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(Pocket-lint) - Nikon has announced a new mini compact camera, the Nikon Coolpix S01, for those who want to take great shots, but not have something bulky in their bag.
Measuring 51.2 x 77 x 17.2mm and weighing 96 grams, the camera - smaller and lighter in virtually every dimension than the iPhone 4S - will sport a 10-megapixel CCD image sensor and a 3x optical zoom (29 to 87mm) alongside a 2.5-inch touchscreen display.
According to Nikon, the new graphic user interface (GUI) offers an easy-to-tap four-segment home screen that streamlines operation.
"By tapping a subject, the shutter is automatically released when focus and exposure are fixed, while various image effects set prior to shooting can be applied to pictures," Nikon says. "Additionally, simple in-camera retouching of photos can help the user relive their perfect memory."
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There are six applicable scene modes - portrait, landscape, night portrait, night landscape, close-up and backlighting - as well as Easy Auto Mode that automatically picks the best one for you.
The camera uses Nikon's Expeed C2 image-processor, and comes with a built-in Xenon flash.
The Coolpix S01 will be available in September 2012 and cost $179.95 in the US. Nikon has yet to confirm a UK price for the camera. It will be available in red, black, white, silver and pink.
UPDATE The Nikon Coolpix S01 will cost £149.99 in the UK and be available from 27 September.


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Try this stir-fry pork with celery and spring onions.
Preparation Time: 10 mins
Cooking Time: 20 mins
Yield: 4 x approx 1-1/4 cup servings
Remove all visible fat from pork. Partially freeze meat; slice thinly into strips. Stir together in a bowl of soy sauce and cornstarch. Add stock and set aside.
Heat oil in wok or non-stick skillet over high heat. Add garlic and ginger root and cook for 1/2 minute. Add celery and onions and cook lightly. The vegetables should be slightly crisp, not overcooked. Remove vegetables and keep warm.
Add pork to the hot wok or skillet and dry fry until brown. Stir continuously. Add stock mixture to pork, cook and stir until thick and bubbly. Add cooked vegetables and tomatoes. Cover and cook for 1 minute. Serve immediately.
If desired, serve with cooked rice.
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Garrett started back to school this past Friday. He is a big 3rd grader now! Makes me wanna cry because he is growing up so fast. No more kisses and hugs for mama at school...he informed me of that yesterday. He is a big boy, now.
I got Garrett to do the drawing tonight for my 1st giveaway. I wanted to take pictures, but my batteries were dead in my camera and I didn't have any extra ones. I didn't want to wait another day because I was suppose to do this Friday night and didn't. It has just been so busy! I've been on vacation and I start back to work tomorrow.


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Why is it that sometimes we work on a project or give a presentation and it feels like such a struggle? Other times we give a similar presentation or work a similar project and it goes smoothly and effortlessly; the pieces fall together so well that we can hardly keep up with all the great positive energy.
This week several events have me thinking about positive approaches and what creates the flow of change.
The first event was a very successful presentation that Transition Los Angeles gave at Bioneers LA; the energy in the room afterwards was tangible excitement about positive possibilities.
The second event was a key meeting regarding the community garden we've been trying to install in my local neighborhood. For ten years this land has sat empty, caught in political quagmire; this week it felt like someone had greased the skids as the project zipped into high gear.
The third incident reared up in harsh contrast: a piece I read by Michael Brownlee which asserted -- among other things -- that the rate of the Transition movement in the U.S. "seems to be slowing." Whoa, certainly not around here!
Transition Los Angeles, as I have explained before, is a city hub. With the number of people, we could even be called a region. Interest in Transition here seems only to be accelerating. Right now we are getting 2 to 3 requests per week for TLA speakers or appearances, and this is the middle of the holidays when I would think things would be slow. In October our list of area-wide events grew so voluminous that we had to cease sending out one merged area-wide newsletter email; we will now be sending news in several blasts, one for each local neighborhood. The number of new potential initiators and new groups interested in these ideas continues to expand, and other organizations are now seeking our input on projects and issues. Transition might not yet be a household word in Los Angeles, but we're certainly gaining solid strides.
When I read the Brownlee piece, between the lines of his writing I could feel his struggle. I could feel the drive of urgency, in that painful and unproductive way that urgency can drive us toward panic. I felt for him, because I know this space. I know this panicked energy. I have been there personally. Usually the best thing for me to do in such moments is to go out and spend a heavy sweat session tilling a section of my vegetable garden, actively doing something positive, getting back in touch (literally in touch) with what is tangible, fresh, alive, and real.
Personally, when I get caught up in that panicked urgency -- that feeling of "We've gotta change this whole society, NOW!" -- my writing topics, my powerpoint presentations, my selections of topics for our budding local neighborhood group, and the agenda items I pose at our TLA area-wide core team meetings reflect my panicked mood. I tend to phrase things in the negative -- with lots of weighty "should"s, "must"s, "need to"s, and ultimatums -- and when I do that, things don't usually turn out very well.
