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4. The Mystery of Death
In the dark long after, things happen as if they were not recalled.
Those two passages probably mean nothing to you. Each of these four sentences is an agent of intelligence who dwells among the resemblances. What are these resemblances who confront you as you first enter the Inner Lips of the Vagina? See, they look like trees.
They are, in fact, plumeria trees – the cemetery tree of the Hawaiians. And they grow here directly around the bend that leads to the crater. You can see the dirt path we followed from the end of the asphalt road. These gnarly trees guard the entry to the earthly imprint of the Goddess' vagina. You can't enter the interior without passing them.
Each year, the cemetery tree drops all its blossoms and leaves and appears to die. I'll post another photograph of this grove later in the season when the trees are in full bloom. For now, though, the resemblances peek out from behind their disguise as plumeria. Look at them closely. They are earthly stand-ins for a cosmic reality that has become known to science only in recent times.
One's first thought might be that their appearance is fractal (a description also known as self-similarity: fractals are fractions: a geometric pattern that repeats at endlessly smaller scales, fractals describe the structure of trees, river systems, bronchial tubes, arteries, brains, seacoasts, clouds, galaxies) – but the deeper understanding is that these trees are an appearance. Physics (in the famous double-slit experiment) demonstrates that the force of awareness affects the outcome of events. Seeing these trees entangles you with them.
With the next breath, the mystery of death begins.
You have seen the cemetery trees. Now, look closer.
Do you see how the branches resemble snakes? These are trees of snakes - lots and lots of snakes. The snake is our guide, the radiance of the snakewalk, darkness cleft by light's amplitudes and curves, wavelengths of the photon. Remember, waves of light move through space without any medium, unlike the waves we know in the ordinary world (crests and troughs of water or air or violin strings). Over a hundred years ago, Albert Einstein developed a mathematical description of light that requires no medium. He never did clarify how a wave can exist without a medium. Even so, physics accepts this explanation, because the mathematics provides highly accurate predictions of the observable world.
So what are we seeing here in these cemetery trees? What is this presence that fills the very entry to the earthly imprint of the Goddess' vagina? Each tree resembles a mating ball of snakes! Do you see it? See it. This moment of seeing, this pivot between perception (tree) and recognition (mating ball of snakes) is the most extraordinary moment.
What is the mind doing when we swivel from perception to recognition? This is not an ordinary exchange. Rational people, whose minds are nothing more than parking lots for memes, dismiss this exchange as 'simply' imaginary. There is nothing simple about imagination. It is dreaming us. Its secrets, its unspoken meanings, compass the very nature of darkness in which we, elected by chance, dressed in distance, and obscure to our own minds, exist as light. This light of human being we call consciousness.
Each snake is a wave of light in the void. Each of these trees is a mating ball of snakes, making every tree here a sun. And this cluster of suns, of tangled light, resembles a grove of plumeria trees. You begin to glimpse the many things. The spermatic power of these mating balls at the opening of the vagina is light entering darkness, penetrating the uterine presence of the Goddess, the motherworld of continuous creation, the Higgs Field that generates the physical world.
Once we see this, the first agent of intelligence comes forward and whispers: Death is a tree. It comes out of the ground of being and reaches into the void.
Somewhere in the future, you are already dead. The moment that we believe is the last moment is, actually, the first. This is so, because time does not exist as we think it does. Being-in-time seems an elusive and ineluctable flow of instants from past to future. This is an illusion. Our nervous systems (our perceptual apparatus: the sensorium) has evolved to interpret energy patterns causally. This way of perceiving reality is useful only in a strictly limited way, which facilitates the survival and reproduction of the organism.
Out of the grove of snakes, a new intelligence opens: time exists precisely like space. The future is already there. At the place where you die, you enter existence – and what you currently believe to be the past is a set of fake memories and counterfeit documents. This is not a conjecture. It is a consequence of physics. Look into retrocausation. Read about Ludwig Boltzmann. And Arthur Eddington's concept of the thermodynamic arrow.
That arrow flies along the trajectory of the second law of thermodynamics, from lesser to greater entropy. It poses the biggest question in physics now: Why is entropy so low in the past? Entropy is the quantitative measure of energy spontaneously dispersing or spreading out and calculates how much energy has flowed from a constricted state to one more widely diffused. The most constricted state, the lowest entropy, is the big bang itself. Entropy near the big bang remains very low. And why that is the case presents to physics a stupendous cosmic mystery – with devastating consequences.
To appreciate that mystery, research the findings of WMAP (Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe). 1,000,000 years after the big bang, the arrangement of matter remains astonishingly smooth. Such a regular distribution of matter is extremely unstable, given the attractive force of gravity, and generates a highly dynamic supply of potential energy. Why doesn't that hot matter clump up? Why doesn't it tangle tightly into black holes? Why instead does it create a colossal source of low entropy, on which the apparent direction of the Thermodynamic Arrow depends? (Roger Penrose in The Emperor's New Mind estimates the probability of such a smooth arrangement of matter at 10−10e123!)
The odds against such an even distribution of matter directly after the biggest explosion in the history of the universe is so inconceivably huge that many strange things are far more probable – including the very strange likelihood that 'the future' already exists and is deciding what will occur in 'the past.' Among those decisions is your undecomposition at the moment of death and subsequent emanation through spacetime toward the lowest entropy.
Three things to remember: light propagates without a medium - you are light (consciousness) that made specific observations at the moment prior to your undecomposition - and observations of final states determine different histories of the universe. Right now, in fact, your current observations are determining which history, among a vast number of possible histories, will happen as your 'past.' (Perhaps at this point you begin to grasp why the stonemovers warned you not to enter this place of sorcery!)
Why should we entertain the obviously absurd idea that 'the future' determines 'the past?' Recall from your studies of the thermodynamic arrow that, according to Boltzmann, probability increases exponentially with entropy. It follows that the objective direction of time does not exist, because the probability of producing the world we see around us is far less likely to have emerged out of the exponentially lower entropy of 'the past' and far more likely to come from the reverse of the normal temporal perspective.
Facing the truly colossal odds of the lowest entropy that WMAP reveals at the earliest history of the universe, other theorists have suggested scenarios as strange as what I'm proposing and - like snakewalking 'backward' in time - far more likely than the early state of our cosmos: all the particles that constitute the Sun and the planets could have spontaneously flown together in one instant to create our solar system exactly as we see it today and that event would be far more likely than the low entropy in proximity to the big bang. Also more likely than a big bang producing a super-smooth distribution of matter is the probability that your brain assembled spontaneously and you and you alone exist, experiencing everything as a virtual reality.
The Prince of Darkness, Dr. Realitätsprinzip, steps forward and refutes the snakewalk by asserting that the low entropy at the beginning of time simply (the good doctor much admires that word: 'tis a gift to be simple) - simply indicates that there is something as yet not understood missing from our cosmological model.
