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Gannett's Journal-News North of NYC Defends Publishing Gun Permit Holders' Names and Addresses; Editor Goes Into Web Hiding
Here's another entry for the "They can dish it out but can't take it" file.
Jammie Wearing Fool is reporting, with supporting links, that Editor CynDee Royle at the Journal News headquartered in White Plains, New York, which on Saturday, as noted on Monday at NewsBusters, published an interactive map showing the names and address of all pistol permit holders in Westchester and Rockland Counties, has taken down her Facebook page and made her Twitter account private (the latter may have been the case before the article was published). The paper has also recognized the outrage the published map cause, is offering a truly lame defense, and claims it didn't get everything it wanted (bolds and numbered tags are mine):
The Journal News/LoHud.com assailed for publishing map of gun permit holders
Thousands of people, many from outside Westchester, Rockland and Putnam counties, have taken to their computers and phones in rage after The Journal News posted an online database of local gun permit holders.
The database, legally obtained from the county clerks' offices through a Freedom of Information Act request made after the shootings in Newtown, Conn., that left 20 children and eight adults dead, [1] has been called irresponsible, dangerous and leaning toward intimidation by several online pundits.
… Hundreds of callers have complained, claiming publication of the database put their safety at risk or violated their privacy. Others claimed publication was illegal. Many of the callers were vitriolic and some threatened members of the newspaper staff. [2]
"New York residents have the right to own guns with a permit and they also have a right to access public information," said Janet Hasson, president and publisher of The Journal News Media Group.
Robert Freeman, executive director of the state Committee on Open Govenment (sic) and an expert in the state's Freedom of Information law, has said all government records and data are presumed public unless a specific statute bars their release. Names and addresses are specifically deemed public records, he said.
… This is not the first time The Journal News has been criticized for publishing information about gun permits. A similar story that ran in 2006 received similar responses, [3] although social media did not play as large a part in the spread of the story or of the complaints.
"We knew publication of the database would be controversial but we felt sharing as much information as we could about gun ownership in our area was important in the aftermath of the Newtown shootings," said CynDee Royle, [1] Editor and Vice President/News.
"People are concerned about who owns guns and how many of them there are in their neighborhoods. Our Freedom of Information request also sought specifics on how many and what types of weapons people owned. That portion of the request was denied." [4]
[1] (tagged twice) — So they're admitting that this is more about capitalizing on a tragedy to drive an agenda than they are generating something in which people have a legitimate interest.
[2] — Cry me a river. Threats, assuming that they go beyond cancelling subscriptions, are not good and to the extent they really occurred, shouldln't be made. But the paper has in essence threatened everyone in the two counties involved. First, gun owners now face a higher threat of criminals taking an interest in stealing their guns. Second, and I believe more important, those who don't have pistols have been identified, making them softer targets for criminals and more likely to become victims.
[3] — So they make a habit of invading residents' property and putting their lives and safety in danger? Is there a good reason why anyone would subscribe or advertise with these creeps?
[4] — I would not be surprised it they're still trying to get that level of detail. Wouldn't criminals looking to stoke their arsenals just love that?
Cross-posted at NewsBusters.org.


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Forum Post: Stamping $1s to amend the Constitution & kill Citizens United
Posted 6 years ago on June 27, 2013, 8:52 a.m. EST by jph
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Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's is riding around the country in a rainbow colored van, stamping $1 bills with messages like "not to be used for bribing politicians," as a way of raising consciousness about the impact of money in politics in the wake of the Citizens United Supreme Court verdict, which opened the doors to infinite campaign financing by special interests.
He's seeking a constitutional amendment that overturns the verdict, and he's got 15 states onboard. You can sign a petition, buy a stamp and stamp your own money, and hold stamping parties with your friends. The full list of stamp messages is:
"Not to Be Used for Bribing Politicians". "Stamp Money Out of Politics" "Corporations are Not People" "Not To Be Used for Buying Elections"


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Tape type matters
High-performance tape formats may all seem similar in capacity and throughput, but most formats lend themselves better to some applications then others. Find out how to decide which one is best for you.
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Tape is still the best fit for applications that have lengthy backup windows, long-term data archiving needs or for organizations that require off-site storage on a medium that can be recovered using a variety of vendors' devices. For medium-sized and large enterprises, that usually means high-performance tape.
The key to taking advantage of improved tape technology is determining the appropriate media for specific applications. There are five major high-performance tape media on the market today: 3592, 9940, LTO, SAIT and SDLT. Selecting the right one begins with understanding the advantages of each. (See "LTO tape put to the test")
Mainframe environments will want to continue to use either 3592 or 9940 to satisfy their needs for batch processing, frequent file recalls and data managed under hierarchical storage management (HSM).
LTO, SAIT and SDLT formats will continue to lead in midrange shops. With a wide variety of cartridge manufacturers supporting these formats, tape prices remain competitive. Understanding each tape's features, unique technologies, application fits and ultimately their price-to-gigabyte ratio will help lead to the right tape media selection.
The performance kingpins
Five tape families meet the criteria for high-performance tape: IBM Corp.'s 3592, Storage Technology Corp.'s (StorageTek) 9940, LTO, SAIT and SDLT. The latest versions of these tapes offer 100+GB storage capacities, transfer rates exceeding 10MB/s, mean time between failures (MTBF) exceeding 400 days assuming continuous use and tape life spans exceeding 15 years (see "Tape specifics").
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|The case for SAIT
The AIT family of media is the only one of the five major tape media that puts data down on tape using a helical scan instead of linear placement. Helical scan places data on tape the same way a VCR stores data on a VHS tape: storing data across the entire width of the tape with a rotating head. The DLT and LTO linear process lays data down back and forth from one end of the tape to the other in multiple rows by streaming the tape through a stationary read/write head.
While the helical scan reduces backhitches, the case against AIT was that the spinning head knocked particles and debris off the tape, reducing its life span. To correct this problem, current AIT and SAIT cartridges ship with Advanced Metal Evaporated (AME) technology, which doesn't flake off as much as the older media did. Now AIT media has about the same longevity and reliability characteristics as linear tapes.
