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Earl E. Ashabraner, age 85, of Norris City, passed away Saturday, Sept. 29, 2012, at Wabash Christian Retirement Center in Carmi. He was born February 5, 1927, in Inglenook, Ala., the son of George J. and Elsie (Ingram) Ashabraner. He married Martha Jenkins on August 27, 1945 in Hopkinsville, Ky., and she survives.
Earl was an Army veteran. He had worked and retired from the railroad.
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He is preceded in death by his parents.
A graveside funeral service will be held at 1 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012, at White County Memorial Garden in Carmi. Reverend Mike Buckman will officiate. Military burial rites will be provided by the American Legion and VFW Posts of Carmi. Stendeback Family Funeral Home of Carmi is in charge of arrangements.
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al.cap wrote on Oct 23, 2012 5:17 AM:
between the lines wrote on Oct 23, 2012 10:06 AM:
Ford is doing well (they didn't take the money) GM is still in trouble. Check the stock price. GM and the banks are no where near on track to pay back the money. Obama has prolonged this recession or depression (whichever you want to label it. Stop watching Obama ads and do some research. There is a 50% increase on Americans needing food stamps, 32 million unemployeed, gasoline doubled. Ya were doing GREAT! "
between the lines wrote on Oct 23, 2012 10:14 AM:
His quote is "America has failed to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world and has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive towards its allies. "
Are you kidding me? Without the 104,366 dead American soldiers burried in European graveyards, there is no Europe! Obama is a traitor to this Republic. "
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Sandy Socks wrote on Oct 23, 2012 12:20 PM:
Al, C1 and company are so locked into their mentality that they find it hard to believe that Obama has more than one supporter.
Is there a pill for that? "
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The Professor wrote on Oct 23, 2012 2:13 PM:
We all have our opinions about our candidates for president be they good or bad, but this election has been the most caustic that I can remember in my 80 years on earth as evidenced by the passion of the posts and produced way too much division in America. I like reading the posts even when they appear simultaneously, the political banter and participating in the repartee that follows. Please enjoy your day. "
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Sandy Socks wrote on Oct 23, 2012 3:25 PM:
I totally agree with your words, "Caustic" and "division". Hopefully if we (both sides)keep our levels of hostility down, it will make the environment easier for us to come together after Nov. 6th.
And you have a great day too. "
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Sandy Socks wrote on Oct 23, 2012 10:01 PM:
Nice resume. We should have coffee together some day.
I wasn't trying to tell you to change John Annon's mind. Just for him to make his points in a little more rational and civilized way.
"47% of what? You mean the Fat,Lazy,Useless,Blood Sucking Vultures that have never worked a day in their lives and never will."
That language seems a very beligerant and harsh way to make a point. I hope his anger passes after this election no matter who wins. "
The Professor wrote on Oct 24, 2012 10:02 AM:
This will be my last post until I return in the Spring. I depart later tonight for Central America for an extended visit with some old friends and former colleagues. I'll leave you all the this quote from Sociologist Thomas Horton Cooley: "When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him." "
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Obama's crew IS the risk to this country. His crew includes Pelosi, Gore, Holder ( Remember Fast and Furious which Obama protected to the end), Brady, Bloomberg, Schumer, the Clinton's, etc, etc.....
Now those are the GRAVE RISKS!!!!! "
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MCGREGOR (January 23, 2012)--It's a change nearly 20 years in the making.
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta is lifting the military's longstanding ban on women serving in combat, opening hundreds of thousands of front-line positions and potentially elite commando jobs after more than a decade at war, senior defense officials said Wednesday.
A ban that dates back to 1994 has kept women from serving in infantry, armor, artillery, and other combat roles in the military, even though in reality, women in the armed forces have found themselves in the middle of combat in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Either way, local Blue Star Mother MaryEllen Maddox says the announcement is a win for equality in the military.
"The women that wish to be in those type of roles now have that opportunity," Maddox said.
"Before today, there was a little bit of a glass ceiling."
Maddox has had three daughters serve in both the Army and Navy. Her youngest daughter, Michelle Kinsley, was a combat medic and just retired a little more than a week ago.
Many women in the military, like Kinsley, have served in combat numerous times but were never recognized for their service.
Since combat roles will now officially be open to women, Maddox hopes that will change.
"They're over there with the men, they're patching them up, they're in support roles, and then they don't get credit for it," Maddox said.
"It didn't seem fair."
Defense officials gave few details about Panetta's decision, the announcement of which is expected Thursday.
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I know being overweight can lead to many health problems, how is it connected with cancer?
Gloria DiLullo, MSN, CRNP, OncoLink Content Specialist, responds:
While what we eat is probably linked to cancer development, being overweight and having a diet high in fat is clearly related to the development of certain cancer types. These include breast cancer (in postmenopausal women), cancers of the colon, endometrium (uterus), esophagus, and kidney. Evidence is highly suggestive that excess weight also increases the risk of cancers of the pancreas, gall bladder, thyroid, ovary, cervix and prostate, multiple myeloma and Hodgkin's lymphoma. Body weight is evaluated using body mass index or BMI, which is your body weight in kilograms divided by your height in meters, squared. Experts define a healthy BMI to be 18.5-25 kg/m2, a BMI of 25-29.9 kg/m2 to be overweight and a BMI over 30 kg/m2 to be obese.
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Michael Sean Stanley, 48, was found Thursday in downtown Seattle near the corner of 2nd and Yesler, the U.S. Marshal's office said. He was not arrested because Canadian authorities have declined to try extraditing him, although Seattle police said Stanley will be forced to register as a sex offender and he could be arrested if he fails to do so.
"We will keep a close eye on him to make sure he doesn't reoffend in our city," said Jeff Kapel with Seattle Police.
Stanley has 72 hours to register as a sex offender. If he signs up as homeless, it'll be up to the King County Sheriff's Department to keep tabs on him. If he's at a Seattle address, it becomes SPD jurisdiction.
"It's a very unfortunate situation that he ended up in our city and we have a duty to protect the public," Kapel said. "So we're going to do everything we can to make sure he's closely monitored and he doesn't reoffend and that we keep our community safe."
Stanley has a long history of sexual offenses against women and children and had been missing since Oct. 1, when he cut off his electronic-monitoring bracelet near the Alberta-Saskatchewan boundary. In the aftermath, schools in several west-central Saskatchewan communities locked their doors and kept children inside after police got multiple, unconfirmed sightings of the Edmonton man.
Canadian authorities warned U.S. counterparts that Stanley might try to cross the border, but U.S. officials allowed him in after determining he was a U.S. citizen and not the subject of an extraditable arrest warrant. Alberta authorities explored the possibility of seeking Stanley's extradition but eventually decided not to try.
U.S. law enforcement officials have said they can't arrest Stanley unless he commits a crime. Dan Coon, a Washington State Patrol spokesman, said this week that Stanley would be treated just like any other person.
"Until he does something illegal, there's really not much we can do," Coon said. "I would just stay clear of him."
Stanley was released from jail in Canada in April 2011 after completing a 32-month sentence for assault and forcible confinement. He recently was sought by Canadian authorities for charges related to removing his bracelet.
