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A FIRE is burning in the unused hearth of the cabin. The fuel blazes up, and lights the black rafters, and warms the faded red lions on the quilt, and fills the little room with a glow of warmth and light made brighter by contrast, for outside the night is chill and misty.
Before the open fire-place sits a stranger, his keen blue eyes studying the fire from beneath delicately-pencilled, drooping eyelids. One white hand plays thoughtfully with a heavy flaxen moustache; yet once he starts, and for an instant the languid lids raise themselves: there is a keen, intent look upon the face as he listens page: 153 for something. Then he leans back in his chair, fills his glass from the silver flask in his bag, and resumes his old posture.
Presently the door opens noiselessly. It is Lyndall, followed by Doss. Quietly as she enters, he hears her, and turns.
"I thought you were not coming."
"I waited till all had gone to bed. I could not come before."
She removed the shawl that enveloped her, and the stranger rose to offer her his chair; but she took her seat on a low pile of sacks before the window.
"I hardly see why I should be outlawed after this fashion," he said, re-seating himself and drawing his chair a little nearer to her; "these are hardly the quarters one expects to find after travelling a hundred miles in answer to an invitation."
"I said, 'Come if you wish.'"page: 154
"And I did wish. You give me a cold reception."
"I could not take you to the house. Questions would be asked which I could not answer without prevarication."
"Your conscience is growing to have a certain virgin tenderness," he said, in a low, melodious voice.
"I have no conscience. I spoke one deliberate lie this evening. I said the man who had come looked rough, we had best not have him in the house; therefore I brought him here. It was a deliberate lie, and I hate lies. I tell them if I must, but they hurt me."
"Well, you do not tell lies to yourself, at all events. You are candid, so far."
She interrupted him.
"You got my short letter?"
"Yes; that is why I come. You sent a very page: 155 foolish reply; you must take it back. Who is this fellow you talk of marrying?"
"A young farmer."
"Lives here?"
"Yes; he has gone to town to get things for our wedding."
"What kind of a fellow is he?"
"A fool."
"And you would rather marry him than me?"
"Yes; because you are not one."
"That is a novel reason for refusing to marry a man," he said, leaning his elbow on the table and watching her keenly.
"It is a wise one," she said shortly. "If I marry him I shall shake him off my hand when it suits me. It is three weeks since I first talked of marrying him, and he has not once dared to kiss my hand. As far as I wish he should come, he comes, and no further. Would page: 156 you ask me what you might and what you might not do?"
Her companion raised the moustache with a caressing movement from his lip and smiled. It was not a question that stood in need of any answer.
"What have you done with the ring I gave you?" he said.
"Sometimes I wear it; then I take it off and wish to throw it into the fire; the next day I put it on again, and sometimes I kiss it."
"So you do love me a little?"
"If you were not something more to me than any other man in the world, do you think—" she paused. "I love you when I see you; but when you are away from me I hate you."
"Then I fear I must be singularly invisible at the present moment," he said. "Possibly if you were to look less fixedly into the fire you might perceive me."page: 157
He moved his chair slightly, so as to come between her and the firelight. She raised her eyes to his face.
"If you do love me," he asked her, "why will you not marry me?"
"Because, if I had been married to you for a year I should have come to my senses and seen that your hands and your voice are like the hands and the voice of any other man. I cannot quite see that now. But it is all madness. You call into activity one part of my nature; there is a higher part that you know nothing of, that you never touch. If I married you, afterwards it would arise and assert itself, and I should hate you always, as I do now sometimes."
"I like you when you grow metaphysical and analytical," he said, leaning his face upon his hand. "Go a little further in your analysis, say, 'I love you with the right ventricle of my heart, but not the left, and with the left auricle page: 158 of my heart, but not the right; and this being the case, my affection for you is not of a duly elevated, intellectual and spiritual nature.' I like you when you get philosophical."
She looked quietly at him; he was trying to turn her own weapons against her.
"You are acting foolishly, Lyndall," he said, suddenly changing his manner, and speaking almost earnestly, "most foolishly. You are acting like a little child; I am surprised at you. It is all very well to have ideals and theories; but you know as well as any one can that they must not be carried into the practical world. I love you. I do not pretend that it is in any high, superhuman sense; I do not say that I should like you as well if you were ugly and deformed, or that I should continue to prize you whatever your treatment of me might be, or to love you though you were a spirit without any body at all. That is sentimentality for beardless boys. page: 159 Every one not a mere child (and you are not a child, except in years) knows what love between a man and a woman means. I love you with that love. I should not have believed it possible that I could have brought myself twice to ask of any woman to be my wife, more especially one without wealth, without position, and whom—"
"Yes—go on. Do not grow sorry for me. Say what you were going to—'who has put herself into my power, and who has lost the right of meeting me on equal terms.' Say what you think. At least we two may speak the truth to one another."
Then she added after a pause,
"I believe you do love me, as much as you possibly could love anything; and I believe that when you ask me to marry you, you are performing the most generous act you ever have performed in the course of your life, or ever will; but, at the same time, if I had required your page: 160 generosity, it would not have been shown me. If, when I got your letter a month ago, hinting at your willingness to marry me, I had at once written, imploring you to come, you would have read the letter. 'Poor little Devil!' you would have said, and torn it up. The next week you would have sailed for Europe, and have sent me a check for a hundred and fifty pounds (which I would have thrown in the fire), and I would have heard no more of you." The stranger smiled. "But because I declined your proposal, and wrote that in three weeks I should be married to another, then what you call love woke up. Your man's love is a child's love for butterflies. You follow till you have the thing, and break it. If you have broken one wing, and the thing flies still, then you love it more than ever, and follow till you break both; then you are satisfied when it lies still on the ground."page: 161
"You are profoundly wise in the ways of the world; you have seen far into life," he said.
He might as well have sneered at the firelight.
"I have seen enough to tell me that you love me because you cannot bear to be resisted, and want to master me. You liked me at first because I treated you and all men with indifference. You resolved to have me because I seemed unattainable. This is all your love means."
He felt a strong inclination to stoop down and kiss the little lip that defied him; but he restrained himself. He said quietly,
"Well, since you will not marry me, may I inquire what your intentions are, the plan you wrote of. You asked me to come and hear it, and I have come."
"I said, 'Come if you wish.'—If you agree to it, well; if not, I marry on Monday."
She was still looking beyond him at the fire.page: 162
"I cannot marry you," she said slowly, "because I cannot be tied; but if you wish, you may take me away with you, and take care of me; then when we do not love any more we can say good-bye. I will not go down-country," she added; "I will not go to Europe. You must take me to the Transvaal. That is out of the world. People we meet there we need not see again in our future lives."
