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This NIA-funded exploratory meeting was designed to advance dialogue between measurement, laboratory, and population-based stress researchers, in order to lay the groundwork for development of measures suitable for inclusion in large surveys, appropriate for use across geographic regions, populations, and societies. This meeting helped to inform our understanding of health inequalities that are attributable to psychosocial stress exposures and experiences. (For more information, contact Dr. Lis Nielsen, BSR, 301-402-4156.)
The second of two planned conferences convened by the Committee on Population (CPOP) at the National Academies of Science, this exploratory meeting gathered leading scientists to present the latest trends in population aging in Asia, to discuss the potential for greater international collaboration, and to engage senior Asian policymakers and planners in dialogue. (For more information, please contact: Dr. Richard Suzman, BSR, 301-496-3131.)
This public exploratory workshop reviewed and discussed commissioned papers on changing risk factors and measuring health status in the context of transitioning populations. Topics also included a discussion of methods for harmonization across different survey methods. (For more information, please contact: Dr. Richard Suzman, BSR, 301-496-3131.)
The overall objective of the proposed exploratory workshop is to assemble research experts in aging biology, comparative biology, and TOR (Target Of Rapamycin) -associated pathways, to obtain input that may help us strengthen comparative physiology approaches to explore conserved and divergent aspects of the TOR pathway across various vertebrate species. TOR plays a key role in development and aging. The aberrant regulation of mTOR (mammalian TOR) has been implicated in several diseases, including cancer, diabetes, ocular diseases and neurodegenerative disorders and in the regulation of lifespan and age-related diseases. Given the rapidly evolving findings on the role of TOR in lifespan extension and in a wide range of age-related diseases, a comparative approach across short-lived and long-lived species of mammals may provide evolutionary insights into conserved aspects of the expression of TOR and its downstream pathways. This workshop will help NIA develop this area further through special initiatives or efforts through existing resources.
We propose a workshop to be held on April 18-19, 2011 in Bethesda, MD.
(Contact Dr. Mahadev Murthy, DAB, 301/496-6402).
The Division of Neuroscience (DN), NIA, in conjunction with the Alzheimer's Association, held an advisory workshop on May 6-7, 2011 in Chicago, Illinois to examine the current state of knowledge related to neuropathological diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and differentiation of AD pathology from that of other dementing illnesses in post-mortem brains. A working group composed of experts in the field and a number of NIH staff was convened to examine the evidence and make recommendations as to the timing and steps to take in reconsideration of the NIA-Reagan criteria for AD diagnosis. The outcome of this meeting will subsequently be presented to the Alzheimer's community for feedback in the form of a draft publication. For further information, contact: Dr. Creighton Phelps, DN, Ph: 301-496-9350; email@example.com [1]).
The goal of this meeting was to discuss options and priorities for harmonizing measures across major population-based longitudinal studies of aging, for a wide range of behavioral and social constructs. Studies represented will include the Health and Retirement Study, the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, the National Social Health and Aging Project; Mid-Life in the United States, the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, and several international studies in the HRS "family." The purposes of harmonization vary in ambition, from facilitating informal comparisons of results across populations, to formal meta-analyses, and even to pooling of data sets, e.g., to meet requirements for adequate power and population diversity for genetic studies. This meeting was intended to initiate discussions and identify strategies for harmonization; future working groups may be formed to follow up in specific fields identified as most interesting to the studies and most in need of coordinated action. (For more information, contact Dr. John Haaga, BSR, 301-496-3131.)
Disruption of sleep in the elderly is one of the most profound and well documented changes with aging and there is increasing evidence that disruption of sleep impacts behavior and physiology. Despite this strong evidence, there is a gap in understanding interactions between diseases in the elderly and sleep disruptions. Therefore, the Division of Neuroscience, NIA convened an exploratory workshop to survey current understanding, emerging ideas, knowledge gaps and research opportunities pertaining to sleep and aging and their relevance to health and disease. Specifically, discussion focused on (1) current data on age-related changes in sleep organization and sleep-dependent memory processing, (2) evidence for health promotion in older individuals using sleep-based interventions, (3) strategies for assessing and promoting preventive health (sleep) measures in individuals with cognitive impairment and dementias, and (4) biological mechanisms and current evidence relating changes in sleep pattern in aging to cognitive impairment and dementias.
(For more information, please contact Dr. Mack Mackiewicz, DN, (301) 594-7636; email@example.com [2] ).
The "choices" theme program will highlight cutting edge research in the domains of behavioral- and neuro-economics and the decision sciences, areas where the development of applications to aging-relevant themes has been strongly encouraged by BSR. This program will increase BSR's visibility in the field of psychological sciences, particularly around the interface of psychology and economics, and potentially attract future investigators into the field of aging. (For more information, contact Drs. Lis Nielsen and Jonathan King, BSR, 301-402-4156.)
This NIA-supported exploratory meeting will bring together leading researchers in behavioral and social research on decision making from the psychological and economic sciences to discuss potential areas of integration for advancing research on aging relevant themes, including: Behavior Change and Decision Making (including behavioral- and neuro-economics), Subjective Well-being, and Measurement of Economic Phenotypes. (For more information, contact Drs. Lis Nielsen and Jonathan King, BSR, 301-402-4156.)