The other big change made with the release of SAIT was its shape. After AIT conquered its reliability problem, few users wanted to purchase new libraries to house AIT media. To address this, SAIT media has been retrofitted to the same external height, width and length characteristics as LTO tape cartridges, allowing them to fit into LTO slots in an LTO library. SAIT offers users immediate backup relief by eliminating or reducing backhitches and having the ability to use their existing LTO tape libraries without a significant capital investment.
The IBM 3592 and StorageTek 9940 are used predominantly in mainframe-centric shops. The IBM 3494 libraries, which host this tape type, are only managed under the mainframe operating system that manages data on tape just like it does on disk using HSM. The 3592 tape media is well-suited to the frequent start and stop nature of HSM environments, expediting small and selective file recalls as well as batch processing transactions predominantly found in the mainframe environment.
StorageTek's 9940 cartridge represents the other more mainframe-centric tape media solution. However, this media may also be considered for large Unix and Windows environments because StorageTek tape drives are supported by backup software that runs on these systems. The media offers benefits similar to 3592 media, but the 9940 offers a write once, read many (WORM) option not found on 3592 tape. StorageTek's latest 9940 VolSafe data cartridge provides non-erasable, non-rewritable WORM features for users who want to store data in a tamper-proof format. The knock on the 9940 as of late hasn't been the cartridge, but StorageTek's delayed mainframe FICON support for its tape libraries, resulting in some customers opting for IBM's 3494 tape libraries and the 3592 tape.
Of course, for a variety of reasons, LTO, SAIT and SDLT are the most commonly selected tape media families in Unix and Windows environments. First, all three are widely supported in many tape libraries from a number of vendors. ADIC, Exabyte, Hewlett-Packard (HP), IBM, Overland Storage, Plasmon, Qualstar, Quantum, Spectra Logic, StorageTek and others offer libraries that support these types of tape media. In the cases of ADIC, Quantum and StorageTek, they offer libraries that concurrently support media from the different families of products.
Unlike the 3592 and 9940 formats that are manufactured by a select number of vendors, LTO, SAIT and SDLT are manufactured by a variety of third-party sources. LTO best represents this ideal, with the standard cooperatively set by Certance, HP and IBM while the media itself is available from a variety of manufacturers. This standard enables IT shops to separate the buying decision for tape media and tape libraries and drives.
Maximizing capacity
Every tape user asks: "How much will it hold and how fast will it go?" Yet paying more for faster, higher capacity cartridges may be pointless if users don't use the extra capacity during backups or there isn't enough time to store or recover the data. The more important question becomes, "How well can existing tape drives take advantage of these higher capacities?"
While faster tape speeds will correctly lead one to assume more data gets stored on tape more quickly, issues like backhitches--an interruption in the flow of data onto tape during a backup--have a big impact on the overall speed of the backup. However, tape drive vendors have taken steps to mask the backhitches by putting cache and more intelligence in the tape drive (see "Tape: alive and full of options," in the April 2003 issue of Storage).
This additional cache and intelligence in the tape drives becomes the key to maximizing both capacity and speed on newer tape cartridges. For instance, even though the latest 3592 tape offers up to 300GB of native capacity, it's only with advancements in the 3592 tape drive that the 3592 tape capacity and speed can be maximized. The 3592 tape drive enhances current backhitch countermeasures by incorporating a new technology called recursive accumulating backhitch flush into the tape drive. This technology allows the tape drive to respond to the random requests of backup software to verify that a tape write occurred without flushing its cache or necessitating a backhitch.
In addition to how well the tape and drive work together, drive prices also need to be factored into the overall tape backup solution. For example, expect to pay about $4,000 for an SDLT tape drive, $5,000 to $6,000 for an LTO tape drive and upwards of $30,000 for a 3592 tape drive. And then there's tape's so-called "infinite capacity." For years, mainframes have kept large amounts of older data accessible by managing it through their file system. But this isn't practical in most Unix and Windows environments. Their operating systems lack the sophistication to natively manage large amounts of tape.
Intelligent tape cartridges
Almost all storage devices are becoming more intelligent, and tape cartridges are no exception. The LTO and AIT tape families have for some time shipped with memory chips embedded in the cartridges with the most current tapes shipping with a radio frequency (RF) interface. LTO-Ultrium cartridges contain a 32KB RF-capable semiconductor while the AIT media families come with a similar RF-based 64KB memory chip. These cartridge-based chips store pertinent information about the tape, such as how many times the tape has been used, a log of the information stored on the cartridge and index information. This information becomes invaluable when moving tapes between different tape libraries or when used by different backup products.
RF chips also reduce wear and tear on both tape cartridges and tapes. Instead of physically handling the tape and inserting it into a reader, the RF signal transmits the information contained on the cartridge chip to a receiver either in the tape library or in any third-party device. This RF transmission is a cost-effective way to catalog and track tapes as they move around on site or off site.
However, the key for RF chip technology to succeed centers on the adoption of standards for all tape cartridges. For example, due to their different capacities, the LTO and AIT chips hold different amounts of data. They also store data on the tape in different formats (linear vs. helical) and use the chips differently to communicate to the tape drive how to retrieve data stored on the tapes. As a result, until RF-enabled chips become standardized across the most widely used tape formats, the ability to take advantage of this technology is limited. In addition, no third-party vendors provide readers for either LTO or SAIT RF technology and the DLT family of tapes has yet to incorporate a chip into their cartridges. In other words, buyer beware: This promising technology is something to watch at this stage, but not to be viewed as a product differentiator.
Tape's downside
The embedded chip highlights current attempts by tape manufacturers to reduce the costs associated with managing tape. Accounting for where every tape is--whether it's in use, lost, damaged, purchased, expired, on-site, off-site or in the library--and what data is on it quickly eats up a lot of time and labor. It's a poorly kept secret that most companies never know where all of their tape cartridges are or what's on them.
Tape vendors are taking some steps to address this. The LTO and AIT RF-enabled chips and new management software, such as DLTSage for DLT media, should help alleviate some of this management pain and provide better reporting tools, but most companies are still struggling to achieve effective tape management. To do so, organizations must standardize on one family of tape and its most current release to take advantage of these tools. Even then, organizations must train personnel to develop proficiency on these tools. And data must be migrated from older tapes to these newer tape formats, a challenging and time-consuming task.
