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6 "World-Changing" Inventions (That Didn't Change Shit)
The last 50 odd years have seen the introduction of some of the most life-changing inventions ever created. Some of them, like the Internet, the iPod, or the fleshlight, are so useful or cool that they become an inescapable part of our daily lives. Others, well, not so much. And no amount of hype could save them.
#6. The Video Phone
How It Was Supposed To Change The World:
As early as 1910, people were imagining a wonderful future where they could see the person they were talking to miles away while still being able to enjoy the privacy of being pantless off screen. Videophones were standard future tech in science fiction (hell, imagine Star Trek without the bad guy threatening the crew on the giant wide screen monitor that apparently works with all alien camera technology).
So companies have been tinkering with videophone systems for decades, and AT&T had an easy to use prototype up and running by the 60s. By 1970, the picture phone was available for use in New York, Washington, Chicago and Pittsburgh. Major companies like Westinghouse had units installed in their corporate headquarters.
The video wasn't great but it didn't matter. The grainy technicolor future was here!
How It Didn't Change Shit:
Besides costing $1500 for the phone, the service cost over $90 bucks a month. Back in 1970, most people's disposable income was tied up in polyester shirts and cocaine, leaving little room for insanely expensive talky boxes. But the real nail in the coffin was the fact that people didn't want to use videophones nearly as much as everyone thought they did.
Sure, it was fun to see the person you were talking to at first, but once the novelty wore off it got weird. People didn't look at the camera when they talked, they looked at the screen. Even in webcams today, you don't look at the girl you're paying $5.95 a minute, you look down and to the left. The reason face-to-face contact is so valued by people, aside from the chance to score a peripheral glance at some boob, is the human eye contact. And the videophone didn't allow any.
Another unforeseen problem was that people liked being able to see the person they were talking to, but didn't really want anyone to see them. With a regular phone you can answer safe in the knowledge that no one knows how sad your life is. But with a video phone, you can't hide the fact you're eating sandwiches on the toilet.
Is There Any Hope?
Sure, webcams have become ubiquitous, but most people use those to masturbate with strangers. Somehow that doesn't feel the same when you're using your home phone talking to grandma. Many cellphones have the capability to send and receive video calls, it's just a matter of most people not giving a damn.
It's useful for some groups,such as the deaf who can use it to sign, and for various medical and diagnostic purposes. Outside of those specialized uses, it seems to be doomed to always be a novelty, niche product.
#5. Olestra
How It Was Supposed To Change The World:
Generally speaking, it's hard to spend your life wallowing in Pabst and pork rinds and then ooze into some bicycle shorts for a round of squat thrusts without looking like a complete troll. Wouldn't it be great if there was a magical product that let you stuff your greasy pie-hole without having to worry about breaking the toilet? Well in 1998, it looked that product might have arrived.
Accidentally discovered by chemists at Proctor and Gamble in 1968 who were probably trying to find some way to make birth control come in Skittles flavors, Olestra is a food additive that can be used as a substitute for fat. For a world in love with chips, donuts and bacon-wrapped bacon, Olestra should have been the second coming of Jesus. Sweet, greasy Jesus.
Sure, there have been other fat substitutes before, but they either didn't work or made the food taste like, well, some chemical that came out of a lab. Olestra was different. A magic bullet that reduces fat but didn't leave an aftertaste like axle grease. Its downfall can be traced to the two most horrible words in the English language: anal leakage.
How It Didn't Change Shit:
Olestra-filled products initially flew off the shelves. In one year alone, $400 million worth of the fat substitute-filled snacks were sold. Olestra looked like the best idea since people stopped letting Rob Schneider make movies. People started to imagine a world where they could eat like pigs and still be thin without sticking their fingers down their throats.
In 2000, sales of Olestra had halved. Late night talk show hosts and hack comedians everywhere joked about it. The product that was supposed to change the way the world snacked was a bust. Why? It all came down to the warning label:
Olestra may cause abdominal cramping and loose stools.
In fairness, eating just a few Olestra-laden chips wasn't going to make you Spackle your shorts with greasy ass jelly. The side effect usually only occurred if someone ate an excessive amount of Olestra in a really short time. However, even a small chance of anal leakage is still too much of a chance for even the most Cheezie-addicted customers.
Is There Any Hope?
No need to cry for the miracle product that was Olestra. Even though the FDA eventually removed the anal leakage warning because, apparently, no one was having anal leakage, people didn't really give a shit, so to speak. Rather than call it a total bust, Proctor and Gamble did the next best thing and turned Olestra into an industrial lubricant for small power tools.
So feel free to lick your drill next time you bust it out safe in the knowledge it won't actually cause anal leakage. Probably.
#4. WebTV
How It Was Supposed To Change The World:
Back in the carefree days of the early 90s, companies were eager to expand the growth of the Internet beyond bored office workers, pornography enthusiasts and white supremacists, looking for a way to get "mom" in to cyberspace. In 1996, WebTV looked like it had the perfect solution.
Sweetheart, what's a goatse?
For about a third of the cost of a new PC, the technologically unsavvy could surf for pictures of cute cats and get fleeced in 419 scams through their TV, and right from the comfort of their sofa.
How It Didn't Change Shit:
While it originally proved quite popular, WebTV was not without its problems. For one, it was woefully out of its league with a 33.6 kb/s modem, no hard drive and 8 MB of RAM (yes, bad for even those days). It also had no operating system, so software had to be downloaded directly from WebTV. This made it really easy to use, but it also meant that WebTV had to pay big bucks to companies like RealPlayer to make their applications available. But the real problem was the customers.
Having the technologically retarded as your customer-base means you're going to have a lot more customer service issues. Users of WebTV were constantly asking for help with the simplest of questions about the service. How do I check my e-mail? Why would a cat even ask if it can have cheeseburger?
"Hey, I was looking for Discovery Channel and I found porn but now I want the porn and I can't find it anymore. What's the porn I was looking at?"
At the same time, customers rarely clicked on ads or used the shopping features, two streams of revenue WebTV was sure customers would provide. And it didn't help that PCs got a lot faster and cheaper. WebTV didn't die, but it failed to live up to its promise to bring grandma to the Internet.
Is There Any Hope?
WebTV at some point realized they sucked but had an out: Microsoft. Microsoft bought the company and turned it into MSN TV, well aware that they had their own giant customer base of idiots and thus the infrastructure to deal with them. They're still plugging along, serving that select group of customers who 1) want to surf the Net 2) refuse to leave the couch and 3) have never heard of a laptop.


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What are your strategies for local SEO? For example, if you had a web design company in Lincoln, Nebraska, what would you do for your website from an SEO perspective?
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After claiming your listing with Google Places as well as Bing, and BOTW local listings. I start with the local citation finder. This shows where your top local competitors are promoting their website http://www.whitespark.ca/tools/local-citation-finder/ and will give you a good idea of where to promote locally.
Also depending on the industry Yelp can be a great resource.
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Also, add your business to Google Places.
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The following question - Rails 3.2 - assets precompile, but not display in production mode with Apache - was posted by one of my coworkers but the question ended up not being relevant to the actual problem we were having (i.e. thought it was A, was actually unrelated problem C). I put a bounty on it since it was up for awhile without any attention but given that the question is effectively unanswerable what should be done about the bounty and the question. Flagging it for a moderator was ineffective ("declined - flags should only be used to make moderators aware of content that requires their intervention") with regards to getting resolution so I'm taking the question here.
How should this question be handled as the question itself cannot be answered and the bounty is going to be unaward-able because it is for a question that can't be answered.


