text: Of all the lifeless worlds of our solar system, the gas giant planets Uranus and Neptune are among the most inhospitable. So strange are these two ringed planets, future astronauts may find black diamonds hailing down on them through the dense poisonous atmospheres. The interiors of both planets contain liquid methane, which according to some researchers may turn into diamonds at the high temperatures and pressures found deep inside. Once these diamonds form, they fall like raindrops or hailstones toward the center of the planet, according to Laura Robin Benedetti and Raymond Jeanloz of the University of California at Berkeley. The two researchers produced the exact planetary conditions inside what scientists call a diamond anvil cell; they squeezed liquid methane to several hundred thousand times Earths sea-level atmospheric pressure. When they focused a high-energy infrared laser beam on the liquidcausing the temperature of the methane to reach 5,000 degrees Fahrenheitdiamond dust began to form and rain inside the anvil cell. To produce a rain of diamonds resulting from methane and other hydrocarbon compounds, deep below the cloud covers of Uranus and Neptune, implies planets with complex, high-pressure chemistry. By understanding the interiors of the outer gas giants, scientists also hope to better understand distant brown dwarf stars, small dim stars that are slightly larger than Jupiter. Brown dwarfs are the missing link between planets and stars. This work is opening the door to study the interesting types of chemical reactions taking place inside planets and brown dwarf suns, Jeanloz said. Now that technology is able to reproduce the high pressures and temperatures found there, we are getting much better quality information on the chemical reactions taking place under these conditions. A simple calculation, for example, shows that the energy released by diamonds settling to the planets core could account for the excess heat radiated by Neptunethat is, the heat given off by Neptune in excess of what it receives from the Sun, said Benedetti. Benedetti and Jeanloz squeezed liquid methane to make diamond dust. The liquid methane, cooled with liquid nitrogen, was placed in the diamond anvil cell and squeezed to 10 and 50 billion pascals (gigapascals), or about 100,000-500,000 times atmospheric pressure on Earth. Next, the researchers heated the methane with an infrared laser to 3,000 Kelvin (5,400 degrees Fahrenheit). The laser caused the methane to turn black because of the diamonds created. The black diamond specks float in a clear hydrocarbon liquid melted by the laser. Jupiter and Saturn may also contain diamonds produced under such conditions, though they contain proportionately less methane than Neptune and Uranus. Neptune and Uranus are estimated to contain 10 to 15 percent methane under an outer atmosphere of hydrogen and helium. Whats in the skyLets hope for a clear sky Nov. 16 for the Leonid meteor shower. Light from the gibbous Moon will wash out some of the meteors. Louis Varricchio lives in Vermont. He was a NASA senior science writer and a freelance science reporter for Public Radio International. He is a part of the NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador program in Vermont and a senior member of the U.S. Civil Air Patrol, a U.S.Air Force auxiliary.


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The new SL 65 AMG is the most powerful vehicle of the current model series. Supremely confident sportiness and select luxury are the features that characterise its uncompromising presence.
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The Scoop on All Things British
Release Date: 5/19/2009
When it comes to Britain, most Americans don't know (Union) Jack. Fortunately, now an Anglo-American husband-and-wife team are here to help with a smart, funny, and handy guide that minds the gap between fact and fiction. From Whigs and Windsors to wankers and Wales, this spit-spot-on reference covers all manner of British history, society, culture, language, and everyday life, including
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"A witty, irreverent crash course '101' that all Anglophiles will love. Leslie Banker and William Mullins have bridged the great divide between two countries separated by a common language. A bloody good read!"—Anita Naughton, author of Tea and Sympathy


