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Physician's Guide: Using Blood Test Findings To Safely Induce Weight LossJune 2009
By William Faloon
The prevalence of obesity has doubled since the year 1980. The latest study reveals that for the first time, obese Americans outnumber those who are merely overweight.
The war against obesity is an obvious failure. Overlooked are a plethora of research findings indicating substantial fat-loss effects in response to the proper use of bioidentical hormones, certain prescription drugs, and nutrients, along with lifestyle changes.
The reason these proven weight-loss strategies have not caught on is that when used in isolation, they often fail to meet the expectations of a typical obese or overweight individual.
In this eye-opening report, Life Extension® discusses how to interpret blood test results to prescribe an armada of medications, natural hormones, and lifestyle alterations that can safely induce substantial and sustainable weight loss.
Our Bloated Bloodstreams
Overeating is associated with bloating of the gastrointestinal tract (stomach and intestines). Forgotten is what happens after excess fats and sugars leave the digestive system and enter the bloodstream.
People in modern societies have succumbed to a pathological propensity of ingesting excess calories throughout the day (and sometime night). The result of successive meal intakes is that our bloodstreams are chronically bloated with fats and sugars. Constant exposure to excess fats and sugars results in insulin resistance,1-3 oxidative stress,4,5 vascular inflammation,1,5-9 and platelet activation,10 all of which sharply increase heart attack,1,2,6,11,12 stroke,6 and diabetes12,13 risks. Chronically bloated bloodstreams also contribute to unwanted weight gain and preclude the shedding of surplus fat pounds.
The term postprandial is defined as "after eating a meal." A growing number of medical studies discuss the role of postprandial lipemia (too much fat remaining in the blood after a meal) and postprandial hyperglycemia (too much after-meal glucose) as culprits in today's obesity epidemic. As long as our meals contain enough of the wrong fats, a transient increase in postprandial lipemia will likely occur. Even when simple carbohydrates are avoided, insulin resistance causes many aging people to suffer higher-than-desirable blood glucose and correspondingly elevated triglyceride levels.14,15
Unless definitive actions are taken, most people will spend most of the day in a postprandial state, i.e., their bloodstreams will be chronically overloaded with sugars and fats. One might think that dieting (food restriction) alone would resolve postprandial metabolic disorders. The problem is that there are fundamental age-related impediments that often require pharmaceutical intervention to circumvent.
Dietary Sugars or Fats—There May be Little Difference
Postprandial metabolic disorders can be caused by chronically eating the wrong kinds of fats or simple carbohydrates. For overweight individuals, it may not matter which food groups they choose to restrict. That is because as the blood becomes saturated with fats or sugars, enzymatic conversions of fat to glucose and vice versa results in chronic postprandial overload that can sabotage the best-laid weight-loss plan.
Most of us are familiar with how delayed or excess insulin secretion (postprandial hyperinsulinemia) contributes to weight gain. Consuming soluble fibers before each meal can help normalize insulin responses and the release of dietary carbohydrates into the bloodstream. Correcting the postprandial disorders afflicting overweight and obese individuals, however, often requires more aggressive intervention.
Please know that patients with normal fasting glucose and triglyceride blood levels can nonetheless suffer from excess postprandial fat (triglyceride) and sugar (glucose), meaning their bloodstreams remain bloated two to eight hours after eating.
Temporarily Suppressing Fat and Carbohydrate Enzymes
In recognizing postprandial disorders as an under-lying cause of weight gain and impediment to successful fat loss, we will review studies showing benefits when lipase, alpha-glucosidase, or alpha-amylase enzymes are inhibited in the digestive tract.
For some patients, drugs or nutrients that inhibit these enzymes will cause gastrointestinal discomforts. The objective of suggesting these enzyme inhibitors on a 60-90-day trial basis is to provide the patient with an opportunity to restore a healthier metabolic profile, provide immediate fat-loss effects (especially in the abdomen), and forcibly educate the patient about the life-long dietary patterns they should endeavor to follow.
The temporary use of compounds that inhibit fat and sugar absorption is designed to "break" the "food addiction" cycle that causes so many people to be overweight or obese. For example, if one's diet consists of more than 30% calories from fat, a lipase inhibitor drug (orlistat) will induce unpleasant gastrointestinal side effects and provide strong motivation for the patient to make healthier food choices.16
Treating Postprandial Disorders
It is difficult to initiate weight loss in the presence of a bloodstream that is chronically overloaded with glucose and lipids. While each patient will express individual variability, implementing a treatment regimen to reduce the postprandial burden will facilitate an improvement in metabolic parameters that helps reduce body fat, while lowering markers of vascular disease risk.
Patients of course should be encouraged to initiate diets low in saturated and omega-6 fats, while consuming complex whole-food carbohydrates and soluble and insoluble fibers, along with foods that naturally contain omega-3 fatty acids. While following a Mediterranean-type diet is considered ideal, overweight patients in the real world will most often require additional interventions to ameliorate postprandial disorders that have developed over a period of years or decades.
The four steps for reversing postprandial overload are:
Inhibiting the Alpha-Glucosidase Enzyme
The metabolic syndrome is strongly associated with insulin resistance and has been recognized as a cluster of risk factors for cardiovascular diseases that appear outwardly in the form of visceral obesity.
Postprandial hyperglycemia is one characteristic feature of insulin resistance. Excess blood glucose rapidly converts into triglycerides and other lipids and impairs fat clearance with the result being postprandial lipemia.17 Excessive postprandial absorption of glucose has been associated with greater cardiovascular disease risk than the fasting plasma glucose level.18,19
Aggressive actions to suppress postprandial hyperglycemia are thus an important first step in reducing excess body fat and protecting against vascular disease.
Before carbohydrates are absorbed from food, they must be broken down into smaller sugar particles like glucose by enzymes in the small intestine. One of the enzymes involved in breaking down carbohydrates is called alpha-glucosidase. By inhibiting this enzyme, simple carbohydrates (like sucrose) are not broken down as efficiently and glucose absorption is delayed. Alpha-glucosidase inhibitors are available as prescription drugs (such as acarbose) or dietary supplements (such as the InSea2™ compound contained in the new Enhanced Irvingia formula). They function by decreasing the breakdown of simple carbohydrates in the intestine, resulting in a slower and lower rise in blood glucose throughout the day, especially after meals.
Alpha-glucosidase inhibitors are sometimes used in the treatment of type 2 diabetes, but their use has also been studied in non-diabetic individuals. A multicenter, placebo-controlled randomized trial revealed that the alpha-glucosidase inhibitor drug acarbose improved postprandial hyperglycemia and reduced the risk of development of type 2 diabetes in patients with impaired glucose tolerance. In this study, acarbose treatment was also found to slow the progression of intima-media thickness of the carotid arteries, a surrogate marker for atherosclerosis, and reduce the incidence of cardiovascular diseases and newly diagnosed hypertension. This study also showed that acarbose produced small reductions in body mass index and waist circumference.20
A meta-analysis of seven long-term studies has also shown that intervention with acarbose prevents heart attack and cardiovascular diseases in type 2 diabetic patients. This analysis showed improvements in glucose control, triglyceride levels, body weight, and systolic blood pressure in response to acarbose treatment.21
How Effective Are Alpha-Glucosidase Inhibitors?
An overview of the published literature on alpha-glucosidase inhibitors reveals the following:
It is regrettable that the medical establishment has largely ignored the multiple benefits demonstrated by alpha-glucosidase inhibitors in published clinical trials. One study showed a 91% reduction in acute heart attack incidence in response to acarbose therapy in patients with impaired glucose tolerance.22 A meta-analysis showed a 36% decreased incidence of type 2 diabetes in patients taking acarbose.23
You would think these kinds of studies would make headline news, but pharmaceutical companies have not promoted these findings the way they do for statin drugs. One reason may be that the public can access low-cost alpha-glucosidase inhibitors as over-the-counter dietary supplements.
The weight loss shown in response to alpha-glucosidase inhibitors is considerably less than what one might expect. While one report showed 15.4-pound weight loss over five months in single case study, most clinical studies show weight loss of only a few pounds.23 Based on these reports, alpha-glucosidase inhibitors (like acarbose) should not be used as standalone methods for inducing weight loss. Alpha-glucosidase inhibitors have been documented to effectively ameliorate postprandial conditions24,25 and would appear to be an important initial constituent in a comprehensive weight-loss program.
