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Eosinophilic fasciitis is a rare disorder characterized by inflammation of the tough band of fibrous tissue beneath the skin (fascia). The arms and legs are most often affected. Inflammation is caused by the abnormal accumulation of certain white blood cells including eosinophils in the fascia. Eosinophilic fasciitis eventually causes the skin to swell and slowly thicken and harden (induration). The disorder most commonly affects middle-aged adults. The exact cause of eosinophilic fasciitis is unknown. Some researchers believe that eosinophilic fasciitis is a variant of scleroderma (systemic sclerosis), an autoimmune connective tissue disorder characterized by hardening of the skin.
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We're with Nobody: Two Insiders Reveal the Dark Side of American Politics (Paperback)
In politics, finding the dirt is a multimillion-dollar business.
Its called opposition researchoppo to insiders. Few Americans are aware of its existence, yet oppo has become an integral part of the campaign process, hastening the implosion of countless office-seekers around the country.
For nearly two decades, former journalists Alan Huffman and Michael Rejebian have been uncovering the buried truths about political candidates, from presidential appointees all the way down to local school-board hopefuls. Were with Nobody is the eye-opening account of their life as opposition researchersa remarkable adventure across the American political landscape and through the often seamy underbelly of U.S. politics. From doing battle with reluctant, sometimes purposefully misleading bureaucrats to arriving in an unmarked police car for a clandestine meeting on the New Jersey waterfront, Were with Nobody offers readers a revealing slice of national and political life: a close-up look at todays political process, the fallible men and women we often choose to represent us and the little-understood industry of trying to bring candidates weaknesses to light.
About the Author
A partner in the political research firm Huffman & Rejebian, Alan Huffman has been a farmer; newspaper reporter; and aide to a Mississippi attorney general and a Mississippi governor. A contributor to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the New York Times, Smithsonian magazine and other publications, he is the author of Ten Point, Mississippi in Africa and Sultana.
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An author is any person who publishes a work attributed to himself by mentioning his name on the work or by any other means used to attribute works to their authors, unless there is evidence to the contrary.
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Activity report
2015: The evolution of the human brain [full text - German]
2014: A world atlas of contact languages [full text - German]
2013: Competition, cooperation and hormones in chimpanzees and bonobos [full text - German]
2012: Collaboration in Young Children [full text - German]
2011: What we can learn from spit [full text - German]
2010: The Ravages of Time [full text - German]
2009: Words as Migrants [full text - German]
2008: New insights into the tool-using behaviors of wild chimpanzees [full text - German]
2007: Do chimpanzees know what others see - or only where they look? [full text- German ]
2006: The evolution of mRNS expression in humans and chimpanzees [full text - German]
2005: Proteomics and human evolution [full text - German]
2004: Diversity and universality of human language [full text - German]
Research Report 2015
The evolution of the human lineage is tightly linked to the evolution of the brain. To better understand the evolutionary changes in brain development, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology compare the cranial bones of recent modern humans to those of our closest living and fossil relatives.
Research Report 2014
A new comprehensive database on grammatical structures of 76 contact languages provides insight into the origin of these languages, which arose in colonial times, as well as into general laws of the creation of mixed languages. The original languages of the indigenous populations in the colonial areas can be recognized by the clear grammatical traces that they left.
Research Report 2013
The study of similarities and differences in behavior and physiology between humans and great apes allow for a better understanding of human evolution. Researchers of the Department of Primatology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig investigate with the help of behavioral observations and the measurement of physiological parameters in the urine of free living apes how competition and cooperation influence the excretion of a number of hormones.
Research Report 2012
One of the most remarkable capacities of human beings is their ability to work together, to solve problems or to create things that no individual could have solved or created on its own. In current studies, researchers look at the early ontogeny of children's abilities for collaboration and provide evidence that young children have species-unique skills and motivations of shared intentionality, including skills such as forming joint goals and joint attention with others, along with cooperative motives for helping others and sharing with others.
Research Report 2011
More than 90 percent of the human body is made of bacterial cells. Studying genetic variation in bacteria has provided confirmation of insights into human population history from studies of human genetic diversity, and novel insights that go beyond those studies. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology have begun characterizing variation in the human saliva microbiome. They aim to understand the factors that influence an individual's saliva microbiome and to identify particular bacterial species that might be informative for studies of human population history.
Research Report 2010
Due to their mineralized content, teeth are by far the most commonly preserved remains in the human fossil record. The structure of the basic modules of teeth provides clues about the development and diet of humans and their fossil ancestors as well as their relation to the environment. Scientists of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology make use of this biological source of information to find out in which ways modern humans differ from other primates and when and how the fossil ancestors of modern humans passed the threshold to anatomical and cultural modernity.
Research Report 2009
Whenever languages come into contact with each other, lexical borrowing also takes place. Such loanwords can provide interesting information about historical relations. In working out the genealogical relationship of languages across long time periods, however, it is often difficult to decide whether words that sound similar are to be attributed to common ancestry or to the influence of contact. A comparative project of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology for the first time identifies general trends in lexical borrowing across the languages of the world.
Research Report 2008
With the exception of humans, chimpanzees show the most diverse and complex tool using behaviors of all existant species. Primatologists at the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology are using new research methods to study chimpanzee tool use in the dense forests of the Congo Basin. They are discovering complex technological skills among these apes that expand current perceptions of chimpanzee cognition and material culture.
Research Report 2007
A variety of recent studies suggest that apes know what other individuals do and do not see. The results of each study may be explained by postulating some behavioural rule that individuals have learned that does not involve an understanding of seeing. The patchiness of coverage gives this kind of explanation a very ad hoc feeling, especially since there is rarely any concrete evidence that animals actually have had the requisite experiences to learn the behavioural rule – there is just a theoretical possibility. It is thus more plausible to hypothesize that apes really do know what others do and do not see in many circumstances.
Research Report 2006
Using the human genome sequence, the just published chimpanzee genome sequence, and measured expression levels of genes in several different tissues, the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology has been studying the evolution of mRNA expression in these closely related species. The data indicates that most of the thousands of observed changes in gene expression have not been selected due to beneficial effects. Selection against deleterious effects shows a strong pattern. Curiously, it seems that tissues differ in the level that they are affected by mutations: thus liver is least constrained, and allows most changes, whereas brain allows least. We also see indications that more changes in gene expression occurred in brain during the evolution of humans than occurred during the evolution of chimpanzees since both of them diverged from their last common ancestor.
