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Submitted to: Subtropical Plant Science
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 10/31/2006
Publication Date: 12/12/2006
Citation: Makus, D., Zibilske, L., Lester, G. 2006. Effect of light intensity, soil type, and lithium addition on spinach and mustard greens leaf constituents. Subtropical Plant Science. 58:35-41. Interpretive Summary: Greens are an excellent source of minerals, vitamins, and other dietary constituents. Lithium salts have potential for pest control in organic agriculture. In this greenhouse study, we observed that when lithium sulfate is added to the soil at low levels (10 lbs /Ac), leaves of the spinach cultivar 'Samish' increased in vitamin C content by 17% and leaf total sulfur (inorganic and organic) concentrations in a mustard greens cultivar, Florida Broadleaf, increased by 60%. Plant fresh weights and leaf dry weights grown in one of the two soils used, were also increased by lithium applications to the soil. Soil type and light intensity were both found to influence mineral nutrient, plant pigment, and oxalate concentrations in spinach and mustard greens. Lithium, though not required by plants, is known to enhance general wellness in people.
Technical Abstract: A greenhouse experiment was conducted near Weslaco, Texas (Lat. 26o 8' N, Long. 97o 57' W) between 14 Dec. 2005 and 17 Feb 2006 to evaluate the effect of soil type, light environment, and lithium addition on the leaf nutrients of spinach and mustard greens. Cultivars Samish (Spinacia oleracea) and Florida Broadleaf (Brassica juncea) were sown in two soils, Hebbronville and Hidalgo (listed in order of increasing clay content), and grown in two light environments: ambient and ca. 50% of ambient. Greens grown under reduced light had greater leaf area, more chlorophyll and carotenoid pigments (dry wt. basis), total titratable acidity, total N, K, Mg, Na, Fe, and Li than leaves from plants grown in ambient light. The Hidalgo soil generally improved greens agronomic attributes, leaf pigments and total titratable acidity, total leaf N, and the mineral nutrients, Mg, S, and Na, compared to leaves from plants grown in Hebbronville soil. Greens type exhibited differences in most attributes tested. Li additions, at a field equivalent rate of 10 lbs Li / Ac, improved greens fresh wt., leaf dry wt., and S and Li leaf concentrations. Leaf ascorbate was 17% higher in 'Samish' given supplemental Li (P=0.07).


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Jim Boylen occasionally found the time to attend Jazz practice during his four seasons as the coach at the University of Utah.
I remember one visit, early in his reign with the Utes, when Boylen and I were talking.
Jerry Sloan approached and the two coaches spoke for a moment before Boylen excused himself and walked away.
When he was out of earshot, Sloan turned to me and said, "Jimmy's a really good coach, isn't he?"
It was more of a statement than a question a conversation I've always remembered since Sloan's stamp of approval was good enough for me.
Still, Boylen didn't last at Utah.
The Utes went 27-35 and failed to reach any kind of postseason tournament during his final two years. He was fired after the 2010-11 season.
Nearly two years later and not counting a brief layover at Salt Lake International last summer Boylen returned to Utah for the first time Friday and Saturday.
In his second season as an assistant coach with the Indiana Pacers, Boylen came to Salt Lake for Saturday night's game against the Jazz at EnergySolutions Arena.
"Everybody's good," Boylen reported. "Our family is good. We enjoy living in Indiana. The kids are in school. My wife's doing great. ... We're good."
On the court, Indiana has been more than good.
After a run to last season's conference semifinals, where they lost to Miami in six bruising games, the Pacers again have emerged as one of the East's top teams.
Despite playing without injured All-Star Danny Granger, who remains sidelined with a knee injury, Indiana has won 13 of its last 18 games and is challenging for homecourt advantage in the first round of the playoffs.
Coach Frank Vogel gives much credit to assistants Brian Shaw, Dan Burke and Boylen.
"Jim is one of the brightest basketball minds I've ever been around," Vogel said. "What he's brought to the table is energy and I can't stress this enough his intelligence and high IQ for the game."
Vogel continued: "He's helped more than most assistant coaches help. Having someone of his quality has been a key point for a young head coach and inexperienced head coach like me."
This is Boylen's 15th year as an NBA assistant, including 11 with the Houston Rockets. He also was an assistant at Michigan State before taking the coaching job at Utah.
"I really enjoyed it here," Boylen said. "My family liked living here, and I loved being the coach at Utah. It was a great experience for me.
"I learned a ton. I grew a ton. We had some success, we graduated our guys and we operated our program the right way. ... It just wasn't meant to be."

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Free Beacon's One-Sided Report On Nuclear Reductions
The Washington Free Beacon reported [1] today that President Obama "has decided to seek deeper cuts in deployed strategic nuclear weapons to as few as 1,000 warheads, sharply below the target of 1,550 warheads required under a 2010 U.S.-Russia arms treaty." The Free Beacon quoted critics who argue that deeper cuts will undermine U.S. strategic deterrence, but ignored that many experts, including senior national security figures, actually support large nuclear reductions.
From the Free Beacon's article, headlined: "A Cut Too Far: Obama Set To Seek Deeper Cuts In Nuclear Arsenal":
President Obama has decided to seek deeper cuts in deployed strategic nuclear weapons to as few as 1,000 warheads, sharply below the target of 1,550 warheads required under a 2010 U.S.-Russia arms treaty, U.S. officials said Monday.
Critics say the steep cuts, which the administration will seek in new talks with a growing anti-U.S. government in Moscow, would undermine U.S. strategic deterrence for the United States and its allies in Asia and Europe.
The lower warhead levels also would be contrary to recent congressional testimony from a strategic forces commander who said further cuts would weaken the ability to deter nuclear states like Russia and China.
A U.S. strategic nuclear force posture of 1,000 strategic warheads has not been seen since the early 1950s. At the height of the Cold War, both the United States and the Soviet Union had as many as 30,000 nuclear weapons.
The Free Beacon went on to quote Fox News contributor and former Bush administration official John Bolton as saying that deeper cuts "[reflect] blind ideology, not strategic analysis of U.S. defense needs," and The Washington Times columnist and former Reagan administration official Frank Gaffney as saying that the potential cuts are a "matter of ideology and not national security." The Free Beacon also quoted retired Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney, a Fox News military analyst who has expressed [2] doubts that Obama is a natural born citizen of the U.S., as saying that the Obama administration is trying for unilateral nuclear disarmament, "the most dangerous thing I have ever seen an American President attempt to do."
But what didn't make it into the Free Beacon's reporting is that many experts [3], including senior national security figures, have said that the United States should significantly reduce its nuclear arsenal, which was built up to fight the Cold War.
In a May 2012 report [4] issued by the nuclear policy organization Global Zero, General James E. Cartwright, the retired vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a former commander of the U.S.' nuclear forces, and several senior national security officials including Richard Burt, a chief negotiator of the START Treaty under President Reagan; Chuck Hagel, a former Republican Senator from Nebraska; Thomas Pickering, a former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.; and General Jack Sheehan [ret.], former Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic for NATO, proposed that the U.S. significantly reduce its nuclear arsenal to "a maximum of 900 total nuclear weapons," only half of which would be deployed at any one time. From the report:
An illustrative nuclear force that possesses these characteristics would consist of an arsenal of 900 total strategic nuclear weapons on modified alert that could be put in place within ten (10) years (2022). One-half of this force would be deployed, with the remainder kept in reserve.
