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A list and descriptions of our weekly activities is available in the dining hall on the Family Camp Schedule Board. There are several activities that we ask families to sign-up in advance for, including Kid's Hours and van shuttles to off-site activities. Signing up for these activities in advance gives us enough time to plan and adjust staffing as needed to make sure that everyone is getting the best experience possible. Your cooperation and understanding is appreciated.
There also is a board which gives you additional information on other optional activities. These are activities that you are more than welcome to do on your own, but please note that staff may not be able to join you. For more information on these activities, make sure to visit the Camp Office.
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No, we welcome families from everywhere. Concord Residents do receive a discount as property and other taxes help support this and other City of Concord programs.
You can check in at camp and receive your cabin assignment after 3 p.m. on your first day of camp. Early check-ins usually cannot be accommodated; we ask that you plan your trip to camp appropriately. Once you arrive at camp, please check in at the Camp Office. The Camp Office is the first building on your right when you drive in to camp; you will see a gate and signage. Pull into the loop, and camp staff will help you from there.
We will welcome you, give you a schedule, show you around camp and help you to your cabin. You will need your confirmation receipt, sign a liability waiver and a provide $5 key deposit (cash or check only) at the time of check in. Our hospitality staff will take you on a tour, assist you to your cabin, show you where to park and are available to help unload your car.
If you have any birthdays, anniversaries, or any special requests please make sure to let the hospitality staff aware at check in. We will do our best to meet your special needs. Make sure to fill out a Family Health form which provides camp staff with information such as dietary restrictions and needs prior to your arrival. Camp Staff will double check with you when you check in to make sure we have the correction information.
You will stay in a nice, rustic and cozy cabin complete with beds and mattresses, a small table and shelves. All beds have a fitted sheet. You just need to provide bedding - sleeping bags, blankets and pillows. All our Family Camp cabins have electricity and are within easy walking distance to our bathhouse.
Our Family Camp Bathhouse brings some of the luxuries of home to camping. There is plenty of hot water, forced air heaters over the changing stalls, as well as updated floors, sinks, counters and toilets. Our handicap restroom meets current ADA standards, and we have an enclosed laundry room with washers and dryers for your convenience. Additional bathrooms are located off the dining hall.
Approximate meal times are as follows:
Each family is assigned a table at the beginning of their stay. This helps both the camp staff and your family get its bearings and makes sure you receive your famous "Camp Welcome Treat." If you wish to change where your family is seated, please do so. We do ask that you do not displace another family without asking prior.
After you're done eating in the dining hall, please clear all of your dishes. There are garbage cans in front of the dish washing window. Please scrape your plates into the garbage cans, and place your dirty dishes on the metal counter inside the dish washing window.
The Dining Hall is open 24 hours a day. The lights are dimmed and placed on a motion sensor around 11 p.m. You are welcome to bring your own lantern. Quiet Time begins at 10 p.m. (so please lower your voices or bring out that book). Coffee, tea, and hot chocolate is usually available until 10:30/11 p.m. A microwave is also available for your use.
The Green Room is located off the dining hall. It's a great place to enjoy various board games (please check them out from the office), watch a movie, play pool or sit down and enjoy a book. The green room is open 24 hours; we just ask that you pick up after yourself and return games to the Camp Office when you're done.
Camp-wide quiet hours are from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. Please keep noise to a minimum during this time, so that others can sleep.
Children, 3 to 17 years old, can participate in our Kids Hours, which are offered twice a day. We break campers into age groups and plan our activities to meet their abilities. Camp Concord staff provides guidance and supervision to ensure a safe and memorable experience for our younger campers. Parents can take a break and kids can have fun playing with other kids their own age.
Please sign up in advance, so we ensure we are staffing each age group appropriately. On most days we are able to accept all campers, however occasionally, to ensure safety, we may need to limit participation. Utilizing our sign-up board is the best way to ensure your child can participate.
Please note: If your preschooler is not potty-trained, a parent must be available, if needed, on camp to change diapers.
One or two nights a week, depending on our campers, we have organized Teen Activities. These activities may include a movie night, trip to mini-golf, a night hike, or arts and craft projects. Check the Sign-Up Board for all of the details. And don't forget to sign-up if you are interested to ensure these activities are not cancelled due to lack of participation.
Children have the opportunity to become a "Nature Ranger" and earn a special badge/award by participating in and completing activities. These may include a camp clean up, nature hikes, camp games or a camp improvement project. A list of requirements is available in the Dining Hall.
The Camp Store and Office is located near the entrance of camp. As well as being the welcome center and hub of administrative activities, the Camp Store has a variety of frequently forgotten supplies and other camp spirit items available for purchase. Please note that we only accept checks and cash on camp; we cannot accept credit or debit cards at this time.
Tuesday Nights we offer a "Night on the Town," with a shuttle service to the Casino's. Ask the camp staff about departure and pick-up times. Child watch is provided (free) for our younger campers - just make sure to sign them up in advance.
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From the Camp Office, you can get directions and information on the many hikes and bike trails, so you can explore the beautiful area surrounding the camp. There is also visitor's center just down the road with information on other natural areas nearby. Be sure to read our daily Camp Caller Newsletter found on your table, and listen for other announcements at mealtimes for an update on activities.
Every evening at 4:30 p.m. there is an Adult's Only Social Hour, sponsored by the Friends of Camp Concord. This corresponds with our 2nd Kids Hour of the day to make it a natural time for parents to relax and get to know the other families in camp. We provide drinks and appetizers on the deck.
The large circle of benches and chairs located in the middle of cabins 1 and 6 is known as the Family Camp Fire Pit. It is a great place to read a book, meet new people, or simply relax for a while as the camp day slides by. The Family Camp Fire Pit is also a social hub of camp, and staff will light a fire each night upon request or you can build a Campfire of your own here. Please remember Camp Concord is located in a National Forest, and camp fires should never be left unattended. You will need to use the water hose nearby and put out the fire as necessary.
Quiet Time begins at 10 p.m, so late night gathers around the fire pit need to keep noise to a minimum, so that other campers are not disturbed.
Yes, and please feel free to create and enjoy the warmth. Most mornings you will find the Fireplace lit by 7 a.m, but if you wish you can build an early morning or evening fire here and gather as well.
Camp Concord is operated under a special use permit with the U.S. Forest Service. We are responsible for maintaining the property, so future generations can enjoy it as much as we do. Per special use permit regulations, please do not alter any buildings, paths, or dig holes at camp. Any building or repairs must be completed by Camp or City of Concord staff. Alterations require prior approval by the City of Concord and U.S. Forest Service as a requirement for maintaining our permit.
Beginning summer of 2010, the National Forest Service, in cooperation with several other organizations, alerted camp grounds and travelers of a growing threat to the area lakes from aquatic invasive species. Aquatic invasive species pose a real and serious threat to the Tahoe Basin's unique natural environment and economy. Prevention efforts such as the watercraft inspection program aim to avoid introduction of harmful species, such as quagga and zebra mussels and New Zealand mud snails.
If you plan to bring your own canoe, kayak or other watercraft to camp, we ask that you check in the Camp Office for information on what you can do to help prevent the spread of these species.
The Friends of Camp Concord is a non-profit group established by former Family Campers and staff, with the goal of providing scholarships for children and families to attend camp and to help provide facility improvements and new equipment.
Twice a year, the Friends of Camp Concord sponsors Work Weekends. During these times we are actively looking for volunteers to help us maintain the beautiful facilities and forest. Over these weekends we have a variety of jobs to accomplish and people of all skill levels are welcome. In return for your time and effort we will provide you with a cabin, meals and more opportunities to build friendships. If you are interested in helping please inquire in the Camp Office about this year's Work Weekend dates. Work Weekend volunteers also automatically become members of the Friends of Camp Concord and are entitled to early registration and choice of cabin at camp.
