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AMD has introduced the ATI Radeon HD 4890 GPU while Nvidia has announced the GeForce GTX 275 GPU.
The ATI Radeon HD 4890 GPU boasts 1.36 teraflops of compute power, GDDR5 memory, and engine clock speeds capable of nearly 1GHz, according to AMD.
By harnessing ATI Stream technology in combination with a number of ATI Stream-enabled applications, the ATI Radeon HD 4890 graphics card can help accelerate the conversion of standard and HD video into multiple formats for use on differing consumer electronics devices as well as harness AMD's second generation Unified Video Decoder (UVD 2.0) to play back smooth HD video, the company highlighted.
The ATI Radeon HD 4890 graphics card is supported by partners including Asustek Computer, Club 3D, Diamond Multimedia, Force3D, GeCube, Gigabyte Technology, Hightech Information Systems (HIS), Jetway, Micro-Star International (MSI), Palit Multimedia, PowerColor, Sapphire Technology, VisionTek and XFX. It is available immediately for US$249.
Nvidia's GeForce GTX 275 GPU is based on its GT200 architecture and features 240 processor cores operating at 1404MHz, 80 texture processing units, a 448bit memory interface, and an 896MB framebuffer. GeForce GTX 275-based graphics cards will have a price range of US$229-249, noted Nvidia.
The GeForce GTX 275 supports Nvidia PhysX technology for interactive gaming experiences, Nvidia Cuda for accelerated desktop applications, and Nvidia 3D Vision for stereoscopic gaming.
The GeForce GTX 275 will be available globally on or before April 14, 2009. Some regions are available now; other regions are available for pre-order. Current availability varies by region and the related graphics cards will be supported by the company's partners including Asustek, BFG, Colorful, EVGA, Gainward, Galaxy, Gigabyte, Innovision, Leadtek, MSI, Palit, Sparkle, Zotac, PNY, Point of View, and XFX.
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Caesar Torreano believes poetry is a beautiful vessel of expression. He chose the name "Caesar" because it means King and fearless leader in Greek. Approximately 2 1/2 years ago, Caesar started his poetic journey and "spit" for the first time at Cliff Belles. Caesar is fondly known as "a venue junky" because he enjoys going to two to three venues in one night. He is extremely diverse in his poetic writing. His poetry ranges from social injustices/conscious topics, love, and erotica. Caesar is the host at Nandi's Knowledge Café in Highland Park and will soon celebrate his one year anniversary. In addition, he is a 38-year-old father of five beautiful children and repair computers in his spare time.
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What fuels you to write poetry?
My life experiences and every day encounters fuels me to write poetry.
Do you remember when you wrote your first poem?
I remember writing my first poem in the 7th grade at Durfee Middle School for an extra credit assignment in English.
How would you describe your poetry?
Poetry is a learning experience for me therefore trying to describe my poetry is hard because it covers a wide range of emotions, it is raw, comes straight from my heart and authentic.
Who are some of your favorite poets?
I have too many favorite poets to name them all but a few of my favorite local poets are LaShaun Phoenix Kotaran, Kevlaar, Claretha Peace Robinson, Omari Barksdale and Chace "Mic Write" Morris. Also one of my non local favorite poets is Rudy Francisco from California.

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Please explain the reasons why Izhaar if noon Saakin is done in the huroof Ul halqi, Idghaam is done in the letters of Yarmaloon.
We don't normally need to find a reason for the tajweed rules, as they correspond for the most part to the natural tongue of the Arabs at the time of revelation and the Qur'an was revealed with tajweed.
In the case of the ith-haar of the noon saakinah when followed by one of the six letters pronounced from the throat, the scholars have pointed out that the reason is because of the great distance between the articulation points, where the noon saakinah is pronounced from the tip of the tongue and the gums of the top two front incisors and the throat is very far from that.
The idghaam of the noon saakinah into the letters of the group "yarmiloon" is due to the closeness in articulation points and in some of the characteristics of the noon and the letters yarmaloo (ya', ra', meem, laam, wow). The noon of course has the same articulation point and characteristics as a noon, since they are the same letter and that is the reason for the idhgaam .
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Digestive Health and Weight Gain
When we are eating healthy whole foods with the absence of highly refined carbohydrates, weight gain should not be a problem. However, many people who have switched over to healthy diets, and have even limited their carbohydrate intake, still have problems losing weight. One reason is because many […]


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BFI recruits partners for its Film Academy Network
Initiative will help train young people
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The British Film Institute has announced the 24 regional partners in its BFI Film Academy Network, designed to help 16-to-19 year olds develop new skills and build a career in the film industry.
The program, part of the BFI's "Film Forever: Supporting U.K. Film 2012-2017" plan unveiled in October, has received £3 million ($4.8 million) from the Dept. for Education in England.
The Film Academy Network will offer courses on development, production, post, marketing and PR, sales, distribution and exhibition to help young people develop commercial and cultural knowledge and skills they will need to start a career.
Participants who complete courses will be offered a range of opportunities including apprenticeships and employment.
"The new academy is open to young people from all backgrounds and will play its part in helping ensure the British film industry remains competitive," said Michael Gove, secretary of state for education.
Over the next four months the partners, which come from a diverse range of film and media training bodies, universities and delivery experts in the cultural and education sector, will work alongside the BFI and its strategic partners, BAFTA, Creative Skillset and Pinewood Studios, to offer learning experiences to nearly 500 teens.
In March up to 50 highflyers will attend a Talent Campus to help develop their skills further and determine next steps in training opportunities and future employment in the film industry.
"Film and the creative industries as a whole are at the heart of the U.K.'s economic recovery," said BFI CEO Amanda Nevill.
"Film makes a multi-billion contribution to U.K. GDP. To ensure further growth we must find, encourage and nurture the talent of tomorrow. This project is designed to do just that."
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Reader Emily Culbertson suggested a book group -- online -- to discuss Scott Berkun's new book, Confessions of a Public Speaker, and I've started such a group on Google Wave. Wave is still in the experimental stages and you need an invitation to join; I have a few invitations to extend to followers and fans of the blog. If you are already on Google Wave, you can search for "Scott Berkun" or the book title to find our discussion--or enter this Google Wave ID: googlewave.com!w+iSDGzOq9B.2
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Inspiration, ideas and information to help women build public speaking content, confidence and credibility. Denise Graveline is a Washington, DC-based speaker coach who has coached nearly 200 TEDMED and TEDx speakers--including one of 2016's most popular TED talks. She also has prepared speakers for presentations, testimony, and keynotes. She offers 1:1 coaching and group workshops in public speaking, presentation and media interview skills to both men and women.
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One Saturday in January 2010, Devendra Deshpande left his home in the Delhi suburbs and drove into the city to get a vasectomy. He was 36 years old, married with two young kids, and he thought it was time.
He arrived at the hospital around midday and met Hem Das, then the hospital's chief vasectomy surgeon. Das had an interesting question for Deshpande. Rather than receive a traditional vasectomy, would Deshpande like to be part of a clinical trial for a new contraceptive procedure?
Das explained that the new method did not have some of the drawbacks associated with a regular vasectomy. First, sperm would still be able to escape Deshpande's body normally, which meant he would be free of the pressure and granulomas that sometimes accompany a vasectomy. More important, it could be reversed easily, with a simple follow-up injection.
"I am normally not adventurous when it comes to getting myself operated on," Deshpande deadpans. But the new method sounded good to him, and according to the published studies he read on his smartphone in the waiting room, it seemed safe. He gave his wife, Vinu, a call, and although she sounded nervous on the phone, she said she was fine with it. Deshpande decided to try the experimental method.