New technologies are making it possible to probe gene expression, DNA integrity,protein damage, etc. in living cells with single molecule sensitivity in real-time. Many important proteins are expressed at extremely low levels, thus making them inaccessible by classical genomic and proteomic techniques. The single molecule sensitive reporter systems that have been developed open up possibilities for system wide characterization of the expression of these low copy number proteins. Similarly, latest generation DNA sequencing allows the analysis of single genomes, thus providing important cell-to-cell variability in genome stability, mutation frequency, etc. This level of analysis is important since individual cell biochemical composition may be diluted by the surrounding cells. By studying single cells at the molecular level it will be possible to obtain fingerprints of bioprocess from different cell types and disease states and to change the response to various challenges by altering the level of these biological processes in a predictable manner. The insights into the biology of single cells will have important implications for the study of tissue and organ homeostasis.
The proposed exploratory meeting will assemble the leaders in the field of single cell analysis, together with researchers from the aging community to discuss new, cutting-edge developments and techniques in this fast-moving area. The presentations will focus on probing genomics, proteomics, metabolomics and imaging in living cells.
We propose a workshop to be held on May 26, 2011 in Bethesda, MD.
(Contact Dr. Jose Velazquez, DAB, 301/496-6402).
This exploratory workshop, convened by the Committee on Population at the National Research Council, will gather a panel of experts to evaluate the recent contributions of social demography, social epidemiology and sociology to the study of aging and seek to identify promising new research directions in these sub-fields. A report is expected to be issued after the workshop. (For more information, please contact Ms. Elizabeth Hamilton, BSR, 301-496-3138.)
Purpose: Outreach
The purpose of the forum is to bring together new awardees of grants from DAB in the spring of the year following their award, to encourage their continued success in this field by allowing them to get acquainted with us (NIA program staff) as well as network with each other. The new investigators will be asked to make short presentations describing their planned work (or results to date) with an emphasis on how it relates to the area of aging research. As for previous meetings, the invitation letter will include the following language:
"Since you are being funded by the National Institute on Aging, we presume that your talk will clearly and explicitly demonstrate to us (and to the other forum participants) how your research is related to the area of aging."
The meeting will start with a keynote address by an eminent aging researcher (tbn).
Owing to the large number of new investigators added to the DAB portfolio in FY 2010, we anticipate that we will need to divide the DAB NIF into two parts. One part for R01 awardees and the other part for K and F, small grant and post doc awardees.
We propose both workshops (Part 1 – R01s and Part 2 – Ks & Fs) to be held on June 21-22, 2011 and June 27-29, 2011 in Bethesda, MD.
(Contact Dr. David Finkelstein, DAB, 301/496-6402)
The purpose of this workshop is to explore and discuss harmonization strategies that will help to maximize the value of data within the behavioral and social sciences, and accelerate research integrating these data with genetic and genomic inquiry. It will draw from leading approaches and solutions developed under major harmonization initiatives (i.e., CaBIG1, P3G 2, CaHuB3, Gen2Phen4). The proposed workshop will congregate a small group of experts working in specific areas of harmonization in cataloging or phenotype harmonization. It will introduce basic concepts and approaches and explore the best ways to build upon harmonization foundations already developed in other BSR harmonization activities. (For more information contact Dr. Jennifer Harris or Barbara Torrey, 301-496-3136.)
The Division of Aging Biology (DAB) is planning to hold an exploratory workshop in July to discuss recent findings in our understanding of immune regulation of bone cell differentiation. Osteoimmunology is an emerging field of research related to the understanding of the interactions between the immune and skeletal systems. The interactions between the immune system and bone involve direct cell to cell contacts between different cells of the immune system and osteoclasts as well as effects mediated by the release of cytokines and chemokines by cells of the immune system. Chronic inflammation or immune activation has been demonstrated to influence osteoimmunology and produces metabolic, structural and functional changes in bone. Moreover, adipose tissue also produces factors such as adipokines that may influence bone homeostasis. Given the changes in the immune system that occur with aging which includes the development of a chronic inflammatory state, the interactions between the immune system and bone should be addressed in the context of aging. In addition, there have been recent reports by multiple groups indicating a role of senescent T cells in the development of osteoporosis with aging. In view of recent data indicating the increased complexity of endocrine regulation of both the immune system and bone remodeling, there is a basis for further investigating the age-related aspects of the mechanisms involved in mediating cross talk between these systems.
We propose a one day workshop to be held in July, 2011 in Bethesda, MD.
(Contacts Drs. Rebecca Fuldner or John Williams, DAB, 301/496-6402).
