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Quitting on reality shows just isn't what it used to be. There's been a rash of quitting in recent weeks on competitive reality shows, and while the end result is always the same, quitting has less consequence than it used to.
For sure, if someone quits, they're out of the competition and no longer eligible for the prize. But their decisions don't seem to carry the same weight. In fact, it's almost celebrated.
On the Nov. 28 episode of "The Amazing Race," Nick quit in the middle of a task, deciding he was too exhausted to continue the task and/or berate his asthmatic girlfriend, who wanted to keep trying. Nick's punishment: a six-hour penalty. That's it.
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On the surface, the Dec. 1 episode of "Survivor" seemed to treat quitting differently. At the reward challenge, not one but two contestants — NaOnka and Purple Kelly — announced they were leaving the game after suffering through another cold rainstorm.
Host Jeff Probst questioned ("With 11 days to go?") and challenged them ("You don't seem like a quitter," he told NaOnka). But he let them go.
Now, NaOnka and Kelly join the jury, just as they would have had they been voted out. They'll do media interviews and be talked about on Facebook and Twitter (and in pieces like this one). In fact, they may get more attention for being quitters — especially since they quit together — and got an entire episode that focused on their quitting.
While people in the episode may have condemned NaOnka and Kelly's decision to quit, this was nothing like 2003's "Survivor: Pearl Islands," when Osten Taylor threw in the towel and became the first player in the history of the game to do so.
Then, it was shocking and unbelievable. Like he did in Nicaragua, Probst questioned Osten's decision by asking everyone else to talk about why they weren't quitting. But back then, Probst got increasingly upset, asking Osten, "Have you wondered what the hell you're doing out here?" He later said, "No need to vote and waste anymore time" and told Osten go home.
This time, with NaOnka and Purple Kelly, he dragged out the event, turning it into spectacle instead of humiliation. Probst has seen other quitters since Osten, including some who gave up and let themselves be voted out instead of quitting outright, so perhaps he's become desensitized, like viewers have.
It's the norm
The stigma of quitting is nearly gone, and now it's become something you do to get attention, like the way fighting, drinking and hooking up on "The Real World" has become the norm instead of the rare exception.
A few weeks ago during "Top Chef: Just Desserts," someone quit. Then when another player left after having a breakdown, a previously eliminated contestant, Heather C., returned to the competition. But Heather quickly said that she, too, wanted to quit, although she was eliminated again before she had the chance. While other contestants scoffed at her for this, it wasn't shocking.
Perhaps that's because it's been done before, and now it's no big deal. Or perhaps it just doesn't seem as special anymore to be the one person selected from thousands — or even tens of thousands — of applicants to be on a reality competition.
There's no sense of responsibility or humility.
The benefits of quitting
For sure, sometimes quitting can be strategic, as it was during the season of "The Amazing Race" when Rob convinced other teams to also bypass a task, thus giving everyone the same consequence.
And on rare occasions, quitting is actually fortunate, like during "Survivor: All-Stars," when "Survivor: Amazon" winner Jenna Morasca left to be with her mother, who was fighting cancer, and arrived home just days before her mom died.
But most quitting is just giving up, a contestant realizing they just can't take the pressure. They think what they've seen on TV looks easy, and when faced with real-life mental, physical and emotional challenges — plus the physical and mental toll of being filmed constantly and subjected to the whims of the show's producers — they break down.
That makes it seem like people just aren't prepared for the challenge, or just can't manage to push themselves when they need to. "Survivor" may have had some harsh words for its quitters by letting them stay in the game as part of the jury and focusing an entire episode on their decision, the message is increasingly clear on reality TV: Quitters are rewarded.
During "Survivor: Nicaragua's" special quitter Tribal Council, 56-year-old Jane told Probst, "Life is not an easy ride for like 90 percent of the people out there, and with the economy the way it is right now, jobs are scarce. So if you don't have some sort of drive and determination to show an employer that you're better than somebody else, you're not going to get hired."
And then she delivered the most compelling argument of all about why it's ridiculous to quit a game that makes its players uncomfortable: "There's people out there that's a whole lot worse off than us right now, and they're not playing 'Survivor,' we are."
Andy Dehnart is a writer, TV critic and editor of reality blurred. Follow him on Facebook and Twitter .


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2008-12-26Human Rights Centre Holds Seminar for Law enforcers in Samegrelo –Zemo Svaneti
"Prevention of Torture –Aspects of Implementation of International Law"- this topic was discussed by the Human Rights Center and Rehabilitation Center for Victims of Torture together with the law enforcers in Zugdidi. European Union representatives also attended the seminar on December 25, 2009. The Human Rights Center lawyer familiarized the police officers, the representatives of prosecutor and judicial officers with the importance of various Georgian laws and international instruments that must be realized in those bodies by all means.
2008-12-26Farmers Are Demanded to Pay Long-abolished Land Taxes from Small Farmer
Farmer have reported to the Human Rights Centre that in 2000 Dedoplistskaro district was declared a natural disaster zone of and consequently, former president Eduard Shevardnadze ordered at that time Georgian government to abolish taxes on land plots in the district. However, district tax inspections are still demanded locals to pay taxes on their small land holdings. This is especially worrying since on July 11 2007 amendments were introduced to the Tax Code and these abolished taxes all together on land-owners, private persons and local authority on the debts accumulated in arrears prior to January 1 2005. Thus, as lawyers define, the land owners were discharged from the debts they had accumulated in arrears before January 1, 2005. However, the commission of the Ministry of Finances passed a resolution on November 21, 2008 which ordered regional tax inspections to demand farmers to pay taxes and penalty charges on land holding dating back to 2000.
2008-12-26Budget Funds in Kakheti Region Inadequate for Social Programs
In 2008 municipality boards of Kakheti region abolished libraries, culture houses and several dozens kindergartens in the villages because of a lack of funds in local budget. For the same reason expenses for social programs have been decreased or completely abolished. Several hundreds employees of the organizations that are funded from local government have not received their salaries yet. Meanwhile the salaries of district governors increased from 1,500 to 2,400 GEL; and chairpersons of municipality boards have their salaries increased from 1 000 to 1 500 GEL; as well as other expenses of the regional governor's administration.
2008-12-26Tsalenjikha District Council Member Speaks, Media Freedom Restriction and Misuse of Funds
Giorgi Vekua, member of Tsalenjikha District Council expressed what is considered as a scandalous statement during the Tsalenjikha District Governor's election. He said that the freedom of media was restricted. Such a statement is repeated each day. However, what is surprising is to consider that Giorgi Vekua is a National Movement member. He made this and other such statements during a council session. Giorgi Vekua was a Tsalenjikha District Governor candidate but he declined during the election process, which was conducted during the council session. He demanded that an interim commission be set up to study the work of the District's administration.
2008-12-26Witnesses Are Afraid of Telling the Truth
The detention of Paata Kaikatsishvili has witnesses but they are afraid to come out and tell the truth. Paata is the relative of Zurab Noghaideli, who is the former Georgian Prime Minister. Kaikatsishvili was detained on December 27, 2008. Based on official investigation materials "the police discovered 0,255 grams of heroine in Kaikatsishvili's right sock." The detained says that drugs were planted to him. The witnesses of arrest operation say the same thing. However, only 4 witnesses were interrogated during the trial and all of them happened to be the police officers who were involved in arresting Kaikatsishvili.
2008-12-25Russian Soldiers Reinforce Control of Gali District
Georgian journalist personally saw the deployment and mobilization of Russian army in the village of Pichori in Gali district two days ago. Paata Lagvilava, journalist for the regional newspaper "Samgrelos Kronika" arrived in the village with the support of his relatives and despite the great risks involved, he was able to spend two days and nights in Pichori. The journalist managed to interview locals and was able to take photos of the village. Residents of Pichori complained about hard social and the political situation they face.
2008-12-24Dignified Beginning and Dismal End
A resolution of the Government of Georgia dated December 3 stipulated that the governmental program for assisting infants from socially excluded families has been abolished. The program covered those families that were listed in the unified database of socially excluded families and had poverty scores of 100 000 points or less.
2008-12-23Person Who Should Be Operated Still Held in Prison
A Prisoner with heart-disease has not been allowed access to medical treatment. Since being locked up he suffers from acute pain but according to the penitentiary department, he cannot be taken to jail hospital without the approval of a corresponding medical expert's report.
2008-12-23Agents of Insurance Companies Blackmail Teachers
Agents of insurance companies are compelling teachers to sign contracts with insurance companies. The agents are workers of educational-resource centers or their relatives and/or the family members of the employees working at educational resource center; in some instances they are pubic school directors. If teachers do not sign contracts with insurance companies, they are threatened with dismissal from their jobs. Although Georgian government issued resolution # 256 on November 21 2007 that envisages assigning free medical vouchers to teacher, it is at the discretion of the voucher holder as to which insurance company is selected prior to December 31 2008. The beneficiary shall not be unjustly influenced in making the choice. The Minister of Education provided written instructions about this policy to territorial departments responsible to the ministry about it in written form.
2008-12-23Human Rights Winners Announced in Tbilisi
The Human Rights Center and online newspaper www.humanrights.ge organized competition for journalists and photographers working in the sphere of human rights. Winners were announced on December 17 at the Kopala" Gallery "in Tbilisi.
