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Discussion in 'Racquets' started by Micky, Nov 1, 2008.
What the heck is that?
Uh, what is the point of this thread?
thats looks cool
Babolat Flac Jacket?
Nothing says style like a racquet cover for a vest (I think).
Holy S H I T, I am gonna eat my underwear for this !!!
They're the racket cover. Must be very uncomfortable.
But nice idea!
eh, I perfer sleeves
Hola SaunderS,
You will be amazed at how comfortable they are. The APDC vest is heavier and much warmer though.
maybe rafa will start wearing this.
nothing more stylish than a vest matching your racquet, eh? :lol:
rofl wow
so much respect.
So do you actually wear this wherever you go...
he wears it under clothes cos it's a thermo
if i send you my two racquet covers and money for labor, will you make me vests too?
I thought he would wear it over his clothes like a vest. Maybe I should try doing that, I have a few APDC bags in my closet. I should put them together and wear them to like the mall or something.
oh the humanity!!! The racquet bag did not deserve to die like that...
You should put away them cutters.
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I am reporting you to the Babolat Alliance...
Our commander Ross gave me full power and permission to bring my covers to full life again.
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Instead of being a gossipmonger you should join the Alliance.
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I stand corrected than... I am still the alliance outsider... I do not believe in altering official alliance gear for the purposes of "emergency floatation..." =) But great alterations though...
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■ [Web Link Uncertainties mount for struggling Caltrain]
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Maybe threatening the general public with death and then mentioning how unelightened we all are is not the best path to convincing voters to find a way to keep Caltrain around.
Rightsizing Caltrain to 48 trains per day looks like a perfect plan to me. It would enable Caltrain to retain the majority of its ridership at peak time, while eliminating the underutilized early morning/late night and middle of the day trains.
Once again, it shows that, when facing financial pressure, government organizations like Caltrain are able to eliminate wasteful spendings and renegotiate compensations to provide services at a lower cost.
Congrats Caltrain!
This is a real opportunity for Caltrain to "reinvent" itself. If they are successful in maintaining operation with this abbreviated schedule, they can expand to cover off-peak passenger traffic with two small DMUs, running north-south routes on an hourly interval. This will give Caltrain a new "more efficient" image, and perhaps something that can be supported at the ballot-box.
Let's go for it!!
Perhaps they should fix the problem that causes riders to avoid taking the train in off peak hours, rather than just giving up. This isn't cost-cutting; it's a white flag. They could have a very successful off-peak system if they could reduce commute time and make it more convenient, but instead they have elected to take the off-peak pub trans option away altogether.
If a reduction in money from San Mateo County is a big part of the problem, close all the
stations in San Mateo County except Millbrae (so SC County riders can transfer to BART)
and run the current schedule with all trains express through San Mateo County. Add a big
surcharge to any ticket bought at the Millbrae station. People from other counties can always
buy round trip tickets in their county.
Relevant item in today's SF Chron:
-- SamTrans and Caltrain head Michael Scanlon got a $407,642 pay package last year, including a no-interest home loan that is partially paid down by the district, a $24,000 annual housing allowance and $24,765 for unused time off.
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I am not a Caltrain commuter. On the few occasions I use Caltrain, I use it during non-commute hours, so -- of course -- I would like to see trains continue during those hours on at least an hourly basis. I understand Caltrain must cut service to keep its costs in line with its income, but I have no magic wand to offer.
The cost of running short trains dedicated to non-commute hours (two small DMUs?) is less than running a 5-7 car train but I doubt it is enough less to solve Caltrain's financial problem. Greater efficiency in other ways, e.g., electrification, no at-grade crossings, "pods", cost big bucks up front that Caltrain does not have.
What they need--what governments at all levels need--is more (tax) income. I realize those complaining about waste don't believe that but it just seems to me that there is not enough waste to bring costs in line with the taxes we already pay. And unlike those complaining about waste, I believe our taxes are too low.
It's all the same people. Yeager sits on the MTC board and VTA board, where he votes to cut Caltrain funds. Scanlon is the head of SamTrans, where he recommended cutting support for Caltrain.
Then, the two of them complain about the lack of funding, as though someone else had done it.
It's been a long time since my Econ and Cost Accounting courses. But, my recollection is that an endeavor such as this has both fixed and variable costs. Most of the fixed costs are in place regardless of the number of trains (Mgmt salaries, insurance, track maintenance, etc). Many of those items won't change in going from 88 to 48.
One would hope that the net profit from each incremental train (ticket revenue less variable cost to run THAT train) would be positive, and would help to cover fixed costs. But if each incremental train is a "loser" (in terms of variable costs for a train exceeding train revenues), then why are we even in the train business? Just shut the whole thing down.
As a related aside, how much direct expense is there in each route? Fuel? A conductor? Does it really cost much more to make an extra stop?
From the MERC
Caltrain's CEO, who has proposed shutting half the rail line's stations and halting much of its service to survive financially, earns more than $400,000 in salary -- more than any transit boss in California.
Last year, Caltrain chief Mike Scanlon took home 59 percent more than the median salary for a CEO of one of the state's 23 largest transit operators, according to a Bay Area News Group review of salaries released by the State Controller's Office this month.
What happens to all the money when someone gets a DUI. California gives more DUI's than any other state where does this money go? Why don't they use some of this money to pay for public transportation instead of overtime to police officers to set up road blocks and give DUI's and impound cars. If giving DUI has become a priority in CA then providing public transportation should be also.
This might help explain some of Caltrain's problems
"Despite historic financial woes, Caltrain CEO's $400,000 paycheck is state's highest"
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I live in Menlo Park and take the train occasionally when visiting SF, so I don't have as large a stake in the game as those who use the trains to commute daily. I would simply like to point out to those griping about the CEO's salary - he could work for free and it would not make even a tiny dent in the budget shortfall. What he is paid is not the problem, although one could legitimately wish for greater creativity for that level of pay. Envy and resentment does not get us closer to a solution.
Envy? My goodness. Do you pay taxes? We are doomed Ellen if that's what you think this is about. All these high salaries and sense of entitlement from public servants is bankrupting us. He's free to go work in the private sector. You did point out that one could wish for greater creativity for that level of pay.