Stanley was being monitored by police under a peace bond, which Canadian authorities can get to impose conditions on individuals in the community. His peace bond has 20 conditions, including one ordering him to stay away from children.


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This is the fourth installment of our series where we prove that sometimes, real life is stranger than Photoshop (see Part One, Part Two and Part Three).
So enjoy our continuing chronicle of jaw-dropping pics that make you shout "FAKE!" the moment you see them, but in fact are not. Even if, in some cases, we really wish they were ...
#17. A Glitch in the Matrix
That car rendered from what looks like vector graphics from an old-school arcade game is a wire-frame sculpture by artist Benedict Radcliffe. And we mean an actual frame made of wires.
Reportedly, it received a ticket for being illegally parked, though if we had been there we'd have quickly gotten another ticket for climbing inside, picking it up and running down the street making engine sounds.
#16. And in Season 6 of Lost, They Reveal That the Island is Actually an Ocean
What appears to be the background for a cheesy 80s album cover is actually an untouched photo from Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia, the largest salt flat in the world.
It frequently floods with a shallow layer of water, allowing that dude pull off the Jesus move in the picture. Apparently it's a popular tourist site for the natural beauty, leading to construction of a salt hotel, which we suppose makes it the worst vacation destination in the world if you're a slug.
#15. God's Sand Art
Take the people out of this photo, and it looks like a bad painting. It's the wave rock formation in Arizona, formed out of ancient sand dunes and creating that crazy depth perception-destroying optical illusion.
We're not kidding, every damned picture of this thing looks fake. Including some that look like freaking finger paint.
#14. "But This Store Goes to 11..."
There are marketing geniuses, and then there are the kind of visionaries who look at the ugly security fence on their storefront and decide it sort of looks like a guitar amp. Thus the Guitar Store in Southampton just went all the way with that idea, complete with big-ass knobs and everything. We want to hire that guy to decorate our adult book store.
#13. The Large Hadron Collider's First Victim
The lady whose midsection appears to be in the process of getting sucked into a black hole is Cathie Jung, who, as you can see, has an entire website based around the fact that her body is terrifying to look at.
Thanks to a lifetime of wearing increasingly smaller and more ridiculous corsets, she has a 15-inch waist and presumably a liver that's been flattened to the thickness of a Fruit Roll-up.
#12. And Its Second Victim...
If you're not clear what's so remarkable about this triangle sculpture thing, look closer and follow the surfaces from one angle to the next. That's right, it's utterly impossible, with its MC Escher design that seems to break all laws of the known universe.
When this sculpture--located in Perth, Australia--is viewed from another angle you can see the complicated way it manipulates perspective to get the effect...
...but what we love about it is there's no plaque explaining what the sculpture is all about either, so nobody knows what the fuck it's supposed to be unless they're standing in exactly the right spot.
#11. More Nightmare Fuel for Kids Who Are Scared of the Bathtub
OK, this one just looks like some joker practicing their reflection effects by cutting and pasting this ridiculous rubber ducky into a harbor full of boats. But, no, artist Florentijn Hofman did it the hard way, creating an actual 100-foot long rubber ducky and sticking it in the water like God's bathtub.
Why? According to the artist, "The friendly, floating Rubber Duck has healing properties: it can relief mondial tensions as well as define them. The rubber duck is soft, friendly and suitable for all ages!"
In other words, "To terrify children."
#10. "You Need to Disguise Your Truck. Use This Giant Afro."
This ridiculous photo has been bouncing around the internet for years, and simply looks like a semi-competent attempt to make a normal truckload of corn husks look ridiculous via Photoshop's Clone Tool.
But unless Reuters got really, really bored one day, it's a genuine pic from Somalia. They basically don't have a government there so no traffic laws are enforced (you can seriously drive on whichever side of the road you want).
With the oppressive "limit how much corn you cram into your truck" regulations off the table, the locals cheered and said, "Yeah! Just cram all the corn on there! Keep going!"
#9. The Mensa Headquarters has an Entrance Exam
This building in Ukraine does in fact have a gigantic, 100-foot-tall, crossword puzzle on the side. Yes, you can actually work it, though we assume if you try to do it with some rope and a can of spray paint, some guys will shoot you.The clues are hidden around the city, and each night the answers are projected onto the side with lights.
The town did this to give people another reason to visit the Ukraine, bringing the total number of reasons up to... no, it's still at zero.


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The Okeechobee County Sheriff's Office with the help of the Okeechobee County Fire Rescue, Okeechobee City Fire Department and the Community Health assessment team of the Florida Department of Health was able to bring an awesome event to the student body of the Okeechobee high School on Friday May 9th. The event began for the sophomores in the gym attending a presentation by Mrs. Renee Napier. Renee's daughter Meghan was killed by a drunk driver years ago and now Renee travels around encouraging youth not to drink and drive and the importance of making good decisions.
While that was happening there was a "Mock Crash" set up in the football field, for the juniors and seniors. The vehicles were provided by Action Auto salvage, the performers were provided by Mrs. Debbie Raulerson's drama classes, the helicopter was provided by aero med.
The scene was set that the crash occurred just as prom ended. The driver of vehicle #1 was drunk and caused the crash. There were 8 performers total. 1 was dead, 2 were critical, and the rest were walking wounded. D/S Dixon and D/S McKinley were the investigators.
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When I start learning a new language, I have a couple of simple implementations that I like to complete to familiarise myself with the language. Currently, I write:
- Fibonacci and/or factorial to get the hang of writing and calling methods, and basic recursion
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Nothing earthshaking of course, But this a decent enough small system. imho ymmv
About 4+ years ago my company bought around 500 of the 745 series.
After about 3 years a number of the systems began to BSOD randomly. Turns out the capicators had started leaking.
It's now 4+ years later and only a few are remaining in service.
Three main failure points:
1. Capacitors
2. HDD Fan (gets noisy and eventually fails and HDD fries)
3. HDD (caused by HDD temperature). The HDD, despite a fan, run hot. Under a decent workload (CPU, Video, HDD access, the HDD becomes hot like a cup of hot coffee).
It does have the capibility to add a low profile video card...but don't unless it vents the heat out of the case.
Now this is for the 740 which is an AMD product. It may not have the capacitor issue, but I'm pretty sure it'll have HDD heat issues.
We have bought 755, 760, 780, 990, and now 7010's.
All are doing fine except the 990s.. The PSU keep failing, over 20% within first few months.
We have about 500 in production with all the PSUs going to be prelaced
FYI windows 7 64bit is worth $89 all by itself, so you are getting the hardware for $60.
Good enough deal for some cheap workstations. I'm kind of impressed.
@souka: Hello. These computers have been thoroughly tested by us. We're 1 of only 16 Microsoft Authorized Refurbishers in the country. That should inspire confidence that our testing procedure is very detailed. The Dell 740's can develop bad capacitors just like any other computer but I'd say they're much better than most. Capacitors are a big deal for us so we take the time to replace any that look like they might eventually fail. Heat has always been an issue with the Small Form Factor models. This model is a slightly larger Desktop. Meaning, the components inside are not so tightly crammed together as the smaller models which allows the computer room to breathe. No computer ever made is perfect but we stand behind our product by including a full warranty. We'll be there if you need us. Thank you for sharing your experiences. Hopefully my post helps as well.
