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Corporal work of mercy up for discussion UPDATE 2
Burying the dead is among the corporal works of mercy. One brave funeral director agreed to prepare the body for a Muslim burial, but it is Tamerlan Tsarnaev, terrorist number 1. There are protests. So far no cemetery has agreed to take the body. Carry on Worcester, Massachusetts; do the right thing. The man is dead. Story here.UPDATE: Ruslan Tsarni, the uncle of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, arrived in Worcester on Sunday to wash the body of his nephew according to Islamic custom. After completing this task with friends who assisted him, he had this to say, " A dead person needs to be buried thats what tradition requires, thats what religion requires, thats what morals require. Yes, indeed.Still no cemetery available. Story here.End of story: He was finally buried on May 9 or 10 in a small Muslim cemetery in Virginia.
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Has Tamerlan's widow considered burying her husband in West Roxbury?"Al-Marhama is the only sharia-compliant funeral & burial service in Massachusetts."http://isbcc.org/al-marhama/
According to news reports, Mrs. Tamerlan, who was identifying herself by her maiden name, refused to have anything to do with the disposition of the body, leaving it up to her in-laws to deal with it. My guess is that she hopes to fade into the background to protect her daughter from unwarranted attention.I truly hope, wherever the body is buried, it will remain undisturbed. Don Marxhausen, Lutheran pastor who held a private service for killer Dylan Klebold after Colombine noted that the boy was cremated and could not go into a cemetery. He took a good deal of flak for doing the service. "Christ always goes where it's darkest. You do your job," he said. Interesting but sad story about Adam Lanza's burial arrangements which mentions Klebold and other killers here:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/31/adam-lanzas-remains-claim_n_238...
Interesting article on the front page of the NYT about the Widow Tsarnaev: "From 'Social Butterfly' to Boston Suspect's Widow." (Interesting reader comments, too.)I wonder if she "was identifying herself by her maiden name" or media who chose to do that to her.
OK, I'll bite cuz I love a good conspiracy rant: Why would the media "choose to do that [identify her by her maiden name] to her"? General media ethics (pause for laughter from the scornful) requires reporters to call people by the names/labels they prefer. The AP Stylebook is constantly updating references to various religious and ethnic groups based on complaints and requests from those groups. Perhaps allowing people to use the names and monikers they prefer is a corporal act of mercy?
Question: Do women keep their family names in Islam?
I don't think calling people by the names they prefer rises to the level of a corporal work of mercy. Simple politeness would be more like it.As to "Katie," as her lawyer calls her? He's preparing future jurors to like her, trying to humanize (or ummanize) her. The NYT calls her "Ms. Russell." Maybe to sell more papers by presenting a sympathetic figure, a former social butterfly whose father went to Exeter, but whose husband put her on food stamps. Many angles to explore. (Including naming conventions for Muslim wives/mothers.)
I was so excited when I saw this title on Commonweal. I am from the Boston area. Admittedly we have been through a lot. Much that has happened can never be explained. However, I have been most distressed by the silence of those in positions of authority, and I include Church authority, about these protests regarding the burial. Burying the dead IS a corporal work of mercy. It is the last pro-life act we offer each other. I hear much about the New Evangelization which I understand means to bring the Gospel into the marketplace. We are not yet finished with Easter time. We must remember how Joseph of Arimathea stepped forward to provide a burial place for Jesus who had been executed as a common criminal. Mr. Stefan is to be applauded and supported. This is not the first time he has done something like this. You can read more about him here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22409920 My take is that Mr. Stefan well understands the new evangelization and the corporal works of mercy, regardless of his faith background.I guess my disappointment is that basically this was a link to another article with an invitation to comment without any input, reflection.
Sad commentary on the loss of the sense of the sacred. He, like everyone else, is entitled to a decent appropriate burial according to the customs of his faith. If the Romans would have acted like some of the people in the story , they would never have permitted Joseph of Arimathea to bury Jesus. Even the US government afforded bin Laden a burial according to Islamic custom.I see no legitimate reason that a cemetery should prohibit his body from being laid to rest. There are laws against the desecration of graves, there should be laws against arbitrary refusal unless the cemetery is set aside for exclusive religious adherents but, certainly, other cemeteries should be made available.There was concern that bin Laden's burial would become a shrine which is why they opted for the burial at sea (apparently permissible under Islamic law) but Tsarnaev is nowhere near that league.
Margaret, good question re names.Twenty minutes of idle browsing reveals that Shaykh Munajjid (who operates something akin to Catholic Answers for Muslims) says a husband cannot and should not urge his wife to change her name to his: http://islamqa.info/en/ref/114624However, over at IslamiCity, a site that for those interested in converting to Islam, a similar question gets a different answer that suggests that local practices might be followed: http://www.islamicity.com/qa/action.lasso.asp?-db=services&-lay=Ask&-op=... Tsarnaev's mother has been identified in the as Zubeidat Tsarnaeva (the feminine version of her husband's name), even though she and her husband are divorced. The family is Chechyan/European, not Middle Eastern, so maybe that makes a difference.Muslim women in south Asia also often take their husband's names or use both their maiden and married names (a la Hilary Rodham Clinton).In any case, protesting at the funeral home and cemetery that Tamerlan Tsarnaev is "being taken care of" while the people of Boston are still suffering is both a sin and a stupidity. Tsarnaev has paid for whatever crimes he committed with his life. I'm not sure why it is an outrage to let his body return to the earth and his soul to God.
Re: "Question: Do women keep their family names in Islam?" @05/04/2013 - 2:25 pm Yes, they do, at least according to a Muslim woman friend who does so; likewise her mother who came to the US in her sixties. It seemed such a contrary custom to me, considering the arranged marriage of her mother, and the cultural, legal and religious restrictions on women in her society.
G: "The NYT calls her Ms. Russell. Maybe to sell more papers by presenting a sympathetic figure, a former social butterfly whose father went to Exeter, but whose husband put her on food stamps. Many angles to explore."Right. The Times refers to everyone by Mr. Ms. Mrs. Dr., etc., after the first mention when the whole name is used... As I recall they referred to Osama bin Landen as Mr. bin Laden.
Mary Sweeney,In fairness to Peggy Steinfels, she did offer commentary: "Carry on Worcester, Massachusetts; do the right thing. The man is dead."I would not mistake terseness for a lack of feeling. In a few words, the post has put forward the several essential elements. Thank you, however, for adding your own good thoughts here, which have enriched the discussion.
Margaret:True that the NYT, like most papers, uses honorifics. (Although they dropped the Mr. for bin Laden when bin Laden was dropped into the ocean.) http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2011/05/goodby... I was pointing out that Katie was called Ms. Russell in this morning's story instead of Ms. Tsarnaev. And I was wondering when/if she announced to media that she had not taken her husband's name at the time of her conversion/submission.http://www.google.com/search?site=&source=hp&q=conversion+to+islam+submi... notice in Vows that more and more women are keeping their names. (And more and more officiants at weddings are Universal Life Ministers. And more and more marriages are "mixed" in ways our grandparents would never have imagined. Etc.)Good thing, imho. Genealogy is hard when female ancestors' names are lost. As to the burial of the killer, Tamerlan? "Let the dead bury the dead." (Luke 9:60)
At risk of stating the obvious, George D has summarized everything useful that need be said about this issue. A young man, likely as ignorant as the rest of us in youth, went looking for wisdom and found horror. Tragically he vented that horror not merely on himself but on others. In the tradition of all who find no use in a God not reflective of mercy all that remains of him is a thing we call a soul. Short of prayer we mere mortals have no means whatever to affect that soul. In fact in the end it is God alone who determines their effect.Bury the young man's body and let's hope other young men meet better mentors in their youth. Those who see violent death as martyrdom rather than the pointless loss of a remarkable gift are seldom moved by condemnation.