More information on the Friends of Camp Concord can be found on our Friends of Camp Concord page or by asking any Camp staff member.
For years, South Lake Tahoe Refuse has been an all-in-one container garbage and recycling service. Essentially, they sort our garbage for us, which includes picking out recyclables.
Absolutely! Just love us and tell us so. If you want to express your gratitude with other gratuities we would happily accept and appreciate any camp donation. Financial donations to camp can be made to the Friends of Camp Concord. Your donation will be used to provide the staff with an end-of-the summer dinner celebration, as well as support future projects at camp. We ask that all donations are brought directly to the Camp Office.
All items found on camp or picked up at an off-site activity are brought to the Camp Office. We generally keep lost and found items for two weeks and then donate all items to charity. We do not recommend charging cell phones, cameras and the like in public bathroom and laundry facilities. Though it is unusual, valuables can be a temptation for people. Please charge any electronics in your cabin.
It's sad, but true - at some point you will have to leave Camp Concord. Breakfast is your last meal in camp; as check out time is 11 a.m. We will provide a bag lunch for you on your last day, just please complete a request form the night before. Come check out in the Camp Office, pick up a small token of our appreciation and confirm your email address, so we can send you a camp evaluation. Sharing your thoughts on your Camp Concord stay helps us know what went well during your vacation and where we might be able to make improvements.
Take Highway 50 to the South Shore of Lake Tahoe. At the junction of Highways 50 and 89 North (better known as "the Y"), there will be a four-way stoplight. Drive straight ahead, and you will be on Highway 89. Continue past Camp Richardson and over Taylor Creek Bridge. After crossing the bridge, look for Camp Concord sign and Baldwin Beach sign on your right (about a fourth of a mile). A little further down the road, you will make a left turn off the highway at the large Camp Concord sign, and then follow the signs making a series of lefts to get into camp.
Camp Concord Family Camp staff understands most people think of their pet as part of the family. Everyone's pet is very special, and the majority of pets are well-behaved. However, for reasons of sanitation, public health, liability, environmental impact, and safety of all campers, pets are not allowed at camp. Thank you for understanding.


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New York's Governor Cuomo says the lesson of Superstorm Sandy is the vulnerability of coastal development to climate change. Instead of rebuilding damaged properties, he wants to buy them up and restore their natural condition. Will homeowners and developers go along? What about developments in the Carolinas, Florida, the Gulf of Mexico and the coastlands of the Pacific Ocean? Also, a meteor crashes to the Earth in Russia's Ural Mountains, and mixed reviews for Tesla's electric car.
Banner image: Aerial views of the damage caused by Hurricane Sandy to the New Jersey coast, taken during a search and rescue mission on October 30, 2012. Photo by New Jersey National Guard/Master Sgt. Mark C. Olsen

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Soundtrack and Music
BioShock Infinite's Soundtrack is intimately tied to its plot. In addition to its primary soundtrack, areas of BioShock Infinite contain some unexpected renditions of songs, and Secret Background Music has been discovered in much of the game as well. The Secret Song Covers are listed below in their own section -- and they may constitute story spoilers.
The original soundtrack for BioShock Infinite can be obtained digitally through the purchase of either of the game's Collector's Editions.
Your code for the soundtrack can be redeemed here: https://www.bioshockinfinite.com/soundtrack
All other uncredited artists and performances can be found on this page: https://www.bioshockinfinite.com/music
Official Soundtrack
Song | Artist(s) |
Introduction | Ken Levine |
Welcome to Columbia | G. Schyman, J. Bonney |
Will The Circle Be Unbroken - choral version | A. Habershon, C. Gabriel |
Lighter Than Air | G. Schyman |
Lutece | G. Schyman |
The Battle For Columbia I | G. Schyman, J. Bonney |
The Girl In The Tower | G. Schyman |
Elizabeth | G. Schyman |
The Songbird | G. Schyman |
Rory O'More/Saddle The Pony | S. Lover/anon. |
The Battle For Columbia II | G. Schyman |
The Readiness Is All | K. Levine, J. Bonney |
Lions Walk With Lions | G. Schyman |
Will The Circle Be Unbroken | A. Habershon, C. Gabriel |
Unintended Consequences | G. Schyman |
The Battle For Columbia III | G. Schyman |
Family Reunion | G. Schyman |
Solace | S. Joplin |
The Battle For Columbia IV | G. Schyman |
The Battle For Columbia V | G. Schyman |
Let Go | G. Schyman |
Doors | G. Schyman |
The Girl For The Debt | G. Schyman |
Back In The Boat | G. Schyman |
AD | G. Schyman |
Smothered | G. Schyman |
Baptism | G. Schyman |
Will The Circle Be Unbroken - full version | A. Habershon, C. Gabriel |
Tainted Love | Ed Cobb, Gloria Jones |
Garry Schyman Interview
IGN spoke to composer Garry Schyman and creative director Ken Levine about the game's score.
Beast of America Trailer
One of the most exciting trailers shown for Bioshock Infinite both on televsion and in cinemas in the US and UK featured a song combining rock, soul, and metal elements. The song is called "Beast" and is performed by Nico Vega from their self-titled 2009 album, though the heavier rock version featured in this trailer is from Nico Vega's 2013 EP entitled, "Fury Oh Fury". The song and condensed version of the trailer also play on a loop from the initial start screen if the player waits without pressing any buttons.
Secret Song Covers
Located throughout Columbia as background music and on phonographs are covers of popular songs from the late 20th century.
Song | Original Artist | Original Release | Cover Artist(s) | Location |
God Only Knows | The Beach Boys | 1966 | B. Wilson, T. Asher, C. Hine | Welcome Center |
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun | Cyndi Lauper | 1983 | R. Hazard, J, Bonney | Battleship Bay and Downtown Emporia |
Fortunate Son | Creedence Clearwater Revival | 1969 | J. Fogerty, J. Carolina, J. Bonney | Bull Yard and Shanty Town |
Shiny Happy People | R.E.M. | 1991 | B. Berry, P. Buck, M. Mills, M. Stipe | Port Prosperity |
Everybody Wants to Rule The World | Tears for Fears | 1985 | R. Orzabal, I. Stanley, C. Hughes, S. Bradlee | Memorial Gardens |
Shake Sugaree | Elizabeth Cotten | 1967 | E. Cotten | Shanty Town |
Makin' Whoopee | Eddie Cantor | 1928 | E. Cantor, F. Sinatra, R. Charles, N. Jones | Port Prosperity |
Tainted Love | The Four Preps | 1965 | The Four Preps, Soft Cell, G. Jones, R. Swan, M. Manson | Shanty Town |
Button Up Your Overcoat | Helen Kane (Betty Boop) | 1928 | Ruth Etting | Downtown Emporia |
My Heart Belongs to Daddy | Cole Porter | 1938 | M. Monroe, E. Fitzgerald | Downtown Emporia |
Goodnight, Irene | Huddie 'Lead Belly' Ledbetter | 1933 | The Weavers, L. Belly, F. Sinatra, D. Day, J. Stafford,M. Mullican, H. Thompson | Raffle Square |
In Comstock House, during a projection, the "Canon and Gigue for 3 violins and basso continuo" can be heard. It is composed by Johann Pachelbel during the 18th century and is commonly known as Pachelbel's Canon.
At the beginning of Sea of Doors, a musical version of Charles Trenet's "La Mer"(1946), also known for it's english adaptation "Beyond the sea", is playing. It is a reminding of one of the music played in Bioshock, the first game.
Secret Background Music
During seemingly music-less stretches of BioShock Infinite, an extremely slowed-down song is played in the background noise. When sped up, voices can be heard on this mysterious musical track.
