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Unexpected: The Vermont Ukulele Society
Four years ago, I geared up to live in a land of dairy farms, maple syrup and cold winters. I had lived in California my whole life, and I was going to Middlebury College.
I soon found out that the winters here are indeed cold — quite cold — and I've enjoyed my share of covered bridges and berry picking. But over the years, I've come across quite a lot I didn't expect from Vermont.
In fact, the surprises began on my first ride from the Burlington airport to Middlebury. I saw a camel in a field off route seven. After I did a double take, I thought to myself: OK ... apparently they do more than dairy here.
I hopefully have developed a somewhat more nuanced understanding of Vermont since then (or at least that's what I tell my editor here), but Vermont still has its surprises. I've heard stories about outhouse races, watched Quidditch matches and seen a good deal of alpacas.
I've also covered the chili contest and a meeting of the Vermont Ukulele Society for the Middlebury College newspaper. Talking to people who are doing unexpected things here is great. They're passionate, and more often than not, they're having fun.
So this summer, I'm going to continue to seek out things that you wouldn't expect to find in Vermont. I think I'll have a good time, and hopefully, this will also help me learn more about the area I now live in.
To kick things off, I decided to connect back up with the folks from the Ukulele Society. So I got a video camera, tuned my ukulele (I've played for a few years), and headed over to Bristol for a meeting of Vermont's only Ukulele Society:
If you want to find more about the Ukulele Society, check out their website. They're great people, and they won me over once again. I'm going to start going to their intermediate classes every other week.
Over the next couple months, I'm going to continue to look for surprises around here. I'm excited for the Bristol outhouse races on Saturday and I want to find out more about those alpacas. If you know of any surprises you think I'll enjoy, drop a comment or email me at [email protected].


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You may have seen the headline that U.S. adults living with chronic disease are significantly less likely than healthy adults to have access to the internet (62% vs. 81%).
I finally got a chance to read and analyze the full report "Chronic Diseases and the Internet" sponsored by the Pew Internet Project and the California HealthCare Foundation released March 24, 2010.
Having a chronic disease is generally associated with being older, African American, less educated and living in a lower-income household. The fascinating conclusion of this research is that when these demographics are factored out, having a chronic disease in and of itself has an independent, negative effect on someone's likelihood to have internet access.
Once Online, They Get Social
Once online, the data shows having a chronic disease increases the probability that you will take advantage of social media to share what you know and learn from peers.
The report states: "When other demographic factors are held constant, having a chronic disease significantly increases an internet user's likelihood to say they work on a blog or contribute to an online discussion, a listserv, or other online group forum that helps people with personal issues or health problems."
A Narrow Definition of Chronic Disease
This study is an example of the excellent data generated by Pew and the CHCF, however, it naturally has limitations. Keep in mind that they only asked about five chronic diseases: high blood pressure, lung conditions, heart conditions, diabetes, and cancer. And high blood pressure (which can often be easily managed with medication) varies greatly from the average chronic condition. Also, chronic pain wasn't part of the study.
What Does This Mean for Pharma?
Looking for drug information is the one activity that is significantly more popular among internet users with chronic diseases.
Percentage of internet users who have looked online for prescription or over-the-counter drugs
No Condition: 42%
1+ Condition: 48%
2+ Conditions: 53%
According to the report: "Statistical analysis shows that the presence of chronic disease has an independent effect on someone's likelihood to seek information about drugs – the greater the number of diseases reported, the greater the interest in this type of information…. Many respondents to the qualitative survey report looking up new prescriptions, either for themselves or on behalf of a loved one."
So the study reinforces the need for pharma to provide online information for this population. While not all of this target audience is online, those who are look for drug data.
The Good News
More than any other group, people living with chronic disease remain strongly connected to offline sources of medical advice, especially healthcare professionals. Hopefully, this population is receiving the support and information they need from these offline sources.
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As a young mother, Sister Welchel used her celebrity to teach other moms how to train their children up in the ways of the Lord:
For lying or other offenses of the tongue, I 'spank' my kids' tongues. I put a tiny drop of hot sauce on the end of my finger and dab it onto my child's tongue.And of course, whenever Sister Lisa has to make a big decision, she leaves it up to Jesus to make it for her. That's exactly what she did when Steve Cauble, the pastor of the celebrity Bible study group she attended with Debbie Boone, Charlene Tilton, and Donna Summer, asked for her hand in opposite sex marriage:
I had my hands lifted to the Lord as a gesture of praise when I felt the sensation of a gentle weight descend upon me. I recognized this feeling as the presence of the Holy Spirit. And because this kind of thing doesn't happen every day, or even every year, I knew enough to pay attention. As I waited expectantly, the thought popped into my head, Would you ever consider marrying Steve Cauble?Twenty-four years later, Jesus, probably 3 jugs of water to the wind, blurted out to Sister Welchel that he was just "funnin'" with her; Pastor Steve was never meant to be her husband. Relieved, Lisa and Steve quickly filed for divorce.
Okay, I believe there is a God. I have met Him personally, and He has proven Himself trustworthy in my life many times. I know that I know that He adores me and that He is good through and through. He is stronger than the devil's schemes, and He is more powerful than circumstances, coincidences, or cowardliness. I could rest in this because I also knew for certain that I had sought His will with a pure heart.
The choice was mine. Was I going to trust God or trust my heart? I knew the decision I had to make, and I felt an unexplainable peace about it. When I boarded a plane home, I was wearing my new engagement ring and carrying the "Now That You Are Engaged" book I had purchased earlier in the week. I figured that since I had decided to marry this man whether the feelings were there or not, I could probably use all the help I could get...
When I got off that plane, I ran into my fiancé's arms and gave him the sloppiest kiss you ever did see!
What do you know that you know that you know about God? Do you believe that He is all-powerful? Do you trust that He is all-good? Is He all-loving and all-holy? These are questions that you need to settle in your heart. There may come a time in your life when the only thing you can count on is the character of God. And that will be enough.


