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Beijing: China is holding a number of Taiwanese on suspicion of fraud, officials said after Taipei accused Beijing of "abducting" its citizens from Kenya and forcibly returning them to the Chinese mainland.
Taipei said this week that Beijing had "illegally" pressured authorities in Nairobi to deport eight of its citizens to the mainland after they had been cleared of fraud charges in Kenya, adding that a total of 37 other Taiwanese were also facing return.
The head of China's Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO) Zhang Zhijun informed Taipei about "a group of Taiwanese residents who are criminal suspects thought to have carried out electronic fraud and who have been detained by our public security agency", the official Xinhua news agency reported late Tuesday.
"Taiwanese suspected fraudsters are thought to have created a base overseas to defraud mainland people with increasing frequency... these criminals must be brought to justice," he added in the Xinhua report, which was posted on TAO's own website.
It did not specify the number or identity of those held, or make specific reference to Kenya or to any deportation.
China considers Taiwan a province of its own, which it will one day unify by force if necessary, even though the territory has ruled itself since 1949 following a civil war split.
Relations between the two have often been tense. Political and trade ties grew in the last decade under the leadership of the China-friendly Kuomintang (KMT), but the landslide election victory of independence-leaning Tsai Ying-wen in January's presidential poll raised fears that Beijing will take a more assertive stance.
China's President Xi Jinping met with Tsai's KMT predecessor Ma Ying-jeou last year for the first summit between the two sides since their 1949 split.
The meeting produced little of substance beyond the announcement of a telephone hotline between Beijing and Taipei. Xinhua said the hotline had been used to discuss the detained fraud suspects.
Taiwan said Wednesday that it had filed a suit against several top officials in Kenya for ignoring the court decision that cleared some of the suspects in the cyber scam case.
The officials "allowed Kenyan police to disrespect a court ruling, forcefully detaining our citizens for over 24 hours and illegally cooperating with mainland personnel to deport them to China," Taiwan's foreign ministry said in a written report to parliament.
Taiwanese authorities hoped to send a delegation of senior officials to China within two or three days to discuss the matter, said Andrew Hsia, head of Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council.
China resumed ties with former Taiwan ally Gambia last month, ending an unofficial diplomatic truce between the two sides. The African nation previously had relations with Taiwan.
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A man found floating face down in Preston Docks had drug problems and financial worries, an inquest heard.
But Coroner Simon Jones ruled there was no evidence 51-year-old Richard Porter had taken his own life on a bitterly cold January morning.
The upholsterer, who was on long-term sick leave from his job at Tetrad, left no note and, despite having talked about suicide in the past, had seemed positive about the future when he was assessed by a mental health nurse 10 days before his death. The hearing was told that Mr Porter, of St Mark's Road, Preston, was spotted in the water at breakfast-time on January 24. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Det Insp Keith Lee said there were no signs of violence to suggest anyone else had been involved. Despite a trawl of CCTV cameras in the vicinity there was no trace of him or how he came to be in the water.
Consultant pathologist Dr Mark Pitt, who carried out a post mortem examination, said death had been due to drowning and he could find no suspicious marks. Toxicology tests showed traces of five different types of pain killers and low level "illicit" heroin. But it was unlikely the drugs would have caused him to be disorientated.
Close friend Loretta Finch, of Clyde Street, Ashton, told the inquest that when she first met Mr Porter he "sort of had two lives."
She went on: "Monday to Friday when he was working he would go out with his friends and just have an odd drink in the pub. But he would lock off at the weekend and take heroin. But then things started going really badly for him. He got in a mess financially, bills were piling up on the sofa, things just got on top of him. He was getting really depressed and low, it was horrible to see. Things spiralled with the drugs.
"About a month before his death he talked about ending his life. But a couple of weeks later he came to a bit."
Coroner Jones said there were two possible causes - one that he had entered the water intending to kill himself and the other that he had slipped and fallen in. But there was no absolute evidence either way.

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Southern Illinois University Edwardsville students shared their passion for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) with students across the region this summer, laying the foundation for student learning in rapidly advancing STEM fields.
The students spread their knowledge by participating in STEM-related internships through the SIUE Robert J. Noyce Scholarship Science and Math Grants. They will present their experiences and accomplishments at the second annual Noyce Summer Internship Showcase in SIUE's Morris University Center, Meeting Room A from 11 a.m.–1 p.m. Friday, Sept. 25.
The grants are funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and provide 14 $2,500 summer internships for 200 hours of in-service training for qualified SIUE freshmen and sophomores, and local community college students who are interested in STEM careers. The internships are coordinated through the SIUE STEM Center.
"Our 2015 internship sites included SIUE Science Odyssey, Engineering and Healthcare Camps, Edwardsville School District 7 Summer Zone, East St. Louis Center Upward Bound, Adler Planetarium, Lincoln Memorial Gardens & Nature Center, Saint Louis Science Center and Elite Scholars," said Sharon Locke, director of the SIUE STEM Center.
"Science is about discovery and curiosity! Our students are motivated to teach K-12 students that science is fun. The goal of these summer programs was to build interest in STEM fields by offering younger students creative and interactive activities. The internships also provided SIUE students with an opportunity to share their love of science through teaching."
Noyce intern Valerie Becker, an SIUE sophomore physics major, participated in an astronomy camp in Mascoutah, District 7 Summer Zone and SIUE's engineering camp.
"Ever since I was a child, I've always asked 'why' to everything," Becker said. "My participation in these programs was a continuation of my adventurous wonderment. I loved seeing students find new discoveries and breakthroughs, and get excited about learning."
"I was able to develop lesson plans, organize activities and manage supplies for the camps I participated in," she continued. "Critical thinking and problem solving are a key part of life, and that's what STEM topics encourage."
Fellow intern Gabriel Msengi, a junior biochemistry major, aspires to conduct research in the healthcare field and work on drug synthesis. He participated in District 7 Summer Zone, teaching lessons on topics such as buoyancy, robotics, predators and prey, and the five senses.
"I wanted to show students that there is more to science than crazy math," Msengi said. "There is science in every day life, whether it be looking at a crime scene or exploring the five senses.
"There are so many advancements in the STEM fields. The more people focus and study these subjects, the more doors will open and progress will be made."
Photo: Students explore and discover using telescopes at Astronomy Camp in Mascoutah.
Participating Noyce interns in District 7 Summer Zone (L-R) Aaron Morris, Gabriel Msengi, Deanna Grant, Robert Mueller, Valerie Becker and Gretchen Werner pose with Noyce intern coordinator Elisabeth Knierim.


