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Prescription Drug Forum Set for This Month At U.W. [AUDIO]
Campbell County Commissioners have asked school district officials to allow them to build a new fire station on land designated for a second high school. Doug Randall reports. a forum on prescription drug abuse is scheduled for the University of Wyoming on September 21st. U.S. Attorney's Office spokesman John Powell says prescription drug abuse is a growing problem. Click past the jump to listen to Wyoming Radio News.

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On June 19, the Centre cancelled the exam after concerns about its integrity
The new plan, unveiled days before Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda meets President Barack Obama in Washington, helps the allies work around the central but still-unresolved dispute over moving the Futenma air base from a crowded part of Okinawa to a new site that has vexed relations for years.
"I am very pleased that, after many years, we have reached this important agreement and plan of action. I applaud the hard work and effort that went into crafting it," US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said in a statement.
"Japan is not just a close ally, but also a close friend."
Under the agreement, 9,000 US Marines will be relocated. Five thousand will go to Guam and the rest to other sites such as Hawaii and Australia, a joint U.S.-Japanese statement said.
The updated version of a long-delayed 2006 plan was needed to achieve "a US force posture in the Asia-Pacific region that is more geographically distributed, operationally resilient and politically sustainable," the statement said.
Snags over Okinawa had raised questions about the viability of the Obama administration's strategy of shifting US forces from other regions to the Asia-Pacific to deal with nuclear saber-rattling by North Korea, the rapid military buildup of China and territorial disputes in the South China Sea.
Friction over US bases intensified after the 1995 gang rape of a Japanese schoolgirl by US servicemen. The case sparked widespread protests by Okinawans, who had long resented the American presence due to crime, noise and deadly accidents.
There are about 47,000 US troops in Japan under a 1960 bilateral security treaty.
Okinawa, occupied by the United States from 1945-72, accounts for less than 1 percent of Japan's total land but hosts three-quarters of the US military facilities in the country in terms of land area.
"This has been ... bogged down for years, but now we have been able to come up with a new approach de-linking the Futenma relocation from other elements, like moving out Marine forces to Guam and returning some parts of Okinawa," said Ichiro Fujisaki, Japan's ambassador to the United States.
"Things are going to start moving," he told a gathering at a think tank in Washington.
Kurt Campbell, assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, said the deal was discussed widely with US lawmakers, who had refused to fund the overhaul on Okinawa until the Futenma deadlock was resolved and the administration fully explained how the move would fit overall US strategy.
"We think it breaks a very long stalemate ... that has plagued our politics, that has clogged both of our systems," said Campbell.
"Rebalancing" toward Asia-Pacific
A senior State Department official said: "This is really a key component of our strategic rebalancing toward the Asia-Pacific region."
The new policy has also entailed closer US military ties with the Philippines, Australia and Singapore.
The agreement includes a $3.1 billion cash commitment from Japan for the move to Guam as well as for developing joint training ranges on Guam and on Tinian and Pagan in the U.S.-controlled Northern Mariana Islands.
The previous agreement on the move to Guam had Japan providing $6.1 billion in support, with $2.8 billion in cash and the rest in financing arrangements. The two sides agreed to limit that to $3.1 billion from Japan because of the smaller footprint the Marines will have in Guam
Campbell acknowledged that more work needed to be done, including finding a replacement for Futenma.
Proposed replacement sites for Futenma on the subtropical island that lies between Japan's main islands and Taiwan have met strong local opposition. At the same time Tokyo was in political disarray, with six prime ministers in six years.
"Does this agreement answer every question? It does not. Is there more programmatic and technical work that is necessary? Yes," said Campbell.
"But at a fundamental level, we think this agreement moves the ball very substantially down the field in a way that no one would have anticipated a few months ago," he said.
Separating the move to Guam from the Futenma issue frees up the allies to work more on cybersecurity, space, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations and ballistic missile defense, a senior US Defense Department official said.
Senators Carl Levin, John McCain and Jim Webb - top members of the US Senate Armed Services Committee who had frozen Okinawa funding until their budgetary and strategic questions were answered - said some of their concerns had been addressed.
"We still have many questions about the specific details of this statement and its implications for our force posture in the Asia-Pacific region," they said in a statement, which also vowed to keep working on "a mutually beneficial, militarily effective, and fiscally sustainable agreement" on Okinawa and Guam.
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Dick & Helene Willems began making cheese here in the Cork Gaeltacht in 1979, and their famous gouda style cheese is now made by their son Dicky.
Made with the pasteurised milk of a neighbouring herd, it is a typically smooth, dense-textured cheese which deepens in colour and flavour as it matures. Easily recognised by its shiny yellow rind and distinctive labelling, it is available from three months old, when the young cheese is mild and creamy, up to 18 months when it has developed a drier, slightly crystalline texture and intense flavour with hints of toffee.
Although best known for their Coolea Mature, Coolea is available plain and in several flavours (Herbs and Garlic; Cumin Seed); it is widely distributed and can be purchased from the farm.


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A new kind of counting
Göttingen-based scientists are developing a computer algorithm to solve previously unsolvable counting problems
How many different sudokus are there? How many different ways are there to color in the countries on a map? And how do atoms behave in a solid? Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Göttingen and at Cornell University (Ithaca, USA) have now developed a new method that quickly provides an answer to these questions. In principle, there has always been a way to solve them. However, computers were unable to find the solution as the calculations took too long. With the new method, the scientists look at separate sections of the problem and work through them one at a time. Up to now, each stage of the calculation has involved the whole map or the whole sudoku. The answers to many problems in physics, mathematics and computer science can be provided in this way for the first time. (New Journal of Physics, February 4, 2009)
Whether sudoku, a map of Germany or solid bodies - in all of these cases, it's all about counting possibilities. In the sudoku, it is the permitted solutions; in the solid body, it is the possible arrangements of atoms. In the map, the question is how many ways the map can be colored so that adjacent countries are always shown in a different color. Scientists depict these counting problems as a network of lines and nodes. Consequently, they need to answer just one question: How many different ways are there to color in the nodes with a certain number of colors? The only condition: nodes joined by a line may not have the same color. Depending on the application, the color of a node is given a completely new significance. In the case of the map, "color" actually means color; with sudoku the "colors" represent different figures.
