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HOUSTON – Regardless of an individual's dietary and lifestyle risk factors, living in a poorer or more socioeconomically deprived neighborhood may increase a person's risk for death, according to data presented at the American Association for Cancer Research Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research, held Dec. 6-9, 2009.
Researchers conducted the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study and found that people living in poorer neighborhoods, as determined by U.S. Census data, reported higher health risks, including heart disease and cancer, and were more likely to die sooner regardless of lifestyle and other risk factors.
"We were expecting that once we controlled for these lifestyle and medical risk factors, the differences would go away," said Chyke Doubeni, M.D., M.P.H., assistant professor of family medicine and community health and assistant vice provost for diversity at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. "We weren't surprised by the unadjusted differences, but we were surprised that the differences persisted after controlling for lifestyle factors such as smoking, diet, exercise and medical risks."
Previous data have demonstrated that people from lower socioeconomic groups have poorer health outcomes. Doubeni and colleagues prospectively evaluated whether people living in more deprived neighborhoods have a higher mortality risk.
Through the NIH-AARP study, they collected diet, lifestyle and medical history data from a prospective cohort of 565,697 participants, aged 50 to 71, from six U.S. states and two metropolitan areas during 1995 to 1996. Participants' mean age was 62 years, and the cohort consisted of 60 percent men, 91 percent non-Hispanic whites, 4 percent non-Hispanic blacks and 9 percent had a history of cancer.
Results revealed that a larger percentage of participants living in the most deprived neighborhoods reported poorer general health, higher average body mass index and lower Mediterranean diet scores, meaning that their diets were unhealthy. After Doubeni and colleagues controlled for dietary and lifestyle factors, the risk for death increased as the levels of deprivation in the neighborhood increased.
"We, as practitioners, either in the health care systems or clinics, should be alert to the needs of people from these backgrounds," Doubeni said. "We need to target public health interventions to these neighborhoods that are deprived by improving health resources and the physical environments in those areas."
Doubeni and colleagues are currently evaluating how living in a socioeconomically deprived neighborhood may influence overall cancer incidence and mortality, specifically focusing on colorectal cancer.
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Western Digital (WD) executives knew they were behind the curve in releasing a wireless hard drive. Seagate, Kingston and Corsair are among those with their own models.
In fact, WD said its delay was intentional.
"We always thought the technology was not far enough along to make the user experience great," said Greg Kopotic, WD's senior product marketing manager. "The apps and the Wi-Fi [are] at the point now where the user experience can be pristine and easy to understand."
Like others, WD's new My Passport Wireless is a Wi-Fi enabled storage drive that allows users to save, access and share stored content wirelessly with any smartphone, tablet, computer or other device.
The My Passport Wireless comes in capacities of 500GB ($130), 1TB ($180) and 2TB ($219).
The built-in lithium-ion rechargeable battery provides up to six hours of continuous streaming and up to 20 hours of standby power.
WD's My Cloud mobile app, available through Apple Store and Google Play, offers users of the drive a dashboard of features to control it. For example, the dashboard allows them to lock the drive's USB 3.0 port (which offers up to 5Gbps throughput) so that only pre-authorized users have access with a password.
"So if anyone steals the drive and plugs it in, they can't get access to the content. They'll just be charging the device for you," Koptic said.
The My Passport Wireless drive's size varies slightly, depending on capacity, but the 2TB model measures 5-in. x 3.39-in. x 1.17-in and weighs about three-quarters of a pound.
Like Seagate's Wireless Plus, Corsair's Voyager Air, LaCie's Fuel, and Kingston's MobileLite Wireless G2 Media Reader, WD's My Passport Wireless drive can act as a hot spot. The WD can support up to eight pre-authorized users accessing data from the drive at the same time.
The portable wireless drive features Wireless N with MIMO technology for up to 80Mbps wireless streaming connection.
"You can stream up to four high-definition videos at once," Kopotic said.
However, Seagate's Wireless Plus drive has a 150Mbps wireless connection.
The difference in price between WD's drive and others from Seagate, Corsair and LaCie is negligible - around $20. For example, LaCie's is $20 more; Seagate's is $20 less.
The only exception in price among the wireless drives is Kingston's MobileLite Media Reader. It retails for $55, but it has no on-board storage capacity. Instead, it offers a USB 3.0 port for a thumb drive and SD card slot for storage capacity. That limits its storage capacity to about 128GB with a SanDisk SD card, but it allows users to switch out media when needed. The MobileLite Media Reader also has an Ethernet port, allowing a high-speed connection to upload or download data.
The My Passport Wireless drive is more akin to Seagate's Wireless Plus drive or LaCie's Fuel, both of which have up to 2TB of onboard storage. Corsair's drive has up to 1TB of capacity.
Unlike Seagate and LaCie's wireless drives, WD's not only comes with onboard storage, but it also an SD 2.0 card slot for removable storage. The drive can be set up so when an SD card with photos or videos is plugged in, the data is automatically transferred to the hard drive and then deleted from the card. The default setting leaves the data on the SD card.
The My Passport Wireless also comes with media-type icons, representing the type of data stored on it. For example, music, video and photos have their own icons, and when clicked on, they bring up that content only for viewing or listening.
Video or music files can also be streamed from WD's My Cloud service to the drive for active listening; if the drive is disconnected, the music will continue playing from the onboard storage capacity.
The wireless drive also has an integrated search feature that will look for content on the drive and in WD's My Cloud at the same time and bring up a list of thumbnail icons or file structure.
"You can also connect your home router to it and turn on file sharing," Kopotic said. "That will treat the drive like a network share, so others can access all the content on your My Passport Wireless."

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Milton Stewart *—b missionaru for small Business It is a balmy afternoon, and a light breeze makes this mid-winter Sunday in San Antonio ideal. Milton Stewart, his wife Joan, and a friend are strolling along the famed River Walk after a tour of the Alamo. Stewart stops for a "crispy dog," a frankfurter wrapped in a taco shell. At $1.50 it's a substantial tide-me-over, and Stewart bites into it with obvious relish. "Vknow," he says, "this would be a terrific franchise item." An odd way to praise a local delicacy? Not for Milt Stewart, whose thoughts—not to mention activities— rarely stray from small business. An attorney with credentials as economist, journalist, investment banker, and White House advisor—he was named by President Carter in 1979 as first chief counsel for advocacy of the Small Business Administration- Stewart has devoted more than 39 years to a fervent, relentless small-business advocacy. Those who call Milt Stewart the Billy Graham of small business are not exaggerating a great deal. While he speaks for all small business, Stewart's consuming passion is putting America back at the top of the high-technology heap, and he sees entrepreneurs of the type that pioneered Boston's Route 128 and California's Silicon Valley as the people to put us there. As steps in this direction, he counts the signing by President Reagan in July 1982 of the Small Business Innovation Development Act, with its accompanying Small Business Innovative Research program (SBIR), and Stewart's own Small Business High Technology Institute (SBHTI), of which he is founder and president. The purpose of the SHBTI is to show high-tech entrepreneurs how to make the most of the government's new small-business initiatives—and, frankly, to give American high-technology entrepreneurs a shot at their fair share of government contracts. Stewart also feels that SBHTI will help the U.S. respond better to foreign competition. Earlier that Sunday in San Antonio, he had addressed a convention of Small Business United, a nationwide confederation of small-business operators. "There is no expansion without small business," he told about 100 entrepreneurs in fields ranging from microchips to molding. A Billy-Graham-style orator he isn't. Short and stocky, and dressed in the string tie and Indian jewelry which, together, are the South-west's equivalent of the three-piece suit, Milt Stewart speaks evenly and without notes, an elbow resting on the lectern. "Small business kept the economy afloat during the recession," he continued. "While the Fortune 500 was reducing employment by 600,000, small business created more than half of America's new jobs." After the luncheon, about half the audience converges on Stewart, bombarding him with questions which he fields patiently and expertly. The afternoon's tour of San Antonio is a respite in an otherwise crammed schedule. The next day, Monday, the International Franchise Association is to give its first Free Enterprise award to Stewart at its convention in New Orleans. Then, following a brief stopover at his home in Phoenix, Stewart will leave for London, where he is to join European business and economic leaders for the launching of the European Economic Community's European Year of Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises (EYSME). Like today, Stewart will be accompanied by his wife Joan, a cheerful, attentive woman who keeps him
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- New U.S. health insurance plans are required beginning Wednesday to provide new preventive benefits at no cost to covered women as part of healthcare reform.
