor and other materials.
The DeKalb County Forest Preserve planted 110 more shrubs a couple of weeks ago on the Nature Trail near the Generation Link Trail; forest preserve leaders recently took control of about 1,000 feet of the Nature Trail.
As crews maintain the prairie grass and remove invasive species, they also will remove as many as 75 dead trees, most of them ash trees and some of them infested with emerald ash borer, according to the plan.
The plan was developed by a special committee of ComEd, park district, and forest preserve district representatives, as well as two local residents.
Jane Levinsky, who has lived along the trail for the past 33 years, was one of the residents' representatives. She said she wished the final plan had included more trees and didn't feel other committee members always valued the residents' input.
But Levinsky figures the public outcry and the resulting process showed park board members the Nature Trail is valued and well used and forced ComEd to invest more money in the restoration.
She wrote ComEd's CEO a letter weeks ago, and company leaders decided to pay for more of the plantings than they had originally offered.
"It took a lot of community pressure to do that," Levinsky said. "Otherwise, they would have walked away."


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The collaboration of Global March to Jerusalem organisers and supporters with internationally designated terrorist organisations was one of the project's key elements from its inception.
Even so, the spectacle of its Neturei Karta participants in Lebanon paying a visit to the tomb of Hizbollah leader and terrorist Imad Mughniyeh and laying a wreath there has to be one of the more repulsive memories of the event.
Mughniyah was, of course, responsible for the deaths of scores of people of many differing nationalities, including citizens of the United States. That fact does not apparently preclude presumably US passport-holding members of Neturei Karta such as Yisroel Dovid Weiss from lauding a murderer or rubbing sympathetic shoulders with those who continue his bloody legacy.
That the miniscule fanatic fringe sect Neturei Karta long since left behind the consensus of common decency by participating in a Holocaust denial conference in Tehran is well-known.
Apparently though, their willingness to prostitute themselves to any and every Israel-hater around is not even curbed by respect for their fellow Americans, Canadians and Britons murdered by the various terror organisations with which they collaborate so willingly.
Related articles
- Global March to Jerusalem leader compares Israel to Nazis & declares their readiness for "martyrdom" (gm2j.co)
- Global March to Jerusalem: Change of plans for Lebanon? (gm2j.co)
- Neturei Karta endorses Global March to Jerusalem (gm2j.co)
- Global March to Jerusalem delegate Tweets love for Israel haters (gm2j.co)


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text: Canfield resident Kevin Shar (left), who grew up in Leetonia, got a surprise at the Steel Valley Super Nationals at Quaker City Motorsports Park on Saturday. Stadium GM Used Car Manager Dan Chaffee (right) found a photo of Shar taken after selling him a 1996 Pontiac Trans Am and gave the photo to him Saturday. Looking on is Lauren Gancay of Boardman, the girlfriend of Shar's son, Matthew. Morning Journal/Patti Schaeffer


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Queen Elizabeth II returned home Monday after receiving treatment for a stomach infection that prompted a brief and rare hospitalization for the 86-year-old monarch.
A smiling Elizabeth walked unassisted out of King Edward VII Hospital on Monday afternoon, bidding farewell to staff outside. She was then driven away in a motorcade.
"The queen has left the King Edward VII's Hospital having been admitted briefly as part of the assessment of symptoms of gastroenteritis," the palace said in a short statement issued after her release.
Gastroenteritis is an inflammation of the stomach, the intestine, or both, and it is generally caused either by food poisoning or the norovirus, a common winter vomiting bug that affects several hundred thousand Britons every year but which is very rarely dangerous.
The queen canceled engagements for this week due to the illness, although she could be back to work by next week. Doctors who weren't involved with Elizabeth's treatment believe she may have been hospitalized as a precaution.
It was the monarch's first hospitalization in 10 years, but it set off few alarm bells in Britain, where she is seen as being in excellent health. Although not as physically active as she used to be, the queen still maintains a demanding schedule.
Unofficial court figures indicate she carried out roughly 400 official engagements in 2012 - ranging from weekly one-on-one meetings with the prime minister to gatherings of 100 or more people.
Britain's royal-obsessed tabloids all wished Elizabeth well, while the Daily Mail's royal correspondent, Richard Kay, wondered whether the country expected too much from Elizabeth. Kay noted that the queen - and her 91-year-old husband, Prince Philip - spent hours on their feet in the cold and pouring rain during the river pageant meant to mark her Diamond Jubilee last year.
"Many may today be asking the same question posed after that extraordinary display of quiet physical and moral courage: Are we asking too much of the Queen?" he wrote.
But most Britons seemed to take Elizabeth's illness in stride. There were no concerned crowds of well-wishers gathered outside the hospital Monday morning - only news media keeping an eye out for royal visitors coming to pay their respects.
Meanwhile, the royal universe was returning to normal. Soon after the queen left the hospital, the royal standard - the four-part flag meant to indicate that the queen is in residence - was raised above Buckingham Palace in London.
Gregory Katz contributed to this report.


