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the changing world of Food
I am seeing a variety of business plans in the food space. I believe some make sense for now while others are are a reach. Of course that is my own humble opinion. Many of them might be stepping stones to changes that will take place in an efficient cost effective way while others are just huge labor, low margins businesses that I don't see myself getting involved in. Regardless, it is exciting to see so many people thinking about the food we put on our table and particularly understanding what we are consuming.
Mark Bittman wrote an op-ed post a few weeks ago about what his ideal label would like. Everything should be told about what we are eating. I agree with that. I would like to know if the food is being sourced from a reliable source, that the ingredients are fresh, if they treat their employees with care, if they give to non-profit organizations, if they are not full of articial ingredients, etc. I could go on and on.
Here is what I do know that this is not an app business. This is something that has to be read at the point of sale, right on the box. People are not going to walk down an aisle and scan their product or look it up while they shop. There are just some things that will remain the same such as shopping down a supermarket aisle and when you reach for a product you should be able to find out information right then and there on the store price tag/label.
Another thing is that information helps stores accumulate data about what their customers are buying. That is powerful information. Maybe they would find out that they are selling 3 types of crackers much better with a quicker turn than the 5 they carry now when they make that information available to their consumer. It will allow the store to make better buying decisions for their customer and in turn becoming better businesses.
I am invested in a company doing just that. How Good. When we saw Bittmans article, Alexander the CEO wrote a letter to the NYTimes stating that we were doing just what Bittman was hoping to see. Yet to be published but we will see. Just in case it doesn't, I have inserted the letter below.
There is a lot ideas and businesses that are looking for funding to grow and I don't see many of them actually being able to scale. How Good…I believe that this one is a winner in the food space for the consumer and the companies that use their technology.
Here is Alexanders leter to the editor of the New York Times:
special thank you to Mr. Bittman for his excellent article encouraging
Americans to think critically about how our food is labeled. It's
especially personal for us- our organization HowGood, Inc. independently
rates the sustainability of food products. We've been working on our
label since 2006, and we've been buying different milk ever since.
believe that there is one critical question shoppers should ask
themselves: how good is the food that I'm buying for my family, my
environment, and the world? We agree with Mr. Bittman that in order to
answer that, we have to take a company's commitment to environmental
friendliness, labor relations, and animal welfare into consideration. We
can't neglect growing practices, food processing, and ingredient
sourcing. And we certainly can't leave out nutrition.
the past six years we've researched all these metrics and more to come
up with a simple score for over 105,000 food products. The score is
embedded into the price tag of every product that passes our baseline
for "good." (And in case you're curious and in need of a sobering fact,
that's less than 50% of whatever is in your basket).
the most interesting aspect of food labeling is one that Mr. Bittman
fails to touch on- the ability of sustainable food labeling to
fundamentally change the food industry. We're in this business because
we believe that legitimate change happens when people power and
purchasing power intersect. A food product rated "great" averages an
increase in sales of 26%. That's a huge loss
for its competitor, who is forced to recognize that their customers
actually care about sustainability. When that company calls us asking
what changes they can make to increase their rating, we feel pretty good
for the day. And when no one calls us anymore, because shoppers and
their food choices have edged out animal cruelty, poor farming
practices, and refined foods, our job will be done.
Mr. Bittman concludes that the main point in sustainable food labeling is: let's get started. We already have.
The HowGood Team


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A brief history of the BlackBerry UI
Obvious thinking
Wisdom of Pearls
Teens don't - but they want something that looks cool. This led to the 8110 Pearl with its phone-like looks and glowing trackball, and the Pearl Flip. A flip is an interesting part of the user interface – a very definite way of answering a call, more akin to picking up an old-fashioned telephone receiver.
8110 Pearl
The switch from a trackball to an optical trackpad was driven by the high failure rate of the mechanical ball. There are repair centres that specialise in just repairing BlackBerry trackballs. Optical was a good solution – functionally identical and much more reliable. Touch had of course been around for a very long time before the iPhone, but Apple made it fashionable. Nokia had long abandoned its Series 90 user interface, dismissing two-handed devices, but the iPhone changed mobile phone direction. Nokia rushed out the 5800 and BlackBerry the Storm. Both were seen as 'me too'.
BlackBerry Storm
With the 9800 Torch, and BlackBerry OS 6.0 RIM has re-grouped. The touch screen gives the richness of access to lots of features without the need for too many, or overloaded buttons while the keypad makes it quick for typing and messaging. A touch screen device for people who don't like touch, and the difference between mainly navigating your computer by keyboard or by mouse.
Phones have had the ability to configure the home menus for a good 15 years, but before apps took off no-one bothered. With the advent of people having significant quantities of applications, and bigger screens users have discovered the merits of building a custom home screen. Touch works much better for organising icons, with dragging and dropping. There is a level of integration within applications. Having a central program for a number of social networks often works well, and many teens find that without BBM they don't have a social life.
The integration of messaging means BlackBerry Messenger sits alongside all the social networks, a logical place for it to be.
And it looks good. There are all the neat little UI tricks such as hysteresis and music with a coverflow-like level of presentation.
The Astonishing Tribe
RIM has strengthened its expertise in this area with the December 2010 purchase of TAT, The Astonishing Tribe, a Swedish graphics specialist whose super-fast routines owe more to computer games than anything else. Code from TAT sits in a huge number of phones but you never hear about it, as the handset manufacturers want to pass it off as their own. RIM isn't the first company to have looked at buying TAT but previous approaches have been rebuffed.
While TAT will maintain existing commitments with rivals to RIM, you can expect that development of their Android home screen won't be quite as gung-ho as it was. This is a useful bonus for RIM.
In the last decade mobile phones have changed incredibly, offering the same focus yet having the extensibility to let you access and get the most from a wide variety of functions is as much of a challenge as it ever was. Yet no one reads manuals and still only half of the users know that pressing space twice gives you full stop, space.
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The Liberian Association of Metropolitan Atlanta (LAMA) celebrated
Liberia's 154th Independence Anniversary on Saturday, July 28.
The activities of the day included a Town Hall Panel Discussion
with the theme: "Settling Our Liberian Palaver: In Search
of a New Vision." Serving as panelists at the Town Hall
discussion were: Dr. Sakui W. G. Malakpa, a Liberian educator,
of the University of Toledo; Mr. D. Conmany Wesseh, Executive
Director, Center for Democratic Empowerment (CEDE); Mr. Aaron
B. Kollie, Minister Plenipotentiary at the Liberian Embbasy in
Washington, DC; Dr. Marcus Dahn of the Movement of Democratic
Change in Liberia; and Mr. Mathu Gibson of Liberia Contemporees
United Patriotic & Strong. Click the link above for the full
text of the statement delivered by Aaron B. Kollie - representative
of the Liberian government at the Town Hall Discussion:
Liberia is a Victim of a "well-contrived
International Conspiracy," Says Kollie
Addressing a Town Hall meeting organized by the Liberian Community
Association of Metropolitan Atlanta (LAMA), on Saturday, July
28, 2001, in Atlanta, Georgia in commemoration of Liberia's Independence
Day, Mr. Aaron B. Kollie, Minister Plenipotentiary of the Embassy
of Liberia in Washington, DC, presented what amounts to a Liberian
government position on the crisis in Sierra Leone and the West
African sub-region, recently imposed UN sanctions on Liberia,
reconciliation, and a host of other issues in which the government
has been embroiled. He said Liberia is a victim of a "well-contrived
International Conspiracy."