Research Report 2005
Using state-of-the-art technology, the archaeological science labs of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology are an essential component in helping to answer key questions in palaeoanthropology. The Archaeological Science group in the Department of Human Evolution has at its fingertips a variety of methods which can provide crucial data on chronology, palaeodiet, migration and phylogenetics. In a first step the team managed to extract and sequence a bone protein, osteocalcin, from two 75,000-year-old Neanderthal specimens from Shanidar in Iraq, which failed to yield DNA. The protein sequencing was achieved using MALDI-TOF/TOF mass spectrometry, a technique which provides exceptional limits of detection. These are the oldest known proteins to be sequenced and have provided new phylogenetic and phenotypic data on the hominid line alongside osteocalcin sequences extracted from related, extant species (chimpanzee, orangutan, gorilla and human). These data illustrate the potential for proteins to provide informative genetic data in the absence of recoverable DNA, and opens up the exciting possibility of applying these techniques to earlier hominids.
Research Report 2004
Only humans have the gift of language. Yet the human race has not one language, but rather five or six thousand different ones. Moreover, these languages differ from one another in myriad ways, their variegated patterns of sounds, words, sentences and meanings forming a dazzling kaleidoscope of linguistic diversity. Nevertheless, all human languages share profound structural design features which, together, form part of what makes human beings special, distinguishing them from all other creatures. Such features are a reflection of linguistic universality. The Department of Linguistics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology seeks out diversity and universality in the realm of human language. Thus, the researchers are constantly looking for patterns of variation, pushing the outer limits of how different languages can be from each other. However, when the limits of such diversification are encountered, they try to establish common properties which are then said to be shared by all human languages. By discovering such patterns of linguistic diversity and universality, the department contributes towards the broader goal of the Institute, which is to gain a better understanding of the nature and the origins of mankind.


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[size=5]Francesca da Rimini/Possokhov/Tchaikovsky (Chung/Quenedit/Mazzeo)[/size]
[size=5]Le Carnaval des Animaux/Ratmansky/Saint-Saëns[/size]
[size=5]First, Tomasson's lightweight 'Trio' was much enhanced by fine performances in the first movement by Sasha deSola and Jaime Garcia Castilla, and in the second movement by Dana Genshaft, she of the beautiful feet.[/size]
[size=5]Last on the program, 'Le Carnaval des Animaux' is sometimes funny and always cute, and let me be perfectly honest here, 'Plan Nine from Outer Space' would have looked good after the perfectly awful Francesca da Rimini.[/size]
[size=5]Which actually brings up an interesting question: how can a perfectly awful ballet have so much good choreography in it; or, if the ballet really is perfectly awful, is it even possible for any of the choreography to be any good? Anyway…[/size]
[size=5]Giovanni (who, according to the story I know is supposed to be lame and/or deformed but who looks just fine here) leaves wife Francesca alone with his handsome younger brother Paolo, Paolo gives her a book with the story of Guinevere and Lancelot, they read it together and within a nano-second they're madly in love, leading to the conclusion that reading the story of Guinevere and Lancelot is the 13th century romance-inducing equivalent of locking eyes with a cute barista over a Tazo® Green Tea Crème Frappuccino® at Starbucks. [/size]
[size=5]Meanwhile, five women in red (not sure if they're Furies or the upper house parlour maids) prance around shooting disapproving glares at the lovers, and three men in body tights painted to look like stone, strike menacing body-builder poses. Giovanni comes back, slaps the floor a few times, stabs the lovers, and is dragged of to the Inferno by way of a gigantic rope as thick as a tree trunk. Paolo, who has been flinging Francesca's dead body around long enough for decomposition to set it, collapses and, one can only hope, dies.[/size]
[size=5]The problem is that the central, and very acrobatic, pas de deux between Paolo and Francesca is beautiful; there's some interesting lighting effects with square spotlights while various characters dance out their anxieties; the three stone gargoyles -- Possokhov used a similar device with the four soldiers in RAkU -- stomp around and seem to be the only ones having any fun; the costumes are pretty; the sets are fine -- there's nothing really specifically 'wrong', but somehow it all seems hopelessly overwrought and supremely silly instead of sad and tragic. [/size]
[size=5]The performers can't be faulted. I think this was Carlos Quenedit's debut with the company and given the circumstances, he was good as Paolo (his name is still out of order on the website: does that mean something?).[/size]
[size=5]Francesca was danced by Frances Chung. Now, the eternally cheerful and sunny Chung is not the first dancer who springs to mind for casting as a hotblooded, adulterous, Italian sexpot, but she's really very good. The role was made on Maria Kochetkova; in other roles they've shared Chung's dancing hasn't had Kochetkova's size or detail, but the choreography here brought out a beautiful, velvety, lyrical quality in Chung that I haven't seen before, along with flexibility through her upper body that she's sometimes missing.[/size]
[size=5]So really, what on earth went wrong (besides the music which, personally, I've never liked)? Did anyone else see it? Did I miss something?[/size]
[size=5]By the way, it was good to see a lot of children in the audience, presumably there to see the Ratmansky. I'm glad they get a dose of something besides Nutcracker now and again, although 'Francesca' is enough to put a 10 year old off relationships, the color red, rope and Italy for good.[/size]
Posted 20 February 2012 - 03:18 PM
whose feet were at their best. Carnival is such a charming score it's hard to go completely wrong with it.
Speaking of scores, Tchaikovsky is not the problem with Francesca, to say the least. this was a barely adequate performance by the orchestra, but that is also not the problem...
I'm not even sure I'd call the PDD 'beautiful', Peggy. It certainly tries hard to impress, and it borrows lots and lots of cliches from Forties and Fifties acrobatic-pop-adagio
which I assume the choreographer hopes no one remembers, LOL, but I thought the gargoyles were almost the only fun thing in the entire ballet.
I'm glad you now see lyricism in Chung, who to my mind is one of the only two or perhaps three real ballerinas in the company now. I was , as always, appalled
at any comparison to Kochetkova, who is probably my least favorite Russian-trained dancer ever. I find Kochetkova shallow, trivial, contrived beyond belief, artificial, phoney,
and anything but punctilious technically. It amazes me that she is cast at all, much less fawned over; Chung's technique, for one, makes Kochetkova look very amateurish indeed.
Saw them both in Theme and Variations; Chung was dazzling, Kochetkova almost embarrassing. some serious relaxation of Balanchine standards went on for her to dance THAT role.
I don't think Chung is by any means eternally cheerful and sunny; she can even scowl when it is required.
