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Caveman Diet Review – Does The Caveman Diet Really Work?
Dieting in my opinion is no longer a fad. For many of us, it's become a way of life.
Very few people can say with complete honesty that they don't diet at all. In fact, even the people who look really amazing and appear to be 'naturally skinny' are usually dieting to maintain their physique.
Maybe it's not a low calorie diet, but a diet nonetheless.
Now, even though the idea of dieting is no longer a fad, there are still some fad diets out there.
These are diets with absolutely no science behind them. And, if you do follow them you'll probably end up becoming heavier than before you started.
As a fitness model, I understand the importance of maintaining a lean physique and tracking my calories. Although I'm not currently on a diet (really, I swear), I make sure I eat more on days when I'm extremely active and less on days that I'm not.
I've had many friends that have been on the Caveman Diet and they've had some pretty impressive results.
Let's take a look at some of the facts of this diet and figure out if it is right for you.
What is the Caveman Diet?
The Caveman Diet is actually one of the most controversial diets out. In fact, when experts were asked to rank different diets, the Caveman Diet, or the Paleolithic Diet as it is more "scientifically" known, came up last in the list. It's not hard to see why this happened.
First and foremost, the diet of a caveman is really unknown.
We can theorize and debate all we want, but we'll never know for certain what a caveman ate (until we develop a time machine, and I don't see that happening any time soon).
So, this being the case, how can anyone say with any degree of certainty what a caveman diet is? And if you don't know what a caveman diet is, how can you go on one?
Second, some proponents behind the diet question whether humans have had time to adjust to the kind of food that we eat today.
Diets that once consisted predominantly of fruits, roots, leaves, insects and small animals have changed to now include legumes, grains etc.
While this is something to consider, recent studies have proven that a couple of generations is generally all that is needed for people to adjust. Therefore, this argument is not very valid.
So, just because the reasoning behind the diet is in question, does it mean that the diet itself isn't good?
Let's take an impartial look at it.
Most proponents of the caveman diet say that between 35 – 45% of daily calorific intake should come from carbs, about 30% from fat and 25 – 35% from protein.
While this may or may not tally with the diet of a Paleolithic caveman, it's actually very good for your body.
Most diets are under the assumption that carbs are the devil and that if you consume a large quantity of them you will become fat. This is not necessarily the case. Your body needs "good" carbs to operate efficiently and give you energy as long as you are actually using those calories and not creating a surplus..
Does The Caveman Diet Work?
If you choose to follow the Caveman Diet, not only do you get the amount of carbs, fat and protein that your body needs daily, you get it from wholesome foods and not processed ones.
As most everyone knows, processed foods are one of the main culprits contributing towards obesity today. Just removing this one facet from our diets will go a long way towards getting our society into shape.
According to current data, most Americans get 70% of their daily calories from dairy products, cereals, refined sugar, vegetable oils and alcohol.
This is an alarming percentage and it's no wonder so many of us have become lazy, fat, obese, and depressed.
None of these products are good for the body.
And what about exercise?
If you take the average Paleolithic human being, it is estimated that their daily output in net calories was somewhere around 1000 kcal per day.
This translates to roughly about 1 to 1.5 hours of moderate to high intensity exercise daily. With this amount of activity, coupled with good natural wholesome food it's no wonder their bodies were much better off than ours.
If you're interested in body building or bulking up, the Caveman Diet is quite good for that.
It may seem that the amount of protein consumed is not sufficient enough to help the body build a good amount of muscle.
But, if you delve deeper into the subject, you find that the body doesn't really need so much protein.
I've had many friends who were on the Caveman Diet while preparing for fitness and bodybuilding competitions and they've had great success with it.
It fueled their bodies properly for intense workout sessions while other diets did not.
Current day hunter-gathers, like the Nunamiut of Alaska, have diets that range anywhere between 25% and 95% protein.
It's not the percentage of protein or carbohydrate in the diet that matters most, but it's more the food you get these nutrients from. For instance, you can get carbs from processed flour or whole grain flour, but whole grain flour is healthier.
And, you can get protein from processed meat or freshly butchered meat, but the fresh is the better choice.
There are a number of diets purported to be Caveman Diets that you find online, but many of these really don't follow the principles behind what the author of the original diet had in mind.
Many variations include changing the percentages of carbohydrates and proteins or including sugar drinks, alcohol, caffeine or even tea.
These are not true Paleolithic diets.
Of course, nobody wants to return to the time when men were cavemen, but if you want to enjoy sugar in your diet, you can't very well call the diet a Caveman Diet.