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The current leader is Jim LaRosa of Tracy, pictured above, whose 6.49-pound largemouth anchored
an 18.64 bag that held up through the four flights of 60 boats entered in the
event. "I had to drive all of 20 minutes to get here,"joked the local pro. His
AAA Greg Rozycki of Berkeley
goes into the second day leading that division.
Dozens of pros pulled out in the days leading up to this
first WON BASS Pro Circuit event of 2010, discouraged by rain, wind and a tough
bite, but Harvey Naslund's return to pro bass fishing inspired more than one
longtime SoCal pro to stick with the program. Dave Nollar, Naslund's team
tournament partner in recent years, was the first to the weigh-in Friday, Feb.
5, and he plunked down an impressive 13.54-pound sack that set the pace for a
day that would see many limits over 11 pounds weighed.
Nollar was followed by LaRosa's bar-setting limit and then
it was time for another Southern California to
keep the pressure on. This time it was one of the young guns from the Southland
as Ricky Shabazz came in with 17.34
pounds. His AAA Mikel Turner leads the big fish race in that division with a
5.54 largemouth.
"Unfortunately it's pretty common knowledge where the fish
are,"said Shabazz. "It's a race. I was the first one there today and I know a
shortcut, so hopefully I'll be there first tomorrow."
Duane Dunstone and
AAA Andy Manahl (who came all the way from Phoenix and fishes the south as a pro) were
next up and Dunstone quickly upped the ante on the big fish with an 8.10
Andy Manahl and Duane Dunstone's first day catch.
"Andy had the big fish's twin on when I got this one but
lost it," said Dunstone. "At least I
know I'm fishing where the big fish are." Manahl did manage to get a 3.61 to
put himself in contention for AAA big fish. The anglers finished the day with 13.49
One of the Delta's legends found one of the Delta's legendary
quality bucketmouths, but Dave Gliebe's 7.98 was one of only two fish that
resulted in a 10.23 weight for the day. Still, with a storm bringing changing
conditions, he's still within range.
Robert Lee and Toua Yang with their 17.55 pounds.
Robert Lee has also finished atop the field many times in
WON BASS events and with some help from AAA Toua Yang is right there again with
a sack that tipped the scales at 17.55 pounds. Yang posted a 4.80 big fish.
Lee was asked if the bite was as tough as everyone said
going into the event. "Yep," was the brief reply. When asked how he felt about
the next day's prospects, Lee said, "Not good."
At this point in the weigh-in it seemed like lots of good
bags of fish were in the water tanks waiting to weighed and one of the best was
brought up by the rising northern star Sean Stafford, who checked in with 16.58
Then the big fish of the first day of competition was
weighed in as Phil Burgess of Verman hefted up a 9.12-pound beauty for the
cameras. When asked what his total weight for the day was, Burgess nodded
toward the fish and said, "That right there."
Then it was time for the South to rise again as Dick Watson
weighed in 16.62 pounds.
"I've got two spots, and they'ver been hot and cold in
pre-fish," said Watson. "I got to the first and I was just for one or two. We got the fifth and I was really surprised.
got it to myself so I'm going there tomorrow and just beat
it to death."
Some other good weights came in, but by now the top 10
called for at least 13 pounds, especially when Ken Phillips of Antioch came up
to the stage with 18.32 pounds of solid
3 to 4-plus pounders in his bag.
Ken Phillips sack was full of bass to 5 pounds.
We had a good day, we culled out a few times," said
Phillips. "I looked for clean water and used light line and six inch worms.
There's clean water in the dead end sloughs and marinas. Clean water and
finesse-type baits, that was it.
And that was it for day one of the WON BASS Delta
Look for the second day results and final standings tomorrow
on this site and www.wonbass.com.
-- Rich Holland, WON BASS Editor
And while Mike will do his best to win this event just like his many victories on the WON BASS circuit, he's got a great prize from Daiwa for whoever manages to be the lucky angler who places one spot in front of him.
If no one can "Beat Mike Folkestad" (as in he wins the tournament) then the prize goes to the pro who finishes just behind Mike.
The prize? How about a Daiwa TDA2000A spinning reel with the Daiwa TD-X6101MLFS-C Drop Shot rod? That's right, the smoothest spinning reel on the market with the classic drop shot rod Folkestad helped Daiwa design. The combo goes for about $340 retail and Mike will be giving the same award at every event on the Pro Circuit this year.
"I like a rod that is light in weight, but not necessarily in action, which should be parabolic," said Folkestad of his original design input for a drop shot rod. "It should be long – for me 6'10" is ideal, but there are longer ones that work well – and it needs a flexible tip so you shake the bait."
For the U.S. Open and the Western Classic Daiwa has sweetened the pot even more with a combo that retails for $385. The winner of the Beat Mike Folkestad award will still get the Daiwa TDA2000A spinning reel, but for those two events the reel will be matched with Daiwa's TD Fuego TDFG721MXS Drop Shot rod. The rod is Daiwa's latest version of Mike's original drop shot design No wonder Mike wants them to give the combo away "after" the Open and the Western Classic.
Folkestad will personally present the award at each tournament.
You know the only three-time U.S. Open winner will be there again this July for more glory under the sun and you have got to like his prospects for reaching the Western Classic as one of the 60 qualifiers (30 from each region North and South).
First of all, even though he said he's been lucky to catch a bass a day so far pre-fishing the Delta – he's THERE. No one has been more fearless throughout his career when it comes to fishing whatever venue WON BASS puts on the table.
"The fishing will pick up for the tournament, there will be fish caught," said Folkestad, and no doubt he'll pick up enough weight to get a hefty chunk of points as insurance heading into the long haul of the Angler of the Year race that culminates with a Nitro bass boat/Mercury outboard combo going to the winner.
The way the points are set up, just about everyone who shows up at the Delta will go away with a good stash of points for both the overall race and the North points division.
And one of the pros will have the distinctionof being better than the rest of the field AND the tough conditions, scoring a win and the recognition that will follow in the pages of Western Outdoor News.
"I started with WON BASS in 1974 the first time Harvey (Naslund) was the director," said Folkestad. "If it wasn't for Western Outdoors News and the visibility I got...well Western Outdoor News can make an okay fishermen into a hero.
"When I went national the folks back East already knew who I was and I was able to get endorsements worth up to six figures a year," added Folkestad. "I'm back here now and it came down to five figures, but it's all due to WON.
"The young guns out there – and there are more and more of them and they are harder and harder to beat – should be fishing the circuit that will give them the most impact," he said.
And this year, if the young guns beat Mike Folkestad they get not only the satisfaction, but also some quality Daiwa tackle that combines both history and the finest technology.


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Patrick Hancock has donned blades of glory for Disney, worked alongside Nickelodeon boy band Big Time Rush and unsuccessfully battled mega-pythons and gatoroids with Debbie Gibson.
But now, the Houston-raised Hancock is entering even more treacherous territory: public displays of affection.
The eight-minute "P.D.A." follows a gay couple as they argue lightheartedly about holding hands in public. It screens alongside the documentary "I Am Divine" Thursday at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Hancock wrote, directed and stars in the sweet, funny film.
QFest, the city's annual festival dedicated to big-screen representations of the LGBT community, boasts 60 films in 30 programs at nine venues, including Rice Cinema, the Houston Museum of African American Culture, Galveston Artist Residency, Discovery Green, Aurora Picture Show, Asia Society Texas Center, Alamo Drafthouse (Mason Road and Vintage Park) and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. That's more than double the number of films included in 2012.
How much did you cull from reality for the storyline?
Without giving away too much of the plot, I can say that there are equal parts of both characters in me. I wanted to write a film about a gay couple having normal, universal issues. With all of the struggles for equality and acceptance we've had, and continue to have, I wanted to show how couples of all kinds are really not that different, that we all relate to one another as human beings.
Where do you stand on the P.D.A. debate?
I am all for it, as long as it's tasteful. Gay or straight, no one should be French kissing in public. But I do feel that the more people see two men or two women holding hands or being affectionate in public areas, the less of a big deal it will be.
There seems to be more of a challenge in telling a story in a short vs. in a feature.
I learned that it is very important to establish time, place and relationships as quickly as possible for instant clarity in a short film. The same basic story components apply as in a feature, but there is simply not as much time to let all of those details unfold in a short, and they also tend to be about one incident or idea. Simple is better. I am about to work on my first feature film script, so I will let you the challenges of that form after I finish!
What prompted the move behind the camera?
I've been acting for years but have always been a part of other people's projects and visions. I went to the Outfest LGBT film festival in Los Angeles last summer and watched the Men's Shorts program from the back of the theater. I decided that it was finally time for me to create something of my very own and see if I could I get into that festival. And last Sunday, one year later, my short film screened at Outfest. And on July 25th, I have the honor of screening it in my hometown of Houston!
What can you say about your time in Houston?
My family moved to Houston from Illinois when I was 11. I attended Killough Middle School in Alief as well as Alief Hastings High for three years. I moved out to California to pursue my competitive figure skating career before my senior year, but my family has resided here ever since, and I come to Houston several times a year to visit my mom and brother. My interest in acting was sparked while doing plays and musicals in middle school. I did more theater and competed in oratory at the UIL state level while attending Alief Hastings. I went on to tour as a professional principal skater with Disney for almost five years, but Houston was generally my home base during that time.
What do you miss most about Houston?
I miss the feeder roads alongside the freeways and the immense amount of free parking. L.A. has neither.
You seem to have a long history with Debbie Gibson, who performs the title song.
I've known Deb for over 20 years. I first met her when she was performing "Grease" on London's West End and I was performing with the skating show at Wembley. I sent her the rough cut of my film and asked if she had any ideas for some instrumental music for the credits. She graciously offered to write me an original song.
What's one life-saving tip to remember if you find yourself in a movie with a Mega Python or a Gatoroid?
Never run directly into a swamp when you are being pursued by a 50-foot alligator on steroids.
How about combining three of your loves –- sci-fi monsters, ice skating and Debbie Gibson -– into one fabulous feature?
Sounds perfect. We also need to include Rick Astley and Tiffany skating pairs on a frozen lake with sequined piranhas lurking underneath.
Complete QFest schedule
7 p.m. "I Am Divine" and "P.D.A." at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (1001 Bissonnet)
7 p.m. "Girl Shorts" at Rice Cinema (University and Stockton, entrance #8 on the Rice University Campus)
7 p.m. "Italy Love it or Leave it" at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
7:30 p.m. "Lose Your Head" at Alamo Drafthouse Mason Park (531 South Mason Road, Katy)
8 p.m. 'All in the Family: A Showcase of Queer African American Shorts" at Houston Museum of African American Culture (4807 Caroline)
8 p.m. "Fourplay" at Aurora Picture Show (2442 Bartlett, Q&A with director Kyle Henry and actor Gary Chason)
9 p.m. "Submerge" at Rice Cinema
10 p.m. "Prom Night" at Alamo Drafthouse Vintage Park (114 Vintage Park Blvd, Bldg. H, Ste. J)
11 p.m. "Secret Things" at Rice Cinema
2:30 p.m. "Dunno y Na jaane kyun" at Rice Cinema (Actor Yuvraaj Parashar and actor/screenwriter Kapil Sharma are attending)
3 p.m. "Wildness" at Galveston Artist Residency (2521 Ships Mechanic Row, Galveston)
4 p.m. "She: Their Love Story" at Asia Society Texas Center (1370 Southmore)
5 p.m. "Boy Shorts" at Rice Cinema
7 p.m. "Interior. Leather Bar." at Rice Cinema
7 p.m. "Valentine Road" at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
7:30 p.m. "Sexual Tension 2: Violetas" at Alamo Drafthouse Mason Park
8 p.m. "Born This Way" at Houston Museum of African American Culture
9 p.m. "Hunter" at Rice Cinema (Director Ian Samplin attending)
10 p.m. "A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge" at Alamo Drafthouse Vintage Park
11 p.m. "First Period" at Rice Cinema (Director Charlie Vaughn attending)
2 p.m. "Portrait of Jason" at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
3 p.m. "Before You Know It" at Galveston Artist Residency (Reception following at Robert's Lafitte; director PJ Raval attending)
3 p.m. "The Campaign" at Rice Cinema Director Christie Herring and producer Marc Smolowitz attending)
4 p.m. "Myra Breckinridge" at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
5 p.m. "Jaures" at Rice Cinema
6 p.m. "Cruising" at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
6:30 p.m. "Scream" at Alamo Drafthouse Mason Road
7 p.m. "Out Loud" at Rice Cinema
7:30 p.m. "Pit Stop" at Alamo Drafthouse Mason Road
7 p.m. "G.B.F." at Rice Cinema (Actress Andrea Bowen, star of "Desperate Housewives" and "The Secret Life of the American Teenager" is attending)
Tickets: $5-$85 (QFest pass to all screenings); 281-889-3345 or q-fest.org


