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2011 News
All news items from 2011 plus older items from 2009-2010.
Health E NC Projects to Improve Cancer Prevention, Outcomes
University Cancer Research Fund Enables Innovative Solutions to Complex Problems
Molecular Battle in Cancer Cells Offers Clues for Treatment
Researchers investigating a genetic mutation in brain cancer and leukemia patients have discovered how one cancer metabolite battles another normal metabolite to contribute cancer development. Helping the "good guys" win that battle could yield new approaches for treatment.
Oncology Winter Coat Drive Warming Hearts
Heartfelt thanks to the staff of the N.C. Cancer Hospital, fellow UNC employees, our volunteers, patients, families, and friends. The Oncology Winter Coat Drive was a tremendous success - 107 winter coats were collected and distributed to our families and their caregivers throughout the month of January until February 11, 2011. Hats, scarves, gloves, and socks were added to each winter coat selection as needed. A very special Valentine's Day thank you to all for sharing your hearts!
Roundworm Unlocks Pancreatic Cancer Pathway
C. elegans model shows how RAS oncogene switching determines a cell's fate
Viral Protein Mimic Keeps Immune System Quiet
Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus produces a protein that blocks the cell's inflammatory response
Donald L. Rosenstein joins UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center to lead new cancer support program
Chapel Hill, NC - Donald L. Rosenstein, MD, joins the University of North Carolina's Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center as Director of the new UNC Comprehensive Cancer Support Program.
UNC study: New genomic test may guide breast cancer treatment choices
UNC study: New genomic test may guide breast cancer treatment choices
Dr. Kimberly Kasow joins UNC School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics to lead pediatric bone marrow transplantation program
Chapel Hill, NC - Kimberly Kasow, DO, has joined the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as director of the UNC Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplantation program. Kasow is an associate professor of pediatrics and a member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center.
UNC Lineberger Director and Faculty Address NC Senate Committee
CHAPEL HILL –Dr. Shelley Earp, UNC Lineberger director, was invited to address the NC Senate Science and Technology Committee to talk about UNC and the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center as the state's Center of Excellence in Cancer Research.
Members of NC General Assembly Tour N.C. Cancer Hospital
Members of the NC General Assembly are touring the North Carolina Cancer Hospital to get an early view of the state's new state-of-the-art facility. Greeted by UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Holden Thorp and UNC School of Medicine Dean Bill Roper, the legislators visited several key locales in the building that will improve the way cancer care is delivered at UNC and across North Carolina
Dr. Hyman Muss joins UNC Lineberger to lead new geriatric oncology program
Chapel Hill, NC - Hyman B. Muss, MD, has joined the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine. Muss will be a professor of medicine and will develop and lead a new program in geriatric oncology.
University Cancer Research Fund creates winning research partnership
Chapel Hill, NC - A disagreement between Nancy Allbritton, MD, PhD and David Lawrence, PhD over which cancer - breast or prostate - should be the higher priority in their partnership resulted in two successful NIH grant proposals. Lawrence is taking the lead on a prostate cancer grant while Allbritton leads a breast cancer grant – totaling almost $5 million over the next five years.
Drug That Inhibits Vascular Development Does Not Help Colon Cancer Survival
In a study published this month in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, the results of a clinical trial of the drug bevacizumab to treat colon cancer in combination with the standard therapy found that the drug did not significantly increase disease-free survival in patients with stage II and stage III colon cancer.
UNC Startup Receives Federal Grant to Kick-Start Cancer Research Commercialization
G-Zero Therapeutics funded under Qualifying Therapeutic Discovery Project
Jean Sellers, RN, MSN, OCN, Talks about Helping Patients Cope Financially in the Latest Issue of ONS Connect
UNC Lineberger Research Provides New Insights Into Deadly Brain Cancer
Study from The Cancer Genome Atlas an important step towards personalized therapy
UNC Challenges 1000 to Be the MatchSM
Join the National Marrow Donor Program's registry and you could save a life!
UNC Fellow Tyler Buckner Looks for the Positive
This profile is part of a series highlighting how UNC Lineberger and the UNC School of Medicine are shaping the next generation of cancer researchers and physicians
UNC Physicians Leaders in New Radiation Treatment Guidelines
QUANTEC review replaces 20-year old guidelines
Key Protein Aids in DNA Repair
Findings have potential for cancer, other age-related diseases
Research Pinpoints Action of Protein Linked to Key Molecular Switch
Findings may illuminate how cancer forms and migrates


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I have here a system with
- Asrock Z77 Extrem 4
- Intel 3570K
- Nvidia GTX 570
- OCZ Vertex 2 SSD
I burned the newest Ubuntu 12.10 x64 Image and started to boot from the cd. The menu is there, but after selecting installation there is just a black screen.
Is this because Im using a Z77 chipset? Maybe I just have to change the boot option, but I have no idea how and what to edit there. Some help? Thank you
Edit: Somebody gave me openSuse 12.2 just to see what is happening, and with the newest suse Im able to go through the install menue and start the installation. Whatever, unfortunately I would like to use ubuntu :) So the question is still there: why and how to run it.

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When do you start your secondary fermentation? Some people wait until the bubbles of the wort stop completely, others leave the wort in the fist fermenter for 3-4 days and then move on to secondary fermentation, regardless of what the bubbles do. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each method?
I wait until a day after the krausen has fallen back into the beer. You shouldn't leave it in the primary for more than 2 weeks.
Racking to a secondary can clean up a beer, and allow you time to condition the beer in bulk before bottling or kegging. It also will seperate the floculated yeast and trub giving you a cleaner beer in the end. You are also not rushed to bottle or keg it, since you can leave it in the secondary for a long time if you are busy. This also frees up your larger carboys for primary fermenting new beers.
Increased risk of contamination durring racking. Make sure everything is sanitized. Increased contact with oxygen is also detrimental. I have a spare CO2 tank, that I purge my secondary with. This is not really neccessary, I just take comfort in it. You also need additional equipment, another carboy.
CON of not Racking
If you don't rack to a secondary you will probably get additional gunk in your bottles/kegs. If you don't rack to a secondary, after two or more weeks autolysis can occur and you will get some really funky (not the good funk) flavors. I have only tried this once, and noticed that the flavor was not very desirable.
I have sucessfully done this over a hundred times, and if the beer wasn't already contaminated then I have never had a problem. Hopped, Low pH, alcoholic liquid is pretty inhospitable environment for bugs.
Please see John Palmers opinion. The best beer is Racked to a secondary, if the pros do it, so do I. Why be lazy when it's an easy step. Additionally if you use a smaller carboy for your secondary, with a small head space, the disolved C02 in the beer will be forced out durring racking, and force the much of the oxygen out, reducing contact.
I tend to completely ferment out in primary before moving my beer to 'secondary'. I ferment in primary for 14-21 days almost always. I crash cool the primary for the final 5-7 days of that total primary time. Then I rack to keg.
I think most people can agree that a secondary ferment is not a ferment, its just another conditioning step in the process.
Minus the cooling step, people who put beer in kegs out of primary (myself included), or probrewers using a bright tank are doing the same thing as "using a secondary"; putting fermented beer in another container to sit for a while.