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Eagle Rock Retail
Eagle Rock Retail is a retail real estate company involved in leasing and marketing retail stores- i.e. supermarkets, drug stores, clothing stores, restaurants etc. We are a new company and want to stand out and be the best. We have a logo and can give you a sense of what our content is like, we need your help creating an eyecatching, impressive, professional, email blast template that will work with constant contact and properly showcase our content.
Our email blasts have two types of content- either they are listing 5-15 shopping centers we are leasing or they are describing what kind of space a store we work for is seeking. A blast with shopping center content is sent to potential storeowners who may have an interest in opening a store in the center and to real estate brokers who work with stores to identify new locations. A blast with information about a store wanting new locations is sent to a list of local landlords and to other real estate brokers. In both cases, this content is sent to people we know, work with regularly, need to impress, and want to do more work with! These people are all retail and real estate professionals with an eye for detail and design.
In a Constant Contact email blast there is a band of space to have content and then the sides of the email are blank. Some people leave them white, some make this area a color. Also, there is typically a header and sometimes even margins with extra content. We don't want anything too busy, the focus should be the content, but we just want a more polished professional look.
Please check out our website (which is not perfect) to learn more about us: http://www.EagleRockRetail.com.
Also, attached for your reference is a copy of a print out of a Past Email Blast to give you a sense of the content we send and what past blasts have looked like. I also included a Screen Shot- my dog is on the left side as the screen shot included my second monitor- sorry. You can see on the screen shot of the blast that when you view it on a screen there is much more white on the sides than when you print it out.
I have also attached our logo as an AI file. Our logo and contact info must be included in the template. In addition to top, bottom and sides of template please also include ideas on how to layout content.
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We undertake a preventative maintenance dig when our ongoing monitoring and inspection program alerts us to a pipeline feature that may require a closer look.
Hydrostatic testing
Enbridge operates the largest and most complex liquids pipeline system in the world. The integrity and reliability of our pipeline system is our number one priority, and serves to protect the landowners, tenants, communities, and environments along our pipeline right-of-way. Preventative safety measures, such as hydrostatic testing, are crucial to the maintenance of our pipeline system and prevention of future incidents.
Our comprehensive safety measures begin with quality materials and continue with high quality design and construction standards, hydrostatic testing prior to operating new pipelines, as well as employing 24-hour computerized pressure monitoring, routine route surveillance, and promoting on-going industry-leading integrity and maintenance programs.
What is hydrostatic testing?
Hydrostatic testing is a carefully planned and controlled process that gives Enbridge an opportunity to confirm a threshold measurement for safe operations, according to federal regulatory standards. A hydrostatic test is performed following all new pipeline construction, prior to placing a pipeline into service and can also be performed on existing pipelines already in service to confirm pipeline integrity and shipping capacity.
What are the steps involved in hydrostatic testing an existing pipeline?
Step 1: Water dyed using a water-soluble, biodegradeable green dye, is injected into the pipe between batches of oil being transported as part of normal operations. The water and oil are separated and sealed from each other by urethane cylinders (referred to as "pigs"), and then the batch is moved through the line until it reaches the identified segment of pipe for testing.
Step 2: The pressure of the tested segment is then raised to reach and maintain the desired test levels and time period. If there is a release of water during the test, it is located, and the affected section is repaired and re-tested. Should there be a release of water during the test, water may briefly spray into the air or pool on the ground.
Step 3: During the testing process, the segment of pipeline under pressure is patrolled by helicopter as well as on foot. Pressures are monitored using sophisticated computer data programs.
Step 4: Following the test, the water is transported down the pipeline to an Enbridge facility, typically into a tank at one of our terminals. The water is cleaned, treated, and disposed of in accordance with local, state, and federal regulations and/or environmental permits.
Step 5: Internal inspections of the pipeline using "smart pigs" provide additional data on the pipeline's condition as well as removing remaining water and other potential contaminants.
Step 6: Any exposed area of pipe that was accessed during the test is backfilled, and property is restored.
Step 7: Normal shipment of North American crude oil resumes in the pipeline to be safely delivered to refinery customers and made into products we all depend on in our daily lives.
What to expect
Landowners and tenants along the pipeline route will be notified by letter announcing the test dates and general location of the pipeline segment being tested. During the actual test period, signs will be posted along public access areas and ads will run in local papers near the segment of pipeline being tested.
Landowners and tenants along the pipeline route can expect the following:
- Temporary work activity along the pipeline route;
- Temporary elevated noise levels in the limited locations where test equipment is set-up and where personnel are working; and,
- Work may occur at night as well as during the day in order to attain the prescribed duration, typically a minimum of eight sustained hours at required pressure. However, few landowners and tenants will be affected or notice much change from normal activity levels.
Public awareness and safety
Signs are posted at public access points along the testing area to keep the public at least 100 feet away from the pipe during the test.
If a pipe fails during the test, the pressurized testing water may briefly spray into the air and eventually pool on the ground. Do not go near the release.
Pipeline crews will be monitoring the line; however, should you discover a rupture or a pool of colored water on the ground near a test site, please call 1-800-858-5253. Enbridge crews will respond immediately.
Safety is not just a core value at Enbridge. Ensuring the safety of communities and the environment will always be our top priority—and it's the foundation of everything we do.
With proper design, construction, operation and maintenance, pipelines have a very long life. The safety of people, and protection of the environment, is our top priority throughout the entire pipeline lifecycle.
We are committed to putting safety first and being transparent—when it comes to our operations as a company, and our actions as a neighbor.
When Enbridge takes a pipeline safely out of service, we remain responsible for that line.
Enbridge actively looks for opportunities to adapt and harness technology to keep our pipelines and distribution systems safe.


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Portland, OR — The $71 million Portland State University student recreation center, scheduled to open in 2010, will have a unique feature, courtesy of the city of Portland, OR.
The city is contributing $10 million to build the 181,300-square-foot center. In exchange, the city will put its extensive collection of archives and historic records in the center's climate-controlled basement, which has 13-foot ceilings, according to the Portland Business Journal. The city also will get fifth-floor office space.
Portland's archive consists of 750,000 photographs, drawers of maps and ordinances that date back to the city's inception in 1851.
The new student recreation center will include a two-court gymnasium; a 1/8-mile, three-lane running track; a synthetic floor gymnasium equipped with dasher boards for floor hockey and indoor soccer; a large cardiovascular and weight training facility; two multipurpose group fitness suites; an aquatic complex, including a lap pool and whirlpool spa; new locker rooms; a climbing wall; and working space for student clubs and intramurals.


