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Showing his tremendous skill at the forge, the bolster is integral. Though this technique is regularly done in production knives, forging an integral bolster in a custom setting is extremely difficult and shows the maker's skill at its best.The handle is formed from presentation grade curly koa. The 'Coke bottle' style handle swells at the palm, moving into a slimmer waist, and swelling again at the pommel for a comfortable, sure grip in either a pinch grip of by holding the handle directly. Alternating silicon bronze and black G10 spacers set between the handle and integral bolster assist the wood to adjust to temperature and humidity changes. By using stabilized woods, Lisch ensures the knife will hold up well to the high demands of either a professional or home kitchen.
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Eating smarter will help you hit your health and fitness goals faster – but which diet is the ideal one for you? Coach's sister title Men's Fitness assesses the evidence and asks the experts so you can make the right nutritional decisions.
The Theory
A way of eating based on only eating foods that would have been available to our caveman-era ancestors, based on the idea that our modern diet – full of trans fats, refined carbs and easy-access sugar – is to blame for everything from cancer and Alzheimer's to depression and infertility. Fruits, vegetables, meat, nuts and seeds are all on the menu, while dairy, sugar and starch are off. The most argued-over omission? Grains and legumes, which many Paleo advocates say contain "anti-nutrients" that can block the absorption of minerals and vitamins, as well as causing digestive issues.
The Evidence
Reasonable. Several studies comparing Paleo with a typical American diet have linked it to increased insulin sensitivity and improved lipid (body fat) profiles – and a 2016 paper linked the diet to reduced inflammation, something often thought to be associated with cancer. Then again, almost anything's better than a typical American diet.
The Good
Getting more protein, veg and healthy fats is no bad thing, and cutting out sugar's unlikely to do any damage. Tackle Paleo properly by eating grass-fed, free-range meat, and you'll benefit from its improved hormone profile and omega 3:6 ratio. Oh, and it wouldn't hurt to eat some vitamin-packed offal occasionally.
The Bad
Paleo fans are largely backing away from the "our slow-evolving bodies haven't adapted to agriculture" argument that helped launch the movement, because it probably isn't true: there's decent evidence that different populations have evolved to eat the foodstuffs cultivated over the past few thousand years.
Similarly, the Paleo-approved foods available in your local Sainsbury's don't bear much relation to what a caveman ate – everything from asparagus to yams has been selectively bred for size and taste, sometimes at the expense of nutrition. And not all Paleo dieters make a distinction between processed and unprocessed meat – not ideal, since the WHO has linked processed stuff like bacon and sausages with a slightly increased cancer risk.
The Expert Verdict
"What I like about the Paleo diet is that, at its core, it advocates cooking from scratch and shuns overprocessed foods," says nutritionist Yolanda Hinchcliffe. "It also promotes local and seasonal foods and sustainably raised proteins. I think it's a good basis for a diet – but watch out, because it can become too restrictive. And eating to a guideline rather than listening to your body's needs isn't the best way."

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Bio Alexander von Zitzewitz is one of the founders of hello2morrow and has more than 20 years of experience with object oriented software development and software architecture in general. Besides computers and software architecture Alexander likes Red Wine, good Jazz, hiking, strategy games and sunny weather
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1. This is Harry Brumleve, I'm at QCon 2012, San Francisco, I'm with Alexander von Zitzewitz, Alexander, why are you here?
I am here at QCon, first of all, to talk about a topic which is Sustainable Software Development and also to have a little booth with my company Hello2morrow. Hello2morrow is here in QCon for the third time, so we've been in San Francisco before, we've been in New York this June and now it's our third appearance here, we like the conference, very good atmosphere, lots of good speakers and good networking and of course we try to… we are also here to win new customers, for our products, for studying this analysis tool suite called Sonargraph and that's working on pretty well right now.
2. I was in your presentation yesterday and learned a lot about Agile and architecture and the process of architecture. Could you talk about maybe how Agile is seen contrary to large scale architecture?
I think there is still a big tension between the two camps. There are people who are living according to the Agile manifesto. This movement I think came out of the failed waterfall processes where people could very clearly see the wasted, enormous amount of effort at the beginning of the project, to plan everything to death and then find out that it wouldn't work at the end when the project was finished so that obviously was not a good solution. Now the Agile movement was born, I think they went a little bit to the other extreme, no planning at all and we 're just the only user stories, we don't talk about architecture. Architecture is something that's created on the fly, as a side product, more or less, and I think, while that might work pretty well for a smaller project, we have two or three people working together, creating something like fifty, maybe a hundred thousand lines of code. That is something that it still might work pretty well. But if you are talking about larger projects, we would be talking about several thousand lines of code, millions of code lines and thousands of people involved, I think you need to find some middle ground where you spend some time for planning and creating usable blueprint and still using Agile techniques like having sprints or iterations and getting business functionally out as early as possible.
3. As an architect, you would like to take advantage of the frequent release cycles in Agile. How do you get your architecture stories put in to those plans for the rapid release cycles?