If it's a matter of life-or-death to Scanlon (and since we, the public, are so unenlightened), I'm sure he would be willing to give up some of his almost half-million a year to change that.
What a jerk.
Caltrain officials only pay Scanlon $85,000 a year for his CEO services. The rest of his salary comes from the two other agencies he heads. Lowering his salary is clearly not going to solve Caltrain's budget problem.
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Rights Grabs Are Rampant
REI is at it again. It's offering a chance for its members to "share" their photos. But the terms are onerous:
I irrevocably grant to Recreational Equipment, Inc., its affiliates, agents, representatives, licensees and assigns ("REI") in perpetuity, for no additional consideration, permission to use the photographs . . . an unlimited number of times in any manner REI deems fit . . . . I agree to release, discharge, indemnify and hold harmless REI . . . from any liability, claim, damage, judgment, cost, loss, expense . . . by virtue of any publication or use of the Photos as previously described. I agree that in the event of a dispute arising out of the use of the Photos, my damages shall not exceed Fifty Dollars ($50.00) and in no instance shall I be entitled to seek an injunction against REI's use of the Photos.
Compare REI's previous rights grab as reported in my Sept. 18, 2007, blog.
Now Google has joined this unfortunate club. Its Photography Prize competition offers great prizes:
36 shortlisted entries will be turned into iGoogle themes, shown on Google and put to public vote.
6 finalists will be exhibited at the Saatchi Gallery London, and reviewed by our independent jury. The finalists will be invited to the private view of the exhibition on 23rd June 2009 (with travel and accommodation included).
1 winner will receive a £5,000 ($7500 USD) bursary and an invite to spend a day with Martin Parr.
But they come at a price. The terms and conditions provide:
However, by entering the Competition, and to the extent allowed by law, entrant grants Google and its affiliates, licensees, promotional partners, developers and third party marketing entities a non-exclusive, perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free license to edit, modify, cut, rearrange, add to, delete from, copy, reproduce, adapt, publish, exploit and use the Photographs themselves and the content of and elements embodied in the Photographs, including any names, locations and likenesses, for the duration of the rights, in any and all media, including but not limited to digital and electronic media, computer, and audiovisual media (whether now existing or hereafter devised), and specifically for use as an iGoogle theme, in any language, throughout the world, and in any manner, for trade, advertising, promotional, commercial, or any other purposes without further review, notice, approval, consideration, or compensation.
It's up to you as to whether you play. Just know the rules of the game.
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Stoke are on the verge of offloading Giannelli Imbula to Nice.
The French side are in pole position to sign Imbula - ahead of Galatasary, Roma and Marseilles - with Stoke ready to cut their losses on their record signing.
Imbula failed to live up to his £18.3m price tag since his move last year but remains highly thought of in France, where he played previously for Guingamp and Marseille.
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EDGARTOWN, Mass. (AP) — President Barack Obama says that while the shooting death of a Missouri teenager has prompted "strong passions," people should remember Michael Brown through "reflection and understanding."
Obama's comments came in a written statement about 18-year-old Brown. The unarmed teen was fatally shot by a police officer Saturday while walking on a street near his suburban St. Louis home.
Witnesses have said the officer was white and Brown was black. The shooting has prompted violent protests in Brown's community.
Obama says he and wife Michelle send their deepest condolences to Brown's family and community. He says the Justice Department is continuing to investigate the situation along with local officials.
The president also called on people to comfort each other "in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds. "
Read Obama's full statement below:
The death of Michael Brown is heartbreaking, and Michelle and I send our deepest condolences to his family and his community at this very difficult time. As Attorney General Holder has indicated, the Department of Justice is investigating the situation along with local officials, and they will continue to direct resources to the case as needed. I know the events of the past few days have prompted strong passions, but as details unfold, I urge everyone in Ferguson, Missouri, and across the country, to remember this young man through reflection and understanding. We should comfort each other and talk with one another in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds. Along with our prayers, that's what Michael and his family, and our broader American community, deserve.
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President Obama is making history by speaking up about this incident and the Trayvon Martin murder period. Previous presidents have kept completely silent on many past incidents where they could have commented — just two cases in point, Amadou Diallo and Rodney King. You won't find presidential responses. President Obama is to be commended!
Where is the outrage when a black kills another black.
Our president is a compassionate man and his remarks were simply out of a genuine care for the family's loss and concern for that community and it's current state of upheaval. To say he was forced means that you have no compassion – to say that he didn't respond as fast as he did for Robin Williams says that you are stupid
Thank you, Mr. President for you kind thoughts, I believe justice will prevail with the USDOJ, trailing the investigation.
I dont believe Obama was forced to say anything. My take is that he simply wants people to know that he is aware and sensitive to what is going on. Im not sure if it is the right thing to do or not ( Im sure the right wing in all of it's bigoted glory) will criticize him for saying something. I fr one, will allow him the freedom to express himself without that se criticism. Seems like that is all too many people like to do
F*uck this country. It is dying from the disease of racist cancer. Nubians have no vested interest in this GOD forsaken land built by slave labor.
Y did he have to be forced to say something? That is exactly Y pple will never vote again for black or white President!
I don't think he was "forced" just impelled as in the T. Martin and Henry L. Gates his Harvard friend
being high profiled news stories involving AA's and him an AA. I don't really see anything wrong as long as he reserves judgment til after the all facts are in. (something he failed to do in the Gates incident) Just ALL should remember next election will probably usher in a White Republican POTUS
so just remember he will have license to comment on news of the day as well
Thanks for your response. Forced was to strong , I should have ask Y did it take him awhile to comment when he immediately commented on Robin Williams?


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For Current Ole Miss Rebels Baseball information, go to 2009 Ole Miss Baseball.
2006-2007 Season's Discussion:
The Ole Miss Rebels Baseball team is ranked as high as 11th in one preseason poll and in the top 25 in most other preseason polls. The Rebels reached as high as 4th in polls the past 2 seasons. Ole Miss finished 11th in last years poll and finished 9th in the 05 poll.
This season Ole Miss returns four position players that all hit .328 or higher. They are Justin Henry, CJ Ketchum, Logan Power and preseason All American Zack Cozart. The Rebels return 76 % of all innings pitched from last year. The entire starting rotation returns. Brett Bukvich, Will Kline and Lance Lynn were the weekend starters when the season ended.