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ACC Team Previews: Maryland TerrapinsPosted by KCarpenter on October 23rd, 2012
Throughout the preseason, the ACC microsite will release a preview for each of the 12 teams. Today's victim: the Maryland Terrapins.
Mark Turgeon had a rough first year in College Park, but no one said that following Gary Williams was going to be easy. Maryland technically scraped by with a 16-14 winning season but went only 6-10 in conference play. While the team notched some early non-conference victories against Colorado and Notre Dame, they wilted in ACC play, with their best win a home victory against Miami. This inability to win on the road haunted the Terrapins all season, with the team walking away with a true road victory only once, at Clemson. A single road win, the loss of the starting backcourt (and the conference's leading scorer in Terrell Stoglin), and a not-so-graceful exit from the second round of the ACC Tournament make this year seem potentially bleak. Yet, there is reason for a measured amount of excitement in College Park if you look in the right places.
Turgeon has brought in a whole unit for his freshman class and reinforced his other positions with transfers. Connor Lipinski and Seth Allen will most likely be counted on to play some key minutes off the bench, depending on how the starting guard situation plays out, but won't be counted on to contribute immediately. Some of the other freshmen, however, may be thrown into the fire right away. Gifted swingman Jake Layman and the twin towers of Shaquille Cleare and Charles Mitchell all stand a good chance of playing heavy minutes for the Terrapins this year, and it wouldn't be too terribly surprising to see one or two of the three as starters by the end of the year.
Maryland will also benefit from a few incoming transfers. Logan Aronhalt, a senior wing from Albany, has been cleared to play immediately under the graduate student transfer rule. More interestingly is the case of Xavier transfer Dez Wells. Wells had a brilliant beginning to his career as a gifted scoring wing for the Musketeers until an accusation of sexual assault led the university to dismiss him, though the prosecutor ultimately didn't even pursue a case against the young man. Maryland has applied for a waiver for Wells to play immediately given the extraordinary circumstance of his wrongful dismissal, but the school is still awaiting official word. Wells has impressed in open scrimmages and his addition to this year's roster would give the Terps a lot of extra punch.


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- When the speaker needs to catch her breath was one of this year's most popular posts, prompted by this message from a reader: "Would you consider posting tips on catching your breath during a talk? An adrenaline rush can leave me out of breath w/no way to recover...it makes a speaker sound nervous."
- Who are today's top women speakers? This question came from a reader and speaker coach who was looking for ideas on current women who are good examples for other speakers---especially those with video examples of them speaking. I turned to readers for their ideas, a wound up with a list that included politicians, scientists, a bishop, inspirational speakers and more.
- What did readers want to improve in their speaking? As part of our Step Up Your Speaking contest, entrants were asked to name their top priorities for improving their speaking--so I asked readers of the blog and The Eloquent Woman on Facebook to do the same. Among their answers: Being more interactive, deciding when and whether to "dumb down" a technical topic, enunciation, being "dynamic and memorable," what happens when a joke doesn't work and more. You'll find my answers in all these posts, and can check out what the contest entrants wanted to improve here.
- Graceful ways with Q&A, another of our most popular posts, stemmed from two readers' questions about handling an audience gone awry. And in a year when hecklers made the news several times, another reader asked for help in handling hecklers.
- How do you deliver your mother's eulogy? asked a new fan of The Eloquent Woman on Facebook. Readers and I joined in to respond with ideas and encouragement on a speaker situation nearly all of us will face someday.
- What should you know about the room in which you're speaking? asked a reader, and I responded with tips for sussing out your speaking space.
- What do speakers assume--rightly or wrongly? I wondered after I spent a month mostly in the audience, watching other speakers. Readers had a host of things they observed, from overuse of acronyms to too-crowded slides, making a great list of don'ts you can use.
- What about eye contact? wondered some readers after watching a presentation on body language from another speaker. I pulled together tips and advice on eye contact in this, another of our most popular posts.
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Garner has week to get mobile home park cleaned up
SNOW HILL � A Greene County commissioner�s rental property has caught the attention of the town�s ordinance enforcement.
Commissioner Denny Garner was the recipient of an ordinance violation notice on Jan. 15 for his 29-lot property at the back of Chelsea Drive, off of N.C. 58.
The notice said weeds have reached the level of being �a hazard detrimental to public health or safety� and there is an �accumulation of rubbish, trash, or junk� which �may be dangerous or prejudicial to public health.�
Town administrator Dana Hill said the letter is a standard one, and is one of two or three notices that were sent out this month.
�Other than what we see riding by,� he said, �we send those notices out when there is a complaint.�
Hill said he just happened to be driving on Chelsea Drive, which ends at the back of the mobile home park, when the weeds, limbs, logs, furniture and other trash caught his attention.
�There were several piles of trash that were scattered,� he said.
Garner has until Jan. 30 to clean up the property at his Sandy Hills Mobile Home Park, which consists of 29 lots. The approximately 21 mobile homes are not owned by Garner, but landowners are responsible for ensuring the property is kept up.
Garner said the clutter behind the mobile homes is the responsibility of the occupants to clean up and he had let them know they have to clean up their lots.
�The cleanup has already begun, but has not been finished,� he said. �� I plan to have it done within the 30 days.�
Most of the homes appear to be occupied. The lots with vacant homes and the empty lots appear to be the main eyesores in the park.
On Tuesday, Donnie Jones, a resident of the park, said there were Hispanics cutting limbs and brush with a bush hog on Monday from a vacant mobile home nearby the empty lot across from his home.
�They came in here yesterday and were cleaning up,� he said.
However, a pile of pine limbs were strewn around the empty lot and piles of trash still remained near one of the homes.
Jones said the lots weren�t mowed at all last summer.
Garner would not comment as to why the grass had not been cut, but said he visits the park about once a month.
Balbina Crisantos, another resident, said Garner had told her Monday she needed to clean up the area around a vacant mobile home owned by her family. She and a few others were busy cleaning up the yard on Tuesday.
Crisantos said her daughter, who now resides with her, had lived in the home, but it was not in livable shape now. Her plans are to fix it up so her daughter can move back, she said.
�I can tell they have started some work,� Hill said Tuesday, �but I don�t know if they cleaned a lot.�
The notice also states that structural additions must be permitted, or be improved or removed.
�There were a couple that I saw when I went through,� Hill said. One was a porch, and another was a room addition.
Hill said the county building inspector would be the one to handle zoning violations.
�I had no idea those buildings were up until I went out and saw it,� Garner said.
If the property isn�t cleaned up by Jan. 30, the town will clean it and charge Garner for the work.
Margaret Fisher can be reached at 252-559-1082 or email@example.com.


