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Doctors use a number of approaches to diagnose insomnia and understand a person's unique symptoms. Some of these measures can be done at home, while others require an office visit or an appointment at a sleep clinic.
Here you'll find information on when, where, and how to seek help if you have difficulty sleeping, as well as tips for talking to your doctor and a list of questions you may want to think about before your visit to be better prepared.
There are many ways to improve your sleep that involve psychological and behavioral steps. Cognitive behavioral treatments for insomnia (CBTi), relaxation techniques, and general sleep hygiene guidelines can help many people with sleep difficulties.
Diagnosing Insomnia
There is no definitive test for insomnia. Doctors use many different tools to diagnose and measure insomnia symptoms, some of which involve asking you questions in the office, having you fill out logs and questionnaires, performing certain blood tests, or doing an overnight sleep study. All of these tests help your doctor understand your personal experience with insomnia and create the right treatment plan.
Sleep log: A sleep log is a simple diary that keeps track of details about your sleep. In a sleep log, you'll record details like your bedtime, wake up time, how sleepy you feel at various times during the day, and more. A sleep log can also help your doctor figure out what might be causing insomnia.
Sleep inventory: A sleep inventory is an extensive questionnaire that gathers information about your personal health, medical history, and sleep patterns.
Blood tests: Your doctor may perform certain blood tests to rule out medical conditions such as thyroid problems, which can disrupt sleep in some people.
Sleep study: Your doctor may suggest that you do an overnight sleep study, or polysomnography, to gather information about your nighttime sleep. In this exam, you sleep overnight in a lab set up with a comfortable bed. During the exam you will be connected to an EEG, which monitors the stages of your sleep. A sleep study also measures things like oxygen levels, body movements, and heart and breathing patterns. A sleep study is a non-invasive test.
How to Talk to Your Doctor About Insomnia
You can talk to your doctor at one of your regular visits, or make a special appointment to go in and discuss your sleep. Many people think sleep troubles are just a normal part of life, but it's important to take sleep as seriously as you would other aspects of your health. Sleep isn't routinely addressed in annual well visits, so often patients are the ones to bring up the topic. You can ask your doctor if there is anything in your medical history that could indicate the cause of your sleep difficulty.
You may want to think about the following questions beforehand to get the most out of your conversation. You may even want to jot down notes to take with you:
- Exactly what do your sleep difficulties look like: do you have trouble falling asleep, staying asleep, or do you wake up too early? How many times a week do you have trouble sleeping like this?
- What is your sleep schedule: what time do you go to bed, wake up, and nap during the day? (even short naps count)
- Is your weekend sleep schedule different from your weekday schedule? Does your work schedule require you to adjust your sleep at all?
- What do you do when you can't sleep—get out of bed, read, watch TV, work on your laptop? Is there anything you've done in the past that has helped you sleep?
- Do you lie awake feeling anxious or worrying about responsibilities and tasks?
- What is your sleep environment like: Do you sleep alone or with a partner? Is your room dark and quiet? Is your bed comfortable? Do you have any sleep disruptions during the night, for example, young children in the house?
- How long have you had trouble sleeping? Have you had trouble sleeping on and off for as long as you can remember, or is this a new issue?
- Have you had any major changes (a move, a new job), or any stressful circumstances in your life recently (a breakup, financial troubles)?
- Do you have any medical conditions?