There is a kind of profile of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (terrorist number 2) in the Times (May 5). I say kind of because it's made up of quotes from former teachers, friends and acquaintances. It is rightly titled "Dark Side" in that we find out how little anybody really knows about him. What struck me was the "Mr. Cool" aspect of his "self-presentation" to teachers and friends. What if this is the "real" person absorbing from our mores and culture what is expected of adolescent boys with little sense of ethics or responsibility (except to his older brother). http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/05/us/dzhokhar-tsarnaevs-dark-side-carefu...
"It seemed such a contrary custom to me, considering the arranged marriage of her mother, and the cultural, legal and religious restrictions on women in her society."Carolyn, if you read the response about this in IslamiCity, you'll see that Muslims view women keeping their own names as a sign of freedom and self-determination. There are also interesting theological ideas about why women are encouraged to keep their birth names. Maybe that's spin, but the Muslim restrictions we hear about may be overstated for our own political purposes, no? Made me reassess my own assumptions, anyway.
Margaret, a Muslim client told me once that one's name is considered to be a gift from Allah and thus a woman should not change her name upon marriage. I don't know whether this is a pervasive custom.
62 million leads to "do muslim women change their name after marriage."(I haven't read all 62 million, but the ones I read seem to say that Muslim women should continue to be known by their fathers' names, rather than by their husbands'. (Daughter of, rather than wife of.) http://www.google.com/search?q=do+muslim+women+change+their+name+after+m...
From the limited amount I know about Islam, it seems that, contrary to what some Westerners think, women in Muslim culture are highly respected, though in some very restricted ways. I've never been able to figure out just what their highly respected characteristics are (except for being mothers), but Mohammed's own wife was a business woman, and he apparently respected that in her. In other words, her "place" wasn't restricted to the home. Maybe their categories just aren't the same as ours. At any rate, I wish I could figure them out. Their attitudes to women seem so contradictory at times. There are deep differences among the various strains of Islam, and that might explain the oppositions, but who knows.
It would indeed be merciful for one of the Catholic cemeteries in the area to donate a plot for Tsarnaev's body.
FWIW - in the spirit of Nothing ventured, etc., I've sent an email to the bishop of Worcester, MA, suggesting that he donate a plot at one of the local Catholic cemeteries to help out this courageous funeral director.
A dead person needs to be buried thats what tradition requires, thats what religion requires, thats what morals require. Yes, indeed.Those who wish to contribute to a fund to fly Tamerlan's body to Russia will find information at the link below. (The man organizing the fund raising will announce details today.) http://www.google.com/search?site=&source=hp&q=donate+to+tamerlan+tsarna...
FWIW in the spirit of Nothing ventured, etc., Ive sent an email to the bishop of Worcester, MA, suggesting that he donate a plot at one of the local Catholic cemeteries to help out this courageous funeral director.The four Muslim cemeteries Peter Stefan has approached have turned him down. Maybe your bishop will donate a plot in your area. http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/05/boo-hoo-no-one-wants-to-bury-ter...
JP: Thanks for your update. Would you like to share the bishop's e-mail for those who would like to ask him to make a plot available.
Margaret - I sent it to the email address listed on the Contacts page of the Worcester diocese website. Of course, dotCom readers are welcome to do as they wish, but could a barrage, or even a mini-blitz, of emails be counter-productive? I'm not sure on that point. He's already received one email from an "outsider" (i.e. I don't live in that diocese). If there are any Worcester residents reading this, your bishop may like to hear from you.
Re: emails to Bishop McManus of Worcester -- he may be a bit preoccupied today:http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/05/06/bishop-mcmanus-worcester-arr...
Oy vey!!! Or, maybe a cemetery plot could be part of his community service.
I have read somewhere that (Palestinian only?) Muslim mothers take a last name that means "mother of ..." when they have their first son, but I can't find any reference. Matthew Beynon Rees has written a 4-book "Omar Yussef" mystery series in which that was mentioned ... but I'm not going to re-read the entire 4 books to quote chapter and verse.
Jim:I cant image the protests from Catholics and Muslims if a Muslim were to buried in a Catholic cemetery. I have to keep reminding myself: Its not a perfect world.Speaking of protests: the Westboro Baptist Church is going to protest at the funereal services of Bishop McFadden of Harrisburg, who died of a heart attack last Friday. Why the protest? The Catholic Church is not doing enough against pedophiles priests. http://www.godhatesfags.com/fliers/index.html
http://heraldry.sca.org/names/arabic-naming2.htmYes, it is an Arabic naming convention. "A kunya (pronounced COON-yah), an honorific name or surname, as the father or mother of someone; e.g., abu Da'ud [the father of David], umm Salim [the mother of Salim]. It is meant as a prefix of respect or reverence. Married persons (especially married ladies) are, as a general rule, simply called by their kunya (abu or umm + the name of their first son). When using a person's full name, the kunya precedes the personal name: Abu Yusuf Hasan [the father of Joseph, Hasan], Umm Jafar Aminah [the mother of Jafar, Aminah]."(When Morsi was elected President of Egypt, supposedly his wife said she would continue to be known as umm Whatever, rather than as First Lady or some other western title. This was reported, not shown.)
Jack - if you hear a rattling sound, that's the sound of my head shaking upon reading that article. Oy indeed! Helen - would it be taken as a sign of disrespect if he were buried in a Catholic cemetery? Maybe not such a good idea?
Antigone was my favorite role model when I was 15. But apparently those heroes don't exist any more. Now "prudence" trumps what tradition, religion, morals require.
Antigone! Just who is needed.
If nothing else, offering a plot in the Catholic cemetery might make the recalcitrant Muslim cemetery director's rethink their original decision.
Antigone, did the moral thing by providing her brother with burial rites.But, who would be willing to pay the price that she did?
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-boston-bombing-tamerlan-tsar... that:Some individuals had offered private plots in New Hampshire, New Jersey and Ohio, the Globe reported, but the Tsarnaev familys preference is burial in a Muslim-designated plot in Massachusetts.
There are times when some element of compromise is in order, i.e., "Tsarnaev familys preference is burial in a Muslim-designated plot in Massachusetts.The first part may be possible if "Muslim-designate" can be an ad hoc designation.Massachusetts? Therein may lie the rub.
The body has been "entombed" (whatever that may mean) at an unidentified location outside of Massachusetts. http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/05/09/182570519/boston-bombing-...
He was buried in a Muslim cemetery in Doswell, Va. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/11/us/tamerlan-tsarnaev-buried-in-virgini...