"The existing algorithm copies the whole network for each stage of the calculation and only changes one aspect of it each time," explains Frank van Bussel of the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPIDS). Increasing the number of nodes dramatically increases the calculation time. For a square lattice the size of a chess board, this is estimated to be many billions of years. The new algorithm developed by the Göttingen-based scientists is significantly faster. "Our calculation for the chess board lattice only takes seven seconds," explains Denny Fliegner from MPIDS.
This is how it's done: With the new method, the researchers move through the network node by node. As if the computer program were short-sighted, it only ever looks at the next node point and not at the whole network. At the first node point, it cannot finalize the color selection as it would have to know how all the other nodes are connected to each other. However, instead of answering this question, the program notes down a formula for the first lattice point which contains this uncertainty as an unknown quantity. As it progresses through the network, all the connections become visible and the unknown quantities are eliminated. Having arrived at the final node point, the program's knowledge of the network is complete.
This new method can be used on much more complicated cases than the existing standard algorithm. "We can now answer many questions in physics, graph theory and computer science that have hitherto been practically unsolvable," says Marc Timme from MPIDS. "For example, our method can be applied to antiferromagnetic solids," he adds. In these solid bodies, every atom has an internal rotational pulse, called spin, which can have different values. Usually, adjacent atoms exhibit different spins. It is now possible to calculate the number of possible spin arrangements, which will allow physicists to draw conclusions about the fundamental characteristics of the thermodynamics of solid bodies.


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(by Andy Kessler, The Wall Street Journal, WSJ.com) – This fall, the Chinese National University of Defense Technology announced that it had created the world's fastest supercomputer, Tianhe-1A, which clocks in at 2.5 petaflops (or 2,500 trillion operations) per second. This is the shape of the world to come-but not in the way you might think.
Powering the Tianhe-1A are some three million processing cores from Nvidia, the Silicon Valley company that has sold hundreds of millions of graphics chips for videogames. That's right-every time someone fires up a videogame like Call of Duty or World of Warcraft, the state of the art in technology advances. Hug a geek today.
What a switch. For centuries, the military has driven technology forward, fostering new waves of industrialization and corporate use. James Watt's steam engine was perfected with the help of a cannon-boring tool. Computers were created during World War II to calculate artillery firing and to break codes. The military bought half of all semiconductors until the late 1960s. Even the first global-positioning systems (GPS) were funded by Congress, not for navigation but as a nuclear detonation detection system. Add microwave ovens from radar, Blu-ray discs from lasers, or Velcro and Tang from NASA, and there's no doubt how much government acquisition programs have shaped our lives.
Fifty years ago, President Eisenhower was worried enough to declare that "We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex." No need to worry anymore. That game (pardon the pun) is over: Welcome to the entertainment-industrial complex.
Consider the Apple iPhone, often touted as the tech symbol of our era. It's actually more evolutionary than revolutionary. Much of its technology-color LCD displays, low power usage, precision manufacturing-was perfected for hand-held videogames like the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP, which sold in the tens of millions. Think about how much more productively workers are now able to communicate because of some silly games.
It's all about productivity. [A few weeks ago], kids of all ages dropped everything to plug a $150 device called Kinect into their Microsoft Xbox 360 game consoles. Five million sold in [November and December]. Kinect, which uses algorithms to recognize faces and gestures and respond to voice commands, allows Xbox players to use only their own movements, no controllers or button pushes needed.
Sure, there are still some algorithms developed for, say, F-16 pilots' fire control. But without gaming, this technology would be expensive, one-off stuff that never sees much use. Much as keyboards and mice and fast graphics have driven corporate productivity for 40 years-killing carbon paper and Correcto Type-the next decades will be driven by tools that can harness voices and gestures.
All it takes is one application. High-margin industries like finance usually deploy these things first: The early adopters could be traders in commodity pits signaling like crazy folk. The rest will follow.
Videogames will influence how next-gen workers interact with each other. Call of Duty, a military simulation game, has a mode that allows players to cooperate from remote locations. In World of Warcraft, players form guilds to collaborate, using real-time texting and talking, to navigate worlds presented in high-resolution graphics. Sure, they have funky weapons and are killing Orcs and Trolls and Dwarves, but you don't have to be a gamer to see how this technology is going to find its way into corporate America. Within the next few years, this is how traders or marketers or DNA hunters will work together. No more meetings!
Even the entertainment and media businesses will be transformed. In 1985, Neil Postman of New York University wrote a book, "Amusing Ourselves to Death," disparaging the media for ruining discourse. Postman died in 2003, but I wonder what he'd think today: Online ad sales are now more lucrative than newspaper advertising, as marketers follow their customers. Netflix video streaming will change the cable TV business. The videogames Rock Band and Guitar Hero have taught the media how to package something that's at least 30 years old, in this case music you play along with, and sell it as if it were new.
So why has the military been displaced? For one, capital formation. Governments had the unique capacity to raise (read: tax) the enormous capital needed to fund state-of-the-art projects. But a fully functioning stock market can raise billions for productive commercial applications, bypassing the military connection. Hate Wall Street all you want, but it's now better than wars at driving progress.
Second, displacing the military is about high sales volume. Often that means lower costs. The $300 Roomba automatic vacuum, which the company iRobot says it has sold to five million customers, helps drive down the cost of the Army's robotic bomb removers. Volume is especially good at spurring the creation of new applications. Hardware is nothing without software and apps. Caffeine-fueled coders won't even think about writing apps unless there are millions, if not tens of millions, of potential customers.
Once consumers adapt to these entertaining applications, corporations figure out how to use them to increase productivity. Smart companies are harnessing Facebook connections. Twitter all of a sudden matters. Voice recognition is displacing operators and other frontline workers. Next in the work place will be 3D technology.