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The adjectives influential, innovative and progressive have been combined at Gucci with the nouns quality, tradition and sustainability ... and that for almost 100 years. In 1921 founder Guccio Gucci opened a leather goods company in his hometown of Florence with a small shop for suitcases and handbags. The Italian who was working in London brought the vision of setting up his own brand in his homeland, Tuscany. As an employee at the Savoy, he experienced firsthand the aesthetics of such a noble hotel, as well as the English aristocracy.
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And, for what feels like an eternity, a whole horde of counterfeiters have been trying to capture exactly this elegance. So far, however, their attempts have not been fruitful, because a fake is just not the same as an original. Nevertheless, attention should be paid to a few details when buying Gucci sunglasses, so that you are not bamboozled by illegal dealers.
Special attention should be paid to the inside of the frames. All Gucci sunglasses are "Made in Italy" by the Safilo Group. After "Made in Italy" there should be a CE. This stands for "Conformité European", which means "European affiliation". The colour code and the model number can also be found there. Furthermore, in addition to the glasses, a Gucci case, a Gucci glasses cloth, a plastic bag to protect the sunglasses, a certificate of authenticity and a warranty letter should also be included. You should always also check the spelling and the weight of the eyewear frame.
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Now, scientists from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania reveal that the release of AMPs is partially controlled by bitter taste receptors in the upper airway on a cell previously identified in animals and only recently in humans known as solitary chemosensory cells (SCCs). What's more, the action of the bitter receptors is blocked when sweet taste receptors are stimulated by sugars such as glucose. This study, published online ahead of print in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, suggests that sweet taste receptors expressed on SCCs in the upper airway sense bacterial overgrowth and, in turn, control the release of AMPs.
In previous work, Penn researchers found that bitter taste receptors in the human airway play a role in detecting bacterial communication molecules and launching a defensive response to combat bacteria. The new study complements the prior findings by revealing another defensive response mediated by taste receptors.
"Chronic rhinosinusitis is a common upper respiratory infectious and inflammatory disorder that impacts nearly 35 million Americans, with related health care costs exceeding $6 billion annually," said senior study author Noam Cohen, MD, PhD, associate professor of Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery at Penn and staff surgeon at the Philadelphia VAMC. "Despite how widespread this condition is, we still struggle to understand exactly how to best fight it. We're just now starting to discover how taste receptors in the upper respiratory tract are used to regulate the immune system against these infections, so defining the underlying mechanisms at play is critical to understanding these illnesses and developing new treatments."
Cohen said that the current study is the first to elucidate a functional role for sweet receptors in the human airway. "This could have critically important clinical consequences, as we found that patients with chronic sinusitis have elevated glucose concentrations in their nasal secretions compared with control individuals, which likely impairs their respiratory immunity. Because prior studies have shown that hyperglycemic patients also exhibit elevated nasal glucose levels, it is likely that the sweet taste receptor function we demonstrate here may also contribute to the predisposition of diabetic patients to airway infections."
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To study the role of sweet taste receptors, Cohen and lead study author Robert J. Lee, PhD, a post doctoral researcher in his lab, partnered with colleagues from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the Monell Chemical Senses Center to analyze cultures and tissue samples from the upper respiratory tract of patients who were undergoing sinonasal surgery for a variety of conditions.
The research team, using multiple approaches including live-cell imaging techniques, demonstrated that activation of bitter taste receptors (T2Rs) on SCCs engages a signal to surrounding cells, which stimulates release of high concentrations of AMPs capable of killing a variety of pathogens, including antibiotic-resistant bacteria. While previous research in the last year has shown that SCCs exist in humans as well as animals, the current study was the first to reveal a function for SCC's in the human airway.
The team also found that compounds that activate the sweet taste receptor (T1R2/3) suppressed the release of the AMPs produced by bitter taste receptors, indicating that these receptors have complimentary roles in regulating the innate immune pathway. They hypothesize that this system may control microbial overgrowth in the airway to maintain a colonized state within the upper airway without infection.
"We believe that the complimentary roles of the bitter and sweet taste receptors in these SCCs keeps upper airway colonizing bacteria at optimal levels during periods of relative health," Cohen says. "But as the bacteria multiply, they consume more glucose, removing the sweet taste receptor 'brake' and allowing for release of AMPs by the bitter taste receptors."
Cohen says that in the future, clinicians may be able to use certain compounds, such as sweet-receptor blockers, to activate the solitary chemosensory cell innate defense pathway, even in the presence of pathologically high glucose concentrations, to help regulate bacterial growth and prevent harmful infections and chronic inflammation.
The research was supported by National Institutes of Health (DC03055), the Flight Attendants Medical Research Institute (082478), and a philanthropic contribution from the RLG Foundation, Inc.
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I have a fresh arch installation (installed a few days ago) and building packages worked fine. But today i wanted to install a few programs with yaourt and from the abs (wine,xbmc-git,archey3,zathura-git) and makepkg fails everytime. The programs are always compiled without problems.
==> Entering fakeroot environment...
/usr/bin/makepkg: line 1466: cannot create temp file for here-document: Success
/usr/bin/makepkg: line 1475: cannot create temp file for here-document: Success
==> Starting build()...
==> Connecting to GIT server....
Cloning into 'archey3'...
error: Unable to create /tmp/yaourt-tmp-sysrmr/aur-archey3/src/archey3/.git/HEAD
warning: unable to unlink /tmp/yaourt-tmp-sysrmr/aur-archey3/src/archey3/.git/HEAD.lock: Success
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
==> ERROR: Makepkg was unable to build archey3.
The makepkg errors (line 1466,1475) are always there. The Errors after Starting build() always change but always something with file permissions.
/usr/bin/makepkg Line 1466 is the same like Line 1475:
eval i=\"$(sed 's/^\(['\''"]\)\(.*\)\1$/\2/' <<< "${i%%+([[:space:]])}")\"
Wine also has the error: /usr/bin/makepkg: line 1553: cannot create temp file for here-document: Success
Line 1553:
eval file=\"$(sed 's/^\(['\''"]\)\(.*\)\1$/\2/' <<< "$file")\"
have you checked whether you've got enought free disk space in /tmp? I remember having had a similar error once, and deleting some unused files plus clearing my package cache (yaourt -Scc) fixed the problem.
@X - Plenty of free space on /tmp
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Lets take a guess... /tmp is mounted noexec?
Does it work without yaourt? Or building outside of tmp?
have enough free space.
no /tmp is mounted without noexec. also tried with and without own tmpfs partition.
no doesnt work with yaourt and also same error if i build the package in my home dir.
deleted the yaourt tmp directory and deleting /usr/bin/makepkg and reinstalling also not helped.
i downgraded sed (was updated 1 or 2 days ago), because it was used in the makepkg lines with the error. but the error is still there
The fakeroot example works without problems. But yes it seems fakeroot is the problem. Disabling fakeroot in makepkg makes it work. Removing and reinstalling fakeroot doesn't help.
Same here. Whenever I try to build any package the error occur. An example with the dropbox AUR package:
/usr/bin/makepkg: line 1915: 24182 Bus error (core dumped) ${COMPRESSXZ[@]:-xz -c -z -}
bsdtar: Write error
==> ERROR: Failed to create package file.
==> ERROR: Makepkg was unable to build dropbox.
You say 'same here' but you have a different error. Did disabling fakeroot in makepkg work?
What's the output of 'df -h' and 'df -ih'?
Are you using some AUR helper?
Sorry, i said that because I'm having the same problem that is not being able to build a package.
So, I have plenty of space in my tmp, disabling fakeroot changed nothing.
What do you mean with AUR helper?
I'm asking how exactly are you building the package, what command do you use? Pure makepkg, yaourt or something else?
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I'm using yaourt.
$df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 9.3G 7.7G 1.2G 88% /
dev 1005M 0 1005M 0% /dev
run 1006M 1.2M 1005M 1% /run
tmpfs 1006M 0 1006M 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 1006M 0 1006M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs 1006M 118M 889M 12% /tmp
/dev/sda1 30M 17M 12M 59% /boot
/dev/sda4 1.8T 1.1T 704G 60% /home
I'm not out of space.
Same problem today with freshly installed Antergos.
pacman -Sy base-devel
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$df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2 9.3G 7.7G 1.2G 88% / dev 1005M 0 1005M 0% /dev run 1006M 1.2M 1005M 1% /run tmpfs 1006M 0 1006M 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 1006M 0 1006M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs 1006M 118M 889M 12% /tmp /dev/sda1 30M 17M 12M 59% /boot /dev/sda4 1.8T 1.1T 704G 60% /home
I'm not out of space.
I don't think it's the problem here but it's possible to get the same errors even with lots of disk space if you're out of inodes. You can use 'df -i' to verify
Same problem today with freshly installed Antergos.
pacman -Sy base-devel
That is actually poor advice. One should not use the -Sy without u.
Edit: BTW, welcome to the Arch Linux forums. Just be aware that you are not running a pure Arch installation, so we won't really be able to provide support.
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In my case, I had `nosuid` set in my /etc/fstab entry for tmpfs on /tmp. Resolved the issue, thanks since the `noexec` comment in this thread hinted me in the right direction.
I had `nosuid` set in my /etc/fstab entry for tmpfs on /tmp. Resolved the issue (...)
Sorry, did *adding* or *removing* nosuid resolve your issue?
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A mobile app that enables users to get immediate help for cardiac arrest victims in their vicinity was launched in Los Angeles County on August 6. County officials said the location-based smartphone app known as PulsePoint empowers ordinary citizens to provide life-saving aid to victims of sudden heart attacks.
"We do this because we want to save lives," Los Angeles County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas said at a launch event in Inglewood. "This is technology at its best and it is all about saving lives."
Fire officials said registered users trained in cardio-pulmonary resuscitation are notified through the app by 911 dispatchers whenever someone in their area needs help. From there, the app directs users to the victim, instructs them on CPR techniques and points them to the nearest automatic external defibrillator.
"In some instances, it is tough to get to every response in a timely manner," said Los Angeles County Fire Chief Daryl Osby. "We are taking a huge leap forward for our relationship with the medical services we provide by engaging our citizens to be partners with us as it relates to first response."
Officials said only 8 percent of cardiac arrest victims nationwide survive, and survivability rates are directly dependent on receiving immediate CPR. Providing immediate chest compressions to cardiac arrest victims can double or even triple chances for survival, according to the American Heart Association. Osby said his department averages a 5-minute response time, but during a cardiac arrest, the first three minutes are the most important.
"Those first several minutes as it relates to a cardiac arrest are crucial to the survivability of a victim," Osby said. "Every second, every minute counts."
Officials said they hope people will download the app, become CPR certified and subsequently increase the survivability rate for cardiac arrest victims in the area. More than 13,000 people have already downloaded the app, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department. Touted by the PulsePoint Foundation as an "Amber Alert for cardiac arrest victims," the app will only notify users of emergencies that take place in public places and exclude emergencies at residential addresses. The app will work anywhere in Los Angeles County, including in cities that have their own 911 call centers.
Funding for the app's launch in Los Angeles County came entirely from a grant from The Wireless Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting wireless technology that helps American communities. Officials said the app's implementation comes at no additional cost to the county. County firefighters urge people to learn hands-only CPR in order to participate in the program. More information on CPR classes in the county can be found by contacting (323) 881-2411 or emailing


