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Caravan cruising across L.A.
So far, it's been a succesful first day of the annual community caravan. I got to visit the first stop, at the L.A. River cleanup, and lots of Dodger fans were there with Don Mattingly, Andre Ethier, James Loney and a whole crew of former Dodgers, who were doing their best to Think Blue and Act Green.
The caravan continued on to USC University Hospital, followed by King Middle School and will also make a visit to Lopez Tonight, so tune in this evening to see these guys on the late night talk circuit.
We're back at it tomorrow morning with plenty more stops, so keep your eye out on the roads for a blue bus with the Dodgers Caravan across the side of it. Or follow the caravan virtually on twitter @dodgers, where we're sending out photos all day.
Also, in response to the question of whether or not we'd wear the Brooklyn uniforms on the road in NY…I'm pretty sure that has to come with MLB approval well in advance and at the request of the home team. So, unless the Mets asked us to do this, I don't think we can just show up in Brooklyn uniforms for their game. It's an interesting thought though for down the road and something we can look into. Appreciate the idea…and for those who haven't voted, check out dodgers.com/throwback and vote…it's very close between two choices and only four days left to weigh in.
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Happy Valentines day to my ITD family.
Jhall!!!! I am sitting here watching Man vs. Food, and Adam is in Ohio State Buckeyeville. Hubby days it's a repeat, but I haven't seen it. Anyhow, his first stop was Thurman's, then he went to Schmidt's Sausage House, and then he did his challenge at Ohio Deli by eating a Dagwood, which he defeated.
I hope you all had a great Valentine's Day. Valentine's on a Monday when you are dealing with sugared-up, hyper first graders wasn't so fun, but hopefully tomorrow, it's all business as usual.
Can't wait for spring training to begin!!!!
red pen "says" not "days" – it's the sugar fumes – LOL!!!
Happy Valentines to you too Tru and to all our ITD family.
My friends and I had a wonderful time hanging with our boys in Blue and cleaning up the river. We uncovered a shopping cart with branches of a Christmas tree and lights. I scraped my leg trying to pull that as it had some other sharp wires but First Aid cleaned me up. Lost my blackberry when I left it on top of the car and was driving on San Fernando road when we heard a clump, clump noise. Oh well, went and got a better phone.
Can't wait for tomorrow at Santa Monica!
the event was totally worth it that I got scrapes on my leg and lost my phone.
Hi'Ya Nelly!! I've been Thurmanized!! Best hamburger in town. Also the Bahama Mamas at Schmidts are awesome. And, nothing like tailgating an OSU Buckeye game.
Hope you and everyone else in ITD land had/have a fantastic Valentine's Day!!! I'm psyched for Spring Training to finally begin. GO DODGERS!!!!
Hi Everybody
Thanks JOSH, for responding so quickly about what you thought about the Dodgers wearing a Brooklyn road uniform at Citi Field. I'll see what I can do to try to persuade or find someone who can persuade the Mets to do it.
It's hard to say what their fan's reaction would be but it would be one fine day for me.
I hope the Dodgers have enough money for gas to get to Arizona for spring training.
I can't wait either Jhall!!! Aside from the three-ring circus with our owners, it will be great to see the players back in action.
Looks like our rivals really are going to get this done, but our boys in Blue are not letting it phase them. It makes you appreciate what classy players James and Andre really are, and I am glad to have the representing the Dodgers, both on and off the field.
That'd be cool if the Dodgers could wear their road throwbacks on the road. It definitely would make news in New York. I don't know what the Mets would have to gain from it, they're the beneficiaries of the Dodgers' and Giants' decision to leave… but it's a part of the team's heritage, and, as been mentioned by commentors on Dodger blogs around the web, I wonder if the Brooklyn fans who were embittered by the move would've been happy if O'Malley caved and moved the team to Shea and became the Queens Dodgers, or the New York Dodgers.
If you ask me, I always thought had they gone to Queens, making them the Long Island Dodgers would've been a good choice, seeing as both Brooklyn and Queens are on the Island. Of course, New Jersey was courting them too, and the New Jersey Dodgers might've worked… but it was BROOKLYN'S team, and it would've been another case of NYC at-large attempting to steal the Brooklyn-ness from Brooklyn, and I wonder how the Brooklynites would've felt watching THEIR team move far enough to not be Brooklyn's exclusive team, but close enough to hurt when they see them everyday in that bowl of a stadium.
I guess at least by moving halfway across the country (as one Brooklynite's account stated, "they might as well have moved to Jupiter"), the distance might've made it easier to deal with…
But all I can do is guess, I'm just a 30 year old Mojave Desert native who's never been to NYC.
All in all, I'm glad the Dodgers have so much going on as to distract from the fact of who's defending the championship (even as I live and breathe in the backbone of Giants country). But as has been mentioned before, remember what happened the last time the Giants won the championship?
Yeah, that.
Go Dodgers


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Uncork this secret ingredient in red wine to fight age-related illnesses
Scientists have homed in on how resveratrol -- a chemical commonly found in red wine and chocolate -- works to prevent cell aging, which could eventually lead to the development of synthetic drug treatments for obesity, diabetes, cancer, and other conditions, according to new research published in Science.
Though researchers have been looking at resveratrol for years, this new research, from Harvard Medical School, is considered a breakthrough in understanding the chemical's potential to increase the activity of a protein called SIRT1, which helps fuel the power-producing parts of cells and in turn may fight age-related illnesses like cardiovascular disease or type 2 diabetes.
"This was the killer experiment," said David Sinclair, PhD, senior study author and genetics professor at Harvard Medical School, in a press release. "There is no rational alternative explanation other than resveratrol directly activates SIRT1 in cells. Now that we know the exact location on SIRT1 where and how resveratrol works, we can engineer even better molecules that more precisely and effectively trigger the effects of resveratrol."
Much previous research on resveratrol's potential was too lab-specific, scientists say, and not applicable to human health. This new finding solidifies resveratrol's potential for cell rejuvenation, and gives researchers a way to figure out which genes and amino acids will allow resveratrol to promote production of SIRT1.
"SIRT1 is like a Pac-Man that removes these proteins and tells other proteins to go out and repair the cell," explained Dr. Sinclair, in the LA Times.
"We discovered a signature for activation that is in fact found in the cell and doesn't require these other synthetic groups," said study author Basil Hubbard, PhD, in the press release. "This was a critical result, which allowed us to bridge the gap between our biochemical and physiological findings.
Enzymes like SIRT1 are naturally triggered by diet and exercise, but activators like resveratrol -- developed into drugs -- could further strengthen their chemical activity and disease-combating capability. "Ultimately, these drugs would treat one disease, but unlike drugs of today, they would prevent 20 others," Sinclair told the UK's Daily Mail. "In effect, they would slow aging."
"In the history of pharmaceuticals, there has never been a drug that binds to a protein to make it run faster in the way that resveratrol activates SIRT1," Sinclair asserts in the release. "Almost all drugs either slow or block them."
In the long term, researchers believe synthetic variants of resveratrol, oral or topical, will be part of treatments for disorders ranging from heart and liver disease to Alzheimer's and Parkinson's to muscle, bone, and skin inflammation. "Things there are also looking promising. We're finding that aging isn't the irreversible affliction that we thought it was," Sinclair told CBS News. "Some of us could live to 150, but we won't get there without more research."
