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Mobile Apps Support Communications Test, Data Acquisition
Mobile devices are becoming serious engineering tools as apps emerge that handle design and test functions in communications and related applications areas. Indeed, you can choose from among hundreds of engineering apps at the Android market or iTunes store. Many of these are reference works and calculators. You no longer need access to a shelf of books or even your desktop computer to look something up, and you can forgo the stand-alone engineering calculator that you need for portability and to overcome the limitations of the calculator that comes with Windows.
The IEEE, for example, offers a wireless dictionary app, and The Engineers' Club provides a calculator that helps you design with waveguides. To help you keep in touch, the Audio Engineering Society has an app that brings you news of its conventions and conferences as well as podcasts summarizing the AES Journal. You also can search for products or jobs. NXP allows you to search for and buy any of its more than 10,000 standard parts using your Android. Also for Android, Dice offers an engineering job-search app. And Agilent Technologies has a power-supply catalog for iOS devices.
Agilent offers a number of calculators for iOS as well:
- Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Trace Impedance Calculator computes the characteristic impedance and sizes of typical PCB trace geometries. Users select a PCB geometry and enter values for relative dielectric constant, known dimensions of the structure, and impedance; they then press the button next to the unknown parameter to calculate the result.
- MicroWave Calculator consists of a directivity error calculator, a mismatch error limit calculator, and a ratio-to-dB calculator. A spokesperson calls the app the 21st century's version of the old reflectometer slide rule calculator.
- Engineering Calculator is an interactive application that allows users to input the required data, and results are shown in the form of graphs, tables, animations, or other meaningful representation. It solves basic electrical engineering equations.
In addition, Agilent offers a Tips and Tricks App for its 2000/3000 X-Series Oscilloscopes, which supplements manuals and quick-start guides and provides tips on oscilloscope basics for beginners along with more detailed tips and tricks for advanced users.
But the apps show most promise for increasing productivity in engineering when they enable mobile devices to play an active role in design and test functions.
The Device Is the Instrument
In limited cases, the device itself can become the instrument. For example, Speedy Spectrum Analyzer can turn an Android phone into an audio spectrum analyzer (Figure 1). Of course, smartphone manufacturers don't tend to publish response curves for their devices' analog front ends, so unless you care to determine them yourself (accounting for factors such as temperature variations and battery level), you'll need an alternative solution unless your requirements for accuracy and repeatability are modest.
Figure 1 A Above Middle C Plus Some Harmonics Rendered on an Android Phone
As an alternative, vendors offer modules that, combined with an app, turn your mobile device into an instrument without the I/O limitations of the device itself. For example, Redfish Instruments' iDVM is a module that wirelessly links to an Apple device to form a wireless multimeter. And Oscium's WiPry-Spectrum turns your iOS device into a 2.4-GHz ISM band spectrum analyzer (Figure 2) that can pry into your Wi-Fi environment to detect and avoid noisy channels. Oscium also offers a dynamic power meter, a power-meter/spectrum-analyzer combination, and a mixed-signal oscilloscope for iOS devices.
Figure 2 2.4-GHz WiPry-Spectrum Spectrum Analyzer App and Module for iOS Devices
Courtesy of Oscium
App Helps Test the Network
It is fitting, perhaps, that one app targets test of the wireless network infrastructure that mobile devices rely on. In October of last year, JDSU announced an Android smartphone app that helps wireless carriers conduct LTE network analysis using JDSU's drive-test system, a flexible, customizable, and scalable system for the optimization of wireless networks and data services. The app integrates with the system to simplify LTE RF service verification and troubleshooting while reducing network management costs.
The app allows engineers to perform real-life tests; in the field, they can collect, record, play back, and transfer data from network trouble spots to an operations center for analysis and resolution. The app automates the collection of data reflecting performance of voice calls, file-transfer uploads, file-transfer downloads, and browsing. Data is geolocated using the phone's global positioning system.
Serving Design and Test
Apps can help you evaluate your designs as well as serve in test applications. One example is Xilinx's Pocket Power Estimator (PPE) app (Figure 3) for iPhones and iPads, which assists engineers in estimating the power consumption of designs based on Xiliinx 7 Series 28-nm FPGAs. In fact, a key advantage of the 7 Series parts is their capability to deliver maximum performance at minimal power.
Figure 3 PPE App for Estimating 7 Series FPGA Power Consumption
Courtesy of Xilinx
Xilinx says its 7 Series FPGAs require about 50% lower total power, on average, than earlier-generation 40-nm devices, thanks in part to the HPL (high-performance/low-power) process technology offered by its foundry partner TSMC. The power savings break down, on average, to 65% lower worst-case static power, 25% lower dynamic power, 30% lower I/O power, and 60% lower transceiver power.
But customers want more specific figures on the power consumption specs of their own designs, based, for example, on the SerDes transceivers, DSP blocks, memory blocks, and logic gates they want to incorporate into their designs. The PPE app takes into account these aspects of total power consumption to enable designers to easily obtain a high-level estimate of power usage by functional block and how it compares to other Xilinx or competing devices.
A Xilinx spokesperson says the app began as a tool that field application engineers and sales engineers could use to start a conversation with customers and provide some meaningful metrics about power consumption without having to fire up their laptops. Customers were intrigued by the app, and Xilinx decided to make it available to them. For more complex and detailed power analyses, designers would use the ISE® Design Suite's XPower Estimator (XPE) and the XPower Analyzer (XPA) tools running on a workstation.
The PPE includes reference examples that designers can use as starting points to customize to their own specs. The first release of the app incorporates design examples for the wired and wireless communications markets while future releases will have additional market-segment examples and support other smartphone platforms.
Mobile Apps for DAQ
While apps like the waveguide calculator and spectrum analyzer as well as the JDSU and Xilinx apps focus heavily on communications applications, data acquisition, too, is getting attention in the apps space. Redfish Instruments' multimeter app can serve as a datalogger, for example, and big companies are getting into the business as well.
Agilent Technologies is one such company, and Neil Forcier, an applications engineer with Agilent's system products division, recounted the use of mobile devices in DAQ applications in a feature article in June.1 He wrote, "Smart devices offer a portable and interactive way to access information and data wirelessly from almost anywhere. They access information and data through Ethernet using a provider's cellular network or a Wi-Fi connection. As smart devices continue to become a bigger part of our digital and wireless lives, they will find their way into the test and measurement industry," he concluded.
In a recent phone interview, Forcier said Agilent's 34972A DAQ app (Figure 4) grew out of a grass-roots effort. He said he began programming in iOS as a hobby but realized the operating system had network sockets and should be able to communicate with an LXI instrument like the 34972A. He said his initial efforts led to other grass-roots efforts among Agilent engineers interested in using smart devices to control instruments. He said getting the app released took about as much time as designing the app because Agilent had not established standards for software based on Apple's mobile device platform.
Figure 4 iPhone App for the 34972A Data Acquisition System
Courtesy of Agilent Technologies
The 34972A DAQ app provides a means to control and monitor Agilent's 34972A DAQ switch unit with a 34901A 20-channel multiplexer module and/or with a 34902A 16-channel multiplexer module. It supports four main features for controlling and monitoring a 34972A:
- Setting up and monitoring measurements on a 34901A or 34902A module.
- Creating and running scans using a single module or multiple modules.
- Controlling scans that were started using the app or externally by another means such as the 34972A's front panel or web interface.
- Retrieving measurement data from memory.
Forcier said the 34972A was a good target for a mobile app because it can run on its own—it need not be continuously connected to a host computer. With wireless devices, he said, you don't always have guaranteed connectivity. The mobile device can check in with the DAQ system infrequently to read data or change a setting—for example, when the engineer carrying the mobile device changes planes in an airport.