The National Institute of Aging (NIA), in collaboration with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), is sponsoring an expert panel on Outcome Measures for Older Persons with Multiple Chronic Conditions (MCC). The multi-disciplinary expert panel will evaluate evidence and recommend measures to assess effectiveness (and potentially safety) of treatment and prevention strategies for MCC patients, especially across differing treatment settings. A two-day expert panel will be convened in Bethesda or Rockville, MD in July or September 2011. Our goal in convening the panel is to obtain recommendations for a core set of broad measures of health, function, and quality of life which could be used to characterize the status of older persons with a variety of combinations of conditions, which would be feasible to collect in clinical trials, surveys, and health care databases. Such measures would be useful for assessing and comparing the effectiveness and safety of new interventions and health care models for older patients with MCC. We believe that they provide a crucial complement to disease-specific outcome measures, particularly because many interventions for a given condition also affect other coexisting conditions, and interact with interventions for other conditions. In such cases, broader measures of health, function, and quality of life can provide a valuable metric for assessing the overall net benefit and risk of interventions and models of care. The panel will consist of independent experts from several disciplines, including geriatrics, health services research and administration, epidemiology, and clinical trials. Representatives of governmental agencies with interests in geriatrics and health care policy will also be invited to attend a two-day meeting of the panel. The panel will develop a consensus set of recommendations and accompanying report to be published in an appropriate journal. Agenda and participants are to be determined.
Contact Dr. Marcel E. Salive, DGCG, 301-435-3044 firstname.lastname@example.com [3].
The staff of the NIA Division of Neuroscience will hold the 3rd Annual Investigators Meeting for Translational Research on September 13-14, 2011 in Bethesda, MD. Participants in this exploratory meeting will include investigators who are recipients of grants from the Early Drug Discovery and Preclinical Drug Development Programs and investigators who use the Toxicology Contract services, program staff from NIA and National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), and experts on drug discovery for AD from academia and/or industry in the role of expert advisors. (For more information, contact Dr. Suzana Petanceska, email@example.com [4] or Dr. Neil Buckholtz, email@example.com [5], DN, Ph: 301-496-9350).
There is an established consensus across several disciplines on the need to adopt a lifecourse perspective to understand the evolution of health and the aging process. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers at the frontier of their fields to integrate biological, econometric, genetic and medical approaches to advance our knowledge on the development origins of health and aging, and to set priorities for future research agendas. The focus of the workshop is to explore potential synergies and to combine insights from evolutionary biology and medicine, together with genetic analysis and rigorous econometric modeling, to understand the mechanisms through which genetic endowments and early life conditions affect the evolution of health across the lifecourse. The meeting will consider the importance of selection effects in estimating the causal role of social and biological factors relevant to aging. Particular emphasis will be given to the analysis of interventions, and how to characterize heterogeneity in their effects as function of genetic endowments. (Contact: Erica Spotts 402-4156)


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Peyronie's (pay-roe-NEEZ) disease is the development of fibrous scar tissue inside the penis that causes curved, painful erections.
Men's penises vary in shape and size. Having a curved erection is common and isn't necessarily a cause for concern. However, in some men, Peyronie's disease causes a significant bend or pain.
This can prevent a man from having sex or might make it difficult to get or maintain an erection (erectile dysfunction). For many men, Peyronie's disease also causes stress and anxiety.
In a small percentage of men, Peyronie's disease goes away on its own. But in most cases, it will remain stable or worsen. Treatment might be needed if the curvature is severe enough that it prevents successful sexual intercourse.
Peyronie's disease signs and symptoms might appear suddenly or develop gradually. The most common signs and symptoms include:
The curvature associated with Peyronie's disease might gradually worsen. At some point, however, it stabilizes in the majority of men.
In most men, pain during erections improves within one to two years, but the scar tissue and curvature often remain. For a few men, both the curvature and pain associated with Peyronie's disease improve without treatment.
See your doctor if pain or curvature of your penis prevents you from having sex or causes you anxiety.
The cause of Peyronie's disease isn't completely understood, but a number of factors appear to be involved.
It's thought Peyronie's disease generally results from repeated injury to the penis. For example, the penis might be damaged during sex, athletic activity or as the result of an accident. However, most often, men do not recall specific trauma to the penis.
During the healing process, scar tissue forms in a disorganized manner, which might then lead to a nodule that you can feel or development of curvature.
Each side of the penis contains a sponge-like tube (corpus cavernosum) that contains many tiny blood vessels. Each of the corpus cavernosa are encased in a sheath of elastic tissue called the tunica albuginea (TOO-nih-kuh al-BYOO-JIN-e-uh), which stretches during an erection.
When you become sexually aroused, blood flow to these chambers increases. As the chambers fill with blood, the penis expands, straightens and stiffens into an erection.
In Peyronie's disease, when the penis becomes erect, the region with the scar tissue doesn't stretch, and the penis bends or becomes disfigured and possibly painful.
In some men, Peyronie's disease comes on gradually and doesn't seem to be related to an injury. Researchers are investigating whether Peyronie's disease might be linked to an inherited trait or certain health conditions.
Minor injury to the penis doesn't always lead to Peyronie's disease. However, various factors can contribute to poor wound healing and scar tissue buildup that might play a role in Peyronie's disease. These include:
Other factors — including certain health conditions, smoking and some types of prostate surgery — might be linked to Peyronie's disease.