@intoxin: Win7 may sell at retail for $89, but that doesn't mean that this vendor paid $89 for it.
You could just as easily say that the hardware is worth about $120, so you're getting Windows 7 for $30!
Picked one up for parents. Seems reliable enough to check email and write a few word documents. Even if it dies in three years, $150 isn't a big loss.
Doesn't include a video card. Is not a complete computer without one.
20 year IT professional here. I was ready to call BS on this deal but they seem to be legitimate.
eBay positive feedback is 99.0% and their feedback score is 39894.
They ARE one of only 16 authorized Microsoft Authorized Resellers.
The only personal opinion I have to offer is that it appears these guys are well aware of "capacitor plague" and take what steps they can to correct it.
(Full disclosure: I don't buy refurbished equipment for work but do in my personal life. Before today I've never heard of this company. My main reason for bothering to research was that I thought the Microsoft claim was hogwash, as I didn't think Microsoft had such a program.)
@rockmasterflex69: Whatcha smoking, this is a corporate type PC, the Video is onboard. The upgrades are if you want an add in card. Look at the back pics, you can see the Video connector coming off the mainboard
@intoxin: yes, Windows 7 64bit, right in time for Windows 8 to come out
We have had good luck with this company.
About the computer: we have a few of a similar model. What we did was buy as many as needed for our small bull pen of computers, we bought 10. Then bought 2 extras so when one failed, and like all computers will do, we could swap out the hard drive and be back up and running in minutes.
So $1,800.00 dollars give us 10 Workstations with spares. Of course you need to add keyboard, mouse, and MS Office.
@jersully: Thanks jersully!! Where do we send the check?
I'm curious as to the performance of these machines for basic web browsing and MS Office, which is what my wife and kids do almost exclusively.
They're currently using a Dell Vostro 200 running XP Home built around Aug 2007. Will this perform better?
@cltmhorn: Browsing the web and working in Office doesn't require much of anything. However, kids can be brutal on computers. They can take a thousand dollar gaming rig and turn it into a paper weight in a hurry. The specs on your current computer may still be more than enough but I'd guess your Operating System has been gummed up by a million different game installations. It's also very possible that you're loaded down with viruses and spyware. The computer we're offering has 4gb of ram which will definitely make your two tasks move very well. For you, the best part about this computer is that it comes with a full recovery partition. Meaning, if the kids slow it down, you can get it back to new by clicking just a few buttons. It would wipe the computer clean of problems and bring the operating system back to the way you received it. I have a dedicated computer for my kids and I restore it all the time. It's very handy.
Blair is so right. Since your family already is using the XP Vostro they should be impressed with this computer as a replacement. Generally Windows 7 is a very good OS and this computer has dual processing which your 2007 PC most likely doesn't have.
But please understand this is a used computer. If you start putting all your family photos on it be sure, be sure, be sure to always do local backups or save you data on-line like with DropBox or the Windows one, I think called On-Cloud.
@blairtechnologygroup: Thanks. I've rebuilt the system since then and the performance hasn't improved. I do run antispyware and antivirus. I also have a filtering transparent proxy server running on linux to keep my kids away from places there not supposed to be... although they're pretty creative.
I don't think the issue is windows clutter. So I'm still curious what the performance comparison might be between this box and my current box. I believe the current box us running an intel core 2 duo w/2GB RAM.
I have purchased from BTG before, quite possibly the best used laptop that I have ever had the honor of possessing!
@sbchandler: Thanks. I archive all of my critical documents to my linux server via Samba, which is running mirrored RAID. And then I do offsite backup using crashplan.
These have terrible power supplies. In my experiance, 20% of this model have power supply failures in the first 12 months
Still available or is the deal dead? The link no longer brings up the 740 and it didn't appear in a stock search...
Looks to be dead. Now $179 and I don't know about shipping.


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Boosting Your Metabolism For Dummies
Along with making some lifestyle changes and adding exercise, your diet has a lot to do with boosting your metabolism. Sometimes making the right choices about what to eat isn't so easy, and these decisions are often fraught with anxiety because of the conflicting messages we all receive about food and health in the media. It doesn't have to be so tough. With a little foreknowledge and preparation, you can eat foods that will boost your metabolism without being stressed out about it.
Best Bedtime Foods to Promote Sleep and Boost Metabolism
''It's okay to have a snack before bed, especially if it's been many hours since dinner. This will prevent you from going to bed hungry, which can interfere with sleep. However, now that you know it's okay to eat before bedtime, that doesn't give you free rein to finish off that carton of ice cream or leftover lasagna!
Greasy or salty foods are tough on your bedtime digestion. Same with any food that's spicy or acidic, like tomato sauce or citrus fruits, which can increase heartburn. In addition, although ice cream is a popular late night and refreshing treat, the simple sugars can cause an increase in energy, or alertness which offsets that sleepy feeling.
The old adage about having a glass of warm milk before bedtime isn't a myth! Warm liquids make you sleepy by increasing body temperature. Also, dairy contains tryptophan plus calcium to boost your sleep-well chemicals.
The ideal snack before bedtime is about 200 calories and is a combination of carbohydrate plus a bit of protein. That's best to help you get to your happy place.
Calming components
Tryptophan: An amino acid in turkey that purportedly increases sleepiness helps your body produce serotonin, or the feel-good hormone, which makes you feel calm and promotes good sleep. It works best when the stomach is empty or there's not too much protein in your system — so with turkey, the effect is somewhat dampened. Protein perks you up with the amino acid tyrosine, which is another reason why you don't want a protein-dense snack pre-bed. It takes about an hour for tryptophan to reach the brain, so plan the timing of your snack accordingly. Best sources for sleep: Whole grains and seeds.
Melatonin: The same stuff that's affected by light and regulates your internal sleeping clock is also found naturally in some foods. Best sources for sleep: Oats and cherries.
Calcium: Calcium can convert tryptophan into melatonin. Calcium is also important for nerve impulses, and a deficiency may interrupt your sleep. Best sources for sleep: Low-fat milk and yogurt.
Magnesium: Helps decrease the production of cortisol, your stress hormone, that thwart a good night's sleep. Magnesium is also key for muscle contraction so that your legs aren't cramping up in the middle of the night. Best sources for sleep: Almonds and bran cereal.
Potassium: Important to prevent muscle cramping and Restless Leg Syndrome, which can keep you up when you're trying to power down. Best sources for sleep: Banana and sweet potato.
Ten great bedtime snacks
Oatmeal with sliced banana
Air-popped popcorn
Bran cereal with soy milk
Whole wheat crackers with hummus
Roasted pumpkin seeds
Cherry smoothie (frozen cherries plus skim milk)
Low-fat yogurt with ground flaxseed
Whole wheat toast with almond butter
A calming cup of chamomile tea
Eating Real Food to Boost Your Metabolism
The standard American diet is synonymous with overly processed, high-salt, fatty foods. When you start focusing on eating real food — as it's found in nature — you're automatically cutting out a lot of metabolism-busting nutrients and adding back in the nourishing factors like vitamins, minerals, fiber, and heart-healthy fats.