Thanks for the update. The story had this: "Martha Mullen followed the story from her home in Richmond, Va., and asked local religious leaders if they could think of anywhere Mr. Tsarnaev could be laid to rest.Jesus tells us, Love your enemies, not to hate them after theyre dead, said Ms. Mullen, according to a statement provided by the Islamic Society of Greater Richmond.She received an offer from the Islamic Funeral Services of Virginia, a small organization that runs a cemetery with several dozen plots in Doswell, an unincorporated village with less than 2,000 people that is best-known as the home of the Kings Dominion theme park. The organization worked with the Worcester police, the Worcester funeral director, Peter A. Stefan, and Mr. Tsarni to make arrangements."Let's hope the grave is left in peace.
You're welcome. Now it looks like the Tsarnaevs were involved in earlier murders:https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws&q=tsarnaev+2011+murder...
There is this from the NY Times story:"The burial came as a surprise to officials in the Doswell area."Caroline County was not consulted or given any input into the decision-making process for determining a burial site for this individual, Charles M. Culley Jr., the administrator for the county where the cemetery is located, said in a statement. We had no advance notice of the decision and unfortunately learned of the selection of a burial site through the media."
And who is objecting? More here: Worcester funeral director, "Peter Stefan said Monday he may not agree with how things were done when the Boston Marathon bombing suspect was buried last week in Virginia, but it was legal."Stefan's comments come as a group critical of the burial says it wants the body disinterred and sent elsewhere. The chairman of the Virginia Anti-Shariah Task Force called the burial "an awful sneak attack."Anti-Shariah Task Force? Who be they. http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2013/05/worcester_funeral_directo...


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Is it safe for someone who doesn't react to poison ivy to eat the berries? I am not going to try it without authority from someone who knows. Is it like smoke from burning vines, that can affect even an immune person?
Your body just doesn't have a reaction on skin contact right now. However most people will develop a reaction after enough repeated exposure. While poison ivy doesn't bother me either, I do take basic precautions to not push my luck. With regular contact, you will develop an allergy, and though it could take years, it will take a lot less if you start eating the stuff.
The part of poison ivy that gets you is Urushiol. It's absorbed readily by the mucous membranes of the throat. If you eat the berries and develop a reaction you are potentially developing a reaction all throughout your throat, etc. If this happens, your throat will likely swell shut and... being miles from medical care... you'll die.
I doubt there has been any scientific study on how many times someone has to eat berries before they develop a fatal reaction (it'd be highly unethical).
Intentional ingestion of poison ivy berries is ludicrous. Knowing what you already know - why even dare to go there? If you are looking for attention getting or want free kicks to get off on you'd be better off playing in traffic. At least in that instance you would have a running head start to get yourself away from the danger. My advice is do not eat or ingest the berries. Worst case scenario is your heart and all other vital organs swell up and/or blister internally! Come to think of it poison ivy looks great from inside a cemetary plot.
Yes, they may be fatal! Is that a risk you're willing to take? As pointed out already even if you eat them once and you're ok, that may not be the case the next time.
If you're unsure of eating anything in particular in the wild I'd stay well away. With something that's known to be poisonous to a large number of people, it just seems silly to even try!
I actually ate poison ivy berries when i was a kid and i had no idea what they were, and nothing happened to me, but i am immune to poison ivy and i don't know if that was a reaction to me eating the berries. They didn't taste good anyways they tasted like they would be poisonous, super tart and green tasting left my mouth feeling like cotton, i remember my brother flipped out on me, but i just spit out what i didn't swallow and that was it, nothing happened except i had to wash out my mouth a bunch to get the taste out.
well for all of your information, you can eat the berries! it is actually and old south louisiana indian cure for the allergic reaction. you pick the berries when ripened and allow them to get cold, nowadays just put them in your freezer for three days. allow them to thaw and then you eat four to five berries. i used to catch poison ivy if i was anywhere near it and my uncle told me about this. it came from his grandfather, an old cajun indian. i suppose it acts similar to a vaccination. the cold kills any potential poison that could harm you. i have tried this for several friends over the years and it even promotes healing when you eat them if you are currently broken out.

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GATESVILLE (February 27, 2013)—The Gatesville Boys and Girls Club remained closed Wednesday, a day after natural gas leaking from a line in an alley began to fill the building.
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Firefighters were sent at around 4 p.m. Tuesday to the alley in the 200 block of South 7th Street after the leak was discovered, Gatesville fire Chief Billy Vaden said.
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In order to put human DNA inside a bacteria in order to have it create Insulin, from what type of cell would you need to take the gene for insulin? I thought it should be from any somatic cell, since the DNA is identical, but I'm told it should be only from the pancreas, why is that?
In short, because the easiest way to get the protein coding sequence of the gene is to create cDNA based on the mRNA, and insulin mRNA is only expressed in pancreatic cells.
Insulin gene consists of two exons. That means, amplifying the genome will not give us a coding sequence -- two pieces of that sequence will be interrupted by a large, non-coding intron.
On the figure above, you see the translated (i.e., coding a protein) sequences represented as opaque boxes. They are linked by a slightly curving thin line -- this is a fragment of sequence that will get excised during mRNA maturation.
To get the coding sequence in a straightforward manner, one can create cDNA from mRNA using a reverse transcriptase. Processed mRNA does not contain the intron. And clearly, pancreas cells express the insulin gene mRNA at very high levels, enabling such a procedure, whereas it is practically not expressed by other tissues.
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Now for me, when it comes to Bloody Marys, it's all about seasoning. Hence the (frankly ridiculous) list of ingredients.
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If eggs are thoroughly washed and of course beaten before microwaving, and after the process I can find no liquid, is there a possibility that salmonella is still there, or does it die from high temperatures?
Microwaves do not kill bacteria, heat kills bacteria. The higher the temperature, the faster those bacteria will die off.
"Instant death" for most bacteria (including salmonella) is about 160° F (71° C). You only need a few seconds at this temperature. The notoriously strict USDA recommends 160° F for egg dishes but is considerably more lax about whole eggs and just says to cook until firm. Very few eggs are contaminated in the whites or yolks, so the risk is very low.
Pasteurization begins around 57° C (135° F), so many bacteria are killed before the egg coagulates (at 63° C / 145° F), which is why the USDA is not very strict about it; if an egg by itself is "firm" then it's generally already been hot enough for long enough to ensure safety.
Unfortunately, microwaves tend to heat (a) quickly and (b) unevenly, so if you are concerned about food safety and insist on making eggs in the microwave (not recommended), be sure to use short bursts and stir several times, otherwise you might end up with a combination of uncooked and overcooked parts, which is bad for food safety and for general taste and texture.
Note that there is not only a possibility but actually a certainty that some salmonella is still there, assuming that there was any to begin with. Cooking is equivalent to pasteurization and that does not kill every single bacterium, nor is it meant to; it just kills about 99.9999% of them which makes the cooked item safe enough to consume.
Not necessarily: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/22/health/22real.html?_r=1
However my guess is that the heat generated by a microwave would be hot enough to kill most of the bacteria (backed up by some of the research in this article: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2947/do-microwave-ovens-kill-bacteria), so as long as it's a fresh egg the risk of salmonella poisoning is low.
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Like your butt, your brain and your right to vote, your penis needs to exercise, and for some reason the human body has decided that the best time for that workout is every 85 minutes at night. We know that men get erections that last about 25 minutes every 85 minutes or so because there are scientists who study this sort of thing -- scientists with boner trackers.
