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Bulimia nervosa, usually referred to as bulimia, is defined as uncontrolled episodes of overeating (bingeing). This overeating is usually followed by self-induced vomiting (purging), misuse of laxatives, enemas, or medicines that increase the amount of urine, fasting, or overdoing exercise to control weight. Bingeing, in this situation, is defined as eating much larger amounts of food than would normally be eaten within a short period of time (usually less than 2 hours). Eating binges happen at least twice a week for 3 months. They may happen as often as several times a day.
The cause of bulimia is not known. Cultural ideals and social attitudes toward body appearance are some of the factors that are thought to lead to bulimia. Also, self-evaluation based on body weight and shape, and family problems.
The majority of bulimics are female, adolescent, and from a high socioeconomic group. All westernized industrial countries have reported cases of bulimia. Adolescents who develop bulimia are more likely to come from families with a history of eating disorders, physical illness, and other mental health problems, like mood disorders or substance abuse. Other mental health problems, like anxiety disorders, or mood disorders, are commonly found in teens with bulimia.
There are 2 types of bulimia aimed at reducing how many calories a person consumes, including the following:
Purging type. This type regularly engages in self-induced vomiting or misuse of laxatives, diuretics, enemas, or other medicines that increase the clearing of the intestines.
Nonpurging type. This type uses other inappropriate behaviors, like fasting or overdoing exercise, rather than regularly engaging in purging.
The following are the most common symptoms of bulimia. However, each adolescent may experience signs differently. Symptoms may include:
Usually a normal or low body weight (sees self as overweight)
Repeated episodes of binge eating (quickly eating extra amounts of food in a relatively short period of time; often done secretly), together with fear of not being able to stop eating during the bingeing episodes
Self-induced vomiting (usually in secret)
Excessive exercise or fasting
Strange eating habits or rituals
Inappropriate use of laxatives, diuretics, or other agents to clear the bowels
Irregular or absence of menstruation
Discouragement related to dissatisfaction with themselves and their bodily appearance
Preoccupation with food, weight, and body shape
Scarring on the back of the fingers from the process of self-induced vomiting
Overachieving behaviors
The symptoms of bulimia may resemble other medical problems or psychiatric conditions. Always talk with your adolescent's health care provider for a diagnosis.
Parents, teachers, coaches, or instructors may be able to identify the child or adolescent with bulimia. Many people with the disorder initially keep their illness hidden. However, a child psychiatrist or a qualified mental health professional usually diagnoses bulimia in children and adolescents. A detailed history of the adolescent's behavior from parents and teachers, clinical observations of the adolescent's behavior, and, sometimes, psychological testing contribute to the diagnosis. Parents who note symptoms of bulimia in their child or teen can help by seeking an evaluation and treatment early. Early treatment can often prevent future problems.
Bulimia, and the malnutrition that results, can harm nearly every organ system in the body. This is why early diagnosis and treatment is important. Talk with your adolescent's health care provider for more information.
Specific treatment for bulimia will be decided by your adolescent's health care provider based on:
Your adolescent's age, overall health, and medical history
Extent of your adolescent's symptoms
Your adolescent's tolerance for specific medicines or therapies
Expectations for the course of the condition
Your opinion or preference
Bulimia, in adolescents, is usually treated with a combination of individual therapy, family therapy, behavior modification, and nutritional rehabilitation. Among adults, cognitive behavioral therapy and antidepressant medicines have both been shown to be effective. Treatment should always be based on a total evaluation of the adolescent and family. Individual therapy usually includes both cognitive and behavioral techniques. Medicine (usually antidepressants or antianxiety medicines) may be helpful if the adolescent with bulimia is also anxious or depressed. Since medical complications often happen during the course of rehabilitative treatment, both your adolescent's health care provider and a nutritionist need to be active members of the management team. Parents play an important supportive role in any treatment process.
Preventive measures to reduce the incidence of bulimia are not known at this time. However, early discovery and intervention can reduce the severity of symptoms, enhance the process of normal growth and development, and improve the quality of life experienced by adolescents with bulimia. Encouraging healthy eating habits and realistic attitudes toward weight and diet may also be helpful.
Vidant Health can connect you to health care professionals to help you understand your condition and guide you through the treatment process. Let's chat.


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Truck stop Pizza Mogul Herman Cain, who can't seem to shake suspicions that he is an agent for a possible extrasolar alien life form intent upon seeking galactic hegemony, is the subject of some more new and damaging revelations this morning.
One of which is so shocking, and I will get to it last, its very nature renders his continued candidacy for President of Our Dominion in serious jeopardy.
One new issue of no great concern are reports that he was previously sued by a couple of
his bitches former aides for sexual harassment during his highly successful tenure as a Washington DC fast food industry lobbyist and insider.
But experts agree that this should not hurt his candidacy because of the well-known proclivity of subordinate women in the workplace, especially in sanctuary cities like the nation's capital, to incite Male Urgings by dressing like tramps and Jezebels so they can creat false and trumped up Charges for Profit.
How to spot these women is pretty easy. They are well known for their inability to provide acceptable relations to their men at home, and frequently come from a culture of govt entitlement dependency, making them unreliable and untrustworthy witnesses in the extreme, no matter if they win their cases or not.
In second minor issue, we here at Dominionists for Tancredo, despite hours spent in deep Prayerful Diligence seeking Guidance from Our Lord, have not yet been able to Ascertain whether it is true that truck stop Pizza Mogul has sired a White child out of wedlock, as shocking widely circulated rumors seem to indicate. So we will not comment on those rumors here, at this time, until we get more facts and additional Prayerful Guidance from Jesus.
Additionally, Truck stop Pizza Mogul Herman Cain has also recently confused Conservative Christian Voters by first claiming, then denying he ever claimed that as President he would promote the death of little unborn baby boys and girls under certain Politically Correct circumstances, such is in cases of rape and incest.
Presumably after a Prayerful Moment with God and his staff, truck stop Pizza Mogul Herman Cain has backtracked on this issue. Irrespective, he now holds a position that is perfectly coherent with Conservative Christian values, which is that God wants all of his babies to be born and has a Special Purpose for each.
For example, maybe God gives little unborn babies to rape and incest victims so that these ladies can experience the Joy of Sacred Forgiveness? Their babies need fathers in their lives, so God guides these woman to open their hearts to their attackers to create with them a stable, loving Christian home as a heterosexual Husband and Wife. Most pro-Abortionists simply fail to see this Wisdom.
In yet a third controversy, those of us who monitor the Conservative Christian credentials of our Candidates were recently forced to demand that truck stop Pizza Mogul retract his mistaken admonition that smoking cigarettes is not cool, after the Political Correctness Police controversy enveloped him upon release of his Award-Winning Campaign Ad.
We now know that the coolest thing in All of Creation is to be a Free American, one who enjoys ALL of our God-Given Jeffersonian Constitutional Rights and Freedoms.
We celebrate Cool American Freedoms in many ways, such as smoking as many cigarettes as we wish, wherever we wish; by carrying concealed handguns and shooting them how and when and at whom we please; by riding our motorcycles without helmets and driving our pickup trucks without seat belts; and finally, by mounting our women without condoms using whatever orifice is convenient in the moment.
It is not a flip-flop if you are tricked into saying you made a mistake by saying something you know your constituency doesn't believe. Conservative Christians have forgiven this transgression because truck stop Pizza Mogul Herman Cain blurted out his unfortunately misguided admonition against smoking while trapped in a diabolical act of "Gotcha Journalism" treachery committed by a well-known MSM/liberal TV personality who for decades has been suspected of taking bribes to serve as a front line propagandist for the democrat Party.
But don't get me wrong, we are NOT defending truck stop Pizza Mogul Herman Cain. We at Dominionists for Tancredo have made no secret of our skepticism over not only the candidacy of truck stop Pizza Mogul Herman Cain (and all other candidates other than Rep Tom Tancredo), but even over his relationship to the Human Species. We have never trusted that negro and in all probability we never will trust him.
In my Night Time visions last night, God instructed me to ask the google this morning about truck stop Pizza Mogul Herman Cain's use of certain visual aids during his speechifying. What I awoke to find was more shocking and deeply disturbing than anything I have ever seen before or since.
What I found was clear and unequivocal evidence that truck stop Pizza Mogul Herman Cain speechifies with the use of teleprompters!
Of all of his problems and controversies, this one will be his undoing. Truck stop Pizza Mogul would have a good chance of wiggling himself out of any number of controversies. He could survive, for example, proposing to raise taxes on the job creators, to increase the budget for the EPA, to enact new regulations designed to strangle our businesses, and so on.
But it should be clear to everybody by now that what this Dominion most does not need is another 4 years of yet another Uppity politician who cannot speak for himself and can only get by from reading the words that others have written for him.
We KNOW Barry Soeterro Hussein Obama is FAKE not only because nobody credible will stand up and claim they saw his birth, and because of his use of a teleprompter to arrogantly spout the lies of his cabal of Sorosian handlers.
These days, if you want the Conservative Christian voter to vote for someone else, the best thing you can do is use a teleprompter.

