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Food Allergies in Schools
Food allergies are a growing food safety and public health concern that affect an estimated 4%–6% of children in the United States.1, 2 Allergic reactions can be life threatening and have far-reaching effects on children and their families, as well as on the schools or early care and education (ECE) programs they attend. Staff who work in schools and ECE programs should develop plans for preventing an allergic reaction and responding to a food allergy emergency.
What is a Food Allergy?
A food allergy occurs when the body has a specific and reproducible immune response to certain foods.3 The body's immune response can be severe and life threatening, such as anaphylaxis. Although the immune system normally protects people from germs, in people with food allergies, the immune system mistakenly responds to food as if it were harmful.
Eight foods or food groups account for 90% of serious allergic reactions in the United States: milk, eggs, fish, crustacean shellfish, wheat, soy, peanuts, and tree nuts.3
Symptoms of Food Allergy in Children
Symptoms Communicated by Children with Food Allergies4
- It feels like something is poking my tongue.
- My tongue (or mouth) is tingling (or burning).
- My tongue (or mouth) itches.
- My tongue feels like there is hair on it.
- My mouth feels funny.
- There's a frog in my throat; there's something stuck in my throat.
- My tongue feels full (or heavy).
- My lips feel tight.
- It feels like there are bugs in there (to describe itchy ears).
- It (my throat) feels thick.
- It feels like a bump is on the back of my tongue (throat).
The symptoms and severity of allergic reactions to food can be different between individuals, and can also be different for one person over time. Anaphylaxis is a sudden and severe allergic reaction that may cause death.5 Not all allergic reactions will develop into anaphylaxis.
Food Allergies In Schools
- Children with food allergies are two to four times more likely to have asthma or other allergic conditions than those without food allergies.1
- The prevalence of food allergies among children increased 18% during 1997–2007, and allergic reactions to foods have become the most common cause of anaphylaxis in community health settings.1,6
- In 2006, about 88% of schools had one or more students with a food allergy.7
Tool Kit for Managing Food Allergies in Schools
CDC's tool kit to help schools implement the Voluntary Guidelines for Managing Food Allergies in order to prevent and manage severe allergic reactions in schools. The tool kit includes tip sheets, training presentations, and podcasts for school superintendents, administrators, teachers and paraeducators, school nutrition professionals, school transportation staff, and school mental health professionals.
Treatment and Prevention of Food Allergies in Children
There is no cure for food allergies. Strict avoidance of the food allergen is the only way to prevent a reaction. However, since it is not always easy or possible to avoid certain foods, staff in schools and ECE programs should develop plans to deal with allergic reactions, including anaphylaxis. Early and quick recognition and treatment of allergic reactions that may lead to anaphylaxis can prevent serious health problems or death.
Voluntary Guidelines for Managing Food Allergies In Schools and Early Care and Education Programs
In consultation with the U.S. Department of Education and a number of other federal agencies, CDC developed the Voluntary Guidelines for Managing Food Allergies in Schools and Early Care and Education Centers [PDF - 10 MB] in fulfillment of the 2011 FDA Food Safety Modernization Act to improve food safety in the United States. Download Food Allergy Guidelines FAQS [PDF - 163 KB].
The Voluntary Guidelines for Managing Food Allergies provide practical information and recommendations for each of the five priority areas that should be addressed in each school's or ECE program's Food Allergy Management Prevention Plan:
- Ensure the daily management of food allergies in individual children.
- Prepare for food allergy emergencies.
- Provide professional development on food allergies for staff members.
- Educate children and family members about food allergies.
- Create and maintain a healthy and safe educational environment.
- Branum AM, Lukacs SL. Food allergy among U.S. children: trends in prevalence and hospitalizations. NCHS Data Brief. 2008;10:1-8.
- Liu AH, Jaramillo R, Sicherer SH, et al. National prevalence and risk factors for food allergy and relationship to asthma: results from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2005-2006. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2010;126(4):798-806.e13.
- Boyce JA, Assa'ad A, Burks AW, et al; NIAID-Sponsored Expert Panel. Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of food allergy in the United States: report of the NIAID-sponsored expert panel. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2010;126(suppl 6):S1-S58.
- The Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network. Food Allergy News. 2003;13(2).
- Sampson HA, Munoz-Furlong A, Campbell RL, et al. Second symposium on the definition and management of anaphylaxis: summary report—Second National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease/Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network Symposium. Ann Emerg Med. 2006;47(4):373-380.
- Decker WW, Campbell RL, Manivannan V, et al. The etiology and incidence of anaphylaxis in Rochester, Minnesota: a report from the Rochester Epidemiology Project. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2008;122(6):1161-1165.
- O'Toole TP, Anderson S, Miller C, Guthrie J. Nutrition services and foods and beverages available at school: results from the School Health Policies and Programs Study 2006. J Sch Health. 2007;77:500-521.
- Page last reviewed: June 17, 2015
- Page last updated: June 17, 2015
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Product Highlights
- Engineering Units: Inches of H2O at 20° C, mm of H2O at 20°C, mm of Hg at 0°C, Inches of Hg at 0°C, kPa, mBar, Bar, PSI and user selectable
- Media Compatibility: Non-isolated sensor for clean, dry, non-corrosive gases
- Pressure Limits: (DN) units - 3 x F.S. on high side only or 200 PSI, whichever is less.
- Pressire Limits: (GN or AN) units - 3 x F.S. range or 200 PSI, whichever is less
- Accuracy: No temperature effect over the entire operating range 14F° to 122°F (-10C° to +50°C)
- Min/Max: Displays the MIN and MAX pressures
- Hold: Freezes the pressure measurement on the display, however, the bar graph is still active
- Average: Displays a continuous filtered average of the pressure measurements
- Temperature: Displays the internal ambient temperature of the M1 in °C or ° F
- Record Mode: Can store up to 240 pressure measurements; Automatic – the current value is automatically stored every 5 seconds, for up to 20 minutes; Manual – the current value is stored every time the Units key is pressed, up to 240 times
- Backlight: A green backlight is user activated via the backlight key. A red backlight is automatically activated during an error/over range condition
- Auto Shutoff: To conserve battery life, the M1 will automatically power off after 20 minutes of keypad inactivity
- Field Recalibration: M1 can be calibrated in the field for zero and span
- Low Battery Indication: BAT icon is displayed when batteries require replacement. Approximately 2 hours of run time is provided on a low battery condition
- Bar Graph: Horizontal bar for full scale pressure reference (0-100%)

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SCC to host Open House
Salem Community College will hold an Open House on Wednesday, July 30 at 6 p.m. in Contini Hall, 460 Hollywood Avenue.
Visitors are invited to tour the campus and learn about SCC's programs of study and financial aid.
Individuals may register online at www.salemcc.edu/open-house. For more information, call (856) 351-2716.


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Two cases so far this week in the Tulsa area where guns carried by citizens made "the difference". One a home owner who found a stranger standing beside one of his children's bedroom door in the night. The stranger ran when confronted.
The other a case of a pitbull ( dog ) who was attacking two women. In the last case the man shot the pitbull when it turned on him when he arrived to help the women who were being attacked. Bet there are more cases that I have not heard about.
P.S. The woman who owned the dog would have been better served with a gun when she needed help. She could not help the two women when her dog attacked them.


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Korg M1
The M1 was and still is a popular and widely used digital synthesizer and music workstation. The M1 features built-in AI Synthesis for full digital generation and processing using 4MB of PCM sampled and synthesized waveforms which can be shaped using analog-style editing. The M1 is capable of creating acoustic instruments with clarity, nice digital sounds and good buzzy techno sounds. The M1 is sort of like a workstation-version of the Roland D-50.
In addition to its acclaimed sound, it has a somewhat sophisticated 8-track sequencer. It holds 10 songs and 100 patterns and up to 7,700 notes, and offers full quantizing and editing. Full MIDI implementation suites the M1 ideally for studio production and MIDI system use. Up to 8 parts of multitimbrality with the 8 track sequencer makes for a powerful machine. Add to that a host of digital multi-effects and you've got one of the most widely and professionally used Korg synthesizers around.
UPGRADES: The EXK-M1 optional ROM expansion kit doubles the PCM waveform memory to 8MB (275 multisampled sounds) for even greater sonic possibilities. The EX-M1R is the same upgrade but designed for the M1R (rack version). That's right, there's a rack version of the M1 available as the M1R as well.
The M1 has been used by 808 State, Banco De Gaia, Ken Ishii, Depeche Mode, Fluke, The Cure, The Orb, The KLF, Plastikman, Bomb The Bass, Gary Numan, Robert Miles, Mike Oldfield, Kitaro, Rick Wakeman, Rod Argent, Joe Zawinul, Patrick Moraz, Pet Shop Boys, Vangelis, the Cranberries, Sin and Jellyfish.
Lookup Korg M1 Prices
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Are you looking to buy or sell a Korg M1? Post an ad in Gear For Sale or a request in Gear Wanted. For spare parts and repair services check out Gear Services & Other Goods. Our forums also has a Buyer's Guide section where you can ask for advice on buying synthesizers.
- Demos & Media
Korg M1 Synthesizer - Part One
Demos of factory presets from the M1 (MPC-00P) card
Patch Files - Lots of Midi Sysex patches, original factory patches, custom patches, and more from the Korg M1 Page. They are for Macintosh and Windows/PC.
- Specifications
- Polyphony - 16 voices
- Oscillators - 4MB PCM waveforms (144 multisampled sounds)
- Effects - Digital multi-effects: reverb, delay, overdrive, EQ, chorus, rotary speaker, and more.
- Filter - VDF: Variable Digital Lowpass Filter, velocity sensitive (non-resonant)
- VCA - VDA: Variable Digital Amplifier; 3 independent 4-stage ADSR envelope generators
- Keyboard - 61 keys with Velocity, Aftertouch, Multi, Layer, Split modes
- Memory - 100 patches
- Control - MIDI (8 parts)
- Date Produced - 1988-94
- Websites of Interest
- Shop for Keyboards, MIDI & Gear
Guitar Center: Synths and MIDI
Sweetwater: Hot items in Keyboars section
The Musician's Friend: Keyboard gear
AMS: Brand synths and accessories
The Woodwind & Brasswind Store
music123.com: Synth Blow Out Deal Section
zZounds: Keyboards and MIDI equipment
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I'm back in the saddle again ;-)
There's a new project online on the site as of today: I intend to map all broadband access providers available to the general brazilian (and portuguese, for that matter) public. The first step is to collect the data from Linux broadband users through this form. After two months, I expect to publish the data in an article, and to make it available (translated to English, probably) to the mantainers of related LDP docs, like the Cable Modem Providers HOWTO, that carries some information about brazilian providers already.
I want to know not only which providers are ready for Linux, but also what models of hardware work best. Given all the misinformation that comes from the vendors, I expect it to be useful to many people, not only in Brazil.