text: The Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference Multi-Event Championships was pushed back one day, but the athletes still pulled off some solid marks on Monday. The competition was scheduled for Sunday and Monday. Due to weather it was moved to Monday and will conclude today at Swisher Field. Leading the men's decathlon is Zac Preble of Bemidji State University with 3,464 points. "Zac's marks are probably ahead of where he was and he is ranked sixth in the nation right now," Northern State track coach Jim Fuller said, "and he is ahead of where he was when he got that score." Ashley Roemer of Minnesota State-Moorhead is leading the women's heptathlon with 2,869 points after day one. "Roemer first day score that is pretty big," Fuller said. "She is really solid right now. She is looking at a national qualifying mark right now. So that is real good." Tommy Crummy also of Bemidji State is sitting second after the first day in the men's decathlon. Crummy has 3,125 points, Jon Dickey of Wayne State College is third with 3,060 points. Brady Lesnar of Northern State is well within striking distance after day one. Lesnar is tied for fourth place with Cody Bendickson of Minnesota State Moorhead. Both athletes have 2,985 points. "Brady had a pretty decent day. He really had one thing he would have liked to correct," Fuller said. "He fouled on a pretty good long jump that he would have liked to have and did not get credit for that." Rhegy Gehlo of Bemidji State is sixth, followed by Brian Schiller of the University of Mary and Cody Hageman of Northern State. Hageman has totalled 2,643 points after day one. "Cody competed the last two events in indoor (season) on a stress fracture so he had eight weeks off," Fuller said. "Last week was his first meet. So he is just really coming back into it and yet at times he looked very good. He had some high jumps that looked pretty solid and he a long jump that looked pretty good that he fouled on, too." Mickey Polley of Concordia-St. Paul is in ninth place with 2,264 points. The decathlon has 10 events. The 100-meter dash, long jump, shot put, high jump and the 400-meter dash took place on Monday. Today, the remaining five events include the 110-meter hurdles, discus, pole vault, javelin and 1,500-meter run. "Brady has to be consistent. He has to run through his hurdle race," Fuller said. "He can throw, he can vault and has to be positive about the 1,500-meter run. It is not his favorite event - he just has to be positive about it. "(Cody) has got some pretty good events (today). He is a big pole vaulter, he can throw the discus, he can throw the javelin. He will run his guts out in the 1,500. If he can survive those hurdles he will fight his way in there for a place. I know he will." Women's division: After Roemer, Brianna Perry is sitting second with 2,633 points in the women's heptathlon. Jade Lippman of Wayne State College is third followed by Kaitlyn Jensen of Winona State, Ashley Grammens of Mary, Rebecca Hougen of Bemidji State. Tanya Vassar and Laura Smith both of Northern State are seventh and eighth respectively. Vassar has 2,257 points and Smith has 2,220 points. "Laura had surgery between indoor and outdoor," Fuller said, "and take five weeks off from training and you are not quite as crisp as she would want to be. She did not have great marks in anything, but she did not have disasters either; and, actually, her 200-meter dash that is one of the better 200s she has run. She is fit, but I think technically she is not quite perfect yet." Alyssa Lammers of Winona State and Pearl Walker of Bemidji State University round out the field. Lammers is sitting ninth and Walker is 10th. The heptathlon has seven events. The 100-meter hurdles, high jump, shot put and 200-meter dash took place on Monday. The women will finish their competition with the long jump, javelin throw and 800-meter run today. Fuller said his women athletes could make a jump in the standings today. "They are both pretty good javelin throwers and they are both pretty good 800-meter runners," Fuller said. "I don't think either of them enjoy the 800, but they are both pretty good at it. So I would say two of their three events they are pretty good at. Tanya has shown some improvements in the long jump. So I know she is looking forward to jumping." The NSIC Multi-Event will conclude today at Swisher Field with the men's decathlon starting at 10 a.m. and the women's heptathlon starting at 10:30 a.m. WOMEN'S HEPTATHLON 1, Ashley Roemer, MSU-Moorhead, 2,869 points: 100-meter hurdles, :15.89, 728 points; high jump, 5-8 , 903 points; shot put, 31-3 , 499 points; 200-meter dash, :26.68, 739 points. 2, Brianna Perry, University of Mary, 2,633 points: 100-meter hurdles, :15.47, 781 points; high jump, 5-1 , 689 points; shot put, 30-8 , 487 points; 200-meter dash, :27.43, 676 points. 3, Jade Lippman, Wayne State College, 2,556 points: 100-meter hurdles, :16.25, 684 points; high jump, 5-1 , 689 points; shot put, 30-8 , 488 points; 200-meter dash, :27.20, 695 points. 4, Kaitlyn Jensen, Winona State, 2,429 points: 100-meter hurdles, :16.10, 702 points; high jump, 4-11, 621 points; shot put, 28-11 , 453 points; 200-meter dash, :27.72, 653 points. 5, Ashley Grammens, University of Mary, 2,378 points: 100-meter hurdles, :17.69, 521 points; high jump, 5-2 , 724 points; shot put, 31-3, 498 points; 200-meter dash, :27.95, 635 points. 6, Rebecca Hougen, Bemidji State, 2,292 points: 100-meter hurdles, :15.95, 720 points; high jump, 4-7 , 523 points; shot put, 27-4, 421 points; 200-meter dash, :28.04, 628 points. 7, Tanya Vassar, Northern State, 2,257 points: 100-meter hurdles, :16.92, 606 points; high jump, 5-0 , 655 points; shot put, 29-3 , 459 points; 200-meter dash, :29.23, 537 points. 8, Laura Smith, Northern State, 2,220 points: 100-meter hurdles, :17.24, 570 points; high jump, 4-11, 621 points; shot put, 29-5 , 462 points; 200-meter dash, :28.83, 567 points. 9, Alyssa Lammers, Winona State, 1,956 points: 100-meter hurdles, :18.51, 437 points; high jump, 4-11, 621 points; shot put, 21-10 , 313 points; 200-meter dash, :28.59, 585 points. 10, Pearl Walker, Bemidji State, 1,836 points: 100-meter hurdles, :17.86, 503 points; high jump, 4-2 , 399 points; shot put, 25-2, 378 points; 200-meter dash, :28.97, 556 points. MEN'S DECATHLON 1, Zac Preble, Bemidji State, 3,464 points: 100-meter dash, :11.44, 765 points; long jump, 20-5 , 637 points; shot put, 46-10 , 746 points; high jump, 5-8, 569 points; 400-meter dash, :51.50, 747 points. 2, Tommy Crummy, Bemidji State, 3,125 points: 100-meter dash, :11.43, 767 points; long jump, 20-10 , 666 points; shot put, 30-10 , 450 points; high jump, 6-0 , 670 points; 400-meter dash, :55.68, 572 points. 3, Jon Dickey, Wayne State College, 3,060 points: 100-meter dash, :11.75, 701 points; long jump, 18-8 , 523 points; shot put, 34-11, 524 points; high jump, 5-11 , 644 points; 400-meter dash, :53.32, 668 points. 4, Brady Lesnar, Northern State, 2,985 points: 100-meter dash, :11.84, 683 points; long jump, 19-2 , 556 points; shot put, 36-3, 549 points; high jump, 5-9 , 593 points; 400-meter dash, :54.86, 604 points. 4, Cody Bendickson, MSU-Moorhead, 2,985 points: 100-meter dash, :12.11, 629 points; long jump, 19-5 , 569 points; shot put, 34-5, 515 points; high jump, 5-11 , 644 points; 400-meter dash, :54.29, 628 points. 6, Rhegy Gehlo, Bemidji State, 2,870 points: 100-meter dash, :11.73, 705 points; long jump, 17-8, 457 points; shot put, 38-5 , 589 points; high jump, 5-2 , 449 points; 400-meter dash, :53.27, 670 points. 7, Brian Schiller, University of Mary, 2,850 points: 100-meter dash, :11.72, 707 points; long jump, 19-2 , 556 points; shot put, 28-0, 398 points; high jump, 5-9 , 593 points; 400-meter dash, :55.07, 596 points. 8, Cody Hageman, Northern State, 2,643 points: 100-meter dash, :12.31, 591 points; long jump, 18-1, 483 points; shot put, 34-5, 515 points; high jump, 5-7, 544 points; 400-meter dash, :57.28, 510 points. 9, Mickey Polley, Concordia-St. Paul, 2,264 points: 100-meter dash, :12.51, 554 points; long jump, 16-7 , 396 points; shot put, 30-6 , 444 points; high jump, 4-11 , 404 points; 400-meter dash, :58.50, 466 points.


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Clermont Auvergne are one of the most formidable sides in this season's Champions Cup.
Boasting a proud home record that has seen them remain unbeaten in Europe since Sale won there in 2008, Les Jaunards are the toughest of nuts to crack.
But that is the task that awaits Saints on Saturday, as Jim Mallinder's men look to make the semi-finals.
And we thought we'd find out exactly what they can expect, with France-based rugby writer Gavin Mortimer giving us the low-down on this weekend's imposing opposition.
Firstly, Gavin, how have Clermont been shaping up for this weekend's clash?
"I wouldn't read too much into the loss at the weekend, when they were beaten 40-26 by Stade Francais.
"They clearly didn't have their game head on because they've got the best defence in the Top 14 this season, conceding 24 tries in 20 games before the loss to Stade.
"Clermont are unlike other French teams in that they are very focused on winning in Europe. A lot of other clubs and supporters see the Top 14 as the be-all and end-all, but Clermont aren't like that.