Right now, Forcier said, "It's blazingly obvious that iOS and Android are the top platforms" for smartphones and tablets. But things can change quickly in the consumer electronics world. He said he is monitoring HTML5 developments, which may enable the establishment of a web-based platform that is transparent to the operating system, but he suspects that the Apple and Android camps might resist such an effort.
Forcier noted that cloud computing is becoming an important adjunct to mobile apps. The cloud, he said, can be a great intermediary between smart devices and instruments, allowing them to share data. He cited the Dropbox file-sharing service, which could let engineers share spreadsheets containing test data wherever they are located and whether they are using a desktop computer or mobile device.
Navigating Rapid Device Turnover
Another company pursuing a mobile-device strategy with respect to data acquisition is National Instruments. P.J. Tanzillo, senior group manager for product marketing at NI, noted that in the early days of PDAs, NI provided a module that supported portable data acquisition and remote monitoring. The big challenge, he said, is that the mobile device market is changing so quickly it's difficult to predict what will happen in a year. The early PDAs such as Palm devices are gone, and Hewlett-Packard acquired and is discontinuing the WebOS successor to Palm OS. Just a couple of years ago, he said, BlackBerry would have seemed to be the platform of choice.
But as does Forcier at Agilent, Tanzillo sees Android and iOS as the dominant platforms today, and the company is applying resources to each platform. NI has chosen the iPad as the initial device to host its new Data Dashboard for LabView app (Figure 5), which is rolling out this month.
Figure 5 Data Dashboard for LabView App, Running on an iPad
Courtesy of National Instruments
Tanzillo said that unfortunately reuse between the iOS and Android platforms is low because of consumer expectations and for technical reasons related to the programming tools available for each platform. To make a nice iOS app, you have to use the native iOS user-interface paradigm, which differs from Android. Nevertheless, he said, NI will be targeting both platforms and addressing four potential use cases: data acquisition (and especially wireless data acquisition), remote monitoring and control, reference (documentation replacement), and development augmentation.
This last case, Tanzillo said, gives engineers another screen or another interface to augment their desktop development environment. "From an engineering perspective," he said, "if you are using LabVIEW or Visual Studio and you want context help on a certain function or block, you can imagine that help popping up on the iPad as opposed to on your [workstation] screen so you don't lose that screen real estate." He added that multitouch technology shows promise for facilitating navigation through blocks in a LabVIEW program.
When asked if there had been any resistance within NI to working with mobile devices, Tanzillo said, "We like being on the edge." NI, he said, is a company that built its technology around the PC when it was emerging, and the company wants to be in the forefront of understanding where technology is heading. He noted that Windows 8, due for release this year, has many tablet-centric features, adding, "When Apple and Microsoft are both throwing their weight behind [tablet technology], you can believe it's going to be there for a while."
Mobile devices can't do everything, though. Tanzillo said that it's important to distinguish between content creation and content consumption when evaluating a mobile device for a specific application. You might consume content all day on a mobile device, he said, but you're unlikely to be creating as much. For example, he said, you might edit a PowerPoint presentation on a handheld, but you won't create one from scratch. The conclusion, he said, is that we are not in the post-PC era—it's PC++ with mobile devices providing PC augmentation, not replacement.
1. Forcier, Neil, "Controlling LXI Instrumentation With Smart Devices," EE-Evaluation Engineering, June 2011, pp. 28-33.
Agilent Technologies
National Instruments
Redfish Instruments
Visit iTunes (www.apple.com/itunes/) and the Android Market (market.android.com) for information on other apps mentioned in this article.


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Shiva dances in the spicy foods, in the exhilarated bells of the swarming bicycles, the angry bus horns, the chatter of the temple monkeys, the vermilion tikka dots on the women's foreheads, even in the scent of charred human flesh that pervades the ghats. The people smile - that is the greatest miracle of all. In the heat and stench and shriek of Varanasi, where in fiery sunrise swallows fly like departing spirits over the vast silent river, one delights in the smile of a blind girl being led, of a Hindu gentleman in white turban gazing benignly at the bus driver who reviles him, of a flute-playing beggar boy, of a slow old woman pouring holy water from Ganga, the River, onto a stone elephant daubed red.
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The Imam misses Fajr prayer and argues with them about money issues
It is important to choose as the imam one who is known for righteousness, decency and keenness to benefit the people, because the post of imam is a noble post and the one who does this task is acting in the stead of the Prophets, caliphs and scholars. The Prophet (blessings and peace of Allaah be upon him) said: "The people should be led by the one who has most knowledge of the Book of Allaah. If they are equal in knowledge of Qur'aan, then by the one who has most knowledge of the Sunnah. If they are equal in knowledge of the Sunnah, then by the one who migrated first. If they are equal in terms of migration, then by the one who entered Islam first"
Narrated by Muslim (673).
So the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allaah be upon him) chose for the position of imam the best and most perfect.
If the imam has the shortcomings or faults that you have mentioned, then he should not have been appointed as an Imam in the first place and he should be dismissed from the post so long as that will not lead to greater mischief.
Abu Dawood (481) narrated that a man led some people in prayer and spat in the direction of the qiblah whilst the Messenger of Allaah (blessings and peace of Allaah be upon him) was looking on. When he had finished, the Messenger of Allaah (blessings and peace of Allaah be upon him) said: "He should not lead you in prayer." After that, he wanted to lead them in prayer but they stopped him and told him what the Messenger of Allaah (blessings and peace of Allaah be upon him) hadsaid. He mentioned that to the Messenger of Allaah (blessings and peace of Allaah be upon him) and he said "Yes", and I (the narrator) think he said: "You offended Allaah and His Messenger."
the hadeeth was classed as hasan by al-Albaani in Saheeh Abi Dawood.
Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah (may Allaah have mercy on him) said: the imams are agreed that it is makrooh to pray behind an evildoer, but they differed as to whether (such a prayer) is valid. It was said that it is not valid, as was the view of Maalik and Ahmad in one of the two reports narrated from them. And it was said that it is valid, as was the view of Abu Haneefah and al-Shaafa'i, and the other view narrated from (Ahmad and Maalik). But they did not differ concerning the fact that it is not appropriate to appoint him (as an imam). End quote from Majmoo' al-Fataawa (23/358).
Shaykh Ibn Baaz (may Allaah have mercy on him) said: If it is possible not to appoint one who commits evil openly as an imam, then one must avoid that. But if someone else appoints him and he cannot dismiss him from this post of imam or it is not possible to dismiss him from the post of imam except by means of an evil that will cause greater harm than the harm of the evil that he commits openly, then it is not permissible to ward off a lesser evil by means of a greater evil or to ward off a lesser harm by means of a greater harm. Islam came to achieve and complete interests and to ward off and reduce evil as much as possible. End quote from Majmoo' Fataawa al-Shaykh Ibn Baaz (9/377).
With regard to prayer offered behind him, it is valid even if he is an evildoer, according to the more correct of the two scholarly opinions. See the answer to question number 13465.
But if what is said about him is proven, that he does witchcraft, then in this case it is not permissible to make him an imam or to pray behind him.
To sum up: advice should be offered to such a person first of all, and he should be reminded that he is an example for others and that things may be regarded as bad on his part that are not regarded as such on the part of others, and that he has to avoid all causes of suspicion, and strive to do his work and fulfil the trust that has been given to him.
The committee that is in charge of the mosque has to dismiss him from the post of imam so long as they are able to do that, and appoint someone who is more suited to this post than him, and is less likely to come under suspicion and is more likely to bring people together.
May Allaah help us all to do that which He loves and which pleases Him.
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A history of Major League Soccer's on-again, off-again love affair with San Diego:
August 1996: Then-commissioner Doug Logan says San Diego is a "prime candidate" for expansion.