(In reality, I have an extra corny keg that I have trimmed the dip tube off about 3 inches. I use that keg as my "bright beer tank". Then use a jumper set up to push the beeer to a serving keg after that)
I don't rack to secondary unless I'm adding something (fruit, hops, spices) or aging (barleywine, etc). The risk of introducing bacteria is too great for me.
For most of my beer I leave the beer in the primary for 2 weeks which clears up the beer as much as I need. But, for those beers that need extra time to clarify I leave the beer in there longer.
I believe you can definitely leave your beer on the yeast cake for longer than 2 weeks, and I'm not alone. I stopped racking to secondary when I started listening to Jamil Zainasheff on Brew Strong. He claims the 2 week autolysis is a myth.
Read the answers to this question: What's the difference between primary & secondary fermentation?
I am an advocate of not racking to secondary. To answer your question:
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I do not rack to secondary and still get very clear beer. After kegging I cool the beer to the low 30's F for a week or so to brighten. Crash cooling drops a lot of protein out of suspension. The first pull is pretty goopy, but the rest of the keg is pretty clear.
Pro brewers do this in a separate tank called a brite tank.
If you bottle you can get the same effect by racking to your bottling bucket, sealing that up and crash cooling it for a week in the bucket. Be very careful moving it, or bottle straight out of the fridge.
My name is Joseph and I have been making wine for about 50 years. It has become a tradition being passed down from generation to generation. I have always made good wine and I can't remember spoiling a batch but I must have. It happens to all wine makers even the pros. Lately I started to brew beer and I have made about 6 batches of Coopers home brew. I have always used a seconday fermenter to keep the product as clear and clean from sedament as I could. I am a clean freak and sanitize everything I touch even the scooper when I check out the brew with the hydrometer. So far my son after trying my first brew told me he would not purchase another case of beer from the beer store unless he was hard up. After adding up the figures that I spent on the brew he told me Dad I can't believe it. Here I am drinking a tall boy for 50 cents a bottle opposed to 2.35 a Bottle and your beer tastes greater. I feel that if you have achieved the success you wanted why chance another procedure. You can only get so much out of what you got so why fix it if it's not broke. Keep all your equipment sanitized and also your hands and you should always have some good success. Thank you. I find all of your comments most desirable and I have learned some knowledgable things reading this site. Take care.


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The 6 Dumbest Things Schools Are Doing in the Name of Safety
#3. Banning All Outside Food
Ask a bunch of kids what their favorite part of the school day is and almost all of them will either say lunch or recess. Many schools have already ruined recess by banning tag and other "contact sports," so naturally the next step is to ruin lunch. Some schools manage to do this while providing a semi-valid reason like allergies or kids bringing items purchased from an erotic bakery, but one Chicago school decided they must ban all food brought from home to protect students from their own (or in most cases, their parents') bad decisions.
"I've deep fried your pencil case for when you get peckish."
The principal of Little Village Academy in Chicago said she was tired of seeing kids bring soda and "flaming hot chips" on field trips. Instead of realizing that students don't go on field trips every day and probably don't always eat this way, she decided to do what any rational school administrator would do -- ban all food.
Expulsions, detentions and general child movement went down 300 percent.
No, not really. But she did decide to ban all food brought from home, which is kind of the same thing for those students who realize that school cafeteria food is one step above what you get in a hospital. She did say she makes exceptions for students with allergies, but there doesn't seem to be much hope for students unfortunate enough to have healthy immune systems.
This ban has actually been in effect for six years, so why is this just now making the news? It might have something to do with the fact that the school recently changed their lunch menu to add healthier (read: more disgusting) food. However, they admit that they've seen a dropoff in what they call "meal participation" this year, as students would rather go hungry than eat the horror that has been set before them.
Nothing teaches a kid about life like square pizza and soggy tater tots.
#2. Forcing Students to Wear Prison Jumpsuits for Dress Code Violations
Dress codes arguably have a necessary purpose in schools, particularly in terms of trying to lessen distractions in a classroom or solve issues with kids stealing from other kids. However, figuring out how to enforce a dress code can be a difficult; after all, kids are going to be kids, and the more you try to enforce it, the more they want to push the envelope. "You said I had to wear pants, you didn't say they couldn't be assless."
Therefore, a school in, yet again, Texas, decided to try a new tactic: make a public example of the students who violate the dress code. How? By making them wear prison jumpsuits.
And what, exactly, constitutes a violation of the dress code at Gonzales High School? The obvious stuff, like wearing clothes that expose underwear. But how about cargo pants, baggy pants or T-shirts? In other words, if you look like a normal member of the community, you could be violating the school dress code and will be forced to dress like an inmate. No more dress code distractions in class now!
Via foxnews.com
Just the shanking!
Of course, this whole system means that the students would have to experience some shame and ridicule wearing the jumpsuits for it to be effective ... which is the exact opposite of what happened. According to one student, "I talked to some of my friends about it and they said they are not going to obey the dress code just so they can wear the jumpsuit."
"Dangerous escaped convict or 14-year-old boy? Either way, hot."
#1. Deterring Bad Behavior by Issuing Stiff Fines
Maybe your 10-year-old kid decides one day it would be funny if he tossed some spit wads at the kid in the front row of the classroom, or to stuff a classmate into a locker. Of course, your kid may get caught and face a reprimand. Maybe he would have to spend some time in detention. Maybe he'd have to see the principal. Or maybe he'd have to pay a $500 fine.
Wait, what?
Schools in, yes, Texas, and other areas of the country have taken to having campus police write tickets to students for everything ranging from creating disturbances in class to cursing and fighting.
It's all part of the new Texas "Every Child Locked Behind Bars" initiative.
Now, this might make some kind of sense if most of the between 4,000 and 6,000 students who were ticketed since 2005 were high schoolers. After all, high school kids are almost adults, and the bad stuff they do is probably more along the lines of fighting and vandalism than making faces at a teacher. But that isn't the case. Many of the tickets are being written for elementary school kids, such as the 92 criminal citations given to 10-year-olds in Dallas in 2006 and 2007. Several districts ticketed kids as young as 6.
Cough up, kid, or take up dealing.
Since the police are writing the tickets, the schools are out of the loop. That's right: Your 10-year-old kid gets a ticket, he gets to go to court and talk to a judge about why he was swearing. Between court costs and having to take time off work to drive the juvenile delinquents down to the court house to explain why they were being ... er ... kids, it's costing parents a lot more than the fines, even if some of those are commuted to community service.
Which, frankly, is useless, as kids are terrible at manual labor.
In one documented case, a teenager was forced to pay $637 for the ticket and court costs, and at least one other parent wound up paying around $1,500 in tickets.
"I started my life of crime by giving wedgies to nerds behind the science block."
But hey, at least it works, right? Eh, not really. Houston ISD's Assistant Police Chief Victor Mitchell notes, "Some kids, it doesn't even faze them. It's just a piece of paper. Some kids are concerned because they know their parents are going to be concerned. But some kids have become immune to it."
Oh, they'll be concerned once we starting going with jail time for this shit.
For more modern ideas that were here before us, check out 11 Modern Technologies That Are Way Older Than You Think and 6 Depraved Sexual Fetishes That Are Older Than You Think.


