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Birthmarks are colored spots on the skin that babies are born with or develop shortly after birth. These marks can be bright red, pink, brown, tan, or bluish. Birthmarks can be flat on the surface of the skin or raised.
The exact cause of birthmarks is unknown. However, some birthmarks can be genetic or associated with a disease.
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Moles are common in all humans. Other birthmarks may be isolated or have different causes. For example:
- Café-au-lait spots—may occur in people with neurofibromatosis
- Hemangiomas —more common in females, those with light skin, and babies born prematurely
- Mongolian spots—common in people with darker skin
- Port-wine stains —may occur in people with Sturge-Weber or Klippel Trenaunay syndrome
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- Café-au-lait spots—light tan colored spots on the body
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- Macular stain—pinkish or light red birthmarks that are sometimes referred to as "angel's kisses" or "stork bites"; common on the back of the head and neck and above the eyes
- Moles —dark brown or black spots
- Mongolian spots—flat birthmarks on the surface of the skin that have a blue-gray color; often located on the buttocks or the base of the spine
- Port-wine stains —pink, red, or purple colored blotches on the skin; often found on the face, neck, arms, or legs
- Congenital nevus—a dark, textured mole that may be covered in hair; often found on the abdomen and thighs
On rare occasions, moles can become cancerous. Any suspicious, colored lesion should be examined by a physician and closely observed or removed.
You will be asked about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will be done. Birthmarks are usually diagnosed based on the appearance of the skin area. If there is any question of the diagnosis, a biopsy may be taken and tested. You may also be referred to a dermatologist, a doctor who specializes in skin disorders.
Most birthmarks can and should be left alone. Treatment is generally recommended if the birthmark is:
- Cosmetically undesirable and unlikely to resolve on its own
- Causing discomfort or complications
- Has the potential to develop into a more serious condition (rare)
Treatment options depend on the type of birthmark and may include the following:
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- Laser therapy—to prevent the growth of hemangiomas and to remove hemangiomas and port-wine stains
- Surgery—to remove a colored lesion or to remove scars that remain from other treatments
- Cosmetic alternatives—There are many makeup products that effectively cover up birthmarks. These are sometimes referred to as corrective cosmetics.
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When it comes to the creation and publication of content in the 21st century, it's not just producers of print content that now face competition from "citizen journalists." Broadcast media has been equally impacted. With inexpensive digital video equipment, such as the Flip Video Camera, available and online video editing software available at low or no cost (among the top video editing software options provided by TechMediaNetwork's TopTenREVIEWS, the highest priced was just $100), almost anybody can produce high-quality video content.
Just as a keyboard doesn't make someone a journalist, a camera and editing software doesn't make someone a videographer. There is a range of quality represented in the archives of YouTube-nearly 8 years' worth of video from hundreds of millions of users. Those are staggering numbers. What is driving this level of production and, presumably, related consumption of video content?
Bill Carney is vice president of marketing with VisibleGains, Inc. in Waltham, Mass., a company that has been using video for quite some time to engage with online consumers. Today, says Carney, video is being used across the entire life cycle of a company's engagement with customers-from prospecting to engagement to education and service throughout the customer relationship. "It's so pervasive it's ridiculous now," he says.
What's behind video's rapid growth? Bandwidth, for one, says Carney: "The pipes can handle it now, if you will." In addition, he says, the cheapness of the hardware, the acceptance of YouTube as a medium, and the comfort level with lower product values have all come together to create an environment in which "casual video" has become a phenomenon.
Video is also just inherently more interesting than static content to many people. That's nothing new and, in fact, has long been the driver of the popularity of television advertising.
Jon Wuebben is founder and CEO of Content Launch, a web content development firm in Fallbrook, Calif. He is also the author of Content Is Currency: Developing Powerful Content for Web and Mobile (Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2012). "I think the main thing is that it's very popular because it's easy to access and people like watching video-it's kind of like television, but it's on your PC," says Wuebben. Video also provides control to users, he says.
Still, there's another, somewhat counterintuitive, driver as well, says Wuebben. Despite the proliferation of online video, lack of competition, at least among corporate users, is also driving utilization by smaller companies and individuals, he says. "Not many companies are really optimizing video content right now from an SEO perspective, so there isn't as much competition as there could be. Any company that optimizes video and uses all of the rules of SEO will rank very high."
While few would argue that there is value in producing and using video to spread the word online, it is a realm that many fear to a certain degree. Why? Seth Kenvin notes that while we have all been consumers of video and visual images since childhood, unlike creating written content, which we're all taught in school, "the whole process and craft of constructing video is something that people are just not familiar with very often." Kenvin is the CEO of Market7, Inc., a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company that provides software to let teams collaborate on every aspect of video production from concept to completion.
These types of tools are making it easier than ever before for large and small companies to take advantage of the power of video to boost web traffic, engage with consumer and business audiences, and, ultimately, drive bottom-line results.
Angie McNew is the director of websites and emerging media and Jennifer Messmer is the emarketing specialist at The Children's Museum of Indianapolis. To help the museum "stand out from the crowd" and directly reach its target audiences, a bi-weekly web series called This Week's WOW was created in 2010. Each video focuses on a new and exciting element around the museum. Some examples have included how to create a thunderstorm in the "Dinosphere" and an exclusive interview with Santa Claus.
The series is promoted in multiple locations on the museum's website, sent out to its email database, and posted to social platforms including Facebook and Twitter. The strategies have been successful; the museum has seen a 246% increase in video views on its YouTube channel, year over year.
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis is unique in that it employs "interpreters," on-staff actors who help bring these stories to life. "They are the stars of the videos," says McNew. The video stars are also a connection back to the brick-and-mortar museum. Visitors, especially the children, love to see these "stars" in person. "They ask to get their pictures taken with them; it just helps to bring that tie with online to the actual museum experience," says Messmer.
"I would say that if you're not doing something with video, and you're participating in any kind of social media, you are really missing out," says McNew. "It's a very significant piece of the social media landscape."