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Life after Gradient-Fu
Now that I finished the gradient-fu patch, I don't know what to do with myself. Well, let's not exagerate: I have plenty of things to do, but still need to get on the hacktivity schwong.
I have some pending Perl-related tasks to do. For once, I want to find a good Perl module that will enable me to maintain all the navigation menus I created in my sites. I found two of them on CPAN - one of them is not maintained and its author did not respond to me; for the other one I got a response from its author with a CGI script he wrote for me that demonstrates one of the menus in question. However, the CGI script uses a CGI parameter to distinguish between the pages, and is not spread across two servers as is the case with what I need. Thus, it, and perhaps the module as well, may justify some more work.
Now, after I received this, I also received an answer from an Israeli correspondant, who tweaked his code to do what I need. I suppose I have to check it as well. In any case, this probably can wait for later on, because my ad-hoc code for navigation bar is still functional and extensible. (even though it sucks)
Next is the work on WWW::Form, which I have still to hear from its author after the last E-mail I sent him a couple of days ago. (I'm beginning to think, I should just fork it off for the time being, and continue to work on it on my own).
And finally there's Quad-Pres. Here it's quite pressing, because I need some new features for the Template Toolkit presentation I'm going to give on YAPC. Maybe I should just throw the glove, and prepare it using Open Office.
Next, there are some lectures I want to prepare: the TT one naturally, and "Freecell Solver: The Next Presentation", and the "Web Publishing with LAMP" (Linux, Apache, MySQL and Perl/PHP/Python) one.
Then there's Doclanx. I have great plans for taking the Perl man pages, and revamping the hell out of them, but haven't really started to do so, yet. I suppose it can wait as well.
Finally, there are some political/philosophical essays I'd like to write. I'll probably go with the one about drug legalization first.
So I have plenty of things to do, and not enough time to do them. At least that would mean I'm going find time to do some of them. If it weren't for all these E-mails I keep wanting to send...
Advogato Diary Interest Ratings
I'm not entirely sure the Diary Interest Ratings are a good idea. For a very simple reason: people don't rate other people diaries! I don't think I ever rated the diaries of fellow Advogatoers. Some of the blogs, I read because I personally know these people and I'd like to keep up-to-date with their whereabouts and thoughts. (so I don't rate because I cannot objectively testify for their interest, as they are surely interesting to me). The others I read on occasion, when I go over the recent entries list, when I post one. I usually don't recognize all the nicknames, so I can't tell if their diaries are intersting or not. (and I don't consider myself a blog lurker, so there you go).
Even the blog I write is mostly for myself and my friends, and only secondly for other people to read. (albeit I did receive some interesting comments in response to things I wrote here from people I did not know).
I started reading the "Perl & XML" book that I borrowed from the Perl Mongers Libary. It's a very good read, funny and interesting. And naturally, I learn some new things. So far, I highly recommend it to any Perl programmer. (but can only give a final verdict when I finish it) As for "Extending and Embedding Perl", I finally arrived at the chapter covering the Perl Internals, after skipping some less interesting material. I don't read it at bedtime, because I feel that I'm too tired to concentrate on this highly complicated topic, so I'm not making too much progress.
I don't know which reading book I'll pick up now. I can continue reading "Ender's Game", I suppose. Meanwhile, my sisters have given away one of the copies of "Harry Potter 5" and lent another, so I'm stuck without any copy to read. :-)
I also just read the article The Hundred-Year Language in which Paul Graham speculates about which language we will use a hundred years from now. It's a good read, as most of the other things by Graham are. However, I disagree with him on some points.
Especially annoying is his claim that languages will introduce various paradigms as others that can map to it but are less efficient. He even goes as far as saying that numbers can be represented as lists whose length is the length of the number. I personally would hate to see that happen. Order of complexity un-optimizations like that can make your program completely unscalable with anything beyond a very limited input. (many times even if you have a very capable hardware to run it on). As such they should not be introduced into the core language if you can help it.
At the moment, I can write programs in Perl, and they would finish almost instantenously. This probably could not have been the case on a 386 computer. (which is still more than capable of running Perl). Still, if the Perl interpreter had implemented numbers as lists, it would not have run efficiently, even on today's hardware.
Another thing, that I found intriguing was his claim that in Arc he was able to write recursive functions on strings implemented as linked list that were better than many regular expressions. I actually did it when I converted Quad-Pres to Haskell (just for the experience). And it came out hideous. An experienced Haskell programmer who inspected the code, told me I should have used a regular expressions library and said he could not make heads nor tails of the code. Oh well, who is John Galt?
One thing I did not like about it is that he said there that it's not true that those who can't do - teach. I personally have always felt this way, and now I know of someone else who supports me.
Well, bits of pieces of many things that do not amount to too much. One thing big I did was write a review of TAOUP. (you can also refer to the letter I sent to Raymond about the Review and some things he may find interesting in Freecell Solver</a>). This review became the latest one in the "Good" reviews in the book's site which are not the same as the raves. Apparently, raves are such that claim the book is perfect (or at least almost so), while good are those that are somewhat critical of it. I don't know which one ESR considers better. ;-)
I also added various bits and pieces for my homepage and related sites. I don't recall all of them.
Politics #1: Normalizing Thorahic Education vs. Antiochus' Decrees
Recently a suggestion was put forth to make sure the pupils who receive Thorahic education (among the Orthodox Jews in Israel), also receive general studies like the more secular Jews do. So one MP said it was unacceptable and in the wonderful spirit of Hanukkah compared it to Antiochus' Decrees during the time of the Macabees.
The problem here is that the Thorahic education are financed by the Government out of Tax Payer's money. If this was not the case and these Religious Jews were self-staining, I wouldn't have cared less if they received general education or not, but this is far from being the case. As the financers of this education, we have a right to pose conditions for them, and if they don't like it they can stop receiving funds and try to finance it on their own. If you ask me, an even better idea would be to stop financing education at all, and simply lower the taxation considerably. It is getting more and more sub-standard anyhow, and privatized education is usually the only good long-term way to handle state-wide education.
Politics #2: A solution to the Palestinian Problem
And on a more serious note: I'd like to bring forth here, something I thought about (and conveyed to an American correspondant of mine) as a solution to the Palestinian problem. So far, the general belief among the Israelis is that the Palestinians are primarily responsible for the situation. Likewise, the general belief among Palestinians is that the Israelis are responsible. So we have a deadlock.
Here I propose a way for the Israeli leaders to solve the problem once and for all for the mutual happiness of both sides. Furthermore, this way is very easy and simple. Here goes:
Give Israeli Soldiers a choice of whether they wish to protect the Israeli Settlements inside the West Bank or not. Soldiers may choose to stop protecting the settlements at any time, and will be relocated to inner-Israeli squads.
Forcing someone to protect someone else is wrong, as any mandatory draft is in essence.
- The settlements can either remain using only their self-protection, or its settlers can choose to relocate to Israel, where they will be given an alternate home.
- Israel will stop giving food relief to the occupied territories. If this implies that a Palestinian State must be established, so be it. (I don't care if there's a Palestinian State or just a very hostile governing body)
The Geneva Accord has three serious flaws:
- It advocates disarming the terror organizations. I don't see how it can be done efficiently and the right to bear arms also come to mind. I would adovcate the opposite: give arms to each and every palestinian. That way, they will be less afraid of the terror organizations, who in turn would be much more afraid of them. (you could allow all Israelis to carry arms as well, for good measure.)
It adovcates forcibly evacuating the Israeli settlements. By all means the Israeli Settlers have a right to live there as every lawful person has a right to live anywhere. The entire concept of immigration regulation and "fathers' land" is wrong.
What is wrong is forcing other people to protect them living there. (as force is always wrong) This distinction must be understood and followed.
- Last, but probably most important is that it requires the mutual cooperation of both sides. One cannot expect the other side to follow his part of the deal, while my suggestion does not require the cooperation of the Palestinians.
If all of this seems to be absurd to you, just remember that I'm just an everyday libertarian. (well Neo-Tech Objectivist to be exact, but the political agenda is the same). As such I am doing my best to be loyal to Justice, Freedom, Individual Rights and lack of Government Control. This suggestion is perfectly in accordance to it.
I'm not trying to classify myself as the (Nationalistic/Religious) Israeli Right-wings, or the (Pragmatic and Regulation-enacting) Israeli Left. Instead, I'm trying to be Just, Noble and Free. It's a bit hard in Israel, where most people do not know what Objectivism or Libertarianism are, or sometimes even that this political option exists. But I'm handling it, as this is what my ideals dictate.