All will be back along with top closers Cody Satterwhite who has been clocked at 97-98 MPH and Craig Rodriguez. Nick Hetland also returns. Hetland had 3 starts early in the season but suffered a season ending injury.
The Rebels will be lead by head coach Mike Bianco. Bianco is building a powerhouse at Ole Miss where he has had 5 post season appearances out of his six seasons at Old Miss including 3 straight regionals and back to back super regionals. The Rebels were within 1 out of reaching the College World Series in 2005, losing the deciding game to eventual national champion Texas.
Ole Miss baseball's catcher Justin Brashear. Thanks to sportsphotography at flickr.com for the picture.
The Rebels lost the deciding game in last years 06 Super Regional to the Miami Hurricanes.
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Under Bianco attendance at Rebel baseball games have skyrocketed (#5 nationally in 07). Several games have had nearly 10,000 fans and more in attendance. The Rebels lost top assistant coach Dan McDonnell, who was named head coach for the Louisville Cardinals at the end of the season and Stuart Lake who returned to his native state of South Carolina. However the Rebs replaced them with South Alabama assistant Rob Reinstetle who is considered to be one of the top young recruiters in the country and Kyle Bunn and Carl Lafferty. Lafferty served Ole Miss as the administrative assistant last season while Bunn served as volunteer coach. The 2007 Ole Miss Rebels Baseball team is considered young but still experienced. They could compete for the national title this season as well as the 2008 season as the Rebels should have a solid nucleus returning next year.
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A telling early season test will be when Ole Miss plays a three game series against 13th ranked UCLA March 9 - 11 in Oxford.
The Ole Miss Rebels Baseball team is the defending SEC Baseball Tournament Champion. Bianco has experience on the national scale as he has won the national championship while an assistant coach at his alma mater, LSU. While Bianco was LSU's catcher the Tigers finished 3rd in the College World Series. LSU courted Bianco last year to return to LSU as the head coach to replace Smoke Lavell, however Bianco signed a contract extension with Ole Miss as he plans to continue to keep the Rebels as one of the nations most elite programs. As long as Bianco is leading Ole Miss Rebels Baseball, fans expect them to compete on a national level season after season.
Read about the rivalry with Miss. State at Best SEC Baseball Rivalry.
A special thanks to secsportsfan.com reader C. Bouknight, of West Columbia, SC, for contributing this report on his alma mater -- The University of Mississippi.
It wasn't until 1940 when the Ole Miss baseball team experienced its first no-hitter in the team's history with an 8 to 0 win over Mississippi State. The rivalry with Mississippi State has been called the Best SEC Baseball Rivalry.
Though the Ole Miss Rebels baseball team didn't hit the field between the for two years, 1944 and 1945, due to World War II they returned in 1946 with the coach C.M. "Tad" Smith at the head.
Tom Swayze coached the Ole Miss baseball team for 21 seasons and under his coaching the team emerged into the national level. Under Swayze the Ole Miss Rebels baseball team earned 11 consecutive winning season, 1954 to 1964, and only three losing seasons.
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The first modern no-hitter was played under Swayze's reign in the modern era in the year 1956 when the Ole Miss baseball team played Vanderbilt. It was also in that year when Bernie Schneiber became the first Ole Miss Rebel baseball player to become an All-American. The team would claim the first of four conference crowns in 1959 by gaining the SEC Western Division title and defeating Georgia Tech two games to one in the SEC Championship Series.
The second SEC title would be won in 1960 which was the icing on the cake for the Ole Miss Rebels baseball season with a school record of a 17 game winning streak. The remaining two SEC titles would be won in the 1964 and 1969 years. Following those the Ole Miss Rebels baseball team would earn a berth in the NCAA District III Playoffs and earn a spot in the College World Series for both title years.
Under Swayze the Ole Miss Rebel baseball team would have four All-American players, Jake Gibbs in 1960 and 1961, Donnie Kessinger in 1964, Jimmy Yawn in 1966 and Whitney Adams in 1970. During his stint as the Ole Miss Rebels baseball head coach Swayze would be awarded SEC's Coach of the Year four times in the years 1959, 1960, 1964 and 1969.
In more current history of the Ole Miss Rebels baseball history in 2000 when Mike Bianco became head coach. Bianco was an assistant coach under the legendary Bertman from LSU and also a player for the LSU team. During the Ole Miss Rebels baseball team's first year under Bianco they tied for second in the SEC West when they were only expected to finish sixth. The team also finished the season with a 39-23-1 record, which was just one win away from the school record. Bianco began his career with the Ole Miss Rebel baseball team with excitement and the most recently year is no different.
In 2006 the team would finish with the second straight 40-win season and having claimed the SEC Tournament Championship. This SEC Tournament win would be the first that the Ole Miss Rebels baseball team had earned since 1977. The team also claimed the NCAA Super Regionals that year.
Last season, Ole Miss had the 5th highest average fan attendance record -- in all of NCAA baseball.
The 2007-2008 Ole Miss Rebels baseball team will be led Cody Satterwhite. They look strong. We think they'll win the SEC West and battle it out with South Carolina and Vanderbilt for #1 in SEC baseball. We expect the Rebs to make it to the CWS and maybe even win it all in 2008.
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A startling one in four Brits will experience a mental health problem in their lifetime. With workplace stress viewed as a major cause of mental health issues, a range of well being initiatives from healthy eating to exercise programmes are now the order of the day in most offices. But how have treatments changed in recent times? I went along to the Bethlem Museum of the Mind to find out.
The origins of Bethlem Royal hospital
Bethlem Royal hospital was originally founded in 1247 and was the first institution in Europe to care exclusively for the mentally ill. The hospital was founded at Bishopsgate in the City of London before moving to Southwark in the 19th century and then onto its current location in Bromley in the 1930s. The term bedlam originates from Bethlem Hospital and is still used to this day to denote chaos or madness.
The Museum of the Mind is part of the existing Bethlem Royal hospital complex and was opened to the public in 2015 to showcase an amazing collection of artefacts, archives and objects relating to mental health treatment through the ages.
