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The debate over extending the Social Security payroll tax holiday, a measure that affects 160 million Americans, is only the most recent phase of the partisan struggle that has impeded efforts to forge sound fiscal policy. Parties finally agreed to a two-month extension of the tax cut, which is set to expire January 1, but lawmakers remain divided over how to pay for it over the remainder of 2012. The impasse underscores the deep divisions that have stymied negotiations over U.S. fiscal policy, from the budget showdown in April to the August debt-ceiling debate, and the failure of the deficit supercommittee in November.
The political squabbling surrounding the payroll tax debate raises serious questions about the prospects for compromise over the larger and more contentious fiscal challenges ahead. The payroll tax debate may be viewed as "a quaint disagreement by next December, when lawmakers must grapple with a fiscal policy debate at least twenty-five times more costly," write Richard Rubin and Steven Sloan in Bloomberg.
The financial reckoning Congress will need to make by the end of 2012 includes decisions on expiring income tax cuts ($4 trillion in potential revenues) and automatic reductions in domestic and defense spending ($1.2 trillion). A failure to rein in rising deficits, particularly with the sky-rocketing cost of healthcare, will likely saddle the nation with burdensome debt interest payments, rising borrowing costs, and a precipitous fall in the dollar.
The Debate
Both parties understand the consequences of inaction on fiscal reform, but have been unable to reconcile fundamental differences. In broad terms, Republicans have stressed cutting spending and shrinking the size of government, while Democrats have supported boosting tax revenues and protecting entitlements with nominal reforms. Much of the partisan divide has been over taxes, with the payroll tax cut debate as no exception. Both Republicans and Democrats initially supported a full one-year extension, but were unable to agree on who should pay for it. Congressional Democrats supported a 2 percent surtax on income above $1 million a year. Republicans wanted to pay for it by charging higher-income seniors more for Medicare and cutting spending for parts of President Obama's healthcare law. Congress passed a short-term political expedient, a two-month extension (WashPost), to allow time for further debate.
Policy Options
Over thirty different deficit reduction approaches have been proposed by various political entities. Perhaps the five most cited are:
- The bipartisan Fiscal Commission plan: Calls for three dollars of spending cuts and interest savings for every dollar of tax reform that promotes deficit reduction, and recommends setting targets for the total federal budgetary commitment to health care.
- The President's Framework: The Obama plan calls for a tax and spending approach similar to that of the Fiscal Commission, and seeks to reduce the expansion of Medicare costs, including lowering prescription drug spending "by leveraging Medicare's purchasing power."
- The House Republican Budget Plan (Ryan plan): The Republican strategy calls for comparatively larger discretionary spending cuts, repealing President Obama's healthcare legislation, and eventually converting Medicare to a voucher system.
- The Galston-MacGuineas plan: Calls for freezing domestic discretionary spending for three years, raising Medicare premiums, imposing a broad-based carbon tax, and revenue-neutral corporate tax reform to reduce rates while broadening the base.
- The Debt Reduction Task Force (Domenici-Rivlin plan): Calls for greater short-term stimulus, immediately freezing domestic discretionary spending and defense spending, and preserving but reforming Medicare.


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So, I have to admit, I use MacOS sometimes :o) And sometimes I learn interest things. Do you know podcasts? Yeah, of course. I'm always the last to learn about these technologies. Eureka! Now I can pratice my (bad) english by listening the podictionary while I'm driving. It's amazing!
You (and me) can use ipodder software to listen podcasts in GNU/Linux (ok, you already know that...)


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Brunching With the Benedicts
Or, hollandaise for dummies
By Ari LeVaux
The chickens are laying again, the greens and onions are up, and the days are getting longer: Brunch season is here. I've been practicing a simple dish of poached eggs served on a bed of spinach and asparagus, garnished with crispy pieces of salt pork or bacon. Sometimes I drench the whole business in a blanket of hollandaise sauce. Or more often, it's a blanket of failed hollandaise that I resurrect to perfection with mayonnaise and a microwave.
Hollandaise is one of the most decadent sauces out there. It's rich without being greasy, and it's tart with citrus and vinegar. Served warm, it improves the flavor of whatever it touches. In classical culinary circles, a chef's hollandaise sauce is considered a barometer of his or her overall skill, like a ballroom dancer's cha-cha moves.
Hollandaise is similar to mayonnaise. Both are emulsions—mixtures of fat and acid that manage to hang together despite their contrary tendencies. While mayo combines oil and acid (in the form of vinegar and/or citrus), hollandaise combines those acids with butter fat. In both cases, it's the lecithin hiding in the egg yolk that makes the emulsification happen. Emulsifiers like lecithin are peacemakers, keeping the otherwise mutually disinterested fat and acid entangled in a creamy truce.
Emulsifiers like lecithin are peacemakers, keeping the otherwise mutually disinterested fat and acid entangled in a creamy truce.
The Silk Road restaurant in Missoula, Mont., once served a brunch whose menu featured the "Benedict family" of dishes. That family included eggs Florentine (which adds greens to the equation), eggs Benedict (which includes ham), and other egg-and-hollandaise customizations like smoked salmon, sliced tenderloin and lamb hash.
I phoned the patriarch of Silk Road's Benedict Family, Abraham Risho, hoping some of his hollandaise magic would rub off on me.
He tried. I did too. But my hollandaise failed. Each batch was a roller coaster ride with a few breathless moments where I thought I was actually pulling it off ... before another crash.
In hindsight, my problem is obvious. Abe Risho teaching me to make hollandaise over the phone would be like Michael Jordan trying to explain to me how to go reverse from the baseline.
Each batch was a roller coaster ride with a few breathless moments where I thought I was actually pulling it off ... before another crash.
It's not that I'm physically incapable of making it. But becoming proficient at hollandaise is a journey that I have only just begun to undertake. If you decide to walk that path, I salute you. I also suggest you consider investing in a quality double boiler, a thermometer and a good whisk.
The good news: If your hollandaise fails, which it probably will, you can still use it. It may look as curdled as a cup of tea with cream and lemon, but that rich, tangy flavor will still be in place. Just call it lemon butter curd sauce. Or fail-landaise.
And there are ways to rescue failed hollandaise. A splash of boiling water, for example, can snap the sauce to attention long enough to pour it. In my experience with hollandaise rehab, nothing beats the microwave and mayonnaise (or specifically Vegenaise, a fake-but-better mayo). Mix two tablespoons of mayo for each cup of curdled, separated, chunky or otherwise miserably failed hollandaise. Zap in the microwave for 15 seconds, whisk for 10 seconds, add more mayo if necessary, and repeat. Adjust the seasoning with salt, acid and Tabasco sauce. Just like that, you're back in the game.