Complications of Peyronie's disease might include:
If you have Peyronie's disease symptoms, you're likely to begin by seeing your family doctor or general practitioner. You might be referred to a specialist in male sexual disorders (urologist).
Preparing for your appointment will help you make the best use of your time.
Make a list ahead of time that you can share with your doctor. Your list should include:
List questions for your doctor from most important to least important in case time runs out. You might want to ask some of the following questions:
In addition to the questions you've prepared to ask your doctor, don't hesitate to ask questions during your appointment.
Your doctor is likely to ask you a number of questions. Being ready to answer them might reserve time to go over any points you want to discuss further. Your doctor might ask:
Your doctor might also ask you to complete a survey, such as the International Index of Erectile Function, to help identify how the condition affects your ability to have sex.
A physical exam is often sufficient to identify the presence of scar tissue in the penis and diagnose Peyronie's disease. Rarely, other conditions cause similar symptoms and need to be ruled out.
Tests to diagnose Peyronie's disease and understand exactly what's causing your symptoms might include the following:
Physical exam. Your doctor will feel (palpate) your penis when it's not erect, to identify the location and amount of scar tissue. He or she might also measure the length of your penis. If the condition continues to worsen, this initial measurement helps determine whether the penis has shortened.
Your doctor might also ask you to bring in photos of your erect penis taken at home. This can determine the degree of curvature, location of scar tissue or other details that might help identify the best treatment approach.
Other tests. Your doctor might order an ultrasound or other tests to examine your penis when it's erect. Before taking images of your penis, you'll likely receive an injection directly into the penis that causes it to become erect.
Ultrasound is the most commonly used test for penis abnormalities. Ultrasound tests use sound waves to produce images of soft tissues. These tests can show the presence of scar tissue, blood flow to the penis and any other abnormalities.
Your doctor might recommend a wait-and-see (watchful waiting) approach if:
If your symptoms are severe or are worsening over time, your doctor might recommend medication or surgery.
The goals of treatment with medication include reducing plaque formation and pain, as well as minimizing curvature of the penis.
There is one medication approved by the Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of Peyronie's disease. It's called collagenase Clostridium histolyticum (Xiaflex). This medicine is approved for use in men with a palpable lump from plaque in the penis that causes a curvature of at least 30 degrees during erection.
The treatment works by breaking down the buildup of collagen that causes penile curvature. It involves a series of in-office injections, directly into the penile lump, as well as penile modeling — brief exercises to gently stretch and straighten the penis.
In clinical trials, this collagenase therapy significantly reduced curvature and bothersome symptoms associated with Peyronie's disease in many participants. Discuss potential side effects of this medication with your doctor, as some of them can be serious.
Examples of off-label use of medications for Peyronie's disease include an oral medication called pentoxifylline (Trental), verapamil (injections or topical gel) and interferon (injections).
Most experts recommend against surgery during the early inflammatory phase of Peyronie's disease. Your doctor might suggest surgery if the deformity of your penis is severe, especially bothersome, or prevents you from having sex. Surgery usually isn't recommended until the curvature of your penis stops increasing.
Surgical methods include:
The type of surgery will depend on your condition. Your doctor will consider the location of scar tissue, the severity of your symptoms and other factors.
A technique known as iontophoresis uses a weak electrical current to deliver a combination of verapamil and dexamethasone noninvasively through the skin. Research shows conflicting results.
Several nondrug treatments for Peyronie's are being investigated, but evidence is limited on how well they work and possible side effects. These include using intense sound waves to break up scar tissue (shock wave therapy), devices to stretch the penis (penile traction therapy) and vacuum devices.
Peyronie's disease can be a source of significant anxiety and create stress between you and your sexual partner. The following suggestions might help you cope with Peyronie's disease:
Original article: http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/peyronies-disease/basics/symptoms/con-20028765
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A couple of weeks ago, an ex staff member of the museum dropped off some interesting snails that could work well in Bugs Alive!, our display of invertebrates at the museum. Amongst the collection was a moderate sized land snail that looked remarkably like a Giant African Land Snail.
Giant African Land Snails are one of the biggest potential agricultural pests for Australia. In the 1970s they entered Australia and were found in Queensland. Australia managed to eradicate them from the environment this time, but the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service (AQIS) continue to be vigilant to stop them from getting across our border again. Although they originate from Africa they are now a pest species all over the world. Close to home they are found on Pacific islands where they have overrun some of the local land snails leading them to become endangered (as well as introducing carnivorous snails to eat the Giant African Land Snail but they enjoyed the taste of the local snails more – but that is another story...).
This moderate size land snail looked far too much like a Giant African Land Snail to not have checked out by the experts.Image: Adnan MoussalliSource: Museum Victoria
My story stems from the fact that on my desk turned up this interesting looking snail. I was immediately alerted to action to get this snail checked out. I left the Live Exhibits department and ventured up to Sciences where I spoke to Adnan, the resident snail expert of the museum. He was not only interested in this snail but also the bundle of other snails that came along with the package – including carnivorous snails who had eaten their house mates and a Snug – what looks like a cross between a snail and a slug.
