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CHICAGO --- The theme of this series -- and for that matter, the season -- has been the Reds' collective health. Cincinnati stumbled out of the gate to a 3-8 start due at least in part to a rash of injuries sustained in Spring Training. The Reds opened the season with eight players on the disabled list, most in the Majors.
The infirmary known as Paul Lessard's training room has already discharged a couple of patients. Catcher Devin Mesoraco returned from an oblique injury on April 7 and has been on fire, hitting .483 with three home runs and 10 RBIs. Left-hander Sean Marshall was activated Saturday after dealing with a sore left shoulder most of Spring Training.
Reds first baseman Joey Votto, who has the good fortune of starting all 17 games this season, said he thinks getting healthy is the key to going on a sustained run.
"I think health," Votto said. "As a team, I think it's important for us to have all the most important pieces and we've obviously missed out on a lot of our guys. We have a lot of talent on this team. We've got 25 really talented guys, and I'm not just saying that. I really genuinely feel like we're a really sharp team.
"Once we get all the guys on the field and our bullpen's working like it should, having all those really cool pieces that we have out of the bullpen gives us a chance to really be competitive."
Having Marshall back returns one of the Reds' key late-inning relievers. The other, closer Aroldis Chapman, remains on the shelf. Chapman has been cleared to pitch live batting practice and pitcher's fielding practice after taking a line drive to the face March 19.
"Those guys are really tough on not just left-handed hitters, but hitters in general," Votto said of Marshall and Chapman. "And those guys have a track record of success. That's the reason we signed Aroldis and traded for Sean. They're both studs."
The Reds are also missing infielder Jack Hannahan (shoulder), starter Mat Latos (right elbow and left knee), righty Brett Marshall (right middle finger), outfielder Skip Schumaker (left shoulder) and reliever Trevor Bell (right elbow).
Sean Marshall echoed Votto's comment regarding the Reds getting healthy and making a run.
"That's the key to most successful teams is having guys healthy all year," Marshall said. "We started off, several guys on the DL. A lot of guys are on the mend, they're on their way back.
"I think Latos had his hiccup with his elbow so that set him back a couple weeks. But once we get him healthy too, we'll have the full pitching staff intact, we'll get Skip back and we'll be back in full force."


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Shave and a haircut - back in vogue
Cover Story New wave of barbershops brings back golden age of men's grooming with old-style shaves, haircuts - plus a few twists
Barber James Lizotte is giving a shave today - and he's going back to the 1920s to do it.
He leans over the antique barber chair while his client, Max Goodberg, 30, closes his eyes and almost falls asleep. Lizotte goes through his ritual: He lathers thick shaving cream on Goodberg's face and neck with a badger hair brush. Then, in 14 choreographed strokes, he removes the cream with a 5-inch knife. For the finale, he wraps a hot towel around Goodberg's face before splashing bay rum on his cheeks.
"Back in the day," says Goodberg, slapping his cheeks and smiling, "men used to take more pride in themselves."
In San Francisco, and places like New York and Seattle, old-fashioned barbershops are bringing that pride back, offering both traditional straight-razor shaves and tight, old-fashioned haircuts.
The latest in a series of hypermasculine throwbacks, these retro establishments are full of pre-1930s barber chairs, hand-powered barbering tools, folksy wooden touches, straight-razor shave kits, whiskey and, of course, the signature red, white and blue barber poles.
These days, they have customer lines that rival those at Bi-Rite Creamery.
Waiting in line are predominantly young men working in tech and finance who find their barbers on Yelp.com. They're often in lean Dockers and clean flannel, tight black jean vests or vintage smoking jackets.
Lizotte is blown away by how popular the Prohibition-theme Peoples Barber & Shop has been since it opened in the Polk Gulch in July. "The numbers are amazing. It's way beyond expectations," he says, standing under the logo that looks as if it had been peeled off an old Western saloon.
In the past year alone, half a dozen of these shops have opened. Each has its own character. There is Oakland's no-stylists-allowed Temescal Alley Barbershop, the uber-authentic Cable Car Clothiers, and the relaxed Peoples Barber & Shop. Leading the way was the hipster-haven FSC (Freemans Sporting Club) Barber, which opened in 2011.
Female-centric salons like Barber Lounge are installing retro male grooming corners. Wingtip clothing store opened one in its private club. 1512 Barber Shop brews its own rye whiskey. And it's not just hipsters and bankers - even Macy's put a shop in.
"Before this, guys had two options - a chop shop like Supercuts, or a women's salon where they can sit next to ladies with foil in their hair," says Shorty Maniace, who reintroduced some of the original retro-cut protocols that helped launch the popularity of the old-style barbershops in 2006.
"In the '20s or in the '40s, it was different. Men were allowed to care more. The '60s killed barbering 'cause everyone wanted to look like a hippie, but it's come back."
Mayur Hiremath 35, an Intuit manager and recent customer at Maniace's Mystic Barbers shop in Civic Center, says, "It's about taking yourself a little more seriously, like men used to. It's a great haircut for 30 bucks. I don't end up looking like a teenager. And I don't have to go to a women's salon."
FSC Barber
"First of all, we're not 'old-timey.' Second, I don't really think it's a trend," says retail store manager Riki Bryan, the kind of masculine archetype that FSC helped popularize - buff, bearded and blond with a tight haircut, flannel shirt and thick Texas accent.
With three shops already in New York, FSC turned what had been a fringe haircutting style practiced in Seattle in the 1990s into a wildly successful mainstream aesthetic when some of those Seattle barbers like Maniace moved east. Though they may shy from labels, FSC, which replaced a pet-supply store when it opened in May 2011, has some of the city's oldest barbering tools (their chairs and wood-and-marble back counter date from the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago) and longest lines (23 people deep on a recent Saturday morning).
On a long wooden bench outside the shop, the store founder, Sam Buffa, 34, recounts the ordeal it was to acquire that antique barbershop set. Buffa, a San Francisco native wearing Birkenstock clogs and sunglasses, thinks the city's men are ready to change what he considers their unkempt aesthetic.
"This is about moving past the scraggly, long-haired hippie to something rugged and masculine and real," says Buffa, who's interrupted by a friend bringing a quiche from Tartine.
The shop has nine chairs and a long black counter. Its shelves are lined with old-fashioned male-care products like Marvis toothpaste in silver canisters and Geo F Trumper pomade. An FSC-brand barber brush and razor set is $50; a Chatsworth Barley set is $500. Men waiting on a bench read GQ, Restoration Hardware and the New Yorker.
About half of the staff at FSC are stylists who cut hair, while half are licensed barbers who can also give shaves.
"San Francisco is ready for it in a way it wasn't before," Buffa says. "This city is not the people who used to be here."
Temescal Alley Barber Shop
Down a quiet, newly revitalized alley in Oakland, Nick Vlahos and Brad Roberts have opened a dapper three-seat barbershop with an antique barber pole and faded, faux-stained logo.