If you don't want the emotional turmoil of birthing, killing and reincarnating your hollandaise, you can fake it from the start with a simple mixture of drawn butter and citrus, vinegar, salt and garlic. It won't have that thick hollandaise body, but the flavor will be good. Whichever route you take—successfully making fresh hollandaise, rescuing failed hollandaise or going with a faux-landaise—the citrus element should be lemon or lime juice, and the vinegar should be a white wine vinegar, white balsamic vinegar or Champagne vinegar.
Compared to these saucy complexities, poaching the eggs is a breeze. Chef Risho told me that Dutch ovens, or deep pans in general, are ideal for poaching because you want to use as much water as your pot can comfortably hold. The more hot water, the less the temperature will drop when you add the eggs.
The hardest part of poaching is fine-tuning the heat so the water holds steady at 180°, the desired poaching temperature. After that, the rest is easy. Add two tablespoons vinegar and a teaspoon of salt for each gallon of water. You want it at least 3 inches deep.
The eggs should be at room temperature, with each egg cracked into a separate ramekin or other egg-size dish. Risho uses espresso cups. He also advises putting the water into motion before adding the eggs, because there's a brief moment when the raw eggs could stick to the bottom of the pot. You don't want to stir the water into a full-on vortex—which could pull apart the eggs and make a mess—just a gentle motion.
In addition to a thermometer for getting the water temperature right, you'll need a slotted spoon. Otherwise you risk traumatizing the delicate egg en route to its perch atop your greens.
While heating the water to 180°, prepare your plates. Lightly steam the asparagus spears and lay them in a row, covered with uncooked baby spinach leaves.
When the water is holding steady at 180°, add the eggs and poach for two to four minutes, depending on how set you want your yolks and whites to be. I usually err on the runny side, especially with high-quality eggs.
Remove the poached eggs from the liquid with a slotted spoon and set them on cloth or paper towels (or gingerly in a colander) to drain. Place the eggs on the spinach while they're still hot, then drench them with your hollandaise (or faux-landaise, lemon butter or whatever you ended up with).
Sprinkle pinches of paprika and black pepper onto the dish, break the yolks and start eating. Even if you're not cut out for making hollandaise, a poached, runny yolk from a good egg is the most perfect sauce there is.
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Messages and Interviews of Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Laden's messages reached his followers and his opponents through multiple media channels. Research Links aims to provide researchers with a more comprehensive timeline of statements made by bin Laden between 1994 to 2011, as well as additional background information. Updated May 2015 to include Office of the Director of National Intelligence's release of documents found at the compound where Osama Bin Laden was found in Pakistan.
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Specimen Authoring Tool for inDEED
Define the specimen views for your experiment with the types, measurement units, and locations of the sensors. The specimen views created by the Authoring Tool are used by inDEED for identifying and selecting sensors for graphing and analysis.
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The Authoring Tool is used to create the input file for inDEED, which is the NEEShub tool for viewing and analyzing data generated from experimental or numerical simulations. The file that is created by the Authoring Tool contains information about the sensors that were used in collecting the data that will be viewed and analyzed in inDEED. This sensor information includes sensor names, types, units, descriptions, and locations, as well as any additional notes about individual instruments that the researcher feels are relevant.
The Authoring Tool also allows the researcher to sort the sensors into groups, which makes it easier to locate and access data of interest when using inDEED. To use the Authoring Tool for a NEES experiment, you will first create the sensor information -- either by manually inputting it or by importing it from a comma delimited file. Next, you will create sensor groups and organize the instruments accordingly. After sorting the sensors into groups, the specimen views (i.e., photographs or drawings) can be uploaded for each group. Instrument markers will appear on the specimen views so that the location of each instrument can be denoted visually.
The goal is to define the sensor groups and specimen views in such a manner as to facilitate understanding of the experiment and analysis of the data.
Researchers can easily create input for inDEED from comma or tab-delimited data files. For example, a researcher's Excel spreadsheet listing sensors and experimental data readings can be saved as a CSV file and loaded into inDEED for plotting. Details about the inDEED data file format can be found at the inDEED wiki https://nees.org/tools/indeed/wiki/CSVFileFormat


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By Jay Tidwell/Special to the Journal
NEW ALBANY – A trip to Jackson wasn't needed to make this a perfect season.
An emotional year for New Albany came to an end on Friday with a 38-13 loss to Louisville in the second round of MHSAA Class 4A playoffs at Kitchens Field.
The Bulldogs committed to playing this season in memory of Amanda Price, the wife of head coach Ron Price who lost her life last December and who was an ardent supporter of the team.
"It's hard, because we dedicated this season to Amanda, and said, 'This one's for you,'" said the coach afterwards, with tears streaming down his cheeks. "These seniors have been so special since the accident happened. This was their one shot to do it for her.
"I told the kids before the season started," he continued, "that this will be the perfect season, no matter how it goes."
Memorable season
It was indeed a memorable year for the Bulldogs, who clinched the Div. 2-4A championship by knocking off two-time state champion Lafayette and had a 2,000-yard rusher in Boston Newsome.
On Friday, New Albany (8-5) scored first, but was unable to overcome four second-quarter touchdowns by Louisville (9-4).
On the opening series, New Albany's OJ Hardin intercepted a pass at midfield and Spencer Day followed it with a 20-yard touchdown pass to tight end Austin Howard.
Wyatt Roberts helped Louisville respond with 35 unanswered points before halftime. The junior completed 8 of 12 for 235 yards and four TDs in the first half. Meanwhile, the Bulldogs were troubled by turnovers.
Louisville drove 97 yards in eight plays for its first score, a 69-yard pass from Roberts to Dontae Jones.
The Wildcats took advantage of a botched snap on a punt at New Albany's 39 and a fumble at its 19 to add two more TDs.
Louisville forced a turnover on downs deep in its territory, then went ahead 28-7 on an 82-yard pass by Roberts to Desmond Goss.
Another interception by Louisville set up a 21-yard toss from Roberts to Jones, who fought into the end zone as time expired to end the half.
Newsome, a senior, scored on a 7-yard run early in the fourth and finished with 26 carries for 125 yards, putting him at 2,038 for the season.
"I gave everything I've got," Newsome said. "The motivation of Mrs. Amanda Price… beating the school record that I did last week… getting 2,000 yards like I did tonight. It's all on the field."


text: It is an unusual tax in that it doesn't fund parks, public safety or other things that are normally funded by sales taxes. On Friday's Kansas City Week In Review, Nick Haines will spend the entire program debating the issue. One of the institutions that would benefit from the tax is UMKC which would receive 20% of the take. KCPT Healthcare Reporter Todd Feeback visited UMKC to show the kind of product that can result from translational research.


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A precautionary advisory to boil drinking water has been issued for parts of New Jersey, including the Princeton campus.
The advisory was issued after the Elizabethtown Water Co. experienced a break on a major transmission main last night. The break also affects customers of Edison and Liberty water companies. The advisory is expected to be in effect for 24 to 48 hours.
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It's that time of year.
We all start becoming a little extra careful.
We begin monitoring our sleep, making sure to get the full eight hours; we take in more than the required liquids on a daily basis; and start protecting ourselves a little better when we head into the corners to retrieve a loose puck.