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It seems a little hard to credit, but news reports this week said that nearly 1 million people from all over the nation have signed online petitions supporting their states' secession from the United States.
While the sentiment may give political scientists and most politicians a grin or two, it also seems likely to be enough to drive historians nuts.
Didn't we, as the saying goes, fight a war over this issue? And, if memory serves, the side that attempted to pull out of the larger nation lost.
Rather decisively, as a matter of fact. Not only that, but the leader of the winning side was, of all things, a Republican, one Abraham Lincoln by name. Yes, the same person Daniel Day-Lewis is portraying in a critically acclaimed film celebrating Lincoln's political prowess in getting the 13th Amendment added to the Constitution, a major step in ending slavery.
Still, Lincoln's aim in going to war to prevent the Confederacy from pulling up stakes and leaving the Union was that such an action would destroy the country the Founders had created.
And he didn't think that he was elected to preside over the dissolution of the nation he loved — especially since freedom itself was at stake.
So the slogan, "Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable!" was a battle cry that resounded over both political debates and clashes of armies for four long years — until Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered his sword and his army to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House.
We hear the echoes of it today in the statement many American schoolchildren and adults utter when they face the Stars and Stripes, place their right hands over their hearts and say, "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
It's not unusual for people disappointed with the outcome of an election to be mad enough to say they'll leave the country. Such promises have been heard on all sides of the political spectrum in the past, depending on which party the losing candidate's partisans had supported.
But this is the first time in nearly a century and a half that so many of the losing side's backers wanted to take their houses, communities and entire states along with them.
"Let my people go" is a very old sentiment, after all, even if we do now have a very new way to express it.
As a matter of history, law and politics, however, people can certainly leave, but their states aren't going with them.
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Cable TV work caused K.C. gas leak; body found in rubble
Utility says Time Warner contractor ruptured 2-inch main. Body may be restaurant server's.
The explosion and fire that destroyed a popular Kansas City, Mo., restaurant Tuesday evening resulted from a cable TV work crew puncturing a 2-inch natural gas main, officials said Wednesday.
Fumes escaped for more than an hour as Missouri Gas Energy workers tried to stop the leak, which was reported to the fire department at 4:54 p.m. The blast occurred at 6:04 p.m., shortly after firefighters recommended that J.J.'s Restaurant be evacuated.
Earlier Wednesday, search crews found a body in the bar area of the blackened rubble, Kansas City Mayor Sly James said. The blast injured 15 other people. Six remained hospitalized late Wednesday, three of them with critical injuries.
James did not say whether the victim was a man or a woman. Another employee who had been believed to be missing was located at St. Luke's Hospital receiving treatment.
The Springfield, Mo., family of a missing employee, 46-year-old Megan Cramer, said Wednesday afternoon that they believe the body is hers because no one has been able to reach her since the blast. Authorities said it may take a day or two to confirm the identity.
In a statement, Cramer's family described her as "a poet, writer, attorney, social activist, and server" who was "loved and was beloved by those with whom she met and interacted."
Born in Emporia, Kan., Cramer grew up in Springfield and received undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Her family said she had lived in the upscale Country Club Plaza district for 26 years.
Her family said that when she was a law student she had helped death row prisoners at Potosi Federal Prison, and that she had helped establish the first chapter of the Lesbian and Gay Student Group at the university.
Heavy equipment began arriving before dawn as workers rushed to remove the debris and investigate the cause of the blast because of the expected arrival of a powerful winter storm, James said. Cadaver dogs were being used to scour the blackened debris.
Workers from Heartland Midwest were extending a fiber-optic line for Time Warner Cable when they reported hitting the gas main, which was marked. The crew was extending the line to a nearby hotel, a company official told WDAF-TV. On Wednesday afternoon, Kansas City Fire Chief Paul Berardi released a timeline of events leading to the four-alarm fire, which burned for about 90 minutes.
At 5:47 p.m., about 50 minutes after the leak was reported, a three-man Missouri Gas Energy crew used a backhoe to "vent" the area where they thought the leak had been. Three of six utility employees at the scene were among those injured when the gas exploded.
A Missouri Gas Energy spokesman said Wednesday afternoon that it wasn't clear exactly what ignited the gas but that the source was likely inside the restaurant.
Some residents told KCTV they had smelled gas about an hour before the explosion and alerted the local utility.
KMBC-TV, citing a man who said he visited the restaurant regularly, reported that firefighters and Missouri Gas Energy representatives had been checking for the source of a gas odor before the explosion. Customers were asked to leave, but several employees stayed behind.
Police initially reported that the leak and explosion were caused by a car accidentally hitting a natural gas main.
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Tofutti Brands Launches The Hooray Bar Sweetened with Stevia
New York City-based Tofutti Brands introduces The Hooray Bar, a breakthrough new frozen dessert, and the first frozen dessert on the market to be sweetened with all natural stevia.
Like all Tofutti Brands premium frozen desserts, The Hooray Bar is soy-based, cholesterol and dairy-free with zero trans fats. Created to appeal to diabetics, lactose intolerant, vegan and kosher consumers, this novelty stick is heart-healthy and a natural choice for the calorie conscious. The Hooray Bar is a guilt-free frozen dessert with a creamy, rich vanilla center, covered in succulent chocolate and loaded with crispy brown rice crunch. Available as a portion controlled single stick treat, there are 12 per box.
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Stocks give up an early gain, mixed at midday
August 4, 2014
U.S. stocks are losing momentum in midday trading following a major sell-off last week that put caution back into the market.
The Dow Jones industrial average fell 16 points, or 0.1 percent, to 16,477 as of noon Eastern time Monday.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index was little changed at 1,925 and the Nasdaq composite edged up nine points, or 0.2 percent, to 4,362.
The S&P 500 index is coming off its worst week since June 2012.
Utilities stocks lagged the rest of the market. Duke Energy fell 2 percent.
Michael Kors dropped 7 percent after the fashion company reported that its profit margin shrank for the second consecutive quarter.
Bond prices rose. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note fell to 2.47 percent.
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We celebrated the Presidents' Day holiday a few days ago, but today is actually George Washington's birthday. It's also a significant day in the history of golf in the United States.
On this day in 1888, a small group of hearty golfers staged the first known exhibition of golf in America – over three holes laid out by John Reid and John Upham in a cow pasture in Yonkers, N.Y. And on Nov. 14, 1888, these golfers formally established The Saint Andrew's Golf Club, which remains the oldest continuously existing golf club in the United States.
That makes 2013 the club's 125th anniversary year, and it is going all-out to celebrate. Among the big events on its calendar are the Folds of Honor Golf Tournament (June 4) to support the families of deceased and disabled members of the military; Celebrating Women in Golf (June 5), marking the history and growth of women's golf in America; the 125th Anniversary Celebrity Golf Tournament (June 7); and the Gala 125th Anniversary Dinner Dance (June 8) at the Waldorf Astoria in midtown Manhattan.
Its age isn't the club's only claim to fame. Here is a list of some other firsts achieved there:
--the first photograph of golf in America (1888)
--the first recorded mixed foursome, played on March 30, 1889, when Upham teamed with Mrs. John Reid to defeat the team of Reid and Miss Carrie Law
--the first American ''clubhouse,'' including a rudimentary 19th hole, was the famous apple tree where Reid and his friends hung their coats while playing in the apple orchard that became the club's second course
--the first U.S. Amateur Championship, at match play, was hosted by St. Andrew's in 1894 – and won by St. Andrew's member L.B. Stoddart
--the first U.S. Open was hosted by St. Andrew's, also in 1894
--Saint Andrew's member Henry O. Tallmadge suggested and organized the Dec. 22, 1894, meeting of five golf clubs that resulted in the creation of the United States Golf Association (USGA).
--St. Andrew's published the first Yearbook (or Handbook) in America containing a club's list of members, officers, and committees, as well as its constitution and by-laws in 1895
--St. Andrew's also organized and funded the first U.S. Public Links Championship. The tournament, for players who didn't belong to a USGA club, was held at Van Cortlandt Park, the nation's first public course, in 1896
--Saint Andrew's member Charles E. Sands won the first Olympic gold medal for golf in 1900.