Booker and Elizabeth Sing a Song
From the entrance to Shantytown, go straight down some stairs and go inside The Graveyard Shift bar. In the back right is a room and the guitar can be found in there. Activate the guitar here to see Elizabeth and Booker singing.


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- March 3, 2024
SARASOTA COUNTY — Members of St. Barbara Greek Orthodox Church are offering East County residents a passport to a Grecian holiday as they celebrate the 26th annual Greek Glendi Feb. 11-14.
More than 15,000 people are expected to descend upon St. Barbara's campus on Lockwood Ridge Road for the four-day festival, which runs from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., Feb. 11-13, and noon to 8 p.m., Feb. 14. Parking is free, but entrance to the festival costs $4 for individuals 13 years old and older.
"People just love coming," event co-chair Denise Chimbos said. "It's a little bit of everything for everyone."
Attendees can savor authentic Greek delicacies such as spanakopita, roasted lamb shanks, moussaka and Greek wine while enjoying traditional Greek music and Hellenic dancing by children from kindergarten to 18 years old.
"This year my granddaughter is going to be dancing," church member and festival chairperson George Karabatsos said. "I can't wait. It's her first year. They've been rehearsing Sundays after Sunday school. It's good to know she can learn her (family) roots."
A children's area, which will include activities such as pony rides, rock climbing and games, will be located between St. Barbara's fellowship hall and the sanctuary.
During the Glendi, St. Barbara's also will be offering tours of the church, which features Byzantine iconography. The church's pastor, the Very Rev. Archimandrite Frank Kirlangitis, said he's especially proud this year to show off the new iconography gracing the walls of the dome in the sanctuary, which was finished over the summer.
"It's magnificent what the artist did," Kirlangitis said. "I get so emotional. This took an awful lot of effort."
The dome's iconography depicts Christ in the center, as well as the four evangelists and the "prophets of old." The piece complements the other iconography decorating the church's walls, which depict the birth, life and death of Jesus Christ.
As part of the festival, the church also will be raffling off a 2010 Lexus with tickets costing $100 each. First prize is a Lexus ES 350 Luxury Sedan or a Lexus HS 250 Hybrid. Second- and third-place prizes are $10,000 and $5,000, respectively.
Contact Pam Eubanks at [email protected].
WHEN: 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., Feb. 11-13; noon to 8 p.m., Feb. 14.
WHERE: St. Barbara Greek Orthodox Church, 7671 Lockwood Ridge Road, Sarasota
COST: Admission is $4 for adults and free for children ages 12 and under. Raffle tickets for a 2010 Lexus are $100 each.
PARKING: Free parking is available adjacent to the church and at Church of the Trinity, 7225 Lockwood Ridge Road. A shuttle will take visitors who park at Trinity to and from the festival.
INFO: www.stbarbarafestival.org or 355-2616


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Roger Waters Plans New Solo Album, Live DVD from 'Wall' Tour
While he might be currently looking in the rear view mirror, celebrating the legacy of Pink Floyd's classic 'The Wall' album, the experience has put Roger Waters in the planning mode for a new solo album, which would be his first proper solo release since 1990's 'Amused to Death.'
Waters recently spent four hours on the air with Jim Ladd, his former 'Radio K.A.O.S' counterpart, at Sirius XM for a lengthy interview that aired on the 'Deep Tracks' channel, promoting the re-launch of the Pink Floyd-branded channel on the satellite music provider.
During the conversation, Waters revealed that a follow-up to 'Amused to Death' isn't so far away in his mind. "I've got a strong feeling that I have a new album literally about to pop out. I've written a song while I was on the road, which I think will provide me with the impetus, emotionally and philosophically and politically to create a new album."
As previously rumored, there are indeed plans to capture the current 'The Wall' tour for a DVD release. Responding to a question from a listener, Waters said "we've been filming almost everything as we go along, remorselessly. We filmed for a week when we did shows in Athens and we were filming all over South America, so yeah, there will definitely be a DVD of this whole experience coming up in the near future."
He says that the meaning of 'The Wall' has changed in the years since the album was first released. "I was somewhat under the misapprehension that 'The Wall' was a story about me and my dad and the second World War. Slowly over the years, and particularly, working up to putting together this show, this new version of it, and touring again. I came to realize that it may have been back then, but that it has a much more universal story. It's about all of us, it's about all loss in war and it's about everybody's connection with their family."
"We've made something that seems to appeal pretty universally wherever we go in the world and I'm super-happy about that. That makes me really, really content."
The 'Wall' tour will finish with a big bang – Waters recently announced plans to make the final show one that will feature a wall that is two times the size of the one that has been featured on the current tour.


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Aid for the Pore
Having tackled wrinkles and sunspots, dermatologists are taking on a small but pesky new nemesis: the enlarged pore. Jane Larkworthy offers her cheek.
"I'll be happy when I'm 60." That was the affirmation with which I comforted myself from the onset of puberty through my mid-30s, when my pores seemed to spew more grease than a Texas oil well, providing my cheeks, nose, and chin with a perpetual, deeply unflattering sheen. All of that "moisture," I had read, would render me a supple, dewy-skinned woman of a certain age, while my pimple-free, matte-faced friends would prematurely wrinkle like cheap linen.
Though I'm still years away from an AARP membership, I am indeed grateful for how that 20-plus-year-old oil slick has helped stem the tide of aging. But to say that I'm "happy" with my skin would be an overstatement: The oil wells have, blessedly, dried up, but they've left large, visible pores in their wake.
According to cosmetic dermatologist Fredric Brandt, who has practices in Coral Gables, Florida, and New York, I am far from alone. Brandt offers everything from spot correctors to wrinkle smoothers in his eponymous skincare collection. But the products in his Pores No More line—which include cleansers, mattifiers, and refiners—are his top sellers. It's not that enlarged pores are a new epidemic, he says, but rather that, after injecting and lasering away our lines and sun splotches, we now have the luxury of focusing on (literally) the smaller stuff. "It's like when you renovate a house," Brandt says. "Suddenly you notice all the little things that haven't been redone."
According to Brandt, there are two main reasons why pores expand as we age. First, skin-cell turnover slows, causing clogs that, over time, stretch out the once tiny openings. Second, hormonal changes signal the skin to produce less collagen and elastin, weakening the walls of pores so that instead of holding taut, they begin to gape.
One U.K. study found that estrogen, administered topically, helped decrease pore size, but, as anyone who has undergone hormone replacement therapy—or even taken birth control pills—knows, messing with estrogen is not without complications. Doctors in the United States, understandably, have mostly opted to steer clear of hormones, instead relying on lasers, lights, and other high-tech gadgetry to do the job—and there is plenty to choose from.
Los Angeles dermatologist Peter Kopelson's favorite pore shrinker is the Regenlite, a laser developed to treat acne. It works by causing the body to secrete a substance called Transforming Growth Factor-beta, which in turn amps up collagen output and plumps pores. "We recommend a series of five treatments, one every few weeks," Kopelson says. But many of his patients use the therapy continuously. "It's not dangerous, and there's no downtime," and, at about $380 a session, he notes, it's not particularly expensive. "I use it myself. Nothing else has reduced pore size for me."
New York dermatologist David Colbert, on the other hand, favors Ulthera (a type of ultrasound) and Fraxel (a fractionated laser), both of which stimulate fibroblasts, the cells that produce collagen and elastin. Ulthera, the less invasive of the two, is a one-shot deal that costs around $5,000. Fraxel, Colbert's go-to for older patients with accumulated sun damage, works best when three or four treatments are spaced out over a few months. (He charges $1,500 a session.) For those not ready to make such a commitment, Colbert turns to microdermabrasion or chemical exfoliation (like a glycolic acid and lavender essence peel) to encourage skin-cell turnover. He also assigns homework: "Everyone should use Retin-A," he insists. "It's the only FDA-approved drug that signals cells to make more collagen and elastin."