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On entering the Museum, two hulking brutes eye me with manic fascination. The Greek statues "Melancholia" and "Mania" are based on two of the four humours in Greek medicine and represent all that was known about mental health in the 17th century. Melancholia is the embodiment of depression while Mania represents madness and possibly violence. Both statues were initially placed on the gateposts to Bethlem Hospital and must have been quite a sight for new arrivals.
Also, on the ground floor, there is also an interesting art gallery which contains paintings, sculptures and photographs from artists who have used the hospital to inspire their works, some of whom have drawn on their own experience of the mental healthcare system.
Avoiding the stare of the grimacing statues, I head upstairs to the main exhibition rooms which provides a fascinating mix of historic and contemporary artefacts, narrations and videos to chart the history of mental health treatment. Grandfather clocks, letters and apothecary bottles jostle for attention with state-of-the-art plasma screens and wall-to-wall videos.
The history of mental health treatment
The exhibition covers a lot of unsettling ground from the physical restraint devices which were used in asylums up until 1815 through to the controversial electric shock therapy treatments which are still widely used today. Opening up debate is what the exhibition does best and video case studies force you to face difficult moral and ethical dilemmas. Should people be incarcerated against their will for their higher good? I'm glad such decisions are not down to me. True life experiences are narrated through headphones and videos – "telling the many stories within each life."
The exhibition also contains many artworks which hint at the link between creativity and madness. One of the most striking works are the kaleidoscope cats painted by Louis Wain when he was a Bethlem patient in the 1920s. The Museum will be featuring an exhibition of his works in the coming months.
One of the most fascinating artefacts is the inkblot test. Resembling a beautiful flock of butterflies, the personality test devised by psychiatrist Herman Rorschah was widely used until the 1960s. Patients were asked to describe what they saw and the answers were thought to provide insights into their minds.
A visit to the Museum is a fascinating and thought-provoking experience which does a brilliant job in breaking down the stigma associated with mental health problems.
For more information on Bethlem Museum of the Mind, visit: http://www.museumofthemind.org.uk


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|Jean Renoir, Charles Spaak
|Christian Matras
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James: In a way, the most depressing effect of the cinema world of the 1980's wasn't the screeching decline of the American cinema, which anyone with a pair of eyes and a critical mind could see coming following the enormous commercial success of thrill-ride movies like Jaws and Star Wars. What really hurt was the Americanization of the foreign markets, in an effort to boost their own sagging film business. They looked at American movies, and saw that they were turning a profit. Instead of deciding that it would be better for the long run to continue their own national filmic traditions, they elected to adapt an overarching American aesthetic - happy, closed endings, sympathetic characters, editing with an eye towards continuity. In doing this, the Italians and French and British hoped, they'd be able to market more aggressively and jumpstart their own business. And it was thus, with 1988's Cinema Paradiso, that the art of national filmmaking died quietly.
Mike: It's shown by the fact that a devivative, unrealistic, totally unbelievable wannabe tearjerker war movie like Saving Ryan's Privates is considered to be one of the definitive movies of the 90's. It's definitive all right; definitive of the fact that Hollywood is totally shameless in it's attempts to cash in on viewer's sentimentality. It's definitive of the fact that Hollywood has no problem glorifying the inglorious, making stupidity play like a great heroic triumph. Finally, it's definitive of the fact that the many illusions Renoir's truly great film deals with, most notably nationalism and patriotism are still running wild in the 21st century.
James: Needless to say, a movie like La Grande Illusion would never have been made. It is quintessentially a FOREIGN work, eschewing the contemporary rules of cinema like cutting along continuity, use of music, and even language. Watching it today, it's impossible to not feel alienated, for such was the intent; this movie ran perpendicular to the all-encompassing, inviting traditions of American cinema. But just because a movie doesn't necessarily want you to get close to it, doesn't mean that it's any less great. Indeed, oftentimes this sulky wariness can make a movie greater, and this movie is made brilliant by it.
Mike: I don't believe that the film intends to be repellent, it's simply using a repellent topic to make points that are timeless. In his autobiography, My Life and My Films, Renoir wrote, "bringing together of men through their callings and common interests has haunted me all my life and does so still. It is the theme of 'La Grande Illusion' and it is present, more or less, in all my works." Renoir's example was is that a French farmer could talk to a Chinese farmer because they have farming, but couldn't talk to a French financier because "they are unconcerned with the others interests." I think this point has a lot of truth to it, but it's sad that the backbone of one of the greatest filmmakers is no longer true about his industry. The changes in the film industry have made it so that watching films no longer means you have anything in common. Now, there are the film fans that put a little time into finding what's worth theirs. Then there's the movie watchers Hollywood spends megatons of money laughing at. After they made The Mummy into one of the top grossing movies of all time, they had them in mind when putting out the sequel that is only there to cash in on the success of the first, The Dummy Returns. Of course, there were a lot of them because it's already grossed close to $200 million. They gave these people an apologetic popcorn version of Pearl Harbor because the truth would make them less money. They expect them to order Miss Congenitalia on PPV because, with the vaunted Sandra Bollocks playing the same basic role in almost every movie, you probably don't remember if you saw this one in the theater or it was one of Bollocks' others that was equally pointless and predictable. Of course, fans of either type can still come together and some movies still appeal to both, but as a whole the industry is moving more and more towards one group being the farmers and the other being the financiers.
Mike: It should be pointed out that de Boieldieu is only in von Rauffenstein's prison camp because Von Rauffenstein shot him down earlier in the war. Von Rauffenstein is only running the camp because he was later wounded to the point that a non-fighting role was the only way he could remain in the war. This makes their friendship one of the most unlikely, but it's totally believable because they are a dying breed from a different world that was ruled by aristocrats like themselves. The war is changing the world in a sense, but it's not changing the men. In fact, much of Renoir's point is that it's robbing them (not just aristocrats, everyone) of their self- respect and humanity. The reason they were able to become friends is von Rauffenstein clings to the dying notion of class loyalty, which makes him believe de Boieldieu deserves better than the common captured enemy soldiers he's surrounded by. Ultimately, war forces them apart, with a memorable scene where de Boieldieu forces him to shoot him. After doing so, von Rauffenstein is forced to admit his situation, and gives us the memorable quote, ``for a commoner, dying in a war is a tragedy. But for you and I--it's a good way out.''