October 1998: Logan says he wants a team in San Diego as soon as baseball's
July 1999: Qualcomm hosts the MLS All-Star Game, and owner Kenneth Horowitz says: "Put it this way: I would love a team here, and I'm the chairman of the expansion committee." But only about 15,000 show up to the game, and two weeks later Logan is fired.
August 2000: For the first time, San Diego is not mentioned as a possible expansion city. Says new commissioner Don Garber: "It's certainly not the hot market it once was for us."
October 2003: San Diego is back in the mix, as the top candidate for Chivas Guadalajara owner Jorge Vergara's new team.
March 2004: Vergara says San Diego and the Q won't be home to
April 2007: Garber says he is in "active discussions" with two unidentified San Diego investment groups for a team.
November 2007: In Garber's state of the league address, San Diego is no longer on a list of potential expansion cities.
July 2010: Garber once again lists San Diego as a future expansion possibility.
In August 1996, just months after Major League Soccer played its inaugural game, then-commissioner Doug Logan said San Diego was a "prime candidate" for expansion — that it was more of a when, not if, proposition.
In 2000, new MLS commissioner Don Garber removed San Diego from a list of potential expansion cities and said "it's certainly not the hot market it once was for us."
In 2003 San Diego was back in. In 2004 it was out.
The spring of 2007, in.
The fall of 2007, out.
And the summer of 2010 … in again. Last week Garber listed San Diego as a future expansion city when the league grows beyond 20 teams, probably in the mid-2010s.
"We continue to believe San Diego could be a very successful market for a Major League Soccer team," Dan Courtemanche, MLS senior vice president for marketing and communications, wrote in an e-mail. "We have always known that San Diego is a passionate soccer market, and the recent World Cup ratings, which were among the highest in the country, provided an additional reason why San Diego should be considered for a future MLS expansion team."
The steamy love affair resumes.
An MLS team makes perfect sense here, and it doesn't. San Diego is a fickle sports market, unlike any other in the country and perhaps the world, and sometimes things that seem like such a no-brainer — a professional soccer team in arguably the nation's best soccer market — don't always compute.
Courtemanche lists four criteria that MLS considers in expansion: ownership, stadium, market and fan base. Here's a closer look at how San Diego rates.
Ownership: Talk all you want about the strong youth soccer programs, about the proximity to the Mexican border, about the history of championship teams, about the soccer-literate community, but unless you have someone willing to shell out the expansion fee — up to a reported $40 million — you're not getting a new team.
At one time, former Padres majority owner John Moores was the logical choice. He was interested in MLS, was courted by Logan, the league's first commissioner, and had a lease option for professional soccer at Qualcomm Stadium. He even had staffers examine the financial books of MLS clubs. But even though he still serves as Padres chairman, he seems to be fading quickly from the San Diego scene and reneged on his option to bring a women's team here in the WPS.
Which leaves … no one. Even the league admits that San Diego's recent inclusion in expansion discussions is not because of a prospective ownership group but because of the massive World Cup TV ratings here.
A more realistic option might be for a team such as Chivas USA, which has struggled to establish itself in the shadow of the Los Angeles Galaxy, to relocate here.
Stadium: First MLS wants the check, then it wants the blueprints. Playing in cavernous, aging NFL stadiums doesn't cut it for this league. It wants a 20,000-seat "soccer-specific" stadium in which the team controls parking, concession and advertising revenue streams.
With no suitable midsized stadium in San Diego County (there's nothing between the 70,000-seat Q and 7,000-seat Torero Stadium at USD), one would have to be built. Most MLS stadiums were at least partially funded by taxpayer dollars, and that might be a tough sell in a community that might not even ante up to keep the beloved Chargers.
There are workarounds: renovating old Balboa Stadium or downsizing the Q by removing the upper decks. But that requires money and permitting and legislative approval, and this isn't exactly the most efficient town for getting that done.
Market: Hard to find a flaw here. There might not be another region in the country where a higher percentage of people watch or play soccer, given the cosmopolitan demographics and highly developed youth system and active adult soccer community. Where else does an amateur team (San Diego Boca FC) have its own soccer shop?
Fan base: This is where it gets tricky.
San Diego was the No. 1-rated market for ABC or
Now compare that to the local Nielsen rating on ESPN last week for the MLS All-Stars against English superclub
What does that mean? It likely speaks to the sophistication and global orientation of the San Diego soccer market. MLS has made great strides since its inception in 1996, but people here also know it's not on par with the top leagues in Europe, or even with Mexico. They also know a meaningless exhibition game when they see one.
It doesn't mean fans here won't support an MLS team. But it does, or at least it should, serve up a cautionary dose of skepticism.


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When we were growing up, my sister and I went to the children's services for Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. Like any good, young, Jews, we followed along with the songs and prayers, not really comprehending the true meaning of anything. In fact, the only thing that stuck with us from those years in adolescent detention was a mind-numbingly repetitive song that ended the service every year.
While the head cantor was in the main temple with our parents, serenading the congregation with the minor melodies of our people, we were trapped with an oddball volunteer who sang a simple, and simply irritating, homemade tune.
Shanah Tovah to Terri, Shanah Tovah to Terri, Shanah Tovah to Te-e-erri, To Terri Shana Tovah.
Shanah Tovah to Dan, Shanah Tovah to Dan, Shanah Tovah to Da-a-an, To Dan Shana Tovah.
To translate, shana tova means (roughly) a good year, or happy new year. This man, with his round glasses, patchwork vest, and peasant-sleeved shirt, went around the room singing his song to every child sitting in his keep. It was sweet at first, oh, he's wishing us a happy new year, but that thought quickly descended into madness as we realized he was going to look each of us in the eyes and substitute our name in place of our neighbor's. How many of us are there? Does he really need to sing each of our names? This could take hours! Worse yet, this simpleton didn't actually know each of our names. So, as he approached your seat, he'd lean over and ask your name, while his assistant vamped on one guitar chord, over, and over, and over (it can take a long time for a frightened child to give up his name). May the lord bless you and keep you if you had a lengthy name with unfolding syllables.
I'm in charge of dessert this year.
Due to Rosh Hashana's floating placement in our calendar (and the ever simmering temperature of Earth's atmosphere) apples aren't quite in season right now. Instead, I'll make use of Summer-y peaches, far lustier and fleshier than the proverbial biblical apple. A crisp crust of oatmeal and brown sugar, a pool of yoghurt panna cotta, and a geometry of sliced peaches (roasted with cardamom and maple) will sit nicely in my mother's pie dish.
As adults my sister and I have escaped the mobius-strip song, but we still celebrate together. Sitting side by side this new year, we'll eat apples and honey, brisket, dessert, drink wine. And silently sing that simpering song to each other all night long while the rest of the table stares in confusion at our endless giggling.
Shanah Tovah to Terri, Shanah Tovah to Terri, Shanah Tovah to Te-e-erri, To Terri Shana Tovah.
1 cup GF Oats
½ cup Brown Sugar
⅓ cup Millet Flour
¼ cup Almond Meal
½ tsp Salt
3 ounces Coconut Oil
3 large Peaches
3 tablespoons Maple Syrup
1 tsp Ground Cardamom
Panna Cotta
1 packet Powdered Gelatin
3 tbs Water
2 cups Yoghurt (any variety will do)
2 tbs Honey
Juice of ½ Lemon
1 tsp Vanilla
½ tsp Salt
Heat your oven to 350 degrees. Line a 9-inch pie dish with a circle of parchment paper.
In a small bowl mix the ingredients for the crust with your hands. Squeeze and massage the mixture until there are no visible clumps.