First of all, rapid release cycles are a good idea. You want to have proven functionality. You want to have something that you can show. What I think you should reserve a certain amount, a certain percentage of your time in each Sprint for what I call code hygiene, architecture, non functional requirements, scaffolding, blueprinting, all this kind of stuff and what we know from our own experience, how we develop our tool Sonargraph , is that we're using these prints, we are using the time box iterations but in the beginning of something we've spent a relatively high percentage for the planning, for the scaffolding, for architecture, so the first sprint might seem we talk about 50% about the time is going into how do we build this, how is the foundation going to look like, what are the guiding principles for a design, so what are the cornerstones of that building we are going to build and then in the first few iterations we do a lot of that and we also try to get the first vertical cut through where we try to look about a complex scenario and trying to at least get a minimum implementation of that complex scenario done in the context of what we think the blueprint of that application should be. So it's not going to be perfect, it's not going to be pretty but it's kind of you want to make it prove of concept, you want to make sure you are on the right track. I'm not saying that you should have a finished architecture on sprint number one, I'm far from that, but you should have a pretty good idea of how the foundation of your project is going to look like and then you use the next sprints and iterations until we find those ideas. So it's going to be something like in the beginning you spend a lot of time for planning and architecture and stuff like that and it's going to get less and less, but every sprint you should have some time for code hygiene.
4. So once you have it planned, you have it designed, who should be performing the architectural work, the actual coding? Is it the architect, is it the team?
Architectural work, I wouldn't say it's coding right away. Architectural work is more a discussion about the principles that you want to apply to your application, how you want to design your application, what kind of layers am I using, what kind of sub-systems do I have on my system, how are those different parts interrelated to each other and I think it's a good idea to have a team discussion about that, because I think most people can contribute to this, everybody has its own ideas and if the team is able to come to a consensus about how to build this, it would be much easier. So I think it's a good idea to have this in the team discussion. Of course led by an architect who maybe has a little bit more experience, who has done other jobs before and who can bring in additional value, but I think everybody should be involved in that process.
Harry: So as the process goes on, more people can have their hands on the actual implementation.
Exactly. I'm a strong proponent of that an architect should be coding. I always consider architects as non commissioned officers, so they should lead their troops in the field and they should make sure they are successful but they should be coding and should understand how to… the architect should be the best guy in the team so that other people could look up to him and take him as an example.
Harry: If you do a plan before, and obviously you should, you might end up with very large plans… I'm trying to get back into the planning…
I think, if we make a short break, when I'm talking about planning, I don't mean making Gantt diagrams or something like this, I'm talking more about something like scaffolding blueprint for the application, so how are the different building blocks for this application looking like and what kind of infrastructure do they use to pin that altogether. I'm not talking about making project plans in that sense because that's all given by scrum those methods and methodology, you have your back log and of course then you plan your sprints and they say "these sprints we're going to do that, that…"
Harry: Right and then you have to help stack rank the back log and…
I think the important point is that a back log should actually have items for this non functional stuff, like the back log item should not only be coding items, should be items like designing the application and talking about quality is also a very important thing. What kind of technical qualities guide lines do we have in our process.
5. Architecture seems to be incorporating itself into Agile as projects get more complex. Where do you see this marriage of Agile and architecture going in the future?
I see them converging actually, so I see that architecture is going to play a more important role in Agile, in this sense I was just describing that the first sprints, you do a little bit more of architecture and structure and design, also quality rule is very important, we didn't talk about that yet. And then as your sprints continue, this is just something like continuous maintenance work, which you have to plan, if you plan your iterations you have to plan a certain amount of effort for every sprint for this kind of task.
6. After the architect and the team have designed and planned for NFRs (non functional requirements) how do they communicate the values of those NFRs like architecture and technical quality to technical stake holders higher up in the company?
That's always a big question, the "Gretchenfrage" as we would say, because it basically means that if you add time for non-functional requirements, for quality management, for architecture management in your process, it's going to slow you down. It's going to make you slow in the beginning, there's no doubt about it. So the benefits you'll get out of it won't come for free. The benefits are quite enormous, so we know from experience from our customer base that people really do technical quality planning, technical quality management, architecture management in their daily routine and in all of their sprints they can save up to 66% of maintenance cost, increased team productivity by 30%, just one customer, Black Dot software in northern Massachusetts and now Burlington the meantime. They've confirmed to me that they saved enormous amounts of maintenance costs, with just adding this to each of their sprints. But the point in that case we have much more a political and a social problem than a technical problem. The technical problem can be solved easily. Just define your quality standards, measure them with a tool base, so you have to add the tools into your development process and act on the results coming out of this tool base. So that's not really difficult.
The difficult part is to bring the stake holders into the board. Because, since we are living in a very short term minded community here, everything is about the next sprint, the next quarter and not so much about the long term sustainability of what we are building; it's a tough sell. But I think the solution for that would basically be to create more transparency so the stake holders could actually see the value that is produced by having better quality, having better architecture, having better maintainability and the key to that is software metrics. As soon as you make your metrics publicly available, if you measure them every day, publish them on a website, for example using Sonar as a very good platform for communicating this kind of metrics. Everybody knows where it stands and the quality is not a hidden issue anymore, it's something that becomes visible and then people can also see the value. So if you talk about real numbers, it might be easier to get management and stake holders involved in that thing. At the end it's still something to need to sell but I think the best way is to try that on a smaller scale, to see how it works out for you. I'm pretty sure that most people will agree after sometime that it works out in a very good way and then throw it down in a larger scale.
7. And would you assume that as architecture, the actual architecture tasks become less then the architecture quality or that the static analysis become more important?
I think static analysis is a topic that is a toolset that should accompany the process. I think that's very important because right now if you are building software systems, it's all about functionality. The hero is the guy who gets the job done, so everything is about getting the job done, without really specifying what that means. And I think the big problem right now, of so many software projects is that getting the job done doesn't contain any criteria for technical quality of what comes out of it. It's all about functionality. You push that magic button, something magic happens in the background and the application is considered to be done. Of course we don't know how it looks behind, if this is a big mess, if this is a beautiful application, if it's well designed, if it's badly designed. All these questions are not really asked.