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The goody bag at a wedding, the pale blue box on your birthday—there's something about a surprise that's freaking awesome. It almost doesn't matter whether there's a diamond necklace inside or just candied almonds; the thrill of scoring something unexpected is one of life's little pleasures. And that's exactly why beauty sampling programs are springing up everywhere. The variety packs of makeup, hair, nail, fragrance, and skin-care products are delivered to your door, and while they're not free—they typically cost $10 to $15 a month—the samples inside can be worth several times that much, and they are sometimes even full size.
So what's not to like? Well, the choices can be bewildering. Today, there are more than a dozen beauty sampling services, and while most of the companies operate along similar lines—customers fill out a profile so the samples they receive are tailored to their needs, then sit back and await their monthly haul—the contents of the kits vary widely. Trust us, we're experts: We like all those little bottles of perfume and face cream so much that we've launched our own program with beautybar.com. It's Sample Society, a monthly selection of deluxe-size samples (which means they're good for multiple uses) from Stila, Murad, Sisley, Fekkai, and dozens of other top brands. Are those not exactly your thing? You may prefer the miniature replica of next season's Burberry Beauty lipstick created especially for GlossyBox, or the All Natural Face Vegan Eye Shadow in a recent sample kit from Beauty Box 5. We tried out eight of the biggest and best of the sample services to help you pick your gift box. Now act surprised.


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It is a basic topological fact that CW-complexes aren't typically metrizable (they must satisfy a certain local finiteness condition) and the quotient topology is to blame.
Suppose $X$ is a finite dimensional CW-complex with countably many cells in each dimension. Is it possible weaken the topology of $X$, without changing homotopy type, so the resulting space is metrizable?


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23 Oct 2012 2:45 AM #1
Unanswered: Problem with pickers in Jellybean - Nexus
We have a strange bug in our sencha 1.1 app: We have a screen where the user can change date with a date picker. So far so good. We already have this screen since a long time in our app, but now we have a problem on android 4.1 or rather the galaxy nexus: the date picker is not fully rendered and because of that the functionality of the picker is broken. We can't scroll the values in the picker.The strange thing is on our other android devices, emulators (including 4.1.1 - Jellybean) and the iPhone it works without any problems, and in the browser it works also.
Did anyone had a similar problem and can help ?
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text: Students in Loyola's studio arts program gain valuable experience through an array of courses and expert faculty, and the University's fully-equipped studios for clay, drawing, painting and printmaking give students hands-on learning experience. Student work is regularly exhibited in the University's Julio Fine Arts Gallery, as well as at local venues. Loyola's location in Baltimore also gives students an opportunity to visit countless local galleries and study the work of practicing professionals.


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GENESEO, N.Y. - The Rochester AudioVisual Association (RAVA) has named senior communication major Cory Gershon one of six Rochester-area RAVA Scholars. He received the honor recently at the organization's 36th Annual Media Scholar Awards Banquet in Rochester, N.Y.
The RAVA Scholar Award is presented annually to select area college students who show promise in media production and have brought honor to their profession and colleges. RAVA Scholars each receive a cash award and the privilege of showing samples of their audio or video-based media work to the Rochester-area professionals who are members of RAVA.
Gershon has also been a four-year starter as a goalie for the SUNY Geneseo Ice Knights Division III hockey team. He is the son of Eric and Elizabeth Gershon of Sparta, N.J.
Last year's Geneseo RAVA Scholar, Erik Talbot, has been accepted for graduate study at Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communications. Another previous Geneseo RAVA scholar, Rachel Kingston, is a news reporter at WIVB-TV in Buffalo.
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J&J: IT'S ABOUT TIME OR MORE OF THE SAMEPosted in a ggod reputation guarantees long term profits, Business Crises We Create, cheating the public, Corporate Crisis Management, corporate integrity, Crisis Management, Crisis Management Response, Doing the right thing, Ethics and Crisis Management, Hurting customers, J&J, Johnson & Johnson, Respect your customers, Taking Responsibility for actions of an organization or its employees, when the bottom line is more important than your customers, William Weldon on February 22nd, 2012 by mnayor
In October of 2010 I highlighted many of the difficulties Johnson & Johnson had been going through since the early part of the decade, from tens of millions of dollars to settle claims against its product Ortho Evra, to product recalls including children's Tylenol and contact lenses. Other telling issues involved a wrongful termination suit by a whistle blower and a resignation by a senior executive whose conscience would not allow him to remain at J&J knowing what he knew about Ortho Evra.
My conclusion was simply that J&J's management had veered way off course and had sullied the reputation of one ofAmerica's greatest corporations, one that was known and respected for its integrity and honesty. I ended with an expression of hope that the lessons learned would set management on the right course once again.
This was not to be. Just this past week the press reported that J&J took a year to recall a version of its artificial hip after the FDA refused in 2009 to approve it because of its high rate of failures. The device was recalled in 2010, and J&J maintained until that time that the device was safe and its own studies refuted the allegations of professionals. J&J continued to market the hip in Europe and other overseas countries until the recall and sold another version of its hip that didn't need safety approval in theU.S., even though the hip socket cup, which the FDA found to be flawed, was the same in both products.
It is interesting to track the timeline of most of J&J's recent woes to the timeline of William C. Weldon's tenure as chief executive. Whether directly attributable to Weldon's misfeasance or malfeasance is not the issue. The torrent of missteps, mistakes, dishonesty, deception and manipulation has occurred on his watch. The least that can be said without pointing a finger directly at him is that he failed miserably to instill a sense of integrity within the company, a sense of integrity that transcends the needs of the short-term bottom line. So many executives foolishly sit at their desks with blinders on. Weldon and his followers allowed a culture to fester within their walls that calls for the good of the company to transcend the good of the public.
No executive worth his title would allow the disintegration that has taken place at J&J. Thankfully, William Weldon will step down in April of this year although he will remain as chairman. Alex Gorsky will be the new CEO. Has the Board done the Company, its shareholders and the public a major disservice? Gorsky is cut from the same cloth as Weldon. They both cut their teeth in sales and both are sensitive to the bottom line and enhancing it above all else. Hopefully Gorsky will recognize the need to build trust, and instill honor from which J&J can once again earn the widespread respect of the public. Build it and they will come. With that will come the financial success that Weldon's crew tried to obtain on the cheap. If Gorsky has not learned from past mistakes, expect more of the same from J&J. We will all be witness to the transformation of a great American company into just another self-serving medical conglomerate that feeds off the public.


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Durango resident Josephine Garcia died Tuesday, July 3, 2012, in Durango. She was 91.
Known as �Josie,� she was born to Guillermo and Eloisa Martinez on Aug. 20, 1920, in Abiqui�, N.M.
She lived with her grandmother Petra until her grandmother died. Mrs. Garcia was 7 at the time, and she was sent to an orphanage, where she remained until she was 15. She was then sent to live with her maternal aunt, Henada. She eventually finished growing up in the home of her half-sister Virginia Vasquez.
In 1950, she met and married Joe Manual Garcia in Durango. They lived in Durango until Mr. Garcia�s death in 1989.
Mrs. Garcia had lived in Farmington for many years.