Vlahos, a third-generation Greek American barber who grew up just a few blocks away, connects the renewed interest in barbershops to the tough economic times.
"In the '90s, everything was pretty lax. Guys would just roll out in pajamas," he says. "But the world's gotten more competitive again, and men have to be more put together.
"So we look at the past to when the barbershop was a community gathering place and a ritual for men."
Temescal, which opened in August, is retro in both decoration (the wooden accents, antique barber pole and weathered iron chairs) and approach - they basically give one haircut.
"Short and tight, and it always looks good," says Vlahos. "It's the same cut my grandfather gave."
He draws a line between his shop, which employs only licensed barbers, and places like FSC or Peoples, whose employees are 50 to 80 percent stylists.
"They're salons dressed up like old-timey barbershops," says Vlahos. "Those guys are hairstylists!
"You want to find old-timey? There are 200 actually old barbershops in Oakland. Go there for old-timey."
A very tall man in all leather gets off his motorcycle and walks in for a cut. A student with an antique film camera around his neck comes in a moment later. They sign themselves up on a chalkboard at the door.
Vlahos offers everyone shots of Bulleit rye bourbon and doughnuts from Pizzaiolo, the restaurant next door.
Cable Car Clothiers
In November, the Financial District haberdashery Cable Car Clothiers opened an in-store barbershop designed by Nick Calvanese who lives a retro-immersion lifestyle and is one of the most period-correct barbers in the city.
His methods are obsessively old-fashioned - in and out of the shop. At work, he uses a handheld massager, the stimulax, from the 1940s - and keeps the original box to prove it. And he's built a small museum in back of the shop. There he has the first handheld clipper ever made, the first handheld hairdryer, the first Gillette safety razor, and olive oil pomade from Murray's that's used in prisons ("Institutional Sale ONLY," it says on the side).
He will only do a cut that has actually been done before, with photographic evidence.
"People come in and ask for pompadours or business casual cuts. Sometimes they just say they want something retro, but I won't make anything up," he says. He pulls out a vintage Facial Hair Types card and his look book: "Mug Shots" by Raynal Pellicer. "I cut based on these," he says flipping through the photos, which look like police mug shots.
Calvanese has worked on the Hollywood sets "Boardwalk Empire" and "Public Enemies" and with the local store Decades of Fashion and the Art Deco Society. He's a regular in hot rod magazines like Ol' Skool Rodz and Gearhead, and he keeps the press clips on hand.
"I live life like it's the '20s, '30s and '40s. I wake up different than others, down to the way I make coffee," using a vintage stainless French press, says Calvanese emphatically. "Everything I do I try to make it period-correct."
He wears a pinstriped barber's jacket from the 1940s and keeps his hair slicked back.
"Those guys at the other shops pay a lot of money to look retro," he says. "But you can't just buy this. You have to live it."
"TV shows like 'Boardwalk Empire' and 'Mad Men' are bringing back traditional barbers - men want the older styles," he says. "History repeats itself, especially here in the Financial District."
Peoples Barber & Shop
An old barber pole turns slowly outside Peoples Barber & Shop, which opened in May and where Lizotte is head barber. People walk in from the street to admire it while three young men sit, holding IPAs (complimentary with any service), and talk about the differences between cuts from the '30s and '40s.
"As much of a feminist as I am, men and women need different spaces," says Lizotte. "And when you see that barber pole flashing in the window, you know you're in a man's space."
This story has been corrected since it appeared in print editions.
The 411 on barbershops
Cable Car Clothiers: 110 Sutter St., Suite 108, S.F.; (415) 397-4740. Haircut $32, straight razor shave $30.
FSC Barber: 696 Valencia St., S.F.; (415) 621-9000. Haircut $40, buzz $20, straight razor shave $40, beard trimmer $15, hangover treatment (facial with hot towels and tea tree oil) $25.
Peoples Barber & Shop: 1259 Polk St., S.F.; (415) 292-4099. Haircut $38, straight razor shave $38, beard trim $15, head shave $34, hot towel treatment $18.
Public Barber Salon: 1528 Grant Ave., S.F.; (415) 362-0040. Haircut $31, beard trim $10, women's haircuts start at $36.
Temescal Alley Barber Shop: 470 49th St., Oakland; (510) 761-5074. Haircut $22 (kids and seniors $15), straight razor shave $30, beard trim $10.
For a video of FSC Barber, visit www.sfgate.com/style.
Nellie Bowles is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Twitter: @NellieBowles

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Urban Beach Weekend starts today, but the Miami Beach cops were ready to party last night. Even though the police force has absolutely no quotas about how many young, recreation-seeking black people they're supposed to lock up over the holiday weekend, New York Knick/Zhejiang Golden Bull J.R. Smith got arrested on "a bench warrant for not having a valid driver's license." Since no additional charges were filed, presumably Smith did have a valid license on him yesterday. So how'd he get picked up, anyway?
Details were not immediately available on what led police to stop Smith around 8:30 p.m.
Not surprising. It's not easy getting details about police business in Miami Beach at this time of year. Be safe out there, everyone!
UPDATE: Howard Beck Tweets that it wasn't a traffic stop, as the Miami Herald reported, but that police "saw him inside a business." Make sure your identity papers are in order, folks.
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Amazon Announces New 70 Percent Royalty Option for Kindle Digital Text Platform, Enabling Authors and Publishers to Earn More Royalties from Every Kindle Books Sold
SEATTLE, Jan 20, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced details of a new program that will enable authors and publishers who use the Kindle Digital Text Platform (DTP) to earn a larger share of revenue from each Kindle book they sell. For each Kindle book sold, authors and publishers who choose the new 70 percent royalty option will receive 70 percent of list price, net of delivery costs. This new option will be in addition to and will not replace the existing DTP standard royalty option. This new 70 percent royalty option will become available on June 30, 2010.
Delivery costs will be based on file size and pricing will be $0.15/MB. At today's median DTP file size of 368KB, delivery costs would be less than $0.06 per unit sold. This new program can thus enable authors and publishers to make more money on every sale. For example, on an $8.99 book an author would make $3.15 with the standard option, and $6.25 with the new 70 percent option.
"Today, authors often receive royalties in the range of 7 to 15 percent of the list price that publishers set for their physical books, or 25 percent of the net that publishers receive from retailers for their digital books," said Russ Grandinetti, Vice President of Kindle Content. "We're excited that the new 70 percent royalty option for the Kindle Digital Text Platform will help us pay authors higher royalties when readers choose their books."
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That would be Dr. Carl J. Lavie, medical director of cardiac rehabilitation and prevention at the Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans. Regarding the so-called "Obesity Paradox" (one of them anyway)—that obesity is correlated with an increased risk of heart disease, yet fat people seem to recover from cardiac issues better than thin people—Lavie says:
It's well-known that obesity leads to heart disease, and that's a big part of the paradox. These people wouldn't have developed heart disease in the first place if they weren't obese. A thin person is getting it [heart disease] for a different reason, so he or she is getting a worse form of the disease, getting the disease despite being thin.
