text: CRASHER 46 Posted October 22, 2010 (edited) So, now the NFL has made a BIG sh!t about "head to head collisons" and how we won't tolerate them… hell they even went as far to pull merch that was on their own website of James Harrison laying a massive hit on Massaquoi this week (I still want to see how you tell a guy coming in at FULL SPEED to change his direction and more as a guy slips or flinches at the last second… yes tackling as a whole in the NFL does suck, but the fact of the matter IS this is a collision sport played at FULL speed and this stuff is gonna happen….maybe you need softer helmets and shoulder pads (that is half the reason these players are missiles)… or pull a page from hockey, don't allow a player to leave his feet to make a hit, unless the guy with the ball is in the air…. But turning the NFL in Flag Football 2.0 is NOT the answer…this is the biggest over-reaction I've seen since Gary Bettman put the "safety nets" in NHL arenas… argh!!! In a related story, I go to the NFL site, because you know I do like research sh!t…. And what do I see on there… a big ol' Southwest Airlines ad that says HEADS UP… fvcking frauds you are NFL….Anyway, better get to the games while we still have football to talk about!!! Sunday Oct 25: 1pm: Bengals at Falcons Boy the Falcons sure got smashed back down to Earth (better keep their heads up or it will be Mother Earth herself getting a 75k fine from the No-Football League this week if they crash head first right??) but what better remedy for a lil ass kicking then the god-awful Bengals (yes the bye week did not make me any less angry at Carson Palmer)…but hey don't worry… TO and Chad85 found time to do a REALITY SHOW… that will only improve QB to WR interception ratios right?? And hey didn't Cedric Benson get arrested again?? They say same old Jets… same ol'Bengals here…. Winner: Atlanta Game Quality: ** ¾ Jaguars at Chiefs: The Chiefs have lost two games in row now and both you would consider "ROUGH" circumstances at BEST (and better teams mind you), but now they get a break… and Jack Del Rio… oh DO I HAVE SOME WORDS FOR YOU….this gutless fvcker down 30-3 last week because the itty bitty ESPN network was running BEHIND ON COMMERCIALS, caves and calls timeouts with 90 seconsds left in an NFL FOOTBALL GAME…think about that for a second…. Now imagine the Super Bowl runs fast… yeah… you get the point, yes I am pissed (and I mean so pissed that when I threw my blackberry across the room I ended up breaking it) because the Chris Johnson TD run basically ended my fantasy football season (I know adding $215 more to the bill on a new phone wasn't genius either)…but anyway…. Del Rio is a gutless pansy who's afraid he will finally get fired from the worst football franchise in the sport and will be sniveling to the world wide leader in sport-desecration and needs to kiss the right ass so he ends up on NFL Live! One year… fvck him… fvck his sh!tty football team!! (PS, they're also down to their 3rd string QB… and when you consider how awful the Jaguar FIRST string in… you'd rant about time out's too!!) Winner: Chiefs Game Quality: * ¾ (just to see me blow a gasket again ) Washington at Bears: Here's a fun fact, 5 or 6 years ago I can't remember when it was the Kyle Orton Bears against the Spurrier Redskins… the game was AWFUl… it was so bad, it became funny… the only TD was scored on a 30 yard Portis run after a botched punt, I think)… anyway… this game was historic (and like 7-6)….this game was the fore-father of what we now know and LOVE as our precious anti-football!! So I look and smile when these two teams hook up…. And come to think of it … this may not be different… hell the Redskins lost to the Rams… and the Bears lost at HOME to Seattle… this could be ugly!! But the Redskins do play tight D and cause problems for teams and offenses that don't believe in blocking….**cough cough JASON GARRETT cough cough**…it's a damn good thing Mike Martz got into football and not the feminine hygiene business but his willingness to not protect that which matters most would leave us with a LOT of leaky ladies… if you get my drift ….this game will have some comedy to it and I expect the Redskins to win a hilariously ugly one! Winner: Redskins Game Quality: ** Rams at Tampa: These two teams were expected to be COMBINED for two wins by this point and this was supposed to be a 5-star anti-football special of the ages… but nope, they been better then expected (being in the NFC helps)…the Rams aren't good on the road (oddly Tampa is 2-0 on the road… WTF)…I think that's enough to lean towards Tampa here in a game with some young talent in it that's going to go very much un-noticed around the bars on a football Sunday… shame it's kinda intriguing… but still I had enough St Louis in my life recently, thanks! Winner: Bucs Game Quality: ** ¾ Eagles at Titans: Injuries all over the place here… Vick is still out, Deshawn Jackson is still picking brain cells out of the turf from the CLEAN HIT he took last week (hell the DB is more fvcked up from it then HE IS… and he gets fined *eyeroll*), Vince Young's got a bad wheel too…and an eye opening stat here… Phily is 3-0 on the road… Titans are 1-2…that would make you lean to Phily if all teams were healthy… but Jeff Fisher >> Andy Reid, and his team is damn tough and I just get the feeling they pull this out (doesn't hurt that the Eagles are NOT the same team without #10 out there….)….this one could be physical and bloody though… bring it on!!! Winner: Titans Game Quality: *** ¼ 49ers at Panthers: So the 49ers finally taste victory!! It gets easier from here…. The 49ers get into maybe the softest stretch of games in NFL history (so soft even the Cowboys could go 3-2 in it )…the Panthers go back to Matt Moore… which might make Steve Smith happy at least… but that team is still putrid (God I wanna see a Panthers/Bills game for the #1 draft pick, that would be amazing!!), and any game with Alex Smith in it has the chance to be a comedy of errors and that means a Mike Singletary explosion to rival mine on Monday Night (did I mention fvck you Jack Del Rio yet??), this will be anti-football levels of hilarity… find a way to watch this mess!!! Winner: 49ers Game Quality: **** ½ (oh anti-football love!!) Browns at Saints: Is there a 4-2 team in football that seems more under duress and with as many problems as the Saints have?? Probably not… the injuries are all over, Darren Sharper still hasn't put the cleats on, Bush and Thomas are still out… all they must be saying is "thank God the Browns are on the schedule"… and they're right… don't worry Colt McCoy is still saying "thank God it's not the Steelers or Ravens this week" too… don't worry, the Browns still got no fracking chance!! Winner: Saints Game Quality: DUD Steelers at Miami: Well Miami got lucky getting a beat up team in Green Bay that was ripe for the pickings… not so much this week…. The Steelers come in with everyone healthy, ready to go and maybe a bit of snarl and PIST about the Harrison fines (which he is appealing and GOOD FOR HIM!!)… and we were sitting there last week wondering… what the hell is it with the Dolphins anyway? They have decent WR's and Henne is improving… the defense is decent… and I think I nailed it… they're a run first team, with no backs who scare you or can turn the little play into the BIG play… yeah Brown and Ricky are toot toot good, but neither one of them can hit the home run… hell even Marshall makes big plays but he doesn't hit the home run either, so every drive has to be of the 10-12 play 90 yard variety…that's not easy… and gee fat Parcells is already packing his bags and looking to eat his food elsewhere… what a shock….anyway…the Tin Foil Curtain unleashes hell here….. Winner: Steelers Game Quality: *** Bills at Ravens: Man if only I was running the Buffalo Bills….won this one pretty handily in Madden 11 last week (not as much fun as I had with the Lions… Parrish broke his arm, so I signed some jobber with a 55 rating but 95 speed and returns… and he returns his first two punts for TDs… it was funny… anyway)…why should I talk about the actual game anyway, the Bills don't believe in winning and they get their wish here… GET THE BALL TO BOLDIN, thanks!! Winner: Ravens Game Quality: DUD (this is gonna be nasty….) 4pm: Cardinals at Seattle: If this was in Arizona this would be anti-football, I swear… but Seattle is good at home, it's a weird thing… that team is so Jeckyl/Hyde with that, but they won on the road last week (go figure Chicago right?), and MAX MOON is still starting for the Cardinals (I dunno why yelling MAX MOOOOOONNNNN amuses me… I'm weird… whatever ) The Cards are a mess to me until they prove otherwise… and the Seahawks showed me something… and someone has to prove the 49ers owner wrong… why not Seattle right?? Winner: Seattle Game Quality: ** (this could be amusing….) Patriots at Chargers: Another source of amusement… the Chargers fall off a cliff… ex-Charger Junior Seau tries to follow them (if only Owen Hart took free fall lessons from dear Junior, right??) the Patriots seem to be on a mission to prove Moss was the PROBLEM and not the solution and hell if Deion Branch can go 9/90 every week they will!! I have no faith in the Chargers to stop anyone… Gates is out… looks like Floyd is too… um.. yeah… screw the Chargers, GO DEION BRANCH!! (besides the pats seem to own the Chargers, least they can't say it's because Tomlinson is hurt this time) Winner: Pats Game Quality: ***Oakland at Denver: How in God's name is Denver an 8-point favorite?? Maybe losing to the 49ers ruins all your cred, but holy hell!! Denver did come off a rough loss to a Jet team they should have beat… but still they are a pass only team that has issues putting teams away….Ah hell this is a steaming pile of football AIDS that only I could enjoy ….*flips the imaginary coin*….there ya have it! Winner: Oakland Game Quality: * 8pm: Vikings at Packers: So the Vikings get the gift of the football Gods here… the Cowboys and then the Packers… two half-teams in a row… that ain't right…the Vikings are going the right way, and the only thing the Packers are improving… the depth chart on the IR list…it's not right, it's not fair… but Favre walks in again and does it again (amazing how the NFL has buried his lil sext-aholic fits quickly and quietly… the exact opposite of the tar n feather job they did on Big Ben… perplexing….), this game's gonna suck *ugh* Winner: Packers Game Quality: ** (CMON, you know you're happy ESPN's not doing this one) Monday Oct 26: NY Giants at Dallas: There's two things I like about this game…. it's Monday Night so I can mute it and watch Raw and play Madden only caring how Felix Jones does….and this season is toasted already so I don't have to waste time getting upset about this disaster…the Cowboys are a lost cause this year and the only move would be to fire coach huggy bear and his hippie ways… but if you do that, all you can do is promote from within… which means it's coach Ginger-tard, in essence you're promoting a guy fracking up 1/3 of the team and giving him the keys to screw the rest of it up??? NO THANKS… beat them, beat them hard and ruthlessly…. Set-up that Giants/Jets Super Bowl…. Humiliate and humble this team so a REAL coaching staff and philosophy can be brought in…..is there any doubt who I'm picking here??? Winner: Giants Game Quality: ** ½ (people love seeing Dallas fail so enjoy ) Week 7 NFL Power Rankings: AFC: Steelers…. And now they got an offense too… oh boy…..NY Jets, I need the Steelers to lose so my worst nightmare can be real…..Colts…..slowly sneaking back up the tree again… hell it is the regular seasonTitans….that 4th and 5 aside that was IMPRESSIVE without VYTexans…gutty last minute effort, and another game they probably lose last yearNFC:NY Giants… why not?? They're going to the Super Bowl right??? Eagles… pick a QB from 1-10 and let them play till they get hurt and repeat the cycle….Atlanta…. Planet Earth says hi and hopes you got a 'chute as you crash down….Seattle, they won on the road… dammit, all my material is gone!!!Saints…. 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The economic meltdown may be behind us, but schools, states, and local governments are still paying for it. In an Aug. 31 announcement, Thomas P. DiNapoli, the New York State Comptroller, said retirement contribution rates for state and local civil service employees, as well as police and firefighters, will rise in the 2014-15 fiscal year.
