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Research Summary
Obesity is an epidemic health problem worldwide, and is a significant risk factor for many human diseases, including diabetes, dyslipidemias, non-alcoholic fatty liver, gallstones, cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer's disease and even some cancers. Obesity develops when energy intake exceed energy expenditure. Despite this simple nature, the maintenance of energy balance is complex. The long-term research interest in Dr. Tseng's lab is to understand the regulation of energy homeostasis and use it to develop potential therapeutic approaches for obesity and related diseases. The current research projects in Dr. Tseng's lab are focused around the following specific areas:
Role of developmental signals in the determination of brown versus white adipose cell fate
Excess adipose tissue is the characteristics of obesity. Two functionally different types of adipose tissues are present in mammals: white adipose tissue, which is the primary site of energy storage, and brown adipose tissue, which is specific to thermogenic energy expenditure. Given its specialized function to dissipate chemical energy, brown adipose tissue provides a natural defense against cold and obesity. Several developmental signaling molecules have been shown to impact development of different adipose depots. These include members of the transforming growth factor β (TGF)-β and bone morphogenetic protein (BMPs) family, the fibroblast growth factor (FGF) family, the wingless (Wnt) family, the hedgehog family and others. Combining cellular, molecular and physiological approaches, Dr. Tseng and her colleagues have discovered that BMP7 specifically promotes brown adipocyte differentiation and function. Treatment of mice with BMP7 results in an increase in brown fat mass and reduced weight gain. Current ongoing studies in Dr. Tseng's lab are to further determine the role of BMPs in the control of brown versus white adipogenesis and whole body energy metabolism using a variety of in vitro and in vivo approaches. In addition to BMPs, Dr. Tseng and her colleagues continue to identify additional factors that differentially regulate the development and function of brown versus white adipose tissue using genomics, proteomics, and small molecule screenings.
Identification and characterization of progenitor/stem cells that give rise to different adipose depots
The adipose tissue arises from the multipotent stem cells of mesodermal origin. When triggered by appropriate developmental cues, these cells become committed to the adipocytes lineage. It has been suggested that different fat depots located in different anatomical locations of the body may derive from distinct developmental origins. Recently, we have identified and isolated a subpopulation of adipogenic progenitors (Sca-1+/CD45-/Mac1-; referred to as Sca-1+ progenitor cells, ScaPCs) residing in murine brown fat, white fat, and skeletal muscle. ScaPCs derived from different tissues possess unique molecular expression signatures and adipogenic capacities. Importantly, while the ScaPCs from interscapular BAT are constitutively committed brown fat progenitors, Sca-1+ cells from skeletal muscle and subcutaneous white fat are highly inducible to differentiate into brown-like adipocytes upon stimulation with BMP7. ScaPCs from obesity-resistant mice exhibit markedly higher thermogenic capacity compared to cells isolated from obesity-prone mice. Currently, ongoing studies in Dr. Tseng's lab are to further define these progenitors by single cell analysis, microRNA profiling and in vivo fate mapping.
Integration of central and peripheral controls on whole body energy homeostasis
The maintenance of energy balance involves coordinated changes in energy intake and expenditure, and these two limbs of energy balance are physiologically linked. The central nervous system receives diverse inputs to coordinate appetite and energy expenditure, and is therefore the key control center for body weight. Despite recent advances in defining the neuronal circuits for appetite regulation, factors that regulate feeding via these pathways have not yet been fully elucidated. TGF-β/ BMP are known to regulate neuronal development. Recently, this signaling system has been demonstrated to be involved in the regulation of food intake and energy homeostasis in lower organisms, such as C. elegans and Drosophila. However, whether a similar pathway in the regulation of energy balance exists in mammals is currently unknown. Recently, Dr. Tseng and her colleagues have discovered that in addition to its role in brown adipocyte development, central BMP7 signaling appears to play a critical role in regulation of food intake. Studies in Dr. Tseng's lab are currently dissecting the molecular and neuronal mechanisms that underlie the anorectic effect of BMP7. Ultimately, we hope this combined knowledge will allow us to integrate central and peripheral controls of energy homeostasis and aid in identifying specific targets for therapy of obesity and diabetes.


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Annie Whittington, a 27 year-old bartender from Tampa, FL, found herself the first houseguest to be eliminated from the 12th season of Big Brother last week.
Not only did Annie get the boot, but she was also revealed to be the Saboteur, so her elimination also took away the big BB twist this season.
In a new interview with PEOPLE, Annie opens about her sexuality, her downfall, what she would have done differently, and why Rachel is getting her "sloppy seconds."
Excerpts from Annie's interview below –
Did being the Saboteur hurt your game and cause your eviction?
I was really stressed out all the time. I was always worried about getting caught or someone calling me out or someone discovering I was the Saboteur. It probably changed my mental approach to the game and made me more emotional.
Going in, what was your game plan? Why would you align yourself with a showmance like Brendan and Rachel?
My strategy was to lay low and not be dramatic but I did the opposite the second I entered the house. I did not think I was actually aligning myself with a showmance and I would have never entered into that alliance had I known. That was a mistake on my part. I did my best to try and get them out of the house.
You said in your exit interview with Julie Chen, that Rachel could have your "sloppy seconds." What exactly, did you mean by that?
Nothing ever happened with Brendon. He came onto me early on in the game and I denied him. I am very happy in my own relationship. But I don't think Rachel knew any of that. But in all actuality, he wanted me, not her.
What would you have done differently?
I would not have played so hard so fast. I would have not trusted Brendon as much as I did and ultimately that is what led to my demise in this game and the biggest reason why I am gone. I should have laid low.
How does it feel to not only be the first one evicted, but to also be the first Saboteur?
I'm honored to be the first Saboteur as I am a big fan of the show and now I guess I am also a part of BB history. And I'm honored that people had enough confidence in me to pull it off. But I'm a bit embarrassed to be the first person to leave the house. But maybe I can take it as a compliment that people thought I was enough of a threat to get me out so early.
You opened up to Ragan, who is openly gay. Why weren't you more open about your sexuality? Was that fear or game-play?
I opened to Ragan because I needed to tell someone. I was keeping it all bottled up inside and it was effecting me emotionally. That was hindering my personality from coming out during the game. I had a strong relationship with the guys and I knew they were attracted to me so I didn't reveal it to them. I wanted to be able to play off of that and use it to my advantage.
You had such a strong argument in your final plea, where you surprised by the landslide vote against you?
Honestly I wasn't shocked, but surprised by the vote of ten to zero. I thought some of the other house guests would rally for me. It hurt my feelings, but I understand it is a game.
Besides your alliance with Rachel and Brendon, were you aware of any other alliances?
Yes, I know Britney, Monet and Kathy are in one. And maybe Hayden made deal with Brendon and Rachel. Everyone else seems to be swaying back and forth, but alliances are being made.
A new episode of BB12 is set to air tonight. Rachel nominated Britney and Monet for eviction on Sunday, and tonight we will find out the POV winner, and whether or not the nominations will change.

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MTA spokesman Kevin Ortiz tells MSNBC's Chris Jansing that water has infiltrated some of the subway tunnels in New York City and describes what it will take the get the system running again.
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A deluge floods the Brooklyn-Battery tunnel in Manhattan as Hurricane Sandy made its approach in New York on Monday.
Updated at 12:34 a.m. Tuesday ET: Storm water flooded parts of lower Manhattan on Monday night, pouring into the Brooklyn-Battery and Queens Midtown tunnels, bursting into a subway station and even cascading into the construction site at Ground Zero.
The floodwater appeared to be receding around just after midnight Tuesday morning.
Superstorm Sandy made landfall in New Jersey, but its wide wingspan crossed the Tri-State area, shutting off power to millions in the region and forcing the residents of the nation's biggest city to stay indoors. Most of Manhattan below 39th Street was without power, Con Edison spokesman Bob McGee told NBCNewYork.com.
New York City's Office of Emergency Management sent out blast alerts to phones across the city: "Go indoors immediately and stay inside. DO NOT DRIVE. Call 9-1-1 for emergencies only."
Mayor Michael Bloomberg spoke directly to New Yorkers, emphasizing that those who didn't leave when the warnings were issued now stay put, stay away from windows and close the drapes.
"The time to leave has passed," Bloomberg said. "Do not go outside. It is dangerous."
He told limo and taxi drivers to stay off the road and asked that residents not dial 9-1-1 unnecessarily. The mayor said the emergency line was receiving 10,000 calls per half hour; typical is about 1,000 calls per half hour.
Floodwater is now receding following significant flooding in the lower Manhattan area of New York City, blocks from the World Trade Center site. WNBC's Ida Siegal reports.
About 250,000 people left Manhattan. That's short of the 375,000 people who live within six and seven feet of sea level and who were ordered to leave the city.
