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Famous Authors' Unlikely Obsessions
We tend to put our favorite authors on a pedestal, and in some ways when we do that, we turn them into characters themselves, figures whose every action, whim, and interest should fit into the tidy package of our understanding. However, authors are real people (thank goodness) and sometimes they can surprise us by being into something that seems a little off-kilter for them — or just in general. With all the recent hubbub on book blogs about Martin Amis's resurfaced video game guide (so it's okay to write about Space Invaders, but penning children's books is totally lame?), we got to thinking about other authors and their obsessions, from the literary to the musical to the, um, extra-terrestrial. Click through to check out our list of famous authors' unlikely obsessions, and try not to be alarmed at what you may find.
Martin Amis — Video Games
Clearly, Amis loved video games enough to write a book entitled Invasion of the Space Invaders: An Addict's Guide to Battle Tactics, Big Scores and the Best Machines in 1982, though um, it doesn't seem to be something he likes talking about. In his introduction, he writes, "What we are dealing with is a global addiction. I mean, this might all turn out to be a bit of a problem. Let me adduce my own symptoms, withdrawals, dryouts, crack-ups, benders…" Martin Amis, you nerd! We actually like you a little more now.


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David Melnick
Class of 2009
Major/Minor: History
As a corporate trainer, he is a man about town in London.
Describe your day-to-day routine.
I travel around central London and the rest of the UK, delivering personal development and leadership courses to my company's team of nearly 1,000 front-of-house and client-servicing operatives. I work in training and development for a company called MITIE Client Services.
What delights you most about your current circumstances?
To this day, I honestly can't believe I live and work in central London! Though I try to always maintain some sort of indifferent expression to separate myself from tourists, inside, I still can't help thinking, "Oh my gosh, it's BIG BEN!" I was selected as a London Ambassador for the 2012 Olympic Games—just think, a WC graduate from suburban New Jersey being entrusted to welcome visitors from around the globe to one of the world's biggest cities…surreal!
What college reading changed your life?
I was quite profoundly changed by the essays of Michel de Montaigne. His work provoked a complete reevaluation of the way in which I interpreted the world—spiritually, historically, politically even—and is largely responsible for forming the foundation of my current worldviews.
Who was your college mentor?
I have to pick two—I had the immense privilege of studying under both Dr. Janet Sorrentino and Dr. Robert Siudzinski. Both are unbelievably intelligent and inspiring, and both know how to do an excellent dinner party.
What is your favorite college memory?
Frankly, I could never pick just one, so here's a brief sampling: preparing for the WC Vocal Consort's Renaissance Dinner every fall, staying up late playing the piano and singing with friends, persuading friends to walk to Royal Farms at 1 a.m. on school nights, studying abroad in Ireland, "getting up the courage" on May Day senior year, my student teaching internship, giving the class address, and being awarded the Henry Catlin medal at Commencement. Just to name a few.
What skills did you acquire that turned out to be relevant?
In general, my writing skills were hugely developed at WC, and this has proved to be surprisingly useful in the business world and beyond—at least more so than I would have thought. In addition, my entire education department experience has proved extremely useful in my current role, from the practicalities of developing content and delivering courses to the more immeasurable skills of understanding and communicating effectively with a wide variety of people.
Were you the beneficiary of scholarship aid?
I was, indeed, and I am grateful for every penny given in my benefit. My time at Washington College was by far the most formative experience of my life, and it would not have been possible without the generous aid of our collective financial beneficiaries.
Why do you support Washington College?
Washington College gives so many people the opportunity to learn—to learn in the classroom, but to also learn about themselves, about the world and their place in it. What a special and immeasurable gift! It is vital that we all give back to the College to ensure that it is able to continue giving that invaluable gift of learning and self-exploration to future generations—like George would have wanted.

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Fog and Icy Roads Again
Early morning commuters Monday will wake to another icy glare on the roads. Temperatures leveled out in the low 30's creating ice and slippery conditions.
It is a very foggy, very slippery morning. Get going early and expect delays on your way to work or school this morning." - Shawn Cable - KSFY-TV
A Winter Weather Advisory is also in effect. At this time it does not include the city of Sioux Falls but a large area north and northwest of the city for late today and tonight.
School delays were beginning to roll in before sunrise.
Several callers have said they have traveled roads that have already been sanded but driver should still go slow.
Roads are being treated with salt and sand in and around Sioux Falls. Sidewalks, parking lots, and driveways are "a sheet of glass" so walk with care.
The heavily traveled roads, such as W. 41st Street over I-29 is wet and busy.
Traffic is bumper-to-bumper in a line form Sioux Falls to Tea on I-29 as the morning commute starts to pick up.
One caller reported cars upside down and in the ditch on Hwy 11 just South West of Sioux Falls. One early report said it could have involved up to a dozen vehicles.
Slippery conditions to continue as fog, freezing rain, up to 2 inches of snow forecast for Sioux Falls area." - Argus911
If you are traveling today keep up-to-date with changing interstate and highway conditions across South Dakota.
Early morning flights were already being cancelled out of Sioux Falls regional airport. If you are scheduled to fly out you might want to check your flight before heading out.
Reports of accidents came in steadily but slowed when sheet of ice on major roads began to melt. Although motorists still dealing with heavy fog and poor visibility.
Another round of winter weather settling in this afternoon and tonight. Winter Weather Advisory posted.


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Saturday, June 2, 2007
Yoichi 15 - "congenial"
Fourteen reviewers on the Maltmaniacs.org website gave a 2006 bottling an average rating of 87/100 ("highly recommendable").
Serge Valentin, Whisky Fun, December 28, 2006. On a 2006 bottling. 87/100 ("highly recommendable"). Serge said it was very Japanese but "beautiful". He found the nose elegant. In the mouth it was "creamy but nervous", with a powerful smoky start and developing flavours of walnut liqueur, gingerbread, sugar and a touch of mint, cloves and ginger. It had a lengthy finish with a "faint cardboardiness, lots of spices, bitter chocolate, a little salt and various nuts."
Michael Jackson, Whisky Magazine, 13,16/12/2000. 8.5/10. Jackson preferred the peatier 10 year old to this c. 2000 bottling of Yoichi 15, which he described as having "lots of malt, chewy, creamy, oily."
Jim Murray, Whisky Magazine, 13,16/12/2000. 9.25/10. Murray went for the c. 2000 bottling in a big way: "sheer brilliance". He found vanilla predominated in the mouth, with a "fresh, fruity, mouth-watering quality. The finish was long and unctuous, with a little smoke.
(Please note the dates on reviews if they are provided. There may be significant variation between different years of a single malt brand)
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700 ml - 10,493 yen
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Great site! Good pics, interesting history & text.. A bit frustrating since I live in the US and can't a hold of any Japanese malts besides the Yamazakis...
I post on whiskymag (as oliver) and know Serge and read his excellent blog. I also run maltresistance.blogspot --used to, will keep it up when I found my password!
What would you recommend I do to try and get my hands on the Yoichi 15 and/or the Karuizawa Sherry cask 1988 without having to pay 25 pounds in postage to a British outfit?
- September 5, 2007 at 1:14 PM
Sorry, I missed this comment. I am not sure how people in the US are going to get hold of this stuff. Some entrepreneur surely must take up this challenge. In the meantime, it seems only Yamazakis seem to be widely available in the US.
- May 20, 2008 at 1:19 PM
Hi - this is a very nice site considering Japanese whisky is just starting to get serious traction in the wider whisky community.