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I want to prove that $\mathbb{R}^n$ contains no subspace homeomorphic to $S^n$, as per the wikipedia article
I'm trying to set up a function $g:S^n \to \mathbb{R}^n$ that would be injective, which cannot occur by Borsuk-Ulam.
If I have a subspace, $A \subset \mathbb{R}^n$, homeomorphic to $S^n$ then I can have a map $h:S^n \to A$. Can I compose this with the inclusion $i:\hookrightarrow \mathbb{R}^n$ to give an (injective) map $S^n \to \mathbb{R}^n$, and am done?
(As an aside, I am sure there are other point-set topology ways to prove this problem, maybe using invariance of domain)
Edit: Since the above works, to make this a little more interesting - can anyone provide any other proofs without using algebraic topology? (Although this is probably debatable, because some other methods to use it are probably based on algebraic topology)


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IMHO a list of well-maintained PPAs is a useful commodity for a Ubuntu user to have. Perhaps some of you have links of this kind to share? Or maybe you've seen a review or list of PPAs (a blog post maybe) by someone, or some kind of PPA directory, etc.?
I am especially interested in fresh and useful packages targeting 10.04, 10.10 and 11.04.


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Man, my girl's ass fro is so hairy she looks like she has Buckwheat in a leg lock.
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A pub and brewery in town does a delicious porter with caramel and coffee tones. What particular ingredients do I need to add to my mash to achieve this?
Black malt and Roasted Barley will deliver coffee notes. Using anywhere from 0.5lb up to 1lb of either (or in combination) per 5 gallon batch is the norm. Caramel notes are easily delivered from crystal/caramel malts. I have used a full pound of Crystal 60L in a brown ale and it had a real nice toffee/caramel punch to it. Using less than a pound of caramel or crystal malts is the norm per 5 gallon batch. Crystal malts come in a range of color/flavor values. Try a mix of C60 and C40, or a combination of C60 and C80 for more of a darker fruit flavor.
I also find that black malt with crystal malt is the best way to get coffee tones. As black malt alone tends to just taste like heavy roast. The crystal character really helps carry the flavors to a nice place.
Im not sure how much coffee flavor youre going for, but Ive been reading a lot (mostly on stack exchange) about making beer with coffee. You could cold press some coffee and add it at bottling. Another suggestion Ive read which I plan on trying this week is to "dry hop" during primary or secondary fermentation with some coursely ground beans in a muslin bag.


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DUKES, Inez Dorothy Davidson, 96, of Bridge port, died peacefully on December 31, 2013, at Liza's Hospice Care Center in Wheeling surrounded by her family.
She was born on December 1, 1917, in Wheeling, daughter of the late Charles and Sarah Keagy Davidson.
She was preceded in death by her husband of 61 years, Ellsworth, in 1999; her daughter, Carol Sue, in 2001; 12 siblings, and several brothers and sisters- in-law.
Inez dedicated her life as a loving housewife and caregiver to her husband and daughter, Carol Sue. She was member of Bridgeport Church of God, where she served faithfully as a Sunday school and Vacation Bible School teacher and member of the choir.
She is survived by her son, Philip (Bobbie) Dukes, of Moundsville; her daughter, Debbie (Fred) Henceroth, of Rayland; her grandchildren, Casey Henceroth of Columbus, Michael (Chelsea) Dukes of Mililani, Hawaii, and Aaron (Colette) Henceroth of Urbana; and her great-granddaughters, Isabella Henceroth and Teagan Smith. She is also survived by two nieces, Judy Carter of Martins Ferry and Sally Fry of St. Clairsville, and two great- nieces.
Friends and loved ones will be received Friday, January 3, 2014, from 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. at Wilson Funeral Home, 920 National Road, Bridgeport.
A funeral service celebrating her life will be held at Bridge port Church of God, 859 National Road, Bridgeport, OH, on Saturday, January 4 with friends being received at 10 a.m. until time of service at 11 a.m., officiated by Reverend Tom Tennant.
Interment will follow at Holly Memorial Gardens in Pleasant Grove.
The family is grateful for the many wonderful caregivers whose loving care and support allowed Inez to remain in her home until her final days.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Bridgeport Church of God, 859 National Road, Bridgeport, OH, 43912, or to Valley Hospice, 10686 St. Rt. 150 Rayland, OH 43943.


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The FBI collects these data through the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program.
The U.S. Census Bureau has established the four regions of the United States along with their nine geographic divisions which are used by the UCR Program when compiling the Nation's crime data. The following table lists the 50 states and the District of Columbia arranged according to the regions and divisions of the United States.
For the 2009 population estimates used in this table, the FBI computed individual rates of growth from one year to the next for every city/town and county using 2000 decennial population counts and 2001 through 2008 population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. Each agency's rates of growth were averaged; that average was then applied and added to its 2008 Census population estimate to derive the agency's 2009 population estimate.


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Rudy Project is heating up the sunglasses market not only in style, but functionality and safety as well. The Rydon sunglasses are a perfect example of this. Rudy Project sent over the Rydon Crystal with Impactx Photochromic clear lens for our review.
The Rydon are light at .88 oz and are packed full of features and technology. The carbonium frames are adjustable from the non-slip nose piece and aluminum alloy temple pieces as well, thus allowing a custom fit for everyone. You can also customize the nose piece and temple end pieces to match your kit or bike with ten colors to choose from. The temple hinges of the Rydon are hidden which keeps you safe in the event of a crash or impact.
The Rydon's lens are interchangeable with numerous tint, color and feature options. The style that was supplied are the Impactx Polarized Photochromic clear lens. Impactx is Rudy Projects revolutionary lens material which not only provides superior optical quality but are as well light weight. Impactx, is guaranteed unbreakable for life and are semi-rigid so they will bend or give, upon a crash. Can you tell that Rudy Project has your safety in mind?
The Photocromic feature of the sunglasses adjusts to varying UV intensities. The clear lens is perfect for partly cloudy to storm like conditions. As you can see below, in direct sunlight the Rydon goes from clear to full tint, in about twenty seconds. A few items to note about the Photocromic feature that Rudy Project points out, in cold weather they will tint quickly and go clear slowly, for hot weather the inverse occurs. Fog and humidity absorb UV radiation, this lowers the reaction speed of the lens, but in most cases, the sunlight in the fog stayed consistent, so to me this is a moot point. I found that the tint of the lens was just right during the varying conditions, it was lighter when I needed it to be and as well darker when the sun peered through the clouds. When mountain biking, it worked well going in and out of shaded areas to open fields. One observation that occurred just a few times, is when heading in one direction for a long distance and with the sun behind you to the side, the light that would cast itself on the lens would cause a streak. So it is good to know that in some minute cases only a portion of the lens can change tint. Changing your direction or facing towards the sun would quickly correct the streak.
For those near or far sighted cyclists, the Rydon are prescription friendly and offer either Rx adapters or Rx lenses for your specific eye need.
The Rydon are a great pair of sunglasses for the cyclist. They offer the best in weight, style, lens and safety features. I've thrown all the elements at them, mud, rain and sun over the past months and they have held up well. While riding I have wiped the lenses of such elements and the lenses are scratch free, this is a plus in my book. You can purchase your pair of Rydon's for about $209. For me they are worth every penny, as in my book there are two things you cannot skimp on when purchasing for your body, which are shoes and sunglasses.


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The tour will then move to Beacon Falls, a charming hamlet which was designed and planned by Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. in the early twentieth century. Participants will tour the Lewis House and learn how this planned community developed. Tour-goers will travel to Matthies Park, a remarkable feat of engineering built by industrial leader Bernard Matthies who developed a network of canals in over 300 acres of land to create a lake for his summer retreat.. The park is on the National Register of Historic Places.