Some people go to extremes and eat only raw, uncooked food because they believe that was how the cavemen ate. While this may be true with regards to fruits, leaves and such, men started cooking meat very early in history.
So, is the Caveman Diet healthy?
Well, if you cut off all industrially produced food and get in 45 minutes to an hour's exercise every day, it's more than enough to keep you trim and in shape.
For this reason, I highly recommend the Caveman Diet to anyone who is looking to lose weight and/or gain lean muscle mass.
What do you think about the Caveman (Paleo) Diet? Share your thoughts below!


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Join the art movement this summer for a new take on prints. No design classes or paint brushes necessary - the high street has come up with its own wearable works of art.
Usually known for its minimalism, design house Celine displayed a more-is-more approach, splashing the catwalk with bold colour and brush stroke prints. The arty touch was also adopted at Chanel, Prada and Versace, setting the style canvas for spring/summer 14.
Time to brush up on your print experimentation? Rummage through the high street gallery for a makeshift masterpiece. It's never been easier to wear your art on your sleeve.
Go graphic for summer with a bold brushstroke print, like Satu Maaranen for Petit Bateau's wavy dress. It's party at the front and casual at the back, with contrast Breton stripes in the same red and white colourway, £125 (www.petit-bateau.co.uk).
You can't get much more Celine-inspired than Zara's paint splodge Printed Dress in bright primary colours. The daubed-on brushstrokes have a DIY approach that's bang on trend, £45.99 (www.zara.com).
Wrap yourself up in abstract expressionism this season, literally. Next's orange, black and grey Wrap Dress combines a business-like silhouette with a wild graphic print, £32 (www.next.co.uk).
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Transform florals into a piece of modern art. Phase Eight's Claudia Dress resembles Henri Matisse's spectacular cut-outs in stark blue and white, £79 (www.phase-eight.co.uk - stockists Harveys of Halifax ).
For the most minimalist take on the maximalist art vibe, go for graphic black and white. Try Jaeger's stripped-back take on cubism with the Monochrome Maze Print Top, £180 (www.jaeger.co.uk).
No peeking, please. Bag an irreverent arty accessory with Primark's Yellow Eyes Purse. It's sure to keep an eye on your valuable possessions, Picasso-style, £2 (in stores only).
For a real statement art piece, choose a top-to-toe outfit. Red Herring at Debenhams' abstract Maxi Dress is best reserved for attention seekers with its uber-bold paintbrush print, £35 (in stores only).
If eye-catching colours don't appease your palette, try a more muted approach. Marks & Spencer's Autograph Contrast Print Midi Dress comes in varying hues of watercolour greens mixed with black, £69 (www.marksandspencer.com).
A masterstroke in elevating the LBD into something sexier. H&M has added sunset-inspired paint strokes over black and topped it off with an off-the-shoulder silhouette for an after-dark-only look, £34.99 (in stores only).

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Currently, 14 professors, 1 junior professor, and 4 Privatdozenten [senior lecturer] are actively engaged in research and teaching together with further scientific staff.
During recent decades, Bielefeld chemists have made eminent and highly respected contributions to different areas of chemistry. Members of the Faculty of Chemistry have been awarded several guest professorships and highly esteemed national and international prizes for their contributions to science. Several have been appointed members of scientific academies. The Faculty of Chemistry is also a popular choice for foreign guest scientists funded by, for example, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the DAAD [German Academic Exchange Service], and the European Union.
The successful implementation of the concept of short distances within Bielefeld University provides manifold possibilities for scientific cooperation both within the Faculty of Chemistry and - in an interdisciplinary manner - with other faculties and departments. Members of the Faculty of Chemistry are continuously taking advantage of this unique opportunity by maintaining scientific networks such as Collaborative Research Centres (SFB) and Research Units (Forschergruppen). Within such networks, scientists at the Faculty of Chemistry are investigating topics such as molecular interaction and recognition, generation of nanosize structures, biochemical phenomena of medicinal and biological processes, and the generation of interesting molecules as components for intelligent materials.


