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How Do I Get Rid of Swelling on my Face After Taking Oratane 50 Mg for 2 Months?
I've been off Oratane for 2 weeks now. I only took it for 2 months. My daily dose was 50mg according to my weight which is 53 kg. I left it mainly... READ MORE
i am on accutane and have swollen lymph nodes, one near my ear, and one under each jaw. Is it normal?
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Has Accutane caused my face to swell?
I started to notice the facial swelling the 2nd month in of my course. My cheeks were puffy, and my jawline had no definition. Lymph nodes in my neck... READ MORE
Accutane After Revision Rhinoplasty for Thick Skin?
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Does the consumption of a single ' tretin-ISO' 20 mg capsule produce side effects?
I just had a single tretin ISO 20 mg capsule last night. However, observing swelling of my eyes and drying up of lips, i have decided to discontinue... READ MORE
How long would rolling scars, box scars and acne scars take to fade away without lasering or microdermabrasion?
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I've been using Accutane for two weeks and my lips are swelling. Is this a side-effect of Accutane?
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Is it normal for my face to swell while on accutane?
Im on accutane for about one month at 50 mg /day my chin and lower face seems to be looking alot more 'fat' and my jawline is rounded is that normal... READ MORE
I had a reaction to Accutane and I need help. Any suggestions?
I began taking it at the beginning of April I was started on 2 40 mg a day. After a month and 1/2 my lips puffed until they were touching my nose. I... READ MORE
My skin is hurting, what can help with pain on Accutane?
Hello, thank you for reading my question. First of all, I am 7 weeks into accutane, 30mg twice a day. My face is currently revealing 2 soft, rolling... READ MORE
My acne are getting worse. I'm using Accutane since 10 days. Any suggestions? (photos)
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How to treat new cysts while on Accutane since I can't pop them?
I'm two weeks into accutane and I know it's supposed to get worse before better but the new cysts I'm getting on my cheeks are very painful and... READ MORE
I used to be taking this medicine called doxycycline prescribe from a family doctor. Any suggestions? (photos)
However I have stop it and I have been taking oretane for 1 week plus And my face swells, painful and acne became more and worse. Is this normal?... READ MORE
Swelling and pimples around my nails taking "Accutane", what can I do????? (photos)
Hello Doctors, I'm taking Accutane 20 mg for 6 months and two weeks, and there are almost a week I have swelling and pimples around my nails and it's... READ MORE
Will cortisone shots for acne cause scarring while on isotretinoin?
I see quite a few posts that mention getting cortisone injections for acne cysts while on accutane. I've been taking 40mg of Claravis for the past 3.5... READ MORE
Finger swelling with second course of Accutane, is this normal?
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Memorial Stadium Fan Experience Improvements Coming this Fall
"Be Ready" are the two words the University of Nebraska Athletic Department officials say will capture the excitement behind the enhanced fan experience this fall.
A $12.3 million improvements project is underway, which includes replacing the stadium's existing sound system and installing a wireless network. An Internet television system will serve concourses, clubs and suites.
"Each of these Memorial Stadium Fan Experience Improvements are designed to provide the best college football fans in America with the best game-day experience possible," Director of Athletics Shawn Eichorst says.
The department said the new sound system will improve the audio quality throughout the stadium. The department says exclusive video content will extend the HuskerVision experience beyond the existing screens inside the stadium, giving fans control of video from their own mobile devices.
In addition, the Huskers are working on a smartphone app to deliver game-day information and video.
As part of this improvement, a new scoreboard design will be incorporated into the overall sound system structure. A 25-foot illuminated Nebraska "N" topped with a football graphic will be visible both inside and outside the stadium.


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Very good, in parts: Thomson Spirit Cruise Review by anddbed
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Very good, in parts
Destination: Baltic Sea
Embarkation: Newcastle (England)
The cruise was a mixed bag of excellence to very poor.
The Thomson Spirit is an old ship, tatty in places and very noisy- shakes and rattles almost continuously, regardless of the weather.
Embarkation and disembarkation- well organized.
Decor of ship- tatty in places and an awful sewerage smell emanated from the lower decks. Many passengers commented on the awful pong of sewerage from decks 1 to 5.
Cabins- Basic, noisy and ours stunk so much that we spent as little time as possible in it. We were on the 1st deck and a sewerage smell was always present. Plumbing kept on failing in our cabin and others on deck one- one couple complained 6 times that their toilet would not flush and on one occasion the lady only prevented a spill over from the toilet into her cabin when she returned to her cabin to collect her jacket.
Food- as much as you want to eat ever, if this it your preference. However, More quantity, is at the expense of quality. Hot food often cold or warm- choice became monotonous after a week.
Staff- generally excellent
Excursions- Expensive, although very well organized and we were pleased we booked some of our excursions with Thomson.
On board drinks- expensive
Entertainment- mixed. Some excellent and some easily forgot. The stage entertainment team very enthusiastic.
Days at sea- if the weather is wet the ship lacks the facilities to catered for the passengers who remain inside the ship. Lack of adequate places to sit, very cramped and the smell and heat of nearly 2,000 people cramped into a small ship became unbearable for many on us on a wet day at sea.
Days at sea on a sunny day- Don't expect a pleasant swim in the pools. Small pocket size pool, filled with sea water daily. Tiles missing and damaged on one pool and out of action.
Loyalty- many of the customers were very regular Thomson cruise customers, therefore, for this group of people, Thomson provides what they want. However, my husband and i will try a different cruise company next time we decide on a cruise. Less
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CORAL GABLES. Fla. – The University of Miami volleyball team is set to make its 2013 home debut this weekend in a pair of matches against the LSU Tigers.
The Hurricanes are in action Friday in the first game of a two-game set against LSU. Friday's match begins at 7 p.m., while Saturday's contest is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. at the Knight Sports Complex. The Canes lead the all-time series against LSU 3-2 and are 6-2 all-time against teams from Louisiana.
"We are expecting a tough challenge," Miami head coach Jose "Keno" Gandara said. "They are a good team and they are well coached. They are physical and fast. It will be a good test for us."
Miami enters its first home match off a solid showing on the West Coast. The Canes went 2-1 last weekend, dropping their match at Saint Mary's before beating both Long Beach State and San Francisco in the Bay Area Challenge.
The Hurricanes are 10-2 in home openers since 2001. Miami has won five consecutive home openers dating back to 2008.
"We are excited to be home," Gandara said. "Not only do we get to sleep in our own beds and play in front of our fans, but I also like the fact that we also get one extra day of practice which is huge."
The Canes have done an excellent job of defending their home court. Miami enters the weekend series having won 18 consecutive home matches. Their last loss at the Knight Complex came on Oct. 16, 2011, a four-set loss to Georgia Tech. But the Hurricanes have been a dominant force at the Knight Complex, going 36-4 at home since 2010.