The U.S. and Russian arsenals have been steadily shrinking since the end of the Cold War. These reductions should continue. Steep bilateral reductions in all categories of weapons in their stockpiles are warranted and should be pursued in the next round of U.S.-Russian negotiations. An arsenal of 500-900 total weapons on each side would easily meet responsible requirements of deterrence and would set the stage to initiate multilateral nuclear arms reductions involving all countries with nuclear weapons.
In an interview with The New York Times, Cartwright, who chaired the report, said [5], "The world has changed, but the current arsenal carries the baggage of the cold war," adding, "There is baggage of significant numbers in reserve. There is baggage of a nuclear stockpile beyond our needs. What is it we're really trying to deter? Our current arsenal does not address the threats of the 21st century."
Moreover, according to the January 2012 Pentagon strategy document [6], "Sustaining U.S. Global Leadership: Priorities for 21st Century Defense," "[i]t is possible that our deterrence goals can be achieved with a smaller nuclear force, which would reduce the number of nuclear weapons in our inventory as well as their role in U.S. national security strategy."
Likewise, Daryl G. Kimball, Executive Director of the Arms Control Association, has written [7] that the U.S. could reduce its nuclear stockpile "substantially -- to 1,000 warheads -- while retaining sufficient firepower to deter nuclear attack by any current or potential adversary."
Dr. Gary Schaub Jr., a senior researcher at the Centre for Military Studies at the University of Copenhagen, and Dr. James Forsyth Jr., a professor at the School of Advanced Air and Space Studies, have even said [8] that U.S. could "address its conceivable national defense and military concerns with only 311 strategic nuclear weapons":
Last week, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testified before the Senate to advocate approval of the so-called New Start treaty, signed by President Obama and President Dmitri Medvedev of Russia last month. The treaty's ceiling of 1,550 warheads deployed on 700 missiles and bombers will leave us with fewer warheads than at any time since John F. Kennedy was president. Yet the United States could further reduce its reliance on nuclear weapons without sacrificing security. Indeed, we have calculated that the country could address its conceivable national defense and military concerns with only 311 strategic nuclear weapons. (While we are civilian Air Force employees, we speak only for ourselves and not the Pentagon.)
This may seem a trifling number compared with the arsenals built up in the cold war, but 311 warheads would provide the equivalent of 1,900 megatons of explosive power, or nine-and-a-half times the amount that Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara argued in 1965 could incapacitate the Soviet Union by destroying "one-quarter to one-third of its population and about two-thirds of its industrial capacity."
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This reference is a fascinating and complete guide to using fonts and typography on the Web and across a variety of operating systems and application software. Fonts & Encodings shows you how to take full advantage of the incredible number of typographic options available, with advanced material that covers everything from designing glyphs to developing software that creates and processes fonts.
The era of ASCII characters on green screens is long gone, and industry leaders such as Apple, HP, IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle have adopted the Unicode Worldwide Character Standard. Yet, many software applications and web sites still use a host of standards, including PostScript, TrueType, TeX/Omega, SVG, Fontlab, FontForge, Metafont, Panose, and OpenType. This book explores each option in depth, and provides background behind the processes that comprise today's "digital space for writing":
Yannis Haralambous is the founder of Atelier Fluxus Virus, a company specializing in the high-quality typesetting of books with specific requirements, such as dictionaries and critical editions. Since 2001 he has taught computer science at ENST Bretagne, in Brest (Brittany, France).
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I am trying to create a font by my own hand, and find this book via fontforge website as a related book. I find that this book is quite handful about things around creating fonts, and the introduction about applications to create a font is in detail.The only problem is that the content was published in 2007, not new enough to go after those applications' changes recently. Some options or commands has been changed or improved, and you have to learn by yourself.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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Great reference, but some bits are no longer up-to-date
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Yannis Haralambous is well known in the TeX community, not only for his work on Omega, a proposed successor to TeX, but also for his numerous contributions as a developer of fonts for various languages. It only seems fitting that Yannis has undertaken the task of writing a comprehensive book on the topic of fonts and encodings.This book is quite impressive, not only regarding its size, but also regarding the broad range of topics covered as well as the depth of the coverage and the level of detail. It covers everything you ever wanted to know about fonts and encodings, including the messy bits you don't really want to know.Considering the size of the book, it is understandable that several years have passed from the time of writing the original manuscript in French to the publication of the English translation. Unfortunately, because of thi delays, some chapters are not as up-to-date as one could have wished.While this is not much of a problem for most of the reference chapters about encodings or font file formats, it is very regrettable for the TeX community that the chapter about fonts in TeX has completely missed or overlooked some very important developments of the last few years, such as pdfTeX, the Latin Modern and TeX Gyre fonts, or XeTeX (which is a TeX engine that offers support for Unicode and OpenType fonts).To be fair, one has to admit that the success and importance of these recent developments in the TeX world could not have been foreseen at the time of writing. Nevertheless, it could have been possible to include some additions and/or revisions by the time of the English translation of 2007.It is rather unfortunate that the opportunity for updates was missed, which would have made the book even more useful and valuable for TeX users. Despite these shortcomings, the book remains a valuable resource for anyone deeply interested in font technology and encodings.
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I've learned quite a lot about "the way things are" in computing by reading the first 50 pages of this entertaining book. Haramlambous' work is translated by P. Scott Horne. I'm not sure what language the original work is in, but this is a very readable book that covers the fundamental tryst between fonts and encodings. Encodings help us understand characters while fonts make those characters familiar glyphs (letters and symbols).Haramlambous has shed light on every corner of this problem. He starts with a refresher in type setting and a primer in the language of fonts. From there, he discusses the history of encodings including an illustrative expose comparing the punchcard and EBCDIC and how they share the same encoding scheme.As a first edition, there are plenty of errata issues that need to be addressed, but this massive tome will be a long-lived reference in my library.
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Arsène Wenger believes young midfielder Mario Gotze is the man his Gunners side must watch on Tuesday.
The highly-rated 19-year-old has caught the eye in the Bundesliga since making his breakthrough into the Dortmund first-team aged 17, and has already featured nine times for the German national side.
Although yet to feature in the Champions League as a player, Wenger believes that the youngster will be the man to look out for when his side travel to the German champions for their Group F opener.
"He is the provider," Wenger said. "He is the one who had the best assists in Germany and is the most dangerous player.
"He links well with his strikers and is the player we have to keep quiet. The best way to keep him quiet is for us to attack."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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the environmental impact of using energy and other resources in order to prepare meals
'The cookprint starts with food, in your garden or at the farm; it travels to your kitchen and continues in your fridge, freezer or pantry. The cookprint grows larger every time heat or fuel is added, from a cooktop, oven, or small appliance. Discarded waste, whether it's organic produce trimmings, plastic packaging, or water down the drain, further colors the cookprint …'New Green Basics 26th February 2008
that most basic of daily activities, the preparation of a meal, could in fact be one of the worst culprits in our eco-unfriendly lifestyles
We're all familiar with how detrimental our gas-guzzling vehicles are to the environment. And then there's the old chestnut of air travel, and houses filled with energy-chomping computers, televisions and games consoles. But what if our impact on the environment was at its most significant in the proverbial 'hub' of the home – the kitchen? Environmentalists are beginning to argue that that most basic of daily activities, the preparation of a meal, could in fact be one of the worst culprits in our eco-unfriendly lifestyles. In short, we should be careful to consider the effects of our cookprint.
The cookprint then, is a measure of a meal's environmental impact, the total amount of energy used when creating breakfast, lunch or dinner. It encompasses the appliances used to deal with food, from storage (think fridge), and preparation (think food processor) through to cooking (think oven) and discarding leftovers (think dishwasher and waste disposal). The other main facet of the cookprint is of course the food you choose to cook, especially considerations about where it's sourced and what it's packaged in.