Indeed, in the eyes of most dermatologists, retinoid remains the miracle cure. In addition to boosting collagen and elastin, "retinoids exfoliate, so pores look smoother," says the dermatologist Anne Chapas, who runs New York's Union Square Laser Dermatology. Retinoids, which in the past were often too harsh for sensitive skin, now come in a variety of strengths and formulations, including the milder and moisturizing Renova. Some no longer even require a prescription. "We're starting to see over-the-counter retinoid products that actually do a good job," Chapas says.
Personally, I have noticed positive changes with the Clear + Brilliant machine, a fractionated laser similar to but gentler than Fraxel. Because it penetrates less deeply, recovery time is a few hours, as opposed to the five to seven days of post-procedure redness and swelling that Fraxel patients can experience. "It promotes overall radiance, improved skin texture, smaller pores, and fewer fine lines," says Amy Wechsler, the New York dermatologist to whom I've been going for treatments.
Wechsler warned me not to expect changes until I'd had five or six treatments (fortunately, at $500 a visit, it's significantly cheaper than Fraxel), but I was excited to give it a try. So a few months ago I began diligently showing up at her office every three weeks, applying numbing cream (all of these treatments involve a little sting), and getting zapped. After five visits with no visible effect, I was beginning to lose hope, but just as Wechsler had predicted, I turned a corner at visit number six. My skin suddenly seemed firmer, smoother—and best of all, my pores were no longer the first things I noticed when I looked in the mirror.
So for now, I'm committed to monthly touch-ups with Wechsler, but I'm slowly working up the nerve to try the next wave of cosmetic dermatology: a more permanent but slightly queasy-making procedure called Laviv. A piece of healthy, hidden-from-sun skin is removed (usually from behind the patient's ear) and sent to a lab to propagate new, healthy fibroblasts. After three months, the fibroblasts are injected into the skin where needed over three sessions. "You're basically regenerating your own collagen," explains Brandt, who has been performing Laviv since it got FDA approval in June 2011. "We've noticed lines diminishing and pores shrinking," he enthuses. "Patient satisfaction has been very high." Maybe I'll try it when I finally do turn 60.
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Maekar was said to be the Prince of Summerhall. That sounds somewhat like the Soviet top men's leisure places ("datsja's"), but I expect it is a castle somewhere. Where is this? Dorne?
Summerhall was a lightly fortified castle that Daeron II built on the Dornish marches, roughly where Dorne, the Reach, and the Stormlands come together. It was a Targaryen castle and a royal residence, especially when Daeron was young, but as he grew older he left King's Landing less frequently, and Summerhall passed to his youngest son, Maekar. (Baelor had Dragonstone, and Aerys and Rhaegel seldom left the court).
You will learn more about Summerhall if I write more Dunk & Egg stories.
[The rest: Was Dunk really knighted? What are prices in Westeros (800 silver stags to live a year comfortably, but food is super cheap)? How many silver stags to the gold dragon? How did Robert manage to leave the crown so far into debt?]
No comment on the rest, except to say that Robert was a generous soul who spent money at a prodigious rate. Look at the prizes he decreed for the Hand's tourney, for instance.


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The threat of protectionism hanging over the Brazilian wine market during recent months has at last subsided after it was officially announced in São Paulo that representatives of Brazil's largest wine producers, coordinated by Wines of Brazil (IBRAVIN) have withdrawn their application for safeguards, lodged with Brazil's Ministry of Development back in March.
The producers have come to an agreement with the associations representing the import, distribution and retail sectors of the wine market, stipulating a series of measures to boost the sales of Brazilian wines without resorting to the quotas and punitive tax increases threatened by the safeguards.
The accord finally sheds some light on the issue after it became clear one month ago that there was insufficient substance in the request for the Ministry of Development to approve safeguards on technical grounds. Despite this news, there has been speculation that the issue would turn "political" and that the government would seek to find other ways of appeasing the large domestic producers.
The intention of Monday's agreement is to double sales of Brazilian fine wines in their domestic market by 2016, thereby reaching a sales volume of 40 million litres per year. The ambition for 2013 is to increase sales by 35% to 27 million litres.
In order to reach these sales levels, the agreement stipulates that at least 25% of vinhos finos (read vinifera-based wines) sold through supermarkets must be Brazilian in origin, more than double current estimates. In other non-supermarket off-trade outlets, the minimum sales percentage for domestic wines is to be set at 15%. Press reports have so far not outlined how retailers will be held to meet these targets or how they will be monitored.
To encourage importers to list more national wines, the agreement demands that sales rounds between small and medium sized domestic producers and importers be held in the first quarter of 2013. The intention is to increase the number of Brazilian wines carried by importers, though it is not yet clear whether they will be bound to include Brazilian wines in their portfolios.
The most significant detail still to be ironed out surrounds a possible minimum price for imported wines. Producers are seeking to impose a minimum purchase price of US$24 per case of 12 bottles, or approximately R$4 per bottle. While this will be of little relevance to quality wines, it does pose a threat to the cheapest imports. This measure appears contrary to another stated aim in the agreement to increase national per capita wine consumption from its current low level of 1.9 litres per capita to 2.6 litres per capita by 2016. By effectively killing off the sub R$20 bottle of Carmenére or Malbec, the aim of broadening wine's consumption base among the less well off will be made more difficult.
On the producer side of the agreement, grape growers and wineries will be obliged to maintain their focus on reducing costs, improving scales of production and increasing promotions, as stated in the original safeguards request.
Other actions still to be outlaid in full include joint efforts to reduce taxes on wine, combating black market imports, providing longer lines of credit, developing programs to aid production, reducing stock-holdings and the creation of a promotional fund for the vitivinicultural sector. Actions are also to be developed to incentivise bars and restaurants to list Brazilian wines and to provide training for those who work in the wine section of supermarkets.
Importers will be required to send quarterly reports to the Ministry of Development to show that progress is being made to meet these agreements. If the conditions of the agreement are not met, the request for safeguards may be re-presented at any time.


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I loved this man. He was everything to me, and I poured my entire self into him. And from all that love, and courage, and bareness, and heart-giving came nothing but regret- or so I believed as we said our goodbyes. I was all kinds of bruised and blue. I was angry. I couldn't believe I had been betrayed, but I certainly had—and in grand fashion.
The work was in the recovery. The recovery began with realizing that it had to end and I was better for it- even as I sat like a pile of thrown-away-things on the floor.
Next, I had to realize that despite my love and want, one has to move on from relationships that aren't centered on reciprocity, and care, and love-in-action.
Finally, I had to come up with a plan to heal, to refuse to wade in ugliness, even to forgive this man whom, in that moment, I despised.
These were my thoughts as I read this article from Deepak Chopra, where he opens with this magic:
Remember, the only betrayals that inflict damage are the ones where an intimate bond has been torn. Love makes you merge with another person, able to feel their emotions as keenly as you feel your own. If you have experienced such bonding, you know that it is a kind of higher reality—and when that bond is ripped apart, it's as if you've lost half of yourself.
He goes on to offer other truly revelatory and revolutionary advice on the dos and don'ts of letting go and healing from hurt:
Feel the hole inside and grieve over it—but promise yourself that you will fill it.
The first thing I learned in getting over lost love and feelings of wrong-doing was that I had to feel it, and feel it completely. I gave myself those moments to cry, to hide, to curse; and then I started filling the hole I dug with affirmations of the good, sincere, righteous love that I had experienced throughout my life- thus acknowledging that I was not only worthy of love, but that I wasn't a stranger to it. Even when love doesn't go our way, we should know that we are capable of loving and being loved. And we must repeat our understanding of this over and over.