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U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar recently stopped by Children's Hospital in Minneapolis to highlight her push to rein in the high cost of prescription drugs. Legislation championed by her would allow consumers to import cheaper medications from Canada, help generic versions of brand-name drugs get to market faster and allow the federal government to wield its mighty purchasing power to negotiate lower drug prices for Medicare seniors.
All are reasonable and necessary measures. But for those concerned by the high cost of drugs, the Democratic senator's prescriptions sounded depressingly familiar. Klobuchar, Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain, Democratic Sen. Al Franken and other congressional stalwarts have backed a variety of drug cost reforms for years, yet these common- sense solutions remain mired in Congress. Klobuchar in particular has waged a dogged fight to ban shady "pay to delay" deals in which the makers of brand-name drugs pay generic manufacturers to hold off selling less-expensive versions of the same medication.
Unfortunately, these congressional consumer advocates are battling hurricane-force political headwinds, courtesy of the wealthy pharmaceutical industry and its legions of lobbyists. Drugmakers understandably like the profitable status quo in which American taxpayers fund much of the basic research for drug development — particularly cancer treatments — through research grants, yet also pay some of the highest prices in the world for medications once they come on the market. Even with the Affordable Care Act's coverage expansion and Medicare Part D for seniors, copays and deductibles can still leave many consumers scrambling to pay or going without.
The national uproar over Martin Shkreli, a pharmaceutical CEO who jacked up the price of a medication by 5,000 percent, pushed policymakers to put aside their Obamacare ideological fight and focus on prescription drug costs. The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has subpoenaed Shkreli to appear on Tuesday, though he has asked to be excused. His imminent browbeating at the hands of committee members is richly deserved. But congressional efforts must continue beyond political theater.
It's worth noting that 100 of the nation's leading cancer doctors support the three initiatives pushed by Klobuchar. In August, they authored an alarming article in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings medical journal. The doctors noted that the "average price of new cancer drugs increased 5- to 10-fold over 15 years, to more than $100,000 per year in 2012." Their solutions include ending pay-for-delay deals, allowing imports from Canada and permitting Medicare to negotiate drug prices. In a statement this week, the Federal Trade Commission said its chairwoman, Edith Ramirez, also supports pay-for-delay legislation.
Klobuchar and others have waged a long battle to rein in drug prices. She is to be commended not only for embracing respected solutions but also for her readiness to seize the opportunity at hand to go further. "At some point people in Washington have to start listening to their constituents about drug prices and stand up to the drug companies,'' she said this week. "This simply can't continue."
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Join Don Smith and Gary Hart as we photograph the most exciting locations of Northern Arizona.
The workshop will start in Tusayan, just outside the south entrance to Grand Canyon National Park's south rim. We will photograph my favorite locations. This past year we even had some fresh snow to work with on the Canyon Rim!
We will then caravan on to Page where we will photograph both Upper Antelope Canyon and Canyon X! This allows for 5 hours of Canyon shooting! I have timed this workshop to have you in Upper Antelope Canyon for the proper time to capture the amazing beams of shafting sunlight! We finish the day with a three-hour tour through incredible Canyon X. A sunrise shoot is also scheduled for Horseshoe Bend the next morning!
SLOT CANYON TOURS DISCLAIMER: Don Smith Photography LLC cannot be held responsible if the Navajo Tour Groups decide to change the timing of the tours not to coincide with the shaft of light. If tour groups cancel photo tours due to danger of flash flooding, I will refund the price of the slot canyon tours only.
We will end the workshop in the red rock heaven of Sedona. This year I have timed the workshop to allow for a full sunset painting the iconic Cathedral Rocks with Oak Creek in the foreground. This will be an awesome photo opportunity you will not want to miss!
NOTE: Due to the amount of shoots planned, there will only be (2) class meetings planned.
Don't wait to sign-up as I expect this workshop to fill quickly. Only 12 spots are available!
We'll also find time in the middle of the day to improve your photography and workflow with image review and classroom training teaching you Don's workflow with Lightroom, Photoshop and selected third-party filters.
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The Arctic's sea ice cover appears to have reached its minimum extent on September 17, 2014. Sea ice extent on that day was measured at 5.02 million square kilometers (1.94 million square miles). It was the sixth-lowest extent recorded since satellites began measuring sea ice in 1979. The number is above the 2012 record extent but is still below the long-term average.
Sea ice extent in Antarctica, where it is late winter, has surpassed the satellite-era record for maximum ice extent. We will report the 2014 Antarctic maximum sea ice extent and date of maximum in October, since it may still continue to grow for a short while.
The Arctic sea ice extent number is preliminary—changing winds could still push the ice extent lower, clarifies National Snow and Ice Data Centre.
NSIDC will issue a formal announcement at the beginning of October with full analysis of the possible causes behind this year's ice conditions, particularly interesting aspects of the melt season, the set up going into the winter growth season ahead, and graphics comparing this year to the long-term record.
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AELP publishes briefing paper on DWP Commissioning Strategy
The Association of Employment and Learning Providers (AELP) has published a briefing paper on the new DWP Commissioning Strategy.
The AELP has said:
"AELP generally welcomes the new Commissioning Strategy as giving a basis on which to plan future business opportunities. In essence it does not signal any radical movement from the status quo and we can probably expect that larger contracts will continue with large contract package areas containing a small number of prime providers in each. The lack of mention of the role of the ERSS is interesting but it would be unwise to speculate how significant or otherwise this may be at this stage. The general commitment to try and increase the ability of SMEs to engage in DWP contracts is welcome, as is the shift of tender assessment from price to quality, a move for which AELP has been lobbying for some time, and the explicit recognition of the role that previous track record plays in determining a tenderer's suitability to deliver. Track record should include current performance once the statistics have been verified and evidence from other contracts with the activity is similar. We also welcome the increased focus on smaller and more specialist tendering opportunities at more local levels."
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Today at a townhall meeting in Wisconsin, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) tried to claim that President Bush's policies in Iraq are "succeeding," by pointing to the "quiet" in Mosul and other cities:
So I can tell you that it is succeeding. I can look you in the eye and tell you it's succeeding. We have drawn down to pre-surge levels. Basra, Mosul and now Sadr city are quiet and it's long and it's hard and it's tough and there will be setbacks.
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Light Therapy for Moderate Traumatic Brain Injury (LLLT for TBI)
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Know the risks and potential benefits of clinical studies and talk to your health care provider before participating. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02233413
Recruitment Status : Recruiting
First Posted : September 8, 2014
Last Update Posted : May 17, 2018
Massachusetts General Hospital
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Rajiv Gupta, Massachusetts General Hospital
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|First Submitted Date ICMJE
|June 5, 2014
|First Posted Date ICMJE
|September 8, 2014
|Last Update Posted Date
|May 17, 2018
|Study Start Date ICMJE
|June 2014
|Estimated Primary Completion Date
|December 2018 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Current Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Safety and feasibility of applying light therapy after moderate TBI [ Time Frame: up to seven days after enrollment ]
Number of subjects to successfully complete light therapy without serious unanticipated adverse events related to application of the device.
|Original Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Safety and feasibility of applying light therapy after moderate TBI [ Time Frame: up to seven days after enrollment ]
Number of subjects to successfully complete up to 7 days of light therapy without serious unanticipated adverse events related to application of the device.
|Change History
|Complete list of historical versions of study NCT02233413 on ClinicalTrials.gov Archive Site
|Current Secondary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Original Secondary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Same as current
|Current Other Outcome Measures ICMJE
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|Original Other Outcome Measures ICMJE
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|Brief Title ICMJE
|Light Therapy for Moderate Traumatic Brain Injury
|Official Title ICMJE
|Low Level Light Therapy (LLLT) With Near Infrared Light Emitting Diodes in Patients With Moderate Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
|Brief Summary
|The purpose of this research study is to find out if a specialized helmet that provides low levels of near infrared light, also known as low-level light therapy (LLLT) has any effect on the recovery of people who have recently (within 72h) suffered a moderate traumatic brain injury (TBI).
|Detailed Description
|The specific aim of this pilot study is to determine the feasibility of using the LLLT helmet in patients with moderate TBI and to quantify the response to LLLT using magnetic resonance (MR) and clinical outcome measures. We hypothesize that we will be able to quantify the response to LLLT through MR imaging and clinical outcome measures.
|Study Type ICMJE
|Study Phase
|Not Applicable
|Study Design ICMJE
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Triple (Participant, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Other
|Condition ICMJE
|Moderate Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
|Intervention ICMJE
|Study Arms
|Publications *
|Not Provided
* Includes publications given by the data provider as well as publications identified by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number) in Medline.
|Recruitment Information
|Recruitment Status ICMJE
|Estimated Enrollment ICMJE
|Original Estimated Enrollment ICMJE
|Same as current
|Estimated Study Completion Date
|December 2018
|Estimated Primary Completion Date
|December 2018 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Eligibility Criteria ICMJE
Inclusion Criteria:
Exclusion Criteria:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers
|Contacts ICMJE
|Listed Location Countries ICMJE
|United States
|Removed Location Countries
|Administrative Information
|NCT Number ICMJE
|Other Study ID Numbers ICMJE
W81XWH-13-2-0067 CDMRP ( Other Grant/Funding Number: Department of Defense )
|Has Data Monitoring Committee
|U.S. FDA-regulated Product
|Not Provided
|IPD Sharing Statement
|Not Provided
|Responsible Party
|Rajiv Gupta, Massachusetts General Hospital
|Study Sponsor ICMJE
|Massachusetts General Hospital
|Collaborators ICMJE
|Not Provided
|Investigators ICMJE
|PRS Account
|Massachusetts General Hospital
|Verification Date
|May 2018
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It began unexpectedly, writing a text saying "good morning" to you
Your respond was quite good at first
Every morning, i think hard how would i text you
and would look forward to your respond
Now, it has been more than two weeksUnconsciously it becomes a habit now
and various questions come out on and on
Did i disturb you?Did it effect you in any matter?
Did i have to keep saying "good morning" to you?
I couldn't be so ignorant
Because it involves you, your feelings
That for this past two weeks, I was really happy sharing morning greetings with you
I hope you keep your spirit high , and don't forget to smile (always)
Surely it will cease away your tiredness
this is the last Mas Mik
Thank you .. :)