At Battery Park at the southern tip of Manhattan, the water level rose to a record-breaking 13.88 feet. The previous record was 11.2 feet, set in 1821.
Photos posted to social media told the story: A haunting image of a lit carousel halfway submerged in Brooklyn; what appeared to be a waterfall pouring into a parking garage, running over cars; water gushing into a Hoboken, N.J. subway station, through an elevator door and past the turnstiles. One photo provided by The Associated Press showed water running down into a construction site at Ground Zero.
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Water floods the Ground Zero construction site on Monday in New York after Sandy came ashore to the south.
On Staten Island, rescuers responded in boats at the water line rose, reaching the attics of some homes, NBCNewYork.com reported. Reports from Coney Island and Brighton Beach indicated that ocean water had started making its way through the streets.
A New York Times story from September discussed what might happen to New York if struck by a storm stronger than Hurricane of Irene during August 2011. Ultimately, Irene "weakened to a tropical storm and spared the city, but it exposed how New York is years away from – and billions of dollars short of – armoring itself," the story said. According to the story:
The most vulnerable systems, like the subway tunnels under the Harlem and East Rivers, would have been unusable for nearly a month, or longer, at an economic loss of about $55 billion, said Dr. Jacob, an adviser to the city on climate change and an author of the 2011 state study that laid out the flooding prospects.
Across the Hudson River in Jersey City, N.J., City Hall and the Jersey City Medical Center were surrounded by water, the Jersey Journal reported. Fire Director Armando Roman said, according to the Journal, that he was on his way to a building when rising waters trapped his vehicle.
More content from NBCNews.com:
- Live updates on Hurricane Sandy
- 12 rescued, 2 missing from HMS Bounty off N.C. coast
- Navy commander sent home amid investigation
- Small earthquake rattles buildings in LA area
- Florida teen accused of killing mom, boyfriend in bed


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28th June 2013
Daphne's Oramics Machine and the recent Nonclassical event, 'Pioneers of Electronic Music' feature in this docu-film 'Do Analogue Sound Machines Dream of Digital Sheep?'.
This documentary from Queen Mary, University of London, also includes an excerpt of a performance by Tom Richards (currently researching a PhD on Daphne's Oramics Machine) and a conversation with the director of the archive, Mick Grierson. The section highlighting Daphne's work begins at 6'45".


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If you use 529 to come into Everett from Marysville at night, you'll have to use I-5 this week. The Washington State Department of Transportation has some bridge work planned. Here's the info. from WSDOT…What goes up must come down. For the nearly 60-year-old State Route 529 Snohomish River Bridge near Everett, it's the drawspan that must go up and come down reliably and safely.
To ensure that continues for many years to come, contractors for the Washington State Department of Transportation are gearing up to get down to work, replacing heavy pieces of machinery that operate the southbound drawspan.
"Replacing this machinery is vital infrastructure work," said WSDOT project engineer Mark Sawyer. "We need to keep the bridge drawspan in good working condition for the thousands of travelers who cross it every day and the vessels that carry millions of dollars worth of goods under it every year."
Beginning Sunday, Sept. 8, drivers traveling between Marysville and Everett will need to use Interstate 5, while the southbound lanes of SR 529 are closed from 8 p.m. until 4 a.m. Sunday through Thursday nights. The drawspan will not open for marine traffic during the highway closures. Drivers will also experience up to two weekend closures before this $3.2 million project is complete in October.
PCL Civil Constructors will replace four steel axles, wheels and dozens of counterweight cables that operate the lift span. These lift mechanisms are showing signs of wear and fatigue, including cracks, after years of hoisting and lowering a combined 250 tons of counterweight with each drawspan opening – about 600 openings each year.
Crews will use a heavy-load crane to remove the old machinery and lift the new pieces into place. The drawspan machinery is housed in two towers 80 feet above the southbound lanes. The northbound drawspan underwent similar repairs in 2006.
Video of the bridge opening and closing is available on the WSDOT YouTube channel.. Photos are also available on Flickr.


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What makes an event or place legendary? Longevity counts. So do excellence, uniqueness and a fondness that grows into deep loyalty with the passage of time.
Soon thousands head to Northwoods Wisconsin for the annual American Birkebeiner, cross-country ski racing between Cable and Hayward. The Feb. 21-23 event, a tribute to Norwegian history that began 40 years ago, lures average to elite skiers from almost all states and many foreign countries.
The lodge at Telemark Resort was 80 percent booked by the time the 2012 Birkie ended, says Robin Bucholz, the resort's newly appointed chief operating officer. There's been no room at the inn for race weekend since autumn.
Robin's ongoing challenge is to boost demand for Telemark during other times of year, and resort owners recently were willing to air the property's dirty laundry to help make that happen. Warts and virtues of the rural Cable resort, during an episode of "Hotel Impossible," were paraded for all to see before hotel fixer Anthony Melchiorri arranged changes.
By the time the hour-long TV show ended, the number of Telemark fans on Facebook had increased from 700 to 2,000. Also posted were dozens of sentimental to scathing comments about the property, including these:
"Fond memories of a sleigh ride at midnight New Year's Eve while it was snowing."
"My husband and I took our vows 13 years ago in front of the fireplace. Now I work the front desk and get to enjoy the beauty and the memories daily."
"I wish it would get back to the way it was when I was growing up in the early '90s – the movie room, candy store, toy store and endless skiing, tubing and snowboarding. It was my family's favorite place to go, but all of those things are gone now."
"We stayed last April and were the only guests … were given a key to the loading dock to enter after dark, a la 'The Shining.' "
"I've been associated with Telemark since the 1970s and have seen many changes. It's a shame such a beautiful place struggles so."
"Our family loves Telemark lodge and has visited various seasons throughout the past 23 years. Our children look forward to our stay every winter."
"If everyone there would get on the same page as the staff perhaps someone would be able to make Telemark the world-class destination that it used to be. Bet Tony (Wise) would have never let the hot tub be out of order for over a month."
"I can and will volunteer to help this legend continue."
"The beauty of that place is that it is in the middle of nowhere. The problem of that place is that it is in the middle of nowhere."
On the TV show, Anthony described the long-troubled resort as schizophrenic. He praised the caring nature of lodge staff but admonished old-fashioned recordkeeping techniques. "It's like a car without an engine," he declared, before computerizing operations and ditching hand-kept housekeeping reports.
He expressed surprise that a breathtaking lobby would be next to a lackluster room of tables and chairs, then arranged for its transition to a pleasant hospitality area.
He seemed satisfied with guest rooms but tore into "hall carpets that smell like my brother's underwear from when I was 12" and a lack of exterior building upkeep. He explored outdoor surroundings, at the height of autumn, and declared the color so beautiful that it looked fake.
He sensed a lack of trust between management and staff, a lack of insight about how "an Olympic-caliber track can attract more than cross-country skiers" and a lack of priority to sell "a spirit, a passion" for the outdoors.
The Birkie is the continent's largest cross-country ski race. It happens because of the work of the late Tony Wise. He also established the Telemark ski area in 1947 and in 1972 opened the 200-room Telemark Resort, whose 1,100 acres meet Chequamegon National Forest.
The lodge's stunning architecture includes a 50-foot-tall, fieldstone fireplace in the lobby and a wall of windows in the restaurant. The design was the work of a Frank Lloyd Wright student and in the 1970s nationally known celebrities (Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr.) were performing at the wintry playground.
That heyday has been replaced by a series of financial struggles – bankruptcies in 1984 and 1998, a shuttering in 2010 and subsequent foreclosure.
Robin says a new, Minnesota-based owners group takes over in a month or two. Horseback riding stables will be brought back, starting Memorial Day weekend. Work is under way to secure a sizable disc golfing tournament.
"We've been able to sustain ourselves – cash in, cash out – and the new owners group has stepped up" to be helpful, he says. As for the drama and unfolding of "Hotel Impossible," Robin says, "It's a reality show, so it was a little nervy. We didn't know what the makeover was going to be, or how we would be depicted."
He remains optimistic about the resort's future and says the TV exposure helped in numerous ways: "Some people didn't even realize this place is open."
For more about Telemark Resort, 42225 Telemark Rd., Cable: telemark-resort.com, 715-798-3400. Room rates start at $79.
Bookings are separate from the time-share units at nearby Telemark Condos, whose winter rates start at $99. telemarkcondos.com, 715-798-3999
Both properties stand to benefit from the debut of a major event June 1: the Mt. Borah Epic, mountain bike racing on 30 miles of trails developed by the Chequamegon Area Mountain Bike Association.
Participation will be capped at 300 racers. For more: mtborahepic.com. The event coincides with the Festival of Trails; more at cambatrails.org, 715-798-3599.