In those times my mind churns with the heavier aspects of this Transition world -- the Stoneleigh talk, the latest EIA and IEA peak oil projections, the (lack of) news from the latest climate talks -- I find it hard to break out of the doom. I'll tend to make dark reading choices which further perpetuate the negative spiral, and many of Brownlee's quoted sources have been among these. I get really caught up in the "half empty" part of the glass. And I forget the lively lessons we're being sent daily from the UK and from Transition initiatives around the globe.
The early Transition materials twinkle with British humor, even with abject silliness. For goodness sake, one of the key players over there is a clown! Some of the Transition projects around the world glow with art and beauty, and it communicates through their photographs. Others share music. These are very special parts of this Transition journey -- precious experiences to be enjoyed and treasured.
All these things remind me to lighten up a bit. My presentations go better when I joke with the audience instead of cursing when the projector doesn't work. Our events go more smoothly and feel better when we laugh together to lighten the load of Knowing. And everything seems to go better when we phrase things using the invitation of "lets" -- Let's do it. Together we can.
"Martin Luther King did not proclaim 'I have a nightmare,'" Brownlee tells us Speth once wrote. Perhaps that is precisely why we remember and refer to King's speech more than 40 years later. America connected, very powerfully, with King's dream.
When I learned about Permaculture and things Transition, Bill McKibben was berating society in his frustration because no one was listening. Environmentalists had been crying "I have a nightmare" for three decades and they were getting sorry little progress for their efforts. This prompted Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus' 2004 article which declared "Environmentalism is dead."
Peter Rood and I founded our little organization in the Westchester area of Los Angeles -- the organization that eventually became the initiating group for Transition in Los Angeles -- because we wanted to Do Something about our environmental issues. We didn't know what at the time, but we did know that we wanted to do something positive.
From the very start, we didn't proclaim nightmares; we were about solutions (at least most of the time). We taught people to use reuseable bags and eat local food off real china plates. We taught people how to save water. We dug up a lawn and planted a very public front yard vegetable garden. When "An Inconvenient Truth" came out, we helped people discover What We Can Do about global warming. We watched Bill McKibben shift to positive action, and our group joined his first Step It Up campaign which yielded more local actions than he'd ever dreamed possible.
We focused on What We Can Do, and we trusted that the bad news would come along for the ride. We didn't beat people over the head with it. Along the way, we discovered that people do know a lot about "the full extent of our predicament." They know as much as they can emotionally handle at the moment, and that is usually a lot more than they're given credit for.
When Hopkins' work came on my radar, I liked his approach because he too was about What We Can Do. His approach was about communities, and working together, which really struck a powerful chord. Yes the understanding of the serious stuff was in there, but Hopkins and friends were doing something positive about it.
Positive sells. Positive is enticing. Positive action gets the blood pumping and the energy flowing, and suddenly the sense of possibilities starts growing. The hope grows, and with it, the creativity. And it's that creativity we need to bring out and tap into if we're going to succeed in designing a Creative Descent from this energy and consumption pinnacle.
In this week's presentation at Bioneers LA, Anneke Campbell, one of the founding members of Transition Los Angeles and Transition Mar Vista, spoke of how the Transition movement is about living the life we wished we could anyway. It's about living in deeper connection with our neighbors, living more simply than most of us have for most of our lives, and it includes the clear feelings of doing the right thing and living meaningfully with intention and purpose.
Like King, the Transition movement also has a dream: that life after oil could be better than what we have now, if we prepare and plan for it. And that dream draws people in. It prompted Orion Magazine to write "If the Transition Initiative were a person, you'd say he or she was charismatic, wise, practical, positive, resourceful, and very, very popular."
At our meeting this week here in Los Angeles with the mayor's office and the massive school district's representatives, we didn't beat them over the head with the nightmare. We talked about the dream: of people having access to land on which to grow food, of kids learning how to grow food, being able to pick fruit from the trees. They shared their dreams: of kids learning what it means to sell at farmers market, of having a culinary arts program so that kids could learn to prepare healthy food. Another community group shared their dream: that this abandoned acre of land can become beautiful and open to all. Together, we'll start installing the garden in January.
"We will need a uniquely American approach to Transition," Brownlee writes, and I wholeheartedly agree with that line. In fact, that is precisely what all the Transition materials encourage us to do: adapt the materials to the unique needs of our local area.
From my initial foray into things Transition, I have been translating. I live in the middle of the 5th largest metropolis in the world, more than 10 million people. Even my local "neighborhood" in L.A. is more than 4 times Totnes' size. Things get wildly different when you are coping with our scale. Totnes and the Transition Network don't tell us how to put their materials into place here -- they don't have answers. No one has ever done something like this before. We have had to translate and develop a uniquely L.A. approach.
When Brownlee writes "just transplanting the UK approach to Transition here may not work very well," it sounds like he's been thinking of the Transition model the way a suburban developer might: trying to create little cookie-cutter replications of Totnes all over the place.
The very roots of the UK invention encourage creativity. We weren't handed a plastic mold; we were offered a very loose set of suggestions. They used to be called "guidelines," now evolving into "patterns." Like a poem, they're open to terrific interpretation and reading-between-the-lines. And some of the guidelines overtly encourage customization and a unique local approach. That means we are all translators. We're translating (sometimes literally) the Totnes/Hopkins message into what our individual communities need. (I wrote more about translating new ideas here)
I see a beautiful richness happening in the reality unfolding around me. Even here within the Los Angeles basin we already have unique flavor developing within each of our local groups. The T. Mar Vista core team meets for casual chai. Inglewood is growing up within a Catholic church. T. San Fernando Valley knows from the outset that they really will be a region someday. T. Culver City is integrated deeply into the City and political processes. The choice of event topics, the choice of projects, and the feeling in the room during the meetings varies widely from site to site.