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|This is the article on the chapter. For the episode, head to Obito and Madara.
"Obito and Madara" (オビトとマダラ, Obito to Madara) is chapter 601 of the original Naruto manga.
As Madara arrived on the battlefield, Naruto, Kakashi, Guy and B were all shocked to see the legendary shinobi before them, leading them to wonder what had happened to the Kage. As Madara and Obito casually carried on their conversation, Madara noted that the Naruto in front of them was also a clone. Madara tells the jinchūriki that the Kage were probably not doing well much to the latter's enragement. Elsewhere, Tsunade, who had been split into two, managed to summon Katsuyu. Katsuyu was distressed at Tsunade's condition and immediately wanted to piece her back together. However Tsunade told the giant slug to bring the other Kage to her as there might still be time to save them. Back on the battlefield, Obito returned Madara's gunbai to him in time for the famed Uchiha to block a volley of black receivers which Naruto had sent flying at the two of them. After hearing the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, Madara asked Obito why he started the plan half-way through without the Eight and the Nine-Tails being captured and deemed his actions as hasty. He also accredited the manner in which he was brought back to the world of the living as being due to Obito's haste and questioned him about what had happened to Nagato and the Outer Path: Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique that was supposed to bring him back. Upon hearing that they wanted to use his fellow disciple in this manner, an enraged Naruto moved to attack them with a Super Mini-Tailed Beast Ball. Madara, however, blocked the attack and sent the force back at the clone, expelling it. Concluding the the fact that the young Uchiha must have a plan, Madara moved to capture the Eight and the Nine-Tails, leaving Obito to deal with Guy and Kakashi. Kakashi used this opportunity to question his old friend about what had happened to him and Obito had a flashback of being heavily bandaged and stitched together in a place that an old and wizened Madara referred to as being between the land of living and the dead.


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Proba-V launch diary part 1
Karim Mellab, ESA's Proba-V Project Manager, shares his experiences of the launch campaign in Kourou, French Guiana:
Day –1: Wednesday 6 March
Departure of the satellite and associated hardware from QinetiQ Space in Kruibeke, Belgium to Brussels airport for packaging on an aircraft pallet.
Day 0: Thursday 7 March
In parallel with Proba-V's initial team from QinetiQ (Davy Vrancken, Tom Debraekeleer and Bart De Wilde) travelling to Kourou, the satellite travelled from Brussels airport to Paris Orly airport by lorry. The satellite was stored in the Air France warehouse overnight.
Day 1: Friday 8 March
The satellite was loaded in the Air France daily passenger flight at 09:40 CET. The flight took off at 10:58 CET en route to Kourou. The satellite and its associated hardware travelled unattended. The first wave of the ESA team (Michale Francois and me) departed on the same day, aboard the Air Caraibes flight departing at 12:50 CET.
The Air France flight landed at Kourou 9:20 hours later, at 16:15 local time.
The Proba-V auxiliary passenger on the same Vega flight (Vietnamese Earth observation mission VNREDSat) arrived in Kourou the same day at 16:00, travelling with an Air France charter cargo.
Offloading of Proba-V from the aircraft proved a very smooth process. The satellite container and the two batteries (flight and spare) were loaded in an air-conditioned truck. The convoy escorted by the Gendarmerie started the final trip to the Guiana Space Centre at 19:30 and arrived there at 21:15. One QinetiQ Space team member travelled with the satellite container while a second followed the convoy.
The associated equipment (Ground Segment Equipment, GSE) was also unloaded and loaded on to a dedicated lorry that started immediately travelling to CSG. One QinetiQ team member escorted the ground equipment. All equipment was placed in secure storage inside CSG.
The ESA team arrived at CSG at the same time as the satellite and was present for the offloading of the lorry into the airlock of the S1B EPCU (Ensemble Preparation Charge Utile) payload preparation building. An hour later the airlock was opened and the containers moved inside the cleanroom. The EPCU was then closed and secured for the night. The EPCU will be the new home of the satellite for the next three weeks.
A very long working day that ended only at 00:30.
Day 2: Saturday 9 March
The day started with the daily meeting with CNES and Arianespace and the opening of the EPCU secured area. The day was dedicated to the opening of Proba-V's associated hardware containers, preparation of the integration hall and the set-up of the satellite stand.
At the end of the external part of the satellite container was opened in order to prepare for the satellite opening on Monday.
Day 3: Sunday 10 March
A day off; so the whole of the Proba-V team on the scene so far went for a walk in the jungle. The OIP Sensor Systems team, developer of the Vegetation Instrument, arrived in French Guiana.
Day 4: Monday 11 March
Daily meeting for preparation of the day's activities. The first activity was the removal of satellite from its container and the positioning on its stand.
In parallel the OIP team prepared the Optical Ground Support Equipment needed for the alignment check of the instrument.
The day continued with the installation and setup of all the GSE, the day finishing at 19:30.