Press the crust into your pie dish and up the sides. Bake the crust for 15-20 minutes or until it is just starting to brown around the edges. Remove it from the oven and let it cool.
While the crust is baking slice the peaches into small wedges. Stir them with the maple syrup and cardamom, then spill them into a roasting pan.
Roast the peaches in your already warm oven for 20-25 minutes, until they're just showing some color and slightly withered. Remove them from the oven and allow them to cool.
While the crust and peaches are cooling, pour the gelatin over the water in a shallow bowl and let it sit for 5-10 minutes.
In a large saucepan whisk the yoghurt, lemon, vanilla, salt and honey over medium heat. When it is quite warm to the touch, turn off the heat.
Pour the gelatin into the yoghurt mixture and whisk until it is completely dissolved.
Pour the yoghurt mixture into the pie dish, into the crust.
Arrange the peaches on top however you like (scattered or spiralled).
Put the dish in your refrigerator at least 3 hours, or overnight, to set.
Slice and eat!
Yield: 8-12 servings
Prep. Time: 45 minutes (plus 3 hours of chilling)


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Laboratory of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology, Oswaldo Cruz Institute-Oswaldo Curz Foundation, Manguinhos-Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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We already showed you the crazy stills from John R. Hand's latest indie film featuring creepy burn scar zombies that will supposedly live forever, thanks to their secret zombie juice. Now take a look at the equally confusing trailer for Scars Of Youth. Hand's dark and arty look into a post-apocalyptic world 200 years from now shows the young man's struggle to keep his mother from drinking her zombie cocktail... I think. You be the judge.
Hand explains on his site that the world this movie takes place in is deathless. Well, it's definitely obscure and strange, anyway. I still can't tell what's a dream and what's reality, but that is the allure of Hand's work, just like his previous film, Frankenstein's Bloody Nightmare.
[JRH Films]


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Pixar Looking Dry in 2014
For the first time since 2005, Pixar will not have a feature film release in a calendar year. Disney has just announced that the troubled production The Good Dinosaur has been pushed back to a 2015 release date, leapfrogging over Inside Out. This is the second release date roll back for the film, originally intended for this holiday season. Disney's Frozen took that slot.
It was just last month that The Good Dinosaur lost its original director and producer. Bob Peterson, who also wrote the film, was pulled as director. Producer John Walker was also replaced at the same time by Denise Ream. Two days later, Ed Catmull, Pixar's president, confirmed to Los Angeles Times, saying: "All directors get really deep in their film. Sometimes you just need a different perspective to get the idea out. Sometimes directors … are so deeply embedded in their ideas it actually takes someone else to finish it up."
The Good Dinosaur's delay from May 30, 2014 to November 25, 2015 leaves a gaping, nearly two-year long hole in the Pixar schedule. Catmull went on to explain, "Nobody ever remembers the fact that you slipped a film, but they will remember a bad film. Our conclusion was that we were going to give the [dinosaur] film some more time."
This also pushes back the rest of the Pixar films. Finding Nemo sequel Finding Dory is now looking at a June 17, 2016 release date. Inside Out's release date of June 19, 2015 remains unchanged at this point, though it, too was once on the slate for 2014.


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By Jaana Rehnström
On a recent winter weekend, I drove with my family from up New York to Lapland Lake, a Nordic Ski Center in Upstate New York that former Olympic skier Olavi Hirvonen has been running since 1978. A Finn immediately feels at home here: the whole character of the place reminds me of my youth in what was then a less prosperous, but in some ways more wholesome Finland.
The little rental cottages (tupa in Finnish) are simultaneously unpretentious, clean and comfortable, and they all have Finnish names like Pulkka and Poro. The ski trails, groomed each morning by Olavi himself, are called Vasa, Sisu, Eräpolku, etc. They run from one's cottage door through the beautiful and peaceful scenery of the woods and offer different levels of difficulty for different skill levels. There's a real Finnish wood-burning sauna, and the restaurant offers, among other things, lohilaatikko (salmon casserole) and cabbage rolls.
Olavi Hirvonen moved to the United States in 1949, at the age of 18. He was actually born in Montreal, Canada, but it was the Depression, and his parents separated; his mother, unable to care for her child by herself, sent him home to Finland to live with his grandmother when Olavi was only eight months old. His grandmother, apparently a resourceful woman, took him under her wing despite having several of her own children still living at home. This home was located in Koivisto, an island about 50 km east of Vyborg in Karelia.
In 1937, Olavi's mother came back to pick him up and take him to America, but soon afterward, the war intervened. At eight years of age, Olavi had to be evacuated along with the rest of his family, and still carries sad memories of the family dog they had to leave behind. Later, when Finns gained back this area of land, the family moved back and rebuilt, only to be evacuated quickly for the second time.
At 17, Hirvonen completed a six-month military service and became a Finnish citizen. Soon afterward, however, he followed his mother to the United States and got drafted for the Korean war. Having learned to ski in Finland, he was recruited into the Army Arctic Indoctrination School, where he learned and taught arctic survival skills. As a result, he became a U.S. citizen.
This past weekend, Hirvonen celebrated the 50th anniversary of his participation in the U.S. Olympic ski team. In 1960, when the Olympics were held in Squaw Valley, Utah, he was working seven days a week at a ski lodge in Vermont, sneaking in some practice time in the evenings. He was invited to take part in the tryouts for the U.S. Olympic team, and ended up being picked for the 15 km and 50 km races. In the latter, Kalevi Hämäläinen of Finland won the gold, while Veikko Hakulinen, also a Finn, came in second. The U.S. team didn't win any medals, perhaps in part because Hirvonen accidentally snapped his ski early in the 50 km race and lost valuable time as he searched for a replacement ski.
In 1977, Hirvonen's son Esa, who was a promising skier, died in a tragic accident. Needing a positive change in his life, Hirvonen decided to do what he had been dreaming of doing for a long time: open up his own ski center. In 1978, he purchased the area he now calls Lapland Lake. He now runs it with his wife Ann and a staff of 30.
In addition to the flags of Finland, Sweden, and Norway that hang outside, signs of Olavi's Finnish heritage are visible everywhere in a natural, unforced manner: the little signs that advise visitors to do this or that end with 'Kiitos!'; the shop sells Fazer's famous "blue" chocolate and Panda liquorice; kids are invited to interact with pet reindeer. In the past, Finlandia Foundation organized group trips here, but nowadays it's hard to visit the place in large groups, as it's become very popular with both locals and tourists. The rental cottages get booked up early, particularly on weekends.


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Biofilms represent an adaptive lifestyle where microbes grow as structured aggregates in many different environments, e.g. on body surfaces and medical devices. They are a profound threat in medical (and industrial) settings and cause two-thirds of all infections. Biofilm bacteria are especially recalcitrant to common antibiotic treatments, demonstrating adaptive multidrug resistance. For this reason, novel methods to eradicate or prevent biofilm infections are greatly needed. Recent advances have been made in exploring alternative strategies that affect biofilm lifestyle, inhibit biofilm formation, degrade biofilm components and/or cause dispersal. As such, naturally derived compounds, molecules that interfere with bacterial signaling systems, anti-biofilm peptides and phages show great promise. Their implementation as either stand-alone drugs or complementary therapies has the potential to eradicate resilient biofilm infections. Additionally, altering the surface properties of indwelling medical devices through bioengineering approaches has been examined as a method for preventing biofilm formation. There is also a need for improving current biofilm detection methods since in vitro methods often do not accurately measure live bacteria in biofilms or mimic in vivo conditions. We propose that the design and development of novel compounds will be enabled by the improvement and use of appropriate in vitro and in vivo models.