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WHEELING - Knowing how hard Cameron had to battle just to make the OVAC Tournament, Steubenville Catholic Central coach Jim DiCarlo wasn't surprised the Dragons took his team to the wire Thursday at Lisa's Field.
Battling some initial nerves, the Crusaders rallied with two runs in the bottom of the sixth inning of the Class 2A semifinal for a 3-2 victory.
The Crusaders return at 10:30 on Saturday morning to face Wheeling Central in the title game.
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AND THE PITCH — Steubenville Catholic Central pitcher Alex McComb winds up with teammates Kelsey Grandinetti and Sammi Giannamore ready to play defense during Thursday's OVAC win.
-- Shawn Rine
"I think the OVACs always brings the best out of teams,'' DiCarlo said. "You've got to give Cameron credit.
"That's a program that is used to winning at this level."
After the Dragons (14-6) had struck for two runs in the top of the sixth, the bottom half began with Taylor Clark, playing with a torn ACL, reaching on a single and being replaced by Fran Capaldi. One out later, Ashlynne Daley ripped the first pitch she saw from Linda Hall into deep left-center, scoring Capaldi with the tying run. Hall struck out the next batter, but Megan Lloyd slammed an 0-2 pitch between shortstop and third to score what turned out to be the winning run.
That rally was made possible by Steubenville Central (15-3) second baseman Kelsey Grandinetti. Cameron had already scored twice and was threatening to tally another, but Grandinetti made a diving catch on a Janis Williams liner and fired to third from her knees to complete a double play and end the sixth.
"That was really key. I went out and talked to them and told them 'if we hold them we are going to win,' '' DiCarlo recalled. "We've been down many times and our kids have not panicked.
"They have confidence that we can hit the ball and come back. That's what we did. We hit the ball hard in that sixth inning.''
It was a tough-to-swallow defeat for Coach Mark Witzberger's young Dragons. They hadn't had much success against Crusaders freshman hurler Alex McComb, who fanned 10 - all in the first five innings.
However, Hall, who struck out eight and did not issue a walk, kept Cameron in it until the bats came alive. Natalie Trowbridge led off the sixth with the game's lone walk but was erased on Hall's fielder's choice grounder.
Audrey Bryan followed with her second single of the game and Marissa Meintel brought them both home by ripping a 2-2 pitch into deep right for a double.
"This is probably the best game we've played this year with a lot of very inexperienced players,'' Witzberger said. "I couldn't be prouder of them.
"I think at the beginning of the year if you would have asked anyone, with what we lost (to graduation) and the players we've had to move into positions they've never played before, to get to this point and play this well speaks very highly of the girls and the effort they put in every day.''
McComb helped her own cause with an RBI single in the fourth.
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GENESEO, N.Y. - SUNY Geneseo President Christopher C. Dahl announced today that William H. Brower III has been named vice president for college advancement and executive director of the Geneseo Foundation. The appointment, effective Sept. 13, concludes a six-month national search.
At Geneseo, Brower will direct the college advancement division and manage a team of 28 professionals engaged in development, communications, and alumni relations. He brings more than 24 years of development and capital campaign experience, including 16 years at Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y., where he has worked since 1996.
"I'm delighted to have Bill Brower in this crucial leadership position," said Dahl. "His proven success in relationship building and fundraising combined with his passion for liberal education will be pivotal factors as the college continues its progress as one of the nation's top public liberal arts colleges. On behalf of the search committee and the entire Geneseo community, I warmly welcome Bill to our campus and look forward to working with him."
Brower has served four years as executive director of major gifts at Hamilton, where he led the major gifts and advancement services operation. Also at Hamilton, he served as executive director of annual giving and alumni relations during a $183 million capital campaign and as associate director of planned giving during a $108 million campaign. Prior to his Hamilton appointments, Brower held various development positions at the Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, Mass.
"I am honored to receive this tremendous vote of confidence and look forward with great anticipation to working with my advancement colleagues and everyone in the Geneseo community," said Brower. "Without question, Geneseo has become one of the finest public liberal arts colleges in the country, and I look forward to reinforcing the college's standing among its alumni, parents, friends, students and other stakeholders to help obtain the resources needed to ensure a strong future."
The search committee was chaired by Provost Carol Long, who said Brower emerged from a strong group of nominations and applications.
"We had a number of stellar candidates, but the search committee felt Bill's credentials and liberal arts experience, combined with his collaborative leadership style, best fulfilled Geneseo's needs," said Long. "We are on the home stretch of a capital campaign and are confident he can help bring it to a successful finish while laying the groundwork for future achievements in advancement."
Also on the search committee was Jack Kramer '76, chair of the Geneseo Foundation Board of Directors, who is looking forward to sharing Brower's vision and energy.
"I couldn't be happier having Bill with us and I welcome him to campus on behalf of the Foundation Board," said Kramer. "It's a very exciting time at Geneseo and I'm confident that Bill will continue to strengthen the philanthropic support the college needs to provide the absolute best educational experience for our students. I'm certain our alumni and other stakeholders will provide him with extraordinary support."
Dahl praised the commitment and service provided by Debra G. Hill '75, who has served as interim vice president since May 1.
"My sincere thanks to Debbie for providing able leadership in the advancement division," said Dahl. "Working with her colleagues and board leadership, she kept our campaign on track and built a solid framework for a smooth transition for the new vice president."
Hill will resume her duties as assistant vice president for advancement, the position she held before her interim appointment.
Brower earned his bachelor's degree in history from Hamilton. He also completed one year toward a master of divinity degree at the Harvard Divinity School and completed a program for financial planners at Boston University. He and his wife, Madge, have three sons.
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We're currently adding some new features to an old webapp which was using only JSP without any framework for the front. We have added Spring recently, and we would like to autowire our beans in our modified JSP, while not rewriting everything to use SpringMVC, Struts2 or Tapestry5.
We're using autowiring by type, so it leads to get some code like this in the JSP, while previously getting the web application context ( as "wap") :
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We would like not to use such a code but rather automagically inject our beans directly in our JSPs as we would in a business bean using @Autowired annotation.
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Our shop's size increases dynamically, so we are planning to hire a few new junior developers but we would not like to overwhelm the seniors with too much mentoring and training. How many (usually fresh out of college) junior developers could (and should) a senior developer mentor while the senior is still being able to do his or her tasks effectively?
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Anywhere from 0 to 5 or 7 (or so).
Arguments for the low side:
Arguments for a higher amount:
I would encourage having a conversation with the senior devs and see what they are comfortable with. Not everyone wants to mentor. Also remember to use the "full bookshelf" analogy: Their workloads are currently full. If you are going to add to their workload by having them mentor, then you need to take something else off of the shelf to make room.
No more than two per senior developer if you are hiring people straight out of college. The recent college grads I've had to deal with in the past have a good understanding of the basics, but they had no idea what it was like to program in the business world. You will you have to spend time teaching them how to program professionally, it is quite a shock when they realize that they will have to support the code they write for as long as they are with the company, no more turning assignments and moving on. But you will also have to spend time teaching them your business (and all it's rules), teach them how to code your architecture, reviewing their code, teaching them how to test, and answering question after question after question. Both times I was asked to mentor a junior I spent at least half my time at their desk for the first couple of months.
If you have a lot of juniors coming in, let's say >30, it might be worth it to dedicate a senior developer to mentoring them full time. At my first job they hired about that many of us fresh out of college and had a dedicated team member helping us learn the ropes for the first 6 months. It made the transition a lot easier and he taught us a lot.
Not only is it more efficient to have one person handling the job, there may be a single person in your office that you know would be a perfect mentor. A good programmer isn't necessarily a good teacher.