When one observes how effective alpha-glucosidase inhibitors are at reducing blood glucose levels, yet only minimally effective at inducing weight loss, it becomes apparent that a multi-pronged approach (as will be described herein) is required to successfully combat obesity.
Additional Benefits Using Alpha-Amylase Inhibitors
Carbohydrates contribute to the synthesis of fats in our bodies. Since postprandial hyperglycemia leads to an increase in fat storage, the use of substances that interfere with glucose breakdown and absorption are important components of a weight-loss program.
As just discussed, alpha-glucosidase inhibitors interfere with the breakdown of simple carbohydrates into glucose. Alpha-amylase inhibitors, on the other hand, interfere with the breakdown of large carbohydrate molecules like starch into linked glucose polymers. These simple sugars are then broken down to glucose by the alpha-glucosidase enzyme.
The best-documented alpha-amylase inhibitor consists of an extract from the white kidney bean (Phaseolus vulgaris). In a placebo-controlled study, those taking standardized white kidney bean extract lost 3.8 pounds over an eight-week period. More importantly, they lost 1.5 inches of abdominal fat and their triglycerides plummeted 26 points (milligrams per deciliter, or mg/dL), indicating a reduction of the deleterious postprandial syndrome.26
There would appear to be an even greater benefit in combating postprandial hyperglycemia-lipemia by taking both an alpha-glucosidase and an alpha-amylase inhibitor. Such combinations are now available in dietary supplement form. Alternatively, one can be prescribed 50 mg three times a day of the drug acarbose, while a standardized white kidney bean extract supplement can be taken before each carbohydrate-containing meal. Specific dosing suggestions will appear in the summary on "page 3 Tying All This Together".
Any patient with a fasting triglyceride blood level over 80 mg/dL should be suspected as suffering some degree of postprandial lipemia. As is too often observed, overweight patients usually present with fasting triglyceride readings well over 150 mg/dL, which indicates postprandial hyperglycemia and lipemia as underlying causes of their weight gain. Inhibiting carbohydrate absorption will help reduce triglyceride and glucose blood levels.
Please remember that alpha-glucosidase and alpha-amylase enzyme inhibition is only one step in the comprehensive weight-loss program we are presenting.
Inhibiting the Lipase Enzyme
A regrettable consequence of normal aging is that people no longer have the metabolic capacity to consume the same number of calories they did in their youth. Part of this loss of metabolic capacity relates to the aging patient's increasing inability to rapidly utilize and then purge dietary fats from their bloodstream.
Excess calorie intakes manifest outwardly as unwanted fat deposition. The vascular and inflammatory damage inflicted by chronic overeating, however, can be as deadly as when a smoker diagnosed with emphysema continues to smoke. For some smokers, no matter how many respiratory and vascular diseases they contract, they continue their tobacco habit until the very day it kills them.
We fear "food addiction" may be an even greater problem for aging humans based on startling studies that began appearing only a few years ago. These studies show heart attack and stroke risks to be substantially higher in patients with only modestly elevated after-meal (postprandial) triglyceride levels.27 Coupled with data revealing how obesity is related to chronically elevated blood fat levels (lipemia), it is critical to take aggressive steps to reduce the amount of fats that linger in patients' bloodstreams.
The sidebar below (Ensure Adequate Absorption of Fat-Soluble Nutrients in Orlistat Patients) provides a number of proven methods to reduce postprandial lipemia. For overweight and obese patients seeking to lose substantial body fat, however, we are recommending a 60-90-day regimen using a lipase inhibitor drug called orlistat.
Orlistat reduces dietary fat absorption by 30% and has been around for about 10 years.28,29 It functions by blocking an enzyme (lipase) that breaks down dietary fat in the intestinal tract, thus impeding its absorption into the bloodstream.
Clinical studies demonstrate significant weight loss in response to using this drug.30,31 In the real world, however, orlistat has been associated with gastro-intestinal discomforts including fat-laden diarrhea and fat seepage into patients' underwear, causing patients to discontinue its use.
We at Life Extension® are concerned with potential side effects that could manifest in response to long-term use of a drug like orlistat. We are more frightened, however, about the inability of obese individuals to lose enough weight to regain youthful metabolic function. We therefore recommend that patients commit to taking orlistat for 60-90 days. It will dramatically reduce postprandial lipemia.
If patients consume too many fat calories, they will likely suffer digestive discomforts that should force them to adopt healthier eating patterns that they should follow for the rest of their lives. We also believe that the visual appearance of fat in an obese patient's feces, combined with the knowledge that absorption of this fat results in deadly postprandial lipemia and continued weight gain will motivate life-long reduced fat ingestion.
One might think that if overweight and obese individuals took 120 mg of orlistat before each meal (which would reduce absorption of dietary fats by 30%), significant weight loss would universally occur. The harsh reality is that study subjects had to reduce their dietary fat intake and take orlistat. This documents the futility of relying on modest dieting alone to significantly reduce body fat. It reveals that people are consuming far more calories than they should be, resulting in chronically bloated bloodstreams that preclude successful weight loss.
How Orlistat Works
Orlistat is an inhibitor of pancreatic and gastric lipase. It decreases the intestinal absorption of ingested dietary triglycerides by 30%.37
By reducing postprandial lipemia, orlistat enhances weight loss, lessens insulin resistance, and improves cardiovascular risk factors in patients with metabolic syndrome, with and without type 2 diabetes.38
In studies of obese subjects, orlistat treatment improves insulin and glucose blood levels while significantly decreasing C-reactive protein, a marker of chronic inflammation.39-41 Orlistat treatment favorably influences other blood markers (such as leptin and adiponectin) that are involved with obesity.40
Short-term (10 days) use of orlistat reduced daytime lipemia (triglyceridemia) by 17% in obese, non-diabetic women with metabolic syndrome, with only minimal side effects.42
In a one-year trial of overweight women, a group with metabolic syndrome treated with orlistat (120 mg three times a day) and lifestyle modification lost 20.5 lbs compared with only 0.44 lbs weight loss in the placebo control group.43 A group of overweight women without metabolic syndrome taking the same dose of orlistat + lifestyle modification lost 20.2 lbs more than the control group with metabolic syndrome.43
In a three-month open-label trial of overweight patients without type 2 diabetes treated with orlistat (120 mg three times a day), men lost 17.4 lbs and women lost 12.3 lbs.42 In overweight patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus, men lost 18.7 lbs and women lost 12.5 lbs.44 In overweight patients without type 2 diabetes mellitus, the level of insulin resistance as measured by HOMA-IR (a validated modeling instrument for insulin resistance), decreased by 28% with orlistat treatment.44 For overweight patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus, insulin resistance decreased by 41%. Leptin levels decreased by 51% in men with type 2 diabetes and 29% in women with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Leptin levels dropped by 49% in overweight men and 28% in overweight women without type 2 diabetes mellitus.44 A reduction in leptin blood levels is considered a favorable response as it indicates a reduction in the "leptin resistance" phenomenon that so often precludes weight loss.
Not all studies, however, demonstrate this much weight loss in response to orlistat. Poor compliance is always a factor in the variability that exists among studies of the same compound. Another reason for these discrepancies is that orlistat users are warned to avoid excess ingestion of dietary fats, and are likely to switch to consuming more simple carbohydrates. Overweight individuals often suffer metabolic disturbances, meaning that ingested sugars readily convert to stored (triglyceride) fats on the body. This is why taking carbohydrate-blocking agents (alpha-gluco-sidase and alpha-amylase inhibitors) in conjunction with orlistat for the first 60-90 days may be necessary to induce some of the immediate reduction of fat pounds that overweight and obese individuals expect.
In conjunction with the medications, dietary alterations, supplements, and lifestyle changes discussed in this article, the use of orlistat for a 60-90-day initiation period should provide some immediate weight loss, while enabling the re-establishment of a more youthful metabolic profile in the body whereby postprandial lipemia, insulin resistance, and other metabolic abnormalities are suppressed.
Orlistat is available by prescription in 120 mg capsules as Xenical®, or over-the-counter under the trade name alli® in 60 mg capsules. The suggested dose for the 60-day initiation period is 120 mg before each meal (three times a day). Considering the relatively high cost of over-the-counter alli®, patients with insurance coverage might save money by using prescription-strength orlistat.