Republished with permission from EverydayHealth.com

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|System Administration Guide: Network Services Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 Information Library
Part I Network Services Topics
Part II Accessing Network File Systems Topics
4. Managing Network File Systems (Overview)
5. Network File System Administration (Tasks)
6. Accessing Network File Systems (Reference)
8. Planning and Enabling SLP (Tasks)
10. Incorporating Legacy Services
Part V Serial Networking Topics
15. Solaris PPP 4.0 (Overview)
16. Planning for the PPP Link (Tasks)
17. Setting Up a Dial-up PPP Link (Tasks)
18. Setting Up a Leased-Line PPP Link (Tasks)
19. Setting Up PPP Authentication (Tasks)
20. Setting Up a PPPoE Tunnel (Tasks)
21. Fixing Common PPP Problems (Tasks)
22. Solaris PPP 4.0 (Reference)
23. Migrating From Asynchronous Solaris PPP to Solaris PPP 4.0 (Tasks)
25. Administering UUCP (Tasks)
UUCP Administration (Task Map)
How to Activate UUCP for TCP/IP
How to Check for Faulty Modems or ACUs
Checking the UUCP /etc/uucp/Systems File
Part VI Working With Remote Systems Topics
27. Working With Remote Systems (Overview)
28. Administering the FTP Server (Tasks)
29. Accessing Remote Systems (Tasks)
Part VII Monitoring Network Services Topics
30. Monitoring Network Performance (Tasks)
UUCP includes four shell scripts that poll remote machines, reschedule transmissions, and clean up old log files and unsuccessful transmissions. The scripts are as follows:
These shell scripts should execute regularly to ensure that UUCP runs smoothly. The crontab file to run the scripts is automatically created in /usr/lib/uucp/uudemon.crontab as part of the Solaris installation process, if you select the full installation. Otherwise, the file is created when you install the UUCP package.
You can also run the UUCP shell scripts manually. The following is the prototype uudemon.crontab file that you can tailor for a particular machine:
# #ident "@(#)uudemon.crontab 1.5 97/12/09 SMI" # # This crontab is provided as a sample. For systems # running UUCP edit the time schedule to suit, uncomment # the following lines, and use crontab(1) to activate the # new schedule. # #48 8,12,16 * * * /usr/lib/uucp/uudemon.admin #20 3 * * * /usr/lib/uucp/uudemon.cleanup #0 * * * * /usr/lib/uucp/uudemon.poll #11,41 * * * * /usr/lib/uucp/uudemon.hour
Note - By default, UUCP operations are disabled. To enable UUCP, edit the time schedule and uncomment the appropriate lines in the uudemon.crontab file.
To activate the uudemon.crontab file, do the following:
Roles contain authorizations and privileged commands. For more information about roles, see Configuring RBAC (Task Map) in System Administration Guide: Security Services.
crontab < /usr/lib/uucp/uudemon.crontab
The default uudemon.poll shell script reads the /etc/uucp/Poll file once an hour. If any machines in the Poll file are scheduled to be polled, a work file (C.sysnxxxx) is placed in the /var/spool/uucp/nodename directory. nodename represents the UUCP node name of the machine.
The shell script is scheduled to run once an hour, before uudemon.hour, so that the work files are in place when uudemon.hour is called.
The default uudemon.hour shell script does the following:
Calls the uusched program to search the spool directories for work files (C.) that have not been processed. The script then schedules these files for transfer to a remote machine.
Calls the uuxqt daemon to search the spool directories for execute files (X.) that have been transferred to your computer and were not processed when they were transferred.
By default, uudemon.hour runs twice an hour. You might want uudemon.hour to run more often if you expect high failure rates of calls to remote machines.
The default uudemon.admin shell script does the following:
Runs the uustat command with p and q options. The q reports on the status of work files (C.), data files (D.), and execute files (X.) that are queued. The p prints process information for networking processes that are listed in the lock files (/var/spool/locks).
Sends resulting status information to the uucp administrative login by using mail.
The default uudemon.cleanup shell script does the following:
Collects log files for individual machines from the /var/uucp/.Log directory, merges these files, and places the files in the /var/uucp/.Old directory with other old log information
Removes work files (C.) seven days old or older, data files (D.) seven days old or older, and execute files (X.) two days old or older from the spool files
Returns mail that cannot be delivered to the sender
Mails a summary of the status information that was gathered during the current day to the UUCP administrative login (uucp)


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Two-thirds of affluent U.S. investors typically donate less than $2,500 in cash each year to one or more charitable groups, according to survey results released Monday by Phoenix Marketing International.
Annual cash donations increase among higher-income households, though not exponentially, Phoenix said. Researchers found that one-third of U.S. households with annual income above $150,000 donate at least $5,000 annually, while one in six donate more than $10,000.
Phoenix polled 2,100 affluent individual investors with upward of $100,000 in investable assets, exclusive of 401(k) or similar plans, in March. The firm conducts monthly surveys of investors about their impression and consideration of various financial services brands.
Respondents in the March survey cited several reasons for their charitable giving. "Affluent investors are certainly altruistic, as the most frequent reasons given for making cash donations were to help other people in need and because they believe in an organization's mission," Cait Robbins, the Phoenix analyst responsible for the monthly U.S. study, said in a statement.
She said other reasons respondents mentioned were "support of a good cause, to fulfill a religious obligation or simply because it is the right thing to do."
The survey also pointed up criteria respondents used to decide whether they would make a cash donation to a specific charitable organization.
About one in four donors said they expected transparency with how their money would be used, specifically information on the relative share of their donation that would be allocated to beneficiaries versus the organization's administration. In addition, they wanted to know what services a charity provided and for whom.
"Overall, a connection must exist between the organization and affluent investor such that the mission is perceived as important by the donor, that they in turn believe in the organization, and investors see their cash going to a worthy and legitimate cause," Robbins said.


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EDGE- The next generation Xbox will launch this year with PS4 to follow in 2014, according to analyst IHS Screen Digest.
We asked senior principal analyst and head of games at Screen Digest Piers Harding-Rolls what to expect from the next generation of consoles. This is what he told us.
I don't think that Sony will wait till next year to be last again. If they do very early.
Everyone who believes ps4 will launch this year is plain out of there mind. They unvield the psvita in January 2011 and it released in Japan in December and the rest of the world 2 months after. They will let time slide once its reveled. There not in a rush. Kaz even stated they will let Microsoft take first move.
After playing Ni No Kuni, I'm not that excited for next gen for some reason. I'm not feeling it yet.


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For gen sets, you can monitor state, utilization data (start/stop information), tracking usage and more.
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Sad thing is I would much rather have
my 18 year old smoking some buds , yet the laws in this country drive them all to the bottle. My opinion is this so much more harmful to there long health. Then add in the need to piss in a bottle for almost everything you need, job,insurance,post accident and you see how it's just not worth the hassle. The only a answer is to fight for legalization,yet the drug testing industry have and will continue to spend millions to prevent that from every happening.
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Jurassic World was the long planned sequel to Jurassic Park III. Plot ideas have been proposed over the years since 2001, and the film went through various stages of production. Everything contained in this page are the rumors, speculations and news that have appeared about the film from 2001 until the production started at April 11, 2014.
News and rumours
- In June 2002 (only a year after JPIII), Ayse Myhre told Starlog magazine that he planned to produce Jurassic Park IV, and Joe Johnston planned to direct the third sequel. Since then, many rumors about Jurassic Park IV have been heard from Universal.
- In September 2004, screenwriter John Sayles was re-writing the script, while the film's new release was set for winter 2005.
- In October 2004, paleontologist Jack Horner said he would return as technical adviser for the fourth film as he had done for previous Jurassic Park films.