I will be travelling shortly to China, and can go through a number of stop-overs where potential duty-free opportunities exist. Do you know of a good one to consider? - I really want a few bottles of YOICHI, which is damn expensive here in Europe due to silly protectionism laws. Thanks in advance!
- May 30, 2008 at 3:49 AM
I have just been writing a chapter in a forthcoming book about Japanese whisky and found myself writing this: "It is now possible to say that if a whisky has the words "Single Malt" and "Made in Japan" on the label, the buyer can be sure that it is made my a producers with a sophisticated grasp of Scotch style whisky making." So, though I am not guaranteeing you will like everything (that is a personal taste issue), I would say you can't go wrong in terms of quality. Yoichi is usually good, but so is Miyagikyou, Hakushu, Yamazaki, Karuizawa, Ichiro's Malt (probably not available at duty free) and Fuji Gotemba. So, good luck. And beware rules liquids not being allowed in hand luggage!
- May 30, 2008 at 8:29 AM
Wow - thanks for the speedy reply.
I think my question was unclearly written. Actually, I was asking at which Asian duty-free location (airport), can one find the best selection of Japanese whiskies? Yoichi is of high interest, but now you have named a few more that I would be interested in trying/buying (damn, my credit card will undoubtedly be blocked) : )
- May 30, 2008 at 9:15 AM
That I would not know. Narita and I presume Kansai have some Japanese whisky, but beyond that I have no experience. I know there is a Maison du Whisky shop in Singapore, which I think has a good selection, but that is in Singapore itself and would require a stop over. If you find out, I would really love to report a shop review of other duty free shops in asia (take a pic an d send a report to Nonjatta... please)
- May 31, 2008 at 9:01 AM
Just a quick note, flew through Narita on 6/3 and picked up a bottle of Yoichi 15 for 5500 in duty free. Good thing I get to go to Tokyo twice a month!
PS: Great blog!
- June 5, 2008 at 5:04 AM
Great! Hope you like it.
- June 5, 2008 at 3:58 PM
Just bought and tried Yoichi 15, largely on the basis of this review.
Incredible whisky!!! I was not disappointed. Something special indeed...
- October 10, 2008 at 8:14 PM


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When talking about IDE software or about what a programming language allows you to do or not at the source level, I often use the word IntelliSense, which has a precise meaning in the Microsoft world, but is inappropriate when talking to people who don't have to be familiar with Visual Studio.
In this case, what is the appropriate term to use?
I usually use the term "auto-completion", but it doesn't always work. In fact, IntelliSense includes auto-completion, but it also provides documentation and hints.


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When my children were growing up, they were very selfish, and they demanded a lot of attention. They learned the word "mine" and then proceeded to use it to describe everything that they could see. They used to push and hit and stomp their feet over and over again while I patiently taught them how to share and not to hit. I taught them that violence was never an answer and that the best way to solve a problem was to talk about it and find a way to compromise.
I used incidents that happened on the playground and in the classroom as teachable moments to talk about the path of nonviolence. I made sure that they were familiar with the teachings of Jesus Christ, Mahatma Gandhi, Thich Nhat Hanh, James Farmer and Martin Luther King Jr. and that they understood that nonviolence was not passive resistance. It is an act of courage to stand tall in the face of violence and conflict, whether it is happening on the playgrounds of Baltimore or in the hallways of Congress.
This path of practicing nonviolence has not always been easy for my sons. They have been bullied and teased and have had to learn how to walk away. They have learned how to pray for their enemies and how to meet hate and intolerance with love and patience. I remind them (almost as much as I remind myself) that the universe, as King once said, is on the side of justice and that these moments of controversy and confusion are the ones that shape their character.
There was a time, early on, when I foolishly believed that all parents were teaching their children the same thing: how to choose love instead of hate, nonviolence instead of violence, and how to listen to one another and seek compromise instead of accepting chaos and confusion. I believed that we were working together to be the type of change that we wanted to see in the world.
One of the reasons that I voted for Barack Obama was that I was convinced that he was a man who believed in and fought for peace. He campaigned on a platform of change, and I thought that meant a change from all of the policies that have led us into Afghanistan and Vietnam and have led us to bomb Iraq, Somalia, Pakistan, Yemen and, in one sad case in 1985, a neighborhood in West Philadelphia. I was excited when he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, confident that anyone who is bestowed such an honor must be a passionate believer in and a crusader for peace. I think of other Nobel winners, like Mother Theresa, Wangari Muta Maathai, Liu Xiaobo and Tawakkol Karmane, to name just a few, whose very lives have been spent working to create a more peaceful, just and verdant world.
This is why I was so horrified when I sat with my sons and listened while President Obama talked about bombing Syria with the same type of casualness that one talks about shopping. He mentioned that there would not be any "boots on the ground," as if bombs dropping from the air would have a different result. He talked as if the only way to establish peace was to attack first and then negotiate with anyone who was still standing at the end. I almost laughed when I remembered his "red line," because as both a parent and an activist, I always knew that it would come back to haunt him and would force him to make this type of decision.
I could not understand nor could I explain to my sons why we were seeking to establish peace in the world without first establishing it at home. I do understand that there are some valid reasons why Mr. Obama and others feel that we must move forward and that we are once again called upon to be the peacekeepers for the entire world. At the same time, I challenge the president as I challenge my sons to think about alternatives to war and to consider starting our peacekeeping work closer to home. I offer the cities of Baltimore, Chicago, Atlanta, Detroit, Philadelphia and New York (to name just a few) as places that would benefit from peacekeeping efforts, from love, and from national attention.
If peace is really the goal, then we should start by promoting peace at home — in the cities across America where people are dying and starving; where they are unemployed and underemployed; where our kids are dropping out of schools or spending countless hours playing senseless violent video games and listening to violent, misogynistic rap lyrics; where folks live in sub-standard housing within food deserts; where murder, violence, rape, drugs, crime and gang activity are accepted as normal behavior; where the classroom to prison pipeline has yet to be disrupted; and where conscious people are working hard to try and raise healthy, happy and whole children.
Mr. President, these are the lessons that we should be teaching our kids: that peace is possible and should start at home, war and violence are never answers to conflict, and as global citizens, we must work together to be the type of change that we want to see in this world.
Kaye Wise Whitehead is assistant professor of Communications and African and African American Studies at Loyola University Maryland. Her website is http://www.kayewisewhitehead.com, and her email is firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Precise is aiming to alleviate developer-operations team tensions with its latest transaction performance management offering. Precise Managed Service Provider (MSP) is intended to remotely manage application performance and Quality of Service for end users, without the need for developers to step in and be distracted from their "day jobs."
By isolating transaction performance problems and even providing guide resolution, Precise says that it provides expert staff working over a secure VPN connection to save IT time and labor costs. The customer's data and Precise's Transaction Performance Management (TPM) software remain on internal servers at the customer site — with customers also getting ongoing training, consulting and unlimited mentoring on TPM practices.
Attempting to underline the importance of transaction monitoring technology from an application perspective, Forrester analyst Jean-Pierre Garbani has suggested that the IT and business services markets have grown exponentially in size, diversity, and complexity over the past few years — and that this means the complexity of many transactional business services has reached a point where the diversity of issues coming from multiple dependencies is way beyond team skills and cooperation.
"The difficulty of resolving issues in transactions and applications directly affects the quality of service and the enterprise's overall productivity and revenue. It's also a source of unplanned work for many IT resources, which has consequences on IT operational costs. Consequently, IT management tools and especially application performance management (APM) and business transaction monitoring (BTM) have gained in importance over the past year," said Garbani.


