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Our scrap bin is consistently filled with 4/4 x 2-3" x 6-10" ripped hardwood cut offs. Often, it's hard maple or cherry and it seems very wasteful to throw it away. After taking $40/hour labor costs into consideration, are there any products that can be made profitably from this scrap or are we economically correct in tossing it?
I was at Walnut Hollow in Dodgeville, WI a few years ago and they had very large metal baskets filled with such trim pieces (and many pieces larger than yours) that they sold by the pound. Of course, they had good traffic in the retail outlet store because of the excellent products they made, so these baskets were a side item.
Maybe you could have a lottery with ten baskets being first prize and then a new car being second, and so on in decreasing value.
I've given a lot of thought to this question and have come up with a number of things that can be done with cut offs. The issue usually is how can you make money handling them?
Some thoughts...Pen Blanks, Bread Boards, Drawer Fronts, CD/DVD Storage Containers, Picture Frames, Aprons and Tops for Small Tables, Plinth Blocks, Decorative Mouldings, Small Clock Housings, Tool/Knife Handles, Toys, Jewelry Boxes. Just a very small percentage of my list...
The issue I think is most shops are set up to produce a certain kind of work...like cabinets or flooring for instance. That might not readily translate into the right kind of setup to produce small items that might be mass produced somewhere else.
What you might look at doing is finding a way to donate the cut offs to schools with woodworking programs. You can't go wrong helping out schools.
Also, there are many woodworking groups/clubs/guilds in every state and many of them do charity work making toys to donate to needy families throughout the year. I'm sure if you hook up with one of those groups the wood could be put to use. It might not get you dollars today but it would support your community and might lead to business down the road as people remember your support.
Hope this is helpful...Allen
Thanks for the input. I know scrap wood will not make us rich, but I'd prefer not to toss hardwoods that could still make a beautiful product for us or someone else. I'll experiment with those ideas.
A lot of what Allen has said, and consider maybe making kits that include the wood needed and a copy of directions to make a project or two out of say a small sack of "scraps". I am thinking like an onion sack were you could see the peices of wood and maybe a small booklet with some arts and craft like projects.
Maybe have a small load of scraps ready to take around to an arts and craft show when one comes to town. Granted there are actually alot of imported wood items there that are mass produced, but you may be able to find an artist that is in the market for nice chunks of wood.
I have actually taken scraps to a couple of freinds houses around Xmas after cutting them up into "Playing Block" sized and shaped "Blocks". No paint, dye varnish or even sanding, just plain old pine and maple and maybe a couple of other hardwoods that were ready for the landfill. I guarentee that kids of all ages are happy to have three or four five gallon buckets of missles er... I mean building blocks to throw er... I mean stack. It's the parents that tend to toss them into the fireplace.
Be careful though, cutting small blocks even smaller can be more dangerous than you would think. And no I have never made a dime trying to make any of the arts and craftsy type stuff myself. My wife would buy a cutting board for $20 while I have wood rotting 50' from the back door. At $40 an hour you could probally ship it to some far away land and let them make it into sellable items and ship them back and turn a profit.
You could build a jig to take the maple and make some butcher block perhaps, but as soon as you do, you will never have the scrap to do it with again.
Good luck, I hope the wood finds a use if not a profit.
I keep seeing these posts about what to do with hardwood scraps - I've got my own collection. Here's a thought that could "burn up" a lot of mixed hardwood scraps - parquet flooring. There was an article in the most recent issue of Fine Homebuilding about making and installing flooring from what were essentially scraps. I know that strictly production-oriented folks aren't going to work with smaller pieces like that, but it might make an interesting sideline. The flooring looked nice, and it would accommodate mixed species as patterns and use up all but the smallest pieces. A couple of jigs, and you could use up your scrap and make any downtime productive. Just a thought....
I take some of mine, cut it into small chuncks (mostly cherry) on the bandsaw and use it in my grill to smoke meat.
I donate mine to a local retirement home with a wood shop. The old boys there think I am Santa Claus!
I don't know what you are refering to as cut offs, but anything 12" and over us die hard box makers drool over. It's hard to rationalize buying 8' of a prime cut when all you really want is 12-18 in. for a beautiful top or some inlay stuff.
One product to consider would be to make standard sized wood bricks that would have a small bevel edge on the top surface. These bricks when of a standard size can be used as flooring, wall paneling, surfaces on casegoods, etc. The idea is to glue them to a panel product like plywood, osb, etc. and create designs or just show the wood. Lots of design options and few machines are needed-chop saw, table saw, router table and hand sander. One would pick a width then make several length that work in a modular format, such as 4, 6, 8 and 12 inches long. Thicknesses could range from 1/4" to 3/4" in most cases. I have made doors using this concept on hollow plywood doors and the doors look great. Adds a handcraft look using scraps. As an alternative one does not have to have the bevel edge.
Steve (at the top). I am starting a small business needing a supply of scrap hardwoods. Could you contact me at the following email address..


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The person in this position is responsible for performing general maintenance tasks including work orders and unit turns, maintaining the grounds, curb appeal, clubhouse, amenities, and other common areas at one or more properties in order to assist preserving the asset and to provide a quality living environment for the residents. This position reports to the Maintenance Supervisor and/or Community Manager.
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Byron Leftwich to start for Ben Roethlisberger against Ravens
Steelers' starting quarterback has sprained shoulder, dislocated rib
Steelers backup quarterback Byron Leftwich will start in place of Ben Roethlisberger on Sunday night against Baltimore, and there's no timetable yet for Roethlisberger to return from his injuries.
It was already known that Roethlisberger sprained the sternoclavicular joint in his right shoulder Monday night against Kansas City. On Wednesday, he said he also dislocated a rib and doctors are concerned it could cut into his aorta.
"From what (the doctor) said, he's trying to talk to experts because there is no case study over the exact same thing," Roethlisberger said. "From what I heard, from what he told me, it was a 1998 rugby player or something."
Pittsburgh (6-3) is one game behind the first-place Ravens (7-2) in the AFC North. The Steelers can seize control of the division by beating Baltimore, but they'll have to rely on Leftwich to help get it done.
"B-Left has been here a long time," defensive end Brett Keisel said. "If he's in there, we expect to keep rolling."
"You obviously worry about it because that's your starting quarterback. You want to see him out there," linebacker James Harrison said. "But at the same point in time, you've got a guy, two guys, that are behind him can do the job just as well, if not better."
Roethlisberger is hopeful that he can return at some point, but said he's in considerable pain and has slept just four hours over the last two nights since injuring his throwing arm.
"I can move it around. That's not the issue," Roethlisberger said. "Sometimes when I do move it, the rib will kind of pop out of place again, which is pretty painful. I just try to keep it as still as I can for the most part."
The 32-year-old Leftwich hasn't started a game since 2009 -- and hasn't won since 2006 -- but he said, "I try to prepare as if I am the starter every week. Nothing will change. I wish Ben the best. I hope he is healthy. Other than that, I will be ready to go."
Leftwich completed 7 of 14 passes for 73 yards in the second half against Kansas City. He drove the team for a go-ahead field goal in the fourth quarter.