"They are going to be very focused on Northampton and the fact Northampton have so many well known players, England players, will add motivation for them. That will be a big factor."
Will injuries to key men affect Clermont?
"The fact that Camille Lopez is out is a blow, and Wesley Fofana is said to be out as well. They are two big blows for Clermont.
"Lopez playing for France is completely different to Lopez playing for Clermont. He lacks the confidence at international level but he's going to be a big loss for Clermont.
"Parra is another who is out but if you look at their squad, they've got so much strength in depth."
Who is the key man?
"Former Bath full-back Nick Abendanon is one of those players who has really taken to French rugby. Some don't. They never really adjust to the differences and there are a lot of differences, in playing and lifestyle.
"But Abendanon, who is an intelligent guy, has taken to it and he seems happy in the way he is playing.
"He's very important to Clermont because he gives them incursions into the line not only adding unpredictability to the backline but also another authority.
"The fact that he's playing so well compensates for the loss of Lopez and Parra."
Is there a lot of pressure on Clermont shoulders after three near misses?
"There probably is, but not so much by their own media. The French media is strange and it doesn't attach as much importance to the Champions Cup.
"It's not being billed the way it is in the UK in the French press so that will help them.
"The fans obviously want them to win and the fact it's England, it's Courtney Lawes, it's Dylan Hartley, makes a difference.
"In the Clermont paper, La Montagne, they previewed the match and they picked out their four key players.
"They call Dylan Hartley a big mouth, who is a great player but sometimes goes ballistic.
"Then there's Courtney Lawes, who they describe as a self-styled bad boy, and Samu Manoa and Luther Burrell.
"Some French are still seething about Courtney Lawes's tackle on Jules Plisson at Twickenham and that will whip the crowd up.
"There's going to be a wonderful atmosphere and you've got - with the greatest respect to Tigers fans - Saints and Clermont as the two most passionate sets of fans in their respective countries.
"At Clermont, the fans are very knowledgable and they never turn on their own team, they support them all the way.
"The crowd factor is something Northampton will have to be aware of."
Are they wary of Saints' pedigree?
"They got absolutely stuffed by Saracens in the semi-finals last season and it prompted them to change their defence from a drift defence to a rush defence.
"It's much more organised and there may have been complacency against Saracens last season. They know about Leicester, but maybe not so much about Saracens.
"They know about Northampton, though, and you just have to look at the Saints team to see the class in there.
"They know what to expect and they know it will be a huge physical battle. That's the key area and the likes of Benjamin Kayser and Vincent Debaty will be a tough front row.
"Set piece will be key and Clermont are quietly confident they can win, but they won't be underestimating Northampton.
What are the chances of a Saints win?
"I have to say it's slim.
"It's slim because of the intimidating atmosphere that is going to be down there and it's slim because Clermont have got a very formidable pack.
"But if Northampton can match them up front and the first 15 minutes are going to be crucial because Clermont will be so pumped up.
"The French come out absolutely wild and if they can handle the first 15 minutes and sew seeds of doubt in the Clermont minds about the loss of Parra and Lopez, they've got a chance.
"I would say it's a slim chance, but were I a betting man I'd put a fiver on them to win it.
"It's certainly not impossible."


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Fish oil makes me smarter. Key chart from my talk at last night's Seattle #quantifiedself (thanks Seth Roberts RIP) pic.twitter.com/FgPaDx6BPi
— Richard Sprague (@sprague) January 27, 2015
Richard Sprague is interested in understanding peak performance. Over the last few years he's been tracking various aspects of this life to try and understand what helps and what hinders. Inspired by our friend and renowned self-experimenter, Seth Roberts, Richard decided to test if consuming fish oil affected his response time. Using a simple reaction time test developed by Seth to test if butter made him smarter, Richard tested himself when he was and was not taking fish oil pills. In this talk, Richard explores his data and discusses what he found out when he ran his analysis.
My friend Seth Roberts, pioneering self-experimenter and personal scientist, died last Saturday. Seth's sister Amy, made the announcement yesterday on his blog. The news was unexpected and very sad. A few things Seth taught me:
Seth's contributions as a colleague and teacher had many dimensions, but in thinking about him nonstop this morning what I find myself marveling at most is the unusual style he had in nearly every conversation. Seth became interested when he saw somebody thinking independently and, like the best teachers, he wanted to understand the process by which students and collaborators developed confidence their conjectures. Countless times, I heard Seth ask somebody "Why do you think that?" His challenge was direct and generous, for if you were willing to expose your reasons you could count on him to apply himself alongside you, thinking up ways to improve your investigation, make your measurements more practical, or give your analysis more logical or mathematical power. Seth was acutely aware that confidence in experimental results requires investment. More than any other experimentalist I've known, Seth respected the incremental nature of building confidence in our ideas and finding new ideas worthy of confidence. He encouraged us to do small experiments first, to find easier ways to collect data, and to avoid being tripped up at the outset by grandiose schemes of irrefutability.
We'll collect and share some more impressions and memories of our friend and collaborator when the shock of this news lessens, but in the meantime I want to post a video of one of the talks he gave a few years ago about how to design personal experiments.
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In Richard Sprague's post from today, linked directly above, there is this passage:
I found his blog, and discovered that he was living near me in Beijing. A famous professor like him – a New York Times bestselling author and all that – might be hard to get ahold of, but one day out of the blue I sent Seth an email, wondering if he'd like to get together for lunch. He replied in minutes and said sure, how about tomorrow?
That's Seth exactly.
I have blogged many times about biohacker Tara Grant's discovery that she slept much better if she took Vitamin D3 in the morning rather than later. Many people reported similar experiences, with a few exceptions. Lots of professional research has studied Vitamin D3 but the researchers appear to have no idea of this effect. They don't control the time of day that subjects take D3 and don't measure sleep. If the time of day of Vitamin D3 makes a big difference, measuring Vitamin D3 status via blood levels makes no sense. Quite likely other benefits of Vitamin D3 require taking it at the right time of day. Taking Vitamin D3 at a bad time of day could easily produce the same blood level as taking it at a good time of day.
I too had no idea of the effect that Grant discovered. I had taken Vitamin D3 several times — never in the morning — but after noticing no change stopped. I tested Grant's discovery by taking Vitamin D3 at 8 or 9 am. First, taking it at 8 am, I gradually increased the dose from 2000 IU to 8000 IU. Then I shifted the time to 9 am. The experiment ended earlier than I would have liked because I had to fly to San Francisco.
When I woke up in the morning I rated how rested I felt on a 0-100 scale, where 0 = not rested at all and 100 = completely rested. I'd been using this scale for years. Here are the results (means and standard errors):
Vitamin D3 had a clear effect, but the necessary dose was more than 2000 IU. If Vitamin D3 acts like sunlight, you might think that taking it in the morning would make me wake up earlier. Here are the results for the time I woke up:
There was no clear effect of dosage on when I got up. Shifting the time from 8 am to 9 am may have had an effect (I wish I had 3 more days at 9 am).
Many people have reported that taking Vitamin D3 in the morning gave them more energy during the day. I usually take a nap in the early afternoon so I measured its effect on the length of those naps:
Maybe my naps were shorter with 6000 and 8000 IU at 8 am. It's interesting that 4000 IU seemed to be enough to improve how rested how I felt but not enough to shorten my naps.
What do these results add to what we already know? First, the large-enough dose was more than 2000 IU. (A $22 million study of Vitamin D3 is using a dose of 2000 IU.) The dose needed to get more afternoon energy may be more than 4000 IU. Second, careful experimentation and records helped, even though many people found the effect so large it was easy to notice without doing anything special. For example, these results suggest the minimum dose you need to get the effect. Three, these support the value of supplements. Many people say it is better to get necessary nutrients from food rather than supplements. However, supplements allow much better control of dosage and timing and these results suggest that small changes in both can matter. I cannot imagine this effect being discovered with Vitamin D3 in food.
Note from Alex: Gwern Branwen also sent in this detailed post on Vitamin D and sleep.
I measure my arithmetic speed (how fast I do simple arithmetic problems, such as 3+ 4) daily. I assume it reflects overall brain function. I assume something that improves brain function will make me faster at arithmetic.