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|Volume 6 Issue 155 Published - 14:00 UTC 08:00 EST 3-Jun-2004 Next Update - 14:00 UTC 08:00 EST 4-Jun-2004
|Editor: Susan K. Boyer, RN
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Cancer incidence and death rates on the decline
The nation's leading cancer organizations report that Americans' risk of getting and dying from cancer continues to decline and survival rates for many cancers continue to improve. The "Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, 1975-2001*" finds overall observed cancer incidence rates dropped 0.5 percent per year from 1991 to 2001, while death rates from all cancers combined dropped 1.1 percent per year from 1993 to 2001. According to the report's authors, the new data reflect progress in prevention, early detection, and treatment; however, not all segments of the U.S. population have benefited equally from the advances.
First issued in 1998, the "Annual Report to the Nation" is a collaboration among the American Cancer Society (ACS), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Cancer Institute (NCI), and the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR). It provides updated information on cancer rates and trends in the United States.
"This new report clearly shows we've made considerable gains in reducing the burden of cancer in the United States," said John R. Seffrin, Ph.D., chief executive officer of the American Cancer Society. "The first ever drop in lung cancer incidence rates in women is remarkable proof that we are making a difference in the number one cancer killer, and is powerful evidence that our successful efforts must continue."
The percentage of patients who have survived more than five years after being diagnosed with cancer has increased over the past two decades. According to NCI Director Andrew C. von Eschenbach, M.D., "these survival statistics are a reason for optimism, as they show us that we are on the right track to reaching the NCI Challenge Goal to eliminate the suffering and death due to cancer. We are committed to even greater advances in survivorship research at NCI. We are directing and conducting research on long-term follow-up of childhood cancer survivors, healthy behaviors for all survivors, and unique issues faced by cancer survivors from underserved populations."
Death rates from all cancers combined have been decreasing since the early 1990s. Death rates decreased for 11 of the top 15 cancers in men, and eight of the top 15 cancers in women. Lung cancer deaths rates among women leveled off for the first time between 1995 and 2001, after continuously increasing for many decades.
Among men, cancer incidence rates have recently declined for seven of the top 15 cancer sites: lung, colon, oral cavity, leukemia, stomach, pancreas, and larynx. Incidence rates increased only for melanoma and cancers of the prostate, kidney, and esophagus. When a process known as delay adjustment is taken into account, some of these trends change (please refer to the Report to the Nation Q&A**, question #14, for an explanation of delay adjustment).
For the first time, lung cancer incidence rates among women are on the decline. Incidence rates decreased for five additional cancers out of the top 15 in women (colon, cervix, pancreas, ovary, and oral cavity). Only breast, thyroid, bladder, and kidney cancer and melanoma rates are rising among women.
This year's report highlights trends in cancer survival by comparing five-year survival rates of cancer patients diagnosed in two time periods: 1975-1979 and 1995-2000. Between those time periods, survival substantially improved for most of the top 15 cancers in both men and women, and the top ten sites in children.
For men, large gains in cancer survival rates (more than 10 percent) were seen in cancers of the prostate, colon and kidney, and non-Hodgkin lymphoma, melanoma, and leukemia. Modest gains (5 percent to 10 percent) were found for cancers of the bladder, stomach, liver, brain, and esophagus.
For women, large gains in cancer survival rates were seen for colon, kidney, and breast cancers and non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Modest gains were found for bladder, oral cavity, stomach, brain, esophageal, and ovarian cancers and melanoma and leukemia.
Limited survival improvement was noted for the most fatal forms of cancer in adults including cancers of the lung, pancreas, and liver, which are characterized by late stage at diagnosis and relatively poor survival rates even when these cancers are diagnosed at a localized stage. There was also little or no gain in several cancers that already have high survival rates, including larynx, thyroid, and uterine cancers.
Childhood cancers showed some of the largest improvements in cancer survival during the past 20 years, with an absolute survival rate increase of 20 percent in boys and 13 percent in girls. The current five-year survival rate of over 75 percent confirms substantial progress made since the early 1960s, when childhood cancers were nearly always fatal.
"Cancer is a devastating disease that impacts so many people. But the good news is there is hope and these data show we are winning the battle as people with cancer are living longer and more healthier lives than ever before," said CDC Director Julie Gerberding, M.D. "But we can't become complacent. We must renew our efforts to make sure people make healthy choices to prevent cancer, that they are properly screened for cancer, and that they receive the appropriate treatment when they have cancer."
The report identifies wide variations in survival associated with race and ethnicity. In every racial and ethnic population, with the exception of Asian/Pacific Islander (API) women, the risk of cancer death from all cancer sites combined was higher than the risk of death for non-Hispanic white patients. Black men were at higher risk of dying of 12 cancers compared to white men, with the increased risk ranging from 9 percent (lung cancer) to a high of 67 percent (oral cavity). Black women experienced higher risks of death from 12 cancers, with the increase ranging from 7 percent (lung cancer) to 82 percent (corpus uterus and melanoma).
Additionally, non-Hispanic white and API patients tended to have higher survival rates than other racial and ethnic groups except for patients with brain cancer and leukemia.
"Increased efforts by NAACCR and its partners will continue to expand information for a broader spectrum of underserved populations, including not only racial groups other than white and black, but also U.S. Latinos, rural populations, and areas defined by socioeconomic indicators," said NAACCR Director Holly L. Howe, Ph.D. "With this information, we will be able to more accurately address the cancer burden and disparities in these populations."
The authors of the report emphasize that reaching all segments of the population with high-quality prevention, early detection, and treatment services could reduce cancer incidence and mortality even further. In addition, they point out that "leaders in the scientific community forecast an era of unprecedented progress in cancer research." For these research advances to impact cancer incidence and death rates, it will be critical that all partners with a stake in impacting cancer control help to expedite the translation of these research discoveries to widespread and equitable delivery of preventive and clinical services.


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Workshop organised as part of the Annual Conference of the German
Linguistic Society (DGfS) to be held in Göttingen, Germany, February 23-25, 2011
Organisers: Anton Benz, Katja Jasinskaja, Fabienne Salfner
Human communication is characterized by the ability to convey more information than uttered just by words. There are two major theoretical frameworks that approach this matter from different perspectives: one is the theory of rhetorical relations that characterizes the macro-structure of discourse. This approach derives the additional content from the kind of connection between discourse segments. The other approach is the theory of conversational implicatures, which usually considers a single speech act and derives the additional content from the assumption that the communication participants observe the conversational maxims. The workshop will provide a platform to discuss the interplay of these two aspects of pragmatic inference: discourse structure and implicatures.
Keynote speakers:
Bart Geurts
Nicholas Asher
Programme committee:
Nicholas Asher
Maria Averintseva-Klisch
Anton Benz
Christian Chiarcos
Michael Franke
Bart Geurts
Gerhard Jäger
Katja Jasinskaja
Elena Karagjosova
Edgar Onea
Janina Rado
Robert van Rooij
Uli Sauerland
Fabienne Salfner
Barbara Schmiedtova
Katrin Schulz
Maria Spychalska
Carla Umbach
Kazuko Yatsushiro
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I get that same question by theists all the time.
The question is: Since your Atheist, you can commit whatever crime you want right?
This article is very good in explaining Atheism and Ethics.
by Frank R. Zindler
One of the first questions Atheists are asked by true believers and doubters alike is, "If you don't believe in God, there's nothing to prevent you from committing crimes, is there? Without the fear of hell-fire and eternal damnation, you can do anything you like, can't you?"