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The Mendel book, "Voices", actually refers to this painting with two titles. "The Malibu Beach Fire" and "The Malibu Fire".
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Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Brain Metastases
My sister, who is 51, was diagnosed with inflammatory breast cancer in August of 1997. It metastasized to her brain in August of 1998. The tumor was removed, thought to be totally encased, and radiation therapy followed. There is now new growth around the original removal site and stereotactic radiosurgery is being considered. How long has this procedure been around? How effective is it on IBC tumors? What is the standard number of treatments? How much radiation can a person tolerate before toxicity?
Thank you for your help.
Li Liu, MD, OncoLink Editorial Assistant, responds:
Thank you for your interest and question.
The first case of radiosurgery was reported in 1949 using multiple small and fixed semicircular radiation beams at different angles to treat an intracranial target (Leksell L, Acta Chir Scand, 1949, 99:231). This technique became more reliable and reproducible when the Gamma Knife was introduced in 1968, which uses Cobalt-60 to produce multiple, intersecting static beams (Leksell DG. Neurology Research, 1987; 9:60-68). Clinical studies using modified linear accelerator began in the early 1980s (Colombo F, et al. Neurosurgery, 1985, 16:154-159).
Stereotactic external beam irradiation (SEBI) has an important role in both the primary and secondary treatment of patients with metastatic brain malignancies. Dose and fractionation varies from patient to patient depending upon pathology, size, location, and prior treatments, including surgery and/or radiation. Also brain tolerance to radiation treatment varies in radiation volume, daily dose, total dose, and prior surgery, etc. It is always a challenge for both patients and physicians to weigh the risks and benefits of treatment to the brain with radiation. No radiosurgery treatments can be considered "standard" in this situation.
SEBI is considered by many investigators to be equivalent to surgical resection of solitary brain metastasis (Wronski M, et al. Journal of Neurosurgery, 1995; 83:605-616). Because of the relatively low incidence of inflammatory breast cancer, to my knowledge, SEBI for brain metastasis from inflammatory breast cancer has not been studied specifically. The outcome may be similar to other metastatic cancers if all other contributing factors are similar.
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Halloween shouldn't be scary...at least not when it comes to CHOCOLATE! This year, Fair Trade your Halloween.
Halloween shouldn't be scary...at least not when it comes to CHOCOLATE! This year, Fair Trade your Halloween. Despite years of promises from the major chocolate manufacturers, too little has been done to tackle the documented problem of forced child labor on many farms that supply their cocoa. Moreover, at the bottom of the chain, cocoa farmers have been left in poverty year after year. …
Will you join us in taking the pledge to pass out Fair Trade chocolate this Halloween?
all of us become healthy by thought
Subscribing this pledge is a great proof of civilization and respect. Chocolate is to make children laugh and make them happy and not to make them suffer.
Hoitoalan arvoihin kuuluu kestävän kehityksen tukeminen .Sosiaalinen kestävä kehitys pitää sisällään lapsityövoiman poistamisen, eriarvoisuuden poistamisen ja hyväksikäytön estämisen. En halua mukavuuksia toisten kärsimysten kustannuksilla. Lähimmäisen rakkaus olkoon mottonani.
All children no matter whom where religion race should have a childhood and every mother sister brother father aunt or uncle all over the world must know this so all adults should stand up together for the rights of all the children on this fragile earth if u don't then shame on you


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October 22, 2012
UCLA Anderson School of Management to Honor PepsiCo Chairman and CEO Indra Nooyi with John Wooden Global Leadership Award
UCLA Anderson School of Management today announced that PepsiCo Chairman and CEO Indra Nooyi, consistently recognized as one of the world's most successful and influential business leaders, is the recipient of the 2012 John Wooden Global Leadership Award.
Nooyi, who will be honored at a dinner on Nov. 5, 2012, at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, was selected as this year's recipient for her significant business success as chief executive of PepsiCo and for her upstanding leadership that mirrors the same high benchmarks of performance, integrity and ethical virtues set by legendary Coach Wooden.
"Indra Nooyi's leadership and vision go well beyond building a successful global corporation. She also inspires as a positive influence of business on the world. Under Indra's direction, PepsiCo has achieved strong business results, while also creating a foundation for long-term growth with thoughtful initiatives that are 'good' for the planet," said Judy Olian, Dean of UCLA Anderson School of Management. "Her principle-centered approach to leadership embodies the ideals of Coach Wooden."
Each year, the John Wooden Global Leadership Award recognizes an individual in corporate America who personifies the extraordinary leadership style as established by Coach John Wooden. Prior recipients include Starbucks Chairman and CEO Howard Schultz ,American Express Chairman and CEO Kenneth Chenault, FedEx Corporation Chairman and CEO Frederick W. Smith and business executive Peter Ueberroth.
Nooyi, who was named PepsiCo's CEO in 2006, leads a $65 billion global food and beverage powerhouse with a portfolio that includes 22 brands that generate more than $1 billion each in annual retail sales. The company's main businesses - Quaker, Tropicana, Gatorade, Frito-Lay and Pepsi-Cola - make hundreds of snacks and beverages sold around the world.
Nooyi was selected as this year's Wooden Leadership award winner for consistently delivering strong business and financial results while also taking steps to set the company on a course toward sustainable, long-term growth. A key driver of PepsiCo's success has been its "Performance with Purpose" business strategy, which includes the company's focus on providing a wider range of foods and beverages for local tastes; finding innovative ways to reduce operating costs and minimize its impact on the environment by conserving energy and water and reducing packaging volume; providing a diverse and inclusive workplace for associates and attracting top talent to the company; and playing a positive role in the local communities where the company operates.
Tickets for the 2012 Awards dinner are available online or by calling (310) 206-9816. Proceeds from the event will fund John Wooden Global Leadership Student Fellowships. This year's recipients are Aviva Altmann, MBA class of 2013, Karla Sarni, FEMBA class of 2013, and Juan Rose, EMBA class of 2013. Each of these students embodies the leadership qualities and values that Coach Wooden embraced and advocated.
About the John Wooden Global Leadership Award
As the most winning coach in men's college basketball, Wooden's legacy of leadership transcends athletics and spans generations. As a coach, prolific author and inspiring speaker, he dedicated his life to motivating individuals to achieve their highest potential. Wooden instilled in others a sense of pride, a commitment to ethics and a respect for teamwork.
UCLA Anderson extends these fundamental principles and Wooden's famous "Pyramid of Success" into the classroom through Wooden Global Leadership Program. For more information about the John Wooden Global Leadership Award, fellowships and UCLA Anderson School of Management, visit www.anderson.ucla.edu.
About UCLA Anderson School of Management
UCLA Anderson School of Management is among the leading business schools in the world. UCLA Anderson faculty members are globally renowned for their teaching excellence and research in advancing management thinking. Each year, UCLA Anderson provides a distinctive approach to management education to more than 1,800 students enrolled in its MBA, Fully-Employed MBA, Executive MBA, Global Executive MBA for Asia Pacific, Global Executive MBA for the Americas, Master of Financial Engineering, doctoral and executive education programs. Combining selective admissions, varied and innovative learning programs, and a world-wide network of 37,000 alumni, UCLA Anderson develops and prepares global leaders. Follow UCLA Anderson on Twitter at http://twitter.com/UCLAAnderson, or on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/uclaanderson.
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Because you are Agnostic, you are being honest with yourself by saying that you do not know. By using your logic and reasoning you have set yourself up to be able to find the truth.
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Today's the day 2K Games delivers the "Hail to the Icons Parody Pack" downloadable content for Duke Nukem Forever, featuring new game modes and maps that parody much better games.
Along with the new Freeze Tag, Hail to the King, and Hot Potato game modes, the "Hail to the Icons" pack adds four new maps based on the best in first-person shooting: Call of Duke, Sandbox, Inferno, and 2Forts1Bridge. In case you can't figure out what games are being parodied here, we've got a post for that.
The "Hail to the Icons Parody Pack" is available today for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC for $US9.99 or 800 Microsoft points, unless of course you're a member of the Duke Nukem Forever First Access Club, in which case all this is yours for free. Don't you feel special?