2008-12-23Thousands of GEL for Needless PR And "Unknown" District Governors
According to official information Kakheti municipality budgets spent 350 thousand GEL on the publicity of the activities implemented by local authorities. In parallel to funding, regional newspapers with the district administrations, independent online and printed media sources receive part of local budgets for "informational-advertising services". Besides that, events aimed for the publicity of activities of local governments are funded from so-called "other" cultural and administrative departments. Although first officials of local authorities almost every day meet TV Companies and newspaper reporters, over 82 % of interviewed people does not know who is the governor of their district.
2008-12-23Five Basic Problems facing the Samtskhe-Javakheti Region
A Samtskhe-Javakheti regional conference was held in the town of Akhalkalaki. The conference was dedicated in its title to "Patience, Tolerance and Civil Integration." As a result, civil society representatives adopted a joint resolution upon the conclusion.
2008-12-23Russian Soldiers Returned to Village of Perevi Village
Residents of the village of Perevi in Imereti region, where Russian have since returned, live in the village under constant fear. People state they were not so scared, even when Russians first occupied their village; they added how the return of Russian occupants might cause even more serious problems for them.
2008-12-23Police Officers Beat Suspects in Tsalenjikha
The Tsalenjikha Police Department police officers beat Tornike Kvaratskhelia and Raibul Pipia ruthlessly on December 11, 2008. The physically assaulted men were suspected of stealing a car and upon searching the suspects, the police "discovered" Marihuana with a hand grenade. Both Tornike Kvaratskhelia and Raibul Pipia deny that they had anything to do with the car thief. They also say that both Marihuana and hand grenade were planted on them by the police. Temur Kardava, the attorney of the suspects managed to meet with his clients only after 14 hours following their arrest.
2008-12-23Majority of Personnel of Kakheti Regional Administration Failed Tests
On December 20, personnel of Kakheti regional administration was tested and only four out of 15 people passed the tests. According to the resolution of the examination commission of the regional administration the aim of the testing was to assess professional skills, qualification, abilities and personal character of the people employed at the regional administration. However, deputy regional governors did not take part in tests.
2008-12-22IDP Children Freezing in the Forest
Officially approximately 200 people from Shida Kartli and Tskhinvali Regions remain in Kakheti Region as IDPs. More than 120 out of this amount are warehoused in former educational institutions of Lagodekhi, Telavi and Sagarejo districts. Only those IDPs that live in so called IDP Centers are able to receive a small amount of aid within the framework of the UN Food Programme. However, those IDPs that live with their relatives and in abandoned houses often do not have even bread to eat.
2008-12-22Houses Burnt Down Two Kilometers Away from Fire-Brigade Office
In the evening of December 18 sudden fire seriously damaged four houses in Ketevan Tsamebuli Str. in Akhaltsikhe. Since telephone does not work at the office of fire-brigade the rescue team arrived at the place half an hour later. It must be noted that the service office is located two kilometers away from Ketevan Tsamebuli Street.
2008-12-19Land Plots Granted Based on Incorrect Survey Maps Results in Legal Row
A large scaled privatization started for those agricultural plots that were provided under a lease agreement in the Shida Kartli Region. However, it was soon apparent that all was not well when protests broke out in several villages of Shida Kartli. The locals were against the mass privatization scheme. For instance, the inhabitants of village Zeghduleti protested against the privatization of pastures that belonged to their village. They said that the poor peasants would not be able to purchase pasture plots and that strangers will gain control of their pastureland. However, in the end they found the solution. They started collecting money to buy the plots but it was too late. The pastures had already been sold off. It turned out that the plots were granted on lease according to incorrect maps for years.
2008-12-19Unprecedented Georgian Justice in Rapid Fashion
Speedy Trial of of Zurab Noghaideli, former Prime Minister's Relative
Paata Kaikatsishvili, from Kobuleti town and who happens to be the relative of Zurab Noghaideli was arrested on November 27. According to the bill of indictment, "the police discovered 0,255 grams of heroine in the right sock of Paata Kaikatsishvili. Heroine was wrapped in tin foil." On December 3 a court found him guilty as charged. He was sentenced to 7 years of prison term and fined 5,000 GEL. According to the convict's attorney the court was biased in passing judgement.
2008-12-11Politically Motivated State Assistance Program for Infants Abolished
According to the resolution of the Georgian Authority issued on December, 2008 State Assistance Program for Infants from poor families has been abolished. Before the presidential elections of November 5, 2008 Mikheil Saakashvili promised to assist such kinds of families with grants of 1,000 GEL at the birth of each child. However, this initiative was canceled on December 5.
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SANFORD, Fla. – A judge on Friday ruled that the defense team for George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watchman who shot and killed Trayvon Martin, cannot depose Ben Crump, the attorney representing the slain teen's family.
Zimmerman's lead attorney, Mark O'Mara, and attorney Don West argued the motion, seeking to question Crump. Zimmerman and Crump did not attend the hearing.
Judge Debra Nelson said the deposition was not needed and there was no undue prejudice. She also said that the defense has not yet deposed Witness 8, whose interview with Crump is in question, even though they've had her identity for 10 months.
Nelson did grant the defense's motions for subpoenas of voice samples from Martin over the last three years. If they exist, the audio samples are in the possession of Martin's family and Witness 8.
The defense said they wanted to depose Crump before holding a deposition with Witness 8, a friend of Martin who told Crump that she was on the phone with Martin before he was shot and killed last February in a gated Sanford community.
"It is widely accepted that (the recording of the Crump's interview with Witness 8) is largely unintelligible," West said.
The defense believed Crump should have been forced to reveal details of the interview and give insight to the inaudible words.
West also said the age of the key witness was misrepresented. He said that she was 18 years old at the time of the shooting, not 16 as previously released. He also tried to argue that Crump made himself a witness in the case when he interviewed the girl.
"Mr. Crump chose to conduct the interview in the fashion that he did. He chose to have ABC News present. It's not clear to me how and why that was set up," West said. "He chose not to have law enforcement present, in fact, (he) withheld this witness from law enforcement for some time ... He made himself a witness."
Nelson interrupted West, saying that talking to the media doesn't subject lawyers to being deposed.
West replied, saying that Crump is a "fact witness" because of the interaction with Witness 8.
"What is the relevant information that you think Mr. Crump has?" Nelson said, asking the defense to specify the information, not speculate. "You have to provide the court with what relevant information he has."
West said that the relevant information in the taped interview with Witness 8 are the gaps in the interview, but Nelson said the best evidence is taking the deposition of Witness 8.
"Witness 8 has been represented as the single most important witness in the case," West said. "She has been cloaked in secrecy. We need to know what led up to her being interviewed by Mr. de la Rionda."
Crump had previously submitted an affidavit, citing a formal deposition could jeopardize attorney-client privilege.
West said Crump doesn't have attorney-client privilege with Witness 8. West said the defense doesn't accept the affidavit in place of speaking with Crump and that Crump should have to show why he shouldn't have to be deposed.
West also said Crump should be deposed over his allegations of the Sanford Police Department "conspiracy to cover up" Martin's death. Crump further accused officers of lying, West said, along with Sanford police lying about whether Tracy Martin, Trayvon Martin's father, identified the screaming in the background of the 911 call.
Bruce Blackwell, representing Crump, spoke at the hearing, as he filed the 15-page affidavit opposing the defense to depose Crump.
Blackwell said it would be "absolutely inappropriate" to depose Crump and called the defense's attempt to depose Crump a "sideshow" with no support under the law.
Blackwell continued, saying if Crump had chosen to keep the Witness 8 interview to himself that "we wouldn't be here.""
"Why haven't they deposed Witness 8?" Blackwell said. "What's relevant is what Witness 8 said, what she heard, what went on."
Blackwell also said the Martins will be filing a lawsuit against Zimmerman.
Assistant State Attorney Bernie de la Rionda spoke next, saying that the prosecutors "completely agree" with Crump and have no intention of calling him as a witness.
"The bottom line is Mr. Crump has not been listed as a witness by the state," de la Rionda.
The defense had also requested information about Martin's family and Witness 8, including their addresses, but the state opposed the motion, saying they don't know where exactly Zimmerman is located.
Nelson ruled that Zimmerman's attorneys have had 11 months to do depositions and can ask witness their addresses during depositions. The addresses will be redacted in the depositions, Nelson said.
Nelson said the state won't be forced to give Witness 8's address to the defense, but the defense can get the address during a deposition.
Zimmerman, who shot and killed Trayvon Martin on Feb. 26, 2012, has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder. His trial is set for June.


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Survey on the Geographic Information Market in Europe
The Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD, as coordinator of the EU project HUMBOLDT, in cooperation with the Technical University Darmstadt prepared a survey on the European GI Market.
The main goal of this study is to deduce certain trends and future developments based on the opinions and expectations of market experts and decision makers and not to obtain a representative empirical study.
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16. Münchner Fortbildungsseminar Geoinformationssysteme
GIS experts from academia, industry and government will gather in Munich for two days of training courses and workshops followed by a two-day conference from 21-24 March, 2011.