The American Birkebeiner, which began in 1973 with 35 racers on a 50-kilometer trail, in 2012 drew at least 9,500 classic and skate skiers from 21 foreign countries and 48 U.S. states. Courses cover 23 to 54 kilometers. For more: birkie.com, 715-634-5025.
To see video clips of the "Hotel Impossible" episode about the Telemark Resort, go to travelchannel.com/tv-shows/hotel-impossible.
How likely is that visit to help the resort in the long run? A 2012 New York Times article about a similar series, "Restaurant Impossible," reminds us there are no long-term guarantees.
"A mini-burst of publicity and lines out the door ensue when word spreads that 'Restaurant: Impossible' has come to town and is on the verge of a big reveal," David Segal writes. "The real drama starts soon after. Will the newcomers become regulars? Will the regulars stick around?"
Sometimes yes, and sometimes no. The writer finds successful transformations and businesses that closed shortly after reality TV intervention.


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Hi Joey,
Thought the aerial picture attached of a portion of Magnolia might be of interest. It was taken from a seaplane owned by La Touraine Coffee
that would visit the area during the summer, landing in Gloucester Harbor and taking people up to have a view of the area. Dad asked to have a picture taken of the Oceanside. Note the North Shore Inn to the left, which accommodated summer visitors who weren't able to secure rooms at the Oceanside.
George Krewson
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[This is a guest post for ClubOrlov by Albert, whose amazing erudition and experience gives him the right to tell just about anyone to sit down, shut up and listen—although he is far too nice to actually say that. But I am not, so I will: sit down, shut up and listen.]
During the early days of The Farm, 1971-1973, we learned a number of lessons that will be useful again now that a rapid petrocollapse scenario is likely to come to pass. The Farm spiritual community emerged from a 50-bus caravan of 320 Haight-Ashbury refugees fleeing hard drugs, exploitation and counterculture tourism. After a year on the road the gypsy vagabonds pooled inheritances and purchased 1050 acres (450 hectares) of land 80 miles (130 km) from Nashville. It was US$70 per acre.
The Farm grew to a standing population of well over 1000, with 20 satellite centers, then, in the early 1980s, declined and decollectivized, bringing its population to under 200. Since then it has experienced something of a renaissance, finding new popularity amongst permaculturists, ecovillagers, and roving students. But let's begin at the beginning, when our group landed in Tennessee.
Living in remodeled school buses was quite an adequate introduction to "roughing it," especially for those of us who had never gone camping as children. The "honey pot" latrine bucket, mosquito-proof backpacker tents, canteens, flashlights, storm lanterns, and two-burner Coleman stoves were familiar to the pioneer settlers by the time they first stepped off the bus.
The land itself was barren of amenities save a small log cabin, a horse barn and a line shack, and so the first order of business was setting up facilities for bathing, sanitation, kitchen and sleeping. I'll skip over the organizational aspects here because they would require a lengthier and more nuanced discussion; suffice it to say that circumnavigating North America in a 50-bus caravan required a degree of organization similar to running a rock-and-roll band tour. That's enough organization to get you started in designing and constructing a settlement, although perhaps not enough to keep it intact for very long.
For pumped water, an engine was lifted from a Volkswagen Bug and set on blocks in a springhouse. A well-used and rusting 5700 liter (1500 gallon) water tower was purchased for scrap value, repaired and erected atop a hill above the springhouse. This required minor welding and auto mechanics, as well as a continuous supply of petrol. Some years later, when power lines came in, the VW engine and springhouse were replaced with a submersible pump and well. Today it would have been built with photovoltaics or wind power, but such technology, while already available in the 1970s, was well beyond the reach of a community that subsisted on average per capita cash income of US$1 per day for its first 13 years.
After the first winter, a second, larger water tower was erected near a 100 meter (300 foot) well with good aquifer recharge. The tower was salvaged from a railroad company for a purchase price of US$1, but moving and erecting the tower and tank required a crane. From the towers, water was delivered to homes in 20 liter (5 gallon) jugs by horse wagon.
While the buses provided initial shelter, with more than 6 residents per bus on average, after 8 to 12 months of living on the road most people wanted to get out into better housing, as quickly as possible. At the time, the government of the State of Tennessee held monthly auctions of surplus property, and Korean War vintage army tents could be bought for as little as US$15. These formed the basis of our first foray into home construction. With salvaged materials from construction sites and dumpsters, they morphed into "touses and hents." Going into a partnership with a nearby sawmill allowed us to add some beautiful timber-frame buildings and D-frames. Common buildings such as the community kitchen, motor pool, canning & freezing, print shop, clinic and school sprang almost entirely from salvaged materials. Scraping mortar off cement blocks and straightening nails become well-practiced skills.
There was limited electricity to the site, and for an entire decade almost all of our electricity came from 12-volt DC systems powered by car batteries. Initially the batteries were charged by switching them through vehicles every day, but full discharge cycles make for short battery life, so after trying novel methods of pedal power, bamboo wind generators and other wacky ideas, most houses went to a "trickle charge" system — a long copper cable run through the trees to a central power center that took its electrons from Tennessee Valley Authority (although we always sent them back in the next nanosecond).
At one of these power centers, where we did our canning and freezing, we erected walk-in coolers and freezers. Refrigeration was a necessity that is as difficult to avoid as it is to achieve. A few of the buses came with propane-powered fridges and they were a blessing. Most of the households relied on a system of 5-gallon (20 liter) buckets that rotated to the walk-in coolers and freezers near the cannery. Buckets with tight lids were obtained from dumpsters behind the McDonalds in town. The other essential item was a Flexible Flyer wooden wagon with slatted sides. If you couldn't get your parents to give one of those to their grandchildren for Christmas, the next best thing was to weld a bike trailer or pushcart to get your buckets to the neighborhood cooler.
Buckets were also employed to carry diapers and laundry to a communal laundromat, which was set up near another trickle-charge node. Salvaged coin-op equipment was purchased in bulk, the coin slots replaced with toggle switches, and a large diaper rinse and centrifuge babe-manure extractor installed. The grey- and black-water flowed to a constructed wetlands and rainbird, creating what today, 40 years later, are some of the richest soils on the property.
Communal unisex showering facilities were constructed in places with good supplies of water and a way to heat it: downhill from the original water tower; beside Canning & Freezing and the Farm Store; at the Farm School and print shop.
A flour mill took over the tack room in the horse barn. Initially we used a small stone mill to grind corn meal. Later we bought a larger, 3-break steel feed mill and set it up in the line shack, connected to 3-phase AC power. Arrayed around the roller mill were Clipper seed cleaners, sifters, a coffee roaster, an oat huller, and bagging racks. Within a year the mill was churning out a ton per day of wheat, corn, soy and buckwheat flours, pastry flours, corn meal, grits, groats, mixed cereals and porridges, horse feed, soy nuts, popcorn, coffee, and peanut butter.
Transportation and communications were priorities, because our sustainability depended on commerce, and without good transportation and communications any attempts to create a business would have been hampered. Bear in mind that for the first 13 years the experiment was communal, meaning shared purse. Just as many societies throughout history, we have found that in times of difficulty a reversion to communal economics provides greater survival advantages than the exercise of individuated private property rights. After achieving stability, most drop the communal form in order to stimulate greater enterprise. This was the path taken by Amana, Oneida, many kibbutzim, The Farm, the People's Republic of China, and, now, Cuba.
Any group that can cross the country in 30-year-old school buses will learn something about automotive mechanics. Our motor pool and junkyard became one of the technology hubs for The Farm, a place where anything from a hay rake to a fire truck could be machined and rebuilt, nearly from scratch.
The first two teams of horses, black Belgians and white Percherons, were acquired from neighboring Old Order Amish. They laughed at our feeble attempts, as vegans, to replace leather harness with more hippy-kosher canvas and Naugahide. "How'd you raise that nauga?" they'd ask. Interesting koan!
Communication was accomplished through a rapid succession of home and business devices. The log cabin became the business center with two phone lines. On US$1 per person per day, personal long distance charges were unaffordable, but one of our caravaners was an Eagle Scout with a ham radio merit badge, and he made a radio shack in the horse barn and began training ham radio operators to staff an amateur band Farm Net. Before the Internet I was WB4LXJ.
A 12-volt telephone system was installed to link every bus, tent, home and business. The dial tone was replaced with a Grateful Dead or reggae melody or a public service announcement (1000 jars of catsup planned today, canners needed; line at the laundry is now 90 minutes; bean shucking and banjo at horse barn 7 pm). The dial itself was replaced with a pushbutton that you used for Morse code to signal where you were calling. Four shorts meant "all points." It was a party line, but there was a second carrier band, the "Hot Line," used for emergencies. A toggle switch flipped you over to that band where an operator was always on call, sitting at a phone console to summon fire, police and ambulance and to assume management of the emergency. This pre-dated most emergency telephone services.