Thank you, Doctor. The Prince of Darkness is right, of course. There is and always will be something missing from our rational understanding of the universe, because the universe exceeds our ability to grasp it rationally. (Check out Werner Heisenberg, Kurt Gödel and Ludwig Wittgenstein.) But the snakewalk is not a rational walk in the park. The snakewalk is divine intercourse.
Part of our foreplay here in the grove of cemetery trees before we enter the Body of the Goddess is to set our sorrow down. Bereavement, the most immemorial leaching of our human spirit, disappears when we look closely at the physics of reality. Where are you when you are in 'the future' a moment 'after' you die? You are disembodied consciousness, light propagating without a medium in what Stephen Hawking calls imaginary time.
That means that when you are not in spacetime, physically embodied, you are moving in a direction of time perpendicular to the thermodynamic arrow. Examine the relationship of imaginary time to the wave-function of the universe (as described by Hawking and Hartle), and you'll see that, unlike the thermodynamic arrow, imaginary time has no beginning or end, no apparent preferred direction.
The crest of the snakewalk occupies imaginary time and the trough exists in the physical world. The snakewalk oscillates from our far more probable 'future' to our far less probable 'past' until we arrive (after many oscillations, many incarnations) at the singularity of the big bang. In fact, the Hawking-Hartle quantum cosmology of imaginary time postulates that 'the past,' in particular the phase transition from imaginary time to the big bang and the start of the thermodynamic arrow of conventional time, is controlled from the far 'future' in a self-consistent loop.
So, we are snakewalking backward - until we reach our mother's wombs and then launching again into imaginary time to another death that initiates another life…
Our ultimate destination is the big bang, itself a quantum event: its initial size, immeasurably smaller than an atom, exists in a probability state, a cosmic wave function, which the physicist Richard Feynman called the sum-over-histories.
The Tree of Death grows toward the light.
Every possible configuration of the particles that will condense out of the original energy of the big bang exists in the sum-over-histories, and each configuration is a worldline - sort of like the numerous branches we see here in the grove of snake trees reaching for the light of the sun. (BTW, the crest on the crater wall we see beyond the trees is Pu'u Mai - the clitoral hood of Kohelepelepe! I believe She's excited to see us.)
The flash of death is not our departure from spacetime but our arrival. From there, we undecompose and radiate through the sum-over-histories toward the singularity at the big bang. There's the light at the end of the tunnel. Along the way is an immense but less than infinite number of pathways, all the possible histories of any given life and of all possible lives. Light combs out through them.
The transmigration of consciousness drifts not into the 'future' but the 'past.' Past lives, then, are histories we presently choose by the observations and determinations (actions) we make. So, if you've always felt you've lived before as Cleopatra - maybe that's where you're headed. If there is a Cleopatra in 'the past,' you may be the one destined to create her. And among the sum-over-histories, there may be many of you who will exist as one of the extensive numbers of 'Cleopatras' extant in the manifold configurations of our universe.
The light-within branches through the body like a tree.
All the atoms of the human body take on mass (and inertia) from the Higgs Field - from emptiness. The body is the world. And the terrible darkness of the world trembles inside the body, pumping blood, darkness to darkness. At once impersonal and intimate, the world is a journey of forgetting.
When asked to remember, we dream. Dreaming is the light in the body, in the dread darkness of the world. Dreaming illuminates the impossible, which is the road of astonishments up and out of this world. At the crest of the snakewalk in imaginary time, we dream -and our dreams are our observations, which collapse the wave-function to the trough of the snakewalk: one worldline among the sum-over-histories.
When we are dreamers, when we are light snaking among the waves-without-medium of imaginary time, the force of awareness selects the worldlines we will live. Our dreaming shines from the moment of death all the way to our fetal enchantment in the undivided life of the womb, retracing the events we experience as we collapse through life into the singularity of the gamete - a trillion cells imploding to one, one molecule of DNA, splitting into egg and sperm and releasing our light and our life to imaginary time.
In the dark long after, things happen as if they were not recalled.
Our dreaming, our light in the darkness of the body, begins to unknow us from the moment we enter spacetime. Dreams branch through fractal dimensions, opening memory to the impossible, remembering another way of looking. Yet, among the blind powers of the world, events transpire in our waking life like creatures of their own imagination.
The doors of perception stay shut unless we push them open. Each life is a concentric awareness. At the center is our light, the force of whose consciousness decides everything in imaginary time. Surrounding our light is the world, a body of darkness where things happen as if they were not recalled.
That's it. We're out of here! One glance back at where we've been, the grove of cemetery trees and the mystery of death at the entrance to the earthly imprint of the Goddess' vagina:
In the death of things, there are no empty gestures. Crossing through that grove, you faced four truths supported not by dogma or intuition but empirical facts. For over a hundred years, we have known that time is an illusion; yet, still, most people live and make critical decisions as if they are on an exodus to some promised future.
In the grove of cemetery trees, you went back in through your eyes to the engendering light within. You let go of the medieval mentality that time passes, and you gained the empowerment of being that was vouchsafed you the moment you died.
In any given moment, light coincides with dreaming. We are dreaming the world. The world is not dreaming us, no matter what anyone tells you about nurture and nature. The journey of forgetting stops in any given moment.
In is the direction. Into the body and the dark powers of the world. Into your dreams – and something deeper.


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Grand Rapids Alumni Clean Kids' Campby Howard Hewitt • November 1, 2005 Share:
Wabash alumni gathered to help clean up a kids' camp in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The 11 alumni and friends helped clean and repair the dining facility at Camp O'Malley.
The Camp is run by the Youth Commonwealth in partnership with the Grand Rapids Police Department. Inner city youth, ages 6-16, attend the camp in the summer and study outdoor environmental programs and enjoy camping activities. The Camp's goals include increasing self worth and empowerment for positive choices. (See photo album of the alums at work.)
The 11 Wabash grads, and one DePauw grad (Jay Fisher's wife, Marty) along with eight members of the undefeated Kent City Girls Basketball Team (Kevin Brechting '00, is their coach and encourages his team to perform community service in addition to achieving excellence in basketball), five members of Grand Rapids City Middle School (Dr. Tim Conroy, Class of 1979, brought his two daughters along with three of their friends to satisfy some of their community service requirements) for a total of 25 souls attacked the projects.
The group cleaned the Camp's kitchen, dining room and porch.
"We accomplished improving the Camp, spent enjoyable and quality time with each other and with the youth who were helping, and came away with the thought: "Lets do something like this again next year," " wrote Fisher '66.
The group stood out in the bright red Wabash t-shirts and Wabash Day shirts. They had great fun during a noontime cookout.
"There was a good across the board class participation from 1964 through to 2001," Fisher wrote. "Thanks to Jon Pactor for a great idea and countless hours of organization and encouragement."
In photo above: Sgt. mark Ostapowicz '92 suggested the Wabash men take on the Camp O'Malley project. He's working on the porch in this photo.

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Darrelle Revis is the centerpiece of a rebuilt Tampa Bay Buccaneers secondary in 2013.