Two years ago I discovered that butter — more precisely, substitution of butter for pork fat — made me faster. This raised the question: how much is best? For a long time I ate 60 g of butter (= 4 tablespoons = half a stick) per day. Was that optimal? I couldn't easily eat more but I could easily eat less.
To find out, I did an experiment. At first I continued my usual intake (60 g /day). Then I ate 30 g/day for several days. Finally I returned to 60 g/day. Here are the main results:
The graph shows that when I switched to 30 g/day, I became slower. When I resumed 60 g/day, I became faster. Comparing the 30 g/day results with the combination of earlier and later 60 g/day results, t = 6, p = 0.000001.
The amount of butter also affected my error rate. Less butter, less errors:
Comparing the 30 g/day results with the combination of earlier and later 60 g/day results, t = 3, p = 0.006.
The change in error rates raised the possibility that the speed changes were due to movement along a speed-accuracy tradeoff function (rather than to genuine improvement, which would correspond to a shift in the function). To assess this idea, I plotted speed versus accuracy (each point a different day).
If differences between conditions were due to differences in speed-accuracy tradeoff, then the points for different days should lie along a single downward-sloping line. They don't. They don't lie along a single line. Within conditions, there was no sign of a speed-accuracy tradeoff (the fitted lines do not slope downward). If this is confusing, look at the points with accuracy values in the middle. Even when equated for accuracy, there are differences between the 30 g/day phase and the 60 g/day phases.
What did I learn?
1. How much butter is best. Before these results, I had no reason to think 60 g/day was better than 30 g/day. Now I do.
2. Speed of change. Environmental changes may take months or years to have their full effect. Something that makes your bones stronger may take months or years to be fully effective. Here, however, changes in butter intake seemed to have their full effect within a day. I noticed the same speed of change with pork fat and sleep: How much pork fat I ate during a single day affected my sleep that night (and only that night). With omega-3, the changes were somewhat slower. A day without it made little difference. You can go weeks without Vitamin C before you get scurvy. Because of the speed of the butter change, in the future I can do better balanced experiments that change conditions more often.
3. Better experimental design. An experiment that compares 60 g/day and 0 g/day probably varies many things besides butter consumption (e.g., preparing the butter to eat it). An experiment that compares 60 g/day and 30 g/day is less confounded. When I ate less butter, I ate more of other food. Compared to a 60 g/0 g experiment, this experiment (60 g/30 g) has less variation in other food. Another sort of experiment, neither better nor worse, would vary type of fat rather than amount. For example, replace 30 g of butter with 30 g of olive oil. Because the effect of eliminating 30 g/day of butter was clear, replacement experiments become more interesting — 30 g/day olive oil is more plausible as a sustainable and healthy amount than 60 g/day.
4. Generality. This experiment used cheaper butter and took place in a different context than the original discovery. I discovered the effect of butter using Straus Family Creamery butter. "One of the top premium butters in America, " says its website, quoting Food & Wine magazine This experiment used a cheaper less-lauded butter (Land O'Lakes). Likewise, I discovered the effect in Berkeley. I did this experiment in Beijing. My Beijing life differs in a thousand ways from my Berkeley life.
The results suggest the value of self-experimentation, of course. Self-experimentation made this study much easier. But other things also mattered.
First, reaction-time methodology. In the 1960s my friend and co-author Saul Sternberg, a professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, introduced better-designed reaction-time experiments to study cognition. They turned out to be far more sensitive than the usual methods, which involved measuring percent correct. (Saul's methodological advice about these experiments.)
Second, personal science (science done to help yourself). I benefited from the results. Normal science is part of a job. The self-experimentation described in books was mostly (or entirely) done as part of a job. Before I collected this data, I put considerable work into these measurements. I discovered the effect of butter in an unusual way (measuring myself day after day), I tried a variety of tasks (I started by measuring balance), I refined the data analysis, and so on. Because I benefited personally, this was easy.
Third, technological advances. Twenty years ago this experiment would have been more difficult. I collected this data outside of a lab using cheap equipment (a Thinkpad laptop running Windows XP). I collected and analyzed the data with R (free). A smart high school student could do what I did.
There is more to learn. The outlier in the speed data (one day was unusually fast) means there can be considerable improvement for a reason I don't understand.
In 1996, I accidentally discovered that if I stood a lot I slept better. If I stood 9 hours or more, I woke up feeling incredibly rested. Yet to get any improvement I had to stand at least 8 hours. That wasn't easy, and after about 9 hours of standing my feet would start to hurt. I stopped standing that much. It was fascinating but not practical.
In 2008, I accidentally discovered that one-legged standing could produce the same effect. If I stood on one leg "to exhaustion" — until it hurt too much to continue — a few times, I woke up feeling more rested, just as had happened when I stood eight hours or more. At first I stood with my leg straight but after a while my legs got so strong it took too long. When I started standing on one bent leg, I could get exhausted in a reasonable length of time (say, 8 minutes), even after many days of doing it.
This was practical. I've been doing it ever since I discovered it. A few months ago I decided to try to learn more about the details. I was doing it every day — why not vary what I did and learn more?
One thing I wanted to learn was: how much was best? I would usually do two (one left leg, one right leg) or four (two left leg, two right leg). Was four better than two? What about three?
I decided to do something relatively sophisticated (for me): a randomized experiment. Every morning I would do two stands (one left, one right). In the evening I would randomly choose between zero, one, and two additional one-legged stands. Sometimes I forgot to choose. Here are the results for three sets of days: (a) "baseline" days (baseline(2), baseline(3), baseline(4)) before the randomized experiment and during the experiment when I forgot and (b) the "random" days (random 2, random 3, random 4) when I randomly choose and (c) a later set of days ("baseline 4″) when I did four one-legged stands every day.
Each morning, when I woke up I rated how rested I felt on a scale where 0 = not rested at all (as tired as when I went to sleep), and 100 = completely rested, not tired at all.
This shows means and standard errors. The number of days in each condition are on the right.
The main results are that three was better than two and four was better than three. The three/four difference was large enough compared to the two/four difference to suggest that five might be better than four. The similarity between random 4 and baseline 4 means that the amount of one-legged standing on previous days doesn't matter much. For example, on Monday night it doesn't matter how much I stood on Sunday.
A month ago I posted this graph, which shows how long I needed to type the answer to simple arithmetic problems (7-5, 4*1, 9+0). I tested myself with about 40 problems once or twice per day. Because I'd been doing this for a long time, I no longer improved due to practice. Then, at the end of July 2010, I started improving again.
In September I moved from Berkeley to Beijing. I was worried that in Beijing my scores would get worse. Perhaps I couldn't get good flaxseed oil or butter. Maybe I would suffer from the air pollution. Maybe I would eat contaminated food. But my scores got better in Beijing.
In November I learned about benefits of cold showers. So I tried them. I took cold showers that lasted about 5 minutes. I liked the most obvious effect (less sensitivity to cold).
Maybe a bigger "dose" would produce a bigger effect. Maybe the mood improvement cold showers were said to cause would be clearer. So I increased the "dose" in two ways: (a) more water flow (I stopped holes in the shower head) and (b) lower water temperature. After a week or so with the stronger dose, I saw I was gaining weight. It could be the cold showers, I thought. Fat acts as insulation and I couldn't think of another plausible explanation. So I went from cold showers back to warm showers (48 degrees C.) — this time with greater water flow. My warm showers were 5-10 minutes long.
I began to lose weight, suggesting that the cold water did cause weight gain. More surprising was that my arithmetic speed (time to do simple arithmetic, such as 7-3, 8*4) began to decrease. Here is a graph of the results.
Update: 10/19/10 – Study is now open to users at http://genomera.com/studies/butter-mind
Will eating one of these fats improve your math performance? Based on Seth Roberts' butter and math
study, recently presented at a Bay Area Quantified
Self Show & Tell, during which Seth ate half a stick of butter each day and performed better in math, we expect the answer to be yes.
Seth was able to reduce his time by 30 milliseconds. Will others who try a similar experiment experience the same change?
