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Tell your doctors goodbye folks,
Let the healing touch of "Dim-Mak" cure all your ills.
NOTE: In this thread, I am not disputing the concept of pressure points where they are used to administer joint locks or initiate immediate severe pain or trauma.
However, what I am questioning, is the belief that "Dim-mak" techniques in relation to "Ki"/"Chi", "meridians","life-force" acupuncture, Reiki, and other "Ancient", "mystical" nonsense.
Now, here's a guy who says that he has researched the "Science" behind Dim-mak:
Dr.Kelly is reportedly has a D.O. in Osteopathic Medicine.
Here are some links pro:
and con:
http://www.quackwatch.org/04ConsumerEdu ... osteo.html
Interestingly, I can find no information relating to his scientific studies, but rather, he wants you to buy the book, in which is touted:
"Death Touch: The Science Behind The Legend of Dim Mak, By Dr. Michael Kelly This is the first book on dim mak written by a medical doctor. Dr. Kelly uses modern medical science to explain the true dangers and deadly effects of dim mak. In addition, he teaches how to use modern medical science to find and develop deadly dim mak techniques. This book proves that there are lethal points on the body and shows how to attack them. Includes chapters on knockouts, delayed death, organ attacks, revival, synergistic combinations, and finding hidden dim mak techniques. Forward by Erle Montaigue."
(Also note, the person who I assume is supposed to provide credibility, is one Erle Montaique who apparently is a leader in the "qi gong" world)
Red Flag?... anyone?
Now my first question would be:
Aside from the dubiousness of a claim that "Dim-Mak" is a valid "therapy" at all, or for that matter, even exists at all outside the realm of fantasy, Why would a reported Medical Doctor attempt to study and distribute for a FEE, techniques purportedly used for killing people? Isn't that contrary to what a healer is supposed to do?
Isn't that somewhat professionally irresponsible?
Specifically, I find amazing the claims of:
"Revival"...Huh? So you knock someone out and use "Dim-Mak" to "revive" them, is that it? Sounds like a rather incredible claim to me.
"Synergistic combinations":
Strange..I have no idea what this term means in this context. Sounds like a made-up buzz word to me.
A "Synergy" in itself is the combination of separate elements directed together for a new purpose or action. So, "Synergistic combinations" would be combinations of combinations? Hmmmm...Sounds....interesting.


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Small Plant News: Volume 2, Number 10 (2008)
|Small Plant News Archive Page. This is an archive page. No new content is being added. While these newsletters remain available for reference purposes, the documents do not reflect changes to Agency policy that may have been instituted since the newsletters were published. Also note that resources and websites mentioned in older issues may have moved or may no longer be available. Points of contact for various initiatives may have changed.
In This Issue:
- Getting to Know the Retail Rule and Its Implications for You
- Food Safety Resources
- Commonly Asked Questions & Answers
- Understanding the Full Scope of the National Residue Program and How it Impacts You
- Briefs
Getting to Know the Retail Rule and Its Implications for You
By Michael Califa
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has added a significant new safeguard for consumers and businesses, aptly titled the "retail rule." If your establishment is involved in a class one recall, the retail rule applies. In short, this rule allows FSIS to publish a list of retailers who received the recalled product if there is a class one recall that involves meat or poultry products.
From the onset, the rule seems to favor consumers. This, however, is not necessarily true. The rule can benefit you too. How? It will allow consumers to see if the recalled product is carried by their local retail store. This helps you because a consumer will have more information and can more easily identify a product, thereby significantly limiting your liability. That's right, if consumers don't eat the recalled product, then they don't get sick, and if they don't get sick, you have a smaller chance of getting sued.
The rule was proposed on March 7, 2006, and the Agency received over 6,000 comments about it. Of those comments, only nine were not in favor of the rule. FSIS reviewed the comments and weighed its options for nearly 2 years. In April 2008, FSIS submitted the draft final rule to the U.S. Office of Management and Budget. The final rule was published in the Federal Register on July 17, 2008, and became effective on August 18, 2008.
The Agency carefully deliberated on when the rule should apply. It was decided that the rule should only apply to class one recalls. "A class one recall is one involving a health hazard situation where there is a reasonable probability that the use of the product will cause serious, adverse health consequences or death," said Lisa Volk, director of FSIS' Recall Management Staff.
Additionally, the Agency decided that only retailers would be listed. Retailers include supermarkets, grocery stores, convenience stores, meat markets, wholesale clubs, and supercenters that have received the recalled product. Intermediate distributors such as food service or institutional distributors are not included in the definition of a "retailer" and therefore are not listed. Furthermore, only recalls involving meat or poultry products trigger the retail rule.
Let's say hypothetically that your plant has to recall product that has gone out to retail distribution. Here's how it works.
During the recall process, FSIS will request that you provide the Agency with a list of the consignees to whom the recalled meat or poultry products were distributed. FSIS will use this information to verify and ensure that the consignees have been notified of the recall and are removing the products from the market and returning them to your establishment. FSIS also obtains lists from the consignees of all entities to which they distributed the product and contacts those entities to ensure that they were notified. The Agency then obtains those consignees' distribution lists and thereby traces the product forward to the retail level.
Because this process takes time, the retail list won't be available until 3 to 10 business days after the date of the recall. For each retail location, the name of the retailer, the street location, city, and State will be listed. If new information becomes available, FSIS will update the list. In the event that there is a large volume recall with an extensive distribution area, the Agency may use general geographic locations, e.g., "products subject to recall were distributed in all XYZ company locations west of the Mississippi." The recall lists are posted on the FSIS Web site. Go to www.fsis.usda.gov/Fsis_Recalls/index.asp.
FSIS firmly believes that this additional safeguard will not only save lives but also limit your liability. The list also helps consumers clearly identify the recalled product. Proper identification reduces the amount of product that may be mistakenly returned to retail locations.