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Playing dress up is not for kids anymore! Japanese cosplay on a budget (25 Photos)
Cosplay is a trend that the Japanese has mastered very well. We all use to pretend to dress up as a character from a movie, a book, a game or a TV show.
Well they have taken it to the extreme. Almost like a sport this love of costume and role-play has taken a front seat to the Asian favorite past time. From the fiction character Mr. Skygack, from "Mars" in 1908. This expensive Western hobby has people going all out on their costumes, everyone cannot afford this type of pleasure.
A 25-year old name Saengchart, has such a passion for cosplay that he decided to prove that he can emulate the same creativity but on a budget with things around the house. His first reveal was appearing like Piccolo from Dragon Ball, using colored towels from his job. (oops, sorry boss). So, he has gotten even better with his designs.
Enjoy the choices he has come up with. Although many were very creative, I wouldn't necessarily go out into public in them all but you can see for yourself. My favorite is actually the Coca-Cola bottle, very good!


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It wasn't a good night for resident NASCAR idiot Kurt Busch at the Prelude to the Dream, an annual dirt-track charity race that costs $25 on pay-per-view. Busch, who is already suspended from this weekend's race at Pocono Raceway for threatening to beat up a Sporting News reporter last Saturday, ran into some car trouble during one of the early heats and was done for the night before the main race. Busch then took the opportunity to talk about his misfortune and, uh, it didn't quite go as anyone expected.
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Indian Law Reporter: Tribal Court Cases Index
Current through Volume 40, No. 6: June/July 2013
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The Indian Law Reporter (ILR) is a publication of the American Indian Lawyer Training Program. While each volume has its own subject index, the publisher does not provide a cumulative index to all of the volumes. Because it is cumbersome to search each year's index separately, the National Indian Law Library (NILL) created this cumulative index of only the tribal court opinions for all volumes of the ILR. For more information on how to research tribal court opinions, please see the National Indian Law Library's guide to Tribal Court Opinion Research.
Below is a subject index to all of the tribal court cases in the Indian Law Reporter. (Please note that the Indian Law Reporter did not include tribal court cases until volume ten.) This index will be updated as new volumes of the ILR are received. The top-tier subject terms were developed by NILL to reflect and capture the subject headings of the publishers of the ILR.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Although Thornton's Big Blue career ended in March, the 6-8 forward will get a chance to continue his playing career.
On Friday the former Tiger basketball star was selected in the second round of the NBDL draft. The Idaho Stampede selected the Chicago, Ill. native with the 27th overall selection.
The Stampede, an affiliate of the Portland Trailblazers, finished just outside of play-off contention a year ago with a 19-31 record.
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This article is in response to Dr. Dobb's editor Andrew Binstock's recent editorial about the universality of unit testing. I think we all can agree that it's universally accepted that unit tests are good. But what about Test Driven Development (TDD)?
Promoting the practice of TDD in the JavaScript world has occupied much of my recent professional activity. I have created a website to do that, and I'm currently authoring a course for Pluralsight.com on that very subject. The reason I have done all this work is my very strong belief that TDD as a practice has a considerable value well beyond what most people understand. In fact, I believe that of all the practices made popular by the Agile movement, TDD is the most beneficial overall. Here are eight reasons why I believe that TDD should be beyond debate.
Better Code
Both unit testing and TDD produce better code than not using tests. To unit test a piece of code, you must decouple it from its dependencies so that they can be easily mocked. That process not only helps you write more loosely coupled code, but also encourages you to reduce the number of dependencies a class may have. It will address several code smells such as: too many parameters in methods and constructors, feature envy (a class that uses another class too much), and too many dependencies on other classes.
Beyond that though, the process of TDD causes an incremental approach to building code. You will follow a red (failed unit test)-green (passing unit test)-refactor cycle many times while building a class. That opportunity to frequently refactor your code will encourage you to spend more time refactoring it. This means more time spent renaming identifiers to more intuitive names, more time spent thinking about the readability of your code, more time spent deciding if a given method is too large or too small, more time thinking about whether a class should be split up into more than one class.
Easier Coding
Because you build a class incrementally in TDD, not in one shot, you have to worry about only one responsibility at a time. You don't have to keep in your head all the things you want the class to do, all the dependencies it needs to work with, all the inputs and outputs that might break the class, all the conditions you need to check for to make sure that arguments are valid. With TDD, you can take that one step at a time. And as you build each case, it often leads you to the next case, and the next one.
Although you can follow the same process without writing your unit tests first, testing after the fact doesn't inherently encourage you to do this.
Solution Triangulation
Because in TDD you incrementally build an algorithm, you can essentially triangulate to the correct solution. The bowling game kata by Robert Martin is a fantastic example of this. You can start with an algorithm that solves just a simple case of the problem, then slowly add more cases and refine the solution until it's 100% correct. This makes it much easier to solve a problem than just trying to get it right the first time in one big shot.
Again, test-afterwards doesn't prevent you from following this process, but it doesn't encourage it either. TDD practically forces you to follow this process.
Coding from the Client's Viewpoint
With TDD, you write the test first. A test is a client of an object. It calls the class, consumes its return value, and must know if the process was successful. That process makes you think about the object from the client's point of view, so you will be encouraged to make the object a good abstraction of the responsibilities that the class has. You will make its interface more clean and concise, and the method names will be more explanatory than otherwise.
More Time Thinking Up Front
We all know that too much up front design is a bad thing, but so is too little. On a micro scale, TDD makes you think more about the design of a particular class. You have to think about what dependencies it needs, what methods it will have, how it will interact with its collaborators, what kinds of values its methods will return. Because you can't write a test until you have some concept of how you will call a method, and what that method will return, and how you will check its correctness, you will be prone to building better classes that are highly cohesive and follow the Single Responsibility Principle. This point is closely related to the previous one.
Testing afterwards doesn't encourage this practice. Again, you're free to do it, but as a practice, you aren't encouraged to think about a class because you can just start coding and worry about that stuff as the class gets built.
Better Unit Test Coverage
Although unit testing means writing unit tests to cover your code, there are many variations that code can take. I'm not talking about just the number of branches through code, but all the variations in code. If you take in a string parameter, that string can be null/undefined, empty, or contain a value; it can be overly long; it can contain special characters. Does your code truly handle all these cases? If you test after, the quantity of tests you write will trend lower because you will simply be verifying current behavior. (See the next point.)
With test-after, your tests don't help you decide what code to write, so therefore, variations on tests become less interesting and less a part of the core process
Sloth and the Temptation to Skip Unit Tests When Under Pressure
As humans, we are lazy. It's wired into us. If you don't believe this, read Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. When doing a task, the part of the task where we are most likely to cut corners is the end. We're almost finished; we want to be finished; we want to check it off. So if testing is a distinct activity at the end of our current mini-task, we are far more likely to cut corners and write fewer and less comprehensive tests.
Also, when we test afterwards, because it's at the end of the process, if we are under pressure from our bosses, product managers, or clients, or just our timeline itself, then one of the most tempting corners to cut is the testing. If you've already seen that your code is working correctly, then skipping tests for that code is extremely tempting when the pressure to ship is applied. With TDD, that is impossible. You can't write code without testing it first, so you can't skip out on the tests regardless of the pressure.
No Extra Code
With TDD, the process is to just do the minimum amount of coding to make the test pass. This becomes an art form because you must learn to write appropriate tests that cause you to write sufficient code. When your tests are all passing, and you've cleaned up the code to be as well-factored as you want it, then you're done. The temptation to write more code that handles some possible future requirement (YAGNI) is diminished because you're only writing tests to satisfy known requirements of the code.
Testing afterwards doesn't guide how you write your code, with the exception of making it testable. So it gives you no encouragement to write only the code that you need and no more.
In summary, the difference between TDD and simply writing unit tests is big. Don't let the commonalities make you think that you're getting pretty much all the benefits because you write unit tests. If you're not doing TDD, you're missing out on so much more.
Joe Eames is a front-end Web developer at Domo Inc., an author for Pluralsight.com, and an evangelist of Agile practices. He is a frequent blogger and speaker, the curator of testdrivenjs.com, and a panelist on the JavaScript Jabber podcast.