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I've been sitting here watching the news coverage on Universal Sports today. It's soooo nice to see an actual sports show devoting so much time to skating and not just a highlight reel. Outside of the actual competition, this almost never happens.
Of course, with Terry Gannon hosting, all is right with the world.
Having Wylie there is an added plus.


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Wednesday Wallpaper | Mt Cook & Tasman River
The mornings are getting dark and chilly down this way – we are not too many weeks away from scenes like this appearing on my lawn (minus the 3,700m mountain peak and glacier fed river obviously). Fortunately for me, this image was made by Sarah a couple of years ago, while I slept in my nice warm bed.
Here's a question for the photographers amongst you. At the time that this image was made we were shooting on both Canon and Nikon equipment – can you guess from the colours which brand this was made on?
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See you next week – and thanks for all the great comments last week!
Cheers – Todd [www.sisson.co.nz] [facebook]


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One little-noted provision I was encouraged to see tucked in last week's fiscal-cliff legislation is Section 601(b): an incentive for doctors to expand their use of something called clinical data registries.
These registries collect information on patient characteristics, patterns of care and outcomes that can be crucial to evaluating what medical techniques and strategies work and which ones don't. Unfortunately, registries are not as widespread as they should be -- and the ones that exist often are limited to particular types of care.
Data from insurance-claim forms, in contrast, are easier to obtain and more comprehensive across episodes of care. However, these reveal only which tests and procedures were performed, and tell very little about how the patient fared.
What would be ideal for people who analyze health-care practices would be to have some way of combining registry and insurance-claim data. As the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at the Brookings Institution emphasized in a 2010 white paper, one could "describe registry data as 'an inch wide and a mile deep,' and claims data as 'a mile wide and an inch deep.' Linking these data sources can overcome the shortcomings of each to produce information that is both comprehensive and clinically detailed."
Such linking requires, first, a matching algorithm that can make sure Jane Smith in the insurance-claims database is the same Jane Smith found in the clinical-data registry. It also requires getting the clinical data into a registry in the first place.


text: It's that time again: Magical movie where two people switch bodies and learn that the grass is not always greener and that they should value their own existences, no matter how uncool/directionless they are! The latest offering is The Change-Up, where family man Jason Bateman and stoner playboy Ryan Reynolds wish for each other's lives. Drugs! Divorce! Naked Olivia Wilde! But before we get to all that, here are nine other movies (compiled by myself and our intern, Molly Horan) that use the same trope, with varying results. You may know more than a few of these, but we guarantee that you haven't heard of Sex, Drugs, & Natalie Portman!


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Taylor Swift & Harry Styles: Their Hottest Dates So Far
As Taylor and Harry's string of dates prove, this relationship is getting hot and heavy! From hotel sleepovers to concert after partys to day dates at Central Park Zoo, take a look at our gallery of their hottest dates so far!
Taylor Swift and Harry Styles are certainly not hiding their love connection anymore! The two have been spotted out on a flurry of steamy dates, most recently having a sleepover together (their fourth!) in NYC on Dec. 6 after attending a birthday dinner with friends!
We've gathered the hottest dates that Haylor have been on since getting back together. Take a look at our gallery and let us know which date you think is the hottest, HollywoodLifers!
— Billy Nilles
More Taylor & Harry News:
- Fans Should Let Harry Styles & Taylor Swift Date Each Other
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- Taylor Swift & Harry Styles Spotted Holding Hands After 1D Concert


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I feel a great disturbance in the Force.
That was a very disappointing trailer, mainly because it showed us virtually nothing new since the first gameplay video we saw a month ago. Also, it's cut in a very obnoxious way, which I hope is just about tricking gamers into checking out a Star Wars game, and not a sign that they went excessively "edgy" with this.
The one thing that looked nifty was the shot that the Twilight flew into, that of underground Coruscant. This is not really how they've expressed the concept of Coruscant before, it's not hollow layer after hollow layer but buildings on top of buildings as the underside had no space left and just kept building up. Still, it looked slick and different. Hopefully they'll have something more to show at CVI.
I love that you have to sit through an ad to see what's basically an ad.
That's my jacket!
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.


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demented wrote:...so does eliminator threads count as a pointless 'vs.' thread? cuz I had a couple in mind
The threads where people actually give the *reason* they pick certain characters have a point, and inspire conversation. The ones where you just put down a number and the name of the character you chose...those are more pointless than even the worst vs thread.


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Universal Fit
Astro Gaming A*Star In-Ear Headset
Cut through the noise. The bold design of the ASTRO A*STAR™ In-Ear Headset is the ultimate in hack-n-slash combat; featuring an in-line medallion with mic, volume dial and answer/hang up button, flat tangle-resistant cables, a PC splitter, three sizes of ear gels and a handy carrycase. Inspired by the light-weight materials and aggressive forms of high performance headgear, the A*STAR...
Dynex Ear Bud Headphones for Apple iPod Shuffle
Listen to your iPod shuffle while on your way to class or at the gym. These ear bud headphones feature a lanyard neck strap for hands-free transport whether you're lifting weights or rollerblading.


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rillian: Are you thinking of editline, perhaps? I don't know if there's an `official' location, but the BSDs seem to use it. See FreeBSD's CVS for libedit for example.
4Suite: A new version of 4Suite is out, and it seems considerably faster when rendering my web pages. Very nice. I've also simplified the process a little, which may have something to do with it. Although I haven't worked out how to pass anything more that a string as an XSLT parameter to 4XSLT, so I'm pickling an array of tuples, then unpickling the array in an extension function and returning a node list. This is not at all simple.
Shell scripting: I've got myself a dynamic DNS name set up at dyndns.org. Unfortunately, my ADSL modem/router uses NAT, and my ISP uses a transparent HTTP proxy, so there's no automatic way to get the current IP address. I've been working on using SNMP to get the address from the router, and I've ended up with a demonstration of the power of the Unix shell.
snmpentry () { snmpwalk -O qs "$1" "$2" "$3" | while read -r INDEX VALUE do if [ "$VALUE" = "$4" ]; then echo $INDEX | cut -d '.' -f 2- fi done }
The idea of this is that I call it as:
entry=$(snmpentry m11 public ifDescr \ "Nokia Telecommunications, M11, PPP")
to get the number of the PPP interface. Then I use snmpget to get the ifIndex:
ifIndex=$(snmpget -O qs m11 public ifIndex.$entry) \ | cut -d ' ' -f 2-)
and look up the IP address of that interface, using the snmpentry function again:
IP=$(snmpentry m11 public ipAdEntIfIndex $ifIndex)
Now I've got an IP address that I can hand off to ddclient or whatever, without using any C, Perl, Python, sed or awk.
Don't ever say shell scripting is dead.