As I read the materials coming from other U.S. initiatives, the variety pours forth. Sebastopol's community mapping sounds great -- I hope one day we can try it here. The tapes from the Transition Cascadia Regional Summit were awesome; I learned a lot by listening to the speakers from Reno and Whatcom and what they are doing there. Here in L.A. we've had Transition visitors from Kentucky and Illinois, and we hear how they are going about it. The uniquely American approach, infused with rich local wisdom, is already underway.
The Totnes birthplace of the Transition movement continues to inspire us. They are developing new ideas for their geography and, for the most part, sharing them quite openly for the world to copy. The international Transition Network valiantly tries to be a place where all of us, U.S. included, can share what we are learning and developing so that others can do it too. In short, we all need each other. No one initiative, no one area, no one country or continent is in this alone. We're all in this mess, and it's going to take all of us -- working together and sharing ideas -- to design a way out.
"Our first task is to create a shadow economic, social and even technological structure that will be ready to take over as the existing system fails." -- David Ehrenfeld
Joanna Macy speaks of the three dimensions of the Great Turning. Traditional environmentalism is in many cases a manifestation of Macy's first dimension: Stopping Action, preventing further destruction, actions to slow the damage to Earth and its beings.
The Transition approach as outlined by Hopkins and now being experimented with and customized around the world, is primarily a movement growing up within Macy's second dimension: Creating New Structures, the creation of structural alternatives. The Transition movement also touches upon Macy's third dimension, a Shift in Consciousness, a shift in our deeply ingrained values. While some of the "heart and soul" elements do cross over, this third dimension is not the only focus of the Transition movement.
In his piece, it sounds like Brownlee seeks to morph the Transition movement from Macy's second dimension into the third. It sounds like he wants to change an apple into an orange. But that would leave the world with no apples.
One of the reasons I came to the Transition movement was that it seemed to me to be the most viable, most broad-based, deepest-thinking "second dimension" approach available. There simply aren't any other organizations I have found which are Creating New Structures with as considered and informed and panoramic a scope.
I have found other Creating New Structures organizations which were single-topic. I have found other organizations which attempted to be panoramic but which lacked the concrete. In my personal opinion the Permaculture movement -- in the hands of David Holmgren -- becomes panoramic in theory, but in practical manifestations here in the western U.S. has shown up to be rather narrow, mostly addressing the rural but sidestepping the urban issues. It has taken Hopkins' interpretation of Holmgren's philosophy to create the marvel we have in the Transition movement.
Holmgren created the Permaculture Flower, a diagram I have long used in my presentations because it describes the panorama of human experience. Traditional environmentalism in many cases concerns itself with one or two petals of the Flower.
Hopkins' brilliance is that he (or perhaps he and Giangrande) has created a way of applying Holmgren's Permaculture philosophy to each of the petals of the Flower: to communities, to urban issues, to politics and economics. The Transition movement is What We Can Do to move forward toward a more lasting human culture, beginning not with a clean slate but with what we have now. It takes into account a full and realistic assessment of our power-hungry buildings, our paved cities, our urban demographic, our globalized food system, our crumbling economy. It combines the reality of now with the dream of what can be. It calls into action the collective creativity of the local people. And then it creates a plan.
There are other organizations which are working to address the things Brownlee describes in his bullet points. I would venture that no human being today truly meets Brownlee's mandate to "understand the spiritual reality of how to live on earth." But there certainly are other groups and thinkers who are exploring what Macy calls the "third dimension." Pachamama is one that comes to mind. Or a peak-oil-aware environmental ministry within the Unitarian Universalist association of congregations. Or the varied work of Starhawk. Perhaps even the Emerging Church ideas of Phyllis Tickle.
But there is no other movement I have heard of that is creating a plan, putting in place new structures to replace the broken ones we have now, in local community after local community, cultivating an effort that is crafted grassroots by the people. There is no other network I have heard of that is organized with the intent to so effectively address Macy's second dimension. It's not perfect, and we have absolutely no guarantees that it will work. But it's the best we've got.
And at least around here, it is drawing the curious, the dabblers, the serious, and the passionately committed. Like any social structure, it grows in fits and starts. Rather than a mathematically calculated linear growth expectation, here in L.A. (in true local form, I must add) we're learning to surf the waves of volunteerism's ebbs and flows.
Meanwhile, positive change is happening. We're accomplishing some really great concrete projects, and linking and networking a great set of people. This week has included some deeply heartfelt events, even if the promo fliers billed them as "garden swaps" and public speaking appearances. Even if all this doesn't work out in the end, it sure is worth every moment of now.
Joanne Poyourow is a blogger at Transition U.S. She is the co-founder of the Environmental Change-Makers, the group that brought Transition ideas to many areas of Los Angeles. She serves on the core team of the Transition Los Angeles city hub. At the moment she is up to her ears in drawings for the new Community Garden at the local middle school and her chickens are clamoring to be fed.