- Sayles's story was about a new character, Nick Harris, who returns to Isla Nublar, and retrieves Dennis Nedry's can with dinosaur embryo's. He is captured by the Grendel corporation, which now owns InGen, and he is hired to train five creatures that could be called "di-hu-ogs". These creatures are born from a mix of DNA from dinosaurs, humans and dogs. They are created to carry guns and would be used as mercenaries. A leaked screenplay of the film was released online.
- In April 2005, special effects artist Stan Winston explained that the delay in production was due to repeated revisions of the film's script, none of which satisfied Spielberg. Winston stated, "He felt neither of [the drafts] balanced the science and adventure elements effectively. It's a tough compromise to reach, as too much science will make the movie too talky, but too much adventure will make it seem hollow."
- In 2006, Universal started a new JP IV project.
- In February 2006, producer Frank Marshall said filming would begin in 2007 for a 2008 release.
- March 2007: Sam Neill confirmed he was not asked to reprise his role as Alan Grant. Laura Dern, on the other hand, was asked to return as Ellie Sattler. Joe Johnston was not going to direct the film. Richard Attenborough and Jeff Goldblum were also contacted to reprise their respective roles of Hammond and Malcolm.
- Summer: Joe Johnston comments the new story was unlike the old ones before it.
- December: It was announced by producer Kathleen Kennedy that they are no longer interested in the film series. She stated "Unfortunately, I don't think it's going to happen," said Kennedy. "I really think that with Michael Crichton's passing, that'll be it for the series." This could mean the film will no longer be made, but Universal Pictures still wants the film. As of now, it will begin production, just not until Crichton`s Passing is out of everybody`s mind.
- In November 2009, Joe Johnston was interviewed by Ain't It Cool News and one part was about JPIV.[1] He stated that there was a good story for JPIV now:
Harry: Speaking of JURASSIC PARK, are you thinking of heading into that fourth one after this?
Joe Johnston: Well, there is a great story for the fourth one that I would be interested in getting involved with and it's nothing like the first three. It sort of takes the franchise off in a completely different direction, which is the only way I would want to get involved.
Harry: Another movie about a group of people struggling to survive a dinosaur attack is…
Joe Johnston: We've done that and it's been done three times and I figure it's…
Harry: Stay away from that island. Don't go there!
Joe Johnston: Why would anybody go back to that island? It was hard enough to figure out the second and third reason for them to go, but it would take it off in a whole other trilogy basically, but when it gets to that level it's sort of about studios and Steven's thing and who knows. I think we are at that point where we are due for another one if we are going to do it. They had what four years between them? 1992… 1996 or 1997, and then 2001, so we are past due. I don't know, but we will see.
- January: In January 2010, in an interview with Joe Johnson, he stated that there will be a Jurassic Park IV, and it will be unlike anything you've seen before. It will be the beginning of the second Jurassic Park Trilogy. The film may not take place on any of the islands.[2]
The internet is freaking out that there might be a Jurassic Park IV.
Joe: Wow, when did that happen?
November-you mentioned to Ain't It Cool that there might be a good script.
Joe: Did I tell him? Was it me?
You said that there was no way to get people back on the island for a fourth time and have it make sense, but that 2001 was the last installment and we're due.
Joe: Well, there is going to be a Jurassic Park IV. And it's going to be unlike anything you've seen. It breaks away from the first three-it's essentially the beginning of the second Jurassic Park trilogy. It's going to be done in a completely different way. That's pretty much all I can tell you.
A second trilogy?
Joe: If you think of the first three as a trilogy, number four would be the beginning of a second trilogy.
That's big. So not to lock you in, but there's a possibility there might be a total of six films?
Joe: Well, you never know. If they keep working-and if audiences keep going to them-there's no reason why there wouldn't be. We just want to make them justified in their own right. We don't want to make sequel after sequel just because there's a market for it. We want to tell different, interesting stories. You don't want to just sell hamburger.
- October: JPToys.com forum member 'DemonCarnotaur' went to the 70th Anniversary Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP), which was held in Pittsburgh (USA) at October 10–13. Herepaleontologists from across the world gather to give presentations in which to share their findings, and meet colleagues and fans. DemonCarnotaur got the chance to speak to the adviser on the Jurassic Park films, Jack Horner, and asked the popular question - "What's the deal with JP4?"
The response of Jack Horner was very disappointing:
- "It's dead, at least for now. We were working on it, but things weren't happening soon enough. Anyways, its a Universal film, and Speilberg is with Disney right now. So until Speilberg gets back with Universal its dead. Hopefully it will be made eventually though!"
He went on to say that:
- "Well, JP4 wasn't a grand finale really...it was...well... Well the script focused a lot on genetics, I can say that. But things may change if it does ever happen."[3]
On January 9, 2011, Theme Park Adventure Magazine uploaded a picture on twitter (look here) showing the Daily Shooting Schedule at Universal Studios. It shows that on that day shots for Jurassic Park 4 were made at Stage 7.10,12,14. One would think a fraud can't temper with a board like this. TPAMagazine also wrote a story on their site about their visit:
First of all, the image is legitimate. We went to Universal Studios Hollywood this weekend for a birthday trip for Rick - not to scoop what could be the hottest entertainment-related tweet around. And certainly not to doctor a photograph to read Jurassic Park. Besides, other sites have gone and have produced the same image with their own cameras. It is indeed, legitimate.
After they uploaded their picture an avalanche of tweets and postings on other theme park and Jurassic Park fan sites were popping up all over the Internet.
Some other people went to the studio's and confirmed that the board was real. However Universal had always denied that Jurassic Park 4 was in production (above). Nothing at Universal Studio's suggested that Jurassic Park shoots were made. However, TPAMagazine did note that at the Falls Lake area (which has been used for previous Jurassic Park films) a huge blue screen set. Their tour guide stated that it was going to be used for a "top-secret huge blockbuster".
That same week Jack de la Mare said he spoke to the Vice President of Corporate Communications for the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and she confirmed (after seeing the images of the board), that there is no shooting of Jurassic Park 4:
- "I don't know why it said that on Sunday. All I can tell you is no film is currently in the works and it's certainly not filming."[4]
- June 16: Steven Spielberg spoke with writer Mark Protosevich in several meetings about resurrecting the film series. This would, a month later, turn into fruition.
- July 18: (the 10 year anniversary of Jurassic Park III) Joe Johnston said about JPIV that "it starts with the history of the first trilogy, but it spins it off in a completely different direction."[5]
- July 22: Steven Spielberg said at Comic-Con San Diego that they are going to make a Jurassic Park IV, with 6,000 people to actually hear this. A possibly confirmed character is Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum was mentioned in the interview, but this still can be dismissed). Any other characters, as of now, dinosaur or person, are not officially confirmed.
- July 24: it was officially confirmed that Universal Studios confirmed that the deadline for the film was in 2013.
- January: Steven Spielberg confirms he is not directing.
- June 20: Mike Fleming wrote on deadline.com that Universal had hired new writers for JPIV. Indicating that Mark Protosevich won't be hired, and that the better-than-JPIII-story Spielberg mentioned won't be used. Instead, Universal hired Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver, the script writers of Rise of the Planet of the Apes. The article also revealed the film will be produced (not directed) by Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy.[6]
- July 20: Producer Frank Marshall states that Jurassic Park 4 is hoping to be released by Summer 2014, marking this as the new scheduled release date for the film. Frank Marshall also confirms the film's status as a sequel and not as a prequel, reboot, or remake of the franchise.[7]
- January 11: Universal announced that Jurassic Park IV is going to be released on June 13, 2014. This is the first official release date the film has received.
- March 15: Colin Trevorrow is officially announced as the director for Jurassic Park IV. Trevorrow has grown up with and enjoyed the first three Jurassic Park films
- March 20: According to a Tweet by Colin Trevorrow, there will be no feathered dinosaurs in this film.