�She had a good heart and met a lot of people,� her family said. �Many of the people employed her as a housekeeper. She was very well known and she became involved in their lives and caring for their children.�
She enjoyed dancing, nice clothes, jewelry and shoes, her family said. She loved dogs and owned many in her lifetime, including Sunshine, her dog at the time of her death.
As her health deteriorated, her family said Mrs. Garcia was �rescued� by Amador and Bennie Tucson and Theresa Amato. The three will always be remembered as �Tia Josie�s� guardian angels, the family said.
Mrs. Garcia was also preceded in death by her significant other of 17 years, Mateo Loyo, who died in 2010.
No immediate family survives. She is survived by numerous nieces and nephews, and a great-niece.
A rosary will be recited at 6 p.m. Monday, July 9, 2012, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 254 East Fifth Ave. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Tuesday, July 10, 2012, also at Sacred Heart. The Rev. Joseph Gallegos will be the celebrant.


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Basic Rules for Financial Freedom: Make Wealth Happen
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Get Your Finances Under Control
You may well have enough money, but it leaks away before you get to spend it, in a whole variety of ways -- taxation, paying interest, lack of use (not invested properly), or too much being spent on the wrong things. Before you can control your finances, you have to stop the leaks.
If you carried out this role (of course, you did), you'll have a record of your credit card balances. Higher than you cared to admit? Probably. We are all encouraged to spend on plastic. We are all seduced into racking up debts monthly. If you want to stop the leaks, cut up all the cards and pay them off.
Do a quick calculation and see what levels of interest you are paying. It's the same with your mortgage. Make sure you're not paying more than you have to through negligence. If your fixed rate deal has come to an end, it could be time to check out the best deals that are now available.
Keep a record of everything you spend. Everything. Do this for a short while -- even just a week -- and see where the leakages are. If you are going to be wealthy, first you have to know where your money is going. Sorry if you thought this was going to be easy or this book was going to be full of get-rich-quick schemes. But stick with me, and you'll be glad you did.
When you carry out your financial stock -- check, watch out for the hidden things that you can easily overlook, such as direct debits and subscriptions that are too high, wrong, or out of date. The rich are eagle-eyed and miss nothing.
From The Rules of Money Copyright © 2007, FT Press. Used by permission of FT Press, and Pearson Education. All rights reserved.
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What forces are at play when molecules wiggle (due to heat)?
Or in other words, What makes them move?
What forces are at play when molecules wiggle (due to heat)?
Suppose your molecule is in a gas. This could be a gas made up just from the molecules you're thinking of, or your molecule could be dispersed in some carrier gas. Whichever the case, the temperature of the gas is related to the velocity of the gas molecules. So in a cool gas the molecules will be moving at some speed (that depends on their mass) and as you heat the gas the molecules will move faster. For any particular gas and temperature the velocities will be given by the Maxwell Boltzmann distribution.
The point of all this is that when you have gas molecules buzzing around in random directions they will collide with each other. For simple atomic gases like helium, neon, etc the collisions are elastic just like (idealised) pool balls. However when you collide molecules some of the collision energy can go into making the molecules vibrate and/or rotate. This is why if you could watch your molecule with a super powerful microacope you would see it "wiggle". All you're seeing is the kinetic energy of the colliding molecules being turned in intramolecular motion.
If you are looking at a liquid not a gas the same reasoning applies. The molecules in a liquid move much more slowly than in a gas, but then because they are so close they collide much more frequently. The collisions transfer energy to intramolecular motion in just the same way as in a gas.
If you have a relatively large particle of molecule in a liquid the collisions from the molecules of the liquid cause the phenomenon known as Brownian motion.
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If you have an isolated gas then it contains some finite amount of energy, and this energy is just the total kinetic energy of the atoms, plus any energy stored in intramolecular vibrations and/or rotations. Now energy conservation is a fundamental law in physics, so if we don't take energy out of our gas, or put energy in, the energy can't change. Within the gas some of the kinetic energy can be changed into molecular vibrational energy, or conversely vibrational energy can go back into kinetic energy, but the total amount of energy is constant. That means our gas molecules will go on buzzing around and vibrating forever.
You ask "how does heat exactly make molecules move?", but the point is that heat is molecular motion. Heat is the same as internal energy, and internal energy is kinetic and vibrational energy of the gas molecules. There isn't any mystical fluid called heat in a gas. There is just the energy of the gas molecules.
Finally, you ask "why doesn't a system - gas, liquid, solid - come to a rest?". The only way the gas molecules can come to a rest is if you cool the gas, i.e. you take energy out of it. Suppose you pump your gas through a cold pipe. The gas molecules hit the walls of the pipe and transfer some of their energy to it. The energy and therefore velocity of the molecules is reduced and the gas temperature falls. At the same time the cooling pipe heats up because it has absorbed energy from the gas. If you keep up the cooling for long enough the gas molecules will move so slowly that they stick together and form a solid. But it's important to note that the energy originally in the gas hasn't disappeared, it's gone into heating up whatever cooling system you're using.
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Vibration is motion too. If you've ever seen a vibrating guitar string you'll have seen that it's moving. If you stop the guitar string moving than it can't vibrate.
Take your example of a solid and for simplicity make it a simple atomic solid e.g. frozen argon. At absolute zero the Argon atoms don't move. The argon atoms are as close as they want to be i.e. if you try and push them together they want to spring apart. In effect they they behave as if there are tiny springs between them. The "springs" are actually the interatomic force; let's not go into the details here or this answer will expand to book length!
Anyhow imagine starting to heat the argon by putting it in contact with the hot gas we started with in the discussion above. The hot gas molecules collide with argon atom at the surface of our solid argon, and they transfer some of their energy to the argon atoms by making them vibrate. The gas molecule bounces off with reduced energy so the gas cools by making the argon atoms vibrate. The vibrating argon atoms at the surface push on the atoms the next layer down and make them vibrate, and so on until the whole block of argon heats up.
If you've ever held onto a metal spoon and dipped it into a hot liquid you'll know heat conducts up the spoon. Well heat conduction is just the atoms passing their vibrational energy from atom to atom along the spoon. And, as I said above, vibration involves motion.
View the molecules as a collection of masses attached together with springs. The masses are the atoms and the springs are the interatomic forces from the bonds. An assemblage like that will have resonances and will wiggle in characteristics ways. The excitation of this assemblage will be either collisional, - other molecules hitting it or they can interact via van der waals forces over short ranges.
The various forces are all manifestations of how electrons form bonds.
I will add to your chosen answer that all physical observations until the surprising discovery of radioactivity and the table of elements in the 1800's, ( i.e. quantum mechanics) can be described perfectly by electromagnetic forces and interactions together with Newton's law's of motion.
In your particular question if you mean "wiggle" the brownian motion
observed in microscopes and even in the dust particles in sunshine, it is the collisional reaction to the random motions of the molecules in the gas or liquid.