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Re: Nintendo systems
Game Boy Color
soon, Wii
Message Boards - Boba Fett Fan Club → Fans → Nintendo systems
Game Boy Color
soon, Wii
none but soon i will have the wii
I have the SNES, N64, and Gamecube. My brother has a DS, original gameboy, and advanced gameboy. And when the Wii comes out I'm gonna get that too.
I have the N64 and GBA SP.....but yep, that's it.
I have a Game-Cube, a Dual Screen, and soon a Wii.
NES, N64, GameBoy Colour, GameBoy Advance, GameCube, Nintendo DS. I have a SNES emulator, but that doesn't count.
Games I want for Wii:
Super Mario Galaxy
Warioware: Smooth Moves
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
I want Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. It looks so NICE. It has me very excited.
Nintendo systems.......hmmmmm.not much of a fan of nintendo, but I have gameboy color, bameboy advanced, and gamecube.
Anyone know when Twilight Princess will come out? And if it's still going to be for Gamecube? Cause last summer when it was suppose to come out I bought a gamecube just so I could play it, and now it's still not out. I will buy a Wii to play it on, if I have to. (otherwise I'd rather wait till it drops in price after it's out a while)
Does any body know how much the Wii, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, and Wario Ware: Smooth Moves will cost.
Twilight Princess will be for both Wii AND Cube, so take your pick. As for prices, the system itself will be between $200-300 or so. No idea what the games will priced at.
Nes[sister's before she moved]
Original Game boy[sister's before she moved]
Game boy color
Game boy advance
Nintendo DS
Wii games will be no more than $50.
Heehee...the only nintendo machine I have is an old 64...
I personally don't care about the new Wii (I prefer to call it the "why?"), other than the next iteriation of Super Smash Bros.
You got more than I have, Balancesheet... All I have is a PC.
...a good PC is worth a thousand Wiis.
Good being 4+ gis of 667 DDR2 RAM, 750gx2 RAID0 Hard Drive. Athlon FX-whatever, and Quad-SLI GeForce 7900GTX. Which is nowhere near what I have.
..... Come again?
Actually I'd rather have the Wii. Nintendo's new "controller" is sheer genius.
I have some PC games but not a whole lot. We do though have a really old Oregon Trail and my dad has an Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade game from the early 90's.
..... Come again?
Them's the specs for top of the line gaming computers nowadays...though in a few months it will all be obsolete.
And it will be a cold day in hell before consoles play RTS(Real-Time-Strategy) and FPS (First-Person-Shooters) games half as well as a PC.
The new controller might help the latter, but I doubt it will make strategy games any more playable than the PC can.
Ah, okay. Tanks for the explanation!
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For the U.S. Men's 2010 World Championships Media Guide, click here.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Oct. 9, 2010) – Clay Stanley of the U.S. Men's National Volleyball Team was named Best Server of the FIVB Men's World Championship on Sunday in Rome, Italy.
Stanley (Honolulu, Hawaii), who plays opposite and was the Most Valuable Player at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, was presented with the award following the completion of the World Championship final in which Brazil defeated Cuba, 25-22, 25-14, 25-22.
The U.S. Men's Team placed sixth at Worlds after falling to Russia 25-19, 25-21, 25-19 on Saturday in Modena, Italy.
Stanley finished the tournament with 23 aces and 36 faults on 155 attempts and averaged 0.70 aces per set. Stanley started all 33 sets in which the U.S. played at Worlds.
The next best server after Stanley was Bulgaria's Vladimir Nikolov who finished with 18 aces and 22 faults on 129 sets for an average of 0.53 per set.
Stanley was also the United States' top scorer, and sixth among all scorers, at the World Championship with 150 points on 109 kills, 18 blocks and 23 aces.
Outside hitter Reid Priddy (Richmond, Va.) was the team's second leading scorer, and 21st overall, with 100 points on 84 kills, 11 blocks and five aces. Outside hitter Sean Rooney (Wheaton, Ill.) was third among U.S. players and 22nd overall with 99 points on 88 kills and 11 blocks.
Rooney was the team's leading spiker and 20th overall with 88 kills and 21 faults on 184 attempts for a success percentage of 47.83 percent.
Stanley's 18 blocks (0.55 per set) led the U.S. Men and was 11th among all blockers. Middle blocker David Lee (Alpine, Calif.) also had 18 blocks and averaged 0.55 per set, but was 12th among all blockers due to a greater number of attempts.
U.S. libero Rich Lambourne (Tustin, Calif.) was fifth among all liberos with 199 excellent receptions and digs and 39 faults on 307 attempts for an average of 6.03 per set. Lambourne was sixth among all diggers with 76 digs and 30 faults on 115 attempts for an average of 2.3 per set. Lambourne was ninth among all receivers with 123 excellents and nine faults on 192 attempts and an average of 59.38 excellent receptions per set.
U.S. setter Kevin Hansen (Newport Beach, Calif.) was 10th among all setters with 184 running sets and no faults on 585 attempts for an average of 5.58 running sets per set. A running set is defined as a set from a player that puts their hitter against one blocker or none.