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- Norushen yells: Halt!
- Norushen yells: It did not matter. It comes. Steel your hearts and prepare your souls.
- Norushen yells: The corruption is amplifying. The fragments must be purged before it becomes too great.
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- Overview – Norushen seals all players inside a Quarantine Zone and extracts a portion of each player's corruption to form an Amalgam of Corruption. The object of the encounter is to destroy this creature.
Players must reduce their personal level of Corruption in order to inflict full damage to the Amalgam. Players can accomplish this by interacting with the nodes of Purifying Light that active around the room, which will pull them into another phase where they must face a role-specific challenge. Overcoming this challenge will Purify the player and allow them to inflict full damage to the Amalgam.
- Damage Dealers –
Interact with a Purifying Light orb to enter the Test of Serenity and defeat the enemies inside to rid yourself of Corruption.
All damage dealt to Manifestations of Corruption and Essences of Corruption in the normal realm is copied to the boss Amalgam.
Rotate around the Amalgam to avoid [Blind Hatred].
- Healers –
Interact with a Purifying Light orb to enter the Test of Reliance; inside, keep your allies at full health to maximize their damage to the Greater Corruption and complete the trial.
Rotate around the Amalgam to avoid [Blind Hatred].
- Tanks –
Interact with a Purifying Light orb to enter the Test of Confidence; avoid and weather the Titanic Corruption's attacks to rid yourself of Corruption.
Rotate around the Amalgam to avoid [Blind Hatred].
Take turns tanking the Amalgam to allow [Self Doubt] to fade.
Norushen traps players in a Quarantine Zone and challenges them to face and overcome their own Corruption if they wish to proceed deeper into the vault.
- Corruption – Players start the encounter with 75 points of Corruption. The more corrupt a player is the less damage they will inflict to the Amalgam of Corruption.
- Purified – Players who reach 0 Corruption become Purified. Healers who are Purified gain bonus healing, tanks who are Purified take less damage, and damage dealers inflict greater damage by virtue of having less Corruption.
Purified persists until the player is once again Corrupted.
- Quarantine Measures – If the Amalgam of Corruption proves too dangerous, Norushen will have no choice but to activate the zone's safety measures and destroy all life within.
- Amalgam of Corruption
- Unleashed Anger – The Amalgam slashes at its current tank target, inflicting 909 Physical damage.
- Self Doubt – The Amalgam inflicts doubt on its current tank target. Self Doubt increases the damage of Unleashed Anger by 40% per application.
- Blind Hatred – The Amalgam creates a zone of corruption that extends outward and slowly turns in place. All players caught in the path of the corruption suffer 341 Shadow damage every second.
- Fusion – Every Expelled Corruption that reaches the Amalgam of Corruption will increase the damage the Amalgam inflicts by 5% for 20 sec.
- Icy Fear – The Amalgam inflicts 170 Frost damage to all players every 3 sec. This damage increases as the Amalgam loses health.
- Frayed – When the Amalgam reaches 50% health remaining, and for every 10% health lost thereafter, the Amalgam spawns an Unleashed Manifestation of Corruption.
- Look Within – Players can interact with Purifying Light to Look Within. Doing so transports the player to their own realm where they face a personal challenge based on their role. Successfully completing the challenge will return the player to the normal realm with zero Corruption.
Players cannot Look Within while under the effects of Purified.
!17 In Raid Finder Difficulty, players are automatically selected to Look Within. There are no Purifying Light objects to interact with.
- Test of Serenity – Players of the DPS role face the Test of Serenity. To complete this challenge, players must defeat the elements of corruption present. Whenever one of these elements of corruption is defeated, it will be unleashed into the normal realm.
Failure to complete the challenge will unleash all remaining elements of corruption to the normal realm at once.
- Manifestation of Corruption – These sha creatures repeatedly cast Tear Reality, which inflict Shadow damage to all enemies in a cone in front of the caster.
- Essence of Corruption – These lesser sha creatures repeatedly cast Expel Corruption, which fires a ball of corrupted energies in a straight line, dealing 227 Shadow damage to anyone it strikes.
- Test of Reliance – Players of the Healer role face the Test of Reliance. To complete this challenge, players must defeat a Greater Corruption. Healers are aided by several allies while Looking Within.
Failure to complete the challenge will unleash a Manifestation of Corruption to the normal realm. Success returns the player to the normal realm cleansed of all Corruption.
- Greater Corruption
- Disheartening Laugh – Inflicts Shadow damage to all enemies over 6 sec.
- Pit of Despair – Inflicts 227 Shadow damage every second to all enemies within the area.
- Lingering Corruption – Inflicts 909 Shadow damage if not dispelled from the victim within 10 sec.
- Test of Confidence – Players of the Tank role face the Test of Confidence. To complete this challenge, the tank must survive for 1 min against a Titanic Corruption.
Success returns the player to the normal realm with zero corruption.
- Titanic Corruption
- Titanic Smash – Inflicts 2272 Shadow damage to anyone in a cone in front of the caster.
- Corruption – Every successful strike received from the Titanic Corruption inflicts the victim with a stack of Corruption, inflicting 39 Shadow damage per application every second.
- Hurl Corruption – The caster hurls a ball of corruption at their target, inflicting 1704 Shadow damage.
- Burst of Corruption – Inflicts 681 Shadow damage to all enemies.
- Piercing Corruption – Inflicts 1363 Physical damage to the target. This attack cannot be absorbed.
Whenever players successfully defeat an element of corruption during the Test of Serenity it will be unleashed in the normal realm.
- Foul Link – The creatures released from the Test of Serenity copy their damage to the Amalgam of Corruption.
- Manifestation of Corruption
- Burst of Anger – Inflicts 114 Shadow damage to all players within the Quarantine Zone.
- Residual Corruption – When an Unleashed Manifestation of Corruption dies, it leaves behind a small amount of corruption that will periodically inflict 204 Shadow damage to all players in the Quarantine Zone until it is picked up. Players are unable to pick up the Residual Corruption unless they have removed sufficient corruption of their own first.
Residual Corruption gives the player 25 Corruption.
- Essence of Corruption
- Expel Corruption – A ball of corrupted energy travels outward from the caster, inflicting 227 Shadow damage to the first enemy in its path. Every Expelled Corruption that reaches the Amalgam of Corruption will increase the damage the Amalgam inflicts by 5% for 20 sec.
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So I get email from a good former student, applying for a job and asking for a recommendation. "Sure", I say, "Tell me what you think I should say." I then get a draft letter back in which the student has described their work and fitness for the job in terms so superlative it would make an Assistant Brand Manager blush.
So I write my letter, looking over the student's self-assessment and toning it down so that it sounds like it's coming from a person and not a PR department, and send it off. And then, as I get over my annoyance, I realize that, by overstating their abilities, the student has probably gotten the best letter out of me they could have gotten.
Now, can you guess the gender of the student involved?
Of course you can. My home, the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU, is fairly gender-balanced, and I've taught about as many women as men over the last decade. In theory, the gender of my former student should be a coin-toss. In practice, I might as well have given him the pseudonym Moustache McMasculine for all the mystery there was. And I've grown increasingly worried that most of the women in the department, past or present, simply couldn't write a letter like that.
This worry isn't about psychology; I'm not concerned that women don't engage in enough building of self-confidence or self-esteem. I'm worried about something much simpler: not enough women have what it takes to behave like arrogant self-aggrandizing jerks.
Remember David Hampton, the con artist immortalized in "Six Degrees of Separation", who pretended he was Sydney Poitier's son? He lied his way into restaurants and clubs, managed to borrow money, and crashed in celebrity guest rooms. He didn't miss the fact that he was taking a risk, or that he might suffer. He just didn't care.
It's not that women will be better off being con artists; a lot of con artists aren't better off being con artists either. It's just that until women have role models who are willing to risk incarceration to get ahead, they'll miss out on channelling smaller amounts of self-promoting con artistry to get what they want, and if they can't do that, they'll get less of what they want than they want.
There is no upper limit to the risks men are willing to take in order to succeed, and if there is an upper limit for women, they will succeed less. They will also end up in jail less, but I don't think we get the rewards without the risks.
When I was 19 and three days into my freshman year, I went to see Bill Warfel, the head of grad theater design (my chosen profession, back in the day), to ask if I could enroll in a design course. He asked me two questions. The first was "How's your drawing?" Not so good, I replied. (I could barely draw in those days.) "OK, how's your drafting?" I realized this was it. I could either go for a set design or lighting design course, and since I couldn't draw or draft well, I couldn't take either.
"My drafting's fine", I said.
That's the kind of behavior I mean. I sat in the office of someone I admired and feared, someone who was the gatekeeper for something I wanted, and I lied to his face. We talked some more and then he said "Ok, you can take my class." And I ran to the local art supply place and bought a drafting board, since I had to start practicing.
That got me in the door. I learned to draft, Bill became my teacher and mentor, and four years later I moved to New York and started doing my own design work. I can't say my ability to earn a living in that fickle profession was because of my behavior in Bill's office, but I can say it was because I was willing to do that kind of thing. The difference between me and David Hampton isn't that he's a con artist and I'm not; the difference is that I only told lies I could live up to, and I knew when to stop. That's not a different type of behavior, it's just a different amount.
And it looks to me like women in general, and the women whose educations I am responsible for in particular, are often lousy at those kinds of behaviors, even when the situation calls for it. They aren't just bad at behaving like arrogant self-aggrandizing jerks. They are bad at behaving like self-promoting narcissists, anti-social obsessives, or pompous blowhards, even a little bit, even temporarily, even when it would be in their best interests to do so. Whatever bad things you can say about those behaviors, you can't say they are underrepresented among people who have changed the world.
Now this is asking women to behave more like men, but so what? We ask people to cross gender lines all the time. We're in the middle of a generations-long project to encourage men to be better listeners and more sensitive partners, to take more account of others' feelings and to let out our own feelings more. Similarly, I see colleges spending time and effort teaching women strategies for self-defense, including direct physical aggression. I sometimes wonder what would happen, though, if my college spent as much effort teaching women self-advancement as self-defense.
Some of the reason these strategies succeed is because we live in a world where women are discriminated against. However, even in an ideal future, self-promotion will be a skill that produces disproportionate rewards, and if skill at self-promotion remains disproportionately male, those rewards will as well. This isn't because of oppression, it's because of freedom.
Citizens of the developed world have an unprecedented amount of freedom to choose how we live, which means we experience life as a giant distributed discovery problem: What should I do? Where should I work? Who should I spend my time with? In most cases, there is no right answer, just tradeoffs. Many of these tradeoffs happen in the market; for everything from what you should eat to where you should live, there is a menu of options, and between your preferences and your budget, you'll make a choice.
Some markets, though, are two-sided — while you are weighing your options, those options are also weighing you. People fortunate enough to have those options quickly discover that it's not enough to decide you want to go to Swarthmore, or get money out of Kleiner Perkins. Those institutions must also decide if they will have you.
Some of the most important opportunities we have are in two-sided markets: education and employment, contracts and loans, grants and prizes. And the institutions that offer these opportunities operate in an environment where accurate information is hard to come by. One of their main sources of judgment is asking the candidate directly: Tell us why we should admit you. Tell us why we should hire you. Tell us why we should give you a grant. Tell us why we should promote you.
In these circumstances, people who don't raise their hands don't get called on, and people who raise their hands timidly get called on less. Some of this is because assertive people get noticed more easily, but some of it is because raising your hand is itself a high-cost signal that you are willing to risk public failure in order to try something.
That in turn correlates with many of the skills the candidate will need to actually do the work — to recruit colleagues and raise money, to motivate participants and convince skeptics, to persevere in the face of both obstacles and ridicule. Institutions assessing the fitness of candidates, in other words, often select self-promoters because self-promotion is tied to other characteristics needed for success.
It's tempting to imagine that women could be forceful and self-confident without being arrogant or jerky, but that's a false hope, because it's other people who get to decide when they think you're a jerk, and trying to stay under that threshold means giving those people veto power over your actions. To put yourself forward as someone good enough to do interesting things is, by definition, to expose yourself to all kinds of negative judgments, and as far as I can tell, the fact that other people get to decide what they think of your behavior leaves only two strategies for not suffering from those judgments: not doing anything, or not caring about the reaction.
Not caring works surprisingly well. Another of my great former students, now a peer and a friend, saw a request from a magazine reporter doing a tech story and looking for examples. My friend, who'd previously been too quiet about her work, decided to write the reporter and say "My work is awesome. You should write about it."
The reporter looked at her work and wrote back saying "Your work is indeed awesome, and I will write about it. I also have to tell you you are the only woman who suggested her own work. Men do that all the time, but women wait for someone else to recommend them." My friend stopped waiting, and now her work is getting the attention it deserves.
If you walked into my department at NYU, you wouldn't say "Oh my, look how much more talented the men are than the women." The level and variety of creative energy in the place is still breathtaking to me, and it's not divided by gender. However, you would be justified in saying "I bet that the students who get famous five years from now will include more men than women", because that's what happens, year after year. My friend talking to the reporter remains the sad exception.
Part of this sorting out of careers is sexism, but part of it is that men are just better at being arrogant, and less concerned about people thinking we're stupid (often correctly, it should be noted) for trying things we're not qualified for.
Now I don't know what to do about this problem. (The essence of a rant, in fact, is that the ranter has no idea how to fix the thing being ranted about.) What I do know is this: it would be good if more women see interesting opportunities that they might not be qualified for, opportunities which they might in fact fuck up if they try to take them on, and then try to take them on. It would be good if more women got in the habit of raising their hands and saying "I can do that. Sign me up. My work is awesome," no matter how many people that behavior upsets.