According to Dan Pompei of the Chicago Tribune, Bucs coach Greg Schiano calls Revis the best cornerback he's evaluated in 25 years. He referenced Deion Sanders and Aeneas Williams in assessing Revis' coverage skills.
"Darrelle is all of those things," Schiano said of Revis, who is expected to be ready for Week 1 following knee surgery to repair his torn anterior cruciate ligament. "He's big, physical; a cover guy, he'll tackle you. And he works his rear end off. His passion for preparation is something I love."
Schiano said Revis will allow the Bucs to take an opposing wide receiver out of the game, according to Pompei, something Revis did with regularity during his six seasons with the New York Jets."That allows you to do some things," he said.
Schiano's comments underscore why the Jets never should have parted with Revis in the first place. We're talking about arguably the greatest cornerback of his generation. Schiano must be pinching himself to get a player of that level still in his prime.
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Cy Twombly with his painting "1994 Untitled (Say Goodbye Catullus, to the Shores of Asia Minor)," at the Menil Collection in Houston in 2005.
Cy Twombly's Gagosian GalleryCy Twombly's "Untitled" from 2007. He once described his work as "more like I'm having an experience than making a picture."
Cy Twombly, whose spare childlike scribbles and poetic engagement with antiquity left him stubbornly out of step with the movements of postwar American art even as he became one of the era's most important painters, died in Rome Tuesday. He was 83.
The cause was not immediately known, although Mr. Twombly had suffered from cancer. His death was announced by the Gagosian Gallery, which represents his work.
Cy Twombly in 2005.Michael Stravato for The New York TimesCy Twombly in 2005.
In a career that slyly subverted Abstract Expressionism, toyed briefly with Minimalism, seemed barely to acknowledge Pop Art and anticipated some of the concerns of Conceptualism, Mr. Twombly was a divisive artist almost from the start. The curator Kirk Varnedoe, on the occasion of a 1994 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, wrote that his work was "influential among artists, discomfiting to many critics and truculently difficult not just for a broad public, but for sophisticated initiates of postwar art as well." The critic Robert Hughes called him "the Third Man, a shadowy figure, beside that vivid duumvirate of his friends Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg."
Mr. Twombly's decision to settle permanently in southern Italy in 1957 as the art world shifted decisively in the other direction, from Europe to New York, was only the most symbolic of his idiosyncrasies. He avoided publicity throughout his life and mostly ignored his critics, who questioned constantly whether his work deserved a place at the forefront of 20th-century abstraction, though he lived long enough to see it arrive there. It didn't help that his paintings, because of their surface complexity and whirlwinds of tiny detail – scratches, erasures, drips, penciled fragments of Italian and classical verse amid scrawled phalluses and buttocks – lost much of their power in reproduction.
But Mr. Twombly, a tall, rangy Virginian who once practiced drawing in the dark to make his lines less purposeful, steadfastly followed his own program and looked to his own muses: often literary ones like Catullus, Rumi, Pound and Rilke. He seemed to welcome the privacy that came with unpopularity.
"I had my freedom and that was nice," he said in a rare interview, with Nicholas Serota, the director of the Tate, before a 2008 survey of his career at the Tate Modern.
The critical low point probably came after a 1964 exhibition at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York that was widely panned. The artist and writer Donald Judd, who was hostile toward painting in general, was especially damning even so, calling the show a fiasco. "There are a few drips and splatters and an occasional pencil line," he wrote in a review. "There isn't anything to these paintings."
But by the 1980s, with the rise of neo-Expressionism, a generation of younger artists like Jean-Michel Basquiat found inspiration in Mr. Twombly's skittery bathroom-graffiti scrawl. Coupled with rising interest in European artists whose work shared unexpected ground with Mr. Twombly's, like that of Joseph Beuys, the new-found attention brought him a kind of critical favor he had never enjoyed. And by the next decade he was highly sought after not only by European museums and collectors, who had discovered his work early on, but also by those back in his homeland who had not known what to make of him two decades before.
In 1989 the Philadelphia Museum of Art opened permanent rooms dedicated to his monumental 10-painting cycle, "Fifty Days at Iliam," based on Alexander Pope's translation of the "Iliad." (Mr. Twombly said that he had purposely misspelled "Ilium," a Latin name for Troy, with an "a," to refer to Achilles.) That same year, Mr. Twombly's work passed the million-dollar mark at auction. In 1995 the Menil Collection in Houston opened a new gallery dedicated to his work, designed by Renzo Piano after a plan by Mr. Twombly himself. Despite this growing acceptance, Mr. Varnedoe still felt it necessary to include an essay in the Modern's newsletter at the time of the retrospective, titled "Your Kid Could Not Do This, and Other Reflections on Cy Twombly."
In the only written statement that Mr. Twombly ever made about his work, a short essay in an Italian art journal in 1957, he tried to make clear that his intentions were not subversive but elementally human. Each line he made, he said, was "the actual experience" of making the line, adding: "It does not illustrate. It is the sensation of its own realization." Years later he described this more plainly. "It's more like I'm having an experience than making a picture." The process stood in stark contrast to the detached, effete image that often clung to Mr. Twombly. After completing a work, in a kind of ecstatic state, it was as if the painting existed and he barely did anymore: "I usually have to go to bed for a couple of days."
The New York Times:Cy Twombly, 1928-2011 American Artist Who Scribbled a Unique Path by Michael Stravato
"As a tribute to the recently deceased artist, the Centre for Fine Arts is turning the spotlight on a less familiar aspect of his oeuvre. The exhibition includes more than 100 dryprint Polaroid photographs (selected by Twombly himself), along with a selection of other works by Twombly and a film portrait by Tacita Dean.
Cy Twombly (who was born in Lexington in 1928 and died in Rome in 2011) was one of the most important US artists of his generation. He made his name with large-scale abstract paintings whose free form and spontaneous dynamism recall calligraphy and graffiti. In his work Twombly often referred to the myths of Classical Greek and Roman Antiquity, to literature and to art history.
The exhibition focuses on a less familiar aspect of Twombly's oeuvre: his photographic work. The photographs are an addition to the artist's creative world and throw new light on it. At the request of the publishers Schirmer/Mosel, Twombly selected more than 100 never previously published Polaroid photographs for a catalogue that was published just before his death on 5 July 2011. This selection is the subject of a travelling exhibition that has already been seen in Germany at the Museum Brandhorst (in Munich) and the Museum für Gegenwartskunst (in Siegen). At the Centre for Fine Arts the exhibition is being expanded, in collaboration with Dr. Hubertus von Amelunxen, who wrote an essay for the Twombly catalogue and who has made a selection for BOZAR of drawings and paintings by Twombly that reveal in greater depth the interplay of lines and light in his work. In addition, the exhibition is complemented by the screening of Tacita Dean's intimate film portrait "Edwin Parker" (which takes its name from Twombly's official given names).
Twombly and photography
Twombly took up photography back in his student days in the 1950s and continued to take photographs throughout his career. It was only in the 1990s, however, that he went public with his photographic work in gallery exhibitions and publications.