Just imagine you would build airplanes this way. You would build an airplane and the airplane is an airplane and it looks like an airplane, nobody would want to fly in one of those things. So in all other disciplines where we've built physical items, quality is a visible attribute. You can actually very easily find is something is crap or not. And the software system is much harder because all is hidden behind the beautiful interface whatever, and you don't know what's behind it. And I think that's a very important issue, that if you plan for building an application, you not only should talk about architecture, you should also talk about technical quality rules, that will find how this code should look like, what are the quality criteria, what are the hurdles the code has to jump over to be considered as done. I think it's very important to add this dimension to the whole planning thing. I talked in the beginning about something like between 20 and 30% of sprint times for code hygiene, that is not only architecture that includes all this questions about technical quality, the measurement of technical quality which should be totally automated, but if this automated process produces findings, somebody has to get all those findings and fix the findings to make sure that we stay on track. It's what you want to achieve.
Harry: It's a great answer. Thanks a lot, Alexander and I hope you have a great QCon!
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The interviewee is making a not-uncommon strawman argument against Agile of say 10 years ago (around Manifesto time) - and also using the not-uncommon cliché counter-examples of building a house or an airplane. Sure there are Scrumdamentalist types still out there, but Agile has moved on (most notably augmented by Lean/Kanban).
"...no planning at all and we're just the only user stories, we don't talk about architecture."
One of the few meetings Scrum has is called "Planning", which happens to include things like design, and how that design fits with the architecture. But architecture does not start and end there - ongoing daily discussion is expected amongst the team. If the architecture is complicated, hire a dedicated architect and ensure they are readily available to the team. At the beginning of an initiative, it is not uncommon to perform "Sprint Zero" activities to focus on architectural issues.
Software is now moving into a bold new world where architecture patterns, packages, and cloud services already exist for most cases. Modelling techniques like Domain Driven Design (DDD) are making a resurgence. Pervasive automation Continuous Delivery (CD) are enabling well-architected and high-quality software in a hyper-Agile manner. This is where the discussion should be. Are there computationally/mathematically hard problems out there not yet solved? Yes (Quantum computing comes to mind), but most people will not be solving problems of a calibre requiring intense new architectures.


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COMMENTARY | I am often asked how Wall Street has managed to be so reckless, with little to no regard for its customers and its investors, yet avoid any real consequence for its actions.
The easy answer, if there is one, is that no one has really tried to change the very culture of the banking industry. Corrections have been at the micro level, yes, but these granular solutions have merely chipped away at the problems with mortgage securitization.
No one until this point has been bold or audacious enough to stand up to the banks. Maybe it's because of fear of blowback from the bankers and their powerful allies; maybe it's that the regulators and legislators actually don't know how take them on.
Wall Street has always managed to have a defense that it always seems to fall back on whenever its motives are questioned. Banks have used it so often there is actually a name for it. It's called the Wall Street Rule.
Two Brooklyn Law School professors recently, and succinctly, brought attention to the Wall Street Rule and how it applies to the mortgage securitization engine. Bradley Borden and David Reiss correctly argue mortgage backed securities were flawed from the start.
By convincing Congress to ease certain tax restrictions back in 1986, these securities called REMICS were created and became a loophole to allow the banks to avoid paying income tax on millions upon millions of mortgages, which I alluded to back in August.


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Some people dream of setting foot on a Major League Baseball field. For the better part of this summer, Tyler Gosney of Monroe City did so every day.
Some people dream of setting foot on a Major League Baseball field. For the better part of this summer, Tyler Gosney of Monroe City did so every day.
Although a former member of the Monroe City High School baseball program, it wasn't Gosney's hitting skills or throwing ability that earned him a shot with the San Diego Padres. Instead, Gosney put to use what he had learned at Linn State Technical College as an intern member of the Padres' ground crew.
Gosney, who is studying commercial turf and ground management at Linn State, is required to serve a 16-week internship as part of the program's curriculum.
"I wanted to do one in baseball. I was really determined," he said.
Gosney, the son of Sheila and Bret Gosney, received a number of offers.
"I had about 10 minor league offers. None of them were bad," he said. "I got one that was actually (from) a AAA (team) that looked really good that I was about to take."
But Gosney decided to delay his decision until he heard back from the San Diego Padres.
"Regardless of what profession you're in you want to shoot high," he said.
Gosney called the Padres to see if he had a shot.
"He (team official) gave me an interview over the phone and within 24 hours I had a job," he said.
Far from home
Why San Diego instead of a team closer to home?
"Some teams just don't do internships," said Gosney. "For me, San Diego was the only major league (team) that made an offer. It all worked out wonderful.
"Ideally in the future I want to end up in St. Louis or Kansas City, just because it's proximity to home. For now I'm enjoying traveling and networking."
Unlike some internships, Gosney was paid for his labor.
"The pay only went so far with how expensive California was, but it all came out," he said. "I got my own little studio (apartment). It was expensive, but I was 15 minutes away from three major beaches. I wasn't complaining."
On days when the Padres were at home, Gosney had little time for beaches. When San Diego had a night game, Gosney was generally at work between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m.
"It's an extremely rigorous profession," he said.
Initially, Gosney focused his attention on preparing the warning track, which circles the entire playing field.
"That was kind of like my full-time job. It's good for beginners because it teaches you a lot about moisture management, which is a huge part of our job," he said, estimating that preparing the track would take three hours.
After some staffing changes Gosney's duties were altered.
"By the end of the season my game day preparation would start with the warning track. Then I would do the clay for the game mound and plate, and the two bullpens," said Gosney, who was teamed with another member of the ground crew.