It is hard to believe that even intelligent and educated people could hold such an opinion, but they do! It seems never to have occurred to them that the Greeks and Romans, whose gods and goddesses were something less than paragons of virtue, nevertheless led lives not obviously worse than those of the Baptists of Alabama! Moreover, pagans such as Aristotle and Marcus Aurelius - although their systems are not suitable for us today - managed to produce ethical treatises of great sophistication, a sophistication rarely if ever equaled by Christian moralists.
The answer to the questions posed above is, of course, "Absolutely not!" The behavior of Atheists is subject to the same rules of sociology, psychology, and neurophysiology that govern the behavior of all members of our species, religionists included. Moreover, despite protestations to the contrary, we may assert as a general rule that when religionists practice ethical behavior, it isn't really due to their fear of hell-fire and damnation, nor is it due to their hopes of heaven. Ethical behavior - regardless of who the practitioner may be - results always from the same causes and is regulated by the same forces, and has nothing to do with the presence or absence of religious belief. The nature of these causes and forces is the subject of this essay.
Psychobiological FoundationsAs human beings, we are social animals. Our sociality is the result of evolution, not choice. Natural selection has equipped us with nervous systems which are peculiarly sensitive to the emotional status of our fellows. Among our kind, emotions are contagious, and it is only the rare psychopathic mutants among us who can be happy in the midst of a sad society. It is in our nature to be happy in the midst of happiness, sad in the midst of sadness. It is in our nature, fortunately, to seek happiness for our fellows at the same time as we seek it for ourselves. Our happiness is greater when it is shared.
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Hi Steph . . . That was a /*great*/ reference! Thanks! I /*really*/ enjoyed reading the article. And I'm really comfortable with the sociobiological/evoutionary psychological approach to morals. There is a great book by Jon Haidt called "The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion." It's one of the best books I've ever read . . . for many reasons . . . it puts a lot of stuff in perspective and it also provides a lot of ammunition for one to use in addressing the "How can you be moral if you're an atheist" jab . . . :)
Thank you George. I hate it when I get that question. Or I hate it when they assume we are the worst people ever to live.
I hate it when I get that question. Or I hate it when they assume we are the worst people ever to live.
Yea, verily. When I'm feeling generous, I respond along the lines of Zindler and Haidt. When I'm not feeling so generous, I do a Hitchens on them or go over, country by country, the instances of pedophilia on the part of Roman Catholic priests covered up by the church . . . I try very hard to keep from getting angry but sometimes, when it comes to people like Rick Santorum, Michele Bachmann, etc., I just let it out . . . :)
I find it hard to believe that the very first words of a reply are not "Oh, has the sheriff (or police chief) resigned and surrendered the jailhouse keys?"
Is no one awake?
The implication of that question for the believers who ask it is that they are only moral out of hope of going to Heaven or fear of going to Hell and have no independent desire at all to do what is good.
Dr. Clark, as I'm sure you well know but overlooked here, there is a the implication of that question and there is an implication of that question.
I point that out because I was recently reminded of a question I had decades ago forgotten.
I did not suddenly, in a moment, quit Catholicism in 1957. During my twelve years in Catholic schools teachers had spoken of issues I again heard of in college philosophy courses, and of "heresies" such as the Manichaean dualism. There were no support groups such as there are now and I had to read and think my own way through those questions. It was good mental exercise.
I knew nothing of any research showing that into the third decade of life the human brain is still developing, and so asked myself if Catholicism intends its strict, even harsh, sexual morality to function only through the teen years, when kids are most susceptible to what Catholicism called "sexual temptations".
More time passed before I learned of a distinction between "the explanation" and "an explanation." The former reminds me of Catholicism's authoritarian ways; the latter reminds me of the more democratic ways of other religions and even non-religion.
Many questions are less important than "Why are people moral?" and I would ignore the distinction between "the implication" and "an implication". I don't ignore the distinction here.
I agree Dr. Clark. Thank you.
I think the best answer comes from Penn Jilette when asked a similar question about rape and murder. To paraphrase his answer, I rape all I want to, but choose not not and I murder all I want to, but choose not to. I choose to be a decent person. What does it say about the questioner that they need to be "supervised" 24/7 and have the threat of divine retribution or the bribe of eternal paradise to prevent them from committing all sorts of crimes?
Who, other than Penn Jillette, knows what he was doing during his teens and early twenties?
He probably wasn't choosing to murder.
Here is the Penn Jillette Graphic with the quote that Ronin mentioned.
Thanks for the reply Karim. I agree. And thanks for the links. Much appreciated.
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What a beautiful head carriage. To be honest, I would have liked to have seen the entire costume.
I like how well you have him moving forward…that is a well established trot. Unless it is standard in these classes, you carry your hands flat….like you are playing the piano.
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A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut
After the first twenty pages I almost gave up. Not for good. I simply thought that it might be better if I were to read some of his novels before I read his final work. But I think it just took a little getting used to. Vonnegut was all over the place. He is talking about the art of joke-telling one paragraph, and socialism the next. The book is really just a hodge-podge of Vonnegut's thoughts, luckily his thoughts are interesting, insightful, and entertaining, but there is no overall theme to the book, nor to most of the chapters. So in the spirit of this book, the rest of this review is just going to be a disparate collection of quotes form A Man Without a County, which I enjoyed reading after I realized what to expect.
"There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president. This was true even in high school. Only clearly disturbed people ran for class president."
"If Christ hadn't delivered the Sermon on the Mount, with its message of mercy and pity, I wouldn't want to be a human being. I'd just as soon be a rattlesnake."
"We are on earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different."
"It is almost always a mistake to mention Abraham Lincoln. He always steals the show."
"Now then, I have some good news for you and some bad news. The bad news is that the Martians have landed in New York City and are staying at the Waldorf Astoria. The good news is that they only eat homeless men, women, and children of all colors, and they pee gasoline."
While most of Vonnegut's ruminations were decidedly pessimistic, there were some points of unadulterated optimism. There was a great couple pages about the simple act of mailing a letter and all the different people that Vonnegut interacted with on his little postal quest. My favorite came in the section devoted to Vonnegut's relationship with his fans. "Joe, a young man from Pittsburgh, came up to me with one request: 'Please tell me it will all be okay.' 'Welcome to Earth, young man,' I said. 'It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, Joe, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of: Goddamn it, Joe, you've got to be kind!'" Ah, there is just something calming about humanism in its purest form. I guess I should track down some of Vonnegut's other works.
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- Christopher said...
The Onion AV Club recently ran a feature called "15 Things Kurt Vonnegut Said Better Than Anyone Else," and it included that quote to "Joe."
I read Slaughterhouse-Five ages ago, and haven't read anything since, mostly because in high school and college Vonnegut is one of those sacred names. But I might try to read another one of his books. Probably not this one.
- September 5, 2007 at 9:05:00 AM EDT
- Nihil Novum said...
Cat's Cradle, dude.
- September 5, 2007 at 2:02:00 PM EDT
- caleb said...
Cat's Cradle just depressed me. Try God Bless You Mr Rosewater, Timequake, Breakfast of Champions or Galapagos.
Just two cents from someone who hasn't earned them.
- May 24, 2009 at 9:01:00 AM EDT
- Will in the Outback said...
"A Man Without a Country" is not vintage Vonnegut, but the elderly sage's skipping about to remind us of what he's railed about for a generation or three and where we(the U.S.of A)should be morally and spiritually. It is, as blogger.com's owner notes, a retrospective little volume for those Vonnegut fan(atics) who have drunk widely from Vonnegut's cornucopia. If any author can survive the dubious sanction of academics (like myself) Vonnegut can.