When his turn came, he lay down on the table, and an orderly draped his lower body with a green surgical cloth that covered everything but his scrotum. Then Das moved in with a needle containing a local anesthetic. Once the drug had taken effect, Das gathered a fold of skin, made a puncture, and reached into the scrotum with a fine pair of forceps. He extracted a white tube: the vas deferens, which sperm travel through from the testes to the penis. In a normal vasectomy, Das would have severed the vas, cauterized and tied up the ends, and tucked it all back inside. But rather than snipping, Das took another syringe, delicately slid the needle lengthwise into the vas, and slowly depressed the plunger, injecting a clear, viscous liquid. He then repeated the steps on the other side of the scrotum.
The procedure is known by the clunky acronym RISUG (for reversible inhibition of sperm under guidance), but it is in fact quite elegant: The substance that Das injected was a nontoxic polymer that forms a coating on the inside of the vas. As sperm flow past, they are chemically incapacitated, rendering them unable to fertilize an egg.
If the research pans out, RISUG would represent the biggest advance in male birth control since a clever Polish entrepreneur dipped a phallic mold into liquid rubber and invented the modern condom. "It holds tremendous promise," says Ronald Weiss, a leading Canadian vasectomy surgeon and a member of a World Health Organization team that visited India to look into RISUG. "If we can prove that RISUG is safe and effective and reversible, there is no reason why anybody would have a vasectomy."
But here's the thing: RISUG is not the product of some global pharmaceutical company or state-of-the-art government-funded research lab. It's the brainchild of a maverick Indian scientist named Sujoy Guha, who has spent more than 30 years refining the idea while battling bureaucrats in his own country and skeptics worldwide. He has prevailed because, in study after study, RISUG has been proven to work 100 percent of the time. Among the hundreds of men who have been successfully injected with the compound so far in clinical trials, there has not been a single failure or serious adverse reaction. The procedure is now in late Phase III clinical trials in India, which means approval in that country could come in as little as two years.
But RISUG is garnering interest beyond India. Every week, Guha's inbox fills with entreaties from Western men. They've heard about RISUG on Internet forums or from occasional mentions in newspaper and magazine articles. Some of them even volunteer to travel to India, offering themselves as lab rats. Guha puts them off gently but politely; for now, the trials are open only to Indian men. Everyone else has to wait. "Our options suck," fumes one frustrated correspondent, a Florida real estate manager who emailed Guha a few years ago. "I'd gladly put my balls on the chopping block for the benefit of mankind."
He may yet have that opportunity. Thanks to a novel collaboration between Guha and a San Francisco reproductive health activist, RISUG could soon be on the road to FDA approval in the US.
In both the East and the West, the need for better contraceptives couldn't be clearer. India will soon surpass China as the world's most populous nation; in the poorest Indian state, women bear an average of nearly four children. Cheap to produce and relatively easy to administer, RISUG could help poor couples limit their families—increasing their chances of escaping poverty. In the developed countries, it would help relieve women of the risks of long-term birth-control-pill use and give men a more reliable, less annoying option than condoms. About half of all pregnancies in the US are unplanned. Come up with a better contraceptive and the likely results are all good: fewer unwanted kids, fewer single parents, and fewer abortions.
Marooned in the marshes of West Bengal, 20 hours by rail from New Delhi, the small city of Kharagpur is a likelier spot for a prison than for one of the world's most elite technological institutions. In fact, under the British, it was the site of the notorious Hijli detention camp, where rebel intellectuals were imprisoned. After India's independence in 1947, Prime Minister Nehru pointedly established the first Indian Institute of Technology on the site; today, a steady stream of recruiters from Microsoft, Sun, and Facebook make pilgrimages to the campus in search of the brightest Indian talent.
Guha was a member of IIT's fifth entering class, in 1957—attending school where his uncle, a radical writer, had been imprisoned years earlier. After Guha reached retirement age in 2002, he returned to Kharagpur from Delhi. Driving around campus today in his 1967 Fiat sedan, Guha points out buildings that he has reclaimed from the jungle and retrofit with labs and workshops—a kind of rogue operation within the university walls. A former mining department building now serves as a RISUG production facility, where his staff mixes up batches of the polymer used in the procedure.
Besides RISUG, Guha is also developing an artificial heart based not on a human heart but on that of a cockroach, which has 13 chambers. His artificial version has five chambers in its left ventricle, which allows it to step up pressure more gradually, inflicting less stress on the mechanism and materials than a conventional design. In another building on campus, he is raising goats that will eventually receive the experimental hearts.
A birdlike man with clear, olive-toned skin and an elegant manner, Guha seems to have been transported from another century. In a sense, he was: Born in 1940, before independence, he still uses Britishisms like see here and good man. He doesn't waste oxygen on small talk, so when he does speak you know to listen. Nevertheless, he has a lively sense of humor, and when something amuses him he'll burst into a delighted, high-pitched laugh. At age 70, he still does not need glasses, which he attributes to his daily eye exercises. Every night, he jogs 2 miles around the IIT campus carrying a rolled-up belt to ward off stray dogs. "Every part of the body must be exercised," he says.
Guha has a penchant for simple yet profound inventions. As a young graduate student at St. Louis University during the mid-1960s, he devised an electromagnetic pump that had no moving parts; instead, it used the ionic charge of seawater to create force. As he explained to a visiting reporter from Popular Science, his pump could also serve as a silent engine for ships—or nuclear submarines. A version of that electromagnetic "caterpillar drive" is, of course, at the center of the film The Hunt for Red October. As has happened with medical discoveries from penicillin to Viagra, Guha was searching for something entirely different when he stumbled across the idea that became RISUG. In the early 1970s, at the behest of the government, Guha was looking for a way to purify water in rural pumps. Treating the water chemically could be too expensive and infrastructure-dependent; he needed a method that was permanent, safe, and cheap. Then a hotshot young professor at the IIT campus in Delhi, Guha figured out a way to line the pumps with a substance that would kill bacteria without depleting itself.
But the project was never completed. In the mid-1970s, India awoke to its urgent population crisis, and the government's priorities changed. Guha refocused his work on the field of contraception. He soon realized that the same basic concept could work inside the pumping mechanism of the male anatomy—the vas deferens.
In 1979, when Guha was 39, he published a simple four-page paper that outlined the basic concept of RISUG. He had begun experimenting with a common polymer, called styrene maleic anhydride. The SMA was mixed with a solvent called dimethyl sulfoxide, or DMSO, and injected into the vas deferens of 25 male rats. Each male was placed in a cage with three breeding females. After six months, none of the female rats had become pregnant. (In the control groups, all of the females became pregnant.) Guha and his team also showed that the substance could be flushed out with a simple injection of DMSO. Normal fertility soon returned.
They refined the method and tried it successfully in monkeys, whose reproductive physiology is close to that of humans. As a high-molecular-weight polymer, the mixture was not absorbed by the body, nor was it flushed out by the flow of seminal fluid. It anchored to the inner wall of the vas, and in laboratory tests it appeared to be nontoxic. Plus, it seemed to retain its effectiveness indefinitely, like a magnet. In 1989, it was injected into a human subject for the first time. It worked.
1. A reversible vasectomy begins like a regular vasectomy: The surgeon makes a small puncture in the scrotum and extracts the vas deferens, a slender white tube. But rather than severing the vas, the doctor injects the vessel lengthwise with a nontoxic, stable polymer mixture. The process is repeated on the other side.
2. The polymer, a compound of styrene maleic anhydride (or SMA, an ingredient in floor polish) and dimethyl sulfoxide (or DMSO, a common solvent) anchors itself to the tiny folds in the vas, clinging to the tissue. Sperm and other fluids can still get through, avoiding the backup pressure sometimes associated with a vasectomy.
3. As sperm pass through the vas, the positively charged polymer interacts with the negatively charged sperm, rupturing cell membranes and damaging sperm tails. The sperm are thus incapable of fertilizing an egg. Sperm production and male hormone levels are not affected.
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Ever since the birth control pill was approved by the FDA in 1960, scientists in the West have been looking for a male equivalent. It's been a rocky road, in part for biological reasons: Hormonally, it's much easier to control a single monthly event like ovulation than to try to stop the endless onslaught of sperm.