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The 2014 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is approaching closer. Japanese titan Sony, who will reportedly hold a press conference on January 6, may announce the much awaited Xperia Z1 Mini on the same day.
The long rumored handset has been spotted at the FCC and is expected to reach Europe early next year.
Sony has already launched the mini version of Xperia Z1 (Xperia Z1f) in Japan. Since past few months, multiple-reports suggested that the Xperia Z1 mini would be made in other parts of the world sooner than expected.
The FCC certification yet again proves that the Sony Xperia Z1S is heading to US and Europe sometime in the future. The handset will run the Android 4.3 Jelly Bean instead of the latest version (Android 4.4 Kitkat).
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Codename "Anami", the latest FCC filing reveals much more about the device. The Sony handset measures 127 mm in height and 64.9 mm in width. The phone appears to be similar to the Xperia Z1f, an International variant exclusive to Japanese market. Moreover, the filing also listed out exact model number Sony D5503.
The Japanese version of Xperia Z1 comes with a 4.3-inch TFT LCD 720p HD display.
The handset is powered by a 2.2GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 SoC (MSM8974) coupled with 2GB of RAM and 16GB of ROM (expandable up to 64GB via a microSD card slot).
Android 4.2 Jelly Bean comes out the device.The Xperia Z1f also supports 4G LTE, 3G, Wi-Fi, NFC and a 2300mAh battery.
Camera enthusiast would be happy to know that Sony hasn't changed the camera, a 20.7-megapixel rear shooter powered by "G "Lens is similar to what you seen the original Xperia Z1.
Most likely, Sony will announce the Xperia Z1 Mini on January 6 at the CES 2014. Stay tuned to GizBot!


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In my opinion, the narrator in this story was very jealous, egocentric and close-minded. He was like a few people I know, in that he could be proved wrong about anything, and not admit the fault. The blind man in the story was a friend of his wife, and I think that he was uncomfortable having him as a guest in his house. I can't say that I blame him for his jealousy; anyone would be in a similar situation.
Antipathy has a couple of different meanings, and to a degree, they both contribute to the plot. The first definition says that antipathy is a feeling of intense aversion. It applies to the story because the narrator, like many people, tend to steer clear of situations where they would have to try something new, or be in the company of someone who is "different", whether it be physically or mentally.
The second definition states that antipathy is a feeling of intense dislike. The narrator, up until he began talking about cathedrals to the blind man, simply didn't like his wife's friend.
He was motivated to overcome negative feelings toward the blind man to please his wife. He also changed his attitude because after spending time with the blind man, he realized that they were not so different after all. He had prejudged the man just like many people before him. By prejudging the man's personality because he was blind, the narrator fell into the same hole that contains all stereotypes. In this story the narrator was able to get past some of those stereotypes, although the cannabis might have been a contributing factor. For the sake of argument, however, one could say that his character grew a little morally, sober or not.


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Beside working on "Tales From The Yellow Kangaroo" together with his buddy GMO, Dense used summer 2012 to collect sounds for his long awaited next solo album "Exhale", released July 2013.
Accept his invitation to explore nine amazing tracks, which involve you into a journey through melodic chillout tunes. With an ambient remix of "Silence" by E-Mantra from Romania, released on his latest same titled album, and an amazing remix of Cabeiri's "Adorable View", relased on their debut album "Inner Thoughts", Dense delivers again a proof of his remix skills. Progressive tracks like "Moonflower" and "The Right Distance" make the chillout floor getting warm. Get detail information or your personal copy on the Altar Rec. website.
Track list:
1. E-Mantra - Silence (Dense Atmo Remix)
2. Pathfinder
3. GMO vs. Dense - The Law Of God (Remix)
4. Sparrick
5. Exhale
6. Cabeiri - Adorable View (Dense Remix)
7. Moonflower
8. The Right Distance
9. GMO vs. Dense - Passing Storm (Out Of The Storm Remix)
Label: Altar Records, Canada
Release: 07/2013
Type: Album
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The Ghosts Pirates is "one of the greatest supernatural stories of the sea, written by probably the greatest writer of horror at sea who ever lived. It is a literary feat of the first magnitude." Relentless doom and grisly death are the fate of a doomed ship when it crosses the path of a ghostly vessel manned by the living dead. One by one the narrator watches his fellows disappear in the night, until he and the ships' captain and doctor resolve on a desperate plan to save themselves.
H. P. Lovecraft raved that "With its command of maritime knowledge, and its clever selection of hints and incidents suggestive of latent horrors in nature, [The Ghost Pirates] reaches enviable peaks of power." Clark Ashton Smith wrote that "One must also accord a more than formal praise to The Ghost Pirates which is really one of the few successful long stories dealing with the phantasmal. Its rout of ghastly and persistent specters will follow the reader long after they have seized the haunted ship!" Fritz Leiber hailed it as a novel that "...fulfills at book length au the canons of the spectral tale laid down by Lovecraft, James, and others... There is a steady progress toward doom, in which the suspense builds with an almost unparalleled uninterruptedness." By the author of The House on the Borderland, also available from Renaissance E Books.


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A certain Probban Frass (detailed in the NPCs section) requested the PCs track down the mate of the white dragon that made its lair by Northaven and recover smithing materials. Upon arrival at the dwarf's camp, the PCs identified that he was actually undead, but appeared to be somewhat unaware of his condition.
The PCs tracked down the white dragon's mate and slew it, returning with its corpse to Probban's camp, where he savagely attacked them. From a plot of turned earth, the corpse of the previous white dragon (and those of several dwarves) emerged. The group drove the life again from their lifeless bodies, returning them to the earth.
As before, the incorporeal forms of the creatures emerged from their mortal shells and assaulted the group. With some well-managed diplomacy Sigaurd was able to convince the ghostly form of the old white dragon that Probban was at fault ans she turned on him, fleeing the scene after the confrontation ended.