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Eritrea ratified the World Heritage Convention in 2001, but does not yet have a site inscribed on the List, or a complete Tentative List of sites.
The workshop will raise awareness of problems that can arise in the application of the Convention and encourage an active commitment on behalf of the country among national administrators, politicians, future managers of World Heritage sites, and conservation technicians. Participants in the three-day workshop include professionals from the national Eritrean museums, the ministries of Agriculture, Land, Water and Environment, and Tourism, as well as professionals from the Cultural Affairs Rehabilitation Project (CARP) and religious institutions.
The workshop is organised in co-operation with the National Commission for UNESCO, ICOMOS, IUCN, the UNESCO field office in Nairobi, and the World Heritage Centre.


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Cisco UCS @ EMC World 2012
This has been a very busy Spring for our Cisco Unified Computing System Marketing team. I have been to several events including EMC World 2012 and Microsoft Management Summit 2012 where the Cisco UCS (Leader in Gartner Magic quadrant for Blade servers) was featured. Some of my colleagues also attended Interop Las Vegas 2012 and Gartner IT Infrastructure and Operations Management 2012. I had the opportunity to discuss how the UCS is changing data center economics with an innovative design in the VCE booth theater.
I had several interesting conversations with customers regarding Cisco UCS Manager, the embedded device manager, which simplifies server management in the data center. Customers spanned the entire gamut from those who had purchased the UCS three years ago when it was just introduced to those evaluating the product today. The following video summarizes the discussions.
I also attended the keynote address by VMWare CEO Paul Maritz, and found his talk fascinating. He alluded to two megatrends affecting Information Technology namely "Cloud" and "Big data".
These trends were strongly related to the following three of my data center management takeaways from his talk.
a) Data Center Management goal of 10000 VMs to an admin – One implication of the 10000 VMs to an administrator metric is that a Data Center needs to be highly automated. Even if the only criterion for choosing a server platform is cost cutting, automation is a must, and will reduce administration costs in the long run. It will bring in other benefits such as agility and responsiveness to market conditions.
b) PaaS offerings today will be different from the mainframe era development environments – The real implication of modern Platform as a Service offering is that users will be free to innovate and will not be constrained by vendor lock-in. To me this also meant that data center management will continue to be heterogeneous and complex with multiple PaaS platforms in use.
c) The rise of real time data analysis – This take away was related to big-data and explosion of data collected from various sources. Once data is gathered it needs to be analyzed for useful predictive information. The log files in complex data center environments can be massive and any real time analysis capabilities can prevent expensive outages.
As the Spring of 2012 winds down and summer begins, I am looking forward to the upcoming Cisco Live 2012 event in San Diego.
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If you're a fan of our Save the Arctic Facebook page, may have seen some interesting changes recently. For the past few days we've hosted something called the Santa Relocation Project.We've been asking people this simple question: If the North Pole melts, Santa will have to move. So where do you think he should go?We've had hundreds of responses from people over the world, and here are some of the best suggestions:
We've even had an offer from Entourage star Adrian Grenier, who invited Santa to play guitar in his basement in New York.So why have we been doing this? Well, first of all the North Pole really is in danger of melting away. A large number of scientists are now saying we could see summers without sea ice in the Arctic within Santa's lifetime. Secondly, kids are absolutely crucial to the future of the Arctic. A few people have suggested that we shouldn't talk about Santa because we'll upset them. In fact, children are often more concerned about climate change than their parents, and more willing to do something about it. Finally, a lot of people don't know what's happening up there. We need to reach these people so that we can win the political battles that lie ahead. By talking to people about things they're familiar with - like Santa's workshop at the North Pole - we can prepare them for a more detailed conversation about serious stuff like climate change, or the greedy oil industry. That's why we created the Santa Relocation Project with the LA based agency BBH, who are an extremely innovative bunch. They offered their time for free, to help us build our movement and appeal to as many people as possible. It's just one of the creative collaborations that are helping bring the message of Arctic protection to millions of people across the world. We're still open to ideas about where Santa should move to, and we're going to be returning to this theme next year. But for now, Santa's home is safe. Let's keep it that way - visit SaveTheArctic.org
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Is facebook where you promote the Gangnam-style?
Sounds like Sun Wu has to join Facbook soon
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PS: may I ask what you guys are consuming at the moment?
It seems to be Santa-time in Amsterdam
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maybe you could win Sir Walruss to support the Santa Relocation Project. Wouldn't this be great?
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PS: by the way, who won the first price at this Save the arctic online game (you guys remember? This please choose to be a walross, polarbear, turtle, santa...and try to win as many Greenpeace-Facebook and online-supporters and win to join Greenpeace to go to the Arctic on on of the Greenpeace-Ships?
And what did you use the EXPENSIVE submarine on Esperanza for?
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PS: Santa could live at my grans, Congo,...
Are you guys really sure you are OK? Have you ever considered having gotten lost somewhere in Facebook-world...
...and to get some help? Sorry having to remind you, but we are talking about the voice of our fragile earth here. About a 250Million USD/year NGO
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I heard that you're the head Arctic Campaign's communication. I don't think so that you need to win Sir Walruss to suppor...
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I heard that you're the head Arctic Campaign's communication. I don't think so that you need to win Sir Walruss to support Santa relocation project. isn't it.
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wouldnt it be better if we save both of them? because we need both of them.
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A delcious, soft biscotti.
Recipe Servings: 12 portions
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7 cups flour
5 eggs
2 cups sugar
juice of 1 orange
4 ounces Vin Santo (sweet Italian dessert wine)
6 tablespoons Lucini® Estate Select® Extra Virgin Olive Oil
1 package active dry yeast (1/4 ounce)
3 1/2 ounce pine nuts
1 egg yolk
Pour flour into a mound on a bread board. Make a hole in the center of the mound and add eggs, sugar, orange juice, Vin Santo, extra virgin olive oil, yeast and pine nuts. Mix together with a fork. When mixture begins to take on a doughy consistency, knead with your hands. Roll out dough and cut into strips 12 inches long, 3 inches wide, 3/4 inches high. Place strips on a nonstick cookie sheet. Brush the tops with beaten egg yolk. Bake at 350 degrees for about 30 minutes. Makes approximately 1 dozen long cookie strips.