As many as they can while still being able to get their own work done on time.
The answer, therefore, depends on how effective the senior is as both a developer and as a teacher.
You don't mention the type of project work which in my experience has a HUGE impact on where that ratio should be.
On a scale of cookie-cutter repetition that could almost be automated to experimental things the developer isn't even sure will work you need to make sure you keep the jr devs to the left unless you are at a really low ratio and even more strictly to the left if the sr devs are trying to do something they consider to the experimental end of the spectrum because they aren't usually going to be as effective riding herd on a team of jr devs if they are pushing themselves hard at the same time.
It depends on the work as much as the people in my opinion.
Mentoring is less formal than managing. Mentors are not directly involved in the hiring, firing, reviewing and discipline. The environment will be a major factor. Here are the factors to consider:
Mentoring usually involves some level of bonding and I just don't think most people can build any type of interpersonal relationship with more than 3-5 people in a given setting.
Ideally a junior works with a mentor on a project. In this way the senior can assign sub tasks and work with them towards completing a project. The more juniors the Senior has to manage the less work the senior will be able to complete of their own. I would not want more than 1 or 2 junior working with a senior at any one time. Though the senior can continue to mentor other programmers after 2 or 3 months a decent programmer should need far less time from the senior than they did originally. So a senior could conceivably have 20 or more people he is mentor for but really only 2 or 3 that really require much of their time.


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public interface Flier {
public void fly();
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Vehicle? I don't want to make
Flier an abstract class because I want to be able to mix a few other interfaces in a similar manner.
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public interface Car {
public void honk();
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// a subclass of Vehicle.
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Insect Chic: In Colorado, Beetles Create Decor Trend
Bugs Give Trees a Blue Streak; Craftsmen Avoid Word 'Fungus'
DENVER—Chuck Shifflett hates what the insidious mountain pine beetle has done to the forests of Colorado, but he loves what the insect has done for his kitchen.
Last year, Mr. Shifflett, a property developer and retired Air Force officer, decided that the old, white, vinyl cabinets in his Denver condo needed an update. So he ripped them out and replaced them with cupboards made of wood from trees once infested with the beetles, which carry a fungus that stains the wood a bluish-gray hue.
Mr. Shifflett's kitchen island, as well, is marbled bluish-gray and he plans to panel his study in the blue, beetle-chewed wood.
"The old cabinets were in kind of a country style, which just isn't appropriate for a downtown loft," said Mr. Shifflett, standing in his apartment, decorated in contemporary art, European metal light fixtures and sleek armchairs. "Now, everybody who comes in here asks immediately about the cabinets. It's incredibly beautiful wood."
Mr. Shifflett's kitchen is on the cusp of the hottest interior design trend in Colorado at the moment: Eco-conscious, with-it home- and business-owners are outfitting their houses and offices in blue-stained beetle wood. It is the latest symbol of downtown chic, up there with countertops made from recycled glass and bamboo-paper lampshades.
"I hadn't seen it used in a home before ours, but now it's super trendy," says Paige Damiano, who built a contemporary house in 2010 in Denver with her husband, who runs sales for New Mexico and Colorado for Burton Snowboards.
On their architect's suggestion, the couple outfitted the cabinets, wall paneling and ceilings in the living room of the house with the blue wood.
"You see it popping up everywhere, in restaurants, office buildings, homes," says Ms. Damiano, whose home was featured last year in Dwell, a magazine that highlights interior design tastemakers. "People who are into design, Colorado lovers, eco-friendly people all love it, because it looks super awesome, and because it's heartbreaking, when you drive up into the mountains, to see all these dead trees."
The U.S. Forest Service estimates that in the past decade, the beetle has chewed through and killed portions of 40 million to 45 million acres of timber, or about 12% of the forested land west of the Mississippi. The infestation, which first became serious in Colorado, has moved to other states, including Montana, Idaho and Wyoming.
Once beetles get under the bark—they typically target lodgepole pines—they deposit eggs that hatch into larvae, which block water flow and cut off nutrients, killing the tree and leaving behind a fungus, which stains the wood in inky streaks that range from grayish-blue to indigo.
Skiers and hikers have complained about huge stands of pine turned gray and unsightly as they lose needles, dry out and die from the beetle infestation. Foresters worry that in the first years after dying, beetle-killed trees are like huge tinderboxes: prone to bursting into fast-moving wildfires.
But over the past few years, a group of artisans and craftsmen have appeared, mostly in Colorado, designing everything from high-end furniture to skis to iPad cases out of the blue wood. One investor has plans to build a ski resort in the Rocky Mountains, with a lodge and houses made entirely out of blue, beetle-chewed wood.
"Everybody's bummed about the beetles, but in one sense, the beetles are the heroes. We're creating all these manufacturing jobs," says Corbin Clay, a woodworker whose company makes custom dining-room tables, desks, buffets and other furniture, exclusively out of beetle-killed wood.
Mr. Clay had never heard of the mountain pine beetle when he moved to Colorado in 2007 and started working at a high-end kitchen fixtures manufacturer. He decided to start his own company last year, focused on beetle-killed wood, called Azure Furniture.
"From a marketing standpoint, we try to avoid the word fungal or fungus," Mr. Clay says. "But I think we've convinced the vast majority of people that the beetles are not going to crawl out and eat their children, and that the fungus is not harmful."
Azure has sold about 190 pieces of custom furniture so far, including $1,000 dining-room tables and $700 desks.
Scientists say the wood isn't harmful—the beetles move on or die long before the trees are cut down. But the wood does lose its structural integrity if the trees sit too long after being killed, one reason some builders are reluctant to use it for load-bearing frames in houses and other buildings.
There have been other insect-based design trends, most notably wormy maple, a type of wood popular for its pock marks and changes in the grain caused by the ambrosia beetle. But in Colorado, beetle-wood products are often seen as a small part of the solution to a huge problem.
Charise Buckley, an interior designer from Breckenridge, Colo., started a furniture-design company three years ago called Beetle Kill Blues. She says she has seen sales tick up this year as more people notice how bad the infestation has gotten.
"People feel bad when they see all the dead trees, because the reason they came here is to commune with nature," she says. "It has become kind of an exotic product."
The most ambitious blue beetle-wood project in the works, however, is taking shape near Leadville, an old mining town high in the Rocky Mountains.
Steve Smith, a Dallas-based banking executive who founded a company that invests for mutual funds and union-benefit plans, has bought 600 acres near Leadville and is planning a $120 million ski resort called AltaColorado, with a lodge, a spa, and 400 "Mining Era-chic" homes made almost entirely out of blue beetle-killed wood, including walls, bed frames, cabinets, and the finishes in the lobby.
Mr. Smith, who has been visiting Colorado as a tourist for 40 years, says he first noticed the wood while skiing. "I'm a tree-hugging kind of guy," he says. "I saw all those dead trees, and I thought, this is a problem waiting to be solved."
Mr. Smith says his company has filed paperwork with Lake County to incorporate the resort as a new town. On a recent tour of the property, ski trails wound around dead, beetle-infected trees. At the crest of a hill, a clearing commands a view of an alpine lake.
"I feel that we can create a premium brand out of something that costs very little to acquire," Mr. Smith says, referring to the blue wood. "It's the whole Rocky Mountain thing. This is the way a regional brand gets established."
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Make Your Own Quicksand Kit by Toysmith Learn how Quicksand works! Make your own quicksand pit. Is it a Solid? Is it a Liquid? Could it be Both? We've all sees the hero sucked down into the quicksand pit. How does it really work? It occurs naturally and is solid ground that has turned into a liquid from too much water. The term "quick" refers to how fast sand changes from a solid to a liquid.