All the photographs in the exhibition were taken with a Polaroid camera, enlarged, printed using a special kind of dryprint, and reproduced in limited editions. This procedure, developed by Twombly himself, gives the photographs a hazy glow and a coarse grain. Twombly further reinforced this impression of blurring by playing with light and shade, by overexposure and sophisticated colour saturation, and by employing extreme close-ups. The lack of definition gives his photographs a certain indefinable quality and a poetic dimension. Our attention is no longer drawn to the subject, but to the texture of the picture. In a certain sense, Twombly operates like the pictorialists: his photographs look almost like paintings in which light is captured in brushstrokes.
The subjects of his Polaroid photographs are extremely diverse. There are traditional still lifes with tulips, lemon leaves, and angel trumpets, alongside photographs of temples and atmospheric landscapes. Twombly surprises the viewer with intimate images of everyday objects such as his slippers, a detail from a painting, his brushes, a snapshot of his studio, etc.
The photographs are fascinating because they throw new light on Twombly's creative spirit and visual language. These intangible, fragile images are permeated by the same themes that inspired the artist's paintings, drawings, sculptures, and graphic art. The atmospheric colours and diffuse motifs of his photographs are an unexpected addition to his creative universe. Twombly's oeuvre, moreover, is all about light – and is photography not the medium of light par excellence?
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The R&B superstar became a first-time mum last year (12) when baby daughter Blue Ivy was born after a devastating miscarriage and during a recent interview with Oprah Winfrey, which aired on TV in America on Saturday night (16Feb13), the Halo hitmaker revealed she's keen to expand her family with husband Jay-Z.
She explained, "I definitely want another child... It was important for me to do what I love and I love to perform and I love to make music, so I wanted to have my daughter and see if I was still as passionate.
"Maybe after this next tour I'll maybe have another baby."
And, in the meantime, she hopes to show her baby daughter the world in between tour dates.
She added, "I feel like when I'm touring I'm able to perform, which is what I love, for two hours a day, travel and know that I don't have to do anything else during the day, so I can go to museums, I can go to great restaurants and I can have a life and share that... with my daughter."


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Intel has released a pre-validated hardware and software kit combining technologies from its own in-house teams plus Kontron and Microsoft. The new Digital Signage Evaluation Kit-12 is targeted at developers working to produce "digital signage" solutions in a global market that Intel predicts will reach 10 million media players and a corresponding 22 million digital signs by 2015.
NOTE: The type of digital sign denoted here is typically a large screen TV-style display commonly used in airports and other travel locations. Also favored by retailers and advertisers of all kinds, these units have great potential use in healthcare application deployments as they can be used to impart dynamically changing data to patients and hospital visitors.
The DSEK-12 kit includes an OPS-compliant Kontron media player KOPS800 based on 3rd generation Intel Core processors as well as a 180-day evaluation copy of Windows Embedded POSReady 7. In addition, demos of Content Creation and Content Management Software (CMS) from Flypaper and Scala are included.
"The new Intel solution helps streamline the development and deployment process of digital signage, allowing companies to spend more time crafting engaging content and less time dealing with software integration," said Jose Avalos, director of Visual Retail at Intel.
Additionally, the DSEK-12 comes preloaded with Intel Audience Impression Metrics, a software solution designed to deliver personalized content to consumers while providing retailers and advertisers with analytics. The software anonymously monitors viewer metrics, such as gender, age bracket, and length of attention, and analyzes the data in real-time. The kit also features Intel vPro Technology for platform management.
"With the incorporation of Windows Embedded POSReady 7, developers can create innovative media experiences, rich interactive applications, and compelling user interfaces," said Intel's Avalos.
Once software development is completed, the developer can choose to use the entire kit or un-couple the Kontron media player KOPS800 and deploy that portion directly into any Open Pluggable Specification (OPS) compatible monitor. This modular approach enables scalability for different graphics and processing performance needs without (says Intel) sacrificing overall time to market.


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Somewhere in the middle of Kun-lai Summit my rogue dinged 90 without a single piece of heirloom gear on her (that was still active, anyway; I kept the Inherited Insignia of the Alliance just because).
This was the quickest I'd leveled to max level in a new expac area, and if I'd have been a non-stealthie class I'd have finished even sooner because I avoided a lot of mobs while out questing. By comparison, I dinged L80 in Storm Peaks on Q, and L85 in Twilight Highlands on Neve and Tom.
And while it's going to be nice for questing, PvP just got a big punch in the gut.
I mean, really. Most of my gear is in the L414 range; what do you think would happen if I got into WSG with that gear iL?
I considered running scenarios and/or instances, but really, they didn't appeal to me. I didn't feel like dragging down a scenario with my (relative lack of) DPS, and while instances might work, if I'm going to be spending time getting badges I might as well get Honor instead. Okay, I have to be honest: I queued for an instance long enough to see the DPS wait time for a normal was 45 minutes, and decided I'd much rather get two BGs in before a single instance popped.
That said, just any old BG won't do if you're not geared up for it. A rule of thumb of mine is that the more the players on a side, the lesss impact a single player will have. Therefore, for an undergeared toon, my best bet is to stick to the 40 man BGs and ride on some coattails.
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It feels weird walking around Neverwinter.
The last time I was in the Jewel of the North was in the video game Neverwinter Nights, back before D&D 4E and the Spellplague. Even though she is dead now, I keep expecting to see Lady Aribeth, Paladin of Tyr, wandering around the Protector's Enclave.
I also expect --as a Cleric-- to be managing my available spells and keeping an eye on balancing healing with utility. But in Neverwinter, based as it is on D&D 4E, all of that is out the window. Neverwinter is far closer to a Diablo-esque game than a traditional MMO in terms of gameplay. The commands alone feel better suited to a gamepad than a keyboard.
Still, it is an addictive game, and I recognize the Forgotten Realms lingo in the NPCs you meet.
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I called the kids down to dinner last night, and as she sat down my youngest got a funny look on her face.
"What's up?" I asked.
"I didn't park my Smuggler before coming down. She was in Black Sun territory."
I headed for the stairs. "I'll take care of it."
After moving her toon into a corner, I returned to the table. "Kiddo," I began, "Why is your Smuggler wearing a dress?"
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Freddie Sears' first goal in more than a year rescued Colchester a point against Hartlepool in a 1-1 draw.
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Freddie Sears' first goal in more than a year rescued Colchester a point against Hartlepool in a 1-1 draw.
Sears scored from the spot to secure the Us their seventh draw in eight matches.
Hartlepool took a 17th-minute lead when Antony Sweeney climbed to head Evan Horwood's deep cross past Ben Williams from close range. Pools came close to scoring again shortly afterwards when Ryan Noble narrowly failed to connect with Gary Liddle's teasing cross into the area.
Noble then headed over but Colchester warmed to the task just before half-time and Michael Rose's free-kick forced goalkeeper Scott Flinders to push the ball past a post.
Colchester midfielder Anthony Wordsworth hacked Liddle's goalbound shot away, before going close with a first-time effort that Flinders saved.