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PUEBLO — The South-Central League swimming meet on Saturday, Feb. 2 went just about as predicted.
Pueblo South won the team championship at Pueblo County High School, easily outclassing the other six teams with both talent and numbers.
The swimming Colts won all three relays and five of the eight individual pool events. Needless to say, all of their winning times were state meet qualifying.
The La Junta Lady Tigers (and Swink sophomore) Leah Roberson won the Individual Medley and 500-yard Freestyle, both with state Q times. Roberson also swam the breaststroke leg of the second place Medley Relay team and anchored the second place 200-yard Freestyle Relay.
The Lady Tigers finished fourth in the team standings, exactly where pre-meet seeding had them.
Coach Marty Roberson said she was "pleased, very pleased" with how her relatively small (in numbers) team performed. The Lady Tigers were down to 14 swimmers.
The highest Lady Tiger point total came in the 200-yard Individual Medley. (Each competitor swims 50 yards of Butterfly, Backstroke, Breaststroke and Freestyle.)
Roberson's first was followed by La Junta senior Aricka Aldea's second and Las Animas junior Rachelle Seifkas' ninth. All three times were season bests.
For Aldea, her time was state qualifying. So she can now swim two individual events at state, IM and (previously qualified) Backstroke. She almost surely will also swim two relays.
Another high point event for the Lady Tigers was the 100-yard Freestyle. Lauren Proctor (Swink sophomore) finished second, cutting 1.5 seconds off her previous best time for state Q. Aldea finished fourth and Bethany Bender (La Junta senior) came in seventh.
Proctor also finished third in Breaststroke, breaking through the state Q time barrier by just over a second, clearly her best time of the season. She's now qualified to swim 50 Free, 100 Free and Breaststroke at state, so she'll have to pick which two to enter.
Both the Medley Relay and 200-yard Freestyle Relay posted season best (and state Q) times.
Other Lady Tiger swimmers with season best times were Lamar freshman Makenzie Torres (200-yard and 500-yard Freestyles), Lamar senior Robin Siemsen (50-yard Freestyle and Butterfly), Las Animas sophomore Bailey Huffman (100-yard Freestyle) and Seifkas (Butterfly).
Coach Marty Roberson remarked that divers Bender and La Junta junior Faith Craig both scored over 200, only the second time this season they have been called on to perform eleven dives. (dual meet program is six.)
Now, says coach Roberson, it's on to a "hard practice tomorrow." That's preparation for the Class 4A State Meet that gets underway Friday (Feb . 8) at Adams County School District's Veterans Memorial Aquatic Center in Thornton.
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Pueblo South 314, Pueblo West 251, Pueblo County 231, LA JUNTA 212, Pueblo East 107, Pueblo Centennial 93, Pueblo Central 65.LADY TIGER
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200 Medley Relay — 2nd La Junta (Aricka Aldea, Leah Roberson, Robin Siemsen, Lauren Proctor) 1:57.69*; (1st Pueblo South 1:56.02*)
200 Freestyle — 10th Makenzie Torres 2:33.80; (1st Alex Divelbiss, Pueblo South 1:56.92*)
200 Individual Medley — 1st Leah Roberson 2:16.44*; 2nd Aricka Aldea 2:25.66*; 9th Rachelle Seifkas 2:51.68.
50 Freestyle — 4th Robin Siemsen 26.96: 10th Bailey Huffman 28.72. (1st Mary Saiz, South 24.36*)
1 Meter Diving — 6th Bethany Bender 223.35; 9th Faith Craig 205.60. (1st Virginia Veltri, Central 350.45)
100 Butterfly — 8th Robin Siemsen 1:10.87; 11th Rachelle Seifkas 1:20.18; 12th Bethany Bender 1:27.18. (1st Haley Bertoldo, West 57.66*)
100 Freestyle — 2nd Lauren Proctor 57.28*; 4th Aricka Aldea 59.48; 7th Bailey Huffman 1:03.62. (1st Mary Saiz, South 53.12*)
500 Freestyle — 1st Leah Roberson 5:22.36*; 9th Makenzie Torres 6:47.58.
200 Freestyle Relay — 2nd La Junta (Robin Siemsen, Bailey Huffman, Lauren Proctor, Leah Roberson) 1:46.43*. (1st South 1:45.42*)
100 Backstroke — 9th Shay Haberman 1:20.67(1st Abby Krage, South 1:04.01*)
100 Breaststroke — 3rd Lauren Proctor 1:14.42*. (1st Alex Divelbiss, South 1:07.29*)
400 Freestyle Relay — 4th La Junta (Bailey Huffman, Bethany Bender, Rachelle Seifkas, Aricka Aldea) 4:26.58. (1st South 3:50.49*)