Hard to believe - but there are snails around that are carnivores. This snail came to us in en enclosure with two empty snail shells - it had a feast in transit.Image: Adnan MoussalliSource: Museum Victoria
This amazing group of animals, which we have fondly called Snugs, have been kept in captivity by Live Exhibits for a number of years. Image: Adnan MoussalliSource: Museum Victoria
It did not take Adnan long to coax the snail out of its shell and confirm that it was just a very interesting local snail called Pygmipanda automata. It has now become a resident of the Melbourne Museum and we can use it for public programs and display. Australia is full of amazing snails that are so rarely seen by many people. Their tendency to venture out when it is dark and wet when we are all tucked up in bed means they are rarely spotted.
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Re: Getting symbols out of list returned by solve
phry420 at yahoo.com (Sam) wrote:
> This may be really simple but I am having trouble setting the
> variables to the values returned by solve. If
> solution={S0 -> 0,S1 -> 5....}the numbers of S# are subscripts
> I can get to the idivdual parts with
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> Set::"setps": solution[[1]] in assignment of part is not a symbol."
> What is going on and how can I fix this?
Perhaps you can use something like this:
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Before and after every first-team fixture our MatchDay Show team - and an Arsenal blogger - will have their say on the match.
Arsenal took on Everton in the Premier League on Saturday and our Talking Heads for this game were Dan Roebuck, Nigel Winterburn and Tim Clark from Arse2Mouse.
Read on for their post-match thoughts and recap what they said before the game.
In a game like that, it comes as no surprise that Robin van Persie's moment of pure genius won it for Arsenal. Arsène Wenger's side really should have had the game well and truly put to bed by half time, but a lack of clinical edge in the final third cost them dearly. In the second half it was a much more difficult test for the Gunners. Everton sat deeper, looked tighter and made life a struggle for Arsenal. But yet again that talismanic Dutchman struck - and what a way to win any football match. Did any of us see that coming? You just never rule out anything with him at the moment.
There's no point being down about the midweek defeat in Greece - it was probably the least painful Arsenal defeat I can remember. The only real concern was the injury suffered by Andre Santos but I'm not concerned about Thomas Vermaelen or Ignasi Miquel at left back. I'd probably go for the Belgian - he likes to get forward and will get the opportunity if he deputises for Santos. To be honest we need some forward-thinking on the flanks because Everton will crowd the midfield and make it hard for their old boy Mikel Arteta to pick his passes. The big plus from midweek is that most of Arsenal's key players had a rest so they should not grow tired in the latter stages. It's all about the first goal - if the home side get it I think they will be comfortable winners. If Everton nick a lead, they will make life very difficult.
I thought that in the first half Arsenal were terrific and created four or five really good opportunities. They didn't take them though, which was slightly disappointing. The second half was more scrappy for me and it became a bit of a battle. It was a terrific goal by Robin van Persie to win the game and I'm delighted that we can keep pressing on up the league table. We're back in that top four now and long may that continue.
Everton have picked up a little bit of late. They had a couple of wins in succession recently but then lost their last game against Stoke. They've always seemed to be a team who start slowly and then pick up around Christmas time, but the games Arsenal have had against them at the Emirates have been quite difficult. I think they will make it hard for Arsenal to break them down, so I do think we need to get the first goal to force them onto us a little bit. They've had limited money to spend and I do think the one thing they miss is an out-and-out goalscorer.
I think Louis Saha is a very good player but he just doesn't play enough. After that I don't think they've got anybody who's going to provide them with 15-plus goals a season. I think from set plays they can be very dangerous with the likes of Tim Cahill, Marouane Fellaini and Phil Jagielka who can all pop up with a goal. Baines could be very dangerous down that left-hand-side and that's where we'll probably see Cahill arriving at the far post where he tends to get a lot of his goals from. But I've got to say an Arsenal victory. They need to keep their momentum going - they've been in good form in the league and I'll go for a 2-1 win.
It was a privilege to be at the Emirates on a special day, lit up by a very special goal. For a while it had looked like the kind of nuggety game that would either fizzle out to a draw or be settled by a moment of brilliance/calamitous mix-up. Thankfully, we were on the right end of the former. If the performance seemed a little flat at times, I put that down to having to field a back four entirely comprised of centre backs. The one-twos and overlapping runs that are the modern full-back's stock-in-trade make it a truly specialist position, so it's no surprise we lacked a little endeavour. In the end we did get to see Miquel and his spectacular, dare I say noble, trews. I suspect we may see a fair bit more of him over Christmas too. Oh, and a word too on the fans, who were excellent throughout, running through the full Arsenal songbook. If only we could bottle that atmosphere. Eau D'Arsenal, anyone?