- Calgary Biofilm Devices;
- eDNA,
- extracellular DNA;
- EPSs,
- extracellular polymeric substances;
- HDPs,
- Host defense peptides;
- mBTL,
- meta-bromo-thiolactone;
- multidrug resistant;
- MICs,
- minimal inhibitory concentrations;
- polyethylene oxide;
- PodA,
- pyocyanin demethylase;
- polyvinylpyrrolidone;
- quorum-sensing;
- CF sputum media
- Received January 19, 2017.
- Revision received February 24, 2017.
- Accepted February 28, 2017.
- © 2017 The Author(s); published by Portland Press Limited on behalf of the Biochemical Society and the Royal Society of Biology


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Title: Sticks & Stones (Cut & Run #2)
Author: Abigail Roux and Madeleine Urban
Publisher: Out of Print
Buy link: Amazon.com
Genre: Contemporary M/M, Action/Adventure
Length: Novel (322 pages)
Rating: 5+ stars out of 5, DIK
Six months after nearly losing their lives to a serial killer in New York City, FBI Special Agents Ty Grady and Zane Garrett are suffering through something almost as frightening: the monotony of desk duty. When they're ordered to take a vacation for the good of everyone's sanity, Ty bites the bullet and takes Zane home with him to West Virginia, hoping the peace and quiet of the mountains will give them the chance to explore the explosive attraction they've so far been unable to reconcile with their professional partnership.
Ty and Zane, along with Ty's father and brother, head up into the Appalachian mountains for a nice, relaxing hike deep into the woods… where no one will hear them scream. They find themselves facing danger from all directions: unpredictable weather, the unrelenting mountains, wild animals, fellow hikers with nothing to lose, and the most terrifying challenge of all. Each other.
Cut & Run Series
FBI Special Agents Ty Grady and Zane Garrett are back in a new adventure, one year and 4 months after the release of Cut & Run reviewed here. The second book in the series, Sticks & Stones, is a delight from beginning to end with vividly drawn characters, more action and adventure than fans could ever want, hair raising excitement and danger, and emotional highs and lows as the protagonists try to discover what they mean to each other and how to make their dual relationship work.
Sticks & Stones opens with a training exercise in typical Ty & Zane style. They were spending a few weeks in D.C. after enduring 5 months of separation since the end of the Tri State serial killer case. Lots of action and one upmanship between the two guys who are still trying to outdo each other months after their last case together.
Ty is still hot headed and Zane is a little calmer after being close to death and seeing his partner almost killed by a crazed murderer. Ty doesn't want to admit his feelings for Zane even though he realizes they are drifting apart. He doesn't know how to fix the problem until an opportunity presents itself when Assistant Director Burns requested that they take some time off to regroup because he was concerned about their ability to work together. In addition, both of them had failed their mental evaluations, which meant they could not be cleared for field work. Burns' news was was a major blow, but realizing that Zane hadn't had any time to make plans to spend his unexpected time off, Ty invited him to stay with his family in the mountains of West Virginia. Zane was still under a lot of stress and had not recovered fully from their last case, and although he, too, recognized that things were not right with Ty, he didn't know what to do to make them better so that they could be partners again, professionally and personally.
This visit turned out to be way too dangerous for both of them, physically and emotionally, but before they could get any kind of resolution to their personal issues they had to go through the fire again.
Ty's family was very different from what I pictured and I didn't expect to like most of them as much as I did, especially Deuce, Ty's brother, who was a standout. Probably the most complex and flawed character was Ty's father Earl, a difficult character to like. During the week they spent together he was demanding, overbearing, and imposed his will on Ty – I'm not sure I will like him any better if he's in future books unless he undergoes a personality transplant. The other exceptional character was Mara, Ty's mother, who kept everyone sane and was soft until she had to be tough in order to save her family. Last, there was Ty's crazy grandfather Chester who lived in his own world and always had his shovel close by in case of an attack. 😀
Ty, Zane, Deuce and Earl go on a planned hike in the Appalachian mountains and that's where everything fell apart. After a couple of days of backbreaking trekking they are put in harm's way because Earl refused to acknowledge the danger they faced, and the need to act in a manner that would protect the lives and safety of everyone, until they ran into a brick wall – vicious armed men who would kill at the drop of a hat, in a place "where no one will hear them scream."
Meeting Earl illustrated why Ty was almost an emotional cripple, because it was clear that he looked up to this man whose his life was all about duty, who expected blind and unquestioning obedience from his sons.What was amazing was that Ty was another person when his father was around and almost unrecognizable. The confident, intelligent person from Cut & Run disappeared and he became withdrawn, almost subservient to his father, never argued with him even when he knew his judgment was flawed. Why am I stressing Ty's relationship with his father? Because this dynamic between father and son was a critical element in Sticks & Stones and almost ended Zane's and Ty's partnership forever. Once again one of the protagonists is critically injured and I wonder how sustainable this hurt/comfort strategy will be over a series that runs for years, even though they are FBI agents and it is expected that they will be placed in dangerous situations in each upcoming book.
What of the relationship between Ty & Zane? That was the best part of this book as their emotions ran very high and a lot of what was left unsaid in Cut & Run was now out in the open like a wound that never healed. I think this comment defined their relationship –
"As partners they could read each other's minds, but as lovers – they barely knew each other at all"
There were many firsts as the guys try to understand and unravel their emotions. Has their relationship matured? The answer to that question would be a resounding 'yes,' and the vulnerability that was seldom, if ever, seen in Cut & Run, is quite evident in Sticks & Stones. Yes, there is wonderful sex between them in case you were wondering. 😀
Sticks & Stones is a revelation and a game changer between two characters who had gone through so much but found that there was still a long way to go. This book is a great deal about Ty's emotional journey – being open and admitting his feelings for Zane who also experienced his own epiphany. These two men who were bisexual in Cut & Run had a lot of personal baggage to resolve as well as job related secrets that Ty never shared with Zane. What of Ty and Earl? This is what Ty tried to tell himself in order not to show his deep anguish at the way his father treated him: "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me" until he found out how wrong he was. Your heart will break for Ty as you gain an understanding of this very complex character and why he is the way he is, as well as the challenges he faced in his life. His relationship with Burns is revealed as well as Burns' ties to his family. What was remarkable about this story was the emotional depths of the characters, especially Ty who didn't want to admit his tender feelings for Zane even though he had brought him home "to meet the family."
It's my opinion that Sticks & Stones is more than a wonderful follow up to Cut & Run – it's better! This story is a study of human nature as the two characters' layers are revealed and their motivations explained, and I think that readers will get a real sense of who they are at this point in their relationship. You will love the ending! Highly recommended. Two thumbs up!


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Missions Leadership Team Introduction:
Rich Andrews
VM: Thanks for joining us, Rich, and sharing part of your life. Can you give us a run-down on what you do in the Vineyard these days?
Rich: I started serving as a volunteer in the local church, then dove into serving as an associate pastor, then site pastor, church planter, senior pastor, missions partnership leader (Bolivia). I then became a, regional rep for Multiply Vineyard, and now Missions Co-Coordinator (Latin America) with Glenn Schroder.
VM: Wow that's a great growth track! When did you jump into the Vineyard Movement?
Rich: I stumbled across the first official service of a Vineyard church plant (Blue Route Vineyard) when I was in college almost 20 years ago, and never looked back.
VM: What is a prayer that you pray daily?
Rich: I pray a form of the prayer of examen every day, giving thanks to God for his kindness to me the previous day and bringing my concerns before him as well.
VM: I agree - that daily prayer of examen is so critical for a healthy heart and outlook. So, how do you unwind on your Sabbath day?