If you can't picture the food you're eating growing on a tree (there's no such thing as a candy bar tree, sorry) or coming from an animal, it's technically not a real food as nature intended us to eat. Sure, the foods you eat could have originated as a plant, but then they are processed beyond recognition into a non-real food, like a potato that becomes potato chips or French fries. Your body simply doesn't recognize these man-made, artificial products in the same way it recognizes real food and it responds in ways that can be harmful to your health.
It's important that when you pick up a product, you read the ingredients label. If there are more than five ingredients and you can't pronounce half of them, that's a cue that what lies within isn't a real food. Also stay away from these additives:
Trans fats: A man-made fat created by hydrogenating oils so that they're solid at room temperature, trans fats are found in fried foods, commercial baked goods, and many processed snack foods. Trans fats have been shown to increase cholesterol levels and risk for heart disease, high blood pressure, and diabetes.
Sodium nitrate: Nitrates can be toxic to our bodies. They're found in many processed meats such as hot dogs, bacon, deli meats, and smoked fish. Too much sodium in general can cause increased blood pressure and risk for heart disease. But nitrates in the presence of protein have also been linked to increased risk for cancer.
Monosodium glutamate (MSG): Notorious for being present in Chinese food, MSG is also used as a taste enhancer in foods such as canned vegetables and processed meats, in the form of glutamic acid. Many people have adverse physical reactions to MSG, including migraines, increased heartbeat, chest pain, and nausea.
High fructose corn syrup (HFCS): HFCS is found as a replacement for sugar in a plethora of products from sodas to salad dressings, and research shows that these foods may increase inflammation in the body. Getting too much sugar in general can increase risk for obesity and disease.
Refined sugar: Eat too much refined sugar found in white breads, sugar cereals, candy, and soda, and your body converts the excess into triglycerides, increasing your risk for heart disease. In addition, more insulin is released, causing your blood sugar to spike and drop and increasing food cravings later on, resulting in low energy.
Artificial sweeteners: Added to foods for sweetness sans calories, artificial sweeteners can make your brain think you're getting a sweet food. That causes your body to releases insulin to prepare to utilize blood glucose. When it doesn't get what it's looking for, that in turn increases food cravings. Many artificial sweeteners can also cause headaches, migraines, and stomach upset.
Food coloring: Added to make foods look brighter and more appealing to eat, food colorings like Blue 1 and 2, Red 3, Green 3, and Yellow 5 and 6 have been linked to behavioral problems in children, allergic reactions, and cancer. These colors are found mostly in processed foods — which is another reason to skip them for the foods as found in nature.
Fast foods contain many of those ingredients, even if they don't come with a food label. Therefore, avoid fast foods, read food labels, and get your real food sans additives from places you can trust:
Your local bakery: To cut down on the number of ingredients on your food label, get fresh bread from a bakery. Commercially made bread products contain added ingredients like sodium to maintain a longer shelf life.
Your butcher: A butcher knows about the leanest cuts of protein, where the animal comes from, and the practices used on the farm if you choose hormone-free, organic, or only grass-fed meat products. Your butcher also doesn't use pink slime — filler for ground beef products that is essentially scrap meat pieces ground together and treated with antibacterial solution. The presence of pink slime in meat products isn't labeled and is currently under contention.
Your local farmer's market: The fruits and vegetables at a nearby farmer's market are in season and haven't traveled far, which means they contain the most nutrition without additives. Remember to thoroughly wash your produce, even if it's organic, to minimize bacteria.
Organic dairy: To eliminate consumption of hormones or antibiotics fed to cows, choose organic dairy products. Make them low-fat dairy products to save on saturated fat.
Cook at home: When dining out, there are ingredients you wouldn't even guess at in the dish. To be 100 percent sure of the food you're eating, start prepping meals at home. If you're a newbie, start with once per week and build up to more. Purchase a simple cookbook for easy meals.
Making Smart "Junk Food" Choices
It's not always realistic to only eat real — whole — foods. Convenience foods are simply more, um, convenient sometimes because they're processed in ways that make them more accessible and easy to eat and prepare for anyone with a hectic schedule. You may enjoy these foods. Just remember that everything can fit into the boosting metabolism diet — in moderation.
Although healthy food choices are expanding everywhere you go, from the movie theater to the airport to vending machines, many are of the packaged variety. When you just have to have "junk food," you can make the best decisions possible by sticking to the following rules of thumb:
Always read the food label, when it's available, for ingredients and portion size to see what you're really getting and how much per package.
Choose packaged snack foods that have a source of protein or fiber, like unsalted nuts, seeds, or dried fruit to help keep your blood sugar levels in check.
Have a fiber-infused granola bar, even if it contains inulin (an added natural fiber product). It will keep you satisfied longer than your everyday granola bar.
Instead of regular chips, choose the baked variety to save on fat or make your own vegetable chips at home. Slice up potato (or sweet potato), break up kale or another green leafy veggie, baste with olive oil, and bake in the oven until crispy!
When at fast-food restaurants, choose foods that are grilled or broiled, not fried. In general, to cut calories and saturated fat, stick with lean meats like turkey, chicken without the skin, or fish.
Instead of regular or diet soft drinks, try a naturally flavored water or seltzer water.


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I have a habit of buying braising steak, when intending to stew some beef (be it to eat as a stew, or to later use as a pie filling), but I've always wondered what braising actually is?
Braising uses minimal liquid to achieve a moist, slow, cook. Stew is soup with attitude: it's much more liquid, with chunks of the star of the show floating in it.
From The Professional Chef:
Braising is a combination of fast dry heat and long slow moist heat.
The fast dry heat is able to create the flavorful crust on meat in ways that slow heat can't. The dry heat can be extremely hot air in the oven, direct radiation from a broiler, or contact with a hot steel or cast iron pan.
The long slow moist heat creates a steaming process. Importantly, the meat is NOT submerged and boiled in the liquid. The long heat helps break down the tough connective tissue, and the steam helps the meat not dry out. The steam, rather than immersion means more flavor stays with the pieces of meat instead of leeching out into the broth like a stew.
Braising is best used for meat that is too tough to use as good steak, but good for more than just becoming stew meat.


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A Kentucky couple is dead after being hit by an oncoming vehicle earlier Wednesday morning. Police say 25-year-old Robert Vincent of Sweeden, Kentucky was driving a truck when he failed to see a car stopped in front of him.
The accident happened near the intersection of 31 W and KY 743. Vincent swerved to miss the car and slid into oncoming traffic. Vincent hit the Edmoson county couple head-on. Sixty-year-old Dora Costa and 64-year-old Camillo Costa of Brownsville were both pronounced dead on the scene.
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May 2, 2012
New York University's Creative Writing Program has launched a low-residency Master's of Fine Arts program, which provides students the opportunity to work with internationally acclaimed authors and poets—including new faculty hire Nathan Englander—throughout the academic year and during a series of residency periods in Paris.
A two-year program, the MFA Writers Workshop in Paris constitutes an intimate creative apprenticeship that extends beyond traditional classroom walls.
Over the length of the program, students and faculty convene in Paris for five intensive 10-day residency periods (held in January and July). While in Paris, students participate in a vibrant community engaged in all aspects of the literary arts, including workshops, craft talks, lectures, individual conferences, and manuscript consultations, as well as a diverse series of readings, special events, and professional development panels.