It's November, the injury bug is running rampant and the Marlies have not been spared.
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Our U8 program is where we really introduce our Ball Masters program. The U8 program has been created to really teach the kids the required skills for future success through fun, repitition, and games. The focus of our U8 program is to teach kids how to enjoy having the ball at their feet.
At the U8 age group (7 & 8 year olds) we continue to introduce our Technical Skillzys that are the foundation for future success.
Sessions will consist of 30 minutes of age-appropriate training and then finished off with small sided games. The combination of these methods will be the foundation to good habits with the ball.
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The rock is a soft volcanic rock and over the years the wind and water has sculpted them into the most fascinating shapes imaginable. People have carved out homes, and lived inside these rocks and towers for 1000's of years. (I actually slept in one these cave rooms). A very strong Christian community started here early in the 200's A.D. or so. The built monasteries and churches inside the rock flutes and hills. Today I poked around the Goreme Open Air Museum. I can't imagine what life must have been like for the people who lived here.
Yesterday I had my first shave from a Turkish barber. It was quite an experience. First he lathers you up with a brush and soap, and then doubly shaves you with a straight razor. Then he rubs a magic stone all over your face (don't ask me) and washes it. Then cologne, and a cream massage, and a shoulder massage, and then, just to make sure he gets every little possible piece of hair, he lights a lighter and runs it all over your face. You leave with your face smoother than your butt when you were a baby, but stinking slightly of singed hair. I highly recommend it.
This morning, the news has the fact that a gunman in Amman, Jordan (where I am heading in 2 weeks) opened fire on tourists in the Roman ruins in the city - one killed, 6 wounded. I still maintain that this trip is, by and large, safe. Where as random religious or political violence may happen, the people are incredible and have shown so much friendship and hospitality. Anyway, this is something you can definately NOT email my mom if you don't mind.
Ok. the day is slipping by, and I need to go do something before my night bus to Syria (my god am I getting tired of night buses - you never sleep, and invariably have a smelly, large, spread out man next to you).
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What else is new for the dems they blame Bush for everything.
What else is new for the dems they blame Bush for everything.
Bob Gutermuth
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Yet another politician that learned NOTHING from Nixon.
Nancy Pelosi is a liar!
"All those things bother me: The populism, the lying and the scapegoating and the xenophobia bother me, but then theres a layer of incompetence here. I suppose, in a way, we should be thankful: If he had a coherent ideology, hed probably be more dangerous." P J O'Rourke
NP says that in the 2002 meeting that she attended the agency described the procedure, but she didn't understand that it would be (or was being) used. She is either a complete idiot, lying beyond comprehension, or totally incompetent if she didn't understand the nature of the briefing.
More briefings were held, that by her own account, she did not attend. If that is true, why wasn't she in attendance? Wasn't it a part of her job and duty?
She is now accusing the CIA of lying to her. My personal experience in briefing congressmen and staffers tells me that this is highly unlikely. Again, in my experience, EVERY effort was made to ensure factual information was relayed in a way that it could not be misunderstood or misinterpreted. Also, why in the world would the agency lie to NP when it is not being disputed that other congressional members, dems and republicans alike, were being explicitly told that waterboarding was being used in some cases?
From the article:
"Pelosi contended that Democrats did what they could to stop the use of waterboarding. The senior Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, who received the 2003 briefing on the practice, sent the CIA a formal letter of protest, she said. "
"But Pelosi defended her own lack of action on the issue, saying her focus at the time was on wresting congressional control from Republicans so her party could change course.
"No letter could change the policy. It was clear we had to change the leadership in Congress and in the White House. That was my job the Congress part," Pelosi said."
I won't comment on the statements quoted above, but I will repeat: she is the poster child for term limits.
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Corey Burke
They should have offered to waterboard her so she would understand exactly what it was!!!!
Holding the bucket regards.
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Interesting it took her so many days to come up with the "It was everybody else and not me answer" I wonder how much they pay people to help our unreps to talk out of both sides of their mouths.
Bush made her do itNancy Pelosi is a liar!


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What a rip off. What a sham.
What a rip off. What a sham.
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Got to agree. Sure was nice seeing them nail shiller tho. The main stream media thougt it was wrong. But when the crank call came in to walker well thats ok
What's funny is listening to that pathetic babbling idiot on Fox that pretends to matter, as the token socialist/communist, when everyone knows why he's there.
Much like Roger's reasoning, he can see no harm in what happened to the Governor of Wisconsin by doing that same thing done to NPR, which has him fuming.
And we wonder why the sane people of this country are concerned about our public school system.
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I'm starting to regret taking on this Wine porting work. The app basically works fine, as far as I can tell (though printing is proving problematic) but it is riddled with small yet annoying buglets. For instance, if you correct a spelling mistake in an editor, the context menu pops up shortly afterwards. Why? Because the application itself pokes the richedit control with a WM_RBUTTONUP message. Inscrutable.
Win32 has a very useful ability, namely an operating system level understanding of exceptions. It's called SEH, for "structured exception handling", and is what I feel like discussing at the moment. Linux has no such equivalent. Let's examine what happens when a thread faults on Windows and Linux, and see what we can learn from the other side.
Typically exceptions are handled by the language runtime in use, however moving this functionality down into lower level shared code has some significant advantages.
Let's pretend that a thread in my application dereferences a null pointer. This is invalid, as typically the lower regions of memory are protected, and therefore a page fault/access violation/segmentation fault will occur.
In Win32, what happens is as follows. The CPU delivers an interrupt which is handled by kernel mode code. The interrupt vector dispatches control to the KiUserExceptionDispatcher function, which begins the process of SEH invocation. Win32 SEH frames are stored on the stack, with a thread-local linked list pointing to each different frame in turn (the list is actually stored in the TEB). The SEH frames define things like a callback to be executed, which is passed a structure describing the nature of the exception. An exception type is identified by an unsigned int, and looks like (for an access violation) 0xc0000005.
As the stack is unwound, the callbacks are called twice. The first is to figure out how to handle the exception, and the second time is as the stack is unwound, giving implementors the ability to have "finally" type functionality. Eventually, even if the application has itself registered no handlers, control reaches an exception handler put in place by the operating system loader code. This calls the default handler code (UnhandledExceptionFilter) which on Windows calls some debugging hooks before finally displaying the famous "This application has performed an illegal operation" dialog box. Visual C++ exceptions are partly implemented on top of SEH, however SEH is not rich enough to fully support C++s needs, so there are limitations in interoperability. In particular C code cannot trap C++ exceptions.
Linux as an OS imposes no particular exception handling system on programs, in fact, it's not even aware of exceptions. Typically a signal delivered to an app will be handled and exception handling machinery built into the binary by the compiler will be invoked.