Every interaction, i.e. collision between molecules, is electromagnetic; it is electromagnetic forces that mediate in gas, liquid and solid matter. John Rennie has given a comprehensive descriptive answer on how temperature is the kinetic and vibrational energy of molecules. He forgot to state that the forces mediating the collisions are electromagnetic. All neutral atoms and molecules have a fringe electric field ( and a bit magnetic) which creates the so called Wan der Waals forces , and those forces mediate in gasses and liquids and solids, though to understand solids quantum mechanics is needed. In gasses at collisional contact, the electron clouds of the colliding molecules repulse and give the billiard ball like scattering. In liquids there exist also attractive Wan der Waals forces, which form the fluidity. At a specific higher temperature the kinetic energy of the molecules in the liquid is so high that the attractive forces are too weak, and one goes into the gas phase.
In solid state the atoms and molecules are packed at the balance limit of their attractive forces from their fringe fields and quantum mechanical states, and the repulsive forces of the same charge electron cloud that surrounds each of them. In crystals the organization is almost perfect and the crystal symmetries appear. Crystals are good quantum mechanical demonstrations which show that matter is organized in quanta and not continuously. In a crystal/solid the only degrees of freedom that can have kinetic energy ( cf John's answer) are vibrational degrees of freedom, and the atoms vibrating collectively set the temperature.
All these are rigorously explained with statistical mechanics and quantum statistical mechanics.
Statistical mechanics also gives us black body radiation. A body radiates in electromagnetic waves its energy, and left in vacuum ( 0K outside temperature) it will radiate all the energy and cool down to 0K. Conversely, electromagnetic radiation can heat a mass and raise its temperature, by the radiation hitting the atoms and molecules and transferring their energy into the atoms kinetic and vibrational energy, again by electromagnetic forces. Here again enters the necessity of the quantum mechanical formulation, because experimentally black body radiation
does not follow classical physics, but quantum mechanical physics.
I think you have a basic problem in understanding what energy and heat and vibration are, and how they are connected, looking at your comments. Assume there is nothing like heat. In that case, you won't have the doubt of how is heat transferred to vibration. Assume there only exists kinetic energy. Now, when we heat, essentially we are bring in contact with a system, an object whose molecules are vibrating with higher momentum, and they collide and transfer the momentum. As a result, amplitude of vibration of molecules increases and we say it is more "hot". Now, in another answer, a very good way to visualise is given. Assume molecules connected by springs. Coz that's a good way to approximate the nature of the inter-atomic electromagnetic interaction. If 2 such molecules have only translational kinetic energy, when they collide, you can imagine weird things would happen. Essentially, if they weren't wiggling along and perpendicular to their spring initially, they would now.
WHY DOESN'T SYSTEM COME TO REST? First of all, because it is in contact with something all the time, and the vibrations of molecules are in equilibrium for both the objects in contact. If we assume an object to be hanging in vacuum, it will lose energy by radiation, and if there isn't any radiation falling back on it, it will continue to lose energy, and it's temperature will go lower and lower, and its' speed to lose energy will also reduce, because of wein's law. But after infinite time, we can assume it to have a temperature equal to the temperature of the random fluctuations in empty space. And am not sure if my last sentence is perfectly correct. But i hope i answered you.


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While working on carbon bikes, it's a bad idea to finagle them into a traditional work stand. Integrated seatmast? Good luck. Aero seatpost? Keep trying. And while the jury is still out on even clamping carbon fiber, you're better off securing your bike how every pro-team mechanic in the world does -- by the dropout and bottom bracket. Cleaning your drivetrain, installing new parts, and adjusting derailleurs can all be done quickly and safely with the Feedback Sports Sprint Work Stand. Known to some as a 'Euro-stand', this style of work stand avoids contact with your seat post, so you never need to worry about clamping your carbon post to hard or finding a way to work around your aero mast. A great option for home repairs and race support, the Sprint Work Stand is made from lightweight, Red-anodized aluminum that won't rust after a rainy spring or fall on the service course. The bike is held by the bottom bracket and a single-point quick release mount that holds all sizes of front and rear dropouts and axle diameters up to 15mm. The stand has an adjustable work height of 30 to 48in, and it also has 360 degrees of rotation. A major perk is that the adjustable fork and bottom bracket positions guarantee that you aren't fighting the stand to get into the nooks and crannies of the bike. The tripod base provides stability on varied surfaces like dirt, gravel, or sloping pavement. The stand can hold up to 85 lbs and folds down to a 5 x 7.5 x 30in size. The Feedback Sports Sprint Work Stand comes in anodized Red only. Note: To use this stand with 20mm axles an adaptor is required. This part is sold separately.
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Hi. Can this stand works for old 90s rigid fork MTB? I have both road bike and rigid fork bike forcommuting. So I am not sure if this stand will fit my need.
Ewo, it will fit it as long as the spacing is 100mm or greater.
A great stand...99% of the time.
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Like the previous posters, I've found the stand to be light, stable, and comfortable to work with. Getting the bottom bracket higher and the ability to spin the bike are some serious bonuses over a traditional stand, and washing the bikes is easier than ever. The adapter for a thru-axle works well when I have to throw a bike with discs on it.
The only time I prefer a traditional stand is when I want to do a quick adjustment like adjust a rear dérailleur. Would be nice to just clamp a seat post rather than remove a wheel first. I'm fortunate enough, however, to have both kinds of stands so I use the one I want for the situation. But this one is the one that travels with me.
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The Blood Connection will open a new donation center in Hendersonville this week, according to a news release from the Greenville, S.C.-based blood bank.
The center will be in the Brooklyn Village Shopping Center at 825 Spartanburg Highway. According to the release, the new center will offer convenience for local donors and help The Blood Connection expand its capability to collect and distribute blood products in Polk, Henderson and Rutherford counties.
The Blood Connection supplies blood products to Pardee Hospital and Park Ridge Health.
According to Donation Center Manager Carl Sly, all blood donations are vitally needed for patients.
"Patients receiving organ transplants, cancer therapies and support for sickle cell anemia all depend on lifesaving transfusions," Sly stated in the release. "Blood is also critical to the survival of premature babies and patients undergoing heart or joint replacement surgery, and it plays a life-saving role in serious accidents and widespread tragedies like earthquakes and hurricanes."
The Hendersonville Donation Center will be open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. On Saturday and Sunday, the center will be open from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. To schedule an appointment to donate, call 1-800-392-6551.
The new donation center is designed with comfortable furnishings that combine color, light and art with access to nature to offer donors a pleasant and peaceful donation experience. All donor couches feature flat panel screens to encourage relaxation and welcome movie watching.
"Brooklyn Village is a convenient location for the community, and we hope donors will find it an easy place to frequent on the path to work and play," Sly said. "It's a walkable area with restaurant options and an Urgent Care medical center.
Sly said platelet donations are especially needed at this time. Platelet donors give two hours of their time to help patients in need, and the donation process is often referred to as apheresis. While a small portion of the donor's blood is drawn and passed through a sophisticated cell-separating machine, the machine collects the platelets and safely returns the remaining blood components to the donor.
According to The Blood Connection President and CEO Greg Hart, individuals can also support the local blood supply by hosting a blood drive.
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Founded in 1979, The Blood Connection is the largest independently managed, nonprofit community blood center in the region. It recruits donors and collects blood within a 7,134 square mile area, including Northwestern South Carolina, Western North Carolina and Northeastern Georgia. Licensed and regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, The Blood Connection collects blood from donors through bloodmobiles, portable field units, and fixed donation sites.