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JERUSALEM, Oct. 20 (JTA) – As Israel and American Jewry seek a way out of the religious pluralism crisis, one ray of light has appeared. A little-known Israeli committee set up to deal with the specific problem of conversions of adopted children was reported to be nearing agreement. The reported progress comes against the backdrop of disagreement between the Orthodox and non-Orthodox streams over granting official recognition to non-Orthodox conversions performed in Israel and allowing non-Orthodox officials to participate in local religious councils. The committee's progress is important because it demonstrates that public figures from both sides of the religious divide in Israel are capable of reaching pragmatic solutions. According to the Israeli daily Ha'aretz, the three-member committee will recommend that adopted children be required to adhere to the basic tenets of Orthodoxy, but that their adoptive parents, who have also had to follow these tenets, will no longer face such a requirement. The committee includes two Orthodox rabbis – Haim Drukman and Eli Ben-Dahan – and attorney Ofra Friedman. Drukman is a leading force in the National Religious Party and is head of a conversion Beit Din, as religious courts are known, in southern Israel. Ben-Dahan is national director of the religious courts, and Friedman is chairwoman of Na'amat, a women's organization affiliated with the Histadrut labor federation. The Drukman Committee was established by the government alongside the better-known Ne'eman Committee, headed by Minister of Finance Ya'acov Ne'eman, which is seeking a compromise – so far without success – to avert further action on controversial conversion legislation that would codify Orthodox control over conversions performed in Israel. The Ne'eman Committee, which is made up of rabbis and laymen from the three leading streams of Judaism, had reportedly been considering a proposal that would grant Reform and Conservative rabbis a role in conversions and marriages. But Israel's chief rabbis last week rejected the reported proposal. If the Ne'eman Committee fails to hammer out a compromise, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pledged to back the Orthodox parties in his coalition that have vowed to pass legislation regarding conversions and religious councils. At the same time, representatives of the liberal movements have threatened to abandon an agreed-upon freeze and pursue their complaints with the High Court of Justice. Ne'eman and Netanyahu were hard at work this week urging all sides to delay action for several months in order to give the Ne'eman panel more time to find a workable situation. In contrast to these developments, the reported compromise on the conversions of adopted children offered some hope. The Jewish status of such children, particularly of babies adopted in Brazil and elsewhere by childless Israeli couples, has deeply moved the Israeli public in recent years. Adoptive parents have complained bitterly that the Chief Rabbinate required them, in effect, to undertake a wholesale change of their own lifestyles before the religious courts would consent to convert the adopted children to Judaism. Nearly a dozen of these parents eventually sought help from Conservative rabbis in Israel, who converted the children in 1995 at a ceremony at Hannaton, a Conservative kibbutz in the Western Galilee. Many of the parents then filed applications with the High Court of Justice to order the government to recognize the Jewishness of their children. Subsequently, however, most of the adoptive parents sought ways of having their children reconverted under the auspices of the official Orthodox rabbinate. For its part, the Orthodox establishment has adopted its most moderate stance in the cases of these children – whether because of the direct challenge posed by the Conservative conversions or because, as some Orthodox rabbis explain, Orthodox law affords greater flexibility in the case of babies. Na'amat also showed flexibility. While working together with the non-Orthodox movements to challenge Orthodox conversion requirements in court, Na'amat maintained close ties with key Orthodox rabbis, constantly urging them to find an acceptable solution. A top Na'amat legal aide explained that the movement places the interests of the children and the families above all else. This pragmatic approach is not dissimilar to that of Industry and Trade Minister Natan Sharansky's Yisrael Ba'Aliyah Party, another key player in the conversion game. Far from siding with the non-Orthodox movements – a move that has drawn the ire of those movements – the Russian immigrant party has sought during the past year to nudge the Chief Rabbinate to moderate its position when it comes to the legal status of thousands of non- Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union. It is chiefly thanks to Yisrael Ba'Aliyah's pressure – and to the clout it wields in the governing coalition – that the finance and religious affairs ministries, together with the Chief Rabbinate, have agreed to set up a network of special religious courts where conversion candidates – mostly from the former Soviet Union – are prepared for conversion. This system is still very far from being an efficient operation. It is dogged by budgetary constraints and by infighting between various government agencies and voluntary groups. Nevertheless, the system represented a step forward. As with Na'amat's efforts on behalf of adopted babies, the position of the Yisrael Ba'Aliyah politicians is that it is better to work out a deal with the Orthodox establishment, if such a deal is attainable, than to subject their constituencies to the anguish of serving as legal and political guinea pigs. The failure of American Jewish activists to empathize with, or even to understand, this approach on the part of non-Orthodox – and often secularist – Israeli groups is part of the general breakdown in communication and understanding that the conversion controversy is exposing in the fraying relationship between Israel and U.S. Jewry. As a democracy, Israel works by votes, by interest groups, by trade-offs, by all the machinery of the parliamentary system in which elected representatives must seek to serve their constituents' best interests. As a result, most secular Israeli politicians do not see it in their interest to fight for the right of non-Orthodox rabbis to perform conversions or marriages. Apart from the leftist Meretz Party, Israel's mainstream political parties consistently refuse to place the issue of religious pluralism on their platforms or on the national agenda. With the Orthodox sectors of the Jewish population in Israel growing quickly, political leaders of all stripes, playing by the rules of parliamentary democracy, are thinking first of their constituents' interests. They are seeking to obtain a solution for their problems within the existing, monopolistic, unpluralistic system – if that is at all possible.