Careful planning and a well-developed and clearly articulated strategy are keys to achieving success with video, notes Michael Bott, formerly of Procter & Gamble. In his role as that company's brand manager, Bott was involved in the launch of online video to support the Olay.com site. The use of video was designed to increase online sales and conversions, improve customer engagement, and, of course, strengthen the brand. It's a great example of "thinking from the outside in" in terms of presenting information that customers, and potential customers, might find useful.
Visitors to the Olay site can go to the Olay for You section, where they answer a series of questions and then receive information on the regime that's right for them, including videos to demonstrate various products. The site also takes advantage of user-generated reviews, part of its three-pronged video strategy, says Bott.
The first prong was using video that had already been created for television and Facebook and putting it on YouTube. The second was creating "quick videos that aren't as exorbitantly priced to allow us to be nimble," he says. The final piece of the puzzle is user-generated content.
"It really starts with what consumers are demanding," says Bott. "Obviously, they're searching for information about products before they purchase them. But they're validating their purchases by looking at user-generated reviews. When you're looking to purchase something and you're about to click 'buy now,' you need to have those multiple options available to validate your purchase decision," he says.
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In a new Forrester report of Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) providers, Sungard AS was cited as a leader among the select companies invited to participate. The results were included in The Forrester WaveTM: Disaster-Recovery-As-a-Service Providers, Q2 2019 report.
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LEGO Fanwelt opens today in Cologne, Germany. Use this thread to post photos. One of the MOCs I'm most excited to see more of is the Lowlug Castle display, but by Jalkow, DNL, MOCkingbird, Aliencat and Stuifzand.
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African American Lives
This is a great documentary that uses history, genealogy, and new technologies to retrace the violently and deliberately erased ancestral histories of a group of participants, all of African ancestry whose relatives were, for the most part, brought over involuntarily from Africa. The answers it provides are often thought-provoking in ways that most discussions about race aren't.
The host is Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr, a W.E.B. DuBois professor of the Humanities and the Chair of African and African-American Studies at Harvard University. I'd seen Gates in Wonders of the African World where he seemed to feign ignorance about everything he learned on his travels in Africa. I mean, he's got some pretty big credentials and yet he'd continually act like he had no idea about the realities of his chosen subject of expertise until his interviewees revealed it to him. It seemed like he felt that pretending that everything was new to him would make him more identifiable to us, the presumably ignorant viewers. In this documentary, unfortunately, he does the same schtik which is just about the only shortcoming of the documentary, although it can be sort of funny. For example, he "guesses" that, given his appearance, his ancestors came from the East African kingdom of Nubia (huh?!), despite the fact that nearly all slaves in the U.S. came from the West Coast slave centers built centuries earlier, not by Europeans, but by other Africans. Of course it turns out that 0% of slaves were Nubian. His surprise at his DNA results seems genuine though when they reveal that his matrilineal line goes back to Ireland.Continue Reading
Bone (1972)
Replace the repressed white male anger of Fight Club with that of the repressed white housewife's in order to explore the terrain of Jungle Fever and you get the gist of writer/director Larry Cohen's debut. Instead of fitting squarely within the genre of blaxploitation, the film examines some of the stereotypical representations of the black male which helped make the genre possible to begin with.
Bernadette (Van Patten) is a bored Beverly Hills wife who lounges by the pool when she's not spending her husband's money. Her husband, Bill (Duggan), is the prototypical American salesman who's invested so much of his life in the manufactured desires of advertising that he no longer remembers if there's anything real behind the imagery. (We see him dreaming of selling junkyard cars filled with bloody corpses.) As George Costanza said, "it's not a lie, if you believe it."Continue Reading
Cooley High
Set in the last days of Cooley High's 1964 class, the film follows the extracurricular exploits of a disaffected young writer, Preach (Turman), and his more matriculatedly inclined friend and local sports star, Cochese (Hilton-Jacobs). Based on the post-adolescent years in Chicago's Cabrini Green housing project of writer and the film's primary auteur, Eric Monte, the story serves as a counter-narrative to the white-flight reactionary dreaming of American Graffiti. Where that film sought to return the disillusioned 70s mainstream audience to simpler and happier times, pre-JFK assassination, Monte places his characters right under the storm cloud a-brewin' and still manages to find the same teen-aged joie de vivre one encounters in Fast Times at Ridgemont High or Dazed and Confused.
Preferring lived experience to the more academic variety, Preach spends his days ducking classes, gambling, drinking, smoking dope, trying to get into the pants of the best-looking girl in the neighborhood, Brenda (Davis) and dreaming of being a Hollywood writer. Cochese has considerably less trouble with the girls and makes plans for college. With a bit of movie magic, it turns out that Brenda loves the same poets Preach does, while Cochese has learned that he's going to the school of his choice with a full scholarship. Although the film delivers as many comedic highs as any suburban teen comedy, the graffiti-ridden streets framed by the petroleous columns of Chicago's metro railways taints the wish-fulfilling qualities it shares with a John Hughes flick. And, sure enough, the film takes on a more somber tone after Preach and Cochese go on a joyride with some felonious friends in a Cadillac.Continue Reading
Crooklyn is a love letter from Spike Lee to his youth. Co-written with his sister Joie and brother Cinque, it draws from memories of their childhood growing up in Brooklyn. It is the story of the Carmichael family made up of a jazz musician father, an overworked and harried schoolteacher mother and 5 children. Seen from the eyes of ten year old Troy, the only daughter, we see the chaos and turbulent joy, frustration and sorrow of the Carmichael family. The movie plays like impressions with abrupt shifts from comedy to drama and has no political or dramatic motivation other than a look at life through the eyes of a child. Even without this the movie provides a true emotional arc and one is absorbed by the nostalgic and slightly foreign era where children are not afraid to play in the streets or confront crazy neighbors. Nobody walks around shaded by hooded sweatshirts and assuming menacing anonymity simply for their own protection. The only drug users are two ridiculous glue sniffers who are the neighborhood's sad joke.
