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On April 26, New York-based venture capital firm Lux Capital added two new partners: former CIA director James Woolsey, who will focus on energy investments; and Richard Foster, a former McKinsey & Co. partner who will help Lux identify new business opportunities in life sciences and healthcare IT.
Throughout his career, Foster has been on the frontlines of innovation in emerging industries. At McKinsey, he co-founded a high-tech practice in the 1970s, a chemicals group and healthcare unit in the 1980s, and a private-equity practice in the 1990s.
Foster has also written two books on innovation, Creative Destruction: Why Companies That Are Built to Last Underperform the Market—And How to Successfully Transform Them (Broadway Business 2001), and Innovation: The Attacker's Advantage (Summit Books 1986). I asked him about innovation, life sciences, and health IT, and how he plans to deploy his experience to help Lux identify the right investment opportunities.
Xconomy: Healthcare IT will be a new direction for Lux. Why do you feel this is a good opportunity?
Richard Foster: We're not going to be able to run a healthcare system unless we actually have a system, and that will require a lot of IT. Many older doctors don't use computers—they don't want to use computers. I don't know of any medical school that has technology as part of its curriculum. But the younger docs are all very tech savvy, so I believe it's all going to change.
Imagine if the airlines had no IT. That's where healthcare is now. It's a very large opportunity with hundreds of parts to it.
X: How important was the healthcare reform legislation and other government stimulus actions in terms of increasing entrepreneurial interest in health IT?
RF: It has been tremendously important. The national coordinator for health IT is giving doctors incentives for purchasing new systems. That will result in incentives for companies to provide services and products. But this will be a long road. Also the Department of Health & Human Services is releasing tremendous amounts of data.
On June 9, HHS will be holding a national meeting on health data initiatives. There will be dozens of younger companies there talking about their plans to use this resource.
X: One of your mandates, according to Lux, is to seek out new business models for life sciences. Explain.
RF: Our system of drug development, in the eyes of many, is broken. Researchers at academic medical centers are focusing on discovering what's going wrong in the diseased body. Drug companies are trying to figure out how to fix it. But the interface between the two isn't working. And no one is answering the question of who is going to bear the cost of further development. This system cannot continue as it is currently structured.
You'll see a lot of private funds looking at new ways to do drug development. We'll be looking at those new models, too.
X: How will your challenge differ from that of Lux's other new partner, James Woolsey?
RF: The capital requirements for energy and climate are so much greater than they are for healthcare, which makes them very different issues. But we have to solve energy and climate problems, and we will. It's a wonderful part of the equation for Lux, and I'm happy to be working with James Woolsey.
X: Having written two books about innovation, what's your top advice for new entrepreneurs?
RF: They need to avoid what I call "cultural lock-in"—the tendency to build a business model and then not be able to see any other model from then on. You have to think of the next wave of entrepreneurs that are behind you, and you have to know exactly how you're going to beat them.
I once met Bob Swanson, the original CEO of Genentech. I told him he was the perfect example of an attacker, but he said he didn't think of himself that way. He said, "I'm worried about these guys who are behind me." That's the attitude entrepreneurs need to have—the Swanson attitude.
Remember, the world doesn't stop just because you started a company.
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Even with stimulus incentives and a demographic shift in attitudes towards computer use, the stats on technology adoption and data security in primary care are pretty scary. I saw some survey results from AMA this past March that found that 30% of all physician practices lacked anti-virus software, and 35% lacked firewalls, including for systems storing patient data. On the one hand, there's this very high barrier to adoption – PCPs just don't have the time (at current reimbursement rates) to trial, implement and train staff on new systems – at least until HITECH started offering $44,000 per physician. On the other hand, some of the most direly needed solutions in this area are shockingly low tech. It will be interesting to see how HIT companies try to build in greater value for the physician office after the HITECH funding window has passed.


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GPS Sight
From Openmoko
The GPS preview is a GTK based project to create a usable GUI tool with the simple output (no maps). It detects GPRMC and GPGGA messages and constantly shows the following data on the screen:
- Location.
- Speed in kilometers per hour (converts from knots).
- Altitude
- Curved distance from the initially marked point (uses advanced IERC 2003 geodetic reference to convert degrees into kilometers).
- Number of the satellites.
- Time (UTM, not a local time).
Since the 0.0.2 release the application also has the "map" tab which shows the covered path. The map adjusts its scale automatically. The horizontal and vertical scales of the map are equal.
The source code of this project is available in the project page (http://projects.openmoko.org/projects/gpv/), under LGPL. The project uses GTK framework and C programming language.
The GPS Preview program (gpv) is released either in .ipk file or in the form of the source code. The released installer still needs the gllin to run, but, if needed, can start it itself. Gllin could be replaced by any other driver that works with agreed pipe (currently /tmp/nmeaNP) and our dream is to drop the dependencies from that proprietary piece of software forever.
Inside the project
The most interesting part of this project was to keep the external driver thread and GUI thread sufficiently happy together. We cannot just read from the pipe in a loop as this blocks the GUI repainting! Instead, the code schedules the GTK timer, and then it needs to check if any input from the pipe is available - again, without blocking the current thread for too long. This is done using select function which can check the given stream for the availability of input, passing the certain time-out duration. This time-out seems also tricky: if the value or 0.1 s or less is passed on the Neo, function never reports any input present. However too large values block GUI in the input check step. The code now has a kind of adaptation, gradually increasing the duration of this check if there is no input available for a while.
The distance counter tries to track the curved distance, not the "bird flight" distance between two points. It adds the shifts in space, computing the length of the lat/long degrees into meters in accordance to the IERS 2003 goedetic reference - very new and not yet widely used in geography.
It was some work to fullfil the natural requirement to have the equal scaling for the map. The length of the degree of the longitude (in meters) varies dramatically depending on the geographical location. This must be taken into consideration, computing the degree length first. The automatic scaling allows to use the map tab when working with relatively small distances (hundreds of meters of even less).
Testing the device
The device has been tested outdoors where it shows the correct location and altitude. The speed indicator has been tested on the train, correctly showing the speed of about 100 km/h.
Nobody yet tested, how accurate the distance counter is (please update this information if you ever tried).
Project organization
The project uses CVS to host the most recent source code and all build environment and sometimes does releases of .ikp binaries and plain gzipped source code. Project also uses Wiki page to describe various technical aspects.