The SC joint connects the collarbone to the sternum.
Treatment can range from a few days of rest and ice to as much as 4-6 weeks, according to Dr. Victor Khabie, chief of sports medicine at Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco, N.Y.
"You could tape it, you could do that stuff but the reality is those ligaments just have to heal," Khabie said. "If you go throwing, you slow down the healing process."


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Michael Jong of Fishstripes.com helps us break down the MarLOLins trade with the Jays and the despondent Marlins' fanbase.
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In September, we shared with you some resources on the health benefits of practicing yoga, in honor of Yoga Awareness Month. Make sure to check that resource out, as a new study has recently found that participating in weekly yoga classes is equally as effective as regular deep stretching in relieving symptoms of low back pain. The study, from which findings were published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, followed over 200 people for up to 26 weeks, making it the largest study focusing on yoga's effect on low back pain.
Of the 228 followed, subjects participated in weekly classes in which they practiced either yoga or deep stretching and also practiced the same thing at home, with the help of instructional CDs 7 DVDs for 20 minutes, at least 3 days a week. The outcomes for the group who practiced yoga and the group who practiced deep stretching in classes were compared to a "control" group, whose members were given a book with tips and best practices for relieving chronic low back pain. The results of the study showed that both yoga and deep stretching were equally as useful in easing or relieving low back pain, as long as either the yoga or stretching were practiced regularly.
Couple these results with the fact that 80% of people will suffer from low back pain at some point in their lives with the fact that Americans spend at least $50 billion each year on low back pain 1 and it becomes obvious that yoga could evolve to be an easy and fairly cost-effective method for alleviating chronic low back pain with potential to be as beneficial for improving pain as it is for reducing stress and improving flexibility and breathing.
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How cheered are you by the viral video that is uplifting and local and loves on something you yourself love? And isn't about something you've been coerced into smiling at 17 times before?
Probably very. That's how we're feeling today after watching Ryan Killackey's video "A Day in California." So cheered. And astonished, too; Mr. Killackey employed over 10,000 separate photos to create his Golden State tribute. (We'll also add that Ryan's wife gets a top credit as a creator on this video, so big ups to her as well.)
Have we taken 10,000 photos ever? Much less spent the time and care to arrange them in albums and frames? These are questions we don't care to answer online. Because online is forever.
Mr. Killackey is pre-med at Biola University, says his Twitter page. So pair that fact with the 10,000 photos fact and you come up with a very talented man who can clearly get a project done. Even a mammoth, California-spanning one.
Watch the video and see if you can spot your favorite spots. We love the tilt-shift wizardry and impressive compositions. Quite the Monday-maker.
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Dear all, Perhaps i'm wrong, but I read on the demonstrations section of the wolfram website that to create a demonstration that can be used with the viewer you need to submit it, and that it's not possible to create one by yourself. did i get it correctly? My problem is that i am preparing a presentation and i would like to show a notebook with a dynamic content in the demonstrations fashon, and i'm really not convinced that there is mathematica 7 installed in the computer where i'll have to open the presentation file (but if the demonstration file could be seen by the viewer I could carry it in a usb stick..!) did you ever had this problem? what do you suggest? Thank you in advance! Filippo
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Pride Fitness Performance; A Different Approach to Training
DERBY CENTER–Tyler Tinker is man of multiple passions.Two of those passions happen to go hand in hand with each other; Fitness and professional wrestling.Tyler, after moving back from Florida last year, intensified his wrestling schedule, appearing in independent shows throughout New England, but something was still missing.With a degree in exercise science, he also went to work as a trainer with Ben Warstler at Ben's Bootcamp in Derby.After working with Warstler for several months, Tyler offered to buy Ben's Derby location on John Taplin Rd.The negotiating/purchasing process lasted a few months, but on July 1st all the i's were dotted and all of the t's were crossed and Tyler was now in possession of the former Bootcamp space, as well as the client list that went with it.After a grueling week of ten-plus hour days that featured help from his family, his friends and even some of his clients, Tyler proudly opened the doors to his new gym, Pride Fitness Performance.The last time I had seen Tyler, he was getting ready to make the move to Florida to pursue his wrestling dreams and put his degree to work.Feeling like a visit to the man known in many wrestling circles as The Hybrid Tyler Sexton was long overdue, I went up to see this new gym and catch up the businessman/personal trainer known as Tyler Tinker."It seemed more of a real possibility when I fell in love with the people I was working with and grew attached, as you do in this industry," Tinker said when asked when he first started to seriously think about operating his own gym. "It is my hometown area and I knew a lot of people, I knew the community well, and if there ever was going to be a place that I could make it work, this was going to be the place."A lot of people liked seeing that and liked the renewed energy that I brought to this place, so it was all about timing." Tyler had been working with Ben since last September, but had never really thought of it as a career.But as the bonds began to grow between trainer and client he started probe a little deeper into the possibility of making this one-time transitional job a more a permanent thing."It got to the point where I started poking (Ben's) brain a little bit and just figured out what his plan down the road was going to be and eventually we agreed on everything," said Tinker. "With the terms between Ben and Tyler agreed upon, the real work began, as Tinker explained."It was a lot of work and I definitely underestimated how much time and work was going to go into it. All of the work and processing with lawyers, accountants and the bank lasted from late March to July 1st."The 1st was the day I projected to close and we did it." With all of the mental work more less put to bed, at least for the time being, what came next was the grueling week of transitioning the facility from Warstler's to his own."That was, without a doubt, the hardest week I have ever worked in my life. A lot of people were like 'Hey, you got the week off.' Haha, yeah right. I was here ten, twelve, fourteen hours a day from Saturday to the following Sunday."We open at 5:00 AM on Monday's, and I was still here the night before till 10:00 PM cleaning. We stretched every hour and every day. I could not have done this by myself and I am very grateful to all of those that helped out."One of the reasons that Tinker was looking to branch out on his own is because he wanted to bring more of his own style to his clients workouts."I like to pride myself, pun intended, as being very open minded and very multi-dimensional as a trainer. A bad quality, well not necessarily a bad quality, is being close-minded and one dimensional as a trainer. It is great to have a niche and preach that and practice what you preach, but that may not be what everyone needs."I work with young athletes all the way up to people in their eighties and everyone has different abilities and capabilities, so it is all about finding what is right for the individual. So, with a lot of the programs I offer here from our personal training, our group training and our YogaCorr, which is a creation of mine that I started while working with Ben, I offer a wide variety of options because everybody is different."Tyler spoke a lot about having his clients make their workouts their own and not looking at what somebody else was doing and trying to compete with them.Pride Fitness Performance has been open a little less than month, but Tyler, with his feet firmly planted in the present, does have an eye on the future and what it will bring."My goal is to expand this place into the best training/fitness facility in the area. I really look up to what Adrian Guyer (A trainer in the Lyndonville area) has done with XPI, and I think I can do the same in the Derby area up here."Something else Tyler is now starting to have to think about is potentially hiring other trainers to come work at his facility because he is nearing the point of having a waiting list for people who want personal instruction.While PFP is not ready to fill the open gym (a place where people can