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Pemex CEO Juan Jose Suarez Coppel said he expects it will take about 15 days to complete a bypass that will allow gas to flow once again from the northern Burgos gas fields to the central part of the country. He said the gas-reception center damaged by blast is a relatively new plant.
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MEXICO CITY Mexicos state-owned oil company
Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, is working with industry and
government power utility Comision Federal de Electricidad, or
CFE, to manage limited natural-gas supplies in the wake of a
Sept. 18 plant explosion near the northern border city of
Reynosa that killed 30 workers, oil company executives said
Pemex CEO Juan Jose Suarez Coppel said that in addition to
increasing gas imports from the US to the maximum possible
level through pipelines, the company is working with the
industry group Concamin and the CFE to see if all can agree on
how to spread the extra costs that would come from importing
more expensive liquefied natural gas, or LNG, through the
Pacific port of Manzanillo.
Mr. Suarez said at a news conference he expects it will take
about 15 days to complete a bypass that will allow gas to flow
once again from the northern Burgos gas fields to the central
part of the country.
He said the gas-reception center damaged by blast is a
relatively new plant and that the cause of the accident is
being investigated by authorities and international
Mr. Suarez said there was no evidence that the explosion was
caused deliberately.
Pemex's director of operations, Carlos Murrieta, said that
800 million cubic feet/day of natural of Burgos production were
halted by the blast, and that about half that amount has been
effectively replaced through a combination of imports and
trimming use of the fuel at Pemex and CFE.
Mr. Murrieta said the pressure in Pemexs natural-gas
pipeline system currently is above critical levels.
CFE said recently that it is using more fuel oil and diesel
fuel because of the gas shortage, which preceded the Pemex
accident at Reynosa.
Mr. Suarez said that natural-gas cutbacks will not affect
Pemex's output of crude oil. Pemex pumps natural gas into oil
fields to increase pressure and output, but the gas is
recovered and reinjected, so the practice is not gas
consumption so much as gas recycling, he said.
Pemex is a major exporter of crude-oil, but a net importer
of natural gas and had been importing more than one billion
cubic feet/ day in recent months to try and satisfy increasing
demand for the cheap gas from heavy industry.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- Kentucky's largest electric utility has sent more than 400 workers to the northeast, to help restore power to homes affected by superstorm Sandy.
LG&E and its subsidiary, Kentucky Utilities, sent 100 workers, in addition to 300 deployed over the weekend. The workers include line technicians and tree crews.
They were working this week in an area north of Allentown, Pa. A statement from the utility says the crews were facing strong winds, flooding, and storm debris, while helping PPL utility restore more than 400,000 outages in the area.
The crews in the northeast attempted to begin restoring service on Monday, but winds were too strong to set utility poles.
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I watched this movie long long back, and the movie is quite old.
What I roughly remember is a captain is ordered to capture a village in Italy. The Italian officer in command is only willing to surrender if they are allowed to celebrate their annual village wine festival.
Any idea which movie this is?
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The stochastic gradient descent algorithm where only a noisy gradient (zero mean noise) is used to update current estimate is known to converge almost surely to the minimizer. However, if one is interested only in convergence in distribution (I understand this requirement is a weaker notion) and NOT almost sure convergence, how should the step sizes chosen so that only distributional convergence and not a.s is guaranteed?
I think you're talking about the SPGD algorithm as mentioned in Vorontsov's papers. As far as I now there is no real mathematical background theory directly for this, but there exist theory about SPSA which is very close to SPGD, for example Spall "Introduction to Stochastic Search and Approximation" (who only talks about a.s. convergence). In Kushner and Yin,"Stochastic Approximation and Recursive Algorithms and Applications" is some theory about weaker convergence, but more for the general Kiefer-Wolfowitz-SA-case.
yes that is exactly what i am looking for.
@peter Sarkoci you are right that the question is about the behaviour of a randomized algorithm. However, i would want the minimizer to be a non-trivial random variable rather than a constant. Any r.v with expected value as the actual minimizer would do. For instance, a Gaussian with mean at the minimizer and low variance would be fine.
I think for such a condition to be satisfied depends only on the possible values of the gradients of the original function and not on the choice of step sizes. Am i right?


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I like the feel of the material. But the overriding problem with it is that it seems to be cut to short in the front because it continues to ride up over my cycling shorts exposing my abdomen. I am considering wearing it sparingly. I am considering and have second thoughts on ordering a more expensive wool jersey from ACA because it may be short in front also.


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WELLSBURG - The Brooke County Board of Education on Monday accepted a bid for new furniture and shelves for the Brooke High School library and heard a proposal to offer a program that could prepare Brooke students for a career in medical technology.
Tom Sexton and Associates of Walton, Ky., submitted the winning bid of $48,472 for new counters, shelving, computer tables, chairs and other furnishings for the school library.
Last month the board accepted a bid of $35,694 from Carpet Showcase of Wheeling for new carpet for the library. Board members said the carpet hadn't been replaced since the school opened more than 40 years ago.
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PROMOTING SAFETY — Winners of the Brooke County Schools Transportation Department's School Bus Safety Poster Contest were recognized at Monday's school board meeting. They include, from left, Payton Adler, Meah Doll, Owen Petrella, Maura Jones, Nikena Croce, Mia Camilletti, Jaclin Hedmond, Morgan Roadman, Olivia Cipoletti and Donovan Forster. Also winners were: Bobby Shuble, Navayla Williams, Madison Lewis and Jaden Tennant. -- Warren Scott
The library's renovation is among projects to be funded from $661,955 received from Chesapeake Energy for leasing up to 189 acres of school property for natural gas drilling.
The lease was entered with the agreement that no wells be established on the property and the board and Chesapeake mutually agree upon any pipelines or access roads built there.
In other business, Joe Starcher, the school district's director of career technical education, suggested adding a health information technology program to the high school's vocational curriculum.
Starcher said Health Informatics, a program offered at high schools in Ohio and Kentucky, enables students to earn a two-year certificate in the field. He said the field is expected to grow with a greater demand for electronic medical records prompted by Obamacare.
He said Cynthia Sundstrom, coordinator of health science education for the state Board of Education, will visit Brooke County in April to discuss the program.
If adopted, it wouldn't be the first health care field studied by Brooke High School students. Ten to 20 students have enrolled each year in a two-year program preparing them for careers as certified nursing assistants, Starcher said.
Students in the course currently gain work experience at Brightwood Center Genesis Eldercare, a local assisted living facility; and a number have gone on to become registered nurses, he said.
The board also recognized the winners of the transportation department's school bus safety poster contest. The contest is held each year to promote safety, by children and adults, when near school buses.
This year's theme was "Stand Back from Yellow and Black," referring to the buses' colors. Serving as sponsors were Dr. Pat Cipoletti, NAPA Auto Parts of Wellsburg, Main Street Bank and Hone and Son Trucking.
Transportation Director Ron Staffileno and Debbie Baker, the department's office manager; presented prizes to the winners, and Board member Jim Lazear displayed each winner's poster as they were announced.
Cash prizes of $25, $15 and $10 were presented to first, second and third place winners, respectively, and all received a certificate and bank in the shape of a school bus.
Winners for each grade were:
Kindergarten: Payton Adler of Wellsburg Primary School, first place; and Meah Doll and Calin Thomas, both of Franklin Primary School, second and third place.
First grade: Bobby Shuble of Lauretta B. Millsop Primary School, first place; Owen Petrella of Jefferson Primary School, second place; and Navayla Williams of Wellsburg Primary School, third place.
Second grade: Maura Jones of Millsop Primary School, first place; Nikena Croce of Jefferson Primary School, second place; and Madison Lewis of Hooverson Heights Primary School, third place.