And of course, there's the tape-restore problem. Storage managers should carefully consider the applications they currently back up on tape, the time it takes to restore the data and the costs of exceeding the agreed-upon recovery time frames. While some administrators may still have the luxury of "best faith" recovery agreements (where their users accept whatever time it takes for them to recovery the data and get the application operational), they should no longer assume this will remain a given going forward.
There are just too many uncontrollable variables and hidden costs for storage managers to confidently state that they can recover data or control costs using only a tape backup solution. Until recently, there were few cost-effective alternatives for backup and recovery, but ATA and Fibre Channel (FC) modular arrays have forever changed the landscape. With the price points for ATA arrays affordable for almost any size organization and the uptime on FC modular arrays now acceptable by most data center standards, users should begin abandoning tape and look to ATA drives for production backup and recovery.
You should consider using tape as a long-term archiving solution. ATA disk fails to provide an off-site store of the data or offer the infinite storage capacity that tape does. Placing the initial backup on ATA disk creates a lengthy window to make a copy of the backup to tape and gives users the ability to take full advantage of current tape speeds and capacities.
A well-managed organization could eliminate many of its current backup and tape management headaches and dramatically cut its costs by properly balancing the deployment of ATA drives and tape technologies.


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US PRESIDENT Barack Obama, does it; British Prime Minister David Cameron and his ministers do it; and Queensland Premier Campbell Newman plans to do it.
Now the Australian Information Commissioner, John McMillan, has recommended that Prime Minister Julia Gillard also release a version of her official meeting diary, so people can see who is gaining access to the ear of our most powerful person.
"There is undeniably a strong public interest in knowing what ministers are doing officially and who they are meeting or addressing," the commissioner said in a decision issued in response to a Fairfax Media request under the Freedom of Information Act.
While there was no legal requirement for Ms Gillard to do so, the commissioner said such an approach "was implicitly encouraged by the FOI Act".
Professor McMillan noted that Ms Gillard publishes a limited "public schedule" but said other governments including the British government and that of Mr Newman had gone much further.
A lawyer, Peter Timmins, said the release of information about meetings between leaders and those seeking to influence them was increasingly part of contemporary tools to ensure accountability of government.
"Yet in Australia we have seen resistance to it," he said.
Mr McMillan ruled against Fairfax on its specific FOI request for one month of the Prime Minister's diaries on the grounds it would involve too much work for her office. Fairfax made that request in 2010.
It asked for all personal entries and meetings with constituents to be excluded because the FOI Act covers only information relating to activities as a minister.
Ms Gillard's office responded that the request covered 40 pages and included about 500 entries, which had to be assessed. It estimated that it would take about 163 hours or more than four weeks to process. The commissioner agreed this was too time consuming.
A separate application by a Liberal MP, Paul Fletcher, seeking diary entries relating to meetings between the Prime Minister and the Greens and independent MPs Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott, was successful.
A spokesman for Ms Gillard said she already publishes a detailed diary on her official website (www.pm.gov.au/your-pm/public-schedule). However, the schedule includes only her official public engagements, caucus, question time and cabinet. It does not disclose meetings she has with stakeholders.
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Return of the Romanov's!
As reported in the Moscow Times two days ago, the Romanov's are returning to Russia. It's something we wrote about last year but is finally coming to fruition.
They're not coming back to take over the government and return the capital to Санкт-Петербург (Saint Petersburg). No, members of the Romanov royal family plan to return to Russia to help develop civil society and charitable programs. And according to Alexander Zakatov the director of the Romanov Emperor House Chancery, they have no plans to make a claim to restore the monarchy.
Not that a restored monarchy, much in the way of the United Kingdom for example, would be a bad idea. He went on to say that "coming to its native land, working in cultural, charitable and other nonpolitical programs for Russia's benefit — that is what the house (of Romanov) is able and indebted to do."
Zakatov represents Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna and members of her family, who live in Madrid, the city where she and her son Georgy Mikhailovich were born. Her family members are relatives of Russia's last tsar, Nicholas II, and they fled to Finland during the 1917 Revolution.
In October 2008, the Supreme Court declared Nicholas II and his family to be victims of political repression. Nicholas II abdicated the throne in March 1917, and he, his wife and their five children were executed by Bolshevik soldiers in the basement of a merchant house in Yekaterinburg in 1918.
While most contemporary Romanovs live in Western Europe, the chancellery has an office in Moscow as a nongovernmental organization. As the Mendeleyev Report wrote in October 2008, Restoration of the dynasty has been whispered about in quiet Kremlin hallway conversations for some time. But no one really takes these things too seriously. However one well known Russian journalist/writer shared privately his hunch that Mr. Putin might be using the rehabilitation of the royal family as a basis for eventual restoration of the Russian Empire.
By replacing the current Russian Federation Constitution with one that restores some form of monarchy, the Kremlin could continue the bolstering of Russian pride and culture while at the same time issuing a call to former Russian nations/republics to rejoin the Federation.
Given that Russia was governed in tandem with the Tsar's, and the Russian Orthodox Church providing political stability along the way, perhaps the first step was the accomplishment of the family of Tsar Nicholas II as minor saints back in 2000.
The second step to such a plan would be rehabilitation of the Romanov name–and that officially began in 2008. Naturally any political restoration would come with the understanding that a Romanov dynasty be willing to accept some form of very limited (figurehead) power and the government would be run by the current set of Kremlin leaders.
Imagine the national prestige of having a Romanov in a figurehead capacity, living in the imperial city of Saint Petersburg in one of the Winter palaces or even at the summer residence in the palaces of Tsarskoe Selo.
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Mr. Radzinsky points out that "We have two graves that symbolize the revolution: the dirty hole into which the royal family were thrown, and the mausoleum of the one who ordered this," he said, referring to Lenin's brick pyramid on Red Square.
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25 Best PSP Games
The 25 Best PSP Games isn't a hard list to create. The Sony PlayStation Portable was heralded as a media lunchbox because of its ability to play music, videos, display pictures, and surf the web. But what would any portable console be without a library full of great games? Fortunately, the PSP pumped out a bunch of amazing titles for us to play while we were in waiting rooms, on road trips, or just roaming around the house, letting us escape the real world for minutes at a time. We've thought long and hard about which games showed the best of what the handheld had to offer, so here are our picks for the 25 Best PSP Games.