Having already blanked out the midweek result like a particularly unsettling cheese dream, it's back to the far tastier meat and drink of the Premier League. Our record against Everton over recent seasons is better than decent, winning six of the last eight encounters and losing none (thanks, Opta). In terms of team selection, the obvious concern is that we're now deep into what will eventually come to be known as The Great Full-back Drought of 2011. High on the new medical centre's agenda must be a solution to stopping them from exploding like Spinal Tap drummers. The smart money - ie not mine - suggests young Spaniard Ignasi Miquel will get the nod at left-back. This will greatly please Arse2Mouse's better half, as she's much taken with his hair, which she describes as "glowing". No argument here. He's incredibly well-groomed. More pertinently, the boy looks like he can play too, and seems to have a comparatively calm head for one so young. With the other first teamers returning alongside him, and Kos reprising his increasingly impressive stint at right back, I reckon we'll run out 2-0 winners.
* The views expressed in Talking Heads do not necessarily reflect those of Arsenal Football Club or Arsenal Broadband Ltd.Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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Doc here,
One of the BEST ways to shut down an "Apprentice Professor", and the easiest by far..is "Show me the FACTS that support your Theroy.."
THEN ask How Do You do that job ? ... What is the Procedure? ....and What Tools Do YOU use?...( it's easy to read TECH STATS off a web site..only HANDS ON Experience will answer that..)
When the facts don't materilize..everyone will get be clued in..
|It's taken me years to learn to be more tolerant of those around me, and I'm still working on it. Know-it-alls are everywhere. I believe most of them are looking for attention and are just trying to fit in. I try not to comment on their ignorance on something, unless it is a co-worker and will directly affect something we are working on at the time. I try my best not to talk about people behind their back, even in jest, but they sure do make it hard at times.
CL I understand how you feel. I'm in the last year of my apprenticeship and I see the same thing quite often. Fortunately I'm a little older now but when I was your age I might have done the same things you speak of or worse. The best way I have found to deal with someone like that is to just distance yourself when you can, keep yourself and other friends out of the line of fire when something does finally go wrong, don't end up a casualty of their ignorance. One day he will probably ask you why you don't like him, best answer I have come up with is," If I didn' like you I wouldn't speak to you", and then you walk away and don't speak. They usually get the hint...
The general attitude (young guy knows a lot more than any of the older guys) is not limited to fixing cars. I've worked in the military and on various projects in the computer and telecom industry for nearly 30 years and have picked up degrees and quite a bit of technical knowledge over the years. However, its not unusual for me to run into a young kid in a in computer programming class who does not believe that I would ever be able to understand the complicated things he's learning.
I think some of the young folks attitudes about high tech are even more biased than they are with cars, since they seldom run into a person in his/her 50's who has some experience working with technology. They all think we should be like their Mom and Dad, who usually don't do much more than turn a computer (or car) on and use it.
|Well said Cboy! I tend to agree, all you have to do is stay out of their path. They will step in it themselves multiple times before they get a clue. I went to electronics school, but there were a few of us that were into cars and were backyard types. Well there was this one kid who thought he knew everything about cars -he drove a 80's celebrity LOL. He said you were supposed to floor a EFI car and make it rev up when you start it. Well he's the only I know that ever blew up an iron duke 2.5L. Then he did the same thing to the 90's cavalier that replaced it. And now he's blown his trans axle out in his Volvo trying to get it unstuck (my guess is he didn't try rocking but just mashed the gas pedal). Maybe one of these days he'll come around, but I just laugh and stay clear of him.
You might even consider putting him on your "ignore list"...just like we can do here at HR.Com with posters who are full of themselves. That prevents you from possibly being sucked down to this guy's level of conversation and attitude. Sometimes laughter and ridicule demeans YOU as much as it might demean the target of your barbs. Someone might ask, "Well aren't you just trying to point out your own superiority by making fun of another person or pointing out their flaws."
You've got plenty going for you CL that you would never need to ride on the shoulders of ridicule. So my point here is aimed more at the "general" audience rather than you specifically.
My theory is, I'm less informed than 9 out of 10 rodders in this world. And if I do stumble on that ONE rodder who's less informed than me...why would I want to blow my precious time talking with him/her...much less ridiculing them or pointing out their ignorance.
If a person wants to learn, they should ALWAYS be the dumbest kid in their class...that is, they should ALWAYS be hanging around rodders who are smarter, more experienced, more innovative, and more savy. I know I'm the dumbest in MY class...and I intend to keep it that way.
The interesting thing is, the truly smart, experienced, innovative and savy rodders I know rarely, if ever, feel the need to verbalize their superiority or put down others, even when they are inanely stupid. The really good ones simply go on about their lives, building incredible cars and working wonders with their hands and minds. It speaks volumes over laughter and ridicule.
|I have always found that people that are full of crap, most of the time, just have a hard time making friends and are doing that so you will like them......Too bad it generally has the opposite effect.
|Buy 'em for what they are worth and sell 'em for what they think they are worth. ChaChing!!!
|Twisted Minis
I'm in my first semester at the local JC, taking auto and machining classes. About 70% of the kids in my classes are like the one you describe. They're either disrespectful or don't know *** is going on and think they do. I've already gotten a reputation for knowing a bit more than the average student, and I regret it a little. I eithr get asked a lot of questions, or people are straight up rude for no reason. I don't know exactly why.