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First, August sales results were disappointing. Second, it become known today that GM will attempt to go public on November 18, a later than originally hoped post-election date chosen to hopefully allow for another reported quarterly profit to boost investors' appetite for its shares.
As so often has been the case during Democratic administrations when unfavorable developments arise, the UK press has seen potential problems with the IPO, while the Associated Press has been acting as if all is well.
In two separate items, AP reporters couldn't even bring themselves to tell readers what the company's real August sales decline was.
In a report yesterday on the industry's awful August, reporters Dee-Ann Durbin and Tom Krisher were appropriately gloomy overall, but they massaged GM's reported result (bolds are mine throughout this post):
Americans nervous about the drumbeat of bad economic news stayed away from auto showrooms. Automakers nervous about their bottom lines didn't offer deals to lure them in.
As a result, it was the worst August for U.S. auto sales since 1983, when the country was at the end of a double-dip recession. General Motors, Toyota, Honda and Ford all reported declines from the month before and from a year earlier.
The bleak results were a reminder that, for all the good news about the turnaround of the Detroit automakers, the market for cars and trucks in the United States remains frail. Initial data showed sales came in at about 997,000, down 5 percent from July, according to AutoData Corp.
"Coming in below a million units is eye-opening for August," said Paul Ballew, a former chief economist for GM. "I never thought I'd see that. That's a tepid month for August, which is supposed to be one of the top months of the year."
... "We know it's going to be a modest recovery. It's going to be bumpy," said Don Johnson, GM's vice president of U.S. sales. "What we don't want to do is get back to putting incentives in the marketplace to keep the plants running."
... Overall, sales at Ford were down 5 percent from July and 11 percent from last August. At GM, sales of its four remaining brands were down 7 percent from a month ago and 11 percent from a year ago.
For the year so far, sales are up 5 percent at GM, which is preparing for an initial public offering of its stock that could come as early as next month.
We learned today that the "next month" part concerning the IPO isn't going to happen. In her report today, Durbin's massage was more thorough:
Analyst: GM plans to sell shares on Nov. 18
General Motors plans to start trading shares again on Nov. 18, timing that allows the company one more quarter of earnings to build its case to investors, a firm that researches initial public offerings said Thursday.
Scott Sweet, the managing partner of IPO Boutique, said GM plans to price the shares on Nov. 17 and begin selling them the next day. He said the automaker wants to start a two-week a road show to drum up investor interest on Nov. 3, the day after the midterm congressional elections.
It's unclear if the IPO dates have been finalized. Two people with knowledge of the process say the automaker's board hasn't approved a date for the IPO but is expected to meet next week to discuss the issue. GM is in a "quiet period" before an IPO, so no one is authorized to discuss the process publicly.
... Sweet said his information comes from multiple people on Wall Street but declined to name them. He says the company hasn't yet established a price for the shares, but hopes to raise $15 to $20 billion with the initial public offering.
The timing could disappoint some Democrats who supported the government's $50 billion bailout of GM last year and wanted to point to a successful IPO before the elections.
... But one more quarter of earnings could help the automaker establish that it is healthy and capable of making sustained profits. GM earned $2.2 billion in the first half of 2010 despite depressed U.S. auto sales, but it lost $3.4 billion in the fourth quarter of last year.
GM also hopes the U.S. auto market sees some modest improvement this fall. On Wednesday it said its U.S. sales fell 5 percent from July and 11 percent from last August, when they were boosted by the Cash for Clunkers program.
The fact is, as seen in this Wall Street Journal compilation, that GM's August 2010 sales were 24.5% lower than August 2009. For Dee-Ann Durbin's and Tom Krisher's benefit, that's the result you get when you go to the WSJ link and compare the 185,105 vehicles sold in August 2010 to the 245,066 sold in 2009, and divide the difference (59,961) by 245,066. Yes, according to the company, sales of the company's four remaining brands were down "only" 11% from a year ago. But it's your job to report the full story, not merely to parrot the company's press release.
The folks at the Financial Times understand that, and also see how a company reporting declining sales in its largest market might encounter a bit of difficulty foisting its shares on the investing public. Reporter Bernard Simon also managed to find space for the actual year-over-year sales decline in yesterday's coverage (link requires free registration):
GM Sales Dip Casts Shadow Over IPO
General Motors' sales in its core US market sagged in August, potentially complicating its bid to drum up investor support for its forthcoming public share issue.
Sales were a quarter lower than in August 2009, when demand was bolstered by the Obama administration's cash-for-clunkers scrappage incentives. GM has also eliminated four brands since then.
More worrying, however, was a 7.2 per cent decline from July. Low-margin sales to car rental operators and other fleet owners climbed to 28 per cent of the total, from 25 per cent in July. "August was definitely what we call 'one of those months'," said Don Johnson, GM's head of US sales operations.
Mr Johnson said that consumers remained cautious amid an unexpectedly slow revival in employment. In the longer term, however, he forecast that there was "pent-up demand building" that would "eventually be released when the economy gets a firmer footing".
... GM filed a bulky draft prospectus for an initial public offering with US and Canadian regulators last month. The US and Canadian governments hold 72 per cent of GM's equity.
The document warns that in spite of a pick-up in demand since late last year, "many of the economic and market conditions that drove the [earlier] drop in vehicle sales, including declines in real estate and equity values, increases in unemployment, tightened credit markets, depressed consumer confidence and weak housing markets, continue to impact sales".
If the recent revival falters, the prospectus warns, "our results of operations and financial condition will be materially adversely affected".
It's hard to fault Mr. Johnson for his optimism, but if he thinks the revival in employment has been "unexpectedly slow," he's been reading too many happy-talk missives from Team Obama.
Durbin at the AP and an unbylined Reuters article both report that GM will conduct its IPO "road show" during the two weeks after the November elections. Reuters says that "The final value of the IPO has not been set but one source said early plans for the IPO envisioned selling $12 billion to $16 billion in common stock and $3 billion to $4 billion in preferred stock that would convert to common stock under a mandatory provision." That's $15-$20 billion of the $50 billion (really more) the government "invested" in return for a 61% stake during the company's emergence from bankruptcy. Even if the IPO flies, it will still be Government Motors.
Both Reuters and the New York Times correctly noted GMs 25% year-over-year August sale decline. Since AP couldn't bring itself to do so, the graphic at the top right of this post, which may have seemed a bit over-the-top when it appeared a few weeks ago, is more appropriate than ever.
Cross-posted at BizzyBlog.com.