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Bachelor degrees from accredited colleges and universities can be important stepping-stones toward a successful career.The most common type of undergraduate program is a bachelor's degree, usually awarded after four years of successful study
Studying music business includes learning about the basic structure and mechanisms behind licensing, recording, copyrighting, and marketing recorded and live music. Receiving an education in music business may also lead to a greater understanding of the music industry as a whole.
UK, United Kingdom is more than 300 years old and comprises four constituent nations: England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. The UK has been a centre of learning for the past 1,000 years and possesses many ancient and distinguished universities. Foreign students make up a significant proportion of the student body at UK universities.
Sheffield is not only known for Full Monty, but also for their importance during the Industrial Revolution. The University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University with a total of 54 000 students are located there, and so are two independent colleges.
Request Information Bachelor Degrees in Music Business in Sheffield in United Kingdom 2017
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In the News
Original journalism from the Center's OpenSecrets Blog
Supporters of Moderate Republican in NY-23 Special Election Weigh Where to Place Their Loyalties After Candidate Quits
November 2, 2009 | With Republican Diedre Scozzafava ending her bid in for Congress and endorsing her Democratic opponent Bill Owens, Owens and Conservative Party nominee Doug are now vying to win over Scozzafava's supporters, including those who lent financial support to her campaign.
Third Quarter Campaign Finance Reports Show Money Race Is On
October 16, 2009 | An initial Center for Responsive Politics analysis has found that sitting members of the U.S. House of Representatives raised $48.2 million from July 1 through Sept. 30, 2009, based on the 336 reports we have in. The mean amount these lawmakers raised was $143,640, and the median amount was $126,680.
Tracking Your Representatives' Health Care Cash
June 25, 2009 | Here's a cool tool that brings together data from various parts of OpenSecrets.org to show how much money each current lawmaker has raised from various health-related industries and the health sector overall since 1989 (including President Obama's haul).
Embattled Lobbying Firm PMA Targeted Members of Defense Committees
February 12, 2009 | The close ties between Rep. John Murtha and a Washington lobbying firm raided by the FBI have put the powerful Pennsylvania Democrat under greater scrutiny. The lobbyists at PMA Group have been Murtha's fifth most generous campaign donor over time, but he is just one of 284 members of the 111th Congress who have collected money from the firm, which specializes in securing federal earmarks for its clients. In total, PMA Group's employees and its political action committee have given current members of Congress $3.4 million since 1989.
Update: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Invest in Lawmakers
September 11, 2008 | When the federal government announced two months ago that it would be seizing mortgage buyers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, CRP looked at how much money members of Congress had collected since 1989 from the companies. On Sunday the government proceeded with the takeover and we've returned to our data to bring you the updates, this time providing a list of all 354 lawmakers who have gotten money from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (in July we posted the top 25).
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Get into the holiday spirit with our Holiday Mini Mint Cookie Cups made with Betty Crocker chocolate chunk cookie mix and peppermint extract.
Feeling lazy? Try omitting the frosting from this recipe and just pressing mini chocolate-mint candy cups into the center of your cookies as soon as you take them out of the oven! An easy, tasty twist!
Disposable plastic decorating bags and tips can be purchased in the baking section of most craft stores.
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Until today it appeared to me that we had very few acorns . Only ones I had seen before today was while squirrel hunting and last weekends turkey hunt . The ones found then were few and far between . The squirrels had already devoured most of them too. I was a bit concerned to say the least . But , this morning , after two good windy days , revealed a lot more than I had anticipated . Red and White Oaks both .
But I still haven't seen nor heard a turkey on property I have been on . Hunted Jon's 85 this morning and found some scratching ,,,one spot . Looked like the bird was just walking through the woods and when it came upon this small bank on the side of the trail it scratched one little spot . I do not believe it was a gobbler .
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UW receives $10 million grant to help smokers quit
Researchers seek participants for study
MADISON, Wis. - The University of Wisconsin has been awarded a new $10 million federal grant to discover the best ways to help Wisconsin residents stop smoking.
The new study will include tests, including artery scans that can signal impending risk of a stroke or heart attack, free of charge. Participants will also get free coaching and medications to help them quit smoking.
"These dollars will improve health and create jobs in Milwaukee and Madison," said Dr. Michael Fiore, director of the UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention, in a news release. "While the grant can only be used for this research study, it would not have been possible without the core investment our state lawmakers have already made in funding programs to help state residents quit smoking -- particularly the Wisconsin Tobacco Quit Line."
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, a part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, is funding the five-year grant. This new study, called the Wisconsin Smokers' Health Study 2, continues the Wisconsin Smokers' Health Study.
The Wisconsin Smokers' Health Study, originally launched in 2004, revealed how quitting smoking affects nearly every part of a person's health, lifestyle and well-being, according to the release.
Some patients from WSHS will continue participating thanks to this new grant, and their participation will culminate in health data spanning 10 years.
Beginning now, UW-CTRI researchers will recruit 600 to 800 smokers as new study participants for WSHS 2. In addition, everyone from the previous study -- whether now smoking or not -- is welcome to continue their participation. In total, 1,500 individuals will participate in WSHS 2.
Those interested in participating should call 1-866-END-CIGS or visit EndCigs.com.
Latest Health News
- How 4/20 became 'Weed Day'
- Drugged driving surpasses drunk driving among drivers killed in crashes, report finds
- Congress considers removal of FDA oversight to e-cigarettes
- Some call it 'stealthing,' others call it sexual assault
- Indianapolis Motor Speedway to ban smoking in grandstands
- Will sludge-color packaging deter smokers?


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Given the positive response to my previous review, I thought I'd post a review of the Master Replicas Han Solo Blaster.
This one also arrived from Entertainment Earth well packed - actually triple boxed, with adequate protective cushioning inside. The blaster is packaged much like the lightsaber, in a cardboard case which is in turn inside a matching slipcase. Once opened the blaster is snugly fit inside red protective foam.
The original prop is more complex than the lightsaber and it is therefore harder to tell (for me, anyways) how faithful it is to the original (especially since the original has been lost to time). Judging from the pictures at The Parts of Star Wars (www.partsofsw.com), it's pretty close, right down to replicating the flaws of the original (more on that in a bit).
The blaster itself appears to be made of tooled metal, cast metal, and plastic parts. As a result, like the lightsaber, it's pretty heavy. The main body of the gun, comprising the German Mauser that the original was based on, is cast metal, even retaining the marks of the original German manufacturer. The scope appears to be a combination of tooled and cast metal and plastic pieces and the flash suppressor is mostly tooled metal. The handgrip, which I'm guessing is wooden on a real Mauser, is I believe, plastic with a woodgrain finish.
The replica is solidly assembled. If you wanted to carry it as part of a costume, I don't think you'd have to worry about casual damage (unlike the lightsaber) unless you really abused it. As promised, you can **** the hammer and pull the trigger to release. However, that's as far as the original firearm functionality goes. There is no barrel opening beyond the suppressor. Unfortunately, you can't see through the scope - each end has a red plastic lens inserted, which you can make out in one of the pictures I've attached below. Also surprising is that two of the spacer discs beneath the scope bracket are also red tinged. I assume this is faithful to the original, but it is unusual.
The paint deco is my main complaint. It's sort of a dark charcoal-black matte spray finish which isn't too bad. What's mostly disappointing is the bracket that holds the sight. To simulate wear, they've applied a silver Hasbro-esque paint op, rather than distressing the black paint to show the metal beneath. At least that's what it looks like. It could very well be that this is how the original prop was. Anyone who's been to the Magic of Myth or seen actual studio props know that they can look really cheesy in person (Luke's X-wing suit control panel anyone?) - film is quite forgiving, so it's hard to be too critical.
As for those replicated defects - one almost fooled me. When I pulled the blaster out of its foam bed and examined the reverse side, I immediately noticed a hole in the main body surrounded by a disc of silver where the black paint had not been applied. Obviously something was supposed to be here and was missing! Thankfully, before I wrote an angry letter to MR, I checked The Parts of Star Wars, and found out that this is known as the Mystery Disc. Apparently this flaw was on the original prop during filming. Something had been there but had been removed or fallen off by the time they started shooting. MR faithfully reproduced the Mystery Disc - kudos!
The presentation of the other defect is actually up to the owner. As described in the MR brochure (also available to read on their site) the flash suppressor on the original prop had gotten knocked off center from the barrel. It was supposed to be centered on the barrel, and MR has left this up to you by letting you adjust the positioning of the flash suppressor in relation to the barrel. I think I'll leave it where it is for now.
I haven't opened the included display case, so I can't give an opinion on that yet.
Overall, I'm pleased with the replica. I would've liked a real wooden "broomhandle" grip, but so be it. So far Master Replicas has lived up to the hype. Can't wait to see the AOTC ones.
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Teacher, biologist, and creator of the modern Oklahoma Junior Academy of Science, Jimmie Pigg had a most distinctive way of motivating students. Emphasizing the classical steps of the scientific method, he tirelessly involved his students in original scientific research. His legacy comprises the numerous students who have become science teachers and/or scientists. These individuals attribute their love of science to the example that he set when they were his students. They characterize his teaching style as rigorous, caring, and innovative. The Jimmie Pigg Memorial Award for Outstanding Science Teaching at the pre-collegiate level commemorates the dedication of this extraordinary teacher to scientific endeavor and student learning. The award is given annually to an Oklahoma teacher who is judged to exemplify the same qualities as Jimmie.
Endowment of the Award: The Oklahoma Academy of Science has established an endowment fund in honor of Jimmie. Its annual income will be used to provide the award.
Any teacher with at least six years of science teaching in Grades 6-12 may be nominated to receive the award.
A nomination will comprise: (1) a nominating letter from one or more individuals which succinctly summarizes the nominee's efforts to encourage his or her students to conduct original scientific research or to involve them in science activities beyond those offered in most classrooms; (2) the nominee's curriculum vitae; and (3) supporting documentation.
Supporting documentation should include, but is not limited to:
A list of the nominee's students who have participated in regional and/or state activities of the Oklahoma Junior Academy of Science (OJAS), including their paper titles, awards received, and years of participation.
Course syllabi, abstracts or synopses of student projects, and/or examples of student papers.
Letters from other teachers, administrators, students, and/or parents.
Completed nominations must be submitted to the Director of the Oklahoma Junior Academy of Science by January 3lst of each year.
Evaluation: The credentials of each nominee will be reviewed by a committee consisting of the Director of the Oklahoma Junior Academy of Science, the Director of the OJAS State Meeting, the Chair of the Science Education Section of the Oklahoma Academy of Science, and two pre-collegiate teachers who are past recipients of the award.
The Award:
The recipient will receive $1,000.
The recipient will receive an engraved plaque commemorating the award.
The recipient will receive a one-year membership in the Oklahoma Academy of Science.
Presentation of the award will be made during the awards banquet at the annual state meeting of the Oklahoma Junior Academy of Science .
The recipient's accomplishments also will be recognized during the awards banquet at the annual technical meeting of the Oklahoma Academy of Science.
A biographical sketch of the recipient and his or her accomplishments will be published in the Proceedings of the Oklahoma Academy of Science.


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If all you're goin' on is my confession, forget it. I'm simply not credible. -Dale Gribble
I personally like Ryan Tannehill.
I couldn't see calling Marino DM1
Thanks Shifty!
considering his degree in biology how bout 'biotech'
As for a nickname, I am with you...his name sounds just fine to me.
Please for the love of God lets not give him a nickname that's the gheyest thing we could do. I'll stick with "Tannehill".
The Pollinator.