The new rules require insurers to cover a comprehensive set of preventive services that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services estimates will benefit 47 million women. They include contraceptives, breastfeeding supplies and gestational diabetes screening for pregnant women, prenatal care, routine breast and pelvic exams and pap tests used to detect potentially precancerous and cancerous processes in the cervix.
Other benefits that became effective Wednesday as part of a decade-long rollout of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed into law by President Barack Obama March 23, 2010, include testing for the human papillomavirus -- which can cause warts and, in a minority of cases, lead to cervical cancers -- screening and counseling for HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases and infections, and screening and counseling for domestic and interpersonal violence.
Healthcare-reform benefits for women already in effect include mammograms for women over age 40 for early detection of breast cancer and osteoporosis bone-mineral-density screenings for women over age 60 to prevent an increased risk of fracture.
"The top killers of women will now no longer go undetected," said Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., who spearheaded the Capitol Hill push to include Wednesday's requirement in the healthcare overhaul.
"Women will be able to have access to essential preventive services that will provide early detection and screening for those situations where they're most at risk, and also provide opportunities to care and services that they need as wives and mothers," she told reporters Monday.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said, "Before the healthcare law, many insurers didn't even cover basic women's healthcare.
"Other care plans charged such high copayments that they discouraged many women from getting basic preventive services," she said. "So as a result, surveys show that more than half of the women in this country delayed or avoided preventive care because of its cost. That's simply not right."
Robert Zirkelbach, vice president for strategic communications for America's Health Insurance Plans, a national political advocacy and trade association with about 1,300 insurance-company members, said most health plans already covered preventive care, sometimes without a copay.
"In fact, not only do health plans cover these services, they encourage policy holders to get recommended preventive care, such as preventive tests, screenings and immunizations," he told CNN. "Promoting prevention and wellness has always been a top priority for health plans."
Americans are divided over the Affordable Care Act, the most significant U.S. healthcare system regulatory overhaul since the passage of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965 and Obama's signature legislative accomplishment. Several provisions already in effect are popular with the public, opinion polls indicate.
These include allowing children to remain on a parent's health plan until age 26, prohibiting the denial of coverage for pre-existing conditions and eliminating the maximum lifetime dollar limit for an insured individual's care.
Some insurance plans in force before the passage of healthcare reform may have "grandfathered" status and may be exempt from offering the new benefits, the non-profit, non-partisan, Kaiser Family Foundation said.
The foundation, which focuses on major U.S. healthcare issues as well as the U.S. role in global health policy, said it found in a 2011 survey that 56 percent of covered workers are in grandfathered plans, or plans in which old rules continue to apply to some situations.
Women can check with their employers to find out whether they are in grandfathered health insurance plans, Kaiser said.
Sebelius planned to answer questions from the public live online at 1:30 p.m. EDT at healthcare.gov/live. People may also submit questions over Facebook at facebook.com/healthcaregov or through Twitter using the hashtag #womenshealth.


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By: Cavin Rawlins , 6:27 PM GMT on June 15, 2010
Since 92L is a few days away from land and we do seem to have any imminent areas of concern I will post a full tropical update at 5PM this afternoon after the full 12Z and 18Z models are updated. In the meantime, here is the blog on tropical waves that I had to postpone on Sunday. You can enjoy the read while you wait for 92L to do something. It is one my personal best researches all in the name of Tropical Meteorology and I assure you it will cover everything you need to understand about African Easterly Waves. Thanks for all the get well wishes, I am evidently getting there.
Tracking Tropical Waves: Structure, Nature and Propagation
Last week we looked at the conditions that set the stage for the development of the African Easterly Jet (AEJ) and found that mid-level African waves developed to the south of the jet and that low-level waves developed north of the jet. Today we are going to take a further look at African Easterly Waves (AEWs), particularly the mid-level waves south of the jet. Before we do so we are going look at an overview of low-level waves and the genesis discussed last week. Much of the information you see here was made possible by numerous studies done on African Easterly Waves, most importantly the African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analyses Project (AMMA).
Low Level Waves
These waves develop to the north of the African Easterly Jet (AEJ) in a region of static instability associated with the low-level thermal trough below the Saharan High as suggested by Chang (1993) and Thorncroft (1995). These waves that develop north of the AEJ and lack any convective activity due to the availability of moisture. They often head westward with uncertainty as to where they will go. Some may move towards the southwest and eventually are located below the AEJ, while others continue northwards neutral Rossby waves. For this reason, we will stress more on the classic mid-level waves that we recognise over tropical North Africa.
Overview of Mid-Level African Easterly Waves (AEWs)
For these tropical waves to develop, you need instability within a fast flowing stream of air at the mid-levels and a rapid reversal of the potential vorticity (PV) gradient as suggested by Charney and Stern in 1969. The African Easterly Jet (AEJ) satisfies these conditions. But how? Well the AEJ is a fast flowing stream of air typically near 600mb over Northern Africa. The flow near the jet axis is going faster than that of flow further way in the surroundings. What happens, is that eddies begin to develop due to differences in speed of the flow within the AEJ (barotropic instability/horizontal shear). A cyclonic eddy develops south of the jet and in the northern hemisphere, this is positive vorticity (+PVU). Anticyclonic eddies develop north of the wave and in the northern hemisphere, this is negative vorticity (-PVU). In the natural world, positive vorticity is stronger and thus will bulge the axis of the AEJ northwards resulting in a kink or wave. The wave continues to amplify until the jet weakens and an AEW is born. Now if we look closely, we see the PV gradients as the positive eddy to the south and the negative to the north. This is the rapid change in PV gradient that we often discuss. Figure 1 summarizes the stages of development and figure 2 shows the vertical profile of this PV gradient.
Figure 1. Schematic diagram of the stages of tropical wave development. From the upper left the AEJ is established as we looked at last week, vortexes begin to develop within the fast flowing stream which leads to a kink in the AEJ axis. The last stage of development is the initiation of convection due divergence aloft near 700-600 mb.
Figure 2. Vertical cross section of the PV gradient associated with tropical waves. Notice the +PVU is south of the -PVU as described by Charney and Stern in 1969.
Development of Mesoscale Convective Systems (MSCs)
These can develop along wave disturbances by a combination of factors. First, the supply of moisture is provided by the moist monsoon southwesterlies from the Gulf of Guinea. Daytime heating and the topography aids in the spatial and temporal scale of these MSCs. The last and most important factor is divergence ahead of the 700 mb wave as described in figure 1. MCSs reach maximum intensity usually in the late afternoon, evening and early morning local time, and die during the day due to diurnal influences over land. These MCSs are important features of the rainy season over Africa. Figure 3 shows the propagation of a strong AEW in September 2006 that became Hurricane Helene. If you notice, the convection normally is initiated by a developing disturbance in the AEJ over Eastern Africa, most commonly known as the Ethiopian Highlands and propagates westward with diurnal variations and much of the convection ahead of the wave axis.
Figure 3. METEOSAT infrared image loop of Northern Africa between September 05 and September 13 2006. The wave is initiated over the Eastern Ethiopian Highlands and propagates westward with diurnal variations and convection mainly ahead of the axis.
African easterly waves normally have a wavelength of 2500 km and transit period of 3-5 days. They tend to develop the most intense convection during the late afternoon, night and early morning local time. It takes about 6.5 days for a wave to move from Eastern Africa to the Eastern Atlantic going at a speed of 8 m/s or 20 mph. They often reach maximum amplitude just before exiting the coast. They propagate westward much slower than the environmental flow, which they were first created in. The main steering factor is the mid-level Saharan High to the north.