"The city of Paris itself—with its storied literary history and rich cultural attractions—provides an ideal opportunity for students to learn the art and craft of writing, immerse themselves in the creative process, and live the writer's life," said Deborah Landau, director of NYU's Creative Writing Program. "Unlike the traditional MFA, the low-residency program is designed to offer both freedom and rigor, offering a productive and inspiring balance between the intense and stimulating community of each residency and sustained solitary work."
During the intervals between residencies, students pursue focused courses of study in the art of Creative Writing, completing reading and writing assignments under the close supervision of individual faculty members and regularly submitting packets of work in exchange for detailed feedback and critique. These ongoing dialogues with faculty, which may also occur over email or Skype, are tailored to specific student interests and needs. Students are mentored by a different professor each term and work closely with four different writers during the two-year program.
Requirements for the Master of Fine Arts degree include the completion of 32 credits of coursework (over four semesters), participation in five 10-day residencies, and the submission of a creative thesis in poetry or fiction, consisting of a substantial piece of writing—a novel or novella, a collection of short stories, or a group of poems—to be finished in the student's final semester. The project requires the approval of the student's faculty thesis advisor and the director of the Creative Writing Program.
MFA Writers Workshop in Paris Faculty are:
● Nathan Englander (fiction) is the author of the internationally bestselling story collection For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, the novel The Ministry of Special Cases, and the collection What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank (Knopf, Spring 2012).
● Meghan O'Rourke (poetry) is the author of The Long Goodbye (Riverhead), a memoir about grief, and the poetry collections Once and Halflife (W.W. Norton).
● Matthew Rohrer (poetry) is the author of A Hummock in the Malookas, Satellite, A Green Light, Rise Up, A Plate of Chicken, and Destroyer and Preserver.
● Helen Schulman (fiction) is the author of the novels This Beautiful Life, a New York Times Bestseller and Notable Book of 2011, A Day At The Beach, P.S., The Revisionist and Out Of Time, and the short story collection Not A Free Show.
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The MFA Writers Workshop in Paris will begin accepting applications for the Spring 2013 term beginning in late May 2012. Students may apply for either the MFA in Fiction or in Poetry. The admissions deadline is September 15, 2012. All applicants must submit using the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences application form, which may be downloaded here. For more information about the MFA Writers Workshop in Paris, including details on academics, housing, costs, and the application process, please contact the NYU Creative Writing Program at 212.998.8816 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Cerebral Palsy is a neurological movement disorder characterized by the lack of muscle control and impairment in the coordination of movements. This disorder is usually a result of injury to the brain during early development in the uterus, at birth, or in the first two years of life. Cerebral Palsy is not progressive.
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MARTINS FERRY - There are now 32 members in the illustrious Martins Ferry Hall of Honor after four well-deserving individuals were inducted Sunday afternoon.
"We are here today to honor four individuals for their accomplishments in the business field, jet propulsion, firefighting training and the medical field," said Master of Ceremonies and Hall of Honor President Warren Hood. "This is a great class of individuals."
James W. Everson, Anthony "Tony" Spear, C. Willis "Bill" Troy and Dr. Simon Brown West are now members of the Class of 2013, which is the sixth such class.
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THE MARTINS Ferry Hall of Honor added four more individuals Sunday afternoon during a ceremony high atop the Purple City. Those included, front row, from left, are Anthony "Tony" Spear and Richard Finney, whose great-great uncle was Dr. Simon Brown West, an inductee. Back row, from left, are C. Willis "Bill" Troy and James W. Everson. Thirty-two members have now been inducted into the Hall of Honor during six years. The Citizens Bank is the sponsor for the HofH.
Everson was the first to be enshrined. He was presented by Hall of Honor Vice President Richard Hord and HofH Treasurer Vicky Capuano.
"It is a honor and privilege for me to present James Everson for induction," Hord told the huge crowd which gathered in the Martins Ferry High School cafetorium. "I grew up next to the Everson family on Virginia Street. They were the model family and wonderful people."
Hord told a story about his longtime neighbor when he was a young lad.
"Someone asked him what he wanted to do when he grew up, and he replied, 'I want to be a banker one day,'" Hord relayed.
Everson said his induction probably wasn't an easy decision for the committee.
"I know your deliberations had to be long and drawn-out," he told the committee. "Good grief. Let's be honest about this now. I was a banker working over 50 years in the community. Let's be honest with one another. This is not an easy guy to like.
"As I slid down the banister of living in those many years, I collected my share of splinters in my career," he added. "Having to collect past-due loans. Having to say no to risky ventures. Having to terminate an employee.
"Today is a perfect day for me to make a public apology to all those I've offended during those years," he said jokingly. "Look around, I know some of you out there. I'm sorry. I was doing my job."
Everson also said his honor had the fingerprints of many people on it. He publicly thanked numerous people that were members of The Citizens Bank back in those days.
Everson was born in Martins Ferry in 1939. He graduated from Martins Ferry High School in 1957 and The Ohio State University four years later with a bachelor of science degree in commercial banking. He started working as a teller at Citizens Bank in 1959 and became bank president/CEO in 1973.
During his tenure, bank assets increased from $17 million to more than $445 million. He also added 20 bank branches and a banking branch center. He received many accolades for his community service to the Purple City.
He retired as bank president in 2004. His family includes his wife, Marlene, children Dana, James Jr., Scott and Todd and 11 grandchildren.
Spear, who was presented by HofH committee member and Councilman Chris Cleary, was born in Martins Ferry in 1936. He attended St. Mary's School and graduated from St. John Central High School in Bellaire in 1954. He went into the United States Air Force where he served for four years before attending Carnegie Tech, which is now Carnegie Mellon University, where he received a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering. He then started working at the Jet Propulsion Lab.
He continued his education part-time, earning a master's degree in electrical engineering from USC at Los Angeles in 1969 and a master's degree in engineeringe from UCLA in 1972.
In 1969, Spear designed the Viking Mission Lander, and in 2012 worked in World Wide Consulting. He also served as project manager with the Mars Pathfinder Lander.
"I've got plaques from NASA and the President," said Spear, who came from California for the ceremony. "I've even got a Christmas card from the President, but this means more than any of those things when it comes down to meaning."
Spear has two daughters, Maria and Kristen, and four grandchildren
Troy, who was presented by Les Douglas, was born in 1931 in Martins Ferry. He joined the Martins Ferry Volunteer Fire Department in 1956 and then worked on the state level with his career spanning 41 years in firefighting, rescue and emergency medical services education. In 1970, he joined the Ohio Department of Education as a specialist in emergency care and rescue training. In 1985, his responsibilities grew to include fire, EMS and police training.
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"I really appreciate this honor," Troy said.
Troy's family includes his wife, Ruth Marie, and children, Bradley and Kathy, and two grandchildren.
John Applegarth, HofH secretary, told about West, who was Martins Ferry's first physician. West was born in Jefferson County in 1812. He was graduated from medical college in Cincinnati, having earlier studied medicine with his brother, Dr. Henry West.
He returned to Martins Ferry where his medical practice led him up and down the Ohio Valley on horseback for nearly 50 years. He was active in community affairs and was very enterprising. He was always willing to aid in social and civic projects to improve the Purple City.