OK, seriously. "These people wouldn't have developed heart disease in the first place if they weren't obese"—immediately before you talk about thin people getting heart disease? And thin people get "a worse form of the disease" because… you think it's unfair that they got it at all? Fuck the what?
Here's what else this DIRECTOR OF CARDIAC RESEARCH AND PREVENTION AT AN ACTUAL HOSPITAL has to tell us about obesity and heart disease.
Obesity in the United States is a major problem. It is increasing in skyrocketing proportions.
Evidently, he missed the good news from the CDC. A year and a half ago.
There are several possible explanations for the paradox, Lavie said.
One is that obese people visit physicians earlier than others because they develop symptoms, such as fatigue and breathing problems. Heart disease is more treatable if identified early.
Evidently, he also missed the studies showing that fat people do not seek medical treatment as quickly as thin people, because they are so terrified of being mistreated by fatphobic doctors.
Let me help you out, Dr. Lavie.
Two studies in the journal Obesity Research in 2003 found that many physicians harbor negative attitudes toward fat people: A University of Pennsylvania study of 620 primary care physicians found that more than half reported viewing obese patients as "awkward," "unattractive," "ugly" and "noncompliant"; a Yale study reported that health professionals strongly associated being overweight with being "lazy" and "stupid."
Such negative views, some experts charge, may be helping to drive patients away: These experts point to a 2000 study of 11,425 women, which found heavy women less likely to obtain cancer screenings such as Pap smears and mammograms even though they're at higher risk of dying from cervical cancer and breast cancer. Newer research has produced similar findings: A 2006 study of 498 women, published in the International Journal of Obesity, found that obese women delayed cancer screenings more than other women. Negative attitudes of health-care providers and disrespectful treatment were among the reasons cited for postponing care.
Negative attitudes? Such as?
[Lavie] wanted not only to remind doctors of the paradox, but also to warn them and the general public that it offers no excuse for being fat, he said.
That is the whole thing in a goddamned nutshell. The director of cardiac research and prevention at an actual hospital—like entirely too many of his colleagues—believes fat people are looking for excuses to stay fat, as opposed to looking for compassionate, realistic, trustworthy medical care. I can only guess he assumes we're having such a grand old time being fat—what with all the donuts and relaxing, the totally never suffering any discrimination or humiliation because of the size of our bodies, the being blissfully ignorant of/willfully blind to the daily screaming headlines about how we're gonna drop dead any minute—that we're simply not motivated to go out and get permanently thin, which is totally possible. (Second link is a PDF.) He believes we might just be in the doctor's office all the time, following up on minor symptoms that could portend larger problems, instead of putting off treatment until we're so sick we can't stand it. Instead of dying alone because our doctors told us not to come back still fat. He believes obesity is "skyrocketing," when the last NHANES results told us there's been no change overall since 2003-2004, no change for women since 1999. And he believes that fat people who have heart disease have it because they are fat, while thin people who have heart disease have it despite being thin. No possibility of a common cause. Fatties are a different breed. Hell, it's a different disease altogether in thin folks! A thin person is getting it for a different reason, so he or she is getting a worse form of the disease.
And the fact that fat seems to have some protective value in terms of surviving potentially deadly illness? Bah. You wouldn't get the illness in the first place if you weren't fat! I mean, unless you were one of those thin people who got a worse form of the disease, like I mentioned, but… wait, shut up. You just want an excuse to be fat!
This is the logic, y'all. This is the science. This is the director of cardiac research and prevention at an actual hospital.
This is why fat people are afraid to go to the doctor. This is why we advise people in the book to seek out a fat-friendly health professional instead of putting themselves through the torment of being naked and vulnerable in front of a "professional" who takes one look at a fat body and sees someone ugly, lazy, stupid, and non-compliant.


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Effective & efficient communication planning is important for project's success & its vitality can not be overstressed as considerable number of projects failed due to poor communication plan & process.
Effective communication – providing the information in the right format, at the right time, and with the right impact.
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Nearly two years after introducing the first GPS designed specifically for RVers, Rand McNally today (Jan. 9) launched the first RV GPS app for the iPad. The RV GPS is being shown for the first time at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
According to a press release, Rand McNally's RV GPS for iPad is the first iOS application offered that is specifically designed for RV navigation. The new application, available on the App Store, provides RV class-specific routing based on Rand McNally's proprietary road data and navigation, plus thousands of RV parks and campgrounds, RV-friendly locations, RVer tools and pre-planned trips.
The app also includes "dynamic weather," a map overlay feature that helps drivers anticipate conditions such as high wind and precipitation along the route.
Also included is a bonus feature of the app: An e-book version of America's No. 1 road atlas.
"About 20% of RVers have an iPad, and many of them take it on the road," said Dave Muscatel, CEO of Rand McNally. "Our new app lets those travelers access the same premier RV routing, navigation and content available on our RVND GPS devices, and load it on their tablet."
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I recently picked up Cometbus #52 (The Spirit of St. Louis) at the Berkeley Amoeba Music store -- one of several fine independent retailers that carry the legendary, decades old, punk-literary series. As with all the previous installments of this Aaron "Cometbus" Elliot- penned slim book, such as last year's Cometbus #51 The Loneliness of the Electric Menorah, ever since I started reading it I can't put it down...which is a problem, in a good way, because I know in no time I will have read the entire engrossing 66 pages of this latest Cometbus. So I find myself rationing my reading, allowing myself just nine pages, which is three Cometbus chapters, a day.
Cometbus #51 was a sort of history of the subculture of Telegraph Avenue, focusing on its bookstores and record stores. It incorporates into its story Cody's, Moe's, Universal, Rasputin, and (of course) Amoeba Music, as well as such age old Telegraph Avenue characters as Ace Backwards and Julia Vinograd (aka The Bubble Lady), whose poetry was included in that last issue.
For the The Spirit of St. Louis Cometbus, as its title implies, Aaron writes about St. Louis and the close-knit cast of colorful characters (including Brett, Pete Feet, Spike, Wayne Two, Penguin, Jody Lee, & Katie from Haiti) in the local punk scene that he interacted with in a previous time -- he never says exactly when, but, based on the music references, it seems like it is circa early/mid nineties.


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The Flu – What Is It Really?
For one to completely understand in Tyler Hill how the flu behaves, they must develop a basic understanding of the difference between a bacterium and a virus. They are both tiny germs capable of invading the human body. Because of their genetic makeup, they are capable of creating different symptoms in response to the way the body reacts to them. Some of the symptoms they create are caused by changes they make to the body on a cellular level.