At the close of last Thursday's East Hampton Village Board work session, Mayor Paul F. Rickenbach Jr. relayed the news. "The bottom line is, there's going to be an increase in the amount of money we're going to have to pay the New York State retirement system," said the mayor.
The current sum is $1.725 million. The amount will rise to $1.923 million.
"When you look at the 2 percent [property tax] cap that's in place, this further exacerbates the village's ability to maintain fiscal stability," Mr. Rickenbach said.
The rate increase will come into play in June, when the village adopts its next budget. "The amount the village pays into the retirement fund is one piece of our budget, albeit a big piece," said Larry Cantwell, the village administrator, after the meeting. "It's premature to know what adjustments will or won't be made to compensate for the rate increase."
"The higher rate is not a surprise," Mr. Cantwell said, noting that it has risen for the past five years. "The cost of benefits provided to employees are increasing and taking a larger share of total compensation for employees, and that's what we're trying to deal with."
The retirement fund provides benefits to over a million retirees, beneficiaries, and active employees across the state, and to 65 full-time employees here in the village, 24 of whom are police and firefighters.
At the same work session, the board considered a written request by Teddy and Howard Waltman of 39 Baiting Hollow Road to lower the speed limit there from 30 miles per hour to 25. The Waltmans complained of speeding cars and loud noise from exhaust. Chief Jerry Larsen of the village said no summonses had been issued in recent speed-limit enforcement on the street; nevertheless, the board will schedule a public hearing on the issue.
Trustees approved the installation of a natural gas meter at the Emergency Services Building on Cedar Street, marking the first stage in the building's switchover from oil to natural gas heat.
Finally, the board okayed an upgrade/replacement of the Motorola radio equipment that broadcasts village emergency 911 signals throughout the South Fork. The current equipment was installed in 1998.
"Any end-of-summer comments?" Mr. Rickenbach asked before the board adjourned. Barbara Borsack, the deputy mayor, replied, "Isn't it nice?"

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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Mary Jo White, President Barack Obama's pick to be the top regulator for Wall Street, is about to get the "new teacher" treatment.
And while that may sound foreboding, it's really a reason for hope.
After four-plus years of lukewarm leadership at the Securities and Exchange Commission, the big financial institutions have their swagger back. They've effectively fought off or stalled new regulation. They've paid their way out of the mortgage mess with settlements that are either too little or have come too late for the victims.
No one's gone to jail — or served time in detention.
And rather than being humbled by what can be described generously as their own incompetence, the industry's leaders are blaming the victims.
Try the comments last week from J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Jamie Dimon. When pressed about his bank's transparency and asked about regulation, Dimon bristled at a panel at the World Economic Forum.
"It's going to be another five years of pointing fingers, scapegoating, using misinformation," he said.
And about those massive trading losses suffered by his bank last year, Dimon said, "Life goes on." Read more about Dimon's comments at Davos.
Yes, like kids in a classroom who sensed a lack of authority, executives have been able to say and do pretty much what they want.
Enter White. Though she is slated to be the top securities cop, not a banking regulator, she's going to be policing the playground where these guys make much of their money: trading and underwriting. Read full story on White's nomination to be SEC chair.
Mary Schapiro, who led the SEC until December, was the substitute teacher brought in by an administration that seemed less interested in reining in financial abuse than shoving a national health-care plan down our throats. Not that health care isn't important, but it's akin to trying to cure a nation's cancer when it was suffering from gunshot wounds.
So, how will White respond?
Well, there are good signs and bad ones. You probably know the good: White was a tough-as-nails prosecutor who tackled the likes of John Gotti and al Qaeda.
The bad: White didn't have any meaningful Wall Street cases in her tenure as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. In private practice, she defended J.P. Morgan in financial-crisis cases. She also lobbied the SEC to drop a possible insider-trading probe that ensnared Morgan Stanley's chief, John Mack.
That baggage has led some, including Salon's David Sirota, to dismiss White as another industry "enabler" and beneficiary of the revolving door that creates conflicts for public servants who seek riches and connections in the industry's they once, or in this case, will oversee. Read Sirota's Salon commentary on White.
Moreover, White has another problem. Her husband, John W. White, is a partner at the powerhouse Wall Street law firm, Cravath Swaine & Moore. His resume includes work with public companies and accounting issues which the SEC potentially has some jurisdiction. See John White's biography at Cravath.
For those interested in seeing uncompromised regulation of the securities business, these are more than just red flags. White, it appears, has not only been playing with the class bullies, at times she's been one of them.
But rather than impede effective regulation, White's coziness could help her.
For one, she knows the game. Second, she will be under intense scrutiny. White's been heralded as a tough prosecutor whose nomination, in the words of many observers, has "sent a message" to Wall Street. White will be under pressure from day one to ferret out wrongdoing. Given the amount of irresponsible behavior on Wall Street (MF Global, the "London Whale") since the financial crisis, it's still fertile ground for rigorous prosecution.
Moreover, if White is the political climber her critics have made her out to be, then she'll be motivated to bring down some big game and names.
Investors have seen enough weak SEC chairs to know White represents the potential to settle this unruly class.
The agency under Christopher Cox, who served from 2005 to 2009, largely overlooked or was slow-footed in pursuing insider-trading and securities-fraud cases. Schapiro made some progress in those areas, but her multiple failures in rule making and her proclivity toward charging institutions rather than individuals only enhanced her reputation as a bureaucrat.
The reality is that bullies are running the Wall Street classroom. And given Obama's lackluster picks for regulatory jobs — Jack Lew, Timothy Geithner, and Schapiro — White at least has the tools and the experience to be a threat, and make good on those threats.
Sure, there's the potential for disappointment, but there's also potential for teaching these kids a lesson.


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DENVER Colorado should use unanticipated tax money to study the effects of gas and oil drilling on air quality, as well as devote more money to public schools and wildfire prevention, Gov. John Hickenlooper told lawmakers Friday.
The governors late-afternoon request outlined his vision for spending about $50 million in additional tax collections that his office didnt anticipate when it made its formal request to legislative budget-writers in November.
Hickenloopers $50 million request includes about $1 million to study the drilling practice known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. The Democratic governor insists the procedure is safe, but skeptics remain.
Hickenlooper told lawmakers Friday that they should spend about $11 million for the state health department to study the effects of gas and oil extraction on environmental air quality. Hickenlooper also proposed $1.3 million for an additional fracking study along the northern Front Range with Colorado State University.
The governors requests also included about $13 million more for K-12 schools, and about $10 million for improved wildfire prevention.
The Legislature makes the final call on budgeting, but the governors suggestions are taken seriously because he will ultimately sign or veto the budget. The general fund that lawmakers control is expected to grow to $8.1 billion next year, up from about $7.6 billion last year.
The 2013-14 budget will likely be the first in years with no major cuts and more money for schools and colleges.
Hickenloopers other requests Friday included:
$22 million to improve Colorado troubled child-welfare system.
Almost $1.7 million in various technology upgrades to the states data network and billing procedures.
$3.7 million to upgrade a state radio system that allows two-way communication for fire departments, police and other government services.