HUMBOLDT will be presented in the training course "Data harmonisation in the context of INSPIRE" on Tuesday, 22 March.
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The three descend the foothills to the edge of the marshes. Frodo offers Gollum some lembas, but he spurns it. Later, while the hobbits sleep, he goes off and catches a fish for himself. Then he leads them through the Dead Marshes. At the center, Sam notices lights all around, which Gollum calls "candles of corpses" and warns them not to look at them. Frodo is frozen behind them doing just that, but Sam gets him going again. Then Sam trips and sees faces in the marsh pools. Smeagol says they're the faces of men who died in battle there. Finally they get to the end of the marshes, and then are terrorized by the passage of a Nazgul, who flies over them and then back to Mordor. The Ring begins to physically weigh Frodo down.
In the slag heaps before the Gate, they fall asleep. Sam wakes to see Smeagol debating with himself over Frodo. He finally decides to wait, as "She might help." Frodo wakes and orders them on toward the Gate, but their fear increases.
1. Gollum is a reliable guide through the Marshes—why doesn't he try to drown them there?
2. How does Gollum know the story of the Dead Pools?
3. If the Ring is trying to get back to Sauron, and Frodo can feel the presence of Sauron in front of him, why doesn't he feel a pull toward Mordor rather than a great dragging weight?


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NEW YORK, N.Y. - Stocks are closing at record level as investors were encouraged by earnings gains at major U.S. companies and good news on the economy.
Unemployment claims fell and manufacturing surged in the mid-Atlantic region.
Morgan Stanley rose 4 per cent to $27.70 after reporting sharply higher earnings and a share buyback. Energy stocks jumped after oil shot to a 16-month high.
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While visiting New York a few years ago I stopped in at the Paley Center for Media (formerly the Museum of Television and Radio). They have quite an extensive collection of TV programs that anyone can view, two at a time, for an admission fee. One of the shows I watched was an episode of the CBS show, The 21st Century hosted by Walter Cronkite. Titled "At Home, 2001" the episode aired on March 12, 1967 and is a wonderfully retrofuturistic artifact that shows off the technological advancements of a house in the future. The house featured in this episode will look familiar to those who've watched the 1967 Philco-Ford promotional film, 1999 A.D.
According to Cronkite, the home of the year 2001 will feature inflatable furniture, push-button kitchens, computers for educating Junior at home, and enormous TV screens. The episode talks to a handful of experts, including Philip Johnson who — as we know from this radio documentary from 1966 — wasn't terribly optimisitc for the future of innovation. Cronkite himself lived to see the first decade of the 21st century. I wish I'd been able to interview him about some of the changes he'd seen.
An excerpt from the March 12, 1967 edition of the Pasadena Independent Star-News appears below.
The home of tomorrow is the subject of "At Home, 2001" on The 21st Century, in color Sunday at 6:00 PM on CBS.
CBS News Correspondent Walter Cronkite is the reporter.
The broadcast will explore the promise of modern technology, architecture and city planning, as well as new ways of doing things in the home. Robots may help with housework. The kitchen might resemble a laboratory where cooking might be done in seconds by high-energy sound waves. The man of the house could conduct much of his business at home by electronic devices. The children of the 21st Century might be educated at home by a computer.
Whether tomorrow's home will be a thing of beauty, a tasteless suburban tract or a high-rise beehive also will be examined. Whatever it is, it is estimated that some 60 million homes will be built before the year 2001.
Longtime readers of Paleofuture might recall that we looked at another episode of The 21st Century a few years ago. titled the "Mystery of Life" that asked some hard questions about science's role in reproduction. In the episode, James Bonner argues that eugenics is the only way to breed out the undesirable traits in humanity, while Harrison Brown asks how things like "undesirable" might be defined.
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You say those mods will greatly help out what I already have now though? Was thinking of trying to locate a small ss bowl to install inverted for my deflector...how deep is yours, sub...maybe inch, inch an a half? Thanks!
Sub What do you think if i took the bottom heater and change that to top, after that there would be 1200w on top.Would it be enough to heat the stone to +400c and would the stone reserve enough heat for that 60-120s baking time without the bottom heater ?
I don't know you have to try, when you open the oven the stone cool down very quickly.
I've finally put a grill motor on my oven: Divella pizza flour (W220-240) 52h at room temperature , 65% water, 3% salt, Fresh Yeast 0.5g for 1 liter stone temp.: about 880°F Bake Time: 70 seconds
great videos the last one is perfect!!!! do we have any of these style of ovens available to us in the united states?
Thanks, maybe the new Delizia with round heating element, try to ask Trevi if they have yet an US Dealer [email protected]Like usual Omid was a great source of Inspiration, he posted some beautiful pictures of his AVPN dough trial today, I felt compelled to try it too.Divella pizza Flour (W220-240)65% hydration2.7% salt (40g / liter )3.3g fresh yeast for 1 literrise: 2h in [email protected]°C 6 hours in balls @ 28°Cstone @t 900°F baking time: 1.30minMore crisp and and heavier than the pizza with a longer maturation, I like when they melt in my mouth light as a cloud, it was not the case.
Divella pizza Flour (W220-240)65% hydration50g salt / liter )0.25g fresh yeast for 1 literrise: 27h in [email protected]°C 22 hours in balls @ 22°Cstone @t 840°F baking time: 1.10min
2000W too much ?
I have just purchased a g3 ferrari and would like to add a deflector for the middle.as I seem to struggle to cook the middle properly.could anyone please send me a link to what I need to buy from eBay or similar.thanks


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Dive into an emotional, unique and critically-acclaimed interactive adventure in Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons.
- Explore an ancient world steeped in Nordic legend and contend with trolls, invisible giants and griffins as you search out a cure for your ailing father.
- Control both characters at once and put your coordination skills to the test as you navigate treacherous terrains and mind-tingling puzzles.
- Uncover a touching story of loss and determination as brothers Naia and Naiee face off against mythical beasts and save a suicidal man from his own despair and a helpless tribe girl from her own people.


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I remember way waaaaay back in the day this girl from London o so randomly friend requested my girl doe cheese...in hindsight i see that people have come a long way don't you think? Anyway that girl was Kesh...who now has become big, quite big indeed. Well personally i see her as a good role model for the thick and curvy (we can wear anything a skinny person can) as well as the big and tall (aka amazons, hot shit!). Getting to the point, Kesh is releasing some of her most coveted hoodies, via auction. If I were you (or if i were me) i'd get one. She also sells t-shirts (affectionately named "Keshshirts") as well as "keshsuits"..and all the "keshness" and" keshoodies "you could possibly want! You can pretty much learn a lot of shit about her by checking her myspace-that is if you take the time to actually read it (which you probably won't).
For starters Kesh has made clothes for Kanye West, Lupe Fiasco (my fave), Mariah Carey (ugh), and Big Daddy Kane (mad random). She made her first item of clothing by turning boot cut jeans into skinnies and putting her name down the leg (the name obsession started when she was 8, lol). Anywho her bestfriends name is Zezi, and this is only important because they DJ together under the name "The Coconut Twins". If you live in Europe your pretty much lucky (no one seems to get that Europe is the shit...). Kesh is pretty much doing big things, throwing parties in London and NYC, chillin wit indie fashion's finest, invitin Kelis to kick it, and sharing the same birthday as muah, which makes her extra sweet!
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Gimmie some Keshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Check her out, trust me you'll learn something new.
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Sooooo Kesh....
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- December 11, 2007 at 12:26 AM
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Of all the championship contenders, Matt Crafton is in the most enviable position. With a 46-point lead over second-place Ty Dillon, Crafton can wrap up the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series title simply by taking the green flag on Sunday.
If Crafton is a no-show, however, Dillon can win the championship by winning Friday's Ford EcoBoost 200 at Homestead.
Team owner Richard Childress, Dillon's grandfather, didn't realize there was even a glimmer of hope for Dillon until he spoke to Crafton after Saturday's NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Phoenix.
"I was talking to Richard Childress after the race on Saturday, and he thought that I'd wrapped it up," Crafton said. "I said, 'No, actually I don't. I still have to show up and start it, if Ty won.'
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Welcome to the I Hate Critics Movie Review Podcast. Three new movies were released this Fourth of July weekend. Melissa McCarthy's "Tammy" came out to a mixed reaction. Sean and I both enjoyed the film, however the trailers were selling us on a different movie then "Tammy" ended up being…oh well. "Deliver Us From Evil" turned out to be just another possession movie, but a fairly competent one. Finally "Earth to Echo" kind of missed with the whole found footage thing, but I'm sure kids will like it.
This weeks "Does it Hold Up" film is Paul Haggis' "Crash." This is my least favorite movie of all time. Both Sean and Josh initially praised this film. After rewatching the film they were both disappointed in themselves for initially liking the movie. They both did a good job of explaining why they were tricked. Seriously this movie is a giant piece of crap and it actually sucks more now than it did when I originally saw it.
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Crushed pretzels make a better-than-breadcrumb crust.