"Oh, my darling," he said, bending tenderly, and holding his hand out to her, "why will you not give yourself entirely to me? One day you will desert me and go to another."
She shook her head without looking at him.
"No, life is too long. But I will go with you."
"To-morrow. I have told them that before daylight I go to the next farm. I will write from the town and tell them the facts. I do not page: 163 want them to trouble me; I want to shake myself free of these old surroundings; I want them to lose sight of me. You can understand that is necessary for me."
He seemed lost in consideration; then he said,
"It is better to have you on those conditions than not at all. If you will have it, let it be so."
He sat looking at her. On her face was the weary look that rested there so often now when she sat alone. Two months had not passed since they parted; but the time had set its mark on her. He looked at her carefully, from the brown, smooth head to the little crossed feet on the floor. A worn look had grown over the little face, and it made its charm for him stronger. For pain and time, which trace deep lines and write a story on a human face, have a strangely different effect on one face and another. page: 164 The face that is only fair, even very fair, they mar and flaw; but to the face whose beauty is the harmony between that which speaks from within and the form through which it speaks, power is added by all that causes the outer man to bear more deeply the impress of the inner. The pretty woman fades with the roses on her cheeks, and the girlhood that lasts an hour; the beautiful woman finds her fulness of bloom only when a past has written itself on her, and her power is then most irresistible when it seems going.
From under their half-closed lids the keen eyes looked down at her. Her shoulders were bent; for a moment the little figure had forgotten its queenly bearing, and drooped wearily; the wide, dark eyes watched the fire very softly.
It certainly was not in her power to resist him, nor any strength in her that made his own at that moment grow soft as he looked at her.page: 165
He touched one little hand that rested on her knee.
"Poor little thing!" he said; "you are only a child."
She did not draw her hand away from his, and looked up at him.
"You are very tired?"
She looked into his eyes as a little child might whom a long day's play had saddened.
He lifted her gently up, and sat her on his knee.
"Poor little thing!" he said.
She turned her face to his shoulder, and buried it against his neck; he wound his strong arm about her, and held her close to him. When she had sat for a long while, he drew with his hand the face down, and held it against his arm. He kissed it, and then put it back in its old resting-place.page: 166
"Don't you want to talk to me?"
"Have you forgotten the night in the avenue?"
He could feel that she shook her head.
"Do you want to be quiet now?"
They sat quite still, excepting that only sometimes he raised her fingers softly to his mouth.
Doss, who had been asleep in the corner, waking suddenly, planted himself before them, his wiry legs moving nervously, his yellow eyes filled with anxiety. He was not at all sure that she was not being retained in her present position against her will, and was not a little relieved when she sat up and held out her hand for the shawl.
"I must go," she said.
The stranger wrapped the shawl very carefully about her.page: 167
"Keep it close around your face, Lyndall; it is very damp outside. Shall I walk with you to the house?"
"No. Lie down and rest; I will come and wake you at three o'clock."
She lifted her face that he might kiss it, and, when he had kissed it once, she still held it that he might kiss it again. Then he let her out. He had seated himself at the fire-place, when she re-opened the door.
"Have you forgotten anything?"
She gave one long, lingering look at the old room. When she was gone, and the door shut, the stranger filled his glass, and sat at the table sipping it thoughtfully.
The night outside was misty and damp; the faint moonlight, trying to force its way through the thick air, made darkly visible the outlines of the buildings. The stones and walls were moist, page: 168 and now and then a drop, slowly collecting, fell from the eaves to the ground. Doss, not liking the change from the cabin's warmth, ran quickly to the kitchen door-step; but his mistress walked slowly past him, and took her way up the winding foot-path that ran beside the stone wall of the camps. When she came to the end of the last camp, she threaded her way among the stones and bushes till she reached the German's grave. Why she had come there she hardly knew; she stood looking down. Suddenly she bent and put one hand on the face of a wet stone.
"I shall never come to you again," she said.
Then she knelt on the ground, and leaned her face upon the stones.
"Dear old man, good old man, I am so tired!" she said (for we will come to the dead to tell secrets we would never have told to the living). "I am so tired. There is light, there page: 169 is warmth," she wailed; "why am I alone, so hard, so cold? I am so weary of myself! It is eating my soul to its core,—self, self, self! I cannot bear this life! I cannot breathe, I cannot live! Will nothing free me from myself?" She pressed her cheek against the wooden post. "I want to love! I want something great and pure to lift me to itself! Dear old man, I cannot bear it any more! I am so cold, so hard, so hard; will no one help me?"
The water gathered slowly on her shawl, and fell on to the wet stones; but she lay there crying bitterly. For so the living soul will cry to the dead, and the creature to its God; and of all this crying there comes nothing. The lifting up of the hands brings no salvation; redemption is from within, and neither from God nor man; it is wrought out by the soul itself, with suffering and through time.
Doss, on the kitchen door-step, shivered, and page: 170 wondered where his mistress stayed so long; and once, sitting sadly there in the damp, he had dropped asleep, and dreamed that old Otto gave him a piece of bread, and patted him on the head, and when he woke his teeth chattered, and he moved to another stone to see if it was drier. At last he heard his mistress's step, and they went into the house together. She lit a candle, and walked to the Boer-woman's bed-room. On a nail under the lady in pink hung the key of the wardrobe. She took it down and opened the great press. From a little drawer she took fifty pounds (all she had in the world), relocked the door, and turned to hang up the key. The marks of tears were still on her face, but she smiled.
"Fifty pounds for a lover! A noble reward!" she said, and opened the wardrobe and returned the notes to the drawer.
Once in her own room, she arranged the page: 171 few articles she intended to take to-morrow, burnt her old letters, and then went back to the front-room to look at the time. There were two hours yet before she must call him. She sat down at the dressing-table to wait, and leaned her elbows on it, and buried her face in her hands. The glass reflected the little brown head with its even parting, and the tiny hands on which it rested. Presently she looked up. The large, dark eyes from the glass looked back at her. She looked deep into them.
"We are all alone, you and I," she whispered; "no one helps us, no one understands us; but we will help ourselves." The eyes looked back at her. There was a world of assurance in their still depths. So they had looked at her ever since she could remember, when it was but a small child's face above a blue pinafore they had looked from. "We shall never be quite alone, page: 172 you and I," she said; "we shall always be together, as we were when we were little."
The beautiful eyes looked into the depths of her soul.
"We are not afraid; we will help ourselves!" she said. She stretched out her hand and pressed it over them on the glass. "Dear eyes! we will never be quite alone till they part us;—till then!"