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Boner science calls the nightly up-down-up phenomenon "nocturnal penile tumescence," and apparently its function is maintenance. The triggers that get erections started at night don't come from the brain at all, but from the groin itself. In other words, you're not necessarily picturing anything or anyone when you get them, unlike when you get your daytime erections. And scientists think the triggers happen as a kind of self-inflicted exercise regimen -- the periodic blood flow makes your dong stronger, which means you're less likely to have a case of the limps when you don't want them.
This means that when you wake up with a boner, it doesn't really have anything to do with your general horniness or naughty dreams. You just happened to catch the little guy in mid-rep.
"Oh God, this was a terrible idea."
#1. Your Mom Pooped on You Because- Wait, What?
Yes, as we previously mentioned here, most mothers deliver more than a brand new human when giving birth. In addition to a baby, the mom usually deposits a bouncing baby dump on the delivery table as well. Which, in addition to never getting included in those wacky sitcom episodes, is a pretty sadistic move from Mother Nature. It's bad enough that human women suffer through squeezing out huge-headed babies while other species get to fart out their young on the way to the convenience store for smokes, but human moms also get the knowledge that they've defecated on their own child as well.
"Does this counts as 'regifting'?"
Oh, and you and everyone else in humanity who wasn't cut from their mom's womb get the joy of knowing their moms pooped on them. Just. Pooped. All over your face.
The Surprising Truth:
She's imprinting your insides with her own bacteria so you won't have to invent your own. And that's a good thing.
So a part of your mom does live on forever inside you.
Your colon is sterile when you're born, which leaves it basically unprotected against the various horrors that will travel through it. The exposure to your mother's fecal matter the moment you're born is custom designed to take care of this glaring error. The way it does so is the stuff of horror movies, though.
The mom's poop bacteria creeps up the child's colon and infests it. Thus, your mum's colon bacteria is stuck with you for life, which in turn greatly contributes to the smell of your own crap and even farts. As disgusting as the idea that you and your mom are poop-mates may be, it's a shitload (sorry) better than the alternative. Babies that are born via C-section -- and have therefore not been exposed to shit, vaginal mucus and all the other wonders of a traditional childbirth -- have much worse immune systems (and presumably worse-smelling farts) precisely because they weren't subjected to mom-poop and therefore have to later develop their own colon bacteria from breast milk and whatnot.
Finally, another entry for the list.
So, yeah. Say what you want about science, but we can't help but be impressed by how they're able to explain the fact that you are farting your mother's farts because she pooped on you as a good thing.
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There goes the egg white protein..
I guess the take away is to not eat the same stuff every single day...
From Cordains newsletter a short while back..
Lysozyme from Egg Whites by Loren Cordain
In all three of my books, I have advocated egg consumption, particularly eggs that are produced with high omega 3 fatty acid contents. Chicken eggs are generally a nutritious food and are a good source of selenium, vitamin A, vitamin D and the B vitamins, some minerals and lutein as Barbara indicated. Additionally, numerous recent experimental and epidemiological studies (reviewed in references 1, 2) indicate that regular egg consumption (7 per week) does not increase the risk for coronary heart disease (CHD). As I have previously noted, although eggs are one of the most concentrated sources of dietary cholesterol (212 mg per egg), dietary cholesterol has a minimal effect upon blood cholesterol concentrations in most people1, 3. Further, high cholesterol egg diets cause an increase in blood HDL particles1 and reduce the highly atherogenic small dense LDL particles while simultaneously increasing the less atherogenic large, "fluffy" LDL particles4, 5.
So, should everybody include eggs in their diet on a daily basis? Not necessarily, particularly if we examine the evolutionary template. Without question our preagricultural ancestors would have collected and consumed eggs from birds nests whenever possible. However, in the wild, bird eggs only appear seasonally. Hence, pre-agricultural humans could have never consumed two eggs for breakfast every morning of the year similar to some westernized people, but rather only occasionally for a few brief weeks or months.
If we follow up on the clue from the evolutionary template and examine eggs more closely, they maintain certain nutritional shortcomings that may be problematic, particularly for people suffering from autoimmune diseases and allergies. Although eggs are classified as animal food sources and are lumped together with meats in the USDA My Pyramid, eggs are uniquely different from meats in that they represent the reproductive endpoints of adult birds which exist outside their mothers body in a semipermeable, warm compartment. As such, all eggs are particularly vulnerable to invasion, attack and destruction by microorganisms such as fungi, bacteria and viruses present in their nesting environment.
The innermost yolk of a chicken egg represents the growing embryo which is anchored to the albumen or egg white by structures called chalazae. Outward from the egg white are the inner and outer membranes and then the shell, all of which provide physical barriers to infection from pathogens and microorganisms. The egg white makes up about 58% of the total egg volume and contains about 50% of the total egg protein and is composed of 88.5% water, 10.5% protein and 0.5% carbohydrate6. The function of the egg white is threefold: 1) storage of nutrients for the growing embryo (yolk), 2) protection of the egg from microbial attack, and 3) transport of nutrients into the growing embryo.
As I have previously mentioned, a chicken egg is the reproductive endpoint for adult birds and survives by living outside its mothers body in a semi permeable compartment that is essentially immovable. Accordingly, it has no means of protecting itself from microorganisms or predation by physical escape or avoidance. For this reason, the evolutionary strategy eggs have taken to protect themselves from microbial invaders is to select for toxic substances in the egg white; mainly in the form of antimicrobial proteins. Table 1 lists the major proteins in egg whites and their likely functions.
Table 1. Major proteins and their properties found in egg whites (adapted from references 6-10).
Protein % total proteins Functions
Ovalbumen 54 Storage protein
Ovotransferrin 12 Iron binding with antimicrobial activity
Ovomucoid 11 Protease inhibitor/antimicrobial activity?
Ovomucin 3.5 Potent antiviral activity
Lysozyme 3.4 Antibacterial activity
G2 globulin 4.0? Antibacterial activity
G3 globulin 4.0? Antibacterial activity
Ovoinhibitor 1.5 Protease inhibitor/antimicrobial activity?
Ovoglycoprotein 1.0 ?
Thiamin binding protein 1.0 Thiamin transport
Ovoflavoprotein/Riboflavin binding protein 0.8 Riboflavin transport
Ovomacroglobulin (Ovostatin) 0.5 Protease inhibitor/antimicrobial activity?
Cystatin 0.05 Protease inhibitor/antimicrobial activity?
Avidin 0.05 Antimicrobial activity
Total 88.8
Note that except for ovalbumen, which comprises 54% of the total protein in egg white, virtually all the other major proteins (~33% of the total) maintain one form or another of antimicrobial activity.
Egg white allergy in the general population varies between 1.6 3.2% and is the second most common cause of food allergy in children next to milk8. For both adults and children one or more of the following symptoms may occur: hives, atopic dermatitis (red, flaky itchy skin), asthma, runny nose, diarrhea, abdominal pain, rapid swelling of the skin and mucosa, and anaphylactic shock which may be life threatening. The major allergens in egg white are ovomucoid, ovalbumen, ovotransferrin and lysozyme8 (Table 1). So for the vast majority of children and adults (98.4 96.8% of the population), egg white allergy is not a problem, and except for anaphylactic shock is not a debilitating or life threatening condition.