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As Alexander the Great wept when he had no more worlds to conquer, word lovers will weep when there is nothing left to name. Lewis & Clark got to name all that they surveyed while exploring the West, which is why Montana has a Judith River: Clark named it for his future wife, a foolproof courtship technique unavailable today.
Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus, the father of taxonomy, gave more names to more earthly things than any other man -- who he also named, incidentally, having coined the phrase
All of this leaves present-day
As you can see, this is just a start. There is endless work to be done in the field of sports taxonomy. We spent the last 10 years without a name for the decade: Was it the Ohs? The Zeroes? The Naughties? We never decided. Likewise, we've lived with TV's yellow first down line for a decade without every giving it a satisfactory name. The Yellow Line? We should be ashamed of ourselves.
In the 19th century, journalist Ambrose Bierce compiled
A quarter century ago, comedian Rich Hall did the opposite of Bierce, coining new words for familiar concepts. Among those were:
If you'd like to help name the sports world, send me new words that ought to exist but unaccountably do not. (Tweet them to me @steverushin or e-mail email@example.com.) Here's one more to get you started.


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Turkey Cutlets with Peanut Glaze
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Level: Moderate
Yield: 4
Serves: 4
- 1 tbsp. salad oil
- 1 small onion
- 2 small carrots
- ¼ lb. medium-size mushrooms
- 1¼ c. brown rice
- 1 tsp. salt
- 2 tbsp. sugar
- 3 tbsp. soy sauce
- 3 tbsp. red wine vinegar
- 2 tbsp. creamy peanut butter
- 1 tbsp. grated peeled gingerroot
- 6 turkey cutlets
- Prepare pilaf: In 4-quart saucepan over medium heat, in hot oil, cook onion and carrots until tender. Stir in mushrooms; increase heat to high and cook until any liquid evaporates.
- Stir in brown rice, salt, and 3 cups water; heat to boiling. Reduce heat to low; cover and simmer 40 to 45 minutes until rice is tender. Remove from heat; keep warm.
- After rice has cooked for 20 minutes, preheat broiler if manufacturer directs. In medium bowl, with fork, mix sugar, soy sauce, red wine vinegar, peanut butter, and ginger.
- If necessary, pound turkey cutlets to 1/4-inch thickness. Cut turkey cutlets lengthwise into about 1 1/2-inch-wide strips. Add turkey strips to soy- sauce mixture; toss to coat.
- On each of twelve 8-inch-long bamboo or all-metal skewers, thread 1 turkey strip, accordion-style. Place skewers in broiling pan with rack removed. Brush some remaining soy-sauce mixture over turkey strips.
- 5. Place pan in broiler at closest position to source of heat; broil turkey 5 minutes or until it just loses its pink color throughout, turning skewers once and brushing with any remaining soy-sauce mixture.
- To serve, arrange skewers and brown-rice pilaf on large platter. Spoon any pan juices over turkey.
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FRANKFURT, Dec. 15 (JTA) — Leading members of Germany's new government told leading American Jewish leaders last week they plan to maintain Germany's close relationship with Israel. "There is a special responsibility of the German democracy toward Israel," Foreign Minister Joschka Fisher told a delegation from the American Jewish Committee. Fisher called Germany's special relationship with Israel one of "the roots of our foreign policy, and there will be no change." The meeting was the first official visit from a major American Jewish organization to Bonn since the new center-left government, led by Social Democratic Party Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, took over in Germany two months ago. AJCommittee Executive Director David Harris said German leaders told the delegation they support Israel's acceptance into the Western European regional bloc of the United Nations, which would enable it to gain full membership privileges in the U.N. — including the possibility of serving on the Security Council. The group pressed the Bonn government to push for more integration of Israel in European affairs. Germany will assume the rotating six-month European Union presidency in January. Other topics touched on in discussions with German officials included U.S.-German relations, the Middle East peace process and international terrorism. Harris said the issue of the proliferation of weapons emanating from the former Soviet Union was a central issue during talks the delegation held with Defense Minister Rudolf Scharping. Scharping also told the delegation that his ministry would continue to monitor right-wing extremism in the German army. Several incidents have been publicized during the past two years, ranging from the discovery of right-wing propaganda on an army base to a lecture given to reserve officers by a man classified by intelligence sources as a right-wing extremist. The AJCommittee visit to Bonn coincided with heated discussions in Germany on Holocaust remembrance, a planned Holocaust memorial and compensation for former World War II slave laborers. Harris said government officials stated their commitment to commemorating the Holocaust and compensating those who suffered during the Nazi era.