- Yield
- Makes 8 servings
- 1 1/2 cups balsamic vinegar
- 2 oranges
- 3/4 cup water
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 2 cups whipping cream
- 1/4 cup Dijon mustard
- 1/2 cup all purpose flour
- 3 large eggs
- 2 cups crushed pretzel sticks (about 5 ounces)
- 8 1-inch-thick center-cut pork rib chops
- 6 tablespoons (3/4 stick) butter, divided
- Simmer balsamic vinegar in small saucepan over medium heat until reduced to 2/3 cup, about 10 minutes. Transfer to small pitcher. DO AHEAD: Balsamic reduction can be made 3 days ahead. Cover and let stand at room temperature.
- Using vegetable peeler, remove peel from oranges (orange part only) in long strips. Slice peel lengthwise into very thin strips. Place peel in heavy small saucepan and add enough cold water to cover peel by 1 inch. Bring to boil; strain. Repeat 2 more times. Return peel to same saucepan. Add 3/4 cup water and sugar. Boil until almost all liquid is absorbed, stirring occasionally, about 10 minutes. Drain. DO AHEAD: Candied orange peel can be made 2 days ahead. Place in small bowl, cover, and refrigerate.
- Mix cream, mustard, and 2 tablespoons candied orange peel in heavy small saucepan. Bring to boil; reduce heat to medium and cook until sauce is reduced to 1 cups, about 12 minutes. Season to taste with salt and pepper. DO AHEAD: Can be made 8 hours ahead. Cover and chill.
- Place flour in shallow bowl. Whisk eggs to blend in another shallow bowl. Spread crushed pretzels on rimmed baking sheet. Sprinkle pork chops on both sides with salt and pepper. Working with 1 pork chop at a time, press 1 side of chop into flour, dip floured side only into eggs, then press into pretzels, coating 1 side only. Transfer to baking sheet, coated side up. Repeat with remaining pork chops, flour, eggs, and pretzels. DO AHEAD: Can be made 2 hours ahead. Cover and refrigerate.
- Preheat oven to 450°F. Melt 3 tablespoons butter in each of 2 large ovenproof skillets over medium-high heat. Add 4 pork chops to each skillet, coated side down, and cook until brown, about 2 minutes. Turn chops over and transfer both skillets to oven. Roast until pork is cooked through and thermometer inserted horizontally into chop registers 140°F, about 10 minutes. Let chops stand 5 minutes.
- Rewarm sauce. Spoon 2 tablespoons sauce onto each plate and place chop atop sauce. Drizzle with balsamic reduction and garnish with remaining candied orange peel.


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Bertha Otoya (b. 1979, Peru), after moving to the United States, started working in the Creativity Explored studio in 2007. Originally focused on textile work, Otoya used traditional Peruvian techniques to create tapestries and quilts. She enjoyed the repetitive process of sewing.
In 2009, her practice grew exponentially as her focus shifted to printmaking. Stripping her color palette to black and white (occasionally red and blue), her print work has achieved an iconic status and is avidly collected by patrons. Otoya often begins on a white ground by painstakingly appropriating, then recopying, writing from a variety of source texts, mostly written in English, not her native language. Through this meticulous repetition of writing, the resulting text becomes a collage of prose that warrants close inspection if the hidden meaning between her chance juxtapositions is to be revealed. Layered over the text is an array of fabulous (and sometimes terrifying) beasts and figures whose solidity and careful rendering add an anchoring counterpoint to the ephemeral, shifting text beneath.
Otoya uses this same technique to create scrolls. With a combination of hand lettering and block prints, the scrolls reach lengths beyond forty feet and are housed in wooden boxes adorned by the artist. The influence of her printmaking is now evident in her traditional drawing work where repeated images of fish and snakes are layered over washes of color or given alternating shades on their appendages. Otoya's work is at once aesthetic and conceptual, operating on many levels simultaneously, never settling or remaining static, constantly vibrating between meaning and feeling.
Otoya's work has been exhibited nationally and included in numerous prominent exhibitions. In 2011, Otoya was featured in Create, a traveling exhibition curated by Lawrence Rinder that originated at University of California Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Faces at Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA; and 4 Real 4 Faux Animating the Vernacular, at Truman State University Art Gallery, Kirksville, MO. In 2010, Otoya was featured in Visions of Paradise, at the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, CA; Text'o & Figura, at Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA; and Prints Byte: the cutting edge of printmaking, at SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA.
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DWTS Season 14 Some Final Thoughts From Judge Carrie Anne Inaba
Carrie Anne Inaba was a guest on "What's The Buzz" today. Once again, she gives William the edge. If Katherine could bring back the confidence, she could be a force. She thinks Donald needs to work on his story lines and his arms (I'm sorry, but his story lines and arms are fine to me). She also has some thoughts on the All-Star season.
It's almost showtime!! 🙂
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Meath Festivals 2013
Welcome to County Meath, the undisputed heritage capital of Ireland. Steeped in history; soaked in culture; Meath is a county of great diversity; a diversity that is carved throughout its landscape. From the megalithic tombs of Newgrange and Loughcrew to the religious settlements of Kells and Bective Abbey; from the ring forts of Tara to the turrets of Trim Castle; the birthplace of St. Oliver Plunkett and the inspiration of Dean Jonathan Swift; Meath has left an indelible imprint on Irish history.
Known locally as 'The Royal County' Meath celebrates its cultural heritage and traditions annually with a selection and diversity of festivals and events that few counties in Ireland can match. Whether its Steam Threshing in Moynalty or Hot Air Ballooning in Trim; Opera in Loughcrew Gardens or Rock & Roll in Oldcastle; there is something in Meath for everyone. If it's a Blue Jean Country Queen you are after then Athboy is the place to go; if speed and the thrill of international motor racing is for you then head down to the Kells Roads Races. If you just want to experience or celebrate the country way of life visit the agricultural shows in Oldcastle and Trim or the Fair Days in Nobber or Dunshaughlin.
Each year the festivals in Meath attract visitors from Dublin, from throughout Ireland and from all over the world. The staggering range of activities, interests and products that are highlighted through these festivals give visitors - both local and foreign - a superb flavour of authentic Irish life in the region but, more than this, they provide a chance for everyone to have a lot of fun.
As we say in Meath, "The Royal is Alive".
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How to Wear Coral Blush in the Winter
Why Coral Should Be Your New Favorite Winter Shade
One of the makeup rules that seems to always get repeated is that brights are for warm weather and darker hues are for the cooler temps. But rules are meant to be broken, right? Olivia Munn proved that last night when she stepped out with a coral shade blended into the apples of her cheeks. Instead of looking wildly out of place, Olivia's makeup looked current and ultrafeminine.
So why coral blush in the Winter time? The hue works well with a wide variety of skin tones, so it transitions easily with your paler complexion in the Winter. And the color gives your cheeks that I-just-stepped-out-of-the-cold glow, which is the perfect cold-weather flush. Matching coral blushes to your undertones is also easy — deeper tones should reach for a heavily pigmented coral while women with lighter skin will want something a little less harsh. The main thing to remember when picking your Winter blush is to shop for a cream formula, like Revlon PhotoReady Cream Blush in Coral Reef ($13). It will stick better than a powder blush, plus it's more hydrating for your skin and will give you a more healthy-looking glow.


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The first season of the American political drama television series The West Wing aired in the United States on NBC from September 22, 1999 to May 17, 2000 and consisted of 22 episodes.
The first season, which begins in the middle of Bartlet's first year in office, is loaded with images of a West Wing "stuck in neutral" and powerless to govern. Several episodes (notably "Five Votes Down" and "Mr. Willis of Ohio") feature the White House desperately digging for a backdoor through which to pass a particular piece of legislation. This powerlessness ends in "Let Bartlet Be Bartlet" when Leo and the president finally agree to fight any battle they believe to be important, even if they are not sure they can win. The season ends with a cliffhanger assassination attempt with an ominous call over a Secret Service radio: "Who's been hit?! Who's been hit?!"