Rich: I really enjoy the Sabbath, which for me is usually on Mondays. I like to sleep in, make some breakfast for the family, then spend a few hours journaling, listening, and worshipping, followed by a nap. At noon, I'll go to the local CrossFit box and get in a good workout and take some time afterwards to do some additional stretching or work on some other skills. After a long shower and late lunch, I'll kick back and read a fun book like Dad is Fat by Jim Gaffagan (highly recommend it by the way) or Time magazine. By then, my kids will be home and I'll help them with homework or work on a fun project together. After a family dinner and putting the kids to bed, I'll hang out with my wife, watch some Netflix and try to get bed early, with her, if I'm lucky.
VM: I think I'll just ignore that double entendre there, if that's all right with you. What is the Lord teaching you this week?
Rich: He's teaching me about enjoying his love and presence more than anything else in the world.
VM: What a great life-long lesson for us all. So, a few quick questions: are you a Futbol or Football man?
Rich: Futbol for sure. Playing, not watching.
VM: Steak, chicken, or fish?
Rich: Steak and Chicken, no fish - with guacamole for a little extra at Chipotle.
VM: Sweet or salty for a food splurge?
Rich: I can usually eat an entire large tub of popcorn when I go to the movies, and I always get a free refill to bring home, which I'll eat the following night. I used to bring my used, butter-stained paper tub back to the theater the following weeks to keep getting free refills until the Holy Spirit convicted me that that I was "stealing."
VM: Oh dear! Well, I'm glad you got that taken care of. What's your favorite attribute of God?
Rich: His Joy.
VM: Do you have any unusual talents?
Rich: I can make animal balloons, juggle, and ride a unicycle, but still can't juggle and unicycle at the same time. I could probably make an animal balloon dog on a unicycle if I had a long enough straightaway.
VM: So a balloon unicorn made on a unicycle may be a possibility too. Nice! What book resource do you recommend to challenge leaders to the next level?
Rich: Can I recommend two? (1) The Opposable Mind by Rodger Martin and (2) Multipliers by Liz Wiseman
VM: Those sound good! What is your favorite book of the Bible?
Rich: I'd have to say the Psalms, since prayerfully reading through them on a daily basis has changed the way I relate to God on a daily basis and how I approach worship.
VM: Awesome! Do you have a favorite new technology or app?
Rich: I've only recently discovered WhatsApp on my iPhone. It lets me communicate with the pastors I work with in Bolivia just like I would with folks here in the USA. Almost everyone in Bolivia uses it.
VM: That's a terrific free app that everyone in missions should be aware of. Thanks for sharing that, and sharing a little bit of yourself with your friends around the world. If we see a juggler or unicyclist with balloon animals at the next MLM, well, I'm pretty sure it will be you, Rich.


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House dust mites produce inhalant allergens of importance to allergic patients. We measured the major group 1 allergens, Der p 1 and Der f 1, from the house dust mites Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus and Dermatophagoides farina, respectively in 100 randomly selected domestic homes from Cheonan, Korea. Dust samples were collected by vacuuming from the living room floor and 1 mattress in each home. Der p 1 and Der f 1 were measured by double monoclonal ELISA. Der p 1 levels were very low, with geometric mean levels for floors and mattresses being 0.11 µg/g (range: 0.01-4.05) and 0.14 µg/g (range: 0.01-30.0), respectively. Corresponding levels of Der f 1 were higher, 7.46 µg/g (range: 0.01-262.9) and 10.2 µg/g (range: 0.01-230.9) for floors and mattresses, respectively. D. farinae appears to be the dominant house dust mite in Cheonan.
Allergens from house dust mites (HDM) induce IgE mediated sensitization in susceptible individuals and cause asthma symptoms in those sensitized 1-3. However, recent studies have suggested non-linear relationships between allergen exposure and sensitization 4,5. Avoidance to HDM allergens appears to be beneficial 6,7, although some disagree 8. At least 50 species of HDM that have been found in domestic house dust, and the 2 mites of the family Pyroglyphidae, namely Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus and Dermatophagoides farinae, are the most important in temperate climates, both in terms of numbers and of clinical relevance. In Korea both species are present, although geographical variations have been shown 9. In a previous study we measured HDM allergen from pillows and mattresses in 13 Korean households and found only the major group HDM allergen Der f 1, but not Der p 1, suggesting that the HDM, D. farinae, is dominant in Cheonan 10. In the present study, we report on HDM allergen levels from living room floors and mattresses in 100 homes in Cheonan, a city surrounded by small mountains northeast of South Chungcheong province with a population of around 510,000 as of 2004. The average temperature in Cheonan in January is -3℃ rising to an average of 25℃ in August with a yearly average of 11.8℃. Average yearly rainfall is 1,313 mm.
The study was performed between March and December, 2006. Dust samples were collected from living room floors and mattresses from 100 apartments that had mattresses on bedsteads by vacuuming a 1 m2 area for 1 min with a 540 W vacuum cleaner fitted with a 25 µm pore size nylon mesh bag, as previously described 11. The dust samples were weighed and stored at -20℃ before extraction and analysis.
Dust samples were extracted as previously described 12 with phosphate-buffered saline containing 0.05% Tween-20, pH 7.4, shaken for 30 min at room temperature and then centrifuged for 10 min at 3,000 g. A portion of the supernatant was removed and stored at -20℃ for HDM allergens analysis.
The HDM allergens, Der f 1 and Der p 1, were determined by double monoclonal antibody ELISA methodology with commercial kits (Indoor Biotechnologies, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA) as previously described 11. Due to log-normal distribution, HDM allergen levels, expressed as micrograms per gram of dust (µg/g) and per unit area (µg/m2), are reported as geometric means with range of values. Undetectable levels were assigned the detection limit of 0.01 µg/g or µg/m2.
The mean dust weight collected from mattresses was 0.542 g, range: 0.003-3.199, while the mean dust weight collected from living room floors was 0.225 g, range: 0.0008-3.180. However, the amount of dust from carpeted floors (mean: 0.518 g; range: 0.0081-3.180; n = 42) was about 40-fold higher than from uncarpeted floors (mean: 0.013 g; range: 0.0008-0.063; n = 58).
Der f 1 was detected in 100% of mattresses and 93% of living room floors while Der p 1 was detected only in 12% of mattresses and in 7% of living room floors. Table 1 shows the geometric mean levels with range of values of Der p 1 and Der f 1 from mattresses and living room floors.
Der f 1 levels from carpeted living room floors (n = 42) were 15-fold higher than from uncarpeted living room floors (n = 58) when expressed per unit area (µg/m2). Geometric mean Der f 1 levels (with range of values) were 1.67 µg/m2 (0.1-295.4) and 0.11 µg/m2 (0.1-0.65), respectively for carpeted and uncarpeted living room floors. Expressed as concentrations (µg/g), there were no significant differences in these levels (data not shown).
Our study showed that the major group allergen Der f 1 from the HDM D. farinae is the dominant allergen in the home environment in Cheonan. Although the geometric mean levels of HDM allergens in Cheonan were low compared to other countries, there were a significant number of individual high levels. Exacerbation of asthma symptoms in those sensitized to HDM can occur at levels of above 10 µg/g 13. In our study, 58% of mattresses and 50% of living room floors had Der f 1 levels above this level. Furthermore, Der f 1 levels from carpeted floors were much higher than those from uncarpeted floors. This has also been demonstrated in New Zealand 11. Almost every Korean home has a hot water floor heating system and therefore does not require carpeting for warmth. However, with an increased westernized life style, more Korean homes have carpets, as evidenced in our study where 42% of homes had carpets in the living room.
Der p 1 levels in homes from Cheonan were much lower than those of Der f 1 levels. Only 2 mattresses had Der p 1 levels above 10 µg/g but no floor samples were above that level. Also, Der p 1 was undetectable in the majority of samples. However, as there were some individuals with very high levels, it would be prudent to analyse allergens from both house dust mite species when assessing allergen exposure.