Horizontal and Vertical Structure
Horizontally, AEWs are characterized by kinks in the mid-low level wind field with a sharp PV gradient along the axis. As we discussed before, much of the bad weather occurs west of the axis where divergence aloft near 600 mb is greatest. Strong tropical waves often amplified north into the Saharan Thermal Low giving them twin vorticity centers north and south along the axis. Winds flowing along this kink are normally from the northeast (ahead of the axis) to southeast (behind the axis). At the surface, this may not be as pronounce (see the section: Weather).
Figure 4. GFS analysis of West Africa around 2:00pm June 5 showing a strong tropical wave about to emerge off the coast of Africa. The top left image shows the 650 mb winds with the African Jet axis nicely illustrated with the wave-like disturbance within the jet axis. The top right image shows the potential vorticity showing the greatest PV is often found south of the jet axis as we discussed. The bottom image is another illustration of the moisture gradient over Northern Africa and the position of the jet relative to this gradient. Without these gradients, there would be no jets and consequently no African waves.
Vertical – Winds
Typically, the greatest change in winds will occur near 600 mb and this is from northeast (ahead of the axis) to southeast (behind the axis). Below the waves are the monsoon southwesterlies that extend to about 900 mb and above the waves the prevailing westerlies from 300 mb-150mb. The African Easterly Jet (AEJ) is often found at the core of each wave as an easterly jet max that accompanies. Figure 5 shows the vertical structure of a wave that passed Dakar, Senegal on Friday.
Figure 5. Upper air time cross section of Dakar, Senegal showing the passage of two African waves on the 8 of June and 12 of June 2010. The waves normally have their greatest wind shifts near 700 mb with southwesterly dominating the surface and the AEJ above at 600 mb and normal westerlies much higher up.
Vertical - Potential Vorticity
Figure 2 shows a simplistic overview of the vertical profile of the PV gradient found along tropical waves. The positive vorticity is found south of the wave axis and the negative vorticity is found north of the wave axis.
The changes in surface conditions over Africa are much more different from the changes in weather over the Atlantic and Caribbean. First, there are no interruptions of the trades since the prevailing low-level winds over Africa are southwesterlies. Before the passage of the wave, the temperature is normally high, the dew points are low and the wind is out if the southwest. As the wave approaches, cloudiness increases, the winds turn easterly and the temperature drops causing relative humidity to increase. As the axis approaches, maximum bad weather is experience. Behind the axis, pressure begins to drop and the winds turn southeasterly. After the wave passes, weather returns to normal and southwesterly prevailing winds return.
Figure 6. Meteogram of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso in Central West Africa showing the passage of an African Easterly Wave on 10 June 2010. A shows that air temperature decreases as the wave approaches causing relative humidity to rise. B shows the weather which is characterized by thundershowers ahead of the axis as appose to behind. C shows the cloud cover and winds shifting from the normal southwesterly flow so southeasterly. D shows the visibility decreases and finally E shows the increase in pressure ahead (likely due to the mesoscale highs behind outflow boundaries ahead of the thunderstorms) leading to a drop in pressure behind the axis.
Beyond Africa
After emerging off the coast of West Africa, tropical waves go through a number of influences and changes but the original trough axis is maintained. The changes are induced by sea surface temperatures, the tradewind inversion, the inter-tropical convergence zone (ITCZ), the tropical upper tropospheric trough (TUTT), among others.
The Saharan Air Layer
In May of 2009, I posted a blog, which discussed the influences of AEWs and the Saharan Air Layer (SAL). Numerous studies done on the relationship of these two phenomenons revealed the negative vorticity north of the AEWs is what disturbs the dust particles over the Saharan Desert. This is why emerging SAL has that unique anticyclonic signature. Excellent examples of these are shown in video 1 and figure 11, which show a very large dust event succeeding a tropical wave in July 2005 and July 2007.
Dust is often entrained into the convection associated with tropical waves.
Figure 7. SAL conceptual model illustrating the following properties: geographic location of the African continent, ICTZ, and dust plume, surface flow (solid yellow arrows), particle trajectories (dashed yellow arrows), mid-level easterly jet (thick red arrow), 700 hPa wave axis (thin red arrow), regions of convection, and the rise of the SAL base to the west (Karyampudi et al. 1999).
Video 1. Large African dust plume from July 2005 showing the anticyclonic rotation of SAL caused by the negative vorticity north of AEWs. There is always a tropical wave at the leading edge of such intense outbreaks.
The Oceanic Environment
Lapse rates over the ocean are much gentler than those over land and this is because of the properties of water - it absorbs, and releases heat much slower than rocky land. Over the Eastern Atlantic, there are two regions of extreme tropical sea surface temperatures. Just off the coast of Africa, there is a region of high sea surface temperatures due to the downwelling of monsoon southwesterlies. Further west near 30W-50W, the ocean temperatures drop sharply due to 1) cooler air coming from the Canary Current and 2) surface divergence south of the Azores High. This cooler ocean cools the air above it and is capped by an inversion due to 1) the subsidence warming from the Azores High and 2) dry stable air from SAL. This is called the Tradewind Inversion. Consequently, the lapse rate will support deep convection once the wave emerges (warm air near the sea surface below cooler mid-level air). However, as the wave tracks further west, increase stability results in loss of convection. Sometimes a wave will not generate any convection between 30W and the Caribbean. Thus, we see warm sea surface temperatures are important for the sustainability of convection along waves but the tradewind inversion more than often results in the loss of this convection.
Figure 8. Sea surface temperatures taken June 11 2010 of the Eastern Atlantic overlaid in Google Earth showing the monsoon southwesterlies, NE trades, ITCZ/Monsoon Trough, the cold Canary Current and two major areas of SST extremes.
Figure 9. GFS soundings taken at two locations (A and B) in figure 8. Notice the differences in stability and winds between each location. The left is region A and the right is region B.
The Inverted-V Pattern
Easterly waves in the tropical Atlantic have been found to be associated with a characteristic cloud pattern, which has the appearance of an "Inverted V." Cloud bands are aligned approximately parallel to the lower tropospheric winds and change orientation along the wave axis. We have already established how the wind changes but unlike over Africa, maximum convergence and band weather is behind the axis. This is because the wind behind the axis slows down to compensate for the sub-geotropic flow. When air slows down, the flow behinds piles up and causes convergence. As the air flows around the axis to other side, it speeds up and diverges. Lower level convergence promotes rising air and cloudiness, while lower level divergence promotes subsidence and fair weather.
Figure 10. Location of convergence and divergence in an easterly wave in relation to the trough axis.
This wave model was developed by Frank et al in 1969-1970 and thus is dubbed the Frank's Inverted V Wave Model. They have average wavelengths of 2000-2500 km and mean speed of 10-15 knots, much slower than AEWs. The reduce speed is the result of the lack of the AEJ further west. The deep easterlies are much slower. It takes about 6-7 days for a wave to travel between the West Coast of Africa to the Caribbean Islands.
Diurnal variations in convection are opposite to over land and the waves reach convective maxes during the early morning and convective minimums during the late afternoon.
Figure 11. GOES-12 visible image of the Tropical Atlantic taken July 17 2007 of a large Inverted-V wave approaching the islands at the leading edge of a large African Dust Plume. This is one of the largest dust outbreaks I have ever observed so it was easier to relocate the exact date.
Riehl's Easterly Wave Model
This is one of the first wave models develop for the Eastern Caribbean and it largely involves interaction with the tropical upper tropospheric trough (TUTT). As waves transit the tradewind inversion with little or no convection, they suddenly explode in convective activity as we saw last week when they approach the Eastern Caribbean. This is due to the interaction with the TUTT among other factors like warmer sea surface temperatures and a deeper moisture field. Westerly upper winds keep the wave vertically tilted and much of the convection remains east of axis. As the wave passes a station in the Eastern Caribbean, the northeast trades veer easterly then south easterly. Relative humidity increases, pressure drops and maximum cloudiness is found along and behind the wave axis. This is quite the opposite of what we see at Dakar further east across the ocean.