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You were lucky with the Lamas. I forgot to tell you that sometimes they seem to be chewing something, but they are just preparing a big shot of "Spit" that goes directly into your face hahaha.
Hotel Diego de Almagro - too good to leave
Trip Start Oct 20, 2009
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We had to push ourselves to leave this lovely hotel in which everything was working. It was so luxurious, even the pile in the carpet was deep and new.
Our aim was to travel about 320 kilometers to cross into Bolivia this day, and rest for the night in Curahuara, just 200 kilometers short of La Paz, which we should cover the next day.
We entered The Andes again and were riding eastward. We were now travelling through much more fertile areas. It was much greener and we saw many vicuna (of the llama family) roaming the fields along the roadside, with plenty to eat.
We approached a small town, Putre, which, according to the map, had fuel
We drove right through the cobbled "main" street to the end and didn't spot a petrol station. Lou got off his bike to ask someone, and, yes, there was fuel available, in the shop we'd passed coming down.
The shop provided fuel, groceries, meat and showers. I think it also accommodated trekkers. From the front you wouldn't know it stocked anything, but at least it sorted out our fuel problem.
We gained altitude again through more and more spectacular scenery and approached the border of Chile and Bolivia at about 4,000 meters. It was most unnerving. We were all puffing and walking very slowly, sucking in as much air as we could while our mouths became dryer and dryer. Everything took a long time to do, physically. We leaned on the counters of the immigration office and sat in the chairs in customs. It was very debilitating. We had to walk from one building to another with our paperwork, but our feet felt like they were not touching the ground
Crops were planted right up high in the mountains, and no land seemed to be wasted. There was a good deal of water available, and it had stared drizzling and became very cold when we rode into Curahuara and booked into the quaint little Hostal Kory Wara at $20 US per night. We were all exhausted, but the essentials still had to be done before we could settle. The Hostal owner also sold fuel, so the bikes were fueled up. All the baggage had to be brought inside the rooms and the Zumo's disconnected. The bikes were covered for the night and we shuffled into our rooms for some quick shut eye before dinner. Headaches all round made us a bit withdrawn and each looked forward to a good nights' sleep.
The pet baby llama at the Hostal, named "Castro" was very cute and kept nuzzling up to me. I asked where his mother was and the Hostal owner said "No mamma, me papa".
Well, for $20 per night it doesn't take much imagination to conjure up an idea of what the Hostal was like. I can't go into what it didn't have but it did have a bed, a toilet and a shower of sorts. The owner also seemed to have everything which we wanted to buy as well, meals, water and fruit. We gave his 2 little boys some koalas.
None of us slept well, and we all took some medicine for our headaches.

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By Ben Levisohn
It's been a heady week for solar stocks, following the First Solar (FSLR)-inspired surge that sent the Guggenheim Solar ETF (TAN) spiking 18% this week. The size of the move has nearly everyone asking, "What just happened?" Axiom Capital's Gordon Johnson is looking to sell.
His pick: JA Solar (JASO). In a note today, Johnson writes that JA Solar reported stronger shipments when it released earnings in March, but its average-selling price was far lower than competitors like Trina Solar (TSL) and Yingli Green Energy (YGE). Johnson believes that's because JA Solar has more exposure to the Chinese market than some of its competitors.
Johnson also worries that JA will suffer from tighter credit conditions caused by Suntech Power Holding's (STP) default and bankruptcy. He sees "heightened liquidity risk for all Chinese solar names" and adds that could be particularly problematic for "JASO given its position in non-Chinese markets as a 'tier 2" vendor'…"
His advice: Short the stock.
JA Solar has gained 2.25% to $4.55 today, Trina Solar has dropped 1.2% to $4.21, Suntech has risen 21% to 89 cents, First Solar has advanced 2,.5% to $37.23 and Yingliis unchanged at $2.15.


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Spider TinyEar
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Auvio In Ear Armature Headphones
" I was trying to be generous with this review, I had these for fewer than two hours because of the comfort, They ACTUALLY cut up my ear canals, there is no exaggeration, my ears bled, and I've never been a fan of foam tips. Foam tips get ripped up, and really feel insecure in my ears, plus the plastic tube can become exposed and creates a level of discomfort greater than that of the silicon..." --ffdpmaggot
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Pipe Spool Fabrication Simulation Model Labban, R., Abourizk, S., Haddad, Z, El-Sersy, A., I3M Conference 2013, Athens
When dealing with larger and more complex construction operations, which are more difficult to manage using traditional project management tools, computer simulation methods have shown to be effective in designing and analyzing construction processes, regardless of the complexity or size. A simulation model can be built to describe the construction activities of a scope of work ranging from large, complex industrial projects to a simple room of a small building. Using simulation, engineers can test out different construction scenarios, estimate resource utilization and find bottlenecks, and forecast time and cost requirements without having to go to site.» Mehr lesen
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Electric Vehicle Driver Simulation using Agent-Based Modeling Beaudry Kock, Recargo, Inc., 2014
Recargo has been developing an agent-based model with the AnyLogic tool to help us simulate the charging patterns of electric vehicle drivers in California. Our goal is to better understand the potential value from delivering electricity grid services with these vehicles. Development has only been underway for a few weeks, but in that time we've been able to use AnyLogic's accessible interface and Java coding tools to quickly build and test a proof-of-concept model with which we can explore the potential for a more sophisticated and complex effort.» Mehr lesen
Development of an Agent-Based Model for the Secondary Threat Resulting from a Ballistic Impact Event Matthew J. Bova, Frank W. Ciarallo, Raymond R. Hill
The process by which a high-velocity impact event leads to fire ignition onboard military vehicles is complex, influenced by the interaction of heated debris fragments and fuel spurting from ruptured tanks. An assessment of the risk of such a fire begins with a complete characterization of the secondary threat resulting from the impact, including debris fragment sizes, states of motion, and thermal properties. In the aircraft survivability community, there is a need for an analytical tool to model this complete threat.» Mehr lesen
Comparison between Individual-based and Aggregate Models in the context of Tuberculosis Transmission Tian, Y. and Osgood, N., Proceedings, The 29 th International conference of the System Dynamics Society. July 2011, Washington, D.C.