To reach the 2010 FIVB Men's World Championship page, click here.
2010 FIVB World Championship
Sept. 25-Oct. 10 in Italy
U.S. Roster
No. Name (Position, Height, Hometown, College)
1 Matt Anderson (OH, 6-10, West Seneca, N.Y., Penn State)
2 Sean Rooney (OH, 6-9, Wheaton, Ill., Pepperdine)
4 David Lee (MB, 6-8, Alpine, Calif., Long Beach State)
5 Rich Lambourne (L, 6-3, Tustin, Calif., BYU)
6 Paul Lotman (OH, 6-7, Lakewood, Calif., Long Beach State)
7 Jonathan Winder (S, 6-8, Irvine, Calif., Pepperdine)
8 Reid Priddy (OH, 6-5, Richmond, Va., Loyola Marymount)
10 Riley Salmon (OH, 6-6, League City, Texas, Pierce College)
13 Clay Stanley (OPP, 6-9, Honolulu, Hawai'i, Hawai'i)
14 Kevin Hansen (S, 6-5, Newport Beach, Calif., Stanford)
15 Russell Holmes (MB, 6-8, Fountain Valley, Calif., BYU)
16 Carson Clark (Opp, 6-5, Santa Barbara, Calif., UC Irvine)
17 Max Holt (MB, 6-9, Cincinnati, Ohio, Penn State)
19 Alfee Reft (L, 5-10, Oxnard, Calif., Hawai'i)
Head Coach: Alan Knipe (Huntington Beach, Calif.)
Team Leader: Greg Vernovage (Susquehanna, Pa.)
Assistant Coach: Gary Sato (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Trainer: Tom Hoff (Park Ridge, Ill.)
Technical Coordinator: Chris Jackson (Phoenix, Ariz.)
Team Doctors: Andrew Gregory (Nashville, Tenn.) and Keith Feder (Manhattan Beach, Calif.)
Medical Support: Aaron Brock (Storm Lake, Iowa)
Final Standings: 1. Brazil, 2. Cuba, 3. Serbia, 4. Italy, 5. Russia, 6. USA, 7. Bulgaria, 8. German, 9. Argentina, 10. Czech Republic, 11. France, 12. Spain, 13T. Cameroon, 13T. Egypt, 13T. Japan, 13T. Mexico, 13T. Poland, 13T Puerto Rico, 19T. Australia, 19T. Canada, 19T. China, 19T. Iran, 19T. Tunisia, 19T. Venezuela
Individual Best Player Awards
Most Valuable Player: Murilo Endres (BRA)
Top Scorer: Iban Perez (ESP)
Best Server: Clayton Stanley (USA)
Best Spiker: Maxim Mikhaylov (RUS)
Best Blocker: Robertlandy Simon (CUB) |
Best Setter: Nikola Grbic (SRB)
Best Libero: Ferdinand Tille (GER)


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Latest MedicineNet News
Study Shows Experimental Vaccine Allows Some Cocaine Users to Reduce Their Drug Use
Jennifer Warner
WebMD Health News
Reviewed By Louise Chang, MD
Oct. 5, 2009 -- A new vaccine may one day help people who are addicted to cocaine to curb their drug use and overcome their dependency.
The experimental cocaine vaccine works by raising levels of cocaine antibodies to hamper the drug's ability to affect the brain.
Researchers found that treated drug users who responded well to the vaccine by achieving high antibody levels were twice as likely to reduce their cocaine use by half and had more cocaine-free urine tests than those with low antibody levels or who received a placebo vaccine.
However, only about a third (38%) of those treated with the cocaine vaccine achieved those high antibody levels, and those who did maintained them for only two months.
Researchers say more study is needed to increase the proportion of users who achieve the desired antibody levels and to maintain those levels long enough to treat the cocaine addiction.
About 2.5 million Americans were dependent on cocaine or addicted in 2007, but researchers say only about 809,000 received treatment. Cocaine use also accounts for one in three drug-related emergency room visits.
There is no FDA-approved drug to help treat cocaine addiction and behavioral therapies have varying levels of success. But researchers say animal studies have suggested that raising levels of anti-cocaine antibodies can capture cocaine in the body, hindering its delivery to the brain to reduce cocaine-induced euphoria without causing any significant psychological side effects or drug interactions.
The study, published in the Archives of General Psychiatry, evaluated the effectiveness of an experimental cocaine vaccine in 94 cocaine-using adults over 24 weeks.
About half were randomly assigned to receive five doses of the cocaine vaccine, and the others received placebo injections. Researchers tested the participants' urine three times a week for cocaine use.
Of the 55 participants who received all five doses of the cocaine vaccine, 38% achieved cocaine antibody levels of 43 micrograms per milliliter or higher. Those who did had more cocaine-free urine samples between weeks nine and 16 of the study than those with lower antibody levels or who received the placebo.
In addition, 53% of those with high antibody levels reduced their cocaine use by half compared with 23% of those with low antibody levels. The most frequently reported side effects for the vaccine-treated group were tenderness and firmness at the injection site, feeling cold, hot flashes, nausea, and increased sweating.