- March 27: According to Ed Verreaux's resume, he will be returning as the production designer for the fourth film. Ed Verreaux had previously worked on the production design for Jurassic Park ///.
- April 3: According to a tweet by Jack Horner there will be a previously unseen dinosaur in Jurassic Park IV. Quote "I can't actually tell you who that will be. But you'll want to keep the lights on after you see this movie.
- April 4: According to an article from Portland Press Herald, David Koepp (writer for Jurassic Park and The Lost World: Jurassic Park), will not be returning for Jurassic Park 4.
- April 12: According to a tweet from USA Production News, Jurassic Park 4 will begin filming July of 2013.
- April 14: According to his IMDb page, Rick Carter who worked on the art direction for Jurassic Park (1993) and The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), but was dropped for Jurassic Park /// (2001) in favor of Ed Verreaux will be returning to the franchise to help Verreaux in the art direction of Jurassic Park 4.
- April 21: According to an update on his LinkedIn account, John Coven has been selected as the storyboard artist for Jurassic Park 4.
- May 3: According to the Jurassic Park 4 IMDb page, Dennis Muren and Phil Tippet, the brilliant minds behind the original Jurassic Park's CGI and live-action blend, have returned for Jurassic Park 4.
- May 3: Colin Trevorrow tweeted a picture of Kauai with the word "NUBLAR". Many people deduced from this that JP4 would take place on Isla Nublar.[9]
- June 14: Announced that JP4 would be released 2015 instead of 2014.
- June 18: Universal unviels their placeholder logo for the fourth film at a Licensing Expo in Las Vegas.[1]
- June 21: Rumors surface that Jurassic Park 4 will return to Isla Nublar, where a new park has been built and has fulfilled Hammond's dreams. The new, successful park on Nublar is reported to have tamed Tyrannosaurs and Velociraptors as part of an effort to combat the threat of a new, never-before-seen (in the JP franchise) dinosaur. Marine reptiles are supposedly a major attraction at the "Isla Nublar Lagoon".
- August 13: In an interview, Colin Trevorrow confirms that the "tamed dinosaurs" was not one of the real ideas for Jurassic Park 4.
- August 29: It is revealed that Legendary Pictures is currently in talks with Universal Studios to co-finance Jurassic Park 4. [2]
- September 10:The official logo is revealed with a June 12th, 2015 theatrical release date for the film. Variety.com also reports that "Universal had been eyeing Bryce Dallas Howard, David Oyelowo and Garrett Hedlund to star when they were prepping prior to the postponement and sources say they are still favorites to get offers when those go out."
- September 26: Bryce-Dallas Howard begins casting negotiations[3] and production s set to begin Winter of 2013 at Hawaii. [4]
- October 15: Ty Simpkins and Nick Robinson are announced as part of the leading cast. Jake Johnson is also in negotiations. [5] [6]
- October 18: It is announced that Josh Brolin is in early talks for a major role in Jurassic World. Idris Elba is also rumored to be in talks, although this is later confirmed to be false.
- November 23: Colin Trevorrow tweeted that Jurassic World is going to take place 22 years after the original trilogy.[10]
- January 16th: Bryce Dallas Howard and Chris Pratt were confirmed to have major roles in the film.
- February 28th: Vincent D'Onofrio was cast as the film's main villain.
- March 6th: A source revealed, "Irrfan Khan will play a rich NRI in the film, who owns the Jurassic Park. It's a new character as the film is more of a reboot than a sequel. Irrfan will be seen flying a helicopter in the film, for which he will be undergoing flight training abroad."[11]
- March 18th: Colin Trevorrow reveals in an interview with IGN that B.D. Wong will be returning as Dr. Henry Wu.[12]
- March 21st: Omar Sy confirms on Twitter that he has joined the cast of the film.
- March 22nd: Concept art of Jurassic world released [7]
- April 11th: The shooting of JW started at the Honolulu Zoo.
- May 19th: Joblo released details about an alleged new, fictional dinosaur named Diabolus rex. It is said to be a cross between Tyrannosaurus, Velociraptor, a Snake and a cuttlefish. It was compared to Cthulu and Chimaera, both mythical monsters. [8]
- May 22nd: Jurassic Park legacy released image allegedly showing what the park map will look like (It will not appear if you are banned). [9]
- November 25th: The official trailer for Jurassic Park is released on Youtube.
Any further news has to be placed in Jurassic World/Production
External links
- Jurassic Park IV on Wikipedia
- original JPIV script by John Sayles
- IMDB (Note that IMDB relies on user-submitted content, which makes it as fallible as any wiki)
- Official Site
- Jurassic Park Fan Website
- Jurassic Park 4 News
- Petition to Save Jurassic Park 4
- JPIV Story News?
- https://twitter.com/colintrevorrow
- ↑ Harry claws to learn from Joe Johnston on WOLFMAN set!!! , aintitcool.com.
- ↑ EXCLUSIVE: 'Captain America' & 'JP4' News, boxoffice.com.
- ↑ JPToys treat.
- ↑ jurassicparkiv.org/forum
- ↑ Screenrant: 'Captain America' Director Talks 'Jurassic Park 4′
- ↑ Mike Fleming, Universal Sets 'Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes' Scribes For 'Jurassic Park 4′, deadline.com, 2012, June 20.
- ↑ Producer Frank Marshall Talks JURASSIC PARK 4; Says They Hope to Have Film in Theaters in 2 Years
- ↑ Colin Trevorrow To Helm 'Jurassic Park 4′ For Universal And Steven Spielberg, deadline.com.
- ↑ The Daily Mail
- ↑ Colin Trevorrow: 'Jurassic World' Is More Than a Reboot
- ↑ Renuka Vyavahare (2014). Irrfan to undergo flight training for Jurassic World, The Times of India, Mar 6, 2014, 12.00AM IST.
- ↑ Chris Tilly (2014). Exclusive Interview with the Director of Jurassic World, IGN.


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Radio 1 DJ Fearne Cotton has tied the knot with musician Jesse Wood, the son of Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie.
The couple, who announced their engagement late last year, were married at Richmond Register Office in south west London.
The presenter, 32, and her new husband have been dating for three years and already have a 15-month-old son Rex.
Fearne wore a short-sleeved white gown, thought to be by Pucci, with a sequined detail around the neckline. The radio host also wore strappy stilettos and a jewelled headband.
She did not host her usual Friday show, ahead of the ceremony, and colleague Annie Mac stood in as her replacement.
Stones star Ronnie was among the guests, accompanied by his wife Sally Humphreys whom he married last year.
In a recent interview Fearne said: " I can't wait to be a wife. It just feels really solid. I want to have the same surname. I want to feel like we've done it properly."
Fearne, who is due to host the BBC Music Awards later this year, was previously engaged to skateboarder Jesse Jenkins.
Fearne's new husband - who also has two children, Arthur and Lola, from a previous relationship - wore a grey suit with a blue tie and a pale rose in his button-hole.
Earlier in the day, Fearne was seen leaving the Ritz Hotel in central London with her father - who was also celebrating his birthday - in a vintage white Jaguar. In a message posted to Twitter, she called him "t he coolest, most chilled out, artistic, funny, amazing dad out there".
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American economist Nouriel Roubini and Ian Bremmer of Eurasia Group appeared on "Bloomberg Surveillance" on Wednesday, with Roubini providing head-scratching comparisons—to say the least—about Europe's debt crisis; specifically, will Germany bail out other eurozone countries?