The doctor served as director of the Ohio Nail City Factory,
West married Mary Zane Martin, daughter of the founder of Martins Ferry, Ebenezer Martin. They had eight children, with only one still surviving. He served in the Civil War as a Union surgeon and is buried in Walnut Grove Cemetery.
Accepting the plaque for West was the Rev. Tom Thomas, former HofH president. Richard Finney of Harrisville, who is a relative of West, was recognized during the program.
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During the late 1960s and 1970s, many felt that there were tremendous benefits to shunning commercialism and returning to nature. These flower children were nicknamed hippies. The hippies were a broad group of individuals that have as many differences as they do similarities.
Hippies felt strongly about protecting the environment. They wore natural fibers and tried to live off what the earth provided. They were a social group and formed communes and camps. Some hippies experimented with freedom including free love and freeing the mind through drug experimentation. But the part of the hippie movement that lives on today is the focus on helping the world around us rather than harming it.


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Why did Hashem start the Torah with a story?
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Rashi to Gen. 1:1 says that Hashem started the Torah with the account of Creation in order to demonstrate that He has the right to dispose of the world's territory as He wishes. Thus, we can validly claim the Land of Israel as ours (rather than being seen as interlopers who conquered the land from its rightful owners).
Needless to say, this lesson is needed as much now as in Rashi's times...
On another level, I've seen something (I think it was in The Beginning, by R' Avigdor Miller zt"l), that it's in the spirit of "derech eretz kadmah laTorah" - proper behavior precedes, and is a prerequisite for, Torah knowledge and mitzvah observance. So the Torah devotes its entire first book to stories of our forefathers and foremothers, for us to use as models for derech eretz; having absorbed those, we are ready to go on to the laws and precepts of Jewish life.
Yerushalmi Nedarim 9:4 says:
My translation:
According to many sources (including this) Ben Azzai makes the claim that the Torah includes the story of Adam to explain that we are all connected and brothers and created in G-d's image. The Torah's not exclusively a book of commandments, but a book of the G-dliness of humanity.
I am reminded of the story of the illiterate who recited the aleph-bet and asked G-d to form the words of the prayers he would like to hear (although, in my favorite version, the end is a little snappier). I think this may actually be the same sort of thing, only backwards.
Had G-d started the Torah with a list of commandments and rules, or even a dry list of facts and dates, how many people (regardless of the rightness of it) would find themselves drawn into the study of Torah or understanding of what those commandments mean? By providing us with stories, G-d has created a way for those who have not spent years and years studying to begin to understand the ways of Torah and how to observe halacha.
While a child may have trouble extracting the knowledge they need from a list of mitzvot or prohibitions, she or he will be able to listen to the story of the golden calf and understand that to worship idols is wrong.


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You didn't say how much precision you need -- do you just want to know which is faster, or do you want to know how much faster?
Here are some factors that interfere with benchmarks like that:
In any case, I suggest figuring it out empirically. Write the benchmark with a sample size of N and write down the results. Repeat with larger multiples of N, e.g. 1000, 10000, 1000000, etc., until the results converge to as much precision as you need.
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Hibbard, Cox, Mayea, And Maricle Cottage Grove Chamber/Pepsi Night Winners At CGS
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The Cottage Grove Speedway would host Cottage Grove Area Chamber Of Commerce/Pepsi Night at the races on Saturday August 9th. Classes in action were the BC Motorsports Northwest Extreme Sprints, IMCA Modifieds, Late Models, and Hornets.
In the BC Motorsports Northwest Extreme Sprints Dave Hibbard from Medford would seize the initial race lead. Hibbard, in his C&H Motorsports/Tangible Real Estate Investments/Dave's Carpet and Vinyl Liquidators/Southern Oregon Veteran Benefits #3 Zeitler, would lose the lead around lap sixteen to Patrick Dills. Dills, hailing from Cottage Grove and piloting the All Seasons Equipment/Keith Whitaker Trucking/Inside Line Promotions/BC Motorsports #5D Hurricane, was in search of his first win of the campaign.
Dill would get passed on lap eighteen by Hibbard. Hibbard would stay out in front the rest of the distance to collect his third win of 2014.
Patrick Dills would finish in second followed by the Horner's Inc./Steelhouse Metal Roofing Supply/BC Motorsports #75H Maxim of Cottage Grove's Danny Horner in third. Colby Carter, also from Cottage Grove, was fourth in his Huddle Automotive Repair/Steelhouse Metal Roofing Supply/Oregon West RV/Hedge Carter Gutter Service #71JR Lunatik Fringe while fifth would go to the RCV Custom Coach Service/William & Mathis Accounting/Cobalt Computer Services/Commonwealth Financial Network #4 XXX of Jesse Thistle from Creswell.
In the IMCA Modifieds Kinzer Cox of Cottage Grove was the car to beat. Despite six cautions taking place Cox would retain the lead after the restarts. In just a handful of starts in a Modified Cox would pace the field for the entire distance to collect his first career victory for him and the Robert Howell Logging/Geo Synthetics/Razor's Edge Graphics/Jerry Dills Trucking #1K Loose Gruff team.
Braedon Hand of Cottage Grove would finish in the runner-up position in the Todd's Auto Body/D&D Automotive/Vintage Inn Family Restaurant/KNND 1400 AM #5 Shaw by S.D.M.F. while third went to the Curt Deatherage Auto Electric/Riviera Barber Shop/Mid-Valley Waterproofing/Rocket Designs #45 S.D.M.F. of Jason Kocks from Creswell. The rest of the top five would be made up of Jacksonville's Mark Wauge in his Dog House Racing/Payroll Specialties Inc./Hoppes Construction/Schram Brothers Excavating #28M Impressive in fourth and Kreg Britton from Cottage Grove in fifth chauffeuring the Commonwealth Financial Network/Dot's Trophy Shop/Mickey's Affordable Auto Sales/Jim's Tire Factory #77 X-Factor.
Working the highline and taking care of business Bend native Shaun Mayea would dominate the Late Model main event. Mayea would lead every single lap of the feature to pick up the victory in his Cold Springs Resort/R.G. Remanufacturing/Driving Force Graphics/Superior Fuel Cells #36 Rocket. It would be the fourth occasion that he has visited victory lane this season.
The My Boys Slate Fired Pizza/Mueller Commercial Services/Taylor Restaurant Equipment #18 MasterSbilt of Pleasant Hill pilot Blaine Taylor was second and Kevin Ropchan from Veneta in his Eugene Gutter Service/Quantum Mechanics/Real Deals Home Decorum/Gary Wilson Racing Engines #03 Swartz was third. Randy Martin of Eugene was fourth driving his Team S.D.M.F. #88M Warrior and the Mike Grable Construction/Mid Columbia Diesel #20 Rayburn of Lebanon's Josh Sim would end the night in fifth.
Leading flag to flag in the Hornet main event was Joe Maricle. Maricle, out of Veneta and driving the Maricle Stainless #11 Toyota Celica GT, would cruise to victory lane to score his first win of the season and his first since winning the track championship last year.