The same conclusion may not be true for people suffering from an autoimmune disease (e.g. multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, lupus erythematosus and others), since egg white consumption may contribute to the origin and progression of these diseases via a process of molecular mimicry that I have previously outlined for dietary lectins found in wheat, peanuts and other grains and legumes11.
You can see from Table 1 that egg white protein is no simple protein, but rather a conglomeration of multiple proteins which have been designed by natural selection to cause toxic and lethal effects in bacteria and microorganisms reminiscent of food lectins found in grains and legumes11. In order for any food proteins to potentially cause or promote an autoimmune disease, it must:
1.Survive the human digestive processes intact
2.Cross the gut barrier intact either alone or with other attached proteins
3.Interact with the immune system in a manner suspected of causing an autoimmune disease.
A number of egg white proteins fulfill these necessary steps. Most problematic is the egg white protein, lysozyme which is actually an enzyme known as Nacetylhexosaminodase that is also found in many human tissues, including tears12. The function of lysozyme in both egg whites and in human tears is to act as a potent bacterialcidal agent by binding and dissolving bacterial cell walls12.
Bacterial cell walls are called the murein or peptidoglycan layer which is a gigantic polymer of (N-acetylglucosamine and N-acetylmuyramic acid) polysaccharide strands cross linked through short peptide bridges at the lactyl groups of the muramic acid residues. Lysozyme degrades bacterial cell walls by catalyzing hydrolysis of the beta (-1,4-) linkage between N-acetylglucosamine and N-acetylmuramic acid. Human cells do not maintain a murein (peptidoglycan) exterior lining. Consequently, dietary lysozyme from egg whites do no increase intestinal permeability by breakdown of intestinal cell membranes but rather lysozyme increases intestinal permeability by other means that I will explain. It is this increase in intestinal permeability or "leaky gut" that makes egg white consumption problematic for people with egg allergies or autoimmune disease.
Lysozyme is unusual among the major egg white proteins in that it has an alkaline isoelectric point, which means that it can form strong complexes with other egg white proteins including ovomucin, ovalbumen and ovotransferrin6, 12. Hence, even though lysozyme is a benign enzyme produced in our own bodies, when we eat egg white lysozyme, it comes as a compound attached to other egg white proteins or to gut borne bacterial proteins foreign to our bodies.
In the human digestive tract, enzymes called proteases normally break down proteins into their constituent amino acids so that the amino acids can be absorbed across the intestines. Because egg white protein contains high concentrations of protease inhibitors (ovomucoid, ovoinhibitor, ovostatin, cystatin - see Table 1), the human gut proteases (trypsin and chymotrypsin primarily) are less effective in degrading egg white proteins, and lysozyme/egg white protein complexes. Additionally lysozyme is stable in the acidic gut environment12 and therefore arrives intact in the lower gastrointestinal tract. It should also be mentioned that Lysozyme is heat stable, having been reported to withstand 100 degrees C with little loss of activity13. Matsuoka et al14 reported lysozyme to be stable in acidic solution (pH 4.5, 100 degree C for 3 min; pH 5.29, 100 degree C, 30 min. So lysozyme would survive any normal cooking procedures used for eggs.
So whats wrong if lysozyme/egg white protein/bacterial complexes arent dissolved by normal digestive processes? Normally, large multifaceted proteins such as these complexes dont have a prayer of getting across the intestinal barrier and into the bloodstream where they can interact with the immune system. Once again, lysozyme is an unusual protein because it rapidly breeches the gut barrier and enters human circulation15, due to its unusual chemical properties (a positively charged isoelectric point)16. Because lysozyme maintains a positive charge, it results in an electrostatic attraction to the negatively charged proteoglycans (the glycocalyx) of intestinal epithelial cells which in turn allows lysozyme to be absorbed rapidly into circulation16.
Absorption of pure egg white lysozyme by itself into circulation is likely not problematic because lysozyme is an enzyme that the body naturally produces. Rather it is the complexes that lysozyme forms with other egg white proteins, gut borne bacterial peptides and food peptides that may adversely stimulate the immune system. When these chimeric (monster) molecules breech the gut barrier via their net positive charge and enter circulation, they have the capacity to promote allergy and autoimmune disease.
Just how autoimmune diseases are triggered by gut borne antigens from egg white lysozyme and other common foods (cereal grains, legumes, dairy and certain saponin containing foods) is another good story that our research group has been working on for the past decade. We hope to publish this seminal paper in 2010.
1.Fernandez ML. Dietary cholesterol provided by eggs and plasma lipoproteins in healthy populations. Curr Opin Clin Nutr Metab Care. 2006 Jan;9(1):8-12.
2.Kritchevsky SB. A review of scientific research and recommendations regarding eggs. J Am Coll Nutr. 2004 Dec;23(6 Suppl):596S-600S.
3.Howell WH, McNamara DJ, Tosca MA, Smith BT, Gaines JA. Plasma lipid and lipoprotein responses to dietary fat and cholesterol: a meta-analysis. Am J Clin Nutr. 1997 Jun;65(6):1747-64.
4.Herron KL, Lofgren IE, Sharman M, Volek JS, Fernandez ML.High intake of cholesterol results in less atherogenic low-density lipoprotein particles in men and women independent of response classification. Metabolism. 2004 Jun;53(6):823-30.
5.Maki KC, Van Elswyk ME, McCarthy D, Seeley MA, Veith PE, Hess SP, Ingram KA, Halvorson JJ, Calaguas EM, Davidson MH.Lipid responses in mildly hypertriglyceridemic men and women to consumption of docosahexaenoic acidenriched eggs. Int J Vitam Nutr Res. 2003 Oct;73(5):357-68.
6.Stevens L. Egg white proteins. Comp Biochem Physiol B 1991;100:1-9.
7.Szxena I, Tayyab S. Protein proteinases inhibitors from avian egg whites. Cell Mol Life Sci 1997;53:13-23.
8.Mine Y, Yang M. Recent advances in the understanding of egg allergens: basic, industrial and clinical perspectives. J Agric Food Chem 2008;56:4874-4900.
9.Wellman-Labadie O, Picman J, Hincke MT. Comparative antibacterial activity of avian egg white protein extracts. Br Poult Sci. 2008 Mar;49(2):125-32.
10.Takahashi K.G., Nakamura A., Mori K. Inhibitory effects of ovoglobulins on bacillary necrosis in larvae of the pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas. J Invert Pathol 2000;75:212-217.
11.Cordain L, Toohey L, Smith MJ, Hickey MS. Modulation of immune function by dietary lectins in rheumatoid arthritis. Br J Nutr. 2000 Mar;83(3):207-17.
12.Proctor VA, Cunningham FE. The chemistry of lysozyme and its use as a food preservative and a pharmaceutical. Crit Rev Food Sci Nutr 1988;26:359-395.
13.Proctor VA, Cunningham FE. The chemistry of lysozyme and its use as a food preservative and a pharmaceutical. CRC Crit Rev Food Sci Nutr 1988;26:359-395.
14.Matsuoka Y, Hidaka Y, Yashima M. Japanese Patent 41-150, 1966.