Third grade: Mia Camilletti of Wellsburg Primary School, first place; Jaclin Hedmond of Jefferson Primary School, second place; and Jaden Tennant of Colliers Primary School, third place.
Fourth grade: Morgan Roadman and Olivia Cipoletti, both of Franklin Primary School, first and second place; and Donovan Forster of Colliers Primary School, third place.
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Heard from Patti Barnabei, founder of Never Alone West Virginia, a nonprofit Christian group that promotes a drug- and addiction-free community, who invited the board to its Many Faces of Addiction program at 6 p.m. April 16 at Madonna High School.
Barnabei, who was accompanied by several members of the group, said the program will offer information about various forms of addiction. The guest speaker will be Frank Kros of Baltimore, who has worn a variety of hats, including child care worker, attorney and professor, and will talk on the science of addiction and its impact on the human brain, particularly that of teens.
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In this video I show how I work with the natural creases and lines of the body for the placement. I do this navel piercing from the bottom up because the jewelry hasa gem affixed to the bottom, so it needs to be inserted from that direction.
Elayne Angel performs a navel piercing on a BBW. She explains how she determines the optimal position and shows that not all pierced bellies are flat and tanned. When the woman is standing, this appears to be a "traditional" navel piercing, but when she is reclining, the tissue changes position.
From The Piercing Bible: Navel Piercing: Weight and Weight LossRegardless of your weight, if your navel folds in and disappears when you sit down, this is a good reason to select a different piercing. Wearing jewelry on this type of build causes mechanical stresses that guarantee healing complications. If you have a horizontal crease across the area even when you are standing, you are unsuited to navel piercing for the same reason. Some heavy people are still able to get navel piercings because body size isn't as key a factor as your configuration in the area of the piercing. However, the diminished blood supply caused by excess abdominal fat does make healing more difficult. If you are diabetic and carry excess weight in this area, navel piercings are inadvisable because complications are to be expected and can be more serious.If you are planning to lose weight, the overall shape of your navel area is still the primary consideration when deciding whether to postpone piercing. A protruding beer belly is generally suited to navel piercing because usually the area gets smaller with weight loss, but maintains the same basic contour.
Elayne Angel, author of The Piercing Bible, performs two ear cartilage piercings. She does a conch piercing using a receiving tube technique (preceded by tissue manipulation), and a tragus piercing using her forceps-and-receiving tube technique.
In this vieo I demonstrate selecting the optimal location on the anatomy for a nostril piercing, custom-bending a nostril screw to fit the client, and the piercing procedure using a "receptive forceps" technique.
I did this client's first piercing on his 18th birthday, and his septum piercing 18 years later, on his 36th birthday! How cool!
This is a video review of the No-Pull Piercing Disc, a simple device (a silicone disc) that you add to your jewelry. It is intended to help minimize trauma and discomfort with oral piercings such as lip and tongue. And, from this review, we can see that it is capable of having a huge, positive impact!
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Details have already
started to trickle out
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Windows Blue
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coolly received Windows 8
, a refresh which sources indicate
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I. The Leak
The leak came courtesy of photos posted to a Polish language forum in
. The leak also fell on Microsoft CEO
Steve Ballmer's 57th birthday
. Mr. Ballmer has shaken up the Windows team after Windows 8
received mixed reviews
, with the biggest change being the departure of Windows President Steven Sinofsky. The shakeups are expected to have a sizeable influence on the end product as Microsoft moves towards a shorter schedule of releases with Windows Blue.
The leaked build -- Build 9364 -- was compiled on March 15th, and is one of the builds that Microsoft sends to certain trusted partners in the months leading up to a Windows OS or service pack launch.
The build is current 2.63 GB
II. The Features
One of the biggest changes showcased in the leaked screenshots was an expected one -- smaller live tiles. Much like Windows Phone 8, Windows Blue gives developers and customers more flexibility by allowing them to adopt a smaller/leaner footprint for seldom used apps' tiles.
Microsoft has also borrowed Windows 7's desktop "snapping" and inserted it into the Windows 8 UI to allow snapped Windows 8-style apps. The concept has been extended to allow a 4-app snapped configuration. What's more, the snap-fest can extend to up to 8 simultaneously snapped apps in a multi-monitor setup.
The screenshots also show off a series of Windows 8-style apps --alarm, sound recorder, movie moments, and calculator -- which will come pre-loaded with Blue.
And there's new style options to allow users greater flexibility in customizing the look of their Windows 8-style GUI.
The Windows 8 menu's controls have been streamlined and expanded to offer more intuitive control over hardware, uploads, networking, and other options so as to minimize the instances in which you have to return to the desktop control panel.
There's new gestures for touch users:
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Another highlight is a test build of the upcoming Internet Explorer 11. The new browser has tab syncing, presumably to sync tabs between your mobile Windows Phone Blue device and your various Windows Blue tablets/laptops/desktops.
Wrapping up the changes, there have been modifications to the "Charms" feature. There's a new option in the Share Charm, which offers a quick shareable screenshot option for use with other apps like messaging and email.
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Wow... what an unbelievable bunch of whining, lazy children...
So far I haven't heard one substantive argument against Win8 and a boatload of bitching...
I installed Win8 on my latest PC and it works great.
faster than Win7 on boot and on starting applications. And don't get me started on the new recovery options Win8 has. They work... and they work great. The only major problem I experience with Win8 was trying to install it on an NForce4 box with a single-core Athlon64 and NVidia 7600GT video; it just would not install on that combination of hardware...
How much did you pay for Win7-PRO? $199? $249?
I paid $40 for Win8... $40! Honestly the best deal I've
gotten from M$. And it's Win8-PRO. All the upgrade/promo offer versions were PRO.
And don't give me that, "But my PC
with Win7 Pro!" Don't give me that. There is always a cost involved with Windows, whether you're paying the OEM cost or the retail cost.
If you use the desktop for most of your apps, use the frikkin' desktop... there's an icon for it, stop being lazy.
If you want to use Win8-styled apps they're easy enough to use too and I honestly like the app store. Great concept brought over from mobile devices, now on the PC.
For those of you who are whining that you can't find ALL the apps you installed, there's a "show all apps" function with the option of pinning it to your start menu. Take some time, pin the apps you use most often and un-pin the ones you don't. No frikkin' different from taking the time to customize your start menu.
Game support is excellent. The only problem I had was with Borderlands 2. Everything else, no problems.
It took my wife about an hour to get used to Win8 from her WinXP laptop (and WinXP at work) and she's not the most tech-savvy individual.
Comparing Win8 to Vista? That's just insulting. Vista was a steaming pile (almost as bad as WinME) and an awful user experience.
Linux: Come on... Even being a die-hard Linux supporter, you're just deluding yourself if you think the mainstream is going to move to Linux to "protest" Win8 (for all the reasons others have posted above to begin with.) Even though I find that Linux setup is easier and clearly superior to windows, your basic user is just going to be frustrated with installing video and WiFi drivers. That's the truth, as much as it hurts and I absolutely love Linux. All my file servers are Linux. I've used most major distros. I use Linux at work. I know it's value and respect it.
So yeah, Win8 adoption isn't as fast as M$ expected, but that doesn't mean they're going to change it. They've spend too much money, R&D, and marketing on Metro to have it fail.
They've opened retail stores for Christ's sake... Do you even comprehend the capitol investment needed to open a chain of retail stores? Windows 8 is the centerpiece of that effort and Microsoft isn't about to let that fail.
And it's certainly not as bad as this bitch-fest is making it out to be.