$2 million for improvements to the Capitol and surrounding buildings.


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Bukhara deer released in Uzbek nature reserve
Tashkent, Uzbekistan – A group of Bukhara deer was released in Uzbekistan's Zarafshan Nature Reserve, marking an important milestone for a WWF project aimed at protecting the endangered species throughout Central Asia.
The animals, raised in nearby holding pens, are the second group to be set free in the reserve, following a successful release in 2005. A similar release took place in Kazakhstan in February 2007.
"The newly released animals in Uzbekistan are going to join ones that have already adapted to their wild surroundings," said Olga Pereladova, head of WWF's Central Asia Programme.
"We anticipate that the two herds will integrate well and breed more actively."
Since WWF started its Bukhara deer conservation project in Central Asia, the population has increased to 1,000, up from only 350 in the 1990s.
"We started the project when the species was really under threat of extinction," Pereladova added.
"With good protection measures against poachers and logging activities, we hope to see this unique deer species thrive."
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Showing 1 - 20 of 38 for "chemistry"
Blankespoor named Brummel Chair
Professor Ron Blankespoor installed as the first-ever holder of the Brummel Chair in Organic Chemistry at Calvin College.
September 27, 2006 | Myrna Anderson
Ron Blankespoor receives Presidential Award for Exemplary Teaching
A look back at Professor Ron Blankespoor's 1995-96 Calvin College Presidential Award for Examplary Teaching.
September 28, 2006 | Phil de Haan
Beckman Grant funds indepth student research
Calvin College has won a prestigious $77,000 grant from the Beckman Scholars Program to give expanded, intensive research experiences to a handful of Calvin students.
April 14, 2008 | Myrna Anderson
Students win Goldwater Scholarship, honorable mention
Calvin student Melissa Haegert receives honorable mention for the Goldwater Scholarship.
April 18, 2008 | Myrna Anderson
Sophomore to tackle the "puzzle" of research as Beckman Scholar
Sophomore chemistry major Sarah Tasker will also be stepping into some brand new shoes as Calvin's first Beckman Scholar.
May 14, 2008 | Myrna Anderson
On the run
Taste the energy and feel the sweat generated by the 19th-annual Calvin Spring Classic 5K Walk/Run and watch as children and their families participate in a special run to honor the late chemistry professor Karen Muyskens.
May 01, 2009 | Matt Kucinski
From bug hunting to belly flopping, filtering to formatting, kids of all ages are finding plenty to keep them busy this summer at Calvin.
July 24, 2009 | Lynn Rosendale
One Goldwater, three honorables
Last summer, as Cheri Ackerman was working to isolate a protein, she put in a lot of hours in the "cold room"—one of the walk-in refrigerators in DeVries Hall that are kept at four degrees Celsius (or 39 degrees Fahrenheit).
April 29, 2010 | Myrna Anderson
Faculty Profile: Douglas Vander Griend
Calvin inorganic chemistry professor Douglas Vander Griend makes shapes with molecules.
July 26, 2010 | Amy Surbatovich
Interim: Sight, Sound and Smell
Students are chopping cabbage, sniffing beakers and missing the gorilla in an interim titled "Sight, Sound and Smell."
January 14, 2011 | Phil de Haan
Calvin's Goldwater honors
Calvin has three Goldwater Scholars and one honorable mention.
April 08, 2011 | Myrna Anderson
Moving into the ISRx
Student researchers are making themselves at home in the science division's new 4,450 square-foot lab.
May 24, 2011 | Andrew Steiner , Myrna Anderson
VIDEO: The annual chem demos
Area middle schoolers enjoy things exploding, foaming over and glowing in the dark at the 21st-annual Chem Demos.
May 24, 2011 | Matt Kucinski
The winning protein
The students in Eric Arnoys' biochem II class choose their favorite protein via a bracket.
May 24, 2011 | Myrna Anderson
Researching how berberine works on diabetes
Larry Louters and four student researchers are studying how berberine works on diabetes.
June 30, 2011 | Phil de Haan
Chemistry and Christmas
Chemistry professor Larry Louters and student Ola Alabi were the architects of the first-ever Christmas chemistry camp.
December 22, 2011 | Myrna Anderson
Two Goldwaters, two NSF fellowships
Four Calvin science students have landed prestigious research awards.
April 05, 2012 | Myrna Anderson
Goldwater Scholar, NSF Fellow and now a Fulbright
Senior Lauren Manck will research seagrasses in Spain via a Fulbright Scholarship.
April 20, 2012 | Myrna Anderson
A $230,000 NSF grant to discover chemical reactions
Chemistry professor Carolyn Anderson is extending her research while developing a new generation of researchers.
March 28, 2013 | Myrna Anderson
Goldwater tradition continues: Students earn top research award
Since 2008, Calvin College has had more Goldwater Scholars than any other liberal arts college in the nation.
April 05, 2013 | Matt Kucinski


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ONE At irregular intervals, one of my girlfriend's cats—yes, there are two and yes I realize this means I am playing with serious cat-lady-down-the-road fire—will face the wall or a window or a door and emit what is possibly the world's most angst-ridden noise, somewhere between a meow and a strangled cry of existential dread.
Sometimes, the girlfriend will call out to the cat, acknowledging the deep roiling depths of his soul-dread. The cat will continue making the noise, unconsoled. Then, because it is a cat, it will completely forget about it and go do something else.
TWO Some years ago a strange literary conception popped into my mind in the course of writing twenty or so pages of a novel about the whittling of a set of five ninjas*: one of the characters in the book was subconsciously off-putting and consciously morose because instead of the usual organs and cells and atoms and subatomic particles he was comprised of layer after layer of tiny cats. Cat nerve cells stretched down his spine, each with their mouth on the tail of the adjacent cell; messages were passed when a sensory cat would be disturbed and bite down, causing the next cat to become impotently angry and use the only means of revenge at his disposal, which would be more biting. These cells had cat organelles and cat molecules all the way down to the frantically yowling electron cats and ovoid neutron cats that looked more like balls of yarn than cats and spent their time purringly content, &c.
I never got around to fleshing that idea out, but when I saw David Foster Wallace respond to a question posed by Charlie Rose with a sort of enraged incomprehension—literally saying "are we really talking about X?" before stammering out a spittle flecked, blindingly intelligent answer—I saw my man made of cats in the flesh. Wallace seemed repulsed by everything around him down to his own skin and torn between flight, murder, or suicide; lacking the ability to decide, he grit his teeth and soldiered on.
No more of that.
*(The ninjas were I dunno, symbolic of a friendship forged in one of those houses occupied by five to eleven guys in college and eventually ended up cinders as the people from the house splintered into their adult lives. It was (obviously) autobiographical and (equally obviously) embarked upon during that horrible post-college, mid-twenties lull where you are just getting used to the idea that you are not a special snowflake and all your friends moved, or you did, and your connections to the world are flimsy and unsatisfying.)
THREE I think, insofar as it is possible for anyone who really, really likes David Foster Wallace to think like this, that the aforementioned is pretty much #1 on my list of personal heroes. At this point, styles and formatting and idioms from his writing are so deeply embedded into mine that I'd forgotten where I got "&c"—DFW for etc.—from. "Bats" is my preferred term for insane. On Friday, I referenced Orin Incandenza, Wallace's insanely valuable and accurate punter from Infinite Jest. In a 2005 post I urge you to not go back and read because yikes the prose, I riffed on a section of DFW's brilliant article on fringe tennis player Michael Joyce. I'm extremely disappointed in myself because the season preview didn't claim the offensive line gave me the howling fantods.
At some point a few years ago, I read the 1,079 pages of Infinite Jest in five days. When I was done, I was livid it wasn't 300 pages longer. I went back to the beginning and read the first 50 or 100 pages again and realized that the book really was infinite: it was a loop. You could start from any point in it and end at any point and it would be the same: brilliant, infuriating, incomplete, and recursive. Wallace wrote a book on infinity and a thesis on modal logic and sometimes seemed more like a math genius with a side of authorial genius.
I mean, obviously, right? Obviously as soon as I picked something up.
FOUR Wallace would see-saw back and forth on a topic and in writing about one thing would invariably recurse his way into something entirely other, precisely define that, and then tie that back into the main thrust of his argument. Yesterday I re-read his review of a usage dictionary—usage! English usage!—and found this brilliant summation of why this blog is a successful endeavor:
…all the autobiographical stuff in ADMAU's Preface does more than just humanize Mr. Bryan A. Garner. It also serves to detail the early and enduring passion that helps make someone a credible technocrat — we tend to like and trust experts whose expertise is born of a real love for their specialty instead of just a desire to be expert at something. In fact, it turns out that ADMAU's Preface quietly and steadily invests Garner with every single qualification of modern technocratic Authority: passionate devotion, reason, and accountability, experience, exhaustive and tech-savvy research, an even and judicious temperament [uh… I try. –ed], and the sort of humble integrity (for instance, including in one of the entries a past published usage-error of his own) that not only renders Garner likable but transmits the same kind of reverence for English that good jurists have for the law, both of which are bigger and more important than any one person.
Probably the most attractive thing about ADMAU's Ethical Appeal, though, is Garner's scrupulous consideration of the reader's concern about his (or her) own linguistic authority and rhetorical persona and ability to convince an Audience that he cares.