If you want a ballet REALLY to put you off the color red (I hope nothing could ruin Italy, lol), try the horrendous Martins Swan Lake.
Posted 20 February 2012 - 03:49 PM
It certainly tries hard to impress, and it borrows lots and lots of cliches from Forties and Fifties acrobatic-pop-adagio
Oh dear, I really wish you hadn't mentioned that. You're making me rethink my memory of the pdd…
We don't agree about Kochetkova, but I will concede she can be mannered at times. Would have liked to see her in this, though.
I don't think Chung is by any means eternally cheerful and sunny; she can even scowl when it is required.
True, she was a wonderful Myrtha. It's just that she's SO good in sunnier roles, I'm always a little surprised at her versatility; it's good to know she's not being consigned to languish to the Soubrette Ghetto.
And I neglected to mention, in my original comment about Le Carnaval, how good Hansuke Yamamoto was as the Cockerel; he just gets better and better every time I see him.
Posted 21 February 2012 - 11:10 AM
I know it was Program II, but how was Beaux? how were the gentlemen?
Posted 23 February 2012 - 06:22 AM
She was good; she's certainly got the technique for it! And she frowned a lot!
Can't picture her as Myrtha
My Saturday subscription series reverses Programs 2 and 3, so I'm not seeing 2 until the 25th. There's another thread started for that but unfortunately no one has posted anything about it yet.
I know it was Program II, but how was Beaux? how were the gentlemen?
Posted 23 February 2012 - 01:47 PM
[size=4]Giovanni (who, according to the story I know is supposed to be lame) [/size]
He was originally Gianciotto, "lame john," instead of plain Giovanni. And here he looked as if he were out of Milton rather than Dante: the juicy role of Milton's Satan. Gianciotto gets hauled off to the seventh circle, Caina, whereas Paolo and Francisca, who sail lightly in the wind, are only in the second circle as a consequence of their "gentle thoughts" compounded with "a deep longing" - for which Dante sheds tears. The ropes this Giovanni/Satan gets nicely hauled off stage with - the size of those for a ship - are perhaps appropriate to the magnitude of his sin...The pas seemed as though it had slipped in from Romeo and Juliet, which Kochetkova and Boada did last year and may do again later this season.
Posted 18 March 2012 - 08:59 PM
This is not a ballet about falling in love over a book. It's about going to Hell in movement and music. One may find that subject unpleasant, but one can't fault Possokhov for exploring it. And how could anyone expect a choreographer to imagine a major character in this work as a cripple, and who would want to watch a dancer be wasted in such a role? No one who saw Daniel Deivison's portrayal of chilling revenge and unrepentance would want Giovanni to be cast as a cripple. If one accepts this ballet on its own terms, it's a great work. Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty are not the limits of how a choreographer can legitimately imagine Tchaikovsky's music.
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Sept. 20, 2012 -- Researchers have revealed a simple trick that may help athletes keep their cool during a game's high-pressure moments. Their advice to avoid choking under pressure: Clench the fist of your non-dominant hand.
The findings appear in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
In the study, right-handed athletes who squeezed a ball with their left hand or clenched their left fist before a competition were less likely to choke in high-stress matches.
Here's why: The left side of the body is controlled by the right side of the brain.
"Increasing activation in the right hemisphere decreases activation in the left hemisphere," says study researcher Juergen Beckmann, PhD.
Choking under pressure seems to be caused by a dominant activation in the left hemisphere, which controls key areas of the brain that help us psych ourselves out when under the gun.
Clenching Technique May Reduce Choke Risk
Brain scans show that a decrease of activation in the brain's left hemisphere boosts performance, says Beckmann. He is the chair of sport psychology at the Technical University of Munich in Germany.
The researchers conducted three studies involving soccer players, judo experts, and badminton players. They tested the athletes' skills during normal practice and during important matches that took place before a large crowd or video cameras. The researchers only tested right-handed people.
The athletes were less likely to choke under pressure when they squeezed a ball in their left hand than when they squeezed it in their right hand.
This technique seems to work best in situations where movements such as kicking a ball are automatic. Overthinking them, however, can impair performance.
"So far, we know that the technique seems to work only with complex motor tasks which have become automated," says Beckmann. "It should not only work with sports but also ... could be helpful for elderly people to maintain balance when they are afraid that they might fall."
Break the Thought Cycle
Beckmann and his team are now studying the technique among expert musicians.
"It might also be useful for surgeons or other professions in which precision, pressure, and highly automated tasks combine," he says. To date, the team has conducted 13 studies, including one with gymnasts. "Whenever the specified conditions were given, the technique never failed."


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He did request extra security at the school as a precaution.
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Is there such a thing as a good Strida clone? What are the qualitative differences between any clones and a real Strida?
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From your comments, it sounds like you're hoping to find a folding bike that folds up fast, but is also light enough to carry up stairs easily and small enough to fit through turnstiles and on the train with no problems. All for well under $1000.
This may be impossible. There are cheap folding bikes (under $500) and there are lightweight ones that fold up small and easy to walk around with. You might be able to find something that meets all those criteria for cheap that's used, but I don't think you can manage that with a new bike.
There is the A-Bike which is quite similar looking, but has a different folding mechanism.
There's plenty of competition for folding bikes out there:
The big problem with any bicycle with such small wheels is that the ride is going to be rough and it'll be easier for the wheel to get caught on something instead of rolling over it; most compensate with wider wheels and tires which should help eliminate some of the roughness. Depending on the folding mechanism there's potentially structural (strength) problems with folding bicycles, though many compensate for those with additional material and instead make the bike heavier.
Personally, I'd see if there was someplace I could give some folding bicycles a test ride. I'd be likely to go with something with 20" wheels instead of 16", too. 16" does fold up smaller, but 20" is pretty close and should be a much nicer ride.
I've commuted by bus + 12 km Strida every workday for about a year and a half now.
Before my purchase, I researched the folding market thoroughly, and came to the conclusion that Strida was by far the best option. I've never regretted that decision, and even bought a Strida for my wife for casual riding (found one new on dba.dk for 2.250 DKK) due to my fascination for the bike.
I must add that besides the quickest possible folding/unfolding time, my requirements also included that the bike should endure being outside during office hours, and the harsh Scandinavian winter (I live in Malmö, but work in Copenhagen) is not kind to bicycles.
The Strida differs in that respect since basically everything is made of aluminum with a front pulley made of plastic and a belt drive.
Soon two winters have passed, and everything is as good as new! Marvelous! Oh, and the bus company really like the grease-free belt drive!