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I don't listen to a lot of live radio anymore. Instead, I tend to listen to a lot of podcasts. I can find content specific to my area and take it with me on the go. Here is a great list of podcasts for Educators (all for free and in no particular order):
Edutopia Webinars – Edutopia presents engaging webinars hosted exclusively for our audience of educators, parents, and administrators throughout the year. These interactive events are free and universally accessible thanks to support from foundations, advertisers, and donors. Each webinar is designed to connect our valued audience with thought leaders in the movement for educational reform, providing opportunities to learn about the latest research, tools, and ideas from experts in the field. Note: Most Edutopia Webinars are large files, approximately an hour long.
Education & Teaching from Yale – Yale Professors and special guests speak on teaching, education and the important role education plays in our lives.
Great Teachers by Harvard University – Harvard's Great Teachers invites you to discover our faculty sharing their ideas, very much as they do every day with undergraduates at Harvard College.
Center for Teaching and Learning at Stanford University – The Stanford Center for Teaching and Learning supports the effective communication of knowledge and the love of learning by faculty inside and outside the classroom, by graduate students in their roles as apprentice scholar/teachers, and by undergraduates as they take their place in the community of scholars.
Google Tools – Google is much more than a search engine. It is a suite of free software and services that can enhance learning, engage students, and make the work of teachers easier. This series of podcasts demonstrates the usefulness and applications for some of Google's most innovative products including custom search engines, Google earth, iGoogle, Google Calendar and Google Docs. Each podcast will consist of a screencast demonstrating the product in action and suggesting applications for use in the classroom.
Department of Education Public Seminars at Oxford University – Public seminars from the Department of Education. Oxford has been making a major contribution to the field of education for over 100 years and today this Department has a world class reputation for research, for teacher education and for its Masters and doctoral programmes. Our aim is to provide an intellectually rich but supportive environment in which to study, to research and to teach and, through our work, to contribute to the improvement of all phases of public education, both in the UK and internationally.
Technology Integration by Edutopia – Integrating technology into classroom instruction means more than teaching basic computer skills and software programs in a separate computer class. Effective tech integration must happen across the curriculum in ways that research shows deepen and enhance the learning process. In particular, it must support four key components of learning: active engagement, participation in groups, frequent interaction and feedback, and connection to real-world experts. Effective technology integration is achieved when the use of technology is routine and transparent and when technology supports curricular goals.
Harvard EdCast – The Harvard EdCast is a weekly series that features a 15-20 minute conversation with thought leaders in the field of education from across the country and around the world. Hosted by Matt Weber, the Harvard EdCast will serve as a space for educational discourse and openness, focusing on the myriad issues and current events related to the field.
NPR Education – From NPR: perspectives on great teachers, the science of learning, classroom dynamics and more. The best of Morning Edition, All Things Considered and other award-winning NPR programs.