- November 30, 2012 at 9:45:00 PM EST


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Medical research should remain top national priority
Dear Colleagues:
Medical research is in many ways the lifeblood of the nation and world. Research improves and saves lives. Some of the evidence lies in dramatic improvements in mortality rates from common diseases as a result of advances in medical research. I discussed a few of these in a recent op-ed piece in the Seattle Times titled 'Investment in Medical Research Saves Lives, Boosts Economy.' As cited in that op-ed, the death rate for heart disease is more than 60 percent lower than in the World War II era, and the death rate for stroke is 70 percent lower. Cancer rates have also dropped considerably over the last 15 years due to improved detection and better treatments.
Throughout our 66-year history, UW Medicine faculty and staff have been leaders in medical research. Remarkable discoveries and advances defined the School of Medicine's early years (the Bruce treadmill, bone marrow transplantation, the Scribner shunt and others) and continue to do so today. At my annual address last week, I had the pleasure of discussing a remarkable number of advances in 2011, including work in infectious diseases that has advanced our knowledge of HIV and its treatment and prevention. I also described dramatic new information about the use of nasal insulin as a potential treatment for dementia. UW Medicine has made truly seminal advances in biomedical research over the years, and our faculty, students and staff continue to conduct world-leading research today.
Given the ongoing evidence for the positive impact of medical research on disease and quality of life, it is extremely disappointing to face a potential freeze on NIH funding. President Obama's proposed budget for fiscal year 2013 would hold the NIH budget at the current level of $30.86 billion. The budgets for most of NIH's institutes would remain flat, with some money moved around to address areas defined as high need.
According to an article in Science magazine, the intention would be to obtain more grants from the flat budget, with a target of an eight percent increase in new grants. Continuing grants would be cut one percent below the 2012 level, competing grants would not receive inflationary increases, and the NIH would add a new layer of review for proposals from investigators who already have at least $1.5 million in funding. This would be the 10th year in a row that the NIH's budget would not keep pace with biomedical research inflation. By one estimate, in inflation-adjusted dollars, this would put NIH research funding at 20 percent below a decade ago. The American Recovery and Reinvestment (ARRA) Act of 2009 provided a temporary stopgap. Those funds have ended, however, and there will be no comparable mitigating factors to soften the impact of a freeze.
What can we do to voice concern about this potential future for medical research? I ask you to work through your specialty and research organizations to craft public messages and develop delegations to describe the value of research and the meaning of loss of those funds. The work of our researchers matters tremendously. While the current era of austerity means that we all must do more with less—and our faculty and staff are doing an outstanding job of finding efficiencies without sacrificing quality—we cannot compromise on our mission of improving the health of the public. Research is a key way to improve health. I thank our many researchers for your outstanding work on behalf of our mission and applaud your focus and dedication during continued difficult economic times.
Paul G. Ramsey, M.D.
Study led by UW Medicine researcher results in FDA approval of new cystic fibrosis drugThe Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first drug that treats an underlying cause of cystic fibrosis. The FDA approval follows the results of a clinical trial study, A CFTR Potentiator in Patients with Cystic Fibrosis and the G551D Mutation, led by Bonnie W. Ramsey, UW professor of pediatrics and director for Clinical and Translational Research at Seattle Children's Research Institute.
The drug, Kalydeco, also known as invacaftor or VX-770, was developed by Vertex Pharmaceuticals with financial support from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. The oral medicine targets the defective protein produced by the gene mutation called G551D that causes cystic fibrosis. The mutation accounts for approximately four percent or 1,200 cystic fibrosis cases in the United States.
"This is a breakthrough therapy for the cystic fibrosis community because current therapies only treat the symptoms of this genetic disease," Janet Woodcock, director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research at the FDA, said in a statement.
Ramsey and co-investigators evaluated lung function in patients 12 years or older who carry at least one copy of the G551D mutation. The study included 161 patients at multiple healthcare centers who received at least one dose of VX-770 or placebo. The study was the third and final in a series designed to assess VX-770's effectiveness and safety before it is approved for public use. The results of the clinical trial were published Nov. 2 in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Researchers found that patients who were treated with VX-770 showed a significant and sustained improvement in lung function. Patients with G551D treated with VX-770 showed improvements in other areas critically important to the health of people with CF. Study participants experienced significant reductions in sweat chloride levels, indicating an improvement in the body's ability to carry salt in and out of cells – a process which, when defective, leads to CF. They also experienced decreased respiratory distress symptoms and improved weight gain.
Read more about Ramsey's study in UW Today.
Read more about the FDA approval in The New York Times.
Many doctors do not follow ovarian cancer screening guidelines
(The following is an excerpt of an article published on The Wall Street Journal Health Blog.)
The government estimates that more than 15,000 women died last year from ovarian cancer.
But routine screening of women with no symptoms isn't recommended by the United States Preventive Services Task Force, American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists or other professional groups, even for women at high risk for the disease. That's because the benefits of the available tests—a transvaginal ultrasound and a blood test that detects an antigen called CA-125 — have not been shown to outweigh their risks (such as complications from unnecessary surgery), or to reduce the number of deaths.
Despite that evidence, a new study finds that when presented with a scenario of a woman coming to her annual check-up, a significant percentage of physicians surveyed would screen for ovarian cancer.
Some 28.5 percent of the 1,088 primary-care docs—OB/GYNs, family physicians and general internists—surveyed said they "sometimes" or "almost always" offered or ordered ovarian-cancer screening tests for low-risk women. When the vignette involved a woman at medium risk of the disease, that proportion jumped to 65.4 percent of physicians.
About a third of physicians reported believing that ultrasound or CA-125 blood testing is an effective screening test for ovarian cancer, the study found. It's unclear why that is, and more research is needed to discover why, says Laura-Mae Baldwin, an author of the study and UW professor of family medicine. "We know that in medicine we have an enthusiasm for screening," she says. "We want to find diseases before they can cause harm."
The study also found that physicians were more likely to say they'd order screening for patients who requested it—even if the doctor herself didn't believe screening was effective. In that scenario, physicians may be trying to maintain a relationship with the patient, or they "may lack confidence in explaining why the test is more harmful than beneficial," says Baldwin. She says there's an important role for clinical tools that could accurately illustrate the level of risk faced by a particular woman and also illustrate the harms and benefits of the test.
The study is published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
Read the entire article in the The Wall Street Journal Health Blog.
UW Medicine joins forces with First Lady Michelle Obama to serve America's military families
UW Medicine has joined forces with the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM) to reinforce a commitment to create a new generation of doctors, medical schools and research facilities that focuses on meeting the needs of our military veterans. Recognizing veterans and their families' sacrifice and commitment, UW Medicine has pledged to mobilize its uniquely integrated mission to improve the health of the public through education, research and clinical care.
"We are honored to participate in the White House Joining Forces initiative," said Paul Ramsey, CEO of UW Medicine and dean of the UW School of Medicine. "Faculty throughout our system are committed to serve the heroes who have served our country for so long. Our goal is to show these men and women that their country is there for them, no matter what they're going through."
Many veterans and their families' have pressing healthcare concerns, including Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and acute and chronic pain. "I'm inspired to see our nation's medical schools step up to address this pressing need for our veterans and military families. By directing some of our brightest minds, our most cutting-edge research and our finest teaching institutions toward our military families, they're ensuring that those who have served our country receive the first-rate care that they have earned," said First Lady Michelle Obama.
UW Medicine is committed to ensuring physicians are aware of the unique clinical challenges and know the best practices associated with caring for veterans and their families. Ongoing work also includes developing new research and clinical trials on PTSD and TBI to better understand and treat these conditions; sharing information and best practices with other academic centers through a collaborative web forum created by the AAMC; and growing the body of knowledge that will lead to improvements in healthcare and wellness for U.S. military service members, veterans and their families.