The desire to better understand the transmission of infectious disease in the real world has motivated the representation of epidemic diffusion in the context of quantitative simulation. In recent decades, both individual-based (such as Agent-Based) models and aggregate models (such as System Dynamics) are widely used in epidemiological modeling. This paper compares the difference between system dynamics models and agent-based models in the context of Tuberculosis (TB) transmission, considering smoking as a risk factor.» Mehr lesen
Representing Progression and Interactions of Comorbidities in Aggregate and Individual-Based Systems Models Osgood, N. Proceedings, The 27th International Conference of the System Dynamics Society, July 2009, Albuquerque
Healthcare simulation models have attracted significant offered important insights in to health policy selection. More complete accounting for the cost and health implications of upstream interventions is hindered by the need to consider impact on, and interactions between, multiple comorbidities. Within this paper, we explore several distinct approaches for representing comorbidities, some of them at the aggregate level, and some of them at the individual level. All of these representations have the virtue of being declarative, in that they allow the user to focus on what is to be characterized, rather than how it is to be implemented. Our exploration suggests that while several aggregate representations of comorbidities are possible, they suffer from a variety of shortcomings, ranging from low fidelity to combinatorial blowup. While individual-level representations impose a heavy performance load, greater difficulties in calibration and less rapid analysis, such representations do offer greater transparency, modifiability, scalability, and modularity, and ease of representing transmission and influence networks. With much to recommend each approach, further research is needed to shed additional light on the tradeoffs and identify situations where one representation is preferable to another.» Mehr lesen
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While the System Dynamics modeling process can yield invaluable high level insights, it gives rise to a tremendous amount of detail complexity. In the course of their work, modelers must track successive model versions, the motivation for and assumptions underlying particular "what if" scenarios, and the implicit relationships between scenarios, model versions and various external artifacts such as spreadsheets, symbolic mathematics calculations, and external documentation.» Mehr lesen
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Catastrophic events such as hurricanes, earthquakes or floods require emergency responders to rapidly distribute emergency relief supplies to protect the health and lives of victims. In this paper we develop a simulation and optimization framework for managing the logistics of distributing relief supplies in a multi-tier supply network. The simulation model captures optimized stocking of relief supplies, distribution operations at federal or state-operated staging facilities, demand uncertainty, and the dynamic progression of disaster response operations. We apply robust optimization techniques to develop optimized stocking policies and dispatch of relief supplies between staging facilities and points of distribution. The simulation framework accommodates a wide range of disaster scenarios and stressors, and helps assess the efficacy of response plans and policies for better disaster response.» Mehr lesen
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Although research into simulation of construction continues to advance and thrive in the academic world, application of simulation in the construction industry remains limited. Stakeholders on construction projects have yet to adopt simulation as their default tool of choice for managing large complex projects, instead of traditional techniques, which are often inadequate. This paper describes the building of an asphalt paving simulator, as an example of the rigor and effort required in developing construction simulation models, and then briefly describes an alternative model building method currently being researched which may potentially make it easier and faster for stakeholders to quickly build construction simulation models.» Mehr lesen


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Capt Jack asked to be dropped because he was upset about a dog food issue. You can probably still find the thread by a search.
It got pretty nasty and he was terribly upset and nasty himself. The janitor unsuccessfully tried to cool both parties down but Capt Jack resigned so to speak.
I forget the name of the dog food but it was my understanding that Capt Jack had a dog die because of the food.


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Check out the comments, these kids/adults are friggin ridiculious. All Sanchez over there. One comment said henne would struggle Alot and another said Sanchez can take the Jets 11-5....where has football logic gone?
Check out the comments, these kids/adults are friggin ridiculious. All Sanchez over there. One comment said henne would struggle Alot and another said Sanchez can take the Jets 11-5....where has football logic gone?
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Be happy we are in a discussion. The jets get more press, and I doubt most talking knew Henne was on the Dolphins or even a QB for that matter. You are looking for logic on a podcast? Relax...
Personally, I'm happy the Miami / Jet rivalry is coming back in a big way.
Relax? First off its a general question not an overall outlloOk I was searching. Also in a debate over two rival quarterbacks a logical comparison is always nice to read aside from "henne sucks" "jets d number 1" "sanchez has this/that" just say'n
You won't find many, if any, people who would say the Dolphins had a better recieving corp than the Jets did last year. On top of that the Jets had the #1 defense and a better running game and yet with all that Henne completed a higher percentage of passes, had as many TDs in less games, threw for more yards and had less interceptions but Sun-chez is somehow the second coming. Whatever....
Hey. It's not really fair because Henne sat a year and learned behind one of the smartest QB's of all time in Chad Pennington. Mark Sanchez came in as a rookie and started. A year (or more) on the bench has does good for a lot of payers (Tom Brady, Steve Young, Brett Favre, etc). Not comparing Henne with those players, but just again pointing out the positives of sitting & learning.
Edit: So who do you think would perform better, rookie Henne or second year Henne? If you guys started rookie Henne in 2008 would you have gone 11-5? I very much doubt it.
Just proves how delusional jets fans are
With the same wr's as sanchez, he would of done better his rookie year. A quarterback is only as good as his line and his wr let him be.
And cue nyjunc in 3, 2, 1.....
Is Sanchez even the third best in the division? I think not.
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Radio project reaches out to inmates and their families, breaking the silence around America's prisons
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It started with a chess game. Volunteer radio DJ Nick Szuberla challenged the Wallens Ridge State Prison to offer up its most skilled inmate for a match.
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The game took five months to complete. Szuberla would announce his move over the airwaves each week. Then a letter would make its way to the station from the prison in Wise County, Va., issuing a counterstrike.
The DJ lost to Big Daddy Duke.
"Holler to the Hood," Szuberla's hip-hop program, was the only one like it in central Appalachia's sea of bluegrass. Back when the 1,200-bed prison opened in April 1999, prisoners were shipped into Virginia from around the country—and the number of people listening to the community radio show increased dramatically. "We were a friendly voice in an unfriendly situation," he says. The request line lit up. Letters started pouring in from prisoners—some of them describing human rights abuses. "We got a couple hundred in the first few weeks of the prison opening," Szuberla says.
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Coal mining was the major employer in that region for decades. As the process became more mechanized, the local economy tanked. To shore things up, states in the area built prisons as a form of economic development. Hence: Wallens Ridge, Virginia's second major supermax prison. Szuberla's from nearby Whitesburg, Ky., a town that's not even twice the size of the prison's population. (About 2,100 people live in Whitesburg, according to the 2010 Census.)
With this newfound audience reaching out to him, Szuberla organized a day where families and friends of prisoners could call and be broadcast on the radio. He wasn't sure what to expect. As the day began, some people rang the station to say they were upset about the show. Correction officials disliked it, too, and were vocal about it on the airwaves: The prisoners don't deserve this, they said.
"We have a nation inside a nation."