The economy is not going to create wealth just because we print dollars, build fast trains, put up windmills, or even assemble military supercomputers. (For the record, Google has the largest and fastest supercomputer, spread over dozens of data centers.) Even China will someday learn that wealth only comes from productivity. That's found in a different place every cycle-and the stock market will find it first and fund its expansion. So where is it now? It's staring us in the face and amusing us to a better life.
Mr. Kessler, a former hedge-fund manager, is the author of "Eat People-And Other Unapologetic Rules for Game-Changing Entrepreneurs," forthcoming from Portfolio.
Copyright 2010 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. Published January 3, 2011 at The Wall Street Journal. Reprinted here February 3, 2011. All Rights Reserved. Reprinted here for educational purposes only. Visit the website at wsj.com.
1. What is the main idea of Andy Kessler's commentary?
2. Are you surprised that until recently the military has driven technology forward? Explain your answer.
3. a) What do you think of the way videogame technology has replaced the military in technological innovation?
b) Ask a parent the same question.
4. From para. 12: "Volume is especially good at spurring the creation of new applications." Had you heard this idea before now?


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Basically I thought it would be a good idea to have a thread going so we could keep a list of which drivers plan on choosing which numbers they want for the forthcoming season.
If you hear any rumours, stick them in here. I'll start off (also try to cite your sources, makes it more reliable):
Nico Rosberg: 6, 5, 9 (autosport)
Sergio Perez: 11 (autosport)
Jean-Eric Vergne: 25, 21, 27 (F1 Fanatic Tweet)
Sorry to be pedantic, but the title should say 'Who's' rather than 'Whose'.
Perez choosing 11 is hilarious, considering that is where he has finished most of the time.
Massa wants 19:
@Meander Indeed – it was his championship finishing position last year.
Interesting bias towards odd numbers so far.
Perhaps an even number has in recent times inferred secondary status within a team.
Kimi will go for 7.
or 69.
I think Massa would have got 19 anyway under the old system… Is his brother number 19 too? (dudumassa19)
Bottas mentioned 77 when driver numbers were first mentioned
@tomccoll Yes, that's an interesting tendency developing there. It could well be because of the nr. 1 driver "feeling", plus the fact that maybe historical drivers sported an uneven number for that reason.
Or maybe there is the psychological factor of uneven being slightly unbalanced, sharper, edgier, faster?
But who knows, maybe things will even out in the end (no pun intended).
I'm sure someone will get #46 tho, so that'll break the odds.
Bo77as doesn't look too bad, actually!
Vettel should get either 8 or 92, just to make his mission statement clear.
Here's Perez talking about why he wants 11:
@meander – I think you are reading waaaaay too much into things there.
@prisoner-monkeys Maybe. I'm not saying they are doing this on purpose. I'm just musing about what could be behind 90% of confirmed requested numbers being uneven. There's always something behind anybody's choosing behaviour, be it about numbers or the preferred colour of a car.
Anyway, as I said, in the end it might be back to 50/50, and it's not important, just mildly interesting.


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An underappreciated fact about U.S. Constitutional law is that it recognizes sources of authority prior to the U.S. Constitution itself. It is settled law that the Bill of Rights, in particular, does not confer rights, it only recognizes "natural rights" which pre-exist the Bill of Rights and the Constitution and which – this is the key point – cannot be abolished by amending the Constitution.
What is the nature of these "natural rights"? The Founding Fathers of the U.S. spoke of them as an endowment by the Creator in the Declaration of Independence. This is, in modern terms, a much less religious statement than meets the eye. At the time the Declaration was written, many forward-thinking intellectuals (influenced by a now-largely-extinct movement called Deism) used the terms "God" and "Natural Law" almost interchangeably. (I have written before about how later waves of religious revival have obscured this point.)
In modern terms, we can think of "natural rights" as the political and social rules which are required to sustain "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness", and derive them not from religion but from game-theoretic analysis of the behavior of competing agents in a political system.
The theorists of English Republicanism in the century and a half before the Declaration of Independence did not have the language of economics or game theory, but they developed a pretty firm grasp on the theory of natural rights by studying the historical failure modes of various political systems.
The English Republican defenses of (for example) the right to free speech were very simple: if these are not the rules of your polity, your polity will come to a bad end in tyranny and chaos and great suffering. In modern terms, they were seeking stable cooperative equilibria under the recognition that most possible sets of political rules do not yield it.
This was the thinking behind the U.S. Constitution, in general, and the Bill of Rights in particular. Because natural rights are a consequence of natural law, no law can abrogate them. Laws which intend to abrogate them are contrary to the purpose of law itself, which is to sustain a stable cooperative equilibrium in which humans can flourish, and therefore no one is bound to obey them.
This is written into black-letter law in the U.S. about even the most contentious of the ten articles of the Bill of Rights, the Second Amendment. In United States v. Cruikshank, 92 U. S. 542, 553 (1876), the Supreme Court said of the individual right to bear arms "[t]his is not a right granted by the Constitution. Neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence." This language was quoted and reaffirmed in the 2008 Heller vs. D.C. decision.
Neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence. This is English Republicanism's theory of natural rights limiting not merely what the law can do, but what amendments to the Constitution can do. The right to bear arms (and the right to free speech, and the other rights recognized by the first ten amendments) are not conditional; they are not grants made by law, government, or the Constitution that can be withdrawn by amending these institutions. They are prior to all this apparatus.
Switching back to a game-theoretical perspective, we can to some extent discover the meaning and extent of these rights by investigating their consequences. We can ask of rival interpretations of edge cases around these rights whether they support or hinder stable cooperative equilibrium. What we cannot do is pretend that the broad thrust of these rights is negotiable without fundamentally repudiating the entirety of the American system clear back to the Constitution and its pre-Constitutional foundations.
This has mainly been an essay about the meaning of "natural rights" and the relationship between law, philosophy, and the Constitution. But I mean to give it teeth by addressing one current political issue: could the First or Second Amendments be, in any meaningful sense, repealed? Can any legal or Constitutional process abolish the individual rights to free speech and to bear arms?
It should be clear from the foregoing that the answer is "no". Amendment of the Constitution cannot abolish a right that was not granted by the Constitution in the first place. People who fail to grasp this understand neither the law, nor the Constitution, nor the Constitution's ethical foundations.