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This seminar will get you up out of your seats and give you the opportunity to see results right in the classroom.
Begin the day reviewing acupuncture and meridian therapy protocols
Dr. Aucker will begin by going through the treatment protocols for rehabilitation. This is the perfect mix of education, evidence-based techniques, and hands-on training. Chiropractic adjustments will focus on the full spine, as well as extremity techniques. The myofascial portion will consist of in-office and home protocols. In-office techniques will be focused on instrument assisted soft tissue mobilization, both immobile and with movement, (similar to Graston technique) and an array of trigger point therapy, pin-and-stretch, and other myofascial release techniques. The home protocols will be centered around the use of a foam roller, roller stick, lacrosse ball, and mobility peanut. Finally, rehabilitation will start with assessment protocols created by Vladimir Janda and Craig Liebenson, educational background, and corrective exercises/protocols. No matter what your background training may be, you will definitely be able to apply something to your everyday practice to help patients and boost revenue
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TUESDAY, March 13, 2012 (HealthDay News) -- The foods Americans eat have a lot to do with factors like race, age and where they live, and can be categorized into five distinct dietary patterns, according to a new study.
Researchers analyzed food questionnaires from a large group of black and white adults aged 45 and older in the continental United States, with a focus on southeastern states.
The strongest association they found was that black people were more likely than whites to have "southern" diets, which are rich in fried foods, processed meats and sweetened drinks.
"Nobody has defined dietary patterns in a population like this," said Suzanne Judd, assistant professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and study co-author.
The findings are slated for Tuesday presentation at the American Heart Association meeting in San Diego.
The southern diet probably emerged as a clear trend because the study included so many participants from the Southeast, Judd added.
In addition to the southern diet, the authors identified four other eating patterns.
The "traditional" pattern was characterized by a mixed diet of mostly takeout and prepared foods.
A "healthy" diet was mostly made up of fruits, veggies and grains.
"Sweets" consisted largely of sweet snacks and desserts.
An "alcohol" pattern, which included salads, proteins (and alcohol), was associated with younger ages and higher socioeconomic status.
The researchers limited their study to black and white adults because the largest difference in stroke risk exists between these two racial groups. Previous research has found that black people are three times more likely to have a stroke than their white counterparts at 45 years of age, although the gap in risk shrinks in older adults.
People from the Southeast region, known as the "stroke belt," are also more likely to suffer a stroke.
The current study involved nearly 22,000 adults, half of whom lived in the Southeast, representing a range of income and education levels.
Participants filled out a food frequency questionnaire about their diet over the past year. From these responses, the researchers grouped similar foods into categories, then looked at how food groups were consumed together to define dietary patterns. Participants each received a score reflecting how closely their diet resembled each pattern.
The researchers identified a number of trends, notably that younger age groups (45-54 years) were more likely than older adults to have a traditional diet, which features convenient, ready-to-eat foods.
And while black participants were associated with a southern diet, white people were more likely to have a traditional or sweet diet. These diet differences could not be explained by income and education differences alone, Judd said, adding that culture and upbringing probably play a part in eating habits.
Previous research suggests that one of the major culprits for increased stroke risk among black people is high blood pressure. The southern diet, and in particular sodium intake, probably has an effect on stroke risk by driving up blood pressure, although it may have other important effects, such as on obesity, Judd said.
"Not maintaining a healthy weight leads to so many problems in terms of how well blood vessels function," she explained.
Although studies have explored the intake of individual nutrients, such as sodium and calcium as well as fats and fiber, among black and white people, there is a less clear understanding of how overall diet differs between these groups.
Commenting on the study, Connie Diekman, director of university nutrition at Washington University in St. Louis, said, "We have to start looking at dietary patterns because it is about the whole of what we do; it is not single nutrients or single foods that are the cause or the blame for disease."
When it comes to helping people change their eating habits, dietary patterns are also more useful than labeling foods as "good" and "bad," Diekman added.
The next step is to look at the relationship between these dietary patterns and health, in particular stroke risk. "I'll be surprised if we don't see an association," Judd said.
If further research shows an association, it would provide some foods to target, similar to how the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is working to reduce sodium in the food supply, Judd said.
"Even from just what is here [in this study], it certainly will add to the body of evidence that's encouraging the change in sodium, portions, and the increased need for education around nutrition and physical activity," Diekman said.
Because this study was presented at a medical meeting, the data and conclusions should be viewed as preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal.
More information
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Coca-Cola Heads Into 2012 Olympic Marketing With Eight-Pack Of Stars
May 18, 2011: With just over a year to go to the 2012 Summer Olympics, Coca-Cola is ramping up activation to get its message out around the world.
Coke said it has signed "a high profile group of Olympic champions and Olympic hopefuls" to form the Coca-Cola "Eight-Pack" of Athletes for the London 2012 Olympic Games.
The group includes tennis star John Isner and Shawn Johnson, regarded as one of the top women gymnasts in the world.
Coca-Cola is an official partner of the U.S. Olympic Committee and is also among a short-list of companies that are official worldwide marketing partners of the International Olympic Committee.
In addition to their role as medal contenders for Team USA, the athletes will also serve as "Coca-Cola Ambassadors of Active Living to help encourage and inspire people to lead active, balanced lives."
The "Eight-Pack" will be featured next year on special Coca-Cola in-store materials and advertising, according to the beverage giant. Specific plans for how the "Eight-Pack" will be featured in the Coca-Cola 2012 Olympic Games program will be revealed in the future.
This is the third consecutive Olympic Games in which Coca-Cola has included a collection of athletes as part of the brand's Olympic program. Previous have featured six athletes.
The increase in athlete endorsements coincides with the company recently evolving its packaging lineup to include eight-packs of 90 calorie mini-cans.
The "Eight Pack" includes:
David Boudia: Silver medalist in men's platform (10M diving) at 2008 FINA Diving World Cup and winner of 14 national diving titles; 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials 10M Dive Champion; member of the 2008 Olympic Team
Henry Cejudo: 2008 Olympic gold medalist in 55kg freestyle division (wrestling); youngest American wrestler ever to win an Olympic gold medal at 21 years of age.
Marlen Esparza: 2010 U.S. national champion in women's boxing; gold medalist at the 2008 Pan American Games; longest winning streak at the U.S. nationals and undefeated in every U.S. event competed in the last five years; number one ranked female amateur flyweight boxer in U.S. for the last five consecutive years
John Isner: Currently ranked 39th in the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) standings; winner of record-breaking singles tennis match at Wimbledon which lasted for 11 hours and 5 minutes; widely recognized as having one of the hardest serves on the ATP Tour
Shawn Johnson: Winner of one gold and three silver medals in women's gymnastics at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games; member of the 2008 U.S. Olympic team; three-time gold medalist at the 2007 World Championships in All-Around, Floor, and Team; and four-time gold medalist at the 2007 Pan American Games in All-Around, Balance Beam, Floor and Team; and 2008 Olympic Trials All-American champion
Jessica Long: Seven-time Paralympic Gold medalist in women's swimming; member of 2004 and 2008 U.S. Paralympic Teams; 2008 Paralympian of the Year; seven-time World Championship gold medalist and two-time silver medalist in 2010
Alex Morgan: Drafted number one overall in the 2011 Women's Professional Soccer Draft; youngest member on the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team
David Oliver: Beijing 2008 Olympic medalist in men's 110M hurdles; member of 2008 U.S. Olympic team; 2010 Male Track & Field Athlete of the Year; 2010 U.S. Outdoor Champion.


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We are pleased to announce FL Studio Mobile version 1.3 is now available.
FL Studio Mobile Video Playlist
New 1.3 features & changes include:
- Custom Instrument Button (on Instruments list)
- AudioPaste
- Swing (in the Step Editor)
- SoundCloud export/upload
- AAC (.m4a) export
- All WAV formats now supported for sample import
- Numerous bugfixes & performance enhancements
Existing customers can update from their device or iTunes for free.
There are two FL Studio Mobile applications:
- FL Studio Mobile: For iPhone & iPod Touch (inc with Retina display support) - $14.99
- FL Studio Mobile HD: For iPad 1 & 2 - $19.99
Just go to the App Store and if you have an iPhone/iPod Touch FL Studio Mobile OR if you have an iPad FL Studio Mobile HD.
For more information
See the FL Studio Mobile Knowledge Base here (including what's up with the ANDROID version)


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Dalmatian Linocut Journal
Dalmatian Linocut Journal
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A dog who could keep your notes in one place belongs in every office. Since we're aware what a training feat this would be, we designed this special note-holding, dog covered, journal! Choose from a palette of 10 colors to make your new canine writing companion even more distinctive!
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PowerSeries Neo Keypads: Broad range designed for user-friendliness.
PowerSeries Neo wireless keypads are a primary interface to this revolutionary hybrid system. In keeping with PowerSeries Neo's wide spectrum installation solutions, the PowerSeries Neo keypads are available in a number of options as a solution for any type of installations. The choice of options is extensive, from touchscreens and hardwired keypads available in various display options, through to PowerG-enabled wireless keypads and models with built-in transceivers. The common denominators are ease of installation, simplistic programming and user-friendly interfaces.
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Kids Books About Working Moms
Off to Work We Go: 5 Books For Children of Working Moms
Off to Work We Go: 5 Books For Children of Working Moms
A mother's work is never done, and if working outside the home is part of her routine, her lil ones usually don't have the opportunity to see what she does most of the day. Every WOHM has that moment where her tots turn to her and say, "Why do you have to go to work?" If you find yourself fumbling for an answer, these five books may help you explain it better than you could on your own. Fellow working mamas, including Iron Chef Cat Cora, have penned picture books to help kids understand that mommy loves them, even if she has to pack a bag and head off to work each day.