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Atelier Firis (PSVita/PS4)
After a rather average Atelier Sophie, Gust had to react and strengthen the series. Looks like they're doing so, by the looks of the enhanced graphics, evolving and more convincing character design and the innovating game system. The adventure is no longer centered around one town and Firis's base camp will be mobile. Moreover, choices you make on the world map will cause slight changes on the flow of events. NOCO and Yûgen seem to have sharpened their skills on those first characters, NOCO in particular taking a more mature/sexy orientation. Yûgen has this curious character called Ilmeria, who makes me think she can be a Meruru successor in some way. I must admit that the improvements are stunning so far.
Kangokutô Mary Skelter (PSVita)
A Compile's Dungeon-RPG that I am eager to play, partly because the devilish art direction is conducted by Kai Nanameda, already behind Trillion, God of Destruction. This DRPG takes a survival approach by its ghostly Nightmares who will hunt you down so fiercly you'll have to run away. Several jobs have been unveiled, as well as a Genocide mode in which the girls gain immense power when in contact with ennemies' blood. On the contrary, licking the blood will heal them, but remove the Genocide state. A gameplay balance in which risk-assessment will be key.
Sengoku Otome (PSVita)
Weird background for this game since taking its origin from a anime itself coming from a pachinko! Sengoku Otome is kind of the Oda Nabuna game we never got : this fighting game which seems to play like Senran Kagura features girls representing general from feudal Japan. The ambitious Tokugawa Ieyasu becomes a shy pink-haired girl while Toyotomi Hideyoshi turns into a blonde loli. As much as I feel sorry for those great men, the paradox looks rather fun.
Root Letter (PS4/PSVita)
A visual novel of fascinating concept. The player has had a pen friend called Aya, with whom he has exchanged 10 letters. In the very last one that he finds and reads years later, she admits committing murder. From there the game start as an investigation thriller, in which you have to find Aya's former classmates to uncover the truth.
Black Rose Valkyrie (PS4)
Compile Heart is going into something a bit different for this game, because one of the girls of Black Rose Valkyrie is a traitor. So while fighting against a fierce virus and monsters called Chimeras, the main character will also have to regularly question his allies, very much like in Lost Dimension. Reminding Galapagos's works in a lot of ways, it also features costume break as it was in Omega Quintet.
Idolmaster Platinum Stars (PS4)
Stunning by its sharp anime style, Idolmaster Platinum Stars will be my first step in that famous IP. Sure had to go into it one day. The player once more takes the role of a star manager and will have to lead his girls to the top of the entertainment business. You really start from scratch this time, because you pick the girls at the very beginning of their career.
Tokiden 2 (PS4/PS3/PSVita)
Not much to say more about Tokiden 2 since I wrote a lot about the demo last time. It's just matter to check how large the world really is and the improvements made to combat.
Caligula (PSVita)
An RPG to have on your radar for its original base story : the students in Caligula are trapped in a fictitious ideal world created by a vocaloid called μ. Although the digital singer actually protects them from the wicked real world, those young men and women decide to stop living a lie ad will seek to destroy μ. Centered on the subject of digital worlds, Caligula benefits from genuine vocaloid songs.


text: I am so grateful for my husband and my children and my family. For everyone's health and happiness. That we all get to be together and laugh and enjoy our days. For the privilege of being a Mom, a guide and a coach to life for three precious souls. For the purpose they give me, for the humility they've engendered in me. For the kisses and hugs and laughs and surprises. For my husband, the most selfless and giving, fun and supportive man I could ever have hoped to meet. For the warmth and comfort of our home. It's small. It leaves a lot to be desired, but it's ours and we all know we are safe and warm and loved there. For my Mom. So happy to have her and to finally really understand, at age 40, all the sacrifices she and my Dad (RIP) made over the years to give me and my brothers a good life. For my brothers and their families, whom I cherish to my core. With whom I love to be, and just hang. I know how lucky I am. When I was younger I may not have understood or appreciated all I had, but that's the beauty of getting a little bit older. You don't take anything for granted.