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Stevens Institute of Technology Announces First Master of Arts Degree Program
The College of Arts & Letters Introduces the M.A. in Technology, Policy, and Ethics
Hoboken, NJ – The College of Arts & Letters (CAL) at Stevens Institute of Technology is rolling out the first Master of Arts degree program in the 140-year history of the University. The new M.A. in Technology, Policy, and Ethics will significantly expand the transdisciplinary approach that is central to the CAL mission at Stevens while also contributing to the tradition of broad-based education for which Stevens is well-known.
"This is a very exciting moment for both the history of Stevens and the growth of CAL as we address the pressing need to consider the consequences of technological advancement on industry, society, and humanity," stated Dr. Lisa M. Dolling, Dean of the College of Arts & Letters. "We look forward to the positive impact our graduates will have on the world both professionally and personally as they apply the knowledge they gain from our courses."
The program is designed to equip leaders with the knowledge necessary to address the challenges of an ever-changing global environment. Drawing on the humanities, social sciences, and management, students will be exposed to topics related to the ethical, managerial and decision-making aspects of technological innovation.
"We aim to produce well-rounded graduates who are not only technically literate, but also have the cross-disciplinary sophistication needed to understand how technology is embedded in larger society," explained Dr. Gregory Morgan, Director of Graduate Studies. "Students will understand how technological innovation challenges policy makers, and how new technologies create new ethical challenges. Our graduates will be well-equipped to formulate and enact the best response to these complex challenges."
Graduates of the program are well-prepared for careers in areas of corporate social responsibility, project leadership, policymaking, and management in both the public and private sectors.
Students will take 30 credits to complete the degree and have the option of writing a Master's Thesis. Courses are available on campus as well as online, via Stevens' award-winning WebCampus.
A 12-credit graduate certificate in Technology, Policy, and Ethics is also available for students who want to supplement their current course of study or enhance their current professions. Students who earn the certificate may stay on to complete the Master's degree.
Dr. Michael Steinmann, Director, Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, added: "I'm excited to welcome all incoming students to this new program and see them excel in developing their critical thinking and imagination in dealing with the burning ethical issues of our technology-driven society. We will educate the future leaders, managers, and experts and prepare them to address the challenges they will encounter in their professional lives."
"Having this unique program in Technology, Policy, and Ethics builds synergies across the University and beyond in ways that are relevant for the 21st century," Dr. George P. Korfiatis, University Provost and Interim President, concluded. "Stevens is the perfect place to offer such an innovative and distinctive program, furthering our tradition of excellence in the fields of science, technology, and entrepreneurship."
Applications are currently being accepted for both the M.A. and the graduate certificate.
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Founded in 1870, Stevens Institute of Technology, The Innovation University™, lives at the intersection of industry, academics and research. The University's students, faculty and partners leverage their collective real-world experience and culture of innovation, research and entrepreneurship to confront global challenges in engineering, science, systems and technology management.
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Listening #41
Going from being an audio hobbyist to a professional reviewer is like passing kidney stones in an emergency room staffed with Playboy bunnies: Not only can you not have what you want, but you don't even want it anymore. In fact, you begin to consciously associate desire with a blinding pain in your crotch.
Different strokes
Different sounds
Footnote 1: The larger plinth actually uses three feet.
And if you think I shouldn't whine about this cushy, cushy job, think again: There's nothing more brutally sadistic than to tease a man by dangling a never-ending stream of desirable but unobtainable worldly goods before him, only to snatch them away three months later and ship them off to someone else. By the same token, it's cruel to take a more or less doctrinaire man and force him to change his playback philosophy all the time. (Yes, you can forget what I said last month about having a flexible point of view: I was just trying to sound noble.)
The truth of the matter is, it's killing me to think how much I loved the Norma-Hylee-Tech Concept 124, a rebuild of a 1950s-era turntable (the Thorens TD 124) that has as much in common with my Linn Sondek as Neil Young has with Neil Diamond. Lawrence Blair of Brinkmann USA, N-H-T's North American distributor, started me down this road to perdition last fall when he brought to my house a sample of the Concept 124, complete with N-H-T's own specially designed plinth and Trionius tonearm, plus two compatible cartridges: an N-H-T-modified EMT and a stock Ortofon SPU.
Then, in January, Blair visited again, collecting Sample No.1 and leaving off Sample No.2: another reborn Thorens, even mintier than before, with a smaller version of the plinth, an aftermarket platter (more on that later), and an Ortofon AS 212i tonearm. He also brought a different Ortofon SPU: an altogether more modern cartridge than the one I had before.
Different strokes
Backing up for a moment: The first N-H-T plinth I tried, which was machined from a multi-ply hunk of wood almost 5" thick, was very big and exceptionally heavy: big because it's intended for use with a longer-than-average tonearm, heavy because it incorporates an enormous metal puck of sorts, into which the tonearm is mounted.
For customers who aren't interested in long tonearms, and whose ca-9" arms can fit on the armboard of the Thorens motor unit itself, neither the extra real estate nor the puck is required. That's why there's a newer, smaller version, which also has a smaller price: $1250 or so, as opposed to $2000 or so, depending on finish.
My sample of the smaller plinth had a feature that's now been adapted to the larger one as well: four alloy-plus-elastomer isolation feet (footnote 1), made by Harmonic Resolution Systems of Buffalo, New York. Of the many such things I've tried over the years, these are the most effective by far: My first N-H-T, with its hard rubber feet, was extremely sensitive to footfalls; the second one, with the HRS feet, was immune to all but the most vigorous and unlikely floor-stomping. No kidding: night and day.
The tonearm that came with the second sample of the N-H-T was one of a pair of newly revived Ortofon designs, now built in Japan: Mine was the 9" AS 212i ($1280); a 12" version, the AS 309i, is also available (footnote 2). Both use captured ball-and-race bearings, counterweights calibrated for downforces of up to 5gm, a complete absence of antiskating provisions, an S-shaped alloy tonearm tube, and a detachable headshell of the usual sort.
That's where the Ortofon SPUs come in. Some folks are surprised to learn that these heavy, 1950s-era cartridges are still being made at all, but the truth is they're enjoying something of a renaissance, thanks to renewed interest in older audio technologies. Ortofon SPUs come pre-mounted, more or less permanently, in headshells of Bakelite, a primitive plastic discovered by chemist Leo Hendrik Baekeland in 1907, the year Mahler began work on Das Lied von der Erde and Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Tom Kitten was published. We're not talking space-age here.
The cartridges themselves are almost as primordial as the headshells: All are ultra-low-compliance moving-coil types with stubby aluminum cantilevers and diamonds so big that only a 10x magnifier is required to see whether the tip is clean or dirty. Differences between the half dozen or so SPU models are generally a matter of stylus profile and type of wire chosen for the coils (that and the size of the headshell—selected to suit either 9" or 12" arms, as above). Recommended tracking forces for most SPU models are around 4gm; by contrast, my beloved Technics electronic stylus-pressure gauge goes up to only 3gm—which, in case you were wondering, is also the weight of the average penny, not including Scotch tape.
Then there's the platter upgrade, from Schopper AG in the eastern Swiss city of Winterthur. I've never been there, but I can't help imagining that, when I die and go to Heaven, it will be very much like the Schopper storefront, which is operated by a music lover named Juerg Schopper and his two assistants, Christine and Ursi. The business was founded back in 1923 by Herr Schopper's grandparents, who started it as a musical instrument store. It evolved through a number of stages over the years, selling radios, tubes, phonographs, records, and the like; Schopper AG now offers new and used audio equipment and collectible LPs to a worldwide audience through their website.
Not long ago, Juerg Schopper made the acquaintance of an older gentleman who had been the production director at Thorens AG during the TD 124's heyday, and together they created a small line of evidently high-quality replacement parts for the contemporary TD 124 market. Among them is the Schopper platter, which represents their effort to eliminate the original's most singular flaw: It was made of a magnetically permeable "gray" iron, and thus was a danger to most phono cartridges, which want to smash themselves into it.
Modern audiophiles might wonder why the switch was never made to an aluminum-alloy platter, as used by Garrard, Linn, Roksan, and other turntable specialists. But diehard TD 124 enthusiasts, including Herr Schopper and his Thorens alumnus, point to the need for something with the precise density and mass of iron, and that presents the same kind of surface to the rubber-coated drive wheel. After working on the problem for a number years, they hit on an iron casting with a flake graphite content—an alloy originally developed for use in mine sweepers during World War II, and which is said to be 98% less magnetic than the original. (Thorens was said to be interested in the same iron-graphite alloy back in the l950s and '60s, but it was far too expensive at the time.) So the Schopper platter is cast from a superior material and it's machine-finished to modern tolerances: within 0.018mm. The platter sells for $795 in the US—a bargain considering what's gone into it—and is also distributed by Brinkmann USA (footnote 3).
Different sounds
After using N-H-T's rebuilt motor units with a variety of plinths, tonearms, and phono cartridges over the past few months, I have a pretty good handle on what the vintage Thorens sound—some hobbyists might even say the idler-wheel sound in general—is all about. I'll bloviate about that in a moment, but before I do, I'd like to aim a couple of product-specific comments at those cartridges.
The first old-style Ortofon I tried in my system was the Ortofon SPU Classic A ($980). Maybe the Classic A's conical stylus kept it from retrieving all the information—with all the timing accuracy—that I'm used to getting from my records. Or maybe the Classic A isn't really an ideal mate for the N-H-T Trionius tonearm. Whatever: I just didn't care for it. The SPU Classic A had lots of punch and drama, and a pleasant midrange with plenty of rich, realistic texture—but I was disappointed by its performance at both frequency extremes. To put it another way: It had no highs and it had no lows. (Holy crap, it must be a Bose, haw haw haw.) I can understand why some people might love it, but I'll never quite join their ranks.
I had a very different impression of the next cartridge I tried: the Ortofon SPU Meister Silver ($1630), which takes the basic SPU concept and blasts it into the atom age with a nude elliptical stylus. It also has coils wound from "the purest 6-nines silver wire we've ever used," in Ortofon's own words. Whatever the reason, it's one heck of a fine pickup: All the bass notes and treble sparkle that had gone missing with the Classic A were present and accounted for here. And the SPU's calling card—its thunderous way with dynamic peaks—remained intact: It could get real loud real fast when it needed to, with an immensely satisfying kind of pressure, for lack of a better word, when it did so.
As for the TD 124 sound: It's not the sort of thing one can grasp by breaking it down in the self-serious, fatuous way of most "high end" reviewers. I mean, listeners who are inclined to pick apart the sound of a product in the deadly boring old "1000 words on the bass, 1000 words on the midrange, 1000 words on the highs" way are welcome to do so with the N-H-T Concept 124; they'll come away thinking the old Thorens has a fuller-sounding bass and a good deal less treble extension and "air." And that's true, I suppose—but it tells only a very small part of the whole story, for better and for worse.
On the better side, the N-H-T had a sonic and musical presentation similar to that of a single-ended triode amplifier as compared with its competing types: It was punchy, direct, and present—very present. When I listened to some of my favorite old Reprise-era Sinatra albums, such as September of My Years (Reprise FS 1014), Francis Albert was there, and his voice commanded almost all of my attention. When that attention did shift to the instrumental backing, I heard an exceptionally forceful and solid sound from plucked instruments in particular, such as string bass and harp.
As far as stereo imaging was concerned, the N-H-T seemed to make voices and solo instruments stay put better than my own turntables. But that may have been only the psychoacoustic aftereffect of a visual impression; ie, the Thorens might have sounded more stable because it's bigger and heavier than the other players I'm used to.
On the worse side, the N-H-T package missed some detail. I had to listen to the gorgeous "Once Upon a Time" on my Linn to be reminded that there's a guitar in the arrangement, and the triangle in "September Song" was all but lost by the Thorens.
Compared with the combination of Linn LP12, Naim Aro, and Linn Akiva cartridge, the modified Thorens with Ortofon AS 212i tonearm and SPU Meister Silver cartridge was considerably better at conveying force and substance—and was slightly more dramatic as well. The guitars and drums on Donovan's admittedly overcompressed masterpiece, Open Road (Epic E 30125), sounded as if people were actually playing them, rather than existing merely as disembodied sounds that just happened to have made their way onto a record. And the backing voices that begin in the second chorus of "Changes" jumped out of the left-channel speaker in a manner I'd never quite heard before. Awesome, Artie.
Footnote 1: The larger plinth actually uses three feet.
Footnote 2: The model names are confusing at first glance: The numbers refer to the distance, in millimeters, between pivot and record spindle.
Footnote 3: Schopper also makes a high-tech platter-bearing upgrade for the TD 124 ($369), a brand-new record mat of graphite-rich rubber that's said to be the ideal replacement for the original ($79), and other Thorens parts and accessories.