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OMG-ZLaughing Jackal
No list is complete without a zombie game or two. So starting us off is the undead puzzler, OMG-Z. In this game, you were sent off into the middle of a zombie infestation, but you were also down to your last three bullets. And as with any video game shooter, you had to make every shot count. Luckily, the undead exploded when you shot them, so it was up to you to wisely use your piddling amount of ammo to set off chain reactions of exploding zeds! This "minis" title was perfect for a quick gaming session on the go.
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Velocity teleported its way into our 25 Best PSP games list because if there's one ability we wish every scrolling shooter had, it would be the power to teleport. Things can get pretty hairy in "bullet hell", so being able to zip around to an area that's not being riddled with projectiles is definitely useful. It was a great surprise to find that Velocity allowed you to do just that. In a tight spot? Just teleport out of there and start attacking the enemy from a fresh angle! You could even set respawn points for you to teleport back to, as a way to explore branching paths in stages. Now if only we could learn how to perfect teleportation in real life, then we'd be set.
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Jeanne d'ArcLevel 5
Ah, the Maid of Orleans has her own video game. You know her better as Joan of Arc, one of most famous historical and religious figures from France, but did you also know she was a demon-slaying badass? Well, that last part's only true in Jeanne d'Arc, the strategy RPG from Level 5. This adventure featured grid-based tactical combat, anime cutscenes, and quite a few liberties taken in regard to historical accuracy. And you know what? It was amazingly fun for would-be tacticians. There's no better feeling than surrounding an enemy with a squad of your units and then just poking them into oblivion with spears and swords.
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Burnout LegendsCriterion Games
Burnout Legends took the best of the Burnout series and put that goodness in your hands, able to be carried anywhere. This was a beefy title for race fans, featuring eight main modes of play, almost 100 vehicles to unlock, and a soundtrack with awesome tracks from Goldfinger, CKY, Unwritten Law, OK Go, and a whole mess-load of other bands. If you weren't rocking out while crashing into your fellow drivers on the tracks, then you simply weren't doing it right. Legends gave you a whole lot of game for a modest amount of buck, so even if you sucked as a racer, you still won in the end.
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Wipeout PureSony Studio Liverpool
This title was totally "pure" in the sense that it went back to the series' basics and became one of the best anti-gravity racers around. It'll probably be a long while until we'll have the technology to race around crazy Hot Wheels-like tracks in floating vehicles, but Wipeout Pure offered an excellent alternative (and, we're hoping, a look into the future). So whether you're into racing at high speeds, or just blasting your competitors with missiles, Pure had something for just about everyone to enjoy.
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Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling TogetherQuest/Square-Enix
One of the best things about the PSP was the number of classic games that were remade for the portable wonder. Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together was originally released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, but received a makeover for the the PSP. It featured isometic tactical gameplay, meaning you had to move your characters on tiles throughout the land of Valeria, taking care not to get anyone killed. Some folk like to play haphazardly and just move everyone around any which way and attack, but great tacticians would see opportunities to expose weaknesses in enemy defenses. The best part of the Tactic Ogre series? Most of the titles are references to songs by Queen! No wonder this one made into our list of the 25 Best PSP Games!
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PixelJunk Monsters DeluxeQ-Games
This was quite possibly the coolest tower defense game on the PSP, starring some of the weirdest-looking creatures. Deluxe is also considered the definite version of PixelJunk Monsters, because of all the extra content it boasted. When you were all done defending the hell out of your huts, you could play in stages designed to look Pacman or Space Invaders levels! The title doesn't make much sense and neither did the creatures in the game, but it sure was entertaining.
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Mega Man Powered UpCapcom
Mega Man Powered Up is another remake that graces the widescreen display of the PSP. And it's actually a revamped version of the original Mega Man game, released for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The major difference is the graphical overhaul in which Mega and the crew receive makeovers that make everyone SD (super-deformed, or "chibi"). This cute style was meant to attract kids, but that didn't stop the game from retaining its challenging difficulty. There was even a mode of play that took advantage of the PSP's screen and also added voice-acting. Say what you will about Capcom's remakes, but this one was definitely one of the best.
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Ultimate Ghosts 'N GoblinsTOSE
Another gaming classic makes it onto our list! Sir Arthur's been at this job since the mid-'80s and he's only gotten better with age. The lance-wielding knight's adventure on the PSP featured plenty of upgrades, like new weapons (on top of ones that appeared throughout the series), a new magic system, and three modes of play. Ultimate Mode, for those with constitutions made of steel, was punishingly difficult and played more like the games from the old days. If you failed enough times, one hit would be all that it took to kill poor Sir Arthur! The robust challenge was what made Ultimate Ghosts 'N Goblins one of the best remakes on the PSP.
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Metal Gear Solid: Portable OpsKonami/Kojima Productions
This game was a direct sequel to the jaw-droppingly beautiful Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, but it certainly wasn't the first Metal Gear Solid title on the PSP. What made this 25 Best PSP Games title stand out from the rest -- other than the fact that it continued Naked Snake's story -- was that it was the first game of the series on the PSP to retain the stealth-action gameplay of its console cousins. Up until then, the Metal Gear games were tactical affairs. Another unique feature was the Comrade System, in which Naked Snake could employ the help of allies to tackle missions. And hey, any excuse to keep playing as the man who would become Big Boss is a good excuse.


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Barcelona and Real Madrid face off for the first major title of the Spanish season in the Copa del Rey final at the Mestalla in Valencia on Wednesday.
However, the build up to the game for both sides has been disrupted by injuries to key players.
World Player of the Year Cristiano Ronaldo is a major doubt for Real due to a hamstring injury suffered in his side's 3-0 win over Borussia Dortmund two weeks ago.
The Portuguese hasn't played in three games since and is unlikely to be risked with Real's Champions League semi-final first leg against Bayern Munich just seven days away.
Brazilian full-back Marcelo is also expected to miss out due to a similar injury, but Sergio Ramos should be fit despite missing Saturday's 4-0 win against Almeria due to a neck problem.
Madrid remain in the hunt for titles on three fronts and coach Carlo Ancelotti believes claiming the first trophy of the season will boost their chances in the Liga title race and the Champions League.
"This game is important for many reasons," he told the club's website.
"Firstly, because it is the first title of the season we can win and, secondly, because we are facing a great team in Barcelona. All of that lends this game a lot of importance. To win the first trophy of the season motivates us a lot.