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Daedalus Reef is 8 hours sailing time down the Red Sea and lies about 70kms off the coast.
It is a large coral outcrop rising shear off the sea bed but despite the expanse of the sea, it has been hit a number of times, hence it has a manned lighthouse to keep it company.
Diving here is complicated because of how much there can be to see and what you have to remember during the dive.
For the technically minded this was a 31% nitrox MOD 33.8m 1.4 pp, rib drop off negative to 7m, then descend to MOD into the blue, current north to south, reef on right shoulder, big loop looking for pelagics in the blue, slow ascent to 5 m along the reef wall, SMBs at 5 m and 3 min safety plus ceilings, surface by 50 bar, rib pickup then breakfast. MDT 60 minutes.
For the non technically minded, divers who dive as often as we are this week often use a special gas mixture called NITROX – normal air contains 21% oxygen, NITROX contains more. However the more Oxygen you breath, the shallower the depth you are allowed to go (because Oxygen is a poisonous gas at depth). Our gas mix is 31% Oxygen (we know that because you personally measure it before each dive) and that creates a depth limit (with a reasonable safety margin) of 33.8m. If you exceed the depth limit slightly, it is no big issue because your dive computer adjusts what you are allowed to do to compensate. If you exceed it by a large amount, it can be a tragedy.
Why do we use a special gas mix? Firstly the more oxygen you breath the less tired you get (and believe me, we get tired), secondly the more oxygen you breath the less nitrogen you breath and nitrogen limits how long you are allowed to spend under water in any 24 hour period. So we are seeking to balance depth with time under water with tiredness with safety and that is why we wear dive computers because they do the complex maths related to depth, time and ascent rates throughout the dive and advise you of what to do. And just to complicate matters further, ordinary air becomes dangerous when you go much below 40 m depth – diving can be complicated!
We are diving as deep as our gas mix will allow (not more than 33.8m) and entering the water from a Rib (rigid inflatable boat) close to the reef. There is the possibility of large fish out in the deeper ocean so we are swimming out there away from the reef whilst remembering that the reef is behind us and as we loop, we are doing so to the right thus keeping the reef on our right shoulder because that way we are finning with the current. Once we get back to the reef, we slowly ascend to 5 metres drifting or finning along and taking as long as possible so we can enjoy the coral and anything else that appears. When our tanks are about 1/3rd full we do a 3 minute safety stop (we stay between 6m and 3 m depth) to allow the nitrogen in our blood stream to escape somewhat and we may be forced to do an additional "ceiling stop" if our dive computer thinks we have exceeded any of the safety limits for the dive. We then deploy our Surface Marker Buoys to show where we are, surface and the rib comes to pick us up and take us back to the boat for a well deserved breakfast. We also have a time limit of about 60 minutes underwater per dive – this is self imposed and is intended to ensure that everyone gets back by a certain time – if you are late, rescue parties are mustered to search for you.
How do we remember to do all of this whilst we are diving? The simple answer is "Training" and because you agree a dive plan with your dive buddy before the dive and keep to it..
Dive 3 – Daedulus Reef from the North East to South East
This dive is all about scale. The reef wall is steep and therefore its drop-off into the ocean is significant as the above picture shows (with divers as the scale marker). Above you can see how
shear the reef wall is.
There are large outcrops of coral attached to the wall
some quite stunning and very old because coral is a slow grower
There are small fish by the million
who seem quite calm as we fin by
plus a lot of fish out in the blue
and a passing turtle some distance away
One large Coral Hind was very keen to swim with me
There was of course the common stag horn coral
and some beautiful small corals – colour is different underwater and when you are close up to the coral above, it shines a brilliant white.
Dive 4 – Daedalus Reef from East to South
For this dive we started to the east of the lighthouse (rib drop off again) and drifted and finned with the current back to our boat.
A lot of fish accompanied us as we drifted including the above Napoleon
This Wrasse
and a couple of Trigger Fish who had other things on their mind than divers
Below is a type of Starfish called a "Crown of Thorns" – it is controversial
because many reef preservationists say that it destroys coral reefs by eating the coral (and therefore should be destroyed on sight). Because it has few natural predators, it thrives once established and they cite as evidence of its destructive nature, the damage it has done to the Great Barrier Reef once Abalone numbers (one of its few predators) had been decimated due to over fishing.
Towards the end of the dive we came across a shoal of Cornet Fish
who were very inquisitive – this one came right up to my mask and it was eyeball to eyeball for a number of minutes as we checked each other out.
Dive 5 – Daedalus Reef from West to South West
The objective was to explore a different part of the reef, drifting with the current at an easy depth and just seeing what one could find. A Rib drop off (and pickup) left us at a shear wall of coral with some amazing growths.
If you take the diver in the picture below as a scale, the coral outcrop behind him represents about 1000 years of growth.
This diver is just hanging around besides a crop of fire coral
Fire coral carries with it a red warning colour
because if you touch it, you get stung quite painfully.
Amongst the fish in the coral wall were Nemos such as that above and below which live inside a stinging anemone. Over time, they have developed an immunity to the poison in the anemone and hence nip back inside to hide whenever danger is sensed.
Large Trigger fish such as that below are to be feared because they are very aggressive when defending a nest. Most divers have been chased or bitten by a trigger fish a number of times during their diving careers.
Fish are quite good at camouflage. In a cave on the wall, a large
Grouper was lying quite quietly having a snooze. When it realised we
were there, it opened one eye to keep a watch on us but decided not to move unless it felt threatened (we left it alone and moved on).
Dive 6 – Daedalus reef from the North East to the South East
It was decided by the group that we would stay at Daedalus for an additional day and repeat some of the day's dives with the hope of seeing the elusive Hammerhead Shark – a few were seen on the first dive here but they were far out into the blue and down deep and so would not really count as a shark spot except to the most desperate.
33% Nitrox, MOD 31.8, current the same as the previous day and so a repeat performance of depth, route and pickup – but:
out of the blue at about 31m depth came a single hammerhead to check us out. At this depth, photography is difficult for simple cameras and therefore the quality of these pictures is not the best.
We had been told to stay together as we went down so that we sounded like a large shoal of fish and therefore possible prey to a group of hammerheads. It is said that they often send one to investigate and report back and here was the "one".
If the above photographs are adjusted further for colour contrast, the most believing of people can see the peculiar shape of head – I know it was there because it was about 15m away from me.
Mission accomplished!
Dive 7 – Daedalus reef from the South to the South East and back
Giant Stride down to 31m then along the coral wall with a slow ascent to the return point. Lots of interesting fish including a Titan Trigger Fish which
was defending its nest as well as aerating the eggs by fanning water over
them. Woe betide any fish or diver who came near the nest, they were
aggressively chased away and then it would go back to its fanning job. When you see this mouth coming towards you, you quickly back off.
Photographing fish is never easy, they seem to have a knack for turning side on or rearwards just as you take the picture.
It took six attempts to get this fish to pose for me.
Close to the surface was a Turtle which was minding its own business
and it swam around looking for lunch.
one of the problems in being interesting is that you then get followed by all of the paparazzi wanting to take your picture! pursued
There was of course the usual interesting and picturesque coral
Apart from the Trigger Fish, the shoal of Cornets and the Turtle, one of the memories I shall take back from this site is drifting through clouds of Antheas and other small fish
Dive 8 – Daedalus reef from the South to the West
This completes the circuit of the reef, and displays varieties of fish
we have seen before such as the Goatfish above
a Trigger fish who decided to pose for this photograph
a puffer fish who preferred to show us its underneath
a large number of soft corals, including this coral with fish living in it,
and a pom-pom coral whose white is in strong contrast to the green of the brain coral it is growing on. In the current, you see the strands of the coral moving as they take in any passing food
we finished the dive at the enormous Porites Lutea of yesterday. This is about 10m tall which makes it well over 1000 years old and hence one of the oldest animals living on earth – remember corals are animals not plants.


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We are so happy to announce the Prom Dress Giveaway dates for 2017 and that Desert Recreation District will now manage the program:
Where & When?
How?Participants MUST make an appointment and BRING A VALID SCHOOL ID CARD. Call 760.501.8120 or email message to firstname.lastname@example.com to schedule your dress fitting appointment. Please include your first and last name, cell phone number, and email address and your event date and location.
* This program is open to junior and senior girls attending high school in the Coachella Valley.
* Participants must be present to select a dress. No one may select a dress for someone else.
* Please do not bring children to these events.
*Participants are able to bring one guest with them to their appointment.
* Participants will receive one dress and possibly an accessory (depending on size and availability).
* Dress availability in sizes 0-2 and 16 and above is very limited. We cannot guarantee that we will have sufficient inventory in these sizes, but we try very hard to accommodate everyone!