An equivalent "pill" for men would somehow have to stop sperm production without neutralizing their libido or erectile function. Pharmaceutical companies and government agencies have sunk millions into hormone-based contraceptive research that has yielded few viable products.
And then there's RISUG. Rather than shutting down sperm production, with the potential side effects that entails, it acts more like a tollbooth on the sperm superhighway. As the negatively charged sperm pass by, they are essentially zapped by the positive charge of the SMA polymer. So a RISUG-injected man will still ejaculate millions of sperm, but most will be dead: tails snapped off, cell membranes ruptured.
As a contraceptive, RISUG faces a far more difficult road to approval and commercial acceptance than, say, a new antidepressant medication. While an antidepressant would be considered a success if it worked in 75 percent of patients, a contraceptive like RISUG will be compared to a conventional vasectomy, which works more than 99 percent of the time. Furthermore, it has to be free from the serious side effects that were common with early experimental hormone-based male contraceptives. And it cannot cause birth defects down the line—ever. "Nobody wants another thalidomide," says Ron Weiss, the Canadian vasectomy doctor.
In human tests, RISUG performed extremely well. In the first clinical trial of 17 men, published in 1993, all the subjects who received above a certain dosage became azoospermic—that is, they produced no viable sperm. By 2000, it was in Phase III clinical trials in India, the final stage before approval. The compound was injected into 139 men, and the early results looked promising. In May 2002, it was announced that RISUG was on track for approval in India and would be rolled out on a limited basis within six months.
At around the same time, a World Health Organization team came to visit Guha's lab in Delhi and examine his data. This itself was a triumph: It meant RISUG was finally on the international radar. Weiss, a long-time advocate of the process, was with the group and performed the operation. But the five-person team came away skeptical.
In its report, the WHO team agreed that the concept of RISUG was intriguing. But they found fault with the homegrown production methods: Guha and his staff made the concoction themselves in his lab, and the WHO delegation found his facilities wanting by modern pharmaceutical manufacturing standards. Furthermore, they found that Guha's studies did not meet "international regulatory requirements" for new drug approval—certain data was missing. The final recommendation: WHO should pass on RISUG.
But within India, at least, RISUG still seemed to be headed for approval. Then, in mid-2002, after Guha and his team had spent years cultivating allies in India's infamous bureaucracy, a new health minister took over, and the Indian Council for Medical Research (equivalent to the US National Institutes of Health) put the brakes on the trials. Before new patients could be injected, the NIH asked that some of the subjects be analyzed further and that basic toxicology studies be redone.
Of particular concern was the possibility that SMA—a resin found in floor polishes and automobile body panels—is toxic. Styrene and maleic anhydride are indeed toxic separately. But Guha points out that while sodium and chlorine are also toxic individually, "we take sodium chloride all the time."
The analogy holds for RISUG: Lab tests show that SMA is nontoxic. Guha had convinced the Indian government of the compound's safety back in the '80s; now he had to do it all over again, and he was exasperated. Mysterious press reports appeared, stating that some patients had experienced "complications"—which turned out to be nothing more than transient scrotal swelling. In the press, Guha suggested that his doubters had deliberately slowed RISUG to make way for competing hormonal injections developed by foreign companies. True or not, it didn't make him any friends.
"It was not a problem of science," says A. R. Nanda, an early supporter of RISUG and former secretary of the department of family welfare. "It was a problem of politics and ego."
In the middle of it all, Guha reached mandatory retirement age, leading him to leave his post at IIT Delhi, close to the levers of power. He retreated to Kharagpur, in the jungle. But instead of giving up, he dug in, remembering what an old mentor had told him early in his career: that any new scientific idea had to experience four stages of reaction, which correspond to the name of the Hindu god Rama.
"In the first instance, there will be rejection—R," Guha says, sitting in a folding chair in his fluorescent-lit lab. "If you pursue it, there will be anger. You have to persist. Then, a phase of mellowing will come: 'Ah, yes,' people will say. 'Maybe there's something to it!' Then, if you still have patience and courage, will come a stage of acceptance."
From his home base in Ottawa, Ronald Weiss marvels at the possibilities of RISUG. "If you're looking for the better mousetrap, this is it," he says. "I have received emails from men all over the world kind of champing at the bit to get RISUG."
Weiss had been trying to bring the process to Canada starting in the late '90s. But when he presented his notes and Guha's published studies to the regulators at Health Canada, they shot him down. Guha's studies did not meet their standards, they said. All of them would need to be redone. "Essentially, we were in a situation where we would have to start from zero," Weiss says. "We would have to redo every single study to get approval. And I didn't have millions of dollars at my disposal."
He looked around for a corporate partner but found no takers. Unlike birth control pills, which must be used daily, sometimes for years, RISUG is a long-lasting, low-cost treatment (the syringe could end up costing more than the material it injects). "Pharmaceutical companies are not interested in one-offs," Weiss says. "They're interested in things they can sell repeatedly, like the birth control pill or Viagra."
Reluctantly, Weiss gave up on his plans to commercialize the procedure in North America. But a woman named Elaine Lissner picked up where he left off. Lissner's interest in male contraception started in the late 1980s, when she was an undergraduate at Stanford. She took a seminar there from Carl Djerassi, one of the inventors of the female birth control pill, who once famously declared that no woman then alive would see a male contraceptive in use during her reproductive lifetime.
Lissner found herself asking the same question that millions of men and women have asked: Why not? Why should there be plenty of options for women and none for men? In college, she'd seen the reproductive havoc wreaked on her friends by a world that places most of the contraceptive burden on women. She wrote a paper outlining what was being done about nonhormonal methods of male contraception, which could be summed up in two words: not much. There were actually, she discovered, men who soaked their testicles in scalding hot water, thinking (correctly but painfully) that it would reduce their fertility. There had to be a better answer.
She founded a small nonprofit advocacy group called the Male Contraception Information Project to push for better male options. By 2001, she had concluded that RISUG was the most promising new development out there and began tracking its ups and downs closely.
By 2009, though, she had grown frustrated with the lack of progress on RISUG in India. Luckily, she was in a position to do something about it. At the beginning of the real estate boom, she'd invested a small amount of money in her father's construction company, which had become wildly successful building houses around Reno, Nevada. She parked the profits in a small private foundation called Parsemus and set about putting money behind RISUG.
In February 2010, Parsemus bought the international rights to the RISUG technology from Guha and IIT Kharagpur for $100,000. They had worked closely together for years, and she had earned his trust. She also hired Gary Gamerman, a consultant who specializes in shepherding products through the complex FDA approval process. The plan was to get RISUG OK'd in the US, perhaps even before it hit the market in India. "What's the alternative?" Lissner asks. "Just keep complaining?"
Gamerman told her what she already knew: She would have to begin at the beginning—by making a batch of SMA/DMSO compound in a certified pharmaceutical plant in the US. Later this year, Lissner and her team will begin basic toxicology testing, and if the material passes muster—as it always has in the past—then they will test it in rabbits, hoping to repeat Guha's results on rats from 1979. Oh, and it won't be called RISUG anymore. One of Lissner's first acts was to name the compound Vasalgel. But to get human clinical trials going will take more funding than the $500,000 that Lissner has budgeted; Gamerman estimates that the whole approval process could cost $4 million to $5 million. "There should be tons of interested potential partners," she says, reeling off a list that includes Planned Parenthood, USAID, organizations like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation (which have invested in population control and women's health), and a group called WomanCare Global, run by a former pharmaceutical exec.
"If it's no longer a crazy Indian idea and it's something that's working in India and in rabbits in Ohio and in the first 20 men in the US," Lissner says, "then there's got to be a point where there's just no excuse for a Gates or a Buffett not to get on board."