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How much of a raise did/will you get this year? One, two, three percent?
The May 22 editorial in The Patriot Ledger was right on ("Our Opinion: Now is not the time for raises in Quincy.")
Now is NOT the time for raises in Quincy! Did anyone hear the city financial adviser's warning? The city's unfunded liabilities for post-employment benefits are estimated at hundreds of millions of dollars!
How much of a raise did/will you get this year? One, two, three percent?
I don't know Mayor Koch personally, have never spoken with him, seems like a nice guy, but I can't imagine the justification in his mind that a 30 percent pay raise is OK or even reasonable and I can't help but wonder why Brian McNamee is the sole councilor to speak out and vote against the pay raise proposal.
Quincy needs a change! McNamee's got my vote.
BETH McMAHON
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Displays the latest computer activity in Windows operating system View the latest computer activity in Windows operating system. LastActivityView is a tool for Windows operating system that collects information from various sources on a running system and displays a log of actions made by the user and events occurred on this computer. The activity displayed by LastActivityView includes: Running .exe file, Opening save/open dialog-box, Opening folder/file from Explorer or other software, software installation, system start/shutdown, application or system crash, network disconnection/connection. If you have any problem, suggestion, comment, or you found a bug in my utility,
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Pope Francis, the Disappeared, and the Questions That Won't Vanish
Like many people in Argentina, I received the election of the new pope with mixed feelings. On the one hand there is a certain pride in having a fellow-countryman being chosen for such a high seat – though the prevailing mood in the streets this week was not one of rejoicing but of incredulity, as if what we saw on the TV screens was some sort of practical joke the rest of the world was pulling on us (we tend to be a nation of skeptics). It is also true that the election of the first Latin-American pope is a good sign.
As bishop (1992), archbishop (1998), and cardinal (2001), Jorge Bergoglio (now Pope Francis) has made many gestures of humility and proximity towards the poor, and has been active in promoting pastoral presence in the slums. But his views on abortion, celibacy and same-sex marriage, which in 2010 became legal in Argentina in spite of his ardent campaigning against it, are as orthodox as any in the Church hierarchy could wish, even if he seems to hold a more tolerant view of the use of contraceptives in the prevention of disease.


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This shot of World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria was snapped by Dutch Twitter user Nederob just two minutes after the game was unlocked in Europe.
He says there's been no server troubles. But Blizzard has also sent this out (26 minutes after the expansion went live), so... good luck!
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[We have the following from the organizers of the Harvard Legal History Workshop, which "meets on Mondays, 5-6:30, in Lewis 302 (except for Thursday, Feb. 11)."]
Monday, Feb. 1, Pauline Maier, MIT, "Playing the After Game" from her forthcoming book After Philadelphia: the People debate the Constitution, 1787-1788
Thursday, Feb. 11, Rebecca Scott, University of Michigan, "Paper Thin: Freedom, Re-enslavement, and the 'Distinctions of Persons Which are Established by Law'" (POUND 107)
Monday, Feb. 22, Deborah Dinner, Berger Legal History Fellow, Harvard Law, "The Campaign Against Mandatory Maternity Leaves"
Monday, March 8, Richard Ross, Illinois, "'Filtering' Legal Traditions in Early America and Early Modern Europe: The Judicial Laws of Moses and Natural Law"
Monday, March 22: Dan Smail, Harvard History, "Violence and Predation in Medieval Mediterranean Europe"
Monday, April 12: David Sugarman, Lancaster University (U.K.), "England's Twentieth Century Ancien Regime. The Belated Modernisation of Legal Education, Legal Scholarship and Legal Culture"
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We can all be trollish at times. Some of us have mellowed more than others of us, which is natural and comes with the territory of age and life experience. However, there are those that just spew outright hatred. Those are the ones that you have to watch out for. I was reading a post by an OP the other day, and they stated that they were dissatisfied with their situation and had nothing to be happy about. Beesource pretty much became a vent for that person, and they had no problem at all with pushing peoples' buttons, just for the sake of pushing them.
Disagreements are going to happen. It's life. I honestly believe I could have a decent face to face conversation with everyone on this site even in spite of disagreements in the past. I'm a humorous type, and sometimes I have to watch how I post my humor, because it has offended some folks before. They didn't know I was being humorous.
Communicating back and forth with the written language is a challenge. Some people may come across as "trollish" when in reality, they just didn't communicate in an efficient and thorough manner. I know, because I have fallen into that category on more than one occasion.


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No. 93,044
When a judgment is entered against a served defendant and, therefore, final as to all parties before the court, it is appealable regardless of the fate of an unserved defendant.
Appeal from Johnson District Court; JANICE D. RUSSELL, judge. Opinion filed June 17, 2005. Appeal dismissed.
Keith J. Shuttleworth, of Cohen McNeile Pappas & Shuttleworth, P.C., of Leawood, for appellant.
Michael B. Lowe and Christopher J. Sherman, of Payne & Jones, Chartered, of Overland Park, for appellee.
Before MARQUARDT, P.J., ELLIOTT and GREEN, JJ.
ELLIOTT, J.: Universal Premium Acceptance Corporation (UPAC) appeals the trial court's grant of summary judgment to defendant LCIA Insurance, Inc. UPAC further argues we have jurisdiction to entertain this appeal. We dismiss.
The history of this litigation is not particularly relevant. Suffice it to say, UPAC moved for partial summary judgment in February 2004 and later withdrew that motion; LCIA filed a cross-motion for summary judgment. On July 13, 2004, the trial court granted LCIA's motion for summary judgment and mailed a copy of its opinion to counsel for UPAC and LCIA the same day.
On August 6, 2004, UPAC voluntarily dismissed Pat City Livery, Inc., (Pat City) as a party to the proceedings, and on August 19, 2004, UPAC filed its notice of appeal. Obviously, this appeal centers on the question of whether UPAC's notice of appeal was timely.
LCIA claims UPAC's notice of appeal was untimely and, therefore, we lack jurisdiction to decide the appeal. Whether jurisdiction exists is a question of law over which we have unlimited review. State v. James, 276 Kan. 737, 744, 79 P.3d 169 (2003).
UPAC claims its notice of appeal was timely filed, arguing the trial court granted summary judgment in favor of LCIA but made no reference to its claim against Pat City which had not been served. UPAC further claims because it later dismissed Pat City and filed its notice of appeal within 30 days of the dismissal, the appeal is timely under K.S.A. 2004 Supp. 60-2103(a).
LCIA, not surprisingly, claims Pat City was never a party to the suit and, therefore, UPAC's notice of appeal was not filed within 30 days of the trial court's final decision.
In Kansas, the right to appeal is entirely statutory. Kansas appellate courts have jurisdiction to entertain an appeal only if the appeal is taken within the time limits and in the manner prescribed by statute. Butler County R.W.D. No. 8 v. Yates, 275 Kan. 291, 299, 64 P.3d 357 (2003).
In the present case, the appeal must have been filed within 30 days from the entry of judgment. See K.S.A. 2004 Supp. 60-2103(a). Judgment is entered when a journal entry or judgment form is filed. K.S.A. 60-258.
We have found no Kansas case addressing the effect of an unserved party on a judgment related to a served party. Federal courts, however, have spoken on the issue of the finality of such a judgment.
Generally, those courts have held the judgments are final as to all parties before the court and are therefore appealable. See, e.g., Fed. Sav. & Loan Ins. v. Tullos-Pierremont, 894 F.2d 1469, 1472-76 (5th Cir. 1990) (judgment rendered to all served defendants is final although unserved parties remain); Cooper v. Pickett, 122 F.3d 1186, 1191-92 (9th Cir. 1997) (if action is dismissed as to all served defendants and only unserved defendants remain, order is final for purposes of perfecting appeal); Nagle v. Lee, 807 F.2d 435, 438 (5th Cir. 1987) (when no service obtained on one defendant, that defendant was never a party to the suit); Insinga v. LaBella, 817 F.2d 1469, 1470 (11th Cir. 1987) (where final judgment entered as to all defendants served and only unserved defendants remain, order considered final for purposes of appeal).
The question then is whether UPAC commenced a lawsuit against Pat City. Pursuant to K.S.A. 60-203, an action is commenced when a petition is filed so long as service is obtained within 90 days. If service is not obtained within 90 days, the action is deemed commenced when service occurs. K.S.A. 60-203(a)(2); Lindenman v. Umscheid, 255 Kan. 610, 632, 875 P.2d 964 (1994).
In the present case, the action was commenced only against LCIA because Pat City was never served. Accordingly, there was only one defendant in the pending suit in that court, not two. The judgment in favor of LCIA resolved all claims as to all parties to the case.
UPAC's reliance on Crockett v. Medicalodges, Inc., 247 Kan. 433, 799 P.2d 1022 (1990), is misplaced. There, both defendants were present and involved in the case, and thus served.
In the present case, UPAC's notice of appeal was untimely. See K.S.A. 2004 Supp. 60-206(e); Danes v. St. David's Episcopal Church, 242 Kan. 822, 825-26, 752 P.2d 653 (1988).
We adopt the federal court cases with respect to unserved parties. Here, UPAC's notice of appeal was filed 37 days after the judgment.
The appeal is dismissed. See State v. Verge, 272 Kan. 501, 521, 34 P.3d 449 (2001).
Appeal dismissed.