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There are three potential drawbacks to saving in your child's name--the kiddie tax, federal financial aid rules, and control issues.
First, the kiddie tax. At one time, saving money in a child's name was recommended because of the tax saving opportunities that resulted when children were taxed at their own rate. However, Congress partially closed this loophole some years ago with passage of special rules commonly referred to as the "kiddie tax." The kiddie tax makes a child's unearned investment income over a certain amount subject to tax at the parents' tax rate. For 2009, this amount is $1,900 (the first $950 is tax free and the next $950 is taxed at the child's rate). The kiddie tax rules significantly reduce the tax savings potential of a child holding assets in his or her name.
The kiddie tax rules apply to: (1) those under age 18, (2) those age 18 whose earned income doesn't exceed one-half of their support, and (3) those ages 19 to 23 who are full-time students and whose earned income doesn't exceed one-half of their support. To lessen the impact of the kiddie tax, choose tax-free or tax-deferred investments in which the annual expected income does not exceed the threshold amount of $1,900 (in 2009).
Second, the federal financial aid rules have a more negative impact on child assets than parent assets. Under the current federal aid formula, a child must contribute 20 percent of his or her assets to college costs each year, whereas parents must contribute 5.6 percent of their assets each year. So $10,000 in your child's bank account would equal a $2,000 contribution from your child, but that same $10,000 in your bank account would equal a $560 contribution from you.
The more assets a child has, the more he or she will be expected to contribute to college costs, and the less financial aid he or she will receive, because the financial need is less. However, keep in mind that obtaining less financial aid is not necessarily a bad thing. The average financial aid package consists mostly of loans, so by paying more up front, chances are you or your child will just incur less debt, as opposed to losing grants and scholarships (which do not have to be repaid).
Finally, there is the control issue. Many parents open a custodial account for their child (UGMA or UTMA) to save for college. However, when the child reaches the age of majority (18 or 21, depending on the state), he or she gets full control over the money in the account and can use the money for anything--college, or perhaps a backpacking trip to Europe. Some parents aren't willing to relinquish this control to their child.
For all these reasons, it's generally recommended that parents save for college in their own names, not their children's names.
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The following are the comments given by me in response to queries from an American analyst in connection with the forthcoming visit of Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, to the US, from November 23 to 26,2009:
(a). No thinking has been ever done in India as to what it expects out of a long-term strategic relationship with the US. It is always the US which decides what it will give to India and it is New Delhi which accepts. It was so with the nuclear deal which was offered by Bush in July 2005.Manmohan Singh was pleasantly surprised when Bush offered it and then we followed it up.India's expectations from the US in the past were limited to US pressure on Pakistan to stop using terrorism against India, removal of restrictions on the supply of modern dual-use technology to India and US support for India's permanent membership of the UNSC. They remain the same.Any strategic relationship has to be a quid pro quo relationship. Since the US has hardly any dependence on India in any matter, there is no scope for any quid pro quo.
(b). India visualises itself as an Asian power on par with China. Beijing does not see it this way.China views India as a sub-regional Asian power and wants to keep its influence restricted to its immediate neighbourhood. Obama's visit to China has uncomfortably brought out to India that there is a convergence of perceptions between China and the Obama Administration on the limited regional role of India.China's pre-eminence has been recognised by Obama. Obama has re-hyphenated India-Pakistan relations and quietly relegated India to the role of a sub-regional power whose aspirations of having a status on par with China are unrealistic.
(c).In geopolitical matters, there is no futuristic thinking in India. The quality of Indian thinking and analysis----strategic and tactical----is poor. What passes for analysis in India is just wishful-thinking. Nobody in India has realised and brought out that for the first time the US, Japan and Australia have a leadership which does not rate highly India's potential as an emerging power. There is less and less talk of Chindia.Even today, many in India are not aware that the new Japanese Govt is not as enthusiastic about India as its predecessor Govt.was.There has been no exercise in India to analyse future scenarios in US-Japan relationship..
(d).Someone ( was it Henry Kissinger?) once said that power and influence are not given. They are taken. China has shown how to take it. India does not have the political will and courage to fight for it and take it. It is hoping that the US will give it. Bush and Condolleezza Rice seemed inclined to bestow on India the status of an Asian power on par with China. The Obama Administration does not seem to be so inclined.
( The writer is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India, New Delhi, and, presently, Director, Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai. He is also associated with the Chennai Centre For China Studies. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com )


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Revere, Span Coming To St. Cloud For Caravan
The Twins announced their plans for the Twins Winter Caravan in January. The Caravan will stop in St. Cloud on Wednesday January 25 at the Rivers Edge Convention Center (St. Cloud Civic Center). The group coming to St. Cloud includes current outfielders Denard Span, Ben Revere and Rene Tosoni, former Twin Tony Oliva, broadcaster Dick Bremer and mascot TC Bear.
More details on tickets and the start time of the event will be coming soon.