Over the last 50 years, scientists have developed a thorough system to fight the growth of bacteria by developing antibiotics. It was originally thought in Tyler Hill that antibiotics would have an effect on viral infections. However, research has shown that taking antibiotics while one is infected by a virus could be deeply detrimental to their health. They not only fail to treat the viral infection, but they also increase the risk of developing a secondary bacterial infection.
The flu we experience in Tyler Hill is a viral illness that is contracted from contact with a person who is infected, or by coming into contact with unwashed, infected surfaces. After the virus moves into the body, it lives in the back of the throat. Here, it multiples until it reaches a viral load where it can successfully affect its host.
In Tyler Hill you may notice that the way the virus is transmitted, and its associated mechanisms are similar to those of the common cold. While this may be true, the flu is not the same as a cold, not even on a genetic level. They originate from completely separate viruses, and they mutate in very different rates and methods.
It is true that the common cold and the flu share many of the same symptoms. The common cold will cause an unpleasant, but mild set of symptoms. The flu, on the other hand, causes more severe symptoms and is more likely to cause serious, possibly life threatening complications.
What Class of Virus is The Flu In Tyler Hill?
The flu is categorized as a contagious viral illness affecting the respiratory system. Depending on the strain of the virus, and the immune system of its host, it will cause symptoms ranging from mild to severe. At times, the severe effects it can have on the human body can be fatal, especially if it is not treated by qualified medical professionals.
Because of the potential for developing severe, life-threatening complications, the CDC recommends that people take charge of their own health care and take the right steps to prevent contracting the flu virus. Prevention can be as simple as getting a flu shot every year and following proper health and safety precautions, like washing your hands after touching things, or eating.
Statistics show that between 5% and 20% of the American population contract the flu each year. Unfortunately, out of the people who do not receive the vaccine on an annual basis, 360 people die from flu related complications, or the severity of their symptoms. To make this statistic even more sad, the majority of the fatalities are in children, elderly, and those who are immune compromised in Tyler Hill. The subsection of the immune compromised population most affected are asthmatics, diabetics, and people with heart disease.
Fortunately, scientists in Tyler Hill are constantly looking for ways to better map out the methods in which the flu transmits from one person to another, and the way the virus grows once it does enter the body. Because of their breakthroughs, they are able to provide new information to the public constantly by utilizing the media. Recently, scientific goals have been focused on natural products people can successfully use to prevent contracting the flu, and treat the virus once they have developed symptoms.
What Symptoms Are Experienced with the Flu In Tyler Hill?
People who do contract the flu in Tyler Hill will suffer from unpleasant symptoms. These symptoms can range from high fevers, chills, muscle aches and pains, sore throat, runny and stuffy nose, fatigue, and a dry cough. While these are the most common symptoms, others may experience additional symptoms, like stomach aches, stomach cramps, nausea, vomiting, and even diarrhea. While these additional symptoms are possible in any case, they are more likely to manifest in children than in adults.
People who suffer from a severe case of the flu may experience more severe symptoms. They may develop bacterial pneumonia, sinus infections, painful ear infections, and possible dehydration. These bacterial invasions are typically caused by a weakened immune system trying to fight off the virus, and accidentally allowing bacteria to infiltrate the body.
Where Did the Flu Get Its Name?
The flu received its name as an abbreviation of the virus causing the illness, influenza. The flu is actually a group of respiratory diseases caused by infection by the influenza A. or influenza B. viruses. Both viruses are more active in the winter months, and in the cooler, early part of spring. This pattern has been mapped out scientifically, which makes it easier for medical providers in Tyler Hill to organize prevention and treatment methods for individuals, and groups of individuals.
This scientific research has also pinned down various methods people unknowingly reduce their risk of contracting the virus. For example, people in Tyler Hill who spend more time outside and eat a diet that allows them to take in high amounts of vitamin D directly from being exposed to sunshine during the winter and early spring, have a much lower risk for contracting the flu virus in the event they are exposed to it.
How to Know If You Have the Flu
The common cold and the flu virus usually cycle around communities at the same time. The symptoms of both viruses in Tyler Hill can be very similar, but the symptoms experienced with the flu are a lot worse than the common cold can cause. The common cold will drag you down and make you miserable. The flu will make you miserable to the point where you cannot even drag yourself out of bed.
To date, science has tracked down more than one-hundred strains of the cold virus. Most of these viruses do not mutate past their original form, so the strains are easy to track. The flu virus in Tyler Hill is much more difficult to track down because new strains evolve every couple of years, which makes vaccinating difficult.
Because the strains of flu virus change every few years vaccines must change with them. Developing these vaccines can be extremely difficult because scientists are not able to anticipate exactly what genetic mutations will take place with the flu virus. Because of this, all vaccines are developed using live samples from the previous year's flu outbreak, which leaves people open to developing a mild case of the virus, even if they have been vaccinated.
How Does the Flu Virus Spread in Tyler Hill?
In Tyler Hill the flu virus spreads from one person to another through infected respiratory secretions. This means that any fluid originating in the mouth or nose could be infected during flu season. These secretions are typically released when someone sneezes or coughs without using the right precautions. Because the flu virus in Tyler Hill is easy to transmit from person to person, any surface these secretions come into contact with can be infected, and become an object of transmission.
Because the virus is easy to transmit, people who live in close quarters are at higher risk for contracting the virus. Classrooms, college dorms, hospitals, nursing homes, and office buildings in Tyler Hill are prime locations to get sick.
Something as simple as coughing into one's hand, sneezing without covering their mouth and nose, or did not wash their hands before touching services can leave others at risk. Once the surface is infected, all a person must do is touch the surface and then touch near their mouth, near their nose, or anywhere on their face. Even if one touches a doorknob and later rubs their eyes, they are exposing themselves to a hearty dose of the virus.
After being exposed in Tyler Hill, the virus takes between 24-hours to four days to incubate before the person begins to show symptoms.
Tyler Hill the flu virus typically lasts between one to two weeks. Treatment is symptom management and immune support. The majority of people who contract the flu find that their immune system is able to fight it off and heal their body without medical care. However, the body requires plenty of fluids, a lot of rest, medications for fever, and proper nutrition. One should never follow the old wife's tale of "feed a cold, starve a fever" as it has no scientific basis. In order to properly heal, the body needs plenty of calories and an adequate intake of vitamins and minerals to fight off a virus
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The practice of medicine is a profession that will not run out of clients. Man's body wasn't built to be invincible. Time and time again, he is bound to contract some form of disease and he is going to need a doctor. Let us discuss how to start a medical clinic business.
First of all, you need to have a business plan. A business plan should include a business goal, some reason that the business should work, and a phase-by-phase plan on how to achieve the goal.
Next on the list is the capital. No business is possible without the initial capital. You might need to apply for a bank loan. In such a case, you are going to incur an accounts payable. There is a short-term accounts payable which is expected to be resolved in one operation cycle which is one year. Then there is a long-term accounts payable which takes more than a year, about two years, to pay off.