Sinoe County
Association Holds Second National Convention
Professor Edmund Nah Kloh of Langston University in Oklahoma,
and Zac Taylor Major - the latter a former student of the professor
is president of the Sinoe County Association in the Americas.
Both of them seemed to be riding on the same plane when they
spoke about unity, and the dire need to rebuild and revitalize
basic services in their county. Citizens of that county came
from almost all areas of the United States and met in Charlotte,
North Carolina during the week of July 13 -16, 2001, to discuss
issues affecting Sinoe County.
Children's Health At Risk
The state of health of Liberian children ranks among the worst
in the world, says UN Report. This statement came as a result
of a study released last Friday by the United Nations at the
close of a three-day national symposium on improving Child Well-being.
Liberia - The
Meaning Of Independence
Like many nations around the world, the Republic of Liberia,
in West Africa, this past July 26, observed its 154th "independence"
anniversary. For many nations, this is the most appropriate time
to pause, seriously, and think (or rethink) about their present
course in relation to the past.
Nationalism and Political Crisis
The on-going saga of the Liberian football is an interesting
one and I am tempted to look at the whole issue from another
perspective. Not long ago, the Lone Stars lost by a goal to Ghana.
ULAA Issues
Independence Day Statement
The Union of Liberian Associations in the Americas (ULAA) extends
hearty congratulations to all Liberians at home and abroad on
the 154th anniversary of our national hegemony and declaration
of political independence.
Birthday, Liberia!
Liberia celebrates this week its 154th independence anniversary.
This calls for celebration. The very existence of Liberia as
an independent state in the midst of colonial conquest of the
rest of Africa by French, British and Portuguese must be seen
as a miracle.
Weah's Security
Not Guaranteed, Says Nigerian Official
The build-up to the Nigeria VS Ghana match this Saturday, July
29, in Port Harcout, Nigeria, which determines who qualifies
in Zone B for the 2002 World Cup tournament in Korea/Japan is
generating intense passions in communities of African football
HIV/AIDS Global
Trust Fund: A Proposed Organizational Structure
In an earlier article in the Foreign Policy in Focus Journal,
we had argued for an efficient and equitable governance structure
for the proposed HIV/AIDS Global Trust Fund.
Taylor Grants "Clemency"
to Three Krahn Prisoners
Liberian history is replete with stories of how Liberian rulers
treat opposition politicians who differ with them or who prefer
not to shut their mouths. The opponents are either murdered,
charged with treason, imprisoned for time indefinite, or chased
out of the country. S. David Coleman, Henry B. Fahnbulleh, Didho
Twe, and S. Raymond Horace are examples of these practices during
the reign of the late President William V. S. Tubman, the mentor
of President Charles Taylor.
Proliferation Increases Repression
The proliferation of small arms and light weapons in Africa and
other third world countries have been eminently stamped as channel
that increases repression and the capacity by which those who
govern repressively become more repressive against their civilian
The Poor Credit
Performance of Commercial Banks
A country's financial system, including its banking institutions,
is the oil that greases the engines of its economic growth. Banks
provide the vital function of mobilizing savings from those who
have it and allocating such savings to those who wish to borrow
to invest in economic development.
Liberian Journalist
Decries Press Clampdown
A Liberian journalist, Ms. Musue Noha Haddad, currently a Hubert
Humphrey fellow, has spoken about the difficulties journalists
encounter in Taylor's Liberia. Ms. Haddad is a journalist from
The News newspaper in Liberia and a contributor
to this newsmagazine.
What to Make
of the New African Union?
Recently, the Organization of African Unity heads of state announced
the changing of the organization's name to African Union, yet
its principle of non-interference in the internal affairs of
member states remains in tact, a move that can be easily categorized
as old wine in new bottle.
The Liberian Community
of Washington DC Reacts to MICAT Press Release
Liberia's Ministry of Information, Cultural Affairs, & Tourism
(MICAT) recently issued a press release in which the ministry
said that the Chairman of the Liberian Community Association
of the Washington, DC, area stated in an interview during his
visit to Liberia that the dissident forces fighting the Liberia
government in Lofa county were being bankrolled by Liberians
in the United States.
LAMA Plans Independence
Day Activities
As Liberia continues to remain embroiled in crisis and caught
in the throes of stagnancy, Liberians in the Diaspora continue
to maintain a tradition of commemorating their country's independence
day in spite of the fact that there is nothing to celebrate about.
Danish Timber Trader's
Links Exposed
A Danish-owned corporation - a major exporter of logs to Europe
- Dalhoff Larsen and Horneman (DLH), has been called upon to
stop dealing with Liberian logging companies implicated by the
United Nations in arms trafficking.
George "Oppong"
Weah Delivers... Yet Again!
Just a fortnight ago, we expressed in the strongest language
possible, our anger and outrage about the way in which our "beloved"
Lone Star and particularly its star striker, George "Oppong"
Weah, were treated by a group of so-called "frustrated"
Liberian soccer fans following their country's 2 - 1 defeat to
Ghana's Black Stars on July 1 in Monrovia.
Still Eyes World Cup
Liberia has once again shown its competitive streak when it defeated
the "Leone Stars" of Sierra Leone by 1 - 0 on Saturday,
July 14,2001, in Freetown. Liberia's defeat of Sierra Leone makes
her a leading contender once again in Group B with Nigeria, Sudan
and Ghana.
Hint to the Wise....
Observers of Liberian politics may have read two news items in
the past two or three days. The first one to surface was a press
release by the Association of Liberian Journalists in the Americas
(ALJA). With its customary brilliance and nonpartisanship, the
Liberian journalists put forward a series of recommendations
to advance the cause of peace in Liberia.
Lone Star - For Love Of Country
As Liberia continues to struggle daily with its many problems,
some of which have now become very chronic, Liberians from all
walks of life would be challenged from time to time to make whatever
sacrifices they could to pull their country through one of its
most difficult periods.
Milosevic Arrest:
A Dictator's Nightmare
In a rapidly changing world, the rights of humankind and the
sanctity of mankind is not only interwoven and inseparable, but
are the cornerstones of what the world expects of those who shall
govern it. The old millennium was noted for its pogroms, holocaust,
genocide and mass killing, but the new millennium seems destined
to end thess horrible human tragedies and create a better world.
News" Newspaper Suspends Publication
One of Liberia's independent daily newspapers, The News,
is reported to have suspended its publication for an unspecified
and indefinite period of time. The decision to suspend publication
was taken by its Board of Directors. The news of the paper's
suspension was greeted with dismay by the editorial staff since
there had been no prior or advance notice given the staff.
Is President
Taylor Ready for Reconciliation?
It has recently been reported that Dr. Togba-Nah Tipoteh has
been making efforts to bring about reconciliation between Mr.
Taylor and opposition politicians and former factional leaders
in the Diaspora. This initiative launched by the former presidential
candidate of the Liberian People's Party may sound good and Dr.
Tipoteh must be commended for trying.
ALJA Makes
Peace Proposals for War-Torn Liberia
We, the Officers and Members of the Association of Liberian Journalists
in the Americas (ALJA), are becoming increasingly alarmed that
Liberia is drifting back into another round of brutal and bloody
civil war, as fighting between government and rebel forces spreads
from Liberia's northern territory of Lofa.