Work toward a tomorrow that will be better than yesterday. Don't fixate on the past or what might have been.
I reminded a friend who was facing the possibility of a relationship failing that, even if things end, she will survive. Sometimes, we forget how truly strong and resilient we are- that we are warriors, that we are triumphant. There are points in our lives when we realize that we can only go up, that things can only get better- and a sure fire way to not repeat the relationship mistakes of our past is to take the time to really think of what we want in our future. I made a list of what I wanted, and realized none of those things included the guy who broke my heart.
Stop dwelling obsessively on how you were wronged. Feeling exultant in our self-righteous pain.
Someone should have told me, at a certain point, "Look Toots, love is a battlefield; it is beautiful and awful; sometimes you lose; some people are rotten; get to (high) stepping." As much as we want to hold on to victimhood and be "right", whatever that is, doing so simply does not serve us. Did he hurt in knowing that he hurt me? Maybe, but that acknowledgement hadn't come and I had living and loving to do. We all have to answer for the karma we've created. I focused on creating good karma and chose to get over it, and myself.
Avoid turning your pain into an ongoing drama.
I am a firm believer in owning and narrating one's story, and as a writer, I have used my poetic license to put it all out there. Now that I am healed, and (somewhat) sane again, I look back at some of my writings and conversations, and realize that sometimes I was being petty and small. Venting is necessary, spending our lives venting is unattractive. Again, we must focus on the future and know that the Divine has our best interests at heart, always.
We must grieve and go, and have hope- all in Godspeed.
Chime in: How have you gotten past heartache and betrayal?


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I often make students (and teachers I work with) get out of their seats. I think movement in the classroom is important whether you believe in the now hotly debated concept of learning styles or because cognition is embodied. Apart from onion ring debates and mingling activities, there are many movement activities you can do using classroom walls.
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Video is often used in the EFL classroom for listening comprehension activities, facilitating discussions and, of course, language work. But how can you exploit silent films without any language in them? Since developing learners' linguistic resources should be our primary goal (well, at least the blogger behind the blog thinks so), here are four suggestions on how language (grammar and vocabulary) can be generated from
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Marijuana is medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association concludes
Marijuana is one hundred percent a form of medicine, researchers conclude in a bombshell series of reports released today by the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Cannabis — which has been used medicinally for thousands of years — reduces nausea, and vomiting, and pain, as well as spasticity, a panel of researchers conclude, after reviewing a total of 79 trials.
"Use of marijuana for chronic pain, neuropathic pain, and spasticity due to multiple sclerosis is supported by high-quality evidence," one of the reports found.
Researchers bemoaned the lack of high-quality trials of marijuana. That situation that can be laid at the feet of cannabis prohibition. The federal government maintains cannabis is a highly dangerous drug with no medical use. Researchers must cut through more red tape to research a pot plant than any other substance on the planet, doctors say.
However, this week, the federal government slightly reduced the regulatory hurdles to study cannabis — down from eight layers of review, to seven.
More than 750,000 Americans will be arrested for cannabis this year. The Obama administration has spent an estimated $300 million interfering with state medical marijuana programs and patients, including arresting and prosecuting patients and caregivers. Thirty-five states have medical cannabis laws, and some members of Congress are working to de-fund federal attacks on medical marijuana.
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Johnny Marr, the former Smiths, Cribs and Modest Mouse guitarist, has posted a new music video for "Upstarts," a track off his upcoming solo album, The Messenger.
The album, which marks Marr's solo debut, will be released February 26 by Sire/ADA.
Marr will hit the road on a solo tour of the UK in March. Dates in the US and elsewhere will be announced soon.
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The 12-song collection (See the track listing below) was written and produced entirely by Marr. It was recorded in Manchester and Berlin and mastered at Abbey Road by Frank Artwright, who collaborated with Marr on the re-mastering work for the Smiths' box set, Complete.
The album is available for pre-order at iTunes here. For more about Marr, visit his official website.
The Messenger track listing:
- 01. The Right Thing Right
- 02. I Want The Heartbeat
- 03. European Me
- 04. Upstarts
- 05. Lockdown
- 06. The Messenger
- 07. Generate! Generate!
- 08. Say Demesne
- 09. Sun & Moon
- 10. The Crack Up
- 11. New Town Velocity
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Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos owes his job to a fruitful partnership. From 2006-09, he served as Defense Minister for then-President Alvaro Uribe, one of Colombia's most popular modern leaders. Together they directed a military surge that drove back Marxist guerrillas and paved the way for Colombia's economic revival – as well as for Santos' election in 2010. In his victory speech, Santos gave Uribe his props, saying: "If we have come so far it is because we have been standing on the shoulders of giants."
The giant is stirring once more but this time, instead of stalking insurgents, Uribe is determined to take down his former military chief. Accusing Santos of going soft on national security and of betraying Uribe's legacy, the former president last week announced the formation of a new political party whose goal is to stop Santos from winning re-election in 2014. Uribe served two four-year terms (2002-10) and is constitutionally barred from running again. But his new Pure Democratic Center party intends to field presidential and congressional candidates who are more in line with his hard-right ideology versus Santos' more moderate path. In a recent speech to hundreds of supporters at Bogotá's elite Nogal Club, Uribe said: "I just want to be another worker in this struggle."
But it's clear Uribe is the ringleader of what some view as an outlandish crusade. Imagine Ronald Reagan coming out of retirement in 1992 to campaign against the re-election of his former Vice President, George H.W. Bush. In Colombia, as in most countries, members of the ex-presidents club are usually content to serve as prudent elder statesmen or diplomats removed from day-to-day politics. Colombian novelist Héctor Abad has likened these former heads of state to antique furniture, revered for their noble appearance but falling apart and best kept in the attic.
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Uribe, 60, never wanted to join their ranks. He spent much of his second term trying to change the constitution so he could run for a third, which he almost certainly would have won. When Colombia's Supreme Court nixed that effort, Uribe threw his support behind Santos. But rather than be a stand-in for his former boss, Santos has charted his own course. Deciding that Uribe's cold war with Venezuela's socialist President, Hugo Chávez, was pointless and bad for business, Santos has normalized relations his neighbor. Unlike Uribe, Santos is willing to consider peace talks with the guerrillas and pays far more attention to international diplomacy and human right issues. Even more infuriating for Uribe is that under Santos, several of his former top aides and ministers have been indicted for crimes ranging from corruption to spying on political opponents.
Addicted to Twitter, Uribe has used the social network to defend his legacy and slam Santos. A recent study commissioned by the Foreign Ministry determined that 34% of the negative online news coverage about the Santos government over the past eight months was generated by scathing comments on Uribe's Twitter account. "It's very sad that it's Colombians themselves that generate the negative comments which affect efforts to bring more investment and generate more employment," said Foreign Minister María Ángela Holguín.
Uribe has been especially concerned about an increase in bombings and ambushes by guerrillas of the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces, or FARC. Though debilitated by the Uribe-era military offensive, the FARC rakes in millions from the illegal drug trade and is nowhere near defeated. Uribe also claims that government troops are demoralized and can't wage an all-out fight against the FARC due to increased scrutiny over human rights violations. "How can there be security when this government is more concerned with rejecting criticism than fighting terrorism?" Uribe told the Nogal Club audience. "How can there be security when our soldiers know about the government's intention to negotiate with terrorists?"
(MORE: Have Colombia's Rebels Really Given Up on Kidnapping?)
Santos maintains he would launch peace talks only if the FARC is serious about disarming. He also acknowledges that he needs to pay closer attention to security issues. Uribe's remarks, in fact, took place at a reception for his former interior minister, Fernando Londoño, who was badly injured in May when terrorists detonated a bomb that destroyed his armored SUV on a busy Bogotá street. But Santos contends that by trashing his government, Uribe and his supporters are dividing the country and playing into the hands of the guerrillas. "What's not acceptable," Santos said recently, "is for the issue of terrorism to be used for political and electoral ends."