"In the mental aspect, this game will have a lot of importance for what remains of the season. After the game, the team that wins will have more motivation, hope and desire for the rest of the campaign. I think psychologically it will be very important."
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Barcelona have enjoyed the upper hand in the two meetings between the sides this season in La Liga as they followed up a 2-1 win at the Camp Nou in October with a stunning 4-3 victory at the Santiago Bernabeu just over three weeks ago.
However, the Catalans have endured a difficult week as they were firstly dumped out of the Champions League before the semi-final stage for the first time in seven years by Atletico Madrid and then relinquished their hold on their league title by losing 1-0 to Granada on Saturday to fall four points behind leaders Atletico with just five games remaining.
Barca boss Gerardo Martino has a selection headache in central defence as Gerard Pique, Marc Bartra and Carles Puyol are all set to miss the game so Sergio Busquets or Alex Song may once again be paired with Javier Mascherano.
"I am working hard to make it, just like Marc and Gerard, " Barca captain Puyol said on Monday.
"There are two days to go and we will give everything we have to be there. On Tuesday we will evaluate the chances each of us have."
Puyol has barely featured in what will be his farewell season at the club due to knee injuries, but he still maintains a huge influence over his teammates and insisted they must make amends to the fans for their defeats of late.
"We are aware that we have failed in some things, but all I can say is that we will fight tooth and nail for the final and the remaining five games in La Liga, in which a lot can happen.
"There are moments in which we haven't been consistent enough, but now we have to look forward. We have a very important final and we need to give some joy to the fans."


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If Angelina Jolie ever stars in another movie with Brad Pitt, she'll be out for blood, not romance.
The power pair starred in the 2005 movie "Mr. and Mrs. Smith," and went on to move in together, have three children and adopt three more. Now, Jolie, who spoke to Vanity Fair to promote her upcoming film, "Salt," thinks their potential as onscreen love interests is finished.
"I'd love to," Jolie, 35, said. "[But] when you're a couple, there are certain things people don't want to see you do. It becomes too indulgent, too personal. I don't think people want to see people who are really together intimate on-screen. Maybe we have to play bad guys that try to kill each other, so it's just fun and aggressive, not dealing with some man-woman deal."
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Not only might fans not appreciate seeing the real-life lovers act smarmy onscreen, Jolie and Pitt could feel uncomfortable trying to generate cinema chemistry when they have the real thing at home.
"We've thought about that, but it becomes personal now that we actually have kids, she said. "And if we work on it, we pull from our own life, which is funny to us, but you feel strange sharing too much."
Other tidbits from the interview include a firm denial that she is now pregnant, and a firm maybe on whether she ever will be again.
"We're not opposed to it," she said. "But we want to make sure we can give everybody special time. They're kids now, and can play together, but they're going to need a lot more talking in the middle of the night, like I did with my mom for hours. We want to make sure we don't build a family so big that we don't have absolutely enough time to raise them each really well."
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- Gold finished second at Grand Prix event in November
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OMAHA -- For Gracie Gold, there was no easing into the big time. When she skated in her first senior Grand Prix in October at Skate Canada, nerves got the best of her and she finished seventh.
"I think it was a confidence thing," Gold said Wednesday. "Mostly I just had all these big expectations to have two absolutely perfect programs. I had unreasonable expectations of what it would be like."
Gold, 17, learned from the experience and in her next competition, the Rostelecom Cup in November, she eased up on herself and left with a silver medal. "I think the biggest competition is myself," she said. "I am a perfectionist at heart. That makes me a great skater, but it also can be my worst enemy at times."
Heading into the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, which begin Thursday with the women's short program, Ashley Wagner is the strong favorite. But in a sport always looking for the next big thing, Gold is the skater to watch.
In a near flawless run-through of her short program during practice on Wednesday, Gold was particularly pleased with her "Gold lutz" which is a "Rippon lutz" (a triple lutz with both hands raised above the head, named after U.S. skater Adam Rippon).
"We call it a 'Gold lutz' because I'm a female and Adam Rippon is a guy," she said with a smile. "That's what Adam and I negotiated."
She said practicing in front of a small appreciative crowd Wednesday also helped prepare her for the bigger stage at CenturyLink Center. "I have a good feeling about the competition," she said. "I feel ready."


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According to the EPA, Americans throw away billions of batteries each year. That's generating a lot of waste. Though they are safe to toss, batteries can be recycled instead. Simply donate the batteries to a collection company, such as Battery Solutions or Call2Recycle. If you live near a Staples or Ikea, they will also collect and recycle your used batteries.istockphoto.com
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CDs might be obsolete, but their remains aren't going away anytime soon. Unless you're keeping them for nostalgia's sake, you might throw away your old copies - however, they can be recycled! CDs are made from a mix of polycarbonate and aluminum, which complicates the recycling process. But some private companies like GreenDisk will still take them to keep them out of a landfill.istockphoto.com
Millions of crayons are made and sold each year - many of which are later thrown away. The National Crayon Recycle Program makes use of all those discarded crayons by recycling them into new crayons, which are later donated to organizations that need them, such as inner city art programs, hospitals, orphanages, battered women's shelters and homeless shelters. So far, the organization has prevented 120,000 pounds of unwanted crayons from going into landfills and allowed them to continue their coloring magic.istockphoto.com
These devices look sleek and savvy, but they take a very long time to break down and decompose. Instead of tossing them into a landfill, give your electronics to a certified waste facility or computer store.istockphoto.com
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No matter what kind of exercise you enjoy, this recycling opportunity could apply to you. Yoga mats, metal weights and even basketballs can be donated to companies that recycle old sports equipment.istockphoto.com
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Tights and stockings used to be made from silk. But silk is expensive and there are other options now to mass-produce - like nylon, which is far less environmentally friendly. When you throw away a pair of nylon tights, the resulting garbage can take 40 years to decompose. Protect the environment by recycling your old pair either by repurposing them around the house or donating them to a company that will recycle them for you. No Nonsense, for example, turns used stockings into "park benches, running tracks, car insulation and playground equipment."istockphoto.com
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Anytime he would ask for a favor, big or small, he would begin by saying this: "May I ask you to do a chesed for me?" At first, the yeshivish way of asking for a favor didn't particularly strike me. As I got to know him more and think about what he was actually asking I became deeply moved. He was one of the few people I know who really only wanted people to do things for him if they saw it as an opportunity to demonstrate kindness. He used to always speak of kindness as an amazing opportunity. To be sure he did want the things he asked of people, but he also really saw it as a blessing to be given the opportunity to be kind. His face would beam any time he shared a story of a time he had been given the opportunity to "do a chesed" for someone else. What a beautiful way to live! He was in tune not only with the actions we do for one another, but the heart behind those actions.