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This Newport Vessels sunscarf by Hoorag will keep you comfortable all day fishing out on the water. Whether you're fishing in the deep woods of Minnesota fighting to keep mosquitos out of your face, or out on the bay trying to avoid sunburn while you reel in that trophy bass, you'll never want to leave home without one!
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Newport Vessels strives to offer the highest quality boats, trolling motors, and watercraft accessories on the market. That's why we implemented the Float Your Boat Guarantee! It's difficult to always know what you're getting without seeing it, we not only want you to see the product, we want you to do whatever Floats Your Boat! We stand behind our products, and strive for 100% customer satisfaction with each sale and customer interaction. We want you to love your Newport Vessels purchase, if you don't love it, we encourage you to send it back within 30 days for a refund. All returns must include the original box, packaging and associated paperwork.
Newport Vessels cannot accept returns or refunds on boats once they have been registered, or products which have been modified or tampered with. Shipping costs are nonrefundable. All returns are subject to a return fee (see Hassle Free Return section for details).
Rest assured, 99% of Newport Vessels customers are 100% satisfied with their purchase, and we strongly encourage the other 1% to ship the item back within 30 days for a refund. We may contact you to learn why you're not satisfied, but this is for us to learn from your experience so that we can improve our products, services, and offerings for the future!
Call Newport Vessels customer service during business hours at (866) 721-0002, we are located in California and are open from 8:30am-4:30pm Pacific Standard Time. We will process the return for you, email you a shipping label, all you have to do is pack it up and drop the package off at your nearest FedEx location!
Step 1: Call Newport Vessels during regular business hours. We will create a prepaid return label for your return, and email it to you.
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Attention: Customers are responsible for damages incurred due to improper packing.
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- Boats have a standard $100 return fee.*This covers the return shipping and restocking costs.
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We create your return shipping label for the same dimension box we ship your item in. If you are using a different dimension box for the return trip, you will be responsible for any additional shipping charges incurred.
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Returns will be refunded onto your original method of purchase. Please allow 10 full business days from our warehouse receiving the returned product for your refund to be processed. Items returned in their packaging will be refunded the original price of the item, minus the return fee.
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I have been researching this family for about 5 years and have DNA results from my brother. (Sometimes it is not convenient to be a woman!) I have a basic bacground back to Captain John Williams who supposedly landed near Jamestown in the 1700s. I knew my family back to my great-grandfather, who was born in 1877. His name was Junius Frederick Williams. Prior to that, the generations I have come from information from Sampson County.
I am interested mostly in stories. I have the information on my Williams family posted at grannyandpopacaldwell.com.
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Oprah Winfrey, one the world's most influential woman, hosts this talk show in which she talks with many celebrities and other people. She often holds special shows such as "Oprah's Favorite Things", or she will host to make some disorder or illness known, often contributing her money to such worthy causes. The show is the longest running, evening talk-show on television.
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8 Hearty, Dinner-Worthy Sandwiches
8 Hearty, Dinner-Worthy Sandwiches
Some sandwiches are too good to be limited to lunch, so do them a favor and serve them up for dinner! With a sandwich's crunchy bread, gooey cheese, and hearty protein, this meal is loaded with texture and flavor. Made with a twist, these eight recipes are a bit of an upgrade from the average peanut butter and jelly or turkey sandwich found in lunch boxes. So go ahead, help sandwiches lose their lunchtime reputation and serve up these clubs, subs, and paninis for dinner.


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Thomas Fine Arts
This facility serves students specializing in Communication and Performance Studies and music. Courses in electronic journalism, entertainment and sports promotion, media production and new technology, media studies, public relations, speech communication and theatre are often offered in the Thomas Fine Arts Building.
Music facilities include a music technology lab, two rehearsal rooms, three classrooms, 28 practice rooms, 24 keyboard stations and piano lab and studio offices. Many of the practice rooms are Wenger studios, named for the company that set the standard for music industry facilities, two of which are "V" ready to perfectly duplicate the acoustics of other venues; and the percussion ensemble room is the largest Wegner studio ever built. NMU's music and communications and performance studies faculty offices are located here. Various classes in other fields of study also meet in Thomas Fine Arts.
The building is connected to the Forest Roberts Theatre and the McClintock building and has a skywalk extending to C.B. Hegdcock. It is named for Russell Thomas, who was head of the English Department at Northern for 24 years.
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For a decade, the Chinese government's cyber-espionage activities have been an open secret in Washington.
The hacking and theft of intellectual property were widely known but not publicly discussed by either the companies being victimized or the federal government.
However, with the recent public release of a detailed report by cyber-security firm Mandiant, which draws a clear line between the Chinese military and extensive hacking activity, the behind-the-scenes drama has taken center stage.
We hope the public discussion, and the president's strategy to mitigate trade-secret theft, are just the beginning of a broad and multilateral effort to pressure the Chinese, as well as other nations that have been snooping around in corporate systems.
It is unfair for U.S. companies to spend the money and intellectual capital in developing ideas, business plans and sales strategies only to have that information stolen and used by competitors.
In this case, the suspicion is the secrets the Chinese military steals are funneled to state-sponsored companies that compete with U.S. companies in the global marketplace.
Of course, the Chinese government denies having engaged in such activities, but the Mandiant report is well-documented. There would have to be a stunning number of coincidences in play for the Chinese to have been accused in error.
The Obama administration responded to the report with a strategy white paper outlining approaches to the problem. It includes putting offending countries on "watch lists" and urging other countries to join in pressuring bad actors to stop their hacking activities. It also, as one critic quoted in The Washington Post noted, refers to strategies already in play. It includes the word "continue" more than 20 times.
The question, then, is what more can be done to combat such activity. We hope the administration is privately pressuring China to cease and desist. But there are other ways, including denial of visas to officials from companies that benefit from the theft, or students and researchers from universities connected to hacking activities. There also is room for more aggressive prosecution of cyber-espionage cases against perpetrators, regardless of who they may be.
It's a delicate matter, since there are many issues upon which the U.S. and China need to cooperate to serve mutual interests (North Korea comes to mind). But this country must defend its economic interests and find a way to stop aggressive Chinese hackers bent on appropriating some of America's greatest assets — the creativity and innovation of its people.