When we follow Troy, who visits her relatives in Virginia, there is a wonderful shift of perspective as the differences in environment and behavior are cataloged and deciphered through her eyes. You can feel the strength of her mother rise to the surface as she adapts and dismisses affection and manners from her southern family. There is no arguing her demand to go home and, once there, she must draw on that strength again to see herself and her family through tragedy.Continue Reading
Disappearing Acts
Valentine's Day is just around the corner and it may very well be a made-up holiday but your loved one probably won't care who made it up as long as they have Valentine status. If you don't have a special someone on the day, who cares? We are celebrating love. Love. Everyone has that - don't let the crappy candy tell you otherwise and if you want to see the softer side of V-Day, I have the perfect choice.
Disappearing Acts is a made for HBO film based on a best selling novel by Terry McMillan. It tells the sexy and heartrending story of Zora and Franklin - a new couple dealing with the beauty and land mines their love encounters. Sanaa Lathan and Wesley Snipes are a gorgeous and skilled duo whose initial chemistry and lust might set your plasma screen on fire. They are hot and then hotter. So much fire and it seems inevitable that someone will get burned, but far from one dimensional these two lovers come complete with personal history that informs without slagging on the pace or script. Their new love is surprising and fun and it is a treat to watch them discover deeper levels of emotional intimacy as they tackle the obstacles between them.Continue Reading
Emperor Jones
Paul Robeson (1898-1976) was one of the towering figures of African-American art, culture, and politics in the 20th century. An All-American collegiate athlete and attorney, he became a star of the dramatic and musical stage, an international concert luminary, recording artist, and the first black leading man on film. But his outspoken opposition to segregation and his support of Russia's Communist regime made him a pariah during the Cold War '50s; the U.S. State Department lifted his passport for nearly a decade, until the Supreme Court overturned its action in 1958. Only near the end of his life did his singular achievements begin to be recognized without the taint of racial or political prejudice.
Robeson's 1924 appearance in the Broadway revival of Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones launched him to stardom. He portrayed Brutus Jones, a Pullman porter turned murderer who becomes the despotic ruler of a Caribbean island. The expressionistic 1933 film production recreated that heralded performance, and was expanded to include several musical numbers featuring Robeson's peerless, profound bass voice. The last 15 minutes of the film is essentially a soliloquy by Jones, who, hunted by rebellious natives, is terrorized by "haints" from his past; it's an acting tour de force.Continue Reading
Flag Wars
Set in Columbus, OH and filmed over 4 years, Flag Wars is not only a film about gentrification, but also of racism, homophobia, and privilege. Throughout the film, you will follow Linda Mitchell as she fights for both her home and her life, Chief Baba Olugbala Shango Obadena as he struggles to keep a simple sign with his name above his door, and Jim Yoder and Nina Masseria as they face hate crimes and resistance from their neighbors. You will meet African-American families who have lived in their homes for 40 years and now face the fear of losing them to a wave of mainly white, gay professionals looking to rehab properties and better the neighborhood. While one side strides toward change, the other enjoys a life established long ago. Flag Wars shows us, quite literally, the middle of the road where the two sides meet....Continue Reading
Killer of Sheep: The Charles Burnett Collection
Killer of Sheep is a beautifully simple urban tale of an African-American community set in Los Angeles' Watts district during the1970s. Yes, the 1960s held a cultural revolution for racial freedom, but history often assures us that problems lie on far more complexities than just a cry for racial freedom. Every community has its individual fight and here we follow Stan, frustrated with the monotony of working at a slaughter house, and how it affects his life at home.
Noteworthy of the film is how personal it feels. It makes sense – Charles Burnett wrote, produced, shot, and directed it with a budget of less than $10,000 with the help of many close friends and family. The result is a natural, humanistic style. It takes a lot of courage for a director to let a story work inside out, and that's where the simplicity lies. Emotion is often wallpaper when complicated plots involve twists and turns. Instead, here, we are embraced in moments within relationships, moments of hardship, moments of tenderness, and moments of family-hood.Continue Reading
La Noire de... (a.k.a. Black Girl)
Black Girl was the first feature length film made in Sub-Saharan Africa by an African which is why its director, Ousmane Sembene, was known universally as the "Father of African Cinema." He didn't end up being a prolific director, but he was one who regularly made amazing films up until his final film which came out which he made at 81, three years before his death in 2007.
Sembene began his creative career as an author but realized that he could reach a far larger audience with film. As a speaker of Wolof, his films would only be understood by Wolof speakers and the small audience which subtitles can reach (being problematic due to widespread illiteracy in Africa and further language barriers). To overcome these obstacles, Sembene used a cinematic solution, the employment of a highly visual style which owed more to Soviet aesthetics than to mainstream Hollywood or European films. It also suited his background as a Communist primarily concerned with social change. The thoughtfully-constructed visuals would convey his lifelong concerns with post-colonial identity, racism and later in his career, African corruption and negative cultural practices.Continue Reading
Lady Sings the Blues
The most celebrated singer-turned-actor performance ever might be Frank Sinatra in From Here to Eternity. It revived his career and was a turning point in his legacy as he moved from a teenybopper idol to the more mature crooner he is best remembered for today (and he followed it shortly with another important performance in The Man with The Golden Arm). But Sinatra had been acting in musical films for years (On The Town). In terms of degree of difficulty, for a first major role Bjork's performance in the torture-fest sorta-musical Dancer in the Dark is certainly impressive and many singers have gone on to have their film careers eclipse their singing success (Cher, Mark Wahlberg, Will Smith, and to some extent Bing Crosby and Barbra Streisand). But the most audacious acting debut from a mega-star singer has to be Diana Ross taking on the role of troubled iconic jazz singer Billie Holiday in Lady Sings the Blues. Directed by journeyman director Sidney J. Furie (The Ipcress File, The Boys in Company C) and based on Holiday's own (said to be mostly fictional) autobiography, Ross throws herself into the role with aplomb, having to go to emotional depths that would challenge even the most veteran thespian. The film also made a kinda-star of her leading man, Billy Dee Williams, and helped establish a movie career for stand-up comedian Richard Pryor. Executive produced by Motown founder Berry Gordy Jr, it was the first flick made under the Motown banner and it would also prove to be the apex of the the historic record company's forays into filmmaking.