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I must verify the divergence theorem in the following case :
. And is the surface of the sphere .
My attempt :
I calculate the right hand side : .
So 3 times the volume of a sphere with radius , hence the triple integral is worth .
Now comes the problems. I ain't able to calculate .
A normal unit vector to the sphere is .
So the double integral is worth . And I'm stuck here because I have 3 variables ( , and ) but a double integral instead of a triple one.
I know I could solve the problem faster using spherical coordinates, but for the sake of my comprehension let's do it via Cartesian coordinates please.
Do you have any idea how could I continue, in order to reach the ?


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Modesty Blaise haunts the world of cultural icons, often appearing as a sly allusion.
I was a child growing up in Kathmandu when my parents gave me a set of Batman and Robin dolls and instructed me to give either one to my favourite playmate and friend, Victor. We were kindergartners, and while I fully understood the mythology of Batman and Robin and that they both fought on the side of good, I devised an alternative story. I gave Victor the Robin doll, and invented a game which involved Batman and Robin fighting to the death. Yelling, "Die, die," "Boom, boom," and "KAPOW!", the vocabulary of warfare I had picked up from the comics, I made them enemies and I made Batman win. Victor, the sweetest playmate I have ever had, took it all in good humour even though he did ask, "Are they really supposed to fight?" At the end of the day, he went home happily with his only slightly battered doll.
This was Kathmandu in the early 1970s, when I was very, very young and lived in a time and place that I have since tended to colour with a tinge of nostalgia. Cat Stevens, who was not yet Yusuf Islam, had popularised the idea of the place with a song that both misspelt and mispronounced its name: it's spelt "Kathmandu," not "Katmandu," and is pronounced "Kahthmandu," not "Catmandu." I was, even as a child, strongly aware of the mystique of the city – how could you miss it, in the eyes of the enraptured and immensely stoned hippies who wandered around like grungy flies floating around the temples and stupas that dotted the landscape?
Blaise is supposedly based on a real girl O'Donnell and his friends briefly encountered in 1942 when he was stationed in today's Iran as part of the British army. In the strip, her story is that she escaped from a displaced persons camp in Kalyros, Greece. She wandered, learning to survive in ways whose violent and possibly sexual details are hinted at in various episodes. As a child, she met a Jewish Hungarian scholar and fellow refugee named Lob, who gave her the first name Modesty and taught her everything he knew, including five languages. She would later take the last name Blaise after Merlin's tutor. Lob died when she was 17, and Blaise went on to form an international criminal gang called "The Network." Along the way, she met Willie Garvin, a Cockney rogue who became her closest friend. Eventually the two retired, relatively young, from The Network, but were lured into working for the British Secret Service. The Modesty Blaise comics and accompanying thirteen novels are still immensely popular. O'Donnell died in 2010, at the age of 90, but the comic strip went on until 2001.
All of this is standard for the spy fiction of the time but made unique by the insertion of a female character who was unapologetically strong and unafraid to literally take down men. As a child and later as an adult, I was intrigued by Modesty because she was so different from the other women and girls who dominated the comic book landscape. I disliked Wonder Woman, with her silly costume of tiara and boots, and I held her in contempt for leaving her world for a man, Steve Trevor. Modesty had no need for a secret identity, since her cool façade provided all the protection she would ever need from the incursions of the world outside. I loved her easily sexual looks and her jet-black hair, usually piled high into an up-do that would look stuffy and prissy on anyone else but which she carried off with elegance.
I loved her for her sex life, which was presented without apology or, well, without modesty. I remember the shock of delight I felt when she was shown naked from the back, languidly arising from a bed she had just shared with a lover who pleaded with her to stay. She fucked like a man, and her gender was no constraint. Early in the series, we see her trying to say goodbye to an American millionaire who is forcing himself upon her. With a few simple moves, she has him writhing in pain at her feet before she literally throws him into the elevator, calm and composed all the while. Modesty represented power and an ability to reinvent oneself without giving a damn.
I eventually lost touch with the Modesty Blaise strips, after JS shut down production sometime in the 1970s, and as I moved on to undergraduate and then graduate studies in texts that bore no similarity to O'Donnell's creation (the academic popularity of "graphic novels," which I still refer to as comic books, had not yet begun). Then, in the late '90s, I moved to Chicago, fleeing life in Indiana and found myself wandering down the streets of the city's Boystown area (a predominantly gay neighbourhood) in search of nothing in particular.