Emergencies were taken seriously, and fire marshals, gate and patrol security, and emergency medical responders were treated as actual jobs from the very beginning. Each became more sophisticated as the body of experience grew. Naive hippies learned to adjust to the rigors of self-reliance, which could sometimes be terrifying, such as when a kerosene lamp tips over in a canvas tent, the Ku-Klux-Klan rides up to the front gate or a deputy sheriff wanders into the marijuana patch while hunting deer.
Finding additional uses for the copper wires we passed through the treetops, we sent a TV signal through the phone lines, and could download direct network feeds from a 12-foot (3.7 meter) dish made of pine 2x4s and chicken wire. We watched the Watergate hearings that way. We produced our own shows, too, sent from the Bandland Studio tent to 12-volt TVs in tents and buses. If you were within 30 feet of the phone line, you could pick up the signal on channel 3. We watched Greenpeace work out its chess moves with the Spanish Navy in real time, using a slo-scan ham TV transmitter installed on the bridge of the Rainbow Warrior, sort of a proto-Animal-Planet pilot.
Eventually, when CB radios became popular, we were able to install them in our vehicles and interface them with the ham radio and "Beatnik Bell" phone system. Free international calls became possible. Our "Extra Class" hams grew in proficiency and could link to satellites, monitor police, military and secret service sidebands, and bounce audio, digital and TV signals around the world to an expanding Farm Net.
A weekly newspaper, Amazing Tales of Real Life, began coming out of the print shop, along with a host of do-it-yourself books that turned into a brand. A brisk traffic in daily visitors, more than a hundred some days, required tour crews and a large hostel tent, but also supplied nearly free labor for the fields.
From the very first arrival of the buses and through the first 5 years a community dining facility was an essential efficiency, and one of the main reasons that living could be so cheap. Milk was made from soybeans, which became tofu, mayonnaise, yogurt, sour cream and ice cream. Soybeans were also made into coffee, tempeh, soysage (from okara), soyburgers and stroganoffs. A bushel of dry soybeans (35 liters) cost US$3 (US$7 today). The protein needs (with all 8 essential amino acids in good proportion) for a hard-laboring farm worker can be supplied on less than a pound (450 grams) per day, rehydrated and made into gourmet vegan cuisine. Thinking of storing food for emergencies? Include soybeans.
Tracing back down memory lane to my experience then: a young man of 25 arriving at The Farm in 1972 with just a backpack; being greeted by the Night Sentry and shown a place to sleep; going for a breakfast at the Community Kitchen, porridge and sorghum molasses, soysage and corn biscuits; then to the field in a horse wagon; harvesting sorghum cane with a machete and piling it into the wagon; at the end of the day returning to my assigned, dirt-floored army tent lit by candles; supper of bean soup and cornbread with pickled japapeños; guitars and song around a fire under the canopy of stars; abiding sense of harmony in the world; community. .


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To be honest, I was expecting a wackier name. After all, Ben & Jerry's is known for flavours such as Chunky Monkey, Phish Food and Chubby Hubby. But despite wacky names, the flavours have been largely safe combinations. Think strawberries and cream; banana and nuts; chocolate, marshmallow and caramel etc.
Chocolate Macadamia is another safe, proven hit- chocolate and nuts! While I found the ice cream to be extremely creamy and full, I was hoping for a bigger dose of chocolate. It tasted very milky with a stronger dose of vanilla. What was a delight was the chocolate-coated balls (hidden in the above pic)! Whole macadamia nuts are individually coated with smooth chocolate. The "King of Nuts" are fresh and with a buttery flavour that is further enhanced by salt. So these chocolate balls have that rich chocolate-salty combination that is a good counterpoint to the sweet, creamy ice cream.
Besides satisfying the tongue, the heart is also warmed by the fact that the vanilla, cocoa and macadamia nuts that go into making this Chocolate Macadamia ice cream are products of Fair-trade. That means they are directly sourced from farmers (cutting away the middleman) and at a fair price. This is sustainable and beneficial to the farmers and their communities, sadly some of whom are being exploited by big corporations.
Eat with a heart, knowing that your support has contributed to the well-being and dignity of farmers and their families.
Double moo!!
Moving along, media in hands-on action packing their own pint of Ben & Jerry's. Though seemingly easy a task, I was a little lost behind the counter. It felt different being on the other side of the
So noob I know. Anyway the "spade" referred to a flatten metal tool used to compact ice cream into the pint, so one could get more ice cream in there.
It was a fun virgin experience packing my own pint of Ben & Jerry's! I have certainly a new-found respect for the counter crew. *Salutes*
Triple moo!!!
Thanks to Moe Moe and Malvina of Bates141 for the invitation and Benjamin of Ben & Jerry's for hosting us.
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In this month of April every year, fans of Ben & Jerry's would know that a free treat is coming right up! Yes folks, it's Free Cone Day!! Happening 21st April, 12noon till 7pm at their Scoop Shops in Great World City, Raffles City, Vivocity, Singapore Zoo, Jurong Bird Park, The Cathay and United Square.


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Ready for another recipe for a fabulous Halloween-themed cupcake? These monster cupcakes actually look more delicious that scary, but I'm sure the decorations will be much appreciated by your guests!
If you missed yesterday's recipe for a Jack-O-Lantern cupcake, see that here.
Today's dessert: Monster cupcakes
Total prep time: 75 mins
Decorate chocolate cupcakes with meringue piping to make a ghost or monster of your choice. Decorate each with candied eyeballs.
- 3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, cut into pieces
- 1/2 cup root beer, flat
- 1/3 cup unsweetened Dutch-processed cocoa
- 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/4 cups sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon fine salt
- 1/4 cup sour cream
- 2 large eggs, room temperature
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 8 large egg whites
- 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar
- 1 pinch fine salt
- 1 teaspoon banana extract, or more to taste
- 1 to 2 drops pastel food coloring, optional
- Candied eyeballs
- Equipment: 12 cup standard muffin tin
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line standard muffin tins with cupcake liners or spray footed cupcake holders with nonstick spray.
Put the butter, root beer, and cocoa in a microwave-safe bowl, cover with plastic wrap, and microwave on HIGH until the butter melts, about 2 minutes. Whisk to combine.
Meanwhile, whisk the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt together in a large bowl. Whisk the sour cream, eggs, and vanilla together in a small bowl.
Whisk the hot cocoa mixture into the dry ingredients. Stir in the sour cream mixture just to combine; take care not to overmix. Divide the batter evenly between the prepared muffin cups, filling each one about 3/4 of the way full, about 1/4 cup per cupcake. Bake cupcakes until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean, about 25 minutes. Cool the cupcakes completely in the tin on a rack. Remove from liners and return cakes to a rack.
For frosting: Bring a few inches of water to a boil in a saucepan that can hold a mixer's bowl above the water. Whisk the egg whites, sugar, cream of tartar, and salt in the bowl by hand. Set the bowl above the boiling water and continue whisking until the mixture is hot to the touch and the sugar dissolves, about 1 to 2 minutes. Transfer the mixture to a standing mixer fitted with the whisk attachment and beat at medium-high speed until eggs beat up into a cool stiff meringue, about 5 minutes. Add a few drops of desired extract and/or food coloring and lightly beat into the meringue.
To decorate: Using a spoon, offset spatula or piping bag, dollop, spread or pipe about 1/2 cup meringue on top of each cupcake to make a ghost or monster of your choice. Decorate with candied eyeballs or other candies. These can be finished 2 to 3 hours in advance and held at room temperature.
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Summer is long gone and our thoughts are turning inwards to cosying up in front of a crackling log fire with a nice hot whiskey having perhaps tramped through a thick carpet of leaves in an ancient beech wood.
Ireland has many beautiful forests, national parks and leafy lanes bordering ancient riverside walks that wind their way through quaint little Irish villages that thankfully have retained their rural charm. Old fashioned, meaty butchers sport big roasts, proper sausages and locally caught game if you are lucky. The smell of freshly baked bread and cakes (you can forget your diet on a weekend away in Ireland) wafts out of small bakeries turned coffee shops where you can sit and people-watch a different kind of lifestyle altogether.
Country markets have made a very welcome return and injected a new shot of life into otherwise quiet communities. With an eclectic mix of produce, ranging from pickles to pumpkins you can pick up some nice goodies for a picnic or indulge yourself in a lazy pub lunch. Gastro pubs are on the increase in Ireland, offering hearty gourmet food at reasonable prices. Traditional favorites like bacon and cabbage might be served up with mustard flavored mash potatoes, however the accompanying pint of Guinness which is of course non- negotiable…
Why mess with perfection !