Gosney is thankful for the opportunity the Padres gave him.
"San Diego is known for having the best playing field from a player's perspective," he said.
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While Gosney interacted with some players, it wasn't the same as veteran members of the ground crew.
"I noticed the guys who had been on the crew for years, a lot of players knew them and would talk to them. A lot would engage in conversation with me as well, but it wasn't the same because they didn't know me personally," he said.
Members of the ground crew maintained an attitude of professionalism when associating with players.
"We tried to make sure it seemed we were working on the same level as them as much as possible because in our eyes we are. Our jobs are just as important to make that field perfect as it is for them to execute plays on that field," said Gosney. "That was really hard for me when I first got there because I was kind of star struck with all these major league players I'd looked up to. You've got to hide your wide eyes and keep working."
Gosney's game plan is to secure his associate's degree from Linn State and then move on to Mizzou.
"I'm planning on working for the turf crew there. They take care of the sports turf for the whole campus," he said. "I think that's going to be a good experience because I'll get to see what it's like to maintain a soccer field, a softball field, the baseball field, the football field. It will be really fun."
While he enjoyed his stint with the Padres, Gosney isn't sure what the future will hold in store for him after he earns his bachelor's degree from MU.
"That's one thing I love about my industry, there are so many different areas you could go into – football, soccer, landscaping, lawn care," he said.


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Interview with Bizimana Francois, a young filmmaker from Kenya. You can watch his PLURAL+ video "Cry of the Refugees" here: http://bit.ly/IZYYiI
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My video is all about the devastating living condition of families living in the Dadaab Refugee Camp in the northern part of Kenya.
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I would like to tell the global audience that the living condition in refugee camps is worse and as a collective, we should do something about it.
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Are you producing another video? If yes, what is it about? Why did you choose this subject?
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U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran will visit Leavenworth County on Tuesday, Jan. 18, during his Statewide Listening Tour.
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Moran, R-Kan., recently was sworn in as Kansas' junior U.S. senator. As he did when he was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from the 1st District of western Kansas, Moran is continuing his tradition of traveling back to the state at every opportunity to visit communities throughout the state.
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Identifying isolated or fragmentary bones can be difficult in archaeological and forensic contexts. Numerous non-osseous materials such as wood, pottery, plastics, or even stones can sometimes be mistaken for fragmented human bone. Human remains can often become mixed with those of animals. In addition, identification can be further complicated by modifying factors such as burning or warping. There are generally three levels of identification that can be utilized to distinguish between human and animal bones; gross skeletal anatomy, bone macrostructure, and bone microstructure (histology).
Skeletal Anatomy
Cranial morphology differs dramatically between humans and animals due to the uniquely large brains that humans have compared to body mass. Humans have small faces compared to our large, bulbous cranial vault and this minimizes facial projection compared to animals. Human vault musculature is less well developed than in animals, who often have developed sagittal and occipital crests. Since animals (even large ones) have much smaller brains, their cranial bones are generally more curved and individually smaller.
The interior surface of animal vault bones usually have more complex surface morphology than humans, whose interior vault surfaces are relatively smooth occasionally embedded with grooves from meningeal vessels. Animal mandibles are often "V" shaped in superior/inferior view and separate at the midline as opposed to the "U" shaped singular construction of the human mandible.
Human crania are oriented on a vertical axis and the orbits are located in the front and above the nasal aperture. Animal crania are oriented on a horizontal axis and the orbits are located behind and lateral to the nasal aperture. These orientations also cause the position of the foramen magnum to be located inferiorly in humans and posteriorly in animals.
Some basic differences in human and animal cranial anatomy are defined in Table 1 below, but detailed information on distinguishing many North American animal species based on their cranial morphology can be found in Mammal Osteology by Gilbert (1990) and Mammal Remains from Archaeological Sites by Olsen (1964).
|Table 1. Differential Skeletal Anatomy of Humans and Animals:Cranium
|Large bulbous vault, small face
|Small vault, large face
|Vault relatively smooth
|Pronounced muscle markings, sagittal crest Inferior
|Inferior Foramen Magnum
|Posterior Foramen Magnum
|Chin present
|Chin absent
|Orbits at front, above nasal aperture
|Orbits at sides, posterior to nasal aperture
|Minimal nasal and midface projection
|Significant nasal and midface projection
|"U"-shaped mandible (no midline separation)
|"V"-shaped mandible (separates at midline)
Dentition varies greatly between humans and animals, and even between different species of animals. Human teeth reflect a generalized design, including a mix of slicing (incisors), puncturing (canines), and grinding (molars) teeth. They are normally more rounded than animal teeth. Most animal teeth reflect specialized dietary adaptations. Grazing animals have more grinding teeth with specialized ridges and carnivores have more shearing teeth with sharp ridges. In addition, many animals have different dental formulas compared to humans. Dental formulas are annotated with the number of each tooth type for a quadrant of the mouth. Adult humans generally have a compliment of 32 teeth, eight in each quadrant; this includes two incisors, one canine, two premolars, and three molars (2:1:2:3). Although highly variable, many placental mammals exhibit a generalized dental formula that includes three incisors, one canine, four premolars, and three molars (3:1:4:3). Some basic differences in human and animal dentitions are defined in Table 2 below, but detailed information on distinguishing species based on their dentition can be found in Teeth by Hillson (1986).