It must be noted that the von Rauffenstein and de Boieldieu relationship does not glorify aristocrats or make a positive statement about them. La Grande Illusion is a film where no characters are bad guys, only the unseen chessmasters on a power trip who make everyone a pawn and move them over fabricated boundaries are evil. No characters are good guys either; they are simply human beings examined thoughtfully and truthfully. Like everyone else, war has turned von Rauffenstein and de Boieldieu into tragic figures, so Renoir makes us care for them. That said, he rightfully blames their type for the fact that another war could happen. Essentially their goal in setting the WWI and possibly in having WWII was to preserve and justify their position and lifestyle, which in turn continued to try to suppress classlessness and democracy. It shows them as resistant to change, fighting to preserve their old codes. The irony is that the only thing a war would do is ensure that less of them were around when the common man took control.
James: In a way, it seems like the cast is a lot larger than it really is because so many of the supporting players have integral roles in the story. One showoff at the first camp, for example, is the driving force behind the theater project that itself drives the men for a short time. After they change camps, he's never heard from again. Even Elsa, tentative love of Marechal's life, barely gets ten minutes of screen time over the course of the entire film.
Typically, having such a seemingly unwieldy cast is the fault of unskilled storytelling, but in La Grande Illusion, the unfriendly cast is a cow at the altar of tone. The overriding feel of the movie is one of jarring uncertainty, where the most important events happen off-camera (the capture of Marechal and de Boieldieu, in fact, is unshown - the film jumps from the two leaving a small French speakeasy to von Rauffenstein being congratulated) and the trivialities are foregrounded.
Mike: Renoir is most known stylistically for his subtle precision. His camera moves as if it always knows the best place to bring out the humanity in his characters. He's able to flesh out the characters and make us feel for them with long takes that make us feel like we are in the room rather than our recliners.
As far as the important events happening off camera goes, Renoir is careful not to glorify war in any way. In fact, he's given us a war movie that the action fan claims contains no war. He doesn't need violence and bloodshed because he knows how to show war as it is, a collection of largely adequate individuals doing things they wouldn't otherwise do to decent human beings. He is unwilling to compromise this vision by including scenes that could be considered thrilling, exciting, or explosive though, so the terrors and their gory details are largely left to the imagination. This works because it allows the joys, no matter how little, to be emphasized and that is the point of the film.
James: Renoir does not neglect to tie that tone in with the themes of the film, a trait commonplace in many of today's oft-praised neo-classics. The film is widely called the definitive anti-war work, and not without reason: Renoir meticulously creates an atmosphere of war that is entirely disparate from the human existence. Renoir's war is one where in order to taste freedom, one has to risk suffocation in a birth-canal of a makeshift mine shaft, and even then outrun the guards, and even THEN, on the eve of exodus, the Powers that Be decided to switch officers to different camps. It is not a coincidence that Marechal is shown thrown into solitary without concretely showing the transgression that led to his incarceration; it's Renoir reminding us that in war, inhuman things happen to people for no apparent reason. In his solitary confinement, Marechal bottoms out, pleading with the sympathetic guard who comes to visit him - yet who only speaks German - "I want to hear French spoken."
Mike: La Grande Illusion has taken on different meanings as time went on, but it's important to realize that it was made in 1937. Renoir knew war was on the horizon, and this is his testament to why the countries shouldn't fight. He's saying, I'll choose the company of a similar foreigner over a different countryman every day of the week, and you should to.
James: The movie isn't all doom and gloom. In reminding us that war is dehumanizing, Renoir celebrates the ephemera that comprises human existence - not partisan nationalism, which Renoir argues is arbitrary and unnatural (Lt. Rosenthal quips "Frontiers are an invention - nature doesn't give a hoot"), but things that ring deeply of greater truths like the love of a woman, or the taste of good food, or the innocence of a child. In one of the movie's most wrenching scenes, the men are pawing through a crate of women's clothes donated to the camp theater group in a great commotion which dies as one soldier emerges from off screen in full female garb, and the men are stricken dumb. Simultaneously, Renoir is able to foreground the denial these men are subjected because of war to and the importance of what they're missing from human existence, heightening the depravity of the former and placing the latter on a pedestal. It's one of the most moving scenes ever committed to celluloid.
Mike: The magic of the scene is that everyone realizes they are thinking the same thing, but they aren't so far removed that they fail to comprehend the total depravity of their urge. They don't know how to deal with their feeling, and certainly don't want to know how, so they essentially freeze up. It's quite simply one of the toughest moments.
James: Like any great film, La Grande Illusion is not a one-trick pony - there's a lot more going on than just a critique of war. There's a subtle social critique subcurrent running through the film. Typically, this sub-theme is brought up in terms of Capt. de Boieldieu, a wealthy upper crust Parisian. He's thrust into contact with men like Lt. Marechal, a man who says "The theater's too deep for me. I prefer bicycling." But he's unique; he doesn't come across as superior. Even when he's fastidiously washing his white gloves, he's detached from class concerns; he's just washing his gloves. But when he is befriended by Cpt. von Rauffenstein, a man with a similar background, he's suddenly confronted with the realization that he isn't like everyone else - he's a part of a breed that the war will render obsolete.
Mike: The predominant aspect that makes Grande Illusion so memorable is the duality of its message. At the theoretic height of ethnocentrism, Renoir emphasizes humanism and commonality. He shows war as something that only makes people do things no one should have to do, suffer in a way no one should have to suffer. This doesn't drive them to hate; it forces them to look for any positive in their life to avoid mental breakdown. This allows them to see similarities and good aspects in people that are supposed to be their enemies. His characters are not at war with one another; they are simply doing what's become their job or duty. The thing is, it's hard to act against someone that you don't have anything against and so much harder to act against someone who fills your needs. As war makes everyone's needs that much greater, it's pointlessness becomes more of a reality.
James: La Grande Illusion is remembered as a revolutionary work, a precursor to the 1950s and 60s French New Wave movement that itself was a precursor to the Modernist movement that swept the entire world in the late 60s. And indeed, the film comes off as shockingly modern, even sixty-four years after the fact.