Researcher Bridget A. Martel, MD, of the Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn., and colleagues say repeated booster vaccinations will likely be required to achieve optimal treatment as well as increased efforts to help retain users during the initial phase of injections since antibody levels rise slowly.
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Here's the official video announcement for a new promotion Nintendo is running this fall.
Buy Art Academy: Lessons for Everyone!, Paper Mario: Sticker Star, Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask, Style Savvy: Trendsetters, or Crosswords Plus on Nintendo's eShop by January 6 and you'll get a copy of Donkey Kong: Original Edition, a special version of Nintendo's old classic.
That's right: Nintendo actually wants you to buy games on the Internet. Enter pandemonium, cats and dogs living together, etc.


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6. Output of 100TD Palm Oil Equipment Line Small Scale Palm Oil Refining Machinery: 2-3kg/h oil yield rate: 95% for example:
for peanut( press material 4kg/h, output 2kg oil)
For sesame (press material 6kg/h, output 3kg oil)
7. Machine Size:34*15*28cm
8. Machine weight of 100TD Palm Oil Equipment Line Small Scale Palm Oil Refining Machinery: 18kg
Application of 100TD Palm Oil Equipment Line Small Scale Palm Oil Refining Machinery:
peanut kernel, sesame seeds, soybean, (almond)Apricot kernel, pumpkin seed kernel,
Sunflower kernel,Camellia seed kernel,rapeseed, flaxseed,Fire hemp seed,pinenut kernel. etc.
Features of Auxiliary Machine For Oil Press
1.Screw Oil Press/Cold Oil
2.Auxiliary Machine For Oil Press is household Equipment
3.Stainless Steel Material of 100TD Palm Oil Equipment Line Small Scale Palm Oil Refining Machinery
4.100TD Palm Oil Equipment Line Small Scale Palm Oil Refining Machinery is lower Price
5.YH Series
100TD Palm Oil Equipment Line Small Scale Palm Oil Refining Machinery
Equipments which directly related to the palm fruit oil process (from fresh fruit to final products) are divided into six systems as follows:
1.Fruit reception system
1.1 Use truck to transport the ripe and fresh palm fruits from fruit ranch,
weigh up them by platform scale and record, and then pour them into
the discharging table.
1.2 Start control valve to open the discharging table, then fruit drop in
the fruit basket car freely.
1.3 Drag the fruit basket car which loaded with fresh palm fruits to the
downward of the bridge crane by power cable tray and cable tray,
then use bridge crane to sling the fruit basket car to the track lead to sterilizer sterilizing tank.
2. Sterilizer system
2.1 After drag the fruit basket car into the sterilizer sterilizing tank,
close the sterilizer sterilizing tank and open the vent valve below it.
Then inlet saturated vapor, close the vent valve after the cold air in the
tank was excluded generally, and enter into the period of steaming and
2.2 Close the inlet valve after the sterilizing process. Drain out the water
and vapor in tank, then you can open the door of the sterilizer
sterilizing tank.
2.3 Drag the cooked fruit basket car to the downward of the beige crane.
3.Threshing system
3.1 Pour the sterilized fruit in the fruit basket car into the unloading
3.2 Feed the fruit regularly into the fruit-separating machine to separate.
3.3 After twisting and beating in the fruit-separating machine, the fruits will fall off entirely.
4. Pressing system
4.1 Palm fruit was transported to crasher by elevator.
4.2 Fruit was heated in crasher.
4.3 After sterilizing, the broken palm fruit flow into the palm oil press
machine to pressing. Oil and water mixture outflow from pressing
chamber shell hole, in the same time, the fiber cake and core was
discharged from bonehead clearance and then drop in the packing
anger of broken cake.
5. Fiber, cake, shell and kernel separation system
5.1 Fiber cake was dropped into packing auger, use interrupted blade to
break up the palm cake, evaporate the palm cake constantly during the
transportation, and the enter into the fiber and core separation machine.
Use induced draft system which compose of draught fan and wind net
to transport fiber to boiler room to burn. Palm core of large proportion
drops into the bucket elevator from the other side of the fiber and core
separating machine and then to transport to the core charging bucket to dry.
5.2 Open the discharging hole which is at the bottom of the core chafing
bucket, then palm core drop into husking machine to husk.
5.3 Use shell kernel separator to separate the shell and kernel mixture
after husking.
5.4 Kernel are charged into kernel-holding tank and shell are transported to boiler room to burn.
6.Clarification system
6.1 Use vibrated sifting filter to remove residues like fiber in the crude
palm oil, then the oil enter into the passivating tank.
6.2 There are indirect and direct steam in the passivating tank. After
passivation, palm oil and water mixture are banished to the high-order position
tank and then flow into the clarification tank.
6.3 Clarified oil flow into the oil tank, use disc separator to remove
water in oil and then use plate heat exchanger to eliminate the residual water completely.
6.4 After vacuum drying, the oil flow into net oil tank and then feed into the final-product oil tank directly
Palm Oil Press Machine
Our company adopts palm fruit oil press, which is the ideal equipment
to press crude palm oil.
palm fruit oil press has the features as follows:
1) Compact and strong structure, and easy operation.
2) The automatic control system which can adjust barrel pressure.
3) High oil pressing efficiency, and residual oil in cake is less than 8%.