"The Knight Complex is a great gym," Gandara said. "I am not surprised by the numbers. You always play to protect your home court advantage, but we approach each match the same. We will prepare the best we can for the match and expect to play well. If we do that, the rest will take care of itself."
Miami is led by seniors Alex Johnson and Ryan Shaffer. Johnson, who has started every match of her collegiate career and leads the Canes with six service aces, will play her 100th career match on Friday. Shaffer, who leads the Canes with 87 digs, will play in her 100th career match on Saturday.
The Canes also sport a trio of juniors whom have made an impact in their attack and defense. Outside hitter Savanah Leaf leads Miami in kills with 73, while middle blockers Emani Sims and Alexis Mourning rank first and second in blocks with 18 and 15, respectively.
Sophomore setter Caitilin Donahoe enters this weekend off a strong showing at the Bay Area Challenge. Donahoe tallied 105 assists over two matches, including a career-high 64 in the match against Long Beach State. Junior setter Blair Fuentez also has gotten Miami's attack going, compiling 68 assists over seven sets played in 2013.
"I am pleased with where we are at this point in the season," Gandara said. "We have made a lot of progress and we are training better. Our players are learning how to make changes in their game and we are getting better."
Fans attending this weekend's matches will receive a U Rally Towel, while supplies last and Miami's men's club volleyball team will be honored on Friday night in recognition of its national championship last spring.
Miami volleyball season tickets are available for $35. Canes fans can also purchase a combined season ticket package for volleyball and soccer for $50. Single-game volleyball tickets are just $5 for adults and $3 for youth (Ages 3-17). For more information or to purchase tickets, visit CanesTix.com or call 305-284-2263.
For all the latest information on Miami Hurricanes volleyball, follow the official Twitter feed, @CanesVB, or "Like Us" on Facebook at facebook.com/MiamiVolleyball. The program is also on Instagram (CanesVB).


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Just recently Dell was offering the Venue Pro at the $299 price point on their eBay page. It was only yesterday that the same device was priced at $499 on their online store. That changed today however, as now you can pick one up on their online store with 3G compatibility for either T-Mobile or AT&T.
You can also pick one up with a contract if you'd like. Dell is offering an 8GB version (the unlocked one is the 16GB model) of the Dell Venue Pro for only $.99 with a two-year contract. They had a deal going for AT&T but as of now they are out of stock.
What does everybody think? Is $299 a good price for the Dell Venue Pro with no commitment? If so, any T-Mobile or AT&T customers willing to give picking up one of these some thought? Tell us what you think in the comments below.
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Whenever I'm working online (as a guy in the sports industry who spends a lot of time in my browsers), or whenever I'm working on my local host for various Web Design projects (with Microsoft Web Matrix, Notepad++, Microsoft Visual Web Developer, etc), I use HP Pavilion dm4 Notebook PC: it's a good laptop with 4GB RAM, 440 GB disk space, 3 hours of battery life, Intel i5 2.4 GHz processor and Windows 7 Premium.
Whenever I need to use some software requiring high-graphics capability, I use my Dell Inspiron laptop: It has 8GB RAM, 750 GB disk space, 3 hours of battery life, 2.4 GHz processor and it also has Windows 7 Premium. Its power is great enough for high-end video games as well + anything that my HP dm4 can handle.
I bought both of them 2 years ago for less than 800$ each. You can read about them and see if they suit you. From my experience, I've got no problems with them at all. Both of them even have Cinema 4D, FL Studio, etc…
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SomethingDesign saidUhm? One word! Mavericks! It kills absolutely every computer OS I've put my hands on, and no offence, I have a desktop computer, high end, it's dying, my MacBook is older than my computer… still working perfectly! Hardware and software wise, Apple have expensive stuff but it's of higher quality! I've personally shared your opinion until I purchased one!
Mac book is lightning fast if you use it for webdesign and coding work. For print, 3D, render and composting is lightning slow pity they have only 16GB ram memory max. And OSX always had a poor memory management. And not to mention about the price.
I worked many years on mac (my last coputer was mac). I bought my Asus 4 months ago. my first intention was to buy a new Macbook pro. At that moment someone tell me about this Asus an I had the chance to test it for few days and with i7 2.4, 32GB ram/ 3GB video memory, SSD really feel the power. The only think I don't like is the is the display colors. But I bought a brand new Apple Display just for the perfect retina colors.
When I choose Asus was for that 32GB memory. After I finish to install I open all my software adobe, autodesk, maxon + 2 games at once and it runs like I opened only one of them.
32gb ram isnt a bit overkill? I only have 8 and i am more than satisfied, never userd more than 6.3.
For very complex files like Photoshop Extended with 3D objects or After Effects + Element 3D or particles or just any 3D software even 32GB isn't really enough. But until I have the money to buy one of this http://www.boxxtech.com/ 32GB ram it's perfect for me.
Macbook Pro : powerful, reliable, lightweight and aesthetic …
Cool stuff, to bad i dont own that kind of money…
You have only one option: buy a MacBook. The rest is crap. Working on a Mac it's priceless, faster and better designs.
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32gb ram isnt a bit overkill? I only have 8 and i am more than satisfied, never userd more than 6.3.
If you work with large videos 8gb are useless, even on a Mac.
Looks like Apple infect people and make zombies.
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This is a blog to chronicle this portion of the life of Staff Sgt. Jason Ross, my son, as he mends, after an I.E.D. explosion, on March 7, 2011, while serving his country in Afghanistan.
Monday, January 23, 2012
January 23, 2012
Okay, so now we're in his office and we get ready to go over the wounds and some progress and some other things with Dr. Pyo and figure we'll be out in a relatively short time. The appointment was set for only 30 minutes, so we don't expect to be staying very long. WRONG! By the time we were done we had been there for nearly two hours, and as you might imagine, Jason was ready to leave... me too. We did pick up a few more supplies, and while Jason was with the good doctor I took care of a few other little things that I wanted to do. All-in-all the time was used, we just didn't know it was going to take that long.
The only other thing that Jason had going was a meeting (or muster) with the Marines in building 12, later that afternoon. It was an informative meeting, and they gave out a few things to the attendees, so I think Jason was glad he went, I know I was. One of the things they got was a medication dispenser system, and I think that will help in keeping track of Jason's meds.