Lady Sings the Blues is a mostly typical music bio in that it's one of those classic "rags-to-riches-to-total self destruction" stories. No matter how many times I've seen this kind of tale, if the lead performance is dynamite, I'll buy in. I don't know how much of it is actually true but it's still a doozy of a rollercoaster ride. After being raped as a girl, Billie took the only jobs that seemed to be available for a young black woman during The Depression: a cleaning woman and a prostitute. She eventually talked her way into singing in a little smokey nightclub where she meets her dream man, Louis (Williams), and catches the attention of a couple of white musicians who take her on the road to build up her name and also turn her on to drugs. The film seems to be more fascinated with Billie's messy and ugly personal life than her voice, which most experts rate as one of the most seminal and important of the twentieth century. As Billie climbs the stardom ladder she is met with racism and humiliation, with her devoted but frustrated husband Louis lending support. (Though he comes off as Mr Wonderful here, it's been reported that in real life Billie's husband was just as much of a creep as the other men who exploited her. Ironically he was a technical advisor for the film, which may explain the whitewash.) Billie continues to sing her way to the top, but she falls deeper and deeper into heroine addiction. Her only friend appears to be her piano player (real life junkie Pryor, excellent here in a supporting role). Of course Pryor would reveal his own special kind of genius later with his two landmark concert films, Richard Pryor Live in Concert and Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip. Hospital stays, arrests and even true love aren't enough to end the torture for Billie. Though she does have a triumphant Carnagie Hall comeback show, it's still a story of another legend dying young.Continue Reading


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Skip to comments.Liberal Arab Columnist: 'Why do Arabs Hate the West, Especially the U.S.?'
Posted on 08/13/2003 5:58:46 AM PDT by SJackson
Special Dispatch Series - No. 551
|August 12, 2003
Liberal Arab Columnist: 'Why do Arabs Hate the West, Especially the U.S.?'
In an article titled "Why Do Arabs Hate the West, Especially the U.S.," Zuheir Abdallah, columnist for the London-based Arabic daily Al-Hayat, blames Arab fascism and Islamism for failing to achieve any accomplishments for the Arab world since 1948, leading to its backwardness today. The following are excerpts from the article: [1]
Arabs Should Remember They Invaded and Occupied Europe Before The Crusades
"Most Arabs hate the West, especially the U.S., for many reasons; some date back to the Crusades and the Andalusia period, and more recently, because of Palestine and Iraq. I don't intend to delve into this historical turmoil, but for the sake of history, the Arabs should remember that they invaded and occupied important parts of Europe hundreds of years before the Crusades wars.
"The West and the U.S. in particular, as a result of their growing financial and moral power since the 1950s, and just like any human force, dominates and colonizes just like them the Assyrians, the Romans, the Greeks, the Persians, the Arabs, the Tatars, the Ottomans and others did before them But since the 1950s, both the dominating and dominated initiated an attempt to build a new world, where competition (which is part of human nature) gradually moved from the battlefields to the realm of creation, economy and trade. Sciences and inventions developed as never before, especially in the fields of space, communications and medicine, which led to the invention of computers, the Internet and satellites, and many medicines and antibiotics were discovered, overcoming many diseases and increasing humans' life expectancy. In general, the world went on a stable path of progress, as trade prospered (with the elimination of tariffs and the speed in transportation)."
Since 1948 The Arab World Has Regressed
"But despite this, the Arab world failed to ride the same wagon (except for the consumption part), ever since the Palestinian Nakba in 1948. Since then, under the pretext of liberating Palestine and destroying the occupation's agents, most Arab countries were taken over by not so intelligent and more tyrannical people (mostly from the military). Thus, the economic and scientific growth regressed and reached the bottom level, in comparison to the rest of the countries in the world (according to the last report of the UN)."
Arab Fascism and Fundamentalist Islam Have Nothing to Offer People
"Since 1948, the primitive Arab fascism was given free reign, and boosted by the backwards soldiers, from the officers to reactionary parties (sometimes self-dubbed progressive), and other times allied with fundamentalist Islam. It has nothing to offer to its people except empty slogans revolving around the themes of resistance and struggle, for no voice can be louder than that of the fight, and consequently, corruption spread, and this Arab fascism was constantly being defeated in its Don-Quixote-like-battles with any foreign force (except its people, as it always vanquished them).
"All around the world, extremist slogans and concepts are falling one after the other; but in the Arab world, they have reached such a level that many simple-minded people and ignorant persons were unfortunately brainwashed and turned into the fuel of this extremism. When discussing with many Arab citizens, even those claiming to be educated, about the reason for our backwardness, you get a preset answer to the effect that the West with the U.S. in particular are stopping the Arabs from progressing. If this hypothesis is true, then why did certain Arab and Islamic countries, such as Malaysia and Dubai [sic], manage to achieve progress (even if partially)?"
Arabs Reject Western Inventions, Only to Embrace them Later
"The West and the U.S. in particular achieved major accomplishments over the past century. As for us, Arabs and Muslims, we became at most consumers of these accomplishments and inventions; we reject them at first claiming they are designed to control us, then consume them fast and even hide it most of the time. The examples are many:
* The invention of radio transmission, then television then satellite channels, then electronic communications devices. Most Arabs misused these means, and used them as channels for religious extremism, political provocation, and transmission of erroneous information. The young generation spends long hours on the Internet to view pornographic pictures, mainly in the highly conservative societies, which foster frustration. Before the modern communication means (visual and audio), we had enlightened religious scholars such as Mohamad Abdu and Jamaleddine Al Afghani. After the confusion resulting from these means, we have Sheikhs like bin Laden, Al Dhawahiri and many others we watch and hear on the Arab satellite channels.