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I have a distinct memory of that cold Saturday morning in February 2003. The invasion of Iraq was imminent. I jostled lead-heavy arms and legs throughout the apartment to get my best friends up and out to the antiwar march. They were none too happy with my political enthusiasms the morning after a late-night dance session, but they appeased me nonetheless.
We 20-somethings marched in a near endless parade of humanity in Manhattan. The protest was coordinated with other demonstrations around the world, but it didn't appear to matter. President George W. Bush likened the size of the protest to a "focus group" and said he wouldn't make policy based on it. The war went on.
My friends didn't say "I told you so" outright, but I knew that there would be no more such marching mornings with them. They'd tried and it hadn't worked.
I was reminded of this early defeat when I read an interesting finding of the recently released "Millennials Civic Health Index," put out by several groups including Harvard University and the National Conference on Citizenship. The report on 18-to-29-year-olds in 2012 finds that while civic engagement typically increases with age, 22-to-25-year-olds have lower levels of social cohesion and volunteerism than their older or younger peers.
Those years of our lives were certainly sobering ones for me and my friends. After being pumped up on "save the world" rhetoric and convinced of our own smarts at nurturing liberal arts colleges, we were kicked out of the dorms and into the doldrums of daily existence.
In the "real world," I didn't get A's for sitting through the wandering rants of enraged people at my neighborhood association meeting. I didn't receive extra credit for my get-out-the-vote phone calling, waiting as an elderly woman in Ohio left to get a pen and then forgot I was still connected, trying to tell her where she could vote in the upcoming election.
The years from 22 to 25, especially within America's current economic constraints, are often a time of severe readjustment. What psychologist Martin Seligman calls "learned helplessness" can develop: When one has grand expectations, and finds them repeatedly unfulfilled, the unavoidable next stop is despair. Young people, already experiencing disequilibrium, find that their efforts to be civically engaged don't feel as if they add up to much. They stop showing up at the marches. They stop making an effort to go to the meetings. What, after all, does it really amount to?
To some extent, this is a natural aspect of this stage in life. There's a reason there's so much awkward sex and soul-searching in Lena Dunham's HBO show "Girls" but almost no neighborly kindness. People in their early 20s are understandably self-focused. They're trying to make a life for themselves.
But in part, many young people drop out of civic life because we set them up to fail. We talk about social change in such grandiose terms – especially in the Obama age – that anything after is bound to feel small and insignificant in comparison.
Being an engaged citizen hardly ever results in immediate reward or glory; it's about the long-term commitment to going out of your comfort zone to make friends with your neighbors, to take things in your community and in your country personally, to get up and go to the meetings and marches even when you don't feel like it, to move the nation toward justice, one unglamorous inch at a time.
But that's not the story we tell about social change in America. More often, we shine the light on the tweeting, celebrity-surrounded mayor of Newark, N.J., Cory Booker, who saved a woman from a burning fire. Or we focus on curly-headed, sweet-smilin' Blake Mycoskie, the socially minded entrepreneur delivering minimalist hipster shoes to Argentine kids.
We rarely highlight the community organizers and teachers and social workers. We rarely talk about the little, daily joys that make the lack of recognition or glacial pace of systemic change worth it.
Civic engagement, above all else, requires resilience. That was a quality my friends and I weren't cultivating when we gave up on marches. We were swinging wildly back and forth on the pendulum of our fragile egos, or as Wendell Berry writes, "Despair is the too-little of responsibility, as pride is the too-much."
In our later 20s, my friends and I settled back to the sustainable center – knowing our power and duty, but not denying the complexity of change. After life had beaten us down, we had no choice but to learn how to get back up. And in the getting back up, we became accustomed to giving our energy to a cause knowing that the results might not be satisfying, at least in the short term. We built the mental muscles necessary to stick with it.
The personal truly is the political, when it comes to that strange first decade of adulthood. There's nothing like personal heartbreak and professional disappointment to teach us how hard life can be and how much simply showing up matters. But as Parker Palmer writes in "Healing the Heart of Democracy," we must be careful to "break open instead of apart."
Our nation depends on it, and so do we as individuals. In rising over and over to the occasion of our civic potential, we find ourselves heartier and happier, more intricately woven into communities that care for and count on us. Resilience allows us to live up to our duty to leave America more just than we found it; it is the lifeblood of a fulfilling, connected life.
Courtney E. Martin is the author of "Do It Anyway: The New Generation of Activists" and cofounder of the Solutions Journalism Network. You can read more about her work at www.courtneyemartin.com.


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The big snow of 2009
Saturday, December 19, 2009
I'm not a snow person, and I never have been. I remember being a kid and hating the snow. Especially after my parents bought us those circular sleds and we crashed or fell off regularly!
I'm a summer baby, what can I say?
It's Saturday night - 7:13 pm - and we have about 2 feet of snow. The road was plowed once this morning but not since then. I have no shovel so I'm pretty much screwed.
The big snowstorm of 2009 will have me holed up at home until it's safe to drive again.
What about you? Are you on the East Coast? How much snow did you get?


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We are celebrating World Water Day, an internationally recognized day held annually on March 22 as a means of focusing awareness on the importance of and advocating for the sustainable management of freshwater resources. The first World Water Day was designated on March 22, 1993. Each year this day highlights a specific aspect or "theme" of freshwater.
This year, the theme is water cooperation. As many of you know, water is one of the most precious resources on this planet. Water is an integral part of society: It powers cities, feeds crops, cools computer servers, keeps our bodies functioning properly and is used in manufacturing everything from cars to clothes. However, there is growing concern over this seemingly abundant resource. Although water makes up 75% of the Earth's surface, only a fraction (around 2%) is suitable for human consumption. Of that 2%, less than 1% is currently accessible.
According to unwater.org, water availability is expected to decrease in many regions; yet global agricultural water consumption is expected to increase by 19% by 2050. Add in challenges faced from pollution and climate change, and it is little wonder why many fear this valuable resource is dwindling.
These challenges have resulted in the global water crisis, a situation where a growing number of people lack access to safe, fresh drinking water as freshwater resources become scarcer. Many (rightfully so) see this as a problem, and a growing threat to life on Earth. Some have even predicted future wars over freshwater resources that could wreak further havoc on already struggling nations.
However, I believe we should look at this issue differently. What if we stopped viewing it as a problem, and started viewing it as a unique opportunity? An opportunity to come together, to set aside differences and to work out solutions to this problem that affects everybody. This is what I believe the theme of water cooperation is truly about.
Coming together for the good of the whole has nothing to do with politics. It does have everything to do with each individual person doing their part in society. This involves practicing water conservation techniques on a regular basis, becoming more educated on water-related issues and becoming connected with a water charity that aims at ending this growing concern.
The theme of cooperation is easily found in The W3 Project, a water charity partnership between� FiltersFast.com, Wine to Water and TrekDesk. By working together, we are providing clean drinking water for those in need. By donating miles, or donating $1 at checkout on FiltersFast.com, you are making a difference in lives around the world.
As a small business, we are fully committed to a more sustainable environment which will improve overall health. We encourage you to do your part in helping end this growing crisis, we all have a part to play, so let's play it.
Now is not the time to sit on the sideline. This problem will not go away by itself. It takes all of us coming together and doing our part (no matter how small) to end this crisis. This is what water cooperation is about.