He did this all the time, accidentally. Writing on lobsters, he defined the only morally and logically consistent position you can have on abortion. Writing on the Illinois State Fair, he defined an entire elusive section of the American populace. Writing on cruise ships, he defined his life: "a supposedly fun thing I'll never do again."
FIVE DFW, like all of the people who have written truly great things about sports since I've been paying attention, was not a sportswriter. He was a writer whose attention occasionally turned to sports, mostly tennis, and people who invest their time in the intricately choreographed peregrinations of athletes were always better off for it. The last time Wallace touched upon the subject was a New York Times Magazine article on the 2006 Federer-Nadal Wimbeldon final. This I also read yesterday, after considering the vast array of brooding photos that accompanied news stories and tributes across the internet, after revisiting the Rose interview in which Wallace seemed like a preternaturally unhappy person.
Necessary background for what's to follow: the piece is titled "Roger Federer as Religious Experience," states its thesis thusly…
if you've never seen the young man play live, and then do, in person, on the sacred grass of Wimbledon, through the literally withering heat and then wind and rain of the '06 fortnight, then you are apt to have what one of the tournament's press bus drivers describes as a "bloody near-religious experience."
…and touches upon on a seven year-old boy named William Caines who was diagnosed with cancer at two and a half and served as Wimbeldon's inspiring moppet du jour—my words, not Wallace's.
In typically infuriating DFW fashion, Wallace buries the very crux of his piece—this cannot be disputed, it's the title and thesis—in footnote #17. Perhaps he wanted to hide it. Didn't know what to do with it. Wanted to say it but whisper it. Whatever. Midway through the third set there is a Federer Moment. DFW writes:
By the way, it's right around here, or the next game, watching, that three separate inner-type things come together and mesh. One is a feeling of deep personal privilege at being alive to get to see this; another is the thought that William Caines is probably somewhere here in the Centre Court crowd, too, watching, maybe with his mum. The third thing is a sudden memory of the earnest way the press bus driver promised just this experience. Because there is one. It's hard to describe — it's like a thought that's also a feeling. One wouldn't want to make too much of it, or to pretend that it's any sort of equitable balance; that would be grotesque. But the truth is that whatever deity, entity, energy, or random genetic flux produces sick children also produced Roger Federer, and just look at him down there. Look at that.
Everybody but everybody is dredging up the thousand and one points in Wallace's writing that presage a premature, self-inflicted demise; this might be the one passage in his entire oeuvre that makes it shocking. And I think that sports may not be such a silly thing to make a career of describing and relating and experiencing.
SIX I even kind of look like DFW: tall, broad-shouldered, glasses, shaggy, shoulder-length brown hair, perpetual growth of stubble.
SEVEN I love that image of DFW at Wimbeldon, in the stands, those things converging on him, forgetting all the things that make his suicide so very unsurprising, thinking just look at him down there.
Look at that.
Dear Brian--
A wonderful tribute to an enigmatic man. It's obvious that you have captured his essence not only in this piece, but also in your daily writings. I'm now having a "look at him" moment about you.
With appreciation and admiration---T9
And I think that sports may not be such a silly thing to make a career of describing and relating and experiencing.
I even kind of look like DFW: tall, broad-shouldered, glasses, shaggy, shoulder-length brown hair, perpetual growth of stubble
forgetting all the things that make his suicide so very unsurprising
And all posted at 3:50 AM. Brian, should we be worried?
Uh, not unless you're concerned about my sleep schedule conforming to societal norms. If so: worry.
I was concerned that my first diary was going to have the title Brian's Cry for Help - And What the MGoBlog Community Can Do For Him. About the sleep thing, that's you're girlfriend's and her cat's issue to resolve.
In seriousness (and yes, I can be serious at times), this post is a reflection of why I appreciate MGoBlog and the community it has fostered so much. You have not hesitated to present fascinating writings far removed from Michigan sports, and this has thus allowed/encouraged others to try to do the same. The recent popular diary inquiring what 5 books blog readers had recently read comes to mind (not near as intellectual, etc, but you get my point). The WLA blog as a whole is another.
The end result of your tireless efforts is a most interesting blog and blog readership.
Thank you.
It was not the most likely place to come across a touching tribute to David Foster Wallace (who shares his first and last name with my college roommate, the finest writer I have ever known personally, and my Michigan football partner in crime since 1996), but quite well done Brian. Well done indeed.
This clearly needs many, many, many more footnotes.
Well, at least Neal Stephenson's new book is out....
Thank you. DFW was one of those guys who got it, and this is a tragedy.
Sports is a sense of freedom and escape for most people. Hence why I try not to become overly angry about it since I have no control in it. People who cover sports well arouse an emotion inside of a fan that can not be duplicated and because of that, becoming an expert who covers sport is a necessary therapy for the rest of us.
Them cats. They shriek, they scratch, they cough up fur-balls, they give you looks like Charlie Rose just asked you an assinine question. They get fat, get hit by cars, rub against your leg when you least expect it, appear in the dead of night (eyes aglowin'). All, apparently, w/o reflection. Fearful, but not scared; tentative, but not worried. Fed, but not content... ...wait a minute, they are content. At least the house cats are. The feral cats, now, the ones out in the wild, with their domesticated genes, not so content. Scratch more, shriek more, not likely to EVER rub against your leg. Definietely less content. Fuckin' cats. RIP, DFW
Them cats. They shriek, they scratch, they cough up fur-balls, they give you looks like Charlie Rose just asked you an assinine question. They get fat, get hit by cars, rub against your leg when you least expect it, appear in the dead of night (eyes aglowin'). All, apparently, w/o reflection.
Fearful, but not scared; tentative, but not worried. Fed, but not content...
...wait a minute, they are content. At least the house cats are. The feral cats, now, the ones out in the wild, with their domesticated genes, not so content. Scratch more, shriek more, not likely to EVER rub against your leg. Definietely less content.
Fuckin' cats.
Between all of the noise surrounding both football, hurricanes, and the ongoing implosion of the financial sector, this news has not gotten much coverage. Echoing the poster above, thanks Brian, for writing this piece.
You never cease to impress me. I knew little about DFW, but now I am eager to sojourn into his literary work. Let's see what Buzz Bissinger's position is on this...
Brian's paen is as much about Michigan football as
Wallace. Consider.
The Federer article is fantastic, thank you for sharing. It makes me appreciate that much more sitting 20 feet from his chair during the Djokovic match last week.
It would be nice to care about something, anything, as much as you care about this singularly great author. Perhaps someday.
I thought when I first read the usage article that it provides a pretty brilliant (if incidental) evaluation of blogs and why we like the ones we do.
"It also serves to detail the early and enduring passion that helps make
someone a credible technocrat — we tend to like and trust experts whose
expertise is born of a real love for their specialty instead of just a
desire to be expert at something."
The power of nerds and obsession. The ones who just can't help examining every bit of minutiae to see where it fits and to see if it leads to something new learned about the subject at hand. These are the people you want to listen to.
Non-sports figures eulogized in this space (at least that I can recall):
Kurt Vonnegut
David Foster Wallace
Hello Faz.
One of these things is not like the others.
they broke the mold with DFW. RIP.
"The difference between homicide and suicide is mostly a matter of where you perceive the door top to the cage to be." -- IJ
Posts like "DFW" are why this tOSU fan recommends mgoblog to bemused friends and family members.
actually has a winning record versus Michigan then I believe your avatar is a little inappropriate.
I'll second that. Hold off on that until you've won the next 17 games in a row, until then, you are the little brother. Cute though, nice try.
Because games from 1900-1945 are so emblematic of the game today. We should revel in our superiority from when blacks didn't have equal rights and women couldn't vote. That completely resembles the game today doesn't it?
I first switched over to this site from the Rivals site as my primary source of Michigan sports marginalia about a month ago. The Orin Incandenza reference you dropped a few days ago pretty much encapsulated why I find this site so much more agreeable. This post was very well done.
The image and discussion contect juxtaposition is unreal in your post today. Driven home by the 'East Lansing is a girl of questionable affection' advertisement along the side. I am thoroughly inspired by both what you have written and with the future exploration of DFW's work. It seems inspiration is the lifeblood of greatness, and I am selfishly and truely glad you have an abundant amount.
sdogg - he came here post a compliment of Brian. Maybe you cut him a little slack?
Plus that is a funny avatar. It's like 100x higher level than tO$U jokes.
Agreed. Wtf?
Great post Brian, thanks.
Shit Brian, I thought you were coming to Dallas/Fort Worth when I read your headline. If you wanted to highlight the essence of David Foster Wallace by a bunch of eclectic run on thoughts, you did so with style. Nice to see your love for ninja pussy...cat!
First thought was "Dallas-Ft Worth?" Next thought was "Didn't F-ing Win?" Then I read the article. Nice piece.
I remember my sense of sorrow when Stevie Ray Vaughan died in that helicopter crash in '90. It's a strange feeling... not the same a losing a loved one, but very personal and heavy nevertheless. I just remember thinking over and over what a terrible loss it was for mankind.
Great post Brian. After watching that interview with Charlie Rose, I was wondering if anyone could tell me why Wallace wasn't interested in interviewing David Lynch? I was hoping Charlie would ask him. He seemed so enthralled with Lynch's work, and I would think that he would want to get into his mind.
the essay on Lynch in A Supposedly Fun Thing explains it--a lot of it his own awkwardness. i don't think the lack of interview prevents him from getting into lynch's mind.