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As the first Soviet republic to declare its independence from the Soviet Union in 1990, this obscure tract of fairy-tale Europe – replete with medieval castles, primeval forests and quirky pagan traditions – has been enthusiastically rejuvenating its national identity, shedding its image as a dour former Soviet enclave. Once the largest empire on the European continent, Lithuania's history reads at time like a Game of Thrones episode and presents much for those looking to discover a new side of Europe. With architectural splendours spanning the gothic to renaissance to baroque to bohemian, a hearty national cuisine, and – would you believe it – a stunning stretch of sand dune coast, Lithuania bewitches those who visit by its merging of old world Europe with full-blown Bohemian bizarro.
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The warm summer months of May through to September are the best time to visit Lithuania, although it often rains a lot during July and August. From November to March it gets very cold, with temperatures often dropping below freezing and heavy snowfalls from December to April.
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Top 5 Quirky Attractions in Lithuania
1. Hill of Witches
On a small rise just outside Juodkrante, covered in fir pines and offering pretty views over the Curonian lagoon, is the fantastical and fun 'Hill of Witches'. A collection of more than 70 wooden carvings and statues sit mischievously, depicting ghoulish witches, devils and other characters from Lithuanian lore and fairy tales. Some of the larger constructions can move and be clambered about on for entertaining photo opportunities. Each year master carvers from around the country converge on the hill to restore the statues, build new ones and possibly – though probably not – drink goat's blood.
2. Hill of Crosses
A couple of hours drive from Vilnius is the Hill of Crosses, an arresting and poignant testament to Lithuania's various struggles against foreign powers. Although it's believed that the first cross was brought to the hill sometime in the mid-19th century, the practice of ascending the hill and leaving behind crosses, crucifixes and Catholic effigies gained considerable momentum during the 1970s and 80s as an act of peaceful defiance against the Soviet occupancy. On three occasions the Soviets razed the hill and destroyed the crosses, only to find them quickly replaced. Also a popular site of pilgrimage, the hill attracts thousands of Catholic faithfuls each year and there are now an estimated 100,000 crosses at the location.
3. Devil's Museum
Adroitly playing on humanity's fascination with evil incarnate, The Devil's Museum in Kaunas holds what is believed to be the world's largest collection of all things diabolical. The exhibition opened in 1966 and is really more amusing than it is creepy. With the museum's long-time tradition of accepting and displaying artworks gifted by visitors from across the globe, you're just as likely to come across his royal Prince of Darkness depicted in an intricate wood carving as a nut-cracker, or in disguise as various political dictators. And for those looking to further descend into the underworld, a bar in the basement provides devilishly enticing vodka libations.
4. The Frank Zappa Statue
When Lithuania achieved its independence from the Soviet Union, the population rapidly set to tearing down all relics and reminders of their period under communist rule – thus leaving an abundance of headless pillars where Lenin and Stalin's busts had once perched. Whatever was to be done with these? The situation looked hopeless. That is until civil servant and avid Zappa fan Saulius Paukstys came forward with the suggestion of a homage to his musical idol. Given that Zappa had no Lithuanian ancestry, or had even visited the country, local authorities weren't sold on the idea – not initially, anyway. But when it was argued that Zappa did, after all, have Jewish features and because Jewish history was important to Lithuania… well, the rest is history. Funnily enough, it's the only Frank Zappa effigy in the world.
5. The Uzupis Constitution
On 1 April 1997, the self-declared Republic of Užupis became Europe's latest, and most bizarre, breakaway province. The announcement, which took the rest of Lithuania completely by surprise, was thought to be a rather amusing April Fool's Day joke; however, with the launch of an official constitution, it quickly became apparent that the Republic was here to stay. Visitors can now have their passports stamped and pore over its 41-article constitution, which includes such oddities as 'Everyone has the right to encroach upon eternity', and 'A dog has the right to be a dog'.
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Feb 16 Independence Day
Mar 11 Restoration of Independence Day
Mar 31 Easter Sunday
Apr 1 Easter Monday
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Jul 6 Anniversary of the Coronation of King Mindaugas
Aug 15 Assumption
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Dec 25 Christmas Day
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Top responsible travel tips for Lithuania
1. Be considerate of Lithuania's customs, traditions, religion and culture. It's important to remember that what may be acceptable behaviour, dress and language in your own country, may not be in another.
2. Be cautious when mentioning Lithuania in the context of the former USSR. Even an inferred praising of Soviet practices is not likely to be appreciated.
3. The tap water is considered safe to drink, so for environmental reasons try to avoid buying bottled water. Fill and refill a reusable water bottle or canteen instead.
4. Always dispose of litter thoughtfully, including cigarette butts.
5. Learn some local language and don't be afraid to use it – simple greetings will help break the ice.
6. Shop for locally-made products. Supporting local artisans helps keep traditional crafts alive and supports the local community.
7. Refrain from supporting businesses that exploit or abuse endangered animals.
8. Please ask and receive permission before taking photos of people, including children.
Further reading
Recommended reading
|The Jungle
|Upton Sinclair
|The Seasons
|Kristijonas Donelaitis
|Between Shades of Gray
|Ruta Sepetys
|Between Giants: The Battle for the Baltics in World War II
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The Dark Souls II Collector's Edition was announced last September and has been in short supply at many retailers due to unforeseen demand. Now it seems as though Namco Bandai has secured more stock as the publisher recently released an epic overview video for this Collector's Edition homing in on its wide range of delectable contents.
The Dark Souls II CE's full list of features include:
• Collectible Metal Case – The collectible case has a unique Warrior Knight art graphic on it that will only be found on the Black Armor Edition
• Original Game Soundtrack – The Original Game Soundtrack is composed by Motoi Sakuraba, who composed the full score for the 2011 hit Dark Souls as well
• Premium quality 12 inch tall Warrior Knight figurine – Made from solid PVC weighing nearly 16 full ounces packed inside a custom printed display box with transparent window
• Exclusive hardbound artbook – Filled with never-seen-before images from the game developer
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Recall: Children's Hooded Sweatshirts with Drawstrings
On 2010-03-17, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) published a recall regarding Children's Hooded Sweatshirts with Drawstrings due to a potential strangulation hazard. This product sold new beginning in July 2006 for about $6 to $30.
About 20,000 units are involved in this Haselson International Trading sweatshirt recall. Learn more and find out what to do if you own this product below.
This was the 12th recall of products in the Outerwear & Sweatshirts category in 2010.
Since 2005, there have been approximately 160 similar recalls,
involving about 2 million product units.
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Website: www.burlingtoncoatfactory.com
Phone: (800) 217-4478
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What is the problem?
The sweatshirts have a drawstring through the hood which can pose a strangulation hazard to children. In February 1996, CPSC issued guidelines (pdf) (which were incorporated into an industry voluntary standard in 1997) to help prevent children from strangling or getting entangled in the neck and waist drawstrings in upper garments such as sweatshirts and jackets.
How can I tell if I own this product?
This recall involves children's sweatshirts sold in sizes 4 through 7 and S (8) and M (10-12). The sweatshirts were sold in various colors and prints. The brand name Kani Gold or Road Block is printed inside of the garment on the neck tag.