I have rarely found someone appreciate the things I do for them begrudgingly. For a favor to truly be a "chesed" it needs to carry the attitude of loving-kindness as much as the behavior. May this be a lesson for us all to grow closer to the attitude of loving-kindness, as well as the behavior.


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Project Selima & Matt
The eyewear designer Selima Salaun and I began a creatively driven side-project (called Project Selima & Matt) aimed to help select art organizations and nonprofits.
In September, we introduced our first project with the art magazine, The Thing Quarterly, and the writer Jonathan Lethem. A limited-edition pair of eyeglass frames with text on the interior arms was created. The text relates to Jonathan's book, CHRONIC CITY. The eyeglass frames and case were sent to subscribers and are being sold individually at select retailers. All proceeds benefit The Thing Quarterly.
The Thing is a quarterly periodical in the form of an object. Each year, four artists, writers, musicians or filmmakers are invited to create an everyday object that somehow incorporates text. The object is reproduced and hand wrapped at wrapping parties and then mailed to the homes of the subscribers with the help of the United States Postal Service.
Our second project (a Secret Identity Kit) produced in collaboration with the Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co. became available in July.
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Rio de Janeiro or the "Marvelous City" is undoubtedly the tourist capital of Brazil and where you can see icons as emblematic as the Christ the Redeemer statue, Sugarloaf Mountain and the Copacabana and Ipanema beaches, as well being the home of the famous Rio Carnival.
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Once the adopted home of the Portuguese crown, Rio has long entranced visitors. Magnificent festivals such as Carnaval and Reveillon (New Year's Eve) are renowned, but the city has plenty of other occasions for revelry – weekend samba parties in Lapa, celebrations at a Flamengo football match, and impromptu music jams at sidewalk cafés in Leblon, Centro or any other corner of town.
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Alyx Dellamonica Interview
On Friday, April 27, 2012, I sat down to have a conversation with award winning Canadian author Alyx Dellamonica (@AlyxDellamonica) on the Geeky Pleasures Radio Show at The Look 24/7 (@TheLook247).
From a personal standpoint, this conversation has to be the most rewarding one I've had, to date, on the Geeky Pleasures Radio Show.
If you missed the interview, don't worry. The interview is available below for your downloading and listening pleasure. But first, the show notes.
- Things we discussed during the interview include: Alyx's background as a teacher and writer; We geeked out a bit about Quantum Leap and her Buffy Rewatch series at Tor.com; Her newest novel Blue Magic (you can read my review here and you can enter to win 1 of 2 copies here); Then we discussed all things LGBTQ–what it is like to be bigender and a trans man, gay marriage, feminism and equality, homosexuality, and so much more.
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This was definitely an amazing trip. The weather was phenomenal, the fun was unlimited, and I met some great new friends that I hope to get to know even better. I am so glad that Kelly invited us to come along and that her family welcomed us as they did. We had a great time, and the boys haven't stopped talking about it yet! They keep asking when we can go back to Texas, and I just keep telling them the good ol' standby answer: "Someday." We are actually starting to make plans for next year so that we hopefully can do it again!
I definitely needed the getaway, and although I am worn out now, I am glad that we went. I almost feel like I can tackle the world....but not until I get a good night's sleep! ;)


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Hardgainers vs Easygainers | Building Muscle
May 27, 2010 by Shaun
Filed under The Fitness Bug
Summer is on it's way stayfitbuggers, and I hope you all took action back in those winter posts. If not… shame on you!
Any how, today I'm going to have a good old rant. I'm going to analyze the different challenges both body types face when building muscle, and which body type has it the hardest . Sure, easygainers may turn around and say that hard gainers have it easy because,
- It's easy to get ripped (properly ripped), as the hardgainers ass is already skinny as hell.
- They don't have to watch their diet and can live life as a human dustbin
Fair points! And I used to be in favor of the easy gainer who is trying to get ripped. Now, I'm not exactly choosing sides here, as there are challenges for both parties. But allow me to compare the differences between the two.
High Metabolism (Hardgainer) vs Low Metabolism (Easygainer)
- Easygainers – Gain weight from doing nothing
- Hardgainers – Lose weight from doing nothing
- Hardgainers – Stay in shape but lose muscle mass easily
- Easygainers – Fall out of shape but build muscle easily
Who has it the easiest?
I say
Advantage Goes To – The Easygainer
Ok, we all know that the only way to train is to train insane… right?
With that being the case, the hard gainer can train insane as much is he wants. But the fact of the matter is that the hardgainers clock is ticking the moment he walks out of the gym. He's losing muscle mass with every step he takes… even when he's stationary!
The easy gainer faces the exact same (yet opposite) scenario, yes. As he will be piling on the pounds from being stationary. But the two reasons why the easy gainer has it… easy?
1. They can actually increase their metabolism if they wish
2. If they do start piling on the pounds they can easily fix it. Especially those mesomorph types. Who just happen to lose and gain weight with ease.
The facts
- Hardgainer – Needs to eat 5-7 times a day to stand a chance at building REAL muscles.
- Easy gainer – Can eat once or twice per day, and the lucky ones just have to sneeze to build muscle.
Now, we are living in the 21st century and we all know how busy life can be in this day and age. Busy equals less free time, which also means less free time to eat food. PROPER FOOD. Which means keeping up with 5-7 meals a day (365) is damn near impossible unless you actually enjoy every single meal that you guzzle.
That is a challenge within itself for a hardgainer, along with the core challenge of building REAL muscle.
The easy gainer
- Can eat less
- Can hold those food stores for longer
- Only has to worry about building muscle (worrying about losing weight is not an issue if you train insane… which you should be!)
Advantage Goes To – The Easy Gainer
I've talked about the impact of having an active sex life and the ability to maintain muscle mass before. The verdict?