This could be the best thing you've ever written. Reading this when I was in college was inconsequential, but now, reading it for the second time, I understand a little bit more. Hopefully I'll come back to this in a few years and understand even more.


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Heavy Breathing has been perfect thus far in his career, registering a pair of main track victories at Gulfstream Park this year. But Pletcher is eager to see the son of Giant's Causeway perform over Turfway's all-weather surface.
Pletcher's other hope in the Spiral is Holiday Promise, who has one win from five starts, all on dirt. Holiday Promise is not new to all-weather surfaces, however.
"We purchased him last year at OBS (Ocala Breeders Sales) in the two-year-olds in training sale, so he performed there on the synthetic and worked well," said Pletcher. "Then they got back to WinStar and they thought he handled that (all-weather) surface well also, so that's sort of the angle there, and we think that the mile and an eighth should help him out also."
Javier Castellano will ride Heavy Breathing. Junior Alvarado has the mount on Holiday Promise.
Holiday Promise will arrive by van from New York on Thursday morning. Heavy Breathing and Pletcher's two fillies running in the Bourbonette Oaks (G3), Dancing Solo and In Lingerie, will arrive at Turfway Thursday following a flight from Florida.
Jerry Hollendorfer also has two Spiral Stakes wins, in 1998 with Event of the Year and in 2000 with Globalize. This year he sends Russian Greek, who finished his Spiral Stakes preparations Tuesday at Hollywood Park with a :48.20 four-furlong workout that Hollendorfer termed "fine."
Russian Greek looked like a serious player on the California scene after back-to-back two-turn wins in the Dec. 10 Gold Rush Stakes and the Jan. 14 California Derby, both at Golden Gate Fields. He was sent off at 4-1 in the El Camino Real Derby at Golden Gate on February 18, but could manage only a belated close for fifth in that race. Among those ahead of him that day was fellow Spiral candidate Handsome Mike, who ran third.
Hollendorfer said he had no explanation for the disappointing El Camino Real result but will try a rider change for Saturday's race. Corey Nakatani, who rode Handsome Mike in the El Camino Real, will have the mount on Russian Greek on Saturday. Nakatani has won the Spiral Stakes once, aboard D. Wayne Lukas's Serena's Song in 1995.
In addition to Hollendorfer and Pletcher, three other trainers with expected Spiral runners this year have twice won this race. Graham Motion triumphed last year with eventual Kentucky Derby winner Animal Kingdom and also won in 2008 with Adriano. Mike Maker won with With a City in 2006 and followed with Dean's Kitten in 2010. Lukas won the 1983 edition with Marfa before sending out Serena's Song in 1995. Serena's Song remains the only filly to have won the Spiral Stakes.
Entries for the Vinery Racing Spiral Stakes and the rest of Saturday's card will be drawn in the Racing Office on Thursday morning according to the usual draw schedule. On Thursday evening, the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce will host the Call to the Post Reception, a happy-hour networking event, from 5 to 7 p.m. Mike Battaglia will be on hand to discuss the field, and representatives from the charities that participated in last Saturday's Charity Night at the Tables will make their Spiral Stakes picks.


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Health and Wellness
Health Services
Davison Health Center
327 High Street
Wesleyan University's Davison Health Center is staffed by physicians, nurse practitioners, a physician associate, and nursing personnel who provide comprehensive primary care services for illness or injury to students. The staff provides an array of clinical and health education services, including assessment and treatment of illnesses and injuries, health, wellness, disease prevention counseling, nutritional counseling, international travel counseling, immunizations, allergy injections, HIV testing and counseling, and referral to outside specialists. The Health Center provides basic laboratory testing and a dispensary for many prescription and over-the-counter medications. In addition, the staff works closely with the Director of Health Education to promote health education and wellness programs on campus.
For more information, contact: Joyce Walter, director 685-2470
Operating Hours (When classes are in session)
Monday –Thursday 9 a.m.–7 p.m.
Friday 9 a.m.–5 p.m.
Saturday 12 noon –4 p.m.
The Health Center is closed during academic breaks and summer.
Students are encouraged to make appointments; however, walk-in visits are available for urgent care.
When the Health Center is closed, our physician staff is on call and available to speak with students by phone. An On-Call Message Center is available to handle calls when the Health Center is closed.
Dial 685-2470 to access the following menu:
• You have reached the Wesleyan University Health Service On-Call Message Center, designed to assist you when the Health Center is closed. Our office hours are Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturday 12 noon to 4 p.m. If this is a medical emergency, please hang up and dial x3333 for Public Safety, or x9911.
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• If you have a nonurgent question, need a medication refill, or wish to schedule an appointment, please press 1.
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Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) is available to all students for consultation and for treatment of emotional problems. All contacts are strictly confidential. Appointments are scheduled during the day between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Evening and weekend availability is provided on a rotating basis by the staff, making 24-hour, seven-day-a-week coverage available when undergraduate classes are in session. Individual and group therapy is offered according to a time-limited model (an evaluation session and then up to 10 sessions, if needed); students can also sign up for a consultation if they wish to talk over a particular issue or situation with a professional in the context of a single meeting. In addition, workshops are scheduled each semester on a variety of topics, which may include stress reduction, time management, eating disorders, and sexual abuse. Student support groups under the aegis of the behavioral health services also exist for issues that include death and dying, eating disorders, and alcohol/substance abuse.
For more information, contact: Dr. Jennifer D'Andrea 685-3144.
WESWell, the Health Education Program
Davison Health Center, 327 High Street
The mission of WesWELL, the Health Education Program at Wesleyan University, is to present up-to-date information on health issues. It also encourages students to make the kinds of choices in regard to themselves and their environment that will contribute to their personal growth and enhance not only their well being but that of the entire Wesleyan community. The educational programs offered by the Health Education Program cover a wide range of topics such as HIV/AIDS, substance abuse, nutrition, sexuality, sexual misconduct, sexually transmitted diseases, stress, and fitness.
The program operates on three distinct but complementary levels:
The health and wellness educator offers health information, resources, and referrals to individual students who are in personal need or who are doing research on a health-related topic. Journals, books, videos, and Internet access are available in the resource library.
The health and wellness educator recruits and coordinates the training of student peer educators who then do educational outreach programs for other students. The health educator also advises the students who are residents of the Well-Being House and Halls.
The Health Education Program sponsors campus wide outreach and awareness programs on various health issues for all students, staff, and faculty. The office is located in Davison Health Center. It has an open, friendly atmosphere, and students can drop in without an appointment.
Office hours are:
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, 8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. and Wednesday, 8:30 a.m. – 9 p.m.
For more information, please visit the web site: http://www.wesleyan.edu/weswell/
Physical Education/Department of Athletics
Freeman Athletic Center
Physical education at Wesleyan has several goals. It promotes good health through programs of physical fitness. It teaches physical skills and encourages their mastery. It encourages disciplined physical testing of personal mettle. It builds teams and fosters the pursuit of solidarity, cohesive power, efficiency, and excellence. It provides opportunity and incentive for recreational sport of a sort that contributes not only to good health but also to a fuller understanding of the importance of physical activity in mature life.
Freeman Athletic Center
161 Cross Street
Main Entrance
Monday – Friday: 7 a.m.–9 p.m.
Saturday: 8 a.m.–6 p.m.
Sunday: 11 a.m.–6 p.m.
South Entrance
Monday – Friday: 11 a.m.–6 p.m.
Saturday & Sunday: 11 a.m.–5:45 p.m.
Monday – Friday: 8:30 a.m.– 4::30 p.m.
Saturday & Sunday: CLOSED
Monday – Friday : 7:15 a.m.–8:30 a.m. Lap swim
10:00 a.m.–12 noon PE classes
12:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m. Lap swim
4:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m. Lap swim
Saturday: 10:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m. Lap swim
Sunday: 2:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m. Lap/family swim
Bacon Field House and Fitness Center
Monday – Friday: 7 a.m.–8:45 p.m.
Saturday: 8 a.m.–5:45 p.m.
Sunday: 11 a.m.–5:45 p.m.
Equipment Room
Monday – Friday: 8 a.m.–8:45 p.m.
Saturday & Sunday: CLOSED
Towels distributed at monitor station.
Check out the athletic Web site at: http://www.wesleyan.edu/athletics.
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In addition to being partners in athletic competition, the 11 colleges and universities comprising the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) are united in efforts to provide safe environments in which students may mature intellectually and socially.
Recognizing that social life plays a role in the college experience, each campus has increased its efforts to encourage students to make responsible choices. Each school takes a strong stand against substance abuse, including alcohol. While the vast majority of students at NESCAC institutions who choose to drink alcohol do so responsibly, each school has disciplinary and educational programs in place for students who misuse alcohol and other substances.
Additionally, all of the conference schools expressly prohibit hazing.
NESCAC member institutions include Amherst College, Bates College, Bowdoin College, Colby College, Connecticut College, Hamilton College, Middlebury College, Trinity College, Tufts University, Wesleyan University, Williams College.