In addition to limiting exposure during a recall, FSIS also recommends that you take the extra steps to prevent recalls from happening in the first place to reduce your liability risk even further (see Small Plant News, March 2008, "How You Can Prevent Recalls").
For questions or additional information about the retail rule, contact either FSIS' Congressional and Public Affairs Office at (202) 720-9113 or Recall Management Division at (202) 690-6389.
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Food Safety Resources
By Sally Fernandez
The Interactive Knowledge Exchange (IKE) is a valuable Web-based tool for FSIS' inspection force to help them stay current and correlated on regulatory requirements, directives, notices, Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point System, Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures, and agency sampling programs. IKEs can also be a very helpful tool for you and are readily available for your review.
Here's how they work. A scenario about an inspection-related subject is presented with a section on "what would you do?" or "what is the correct action to take?" Although suggested solutions are included, the greatest benefit is gained from discussions of the scenarios and questions at weekly meetings with your inspection team. If questions are not resolved, they can be submitted to
email@example.com. Questions are then evaluated, researched, and answered by specialists.
IKEs cover a wide range of topics. Two examples are IKE Scenario 01-07: Citing Relevant Regulation When Documenting Specified Risk Material Noncompliance and IKE Scenario 01-08: FSIS Verification of 9 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 416.2 (d) Regarding Frozen Condensate in Product Freezers.
IKEs can be accessed online at www.fsis.usda.gov/FSIS_Employees/IKE/index.asp or simply type IKE in the search box of FSIS' home page at www.fsis.usda.gov.
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Commonly Asked Questions & Answers
Q. Can an official establishment send heads with specified risk materials (SRM) from cattle 30 months of age or older to another official establishment for further processing and removal of the SRM under its control or USDA seal?
A. No. Heads from cattle 30 months of age and older are ineligible to bear the mark of inspection because SRMs (i.e., brain, skull, eyes, trigeminal ganglia) are located throughout the head. Because high-risk tissues are an integral part of the head of cattle 30 months of age and older, unmarked heads with SRMs from cattle 30 months of age or older may not be transported under company control or USDA seal. FSIS is unaware of methods or procedures an establishment could use to address the potential risk for the edible product (head meat, cheek meat, and/or tongue) to be contaminated with SRMs in cattle 30 months of age or older during transportation to another official establishment.
Q. Can an official establishment send heads from cattle younger than 30 months that contain SRMs (i.e., tonsils) to another official establishment for further processing if both establishments have controls in place to ensure that the tonsils are removed and excluded for human food, similar to the controls required for vertebral column in cattle 30 months of age or older as provided in 9 CFR 310.22(g)?
A. No. FSIS inspection personnel will not allow the mark of inspection to be applied to the heads of cattle younger than 30 months unless the tonsils have been removed and disposed of as inedible. Therefore, an official establishment may only transport heads from cattle younger than 30 months that contain SRMs (i.e., tonsils) to another official establishment for removal of the tonsils and further processing of inspected and passed edible parts under official USDA seal as provided under 9 CFR 316.8 and 325.5, using FSIS Form 7350-1 Request and Notice of Shipment of Sealed Meat and Poultry for further processing and removal of the SRMs. Both the shipping and receiving establishments are required to address the removal, segregation, and disposition of SRMs, and the contamination of edible materials with SRMs before, during, and after entry into the official establishment (9 CFR 310.22(e)).
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Understanding the Full Scope of the National Residue Program and How it Impacts You
By Penny Zervos
You've seen FSIS inspectors take samples from your plant many times and anxiously await the results. Besides testing for pathogens, what else is FSIS looking for and why?
FSIS personnel also analyze the samples taken from your plant at its laboratories for chemical residues of veterinary drugs, pesticides, and environmental contaminants. This collection and testing authority is provided under the Federal Meat Inspection Act, the Poultry Products Inspection Act, and the Egg Products Inspection Act, and the Agency's regulations are found in Title 9 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Chapter III.
However, FSIS does not work alone when it comes to residue testing. If FSIS laboratories find samples with residues that exceed established tolerances and action levels, the Agency will share these findings with the Department of Health and Human Services' Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). EPA and FDA have statutory authority for establishing residue tolerances or action levels. FSIS, through the National Residue Program, analyzes animal tissues and processed egg products to prevent chemically adulterated product from entering the food supply.
Since 1967, FSIS has administered the National Residue Program to collect data on chemical residues in domestic and imported meat, poultry, and processed egg products. This program is designed to provide: (1) a structured process for identifying and evaluating compounds of concern by production class; (2) the capability to analyze for compounds of concern; (3) appropriate regulatory follow-up of reports of violative tissue residues; and (4) collection, statistical analysis, and reporting of the results of these activities.
Due to the implementation of The Hazard Analysis and Critical Point System (HACCP), another important component of the National Residue Program is to provide verification of residue control in HACCP systems. As part of the HACCP regulation, your plant is required to identify all chemical residue hazards that are reasonably likely to occur, and develop a system to guard against them. A vigilant chemical residue prevention program is essential to foster the prudent use of veterinary drugs and pesticides in food animals. In 1999, the program was modified to make residue evaluation more consistent with risk analysis principles.
The National Residue Program consists of two sampling plans: domestic and import. The domestic sampling plan includes scheduled sampling and inspector-generated sampling, and the import reinspection sampling plan is separated into normal sampling, increased sampling, and intensified sampling.
Under the scheduled sampling plans random tissue samples are collected from animals that appear to be healthy. Scheduled sampling plans are generated from FSIS Headquarters.
Inspector-generated sampling is conducted by FSIS' in-plant Public Health Veterinarians (PHVs). Most of the National Residue Sampling will be conducted by PHVs. This occurs when the in-plant PHV suspects that an animal may have violative levels of chemical residues. Inspector-generated sampling targets individual suspect animals and suspect populations of animals.