Jayson Nelson from Springfield was second in his Quality RV Repair/Springfield Automotive Service #51 Honda Integra while in third would be Cottage Grove's Eric Cooper chauffeuring the Eastside Rollforming Specialties/R&D Specialties #32 Nissan 200SX. The rest of the top five would be made up of Dexter's James Donaldson in his Southside Auto & Muffler Service/Chase Gardens Café and Bistro/Froggy's Towing #0 Pontiac Sunfire in fourth and the Bigg Dogg Recycling/Marvin Smith Auto Repair/Body Works Salon #41 Honda Prelude of Jim Simmons from Cottage Grove.
Cottage Grove Speedway will be in action this Friday August 15th for the 2nd Annual Summer Sizzle Tour which will feature the best Kage Kart drivers on the Pacific Coast. Due to the Western Oregon Exposition taking place next door there will be no racing action on Saturday night. For the latest news and information log on to www.cottagegrovespeedway.com.
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A Feature: 1. 36-Shaun Mayea; 2. 18-Blaine Taylor; 3. 03-Kevin Ropchan; 4. 88M-Randy Martin; 5. 20-Josh Sim; 6. 68-Greg Schellhorn; 7. 88P-Mike Peters; 8. 12B-Brittany Ray; 9. 16-Rob Williams; 10. 22-Mike Linder; 11. 24-Nathan Augustine; 12. J871-Roy Kirk Jr.; 13. S09-Kevin Kirk; 14. 1-Max Augustine
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A Feature: 1. 3-David Hibbard; 2. 5D-Patrick Dills; 3. 75H-Danny Horner; 4. 71JR-Colby Carter; 5. 4-Jesse Thistle; 6. 70-Raquel Ivie; 7. 21-Mike Griffith; 8. 10K-Don Waddell; 9. 57-Dusty Redmond; 10. 46-Zach McCabe; 11. 8X-Otto Jorgenson; 12. 4D-Cooper Desbiens; 13. 2J-Jonathan Jorgenson; 14. 85-Ricky Ashley
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A Feature: 1. 1K-Kinzer Cox; 2. 5-Braedon Hand; 3. 45-Jason Kocks; 4. 28M-Mark Wauge; 5. 77-Kreg Britton; 6. 11-Steven Sturdevant; 7. 44-Greg McDonald; 8. 84-Eric Ashley; 9. 10-Gus Cooper; 10. 9-David Schmidt; 11. 85-Ricky Ashley; 12. W7-Kevin Williamson; 13. 68-Jesse Bailey; 14. 20M-Jordan McDonald
A Feature: 1. 11-Joe Maricle; 2. 51-Jayson Nelson; 3. 32-Eric Cooper; 4. 0-James Donaldson; 5. 41-Jim Simmons; 6. 29-Scott Britton; 7. 2-Alex Potter; 8. 14-Casey Johnson; 9. 30-K.C. Scott; 10. 28-Chris Pierce; 11. 18-Josh Linville; 12. 23F-Marcel Forte; 13. 17-Taunton Swaim
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Last Updated: 2001-02-07 17:30:40 EST (Reuters Health) - Bone morphogenetic protein (BMP)-4, a member of the transforming growth factor-beta superfamily, inhibits proliferation of multiple myeloma cells and cell lines, according to a report in the January 15th issue of Blood.
In their introduction, the authors explain that bone morphogenetic proteins regulate growth, differentiation, and apoptosis in various cell lines and have been shown to modulate growth and differentiation of hematopoietic stem cells in adult mice. Also, interleukin (IL)-6 induces proliferation and prevents apoptosis of multiple myeloma cells.
Dr. Oyvind Hjertner and colleagues from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim tested the effects of BMP-4 on freshly isolated multiple myeloma (MM) cells and on MM cell cultures and evaluated its influence on IL-6-induced changes in MM cell cultures.
BMP-4 reduced DNA synthesis in IL-6-dependent MM cell lines, but not in IL-6-independent MM cell lines, the researchers report. BMP-4 also induced apoptosis in two IL-6-dependent cell lines. They also found that BMP-4 counteracted the upregulation of Stat3 protein by IL-6 (a possible mechanism of IL-6's anti-apoptotic effects) in the two cell lines tested.
Four of 13 freshly isolated, primary myeloma cell cultures showed >10% loss of viability in response to BMP-4 treatment, the investigators say, and 3 of the 13 cell cultures proliferated in response to IL-6. BMP-4 at least partly counteracted the effects of IL-6 in all three of these latter cultures.
"Our data suggest that treatment with BMP-4 or its analogues should be tried in animal models and possibly in patients with MM," Dr. Hjertner and colleagues conclude. "The activation of BMP receptors may reduce tumor burden and ameliorate bone disease, and it represents a new target for the treatment of this disease."


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There might be five days until Halloween, but the local fun starts tomorrow in Fort Greene Park with the Great PUPkin dog costume contest, run by Fort Greene PUPS, and Halloween Fest, hosted by the Fort Greene Park Conservancy. Before you go, check out this video of the fun in 2010 and don't forget to say hi to our reporters while you're there.
- If you're still looking for more to do, don't miss the Myrtle Village Green Fall Health Fair on Sunday, Oct. 28, from 2 to 5 p.m., Myrtle Minutes reported. There will be free health screenings and a composting workshop, as well as pumpkin painting and live music. Check out the fun at 636 Myrtle Avenue, between Kent and Franklin Avenues.
- Candidates for New York's 8th Congressional District are scheduled for a Halloween debate at the Brooklyn Music School, Fort Greene Patch reported. Democratic Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries, Republican Alan Bellone and Green Party representative Colin Beavan will be on tap to discuss the issues we're all interested in, starting at 7 p.m.
- Are you already thinking about holiday shopping? You're not the only one. We saw a post on Brooklyn Based, highlighting two local boutiques, that made us consider buying a few gifts we can get for people on our list. Thistle & Clover and Stuart & Wright have limited runs of unique clothes and other items, including polka-dot scarves and leather trimmed coats, perfect for some early gift buying.


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In SharePoint foundation 2010 can i add a new calculated value column where the calculation are based on when another column is modified ?
Out of the box, SharePoint won't tell you when a specific column was modified. You only know when the item was last modified (Modified field).
To track changes on a specific column, you would need to duplicate it and run a workflow that checks for updates. Not a simple design.
Here is how it would work:
Yes, you can see this link for possible formulas - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb862071.aspx
Agree with Christophe. SharePoint has no column level changetracking (just like there's no column level security). A list item is the deepest object in SharePoint you can bind events etc. to. My current client wanted to be able to see (and track, for auditing) purposes these column changes as well. We implemented an ItemEvenReceiver that writes all fields for which the AfterProperties value of a column didn't match the BeforeProperties value of said column to a database.
Another option would be to have a list identical to the source list and copy the item to that list on every update (or just the date and the old and new value of the column in question).
And another option would be to add a column ColumnBModified to your list and setting that column to the current time when the BeforeProperties value of a column does not match the AfterProperties value.
All options require code (ItemEventReceiver)


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Show that if $(b_n) \to b$, then the sequence of absolute values $\left| b_n \right|$ converges to $\left| b \right|$.
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By the triangle inequality, $\left| b_n \right| = \left| b_n - b +b \right| \leq \left| b_n - b \right| +\left| b \right|$.