Liberian Refugees are
not Dangerous
According to the July 3, 2001, issue of This Day, a Nigerian
paper, Nuhu Ibrahim uttered some incredulous remarks after a
courtesy visit with President Olusegon Obasanjo in Abuja. The
paper quoted Nuhu as saying that "some West African leaders
habour sinister motives against Nigeria in spite of the posture
of the government to promote peaceful co-existence and harmony
in the sub-region."
Liberia's Love
for Soccer is its Silver Lining
Of its many pastimes, soccer has always been not only near and
dear, but has served as a rallying point and center of gravity
for bringing Liberians from all walks of life together. Other
less popular sports such as basketball, tennis, volleyball and
kickball for women, have been important but soccer has been the
"people's sport."
West African
talks at the White House: The Ghost of Charles Taylor
As the presidents of Mali, Senegal, Ghana and Nigeria met with
Mr. George W. Bush to discuss the future of the sub-region and
tackle issues such as democratization, regional integration and
security, the name of one man might have and should have come
up over and over again.
MICAT: The Perils
of a "State-Run" Media Institution
In April of 1998, The Perspective in an editorial captioned:
"The Need For A Fresh Start" advanced a set of proposals,
which the editorial board believed, was appropriate to streamline
the bloated Liberian bureaucracy that existed before the civil
conflict. The Perspective called on President Taylor to
take advantage of the collapse administrative structure made
possible by the civil war by eliminating and consolidating certain
Five Principles
of Good Governance
Liberia today is a country with all the superficial trappings
of a nation state. It has a flag; a national anthem; a constitution
guaranteeing all the familiar rights and freedoms typical of
a modern, democratic state; a republican form of government patterned
after the United States, with an Executive headed by a popularly
elected president, a bicameral Legislature, and a Supreme Court,
each branch of government designed to provide a check on the
other. It is a member of many international organizations, including
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Catania boss Marco Giampaolo knows anything can happen in the Coppa Italia tomorrow. "We want to beat Juventus."
The Bianconeri are in dire form at the moment after back-to-back defeats against Parma and Napoli.
"We can go through to the next round. I believe in our chances," assured Catania Coach Giampaolo.
"Big clubs usually give very little importance to the Coppa Italia in the early stages, but at the end of the season it becomes the classic competition everyone clings to in order to win silverware. I expect Juventus to be motivated, but so will Catania.
"The quarter-finals are a realistic objective for us. If we confirm our recent performances, then we can get a result and beat Juventus."
Catania have also lost their last two outings, but were very unlucky after initially leading both Roma and Inter.
"It was a great regret to emerge without a single point after such strong performances, as a positive result would've given us an impressive boost. I told my men to hold on tight and keep pushing."
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i have three things that i think tell the essence of me.....
1) my wallet(s) [sorry, james, if this is embarassing to you. it's my own little tell-all ]
okay, the wallet(s)...apparently i have three and they are all made by the same designer, Ziploc. actually, i think one is a faux Ziploc (how trashy!). these clearly say a lot about me. from just this picture, you can gather that
|wallet of champions!
*i have a reason to have waterproof "wallets" (or i must REALLY be on a budget)
*well, there is a masters swim monthly pass in one, a YMCA card, some freaky yellow pills (supposed to delay fatigue or some such hooey), not a lot of cash, a couple lip glosses (even an athletic girl still needs a hint of color!), some melatonin (trouble sleeping!), and by the looks of the license, I am a Californian.
*if you have very good inference skills, you may also infer that I am unorganized to the degree that i keep losing my "wallet" so i just keep making more "wallets" and then i suddenly have 3 "wallets" in one bag
2) Dinner!
our dinners tell a lot about me and my family (James!).
*they are always served in this huge white bowl- i eat LARGE amounts of food
*they are not really kid-friendly...as we have no kids ...yet...
* i have a very healthy and talented chef who takes care of me :)
*lean protein & greens = pretty much every night (what this doesn't tell about me is that i eat junk almost every day at school at some point- brownie, cookie, bagel...something baked & delicious)
|grilled mahi, spinach, grilled veggies & avo from chef James
3) I keep my make-up bag in my car.
this was the first thing i thought of when i thought about this blog post while i was driving to work one day. i think this says SO MUCH about me.
first, i wear make up. not LOTS of makeup, but enough to look professional and presentable at work. (so this also tells you that i work and must look somewhat like i know what i'm talking about). secondly, this tells you inadvertently that i'm ALWAYS on the go. most mornings, i workout and then scramble to get to work just in time. i have it down to a big time science, including make-up application at every stoplight. [NO, I don't put on mascara while actually driving]. unfortunately, my make-up-bag-in-the-car also tells you that i don't usually have a need to put on makeup on the weekends. we're usually so busy with triathloning, that not many fancy outings needing make-upping occur. however, i do take the bag out of the car about once a weekend for a dinner or birthday or whatever...
anyway, enough about me. what kinds of things say A LOT about you? do you drink a Kombucha every day? have any telling rituals? wear the same race t-shirt to bed every night? just curious...


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After Int'l Accusations of Swimmer Ye Shiwen, Guardian Readers Request Apology to Her
August 2, 2012Jazza John12 Commentsbias, Blood doping, doping, Drugs in sport, john leonard, london olympics, Michael Phelps, Nature, Olympic sports, online poll, performance-enhancing drugs, Ryan Lochte, Sports, sports system, Sun Yang, swimming, The Olympic games, Use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport, Ye Shiwen
Readers of the Guardian Newspaper in the UK have expressed their desire on an online poll to see an apology from John Leonard, the American swimming coach, following his allegations that the performance of the Chinese swimmer, Ye Shiwen, were 'unbelievable' and 'disturbing'.
An overwhelming 98% of netizens who visited the site stated that they thought Leonard should issue an apology.
Leonard's comments came after the 16 year old girl smashed her own personal best by five seconds to break a world record, win gold and swim her final 50m in the 400m Medley faster than either Phelps or Lochte.
In response to the suggestions of blood doping from the American coach the young swimmer was quoted on Xinhua as saying,
"I think that some people are biased, in other countries people win a lot of medals and nobody says anything against them, so why are they saying it about me. I think it is unfair for me, but I was not affected by that,"
Chinese swimming team manager, Xu Qi was also quoted by Xinhua as saying,
"We admit Phelps and many swimmers have talents, why can't China have a talent like Ye, and Sun Yang, and maybe more to come?"
Xinhua writer, Wu Liming voiced bitterness felt by many Chinese after the allegations against their athletes,
"Chinese swimmers Sun Yang and Ye Shiwen have become shining stars in events that Western athletes have dominated for decades. Some of the Western media has not yet adapted to the new reality, so they are exerting every effort to blacken the performances of Chinese athletes. Apart from sports, the West has always shown a similar dark psychology and mentality toward the rise of China."
"The core of that mentality is that many in the West are unwilling to recognize the reality that China has become the second biggest economy in the world. At the London Olympics, it is irresponsible for the Western media to pour filth on Chinese athletes who won because of hard training and years of arduous preparation. All in all, arrogance and prejudice is against the Olympic spirit. It is time to tear off arrogance and prejudice, now and forever."
The Hong Kong businessman, David Tang, wrote in the London Evening Standard of past Olympic milestones and the lack of speculation over previous champions' achievements.
"… And who is to say that individuals should not suddenly excel and smash physical records… When Roger Bannister became the first man to run a mile in under four minutes there was universal adulation. Perhaps if John Leonard had been around in those days, he might have raised jealous concerns and questioned if the great doctor might not have injected himself with steroids."