But the Us equalised with nine minutes remaining through Sears, who scored the first goal of his Colchester loan spell after substitute Gavin Massey had been tripped by Paul Murray in the area.


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ACTA Rapporteur's Recommendations: Reject Treaty, But Ask European Commission To Come Up With Replacement
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Last week, the EU Rapporteur on ACTA, David Martin, announced he would recommend that the European Parliament reject the treaty. He has now made good on that promise in his report, available in draft form (pdf):
The intended benefits of this international agreement are far outweighed by the potential threats to civil liberties. Given the vagueness of certain aspects of the text and the uncertainty over its interpretation, the European Parliament cannot guarantee adequate protection for citizens' rights in the future under ACTA.
It's interesting to note the main areas of ACTA that he found unsatisfactory:
Your rapporteur therefore recommends that the European Parliament declines to give consent to ACTA.
Unintended consequences of the ACTA text is a serious concern. On individual criminalisation, the definition of "commercial-scale", the role of internet service providers and the possible interruption of the transit of generic medicines, your rapporteur maintains doubts that the ACTA text is as precise as is necessary.
However, Martin does not have a problem with the underlying idea of ACTA:
The problems which ACTA seeks to address are real and growing. Counterfeiting and piracy have increased substantially and continue to do so. The consequences of the growth in these illegal activities range from economic losses to health and safety dangers. The European Union has much to lose without efficient and enforced global coordination in copyright protection.
As a result, he concludes as follows:
Following the expected revision of relevant EU directives, your rapporteur hopes the European Commission will therefore come forward with new proposals for protecting IP.
This seems to be a reference to the imminent revision of IPRED ("intellectual property rights enforcement directive"). The European Commission has already published what it calls its "indicative roadmap" (pdf) for IPRED, so it's clear that it is working on a new proposal. Martin's closing comment suggests that it may get an easier ride through the European Parliament than ACTA, which could encourage the Commission to incorporate some of ACTA's ideas in IPRED 2 -- before moving on to ACTA 2.0.
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106-Year-Old Woman Receives Her High School Diploma
Reba Williams is living proof that you are never too old to learn.
The 106-year-old woman from Columbus, Ohio has finally gotten her high school diploma after failing to graduate when she was supposed to way back in 1925.
Williams was all set to graduate from Mount Vernon High School until she refused to read a book that was assigned to her, claiming she had already read it and didn't want to read it again.
A recent newspaper profile of Williams' former employer helped bring attention to her story and school district officials unanimously agreed to give her the long overdue diploma, which they did during a bedside ceremony in her home.
Williams took it all in stride, saying, ""Oh, for heaven's sake. Isn't that wonderful?"
Now that she's got the high school diploma, it's time to start thinking about college applications.


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Halo: Spartan Assault is Microsoft's attempt to bring the popular IP to the mobile device. Selling millions of copies on consoles and the PC, the Halo series has accumulated many fans and we're set to see that base number grow as more titles are released.
Available on Windows Phone 8, the game has been restricted in the US to just Verizon Wireless customers through a 30-day exclusivity deal. This has now ended.
Taking place in-between Halo 3 and 4, the third-person action game provides hours of entertainment within the universe you know and love. Here's a quick look at Halo: Spartan Assault if you've not yet checked it out yet:
We've checked the store and can indeed confirm that we're able to download HSA on hardware running on US networks other than Verizon. You can download Halo: Spartan Assault from the Windows Phone Store for $6.99. Requires Windows Phone 8 and 1GB RAM (an update for 512MB devices should be not too far off).
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If there is anyone out there in Cle. that is looking to play tennis let me know I'm not sure how big the group is here!! I'm at intermediate level. Hope to hear from someone soon!
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My hours are really flexible b/c I'm self employed. I'm in Lakewood but I will travel westside. I'm a 3.0. Let me know if you's like to play.
Hi Mary, I would like to play tennis after work (any evening after 6pm). I just started playing tennis a few months ago. Please let me know the schedule and location. Thank you.
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I also added a video that I made, "Blackhawk Gone".
After my first track day, I bought a dedicated track bike, so subsequent articles will not be BMW-focused, but track riding is of interest to all riders, especially BMW riders looking at the lovely fast new bikes coming out of Berlin.


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I'm sure most of us agree that RubyQuiz is awesome. Rubyquiz is great because the problems are tiny enough to do in a day or so, but hard enough to make you think a bit. Importantly, the problems cover a wide range of topics: they aren't all math problems (like Project Euler, which is still fun if you like math but not fun if you don't), and they aren't all boring homework-style problems ("implement quicksort"). Many of the problems are fun and relevant and give you a little practical tool when you finish. (e.g. Quiz 68: Write a program that gives you the current temperature outside, given a mailing code or city name). Some of them are more along the lines of logic puzzles or word games.
Rubyquiz is one of the things that helped and motivated me learn Ruby, personally. It lets you see multiple people's approaches to a single problem, which is very helpful to help you learn the idioms and conventions people in the community use, and explore the nooks and crannies of the language.
These things are what the Lisp community needs, to attract new blood and to get Lispers interacting and building community and writing code. We should do a Lispquiz. It looks like there was a failed attempt at one in 2006 that never made it off the ground, and it appears it was only for Common Lisp, which in my opinion is an unnecessary limiting factor. For Lisp there's an added bonus of friendly competition if we throw this quiz open to all Lisps (not just CL). Which Lisp can give the shortest solution? Which Lisp has the best libraries and built-in support to help you solve the problem elegantly?
I've been wanting to do something like this myself for a long time but I just don't have the time to devote to it. But now that we have a nice message board here, there's a really lazy and easy way to do this that requires next to no effort by anyone.
1. Make a Lispquiz forum where only an admin or quizmaster can make new threads.
2. Make a new thread every Friday with a new quiz.
3. If anyone posts code or spoilers before a 48 hour no-spoiler deadline, beat them down, but let discussion happen before then.
4. People post their code right in the thread after 48 hours.
5. After a week, the quizmaster edits his first post (or make a new thread, or I don't know) giving a summary of the postings, commentary of one or more of the nicer or cleverer solutions, etc.
For even more added laziness, we can steal some of Rubyquiz's past problems. Its website says that borrowing the quiz ideas is fine (there's a Haskellquiz out there already). But it would also be nice to have a place for people to suggest new quizzes that show off some of Lisp's strengths.
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We show you how to finally get that sponsor with this new approach
Having bloodied my knuckles knocking on doors over the past 10 years searching for sponsorship, I have found one common trend-success is based on education. Education, or lack thereof, could be the reason that finding sponsorship has long been perceived as one of the most difficult things a racer can accomplish, as well as the reason that so many racers might not achieve their racing goals. How many times have you heard or said, "We will move up if we can find sponsorship"? If we can agree that the definition of insanity is a state of mind that causes someone to do the same thing over and over while expecting a different result, then we can also agree that approaching racing sponsorship from a different perspective may be required to advance your racing career, while relieving some stress on your personal finances.