Mike: We've yet to see a time when everyone is at peace. Thus, the illusion that there is a winner in war, and that it's a viable solution over respect, tolerance, and compromise is still present. More importantly, the overriding themes of love, friendship, respect, and fun (particularly the need for humor) are universal and timeless. These themes and the anti-war nature were so strong that the original print of La Grande Illusion was seized by the Nazis as anti regime propaganda piece when they occupied France during the war that took place after the illusion that WW1 ended all wars.
James: In a way, we, the sheltered American audience, are lucky with regards of our atmosphere towards the rules of film; it allows us to be more easily shocked and manipulated by nonstandard attempts such as this. It took me a good thirty minutes of furrowed-brow concentration before I realized that they weren't cutting along the lines of the story. Further complicating the issue is the manner in which the film handles dialogue. On occasion, snippets of the dialogue will be delivered in English, then for no reason they go back to French. I genuinely have no idea what the purpose of such linguistic bait-and-switch was, but I can attest to its disorienting tendencies. Perhaps Renoir knew that his true audience wouldn't be until many years down the road.
Mike: Like war, language is something that brings people together or divides them. In Renoir's movie, it does both. You mentioned the scene where Marechal begs to hear French, but it's counterpointed with the scene where he learns his first German words. Although the characters in La Grande Illusion are defined by their race, nationality, religion, and financial standing what the film really shows is that everyone has something in common and can grow together if they choose to. What they have in common to begin with might be ever so slight, but it's there. The problem is other things, like war, get in the way of people choosing to explore their commonalties.
James: Additionally, the performance is beyond reproach. Typically, in films of a language not native to the audience, the performance tends to come off as flat and weak. But even to me, who speaks no French or German, the characters came alive. Every character integral to the story is overflowing with depth, but never reveals enough up front to allow the audience to really get under their skin. The lone exception is Cpt. von Rauffenstein, who bares his soul to Lt. de Boieldieu and seems eager to engage in a friendship with his so-called enemy. As a result, he comes off as a tragic hero, as a man who tried to be human in inhumane circumstances. And yet, despite his appeal, I found myself more preoccupied with the central characters Marechal, de Boieldieu, and Rosenthal, laboring to figure out how they could achieve humanity. And in this struggle, I realized why the characters are so standoffish - because if they were identifiable, they would be human. And if the characters were human, then there's no reason to have the film at all.
James: It's hard to find anything wrong with La Grande Illusion. Quite frankly, it's a masterwork, and deserves all of the accolades it receives. It's the ultra-rare work of art that's able to either provide a chilling account of why war is horrible or why we should continue to get out of bed every morning, and I just don't know if there's another movie out there that can do both. It's not a movie to be entered into lightly; due to the fact that it's SO different from any movie being made today, it's an intense experience that after watching, I likened to being shoved in a sack and thrown in a river. But it's certainly not an experience that should be missed by anyone who enjoys the art of movies, or the art of life.


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There's been a lot of talk about Collectible Card Games (CCGs), Collectible Minis (CCMs), and Collectible Constructible Games like Pirates and Transformers and Star Wars on the blog.
You just have to look at our Collectible Cards/Miniatures category to see the 26+ articles on these games. The articles have been relatively positive and in spite of all the hooplah it is easy to forget some of the obvious flaws in these types of games.
Therefore we've borrowed a poignant issue of the great webcomic Dorktower. Hope you enjoy it and please be sure to visit Dorktower for all of the issues. John Kovalic does a great job with it and I your visits to his site help him get ad money. Click below to see the webcomic.


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The Committee supports the right of students, employees, and community members to have reasonable access to various information formats and believes it is incumbent upon users to apply this privilege in an appropriate and responsible manner.
Safety Procedures and Guidelines
The Superintendent or designee will develop and implement appropriate procedures to provide guidance for access to digital resources. Guidelines will address teacher supervision of student computer or tablet use, ethical use of digital resources, and issues of privacy versus administrative review of electronic files and communications. In addition, guidelines will prohibit use of digital resources for prohibited or illegal activities, and for the use of other programs with the potential of damaging or destroying programs or data.
Internet safety measures will be implemented that effectively address the following:
- Controlling access by minors to inappropriate matter on the Internet as defined by the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) and the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA);
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- Preventing unauthorized access, including hacking, viruses, and other unlawful activities by minors online;
- Unauthorized disclosure, use, and dissemination of personal information regarding minors; and
The district will provide the Committee with at least one annual report to communicate its digital resources safety measures. The Committee will review this policy in conjunction with that report.
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All students and staff must agree to and sign the Empowered Digital Use Form prior to being granted independent access to digital resources and district networks. The required form, which specifies requirements for using digital resources and district networks, must be signed by the parent or legal guardian of minor students (those under 18 years of age) and also by the student. This document will be kept on file as a legal, binding document. In order to modify or rescind the agreement, the student's parent/guardian (or the student who is at least 18 years old) must provide the Superintendent with a written request.
Employee Use
Employees will use e-mail, district devices, and district networks for work-related activities only.
Community Use
On recommendation of the Superintendent or designee, the Committee will determine when and which computer equipment, software, and information access systems will be available to the community. All guests will be provided and must accept the district's Empowered Digital Use Policy before accessing the network.
Disregard of Rules
Individuals who refuse to sign required Empowered Digital Use documents or who violate district rules governing the use of district technology or networks will be subject to loss or restriction of the privilege of using equipment, software, information access systems, and/or other computing and telecommunications technologies.
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Individuals will reimburse the district for repair or replacement of district property lost, stolen, damaged, or vandalized while under their care.
Responding to Concerns
School officials will apply the same criterion of educational suitability criteria used to review other educational resources when questions arise concerning access to digital resources.
Audit of Use
Users with network access will not use district resources to establish digital accounts through any third-party provider.
The Superintendent or designee will establish a process to determine whether the district's digital resources are being used for purposes prohibited by law or inconsistent with district educational efforts.
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Testimonials from 2016 South America Assembly
"The event was very well organized and addressed hot topics for the country and industry. Look forward seeing you in the next one."
Fernando Rearte, Global Account Manager, Halliburton
"The South American Assembly was a premier event for me in 2016 in that it provided the opportunity to meet with the leaders active in the South American oil & gas industry and better understand the opportunities they are pursuing and challenges that they are facing."