So if you fancy 'shortening the winter' (code for a treat before the bad weather sets in? why not check out some of the self-catering breaks available from Ireland's Hidden Places, check website link below for details of special offers and Halloween events.
Or if you would prefer to waited on? Downton Abbey style why not stay a night or two in one of Hidden Ireland's great Irish Country Houses who have also have great seasonal offers available right now.
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One way of disabling Internet Explorer in Windows XP is by using the Set Program Access and Defaults utility available as part of all Windows XP installations with at least the SP2 installed.
Make sure you've installed and tested an alternative browser (like Firefox) and then follow the easy steps below to disable Internet Explorer using the Set Program Access and Defaults utility.
Here's How:
Navigate to the Control Panel by clicking on Start, followed by Control Panel (or Settings and then Control Panel, depending on how you're setup).
In the Control Panel window, open Add or Remove Programs.
Note: In Microsoft Windows XP, depending on how your operating system is setup, you may not see the Add or Remove Programs icon. To correct this, click on the link on the left-hand side of the Control Panel window that says Switch to Classic View.
In the Add or Remove Programs window, click on the Set Program Access and Defaults button on the menu on the left.
Choose the Custom option in the Choose a configuration: area.
In the Choose a default Web browser: area, uncheck the Enable access to this program check box next to Internet Explorer.
Click OK. Windows XP will apply your changes and the Add or Remove Programs window will close automatically.
Since the Windows Update site requires the use of Internet Explorer, manual updates will no longer be possible. Automatic updates, if enabled, should continue unaffected.
Even though you may be disabling Internet Explorer, you are not actually removing it. Your Windows XP PC still uses Internet Explorer for a number of internal processes.
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By JOHN LETZING, Wall Street Journal, 12/19/12
Scientists are building fake animals to help them study real ones. But can a robotic squirrel fool a real snake? WSJ's John Letzing reports.
The snake in the grass didn't seem to believe in Rulon Clark's squirrel, which could complicate matters for the professor.
Dr. Clark had carried his prized ground squirrel into the hills near San Jose, Calif., last year to study the way squirrels' behavior affects predators. He placed it by a grass patch he knew concealed a rattlesnake.
The snake, perhaps not surprisingly, sprang and sank its fangs into the rodent. Less predictable, for the rattler, was what happened next: The squirrel glided backward, its face frozen in a placid expression.
The snake flicked its tongue—a defensive signal—as if there were something odd about this squirrel.
There was: It was a robot.
"It's likely that the snake realized as soon as it bit the fake squirrel that it bit something that wasn't a live animal," says Dr. Clark, an assistant biology professor at San Diego State University.
Trying to dupe real animals with fake ones is an increasingly popular methodology among biologists. The aim, they say, is to conduct focused, repeatable studies on how animals respond to other creatures. Spurring the trend are ever-cheaper motors, sensors and computer chips.
In recent experiments, scientists have tried to infiltrate the animal kingdom with robotic rodents, birds, frogs and fish, among other creatures. "It's producing breakthroughs in animal behavior that would not probably have been possible without these robotic models," says Sanjay Joshi, a mechanical engineering researcher at the University of California, Davis, who has designed versions of the squirrel over several years with his students.
Today's robot animals build on earlier studies, such as the one that persuaded cockroaches to come out of the dark. In an experiment that began in 2002, scientists in Belgium, France and Switzerland deployed cockroach robots to mingle with real roaches.
Aiming to influence roach behavior, they found that robot roaches coated with pheromones could lead living bugs to hang out under brighter light if the fakes ventured out first. The real roach's sentiment was probably something like "Oh yeah, it's a friend of mine," says Simon Garnier, an assistant professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology who participated in the study.
Some animals prove too eager to believe. UC Davis biologist Gail Patricelli this year hid in a rural Wyoming hunting blind to study the mating habits of the sage grouse using a robotic bird named Snooki, which she had built to make natural-looking neck movements by using material from Spanx undergarments.
Robotic Snooki was so persuasive that "a male jumped on her a few times this season before she could escape," Dr. Patricelli says. Male suitors were "not particularly choosy," she says, forcing her to jump out and shoo them away, generally ruining the day's work.
Some robots must merely blend in. Carrie Wall, while a University of South Florida doctoral candidate, joined a study in the Gulf of Mexico using a torpedo-shaped machine that mimicked a fish's buoyancy technique so it could stealthily eavesdrop on real fish.
It picked up an unexpected sound at night, which she says the researchers hypothesized was herring passing gas to alter buoyancy. They published the flatulence findings from the faux fish this year.
But animal robots can have trouble staying in character. Barrett Klein, an assistant professor of animal behavior at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, joined a team seven years ago that is now studying the mating habits of the túngara frog in Panamanian rain forests. His colleagues had a crude fake frog with a manually-inflated condom to replicate the male's expanding vocal sac—a mating signal.
Dr. Klein and his team have since crafted increasingly realistic frogs made of urethane with catheter-balloon sacs that inflate automatically. They find female frogs near the Panama Canal and later, in a lab, present them with two mechanical males that inflate their vocal sacs while mating calls play on speakers.
The female will usually choose a mechanical mate—if he stays in character. Several times, a robot frog's vocal sac burst as he wooed. In one instance the live female "just kind of stopped, turned and wandered away," Dr. Klein says. "I can only imagine what she was thinking."
Even harder to woo have been some politicians. Dr. Clark says his squirrel studies are important for understanding animal behavior and thus worthy of the National Science Foundation grant he received. "Our research is an important contribution to our understanding of antagonistic co-evolution in general, and the evolution of predator-prey communication in particular," he says.
Not persuaded is Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), who in October put Dr. Clark's work in his annual "Wastebook" of profligate federal spending alongside an Iowa agricultural and motor sports museum and the overprinting of "Simpsons" postage stamps, among other things.
"These projects truly are representative of a broader problem, which is Washington's inability to set priorities," says John Hart, a spokesman for Sen. Coburn. "It's clearly unusual to spend taxpayer dollars on a robot squirrel."
Dr. Clark says politicians shouldn't target funding like his while the U.S. struggles to remain competitive in training scientists and engineers. Less than 5% of his $390,000 in grant funding went to robots, he says.
The occasional serpent skeptic aside, Dr. Clark's pseudo-squirrels have been successful enough that he plans to use a kangaroo-rat robot next year to study how the critter's thumping foot affects predators.
The robosquirrel evolved from less-polished strains. Aaron Rundus, as a UC Davis graduate student, watched a primitive version face a snake several years back. Everything went well until the squirrel's tail flew off. As the snake had now seen the robot unmasked, the experiment halted, he says, because "you can't erase that memory."
The current model is made of hard foam and a pelt, and stored in a live rodent's bedding for authentic odor. Dr. Clark seeks snakes in the brush and slides the motorized squirrel toward them on a track. The squirrel waves an automated tail heated by coils—to test the theory that real-life versions repel snake strikes by heating up their tails and waving them.
He says he hasn't completed his field experiments yet. It may become clear that the snakes haven't sufficiently bought his impostor squirrel all along, he says. "If that happens, we're back to square one."
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How do we get doctors to honor our wishes at the end of life? Most recommend preparing an advance directive, and I'm no exception. These documents are not infallible, but they are the best things we've got going for us when we can't speak for ourselves.
However, one popular advance directive could actually subvert your wishes with its stealth anti-choice language. It's called Five Wishes.
There are two general kinds of advance directive. One is called a "health care proxy" or "power of attorney for health care," and it delegates a person to make decisions on your behalf. The other is a "living will," which specifies your wishes. Anti-choice activists keep tightening the rules of evidence that govern end-of-life decisions, so you need both documents. One names the decision-maker. The other guides the decisions.
Most people use their state-approved advance directive form, and these are the most trouble-free and reliable. But the widespread form called Five Wishes should come with a warning label. Why? Because the religious dogma imbedded in it could actually subvert your wishes when the time comes.
In 1997 James Towey started a Florida organization called Aging with Dignity and wrote "Five Wishes." With the help of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and others, Five Wishes spread across the country. Aging with Dignity claims more than 15,000 organizations distribute Five Wishes,"and most of them probably do not know about the religious slant. Many people now have these on file, instead of their own state forms. Five Wishes is a wonderful form in many ways, but fair warning is in order.
Five Wishes incorporates the religious creed that while it is permissible to take action you know will cause death, it is never permissible to intend death. It's a subtle concept, but central to certain theology related to the end of life. It carries the name "doctrine of double effect."
Those of us trained in the law usually assume that responsibility covers things we know will result from our actions, in addition to what we intend. "I didn't intend to break the window" is no defense if I knew the window was closed and chose to throw a baseball to my friend outside anyway.