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Var (83630) Population: 1,796 Altitude: 500 m
This very pleasant small town is full of fountains, and has squares shaded with huge plane trees. The town forms an ampitheater walled by ramparts and crowned with the ruins of its feudal castle
The houses date back to the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, and in their cluster you can find tiny streets, friendly cafés and plenty of shops. There's a square lookout tower (beffroi) and an 18th century clock tower topped by the iron-caged bell tower (in one on the attached photos, above). These wrought-iron belfries, called Campaniles de fer forgé, are one of the many wonderful sites of the Beyond region, and you could do a whole trip visiting just them.
La Chapelle Nôtre Dame de la Délivrance was built in 1852, on the ruins of a 12th-century chateau.
Update 2005
We originally put this Aups page online in Beyond in October 1995, one of our first Beyond villages. We've visited or passed through several times since then, but only took the time recently (autumn 2004, summer 2005) to take some more photos with better camera equipment.
We also took a leisurly second breakfast at on of the terrace cafés on the Place Général Girad, shaded by a gigantic plane tree, "tinkled" by the sound of the old stone fountain [ photo-6 ]; café au lait and a fougasse à l'huile d'olive-citron from a great bakery just up the street [ photo-7 ].
Fougasse - The Aups fougasse is a large, round, thin tarte made with olive oil and lemon, and has a distinct lemon smell and flavor.
History of Aups
First record, 11th century: Almis
Prehistoric: Natural iron deposits in the here made this an iron-age settlement, and bones have been found in the Plerimond caves, 8 km to the southeast.
Gallo-Roman: There was an oppidum (Roman fortified site), and there are Gallo-Roman vestiges at nearby Mousque, Plerimond and Raton.
Medieval: The area was ruled by the Seigneurie des Blacas. In 1574, the church was pillaged by the Huguenots, and in 1590 the Ligurians had their turn.
Tourist Office
Place Martin Bidouré
Tel : 0494 84 00 69; Fax: 04 94 84 00 69
Web: http://www.aups-tourisme.com/
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Market day: Wed, Sat.
Jan (End) - Journée de la truffe - Truffle Day, traditonal village festival
Mar - Carnaval
May (2nd Sun) - Féte
Aug (3rd Sun) - Féte
Nov-Feb - Truffle market (Thur mornings, late Nov-Feb)
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Didier Richard (1/50,000) #25 "Maures Haut-Pays Varois"
Didier Richard (1/50,000) #19 "Haute Provence Verdon"
The area around the village has many farms and vineyards, so cross-country hiking is limited.
A couple of trails follow the roads south and southeast out of the village and then go through lovely forests towards Salernes, Villacroze and Tourtour.
There are some nice loops hikes east of the village in the wooded Montagne des Espiguières, that get up to 834 m (and 880 m further east).
Northwest of Aups there are several forest roads in the beautiful La Colle and Les Cugulons hills (with forested peaks in the 800-950 m range). You can get to this area also by a trail that goes northwest from the D957 road 6 km north of Aups. This trail goes up the ridge of Les Cugulons about 6 km to where it joins the Grande Randonnée GR99, the trail that goes along the southern part of the Grand Canyon du Verdon.
- Camping
- International Camping - tel: (33) 494 70 06 80; fax: (33) 494 70 10 51; Apr-Sept
- Les Prés - tel: (33) 494 70 00 93; permanent
- St-Lazare - tel: (33) 494 70 12 86; Apr-Sept
- Les Prés - tel: (33) 494 70 00 93; permanent
There are several café-restaurants and a couple of pretty good hotel-restaurants. On a Sunday noon in early Feb (2002) the restaurants filled up fast, so either start early or phone ahead.
Aups has the Musée Simon Segal art museum (paintings), housed in what must have been an old church. It's a really fine old building, on one of the streets in the center of town.
Faykod Sculpture Park - Musée de Faykod
- Location: Route de Tourtour
- Web: www.musee-de-faykod.com
Transportation Aups
The nearest international airports are Paris and Nice. Internal flights are available to Marseilles and Toulon-Hyères.
Mainline rail service, from Paris or Nice, is available to Les Arcs (station Draguignan-Les Arcs), Toulon and Brignols. The TGV from Paris also stops at Les Arcs. [map]
Car Rental.
the nearest car rental is in Draguignan
Department 83, Var Buses
- See Beyond's Var Department Bus Schedules for downloading the Var bus-lines map [Plan du Reseau] and bus-line schedules [Horaires] (link for PDF files).
- Schedules for the Var bus lines are on the VarLib Horaires-Ligne page (http://www.varlib.fr/horaires_ligne/?rub_code=6") - type the line number in the Numéro ... ligne box to access the bus schedule PDF link. (Type a couple of digits in the box to get a list of route numbers.)
Les Arcs - Draguignan - Salernes - Aups Bus 1201
- Var bus line 1201 connects Les Arcs (Gare SNCF/TGV), Draguignan, Flayosc, Villecroze, Salernes, Aups.
Schedules for the Var bus lines are on the VarLib Horaires-Ligne page (http://www.varlib.fr/horaires_ligne/?rub_code=6") - type the line number (1201) in the Numéro ... ligne box to access the bus schedule PDF link. (Type a couple of digits in the box to get a list of route numbers.)


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2013 Cadillac SRX - 2012 New York Auto Show
A modest visual refresh coupled with a host of new technological enhancements should add up to a new level of competitive appeal for the 2013 Cadillac SRX unveiled in New York. According to Don Butler, the division's vice president of marketing, the changes to this already highly-regarded mid-size luxury crossover illustrates "Cadillac's philosophy of never leaving well enough alone" and includes several new touches that also will be found in the upcoming XTS full-size luxury sedan and compact ATS entry-lux four-door.
>2012 New York Auto Show full coverage
Visual changes to the 2013 Cadillac SRX are subtle, and focus on a recast front end that features new upper/lower grille designs and redrawn outboard air intakes that now incorporate new LED light pipes. Three new colors -- Evolution Green Metallic, Glacier Blue Metallic and Silver Coast Metallic -- expand the exterior palette while new 20-inch wheel designs add a bit more flash to the mix, especially in the top-line Performance and Premium Collections.
Inside, the five-passenger 2013 Cadillac SRX gains a number of cosmetic and functional enhancements to its formidable list of returning standards. These include a new steering wheel and instrument cluster, HD Radio, additional USB ports/SD card slots and available Bluetooth audio streaming and as well as a standard active noise cancellation system. But the key upgrade is across-the-board fitment of Cadillac's new CUE (Cadillac User Experience) infotainment setup. Featuring an 8.0-inch LCD multi-touch sensitive center screen with proximity sensing and haptic feedback, CUE can integrate up to 10 Bluetooth-enabled mobile devices and reacts to a variety of pinch/swipe/spread gestures commonly used by smartphones and tablets allowing for quick, simple and fully customizable activation and operation to suit each user's preferences.
The revamped 2013 Cadillac SRX steps up its game on the safety-related tech front, as well. Side blind zone alert and rear cross traffic alert now join StabiliTrak electronic stability/traction control and rollover mitigation sensors on the lengthy roster of standard features while radar-based adaptive cruise control and front/rear automatic braking are new options. Forward Collision Alert, Lane Departure Warning, a Rear Vision Camera With Dynamic Guidelines and Cadillac's new Safety Alert Seat that vibrates a not-so-subtle warning should the vehicle's other systems sense lane-drifting or a potential collision also will be available on the 2013 SRX as part of new Driver Awareness and Driver Assist packages.
About the only place the 2013 Cadillac SRX remains unchanged is its powertrain. Both front-drive and all-wheel-drive models carry on with the potent 3.6-liter direct-injected V6 that makes 308 horses and 265 lb-ft of torque. Also returning is the SRX's smooth-shifting six-speed automatic transmission. The 2013 Cadillac SRX goes on sale this fall and pricing will be released later in the year.
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[/quotePlain of the Herbs wrote:Jaysus, poor you!
Forced to go to matches to watch highly paid hurlers hurl bad? Forced to make overnight trips and feed the kids? And the price of pheasant or duck nowadays? Forced to put up in the Lyrath while the hurlers swanned around Nowlan Park last summer? And you hoping Offaly would win primarily so you could ram it down the throat of your 'friends' on Premierview, or the locals in the bar in Castlecomer, or wherever?
You're a mess, Townman. Note: nobody forces you to go to matches. Nobody is hurling in muck and shyte (or in any kind of weather, come to think of it) so some gobshyte nobody knows can swan around every GAA site on cyberspace blagging and making a show of the whole county. And you do.
Tell you what. If you're a man, you'll approach the players and tell them to their faces. Tell the full-back and the centre-back they are not the answer. They'll be in Tullamore on Sunday, out the Arden Road, beside the hospital, so you should be able to find them. And be a man about it. For a change.townman wrote:by the way FD as you call yourself, its a forum and its where you air your views about players good or bad, lets not forget its the fans who pay money in to watch this plus money for disel for away games
and the cost with kids at games to.
your only two post were at me, talk about the game, doubt very much if you even go to games, bar stool fan knows all about it on the stool in the local on a sunday night tool.
and you never put up a post that certain players weren't the answer . this from the lad who took the piss out of kilcormac/killoughey last week on this site, stones glass houses comes to mind Herbs.