"The Germans say, 'you lost your virginity,'" Roubini said, referring to the European Redemption Fund proposal now being debated. "You sign a contract. You say, 'I'm a born-again virgin.' Be abstinent for the next two years. Show me your soul and two years from now, we're going to get married. But today, I commit to marriage today? Forget it.'"
Thankfully, his comments became easier to comprehend as the interview continued.
Roubini on how to get decisive action in the eurozone:
"The European leaders already had 18 summits of the leaders in the past two years. The last summit, the newspaper headline was the leaders decided to postpone key decisions. Now there are 19 summits. Now they're supposed to come up in one summit with a political union, with a banking union, with a fiscal union, with a transfer union, with a growth compact and resolve the problems that haven't been resolved for years. Germans are wont to say no to European-wide deposit insurance."
Bremmer's view on global problems:
"First of all, I see that irrespective of whether you are a Democrat or a Republican in the United States, you are basically telling the Germans, 'come on guys, you have to do something.' But we're not going to play a role in that. I look at the Chinese government despite that they are awash in liquidity right now. They're not prepared to actually provide any concrete support for the Europeans, so the Europeans must do this themselves. We're not going to act as the lender of last resort for the eurozone. At the same time, I see plenty of other global problems banging along where everyone is kicking the can down the road. The willingness to kick the can right now for the United States, Japan, Europeans, the Chinese, has been an elite motif really since 2008."
Roubini on the persistency of real economic slowdown:
"It's not just a slowdown. …The recession will become a depression. Output has fallen from the peak 15% in Greece. The same thing in Spain…This could become like Japan, but worse. Japan did not have a sovereign debt crisis because it was a net creditor country. But all of these countries are net debtors. They would be lucky to end up in stagnation like Japan. It's getting worse, there's already a sovereign debt crisis, a banking crisis, a balance of payment crisis, an economic crisis and all of those things together are getting worse."
Roubini on German leadership:
"There is this gap between them saying we don't want to take all this credit risk of backstopping of $3 trillion of Spanish and Italian debt. We don't want to take all the credit risk of backstopping all the deposits of the eurozone. But then the other side says, unless you do something about it, in spite of our fiscal effort, the spreads are so high, the disintegration fragmentation of the banking system is becoming worse, and therefore we're going to end up in a complete cliff. The German—the one guarantees that these guys do enough reform and austerity, the other side says we're doing it, but spreads are so high that it's become unsustainable."
Bremmer on whether Germany is removing itself from the conversation in Europe:
"I would not go that far. I do think they are engaged in a very difficult negotiation. … The fact that the Germans at this point are not yet prepared to accept the kind of economic fixes that are required does not tell as much about their ultimate predisposition. They have their own domestic constituencies they have to play with. They also have very strong political constituencies across the eurozone that are acting in a very intractable way. We've seen some forms of German capitulation over the course of the past months. … Who is to say that there will not be dramatically more capitulation when they're actually forced to do it."
Roubini on what matters most right now politically:
"All of it matters in the sense that we're kicking the can down the road. The Europeans do not want to make the decisions and there will be political elections in Germany, Italy and other parts of Europe. We have the U.S. presidential election and until then, we're not going to do anything about our fiscal problem. In China, there is a stall right now because of the leadership transition that happens once in a decade and important decisions about their growth model has to be done. The problem is that every part of the world is kicking down the road to 2013. At this time we're reaching a point in which by next year, you could be in a scenario in which we hit a brick wall, and then eurozone breaks up, in the U.S. you have a fiscal cliff, in China the landing could be hard and in the Middle East you could have a war. That is a perfect storm."
Roubini on the complexity of the central banks' response:
"Everyone is going to do more monetary easing. … We live in a world in which the problems of the advanced economies are not problems of liquidity. Banks have plenty of liquidity. The problems are fundamental solvency. So just throwing money at it implies that the loss will continue to collapse and banks will hold extra money in the form of excess reserves. The credit mechanism is broken and there is no creation of growth in most advanced economies. So it doesn't affect real economic activity."
Roubini on Merkel saying euro bonds are "the wrong way" and whether she was speaking to European leaders or voters in Germany:
"She was talking to both of them. The trouble is if there is not going to be an agreement on some point on having e-bonds I think the situation in Europe is going to become disorderly. Italy and Spain are doing massive fiscal adjustment, but their spreads are still very high. … At some point the Germans will decide, do I take the credit risk of backstopping Spanish and Italian debt in exchange for some loss of national fiscal sovereignty by Italy and Spain, in which case the eurozone has a chance to survive. Otherwise, this will become disorderly in the next few months."


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Southside residents shocked by gas station murder | News
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Southside residents were shaken after the shooting death of a 17-year-old Wolfson High School student.
He was shot just after 7:30 Friday night at the Gate gas station on the corner of Southside Boulevard and Baymeadows Road.
It's next to where Tiffany Randle works.
"I didn't even hear any of the shooting or anything I just turned around and saw all of the ambulances and police cars coming," said Randlem. She is an employee at Village Bread Cafe, which is located in the same shopping plaza as the gas station.
She saw police tape go up at the scene.
Randle is still trying to make sense of the deadly shooting.
According to an anonymous source, the shooting claimed the life of Jordan Davis.
"Everybody was just shocked because this is a very safe neighborhood. Nothing like that really every happens around here you know," Randle explained.
Police say the victim was inside an SUV with some of his friends when he was shot several times.
Police says the shooting happened after a confrontation that started over loud music.
Michael Dunn of Satellite Beach, 45, was arrested in Brevard County Saturday. He now faces a murder and attempted murder charge out of Duval County.
Police don't suspect that Dunn knew the victim.
Customers at the Gate gas station were stunned to learn what happened.
Gas station customer Tyus Byrd said, "We come here all the time. It's pretty much quiet in this area so when it happened, I happened to be passing through. I saw the police rope it all off, and I didn't know what happened, but it's shocking to hear that is still going on especially over on this side of town."
First Coast News put in a request to interview Dunn in jail but he declined to talk to us.


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Catch-Neuter-Release (CNR)
Cats are often given less priority in welfare work, as they are seen as more independent than dogs and able to catch their own food. Although this may be partly true, they are also very vulnerable when they have no owner as they are left untreated when they are sick or injured; they are not treated for parasites and they breed unchecked, often within families, leading to genetic weakness and yet more sickness and deformity. Most kittens are born when summer resorts are open and they are unaccustomed to finding their own live food. Their mothers may take them to places where visitors feed them so they will not have an opportunity to learn the necessary skills. When winter comes and resorts close, these cats suffer great deprivation and many die of malnutrition and ill health.
The most important aspect of cat welfare is to sterilize and therefore stabilize the population within an area. Many local people like to have cats around to control the rat and mice population, and will feed them, but when the numbers grow too big they find ways of getting rid of them. If left un-checked, one female cat and her off-spring can produce about 10,000 kittens between them within six years. Over-population of cats sometimes leads to drastic measures of control such as poisoning or dumping young kittens into dustbins. VOCAL is working with local vets to sterilize female cats and therefore stop this practice.
Neutering cats is expensive so although we castrate males, we catch more females because this represents best value for money. The first task is to locate the areas where cats are living and to try to identify which are female. We talk to local people and try to encourage their acceptance and willingness to let us sterilize. We visit the area and feed the cats on a regular basis. This helps build up the cats' health; familiarises them to the food we use for trapping, (if a cat is used to eating only scraps and fish heads, they will not be interested in anything else); and, if they are nervous of people, we must get them used to us being close by.
Female cats are very suspicious and much more difficult to trap than males, especially after they have had their first litter of kittens. If the first attempt is not successful it can take a long time before another attempt at catching can be made, so it is important to set everything up properly to improve the chances of catching them the first time.