15.Hashida S, Ishikawa E, Nakamichi N, Sekino H. Concentration of egg white lysozyme in the serum of healthy subjects after oral administration. Clin Exp Pharmacol Physiol. 2002 Jan-Feb;29(1-2):79-83.
16.Nishikawa M, Hasegawa S, Yamashita F, Takakura Y, Hashida M. Electrical charge on protein regulates its absorption from the rat small intestine. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol. 2002 Apr;282(4):G711-9.
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Hi Matt,
Can I just check that I understand the way it will work for me as I am buying through steam. I can install it and on first use I can set it to playing offline, thus meaning if i gave up my internet connection I would still be able to play the game, that correct, sorry i am making you repeat yourself I am new to these forums
I have a 3.06 pentium 4, 73gb free hard drive space and 1gb of ram but when I play the match engine of fm10 it is incredibily jittery, also fm10 says that i only have one star for running the game and 0 for 3d performance. My graphics card is gforce 5600 (worked a charm on fm09). Can someone please tell me whats going wrong? Why is it so jittery?
Got my download links and activation key from GAME. Just need the patch now...
Downloading now from D2D.
Wow, the D2D-file seem a lot smaller than the Steam one, only 1,08 GB. Can that really be true? Let's hope so.
Why are people already able to download this? All it says on my stream is "Pre-load complete; unreleased."?
The game file is 1.2gb, plus the small installer exe.
Maybe 10 more minutes? Just wishful thinking, but who knows? Maybe it will happen!
Doubt there will be a link out for it tonight....
where is our sega man hey?
Almost time! woop!! Think they'll release it at 00:01 for us or make us wait? lol
Will they or wont they?!?!
5 more minutes until midnight in London?
Well 3 more minutes to find out!
not heard from matt for a while
Where is the link?!
Wow the site was down for a bit there for me. Finally back and still no Mac d/l link
ahhhhh the forums are dying under the pressure of mac users looking for a link
As annoying as it is to have the forums going in an out because so many of us Mac users are repeatedly hitting refresh. I have to admit, I'm kinda impressed that there are that many of us online at once. Always being in the minority, its feels kinda good to know we can mess things up en mass just like the PC users.
Miles said: "All non-Steam ways will not be available for a while as our forums have crashed. Please stop refreshing - will tweet when more news."
This is class - overloading the forums!!
What's his twitter handle?
This is bull crap.. and they wonder why so many people download it illegally?! BECAUSE THEY MAKE IT EASIER FOR PEOPLE TO STEAL THE GAME THAN TO WAIT AND BUY IT LEGALLY!!!
Alright, forum's back! Mac time!
No worries, let's just play the patch for a bit
Fancy an online game anyone?
lol I'm almost ready to launch twitter... what's miles twitter @?
Esellerate torrent link - http://bit.ly/3Cl8e0 - that's the best I can do!
oi oi whats this?
the patch.
get that up while we wait for a link so we can patch it immediately.
a mirror to the patch im guessing
is it though because im downing the patch which is 88mb t
the esellerate link is 998 mb or something
Where is the patch then?
http://bit.ly/4yfLct for mac mate
Still no download link @ gamersgate. The pirates are playing for 2 days. Nice work Sega. I know what I will do next year.
or it might be the game? who knows.
The patch is on the football manager website.....
what is happening now where has matt gone?
they have gone very very quiet!
If you check the torrent links given by Miles, notice that the link to the full digital game is the already patched version (10.1), so we probably don't need to download the patch from the other torrent.
Still no clue how much it costs or who and how are we supposed to pay to?
that torrent link not working for me - download speed of zero! Working for anyone?
is this the 973 mb file?If you check the torrent links given by Miles, notice that the link to the full digital game is the already patched version (10.1), so we probably don't need to download the patch from the other torrent.
Still no clue how much it costs or who and how are we supposed to pay to?
im downloading this now but what happens when its done?
Download from the FM website - it is going at 200kb/s.
İ have pre loaded the game earlier now the game has been released when i try to launch it it says preparing to launch than nothing happens can somebody help me its on steam
I wanted to play this on my Mac, and thought I may get a digital download option for Mac besides Steam. I was wrong it seems. I can play this on my Mac through Bootcamp, but now that I have purchased the Steam version is there any way to get a digital download for my Mac?
Thanks to anyone who can help.
10am Korean time, 1am Limey time, game not available through Gamers Gate yet.
It's up. Link on Miles twitter!
Link for official Mac purchase/download: http://bit.ly/2UDJtn
can someone post a link to the patched mac version?
I'm dl'ing a torrent that's 973mb. Can't tell what the contained file is because it's .zip
Thanks Lucho. I will have to deal with it. Mac version $10 cheaper as well, aye!
better late than never i guess..
not a happy mac user here
better late than never i guess..
not a happy mac user here
thanks for the links... forums are super slow so hadn't seen before I posted.
800k/sec from the sega link... weeeeeee
I purchased through Esell but then the invoice appeared and nothing...does that mean we have to download from the torrent they gve us and then enter the serial?
weeeeee, breaking 1mb/sec dl from sega
Bought from Esellerate and direct download much faster than torrent for me, 50mins to go.
Ok, working now, 14 minutes away. Thanks for getting the Mac links up within the hour even with all the board's craziness.
Thank you for your patiente, Matt.
torrent will be slower until late tomorrow probably, not enough seeds
Good time to remember deleting the FM10 demo, don't want the computer (or myself really) to get confused with too many Sports Interactive folders.
Download seems to be speeding up, 30 mins to go!
anyone knows where i can buy the mac version ?
I am in China and my net is terrible, 3 hours for me. :-(
Big cheers to the SI crew for the Mac links (and patch) on the release date. Those of us long time Mac guys remember the days when we had to wait - sometimes for weeks - to get our hands on the game.
Well done, SI. Thanks.
When someone finishes downloading from Esellerate, and before you are lost forever inside FM2010, please be kind enough to post here if the Esellerate version is already patched to 10.1, or if we need to apply the patch. I know the torrent version was already patched, but not sure about the Esellerate version and still have a while to download.
Ditto, thanks SI>
It says download delayed from esellerate!! WTF!!!>!>!>!
I got it now... with the download time at 8 days!! Would be quicker to get it from the stores!
I've downloaded through Steam (PC) and its installed and patched to 10.1, but I can't find the Data Editor anywhere on my system. There are no program files as such, all the links redirect back to the steam folder.
If anyone can help me I'd really appreciate it!!


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The 5 Lamest Disasters in Disaster Movie History
Hollywood loves a good disaster and, let's face it, the end of the world looks cool as hell on screen. If you show us a bunch of exploding monuments, we'll buy a ticket.
But apparently Hollywood ran out of the really good disasters a long time ago, because sometimes they end up using disasters that appear to be just barely more than mild inconveniences. Such as:
#5. Volcano
The Disaster:
When the La Brea Tar Pits inexplicably turn into a goddamn volcano, it's up to a plucky geologist (Anne Heche) and a Dedicated Emergency Management director who can't fry up scrambled eggs without injuring himself (Tommy Lee Jones) to save Los Angeles from the river of lava now flowing down Wilshire Boulevard.