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Sometimes, it's really all in the details. I love this shift from H&M's eco conscious collection. I love the detail of the abstract pattern. I feel like it's a cross between a Paul Klee pen-and-ink and a botanical garden. It plays well in many environments. I can dress it up or down. On this particular day, I needed to look professional without being too formal, therefore, I let the details speak to my personality. Like the love robot ring. Everyone needs a love robot.
Or the fact that my dragonfly tattoo commemorating my sister's life is interestingly framed by the red acetate of my cuff watch.
And the floating sparrow on my necklace.
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Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science
The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science is a dual non-profit organization, with registered charities in Great Britain and the United States of America, founded in 2006 by professor Richard Dawkins.
The organization was founded with the goal of defending science research and education from the "deliberate attack from organized ignorance." Its stated mission is to sponsor research into the psychology of irrational belief, oppose the undermining of science education by religious creationist movements, raise public consciousness about the unmerited respect conferred upon religion and religious practices, and provide a network of support and resources to atheists and secular causes.


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Septimo 93-94 fastball, Cooper said, with slider and change. "No cutter yet. They usually get one within 15 minutes of getting here, tho.''
— Daryl Van Schouwen (@CST_soxvan) June 28, 2012
June 28, 2012
How soon before Leyson Septimo learns to throw a cutter?
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GCH CH AfterAll Painting the Sky
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The drama continued today in Houston Texas where the Beaumont Kennel Club took over on the biggest day of the five day Reliant Series of Dog Shows. The drama started early with the Working Group judging where a group full of BIS winners slugged it out. Judge Robert Schreve would send the spectacular Black Great Dane, GCH CH Longo Miller N Lore Diamond Lil, forward to the final ring, while yesterday's BIS winner, the nation's Number Two Dog, the Protuguese water Dog, GCH CH Claircreek's Impression de Matisse, left with a Group Two ribbon.
In the Hound Group, the Number Two, Four, & Five Hounds faced off. Judge Dana Cline considered the Harrier, GCH CH Downhome Hitech Innovator, the Afghan Hound, GCH CH Tells Matrix Reloaded, and the Saluki, GCH CH Sandstorm Blue Nile Bubbles of Jatara before sending the Saluki forward. Bubbles, would join, the Great Dane, Scout, the Clumber Spaniel, GCH CH Clussexx Collaboration with Traddles, the Wire Fox Terrier, GCH CH AfterAll Painting the Sky, the Pekingese, GCH CH Yakee Easily Persuaded, the Bichon Frise, GCH CH Saks Winning Card, and the German Shepherd Dog, GCH CH Wolf Creek Galaxy of Merivern, in Charles Trotter's Final.
GCH CH Yakee Easily Persuaded
Judge Trotter would choose AKC's Number One Dog all Breeds, the Wire, Sky, as his Best In Show and the Peke, Rodger, as his Reserve. The win will keep the status quo in the rankings for the moment, but there is still a hefty prize to be taken at tomorrow's Galveston County Kennel Club show. Check back with us tomorrow and we will tell you where our Top Dogs stand.


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The Replacement for Annual Reviews
Building a strengths-based workplace is transformational and the new high-performance culture for teams.
Creating a culture of coaching and intensive development
Chief executive officers and chief human resource officers of Global 2000 companies have made command decisions to replace their outdated performance management systems. Instead of forcing managers to assign rankings and complete once-a-year performance reviews, these forward-thinking leaders are transforming their companies into strengths-based workplaces to meet the changing will of the workplace, driven in part by the demands of millennials.
The best-managed companies in the world build a strengths-based culture by giving all associates the CliftonStrengths assessment. Developed by Don Clifton, the Father of Strengths Psychology, CliftonStrengths provides the basis for meaningful coaching and ongoing conversations that create a culture of coaching and intensive development.
In a strengths-based culture, employees have the opportunity to do what they do best every day. Their development is grounded in what they do right, not what they do wrong. As a result, employees look forward to going to work, achieve more while they are there and stay with their company longer. Companies can all but eliminate active disengagement by emphasizing strengths over weaknesses: Managers who predominantly focus on employees' strengths reduce active disengagement to an astoundingly low 1%.
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Use proven strategies to create a culture of strengths.
Building a strengths-based workplace is transformational -- and possible.
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The Air Jordan XX2 represents twenty-two years of sophisticated style meshed nicely with next-generation, cutting edge engineering. The latest edition to the popular luxury athletic footwear line is inspired by the F-22 Raptor, the world's most advanced stealth fighter jet. And like the F-22 Raptor, it boasts a sleek design and incorporates ground-breaking performance and technology to make it the most superior basketball shoe available. The Air Jordan XX2 pioneering performance capabilities offers fans and players the ultimate tools needed to take over the competition.
Designed and created by D'Wayne Edwards, Design Director of the Jordan Brand, the shoe features improved I.P.S. (Independent Podular Suspension)which now includes Double Stack Zoom AIR, and a titanium reinforced shank plate for additional support creating the ultimate luxury athletic shoe. "When we set out to create the Air Jordan XX2 we researched at length to see what current designs best represented Michael Jordan's legacy," said Edwards. "We decided on the F-22 Raptor because it best embodies his abilities on the court with its superior stealth capabilities, sleekness and powerful performance." Launch Date: 02/17/2007