-Nick Szuberla, Thousand Kites founder, on America's 2.3 million incarcerated citizens
Then kids started calling in. Their families couldn't afford the prison's costly phone rates, so they hadn't spoken to their parents in months. Family members from other states began offering shout-outs to incarcerated relatives whose locations were unknown. The nearest bus station to the prison is about three-and-a-half hours away, and the nearest airport is about the same. Spouses, mothers, grandmothers—
The criminal justice system touches every family in the country, Szuberla says. "We have a nation inside a nation." According to the Bureau of Justice, there are about 2.3 million U.S. citizens in prison or jail. The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world.
By the end of that experimental call-in day, some of the very same people who'd criticized the project called back to commend it—even a few correctional officers. "We found a way to use radio to crack open the silence around this issue."
After recognizing the disconnect between communities and prisoners, Szuberla created the Thousand Kites project. A "kite" is prison slang for a message. Using low-cost video and radio, the project collects stories about the justice system and then tries to get those stories into the prisons—and back out—to spark a dialogue. He's trying to create a feedback loop between those incarcerated and those outside. This can help break down stereotypes, he says, but the simple act of story gathering has also become the catalyst for political action. Gradually, as more people connect and become involved, grassroots movements emerge that seek to reform the prisons in their areas.
"People start off by wanting to connect and give updates and share that level of story," he says. "But then they begin doing analysis, sharing, looking at policies and laws and how to get involved. To me, it's not so much about the content. It's about folks breaking the silence."
The project often reignites relationships between families and their imprisoned relatives. "You have folks who are incarcerated for long sentences often who have little contact with families." Studies have shown that recidivism drops when there is frequent communication with the outside world.
New Mexico is home to 10 prisons. Six are state-run, and four are privately operated. There are about 6,300 inmates in our state, according to the Corrections Department. The Media Literacy Project invited Szuberla to spend a few days in Albuquerque collecting narratives. He gave a presentation in mid-August at the South Valley's La Plazita Institute, a community organization that works with incarcerated and gang-involved youth. A roomful of people shared their stories. Here are a few.
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Bineshi Albert
She's seen it all from the outside.
Bineshi Albert has five siblings. Her three brothers have all been incarcerated at some point, she says, and one of her sisters did time in the juvenile system. "We were all raised the same," she says, "but we made different choices."
Her two younger brothers were convicted of assault together, she says, but one was 15 and the other was 16. The younger of the two was tried as a juvenile, and the older brother was tried as an adult. The family was able to visit the juvenile offender consistently. It was far more difficult to do that with the teen who was tried as an adult.
"There's so much disconnect from their family and being a human person. This letter reminds them that they belong to somebody."
Though they committed a crime together, their punishments diverged, Albert says, and it shows in the results. The younger brother is enrolled in college, and the older brother picks up odd jobs with anyone who's willing to hire him. "It's difficult for him to rent a home, to get a job, to get a scholarship. It's a challenging situation for him to be able to survive and maintain staying out of the system."
Albert has struck up a romantic relationship with a former felon. She's known him since middle school, when he first broke the law. Years later, during the last stretch he served, she sent him letters frequently. "It's like food for them. There's so much disconnect from their family and being a human person. This letter reminds them that they belong to somebody, that they belong to a family."
She also sent along political magazines and information about the larger world. "Those are like gold inside," she says. "Everybody was just hungry to have something to read." The people who have reading material are the hotshots, she says.
Albert says her story—her history of interacting with the penal system, of visiting loved ones in jail and sending up kites—is not an uncommon one. "As a Native person, it's scary to know that the statistics for even my one family are true for a lot of families."
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Erick Pacheco
Overall, he estimates he did seven calendars—seven years in lockup.
Erick Pacheco went in and out. "It was a revolving door," he says.
There was even a time in the late '90s when Pacheco was not incarcerated but banned from the Southeast side of Albuquerque. He had to get a travel permit from his parole officer to visit his grandmother. Upon his release in 2006, Pacheco was ready for things to be different.
That's why he says he's working at La Plazita Institute, to give back to the community, since he took so much away from it.
"When I thought I was a convict, that's what I was. Today, I think of myself as a good father."
Pacheco is a senior majoring in psychology at UNM, but for a good chunk of his life, he was under the delusion that jail was his home. His time in the outside word seemed like a vacation. He didn't have contact with his family. "My mother and them sort of cut the cables on me," he says. "I'm the black sheep in the family. I'm the first one to ever go to prison." His lack of contact with ideas and people beyond the walls made prison more in focus, he says. "I guess you could say it made me forget the outside."
He saw fellow inmates calling their girlfriends or moms just to get in an argument, then hang up on them, then call them back to fight some more. The phone calls could cost $15 for 15 minutes. "That conversation of stress just cost you $100." Whose fault is that? he asks. The prison? The phone company? "Or is it the guy making the damn phone call, putting his family through the expense because he wants to visit now?"
For Pacheco, the path to healing has been about taking responsibility. You can't wait for the system to change, he says. You have to change yourself. "When I thought I was a gangster, when I thought I was a dope fiend, when I thought I was a convict, that's what I was. Today, I think of myself as a good father. I've been there for my 4-year-old every day. I see myself as an A-plus student, and that's what I am. The only thing that changed in my life was my perception about what I was."
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Shishmon Bailey
Shishmon Baily didn't get into trouble with the law until late in life. He retired from the military after two decades with the Navy. At 46-years-old, things went south, and he went to prison. He did some time in Otero County, then was transferred to Los Lunas. He got out in 2008.
Communication, he says, is key. "Without the audience on the outside, we might as well be dead." He says friends and family should know that face-to-face visits are essential—otherwise, the info they get about inmates might not be 100 percent accurate. All mail going to and from New Mexico prisons is inspected, according to the Offender Family Guidebook, and pornography, gang-related materials and contraband are not allowed. But Bailey maintains that other topics are sometimes censored, too. "They can tell you anything about me. I can write you a letter to tell you what's going on, and they'll censor the letter as it's going out." If there's too much about the workings of the prison, the letter might not make it through at all, he adds.
"Without the audience on the outside, we might as well be dead."
Bailey's advice for prisoners is simple: Get as much training for the outside world as you can. Take all the classes and go through all the programs. That way, a former inmate can say, I may have been incarcerated, but please give me a chance.
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Khadijah Bottom
Khadijah Bottom's son was sentenced to 13 years in late 2001. He was on the hook with other defendants for the same crime, she says, but he received the stiffest penalty. "It was one of those discriminatory sentences," she says. "There's a difference in how African-Americans are perceived in the judicial system, and it's blatant." African-Americans make up 2 percent of New Mexico's population, according to the census, but make up about 9 percent of its prison population. "Something is wrong with that picture, and it's not being addressed."