One of my fellow commuters fell in love with the bike, but wasn't sure, so he bought a Chinese fake Strida off of the German ebay. The frame broke after two months!
My advice to you is to look for a used Strida (preferably a v.5+ model with rear aluminum pulley) instead of buying a new lesser bike.
I had an earlier version of the downtube about 5yrears ago.
Mixed feelings, it has some nice features - folding pedals, nice chain guard, comfortable position and a bit of suspension to make up for the small wheels.
Component quality left a bit to be desired, a nine speed no-name rear with friction twist grips to select! It folds - but only in a store under the stairs sense - if you need something that collapses into your pocket, get a Brompton.
ps. When they used to sell on ebay and with a favorable exchange rate I paid around $250


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6 Things Your Body Does Every Day That Science Can't Explain
#3. Dreaming
Even though human beings are obsessed with dissecting and interpreting dreams ("I was giving Gary Busey a backrub while riding a flying armadillo." "Ah, this means you are feeling anxiety about your career.") we really know very little about what causes them or what purpose they serve.
Science's Wild-Ass Guess:
The old Freudian theory was that dreams were expressions of our unconscious desires, but none of the cool psychologists still follow Freud these days. Besides, if Freud was right far too many people have a sick fetish for being forced to take pop quizzes in their underwear.
Others have suggested dreaming is a way for our brain to formulate new ideas through the use of "random thought mutations" (one of you New Age musicians out there, you can have that album title for free).
Another theory states that dreaming is our brain tidying itself up and disposing of useless "junk thoughts." In order to buy this idea, though, you have to accept that the average guy's dreams about tits and being Batman are junk, and we're sure you agree that's simply unacceptable.
Dreams are windows to the soul, people.
Of course both of these seem awfully high-minded when you consider that animals also dream. Does your dog really have excess thoughts he has to get out of his overloaded doggy brain?
Perhaps weirdest of all is the mounting evidence that much of what influences our dreams comes from outside, not inside, our heads. Noises and scents may have an effect on the content of our dreams, and we bet your wacky tealeaf reading, dream-interpreting aunt didn't take into account the Earth's geomagnetic activity during her analysis.
#2. Blushing
Darwin considered blushing the "most peculiar" of human expressions, and had a hell of a time trying to explain why people would evolve such an obvious tell for when we're lying or feel vulnerable, considering our lives and relationships are all built on a precarious foundation or half-lies, unspoken truths and outright bullshit.
More than a century later, we still don't understand blushing any better than Darwin did.
Science's Wild-Ass Guess:
One idea is that blushing developed as a way of appeasing and submitting to dominant members of society. This doesn't make a whole lot of sense though as everyone blushes, dominant personality or not, and the whole process is involuntary anyway. Relying on something that you can't control to please the tribe leader back in primitive times seems like a good way to get yourself tossed in the volcano.
Yep, you're adorable. Still, though. To the volcano.
Others have gone the complete opposite direction, positing that blushing is not a sign of submission, but one of anger. We're all narcissists at heart and when somebody publicly shows us up or embarrasses us, blushing is basically us sending them an involuntary screw-you. We can see why some would like this theory, since it makes someone who blushes and mumbles their way through all their social interactions sound like a badass.
Some scientists, noting that women blush more than guys, have suggested that blushing developed specifically so they could prove they were honest and submissive towards men. We're sure feminists love that one.
"I just questioned a man! Curse my wicked mouth!"
Though that's quite a bit better than the Neo-Nazi theory that blushing only happens in white people, thus proving they are the only true humans created by God. Did you consider that, Darwin?
#1. Pubic Hair
Anyone who's caught themselves an eyeful of flapping chimpanzee dong at the zoo can attest to the difference between humans and our ape cousins when it comes to body hair distribution. Most apes have furry bodies and their monkey junk flies free, while humans take the exact opposite approach, sporting mostly naked bodies with the exception of impressive bushes.
Calm down, it was an afro.
Why are our naughty bits surrounded with hair that attracts lice, bacteria and makes most pornos filmed before 1980 nearly unwatchable today?
Science's Wild-Ass Guess:
Traditionally the idea has been that pubic hair was for warmth and protection from dirt and debris, which makes a fair amount of sense for women, but zero for men who have the actual important bits dangling mostly hairless in the breeze.
A more modern theory is that pubes are meant to capture pheromone-laden sweat, although some question the appeal of musty crotch smell. Some argue it developed as a sexual ornament for attracting mates, like a sad, kind of gross equivalent of a peacock displaying its tail. Others believe the exact opposite; that having less pubic hair is an evolutionary advantage. Certainly most cultures throughout history (with a few exceptions, like those weirdos in Japan) haven't really prized the stuff.
Hell, there was even an old hypothesis that says--and get ready to cringe here--our short and curlies exist to give babies something to grab and hold onto. Are you picturing it? Come on! Picture it! Couple of dudes, talking casually near their cave, each with a newborn clinging to their bush.
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I am using Outlook 2010 and Avast anti-virus 7. Whenever I add an account to Outlook if I choose to use SSL for incoming or outgoing connections Avast alerts me I shouldn't use it because Avast can't scan it. It goes on to say it's encrypted anyways. Should I not use SSL and select "none" in Outlook?
The various merits of using Avast's SSL aside, even if you use an encrypted email connection between your email client and your server, there is no guarantee that each mail relay will negotiate encrypted connections between themselves as they pass your email along, or are indeed not compromised.
There are two other considerations besides the first hop being encrypted to worry about, however. When you authenticate with a mail server, that authentication information is sent when the connection is established. If the connection is unencrypted, depending on the authentication mechanism (and whether it is designed to work over untrusted channels) it may be possible to capture the authentication details. This may allow an attacker to impersonate you and send email on your behalf.
The final consideration is that malware on your PC will have an easier time intercepting unencrypted network traffic (and so your authentication details) than encrypted - specifically, it can just generally collect network traffic (regardless of whether another application then encrypts it) rather than having to attack your email client process.
It comes down to a risk-based evaluation. If you select "none" for your SSL options, chances are high you're sending authentication data in the clear. If you use Avast's proxy, you must implicitly trust the local system (actually, you must do this anyway). If you don't, you don't benefit from virus scanning of your email, an important threat vector.
From a general security standpoint, assuming Avast's proxy is well implemented you should be fine going with that. The benefit of having your email scanned probably outweighs the risk of your loopback traffic being sniffed. Of course, adjust for your risk appetite.