just come and work out by themselves without instruction) void, it is offering a host of other workout options which include personal training, group fitness, nutrition consultation, YogaCorr, post injury/rehab programs and hybrid fit.With all of these activities Tinker not only wants to increase performance, but he is passionate about and strives for injury prevention."Right on the front of my brochure it says increase performance and prevent injuries. I am huge when it comes injury prevention. People have gotten hurt because they are pushing themselves too hard, were not shown an exercise properly or the group was so large that they did not have the correct supervision."That is why I limit my groups to no more than fifteen people. Sure a larger group means more money, but I prefer quality over quantity. I care more about how you move, how you feel, how you look and how you live."Now I mentioned that Tyler is wrestler, and wrestling is a very physically demanding endeavor, so it only makes sense that Tyler should join the ranks of such wrestling luminaries like Mick Foley, Diamond Dallas Page and Sting and own his own facility while competing in the squared circle.In fact his in-ring experiences have weighed heavily on how he has evolved as a trainer."Wrestling I think is the biggest factor that makes my training philosophy multi-dimensional. In pro wrestling you have to be athletic and you have to aesthetic. There is the body building and there is also the athletic performance training and that is how I train. I don't preach that upon people, but it has broadened my horizon so that I'm not too one dimensional. Wrestling has been huge and is one of the biggest reasons that injury prevention is so important to me."Ironically enough, after leaving the hot bed of wrestling that is the state of Florida, Tyler has seen his in-ring time expand greatly.In fact he has been in talks with former WWE wrestler Paul London, who operates a wrestling school in Austin, TX, about heading down south and training together and working some shows down in the Lone Star State.In the coming weeks he has a show with Lucky Pro Wrestling, and he also may get a chance to wrestle for CZW out of New Jersey as well."Both my business and my wrestling are evolving, and both are better than ever because I am keeping them going together while not getting burned out with either one."If you are looking to get back into working out, or are perhaps a newcomer to the fitness community and are looking for a safe, nurturing environment that is free of judgement and focused on the well being and physical development of the individual, then perhaps Pride Fitness Performance is the place for you.Tyler's group fit classes take place Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 5:30 AM-9:30AM, and on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4:15PM-6PM. 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A woman says she was fired from her state job after testing positive for marijuana, even though she had a medical card.
Does legalizing marijuana boost economies?
Olympic bronze medalist welcomed home to the 505.
America throws out 40 percent of its food.
Rupert Murdoch's daughter isn't a fan of his media empire.
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Zero percent of the country's African-Americans support Mitt Romney.
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Exclusive: Lenovo Exec Sees a Lot to Like in Windows 8, but Betting on Android, Too
When Peter Hortensius looks at Windows 8, he sees a lot to like.
Of course, as president of Lenovo's product unit, Hortensius has been looking at Windows 8 for a lot longer than the rest of us, most of whom got their first glimpse of the new Windows when it was shown on stage at D9 on Wednesday.
"It's definitely going to be a big, bold move," Hortensius said.
Hortensius said that Windows 8 will appeal to those who buy traditional PCs, will make those devices better and will also open up new opportunities with new kinds of machines based on ARM processors.
"You will see both the ARM platforms and the base Intel platforms get substantially better," he said. "We find that very exciting."
In particular, Hortensius pointed to the ability of Windows 8 machines not only to resume quickly from sleep, but also to maintain a network connection so they are also quickly usable.
"The part that makes me most excited is not just the new look, but along with that comes features like always-on, always-connected, which really to me addresses a big sore point of the traditional PC," he said. "I have to boot it and I have to then restore connections."
Hortensius said he isn't too worried that businesses will be scared off by the new tiled start-screen that accompanies the traditional Windows desktop. Nor does he think it is that big a deal that Microsoft isn't allowing customers an option of just booting into a more traditional Windows desktop.
"If business customers want that, they already have that," he said. "It's called Windows 7."
But, as many doors as it sees being opened by Windows 8, Lenovo is also expanding its bet on Android. The company has already launched a couple of products in China, but is preparing a number of Honeycomb-based tablets for a global launch this summer.
One area Lenovo is exploring is the notion of incorporating a pen back into tablet computing.
"What you are doing right now, you could not do with your finger," Hortensius said, pointing to the fact that I was taking handwritten notes. "The touch interface is amazing. If you are trying to quickly look through stuff it is wonderful. There are a lot of other instances where you clearly would rather use a pen."
As for having to support multiple operating systems, Hortensius said that is probably just a fact of life.
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Vega launcher production contracts signed by ESA, Arianespace and ELV
As Vega's development is coming to an end with the qualification flight scheduled in 2011, two contracts were signed to allow the project to move on to the next phase.
Yesterday ESA and Arianespace signed the work order for production of the first Vega launcher, after qualification, as part of the Vega flexibility demonstration flights frame contract signed in December 2009.
At the same ceremony, Arianespace and the ELV company (European Launch Vehicle, Avio Group) concluded a frame contract for five launch vehicles with a firm order for one.
Antonio Fabrizi, ESA Director of Launchers, Jean-Yves Le Gall, Chief Executive Officer of Arianespace and Francesco De Pasquale, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ELV SpA, signed the contracts during a ceremony in Paris, France.
"This signature is a major milestone in the Vega programme as it marks the transition from the development phase to the exploitation phase and safeguards the schedule of the first Vega user missions of ESA,"said Mr Fabrizi.
"Together with Ariane-5 and Soyuz, Vega will contribute to providing Europe with the full range of launch services required for Europe's institutional and commercial missions with greater flexibility."
The Vega launcher development is currently undergoing the final test campaign at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, to verify the operational readiness of the overall launch system.
About Vega
Our century began with a significant interest in smaller satellites, in particular for scientific and Earth observation missions. In order to provide an affordable response to European institutional needs and to maintain its competitiveness in the world's launch services market, Europe has developed the Vega launch system.
Vega will be able to inject payloads into a low polar orbit (300 km to 1500 km). With a height of 30 m and a diameter of 3 m, it will be able to place a 1.5-tonne payload into orbit.
Vega is a 'single-body' launcher with three solid-propellant stages (P80, Zefiro 23 and Zefiro 9) and an additional liquid-propellant stage (AVUM). Unlike most small launchers, it will be able to place multiple payloads into orbit.
The 'VERTA' (Vega Research and Technology Accompaniment) programme covers a batch of five missions designed to demonstrate the flexibility of the Vega launch system. At a planned rate of two launches per year, the programme will allow the smooth introduction of Vega for commercial exploitation.
Altogether, seven ESA Member States (Italy, France, Spain, Belgium, The Netherlands, Switzerland and Sweden) are contributing to the programme. The industrial prime contractor of the Vega launch vehicle is the company ELV SpA, 70% of which is owned by AVIO SpA and 30% by the Italian space agency, ASI.
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The findings, which currently appear on-line in Science, may provide a new way of targeting metabolic disease, specifically obesity.
Obesity is a predisposing factor for metabolic disorders such as type 2 diabetes, which is often associated with a low-grade inflammatory state in adipose tissue. Adipose tissue secretes a variety of cytokines, referred to as adipokines. Most adipokines, such as tumor necrosis factor (TNF) α, interleukin (IL)-6 and leptin, are pro-inflammatory. One prominent exception is adiponectin, an anti-inflammatory adipokine that promotes insulin sensitization and protects cardiovascular tissue from ischemic injury.