We all like both. Having sex and bodybuilding. But as having sex is one big old cardio exercise within itself, it's easy to see who loses out here.
The Hardgainer
Will do everything they can to keep there muscles intact. But unfortunately, too much sex will not favor that goal. It can and will make you lose weight. A hardgainers initial goal will always be to perform less cardio workouts and more resistance workouts. Sex is more cardio than anything else, so a big 🙁
The Easygainer
Their goal will the opposite. They will want an initial balance of cardio workouts and resistance workouts. We all need both. But the easy gainer wins either way as they are placed firmly in the middle on the muscle mass gauge. Too much cardio will just mean a leaner body. Get too lean? Bulking back up is easy!
Advantage Goes To – The Easygainer
It may seem like I'm in favor for the pitfalls the hardgainer must face. But rest assured… I am not. But surely you can see why I began to favor the hardgainer over the easygainer, when it comes to the debate of who has it easier when it comes to building muscle. I haven't finished with my 'rant' just yet. I WILL BE BACK FOR MORE and cook up some more 'rant' stew.
For now… I'll call it a day.
See you in the comments.
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BATAVIA – Author Beverly Nickelson, known also by her pen-name, Nicki Elson, just published her second romance novel. In this book, she features a main character who isn't human.
"Divine Temptation," which hit bookshelves on March 26, follows the developing romance between a divorced mother in her late-30s and an angel.
Set in the western suburbs of Chicago, in an area much like the Tri-Cities, the story follows a woman who works at a church and starts to receive visits from an angel. As her relationship shifts with her ex-husband, her feelings for the angel start to grow. Meanwhile, Nickelson said something "evil is lurking," adding suspense to the novel to keep the readers guessing what might happen next.
Nickelson, who lives in Batavia, said while there's a paranormal element in this latest story, she likes to write about reality. She believes in angels, she said, which is why she decided to make the romantic character an angel, as opposed to something she found less believable, such as a vampire.
And speaking of vampires, Nickelson said it was the Twilight-inspired fervor for young adult paranormal fiction that sparked the creation of "Divine Temptation." As she was reading it, the idea for her own story began to form.
"The guy would come in and take over [the girl's] life," she said. "I wanted to see how a mature woman would handle that situation."
In 2010, Nickelson published her first novel, "Three Daves," which is set in the 1980s on a college campus, inspired by Eastern Illinois University, where she attended school.
But Nickelson hadn't always planned to become a novelist. She pursued a business degree in finance and went on to get her master's degree in business. While working in finance, she discovered that one of her favorite parts of her job was writing the quarterly report.
"It was the summer after I turned 40 that I got serious about writing," she said. "I thought, if I don't do this now, I'm never going to."
She's working that business experience into the setting of her next book, which will feature a main character getting caught up in an office romance, while working on a big investment consulting project.
Nickelson, whose pen-name is made up of the letters in her last name, started submitting short stories to online fan fiction websites and was contacted by a publishing company, OmniFic Publishing.
Tempting tale
Batavia author pens supernatural romance
BATAVIA – Author Beverly Nickelson, known also by her pen-name, Nicki Elson, just published her second romance novel. In this book, she features a main character who isn't human.


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My boss was a little embarrassed the other day. He was heading downstairs to our break room for a snack when he stopped by my desk to explain what he was about to eat.
He was carrying mini bananas. You may have seen them in the produce section at the grocery store. They are yellow and look just like regular bananas, but are very small � maybe just a little bit longer than a man�s thumb.
Rod looked pretty ridiculous carrying those tiny bananas, so I couldn�t wait to hear the story behind them. His wife, Sharon, had purchased the miniature fruit for their grandsons, Ben, 4, and Zach, 2. They are adorable little boys and Sharon and Rod dote on them.
When the boys come to stay overnight with �Grammy� and �Grampy,� Sharon always buys them mini bananas.
Rod chuckled a little as he told the story and then thought out loud. He wondered if the boys would remember those mini bananas when he and Sharon were long gone. When Zach and Ben are in their 30s or 40s, will they laugh about the mini bananas and say, �Wow, Grammy and Grampy wouldn�t stop with those crazy little bananas. How many of those suckers did we eat when we were children?�
I knew exactly what Rod was talking about. I never had mini bananas as a child, but my grandmothers each had �special treats� I would get whenever I visited them.
My Nana, Hattie Rowland, would give my siblings and me these horrible hard candies called horehounds, which are made from the extract of the horehound plant. The taste is somewhat bitter and medicinal. In the olden days, horehound candies were thought to ease sore throats and aid in digestion. But they didn�t help us at all.
We were all a little freaked out to be visiting Nana and our grandfather, known as �Bamp.� They loved us, but were fussy, no-nonsense folks who did not like a bunch of unruly children running around their home, so we were on edge before we even walked in the door. The horehounds just added to our sense of doom.
�Do you want a candy?� Nana would ask shortly after our arrival. �There�s some right over there in the candy dish,� she�d say, motioning toward a glass and brass table on wheels that was filled with her prize African violets and oxalis plants, she claimed were as old as she was.
We reluctantly walked over to the candy dish and there they were, the most dreaded confection known to mankind � horehounds. They looked more like animal droppings than candy. The roundish blobs were brown and opaque with a white coating of what must have been powdered sugar on the outside.
We did not want to be impolite, so we dutifully popped one of the hated candies into our mouths and held our breath to mask the taste. I was convinced I was either going to vomit or drop dead.
�Nana, I have to go to the bathroom,� I�d say, jumping up and down to make it seem like an emergency. My little theatrical performance gave me the chance to scamper away, spit the devil candy into the toilet and flush it. Nana was never the wiser.
My other grandmother, Maggie Coskeran, never gave me horehounds. Most of the treats at Grammy�s house were to die for: Southern black chocolate loaf cake with her butter cream frosting; McShera�s donuts every Sunday morning; Russell Stover chocolates; fresh blueberries floating in cream from the Great Elm Farm dairy; and my Aunt Mary Pat�s divinity fudge.
But, there was one treat she often had that I did not enjoy. She had a beautiful mahogany table in the living room. It was partially covered with a handmade, lace doily and a mat made of small squares. Each little square was a mirror. Atop the matt sat a leaded cut-glass candy dish. More often than I wish to remember, it was filled with a candy I hated � fake orange circus peanuts that tasted like bad bananas.