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|Directed by
|Written by
|Original air date
|Thomas Schlamme
|Aaron Sorkin
|September 22, 1999
|President Bartlet has ridden a bicycle into a tree; Josh Lyman, the Deputy Chief of Staff, is in hot water after a television appearance in which he makes an insulting comment to a representative of a Christian group; and Sam Seaborn, the Deputy Director of Communications, spends a night with a woman who turns out to be a call girl. The story also follows the fate of a group of 1,200 Cuban refugees, 137 of whom arrive in Miami and request asylum, while 350 are missing in a storm and presumed dead.
|"Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc"
|Thomas Schlamme
|Aaron Sorkin
|September 29, 1999
|Sam jeopardizes his political future when he decides to pursue a relationship with a call girl whom he met recently. C.J. arbitrates a disagreement between the President and the Vice President, and the President appoints a new White House physician. The White House hires Mandy as a political consultant, much to Josh's chagrin. President Bartlet connects with his new physician, Captain Morris Tolliver, MC, USN, whose first child was born 10 days prior. The episode ends when Leo informs the President that Dr. Tolliver and others died while en route to a teaching hospital in Jordan when Syrian forces shot down his military aircraft on the orders of the Syrian Defense Ministry.
|"A Proportional Response"
|Marc Buckland
|Aaron Sorkin
|October 6, 1999
|President Bartlet seeks vengeance after Syrian operatives shoot down an unarmed US Air Force transport aircraft carrying his personal physician and 57 other US military health care workers. The Joint Chiefs of Staff propose a proportional response to the attack, which involves air strikes against three low-level targets in Syria as well as one against the Syrian intelligence agency headquarters. However, President Bartlet wants a stronger response, so the Joint Chiefs respond with a plan to attack a much more prominent target: the international airport in Damascus. The subtext of the story involves the President's unease around the Joint Chiefs and his worries about receiving their respect due to his never having served in the armed forces. Leo talks with Admiral Percy Fitzwallace, USN, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, who says that the President is doing fine. Despite that, Fitzwallace tells the President that his desired response is disproportionate, saying that he will have "doled out five thousand dollars worth of punishment for a fifty buck crime". Leo confronts the President about the disproportionate response and says that he will stand up against him if he continues to insist on it. President Bartlet confesses that he has personalized the terrorist attack because his physician, a good man with a newborn daughter, was among the victims. He then authorizes the proportional response and gives a televised speech, in which he explains the situation to the American people. In other story lines Charlie Young applies for a White House job, and C.J. talks reporter Danny Concannon out of writing a story about Sam's relationship with a call girl. Charlie, who applied for a messenger job, is so impressive that Josh insists on hiring Charlie as the President's personal aide or "body man".
|"Five Votes Down"
|Michael Lehmann
|Story by : Lawrence O'Donnell, Jr. and Patrick Caddell
Teleplay by : Aaron Sorkin
|October 13, 1999
|The White House suddenly loses five crucial votes for a questionable gun control bill, so the West Wing staff members and the Vice President work urgently during the three remaining days to regain the votes for the passage of the bill. After Leo forgets his wedding anniversary, his wife announces that she's decided to leave him because of her feeling that he has neglected their marriage. Josh and Toby encounter difficulties over their financial disclosures.
|"The Crackpots and These Women"
|Anthony Drazan
|Aaron Sorkin
|October 20, 1999
|The staff members participate in Leo's "Big Block of Cheese" Day, when they meet with fringe special interest groups who normally cannot get attention from the White House. Josh receives a card from the National Security Council and later learns that he is the only senior staff member (other than Leo) who will receive protection in the event of a nuclear attack. Uncomfortable about his special treatment, he eventually returns the card, believing that he does not deserve to be singled out among his friends. Zoey arrives at the White House, and the President holds a celebratory chili supper for the members of his inner circle.
|"Mr. Willis of Ohio"
|Christopher Misiano
|Aaron Sorkin
|November 3, 1999
|The senior staff and the President take part in a late-night poker game inside the West Wing. A social studies teacher from Ohio finishes the term of his late wife in the United States House of Representatives. Sam tutors C.J. about the census, and the staffers seek crucial votes in favor of a bill about a new sampling technique for taking the census. Zoey, the youngest Bartlet daughter, has an unfortunate encounter at a bar in Georgetown in the company of several friends from the White House, which displeases her father, who later gives her a speech about "the nightmare scenario" – the possibility of an abduction of Zoey and its being used against him or the government. The staff and the President sit down to another poker game while Toby watches the end of the roll call for the bill.
|"The State Dinner"
|Thomas Schlamme
|Aaron Sorkin & Paul Redford
|November 10, 1999
|The President and his senior staff deal with major problems – a hostage standoff between the FBI and a group of survivalists in Idaho, a hurricane headed toward Georgia (then the Carolinas and Virginia), and the threat of a crippling nationwide strike by the Teamsters – all while preparing for a state dinner to honor the new President of Indonesia, whose behavior is distant and uncommunicative. Toby requests a favor from a senior aide to the Indonesian president; the aide not only refuses but also lectures Toby about human rights. Sam sees Laurie while she works at the state dinner. In a predictable move to evade the storm, an aircraft carrier task group of the US Navy (including two cruisers and two destroyers) gets underway from Norfolk, Virginia, and heads into the Atlantic Ocean; however, the hurricane makes a surprise course change and moves directly toward and across the naval vessels. With difficulty, the President chats via radio with a young petty officer in the radio shack aboard a small ship in the task group. The First Lady, Abigail Bartlet, makes her first appearance.
|Alan Taylor
|Story by : Rick Cleveland, Lawrence O'Donnell, Jr. & Patrick Caddell
Teleplay by : Ron Osborn & Jeff Reno
|November 17, 1999
|In an after-midnight session the President teaches Josh about national parks. C.J. deals with a rumor that President Bartlet and Vice President Hoynes have expressed a disagreement with each other during a cabinet meeting. Sam accepts an invitation to a date with Mallory, Leo's daughter, with a condition attached; however, the plans change. Josh works long and hard to find a solution to save a wanted banking bill to which three Republican representatives have attached a harmful rider.
|"The Short List"
|Bill D'Elia
|Story by : Aaron Sorkin & Dee Dee Myers
Teleplay by : Aaron Sorkin & Patrick Caddell
|November 24, 1999
|Josh, Sam, and Toby have spent two months vetting a strong candidate for an open seat on the Supreme Court, and he consents to the nomination. The senior aides show jubilation, but Donna advises Josh to use cautious optimism. The retiring associate justice privately expresses displeasure to President Bartlet. Sam receives an anonymous tip, meets the caller, and receives an old law review note with damaging material, which he reports to his colleagues and the President, who requests data on a different candidate. Danny gives C.J. a goldfish. A contrarian Member of Congress, seeking publicity, alleges that one-third of White House staff members regularly use illicit drugs; Josh tells Leo that the latter is the target of the campaign. After two serious meetings in the Oval Office, the President offers the nomination to the other candidate, who accepts, and who later wins the required confirmation.
|"In Excelsis Deo"
|Alex Graves
|Aaron Sorkin & Rick Cleveland
|December 15, 1999
|While the senior staffers discuss the preparations for the Christmas celebration at the West Wing, Toby receives a telephone call from the office of the local coroner, and he responds by meeting a detective of the Metro PD at "the wall" at the National Mall. Toby becomes emotionally and actively involved with the death of a homeless veteran, who had served as a lance corporal in the US Marine Corps in the Korean War. President Bartlet jovially chats with a group of grade-school students at a Christmas tree, and Mrs. Landingham reveals to Charlie a sad bit of her family history. Danny and C.J. continue to discuss the pros and cons of a first date. The President and his entourage sneak out for a short shopping trip. Sam and Josh visit Laurie, who reminds them to behave as the good guys; Josh hands Donna a special gift with a touching inscription. The President and various staffers attend a concert of carols by a boy's choir in the Mural Room, and Toby and Mrs. Landingham accompany the veteran's brother to his burial at Arlington National Cemetery with an honor guard.
|"Lord John Marbury"
|Kevin Rodney Sullivan
|Story by : Patrick Caddell & Lawrence O'Donnell, Jr.
Teleplay by : Aaron Sorkin & Patrick Caddell
|January 5, 2000
|US satellite surveillance detects that India has moved six warships and 300,000 ground troops against Pakistan and its occupation of Kashmir, thereby raising the possibility of a nuclear clash; border skirmishes begin; the UN tries to get a cease-fire agreement. After receiving a dismal intelligence briefing on the situation with India, President Bartlet sends for Lord Marbury, a former ambassador of the United Kingdom to India, whom the President describes as colorful, and whom Leo describes as a lunatic. The ambassador from Beijing tells the President that China may enter the fight against India, the ambassador from Islamabad tells him that Pakistan will no longer tolerate any oppression of its people, and the ambassador from New Delhi tells him that India will no longer follow the directions of any other nation. However, Lord Marbury reports that the UK ambassador to the UN expects to obtain a two-week cease-fire agreement, and he agrees to stay to help. C.J. expresses displeasure about her loss of credibility with the press corps during the early hours of the crisis, so Toby apologizes. Josh obeys a subpoena to give a deposition about a recent investigation; Sam represents him on the second day, which does not go well. Mandy ruffles feathers among the senior staffers with her plan to advise a moderate Republican congressman. Zoey invites Charlie to ask her for a date; he asks for permission from her father, who first balks but later agrees and cautions him.
|"He Shall, from Time to Time..."
|Arlene Sanford
|Aaron Sorkin
|January 12, 2000
|After practicing for the State of the Union address, President Bartlet collapses onto the floor of the Oval Office; an admiral and medical officer from Bethesda says that the President has the flu. The First Lady cancels a trip and returns; Dr. Bartlet the physician treats Dr. Bartlet the economist and President. Skirmishes continue along the cease-fire line in Kashmir; Pakistan gives control of nuclear weapons to their field commanders. Leo faces the news media about his addiction and recovery from it, then he faces the First Lady about the President's medical condition; Abbey eventually admits that the President has relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis, and she says that a fever could become fatal. Josh and Toby continue to wrestle with the speech; C.J. watches Sam and Mallory, and then meets Danny in her office. Lord Marbury advises the President, who sends India a message, which produces good results.