Depending on circumstances either an automatic trap is set or a manual one. The trap is set up in the area where the cats feed, at a time when they are hungry. The trap is covered with a blanket and food is placed around the trap and inside. If an automatic trap is being used, the cat sets off a trap door when it steps on a metal plate inside. With using the manual trap someone holds a long string running from the door and when the cat enters, the door is pulled shut.
Once captured, the cat is transferred from the trap to a holding cage by means of sliding doors and transported to the vet who can do about 3 in one visit. The cat usually remains quiet in the cage if it is kept covered. Before surgery the cat is transferred into a restraining cage, again through sliding doors. The restrainer enables the vet to administer anaesthetic without handling, thereby reducing stress to the animal and injury to the practitioner!
The cat is given pain-relief, antibiotic and anti-parasitic injections. A small v-shape cut is made in the left ear so that the cat can always be easily identified as sterilized. Dissolvable stitches are used so that they do not need to be caught and removed at a later date. If a cat is found to have another health problem needing extra care, we keep the cat and administer treatment. In routine situations cats are transferred back to a holding cage and kept warm and quiet for 24 hours before being released back to the exact location where they were caught. Their powers of recovery are quite phenomenal, within a few days they back to normal in their environment.


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In his Third Book of his History of the Peloponnesian Wars (section 82), Thucydides (Hobbes translation) describes the behavior of the different political factions during the revolt in Corcyra in 405 BC:
The cause of all this is desire of rule, out of avarice and ambition; and the zeal of contention from those two proceeding. For such as were of authority in the cities, both of the one and the other faction, preferring under decent titles, one the political equality of the multitude, the other the moderate aristocracy; though in words they seemed to be servants of the public, they made it in effect but the prize of their contention: and striving by whatsoever means to overcome, both ventured on most horrible outrages, and prosecuted their revenges still farther, without any regard of justice or the public good, but limiting them, each faction, by their own appetite: and stood ready, whether by unjust sentence, or with their own hands, when they should get power, to satisfy their present spite. So that neither side made account to have any thing the sooner done for religion [of an oath], but he was most commended, that could pass a business against the hair with a fair oration. The neutrals of the city were destroyed by both factions; partly because they would not side with them, and partly for envy that they should so escape.
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Thomas Hobbes lived through the English Revolution (or Civil War) during the 1640s and 1650s so it is not hard to see his translation of civil revolt in Greece in the 5th century BC in light of his own experiences. In this quotation we read of the motives of the various factions in the divided city of Corcyra, all motivated by the "desire to rule" at all costs, revenge and "rapine".


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Two Dutch architectural practices HVDN and Studioninedots have recently completed this vast, waterfront mixed-use development located between Amsterdam's old town and the Central Station. Encompassing 28 luxurious apartments as well as number of commercial spaces such restaurants and a department store, HVDN/Studioninedots' building is part of a 200,000-square-feet master plan for the Oosterdokseiland area which 'consists of high density buildings interwoven with narrow passageways that link enclosed open spaces.'
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'At a unique location in Amsterdam, between the old town and the IJ-lake and next to Central Station, The Oosterdokseiland (ODE) is situated. Here, more than 200,000 square feet of modern architecture with a special mix of functions will be realised: housing, offices, a hotel, a library, a conservatorium, shops, bars and restaurants. For this dynamic place HVDN/Studioninedots designed a residential building with restaurants and a department store in the plinth. The building was recently completed and is characterised by a 'chasm', the specific shape of the apartments and the luxurious finish.
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How to Detox Your Skin
How to Detox Your Pores, From Your Head Down to Your Toes
Once January rolls around, the word detox starts to enter many people's vocabulary. While there are plenty of ways to detox your diet, have you ever considered your pores? Your skin, after all, is a breathing organ that can absorb toxins through its many pores. Refresh your complexion (and body!) with these five easy ways to detox your skin.
1. Drink lots of water: You've heard it countless times, but making sure your body is well hydrated with water means that your system can flush away the toxins — even from your pores. See how medical esthetician Craig Shishido of San Francisco's Gentle Star Medspa explains the process, to better understand how water cleans out your pores.
2. Use a clay mask: Find a facial mask rich in clay ingredients, like the Chantecaille Detox Clay Mask ($78). As the wet clay begins to dry, it starts to draw out the impurities from your skin. This is a great option for acne-prone complexions, but is also a good treatment to try if your lifestyle or environment has been harsh on your skin lately.
3. Try dry brushing: A popular treatment in spas, dry brushing is a technique that involves a rubdown with a dry, natural bristled brush. A gentle pressure will smooth your skin and help to slough off dead skin cells, but a more powerful brushing can stimulate your body's circulation and lymphatic drainage, which helps to rid your body of toxins. Try the Natural Sisal Brush ($20) for an at-home experience.
4. Hit up the sauna: Like the old-time traditions of the public bath, spending time at the sauna helps to rid your pores of toxins through your sweat. Try an infrared sauna, which allows the heat to better penetrate your skin to help flush out the toxins deep in your skin. Fan of Bikram yoga? High temperatures and stimulating poses will also help to detoxify your system.
5. Pour apple cider vinegar in your tub: Ingesting apple cider vinegar has plenty of detoxifying benefits, and it's also great to soak in with a little Epsom salt. This blend helps to pull out the toxins from your skin, restore your skin's pH balance, and can even help with skin issues like eczema and psoriasis.


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The head of Federal Aviation Administration says he's confident the Boeing 787 is safe, but he remains concerned about recent incidents, including a fire and a fuel leak earlier this week.
Michael Huerta, the FAA administrator, said at a news conference Friday that there is nothing in the data the agency has seen to suggest the plane isn't safe.
FAA also announced it is undertaking a comprehensive review of the 787s critical systems, including design, manufacture and assembly.
The 787, which Boeing calls the "Dreamliner," relies more than any other modern airliner on electrical signals to help power nearly everything the plane does. It's also the first Boeing plane to use rechargeable lithium ion batteries, which charge faster and can be molded to space-saving shapes compared to other airplane batteries. The plane is made with lightweight composite materials instead of aluminum.
A Boeing official said the company is working with the FAA. The FAA statement gave no indication that the agency intends to limit or prohibit the 787 from flying during the review.
"We are absolutely confident in the reliability and performance of the 787," Boeing spokesman Marc Birtel said. "We are working with the FAA and our customers to ensure we thoroughly understand any introductory issues that arise. While we take each issue seriously, nothing we've seen in service causes us to doubt the capabilities of the airplane."
A fire ignited Monday in the battery pack of an auxiliary power unit of a Japan Airlines 787 empty of passengers as the plane sat on the tarmac at Boston's Logan International Airport. It took firefighters 40 minutes to put out the blaze. Also this week, a fuel leak delayed a flight from Boston to Tokyo of another Japan Airlines 787.
On Friday, Japan's All Nippon Airways reported two new cases of problems with the aircraft. ANA spokeswoman Ayumi Kunimatsu said a very small amount of oil was discovered leaking from the left engine of a 787 flight from southern Japan's Miyazaki airport to Tokyo.
The jet returned to Miyazaki, but after checks found no safety risk it flew to Tokyo. ANA said on another flight, to Matsuyama on the island of Shikoku, glass in a cockpit window cracked and the aircraft was grounded for repairs.
Boeing has insisted that the 787's problems are no worse than what it experienced when its 777 was new in the mid-1990s. That plane is now one of its top-sellers and is well-liked by airlines.
FAA Chief Concerned About Dreamliner Mishaps
FAA announced t is undertaking a comprehensive review of the 787s critical systems
The head of Federal Aviation Administration says he's confident the Boeing 787 is safe, but he remains concerned about recent incidents, including a fire and a fuel leak earlier this week.