Along with an interesting and busy day at the hospital, Uncle Larry came down to visit. It was good seeing him, and he and Jason had a chance to talk about all the different things going on. He arrived early enough that we were able to go have lunch, so we did. We also spent some time with Boomer, and did a little work on his training, as well as building up his comfort level with these "new" surroundings. It was kind of funny when Boomer first met Uncle Larry. I don't recall why, but Larry said something in Spanish and Boomer immediately began to bark at him. Both Jason and I were kind of surprised, and I think Uncle Larry might have been as well. We calmed Boomer back down and basically just kicked back for the rest of his visit. He stayed until early evening and then headed off to go see Katie, his daughter and Jake (her husband) and their family. The rest of the day was simply resting and now me doing the blog. Oh, one last update... Jason hasn't had any more phantom pain since that one spike that hit yesterday. The doctor wasn't too concerned with it, as long as it doesn't happen frequently, so we're looking at it as a "one-off" occurrence.
Thank you all for all your continued support and all the prayers you've been sending our way.
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- AnonymousJanuary 23, 2012 at 10:22 PM
Boomer doesn't speak Spanish yet! He was telling Uncle Larry to speak in English and was giving him a piece of his mind. Boomer is spunky, that is good. I'm glad he calmed down too. Sounds like a productive day all around. I'm so glad the phantom pain went away, I was praying it would.ReplyDelete
Have a good session with OT and PT and a good day tomorrow. Looking forward to pics of the pup.
Getting over the 49er loss.
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So glad the phantom pain is gone! That has to be so very strange and hard to deal with!ReplyDelete
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Posted by Anjali Lai on the Data Insights Professionals Blog on December 22, 2014
Around this time of year, one can't help but become reflective. I know I'm not alone when I say that, on the one hand, this year somehow shot past faster than the last one, but on the other hand, it was jam-packed with new discoveries, fresh ideas, and memorable experiences. In particular, this has been a milestone year for the data insights innovation team here at Forrester, as we officially launched our Technographics 360 research approach, which synthesizes mobile behavioral, social listening, online qualitative, and survey data. As I think back on my experiences with the Technographics 360 initiative inside Forrester, paired with my industry learnings outside Forrester, a few key lessons come to mind that I will take into the new year:
1. Synthesis is "in." In fact, I learned so much about this topic, I wrote a full blog post dedicated to it! In essence, we now live in a world where the truest insight is a product of synthesis – building knowledge up – rather than of analysis – breaking ideas down. I recently attended SSI's seminar featuring Simon Chadwick, who proposed that data synthesis is "the next big thing" in insight skills. I agree: With so many diverse data sources at our fingertips that offer unique perspectives on consumers' lives, researchers need to put the puzzle pieces together to construct a comprehensive understanding of consumer behavior.
Posted by Roxana Strohmenger on the Data Insights Professionals Blog on March 21, 2013
If you read my blog regularly, it should come as no surprise that I am an ardent fan of using mobile devices — whether mobile phones or tablets — for market research purposes. I have discussed how consumers are already forcing our hand into the world of mobile and that market insights professionals are not conducting mobile market research but instead are conducting market research in a mobile world.
Given this, I was both delighted and dismayed when attending this year's ARF Re:think 2013 conference. Why was I delighted? There was a marked increase in the number of talks that focused on the role mobile plays — whether as a research technique or how it plays a significant role in consumers' lives. Of just the talks I attended, which were a lot, almost 60% of them discussed the role of mobile. And a lot of these "mobile" talks were in the main track session. Talking with colleagues who attended last year, it's clear that mobile has definitely moved front of mind compared with ARF Re:think 2012.
But I was dismayed that it was still just talk, talk, talk. At the conference, I was surrounded by tablets and smartphones, and people were using them all the time. And while we're living this mobile life, we're listening to speeches telling us how we need to start thinking about the role of mobile. Dare I say that we need to do a bit more than just thinking at this point in the game? We clearly have to get our act together soon.
Posted by Gina Fleming on the Data Insights Professionals Blog on May 6, 2012
I just returned from the IIR Market Research Technology Event (TMRTE). These were three action-packed days of industry leaders delivering great insights on what's important for the market research industry, as well as the challenges and opportunities that technology presents. It was a pleasure to meet and connect with so many thought leaders in market research. Here are three main themes I gathered from the event and what I think market researchers need to pay attention to:
Posted by Gina Fleming on the Data Insights Professionals Blog on November 23, 2011
With mobile usage becoming increasingly widespread and companies testing the water with mobile strategies, market insights professionals need to uncover consumers' mobile behavior today and tomorrow. But with the pace of mobile innovation moving so rapidly, how can you keep up with all of the things that people are doing with their mobile phones?
In the next three years, would you expect people to use their mobile phones as wallets? What about as electronic passports? What about for space exploration? While that seems like a long shot, a New York state resident did just that — attaching an iPhone to a weather balloon, videoing the journey, and using its GPS feature to map its voyage (see link for the footage).


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This year marks the 150th anniversary of the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing & Midwifery at King's. To commemorate the event the School has recently launched a special microsite.
The School was the world's first professional school of nursing and is the direct descendant of the original Nightingale Training School, founded by Florence Nightingale at St Thomas' Hospital in 1860.
The microsite tells you all about the School's history and founder, but also much more about our students, alumni and research activities, and the series of events the School is participating in over the coming months.
Visit the microsite.
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The Best of 2009
Posted by George Colony on December 18, 2009
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Here are the things I liked in 2009. I thought they might spark ideas for Christmas presents, or guide others to useful resources. A note about all of this. What I've written below are the opinions of one person (me) and do not in any way reflect the research, conclusions, analysis, or survey work of Forrester.
Here's my list:
1) The Breville Toaster. If Apple designed a toaster, this would be it. Intuitive, easy to use, dependable, smart. Perfect appliance for a nerd like me.
2) The Amazon Kindle. I've got two of them, both Kindle 2s. I love them for five reasons: 1) I can get my newspapers in seconds when I travel, 2) I can read on a plane while I eat my bad airline food – it is small enough to fit on my table along with my food tray, 3) I've got all my books with me all the time – keeping my underling and notes at my fingertips, 4) My reading time has increased, and 5) My backpack is lighter. Yes, I miss the feel and texture of my books, but the Kindle's advantages outweigh tradition.
3) The Beatles mono and stereo box sets. I threw away all my original Beatles CDs – they pale in comparison with the new mixes. The music has a new life.
4) Amazing business cycle graphic from the New York Times. Being in the research business I'm always looking for simple but powerful ways to reveal complex data. This graphic was excellent on paper, but even more thought-provoking in its interactive form. The conclusions were sobering -- showing that this recession is comparatively severe compared with down turns of the last 30 years. Stunning.
5) Green Day's 21st Century Breakdown. My kids all hate Green Day: "…dad, they're a bunch of no-talent Goths," The kids are wrong. This album continues the brilliance of American Idiot – these guys can play, write, sing, philosophize, criticize, observe. If you liked The Who, listen.