When you set up Avast! to protect your e-mail, you configure Avast! to negotiate the SSL/TLS connection on behalf of Outlook, so that it sits between your mail server and the client. This way, it scans the e-mail before Outlook attempts to open it, preventing any 0day exploits that may have been found in the client.
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United tried it with the extra time. But it back Fired:P
United tried it with the extra time. But it back Fired:P
Guess who took over at Motherwell?
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As soon as my match went to penalties i really wasn't expecting to win
The news headline made me laugh
Enough said.
Imagine the waiting list! What if that one fan never wants to give up his season ticket, and wants to pass it down to his future generations too!
Maybe you should expand the stadium. But then again that's hard when you receive 100€ a year from the season tickets^^
Then charge the dog
I recently saw a sign saying 8€ for adults, 5€ for children, women and challenged people!
Maybe you should think of new target groups as well^^
If I was Arsenal I'd be pretty annoyed, but I'm Sheff Utd and I'm more shocked than anything. Have got a horrible feeling of not deserving the win
I think the ref likes me...
The match finished 1-0.
What a name! http://img693.imageshack.us/img693/7897/emley.jpg
EDIT: And this name: http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/4523/stockbridge.jpg
EDIT2: Hey wait! It comes more: http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/3483/woode.jpg I feel he might be a pedophile!
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Er, no!
Maybe his girlfriend leaned back too far.
Wow, he is unhappy!
It might be because he has 8 league games in 15 years
Ah well...
Who cares about playing the likes of Real Madrid and Man U week in week out when you miss out on Heartlepool?
VERY Important Regen.
Most punishing league.
Made me chuckle that it was Beckham who was warning me about Ronaldo - as if i didnt know of his skill in the first place with him being a former Man Utd player
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He plays for MALAGA? Wait wait wait....this IS FM 10. O.
This has got to the the best screenshot I've seen in a long time:
On my game we were 3-2 up then this happened...
^ Brilliant
I really wish I still had a screenshot from FM07 when I ended the game with 7 players. 2 sent off and 2 injured after i'd used all 3 subs.
3 red cards, one minute! Now that's action!
I'm the Fergie from the BSP....
Shock managerial appointment at Anfield.
We used to call Liam Miller "invisible" - maybe it was him?
Seems like he needs to lay off the pies
Ben Arfa, distracted off the pitch. Who'd've thought.
NOW, thats something.
Knew of that name before so didn't quite hit me.
But if he were to become a manager at a club and subsequently lose his job...
'The Chairman of Liverpool has decided to sack Potato after a poor run of form...'
'Potato Sacked!'
Beside Tom Cruise, there's also Ian Fleming in Arsenal squad
Most apt name ever.
Real change their stadium
so i offer a contract to a player, and as it usually defaults to what they want, i just offered straight away.
he comes back and says he wants to negotiate, and says the length of the contract stinks (those were the words)
i go to negotiate, and i see what he means.
This guy never givens up. Apparently he wants to be a legend. Now where were those fans calling for his head when he went to a tycoon-funded Norwich?
Spot the error.
4th stint. The ties that bind.
And in the darkness bind them?
I'll get me coat.
Someone needs to make sure this works right. Either that, or the player thrives on failure.
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Nothing wrong with that.
Player is happy with these words because it means the opposition manager saw him as a real threat.
I'm sure somebody else have won by a much bigger margin but This is my biggest win ever since I started playing FM in 2007. 13-0 in Spanish Cup in FM 2009, scorers are Franck Ribery (3rd min), Rafael V.D.V. (15th), Estaben Granero (20), Raul (24, 44, 52), Gonzalo Higuain (32, 42, 49), Garay (55, 75, 79 all penalties + missed penalty on the 90th minute). The opposition has 2 players sent off in the 79th and 90th minute. I apologise for the size of the picture.
P/S: I just won the EPL with Man City in FM 2010, but Chelsea's out of the top 4 o.O, Spurs replaced them. Meanwhile my favourite team Liverpool lies on no.2. That's sort of weird, certainly not gonna happen in real life this season.
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poor toulouse, nobody loves you
Now i think this aint funny coz im a utd fan but hey its for the forum :P
What happened to the relegated teams stats? lol
I have no idea why the screen is completely black, because it wasn't when I took the screenshot. Anyways, what a surprise
I thought these were extinct
I love the fact he's a WING back. Yet he can not fly
Is this a bug? Akinfeev is their starting keeper and has played well (as all keepers tend to do). They're not in financial problems or anything like that. Guess HSV's manager likes me or hates Igor...
It says "by request", so igor doesn't like it there anymore.
I only wanted one player, not the whole team!
I once saw a player called "Everton" too.
He's banned from playing till mid 2010 but is annoyed im not playing him!!!
No Mr. Doll, i'll think you find I only need a draw to win the league, bloody idiot
No, a draw is fine. Bayern Munich 73 points, HSV 66 points, 3 games to play.
A draw means Bayern Munich 74 points, HSV 67 points, 7 points difference but only 6 points more for HSV to gain, therefore Bayern win the league.
Guess it was a win/win situation for Geromel then, I knew players were as fickle as the fans


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6 Famous Artists You Didn't Know Were Perverts
#3. Superman Artist Draws the Man of Steel for Penthouse
What You Know Him For:
Curt Swan was the main Superman artist for more than three decades: If you pick up a random Superman comic made between the 50s and the mid-80s, chances are it was drawn by either Curt Swan or someone trying to be Curt Swan. That's his work you see in all those classic cartoons, toys and lunchboxes. He's still considered a legend in the comics medium and perhaps the definitive Superman artist.
But He Also Did:
Penthouse illustrations of Superman and Lois Lane ... doing it.
In a way, this is even more shocking than Joe Shuster doing fetish cartoons, because the Superman that Shuster created wasn't exactly the big blue Boy Scout we all know -- it was only during the Curt Swan years that Superman became the perfect "Super-dad" who urges kids to eat healthy, say no to drugs and denounce suspicious communist activity.
"In order to learn his country's secret!"
But by the 90s, Swan's style was considered outdated (presumably because he couldn't draw a convincing mullet), so he stopped getting regular work from DC. He struggled financially and developed a drinking problem, and his wife left him. So when Penthouse asked him to illustrate an article, he probably jumped at the opportunity.
Penthouse is the main source of entertainment for divorced middle-aged alcoholics, anyway.