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Not many public figures from the middle part of the 20th century are as closely identified with LIFE magazine as John Fitzgerald Kennedy. In fact, from his days as a decorated war hero in the late 1940s, through his years as a senator, into the White House and up until the very moment of his assassination, LIFE photographers spent an enormous amount of time (and film) on the ambitious Democrat from Massachusetts.
That he married a woman as magnetic and stylish as the former Jacqueline Bouvier only further guaranteed that the two young cultural and political icons would never be absent from the weekly's pages for long.
Here, LIFE.com features a series of photographs — many of which are classics, several of which never ran in LIFE — made during the decade and a half when John Kennedy was on his way to becoming, for a time, the most powerful person on earth.
[Buy the LIFE book, The Day Kennedy Died]
[See photos from JFK and Jackie's 1953 wedding]
[See photos from JFK's funeral at Arlington]
Liz Ronk, who edited this gallery, is the Photo Editor for LIFE.com. Follow her on Twitter @lizabethronk.


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Belgium — Project 1t4i sprinter Marcel Kittel won Stage 2 of the March 27-29 Three Days of De Panne stage race in Belgium. The 23-year-old German had pegged the 216km stage from Zottegem to Koksijde as the one to aim for, and he delivered on his goal, hammering home to the win on his Felt F1 team bike.
"I was not sure until the last 100 meters if I could still do it," Kittel told Cyclingnews.com after the win. "Luckily I had really good legs today in the sprint."
Kittel's Project 1t41 teammates helped put him in position, and once he hit the fast, 1000-meter tailwind stretch to the line, the big German took over. It was Kittel's fourth win of the season, which is just his second as a pro.
The Three Days of De Panne concludes on Thursday, when attention then turns to this weekend's big event, the Tour of Flanders spring classic.


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Just get on the phone and send Fleury packing, take whatever you can get. The team gets better no matter who you get back because Murray will then be starting the majority of the games. It's a chance I'd take.


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TOKYO, Jan. 8 (UPI) -- Scientists say they've captured footage of a giant squid, long the stuff of legend, in its natural habitat thousands of feet below the sea's surface near Japan.
Scientists located the Architeuthis squid in the North Pacific Ocean near Japan's Ogasawara archipelago at a depth of 2,066 feet and followed it down to a depth of 2,952 feet before it swam even deeper into the ocean darkness.
"All of us were so amazed at what it looked like," Edie Widder, a marine biologist who was part of the video-making expedition, told the Los Angeles Times. "It looked carved out of metal. And it would change from being silver to gold. It was just breathtaking."
The squid captured in the video footage is 9 feet long but was missing its two longest tentacles that could have made its overall length 26 feet if they had been present, Tsunemi Kubodera from Japan's National Science Museum said.
The scientists said they used a lure mimicking the bioluminescent display of a jellyfish to attract the giant squid's attention.
"This squid has an eye that is bigger than your head," said Widder, who developed the lure used to bring the creature within camera rage.
"It is a visual predator. And that is what we were taking advantage of: They've been so elusive before because every time we've gone to explore they see us with our bright white lights and stay away."


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In this week's Nature, researchers presented a survey of university and public laboratories showing that lab workers are not using adequate safety equipment when working with nanomaterials. As a lab rat who has worked at two universities and visited many other labs, I am not surprised to hear that some researchers are taking shortcuts with their personal safety, but the magnitude and ubiquity of the problem detailed in this survey was surprising.
The survey was sent to researchers based on recent publications with keywords like "nanoparticle" or "nanowire," and 240 people responded. Of the respondents, 40 percent were from Europe, 37 percent were from Asia, 18 percent were from North America, and 5 percent were from elsewhere. Almost 90 percent of respondents either were not aware or believed that no federal or state/local regulations existed for handling nanomaterials. Nearly half said that their lab/university had no nanomaterial handling guidelines and over a quarter did not know or were unaware of whether their lab/university had specific regulations.
Overall, less than 50 percent of the researchers use any form of respiratory personal protective equipment; almost a quarter use only mouth masks, which offer no protection from nanoparticles. A bit over half use the same Materials Safety Data Sheet for bulk and nanoscale materials.
Of those surveyed, a quarter did not know whether their materials could become airborne, while 22 percent knew their materials would become airborne during synthesis. Of those who know the nanomaterials would become airborne, 21 percent do not use any special respiratory protection, half use a standard fume hood, and only 4 percent use a special nanosafe fume hood.
When it comes to disposal, the results were not any better. Sixty-one percent of researchers disposed of nanomaterials with regular chemical waste, and 24 percent had no procedure at all (presumably this lack of procedure extended to regular lab chemicals as well, which is frightening). Only 15 percent used special disposal procedures and only 9 percent used services that specialized in nanomaterial disposal.
The study's authors believe that the poor safety procedures are generally a result of poor information regarding nanomaterial safety. There are no international standards for safe exposure, and even testing nanomaterial safety remains a difficult problem. Further, toxicity is far more complicated in nanoscale materials because it depends on many variables that rarely play a role in the behavior of bulk materials, such as particle size, surface area, particle shape.
The simple fact is that we do not yet have a comprehensive understanding of the environmental and safety aspects of many nanomaterials, but general guidelines exist for the safe handling of lab materials, and they are clearly not being followed. The authors believe scientists must police themselves and suggest that journals insist on publishing the safety procedures used with any nanomaterial articles.
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Jelly Roll Morton
A true giant of jazz.
He did not, as he claimed, invent jazz, but there's no denying that he was a major influence on the genre. Jelly Roll Morton was a master composer, arranger and pianist who blended genres in an early form of jazz.
Jelly Roll Morton is a seminal figure in the birth and development of jazz in the early decades of this century.
A multi-talented pianist, composer, arranger and bandleader, he has been called "one of the handful of Atlases upon whose shoulders rests the entire structure of our music" by jazz historian Orrin Keepnews. Morton wove disparate musical strands—blues, stomps and ragtime, plus French and Spanish influences—into the fabric of early jazz.
A native of New Orleans, he played on the streets and in the honky-tonks of that wide-open city, helping to give birth to the jazz idiom as it took shape in the infamous red-light district known as Storyville. Morton recorded solo and with small groups, and the festive stamp of his hometown was evident in every note he played. He was the driving force behind Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers, which recorded and toured in the late Twenties. Their performances combined ensemble work in the New Orleans style with space for soloing, which was the rage on Chicago's jazz scene. Morton's pioneering work with the Red Hot Peppers was contemporaneous with the innovations made by Louis Armstrong with his Hot Five and Hot Seven. It is doubtful that the Jazz Age or the Swing Era could have happened without either of them.
In the words of music historian David McGee, "What Elvis Presley's Sun recordings are to rock and roll, the Red Hot Peppers' canon is to jazz." During a four-year span of small-band sessions for RCA Victor, especially the milestone recordings from September 1926 through June 1927, Morton cut a series of ebullient stomps and forceful blues. His band included such jazz legends as cornet player Kid Ory, clarinetist Johnny Dodds and drummer Baby Dodds. Morton fell on hard times during the Depression and labored in obscurity as his kind of music fell from favor. He was found tending bar in 1938 by musical archivist Alan Lomax, who thereupon documented him playing piano and telling stories. Although Morton died three years later, he was rediscovered again in the Nineties via a Broadway tribute to his life and times, entitled Jelly's Last Jam.
Morton heads a lineage of groundbreaking jazz pianist–bandleaders that includes Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Thelonius Monk. In his high-spirited blues, stomps and ragtime pieces from the Twenties one can also detect what would become the foundational sound of rock and roll. On a personal level, Morton was "just about the most flamboyant, colorful and exasperating personality imaginable," according to the liner notes of a 1953 reissue, which would seem to make him a rock and roll forebear as well.
Inductee: Jelly Roll Morton (piano, vocals; born October 20, 1890, died July 7, 1941)