6) Microsoft Office 2007. Forrester upgraded to it this year. My expectations for Microsoft upgrades are subterranean, so I wasn't relishing the move. Surprise!! I really like the new "ribbon" metaphor for applications, Outlook 2007 was much improved and faster than its predecessors, and all of it was just easier to use. I was getting more done, faster, with less annoyance. If you've got to live in a prison, you appreciate it when they improve the food…
7) The book Younger Next Year. If you're a guy over 50, this book is a good slap in the face. It outlines the physical misery that awaits if you keep eating crap, drink too much alcohol, and don't exercise. And it points you toward a much more hopeful future.
8) The A.G. Lafley article in the Harvard Business Review. The best description of what CEOs are supposed to be doing. I know I've written about it before, but I'm very taken with Lafley's simple observation: the CEO is singularly positioned to translate the outside (customers, investors) to the inside (the company).
9) Elvis Costello's album, Secret, Profane, and Sugarcane. Don't go near it if you don't like country music in The Band/T.Bone Burnett vein. I'm not a big Costello fan but his ability to bring clever words and themes to a funky, informal, mandolin/guitar/bass/dobro setting totally grabbed me. This guy can still do it.
10) iPhone. I absolutely loved my Blackberry Curve 8900. I thought it was the perfect phone – light, small, great Outlook synch, great phone software. But for me the iPhone is something different – a great phone + amazing applications. Because of the big screen I can review and edit business documents and use the Web in ways I couldn't before. For my needs, it's an amazing personal and business tool.
11) The book Success Through Failure: The Paradox of Design. This is not exactly a stocking-stuffer -- too technical and dry. The author is an expert on bridges. His thesis is that once designs are accepted, they get pushed too far and eventually fail. The next generation learns from this failure and creates a new, improved design. This theory explains why there is a major bridge collapse somewhere in the world about every 30 years. If you want to find out how the Shuttle Challenger disaster can be partially blamed on the ancient Romans, check out this book.
12) Jeff Immelt of GE and John Mack of Morgan Stanley refusing to accept out-sized bonuses. You can't buy this one, but you can draw inspiration. When the economy, employees, suppliers, and customers are all suffering, it's not the time to quietly accept multi-million dollar bonuses, even if the math says you're owed one. There is no "logic" to this – it's simply long-term, gut-driven, common sense, emotional leadership. It's also nudges society to once again believe that capitalism is a fair and equitable system.
13) The movie The Hangover. It's crude, sophomoric, profane – I non-stopped laughed through it twice and I'm laughing right now remembering my favorite quotations. The funniest guy flick of the last five years. Don't buy it for any of your kids under 17. And skip the closing credits -- that's when the movie goes too far for any age group.
14) The Financial Times Online. It's expensive ($290/year) but objective, comprehensive, and well-written. This is a bona fide business tool in a time when many editorial agendas are being polluted by gossip, personalities, and raw partisanship. And it's a healthy dose of a global view of economics and business.
I hope this is helpful in some way. What's your favorite of 2009? Got any great gift ideas? I'd love to get your comments.
All the best for Christmas, The Holidays, and the New Year's.
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excellent list best of 2009. We want to inform you about some good website designing company; scalercode.com is one of them.
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Comment from Max Pucher on Sat, 12/19/2009 - 05:27
Goerge, thanks for your great postings in 2009!We do have a similar taste in music (must be the age). My Latin side would add 'Buena Vista Social Club at Carnegie Hall'.I agree with you in terms of the iPhone that will influence the mobile world of tomorrow.My less-than-good opinion of too many global corp CEOs is not changed by the publicity-stunts of Jeff Immelt and John Mack. A lot more has to happen to change my opinion.Book? 'Annie Leibovitz at Work'Technology? Social networks ...All the best for the season to you and your family!
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Comment from Mike Gualtieri on Sun, 12/20/2009 - 14:29
George,Bravo on Breville. I discovered Breville a few years ago, first with the Breville Kettle. It has beautiful lines, performs flawlessly every day when I boil water for coffee, and the switch to turn it on feels and clicks perfectly.Curious about #14 though. Aren't editorials supposed have an agenda (not having an agenda is having an agenda)?
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Comment from Merlina McGovern on Tue, 12/22/2009 - 11:14
My favorites of the year? Mad Men, Mad Men, Mad Men. Season three took a turn for the crazy, but the writing, acting, and directing was stellar. "That's life. One minute, you're on top of the world. The next, some secretary is running over your foot with a lawn mower."And having Netflix streaming video on Xbox live. God, such a better way to browse through movies then the slow, clunky Comcast on-demand menu.
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Comment from George Colony on Tue, 12/22/2009 - 17:26
Merlina:I've never seen Mad Men, but my nephew plays one of the characters on the show. He's somebody's husband -- apparently he quit his job as a doctor or psychologist and joined the Army. Then his wife hit him with something...sorry to be so vague.Ditto on Netflix streaming. I stream to a Tivo Series 3 -- awesome!! Although there aren't enough titles yet...George
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Comment from Merlina McGovern on Wed, 12/23/2009 - 16:58
George:Hah, not vague at all. That's Greg, the embodiment of Joan's dashed expectations. He's so excited that he's found a viable alternative to being forced out of the medical profession by joining the army . . . right before the escalation of the Vietnam War.
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Comment from Edel Calvar (not verified) on Sun, 01/10/2010 - 15:22
Nice list George! With most points I could´t agree more however i totally disagree with MS Office 2007. I had move to it since 1 years ago and my experience with it hasn´t been anything sort of a nightmare. If you were using features than go from the basic it is extremely hard to find, and what is worse, it increases the number of steps to reach them.
I am not alone, like Vista, Office 2007 was credited as a poor implementation.
For any corporation I recommend to wait for 2010´s or better yet, explore the new collaborative tools.