That works OK, but has a few problems. Firstly, it's not possible to throw C++ (or Python, or Java, or .NET etc) exceptions across C libraries. Even though you can compile C code with -fexceptions, typical programs are not expecting the stack to be unwound underneath them and so internal state can be corrupted by doing so. Even if people wanted to write exception-aware C code, there is no C API or ABI for doing it. There's no way to robustly translate exceptions from one environment to another - for instance, C++ exceptions thrown in a library used from Python would probably go badly wrong.
One possible solution is to have a third party library (or maybe a new part of glib) provide an explicit API for exception handling in C, similar to SEH. If rich enough, the most common error handling systems could be mapped to it, bringing us a little bit close to having interoperating code modules. It would also lead to the ability to catch up to Windows in some aspects - for instance, a unified crash handler window. Doing this properly would probably require co-operation from the libc and gcc maintainers however.


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Egg-Stuffed Arepa
Colombia's Beloved Street FoodThis traditional Colombian specialty is especially popular in the city of Cartagena, where the classic Arepa is filled with a whole egg, then quickly fried and served out of street carts.
Makes 8 Arepas
Prep time: 10 min.
Total time: 30 min., plus cooling time
2 cups GOYA® Yellow Cornmeal Masarepa
1Ľ tsp. GOYA® Salt
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8 eggs
|In medium bowl, stir together masarepa and 1 tsp. salt. Add 2 ˝ cups lukewarm water. Stir until combined; let sit 5 minutes. Using wet hand, knead dough until smooth. Divide dough into 9 portions. Form dough into 8 small balls, reserving remaining portion of dough to patch up holes later. Using press, or palm of hands, flatten balls to Ľ" thickness.
|Meanwhile, fill heavy pot with oil to depth of 1˝". Heat oil until it registers 325°F on deep-fry thermometer. Add arepas to oil. Cook until arepas puff, about 5 minutes; transfer to paper towel-lined plates to drain and cool.
|Using knife, make 2" incision into one side of arepa to form pocket. Crack egg into espresso-size cup or small ramekin. Carefully slip egg into pocket. Using reserved portion of raw dough, seal together split end.
|Heat oil to 350°Add egg-filled arepas to oil. Cook until light golden brown on all sides, about 5 minutes for soft-set yolks. transfer to paper towel-lined plates to drain. Season with remaining salt.
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Not sure there's a safe place to hide if we don't raise the debt ceiling. Sell stocks and what? Go into TBills? Money markets instruments? Anybody wanna bet on the credit markets? Good freaking luck. And screw Lew, too.
Gold and silver? I'm sure the keynesians will outlaw the PMs as soon as things start collapsing. Maybe we sell our stocks and buy Glocks. Lots and lots of Glocks.
I say let it burn. Let's get this over with so we can start over. We are so screwed in this country.
We live in Cuba now.
But you are debating with yourself after listening to Boehner. It seems evident that you may need some assistance as this is causing you some consternation.
Bill Davis
I saw on Drudge this morning that only 15% of the Government is down.....that would not impact the markets....the propaganda from the Libs and Media might impact the markets, but it would be a very short impact, as very little economic impact is actually in play here....more symbolism over substance.....
I could not even come close to saying it as well as this guy. I guess that is why I don't make the big bucks!
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Is there any possibility we can expect some actual JUSTICE in this IRS fiasco? It appears some of the good guys are still digging up info on that arrogant Lerner cronie. Hopefully something will be discovered to get her at least fired.
New developments are still breaking in the IRS investigation, where the House Ways and Means Committee has unearthed emails from 2011 in which notorious Tax Exempt Organizations official Lois Lerner describes the Tea Party matter as "very dangerous" and specifically states that those fabled low-level employees in Cincinnati "should probably NOT have this case."
This is, to put it mildly, a strong contradiction to every molecule of spin the Administration has emitted thus far. We were originally told the whole ugly affair was the work of low-level drones who took matters into their own hands. When that was clearly exposed as a lie, the story shifted to portray an over-zealous but non-partisan IRS cracking down hard on tax-exempt organizations across the political spectrum. Thats also patently absurd, as the lack of comparably persecuted liberal organizations proved.
Now, at long last, were seeing email correspondence from Lois Lerner that would have detonated like nuclear bombs if they had been exposed in the early days of the scandal. Democrats calculate that the story has been dragged out beyond the short attention spans of American voters, giving them the political cover they need to obstruct investigations and protect scandal figures from punishment. Lois Lerner is still drawing a fat paycheck out of your wallet, even though shes been relieved of official duties for months. To this day, absolutely no one has been punished for the IRS outrage, although there have been a few feeble efforts to portray quiet retirements, scheduled departures, and the odd case of paid administrative leave as consequential.
The resolution of the IRS scandal will tell us just how low Americans have set the standards for their immense federal government.
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Comment Truthful libel? (Score 5, Insightful) 301
By its very definition, libel is always untruthful.
In law, defamation (also called calumny, libel, slander, and vilification) is the communication of a statement that makes a false claim, expressly stated or implied to be factual, that may give an individual, business, product, group, government or nation a negative image. Slander refers to a malicious, false and defamatory spoken statement or report, while libel refers to any other form of communication such as written words or images.
Semantics aside, here is the actual explanation for the ruling:
Noonan appealed to a three-member panel for the First Circuit, which initially upheld the ruling by Lasker. But last month it reversed itself on the libel claim, saying Noonan could pursue that part of his lawsuit because of a relatively obscure 1902 [Massachusetts] law.
The law says truth is a defense against libel unless the plaintiff can show "actual malice" by the person publishing the statement.
In ordinary discussions of First Amendment law, "actual malice" refers to the standard established in the landmark 1964 US Supreme Court decision in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan.
In that context, it means a plaintiff who is a public figure can win a libel suit only after proving that a journalist knew a published statement was false or acted in reckless disregard for the truth.
But in the Massachusetts law cited by the appeals court, "actual malice" means "malevolent intent or ill will," said the panel. Noonan might be able to persuade a jury that the company demonstrated ill will; Baitler had never referred to a fired employee by name in a mass e-mail before, and jurors might conclude he "singled out Noonan in order to humiliate him," the court wrote.
So we're talking about:
1) A state law.
2) A ruling that simply allows the guy to sue; it's not a final verdict by any means.
3) A very specific instance, that will eventually be settled in court anyway, as per 2).
So, I don't think this is anything for journalists to get overly anxious over, in truth.


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Live Webcast of Kahneman and other Nobel Prize winners receiving award online now
Posted December 10, 2002; 10:34 a.m.
The live Webcast of the 2002 Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall, Sweden, Dec. 10, begins at 10:30 a.m. E.S.T. Among the recipients are Daniel Kahneman, Princeton University psychology professor and a winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in economic sciences.
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I am working on making my own opengl graphics engine. I am mostly trying to learn opengl.