According to the researchers, because adipokine dysregulation can contribute to the pathogenesis of obesity-linked disorders, they sought to identify new adipokines by comparing the gene expression profile of adipose tissue from lean mice with that from obese mice on a high calorie diet.
"Our study shows that Sfrp5 is secreted by adipocytes and that it controls the microenvironment of white adipose tissue under conditions of obesity-induced metabolic stress. Whereas Sfrp5 deficient mice do not express a detectable phenotype when fed a normal diet, these animals displayed aggravated fat pad inflammation and systemic metabolic dysfunction when fed a high calorie diet," explained senior author Kenneth Walsh, PhD, director of the Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute at BUSM. Conversely, the BUSM researchers found the administration of Sfrp5 to models of obese and diabetic mice improved metabolic function and reduced adipose tissue inflammation.
The researchers propose that Sfrp5 neutralizes noncanonical JNK activation by Wnt5a in macrophages and adipocytes via paracrine and autocrine mechanisms, respectively. "The JNK signaling pathway in adipocytes and macrophages has emerged as an important mediator of adipose tissue inflammation that affects systemic metabolism. Thus, the Sfrp5-JNK1 regulatory axis in fat represents a potential target for the control of obesity-linked abnormalities in glucose homeostasis," added Walsh.
Funding for this study was provided by the National Institutes of Health.
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Oh, that's a shame! Schools should inspire enthusiasm and passion for your work, not wither it away.
I guess I was lucky with the teacher I had when I was young. I had no access to real art classes, but one artist took me under her wing and taught me a lot, but in a very warm and enjoyable way, without the cold technicalities that seems to have been forced on you. I'd still like to see any of the artwork that you did, if you have any online and if you're willing to share it.
Don't let your fears about writing stop you from trying it. No one' a master right off the bat, you work at it and gradually develop it. And even if it turns out to be something that's not for you, it's a valuable experience, and can often bud off into leading you to new things.
Yeah, that happens sometimes. So pathetic.
Zombie jesus christ, that sucked.
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The Mannerist Style
Ever since the 1920s when Max Dvorak, the most inspiring teacher of his day, gave the term fresh currency, art historians have been debating the definition of the word mannerism. As usual in such debates there has been a division between expansionists and contractionists, enthusiasts and precisionists. On the one hand the word has been stretched to cover art and literature of every kind, from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century; on the other, as in recent careful studies by Craig Hugh Smyth and John Shearman, it has been restricted to a short episode in Roman and Florentine art of the sixteenth century. Jacques Bousquet, the author of this sumptuously illustrated volume, is a flagrant expansionist, partly from enthusiasm for his subject, partly, it must be admitted, from a lack of art-historical training. The subtitle of his work, The Painting and Style of the Late Renaissance, does not hold out great hopes of accurate classification. All is grist to his mill, and among the titles of the short chapters in which he defines the themes of mannerism are Perversion, Sadism, Melancholy, Crafts and Mechanical Inventions, Occultism, The Terrifying Image, and even The Love of all Things Good and Beautiful. Such inclusiveness involves a surprising chronological agility. He skips lightly from the fifteenth century to the eighteenth and on the same page (218) quotes both Marsilio Ficino and Milton as evidence of mannerist sentiment. The trouble is, I think, that he has not made up his mind whether mannerism should be regarded as a style with certain identifiable characteristics, or as a "spirit" which expresses itself in certain subjects. In the great artists of mannerism, as in all great art, style and spirit are one and indivisible; but many of the impulses, eroticism, sadism, curiosity, perversion, and so forth, which he claims as peculiar to mannerism, have been of recurring interest to human beings, and cannot be made the basis of an art-historical definition. A useful definition of mannerism must combine stylistic and historical analysis.
The style originated in Rome (although M. Bousquet repudiates this view) in about the year 1520. It grew partly out of the strange and compelling stylistic discoveries in portions of the Sistine ceiling, notably the spandrels with the miraculous Salvations of Israel, and some of the Ancestors of Christ; partly out of the elegant formulas in which Raphael's pupils interpreted the later designs of their master. From these two sources flowed the two differing, although occasionally mingling, currents of mannerism, which may be called for convenience the expressionist and the decorative. The young artists who first fell under the spell of these works were extremely talented. The two Florentines, Rosso and Pontormo, the Sienese, Beccafumi, and the north Italian, Parmigiano, as well as two of Raphael's pupils, Perino del Vaga and Giulio Romano, were as gifted as all but the greatest of the preceding generation. But they suffered from the…
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What's the difference, if any, besides the obvious? Which do you prefer and why?
The angled cabs offer the angle for self monitoring when used by themselves. Both fill a small room up pretty quickly with sound when loud enough though. I always prefer the look of the straight cabs and my OCD tell me that they are somehow better sounding because the baffle is one piece as opposed to two joined at an angle.
Cabs and designs will vary by manufacturer, so you'd have to compare a new Marshall with a new Marshall (for example).
I would always choose the straight cab as I want the speakers to point into the crowd, and not angle up towards the ceiling.
Why? That's the P.A.'s job, not your cab. As mentioned before, these days cabs are firstly meant as a signal source for the P.A. and secondly are used as a direct self monitoring source on stage.
Cabs are NOT for providing volume to the audience.
As an engineer, my biggest issue with other guitarists is them not being able to understand that they can't just crank their amp on stage since it makes it impossible to provide a balanced sound and inevitably causes feedback issues. This in turn means that guitar has to be taken out of Foldback monitor mix and the guitarist complains the whole time that he can't hear himself (despite having his amp cranked!) Where as if they set the amp to the volume the engineer specified, then the engineer would be able to mix the sound properly and provide the whole band with a far superior monitor mix.
Long gone are the days where P.A.'s were not large enough and a full stack with a straight cab on the bottom and angled cab on top was required in order to help fill a large venue with sound.
These days angled cabs are generally meant to be placed at stage level and the shallow angle is meant to provide the guitarist with a sound reference while standing a few feet in front of the cab. (the angle is far too shallow to simply direct the sound at the roof).
Straight cabs in a half stack, in my opinion are entirely pointless.
Sorry didn't mean to go on a rant.......these topics just irk me a bit as an engineer! LOL
Calm down dude!
We don't mic up, I play pub gigs with a backline and a vocal only PA. Hence to me it DOES matter where the speakers point, and on a slightly raised stage a straight cab points straight at the crowd.
Us too. A couple drum mics get added to the PA but otherwise, we self amplify. I've used a slant vert. 2x12 for decades and only recently changed to a horiz. straight 2x12 cab. I'm pushing the power stage much harder and need to govern the volume better...like putting a guitar case in front of it!
That's the traditional way that we played back in the 60s-70s...mics only into the PA. However...
The fact is that the audience isn't hearing much direct sound from your cab regardless of whether it's angled or not. The sound is reflected all over the room, and bounces everywhere. Because you're standing close, you hear a predominance of direct sound. But only a few feet back, and the audience is hearing a combination of direct and reflected sound. More than ten-15 feet back, and it's probably reflected sound that's predominant.