When an inspector-generated sample is collected, the carcass is held at your plant pending the results of laboratory testing. If a carcass is found to contain violative levels of residues, the carcass is condemned. FSIS will notify FDA of the violation and assist that Agency in obtaining the names of producers and, in the case of food animal products, other parties involved in offering the animals for sale.
FSIS also posts a Repeat Violator List on its Web site at www.fsis.usda.gov/PDF/Residue_Violators_List.pdf, listing the names and addresses of parties whom FDA has determined are responsible for more than one veterinary drug, pesticide, or other chemical residue violation in a 12-month period. This list is a useful source for small plant owners and operators to check to avoid getting sources of animal products that have illegal levels of residues.
Imported meat, poultry, and processed egg products are sampled at U.S. ports of entry to detect chemical residues. Port-of-Entry reinspection is a monitoring program conducted to verify the equivalence of inspection systems in exporting countries. The chemical residue sampling program is one of several types of inspection conducted during FSIS reinspection of imported products. All imported products are subject to reinspection and one or more types of inspection are conducted on every lot of product before it enters the United States. The following are the three levels of chemical residue reinspection:
- Normal sampling is defined as random sampling from a lot;
- Increased sampling is defined as above the normal sampling as the result of an Agency management decision; and
- Intensified sampling is defined as occurring when a previous sample for a type of inspection failed to meet U.S. requirements.
The data gathered in the national residue program are used to verify the safety of meat, poultry, and processed egg products in the United States. The program helps FSIS, FDA, and EPA enforce Federal laws and regulations, and assists in the design of programs to enhance the nation's residue control programs.
For a more in-depth look at the National Residue Program sampling programs and data, as well as the Repeat Violator List, go to the chemistry section of FSIS' Web site at www.fsis.usda.gov/Science/Chemistry/index.asp. Here you'll find links for the 2008 FSIS National Residue Program Scheduled Sampling Plans publication, otherwise known as the "Blue Book;" the National Residue Program Data publication, known as the "Red Book;" and the Repeat Violator List.
If you have further questions and comments on the National Residue Program, contact FSIS' Risk Assessment and Residue Division at (202) 690-6409.
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By Sheila Johnson
Don't forget to check out the latest educational podcasts related to various food safety and consumer education issues. If you haven't signed up yet for a free subscription, visit www.fsis.usda.gov. For assistance or details concerning FSIS podcasts, send an email to email@example.com or call FSIS' Congressional and Public Affairs Office at (202) 720-9113.
Public Meetings on Animal Raising Claims and Addressing Sampling and Testing Methodologies, Compliance Guidelines and N-60 Sampling
On October 14, FSIS and USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service held a public meeting on animal raising claims. This meeting initiated a public process to review USDA's policies on the use of animal raising claims in the labeling of meat and poultry products.
FSIS also held a public meeting on October 14-15 to focus on E. coli O157:H7 sampling and testing procedures. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss and solicit comments on issues associated with the uniformity and consistency of sampling and testing methods for E. coli O157:H7 by the Agency and industry. FSIS also presented draft compliance guidelines for E. coli O157:H7 sampling for beef trimmings as well as draft guidance on the use of labels bearing voluntary E. coli O157:H7 testing claims. Presentations on training for FSIS personnel on E. coli O157:H7 sampling and for industry N-60 sampling procedures were also provided at the meeting.
Transcripts from both of these meetings are available at www.fsis.usda.gov/News_&_Events/Past_Events/index.asp. If you need copies of the materials presented at the meetings, feel free to contact FSIS' Congressional and Public Affairs Office at (202) 720-9113.
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you're a shooting star
And all the years
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(in) one shining moment, it's all on the line.
In college basketball, it's all about the One Shining Moment. The buzzer beater, the upset, the super human performance...that second when your team catapults forward into true March Madness on one of the world's largest sport stages.
For Georgia, the last time we really experienced that sort of post-season euphoria was during the 1996 NCAA Tournament following a victory over #1 seeded Purdue in the second round. Since then, we've been the victim of a series of One Shining Moments for the other guy (See: John Wallace's Miracle Three in '96, the UTC big man that seemingly never missed in '97, and the entire SIU team performance in '02). We were also the victim of One Turd Filled Moment in March 2003 (See: Jim Harrick,Tony Cole and Mike Adams).
But how far away are we from getting there again? How long until we see our shooting stars on the biggest stage? How long until we feel the pride of watching our guys compete for glory in a tournament that really matters?
I have no idea. But right now, things look dim from my seats.
With yesterday's loss to UK, the Dawgs are 2-4 in SEC play. On Wednesday night, we will likely be underdogs at home against a Vanderbilt team with arguably more talent and unarguably more to play for. After the Vandy game, we get 5 of 8 games on the road...and our woes away from Stegeman are well document. Our lone home games during that stretch will be against Florida, Tennessee and South Carolina. It's now hard to see this team finishing SEC play with more than 5 wins.
Is that good enough? Obviously not for the Big Dance, and probably not for the Sock Hop either. So, how long must we wait? Well, that all depends on how much patience we're really willing to show vs. how much patience should really be required.
In 1979, Georgia had never been to the NCAA Tourney...heck, we had never been to the NIT! Four years and 1 Hugh Durham hire later, we were in the Final Four having beaten Michael Jordan's UNC team in the Elite 8.
In 1990, the Florida Gators were an SEC bottom feeder. Their program had arguably less tradition in basketball than Georgia, Auburn or Ole Miss, and they had just completed a season in which they went 7-21 overall and 3-15 in the SEC. Four years and 1 Lon Kruger hire later, they were in the Final Four.
In 1999, Georgia was laughed out of the NIT at Clemson. Ron Jirsa had driven the program into the ground, and his incoming recruiting class was almost a complete disaster. After hiring Jim Harrick and suffering through an initial 10 win season, Georgia squeaked into the NCAAs in Year 2, and landed a #3 seed in Year 3.