B. Team Initiations and Hazing Policy
Varsity and club sport team initiations, which include hazing, are dangerous to the safety of the student-athletes and are prohibited. Also, any varsity team event that is organized by team members that includes the use of alcohol is a violation of the department alcohol policy. (See Athletics Department Manual, section 3.8.) Team initiations that are intended to create team spirit or a bonding of team members are not inherently bad. However, often these events include some ritual or tradition that includes excessive drinking. Most often, these events are to indoctrinate first-year team members into the team. These individuals are usually under 21 years of age, and providing them with alcohol is a violation of the state of Connecticut laws and the Wesleyan University Code of Non-Academic Conduct. Students violating this code are subject to disciplinary action by the Student Judiciary Board. Team initiations may also place team members in violation of the anti-hazing law of the state of Connecticut. Team hazing or initiations often include any act, whether physical, mental, emotional, or psychological, that subjects another person, voluntarily or involuntarily, to anything that may abuse, mistreat, degrade, humiliate, harass, or intimidate him/her or that may in any fashion compromise his/her inherent dignity as a person.
In addition, any requirement by a member of an organization that compels another member to participate in any activity that is against Wesleyan University's Code of Non-Academic Conduct or state/federal law will be defined as hazing. Coaches are to inform team members well before the beginning of the season not to hold such events. As well, a copy of this policy is to be distributed to each team member and posted in the team locker room at the beginning of the season.
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Emergency room doctors face a quandary when a patient rolls in with a stroke: is it due to a clot blocking the brain's blood supply (ischemic) or to a burst blood vessel (hemorrhagic)? The clot-busting drug tPA is lifesaving if it's an ischemic stroke, but destructive if it's a bleeding stroke. It also must be given within 4.5 hours of the stroke's start, but only about 5 percent of people arrive in time.
Few hospitals in the nation can perform the delicate balancing act it takes to diagnose and start treatment as well as Massachusetts General Hospital. "We now treat 100 percent of those who are eligible for tPA, over 70 percent within an hour of arrival in our ER," says Lee Schwamm, MD, director of the Mass General Acute Stroke Service and vice chairman of Neurology.
New Englanders who aren't near Boston also benefit from Mass General's top-tier stroke care through a telemedicine for stroke program the hospital pioneered 14 years ago. More than 30 hospitals around New England are signed up for the Telestroke Service, says Dr. Schwamm.
"Delays in therapy related to traveling long distances for care lead to poor outcomes," he explains. The Telestroke Service provides round-the-clock consultations and remote treatment via teleconferencing. "It leverages our expertise to the broadest possible community, one of our highest priorities."
In many ways, the history of advances in stroke and cerebrovascular disease (diseases affecting blood vessels supplying the brain) is the history of the Mass General Stroke Service, points out Dr. Schwamm. The famed Mass General neurologist C. Miller Fisher, MD, who died in April 2012, was the father of modern stroke neurology. His frameworks for diagnosing and managing stroke underpin many advances in the past 50 years. Mass General also led the way in using brain imaging, critical to the diagnosis and treatment of stroke, and was first in the nation to have a neurointensive care unit.
Despite much progress, every four minutes someone dies from a stroke and about half of those who survive a stroke are left with significant disabilities. One major area of research is to identify the genetic factors that predispose someone to stroke or that are associated with better or worse outcomes after one. For example, Natalia Rost, MD, MPH, associate director of Mass General's Acute Stroke Service, and her group have identified abnormalities in the brain's white matter that appear to have a role.
"It's like a footprint of pre-existing damage related to diseased blood vessels in the brain," says Dr. Rost. Using MRI scans, she has developed a way to calculate how much of this so-called white matter hyperintensity is present. They've discovered that the larger the burden of it in stroke patients, the greater the chance of a worse outcome after their stroke. That information, plus personal history (age, gender, smoking history, glucose, cholesterol and blood pressure levels, for example) as well as genetic make-up from collected blood samples are entered into a statistical model they've created. "It will give us the power to personalize stroke care in the future and will be vital for designing the next generation of therapies," she says.
In the future, other advances may come from the synergy of heart and brain specialists working together to prevent and treat interrelated problems that affect both organs, such as blood clots. The Mass General Institute for Heart, Vascular and Stroke Care, which was launched in the fall, will help take advantage of these commonalities to accelerate discoveries that will benefit even more patients.
When Dr. Schwamm was an MGH neurology resident in 1992, there was no approved therapy for stroke. "Over the past two decades, we've seen a transformation in stroke care with a dramatic growth in our ability to help stroke patients."
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UH presidential candidates Greenwood and Jones to visit campusesUniversity of Hawaiʻi
External Affairs & University Relations
According to UH Advisory Presidential Selection Committee Chair Donna Tanoue, "The Advisory Presidential Selection Committee has been impressed by the high level of talent across the pool of candidates interested in leading the University. We are pleased to invite two candidates, Dr. M.R.C. Greenwood and Dr. Robert J. Jones, to participate in the on-campus visits. Both candidates offer strong leadership, a strong commitment to academic values, and a deep appreciation of shared governance with the faculty and the importance of building effective working relationships with elected leaders and the community. Throughout our discussions, these candidates have recognized the unique attributes of the University of Hawaiʻi and the challenges and opportunities ahead, and we encourage the community to come out to meet Dr. Greenwood and Dr. Jones at the upcoming public forums."
Dr. M.R.C. Greenwood is Chancellor Emerita, University of California, Santa Cruz, and currently Director of the Foods for Health Initiative, Chair of the Graduate Group in Nutritional Biology and Distinguished Professor of Nutrition and Internal Medicine at the University of California, Davis. She holds an appointment as Adjunct Professor of Public Health and Nutrition at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Greenwood is a nationally and internationally known expert on obesity and diabetes. In addition, she is a national leader on science and technology policy and an expert on higher education policy issues.
She is a member of the Institute of Medicine at the National Academies of Sciences, has been President of the North American Association for the Study of Obesity (NAASO) — now the Obesity Society, President of the American Society of Clinical Nutrition and has chaired the Food and Nutrition Board of the Institution of Medicine. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a fellow, past president and board chair of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Greenwood previously served as Chancellor of UC Santa Cruz, a position she held from 1996 to 2004. She also previously served as Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs for the 10-campus University of California (UC) system, the second highest position in the UC system, a position she held from 2004-2005.
Dr. Greenwood graduated summa cum laude from Vassar College and received her Ph.D. from The Rockefeller University. Her research interests are in developmental cell biology, genetics, neurosciences, physiology, women's health, nutrition and science and higher education policy. Her work over the past 40 years, focusing on the genetic causes of obesity, and on science policy issues, is recognized worldwide. She is the author of numerous scientific publications and presentations.
Dr. Robert J. Jones is Senior Vice President for System Academic Administration for the University of Minnesota and Professor, a position he has held since 2004. In this capacity, he serves as a senior academic and chief operating officer for the University of Minnesota system. His leadership responsibilities include oversight for the coordinate campuses, international programs, public engagement and outreach, diversity and multicultural affairs, PreK-12 and other youth and family programs, urban initiatives, planning and institutional research, information technology, human resources, the University of Minnesota Extension, and other university statewide initiatives. Prior to his current appointment, he served in various administrative positions at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, for over 15 years, including vice president and executive vice provost for faculty and academic programs, vice president for campus life and vice provost for faculty and academic personnel, and interim vice president for student development.
Dr. Jones earned a bachelor's degree in agronomy from Fort Valley State College, a master's degree in crop physiology from the University of Georgia, and a doctorate in crop physiology from the University of Missouri. After earning his Ph.D., he joined the University of Minnesota faculty as a professor of Agronomy and Plant Genetics. He is an internationally recognized authority on plant physiology, and has published numerous scientific papers, manuscripts and abstracts. He conducts research on stabilizing grain yields of maize against environmental stresses and other global climate change. He is a fellow of both the American Society of Agronomy and the Crop Science Society of America. He has been a visiting professor and featured speaker in North America, Europe, Asia and Africa, and from 1984-1994 served as an academic and scientific consultant for Archbishop Desmond Tutu's South African Education Program.
Tanoue noted a third candidate was also being considered, but that candidate's visit has not been scheduled. Dr. Greenwood will visit the UH campuses on May 6, 7 and 8. Dr. Jones will visit the campuses on May 11, 12 and 13. For more information about Dr. Greenwood and Dr. Jones and their schedule of public forums and meetings at UH campuses, visit www.hawaii.edu/president.
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For anything positive to come out of tonight, attention and respect must be paid to all speakers. Even with Kate Murray's absence, if any TOH leaders have the grace and wisdom to come - and perhaps even speak - they should be applauded. As a note of trivia, Hempstead attorney Joseph Ra happens to be a huge Islanders fan.
sleep 5The Lighthouse Development Corporation has been very tight-lipped about tonight's format, even to the blogger who has pumped the event every day for a week while Newsday opted not to publish any advance coverage. What we know is there will be addresses from Charles Wang, Scott Rechler and Tom Suozzi.
It is our hope that Wang, Rechler and Suozzi push this story forward, tell us something we don't already know. On March 10, the Nassau County Executive said he was negotiating a new lease with Wang and Rechler and not waiting for Town of Hempstead approval. The possible announcement of details of a new lease would be something to leave with tonight.