|Table 2. Differential Skeletal Anatomy of Humans and Animals: Dentition
|Carnivorous; Herbivorous; Omnivorous
|Dental formula 2:1:2:3
|Basic dental formula 3:1:4:3
|Incisors (maxillary) are larger than other mammals
|Horse maxillary incisors are larger than human incisors
|Canines small
|Carnivores have large conical canines; Herbivores have small or missing canines
|Premolars and molars have low, rounded cusps divided by distinct grooves
|Carnivores have sharp, pointed cheek teeth; Herbivores have broad, flat cheek teeth with parallel furrows and ridges
Much of the difference in long bone anatomy between animals and humans is the result of pattern of locomotion. As quadrupeds (expect for birds), animals have dual axes of orientation and their functional anatomy reflects structures of locomotion in all four limbs, lacks spinal curvature, has a long and narrow pelvis, and is additionally reflected in the posterior position of the foramen magnum and bony development of posterior of the cranium due to musculature. Animal forelimbs are generally more robust and the radius and ulna may be fused to give more strength and flexibility in weight bearing. The tibia and fibula are also often fused, sometimes with diminished or completely lacking a fibula. Humans on the other hand, as bipeds, have a singular, central vertical axis of orientation that distributes all of the individual's weight through a series of bony mechanisms designed to soften the impact of bipedal locomotion. As a result, human crania are centrally placed on the vertical axis, the spinal column has four slight opposing curves, the pelvis is broad and short, the femora are angled, the tibiae have thicker proximal surfaces for greater weight bearing, the feet have dual arch structures, and the upper limbs have less pronounced musculature and a greater range of motion. Although birds are also bipedal, bird bones are very different in shape from human bones, but they are additionally very light in weight. Bird long bones have very thin walls and only minimal trabecular structure in the ends. Some basic differences in animal and human post-cranial skeletal anatomy are defined in Table 3 below, but detailed information on distinguishing many North American animal species based on their post-cranial morphology can be found in Mammal Osteology by Gilbert (1990) and Mammal Remains from Archaeological Sites by Olsen (1964).
|Table 3. Differential Skeletal Anatomy of Humans and Animals: Post-cranium
|Upper limbs less robust
|Robust upper limbs
|Radius and ulna are separate bones
|Radius and ulna often fused
|Large, flat and broad vertebral bodies with short spinous processes
|Small vertebral bodies with convex/ concave surfaces and long spinous processes
|Sacrum with 5 fused vertebrae, short and broad
|Sacrum with 3 or 4 fused vertebrae, long and narrow
|Pelvis is broad and short, bowl-shaped
|Pelvis is long and narrow, blade-shaped
|Femur is longest bone in body, linea aspera is singular feature
|Femur is similar length to other limb bones, linea aspera double or plateau
|Separate tibia and fibula
|Tibia and fibula are often fused
|Foot is long and narrow, weight borne on heel and toes
|Foot is broad, weight borne mainly on toes
The most common human bones to be mistaken for animal bones are the bones of infants. They are sufficiently different from adult and even older children bones that they can cause considerable confusion. With unformed or unfused epiphyses, singular bones are separated by ossification segments and have indistinct edges. Multiple ossification centers and epiphyses increase the number of bones associated with an infant and many are not identifiable to a specific bone. Long bone diaphyses are thin and lack the trabecula of adults. Cranial bones easily disarticulate and lack the diploe structure and vault bones are the same thickness and very often confused with turtle or tortoise carapace. The petrous portion is separate in infants and, being a particularly dense bone, it often survives burial better than others. Ribs of young infants look very much like those of a small animal. It can also be very difficult to tell the difference between a very young animal and a human infant. Overall, care must be taken when the material appears that it could possibly be infant bone.
Bone Macrostructure
Animal bones have a greater density relative to size; they are less porous and are thicker in cross section than the bones of humans. In humans, humeral and femoral cortical thickness is about ¼ of the total diameter compared to about ½ of the total diameter in animal proximal limb bones. Trabecula is largely absent from the interior of animal leg bone diaphyses, resulting in a very smooth medullary surface compared to the web of trabecula covering the medullary surface in human long bones. Human cranial vault bones have thick diploe relative to cortical (tabular) bone compared to the thin, more compact vault bones of animals. Some basic differences in animal and human bone macrostructure are defined in Table 4.
|Table 4. Differential Bone Macrostructure of Humans and Animals
|More porous cortical bone
|Less porous cortical bone
|1/4 thickness of diameter of long bone
|1/2 thickness of diameter of long bone
|Diaphyseal trabecula present
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|2010-04-08, 22:38
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Guys, I wanted to point out something else that I thought about after reading chapter 29.
Remember Miyabi after Tsukune questioned him, why they attacked Mizore's village he said that The day when you will understand is coming. When that time comes we'll meet again, boy.
Well it's not like Tsukune knows about the egg's existence yet ... but it got me thinking that we might be seeing a Miyabi X Tsukune showdown soon.
What is you're opinion about this ?
|2010-04-08, 22:47
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Lets see some kicking ass, and taking names (preferably Tsukune taking Moka's or vice versa )
(Sorry that pun had to be made)
Kahlua is the only one spelt exactly like the drink so far (and Kahlua is a coffee flavour liquor )
Either way, theres still a LOT of unanswered questions when it comes to Moka's lineage, the family lineup and how it works etc.
In some ways this chapter has almost posed more questions than it actually answered!
|2010-04-08, 23:14
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Heheh, yeah I wouldnt put it past them for most of them to be puns on japanese names as well as the drinks.
Just Akuha pronounced Aqua would fit the rest of the naming trend
|2010-04-09, 02:48
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I don't know where the "h" came from, in the Japanese text it says "Aku-a". Also, "Akasha Bloodriver" is written in that order in the original text too, but they never reverse the order for foreign names.