Figure 12. GOES-13 water vapor image taken of the Caribbean on June 9 2010 showing the interaction of a tropical wave and the TUTT. Notice how the ITCZ is pulled northward by the wave as discussed in the next section.
Figure 13. Meteogram of Point, Grenada from June 8-9 showing the passage of the wave. It is more or less the same as over Africa except that the bad weather lies behind the axis (5).
Interaction with the ITCZ, Lake Maracaibo, Tropical South America and the Colombian Low
As waves interact with the TUTT they amplify northwards and with that, the ITCZ follows. Strong tropical waves can pull the ITCZ northwards. It has happen before and has been proven in studies. This mostly happens in the Southeastern Caribbean. Early seasonal tropical waves are often embedded within the circulation of the ITCZ and they create classic inverted-V patterns in the otherwise linear/flat cloud band.
As waves across over into South America, they often revert to diurnal forces they were once under over Africa. Tropical waves will enhance afternoon thunderstorms over northern South America and the availability of moisture from Lake Maracaibo and the northern portions of the Amazon aides in the development of these thunderstorms.
The third point of interactions is the Panama Low or Colombian Low, which enhances cloudiness along wave just like the monsoon environment over Africa.
Here we see there are positive interactions between tropical waves and the ITCZ, Amazon, Colombian Low and small water bodies.
Figure 14. Visible image of the Caribbean and Northern South America showing the major contributors of tropical wave's positive interactions. This was taken 3 days after the wave in figure 11.
Development into Tropical Cyclones
Under favourable environmental conditions, (warm ssts, deep layer of moisture, low vertical shear and enough positive vorticity). MCSs along tropical waves can develop into tropical cyclones through a process called CISK. CISK, or "Convective Instability of the Second Kind", is a popular theory that explains how thunderstorms can evolve and organize into hurricanes. CISK is a positive feedback mechanism, meaning that once a process starts, it causes events, which enhance the original process, and the whole cycle repeats itself over and over.
The theory of CISK states that as thunderstorms develop, condensation within the thunderstorm releases heat (heat of condensation). This warms the air and causes it to rise. As air rises, the pressure heights lower and a low-pressure area forms. Air rushes into this low-pressure area while picking up moisture from the sea, converges and rises. Rising air condenses and releases heat of condensation and the process continues repeatedly. If conditions are favourable, then air rises higher and higher with each cycle and pressure lowers and lowers. Thus, we see a thunderstorm develops into an organized storm.
While only about 60% of the Atlantic tropical storms and minor hurricanes ( Saffir-Simpson Scale categories 1 and 2) originate from easterly waves, nearly 85% of the intense (or major) hurricanes have their origins as easterly waves (Landsea 1993). It is suggested, though, that nearly all of the tropical cyclones that occur in the Eastern Pacific Ocean can also be traced back to Africa (Avila and Pasch 1995).
Personal Insights
The study of weather was my first drive but began to pay more attention to Tropical Meteorology due the fact that I reside in the Caribbean. My desire and longing to learn about tropical cyclones drove me years ago to explain where they came from and it led me back to Africa. This is where my interest in tropical waves sparked. I have studied more on tropical waves than any other synoptic feature in the tropics, with tropical cyclones and the ITCZ close behind. I have been look at synoptic maps of tropical waves and the associated weather since the summer of 1998 when I was only 9 years old, but the peak of actually getting into where they came from occurred from 2004-to the present. No tropical met book is completely without ever mentioning tropical waves, these fascinating creatures of nature.
African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analyses Project (AMMA)
Hurricane Research Division FAQ – Easterly Waves
African Easterly Jet: Structure and Maintenance, Journal of Climate, Sep 1, 2009 by Wu, Man-Li C, Reale, Oreste, Schubert, Siegfried D, Suarez, Max J, Koster, Randy D, Pegion, Philip J
Mesoscale Convective Systems and African Easterly Waves, Doug Paker, 2007
Three-Dimensional Structure and Dynamics of African Easterly Waves. Part I: Observations GEORGE N. KILADIS Earth System Research Laboratory, NOAA, Boulder, Colorado CHRIS D. THORNCROFT Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, New York NICHOLAS M. J. HALL Laboratoire d'e´tude des Transferts en Hydrologie et Environment, Grenoble, France, 2005.
Generation of African Easterly Wave Disturbances: Relationship to the African Easterly Jet; JEN-SHAN HSIEH AND KERRY H. COOK; Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 2004.
Energetics of Easterly Waves; M.A. Estogue and M.S. Lin; Rosentiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, 1977.
Characteristics of African Easterly Waves Depicted by ECMWF Reanalyses for 1991–2000 TSING-CHANG CHEN Atmospheric Science Program, Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, 2006.
Characteristics of North African Easterly Waves During the Summers 1968 and 1969, Robert W. Burpee, Laboratory of Atmospheric Research, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1973.
Three-dimensional structure of easterly wave disturbances over Africa and the tropical north Atlantic, George N. Kiladis and Chris D. Thorncroft, NOAA Aeronomy Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, SUNY Albany, NY, Unknown.
The Low-Level Structure of African Easterly Waves in 1995 Ioannis Pytharoulis and Chris Thorncroft, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom, 1998.
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Want to save a quick $100 or more on your nursery? Do your tot's room up Montessori style and skip the crib and toddler bed completely.
Many assume that a crib is a baby "must-have", but it's not. What you really must have is a safe place for your baby to sleep. Montessori-style nurseries often forgo the crib in favor of a Montessori child bed– a mattress or pad on the floor, since in the Montessori way of thinking, a crib is not an "inspiring' place for a baby. The idea is that with just a crib mattress or pad on the floor in a baby-proofed room, babies are free to explore their environment at will. This helps babies develop motor and cognitive skills.
If you're familiar with Montessori education, you may have already known about Montessori infant rooms. I learned about them recently after seeing a post at the BlogHer website about why blogger Tara (of Tall Tara) and her family had decided not to use a crib. I read more about the idea at these sites (Google Montessori low bed to find more articles):
- Browse through more photos of Montessori kids' rooms at Flickr.
This is an idea that really intrigues me from a child-rearing perspective in addition to a money-saving one. I like the outside-the-box thinking. I think I could do it.
What about you? Have you tried a no-crib nursery? Do you think you could?
What other pluses and minuses do you see with this idea?
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I think it's time that I submit something that you guys can really have fun with. Recently my cat had kittens, over the weekend to be exact. Although one of them died, it made me want to make a new lesson on some very entertaining critters that brings smiles in our homes, and warmth to our lives. I will be teaching you guys "how to draw kitties", step by step. The kitty that is the star of the lesson looks a lot like the one that passed away. It was gray with white legs and half of the face was gray, and the other half was like a combination of orange and tan. It was going to be a very pretty cat if it survived, but sadly it died suddenly after being only three days old. Anyways, the other kittens are doing fine and because there is a whole mess of them I wanted to draw a cat that is in a very playful and silly pose. As you know kittens are very curious when they are very young. They are also very random and have a knack for getting into trouble. The tutorial is pretty simple and I made sure to include some helpful tip steps. I think you guys will have great fun with learning "how to draw kitties", step by step. I shall return with more drawing fun so stay tuned in to see what else I have in store for ya'll. Adios amigos.
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LeBron James passed a concussion test Thursday night, but an X-ray on Friday confirmed that he has a broken nose, according to NBA.com.
James was injured while going up for a dunk in the fourth quarter of the Miami Heat's victory on Thursday. Oklahoma City Thunder power forward Serge Ibaka hit James on the nose and it led to the Heat star profusely bleeding on the court.