|"Take out the Trash Day"
|Ken Olin
|Aaron Sorkin
|January 26, 2000
|President Bartlet and his staff deal with an incendiary study on sex education in public schools, a forthcoming signing of a hate-crime bill, the parents of a young victim of a recent murder motivated by hatred, and an aide to the Vice President who has lived well at government expense. C.J. and Danny continue to deal with their friendship. An influential man offers Leo some unwelcome advice, which he refuses. A senior member of the House of Representatives summons Josh and Sam and leans hard on them; they make a deal, which avoids a hearing on Leo and the related inquiries. Sam finds out how Lillienfield and Claypool obtained the information about Leo's addiction and treatment. Leo and a young lady agree to give each other a second chance.
|"Take This Sabbath Day"
|Thomas Schlamme
|Story by : Lawrence O'Donnell, Jr. & Paul Redford and Aaron Sorkin
Teleplay by : Aaron Sorkin
|February 9, 2000
|Late on a Friday the Supreme Court declines to set aside the death sentence of a federal prisoner for two drug-related murders; instead it orders the execution to take place early on the following Monday. One of the appellant's public defenders, who knew Sam in high school, calls Sam, who answers while he unsuccessfully tries to leave the White House for a weekend of sailing; the two then meet in person. On Saturday morning President Bartlet returns from Stockholm, and Donna finds Josh asleep and hungover in his office after a bachelor party. Sam calls Toby at his temple, while his rabbi presents a sermon against capital punishment because Sam's classmate found the rabbi and arranged for him to preach to Toby. Meanwhile Joey Lucas (Marlee Matlin), the deaf campaign manager for a Democratic House candidate from Southern California, using American Sign Language through Kenny, her interpreter, aggressively asks Josh why the White House has caused the Democratic National Committee to reduce the funding for her campaign, and she demands to meet the President. While Josh assures her that there is no way for her to meet the President, he steps to Josh's office, meets Joey, and escorts her to the Oval Office. The President calls the Pope and sends for the parish priest (Karl Malden) whom he knew as a boy; he also discusses the death penalty separately with Charlie and with Joey, who is a Quaker. As Joey and Kenny leave their hotel to return to California, Josh, at the request of the President, offers Joey an apology and a suggestion. The President continues to agonize over his decision and makes a confession to the priest.
|"Celestial Navigation"
|Christopher Misiano
|Story by : Dee Dee Myers & Lawrence O'Donnell, Jr.
Teleplay by : Aaron Sorkin
|February 16, 2000
|Josh gives an interview before a group of college students about a supposedly typical day at the White House, and Sam learns that Judge Mendoza, the nominee to become the next associate justice of the Supreme Court, has become arrested in Connecticut on charges of drunk driving, resisting arrest, and disorderly conduct; Sam and Toby go to Connecticut. After getting lost in Connecticut in a rental car, Sam and Toby eventually arrive at the small-town police station, where they first meet resistance but later talk with the judge and work out the delicate situation. During Josh's remarks, including a candid description of his own mistakes, flashbacks present one of the more difficult and challenging days at the White House when C.J. encountered an urgent dental problem.
|"20 Hours in L.A."
|Alan Taylor
|Aaron Sorkin
|February 23, 2000
|At 3 a.m. aboard Air Force One, President Bartlet, Josh, Toby, C.J., Donna, Zoey, Charlie, and others leave Andrews AFB, Maryland, for a grueling 24-hour trip to Los Angeles. The President expresses concern about a pending 50-50 vote on a Senate bill about a tax credit for the production of ethanol as a fuel. The President meets Gina Toscano (Jorja Fox), the Secret Service agent assigned to Zoey. The agenda, filling the day and evening, includes a debate on a proposed amendment to the Constitution to prohibit burning the national flag, a town-hall meeting on school vouchers, and a celebrity-packed fundraising dinner at the home of Ted Marcus (Bob Balaban), the president of a film studio. Ted learns that a conservative congressman has introduced a bill in the House to ban gays from the armed forces, but the White House does not actively oppose the bill, so Marcus threatens to cancel the fundraising event. Josh arranges ten minutes for Marcus and the President alone, and the party proceeds. Jay Leno makes a brief appearance. Joey Lucas attends and explains some interesting numbers to Josh, Sam, Toby, and C.J. Leo, back in Washington, asks the Vice President to break the tie in the Senate in favor of the bill, but the Vice President prefers not to do so because of personal, political, and ideological reasons; however, Sam and Leo arrange for three reluctant senators to vote "nay", thus taking him off the hook.
|"The White House Pro-Am"
|Ken Olin
|Lawrence O'Donnell, Jr. & Paul Redford and Aaron Sorkin
|March 22, 2000
|The First Lady appears on television on behalf of the Children's Crusade against child slavery. The Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors dies; Leo, to settle the uncertainty in the investment markets, urges the President to announce a successor, but the President takes time to make sure, although, according to a leak, the First Lady has expressed her preference. Josh and Toby court additional votes in the Congress to run up the score on the vote on a global trade agreement, and a congresswoman gives Sam a courtesy advance notice of a forthcoming announcement about her rider on the exploitation of child labor, which Sam expects to "blow the vote out of the water". Sam speaks with the First Lady, who negotiates for the withdrawal of the rider. The First Lady reveals who leaked her preference; Jed and Abbey have what they call their first Oval Office fight, and they make up. The White House has received death threats and other hate mail from white supremacists about Zoey and Charlie, who argue about their plans for Friday night; later Charlie shows up at Zoey's dorm room with flowers, other gifts, and an apology.
|"Six Meetings Before Lunch"
|Clark Johnson
|Aaron Sorkin
|April 5, 2000
|The Senate confirms President Bartlet's nomination of Judge Mendoza to the Supreme Court, then the West Wing staff celebrate, and C.J. lip-synchs to "The Jackal". Zoey attends a frat party; after she leaves, the Washington DC police, while making a drug bust, arrests the son of a major fundraiser for the Democrats; a reporter for a conservative newspaper tries to cause problems, which C.J. and others minimize as a non-story. Mallory, Leo's daughter, quarrels with Sam about school vouchers. Mandy asks Toby for help in getting a replacement panda from the Chinese government and gets him to help her to cause pain for Josh. Meanwhile, due to an objection by a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Josh has a long and vigorous discussion about reparations (of $1.7 trillion) for slavery with a candidate for an appointment to the post of the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights.
|"Let Bartlet Be Bartlet"
|Laura Innes
|Story by : Peter Parnell and Patrick Caddell
Teleplay by : Aaron Sorkin
|April 26, 2000
|Just before a speech by President Bartlet, the weather suddenly changes, but Sam forgets to change the introductory remarks, thus creating a humorous and embarrassing moment. Two members of the Federal Election Commission have resigned, so the staff members start preparing for new appointments; Josh meets with the Senate leadership from both parties, but the conversation does not go well. Both the staff and the press hear a rumor about the circulation of an unknown memo; Mandy volunteers to C.J. that, while she worked for Sen. Russell, she wrote a memo outlining both the weaknesses of the Bartlet administration and a strategy to defeat Bartlet for the nomination for reelection. C.J. demands a copy immediately; Mandy complies; C.J. reads it and approaches Toby, who shares it with Josh, who comments that their second year has not gone better than their first. Sam and Toby meet with a group of military officers about a recommendation to the President on the service of gays in the armed forces, but that discussion too does not go well; Admiral Fitzwallace, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, pops in and offers his advice; eventually the meeting ends without achieving anything. Mrs. Landingham encourages the President to improve his eating choices. C.J. learns which reporter has the damaging memo, and she hears that a story will appear in print the next morning. Margaret has computer and email problems, and Leo reads the memo. The President reads it, then he and Leo have a heart-to-heart chat, after which Leo tells the senior staffers that they will start raising the level of public debate in the nation and let that be their legacy even if they do lose some political battles; they agree that they serve at the pleasure of the President, so Leo tells them to get into the game.
|"Mandatory Minimums"
|Robert Berlinger
|Aaron Sorkin
|May 3, 2000
|During a speech at an awards dinner, President Bartlet, to fill two vacant seats on the Federal Election Commission, announces his nomination of two people (one Democrat and one Republican), each known to favor reforms; a powerful Republican senator wages battle with the West Wing staff. Leo cautions the senior staffers not to make mistakes this week, and C.J. tells Mandy that Leo prefers that Mandy stay out of his way (because of her memo for Sen. Russell). Leo arranges for Toby and his ex-wife, Andrea "Andy" Wyatt, a member of the House of Representatives, to meet and talk; they discuss legislative matters, and they reach an agreement against minimum sentencing for drug users. Al, Joey, and Kenny arrive from California to help with the confirmation of the nominees. Josh and Toby tell Sam that his relationship with a call girl has become known to one of his political enemies. The senior staff confer with the President in his bedroom at midnight with positive and constructive results.
|"Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics"
|Don Scardino
|Aaron Sorkin
|May 10, 2000
|After last-minute quibbling over the wording of several questions, the senior staff start a nationwide telephone poll to measure the job-approval rating of the administration. Leo gives a snow job to the lone reform-minded member of the Federal Election Commission. With regret Sam explains to Laurie that he cannot attend her graduation from law school. He later presents her a gift, but someone takes a photograph, which reaches the attention of President Bartlet. The President accepts a round-robin plan to change several US ambassadors due to the personal misconduct of the present ambassador to Bulgaria. C.J. spars with the press corps about treatment, rehabilitation, and mandatory minimum sentences for convicted drug users. The President makes a deal seeking reform on soft-money political contributions. Eventually C.J. receives the results of the poll, goes to the Oval Office, and presents them to the President.
|"What Kind of Day Has It Been"
|Thomas Schlamme
|Aaron Sorkin
|May 17, 2000
|Iraqi ground forces, using a surface-to-air missile, shoot down an F-117 Nighthawk (a stealth fighter aircraft) of the US Air Force during a routine three-hour patrol of a no-fly zone; the pilot, a 26-year-old captain, survives, but Iraqis are only 10 miles away. President Bartlet orders a military rescue immediately. The staff learns that a space shuttle has incurred a mechanical problem and a resulting delay in its landing, and that Toby's brother, a payload specialist, is aboard the flight. Later the officials learn that the rescue of the downed pilot has succeeded. The President, Zoey, and the entourage go to a college in Rosslyn, in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, where the President speaks in a town-hall meeting. While he speaks, Josh signals him that the problem with the shuttle has been resolved. Afterward, as the group returns to the motorcade, Gina sees something, then two unknown concealed gunmen open fire and apparently hit one or more people.