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"He giveth more grace" – James 4:6
"He increaseth strength" – Isaiah 40:29
"Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied" – Jude 2
He giveth more grace when the burdens grow greater,
He sendeth more strength when the labors increase;
To added affliction He addeth His mercy,
To multiplied trials, His multiplied peace.
When we have exhausted our store of endurance,
When our strength has failed ere the day is half done,
When we reach the end of our hoarded resources,
Our Father's full giving is only begun.
His love has no limit, His grace has no measure;
His power no boundary known unto men;
For out of His infinite riches in Jesus
He giveth and giveth and giveth again.
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I won't go into the exact details of why we needed to do this, but the general break down is thus:
- Get a list of connected IP addresses
- Sort them
- Count how many connections were made from a single address
Fortunately, the solution turns out to be quite easy. For FreeBSD:
netstat -anfinet | grep -v 127.0.0.1 | awk '{ print $5 }' | \ grep -E '.*([0-9]{1,4}\.)+.*' | sed 's/\(.*\)\..*/\1/' | \ sort -g -k 1 | uniq -c | sort -n -k 1 |
And for most derivatives of Linux:
netstat -anW --tcp --udp | grep -v 127.0.0.1 | awk '{ print $5 }' | \ grep --color=never -E '.*[0-9]{1,4}(\.|\:).*' | sed 's/\(.*\)\:.*/\1/' | \ sort -g -k 1 | uniq -c | sort -n -k 1 |
You may need to modprobe sctp
to get the --tcp
and --udp
flags working. Also, both of these should work with IPv6 addresses, too, which is why I've tried to keep the sed
regex as simple as possible.
What the Eff is This?!
Okay, I agree. I've probably made some kind of mistake somewhere; I don't know awk
or sed
quite as well as I should (easily fixed, if I ever wanted to spend a weekend learning). That said, here's my understanding of how this should work. First, we'll deal with the FreeBSD derivative, line by line:
Here is a breakdown for the FreeBSD-specific stuff:
netstat -anfinet | grep -v 127.0.0.1 | awk '{ print $5 }' | \ |
As with all platforms I'm aware, -an
shows all connections by their numerical addresses. netstat
prefers to perform a reverse lookup on every address, and this can take some time. However, the FreeBSD-specific option -f inet
specifies to only show INET (IPv4/IPv6) addresses and eliminates much of the cruft associated with local Unix domain sockets. Likewise, we trim localhost from the list with grep -v
, and we fetch the 5th output column using awk
grep -E '.*([0-9]{1,4}\.)+.*' | sed 's/\(.*\)\..*/\1/' | \ |
Moving on to the next line, we fetch only those lines that contain something that vaguely resembles an IP address with grep -E
(I prefer to use -E
here since it gives us the extended regex syntax), and we pass the results into sed to strip off the trailing remote host's port number. Alternatively, you could use something like 's/^\([0-9]\{1,3\}\.[0-9]\{1,3\}\.[0-9]\{1,3\}\.[0-9]\{1,3\}\).*/\1/'
instead to filter out IPv4 addresses, but since we already know roughly what to expect from the input we can simplify our regex. Furthermore, we also know that the IP address of the remote host in FreeBSD will always have a dot followed by the port number appended, and we can naively remove this.
sort -g -k 1 | uniq -c | sort -n -k 1 |
Lastly, we sort (generically, with -g
unique addresses in our list including their totals, and we sort numerically by the first column (now containing the count).
Here is a breakdown for the Linux-specific stuff:
netstat -anW --tcp --udp | grep -v 127.0.0.1 | awk '{ print $5 }' | \ |
Following in the footsteps of FreeBSD, we use -an
to display all connected numeric addresses so we don't waste time running reverse lookups. However, in most Linux distributions, lengthy columns–and especially IPv6 addresses–will be truncated by netstat's output. To counter this, we use -W
to show the wide listing, and we use --tcp
and --udp
to filter out only those protocols. You may need to modprobe sctp
in order to get this to work; if you can't, this string of commands might still work. Lastly, we filter connections to localhost with grep -v
, and we fetch the 5th column using
grep --color=never -E '.*[0-9]{1,4}(\.|\:).*' | sed 's/\(.*\)\:.*/\1/' | \ |
In this next line, we use the extended regex feature of grep -E
to filter out lines that look somewhat address-y, and we separate the remote host's address from its port using sed
. In this case, Linux appends port numbers using a colon (:), so we have to deviate slightly from the FreeBSD example. Also, since some distros might alias grep
with grep --color=auto|always
, we use --color=never
to eliminate feeding ANSI control characters to sed.
sort -g -k 1 | uniq -c | sort -n -k 1 |
Lastly, we sort by the IP address using a generic sort (-g
), filter out only those addresses that are uniq
ue, count them, and then sort by the count column which is now tacked onto the front.
Now we can get a fancy list of IP addresses, how many connections from them are being made to us, and sort them accordingly! Manipulating grep
accordingly can re-introduce localhost
or remove specific addresses that might not be of interest.


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These earrings are made using borosilicate glass teadrop beads and sterling silver french earring clasps and jump rings. These lovely and unusual beads are about 12mm x 10mm (about 3/8"), in a hand-formed teardrop shape, with a 2mm hole. These have a opaque pale pink colour.
These beads are carefully and artfully handcrafted of borosilicate glass, the same durable glass as used to make Pyrex products.
Each bead is carefully made and annealed in a kiln at over 1000 degrees Fahrenheit which makes for a stronger more durable bead. The higher temperatures are also responsible for the rich natural colors characteristic of Unicorne glass beads I use. Please note that due to the handmade nature of these beads the color may vary slightly from the photo.


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Your healthcare provider may prescribe physical therapy before or after your surgery or both. This can help ease pain, increase range of motion, and build strength. Your physical therapist will design a program for you. It will be based on your knee problem and recovery goals. This program may have office visits and a home exercise program.
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To help you heal, your physical therapist may use one or more of these:
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Closed kinetic chain exercises. These help make your joints stronger and more stable by keeping one part of the body still while the rest of the body is moving. Squats are an example of these exercises.