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Can someone please explain to me how it is May 16th already?
Tell truth, I've had that sentence at the top of this piece I keep meaning to write, with different dates in there. How is it April 3 already? How is it April 18th already? How is it May 1st?
Life with a newborn baby is like looking at a calendar and watching the dates melt off the page. We are so lucky — Desmond is a darling boy, sweet and calm. Honestly, we've heard him cry for maybe 30 minutes total since he was born. He sleeps in four-hour stretches now, at 8 weeks, so Danny and I each get up once a night to feed him and hold him. He's smiling and cooing, talking at us in conversation. Lucy adores him and she wants only more time with him. Feel free to chuck things at me — this is as easy as it gets with a newborn.
But oh, it's still a weird time warp to have a newborn, especially now that he's almost two months old. Minutes pass in a hiccup, hours pass holding his ever-increasing gaze then shushing him to sleep. He needs to eat again? During the 3-week and 6-week growth spurt, he needed to eat every hour, on the hour, for three days at a time. I'm not kidding. At least we are doing this together, Danny and I, instead of me at home all day with a newborn while he works in a restaurant for 12 hours a day. This time, the word is calm.
Still, I definitely wouldn't recommend having a newborn while having a 5-year-old while finishing a cookbook while getting gluten by accident. If I had the choice, I would avoid that.
When things feel a little exhausted and overwhelming, I think of this view we had of the ocean at Malibu in February.
You see, we were in California in February, driving down that enormous state, eating and visiting with people who make food, meeting so many of you there, and taking in the sunlight. It was an extraordinary trip, a kind of listening tour for our next cookbook, American Classics Reinvented. Danny and I both came home knowing something that had only been inchoate before: we have such west coast sensibilities when it comes to food.
I mean, this giant plate of all kinds of citrus in our friend Emily's home amazed us with its beauty, but it seemed like home too. Food on the west coast tends toward citrus, toward fresh, toward lots of produce in season. We're both fan of big flavors and simple preparations. We know the farmers who make our food. Mexican food is comfort food for us both, as is Asian cuisine. Washington focuses more on seafood and wild mushrooms than Californian does. We have to rely on celery root in February, while the people in Santa Barbara buy strawberries from their farmers. But essentially, we're one big cuisine on the west coast. There will be a lot of that in our new book.
But the trip to California also showed us that the rest of the country doesn't necessarily eat this way. It has been a blast to dig into the food of the South, the Midwest, Hawaii, and the Northeast while working on this book. We could probably spend years more working on this book, to be honest.
Still, the first draft is due soon.
So, since we took this trip nearly three months ago (what??!), and I have many more recipes to type up, let me just show you some photos, and point you in the direction of a salad you might want to make this weekend.
If you're driving through Malibu, on your way to Los Angeles, you can't miss this guy.
And when you wake up in downtown LA, in a hotel room high up in the sky, there might be a view like this.
Seven years ago, I wrote about eating at the Casbah Cafe in the Silverlake neighborhood in Los Angeles. In February, Danny and Lucy were there with me, with our nephew Patrick. And I ate the same sweet corn salad with black, wrinkled olives, fresh tomatoes, and tuna I ate seven years ago. It was still satisfying.
Afterwards, we walked down the street for treats from the Cheese Store of Silverlake. I have to go, every time we are in LA. This time, we let Lucy choose the cheese: St. Andre from France and Redwood Hill Farm Bucheret. (Kid, you have expensive taste.) There were tiny little yogurts from Switzerland, castlvetrano olives, a package of speck, and some cinnamon sugar marshmallows from Little Flower Candy Company. (Seriously? Ridiculous.)
I love picnics. Especially picnics in places we don't live.
We needed treats for our Los Angeles potluck. Thank you to all of the lovely people who came out to Silverlake Park for the gathering, the potluck, the laughter and sweetness. It was so good to meet and talk with you all.
Later, we took Lucy and Patrick to the Los Angeles Farmers' Market. I remember going here when I was a kid. There was a stall that served enormous slices of hot pizza, the first pizza I ever found I could fold in half before I ate it. Sometimes, my dad took me there after we drove into Los Angeles for auditions. I never forgot the taste of that pizza.
The farmers' market itself hasn't changed much. But the world has.
We didn't talk about Desmond's arrival on this site or anywhere public before he was born. We knew in January that his mama wanted us to be his family. The entire trip down California, we talked about our hopes that this dream was actually coming true. (And now he's upstairs asleep in our room as I type.) But we were also acutely aware of the fact this was our last trip with Lucy as our only child. Our darling girl, the joyful goofball who makes us laugh every day, the girl who sits in her room every night after we close the door reading a dozen books to herself, the child we longed for six years ago, the one who almost didn't make it through her first week alive. Soon, she would be the oldest of two kids in our home.
In Los Angeles, we loved our girl even more keenly than we had before.
It was, without a doubt, an extraordinary trip, possibly the best one we have ever taken.
And it was the last one we'll be taking for awhile. Right now, there is a sweet baby boy and his darling sister, asleep upstairs. Tomorrow there will be a ballet recital for Lucy, more time discovering his toes for Desmond, the farmers' market, recipes to type, and the small joys of daily life at home.
I say yes to them both, the travel and the being home.
Thank you, Los Angeles.
When we were in Los Angeles, we had the true pleasure of sharing lunch with our good friend, Brooke. This woman is a marvelous being, deeply devoted to service and the discoveries of writing. She's incredible. She also worked as a server at Pizzeria Mozza for years. So when we mentioned that we wanted to go, she joined us there for lunch. She pulled our server aside, explained about my celiac and the need for Lucy to be gluten-free too. He nodded and assured her they would take care. Oh, they did.
That lunch at Mozza will be in my mind forever. I can still taste the roasted carrots with cumin vinaigrette, the fresh burrata, and the eggplant caponata. The pizzas looked incredible, and Danny and Patrick sure seemed to enjoy them. But I didn't need them.
Frankly, I couldn't think of anything better in the world to eat than this chopped salad. It mesmerized me when it arrived in a tower of salami, chickpeas, caponata, radicchio, and provolone. I hovered my fork over it and then dove in. Honestly, I don't think I looked up until I was done. I didn't share. The dried oregano in the vinaigrette! As soon as we were home, waiting in those weeks before we left for Arizona, I made that salad several times. It's just so nourishing.
In fact, as exhausted and happy as I am now, I think I need another one this weekend. You should make one too.
(I could try to rewrite the recipe in my own voice and claim I adapted it. Forget that. The LA Times already wrote it up for you. Thanks, Russ Parsons. Thank you, Nancy Silverton. Thank you, Los Angeles.)
We'd like to send out a huge acknowledgment and thank you to Erewhon Organic for sponsoring this California tour. Without them, we wouldn't have been able to meet you and gather material for our next cookbook. Erewhon Organic makes some of our favorite foods in the world, including their new quinoa-chia cereal and their buckwheat-hemp cereal, which was our favorite breakfast on this tour. They do things right.