Just this past year, in fact, Guha received a $100,000 Gates Foundation grant to pursue a variation of RISUG in the fallopian tubes as a female contraceptive. More important, the Gates grant marked an important milestone for Guha, an international validation of his work. It's been a long time coming—and an important step toward the final stage of Rama: acceptance.
Meanwhile, after a repeat of some of the basic toxicology tests (and another shift in the political wind), Phase III trials have resumed in India with full government support. Five hundred subjects are expected to be enrolled at 10 study centers around the country. One of those patients was Devendra Deshpande, the man who read about the safety of RISUG on his cell phone before undergoing the procedure.
A software engineer for an American company, Deshpande is slim and sharp-featured, dressed in the global nerd uniform of neat burgundy sweater and faded jeans. He and his wife, Vinu, a broad, cheerful woman, are part of the burgeoning new Indian middle class. They live in Noida, a Delhi suburb, in a complex of new two-story town houses. They have a car and a tidy, comfortable home that resounds with the cries of two energetic young children, a boy and a girl.
An hour after the procedure started, Deshpande was on his way home. He had two band-aids on his shaved scrotum, plus a handful of painkillers and a course of ciprofloxacin—Indian doctors do not mess around when it comes to prescribing strong antibiotics. He used the pain pills for a couple of days and felt some tenderness and swelling for a week but no other side effects. There was no recurring scrotal pain, as sometimes happens with a vasectomy; on most days, he forgot that the stuff was in there.
Which, if you think about it, is the goal of any contraceptive (not to mention the theme of endless Trojan condom advertisements): You forget about it. No one had to take a pill every day. Nobody had to have bloating or other side effects. No "accidents."
And regarding what Indians euphemistically term "the family life," he says, there was one big plus: He didn't have to continue using condoms for three months, as is recommended after standard vasectomies.
"It was business as usual," Deshpande says. Vinu giggles. "Probably better!"
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In reflecting on our weekend "BBQ Rib Contest" we hosted at the Green Leaf BBQ Shop (www.greenleafbbq.com), I thought I'd post a little detail on how and why to trim ribs – as opposed to leaving the entire rack as it comes from the butcher shop.
I've included this video to assist in a basic St.Louis Style preparation. After watching the video, I think you'll have a nice idea of how to prepare a practical pork spare rib rack either for yourself or your guests.
As our video host mentions, we commonly "clean-up" a rack of ribs to control several main variables. First, to make each rack as similar to the next rack as possible. This helps keep "cook time" between racks very consistent. Second, trimming makes the rack easier to eat. Other benefits are more practical. More trimmed racks fit onto a grill, so you can create more BBQ goodness for more guests…and they just look prettier on the plate.
Keep in mind, that the trimmings are NOT thrown into the trash – they are used in other BBQ recipes – such as "Rib Tips" which uses the top portion trimmed off of the whole rack. The boneless pork meat trimmed from the small end of the rack and the inside flap, go into the baked beans, or as treats for the pit boss etc.
From here, the brine, seasoning, or marinade process can begin. I hope this helps you make better BBQ ribs.
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Happy Monday! Here are a few bike-related links I've discovered and enjoyed over the past few days.
HerStoria magazine has a piece on the early days of women and bikes. Though there's nothing groundbreaking here, it's a good overview of the questions that cycling raised around the turn of the century—and a reminder that a backlash for challenging norms is nothing new.
Would these 'free' or 'new' bicycling women become sexually outré and masculinised , turning their backs on traditional family values and undermining the natural authority of men? If so, such daring women were nothing short of a threat to the well-being of the race and of the nation as a whole.
The July issue of the Atlantic has a piece on the London cycling scene by one of my favorite authors, Lionel Shriver, who tackles the subject with her typical contrarian charm.
Cycling was once my little secret. While the clueless lavished fortunes on train tickets, car repairs, and taxis, I saved a bundle. I got my exercise, while the proles, after a prolonged, miserable journey home, had to face another trip, to a stuffy, jam-packed gym.
My secret is out.
But she's not rejoicing about this: for Shriver, cycling hell is other cyclists. More specifically, London cyclists, whom she says are more "cutthroat, vicious, reckless, hostile, and violently competitive" than those in America or Europe. If you've ever contemplated the dark side of achieving critical mass, and then felt guilty for it—read this piece.
Also in the gloom-and-doom department: this piece on the Atlantic Cities blog on the failure of the latest transportation bill.
Lawmakers had the opportunity to achieve transformative change. They didn't seize it.
(Surprise, surprise?)
And finally, Lovely Bicycle had a thoughtful post on women and food. Though I've never counted calories, this disconnect between hunger and the need for nourishment that begins when you get older—and the anxiety it can cause—struck a chord with me:
At age 12, feeling hungry simply meant I needed to eat something. But by age 22, this connection had become severed. There was nervous hunger, cravings for comfort food during all the endless studying, emotional eating.
What links have you enjoyed this week? Share in the comments.
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Forget what you've heard about Kristen Stewart's rumored romance with "Twilight" co-star Robert Pattinson; the 20-year-old starlet only has eyes for one guy, and he's got four legs. (But no, he's not a werewolf.) Stewart is "obsessed" with her cat,
Stewart claims her life isn't nearly as glamorous as all the red-carpet appearances make it seem, telling Contactmusic.com, "I'm so boring. No I am. I sit in my house with my cat. I'm a crazy cat lady, just give me a couple of years. I have one cat but I'm obsessed with him."


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Hiring a Contractor to Repair Broken Windows: Things to Consider
Things to Consider When Hiring a Contractor to Repair Broken Windows
The level of difficulty involved in repairing broken windows can be low or high depending on the type of repair. If a crank or handle breaks, the repair will be easy to do yourself. If the window has been shattered or the frame is broken or rotted, repair will be difficult to accomplish on your own. In these cases, the services of a contractor are required. A contractor has the skills needed to repair the window quickly and safely to help the homeowner avoid injuries or future repairs to a poorly repaired window.
If your window repair project requires the expertise of a contractor, there are several things to consider:
- Background
- Contract
- Expectations and time frames
- Labor Warranty
- Reputation
Background is important whenever a homeowner hires a contractor to work on the home. Ask the contractor how many years his company has been in business, what he did prior to starting his business, and what areas of home improvement he specializes in.
Contracts are important for several reasons. They provide a start and completion date, the contractors obligations such as obtaining a permit, and a promise to follow all state and local codes, and manufacturer's specifications. Although expectations and time frames are typically covered in the contract, the contractor should complete your window project in less than a day. In most cases 8-10 window replacements can be done in one day.
The labor warranty should be part of the contract. After the repairs have been completed, most reputable contractors will return to the home to make sure the window is working properly and that there are no further damages. If any damage occurs within a week of repairing a broken window, the contractor will repair it at no extra charge.
Reputation can be assessed by following up with references, checking with the Better Business Bureau, and reviewing training credentials and certifications. You can even ask for character references.


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The party just can't help itself.
Another Republican congressman ventured into the realm of rape and pregnancy Wednesday, saying at a committee hearing that incidences of pregnancy from rape are "very low."
Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.), whose measure banning abortions after 20 weeks was being considered in the House Judiciary Committee, argued against a Democratic amendment to make exceptions for rape and incest by suggesting that pregnancy from rape is rare.
"The incidence of rape resulting in pregnancy are very low," Franks said.
Please, Mr. Franks, tell us more. How many rapes do you think lead to pregnancies? Do you think women have ways of shutting that whole thing down? Why do you want to punish the women who fall into this category you consider inconsequentially small?
"I just find it astonishing to hear a phrase repeated that the incidence of pregnancy from rape is low," Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) said at the hearing. "There's no scientific basis for that. And the idea that the Republican men on this committee can tell the women of America that they have to carry to term the product of a rape is outrageous."
The Republican-led Judiciary Committee, not surprisingly, rejected the rape and incest exceptions – all of the GOP members on the committee are conservative men – but not before Franks could share his perspective on the issue.