Aerobic exercises. These include biking and walking. They build up the leg muscles as well as the heart and lungs.
Electric stimulation (as needed). This uses a painless electric current to ease pain, decrease swelling, and rebuild muscles.
Ultrasound (as needed). This uses sound waves to help heal injured tissue.


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A Company of the Rosneft group and a company of the Alltech group finalized the creation of a joint venture (JV) for the scope of gas production and marketing projects' development in the Nenets Autonomous District.
Rosneft and ONGC Videsh Limited signed an Agreement of Confirmation of successful completion of the first stage pre-completion actions in relation to the creation of a joint venture in JSC "Vankorneft"
Rosneft, Oil India Limited and Indian Oil Corporation Limited signed a Memorandum of Understanding for cooperation for geologic survey, exploration and production of hydrocarbons onshore the Russian Federation.
On December 18, Rosneft Board of Directors considered in Vladivostok interim results of its 2015 operations, the business-plan for 2016-2017, the Long-term development program and the energy efficiency program of the Company.
Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev visited Zvezda Shipyard as part of the visiting meeting on import substitution in Vladivostok.
Rosneft signed a strategic contract with KAMAZ for the purchase of transport vehicles for the Company's use.
A large-scale range of technical and engineering measures has been completed at all Rosneft refineries
Rosneft and China Petrochemical Corporation (Sinopec group) signed a Memorandum of understanding in the area of cooperation on gas and petroleum chemicals projects to be developed in East Siberia.
Rosneft announces the closing of the transaction for the divestment of 50% shares of LLC POLAR LIGHTS COMPANY.
Rosneft and Total have closed the sale and purchase transaction concerning the 66.67% share in AET-Raffineriebeteiligungsgesellschaft mbH, representing a 16.67% effective share in PCK Raffinerie GmbH (Germany).


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Our team of penetration testers will come up with a range of phishing scenarios. We use various techniques, but they generally involve sending an email to random, or in some cases nominated, personnel. The email asks the targeted employees to take certain actions that will result in them giving sensitive information such as usernames and passwords. The responses and any information contained within will be intercepted and assessed, while redirecting users to prevent suspicion.
The identified vulnerabilities are presented in a format that allows an organisation to assess the resistance of its employees to a phishing attack.
Phishing attacks are quick and easy to implement and deliver an enormous return on investment, which has motivated criminals to create increasingly sophisticated and creative phishing 'lures'. These are often indistinguishable from genuine emails, text messages or phone calls; in general, affected users don't report the compromise until it is too late, inflicting enormous damage on your organisation. Senior management need regular assurance that staff have been properly trained on how to spot phishing emails, and the only real way to achieve this is through a simulated phishing attack.
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Brittany Littleton started "Little Luv Rescue" straight out of high school, taking in abused and neglected animals.
"Animals are my favorite part of life, I would say," Littleton says. "They're just like pure, innocent beings."
When the wildfires hit southern California, Littleton didn't hesitate to do what she does best: rescue animals. As everyone else was fleeing, Littleton drove into a fire evacuation zone to rescue livestock.
"The fire came to the top of the hill, and it was like you could feel the heat from hundreds of feet away," Littleton recalls.
Littleton and other volunteers herded sheep, goats, horses, and even turtles, into their vehicles. But they realized they had nowhere to put them.
Then, Cesar Millan, popularly known as "The Dog Whisperer," stepped up to help.
"I was raised on a farm, so I'm a farm boy. I had a pack of dogs and pigs and chickens, so to me, this is normal," Millan says.
Millan took in and tended to the rescued livestock. Many of them needed more care than others, like one llama saved from the wildfires.
"So now, the little baby maggots are coming out," Millan says, while tending to the llama.
The animal was malnourished and had an infection. In a way, the wildfire evacuation may have been a blessing in disguise.
"In her case, it actually saved her life completely," he says. "Medically, emotionally, spiritually, everything. We were not counting on looking at this."
An extreme case like that one only underscores why Littleton fell in love with rescues in the first place.
"I think everyone has that sense of like wanting to protect the innocent and animals are the innocent, and they can't get themselves out and we have them," Littleton says. "And people have purchased them or bred them or whatever, rescued them, and now have put them in a situation where they rely on us, so we can't turn our backs on them. We have to get them out to safety because we are the ones who are responsible for that."


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MEGAMAN® has supplied 6W GU10 lamps with Dim to Warm technology at Croke Park, Dublin, the 3rd largest stadium in Europe. The project involved the addition of MEGAMAN®'s LED lighting to the stadium's flagship event space to allow for total dimming control.
Croke Park is headquarters of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) attracting crowds of 82,300 to Ireland's national games – Gaelic football and hurling. The stadium is also used to accommodate a wide range of events from concerts, meetings and tradeshows to bespoke banqueting. The stadium's flagship event space, The Hogan Suite, has recently gone through a total refurbishment during which MEGAMAN®'s 6W LED GU10 lamps incorporating Dim to Warm technology were installed in conjunction to the existing 50W Halogen GU10 spotlights. The conversion was carried out by Dublin based ECI Lighting who specified the MEGAMAN® lamps as they exactly suited the dimming requirements required in this particular area. MEGAMAN®'s LED lamps with Dim to Warm provided the perfect choice for the installation as they offered superb dimming performance, with the benefit of LEDs emitting a warmer light very similar to Halogen when they are dimmed. The Dim to Warm system allows a smooth transition from 2800k to 1800k when dimmed from 100% to 10%.
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NZ processor attempts to 'allay' customer DCD concerns
The Hokitika-based firm, which boasts a portfolio including milk powders and proteins, announced in a statement that traces of DCD had been found in samples of its products manufactured before 1 November 2012.
It added, however, that evidence so far indicates that products manufactured after 1 November 2012 are free of the agricultural chemical.
DCD is applied to pasture by farmers to prevent nitrate – a potentially-harmful fertiliser by-product – leaching into rivers and lakes.