Besides the developers and Suozzi, all community leaders - that's PR-speak for politicians - will have a chance to address the crowd. This is when, hopefully, a TOH representative will take the floor. Union leaders may also have their say. Just as important, all members of the public will have the opportunity to have their voices heard. The best way to guarantee your turn at the microphone is to sign up before 7:00 pm.
sleep 5Suggestion: If you decide to speak and are a resident of the Town of Hempstead, it would be a good idea to let everyone in the room know that you have a vote in the next election.
I don't know if I'm going to speak, but I am a TOH resident. So consider this my notice.
sleep 5As has been discussed at length in the PB Comments section, anyone attending is best-served representing themselves as a citizen first and Islanders fan second.
That said, this is not Halloween. Come as you are. If more than anything else you care about the Islanders, I'm not about to tell you to hide that. I'm sure the developers and politicians will appreciate anyone who brings their passion to the room tonight.
Speaking of which, we all know some. My lone sibling is one. What a powerful statement it would be if some Rangers fans - TOH or Nassau residents, ideally - joined their friends at the event tonight. After all, people from across all aisles are going to be in attendance. Since this just cannot be about politics, there's plenty of room for Blue and Red.
We all know how much Rangers fans would miss the Islanders and the Springsteen concerts and the family shows. If you're close with any Rangers fans, bring them. We'll make sure the Rangers-Thrashers game is on one of the screens at Champions at the Marriott.
By the way, I'll probably have a pre-event drink at Champions around 6:30 pm. If you are a reader, please say hello.
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LONGMONT -- It's time for Longmont's "hackers" to step on up.
Online registration opened Monday for the city's first-ever hackathon, a three-day competition April 12-14 to build the best Longmont-centered application. First prize is $1,000, followed by $750 for second and $500 for third.
Residents have been turning in ideas for apps since January, including an interactive map of the city's public art pieces, an app that shows the wait time at local restaurants, and one that would allow easy reporting of graffiti or maintenance problems.
Longmont hackathon
What: A three-day competition April 12-14 to build the best Longmont-centered application
When: from 6 to 11 p.m. Friday, April 12; 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday, April 13; and 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, April 14
Where: Skyline High School, 600 E. Mountain View Ave., Longmont
For more information: Visit longmonthackathon.com
As of Monday afternoon, 76 ideas had been turned in to the event's website, longmonthackathon.com.
"I expect this to become a big deal," organizer Scott Converse said. "This is just our first shot at it."
The event is sponsored by the city and Western Digital. Other sponsors include Holland and Hart, Constant Contact and ESRI.
The name "hackathon" came out of the high-tech industry, where a marathon programming session could sometimes produce an entire Internet startup. Cities began getting into the game about five years ago, with volunteers creating killer apps that range from updates on the job market to "adopting" a fire hydrant.
The hard part for many cities, Converse said, is that a hackathon requires a lot of transparency.
"The point of a hackathon is to open up a city and turn it into an open data platform," he said. "That's a little uncomfortable for a city. ... But if you can get a city to do it and you can get a city to do it regularly, amazing things can come from that information sharing."
Longmont's available data sets include planning and police data, sales tax numbers and even expenses rung up on the city purchasing card.
Converse said he'll also be talking up the hackathon at the "New Tech meetups" in Denver, Fort Collins and Boulder, events where technology professionals come together and "show-and-tell" new technology. Those three events together have about 9,000 members and typically draw a crowd of hundreds, Converse said.
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PRINCETON — If tourism statistics can be used as the measuring stick, the recession in Illinois appears to be easing up a bit.
Gov. Pat Quinn has announced Illinois had record-breaking tourism numbers statewide for the 2012 year. Illinois saw 99 million domestic visitors in 2012, which is a 6.1 percent increase over the record 93.3 million U.S. residents that traveled to Illinois in 2011. That tourism surge has accounted for more that $31 billion for the state's economy, Quinn said.
"Another year of record-breaking numbers proves that travel is back, and the tourism industry in Illinois is thriving," Quinn said. "Our world-class cultural attractions and destinations continue to attract more and more visitors to Illinois each year, which in turn directly drives the state's economic growth."
The Illinois River Road National Scenic Byway, which runs through portions of Bureau County, has also seen an increase in tourism, according to Anaise Berry, executive director.
Looking at the national recession and the past several years, Berry said travel expenditures (money spent by travelers on things like public transportation, food service, auto transportation, lodging retail and entertainment/recreation) for the 10-county Illinois River Road region had been steadily increasing the three years prior to the recession in 2009.
"Travel expenditures have once again continued to increase year over year and equal or have surpassed travel expenditures prior to the recession," the executive director said.
As another measuring stick, Berry said the Illinoisriverroad.org website had nearly 100,000 visitors during the past 12 months, which represents a 20 percent increase over the previous year.
As far as reasons for the increased tourism in the state, Berry said more and more Illinoisans are staying right here and exploring their own state. With gas prices on the rise, folks have a lot they can explore right here in the Illinois River Valley and throughout the state without having to travel to other states, she said.
Also, Berry said the United States and the state of Illinois are putting forth a much-needed and long overdue effort to market the United States and Illinois to international visitors. That marketing doesn't just open up opportunities for Chicago, but also for the Illinois River Road region and the rest of the state. International visitors vacation for longer periods of time than Americans do, and they look to explore "authentic or rural America," not just the big cities.
Specific for the Illinois River Road, Berry said the increased popularity of the area can be credited to a definite increase in awareness through the advertising done with local and regional partners, with signage, a newly re-designed website and community kiosks which were installed last year, such as the one on Bureau Valley Parkway in Princeton. These all work together to bring attention to the Illinois River Road region and make it a more attractive destination for visitors.
On Monday, Princeton Tourism/Marketing Director Joni Hunt said the local tourism numbers for Bureau County have not yet been posted but should become available in a few days. However, she's confident local tourism dollars will also have seen an increase this past year, even in the 10 percent range, she said.
Hunt credits that increase to doing a much better job of having a comprehensive plan for marketing. More marketing of local events is done outside a 50-mile radius to increase overnight stays in Princeton and the county. Tourism definitely impacts the local economy, she said.
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The European Rugby Challenge Cup draw has been made in Switzerland, with Cardiff Blues, London Irish and Grenoble pooled together.
The draw for the inaugural European Rugby Challenge Cup has been made in Switzerland, with Cardiff Blues and London Irish being pooled together.
Grenoble and a FIRA-AER qualifier complete that group while the other tough pool sees Edinburgh, Bordeaux, London Welsh and Lyon colliding.
LV= Cup winners Exeter Chiefs will face stiff opposition from Top 14 outfit Bayonne, but will be early favourites to top Pool 2 with Connacht and La Rochelle unlikely to spring many surprises.
Stade Francais too look strong enough to see off the respective challenges of the Dragons, Newcastle Falcons and another FIRA-AER qualifier, while Gloucester have been grouped with hard-to-beat Top 14 pair Brive and Oyonnax, as well as the ever-improving Zebre.
European Rugby Challenge Cup
Pool 1: Cardiff Blues, London Irish, Grenoble, FIRA-AER
Pool 2: Exeter Chiefs, Bayonne, Connacht, La Rochelle
Pool 3: Stade Francais, Dragons, Newcastle Falcons, FIRA-AER
Pool 4: Edinburgh, Bordeaux Begles, London Welsh, Lyon
Pool 5: Gloucester, Brive, Zebre, Oyonnax


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Word-Level 1 (four-session course)
Lancaster Public Library-Computer Classes
Tuesday, January 7, 2014 from 6:00 PM to 7:45 PM (EST)
Event Details
Lancaster Public Library is pleased to offer free computer classes to the public. Classes are given by experienced library volunteers.
This class, using Microsoft Word from the Office 2010 suite, offers instruction in the following areas:
- What is Word?
- Keyboard
- Screen layout
- Review of typing
- Copy and paste / Cut and paste
- Numbered lists and bulleted lists
- Editing lists
- Borders
- Edited numbering
- Highlighting
- Formatting text
- Saving your work / Opening files
- Text alignment
- Spellcheck
- Printing
Where: Computer Training Room on the second floor of the Duke Street library
When: January 7, 14, 21, & 28 from 6pm-7:45pm. Registration is required and please do so only if you can attend all of the sessions listed for the class.
Prerequisites: Intro to Computers or equivalent experience. Must have a Lancaster County library card in good standing. Must be 18 or older.
Please call the reference desk at 394-2651 x105 with any questions.
Metered parking is available on Duke Street and behind the library. The Duke Street Garage is also across the street from the library.
Have questions about Word-Level 1 (four-session course)? Contact Lancaster Public Library-Computer Classes
When & Where
Lancaster Public Library
125 N Duke St
Tuesday, January 7, 2014 from 6:00 PM to 7:45 PM (EST)
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Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Getting apps to use the full power of the device.
MurukeshM writes: I have a 16 GB Nexus 4. I rarely manage to push the RAM usage above 1 GB (not counting cached processes). Yet I find it increasingly annoying when apps do stuff to save on RAM usage, such as having a browser reload a tab if I havent used it for a long time, instead of keeping it in memory or have an ebook reader load from storage instead of keeping the entire eBook in RAM. I know there are plenty of phones with far less memory, but when most of the RAM is unutilized, with more and more phones and tablets having 1GB+ RAM, isn't it time that apps check on available RAM and use optimizations accordingly? And it isn't only about RAM. Android by default only downloads one thing at a time, whether it be an app from Play Store or a file from a site. When connected to WiFi or 3G/LTE, there's no reason why multiple simultaneous downloads shouldn't be used. How do
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A friend showed my a site that does just this, but for python -- I was wondering if there was a site that could give me things to do, to slowly build on my learning.