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In a HardTalk interview first broadcast on Wednesday 26th March, Stephen Sackur talks to Changhua Wu, Greater China Director for The °Climate Group about climate change in China and how government and business are responding to it.
Watch this interview now from the BBC.
China's impressive economic performance may help to prevent a global slow-down, but how big a toll will it take on the environment?
The government has repeatedly made it clear that it will not curb emissions at the expense of growth.
Changhua Wu is the Greater China Director of The °Climate Group, a non-profit organisation dedicated to advancing business and government leadership on climate change.
What kind of action is she pressing for, and how successful can she hope to be?


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Partitioning both Storages for Backup and Reuse/Recrawling
- Use case.
- After each DFP it should be possible to store records in a separate partition, that can be accessed later.
- Changes in XML and Bin storage.
- To support partitioning both XML- and Bin- storages must be able to store data to partitions. Thus XML- and Bin- storage APIs should be extended in such way that partition information will be accepted as an additional parameter when saving data. With binstorage, binary attachments can have quite a big size, thus if attachment wasn't changed from one partition to another, it's worth not to copy attachment's data for each partition but store only reference to actual attachment.
- Partitioning configuration and changes in Blackboard API.
- Partition information (partition name) can be configured into Listener Rule.
- There are following ways of how to pass partition information:
- Partition information is passed as a record Id property.
- Listener gets record from the queue and sets partition information to the record's Id property.
- Blackboard uses partition information in load and commit operations.
- In this case no significant changes are required to the blackboard API because partition information is encapsulated into record Id.
- Partition information is passed separately from record as a JMS property.
- Listener reads JMS property from the queue and makes it available for other components that will use blackboard (like processing).
- In this case there are two possibilities:
- - record is loaded (and committed) to storages using partition information. After that record can be accessed by Id from the internal blackboard cache, until commit is invoked. Implementing this way will require first to solve problems when some process wants to access already committed record.
- - all methods from blackboard API should be duplicated to handle partition name as a second parameter. In this case if record is missing into internal blackboard cache, it can be first loaded from storages using provided partition information.
- The variant 1 seems to be more useful and easy to implement because it allows to keep partition information directly into the record, thus easily pass and receive it between distributed components and also requires almost no blackboard API modifications.


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Elombe Brath: 70 Yrs Young
His knowledge of the history of African people has caused him to be a favorite of students, journalists and world leaders alike, including Presidents Sekou Touré of Guinea, Dr. Sam Nujoma of Namibia, Laurent Kabila of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Robert Mugabe among others
(His friends call him Elombe...)
This Saturday, September 30th, the Black Studies Program of City College New York, the Patrice Lumumba Coalition, the Committee to Eliminate Media Offensive To African People (CEMOTAP) and the Pan-African community will pay tribute to veteran Pan-African activist, historian and artist Elombe Brath his 70th birthday and his 50 years of Pan-African activism.
The event will take place at City College's NAC building on Convent Avenue at 137th Street, beginning at 4 PM. This tribute will re-start the African Internationalist Forums that many are demanding to keep the community apprised of developments internationally and how they impact on Black people on a day-to-day basis.     Â
When it comes to Africa and the history of Black struggle in the US or elsewhere, Elombe has been considered, as originally deemed by Rev. Herbert Daughtry, "The Walking Encyclopediaâ€?. His knowledge of the history of African people has caused him to be a favorite for information for students, journalists and world leaders alike, including Presidents Sekou Touré of Guinea, Dr. Sam Nujoma of Namibia, Laurent Kabila of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe among others.      Â
Elombe, the Chairman of the Patrice Lumumba Coalition, (PLC) since it's formation in 1975, has been active in the struggle since 1956 when he "discovered� the "Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey� and the teachings of Carlos A. Cooks, administrator of the African Nationalist Pioneer Movement (ANPM). That same summer, he co-founded the Jazz-Art Society, an organization of young artist and jazz lovers that were concerned with the disparity of how the Black jazz musicians, the creator of the art form, were paid and treated in the industry as opposed to how the white musicians that drew to the music were paid and treated for parroting the music.
The Jazz-Art Society brought together artists, musicians, dancers and poetry that gave rise to the Black Arts Movement nine year later. With Garveyism at its core, the Jazz-Art Society soon became the African Jazz-Art Society promoting under that name until the moved their operations from the Brathwaite household, to a newly opened studio on 125th Street next to the Apollo on October 1, 1961, and officially became the African Jazz-Art Society & Studios (AJASS). They made that move after attending the ANPM's Marcus Garvey Day Celebration, Parade and Eulogistic Mass Meeting at which one of its components, "The Miss Natural Standard of Beauty� contest was a feature. The contest brought young Black women together to compete in a beauty pageant in which they had to wear the hair in its natural state and compete without make-up as well as answer questions about our history.
Members of the ANPM would recruit the girls and convince them to wear their hair in its natural state for the competition. The contest, had been held since 1943 on August 17th Garvey's birthday, and the cash prize was given to the winner on the following Sunday night meeting. Usually, by the Sunday meeting the winners had straightened their hair again to go to school or work.
This gave Elombe the idea to form a group that would promote our natural standard of beauty. AJASS, who had been involved in various fashion shows, including ones promoted by Harlem tailor shop owned, Lou Borders with mostly light skinned girls (the order of the times), and his Continental Male Models began recruiting models the had a more African look, dark and more voluptuous and who felt proud wear their hair natural. That was the beginning of the Grandassa Models and the "Naturallyâ€? shows that promoted and spread the idea of "Black Is Beautiful.â€?     Â
Elombe's work for the African liberation struggle, holding panels, rallies and speaking at colleges and universities and community forums, for the independence of Angola, Guinea Bissau, Mozambique, Namibia and his anti-apartheid work for the release of Nelson Mandela and for majority rule of South Africa (years before the 1986 campaign that brought popular politicians to the cause), is well known around the globe.
His support of Guinea in their struggle to maintain their independence despite the war waged against them by the former colonial invaders, Portugal, earned him the Croix de Chivalry from President Touré and the government of Guinea. His work with Unity In Action (which he headed) and the African Liberation Support Committee is greatly responsible for countering the millions of dollars spent by the illegal regime in South Africa to get to the minds of the American public and keep them silent to the injustices that were perpetrated on the majority population of South Africa and Namibia.Â
This earned him the right to be the master of ceremonies at the 1990 tribute to Nelson and Winnie Mandela in Harlem, where more than 200,000 people gathered to salute one of the greatest "Freedom Fightersâ€? of modern times, four months after he was released from a 27 year term in prison, where he might still be today if not for the struggle of the masses around the world and the crushing defeat of the South African army by the forces SWAPO'S People's Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN) , Angola's Angolan People's Liberation Armed Forces (FAPLA) and Cuban International Army Volunteers at Cuito Cuanavale.     Â
For these, and many other actions in support of Black people, including the many struggles here in the U.S., (Mumia Abu Jamal, MOVE, the New York 8 Case, and other Black and Puerto Rican political prisoners as well as the Cuban Five), and he was one of the loudest and most consistence voices in defense of the falsely accused youth charged and incarcerated in the Central Park case. The community will come out and celebrate this Living Legend of African Liberation—Elombe Brath.
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Depression: A genetic Faustian bargain with infection? [Emily Deans/Evolutionary Psychiatry]. Discusses the Pathogen Host Defense (PATHOS-D) theory of depression described by Raison and Miller [pdf]. Genes that make people susceptible to depression may also protect them from infection. Depression is associated with brain inflammation; inflammation is also part of the immune response that combats infectious disease. "Since infections in the developing world tend to preferentially kill young children, there is strong selection pressure for genes that will save you when you are young, even if those genes have a cost later in life."
The people of the petabyte [Venkatesh Rao/Forbes blogs]. An "informal taxonomy and anthropological survey of data-land" based on Rao's observations at the Strata conference. Apparently everyone's a data scientist now:
The taxonomy part is simple. Apparently the list of species in data land is very short. It has only one item:
- Data scientist
What is the value of big data research vs. good samples [from LinkedIn Advanced Business Analytics, Data Mining and Predictive Modeling group]. Interesting and lengthy discussion from LinkedIn's Advanced Business Analytics, Data Mining, and Predictive Modeling group on whether/when sampling vs. big data sets should be used.
The real-world experiment: New application development paradigm in the age of big data [James Kobielus/Forrester].
This year and beyond, we will see enterprises place greater emphasis on real-world experiments as a fundamental best practice to be cultivated and enforced within their data science centers of excellence. In a next best action program, real-world experiments involve iterative changes to the analytics, rules, orchestrations, and other process and decision logic embedded in operational applications. You should monitor the performance of these iterations to gauge which collections of business logic deliver the intended outcomes, such as improved customer retention or reduced fulfillment time on high-priority orders.