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For the edification of those who are not Talmudic scholars, here's the way I understand the Rabbinic view of life, death, and the after-life:
- 1. You are born; your life begins when you take your first breath; life begins at birth, not conception so I'm not a murderer by virtue of having continued to have periods after becoming sexually active.
- 2. You live.
- 3. You die.
- 4. When you die, your "soul" leaves your body to go to the great Bingo hall in the sky (or something -- basically your soul does whatever a soul does when not bound to a body), and your body goes into the ground. This is just temporary though. Dante said that the Jews slept in the vestibule of Hell until the Judgment. But Dante was probably an anti-Semite. I'm pretty sure that when Jews die they go play Canasta and MaJohng with other dead people.
- 5. Then the party is over cause the Messiah has arrived and is all judgmental and whatnot. My Rabbi said that the Messianic times are gonna be "pretty rough", so when he told me that your body and soul get reunited and won't necessarily look the way you looked when you were alive my mind went to one place, and one place only: zombies. It doesn't matter why this happens, (but you can read the Talmud to find out), but just contemplate it for a while. Think about all the things you know about the supposed "end of days" and the [second, if you're a Christian] coming of the Messiah. Dogs and cats sleeping together, crises of biblical proportions, yes? And ZOMBIES. If there's another way bodies and souls can get reunited and still preserve this view that the Messianic times are gonna be as bad as Rabbinic tradition says it will... I'd like to hear about it. Cause I'm really not interested in leaving my MaJohng game to go be a freaking zombie. Messiah or no Messiah.
- 6. Permanent afterlife - if you were good, you get the good stuff, if you were bad you get burned and turned into ashes that everyone walks on for eternity (which, for the truly evil, I can't imagine a better permanent afterlife than perpetually staining the soles of the righteous). Which is followed by
- 7. ???
- and finally
- 8. Prophet.
All that being said, I should point out that there is no real consensus among Jews on
anything the after life. Whether it exists. What happens. Whether there will be zombies at some point. This is just my take on a centuries-old idea that some Rabbis came up with while studying the Torah. It may or may not have any bearing on what actually happens.


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2 Factors You Do Not Really Recognize About LASIK Eye Medical ProcedureThe eye can be taken a look at with relative ease regarding both its function and its structure. A practical examination includes the capability to move in the orbit and the reaction of the pupil to light and accommodation.
The function of the eye may be tested in numerous ways. The patient might be asked to identify illuminated letter or things of varying sizes on exactly what is called the Snellen chart.
On the other hand, the assessment of the structural part of the eye might be made in a number of methods. Tension within the eyeball is determined by a "tonometer." In particular diseases, specifically in glaucoma, the stress in the eyeball is increased noticeably.
Nevertheless, it should be well bore in mind that a patient with an eye problem may have other issues as well. Often other physical conditions are primary and affect the eye as a repercussion. The appearance of the eye can signal the client and the doctor to difficulties in some disturbances of other parts of the body even prior to other signs present themselves.
As a result, one's reliance on sight is stressed when one faces a temporary or possible long-term loss of this important sense. When corrective steps are sought, certain forms of vision correction such as contact lenses or spectacles are prescribed.
On the other hand, some individuals are troubled with the truth that they have some framed lenses or contact lenses in front of their eyes.
For this reason, advanced surgical operations were established to motivate reduced utilization of contact lenses or glasses. Among which is the now popular LASIK eye surgical treatment.
Basically, LASIK eye surgical treatment is the brief term for "Laser-Assisted In Situ Keratomileusis." Like its tangible counterpart, LASIK eye surgery is another kind of vision correction. The only difference is that with this kind of surgery, one's vision is corrected completely.
With LASIK eye surgery, the refractive mistakes in the cornea are permanently transformed. This can be done using an "excimer laser."
The main purpose of this surgical treatment is to produce a threadlike, rounded "flap" in the cornea using a blade referred to as "microkeratome." In a series of unfolding and laser processing, the cornea is finally reformed, enabling much better the eye to direct more light into the retina.
Appeal vs. Disadvantages
Amidst the growing appeal of LASIK eye surgery, there are still disadvantages that individuals must understand. Most likely, the main factor why this kind of eye surgery has actually become well accepted is since many of its cases had been effective.
However, in spite of its success, there are still some disadvantages. Here is the list:
1. It is an operation applied to the most delicate part of the eye
Due to the fact that LASIK eye surgery includes the operation of the retina, which is among the most sensitive parts of the eye, the majority of people state that the operation can be really risky.
Simply puts, a basic error could practically trigger an person's life time loss of sight. Hence, it is necessary to think about many elements before deciding whether LASIK eye surgical treatment is the ideal restorative measure one Lasik has to go through.
2. It is not a ideal procedure
LASIK eye surgical treatment may correct your vision but it does not necessarily indicate that it can offer you a ideal vision. Even if statistical reports Get More Info reveal that 70% of the clients may have 20/20 vision, this does not always indicate they have ideal vision also.
Provided all these things, it can be deduced that, in spite of the popularity of the operation, LASIK may not always be the ideal eye surgery the method a lot of individuals view it
On the other hand, the evaluation of the structural part of the eye may be made in a number of ways. It must be well remembered that a patient with an eye problem might have other problems. Typically other physical conditions are primary and impact the eye as a repercussion. The look of the eye can notify the doctor and the client to troubles in some disruptions of other parts of the body even before other symptoms present themselves.
Like its tangible counterpart, LASIK eye surgery is another form of vision correction.