Remember earlier this year, when a top GOP pollster advised Republicans to consider rape a "four-letter word"? Apparently, it's taking a while for the message to sink in.


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1778 genealogy blogs on Tom MacEntee's GeneaBlogger list as of March 5, 2011! When I began blogging, in October 2009, there were about 700. What a lot of people blogging about genealogy or history. And why do some blogs get a lot of traffic and others don't, yet they are both writing pretty much about the same thing? Maybe some of the hints from my previous post or the ones from below might help you, and you don't have to blog about genealogy, they would apply to any topic.
On February 20th I posted The Best Blog Hints -- Part 1. These were not my ideas, but were taken from various sources, and I picked the ones I like and try to follow. Quite a few readers made comments with additional ideas, you might enjoy some of them. Below is Part 2.
Stories are More Important than Sales
Ask for Comments
Be Original in Content
Be personal, but not too Personal
Determine the Goal of your About Page
Every day, I receive an email from ProBlogger with Blog Tips (ProBlogger.net), I've been a subscriber for over a year and the posts are written by bloggers. The best thing is, I usually know what they are talking about.
Plan the Blog; Blog the Plan
Today's blog was titled 7 Good Things that Blogging Brings. It was so good, that I felt this was the perfect time to post my Part 2. The newsletter is FREE, it is always informative and fun to read.
A few other good hints about blogging:
How to Create a Successful Blog (additional hints from this YouTube video)


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Franchise Opportunities
Hardee's® has built a position as one of America's premier burger brands. Established in 1961, Hardee's® operates or franchises more than 1,900 quick-service restaurants in 30 U.S. states and nine countries. Today, Hardee's® is looking for exceptional new franchise candidates throughout the Mid-Western and Eastern United States.
Hardee's® consistently out-delivers the competition with an innovative menu strategy that focuses on developing premium, sit-down restaurant quality menu items. Whether it's the 1/3-lb. 100% Black Angus Beef Thickburger® line, Hand-Scooped Ice Cream Shakes & Malts™ or Made from Scratch™ Biscuits, Hardee's® provides a best-in-class menu that supports a premium franchise opportunity.
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Haptoglobin is a protein produced by the liver. It connects to a certain type of hemoglobin in the blood.
A blood test can tell how much haptoglobin you have in your blood.
Your doctor may tell you to stop taking any drugs that can affect the test results.
Drugs that can raise haptoglobin levels include:
Drugs that can lower haptoglobin levels include:
Never stop taking any medicine without first talking to your doctor.
When the needle is inserted to draw blood, some people feel moderate pain, while others feel only a prick or stinging sensation. Afterward, there may be some throbbing.
This test is done to see how fast your red blood cells are destroyed. When red blood cells die, they release hemoglobin.
Haptoglobin attaches to this released hemoglobin, which is also called "free" hemoglobin. Free hemoglobin is not contained within red blood cells. The level of free hemoglobin is usually very low, but it rises whenever red blood cells are dying.
When the haptoglobin and hemoglobin attach, the new molecule goes to the liver, where parts of it (such as iron and amino acids) are recycled. The haptoglobin is destroyed.
When red blood cells are actively being destroyed, haptoglobin disappears faster than it is created. Thus, the levels of haptoglobin in the blood drop.
The normal range is 41 - 165 mg/dL (milligrams per deciliter).
Note: Normal value ranges may vary slightly among different laboratories. Talk to your doctor about the meaning of your specific test results.
The examples above show the common measurements for results for these tests. Some laboratories use different measurements or may test different specimens.
Higher-than-normal levels may be due to:
Lower-than-normal levels may be due to:
There is very little risk involved with having your blood taken. Veins and arteries vary in size from one patient to another and from one side of the body to the other. Taking blood from some people may be more difficult than from others.
Other risks associated with having blood drawn are slight but may include:
Yee DL, Bollard CM, Geaghan SM. Appendix: Normal Blood Values: Selected Reference Values for Neonatal, Pediatric, And Adult Populations. In: Hoffman R, Benz EJ, Shattil SS, et al, eds. Hematology: Basic Principles and Practice. 5th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Elsevier Churchill Livingstone; 2008:chap 164.
Schwartz RS. Autoimmune and intravascular hemolytic anemias In: Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds. Cecil Medicine. 24th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 163.
Review Date: 2/8/2012
The information provided herein should not be used during any medical emergency or for the diagnosis or treatment of any medical condition. A licensed physician should be consulted for diagnosis and treatment of any and all medical conditions. Call 911 for all medical emergencies. Links to other sites are provided for information only -- they do not constitute endorsements of those other sites. Copyright ©2003 A.D.A.M., Inc., as modified by University of California San Francisco. Any duplication or distribution of the information contained herein is strictly prohibited.
Information developed by A.D.A.M., Inc. regarding tests and test results may not directly correspond with information provided by UCSF Medical Center. Please discuss with your doctor any questions or concerns you may have.


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Set in the Forgotten Realms® world, the most popular Dungeons & Dragons® campaign setting, Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II will use the 3rd Edition Dungeons & Dragons rules set. Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II will feature more monsters, graphically stunning environments and five new and unique customizable player characters to choose from, hidden areas to explore, as well as a new item creation system that will allow players to create their own ultimate magical artifacts. Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II is scheduled to be available at retail for holiday 2003.
"The move to develop for the console systems with Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance allowed the team to bring new adventure and life into the series and enhance the franchise," states Feargus Urquhart, president of Black Isle Studios.
Darkness gathers yet again in the sprawling port city of Baldur's Gate and the city's most recent saviors vanished along with the Onyx Tower, foul bastion of Eldrith the Betrayer. In heroic tradition, adventurers throughout the Western Heartlands make the journey to Baldur's Gate to meet their great and unknown fate. The threat of Eldrith has been eliminated, yet sinister, enigmatic forces still rally against the city. There are many intrigues to unravel, enemies to butcher, and characters to meet -- both old and new -- before Baldur's Gate is saved from a fate far worse than utter destruction.
Playstation 2
- Fast paced, addictive hack n' slash combat with over 40+ levels of thrilling action spread over 4 acts.
- Five new customizable characters, each with distinctive powers appearances and abilities that develop throughout the game.
- New, amazingly detailed environments and monsters with even more explosive spell effects than before.
- A new, inventive item creation system that allows players to forge their own unique magical weapons and armor from raw components.
- Hidden areas, secret characters, and hundreds of items to discover, customize, and use, from enchanted potions and scrolls to wands.
- Sequel to the highly acclaimed 2002 Console RPG of the Year from the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences.
- Branching storyline allows the player to choose how he or she wants to the play the game, making each game experience unique.
- Two-player cooperative mode that allows both players to play the game on a full screen.
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Saturday, August 25, 2012
Making Literacy Connections With Our Names
One of the ways I help students make literacy connections is helping them get to know their own names, as well of those of their class mates. This chart is so easy, and I let the kids help out with making it, then display it all year at eye level.
I give each student a piece of paper with their picture and name on it, with the first letter highlighted in a different color. I go through each letter of the alphabet and ask, "Does anyone have a name that starts with 'a'? I ask all the students with "a" to come forward and paste their name next to a large letter "A". We continue through the alphabet until everyone has had a turn to put their name on the chart.
I find that the students often refer to the chart as the year progresses, comparing letters and checking the spelling of friends' names. I occasionally come up with little games and activities using the chart, as well.
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- Renata DiasAugust 26, 2012 at 8:17 AM
Hello, Ayn!!ReplyDelete
I´m from Brazil and just found your blog in the internet!!
So good to see that here in Brazil, preschool teachers are connected to you there in USA!!
Amazing idea...this big chart where the kid is invited to paste his name is fantastic!!!
I´ll visit the others pages, this still is the first!! Definitely, I´ll find many others wondeful ideas here...
I hope we can exchange informations about brazilian and american preschool realities... this probably will be very interesting!