In the Butter Mind study, to be run from October 23 – November 12, I will test the hypothesis that butter improves math performance. (note: there has been a slight shift in the dates.)
This study is meant to
mimic Seth Robert's study, with the addition of a coconut oil group.
Many thanks to Seth for his advice and help getting this started!
Why the addition coconut oil? I have a pet theory that the cognitive enhancement Seth received may be from the high concentration of Medium Chain Triglycerides in butter, also present in coconut oil, which has been linked to positive effects on those with Alzheimer's Syndrome. Seth has not tried coconut oil, so cannot report on its effects on his math scores.
Obviously, no study is perfect – and this one is no exception! It's a test I was interested in trying myself after seeing Seth's presentation — but I realized it would be far more fun and interesting to include others! This will be fun for me, and I hope for you, too. At the very least, will get data from a group over a 21-day period, but we may even get a few curious surprises.
I am currently looking for Butter Mind participants, who will perform a math test daily for 21 days and be in one of the following groups: butter eaters, coconut oil eaters, and controls, who will eat no additional fat but will perform the same math test as the fat-eaters.
To qualify for the study, you must be willing to eat 4TBS of butter or coconut oil (sticking to the same one) – or nothing extra – for 7 days and do a 32 problem simple math test for 21 days. You must have access to the internet to submit your scores.
Study details:
- Participants
will be randomly selected to be in the Butter, Coconut Oil, or Control group
- Participants will be responsible for purchasing butter or coconut oil, if in either of those groups
- The study
will take place for 21 days: from Oct 23 – Nov 12
- The
study will be divided into 3 sets of 7 days
o Part I. Oct 23 – 29: Perform simple
math quiz daily + No additional
o Part II. Oct 30 – Nov 5: "Fat." Perform simple
math quiz daily + Butter OR
Coconut Oil. For Controls, just the quiz.
o Part III. Nov 6 – 12: Perform simple
math quiz daily + No additional
- Non-control participants
will ingest 4 Tablespoons of either
Butter or Coconut Oil during the "Fat" portion of the study
- Participants
will be asked to share lifestyle information before the study and asked to join an online group to track their data. Extra sharing (thoughts, epiphanies) is encouraged but optional.
Additional details:
- Results
will statistically analyzed, hacked and visualized (and new studies brainstormed) during Science
Hack Day, November 13-14, Institute
for the Future. www.sciencehackday.com. You can join for the Science Hack Day portion only by registering here.
- New
results will be posted to the QS blog throughout the study
- Interested participants will receive a form requesting data on lifestyle factors several days before the study begins. I will update this post with a link to the form when it is ready.
For more information
or to join, send an email with "Butter Mind" in the subject line to:
Eri Gentry: email@example.com
Twitter: @erigentry
Eri is co-founder of BioCurious, Citizen Science guest author at the Make mag blog, and is happiest when she gets to be a guinea pig. Eri hasn't eaten butter in 8 years but will try it (or anything) for a better mind.
At the last Bay Area Quantified Self Show&Tell, Seth Roberts presented new findings on his "Arithmetic and Butter" experiment. Seth does arithmetic problems every morning as a measure of his brain function. He found that eating half a stick of butter every day shaved 30 milliseconds off his time to solve the problems. Does butter improve brain function, or is Seth endangering his life, as a cardiologist in the audience worried? Catch the excitement in the video below.
Seth Roberts from Gary Wolf on Vimeo.
This is a guest blog post from Seth Roberts. Thanks Seth!


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Blood Mortized are a band from Sweden that consists of many veterans from the death metal scene that plays a very old school style of Swedish death metal and this is a review of their 2011 album "Bestial" which was released by Chaos Records.
Drums range from slow, mid paced to fast drumming with a good amount of blast beats being thrown in, while the bass playing has a very dark tone with riffs that follow the riffing that is coming out of the guitars.
Rhythm guitars range from slow, mid paced to fast Swedish style death metal riffs that have the early 90's feeling to them as well as producing some dark sounding melodies, while the lead guitars are very chaotic and melodic sounding death metal guitar solos and leads.
Vocals are mostly deep death metal growls mixed in with some high pitched screams, spoken word parts and samples, while the lyrics cover death and gore themes, as for the production it has a very heavy and powerful sounds in the 90's death metal style.
In my opinion Blood Mortized are a very great sounding classic style Swedish death metal band and if you are a fan of this style, you should check out this band. RECEMMONDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Bestial" and "Shadow Of The Quarter Sun". RECEMMONDED BUY.


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The Cat Mouse from Japan
by Edwin
A Cat Mouse sounds like an oxymoron, but only in Japan can you find such an interesting computer peripheral. Actbrise has released a cat that is actually a computer mouse, and it has a design that leans more towards the joystick than everyone's favorite pointing peripheral. Tilt the cat left and the pointer will move accordingly. A quartet of buttons on the back cater for normal clicks and scrolling purposes. It relies on a wired USB connection to work and retails for $70 each. Why so expensive, you ask? For starters, it is handmade by skilled craftsmen, and anything crafted out of hand normally carries a premium price tag.
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I was pondering about this earlier today. Wondering how I would invoke an Ant task that used nested text data using Groovy Ant. Why? Because I looked at the Ant script task while browsing Ant docs and said, "Hmm. that'd be neat to embed a script in a GroovyAnt build… but how do I pass text?" Well it just dawned on me that the random errors I'd been getting with Groovy's AntBuilder exposed the answer. Occasionally I'll forget to prefix a task attribute with an attribute name like:
ant.available(property:'menu.icon.found', '/menu.png', classpath:'target/MapQuestCoolStuff.jar')
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Sep 14, 2017, 19:17 ET
SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 14, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Extra Space Storage Inc. (the "Company") (NYSE: EXR) announced today that 219 stores totaling approximately 20 million net rentable square feet and approximately 173,000 units have been reopened in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina. However, for the safety of our customers and our employees, eight properties totaling approximately 575,000 net rentable square feet and approximately 6,200 units remain temporarily closed due to impact related to Hurricane Irma. Three of the eight closed stores are owned by the Company and the other five are managed on behalf of third-party owners. Conditions at the closed properties are being evaluated for safety and accessibility due to damage and/or power loss. These eight stores will be opened as soon as they are safe and operable. Rent credits to customers' accounts will be made on a case by case basis depending on the level of interruption at the various locations.
For the month of September, Extra Space Storage will be providing the first month of rent free on new rentals in the state of Florida. "We are pleased to report that all of our employees are accounted for and safe," stated Joe Margolis, CEO of Extra Space Storage. "Our thoughts are with the millions of people impacted by Hurricane Irma, and we hope we can help our customers solve a problem and get to a better tomorrow." The Company will pay its employees in the impacted areas for the time their stores were closed.
About Extra Space Storage Inc.
Extra Space Storage Inc., headquartered in Salt Lake City, is a fully integrated, self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust, and a member of the S&P 500. As of June 30, 2017, the Company owned and/or operated 1,470 self-storage properties in 38 states, Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico. The Company's properties comprise approximately one million units and approximately 111 million square feet of rentable storage space offering customers conveniently located and secure storage units across the country, including boat storage, RV storage and business storage. The Company is the second largest owner and/or operator of self-storage properties in the United States and is the largest self-storage management company in the United States.
For more information, please visit www.extraspace.com.
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Money Matters: Holiday Shopping (Food and Gifts)
The holidays are around the corner and I thought that I would write this article to offer some tips to the consumers on ways to save money, save time, and put more joy in the reason for the season. Holiday festivities are not limited to any one nationality or religion. Our holidays feature celebrations of Hanukkah, Kwanzaa as well as Christmas. There is no intention in this discussion to offend anyone. I would like to wish each member a happy holiday, regardless of which holiday is celebrated. Further I wish to apologize to anyone who may feel that Diabetic Connect is not an appropriate place for discussion of money and holidays. In my opinion, it's a perfect place because stress of finances and holidays can (and usually will) affect ones glucose levels, emotions, and energy.