The double effect dogma can trip you up if you don't see it coming. Wish number two, "My Wish For the Kind of Medical Treatment I Want Or Don't Want," includes the general instruction "I do not want anything done or omitted by my doctors or nurses with the intention of taking my life" (italics original).
Then the form goes on to list medical interventions that keep a person alive and allows you to check the box, "I do not want life-support treatment." Thus, it creates internal conflict within the document.
Even if you check the "do not want life-support" box, a hospital or doctor could object that stopping life support would "intend" death and the form you signed expressly prohibits that. What a confusing mess that could create!
The Five Wishes form is simple and easy to use. It avoids the legalese that makes forms written by legislatures so tedious and opaque. It also includes things you might never think to include in your "wishes," like the wish to be rubbed with warm oils as you die, or be soothed with a cool cloth. Also, Five Wishes wisely includes brain damage (that would include dementia) along with terminal illness and coma, as a condition that triggers your instructions about life-support treatment.
But Towey makes no secret of his desire to spread the tenets of his Catholic faith and encourage others to live by them. When he left Florida to lead faith-based initiatives at the White House, he described his goal unabashedly as to "get into heaven."
My advice -- use your own state forms. You can download them free in an editable PDF format, along with instructions and useful additions to the form, at the Compassion & Choices Web site. The new format eases the completion of an advance directive.
If you have already filled out Five Wishes and want to keep it instead of changing to a state form, consider crossing out the part that does not allow an intention to end life. The Five Wishes form itself instructs you to cross out portions you don't agree with. (That instruction somehow went missing from the stealth anti-choice part.)
You can cross it out anyway. Initial and date the cross-out. Congratulations. You have just transformed a fish back into your own, personal end-of-life wish.
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I started looking at the photos of the dogs available at local shelters and rescues. I got my mind wrapped around it. Aidan had been asking—despite his mild fear of dogs. We thought this would be a chance for him to overcome this fear, to learn responsibility, and to have a truly loyal friend and companion growing up.
After much searching and several visits to adoption events, foster homes, shelters and rescues, we found Briggs (formerly known as Pilgrim and then Copper). We found him through the All Herding Breed Dog Rescue of Illinois, and first met Briggs at the home of his foster family. We arranged the meeting and spent a good bit of the afternoon getting to know him at their home. We threw the ball with him (fetching came preinstalled), fed him treats, walked up and down the street, talked with the family to learn more about his disposition and overall personality. It was clear that the foster family loved him very much. In fact, it was their intention to adopt Briggs (they called him Copper) but as it turned out their older Lab didn't like sharing their attention and the match wasn't quite right.
Once we decided to adopt Briggs, I could sense the mix of feelings coming form his foster family. While they were happy to find him a good home, they didn't want to let him go—especially the college-age daughter. She would always dress him up in different colored bandanas, cuddle him like a child, and love him like her own. As we stood their in the driveway and the family said their goodbyes, it was hard. Clearly they loved him so much. We asked if they wanted more time or if maybe they wanted to reconsider, but they said no and assured us that it was for the best at that they were just happy that we could provide a good "forever" home for him. We were sure going to try our best.
He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion.
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So, it's been about five weeks now. Briggs is getting adjusted. He's so smart. I got a few books and do my best to work with him everyday to keep him learning and stimulated mentally. We plan to enroll him in some training classes at the end of this month. Briggs is coming along just fine, but I'm not sure we can say the same for Aidan. About a week or two back, Briggs found his voice and now will bark on occasion. His barking sends Aidan into a panic; he runs squealing from the room or—believe it or not—scrambling for higher ground atop our kitchen table. Briggs, of course, finds this alarming and so barks more; thus begins the cycle. Aidan skulks around, scurrying here and there, which kicks off Briggs herding instinct and he begins to bark at the unusual little "calf" running about. Aidan squeals and runs, Briggs barks more and chases him, and on and on. This may sound a little amusing, but it's actually quite troubling and is causing all kinds of stress. We're hoping either Briggs and/or Aidan adjusts to one another soon.
I, for one, would hate to give Briggs up. First of all, I would feel like a complete failure contacting his previous foster home and telling them it didn't work out. But more significantly, I would certainly feel the loss of a truly loyal companion and good friend. I've only known Briggs for a little more than a month, but we've really bonded. He is a smart, loyal dog—always so happy to see me. We've become fast friends, running partners, confidants. I know I sound like one of those crazy "dog people" now, but what can I say, he won me over. I just hope he can do the same for Aidan.


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10 Best Sci-Fi Movies of 2013
There are so many movies that almost qualify for our 10 Best Sci-Fi Movies of 2013 list, but don't quite make the cut. 'World War Z' was great, but was more of a zombie flick. 'Iron Man 3' was amazing but we all know that's more of a comic book movie. Then there were all those hilarious post-apocalyptic movies like 'This is the End' and 'The World's End' that just didn't meet our science quota. We decided to limit our Sci-Fi movies list to flicks that feature space ships, robots, or at the very least a piece of technology more complex than an iPhone. These are GuySpeed's 10 Best Sci-Fi Movies of 2013.
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'Europa Report'
This sci-fi horror flick gets on our Sci-Fi Movies list because its plot surrounds the exciting thought that there may be life on Europa, one of Jupiter's moons. Unfortunately, the mission goes pretty horribly wrong and, surprise surprise, the astronauts start dying off one by one. However, failing equipment and space radiation are only part of the problem. The life they do find on Europa is much more than they were prepared to handle. The film work in this movie is astounding, waiting to show the "monster" until the last minute, and even then giving us only a glimpse.
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'Cloud Atlas'
'Cloud Atlas' almost didn't get on this list because it just barely counts as sci-fi. The movie is really about how events have a lasting effect throughout history. The movie starts in 1849 and ends in 2321, but even then the world is more post-apocalyptic than science fiction. However, the story is amazingly powerful and the actors do an outstanding job. This movie has pirates and nuclear melt downs and tribal fights and rebellions and slaves and all sorts of compelling storytelling. It could use a few more explosions, true, but it's a phenomenal movie nonetheless, even if it does sort of straddle the boundaries of sci-fi.
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'Ender's Game'
'Ender's Game' is a movie that has quite a bit of controversy surrounding it. Orson Scott Card has said some pretty bigoted things in the past, but 'Enders Game' almost expresses values directly in opposition to its author. It's about responsibility and growing up and how the words of your elders are not always trustworthy. It also has some outstanding space sequences and special effects. Though you may be boycotting the movie due to your personal politics, and that is a valid choice, we can confidently say you are missing out on one hell of a sci-fi flick by doing so.
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'After Earth'
A sci-fi movie written by Will Smith, starring Will and Jaden Smith, and directed by M. Night Shyamalan is… believe it or not… actually pretty good. It was kind of like Man VS Wild, sci-fi edition. Jaden Smith had to learn how to conquer his own fear, fight back against the wilds of an alien planet, and eventually come to an understanding with his father, though he never drinks his own piss. Will and Jaden actually do a great job acting across from each other and the fights and conversations they have in the movie feel genuine and while there is a bit of hokey shyamalany twist stuff going on, it was an enjoyable sci-fi experience in the end.
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Up next on our 2013 list of the best sci-fi movies is 'Elysium,' a movie that is absolutely saturated with POLITICAL SYMBOLISM! We typed that as hard as we possibly could. It tells a story of a world divided into two classes: rich and affluent citizens of 'Elysium,' a space station that offers impeccable medical care and living conditions, and the poor, sick, and hungry residents of a post-apocalyptic earth. It's a pretty heavy handed commentary on our current healthcare situation, but it also super-strength robot exoskeleton fist-fights, so it balances out in the end.
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'Oblivion' is an adaptation of the graphic novel of the same name. It takes place in a far future earth, ruined by aliens called the Scavs… or does it? It's difficult to explain much of the plot of 'Oblivion' without spoiling it, but trust us, it's awesome. It asks questions like "are we our bodies or our memories?" and "what is a human life actually worth when technology outpaces biology?" It also has Tom Cruise playing an actual space man, and Morgan Freeman playing the leader of a band of post-apocalyptic renegades. What more do you want?
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When in doubt, watch Vin Diesel punch things! Riddick is an awesome return to the sci-fi action that made Pitch Black so great. It's far less goofy than The Chronicles of Riddick was and it gets across a tone of solitude on a ruined alien planet. It's kind of like Metroid: The Movie, but with Vin Diesel's fist in the starring role instead of Samus Aran.
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'Gravity' is, simply put, a terrifying movie. There aren't jump scares or aliens or sharknados to terrify you. There is just the cold, oppressive, uncaring vastness of space, and the thought that if anything goes wrong out there, you could die and no one would ever even be able to locate your body. It makes us feel utterly small when compared to the emptiness of the universe. You'll have to get past a couple nitpicky physics errors to enjoy this one, but if you can it will leave you shaking in your seat in both fear and admiration.