Before falling to the floor, James did complete the thunderous dunk but it was immediately evident something was very wrong. James, who so often gets up after hard hits, stayed down with his head buried in his hands.
"I'm like everybody else. You're used to seeing him like Superman, get up and sprint back even after tough hits and tough falls. So we knew something was up," Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra told the Sun-Sentinel after the game.
James will likely need to wear a mask due to the broken nose as is the norm for this type of injury. This would not be the first time James had to play with a mask so he should have a moderate comfort level.
Back in 2004 while with the Cleveland Cavaliers, James broke his left cheekbone after a hit from Dikembe Mutumbo. Following the hit, James donned a similar mask to one that has since been seen on several players including Kobe Bryant.
James didn't speak to the media after the game but he did take to Twitter in the early morning hours. James made reference to wearing a mask in the form of Batman villain, Bane.
I mean I just might have to...BaneJames #StriveForGreatness http://t.co/XHlHnArbWG — LeBron James (@KingJames) February 21, 2014
James is currently listed as questionable for Sunday's game and will be a game-time decision according to the NBA.com report. After an extended road trip, Miami will be playing at home for the first time since February 3rd and will take on the Chicago Bulls.


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Babies were born, people got married, people got divorced, people died, people were hired, fired, quit, homes were bought, expensive cars were leased, tears were shed, harsh words were spoken, fear, dread, resentment, jealousy, frustration and rage came and went like clouds in the sky. The only constant was laughter. We laughed a lot. We hope you did too. From everyone at The Big Bang Theory, thank you for watching.
Oh, I almost forgot! Bill Prady went on a food delivery system, lost twenty pounds and started tucking in his shirt.
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What great timing for this chapter titled, "Improving Support Networks." It's as if the author, Allison Shadday, knew we'd be discussing this chapter on the eve of the New Year.
How many of us have talked, in the past months, about the feeling of loneliness, disconnectedness and self-alienation? How many of us haven't been forced to step away from some aspect of our life which left us feeling less than whole? Who among us hasn't worried that we aren't the people we once were?
One of the most important exercises I've ever done since I've been diagnosed with is MS is listed in today's chapter. You may or may not remember me talking about it last May as the "Emergency Plan". I noted that I had been at an event where I was asked to draw my "support wheel." It was actually our book club author, Allison, who was conducting that exercise.
If you haven't yet done this bit for yourself, please do. It's something upon which you'll likely have to rely in the future so just do it and for those of you who already have; update it every once in a while.
Gosh, there are so many important topics covered in this one chapter!
A friend of mine has decided to hit the dating scene harder in the New Year. She's resolved to put herself into more "target rich" environments. I think this is what Allison is getting at in the Making Connections section. It's not just "get out there and meet some people," we have to get out there to the right places.
I can also state that her notes about support groups are spot on for me. As you may know, I lead a self-help group for men with MS called "Poker Night." I was hesitant to even attend meetings like that when I was first diagnosed. In fact, my diagnosing neurologist counseled me against attending meetings for the first year of my illness. I'll admit, I wasn't likely ready to see people in every stage of MS at first.
We can all feel good about the fact that we are at least here at this Life with MS blog for support and camaraderie.
The last part of this chapter that we need to discuss is about sex. We've talked about MS and sex (and our reluctance to talk about sex) on this blog as well as in the HealthTalk MS webcasts.
It's hard to have sex if you are still looking for a relationship. It's hard to have sex when your partner sees you as a patient rather than a playmate. It's hard to want sex when there are embarrassing physical obstacles to our intimacies and drug interactions which cause a loss of libido.
We are sexual beings and it is important to find a way, which works for both you and your partner, to feel whole in this part of our lives.
How did all of you find this chapter to read at this particular time of year? Any new ideas gleaned; any resolutions in the making?
I also stated last month that I'd be announcing the next title for our online book club blog.
I had the honor of hearing the author speak and having a quick chat with her at the National MS Society's annual conference in Dallas last November. Our next book will be: Notes From A Minor Key – A Memoir of Music, Love & Healing by Dawn Bailiff. It's published by Hampton Roads Publishing and available at book stores as well as on Amazon. The ISBN for the book is: 978-1-57174-554-5.
We'll start reading that book in March, so you'll have plenty of time to get your hands on a copy.
Wishing you and your family the best of health and a Happy New Year!


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Denoting a variety of commercial, residential, and pilgrimage structures in the Islamic world, caravanserais reflect the importance of trade routes in the history of the Islamic lands of the Near East. Caravanserais served as staging posts on major roads between towns, or as secure commercial storage with residential facilities within towns. Terminology varies in different contexts and related buildings include khans, wakalas, fundugs, and ribaṭs. The involvement of central governments in the construction of many of these caravanserais has led to a degree of stylistic uniformity in their design.
The commercial routes of the pre-Islamic world may have given rise to caravanserailike architecture, but it is in the Islamic period that the provision of facilities for travelers led to a significant body of architecture. The early Islamic geographers often refer to way stations as manzil, which may be presumed to have been buildings. Khans have also been identified at the Umayyad sites of Qaṣr al-Ḥayr al-Gharbi (724–727 CE) and Qaṣr al-Ḥayr ash-Sharqi (728–729) in Syria and the location of other Umayyad desert sites suggests that some may have encompassed a caravanserai role.
In the late eighth century, the ῾Abbasid caliphs developed the Darb Zubaydah, the road from Iraq to Mecca, building quṣur (enclosures, palaces), and mazil at staging posts. There are numerous settlements on the road, and excavations at ar-Rabadha east of Medina show a major eighth-ninth century settlement with several secure courtyard buildings with storage facilities. The presence of lusterware and other early ῾Abbasid glazed pottery points to a luxurious level of provisioning of the way stations.
The Seljuks were munificent builders of caravanserais, reflecting their interest in maintaining commerce and security along the extensive road system under their control. The Ribaṭ-i Malik (c. 1068–1080), southeast of Bukhara in central Asia is the earliest extant Seljuk caravanserai. It has a courtyard enclosure preceded by a great portal of a type found in contemporary mosques, and its lavish brick decoration is in keeping with the finest architectural decoration of the period. Another early Seljuk caravanserai is the twelfth-century Ribaṭ-i Sharaf in northeastern Iran that also has monumental portals, iwans and chambers around the courtyards, in a manner reminiscent of Seljuk mosques.
The tradition of the caravanserai is continued in later times in Iran, Central Asia, and the Near East. The Timurids, Ottomans, and Safavids were all involved in maintaining and improving commercial facilities along the roads. Examples of royal or aristocratic foundations on major roads include the series of twelfth–thirteenth-century Seljuk khans along the Anatolian road system; a group of fifteenth-century caravanserais associated with a Timurid official, ῾Ali Shir Navai, concentrated in northeastern Iran; and the seventeenth-century Mader-i Shah caravanserai near Isfahan, built by Shah ῾Abbas II.
Related to such caravanserais are urban khans or wakalas, which constituted the distribution points for goods, as well as the collection point for customs duties. In many cases, these urban depots specialized in particular commodities, such as oil or soap. This situation is well demonstrated in Damascus and Aleppo, where a number of khans still survive within the extensive market areas.
At Jerusalem, commercial caravanserais were established to support religious foundations in the Mamluk period. The Khan as-Sultan, or al-Wakala at Jerusalem, built under Sultan Barquq (1386–1387) has a covered market hall: in a neighboring two-story courtyard structure, the lower floors were for storage and the selling of goods to local merchants, the courtyard was for animals, and the upper rooms accommodated visiting merchants. Such urban wakalas have parallels in Asia Minor, Syria, Egypt, the Hijaz, and North Africa.
A quite different type of caravanserai occurs in Mamluk and Ottoman times, to guard pilgrim roads in desert regions. On the Red Sea coast of Arabia, fortications at ῾Aqaba, al-Muwayliḥ, al-Azlam, and al-Zurayb reflect attempts to protect the coastal route from Egypt to the Hijaz. In the sixteenth century, the Ottomans also built a series of fortified caravanserais through Syria to the Hijaz to garrison the pilgrim road and disperse payments to tribal leaders during the hajj march. Such structures are more more closely related to the caravanserai's security role than its commercial purpose.