The first season of The West Wing received positive reviews, and scored a Metacritic rating of 79 out of 100, based on 23 reviews.[1]
The first season received 18 Emmy Award nominations for the 52nd Primetime Emmy Awards, winning a total of 9 awards. It won for Outstanding Drama Series, Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series (Richard Schiff), Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series (Allison Janney), Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series (Aaron Sorkin and Rick Cleveland for "In Excelsis Deo"), Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series (Thomas Schlamme for "Pilot"), Outstanding Main Title Theme Music (W. G. Snuffy Walden), Outstanding Cinematography for a Single Camera Series (Thomas Del Ruth), Outstanding Art Direction for a Single Camera Series, and Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series. Notable nominations included Martin Sheen for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, John Spencer for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, Stockard Channing for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, and Aaron Sorkin for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series for "Pilot".[2]
Thomas Del Ruth received a nomination from the American Society of Cinematographers for the pilot episode.[3]


text: Starting with the seminal work of Beaver (CRYPTO 1991), it is by now a well-known technique to evaluate multiplication gates in an MPC protocol using shared random multiplication triples. The central contribution common to both the presented protocols is a new and simple framework for generating shared random multiplication triples. All the existing protocols approach the problem by first producing shared pairs of random values, followed by computing the shared product of each pair of random values by invoking known protocols for multiplication. Our framework takes a completely different approach and avoids using the multiplication protocols that are typically communication intensive. Namely, we ask the parties to verifiably share random multiplication triples and then securely extract shared random multiplication triples unknown to the adversary. The framework is of independent interest and can be adapted to any honest majority setting.Category / Keywords: cryptographic protocols / Original Publication (with minor differences): DISC 2013 Date: received 4 Sep 2012, last revised 2 Aug 2013 Contact author: partho31 at gmail com, hirt@inf ethz ch, arpitapatra10@gmail com Available format(s): PDF | BibTeX Citation Version: 20130802:093304 (All versions of this report) Short URL: ia.cr/2012/517


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Fat people have less than thin people. Older people have less than younger people. Men have less than younger women.
It is brown fat, actually brown in color, and its great appeal is that it burns calories like a furnace. A new study finds that one form of it, which is turned on when people get cold, sucks fat out of the rest of the body to fuel itself. Another new study finds that a second form of brown fat can be created from ordinary white fat by exercise.
Of course, researchers say, they are not blind to the implications of their work. If they could turn on brown fat in people without putting them in cold rooms or making them exercise night and day, they might have a terrific weight loss treatment. And companies are getting to work.
But Dr. André Carpentier, an endocrinologist at the University of Sherbrooke in Quebec and lead author of one of the new papers, notes that much work lies ahead. It is entirely possible, for example, that people would be hungrier and eat more to make up for the calories their brown fat burns.
"We have proof that this tissue burns calories — yes, indeed it does," Dr. Carpentier said. "But what happens over the long term is unknown."
Until about three years ago, researchers thought brown fat was something found in rodents, which cannot shiver and use heat-generating brown fat as an alternate way to keep warm. Human infants also have it, for the same reason. But researchers expected that adults, who shiver, had no need for it and did not have it.
Then three groups, independently, reported that they had found brown fat in adults. They could see it in scans when subjects were kept in cold rooms, wearing light clothes like hospital gowns. The scans detected the fat by showing that it absorbed glucose.
There was not much brown fat, just a few ounces in the upper back, on the side of the neck, in the dip between the collarbone and the shoulder, and along the spine. Although mice and human babies have a lot more, and in different places, it seemed to be the same thing. So, generalizing from what they knew about mice, many researchers assumed the fat was burning calories.
But, notes Barbara Cannon, a researcher at Stockholm University, just because the brown fat in adults takes up glucose does not necessarily mean it burns calories.
"We did not know what the glucose actually did," she said. "Glucose can be stored in our cells, but that does not mean that it can be combusted."
A new paper in The Journal of Clinical Investigation by Dr. Carpentier and his colleagues answers that question and more. By doing a different type of scan, which shows the metabolism of fat, the group reports that brown fat can burn ordinary fat and that glucose is not a major source of fuel for these cells. When the cells run out of their own small repositories of fat, they suck fat out of the rest of the body.
In the study, the subjects — all men — were kept chilled, but not to the point of shivering, which itself burns calories. Their metabolic rates increased by 80 percent, all from the actions of a few ounces of cells. The brown fat also kept its subjects warm. The more brown fat a man had, the colder he could get before he started to shiver.
Brown fat, Dr. Carpentier and Jan Nedergaard, Dr. Cannon's husband, wrote in an accompanying editorial, "is on fire."
On average, Dr. Carpentier said, the brown fat burned about 250 calories over three hours.
But there is another type of brown fat. It has been harder to study because it often is interspersed in the white fat and does not occur in large masses. Investigators discovered it in mice years ago. Now, in a recent article, Bruce Spiegelman, professor of cell biology and medicine at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and his colleagues report that, in mice at least, exercise can make it appear, by turning ordinary white fat brown.
When mice exercise, their muscle cells release a newly discovered hormone that the researchers named irisin. Irisin, in turn, converts white fat cells into brown ones. Those brown fat cells burn extra calories.
Dr. Spiegelman said the brown fat he studies is different from the type that appears in large, distinct masses in rodents, the type Dr. Carpentier was examining in his subjects. That brown fat is derived from musclelike cells and not from white fat.
Dr. Spiegelman suspects that humans, like mice, make brown fat from white fat when they exercise, because humans also have irisin in their blood. And human irisin is identical to mouse irisin.
"What I would guess is that this is likely to be the explanation for some of the effects of exercise," Dr. Spiegelman says. The calories burned during exercise exceed the number actually used to do the work of exercising. That may be an effect of some white fat cells turning brown.
Many questions remain. The only brown fat that can be easily seen in people is the muscle-derived fat that shows up in scans. And that brown fat, notes Dr. C. Ronald Kahn, chief academic officer at the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, is visible in people only when it is turned on by making them cold.
Almost everyone of normal weight or below shows this brown fat if they are chilled, although individuals vary greatly in how much they have. But this brown fat almost never shows up in obese people. Is that one reason they are obese, or is their extra body fat keeping them so warm that there is no reason to turn on their brown fat?
There is also an intriguing relationship between the brown fat that emerges under the skin and the density of bone. Dr. Clifford Rosen, a professor of medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, is studying mice that cannot make brown fat and was astonished by the state of their bones.
"The animals have the worst bone density we have ever seen," Dr. Rosen said. "I see osteoporotic bones all the time," he added, "but, oh my God, these are the extreme."
And while exercise may induce brown fat in humans, it remains to be seen how important a source of calorie burning it is, researchers say.
As for deliberately making yourself cold if you want to lose weight, Dr. Carpentier said, "there is still a lot of research to do before this strategy can be exploited clinically and safely."


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9 Ways To Prevent Your Teen's Pregnancy
9 Ways To Prevent Your Teen's Pregnancy
It doesn't take watching an episode of MTV's Teen Mom for mothers everywhere to know they'd prefer not to deal with a question that Circle of Moms member Kayleigh L. posed: "What would you do if your 15 to 17-year-old daughter came to you to tell you she is pregnant?"
What Circle of Moms members say they do know is that preventing a teen daughter from getting pregnant isn't as easy as hoping that sex education classes in school will do the trick. Here, they share strategies and tips for helping their high school-aged daughters prevent pregnancy.
1. Have the Sex Talk
It sounds obvious, but many Circle of Moms members say that they can't emphasize enough the importance of sitting down with their daughters and sharing all the facts about sex and birth control -- information they need to make important choices about their bodies, their selves and their futures. "I plan on teaching my children about safe sex and birth control once they start learning about it in school," says Jen B. "I will let them know that they can come to us when they think they are about to become sexually active. I know that it's getting harder and harder for teens not to have sex so I plan on keeping my children fully informed on how to be safe."