To start off, I downloaded the qt obj viewer a while ago from this link http://qt.gitorious....abs/modelviewer. I have been modifying it to fit my needs. It is my first time using opengl. Right now I am working on texturing objects. I cannot tell if it is my opengl code that is wrong or if I am writing my u v coordinates incorrectly. As it stands I write the u v coords in the same order as they are in the obj file. It appears that part of my texture is correct. Here is an image and below is my code.
As a side note, reading obj files with multiple objects and materials has worked just fine. The next step is texturing which is giving me some trouble.
As you can see the u v coords are going into a class Point3d. The u_v_coords is a QVector<Point3d>
else if (id == "vt"){
Point3d p;
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The opengl code for drawing a textures is below. I am using glTexCoordPointer with the stride of size Point3d.
void Model::renderHelper(int i) const{ if(texture != NULL){ glEnable( GL_TEXTURE_2D ); glBindTexture( GL_TEXTURE_2D, texture->texture ); glTexCoordPointer(2, GL_FLOAT, sizeof(Point3d), u_v_coords.data()); glEnableClientState(GL_TEXTURE_COORD_ARRAY); } glMaterialfv(GL_FRONT, GL_AMBIENT, materials[objectMaterialInt[i]].Ka); glMaterialfv(GL_FRONT, GL_DIFFUSE, materials[objectMaterialInt[i]].Kd); glMaterialfv(GL_FRONT, GL_SPECULAR, materials[objectMaterialInt[i]].Ks); glMaterialf(GL_FRONT, GL_SHININESS, materials[objectMaterialInt[i]].Ns); glShadeModel(GL_SMOOTH); glPushMatrix(); glTranslatef(position[0], position[1], position[2]); glEnableClientState(GL_NORMAL_ARRAY); glVertexPointer(3, GL_FLOAT, 0, (float *)m_points.data()); glNormalPointer(GL_FLOAT, 0, (float *)m_normals.data()); glDrawElements(GL_TRIANGLES, objects[i].size(), GL_UNSIGNED_INT, objects[i].data()); glPopMatrix(); if(texture != NULL){ glDisable(GL_TEXTURE_2D); glDisableClientState(GL_TEXTURE_COORD_ARRAY); } }
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Almost the World's biggest bank raid foiled
A fake British aristocrat was convicted yesterday of playing a leading role in an audacious attempt to carry out the world's biggest bank raid.
The gang of international criminals came close to stealing £229 million from a City bank by exploiting the high-tech security measures designed to protect money transfers. But the plot failed when a hacker into the system missed one set of numbers from an electronic form.
Kevin O'Donoghue, the head of security at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, claimed that in 2004 he was forced to let two Belgian computer hackers into the Japanese bank's City headquarters after threats to his family. Gilles Poelvoorde and Jan Van Osselaer installed spy software on executives' computers that recorded their log-ins and passwords.


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Mike Huckabee was not celebrating for Natalie Portman as she accepted her Best Actress Oscar on Sunday night -- he was passing moral judgments.
During her speech, Portman thanked "Black Swan" co-star turned fiance Benjamin Millepied for "the most wonderful gift," -- their baby, due later this year. Huckabee took issue with that statement, and the entire premise of her pregnancy, in an interview with conservative radio host Michael Medved on Monday.
After a set up from Medved saying that most wonderful gift should have been "a wedding ring," Huckabee slammed the star actress -- and then all single mothers.
However this is what he said about Bristol Palin when she had a child out of wedlock:
It ought to be a reminder that here is a family that loves one another. They stuck with each other though the tough times and thats what families do." ... Huckabee said the surprise pregnancy announcement should not affect vice presidential candidate Sarah Palins support in the conservative and religious right communities. ... Im grateful for the way shes being supported by her family."
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Wow! What a treat! That's the best way I know how to describe my recent visit to Longview Ranch. I fully enjoyed my time with Randall Davis and his family, all the while I was learning plenty about myself and my horse. Heading West from my home in the East Mountains for a three hour drive to what felt like the middle of nowhere was nothing less than a small adventure for me. However, after doing so, I would recommend this to anyone!!! Randall's wife Ellen supplies perfect directions but the basic location of Longview Ranch is north of Crownpoint, NM by about 19 miles.
Riding by the Seat of Your Pants at Longview Ranch
Leg Aids – What Are Legs For?
The question was posed to the old cowboy, how much do you use your legs when you ride? His answer was simple " Not much…. only as much as I do when I walk."
This answers the very basic question of how much we should use our legs when we ride. It also establishes that they are an integral part of being an effective and accomplished rider. So if the use of our legs is so important, a few questions come to mind: how, what, and when. As we answer those questions the question of why will answer itself and we will be right back where we started with a wise old walking cowboy.
Glucosamine and the Insulin Resistant Horse
Glucosamine is often the go-to supplement to ease the discomfort of osteoarthritis, but is it safe for the insulin-resistant horse? A look at how glucosamine works may help you decide.
Glucosamine is a sugar (glucose) bound to an amino acid (building block of protein). It reduces inflammation and is a precursor to building blocks found in cartilage. Cartilage cells are able to produce glucosamine from glucose, but supplementation is often preferable if your horse is experiencing osteoarthritis. It can be supplemented orally or via injection. [Read more...]
Feeding Starved or Malnourished Horses
Few sights are worse than the tragedy of malnourished or starved horses. It is important to consider that not all underweight horses are the victims of abuse or neglect. Occasionally, horses may have or be recovering from serious conditions (cancer, inflammatory/infiltrative bowel disease, parasitism, colitis, surgery, etc.) that have led to weight loss, and their owners are doing all they can to help the horse regain its previous condition. When refeeding these horses, we must overcome our first impulse to immediately feed them whatever and however much they want. Months of neglect cannot be reversed in a few days or weeks.
The Next Step toward Flying Changes
Last month, we discussed some things we know about flying changes and the pieces that we need to put in place for success in achieving the movement. This month, we'll move forward and broaden our perspective of where we need to be as riders, and define what our active part is in achieving a flying change.
Debbie Bibb's Fitness for the Trail – Part 4
Well, this is it – the final part of this fitness series. If you're settled into a steady fitness routine by now, GREAT JOB! If not, don't worry. There's still time to get going and be in better shape to hit the trails this spring. Or, maybe you started out strong and have kind of fallen off your schedule. That's OK too. It happens to everyone at some point. With a little focus and effort, you can be back on track in no time.
Debbie Bibb's Fitness for the Trail – Part 3
In the past two articles, I've been helping you to find some ways to improve your fitness for the trail. Hopefully you have developed a good strategy for getting fit and were able to pick some cardiovascular activities to improve your fitness. If you were able to stick with things during the busy holidays, you deserve hearty congratulations! If you weren't, that's OK. It's a new year and you're ready to start with a clean slate. Remember, it's never too late to get started. Spring is only a snow storm or two around the corner and you want to be ready to ride!