Then you have to find a suitable location for your medical clinic. Assuming that you are a medical doctor, you should already have a small clientele that you have built from your years as a medical resident. The location should be somewhere in the business section of the city or town with accessibility to buses or subway trains.
By the time you have found a suitable location, you should have an architect or interior designer plan the layout of your clinic. Your clinic should have a reception area where there's a counter for the receptionist. Equipment that the receptionist needs are a computer unit, Adjacent to it is the waiting area where patients wait for their turn. There should be furniture for sitting, a TV set or some reading materials so the patients don't get bored while waiting. There should also be a toilet, either unisex or one for each sex.
Depending on the number of doctors, so should there be the same number of offices. Then there should be two or three treatment rooms. You should make a deal with medical equipment manufacturers to get a good deal on EEG machines, ECG machines, EKG machines, ultrasound machines, weighing scales, etc. They could offer you short-term or long-term accounts payable services. You can also put vending machines in the waiting area so that patients could have refreshments to tide over the wait. Make sure you have provisions for parking.
Medical Clinic Marketing - How to Grow Your Practice in Tough Economic Times
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Anyone who takes care of the filing in a doctor's office knows just how overwhelming the job can be, especially when the doctor has many patients and files for patients that they are no longer seeing. One way to cut back on a lot of your work is to purge the files you no longer need, which will free up space for new files and other information. It is also good to purge your files in order to save time and money. Purging files is pretty easy to do once you have the right tools such as software and shredders.
- Figure out which files you need to keep, and which ones you no longer need to keep in your system. You can either go through all of your files manually, or take advantage of a software package such as PurgeDrive Plus or Data Destroyer that will take the inventory for you, and let you know which files are no longer in use and therefore unnecessary. And of course, you want to make sure that you are complying with all relevant regulations about how long files must be kept.
- If you are using software to purge your files, there will probably be a tool that will allow you to do this automatically. In most software's it is generally a 'purge now' or 'get rid of now.' Once you click this button, you will get a confirmation message asking you to confirm if you want to proceed with the purge. Software packages come with step-by-step instructions, so if you're not sure what's to be done, simply read these instructions.
- Pack away paper files. If you are also using paper files, once you purge a file, you should take the paper file that goes with it and either destroy it by shredding or pack it away in a box with other files you no longer need and put them where they are not going to be in your way, perhaps in a storeroom or other unused, secure room in your office building. If your files are digital, you can create a back-up disc to keep the files on, just in case you may need them.
Medical records have sensitive information on them, and need to be disposed of properly. Safest ways of destroying hard copies of medical records are incineration or shredding. However, keep in mind that by law medical records need to maintained for a certain number of years. Each state has different guidelines, so make sure you are aware of them before destroying any medical records.


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Last week, I posted this video of a bike collision between an easily distracted helmet-cammed bicyclist and a jaywalking pedestrian. It proved to be fairly popular and elicited a strong reaction. Here are some emails I got.
Before we get to those, let me get two things out of the way that were the cause of some confusion:
1.) It's not me in the video. I'm not sure why this was assumed, but it's not me.
2.) The "moral" of the story was a joke, as it is fairly evident that "old people need to watch where the fuck they're going" is not the lesson to be learned from that video. It's that everyone needs to watch where he's going.
Now, to the emails!
Cool video, love the moral of the story! My favorite website to visit! Keep up the great work guys.
No, fool. The moral is that stupid bike riders who go the wrong way down a one-way street should expect to plow into one of those cars coming your way instead of a poor defenseless pedestrian. And by the way, pedestrians have the right-of-way over bicyclists.
What an idiot.
I responded to Stu with, "Moral: It's a joke." He replied:
So funny. Invest in better writers.
Now, this is a terrible comeback. If I were to invest in better writers for the site—which I have neither the means or authority to do—I would be risking my job. That would make me an idiot. Posting a viral video with tongue-in-cheek kicker does not.
I can't believe you are in support of some guy driving the wrong way on a bicycle into three lanes of oncoming traffic. In the process of driving the wrong way, he hits an innocent pedestrian and then you put the blame on the pedestrian? If there were a dedicated bike lane into the oncoming traffic - which exists in some European places such as for instance in my hometown of Brugge, Belgium (aka Bruges) - I'd call it 50-50. But in the US, with three lanes going one way with parking on each side, there is no reasonable expectation for a pedestrian to look both ways to see if there will be a car / scooter / bike driving the wrong way and so the pedestrian is not at fault.
Again, I replied that the moral was intended as a joke, to which Frank replied
Oh, I see - Missed the sarcasm tag ;):
How am I supposed to respond to this? I eventually did with a "Thanks for reading" but now that I think of it, what if Frank was throwing the sarcasm—nay, metasarcasm—right back in my face? If that's the case, I am glad I didn't express my enthusiasm for In Bruges.
Long time reader here. I never comment on your site, but need to now.
You ate a huge shitburger on that call.
This one hurt, Dick. Surely a longtime reader would have known it was a joke. I responded "Dude, it's a joke." To which Dick admitted to missing it, but still. This one took me back. I mean, a shitburger!
that bike rider was kinda an asshole...
I didn't respond to you, John, but yes, you are right.
you're a douche
At this point, it was around 9 on Friday night, and I was on my third Tecate tallboy so I replied from my phone: "Guy, it was a joke." This wasn't really worth a response in retrospect.
no brakes on his fixed gear bike. this should have been avoidable, it's the bikes fault for not paying attention and going against traffic - wrong way.
A bike isn't sentient, Mitch. Leave the bike out of this.
First of all the biker was on the wrong side of the road and was not paying attention to where he was going....So the old man is in the right to start with and the punk should fuck off .
If it wasn't for the stupid asses riding bicycles wrongly they would not get in to so many wrecks . driving rules include bicycles WTF are all you young kids stupid and think that everyone else should get out of your way Fuckyou asshole
Jeff Jeff emailed asking if I was the rider. I told him I was not. He replied:
It made it out to Seattle on the bike boards and almost universally, cyclists think that guy is a major tool. The part that says the moral of the story has to do with the guy who got run over didn't help either...
I should admit now that, despite all the Critical Masses I did in high school, despite my quiet support of the topless rides through Hasidic neighborhoods, despite that DIY bike lanes fiasco, I don't really care about the biking community. I like riding my bike and stuff, but really, I don't care.
Finally, yesterday, Richard and I got into a thing:
David, you are grieviously mistaken if you think crossing out of a crosswalk is equivalent to...(this was the subject)
riding the wrong direction.
Surely you don't contend you don't cross only in crosswalks. Do you really belive yourself in jeopardy every time you do?
And is a pedestrian walks into you, do you think yourself likely to be injured to the same degree as your barreling into him?
I don't ask these questions rhetorically. I would appreciate your answer.