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Kaminsky sets all-time scoring record in Badger win
Wisconsin defeats North Dakota 103-85
MADISON - Frank Kaminsky broke the school record for points in a game with 43 as the Wisconsin Badger men's basketball team defeated North Dakota 103-85 at the Kohl Center Tuesday night.
Kaminsky made 16 of 19 shots from the field including all six of his three-point shots.
The previous single game scoring record was held by Ken Barnes (vs. Indiana, 1965) and Michael Finley (vs. Eastern Michigan, 1984) with 42 points.
Sam Dekker added 19 points, five rebounds, four assists, two blocks and two steals for Wisconsin.
The Badgers went over the 100 point mark for the first time since December 28, 1995 when they scored 105 against Eastern Illinois.
Troy Huff, the son of former Badger women's basketball star Theresa Huff, led North Dakota with a career high 37 points.
Wisconsin is now 4-0 on the season, North Dakota drops to 1-1.
The Badgers host Bowling Green Thursday night at the Kohl Center at 7 pm.


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Have an older dog whom the Vet recommended this. Anyone that buys this online from an internet based company? Which is the best seller?
Have an older dog whom the Vet recommended this. Anyone that buys this online from an internet based company? Which is the best seller?
Cosequin DS is available at ebay.com
We give our dogs Cosemin DS glucosamine and chondroitin supplement. Just open the capsules and sprinkle it on their food.
My last 2 Cosemin DS purchases have been made through ebay. When 1/2 the bottle is gone, start looking for the ebay deals.
Things to look for:
A) the seller has a good (98%+) rating.
B) the container is sealed and the expiration date is 6+ months away from it's expected arrival.
C) the total amount spent (purchase price + shipping + any applicable tax) is less per capsule than any other outlet.
Am currently waiting for a shipment that of 432 capsules for $77.99 USD (shipping included).
We had been purchasing 230 capsules at Costco for $71.45 (CA sales tax included).
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I reside on the left coast, but my ideals are right wing.
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Waterstrike's Dynamic Amazon, MH (10/18/2000-09/08/2011)
Cosequin Chewable
79.90 incl shipping
I have had good luck with them. One lost shipment that they reshipped immediately.
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Thank you for the kind welcome Cut. I guess every hunter is torn with what is TOO FAR
and what isn't. THat is why it is so important to pattern your shotgun with your shell
of choice and KNOW what you can and cannot do. One thing is CERTAIN the Magnum
Blend and Hevi13 shells hold their energy at greater distances than Lead does. So, if you
were going to try that ALLSTAR shot, you might wanna make sure you that the ALLSTAR
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About Diet Doctor
Regaining health in a sick world requires thinking and acting differently. It requires trusting not in corporate propaganda or old misinformation, but in nature. In the power of your own body to return to its natural state, given the right environment.
Our mission is to find the truth about health and supply tools for those who want to free themselves. Thus empowering people everywhere to revolutionize their health.
Quick facts about Diet Doctor
- Purpose: Empowering people everywhere to revolutionize their health.
- Mission: Making low carb simple.
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- Founded in 2011, after Swedish beginnings in 2007. Learn more
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- Over 150,000 visits per day, making it the largest low-carb site in the world.
- No money from industry, no products for sale, no ads.
- Fully funded by the people – over 30,000 members.
- Free (membership optional).
A broken world
Something is badly wrong. While the prosperity of the world has never been higher, people are suffering. More and more people – the majority in the Western world – are obese or overweight, and a large proportion are on prescription drugs every day for the rest of their lives.
Every year new people add to the sad statistics. As we get ever richer as a society our health appears to decline. Why is this?
People feel guilt and shame, like if the excess weight, hunger and tiredness was their fault, a moral failing. They count their calories and attempt to eat less food and exercise more, but it's not working. If only they had more willpower.
Obesity – another new epidemic soon affecting half the population – is considered almost as incurable. The only effective treatment is said to be bariatric surgery, i.e. surgically removing parts of healthy organs. An operation with a significant risk of resulting in life-long misery and sometimes even death. And a year after surgery the excess weight usually starts returning.
What's even worse, epidemics of obesity and diabetes are the tip of the iceberg. As these problems spread across the world other diseases soon follow: heart disease, cancer, eating disorders and food addiction, high blood pressure, ADHD, depression and on and on.
Experts still trumpet eating less and exercising more to slow down the epidemics. But that's what we've been saying for 30 years, while the problem has exploded. It's not working.
It may be even worse. The problem really started to get bad in the early 80s, just when we were told to eat "healthily", just when the first Dietary Guidelines for Americans were released, and then copied around the world. That's when the epidemic started.
Possibilities and what's holding us back
Something is very wrong in the world today. Our bodies are made to stay healthy through our lives, and supply us with the energy to reach our goals and our potential. We can absolutely return to this natural state. With the resources the world has today there should be no stopping us.
This is not about a lack of willpower. You already have all the willpower you'll ever need.
Imagine a world where all people can feel good in their bodies again, where all kids can run and play without catching their breath every few steps, where there's no need for mass pill popping, a nation no longer on drugs, where nobody is obsessively counting calories to starve themselves. Where health is normal again. Where we can reach our potential and care for each other. Where we use our willpower for higher purposes, together shaping a better world for our children.
Much of what we need to get there is already known. But it's not that simple. The food industry profits from selling cheap, low-fat, highly processed, nutritionally depleted and addictive food. And we're advised to eat at least every three hours. The pharmacological industry profits by selling daily medications to temporarily reduce the symptoms of all the diseases caused by the food.
These are trillion dollar industries. There's a lot of money to be made keeping you sick.
The truth is obscured by corporate propaganda, companies selling junk food and pills, using lies and misinformation, to the benefit of their shareholders, but to the detriment of humanity. It's obscured by government ineptitude, allowing corporations to rule via armies of high-payed lobbyists, while relying on old experts who are often stuck in failed preconceptions, unable to update their thinking. That is, if the experts are not simply funded by corporations too.
Just as an example, it was recently exposed how Coca-Cola spend tens of millions of dollars buying the loyalty of government health experts and scientists as well as high-profile bloggers and personal trainers. To not mention the dangers of drinking sugar. To keep quiet about it. That's the reality behind their slogan about "open happiness" and billions of dollars of feel-good advertising. How is obesity, disease and lies the road to happiness?
It may seem impossible to change this. What can one person do? Not much. But together, using modern tools… if we have the will, we can change anything.
Towards the solution
What would you do if there was a clear way to make the world a better place?
This can't be achieved using old thinking, we'll have to question everything. And it can't be achieved by selling a magic product, a pill or a packaged food product or by financing from the corporations who are profiting from the status quo. That's the thinking that got us into this mess.
Here at Diet Doctor we want to be a part of the solution. That's why we've decided to take no money from industry, sell no food, no supplements, no other products and to have no ads.
Instead we're fully funded by the people, via an optional membership (free trial available).
Everything necessary we give away for free to the world, even without signing up. We're focusing on free simple guides, recipes and step-by-step plans, providing everything you need to lose weight without hunger or to cure diabetes type 2.
- How to Lose Weight
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Welcome to Diet Doctor. Let us tell you more about reality and some of the misconceptions that stop people from achieving health and happiness.
The solution
The solution to the obesity and diabetes epidemics already exists. It's very simple:
That's basically it. Although there are details too: if you want to lose weight effortlessly or improve your diabetes you should probably make a special effort to drastically reduce the carbohydrates, especially sugar and processed starch (like flour).
Natural fat, like butter? Eating that is fine. Red meat? That's fine too. Calories? That's just another, bizarre, name for food. Eating real food is perfectly fine, as long as you are hungry. Counting calories and ignoring your hunger is an eating disorder.
Exercise? That's great for your health and well-being, but it's never going to make you thin. You cannot outrun a bad diet.
There's only one long-term solution that is truly effective. Eat real food, when you are hungry.
Why change is so slow
So if the problem is so huge, and the solution already exists – why is the problem not solved already?
Because of inertia, old dogma and vested interests. Primarily it's just hard for us humans to change our minds. It takes time.
The mistaken fear of natural fat is still just about alive, like some kind of half-dead zombie – even though modern science has thoroughly disproven it. The magazine TIME even put this fact on their cover in 2014. Fearing natural fat leads to even more high-carb, high-sugar junk food – so it's been a really bad idea.
There is also massive money to be made from the status quo. The entire food and pharmaceutical industries depend on it, and they employ armies of lobbyists and even researchers.
The food industry wants to divert the blame from their own bad food (the real problem) to their consumers. Thus their emphasis on calorie counting, "personal responsibility" and exercise.
The pharmacological industry does not want people to get well. It's easy to understand why. That would put them out of business.
The government would love to improve the health of the people, but official agencies move slowly and they are easy prey for trained lobbyists and influencers. Just look at Michelle Obama's sadly failed "Let's Move" campaign. As soon as the junk-food industry got involved it all turned into empty pep talk, with no real change that anybody truly believes in.
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The Food Revolution
This talk from 2016 summarizes the ongoing revolution. How we realize old mistakes and the most effective way to improve our health and weight.
Do you want to help change the world? There are many things you can do. Here are a few suggestions:
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Harmon Kardon AE In-Ear Earphones
One of two pairs of earphones introduced at Apples WWDC.
Harmon Kardon NI In-Ear Earphones
On of two pairs of In-Ear earphones introduced at Apple's WWDC.
Noble 3
"I'll do my best to keep this review nice and short, and hit all the key points. Sections: -Overview about myself (to give background on music preferences, previously owned IEMs, etc.) -Packaging -Build Quality -Cable -Aesthetics -Comfort -Sound -Comparisons Overview I am a college student, and I listen to nearly every type of music; however, I usually listen to EDM,..." --WhatToChoose
Noble 4
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Noble 5
"[Originally posted at Basshead.Club] Crystal clarity, smooth presentation, layered bass, and expressive mids are all hallmarks of this exquisite 5 Balanced Armature receiver IEM from Noble Audio. Noble 5 In the Box Noble 5 Earpieces Crush proof carrying case Cleaning tool 2 audio bands 12 pairs of ear tips (2 types of single flange, double flange, and foam, 3 sizes of..." --Luckbad
Noble 6
" At the time of the review, the Noble 6 universal was was on sale on Noble Audio's website. Here is a link to their listing of the product: http://nobleaudio.com/en/shop/universal/ Introduction My Head-Fi journey continues. Between going to shows and writing reviews I've had opportunities to try some pretty incredible earphones and sources. One of the most..." --Hisoundfi
Noble Audio 3C
"I'm listening to these through a Schiit Modi DAC and Schiit Asgard 2 amplifier (totally overkill for these, but I was listening with DT990's before). I listen mostly to CDs which I own and rip securely, in addition to Spotify's subscription-quality streaming. I'm not very experienced with reviewing headphones, but I will say this: These are my first CIEMs, and with this I purchase..." --Baldoak
Noble Audio 3S
Three balanced-armature silicone CIEM from Noble Audio. Discontinued in March 2016
Noble Audio 4C
"My adventure with Noble begun at the end of 2013. At the time, I was looking over on head fi and Tellement nomade (French reference for audiophile stuff) for an upgrade to my trustful er4pt when I stumbled upon the noble audio thread on head fi. After some research on the web and chat over Facebook with Brannan mason, one of the founders of Noble, I decided to go for the 4 drivers model, well..." --peather
Noble Audio 4S
Four balanced-armature silicone CIEM from Noble Audio. Discontinued in March 2016