The central key points of my discussion here are to plan ahead (menu, budget, gift lists) and planning to reduce costs with comparison shopping, discount codes and alternative merchants. I would also like to present some gift ideas that are more personal than gift cards or cash.
One of the ways that my wife and I plan ahead for holidays (ironically these dates are on the calendar every year at the same time yet many people don't even think about them until a few days or weeks before the events) is by using a holiday savings account, which are available at many banks or credit unions. With some plans you can save a little through the year instead of tapping the budget or feeding the credit card companies with more profits. We also make out our holiday gift and menu lists far in advance and begin purchasing non-perishable foods in advance. Since the dates won't change, why should the mood?
Did you know there are various online shopping assistant websites that will help you compare pricing on products among vendors? I will list a few here in no special order. www.mysimon.com, www.froogle.com, www.shopping.com, www.bottomdollar.com. If you enter a keyword or make/model of an item, you'll find significant price differences. Always, always check out unfamiliar merchants. The old saying that if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
Looking for unique stocking stuffers? Check out the healthier low-carb product versions at www.netrition.com and www.vitacost.com.
Consider personalized items online or from places like Walgreens. One of the most creative gifts I ever gave was a personalized calendar with photos of our cats to their Mommy. Imagine how special a t shirt or other imprinted item would be received for those hard-to-buy-for recipients? (Note: order in advance. There are waiting times)
Think about making and sharing your own memory books or recipe books with family and friends if money is tight. The best gifts do not always have to cost a bundle of money. There are more treasures in your heart than in your wallets. Don't focus on what you can't do. Focus on what you can do. Even an IOU for quality time is priceless compared to a product or service you cannot afford.
Another suggestion is to check out the many online product review websites out there on the internet. Sometimes it is as easy as using google to rate products or merchants while other times you may wish to thoroughly research these factors on such websites as www.bizrate.com, www.cnet.com, or www.epinions.com.
Before making a final decision on an item, check out one or more of the various coupon code websites online. Such examples (and more are on google) include www.retailmenot.com, www.currentcodes.com, or www. couponcabin.com. (note: I have not checked out each of these personally)
Unless you have spent the past ten or more years in a cave you have probably heard of Ebay. I have successfully bought and sold many products through this well-known website auction business but there are other auction sites worth browsing for new (or rare) products. I have purchased items from www.ubid.com, www.overstock.com, and www.onsale.com. A search through google for "online auctions" will bring up other auction sites for you to investigate. Again my disclaimer to check out any unfamiliar sites and to remember the "too good to be true" words I shared above.
There are many Black Friday ads that have already been released to the media. (Trust me, the merchants want those leaked and shared). Such sites include www.theblackfriday.com and www.black-friday.net, to name a few. There will be far more shoppers out there than the loss leader advertised Black Friday specials. The game is to get you into their doors and grab your money before their competition.
When it comes to food shopping, many of the tips above will also apply: use coupons, shop sales, and plan ahead. The internet is loaded with recipe databases that can help give your holiday a boost of new and healthier recipes and a budget boost as well.
In closing, I would like to wish each of you a happy, healthy and safe holiday and I thank you for reading this article. Please feel free to share any sites or tips that you've discovered because this is not a complete list of what's out there. Sometimes a hug or kind words can be the best gift you can give to another.
It's okay to shop with your heart but important as well to use your head.
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I keep a running "Dear Santa" list in plain site as I think of things so that whether I am naughty or nice, Santa has a good idea of things that I would LIKE to have instead of the usual (or unusual) gifts that I get. Santa: hold off on the boxer briefs… put me down for TOYS!!!
rayt, This is really an incredible article. Besides your website references your gift ideas are pretty cool. Some of these sites I have never heard of. I will definitely be checking these out! Thanks Again.
Wow ray that's an awsome article! Id like to print it but sadly I don't have a printer! I want to check into the christmas club! Every year I kick my self in the but for not beng able to save for christmas ! A little at a time through the year would surely add up! Such excellant information! Thanks ray
Excellent suggestions, Ray, thanks. I especially like the recipe collection idea. That might be just the thing for a couple of those gift exchange parties I always go to. Might be fun to see if anyone fights for my recipes! Ok, maybe I'm being optimistic, but I still have and use the index card recipe collection my college room mate gave me of her Mother's recipes. It was a priceless wedding gift.
I didn't know that "christmas clubs" still existed. I just use a jar! LOL I like the black friday sites. What a great niche.
Another thing that we do here is use our local church food programs. We have one that sells packages for about 40% off the grocery store prices. All good quality foods, fresh fruits and veggies, nothing canned. So we order our packages for the Holiday months usually, as they really do help us extend our grocery bill that time of year. Just as an example, we purchased about 10 pounds of various meats, fresh fruit and veggies, and a whole turkey dinner with the fixings that will feed 4 people for $62. This will feed us all for about 2 weeks, so we are very thankful for those opportunities as well. So don't overlook your local and community programs.
Yup, we have a Christmas Club through our credit union. I would think there may be online accounts available now as more and more financial services are trying to build customer loyalty any way they can. Just make sure to check out any institution you are interested in. There are legitimate products and services out there and then there are scams. Anything sounding too good to be true probably is.
Thank you for putting that together for us RAY. Very useful!
There are times when I found myself shouting, pouting and even crying and I'll tell you why… Santa Claus has sometimes overspent or over thought the gifts. Sometimes the best things in life are free (or cheaper) and I've fallen victim to thinking that spending money and acquiring debt was the answer to showing love. How wrong I was!
This year my wife and I are going to buy each other a large screen tv which is a durable item for years of use. We are researching, comparing, looking for coupon codes, negotiating (but paying cash) for the "major" purchase.
I thought I would share our newly discovered techniques with friends (like you) and I would like to thank you for the feedback.
Another gift idea (to give or receive) that I forgot to mention above is a food scale. Think about things that you normally would not buy for yourself and be careful when buying items like clothing for another person. The best gifts are those in which you don't need to include the receipts. :)
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The unions lined up to attack John Moorlach in the Special Election for the 37th State Senate District – and they were joined by loathsome lobbyist Curt Pringle and a slew of special interests. But Moorlach prevailed tonight, edging out the union-backed Don Wagner with 50.4% of the vote, as per the O.C. Voter Registrar.
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When you buy a used car, you should check whether the car has a warranty on it that is transferable. Of course if the car has an effective transferable warranty on it, the seller will probably throw that fact out there as a bargaining chip. If the used car's warranty is transferable and has a sufficient number of miles/time duration left on it, then you are covered, though you may want to consider purchasing an additional warranty. Be sure to get all the warranty documents from the used car seller before finalizing the transaction.
Now if you bought a used car and it is not under warranty, then it is possible to buy one for it, provided the vehicle is not too old or has too many miles, however finding this warranty can be difficult.
A used car warranty is basically a type of extended warranty. Considering that most used cars are sold past the initial grace period where "normal" mechanical failures are unlikely to occur, it is generally recommended to purchase a used car extended warranty. Costs can range dramatically and some warranties may cost as much as 50 percent of what you paid for the used car.
Similar to insurance and financing contracts, warranties require attention to the fine print. If you are looking for a used car warranty and the contract does not contain "wear-and-tear" as part of its coverage, then it probably is not worth it. What this means is that warranty companies will only cover mechanical failures, and not failures that are the result of a buildup of "normal" wear-and-tear. Some warranty companies will try to leave out this wording so they have a gigantic loophole to saunter through come time to pay the claims.
You should probably crunch some numbers before actually purchasing a used car extended warranty. If the used car you bought is cheap and you intend on driving it into the ground, then purchasing a used car warranty may not be worth it. Also, if the likely-to-be-necessary repairs on the car will be cheaper than what it costs to extend a warranty, then you are not saving any money by going with a used car warranty. Of course, if a breakdown does occur, there is always the roadside assistance and towing that frequently comes with warranties.
Things to be Aware of:
Some used car dealerships will mention something like an "as is" used car warranty. For all intents and purposes, this means that you do not have a warranty at all. Any buyer's guide that comes with a used car should indicate clearly what the words "as is" implies.