Why They Should Calm The Hell Down:
After a character points out early in the film that some volcanoes can erupt with the force of a nuclear blast, we find out that, wait, no, the one under LA is really small. It barely erupts at all, really, just oozes lava down the street.
Here's the interesting thing about lava: It's not very fast. Wait, did we say interesting? We meant boring.
"Hurry, the lava's gaining on us, we only have three minutes. And six hours. And eleven days."
Sure, on a particularly steep slope, a lava flow might get up past 6 miles per hour but on more gentle inclines it tends to top off at about 1/2 a mile per hour, only slightly faster than a turtle can walk. So of course the movie has tons of scenes on steep inclines, so the lava can come rushing down on the characters, right?
Not at all! They even have a scene where a character sets a basketball on the street to figure out which way the ground is sloping, thus establishing firmly that Wilshire Blvd is the safest place on earth to be in the event of a volcano.
That leaves the screenwriters with the uncomfortable task of trying to find ways to make this easygoing safety hazard more exciting. So, in one scene, a palm tree catches fire and falls over, conveniently trapping the heroes between an overturned bus and the creeping tide of molten death. Later, a handful of people on a subway train have to be rescued because not one of them is smart enough to figure out how to use the door on a subway car without outside help.
Finally, the lava breaks several laws of physics to race across town via an underground tunnel and spring out of the middle of the road near Cedar Sinai Hospital, but then it just starts crawling along exactly the way it did on the other side of town.
How They Solve the "Problem":
How do you re-route a lava flow and send it harmlessly into the ocean? Simple: You blow up a huge fucking building! Seriously, to save the city from a threat that can be easily out-walked, they topple a large building, killing two people in the process. If they ever make a sequel, they should save a city from a glacier by burning down an orphanage.
"We'll build a lava blockade using every available fire truck."
Most Laughable Brush With "Danger":
An old lady walks away from the lava that's engulfing her house, but she left her tiny little dog inside! The dog, realizing that he's in no danger whatsoever, runs over to the lava and barks at it.
Then, he scampers out the doggy door to tell all his little doggy friends that lava is a huge pussy.
#4. Twister
The Disaster:
When a large stormfront threatens to let loose a number of tornadoes in an area commonly known as the "Tornado Belt," it's up to a plucky Storm Chaser (Hellen Hunt) and a guy with the regrettable nickname "The Extreme" (Bill Paxton) to put a bunch of little plastic balls into one of the tornadoes for science.
Why They Should Calm The Hell Down:
We're certainly not going to argue that tornadoes aren't a destructive force of nature. That would be retarded. However, it's important to keep in mind that the average tornado-related event doesn't actually last very long, certainly not long enough to base an entire movie around.
The solution, obviously, was to make a movie about people who are dumb enough to run right up to one tornado after another and try to stick their balls in it.
But, even if you're willing to buy into the idea that the heroes' mission is worth all this ridiculous weather chasing, and some people obviously do, you're still left with the fact that these particular tornadoes are pretty much wimps. Sure, they're ready to tear a house apart or throw around the occasional cow, but time and time again the heroes drive right up to the funnel clouds, as if you actually have to jam your head inside one for it to hurt you.
For the big finale, our protagonists actually pass through into the eye of an F-5 tornado (read: a seriously fucking dangerous tornado) and emerge completely unharmed because they hung on really tight.
"This was such a stupid idea."
Yes, unharmed by the tornado that's full of debris flying around at speeds that can drive a piece of straw through a tree trunk.
How They Solve the "Problem":
Keep in mind that the situation that needs solving isn't the actual tornadoes themselves but rather the problem of getting a bunch of little plastic balls into one of these tornadoes. So, it makes sense that the day would be saved by Pepsi Cola.
See, the balls need to stay up in the air, so the heroes make tiny little propellers out of Pepsi cans. We can only imagine the inevitable, blood-drenched terror when these things finally spin their way down toward some poor farmer and his helpless family.
Most Laughable Brush With "Danger":
In an early scene, the main characters are stuck in a giant ditch with a tornado bearing down on them, and they don't even have time to turn on the machine with all those balls in it! So, they hide under a small wooden bridge. We'll go ahead and assume that it's perfectly normal for somebody to build a bridge over a ditch.
Anyway, the tornado steals their truck, dismantles most of the little bridge, and then just disappears with its tail between its legs, apparently frightened away by Helen Hunt.
#3. Daylight
The Disaster:
When a gang of astoundingly dimwitted jewel thieves crash their car into a convoy of trucks loaded down with toxic waste and the resulting explosion blocks off a section of the Hudson Tunnel, it's up to a plucky playwright (Amy Brenneman) and a cab driver who used to be the Emergency Medical Services Chief (Sylvester Stallone) to drag the few remaining survivors to safety.
Why They Should Calm The Hell Down:
The explosion must have been caused by some revolutionary new kind of clean-burning toxic waste, because nobody has any trouble breathing in that tunnel. Then again, most of these characters come into direct contact with the flames from that explosion, and none of them appear to have any burns on them, so this might actually be some kind of undercover superhero movie.
Since the smoke doesn't seem to have any effect and even fire can't hurt these people, screenwriter Leslie Bohem tries to come up with a new excuse for excitement every few minutes. At first, it seems like rising water levels will add a sense of danger to the proceedings, but the water is so slow to rise that it acts more as a vague annoyance than an actual crisis.
Then, Stallone takes a shot at livening things up by blowing up a big-ass gas tanker, ostensibly trying to slow down the water even more somehow. It almost seems dangerous because Stallone runs into some unexplained technical difficulties and he can't get quite as far from the explosion as he'd like to, but then he just jumps out of the way (a technique often referred to as a "Stallone" ).
As near as we can tell, his efforts have no noticeable effect on the rising water.
In the rare instances when danger does leap out and grab somebody by the ass, it tends to seem more confusing than anything. At one point a guy apparently falls through the road just because he walked on it and it was wet (how the hell does this only happen once?) and then an old lady sits down and just sort of dies, presumably from boredom.
How They Solve the "Problem":
It all comes down to the brave rescue efforts of a friendly parade of rats.
The rats, who apparently weren't in any particular hurry to leave the ever-so-slowly-crumbling tunnel, eventually swim over to our protagonists and kindly show them the way out, which is something we think they stole from a cartoon.
Most Laughable Brush With "Danger":
As the survivors make their way to safety, having successfully climbed a rickety staircase, they realize that the dog needs help getting up the steps! Bravely, Stallone risks his life to pull a fucking dog up a flight of steps!
And the dog makes it! Stallone, on the other hand, falls back into the water and has to find his own damn way out of the tunnel. We think the dog planned that.


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International artist Mimi Robinson designs commercially celebrated products, and four months out of the year, she designs solutions. As founder of the organization Bridging Cultures Through Design (BCTD), Robinson develops international programs that allows her to work directly with local artists on sustainable business ideas that preserve their culture and traditional skills. Robinson—who visits Bennington College on Tuesday, May 6, 2008, at 7:00 pm in Barn 100—will share her experiences promoting, celebrating, and supporting the creative traditions that have helped international communities develop "micro-art" economies. This event is free and open to the public.