For now, Santos seems to hold the upper hand. One recent poll put his job-approval rating at 67%. And while Uribe's coattails helped Santos win the 2010 election by a landslide, the former president's considerable popularity hasn't carried other politicians since then. The candidates he's loudly endorsed for mayor of Bogotá and other important posts have gone down to defeat. Lacking a charismatic challenger to Santos, Uribe's movement may have trouble gaining traction in the 2014 presidential race.
Meanwhile, many Colombians view their political mudwrestling as pointless. Even the Roman Catholic Church has weighed in: Monsignor Juan Vicente Córdoba, head of Colombia's Catholic Bishop's Conference, recently called on Uribe and Santos to work out their differences. "These are two people who have both done a lot of good for the country," he said. But for now, a truce between Colombia's two political giants looks remote at best.


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"Yah, but tell me Karon, did you know this Steve Biko?"
The purpose of the question was derisive, an Afrikaans student seeking to silence his uppity liberal classmate's protests at the brutal murder in prison of a black political activist—the 20th to have been killed behind bars by the policemen enforcing South Africa's apartheid system in the face of rising tide of black protest. And, of course, everyone in our high school playground huddle that sunny September day knew that I couldn't possibly have known Steve Biko, or even to have heard of him before his name hit the headlines.
Never mind voices or rights, history or family, black people didn't even have last names in white South African suburbia in the late 1970s. They were known only by first names easily pronounced by their white employers for purposes of instruction and command. The very presence of black people in white "Group Areas" was not tolerated, under law, except to the extent that they were in servitude to white people as housemaids, gardeners or day laborers. Any black person found on the streets of our neighborhoods who could not prove they were in the employ of a local white family faced arrest by a brutal police force for whom the adjective "racist" would have been redundant, because enforcing a white supremacist racial order was their raison d'etre.
We may have been raised and nurtured by black women, surrogate mothers named Patience or Rachel, but the black people in our world had no last names, never mind voices or opinions. There were no black people as independent actors in our world.
So, no, I did not know, or know of Steve Biko before reports of his death as a result of a savage beating by drunken security policemen made it into our newspapers. I knew nothing of his ideas about how South Africans would one day live together on the basis of equality, judged not by color or ethnicity but simply as individual citizens. I knew nothing of the inspirational work of the brilliant young medical student who had, in the finest traditions of Frantz Fanon and Malcolm X, challenged the psychology of oppression in the minds of black people that allowed white supremacism to keep them down. I knew nothing of his quick wit: Biko was once asked by a white judge in a political show trial, "Why do you people call yourselves black? You look more brown than black." He shot back, "Why do you call yourselves white? You look more pink than white."
But I knew apartheid was evil, having watched the regime bulldoze the shacks of peasants driven by rural poverty to settle on the periphery of Cape Town; and having watched on the TV news as the regime's police shot dead hundreds of black high school students my age, who'd taken to the streets in the Soweto uprising to demand their rights as citizens. We were ordered, during the rebellion, to patrol our school's grounds at night, lest the black kids – the ones with last names, and very strong opinions, and little patience for racism or patronizing colonial liberalism – came to burn it down. (They never did; if they had, we'd have gladly supplied the matches.)
I didn't know Steve Biko. But his death made clear to me, and hundreds of young white people like me, what millions of black South Africans knew from experience – that our country's rulers were not only ignorant racists, but were vicious thugs to boot.
"I am not glad and I am not sorry about Mr. Biko," Minister of Police Jimmy Kruger told a conference of the ruling party two days after Biko's death. "It leaves me cold. I can say nothing to you. Any person who dies… I shall also be sorry if I die." And they laughed. Like B-movie Nazis (which many of them were, having been in youth organizations aligned with Germany during WWII) they erupted in uproarious laughter, cheering on their brandy-and-coke bully boys who had beaten to death a chained captive, in their eyes nothing more than a cheeky "kaffir" (the Afrikaans equivalent of the n-word, curiously enough borrowed from the Arabic for infidel) one who had dared speak back to the white "baas" (master). Even now, it's hard to hold back the tears of rage that poured freely when I read the detailed account of Biko's murder.
Biko's story reached us via the work of Donald Woods, editor of the Daily Dispatch who had the courage to break out of the white suburban bubble and had gotten to know Biko as a friend. And knew him as the leader of the Black Consciousness movement that had captured the imagination of a generation of city-born black youth in South Africa that were not prepared to accept the indignities routinely suffered by their parents. Filling the void left by the banning of the African National Congress a decade earlier and the imprisonment of its leaders such as Nelson Mandela, the BC movement saw itself as leading, in Biko's words, "the cultural and political revival of an oppressed people", bringing to South Africa the anti-colonial struggle for liberation that had swept across the continent. Woods, able to see the future in the making, was impressed, eventually earning a banning order and being forced to flee into exile. His editorial on Biko's death introduced us to the man we would never know:
"My most valued friend, Steve Biko, has died in detention. He needs no tributes from me. He never did. He was a special and extraordinary man who at the age of 30 had already acquired a towering status in the hearts and minds of countless thousands of young blacks throughout the length and breadth of South Africa.
In the three years that I grew to know him my conviction never wavered that this was the most important political leader in the entire country, and quite simply the greatest man I have ever had the privilege to know.
Wisdom, humour, compassion, understanding, brilliancy of intellect, unselfishness, modesty, courage—he had all these attributes… The government quite clearly never understood the extent to which Steve Biko was a man of peace. He was militant in standing up for his principles, yes, but his abiding goal was a peaceful reconciliation of all South Africans."
Biko's funeral service was led by then Bishop Desmond Tutu, an Anglican cleric whose unwavering willingness to speak truth to power earned him a Nobel Peace Prize and still, today, marks him as a unique voice for justice in South Africa. It was a fitting tribute, even if many thousands of those who tried to reach the event were prevented from getting there by the cops, many of them dragged off buses and brutalized.
Still, Biko's burial was an impressive send off, some 15,000 voices joined as once in chants of "Amandla! Ngawethu!" (Power is ours!) signifying the dawning recognition that black collective action would make apartheid untenable.
That spectacle was supposed to terrify me, sitting in my white suburban ghetto. But in light of Biko's murder, and the massacre of protesting students the year before, I burned with a mounting—if, at that stage, impotent—rage at the racist brutality being unleashed in my name. Instead of scaring me, the idea of thousands of young black people armed with nothing but the stones in their hands and the courage in their hearts standing up to Jimmy Kruger and his thugs filled me with hope that justice would be done—and that I would see the birth of a different South Africa. Two years later, I arrived at the University of Cape Town, our portal from white suburbia into the wider, black-led political struggle.
There I finally "met" Steve Biko, through his writings, equal parts rage, humanity, profound insight and the irrepressible humor common to the truly brilliant political communicators. As we marched around our campus demanding freedom for Nelson Mandela and later, as we joined the ANC and its allied organizations fighting to end the monstrous system of apartheid, we were beginning, in our own tiny way to build the country that Steve Biko died fighting for, 35 years ago today. The fight to end apartheid had claimed many thousands of lives before his, and many thousands more would be killed after Biko's murder. But no death shook my world, and the country all around me, more than Steve Biko's. He lives on in the best achievements of the South Africa he helped birth, and in the best instincts of those who continue to challenge its flaws.
Tony Karon is a senior editor at TIME. A native of South Africa, he now resides in New York.
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"It's time to let people decide if they will support this innovation in transportation."