Renata - Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
Great idea, Ayn!! I think I will try this (we start school this coming week!)ReplyDelete
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Ablaze Poodles
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Located in Pennsylvania, home raised Toy& Teacup Poodles and Maltipoos. Specializing in the Red color variety. Contact for more information and like us on facebook at Ablaze Poodles
Highlands Country Farm
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Hi and welcome to highland country farms! we are located in the country on a small farmette where we raise toy and mini poodles,cavapoos. we have just a few breeding females all pups are family raised
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Quailridge Poodles and Doodles
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Located in Southern Maryland - specializing in breeding Toy Poodles, Goldendoodles, and Standard Bernedoodles. Proudly providing furbabies to Maryland, VA and surrounding area's.
delmac toy poodles
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Say what? Label manifests El-P's vision
Label review
Def Jux may just be the 'prog-rap' label
A while back, I had the privilege of watching the DVD documentary Revenge of the Robots, put out by independent label Definitive Juxtaposition (or Def Jux for short). The documentary includes an in depth interview with label founder/producer/emcee El-P.
El-P is asked how he feels about the media labeling his music prog-rap. His response: "What's prog-rap?"
The media is obligated to label everything. That's its job. Def Jux may be a prog-rap label, but it's also much more. In 1995, the underground hip hop world was turned on its head by the release of Funcrusher Plus by Company Flow, which introduced the world to the accelerated, hyper-intelligent lyricism and dark brooding music of El-P and Big Jus.
The group quickly disbanded because of creative differences and label woes, leaving each member to go his own way. El-P wasted no time creating Def Jux. By 1998 he had a full-blown label and an expanded roster which included a host of the most creative and complex lyricists in NYC.
Musically, Def Jux is to hip hop what Radiohead was to rock music. They represent the antithesis of mainstream. You will seldom hear a song by any of their artists played on the radio. You most definitely will not see their videos being played on MTV, VH1, BET, or MuchMusic.
However, you will see them packing in heads at 2,000-5,000 person venues all over the world, literally. The label boasts just as much success in England, Japan, Australia, and France as it does in the United States. Thus, every release since El-P's solo opus Fantastic Damage has sold no less than 20,000 units.
Soundscan or no soundscan, El-P's vision has done more for hip hop culture than most mainstream rappers could ever dream. His epic, multi-layered instrumentals have been the canvas for his own verbal sketches as well as those of critically acclaimed Cannibal Ox on their debut Cold Vein.
Def Jux is also responsible for bringing Aesop Rock's raspy voice to world renown, propelling Mr. Lif out of east coast obscurity, and doing the same for Murs on the west coast.
Def Jux is hip hop without compromise. It's shocking, poetic, educational, and difficult. It's as ugly as it is beautiful. It's human. El-P told Spin magazine, "This label is the egotistical, physical manifestation of everything I believe in."
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(CNN) — C is for "Cookie," or is it "Cash"?
A man dressed as the TV character Cookie Monster allegedly shoved a 2-year-old after the child's parents refused the man's demand for $2 for posing for a photo, New York police say.
The child was not physically injured during the incident, according to police.
Detective Kelly Ort told CNN that 33-year-old Osvaldo Quiroz-Lopez of Queens was arrested and charged with reckless endangerment and acting in a manor injurious to a minor after the incident Sunday in Times Square.
Quiroz-Lopez was dressed as the Cookie Monster character to make money by posing for photos with passersby, according to police, who added that there was no connection between the man and the TV series "Sesame Street," which counts Cookie Monster among its characters.
Quiroz-Lopez was arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court on Monday and held with bail set at $1,000 cash, according to the Manhattan district attorney's office. His next court date is scheduled for May 1.
Attempts to reach Lopez and his attorney, Beth Unger from the Legal Aid Society, were unsuccessful.
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There is an inclination among massage therapists, both experienced and inexperienced, to purchase inexpensive equipment. The reflex to save money on the spot is natural, but can cost you dearly in the end.
Too often, with cheap massage tables, you get what you pay for. To avoid the hidden costs of tables, here are some issues to think about to ensure that you get the right table to maximize your practice. After all, aside from one's hands and training, the table is the single most important tool upon which the practitioner's whole livelihood hangs.
Table Use
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Hello, and my name is Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Incorporated. Have you ever heard of the TSOC? The Scythian Empire? The Assyrian Star Empire? All of their brilliant AI's were developed by us, here at planet Cupertino (Not Briktoid though, those are Microsoft and see how much success they're having?). We are the leaders of the computing industry, and are currently the most valuable corporation in the Brikverse, beating out Royal $hell, Googel, and AMScythia. Every corner and citizen of the brikverse uses our superior products in both military and civilian fields. Now, I'd like to introduce you all to some of the mind-blowing innovations we have come up with recently.
First is our core of human enforcers. Consisting of enthusiastic college interns who want to do more than peddling iPads at our stores, they keep our AI units in line and supervise battles. They are led by my trusted advisor Tim Cook in his suit of [reinforced] recycled-aluminum armor.
The majority of our forces, however, are made up of MacBots. The iBot Commander in the front is enhanced with command abilities and leads the other MacBots. Trailing him are normal MacBots with built-in lasers, then armor MacBot Pros armed with a rocket each, and finally a MacBot Air in the back.
Special Ability: At the beginning of its turn a MacBot may declare that it is going to Risk the Spinning Beachball. It rolls a d6, and with a roll of 3 or higher it may take 2 actions that turn. If it fails, its processors take a spinning beach ball and it shuts down, losing its action for that turn and taking an action next turn to reboot. Upon a second spinning-beachball the processors cause a size 1 explosion.
Additionally, in order to protect our Scythian factories from protestors and labor unionists we have created an AI tank, powered with the processor of a single Macbook Pro. While it is manned with a human gunner to ensure it does not go rogue, the AI can handle itself on the field of battle and can easily dispatch enemies such as Microsoft box-dropships and Google's wizards of evuul.
A small sample of our military might. At this rate, Microsoft will not only be kicked off the S&P 500 but from the very brikverse itself.


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Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? Shakespeare
Saturn, ruler of the Zodiac sign of Aquarius by day, of Capricorn by night, Exalted by Libra and ruler of the triplicity of air by day is one of the most neglected planets in the solar system.
His traditional rulerships indicate that this planet has most effect and affinity with the air element than with Earth which is generally what the modernists of Astrology regard him as; the block building realist. But not so, Saturn is after all a Gas Giant of the solar system following only Jupiter in Size and mass, with an atmosphere which is quite similar in its composition to the "great benific".
Saturn´s air makes this planet surely like Venus and Mercury one of the intellectual and social planets, his day time rulership Aquarius gives him the tools and knowledge which imply that he is not "dull" or lacking in potential for either understanding, technological genius, and coherent thought.
Saturn´s "joy" in the 12th house is an interesting fact. Is this because he is happiest in the house of sorrow? A planet of sorrow, like that of the modern planet Neptune? The strange nature of this "joy" for a planet that rules over the sign of humanity Aquarius, is a planet who is happiest alone in the soft and over- shadowed light of the 12th house. Aquarius is the sign of detriment for the Sun, for individual fire, and spontaneous life-force, but Saturn´s exaltation Libra is also a sign in which Sun "falls".
It´s the sorrow of being human. It´s the sorrow of not being a Sun god, but being a mere mortal, that makes Saturn like to hide away in the 12th house. A lot has been written on the "malefic" nature of Saturn, and in the psychological school on the "experience" or "karma" that the so called teacher of the Zodiac is meant to impart. But this is not the real Saturn.
The real Saturn is in fact the most human like planet of all. Saturn is the human planet because his power is defeated and brought down by his sons. He is the human planet because he is forced out of his place, and forced down, killed off and mortalised by the usurpers. Saturn knows that his time is coming, time of being brought down, leveled, ended, something which the Leo Sun, or the Cancer Moon, Helios and Selene are utterly oblivious of, being true immortals. This is the reason for Aquarius´s refusal to play immortal parts in life, preferring the all so temporary friendship because, after all we´re only here for the day, not staying the night, the night of course belonging to his partner in crime the other malefic Mars and modern Pluto or Hades. A day being equivalent to a life in terms of immortality.