So I gave him the standard reply: the moral was a joke, obviously the biker is much more to blame, but that, ultimately, "the pedestrian in the video doesn't seem to care all that much, so it doesn't matter what I think."
He replied:
Thank you for the courtesy of your reply. However, I must say, I struggle unsuccessfully in searching for the logic in this sentence:
'Furthermore, the pedestrian in the video doesn't seem to care all that much, so it doesn't matter what I think.'
Then things got weird:
Well, David, permit me to reason/argue in extremis [Note: never permit this]:
Blacks suffering under Jim Crow laws didn't complain. (It would have been useless to do so and arguably could have intensified the misery visited upon them.) Therefore, by your reasoning, it didn't matter what their oppressors thought...nor, by implication, that they continued to be oppressive.
I trust you see the parallel.
So I said:
"This is a joke right?"
Sir, I'm trying to understand your thinking when you say if a victim doesn't complain, it doesn't matter what you think. The reasoning, sir, is yours, not mine.
So I said:
I was citing a very specific example not equating it with slavery.
I admit, I fucked this part up. And Richard was allllll over it.
Subject: Oh, by the the era of Jim Crow is not synonymous with the time of slavery.
Our schools do such a poor job of educating students, I can hardly blame you for your ignorance about this.
I replied:
I apologize for equating the era of Reconstruction until the 1950s as slavery.
Equating probably wasn't the right word here. I should've said "Fuck off" minutes ago, but I was too deep now.
Richard circled back to that in extremis stuff:
No, no; you completely MISapprehend the explicit point of my note. I assure you it has NOTHING whatsoever to do with slavery; it has everything to do with one thinking what he thinks doesn't matter when his irresponsible conduct injures someone.
OK, just this one, I hope and trust, last question: Why did you post that video. What were you thinking? What did you hope to accomplish by doing it. And did you accomplish what you set out to in posting it?
I said:
I'm not the person riding the bike in the video, you know that right?
The video is funny; I was thinking our readers would think it was funny and pass it along to other people that would think it was funny; yes, I think so.
Richard fired back:
No, I did not know that [I was not the rider].
Where was that made apparent.
On the other hand, I don't see what is funny in it. But then, having been a comedy writer earlier in my life, what do I know of funny?
Spent, I replied:
I think we're done here.
I haven't heard back from Richard but I would like to assure him—and everyone else that might be confused—that in the future, I will state explicitly whether or not I am in a video that I post.
Here's an example of a video that I am not in:
Everyone good with that? I'm not the fire tornado.


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"I am a dreamer, of that there is no doubt. Yet there is so much power in a dream. Without dreaming of adventures, ski lines, new challenges I would never progress in my life. Really it's where it all starts," writes ski mountaineer Greg Hill. Read on to learn more about the power of dreams.
I wonder if I could...? Fill in the… with any sort of challenge and that is the beginning of something great. I am not saying that every dream I have ever had I have accomplished. Not even close. But the dreams I have realized, mean so much to me. They are the ones that have made me who I am, and helped direct me to where I am going.
My dreams in the mountains are endless. There are lines that I have dream skied so many times I sometimes wonder if I have actually skied them. Seriously. Occasionally when I get deeply into a dream about skiing a line, I can get all adrenalized and excited, just knowing what the feelings would be dropping into such a line. These dreams sustain me for hours while I skin up mountain sides, often I flip between the realization of the dream I am on and wondering about future lines I could ski.
The West face of Mount Macdonald, one of Greg's dream lines. A possible ski descent? (Image by Bruno Long)
There are dream lines that are realistic and then those that are not…well maybe not… and that is the fun, as our skills progress, what was once an unattainable line suddenly becomes possible. And then the other dream lines can also become reality.
I distinctly remember when my first dream ski line became reality, and how fulfilling it was. In 1998 I was learning to backcountry ski when someone pointed up at Aymers Couloir on Mount Temple in the Canadian Rockies. They mentioned that people had just skied that line. I looked, up and up, and saw this crazy looking couloir that started from a ridge off the biggest mountain I had ever seen. It seemed almost impossible that such a line was skiable.
And my dream began. For years I progressed my ski mountaineering skills, always with this nagging memory of a dream line in the Rockies. Then in the spring of 2005, my skills were good enough, my knowledge solid enough, and my partners ready. We ventured towards this impressive couloir and the second I got to the fan of the line I knew I would set the boot pack the whole way up. I had so much energy from years of dreaming about visiting this place that nothing could stop me.
The 900 m couloir could not stop my endless drive, the thigh deep snow was not enough to convince me to turn around, I was living my dream. Standing on top I was able to reflect on all the progression that had allowed me to grow from a fledgling backcountry skier who couldn't believe this line was possible, to someone who had the skills and strengths to get to the top and with those great thoughts in my mind I tipped the balance and shredded down.
Checking out some a potential descent at the Stiftons in British Columbia, Canada. (Image by Bruno Long)
Every day that I tour around I am always looking and wondering. For sure many of the lines I will never ski, but if even 10% of them become reality then I am happy. Rogers Pass has been my stomping grounds for 19 years, and I never walk anywhere without looking up at the potential places I have yet to visit. I love skiing the "Ramp" but what about that line above that ends in cliffs? It's so similar to the Ramp, it just requires a little rope work at the end. Or what about the West Line off Mount Macdonald, will it ever fill in enough for us to venture down?
Or really what about that line on the Siftons, should we go there tomorrow? Dreams are the seeds of adventure. Never stop dreaming.
To prepare you for your dream line, watch Greg's "7 terrain tricks" that he (literally) can't live without.
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Highs and Lows
More than half the miles are down on a grueling Ride the Rockies, and that means it's time for a little assessment of the highs and lows — disregarding the mountain peaks — of this epic ride. There is a lot of time during hours in the saddle to contemplate such things.
I'll get the bad out of the way first. That's the shortest list.
— A carload of young men throwing plastic water bottles from the window of their car at cyclists between Fruita and Grand Junction. It added insult to injury because these cyclists were already struggling through a pounding rain. Bad. Very bad.
— Long potty lines. There is nothing worse than stumbling out of your tent at the cold crack of dawn and heading toward the familiar blue line of Port-o-Johns only to find there are 75 people waiting in front of you. Oh *#+*!
— Too many breakfast burritos. I love a good breakfast burrito but they can get a little — no, a lot — boring, especially while standing out in the cold clutching that burrito in one hand and a cold cup of coffee sludge in the other. Mmmm. What I wouldn't give for a Benedict.


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Dal wrote:Very nice! Will you be producing any runs of this or are you relying on someone (perhaps Lotherek) picking it up?
calimero wrote:WOW! you made whole project in just four months?
is it 100% compatibility with original ST? (all games works?)
calimero wrote:btw why Suska board is so expensive...?
alexh wrote:It looks like a hardware project (PCB only)?