The government recently announced it's studying safety and regulatory issues there is no timeline for a policy that will permit ride-sharing operations like Uber and Lyft.
Anderson says that instead of interfering with entrepreneurial innovation, the government should step out of the way.
"Obviously we need to set minimal standards for ride-sharing, but those standards should apply across the board to both ride-shares and taxis," he said.
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Today, on my last day in Austin, TX for SxSW, my friend Jennifer and I were exiting a hotel courtyard on South Congress to make our way back to the Convention Center. Just as we stepped into the misty air out in the sidewalk, a helmeted cyclist rode by on the street, his sharp features and lean physique instantly recognizable. Agog, we exclaimed in near unison:
"Holy crap, that was David Byrne!"
We stood gaping as he maneuvered his bicycle tentatively across the lanes of oncoming traffic and into the center turn lane of the five-lane street. He was evidently trying to get himself onto the other side of Congress in order to ride with traffic.
Watching him negotiate with a blue pickup truck for the center lane, aggressive traffic on all sides of him, one of us spoke the words we both were thinking: "I really hope David Byrne doesn't get hit."
For a fan of Talking Heads and David Byrne since elementary school, coming so close to the man was an incomparable thrill and I stood with Jen on the spot until he had ridden out of sight. But afterward, having walked toward downtown Austin for about a half mile, who should appear but the same gangly figure–now riding on the sidewalk toward us.
Perched bolt upright atop a touring bike, wearing a navy-blue suit, an inexpensive backpack, and what could have been a rental helmet, David Byrne looked like a tourist from some imagined past–or possibly Utah. He rode by, I said "Hi, David" and he reciprocated pleasantries.
Who knew that David Byrne is a committed cyclist but a little Googling indicates he travels with a folding Montague (not what we saw him on) and can be seen tooling around the streets of New York or with helmet in hand.
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Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness. By Susannah Cahalan. 2012. Free Press, $25 (9781451621372).
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An Epidemic of Absence: A New Way of Understanding Allergies and Autoimmune Diseases. By Moises Velasquez-Manoff. 2012. Scribner, $26 (9781439199381).
Science journalist Velasquez-Manoff's extensive investigation into why we're experiencing an alarming upsurge of debilitating allergies and life-threatening autoimmune disorders leads to the conclusion that we've taken the war against germs too far.
Global Weirdness: Severe Storms, Deadly Heat Waves, Relentless Drought, Rising Seas, and the Weather of the Future. By Climate Central. 2012. Pantheon, $22.95 (9780307907301).
Climate Central, a nonpartisan collective of ecological experts, sets the record straight about the indisputable scientific evidence for global warming in this concise yet comprehensive overview.
How We Do Harm: A Doctor Breaks Ranks about Being Sick in America. By Otis Webb Brawley and Paul Goldberg. 2012. St. Martin's, $25.99 (9780312672973).
Brawley, chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society, presents a no-holds-barred look at the contemporary health scene.
On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson. By William Souder. 2012. Crown, $30 (9780307462206).
Souder brings a fresh and delving perspective to the prescient ecologist Rachel Carson's intriguing life, heroic sacrifices, and trailblazing achievements as the author of the lyrical and revelatory The Sea around Us (1951) and Silent Spring (1962).
The Social Conquest of Earth. By Edward O. Wilson. 2012. Norton/Liveright, $27.95 (9780871404138).
Renowned biologist Wilson takes us through the great maze of evolutionary adaptations that led to the "advanced social life" both of ants and, more dramatically, humankind, giving rise to our tribalism, art, and social and moral quandaries.
The Spark of Life: Electricity in the Human Body. By Frances Ashcroft. 2012. Norton, $28.95 (9780393078039).
Physiologist Ashcroft explains, in a lively mix of science and history, how everything we do depends on electrical events occurring continuously in nerve and muscle cells.
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic. By David Quammen. 2012. Norton, $28.95 (9780393066807).
Exemplary science writer Quammen illuminates fascinating, if scary, facts about zoonotic diseases—animal infections that sicken humans, such as influenza, SARS, and AIDS—and that can escalate rapidly into global pandemics.
Triggered: A Memoir of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. By Fletcher Wortmann. 2012. St. Martin's/Thomas Dunne, $24.99 (9780312622107).
Wortmann's touching, candid, and often funny memoir recounts his complex struggle with obsessive-compulsive disorder, shedding light on an often misunderstood and mysterious condition.


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Nestlé acquires a majority stake in Blue Bottle Coffee at a valuation north of $700M
Blue Bottle Coffee, one of Silicon Valley's favorite coffee projects, is selling a majority stake to Nestlé in a big semi-acquisition this morning that's no doubt going to validate a lot of interest in the potential of coffee markets.
Nestlé is acquiring a 68% stake in the company, and it t looks like the leadership of the company isn't changing as part of this deal. The Financial Times is reporting that Nestle is paying up to $500 million at a valuation north of $700 million, which we understand is in the right ballpark.
The company has opened up shops in San Francisco, New York, and Tokyo among other cities, and the experience is kind of like walking into an Apple Store. The opportunity there is that if Blue Bottle were to open up a store across from every Starbucks and acquire a customer with more value than one looking to get in and out of the shop as quickly as possible, it could potentially create a pretty substantial coffee business — even if it captured only a fraction of Starbucks' market.
Coffee shops have been a favorite pet project of Silicon Valley investors, which have poured a ton of money into operations like Blue Bottle and Philz. This also isn't Nestlé's first big effort in coffee, as it owns the Nespresso one-shot coffee machine that's a competitor to the Keurig, as well as the Nescafé brand. Blue Bottle has also been a prolific product producer (say that three times fast) by rolling out little cartons of its coffee and placing them in retail outlets, much like Starbucks does.
Ironically, we noted a little while back that Amazon should try picking up a coffee shop like Blue Bottle or Philz based on the market opportunity against a competitor like Starbucks and the opportunity to expand its Prime footprint. Nestlé has plenty of coffee brands in its portfolio, but a deal of this scale just shows that these coffee startups maybe shouldn't still be treated as experiments — though they may require a well-capitalized parent (like Amazon or Nestlé) to expand to the level of Starbucks.
Independently, Blue Bottle raised more than $100 million, and we had actually heard some whispers that it might be checking into potential financing about a year ago — though, at the time, the company outright said this wasn't happening and that it had not held any conversations with investors at any point about additional financing since the previous round. Either way, a year is quite a long time for a story like Blue Bottle to play out, which hopes to have opened 25 new cafes by the end of the year.
A representative from Blue Bottle said they would not comment on the specifics of the deal or the valuation of the company.
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Mendelssohn's maturity as a composer was marked by his Octet (1825) and concert overture to Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (1826). In 1829 Mendelssohn revived Bach's St Matthew Passion exactly one hundred years after its first performance. Soon after, a trip to London and the Scottish highlands and islands inspired the overture, The Hebrides. In 1830 he travelled to Italy at the suggestion of Goethe and whilst in Rome started his so-called Scottish and Italian symphonies. In 1835 he was appointed conductor of the Leipzig Gewandhaus, greatly expanding its repertoire with early music and works of his own, including the E minor Violin Concerto. Two years later he married Cecile Jeanrenaud and in 1843 he founded the Leipzig Conservatory. His magnificent biblical oratorio, Elijah, commissioned for, and first performed at, the 1846 Birmingham Musical Festival, soon gained a place alongside Handel's Messiah in the affections of British choral societies and their audiences. He died in Leipzig in 1847.
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Originally published February 24th, 2013.
Even though the technical indications for silver are not as strongly bullish as those for gold, they are now sufficiently positive that silver is likely to take off higher before much longer, encouraged by the strength that we should soon see reappear in gold. Of course, it will probably take some weeks for sentiment to recover sufficiently to drive a significant rally after the latest sharp drop, so we may see some backing and filling before a sustainable uptrend can get going, but that is normal.