[See Camels; Transportation. In addition, many of the sites mentioned are the subject of independent entries.]
- Aslanapa, Oktay. Turkish Art and Architecture. New York, 1971.
- Burgoyne, Michael Hamilton, and D. S. Richards. Mamluk Jerusalem: An Architectural Study. London, 1987.
- Elisséeff, Nikita. "Khān." In Encyclopaedia of Islam, new ed., vol. 4, pp. 1010–1017. Leiden, 1960– .
- Erdmann, Kurt. Das anatolische Karavansaray des 13. Jahrhunderts. Istanbuler Forshungen, 21. Berlin, 1961.
- Golombek, Lisa, and Donald Wilber. The Timurid Architecture of Iran and Turan. Princeton, 1988.
- Pope, Arthur Upham. A Survey of Persian Art. London, 1938.
- Sauvaget, Jean. "Les caravansérails syriens du Ḥadjdj de Constantinople." Ars Islamica 4 (1937): 98–121.
- Sauvaget, Jean. "Caravansérails syriens du moyen-âge." Ars Islamica 6 (1939): 48–55; 7 (1940): 1–19.
- Siroux, Maxime. Caravansérails d'Iran, et petites constructions routières. Mémoires de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, vol. 81. Cairo, 1949.
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Fermented foods ousted seeds as the No. 1 superfood for 2018, according to Pollock Communications' and Today's Dietitian's survey of registered dietitian nutritionists.
The rise of fermented foods, such as yogurt, kefir, kombucha, sauerkraut, tempeh, some pickles, kimchi and miso, signal that consumers in the coming year will move towards clean, natural, and simple foods as they seek options that improve gut health and overall well-being. Rounding out the Top 10 superfoods for 2018 are avocado, seeds, nuts, green tea, ancient grains, kale, exotic fruits, coconut products, and salmon. The survey also revealed that clean eating, plant-based and ketogenic are �in� as diet trends for 2018, while low-fat, dash, and wheat belly are out. "The movement toward clean eating reflects a change in how consumers view food," notes Jenna A. Bell, PhD, RD, SVP of Pollock Communications. "Consumers are searching for nutrition information and equating diet with overall well-being." As an example, Bell points out that the quick rise of fermented foods in the top 10 superfood list shows that consumers have expanded their definition of wellness to include benefits like gut health. "It also suggests that consumers are digging deeper for information about the food they eat and in this instance, finding out why yogurt, kefir or kimchi is so good for them."


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Francis Fukuyama is the author of "The End of History and the Last Man." Henry Paulson is the former US secretary of the Treasury, whose recent memoir, "On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System" has just been published. This conversation between them will appear in the forthcoming issue of "The American Interest," and was made available to the Global Viewpoint Network.
Francis Fukuyama: You got to know the Chinese leadership when you were at Goldman Sachs, well before you came to be Treasury Secretary. Yet even during the period in which you made scores of trips to China, many observers expressed concern about the implications of large structural imbalances in the global economy: so much savings being accumulated in China, so much debt being racked up in the United States, and so much foreign money flowing back into the US banking and financial system in ways that may have encouraged excessive risk-taking and contributed to the real-estate bubble.
Looking back, what weight of responsibility do you assign to those imbalances for the way the financial crisis unfolded in the second half of 2008?
Henry Paulson: A big part of the imbalances, in my view, stems from our proclivity here in the United States not to save – as a nation and as individuals, and to borrow too much. There are a number of policies that contribute to this proclivity: our tax code, for example, which taxes savings and capital and encourages consumption; and the weight of a number of our housing policies, which stimulated the housing market via Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, FHA programs, the tax code and in other ways that contributed to asset inflation.
By contrast, there are a number of nations – including China of course – where savings rates are high, and where domestic consumption plays a smaller role in their economy.
When I became Treasury secretary, we established the Strategic Economic Dialogue (SED) to address our economic relationship with China. And through the SED we looked for practical ways to address the economic imbalances. This included the currency issue because moving toward a market-driven currency would accelerate the progress of reform and help China transition toward higher levels of domestic consumption and producing higher-value-added goods and services and away from over-reliance on lower-cost, lower-value-added exports.
But I also argued for capital markets reform and opening up their capital markets to more competition, not because I was trying to do bankers any favor, but because I believed a vibrant domestic capital market would help China deal with the structural transformations they wanted to achieve.
One example I used frequently was that, in China, individuals with their savings in bank deposits received very low interest rates, well below inflation. Because of inefficient capital markets, they were, in essence, paying to save, or unable to earn any significant return on their savings. And of course inadequate government retirement programs and other safety nets led to high levels of precautionary savings.
We also focused on very high levels of corporate savings in China, particularly in the state-owned enterprises. So yes, I was mindful of the imbalances.
Fukuyama: We've been talking until we're blue in the face about the kind of liberalization you've just mentioned, and of course about revising the value of the renminbi. The results have been uneven, have they not?
Paulson: Yes, they have. While I was Treasury secretary, we saw substantial movement in the renminbi. That shows, I think, that the right way to deal with the Chinese is directly and in private, recognizing that they place a huge priority on economic development and reform. We need to continue to make a broad case for reform that includes several dimensions.
There's a lot of emphasis placed on currency, because that's easy for people to understand. But the currency issue is just one of a number of significant factors. I continue to believe that it's in China's interest, as well as our own, that it continues toward a full transition to a market economy. We need to privately, continuously, and forcefully make the arguments as to why it is in China's best interest, however, and avoid finger-wagging and lecturing them in public.
Fukuyama: Let me play devil's advocate on this. It seems to me that no American policymaker has taken a hardball option with them very seriously. One way of thinking about Chinese currency policy is to liken it to a form of industrial policy. But unlike the Koreans and the Japanese, the Chinese aren't subsidizing one particular sector, like petro-chemicals.
They're basically giving their whole coastal manufacturing region a big advantage over the rest of the world by keeping their currency pegged to the dollar at its current, unreasonably low rate.
If it's harming us, it's absolutely killing the Europeans and everyone else in Asia. In a certain sense, China has been in effect de-industrializing much of the rest of the world. I've been to maquilas in Latin America since the end of the microfiber agreement and seen firsthand how manufacturing capacity is now being sucked out of these developing countries and into China.
If one were to regard China's de facto export subsidy via its currency policy as theoretically no different from a direct subsidy to its manufacturing/export industries, the normal way to deal with this would be with a tariff or some other kind of sanction. That might lead to a series of threats and counter-threats, but eventually they would discover an incentive to change their policy.
An analogy might be the Plaza Agreements with Japan in the 1980s, when the Japanese similarly built up a huge imbalance. Because Japan was an ally of the United States, and because the Japanese worried precisely about a protectionist backlash, they agreed to a major revaluation of the yen. But we've treated China, which is not an ally and whose imbalances are even larger than Japan's were, much more gingerly. Why?
Paulson: I've heard those arguments, and I understand them, but I don't believe that tariffs or protectionism is the answer. And there are, of course, a number of countries in the world that don't have market-determined currencies, but what is so extraordinary here is to have an economy that is so important, so large, and so integrated into the global economy in terms of goods and services but does not yet have a market-driven currency or an open financial system.
So it is important for China to move more quickly toward a market determined currency, which is its stated goal. But, it should not be the job of the United States alone to make the case. The International Monetary Fund, for example, also has an important role to play, as do its other trading partners. And again, factors other than the currency are important here, such as the extent to which corporate savings are not paid out in dividends.
The picture that emerges is a complex one. I believe that China is committed to reform, and it is very much in their interest to continue to move the currency. We need to encourage speeding this process up while working to address our own imbalances.