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Comment from Kevin Gilman (not verified) on Tue, 01/19/2010 - 01:47
After watch the golden globes last night remembered your pick on The Hangover for 2009. Great movie-great call.................Kevin
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Cellular and Molecular Aspects of Plant-Nematode Interactions
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This overview emphasizes the present state of knowledge on the feeding behaviour of root parasitic nematodes and associated cell responses. Several unresolved questions related to this topic could recently be answered with the aid of high resolution video-enhanced contrast light microscopy, which enables direct observations of live nematodes within roots. Unlike in other plant pathogens, such as fungi, where cell wall surface molecules elicit a cascade in plant gene regulation, nematodes inject copious amounts of salivary secretions from oesophageal gland cells to transform root cells and tissues for their own reproductive success. Hence this chapter covers several examples of root cell responses to salivary secretions. As shown, Xiphinema index may be a good model. It has a huge dorsal gland cell and the effects of its secretions can be studied in detail. However, from an economic point of view, nearly all efforts in understanding the molecular bases for feeding structure establishment are currently devoted to the economically most important cyst and root-knot nematodes. In order to compare their feeding structures with those of other nematodes with different parasitic strategies, this introductory chapter gives also a general overview on the wide array of food cell modifications induced and maintained. These modifications are entirely nematode specific, irrespective of the host plant parasitized. Each is successful in its own to support development and reproduction of the nematode species involved. From an evolutionary point of view the uninucleate giant cells of some non-cyst-forming nematodes are for instance more primitive than the syncytia of cyst-forming nematodes, which ensure a higher reproductive capacity. Root-knot nematodes are generally regarded to have evolved the most advanced form of root parasitism. Multinucleate giant cells may therefore be considered torepresent the most advanced form of nurse cell systems. Hopefully, with rapid advances in molecular biology, we will finally find an answer to the intriguing question how nematode secretions regulate plant gene expression for their own benefit and how the specificity of the nurse cells or nurse cell systems induced by them can be explained.
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Publication Acceptance Date: 9/19/2003
Publication Date: 11/17/2003
Citation: HIMMELSBACH, D.S., BARTON II, F.E. USE OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL VIBRATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY STUDY OF THE INTERACTIONS CAUSED BY CHANGES IN CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF RICE FLOUR. THE 42ND EASTERN ANALYTICAL SYMPOSIUM, NOVEMBER 17-20, 2003, SOMERSET, NEW JERSEY. 2003. EAS ABSTRACTS OF TECHNICAL PAPERS. PAPER #42. P. 7. Interpretive Summary: This is an abstract only. An interpretive summary is not required.
Technical Abstract: Two-dimensional vibrational spectroscopy was employed to reveal spectral effects associated with changes in protein and carbohydrate composition in rice flower. Near-infrared and Raman spectroscopies were utilized in conjunction with this method to overcome hidden effects due to overlapping bands that are unobservable with the use of one-dimensional spectra. The results indicated considerable correlation with water in the NIR spectra whereas this did not occur with Raman spectra.


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27 Oct 2011, 12:58pm by Rivers McCown
This is a larger question than just "what's wrong with Chris Johnson?," and we look at it a different way. What has happened in the past to teams whose offenses were as unbalanced as those of Tennessee and Minnesota?
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23 Oct 2011, 08:08pm by Danny Tuccitto
How good is the Baltimore defense, and can they stay that good for the entire season? We look at little bit at some weaknesses that could become a problem... although probably not this week. By the way, Baltimore is the second team to be first in both run and pass defense DVOA through six weeks. The first was the 1997 San Francisco 49ers.
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20 Oct 2011, 02:05pm by Aaron Schatz
We examine the Carson Palmer trade and conclude that it's a lot more about sustaining Oakland's playoff chances than actually improving the Raiders. The offensive line, in particular, has made a leap that has helped the Raiders offense play well.
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16 Oct 2011, 05:42pm by Rivers McCown
DVOA doesn't back up their 2-3 record, and the Jets are still a very good team despite their poor start.
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13 Oct 2011, 05:55pm by Aaron Schatz
49ers quarterback Alex Smith has been the tenth-best quarterback in the NFL by our metrics so far this year. Is that sustainable?
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09 Oct 2011, 07:06pm by Danny Tuccitto
The Lions' pass offense has been impressive in their 4-0 start, but what about that 30th-ranked running game? This week's Monday Night Football column looks at how the disparity between the two raises red flags about Detroit's Super Bowl prospects.
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06 Oct 2011, 12:31pm by Aaron Schatz
Analysis of the surprising 3-1 Titans shows a team very similar to the Titans team that went 13-3 in 2003: strong passing and defense overcoming a stagnant running game. But since Matt Hasselbeck is unlikely to continue playing at a superstar level, the onus is on the defense to keep the team in the AFC South race.
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Indianapolis' season is basically over at this point with Peyton Manning gone, but the Colts have also sustained a number of other injuries this season. This is not a one-year trend in the slightest -- the Colts lead the NFL in Adjusted Games Lost over the past five seasons. Why is that?
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On Sunday June 25, the new ART base fare will be $2. The senior/disability half fare will be $1. Student fare Age 6 thru 12th Grade also $1
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Gigabyte held a press briefing along with Intel, to promote its new 8 Sigma series of motherboards.
One of the features of 8 Sigma motherboards is ShieldWare – a pack of custom utilities to enhance your PC.
EasyTune5 – A quick and easy system tuning utility to get the most performance with minimum effort.
M.I.T. – Motherboard Intelligent Tweaker allows for easy BIOS tweaking.
C.I.A. 2 – CPU Intelligent Accelerator 2 monitors and automatically adjusts the CPU power relative to workload.
M.I.B. 2 – Memory Intelligent Booster 2 allegedly boosts memory performance and bandwidth by up to ten per cent.
S.O.S – System Overclock Saver automatically reverts a machine to default settings, if it has been pushed too far.
Gigabyte C.O.M. – Web based management tool that allows basic functions to be monitored and controlled remotely.
Xpress Recovery – Allows the system to be backed up to a secure area and quickly restored if a problem occurs.
Xpress Install – A utility to simplify driver installation and take some of the user interaction out of system builds and upgrades.
Other 8 Sigma features include IEEE 1394b support (the new faster FireWire standard), an eight phase power circuit designed to withstand varying current levels, dual Gigabit Ethernet controllers and the latest high definition audio.
The 6-Dual Deluxe series of motherboards targets the Athlon 64 platform and shares many features with the 8 Sigma range. You get features like IEEE 1394b and the Dual Power System, and Dual BIOS support. However, the dual LAN support has one Gigabit controller and one 10/100 Ethernet adapter.
Once again it looks like Gigabyte is trying to give you that little bit extra with its motherboards. In the past many of Gigabyte's cutting edge features were copied by the competition, and I imagine that the same thing will happen this time.


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So this guy in his boxster is all over the place in 5pm traffic and cuts in front of me at the light just to piss me off. I was just trying to keep up with him to see if we would have the chance to be at a stop light so we could really race, but he took it like we were racing in this traffic. I "kinda" accepting the challenge but then decided there were too many cars. So I followed him to his house. Guy buys a boxster (non-S) and lives in a **** hole. Anyway, I told him to leave it at the stop light instead of traffic. He was like "what are you talking about?" (In a very GAY voice---no kidding) And I replied: leave the race at the stop light and not in traffic so you dont KILL people. I hate guys that are just stupid on the road. His car is fire-engine red and he is a total dumbass, I think I'll find his car at work (he works on base like I do.)... maybe help it out a bit.