The thing that urks me, is the kids that don't do their homework, or interupt the teachers ith retarded high school type comments. You're paying for these classes, why waste it? My uncle teaches the powerflow class I'm taking, so I take that one a bit more personally when people are rude and disrespectful. But I even get upset with that jaskholes on my machining class that goof off. Its one thing to screw around with a wrench, but a lathe could do a whole lot of damage.
|I always joke about how much smarter my grandfather got from the time I was 18 till I was 25 years old, and he did not even have to learn anything.
i love it when my own family tries to impress me with their automotive knowledge
you know who DOESNT try to argue with me about cars ? my father, the only other car person in my immediate family. sure he argues with on some stuff, but its the usual car guy vs car guy stuff
on the other hand, theres my mother, who has yet to grasp the idea that she doesnt know enough about cars to correct me
case in point:
my sister managed to back her truck into a economy car at the gas station. her hitch destroyed the bumper and the tail light panel. the estimate for the economy car was $2000 ... a reasonable amount considering the spare tire was jammed in its well ....
my sister asserted that "the cars bumper was hardly scratched"
my mom was nice enough to tell me "you havent worked at a shop in years, how do you know what the repairs would cost??" then proceeded to argue with me about it for a week
my older brother, even worse, but at least he shuts up as soon as i shoot him down once or twice.
Its not always young guys......I still remember years ago (long before 383 sbc came to be) at an Orange County fair car show, I walked up to a very nice '32 highboy with the hood off and was listening to the owner talk to some guy about his car. He was boasting to the guy that it was a "380" chevy.
I asked who's stroker crank did you use? He looked at me kind of funny then said it did'nt have a stroked crank. The other guy and I both asked him then how did he come to the idea that it was a "380" c.i. He looked at me kind of funny and the said " well cuzz it was bored 30 over". When we both tried to explain to him that a .030 over 350 is a 355 and not a 380 he got pi------ and walked away.
|Just tell him this...I've forgotten more than you will ever know about cars...and I still know more!
I used to try and talk with people like that. Now, I revel in watching them swim in the bullcrap they spew. It never fails that sooner or later their true lack of knowledge will bite them in the butt. It's much more fun to watch them and less irritating.
My dad used to do that to me and my brother when we did really dumb things to our cars. Like spending good money on yellow ACCEL spark plug wires because we were POSITIVE that they would make our car faster. We learned a lot of good lessons swimming in our crap.
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As detailed in our cover story, the strings attached to stimulus monies are a wee bit more tangled than those traditionally wrapped around federal funding — particularly for water and wastewater managers. But the law lets you apply up to .05% of your grant or loan to administrative costs, so what's a little more paperwork?
In addition to the time associated with justifying technology available only from non-U.S. suppliers (rare, but it's happened), the law's stipulation that recipients pay the "prevailing wage" is causing its share of unintended consequences.
For those who may not know, the Davis-Bacon Act of 1931 was designed to ensure that folks working on the roads, dams, parks, and other projects the federal government was building to pull us out of the Depression were paid the same wages — the prevailing rate — as laborers working for businesses in the project area. It's been amended a couple times since then, primarily to ensure contractors don't pay employees less in an attempt to win a lowest-bid government job and still make a profit; later to include the value of benefits in the formula for determining the prevailing wage.
You can see why some companies won't bother to pursue government work.
But I digress. I'd heard during the WEFTEC water and waste-water conference that Davis-Bacon is increasing stimulus job costs 22%. That figure didn't seem possible, so I asked recipients of our e-newsletter what they were experiencing. Boy, did that touch a nerve. (If you'd like to subscribe, go to www.pwmag.com, scroll down the left-hand side of the home page, and click on "Free E-Newsletter Sign-Up.")
In general, bids are coming in much lower than estimated, but how much those savings offset stimulus-induced increases depends on location, location, location.
In Michigan, which has the highest unemployment rate in the nation, costs are coming in 30% lower on a $2 billion water main replacement. Meanwhile, a first-time federal-funding recipient in Idaho estimates the requirement will add 10% to project bills. ("Or in other words, we'll be able to do 10% less improvement because of Davis-Bacon.")
The requirement's also having unintended consequences for your contracting partners. The already slim profit margins of smaller local contractors who've managed to hang on this long erode even further. And for the first time, general contractors must verify that all subcontractors pay the prevailing wage. It will be very interesting to see what this effort at transparency reveals.
Through it all, the fundamental conundrum of the prevailing wage concept remains. Which is probably why a retired reader said, "The primary goal of every taxpayer is the maximum delivery of service for every dollar spent. Oh, what a dream!"
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The Trey McIntyre Project will bring its unique style of contemporary ballet to Kingsbury Hall this week. It's easy to see that this isn't a company that rides on its laurels: All three of the ballets on the program were choreographed in 2012, including "The Unkindness of Ravens," which premiered earlier this month at New York's highly acclaimed Brooklyn Academy of Music.
"Ravens" is the culmination of DanceMotion USA, a yearlong cultural-diplomacy tour sponsored by the State Department and Brooklyn Academy of Music. McIntyre's dance company was chosen to collaborate with dance companies in Vietnam, China, the Philippines and South Korea.