In 2003-2004, Baylor University's basketball program found itself dealing with a scandal involving player to player murder, drugs and recruiting sanctions. The scandal was so severe that the NCAA gave Baylor what amounts to the "Half Death Penalty." Along with scholarship reductions, the team lost the ability to play non-conference games for an entire year. In the scandal's aftermath, several of the team's top players transferred. Five years after the scandal started, and two years after the half season penalty, the Scott Drew and the Bears are now 16-4 overall and 4-2 in the Big 12. They will get their One Shining Moment this year.
My point.
It doesn't take six years to build a program. No matter the circumstances.
I'm as familiar as anyone about what it took to get us into the mess we're in now. I know all about Harrick's recruiting (or complete lack thereof), the NCAA scholarship reductions (which were later overturned) and our university's perception within the AAU community. But you will struggle to convince me that we were worse off than Baylor was at roughly the same time.
So when?
So when is our next March Madness appearance? Like I said...I don't know. But there's an old saying, that I remember in times like these. "The best part about hitting yourself in the head with a hammer...is when you stop."
I'm not giving up, and I'm not calling for anyone's head. I'm just suggesting that Felton is going to make his life incredibly miserable if he doesn't get this team together in a big damn hurry.
Felton really needs to start showing progress soon. Yesterday, we had the perfect storm for a huge pro-UGA crowd. A weekend game, a big name opponent and an advance sellout. Instead, we saw thousands of UGA no-shows in the alumni and student sections, and what looked like 1,500+ UK fans. We can't let apathy continue to fester among the broader UGA population.
I'll still attend just as many as I always have. But it's hard to sit here with a straight face and suggest that this is even an NIT team. And if it isn't...when will things turn around?
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Tiffanie Didonato decided to have controversial surgery to lengthen her bones.
Oct. 13, 2008 -- For Tiffanie Didonato, nearly everything in the world was out of reach. Things others may take for granted, like flipping a light switch, revving a gas pedal or tackling bathroom basics, Didonato couldn't do without aid.
That's because the 27-year-old was born with diastrophic dysplasia, a type of dwarfism. The condition left her with abnormally short arms and legs. By age 15, Didonato was only three-and-a-half feet tall.
"Kids were growing up a lot quicker. They were taller. It was easier to hold their book bags and walk down the hall, and I was basically the size of my book bag," she said.
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"She pulled me in the middle of the classroom, sat me on egg crates and said, 'I don't know what kind of disease you have, but obviously you're a dwarf. Why don't you tell me what you can and can't do?' I've never heard the word dwarf be called to me before in my life," Didonato said.
The interaction was etched in her brain and, shortly afterward, Didonato decided to adapt to life, since life didn't adapt to her.
She sought to have a controversial surgery to painfully and painstakingly lengthen her arms and legs, not by the recommended four inches but a whopping 10.
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"Most members of the dwarf community believe that no child should undergo surgery unless it is for a treatable medical condition that will improve her or his health. Limb-lengthing surgery, by contrast, does not address any medical condition," the group said in a statement to "Good Morning America."
Didonato's view, though, is, "I don't judge you, please don't judge me."
"I didn't go through plastic surgery because I didn't like my face or something like that. I went through it for independence and that's the main goal," she said. "I was thinking ahead into the future. I wanted to get married. I wanted to drive. "
Didonato turned to orthopedic surgeon Dr. Errol Mortimer for help.
"I did have reluctance, but Tiffanie absolutely wanted to get this done as effectively and quickly as possible," Mortimer said.
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"Through very small incisions, we insert the screws — two above and two below — the place where we cut the bone," Mortimer said. "The bone slowly gets pulled apart and as it gets pulled apart the body fills in the gap that is created and ultimately that gap is filled with normal bone."
During months of recovery, Didonato took solace in writing and visually the things she'd finally be able to do. After 12 surgeries on shins, thighs and arms, Didonato gained 14 inches.
That took her 3-foot-6-inch frame to 4-feet-10-inches.
Didonato was enthused.
"I remember saying to myself, 'This is going to be the first day of the rest of my life,'" she said. "I'm going to free. I'm going to be independent."
Now simple chores that caused her so much hassle are much easier. Things like making coffee and emptying the trash bring her joy.
And when she got married over the weekend, the bride was able to stand tall as she made her way down the aisle to her prince, two-time Iraq War veteran Eric Gabrielse.
"I think what she did goes above and beyond any of the physical or mental stuff I've done," said Gabrielse, who met his future wife three years ago as a pen pal. "She dealt with it her all her life and handled it all so amazingly. I'm so proud of her."
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The selected date is shown with a blue background. The current day is indicated with a purple border and owns the focus.
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Woman sues family of boy she killed in car accident
New York: A Canadian motorist who killed a 17-year-old cyclist in a late-night collision is suing his family for emotional distress, claiming he was to blame for the accident because he failed to wear a high-visibility vest.
In the lawsuit, Sharlene Simon says her "enjoyment of life has been irretrievably lessened" since the accident in which Brandon Majewski was killed and his friend Richard McLean, 16, seriously injured in October 2012.
She is now suing both teenagers, along with Jake Roberts, 16, who was also knocked off his bike in the collision near the town of Innisfil, Ontario, but was unhurt, for more than 1 million Canadian dollars ($976,000).
Derek Majewski, the dead boy's father, said: "It makes my blood boil. This has ripped our family apart.
"This thing haunts us. It will never stop haunting us," he said. "And now this woman has the gall to try to profit from our dead child she killed? Profit from another boy who was almost crippled?"
Mrs Simon, 42, a mother-of-three, is said to be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder since the accident and is unable to work.
Brandon's mother, Venetta Mlynczyk, told the Toronto Sun newspaper: "She killed my child and now she wants to profit from it?
"She says she's in pain? Tell her to look inside my head and she will see pain, she will see panic, she will see nightmares."
Six months after the accident, Brandon's 23-year-old brother Devon was found dead after taking what the family say was an accidental overdose of alcohol and prescription drugs in order to numb the pain of his death.