I hate losing to an idiot that would rather take a risk that would potentially kill people than to race mano a mano with no traffic---(and lose), its definitely NOT a boxster-S. (Which would be a pretty good race.) He was a very gay-acting guy that obviously had no talent for mods or racing or respect for drivers on the road. You carrera and 911 guys need to spank every boxster you see. I know I do (if I GET the chance safely!!)


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Once there was a war, a war like none other, a war cloaked in darkness, lit only by the flash of flares and searchlights, the explosions of bombs and the blaze of burning planes.. So begins this documentary television series about the deadly war fought in the nighttime skies over Europe during World War II. For the first time in history of human conflict, a war was fought by men and machines in the air at night. Veterans from both sides recount the commonplace bravery and horror that they faced on a daily basis. The complex tactics that evolved and the race of competing technologies are related by graphic images and animation. The war had become not only a battle between the brave men of the Royal Air Force and the Army Air Corps and the Luftwaffe, but also a struggle of science and technology.
The introduction of primitive navigational and electronic aids ushered in a new era in the battle over the darkened European continent. Bomber Command introduced the bomber stream and the 1,000 bomber raid. The Luftwaffe response is re-created with an interception of a Lancaster bomber by a former German nightfighter.
The sternest test the nightfighters would face was attacking the most heavily defended place on earth, "The Big City" – Berlin. The balance of the electronic air war swung between the air forces of Germany and the Allies, culimating in a series of costly raids on Berlin in the winter of 1944-1945.
Included in this program is the story of the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, which is dedicated to the restoration and the preservation of Canada's military aviation heritage. The aircraft of the Commonwealth Air Training Plan are being rebuilt and flown in their original condition.
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Toward color image segmentation in analog VLSI: Algorithm and hardware
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Standard techniques for segmenting color images are based on finding normalized RGB discontinuities, color histogramming, or clustering techniques in RGB or CIE color spaces. The use of the psychophysical variable hue in HSI space has not been popular due to its numerical instability at low saturations. In this article, we propose the use of a simplified hue description suitable for implementation in analog VLSI. We demonstrate that if theintegrated white condition holds, hue is invariant to certain types of highlights, shading, and shadows. This is due to theadditive/shift invariance property, a property that other color variables lack. The more restrictive uniformly varying lighting model associated with themultiplicative/scale invariance property shared by both hue and normalized RGB allows invariance to transparencies, and to simple models of shading and shadows. Using binary hue discontinuities in conjunction with first-order type of surface interpolation, we demonstrate these invariant properties and compare them against the performance of RGB, normalized RGB, and CIE color spaces. We argue that working in HSI space offers an effective method for segmenting scenes in the presence of confounding cues due to shading, transparency, highlights, and shadows. Based on this work, we designed and fabricated for the first time an analog CMOS VLSI circuit with on-board phototransistor input that computes normalized color and hue.


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The Peanut Gallery
Every year, the average American eats more than six pounds of peanuts and peanut butter. Lee Zalben, the president of Peanut Butter & Co., believes that the love affair with peanut butter began at an early age for many. "Peanut butter has a very special place in the American psyche," he says. "Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are often the first foods that we're allowed to make for ourselves. It's the first time we can be an active participant in preparing our food."
Recently, though, another peanut product has taken center stage—peanut flour. The protein-packed flour is gluten free and works as a substitute for wheat flour in baked goods. Zalben, however, warns that's it is definitely not a one-to-one substitute. "If you add water to peanut flour, it won't be peanut butter per se, but it'll have a little bit of the consistency," he says.
Instead, Zalben says that many bakers, chefs, and cooks blend peanut flour with corn meal, oat flour, rice flour and other leavening agents to add protein and bulk to recipes. "[Peanut flour is also] a terrific thickener and flavor ingredient for soups, stews, sauces," he adds. "There are so many different things you can do with it."
In addition to peanut flour, boiling peanuts is growing more popular in the Northeast. Charleston, S.C. natives Ted Lee and Matt Lee grew up with the Southern tradition of eating boiled peanuts at ballparks and social gatherings. When they first moved to New York City in 1993, few people in the area had ever heard of them.
"We were trying to sell boiled peanuts to New Yorkers," recalls Ted Lee. "We thought we'd start with the Southern restaurants in New York, and the Southern restaurants hadn't even heard of them."
The brothers went on to start The Lee Bros. Boiled Peanuts Catalogue, a mail order catalog of Southern pantry staples. These days, however, Ted Lee notes that even leading chef April Bloomfield (who come to New York via the U.K.) serves boiled peanuts at The Breslin, one of the city's most talked-about restaurants.
Zalben and Lee both point out that the experience of eating boiled peanuts reminds eater and chefs alike that peanuts are legumes and not nuts. Once boiled, the nuts take on a bean-like consistency a la steamed edamame. In the South, the raw, green peanuts (preferably pulled straight from the ground) are boiled in water as salty as the sea. Lee says he also came across boiled peanut stands in Hawaii, where the Asian tradition dictates boiling peanuts with star anise.
The recent popularity of peanut flour and boiled peanuts is thanks in part to marketing efforts by the National Peanut Board. Zalben recently worked with the organization and National Peanut Board President Raffaela Marie Fenn to launch the Nutropolitan Museum of Art, a photography exhibit of peanut butter sandwiches on display at a pop-up gallery in SoHo. The board recently launched the site Skinny on Nuts.
Fenn shared the National Peanut Board's recipe for Hawaiian boiled peanuts, which can also be used to make the Lee Brother's recipe for peanut soup. Both recipes appear below.
Hawaiian Boiled Peanuts
Makes: 2 cups of boiled peanuts
- 2 cups green peanuts in-shell
- 3 star anise
- 4 tablespoons of Hawaiian salt
- Water
1. In a large pot, place peanuts, two tablespoons of salt and enough water to cover the peanuts. Soak peanuts overnight.
2. Drain peanuts. Replace in pot. Add remaining salt, star anise and add enough fresh water to cover peanuts.
3. Bring to a boil and reduce the heat to a simmer. Simmer the peanuts for three to four hours or until the peanuts are soft. Drain the water and remove the star anise. Serve warm or at a room temperature.
From the Lee Brothers' "Simple Fresh Southern" cookbook:
Boiled peanut lovers often wonder why roasted peanuts hold sway in such a variety of recipes—noodle dishes, desserts, and soups—whereas boiled peanuts seemed to be pigeonholed in the snack category. We make every effort to be contrarian in this regard. Why not show off the bean-like flavor of peanuts, which is virtually obliterated when they get roasted?
This soup marries boiled peanuts with bacon and onion. It's elegant and soothing, like an English pea soup, and the dash of white wine vinegar livens it up and focuses its flavor.