First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden created Joining Forces to bring Americans together to recognize, honor and take action to support veterans and military families as they serve our country and throughout their lives. The initiative aims to educate, challenge and spark action from all sectors of society to ensure veterans and military families have the support they have earned. The initiative focuses on key priority areas—employment, education and wellness, while raising awareness about the service, sacrifice and needs of America's veterans and military families. Visit the Joining Forces website for more information.
Read more in UW Today.
Red Dress has lifesaving message for women
(The following is an excerpt of an article written by Menaka Umapathy, a family medicine doctor at the UW Neighborhood Clinic – Factoria.). The article was published by the Journal Media Group Feb. 6, 2012.)
In 2002, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute introduced the Red Dress as a symbol for The Heart Truth, its campaign to give women a "personal and urgent wakeup call about their risk of heart disease." In support of this effort, the American Heart Association quickly followed suit by adopting this colorful dress as the symbol for Go Red For Women.
The national campaign starts by addressing a significant gender bias. Because heart disease has traditionally been associated with men, research studies, treatment guidelines and educational programs have focused on men. The American Heart Association reports that only 55 percent of women realize that heart disease is their leading cause of death and less than half know what are considered healthy levels for cardiovascular risk factors such as blood pressure and cholesterol.
Women also tend to wait longer than men to call 9-1-1 after experiencing a possible heart attack. One reason may be that only half of women have the classic symptom of chest pain. Others may experience upper body pain or discomfort in one or both arms, the back, neck, jaw or stomach, shortness of breath, weakness, unusual fatigue, cold sweat and dizziness. Because getting to the hospital quickly can save lives and prevent long-term damage from a heart attack, women should seek emergency care immediately if they have any of these symptoms for more than a few minutes.
Although the campaign is targeted to women ages 40 to 60, when a woman's risk of heart disease begins to increase, its fundamental message applies to all ages. It is never too early or too late to begin screening and take preventive action for major risk factors: smoking, diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, obesity and a sedentary lifestyle.
Read the entire article.
UW global health is world-class program, President Young says in speech
In President Michael Young's short time at UW, one of the things he has learned, he said, is how well the University organizes itself into groups that address large-scale societal and global problems.
"I frankly can't think of a larger challenge than trying to address imbalances in respect to the provision of health care around the world," he said at the Department of Global Health Open House on Jan. 17.
More than 125 guests toured the student space. Luminaries lighted the walkway outside the historic brick Harris Hydraulics building, built in the 1920s to house the best hydraulics research facilities of any university in the United States at the time.
Guests included staff from PATH, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Public Health-Seattle King County and the Washington State Department of Health, as well as leaders from across campus.
The Department of Global Health, founded just five years ago, has grown explosively with more than 250 faculty, 400 graduate students and many more undergraduates. While part of the department moved into two floors of the Ninth and Jefferson Building near Harborview in 2010, there was no central space on campus for global health students, faculty and staff until this building was renovated.
Now students have their own student lounge, kitchen and computer center with 24-hour access.
Read more in UW Today.
UW students shine at Western Student Medical Research Forum
UW students and faculty were well represented at the 40th Western Student Medical Research Forum (WSMRF) meeting in Carmel, Calif. Jan. 27-29.
Laurel Desnick, clinical assistant professor of medicine, is co-executive director of the WSMRF, along with Gary Satou at David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Desnick has been instrumental in the ongoing success of the conference over the past five years.
The annual conference is held in conjunction with the Western Section American Federation for Medical Research (WAFMR), Western Society for Pediatric Research (WSPR), Western Association of Physicians (WAP), Western Society for Clinical Investigation (WSCI) and the California Thoracic Society.
In recent years, student participation has become an increasingly important part of the three-day conference. Twenty-nine medical schools from the U.S. and Canada were represented, with University of Washington having the largest number of student presenters in diverse areas, including basic science, clinical research, global health and community-based projects.
"The conference offers an excellent opportunity for students to interact with senior faculty, establish relationships with students from other medical schools, and gain experience presenting their work. Every year the quality of presentations, breadth of topics, and integration with other societies increases, making this a fantastic experience for the students," said Desnick.
Numerous UW School of Medicine faculty attended the conference this year. Ellen Cosgrove, vice dean for academic affairs, was in attendance, as were Suzanne Allen, vice dean for regional affairs; Bill Bremner, chair of the Department of Medicine, and a number of faculty from his department: Wes Van Voorhis, Virginia Broudy, Fred Buckner, Robb MacLellan, Kevin O'Brien, David Dale and Alan Chait; Pete Eveland, associate dean for student affairs and several WWAMI deans: Tom Nighswander from Alaska, Jay Erickson and Martin Teintze from Montana, and Mary Barinaga from Idaho. Faculty participated as moderators, discussed posters and attended oral presentations throughout the conference. Several UW residents, fellows and other junior faculty were also in attendance.
"The conference is an opportunity for students to realize the excitement and value of medical research and refine their presentation skills," Cosgrove said. "Our overall participation is encouraged because of Paul Ramsey's strong and continuing support. He recognizes the critical role of research in medical education and in the future of healthcare."
In Cosgrove's keynote address at the Student Awards banquet, she reminded students that the real goal of a career in medicine is to make life better for the communities we live in, whether local, regional or global. She described successes in basic science, clinical investigation, direct patient care and public health approaches, and commended students for pursuing work to promote improved health status and social equity worldwide.
Matthew Golden, UW professor of medicine in the Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, received the Western Society for Clinical Investigation Award and gave a presentation at the opening plenary titled Integrating Research into HIV/STD Public Health Practice. He is also the director of the Public Health - Seattle & King County HIV/STD Control Program.
This year, 270 medical students and 26 residents gave oral and poster presentations. Seventy-two UW students gave a total of 73 presentations at the conference. UW participants were second-, third- and fourth-year medical students, and one junior-year undergraduate.
Following are 2012 Student Award Winners from UWSOM:
WAFMR/WSCI Subspecialty Award Winners
Lindsay Braun: The Effect of Lipid Minimizations on Parenteral Nutrition Associated Cholestasis in Pediatric Surgical Patients
Julia Herbert: Can the Timed Up and Go Define Severity of Fall Risk?
Ryan Murphy: Bumped Kinase Inhibitors Block Malaria Transmission to Mosquitoes
WSPR Subspecialty Award Winner
Beck Longstreet: Nuchal Thickening and Cystic Hygromas: Predicting Postnatal outcomes from Prenatal Outcomes
Klea D. Bertakis, M.D., M.P.H. Award
Stephen Houmes: Dental Cavity Prevention through Fluoride Education in Sandpoint, Idaho.
Medical student admissions in the WWAMI region
Since WWAMI started 40years ago, members on the UW School of Medicine Admissions Committee have served from each of the partner states. Beginning in 2007, interviews have been conducted at regional sites as well as in Seattle. Regional interviews started in Anchorage and then followed in Boise, Spokane, Laramie and Bozeman. The regional interviews have been well received by applicants as an opportunity to reduce the costs of interviewing, remain close to their homes and see where they will spend time if accepted as a WWAMI medical student.
This year, 168 interviews will be conducted at regional sites. Seventy six (19 percent) of Washington interviews are completed in Spokane. All Alaska and Wyoming interviews are completed in Anchorage and Laramie. Idaho conducted 57 percent of their interviews in Boise and 49 percent of the Montana interviews were completed in Bozeman.