The sale and use of DCD was suspended last week after it emerged that residues of the substance had been discovered in samples of some Fonterra dairy products.
DCD residue "undesirable" to customers
Westland Milk Products commissioned an independent laboratory to test its products earlier this week – as advised by the New Zealand Ministry of Primary Industries (MPI).
DCD has never been considered to be a food safety risk, and there is no international standard for it in food. Despite this, concerns about the safety of New Zealand dairy have spread.
According to reports, authorities in China, Malaysia and Taiwan have stepped-up their checks on New Zealand dairy shipments in response to the findings.
Westland Milk Products CEO, Rod Quin has attempted to dispel customer concerns about the "undesirable" presence of DCD.
"While we are assured by independent health authorities and the New Zealand Government that DCD is not a food safety risk, we are very aware that for many of our customers any residue in milk products is undesirable," said Quin.
"Some of our customers in Asia have already requested tests for DCD following the MPI announcement last week."
"The best way to allay our customers' fears is with accurate information," he said.
"We will continue to work with the New Zealand dairy industry, MPI and Government to reassure suppliers, customers and stakeholders that DCD is not harmful to human health and that every step to remedy this situation and prevent its on-going occurrence is being taken," he added.
Customers can "rest assured"
Westland Milk Products' attempt to calm fears about the safety of its products comes just days after Fonterra issued a similar statement in an effort to defuse growing concern amongst its customers.
"It is important to remember that the minute traces detected were around 100 tomes lower than acceptable levels under European food safety limits," said Fonterra CEO, Theo Spierings.
"The bottom line? Our products are safe. Customers can rest assured," he said.


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When winter weather is in the forecast residents should follow local weather warnings and follow news from local officials online. Residents are also encouraged to take the necessary precautions to prepare their family, home and vehicles accordingly and ensure they have a plan and adequate supplies to stay at home for at least 72 hours, if necessary.
What to do before a storm strikes
- Make an emergency plan and communicate it with your family. Build a 72-hour kit with adequate food, supplies and medications to stay home for several days, if needed.
- Check on relatives, friends, and neighbors who may need assistance preparing for a storm.
- Listen to NOAA Weather Radio and your local radio and TV stations for updated storm information. Know what winter storm watches and warnings mean.
- Be alert to changing weather conditions and avoid unnecessary travel.
- Let faucets drip a little to help prevent freezing.
- Test smoke and carbon monoxide detectors.
Winterize Your Home
- Install storm shutters, doors and windows; clean out gutters; repair any roof leaks; and have a contractor check the stability of your roof in the event of a large accumulation of snow.
- Insulate walls and attic. Caulk and weather-strip doors and windows. Install storm windows, or cover windows with plastic from the inside.
- Have safe emergency heating equipment available. For residences with functioning fireplaces, keep an ample supply of wood. Utilize portable electric space heaters. Keep a fire extinguisher on hand.
- Install and check batteries in smoke and carbon monoxide detectors.
- Make sure you have sufficient heating fuel; you may have difficulty obtaining fuel in the immediate aftermath of a bad storm.
- Service snow removal equipment, and have rock salt on hand to melt ice on walkways. Kitty litter can be used to generate temporary traction.
- Insulate pipes and allow faucets to drip a little during cold weather to avoid freezing.
- Learn how to shut off water valves in case pipes freeze and burst.
Sidewalk snow removal
Colorado Springs requires property owners to clear their walkways so that EVERYONE has safe access throughout the City! Senior citizens, people with disabilities, parents with strollers, and mail carriers -just to name a few- struggle to negotiate hazardous walkways. We need to do our part to make our community safe and accessible for all.
Timing: Once snow has stopped falling, residents have twenty-four (24) hours and businesses until have until 5 p.m. the following day, to remove snow and ice from public sidewalks adjacent to their property.
Neighbors Helping Neighbors: Offer to clear your neighbor's sidewalk if they are elderly, disabled, or simply unable to perform the task.
If you are unable to clear your sidewalk, ask a neighbor or family member for help. Or, to find snow removal services, please search the internet for snow removal services or check with your neighborhood organization.
Report A Problem: We encourage residents to work together to keep sidewalks clear for safe passage and kindly remind neighbors with un-shoveled sidewalks of the City's requirement. To report a problem, please contact neighborhood services.
Education: Colorado Springs relies on citizen reports to help us identify property owners who need to be informed of sidewalk safety requirements.
Sidewalk Shoveling Safety tips
- Stretch before you go out. If you go out to shovel snow, do a few stretching exercises to warm up your body. This may prevent injury.
- Cover your mouth. Protect your lungs from extremely cold air by covering your mouth when outdoors.
- Avoid overexertion. Cold weather puts an added strain on the heart. Unfamiliar exercise, such as shoveling snow or pushing a car, can bring on a heart attack or make other medical conditions worse. Take frequent rest breaks, and drink plenty of fluids to avoid dehydration.
- Keep dry. Change wet clothes frequently to prevent a loss of body heat. Wet clothing loses all of its insulating value and transmits heat rapidly.
- Stay safe. Walk carefully on snowy or icy sidewalks. If using a snow blower, NEVER use your hands to unclog the machine.
- Maintain an awareness of utilities when shoveling snow. Do not cover fire hydrants with snow when clearing sidewalks and driveways. Do not shovel snow into manholes and catch basins.
- Offer to help individuals who require special assistance, including seniors and people with disabilities.
Fallen tree branches
Please call City Forestry at 385-TREE for downed limbs from city trees. After business hours, please leave a message with your name, address, and zip code and crews will pick up the branches when they are in the area.
For downed trees blocking roadways call 385-ROAD. If it is an emergency, you can call the Colorado Springs Police Department's Dispatch at 719-444-7000.
City Forestry is unable to remove trees or branches from trees on your private property. These are the responsibility of private property owners. Click for a list of licensed tree services
Trees or branches that have fallen on power lines or transformers should be reported to Colorado Springs Utilities at 448-4800.
Power outages
Find out/Report power outages here
Before a power outage:
- Fill plastic containers with water, leaving about an inch of space inside each one for the frozen water to expand. Place the containers in the refrigerator and freezer. This chilled or frozen water will help keep food cold for several hours if the power goes out.