Sponsorship is the most underutilized, misunderstood, and abused tool in the corporate marketing war wagon. As a racer seeking sponsorship, you have learned that many companies have had less than favorable experiences with sponsorship. The one variable seldom considered in all of the sponsorship books, articles, and workshops, and something that you just can't learn in a classroom is that many local, regional, and yes, national companies do not know how to maximize the value of sponsorship. Even worse, they don't know how to use it properly as a tool to drive business. A common mistake is to confuse sponsorship with advertising. While you are competing with advertising, direct mail, and other marketing programs to get your share of the corporate budget, you are not offering the same capabilities. Well-designed sponsorship programs offer the ability to distribute coupons, generate sales leads, enroll new customers, conduct corporate entertainment, test market/introduce new products, directly increase sales through rights agreements, and more through a single avenue. Those things are referred to in marketing speak as activation, or "promoting the promotion." The rule of thumb is that for every dollar spent on sponsorship, a company must spend an additional dollar on activation. Keep this in mind when the time comes to talk dollars and cents. Sponsors that cheapen or don't budget for activation will certainly be disappointed at the end of the year, and you will lose a sponsor.
On a much more touchy-feely note, sponsorship has the ability to create an emotional connection with fans, or in your sponsors' words, potential customers. It is a fact that NASCAR leads the way in fan loyalty, which in part is an emotional reaction that fans have because of their passion for the sport. But that concept goes beyond just NASCAR. Regardless of the sanction, this fan loyalty can quickly turn into brand loyalty. It's your job to educate your sponsorship prospects of this fact as well as the many opportunities that exist by partnering with your race team.
Have you ever called a prospective sponsor and heard, "We're not interested. Sponsorship doesn't work," or "We've sponsored things before and think it's a waste of money"? If so, chances are they agreed to sponsor something, be it racing or the ballet, and didn't understand how to use this valuable tool. However, companies that sponsor usually stay in it. According to IEG, the leader in sponsorship intelligence, 82 percent of sponsors plan to maintain or increase their sponsorship budgets in the coming year. Timing is key to getting a piece of that action, as 43 percent of companies determine their sponsorship budgets between October and December, while an additional 23 percent determine budgets between January and March.
As the sponsorship numbers continue to grow at the national level, where companies are being sold sponsorship programs by well-educated marketing professionals, it is our job locally and regionally to be in a mode of education in terms of how we are selling sponsorship. Many local business owners and regional executives have never sponsored anything because they don't understand how to make it work for them.
Identify companies that are currently in the mode of advertising. Check out the newspaper, TV commercials, SPEED Channel, other racing broadcasts, and of course, companies that are local track sponsors. Spend quality time with your research in order to save tons of time and money commonly wasted by calling companies that have neither the budget nor a good alignment with racing.
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After you have done your research, you should be able to identify no less than two good reasons that a company would want to work with you and sponsor your race team. Find a way, based on the capabilities of sponsorship outlined above, to help companies achieve their business goals/objectives. Do they manufacture a food product that can be sold in the track concession stand? Are they seeking to entertain their customers? Do they want to generate excitement at their retail location with a show car visit? Whatever you do, don't ask, "Wanna sponsor a race car?" Rather, ask, "Are you interested in sampling 1,500 people per week for 20 weeks?" or "Are you interested in distributing 10,000 coupons over six months in X, Y, and Z markets?" Sell them on the benefits or deliverables of sponsorship-not the word sponsorship (which may be a dirty word if they don't understand it).
The Proposal
Your proposal should focus 10 percent on you, 10 percent on racing, and 80 percent on how they can earn a positive return on their investment through sponsorship. If possible, get away from mailing your proposal. Most computers are sold with Microsoft PowerPoint, which is a very versatile presentation program that you can use to create your proposals. If you don't use the computer or aren't sure how to use PowerPoint, ask a crew or family member to be your race team's marketing director. Make that person responsible for creating proposals and following up with prospects. The greatest advantage of PowerPoint is that it can be e-mailed, which saves you money in printing and postage.
Work with your Track or SeriesWorking with your track or series is perhaps the best way to give yourself an advantage in selling sponsorship. They can provide you with billboard space, tickets, track program ads, and most of all, the ability to sell products in the track concession or souvenir shop. As you work out a partnership with your track, you should ask for discounted pricing, as it's in their best interest to have well-funded teams racing at their track. You also become a sales agent for them, so it's a win-win situation no matter how you look at it.
While attending Cornell University, I had the opportunity to work as an intern for a very large tobacco company. My first foray in corporate America forever changed my view of sales and the selling process. While many other competing tobacco companies were selling cigarettes, the philosophy of the company I worked for was the following: "We will help store owners grow their business-and they will look to us as consultants." As the consultant, or teacher, store owners would look forward to seeing us, and would find value investing in our relationship, which eventually led to success for both of us. It is with this mindset that you will find success with your personal racing sponsorship program. Rather than feeling the guilt of asking for money, make their needs your first priority. Dollars will follow, as will success with your racing career.
Bill Catania of Erie, Pennsylvania, is a third-generation racer, marketing professional, and author. As President of RaceFan Marketing, Catania developed and managed marketing programs for such clients as Valvoline, U.S. Army, Primedia, Discover Card, and MBNA America. He has also authored a series of books to help racers as well as track and series promoters find, manage, and keep sponsors.
The married father of two has competed in dirt Street Stocks, Limited Late Models, and NASCAR Late Models. For 2007, Catania has teamed up with ARCA veteran Andy Belmont to compete in the ARCA RE/MAX Series under the PRISM Racing Group banner.
You can find Bill's books at www.racequest.com. For more information, contact Bill at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Anatomy of a Hangover
Is there a cure for the tragic, albeit self-induced malady?
"Never again is what you swore the time before." These song lyrics from Depeche Mode
summarize our feelings about the curse of imbibing: the hangover. The symptoms are unmistakable: headache, body aches, nausea, fatigue and perhaps tremors. It is of little comfort to know that despite its widespread prevalence, medical science has not developed a cure for the hangover. Studies have shown that more than 75 percent of men and women have experienced a hangover at least once in their lives. Another 15 percent experience hangovers monthly. So what works and what doesn't? My answer might not make you feel better, but at least you will understand why you feel so rotten.
What exactly causes veisalgia (the medical term for an alcohol hangover)? Sadly, no one knows. What science does know is that hangover symptoms have a notable impact upon society. "Specifically on lost productivity the last estimate for Canada was [published] in 2006," tells Dr. Tim Stockwill of the Centre for Addictions Research of British Columbia. Dr. Stockwell is referring to a report written by Dr. Jürgen Rehm and associates for the Canadian Centre for Substance Abuse (www.ccsa.ca). In this 2006 report, $23 million dollars and 227,000 days in were lost to reduced activity due to short-term disability from alcohol abuse in the year 2002. In the United States this figure is closer to $148 billion. The toll is especially hard on college students. One study, published in the June 2000 edition of the Annals of Internal Medicine, found that 29 percent of students reported having to miss classes to recover from a hangover. Despite the widespread occurrence of this tragic, albeit self-induced, malady there has been little research done to find a cure.