The geometric mean of Der f 1 from mattresses in the present study was 10.2 µg/g. This is significantly higher than the geometric mean of Der f 1 (1.18 µg/g) from a previous study in the same location 10. However, in that study we had only sampled 13 mattresses, compared to 100 mattresses in the present study which more likely represents a truer level in Cheonan.
The prevalence of doctor-diagnosed asthma in Korean adolescents aged 12 to 15 yr in 2000 was 5.3%, a significant increase from 2.7% in 1995 14. In addition, 74% of Korean asthmatic children are sensitized to HDM 15. As studies have shown that sensitization to HDM is associated with development of asthma in children 1, HDM exposure and the severity of asthma shows a dose response relation 3, and that HDM allergen avoidance can reverse asthma symptoms 6,7, the levels of HDM allergens in Cheonan could be of importance.
In conclusion, the major group 1 allergen from D. farinae is the dominant HDM allergen in Cheonan. Although relatively low in comparison to other countries, such as New Zealand, there were a significant number of homes with high levels that may be of importance to house dust mite sensitized patients.
This study was supported by the Academic Research Service Program of the Korean National Institute of Health, 2006.
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A wild seascape. Vast mountains rising above. Between them a town with a constantly changing population, and a warren of small streets that makes it easy for someone with something to hide to run away. Aberystwyth – the perfect setting for a grisly, unsolvable murder?
Well, almost. "The thing is, Dyfed-Powys [the local region] has the lowest crime rate in the country," Dylan Lewis, the mayor of Aberystwyth, points out. "The quality of life is fantastic here."
No matter. Just a month after the end of the third series of the cult Danish crime drama The Killing on BBC Four, DR Denmark, the company behind the smash hit, has snapped up a new police drama being filmed in and around the town. Hinterland is due to be shown on S4C in Welsh later this year and on BBC Four in English next year. The series revolves around a Met detective on the run from a troubled past who turns up in the Mid Wales town the night before a murder.
Yet, predictably, for those with no Welsh blood pulsing in their veins, so far there has been much sniggering about trying to reproduce the cult bleakness of Scandi-crime in a town whose most famous former mayor was the woman who played Judith Iscariot in Life of Brian.
But take a moment to consider this: evidence suggests that it's not a question of selling Nordic Noir back to the Scandinavians. No, my friends, the Welsh perfected epic melancholy and darkness when Sarah Lund's jumpers were still nothing but a tuft of wool on a sheep's back.
Forget the stereotypical jokes about rugby and close harmony singing and think about Brian Harris's 1967 poem In Passing which characterises Wales as "an old land with wounds / that weep in the hills" and feel the first prickle of fear travel up the back of your neck faster than you can say Mabinogion.
For, while the tourist board may like to point out Aberystwyth's beautiful beach and Cardigan Bay, do not forget its isolation – the nearest big settlements are more than an hour away (Swansea at 70 miles, Shrewsbury at 75 miles), and the wilderness of the Cambrian Mountains surrounds the town. "Hinterland's dictated by the landscape – it's not pretty, rolling hills with cows grazing," says Ed Thomas, executive producer and co-creator. "We're nearer in feeling to the Midwest – the wild farmland."
Writer Niall Griffiths, whose Aberystwyth-based novel Sheepshagger earned comparisons with Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting for its gritty portrayal of drug-taking Welsh youngsters, agrees: "Look at the geography – we are way out on the edge of a landmass, totally distant politically and emotionally from the typical London-centric view," he says. "We have a particular landscape – the wild sea on one side, which offers endless possibilities of escape, the mountains on the other buttressing us in – there's a liminal atmosphere that means we can flit in between two worlds."
This duality is something that has been reflected in a lot of Welsh cultural heritage. "There is a bleakness, an emptiness, in some Welsh writing," says Elin Haf Gruffydd Jones, senior lecturer at Aberystwyth University.
"That's not true of all Welsh literature, but there is something about the effect of underpopulated landscapes that makes that a significant mood in a way we don't find in English metropolitan culture."
Is there something, too, in the Welsh language, with its mutations and complexities, that could lend itself to a socially and psychologically intricate crime drama? The travel writer Jan Morris once wrote of Wales: "It was an American who said that while a Frenchman's truth was akin to a straight line, a Welshman's truth was more in the nature of a curve, and it is a fact that Welsh affairs are entangled always in parabola, double-meaning and implication."
Indeed the stereotypes of the Welsh as being stern, teetotal chapel-goers is also something of a misnomer. "There is a kind of cordon sanitaire around the town – what happens in Aberystwyth stays in Aberystwyth," says Griffiths. "When I was researching my book Real Aberystwyth, I found that the Victorians saw it as a place of huge sexual licentiousness, with people copulating on the beach. It retains an air of resistance against the creeping bourgeois mentality. Perhaps it's something to do with windswept west coasts generally, where people tend to be more wild – think of New York vs California or Perth vs Brisbane."
Yet, before every would-be crime solver starts hitchhiking to the Ceredigion area, there is a voice of dissent. The novelist Malcolm Pryce, whose first comic noir novel, Aberystwyth Mon Amour, was published more than a decade ago, learnt of the news with some surprise.
"I feel rather guilty," he says. "I described Aberystwyth as 'the town of broken hearts and broken cornets', but people would read my books and get disappointed that the glamour and the good-time girls weren't really there. And, as for the crime rate, in reality if you read the Cambrian News, the front page would be: 'Window broken in Great Darkgate Street.' I fear the Danes have been sucked in and I'm going to be held responsible."


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A RTC to Examine the Effectiveness of 400 mg of Oral Zinc Gluconate as Adjunctive Therapy for Ano-genital Warts
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|A Randomized Controlled Trial to Examine the Effectiveness of 400 mg of Oral Zinc Gluconate as Adjunctive Therapy for Ano-genital Warts
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|January 2012
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|Active Comparator: Oral Zinc
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|Placebo Comparator: Placebo
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- complete clearance of genital warts [ Time Frame: 8 weeks ]
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Or could it be…
a brain tumor? No, no. Let's talk about something else.
In other news, I just found out that a little pat of butter contains 100 calories! 100 calories!!! Pass the crack, I think it's better for me.
When I smoked, the most precious time for me and my little nics was in the morning, over coffee. That was all I had for breakfast. I know, I know…ew. But who hasn't been in a bad relationship?
Since I've given up cigarettes, I've taken up breakfast and what I've really come to enjoy is a bagel with butter that I dunked in my sweet, oh so sweet, coffee. It was great! Simple pleasures, right? Yeah, me and Paris Hilton.
But now I just discovered that my little ritual is costing me 400-500 calories, not counting (why was I just suddenly convinced that the word counting had an apostrophe in it? I'm dying.) the calories in the massive amounts of sugar I put in my coffee. This means, God's children, that all of my exercising…my sweat, my toil…doesn't even undo the damage I've done eating a breakfast I wasn't even hungry for in the first place! How did I miss this butter thing? During my short stint modelling, I had an anorexic's awareness of calories, but I don't remember this butter nightmare. I must have avoided butter altogether.
So I'm getting fat on butter-saturated crumbs. Meanwhile, I have two runner friends who seem to be able to put anything into their perfectly sculpted faces and it turns into beautiful, marble-like flesh, whereas I put rice cakes in my maw only to have it turn into marshmallow fluff on my thighs.
I hate runners, I hate the butter industry, I hate mornings.
I still like coffee though, and I'm working really hard to convince myself that some Pollander's Allfruit is just the yummy goodness I need to greet the day.