Thus $\left| b_n \right| - \left| b \right| \leq \left| b_n -b \right|$,
and in fact $\left| \left|b_n \right| - \left| b\right| \right| \leq \left|b_n - b \right|$...
Why exactly is the "and in fact" line justified? That is, why are you allowed to just take the absolute value of $\left| b_n \right| - \left| b \right|$ and assume the inequality still holds?
As someone has already kindly pointed out to me in another post, this is the reverse triangle inequality. My understanding is that instead of applying that theorem here, the author sort of "proves" it as part of the solution. So I guess I am looking for an explanation of that step in the proof for the (in a limited sense) general case of the reverse triangle inequality... Please let me know if I need to be more clear or expand somewhere, otherwise, thank you for your help!


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In a scientific article, should I write "3m", "3 m", "3 meters", or "3 [meters]" ?
There is a standard set of rules for writing units in the SI. NIST and Physics Today both have summaries of them.
Basically, every standard unit has a standard abbreviation, which you're supposed to use. Unit names are set in roman, not italic, type, to distinguish them from variables. That is, $3\,m$ would mean three times the quantity represented by the variable $m$, but $3\,{\rm m}$ means 3 meters. Be careful to avoid ambiguity with compound units. Astrophysicists used to write ${\rm km/s/Mpc}$ a lot for the units for Hubble's constant, but that's bad. Better to write ${\rm km/(s\ Mpc)}$, and even better is ${\rm km\ s^{-1}\ Mpc^{-1}}$. There's a lot more at those Web sites.
I'd say it depends on how well established the units are. Commonly used SI units like m, s, kg, eV, etc. can certainly be used without writing their full name.
As far as the distance between vaule and unit is concerned I think it is common to use one space in between (as in 1 m; the space should be unbreakable). For combined units (like kg/m³) there is usually no space in between the units if there is a scale modification (like the k in kg) or a mathematical symbol (the / in kg/m³ or the ³ in m³).
On the other hand if there is an ommited multiplication sign (as in kg*m/s) there is usually a little space in between which is smaller than the normal spacing in text.
For further info you can read here http://www.ece.ucdavis.edu/~jowens/commonerrors.html . Down at the bottom is a remark to units.
a small aside: In British English (as opposed to American English) a meter is a measuring device, a metre is a unit of length. This will depend on which dictionary you're following!


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Is there anything objectionable (in terms of halacha, hashkafa and middos) to using the Ferber method for training an infant to fall asleep on its own? There is an element of cruelty, and the ultimate benefit is probably more for the exhausted parents than for the child.
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As I see it, this question must be divided into two separate issues:
Let's start with Issue #2, as it seems to be more at the core of your questions:
As far as I know, no traditional Torah sources discuss this particular issue of letting a child cry it out for the purpose of "training" the child to sleep. I don't believe this to be a function of "the Torah opinion" taking sides on the issue of whether or not sleep training has a negative effect on a child's development, it is more likely a function of the fact that the concept of sleep training was only introduced in the late 1800s and was only popularized in the subsequent decades.
If it is indeed true that "sleep training" a child improves their self-esteem, intelligence and trust in their parents (and by extension God), then I think we can all certainly agree that Judaism would not take issue with, or perhaps even encourage, such a regimen. However, being that there is conflicting evidence, leaving the answer unclear, we should probably act as we would with any safek (doubt in Jewish law), and stand on the chazaka (status quo), until there is substantial evidence to uproot this status quo (the status quo is probably, as my wife points out, somewhere in between the two methods, parents making decisions based on their child's needs using their intuition and parenting style).
Decisions such as these should be made based on a parenting style, which Torah sources do comment on. For example, one piece of Torah advice that comes to mind is, "have the left hand push away and the right hand draw near" (Sanhedrin 107b http://www.hebrewbooks.org/shas.aspx?mesechta=24&daf=107b&format=pdf 5 lines above the start of the mishna in the middle of the line and Sotah 47a), meaning that we should have balance in our parenting, both showing love and being firm. Of course, the "pushing away" is done with the left, weaker, hand. For more on the Torah's views on parenting, I would strongly recommend Zriyah U'Binyan B'Chinuch by Rav Wolbe, which is available in both Hebrew and English from Feldhiem Publishers and Amazon.
Now, onto Issue #1:
Based on the sources listed in the above mentioned article (stories of Mittler Rebbe, Rabbi Yisroel Salanter as well as the undocumented halachic sources) and other sources (http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0319.htm#16, http://youtu.be/g1123SvR5F8?t=4m20s, http://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt2821.htm#13) it seems clear that it would be detrimental to one's middos/soul/personal growth to stand idly by while a fellow human being, particularly a child is in pain/crying. In certain situations (particularly as parents), however, we must do things which are detrimental to ourselves if they benefit others and therefore if sleep training is shown to be beneficial to our children then we may have to forgo our personal growth for the growth of our children. Being that (as outlined above) this is still in the realm of safek (doubt) we would not be obligated to forgo our personal growth by standing idly by as a child cries unless it is abundantly clear that this would benefit the child in the long-term.
All in all, I think the question you are asking is "Does the Torah/Judaism take sides on the 'sleep debate'?" and the answer is most certainly not. This is scientific question and we must act, as always, according to the facts that we have (or don't) based on the principles of the Torah.
Rabbi Noach Orlowek in his book on parenting, My Child My Disciple, says that it is forbidden to let a child cry, because it will affect his Emunah - he will learn that no one answers you when you cry.
In a private conversation (which will remain private by leaving out information), the Mashgiach of a well-known Yeshiva, upon hearing this, said "When my son was crying every night at 2 in the morning, I wasn't trying to decide if I should throw him out the window, but how best to go about doing it. So I don't think it's such a practical debate." By which he meant (on further clarification), for the sake of all parties involved just do whatever works best.
This article from AMI magazine goes through the pros and cons of the Ferber method. http://www.batyathebabycoach.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Ami-Magazine-Article.pdf
Kohelet says, "Spare the rod spoil the child" Sometimes a little pain to the child is necessary for it to properly grow and function and learn to become a great person.
The phrase is generaly understood in modern contexts to be talking about discipline in general and not actual beatings.
However, if you feel that the Ferber method is objectionable to you, then you would be required to not use it. That is, if you think the pain cause to the child is needless and won't actually help them, then you shouldn't do it. But most people believe its beneficial for the child in the long run.


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HUNTSVILLE (October 11, 2012)—After delays resulting from a series of last-minute appeals, Texas death row inmate Jonathan Green, 44, was executed late Wednesday night in Huntsville for the rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl more than a decade ago.
Green was scheduled to receive a lethal injection just after 6 p.m. Wednesday and it appeared the Supreme Court cleared the way for his execution earlier in the day when it rejected an appeal from his attorneys just as the window for the lethal injection opened at 6 p.m.
But the execution was delayed Wednesday night by another appeal that finally was refused less than two hours before the midnight expiration of the death warrant neared.
Green was sentenced to die for abducting, raping and strangling Christina Neal, whose body was found at his home in June 2000.
Christina's family lived across a highway from Green in Dobbin, about 45 miles northwest of Houston.
Green's attorneys argued he suffered from hallucinations and an earlier competency hearing for him was unfair.


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