Just as with (carbon) footprint, a common collocate of cookprint is the verb reduce. Ways to reduce your cookprint and take a more eco-conscious approach to cooking include:
-Efficient use of your oven or hob: cook more than one thing at a time in a heated oven. Keep the lid on when you boil a pan of water. Make use of residual heat – turn off the flame under a boiling pan of nearly-cooked potatoes, or let a casserole finish cooking in an oven that's still hot.
-The fridge is the biggest energy guzzler in the kitchen. Try to keep its energy consumption to a minimum by organizing its contents so that you need to open and shut it as infrequently as possible.
-Instead of electric mixers, use hand whisks and wooden spoons for whipping cream and baking cakes. The few extra calories expended by your elbow might make up for that slice of chocolate gateau!
The word cookprint was coined by American food writer Kate Heyhoe, and introduced in her book Cooking Green: Reducing Your Carbon Footprint in the Kitchen the New Green Basics Way (Perseus Books, 2008).
The term is of course a blend of cook and footprint, the latter used in its ecological sense, which has in fact been around for about thirty years. Though we're now most familiar with the expression carbon footprint, which was coined in the late nineties, earlier variations on the theme were ecological footprint, and environmental footprint, which dates right back to the seventies.
In the same context, Heyhoe also refers to the concept of an ecovore. This she describes as a person who eats in an environmentally-conscious way, but, crucially, this requires a flexible approach to eating. An ecovore makes food choices based on the conditions at a particular time and/or place. So for example, if local salmon is not sustainable in a given year, an ecovore may choose to consume a foreign alternative because this turns out to be more environmentally-friendly. This differs from the concept of a locavore who strives to eat locally-sourced food wherever possible. A related expression now used in this domain is farm-to-fork, which describes the human 'food chain', from production (farm) to consumption (fork).
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I'm relatively new to the whole Jango angle to Fettage and have a few questions about rub n buff....
-Is it used with, or instead of, cold cast finishes to armour?
-Do you seal it with regular spray laquer or does it need sealed?
-Do you spray the item black first and then apply the rub n buff to let the undercoat of black shine through as weathering?
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The Children's Advisory Commission of Indiana County will hold a free Family Fun Fest from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. March 29 at the Indiana Mall.
The Fun Fest will feature 60 exhibitors providing activities for children 10 and younger and information for their parents. Activities include Kiwanis Story Time, a 4-H petting zoo, a Waterlogged Lodge games area in the former Old Navy, contests and beach party entertainment.
The schedule of activities is as follows:
• 10 a.m.: Fire and Ice game show competition hosted by the Carnegie Science Center
• 11 a.m.: The Calypso Gypsies steel drum band will lead a "Sailing the High Seas Musical Adventure"
• Noon: Parent Child Look-Alike Contest: Registration and pre-judging starts at 11 a.m., limited to the first 25 pairs of parents and children ages 8 and younger. Contestants will be presented at noon. Top three winners from a year ago are not eligible.
• 1 p.m.: Oceans Away presentation by the Pittsburgh Zoo, allowing students to investigate ocean habitats such as coral reefs and icy polar regions
• 2 p.m.: Wonderful World of Animals presentation by the Pittsburgh Zoo.
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If I'm wrong please correct me but can an urban area be good since people will water their flowers and provide good floral source?
finsky, what are the temps like when you start feeding for brood rearing? if i were to start feeding 2 months early, i'd have to start now because usually the fruit trees start blooming in march. January and February are still really cold here most years.


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Here you can find a plethora of free online resources for Torah study and research.
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Here you can find a wealth of resources for building your own shiurim: sources, links, online class, it's all here.
All the articles, links, and resources from R. Mordy's college prep classes.
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Want to be part of the largest group-writing project in human history? Learn how to contribute to Wikipedia, the user-generated online reference for the 21st century. Considered more popular than eBay, Microsoft.com, and Amazon.com, Wikipedia servers respond to approximately 30,000 requests per second, or about 2.5 billion per day. It's become the first point of reference for people the world over who need a fact fast.
If you want to jump on board and add to the content, Wikipedia: The Missing Manual is your first-class ticket. Wikipedia has more than 9 million entries in 250 languages, over 2 million articles in the English language alone. Each one is written and edited by an ever-changing cast of volunteer editors. You can be one of them. With the tips in this book, you'll quickly learn how to get more out of -- and put more into -- this valuable online resource.
Wikipedia: The Missing Manual gives you practical advice on creating articles and collaborating with fellow editors, improving existing articles, and working with the Wikipedia community to review new articles, mediate disputes, and maintain the site. Up to the challenge? This one-of-a-kind book includes:
John Broughton has been a registered editor at Wikipedia since August 2005, with more than 15,000 edits by the time he wrote this book. His biggest Wikipedia endeavor was to build the Editor's index to Wikipedia (just type that in the "search" box at the left of any Wikipedia page). This index lists every important reference page on Wikipedia, as well as hundreds of off-Wikipedia Web pages with useful information and tools for Wikipedia editors. John's first experience with programming computers was in a 1969 National Science Foundation program. Since then, he's held various computer-related management positions in the headquarters of a U.S. Army Reserve division, worked in internal audit departments as a Certified Information Systems Auditor, and was the Campus Y2K Coordinator at U.C. Berkeley. A Certified Management Accountant, John has B.S. in Mathematical Sciences from Johns Hopkins University; an M.B.A. from Golden Gate University; an M.S. in Education from the University of Southern California; and a Masters in Public Policy from the University of California at Berkeley.
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Wikipedia and Collaboration
By Jose M. Baeza
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Years ago when I first had the occasion to use Wikipedia, I remember thinking that this was an amateur effort to provide the masses with a free online encyclopedia they could use instead of a Britannica or a World Book encyclopedia. I did not return to the use of Wikipedia for years after that. Only in the last year of so did I get back to Wikipedia. I was referred to Wikipedia as a great source of information regarding some subject by someone whose opinion I valued on the subject. Thus I went back to check out Wikipedia and I must say I was surprised and very favorably impressed. It was not the same entity that I had encountered many years ago. Wikipedia, I have found out, is a project built upon the collaboration of many editors that endeavor to build a consensus around what information should go into each article in the encyclopedia. An authority has been established to enforce agreed-upon processes and rules to manage this gargantuan project that has put together over 2.7 million articles in the English version of the encyclopedia. It appears Wikipedia has become an excellent if not an exceptional encyclopedia to consult when researching an article or a subject. When I first started reading this book, I presumed that the purpose of the book was to facilitate the search process of the reader in finding information in the encyclopedia. No, its main purpose it to provide the reader a structured process and the procedures to re-write the Wikipedia encyclopedia, that is, to train the reader to become one of the many educated and proficient editors that produced and maintain this collaborative effort! If you are not really interested in being such an editor but plan to be more of a user and a reader, Appendix B is for you. I decided to register and become an "editor" to ensure I would experience some of the details involved in this Wikipedia effort. Part I of the book is the most important, in my estimation, because it defines and describes the actual work to be done by editors. I happened to read Appendix A on my initial browse of the book and I gained a lot of information from the descriptions of all the links provided in every Wikipedia article. There are links useful to editors and links useful to readers. The information regarding the links gave me a preliminary inkling of how the collaboration process is implemented in this effort. I completed one minor edit when I ran across a typo in one part of the help section. It went pretty smoothly. The book covers in detail the editing procedures in Part I. There is even a wiki markup language in the editing process, not unlike HTML markup in creating web pages. Collaborating with other editors is covered in another part of the book. The actual process of article creation and formatting, like creating lists and tables and adding images, is described in another part. Part IV deals with features for building a better and stronger encyclopedia. A wiki is defined as a collaborative web site which can be directly edited by anyone. Wikipedia is just one of several related wikis. There is wiktionary, wikiquote, wikisource and other sister projects of Wikipedia. The concept of wiki building has evidently spread to other areas of knowledge information sharing produced by consensus collaboration. If you think you would like the work of being an "editor" of the Wikipedia encyclopedia and think you would enjoy the social and cultural environment of collaborating with other "editors" of the same ilk, this is the book I would recommend for you.