Bottom held on tight as soon as her son entered the system. "I'm one of those: You can't stop me when you got mine." When they sentenced her son, they sentenced her, too, she says. "My son was one of the fortunate ones because he had his mom, and he had his siblings." There was something to come home for. "As Jesse Jackson used to say, he was able to keep hope alive." If a person doesn't have inklings of hope for tomorrow, she adds, they just get better at doing whatever got them in trouble in the first place. "You feel like don't nobody give a damn no way." Someone has to cheer you on, she says, to tell you, You can do this. "It's not OK what you did, but it's OK because we can get past it. We're going to do this. It's a process. And without a doubt, it's not going to be easy. You're going to stumble, but I'm going to keep you from falling."
"It's not going to be easy. You're going to stumble, but I'm going to keep you from falling."
People in prison need contact, she says, any kind of contact. They need to hear someone say hello through the phone with a smile in their voice.
"A lot of people don't have support," she says. Without help, upon release, you've got a bull's eye on your back, she adds, and you're going to prison again. "We as a whole society and community have to start looking at them as returning citizens."
The government treats people like commodities, Bottom says. "Our state is capitalizing off incarcerating people. Where is the compassion in that?"
You wouldn't know it to look at her, but Sandra spent nine years in jail and been out for five. She didn't want to use her real name in this story because she says it might hurt her professionally.
Still, she's looking for resources for the other women she met in prison who will exiting soon. "I want to help them as much as possible."
Sandra is the mother of three children, and during nearly a decade in prison, she missed a lot of their childhood. But she called home whenever she could, trading in precious commissary food money for phone cards. The calls meant a lot to her, she says. "I still got to know my kids' voices and got to be a part of their lives, if even in a little way." But it was hard because she wasn't actually there. Sometimes, she learned after her release, her kids didn't want to worry her with things happening in their lives that she couldn't help with or affect.
"I still got to know my kids' voices and got to be a part of their lives, if even in a little way."
Seeing her kids grow up was a constant inspiration for Sandra to be a better woman, she says. Losing that connection, she adds, creates hopelessness and desolation in prisoners.
As hard as it is being imprisoned, leaving isn't easy. If your family members haven't been to prison, there's no one to talk to about the transition. "The women who are incarcerated, I want them to know it's hard work being out here, but it's worth it. The women I've met who are incarcerated are so much better than prison." Sandra wishes they would not only seek family and friends but talk to and support each other on the inside, too.
"And if you have a loved one who's been locked up, don't give up on them."
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I lean against continuing and/or escalating the conflict, but I'm not immune to argument. At one point I was surprisingly hawkish on the issue. But right now, I want to hear the articulation for WHY we're doing this coming from the top--not coming from my own or others' speculation. I want to judge whether those doing the sending-in-harm's-way can clearly and convincingly articulate why they are doing so.
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Yodsaenklai Fairtex vs Artem Levin 2008
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Artem's come a long way since 2008, but in this bout in Sweden, he was just starting to break out internationally. He's a tall, craft fighter who uses the advantages of his build well in the ring. He's got a fair bit of athleticism in his frame, too. He wears the blue gloves in this bout.
Yodsaenklai Fairtex at the time already was one of the most famous Thai nak muays on the planet. Before fighting internationally, he'd had a distinguished career in Thailand, winning a Lumpini title at 115 lb flyweight. He steadily moved up in weight in Thailand, fighting other highly ranked fighters like Sam-A Thor Ratanakiat, Orono Wor Petchpun, and Ponsaneh Sitmonchai, before moving from Petchyindee to Fairtex and fighting internationally at 70 kg, 154 lb.
Before this first match with Artem -- they would rematch at 75 kg, 165 lb, in the 2010 Sport Accord games in Beijing -- Yodsaenklai had met Farid Villaume and John Wayne Parr twice in the ring. The Contender Asia broadcast was drawing to a close and he was close to the height of his international regard, so a win over him would have definitely propelled Artem into the top ranks.
This bout is under K-1 rules. Yodsaenklai wears red gloves.
Thanks to irelandsjohn for this video (Does that mean Ireland's toilet? Never mind. Cool guy, I'm sure.). Artem's game has come a long way since this fight. His technique is already quite good, though, particularly those wicked teeps. He shows good use of distance and outpoints Yod in the first. Unfortunately, he seems to reach the end of his bag of tricks in the second and allows Yod to bomb on him from inside hook and uppercut range. Yod's power in his kicks is often commented on, but people are also quick to note the power in his hands. The second fight with Villaume showed the stopping power of his bodyshots and we saw him put together quick stoppages in the Contender Asia and the short-lived World KO Series. After being muscled around a bit in the first, his punching seems on point in pressuring Artem and causing him to turtle. Once Yodsanklai unravels Artem's guard, the taller fighter quickly finds himself deposited on the ropes.
Footwork comes into play here, as Artem seems significantly less fleet in lateral movement and resetting his base, contributing to Yodsaenklai's cornering of him. The difference in experience showed, as well. Yod's rhythm in this fight was unperturbed by Artem's active first round, while Artem allowed himself to be shut down to some degree. Both fighters have accomplished a lot since this, with Artem developing more as a fighter. I'll follow up with posts on both, because they've beaten some very noteworthy names between the two of them. Both regularly compete as high as 76-77 kg now, a good weight for Artem, but one where Yodsaeklai gives up a lot in size of frame.


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Holy crap, these two figures are SWEET! It's a shame the movie sucked so badly, since some of the toys are bloody amazing, and both versions of Cobra Commander rank really highly. I'm going to buy up the rest of the store's stock (only a couple figures each), so I can keep my original plan of using them for parts and have some "unadulterated" versions. Strangely enough, I can actually see the parts being useful for characters like Adele Burkhart and Dr. Biggles-Jones as well as unmasked Snake Eyes.
In the meantime, here's what I did with the ones I got. Just a simple head and accessory swap to create a made-up assistant for Dr. Venom (who's still unfinished, since he's going to require some painting). I call him Larry.
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This is the line of two-packs that include the new Saga Legends-style figures with five points of articulation. Currently, we know about:
1. Star Destroyer - Darth Vader and Seeker Droid
2. Coruscant - Anakin Skywalker and 501st Legion Trooper
3. Geonosis - Battle Droid and Jango Fett
4. Utapau - Battle Droid and 212th Attack Battalion Clone Trooper
In the four sets that have already been confirmed and shown, the battle droids are repacks and some of the characters are exclusive to the line (Vader, Seeker Droid, Jango) while others are repacks or repaints of figures from the main upcoming Saga Legends line (Anakin, Clones).