Lowy Gunnewiek, President & CEO, Sproule
"The conference was valuable from a content and networking standpoint. I firmly believe that if the Argentine economy can turn the corner over the next 2 years, some of the greatest gains in worldwide investing will be in Argentina's oil and gas sector. "
David Tawil, President, Maglan Capital
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Alberto Laverde, Oil & Gas Manager, Corpbanca
Mauricio De La Mora, President, National Agency for Hydrocarbons
Chris Spaulding, Country manager, Casa Exploration
"I have been to several of these in Bogota and I find that for whatever reason this venue attracts the players that are active in Latin America"
Steve Crowell, CEO, Pluspetrol
"I came to Latin America Assembly this year and last year too. I came for the networking and knowing what is happening in South America with all the different oil & gas produces like us"
Maria Esterman, CEO, Medanito
"My focus is oil and gas and its really the key industry here in Colombia and whole latin America region. The address from ANH had a lot of positive messages which we all need to hear"
Eva Garcia, Senior Partner, EY
"the event was successful in all of the angles. The organization was perfect, the subjects to be discussed were very well chosen matching perfectly with the reality in the oil & gas industry nowadays. Besides the network with several companies focused in Latin America like our was excellent. It was a pleasure for me to be a panelist in that event"
Paulo Ricardo dos Santos, Vice President Exploration and Business Development, Azilat Petroleum Limited
"Latin America Assembly held in Bogotá on January 2016, was an excellent an experience and a good opportunity to keep updated and about what is happening in the oil and gas industry in the region.
Oswaldo Madrid, Former General Manager, Petroamazonas E&P
"The 2016 conference in Bogota was well organized and worth the trip. The event came at a crossroad for the Industry and was designed to touch key topics: development opportunities, change in regulatory and environmental frameworks, new rules in the capital market space. I believe this contributed to the strong level of attendance and high expectations and involvement from participants. Good balance in the choice of panelists and participants, allowing to get a broad and complete view of the Latin O&G sector from its different angles.
Vincent TRAPET, Director, Structured Debt Oil & Gas, BNP PARIBAS
|"The conference was a great opportunity to renew old friendships and make new acquaintances in the Latin America Oil & Gas community. Surprisingly well attended for these difficult times for the industry. I will surely plan to attend your program regularly."
Alberto Harambour, Country Manager, PetroMagallanes
|Latin America Assembly event was very successful and gave me the chance of knowing differents point of view about oil & gas challenges and opportunities for Latin American countries, from government positions to small, medium and big size companies, including financial sector point of view which is crucial in this changing times.
Alexandra Hernández Saravia, Economic Affairs Vice presidente, Colombian Petroleum Association
|I found the Assembly very rewarding and look forward to participating in future Oil & Gas Council events. The panels were top-tier discussions of the challenging oil and gas market we are currently in, and the networking opportunities were terrific.
Travis Pace, Director, WoodRock & Co.
|"The Oil and Gas Council Latin America assembly in unique in the caliber of attendees. Senior oil and gas, service company and investment professionals meet. The O&G Council creates an environment where people feel open to share honest opinions. It is one of the few forums in the world where that truly occurs." Warren Levy – Managing Partner, Frontier Hydrocarbons.
|"Despite the global turmoil times and the huge challenges, the O & G sector is managing these times, LatAm assembly in Bogota past January showed its importance and relevance among our industry, gathering more than 300 high level executives from several companies and neighboring countries. This high level event has with no doubt great networking options, and carries out a format allowing excellent quality in all sorts of debates and discussions"
Roberto Mariño – Panatlantic Exploration – Country Manager – Colombia
|"Thanks a lot for a wonderful meeting and great topics. As usual it was very well organized and followed the agenda closely. I enjoyed being there and listening to the experts. Also had the chance to meet some interesting colleagues. Hope to be there next year"
Sergio Abauat, Chief Executive Officer, Valle Energy
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Dax Driver, CEO, Energy Chamber of Trinidad & Tobago
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William J. Waggoner, President and CEO, Mexico Petroleum Company
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There has only been one new trade for me today. Over the previous 12 trading sessions, I used the market pullback/consolidation to add to my portfolio so that when the market did push higher, I'd be in position to benefit from the move (though there was no guarantee that would happen, but fortunately the bounce did occur). So when you get the 20+ point move out of the SPX today, it isn't the time for me to start adding new positions suddenly...at least according to the manner in which I trade.
But the trade I did make was in YELP (YELP) for a nice trade at $24.68 and booked the profits at $25.68 for a $1.00/share day-trade (or 4.1%).
Below is today's Lazy Trades:
LONG: Aleza Pharmaceuticals (ALXA)
SHORT: Aberdeen (FAX) (no dividend)
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Our mom, bless her heart, is in the season of old age and is now in the nursing home. We are selling the house and need to move everything out. We are making all of her crafts that are left available to someone who is willing to appreciate them. Many crocheted pillows and dolls with crocheted dresses. All done by her skilled hands.
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Graphics for a Monster-themed driving / shooting game. These graphics can be used game suitable for iOS, Android, Windows and other gaming platforms. Includes in-game graphics, animations, parallax backgrounds, User Interface elements: complete button set, blank button templates, App Icons, type graphics to make game logo/title. Includes ability for customization.
Shooter/Runner Game Graphic Set; Runner Game Graphics Set.
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November 16, 2017: Gotri Ratri Vrat, Maasa Sivarati, Vrusthchika Sankranthi
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Home » Other Astrological Information » Events / Festivals » 9 is the fortunate number for 2007
Numerology is also a part and parcel of Astrology. In the universe, nothing can be done without numbers. Everything in the universe is measured with numbers let it be time, day, week, month, years day and night. Even financial transactions cannot take place without numbers. Every number has its own vibrations according to numerology. This year, the number Nine will bestow good results for those natives whose number let it be a base number or destiny number. If a native borns 9, 18 and 27, the native will get positive results. And in addition to it, 3 and 6 also gives favors to the natives.
Natives having the number 9 will generally tall and robust body. They maintain good discipline. However, they always having a fighting nature throughout the life. They can not digest any adverse comments. They always strive hard to win victory over their enemies in one way or other. The natives can not digest defeat and always tries to take revenge on the enemies. They are are always warm.