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By DaveA
Wikipedia is of course a simple to consume information source, but it's a bit more inscrutable as an editing environment for contributors. This book provides the basics to get you started, and a lot more than that. If you are interested in making some simple submissions, you'll be doing so in no time. But if your interests call for significantly more, you'll find that Wikipedia: The Missing Manual will be there as your guide.The style is clean and provides a wealth of information is the form of sidebars and illustrations. This book covers many, many fine points that would normally take a great deal of trial and error, or a training course to discover. Philosophical concerns do not get short shrift: there are discussions about how best to name articles, guidelines for deleting or adding to articles and copyright concerns.For those who are brand new to Wikipedia, you may actually want to start with the Appendices for a beginner's introduction.I highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to dig deeper into Wikipedia article creation, editing and maintenance.
Great guide, sorely needed.
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Who this book is for:Anyone who wants to post a new entry on Wikipedia and shepard it through the process will find this book to be a valuable contribution to this open concept repository of knowledge. If you are a frequent user of Wikipedia and have a desire to know more about how the entries came to be, then this book will also give you insight and some technical tips to maximize your efforts. Finally, this book will also be of interest to those of you who wish to put their fist through their monitor after having come upon totally inappropriate pages or other entries with glaring errors and omissions and thus Wikipedia: The Missing Manual will also help you edit and/or flag problem pages.Overall:Wikipedia in fact has been missing a manual and if you have ever tried to muddle through their on line documentation you will quickly discover why a huge percentage of pages (according to many media stories about Wikipedia) appear to be largely maintained by a smallish group of users. While open to one and all, you may soon find that beyond some basic editing of existing entries, Wikipedia isn't entirely a user-friendly experience. Wikipedia: The Missing Manual gives great step-by-step directions on the technical stuff and some insight into the duties, responsibilities and culture of being a Wikipedia editor.You're not alone. - Creating and editing an entry on Wikipedia does require one to be open to the input of others like the general public who will find your pages, and the other Wikipedia editors. If you are going to contribute to Wikipedia then you will be required to collaborate with others and it helps to know the ground rules and expectations of that process.It's not HTML - People with a smattering of basic HTML knowledge are surprised when they first try to make an edit or correction to a Wikipedia page they have stumbled upon. Wikipedia uses its own special markup text that you'll have to get the hang of. It's not rocket science but does require a bit of practice.In for a penny, in for a pound - It's one thing to be involved in topic pages that have a particular interest to you but the whole thing is a communal effort. Other entries and editors will benefit from your skills once you finish reading Wikipedia: The Missing Manual. Expect to become a collaborator and mentor to others, as reading this book will make you a pro in short order.Wikipedia: The Missing Manual is a very useful book.
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Learn how to contribute to Wikipedia, the popular user-generated online reference that serves 9 million entries and 2.5 billion requests per day. Wikipedia: The Missing Manual gives you practical advice on how to create articles and collaborate with fellow editors, how to improve existing articles, and how to work with the Wikipedia community to review new articles, mediate disputes, and maintain the site. Up to the challenge?Want to be part of the largest group-writing project in human history?Learn how to contribute to Wikipedia, the user-generated online reference for the 21st century. Considered more popular than eBay, www.microsoft.com, and www.amazon.com, Wikipedia servers respond to approximately 30,000 requests per second, or about 2.5 billion per day. Wikipedia has become the first point of reference for people the world over who need a fact fast.If you want to jump on board and add to the content, Wikipedia: The Missing Manual is your first-class ticket. Wikipedia has more than 9 million entries in 250 languages, over 2 million articles in the English language alone. Each one is written and edited by an ever-changing cast of volunteer editors. You can be one of them. With the tips in this book, you'll quickly learn how to get more out of -- and put more into -- this valuable online resource.Wikipedia: The Missing Manual gives you practical advice on creating articles and collaborating with fellow editors, improving existing articles, and working with the Wikipedia community to review new articles, mediate disputes, and maintain the site. Up to the challenge?This one-of-a-kind book includes:Basic editing techniques, including the right and wrong ways to editPinpoint advice about which types of articles do and do not belong on WikipediaWays to learn from other editors and communicate with them via the site's talk pagesTricks for using templates and timesaving automated editing toolsRecommended procedures for fighting spam and vandalismGuidance on adding citations, links, and images to your articlesWikipedia depends on people just like you to help the site grow and maintain the highest quality. With Wikipedia: The Missing Manual, you get all the tools you need to be part of the crew.
Great resource for Wikipedia editors!
By John Suda
Wikipedia, the free access online encyclopedia to which anyone can contribute, is a remarkable achievement. Started only in 2001, it now comprises over 9 million articles is written in over 250 languages, and is the first choice for reference material for millions of Internet users. Despite criticisms by some for the variable quality of its material, the value of the contributions of tens of thousands of unpaid volunteers is enormous, not only in notable and verified content accessible to the vast majority of the world's population in their native languages, but in the opportunity for everyone to contribute to this repository of knowledge in his or her own way (subject to the review and editing of others just like themselves.) More importantly, in my view, is the model it represents in human collaboration efforts, this one in creating a repository of knowledge, but applicable more broadly to other efforts. Besides merely creating enormously useful things, the collaborative efforts result in a community of people and groups which has its own intrinsic values. Imagine thousands of volunteers committing their personal time and effort into a nonhierarchical, consensus-based collaboration having as its selfless main purpose the improvement of human society. Socialism at its best! It seems to me that the model may be useful in areas of politics, management and administration, education, and other social endeavors.. The Open-Source software movement, predating Wikipedia, operates in much the same way. Perhaps the earliest example of this collaborative model was the developmental years of the Internet. As a casual user of Wikipedia, I had no idea of the nature of the Wikipedia project (and its sister projects _ Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikispecies, Wikinews, and Wikiversity _ and no doubt others yet to come) until I read "Wikipedia: the Missing Manual," by John Broughton. He is an experienced Wikipedia editor with over 15,000 edits to his credit and is the creator of the "Editor's Index to Wikipedia" which lists every reference page on Wikipedia as well as other off site pages with information useful for serious Wikipedia editors. "Wikipedia: the Missing Manual" is an extremely thorough guide to creating and editing Wikipedia articles. The book is intended to help train new writers and editors and to improve the skills and knowledge of existing participants. Broughton encourages people to join the Wikipedia community of researchers, fact checkers, and proofreaders. This community seems to be made up of committed, skilled, and serious people who take great pride in the project. There is little organizational hierarchy involved and a minimum of formal participatory rules, but a large set of informal mores and practices which help maintain production, efficiency, civility, and quality. 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"HERE" is the name of Nokia's new brand.
Unlike Ovi a couple of years ago, this brand will speak for itself. This is all about interaction with places around you, about context. Thanks to a best-of-breed product experience, Nokia is well positioned to deliver the most differentiated location experience.
During "Mapplegate" at the launch of iOS 6, my colleague Ted Schadler explained why it was a strategic imperative for Apple to do its own maps. However, at that time, most consumers and observers were comparing only Apple and Google Maps. The harsh reality was that Nokia couldn't leverage its strength in the location-based space without an umbrella brand like "here."