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The vision training therapy has helped Gina to focus better on reading. She no longer complains about headaches. [More]
Our experience with Vision Therapy has been very positive. It was hard for Carson at first because she didn't think she was sick and nothing appeared to be visibly "broken" to her. Once she started getting some relief from the headaches she began to realize what a benefit Vision Therapy was for her. [More]
After Vision Therapy, headaches are now few and far between. This has been the most dramatic change that we have seen. [More]
I must admit that at the very beginning I was hesitant about going through Vision Therapy ..., but this worked and I only wish I had discovered this vision problem earlier. [More]
... I decided that a few months of therapy was well worth it if the rest of my life could be normal. My family encouraged me to start right away and I'm glad I did. [More]
Now, thanks to Vision Therapy I can enjoy reading, without straining my eyes and without getting headaches! [More]
It started off with no more headaches, then no more sore eyes, and finally my progress in reading went from low to high. [More]
Zachary has improved in all areas with very few headaches. His grades are very good & he is a lot happier in school & at home. [More]
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In third grade, Gina was experiencing trouble copying words from one area of the paper to another correctly. She also complained of headaches while reading. Her math computation was excellent, and I became confused with the discrepancy between her reading and math abilities. After speaking with a church friend, I contacted Dr. X to seek eye vision training (Vision Therapy).
Carson's main complaint before entering Vision Therapy was headaches. She would cry with these headaches every day and often I would have to pick her up from school even after she took medication.
The original symptom that caused us to investigate Vision Therapy was the frequency of headaches that our son was having during the school week [but not on weekends]. After Vision Therapy, headaches are now few and far between. This has been the most dramatic change that we have seen.
I would get headaches after just 10-15 minutes of reading. I always assumed my headaches were due to stress or my neck problems, so I continued to seek treatment with my chiropractor and cranial sacral therapist. As far as the slow reading, I labeled myself as a slow learner. Before Vision Therapy, my life was very stressful. I just started going to a new college: the transition was not as smooth as I expected. I couldn't keep up with the reading, and my reading comprehension was slow. I struggled in my Abnormal Psychology class (the exams were all based on reading). I had no choice but to drop the class with a "W" (I never had to do that before) because I kept continuing to fail the exams, not matter how much I read or made outlines of the chapters. Then, I was only taking 12 units.
From age 5 (Kindergarten), I experienced headaches almost daily. I was given eye exams, but was told my vision was fine. My condition went undiagnosed until Dr. X gave me a thorough exam and noticed my eye teaming problem. He said that was probably the cause of my headaches all these years! Every few years I would have an eye exam hoping that my vision was finally bad enough that they would give me glasses. Each time they said my vision was fine and I went away frustrated. I knew my headaches were related to my eyes, but no one understood how. I just lived on Tylenol, Advil, and Motrin to relieve the headaches.
Before I began Vision Therapy, I noticed difficulties with driving and focusing my eyes from far to near. My reading abilities were always slow, but I thought this was normal. As years passed, I developed excruciating headaches which got worse over time. I never liked to read because it would take too long and, in addition, I would get the headaches. In 1995, I began to have migraines and I saw a neurologist who took a lot of tests. I was put on migraine medication, which didn't help me. I became accustomed to having headaches all day.
John's headaches have disappeared completely. He reads more fluently without skipping words and lines. His frustration level has been significantly lowered due to the success of the therapy.
I have no more headaches and I am able to see a little clearer. I'm also less dependent on my glasses. I am very happy with the results.
No more headaches, eye strain or discomfort while reading, taking notes, or using computers.
Eric no longer complains about headaches! He has no discomfort after working on the computer or playing video games.
I don't lose my place when reading and I don't get headaches any more. I can do near work without getting a headache.
Danny no longer complains of headaches when reading or of fatigue. I really did not believe in Vision Therapy much in the beginning, but I can see the change now that he has done it.
I do not have headaches while using the computer. I feel that my vision is clearer.
We are very pleased with seeing Nicole willingly pick up reading material and not having headaches.
I no longer have headaches from reading and my distance vision is much better. I have better control over my eyes.
Last year in 4th grade Zachary had a significant struggle with comprehension & reading skills. He frequently experienced headaches & increasing frustration with homework and even school in general. It was very difficult for Zachary & even us as parents doing everything we knew to help him. This year [after Vision Therapy] 5th grade has been much different. Zachary has improved in all areas with very few headaches. His grades are very good & he is a lot happier in school & at home. He is much more diligent with his homework.
Elizabeth can now read without discomfort and has no more headaches.
I think that the Vision Therapy was a very successful program. When I first started Vision Therapy I had headaches, sore eyes, struggling with reading and more. When I couldn't keep up with my class in reading, I got a little stressed out. When I went in for my appointment with Dr. X, he told me that I had trouble controlling my eyes. He suggested Vision Therapy and I tried it.
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Earlier this week, I posted that RootsTech was staring to fill up with people going to their 2013 conference (held March 21 to 23, 2013 in Salt Lake City), and now I read where John D. Reid, a blogger of all things Anglo-Celtic in Canada, and the official blogger at BIFHSGO, http://anglo-celtic-connections.blogspot.com/2012/09/rootstech-2013.html, is going to take in next year's conference.
I will be waiting here in Ottawa for his posts on the conference, as he always seems to be able to pick out interesting people to talk to and things to do, while at these gatherings.
Also, I noticed that he mentioned that I was in the Oct/Nov 2012 issue of Internet Genealogy http://anglo-celtic-connections.blogspot.com/2012/09/internet-genealogy-octnov-2012.html with an article on "Researching English Ancestors in the Province of Quebec".
We both agree with the statement that while "researching English-speaking ancestors in Quebec ... the Quebec Family History Society is fast becoming the place to conduct initial research because of the databases they hold or access".
If you want to hear what Gary Schroder, President of the Quebec Family History Society has to say about the "Cadastral Numbers System: The Key to Quebec Land Records" then you should listen to Brian Glenn's interview with him in a two-part series on www.bifhsgo.ca/cpage.php?pt=59


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You are what your deep, driving desire is.
As is your desire, so is your will.
As your will is, so is your deed.
As your deed is, so is your destiny.
(Brihadaranyaka Upanishad)
Lore states that it takes at least twenty-one continuous days of an activity to form a habit, or to break one.
I started in on two very important re-commitments this past week – my daily Reiki practice and daily meditation. I'm four days into my twenty-one days on the daily Reiki practice, and three days into the daily meditation – and it feels GOOD.
One of the meditations this week included the above quote from the Vedic wisdom texts, the Upanishads. It tugged at me, and pulled at me, and kept gnawing on the corners of my thoughts like an insistent puppy.
Desire – I have shied away from this word. We're taught that it's wanton to feel desire. That it's naughty. What garbage. I'm reclaiming it – and I'm going to start viewing these things I'm trying to implement, grow, and change in my life as desires…ones I'm capable of fulfilling.
Desire is so much more positive, so much more vital, visceral, and vibrant than 'want.' Desire makes me think more of actively getting something, whereas 'want' makes me think of 'lack' and feels depriving. It's a mind game – but not so different from the hundreds of other ones I trip myself through every day.
So, here's to knowing what I desire, and being willing to discover more along the way. Here's to knowing that I have the power to create it in my life, to bring it into being. Here's to being full of desire, and the passion to pursue it.


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text: The Knoxville Hospital & Clinics Foundation Board will host their fourth annual Gala fundraising event on Saturday, October 24, beginning at 6:00 p.m. at the Sprint Car Hall of Fame in Knoxville. Hospital spokeswoman Katrina Nelson says the event, "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere," will feature a meal catered by Hy-Vee and music provided by Tropical Steel. Nelson says all of the proceeds raised this year will go towards the purchase of new patient beds for the hospital. For ticket information contact Nelson at 842-1418.


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A cafe is a type of restaurant which usually serves coffee and snacks. The term "cafe" comes from French, and means "coffee".
You can read newspapers and magazines there, or chat with other customers about current topics. It is known as a place where information can be exchanged.
A cafe is sometimes called a coffeehouse or a coffee shop in English, a café in French, Spanish, and Portuguese and a caffè in Italian. It shares some of the characteristics of a bar, and some of the characteristics of a restaurant, but it is different from a cafeteria, which is a type of restaurant where customers can choose from many dishes on a serving line. In some countries, cafes more closely resemble restaurants, offering a range of hot meals, and possibly being licensed to serve alcohol. British cafes however, do not sell alcohol.
In the Netherlands, cannabis-selling cafes face an uncertain future under a planned new law banning smoking in public places. The cafes, which attract millions of tourists each year, allow customers to buy marijuana over the counter and openly smoke it. In the United States, donut shops are also popular places to drink coffee and hang out.
A new type of cafe, known as the Internet cafe, was introduced in the 1990s. The spread of modern-style cafes to many places, urban and rural, went hand in hand with computers. Computers and Internet access in a contemporary atmosphere created a youthful, modern public space, compared to the traditional bars, or old-fashioned diners that they replaced. Nowadays, many cafes offer wireless Internet or have computers customers can use, just as they offer telephones and newspapers.