Fukuyama: Let me ask you about the Chinese response to the crisis. Right now everyone is giving the Chinese plaudits for their really big stimulus, and for the fact that they only suffered for a quarter or so. (The last quarter showed almost 10 percent growth again.)
They're obviously feeling quite good about themselves as a result. But it seems to me that their response to the crisis was just to do more of what they've traditionally done, which is to fill in for missing external demand through huge infrastructure spending that greatly privileges the coastal manufacturers against the rural consumer population. Do you think this is sustainable?
Paulson: First of all, in terms of their response, I think one of the benefits of the SED was that we had active engagement and built up a relationship of trust. So the Chinese were quite constructive and supportive as we worked through the crisis. We talked to them regularly and this benefited both countries.
Secondly, we all needed China's economy to keep growing. If it hadn't, we'd be much worse off today. I give the Chinese a lot of credit for their stimulus. I believe their most important action was increasing bank lending by more than $1 trillion. There will certainly be some repercussions from that, not all of them attractive, but I think that was a net positive.
I do believe, too, that the Chinese understand there's more to do. There are a number of countries in the world in which the gap between the top and bottom rungs of the economic ladder is widening, and this is something the Chinese are concerned about in their own country. I believe their commitment to reform includes finding ways to spread wealth more broadly. One way to do that is to encourage an increase in domestic consumption and less reliance on exports for growth.
That will certainly take time. But again, the imbalances are bilateral and we can't overlook our own penchant to overspend, overconsume, and overborrow. We will, and we should, continue to forcefully engage with the Chinese, but we've got important responsibilities of our own to deal with. It will do us no good to shirk those responsibilities by focusing too much on China.
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A beautiful fantastical whimsy! Before I Wake movie carries a gorgeous concept that could have moulded it into a better flick if it were not for its open-ended allusions. Even so, what certainly can't be ruled out is Before I Wake movie's amazing theme that brings us closer to the astounding power of imagination.
Mike Flanagan's yet another horror venture packs in a fanciful story that has been beautifully cultivated, if you pay attention to the profound concept it houses.
Dreams coming alive! How great is that? A fancy world something only a powerful mind could create. But the big question is how does it all pack in its fictitious capsule, and whether or not the movie is worth it.
The Adorable Kid – Jacob Tremblay
Jacob Tremblay is everywhere. His cuteness is a delight to watch. He walks in with a confident mien to deliver extraordinary cutesy bits that are both enthralling and adorable at the same time. That's how he is in person too. It's better we milk him enough before he grows up.
The Plot of Before I Wake Movie (Spoilers Ahead)
To begin with the main story of Before I Wake movie, I am assuming everyone is well aware of Cody's uncanny imagination that brings everything he dreams to life.
For the better part, for the good things, he is mostly dreaming butterflies and stuff. He is easily able to manifest living holograms (except that they turn real) of his dream. Whatever thoughts he has been fed before he goes to sleep comes brimming alive too.
However, like any other dream, he doesn't have much control over his thoughts. There is this ghastly element in the story that Cody calls the Cankerman that comes at unseen junctures. It often messes his dreams up, and since the horrifying element becomes a walking live projection too, it can mess with our world as well.
Jessie's Instant Obsession
Jessie becomes obsessed with the powers of Cody and tries to bring her dead son Sean alive. But she isn't aware of the Canker Man just yet. When she does meet it at one point, in a theatrical series of events, unfortunately, Mark ends up paying the price. Mark is swallowed in by the Cankerman, right in front of her, as she passes out. Waking up she finds Cody being taken in by Child Protective Services once again. She is not allowed to meet him, so she steals Cody's file in hopes to locate him. It is then she meets Whelan Young, the first foster parent of Cody who has ended up in a mental hospital.
First Foster Parents
Whelan tells her about his havocking past, a similar story of Canker Man taking his wife away. And no matter what he did afterwards to bring her back to life, by showing Cody pictures of her, he could only manage to bring her impressions back. It is sorry to see him break down trying to reason:
He was too young. He was too young to even remember her right.
Whelan then suggests something horrible to her, killing Cody to stop his unrestrained killing. She turns him down immediately, and then leaves. She tries to find more about Cody's real mother to figure out what could be the reason of Cody's nightmares.
Tracking Down Cody's Mother
Meanwhile, Cody has been kept along with other children in a foster home. He isn't deliberately going to sleep as he doesn't wish anybody harm. So thoughtful a child! Natalie forces an injection of drowsiness on him to get him to sleep.
Jessie is able to get her hands on Cody's mother's stuff. There she finds a blue butterfly rag that expounds about his butterfly dreams. She also finds her journal where she finds out more about their relationship. Jessie cleverly finds out about the facility where Cody was held captive and reaches there only to realize that Cody was asleep. (People were held captive in cocoons kind of things, so that gave away!)
Explaining Projections in the Foster Home
As she makes her way further in, she finds elements of Cody's dreams widespread. There is one rare moment of Jessie's thoughts that could have projected owing to the fact that she might have shared the dying of Sean incident with Cody. She finds the bathtub wherein Sean had drowned. The presentation there is quite spooky. She moves away knowing it was just a mere projection, and that she is supposed to help Cody.
Amongst other projections, she finds Cody in a room watching Sean drown on TV. She finds her own eyeless projection reaching out for him, and then twisting its head trying to deform Cody into looking like herself. A scene like that could have multiple meanings. I like to take away that to Cody, Jessie's image was that of a selfish blind woman who was trying to manipulate his dreams into seeing what she wished to see. Thus blinding him from his original vision. However, if there wasn't a metaphor there, then I would say that character act doesn't kind of fit there properly. And it could be deliberately put for mere theatrics. We do get a glimpse of an eyeless Mark again, which could be how Cody must have imagined him after his death which falls in place too.
The Final Showdown | Before I Wake Ending Explained
Moving on she reaches the door behind which Cody was fast asleep. That's where she encounters the Canker Man again. Just when it was about to consume her, she shows her the Blue Butterfly Toy Rag that Cody was so fond of as a kid.
Now this reasoning kind of baffles you. You see the Canker Man was nothing but a projection of Cody. Its discernment of the Blue Butterfly could be only if Cody could see whatever Canker Man could. So all those wild acts that he did of killing people shouldn't have actually happened if Cody had control over it.
Why the Canker Man had a Change of Heart?
With the appearance of a sharper memory like that of a Blue Butterfly from the past, Cody became confused, and that unpleasant nightmarish memory became a pleasant one, meaning Canker Man was defeated. However, this doesn't mean Canker Man was killed for sure. Because there was no reasoning gavel put on him just yet. Also, I am pretty sure had Cody slept again right after that, even the Blue Butterfly wouldn't have been able to defeat the Cankerman again.
We see Jessie hugging the Cankerman which was a pretty lame thing to do. Anyone would have freaked out, but I guess since she realized it was nothing but Cody's memory, Jessie wished to bring the warmth of the past to him, and bestow upon him some motherly love. We see that horrifying projection change back to Cody and then disappear.
Aftermath culminating moments of Before I Wake, we find Jessie telling Cody about her mother. She gives him her journal to read and tells her what Cankerman really was. It was a surreal impression of his, about her mother Andrea Morgan when she was on her death bed. She was suffering from Cancer, and when she died Cody had himself believe that Cancer ate her mother. Which then as he grew up personified into an unpleasant idea of a man called Canker Man who went about killing people. It is a beautifully thought of revelation that is quite gratifying if you look at it.
In the end part of Before I Wake, whilst trying to tuck Cody in, Jessie tries to create a happy ending for all those people that were ensnared by Cody. She wishes everything undone, but her thoughts are broken when Cody asks:
"Can those things happen?"
With all those crisp images of possibilities, you begin thinking if the dead are really coming back alive. But you realize that she was just putting out things for Cody to see. She believes in him that with time he could do wonderful things and that it is possible.
"You have an amazing gift. Who knows what can happen as it grows?"