Robinson, a Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) alumna, recently traveled with nine RISD students to Lake Atitlan in Guatemala. Together students and a community of weavers collaborated to create a line of textiles, bags, and accessories, which launched at the New York International Gift Show and have sold in local, regional, and international markets. Not unlike her previous work, this endeavor has inspired a more vibrant artisan economy that has made an impact in these local economies.
Helping to ignite a greater emphasis on handmade items and connecting indigenous people to their cultural artistic traditions, Robinson's past projects have taken her to the Caribbean island of Dominica, where she worked with local artisans to collect old rum and wine bottles and turned them into lamp bases. In Ghana, she collaborated with local craftspeople to melt down a supply of recycled brass spigots to construct a variety of candleholders that were sold at Gump's and other high-end retailers. And at the invitation of the U.S. State Department, Robinson went to Kyrgyzstan, as a cultural envoy to work with students on felt-making traditions.
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Today I was studying for a qualifying exam, and I came up with the following question;
Is there a simple description in terms of the subspaces universal covers for the universal cover of a wedge product?
This question came about after calculating universal covers of the wedge of spheres ($\mathbb{S}^1 \vee\mathbb{S}^1$ and $\mathbb{S}^1 \vee\mathbb{S}^n$) and the wedge of projective space with spheres. In these cases, the universal cover looks like the cross product of the sheets of the universal covers of each space in the wedge.
For the case of wedging two spheres, we can use the fact that $\pi_{n\geq2}\left(U\right)$ is isomorphic to $\pi_{n\geq2}\left(X\right)$ for $U$ covering $X$.
I googled around a bit to try and find something, but nothing appeared.
Thanks in advance!


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Other Voices: Real-time locating systems and the supply chain
August 08, 2012 - MMH Editorial
Editor's Note: The following column by Adebayo Onigbanjo, Product Marketing, Location Solutions for Zebra Technologies (http://www.zebra.com/content/dam/zebra/white-papers/en-us/understanding-rtls-vdc.pdf), is part of Modern's Other Voices column. The series, published on Wednesdays, features ideas, opinions and insights from end users, analysts, systems integraters and OEMs. Click on the link (/article/how_to_submit_a_column_to_other_voices) to learn about submitting a column for consideration. We invite Tier 1 WMS suppliers to weigh in as well.
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Real-time locating system (RTLS) deployments in manufacturing, transportation and logistics, and other verticals are growing faster than ever. Part of that interest may be due to the rate at which organizations are realizing benefits from these technologies. A recent survey from VDC Research (http://www.vdcresearch.com/) of organizations with RTLS deployments found that more than 50 percent of respondents noted it took less than a year to see a return on investment. Before an organization deploys an RTLS solution, there are some important questions it needs to address: what it is, how it's used and how to take the first steps.
Understanding RTLS
RTLS is the most advanced and cost effective way to identify and track many different types of assets, personnel and transactions. However, there is an important distinction between RTLS and asset tracking solutions – RTLS is automatic and continuous. In other words, while traditional asset tracking can tell approximately where an item is in a facility, RTLS solutions provide immediate information on precisely where something is or has been – and in some instances, what it has done – via constant communication between the system and the object being tracked.
Using RTLS Solutions
RTLS solutions are beneficial to supply chain management. Supply chain managers oversee the movement and storage of raw materials, inventory, work in progress and finished goods from the point of origin through to the point of consumption. RTLS solutions give those managers visibility into making sure everything is where it's supposed to be at a given moment, while also helping track excess and monitor efficiencies to make sure the supply chain is running in a lean environment. By allowing supply chain professionals complete visibility into their facilities, they can make better business decisions, increasing profitability.
According to VDC, there are specific challenges or characteristics that can help an organization determine if it should consider evaluating or adopting RTLS solutions. Some of these include:
• There is a large installed base of mission critical and/or mobile assets.
• The supply or value chain is complex and is comprised of multiple product sets/types.
• There is a desire to provide more value to the customer and improve their satisfaction.
• A need exists to reduce order-to-cash cycle time, improve throughput and streamline processes.
• Employee management and safety is critical to the success of the business.
Taking the First Steps
Deploying RTLS does not have to be complex or an expensive process.
Businesses looking to implement RTLS should focus their initial efforts on one or two less complex business issues, all the while keeping the overall vision in mind. Starting small will help an organization demonstrate ROI faster and justify additional investments. It will also help facilitate scale, expansion and further integration in the future.
No matter what size the deployment, it's important to create a blueprint. One new tool, System Builder, the industry's first planning, deployment and management tool for time-based RTLS systems, help customers design scalable and customized solutions to address their specific supply chain needs.
And finally, RTLS is a solution and needs to be thought of as such. It is important for organizations to work with total solutions providers when deploying RTLS vs. companies offering only part of the solution (e.g., hardware). Total solutions providers are capable of providing enterprises with a complete and comprehensive offering and are typically more experienced with real-world deployments and users.
Today, RTLS solutions are proven with an increasingly attractive ROI. While its use is growing, there are still some important basics to understand before attempting to select, deploy and gain the most business value from these technologies. Those organizations that work to understand the technologies and properly plan for a deployment realize important benefits: more efficient operations, cost reductions and better decision-making.
While it may seem like a complex and costly process to deploy an RTLS solution, starting small offers many advantages to an organization over the long-term.
More information on RTLS is available in the white paper "Understanding RTLS" developed by VDC Research and sponsored by Zebra Technologies: http://www.zebra.com/content/dam/zebra/white-papers/en-us/understanding-rtls-vdc.pdf


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Do you just mix them with the grains or cook them first to get them gelatinized? What are the pros and cons of each method? What portion of the fermentables can be in flake form?
I use flaked maize (corn), flaked oats and flaked barley in a couple different recipes.
I just put them right in the main mash mixed in with all the grain. I have even put them through the mill a couple different occasions by accident without ill effect. I do tend to add 0.25-0.5lb rice hulls when using flaked oats to help with the sparge. But if your primary crush is good they grist should lauter fine anyway.
I always thought that the flaked grain process involved gelatinizing the starches already, so they don't need to be cooked or go through a cereal mash step. Someone will have to back that up or correct me (while I look it up myself and re-edit). This is not to say they shouldn't be mashed, because all these flaked adjuncts need to be mashed.
In general, my recipes have always used less than 10% of the total grist with these things. Flaked adjuncts tend to be used in smaller quantities than using whole corn or rice for example to lighten the body of a CAP or Light lager.
EDIT: So I looked and saw on a couple other forums and saw in John Palmer that most of these flaked grains are pre-gelatinized making them easier to work with from a cooking perspective. So they don't need further processing by the brewer prior to mashing. But they must be mashed.
Unless you are making a specific recipe that uses a lot of flaked grain such as a wheat beer, the flaked portion of a recipe is usually a very small percentage of the grain bill and should be considered more of a specialty grain contributing flavour, colour, mouthfeel rather than a significant amount of fermentable sugars. Assuming you are doing a full mash (not a grain tea) they just go right into the mash as you get them from the brew shop.
Don't crush them with your other grains.
Many people suggest layering the flaked grains over and inch or so of base malt to avoid a stuck mash from the gelatins forming a layer on your false bottom or screen but I find the act of doughing in mixes them all up anyway so I'm not sure if that's really very helpful. Often people will add some rice hulls with the flaked grains just to break it up a little more.