We predicted another downleg in silver in the last update, which was posted on the 10th, due to the still bearish COTs at that time and the way that silver was topping out beneath a zone of resistance. The downleg started the next day and has proven to be quite severe, as we can see on our 7-month chart below. The decline did not pause at the support at the early January bull hammer, but continued lower to another support level and the trendline target shown. The bounce on Thursday and Friday occurred because silver has become critically oversold on its RSI, but it looks weak, and so we could see some more minor downside short-term before the current downleg has completely run its course. Nevertheless, we are believed to be close to an important bottom here.
On its 3-year chart we can see that silver has dropped back close to the lower boundary of its recent trading range. While we may see a little further downside short-term towards the strong support at the bottom of the trading range, it is now viewed as entering buying territory, however, this support is clearly defined and of great importance as it has turned the price back up to start significant rallies on 3 occasions over the past 17 months, so it must hold - if the price breaks below it, it would likely trigger a plunge as lines of stops would be triggered.
Another bullish point to note is that after breaking out of its downtrend back last August - September, silver has not dropped back into it, but has instead drifted back down in a reaction, riding the support above the upper trendline. The current position of the price not far above this trendline and also just above the critical support towards $26.50 suggests that it is now at a very good point for a major new uptrend to start.
The long-term 7-year chart is encouraging as it shows that all of the action from the April - May 2011 highs looks like nothing more than a reaction within an ongoing major uptrend that should re-assert itself before much longer, although as we can see the lower channel has not yet caught up with the price - but it may not have to, given the now super positive outlook for gold.
So it is good to see that we now have at last a significant improvement in silver's COT structure on its latest chart, which, since it is only up to date as of last Tuesday, does not take into account the sharp drop in silver's price that occurred on Wednesday, and so these figures can be presumed to be better still now. However, it must be said that there is considerable room for improvement, and we may see it in the weeks ahead if silver backs and fills for a while above the support before the expected new uptrend begins. That said, it is considered prudent not to wait for that to happen before taking positions, because downside now looks very limited and gold's COT (and other indicators) is already very bullish indeed, meaning that it could take off higher with little delay now.
The public were still too bullish on silver just a few weeks ago, which is a big reason why it plunged, but as we can see on the latest public opinion chart, they have now curbed their enthusiasm, which is a good thing. Public opinion is now back at the more acceptable levels from which a strong uptrend can get started.
Chart courtesy of www.sentimentrader.com
In conclusion, although silver may back and fill short-term, and possibly drop back a little more towards its key support level at and above $26.50, it is now viewed as being back in buying territory ahead of the powerful uptrend that is expected to develop before much longer that should take it comfortably to new highs.


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SOUTH BEND, Ind. – Notre Dame guard Skylar Diggins remembers calling a play last season just a moment before coach Muffet McGraw called for something else. Diggins decided to go ahead and run the play she called.
Diggins thought she might get an earful from McGraw when she got to the bench for the next timeout, but was pleasantly surprised.
"She said, 'I love that you have a mind of your own.' That's all she said. That was the end of the conversation,'" Diggins said.
McGraw probably wouldn't have reacted the same way to a lot of others who have played for her, but she and Diggins have a special relationship that dates when Diggins was a seventh grader. The dazzling 5-foot-9 point guard is now in her final year of playing for McGraw as she tries to find a way to lead the Irish to the NCAA title game for a third straight time — hopefully with a different outcome.
After two years of playing with veteran teammates, Diggins will play her senior year surrounded mostly by underclassmen. But the expectations are still high for the seventh-ranked Irish, and McGraw and Diggins say they believe a national championship is possible.
"We have to rise to the challenge," McGraw said.
McGraw is counting heavily on Diggins, a player she sees almost as a coach on the floor. While McGraw has had some standout point guards in her 31 years as coach, she said she's never had anyone like Diggins.
"She would have a great future in coaching but — I'm denigrating my own profession — she has so many bigger things to do than coaching," McGraw said. "I think she'd be a really great coach which is unusual for great players because they're so gifted that things come easy, they don't know how to teach it. She's the exception."
Diggins grew up in South Bend and remembers watching McGraw at games and going to McGraw's basketball camp when she was 11. That was a few months after McGraw guided Notre Dame to the 2001 national championship.
She remembers liking McGraw right away. McGraw doesn't remember noticing Diggins until seventh grade, but was so impressed by then she offered her a scholarship a year later. It wasn't just Diggins' basketball skills, either.
"She had that attitude and that competitive spirit that I was really attracted to because I see a lot of that in myself and I want people to hate to lose. So I saw that drive," McGraw said.
Diggins, who had received recruiting letters from other schools, was floored to get a scholarship offer so young and she liked McGraw. But she wasn't ready to commit right away. In fact, she wasn't ready to commit until almost the final few hours of the early signing period in November 2008.
"I was sweating it out until the bitter end," McGraw said.
Even when Diggins announced her decision by going into the locker room and picking up a score sheet and saying, "I wonder where you're going to play me next year," McGraw initially thought she meant the Irish had too many guards and she wouldn't fit in.
With all 12 players returning from the season before, Diggins didn't start initially and didn't play point as a freshman. McGraw remembers Diggins coming to her being frustrated that she wasn't starting and asking what she needed to do.
"She said, 'Lay it out for me, because that's what I'm going to do,'" McGraw said.
The first thing Diggins had to do was to learn to play without the ball. That was new, but she learned quickly and was starting by December. And she was dropping by the basketball offices, too, not typical of most freshmen.
Diggins said she thought she knew how to play point guard, until she began playing it sophomore year and McGraw began teaching her.
"I had to know time, score, possession. I had to learn those things. I had to learn the whole playbook and where everybody was supposed to be," she said. "I had to learn every player. Their likes and dislikes. I had to learn what they rathered and what they didn't. Because if something happened out of the blue, something went wrong, there was a 90 percent chance it was my fault."
Coach and player both say it's their competitiveness and love for basketball that made them close. McGraw knew that Diggins would blame herself 100 percent of the time. McGraw likes that.
"Even when she knows it's not her fault, she gets more mad at herself than anybody," McGraw said. "It's hard for her to accept anything less than perfection."
McGraw would use that in practice, putting the best defenders against Diggins and putting her in challenging positions. It frustrated Diggins.
Niele Ivey, a point guard on the 2000-01 national championship squad and now one of McGraw's assistants, said Diggins would come to her frustrated about the head coach.
"I'd tell her, 'She's putting you in scenarios to make you tough. She's challenging you,'" Ivey said.
Diggins said the best lesson McGraw taught her was to be herself.
"She didn't recruit me to be somebody else. She recruited me to be myself. That was the hardest thing for me to figure out," she said.
McGraw continued to throw some obstacles her way as a junior. As a senior, though, with Diggins leading a young team, McGraw said she doesn't plan to throw up any more obstacles because she'll face enough on her own.
"This year there's not going to be a lot of teaching points. For her, it's going to be more nuances and just little tweaks here and there of different things," she said. "I think we'll talk even more. I like to hear, 'What's it look like from your perspective? You're on the floor. What do you see?'"
McGraw loves talking basketball with Diggins.
"She just really watches games and texts me, 'Oh, they just ran Princeton. Or Indiana just ran this.' Whether it's a pro game or a college game, she just really wants to learn that. I love that," she said.
Diggins said she can't explain her relationship with McGraw other than to say she knows her so well sometimes she can finish her sentences.
"I can't explain how I know her. I've figured it out. She was the one who taught me things," Diggins said. "I think I challenge her. Sometimes I do. Sometimes we do butt heads a little bit. But that's part of any relationship. You butt heads with your friends, your family and things like that."