He also drew links between the rise of China in general and their Olympic performance,
"… Remember the rise and fall of whole nations. In anchient times we have Egyptians and Greeks… each of which inevitably fell to others. Maybe, in the 21st Century, it is the turn of China against the supreme power of America. And what is happening in sport at the Olympics id the partial indication of that."
And just when you think all the brouhaha surrounding Ye's phenomenal performance in the pool has been put to rest by repeated urine tests on her and IOC's statement in defense of her, Nature, one of the most revered peer-reviewed journals in the academia, published an article that seems to work up more doubt about Ye Shiwen and her negative test results in an authoritative tone.
"…Was Ye's performance anomalous? Yes. Her time in the 400 IM was more than 7 seconds faster than her time in the same event at a major meet in July. But what really raised eyebrows was her showing in the last 50 metres, which she swam faster than US swimmer Ryan Lochte did when he won gold in the men's 400 IM on Saturday, with the second-fastest time ever for that event.
"…Doesn't a clean drug test during competition rule out the possibility of doping? No, says Ross Tucker, an exercise physiologist at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. Athletes are much more likely to dope while in training, when drug testing tends to be less rigorous. "Everyone will pass at the Olympic games. Hardly anyone fails in competition testing," Tucker says. Out-of-competition tests are more likely to catch dopers, he says, but it is not feasible to test every elite athlete regularly year-round."
Chinese netizens, especially students who are studying abroad and read the scientific journal regularly for research purposes, are infuriated by the article, and flooded the comment section with their angry replies.
Songhu Wangsaid:
When does "nature" become a gossip magazine? Dear Editors, please do your jobs.
Jason Wen said:
Shame on you, nature. I have being thinking you are one of the best scientific journal in the world.
But no more. You're just ruining your own reputation.
How could you allow to publish such a thing full of manipulated data and prejudice?
All that wrong with Ye is she is a Chinese with yellow skin?
Do you really think it's acceptable to compare the score from Ye Shiwen and Lochet in totally different conditions? Have you ever learned how to set a control in an experiment?
I don't think I can do much with you, but I definitely would not cite any nature any more.
damao zhang said:
Shame on nature for publishing such a trash article – no convincing evidence but just prejudices!
Xiaodong Sun said:
The editor was either misinterpreting the data or purposely misleading the audience. Many women swimmers have beaten Lochte in terms of his last 50 meters performance. Ye's 400IM record is 23 sec slower than Lochte's "second-fastest time ever for that event"
"We wanted to use the controversy as a way to highlight what science can and can't tell us with respect to athletes' performance." quoted Brian Owens. However, ridiculously it is the author of this article that lacks basic scientific training in critical thinking and data analysis. Or even worse, Nature loses its objective stance as a scientific journal and is stirring the water.
If the Nature's goal is to draw more attention by publishing nonsense articles, you should change your name to SuperNature, which sounds stronger, more appealing to broader audience and more convenient to publish articles like this one.
Ang Zhu said:
Lochte, you really have no idea how much damage you caused to Ye by not putting 100% energy to your final 50m. Four of your competitors swam faster than Ye in the final 50m while you got the gold medal and the author selectively neglect this fact to prove Ye has been doping. I remember in 2008 when Bolt broke the 100m WR, he deliberately slowed down in the final 5m and started celerbarating. Believe me or not, I bet the other 7 runners are faster than Bolt at that particular point so they might all be taking drugs.
Another thing to remind you Lochte, do not do this anymore because Olympic committee might kick you out of the game if you don't put 100% heart to your race to win. They already did that to 8 badminton girls so god knows when they will do this to you while this topic gets hotter and hotter. So be careful.
Lai Jiang said:
It is a shame to see Nature, which nearly all scientists, including myself, regard as the one of the most prestigious and influential physical science magazines to publish a thinly-veiled biased article like this. Granted, this is not a peer-reviewed scientific article and did not go through the scrutiny of picking referees. But to serve as a channel for the general populous to be in touch with and appreciate sciences, the authors and editors should at least present the readers with facts within proper context, which they failed to do blatantly.
First, to compare a player's performance increase, the author used Ye's 400m IM time and her performance at the World championship 2011, which are 4:28.43 and 4:35.15 respectively, and reached the conclusion that she has got an "anomalous" increase by ~7 sec (6.72 sec). In fact she's previous personal best was 4:33.79 at Asian Games 20101. This leads to a 5.38 sec increase. In a sport event that 0.1 sec can be the difference between the gold and silver medal, I see no reason that 5.38 sec can be treated as 7 sec.
Second, as previously pointed out, Ye is only 16 years old and her body is still developing. Bettering oneself by 5 sec over two years may seem impossible for an adult swimmer, but certainly happens among youngsters. Ian Thorpe's interview revealed that his 400m freestyle time increased 5 sec between the age of 15 and 162. For regular people including the author it may be hard to imagine what an elite swimmer can achieve as he or she matures, combined with scientific and persistent training. But jumping to a conclusion that it is "anomalous" based on "Oh that's so tough I can not imagine it is real" is hardly sound.
Third, to compare Ryan Lochte's last 50m to Ye's is a textbook example of what we call to cherry pick your data. Yes, Lochte is slower than Ye in the last 50m, but (as pointed out by Zhenxi) Lochte has a huge lead in the first 300m so that he chose to not push himself too hard to conserve energy for latter events (whether this conforms to the Olympic spirit and the "use one's best efforts to win a match" requirement that the BWF has recently invoked to disqualify four badminton pairs is another topic worth discussing, probably not in Nature, though). On the contrary, Ye is trailing behind after the first 300m and relies on freestyle, which she has an edge, to win the game. Failing to mention this strategic difference, as well as the fact that Lochte is 23.25 sec faster (4:05.18) over all than Ye creates the illusion that a woman swam faster than the best man in the same sport, which sounds impossible. Put aside the gender argument, I believe this is still a leading question that implies the reader that something fishy is going on.
Fourth, another example of cherry picking. In the same event there are four male swimmers that swam faster than both Lochter (29.10 sec)3 and Ye (28.93 sec)4: Hagino (28.52 sec), Phelps (28.44 sec), Horihata (27.87 sec) and Fraser-Holmes (28.35 sec). As it turns out if we are just talking about the last 50m in a 400m IM, Lochter would not have been the example to use if I were the author. What kind of scientific rigorousness that author is trying to demonstrate here? Is it logical that if Lochter is the champion, we should assume he leads in every split? That would be a terrible way to teach the public how science works.
Fifth, which is the one I oppose the most. The author quotes Tucks and implies that a drug test can not rule out the possibility of doping. Is this kind of agnosticism what Nature really wants to educate its readers? By that standard I estimate that at least half of the peer-reviewed scientific papers in Nature should be retracted. How can one convince the editors and reviewers that their proposed theory works for every possible case? One cannot. One chooses to apply the theory to typical examples and demonstrate that in (hopefully) all scenarios considered the theory works to a degree, and that should warrant a publication, until a counterexample is found. I could imagine that the author has a skeptical mind which is critical to scientific thinking, but that would be put into better use if he can write a real peer-reviewed paper that discusses the odds of Ye doping on a highly advanced non-detectable drug that the Chinese has come up within the last 4 years (they obviously did not have it in Beijing, otherwise why not to use it and woo the audience at home?), based on data and rational derivation. This paper, however, can be interpreted as saying that all athletes are doping, and the authorities are just not good enough to catch them. That may be true, logically, but definitely will not make the case if there is ever a hearing by FINA to determine if Ye has doped. To ask the question that if it is possible to false negative in a drug test looks like a rigged question to me. Of course it is, other than the drug that the test is not designed to detect, anyone who has taken Quantum 101 will tell you that everything is probabilistic in nature, and there is a probability for the drug in an athlete's system to tunnel out right at the moment of the test. A slight change as it may be, should we disregard all test results because of it? Let's be practical and reasonable. And accept WADA is competent at its job. Her urine sample is stored for 8 years following the contest for future testing as technology advances. Innocent until proven guilty, shouldn't it be?