These items were sold new+ at Burlington Coat Factory stores nationwide from July 2006 through September 2009 for between $6 and $30.
What should I do if I own this recalled product?
First, stop using the item.
Then, add the item to a free, private Items I Own account. This will enable you to easily access the CPSC and recalling company's remedy instructions as well as track your progress toward getting the item returned or fixed. Click "I Own THIS Item" to continue.
The CPSC provides the following remedy information:
Consumers should immediately remove the drawstrings from the sweatshirts to eliminate the hazard. Consumers can also return the sweatshirts to Burlington Coat Factory or the Haselson for a full refund.
For additional information, contact Haselson toll-free at (800) 217-4478 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. ET Monday through Thursday, or visit the store's Web site at www.burlingtoncoatfactory.com
Incidents & Injuries Reported as of Recall Date
None reported.
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Once a year, after a major release, the Engineering team takes a "Fun Week" break from our regularly scheduled Agile development process to focus on Pentaho topics that the Engineers find most interesting. This year we took the break immediately following the Pentaho BI 4.0.0 GA release. A number of great research projects and ideas were created by the Engineers.
One of the major highlights was the prototype work done for the iPad. Nick Baker updated our new Interactive Reporting client to work on the iPad, and Rob Fellows implemented an iPad compatible User Console interface.
At the end of the week, we held a BarCamp style meeting at the local Dave and Busters where everyone presented their work followed by some fun playing arcade games and air hockey. The most energetic presenter was Ezequiel Cuellar, who prototyped some great new functionality in Pentaho's User Console, including bookmarks and history. As part of his demo, Ezequiel demonstrated how easy it would be to erase your Pentaho history when your pointy haired boss stopped by at your desk. With this feature, your boss won't know if you ran that TPS report or not! I didn't mention to Ezequiel that his boss could always check out the daily Pentaho Audit Logs.
Many of the prototypes developed in previous Fun Weeks have become headlining features. Taking a break to focus on fun has proven to be a great reward for the Engineering Team as well as a unique way to allow for product innovation within Pentaho!
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STEUBENVILLE - Kristi McCullough and Denver Williams have announced their engagement.
The bride-to-be is the daughter of Dori Duchin of Columbus and Scott Penman of Steubenville.
Her fiance is the son of Harold and Phyllis Williams of Connellsville, Pa.
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She is a 2000 graduate of Indian Creek High School and a 2004 graduate of Ohio University, where she received a degree in special education. She is employed as the special education admissions liaison by the Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School.
Her fiance is a 2001 graduate of Connellsville High School and a 2006 graduate of Slippery Rock University, where he received a degree in computer science. He is employed as a technical support service specialist by National Network of Digital Schools.
A wedding is planned Sept. 2 in Pittsburgh.


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Is there a Halachah that forbids eating while learning? One of my friends told me it was forbidden.
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Mishna B'rura 170:1 bans saying words of Torah while eating a meal, lest food go down the windpipe instead of the esophagus. I see no reason eating anything else would be different from eating a meal but, of course, contact your rabbi for practical guidance rather than relying on what you read on this site. (And in this case, if your rabbi permits it, you may wish to contact your doctor also to see if he forbids it.)
I know of no reason one couldn't eat while thinking (not speaking) words of Torah. (Of course, eating while in the process of studying Torah, especially with a study partner, even while not speaking words of Torah, will limit your ability to speak Torah words aloud if any happen to come to you while you're eating, per the preceding paragraph, and thus prevent good studying. Moreover, eating can distract you from properly thinking about what you're studying. It may therefore be inadvisable; again, ask your rabbi.)


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The 6 Creepiest Lies the Food Industry is Feeding You
#3. Your Salmon Is Dyed Pink
When you think of salmon in the wild, you're usually imagining a bunch of strong, determined fish swimming upward through a waterfall, maybe while getting chased by bears. It's the blood rushing through the powerful salmon's veins that makes its flesh so pink and healthy as a bastard -- by devouring it, you also absorb its strength and the spirit of the untamed Alaskan wilderness.
The Horror:
At least, that used to be how it worked. The salmon you eat today has never swum a single damn inch upstream. Instead of the Alaskan wilderness, today's salmon only contain the spirit of the cramped, overcrowded salmon farms in which they spent their entire lives. Because the fish can't move much and their diet consists entirely of aquarium pellets, the salmon that arrives at your local Safeway is as gray as a British winter.
So how do they recapture the soul of Alaska? They pump the salmon full of pink dye, obviously. The pellets they feed to those aquatic prisoners are infused with a line of coloring agents developed by the pharmaceutical giant Hoffman-La Roche and selected according to a color fan. That's right -- just like the ones you use to choose the color of your wall paint from the hardware store. Behold, the SalmoFan:
Via Groundtruthtrekking.org
"Hey, it's our anniversary, we're allowed to splurge. Let's order neon."
This is no small-scale stuff, either. About 95 percent of Atlantic salmon is currently farmed, and pretty much all of it is dyed.
Of course, salmon is not the only thing in your grocery basket that isn't really the color you think it is. Remember Perdue chicken, Frank Perdue's famous poultry with the "healthy, golden color"? Turns out that the healthy, natural color was achieved with a mix of marigold petals and dyes. In the baked goods corner we have wheat bread, which is often dyed darker with brown sugar or molasses to make it appear more healthy. The peculiarly orange hue of cheddar cheese is also a careful mix of coloring agents, because the natural color of cheese batches varies, and being faced with variation reduces regular shoppers to confused and aggressive beasts.
"Be careful, they charge when provoked."
For the red-meat lovers out there, rest assured that your hamburger and sausage meat is often dyed to a more appetizingly red hue that can cause cancer. But hell, who wants to eat slightly inconsistent-looking food?
#2. Kobe Beef Doesn't Really Exist
Seasoned carnivores know that Kobe beef is just about the cream of the crop, if you can afford it. The Japanese Wagyu cattle it comes from are raised with a very direct set of rules, followed with the kind of strict meticulousness you'd expect from a country where making a cup of tea is an hour-long ritual.
Luckily, the international market has made Kobe beef pretty widely available. Nowadays, many restaurants keep Kobe on the menu, and many a well-equipped meat purveyor is able to get his hands on a chunk every now and then. And as the markets open, the prices plummet -- these days, you can totally enjoy a delicious Kobe burger for the relatively measly price of $81.
Via Gothamist.com
"Here's your wrong burger with a side order of french lies. Enjoy!"
Say, ever wonder where all this sudden, delicious Kobe influx comes from?
The Horror:
Nowhere, that's where. Every single restaurant and beef purveyor boasting Kobe beef is lying its ass off. You have never had real Kobe beef. Not in the U.S., not in Europe, not in Australia. Unless you actually flew to Japan and specifically sought it out, you haven't had a shadow of a chance to even sniff a Kobe steak.
Nope, doesn't count.
In fact, the strict rules that apply to Kobe production aren't in compliance with U.S. legislation, which technically makes the meat more or less illegal stateside. And there is precious little Kobe beef to go around -- so it doesn't. With the exception of Macau, for some reason, Kobe beef is exclusive to Japan, and even there it can be a bastard to find.