Boiled Peanut Soup
For 4 people
Time: 30 minutes
- 1/4 pound slab bacon or 4 slices thick-cut bacon, finely diced
- 1 ½ cups chopped yellow onion (1 ½ large onions)
- 3 cups Sunday Chicken Broth
- 2 cups Boiled Peanuts, shelled
- 1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon fresh thyme (from twelve 5-inch sprigs)
- 1 ½ cups two-percent milk
- 2 teaspoons white wine vinegar
- Kosher salt to taste
- Finely ground white pepper to taste
1. Scatter the diced bacon in a 12-inch skillet and sauté over medium-high heat, moving the pieces around with a slotted spoon until the bacon is firm and just golden brown, about 3 minutes. Transfer the bacon to a small bowl. Pour off all but 2 tablespoons of the bacon fat and discard.
2. Add the onion to the skillet and sauté until softened and translucent, about 5 minutes. Add the broth, peanuts, and 2 teaspoons thyme, increase the heat to high, and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to low and simmer vigorously, uncovered, until the peanuts have slipped their skins and the broth is reduced by one quarter, about 10 minutes.
3. Transfer some of the soup to a food processor or blender and puree until smooth, about 3 minutes. Repeat, processing in batches until all the soup is pureed. Pass the soup through a fine mesh strainer into the pot; you should have about 3 cups. Add the milk and vinegar and season to taste with salt and pepper.
4. Ladle into bowls and garnish each bowl with pinches of the remaining thyme leaves.


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Mumbai, Feb. 9: Finance minister P. Chidambaram today hinted at lowering the securities transaction tax (STT) on delivery-based trades in the upcoming budget.
At present, an investor pays STT at the rate of 0.1 per cent on delivery-based transactions. This means, on a transaction of Rs 1 lakh, an investor pays Rs 100. While the levy was lowered in the last budget, it is still higher than that charged on non-delivery based trades.
At the launch of the equity and equity derivatives segment of the MCX Stock Exchange (MCX-SX) today, Chidambaram expressed concern that most of the trading in the stock and commodity markets were non-delivery based.
"Perhaps, it is in the nature of the stock markets that the bulk of trade are non-delivery based. We must put our heads together and find out how significant number of trades must end in delivery," Chidambaram said, adding that the government was planning to take measures to encourage delivery-based trades in consultation with Sebi, the stock exchanges and other markets players.
New exchange
The MCX stock exchange will open for trading from February 11. The flagship index of MCX-SX ' SX40 ' will be a free-float based index of 40 large-cap and liquid stocks, representing diverse sectors. The base value of SX-40 will be 10,000 with its base date being March 31, 2010. Under the capital market segment of MCX-SX, initially equity shares of 1,116 companies shall be admitted for trading.
Demystifying bourses
Chidambaram called for demystifying the stock markets and keeping products simple so that small investors could understand them better.
Concerned over the reluctance of savers to park surplus funds in financial instruments, Chidambaram said he would modify the Rajiv Gandhi Equity Savings Scheme in the budget to make it more attractive.
The finance minister also made a case to converge know-your-customer (KYC) norms for different financial sector regulators to bring in more retail participation.
"KYC norms for all intermediaries, market regulators should converge and become one set of norms. The next step is to converge the KYC norms for different sets of regulators," he said.


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I'm happy to announce that, after several revisions, long downtimes and an unplanned, spontaneous annihilation, the Teptec Studios website is finally up and running again in it's new found glory - and it's looking better than ever before (or at least less shitty) as well!
If you'd like to invest two minutes of your precious time to check out some stuff, this is where you're supposed to go:
For those of you who are interested in sculpting here's another neat announcement:
Currently there are 3 beautiful tutorials in the works - about crafting your own tools, sculpting basics and armature construction. They'll be available on the website as well as PDF-download soon (the first one hopefully around next week). There are also some plans for free how-to videos, but that will probably take a few more months (due to the lack of a camera actually).
Well, that's it for today!


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Crowdsourcing: Improving the Quality of Scientific Data Through Social Networking A PUBLIC SYMPOSIUM will be hosted by the National Academies on June 13, in DC.
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The Straits Times' (SIngapore) called on the community of readers to collaborate on a Google Map to show areas of flooding last weekend. Seventy locations were marked.
This is an interesting "paid" crowdsourcing effort in developing countries.
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An Obedient Father (2000)
by Akhil Sharma
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** spoiler alert **
I added this to my reading list ages ago and since I read Akhil Sharma's Family Life recently, I thought I might as well read this. And now that I have, I almost wish I hadn't.
The story is disturbing, to say the least. The main character is an aging corrupt politician (corrupt politician - isn't that redundant in India?) who repeatedly committed a horrific crime (rape) against his daughter years ago for which he was never really punished. And the book goes into detail on that. To say it was difficult to read is an understatement.
Somehow, as the story progresses, the author almost makes you feel bad for this monster, which is incredible. You catch yourself feeling these feelings, and then think, what the hell am I thinking?!
The book also weaves in some major political events in India's history, which is an interesting angle. As bad as that is in itself, I guess it gives you a break from the above-mentioned sordid details.
The effects of the man's crime on his daughter and then his granddaughter and the ripple effects this has just made this even more depressing. Especially in light of India's culture of "what will people say" and the effects on women. Ugh, this book is a tough read and not for the faint of heart.
(I'm struggling with the rating because I think the book was well-written but the story itself...)
This was a difficult book for me to read. But Sharma's writing pulled me into a very sad story. A father in India molests his young daughter. As a young widow with a young daughter of her own, financial poverty forces Anita to return to living with her father. Her fear and anger at her father overflows especially when she sees him rubbing against his granddaughter as the granddaughter sleeps. Ram knows he was wrong, but can he make amends? It is a sad touch story about the past which Ram had hoped had been forgotten.
So you won't end up in a book where you might not want to be, know that in this book a father sexually abuses his daughter, and then, when he is an old man and unwell, that same daughter abuses him. So it deals with very dark matters indeed. Over the course of the novel many themes and questions emerge. What are the limits of forgiveness? Is it even possible? Can good deeds make up for bad? Is it possible to be good when the world about you is irredeemably corrupt?
Akhil Sharma is drawn to these dark stories. In both his novels, An Obedient Father and Family Life, horrific events tear apart families. I found, though, that the most effective element of this story had nothing to do with the abysmal family history. Rather it was the suspenseful tension generated by Mr. Karan's living off the spoils of political corruption while all the time being threatened by its brutish caprice. Sharma manages Karan's navigation of this claustrophobic terrain so well. Given how wonderfully he writes, one wishes, vainly, that his focus might someday shift away from such grim plots.