Sixth, and the last point I would like to make, is that the out-of-competition drug test is already in effect, which the author failed to mention. Per WADA president's press release5, drug testing for Olympians began at least 6 months prior to the opening of the London Olympic. Furthermore there are 107 athletes who are banned from this Olympic for doping. That maybe the reason that "everyone will pass at the Olympic games. Hardly anyone fails in competition testing? Because those who did dope are already sanctioned? The author is free to suggest that a player could have doped beforehand and fool the test at the game, but this possibility certainly is ruled out for Ye.
Over all, even though the author did not falsify any data, he did (intentionally or not) cherry pick data that is far too suggestive to be fair and unbiased, in my view. If you want to cover a story of a suspected doping from a scientific point of view, be impartial and provide all the facts for the reader to judge. You are entitled to your interpretation of the facts, and the expression thereof in your piece, explicitly or otherwise, but only showing evidences which favor your argument is hardly good science or journalism. Such an article in a journal like Nature is not an appropriate example of how scientific research or report should be done.
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Well gee, one must admit that a few eyebrows were raised and Nature just noted that it is possible to beat the tests at the Olympics. However, what most of the commentators fail to bring up is the fairly recent problem with doping in Chinese swimmers! The New York Times has a very balanced article that really refutes many of the comments Chinese have posted about the West and arrogance and other silly things and in the article they reminded us of a reason why some may be suspect: "Yet China has brought uncertainty upon itself. Ye has never tested positive for banned substances. But in the 1980s and '90s, according to news accounts, more than 50 Chinese swimmers did. Seven were caught by a surprise test at the 1994 Asian Games in Hiroshima, Japan. One swimmer, Yuan Yuan, was caught with 13 vials of human growth hormone at the 1998 world championships in Perth, Australia. " The article is well worth a read as it is definitely not some western media outlet trying to suppress the accomplishments of China. See it here:http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/31/sports/olympics/chinese-swimmers-record-raises-doping-concerns.html?pagewanted=all
where were you and how old were you in 1994?? You judge a young girl with stupid prejudice which is based on a fact almost 20 years ago of ppl entirely irrelevant to Ye. So yesterday I saw a dog in my neighborhood at Mahanttan bited a girl and the dog even barked at everyone around. As your name has a "dog" in it, I very reasonably suspect you are stupid and hatred. Dude just be rational and never let your stupid pride dominate your brain and shit nonsense
Oh really? Do I need to dig out how many dopers of the great U.S.A team that got caught in the history? I probably don't want to do that because there are too many! Oh I forgot, there was one just got caught today, http://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/london/judo/story/2012-08-06/us-olympic-athlete-tests-positive-at-olympics/56819180/1?fb_action_ids=10100558726210163&fb_action_types=og.recommends&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582
You can probably say weed is not a performance enhancer which I bet you and some people will definitely say to defend him. But hey, the Chinese did not even dope on weed. Since you guys already have a pretty good start to raise suspicion, can I say every athletes of the U.S.A. team are possibly doping?
But I wouldn't say that. Because I am not as arrogant, ignorant and stupid as you are. End of it!
Category:American sportspeople in doping cases
let me count for you: it is 140. I don't want you to spend the rest of your week to count.... you know what I mean.
Category:Chinese sportspeople in doping cases:
How many of them? 11.
Sorry, Mad dog, I am sure you are pretty mad now.
People should be allowed to voice their opinion, even if you think their opinions are not intelligent or fair. A couple of Chinese swimmers in the past have tested positive for drugs, so some people may have that prejudice against Chinese swimmers. Facts speak louder than words. Ye Shiwen is clean, and her drug testing came out clean. So congrats to her!
Another 16 year old Chinese swimmer Li Zhesi tested positive for a performance-enhancing drug EPO in March. Check out this article on Li Zhesi:
I applaud Mr. Callaway's courage to tell the world that this case is very suspicious. Callaway should have gone further and laid out the evidence to support the media claim that Ye Shiwen was subjected to in-vitro genetic manipulation.
That would have fully explained why doping test came out clean. And I would not put it past the commies to sell out the human race and obtain alien technology, since 17 years ago the human genome was not even mapped.
What other explanation could there be?
Jonathan Fairbank | August 5, 2012 | Permalink Reply
Chinese swimming sensation, Ye Shiwen (葉詩文), is so strong that she even beat putative American strongman Ryan Lockte. That a Chinese person, let alone a girl of 16, can defeat a putative white "Olympian" has gotten racists in a tissy. Both the American and British media have accused Ye of doping WITHOUT presenting an ounce of evidence.
Ah, as the Chinese say, hongyanbing (红眼病, "the red-eye disease,") — in other words, jealousy — is so pathetic. When girly white men can't defeat a sensational Chinese beauty, they resort to character assassination. Pa-the-tic!
Let us remind these racists that this is not your grandpas' China or Chinese! We have stood up! Qi lai!
Let's be clear here. It's not "the west" bashing all chinese competitors, it's largely americans saying this nonsense. The americans have a history of poor sportsmanship at the games in both winning and losing and this is just one of many incidents in the 2012 games alone.
I'll raise your american coach knocking a chinese competitor and raise you a (US women's goalie) Hope Solo bashing her own teammates.
The ugly americans are back.
Innocent until proven guilty. I hope to see more from Yi Shiwen in the future.


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Making money on selling a vape, mod, coils and other parts/accessories isn't your "bread and butter". E-juice is – it will bring residual income for as long as your customers continue to vape. But another great source revenue is having a vapor lounge. Even if you have a hookah bar or hookah lounge, you can easily add vapes and e-juice to your product offerings. In fact I highly recommend it! Did you know – 10ml of e-juice retails from about $5 to $7 a bottle…I'll show you where you can get a GALLON of USA Made e-juice for less than $175.00. There are 3,785.xx ml in a gallon, meaning 378 10ml bottles. At $5.00 a bottle, that's $1,890.00 retail. At $7.00 a bottle, that's over $2,600.00 in retail sales. See why I say e-juice is your bread and butter? I can easily vape 10ml a day.
In a lounge setting, you can rent vapes out and charge for e-juice refills. People are social creatures, well most of us are. Hookah lounges typically attract the 18-25 crowd (and up from there!) whereas vapor lounges and vape sales attract people 18-90. Although the lounge users are typically going to be in the younger generations, you must not block out the 30+ crowd who would visit your lounge to purchase e-juice, coils, etc. Doing so will dramatically decrease your overall sales potential.