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New York, July 14, 2011--The Syrian government has detained a local journalist who contributes to pan-Arab news outlets and expelled an international reporter, according to news reports, continuing a crackdown designed to silence global news coverage of the nation's political crisis.
Do you believe the free flow of information must be protected? Sign the #RightToReport petition and demand that President Obama immediately:
1. Issue a presidential policy directive prohibiting the hacking and surveillance of journalists and media organizations.
2. Limit aggressive prosecutions that ensnare journalists and intimidate whistleblowers.
3. Prevent the harassment of journalists at the U.S. border.
Or click here to see the full petition, and join leading journalists like Christiane Amanpour, The Guardian's Alan Rusbridger, Editor of the AP Kathleen Carroll, and Arianna Huffington in signing on.


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Home > Locations > Elizabethville Area Library > Elizabethville Library Arts Series > 03.13.2011
Sunday, March 13, 2011 – 3:00 pm
Flint Zeigler
Central Pennsylvania native Flint Zeigler brings his roots music to the arts series stage. With influences ranging from Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen to George Jones and Merle Haggard, Zeigler brings a unique voice to his singing and his songwriting. He began his professional career as the lead singer and guitarist of Grantham Road. Zeigler enjoyed success with the band's two albums. But Zeigler says that he "always looked forward to the day when it would just be me and my guitar up there, singing and speaking directly to people's hearts with songs that mean a lot to me."
Mary Kelly
In 1986, Mary Kelly began her work in the arts of spinning and weaving. She, her husband, John, and their two sons restored an 1848 brick farmhouse and several outbuildings in Powell's Valley near Halifax and converted the outbuildings to studios for weaving, spinning, baskets, dried flowers and pottery. In the fall of 2002, after taking early retirement as a corporate trainer at Hershey Chocolate Corporation, Mary took a 10 week "Introduction To Pottery" course at Harrisburg Area Community College and used this as a foundation for teaching others. Mary offers hands-on classes in weaving and pottery to children and adults. She displays her work in a shop in her home as well as at the Millersburg Area Art Association. Her work will be on display at The Library throughout March.
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Europe, Denmark.
Oceania/Australia/New Zealand/Islands
North America
South America
Europe, Denmark
I guess I'd go for Europe, even though I'm not part of that landmass.
Yeah, us brits have our own island, who needs the rest of you losers! :P
Europe, Greece
At Aperture we do all science from scratch! No hand holding!
Europe, Netherlands
Intel i5 3570K @ 4.5GHz | Intel 120GB SSD | ASRock Z77 Extreme4 | ASUS Xonar Essence STX | ASUS GTX670-DCUII
Corsair Vengeance 8GB DDR3 | Corsair H100i | Corsair HX650W | Fractal Design R4 | Dual 23" IPS Monitors| Razer Deathadder | Gigabyte Aivia Osmium
Europe, England, Birmingham.
Want my postal code?
Australia, Queensland, Brisbane.
Asia - Singapore
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/characte...tknight/simple - Retired ( miss my ret paladin )
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/characte...hostx/advanced - alt
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/characte...nknight/simple - Monks are OP ! ( new main )
Kalimdor, Orgrimmar
We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.Man is not free unless government is limited.
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huge caveat like "worst season of all time for a player averaging more than 25 minutes per game"
What is WARP?
WARP stands for Wins Above Replacement Player. The term and concept are borrowed from sabermetrics and, specifically, Baseball Prospectus. Conceptually, the WARP system seeks to evaluate players in the context of a team made up of them and four completely average players. The performance of this team is then compared to that of a team made up of four average players and one replacement-level player. The method draws heavily on the work of Dean Oliver.
What are the benefits of this method?
For one, this rating system is very flexible. Players can be rated on a per-minute basis (using the theoretical "winning percentage" of the team with four average players), in terms of their offense and defense and in terms of their overall value (WARP itself). Using replacement level shows the value of players that can play heavy minutes and avoid injury while continuing to perform above replacement level. Using wins gives a measure of value that is easy to understand and constant over time. Lastly, by eschewing the traditional linear weights method so common in basketball analysis, I believe WARP does a better job of incorporating defensive value.
What are the limitations?
Like all rating systems based on box-score data, WARP cannot account for contributions that are not tracked in the box score, most notably on defense. It does no better than linear weights methods at evaluating players like Bruce Bowen. Also, it requires a number of assumptions - the value of assists, the trade-off between usage and efficiency, and replacement level.
What is replacement level? Why use it?
My colleagues at Baseball Prospectus have defined replacement level as, "the expected level of performance a major-league team can receive from one or more of the best available players who substitute for a suddenly unavailable starting player at the same position and who can be (or were) obtained with minimal expenditure of team resources." In basketball, the concept is slightly different. For example, we look at rotation players, not merely starters. Also, position is less of a factor because the nature of position is more fluid in basketball. The general principle--the production offered by the replacement for an absent player--remains the same.
Players create value for their team by playing better than replacement level. This appropriately awards credit to average players, because they are still an upgrade on freely-available replacements, while not rewarding players simply for being on the court without any level of production. It also allows us to estimate the value of players with varying playing time and productivity and account for durability.
WARP Calculated
Updated WARP statistics are available for all NBA players via the Basketball Prospectus stats pages.
A painstakingly detailed explanation of how WARP is calculated and its assumptions follows.
The first step is evaluating a player's individual performance and efficiency. This requires calculating their points created and their possessions used.
For points, we start with points. To this, we add some credit for assists. Valuing assists is one question statistical analysis remains unable to answer with any degree of certainty, leaving us to use an estimate. I use a value of 0.75 for each assist. This is the same used by Oliver and not dissimilar from the value used by John Hollinger (.66). We also have to take away 0.75 points for each assisted field goal made to balance the ledger. While data on assisted field goals is now available at the invaluable 82games.com, to rate players from the pre-82games era on a level playing field, what I have done is used assisted field goal data to create a regression to estimate it using the share of his team's assists the player distributes, the team's assisted field goal percentage, the player's usage percentage, his offensive rebound rate and the percentage of his shot attempts that are three-pointers.
The complete formula is: TmAst/TmFGM * (1.53 - 1.442 * [Ast/Min / (TmAst/(TmMin/5))] -0.041 * ((OReb/Min)*48) - 0.787*Usage + 0.014*(3A/FGA)^2*(1/Usage)^2)
There was a time when Jason Kidd was considered the worst shooter ever!!!!
the possibility getting his confidence smashed.
quote:Listened to the podcast last night and really enjoyed it. But ask Mcnamara to stop disguising his own questions and complaints about Rivers' critics as those of "fans." Everybody knows he's been carrying the Rivers bandwagon flag since the summer.
Kevin Pelton, the author of the article, was on this podcast talking about the article and a number of the issues brought up in this thread like the benefits of getting experience vs the possibility getting his confidence smashed.
quote:Plus Marion's release is really quick. Rivers has to gather, bring the ball up from his stomach and shoot from his forehead.
The only other perimeter player in the last 20 years that I can think of with form that terrible was Shawn Marion, but he was so physically gifted that he made up for it.
quote:I brought this up during summer league. Its why he has no mid range game, but is shooting ok from 3. There's no way he can gather and get that awkward shot off in traffic, but its not to bad on his catch-and-shoot 3s.
From a mechanical standpoint, Rivers' shot is severely flawed. It's like handing a 3 year old a basketball and watching him shoot. Instead of using one hand to shoot, which follows through directly at the basket, he uses both hands and neither follows through to a "hand in the cookie jar." Proper form is proper for a very good reason.
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How do adults define relationships today? Is having a relationship important for a happy and fulfilling life? Does finding a soul mate really matter? In order to answer these questions, Chemistry.com had Harris Interactive conduct a survey on relationships. Over the next several weeks, we will be revealing the surprising results to this survey.
The majority of unmarried adults (including committed) are looking for a long-term relationship that may or may not lead to marriage or no relationship at all. Most single adults are happy to remain single and dating or in a committed relationship, but not married.
Currently Looking For...
- Long term committed relationship that may or may not lead to marriage -34%
- I am not looking for any type of relationship -28%
- Marriage -18%
- Long-term casual relationship -12%
- Casual sex -3%
- Gay partnership, marriage or civil union -1%
- Decline to answer -3%
Current Relationship Status Preference
- 44% Single and dating
- 38% In a committed relationship, but not married
- 18% Married
Q1015: At this point in your life, which of the following are you looking for? Base: All single respondents, including committed (n=1,180)
Q1025: At this point in your life, would you prefer to be...? Base: All single respondents (n=737)
A large majority of all adults agree that a person can be happy without getting married, and slightly less than half of single adults say they would be happy to live in a committed relationship forever without getting married.
Life Without Marriage
I believe a person can be happy without marriage.
- 4% Not at all important
- 11% Somewhat Important
- 37% Important
- 48% Very Important
I would be happy if I never got married, but lived in a committed relationship forever.
- 46% Not sure
- 28% No
- 26% Yes
Q1080: How strongly do you agree or disagree with the following statements about marriage for you, personally? Base: All respondents (n=2,549)
Q1060: Would you personally be happy if you never got married, but lived in a committed relationship forever? Base: All single respondents (n=737)
Nearly two in three adults say a long-term committed relationship is important for a happy and fulfilling life, a larger proportion than value marriage.
Importance of Marriage vs. Long-Term Committed Relationship for a happy and fulfilling life
- 19% Not at all important
- 27% Somewhat Important
- 27% Important
- 27% Very Important
Long-term committed relationship that may or may not lead to marriage
- 11% Not at all important
- 26% Somewhat Important
- 34% Important
- 29% Very Important
About three in four single adults disagree that marriage is a top priority for them right now. And almost four in ten singles say they are not sure if they ever want to get married.
Views on Marriage
Getting married is a top priority for me right now
- 43% Strongly disagree
- 32% Somewhat disagree
- 20% Somewhat agree
- 4% Strongly agree
I am not sure if I ever want to get married
- 35% Strongly disagree
- 25% Somewhat disagree
- 26% Somewhat agree
- 14% Strongly agree
Q1080: How strongly do you agree or disagree with the following statements about marriage for you, personally? Base: All single respondents (n=737)
A majority of U.S. adults feel that living together and deciding not to marry is acceptable.
Acceptability of couples living together and deciding never to get married
- 38% - 10 Completely Acceptable
- 6% - 9
- 8% - 8
- 5% - 7
- 6% - 6
- 12% - 5
- 4% - 4
- 5% - 3
- 3% - 2
- 13% - 1 Completely Unacceptable
Q1050: On a scale of 1 to 10 where "1" represents completely unacceptable and "10" represents completely acceptable, how acceptable do you think it is when couples in a committed relationship live together and decide they never want to get married? Base: All respondents (n=2,549)
Only a minority of adults view co-habiting couples who decide not to marry negatively, such as afraid of commitment, unconcerned about family values, or unsure of their love for one another.
People who live together in a committed relationship but don't marry…
- Are not worried about what other people think - 64%
- Don't need to marry as long as they are happy - 58%
- Are afraid of commitment - 42%
- Prefer not to abide by society's rules - 32%
- Want to remain financially independent - 30%
- Are not concerned with family values - 27%
- Are free thinkers - 27%
- Are unsure of their love for one another - 27%
- Are open to having affairs - 17%
- Are not interested in having children - 11%
- Are madly in love - 9%
- Other - 9%
Q1045: In your opinion, would you say that people who live together in a committed relationship but don't marry...? *
Base: All respondents (n=2,549) * Multiple responses were allowed.
The key reason that marriage matters is that most adults, regardless of current relationship status, value having a partnership with another human being. Few adults want to get married in order to have children, gain tax benefits, or respond to social or career pressures.
82% of all adults say marriage is important to them.
Reasons why marriage is important
- I want to have a partnership with someone - 63%
- I want to have children - 25%
- It conveys I have a good set of values - 19%
- I want to enjoy the tax benefits - 9%
- It is what people are supposed to do - 8%
- I feel as if there's something swrong with me if I don't get married - 5%
- All my friends are married - 4%
- My parents are nagging me to get married - 1%
- It is important to my career - 1%
- Other - 21%
- Marriage is not important to me - 18%
Q1045: In your opinion, would you say that people who live together in a committed relationship but don't marry...? *
Base: All respondents (n=2,549) * Multiple responses were allowed.
Survey Methodology
Harris Interactive conducted the online survey on behalf of Chemistry.com between March 30 and April 3, 2007, among a nationally representative sample of 2,549 U.S. adults age 18 and older. Figures for region, age within gender, education, household income and race/ethnicity were weighted where necessary to bring them into line with their actual proportions in the population. Propensity score weighting was also used to adjust for respondents propensity to be online.
With a pure probability sample of 2,549, one could say with a 95% probability that the overall results would have a sampling error of +/- 3 percentage points. Sampling error for data based on sub-samples would be higher and would vary. However, that does not take other sources of error into account. This online survey is not based on a probability sample and therefore no theoretical sampling error can be calculated.