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Local author pens book about monsters under the bed
By ACL
Alicia Lloyd published her first book at age 22.
Future educator Alicia Lloyd has puts nighttime fears to bed with a friendly children's book that boosts reading proficiency while assuring youngsters to never be afraid of their monsters.
The young author is a 2009 graduate of Oxford Area High School and the Teacher Academy program at the Technical College High School (TCHS) Pennock's Bridge Campus.
"I have had a passion for teaching since age 4, and becoming an author has always been on my bucket list," Lloyd said. With the publishing of "When the Monsters are Quiet," she combined the two interests and is proud to add published author to her resume.
Lloyd said the publishing process was surprisingly simple. The book was written in the span of one day in July, after a restless night of sleeping in an unfamiliar place.
"I'm 22 years old and still thinking there are monsters under my bed," she said, describing how she told her boyfriend she eventually fell asleep only when the monsters were quiet. "I thought to myself, 'What a great title for a children's book!'"
She typed line after line of the story into her iPhone, submitted the manuscript to Halo Publishing online and received a call a day later. Over the next few months, she balanced full-time coursework pursuing her bachelor's degree in early grades preparation and special education at West Chester University with conference calls back and forth between the illustrator, editor and publisher to create the final product.
Lloyd's education background is evident in the last two pages of the book, which feature reading comprehension questions and phonemic awareness exercises that translate neatly into any lesson plan. Lloyd said her WCU education classmates, happy to have a published peer, have already incorporated the book in their lesson plans throughout Chester County.
Teacher Academy is a senior-only program that features field site internship experience and prepares students to enter the teaching profession. Teacher Academy instructor Mary Rash began each class period with a different quote and one in particular – "Learn to read so you can read to learn" – stuck with the future author.
"It's clear that Alicia took one of my favorite sayings to heart and has applied it to her future life as a teacher," Rash said. "Her love of young children, especially those with special needs, has molded her future."
"It's extremely important for students to start learning how to retain information at an early age, and the best way to do so is to read stories that relate to them," Lloyd said. "If it is something not in their interest area, then it is in one ear and out the other."
Lloyd held a book signing at TCHS Pennock's Bridge on Nov. 22, and plans to return as a guest speaker for the current Teacher Academy and Early Childhood Care & Education classrooms in coming weeks. She has already begun tossing around a few ideas for her next book.
"It's phenomenal to have one of our graduates reach her dreams and be successful," said Michael Katch, principal of TCHS Pennock's Bridge. "What an inspiration to our current students!"
To learn more about "When the Monsters are Quiet," visit www.halopublishing.com where the book can be ordered; or the author's Facebook page: When the Monsters are Quiet – by Alicia Lloyd.


text: One of my friend's daughters set up a surprise birthday party tonight for her mom. The country club is about 20 miles away and my truck was really low on gas so I thought, I'll take my new buddy - a v-strom 650 adventurer that I bought last weekend. Put on a pair of jeans, sequined top, shrug (ask your wife/girlfriend) a bunch of pearls and threw my heels into one of the boxes. Off we went down the freeway. Arrived at the country club, put on the heels and threw my boots and other riding gear into the box, grabbed my purse and helmet (forgot my lock dang it) and off to the party. Everyone was told to get there 1/2 hour early so we could hide in a corner to surprise my friend. I suddenly realized that if she saw my bike in the parking lot the whole surprise would be ruined. I asked her daughter which entrance they were going to use, and it was the one right by where I parked. Uh oh, move the bike! I walk out to the parking lot, and think, hmmmm, I'm just moving it to the other side of the lot, why change my shoes? Sling a leg over the bike, put up the stand and........noooooo!!!!!!, we start tipping to the left!:eek1 I'm pushing with my leg as hard as I can, but with the heels on I just can't get quite enough oomph and over we go!!! Crap!!!!! Now I'm laying in the parking lot in 3 inch heels, sequined top, pearls and a big black bike. Shit. Weird thing is the first thing I think is "dang, I don't have my camera!" Next is, "crap, I haven't tried to pick up this bike yet and I've never tried to pick up a bike this heavy, crap, crap, crap" "I am sooooo not going back into that building to find somebody to help me....." I kicked off the heels (little short boots), so now I'm standing in the lot in my socks, back up to the bike, grab the front and back and amazingly I lift it up! Yay me! Still have to move the bike. Sling a leg over, leave my heels laying on the asphalt (hope nobody runs them over), and ride to the other side of the lot in my socks. I find a dark spot to park in and start to push the bike backwards to park. It's really hard to push a v-strom backwards wearing socks. I get off, start to push it backwards and.............drop it!!!! :ddog Okay, now I know I can pick it up. I pick up the bike, don't see any obvious damage - it's really dark, jog back across the parking lot to retrieve my shoes and head back into the club room. By this time my face and hair are a sweaty mess.....argh...... and I've never met most of these people before.....:loll Damage, scuff on a corner of the left box and my clutch handle is curved into a very interesting shape - kind of looks like something you would have done custom on a cruiser.:loll I'll do a good look over tomorrow morning when I have more light. One slightly scraped elbow. All clothing survived, all sequins still attached. The silver lining to this evening: 1. I now know I can pick up my new bike 2. There were no witnesses!


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SHANKSVILLE, Pa. — The first trees donated by organizers of the Sept. 11 memorial in New York have been planted at the Flight 93 site in southwestern Pennsylvania.
The National Park Service calls the gift of 40 sweet gum trees a symbol of the ties between the memorials for victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
The (Somerset) Daily American says three of the trees were planted Saturday in a ceremony at the site near Shanksville, Pa. The rest will be planted over the next few weeks.
The trees were initially given by the state of Maryland in 2006 to the World Trade Center memorial, but were not planted due to a landscape design change.
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Alzheimer's disease
Two thirds of all patients with dementia suffer from Alzheimer's disease. Estimates indicate that by 2010 our country will have more than 150,000 Alzheimer's patients. Alzheimer's is a disease that gradually destroys brain cells, with the result that the mental capacity of patients with Alzheimer's gradually declines. At first, memory begins to fail, but the patient's cognitive capabilities also deteriorate as the disease progresses. Today, this disease cannot yet be cured. Current medicines for Alzheimer's patients sustain the memory functions for a short time, but they are unable to stop the brain cells from dying off. At best, they are able to limit the loss of memory during the early phases of the disease.
The β-amyloid cascade
The brains of Alzheimer's patients typically show the presence of amyloid plaques, which are abnormal accumulations of a protein (β-amyloid) between the neurons. The sticky β-amyloid develops when the precursor protein (amyloid precursor protein or APP) is cut into pieces incorrectly.
GPR3: target for new medicine
Several years ago, Bart De Strooper and other researchers elucidated the way in which these plaques originate and discovered that secretases play a large role in this process. Now, under the direction of Bart De Strooper, and in collaboration with researchers from the biotech company Galapagos, Amantha Thathiah and her colleagues have investigated whether additional substances are also involved in the development of the plaques. Which is apparently the case: Galapagos has identified the GPR3 protein as a new player. The VIB researchers have been able to show − in vitro (in cells isolated and studied in the laboratory) as well as in vivo (in living animals − mice, in this instance) − that blocking GPR3 leads to reduction of the plaques.
Importance of this research
The GPR3 protein is an important target molecule for the eventual development of a new medicine against Alzheimer's disease. The majority of all of the medicines that are available in pharmacies − regardless of the disease that they work against − act on proteins of a specific type. GPR3 is one of these − which, at this time, cannot be said for any other protein implicated in Alzheimer's.
Further research and development of this medicine will be carried out by the Flemish biotechnology company Galapagos. It is possible that 'the cure for Alzheimer's' will never be able to restore a patient's memory − but, hopefully, the disorder can be arrested, saving as many brain cells as possible.


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