4) Low crushing efficiency for palm nut.
Craft flow:
1.palm fruit/bunch → sterilization → threshing → digesting → clarification → purification →dring → CPO
→ refining → bleaching → deodorizing →RBD palm oil → crystallization → fractionation → RBD olein & RBD stearin
2.palm kernel →depericarper → crushing → pressing → CPKO → refining → RBDPK oil , RBDPK olein & RBDPK stearin
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By Norihiko Shirouzu and Yoko Kubota
SUZUKA, Japan (Reuters) - After a seven-year hiatus, Honda Motor Co. is returning to the F-1 circuits next year, resolving to win more races - and learn how to build "greener" cars.
Honda is particularly aiming to turn exhaust gas that is mostly wasted in F-1 or conventional cars into energy. It is technology that Honda's F-1 chief, Yasuhisa Arai, says could give Honda an edge with its mass-market cars.
Cynics aren't buying the argument that Honda wants to use the F-1 as a technology incubator. They say Honda is trying to redeem its name after being a dud on the F-1 circuits from 2000 to 2008, when it quit the world's premier motor sport.
Arai doesn't necessarily disagree with that. He says Honda wants to be as successful as it was in the late 1980s when McLaren-Honda cars, driven by the late Brazilian triple champion Ayrton Senna and French four-time champ Alain Prost, dominated the sport. In 1988, Senna and Prost together won 15 of the 16 Grand Prix races.
"There's no point in racing unless you win," Arai said, strolling around a classic Honda F-1 car circa 1964 on display during a recent F-1 fan event at the Suzuka Circuit, 50 kms (30 miles) south of Nagoya in central Japan.
"That's why we teamed up with a winning team," Arai said referring to McLaren. Honda is set to supply engines starting in 2015 to McLaren, one of the most successful teams in F-1 history.
But Honda's return to Formula One is not just about the race, either.
Honda believes the new F-1 cars, which are now required to have gasoline-electric hybrid technology, offer an opportunity to make a technology leap.
The new regulations from the F-1 governing body require teams and engine suppliers such as Renault, Ferrari and Mercedes-Benz, to use a smaller engine, enhanced by turbo-charging technology, while using braking and exhaust to re-generate energy. Teams are also being given around a third less allotment of gasoline to race, compared to the previous race rules.
The regulations came into effect with the new F-1 season that kicked off in Melbourne this weekend.
Honda is particularly interested in the new requirement to use "exhaust-energy recovery" technology. Among other possibilities, it is looking at a way to use exhaust gas to spin a turbine in the car's exhaust system to generate electricity and store it in an onboard battery. A McLaren-Honda F-1 car, starting next year, could use such regenerated energy to go faster or farther.
Honda's move reflects what Arai calls a resolve by CEO Takanobu Ito to use the sport as a "laboratory on wheels," just as originally envisioned by company founder Soichiro Honda in the 1960s.
Establishing that exhaust-energy-recovery know-how should help Honda boost the so-called thermal efficiency of an F-1 car by as much as a third, Arai said.
Even the best of today's most advanced gasoline engines use only 30 percent of the thermal energy they create by combustion. The rest is wasted during braking and leaks out through exhaust pipes as heat. Arai wants to improve that thermal efficiency to as much as 40 percent.
"There's no technology like that available today," said the 57-year-old engineer, who is also senior managing director at Honda's R&D arm. "It's highly challenging, but if achieved, it could be applied in conventional cars."
It's not always easy, however, to use racing as a technology incubator. Current and former Honda executives who spoke on condition of anonymity said two forces often collide as teams prepare for each race.
"In the boardroom, managers can say all they want about the importance of using racing as a laboratory, but once the race starts, winning it becomes the No. 1 priority," one former Honda F-1 engine designer said. "New ideas often get in the way."
Where those two forces coincide is around fuel efficiency - with Arai hoping to apply the technology developed for Formula One cars to its mass production models.
For Honda, it is also an extension of a broader effort by CEO Ito, who has held Honda's top job since 2009, to regain the edge it once had as a daring, risk-taking automaker. Toyota Motor Corp. over the past two decades has been seen as the more futuristic company. That reputation was largely due to the success of the gasoline-electric hybrid, Prius - technology that Honda failed to initially embrace fully, though the company under Ito has since adjusted its strategy.
"Inside Honda, we call the 2000s a lost decade, void of progress and impact and momentum," a senior Honda executive said.
One of the company's missteps during those years, company insiders say, was remaining in F-1 racing from 2000 through 2008, during which time Honda won just one race. At the time, the sport was paying little or no attention to advanced technology - even as consumers around the world demanded more fuel-efficient cars - and thus contributing little to the advancement of conventional cars.
Now Formula One, thanks to the new rule change, has become an "enormously challenging" battle front for new technology, Arai says. By again competing on the F-1 circuit, Honda hopes to hatch ideas that give its engines an "unknown level of fuel-efficiency," he said.
(Reporting By Norihiko Shirouzu and Yoko Kubota. Additional reporting by Maki Shiraki. Editing by Bill Tarrant.)