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Elgin man, 51, found dead in Fox River Tuesday
Elgin police were called Tuesday to retrieve a dead body from the Fox River between Festival Park and the Grand Victoria Casino for the second time in less than two months.
A passer-by noticed 51-year-old James Trausch's bag on the sidewalk near the riverbank at about 11 a.m. Tuesday, and when he looked into the water, he saw Trausch's red jacket and the Elgin man already dead. He spoke with casino security personnel who called police, according to Elgin Police Department Cmdr. Glenn Theriault.
Police knew Trausch as a homeless man who stayed in the area and identified the body themselves.
"It's always sad when we see these cases," Theriault said. "There are numerous places where people can go for help here in this town, even a few blocks away. Unfortunately in this case, it took a tragic turn."
Police will continue to investigate the case, following up with family members, friends, soup kitchens and anyone who may have seen Trausch in the last few days, Theriault said. Police do not expect foul play was a factor in his death.
Parks and Recreation Department employees patrolled the riverbank near Festival Park at 2 p.m. Monday and did not see Trausch nor his bag, Theriault said. Police expect he fell into the water sometime after that.
Elgin's dive team pulled Trausch out of the water from the edge of the river and the Kane County Coroner was called to recover the body.
James Miller, one of two men fishing in the river when Roberto Hernandez's body was found Oct. 9, stopped by the police scene Tuesday. He said he hasn't been fishing since that day, taking up hunting instead.
"I just don't like this spot no more," Miller said.
JoAnn Stingley, of the Elgin Police Department, is coordinating a new program to make sure homeless people do not fall through the cracks between various social service agencies in the area. For more information about Community Assessment and Management of Persons Needing Shelter, call (847) 289-2700.


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Copperwood Tavern - Loudoun
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$1 Oysters Grilled or Chilled
Enjoy $1 Oysters, grilled or chilled, during happy hour! 4pm-7pm, Monday through Friday
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Válido para 1 - 20 personas
Inicia: 11 de febrero de 2019
Finaliza: 12 de febrero de 2118
Disponibilidad: lun.-vie. 15:30-18:30
Great food! We will come back
Like atmosphere and the way staff interact with patrons .
Let me start by saying our server was very nice and some things were probably out of his control...it was both my husband's and my first time and sadly we were not very impressed or even really satisfied.
We had reservations for 7pm on a Saturday to celebrate our 11 year anniversary. We sat outside but it didn't look terribly busy inside. Our server took our drink orders and then came back almost 30 minutes later to ask what we ordered again (side note, they were out of the moonshine to make the drink I really wanted so I ended up with a drink I didn't enjoy very much). So we didn't get our drinks until about 40 minutes after we were seated. After that the food all came out quickly. I'm not much of a meat eater but my husband is and said the steak he ordered was just ok. I ordered a steak salad (I didn't really like the steak so I have it to my husband but the salad part was very good). Half way through I found a hair wrapped in some blue cheese in so I couldn't even finish it. Sadly we probably won't be visiting again and thankfully we had received a gift card as a gift so wasn't a waste of our own money.
Over priced and terrible service....no attention to details....coffee had grounds in it and was cold....eggs werent cooked as ordered. Milk in 8 ounce glass with no refills for kids. Over 125.00 bill for eggs and bacon, a waffle, 2 hamburgers and a salad with water. Sunday from 12 to 2 and they were 6 other people in entire restaurant. Tells you something...place was dead
The appeal of this restaurant is the "farm to table" all local ingredients. Excellent food, mixed drinks were good, beer was well, beer. A bit pricier than I expected, dinner for two (with two mixed drinks and two beers) with tip was roughly $175. We went late (8pm on a Friday). Not crowded, server was very friendly but there were points where the service was a little slow considering how empty it was. Ambiance is nice. Updated and clean. Patio seating looked good (we were inside but bay doors were up to allow for fresh air on a nice evening). Because it's right on the street the only noise issues involved the occasional muscle car enthusiast or motorcyclist who felt compelled to rev the engine as they drove by.
As always never disappointed here. Food and service are always great. Love the atmosphere. We come back often.
Soup was cold, "shareable" sides were small, and delivery of apps/soups/salads was poorly timed. My steak was good, but that was all I got for my money: a piece of cooked meat on a plate - period. Even at McDonald's you get a pickle with your burger. If I wanted any sides, even a potato, it was extra. Very disappointing.
Great brunch
Great place for brunch. Opens at 9 am which is really nice. Everyone is very friendly. Our eggs Benedict and western omelet came out hot and both were delicious. Definitely will be back.
After several really good meals, this last one was just sort of average. Pork chop was tough, Brussels Sprouts were ok, but the Mac and cheese......yum. Service was good but not great.
Great place - great food.
Most important to me and my doggie friends is the patio that allows dogs and gives them a nice homemade peanut butter treat
For claims of farm to table, local source, and for the prices listed you would expect high quality and flavorful taste. I tasted all the local IPAs on tap and did not find any of them to be very good (there are good Virginia IPAs, but none that they had), the wild mushrooms appetizer seemed rather plain and over sauced (maybe to compensate for lack of flavor in main ingredients), the salmon was just okay (the stuff under it seemed to have some grit in it), and the center point of the chocolate cake was good and moist, but the outer edge was rather dry. I ordered the cake to go and they put it in a big bag but didn't include a fork. It was not bad food, just not good enough for the price. That is probably why the restaurant was so empty at 7:00.
Came with 5 adults, great breakfast and presentation. The service was spot on
We had a great experience through and through. Our server was fantastic, the food was top notch, and the ambiance was friendly an inviting. We'll definitely return.
The food and the service was great!!
I don't normally write reviews... but this was a lot of money and quite disappointing — having had a great experience once before. Our food was cold in the middle... the English muffins were soggy as the hollandaise had been left on too long. We had to ask for the popcorn delivered to most tables. The waiter was nice... The whole experience was not good though — and it was a special occasion which made things worse. Spent over $80 for four people for sub-par food — which all sounded delicious. Will not be going back.
Amazing overall experience! Four stars only because the desserts left a little to be desired.
Excellent food. Sides were great. Outdoor seating very pleasant.
Try the lobster wraps, amazing ! Great food and a great place for a celebration.
Sat on balcony. Bartender led our service team. She did a great job! The $1 oyster special did not hurt
My daughter was craving the French toast sticks so we headed over for brunch. The food was very good, we had a variety of breakfast items. The service was very attentive too. We might go back next week for my birthday.
Always great service and great food at Copperwood Tavern! We were able to sit at a table right inside the opened doors, so it was perfect to enjoy the beautiful weather, but not be in the sun. Our waitress was wonderful, the food we ordered was delicious, and we will definitely be back!
Group of four friends for dinner. Everyone had delicious drinks and meal. Service was great! Highly recommend the pork chop. It was AMAZING!
The food was decent, but service was very bad. Our waitress didn't come by often. When she did stop by, she was rude and didn't like to answer questions about the menu. She forgot to put in our order for starters, so we waited about 40 mins till she stopped by and mentioned she forgot. Our main meal was different than what the menu stated and what the waitress said. Overall, the experience was not so great. My friends and I will not be returning here.
Service and food was amazing!
Delicious meal and good service!
We had a great time at Copperwood Tavern in Loudoun! We live in Arlington and regularly visit the Shirlington location, so when out of town friends wanted to meet us near Dulles Town Center, I reserved a table at this location. Same great food, amazing whiskey selection, good tap list. Don't hesitate, you won't be sorry!
Food was bland and over priced.
I went to this location as I had a great experience at the original location and wanted to give this one a try since it is closer to my home. I made a reservation and was quickly seated then no one attended to us for severaL minutes. There was apparently confusion over who our waiter was to be. Chase, a waiter who was not ours saw us looking around confused and promptly came to help us. He was not our assigned waiter but saved the meal & was wonderful. Management seemed unequipped to deal w the incident. I personally watched Chase escalate the issue to management and no one ever came to talk to us until someone in my party flagged them down. Then one of our four entrees was wrong on a very simple order. Chase again took care of us and got things fixed quickly, gave us a free app and the entree as well- per management. It would have been nice for the manager to again follow up after the multiple mistakes that occurred however she did not. I would understand if the restaurant had been busy, but it did not appear so. This location clearly has some work to do to meet the standards of the original.
Great brunch meal! Love the ricotta blueberry pancakes
Food was great, our waitress Amanda was very friendly and efficient. We will be back!
Great experience but doors were open and there was a pesky fly.
Excellent food but a little pricey would recommend highly!!!
18th birthday
Limited wine list and the two bottles we asked for were both out of stock. Bourbon ordered was also "last of the bottle" and she brought one half empty glass and planned to charge us for it. Food was good but not phenomenal - we had duck and venison. The raw oysters were very good! Not sure I'd go back except maybe for oysters at the bar!
Our third trip to Copperwood and continue to love it, thanks Copperwood!
Wife and I went there for a night out. Great service and food was delicious.
Great table outside. But the food just wasn't up to par. Fish was dry and overcooked. My friend didn't care for her salad. Not worth the price.
On the other hand drinks were good and happy hour oysters were yummy.
Priced like a relatively upscale restaurant, but the ambiance and dress code was not at the same level. And the food itself was very bland. Not worth if even if we weren't paying $30+ per entree.