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So word has it Mercury is in retrograde and everything is going all topsy turvy. And just in case you don't believe all that astrology mumbo jumbo, here's proof: a fraternity in Massachusetts is raising money so a transgender brother can have sex change surgery. I KNOW! It's pretty much the last thing I'd expect from a bunch of beer chugging college frat boys, but there it is.
Frat boys as bonehead losers is old and busted. Frat boys as effing saints is the new hotness. And yeah, it gets better (pun very much intended).
Turns out the guys in Emerson College's Phi Alpha Tau barely know Donnie Collins. The transgender sophomore JUST pledged PAT this year! According to one report, the guys in the frat have only known him for all of 10 days!
And they're already willing to topple the douche-canoe reputation of frat boys everywhere for this guy?
Awww, guys, you're going to make a girl verklempt! Pass me a hanky! Sniff. Sniff. OK, all better.
Seriously, before today, you were more likely to see words like "hazing" or "rape" tied to the word "fraternity" in the news. I'm willing to admit that neither word represents every frat boy in America, but there have been enough such unfortunate incidents that the reputation has stuck.
What the guys in Boston are doing right now is probably a lot bigger than they ever intended.
And let's face it: this isn't just something good for the reputation of frat boys everywhere. It's shining a big ol' spotlight on how tough it is to be trans in America.
Collins has been paying for hormone replacement therapy since 2011. But the price of a "top surgery," a breast reduction that is one of the next big steps in the female-to-male transition, is way beyond him. The cosmetic surgery is about $8,000, and neither his mother's health insurance nor the Emerson College plan will cover it.
Good thing the IndieGoGo campaign by the guys in PAT has already gone over $17,000. Collins can cover his top surgery AND the Jim Collins Foundation, a non-profit that helps trans folks cover their gender reassignment surgeries, is getting a nice chunk of change.
I'm calling this a win for everyone. Donnie gets his surgery and fraternities everywhere get a much needed reputation makeover.
Be honest, what's your feeling about fraternities?
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DFB to reinvest profits in girls' football
Saturday 3 September 2011
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The German Football Association has announced that €5m from the profits of the FIFA Women's World Cup has been earmarked for the development of girls' and women's football in the country.
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The success of the recent FIFA Women's World Cup is likely to reap benefits for future generations of female footballers in Germany after the German Football Association (DFB) announced a large amount of the profits from the event are to be reinvested into girls' football.
The tournament, which was staged in Germany in June and July, is expected to produce pre-tax profits of around €10.6m for the organisers. "Higher income from higher tickets sales and lower expenses – that was the formula for what was, even for us, a surprisingly successful event," said DFB president Theo Zwanziger.
"The idea is to invest this money into the development of girls' and women's football," added Hannelore Ratzeburg, the DFB vice-president. "On 1 September, the newly set up DFB women's football department starts up, headed by Steffi Jones. One of their first jobs will be to draw up suitable projects and campaigns for sustainable grassroots development in this area."
A total of €5m has been earmarked for girls' and women's football as the DFB look to build on an already impressive grassroots programme that has earned it a maximum six stars in the UEFA Grassroots Charter.


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Climb the mountain
End of the month. Could it be the end of the NL East race?
Charlie doesn't like to have many clubhouse speeches. But, boy when he does, things happen.
According to newspaper reports, Charlie's pre-game message yesterday: "The mountain didn't come to Muhammad, did it? What happened? He had to go to the mountain and take it."
Riding the long ball again, the Phillies reduced the magic number to one last night after Charlie had talked to the team. Feliz got his first ever curtain call after his grand slam homer put the Phillies on top for good. It was his 150th hit, a career high.
Back in August, the Marlins swept the Phillies in a weekend set at Citizens Bank Park. Charlie got hot and let the team have it post-game. Result: 11 wins in next 13 games.
Now, the focus shifts to tonight and Pedro Martinez on the mound. Who would have ever guessed in spring training that Pedro would be the starter in the clinching game?
**3,422,583 is the Phillies attendance record set last year. That mark will be broken tomorrow night.
**848 wins so far this decade, best in club history.
**324,767 number of dollar dogs digested (or indigested) this season.
**68 multi-hit games for Feliz in 2008-09; Phillies record in those games: 76-12.
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The first thing I'm getting wrong is Axiomatic Systems. Perhaps "models" or "theories" are better names?
Cauchy wrote:Logical systems are more self-contained than you're making them out to be, Treatid. A system comes equipped with:
1) Its alphabet, that is, the symbols that can be used to make its well-formed formulas (the logical sentences that could or could not be provable)
2) Its grammar, which is the collection of well-formed formulas, that is, the collection of sentences that the system could apply to
3) Its axioms, that is, the collection of well-formed formulas that are taken as proved
4) Its inference rules, that is, the mechanisms by which we determine which other statements are provable besides the axioms.
I think I'm understanding up to this point.
We need something to represent what we are talking about (symbols). A set of rules applying to the symbols (inference rules). A starting point (axioms). And the rules need to apply to the specific symbols we are interested in (grammar).
If we are missing any of these components – or the components don't match up (e.g. the rules don't apply to the symbols) then we aren't (cannot be) describing a single, definite, unambiguous system.
If we do have all these components then we are able to describe an axiomatic system.
It is the next bit where I'm getting lost.
It looks to me as though this divides everything up into one of two sets:
1. Well formed axiomatic descriptions.
2. Not unambiguous descriptions (sorry for the double negative).
And here I run into trouble. My thinking is as follows:
Given that axiomatic mathematics as a whole exists; it must belong in one of these two sets:
A. If axiomatic mathematics is not a well formed axiomatic system then we can't be sure what is being described.
B. If axiomatic mathematics is a well formed axiomatic system then it is subject to the Principle of Explosion.
However, since axiomatic mathematics is definitely a thing, and the principle of explosion doesn't apply to axiomatic mathematics as a whole there must be another option that I'm missing. But I can't see what it could be.
An obvious possibility is that there are other types of systems other than axiomatic description. Except that the basic assumptions of axiomatic mathematics (axioms?) as described by Cauchy above appear to me to preclude an alternative method of description.
a. If we have symbols, rules and a starting point then it is axiomatic mathematics.
b. If we lack symbols or rules or a starting point (or the rules don't match the symbols) then we have nothing.
What am I missing/misunderstanding?


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Education Building in the Bosque Loses Funding
The session officially ended minutes ago, but because a budget fix hadn't been found for the state's $500 million shortfall, legislators will be seeing each other again soon.
But they did pass a measure this morning that takes money from projects around the state to try and shore up some reserves. They pulled in $130 million that way. I was just reading through this long list of projects that are losing their funds. And I found the Legislature is sucking back cash flow that was set to "plan, design, construct and equip an education building at the Rio Grande Nature Center state park in Bernalillo county."
Remember that story? A few weeks ago I wrote about some neighbors that were pretty bummed about that 5,700-square-foot building going into the Bosque.
Browse that list yourself. So many things are getting the ax.


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That can't fill out the "word verification" correctly the first time, when trying to leave a message on some one's blog? Everytime, I psyche myself up to do it, and blip, try again. Maybe I'm dyslexic? Or just dumb.
Am I the only One?
And this is how we celebrated our hike...
So we took a hike...
We hiked up Goat Mountain trail. Bjørn purposefully neglected to tell me that the map at the Ranger's office indicated our hike was one line straight up the mountain. 2.5 miles all switchbacks in the woods 1.25 miles in an upper meadow, and one 360 degree phenomenal viewpoint.
En preparacion
In prep for our missions trip to Mexico (and more because I want to), I am meeting with a Spanish tutor to brush up on my espanol. 2 hrs/week. I am very excited. I start this week.
The Nobodies
I ran across this poem from a classmate from twu, and it really caught me. It is his translation of a well-known Uruguayan journalist, Eduardo Galeano. Galeano describes himself as "A writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America above all and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia." This piece he laments the place of the Indigenous people of Latin America in the eyes of fellow citizens.
It is more powerful in Spanish, so if you know any, I recommend reading it in its original context. But here is my attempt.
The Nobodies
"The fleas dream of buying themselves a dog and the nobodies dream of leaving poverty
That one magic day suddenly good luck will rain, pouring rain of good luck
But good luck doesn't rain: yesterday, today, tomorrow or ever
A sprinkling of good luck doesn't fall for the nobodies that call for it
Even if they wake up on the right foot
Or if they change their broom at the beginning of the year
The nobodies: the sons of nobody, the owners of nothing.
The nobodies: the no ones, the lowest of lows, dying in life, the doomed, doom forever.
The Ones that are not, even If they are.
The ones that don't talk a language but a dialect.
The ones that don't have a religion but superstitions.
The ones that don't have a culture but folklore.
The ones that are not human beings but human resources.
The ones that don't have a face but a number.
The ones that don't appear in world history but in the police blotter of local papers.
The nobodies, the ones that, are even cheaper than the bullet that kills them"
Eduardo Galeano
Original en Castellano.
"Sueñan las pulgas con comprarse un perro y sueñan los nadies con salir
de pobres,
que algún mágico día llueva de pronto la buena suerte, que llueva a
cántaros la buena suerte;
pero la buena suerte no llueve ayer, ni hoy, ni mañana, ni nunca.
Ni en lloviznita cae del cielo la buena suerte, por mucho que los
nadie la llamen,
aunque les pique la mano izquierda, o se levanten con el pie
o empiecen el año cambiando de escoba.
Los nadie: los hijos de nadie, los dueños de nada.
Los nadie: los ningunos, los ninguneados, corriendo la liebre,
muriendo la vida, jodidos, rejodidos.
Que no son, aunque sean.
Que no hablan idiomas, sino dialectos.
Que no profesan religiones, sino supersticiones.
Que no hacen arte, sino artesanía.
Que no practican cultura, sino folklore.
Que no son seres humanos, sino recursos humanos.
I have seen this attitude present in Latin American countries towards the Indigenous people of the countries, and it is definitely present in North Americans' response to hearing daily international news of major catastrophes.
But I have to wonder if the last stanza ("The Ones that..."), isn't North Americans' attitude toward Native (American) people? I have to wonder if despite my 5+ years spent with Native people, if this isn't my own attitude many times?
Alaska Wedding ~ Day 2
Steph picked me up in the morning, and Amy and I spent the day running errands for her (and getting sidetracked at the Alaskan Brewing Co. headquarters). Last minute we helped the florist put together some floral arrangements.
I hung out at Rehearsal, and took pictures
and then we headed to the yacht club for rehearsal dinner. That was a blast - phenomenal view in 3 directions, good food, good drink, and good times. Amy and I whipped up a last minute a round of "Who will..." game for Ross and Steph, which I learned at my own rehearsal dinner.
Alaska Wedding ~ Day 1
Bjørn and I spent the morning and early afternoon, "sight-seeing" Juneau. The weather was cloudy. cold and a little rainy. We checked out the tram (that Aaron got us free passes for through his work).
Then we parted ways to attend the Bachelor and Bachelorette parties.
A quick glimpse
Bjørn and I got back around 1 am last night from AK, to both have work in the morning. (I started teaching ESL summer school today - 3 hrs/day, with 7 kids in my class - talk about perfect!)
North to Alaska...
North the Rush is on. I don't know if any of you who had parents that made you listen to classic, yet terrible music....but my dad always made us listen to Johnny Horton. So when I thought of our trip to Alaska, my childhood came rushing back:
Starting it out with style.
Bjørn, the poor dear, has to go to work today, IN CANADA! So in order to get him ready for the 4th of July out of country, we played Sousa marches - and boy did he march! woulda made his grandma proud! And of course, our favorite was Stars and Stripes Forever - a true classic. We then got him dressed up in American colors, and now, I think he is ready to show them Canadians, what true American pride is!