The article? An essay by science fiction writer Larry Niven titled "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex," which details the logical reasons why Superman and Lois Lane can never have sex. Small inconveniences such at the fact that "Superman would literally crush LL's body in his arms, while simultaneously ripping her open from crotch to sternum, gutting her like a trout. Lastly, he'd blow off the top of her head [with his semen]." In Krypton, that's what they mean by "blow job."
Niven goes on to explore Superman's inevitable sexual frustration, which leads him to use his X-ray vision for what God really intended: looking at boobs. Curt Swan takes the ball and runs with it by supplying this haunting image of Clark Kent playing pocket tennis.
The article also speculates on what would happen if millions of Superman's invincible spermatozoids ended up flying all over Metropolis, among other bizarre scenarios. Swan was apparently beyond giving a shit at this point and simply went with it.
Penthouse obscured Superman's identifying features to prevent a lawsuit, but we're not so easily fooled. We can't imagine DC was too happy about it, though, so we guess the lesson here is: Treat your talent right, or they won't hesitate to make porn with your characters when their life is in ruins.
Also: Larry Niven is a freak.
#2. Gore Vidal's Epic Porn Movie
What You Know Him For:
Being very smart and/or smug. During his long, long career, Gore Vidal has authored several novels, plays and screenplays, besides being a respected essayist and political commentator. He even ran for public office a couple of times.
He also had one hell of an eye for sweater-vests.
But He Also Did:
Caligula, the infamous 1979 porn epic funded by Penthouse.
Vidal actually had written for Penthouse before -- not steamy accounts of the time he engaged in random sex while working as a plumber, mind you, but real articles. So when he couldn't get funds for his project about the life of Roman Emperor Caligula, he turned to Penthouse's Bob Guccione. Guccione agreed to fund the film on the specific condition that Vidal add more sex and nudity to the screenplay to promote his magazine.
That oughta do it.
Vidal accepted the condition, did the rewrites and approved Italian erotica specialist Tinto Brass as the director. The cast of the film was actually pretty impressive: It included legitimate stars such as Malcolm McDowell (when he still looked like Alex from A Clockwork Orange) ...
As opposed to looking like a generic TV villain.
... future Academy Award winner, Dame Helen Mirren ...
Before you ask: yes. And they're spectacular.
... and Lawrence of Arabia himself, Peter O'Toole.
His porn name was "Peter O'Toole."
The problem was that Guccione, like some perverted version of Scrooge McDuck, could never have enough porn and wanted to add more and more to the movie, getting to the point where he actually snuck behind everyone's back and shot hardcore sex scenes. Vidal and Brass ended up disowning the film -- but that doesn't mean their version was The Sound of Music. In fact, the hardcore scenes add up to only six minutes (out of 156), and the film was already full of stuff like this:
Ridiculous! That's like, what, twice the size of a regular one?
#1. Enix's Fucked-Up Hentai Games
What You Know Them For:
Square Enix is the Japanese game company that currently publishes franchises such as Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest and Tomb Raider. It's also responsible for Kingdom Hearts, an RPG series starring Disney characters. But before merging with Square, Enix was a separate company with a long and distinguished history of its own. You know what's coming next.
But They Also Did:
A bunch of disturbing porn games for PC.
Enix got its start in the gaming business by holding a developing contest for hobbyists in 1982 in which anyone could submit games, and Enix would publish the ones it liked. This was done mainly because it was actually a publishing company at the time and didn't really know a whole lot about video games, other than the fact that apparently you could make a lot of money from them. As a result, most of its early games are either extremely crappy or extremely questionable. Guest Mariko Hashimoto is a combination of both:
Above: The smallest knife ever featured in a Japanese video game.
In the game, you play the part of a disembodied hand with the noble mission to protect young Mariko Hashimoto (a guest of yours, presumably). Your task is hampered by the fact that people keep throwing knives in her direction, hooking her up to high-voltage batteries or placing her in the immediate vicinity of bombs. If you fail, she dies. If you succeed, she takes her clothes off.
Obviously you have to help her with that, because she's frozen in that position.
All the while she never loses her cheerful demeanor, the poor brave soul. Yes, for 90 percent of the game you see the exact same image, with slight variations in amount of clothing and number of knifed hands fluttering about. But this is pretty tame compared with Lolita Syndrome, another game crapped out by Enix's Game Hobby Program Contest. And we're pretty sure we can't even show the cover without going to jail (it includes sexually suggestive toddlers).
At least Mariko Hashimoto looked like she could pass for an adult; the girls in this game are no older than 10. Lolita Syndrome consists of five mini-games where the only goal is removing the clothes from those girls in contrived, sadistic ways.
It gets worse: At the beginning of the game, the player is presented with five doors, with a different tied-up girl behind each one. This makes Hostel look like Everybody Loves Raymond. One of the mini-games consists of throwing knives at a girl until her clothes fall off.
Or she loses an eye.
And we mean all her clothes. If the player completes all the games, he's rewarded by the image of a naked girl looking at him adorably from the floor as a hand comes out of a nearby door and grabs her ass (again, we're not hosting that on our server, sorry). Enix was a young company at the time, these sorts of games were popular and perhaps it did what it felt it had to in order to succeed. In the end it was all worth it, though, because it means that now you get to play a fantasy game starring Mickey Mouse.
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At first glance this classroom at Muhlenberg North High School looks like any other. But this classroom is also a nursery for teen mothers at the school.
Melissa Harris is the nursery supervisor. Harris says: "I love it because I love kids and then I love helping them. I'm helping them to learn how to take care of their babies correctly and helping them with their schoolwork. And just seeing them graduate from High school, I think it's wonderful that they can stay in school and get their high school diploma."
Amanda Eubanks and her nine month old daughter, Savannah, are part of the program.
Eubanks says: "I get up about 6:30. Because that's my wakeup call. And we eat our bottles and we get ready for school. And the first place I come when I get to school is in here."
Students in the teen parent program have to spend one block of their school day in the nursery taking care of the babies with Harris. The teen mothers are also graded on parenting tasks. For many, the teen parent program is the only way they can stay in school.
Harris says: "Since I've been here, for 12 years, I've had about 70 teen parents and about 80 percent have graduated. So I feel that's a positive thing. Now they are working, they are tax payers, they are going to college and I don't believe they could have done it without this program."
Eubanks says she's grateful to learn parenting skills while getting to spend time with her daughter and earn her high school diploma. She says after she graduates this year, she would like to become a nurse or operate a daycare center of her own someday.