If you're wondering the costs involved – it's much more expensive to open a vapor lounge than a hookah bar. Why? Let's say you want to have an e-juice bar that has 50 flavors of e-juice. Not only do you have to have the 50 flavors, you have to have them in different nicotine levels. I recommend carrying/stocking 4 levels of each flavor. Now that's 200 different bottles. At $175 a gallon (the cheapest overall way to purchase) that's $35,000 alone in e-juice. Now the company I recommend will give you 20% off that as well (bringing you down to under $140 a gallon!) but that's still a lot of money to come up with. With our business plan, you will have an awesome "resume" to present to local investors. It's extremely difficult to obtain a loan from the bank, unless you have other collateral to put up. A small business loan for a vapor lounge probably isn't going to happen as well. After the 2008 crash, bank lending sucks! Private investors is the way to go unless you're financially able to fund it yourself. Just as a comparison, you can start a hookah bar for under $10K (although we spend about $15k and up).
In addition to getting all the files from the Hookah Lounge Blueprint – you're going to get a pdf file and a video with vapors and e-juice as the sole focus. Initially, I was going to offer the Vapor Lounge Blueprint as a separate product from the Hookah Lounge Blueprint. But after some consideration, I'm going to offer it all together as one package – at the still ridiculously low price of $49.00. You get instant access to the files, even if it's 4:20am!
To summarize, here's what you'll receive:
All files included with the Hookah Bar Blueprint including –
- An 8 page Hookah Bar Business Plan – it blew a leasing agents mind!
(easily change it to be just a vapor lounge)
- Hookah Bar Menus
- Employee Job Descriptions – for managers and regular employees
- Cost vs Retail on beverages – find out how profitable beverages are!
- Hookah & Shisha Vendor List
- Learn how to get free and low cost advertising – let the media work for you!
- A PDF file based solely on Vapors and e-juice
- A video based solely on Vapors and e-juice
- And much, much more!


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Traditional Oak Doors and Door Frames
The choice of wood for your external doors and frames is a decision that will have a long lasting effect on the value of your home. The right kind of wood will last for decades as well as improve the look of your home.
However, there are other considerations too:
• It must keep your home secure against unwanted entry
• It should shut perfectly, swing freely but keep out drafts and moisture
• It must withstand the elements and cope with the extremes, such as multiple temperature and humidity cycles
• Additionally, it should match the other wood features around your home
The choices tend to be limited. You can go with teak or mahogany, but for traditional English Homes you really can't beat oak. If cost is an issue, the European Oak is a good substitute for English Oak. The grade may be slightly lower, but it will still give you years of pleasure. Continue reading


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The Alameda Food Bank has kicked off its annual turkey collection drive for the holidays at what promises to be yet another tough juncture for the Island's poor and needy. Cuts to food stamp benefits went into effect on November 1.
Last year the food bank served nearly 5,400 Alamedans, or about one in every 14 Island residents. Nine percent of the food bank's customers are seniors, and nearly a third are children. The food bank typically seeks enough frozen turkeys and fixings to fill the holiday tables of more than 1,000 local families.
Gilbert said the food bank needs to collect 1,000 turkeys by Monday, November 25 – less than two weeks from today – to meet those holiday meal needs. While turkeys are its primary need right now, he said the food bank is also collecting non-perishable food to be distributed in holiday food bags throughout December.


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Judge Sentences Johnstown Crack Cocaine Dealer to Nine Years in Prison
|U.S. Attorney's Office November 08, 2012
JOHNSTOWN, PA—A resident of Johnstown, Pennsylvania has been sentenced in federal court to 110 months and five years' supervised release on his conviction of distributing and possessing with intent to distribute cocaine base, commonly known as "crack," United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
United States District Judge Kim R. Gibson imposed the sentence on Cirilito Cheatham.
According to information presented to the court, on each of the dates of September 26 and September 27, 2011, Cheatham distributed less than 28 grams of cocaine base, and on September 27, 2011, Cheatham possessed with intent to distribute 28 grams or more of cocaine base.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephanie L. Haines prosecuted this case on behalf of the government.
Mr. Hickton commended the Laurel Highlands Resident Agency of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Cambria County Drug Task Force, and the Johnstown Police Department for the investigation leading to the successful prosecution of Cheatham.


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Best Answer hulbert , 11 October 2013 - 08:53 AM
There are a few things you might wish to try:
Like Mike said, lowering the gain/drive can help clear up the sound and give a more pleasant tone.
You could try a few things to beef up the sound:
-Try (you might have tried it already) having two amps (with or without effects) playing at once in Pod Farm by clicking on 'Dual' and adding another version of the same setup (copy current tone), or create a new one (create empty tone) and then add the amp etc. you would like. With this you can set them up with different distortion pedals/settings or whatever.
-Try recording a number of tracks at the same time or simply record one track and then copy the result and paste it into another track and so on.
With this method you can apply the pod farm plugin to each track and have each one set with a different amp or setting. You can also have stereo versions and mono versions. I used to record 'dry' (bare un-effected) and then add the Pod Farm plugin later and choose the sound I wanted. Now I record dry and 'wet' (the effected sound I hear from Pod Farm standalone while playing) versions. This allows you to quickly hear the original effected sound when playing it back but also change to another sound when using the dry track with the plugin added.
I usually record at least two rhythm guitars (depending on styles) and have one coming from the far left through the speakers and the other from the far right. This is good for filling the sound and also allowing other instruments and vocals to be around the centre. This can make it sound bigger too. If you use the exact same recording -one left, one right (or possibly more) its maybe best to delay the sound of the additional versions. If you listen to the recording with one version left and one right (with no delay added), it will sound pretty much just like having the one version playing right in the middle. If you delay the additional versions however, you suddenly have a 'big' sound. You can get free or purchasable delay plugins to do this. Just add it to the tracks you want and set the time delay to taste. You can record the part a second time however and have one left, one right etc. and not need the delay, as the natural difference of the recordings adds to the sound itself. Sometimes you might wish to record the two tracks with different settings on amps or the guitar, so that they have less chance of interfering with each other. That's not necessary though.
-I find that for some pedals/amp setups in pod farm, I prefer to have the gain setting up higher than the drive setting on the pedal. I think this is probably more for lower distortion but maybe worth looking at. I tried it just a while ago with the killer pedal and insane amp and it didn't seem to change it much though. I usually use the screamer pedal and have the drive of the amp down a bit, but thats when using a lighter distortion than what you are probably wanting. Its been a while since I spent some time playing with high gain.
One thing which is useful is the 4 band eq in pod farm. I have it at the end of the chain on all of my saved guitar tones. I originally found it hard to get a good distorted / overdriven sound in Pod Farm and I messed about with the 4 band eq and then applied the same setting to all tones. Since then I have adjusted my listening setup so I might need to change that, but while I'm recording, I'll keep it. I'll change it when I get down to mixing and need to get the right tone.
I think you have platinum? I see that it has more high gain amps etc. I haven't heard what they all sound like.
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Yesterday, First Lady Michelle Obama opened the new FreshFarms Market by the White House. Next week, the fresh, local food movement will march not on the marble steps of the Capitol, but down hallways of the District's public, charter and private schools. As part of this week's "Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food" roll-out by the US Department of Agriculture, additional tools and $50 million in funds were announced to help bring healthy, local foods into schools, now, without waiting for Congress to take up school lunch re-authorization. (Which isn't going to happen until next year.)
Also not waiting for Congress to act is the new DC Farm to School Network, which is launching "Local Flavor Week" September 21-25 as the opening foray into bringing the regions farmers into local schools. Together with the Capital Area Food Bank, Whole Foods and other community partners, DC Farm to School is coordinating a full week of taste tests, cooking demonstrations, farmer visits and nutritional education activities. The festivities kick-off Tuesday at the Thurgood Marshall Academy Public Charter High School cafeteria in Southeast DC, where local chefs Peter Smith of PS7 and Oliver Friendly of Eat and Smile Foods will compete Top Chef-style using ingredients grown in the school's garden.