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text: May 27, 2005, 7:59 a.m. Our Spoiled and Unhappy Global Elites By Victor Davis Hanson for National Review Not long ago Pepsi Colas chief operating officer, Indra Nooyi, gave an address to the graduating class at Columbia Business School. In it, she metaphorically likened America to the middle finger on the global hand. Denunciations and anger arose from her use of the silly metaphor (e.g., This analogy of the five fingers as the five major continents leaves the long, middle finger for North America, and, in particular, the United States. However, if used inappropriately just like the U.S. itself the middle finger can convey a negative message and get us in trouble. You know what I'm talking about So remember, when you extend your arm to colleagues and peoples from other countries, make sure that you're giving a hand, not the finger.) Then came her employers obligatory explication that she really did not mean what she said. And soon her defenders claimed hypersensitive Americans could not take well-meaning admonishment. Pepsi is a $27 billion company. Those who run it, like Nooyi, make big money from its global sales and take-no-prisoners marketing approach. Pepsi is not known for worrying too much about putting indigenous soft-drink makers out of business. Here at home it does not often allow small businesses to offer both Coke and Pepsi in a spirit of consumer convenience and choice. Roughshod, no-holds-barred business gets such a company to the top and allows multimillion-dollar salaries for its grandee hardball officers. Former cricket-star-turned-Pakistani-politician Imran Khan in some ways jumpstarted the Newsweek-induced frenzy when in a May 6 press conference he demanded an apology for the alleged slight to the Koran. This is what the U.S. is doing, Khan boomed, desecrating the Koran. His mischaracterization, based on a lie, was then beamed across the Middle East and, presto, Mr. Khan got the anti-American outburst he apparently wanted. Khan may have made his fortune and name in the British tabloids as a cricket star and international playboy of the London salons, a lifestyle that had strong affinities with the West rather than the madrassas. But now he is back in Pakistan crafting a political career and catering to the Islamists, even though religious extremism is antithetical to what allowed him to succeed and prosper abroad. Yet this same demagogue earlier urged Hindu extremists to remain calm during a recent cricket match between India and Pakistan. After all, religious extremism is valuable to beat up the West and the United States but not to the point that such fervor might endanger playing a Western sport amid frenzied Hindus. Left unsaid is that there is no place for an Imran Khan in the world of the Taliban, where soccer stadiums were used to lynch moderate Muslims, not enrich pampered athletes. Arundhati Roy, the Booker-prize-winning novelist, has developed a second career critiquing the United States, especially its promotion of the free markets and capitalism that she believes are the catalysts for righteous hatred against America. Roy doesnt quite get that the reason that the UK recognizes an Indian novelist like her, writing halfway across the globe and that she is able to jet over to the United States for lucrative speaking engagements, and that her books are mass-produced and hawked aggressively over global Internet book marts is precisely the system that this child of capitalism so vehemently detests. Pakistan, well before 9/11, was the recipient of billions of dollars in U.S. aid, and, in response, its intelligence services created the Taliban that in turn helped al Qaeda pull off September 11. India is making billions from an American free-trade policy that encourages outsourcing business overseas, even if it means the loss of U.S. jobs. Neither country has much of a legitimate gripe against the United States, and surely has not objected that its elites are going to the West to be educated, to profit and, in these above cases, apparently to master the easy anti-Western rhetoric. for full article: http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson200505270759.asp


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Local turkeys around Cambria display the variety of colors that occur naturally in turkeys. Turkeys are all the same species. They differ in plumage.
This light colored turkey has been sighted in our neighborhood since he was hatched last year. I wondered whether his color in the wild would be a disadvantage, making him more visible to predators, but thus far he's doing fine.
I wonder if he will have a flock this coming year and pass on his attractive and unusual coloring to a new generation.
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I would have never believed it. To hear this kind of news, you must be kidding. I eat right, or think I do. I'm not tremendously overweight, at least if I compare myself with the general populace. I exercise sometimes, in spite of the fact that the media tells me that I only have to do 20 minutes of vigorous exercise everyday. I must remember that everyone has a different definition of vigorous!
About 15 years ago, my wife and I were attending a health fair at one of the local hotels. I had been thinking more seriously about what I would look like when I got to be in my 60's and beyond. Looking at the people around me, I realized that I was pretty healthy and really didn't have any serious health issues (or so I thought). Sure, I had some heart problems, my joints hurt due to a bad knee injury left over from basic training, took Tums for my stomach after evening meals, and was pushing 200 pounds for my 6 foot frame. Wasn't this the norm? Isn't this America where it was okay to be 20-30 pounds overweight and talk about all your health issues?
It was at the health fair, that I took one of the devices you hold in your hands at chest level for a minute or so and the readout came: OBESE. What? You are kidding, right? OBESE at 26 percent body fat? OBESE? I didn't like that word. For me it was the start of my quest to be healthier. I needed to do something about it. But what do I do? I had been at this weight for over 30 years! Why would I want to change? This was my wake-up call. However, it wasn't one of those instant changes where you decide to go on a crash diet by not eating, drinking only water for a week straight to get back into shape. There was no way I was going to do that. I had seen other people try it, and after a week of dehydration, they would typically go back to eating like they had always done as that was their "comfort zone" and they were not about make a change.
For my wife and I, it was more about taking a look at where we were, assessing the situation, and starting to make subtle changes. I was content with my weight at that time. I did not realize that I would be more content, as well as comfortable, if I lost some of those extra pounds that were classifying me as "obese."
The first thing I did was to start reading labels and counting calories. Not that I knew anything at the time about what I was reading, but it sounded good. The next thing was to eliminate things I didn't really need like candy, sugar, sodas, junk food, etc. Needless to say, just by doing that, I reduced that number of Tums I was taking every night.
The next step, I hypothesized correctly, was the need for some sort of vitamin supplementation. There are a million different variations of nutritional vitamin supplements on the market. Everyone advertises theirs as the best. I started with a vitamin network marketing company that said they could prove they were the best. They had the documentation, the doctors' endorsements, and at the plenty of testimonies endorsing the products.
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Check out Justin Bieber going shirtless sexy in his new music video for "All That Matters"!
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