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Colorless composition comprising silver particles and water, wherein said particles comprise an interior of elemental silver and an exterior of ionic silver oxide, wherein the silver particles are present in the water at a level of about 5-40 ppm [Thats an 800% range there, what range is adequate to treat a disease and what causes permanent problems?], and wherein the composition manifests significant antimicrobial properties [Which doesn't describe what antimicrobial properties it has]. Methods of use of the composition are described. The composition can be incorporated into a hydrogel with essentially no loss of antimicrobial properties.
Results: In an agar-well diffusion assay none of the three colloidal silver solutions
Remember that old nursery song...the Farmer in the Dell....the last stanza goes The Cheese stands Alone....The Cheese Stands alone....that's me ....the cheese....I stand alone....well at least on this subject on this forum...hahahahahah! That's ok...I have a lot of comments to make...both about Silver Sol and star anise....But a clarification needs to be made....I said Silver Sol...not colloidal silverI do not make my own colloidal silver and silver sol can not be made in the home.I can not seem to paste this chart on the differences between colloidal silver and silver sol. So I will paste a link to see the chart of the differences....Note that Silver sol has been lab tested.http://www.guardian-silver-health-supplements.com/silver-sol-vs-colloidal-silver/Also, Please read this about "The Blue Man" Paul Karason whom is featured in ND Martin's video....you will find things are a little different then what the media proposed, and the hoax that followed....which will be my introductory into my comments...http://www.naturalnews.com/035219_colloidal_silver_blue_man_skin.htmFlight Er Doc... I'm stating this first...I respect you very much, and your profession...we just disagree on a few things and I also believe that it is VERY important for a person to have opposing views...that way a person can do research for himself and then make a decision. This prevents the sheeple syndrome...which is deadly...hahhaha! This being said, I would want you as the head of my health team any day. I DO not throw out Doctors or medicines....my recommendation has always been this....if you have an ailment...go to your doctor...Work with your doctor on how to treat yourself....I'm am so fortunate to have a doctor whom doesn't believe in just perscribing pills...she wants us to work the best we can to fix ourselves without medicine...or if she puts you on something...she expects you to work toward getting off the medicine if at all possible.Ok, since I'm using silver sol, I will treat your statement/questions as if they pertain to silver sol. Since I do not make my own, I rely on instructions that are from the bottle. There have been many different studies done on Silver Sol and it's safety. Read the following below: Note the study done by my favorite University Penn State Any one game enough to contact either of these Universities and call their research pseudoscientific nonsense...hahahahah! Ok, on to it turning to tarnish when it hits the stomach acid....I'm curious, do iron supplements turn to rust when they hit the stomach acid? By the way, my doctor recommended cooking with cast iron to prevent iron deficiency...little side note there...ND Martin...many things get past the stomach acid...when I was in nursing, and taking care of patients...many pills we take pass right through the body...I know this sounds disgusting...but nurses have to examine stools for color, consistency, frequency and visible parasites....you learn to distinguish bits of pills from worms and eggs...hahaahah!
Other than that, it's unicorn flatulence and pixy dust..... I don't discount the placebo effect at all, but if something is NOT REPEATABLE across large populations, it's not science and medicine. As far as people trying different nostrums, as Osler said the tincture of time cures most ailments, in spite of what medicine tries to do.
I wonder why they refer to silver sol as being different than colloidal silver on their chart...Oh well...Doc you are always good for some down and gritty brain picking...does the soul good...I am way past my bedtime and must get to sleep...good night and good health folks...
Hey Doc...are your articles referring to colloidal silver or silver sol? My understanding is these are two different things....and don't quote me on this one...but didn't they suspend the sale of colloidal silver? My articles are referring to silver sol...About the blue people..if I read your articles correctly....those folks used colloidal silver for an extended period of a time...and honestly, didn't someone notice them turning blue? gheeseI call these posts "The War of the Colloidal Silver/silver sol studies" Maybe they will make a movie about us someday...hahahahah The EGG versus the DOC....you know, one of those Japanese movies like Godzilla vs King Kong...with an English do over! hahahahaha! But I want a disclaimer that states "this egg was not used in formulation of flu shots"...hahahahahaha And you can have this big syringe loaded with the flu shot and you can chase the Egg all around...scaring it, and the Egg will be throwing SilverSol all over you...and spraying lavender oil in the air....and then the Egg will be in panic mode and won't see where it is running to and will fall off a giant wall and crack in a million pieces...but then you can be the hero and patch the Egg all up...just like new.... We'll make millions..and have figurines made in our likeness and possibly a sequel...
ok Folks...there has been some pretty strong words tossed around in regards to silversol....I'm posting articles about the Food and Drug Administration approving of American Biotech Lab to market Silversol gel for wound dressing...and then then an article on it's uses in various places....plus it's initial testing on several forms of the bird flu...These article were written in 2007. It's now 2013. I tried to mark specific lines in bold...you will have to scroll down some of the articles...and these articles were taken from medical magazines etc.Also the Environmental Protection Agency has given approval for the use in disinfecting. (All you folks who think Silversol is bad, BEWARE...your dentist might be using it in their dental lines....)If you read these articles...you will see this product is not made at home by kooky weirdos trying to self medicate...patents have been approved, studies conducted by numerous schools...plus the approval of two well known governmental agencies...In one of the articles you will find "no known side affects" no one has ever turned blue because it's made differently than Colloidal Silver.I can't change a persons mind...I can present articles that show its a viable product that DOCTORS are recommending....I have talked to several that use it themselves...one little sidenote I live in an area where we have access to with renowned hospitals (Pittsburgh) In one of the hospitals I was visiting, they actually have special classes and centers to treat patients holistically....including herbal medicine, meditation, etc....this is the new and upcoming medical treatment. Source: American Biotech L Wednesday,Jun 10,2009 The FDA approval letter confirms that ABL may market ASAP Wound Dressing Gel "for the topical management of minor cuts, lacerations, abrasions, 1st and 2nd degree burns, and skin irritations." The product utilizes ABL's innovative SilverSol The FDA approval letter confirms that ABL may market ASAP Wound Dressing Gel "for the topical management of minor cuts, lacerations, abrasions, 1st and 2nd degree burns, and skin irritations." The product utilizes ABL's innovative SilverSol Technology, which has garnered multiple patents in the U.S. and several countries throughout the world, including a broad-use patent that provides the company with exclusive rights to use its silver-based products to combat many of the world's most destructive pathogens, including malaria, tuberculosis, MRSA and HIV. "We are delighted with the FDA's decision to grant approval for ABL to broadly market our ASAP Wound Dressing Gel," said Dr. William Moeller, a managing director of American Biotech Labs. "We feel this is a singularly effective wound care product, and it is a tremendous validation for us that ABL products have now received approval from the FDA as well as from the EPA." ABL has performed extensive anti-microbial studies against bacteria, yeast, fungus and other pathogens. Information about these studies is available at research section of the ABL Website, www.americanbiotechlabs.com/researchprotected/researchmenu.html. About American Biotech Labs American Biotech Labs (ABL; www.americanbiotechlabs.comABL's silver hydrosol has consistently demonstrated the ability, without any known toxic side effects, to destroy a wide range of bacteria, viruses, yeast, and moldsBird Flu - American Biotech Labs Announces Results of Preliminary Tests for Multiple Avian Bird Flu Strains Using Patented ABL SilverSol Technology(TM)Cancer - NIST Awards $2 Million to 20/20 GeneSystems for Innovative Tumor Profiling TechnologyClinical Trial Research - Noven Announces Results of Phase 3 Clinical Study of Once-Daily Lithium ProductDrug Delivery - Nastech Pharmaceutical Company Announces the Jeffrey Wenig Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievement in Drug DeliveryVaccines - Prof. Michel Klein Becomes Chief Scientific Officer at AMVACBird FluAmerican Biotech Labs Announces Results of Preliminary Tests for Multiple Avian Bird Flu Strains Using Patented ABL SilverSol Technology(TM)Published in Medical Patent Law Weekly, October 24th, 2007 American Biotech Labs (ABL; www.AmericanBiotechLabs.com), creator of a line of powerful products that utilize patented ABL SilverSol Technology(TM) to combat pathogens associated with many of the world's most harmful diseases, announced successful preliminary results on tests performed using the company's products against two strains of the avian bird flu virus. Preliminary in vitro animal study tests performed by two separate independent laboratories, using the company's ABL SilverSol Technology at 10 parts per million against two strains of the H5-N1 subtype of the Avian Bird Flu virus, indicated that the ABL products were able to neutralize the virus.... Want to see the full article? ?Purchase this article for only $3.00
The FDA approved Silversol....I understand the topical use, but it's not topical when they use it for the flu...I still think we are talking about 2 similar but differently produced products...oh well....you sure make a person think..which I will say again is is a good positive thing...even though i disagree..hahahah...And I'm darn sure I'm not changing your mind...hahahaha....but I respect you and your profession immensly....That's the freedom of living in America...it's now well documented on this forum that we disagree...and we both made thorough presentations in a civil manner...so I'm going to move on to a question:For those of you whom don't get the flu shot....I have presented the methods I use to try to ward off getting sick....(I did forget that I try to keep my hands away from my face also) What things do you do to try to prevent getting the flu, when it's running rampant?For those of you whom DO get the shot....do you do anything different? or do you just rely on the shot?interested in seeing what your responses are.This particular strain of flu is very very nasty....it lingers on for a long time....one department at work now, has an entire row, out with the flu....and yet another one today in my department is sick...this brings the total in my department to 5, with one being hospitalized and one not being heard from since the beginning of the week. The doctors around here are telling the ones whom are sick, but not sick enough to be hospitalized, to stay AWAY from other people! like a self quarantine...