Slower Feeding is Safer Feeding
Horses evolved as wandering herbivores, moving slowly for hours and taking bites of whatever forage they came across in their rambles. Modern feeding practice is quite different, with many horses given all-day access to rich forage, an invitation to obesity. Other horses are confined to stalls and given two or three large grain meals each day. Between flakes of hay with a high carbohydrate content, there are often long hours when these horses have nothing to eat. It should not be a surprise that metabolic problems and gastrointestinal upsets are quite common in today's horses.
Do the Math and Calculate Improved Equine Nutrition
Reading a hay analysis or puzzling over the ingredients in feed or supplements can be a chore, yet when considering particular elements that are measured in ppm — selenium, for example — some minor math can make a major difference to your horse's health. You don't need a computer (just a basic calculator)—just master the simple formulas below.
Rabies in Horses
Rabies is one of the most feared of all diseases because it can occur in all warm-blooded animals and is always fatal. It is caused by a virus that affects the nervous system, and is transmitted by the saliva of an infected animal—usually via a bite or by saliva coming into contact with mucous membranes (such as the eye) or an opening in the skin. This is an uncommon disease in horses and cattle but occurs sporadically in these species when wildlife cases increase, with more opportunities for exposure.


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Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
Alex, Marty, Melman, Gloria, Maurice, and, yes, the penguins are back in Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted! The animals have all escaped from the zoo, and Scholastic Kids Press Reporter Dani Bergman Chudnow got to escape school for a "press day" with all the actors who voice the characters in the movie. She met the actors in a hotel in New York City and videotaped her interviews with them. SO LUCKY!!!
My favorite part of the video is when she asks all the actors, "If you had to run away and join the circus, what would be your act?" Their answers are hilarious!


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PICKETT, Shane
I am Meeyakba Shane Pickett, a painter of the Nyoongar lands. I am privileged to have been taught the traditions and cultural values of my father's Jdewat people and also my mother's Balladong people. These include hunting skills, reading of weather patterns and signs that teach me to respect the seasons and understand their movements, changes and moods. I have learnt to read the songlines that journey through all living things across the entire landscape. I have sat down and watched the dusk infusion (the changing of day into night) and seen the colours of the sky and shadows move or merge into dreams of soft calming rhythms. I will always respect my cultural values, for the dreams do flow strongly through the views of my life.
Every river, every tree, every rock is important, as the Dreaming runs through them connecting all things, including mankind. These are the energy paths of the Dreaming and they are never meant to be broken, never meant to fail. When they are broken by mankind's negative effects on the land, the energy paths can never be repaired.
I am not yet a culture warrior. The real culture warriors are the elders – those gifted senior men and women fighting to keep the Dreaming alive. In my paintings, and in my own personal Dreaming journey, I try to honour their teachings, their knowledge and their law. Together we must work to heal and rebuild, to be stronger and stronger for the Dreamings of tomorrow – to keep our culture, so that the generations to come can live and sing of their identity.


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Keyboard Maestro 7 - Now with More Help, More Triggers, Styled Palettes, Autocomplete & More.
Keyboard Maestro is a powerful macro program for macOS. With Keyboard Maestro you can design your own shortcuts and trigger them at any time, automating many tedious things on your Mac.
Whether you are a power user or a grand parent (or both!), your time is precious. So why waste it when Keyboard Maestro can help improve almost every aspect of using your Mac. Even the simplest things, like typing your email address, or going to Gmail or Facebook, launching Pages, or duplicating a line, all take time and add frustration. Let Keyboard Maestro help make your Mac life more pleasant and efficient.
Keyboard Maestro 7 includes integrated wiki help, styled palettes, more triggers, more actions, recording, clipboard history, control over your applications, system, web browser, windows, menus, control flow, variables, calculations, text token expansion. Open files, work with images, speak text, you name it - and if we haven't done it directly, now you can write your own actions.
You can find out more about us, or Keyboard Maestro, read our press releases, look at our history over the last fifteen years, or contact us.
Bookle is a simple, elegant EPUB book reader, designed from the ground up to let you read your EPUB-formatted books without getting in your way.
Bookle collects your books into its library, providing instantaneous single-click access to any title, and remembering where you left off in every book. Simple, efficient navigation controls (using the mouse, trackpad, or keyboard) let you read without distraction. You can switch between books in a single window, or open multiple windows to refer to several books simultaneously. Bookle can even read your books aloud to you.
Bookle is a collaborative effort between ourselves and Adam Engst of TidBITS Publishing (publishers of the Take Control ebook series). Bookle brings together our programming skills and Adam's publishing and documentation experience, and it includes complete documentation in the form of a free built-in ebook, Take Control of Bookle.
Bookle works under Mountain Lion, Lion or Snow Leopard.
Please note that Bookle cannot display encrypted or DRM-shackled books, or books in formats other than EPUB.
You can find out more about us, Bookle, read our press releases, look at our history over the last fifteen years, or contact us.
Mounties Feedback Trainer, available from the Mac App Store, was designed to help you learn to correctly identify feedback tone frequencies - an essential skill for any budding sound engineer, as well as useful for any musician.
You can use it to train your ear to detect the various frequencies and then test yourself to see how well you know which frequency is which - far better to learn it now than when you have to quickly silence a wayward feedback in a crowded theatre!
Mounties Feedback Trainer includes a built in equalizer so you can adjust the volume of the tones for the wildly variable output of your particular speakers.
Sight Words, available from the Mac App Store, is a program I wrote for my kids to quickly and easily learn the most common English words. By spending just a few minutes a day you can work through these early words to give your child a quick start at reading.
The program can handle multiple children (even an entire class), and tracks each child's progress showing which words that child has mastered and more frequently prompting them with words that have not yet committed to memory.
Almost 2000 words are included, including those in the popular Dolch Word List, internally ordered from easiest to hardest so that the easier words are offered early.
You can also generate a nice looking report of the child's current status, showing words they know, words they are still working on, and words that they haven't been tested on yet.
For many years I have been making my own desktop calendars as Christmas presents. The calendars use my own photos, so they are personalised for each recipient. I have made the templates for these available on my personal web site, but generating the templates and using them was a very cumbersome process.
Enter Desktop Calendar Maker, now available from the Mac App Store, a new Mac OS X application which allows anyone to add their own photos and build custom desktop calendars and print them out on any color printer.
All you need is this program, some photos, a color printer and some CD calendar cases.


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Burma deports Australian reporter covering protests
New York, May 8, 2014--An Australian journalist covering protests in Burma was deported by authorities today, according to news reports. The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the move.
New York, May 8, 2014--An Australian journalist covering protests in Burma was deported by authorities today, according to news reports. The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the move.
By Shawn W. Crispin/Senior Southeast Asia Representative
In a clear step backwards for press freedom in Burma, new legislation will give the government censorship powers and the sole authority to issue and revoke news publication licenses. While the legislation enshrines into law broad press freedom guarantees, specific provisions will give the Ministry of Information ultimate power over what news is permissible for publication.