Make no mistake: This is not "HERE by Nokia" or any other form of sub-brand. This is an independent brand. Why? Because the opportunity is bigger than just Nokia.
This is about addressing different types of connected devices — not just mobile phones but also tablets, connected cars, and wearables. As such, "HERE" could play a pivotal role in helping Nokia leverage tomorrow's new mobile form factors.


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Ive been hunting hard for ducks since 1998. I hunted way back before then for ducks and geese but 98 was the year I lost my mind.
I finally got blessed with a hunt in Canada last month and I have recharged the old batteries. It is a must if you havent been up there. I killed doubles, triples.....geese, snow geese, ducks, you know it was ridiculous. But it was eye opening.
I thought this trip would kill any desire left to ever duck hunt SC again but it has had the opposite affect.
When I watched my dad and ole time hunting partner smoke em....well, the kid inside me was awaken. I dont have any grandoise(sp?) notions of doing the same in SC or alleging that anybody could afford this trip, I just recommend a, any, trip to all. My dad paid my part as a thank you for my military service, I couldnt have afforded it otherwise. To him and my partner, thank you.
Just wanted to let my dad and partner know my appreciation and to let you SC hunters know that I'll be competing with you atleast one more year. Good luck out there. Ride safe and shoot straight.


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An old woman prisoner is an unnamed minor character in the second season. She is played by guest star Gina Moxley and only appears in "Garden of Bones."
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She is captured by Ser Gregor Clegane and imprisoned in Harrenhal with her family. Her sister, husband and son are tortured to death by the Tickler at Harrenhal.[1]
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Among the captives that Gregor Clegane took to Harrenhal there was wizened old woman. Arya Stark overheard her complaining one night "It's not just, it's not. We never did no treason, the others come in and took what they wanted, same as this bunch." Her friend disagreed, saying "Lord Beric did us no hurt, though, and that red priest with him, he paid for all they took". The old woman answered disdainfully "Paid? He took two of my chickens and gave me a bit of paper with a mark on it. Can I eat a bit of raggy old paper, I ask you? Will it give me eggs?". She looked about to see that no guards were near, and spat three times. "There's for the Tullys and there's for the Lannisters and there's for the Starks."
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Professor Shriver is an empirical researcher who utilizes microeconomic and industrial organization theory to build econometric models of supply and demand. His research focuses on problems involving technology adoption, network effects, market entry and strategic competition. His recent papers have investigated the role of network effects in consumer/retailer adoption of alternative motor fuels and the relationship between content production and link formation in online social networks. Professor Shriver teaches the Core Marketing course in the MBA and EMBA programs.
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Platforms: A Multiplicity of Research Opportunities
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Network Effects in Alternative Fuel Adoption: Empirical Analysis of the Market for Ethanol
In Marketing Science
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Social Ties and User-Generated Content: Evidence from an Online Social Network
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text: Smartbomb, any updates on this one??? I've been reading 2XTM's thread on his gas op x25 build on Weapons Guild, and I think I'm going to go with gas op. Just trying to figure out the benefit vs cost ratio between using the PPSH41 mags, vs the PPS43 and use a 43 magwell also for simplicity's sake.


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Re: Chillaxin
I think this is a perfect fit. Nice job.
Re: There Will be Greed
Alternate Title: There will be moustache.
Re: Give a Dog a Bone
This is my first entry. Let me know what you think.
tiaerman wrote:Yea.. I couldn't wear this shirt now... thanks....
Wow, screwed from the get-go for not having a dirty/vulgar mind... guess I should have seen this one heading down the line. vacuums though.
Vacuums! Funny Woot!
HotIceCream wrote:Thanks, tiareman! Shadow is a good idea.
dear hoticecream-- thanks for replying for me, but i can reply for myself.
Re: The New Highway Robbery
i would agree that this is a Parody, and should stay.
YES, WOOT DOES... SO Why does everyone else feel the need to keep bringing it up. If only people would get so up in arms over what the current administration has done to our country and do something about it.
tiaerman wrote:This could go for a daily probably. I'm not sure it fits the theme very well. Good luck though because it is a cool design!
how do i get it into the daily??
happy day!
first derby for the win
scoobeedoobee wrote:Wah wah wah people who aren't me are complaining on the internet and I'm incapable of hitting the back button lest anyone else have the last word
They broke the rules, they're getting flack for it, why is this making your life so hard?
patnode wrote:how do i get it into the daily??
This info should help you out some:
Re: So Hungry/Greedy He Could Eat A Horse?
Wow, another dark shirt with an animal on it will prob win. It will be like the last derby, and the derby before that, and the derby before that...........and the derby before that.
Amach06 wrote:I think this is a perfect fit. Nice job.
Thanks Amach06! It'd be cool if I could get them to print it up near the neck line somehow. It'd be like a bird necklace.
tiaerman wrote:... When I first saw this i thought they were lifting the sky scraper off of the house... but I think the intention is that they are lowering the skyscraper... not sure what could be done to fix this though...
anyway, great design but not sure how it fits with the theme... o well. GMV!
thanks, tiareman! a shadow might be a good idea.
Re: Baby Gots to Get Paid
I actually loved this on the blue shirt, not as much of a fan on brown. :-(
patnode wrote:who doesn't want it all!!!! and that includes the AVOCADO!! they're green like the dollar... it's my avocado and i want it NOW!! does that help?
doesn't help me
lanikei wrote:I actually loved this on the blue shirt, not as much of a fan on brown. :-(
OH! And as noted in the derby thread... on the baby's right hand palm the shirt color shows through under the money - doesn't look quite right.
great design but i doubt you will win on white. Red, green or even maybe yellow may be better. but thats just my opinion
Re: Greedy Conquistador
The design is amazing, but another asphalt shirt. People talk about wooters loving tree shirts, but I think wooters love grey much, much more. Does anyone really need more that one grey shirt that doesn't have a college/sports logo on it? I mean, 2 asphalt shirts are prob going to be on sale tomorrow and Sunday. Isn't that enough for like the next couple of months?
Re: No Bananas For You
The look on the sad monkey's face is priceless! Good job!
It surprises me though that you have so many votes and no comments. Are Wooters just too lazy to comment on designs they think are good?
jzelts wrote:dear hoticecream-- thanks for replying for me, but i can reply for myself.
many apologies, i was actually in the derby entry forum and replied to the wrong tiareman message-- i meant to reply to tiareman's comment regarding my sub, which also would have benefited from shadows. I did just to click on your design, and while it's not my taste, i hope it does well. and yeah, it might also need some shadowing.
Great job Zenne! The colors are nice and moody, and conquistadors are way underused. and much better than pirates.
scoobeedoobee wrote:I just wish people could let things go instead of trying to get others designs rejected. If you dont like it dont buy it if it wins. No need to keep trashing it because of this or that.
I cant stand all those well designed shirts that looked as if they were some design program that exploded from the bottom corner of the shirt. Its almost all i see anymore on shirt designs from woot.
I also dont like many of the well intentioned but poorly done designs but i dont call for them to be rejected. If I like it I buy it. Easy. I dont like alot of things or people but i dont call for them to be done in.
1) If a design is against the rules, it should be rejected. If you disagree with this, then why have rules at all? Hell, why have a theme at all? This design is against the rules. We are making an outcry against it to make sure woot notices it and rejects it, because as you may have noticed, being such a person yourself, being against the rules does not stop people from voting things into the fog.