So wait, what are they actually feeding us when we pick "Kobe" off the menu? Whatever the hell they want. The term "Kobe beef" is only subject to regulation within Japan, so for the rest of us, it can legally apply to anything that doesn't violate the "beef" part of the description.
"That'll be a million dollars."
When you buy something labeled "Kobe beef," it's likely that you're actually buying something with a vague explanation, like it's prepared "in the style" of a Kobe steak, which probably isn't enough to warrant the $80 price tag, unless you're one of those creepy Japanophiles.
#1. Your Olive Oil Is Fake, Thanks to the Mob
Even though it's basically just fat, olive oil is one of those fabled "good fats" that sounds like "healthy cigarettes," except that the folks at Harvard will even tell you that olive oil can prevent heart disease and generally help you live longer. It's such a shame that you may never actually get to try the stuff, thanks to a shadowy global conspiracy that exists purely to keep it away from you.
"They're on to us. Pack your things -- we have to get out of town right now."
The Horror:
As crazy as it sounds, olive oil piracy is one of the Italian Mafia's most lucrative enterprises, to the extent that it appears that most olive oil on the market is either greatly diluted or completely forged by a massive shadow industry that involves major names such as Bertolli.
They've been at it for a while, too -- Joe Profaci, said to be one of the real-life dons who inspired the character of Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather, was known by the moniker of "The Olive Oil King." But evidence suggests that olive oil racketeering has been a major problem in the world for centuries. Hell, the ancient Sumerians had a fraud squad for shady olive oil peddlers.
"Hurry up, man, my salad is getting limp and wilted."
Today, the stuff that is pawned off to us as quality olive oil is often just a tiny amount of the real thing, mixed with up to 80 percent of ordinary, less than healthy, cheap as muck sunflower oil. That is, if you're getting any olive oil at all. In fact, we're so used to shitty olive oil that apparently food connoisseurs reject the real stuff because it tastes fake to them.
But why would anyone bother? It's freaking olive oil. How much money can there be in it when you can get a bottle for a few bucks at the grocery store? It turns out that, profit-wise, shady olive oil is comparable to cocaine trafficking. If anything, the reality would have really changed the atmosphere of the Godfather movies.
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Muirfield Gets Its Day in the Sun
No Need for Umbrellas at This Year's British Open
Gullane, Scotland
The last time Tiger Woods played in a British Open here at Muirfield, he carded his worst score ever as a professional: 81. That was 2002, when Woods was at his best. He had already won the Masters and the U.S. Open that year and was trying for the still-unachieved Grand Slam, winning all four modern majors in a calendar year.
But Woods, after opening with rounds of 70 and 68, ran into a wee bit of bad luck with his Saturday tee time. A storm blew in.
"That was the worst I've ever played in," he recalled Tuesday. "The windchill was in the 30s. The umbrella became useless, because the wind was blowing so hard you couldn't control the umbrella. We played through maybe 13, 14 holes of it." All with just a golf shirt and rain jacket, because the forecast, as Woods remembers, had predicted merely the slight chance of a shower.
He finished 28th. The winner in a four-man playoff was Ernie Els, who managed a 72 on Saturday in better conditions.
The forecasters could be wrong again this year, of course, but the current projection is for totally different conditions. If they are correct, Scotland's two-week spell of warm, dry, sunny weather will continue through the weekend. That doesn't necessarily mean Muirfield will play easier than it did in 2002, only that links golf will be presenting its other face: bounding, fiery fairways and rock-hard approaches into the greens.
And once again, Woods and Els are among the favorites. Woods because he's No. 1 in the world and has won four times already this year. Els because he won last year's Open at Royal Lytham & St. Annes and has stayed in good form since, with a victory last month on the European Tour and a tie for fourth at the U.S. Open.
Els practiced at Muirfield two weeks ago and was shocked when he returned this week at how much the course had hardened up. "The weather has been unbelievable. The course is getting firmer and firmer and faster," he said Monday. To illustrate: in one of his recent practice rounds, on the 377-yard third hole, he teed off conservatively with a three iron, hoping to keep the ball short of the pinching fairway bunkers 290 yards out. Instead, with just a "little breeze" behind it, the ball screamed off the fairway and well past the bunkers.
"Until you have actually played [Muirfield] in competition, you might not believe that the ball is going to go that far," he said.
Last weekend I was fortunate enough to play a few bone-dry Scottish links courses myself, and the degree of bounding was extraordinary. Think concrete. But Muirfield's fairways have a little less craziness to them than many links courses—fewer quirky hillocks and swales that send balls squirting off sideways or shooting 50 yards farther than anticipated. The players here are nearly universal in their love for the course.
Phil Mickelson, who won the Scottish Open at Castle Stuart last week and is another favorite, said Muirfield had been set up extremely fair. "Given the firmness of the fairways and as much as the ball is running, you have to have a little bit of room to maneuver and keep the ball in play, and the setup has allowed for that," he said.
Not only are the fairways reasonably wide, but the rough is subtly graduated. Twenty feet from the edge of the fairways, the brush is waist high and densely tangled at ground level with the vestiges of wet summers the last two years. Wild drives there will be duly penalized, with hack-outs back into play the only choice. Closer to the short grass, however, the fescue is much shorter and wispy and players in practice rounds are advancing the ball with no problem, albeit also with limited precision.
Unlike at some courses in the British Open rota, the dreaded, steep-faced potbunkers at Muirfield are mostly in logical places, defining the areas where players want to hit their drives, rather than sneakily plopped in the middle of them.
The last British Open course to be this baked out was Hoylake in 2006. Woods won that tournament by hitting his driver only once all week and maneuvering his ball around the course's bunkers like a chess grandmaster. He was coy Tuesday about whether he would use a driver this week—he said he'd only hit a couple in practice rounds—and also about whether his elbow was fully healthy. At the U.S. Open, he aggravated an elbow injury and hasn't played since. He said it's "good to go" now, but that he's playing only nine-hole practice rounds here to protect it from the hard turf.
Predicting a champion for any major is a bit of a fool's errand. Fourteen of the last 17 majors have been won by first-timers. But one has to root for Mickelson, coming off his devastating loss to Justin Rose at the U.S. Open last month and his confidence-building Scottish Open victory.
He hasn't fared well in British Opens—only two top 10s in 19 outings—even though the imaginative demands of links golf would seem to suit him. On Tuesday he said poor putting on the subtle fescue greens at Opens had been a big part of his underachievement but that recently he has "keyed in on something" in his putting (the details of which he did not care to share) and that now his putting is better than it's ever been. He said he had a "hate/love relationship" with the British Open: "I used to hate it and now I love it."
Graeme McDowell, with three wins in his last seven tournaments, is another to put money on. "I think the links style golf is in my blood," said the former U.S. Open champ from Northern Ireland. "I naturally and instinctually can play well in the wind."
McDowell's countryman, world No. 2 Rory McIlroy, is a cipher these days. He hasn't won since dominating both the PGA Tour and European Tour last year. U.S. Open champion Justin Rose, Masters champion Adam Scott? Dark horses Rickie Fowler, Jason Dufner, Matteo Manassero? Their chances are all as capricious as the bounces off Muirfield's turf.