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James D. Ratley, CFE
In my previous column, I questioned the appropriateness of punishing white-collar criminals with prison time. Of course, fraudsters need to be penalized, but I'm not sure time in jail -- a very expensive proposition for taxpayers -- is the best method.
The purpose of a prison is fourfold:
I will write here only of the U.S. criminal system, but many of the principles apply globally.


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Rod Dreher
Rod Dreher is a writer and editor at the Dallas Morning News, and a conservative journalist who has worked for National Review, the New York Post, and the Washington Times. He bought his first pair of Birkenstocks in 2000 and never looked back.
When a National Review colleague teased writer Rod Dreher one day about his visit to the local food co-op to pick up a week's supply of organic vegetables ("Ewww, that's so lefty"), he started thinking about the ways he and his conservative family lived that put them outside the bounds of conventional Republican politics. Shortly thereafter Dreher wrote an essay about "crunchy cons," people whose "Small Is Beautiful" style of conservative politics often put them at odds with GOP orthodoxy, and sometimes even in the same camp as lefties outside the Democratic mainstream. The response to the article was impassioned: Dreher was deluged by e-mails from conservatives across America—everyone from a pro-life vegetarian Buddhist Republican to an NRA staffer with a passion for organic gardening—who responded to say, "Hey, me too!"
In Crunchy Cons, Dreher reports on the amazing depth and scope of this phenomenon, which is redefining the taxonomy of America's political and cultural landscape. At a time when the Republican party, and the conservative movement in general, is bitterly divided over what it means to be a conservative, Dreher introduces us to people who are pioneering a way back to the future by reclaiming what's best in conservatism—people who believe that being a truly committed conservative today means protecting the environment, standing against the depredations of big business, returning to traditional religion, and living out conservative godfather Russell Kirk's teaching that the family is the institution most necessary to preserve.
In these pages we meet crunchy cons from all over America: a Texas clan of evangelical Christian free-range livestock farmers, the policy director of Republicans for Environmental Protection, homeschooling moms in New York City, an Orthodox Jew who helped start a kosher organic farm in the Berkshires, and an ex-sixties hippie from Alabama who became a devout Catholic without losing his antiestablishment sensibilities.
Crunchy Cons is both a useful primer to living the crunchy con way and a passionate affirmation of those things that give our lives weight and measure. In chapters dedicated to food, religion, consumerism, education, and the environment, Dreher shows how to live in a way that preserves what Kirk called "the permanent things," among them faith, family, community, and a legacy of ancient truths. This, says Dreher, is the kind of roots conservatism that more and more Americans want to practice. And in Crunchy Cons, he lets them know how far they are from being alone.


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How to Protect Your Property from the Estate Recovery Act
The Estate Recovery Act technically isn't a tax, but it involves the government taking money out of your estate after you die. In fact, the Estate Recovery Act can have a far more devastating impact on your estate than any estate tax does.
The idea behind the Estate Recovery Act is simple (but devious): If you need to accept help from Medicaid for health care services, you have no problem while you're still alive. But after you die, the government wants its money back.
Find out when your state will seek repayment. For example, the state may wait until your surviving spouse (if any) has died, or your children have grown. Your state may also have other exemptions (such as a below-the-poverty-line exemption), or you may be allowed to apply for a waiver.
In 1993, the U.S. Congress passed an act that requires each state to demand repayment for Medicaid benefits that had previously been provided to certain citizens for certain services:
Certain citizens: People over the age of 55 who have received Medicaid payments within a specified period of time.
Certain services: Payments for nursing homes and nursing care facilities, home and community-based services, related services at hospitals, and prescription drugs.
The Estate Recovery Act can be the most detrimental tax, because the people most likely to require Medicaid assistance are people who probably have the least property. Chances are that most of what they do have is in their houses. So guess what the government will go after for reimbursement once a "targeted" person dies? You guessed it: the family home.
Your state may have some type of homestead exemption or personal residence waiver to protect your house if you ever need Medicaid and fall within your state's guidelines to seek reimbursement after you die. For example, your house may be safe as long as your spouse is still alive. You also can look into other estate-planning and gift-giving strategies to protect your house, such as joint tenancy.
Each state's version of the Estate Recovery Act — and the names they go by — vary. Your state's version may not apply to property that passes to others outside of probate. Your nonprobate estate may include property in which you and someone else have joint tenancy with right of survivorship.
Your attorney can explain all the rules governing personal representative responsibility to you, both for your own estate as well as any personal representative responsibilities you have for someone else's estate. For example, you need to know how long the personal representative has to notify whatever department in the state government that administers the state's recovery plan, and how to do the notification (for example, by certified letter).
If your personal representative transfers property to others (such as family members) without first satisfying a claim for recovery from your state, the state can come after the personal representative for payment. If you're someone else's personal representative, make sure you know whether the person's estate that you are a personal representative for is subject to a claim by the state.


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Something is rotten in the state of Michigan and it smells like Republican Governor Rick Snyder-- a man whose legacy begins with destroying the Michigan school system and ends with poisoning the residents of Flint. Snyder and his evil cohorts neglected to inform its residents that its water supply was laced with cancerous chemicals.
David Icke is famously known in conspiracy theory circles as the man who propagated the Reptilian agenda and profited off of its incarnation in modern mythology---BUT people like Rick Snyder, whose moves are cold, calculated and very snake like, make the myth feasible by their evil actions.
Rick Snyder should be tarred and feathered.


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I am now seeking a Quantity Surveyor to work for a firm of PQS based in the centre of NEW YORK, USA to to work on a range of projects.
Initially you will be involved with fit out projects for very large offices and also retail fit out for a large retailer.
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A motorist who overtook a police vehicle in fog was stopped and found to be over the drink-drive limit.
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Prosecuting solicitor John Cooper said: "The defendant was driving a Hyundai car in thick fog from Matlock to Wessington and after a junction at Lickpenny Lane he came across a police vehicle and overtook it and nearly collided with an on-coming vehicle."
Mr Cooper added that officers stopped Foster a short time later and he failed a roadside breath test and registered 50microgrammes of alcohol in 100millilitres of breath at the police station when the legal limit is 35microgrammes.
Foster pleaded guilty to exceeding the alcohol drink-drive limit after the incident on January 28.
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If you have ever been interested in rope-work or bondage, this is the class for you. We have an expert teacher in the store to teach you some fun, interesting, and beautiful knot-work. I will let Old Jim tell you more about it himself:
"I have been in and out of the BDSM or alternative lifestyle over 48 years. Privately involved or with small groups for most of that time. Very active publicly for the last 15 years. Arriving in the Albany area late November of 2006, coming from the Seattle/Tacoma area of Washington state where I was active with numerous groups. I also gave presentations, mostly about rope bondage and rope suspension. To update / hone my skills with rope I have attended a weekend long workshop at the WetSpot in Seattle, attended Shibaricon in Chicago numerous times, attended and presented at Bound In Boston. My love of rope and discovering it's many wonderful and devilish uses began over 50 years ago. A great deal of it when I lived on my sailboats. I also have provided workshops about fire play, cupping – both vacuum and fire, knife play, electrical play, erotic photography, caning, flogging/single tail whips for both pleasure and pain, toy making/construction. I have a lot of other interests also, predicament bondage, pain play, pony play, sensuous play, sensory depravation, hypnosis, chains, building my own dungeon/play furniture and toys. I have trained and mentored several new slaves, submissives, and helped along budding dominates. I do miss the days of higher protocol and etiquette, however that was a lot of work. The one thing I am always most concerned about, and it seems to be missing so often, is safety. Hurt but don't harm. Abide by RACK. Risk Aware Consensual Kink."
Cost for this invaluable class is only $15 each or $20 per couple. He is a very busy man and it may be a while before he can teach another class, so don't miss this one folks.