It's doubtful whether anyone in the audience could tell the difference between a straight cab and an angled cab, even from 5-10 feet away, especially in the context of a band.
So my recommendation would always be to get what you like to work with, because as far as the audience goes, they're not going to hear a difference.
Fair points!
Straight cabs look cooler to me so I'll stick with them
A perfectly reasonable thing to do!
It makes more sense that you might be concerned about speaker positioning when only using a vocal PA but LSchefman summed up pretty much what my response would have been and probably better too.
My only addition at this point is that if you're only using a Vocal PA then you're not going to have any form of on stage monitor mix and so actually an angled cab would actually theoretically be more beneficial for hearing yourself, cos you know, that's what the angle is there for.
There is no right and wrong as it's down to the individual, but certain options are definitely more beneficial and it's not quite as simple as form over function, but yeah, each to their own etc.
Interestingly enough, the new Line 6 L3t and L3m speakers have a virtual tiltback. When used in a backline configuration for the likes of Electric guitars etc, it activates the Virtual Tilt Back mode which optimizes the speaker's tuning to achieve an upward tilt to its main axis and aim the sound towards the performer.......I don't know what kind of voodoo magic it uses to achieve it, but it sounds very clever and I'm very interested to try it out with my POD HD500 in the new year when I get mine!
I only play at home and prefer the speakers off the floor so they are pointed toward me. Therefore, all amps I have bought in the last 20 years have been placed on top of a 20" table. This has included all sizes from my Boogie Lonestar Classic with a 2X12 cabinet to the Mark V and Fishman Artist I use now.
Very informative, guys. Thanks!
I would have to say the angle really wasnt designed to allow the performer to hear amp. When stacks were designed the angled cab was on top to maybe help people in the upper levels of the venue hear. Any thoughts on that?
I think it was maybe just a cosmetic thing?
Umm, yeah I covered that in my main response........


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Great looking pies, Tee. I wouldn't mind reading about your dough and oven some day.
Your peel doesn't look like you are using it enough. :-DCraig
Thank you for the compliments Steve, Norma, and Craig. My workflow for the above was inspired by the workflows of Craig and Johns (dellavecchia) Keste Clone. 100% Flour (Caputo Blue) 61% Water (Room temp).075% CY 2.7% Sea Salt 1) I first dissolved the CY in room temp water. 2) Using a KA w/dough hook, I add all of the water/CY and flour mixed on stir (lowest setting) until incorporated (about a minute). 3) Autolyse 10 minutes4) Mix on stir for 3 minutes adding the salt during the first minute.5) About 3 folds on the counter6) Bulk 30 hours @ 65f-69f in a cooler and 1 coleman chiller7) Balled 18 hours @ 62f in a cooler and 2 coleman chillers These pies were baked @ 930f 50-60 seconds.I have a FB Premio like member Scott D (flyboy4ual). I plan to put a build thread up once I organize my pictures. LoL @ Craig
.Yes that peel is fresh. It has only been used as a pie transporter so far. I have another for the launch but usually grab the GI metal.
Baked on my grill in the MPO (http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,20334.msg199996.html#msg199996).I really like this pie from the MPO or the WFO - tomato, dry WM mozz, Calabrian chilies, fresh basil.100% KABF64% water (effective ~67% hydration)7.5% Ischia culture2.5% salt2.0% shortening (HT Chau)16 hours at 60F bulk + 6 hours 60F balls + 4 hours 77F balls (14 pies, 370g balls)
Norma - I made Farinata on the 2Stone for your August Challenge. I chucked some zucchini in there (it's that time of year!). I'm sure the zucchini isn't traditional.100% Chickpea Flour315% water36 % Olive OilA bit of sea saltTF about 0.26
Craig,Wow, you pie made on the MPO looks delicious! You sure are great at using different ovens! What do you think the shortening did to the pie? Did it give the crumb any different texture. I know Chau was working with shortening in doughs. How do you rate the pizza made in the MPO to pizzas you made on your grill before?Norma
Did you grill or fry the zuccs or simply sliced?
What is a Farinata? Could you also post how Chickpea flour is to use and if you have used it before? That sure is a high percentage of oil that you used. I bet your Farinata was moist.
This is the first time I've ever tried shortening in pizza, and I've rarely used oil. The pizza was very good - the last two were nice and crisp. I just don't have enough experience with fats in my dough to say how the two compare.The MPO pies are very different than my previous grill pies which were much closer to NP style. I see the MPO as a couple things 1) a ready to go straight out of the box way to make good pizza on the BBQ. People love to cook on their BBQ and most people won't mess with a homemade BBQ hack, and 2) with a little work I think It will bake a better pie than a non-hacked home oven, so it is an option for people who want to bake a better pizza but don't want to or cant jump into a WFO. What it isn't is a WFO, and it's not going to bake NP pies.CL
Thanks Norma and Don.......Norma,It is not really pizza..... It is a food from Liguria (the north-west coastal Italy, on the Mediterranean). As Don noted it is also called Socca in the south of France. It is a very thin batter (note the 315% HR) of chickpea flour and water. You mix the water and chickpea flour, let it sit for 4 or 5 hours, stir in the oil and salt, and bake it in a pan that has been heated up to hot with some olive oil. Yes, lots of olive oil. It is supposed to hot and oily! With lots of black pepper right before you eat it!I've made it before in the oven, but like may things it is much better baked at a higher temp. This was about 625F for 5 min. In Italy they have large special pans, and at traditional places cook it in a wood fired oven. My grandparents immigrated from Liguria. The times we've visited Liguria we always eat a bunch of Farinata. If you're "in the know" you ask when the next pan will done and get it REALLY hot. Some places post what time they make it at. It isn't good at room temperature. So that's Farinata.


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Am I the only one really, really disturbed by this? I did address this to him directly. I come here for therapy reasons and so doesn't many others. We should have the ability to delete for that purpose along with the idea that some comments down the road may be problematic with work. I do find this and him hostile. Or am I overreacting. Yes I was blunt with him and no I don't regret it, it needed saying. So if I am not here again, you know why.
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Santa Barbara, California
B.A. in physics from New York University, 1940; graduate work at University of California at Berkeley; contacts with J. Robert Oppenheimer at Berkeley and Princeton University; move to industrial physics and Bell Labs; re-entered university life at University of Wisconsin; developed University of California Santa Barbara's Institute for Theoretical Physics. Majority of interview devoted to JASON: motivation for joining; chairmanship of JASON during Vietnam involvement; selection of projects; important projects; technical advice versus policy advice; impact of JASON.


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MINNEAPOLIS - A nearly two week stretch of high-profile showcase action that started in the San Diego metropolitan area and concluded in downtown Minneapolis proved to be beneficial for prospect Gosuke Katoh.
At the very least, the stretch in mid-June certainly got the Poway, Calif., high-school student in front of some pretty influential people.