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September 28, 2018 @ 10:00 am - 5:00 pm UTC+0
One October morning in 2010 Hastings and St Leonards woke up to find a series of strange motifs on walls scattered across the town, subtle geometrical imprints that have now all, but for a few, faded away. The Moths became a talking point over the years stories grew around them, they seemed to inspire a sense of folklore.
For Coastal Currents 2018 we plan to explore this notion of mythology through story-telling and interactive digital works. We have commissioned author Gareth E Rees to write a narrative which we will creatively realise through augmented reality, via an app, supported by real world actions and interactions.
The app will be launched and available for free on Android and IOS from September 1st 2018.
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Ask a Physicist Answers
It looks like they are looking for positive mass particles at the LHC at CERN. Isn't it logical that there are negative-mass "anti-particles"? Does the LHC have the capability of measuring negative mass?
-Asked by Heidi H. from Tacoma, Washington
The CMS detector at the LHC during construction in 2007.
Image Credit: µµ via flickr
Here are three possible answers to your question:
(a) the LHC can, and does, detect anti-particles. According to the theory of relativity, every particle comes with a corresponding anti-particle. But particles and their anti-particles have exactly the same mass. An example of this is the electron and its anti-particle the positron, whose masses have been well-measured and are the same.
If the positron had negative mass, then electron-positron pairs could be created spontaneously with no input of energy. This does not happen. Another example is the mass zero photon, which is its own antiparticle.
Yet another example is the Higgs boson itself, which is also its own anti-particle, so you could say that the LHC has already detected both the Higgs and the anti-Higgs.
(b) Some people have suggested that even though particles and anti-particles have the same mass, they behave differently with respect to gravity, so that a particle will fall down but an anti-particle will "fall" up. Gravity here on Earth is a very weak force, so it's quite hard to measure its effect on an elementary particle.
The LHC certainly couldn't do it. But we can say that if an anti-particle (or anything else) were to "fall" up, it would violate a very deep principle of Nature, called the equivalence principle, which is the basis for Einstein's theory of general relativity.
One of the consequences of the principle is that all objects fall at the same rate. So don't bet on finding that anti-particles "fall" up.
(c) We can go one step further, and consider particles whose mass squared is negative (mass squared is just mass multiplied by itself; if mass squared is negative, the mass must be a so-called "imaginary number").
This may seem even more bizarre than negative mass, but such things are actually allowed by Einstein's theory of relativity. Particles with negative mass squared are called tachyons, and they always travel faster than light. If tachyons existed in Nature, they would probably allow signals to travel backward in time, thereby violating causality.
Tachyons have never been detected, although there was some excitement a few years ago when an experiment claimed to measure a kind of elementary particle, the neutrino, traveling faster than light. As it turned out, the experiment was wrong.Answered by:
Alan Chodos, PHD
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Accelerating Research through International Network-to-Network Collaborations (AccelNet) NSF Wide Programs
NSF announces new awards for international networks of networks on grand scientific challenges
September 26, 2019
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has invested over $11.5 million in 9 new projects to tackle grand scientific challenges that require significant coordinated international efforts. The awards are funded through the new NSF-wide Accelerating Research through International Network-to-Network Collaborations (AccelNet) program.
Research collaboration in networks is increasing in all fields of science, engineering, and STEM education. Coordination among U.S. research networks and complementary networks abroad provides an opportunity to advance the frontiers of a field. The AccelNet program aims to accelerate the process of scientific discovery and prepare the next generation of U.S. researchers for multiteam international collaborations.
"Today's science is highly collaborative and international," said Rebecca Keiser, Head of NSF's Office of International Science and Engineering. "The strategic linkages across international research networks created through these AccelNet awards will enable U.S. researchers and international partners to leverage complementary resources and ensure that the future U.S. scientific workforce develops the skills to thrive in global teams that drive scientific discovery."
The 2019 AccelNet awards support the creation of international networks of networks in a wide range of community-recognized grand challenges, ranging from resilience to robotic surgery. Several awards align with the NSF's Big Ideas Navigating the New Arctic, Windows on the Universe, The Future of Work, and Harnessing the Data Revolution.
These first AccelNet awards include 4 catalytic efforts to identify key knowledge gaps and 5 large-scale networking plans for innovative collaboration on research priorities and enhancing professional skills of students and early-career researchers in international networks. Through these nine projects across 25 institutions, U.S. research networks will connect with research networks across the globe to enable research advances at scales larger than currently possible.
A full list of the 2019 AccelNet awards can be found on the NSF Awards Search.
Other Resources:
NSF 19-034, Frequently Asked Questions for NSF 19-501, Accelerating Research through Network to Network Collaborations
Accelerating Research Through International Network-to-Network Collaborations
AccelNet Informational Webinar PPT (Oct, 2019)
SESYNC Networks-of-Networks Workshop Resources
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Important Information for Proposers
A revised version of the NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) (NSF 20-1), is effective for proposals submitted, or due, on or after June 1, 2020. Please be advised that, depending on the specified due date, the guidelines contained in NSF 20-1 may apply to proposals submitted in response to this funding opportunity.
The goals of the Accelerating Research through International Network-to-Network Collaborations (AccelNet) program are to accelerate the process of scientific discovery and prepare the next generation of U.S. researchers for multiteam international collaborations. The AccelNet program supports strategic linkages among U.S. research networks and complementary networks abroad that will leverage research and educational resources to tackle grand scientific challenges that require significant coordinated international efforts. The program seeks to foster high-impact science and engineering by providing opportunities to create new collaborations and new combinations of resources and ideas among linked global networks.
This solicitation invites proposals for the creation of international networks of networks in research areas aligned either with one of the NSF Big Ideas or a community-identified scientific challenge with international dimensions. AccelNet awards are meant to support the connections among research networks, rather than supporting fundamental research as the primary activity. Each network of networks is expected to engage in innovative collaborative activities that promote synergy of efforts across the networks and provide professional development for students, postdoctoral scholars, and early-career researchers. There are two proposal categories covered by this solicitation: Catalytic and Full-Scale Implementation.
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Virtual R&D Teams and SMEs Growth: A Comparative Study Between Iranian and Malaysian SMEs
Nader Ale Ebrahim
University of Malaya - Department of Engineering Design and Manufacture, Faculty of Engineering
Shamsuddin Ahmed
University of Malaya (UM)
Zahari Taha
University Malaysia Pahang - Department of Manufacturing Engineering
African Journal of Business Management, Vol. 4, No. 11, pp. 2368-2379, September 2010
This paper explores potential advantages of using virtual teams for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with a comprehensive review on various aspects of virtual teams. Based on the standing of the pertinent literatures, attempt has been made to study the aspects by online survey method in Iran and Malaysia. In both countries, SMEs play an important role in their economies, employments, and capacity building. Virtual R&D team can be one of the means to increase SMEs efficiency and competitiveness in their local as well as global markets. In this context, surveys have been conducted to evaluate the effects of virtuality to the growth of SMEs. The study addresses some differences between two countries in engaging virtual research and development (R&D) teams in their SMEs. It is observed that there is a significant difference between the SMEs turnover that employed virtual team and that did not employ the virtual team. The way for further studies and recommend improvements are proposed.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 12
Keywords: Virtual R&D team, small and medium enterprises, survey, developing countries
JEL Classifications: M11, M2, N6, O1, O31, O32, O4, Z
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Sewall's Point is a lovely town located on a peninsula in Martin County. Located near an inlet, Sewall's Point is great for fishing and/or recreational boating. The town has undergone significant demographic changes in the past several years. It was previously mostly for retirees and those who wanted a part-time vacation home. Now, Sewall's Point is a place for businesses and family homes as well.
Offshore fishing presents itself as a fantastic opportunity to residents as well as visitors. Your water travel options are varied – the point gives you great access to the ocean and to the Intracoastal Waterway, making it easy to take a casual boat ride or a day fishing trip.
The first homes in Sewall's Point made use of a plentiful resource: washed-up wood from shipwrecks. The founder was a man named Henry Sewall, who called the area Sewall's Point because it was the part of the peninsula he owned.
As of the year 2000, the population of this lovely town was 1,946. The land area is 1.23 square miles. Though Sewall's Point is geographically small, its proximity to water travel and to the rest of culturally rich Martin County has made it seem much bigger than it actually is. When you live here, your options for travel, leisure, and education are wide open. Over half the residents have at least a Bachelor's Degree, and if you don't have one, Sewall's Point is close to many post-secondary institutions in South Florida where you can get one.
Waterfront property can be pricey here; in 2007, the median value of a waterfront property was over 1 million dollars, with the median non-waterfront being $584,500.
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I love these photos from the recent North American Handmade Bicycle Show. In the last few years, while a lot of people have donned lycra and climbed onto carbon fiber frames, they have also seen a resurgence of handmade bicycle building. What used to be the norm of stubborn old men, artisans, and aesthetes has been embraced by more people then ever.
Those attending the show suggest it's a dynamic convergence of several groups: young people in urban areas riding fixed-gear bikes and seeking clothing with street functionality but without the clingy Lycra; folks who enjoy long-distance bike touring where strong, well-made frames are more important than lightweight ones; a growing number of commuters who claim the bike as a major transportation option; the old-guard riders and curmudgeons who never gave up on the heavier but more compliant ride of steel frames; and those who see the well-made bike as something to covet and show off, whether it's on a speedy road bike or during a slow-down-and-socialize "tweed ride."
Enthusiasts crowd Sacramento Convention Center for 3-day Handmade Bicycle Show.