Maybe Moka took Akashiya as an assumed name because it's similar to her mother's name?
|2010-04-09, 03:31
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Well another interesting piece of information that was revealed in chapter 29 and is worth considering is that it seems that the Rosario, sealed itself on his own effectively trapping Tsukune, Mizore and Tohou Fuhai inside it as well. I think we might learn more about Tsukune's significance in being the key to Moka's seal, since it looks like for Tsukune , Mizore and Tohou Fuhai to get out of the memory they would have to somehow force Moka's seal to open up again, which considering the state Moka's seal is currently in, might cause some unpredictable result's, unless Tsukune, being the key ... is able to open the seal from the inside of it ... without weakening it any further.
It also signifies that Moka's Rosario might be a lot more harder to repair then what we initially have thought., since it seems that it has some defensive mechanisms embeded inside it as well.
|2010-04-09, 03:51
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And now I go into quote overload mode.
If Tsu and them are NOT taking a physical trip, they may just be linked to Moka via those strings and are simply taking a mental trip though Moka's sealed mind and memories, while laying where they fell at the wong temple, or whatever that place was.
But if the former is true, then it may be possible that Moka's mom physically sealed herself into the rosary to hide and guide Moka by supporting her with her own personality traits. After all, there must have been a template to follow to get Omote Moka in the first place, so her mother's personality filter was used for that perhaps.
Of course there is the other option of the good ol "split" that could happen. If Akasha IS sealed in there, they might be able to summon her, and then Moka would "seem" to split, but it wouldn't be omote but Akasha that would come out, and chances are, she won't be remembering much, or anything of Moka's life since she was sealed, and would be curious about Moka, Tsukune and their group.
And since Touhou mentioned that Akasha was a good friend of his, perhaps she had learned how to make complex seals and began work on the rosary when she learned about the plans of Fairy tale and Akua's (possibly) evil nature, and so made plans to protect herself and Moka from them in some elaborate way with this..... However, I'm also just doing an ass-pull here so we can only think on this and wait for now.
|2010-04-09, 09:40
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I kind of started wondering what the information regarding seals might mean in Tsukune's case. I mean his Holy Lock is also a seal, which mean's, like Moka's Rosario it filter's part's of Tsukune's abilities and personality. I agree that Tsukune's seal might be quite different then Moka's, but the general concept regarding both of them should be the same right.
Now, what I think Tsukune's Holy Lock is sealing are Tsukune's violent vampire nature (the Ghoul) it probably limits the amount of power Tsukune can use as well. It kind of makes things interesting since it would suggest that Tsukune's vampire nature and his power's have already became a part of Tsukune meaning that he might already be some type of a primitive vampire already.
I don't mean that he is the same type of being as Moka, since unlike her, Tsukune still can't control himself without the presence of his seal, but he might be on his way of becoming a vampire as well, though I think there will still be a bit of differences between him and Moka if that happens.
Well, I quite agree that things might not look so simple as what I posted here, since there are still quite a few unknown's regarding Tsukune's "transformation", but this what I came up with, after I started comparing what was revealed about seal's in the latest chapter, and what we knew so far about Tsukune's Holy Lock, so Tsukune's development might not exactly occur in the fashion that I spoke of, but at least it gives you something to think about.
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|2010-04-09, 11:24
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We haven't see Tsukune go all out in a long time so we don't how far he'll lose himself to the ghoul nature. Hell, as far as we know he could take the lock off and be super duper. The inner and outer Tsukune is really stretching things beyond logic so I'll just not comment. However, Hokuto seemed the same when he ripped his lock off, well expect for looking like a freak show exhibit...
|2010-04-09, 13:00
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I also a have another crack theory thanks to reading some comments on another forum: It could be possible that Moka lost control of her power in a spat with Akuha and accidentally killed her mom. The seal was to prevent her from ever losing control like that again and sealing the memory of the event.
In the Snow Village Arc, Kahula said that among the sisters, Moka is of a special pedigree. It could be possible that Moka and Akuha had a confrontation where Chibi Moka lost control over her power. Akasha could have tried to step in to stop Moka and Moka accidentally killed her. The strain of losing control and probably the shock of accidentally killing her mom might have caused Moka to pass out and have memory loss of the event.
So, in order to prevent Moka from ever losing control like that, Moka was sealed. The seal not only limited her powers and personality, but it would also continue to block the memory of Moka killing her mom in case she remembers.
Daddy Starbucks might have hid away all of Akasha's things and told Moka that she disappeared so Moka won't have to know that she killed her mom. The rest of the sisters are told to keep it secret from Moka.
It's a little crazy but it's within the realm of possibility
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It certainly is viable though.
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Scott Brown's Racial Stereotyping of Elizabeth Warren
by: Jay Sterling Silver on September 26th, 2012 | 6 Comments »
Disturbingly absent from the analysis of Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown's rebuke at last week's debate of Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren's claim that she has Native American ancestry is any reference to the racially insensitive nature of his reproach. After noting that "Professor Warren claimed she was a Native American," he added pointedly, "And as you can see, she's not."
Which raises the obvious question: which of her facial features alerted Brown that she has no Native American blood coursing through her veins? Surely, if she possessed whatever tiny fraction of one's DNA must trace back to an indigenous tribe before he or she is deemed to be Native American, she'd have shiny, jet-black hair or a tan complexion. Or was it the absence of beads or a feather and a headband that tipped Brown off?
For a fellow who, like so many other Republican senatorial candidates, has been distancing himself from Romney's recent stereotyping of 47% of the populace as freeloaders, Brown's remark was downright Romneyesque. Or worse.