Katoh, a top 10 middle-infield prospect (No. 156 overall) who will be a senior at Rancho Bernardo High School in the fall, got his summer started at the Perfect Game Sunshine West Showcase June 9-10 in Chula Vista, Calif. He then joined the best of the best for four days (June 15-18) at the Perfect Game National Showcase here at the downtown Metrodome.
He has already committed to UCLA but will take advantage of any opportunity that gives him a chance to get in front of the MLB scouting community. He especially enjoyed the PG National, which featured 300 of the top prospects in the high school class of 2013 and close to 300 scouts in attendance on any given day.
"It's been great, playing in this environment with all of the top 300 kids in the nation from our class," Katoh said as the PG National neared its completion. "It exceeded my expectations; I was expecting good talent, obviously, and good pitching and good competition, and that's what I saw right here."
Katoh also enjoyed good competition and was able to get in front of some West Coast scouts at the PG Sunshine West about a week-and-a-half earlier. He is known as a standout defensive middle-infielder, but his skills are in no way limited.
At the conclusion of the Sunshine West, Perfect Game's Steve James wrote in a report that Katoh is an "impact player in all phases of the game. Plus actions at 2B, very quick transfers. ... Has good bat speed and swing at the plate. Has juice; 2 homers, a double and triple in games; disruptive on the base paths, great make up."
That reads almost word-for-word like a scouting report Katoh might write about himself. He ran an impressive 6.42 seconds in the 60-yard dash- tied for sixth overall - at the PG National.
"For my game, I think it would be defense and quickness," he said when asked to describe his strengths as a ballplayer. "Hitting, everybody has slumps, but defense and quickness and speed never goes down. It's a big part of my game and I take pride in my quickness and my transfers. That's what I play for."
The PG National was Katoh's ninth Perfect Game event since he first attended the 2010 Perfect Game/EvoShield National Championship in Goodyear, Ariz., as a member of the San Diego Show. He continued to play for head coach Brian Cain and the Show throughout the 2011 season and will continue to do so throughout this summer.
"Brian Cain has really helped me a lot in picking a college and getting me out to these showcases," Katoh said. "I don't think I would be here without him."
The San Diego Show won a pair of PG national tournaments in 2011: the PG WWBA 2011 Grads or 18u National Championship and the PG/EvoShield National Championship (Upper Class). Katoh wasn't with the team for the WWBA 18u tournament in Marietta, Ga., but did play well for the championship squad at the PG/EvoShield Upper class in Scottsdale, Ariz.
"Going to Arizona and winning a (Perfect Game) national tournament was just great," he said.
Katoh is looking at another busy summer. He is in Cary, N.C., this week for the USA Baseball Tournament of Stars, and plans on returning to Marietta with his San Diego Show teammates for both the PG WWBA 2012 Grads or 18u National Championship and the PG WWBA 2013 Grads or 17u National Championship in July.
It's also likely he will be with the Show for the 2012 PG/EvoShield National Championship (Upper Class) in mid-September in Phoenix.
Katoh committed to UCLA after first being contacted by the school's recruiters and coaches at last year's PG National Games-Class of 2013 Showcase in San Diego. He said he was considering other West Coast schools, but once the Bruins offered he didn't hesitate.
"They had been watching me for quite awhile ... and I jumped on the offer because that was really my number one school. It was my definite choice," he said, adding that both of his parents are UCLA alumni. "I wouldn't be here without Perfect Game ... and I definitely wouldn't have committed to UCLA. (The showcases) really help, not only for college, but for the draft coming up. This should hopefully help me out next year."
Katoh was born in the United States, moved to Japan with his parents to live for three years when he was a toddler, and then returned to the U.S. when he started school. He began playing baseball as soon as he was back in the States, and grew up idolizing Seattle Mariners' superstar Ichiro Suzuki.
"All the Japanese baseball players think he's a legend," he said.
Katoh said he doesn't see many other young American kids with Japanese heritage playing baseball, or at least not in the community where he lives.
"I would say that I am the minority, obviously, on the baseball field," he said. "I don't think there are a whole lot of Asians (in the United States) playing baseball at my age or at my level."
And then he offered some advice to any Japanese-American youngster who might be contemplating playing baseball one day.
"I would tell them that even if you're small or even if you're not that tall and you're not that powerful, if you work hard you can be whatever you want to be and achieve your goals," he said.


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Recent market action evokes the following from Pit Bull, a trading classic by Marty Schwartz:
"It's the latest it's the greatest, come on baby, it's so easy to do. Oh, mashed potatoes, mashed potatoes, you can do it too. Mashed potatoes, mashed potatoes, yeah, yeah, yeah…"
It was 3:59. Hayes Noel and I were up on the balls of our feet, twisting our crepe-soled shoes in opposite directions, dancing around the floor of the American Stock Exchange singing Dee Dee Sharp's 1962 hit. As my young son would later say, "It had been a big busy day." Discarded buy-sell slips covered the floor and we were getting some good sliding action. We were hot. I was up ten grand on paper for the day with only a minute to go. I'd only been trading on the floor for a couple of months, and I was so happy that I was doing so well and that my positions were all marked up in my favor that I didn't realize that I should have converted the ten grand into real money.
The market opened way down the next day, and because I'd been dancing instead of closing out my positions, I was locked in and lost the whole $10,000 in paper profits. From then on, I always fought back the temptation to start dancing before I'd heard the cash register ring. When you feel like doing the mashed potatoes, it's a visceral clue that you've lost your objectivity, you've gotten too emotional, and you're about to go into the shitter.
The other thing that's stupid is that you actually think you're dancing well. And, of course, you're not.
Until last Friday's gigantic bust of a non-farm payrolls report, investors had been doing the mashed potatoes over the prospect of a housing-led US economic recovery. While equity markets recovered from the shock of a +100K jobs whiff, a fair amount of technical and sentiment damage was done. Long-term treasuries took off like a bottle rocket as investors dog-piled into safe havens, and small caps were beat by the ugly stick.
It is an ironic fact of markets that the crowd is always wrong at turning points. The crowd is not wrong all the time, of course. There are great long stretches where the crowd successfully rides a trend.
By definition, though, a turning point will catch the crowd by surprise… because if the crowd had anticipated it and acted earlier, the turning point itself would simply have arrived earlier.
Crowds are also known for unimaginative extrapolation in straight lines. The trend, once sufficiently reinforced in the collective institutional psyche, is de facto assumed to persist indefinitely.
That makes the following especially juicy (via Reuters):
LONDON (Reuters) – Hedge funds set up to profit from huge market slides are falling out of favor, signaling that investors are increasingly confident leading central banks can avert the kind of meltdown that followed the Lehman Brothers' collapse.
Investors are pulling out of such "tail risk" funds although economic and geopolitical bolts continue to strike from the blue, be they the messy bailout of Cyprus which has shown how the euro zone crisis can flare up when markets least expect it, or the U.S. stand-off with North Korea.
Despite such crises, shares have ploughed on to multi-year highs while volatility, as measured by the VIX or "Fear" Index, fell in mid-March to its lowest level since before the financial crisis when the U.S. investment bank went under in 2008.
Last year's promise by European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi to do whatever it takes to safeguard the euro, along with bold measures by policymakers to stimulate economies from the United States to Japan, have undermined tail risk funds.