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bought this lenovo laptop used. Occasionally it will stall or hang on bootup (to booitbm menu). Sometimes this is because I left usb stick plugged in, but lately it does it without any usb plugged in.
In doing a google search on this, I find this problem is not uncommon. Various suggestions from bad motherboard to bad hard drive. Not encountering any other problems once it has booted and usually have to restart computer when this happens to get it past blank screen. There are no sound beep codes (forgot to check if this is disabled in bios). CHecked the bios and hard drive boot legacy is set number one. Maybe it's a usb flag that does not get cleared from last time I used it?
Since this board has people expert in the boot process,thought I'd ask here. Is this problem more likely bad mb, bad drive or problem with bootit bm (which seems to be functioning normally, no other problems)? Just wondering if I am having to anticipate system failure, hard drive failure or if it is some other issue?


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APTOS — As 20 Cabrillo College students crowd around a cadaver in Robin McFarland's human anatomy class, she holds up the heart, points at a fleshy tube and asks, "What is this vessel?"
The class leans in for a closer look and responds in unison: "Aorta."
The body has no name — only an ID number (12-117) and a brief description: male, 90 years old; primary cause of death, aspiratory pneumonia; contributing factor, Alzheimer's.
The cadaver came from UC San Francisco's Willed Body Program, which gets about 400 donated bodies every year from people who have left their remains to the medical school in the hope that their last bequest helps advance medicine.
Just a few years ago, there was a move toward "virtual learning" for medical students, including using 3-D digital models of the human body. But that trend appears to be reversing. Now there's a renewed emphasis on learning from human cadavers.
The digital tools "are great when used to enhance what the cadavers can actually show, but they can't replace the real experience of actually working with the real cadaver," said Andrew Corson, the program's director.
About a quarter of the donated bodies end up in high-end research labs. The rest are used in anatomy classes at UCSF's medical school and colleges and universities around Northern California.
The head of the cadaver in McFarland's lab is neatly wrapped in several layers of plastic so the face isn't visible. The skin on the torso, legs and arms has been removed to show the muscles underneath. On the hands, the skin is intact, beige from preservatives and covered with liver spots. The smell of formaldehyde permeates the lab. A couple of students slip Altoids mints under their tongues to combat the fume-induced nausea.
Patient No. 1
Most of the students in McFarland's anatomy class will go into nursing programs, so she thinks of the bodies as her students' first patients.
The students examine two cadavers, side by side. Next to the 90-year-old who suffered from Alzheimer's is 11-288, an 84-year-old man and longtime smoker who died of congestive heart failure. The students have spent months comparing the two bodies, understanding not just how they operated in life, but what led to the men's deaths.
"It means a lot more than learning about body parts," McFarland said. "It's a look into how people die, how the illnesses at the end of life affect the body."
McFarland found a small black growth on the tip of one of the smoker's lungs. She thinks it was an undiagnosed cancer.
Students also learn about the natural variations among the bodies they study, said Richard Baldwin, laboratory manager for the anthropology department at UC Santa Cruz. "You never know what you're going to get," he said. The organs, he noted, can be damaged by disease or have subtle differences in placement — things that students won't see in a digital anatomy atlas, no matter how accurate it is.
Cabrillo College student Gordon Landon, a personal trainer and aspiring public health specialist, said the anatomy class helps him point precisely to a muscle and explain how an exercise is working it. But he admitted that the first day he spent with the cadavers, he was sick to his stomach and had to leave the lab or risk throwing up.
Natasha Frias, a kinesiology student, described her initial shock at seeing the bodies in the lab. "At first, I was taken aback. 'This is what I look like on the inside?' " she said.
Feeling of Loss
Baldwin has had several UCSC students who, reeling from the loss of a grandparent or other family member, decide to drop the class and return another year. Some never return.
In two or three years, after thorough study, the bodies will be returned to UCSF, along with every organ and tissue that was removed. Then they'll be cremated and the ashes scattered at sea.
Unlike other body donation programs, UCSF's program doesn't offer the option of returning bodies to family members. "We are very clear up front with families about that, and it is a deal-breaker for some families," Corson said. "We get that, and we completely respect it."
People with some infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, HIV and Hepatitis B can't donate their bodies. Nor can people who weigh more than 250 pounds, because there's too much fat for students to get a good look at internal organs.
Despite the restrictions, there are 11,000 registered donors, though family members can also donate the bodies of the recently deceased.
Donation scandal
Scandals have marred body donation programs in the past. In 2004, the chief of UCLA's Willed Body Program was accused of selling parts of donated bodies to a businessman who turned around and sold them to pharmaceutical and medical research companies. The program shut down for a year after the initial allegations, and the director was ultimately sentenced to four years in prison for grand theft and conspiracy to commit grand theft.
Now the UC Anatomical Donation Program, which oversees four other donation programs along with UCSF's, keeps a tight rein on all donated bodies and body parts. Every last shred of human tissue must be returned, regardless of how much the bodies have been dissected.
In the past three years, two students received widespread attention after being disciplined for disrespecting cadavers on Facebook — one from Stony Brook University Medical Center in New York for posting photos of a cadaver and another from the University of Minnesota for writing demeaning comments about a cadaver.
Most students, though, feel a deep sense of gratitude to the people who have donated their bodies, said Adam Schwalje, a second-year medical student at UCSF.
Talk at start of year
In Schwalje's program, the school year starts with a discussion about working on the cadavers, including what kind of ethical responsibilities students have and what they should be prepared for emotionally. It ends with a memorial service for the donors.
In between, students spend hours on end with the cadavers and form a bond with them. "You wind up feeling almost kind of close with the body — with the person," Schwalje said.
A former professional bassoon player, he played an arrangement of the Beatles' "Yesterday" with some of his classmates in last year's service. Others read poems or just talked about their year with the cadavers.
At the end of the semester at Cabrillo, McFarland's students write an essay about their experience. They often describe how their initial uneasiness about working with cadavers morphed into appreciation.
McFarland pulled a few of the essays from her files.
One reads: "I thank everyone dead or alive who made this such a wonderful learning experience."