Saturn in the life does symbolise the individual fears, restrictions, and stuff that´s hard, where unprepared for responsibility is forced. But to not become your Saturn sign is to not be fully human. How are we supposed to "be our Saturn"? The nature of the planet is that of accepting not being good enough, like the mythical Saturn, of being allowed only a certain amount of time, in order to be a god, a kind of mortal god, because to be deposed, de-throned as king of the gods, is death, even for an immortal god, death of self-respect, death of the respect that your sons once held for you and death of those relations and worship that made you immortal in the first place.
Saturn is in fact the Biblical Adam being cast out of the Garden of Eden and forced into living in the Society of Men, (Aquarius) and to work and struggle for food on the desolate Earth (Capricorn), with Eve the first wife and first to succumb and fall (Libra, fall of Sun).
As planet of the Air triplicity and ruler of Aquarius, Saturn asks why he is alone. He asks why is the land and Earth dark, and in that darkness creates fire, through mental planning, he not only creates fire, something that Leo Sun naturally had, and didn´t need, like a Sahara Lion, but he creates shelter in that wilderness and community, with the first woman, and the sons which are his from that union. Sons that he knows will one day take his place, and probably fight with each other to divide what he has.
Finding Saturn in the natal birth chart is where we will all find exposure like the first man and the first woman. This is the spot where nakedness and weakness exist, but like the first human beings, and like mythological Cronus, we are meant to make the absolute most of before the time is up. Time on planet Earth is under the sole rulership of the planet Saturn, Saturn is where we must ask "there must be something more," and "there are times when I must try to be so much more alive".
The Saturn sign is the sign of being human. The Sun sign is the spiritual, the place of God in our lives. Saturn is not the devil, far from it, Saturn is what makes us fragile, where we hide. Saturn in Aquarius is afraid of the friendship of man, feels alone, but is endowed with the purest form of Saturnine air and mental ability to create community, it is up to him to pursue this and become a true Aquarian, in order to be human, and draw upon that pain of being alone to achieve it before his death. Scorpio Saturn is asked to be a strong warrior, he is asked to exhibit the features of Scorpio, to be deep, and passionate, Libra Saturn is asked to be perfect in partnership and to be the perfect Libran diplomat pleasing all and upsetting none.
One great lie of Astrology is ascribing the Sun as the most important influence in the sky. He might be the strongest, the brightest, the most obvious, but it is on the Earth that we live, and in the Air that our existence as human beings is borne out. The most important element in the sky is not the Sun, the undying, spiritual force of warmth, it is the cold ringed planet of sobering and haunting beauty, a silent figure, a figure of insecurity a figure of rage at being out-caste from paradise, a figure sublime in his Aquarian and immensely painful and real state.
Is it consciousness if a being feels nothing but warm Sun on its face? Grass feel this, they grow using sensory data collected from hormones which encourage growth and reproduction. Sentience felt by all creatures are part of the Sun, as well as the Moon. Reproduction is part of the sexual selection as described by Mars and Venus rulerships. Animals share these planetary influences with human beings. But Saturn is the planet who has consciousness. To become your Saturn sign is the greatest challenge that anyone can attempt. The person they are within the human race, the things that they are to be remembered by, and what their children will think of them as is governed by their natal Saturn. This is the real deal. This is your Earth Self, the site where you are a true human being in fault as well as in greatness.


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The NASA rover Curiosity has taken its first test drive on the Red Planet. NBC's Brian Williams reports.
NASA's Curiosity rover made its first drive on Mars today, more than two weeks after its high-stakes landing on the Red Planet. To celebrate the day, as well as what would have been the late science-fiction writer Ray Bradbury's 92nd birthday, NASA said the rover's landing site would be forever known as Bradbury Landing.
The raw images, displayed on the Mars Science Laboratory mission's Web portal, showed the tracks of the rover's wheels curling around and backing up, in accordance with the driving plan that was sent up overnight.
Today's drive amounted to only about 23 feet (7 meters) of maneuvers, but it represented the first step in a $2.5 billion, two-year trek that's expected to go at least 12 miles (20 kilometers) and take in a commanding view from the flanks of a 3-mile-high (5-kilometer-high) mountain within 96-mile-wide (154-kilometer-wide) Gale Crater.
The mission's project manager, Peter Theisinger, said the drive "couldn't be more important."
"We built a rover," he told reporters during today's briefing at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "So unless the rover roves, we couldn't really accomplish anything. It's a big moment."
The drive also marked a transition for the Curiosity team — from the entry, descent and landing phase of the mission, known as EDL, to surface operations and rover mobility. "Wheel tracks on Mars. The EDL team is finally done. :) Congrats to the mobility and surface teams!" Allen Chen, the mission's EDL operations and flight dynamics lead, declared in a Twitter update.
Lead rover driver Matt Heverly said that today's drive started at 7:17 a.m. PT (10:17 a.m. ET) and lasted roughly 16 minutes. "The majority of that time was spent taking images," he said. The rover rolled out 15 feet (4.5 meters), made a 120-degree turn in place, and then backed up 8 feet (2.5 meters) to a new spot for scientific observations.
Lead rover driver Matt Heverly explains the maneuvers that went into Curiosity's first Martian excursion.
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A polar projection image, assembled from pictures taken by the Curiosity rover's navigation cameras, shows the tracks of the rover at Bradbury Landing on Mars as seen from above.
NASA / JPL-Caltech
An image from the navigation-camera system on NASA's Curiosity rover shows the six-wheeled craft's hardware in the foreground, and wheel tracks going around a rock just a few yards (meters) away.
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A mosaic of black-and-white images shows a panoramic view of the Curiosity rover's trail, including wheel tracks leading to an area where the rover turned in a circle, and then backed up to its current position. Four blast marks, or "scours," can be made out near where the rover landed. The flanks of Mount Sharp can be seen in the far background, toward the upper left corner of the frame.
Team members celebrate at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory when images are received confirming the rover's first drive.
First trek will follow checkouts
Since the rover's landing on the night of Aug. 5, Curiosity has been going through a series of checkouts and taking pictures of its immediate surroundings. Nearly all of the systems are working as planned — with the sole exception of wind sensors on one of the booms connected to the rover's weather station. Scientists speculate that the circuit boards for those sensors were probably damaged by small rocks that were thrown up onto the rover during landing. Despite the damage, the weather station will be able to gather wind speed data using other sensors.
Curiosity's first destination will be a spot known as Glenelg, about a quarter-mile (400 meters) from the landing site, where three types of geological formations come together. That months-long trek could begin in about a week, deputy project scientist Joy Crisp said today. The rover's first scoop sample could be taken on the route between Bradbury Landing and Glenelg, she said, but the first drilling sample would probably be extracted at Glenelg.
By the end of the year, the nuclear-powered rover is expected to retrace its route and head toward the mountain, known as Aeolis Mons or Mount Sharp. The layers of rock along the mountainside are thought to preserve a geological record going back billions of years.
The primary goal of Curiosity's mission is to look for geological and chemical evidence that could reveal how habitable Mars might have been over eons of geological time. To take on that challenge, the 1-ton, car-sized rover has been equipped with a bevy of scientific instruments — including high-resolution color cameras, two onboard chemical labs, an X-ray spectrometer and a rock-zapping laser.
Theisinger said Curiosity was making "excellent progress" at Bradbury Landing, 16 days into a mission that could last far longer than its scheduled duration of nearly two Earth years. "We've got a long way to go before this mission reaches its full potential," he said. "But the fact that we haven't had any early problems is fantastic."