2) There are indeed a lot design explosion designs that get through. Most of these are way less "well designed" than you think. However, just because they're bad doesn't make them rejectable
3) Same as above for poorly executed designs. Even when poor execution fogs, it's not against the rules. We can plead and moan and shout, but Woot isn't about to be the quality police, as any given derby should prove to you.
4) This particular shirt isn't about quality tho. You can think it is wrong, but that doesn't make you right. This shirt is totally rejectable, and indeed should be rejected. That's not because we don't like it. It's because it doesn't follow the rules. We don't like it either, but the main issue is the rulebreaking. If you don't comprehend this you are a fool, and if you insist on shouting about how you don't understand this, you will only make yourself look more foolish.
KENPARS0NS wrote:Great Idea! is this the actual plate print or is it your own illustration?
It's the actual print, but with some modifications, particularly the name plate under the portrait is removed, numbers removed, etc.
artulo wrote:Great work, but it's too squared off with the background...love the lighting effects!
I agree. Think this would do very good, if it wasnt squared off.
Re: Wyvern's Hoard
All the dragon designs in this derby are so awesome, this one no exception. I hope at least one of them makes it to print. l o l
Your dragon is so pretty!
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It's someone about to assassinate someone, so it's in questionable taste to start. It's pretty iconic, so it's obvious pandering through recognition. It's still under copyright, I'm certain, so if the photographer ever decided to sue, he'd likely win and win hard. And it's combined with a corporate logo... an oil company's, no less... so potential double lawsuit. There's too much infringement to fall under parody, and to top it all off, the whole juxtaposition of turning it into execution by gas (complete with gas logo) appears to have existed before this shirt did.
adder, the robert amsterdam image is clearly parody of the eddie adams photograph, and eddie died in 2004 although his heir(s) or the AP owns the rights to the photo for the next 66 yrs, i'm sure. but it is obvious, as jack pointed out, that this derby submission is a direct copy of the robert amsterdam image with a slimmed down gun/nozzle holder.
scoobeedoobee, if you want this printed, try contacting the original artist and see if he'll submit it to woot...
i'm sure this has been tattled on countless times for the direct rip-off as well as the comp variances. rejection has to impending.
EDIT: that wuz teh funneh, already rejected. controversy solved.
2005vette wrote:i would wear it, but how is this Greed?
It's not, but atleast it's not on a grey shirt. I thinks it's pretty cool, although nto really creative. I'd buy it.
tiaerman wrote:The look on the sad monkey's face is priceless! Good job!
It surprises me though that you have so many votes and no comments. Are Wooters just too lazy to comment on designs they think are good?
I think it's more an indicator of what kind of wooter is voting on the design.
Very good design! That bird looks so relaxed while the others are like "Who does he think he is..." Awesome!
tgentry wrote:Great job Zenne! The colors are nice and moody, and conquistadors are way underused. and much better than pirates.
I would move for a Conquistador meme. They're much more intriguing than pirates anyway. My only fear is that it would give Johnny Depp a reason to ponce around in makeup through another increasingly baffling trilogy... after all, those crazy Spaniards were way more likely to dress like dandies and wear makeup than pirates were.
Re: Dragon's Hoard
2005vette wrote:I agree. Think this would do very good, if it wasnt squared off.
a black T might blend into the design and reduce the squared effect
Re: The World Is Mine (Resub)
aww rejected, make the image larger.
Re: Catching Cash
Our goal was to create a lot of money flying in the air, and despite the largess around him, the green-eyed man needs to catch and collect it all. To us, this was showing greed and the effects of greed - you are focused only on your hoard, and can't see beyond your own greed. This came across best on an Asphalt shirt.
This is our second attempt at a derby entry. We're learning, and trust us, we know we aren't fog material, but we're having fun! My daughter and I have teamed up to learn GIMP and save up for a WACOM tablet, and she's learning about statistics and design through the derby. Thanks for checking out the design!
SailorButterfly wrote:All the dragon designs in this derby are so awesome, this one no exception. I hope at least one of them makes it to print. l o l
Your dragon is so pretty!
Thanks Butterfly!! I really appreciate it And if anyone is wondering, I cut back through the layers of color to let the brown shirt come through, so there may be areas with a couple layers of color but there are areas (like in the eye) where I cut back through all the colors to bring forward the shirt color for the pupil. So there isn't a huge layer of stiff ink if it's printed. I know that's been a huge concern for some people.
Re: You Don't Need All Those
Wow, this is going to take first place. A robot animal? You got the robot and the animal all mixed up as one! If it was on any variation of grey you'd probably already be in first. Let me be the first to off you CONGRATS on the win.
Re: All about the Benjamins
No offense, but I'm somewhat uncertain as to how one design with Ben's portrait from the currency got the axe yet others haven't.
HotIceCream wrote:many apologies, i was actually in the derby entry forum and replied to the wrong tiareman message-- i meant to reply to tiareman's comment regarding my sub, which also would have benefited from shadows. I did just to click on your design, and while it's not my taste, i hope it does well. and yeah, it might also need some shadowing.
no problem-- I'm sure that happens all the time.
Re: The Greedy Flower
tiaerman wrote:Thanks! I wish more people loved it . I thought it was going to do a little better than this. Come on people! Where is the love? Or, if you don't like it, then tell me why so I know where to improve next time.
Personally, I like your concept and I think it fits the theme well but I'm not crazy about the cartoon flowers. Their expressions look over the top.
Historically, wooters don't seem to like yellow shirts. A design needs to be stellar to overcome the dislike of yellow.
Keep designing what you like. The wooters are unpredictable
Re: Le Petit Diable D'Argent - Playing for Keeps
I like the feel of it. It kind of reminds me of "Where The Wild Things Are"
I just wonder if it would work better with the marble ring at the bottom so it's on ground?
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The name Arago was chosen from several suggestions. We were looking for a name that was suggestive of both Davinci and OMAP but not so obviously that it would be a problem if the scope expanded. It was suggested that the Paris meridian was mentioned in the "Da Vinci Code" book and movie and was related to "map"s. The Arago medallions mark this meridian in honor of François Arago, a very forward and "open" thinker.
- The Invisible Monument: a short description of the Arago Monument, including a picture.
- Louvre - Thematic Trails: The Da Vinci Code: A Visit to the Louvre Mixing Fiction and Fact.
- Paris Meridian: Wikipedia article about Paris Meridian and Arago medallions.
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The prescription drug lithium is a mineral with antidepressant and antimanic actions. It is used to treat bipolar disorder (manic-depression) and severe depression .
Common brand names:Eskalith, Eskalith CR, Lithobid
Summary of Interactions with Vitamins, Herbs, & Foods
Replenish Depleted Nutrients
Lithium therapy has been shown to deplete brain stores of inositol.1 While it has been suggested that inositol supplementation (e.g., 500 mg three times daily) could reduce adverse effects of lithium therapy without reducing the drug's therapeutic effectiveness,2 , 3 the safety and efficacy of this combination has not been proven.
Treatment with lithium can trigger or worsen psoriasis . In a double-blind study, supplementing with inositol (6 grams per day) for ten weeks significantly improved lithium-induced psoriasis, but had no effect on psoriasis in people who were not taking lithium.4
Reduce Side Effects
Essential Fatty Acids
In one report, supplementation with essential fatty acids in the form of safflower oil (3-5 grams per day) reversed symptoms of lithium toxicity such as tremor and ataxia (an abnormality of gait).5 Controlled studies are needed to confirm the benefit of a lithium-essential fatty acid combination.The interaction is supported by preliminary, weak, fragmentary, and/or contradictory scientific evidence.