The Cause, Mostly Theoretical
There are many theories about what causes a hangover. The most plausible theory is that excessive alcohol consumption causes dehydration and electrolyte imbalances. We all know that beer can act as a diuretic (something that makes you urinate more). "Excessive alcohol consumption can interfere with pituitary secretion of vasopressin", explains Dr. Dan Martinusen, Clinical Pharmacist specializing in kidney disease for Vancouver Island Health Authority. Vasopressin, or antidiuretic hormone, normally helps the kidneys reabsorb water. With less of this hormone around, your kidneys are unable to conserve water causing you to make more trips to the washroom. This is why there are so many port-a-potties at beer festivals.
"The resulting diuresis (increased urine production) may lead to rapid dehydration and subsequent shrinking of the dura mater surrounding the brain." Dura mater is a connective tissue lining that surrounds the brain and spinal cord connecting it to your bones. Dr. Martinusen further explains that one possible cause of headaches is contraction of this dura mater. He continues, "this is certainly a plausible theory for headache symptoms during an alcohol hangover." Electrolyte imbalances often follow excessive urine output. Sodium and potassium are carried away in the urine. Symptoms of mild dehydration include thirst, dry mouth, dizziness, nausea/vomiting and muscle cramping. Dehydration may be further worsened if vomiting, diarrhea or excessive sweating is present.
To understand the next hangover theory, perhaps we should learn how ethanol is removed from the body. In a multi-step process, your body converts ethanol to carbon dioxide and water. The first step in this process is when an enzyme called alcohol dehydrogenase converts the ethanol to acetaldehyde. Next, your metabolic best friend, acetaldehyde dehydrogenase, converts this toxic acetaldehyde to harmless acetic acid. This process is not prefect, nor is it quick. These enzymes work at a constant rate, so removal of these toxic materials can take some time. A build up of acetaldehyde can cause symptoms of flushing, nausea and headaches.
The hangover is often blamed on the impurities within alcoholic beverages. These impurities are collectively called congeners. There is a bit of truth to this theory. Research has shown that "cleaner" spirits (gin or vodka) tend to produce fewer hangovers than "congener rich" spirits (whiskey, cognac or red wine). This theory was confirmed by researchers at the Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI. In a study published in the March 2010 edition of journal Alcoholism:Clinical and Experimental Research, young drinkers either received bourbon or vodka to the point of intoxication. On the morning following bourbon consumption, subjects felt their hangover was more severe compared to the mornings after they drank vodka.
Craft beer lovers crave congeners; these impurities are responsible for flavor, smell and appearance. In smaller amounts, congeners give beer and other alcoholics beverages their characteristic flavors. Too much and you will have a difficult time clearing them from your body. The problem may not the congeners themselves, but how your body processes them. The enzymes that breakdown ethanol, also breakdown other forms of alcohol in your pint glass. Perhaps the most notorious congener is methanol, which is more of a concern for distilled spirits. Alcohol dehydrogenase converts methanol to formaldehyde. The symptoms of methanol ingestion mimic hangover symptoms perfectly. Heaven only knows what these enzymes produce from the fusel alcohols, esters and phenolics present in beer. Not all morning-after woes can be blamed on congeners; pure ethanol can still cause a hangover.
Low blood sugar is another theorized cause of hangover symptoms. It is true that symptoms of low blood sugar mimic hangover complaints: hunger, weakness, sweating, trembling and confusion. In reality, low blood sugar from alcohol consumption only occurs under certain circumstances: chronic alcoholism, low carbohydrate diets or not eating enough. Alcohol can deplete glycogen (energy) stores in the liver, but this generally takes several days to occur. People with diabetes are more sensitive to alcohol-induced changes in blood sugar.
Lack of sleep is also thought to contribute to hangover symptoms. While alcohol can act as a mild sedative, quality of sleep is affected. Time spent in the restful rapid eye movement (REM) sleep is reduced with alcohol intoxication. Alcohol relaxes throat muscles, which may cause snoring and possibly sleep apnea. Imbibing can also reduce the body's production of melatonin, which is required for a restful sleep. While it is true that beer does contain melatonin, its presence is minor and not thought to be significant enough to help with sleeping. Pair this with any other sleep disturbances and you have one tired beer geek. Let's not forget that alcohol is a diuretic; frequent nighttime trips to the bathroom won't help matters. Are symptoms of sleep deprivation similar to a hangover: muscle aches, depression, headaches, nausea, fatigue, memory lapses and irritability. Sounds right to me.
"There is extensive literature on the effects of alcohol on sleep," explains Dr. Jonathan Howland Professor of Community Health Services at Boston University. "Alcohol can affect sleep architecture and breathing (apnea) and both these effects can disturb sleep. He points to research that appeared in the May 2011 issue of the journal Alcoholism: Clinical Experimental Research. In this study researchers gave healthy adults sufficient bourbon or vodka to reach a breath blood alcohol concentration of 0.11g percent. After being tucked in for the night, researchers followed the imbibers sleep patterns. What they found was that subjects fell asleep faster, but their sleep was not as restful. They experienced less REM sleep, greater wakefulness and more slow wave sleep. He further explains, "The connection we investigated had more to do with heavy drinking effects on next-day performance rather than on hangover, but fatigue is associated with hangover."
Another fascinating theory of the hangover is that it could be acute alcohol withdrawal. This is based on the fact that these two conditions share similar symptoms. They both can cause nausea, confusion, headaches, sweating and anxiety. Another observation to support this theory is that ingestion of alcohol can relieve symptoms for both conditions. This is the "hair of the dog" hangover remedy. However, there are arguments against this theory. In the hangover state there is decreased brain activity, while there is increased activity and excitability during alcohol withdrawal. To make things more complicated, in certain studies alcoholics have not experienced hangover symptoms. Yet these same alcoholics have experienced withdrawal symptoms.
The Cure? Please Let There Be A Cure.
Now to get to the important part, how does one cure or prevent a hangover? A quick search of Google produced over 1 million hits for hangover cures. What works and what does not? Are there any scientific studies that tried to find a cure for this morning after syndrome? The answer might upset you, but let's look at the most popular cures for the hangover.
Running or vigorous exercise is a supposed to be a sure-fire prevention and cure for the hangover. The theory is that aerobic activity will increase metabolism and help your body burn off alcohol. This does make a bit of sense and it could also help to reduce driving while under the influence. However, there is no proof that this works and it could be dangerous. Vigorous activity may lead to further dehydration and actually make symptoms worse. It is also not a good idea to exercise while in an impaired mental state; it might lead to injuries.
Perhaps you should drink plenty of sport drinks before going to bed or in the morning. This idea also makes sense. It helps with two causes of hangovers: dehydration and electrolyte loss. The same argument could be made for drinking coconut water. There are a few drawbacks to this course of action. Sport drinks contain a lot of sugar and could lead to weight gain and dental cavities. Fluid consumption before bed might lead to many nighttime bathroom trips, which may interfere with getting adequate sleep. Maybe a small glass of water before bed might be a better idea. Don't forget to have a big glass of water or other fluid beside your bed for the morning. Perhaps a better idea would be to drink water during your night on the town.