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You Are an Individual
You are a master of logic and reasoning. Emotions don't color your decisions.
You thrive on action and always want to be moving forward. A lot of your action is internal.
You have some loner tendencies - and you're totally okay with that. You like to do your own thing.
You've always felt a little different from everyone else. You are a true individual.
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some old trip photos
We found this wonderful Swedish clothing shop called Dunderdon, that had the most amazing (mostly men's I think) workwear inspired clothing and accessories. The store itself was so pretty with rope held fixtures and industrial lighting and an array of fun gadgets, many from Hand Eye Supply (local store a few blocks down). It was impossible to leave empty handed but we discovered it towards the end of our trip so I Jeremiah only bought a notebook.
The next morning we went to breakfast at a little Scandinavian cottage called Broder. The outside was pretty modest but the line for "brunch" formed quickly and aggressively as the seating is very limited. Fortunately we were one of the first to arrive and were seated quickly. Everything was delicious and we feasted on potato cakes and abelskivers with lemon curd and jam.
I'm a little sad thinking about our trip. We had fun while we were there but reminiscing makes me think even more fondly about it and I'm sure we will go back when we can.
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Jen your pics are amazing. Is that one of the sea the one your husband posted for your birthday- I love it, a great image, or is it a painting? JxReplyDelete
Thank you! Yes, you're right about the photo of the sea & my birthday, amazing you made that connection. I'm impressed!
Amazing photographs!ReplyDelete
Love your pics! So glad you got to Broder. That restaurant and neighborhood is my favorite!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 15, 2012
love them! We just booked tickets to visit Portland in the spring and i'm so excited. I'll definitely be referencing you vacation photos for some fun spots to check outReplyDelete
Thank you for the inspiration through your pictures. I keep Portland on a list of places I REALLY want to go to along with Seattle, New York, Salt Lake City, Fez, Reykjavik...Now I feel a little bit closer to make it happen! One day!ReplyDelete
oh these pictures make me want to visit portland even more, but we're so far away from oregon right now! we just spent three weeks in new york and in the end we just wanted to come back home... but it's so good to go back to the pictures, isn't it? :)ReplyDelete
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Just in time for the Blu-Ray release of Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction" today Rosanna Arquette recalls her role in the classic of cinematic cool for PopcornBiz.
On her pre-"Pulp" experiences circling around Tarantino:
I think the first thing that I read was [the script] that became "Natural Born Killers," and it was one of the most amazing scripts that I had ever read in my life. And there was a point for a moment where they were talking to me about doing it – but it was years before "Natural Born Killers'" got made. And then I saw his film that my sister Patricia did, "True Romance," which was also an incredible screenplay and movie. So at first it was really his writing, and then after "True Romance" and that magnificent performance – my sister is so great in it and I love that film – we met and he invited me to go to coffee with him at Swingers [a Los Angeles diner]. We had a talk and he wanted to talk to me about doing "Pulp Fiction."
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On how quickly she was sold on playing the part of the multi-pierced Jody:
It was a no-brainer. It was funny, because my agent at the time was telling me, "Oh, they don't want to pay you any money," and all of this, and so everyone was actually doing it for a very low fee, or scale or something, and then you'd make a piece of the movie. I'm the only person in the film whose agent did not make that deal for: I just worked for scale, but I didn't have back end. I don't know why that happened, but everyone made some money and I didn't. But it didn't matter – It was great to be a part of it.
On how Tarantino worked:
Quentin knows his stuff. First of all he puts the cast together and you're all rehearsing for quite a while. I think he rehearsed that for a few weeks – the whole film. I know that we had days of rehearsing, maybe even a week of rehearsal, in that house and we did the big, famous, adrenaline scene in Uma Thurman's heart. That gives you a lot of freedom to do what you want to do, to come up with things, to throw them out if they don't work, to really try new things, before you kind of show up on the set when you'd woken up at 4 in the morning and gone, "God. I wish I would've done that differently." You don't have to do that because you've all ready worked through that. That week of rehearsal really is magical.
On her favorite behind-the-scenes moments:
I just remember sitting with Uma, talking about life and relationships and love. I always love those moments where you're doing such intense work, and then when it really gets down to it the girls are going to be having girl talk, which is always fun.
On whether she knew she was taking part in a revolutionary film:
Not at all. I knew that we were having a great time and that it could be cool, but not like this. I really didn't know that. It was a revolutionary film in many ways, even in terms of how they did business, because after that they could get movie stars to work for nothing and have them in the movie if they owned a piece of the film. I think that they were really first people to do that.
On enjoying John Travolta's comeback and Tarantino's arrival:
I've known John and his family since I was a kid, so I was really happy for him because he's always done really good work. Even if a movie wasn't great he's always interesting to watch and good in it. And then Quentin – yeah, the stratosphere!
On uttering one of the best lines amid a wealth of Tarantino gems:
"That was __ trippy." You never think of the outcome. You're just in the moment when it's happening – I never felt like, "Oh, man, this is it!" I don't even think that way at all. You're just in the moment and it comes out hopefully with the right rhythm and cadence so that it works. It was fun. It was kind of when the whole needle thing was going in her chest because my character was so obsessed with piercings, and so that was like the ultimate pierce.


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A lawsuit challenging the Detroit Institute of Arts' ability to charge admission to special exhibits, despite previous promises to voters of unlimited free admission, has been filed in Macomb County Circuit Court by an anti-tax group led by former state representative Leon Drolet.
The dispute arises from the property tax adopted by tri-county voters in August when the DIA made free admission part of the contracts they signed with Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties. The Macomb contract cited in the Michigan Taxpayers Alliance lawsuit says that "unlimited, free museum admission" would be extended to all county residents.
DIA officials say it was understood that the museum would follow its long-standing practice of levying a separate fee for special exhibits, such as the current display of "Faberge" artifacts, which costs $15 for adults, $8 for children.
Drolet, founder of the MTA, said he believes the DIA used deceptive tactics to help the tax win voter approval. In this post-election phase, the former lawmaker said the court should still step in and provide taxpayers/consumers with free access to all exhibits.
"The millage election was very close here in Macomb County," said Drolet, who also served as a county commissioner, "and part of the reason the millage passed was because of misrepresentation by the DIA."
He added: "I want them (DIA officials) to adhere to the terms of the contract that they signed publicly. If they were unhappy with the language of the contract, they shouldn't have signed it."
Annemarie Erickson, DIA chief operating officer, countered that county commissioners and members of the local arts authorities in all three counties were in agreement that the expensive, major exhibits that are rented by the DIA would not be free.
"We have been absolutely clear from the beginning that special exhibitions are not included in the free admission," Erickson said, adding that a court decision eliminating all entrance fees "certainly would jeopardize the special exhibitions program."
The suit was filed by Drolet and four other MTA members who are active in the Republican Party -- Philis DeSaele of Sterling Heights, Simon Haddad of Clinton Township, and Dennis and Judy Buchholtz of Warren.
The MTA played a lonely role before the August primary as the only organized opposition to the 0.2-mill DIA tax. Drolet said his group is acting as a taxpayer watchdog, while Erickson said she will not comment on any statements made by the MTA.
In a legal opinion issued last week, Jill Smith, a Macomb County legal counsel, told the Macomb County Board of Commissioners that the DIA is living up to its agreement with the county. Free admission to the museum, Smith said, is different than free admission to special exhibits.
The Macomb County Art Institute Authority, which oversees collection and disbursement of DIA tax dollars from Macomb, has also raised no objections to the wording of the contract they reached with the museum.
Two pieces of campaign literature distributed by the pro-DIA campaign organization in the summer offered two different explanations of the free-entrance offer. One brochure said the museum was offering "unlimited general admission" if the tax was adopted. A second campaign piece said the museum was offering "free, unlimited admission."
A July 22 news story written by The Macomb Daily's sister paper, The Oakland Press, made a brief mention that free admission would exclude special exhibits. That story was published in both papers.
Since the millage passed, nearly 18,000 Macomb County residents have visited the DIA free of charge, including 6,640 students who have taken field trips or have field trips scheduled, according to Erickson. "We remain firm in our belief that Macomb, Oakland and Wayne county residents are reaping great benefits from this agreement," she said in a press release refuting the allegations of the lawsuit.