In memoriam
Michael Meyer, the lead scientist for the Mars Exploration Program at NASA Headquarters, announced the naming of the landing site at the start of today's news briefing. He began by airing a clip of Bradbury discussing Mars with Arthur C. Clarke, Carl Sagan and other luminaries, just before NASA's Mariner 9 probe entered the Red Planet's orbit in 1971. During that session, Bradbury read a short poem titled "If Only We Had Taller Been."
Ray Bradbury reads a poem about space exploration on the eve of Mariner 9's arrival at Mars in 1971.
A Mars rover driver pays tribute to author and visionary, Ray Bradbury.
Bradbury, best known for science-fiction tales such as "The Martian Chronicles" and "Fahrenheit 451," passed away in June at the age of 91. "Today would have been Ray Bradbury's 92nd birthday, but he's already reached immortality in his short stories and books," Meyer observed. In his honor, Meyer said the landing site would "forever be known as Bradbury Landing."
In a statement issued by NASA, Meyer said deciding on the name "was not a difficult choice for the science team."
"Many of us, and millions of other readers were inspired in our lives by stories Ray Bradbury wrote to dream of the possibility of life on Mars," he said.
Today's christening adds to NASA's list of Martian landing sites named after VIPs, including:
- Mutch Memorial Station, the Viking 1 lander site, named after Thomas Mutch, former NASA associate administrator and Viking team member.
- Soffen Memorial Station, the Viking 2 lander site, named after Gerald Soffen, NASA scientist and leader of the Viking mission.
- Sagan Memorial Station, the Mars Pathfinder landing site, named after astrophysicist Carl Sagan.
- Challenger Memorial Station, the Opportunity rover landing site, named in honor of the shuttle Challenger's fallen crew.
- Columbia Memorial Station, the Spirit rover landing site, named in honor of the shuttle Columbia's fallen crew.
More about Mars:
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- Watch the rover fall to Mars ... in HD!
- Where's Curiosity going? Arm points the way
- Mars mega-rover wiggles its wheels
- Mars Curiosity rover flexes arm for first time
- Curiosity shoots at rock with its laser
- Britney Spears to Mars rover: What's new?
- Rover reveals more of Martian peak
- Mars rover team faces the masses
- Mars fans make viral video
- Panoramas add spin to Mars
- Mars rover survives its 'brain transplant'
- Mars orbiter gets a long look at Curiosity rover
- Reprogrammed rover getting ready to roll
- Obama tells rover team: Watch out for Martians
- Search for life to shape future Mars missions
- Why the rover has such a dinky camera and computer
- How to build your own Mars rover with Lego blocks
- The Puff on Mars: Photo mystery solved!
- Panorama reveals a colorful Mars
- NBC video: Panorama featured on 'Nightly News'
- Curiosity reveals a Martian Mojave
- Tour the Martian Mojave in 3-D
- Flying saucer spotted over Mars
- First 3-D pictures sent by Curiosity
- Orbital photo spots rover and its trash
- Curiosity sends color snapshot from Mars
- Rover video looks down on Mars during landing
- Mars orbiter spots rover in midair
- NASA's Mohawk Guy marvels at his fame
- Curiosity rover scores touchdown on Mars
This report was last updated at 5 p.m. ET.
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After years of allying itself with third-party developers challenging the dominance of the iPod, Microsoft apparently has had enough. The failure of partners like Creative Technology, whose Zen players are a distant second to the iPod line, has spurred Microsoft into creating its own hardware.
While details are sparse—not even a name—the Microsoft player will be in the stores in time for Christmas. What is known is that it will boast a larger, "more advanced" screen than the current video iPod, and that it will have WiFi, presumably for downloading content directly to the player. There is also a pitch towards "Connected Entertainment" and social networking, possibly in conjunction with Xbox Live and/or Windows Mobile handsets. Adding web browser functionality would seem a more concrete feature and an obvious plus, but perhaps the biggest feature of this initial model isn't in the hardware.
To attract current iPod users, Microsoft is going to let you download for free any songs you've already bought from the iTunes Music Store. They'll actually scan iTunes for purchased tracks and then automatically add those to your account. Microsoft will still have to pay the rights-holders for the songs, but they believe it'll be worth it to acquire converts to their new player.
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After futzing around as a starter unsuccessfully in 2008, Santeliz moved back to the bullpen in '09 and was very impressive at times for Double-A Birmingham. He's got a terrific fastball at 95-98 MPH, with movement, and he continued to make strides with his slider and splitter, though both pitchers remain erratic. He posted good K/IP and H/IP marks, but his walk rate was still high and that will hurt him at higher levels. There was a lot of good luck involved with the 0.96 ERA: his FIP was 4.00, much better than the 5.98 mark he posted in '08, but showing that the ERA overstates how much he improved. I remain intrigued with his arm strength, but the control still worries me. Don't overrate him based on the pretty ERA. Grade C.
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Heidevolk – Walhalla Wacht (2008, Napalm Records)
- Saksenland
- Koning Radboud
- Wodan Heerst
- Hulde Aan de Kastelein
- Walhalla Wacht
- Opstand Der Bataven
- Het Wilde Heer
- Naar De Hallen Der Gevallenen
- Zwaarden Geheven
- Dageraad
Band Lineup:
Joost Vellenknotscher – Drums
Joris Boghtdrincker – Vocals
Mark Splintervuyscht – Vocals
Reamon Bomenbreker – Guitar
Rowan Roodbaert – Bass
Sebas Bloeddorst – Guitar
Stefanie Speervrouw – Violin
Total Time = 41:34
Heidevolk official website
Heidevolk MySpace page
Napalm Records
Until this album arrived at my doorstep, I had never heard of Heidevolk. WALHALLA WACHT marks the band's second album and is the follow-up to 2005's DE STRIJDLUST IS GEBOREN. This band from The Netherlands plays a very melodic brand of Pagan/Folk Metal that relies on clean vocals, traditional folk instruments, a heavy guitar and drum sound, and the use of their native Dutch for all the lyrics. Unfortunately, I don't speak the Dutch language so understanding the lyrics is a problem but it's the upbeat battle cry of the music and the way the words are sung that catches the ear.
The music is melodic, upbeat and very grand sounding. The blend of the electric and acoustic guitars with the double bass drumming gives the listener what I like to call the "gallop" effect. Think of Iron Maiden, Manowar, Tyr…..there's an adventerous epic feel to the music like you're riding into battle or starting some sort of adventure. This gallop rhythm drives the songs and, when put together with the choir singing style, it moves you. Throughout many of the songs more traditional instruments like flutes and violins can be heard giving the songs a more cultural feel ('Hulde Aan de Kastelein', 'Naar De Hallen Der Gevallenen'). The album is heavy as most of the songs are full of heavy riffs and some pretty cool solos to go along with the heavy backline.
As I mentioned, the vocals are sung in Dutch and are mainly a gang/choir style that almost sounds like a chant. Everything is sung cleanly except for the occasional heavy growls ('Walhalla Wacht', 'Opstand Der Bataven', 'Het Wilde Heer') that lend another dimension to the battle-cry. Most of the time both Boghtdrincker and Splintervuyscht sing together and that adds a certain operatic power and depth to the words. I envision the vocals as soldiers singing in unison as they ride into battle, a very powerful image.
Bottom Line:
I'm only starting to explore the realm of Epic/Folk/Pagan/Viking Metal so I'm fairly new to the genre. What strikes me about Heidevolk, and the genre, is the ease at which the band incorporates the traditional instruments and their native language with the heaviness of the music. I have listened to some Folk Metal that is really more like Power Metal-light but every song on WALHALLA WACHT has a heaviness and a depth to the music, there are layers of sound to explore, different instruments to hear. The only negative is that I can't understand the words but that is a small problem because I learned many years ago that the music is what drives Metal, not so much the words, and the music on WALHALLA WACHT is very good. Heidevolk will be a band I watch in the future and I will be tracking down their first album for a listen.


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