How about taking an over the counter painkiller before bed such as ibuprofen or acetaminophen? This sounds good in theory, but it really is a bad idea. The combination of alcohol and acetaminophen could lead to liver damage. Alcohol metabolism interferes with the livers ability to remove acetaminophen from the body. This build up can be toxic to your liver. Ibuprofen and other anti-inflammatory drugs should not be combined with alcohol either. Both alcohol and anti-inflammatory drugs are irritants to your stomach. This might lead to further stomach upset or worse: a stomach ulcer.
What about the "hair of the dog that bit you" remedy? Earnest Hemingway was rumored to drink beer and tomato juice to cure his hangovers. There is a bit of theory behind this idea. Ingestion of ethanol can reduce the breakdown of congeners into further toxic by-products. Alcohol can act as a painkiller and will help withdrawal symptoms. Shawn Soole, Executive BarKeep – Clive's Classic Lounge, Tales of the Cocktail "World's Best Hotel" nominee gives his remedy for a hangover: "My favorite hangover cure is a Fernet Branca, a lager and a good spicy gin caesar and not in that order. The lager winds you down, the Fernet winds you up and the spicy caesar gets you ready for the day."
Strong black coffee has been a hangover cure that has survived the test of time. The high caffeine content will help to reduce the drowsiness associated with a hangover, but that is about it. It might make things worse. Coffee and caffeine can be stomach irritants and potentially act as a diuretic. This further fluid loss will only compound the problem.
The notion that eating a fatty breakfast with eggs is one miracle cure that just might work. Eggs are an excellent source of the amino acid L-cysteine. This same amino acid can bind to acetaldehyde and block its toxic effects. Most of this theory comes from research done on rats in the 1970's. Rats were given a lethal dose of acetaldehyde and either L-cysteine, thiamine (vitamin B1) or both. Researchers found that those rats that survived were given both L-cysteine and thiamine. There are two reasons for this lucky outcome. Both L-cysteine and thiamine bind to acetaldehyde to form a stable and non-toxic product. Acetaldehyde is also a very toxic chemical and causes oxidative damage to various organs. L-cysteine helps replenish glutathione; your bodies primary anti-oxidant defense. Sadly, there is no proof that L-cysteine will help with hangovers in people. You might have heard about N-acetyl cysteine (NAC). NAC is similar to L-cysteine but it is a little better utilized by the human body. So will eating a fatty egg breakfast help with a hangover? Probably not, but it will help to replace lost electrolytes, carbohydrates and fluids. It also might help to settle your stomach. Or maybe you should just stick to dry toast and lots of water.
Certainly taking vitamins before bed will help with a hangover? Don't the B-vitamins help with alcohol metabolism? Hawkeye Pierce from M*A*S*H self administered thiamine (vitamin B-1) injections to help him sober up. Sorry, not going to help. It is true that chronic alcohol intake is associated with lower amounts of thiamine in the body. Chronic alcohol ingestion can deplete the body of this important vitamin. That is why alcoholics tend to have thiamine deficiency diseases: nerve damage, heart disease, confusion and problems with muscle coordination. When you give extra thiamine, these alcohol induced health problems tend to get better. Thiamine is not directly involved in the removal of alcohol from your body. Actually, niacin (vitamin B3) is more activity involved in the removal of alcohol from the body. Again taking extra niacin will not help with a hangover.
There was one old study which demonstrated that high doses of vitamin B6 can help improve hangover symptoms by 50 percent. Sadly, it was a semi-synthetic form of this vitamin that is not available at the health food store. The doses used were also very high, about 1200mg a day. Oddly, the researchers did not know why or how this vitamin worked.
What is the real hangover treatment proven by medical science? Sadly there is none. I'm sorry if your hopes for a cure were shattered. The oldest remedies still work best: try to sleep it off, stay hydrated and eat well. Perhaps prevention is the best option. For each pint you drink, follow that with a chaser of water. Pace yourself; I know it tastes good but think about the possible consequences in the morning. Don't forget to eat something. The presence of food in the stomach, especially high fat foods, will slow the absorption of alcohol into the body. On the morning of the hangover, try to eat bland and simple foods to help settle your stomach. For me, an apple a day keeps the hangover away. By all means take a good quality multivitamin. It might not help with a hangover, but there are many other benefits for your body. Treatment of specific hangover symptoms might be helpful. Consider taking dimenhydrinate (Gravol or Dramamine) for symptoms of nausea and vomiting. Placing an icepack on the head, or the back of the neck, might be a better idea for headaches than over the counter painkillers. Or just drink a big glass of water and go back to bed. Maybe these horrible feelings will be a deterrent from future overindulgence. Probably not; painful memories fade fast.
Ian Lloyd
Ian Lloyd is a pharmacist and freelance writer.
I had a friend who had a nurse friend who would hook her up to an IV, full of electrolytes and such, to help with her hangovers. She called it, the "banana bath", lol.


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Even though Kate Middleton recently hit up Topshop to buy maternity clothes, the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge recycled one of her favorite outfits when she arrived at the National Fishing Heritage Centre in Grimsby, England, on Tuesday, March 5.
Sporting the same Hobbs "Celeste" coat she donned during a public appearance in Liverpool in February 2012, the 31-year-old wore a Great Plains dress and black heels.
As a result of the heavy fog, Middleton traveled to the engagement via helicopter instead of by train. "There a number of factors taken into consideration when it comes to royal engagements," St. James' Palace explained. "It depends on what the member of the royal family is doing before or after and how long the journey takes. It was decided that the most suitable way to travel to Grimsby was to come by helicopter."
Prince William's wife received a bouquet of flowers from 3-year-old Lucy Bell on her way inside the building. She chatted with admirers, including 42-year-old Bobbie Brown. "I asked her if [the baby] has been moving or kicking," Brown recalled. "She said: 'Yes, it is. Very much so.'"
Paula Rampling, 34, gave the pregnant royal two unisex baby outfits, wrapped in a cute gift bag. "Thank you!" Middleton told her. "That's so cute." Middleton spent most of her time talking with young children. "You can tell she'll be a good mother," Rampling said. "She's not missed out one kid. She's lovely."
Middleton was then escorted inside the National Fishing Heritage Centre by operations manager Sue Marshall. During her visit, Middleton will visit the Peaks Lane Fire Station run by Humberside Fire and Rescue Service. She will also officially open Havelock Academy secondary school.
Two days before her public engagement, the first-time mother-to-be was photographed in the Swiss Alps with her husband and brother-in-law, Prince Harry. While the brothers were spotted skiing in the afternoon, Middleton was photographed walking downhill.
The snowy outing came just one day after the royal trio attended Olympian Laura Bechtolsheimer's wedding to athlete Mark Tomlinson in Switzerland.
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