- Medication that requires refrigeration usually can be kept in a closed refrigerator for several hours without a problem
- Back up computer files and operating systems.
- Turn off and unplug major appliances and sensitive electric equipment until after power is restored.
- Purchase a high-quality surge protector for electronic equipment.
- Locate the manual release for your electric garage door opener and learn how to operate it.
- Keep a traditional, non-cordless telephone available or plan for alternate communication, including a cell phone, radio or pager
- Keep your car fuel tank at least half-full because gas stations rely on electricity to power the pumps.
- Make sure to have extra cash at home because equipment such as automated teller machines (ATMs) may not work during a power outage.
- Call CSU Line Clearance at 448-4800 if you need tree branches trimmed in or around electric lines.
- Make arrangements to prepare for unpredictable power outages if you are on electric-powered life support systems by calling Colorado Springs Utilities at (719) 448-4800 and asking about the Life Support Notification Program.
During a power outage
- Use a flashlight whenever possible rather than candles or kerosene lanterns, which are a fire hazard.
- Do not use your range or oven to heat your home as this can cause a fire or fatal gas leak.
- Keep your refrigerator and freezer doors closed as much as possible.
- Treat each signal as a four-way stop if traffic signals are not working
- Do not call 911 to ask about the power outage.
After a power outage
- In the event of a major storm, the status of your utilities may be monitored through the Colorado Springs Utilities (CSU) web page at www.csu.org.
- Look for damage to an outside metal pipe or tube called a "mast," that feeds electricity from overhead lines into the meter on your house.
- This mast is the responsibility of the homeowner and is typically located at the roofline or the side of a home, coming out of the meter.
- The mast should not be touched – customers can inspect the mast from a safe distance and call a licensed electrician for repairs if it is damaged.
- Once the mast is repaired by an electrician, CSU can restore power to the home.
- For additional information on power outages and other utility disruptions, see the Colorado Springs Utilities website at www.csu.org.
How to help others
Infants, seniors, and people with paralysis or neuropathy are at increased risk of hypothermia and frostbite. Check on friends, relatives, and neighbors who may need assistance to ensure they are adequately protected from the cold.
Community members that identify someone on the street they believe needs assistance should call the non-emergency dispatch number (719) 444-7000. Call 9-1-1 for a life threatening emergency. The Colorado Springs Police Department can dispatch someone from its Homeless Outreach Team to the location to assess the individual's condition and take appropriate action.
If you suspect a person is suffering from frostbite or hypothermia, bring him or her someplace warm and seek medical help immediately or call 911.
If medical help is unavailable, re-warm the person, starting at the core of their body. Warming arms and legs first can increase circulation of cold blood to the heart, which can lead to heart failure. Use a blanket, or if necessary, your own body heat to warm the person.
Do not give a person suffering frostbite or hypothermia alcohol or caffeine, both of which can worsen the condition. Instead, give the patient a cup of warm broth.
Be a good neighbor and shovel your sidewalk!


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Give Kerry a Break
Secretary of State John Kerry was right to push for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza earlier this week.Secretary of State John Kerry was right to push for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza earlier this week. All outside parties should do everything they can to end a war in which both Israel and Hamas have seemed willing to fight to the death of the last Palestinian civilian.
Kerry has been slammed as naive for pressing Israel to end its attack, which as of this writing has cost the lives of more than 1,300 Palestinians and 59 Israelis. The contention of Kerry's critics — essentially that more killing of innocent civilians is justified if, in the end, Hamas is defanged and discredited — strikes me as morally untenable. Israel's undeniable right to self-defense does not extend to shelling a school crowded with unarmed refugees.
It is understandable that Israel would want to destroy tunnels that terrorists might use for attacks or kidnappings. But Kerry's cease-fire proposal did not call for the Israeli armed forces to withdraw from Gaza, and U.S. officials reportedly gave assurances that Israel could continue its demolition of the tunnels during any pause in the fighting.
The real objection of those who ridicule the secretary's efforts seems to be that he came up with a plan that Hamas and its key remaining allies — the Islamist governments of Qatar and Turkey — could actually accept.
To say that Hamas is increasingly isolated is an understatement. Its most important patron — the Muslim Brotherhood-led government in Egypt — is gone, replaced by the brutally anti-Islamist regime of President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi. Rather than come to Hamas' defense, Egypt has sealed the border crossing at Rafah, in effect helping Israel squeeze Gaza in a vise.
Meanwhile, the governments of Saudi Arabia and Jordan, which usually provide rhetorical and diplomatic support to the Palestinian side during these periodic clashes, have been publicly silent. And the West Bank leadership of the Palestinian Authority under Mahmoud Abbas has been anything but full-throated in calling for an end to the Israeli campaign.
These Arab regimes see the Islamist political movement — which is threatening to fill the power vacuums left by the tumult of the Arab Spring — as a potentially mortal threat. Crushing Hamas would be a major blow against the Islamists. So why press the Israelis to stop?
This is the broader strategic context that Kerry allegedly fails to appreciate. But I disagree, both on Kerry's supposed inability to see the big picture and on what that picture really looks like. It would be a tragic mistake, in my view, to accept the proposition that U.S. policy in the Middle East must be entirely shaped by the Islamists versus secularists framework as construed by pro-Western — but clearly self-interested — governments in the region.
The view that Israel should be left to "finish the job" against Hamas sounds like clear-eyed realpolitik. Actually, however, it is an illusion. There are two major problems with having U.S. policy adopt this approach.
First is the tremendous loss of human life. It matters that civilians are in the line of fire between Israel and Hamas — even if, in some instances, it seems clear that Hamas put them there. Israel is and will remain one of America's closest allies. But while it is not possible to specify an exact number of acceptable Palestinian casualties, that number has clearly been surpassed.
Second, it seems obvious to me that further smashing of Hamas is unlikely to bring either Israel or the United States closer to what should be our common strategic goals.
Eventually, Islamist militants in Gaza — whether or not they remain in power — will dig new tunnels and restock their stores of rockets. Even if Hamas were to cease to exist as a formal organization, how long would it be before something very much like Hamas arose to take its place?