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KARATE Kid Tetsuya Wada loves his darts so much he even uses them for chopsticks when he devours a plate of sushi.
Wada is the first Japanese qualifier for the Ladbrokes.com PDC World Darts Championship and makes his debut at the Circus Tavern against No.20 seed Wes Newton today. Japan's No.1 arrow-flinger less strenuous after a serious injury.
The 23-year-old explained: "I was a black belt five years ago, when I hurt my knee so badly I needed six operations.
"One of them was major reconstructive work and put me in hospital for a month.
"But I took up darts at Kanagawa University and fell in love with the game immediately.
"My hero is Cliff Lazarenko - not only does his name sound a bit Japanese, but I even use his darts when I play in tournaments."
He added: "I can't wait to play at the Circus Tavern, although I haven't found endured a 30-hour journey from the Orient to Purfleet - most of it through the roadworks in the Thames Estuary's sporting mecca.
But now he's ready to make a meal of Newton - and Wada, from Yokohama, is not a man to be trifled with since he is a black belt in Karate.
Martial arts was the system engineer's first love, but he had to take up something any sushi in Purfleet or the hotel where I am staying - do they have sushi in Brentwood?
"I'm never nervous when I throw darts - it is a pleasure and I don't believe you can succeed if you are too tense and anxious."
Wada will have around 200 million people rooting for him in the Orient today - and we are not talking about PDC chairman Barry Hearn's beloved Leyton Orient, either.
The match will be screened live on Sky Sports as the battle for the L100,000 first prize - the richest in darts history in this country - approaches the end of its pre-Christmas week.


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Hope your weekend was wonderful! Mine definitely was! Here's a quick recap…
Dusted off the yoga mat… It has been 3 months since my last Yoga class—but it was so nice to return!
Tried a new breakfast: Cherry-Chocolate Waffle—and it was as good as it looks!
Tuna melt with tomatoes and olives…
I also:
- got my hair did (maybe a new picture tomorrow?)
- taught a Zumba class
- attended a dance-fitness workshop
- ran a few miles
It was a productive weekend!
How are you all doing with the 60 for 31 Challenge? I am happy to report that I am 4 days into March and I am 4-4 for completing 60 minutes of exercise each day! I'm trying to decide on what to do tomorrow… hmmm…


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I am very, very lucky to be on the AudSentiments DT - I am sure if I tried out for it now I wouldn't get in as there is so much amazing talent out there now! But that last statement is not a call for comments saying "no you are fabulous" etc etc!!! So, one of my roles on the team is to put up the weekly post, which I duly did yesterday. I was just sat here now and realised I hadn't put up my OWN post on this blog! Whoopsie!
The theme over at Auds is SUMMER! You just need to create a summery project or card and make sure you include an appropriate sentiment. This time we are sponsored by Stamp and Create.
I made my project using my Sizzix Eclips machine - I took it to our craft club at Rainham Library a few weeks ago and realised how little I used it, so decided I would try and use it more.....
I cut everything (except the "sand") out using the machine. The face was even drawn on by the machine too! So much fun!
Oh - see that blue sky? How lovely! Shame its not like that today!
Please pop over and enter the challenge if you get a chance!
Ruthie x


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The few wish to control the many. The only way they can do this is via unending deceit. The brainwash that never ends. Eternal propaganda intended to leave us unprotected and, eventually, to see us off.
Listen to Steven Gern. He knows what he's talking about. He lives the cold, hard fact every single day.
Whose advice and opinion should carry more weight?
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Saturday Savers - Izzy
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This is such a great idea, bought a Gelli plate but not had time for a proper play, my Hubby is always leaving his picks laying about, I shall have to buy myself some chockies now just for the box you understand.ReplyDelete
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Beautiful box, great techniques, hope the young musician appreciates it!ReplyDelete
Beautiful, love the colors, too! Great job on this!ReplyDelete
Great idea Izzy, and it worked so well! I have a box like that for my rotary trimmer blades, might have to work on that!ReplyDelete
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I can't believe that I missed out on the free postage, I ordered too early!ReplyDelete
This is wonderful Izzy!! What a great idea!ReplyDelete
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The school rule book on the dos and don'ts in day-to-day academic life for 2016-17.
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This is not so much a DIY project as a really simple idea…using brown bags filled with fruit as either a table number OR as seating cards. Depending on the size of the bag that you buy, you can use these little treats in different ways. Either approach is just a really adorable way to bring a bit of charm to your table. This DIY is for seating cards, but really…it's super easy to translate this project in lots of different ways.
Please note, we kept our bags without names on them, as when we created them, we weren't sure how we wanted to use them. To complete the seating card DIY, you'll need to write in your guests names above the number. If you want to use the scalloped hole punch, we've allowed enough room on the template for you to do that. Otherwise, we used little dotted lines that are super cute and you can simply cut around them for a pretty darned great look.
Mini Brown Bags (found at Michaels)
Tissue Paper
8.5 x 11″ Card Stock
2.25″ Square Scalloped Hole Punch (found at Michaels)
Color Printer
1. Using your color printer, print out this template. Note that we have left room above the numbers for you to write in the names.
2. Using your hole punch, punch out the squares. Or alternatively, using a paper cutter, trim around the dotted lines.
3. With double stick tape, adhere the labels on to your brown bags, right in the center.
4. Using a red or black pen, scribble in the name of your guests above the number. Don't worry about being too perfect, this project is all about charm.
5. If you don't want to fill completely with fruit, stuff the bottom half of the bags with red tissue paper, then fill to the brim with strawberries.
These would look especially cute with cherries!


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Today when my friend and I left for lab after dinner, my friend asked me to wait while he got the umbrella from his room. I remarked, "It'd be fun getting drenched in the rain, why get an umbrella?"
He replied, "Since we are two people, we won't completely escape the rain, so you may get drenched as well."
"Then why use the umbrella at all?"
"Let the umbrella do the work its made for. Its been lying there in my room for so many months doing nothing!"
The last line in this conversation effectively brings out the point I wish to make here. In my opinion, 'We sometimes tend to treat an object like a person.'
So often I've observed myself talking to objects, as in, saying 'sorry' to some object after bumping into it, or smiling at my shoes or bucket, calling my laptop as "hey buddy", or exclaiming "there you are" after finding my lost pair of specs after hours of search, etc. It does sound crazy but living alone in a small room for long hours does that to a person sometimes! So many times and I'm sure all of us would have kissed an object that's either favorite or very dear to us!
Humans have this tendency to sometimes personify things around them. Fairy tales and cartoon movies are the result of such a personification.
Remember, "mirror mirror on the wall, who's the prettiest of all?" That's fairy tale you'd say, but looking at a mirror, don't you wonder about your looks and smile/wink at a mirror when in jolly mood. Your interaction might be with yourself, but mirror is like a go-between and receives a part of that interaction.
The converse is easier to understand, i.e., 'We sometimes tend to treat a person like an object.'
Overburdening others, and sometimes oneself, with work is equivalent to treating oneself like an object! A personal computer can run for days on electricity, but no amount of food/drinks can make a human work efficiently for days! Most importantly, we need sleep, and also some breaks occasionally. We certainly tend to treat people subordinate to us as objects on various occasions.
I often give any object (eg: my mobile phone charger) that I own to another person, when its not in use by me, so that he/she could use it in the meantime. I assume that wear and tear due to more use is negligible and hence that object is being used instead of remaining idle. Doing the same to a subordinate is exploitation! :P
Treating an object with respect is what I find akin to treating an object like a person. And treating a person without due respect is treating that person like an object!
Animals fall in between humans and objects, so treating an animal as human and treating an animal as an object, both the cases exist!
P.S. - This post certainly reminds me of "Toy Story" !!
P.S. - Reminds me of those days when hitting TV on the side(s) used to make it work again! Now this is treating an object like a person! :P :D


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Papaya: Love Goddess Of The Cannibals has enlightened me of one thing and one thing only. The papaya fruit is actually quite big in reality and not as small as Tropicana's packaging would have me believe. But this film isn't about fruit juice, no, it's about Papaya (Melissa Chimenti), the female leader of a cannibal tribe who literally seduces and destroys a team of geologists who try to rid an island of her tribe.