A police investigation into the crash, which took place at 1am on a dark, rainy night as the three friends went out to buy hot dogs, concluded that the main factor was the lack of visibility of the cyclists.
Mrs Simon is joined as plaintiffs in her claim by her husband, who is a police officer. She accuses the teenagers of negligence, saying they were cycling without the appropriate lights and reflectors, without helmets and they did not keep an eye on the road or their bikes under control.
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Singing Wine Glasses
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AbstractThe American holiday of Thanksgiving is a favorite of many. Friends and family getting together, a big feast, fancy china and glassware on the table. Who can resist the temptation to make the wine glasses sing? Find out more about how this works with this project!
The goal of this project is to investigate how the musical note produced by a wine glass is affected by the fluid level in the glass.
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This project is based on the following entry to the 2007 California State Science Fair:
- Lent, M.S., 2007. Whistling Wineglasses: Is Vibration Frequency Linearly Related to Water Volume? California State Science Fair Abstract. Retrieved September 11, 2007.
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Benjamin Franklin is a celebrated figure from early U.S. history. He is famous as a statesman, scientist, democrat, printer, and inventor. Although many will be familiar with the Franklin stove, few have heard of the armonica, a musical instrument whose sound source was a series of resonating glass vessels (Wikipedia contributors, 2007).
The principle of Franklin's armonica can be demonstrated with a wine glass. Use one hand to hold the glass steady at the base, then wet a finger of the other hand. Press gently on the rim of the glass with moistened finger, then draw it in a circle around the rim of the glass. When the pressure and amount of moisture are just right, the slight friction between your finger and the rim of the glass will cause vibrations in the sides of the glass. There is a particular frequency, called the resonant frequency, at which the sides glass will vibrate most easily. The resonant frequency of wine glasses is typically within the range of human hearing (20-20,000 Hz), so you hear the resulting resonant vibration as a tone.
In this project you'll investigate the answer to a simple question: How does the tone change as the fluid level in the glass is changed?
Terms and Concepts
To do this project, you should do research that enables you to understand the following terms and concepts:
- Vibration
- Musical note names and frequencies
- Resonance, resonant frequency
- Armonica or glass harmonica
- How does a wine glass produce sound when you rub on its rim with a wet finger?
- How does the frequency of the note produced change as fluid is added to the glass?
These pages have background information on the physics of "singing" wine glasses:
- HowStuffWorks. (2007). How Can You Make a Wine Glass Sing? Howstuffworks.com. Retrieved September 11, 2007.
- Ansell, D. (2006). Making Music with Wine Glasses. Naked Scientists Kitchen Science. Retrieved September 11, 2007.
Here are some references on Benjamin Franklin's harmonica:
- Wikipedia contributors. (2007). Glass Harmonica. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved September 14, 2007.
- Scientific American Frontiers. (1998). The Art of Science: Ben Franklin's Harmonica. PBS. Retrieved September 11, 2007.
This resource shows what the frequencies of different musical notes are:
- Michigan Technological University. (n.d.). Physics of Music — Notes. Department of Physics. Retrieved February 20, 2014.
This project is based on the following entry to the 2007 California State Science Fair:
- Lent, M.S. (2007). Whistling Wineglasses: Is Vibration Frequency Linearly Related to Water Volume? California State Science Fair Abstract. Retrieved September 11, 2007.
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Materials and Equipment
To do this experiment you will need the following materials and equipment:
- Wine glasses (1 or more)
- Water
- Electronic chromatic tuner, such as Korg CA-30. Chromatic tuners are widely available in music stores and online through suppliers such as Amazon.com.
- Graduated liquid measuring cup
- Optional: piano or keyboard for comparing notes
- Optional: kitchen scale to measure the mass of the glass(es), such as the Fast Weigh MS-500-BLK Digital Pocket Scale, 500 by 0.1 G, available from Amazon.com
- Lab notebook
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Experimental Procedure
- Do your background research so that you are knowledgeable about the terms, concepts, and questions, above.
Determine how much water the wine glass can hold.
- Fill the glass with water, then pour the water into a liquid measuring cup.
- Repeat at least three times, and calculate the average of your measurements.
- Turn on the chromatic tuner and place it near the wine glass.
With the wine glass empty, sound a note by rubbing on the rim of the glass to determine the fundamental frequency of the glass.
- Hold down the base of the glass with your non-dominant hand.
- Wet your index finger of your dominant hand with water.
- Rub your finger around the rim of the glass while pressing down gently.
- With just the right amount of pressure, the glass will vibrate, sounding a musical note.
- Use the reading from the chromatic tuner to determine the note.
- Optional: you can also compare the note frequency with notes sounded on a piano or keyboard to determine the fundamental frequency of the wine glass.
Now add a measured amount of water to the glass and repeat the procedure from the previous step to determine what note the glass now sounds. Express the volume as a percentage of the total capacity of the glass:
[percentage volume] = [volume of water in glass]/[volume of water to fill glass] x100
- Repeat for several different volumes of water.
You can organize your data in a table, like Table 1, below.
- To figure out the exact frequencies of the different notes, you can use the Michigan Technological University resource in the Bibliography at the end of the Background section.
Musical note Frequency
- Make a graph of your results, with the measured note frequency (in Hz) on the y-axis and the percentage volume on the x-axis. How does the note frequency change as the glass is filled?
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Climate models that show a low global temperature response to carbon dioxide do not take into account cloud formation processes and their effect on climate, Steven Sherwood from the University of New South Wales said.
"Our research has shown climate models indicating a low temperature response to a doubling of carbon dioxide from preindustrial times are not reproducing the correct processes that lead to cloud formation," he said in a university release Friday.
When the processes in climate models are corrected to match the observations in the real world, he said, the models produce cycles that take water vapor to a wider range of heights in the atmosphere, causing fewer clouds to form as the climate warms -- allowing more sunlight and heat to enter the atmosphere, which increases the sensitivity of climate to carbon dioxide or any other perturbation, he said.