2. Explain Safe Sex
Explaining birth control options is an important part of educating your teen daughter about safe sex, suggests many Circle of Moms members. "As a mom, I am already teaching my children about safe sex," says Christina M. "My 10-year-old knows what terrible diseases sex can cause and how most of them can be eliminated by just wearing a condom properly. We will keep condoms available in our home at all times while our children are teenagers because while we don't want our children to be having sex as teenagers, we know we can't prevent it. We want them to be safe."
The "talk" about safe sex should also include what sleeping with a boyfriend means emotionally to your daughter, says Dyan B. "I would talk to them about sex and what it involves emotionally and physically, and how surprised I was myself by the emotional attachment I had to the partner after having sex for the first time," she says, adding that if her daughter still decides to have sex, she would also explain the importance of condoms and birth control. "I would completely reiterate the importance of condoms — even when on the pill. "
3. Teach Her to Respect Herself
Numerous Circle of Moms members say it's a mom's job to inspire her daughter to care about herself emotionally as well as physically. As Sarah elaborates, "Don't just 'be there;' you have to talk to her, ask her questions, explain to her how boys her age act and why they seem to always want sex....stuff like that. I think if girls have good parents and learn to care about themselves, they might not have go looking for attention in a boyfriend, and maybe they won't make the choice of not being careful during sex. With my girls, I will teach them (and am currently teaching this to them now) that they can always come to me with any question about anything. They can always tell me their feelings about anything, no matter what. I will also teach them how to have self control...and how to say 'no' to any advances they may get from boys."
4. Encourage Abstinence
Many schools promote abstinence as the best choice, and numerous moms believe in underscoring this message with their daughters. "I will also emphasize abstinence as an option as we get into more detailed information," says Jenny C. about how she plans to educate her now seven-year-old daughter about the "facts of life." Teresa also plans to follow religious teachings on the importance of abstinence and says she will be "emphasizing how it is God's plan that they wait for marriage."
5. Lay Out the Consequences
It may sound harsh, but many Circle of Moms members say they have had to be very frank with their daughters and explain that if they get pregnant and have a child, they should not expect their moms to step up and take on the parenting responsibilities. As Dyan B. explains, "I would offer my support, but make it clear that I would not be a mother to that child." And Kellie says she would make it a point to explain the realities of living life as a teen mom. "Of course, teens do realize -- especially once they have them -- that babies aren't just cool accessories ... When you're 17-years-old, you should be out with your friends."
And Christina M. says she plans to be candid with her children about what her own life was like as a teen mom. "When my children hit the ages of 14-15-years-old, I plan on sitting them all down individually and telling them my story of being a teenage mom. I am going to reveal everything, the grief, the hardships, the loneliness, everything. I want them to know what I went through so they don't do the same thing I did."
Emma N. is another mom who suggests laying it on the line. "I would tell her that I would be very disappointed," she says. "But she would be taking responsibility, and not living in my house if she chooses to have and keep the baby. You want to act grown up and get pregnant, get your own place. "
6. Encourage Them to Gain Experience Caring for a Baby
Several Circle of Moms members offer the very practical suggestion that parents encourage their daughters to babysit as a way to prevent unwanted pregnancies. "I did a lot of babysitting and I didn't have a baby until I was 28, and it was possibly a contributing factor to why I didn't have babies earlier," says Nikki S. "I had no life from about 10 to 16 because my mom and dad had three babies during that time and she was really sick so I did everything for them, including all the house work and dinner, for six years. I think the reason I had no interest in babies is ... because I wanted my own life and to have some fun first."
7. Discuss the Options
Some Circle of Moms members say the best way to stave off an unwanted pregnancy is to discuss what the options would be if their daughters did get pregnant, says Christina M., once a teen mom herself. Since any choice, whether adoption, teen parenting, or abortion, has consequences, a discussion like this can be eye-opening for a teen. Christina elaborates, "If she came to me pregnant, after I stopped yelling, I would present her with her options. Abortion is not a personal option for me, so I would never suggest it for my child, but I would give her the pros and cons of adoption and parenting. I would make her check out an adoption agency, and also sit down with another teen mom to talk about teen parenting."
Heather L. says that though she would be disappointed, she would tell her daughter that if she got pregnant, she would support her if she wanted have an abortion. "If she wanted to abort, I would help with that," she says. "If she wants to do adoption, I would help with that. And if she wants to keep the baby, we as a family would do what it takes to get her through school and on her way to a career so she could be a successful mom."
8. Realize You Can Only Try
There is only so much you can do to prevent an unwanted pregnancy for your daughter, many of Circle of Moms members advise. "You can't prevent everything/anything," says Kellie B. "Our children will make their own decisions, some bad, some good. All I can do is educate her, talk to her and keep the lines of communication open...and trust her to make the right decisions for her."
9. Don't Make Sex a Taboo Subject
Many Circle of Moms members contend that sex needs to be discussed openly. The worst thing you can do is say you won't discuss sex with your daughter, says Amber N. "I'm hoping that by talking regularly, providing information on safety, and never allowing sex to be a taboo in our lives that this won't be a situation that we have to deal with," she says. "I think making sex NOT A TABOO is probably the most important part," agrees Kayleigh L. "The more 'wrong' they think it is, the more anxious they are going to be to try it. Information is key. "
What would you do to try to keep your teen daughter from getting pregnant?
The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of, and should not be attributed to, POPSUGAR.


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Small Business Data Backup Plans Found LackingBy Baselinemag Print
Bound by budget constraints, small businesses are often employing risky methods to back up their data, a survey finds.
Small businesses are using a variety of technologies to back up data including some antiquated methods that leave the backup process incomplete and susceptible to information loss, according to a study from Carbonite, Inc. (NASDAQ: CARB), a provider of online backup solutions for consumers and small to medium size businesses (SMBs). The survey revealed some surprising responses from small business owners on how they prepare for a data disaster.
The data further revealed many businesses are using a combination of technologies, include external hard drives, USB/flash drives and CDs/DVDs, which can make backing up even more complex and compound their risk for data loss. Despite known risks, small businesses continue to choose a range of risky and unreliable technologies: 50 percent use external hard drives, yet 20 percent backing up their business data indicated they started to do so because of a hard drive failure.
The survey found 42 percent use USB/flash drives primarily because it is perceived as easy, yet only 6 percent believe USB/flash drives to actually be reliable. More than one-third use CDs/DVD drives to backup data, even though 62 percent feel they are inconvenient or risky. "Although many small businesses are backing up their data, they're using antiquated methods, such as USB/flash drives or CDs, which leave huge gaps and vulnerabilities. These simple solutions may be relatively easy to set up, but they require ongoing supervision to ensure they are performing, and can distract from other work," said Peter Lamson, senior vice president of small business for Carbonite.
"Small businesses are creating new, priceless data every minute of every day and they can't afford to be unprotected. Low cost, automated and easy to use methods are now mainstream, so there's no reason for small businesses to be spending time manually managing backups, when they could spend that valuable time focused on their business instead," Lamson continued.
Small businesses stay competitive by keeping costs down, but when it comes to backup, cutting costs may mean using products with limited coverage and leaving SMB data at risk, Carbonite research found. Twenty-one percent of small businesses using online backup were using a free product. Since free online backup services are typically capped at two gigabytes, small businesses using these methods could be vulnerable to data loss. Some small businesses already recognize the limitations of USB/flash drives, which are often considered low-cost. Twenty-four percent of small businesses using this method noted USB/flash drives do not work well for backup specifically because they have limited storage space.
"Our study also found that one in five small businesses don't know how much data they have, so it's unlikely they have the right solutions in place. Backup solutions like USBs or free solutions may not back up all of a business' data, and so a business must ration their backup or choose what they want to safeguard," said Lamson. "Small businesses need to ensure they use a backup solution that has the capacity and capability to keep all of its data protected."
When it comes to the time invested in and the tech support used for backing up, 22 percent of small businesses surveyed even pay for outside tech assistance. Notably, 40 percent of those who manage the process in-house spend more than an hour per week backing up their company data with six percent spending more than five hours per week. Carbonite research shows only 24 percent have backed up their data in the past day, and 24 percent haven't backed up their data within the past week.
To read the original eWeek article, click here: Big Gaps in Small-Business Data Backup Plans: Carbonite
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Back in April, the US Food & Drug Administration ordered supplement manufacturers to stop supplying bodybuilding and weight-loss products with DMAA, 1,3-dimethylamylamine, methylhexanamine, also known as geranium extract. Ingestion of the compound is thought to carry a risk of cardiac arrest or stroke as well having been linked to other problems such as harm to the nervous system and psychiatric disorders.
The UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) slapped a ban on the sale of DMAA in all sports supplements and other products at the end of August, according to spectroscopynow.com. Earlier in August, sibling site separationsnow.com discussed the issue of so-called "natural" DMAA.
"A drug initially introduced as a vasoconstrictor [as a decongestant] in the 1940s has gained notoriety in recent years due to its inclusion as an active ingredient in sports supplements backed up by claims that it is a natural ingredient," the site reports. "Those companies marketing the products refer to a paper published in 1996 which claimed to have discovered it in the geranium Pelargonium graveolens but a number of research groups have since cast doubt on that claim."