Now, when I say seduce and destroy, I really do mean seduce and destroy. Take the poor sod who falls for Papaya in the first five minutes of the film. After some erotic massage and great sex, she bites off his penis mid blow job and then sets the wooden hut he is in on fire so he burns to death. All because he wants to build a nuclear reactor on the island. Is this Joe D'Amato's attempt at nuclear power politics? I won't go that far, but lets not dismiss this example of exploitation cinema from holding such a message. Shot and released the year after Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals, the feature is much the same – beautiful locations, some steamy sex scenes and a bunch of bloody murders to bulk out the cannibal plot line. Sadly, Emanuelle just feels a little more superior and Papaya feels like a very premature rip-off (D-Amato directed both films).
Having said that, Papaya is still worth a watch. Chimenti is absolutely beautiful as the titular Papaya and Sirpa Lane as reporter Sara is a perfect juxtaposition against her in both looks and character. It's also a bit of fun as are most of D'Amato's pictures, not exactly cinematic gems but brilliant exploitation genre films none the less.
For me, there's just one problem. D'Amato can't make rubbing a papaya over your body look fun or erotic. For food fun, Nine 1/2 Weeks did it so much better.


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New Delhi – BSE is proud to announce it has been recognized by Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions, as a 2016 Red Hat Innovation Award winner. BSE was honored in the Infrastructure category, recognizing notable flexibility, scalability, cost effectiveness, performance, and security within an infrastructure.
BSE (formerly known as Bombay Stock Exchange Ltd.) is Asia's first stock exchange. More than 5,500 companies are listed on BSE, making it the world's largest exchange by members listed. For two decades, BSE struggled under the weight of its proprietary technologies. The old infrastructure limited innovation and the high cost of upgrades ultimately made its system economically unfeasible.
BSE collaborated with Red Hat to build an entirely new trading system on open source technology, powered by Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Since implementing the new trading system, BOLT Plus, BSE has increased its volume from 10 million orders a day to 400 million, cut hardware costs by 66 percent, and increased trading speed from 10 milliseconds to six microseconds.
Since 2007, Red Hat has recognized the achievements of customers and partners worldwide who demonstrate creative thinking, determined problem solving, and innovative uses of Red Hat technology with the Red Hat Innovation Awards. The Red Hat Innovation award winners from the last decade represent leaders from around the world and across industries who are using open source solutions to transform their organizations and enable faster innovation.
For the 2016 awards, more than 60 nominations were received with judges selecting one winning project in six categories that exemplified the most innovative achievements used to answer complex IT challenges with Red Hat solutions.
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Ashishkumar Chauhan, managing director and CEO, BSE
"We are honored to receive a 2016 Red Hat Innovation Award. Our switch to open source has been exemplary and the results have proven Red Hat to be a reliable and critical technology partner. With Red Hat's open source technology, we have been able to achieve flexibility, agility, and scalability needed to meet our changing market demands. Red Hat has always been there to support us in our day-to-day operations and such trust helps us simplify our business. Today, Red Hat is our backbone and an intrinsic part of our business transformation story."
Rajesh Rege, managing director, India, Red Hat
"We would like to congratulate BSE on winning a Red Hat Innovation Award. BSE has effectively implemented open source solutions to build their new BOLT Plus trading infrastructure and break free from vendor lock-in. Today, BSE has been recognized as the fastest stock exchange in the world, with speeds reported to be 10 times faster than the next fastest exchange. BSE is one of Asia's most reputed stock exchanges and their openness to innovate and change is admirable."
About BSE
BSE (Formerly Bombay Stock Exchange), established in 1875, BSE is Asia's first & now the world's fastest Stock Exchange with a speed of 6 microseconds. BSE is India's leading exchange groups and has played a prominent role in developing the Indian capital market. BSE is a corporatized and demutualized entity, with a broad shareholder base which includes two leading global exchanges, Deutsche Bourse and Singapore Exchange as strategic partners. BSE provides an efficient and transparent market for trading in equity, debt instruments, equity derivatives, currency derivatives, interest rate derivatives, mutual funds and stock lending and borrowing. BSE also has a dedicated platform for trading in equities of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). BSE provides a host of other services to capital market participants including risk management, clearing, settlement, market data services and education. It has a global reach with customers around the world and a nation-wide presence. BSE's systems and processes are designed to safeguard market integrity, drive the growth of the Indian capital market and stimulate innovation and competition across all market segments. Indian Clearing Corporation Limited, the wholly owned subsidiary of BSE, acts as the central counterparty to all trades executed on BSE platform and provides full novation, guaranteeing the settlement of all bonafide trades executed on the BSE Platform. BSE Institute Ltd, a fully owned subsidiary of BSE, runs one of the most respected capital market educational institutes in the country. Central Depository Services Ltd. (CDSL), a subsidiary of BSE, is one of the two Depositories in India.


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Research by the UK's leading provider of mover conveyancing services, My Home Move, has revealed that major royal events appear to spark an increase in monthly house price rises across the UK.
By analysing the rate of house price growth in the 12 months leading up to royal weddings and births, My Home Move found that the month the event took place saw the biggest monthly changes.
The wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton in April 2011 saw the biggest increase in house prices on a month-by-month basis, by 1.55 per cent, seemingly breaking the fall of prices amidst the months post-recession. The wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles had a similar effect on house prices in April 2005, which saw a month-by-month increase of 1.42 per cent.
Royal births also appear to affect house prices; during the month Prince George (son of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge) was born, prices rose by 1.12 per cent month-on-month, while the month that his sister, Princess Charlotte, was born saw an increase of 1.08 per cent.
Commenting on the findings, CEO of My Home Move Doug Crawford said:
"We know that the national mood affects the housing market, so it's no surprise that major royal events do so too. In the build up to royal weddings, people come together to celebrate all things British and there is generally an air of national pride that sweeps the length and breadth of Britain and into the psyche of home movers."
"From the findings it is clear that the public's fascination with the royal family is a positive thing for the housing market, especially when it comes to events such as marriages and births within the family of the heir apparent. With recent news of falling house prices, we could use another royal announcement to help bring up the nation's mood – we're all looking at you Prince Harry to get married!"


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Fronteras del Norte was founded in 1991. To this day Fronteras Del Norte remains a successful family owned and operated transportation service. Before Mr. Lopez started Fronteras Del Norte he worked as a driver for the company just over 10 years. He began just a 19 passenger mini bus that he purchased and drove for those 10 years. Being the trailblazer that he was, Mr.Lopez purchased the company with the hopes of expansion and providing a better service to his customers. As the demand for the service grew he saw the need to purchase 3 additional vehicles, which his wife and son would drive.
As a steady flow of passengers from Huntington Park to San Ysidro grew there was another demand for passenger services heading up north to Bakersfield, Fresno, and Stockton. These areas were familiar to Mr. Lopez because of his early days when he would leave his hometown of Villachuato Michoacan Mexico to come and work as a "brasero". Working in these different cities he was able to discover the need for transportation for his local "Paisanos". Soon, customers started requesting trips as far north as Washington State, and Fronteras responded with those services.
Here at Fronteras we pride ourselves on satisfying our customers needs whether that is transporting them to see their family members or to a job that wouldn't have been possible without the means of transportation. That is why what started as a once a week trip up north or down south grew to providing bus transportation more than once a day.
Even though Mr. Lopez is no longer with us his spirit still lives in the commitment he left behind with his family and the associates at Fronteras del Norte. It is to provide the best service for his "Paisanos", as he would call them. Fronteras del Norte's mission is to provide the service that people expect which is Economical, Safe, Efficient and most importantly Listening to their Customers Needs, which has helped Fronteras del Norte expand to the company it is today.
Thank you for choosing Fronteras Del Norte, Thank you for the last 26 years, and most importantly Thank You for trusting in our Father's Dream to "Transporting Important People Like You"!
Thank You y Muchas Gracias,
The Lopez Family.