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Wheelchair racing icon Kelly Smith has won the men's open division of The Vancouver Sun Run 10K so often that the story's no longer about that day's pushing.
No, it's all about what this 46-year-old paraplegic thrill-seeker is up to now.
How about free diving and free dive scooter racing?
Actually, we'll get to his latest adventure in a minute because Smith did provide a talking point in his 27-minute, four-second ramble through the streets of Vancouver Sunday morning by doing it while wearing a Darth Vader-like helmet, chest armour and spike-adorned shoulder pads.
"Just trying to intimidate people — a few props, that's all I need," said a grinning Smith after winning for the ninth time since 1998.
"Nah, just having some fun. This [outfit] is from the [2010] Paralympics opening ceremonies. I decided to put it on display again in respect to the lady who did all the costumes and all the good work she did. It gets a lot of attention."
Simon Harrington of Courtenay was second in 29:29 and Masashi Shinoda of Vancouver, who was using the day as a fundraiser for victims of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, was third in 39:28.
James Hustvedt of North Vancouver won the men's quad division, in a time of 43:22.
Multiple-time Paralympic track medallist Michelle Stilwell of Nanoose Bay recorded a time of 36:33 as the lone female in the quad division, well off her 34:25 of last year, while Djami Diallo of North Vancouver finished in 1:12:01 as the lone racer in the women's open division.
"Shouldn't go out the night before," said a smiling Stilwell, who attended a wedding Saturday night. "This is a build for London I'm on right now and the 10K and half marathons are just extra training for me. My focus is the track right now."
Smith, an air traffic controller from Langley and the 2004 Paralympic silver medallist in the marathon, did his fastest Sun Run in 2003 with a time of 20:54. This year's race, he said, was just a "cruise through the park, a lot of smiles and laughs."
Smith, who skipped last year's Sun Run, said Sunday's effort was only about his third time in his racing chair in three years. He's been struggling with shoulder and arm ailments, including a bad right elbow that never fully healed after he broke it in two places in a fall from a downhill mountain bike while roaring down a trail at the Haleakala Crater in Maui in late 2007.
"Every time I go back to hard training I just aggravate it. I get constant fluid and swelling in the elbow. That one really bit me in the butt. As my mom said, 'One of these days, you're going to regret doing these stupid things.'"
Which brings us to free diving, something he was turned on to by his fiance, Jill Yoneda, a Canadian national team member.
"It's real easy on my elbows," he says with another big grin. "It's just all about holding your breath and going down as deep and as far as you can.
"I've been doing it now for two years with her. In a couple of weeks we're leaving for three weeks in the Cayman Islands to do some competitions."
Those competitions include the newest discipline in free diving: Formula 3 scooter racing. Equipped with a lightweight, aluminum propulsion system strapped between their legs, competitors race through gates stationed 20 to 60 feet below the surface, all on a single breath.
"It's pretty cool. I'm up to a six-and-a-half minute breathhold," says Smith. "These lungs have to come to a few good uses.
"It changes the whole world of snorkelling. You're able to be comfortably down for a period of time. And then the competitive side of it is pretty neat, too. To see how deep you can go or how long you can hold your breath before you black out.
"I've definitely pushed the limits and I've seen [blackouts], but I've never blacked out. I've come to the edge of it. That's part of the sport. Like any sport, you've got to know what that edge is."
For static breathholds, Smith says his history as a wheelchair marathoner means he has "good capacity for uptake of oxygen." Plus, in not having as much muscle mass in his lower limbs as able-bodied divers, he benefits from economy of movement.
"But as far as distance stuff, I'm not going to be very competitive because I can't kick like everybody else."
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7 Ways to Support the Real Job Creator: Main Street
If you've been following GOP debates lately, you've heard that Wall Street businesses are the real "job creators" of our economy, and that the best way to put Americans back to work is to remove all the troublesome fetters—like environmental and safety regulations, or taxes, or unionization rightsfor workers—that hold them back.
But Wall Street's goal is to make money, not create jobs. Wall Street institutions view wages and worker benefits as costs to be minimized. Wall Street executives know that the most certain way to boost the share price of their company, and thereby pump up the value of their personal stock options, is to announce that thousands of people are to be laid off, their jobs eliminated or moved abroad.
Between 2000 and 2009, for example, U.S. transnational corporations, which employ roughly 20 percent of all U.S. workers, slashed their U.S. employment by 2.9 million even as they increased their overseas workforce by 2.4 million. The result was a significant loss of jobs nationally, as well as a net loss globally.
So who are America's real job creators?
Main Street Job Creators
It turns out that most job creation in the United States is the result of Main Street entrepreneurs, not Wall Street financial wizards. In our new report, Jobs: A Main Street Fix for Wall Street's Failure, we show that most jobs come from the 99 percent—and that the best way to support job creation is to support rights and protections for the 99 percent.
A series of Kauffman Foundation studies find that nearly all job growth in the United States comes from entrepreneurial startups, which by their nature are products of Main Street. It is equally significant that more than 90 percent of the entrepreneurs responsible for job growth come from middle-class or the top end of lower-class backgrounds. Less than 1 percent of America's job-creating entrepreneurs come from extremely rich or extremely poor backgrounds.
Just as the Wall Street economy is about making money for the 1 percent, the Main Street economy is about middle class people self-organizing to make a living by creating businesses that serve community needs for goods, services, and livelihoods within a market framework. This is the market economy Adam Smith envisioned when he wrote The Wealth of Nations.
This is a critical insight. To unleash America's job-creating entrepreneurial energies, we must advance policies that expand the middle class and build strong Main Street economies. We have seen this demonstrated by our own national experience.
After Wall Street financiers precipitated the Great Depression of the 1930s, America put in place corrective structures, including a highly progressive tax system, a strong social safety net, and effective regulation of Wall Street banks and corporations. These structures shifted the locus of economic power from Wall Street financiers to ordinary Americans who worked hard and invested their savings in job-creating businesses that served community needs and built community wealth.
From this strong economic foundation, the United States emerged from victory in World War II with a large middle class and an industrial and technological base that made us the world's most powerful nation. A major portion of the society achieved the American Dream of a secure and comfortable life in return for hard work and playing by the rules. For a brief moment, the civil rights movement created hope that all Americans might eventually share in the dream regardless of their color.
How Wall Street Took Over
Beginning in the 1970s, Wall Street interests quietly mobilized to free themselves from regulation, unions, and taxes and to dismantle the nation's economic and social safety nets. Their initiatives, which gained traction under the Reagan administration, reduced taxes on the rich, undermined unions, pushed down wages and benefits, eliminated and outsourced jobs, eliminated limits on usury and speculation, and redirected financial markets from long-term investment in real wealth creation to profiting from securities fraud, usury, market manipulation, corporate asset stripping, and the inflation of financial bubbles.
It may seem that America's prosperity now depends on Wall Street. That perception is largely an illusion created by Wall Street success in rewriting the rules to gain control of the nation's money, productive re¬sources, and politicians. Wall Street's relationship to the United States is akin to that of a colonial occupier loyal solely to itself and devoted exclusively to expropriating wealth it has no hand in creating. Its institutions profit from eliminating jobs and worker benefits, depressing wages, evading taxes, denying health insurance claims, and pillaging the retirement accounts of the elderly.
Every need that Wall Street institutions fill is better served by Main Street institutions with strong community roots.
How To Restore the Job Creating Power of Main Street
Occupy Wall Street has focused a spotlight on the concentration and abuse of Wall Street power and opened a much needed conversation about how to restore the American Dream of a secure and comfortable life in return for hard work and playing by the rules.