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If you've been reading Ars for a long time—particularly our Infinite Loop section—you may remember the days when we posted a weekly summary of some of the most interesting stories that we didn't cover. Those posts went away for a couple years, but we thought we'd experiment a little by bringing them back on occasion. The goal is to appreciate some of the other Apple news coverage out there on the Web, so here are a few links we collected throughout this busy week:
- As the battle for the living room heats up, Brightcove bets big on Apple TV: The Verge has a piece about Brightcove's new toolkit that allows companies to create dual-screen "apps" for iPad/iPhone and the Apple TV. The idea is to easily create apps that can stream to the Apple TV via AirPlay while using the iPhone or iPad as a remote control.
- Siri Shows Increasing Promise, But Accuracy Falls Short of Google Text Searches: MacRumors' talks about Gene Munster's analysis of Siri's accuracy compared against a regular Google text search. His findings weren't particularly great for Siri, though Munster remains optimistic about Siri's future.
- Virgin Mobile, Leap Turn to iPhone to Spur Prepaid Market: Bloomberg wrote about Virgin Mobile's plans to open its very first retail stores in Chicago in order to market its newly offered iPhone.
- BlueStacks brings Android apps to OS X, wolves planning a rest with some lambs: Engadget has the press release about a new OS X app that lets you run Android apps on the Mac. We know: your first reaction is "why on Earth!?" But Android developers might appreciate having more platform options available to them.
- Apple Inc. could bring $1 billion in economic impact to northern Nevada: KRNV Radio and News4 in Nevada covered Apple's plan to build yet another data center (in, well, Nevada). This would be in addition to the data center in North Carolina and the planned one in Oregon. According to News4, Apple hopes to begin construction in Nevada in August of this year.
- Apple Wins Patents for Inductive Charging & iOS Scrolling, Rotating & Resizing on Displays: Patently Apple once again highlights a number of interesting patents that have been awarded to Apple. The most interesting to us at Infinite Loop is the one describing the inductive charging dock, but that's largely because such feature is high on our iPhone wish lists.
We're not sure yet if there will be more of these posts, or what the frequency would be. But we're sure you have thoughts to share, so let us know in the comments what you think!


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Last Reviewed: June 10, 2007
Dear OncoLink "Ask The Experts,"
I had a radical prostatectomy in September 2006. Why would I have anything but a 0.0 PSA at this time? It's very low (PSA=0.08) but I'm not clear as to why ANY exists without a prostate.
David I. Lee, MD, Chief of the Division of Urology at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, responds:
We aim for a serum PSA that is <0.1 ng/mL. We do not panic when a PSA is still detectable after prostatectomy. There can be benign prostate cells in the pelvis. However, a PSA that steadily climbs into the 0.2 ng/mL range and higher warrants a careful evaluation for the presence of recurrent disease. The adrenal gland can also make a very small amount of PSA.


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Pictures from an unseasonably warm day in Arenac County
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Scout's honor
I was a Scout. Of course, back then it was called Boy Scouts, but Scouts, nonetheless.
Growing up in Manhattan, it was easy to be bored with the world around you. The change of seasons was hardly noticeable...a few more clothes, a little snow...and with all the paranoia -- some of it warranted, as careful readers of my blog know -- about this pervert and that hoodlum, it was easy to fall into a routine where you had few goals and fewer structures to support your behavior and character.
Enter the Scouts. I joined the Cub Scouts early on and progressed into the Boy Scouts where, I am proud to say, I earned the Life Scout badge.
I would have made Eagle, but college beckoned at 16, and I had to choose between scouting and making pocket money. In addition, I was selected for the prestigious Order of the Arrow society, which was de rigeur for any Scout who wanted to be an Eagle.
The Scouts were a grand old time: we backpacked the Adirondacks, camped out in New Jersey, ran one of the nation's first paper and metal recycling facilities (I was most proud of that) and generally came together the way boys of that pre-teen, pre-pubescent age can. We played games. We chose up teams. We roughoused. We bonded over bugs and campfires, latrines and lanterns.
We performed community service (you know, the "good deed for the day"?) and I'm pleased to count the Scouts as a major influence towards my liberal thinking.
Homosexuality never came into it, not because gays were forbidden (indeed, my first Senior Patrol Leader came out as an adult, and several of my charges when I was SPL are also out now) but because none of the kids understood what sex meant, much less loving another man was.
If the adults met and discussed it, we never knew. Or cared. None of the kids had any whisper campaigns about little Johnny or Mark. If we teased anyone...remember, it was a different era...it was goodnaturedly. I was teased, you were teased, he was teased, we were all teased. It wasn't any different, or anymore wrong or right, than calling Phillip or Michael "fat."
It was disillusioning, also disheartening then, when I was an adult to read the BSA had not only banned gay Scoutmasters, but gay Boy Scouts themselves. Somethingsomething pedophilia, somethingsomething victims, somethingsomething morals clause.
Now, it's true, the Boy Scout oath says something about "keeping myself morally straight," but somehow, in adolescence, "straight" takes on a different meaning: I won't lie, I won't cheat, I won't steal. I'll treat people honestly and fairly.
So it seemed to me that the only way to be honest with people is to let me have the opportunity to interact with them honestly. Hiding someone away because they're different is dishonesty, and the Scouts really ought to be ashamed of themselves for that.
No matter. I was ashamed for them. I wrote my local Council and asked to be removed from the roster of the OofA, because (as I had learned by my 30s) the man who inducted me in was never welcome, therefore I had not earned my place in the society.
Mind you, the NY Council disagreed vehemently with the national's decision, which is why I never surrendered my sash or insignia. I was willing to support them in their fight, but not willing to accept an elite honor from an organization that was willing to abnegate around ten percent of my friends who were also members.
We did what we could. It's taken twenty years...more like forty if you go back to the original proclamations of the national board, but I was too young to notice then...but we may finally prevail. And while the new proposal is more like "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" than an outright affirmation of the rights of gays to serve and be served in the Scouts, it's better than we had, and better than I would have hoped for.
But here's the tragic part, for my point of view:
About 50 local United Way groups and several corporations and charities have concluded that the ban violates their non-discrimination requirements and have ceased providing financial aid to the Boy Scouts. An official of The Human Rights Campaign, an advocate for gay rights, said HRC planned to downgrade its non-discrimination ratings for corporations that continue to give the BSA financial support.
"It's an extremely complex issue," said one Boy Scouts of America official, who explained that other organizations have threatened to withdraw their financial support if the BSA drops the ban.
So, like the Komen controversy, it wasn't until it hit the pocketbook that things got clear.
So much for "morally straight."