The FDA approval letter confirms that ABL may market ASAP Wound Dressing Gel "for the topical management of minor cuts, lacerations, abrasions, 1st and 2nd degree burns, and skin irritations." The product utilizes ABL's innovative SilverSo
While people are free to disagree, I notice that you ignore many of the questions I pose.....while people are entitled to their own opinions, they are not entitled to their own facts.....And there seems to be little support for Silversol and ABL other than their own website and press releases, at least medically. The various patent reports are interesting but unimportant, medically.let me start off by saying this....no matter what thing we are researching....we all can find things to sway our side of the opinion. The search engines now have the capability of directing you to certain sites and not give you the whole scope...all of us can find what ever we want supporting our beliefs...and i also have a boyfriend that is a french model....I'm not ignoring your questions per say....I didn't think they pertained to what i was saying...because I felt they were about colloidal silver...and making colloidal silver...which i don't make...but you believe silversol is the same as colloidal silver. I also feel that the articles that I posted very much support it's use and I'm not posting my own facts...I'm posting the facts in the article (one of which came from a medical magazine)...I didn't make this stuff up in my head.You and I both know, that you are not asking questions for knowledge sake....you are posing them in a "I'm superior" manner.... just make the statement...don't put it in question form...I have been nothing but kind to you, even while disagreeing with you. I can't say you have been the same....You come across as your way and your training is the "ONLY" way...I seem to recall that you and Traumahawk, (another doctor whom once was on this site had a disagreement too!) There are doctors here, whom would vehemently disagree with you...My doctors use Silversol themselves...I have stated repeatedly that I think anyone interested in herbal medicine or alternative medicine should work closely with their Doctor...but you give me no credence what so ever...I don't need your approval...you take one thing I say and twist it...I know about the topical use of silversol...but when they used it for the flu, it was not topical..I only put that one on here so folks could see its topical uses...I post things on here because I believe that folks should have a variety of options to choose from...not just one simple "my way or the highway" point of view...I have my doctors....and let me say this....I had a doctors appointment yesterday...and when I walked in the room, she gave me an "applause"....you have no idea how very sick I was and how far I have come in becoming well...mostly through diet, exercise and herbal medicine...ALL under the Doc's watchfull eye...and I see several specialists in the same hospital, some of them are from foreign countries, and very well schooled. They all consult back and forth on getting me well...sometimes, I have had to use regular medicine...other times I have used herbal remedies.There have been other posts that I have made where you have ridiculed herbal remedies....I am very carefull about what I post on here...I have also repeatedly posted my respect for you as a doctor and your profession. But I will NOT respect arrogance and condescending attitudes. Like I previously said...this is the new way doctors are treating their patients ...and the patient is HUGHLY involved in their own care....no longer is it just a trip to the doctor and he looks at you and tells you what to do.... we sit down with our doctors and discuss options and the best way to treat the ailment...My oncologist and I have a great repore...and he and I have had many discussions on herbal treatment and such....and guess what...he uses silversol...that's where I got the idea from.My parents and sister and my husband and myself all go to different doctors....and you probably would have a coronary about the different herbal medicines that they have been prescribed by their doctors...including red rice yeast, garlic pills, and my sisters doc does NOT advocate the bird flu shot! Imagine that!I don't understand why you seem to have the need to provoke me. I have tried to move on, and joke about our different beliefs, but you continue to try to provoke me..and you have done a good job at that. Congratulations, you are the first person on this site EVER to accomplish that! Even above the guy that called me that "amish egg chick" for defending some of the folks on this site because they were being named called....I'll probably get kicked off for posting this...but it's obvious to me that you are not used to someone opposing you.. I will be sorry if I get kicked off...because I really enjoy this site....but I will walk away standing my ground....and I know my team of Doctors are going to get a real chuckle when I print this off and take it to them!I only wish you well Flight ER Doc...and I truly wish you the best...but I'm not arguing with you anymore, and i will NOT address this anymore, no matter what you post...I thought we could just agree to disagree...To the rest of you folks....now you get to see a MAD egg...not MAD because someone disagrees with me...MAD for the reasons I stated in the post...I probably behaved in an "un" lady like manner...and really let loose...but I'm pretty sure I won't be sorry for saying those things for a least a couple of days.
Ok Doc. Here are a few good articles as an appetizer. The main course is found in the references, but many if not most are not available on the web without fee.A rational general discussion with no sales pitchSilver nanoparticles: mechanism of antimicrobial action, synthesis, medical applications, and toxicity effectsSukumaran Prabhu* and Eldho K PouloseA good look at a method for production of CS and a possible delivery mechanismDissociation of colloidal silver into ionic form through membrane under electric fieldAnother article on iontophoresis that's a little quacked around the edges, just to show that the technique has been around for a while.Silver Helps Regrow Tissues in Hundreds of Patients - Destroyed Cells Regenerate With Silver-Based ProcedureThe snake oil salesmen would cite studies like the following as absolute proof of efficacy, but they're really just very preliminary work...Silver nanoparticles as antimicrobial agent: a case study on E. coli as a model for Gram-negative bacteriaThe Chinese seem to be doing the lion's share of work with AgNP and influenza A. I don't have free access to this one but the abstract is sufficient for this early study. (For those who glaze over at this technical material, there is NO discussion here about drinking snake oil that claims to contain silver nanoparticles to prevent the flu. It just shows that silver can inhibit growth of H1N1 virus.)Inhibitory effects of silver nanoparticles on H1N1 influenza A virus in vitro. This one's an antique (1955) in Portuguese with no abstract available, but the title's tantalizing, eh?Resistance of influenza virus to the oligodynamic action of silver.
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