Indeed, the comment reeks of the stereotyping of a bygone era. Did Brown observe, upon meeting Senator Joe Lieberman or Al Franken or Dianne Feinstein, "Funny, he doesn't look Jewish." Somehow, though, it's okay to say it about Native Americans.
While the truth of Warren's representation on a couple of job applications that she has Cherokee and Delaware Indian ancestry may be relevant to the issue of character, Brown's remark reveals something about him: with respect to the sensibilities of vulnerable groups, he – like the guy at the head of the party's ticket – just doesn't get it!
Noting the troubling nature of Brown's remark is not to pass judgment on Warren's as-yet unsubstantiated claim of some degree of Native American heritage, however well taken her point that kids don't ask parents to document the information they pass on about their ancestry. It does, however, underscore the right's deep resentment of the social safety net and affirmative action, as well as the Eurocentric preoccupation with ethnicity that fuels the birther debate, a miasma that should have dissolved long ago, and legislation like Arizona's "show me your papers" law.
It also underscores the pitfalls of attempting to classify race and measure ethnicity in the first place. Those attempting to determine Cherokee heritage, for example, run into claims from De Soto onward that "Cherokees are light skinned," and that the "Dawes Rolls" adopted by the Cherokee Nation as the official registry by which claims of ancestry are determined excludes many individuals with significant Cherokee lineage.
Brown's remark represents the flipside of our distressing history of classifying anyone with a fraction of non-Caucasian ancestry as on-white, as if a drop of non-white blood contaminates the pool. In the seminal case of Loving v. Virginia, for example, in which the Supreme Court struck down Virginia's ban on interracial marriage, the Commonwealth had classified as a "white person" anyone "who has no trace whatsoever of any blood other than Caucasian," a notion which, to one degree or another, lives on in many circles today. The irony here is that, when minorities represent a threat to racial purity, we've attempted to employ precise scientific measurements, but when minority status is perceived to carry an advantage, it's fine to judge a book by its cover, as did Brown.
Even worse than Brown's offensive comment, however, is that we seem oblivious to its insensitivity. In a day when 24/7 cable and Internet news outlets wring every drop of newsworthiness our of a candidate's utterances, surely Brown could have been taken to task for his offensive remark.
Jay Sterling Silver is a law professor at St. Thomas University School
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- Some Activity Fine for Kids Recovering From Concussions, Docs Say
- Major Injuries Take a Toll on Mental Health
- Arm Yourself Against the Coming Flu Season
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Health Highlights: June 12, 2013
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay:
Pa. 10-Year-Old Has Lung Transplant
A 10-year-old girl at the center of a fight over a controversial age-related lung transplant rule is undergoing a lung transplant today at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
Sarah Murnaghan's family is asking for prayers and her mother Janet said the family is "overwhelmed with emotions" and thanked all their supporters, USA Today reported.
"Today is the start of Sarah's new beginning and new life," Janet said.
Sarah has end-stage cystic fibrosis and her parents launched a legal challenge against a national rule that prevents patients younger than 12 from receiving adult lungs. Last week, a judge ordered that Sarah be placed on the waiting list for adult lungs and made a similar ruling for another child.
Lung transplants are a difficult operation, Art Caplan, head of the division of medical ethics at New York University Langone Medical Center, told USA Today.
Mandela Responding Better To Treatment
After a "difficult few days," Nelson Mandela is responding better to treatment for a recurring lung infection, South African President Jacob Zuma said Wednesday.
"I am happy to report than Madiba is responding better to treatment from this morning," Zuma told lawmakers in Cape Town, Bloomberg News reported. "We are very happy with the progress that he is [having] now."
Madiba is Mandela's clan name.
Mandela, 94, is in "serious, but stable" condition, Zuma's office said Tuesday. The anti-apartheid hero and former South Africa president was hospitalized June 8. It was his fourth hospitalization since December, Bloomberg reported.
Tighter Restrictions Proposed for Medical Research on Chimps
A proposal to bring captive chimpanzees in the United States under the protection of the Endangered Species Act would create another major barrier to using them for invasive medical research on human diseases.
Under the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposal, permits would be required for any experiment that harms chimps, and researchers would have to prove that the experiment contributes to the survival of chimps in the wild, The New York Times reported.
The public has 60 days to comment on the proposal, which was announced Tuesday.
Wild chimps were declared endangered in 1990 but captive chimps have been unprotected under the law. This proposal would end that so-called split list, Fish and Wildlife Service Director Daniel Ashe told The Times.
The demand for chimps in medical research has declined and a U.S. National Institutes of Health committee has recommended that the NIH retire most of the about 450 chimps it owns or supports.
Drug License Violations Lead to $80 Million Penalty for Walgreens
A record $80 million in fines will be paid by Walgreens for violating its U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency license to dispense controlled substances such as the highly addictive pain drug oxycodone.
It's the largest civil penalty paid under the Controlled Substances Act in DEA history, according to USA Today.
In September, the DEA accused Walgreens — the nation's largest drug store chain — of endangering public safety and forbid the company from shipping controlled drugs from its distribution center in Jupiter, Fla.
The company committed "an unprecedented number" of record-keeping violations that led to millions of oxycodone pills reaching the black market, U.S. Attorney Wilfredo Ferrer said Tuesday, USA Today reported.
NYC Lawyer Faces Tough Questions About Soda Size Limit
A New York City lawyer faced tough questioning Tuesday from state appeals court members holding a hearing about a city health regulation that imposes a 16-ounce size limit on sugary beverages sold in fast food outlets, restaurants and sports stadiums.
The regulation — introduced as a way to fight obesity and diabetes — was struck down in March by a lower-court judge and the city appealed that decision.