I was walking down Halsted Street when a store window caught my eye. It was the sort of establishment that is peculiar to Boystowns everywhere, a mixture of kitsch-style and glam rock, desperately cleaving to a postmodern hipness that has long since faded in its glory. Intrigued nevertheless, I went in and began to browse, largely ignored by a sales clerk who was on the phone discussing the possibilities for the evening and complaning about her roommate. And that was when I saw it, a round plate-shaped object, about 5 inches across, with a swirl of black lines on the edge and a target in the centre. In the flat middle section was the familiar yet long-forgotten face of Modesty Blaise. Her eyes looked warily to the side, and her right hand held a colt perpendicular to her right ear.
The clerk was uninterested in my squeals of delight, clearly wanting to get back to her conversation with her friend. But I was ecstatic about being reunited with my icon, seeing it as a sign – of what, I have never been quite sure. Mostly, I think, I saw it as a validation of the life and possibilities that were being increasingly obscured by a gay and lesbian culture which insisted that meaning could only come from staid respectability and tax breaks, in the form of newly-minted marriage battles. I came out as queer among gays and lesbians who made it clear that sluts like me were to shut up so that the straight world might believe that we deserved our "rights." Gays and lesbians, who surely had the most reasons to be suspicious of the prison industrial complex, were now clamouring for hate crime laws that would increase penalties and put more people in jail. It may seem like a huge burden to place on the black and white inked shoulders of a woman who only existed on paper, but in that moment it seemed like I had recovered my balance in the world.
Years ago, I thought of returning to Kathmandu to reclaim an idyllic period of my life, or at least what I thought was an idyllic period. I called a travel agent to inquire about fares, only to have her ask where that was. "Nepal," I replied. And then filled in the silence: "It's on the Northern border of India. You know, Mount Everest." I never made it, reluctant to exchange my surety of intangible memories for the reality that would return and intrude upon my memories. I never followed the comics to the end, but the always informative Wikipedia tells me that she was killed off in O'Donnell's novel Cobra Trap, as was Willie shortly after.
Modesty Blaise haunts the world of cultural icons, often appearing as a sly allusion, most notably in Quentin Tarantino's films. The Bride, or Beatrix, in the Kill Bill films, is clearly modelled after her. In Pulp Fiction, Vincent Vega (John Travolta) is seen carrying around a copy of Modesty Blaise, the first novel on her, and there have long been rumours of a Tarantino movie about her. For me, she remains a black and white illustration, the gun cocked close to and away from her face, eyes ever watchful, allowing us to stare and giving us nothing in return. No lost tragedies, no dramas of revelation, waiting silently and tautly, and intently understanding that someone, somewhere might pull the trigger before her.
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Difficulty in finding good data?
What? But data is growing exponentially as you read this. Why is it so difficult to find it and what constitutes good data?
In a time that has been deemed the age of data hoarding by Beena Ammanath at a recent UC Berkeley DataEdge conference, and a time where data and data science programs are popping up everywhere, how could it be that data takes effort to find?
There are several reasons for this, and while a data scientist's role includes lots of awesome tasks like using machine learning, programming, communications and visualizations, any data scientist can tell you that the majority of their time is spent on finding and cleaning data. It's not very glamorous, but it's the truth. You've been warned.
Though not glamorous, data is a data scientist's currency. It is necessary and essential. It's why we all have jobs and it is what makes this field so interesting. So what makes it good? Well in this project, I define good data as data that is big enough and important enough for my team and I to make an impact. You know, saving the world data. (See my last blog post for more information about what I'm doing.)
Specifically, what kind of delightful data am I looking for?
Open data. I want this project to be open to the public. I want people to be able to follow along and learn how to build an app with SystemML while I'm learning how to build an app with SystemML.
I want the data to be big enough for a machine learning problem. I want to be able to gain insight on a problem big enough to make a difference.
I also want the data to be big enough to use artificial neural networks.
And most important of all, I want the data to be relevant. I want to be able to find a solution to a problem that actually affects people- I'm changing lives remember?!
Finding this data and finding the problem I want to answer is not easy, especially given my preconditions; not to mention this is far from a step by step process. In fact, the entire act of building an app is non linear where each component is not mutually exclusive. As a data scientist, you end up jumping back and forth, looking at and exploring the data and reconstructing your ideas and approach. You try to figure out what insights you could draw if you moved forward with that particular data set or what would happen if you combined both. More often than not, the data is not clean, or it is not the right type, or it is not what you thought you were going to be looking at and you realize you need something else.