A committee of 190 faculty, community physicians, alumni and medical students from across the region participates in the admissions process. These members volunteer their time to interview about 700 applicants between October and March each year and to create a class of outstanding students. For fall 2011, 81 percent of applicants accepted into the MD program chose to matriculate.
The ability and intention to spread admissions outside the Seattle region is in line with the mission of the School of Medicine to improve the health of the public, including helping to produce a strong workforce for the WWAMI region.
WWAMI celebrates 40th anniversary
The WWAMI regional medical education program was first established in 1971 as a partnership between the UW School of Medicine and the University of Alaska Fairbanks (later at Anchorage). Montana and Idaho joined the program in 1972 and Wyoming in 1996. The Alaska program marked its 40th year in September, and other WWAMI sites plan anniversary events in the coming months. These celebrations include: Boise, Feb. 27; Cheyenne, Feb. 28; Spokane, March 22; and Moscow/Pullman, April 16. Billings, Missoula, and Seattle events will be held later in the spring. For more information, please contact Kellie Engle at 206.543.2249 or email@example.com.
The following are events that may be of interest to the UW Medicine community.
Donations after Cardiac Death – Shades of Grey, 4 p.m., Health Sciences Building, T-747. Michael Souter, UW professor of anesthesiology and pain medicine and chief of anesthesiology at Harborview Medical Center, will explore the continuing development of organ donation after cardiac death as a strategy for addressing the problem of patients dying while awaiting vital organ transplant. Souter will discuss ethical questions, including the environment of managing death, the timing of declaration of death, pre-mortem interventions, and issues surrounding consent. Contact 206.543.5145 or email@example.com for more information.
Education in Medicine Lecture, Feb. 24
Medical Education in the Era of Ubiquitous Information by Charles P. Friedman, noon, Friday, Feb. 24, UW Health Sciences Building, Room T-625. Friedman is director of Health and Informatics Program, Schools of Information and Public Health at the University of Michigan. He will examine new challenges and questions for educators and researchers of endowing future physicians to retrieve and integrate information from the "knowledge cloud." The lecture, sponsored by the UW School of Medicine Office of Academic Affairs, is open to all faculty, staff and students. No registration is required. For more information, contact Mariel Kessel at email@example.com.
UW Medicine Salutes Harborview, Feb. 25
The 20th Annual UW Medicine Salutes Harborview, the premier fundraising event for Harborview Medical Center, will be held at 6 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 25, at the Sheraton Seattle Hotel. The net proceeds benefit Harborview's Mission of Caring Fund, which helps Harborview serve vulnerable populations and provide world-class care to patients from throughout the region. The event is presented by the Western Washington Toyota Dealers Association. Register to attend the 20th UW Medicine Salutes Harborview. Follow the event on Twitter.
Faculty Development Workshop, March 6
The AMIGO3 model: A learner-oriented teaching methodology, 8:30 a.m. to noon, Tuesday, March 6, UW South Campus Center, Room 316. David Masuda, lecturer in the Department of Medical Education and Biomedical Informatics, will help participants explore the AMIGO3 teaching design methodology, a concept of creating skilled life-long learners, regardless of the discipline being taught. Enrollment in this free workshop is limited. Registration is required. For more information, contact Rachael Hogan at email@example.com or 206.616.9875.
Continuing Medical Education
Visit Continuing Medical Education for more information on upcoming classes.
KING-TV highlights Gabriel Aldea and patient Roy Matsumoto
Gabriel Aldea, UW professor of surgery in the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, and his 98-year-old patient Roy Matsumoto were featured in a KING-TV segment Hero's heart goes on due to replaced aortic valve on Feb. 14. The segment was part of a story on the TAVR Partner Trial, a national study determining the safety and effectiveness of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) in both high-risk operable and inoperable patients with symptomatic critical aortic stenosis.
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Nov 19, 2007
Apple's WWDC 2004
I'm off to WWDC in San Francisco tomorrow. It's exciting; this will be the first time that I've had a badge all to myself, and will be able to go to the keynote.
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Batch changing file types/creators
For some reason when downloading files via FTP with Interarchy, all my .html files
end up being owned by IE (yuck). Here's a handy one-liner to fix that (run from the directory containing the errant files). You'll need the developer tools installed to get
find . -name "*.html" | xargs /Developer/Tools/SetFile -c R*ch
This sets the file creator to
R*ch, which is BBEdit's creator code.
Of course the
*.html can be changed to change other files, like
You can also use the
-t option to set the file type, for example
-t TEXT.
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Color Schemer
In a previous entry I pointed to Color Designer as a nice color design application, useful for web pages and more.
Apple's downloads page recently featured a different application which does much the same thing, called Color Schemer Studio. This one comes as a 15-day free trial, after which it's $50. Color Schemer is nicely designed, and seems a little more polished than ColorDesigner, but doesn't have quite the flexibility.
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CSSEdit is another nice web development tool for Mac users. It's not much use for positional-type stuff, because it doesn't know anything about your page structure, but it's great for color, border and font tweaking.
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GUI wrappers around SSH
I just spent most of the weekend writing a tool that provides a nice GUI frontend
for SSH, specifically for creating SSH tunnels. Yeah, I know about
SSH Tunnel Manager, but it has
a fiddly UI, and, as I found when looking at the source, the author doesn't care
too much about security (it writes your password to a short-lived file in
So about 10 hours of hacking later, I had a nice little app with an
NSStatusItem which showed the connected state of tunnels,
and some tunnel editing UI.
Then Google presented me with SSHKeychain. Wow, what a neat little app. It does everything mine did, and more. Hopefully it will make using CVS over SSH with mozilla a little less painful.
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I just found a pretty nice color design tool called ColorDesigner (screenshot), which is ideal for picking combinations of colors to use on web sites. All the color suites you see on this site were chosen using it.
You can find get it from the author's site, or download from freshmeat.net
There seem to be a few bugs (like failing to track saved documents), and there's some stuff that I don't understand, but it's pretty neat, and spits out CSS-compatible hex values.
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Fixing MT-NewsWatcher bugs
I spent a few hours this weekend fixing some MT-NW bugs, which is long overdue. I've been distracted by other projects, like redesigning this web site.
For the curious, the bug fix list so far looks like:
- Fixed file type/creator reversal when saving binaries.
- The "Mark as not junk" menu item works for article windows now.
- The Advanced dialog in the binary extration prefs has a sensible title now.
- Fixed the display font for UTF-8 messages to use the font prefs, rather than default to 9pt Monaco.
- Fixed an odd behaviour clicking on the radio buttons in the filter edit dialog for a date filter.
- Fixed a linkage issue that could cause library errors on launch on some machines (GSS-related).
- Fixed some minor message window layout issues (helpful for translators).
- Accented characters are no longer stripped when pasting.
- When bringing up the Spelling panel with a misspelled word selected, it no longer goes to the next misspelled word.
- MT-NW will now try to authenticate when requested in more situations, making it less necessary to use the 'Always authenticate' option.
- Underscores ('_') will no longer be converted to spaces in message with a Content-Transfer-Encoding of Quoted-Printable.
- Fixed some bugs relating to Smart cut and paste in message editing.
I also ran into another long-standing bug (it's amazing how pretty fundamental bugs can go lurking unreported for years!) which I started to fix, and then backed off. It's a stupid issue where "child" windows are tracked via a parent window and an index into the parent window's list (e.g. the group index in the parent window). That works fine until the parent's array changes, for example by a resort or quicksearch.
It may sound easy to fix, but there are some complications with the full groups window that make it a bit more tricky.
This is one of those bugs that makes me tempted to start rewriting MT-NW from scratch in Cocoa, and pull in code from the old codebase bit by bit. However, this is a huge task (probably over a year of heavy part-time work), and not one that I'm prepared to embark upon.