Andrea Northup, coordinator of the DC Farm to School Network, notes that the District has one of highest child obesity rates in the nation. "School-aged children consume most of their daily calories in school meals, so it makes sense that we should connect school with nearby sources of fruits and vegetables to serve in their cafeterias. The only way the District's schoolchildren will thrive is if they are well nourished and armed with the skills they need to make healthy lifestyle choices."
If you're in the area, find out more about participating schools and activities — and volunteer opportunities — at dcfarmtoschool.org/localflavorweek. And to find a Farm-to-School organization in your state, take a look at the National Farm-to-School map.
PS If you didn't catch my live tweets from the White House market opening, here's a slideshow recap (click picture to view):
You can read more about the market opening, and see pics of the First Lady and Chef Kass (whom I missed waiting in the security line), on Cookography, Obama Foodorama and the twitter stream from @FreshFarmMktsDC.
Don't forget it's Fight Back Friday — visit the Food Renegade to join in!


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Take a whirlwind trip down the Bourbon Trail with Whiskey Professor, Bernie Lubbers and learn about our nation s native spirit in, Bourbon Whiskey. In the pages of this funny and easy-to-read book, you will learn how bourbon is made, the history of bourbon in Kentucky, America, and the world, the difference between whiskey and bourbon, and how to read labels of bourbon and whiskey bottles.
Included is an updated and expanded travel guide highlighting where to go during your visit to the Kentucky distilleries as well as other bars, restaurants and hotels nearby. There is also a guide to Louisville s Urban Bourbon Trail. Make the most of your visit.
The recipes in Digestive Health with REAL Food: The Cookbook expand on the information first introduced in Digestive Health with REAL Food by providing 75 more delicious recipes to help you build your own optimal diet. Each recipe, developed by registered dietitian Aglaee Jacob, utilizes foods that are easy to digest, anti-inflammatory, nutrient-dense, healing and low in irritants and allergens with the intent of addressing numerous digestive problems.
Living Luxe Gluten Free dishes are based upon natural, healthy ingredients like vegetables, fruits, seafood, white meats, and ancient grains. Recipes intentionally exclude processed ingredients, preservatives, trans fats, and added sugars and sodium when possible. It's also a great resource for those who are lactose intolerant. Even recipes created to satisfy cravings for the flavors like Buffalo wings, nachos, and desserts have been engineered with healthfulness in mind. "Eat well. Feel great. Live Luxe!"
Sweets in the Raw: Naturally Healthy Desserts delivers 46 fresh, never-been-used recipes designed to satisfy the most intense sweet tooth, minus the refined sugar, dairy, and grains. These carefully crafted recipes, including Mini Black Forest Cake Bites, Apple Crumb, Espresso Truffles, Strawberry Ice Cream, and Chocolate Fudge, have endured rigorous taste-testing by a wide audience before being brought to you!
Truly Cultured: Rejuvenating Taste, Health and Community with Naturally Fermented Foods is a first-of-its-kind treasury, a full circle tribute to the world's favorite foods. Clearly, as the tagline reads. Half cookbook, half "nourishment guide", this long overdue full color tribute to live cultured foods and how important lacto-fermented foods and their producers, friendly probiotic bacteria, are to our health, environment and communities.
Vegan-Ease: An Easy Guide to Enjoying a Plant-Based Diet – In this comprehensive cookbook, Laura Theodore, the award-winning host of public television's Jazzy Vegetarian, brings us full menu plans, shopping lists, and over 130 delicious, quick-and-easy vegan recipes, each complete with nutritional analysis.


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This course applies an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, strength-based and disability studies lens to understand the needs of youth and families and the influence of social and cultural factors on the lived experience of disability. This course will examine multicultural counseling and emphasize culturally informed and responsive approaches for working with children with special needs and their families in clinical mental health and school counseling settings. Students will engage in a wide range of academic and experiential exercises, field trips and reflection activities aimed to increase multicultural knowledge, skills and self-awareness to work effectively with families of children and youth with disabilities and with the network of service providers and community agencies with which these families interact.
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The Wellness Network Introduces Your NICU Baby
New digital offering provides real-time education and support resources for parents of newborns in the neonatal intensive care unit
Oct 03, 2013, 08:40 ET
NEW YORK, Oct. 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Wellness Network today announced the launch of Your NICU Baby at the National Association of Neonatal Nurses (NANN) 29th Annual Education Conference in Nashville, TN. The offering, which is available in both English and Spanish, features a full suite of video-based education, personal stories, insight and support for parents of newborns admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit, or NICU. Your NICU Baby is a service of The Newborn Channel, the 24/7 in-hospital TV network that has been educating parents for over 20 years.
Your NICU Baby is designed to empower parents with information about medical conditions, tests, and treatments common to pre-term or special needs, full-term babies. To help parents find their way in the NICU, Your NICU Baby also provides an orientation to staff and technologies common to the NICU environment. "The unique thing about this program is that the content is understandable and appropriate for all parents, regardless of what type of NICU facility their child is in," explains Sue Hall, MD, NICU Medical Director at Stormont-Vail HealthCare in Topeka, KS. "This is an important and much needed tool to help parents develop the skills they need to care for their baby both in the hospital and once they go home. Learning about skin-to-skin bonding, early feeding, and their child's medical needs helps them become active participants in their child's care right at the beginning, and that kind of involvement is critical for good patient outcomes."
Your NICU Baby is available preinstalled on a portable touch-screen tablet for ease-of-use around the NICU and online. The offering features 45 videos shot in Level III NICUs at Baylor All Saints Medical Center; Loma Linda University Medical Center; and UCLA Medical Center. Expert neonatologists, neonatal nurses, lactation consultants, pediatric surgeons, and other specialists explain medical conditions and provide infant care tips in easy-to-understand, accessible language. Also included are inspiring profiles of parents relating their own NICU stories.
In addition to video content, Your NICU Baby offers a catalog of printable worksheets, informative articles, glossaries, and checklists from clinical contributors and members of the Preemie Parent Alliance, a network of NICU parent support organizations across the country.
"Being in the NICU is an overwhelming and often traumatic experience; one that only another parent who has been there can truly understand," notes Keira Sorrells, Director of Operations of the Preemie Parent Alliance. "Our member organizations were honored to contribute helpful resources and feedback for Your NICU Baby to ensure that the parent perspective was included."
About The Wellness Network
The Wellness Network owns The Patient Channel, The Newborn Channel, The MedSerenity Channel, and HealthStyle Press. The Patient Channel and The Newborn Channel are the largest in-hospital TV networks in the U.S. HealthStyle Press publishes America's Health Guides™, passport-sized health education booklets for every stage of life.
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"'Tales of an All-Night Town' is a hair-bending ride in the vein of...'The Wire.' I was in love with these characters! I didn't want the book to end."
Ericka Blount Danois
"An American classic, authentic in every detail and written in a style that suits the suspenseful material - this is a very important book."