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Sunday, March 10, 2013
"I've been through my MacBook on a drive with..."
15 comments:
- Mama D said...
First reaction: nod of amused recognition. Second reaction: to wonder how many people reading this are too young to catch the reference and are looking blankly at the screen!
- March 10, 2013 at 8:06 AM
Thanks for the music flashback earworm you just planted in my head.....
- March 10, 2013 at 9:50 AM
I never understood the lyrics of that song. If it bothered the songwriter, why not just give the damn horse a name? Stupid lyrics. Call the horse Lyrica. That's a good name for a horse.
- March 10, 2013 at 10:00 AM
- clutch said...
It felt good to get out of the RAM
- March 10, 2013 at 10:22 AM
How old are you, Dr. Grumpy? I can remember this, but I'm ANCIENT.
- March 10, 2013 at 10:53 AM
- D. said...
Hee hee! Give the younglings some arcane pop culture to research!
(I grew up with pop culture that still referred to the '40s. They can deal.)
Curmudgeon per Diem
- March 10, 2013 at 11:55 AM
And I thought I was the only one who liked to name their drives after restaurants in Boston.
- March 10, 2013 at 12:20 PM
- bobbie said...
I'm glad I'm not the only one who will be singing this all day...
Best song ever about heroin.
(said with tongue planted firmly in cheek)
- March 10, 2013 at 1:24 PM
- Student Paramed said...
I used to ride a horse called Lyric.....
Always thought that song was really odd.
- March 10, 2013 at 4:09 PM
- Steeny Lou said...
But I bet it felt good to get out of the rain. And on that hard drive, one can't remember their name, coz there ain't nothing there for to give them no pain.
- March 10, 2013 at 5:33 PM
I can follow the America, "Horse with No Name" reference, but am lost after that with any Apple stuff. Sad but true.
It's becoming harder to live in present day society.
- March 10, 2013 at 6:05 PM
- Patti Cadwallader said...
next line: It's so good to have no one to blame.
- March 10, 2013 at 7:33 PM
@bobbie- Don't forget the theme song to "Mr. Ed." Especially the Velvet Underground's version.
- March 10, 2013 at 10:50 PM
- Moose said...
Never played Nethack, eh?
- March 11, 2013 at 9:12 AM
- bobbie said...
@Anon @ 1050 ~
You are cruel, d'ya hear? Just plain cruel!!
- March 11, 2013 at 1:26 PM


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Sisters, pamper yourselves with spa services – massages, mini-manicures, make-up applications, tarot card readings and more! That's what's awaiting you at Alhambra Palace on Aug. 19 at the fifth anniversary celebration of Girls' Ni
Sisters, pamper yourselves with spa services – massages, mini-manicures, make-up applications, tarot card readings and more! That's what's awaiting you at Alhambra Palace on Aug. 19 at the fifth anniversary celebration of Girls' Night Out, a benefit to raise funds for the Chicago Children's Advocacy Center hosted by the folks at U.S. Cellular. Also, there'll be bidding in a bachelor auction. Guys in handsome attire will be on "the block" as sister guests arrive – especially those who come as early at 5 p.m. for the VIP Hour ($125) which touts hors d'oeuvres, specialty drinks and two guaranteed spa services for those who arrive by 5:30 p.m. General admission: 6 p.m.-9 p.m., $100. Honorary chairs, Ald. Toni Preckwinkle (4th) and Lisa Madigan, Ill. attorney general, will be assisted by co-chairs, U.S. Cellular's Shelley Boresman, NBC 5's Deborah Brown, Ill. AARP's Merri Dee, AAR Corp's Cheryle Jackson, writer and broadcast journalist Victoria Lautman, Chicago Public Schools' Barbara Lumpkin, Sun-Times' Mary Mitchell, HGTV's Monica Pederson, ComEd's Anne Pramaggiore, Dominick's Wynona Redmond, Harris Bank's Judy Rice, Mayer Brown's Mary Richardson-Lowry and Katten Muchin Rosenman's Elizabeth Weber and host committee members, Tipsy Cake's Naomi Levine, U.S. Cellular's Kim Swoboda and founder-president of Foster Care Children & Family Fund's Cora White. Mayor Richard Daley founded CCAC in 1998 to unite public, private and community partners to ensure the safety, health and well-being of abused children. As a result of years of hard work from the public and private sectors, abused children now receive healing services they need and deserve. Since opening in 2001, CCAC has served some 20,000 children and is a model and leader for cities across the country and the world. Log on www.chicagoCAC.org. Milestones – Happy b'day to Pres. Barack Obama, Jim Buckner, Roderick Hawkins, Robert Shaw, Kelly Shepard, Buddy Fambro, Ghalib Ghallab, Rev. Linda Mootry-Dodd, Natalie Moore, Jackie Taylor, Lauri Sanders, Jeremiah Wright-Haynes, Marcia "Cookie" Jacobs, Emilie McKendall, Sheri Lynn Smith, Al Palmer, Deana Balfour-Williamson, David Dodd, Antoinette Simmons, Kenny Johnson, Derrick Mosley, Tumia Romero, Tressa Epps, John Stokes, Leontyne Brown, Trevy A. McDonald, Rudy Brown, Latrice Jones, Nina Tabb, Laura Rice, Marki D. Lemons and Larry Wilson. Golden wedding anniversary wishes to John (he's the CPA whose downtown firm bears his name) and Velma Wilson, who celebrated "year 50" at a lovely dinner party in their Hyde Park home with family (including daughters Ginger and Kelly, Velma's five siblings and other kinfolks) and several close pals. Velma and "Teesee," 62-year BFFs since Sept. 1948 when we met on our very first day at Parker High School, were brides-maids at each other's weddings and long-time members of The Dozen … And 30th anniversary greetings to two Trinity buddies, Patricia and John Dabner … And another "best bud," U.S. Cellular's Greg Hinton celebrates Friday by hosting his own b'day party for 100 of his fave pals at Phoenix Art Gallery, 1829 S. Halsted. And if you know Greg, you know "he just loves him some champagne," so if you are looking to bring a little sump-um sump-um to the party, make it a bottle of "Veuve," his fave. Chef Reggie Carter, Greg's BFF, will load the buffet table with culinary delights. Come for the celebration; stay for food, fun and frolic! Gala Gals –The Nielsen Co.'s Cheryl Pearson McNeil picks up the Launa Thompson Spirit Award at "Gala 2010" on Friday at the kick-off event of the two-day State Farm-sponsored Black Women's Expo at the Hyatt Regency Chicago. Other Phenomenal Woman awardees: Boeing's Joyce Tucker; (former) Chicago Public Schools' Dr. Barbara Eason-Watkins; Sun-Times' Maudlyne Ihejirika; Ald. Toni Preckwinkle (4th); T&T Food Services' Andrea M.T. Chapman; Little Black Pearl Workshop's Monica Haslip; Schwab Rehabilitation-U. of C. and Sinai Health Center's Dr. Lisa Thompson; and Chicago Minority Suppler Development Council's Sheila C. Hill. Other awardees: The Black Star Project and Living Word's Haiti Project. Radio One's Cathy Hughes keynotes the $150 per person dinner. Call (312) 243-3554 or log on www.theblackwomensexpo.com. Alumni Fun ¼¼– The Chicago Chapters of National Alumnae Ass'n of Spelman College and the Morehouse College National Alumni Ass'n co-host their Annual Lois Davenport Fambro & William Cross Back to School Beach Party on Saturday, 1 p.m.-5 p.m., at the weekend's 2010 South Shore Jazz Fest at the South Shore Cultural Center. (Look for the Morehouse/Spelman tent, which will also be available thru Sunday!) Bring folding beach chairs. Morehouse brothers are asked to bring two cases of soft drinks, fruit juice and water; picnic food will be provided. Attire: casual/beachwear, Morehouse/Spelman gear. Call Brad Minniefield, (708) 612-0789, or Othel Owen (312) 543-8619 for shuttle/parking info. Driftin' South – We're off mid-week to South Bend, Ind. with several sister members of the Chicago Chapter of The Drifters Inc. headed by Debbie Rountree, locl prexey, for our 54th annual national convention, "Dynamic Women: Determined, Driven & Destined." Chicago will be joined by Drifters from over 30 chapter cities coast-to-coast. Newsy Names – Ken Bedford's Steppers' Second Sunday w/Line Dancing and DJ Sam Chapman kicks-off Sunday, 5 p.m., at Alhambra Palace. Admission, $10 … Taylor Alston, daughter of Marcus and Tracey Alston (Danielle Ashley Communications) received the Global Scholarship at Spelman College. Her major: Chinese and Economics … Blues-gospel legend Otis Clay headlines Ald. Emma Mitts' 11th annual 37th Ward Back-to-School Gospel Fest & Picnic on Saturday, noon-7 p.m., at La Follette Park, 1333 N. Laramie. "Saving Our Youth for the Future" is the theme of the free neighborhood fest that offers fun for all ages, positive images, good food and the spiritual sounds of Chicago's best gospel choirs and groups … Jazz by Jimmy Ellis, Maggie Brown, Ari Brown and Phil Cohran, plus kids' activities featuring a performance from the South Shore Drill Team, face painting, Jumping Jacks and more will be featured at The South Shore Chamber's third annual "Know Your Neighbor" Sidewalk Sale & Fest on Saturday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., in partnership with Universal Alley Jazz and sponsored in conjunction with Ald. Leslie Hairston (5th). Teyonda Wertz is SSC's executive director. Held along E. 71st St. from Constance to Ridgeland, this free fun-filled day features guided tours to the Japanese Gardens of Jackson Park, the Jackson Park golf range, select historic homes, retail, food and drink vendors, a South Shore Drill Team performance, face painting, Jumping Jacks and continuous music … Actor Richard T. Jones (Why Did I Get Married Too?, Terminator and Grey's Anatomy) heads this way to receive an honor at eta's Annual Benefit Gala on Sept. 11. Jill Scott's "low down" husband in Why Did I Get Married Too? will be joined by fellow honorees, Marshall High School's "winningest" coach Dorothy Gators, ComEd's executive veep John Hooker and MacArthur genius ragtime pianist Reginald Robinson. Copyright 2010 Chicago Defender