When cloud formation processes are correctly represented, the sensitivity of the climate to a doubling of carbon dioxide -- which will occur in the next 50 years -- could lead to a temperature increase of at least 7 degrees Fahrenheit by 2100, Sherwood said.
"Climate skeptics like to criticize climate models for getting things wrong, and we are the first to admit they are not perfect, but what we are finding is that the mistakes are being made by those models which predict less warming, not those that predict more," he said.


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There are three big highlights that top Matt Hughes' career list, and he names them quickly. It's clearly something he's thought about before.
And then there's one giant career-long highlight that means as much to him as the big three.
Hughes announced his retirement this past month a few days before the UFC's event in Chicago, his home state. It's where the downstate farm boy from Hillsboro got his start in MMA, fighting at Madonna Catholic, an all-girls school. He went on to one of the most successful careers in MMA history, going 45-9 and 18-6 in the UFC. He's enshrined in the UFC Hall of Fame as one of the most dominant champions in its history.
The big moments were many, but three stand out.
"Looking back right now, if I had to pick three?" Hughes asked MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) moments after announcing his retirement. "When I beat Carlos Newton and won the title, when I beat Royce Gracie and when I beat B.J. Penn, just because he had me down and out and I came back and I won."
The Newton fight came when Hughes already was more than 30 fights into his pro career. At 29-3 and 2-1 in the UFC, he was caught in a triangle choke. Things weren't looking good. But he picked Newton up, held him for a moment, then slammed him to the canvas, knocking him out. Crazily, Hughes later confirmed he was essentially out from the choke, himself.
Against Gracie in 2006, it was old-guard jiu-jitsu against Hughes' new-guard wrestling. And wrestling won out with a dominant first-round ground-and-pound TKO at UFC 60.
And in his very next fight, Hughes got a measure of revenge against Penn, defending his welterweight title even after being controlled by the Hawaiian for the first 10 minutes of the fight.
But even with those three fights, with his memorable wins over Frank Trigg, with other title defenses against the likes of Georges St-Pierre and grudge matches against Matt Serra, there's one thing that Hughes said he'll miss the most about being a fighter.
"The biggest thing in the sport is all the good times I've had with my buddies," he said. "I have had so many good times with my friends in other countries, in the States. It's amazing how much fun I've had."
Those buddies included the stable from Pat Miletich's camp in Bettendorf, Iowa, where Hughes trained for much of his career before starting his own gym closer to home. His twin brother Mark was in that crew, as were the likes of Robbie Lawler, boxing coach Matt Pena, longtime coach Marc Fiore and many others.
With the UFC's second Chicago show in a year looming just two days from his retirement announcement, Hughes certainly could be forgiven if he was disappointed to not get a chance to fight in Chicago, where he got his start. Since a UFC 26 fight in Iowa, the closest Hughes came to home fights were against Chris Lytle at UFC 68 in Columbus, Ohio, and against Penn in the third fight of their trilogy at UFC 123 outside of Detroit.
But Hughes isn't one to look back with regret.
"It'd be pretty selfish of me to sit here and have regrets when I look at my life," he said. "I've done a lot. There's going to be a lot of people, especially from my area, who have never traveled to another country, and here I've done all this. So I try not to have regrets because there's no room for it and I don't need to think about stuff like that.
But as long as he's being honest?
"Yes, I would like to have competed in St. Louis or Chicago – some place that my fans, my home town, could have driven to."
For now, though, Hughes looks forward thanks to a new job with the UFC that will have him acting as a liaison of sorts for active fighters. And he said he'll give that the same energy he gave to fighting.
He'll do it even if he'd be willing to fight again right now, were it up to him.
"Even take away this job I've got now with the UFC, retirement was my best thing because the matches weren't going like they should have been going," said Hughes, who closed his career with a 21-second KO loss to Penn at UFC 123 and a first-round KO loss to Josh Koscheck at UFC 135. "My wife had a lot to do with that. Dana White, who is like a brother to me, had a lot to do with that. So they guided me in the right way to get out of it.
"Because I'll tell you what – if I had it my way, I'd have already competed since my last fight."


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Post subject: some food makes people zombie
As Anthony has stated in his article, some so called "food" make people zombie or some food is not for people but for zombie.
Read it yourself and comment here.
"Zombie-food?Wheat and Dairy are drugs"
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These Wheat and Dairy products are treated by the body as waste. In fact all cooked starches are also treated as waste-matter by the body. Our bodies produce mucus to eliminate foreign matter from the system. Most people are saturated with this mucus throughout every microscopic channel of their body. Now, this mucus becomes a substrate for foreign organisms to live upon, and thus this mucus becomes the cause for every disease.
As you know mucus is very gooey and sticky and when it is saturated throughout the entire system, the result is extreme lethargy. All the body wants, is to be able to breathe, so that it may move the blood to every cell in the body, but the blood is obstructed by mucus throughout every channel. This Lethargy tends to make people like zombies. But i think the true meaning of zombie is a person who is infected with a virus that causes cannibalism, haha i don't know.
But i do know that the remedy to ease the tension of the mucus within the body is to eat foods that do not cause the body to form mucus. And that food is Fruit, primarily because of the sugar content, just be sure to brush your teeth.
When starchy foods, such as Wheat, Rice, Potatoes, are boiled over long periods of time they condense into this glue-paste substance, which historically has been used by carpenters and book binders. However when fruits are boiled in this same way they condense into a syrup. This effect happens the same in your body during the alchemical process of digestion. The effect of the Glue substance causes obstruction in the system, which causes the body to employ mucus for elimination. But the effect of the syrup is quite opposite, it allows the blood to flow more easily and also loosens up the mucus-glue-waste to allow for easier elimination.
An addition of starch-less vegetables into a diet of fruit will help to move the waste in the colon that accumulates from the eliminated mucus and wrong foods.