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'Star Trek: Into Darkness'
Benedict Cumberbatch steals the show as… a character that we can't really name… in this amazing sequel to 2009's alternate time-line Star Trek movie. Benedict shows us that there is a darker and more sinister side to… uh… that guy he played, who could really strike fear into the hearts of a movie audience that exists in a world where terrorism is a very real threat. It makes a ton of political statements about the use of excessive force in war and Kirk has to make tough decisions when he goes up against… Cumberbatch's character, and the conflict only gets resolve when- HE'S KAHN OK! OF COURSE HE'S KAHN! SPOILERS! WHATEVER! JUST GO SEE THIS MOVIE!
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'Pacific Rim'
Giant robots fighting giant monsters in the middle of the ocean with a chainsaw sword… Gentlemen, we have found a singularity of awesomeness. This movie is a giant monster movie fan's wet dream. It's like a living anime brought to life through gratuitous use of CGI that makes your eyes want to jump out of your head due to the sheer shineyness of it all. It's a movie that will get you standing up and cheering when you see a huge Kaiju get punched in the face and then wondering who you are drift compatible with when the movie is over. It also has one of the best "go get em" speeches of movie history. "Today, we are canceling the apocalypse!"


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February 1, 2013
Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said on Thursday they back a plan to force all Americans to use a biometric Social Security card as part of a "comprehensive immigration reform" scheme that will be used to legalize millions of illegal aliens.
"I'm for it," McCain told a Politico Playbook breakfast earlier this week when asked if he supports "a super Social Security card that would have some sort of biometric thing like a fingerprint."
CFR supports expanding "workplace authorization."
"We want to make sure that employers do not hire people who are here illegally," said Schumer, who has pushed for biometric employment cards in the past, according to Matt Sledge of AOL's Huffington Post. "The only way to do that is to have a non-forgeable card. Because right now you can go down the street here and get a Social Security card or a driver's license for $100 that's forged."
If Schumer and McCain have their way, American citizens will need to submit to the government fingerprints or other biometric information if they want to be legally employed. In other words, citizens will not only be required to get government permission to work, they will also be obliged to submit biometric data to the surveillance state.
"National ID cards and the databases behind them comprise the cornerstone of government surveillance systems that creates risks to privacy and anonymity," notes the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "The requirement to produce identity cards on demand habituates citizens into participating in their own surveillance and social control."
Submitted biodata will make it easier for the government to accomplish geolocation tracking and use video surveillance and facial recognition software. Moreover, it will allow the government to deny employment to people it designates as political troublemakers, otherwise known as terrorists.
According to NSA crypto-mathematician and whistleblower William Binney, the FBI records the emails of nearly all U.S. citizens, including members of Congress. The NSA information collection effort, codenamed Stellar Wind, has intercepted between 15 and 20 trillion transactions since 9/11 and this data will soon be stored at a massive data center under construction in Bluffdale, Utah.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon is working on an array of biometric programs designed to collect and analyze everything from iris and face scans to gait and voice recognition.
The FBI has also jumped on the bandwagon and is now "collecting and storing as much personally identifiable biometric data on as many people as possible" and will one day soon use "that information to identify people in the street, at border checkpoints, and in central booking — or perhaps in your home or office, via a tiny drone that looks like a bug," according to the ACLU of Massachusetts.
The FBI has functioned as a secret political police since its inception early in the 20th century, a fact borne out in the 1960s and 70s by countless documents revealing the unconstitutional activities of its covert COINTELPRO, short for counterintelligence program.
More recently, the Department of Homeland Security has operated as a political police force and collaborated closely with local law enforcement to sabotage the Occupy movement. It actively works to designate and demonize political organizations and people the establishment consider a threat – for instance, supporters of Ron Paul and Second Amendment advocates.
The biometric Social Security ID card is another component of this sprawling dystopian surveillance system built primarily to undermine political activity the state considers a threat to its continued domination. It is now being cynically sold under the guise of immigration reform supported by both Democrats and Republicans.
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Diggers, Funnies, Gassers & Altereds
A Little History Lesson in Drag Racing 101
From the moment I saw the cover (I know, don't judge a book by its blah, blah, blah), I couldn't help but dig right in.
McClurg's love and enthusiasm for drag racing comes across within the first couple sentences of the book's introduction. His infectious excitement of the sport is obvious while he gives us a comprehensive explanation on how the sport initially began.
McClurg takes his time throughout the book, covering the basics on how the most popular classes of drag racing evolved, and, in some cases, how they actually dissolved.
Beginning with "The Roadsters," McClurg touches on the days of "Dry Lakes Racing" and how these early "hot rods" became a legitimate class within the NHRA.
The gassers are represented here with beautiful photography and in-depth dialogue on how this class ruled the country's dragstrips in fan popularity throughout the early to mid '60s.
There is also enough here to whet the appetites of any fuel-altered and front-engine dragster fan, as well. Bob does a great job of taking us through the days when technology wasn't quite so, well...advanced.
No drag racing book would be complete without the inclusion of arguably the most popular class to blaze down the quarter-mile, the Funny Cars. Bob really goes into great detail on how these altered-bodied A/FX cars went on to become the fire-breathing monsters we are familiar with today.
Some of the legends of early Funny Car racing are mentioned here, as well--from "Dyno" Don Nicholson, Jack Chrisman, Gene Snow, Tom "Mongoose" McEwen to Don "The Snake" Prudhomme. Also included in the Funny Car chapter are awesome photos of Bill Lawton in the Tasca Ford Mustang, Hayden Proffitt, Butch Leal, "Dandy" Dick Landy, Big John Mazmanian, and countless others. This chapter alone is worth the price of admission.
McClurg pays close attention to detail by including ETs and MPH in many of the photo captions throughout the book. He even touches on some of the rivalries that made drag racing one of the most compelling motor sports throughout the '70s and on into the early '80s. The verbal bashings between Shirley Muldowney and "Big Daddy" Don Garlits are a story in itself.
Another interesting aspect of the book is how it introduces us to the early days of Super Stock and how that class ultimately transformed into Pro Stock Eliminator. During this period Detroit automakers couldn't help but get involved in engine development programs with many of the top drivers of the class.
With over 200 pages of awesome black and white and incredible color photography, this book does a great job of taking us back to drag racing in its heyday.


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Apple Reportedly Plans January Media Event
Apple is planning an "important" media event for the end of January, according to a report from AllThingsD. The site said that Apple will be announcing something relating to the media industry itself, and that it will hold the event in New York City.
According to the Kara Swisher's sources, the event is categorically not related to Apple's next generation iPad device—the company is expected to refresh its iPad line early in 2012, but this event won't be when that happens.
We should note, though, the recent (and highly unlikely) report fromDigiTimes that said Apple would unveil its new iPad during Macworld, which also takes place at the end of January. In that Apple pulled out of Macworld, we give that rumor little or no credibility as stated, but it does mean that there is extra chatter out there about a late January Apple announcement.
AllThingsD also said that its sources said that the event wasn't likely to be to introduce the other hot-button rumor, an Apple television set. Rumors and supposed leaks have flown hot, heavy, and thick that the company will announce some kind of full television set during 2012, and that it was working on content deals for such a product.
So why New York City, and how will it relate to the media industry? Apple vice president Eddy Cue is reportedly involved in the event, which means that it could be an advertising-related announcement. Mr. Cue is in charge of, among other things, Apple's iAd advertising network, and New York City is the advertising capital of the U.S.
Then again, the Big Apple—as in NYC—is also the publishing capital of the U.S., and Mr. Cue oversees iBooks, in addition to iAd. Wait, NYC is the financial capital of the U.S., and possibly the world, so maybe this will be the announcement of iCash? Apple has more of it than many a government…
We jest, but the event will supposedly be media related, which suggests either publishing or advertising. Pick your favorite poison and call your bookie if you want to lay odds.


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What's that purple goo coming out of that big slug's rear end?
Oww! That crayfish pinched me again!
Do I REALLY have to pick up that cockroach with my hands?
This is what I have to listen to in my lab at the beginning of each school year when high school seniors are conducting research on neuroscience. A public high school may seem like an unusual place for neuroscience research, but the teens I teach are really into it. Let me tell you how we got started.
More than 10 years ago, a major shift at our school saw many freshmen and sophomores registering for AP Biology instead of waiting for their junior or senior years. It occurred to me that after taking AP Biology, some students may wish to explore neurobiology in greater depth, so I created a class called Recent Advances in Neurobiology.
It's pretty much like a graduate school seminar class: students do about 45 pages of reading homework on various topics in neurobiology, then come in and discuss everything they've read. Half their grade is based on class participation (i.e., talking, which high schoolers seem to be fond of anyway). Of course, they are "inspired" to come to class prepared because there is a quiz every day. (Yay!)