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Bisons outfielder Fernando Martinez and infielders Rob Mackowiak (pictured right) and Michel Abreu each had RBI-doubles in Sunday's 5-3 loss against the Memphis Redbirds (Cardinals) in Port St. Lucie. Martinez finished the game 2-4.
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My Melody helps you take the perfect picture with this supercute selfie stick! My Melody's face securely holds your device to get the desired shot.
Selfie stick expands to 37 inches (95cm) length.
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- Telescopic stick extension from 7" to 37"
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Downtempo vibes and beats are twisted with incredible female vocals for the next branch off of Portishead. Wade Alin is the main songwriter and programmer and he enlisted Lauren Cheatham to provide the backdrop of gorgeous vocals that help recall the aforementioned Portishead, as well as Lamb and Bjork. Trip-hop blended this well with electronica, downtempo, and orchestral rock isn't often properly ordained. But Metropolitan is a new ministry at which to worship stunning and powerful music delivered with a subtleness that betrays its true gifted clout.
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Grenadine is red colored, sweet and tart, non-alcoholic syrup used in cocktails like the Sea Breeze, Tequila Sunrise and many other delicious cocktails. Bartenders typically use grenadine to give cocktails a red or pink or pink color. Traditionally made from pomegranate juice, sugar and water some bartenders prefer to make it using blackcurrant juice for a more tart flavor profile. The name "grenadine," originates from the word grenade which is the French word for the primary ingredient – pomegranate which itself comes from Italian "pome" (apple) and "granate" (seed).


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WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The numbers are clear. As the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported last week that the national unemployment rate remained steady at 9.7 percent last month, there remains the untold story.
That story is that as the overall unemployment rate remained steady, the Black unemployment rate leaped from 15.8 percent to 16.5 percent. The rate for Black women rose from 12.1 percent to 12.4 percent. The rate for Black men closed in on 20 percent, rising from 17.8 to 19.0.
Meanwhile, unemployment rates for White America – only half that of the Black rate - either remained steady or went down. For Whites, the rate remained at 8.8 percent, well below the national average. For White men, the rate dropped from 9.0 percent to 8.9 percent. For White women, the rate remained steady at 7.3 percent.
Labor experts say racial disparities in education is a key answer.
"There's a very sharp relationship between the level of education and unemployment rates," says Dr. Barry R. Chiswick, distinguished professor of economics at the University of Illinois at Chicago and director of the UIC Center for Economic Education. "For example, in March of last month, those with less than a high school degree had an unemployment rate of 14.5 percent whereas those with a bachelors degree or more has an unemployment rate of 4.9 percent."
Also exacerbating the Black unemployment rate may be the fact that many of the job areas where Blacks and Latinos tend to concentrate are among the first to lay off or become slow during hard economic times.
"It goes up more rapidly in manufacturing and in construction than it does in service occupations," Chiswick says. He says there are several ways to reduce the unemployment disparity in educational attainment and the second is to increase jobs.
Chiswick's suggestions mirror that of the National Urban League's State of Black America released last month. In a plan to "put America back to work" outlined in the annual report, NUL President and CEO Marc Morial lists "targeted investments for job creation" as the number one means of dealing with unemployment. He also lists job training for the chronically unemployed; greater access to credit to help small businesses and the self-employed to stay afloat; additional counseling relief for people caught in foreclosures; and tax incentives for clean energy companies who employ individuals in hardest hit communities.
Despite noble efforts by the Obama Administration, it appears conditions are worsening for Black Americans. The "Equality Index" comparing the economic status of Blacks and Whites in the SBA report is only 57.4 percent.
Morial explains in a recent column for NNPA: "This reflects an unemployment rate for Blacks that is double that for Whites, a widening of the median household income gap, and the sobering facts that less than half of African-American families own a home compared to three quarters of White families and that Blacks and Hispanics are more than three times as likely as Whites to live below the poverty line."


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Circuit Cellar's mission is to collect, select, and disseminate need-to-know information around the world in the fields of embedded hardware, embedded software, and computer applications.
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Circuit Cellar covers the following topics and more:
Analog Techniques—projects and components dealing with analog signal acquisition and generation. Topics of interest: EMI/RF reduction, high-speed signal integrity, signal conditioning, A/D and D/A converters, analog programmable logic, and low-power, single-supply, and mixed-voltage designs
Communications—projects that deal with one computer talking to another (networking), humans talking to one another (voice recorders, telephone gadgets, etc.), humans talking to computers (speech recognition), or computers talking to humans (speech synthesis, text-to-speech). Topics of interest: network protocols, Ethernet, USB, I2C, SPI
Data Acquisition—projects, technologies, and algorithms for real-world data gathering and monitoring. Topics of interest: peripheral interfaces, sensors, sensor networks, signal conditioning, A/D and D/A converters, data analysis, and post-processing
Embedded Applications—projects that feature embedded controllers. Topics of interest: automotive applications, test equipment, simulators, consumer electronics, real-time control, and low-power techniques
Embedded Development—tools and techniques used to develop new hardware or software. Topics of interest: prototyping and simulation, emulators, development tools, programming languages, HDL, real-time operating systems, debugging tools, and useful tips and tricks
Embedded Programming—anything that deals with the software used in embedded applications, including algorithms, tools, and techniques. Topics of interest: programming languages, real-time operating systems, embedded Linux, file systems, drivers, network protocols, algorithms, and optimization
Internet & Connectivity—applications that deal with connectivity and Internet-enabling. Topics of interest: networking chips, protocol stacks, device servers, and physical layer interfaces
Measurement & Sensors—projects and technologies that deal with sensors, interfaces, and actuators. Topics of interest: environmental sensors, smart sensors, one-wire sensors, MEMS sensors, and sensor interface techniques
Programmable Logic—projects that utilize FPGAs, PLDs, and other programmable logic chips. Topics of interest: Tips and tricks for design-in, core-IP (e.g., processor, DSP, peripheral), innovative solutions to traditional design challenges (e.g., initialization, dynamic reconfiguration, security), and the spectrum of hardware and software tools that come into play
Robotics—projects about devices capable of repeating motion sequences, such as self-contained, self-propelled robotic devices, robotic arms, industrial assembly lines, etc. Also, the sensors, actuators, motor controllers, and algorithms primarily targeted for these applications. Topics of interest: motor drives, proximity sensing, power control, battery technology/management, electronic compasses, & accelerometers
Signal Processing—projects, technology, and algorithms related to real-time processing of signals such as audio, video, radio, pressure, and acceleration. Topics of interest: DSP chips and algorithms, analog programmable logic, signal conditioning, A/D and D/A converters, filters, compression, and comparisons of RISC, DSP, VLIW, etc.
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East Bay SPCA
Link, a 6-month-old Jack Russell and miniature poodle male mix, is like having a teenager in the house! Link is a certified goofball. He's small and just more than 10 pounds. He's fun-loving and happy. He will love it if you laugh and play around.
See Link at the Oakland Adoption Center, 8323 Baldwin St., Oakland, CA 94621. To see other adoptable pets, visit www.eastbayspca.org or call 510-569-0702.