The media landscape in Burma is more open than ever, as President Thein Sein releases imprisoned journalists and abolishes the former censorship regime. But many threats and obstacles to truly unfettered reporting remain, including restrictive laws held over from the previous military regime. The wider government's commitment to a more open reporting environment is in doubt. A CPJ special report by Shawn W. Crispin
Early moves by Thein Sein to ease Internet censorship are viewed as a limited concession to press freedom, since Burma has one of the lowest Internet penetration rates in the world. Now, planned foreign investments in mobile infrastructure promise to expand access, but a draft telecommunications law would leave intact many of the vague legal restrictions used to curb online freedoms in the past. By Shawn W. Crispin
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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Well, it must happen to everyone!!
42 yds out and he ran away...stung but not injured enough not to fly away thank goodness.
Patterned my gun again when I got back to the truck and although unlikely, there were enough gaps that no pellets could have hit him in the head.
Surprised. 3.5" Hevi Shot, yes $6 each and still no guarantee
Next time I will wait a little longer on him to come in. Thought he would spook when my partner needed to move. He wasn't ready when he came over the hill.
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You're standing before a wall of white in the toilet paper aisle of your local retailer, thinking: How much difference can there really be between brands X,Y and Z? So you go with the cheapest, or the one you know best, only to be reminded later that, actually there's a big difference between good and bad TP. That's plain to see in Consumer Reports' toilet paper Ratings, where fifty points separate our first and last-place products. So before restocking your supply, be sure to check the results.
- » The top 10-inch skillets for your money
- » Costco's Kirkland pacs top Tide pods in our detergent tests
We test toilet paper on four key criteria, using a combination of machinery and sensory panelists. Strength is measured by an apparatus called an Instron, which pushes a steel ball through stacked sheets of paper. The same machine also evaluates tearing ease. All-important softness is determined by panelists, who gently caress each toilet paper. Disintegration, indicating how well paper will move through your home's plumbing, involves a water-filled beaker, a 20-inch stirring rod, and a vibrating plate.
The tough tests turn up quite a few stinkers. Take our bottom-rated CVS Earth Essentials, which received subpar scores for both strength and softness. Whole Foods' 365 Everyday Value and Walgreens' Big Roll performed only slightly better. These toilet papers are almost sure to disappoint.
Out of the two dozen-plus products we tested, five performed well enough to make our winner's circle. Three are Walmart exclusives, including a pair of White Cloud products and Great Value Ultra Strong. Softness is superb with all three toilet papers, though only the top-rated White Cloud 3-Ply Ultra Soft and Thick combines softness with superior strength and disintegration. As a result, it was tops in our tests by a wide margin.
If you're not a Walmart shopper, consider our picks from Quilted Northern or CVS.
(See also: Is Starbucks really the best coffee?)
Looking for a green toilet paper? The most eco-friendly options are made from fibers recovered from paper that would otherwise end up in a landfill or incinerator, as opposed to trees from responsibly managed forests. Seventh Generation meets that claim, and it was quite soft in our tests, though not as strong as models that make our recommended list.
Copyright © 2006-2013 Consumers Union of U.S., Inc. No reproduction, in whole or in part, without written permission.
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There was little chance of missing the elephant in the room. About a dozen years after Simba died at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, a half-inch slab of her yellowish, wrinkled, basketball-size brain was laid out before John Allman, a neuroscientist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
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Preserved in formaldehyde, it looked like half a pancake, frozen solid on a misting bed of dry ice. Allman carefully sliced it using the laboratory equivalent of a deli meat cutter. Taking well over an hour, he carved off 136 paper-thin sections.
Allman was searching for a peculiar kind of brain cell that he suspects is a key to how the African elephant—like a human being—manages to stay attuned to the ever-shifting nuances of social interplay. These spindle-shaped brain cells, called von Economo neurons—named for the man who first described them—are found only in human beings, great apes and a handful of other notably gregarious creatures. Allman, 66, compares the brains of people and other animals to gain insight into the evolution of human behavior.
"Neuroscience seems really reluctant to approach the question of what it is about our brains that makes us human, and John is doing exactly that," says Todd Preuss, a neuroanatomist and anthropologist at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center in Atlanta. "We know very, very little about how our brains differ from other animals', except that our brains are bigger."
The von Economo neurons are the most striking finding of recent years in comparative brain research, in which scientists tease out fine differences among species. Neuroanatomist Patrick Hof and his colleagues at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in Manhattan first stumbled across the neurons in human brain specimens in 1995, in a region toward the front of the brain called the anterior cingulate cortex. Most neurons have cone- or star-shaped bodies with several branching projections, called dendrites, that receive signals from neighboring cells. But von Economo neurons are thin and elongated, with just one dendrite at each end. They are four times bigger than most other brain cells, and even in species that have the cells, they are rare.
The Manhattan team, it turned out, had rediscovered an obscure cell type first identified in 1881. Hof named the cells after a Vienna-based anatomist, Constantin von Economo, who precisely described the neurons in human brains in 1926; afterward the cells slipped into obscurity. Hof began looking in the brains of deceased primates, including macaque monkeys and great apes—chimps, bonobos, gorillas and orangutans—donated by zoos and sanctuaries. He contacted Allman, who had a collection of primate brains, and asked him to collaborate. In 1999, the scientists reported that all great ape species had von Economo cells, but lesser primates, such as macaques, lemurs and tarsiers, did not. That meant the neurons evolved in a common ancestor of all the great apes about 13 million years ago, after they diverged from other primates but well before the human and chimp lineages diverged about six million years ago.
Although Allman is renowned as a neuroanatomist, it's not surprising to find him delving into larger questions of what it means to be human. His doctorate, from the University of Chicago, was in anthropology, and he has long been fascinated with how the primate brain evolved. He conducted landmark studies with his colleague Jon Kaas, identifying the parts of the owl monkey brain that analyze visual information and make sight possible. In 1974, Allman moved to Caltech, where he studied vision for 25 years. But he also itched to uncover how the basic workings of the human brain shape social behavior. The von Economo neurons immediately captured his interest.
Allman, who is divorced, lives in a 150-year-old brick house in San Marino that he shares with two Australian shepherd dogs, Luna and Lunita. Sepia-toned photographs of his suffragist grandmother hang on the living room wall. Being "notoriously nocturnal," as Allman puts it, he rarely gets to the lab before 1 p.m., leaves in the evening to continue working at home and usually stays up until 2 a.m. His Caltech office is dimly lit by a single window and a small desk lamp; it looks like a cave overrun with books and papers. Down the hall, glass slides of gorilla, bonobo and elephant brain tissue, stained blue and brown, lie drying on tables and counters.
From von Economo's work, Allman learned that the unusual cells seemed to reside only in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and one other niche of the human brain, the frontal insula (FI). Brain-scanning studies have established that the ACC and FI are particularly active when people experience emotion. Both areas also seem to be important for "self-monitoring," such as noticing bodily sensations of pain and hunger or recognizing that one has made a mistake. The ACC seems broadly involved in nearly every mental or physical effort.