FlyGuy.net recently revealed a few more sets, which include:
*Mandalore - Darth Maul and Obi-Wan Kenobi
*Death Star - Han Solo and Chewbacca
*Tantive IV - R2-D2 and C-3PO
*Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker
Toy Fair had a version of the droids set, but it showed an animated R2-D2 and a realistic C-3PO, and both were repacks, so I assume they will be different in the final version. I bet R2 will be a repaint of the upcoming R4-P17.
What's most intriguing is the Mandalore set - Maul and Obi-Wan met there in the penultimate arc of The Clone Wars, with Obi-Wan wearing Mandalorian armor and Maul on more humanoid legs, neither of which have been made into figures at all. I would prefer these figures to be made either in the realistic super-articulated style or the animated style - since these designs both scream ACTION FIGURE - but this would still be pretty cool anyway.


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Hi! First of all sorry for my poor english.
O.K., I didn't remember how it worked.
The next monday I'll arrive in New York and I´ll spend 18 days in the USA, and I think someone could help me. I was wondering how difficult is at this moment to get OTC Vintage stuff and how much are at Toys 'R Us or KB toys. In Europe these action figures are very overpriced and the are not so much. I have been in the USA 2 years ago exactly and I got a lot of SW stuff. IIs anybody outhere from Philadelphia, Washington, Memphis? Thanks for youl help.
Where in New York? I'm in Buffalo
I meant NY city. How about prices at Toys R' us or KB Toys?
Went to Toys R Us on Monday night and found the new Y-Wing but not much else in terms of figures. The TRU on Niagara Falls Blvd. still has the Silver Vader available, but they were down to about 6 or 7 as of three nights ago.
Ironsaviour, the prices of Toys R Us figures are $4.99 American (roughly 6.34 in Euros, if you are using that form of currency, and if my math is correct).
Kay-Bee toys are slightly higher for new figures $5.99, but they have tons of cheap figures that are $2.99. These figures are from over a year ago and include Saga Palpatines, Djas Puhr, Teemto Pagalea, and Lott Dodds.
This thread is for people who live in Upstate New York, north and west of New York City, so we can't give you much information about stores in New York City. However, I do know about the Times Square location in NYC and I'm sure there are plenty of Kay-Bees there as well.
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Toys R Us on the Boulevard had two of the Naboo Final Conflict 4-Packs left tonight as of six o'clock
Thanks for your information. I posted some messages two years ago, when I visited for first time the USA and then there was a post for collectors from NY city. Does anybody know what has happened with this post? Did it dissapear? 'cause I can't find it.
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The threafd is right here, but it hasnt been used in a while.
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I am a 45 year old woman. My head suddenly starts spinning and continues for 2 to 3 days. My pressure is normal and having no spondylitis. During this time I cannot work as because the whole visual in front of me rotates vigorously. Cannot get any specific cause. And also I am a vegetarian person. Please help.
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My mother age 56 have Thlisimeya and have lack of blood supply to the body even her bone is weak constantly have pain in both leg need help.
Arthritis is a musculoskeletal disease defined by chronic inflammations in the joint and cartilage degradation. It is a fairly common disease, and the pain caused by arthritis can be extremely disabling. If you leave arthritis untreated, it can lead to:
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Small things you can do every day, while you are sitting or working, such as:
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- Stretch and bend your legs, change your hand's position and tilt your neck periodically from one side to another
- Don't overuse a lone joint because that can cause more pain—so pace yourself and take adequate breaks
- Walk around and stand every hour or a half.
In addition to these, you must:
- Manage your weight: Obesity has been linked to arthritis; the more weight you put on, the more your pain will increase.
- Quit smoking: Connective tissues are stressed when you smoke, and this triggers more pain
There are a number of medications available in the market today to ease arthritis pain. Over-the-counter (OTC) ibuprofen or acetaminophen are great for pain relief. Also, topical creams that contain analgesics can be gently massaged over inflamed joints to ease the pain.
However, you should avoid the following:
- Over treatment: If you find yourself depending too heavily on OTC, consult your doctor.
- Under-treatment: Never ignore or undermine your pain. Leaving arthritis untreated is potentially dangerous, and you may require immediate medication.
If you have arthritis, exercise can boost your endurance, enhance your muscles and better your motion range. For best results, focus on gradual strength training, range-of-motion exercises and stretching. You can also include low-stress aerobics, water exercises, cycling or walking.
However, avoid repetitive and high impact exercises, such as:
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Emotional and physical assimilation
The pain is not only physically exhausting; it can also strain you mentally. Choose relaxation or cognitive behaviour therapy (an integration of behaviour modification and talk therapy) to keep negative thoughts at bay. Besides these, you can also use acupuncture, heat and cold therapy and massages to ease the pain.
I am 74 old male and took a trip in Morocco in March end and climbed rough mountain and then I was walking fine for two weeks. After returning back to USA in first week of April. My knee start painful. It is getting better but still I have slight pain on my inside part of knee. If sit too long in chair and then get up I feel stiff knee for very short time and find when start walking. This is lasting for 3 weeks. I am wearing protecting knee brace during day. What should I do to improve my knee strength and reduce or eliminate pain on inside part of my knee. My physician ask me to take knee joint medicine over the counter like "Hyaluronic Joint Complex" which has Glucosamine. I do stretching and some exercises to strength my knee muscles. Do you suggest any exercises. Thanks.
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I am Sathya, suffering since 2 years for knee joint pain in both legs. Not able to sit in squatting position in Indian toilet, and getting up is very difficult. Even though I am taking ayurvedic treatment like oil message (jan pitch) since 1 year. But it is chronic. Pl give me suggestion to avoid an operation. Also, I am suffering from Lumbar spondylitis since 2 years. Under treatment. Suggest me good treatment. Mmy email firstname.lastname@example.com/9986351043. I from Bangalore.
My wife have pain ranging from buttock to toes some doctor say it's like sciatica some say it's not a sciatica She had vitamin B12, D deficiency her spine X ray is normal what is the cause and treatment? Can we have pregnancy in this disease?
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Spondylitis includes swelling of the vertebra. It happens because of wear and tear of the ligament and bones found in your cervical spine, which is in your neck. While it is to a great extent because of age, it can be brought on by other reasons too. Side effects incorporate pain and stiffness starting from the neck to the lower back. The spine's bones (vertebrae) get fused, bringing about an unbending spine. These changes might be mellow or extreme, and may prompt a stooped-over posture. Some of the non-surgical methods to treat spondylitis are as follows-
- Exercise based recovery/physiotherapy: Your specialist may send you to a physiotherapist for treatment. Non-intrusive treatment helps you extend your neck and shoulder muscles. This makes them more grounded and at last, relieves pain. You may neck traction, which includes using weights to build the space between the cervical joints and decreasing pressure on the cervical disc and nerve roots.