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The Three Musketeers (2011)
The hot-headed young D'Artagnan along with three former legendary but now down on their luck Musketeers must unite and defeat a beautiful double agent and her villainous employer from seizing the French throne and engulfing Europe in war.
After failing in a scheme to steal Leonardo Da Vinci's airship blueprints, the Musketeers are disbanded by Cardinal Richelieu leaving Athos, Porthos and Aramis on the streets of Paris. In the meantime, the young, reckless and ambitious D'Artagnan has set off from Gascony with dreams of becoming a musketeer himself, not realizing that they have been disbanded. In no time, D'Artagnan manages to offend Athos, Porthos and Aramis on different occasions and challenges them all to duels. However before the duels can take place they are attacked by guards, trying to arrest them for illegal dueling. The ex-musketeers and D'Artagnan fight off the soldiers, leading to the four men becoming a band with the motto of "All for one, and one for all". Count Richelieu is not only determined to be rid of the musketeers, but also schemes with Athos' former lover Milady to undermine the reign of King Louis and his wife. The musketeers and D'Artagnan are determined to save the royal family and France itself.
- In Venice, the Three Musketeers Athos (Matthew Macfadyen), Porthos (Ray Stevenson) and Aramis (Luke Evans), with the help of Athos' lover, Milady de Winter (Milla Jovovich), steal airship blueprints made by Leonardo da Vinci. However, they are betrayed by Milady, who gives the blueprints to the Duke of Buckingham (Orlando Bloom). Upon returning to France, the Musketeers are forced to disband by Cardinal Richelieu (Christoph Waltz) for their failure.
One year later, the young D'Artagnan (Logan Lerman) leaves Gascony for Paris in hopes of becoming a Musketeer, like his father once was, only to learn that they no longer exist. D'Artagnan ends up challenging Captain Rochefort (Mads Mikkelsen), the leader of Richelieu's guard, to a duel after being offended by him, but Rochefort merely shoots him while he's distracted. In an attempt to get revenge, D'Artagnan offends Athos, Porthos and Aramis for petty reasons, and schedules duels with each of them, at the same day and at the same place, but in different times, not knowing who they are.
Before they can duel, however, D'Artagnan and the Musketeers are attacked by the guards for breaking the law by having a public duel. They fight the soldiers off, at which point D'Artagnan discovers their true identities, but end up being captured and brought before the young King Louis XIII (Freddie Fox) and his wife, Queen Anne (Juno Temple). Richelieu attempts to convince them to execute the four prisoners, but they are too impressed, and congratulate them instead, much to Richelieu's anger.
Later, Richelieu meets with Milady, who is actually working for him. He orders her to plant false love letters among Queen Anne's possessions and steal Queen Anne's diamond necklace and hide it in the Tower of London with the objective of framing Queen Anne of having an affair with the Duke of Buckingham, who is in France on behalf of the King of England, and who has built a fully armed airship using the designs stolen from the Musketeers. The affair would force King Louis to execute Queen Anne and declare war on England. At this point, the people would demand a more experienced leader for the country: Richelieu himself. Before leaving, Milady demands that Richelieu gives her an authorization declaring that she was working on behalf of France's best interests.
However, Queen Anne's lady-in-waiting Constance Bonacieux (Gabriella Wilde) discovers his plan and pleads with the Musketeers to stop Richelieu. They follow Milady and Buckingham to London, while Constance is kidnapped by Rochefort for helping the Musketeers to escape from him. Meanwhile, King Louis finds the false letters and is advised by Richelieu to set up a ball in which Queen Anne would be forced to wear the necklace. If she doesn't, then her affair is real, and there will be war.
In London, Milady warns Buckingham of the Musketeers arrival, claiming that they want revenge for being outsmarted by Buckingham one year prior. Buckingham captures D'Artagnan and prepares to interrogate him when D'Artagnan reveals that he was acting as a decoy to allow the Musketeers to steal Buckingham's airship. They rescue D'Artagnan and capture Milady, who gives them the authorization in an attempt to have her life spared. Upon realizing she failed, she jumps out of the airship into the English Channel.
The Musketeers recover the necklace and return to Paris, only to be attacked by Rochefort, piloting an airship secretly built by Richelieu, who was given copies of Da Vinci's blueprints by Milady. Rochefort feigns an attempt to exchange Constance for the necklace in order to capture D'Artagnan, but the Musketeers come to his rescue and the two ships crash in the Notre Dame Cathedral, where D'Artagnan fights and defeats Rochefort, rescuing Constance, who returns the necklace to Queen Anne.
The Musketeers arrive at the ball and, for the sake of King Louis' and his people, lie by saying that Rochefort was trying to sabotage an airship that Richelieu built for them, for the purpose of identifying a traitor. To convince King Louis, Athos presents Milady's authorization, which King Louis accepts. Richelieu, satisfied, offers the Musketeers a place in his army, but they refuse, which infuriates Richelieu, who swears revenge.
Meanwhile, at sea, Milady is rescued by Buckingham, who reveals that he intents to avenge her and destroy the Musketeers. It is revealed that Buckingham is advancing towards France with a massive fleet of airships and sea-faring ships.