That is exactly what I'm facing now. After 1.5 weeks of non-stop brainstorming and searching for data, we have narrowed our project down to a few leads, though nothing has been finalized. Well, nothing is ever really finalized, at least until you run some confirmatory data analysis and even then there's always more information coming in, not to mention real-time data!
So if you're following along and hoping you can sit back and watch lives being changed, don't be discouraged; just remember that this job takes patience and persistence. Soon enough we will be applying SystemML and Apache Spark™ to our dataset doing some amazing, life-changing things! I have full faith that we will all be able to save the world soon enough, just right after we find that quality data.


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I thought I'd share a little project I got work on with a friend's daughter. K is getting ready to start her last year in elementary school – which is a pretty huge deal. I remember what it was like that last year in elementary – just on the verge of so many things. K has pretty great style (which she very obviously gets from her mom) and she wanted something different for her backpack this year. I offered to help…and second guessed myself after I began worrying that I would mess up her bag!
Thankfully, she had a good idea of what she wanted and I know just enough about wonky sewing that I could help her create a few things. It was fun…I'm thinking I need to make myself a bag now.
Here's the very basic bag before & some fabric she brought over:
She picked out the fabric for the ruffles, I just sewed them. She also designed how the ruffles and flowers would go on the bag. Like I said, she has great style.
Flowers inspired by Julie's.
I don't remember my last year of elementary school backpack, but I am pretty confident it wasn't this fun!
Since my sewing machine was already lugged down the stairs to the kitchen table I thought I'd sew a few new pillows for the living room. My Anthro dishtowel is now a pillowcase cover.
Don't worry…no cutting involved!


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Have you ever had free sex? By free sex, I mean having a one night stand, friends with benefits sex, or sex where 'we both know this isn't going anywhere.' You've probably never thought about it, but free sex may be the most expensive sex you'll ever have. It may cost you ever having children or grandchildren, and spending the last of your days alone.
Have you ever met the perfect person or a dream partner? Or are you still waiting to meet the perfect person? I believe we've all met the perfect person; the challenge is when the perfect person becomes imperfect. When they do something we don't like, when they hurt us, when they don't call us back, or when they let us down.
Everyone is perfect for the first 90 days: it's called the perfect phase. Some people live continually in the perfect phase. They're called 90 day wonders. They meet someone, they have sex on the first day, and every day thereafter. They spend all their time together, until somewhere around the 90th day, the perfect person becomes imperfect, and they wonder what happened.
Then they call their forgotten best friend, you, everyday, heartbroken; they can't believe it didn't work out, convinced they can't get over it until suddenly you don't hear from them. Do you know what happened? They met another perfect person. On and on they go, chasing mirage after mirage until at the end of their days they look back and the don't see their grandchildren, they don't see their children, instead they spend the rest of their days alone.
Do you know what a man gives up when he commits, when he gets married? Besides all the great free sex he thinks he could be having ... irresponsibility. He takes on responsibility for others. Do you know what a woman gives up? Besides George Clooney ... independence.
Together they form an interdependence. They commit to a relationship with an imperfect person, then at the end of their days when they look back, they see their grandchildren, they see their children, and they have each other. They're not alone.
Virtue and integrity are the foundations of love and a well-lived life. The only way you know you love yourself — or anyone else — is by the commitments you're willing to make and keep. Sex is great, it inspires us — but love brings us home.
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The Siena men's basketball team slashed ticket prices Thursday for its remaining home games at Times Union Center, dropping prices in highest levels of the upper deck to $8 a ticket for adults and $4 for children.
The price reduction applies to rows 10 and higher of the upper deck, a section of seats Siena calls "Saints Heaven." The new pricing does not apply to the all-you-can-eat area of seating, where an adult can sit for $25.
The new ticket price is as much as $15 cheaper than previous prices.
Siena director of athletics John D'Argenio said he made the decision in part because of feedback from fans, who felt the school charged too much for tickets far from the court.
"I think if we try this right now, it can give us some indication of the direction we want to go for next year," D'Argenio said.
The move comes with the Saints' best Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference home games remaining on the schedule. In addition to Saturday's game against Rider, Siena faces Marist on Monday, Loyola on Feb. 16, and Niagara on Feb. 29.
The school also is offering a three-game package for the final three home games. A ticket in the lower corner to all three games costs $40, a savings of $11.
Siena's sales for its next two home games already appear strong. More than 5,200 tickets have been sold for each of Saturday's and Monday's games. Also, all 550 student tickets for Saturday have been claimed, as have 300 for Monday's game.