- Medications: Your specialist may prescribe you certain medicines if over-the-counter medications do not work. These include:
- Muscle relaxants, for example, cyclobenzaprine, to treat muscle fits
- Opiates, for example, hydrocodone, for pain relief
- Epileptic medications, for example, gabapentin, to ease pain created by nerve damage
- Steroid infusions, for example, prednisone, to decrease tissue irritation and diminish pain
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- Take an over-the-counter pain reliever, for example, acetaminophen or a calming medication, for example, Advil or Aleve.
- Use a warming cushion or an ice pack on your neck to give pain alleviation to sore muscles.
- Exercise routinely to help you recover quickly.
- Wear a delicate neck prop or neckline to get transitory help. In any case, you shouldn't wear a neck brace for temporary pain relief.
- Acupuncture: Acupuncture is a highly effective treatment used to mitigate back and neck pain. Little needles, about the extent of a human hair, are embedded into particular points on the back. Every needle might be whirled electrically or warmed to improve the impact of the treatment. Acupuncture works by prompting the body to deliver chemicals that decrease pain.
- Bed Rest: Severe instances of spondylitis may require bed rest for close to 1-3 days. Long-term bed rest is avoided as it puts the patient at danger for profound vein thrombosis (DVT, blood clots in the legs).
- Support/brace use: Temporary bracing (1 week) may help get rid of the symptoms, however, long-term use is not encouraged. Supports worn for a long time weaken the spinal muscles and can increase pain if not continually worn. Exercise based recovery is more beneficial as it reinforces the muscles.
- Lifestyle: Losing weight and eating nutritious food with consistent workouts can help. Quitting smoking is essential healthy habits to help the spine function properly at any age. If you wish to discuss about any specific problem, you can consult a pain management specialist.


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Unfortunately they omitted Xnest from the build and they force all rdesktop sessions into full screen mode, which drives me bananas. So I went out to the HP site to see what I had to do to create a new build environment for the box. It told me to go visit Metrowerks to get the build environment for the thin client. Mind you, we paid $450 for these boxes in an effort to save money. Metrowerks wants $7000 just for the build environment. That's more than all of the clients we purchased cost us. Just for the build environment. Argh.
So I started looking for options. The thin client world in Linux is all over the place. LTSP has a decent build, but it's somewhat server-centric. I'd like to put the build on the 128MB flash RAM (that acts as an IDE drive within the kernel.) I installed a distribution then hacked it apart and moved it to my Solaris server, along with the PXELinux environment and got a client booting into LTSP. Then I looked at the build. It doesn't have Xnest either. Argh.
I looked at a few other distributions (PXES, ThinStation, etc.) and none of them provide what I'm really looking for in a thin client distribution.
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I've basically been running "thin" client architectures for years, but back in the day we called them X terminals. I must say, though, that with the open source projects that are out there, the universal thin client architecture is finally becoming a reality. It's really nice being able to run X, RDP, Citrix, or even standard terminal sessions on a single client with a very small build.


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Should Men Be Allowed To Moderate Debates?
Two moderators provoked lively, interesting debates this cycle. Two did not.
BOCA RATON, Fla. — "Face the Nation" host Bob Schieffer, the moderator of the foreign policy presidential debate, did a fine job of staying out of the way and not becoming the story. But Schieffer let both candidates ramble about domestic policy for large portions without an effort to steer them back to the subject at hand, leading some on Twitter to inquire about his health. At one point the candidates were talking about class sizes.
The performance brought uncomfortable comparisons to Jim Lehrer, moderator of the first debate, who was panned by his TV rivals for letting the candidates walk all over his attempts to enforce time limits and topic changes. 2012 was a fraught year of intense scrutiny for the moderators, but if anyone remembers who moderated at all, they'll remember that the fiery debates were stoked by Martha Raddatz and Candy Crowley — not the ponderous ones shepherded by the two more expected older male moderators.
In a year where it seemed impossible that a moderator could do their job without an explosion of criticism in the online media and on Twitter, Raddatz and Crowley got the best reception — though Crowley did catch some flak for disobeying the Commission on Presidential Debates' rules and asking the candidates follow-up questions. Raddatz was almost a universal hit; some people half-jokingly even wanted to vote for her for president.
In the spin room after the debate, some surrogates were careful not to pick favorites when it came to surrogates.
"It's like picking amongst your children," said Obama campaign press secretary Jen Psaki. "I'll never do it."
She was echoed by deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter, who said, "I love them all."
Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, called the debate "90 minutes of pure gold."
He defended the fact that the candidates often strayed from foreign policy, saying "Obviously they were both looking to find ways to bring it back to domestic policy. I think it's important to talk about and clear why we would pivot to the economy, and a strong economy is important to having a strong presence around the world."
"I don't really get into the judging games with the moderators, but I like Bob Schieffer a whole lot, I think he's a good man. I don't have a problem with Candy either," Priebus said. "I haven't really dealt with Jim or Martha Raddatz."
The candidates on Monday seemed often to agree and weren't pressed to outline their differences, leading to 90 minutes of amiable, bad television. Raddatz, who pressured the vice presidential candidates for specifics and got them going against each other, or Crowley, who forced the candidates to clarify their positions with follow-ups and enforced time rules, managed to keep their debates moving quickly and on the topics prompted by the questions.
It's not as if the CPD chose totally out-of-the-box people to moderate the debates in any case. There's little room for innovation in something as codified as a presidential debate. But the fact that both of the really interesting debates were moderated by women emphasizes the staleness of the traditional model, represented by Lehrer and Schieffer.
So why do we let men moderate these debates?— David A. Graham
This Schieffer guy is just about as bad a moderator as Lehrer. This is no country for old men! Bring back the women! NOW!— Hussein Ibish (@Ibishblog)
This Schieffer guy is just about as bad a moderator as Lehrer. This is no country for old men! Bring back the women! NOW!— Hussein Ibish
I, for one, welcome our women moderator overlords.— keptsimple
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Was I naive to believe that they would actually be talking about foreign policy? Why, yes, I was.— Jeffrey Goldberg
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Rat-bite fever is a rare disease spread by infected rodents.
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Rat-bite fever can be caused by two different bacteria, Streptobacillus moniliformis or Spirillum minus, both of which are found in the mouths of rodents.
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