When this Glue is fully and completely removed the body can once again become the air machine that it was meant to be, with a freely flowing circulation of blood bringing oxygen to every cell of the body as quick as can be, and this healed human body may enjoy the fruits and herbs of nature without fear of disease, just as was intended by our creator. amen
The truth is, that the human body was not meant to consume the mothers milk of another animal, that food is meant for the mothers children alone. Nor was the human body meant to consume the eggs of another creature, these are meant to grow up into a living being. And no animal was ever meant to eat the body parts of other animals, this is murder against the free will of another living thing. Fruit is enjoyable for a reason, and eating fruit reveals a seed which grows into a tree, that will bear more fruit to younger generations. As so it was meant to be in the Garden of Eden before the Evil one came to enslave the immortal ones. And so this earth shall once again become a garden paradise. Amen Amen Amen
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On March 15 and 19, Bay Area peace advocates will protest the war in Iraq. As they did five years ago, protesters will focus on the corporations behind the war, including San Ramon's Chevron Corp., a company whose name most certainly adorns any list of the "winners" of this war and those who most benefit from its continuation.
2007 was Chevron's most profitable year in its 130-year history, garnering the company $18.7 billion in pure profit. According to Forbes, CEO David O'Reilly personally raked in $8.8 million in total compensation in 2006. Over the last five years, he's received almost $40 million.
No small part of these megaprofits comes directly from Iraq. Chevron hopes that Iraq will soon yield much greater profits. The key to the company's future success lies in passage of a new national oil law in Iraq and the continuation of the U.S. occupation.
Chevron began marketing Iraqi oil under contracts with the regime of Saddam Hussein in the 1980s and then under the United Nation's Oil for Food Program in the 1990s. Chevron recently paid $30 million to state and federal regulators to settle charges brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission that it had paid illegal kickbacks to the Hussein regime to win contracts.
Nonetheless, Chevron was one of the first companies to receive marketing contracts following the 2003 invasion of Iraq and continues to market significant quantities of Iraqi oil today. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, Chevron has been refining oil from Iraq at its Richmond refinery since the war began. Rather than use its new profit bounty to upgrade this heavily polluting 106-year-old refinery, Chevron is using its financial and political prowess to try to force Richmond to accept a "retooling" of the refinery to burn dirtier, more polluting, sulphur-rich crude.
While Chevron's marketing contracts with Iraq yield the company vast profits, the big money -- and the company's big hopes for the future -- lies in controlling Iraqi oil under the ground, not just selling it overseas. As then Chevron CEO Kenneth Derr told a San Francisco audience in 1998, "Iraq possesses huge reserves of oil and gas -- reserves I'd love Chevron to have access to." Chevron has found many ways to pursue this goal, particularly following the opening provided by the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.
In October 2003, Chevron Vice President Norm Szydlowski followed in a line of U.S. oil company executives to serve as liaison in Iraq between the U.S. occupation government and the Iraqi Oil Ministry. Chevron regularly co-sponsored conferences, such as "Iraq Procurement 2004 -- Meet the Buyers," at which Iraqi ministers met with corporate executives. Chevron even trained Iraqi oil engineers free of charge in four-week training courses.
In 2004, Chevron co-sponsored a special project of the International Tax and Investment Centre on restructuring Iraq's economy following the invasion. The ITIC, an advocacy group that advises governments on pro-corporate economic policy, then released a highly influential report detailing the process by which Iraq's nationalized oil industry could be nearly fully privatized and opened to foreign oil companies. The president of the ITIC, Dan Witt, later boasted on a radio program on which I was also a guest that the ITIC played a significant role in drafting its recommendations into law in the form of the Bush administration's proposed Iraq Oil Law. The Iraq Oil Law remains one of U.S. government's benchmarks for Iraq. It would transform Iraq's oil industry into a privatized model, with at least two-thirds of Iraq's oil open to foreign-company control under contracts lasting for a generation or more.
Today, the press is widely reporting on Chevron's ongoing negotiations with the Iraqi government for the Majnoon oil field, one of the largest oil fields in the world. As Chevron tries to lock in the best contract deal possible, the Bush administration continues to press the Iraqis to pass the Iraq Oil Law. Once (or if) Chevron gets its desired Iraqi contracts, it will still need security to get to work: that's where the U.S. military comes in.
A confidential U.S. government intelligence report on the Iraq Oil Law leaked to ABC News concluded that if "major foreign oil companies" were going to go to work in Iraq, they would need to be "heavily underwritten by the U.S. government." As General John Abizaid, retired head of U.S. Central Command and military operations in Iraq, recently told a Stanford audience of the Iraq War, "Of course it's about oil, we can't really deny that."
The Iraq war is not just about oil. It is about oil corporations. To end a war for oil, therefore, the role of the oil corporations -- not just the U.S. military and federal government -- must be diligently exposed and opposed. After five years of spilling blood for oil, enough is enough.
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(CNN) -- For several months in 2003, I did the whole European backpacker thing. Which is to say I've seen nearly every cathedral within 1,000 square miles of the Danube.
"Are we cultured yet?"
"Shut up. Two more."
It also means that I have an old journal filled out in the back with countless e-mail addresses from travelers I'll probably never see again. This was before the heyday of social media, back when pretending to care about people you just met required considerably less effort.
Because now when you go abroad, you actually have to connect with your fellow travelers over Facebook. And then deny their Candy Crush requests.
Well, these casual travel friendships are about to go completely bonkers over the next two weekends as the world-famous Tomorrowland festival kicks off in Belgium.
I'll get to why in a moment, but for those of you who are unfamiliar with Tomorrowland, it's a multiday gathering of thousands upon thousands of beautiful young people from all over the planet, congregating in a fairytale-themed field, dancing all night to DJs playing EDM.
(Note to Dad: EDM stands for Electronic Dance Music. It sounds nothing like Willie Nelson. Just put on the Golf Channel and stay away from Belgium.)