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Hello everybody. I've spent the last 2 or 3 (4?) days trying to figure out how to do accuratelly what's written on the subject. Hope will help someone. I have some questions, too
All was tested on 7.0-RELEASE, net-snmp-184.108.40.206_2. One of my goals was to find where the snmp values come from.
You could use 2 subtrees to collect system memory information. These are HOST-RESOURCES-MIB and UCD-SNMP-MIB.
hw.(physmem/pagesize) ->hrStorageSize.1 (Physical memory)
vm.vmtotal."Free Memory Pages"(t_free) ->hrStorageUsed.1
vm.vmtotal."Real Memory: total"(t_rm) ->hrStorageSize.2 (Real memory)
vm.vmtotal."Real Memory: active"(t_arm) ->hrStorageUsed.2
vm.vmtotal."Virtual Memory: total"(t_vm) ->hrStorageSize.3 (Virtual memory)
vm.vmtotal."Virtual Memory: active"(t_avm) ->hrStorageUsed.3
vfs.bufspace ->hrStorageSize.6 (Memory Buffer)
vm.stats.vm.(v_cache_count + v_inactive_count) ->hrStorageSize.7 (Cached memory)
vm.vmtotal."Shared Virtual Memory: total"(t_vmshr) ->hrStorageSize.8 (Shared virtual memory)
vm.vmtotal."Shared Virtual Memory: active"(t_avmshr) ->hrStorageUsed.8
vm.vmtotal."Shared Real Memory: total"(t_rmshr) ->hrStorageSize.9 (Shared real memory)
vm.vmtotal."Shared Real Memory: active"(t_armshr) ->hrStorageUsed.9
kvm_getswapinfo() ->hrStorage{Size, Used}.10 (Swap space)
The '->' means the left side (sysctl oids) determines the right side (snmp oids) using simple arithmetics with hw.pagesize and the *Size preceding value (where applicable).
(By the way, 'real' means 'resident'.)
The kernel computes the free pages value like that:
total.t_free = cnt.v_free_count + cnt.v_cache_count;
as written in vm_meter.c.
But, the "Free Memory Pages" values (from `sysctl vm.vmtotal`) is always different from the free physical memory value returned from HOST-RESOURCES-MIB (which equals, all the time, to UCD-SNMP-MIB::memAvailReal.0), which again is always equal to the sum of v_free_count and v_cache_count returned by `sysctl vm`, multiplied by 4 (page size in kB).
free memory = vm.stats.vm.(free+cache)_page_count * hw.pagesize
cached memory = vm.stats.vm.(cache+inactive)_page_count * hw.pagesize
1. Why is "Free Memory Pages" (?= t_free) from `sysctl vm.vmtotal` different from the free memory calculated as above?
2. Why counting v_cache_count twice: one time for the free memory and one time for the cached memory? Now we can not sum them (not many reasons to do that, but still).
The UCD-SNMP-MIB returned values (although related to those from HOST-RESOURCES-MIB, except memTotalFree) remain a mistery to me even after reading memory_freebsd2.c from the net-snmp source tree. It seems they are computed somewhere else, but I could not figure where.
From observations:
memTotalSwap = 4 * hrStorageSize.3
memAvailSwap = 4* (hrStorageSize.3 - hrStorageUsed.3)
memTotalReal = 4 * hrStorageSize.1
memAvailReal = 4 * (hrStorageSize.1 - hrStorageUsed.1)
memTotalFree = ???? (have no ideea)
memShared = 4 * hrStorageSize.8
memBuffer = 4 * hrStorageSize.6
memCached = 4 * hrStorageSize.7
'4' is the hrStorageAllocationUnits size in kB and 'Real' means 'physical' here.
3. Where are these values (UCD-SNMP-MIB::mem*) computed?
of topic, but have you considered using conky?
It's easy to configure.
- the 'cached' vm objects count as free memory because they could be immediately used for allocation, being clean;
- the 'cached' vm objects count as cached memory because they contain data existing on the backing store (disk, etc.);
- the 'inactive' vm objects are dirty (i.e their contents were not flushed to the backing store), so they _could not_ be used immediately for allocation but they count as cached memory, because they contain data which will exist (they _must_ be flushed) on the backing store.
These being said, there is no reason to sum 'free memory' and 'cached memory' on FreeBSD.
This is not the case under linux, where:
available memory <- free pages + cached pages + buffer cache
As far as I understood, in FreeBSD the vfs.bufspace could not be freed so it never counts as available memory.
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Kate combines an artist's eye for colour with a witty imagination. Using her background in fashion and talent for design, Kate creates amazing, innovative crocheted pictures – each one an original. Kate's philosophy is that anything can be created from yarn as long as it is made with love, and over the past few years Kate's career has seen her create a knitted greasy spoon cafe, a crocheted supermarket, an American Diner and entire fish counter! She continues to work on commissions for public and private collections worldwide.


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The late Jenni Rivera's daughter Janney "Chiquis" Marin is opening up about some very contentious family matters. The eldest daughter of the singing legend spoke with Azteca America in an interview that aired on Tuesday, Oct. 15, revealing that she and her late mother were not on speaking terms at the time of her death in December 2012.
"The world and my family lost Jenni on December 9, I lost my mother two months before on October 2. It was a misunderstanding," she said of the mother-daughter argument that led to their estrangement. "My world ended that day."
According to Marin, 28, Rivera had filed for divorce from her third husband, former MLB pitcher Esteban Loaiza, just one day earlier, claiming that her daughter had had an affair with her stepfather (Marin's father is Rivera's first husband, Jose Trinidad Marin).
"I don't understand how the rumor got started, this horrible thing that has caused so much suffering," Marin told Azteca America. "[Loaiza] has always been very respectful towards me and me with him."
"There were so many people filling her head with things," she continued. "If there's a problem with someone you should ask them directly, and that's something she didn't do. To this day, my mother, in her heart, thinks I had something with Esteban."
Rivera, who died in a tragic plane crash near Monterrey, Mexico, on Dec. 9, never explained the reasons for her divorce filing, only saying that the issue was so severe that she could not talk about it.
The Mexican singer and TV star kicked Marin out of her home shortly after the pair stopped speaking.
"Every day I have to live with this, no one know the pain I carry, especially because it was a misunderstanding, there were so many people int he middle that caused so much pain, so many problems that it was impossible not to be upset," Marin said.
Though the mother and daughter were not in communication at the time of Rivera's death, the legendary singer reportedly dedicated her song "Paloma Negra" to her daughter just hours before her fatal plane crash. The song's lyrics describe a feud and a hope for reconciliation.
According to Univision, Marin will play Rivera in an upcoming biopic about the late singer.
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Curd: solid custard-like state of milk containing protein and fat.
Coagulation: the process of converting a liquid into a semi-solid mass.
Colloid: a suspension of small particles dispersed in another substance.
Start the lesson by having the students watch the video. Review cheese-maker Trent Hendricks's description on how to make cheese with students. Tell students that they too will become cheese-makers for the day by making their own edible cheese. Before starting, make sure each student's work area, cooking utensils and equipment are clean. Review the importance of following proper safety guidelines for handling kitchen equipment and utensils.
Have students rinse out a saucepan with water to prevent the milk from sticking, and then pour one pint of milk into a saucepan. Slowly heat up the milk on the stove until it is just about to boil. At that point, students will see very small bubbles forming around the edge of the milk, where it meets the saucepan's sides. Remove the saucepan from the heat.
Slowly stir in one tablespoon of vinegar and continue to stir the milk. Ask students to describe what happens as they continue to stir. Tell students that the white stringy solids are the curds and the greenish liquid is the whey. Why is the milk separating into curds and whey? Based on the video, which part of the separated milk is used to make cheese?
Have students line the colander with a cheesecloth and place it over a sink or bowl. Pour the contents of the saucepan onto the cheesecloth. What happens to the whey? Why do they think it is necessary to drain from the curd?
Have students gather up the corners of the cheesecloth and tie the corners together with the string. Leave the curds for about one hour, so that they completely drain.
After an hour has passed, have students scoop the curds into a plastic cup. Ask students to use their five senses to observe and describe the curds (texture, smell, taste, etc). Have students mix small portions of salt or herbs into the curds to add flavor (optional).
What are the different production methods used by cheese-makers to separate milk into curds and whey?
What are the different factors used to produce a wide variety of cheeses with different flavors and textures?
Will cheeses made from different types of milk (cow, goat, soy, sheep, camel, among others) have the same texture or taste?
When and how did people first make cheese?
Experiment with variations in your cheese recipe by using different types of milks and seasonings, or by substituting the vinegar with lemon juice. Have students create a chart that compares and contrasts smell, taste and texture for each modified recipe.
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