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Professors Sid Bosch (left) and Joe Makarewicz on Conesus Lake
GENESEO, N.Y. - State University of New York at Geneseo biology professor Sid Bosch and colleague Joe Makarewicz from SUNY Brockport continue to monitor Conesus Lake sites and streams running into the lake where they have documented the impact of best agricultural management practices on near-shore water quality.
The researchers published a special supplement to The Journal of Great Lakes Research last summer on their findings, which provided evidence that sound agricultural management techniques benefit farmers by reducing soil loss and fertilizer costs. At the same time, they concluded that such practices benefit the environment and water quality by reducing the growth of aquatic weeds, algae and bacteria in the lake's near-shore region.
The State University of New York's Research Foundation is highlighting the study on its Web site. The research encompasses a six-year period (2003-09) by the team of scientists, graduate and undergraduate students led by Makarewicz and Bosch.
"We have an eight-year baseline of stream and lakeside ecosystem data and we want to see what happens to the water quality in the ensuing years as these sound agricultural practices continue," says Bosch.
Bosch says the team recently rechanneled the mouth of one stream from the lake shoreline to the middle of the lake.
"We will observe how the rechanneling of this stream affects the water quality along the shore," says Bosch. "The near-shore region is where the public comes into contact with the lake and where improvements would most enhance the recreational value and aesthetic quality of the habitat."
The research was funded by $1.2 million in grants from the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture with additional grant support from the Livingston County Planning Department and Altria Corp.
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When one has a lot of documents for a single project, it gets important not to lose the overview. I use
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I've never really understood yoga pants. I'm not sure I'm supposed to. For a while I wasn't even really sure what yoga pants were, then my wife discovered Lululemon. So, now I know and I'm broke.
All reports are that yoga pants are the most comfortable pants a woman can wear in public. This is why the world is suddenly filled with women who have never practiced yoga but are always dressed for a pop-up yoga class. It's also, I think, a major reason why there's a dress code at my office.
Last winter I splurged and bought myself a pair of wool cycling tights from the now defunct Lab-Gear. This winter, I'm beginning to understand just how women feel about yoga pants. I never want to take them off.
If it were acceptable for a guy to wonder around in what amounts to a pair of long underwear, I probably would. I've worn them under jeans at softball games and to the snow. I've worn them on my bike, of course.
In the winter, anyway, I couldn't live without.
Pop by Lab-Gear's new venture, Eleven Vélo. I'm not sure you'll be able to convince them to make you up a pair of wooly bottoms, but I'm sure they'll have something you'll love.


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Does anyone have any pointers on what could be wrong?
This refresh happens once every minute. While I'm on any other item in the
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I've been wondering if this is possible? I know Apple has made it hard, but is it really impossible?
All the apps have an id, which you can use to find the website for the app - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/clear/id504544917 - but I can't seem to figure out how to get a list of these id's. Any suggestions?
All the apps are listed in the Mac App store (the app on your mac). Would it be possible to scrape information from there somehow? How would one go about that?
Let me know if this is totally impossible.


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For this easy recipe, fill pre-made tart shells with fruit and filling, and you are done!
Serves: 8 servings
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Overweighting private information is often used to explain various detrimental decisions. In behavioral economics and finance, it is usually modeled as a direct consequence of misperceiving signal reliability. This bias is typically dubbed overconfidence and linked to the judgment literature in psychology. Empirical tests of the models often fail to find evidence for the predicted effects of overconfidence. These studies assume, however, that a specific type of overconfidence, i.e., "miscalibration," captures the underlying trait. We challenge this assumption and borrow the psychological methodology of single-cue probability learning to obtain a direct measure for overweighting private information. We find that overweighting private information and measures of "miscalibration" are unrelated, indicating that different kinds of misperceptions are at work. Thus, in order to test the theoretical predictions of the overconfidence literature in economics and finance, one cannot rely on the well-established "miscalibration" bias. We find no gender differences in overconfidence for our measures except for one, where women are more overconfident than men.
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text: Do all three indexes have identical metanames/properties defined? I see that error in the metanames.c file and I wonder if there is a problem trying to search all three indexes if they have different header info? Or is stemming on in one of them? pek Jonas Wolf wrote on 06/17/2004 05:59 AM: > Hi, > > I have been using SWISH::API happily to search three individual indexes. > Now I want to search all of them at the same time, as specified in the > SWISH::API documentation. However, when passing the index files as a space > separated string, I get the following error message: > > err: Index Header Error: Index file > 'd:/website2/cgi-bin/search/index/pmr/nostem.idx > d:/website2/cgi-bin/search/index/prb/nostem.idx > d:/website2/cgi-bin/search/index/manuals/nostem.idx' is not an active > index file > . > > The three individual indexes exist and can be searched without a problem. > > Can someone shed more light on what exactly this error message means and > what I might be doing wrong? > > Thank you, Jonas. -- Peter Karman - Software Publications Programmer - Cray Inc phone: 651-605-9009 - mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com on Thu Jun 17 12:32:32 2004


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Facilities include automatic doors, toilets, and a lift between all floors of the airport, including train platforms. Wheelchairs are available for visitors, but passengers requiring wheelchairs and special assistance should inform their airline prior to travel. ACompany (tel: (020) 601 5018) provides an electrocar service, with shuttles running between piers D, E, F and G and in the Arrivals hall. Disabled parking is available in car parks P1, P2 and P3. A bus is available on request (tel: (020) 316 4041) from car park P3 to take disabled passengers to the terminal; passengers requiring this service should phone at least 24 hours in advance. Visicom (tel: (020) 601 2929) supplies text telephones for hearing-impaired passengers; induction loops are fitted at the information desks, transfer desks and in the waiting areas in the central lounge.


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This is sort of a random, spur of the moment question, but here goes:
We define [with apologies to Conan the Barbarian] a field K to be $\textbf{Kummerian}$ if there exists an index set I, and functions $x: I \rightarrow K, n: I \rightarrow \mathbb{Z}^+$ such that the algebraic closure of K is equal to $K[(x(i)^{\frac{1}{n(i)}})_{i \in I}]$. More plainly, the algebraic closure is obtained by adjoining roots of elements of the ground field, not iteratively, but all at once.
QI) Is there a classification of Kummerian fields?
QII) What about a classification of "Kummerian (topological) groups", i.e., the absolute Galois groups of Kummerian fields?
Here are some easy observations:
1) An algebraically closed or real-closed field is Kummerian. In particular, the groups of order 1 and 2 are Galois groups of Kummerian fields. By Artin-Schreier, these are the only finite absolute Galois groups, Kummerian or otherwise.