The deity for these natives is Lord Subramanyeswara Swamy. They always time and again see blood. Those natives who born on 18 should not take any hasty decisions and control their anger. If they leave some selfishness, they are more powerful. Those born on 27 will always be in investigative nature. If they choose right path, they will get good honour in the society. The natives of 9 should control temper and try to be cool to get the maximum benefits.
Majority of the natives will become Police Officers, Military officials, electrical and electronics engineers and if they are in the field of business, they flourish well if they choose oil, cement, Law practice, medicine and some of them in cine field. Their favorable numbers are 9, 18, 27, 14, 5, 6, 15, 21 and 24 and the rest are not favorable ones. Their favorable day is Tuesday and Friday and the lucky color if Red and lucky gem is Red Coral.
Prominent personalities are John Milton, Nichols, Bruslee, Martina Navratilova, Nelson Mandela are some of the natives having number 9. It is advisable to check their natal horoscope with a prominent astrologer for taking correct decisions.


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Discussion in 'Wii - Backup Loaders' started by Alexrose, May 15, 2009.
Great idea guys .
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I just noticed the Wii board section got expanded. I was like wtf.
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On the tail end of an article in the Spokesman Review on slumping hotel stays at the end of last year, was a gem about this guy, who can't get enough of Spokane, or our snow:
January 11, 2009 in Business
Outsider Embraces Spokane's Winter Wonderland
by Bert Caldwell
Walking face-first into the snow, collar pulled high, cold biting at the ears.
Inland Northwest residents may have had their fill, but there's at least one convention planner who will be disappointed if he doesn't experience a little harsh winter this week.
Tony Sirvello is the executive director of the International Association of Clerks, Recorders, Election Officials and Treasurers, which will hold its annual convention in Spokane from July 5 to July 11. He and the association's board of directors will meet Thursday at The Davenport Hotel to complete arrangements for the event, which he said will bring 500 to 600 members to the city.
Sirvello said the association's convention has bounced around cities in the South and Southwest in recent years. Spokane will be a departure – one he said members will embrace.
"We like to go where we've never been before," he said.
Sirvello is based in Houston, where temperatures last week reached 77 degrees. He said he has traveled to Spokane several times since the city was chosen for the 2009 convention. During a visit last April, he said, a late-season storm blasted snow horizontally through the streets.
"I was flabbergasted," he said.
But undeterred. Sirvello said he turned down a ride from the Convention Center to The Davenport because he wanted to experience winter conditions unlike anything he's experienced in a lifetime in Houston.
Sirvello said he keeps a miniature of the Riverfront Park red wagon on top of his computer monitor.
"I really fell in love with the city," he said.
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Advances in artificial intelligence, especially convolution networks and deep learning, were largely inspired by our understanding of sensory information processing in the brain. By contrast, AI has not yet made serious connection with contemporary neuroscience of higher cognitive abilities such as flexible task switching and optimal decision making, which is the topic of my talk. I will first discuss "cognitive-type" microcircuits capable of working memory (the brain's ability to actively maintain and manipulate information in the absence of sensory stimuli) and decision-making (the process of evaluating multiple options that ultimately results in a particular choice). This line of research has led us to develop a large-scale brain circuit model with multiple interacting brain areas based on mesoscopic connectome and neurophysiological experiments. Such circuit modeling across levels, combined with training multi-module recurrent networks to perform cognitive tasks, represents a promising approach to elucidate distributed cognitive computations across the global brain, with potentially high impacts on the future of AI.
NYU Shanghai STEM seminar series is a weekly seminar series on every Wednesday, starting from 12th October 2016.
Please see below tentative schedule of STEM seminar series in 2017 Spring Semester.
- Feb. 8: NO SEMINAR
- Feb. 15: Li Li, Associate Professor of Neural Science and Psychology
- Feb. 22: Xiao-Jing Wang, Global Professor of Neural Science
- Mar. 1: Hanghui Chen, Assistant Professor of Physics
- Mar. 8: Vladas Sidoravicius, Professor of Mathematics
- Mar. 15: Keith Ross, Professor of Engineering and Computer Science
- Mar. 22: Olivier Marin, Associate Professor of Computer Science
- Mar. 29: Xinying Cai, Assistant Professor of Neural and Cognitive Sciences
- Apr. 5: Spring Recess, NO SEMINAR
- Apr. 12: Jungseog Kong, Assistant Professor of Biology
- Apr. 19: Gang Fang, Assistant Professor of Biology
- Apr. 26: Pierre Michael Tarres, Visiting Professor of Mathematics
- May 3: Jeff Erlich, Assistant Professor of Neural and Cognitive Sciences
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BPA Linked to Autism – Even at Low Doses
A new study published in Neuroendocrinology, a peer-reviewed journal, measures the impact of low doses of Bisphenol-A, better known as BPA. The study will be devastating for the chemical industry which has long defended the use of BPA in plastics and many other products. It should also be an embarrassment for the FDA which has played along for far too long.
This new study can be read in its entirety on the following link: (http://www.nsfepigenetics.com/sites/nsfepigenetics.com/files/nsfepigenet...)
It was covered in an Op Ed piece in the Sunday New York Times on August 25th:
The bottom line is that people and organizations like Plastic Free Ocean which have been fighting to end the use of BPA in consumer products have been right from the beginning.
In addition its extremely dangerous xenoestrogenic activity in the environment discussed in earlier PFO stories, many studies have linked BPA to breast and prostate cancer, and diabetes as well as to hyperactivity, aggression and depression in children. This new study gives clear evidence that BPA's effects can be transgenerational, and that the dysfunction and behaviors associated with autism can be directly linked to BPA exposure.
Fortunately, some manufacturers and food packagers are seeing the writing on the wall and beginning to take action to eliminate BPA. Japanese and European companies are far ahead in this area. It takes some research to find out which companies are still using BPA, but the most recent large, independent study showed that the following companies were still resisting change: Coca-Cola, ConAgra, Chiquita, Dean Foods, Del Monte, General Mills, Hershey, J.M. Smucker, Kellogg, Kraft, McCormick, PepsiCo, Sara Lee, Sysco, Hormel, and Unilever.
Your calls, emails and letters to these companies citing this new study WILL make a difference. Note that the plastic lining in food and beverage cans, much more so than bottles, is the biggest problem. This is another major reason to be eating fresh food and staying away from the canned food aisles.