* The weapons were highly and unusually developed during the last century. From 1948 to this day, arms purchases in the Middle East occupied the first place among the countries in the world and reached between 1995 and 1997, about 38% from world purchases in comparison to 3% in South America, according to the U.S. State Department's report: "Military Expenditures and Arms Transfers 1998." Most of these purchases were made under the pretext of liberating Palestine and fighting the enemies. They were either used against the people or during the civil wars or to attack neighboring countries. As for Israel, it remains the most powerful in terms of arms.
* In the medical field, penicillin and antibiotics were discovered, which saved millions and billions of human lives from fatal diseases as typhoid and many children diseases. As a result, there was a disorder in the demographic balance of many developing countries, especially in the Arab countries, as birth rates considerably grew (sometimes encouraged by ignorant rulers), combined with a decrease in death rates, especially infantile. As a result, the yearly demographic increase varied between 3 and 5%, which means that the census in some Arab countries doubled every 16 years. Social, political and environmental problems ensued and governments and people couldn't confront them.
"These are few of the examples on the inventions and discoveries of the last centuries and how they were misused in the Arab world. Let us stop for a minute and ask ourselves, Arabs and most Muslims, what did we offer for ourselves and the rest of the world, since the beginning of the industrial revolution to this day, from human sciences and inventions or any other added value to civilization? Unfortunately, the answer is: almost nothing!!"
[1] This article is a reprint of a translation into English by Dar al Hayat, http://english.daralhayat.com/opinion/08-2003/Article-20030808-e1036326-c0a8-01ed-0054-c054dbe12836/story.html, August 8, 2003. The article originally appeared in Al-Hayat (London).
Kind of like California with its liberal democRats and illegal aliens.
Something to do with numerous acts of terrorism culminating in an act of war on 9/11/2001, I'd venture to guess...
Yes; these people will continue to prove the author's point. Just ask Salman Rushdie (author of Satanic Verses).
The Israel issue always was blown up fantastically out of proportion to its real-world impact. Where it is regarded as an affront to Arabic honor it is a stain that must be washed in blood. Where it is regarded as the migration of a certain principally Eastern European population that happens to be Jewish the problem falls away - the exclusion and hostility that has so alienated the two sides is essentially an artificial creation, not that it makes it any less an obstruction now. Nor, to be cold about it, does it directly affect a significant portion of the populations of either the West or the Arabic countries - were all the Palestinians and all the Israelis to drop dead suddenly neither the West nor the Arabic world would do much more than grieve for a human tragedy, but a demographic pinprick.
(Nor is it a necessary religious confrontation - Islam is more comfortable both historically and theologically with Judaism than Christianity is, even, in a number of ways.)
While it is perfectly true that the center of the Arabic world is dependent on an extraction economy that its controlling elite has failed to expand and diversify (for its own reasons to which the author above alludes) that isn't really an excuse. The "Arab" world is much more than Saudi Arabia and a few principalities on the Arabian littoral; it consists of billions of people and a huge potential in terms of human and natural resources that has nothing to do with oil. Something is clearly holding these back, and it isn't the West. It is the toxic political brew composed of elements of militarism and religious fundamentalism that has intoxicated a ruling elite that is profoundly threatened by the necessity to release control in order to foster progress. This elite is using anti-Westernism, and specifically anti-Americanism, as the same sort of security blanket the Soviet Union and its controlling elite did. It is similarly brittle, and in time will fall to the human aspiration for freedom that only ignorance can suppress. There may be an ocean of blood between now and then. It is, essentially, a new Cold War.
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1 stalk bunga kantan (ginger torch) sliced thin on the bulbs only
2 sprigs daun kesum,washed
1 medium onion,peeled and cut
2 tomato,washed and cut quarter
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2 tbsp tamarind powder, more if you like sourness
2 cups water
2 cubes ikan bilis(anchovies) or shrimp
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salt to taste
4 tbsp oil
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Harrison Pet Products Inc Genesis Adult with lamb & rice
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Metabolizable Energy (kcal/kg): 3776
Lamb Meal, Ground Rice, Ground Spelt, Ground Barley, Poultry Fat, Dried Egg, Rice Bran, Tomato Pomace, Lamb Digest, Fish Meal, Dried Beet Pulp, Yeast, Lecithin, Dried Whole Peas, Dried Celery, l-Lysine, Fish Oil, Dried Whole Carrots, Sodium Hexametaphosphate, Whole Ground Flax Seed, Potassium Chloride, Dried Apples, dl-Methionine, Choline Chloride, Dried Cranberries, Dried Blueberries, Glucosamine Hydrochloride, Chicory Powder, Fructooligosaccharides, Dried Marigold Petals, Mannanoligosaccharides, l-Carnitine, Chondroitin Sulphate, Zinc Sulphate, Zinc Proteinate, Vitamin E Supplement, Ferrous Sulphate, Ascorbic Acid (source of vitamin C), Manganese Sulphate, Inositol, Niacin Supplement, Iron Proteinate, Manganese Proteinate, Zinc Oxide, Biotin, Thiamine Mononitrate (source of vitamin B1), Copper Sulphate, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (source of vitamin B6), Copper Proteinate, Vitamin A Supplement, Riboflavin Supplement (source of vitamin B2), Calcium Pantothenate, Calcium Iodate (source of iodine), Manganous Oxide, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Sodium Selenite, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Menadione Dimethylpyrimidinol Bisulfite (source of vitamin K activity), Folic Acid.