2) A finite field is Kummerian: the algebraic closure is obtained by adjoining roots of unity. Thus $\hat{\mathbb{Z}}$ is a Kummerian group.
3) An algebraic extension of a Kummerian field is Kummerian. Thus the class of Kummerian groups is closed under passage to closed subgroup. Combining with 2), this shows that any torsionfree procyclic group is Kummerian. On the other hand, the class of Kummerian groups is certainly not closed under passage to the quotient, since $\mathbb{Z}/3\mathbb{Z}$ is not a Kummerian group.
4) A Kummerian group is metabelian: i.e., is an extension of one abelian group by another. This follows from Kummer theory, using the tower $\overline{K} \supset K^{\operatorname{cyc}} \supset K$, where $K^{\operatorname{cyc}}$ is the extension obtained by adjoining all roots of unity.
In particular no local or global field (except $\mathbb{R}$ and $\mathbb{C}$) is Kummerian.
5) The field $\mathbb{R}((t))$ is Kummerian. Its absolute Galois group is the profinite completion of the infinite dihedral group $\langle x,y \ | \ x^2 = 1, \ xyx^{-1} = y^{-1} \rangle$. In particular a Kummerian group need not be abelian.
Can anyone give a more interesting example?
ADDENDUM: In particular, it would be interesting to see a Kummerian group that does not have a finite index abelian subgroup or know that no such exists.


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I'm by no means an expert in the field, merely a curious visitor, but I've been thinking about this and Google isn't of much help. Do we know of any lifeforms that don't have the conventional double-helix DNA as we know it? Have any serious alternatives been theorized?
To follow up what mbq said, there have been a number of "origin of life" studies which suggest that RNA was a precursor to DNA, the so-called "RNA world" (1). Since RNA can carry out both roles which DNA and proteins perform today. Further speculations suggest things like a Peptide-Nucleic Acids "PNA" may have preceded RNA and so on.
Catalytic molecules and genetic molecules are generally required to have different features. For example, catalytic molecules should be able to fold and have many building blocks (for catalytic action), whereas genetic molecules should not fold (for template synthesis) and have few building blocks (for high copy fidelity). This puts a lot of demands on one molecule. Also, catalytic biopolymers can (potentially) catalyse their own destruction.
RNA seems to be able to balance these demands, but then the difficulty is in making RNA prebiotically - so far his has not been achieved. This has lead to interest in "metabolism first" models where early life has no genetic biopolymer and somehow gives rise to genetic inheritance. However, so far this seems to have been little explored and largely unsuccessful (2).
I just saw this popular article in New Scientist which also discusses TNA (Threose nucleic acid) and gives some background reading for PNA, GNA (Glycol nucleic acid) and ANA (amyloid nucleic acid).
(1) Gilbert, W., 1986, Nature, 319, 618 "Origin of life: The RNA world"
(2) Copley et al., 2007, Bioorg Chem, 35, 430 "The origin of the RNA world: co-evolution of genes and metabolism."
There has been a recent report on Science, which had much return in the general press, in which a bacteria was identified that could live in an environment where arsenic was subsituted to phosphorus (one of the components of DNA, forming the backbone of the double helyx).
This is the original paper:
There is, however, much critique on the methodology used in the paper, and on whether arsenic would really be incorporated in DNA instead of phosphorus.
Science published several of these critiques in an Editor's Note And here you will find the Response of the Authors
Other than that... well if you consider virus as life-forms, there's plenty that do not have double stranded DNA, but have instead single strand DNA or single strand RNA or double strand RNA.
It depends whether you call prions a life form, but prions do not make (direct) use of DNA to propagate themselves. They force other proteins into a misfolded protein state.
Again, the question remains whether prions should be considered "alive".
There are serious speculations that the origins of life were using RNAs both as enzymes and genetic information carrier.
This recent Cell paper mentions a ribozyme (RNA enzyme) that ligates two oligonucleotides into itself. Given a sufficient source of input oligonucleotides and the correct conditions, it can catalyse its own replication and undergo Darwinian evolution, and can be thought of as a rudimentary form of RNA-based life.
The authors hypothesise that ligase-based RNA replicators could have been the first RNA replicators, which were later replaced by the now-standard polymerisation:
It should be noted that RNA ribozyme polymerases already exist, but many of them require proteins in addition to the RNA structure.
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I have installed a LAMP stack (
sudo tasksel install lamp-server) and wordpress (
sudo apt-get install wordpress), but now, I would like to access my server remotely, to be used as a home fileserver.
For example, my public ip is 82.16.xxx.xxx. Opening it in firefox with the suffix :8080 brings up my router config page..? Do I have to set up port forwarding?
BTW. Accessing via localhost/wordpress/ works fine, I would just like to access my files while away from home.


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Given a colloquial definition of uniform continuity as $f(x)$ and $f(y)$ can be made to be arbitrarily close when $x$ and $y$ are sufficiently close, and the distance between $x$ and $y$ is independent of $x$ and $y$.
I'm not really sure how to picture a uniformly continuous function in my head. I showed that if the derivative of a function is bounded, then it will be uniform continuous. (I had trouble with the converse though.) Thinking along the lines that I need to bound the change in $f$.
How do you visualize uniform continuity?


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Visual Acuity and Snellen Chart
By gc on Jan 17, 2008
In China, the Snellen chart used to measure visual acuity (VA) are full of tumbling E, having the opening pointing to all four directions, up, down, left and right. This is reasonable, as ordinary Chinese people do not know English decades ago. I believe this is better than the one used at US, because not all of Latin characters are equally recognizable. It is obvious that there's much more difference between an H and an O than an O and a D.[Read More]


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The city of Cheboygan is already a beautiful place to live, especially in the summertime, but how can we make it even more appealing? The Cheboygan Chamber of Commerce has the answer to that question — beautification grants. "Beautification grants are grants up to $1,000 that can be awarded to people who want to help beautify Cheboygan," said Matthew Friday, executive director of the Cheboygan Area Chamber of Commerce. The goal of these grants is to make Cheboygan and even more attractive place to live. If you drive by the Cheboygan Post Office you will see flowers, which was the result the first beautification grant given out. The Chamber of Commerce plans on awarding "at least two or three next spring". "Any individual or business can come up with a proposal for a new project and send it in to the Chamber of Commerce to apply for a grant which will be awarded next year," Friday said. The beautification grants are positive for the city and people of Cheboygan. If you are interested in applying for a grant, feel free to contact the Cheboygan Chamber of Commerce for more information.
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