Mike Flanagan, toward the end, tries to justify what she said by going for a cheap shot. He shows Cody actually trying to create something from his mere thoughts, just by closing his eyes. I would say to that: "Too soon Mike! Too soon!"
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Downsides to Before I Wake Movie
Before I Wake takes off beautifully right from the start. However, there are elements that gnaw at it gradually stopping it from reaching a charming gleam.
The first one, I am afraid, is none other than Kate Bosworth's character Jessie. To be really candid, we could have used a better cast here. Even though a tad distant, which was needed for her character, she appeared kind of absent emotionally, for parts where it mattered the most. Thomas Jane, au contraire, fits the bill just fine as Mark.
The second crucial part of the flick was its tangibility. Even though we were wading deep into imaginary waters, you need something natural to give it a palpable feel. It is the natural things that surround it that help a flick get carved in a realistic format, something the movie lacked profusely. You are often forced to wonder, "Why is she not calling the police?" or "Why is she going there?" or "Where is everybody?" I don't know why but the latter one seems to be a factor that every horror movie overlooks.
When you look at the scary quotient of the movie, it amasses plenty. There are many horrifying bits that are outright chilling. However, if you are trying to look at it as just a horror flick, then don't. There is nothing here that will continue to haunt you for days. I surmise it could also be because the movie doesn't cash in on horror properly, and you could blame the surreal concept that it induces.
The screenplay has nothing remarkable to offer. Good scary movies consider this factor well, so it was a big downer there. Music is good actually. Danny Elfman and The Newton Brothers are the people behind Before I Wake's score.
Other Things That Might Vex You
It is only after Before I wake reaches midway that it actually starts to dwindle. You find Jessie actually reaching out for shriveled dark enclaves fearlessly which makes you question how fearless she really is. You would have wimped out from that dreary situation or maybe called the police first, and maybe made it a universal thing for everybody to see.
For some, I would say the final revelation might not have tingled their brains. It is because there was no reasoning to follow it up immediately. I am sure some must be wondering how an imaginative nightmarish creation could be stopped by a sheer memory glimpse. Throws you into a thoughtful territory for a second, which is actually quite good for your head. At least you are thinking!
The Final Verdict
Despite all its flaws, I would like to remember Before I Wake Movie as what it truly is. A great concept that tries to take a terrific shot at imagination. Unfortunately, it steers toward a clouded zone owing to its direction, and some dubious questions that it leaves you with towards the end.
Check out the trailer of Before I Wake movie:
Before I Wake
- Outstanding fanciful concept
- Great horror bits bestrewn all across
- Jacob Tremblay is an excellent performer
- Thomas Jane is brilliant too
- Not really palpable
- People go missing whenever something is about to happen
- Kate Bosworth carries an unexpressive countenance throughout


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We did not, and do not, propose that 'most of the fossils found on the earth were buried by post-Flood catastrophes'.
This is a review of Dr. Russ Humphreys' "A Young-Earth Relativistic Cosmology."
Amid the pessimism and gloom over the future of the rainforests of the earth, conservation funds are being obtained from the pharmaceutical industry.
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The first slate of performers for the Dec. 6 Grammy Awards nominations concert includes Drake, Robin Thicke, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis and Keith Urban, who will take part in the event at the Nokia Theatre at L.A. Live.
Nominations will be announced in a one-hour special on CBS: "The Grammy Nominations Concert Live — Countdown to Music's Biggest Night." The show will be hosted again by rapper-actor LL Cool J. The awards will be presented Jan. 26 at Staples Center in downtown L.A.
The push toward the 2013 Grammy Awards took another important step Wednesday, with first-round ballots being sent to the Recording Academy's roughly 12,000 voting members.
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Voters who have gone through the process a few times may notice a small but significant change on this year's ballot: a series of four boxes, replacing the usual three, where they will fill in entry numbers associated with their choices for record, album and song of the year nominees.
That's because for the first time, the number of entries in each of those marquee categories has topped 999, requiring the fourth numerical box on the ballot.
It's a reflection of a record number of overall entries this year, notes the academy's senior vice president of awards, Bill Freimuth. More than 22,000 submissions came in, Freimuth said, of which more than 17,000 survived as eligible entries on the lists that are being mailed to voters.
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He cited two key factors in the increased submissions: iTunes, and the academy's own efforts to simplify the submission process. To be eligible, a recording must have been released between Oct. 1, 2012, and Sept. 30, 2013. They also have to have nationally recognized distribution -- meaning recordings available only through an artist's or record label's website or exclusively through one merchant don't qualify for Grammy consideration.
ITunes is one of the nationally recognized distribution platforms accepted under the Recording Academy's rules, and because iTunes has made it relatively easy in recent years for just about anyone to post music on the site, it has quickly expanded the field of recordings that can be eligible for Grammy recognition.
In the general categories, the top five vote getters will be the nominees. In several other sub-categories, entries go through a secondary vetting process through nomination review committees, something the academy instituted in 1989 as a way to help assure both academy members and the public at large that the most deserving recordings show up as nominees.
In the fourth category of the top general awards -- new artist -- more than 1,200 names were submitted, but Recording Academy officials determined that only about half were eligible under Grammy rules.
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Corridor Trails Update – date posted Apr 14, 2010
Pipeline break at Phantom Ranch/ Bright Angel Campground on Tuesday April 13, 2010. Drinking water is not currently available. *water is available at Indian Garden
Wall Creek located on the North Kaibab Trail between Bright Angel and Cottonwood Campground has been running high. There is no bridge crossing at Wall Creek. Hikers should exercise caution and be prepared to return the way they came if the creek is unsafe to cross.


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Wellesley, Mass. -- The Wellesley College tennis team upended New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) rival, MIT, by a score of 6-3 on Tuesday evening indoors at the Keohane Sports Center. The match result gives Wellesley and MIT equal ledgers, with each team sporting a 4-2 overall record with a 4-1 mark in NEWMAC play.
Wellesley opened play with two doubles wins and then took the third through sixth singles flights to nail down the 6-3 team victory.
MIT's first-year duo of Lauren Quisenberry and Julia Hsu opened play with a hard-fought 8-5 victory over Jacqueline Shen and Diana Granger at first doubles. Wellesley bounced back with victories at second and third doubles, as Erica Choo and Kendall Tada picked up an 8-2 victory in the two spot, while Nathalie Herman and Raji Nagalla were 8-5 winners at three.
Singles play opened with MIT's Quisenberry winning 6-3, 6-2 over Shen at one, while the Engineers also grabbed a win at two where Hsu was a 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 winner over Choo. The Blue then closed out the match with wins in the three through six spots. Herman was a 7-5, 6-3 winner at three while Tada blanked her opponent 6-0, 6-0 at four. Granger was a winner in the fifth spot, 6-2, 6-2, while Morgan Johnstonbaugh posted a 6-2, 6-2 win at six.
Wellesley returns to the courts on Friday playing a non-conference match against Bates at 4:00pm. MIT next travels to Springfield on Saturday, playing the Pride at 1:00pm.
Here are the final resutls, including exhibitions (singles 7-10)
Wellesley 6, MIT 3
- Quisenberry/Hsu (MIT) def Shen/Granger 8-5
- Jenny/Dohlman (MIT) lost to Choo/Tada 8-2
- Diskin/Rees (MIT) lost to Herman/Nagalla 8-5
- Quisenberry (MIT) def Shen 6-3, 6-2
- Hsu (MIT) def Choo 4-6, 6-3, 6-4
- Diskin (MIT) lost to Herman 7-5, 6-3
- Jenny (MIT) lost to Tada 6-0, 6-0
- Rees (MIT) lost to Granger 6-0, 6-2
- Dohlman (MIT) lost to Johnstonbaugh 6-2, 6-2
- Makhni (MIT) def Asaba 8-3
- Makhni lost to Nagalla 8-3
- Pomeroy (MIT) def Bowen 8-5
- Pomeroy def Asaba 8-5
Release Courtesy of Wellesley Sports Information