By contrast, the frontal insula may play a more specific role in generating social emotions such as empathy, trust, guilt, embarrassment, love—even a sense of humor. According to experiments that measure the workings of various brain regions, the area becomes active when a mother hears a crying baby, for instance, or when someone scrutinizes a face to determine the other person's intentions. The FI is where the brain monitors and reacts to "gut feelings" from bodily sensations or interactions within a social network, Allman says. It's the link between self-monitoring and awareness of others that makes it possible for us to understand the feelings of other people. "The basic proposition that I'm advancing," he says, "is the notion that self-awareness and social awareness are part of the same functioning, and the von Economo cells are part of that."


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Whipple's disease is a rare condition that prevents the small intestines from properly absorbing nutrients. This is called malabsorption.
Intestinal lipodystrophy
Whipple's disease is caused by infection with a bacteria called Tropheryma whippelii. The disorder mainly affects middle-aged white men.
Whipple's disease is extremely rare. Risk factors are unknown.
Symptoms usually start slowly. Joint paint is the most common initial symptom. After that, often several years later, symptoms of gastrointestinal (GI) infection develop. Other symptoms may include:
The doctor or nurse will perform a physical exam. This may show:
Tests to diagnose Whipple's disease may include:
This disease may also change the results of the following tests:
People with Whipple's disease need to take long-term antibiotics to cure any infections of the brain and central nervous system. An antibiotic called ceftriaxone is given through a vein (IV). It is followed by another antibiotic (such as trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole) taken by mouth for up to 1 year.
If symptoms come back during antibiotic use, the antibiotic treatment may be changed.
Your health care provider should closely follow your progress, because signs of the disease can return after you finish therapy. Those who have nutritional deficiencies from malabsorption will also need to take dietary supplements.
Without treatment, the condition is usually fatal. Treatment relieves symptoms and can cure the disease.
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Maiwald M, von Herbay A, Relman DA. Whipple's disease. In: Feldman M, Friedman LS, Brandt LJ, eds. Sleisenger and Fordtran's Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease. 9th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders Elsevier; 2010:chap 106.
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Nowhere in your incoherent ramblings did you come anywhere close to the answer. Thanks to you, everyone in this room is now stupider having heard you. I award you no points and may God have mercy on your soul. -Billy Madison-
I'm normally more of a brunette type of guy, but Liv looks much better as a blonde. Also, there is nothing wrong with her forehead. Any happen to watch with subtitles on? They kept referring to the 'other' Olivia as "Bolivia." Brown + Olivia = Bolivia! Genius!
Sounds like the show may be doomed.
I'm still watching.
The last episode might be one of the creepiest episodes I have ever seen.
Nowhere in your incoherent ramblings did you come anywhere close to the answer. Thanks to you, everyone in this room is now stupider having heard you. I award you no points and may God have mercy on your soul. -Billy Madison-
Yeah, bigtime....I kept waiting for Mulder & Scully to show up.
"In my experience there's no such thing as luck."
The article doesn't actually say that the show has been cancelled yet. I am still hopeful. It's a shame, though, that people aren't watching - Fringe just keeps getting better. I seem to recall a time when X-Files aired on Friday as well...
I'm sure the show is doomed. It's smart, complex, has interesting characters and a long, series-spanning story arc. Networks don't like that sort of thing. Viewers also don't like that sort of thing either 'cos they've been dumbed down by the barrage of "reality" shows (not contest shows) that are aimed at the moronic.
Still, the ride they are giving us is a magnificent one.
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Admittedly I was surprised to see LOST go as long as it did, considering it did not fit the mold.
I wish BSG had gone another season, another smart show that sorta died before it's time.
Others include:
Terminator: TSCC (I still cry when I think about what might have been with that show!)
Tru Calling
Profit (had a lot of potential)
Wonderfalls (also a lot of potential)
Dresden Files
Bionic Woman (remake)
Heroes (YES, I still watched)
Star Trek (The Original Series...canceled too early!)
The list goes on and on and on. When we do get good shows that are smart and well done, and they are allowed to survive, we are truly blesses.
May the force be with you.
anything with those Kardashians
The Bachelor/The Bachelorette
The "real" "housewives" of _____________
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I caved and orderd sets online from all over. The metro is pretty stocked with pegwarmers and we've got airborn troopers and re-packs hanging heavy on the pegs.
Not to mention I can't chase like I'd like anymore.
Still waiting for the WM exclusive comic packs. I want Comm. Kenner and the snow marine pretty badly. I'm scouting Target pretty hard too waiting for the space whale clone pack and ship.
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Hyphema is blood in the front area (anterior chamber) of the eye. The blood collects behind the cornea and in front of the iris.
Hyphema is usually caused by trauma to the eye. Other causes of bleeding in the front chamber of the eye include:
You may not be able to see a small hyphema when looking at your eye in the mirror. With a total hyphema, the collection of blood will block the view of the iris and pupil.
Treatment may not be needed in mild cases. The blood is absorbed in a few days.
If bleeding comes back (usually in 3 - 5 days), the likely outcome of the condition will be much worse. The health care provider may recommend the following to cut down the chance that there will be more bleeding:
You may need to use eye drops to decrease the inflammation or lower the pressure in your eye.
The eye doctor may need to remove the blood, especially if pressure in the eye is very high the blood is slow to absorb again. You may need to stay in a hospital.
The outcome depends upon the amount of injury to the eye. Patients with sickle cell disease are more likely to have eye complications and must be watched closely. People with diabetes will probably need laser treatment for the problem.
Severe vision loss can occur.
Call your health care provider if you notice blood in the front of the eye or if you have an eye injury. You will to be examined and treated by an eye doctor right away, especially if you have decreased vision.
Many eye injuries can be prevented by wearing safety goggles or other protective eye wear. Always wear eye protection while playing sports such as racquetball, or contact sports such as basketball.
Crouch Jr ER, Crouch ER, Trauma: Ruptures and Bleeding. In: Tasman W, Jaeger EA, eds. Duane's Ophthalmology. 2012 ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2012:vol 4; chap 61.
Fudemberg SJ, Myers JS, Katz LJ, Spaeth GL. Glaucoma Following Trauma. In: Tasman W, Jaeger EA, eds. Duane's Ophthalmology. 2012 ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2012:vol 3; chap 54C.
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Last night I bought a male calico dalmation molly. At the store he was displaying beautifully & chasing the females in the tank which is why I chose him (besides his BEAUTIFUL calico colors). This morning, he was floating sideways (still alive) in the tank. I've since removed him & put him into a 1 gal tank that I have to try & "fix" whatever may be wrong with him. What happened??? I have 3 females & all are doing fine.
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Did you salt the tank? Aquarium salt in a large aquarium is best for mollies. The crazy behaviour in your tank may have been due to change in salinity from the holding tank at the store and your home tank. It's really hard to check for this.......Get him lotsof oxygen, moderate his temperature and good luck.
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