Grammy loved those circus peanuts and so did my mother. She�d buy them every once in awhile when I was growing up and I would someone end up eating one to see why people liked them. My reaction was always the same � �Phooey!�
To tell you the truth, I would much rather eat mini bananas like Ben and Zach.
But, who knows? Maybe those mini bananas will become like my horehounds and circus peanuts. It doesn�t mean you don�t love your grandparents. It just means you hate horehounds and circus peanuts.
Mary Pat Rowland is the managing editor of Foster�s and can be reached at email@example.com.
Here's to mini bananas,horehounds andcircus peanuts
My boss was a little embarrassed the other day. He was heading downstairs to our break room for a snack when he stopped by my desk to explain what he was about to eat.


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As Libya's growing media sector faced threats from state and non-state actors alike, the country continued to struggle to realize the promise of the 2011 revolution. Several journalists were physically assaulted by security guards outside the General National Congress (GNC) in February. The same month, the government confirmed the appointment of the country's first minister of information since the Qaddafi era, which made some journalists fear the government intended to assert greater control over the media. But the greatest threats to journalists came from the government's inability to protect them. At least eight journalists were briefly abducted in 2013, while raids on news outlets and attacks on reporters continued. No journalists were imprisoned in late year, but the government continued to pursue a case against an editor who was accused of insulting the judiciary. At least one journalist was killed for his work this year, after no journalists were killed for their work in 2012.
At least one journalist was killed in relation to his work in Libya in 2013. Saleh Ayyad Hafyana, a photographer for the independent Fassato News Agency, was killed by shrapnel on November 18 in Tripoli. Members of a militia had opened fire on a crowd of protesters who were demonstrating against the militias' presence in the capital.
Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory
A general environment of insecurity posed a significant threat to journalists this year. In one week alone, armed men temporarily abducted three journalists.
In April, CPJ documented the second anniversary of the deaths of freelance photographers Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros in Libya. The journalists were killed in Misrata by mortar rounds from government forces. Hondros lost consciousness almost immediately, while Hetherington bled out in the back of a pick-up truck as he clutched the hand of a Spanish photographer.
Libya ranks fourth worst in the Middle East and North Africa for Internet penetration, with only 20 percent of Libyans using the Internet, according to 2012 statistics published by the International Telecommunication Union.


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Frequently Asked Questions
Can I take pictures inside the Exhibition?
The Exhibition may not be photographed. However, we have developed a catalog with photographs of the specimens and detailed descriptions of them. Additionally, images of the Exhibition are available on our Facebook page.
Where do the full body specimens come from?
The full body specimens are persons who lived in China and died from natural causes. After the bodies were unclaimed at death, pursuant to Chinese law, they were ultimately delivered to a medical school for education and research. Where known, information about the identities, medical histories and causes of death is kept strictly confidential.
Why use specimens from China?
To obtain specimens for our exhibitions, we work with Chinese medical facilities because top dissectors and anatomy specialists live and work in China. It requires a great deal of knowledge, skill, and patience to prepare a specimen.
How long does it take to dissect and permanently preserve each specimen?
The timing varies. A small organ can take one week to prepare, whereas the process can take up to one year to prepare a whole body.
What health issues are highlighted in the Exhibition?
Bodies…The Exhibition allows visitors to learn about their own bodies; it ultimately teaches guests how to take better care of their health and make positive lifestyle choices. The Exhibition enables guests to see and understand in a whole new way the medical conditions that they themselves or friends and family members may face. Full body and partial specimens demonstrate the manifestations of various pressing health concerns, including obesity, breast cancer, colon cancer, cirrhosis of the liver, ectopic pregnancy, arthritis, osteoporosis, and bone fractures. BODIES...The Exhibition also highlights damage done to organs due to the perils of smoking and dietary excesses.
Which part of the anatomy is the hardest to preserve?
The brain is the most difficult organ to preserve due to its composition of primarily lipids (fat) and water. In the process of polymer preservation, the brain can shrink significantly during dehydration if preparation is not meticulous. To avoid this problem, the brain is dehydrated in a cold acetone, thus better maintaining its original size and shape.
What do the polymer preserved bodies feel like?
The specimens feel dry to the touch and can be either rigid or flexible, depending on the mix of chemicals used. While guests will be able to get very close to the specimens, as a rule, guests are not allowed to touch them.
Why use real human specimens instead of constructed models?
As Dr. Roy Glover, chief medical director for BODIES … The Exhibition states, "Seeing promotes understanding, and understanding promotes the most practical kind of body education possible. The body doesn't lie!" Unlike models that idealize the body through the eyes of an artist, the specimens in the Exhibition display the body and its parts as they really exist. Idealized models have been used for many years to teach anatomy. However, models do not allow for any variation in structure or pathologies – which is key in learning how lifestyle and disease actually manifest inside the human body. As medical students and individuals have less time for the study of anatomy, it is even more important to have these unique specimens to give them both a greater understanding of anatomy, its intricate detail, and the fascinating variation of the human organism.
How long do the bodies last after polymer preservation?
Medical schools around the world continue to use the earliest specimens produced in the late 1970s. Polymer preserved full and partial specimens last indefinitely.
Why are separate body parts or organs displayed?
Our medical director has been able to identify obvious health problems affecting individual organs and body parts. Throughout the Exhibition, a number of display cases feature separate specimens with respective pathology indications. For example, a diseased lung is on display with a placard that identifies the condition as emphysema. This allows visitors to gain a clearer understanding of myriad medical conditions.
What is the appropriate age level for viewing the Exhibition?
"The teaching of basic human anatomy and physiology are hallmarks of any child's education. We recommend that children attend the Exhibition with a teacher or parent as an adult guide. We feel strongly that the Exhibition offers a rare family experience: a golden opportunity to open the eyes of visitors of all ages. In a way no textbook ever could, BODIES...The Exhibition teaches guests about the complexities of the human body and the necessity of proper nutrition, regular activity, and healthy lifestyle choices, such as avoiding smoking and excessive alcohol consumption. The Exhibition has a special children's audio tour available, as well as four age-specific teacher's guides from elementary to post-graduate levels.