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Something that's lost within the complex realm of discussing pattern baldness is the actual function of hair. While I plan to cover the topic in my upcoming free book, The Baldness Field, it might be nice to compile some of my thoughts here as I'm not sure when the book will be completed.
The issue of politics keeps arising on the live streams, and rather than clumsily explain myself at a time that I would normally in bed, I thought it would be fun to jot down some thoughts for anyone who is interested in the subject.
One of the oldest explanations for baldness in the Western world was the "exhaustion of nervous energy"—that is, the health and capability of the nervous system. In the 1881 book, American Nervousness, George W. Beard explains that baldness and many other problems increase at the expense of nervous energy due to the stress and strain of modern life.
Over the years, a few people have been interested in the ability of antihistamine drugs to completely reverse baldness. For instance, in a small group of ten women with so-called androgenic alopecia an antihistamine called cimetidine showed good to excellent regrowth of hair in seven out of the ten women.[1] In addition to hair regrowth, acne, seborrhea, and hirsutism, which were present in three of the patients, showed significant improvement. Most of the women said that their scalps had become less greasy taking the drug similar to Hamilton's famous immune-to-baldness castrates.
One of my favorite films of 2014 was The Internet's Own Boy, a film that chronicled the life and death of boy genius and anti-authoritarian activist, Aaron Swartz. Almost immediately after the film was over (you can watch it here on YouTube), I remember reaching out to my friend Karen to tell her how much I enjoyed the film. Half way into our conversation we both noted that Aaron had a great head of hair, and Karen went on to say that she noticed that Aaron's hair seemed to dim during the times of the film that the documentary discussed Aaron's digestive ailment, Crohn's disease.
Recently, I've been writing about a possible explanation for the "horseshoe" shape of pattern baldness, as well as a more specific pathology for the loss hair. I tackled these subjects a little bit in The Baldness Field but ironically didn't go over them at all in the book, Hair Like a Fox. I think this was because, 1) I didn't know and, 2) I didn't have the same access to research that I do now. Access to research is actually one of the biggest steps forward I've ever encountered, and being able to peruse the history of baldness—while others cannot—is a certifiable tragedy.
To understand the current state of the alternative health universe, you have to understand where Kurt Harris fits in. Kurt was one of the first intelligent people I came across in my health journey, and at the time, similar to Matt Stone, had a large effect on me. While some people think his synthesis propelled him into the territory of a Masterjohn or a Guyenet, I think his rise to stardom was mostly due to his humor.
After consuming only meat and water everyday for two years, there came a point where I felt like I was constantly on edge. This feeling was not only evident to me, but anyone who was around me on a regular basis, especially my former band mates. For instance, the singer of Takota, who I was closest to, told me that 99% of the time he was around he felt like he was walking on eggshells. This eggshell walking was most evident on tour, where I was a complete raging lunatic — regularly throwing temper tantrums in protest of the guitar player's actions who I had a love/hate relationship with. In retrospect, this orientation is almost expected given my my no-carb diet, which induced a state of near constant low blood sugar.
In 1950 Szasz et al. noticed something that anyone who has ever visited a baldness forum is well aware of: Men experiencing pattern baldness tend to have defensive attitudes.[1] While one only needs to venture to the Hair Loss Help forum thread entitled, "If you're bald you don't need to kill yourself, you're already dead" to view an example of the despair and hopelessness in the balding community,[2] Szasz et al. came to their conclusion after observing that "toothy smiles" and ridged facial expressions were common among balding males.
There are real differences between the frontal, parietal, temporal, and occipital regions of the scalp. Mainline baldness research typically attributes these differences to the area's sensitivity to androgens, but a recent shift has taken place, propelling hair loss research out of the dark ages towards an era of holism.
In his book, The Living State, Albert Szent-Györgyi defined the complexity of life by the degree of "electronic desaturation" or the mobility of electrons. An electron itself, has no energy, but by dropping from a higher to a lower level, can give off energy.
Iron is a very basic anti-respiratory factor, inhibiting the last crucial step of oxidative mitochondrial metabolism, cytochrome c oxidase.[1] Iron tends to accumulate with age in both sexes,[2] but to a lesser degree in women due to the menstrual cycle. However, this "iron advantage"—which may help explain the increased longevity of females—is lost at menopause.
Tying together the role of unsaturated fats, carbon dioxide, progesterone, estrogen, prolactin, and thyroid in the genesis of pattern hair loss is the unusual phenomenon of neonatal "male-pattern baldness" (NPB).
Citizen hair loss scientists are certain about a few things:
- DHT, or rather the genetically determined androgen receptor, is the cause of baldness.
- Finasteride, minoxidil, and nizoral ("the big 3") are the only effective treatments for pattern hair loss.
- And most importantly, based on a series of deductions that have nothing to do with current body of evidence surrounding hair loss, they have determined that diet and lifestyle have nothing to do with the genesis of so-called male-pattern baldness.
In the 2013 release of, HAIR LIKE A FOX, I hypothesized that castrated males were resistant to baldness because they had higher levels of progesterone, and lower levels of estrogen and prolactin, which cause metabolic stress. Progesterone not only supports mitochondrial energy metabolism (which appears to go off the rails in pattern hair loss), but also efficient blood circulation in the scalp, which is impaired in baldness.
Recently, I was extremely fortunate to have a dump truck of papers I've been itching to read delivered to my inbox. The most notable was Paul Taylor's 2009 paper, Big head? Bald head? Skull expansion: alternative model for the primary mechanism of androgenic alopecia.
Because some of the ideas progressed in HAIR LIKE A FOX are consistently misrepresented (or misinterpreted), I thought it might be useful to attempt to mimic a Q and A format in order to provide clarity on topics I might have failed to address clearly in the book.
The idea that genes are running the show, or "genetic determinism" courses through the veins of medical and diet culture. It has been slightly modified over the years with the emerging field of "epigenetics" (i.e., genes are "turned on or off" by environmental factors), but the message is still clear: We must conquer our inherited blueprints—"the genes"—if we wish to be problem free.
A couple of weekends ago, I was able to witness a few friends drop acid and wander through the vineyards of Napa Valley. This was entertaining for two reasons, 1) many of my friends are ballet dancers and upon taking the drug began an assault on the senses with aerial acrobatics, and 2) lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) is a serotonin antagonist (Martin, 1985; Gaddum and Hameed, 1954; Savini, 1956), suggesting that their actions during that time were ostensibly related to their drowned out serotonin levels.


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State Ethics officials will not rehear arguments about ethics charges against Lafourche Parish President Charlotte Randolph, but they did reduce her fine.
State Ethics officials will not rehear arguments about ethics charges against Lafourche Parish President Charlotte Randolph, but they did reduce her fine.
Randolph said she is now preparing to take her challenge to court.
Earlier this year, the state Ethics Board ruled Randolph must repay $50,000 she received from renting her camp to BP in addition to a $10,000 fine for violating laws that prohibits a public servant such as her from receiving any financial benefit from entities either seeking a contract or having a contract with the parish government.
At the time Randolph rented her Grand Isle Camp to BP, the parish was in-contract with the oil giant to receive money used to respond to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Attorneys for Randolph challenged that ruling, arguing Randolph deserved a second hearing in front of the three-person ethics adjudicatory panel that handed down the ruling.
In a five-page opinion issued this week, the panel rejected Randolph's bid for a rehearing but reduced the penalty by $5,000.
Randolph's primary argument was that the contract with BP was in effect a donation.
Her attorneys argued because the $1 million Lafourche received through the agreement was non-refundable, the contract was over once the money was given — before Randolph rented her camp.
In rejecting her plea, the board said because the agreement with BP stipulated the parish must provide annual reports on how the money was spent, it was more a contract than donation.
Randolph's attorneys also argued the fine was "draconian" and beyond what has historically been assigned for such violations.
The board reduced the fine because Randolph self-reported the violation.
"Although a $75,000 penalty could have been imposed, the (ethics panel) determined a penalty equal to the amount of economic advantage she obtained was appropriate because there was no evidence that Ms. Randolph's dealings with BP or others was affected by her receipt of $50,000 from BP," the board's response states.
On Tuesday, Randoph said she disagrees with the decision not to grant a rehearing and is preparing to challenge the fine in court using the same arguments laid out in her application for a rehearing.
She declined further comment, and her attorney Jerald Block of Thibodaux could not be reached.