I've looked in books, as I've fingered through many of them over the last decade & used them to learn specific things -- (oh, make a session? rather than build on it, i'll just skip to page 348!)
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Asmussen Sends Out Three in Lone Star Derby
A Texas native, Steve Asmussen is the all-time leading trainer at Lone Star Park, but he has never captured the racetrack's signature event for 3-year-olds, the Lone Star Derby (gr. III). On May 9, Asmussen will have his best chance when he sends out three of the seven starters in the $400,000 contest.


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1.) Jacob Mayers, RHP/3B, Hanover HS, VA-It was very difficult to find a weakness in Jacob's performance, as he absolutely dominated hitters with three potential average to above average MLB pitches. His fastball topped out at 88, but has been up to 90 earlier in the summer. What really stands out for Jacob is his very tight 12-6 curveball and his feel for a live change-up. His pitchability is very polished for his age and Jacob also is one of the top infielders in the country. He is verbally committed to Richmond, but could attract plenty of draft attention this coming spring.
2.) Timothy Edward Butler, RHP, Greenbrier Christian Academy, VA-With a fastball that touched 90 and an arm that works well, Timothy has a lot to like on the mound. Everything works well in his clean delivery and his velocity projects well as he fills
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Nancy Stegman
Nancy and her husband, Mike, decided they wanted to contribute $120,000 to establish an endowment that will fund new ideas in bile duct cancer.
As part of a routine physical exam in December 2006, Nancy Stegman learned that her liver function test results were off the charts. She was immediately referred to UNC Lineberger for further testing. A series of tests showed biliary tree abnormalities which were likely cancer. The final test was to have been an ERCP – endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography. However, during this procedure, her intestine was punctured and the careful diagnostic process was no longer possible. She had to have an 8-hour whipple procedure to correct the problem and to remove the cancer that had been detected. It was three days after the surgery before she was alert enough to understand her situation. Her family had already been given the devastating news – Nancy had a rare form of bile duct cancer called cholangiocarcinoma.
She began intense and extensive treatment at UNC Lineberger right away. Nancy says that she has met some wonderful skilled and caring people during her time here. She adds that she has been particularly impressed by the nurses who work so hard to give the patients a positive experience in such difficult circumstances.
Cholangiocarcinoma is a particularly uncommon disease. There is very little information about the course this cancer takes and effective treatments available. Nationally, so few people are affected that very little federal funding has been set aside to uncover the causes and help with better treatment options. Nancy and her husband, Mike, decided they wanted to contribute $120,000 to establish an endowment that will fund new ideas in bile duct cancer. Their gift included a 3:1 matching gift from Mike's employer, the Mac-Arthur Foundation. Their hope is that these funds will contribute to an effort at UNC Lineberger to better understand such things as cancer mechanisms, genomics and other cancer biology that will assist in treating patients with cholangiocarcinoma.
In 2008 Nancy's physician, Dr. Richard Goldberg, told her that there were no further effective treatments available for her. Her cancer is progressing slowly, but Nancy knows that she will not personally reap the benefits of this gift. Her hope is that she is able to help others that struggle with this disease. Right now, she is focused on living each day to its fullest and recognizes that every day with her loving family, including her granddaughter, Hazel, is a gift.


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Brookville avenges prior loss during victory
BROOKVILLE— Brookville girls' basketball head coach Mark Powell knew how important the Lady Raiders' game was Monday night at home against Keystone.
Brookville had lost its last four games and had its hands full with defending Keystone's preseason All-District IX player Morgan Johnson. Also, Brookville lost to Keystone 45-42 the first time these teams met Dec. 11 in the championship game of the Brookville Tip-off Tournament.
Johnson scored 19, but Brookville (11-5) kept Keystone (12-4) from rebounding well en route to a 59-54 win.
"We brought the energy for 32 minutes tonight, and that was the big thing," Powell said. "I thought we hustled all over the floor, diving for loose balls. Our defensive pressure was the key."
Lanae Newsome, who scored 18 points, said that the team did a good job rebounding despite having its best post player, Emily Ferraro, out of the lineup.
"We needed the rebounds really bad tonight," Newsome said. "It's tough without Emily because we don't have any post players, and we're a short team. We did really well tonight."
The game changed when Brookville received some clutch perimeter shooting in the fourth quarter. Newsome and Karly Reinsel made three three-pointers in the fourth quarter.
They combined for five three-pointers in the game — Reinsel made three, and Newsome had two. Reinsel's, who finished with 18 points, first three of the fourth quarter gave the Lady Raiders a 47-46 lead.
After the Lady Panthers made a lay-up to go up 48-47, Newsome buried a three to give the Lady Raiders a 50-48 lead.
Reinsel then hit another three-pointer on the Lady Raiders' next possession to extend the lead to 53-48.
"Karly hit some big threes tonight, and she played a whale of a game," Powell said. "She was undersized underneath and hit the boards hard."
Brookville was able to hold on for the rest of the game and earned the 59-54 win. Powell said the win should give the team a much needed lift.
"It was huge. This win should do nothing but build confidence for these kids," Powell said. "Keystone is a good basketball team. We played really well, and we rebounded tonight better than we have all year. Give the kids a lot of credit, they wanted this one."


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Welcome aboard! Im in colorado too, south of castle rock. Ive got an 84 GL and an 06 Baja. My first was an 86 GL that i flogged mercilessly as a teen. It never quit on me and sold me on a subarus worth! I miss that car.
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Alert the grocery store because there is going to be an avocado shortage in my town. Well, more than usual that is.
[And yes, I said 'store'. As in singular…We're small town folk.]
You can whip up this pasta dish in under 15 minutes flat! I know I will be making it again and again, especially for those dinners when we are strapped for time…or just plain old tired after a long day.
I used some fun pasta to increase the nutrition factor- first, 1 serving (3oz) of spelt pasta.
Spelt pasta has a great nutritional profile with 12 grams of protein and 3 grams of fibre per serving.
I also used one 3oz serving of Kamut pasta.
Kamut pasta has 13 grams of protein and 8 grams of fibre per serving. Niiiiice.
They both taste AMAZING and are very easy on the digestive system. I purchased both of them in the natural food section of Loblaws/Superstore. Regular white spaghetti has only 1.7 grams of fibre and 4 grams of protein per serving. Eric and I actually prefer the nutty flavour of the ancient grains over the white pasta so it is an easy switch.
If you don't have a scale or pasta measuring device, one serving of pasta (3oz) is about the diameter of a quarter!
PS- That picture above took me 6 tries to get in focus! lol
A couple of the out of focus ones…
Oh the joys of amateur photography. ;)
While the pasta is cooking away, prepare the 'cream' sauce in a food processor. I used 3 cloves of garlic and it was quite garlicky, so if you are not a big fan of garlic I would suggest using 1-2 cloves.
I love that avocado can be used as a substitute for cream in this recipe. The healthy fats in avocado make our skin glow and hair shine as an added bonus. :)
Strain and rinse the cooked pasta.
Add the sauce and mix well.
Garnish with lemon zest and freshly ground black pepper.
I fell in love.
So did Eric.
We are now married to this pasta.
And I'm actually going through withdrawal just looking at these pictures.
Looking for other pasta recipes that I enjoy? Try these recipes below:
* Lightened Up Sundried Tomato Pasta
In other news, it's Monday and I woke up in a haze today. That is, until I watched this video below! It made my entire day, so I thought I would spread the joy. Animals are just the most fascinating and intelligent creatures and I'm always blown away by stories like this.
I can't decide what I like more about the video:
1) It has a date of '1999', but it is clearly circa 1980's, 2) the old married couple that I want to adopt, 3) The crow scaring the cat (minute 3:44), 4) The cat scaring the crow (minute 5:00), 5) The crow squawking at the cat to 'get off the road' (minute 4:40), or 6) Is that ALAN THICKE from Growing Pains?!
It kills me, it really does.
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Skinny ThinkPad X300 gains Centrino 2 tech
DisplayPort added too
Lenovo has revised its ultra-skinny ThinkPad X300 notebook for the Centrino 2 age, revamping the machine's spec and renaming it the X301.
The new model comes with a choice of one of Intel's latest 45nm ultra-low voltage Core 2 Duo processors clocked at 1.2GHz and 1.4GHz. Both have 6MB of L2 cache and sit on a 1066MHz frontside bus.
Lenovo's ThinkPad X301: now with Centrino 2
They also come with up to 2GB of DDR 3 memory, and 128GB of solid-state storage. The laptop's display is a 13.3in, 1440 x 900 panel driven by the graphics core integrated into Intel's GM45 chipset.
Well connected, the X301 comes with the usual Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, and versions will be able to be bought with a variety of mobile broadband technologies built in. They'll come with on-board GPS too.
Lenovo also promised WiMAX versions later in the year, though almost certainly only in the US.
Other enhancements include the addition of a DisplayPort monitor connector - the X300 had no external monitor port.
The X301 family goes on sale next week. Prices start at $2599. There's no word yet on UK availability and pricing.
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