Typical Analysis
Crude Protein 24.0%
Crude Fat 14.5%
Crude Fiber 2.5%
Moisture 9.0%
Ash 8.0%
Calcium 1.50%
Phosphorous 1.20%
Potassium 0.55%
Sodium 0.35%
Magnesium 0.12%
Vitamin A 16500 IU/kg
Vitamin D3 1100 IU/kg
Vitamin E 120 mg/kg
Vitamin K3 1.5 mg/kg
Vitamin C 18 mg/kg
Thiamine B1 14 mg/kg
Riboflavin B2 22 mg/kg
Pyridoxine B6 8 mg/kg
Vitamin B12 180 mcg/kg
Biotin 450 mcg/kg
Chloride 2200 mg/kg
Folic Acid 1.8 mg/kg
Niacin 55 mg/kg
Pantothenic Acid 32 mg/kg
Trace Minerals
Zinc 175 mg/kg
Copper (as copper sulphate) 8 mg/kg
Copper (as copper chelate of amino acids hydrate) 4 mg/kg
Manganese 55 mg/kg
Iron 300 mg/kg
Iodine 1.6 mg/kg
Selenium 0.20 mg/kg
Glucosamine / Chondroitin Sulphate 715 mg/kg
Fructooligosaccharides 450 mg/kg
Omega 6 Fatty Acids 5.1%
Omega 3 Fatty Acids 0.85%
Omega 6:3 Fatty Acid Ratio 6.0:1
With Antioxidants (extracts of tocopherols of natural origin, propyl gallate from plant extract)
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First ingredient is a named meat product
Insufficient meat content, some low quality ingredients, fat of unidentifiable origin, controversial filler
The first ingredient in this food is a named meat product, in meal form. There is a further meat meal ingredient 10th on the ingredient list. This is far too far down to make any substantial contribution to the overall meat content of the food. We note it is a fish ingredient, but we find no sign on the manufacturer website of a guarantee that they use only ethoxyquin-free protein sources in the product (ethoxyquin is a chemical preservative commonly added to fish ingredients, but which is banned or heavily regulated in human food due to the belief that it is carcinogenic). Another meat related ingredient Digest is 9th on the ingredient list. Digest is material which results from chemical and/or enzymatic hydrolysis of clean and undecomposed tissue. Although from a named source, digest is a low quality ingredient that is not found in high quality products.
The main grains in the food are rice, spelt and barley. All are decent quality grains. Rice bran, however, is a grain fragment we consider to be primarily filler. We assume the egg ingredient in this food to be whole eggs, which is appreciated. Tomato pomace is filler, as is rice bran which is a grain fragment. The protein content of the food is boosted by hydrolysate, which is not a high quality ingredient. Poultry fat is a further low quality ingredient rarely found in anything but very low quality foods. Poultry fat is an ingredient of unidentified origin for which it is impossible to determine source or quality. Unidentified ingredients are usually very low quality. AAFCO define this as obtained from the tissues of poultry in the commercial processes of rendering or extracting. It consists predominantly of glyceride esters of fatty acids and contains no additions of free fatty acids. If an antioxidant is used, the common name or names must be indicated, followed by the words "used as a preservative"
Beet pulp is controversial filler which appears to be used in large quantities in this food. It is a by-product, being dried residue from sugar beets which has been cleaned and extracted in the process of manufacturing sugar. It is a controversial ingredient in dog food, claimed by some manufacturers to be a good source of fibre, and derided by others as an ingredient added to slow down the transition of rancid animal fats and causing stress to kidney and liver in the process. We note that beet pulp is an ingredient that commonly causes problems for dogs, including allergies and ear infections, and prefer not to see it used in dog food. There are less controversial products around if additional fibre is required.
We appreciate the range of fruits/vegetables in the food but we note that this product includes synthetic vitamin K, a substance linked to liver problems and that is progressively being removed from better quality dog food products.
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In the recent redesign of the front page of Dr. Dobb's, you might have noticed a small, but important, change. Namely, the navigation tab that formerly was entitled "Java" was renamed to "JVM Languages." This change reflects our belief that while Java remains the central language of the platform, the prodigious rate at which new languages are coming to market on the JVM warrants our wider attention and coverage. And indeed, in the last twelve months, we've covered a representative assortment of them: Fantom, Gosu, JRuby, Mirah, Groovy++, and Scala. We could easily have added NetRexx, Jython, and Clojure.
These languages fall into three broad categories: 1) ports of other languages (JRuby, Mirah, Jython); 2) Improvements on Java (Fantom, Groovy, Scala, Gosu); and 3) languages that are doing their own thing, it just happens to be on the JVM (Clojure and NetRexx). For your reference, we put together a quick slideshow of these JVM languages discussing their pros and cons and illustrating them with a small code snippet.
What is curious about the fecundity of the JVM as a language platform is that in the original positioning of .NET vs. Java, .NET, not Java, was the multi-language platform. To put it into the exact terms, .NET renounced multi-OS support (it ran only on Windows) but countered with excellent language interoperability, making it trivially easy for components written in different language to work together. To this end, Microsoft supported JScript, J#, Visual Basic, and C#. These four languages plus those of other vendors dragged into porting to .NET (such as Eiffel and others) were the proof of concept. Microsoft later dropped support for J#, minimized its attention on JScript, and watched most of the VB folks migrate to C#. And so, rather than the expected language explosion on .NET, a language consolidation was going on. Microsoft even threw in its research language, F#, but this step did not fire up the imagination of language developers.
Java was originally positioned as a platform that ran everywhere, but had only the one language. It turns out that the 'run everywhere' mantra was really compelling. (We see the phenomenon repeating itself today in the Web app world, where JavaScript's universality trumps all other considerations.) Java's ability to serve on massive server farms as well as inside Android phones gave it remarkable appeal. Moreover, Sun documented the JVM well; and it was comparatively easy to find tools that facilitated bytecode generation and manipulation. In contrast, Microsoft's .NET was not as friendly. Nor was Redmond's support for people and companies who could extend its franchise. It would undoubtedly be competitive in the new languages space today if Microsoft had done more to embrace the work undertaken by Miguel de Icaza's team with the Mono project. Microsoft, it is rumored, helped them under the table, but it never really cottoned to the Mono project and certainly never embraced them. That's too bad. Microsoft's excellent work with C# remains bottled up inside a closed universe.