During oral arguments Tuesday, the four state appeals court justices repeatedly asked city attorney Fay Ng to defend the regulation's scientific and legal foundations, the Associated Press reported.
One of the justices said the city seemed to be asking for unprecedented authority to regulate the portions of many types of foods, while another questioned the scientific reasoning behind the 16-oz. limit.
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Auto Production Sets New Record, Fleet Surpasses 1 Billion Mark
New Worldwatch Institute analysis examines global motorization trends
Washington, D.C.—Global production of automobiles keeps rising to new heights. London-based IHS Automotive puts light vehicle (passenger car and light-duty truck) production in 2013 at 84.7 million, up from 81.5 million in 2012. The world's fleet of light-duty vehicles now surpasses 1 billion—one per seven people, writes Senior Researcher Michael Renner in the Worldwatch Institute's latest Vital Signs Online trend (www.worldwatch.org).
Five countries account for the production of 60 percent of all light vehicles worldwide. China produced a stunning 20.9 million vehicles in 2013. The United States (10.9 million), Japan (9 million), Germany (5.6 million), and South Korea (4.5 million) follow at a considerable distance.
The United States has long been the world leader in motorization. The number of all motor vehicles per 1,000 people there rose to a peak of 844 in 2007. If all countries had the same car density relative to population as the United States does, there would be 4.4 billion motor vehicles worldwide—more than four times the actual fleet.
There are signs, however, that motorization in the United States may finally have peaked. Almost one in ten U.S. households—9.2 percent in 2012—does not have a vehicle, up from 8.9 percent in 2005. In dense cities, the figure is much higher. In 2012, just over 56 percent of households in New York City, for example, did not own a vehicle. But many other U.S. cities lack the density, public transportation systems, walkability, and other factors necessary to make this a viable option.
Vehicle fleets have either stopped growing or are growing very slowly in countries like Germany, France, Japan, and Canada. In many emerging economies, however, fleets continue to expand rapidly. The number of cars on China's roads skyrocketed from 3.8 million in 2000 to 43.2 million in 2011, and the country now has the third largest fleet in the world, after the United States and Japan. Russia's fleet grew from 20.4 million to 36.4 million during the same period of time. Brazil's fleet almost doubled, from 15.4 million to 27.4 million. India's nearly tripled, from 5.2 million to 14.2 million.
Higher fuel efficiency is needed to limit automobiles' contribution to air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. The current global average fuel consumption for all light-duty vehicles is 7.2 liters per 100 kilometers. The Global Fuel Economy Initiative aims for a 50 percent improvement by 2050, but current trends fall short of achieving this goal.
According to IHS Automotive, worldwide production of electric vehicles (battery electric and plug-in hybrids) has expanded from 13,866 in 2010 to 242,075 in 2013. The company forecasts production of slightly more than 403,000 vehicles in 2014, up 67 percent from 2013. The number of electric cars on the world's roads has increased from nearly 100,000 at the beginning of 2012 to 405,000 units at the start of 2014. Most of the cars are in the United States (174,000), Japan (68,000), and China (45,000).
Alternative vehicles are slowly making inroads, but they are not yet significantly altering the resource and environmental impacts of automobiles. As electric vehicles become more numerous, a critical issue will be the source of the electricity that they run on—will it be generated from fossil fuels or from renewable energy?
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Motorcycle Officers Hear Shots Fired While Children Play in Neighborhood
September 5th, 2012 by milwaukeepolice
Motorcycle Officers Jason Kotarak and John Kulmann were conducting follow up on a case on Aug. 23 in the 1300 block of W. Scott St. While talking to a person in the neighborhood, they heard several shots being fired.
They went towards the direction of the shots and saw a man attempting to stuff a firearm in his waistband. The suspect ran away and discarded two firearms in the process. With help of several alert citizens, officers were able to recover both firearms underneath an auto which was parked on the street. There were several young children playing in the immediate area who luckily weren't struck by any of the flying bullets. The citizens were able to point out the direction of travel of the suspect and he was taken into custody in the 1300 block of W. Greenfield Ave.
It's not unusual for officers to be right where these incident are occurring – they are in the neighborhoods, protecting the community and sharing the risks with their constant presence in some of the city's most challenged areas. Police cannot do it alone, and MPD is grateful for those citizens who welcome the opportunity to get involved to rid their neighborhoods of crime, fear and disorder. Great work!


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With the fun and spooky Halloween holiday coming up, there are some special considerations you should make with regard to decorations, costumes, props and more. Here are some simple tips from Allstate to ensure that you and your trick-or-treaters can live the good life this Halloween.
Take care, when using electronic props; overloading your outlets could potentially cause a fire.
Restrict your choice of costumes and decorations/props to flame resistant/retardant options.
If you decorate your front yard, steps or walkway, be sure to place items to reduce tripping risk for your trick-or-treaters.
Check labels on decorative props/paints to make sure they will not create permanent damage to your home or property.
Keep a working fire extinguisher on hand in case of an accidental fire.
Only use electrical decoration that has been tested by an independent lab (e.g., UL approved).
Recruit your neighbors and work with them to watch out for each other's homes.
Take time to wash residue from eggs on painted surfaces. The longer you leave them, the more permanent damage to cars or siding is likely.
Refrain from wearing poorly fitting costumes that make it difficult to walk; keep your balance.
Eliminate vandalism temptation by putting away outdoor valuables (grills, bikes, ornamentals, etc.)
Always remove masks/costumes that may impair your ability to see while driving.
Try using flashlights, glow sticks or battery powered candles instead of real candles, to reduce the risk of fire


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