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West Asia, a region comprised of the Near East and Middle East includes countries like Turkey and Syria which were at the center of the spice trade for centuries. It's no surprise then that West Asian cuisine makes extensive use of spices such as cinnamon, cardamom, and sumac. For Thanksgiving this year, my family flew
West Asia, a region comprised of the Near East and Middle East includes countries like Turkey and Syria which were at the center of the spice trade for centuries. It's no surprise then that West Asian cuisine makes extensive use of spices such as cinnamon, cardamom, and sumac.
For Thanksgiving this year, my family flew out from California, so I wanted to make something a little different than the usual turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy. Still, it wouldn't be Turkey Day without the eponymous bird and the traditional fixin's so I created this West Asian inspired Thanksgiving dinner.
While the flavours may taste exotic to the western palette, the preparations stick to their more traditional North American roots. I also borrowed some North African flavors such as Harissa for the Turkey and Mergueza sausage for the stuffing. While it might sound like it's all over the map, the ingredients all play together very nicely with the spices adding vibrance to the late autumn meal without loosing the comforting feel of a traditional Thanksgiving dinner.
This year, I was lucky enough to be chosen to host one of the 24 Thanksgiving meals being featured on Foodbuzz this month.
Like my last 24, 24, 24 meal, I tried to source as much of the ingredients as I could locally. Most raw ingredients including the 8 lbs. heritage turkey came from within a few hundred miles of Manhattan. The Mergueza sausage I used for the stuffing came from a cool little stand at Union Square that sells both wool and lamb.
An unintended side benefit, of this meal is that it's actually quite healthy by Thanksgiving standards, using no butter or cream and making spare use of processed sugar. The potatoes use tahini for creaminess and both the brussel sprouts and yams use fruit juice reductions for sweetness. We also had a guest that's gluten intolerant, so with the exception of the stuffing(which you could make with gluten free-bread), the rest of the meal is entirely gluten-free.
So what was on the menu you ask?
fresh local baby carrots with cherry wood smoked sea salt.
selection of local cheeses.
multi grain and seed bread home made zucchini bread.
salt sumac sweet potato chips.
harissa cinnamon roast turkey.
fiery cinnamon cranberry sauce.
tahini mashed potatoes.
sweet potato sumac gratin with meringue.
brussel sprouts caramelized with pomegranate molasses.
multi-grain stuffing with dried cherries and mergueza.
Crust less milk and cardamom "pumpkin pie"
These chips were a result of leftover sweet potatoes and yams after I made the gratin. They're just deep fried until crisp and are dusted with salt and tangy sumac.
The turkey came out golden brown and perfect with a crisp fragrant skin and moist flavorful meat underneath. The rub is the same as I used on the chicken except I doubled the quantity. I roasted the turkey at 425 for 30 minutes, breast side down then reduce the heat to 325, flipped it and cooked breast side up until it was done. Stay tuned for a more detailed recipe.
I'm normally not much of a cranberry sauce fan, but this one really worked. The chili pepper and cinnamon overdose really gives it the kick it needs to be more than just a tart jam. In our family, cranberry sauce is usually what ends up being consumed over the following week as leftovers, but this batch sold out the first night. See recipe here
These tahini mashed potatoes were also a part of my preview dinner, but I swapped in Yukon Gold potatoes for their smoother texture and added a ton of milk. This resulted in the best mashed potatoes I've ever had. Honestly they tasted like they had cream and cheese in them. The flavour and creaminess comes courtesy of the tahini, which is a smooth paste (like peanut butter) made out of ground sesame seeds. Tahini does have a way of absorbing a lot of water though so I ended up adding about twice the amount of milk I'd normally put in mashed potatoes. See recipe here
For this dish I layered thinly sliced yams (orange) and sweet potatoes (yellow) along with cinnamon and sumac then covered it in a reduced apple cider. It's topped with a lightly sweetened meringue which is browned until slightly crisp on top. Stay tuned this week for a recipe.
Brussel sprouts are one of those reviled veggies that I'd try about once a year hoping I'd like them better. I realized this year that the thing I liked best about brussel sprouts where the bits around the edges that got caramelized, so instead of halving or even quartering them, I decided to shred them like cole slaw. This worked better than expected and 6 people managed to polish off 2 lbs of brussel sprouts in one night. See recipe here
This stuffing was good the first time I made it but it was even better the second. I like really moist stuffing and the key is to douse it with chicken stock until it's nearly mushy. The spicy North African lamb sausage is packed with flavour and goes nicely with the sweet and tart dried cherries. The multigrain retains a pleasant texture even after being thoroughly soaked in stock, and a light dusting of sumac on top gives it a bit of color and a nice tang. See recipe here
Having a gluten intolerant guest I knew I'd need to make a dessert that didn't involve the use of flour. Sure, I could have cheated and used a gluten-free flour, but I wanted something a bit more interesting. The Turkish have a fantastic baked milk custard dish which was my initial source of inspiration. I ended up straying pretty far from the Turkish original using an egg based custard and steaming it instead of baking it. I infused the milk with with green cardamom, nutmeg and orange zest and it gets its intense creaminess from the sweetened condensed milk (similar to a flan). While it looks fantastic and the custard was the perfect texture, I wasn't a huge fan of the tough skinned sugar pumpkin. Next time I think I'll try it with a finer textured Kabocha pumpkin. See recipe here