By that I mean did you didn't develop your own Atari ST core? You used the open-source one called Suska core developed by Wolfgang?
In the meantime a bunch of games are running. Examples:
wongck wrote:Wonder if it can go faster... like having a switchable super-turbo mode for apps.
Jungsi wrote:Are you working on this prjoect with Lotharek? I've seen the "MIST" listed on his site
Is there a date planned to sell this nice piece of hardware?
- 04.04.2013 - Final ( i hope) pcbs are ready for automatic assembly - first TEST RUN
Nikolas wrote:Before mass production i will like dvi or hdmi, probably thats best way.
Nikolas wrote:Before mass production i will like dvi or hdmi, probably thats best way.
MasterOfGizmo wrote:And of course the MIST is also Amiga compatible, so you get two machines in one.
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Hearing held on bill to make concealed weapons permit information private
Emergency legislation expires in April
Three weeks after state lawmakers passed an emergency bill to keep concealed weapons permit holders' identities confidential, they are discussing a new plan to make it permanent.
On Tuesday, lawmakers held a public hearing on the bill in Augusta, and the debate boiled down to government transparency versus personal security.
Supporters of the bill said broadcasting information about people with firearms permits make them targets, while its opponents said the information should remain public because it lets the public police the police agencies that issue the permits.
Gary Hamilton, owner of Neilson's Sporting Goods in Farmingdale, has a permit to carry concealed firearms. He said he is worried about what could happen if someone were to publicize permit holders' personal information.
"You can't be at your home 24 hours a day, so you've probably have a concealed weapon permit. You've probably got at least one or two guns, and you probably have a lot more. (Somebody might say,) 'Wow, I've got your address. I'm going to stake you out, wait until you're gone,'" said Hamilton.
Republican Rep. Corey Wilson of Augusta said he wants to ensure the public by keeping the names of concealed weapons permit holders confidential. Wilson said his main concern is protecting victims.
"Those women, all of them were women, reached out to me, and they were fearful that their information would be published," said Wilson.
Suzanne Goucher, president of the Maine Freedom of Information Coalition, said the protection cuts both ways.
"If the records are made confidential, then the person who has the protection from abuse order also can't find out whether her abuser has a carry permit," said Goucher.
Wilson proposed the bill shortly after a newspaper in New York published the names and addresses of concealed weapons permit holders in some New York City suburbs.
Wilson's bill was already getting a lot of attention in February, when the Bangor Daily News submitted a request for the same information in Maine.
While the paper withdrew the request, Gov. Paul LePage proposed emergency legislation to block the release of the information on Feb. 15.
State lawmakers passed the bill and it was signed into law four days later. The bill, however, only protects concealed weapons permit holders through April 30. Rep. Wilson's bill would make the protections permanent.
Opponents of the bill said the information has been public for 32 years and should stay public, but to most people at the hearing, safety is more important than transparency.
"I had somebody threaten to crush my skull along with three of his friends. That was very intimidating. It was very scary. I went and got my concealed permit to help protect myself and my wife. For me, this makes me feel very insecure, very unsafe, and now I have to look over my shoulder," said David Trahan, of Sportsman's Alliance of Maine.
Another work session is scheduled for March 21.
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Cardinal, with old-fashioned pluck and postgame politeness, gets its first Rose Bowl championship in more than four decades, beating Wisconsin, 20-14.Bill Plaschke
Los Angeles Times
9:40 PM PST, January 1, 2013
Thousands of voices counted down the final seconds. When is the last time you've heard modern sports fans, in unison, actually counting down the final seconds?
"10…9…8..." chanted the band member in a purple wig, the sweatered man waving a frayed pompom, the elderly woman grinding her high heel into the sidelines as she wept.
On the first day of 2013, the Rose Bowl gloriously sounded like 1972, its championship being celebrated by a team from a different era with followers from a different world.
"7…6…5..." chanted the drum major dressed like the Greek monster Medusa, the little girl with the red-painted cheeks, the bespectacled couple swaying with each marvelously dwindling number.
A group that was supposed to be too smart to win this game was too tough to lose it, quaint Stanford outfighting giant Wisconsin, 20-14, Tuesday, to win its first Rose Bowl championship in more than four decades.
"4…3…2…1" chanted the linebacker smothered in eye-black, the kid playing a tuba painted with the face of a Chinese dictator, and the students who had suddenly pulled on celebration T-shirts.
"TREE-mendous" it read, and anybody who knows Stanford knows what that means, college sports' strangest mascot finally rooted — get it? — at the top of the football world.
"It's not always pretty, and it's not always perfect, but we never stop, and we finish what we start," said Stanford Coach David Shaw, and who thought one of their seasons would ever finish like this?
Who knew the elite Bay Area school had enough old-school fans to fill the Rose Bowl with a roar that even drowned out that Wisconsin beer cheer? Who knew that a longtime second-tier program could lose one of college football's best coaches and quarterbacks in a span of two seasons and not only survive, but triumph? Who knew that, 41 years after an infamous "Thunderchickens" defensive line gave Stanford its last Rose Bowl championship, the academic powerhouse could overcome an NCAA world filled with recruiting cheats and grade scams to return to football's most traditional throne?
From the shadow of USC and Oregon to the glorious winter shadow of the San Gabriel Mountains, Stanford formally arrived Tuesday in a game that fit Cardinal culture perfectly. It was a bit thoughtful, a tad boring, but ultimately a real gas. The Cardinal scored twice in the game's first nine minutes, then spent the rest of the afternoon swarming and scheming and hanging on for history.
"We punched them in the mouth, they punched us back, it became a good ol'-fashioned bar fight," said redshirt freshman quarterback Kevin Hogan, who was awful except when he was perfect.
He completed only a dozen passes, but three of them were on Stanford's first two touchdown drives. He threw for only 123 yards, but he rushed for nearly half of that while keeping Stanford's offense on the field just long enough to slow the steamrolling Badgers.
All this, and during the postgame celebration, the beard-stubbled kid with the messy hair actually apologized to reporters for rushing off to hug his teammates, who had locked arms and were swaying to the school alma mater played by the just-this-one-time-serious Stanford band.
"I'm sorry, I've got to go be part of them," he said, waving and disappearing into the crowd.
The Stanford kids play throwback, and behave throwback, even when they could be excused for swaggering. During Tuesday's postgame chaos, they stopped and politely addressed reporters as if they were talking to teachers. Zach Ertz, their giant tight end who caught 61 yards worth of passes, even put his hands behind his back during the interviews.
On the midfield podium, when defensive back Usua Amanam was announced as defensive player of the game, his teammates all chanted "Uuuuu" as if they were in a high school locker room. And when Amanam was asked about the game-clinching interception of Wisconsin's Curt Phillips around midfield during the Badgers' final drive, he barely included himself in his answer.