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Thanks to 6,993 used tires, students at Lakeside High School in Lake Elsinore have a safer, smoother walk to and from the campus.
The city recently installed about a half-mile stretch of sidewalk leading west and south from the high school. All but a small section of the walkway consists of a surface manufactured from recycled tires, giving it a slightly springy feeling to pedestrians.
A sign posted alongside the sidewalk by the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery states the project diverted 6,993 tires from landfills.
More importantly, the pathway running along the north side of Riverside Drive from the school to Grand Avenue and along the west side of Grand to Jamieson Street means students don't have to worry about walking in the street anymore to avoid dirt, mud and brush.
"It's a lot better. It makes it a lot safer," said 17-year-old Wyatt Johnathan, a resident of a nearby neighborhood. "(Before) there was just dirt and grass.
Lakeside High student Colin Marcal, a 17-year-old junior, said that when he saw the sidewalk was being installed, he was enthusiastic.
"It was great, because without the sidewalk it felt dangerous," he said. "It's basically a safety issue for me."
Because his school day starts early, he said he often finds himself walking to the campus in the dark, so the sidewalk will make the trek easier.
A bike lane painted on the street next to the sidewalk provides further protection by clearly showing drivers where their vehicles are supposed to be.
"It was pretty dangerous because drivers weren't supposed to use the right lane to pass, but they were," Marcal said.
Before the long-awaited project, students were often seen walking on the side of the street as vehicles whizzed by them, particularly those trying to pass on the right side.
The danger there prompted members of the Lake Elsinore Unified School District board about four years ago to seek help from the city in getting sidewalks installed because that is a city responsibility.
A video that clearly illustrated the danger was shown to the Lake Elsinore City Council and Public Safety Advisory Commission in hopes of gaining support, said Kim Cousins, the chamber of commerce president who was a school board member at the time.
"On the video tape, you literally saw a dance of destruction occurring with cars turning in and out of Grand and kids weaving their way through those cars," Cousins said.
The city applied for a federal grant distributed by the state Department of Transportation to complete the approximately $260,000 project. The work was supposed to have been done by the end of 2011, but the plan ran into red-tape-related delays from Caltrans and flood control officials.
Meanwhile, the city was able to secure the support of CalRecycle for using the recycled-tire surface.
Once all the issues were straightened out, the installation itself only took a few weeks, starting in mid-April, a city official said.
"I'm thrilled to finally see that the kids have a nice, safe path off the roadway," Cousins said.


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Taking the whole "adapt or you're road kill" thing rather literally. In the US, motor vehicles are killing about 80 million birds each year, the sort of figure that evolutionary biologists would call "selective pressure." And now, in a paper entitled "Where has all the road kill gone?", some researchers have gone out and confirmed that at least one bird population is experiencing an evolutionary response. Death-by-auto has been declining among the cliff swallows of western Nebraska for 30 years, and the researchers found that the bodies left behind after hit-and-runs had longer wings than the population as a whole. They conclude that the swallows wings are, on average, getting shorter to help them respond more quickly to oncoming traffic.
Diagnosis by text message, or "u r having a stroke." Medical authorities have become excited about the use of text messages, but mostly as an intervention—short reminders have been found to help people stay on their medications, or quit smoking. But a recent case study showed that, in rare circumstances, they be a diagnostic tool. Strokes tend to strike very specific areas of the brain, leaving surrounding ones functioning normally, which makes them hard to spot. In one case, a 40 year old male had symptoms of a stroke but could speak just fine. However, his texts had some serious issues, as they consisted of things like "Oh baby your;" and "Tjhe Doctor nddds a new bb."
Doctors are apparently calling this "dystextia," meaning "incoherent text messaging that can sometimes be confused with autocorrect garble."
Sharing a hard elbow and a bit of your microbiome. The ability to sample large bacterial populations has allowed us to get a much better grip on the bacteria living on and in our bodies (we each walk around carrying more bacterial cells than human ones). And these studies are indicating that each of us is a distinctive ecosystem, with our own collections of species and populations. But how do we manage to pick up all that diversity in the first place? A new study suggests one option: rollerderby. Researchers showed that, prior to an all-day tournament, each team started out with its own community of bacteria, which was somewhat similar among teammates. Over the course of a game, however, the two teams' microbiota started to be shared along with their sweat. They think that the same is probably true for any other contact sport, and for human contact in general.
You may feel better, but it's probably not good for you. Aside from porn and cats, the Internet seems to be made for rants. People find venting their outrage so cathartic that sites have been set up that are dedicated to hosting bile-filled rants on a variety of topics. Fortunately, a pair of researchers from Green Bay Wisconsin are here to tell you that the positive effects of catharsis may have their limits. People who chose to participate in a laboratory-supervised rant tended to fall into two categories: one that felt better after having had their say, and another that ended up even angrier than they were at the start.
Among those who enjoyed ranting, however, there were a number of signs of anger management issues, including (on average) at least one physical altercation per month and two shouting matches in the same period. About half had been told they had an anger problem. So, the study seems to indicate that people are either going to dislike rant sites or, if they find themselves enjoying posting on them, are probably having general issues with self-control.
Knowledge is overrated. People like to gamble on sports for a variety of reasons, but one of them is an sense of control—we think our knowledge of the game and teams involved can help us do better than we would in a pure game of chance, like craps. According to a study of people asked to bet on soccer, however, that sense of control is an illusion. The study involved three groups of people: professional gamblers, soccer fanatics, and a control group that was indifferent to the sport. In the end, the two best performances came out of the control group, which, as a whole, performed just as well as the gamblers and soccer fans.
So, if Harvard ruined your entire bracket yesterday, you're probably in good company.


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Street markets and craft stalls in Poble Espanyol
In various parts of the city, such as the plaça Nova, the plaça del Pi or the plaça Real, you can find street markets almost every day of the week, selling unique objects, craft work, antiques, stamps, cinema posters, records, books and coins. If you are interested in crafts, it is a good idea to go to Poble Espanyol de Montjuic where there are many workshops dedicated to ceramics, glass or toys.
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A convicted sex offender has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for repeatedly using phony credentials to gain entry into New York City jails.
Matthew Matagrano, of Yonkers, was sentenced on Thursday. He pleaded guilty last month to posing as a correction officer and sneaking into the Manhattan Detention Center.
Authorities say Matagrano tried to get inside multiple city lockups, including Rikers Island, where he mingled with inmates for hours.
During one of those visits, on Feb. 27, the 36-year-old Matagrano assaulted an inmate and stole a $2,500 walkie-talkie. He also handed out cigarettes to inmates.
Police say Matagrano, whose rap sheet includes a conviction for sodomy and sexual abuse, had said he repeatedly sneaked into jails because the people inside were "nice" and made him "feel important."


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It's easy to forget just how extreme flying used to be.
A transoceanic flight today is, if anything, annoying. You complain about it being too long to stay awake through. You complain about it being too short to get a good night's sleep through. And you complain about the inevitable jet lag.
You don't think about what it must have been like to fly across the whole thing in a tiny, creaking box knowing that nobody had ever done the trip before. It's why Lindbergh was an isolationist and got a medal from Adolph, but his flight was unprecedented, almost unbelievable.
But surely you can think of even more extreme flights from the wilder days of aviation, from the spy plane days of the Cold War, or from whenever else. What do you think remains the most amazing airplane expedition ever undertaken?
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