Thinking about this also put me in mind of the the real cost of writing and maintaining a freeware application. Taking into account the hundreds of hours that I've put into MT-NW over the past 8 years, and using a pretty conservative hourly rate that a developer would get paid, the cost is at least $100,000. Makes you think, eh?
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How They Improved Mac OS X Performance
MacIntouch just pointed to this really interesting review of various performance improvements in Mac OS X, on kernalthread.com.
Note to self: should read the other articles on kernalthread.com.
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By Lee Spears and Mohammed Hadi
Facebook Inc.'s implied value fell by almost 5% to about US$98-billion in an auction of a fund that holds shares of the world's biggest social-networking company.
SharesPost Inc. managed a Feb. 14 auction of 200,000 fund units, each equivalent to one Facebook share, at a price of US$42 apiece, according to a statement from the private-stock marketplace yesterday. SharesPost estimates Facebook has 2.33 billion shares outstanding, including stock tied to options that may be issued, according to its website.
The price dropped from last week, when SharesPost handled an auction of 150,000 shares of Facebook's Class B common stock for US$44 each, or an implied value of US$102.6-billion. Facebook filed for an initial public offering on Feb. 1, and people familiar with the matter have said the company is considering a sale that would value it at US$75-billion to US$100-billion.
"The real test of a company's worth only occurs in the public market," said Lawrence Creatura, a Rochester, New York-based money manager who helps oversee US$370-billion at Federated Investors Inc. "It's like trying to forecast an athlete's performance in a game by looking at historic statistics. Those can help you make an educated guess on things, but anything can happen on game day."
Facebook's Stock
Facebook jumped about 73% in value on the secondary market last year to US$71.2-billion, according to a report last week by Nyppex LLC, a Rye, New York-based broker-dealer and research firm. The biggest gainer was microblogging service Twitter Inc., which more than doubled to US$8.52-billion. Yelp Inc., the consumer-review website that filed for an IPO in November, rose 44% to US$705-million.
The valuation based on private-market transactions may change depending on the actual share count after the IPO. As of Dec. 31, Facebook had 117.1 million Class A shares and 1.76 billion Class B shares outstanding. There also are about 379 million restricted stock units that vest later, as well as about 259 million shares that may be issued if outstanding stock options are exercised, the IPO prospectus shows.
Facebook, run by chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg, is seeking to raise US$5-billion, according to its IPO filing. At a valuation of US$100-billion, the company would trade at 26.9 times 2011 sales, more than five times higher than search-engine operator Google Inc.
Revenue at Menlo Park, California-based Facebook jumped 88% last year to US$3.71-billion, while net income climbed by almost two-thirds to US$1-billion.
Jeremiah Hall, a spokesman for San Bruno, California-based SharesPost, confirmed the auction results. Jonathan Thaw, a spokesman for Facebook, declined to comment.


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Require two-step verification
Require that your team members add an extra layer of protection to their accounts by using two-step verification
Two-step verification is a highly recommended security feature, adding an extra layer of protection for any Dropbox account. In addition to their username and password, team members who use two-step verification will have an extra authentication step when signing in or linking new devices to Dropbox: a six-digit security code available on only their mobile phones (generated via text message or an authenticator app).
While two-step verification is recommended for every account, Dropbox Business team admins can require that team members use two-step verification, bringing added file security to the whole team.
Requiring two-step verification for team members
Team admins can require two-step verification for all members of a team, or for selected team members. Once it's set, new team members will be prompted to set up two-step verification during the account creation process, and existing team members will be prompted to set up two-step verification the very next time they sign in to Dropbox.
- Sign in to the Dropbox website using your Business admin account
- Open the Admin Console
- Click Authentication
- Select Require two-step verification
- Select whether you'd like to require two-step verification for some or all team members
- If you've selected Require for specific members, enter the email addresses of the team members you'd like to use two-step verification, and then click Proceed
- Two-step verification will now be active, and you will see this reflected on the Authentication page
- Requiring two-step verification will not log your team member out of their devices or web sessions, and won't interrupt their workflow
- Team members will not be protected by two-step verification until they set it up. Team admins can track setup progress in the members tab
Resetting two-step verification for a team member
If one of your team members loses a device, you can quickly reset two-step verification for their Dropbox account:
- Open the Admin Console
- Click the Members tab
- Locate the team member, and click the gear icon next to that person's name
- Click Reset two-step verification


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Looking through some new menus ideas at the begining of January I came accross this recipe for Baileys cream pots. It reminded me I had been asked to make Baileys ice cream once by a friend as a birthday present, and how well it went down. That was just too long a time ago - a revival was well overdue.
As with all the ice cream I ever seem to make, it doesn't last long - the next time you go back to it the pot's always empty. I advise a padlock on your freezer if you ever want to get a look in.
If it's an ice cream recipe you want the first place to turn to is 'Ices - The Definitive Guide' by Caroline Liddell & Robin Weir. It's the book I got at the same time as my first ice cream machine when I was 15, and it still holds so many things I want to get round to making.
Like the crème fraîche ice cream recipe I use it's not anglaise based, though you could also try doing that if you want to use less sugar.
500ml Whipping or double dream
500ml Milk
200g Caster sugar
125ml Baileys (But I doubled that to get a decent flavour - and it still freezes)
Heat these ingredients in a pan, stirring occasionally till the sugar dissolves. Leave to cool, then cover and chill in fridge till it's fridge cold. Then churn in your ice cream machine for 20 minutes, or still freeze. Transfer to a container and freeze.
Because of the alcohol content it does need freezing for at least 4 hours or overnight before it's firm enough to eat - it won't be firm enough straight from the ice cream machine. They also advise not adding more Baileys than they put, or it won't freeze, but I haven't found this to be the case - my hand always seem to 'slip'. If it comes out very solid allow 5 - 10 minutes out of the freezer for it to soften.
How do you serve ice cream for a large number of guests at the same time? - See an earlier tip here.
Serve on it's own (as above), for Baileys lovers with a extra helping drizzled on top. Or you could accompany it with Baileys bread and butter pudding (or is that the other way round?)
You can also make your own cream based liquor. You won't achieve the same flavour, but it's worth a try every so often......
How do I make ice cream if I don't have an ice cream machine?
Still freezing. There's directions about 2/3 of the way down here.
Buying an ice cream machine
These are the two I have:
This smaller one I was given as a Christmas present when I was 14 - a great starter model. I still remember the first ice cream I made in it - orange. The difference in flavour was so amazing - just tasted like fresh oranges - not exactly what you can say about supermarket varieties. Rhubarb crumble and custard ice cream was another good one, and pea and mint sorbet was also memorable, as was the cherry and cherry wine ice cream when the local cherry trees were in fruit. Lasted a good 20 years as well (and that's with some serious amount of use!) Great for small scale domestic use.
This larger ice cream machine is the one I have now. Because of the amounts of ice cream I have to make now I needed something bigger and faster. This machine has a built in freezer unit so it freezes the ice cream while it churns. I've found you get a much better result than the old one (smoother and lighter) - it's all to do with the science of ice crystals. You can also do much larger quantities - you just have to wait for a few minutes for it to cool down and then you can go again, whereas the smaller version you have to freeze the bowl overnight before you can use it.
The first thing I made in it was orange sorbet which got great reviews that night we served it!
Related posts
Ice cream tip
Vegan ice cream
Crème fraîche ice cream
Orange sorbet
** That's Baileys on ice - not to be confused with Dancing on Ice.


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