Siena is averaging 6,030 fans per game this season. If Siena finishes the season at that number or higher, it can claim its best average attendance since the 2004-05 season.
"I think it's in the right direction," said D'Argenio, who noted that Siena's season-ticket base grew by about 200 fans this year.
Students attending Saturday's game will have a pregame party in the second level of Broadway Joe's, where they will be given pizza, soda and poster board — to create their most creative sign for ESPN2. The winner will win prizes.
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AKC Responsible Dog Ownership Day events are held throughout September. Find an event in your area on the AKC RDO Day website.
"As dogs are increasingly viewed as family members, the need for all dog owners to train their pets to be good citizens and practice responsible dog ownership is more crucial than ever," said AKC spokesperson Lisa Peterson. "Dog owners can attend an AKC Responsible Dog Ownership Days event not only to try a new dog sport activity or pick up training and care tips, but also to connect with the network of dog lovers in their community."
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Two cold fronts aim for the Crossroads
Jan. 2, 2014 at 5 p.m.
Updated Jan. 1, 2014 at 7:02 p.m.
An Arctic front is bringing dry weather, frigid temperatures and strong north winds to the Crossroads.
Victoria and Goliad counties are in a freeze warning from 2 a.m. through 8 a.m. Friday with temperatures expected to drop to 28 degrees, said Tawnya Evans, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Corpus Christi.
While the temperatures will dip below freezing early Friday, Evans said there is no chance of freezing rain, sleet or snow for Victoria. However, the winter temperatures are expected to stick around Victoria through Sunday when another cold front moves across Texas.
By 10 a.m. Thursday, the first front already had pushed through Victoria, Evans said.
"We had an upper trough that moved across and extended from the Great Lakes all the way down to us," she said. "That helped to push a polar front into our area."
The high winds caused the power to go out at television station KAVU, said Newscenter 25 Meteorologist Bill Alexander.
"The winds came in with that cold front and knocked us out for about 10 minutes," he said.
While the power outage impacted several computers at the station, including weather monitoring systems, Alexander said they were able to restore power and bring the systems back up "fairly quickly."
Overall, Evans, of the National Weather Service, said it's typical weather for this time of year in the Crossroads.
"It goes up and down quite a bit in South Texas in between fronts," she said.
The low for Friday during the day will be about 43 degrees with a high afternoon temperature in the upper 50s.
Victoria's record low for Friday was 18 degrees set in 1911. Friday's record high of 85 degrees was set in 1989, Evans said.
Although temperatures will warm up Saturday, with a low about 54 and a high near 69, winds could gust as high as 20 mph, according to the National Weather Service forecast.
Crossroads residents should prepare for another round of cold weather Sunday, Evans said.
A second cold front will bring a low of about 35 with a high near 60 and winds that could gust as high as 22 mph, according to the National Weather Service forecast.
Those colder temperatures will remain through Monday with a low of about 31 degrees.


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Sister Bertrille has been at the Convent San Tanco for three years. She has enlighten us all with her amazing gifts; like her kind, sweet, genuine, fun loving nature. Yes of course there is her flying to consider also. We felloe nuns at San Tanco are quite used to looking up in the sky and seeing Sister Bertrille flying bye. Most of the of the residents of San Tanco are used to her by now also. We tried to keep her flying an secret but like all secrets it did come out. But it is not as we feared it would be. Everyone in San Tanco all agreed that the Covent is doing good work on it's own that they don't want Sister Bertrille's flying to dismissing our good work. So San Tanco all agreed to keep Sister Bertrille's exstorurding gift an secret.
The entire Covent and town love Sister Bertrille and could not image what life would be without her in it. But one day out of the blue we had to find out. It all happened when the Bishop of the Roman Catholic church came all the way from the main church in England to see all the new graduate nuns of San Tanco. Everyone passed his critical examining expect Sister Bertrille.


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First off, this is an amazing game! Thank you to the team that made this freeware gem, and bless you, mirror moon, for translating it for us all! It combines the engine of the Gundam vs. games with some really nice new cancel, combo and ex mechanics, along with better mech balance. I'm addicted, and you've made this giant robo fan very very happy!
I do have a couple of questions, though.
1.) How do I change stages in training or...well, any mode. Can I change them in other modes?
2.) So I have to type in someone else's IP address to connect to their game, right? That's what I think one of the topics on this board was saying. I might have misunderstood. How does this work? I have yet to connect to an online match. Is Blitz tactics an online game type?
Thanks a big huggy bunch for your help! Hope to see some of you online soon.