Today, we witness the release of Kotlin, another language for the JVM. Kotlin, which is presented in depth in our Language of the Month feature, is designed by JetBrains, which is unarguably the company with the finest reputation for programming tools. Its IntelliJ IDEA, ReSharper, and RubyMine IDEs are all top of the line products. Many of them, especially the first two, elicit feelings of deep affection and admiration from their users. As a long time IntelliJ IDEA user myself, I share those feelings of admiration and occasionally delight. This is a company that knows how to deliver products that developers want. So, I have high expectations of Kotlin
A new language, however is a risky prospect. Why tie up engineering talent coming up with one, when there are already so many to choose from? The JetBrains team was forthcoming in its response: No language currently available met their needs. Most of JetBrains' code is written in Java (with a tiny smattering in Groovy) and the productivity they were seeing from continuing in Java across products with so many classes (more than 50,000 classes for IntelliJ alone) forced them to consider writing their own language.
I don't know their specific objections to existing solutions, but based on JetBrains' published specs, I can put them together. Groovy runs too slowly and Scala compiles too slowly. Neither had great tool support, especially in IDEs. Neither language had quite the complete set of features JetBrains needed, so the company took features from both and integrated them into Kotlin along with lightning-fast compilation cycle and native Java execution speed. It's clear from these comments that Kotlin falls into the second group of JVM languages mentioned above — a better Java language.
The fast compilation and runtime plus the superior tooling JetBrains will deliver move Kotlin to the top of my list of JVM languages. Like many other developers, I'll be evaluating Kotlin carefully and watching how JetBrains moves it forward. Ultimately, if I don't like their choices, I have the luxury of a wealth of alternatives to choose from.
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In first-person shooter Killzone 3, the Helghast are the gas-mask wearing baddies. Cloaked in black and with glowing eyes, you wouldn't want to meet one on the street. And in Munich, Germany, you won't.
To help promote Killzone 3 in the German city, a Helghast cosplayer roamed the streets, complete with mask, helmet and phony gun. Cops tend to notice crap like a guy draped in black, carrying what looks like a firearm.
And the Munich police approached the Helghast cosplayer, trying to figure out what the heck was going on. Ultimately, the officers asked the cosplayer to remove his mask and lay down his plastic weapon - and he obliged.
Normally, carrying around phony guns outside is in violation of Germany's Weapons Act and carries the equivalent of a $US13,500 fine. But this time, the Helghast were asked a few questions, and nothing came of it. Shame the in-game Helghast can't be defeated with a good talking to.
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Hey KitFox, greatly appreciate the input. We're going to have The Big Discussion soon amongst the technical staff about revamping our thumbnails, and I think most of us agree that non-square thumbs are going to be the better path going forward. I'm already planning on ripping out and replacing how thumbnails and their tooltips are handled on the front end, but there will likely need to be a good amount of rewrites on the back-end thumb stuff as well to accommodate better overall thumbs. The bad news is that it might be a little while yet; the good news is that it's definitely a planned item.
Thanks again, and if you have any additional ideas or wants relating to this, please share!
I like to give excellent supporting evidence for my cases. Hmmm... Just looking at the front page now, I could get some delightful "What Thumb Is That Anyway?!" content. I should start a thread that just contains the referenced thumbnails and guessing-game style stuff. XD
Seven months later. No change. I don't think we should hold our breath. Either the site has enough good to make you want to use it despite the way thumbnails work, or it doesn't. I come back to peek and see every once in a while, but I can't really be considered an active user because I don't. The thumbnails make the site too unusable for me, so I stick to FA and IB for viewing and SF for posting.
Sorry about the late reply. Unfortunately there's going to be further delay with the thumbnail system overhaul; Aden has been quite busy lately with other matters. Last I heard it's still being worked on, it's just going to take a while longer. Thanks for being patient.
To be fair, it is entirely up to the user whether or not they want to make a thumbnail that close-up; if they want to make just about the whole picture visible, they're certainly allowed to. After all, even if we didn't have such a system in place, people can very well just do that same crop-job on Paint, and upload the thumbnail.
The reason people usually crop things like that is to entice you to click them so you can see the full thing. Yes, you might not know what the full piece will look like, but if it's something that offends your sensibilities, then one can always use the tag filtering system. However, people do not tag their things correctly all the time-- As such, I'd say a much more dire solution needed here would be a system to ensure the proper upkeep of tags, so filtering actually works. As it is, the way the thumbnail system works now is most ideal. From what I can gather, the real concern is not wanting to click a thumbnail, and see something triggering/horridly offensive to your tastes that shouldn't have ever been visible in the first place, and that's probably what should be focused on.
The tag filter doesn't have anything to do with this issue. Users like me aren't afraid of seeing something they don't want to see, we're afraid of wasting our time having to click on everything just to see what's going on in the image. Navigation should not be blind especially when you are browsing artwork to skim for things you might like.
This is very closely related to what was said about "mystery meat navigation" in another thread here.
Hopefully this issue will be taken off the back burner and finally resolved, since it is a major usability and user experience problem. It shouldn't take an year to tackle something like this. Not if you want to fulfill the site's promises as being a worthwhile competitor to a certain other art site.
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Public support can influence soldiers' mental health: study
(Edmonton) Can events like Red Fridays, Tickets for Troops and the yellow ribbon campaign reduce the chances of Canadian soldiers experiencing combat-related stress disorders? The authors of a new study from the University of Alberta think so.
David Webber, a PhD student in the U of A's Department of Psychology, and his supervisor Jeff Schimel recently published a paper in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, positing that the level of public support for a war could influence the level of mental distress combatants feel when they arrive home, potentially leading to a heightened risk for developing post-traumatic stress disorder. Webber says the results send a message that policy-makers should choose their battles wisely.