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Modern apocalypse: Von Trier's 'Melancholia' stares death down
Lars von Trier's "Melancholia" opens with music from Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde," mourning and apocalyptic, and disturbing images of a world not right. A woman dressed as a bride runs through a forest whose branches seem to grab at her in a Disney nightmare. She floats in a pond, holding flowers, like Ophelia. Another woman makes her way with a child over marshy grass that sucks at her. Looming in the sky is another planet, vast in size. The Earth is about to end.
These scenes are isolated prologue. As time begins to run, we meet a newlywed couple being driven to their wedding party at a grand estate. It is a small gathering, only large enough to establish that few in this family can abide one another, and some may be mad. The bride is Justine (Kirsten Dunst). Her husband is Michael (Alexander Skarsgaard). Her sister is Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg). Their estranged parents are Gaby (Charlotte Rampling) and Dexter (John Hurt). The mansion is owned by the brother-in-law John (Keifer Sutherland). Joining the party is Jack (Stellan Skarsgaard), Justine's boss, who owns an ad agency and is attending primarily to wrest an advertising tagline from her. The wedding planner is played by the ominous Udo Kier, who you will agree is correctly cast to run a wedding at the end of the world.
Not much of an attempt is made to fashion these people into a plot anything like a wedding party you've seen in a movie before. Even when the bride steals out of her husband's bed to have rough sex in the sand trap of a golf course, there is no sense of intrigue, just a desperate acting out. Every moment is saturated with the common knowledge that Earth is about to collide with an enormous planet named Melancholia. Full review.Read more on: movie review


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Sermon Recordings
The second and third services are recorded each week and CDs can be picked up at the Media Desk immediately following the service. A $2 donation is requested. Within 24 hours, the sermon will be posted on our website where you can play or download it. You may also subscribe to our podcasts by searching for "Collegedale Community" in the podcast section of iTunes.
We webcast the 11:30am church service every week. To view the live webcast use the link on the front page of our church website. (Please note: we primarily film what happens on the platform, but occasionally we include shots of the audience.) The sermon is recorded and video is posted on our website about a week later.
To establish your needs, please see someone at the Media Desk in the Church Lobby.
Many of our sermons are available on our website in Russian and Romanian. Inquire at the Media Desk about live translations during the service.
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Sixty years ago, scientists believed that schizophrenia was caused by emotional conflict with the patient's parents. A cold mother would deliver conflicting messages of hope and rejection and drive her child into madness.
Then scientists rejected that cruel model and concluded that schizophrenia was a brain disease. But the drugs that treated schizophrenia as a biological disorder did not work well. Now, as Tanya Marie Luhrmann notes in an essay, "Beyond the Brain" in The Wilson Quarterly, that model has failed, too.
Schizophrenia is seen as the result of a complex interaction of unrelated causes: myriad genes, a mother's illness during pregnancy, childhood stress, cultural factors and many other things. Researchers have been driven to this conclusion, in part because this mental illness shows up differently, at different rates, in different cultures.
Patients in India, for example, do much better than patients in the West. Indian society regards mental illness differently. Indian doctors, for example, tell patients they are perfectly well, but should take certain pills to rebuild their strength. This deception seems to work.
Luhrmann's article wins a Sidney Award as one of the best essays of the year. The award was designed to encourage people to step back at this time of the year and look at the big picture. Walter Russell Mead's "The Once and Future Liberalism" in The American Interest certainly encourages that.
Mead argues that our current political argument is a conflict between two versions of liberalism, the small state Manchester liberalism of the 1890s (the current doctrine of the Republican Party) and the big organization managerial state liberalism of the 1950s (the current doctrine of the Democratic Party).
Both are obsolete. He spends much of his essay describing how the latest version of liberalism, which was great in its day, is breaking down. It rested on economic and demographic foundations that no longer exist.
Mead says it's time to gratefully say farewell to both. He doesn't offer a replacement, but persuasively asks you to think anew.
The exclamation point was not a standard feature on typewriters until the 1970s. Nobody wore blue or pink or yellow ribbons to show their emotional attachments to various causes until 1979. No state specifically allowed victim statements at sentencing hearings as late as 1978.
But all that has changed. Today we are awash in exclamation points and affiliation symbols and sentiment more generally. This transformation has been nicely analyzed by Pamela Haag in "Death by Treacle" in The American Scholar.
Haag writes, "Maybe this century's culture is a culture of feeling in which the ideal citizen-feeler has the qualities of soulful transparency, audacious disclosure, and candor, and who knows the skills of whispered confession. …" The interesting thing, she notes, is that all this sentiment is not actually bringing people closer together.
There is a parasitic wasp that lays its eggs in the belly of an orb spider. The larva releases chemicals that alter the spider's brain so that it weaves webs in the shape of larva cocoons, instead of normal spider web patterns. The spider even weaves a specific geometric pattern to camouflage the cocoon.
This is not the only parasite that releases chemicals to change its host's thinking. The scientist Jaroslav Flegr believes parasites transmitted by cat feces have altered his brain. Kathleen McAuliffe tells his story in "How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy" in The Atlantic. Men infected in this way tend to wear more rumpled clothes and have fewer friends. Infected women wear nicer clothes and have more friends.
There are many more essays worthy of Sidney Awards that I want to bring to your attention, so let me just briefly list a few:
"The Thought Police" by Paul Berman in The New Republic, on how radical Islamist thugs used intimidation to defeat Arab liberals in their struggle for the future of the Middle East.
"The Caging of America" by Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker. One gets the sense that the inhumanity of our prisons will be regarded with disbelief by future generations. This essay surveys the scene.
"The Writing Revolution" by Peg Tyre in The Atlantic. About a school on Staten Island that improved its academic outputs by teaching its underprivileged students the nuts and bolts of writing.
"Broken BRICs" by Ruchir Sharma in Foreign Affairs. Everyone assumes that the rising economies of Asia and elsewhere (BRICs, Brazil, Russia, India, and China) will own the future. Sharma challenges this thesis. Emerging economies are fading. In 2011, Sharma notes, "the difference in per capita incomes between the rich and the developing nations was back to where it was in the 1950s."
"The Education of Dasmine Cathey" by Brad Wolverton in The Chronicle of Higher Education. This humane article takes us into the world of one midlevel college football player, who, among other things, tried to teach himself to read.
Here are some honorable mentions, too: "Atonement," by Dexter Filkins in The New Yorker, about an Iraq war veteran who seeks out the family he harmed; "The Meme Generation," by Matt Labash in The Weekly Standard, about the impact of the Web's viral-content culture on America; "In Nothing We Trust," by Ron Fournier and Sophie Quinton in National Journal, about how Americans are losing faith in the institutions that made this country great; "Happyism," by Deirdre N. McCloskey in The New Republic, about the creepy new economics of pleasure; and, lastly, "Not Fade Away," by Robert Kagan in The New Republic, about the myth of the American decline.
David Brooks is a New York Times columnist.


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יערף כמטר לקחי
ר' שמחה בונם מפשיסכה notes that תורה is compared to the rain; just like there is no visible effect from the rain when it falls, but only afterwards when plants sprout and begin to grow, so too the effects from learning תורה are often not immediately visible, but only appear after some time.
שיחת לו לא בניו מומם דור עקש ופתלתל
The שאר בת רבים notes that there are many people who are personally observant, and are comfortable with this. Nevertheless, they want their children to follow in the path of תורה and עבודת ה.
However, this is quite hypocritical. For their Father in Heaven asks them to follow the proper path, and yet they rebel. Despite this, they expect their children to listen to them!
In truth, the only thing that will happen is that their children, just like they themselves, will not be religious, but will expect their children to become religious.
וישמן ישרון ויבעט
The חידושי הרי"ם notes that the word used here is ישרון, which is generally associated with a higher spiritual level than just ישראל. Nevertheless, in the presence of גאווה, they are at risk as well.