"Fortunately, the ball just fell in my hands," Amanam said. "I don't think one play wins any game. I just happened to be at the right place at the right time."
There was no bragging from a Cardinal defense that gave up zero points in the second half to a Wisconsin team that, in its last game, pinned 70 points on Nebraska.
"We had to pull out all the stops," said defensive end Ben Gardner. "This was about all of us."
There was no chest-thumping even from flashy running back Stepfan Taylor, who epitomized the Stanford attack by gaining 88 yards without a run longer than 10 yards. These are giants who win little by little, piece by piece, thought by thought.
"It's a process," said Taylor, and when have you heard a running back celebrate a championship by saying that?
In a bowl season when some traditional powerhouses have been soundly beaten — USC, you watching this? — it's nice to see success from a think tank whose Rose Bowl victory came just hours after Northwestern won its first bowl game in 64 years. Rice and Vanderbilt have also been winners this bowl season, which will be capped with a national title game appearance by Notre Dame.
"Everybody talks about Oregon and USC, and that's fine, because we just stick to our business," said Ertz.
Smart is cool again, and nobody was cooler on Tuesday than the team whose band performed a halftime show composed mainly of Wisconsin cheese puns, and whose players know exactly who they are.
"We show up every play, we keep grinding; it's what we stand for," said linebacker Trent Murphy.
The day ended, fittingly, with the Stanford band crazily blaring and dancing in front of several hundred remaining fans in the mostly empty stands. I had no idea what they were playing, but I loved the way it sounded.


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Anna Paquin Gives the Look of Love to Stephen Moyer at 'True Blood' Season 7 Premiere!
Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer are all dressed up while attending the premiere of the seventh and final season of their hit show True Blood held at TCL Chinese Theatre on Tuesday (June 17) in Hollywood.
The 31-year-old actress and the 44-year-old actor was joined by their co-stars Kristin Bauer, Lauren Bowles, Rutina Wesley, Carrie Preston, Bailey Noble, Jurnee Smollett, Janina Gavankar, Karolina Wydra, Deborah Ann Woll, and Jessica Clark.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Anna Paquin
In case you didn't know, the final season of True Blood premieres on Sunday (June 22) on HBO.
FYI: Anna is wearing a Thakoon dress, Jennifer Meyer earrings, and Belladora jewelry. Carrie is wearing a Phillip Armstrong dress, Jinny Kim shoes, and MCL earrings. Deborah is wearing a Carolina Herrera dress, Christian Louboutin shoes, Melinda Maria bangles and EF Collection rings. Jurnee is wearing a Milly crop top and skirt. Stephen is wearing Jennifer Meyer earrings and an Ermenegildo Zegna Couture suit, tie, and shirt. Kristin is wearing a Dora Abodi dress with Le Silla shoes. Rutina is wearing the Julia in Black by Ruthie Davis.
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The Last American Pirate is a hoax perpetrated by students in History 389 at George Mason University in the Fall 2008 semester. History 389 is a course called Lying About the Past taught by Professor Mills Kelly in the Department of History and Art History. You can read a copy of the syllabus of the course to learn more about both the course and the motivation behind creating the Last American Pirate website. The syllabus downloads as a .pdf file.
Jane Browning does not exist. There was a person named Edward Owens who lived in Virginia in the late 19th century, but as far as we know, he never engaged in piracy. Professor Ted McCord is a real professor at George Mason, but it's worth remembering that his contribution to the hoax was to point out that it couldn't be true and was almost certainly a hoax. Professor Lorraine Smith does not exist. The person in the YouTube video is a student in the course who did her best to be the most boring professor possible. The house featured in the YouTube video is a random abandoned home in Central Virginia and the cemetery used in the YouTube video is likewise a random cemetery in Northern Virginia. Neither has anything to do with pirates.
The purpose of this hoax was to spend time thinking about how easily information takes on a life of its own online, ethics in the historical profession, and the role of digital media in popular culture. Read the syllabus to see more about the learning goals for the course and the readings.
Some of the students in the class apologize in advance if you aren't happy with us for creating this hoax. The rest of the students think it was a very good joke and you should laugh instead of being unhappy. Click on the team photo to see the class.
To find out more about Jane Browning's search for the Last American Pirate, read on… And read the press.


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New Flex System V7000 Storage Node and other PureFlex announcements
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Well, it's Tuesday again, and you know what that means! IBM announcements!
Today, I am in New York visiting clients. The weather is a lot nicer than I expected. Here is a picture of the Hudson River through some trees with leaves turning color. Something we don't see in Tucson! Our cactus and pine trees stay green year-round!
The announcements today center around the IBM PureSystems family of expert integrated systems. The PureFlex is based on Flex System components. The Flex System chassis is 10U high that hold 14 bays, consisting of 7 rows by 2 columns. Computer and Storage nodes fit in the front, and switches, fans and power supplies in the back. Here is a quick recap:
IBM has sold over 1,000 Flex System and PureFlex systems, across 40 different countries around the world, since their introduction a few months ago in April! These latest enhancements will help solidify IBM's industry leadership,
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Well, it's Wednesday, and you know what that means... IBM Announcements!
(Actually most IBM announcements are on Tuesdays, but IBM gave me extra time to recover from my trip to Europe!)
Today, IBM announced [IBM PureSystems], a new family of expert-integrated systems that combine storage, servers, networking, and software, based on IBM's decades of experience in the IT industry. You can register for the [Launch Event] today (April 11) at 2pm EDT, and download the companion "Integrated Expertise" event app for Apple, Android or Blackberry smartphones.
(If you are thinking, "Hey, wait a minute, hasn't this been done before?" you are not alone. Yes, IBM introduced the System/360 back in 1964, and the AS/400 back in 1988, so today's announcement is on scheduled for this 24-year cycle. Based on IBM's past success in this area, others have followed, most recently, Oracle, HP and Cisco.)
Initially, there are two offerings:
If you are unhappy with the inflexibility of your VCE Vblock, HP Integrity, or Oracle ExaLogic, talk to your local IBM Business Partner or Sales Representative. We might be able to buy your boat anchor off your hands, as part of an IBM PureSystems sale, with an attractive IBM Global Financing plan.
To learn more, check out the [IBM PureSystems] landing page, follow the twitter handle [@IBMPureSystems] or hashtag #ExpertIntSys, watch the videos on the [YouTube channel], or read the [Expert Integrated Systems] blog.
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Why do I take time every day to write about this dreadful team? Why does this organization hate me so much to put me through this? Does the coaching staff think I have the IQ of a candied yam to keep playing Mark Sanchezand say he gives the team the best chance? I don't even care about chances anymore and neither should the Jets, but why does any of this even matter? Is my existence and the Jets suckiness eternal since they both originate from nothing?
I'm done for the day. I'm going to enjoy time with my family and not agonize over a terrible football team.
So in the immortal words of Digital Underground, dowhatchyalike ...