The way for Israel to minimize Islamist radicalism in Gaza and the West Bank is to show Palestinians a brighter potential future under moderate secular leadership. Instead, Israel undermines Abbas by building on land that would have to be Palestinian territory in any equitable two-state solution.
As far as U.S. interests are concerned, it is obvious that our policy should be to fight Islamist terrorist groups such as the Islamic State. But we should not lose sight of the fact that radical Islam, as a regionwide phenomenon, is an ideological force that cannot be bombed out of existence.
Channeling the Islamist impulse onto a constructive path is one of the great international challenges of our age. Killing civilians in Gaza makes that task even harder.
Eugene Robinson's e-mail address is eugenerobinson(at)washpost.com.
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by Howard Bloom
The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Chronic Fatigue and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalopathy (CFS/CFIDS/ME) is something each of us must fight in our own way, based on our own unique symptoms and circumstances. But there are some "self-management" principles that apply to all of us, and that are especially important for newly diagnosed patients to understand. This article is my attempt to share some of the guidelines I have developed over nine years of personally fighting this disease. By applying them, I have been able to achieve a great deal, despite being largely bedridden. With the following advice, I hope that you too can maximize what you are able to achieve within your own constraints.
First, before assuming CFS/CFIDS/ME is the cause of your symptoms, have you been reasonably tested to rule out other plausible illnesses? This is a step recommended in all the literature (and required in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) diagnostic criteria), since many other diseases can mimic CFS/CFIDS/ME symptoms.
A word of caution, however. Doctors' visits and tests can demand a great deal of time and energy—commodities that a person with CFIDS lacks. Withdraw more than you have in your energy "bank account," and you will make yourself worse.
The "overdraft relapse" may not be evident for two days or for two weeks, but you can be sure it will occur—and it can range from somewhat increased pain to long-term incapacitation. Thus, the best, most well-intentioned doctor can sometimes become your worst enemy—if you don't communicate your limits (how often you can make it to appointments, what times of day you typically feel best, etc.).
While there is currently no cure for CFIDS, skillful self-management (and appropriate medical treatment) can allow you to function optimally within your new, more limited capabilities. Charles Darwin, who suffered from a disease greatly resembling CFS/CFIDS/ME, researched, wrote, and aggressively promoted his theories of evolution while confined to his cottage, unable to attend the meetings of the Royal Society that would determine his brainchild's fate. Florence Nightingale also suffered from a CFIDS-like illness that forced her to do most of her major organizational work while confined to home, and severely limited her social activity (e.g., she allowed only one visitor at a time).
The trick— and it is far, far harder than it sounds—is to "know thyself." Recognize that your illness has created new boundaries that you cannot push through—and a new set of rules governing behaviors and activities that you previously took for granted. Many of the truths you must learn about your "new" self will be hard to absorb and harder still to accept. Chronic illness often brings with it a virtual reinvention of identity. As with any loss, you may find that you go through a period of mourning for your lost abilities before you can fully face the reality of your current illness. With few exceptions, the basic rule is to learn your new limits and do not exceed them, or you will pay dearly.
Think again in terms of having an energy bank account with very small balance. You must become aware of every penny of energy you expend during the day. You have no passbook, so you must determine your balance through continuous self-assessment to ensure you do not overdraw your account.
As you go through your daily activities, imagine you are wearing a pedometer and keep a weather eye on it. The "mileage" of seemingly simple activities like walking up the stairs, moving from room to room, carrying and lifting—and just sitting up—can add up quickly to more than you can handle. Even talking and listening to others, however pleasurable, are also extremely taxing to persons with CFIDS.
Therefore, to reduce your energy expenditure—to keep the mileage as low as possible on your "pedometer"—get others to fetch things for you (and do other chores for you) when possible. Sit when you do things that you might ordinarily do while standing up, such as brushing your teeth.
Take baths rather than showers so you can recline. And, when feasible, shift to the bed or a horizontal couch when doing activities you may have traditionally done sitting up.
One factor an actual, literal pedometer can't measure, but that a CFS/CFIDS/ME pedometer does, is stress. It is now the most draining experience you face: recognize it is your nemesis. Try to identify the circumstances and people that stress you, and minimize or avoid all you can.
And maximize the things that reduce stress for you—whether watching comedy films, listening to music, or engaging in a low-energy avocation or hobby (yoga and meditation help many patients).
If you can, keep a daily record or diary of the way you spend your energy (sitting, walking, talking on the phone, meeting with people, traveling out of the house, etc.). Also keep a record of the medications and dietary supplements you take. Look for patterns in what variables correlate with "good days" and which with bad.
It will not be easy, but over time you will get a sense of the size of the hidden treasury of energy you have, small though it might be, and what affects it.
To repeat: You have new limits of a kind you never imagined before. Get to know them well and do not exceed them.
Do not challenge your limits by trying to be your "old" self.
This temptation hits every CFS/CFIDS/ME victim, but it can carry you to new depths of illness, crushing you with even more severe limitations and surrealistic symptoms than you ever imagined possible. If you are going to get better—and many people do—it will be through skillful self-management, not through challenging your capabilities.
If you are a take-charge, formerly high-achieving person, your new goal is an achievement of a different kind—to rein yourself in; to gain a gentle self-discipline over your cravings for your former level of activity.
You are still capable of achieving miracles. But you will have to make them happen in new ways.
Finally, if you have insomnia, I highly recommend the following idiosyncratic "treatment": Obtain an auto-reverse cassette player, and buy or rent books-on-tape that interest you. (Those available via rental are far superior to those on sale, since the rental versions are unabridged).
Place the cassette player next to your pillow so you can operate the controls in the dark. (Use headphones if you live with others so as not to disturb them).
As you lie there sleeplessly, listening to the tape and the narrative will keep you from being driven mad by boredom and frustration. If you're lucky, it will lull you to sleep. At worst, just think how "well-read" you'll be!
A member of the New York Academy of Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, CFS/CFIDS/ME veteran Howard Bloom is the author of The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History.