An Obedient Father is a superbly written, enthralling and deeply disturbing story. Sharma's characters alternately inspire pity and disgust. As in real life, they are neither purely good or purely evil, but beautifully human in their fragility. Thus, while we feel disgust for the abuser, we also feel empathy. And, while we feel empathy for the abused, we also feel disgust.
I feel I should warn readers that there are a few descriptions of sexual abuse in this book that are disturbingly realistic and this book is an emotional roller-coaster. Having said that, I believe this is the best-written book I have read in a while and I will definitely watching for more books by this author.
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Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0156012030, Paperback)Readers opening this first novel from Akhil Sharma find themselves face to face with a wildly unappealing main character. Ram Karan is a corrupt civil servant, chubby and self-hating. "I had been Mr. Gupta's moneyman for a little less than a year and was no good." Ram has no illusions about his failings: "My panic in negotiations was so apparent that even people who were eager to bribe me became resentful." Things at home aren't so hot either: Ram's wife has recently died, as has his son-in-law, and so his daughter Anita and granddaughter, Asha, have moved in with him. The first chapter of An Obedient Father is lugubrious and oily and awkward, like its narrator; then suddenly the whole thing breaks wide open. Drunk one night, Ram touches Asha with his penis. Anita walks in, and the family's secret is out all at once, like a just-freed, very angry cat: Ram forced Anita to have sex with him repeatedly when she was 12.
Sharma, a Delhi-born New York investment banker, has written a novel that's satisfyingly ambitious and full of really lovely imagery (tulips, for instance, are "heavy-hearted"). He squares Ram's downfall in the context of the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi. As India descends into political turmoil, Ram is made accountable for corruption both at work and at home. What gives the book its engine is its even-tempered handling of Ram himself: he is always complex, never a moral lesson or a villain. By the time Anita exacts her quietly devilish revenge, we feel neither glee nor pity, just sadness. Sharma doesn't have perfect control of his material--the transitions between personal and political can be abrupt, the tension between father and daughter unravels sloppily. Still, this is a new voice of great subtlety and care. --Claire Dederer
(retrieved from Amazon Thu, 12 Mar 2015 18:16:46 -0400)
Corrosive, funny, and frightening--one of the year's most absorbing first novels "My general incompetence and laziness at work had been apparent for so long that I now think it was arrogant of Mr. Gupta to pick me as his money man. I am the type of person who does not make sure that a file includes all the pages it must have or that the pages are in the right order. I refuse to accept even properly placed blame, lying outright that somebody else misplaced the completed forms or spilled tea on them, even though I was the last one to sign them out, or had the soggy papers still on my desk." As an inspector for the Physical Education Department in the Delhi school system, Ram Karan supports his widowed daughter and eight-year-old granddaughter by collecting bribes for a small-time Congress Party boss. On the eve of Rajiv Gandhi's assassination, one reckless act bares the lifetime of violence and sexual shame behind Ram's dingy public career and involves him in a farcical, but terrifying, political campaign that could cost him his life. An astonishing character study, a portrait of a family--and a country--tormented by the past, An Obedient Father recalls Dostoyevsky's guilt-ridden anti-heroes in a debut that is also as fully formed as The Moviegoer.… (more)
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Two 20amp curcuits running from House panel to detached garage
Hello Everyone..
I have a few questions that I have not seen a specific answer to on this forum. First off I have a 200amp service in my house and have a detached Garage which is about 25ft away. The service panel for my house is located on the side wall that faces the garage. A few years back a friend who does electrical work, helped me run 2 20amp 12/2 with ground from the service panel out the side of my house and through conduit buried at least 2 feet and entering into my garage. At this point 2 20amp GFI's were installed and then one circuit was used to run 5 receptacle outlets on the one circuit. The other was used 2 sets of outdoor lighting and lighting for inside the garage. Note that No ground rod was used and circuits rely on the ground from the service breaker panel.
My questions came about after reading this forum which made me wonder if there was a problem with this configuration. The GFI's were installed to disconnect the power to the garage in the event it was needed. Should there be a grounding rod outside the garage? and if so how would you go about making the connections.
If any other info is needed please ask. Thanks for any help you can give me.
You can't have 2 separate circuits feeding the structure. NEC 225.30. You could have run it as an MWBC and been OK.
225.30 Number of Supplies. Where more than one building or other structure is on the same property and under single management, each additional building or other structure that is served by a branch circuit or feeder on the load side of the service disconnecting means shall be supplied by only one feeder or branch circuit unless permitted in 225.30(A) through (E). For the purpose of this section, a multiwire branch circuit shall be considered a single circuit.
Thanks so much for your reply since after reading posts on here made me wonder if the connection I was using was safe. At the risk of sounding dumb, can you tell me what WMBC means? Also what suggestion do you have that will remedy this without ex stream cost. Some detailed instruction or a place to find it would be very helpful.
It was typo, I meant MWBC - multi wire branch circuit. Sorry about that. That's where you have two hots on opposite legs and they share a neutral.
It doesn't mean your installation isn't safe. It just means that you don't meet Code.
If you make it a MWBC you still have the same capacity if the current is balanced between the two hots.
It is not too costly for materials to install a sub panel, but there is not that much point to it since it won't give you any more power than a MWBC.
With a MWBC, you are going to have to reconfigure your GFIs.
If I were to make the changes would I use a single 12/3 with ground and remove the old 2 12/2 with ground Then use a double 20amp breaker instead of the 2 single breakers? As for as sub panel, what would be best to use? and if doing that would I then need to drive a ground rod outside my garage?
Sorry and hope I asked the questions proper. It won't be long and winter will be here so if I have to make the changes I need to do so quickly or wait until spring. I have had no issues what so ever with the setup as it is now, and the GFI breakers work well when wanting to disconnect the power to the garage.
If you have the multiwire branch circuit from the house to the garage, you can still put ground fault interrupter receptacles in the garage. The restriction is, if you wish to use one GFCI receptacle to protect other equipment and receptacles, you must run 2 conductor cable from that GFCI (its load terminals) to the additional locations that don't have their own GFCIs.
The MWBC can continue to locations with additional GFCI receptacles.
If you used a GFCI breaker back at the main panel then you don't need GFCI receptacles.
The ground rod (you need two, six feet apart) is not required unless you have a subpanel. You will need a subpanel if you plan on using more than 20 amps at 240 volts. You may choose to put in heavier wires back to the house now for more amperes in the future.
You don't need a subpanel but you do need a disconnect.
I'd run the 12-3 into a junction box with a double pole 20 amp switch, from there, connect to your existing wiring.
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Given what you have, the only change I would make is install a 2 pole 20 amp breaker in the house panel and connect the 2 circuits to it.
Out of curiosity, what color was the outer sheathing on those two runs of 12/2 ?
I just check the entry to the service and they are both Gray
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