That said, if you're not my dad and actually enjoy EDM, it's probably a great time. Especially if you're into that whole being young and enjoying life thing.
I'd go, but my iCal has me scheduled to wallow in self-doubt.
(The following weekend is also completely booked with some pre-planned lower back pain.)
However, if you do make it over to Belgium, this year you'll be wearing a special festival bracelet that allows you to instantly send friend requests to people you just met.
"YOU get a friend request. YOU get a friend request. YOU get a friend request. EVERYBODY GETS A FRIEND REQUEST!"
Now, because this festival is so delightfully wackadoo, these bracelets literally arrive at your door in a Tomorrowland treasure case, which, from what I've seen online, is far more ornate than anything I currently have in my house.
No offense, IKEA.
You see, this festival tends to go all-in on the ridiculous. And I like that.
They've made it fun before you even get there.
An instructional Web video from Tomorrowland explains that, once your treasure case arrives in the mail, you have to use a "magical key" to "unlock the happiness."
Then, inside the box, you'll find your bracelet, for which you have to go online to activate with a personalized code.
Next, to "fully unleash all its magical power," you connect it to your Facebook account. And if everything syncs up as it should, the bracelet is then armed for making instant friends.
Back in my day, we used cheap bourbon and old war stories.
Somehow, I just turned 72.
But at Tomorrowland, you and your new pal just need to be near each other while you press your "heart" buttons at the same time.
The next day, you'll receive a daily "special friendship" e-mail with all the contact details of your new late-night besties.
"Who the hell is Gunther?"
"He's that crazy German guy with no pants. You spent six hours with him building a glow stick castle."
"Oh, Guuuuunther."
So, who knows what kind of new digital friends you'll suddenly make. The possibilities are endless.
You can even play port-a-potty roulette with the person using the stall next to yours.
"I don't know who you are over there, or what you just ate, but ... One. Two. Three. Go!"
What's also cool is that the bracelet is actually your entrance pass to the festival. There's no paper. And that's sort of the new trend in ticketing: high-tech smart bracelets.
In fact, this year, Lollapalooza in Chicago is going cashless by using radio frequency identification-enabled wristband tickets that also allow festival-goers to make payments. The bracelets are linked to the user's credit card.
Which, after far too many beers, probably sounds like this:
"I'll take a poster. And a t-shirt. And a coozie. And another poster. And another t-shirt for that guy. And whatever this chick wants. And let's do another poster."
What could possibly go wrong?
Anyway, things have certainly changed since I promised to keep in touch with all those people I met back in Europe. But this is just life as we know it in our crazy modern world.
Embrace it.
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Despite organized anti-bottled-water campaigns across the country and a noisy debate about bottled water's environmental impact, Americans are buying more bottled water than ever.
In 2011, total bottled water sales in the U.S. hit 9.1 billion gallons — 29.2 gallons of bottled water per person, according to sales figures from Beverage Marketing Corp.
The 2011 numbers are the highest total volume of bottled water ever sold in the U.S., and also the highest per-person volume.
Translated to the handy half-liter size Americans find so appealing, that comes to 222 bottles of water for each person in the country — four bottles of water for every man, woman and child, every week.
Indeed, bottled water sales aren't just growing — it's fair to say they're booming. Volume increased by 4.1 percent in 2011 — five times as fast as the 0.9 percent growth in the sales of beverages overall, according to Beverage Marketing. Bottled water sales, in fact, are growing twice as fast as the economy itself.
"Americans are drinking more bottled water because they find it convenient, appealing and also healthy," says Gary Hemphill, who is managing director for information services at Beverage Marketing, and a longtime observer of bottled water and beverage sales in the U.S. and around the world.
The resurgence of bottled water — sales dropped in 2008 for the first time in 31 years, and again in 2009, tracking declines in overall drink sales because of the recession — may be surprising given the debate about its value as a product in the last five years.
The record sales year comes as more than a dozen colleges and universities have taken the extraordinary step of banning sale of bottled water on campus, often under pressure from student organizing campaigns that encourage students to drink tap water.
Just last week, Loyola University in Chicago announced it would stop selling bottled water in cafeterias and on-campus stores this fall, and remove bottled water from vending machines starting in 2013. Loyola joins at least 15 other schools in the U.S. and Canada in banning bottled water sales, including the University of Vermont, Washington University, DePauw University, and Harvard's School of Public Health.
At least four major municipalities — New York, Seattle, San Francisco, and Chicago's Cook County — have banned use of government funds to purchase bottled water.
Despite the record amount of water sold — 2011 beat out the previous, pre-recession year of 2007, when volume was 8.8 billion gallons — 2011 was not a record year in dollar sales of bottled water.
At retail, Americans spent $21.7 billion on bottled water in 2011, just under 2007's spending.
The big three bottled water companies — Coke, Pepsi and Nestlé — have been discounting water heavily in the last few years, to sustain sales through the recession and the growing opposition.
"Pricing in this category has been aggressive," says Hemphill, "which has helped."
Although the U.S. has among the safest tap water in the world, the U.S. remains the largest market for bottled water. The next two, in order, are China and Mexico, both countries in which tap water is either unavailable, or typically not considered safe to drink.
The increase in Americans' consumption of bottled water is extraordinary — the growth having more in common with digital-era products than typical consumer products.
As recently as 2001, per person consumption of bottled water was just 18.2 gallons per person.
Despite the size and visibility of the business, the amount of water actually sold is relatively tiny, compared to tap water volumes. U.S. water utilities supply more than 1 billion gallons of tap water an hour, every hour of the day.
The total amount of water in the bottles Americans buy in a year would only supply U.S. tap water needs from midnight until 9 a.m. on January 1.
Charles Fishman is an award-winning investigative journalist and New York Times bestselling author who has spent the last four years traveling the world to understand and explain water issues. He is the author of The Big Thirst, which is being released in paperback tomorrow with a whole new chapter.