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The small, windowless space at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia looks like any eye doctor's examining room, with an adjustable chair and half a dozen machines for testing vision. The 20-year-old patient, however, has not come all the way from Albuquerque to get new glasses. Alisha Bacoccini, who has short, blond-streaked hair and green eyes, was born with a disorder caused by a malfunctioning gene in her retina cells that has been diminishing her sight since birth. Now she sees only pale and blurry shapes. "If I look at you I can't see eye color or acne or your eyebrows, but I can see that someone's there," she says. Her seeing eye dog, Tundra, a black Labrador retriever, sits at her feet.
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A month earlier, in an experimental treatment, researchers injected Bacoccini's right eye—the worse one—with billions of working copies of the retinal cell gene. Now they'll find out if the treatment has worked.
Jean Bennett, a physician and molecular geneticist, has Bacoccini rest her forehead against a small white machine that flashes light into one eye, then the other. This pupillometer will indicate how well Bacoccini's eyes respond to light. "OK, one, two, three, open," Bennett says, and repeats the procedure 16 times. On a computer screen in the darkened room, Bacoccini's pupils are two giant black circles that contract ever so slightly with each pulse of light. Another researcher escorts Bacoccini to the next testing apparatus. Half an hour later, Bennett says: "I just looked at your pupillometry results. Good improvement."
"That's good," Bacoccini says, though she sounds unsure. Since a few days after the injection, she has indeed seen more light out of that eye, she says, but things seem blurrier. When she tries to read a giant eye chart with her right eye, she does no better than before—she can pick out only a few two-inch-high letters from 16 inches away. Then again, her eye is still red from the surgery. Bennett's husband, Albert Maguire, is the retinal surgeon who operated on Bacoccini. He peers into her eye and says the surface hasn't yet healed, adding: "Hopefully, that's all it is."
The prospect of using gene therapy to treat diseases—particularly inherited diseases that involve one errant gene, such as sickle cell anemia and cystic fibrosis—has tantalized scientists for decades. If there were some way to give a patient a good version of an implicated gene, the thinking goes, it might repair or prevent damage caused by the inherited bad one. This seemingly simple idea has turned out to be unexpectedly complex in practice. There have been hundreds of human gene-therapy trials for many diseases, from hemophilia to cancer, in the past 18 years. But nearly all failed because of the difficulties of getting a working gene into cells without also causing harmful side effects.
Until last year, gene therapy had worked unequivocally against only one disease, the rare affliction called severe combined immuno-deficiency (SCID), which is caused by a flaw in any of a number of genes needed to produce white blood cells. The disease leaves the immune system unable to fight infections and usually leads to death in childhood. It is also called "bubble boy" disease, after one famous patient, David Vetter, who lived to age 12 in a sterile plastic bubble. Since the mid-1990s, European researchers have cured about 30 kids with SCID by inserting the appropriate functioning gene into their bone marrow. But even this success has been mixed with tragedy: five of the children developed leukemia and one has died. In those patients, who had a particular variant of the disease, the therapeutic gene accidentally turned on a cancer-causing gene after merging with the patients' DNA. Researchers are now testing ways to make gene therapy for SCID safer.
U.S. gene-therapy research was set back substantially after 18-year-old Jesse Gelsinger, who suffered from an inherited liver disease, died of multiple organ failure in 1999 while participating in a gene-therapy experiment at the University of Pennsylvania. News of the death prompted an uproar in the scientific community and hearings in Congress, with the teenager's father, Paul Gelsinger, and others accusing the Penn researchers of being too hasty to test the treatment in people. According to the Food and Drug Administration, the researchers had not sufficiently warned Gelsinger and his family of the experiment's risks. The lead researcher had also failed to disclose that he had a financial stake in a company that stood to gain if the treatment succeeded. "Those were the terrible days. The field bottomed out," says Leon Rosenberg, a Princeton University human geneticist, who performed early lab studies on the liver disease that Gelsinger had. "The integrity of science was damaged tremendously."
Bennett and Maguire joined the Penn medical school faculty in 1992. One of their colleagues is James Wilson, who oversaw the study in which Gelsinger died. Wilson was subsequently barred by the FDA from conducting human experiments. But Bennett and Maguire were not involved in that study. Their experimental gene-therapy trial began in 2007 after years of review by federal regulators, the Children's Hospital and Penn committees set up to address ethical and safety concerns raised by Gelsinger's death.
This past May, their team and a separate British group reported the first hopeful gene-therapy news in years: the technique could treat blindness. The patients in the study had a disease called Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA). The three patients whom Bennett and Maguire treated were able to read several more lines of an eye chart than they could before. One 26-year-old man even regained enough sight to walk through a maze. "I couldn't believe it," Bennett says. She made him walk the maze over again.
The study was small, and the patients are still legally blind, but their modest improvement and the apparent safety of the therapy have aroused the hopes of patients and researchers around the world. Now Bennett and Maguire are extending the research to more patients with LCA, including Bacoccini, to test whether patients can safely receive higher doses of the therapeutic gene.