The New Economy Working Group, which we co-chair, has just issued a report on Jobs: A Main Street Fix for Wall Street's Failure. It examines the systemic cause of the current economic failure and outlines a seven-part program to restore the middle class,advance a power shift from Wall Street to Main Street, and get America working again.
- Redefine our economic priorities by re¬placing financial indicators with real-wealth indicators as the basis for evaluating economic performance.
- Restructure the money system to root the power to create and allocate money in Main Street financial institutions that support Main Street job creation.
- Restore the middle class by restoring progressive tax and employment policies and a strong and secure social safety net.
- Create a framework of economic incentives that favor human-scale enterprises that are locally owned by people who have a natural interest in the health and well-being of their community and its natural environment.
- Protect markets and democracy from corruption by concentrations of unaccountable corporate power.
- Organize the global economy into substantially self-reliant regional economies that align and partner with the structure and dynamics of Earth's biosphere.
- Put in place global rules and institutions that secure the universal rights of people and support democratic self-governance and economic self-reliance at all system levels.
A serious jobs program will necessarily include short-term stimulus measures. Its primary focus, however, will be on structural interventions to shift the balance of economic and political power from Wall Street to Main Street and rebuild the American middle class.


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In 2014 the federal government enacted the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 which included a differential payment provision to diagnostic CT systems that do not meet the MITA Smart Dose CT XR-29 standard.
Under the new law, payment for the technical component under the physician fee schedule (CTs received in a non-hospital setting such as imaging center or physicians' office) and the APC payment under the hospital outpatient department (CTs) conducted in the hospital outpatient department) for services rendered with equipment not consistent with the XR-29 standards will be reduced by 5 percent in 2016 and 15 percent in 2017 and subsequent years.
Using the model and serial number, find out if your Philips CT is XR-29 compliant.


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A little while back I wrote a class that passed an instance into a routine and looped several times. What I needed was for the instance to be as it was intially with some fields set and some reverting to how they were before the field values were set.
When returning from the work class it would always have populated fields as expected. I did a rubbish hack and recreated
the instance and initialised some of the fields that needed pre-initialising.
I know this is probably a newbie question but how would i have saved the instance in the initialised state before the worker
class populated the rest of the fields. If i tried to save it to another Object it would point to the same instance and all the
changes were reflected in the cloned instance.
Is this a case of using a clone method or using the New keyword.
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The myth of the perfect espresso
Posted by TheShot on 14 Dec 2009 | Tagged as: Consumer Trends, Quality Issues
Last Friday, the UK edition of Wired magazine published one of those well-meaning articles that thoughtlessly got much of it all wrong: Computing the perfect coffee. At the article's core is the myth of the "perfect" espresso — something we believe to be about as real as the tooth fairy.
Blame for the modern myth of the "perfect" anything lies plainly with Martha Stewart and her catch-phrases. The myth of perfection has been perpetuated ever since by just about every talking head who stuffs something in his-or-her mouth on TV for a living. However, since the 1980s and the pioneering work of Howard Moskowitz in the field of psychophysics, we can pretty much safely assert that the notion of a singularly perfect anything is a dead-end. An illusion.
Howard Moskowitz and the rise of pasta sauce segmentation
Back in the 1980s, Mr. Moskowitz broke ranks with the conventional wisdom of the times that believed in singular perfection — i.e., that one, true combination of physical properties and aspects could be held up as the model for which everything else was an inferior imitation. Mr. Moskowitz deeply believed in the rule of "different strokes for different folks." He leveraged this idea to help make Prego pasta sauce — what many considered a superior product that languished and lagged in market share at the time — into a formidable competitor to the day's rule of Ragu.
While conventional wisdom believed there was one ultimate mother sauce that all pasta sauces were beholden to, Mr. Moskowitz's research showed there was a market demand for extra chunky sauce — which had no rational origin in all of mother Italy. Prego hired Mr. Moskowitz after he told Pepsi that they should seek out the perfect Pepsis instead of the perfect Pepsi — a radical idea at the time. Today we can count over 40 types of Pepsi, excluding all the diet variations.
Now take this logic a few steps further, and you can understand a little of why today Green Giant sells frozen vegetable mixes under the names "Immunity Blend" and "Digestive Health".
If measurement was science, why isn't there a Nobel Prize for weathermen?
But back to coffee, the lessons from Pepsi and pasta sauce suggest that there is no perfect espresso. Some consumers like a sharp, acidic espresso — often dominated by Central American beans at a lighter roast level. Others think these brightness bomb espresso shots are repulsive — and many of these consumers would rather have a more classic espresso defined by body and balance.
But there's another area where the Wired article fails, and that's in confusing the acts of measurement and tinkering for actual science and technology. Wired magazine lives and breathes on its celebration of cutting-edge science and technology. So they shoehorn the analogy of the Silicon Valley start-up-in-a-garage upon a couple of national barista heroes: the current and a previous World Barista Champion in Gwilym Davies and James Hoffman.
However, the article exalts the act of measurement as if that in itself has some magical, intrinsic value. And yet a GPS receiver in isolation — i.e., without the aid of cross-referenced maps — merely enables its owner to get lost with greater precision.
Measurement adds greatly to the reproducibility of results and as an aid to identify unconventional areas for experimentation. But it is foolish to compare someone's experimentation with precise brewing temperature controls to the invention of the first personal computer, as the article suggests. What's also problematic is that the more something can be measured, the more we tend to believe in a magical combination that unlocks the secrets to its perfection — a perfection that, as we pointed out above, doesn't really exist to begin with.
When in doubt, stamp "Third Wave" on it
Of course, the article's author, Mei Li, blew her technologist street cred by brandishing the ever-laughable Third Wave crutch. We dare Ms. Lei to pick up a an old school textbook such as Andrea Illy's Espresso Coffee: The Science of Quality (2nd ed.). Its scientific foundation of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and biochemistry would surely make her latte-art-fawning head explode.
They do not teach this in barista school, folks.
With its first edition published in 1995 (as Espresso Coffee: The Chemistry of Quality), this decidedly "second wave"-era book exudes more coffee science and technology per page than we've seen in all the volumes of "Third Wave" coffee books published in the 14 years since. For a magazine committed to "the future as it happens," Ms. Lei's Wired article sets our standards for actual coffee science back by a generation.
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Hey there,
I'm currently searching to buy an home Espresso machine (with the Cappucino function). Budget is around 150 euros. Any decent ones maybe you can recommend?
Many thanks
Cheers for this guys, actually that's what I'm wondering as well. So your suggestions are very helpful to firm my suspect (the holiday season sales is tempting though…)
I guess I will stay with my Moka pot for a while and save up money/experience to buy a decent one later. I happen to love good coffee fanatically, even considering moving to Italy for that. Study/Intern in Paris now, but seriously, having a good cup of coffee here is a very rare experience……
Indeed, I disagree with your commentage on the Wired piece. I am a current subscriber to Wired (US) and a regular reader of your blog. I think the difference comes in the your different writing styles.
1) Think of Wired as being VERY bombastic and sarcastic in many of their pieces, awhile throwing in generally technical and accurate information. Sifting through a piece is an exercise in interpretation, opinion – to me the whole process is entertainment.
2) Coffeeratings, on the otherhand, is very square, clear and decisive. No mumbo-jumbo to be had, which isn't clearly deciphered. Everything is as it should be.
YOUR problem comes in when you assume that everything is square in their sarcastic world. Which it is certainly not. Hopefully by numbers above help you to cut through my mumbo – maybe? Probably not.