So it may surprise some in the Salt Lake City audience to know that the company, founded in 2008, is based just a five-hour drive away in Boise.
Before McIntyre and his fervently supportive staff launched the company, the 40-year-old choreographer's résumé included making ballets for companies from Houston to New York and Moscow to Santiago. One of his last works to be performed in Salt Lake City was "Like a Samba," which the Aspen Santa Fe Ballet performed in 2005 at Kingsbury Hall.
That McIntyre's company landed in Boise wasn't a random choice, said executive director and co-founder John Michael Schert. Founders researched cities across the country, and Boise jumped out as the place to begin "a social experiment to see how an arts organization could truly impact a community."
He and other company members admit they enjoy the star factor of being local celebrities recognized by residents and dance fans as they're out and about town. Another fringe benefit the dance company enjoys is the support of community and business leaders. "Boise has no professional athletic teams," Schert said. "They have put dancers and artists forward as their celebrities."
The Boise Arts & Economic Prosperity IV study provides evidence the experiment is working. In a city with a population a little over 200,000, the nonprofit arts and culture business is a $48 million industry, supporting 1,602 full-time equivalent jobs and generating $4.5 million in local and state government revenue, according to a June 2012 news release.
The company's communications manager Amy Atkins, a Boise native, said she was always interested in the arts but was intimidated by dance. "I always found myself wondering, should I clap now?" But since the Trey McIntyre Project came to town, Atkins said that "everybody not only has a favorite dancer, but they know where [the dancers] go for coffee."
Atkins attributes much of the community buy-in to McIntyre's work. "Trey's choreography explores what it means to be human and who can't feel connected to that?"
In the dance world, people remain fascinated by the story of a world-class company that moves to a small Western town. Dancers often are asked why they would leave a major city for Boise.
"My first thoughts on moving to Boise were pure excitement," said dancer Brett Perry, who has been with the company since 2008. "I didn't know a lot about the city, but was thrilled to be starting a new job at Trey McIntyre Project and moving out West. I knew it would be different from living in New York City, but I was excited about the change."
The company maintains an active national and international touring schedule; when at home, the dancers are taught by prominent guest choreographers, which makes the city feel like a regional cultural hub. The company has a $2.2 million annual budget and offers dancers a 33-week contract.
"We have a very deep love for this community," Schert said. "It's unique that we're here, but we respect and want to reflect the values around us being entrepreneurial, creative and proud."
When Schert first labels McIntyre as "the greatest American choreographer in the past 30 years," it sounds like hyperbole. But Schert then explains how McIntyre looks for inspiration all around him. "He sees the details of a culture or a society through its nuances how people talk, how the punchline to a joke was delivered," Schert said. "That is how he is inspired as an artist. So I think there is a relevancy that filters into his work."
Additionally, McIntyre walks the walk of tying dance to the community. While in Salt Lake City, the company will be busy offstage, teaching master classes, giving school performances and visiting a senior center for a 30-minute performance (in casual dress and tennis shoes) and a workshop on therapeutic dance.
"This is the first time we have taken performers to a senior center to reach seniors who would otherwise not be able to see this performance due to barriers like mobility," said Robin Wilks-Dunn, education director for Kingsbury Hall. "It is part of our larger mission to expand audiences and bring the arts to populations who rarely get a chance to participate."
And the Trey McIntyre Project is more than happy to oblige.
Dance inspired by the West
P The Boise-based Trey McIntyre Project brings new works to Salt Lake City.
When • Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.
Where • Kingsbury Hall, 1395 E. Presidents Circle, University of Utah campus, Salt Lake City
Tickets • $19.50-$24.50-$29.50 (plus handling or facility fees), $10 for students, $5 for U. students; at 801-581-7100 or kingtix.com
More • Free parking at Rice Eccles Stadium with shuttle service to Kingsbury
About the company • www.treymcintyre.com/home


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Ok, I figured I would give this one more shot. When I bought my gauntlets, locally, I was told they they may have been cast from the DP Lifeseize Fett. They are made from fibreglass and have a machined aluminium left rocket, darts and flamethrower nozzels.
Unless Ruff has changed his design, these are not his. I am in the dark about who made them. I am curious, however, who made them and off of what because there are some striking differences between what I have seen on Fett himself and here on the boards.
The keypad is different and there is no indentation spot for the dental expander. So, if anyone can do some digging, please do. I would love to I.D. this set.


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For the first time in 20 years, Kansas City, MO ditches its "city of fountains" branding and with great fanfare unveils an entire new image makeover.
Gone is the 'spouting fountain' on a simple white background and in comes a colorful new insignia that design gurus say is "classic yet modern, clean yet simple. But most importantly, instantly recognizable.
Do you agree?
News reviewers:
Neal Jones, Sportscaster, KCTV5/KSMO
Stacey Cameron, KCTV5 Chief Investigative Reporter
Dana Wright, 98.1 FM KMBZ
Dave Helling, Kansas City Star


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