Extermination and peer acceptance as research paradigm
Webber and colleagues designed two studies in which participants were asked to exterminate a number of woodlice using a modified coffee grinder. In one study, they would have to prep another participant, an actor who feigned either interest or disgust at the notion of the task. In the second study, participants were asked to record in a logbook who had actively participated or who had refused to kill the bugs. In both cases, the participants indicated increased levels of guilt and distress when they felt their participation was socially invalidated.
"We did have some participants who showed some clear distress not only when going through the initial act of killing, but also after finding that somebody else had refused to do it," said Webber. "There were some clear physical signs that people were uncomfortable after they found out it was invalidated by other people."
Vietnam versus the war on terror
Webber's research points to examples of wars or military actions that were perceived to be popular or unpopular with society, notably the American involvement in the Vietnam War compared with the response to the 9-11 attacks. He says that when there is no clear or rational reason for a country to go to war, the resulting protests over military involvement can act as a catalyst in the minds of returning soldiers and veterans over their role in an action their country sees as unjust or even immoral. Though the act of taking another life in combat can be in some ways rationalized as necessary for the good of one's country, when that country's citizens openly manifest their rejection of the war, the soldiers' perception that their actions were out of line with social reality, and thus immoral, may become detrimental to their mental health.
"Soldiers, while they're in the military, may believe that killing is the right thing to do. But maybe when they return home and see the culture and the country is not as supportive as they thought it once was, it makes it more distressing," he says.
Combatants risk more than lives
Webber says leaders need to act wisely and judiciously when deciding to go to war with other countries. Although soldiers accept the inherent risks involved with their careers, there is no training given that will help them face the backlash of public opinion against their role in the government's choice to do battle. Even though citizens may support the soldiers, and may sign petitions and stage demonstrations with the intent of bringing them back home safely, Webber says being caught between duty and public opinion can be a painful experience.
Webber acknowledges that there is not necessarily an ideal prescription for when to go to war, but he says for the sake of the troops' mental health, signing that declaration needs to be done with the utmost thought and care.
"When decisions are made to go to war, they should be based less on fear and insecurity and more in hard realities, such as if the country has been attacked," said Webber. "If the decisions are undertaken with good reason, with legitimate evidence behind them, protests should be less likely and invalidation should be less of a problem."


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Parents Magazine Cites Innovation of Pediatrician J. Brian Thornburg '89
October 2, 2013
J. Brian Thornburg, a 1989 graduate of DePauw University, is one of seven pediatricians cited in the November 2013 issue of Parents magazine for innovatively creating new ways to care for their young patients. The publication and Desitin are donating $1,000 to each pediatrician's charity of choice. This gift will be presented at the 2013 American Academy of Pediatrics National Convention and Exposition in Orlando, Florida next month.
Practicing in Naples, Florida, Dr. Thornburgh, MSM, DO, FAAP, "was the second concierge pediatrician in the United States," according to an announcement. "Dr. Thornburg sees a need to create practices that support the child, the family and the community. Children live in an age of fast food, toxic environments and impersonal medical care. The whole body and community minded approach is the only way to promote, restore and maintain wellness. Pediatricians from around the country agree. They want to learn how to open similar medical practices."
Thornburg and his wife, Helen, who practices with him at Thornburg Pediatrics, formed Innovative Pediatrics, LLC ("InPeds") to help pediatricians practice better medicine. InPeds is a consulting and practice management firm that assists pediatricians around the country in the creation of their own independently owned concierge medical practices. "Our goal is to help pediatricians develop a unique practice style that allows them to nurture the whole child so that they may be healthy, happy and well-adjusted individuals," it notes.
As part of his dedication to the community, Dr. Thornburg works with the Children's Advocacy Center of Collier County seeing physically and sexually abused children. He selected this group to receive the $1,000 gift.
"DePauw helped create this opportunity by teaching me how to think critically as well as teaching me important communication skills," says Brian Thornburg, who majored in philosophy as an undergraduate.
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It's been quite, eh? Over at the Haikasoru Week and lots of fun was to be had.
The brand new Tow Ubukata novelette "Two Hundred Below", a Mardock Scramble adventure, went live on Tuesday.
Wednesday saw this neat and insightful review of both Rocket Girls and Rocket Girls: The Last Planet.
And on Thursday, we had a short essay on Japanese science fiction by me.
Oh, and speaking of me, and speaking of the end of the week, the World SF Blog also encouraged Beatrice.com's Ron Hogan to publish my interview with Cathy Hirano and Jim Hubbert. Ms. Hirano translated Dragon Sword and Wind Child and the forthcoming Mirror Sword and Shadow Prince for us, and Mr. Hubbert has been quite busy: he translated The Lord of the Sands of Time, The Next Continent, and The Ouroboros Wave for us. Gotta catch 'em all!


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Frameworks necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 95 diseños de 47 diseñadores freelance.
Studio Craft FRAMEWORKS
*We are relaunching the business incorporating custom picture framing, artwork, furniture and homewares.
*We have an existing customer base and are trying to differentiate from other picture framers by creating an experience to have your valued artwork designed and framed by us.
*We need a clear and bold new image with "frameworks" to be the focus of the logo.
* We are creating new seating areas for customers to browse art catalogues with coffee tables and designer homewares.
*With new streamline countertops and computer point of sale laptops to show customers their design
Custom framing is a luxury item.
We sell to young couples setting up their new apartments
Older generation with greater disposable income.
Artists, photographers, interior decorators.
As well we cater to corporate clients with aged care facilities, office fitouts etc
We also stock limited edition prints for art collectors
*Bold funky clear type which is designer elegant
*Could include image around "F" in frameworks
Two complimentary colours would be good
Burnt orange and turquoise are examples and colours we are using in refurbishing our shop( But not limited to this)
Studio Craft is our old business and we need to incorporate this into our logo.But the emphasis .should be on Frameworks, which we hope makes it clear we are custom picture framers
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