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It hard to go a day without talking about food. It's a major part of everyone's life, but do we care all that much about where it's from or what's been done to it? Should we? Join the Community Conversation with Louise Saunders.
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With talk of Tasmania becoming the 'bread basket' of Australia, a seemingly ever growing fine food tourism angle for the state and a general greater emphasis on what we eat, it's time for a conversation about all things food.
Joining Louise at the Source Community Wholefoods at the University of Tasmania campus in Sandy Bay is Jan Davis, CEO of the Tasmanian Farmers and Graziers Association to explore the growing side of the food industry; Paul Cullen, chef and event manager, to look at the tourism industry around Tasmanian food and beverages; Marcus Ragus, Manager of Learning and Community Engagement at the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens on the Gardens' community and education outreach programs; Mick Guiliani, a part-time chef and niche food producer, who brings his Italian passion to Tasmania produce; and Karen Goodwin-Roberts, a regular guest chef on 936 Drive, examining the history of Tasmanian food.
And of course, bringing the conversation all together is you.
What are the things that are important to you about the food that you buy, grow or cook? Join the conversation by leaving a comment below.


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Carrier is focused on developing sustainable building solutions
Carrrier assists with three Shanghai World Expo's venues
Carrier equipment helps preserve the frescos on the Sistine Chapel ceiling
Green building and sustainable practices have been at Carrier's core from the very beginning
Whether the objective is preserving frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, innovatively heating pools for world-class swimmers or leading the green building movement in some of the most advanced cities around the world, Carrier employees are there.
Each day, the team at Carrier is working to meet some of the most unique and exciting global challenges in heating, air conditioning and refrigeration.
Global leadership and innovation requires a wide range of talents and skill sets. At Carrier, that means bringing together the world's best in design engineering, manufacturing, information technology, finance, operations, sales and marketing.
Carrier is committed to attracting and retaining world-class talent. That's why we empower each of our employees to take control of their careers. No matter your job title, we provide continued training, advanced education and promotion opportunities to help you move forward. After all, as an employee of a world leader, your career should take you anywhere you want to go.
Carrier recognizes that meeting the needs of a diverse, worldwide customer base requires an equally diverse work force. Guided by a core company value that embraces cultural and individual diversity, Carrier encourages new ideas and different viewpoints from all levels of the company. In this way, all opinions are heard and everyone has the opportunity to make an impact on the industry and the world. We understand that having highly engaged employees is the only way to maintain a legacy of innovative thinking.


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Old School Snail Mail 'Metadata' Still Being Harvested By The USPS And Turned Over To Law Enforcement/Security Agencies By Request
from the get-it-all,-just-in-case dept
We live in a wondrous age of technological advancement, where almost any form of communication can be instantly captured by interceding security agencies and stored safely away somewhere in Utah where it can be "questioned" at the agencies' convenience.
But the old school ways still have their charm. Various entities have intercepted snail mail since the days when it was just referred to as "mail." Not so much interception goes on now, partly because there's much less to intercept, but law enforcement agencies are still able to access scans of the envelopes of every piece of mail sent or received in the US, all without a warrant. Not unexpectedly, this "enhancement" to the "mail covers" program emerged post-9/11.
The NY Times has a good piece on the Mail Isolation Control and Tracking program, which was put into place following the post-9/11 anthrax mailings. It quite literally scans every envelope, post card, and piece of junk mail — some 160 billion pieces of mail a year. These scanners probably know more about the mail you receive than you do.The old "mail covers" program was targeted. The new, post-9/11 version isn't. Everything is photographed and anything can be requested by simply filling out a form. The argument is that there's no expectation of privacy seeing as any number of people will be able to view what's written on the outside of the envelope as it's in transit. Of course, people might feel their privacy is being violated if they observed someone going through a stack of their mail and taking photos of every envelope, but that's where the courts stand on this issue currently.
The Mail Isolation program is really just a super-beefed-up version of the USPS "mail covers" program that has been around for about a century, explains the Times. Mail covers are warrantless requests for photos of the outside of specific recipients' mail.
Basically, a law enforcement agency fills out the request, and for 30 days (extendable to 120 days), it receives scans of all mail related to the subject of the request. Only the outside of the mail is provided, as opening mail would require a warrant. Authorities maintain that no warrant is needed for information on the outside of a piece of mail, as there can be no reasonable expectation of privacy. The USPS can deny a mail covers request, but rarely does.
Unlike other invasive programs officials have defended by claiming they have prevented [insert number here] terrorist attacks, the Mail Isolation Control and Tracking program has at least been instrumental in taking down a purveyor of terrorist-like activity.
In a criminal complaint filed June 7 in Federal District Court in Eastern Texas, the F.B.I. said a postal investigator tracing the ricin letters was able to narrow the search to Shannon Guess Richardson, an actress in New Boston, Tex., by examining information from the front and back images of 60 pieces of mail scanned immediately before and after the tainted letters sent to Mr. Obama and Mr. Bloomberg showing return addresses near her home. Ms. Richardson had originally accused her husband of mailing the letters, but investigators determined that he was at work during the time they were mailed.While that's comforting, the downside is that this system, like any other mass data collection, is prone to abuse. And what's considered not "private enough" to require a warrant can still tell the requesting party quite a bit about you.
"It's a treasure trove of information," said James J. Wedick, a former F.B.I. agent who spent 34 years at the agency and who said he used mail covers in a number of investigations, including one that led to the prosecution of several elected officials in California on corruption charges. "Looking at just the outside of letters and other mail, I can see who you bank with, who you communicate with — all kinds of useful information that gives investigators leads that they can then follow up on with a subpoena."The postal service holds the power to approve or deny these requests, without any outside review, which means every request will sail right through. 15-20,000 requests come through each year related to criminal activity. The number of requests made for national security reasons hasn't been revealed.
But, he said: "It can be easily abused because it's so easy to use and you don't have to go through a judge to get the information. You just fill out a form."
In the post-9/11 security/law enforcement climate, it seems it's better to have everything and not need it than want something and not have it. This is all above-board and perfectly constitutional according to the courts, so if any of these entities want to dig through your mail for any reason, (perhaps as a form of political harassment) all they have to do is fill out the right paperwork.
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Standouts - Snap #419
Maybe you are the shy retiring type who never wants to be in the spotlight. But one day, the spotlight finds you. On the next Snap Judgment from PRX and NPR..."Standouts"
100 Percent Girl
Kids always made fun of the way Sara looked growing up. She never quite looked like a boy or a girl. Now, at the age of 49, she's finally starting to realize the truth about her identity.
Produced by Stephanie Foo.
Respect The Prophet
Glynn Washington spins a tale of what happens when the Midwest collides with Malaysian mores.
Produced by Renzo Gorrio
The Tourist Boat
Jeff and his girlfriend escape the beaten path and all those annoying tourists. Camping on a primitive island far, far away from "Resortville," they discover what happens when survival and opportunity collide.
Produced by Roman Mars and Sarah Jessee.
Vagina Report
Rebecca Hertz is a star student, to get into her dream college she simply needs to ace one final presentation. So Rebecca chooses the most compelling subject she can think of: female anatomy.
Produced by Rebecca Hertz.
Music: "Rebel Girl", "Suck My Left One" and "Don't Need You"
Performed by Bikini Kill
Written by Kathleen Hanna, William Karren, Tobi Vail, Kathi Wilcox
Courtesy of Kill Rock Stars
Check out the Snap Animation for "The Vagina Report" by Joe Golling
Evil D
Superman has met his match. Darnell is taking out the "Man of Steel."
Story by Glynn Washington
Produced by Mark Ristich