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The end of the semester got away from me folks, which means that today's Sounding Cambodia will consist of a lot of links, videos, and topics, with minimal commentary. Lots of important stuff in there, though. Go read!
- Sand mountains during Khmer New Year (Video)
- Cash pledges from politicians – exactly what is going on?
- Violence against Cambodian Labor by the government
- Interviews with Rich Garella of Who Killed Chea Vichea?
- Nuon Chea and Cases 002 and 003 in the Extraordinary Chambers/Khmer Rouge Tribunal
- Would you like some Borax with your Cambodian food? Formalin? You're welcome.
- Tiny Toones NGO – "Hey Babe" video.
- Cambodian Rice Exports to the Philippines
- Judy Ledgerwood's awesome Summer ethnography school in Cambodia
- Damned Dams and their impacts on damned-near everything; an article in Critical Asian Studies by Ian Baird
- Book Review of Constance Wilson's edited volume on the Middle Mekong River Basin
- Thai Politics – an election primer from Duncan McCargo
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ZetZu wrote:mirkosp wrote:Kosmit wrote:Is it just me being blind or blabbler is not on the nominees list for editor of the year?
I think he didn't check his box for nominations...
Well, either that or the "all videos have been entered" one.
I remember him saying he wasn't going to participate in the VCA's a while back.
Indeed. All votes now default to me. ...because I called it.


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I had an interesting talk with a coworker today. He asked what kind of "Survival Training" we did in Scouting. I told him beyond the Wilderness Survival Merit Badge, we don't teach our Scouts to Survive, we teach them skills to live in the outdoors.
Surviving suggests that you were not prepared for, as Baden Powell said "Everything".
Surviving is something that you do when a plane crashes or a you fall off a train in the middle of nowhere.
Skills that allow you to live in the outdoors are more beneficial. Navigation, fire building, cooking, hiking, packing a backpack properly, gathering water, and first aid. These are all living skills not surviving.
As we prepare for our January Camp out we will not be getting ready to survive the cold. We will be preparing to live in the cold. Everything is planned and prepared according to the plan. Menus, snow shoe rentals, packing lists, shake downs and inspections, and of course the camp out itself. To have fun in the wilderness you need to be prepared… not just survive.
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Am I right in thinking that anyone wanting sane tooltips using GTK is to be expected to 'reuse' the code from gnumeric?
There are plans to extract generally useful bits from gnumeric, evolution etc. to a new library. If you want the changes to go into gtk, you could write to firstname.lastname@example.com.


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By Brad Frischkorn
Tokyo stocks rose to their highest level since the devastating March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, as a steadily weaker yen and monetary loosening hopes continued to fuel buying of exporters and financial shares.
Among other Asian markets, Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index rose 0.3% to 22619.78 and Australia's S&P/ASX 200 added 0.3% to 4846.00 as those markets reopened after a two-day Christmas break. The Shanghai Composite, which had notched two days of big gains, pulled back 0.6% to 2205.90.
The Nikkei Stock Average added 92.62 points, or 0.9%, to 10322.98.
"It's all a yen-driven story, with foreign-long interest remaining strong," said Tachibana Securities market analyst Kenichi Hirano. "The Nikkei set off some alarm bells after it hit a fresh year-to-date high; certain global funds could no longer afford to not buy the market. As long as the yen keeps weakening, stocks should continue to benefit from brighter earnings expectations, short-covering, and increasing overseas investor interest."
Trading volume tallied almost 3.5 billion shares—the fifth time in the past eight sessions it has topped 3 billion and indicative of convicted overseas institutional interest.
The so-called 'Abe-Trade', named for new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, a proponent of aggressively loose monetary policy, isn't showing any signs of letting up, said an equity trading director at a foreign brokerage.
"Some say the market is now overbought, but the trend is your friend, and few are willing to risk going short at the moment. Japan is now right in the middle of the radar screen for foreign portfolio managers," the trading director added.
As in recent sessions, exporters continued to lead the market higher, with heavyweight Advantest gaining 2.9% and Tokyo Electron up 1.3%.
Toyota Motor added 2.6%, even as it agreed to pay about $1.1 billion to settle a U.S. class-action suit stemming from 2009-10 recalls related to complaints of unintended acceleration of its vehicles.
Mazda Motor surged 7.1%. Shares benefited from sharp target-price hikes from Nomura Securities, citing a bullish U.S. sales outlook that applied to several players in the industry.
China-sensitive bellwether Fanuc hit a fresh year high en route to a 1.1% gain on growing expectations the Chinese economy will soon bottom out, traders said.
Financial shares were generally higher as well, with Nomura Holdings climbing 4.2% and retail lender Aiful Corp. rising 1.3% on expectations that the new Liberal Democratic Party-led government will loosen financial regulations.
In China, the Shanghai index cooled off from a more than 11% run up so far this December but remained with a small gain for the year with just two trading days to go.
Analysts say the market for yuan-denominated A shares has room to rise early next year given that China's new political leaders have set a positive tone for economic reform. Qian Qimin, analyst with Shenyin Wangguo Securities, noted, however, that "no new policies have come out in recent days to warrant a gain [Thursday]."
Weighing down the market was the cement sector, which had surged in recent days on enthusiasm for China's urbanization plans in 2013. Anhui Conch Cement dropped 2.9% and Fujian Cement fell 2.0%.
Trading of China Vanke, the country's largest property developer by market value, remained halted after the company said earlier in the week it would issue a statement affecting its share price.
The property developer has hired Citic Securities Co. to work out a plan under which it could transfer its Shenzhen-listed, Hong Kong dollar-denominated Class B shares to the Hong Kong stock exchange, the China Business News reported Thursday, citing unnamed sources.
In Hong Kong, China Rongsheng Heavy Industries, China's largest private shipbuilder, slumped 7.4% after it said it expected to incur a 2012 net loss thanks to a "sharp decrease in the orders and prices of vessels."
In Sydney, Fortescue Metals Group climbed 4.1% after the iron-ore producer said it would resume expansion in the new year of its Kings deposit in Australia's resoruce-rich Pilbara region as demand recovers.
Retail stocks advanced as Australian shoppers lapped up post-Christmas sales. Department stores Myer and David Jones gained 2.9% and 3%, respectively. Electrical retailer Harvey Norman climbed 1.6%.
–Chao Deng, Robert Li and Gavin Lower contributed to this article.
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The legend of one of the greatest watchmaking and jewellery institutions is revealed through prestigious gem-set creations, expressing a wealth of exceptional expertise.
At a time when the past is more than ever the inspiration for fashion, there is something especially delightful – like returning to your roots – about rediscovering unique pieces that have successfully interpreted the spirit of their age. Piaget, which initially built its reputation for excellence in watchmaking, subsequently paid tribute to femininity by creating hedonistic, precious jewellery featuring innovative designs. It was to illustrate this rich history that the House has created an exhibition dedicated to the magic of jewellery.


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I've got two books to recommend to all you makers out there. One is for the kids (and maybe the adults) and the other is for the adults (and maybe for some kids). Either way, if you're a DIYer, a tinkerer, a fixer-upper, etc., you'll enjoy both. And hey, they both have duct tape on their covers!
Let's start with the one that's really for kids. It's called Tape It & Make It, and it's written by Richela Fabian Morgan. This 128 page book is a full-color manual for creating 101 different items from — you guessed it — duct tape. Continue Reading "2 Great Books About Making Stuff" »


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Being a female hockey player, there arises some scenarios with having gear fit properly. Due to the shear nature of our bone structure, and in most cases, height, there comes a time when things don't seem "quite right" when trying equipment on. Remember, gear is fit with using a male model as well as foot cast for skates. Men we are not! I have spoken with a number of female customers that seem to have the same issues. There has yet to be a company that can find a good design to fit all shapes and sizes. Even all the way down to our feet, paying close attention to what we choose for gear is essential.
For me, the hardest piece of equipment, I find, to fit properly are skates. Most women's feet, honestly, fit closer to the way a junior skate boot is formed. Yes, most of us are, however, I know that there are many issues we have with finding a skate that fits the space between the boot height and where it's tied and where the top of our feet start, as well as the toe box. Heel lifts, as well as insoles, have been a tremendous help to our female customers, as well as doing slight modifications to the boot. For example; making an additional eyelet, generally where Reebok places their lace locks, minimizes lace bite and makes it easier to tighten the boot around the ankle.
A lower profile skate seems to be best for the structure of our feet, such as a Bauer Vapor or CCM U+ series. I have noticed that the wider toe box on the CCM seems to allow for shorter toes and where they meet our foot. The Vapor series offers a low profile at the top of the foot, leaving "less of a void" between the ankle and the skate. There is always the option to opt for pro tongues, or a thicker tongue to help fill the skate as well.
There are many of us that have no issues with skates, which makes the joy of lacing up a new pair even better! I suggest to try on brands outside your normal comfort zone if you are having skate issues. Even small adjustments like the way you tie your skates, or wearing different socks can make a world of difference!
Work hard, play harder… Always!!