"If the world's central banks have decided they are going to do whatever to support the economy then you are not going to have crazy volatility. You need a catalyst," Nicolas Rousselet, Head of Hedge Funds at Swiss investor Unigestion, told Reuters.
- Investors turn their backs on "black swan" hedge funds
In the aftermath of a hurricane, investors rush to take out insurance on their beachfront condos — just when premiums are the most inflated. Then, after a long season of sunshine and mild winds, their memories fade and they let the policy lapse… just as danger looms large again.
Here are the following reasons to extrapolate blue skies ahead (with no black swans in sight) — see if you can spot what's amusing:
- The US housing market is healthy.
- Housing + Energy = economic recovery.
- Crisis in Europe is contained.
- Asia is on a solid, stable footing.
The irony is that all four of those factors were plausible reasons for bullish optimism as recently as a few weeks ago… and now they are all in doubt.
The housing market is indeed recovering. But how much of it is solid fundamentally, and how much is driven by falsehoods? John Hussman makes an intriguing argument that the whole thing is a classic misallocation:
While some observers will reflexively point to the housing market as a sign of economic recovery, it is important to recognize that the millions of homeowners with underwater mortgages (home values below the amount of mortgage debt still owed) have no ability to sell their homes even if they wish to do so, unless they can come up with the difference out of pocket. As a result, the natural flow of demand from new household formation must be satisfied from an inventory of homes for sale that is much smaller than the actual "shadow inventory" that would be available if losses did not have to be taken in order to sell those homes. So the demand for homes resulting from household formation is satisfied from limited inventory plus new home building, even though there is an ocean of distressed and unsold homes already in existence. From this perspective, it should be clear that the bounce we've seen in housing is not a sign of economic recovery, but is instead a sign of misallocation of capital due to what economists would generally call a "market failure."
- John Hussman, Taking Distortion at Face Value
We can also see, via Friday's jobs report, that whatever is going on in housing, it isn't helping the real economy in key ways — and millions of Americans are dropping off the radar:
Put out an all-points bulletin: Millions of Americans have gone missing from the workforce.
Every month that those would-be workers are gone raises the odds that they might never come back, dimming the prospects for future economic growth.
The vanishing trend is more than a decade old, but it accelerated during the Great Recession. Throughout 2012, economists held out hope that it had stopped. But then came Friday's jobs report, and hopes were dashed.
The Labor Department reported that the U.S. labor force — everyone who has a job or is looking for one — shrank by 500,000 people in March. That brought the civilian labor force participation rate to 63.3 percent in March, its lowest level since May 1979. And it left the workforce several million members smaller than the Congressional Budget Office estimates that it should be, given the nation's demographics.
Perplexingly, the driving force behind the decline does not appear to be baby boomers beginning to retire, an event economists have long predicted would shrink the size of the workforce. It's people in the prime of their working years, ages 25 to 54, who began tumbling out of the job market in the early 2000s and have continued to disappear during the recovery.
That's obviously bad for those people, who aren't earning money in any way that would legally require them to pay taxes. It's also bad for the economy for a simple reason: The fewer workers, the less growth produced…
- Washington Post, Vanishing Workforce Weighs on Growth
Alongside housing, there is a belief that a new energy boom will power a US-led recovery. But this rationale is out of whack for two reasons: The timing cycle is all wrong, and cheap energy has not slowed the automation uptick and offshoring exodus that has made manufacturing jobs disappear. We may well have cheaper oil and gas in five to seven years. But that is no counter to persistent weakness here and now.
And what about the argument that crisis has been contained in Europe? Pardon me for a moment — HA HA HA HA HA — ok and we're back.
Prior to Cyprus, it was possible to argue, albeit unconvincingly, that Mario Draghi had "saved" Europe and everything would be fine. Now, though, it is becoming clear that Cyprus was not some bolt out of the blue, but the thin end of a very large wedge.
What happened in Cyprus is representative of Europe's unsolvable problems on the whole — problems that are already festering in Italy, Portugal, Spain, Greece, and even France. Europe is no closer to a solution now than it was in the throes of Greek crisis… and the odds of another "black swan" out of Europe are now so high (timing notwithstanding) the swan should rightfully be labeled gray.
Cyprus is also important as a form of throw-in-the-towel turning point for Europe. Up until Cyprus, there was still a large contingent of euro-optimists who thought the kinks would work out and the euro would survive as a viable currency. After the utterly ridiculous fiasco that ensued (and is still ongoing), many one-time "believers" switched over to the no-hope side.
And as for Asia: Just in case North Korea's threat of nuclear war and Japan's embrace of nuclear monetary policy were not enough, there is this:
China's unprecedented run of better- than-forecast export growth has spurred deeper skepticism of the data at banks including Goldman Sachs Group Inc., casting doubt on the strength of the recovery.
Gains in overseas shipments exceeded forecasts by at least 7.5 percentage points in December, January and February, the first time that's happened in three straight months in the eight years Bloomberg has compiled analyst estimates for the data…
Overstated exports would mean China is failing to get the boost from global demand that the data suggest as the new government under Premier Li Keqiang seeks to sustain an economic rebound. Theories include companies inflating the value of shipments to bring money into China, according to Nomura Holdings Inc., and exporting the same goods twice as local governments seek to boost data, Goldman Sachs says.
"The recovery in exports is there, but the magnitude probably is much weaker than the official data has been indicating," said Zhu Haibin, chief China economist at JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Hong Kong…
- Bloomberg, China Export-Data Skepticism Deepens From Goldman to Nomura
The traditional view of North Korea's leadership has been: "They aren't actually insane, it just pays geopolitically to pretend they're insane."
Vis a vis China – to the degree that North Korea actually starts acting nuts, then, it suggests some internal pressures could be forcing the regime's hand. How does this story end? Barring the (small) possibility of an actual nuclear exchange, we have the further possibility — economically terrifying to China — of an imploding North Korean state sending millions of starving refugees flooding over China's borders.
And if the whole North Korea thing dies down, there is the risk that China's white-hot housing bubble is in the midst of popping anyway… and then of course you have Japan implementing perhaps the craziest monetary experiment in history (a QE plan that is effectively three times bigger than the United States)…
And as a piece de resistance, as observers like Hussman and Jeremy Grantham have observed, corporate profit margins are some 70% above historical norms — and as Grantham has said, if margins do not revert at some point it means capitalism is broken.
Basically, if investors had any sense they would be purchasing black swan insurance by the metric ton right about now (instead of shunning it).
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|EPM/Sarcocystis neurona
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Sarcocystis neurona is the most common cause of equine protozoal myeloencephalitis (EPM) in horses in America. It is a single celled parasite belonging to the group called coccidia (Apicomplexa: Sarcocystidae) with opossums as the definitive hosts and a variety of mammals as aberrant or natural intermediate hosts . Only asexual stages have been identified in the aberrant intermediate hosts, and they are confined to the brain and spinal cord, and any part of the central nervous system (CNS) may be affected. In histologic sections of CNS, individual merozoites are about 3-5 um long and contain a single, centrally located vesicular nucleus. The sarcocysts are microscopic (~700 um long) with a 1-3 um thick sarcocyst wall. The bradyzoites are slender and tiny (~ 5 um long). Sarcocystis neurona sporocysts from opossum faeces are ~ 10 x 8 um in size.