The topics for reading and discussion are chosen by the students, and throughout the semester we usually cover the neurobiology of Alzheimer's disease, cocaine, synesthesia, marijuana, gender, and stuff like that. The students seem to love the material and the format.
Three years ago we decided to take this neuro stuff a bit further: we created a new Neuroscience Research Laboratory where seniors can work on year-long research projects.
I have students studying the nervous system of the sea slug Aplysia, the escape response in Madagascar hissing cockroaches, and the neurobiology of behavior in crayfish. Other students aredesigning a wheelchair (and other peripherals) to be controlled by brainwaves. This program can be established at almost any high school. All you need is a strong desire and commitment – and a sign that says "We ? Brains," of course.
Oh, yes. By the end of the first week they know what the purple goo is and they're picking up the cockroaches. But somehow they still get pinched by the crayfish.
Paul A. Cammer, Ph.D., Director Neuroscience Research Laboratory Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
I am really impressed with this class and have seen, first hand, the caliber of students in this class. It astounds me that students at this early age can be so ultimately advanced beyond most adults on the planet.
cool stuff dude
alsome. i would take it if i was at that school....
appreciate your work i would like to hear more in future.
Seeing as you puport to be the "Science" behind addiction, don't you think the factualy wrong information regarding a link between canabis and lung cancer needs to be updated or removed? Several studies have shown no link between canabis usage and increased cancer risk, yet this site, an "information centre" continues to argue the opposite.
Sorry this comment isn't particulary related to this article, but more official channels have been total ignored or responded to with form letters claiming ignorance or outright denial.
Just wondering if the overwhelming "protect our childred" ethos in the states will trump facts. (again)
@Adam - You are right that a direct link between marijuana and cancer has not been found. Because many people who smoke marijuana also smoke cigarettes and use other drugs, it is hard to tease out causal factors. Here is what we say in our recent Marijuana Research Report (link to http://www.nida.nih.gov/ResearchReports/Marijuana/marijuana3.html ): "marijuana has the potential to promote cancer of the lungs and other parts of the respiratory tract because it contains irritants and carcinogens—up to 70 percent more than tobacco smoke. It also induces high levels of an enzyme that converts certain hydrocarbons into their cancer-causing form, which could accelerate the changes that ultimately produce malignant cells. And since marijuana smokers generally inhale more deeply and hold their breath longer than tobacco smokers, the lungs are exposed longer to carcinogenic smoke. However, while several lines of evidence have suggested that marijuana use may lead to lung cancer, the supporting evidence is inconclusive (Hashibe et al. 2006). The presence of an unidentified active ingredient in cannabis smoke having protective properties—if corroborated and properly characterized—could help explain the inconsistencies and modest findings."
that was so cool.....
I hate science
I have seen this classroom first hand; very impressive! Watching these students explore the world of science with such obvious enthusiasm reaffirmed my choice to become a science teacher. Keep up the good work guys!
Hah hah..it is really good & funny. thanks for sharing.
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Our 22 yr old QH mare has been on Adequan for more than one year. She had the proper loading dose and has had a dose each month since then, with her last dose in July, 2013. Since she did not have a dose in August, will we have to do the loading dose again when the drug is available? Thank you. LS, Michigan
Dear LS,
Good news! Those seven injections that were given every four days? That wasn't a "loading dose," that was actually the correct way to administer Adequan. It turns out there IS no official "maintenance dose" from the company such as the once-a-month injections that are commonly given. The only regimen that has been proven to reverse the effects of degenerative joint disease (DJD or osteoarthritis) in horses and that is approved by the FDA is a 500mg intramuscular injection of Adequan once every four days for seven treatments. Once-a-month dosing will offer relief for a four day period but is unable to reestablish the cartilage that has degraded from training, conformation, or age-related changes.
According to Luitpold, the manufacturer, a more effective schedule both in terms of cost and benefit to the joints would be a seven-dose series once or twice a year to address on-going DJD. So until your veterinarian evaluates your mare and together you determine that it's time to give her the seven-dose series again, absolutely no harm has been done by not being able to give her one injection of Adequan each month!
Of course, the absolute best regimen would be a combination of the seven-dose Adequan series once or twice a year and daily administration of an oral joint supplement. This combined approach would ensure she was starting with the healthiest joints possible and keeping them that way with consistent, optimum levels of key active ingredients.


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(CBS News) The sudden downfall of CIA Director David Petraeus seems to have been rooted in simple jealously, but the scandal is raising new questions about the security of top-secret U.S. government information and the CIA's role in the response to the deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
The FBI uncovered evidence of an affair between Petraeus and his biographer Paula Broadwell after she allegedly sent harassing emails to another woman, Jill Kelly, who Broadwell seems to have thought was too close to Petraeus.
The FBI investigation found only a personal drama and no security issues connected to the affair, and no charges are expected, reports CBS News correspondent Bob Orr.
Petraeus was scheduled to testify before Congress on Thursday about the deadly Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. Cosulate. Now his Deputy Mike Morell is to fill that role, but lawmakers made it clear over the weekend that they will still likely want to hear from Petraeus on the matter.
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham told Face the Nation that Petraeus was still the CIA's man who knows the most about Benghazi. (Click on the player above to hear Graham's remarks)
"I don't see how in the world you can find out what happened in Benghazi before, during and after the attack if General Petraeus doesn't testify," Graham told Face the Nation.
Petraeus is said to be focused now on his family, but the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee has said the timing of the resignation suggests a coverup, and several members of the House and Senate have told CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson they're confident Gen. Petraeus will be called to testify about Benghazi in the not-too-distant future.
Timeline: How the Benghazi attack, and probe, unfolded
Diane Feinstein, the Democrat who leads the Senate Intelligence Committee, said she sees Petraeus' resignation the Friday before his scheduled appearance as coincidental, but doesn't rule out a future appearance.
CBS News has learned that Gen. Petraeus visited Libya near the end of October -- and called several members of Congress the week before he resigned, saying that surveillance video of the Benghazi attack supported an element of spontaneity -- as the Obama administration first claimed. At least one Republican reportedly expressed strong disapproval to Petraeus over standing by that analysis. (Click on the player above for a full report from inside the scorched Benghazi compound)
Clinton honors slain envoy to Libya
Meanwhile, a video has surfaced that shows Petraeus' mistress and biographer Broadwell giving information about the attack that some say may indicate she was privy to sensitive information.
Speaking at the University of Denver in late October, Broadwell responds to a question about Petraeus role in the Benghazi scandal by saying, "I don't know if a lot of you heard this, but the CIA annex had actually, um, had taken a couple of Libyan militia members prisoner and they think that the attack on the consulate was an effort to get these prisoners back. So that's still being vetted."
The CIA has said virtually nothing about its operation in Benghazi -- based at a consulate annex about a mile away from the main building -- or how much Ambassador Chris Stevens knew about that operation and the level of danger it may have put his mission in.
U.S. officials struck back at allegations at the beginning of November that they had failed to respond quickly or efficiently to the deadly attack on the consulate, detailing for the first time a broad CIA rescue effort. (At left: CIA says Benghazi response took 25 minutes)
Senior U.S. intelligence officials said CIA security officers went to the aid of State Department staff less than 25 minutes after they got the first call for help from the consulate.
The agency has vehemently denied the claims made by Broadwell in her Colorado address, insisting that prisoners were not held at the CIA annex in Benghazi.
It is unclear whether Broadwell was simply confusing information reported by Fox News earlier in the day, or whether she was relaying what she believed to be inside information on the Benghazi attack from her high-level government sources - who included Gen. Petraeus.
The New York Times reports that in the course of its investigation into the emails, the FBI found classified documents on Broadwell's computer, according to a government source.
CBS News senior correspondent John Miller says the FBI seems to have been satisfied that Petraeus was not the source of the documents, but if the report is accurate, it raises further questions about the level of access she enjoyed as a private citizen to some of the nations most senior officers, and sensitive information. (At left: Miller and Gen. Richard Myers (Ret.) discuss implications of the Petraeus scandal)
Attkisson reports that Petraeus hasn't been the only high ranking official to leave his post since the Benghazi assault.
Gen. Carter Ham is in the process of stepping down as commander of U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM). He was in charge of U.S. military operations in Libya and the surrounding region on that night. The Pentagon has called the move a matter of routine succession.
The Navy has replaced Charles Gaouette, the Rear Admiral who commanded the USS Stennis aircraft carrier Strike Group in the Middle East due to recent allegations of "inappropriate leadership judgement," which were not otherwise described.
Paula Broadwell, meanwhile, has made no public comment on the affair since the news broke, or on her comments in Colorado regarding Benghazi.