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We were pretty sure that JT had given up on music so he could get all hyper-kinetic in The Social Network and do whatever he's doing in that movie with Amanda Seyfried. But no!
He's secretly been working on new music. Behold: the thumping bass, relentless drums and stuttering beats of "Take You Down." It's got singing girls like "Señorita" and is clearly built for the dancefloor. But something's missing. It's not exactly bringing sexy back. Not that it makes you want to cry a river… But maybe it needs a little falsetto? Or something. Get Timbaland or Pharrell on the phone, STAT.
UPDATE: It's not Justin. Lies? On the Internet? You don't say!
Justin Timberlake - 'Take You Down' Song Leak [Just Jared]


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Will 3D Find Its Way Into The Home?
3D content has been promoted as the future or home entertainment. However, it may be hard to find its way to your living room unless the technology matures and a format wars is avoided.
The problem lays on the different approaches in the 3D technology and 3D TV panels, the lack of a standard for 3D broadcasting and of course the incompatibilities of existing CE hardware with the 3D content.
Different 3D approaches
The currently available 3D systems are using technologies such as passive polarization, Dolby/Infitec light filtering and active shuttering.
Passive Polarization sets are unsuitable for 3D Blu-ray, but they are compatible with cheap polarized glasses, making ideal for use mainly in use in public places where 3D content will be broadcasted.
Dolby's 3D Digital Cimema uses a full-spectrum color-filter technology licensed from Infitec, enabled by the passive Dolby 3D Glasses, The system is claimed to provide realistic color reproduction and sharp images.
Active shuttering is currently the popular choice amongst consumer electronics giants who are investing in 3D display technology. The primary reason for this is that this technology requires a very minimal modification to current HDTV displays. The individual eye pieces of these glasses incorporate liquid crystals and a polarization filter so that when a voltage is applied, the glass turns dark and prevents light from transmitting through. Thus the left and right eye glass can be shuttered alternatively in this manner and this shuttering effect is synced with the refresh rate of the display. The 3D TV displays a frame for the left and right eye alternatively and the sync with the active shutter glass ensures that each eye only ever views the image it is meant to see. As a result, the technology only needs a refresh rate enhancement for current LCD and Plasma TVs (minimum refresh rate of 120 Hz).
However, all of the above approaches for 3D cut the light escaping from a TV or projector to 30%, and the glasses worn by the viewer dim the picture even more.
Panasonic is demonstrating Blu-ray's ability to deliver Full HD 1920 x 1080 to each eye. Viewers have to wear shutter glasses.
Sony is also following the active shuttering approach for 3D. However, the active glasses needed for a Panasonic plasma TV will not work with a Sony LCD TV, and vice versa.
In an effort to promote its plasma business, Panasonic is questioning the ability of LCD panels to adequately display 3D content without crosstalk caused by leakage of the left image into the right. LCD screens cannot switch images fast enough, even if their refresh rate is 200 Hz, Panasonic claims.
On the other hand, viewing in 3D with glasses and filters always reduces the picture brightness. The fact that you can get more light from an LCD compared to plasma may be an advantage in the future.
Toshiba also said it would launch an active Full 3D TV later this year.
It is obvious that there are already many different display systems frame-sequential TV or projection with active shutter glasses, frame-sequential polarized projection, passive polarized interlaced TV, and Dolby/Infitec color filtering, with autostereoscopic no-glasses 3D already working and promised for the future home.
Intel claims that its chips can easily handle 1080p HD 3D. The company has showcased passive polarizing 3D content displayed o a JVC TV with RealD glasses. The company has also demonstrated shutter 3D games.
When available, 3D broadcasts should be compatible with existing receivers. Currently, broadcasters are in seeking of the most efficient way to transmit the left and right images in a single standard compressed TV picture. This means that the 3D broadcasts are most appropriate for use with passive polarized TV sets and not the TVs intended for Blu-ray 3D. So consumers who may already having the so-called 3D-ready TV sets (120Hz of higher) will be able to enjoy 3D broadcasts but not 3D content coming from their brand new 3D BD player or upgraded PS3s.
3D incompatibility with HDMI 1.3
The latest version of the HDMI standard 1.4 supports both the 3D transmission and the Blu-ray 3D content (MVC Multiview Coding - variant of MEPG-4 H.264 used for BD 3D).
New chips are needed for the new 3D hardware with HDMI 1.4b ports. However, engineers should also address the issue of how legacy hardware (with HDMI 1.3 ports) will cope with the Full HD from an MVC Blu-ray Disc.
The currently available AV amplifiers and receivers are used to switch and route HDMI audio and video signals, and decode high-resolution Dolby and DTS audio. Existing AV amplifiers and receivers only have HDMI 1.3 connectors and won't be able to pass the HDMI 1.4 or 1.4a control codes through to a TV.
Although HDMI 1.4 has an audio return path, which lets a TV send digital audio back to an AVR, the quality is limited to SP/DIF PCM, Dolby or DTS.
Existing HDMI 1.3 AVRs may be able to pass a broadcast 3D signal to a 3D TV without problems because the signal is intended to be compatible with existing broadcast receivers. Of course, a firmware upgrade for the AVR will be needed in order to understand when a broadcast signal is 3D. However, legacy AVRs will not be able to recognize what comes out of the 3D player, since BD 3D packs two Full HD frames into a single picture frame that is much bigger than an ordinary BD picture frame.
Panasonic's latest BD 3D player has coped with this issue by adding two separate HDMI outputs - one Ver 1.4 for video to a 3D TV, and one Ver 1.3 - to its new 3D Blu-ray player. The HDMI 1.3 port is customized for audio to an existing new AVR.
It is not clear whether other BD players will feature two HDMI ports. For sure, Sony's latest BD 3D player doesn't.
3D is a new technology and as such, the confusion and ignorance around it. It is obvious that watching 3D in the cinema halls is very exciting but Hollywood will probably have hard times selling it to consumers.


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You know what there's a lot of in Cards Against Humanity? Bodily fluid jokes. Know what there aren't many of? Jokes written by ladies (the game's creators are all dudes).
The site Ladies Against Humanity fixes this by offering up their own (and some community-submitted) options. While this could have been license for a whole bunch of cards that only 50% of any given game will find funny, in truth most are just fantastic cards that you should all be adding to your deck right now.
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Gas station business losing to reality
According to the Petroleum Association of Japan, the demand for gasoline continues to decrease owing to the popularity of hybrids and mini-cars, the greater fuel efficiency of automobiles in general, and a trend that sees more and more young people foregoing the pleasures of motoring. In 1999, 250 million kiloliters of gasoline were sold in Japan. In 2011 the amount was about 200 million. Consequently, the country doesn't need as many gas stations. There were 60,000 in 1994, only 38,000 in 2011.
The disappearance of gas stations will likely accelerate this year due to a revision to the Fire Prevention Law. Several years ago it was discovered that gasoline reservoirs — the tanks buried under gas stations to store fuel — were leaking at an alarming rate, so the government enacted a law to address the problem. If the tank is 40 years old or older, the owner of the gas station must replace it or repair it. If he doesn't, his license to pump gas could be revoked. Either operation requires excavation and the use of heavy machinery, and costs between ¥1.5 and ¥2.5 million. Many gas stations, in fact, have at least three tanks underground: one for gasoline, one for diesel, and one for kerosene. Each would have to be replaced once it turns 40. The revision went into effect in February 2011, and all gas stations with tanks older than 40 years had two years to comply. At the same time, the government introduced a subsidy that would provide two-thirds of the cost of the replacement-repair if the application is made by the end of January 2013. According to an industry group survey cited in Tokyo Shimbun, as of the end of September only 30 percent of tanks that needed to be changed actually had been. Of the other respondents, 7.5 percent said they are considering closing their businesses due to the revision. Others said they will wait until the last minute to apply for the subsidy. An industry representative told the Tokyo Shimbun that the older the tank the older the gas station owner, so it is likely they will simply decide to retire if no one in the family wants to take over the business. Perhaps in light of these findings, the government has already decided to extend the subsidy period.
It may not make much of a difference. The projection for gasoline demand in 2020 is only 130 million kiloliters. The main problem with lack of demand is that it affects different regions differently. The loss of gas stations in major cities and densely populated suburban regions won't cause major problems, but in outlying rural areas, where there is little public transportation and people rely on automobiles to get around, it could cause an increase in so-called gas refugees.
Among Japan's prefectures, Yamaguchi pays the most for gasoline a year per household — ¥80,000 — while Osaka pays the least, about ¥14,000. If a gas station in Osaka closes, not many people will notice, but if one in Yamaguchi shuts down, the people who relied on it will have to drive even farther to fill up, thus consuming more gasoline just to buy gasoline.
As a side note, the development of electric cars doesn't seem to be much of a factor in these projections. The magainze Toyo Keizai reports that despite government subsidies, the Nissan Leaf, which first went on sale in Nov. 2010, isn't selling as well as expected (and Toyota, which just regained its position as No. 1 carmaker in the world, has cancelled its plans to make an electric).
As of last November, Nissan had sold 43,000 Leafs worldwide, including 19,000 in Japan and 17,000 in the U.S. Since manufacturing capacity is 50,000 cars a year, the model is only fulfilling 43 percent of its potential. Experts say the problem is still driving distance. Even with new improvements in battery storage and efficiency, a full charge for a Leaf will only get you 250 km, while the average compact with a full tank could get you up to 800 km.
The relative savings in gasoline costs enjoyed by the electric car driver doesn't seem to be a major consideration for consumers at the moment. However, this may change as more gas stations disappear, since electric chargers can be installed anywhere without any expensive requirements: dealerships, service areas, even convenience stores.