Life Cycle
It has the most unusual life cycle for any species of Sarcocystis as unlike other species of Sarcocystis, S. neurona has wide host range for its intermediate hosts. Opossums (Didelphis virginiana, D. albiventris) are its definitive (reservoir) hosts and excrete oocysts and sporocysts (environmentally resistant stage)in their feces. Raccoons, armadillos, sea otters, skunks, cats and possibly other mammals are intermediate hosts. These animals ingest the sporocysts , which after many asexual cycles, lead to the development of sarcocysts (resting stage) in their muscles. Infection of the final host is by the ingestion of the sarcocysts from the muscles of the intermediate hosts. The bradyzoites are released in the intestines of the definitive host. They undergo a sexual cycle and this ultimately result in the production of sporulated oocysts, which are excreted in the feces of the opossum. Horses are considered its aberrant hosts because only schizonts and merozoites (no sarcocysts) have been identified , confined to the brain and spinal cord.
Clinical Disease
The pathogenesis of EPM is not clear because the complete life cycle is unknown. Sarcocystis neurona can parasitize all regions of the CNS, from the anterior cerebrum to the end of the spinal cord. Sarcocystis neurona schizonts and merozoites are found in neurons, mononuclear cells, glial cells, and perhaps other neural cells. Studies in immune deficient, interferon gamma gene knockout (KO) mice fed S. neurona sporocysts indicate that S. neurona initially multiplies to a limited extent in visceral tissues and then is transported to the CNS probably via leukocytes. Three weeks after infection, S. neurona is mainly confined to the CNS. Clinical signs of EPM are dependent on the area of the CNS parasitized. The early clinical signs of stumbling and frequent interference are often easily confused with a lameness of either the thoracic and/or the pelvic limbs. In many horses the disease tends to have a gradual progression of clinical signs including ataxia, but in some horses there may be mild clinical signs followed by a rapidly progressive course. On physical examination, the vital signs are usually normal, although some horses may appear thin and mildly depressed. Neurological examination often reveals an asymmetric weakness, ataxia and spasticity involving all 4 limbs. Frequently, areas of hypalgesia or complete sensory loss may be noted. The most frequent brain or cranial nerve deficits observed in horses appear to be head tilt, depression, facial nerve paralysis, and difficulty swallowing, although signs are not limited to these areas. Gait abnormalities are often a result of damage to the spinal cord and may be quite variable depending on the location and severity of the lesion.
Sarcocystis neurona stages and lesions.
(A). Cross section of spinal cord of horse with focal areas of discoloration (arrows) indicative of necrosis. Unstained.
(B). Section of spinal cord of a horse with severe EPM. Necrosis, and a heavily infected neuron (arrows), all dots (arrows) are merozoites. H and E stain .
(C). Higher magnification of a dendrite with numerous merozoites (arrows). One extracellular merozoite (arrowhead) and a young schizont (double arrowhead).
(D). Section of brain of an experimentally-infected mouse stained with anti-S. neurona antibodies. Note numerous merozoites (arrows).
(E). Immature schizonts in cell culture. A schizont with multilobed nucleus (arrow) and a schizont with differentiating merozoites (arrowheads). Giemsa stain.
(F). Mature sarcocysts with hairlike villar protrusions (double arrowheads) on the sarcocyst wall. H and E stain.
(G). Mature live sarcocyst with numerous septa (arrows) and hairlike protrusions on the sarcocyst wall (double arrowheads). Unstained.
(H). An oocyst with two sporocysts each with banana-shaped sporozoites. Unstained.
Many ancillary diagnostic procedures may be required to differentiate primary musclo-skeletal disorders and other neurologic diseases from EPM. The immunoblot analysis of serum and CSF is the current diagnostic test. The current system for commercial testing utilizes 10-20%,15 cm polyacrylamide gradient gels to achieve optimal protein separation. Molecular weights are assigned using Bio-Rad broad range, pre-stained molecular weight markers. Under these conditions, the specific proteins used for diagnostic testing have relative mobilities of 14.5, 13, and 7 Kd. A direct agglutination test using S. neurona merozoites can detect antibodies to S. neurona but it has not been evaluated for the diagnosis of EPM. Polymerase chain reaction testing of equine CSF also provides information regarding the presence of S. neurona DNA in the CNS.
Treatment of horses suspected to have EPM should be done as quickly as possible after clinical signs of the disease are recognized. For many years treatment has been confined to the use of dihydrofolate reductase inhibitors such as sulfonamides and pyrimethamine. Usual treatment involves the use of sulfadiazine at a dose of 20 mg/kg orally, once or twice a day. In addition, affected horses should be placed on pyrimethamine at the dose of 1.0 mg/kg given once a day orally for 120 days or longer. Diclazuril and Toltrazuril, and other coccidiostats are being evaluated to treat EPM The recommended control measures are proper hygiene and prevention of access of opossums to horse feed and pasture.
Although Thoroughbreds, Standardbreds, and Quarter Horses are affected the most, there does not appear to be a breed predilection. EPM is confined to the Americas. In the United States, approximately 30 to 50% of horses were reported to have S. neurona antibodies. Cases of EPM seen in Europe, South Africa and Asia were in horses that had been imported from the western hemisphere. Clinical EPM cases are usually sporadic and more than one case is seldom seen at a particular farm. However, clusters of cases have occurred in a few instances, which would suggest all of the risk factors necessary for disease were at those facilities. The distribution of EPM follows the distribution of opossums. In North America, Didelphis virginiana occurs widely except on Prince Edward Island in Canada. The number of sporocysts shed by opossums has not been determined, although millions of sporocysts of undetermined species may be present in opossum intestines.
Dubey, J.P., Lindsay, D.S., Saville, W.J.A., Reed, S.M., Granstrom, D.E., Speer, C.A., 2001 . A review of Sarcocystis neurona and equine protozoal myeloencephalitis (EPM). Vet. Parasitol., 95: 89-131.


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Tamara Rojo and Sergei Polunin will return to the Royal Opera House for three farewell performances of Marguerite and Armand on 12, 15 and 21 February. The pair danced the ballet to acclaim in October 2011.
Natalia Osipova, Principal of the Mikhailovsky Ballet will make her Royal Ballet debut in Swan Lake. She will dance alongside regular Principal Guest Artist Carlos Acosta on 10, 13 and 25 October.
Of the appearances, Director Designate of The Royal Ballet, Kevin O'Hare said:
I am delighted to be able to invite Natalia Osipova to appear with the Company for the first time next season and I know that she is really looking forward to appearing in our production of Swan Lake and to working with Carlos Acosta.
I am also delighted that, after her long and distinguished career with the Company, Tamara Rojo is able to accept my invitation to return to make a final farewell to Covent Garden audiences and reprise her performance of Marguerite partnered, as before, by Sergei Polunin."
Tickets for Swan Lake are currently on sale with public booking for Marguerite and Armand opening on 17 October.