Support Medicine
Folic Acid
Some studies have found that people taking lithium long term who have high blood levels of folic acid respond better to lithium.6 , 7 Not all studies have confirmed these findings, however.8
A double-blind study was conducted combining 200 mcg folic acid per day with lithium therapy.9 Even though the volunteers in this study were doing well on lithium alone before the study, addition of folic acid further improved their condition, whereas placebo did not. There is no evidence that folic acid reduces side effects of lithium. Based on the available evidence, it is suggested people taking lithium also take at least 200 mcg of folic acid per day.
A small double-blind study found that combining 2-4 grams three times per day of L-tryptophan with lithium significantly improved symptoms in people with bipolar disorder or a mild form of schizophrenia.10 L-tryptophan is only available from doctors. It should be taken several hours before or after meals.The interaction is supported by preliminary, weak, fragmentary, and/or contradictory scientific evidence.
Reduces Effectiveness
Addition of psyllium (Plantago ovata) husk two times per day to the regimen of a woman treated with lithium was associated with decreased lithium blood levels and lithium levels increased after psyllium was stopped.11
Potential Negative Interaction
Explanation Required
Mild hand tremor is a common side effect of lithium therapy. Two cases of women treated with lithium who experienced increased tremor when they stopped drinking coffee have been reported.12 Lithium levels increased almost 50% in one of the women, who had been drinking 17 cups of coffee per day, requiring a 20% reduction in her lithium dose. In 11 people treated with lithium who drank four to six cups of coffee per day, two weeks without coffee resulted in increased lithium blood levels, anxiety , and depression.13 Lithium levels, anxiety, and depression ratings returned to base line two weeks after resuming coffee consumption. Until more is known, people taking lithium should avoid abrupt changes in their coffee consumption.
Lithium may cause sodium depletion, especially during initial therapy until consistent blood levels are achieved.14 A low-sodium (salt-restricted) diet can decrease lithium elimination, leading to increased lithium levels and risk of toxicity in lithium users who reduce their salt intake.15 Changing to a higher salt intake may cause increased losses of lithium, resulting in the return of mood symptoms.16 , 17 People using lithium therapy should maintain adequate water intake as well as a normal diet and salt intake. Sodium loss due to diarrhea , illness, extreme sweating, or other causes may alter lithium levels.
Alkalinizing Foods
Foods that alkalinize the urine may increase elimination of lithium from the body, potentially decreasing the actions of the drug.18 Urine-alkalinizing foods include dairy products, nuts, fruits, vegetables (except corn and lentils), and others.The interaction is supported by preliminary, weak, fragmentary, and/or contradictory scientific evidence.
1. Silverstone PH, Rotzinger S, Pukhovsky A, Hanstock CC. Effects of lithium and amphetamine on inositol metabolism in the human brain as measured by 1H and 31P MRS. Biol Psychiatry 1999;46:1634-1.
2. Colodny L, Hoffman RL. Inositol-Clinical applications for exogenous use. Altern Med Rev 1998;3:432-47.
3. Johnson EC, Gray-Keller MP, O'Day PM. Rescue of excitation by inositol following Li(+)-induced block in Limulus ventral photoreceptors. Vis Neurosci 1998;15:105-12.
4. Allan SJR, Kavanagh GM, Herd RM, Savin JA. The effect of inositol supplements on the psoriasis of patients taking lithium: a randomized, placebo-controlled trial. Br J Dermatol 2004;150:966-9.
5. Lieb J. Linoleic acid in the treatment of lithium toxicity and familial tremor. Prostaglandins Med 1980;4:275-9.
6. Coppen A, Abou-Saleh MT. Plasma folate and affective morbidity during long-term lithium therapy. Br J Psychiatry 1982;141:87-9.
7. Lee S, Chow CC, Shek CC, et al. Folate concentration in Chinese psychiatric outpatients on long-term lithium treatment. J Affect Disord 1992;24:265-70.
8. Stern SL, Brandt JT, Hurley RS, et al. Serum and red cell folate concentrations in outpatients receiving lithium carbonate. Int Clin Psychopharmacol 1988;3:49-52.
9. Coppen A, Chaudrhy S, Swade C. Folic acid enhances lithium prophylaxis. J Affect Disord 1986;10:9-13.
10. Brewerton TD, Reus VI. Lithium carbonate and L-tryptophan in the treatment of bipolar and schizoaffective disorders. Am J Psychiatry 1983;140:757-60.
11. Perlman BB. Interaction between lithium salt and ispaghula husk. Lancet 1990;335:416.
12. Jefferson JW. Lithium tremor and caffeine intake: two cases of drinking less and shaking more. J Clin Psychiatry 1988;49:72-3.
13. Mester R, Toren P, Mizrachi I, et al. Caffeine withdrawal increases lithium blood levels. Biol Psychiatry 1995;37:348-50.
14. Threlkeld DS, ed. Central Nervous System Drugs, Antipsychotic Agents, Antimanic Agents, Lithium. In Facts and Comparisons Drug Information. St. Louis, MO: Facts and Comparisons, May 1998, 268a-8f.
15. Holt GA. Food & Drug Interactions. Chicago: Precept Press, 1998, 158.
16. Demers RG, Harris RL. The effect of dietary sodium on renal lithium excretion in the manic-depressive. Dis Nerv Syst 1972;33:372-5.
17. Demers RG, Heninger GR Sodium intake and lithium treatment in mania. Am J Psychiatry 1971;128:100-4.
18. Holt GA. Food & Drug Interactions. Chicago: Precept Press, 1998, 157.
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In this installment of Kuro's Fall'07 Snippets, we have more awesome big gun girl from Night Wizard, cheese factor from our favourite policewomen duo, losers crying and lolis panchira'ing
Oh yes, why is this so awesome?
Oh yes. Akari is awesome. God damn, they better give her more screen time if they want this series to be successful.
Probably what makes Night Wizard so entertaining is that it doesn't take itself too seriously. Also, the producers are inserting a lot of comedy in to the show, which really makes it pretty enjoyable. I definitely loved that Renji was bumped down a whole year just to be in the same class as Elis to protect her. Seriously, that has to be damn embarrassing for him, hell, I would be positively mad. Anzelotte is pretty brutal towards Renji :D.
You're Under Arrest: Full Throttle 02
Oh wow, the cheese factor in this episode was OVER9000, for god's sake. At the least they closed this arc already, halfway in the episode, I almost thought they were gonna make Miyuki and Natsuki take care of the kid for like, the rest of the series. Wow, I would like to see Nakajima's face if it happens, lulz.
Also, awesomely, Miyuki manages to wake Natsumi in time for work. XD.
Kaiji 02
You got suckered, d'oh!
Wow. He's such an idiot. Can't blame him though, it's easy to get suckered in those conditions, but crying out and attacking the guy is just… classic. Btw, loved the minor 24 reference, gg for him, at that time.
It'll be interesting to see how he manages to get back 5 stars with only 5 cards.
P.S. Forgot to say this, but much <3 for Triad for doing this show.
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Not a bad first episode, though they seemed to have cut and pasted a few chapters of the 1st volume together.
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My special interests are innovations in world poetry - especially the poets of Eastern Europe, their mastery of craft enabling them to address urgent public issues artistically - and emerging hybrid forms. I am affiliated as an alumna with the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and am interested in international and historical work. I have been on the board of the Concord Poetry Center and am on the board of Tuesday: An Art Project. Many of my students have published their work and won prizes, and three have founded literary magazines.
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They argued Friday in a lawsuit that claims the state has not identified adequate future funding for the $68 billion project or secured all the environmental permits for construction to start, as required in the 2008 measure.
The state has only a fraction of the money needed.