Gordon Parks
"Tales of an All-Night Town' invites comparison with Norman Mailer's "The Executioner's Song."...Like Mailer in Provo, Utah, (Brockman) conveys the language and idiom of the streets and roadhouses of Lovejoy, Ill., so convincingly that her story actually seems to be told from the inside out...Unlike Mailer, (she) does not call her book a novel; this makes it difficult to praise her skills as an artist without running the risk of offending her pride as a journalist - if indeed this is a distinction she herself would make. I trust it isn't, for "Tales of an All-Night Town" transcends the differences between the categories, achieving the sort of accuracy that is approached in only the most intelligent books, fiction or nonfiction."
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You see, the JD Class of 2009 had 44,000 graduates – competing for 28,901 jobs requiring a law degree. (Hint: not all of these jobs are attorney positions.)
Now, we will look at the number of law grads from 1980-1981 to 2008-2009 – by adding the 44,000 to the count. In these 29 years, a cumulative total of 1,127,231 law degrees were awarded by ABA-accredited law schools. Yes, ONE MILLION, ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SEVEN THOUSAND, TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY ONE law degrees have been issued in the last 29 years, in the United States. Do you think there might be a glut of attorneys out there?!?!
Since you are in "full law school mode," you will likely respond with a variation of the following: "Yes, but those people who failed to land legal jobs didn't work hard enough and didn't earn good grades. I, on the other hand, WILL work hard and receive stellar grades. So, I don't need to worry about such a fate befalling me."
"Many corporations agree that outsourcing legal work, in some form or another, is here to stay.
"We will continue to go to big firms for the lawyers they have who are experts in subject matter, world-class thought leaders and the best litigators and regulatory lawyers around the world — and we will pay a lot of money for those lawyers," said Janine Dascenzo, associate general counsel at General Electric.
A nest of Biglaw cockroaches, calling itself the ABA Standing Committee on "Ethics and Professional Responsibility" issued ABA "Ethics" Opinion 08-451 in August 2008. This paved the way for U.S. law firms to outsource American legal discovery work to foreign lawyers AND non-lawyers. Biglaw partners are now "pursuing cost-effective strategies," i.e. they are trimming the fat. These jobs are heading to India!!
Biglaw partners are concerned with maintaining their status and wealth, i.e. profits per partner. Hence, they are cutting back on hiring summer associates. Summer 2010 hiring was down 44 percent from Summer 2009. But, YOU will be different, right?!?!
"Some of the biggest cuts came from the top of The A-List. Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom took the most severe hit in gross numbers, going from 223 summer associates in 2009 to 79 this year. Cravath, Swaine & Moore's summer class shrank by 81 percent to just 23 summer associates, the biggest percentage decrease in the survey -- except for Ballard Spahr, which cut its summer program entirely. Skadden and Cravath declined to comment, and Ballard Spahr did not return calls for comment."


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SILVA JUNIOR, Otaviano da; MELO, Celso Salgado de; MARRA, Marcelo and CORREIA, Dalmo. Alternative endocardial sites for artificial cardiac stimulation. Arq. Bras. Cardiol. [online]. 2011, vol.96, n.1, pp.76-85. ISSN 0066-782X. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0066-782X2011000100013.
The conventional right ventricular stimulation can be associated with deleterious effects on cardiac function. The need for a more physiological artificial cardiac stimulation is undoubtedly one of the most important points in the area of cardiac electrotherapy. The programming algorithms for the maintenance of adequate atrioventricular conduction, the stimulation of alternative endocardial sites and the cardiac resynchronization therapy are used with the objective of attaining these goals. The stimulation of the bundle of His and the septal stimulation have been studied as alternative endocardial sites for the positioning of the electrode on the right ventricle. The septal stimulation represents a simple and practical alternative, with no additional costs involved and with potential benefits in decreasing the deleterious effects of the right ventricular stimulation. However, this alternative site involves a heterogeneous group of patients and presents conflicting results regarding its long-term clinical benefit. This article reviews the scientific evidence on the alternative sites for right ventricular stimulation, with emphasis on the safety of the procedure, the measurement of the electrophysiological parameters, assessment of the left ventricular function and the clinical follow-up of patients.
Keywords : Pacemaker, artificial; septal stimulation; ventricular function, left.


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Rupert Murdoch may take heart, oddly, from some of the leading articles in today's national newspapers.
Unsurprisingly, The Times (prop: R Murdoch) found a way to draw the sting from the MPs' report on the phone-hacking scandal.
It set the tone from its opening sentence: "In its examination of phone hacking at News International, the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee set out to investigate abuses of power. In its report, delivered yesterday, it ended up committing one."
While conceding that the company was guilty of "grotesque journalistic failings, and the grotesque corporate failings that followed them", it thought the report by the committee's majority "discredited itself".
The Daily Mail thought the committee's "brutal" but did not consider them "fair and impartially reached".
The judgment that Murdoch was unfit to run his media business was a "nakedly ideological verdict". It continued:
The grave danger is that, by condemning Mr Murdoch in such an extremely over-the-top way, MPs will throw the baby out with the bath water.
Yes, he and those who worked for him at News International should be held fully to account for the terrible wrongdoing which took place at the News of the World...
However, to seek to destroy Mr Murdoch and his international operation for the grave sins of one part of his empire is an utterly disproportionate response to events which took place at a paper which, in fairness, he has already closed.
It concluded that some of the committee's members - "driven by a zealous compulsion to score cheap political points" -
have gravely demeaned the parliamentary process.
The Independent, also believed the split report to be "unfortunate". It said: "A farrago of differences over just a single sentence in the committee's latest report threatens to undermine the credibility of the whole."
But it also thought the report "as damning an indictment of Rupert Murdoch's media empire as the company's critics might hope for." It added:
It is strong stuff. And taken together, it is difficult not to draw the conclusion that the elder Mr Murdoch is 'not a fit person to exercise the stewardship of a major international company'.
What is less clear is whether it is the job of the committee to say so.
The Financial Times was a little less concerned about the committee's split, largely accepting the conclusions at face value.
The report's verdict, it said, "will add to the sense of siege at News Corp", not least because it challenges Murdoch's claim that the cover-up was confined to executives at the News of the World.
In a key passage, the FT leader says:
Rupert Murdoch should have taken steps to inform himself about phone hacking. Especially damaging is the claim that he exhibited 'wilful blindness to what was going on in his companies and publications'.
This is sensitive at a time when the broadcast regulator, Ofcom, is examining News Corp's fitness to exercise control over the UK broadcasting group, BSkyB.
The paper did think the report's "force" had been blunted by "a partisan decision" from its Labour and Lib-Dem members to claim that Murdoch was "not a fit person to exercise the stewardship of a major international company".
It concluded: "These issues should be investigated and dealt with dispassionately. They should not be distorted by partisan spin."
The Daily Telegraph, surprisingly, didn't carry a leader on the subject. However, in its two-page coverage (with only a single column story on the front page), it did include a sketch by Michael Deacon in which he gently poked fun at Labour MP Tom Watson.
There was also an online comment by the paper's chief leader writer, David Hughes, "Labour's hatred for Rupert Murdoch has blunted the culture committee's report".
By contrast, The Guardian mentioned the split only in passing. Instead it preferred to consider what lies ahead for Murdoch – at News Corp and with Ofcom – and, most significantly, for David Cameron.
The Daily Mirror considered it "a shame political rivalries scuppered the prospects of unanimity" but thought it "inevitable when the fate of cabinet minister Jeremy Hunt is in the balance." Good headline: "News corpse".
And The Sun? Its leader writer didn't appear to notice that the MPs had issued a report. But it did carry a news story of sorts.