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It was starting to get so bad for Ontario's Kim Rollins that her mother started to make plans for the funeral. Conventional therapies weren't helping to alleviate her severe anorexia, so Rollins decided to volunteer for a cutting-edge treatment: deep-brain stimulation. Now, with her "brain pacemaker," she has been effectively treated for the condition. The breakthrough suggests that DBS could be used to help similar patients.
The therapy was conducted by a team of neurosurgeons and psychiatrists from Toronto who worked with six women. Three have gained weight, and all them have reported improvements in mood nine months after the surgery.
The Globe and Mail reports:
"I am now 120 pounds – which is a healthy body weight for a person my age and height of five feet, 21/2 inches," she said. Before the brain surgery, she weighed 90 pounds. And perhaps even more significant, she is no longer troubled by the same degree of anxiety, depression and obsessive behaviour that caused her to put her own life in jeopardy with excessive dieting.
Indeed, the most interesting thing about this therapy is that it isn't targeting the anorexia specifically, but rather the mood disorders associated with it.
The G&M continues:
"What we find particularly exciting about the study is that the treatment was associated with a very significant improvement in their mood and a reduction in their obsessional symptoms. And we think that is the key if we are going to have an enduring effect on this illness," said one of the researchers, Dr. Andres Lozano, a neurosurgeon at the Krembil Neuroscience Centre of Toronto Western Hospital and a professor at the University of Toronto.
The treatment, though, will require patients to live with an electrode permanently lodged in their brains. The probe is connected through wires under the skin (beneath the scalp, neck and upper chest) to a replaceable battery unit implanted beneath the collarbone. The device works something like a cardiac pacemaker, sending a steady current of electricity to a specific region deep in the brain.
The treatment works by virtue of the fact that the brain is like a complex electrical circuit. Neurological disorders can result when these electrical impulses are not working properly. When a current is applied to the right spot, surgeons can compensate for the part of the brain exhibiting problems.
DBS has also been used to treat Parkinson's disease and major depression.
Read the entire study at The Lancet medical journal.
Images: Top via Libra DBS; inset via brainstim.psy.utexas.edu.


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Watcher's Council results for November 9, 2012
The Council has spoken and I'd be lying if I said the result wasn't personally gratifying. I suspect it has a lot to do with looking forward from (instead of backwards to) the election to a future time when the administration will be forced to answer questions about Benghazi.
Council Winners
- *First place with 3 2/3 votes! Bookworm Room – A foreign policy/war powers law establishes that the unnecessary deaths in Benghazi were Obama's responsibility
- Second place with 3 1/3 votes – Joshuapundit- A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall
- Third place with 1 1/3 votes – The Razor-The Health Care Rebellion Begins
- Fourth place with 1 vote – The Political Commentator-Hurricane Sandy has been a "big f—ing deal!" in New York and New Jersey!
- Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote – The Colossus of Rhodey-What the Right constantly has to deal with
- Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote – The Independent Sentinel-We Are All Socialists Now
- Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote – The Noisy Room-Even Without Bread, We Must Have Circuses
- Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote – The Glittering Eye – It's Not The Country…
- Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote – GrEaT sAtAn"S gIrLfRiEnD –Winning Friends and Influencing People
- Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote – The Mellow Jihadi –Military Doctors, They Are Special
- Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote – The Right Planet – #BenghaziQuiddick
- Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote – Simply Jews – Did Tzipi Livni have sex with Arabs when working for Mossad?
Non-Council Winners
- First place with 3 votes! – Michelle Malkin-Obama gets his "revenge," but conservatives must stand tall submitted by Joshuapundit
- Second place with 2 2/3 votes – Mark Steyn –Biggest Big Government can't keep lights on submitted by The Noisy Room
- Third place with 2 1/3 votes – The Chicago Boyz –Decline is Not Inevitable submitted by The Mellow Jihadi
- Fourth place*t* with 1 vote –The Corner/Bing West–Cynicism Confirmed submitted by Gay Patriot
- Fourth place *t* with 1 vote Via Meadia – Why the Ambassador Died submitted by The Razor
- Fifth place *t* with 2/3 votes – Georgia Tip Sheet – Lowery: all whites are going to hell submitted by Rhymes With Right
- Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote – Telegraph – Could Iran's Supreme Leader be more cautious than we think? submitted by GrEaT sAtAn"S gIrLfRiEnD
- Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote -Barry Rubin –One Thousand and One Articles Later: Why Obama Should be Voted Out of Office Today submitted by Bookworm Room
- Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote -The Foundry –Now Is a Time for Commitment submitted by The Watcher
- Sixth place with 1/3 vote -Yid With Lid –The Jewish Star Endorses Mitt Romney submitted by The Political Commentator


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Two Arrested in Miley Cyrus Stolen Maserati Caseby Thomas Chau | PopCrush
The Los Angeles Police Department announced Thursday night that two people have been arrested in connection with Miley Cyrus' home burglary. Us Weekly reports that a 21-year-old female, Naomi Charles, an LA resident, and Tylor Scott, a 19-year-old male, who is an Arizona resident, were arrested and charged with residential burglary.
"They are being held on a $50,000 bail," a spokesperson said. "They are still currently detained. They were taken into custody this morning around 11 a.m. in the city of North Hollywood in the 5300 block of Lankershim. They were identified by video surveillance and that's how they were taken into custody."
On May 30, the two suspects made away with Cyrus' $135,000 Maserati as well as several items of jewelry. Cyrus' Maserati was eventually recovered.
Cyrus was not home at the time. She is currently traveling in Europe performing on her Bangerz Tour.