Farmers, landowners and the Kings County Board of Supervisors sued to stop the state from spending any more bond money.
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Low sex drive wife not interested in orgasms
This is my first time postiing and hoping to gain some insight into my wife, my marriage and my marital issues. I am very happily married man for over 15 years. Happy in every aspect of marriage except for sex.
I was always the more sexually adventerous of the two and a higher sex drive but the gap has only gotten wider over the past few yrs. We have 4 wonderful children and that has certainly changes things however I am still incredibly attracted to her and find her very sexy although she is insecure about her own body and sexual prowress.
I am always in the mood and pride myself on being a "pleaser". That said, little seems to turn her on or interest her. I will try my best to satisfy her every way I can but she seems more interested in "getting it over with" more than anything. Nothing is more disappointing than being in "mid fun" and being told "you can do something, dont hold back".
From what she tells me, and I do not doubt - she does not masturbate or please herself, she never has, nor does she feel comfortable talking about sex and/or our sex life with me.
So back to the title of my post... what does one do when a wife has a low sex drive and does not seem to be interested in her own sexual pleasure??
Re: Low sex drive wife not interested in orgasms
Depending on how old your wife is she may be going through premenopause. Although my wife still enjoyed sex she was finding it hard to achieve orgasm. I posted on TAM and was directed to Official Web Site of John R. Lee, M.D. and told to get his book What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause. He also has a book for younger women (age 30-50) What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About PREmenopause.
If her difficulty is because her attraction to you is gone then I would suggest you look at Married Man Sex Life
These are two things that come to mind right off the bat.
Re: Low sex drive wife not interested in orgasms
Do you know what she IS interested in? What, to her, is what sexual pleasure is to you? I think you should see if you can find that out if you are unsure.
The thing is, she needs to be willing to participate and meet you halfway in order for this to all work. She needs to work on her own issues, as well. Is she willing to do this? Does she see a problem like you do? Have you ever articulated how you feel about this to her?
You mention that you have four children. How old is the youngest? Any babies/toddlers? Is she a SAHM or does she work outside the home?
Does she get time away on her own? How much time does she get by herself? How much time do you two get alone as a couple? If she is getting little to no time on her own or with just you, she could be seriously burned out, and it may take some juggling in your schedules and such to try and alleviate that.
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My daughter and I have been receiving a number of comments stating that we have no business, especially as foreigners, to tell Japanese what to do. I could not agree more if we were talking about things that only impact the Japanese. For example, we would never presume to tell anyone, including Japanese, how to dress; what kind of music to enjoy; what religion to practice; or who to marry. Issues like human rights; however, fall into the category that impacts all of humanity and citizens of Earth should intervene when other communities violate human rights. We see the dolphin and whale slaughter in the same vein. The killing of dolphins and whales impacts all of humanity. These creatures do not belong to Japan or any other country. They are wild and freely roam the world's oceans. For one country or a small group within a country to unilaterally decide to kill these creatures is an insult to all of humanity. Just because it has been done for a long time does not make it a good thing and gives it no protection. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it. Japan is a world leader in many good things, but almost the entire world condemns the killing of whales and dolphins. Whales and dolphins belong to the planet and not to any human or group of humans.
Likewise, the oceans are part of the whole planet. A dead ocean will mean the end to all life on this planet. Each of us, no matter our nationality or race, has a responsibility to protect the oceans and protect life for all. This is not racist. This is survival.
The one(s) that got away and too busy or too ashamed?
This morning was October 14, 2010, in Japan. Being on this side of the International Date Line means that by the time our day has ended here, folks back home on the west coast of the United States are just waking up to the day. October 14 was/is also the International Day of Protest. Because of this fact, there were many news media crews at the cove this morning when we began our day.
We found, as expected, that the dolphin hunters had set out early this morning. We were surprised to find that one of the twelve boats had stayed behind from the hunt. We watched the sea to learn what this day would bring. Either the hunters would return driving dolphins before them and corral them into the cove, or they would return empty handed. We, of course, always hope and pray that they return empty.
Yesterday, while half of the dolphin hunters/slayers were busy killing, gutting, and butchering dolphins the other half had taken six boats out to find more dolphins. We were able to watch them far out on the sea and watched them find and then lose, find again, and lose again a group of dolphins. Today, the same thing happened, but much closer to shore. It was a shock to see all eleven boats appear arranged in long arc at the headland approach to Taiji. Clearly they had found and chased a pod of dolphins a long way. Back and forth they went, but in the end, the dolphins eluded them and disappeared back out to sea. The boats returned to port, thus making it a good day in Taiji.
Fortunately on this October 14 in Taiji, there are no dolphins in peril. Tomorrow morning will be October 15 in Taiji and still be the day of protest in other parts of the world. We will have to see what the morning brings.
Following our vigil at the cove, we decided that this being the International Day of Protest, it would be a good day to meet with the Mayor of Taiji to discuss these issues and to see the honorary wall to Taiji's sister city, Broome Australia. We went on down to city hall in Taiji and found that several members of the media followed us there. The workers in the hall were quite surprised to look up and see Sea Shepherd in their midst in the accompany of numerous cameras and journalists. I asked to speak with the Mayor. Eventually, a representative appeared who told me I had to leave. This is a public building and I had to leave. Another man placed a hand on my side and I very quickly made sure that he understood that I would not tolerate being assaulted.
I repeated my request to speak with the Mayor and was again told to leave. I then said that I wanted to see the honorary wall for Broome, Australia. The man told me there was no such thing and again told me I had to leave. I was shocked. I asked again in case he had not understood me and again he made it very clear to me that there was no such thing in Taiji. I wonder if the citizens of Broome know that the officials in Taiji deny having a relationship with Broome.
We found ourselves standing on the steps in front of Taiji City Hall with lots of cameras facing our way. I spoke about the how the Mayor either was too busy or too ashamed to talk with us on this day when the world is focused on his town. It seemed poor stewardship on his part.
At noon, representatives from Save Japan Dolphins honored the lost lives of countless dolphins by offering roses to the water of the cove. The police said it was pollution and that the roses had to be removed. I commented on how odd it is that it is lawful to pour the blood, hearts, and lungs of dolphins into the water, but it is unlawful to place flowers there. Something is wrong with this equation.
Sea Shepherd offered rice and Sake in an effort to atone for the sins of the fishermen.
There will be video available of today's events on my daughter's YouTube account. You can access that from the link to her blog below.
Our day is not yet done, as we will be participating in a press conference at 10:00 am, via Skype, in Atlanta, GA USA.
You can help. Got to your local Japanese embassy or consulate today at noon! Spread the word, send donations, join in the Worldwide Anti-Whaling Day on November 5, avoid all travel to Japan except to become a Cove Guardian with us here in Taiji, and ensure that you do everything you can to keep the pressure on the Japanese authorities. It is unfortunate that the reputation of an entire nation is being tarnished by the evil and shameful deeds of a handful of men in Taiji. To join us (voluntarily, and completely at your own cost and risk) in Taiji, write to me at email@example.com. I will get back to you, but please be patient. I cannot keep an eye on the Cove and answer email at the same time.
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Click here to learn more about today's international day of protest.Click here to learn more about the 5 November 2010 Worldwide Anti-Whaling Day.
The Blog Log:My daughter, Elora Malama, has been with me here since day one and keeps a blog of her experiences.Current Cove Guardians John and Jackie Legg have a blog about their experience here.Future Cove Guardians Tarah and Carolyn have started blogs about their endeavors.The Taiji Dolphin Action Group blog.
Please support our work to save dolphins and ocean life around the globe!