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FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas hasn't won a Southeastern Conference Tournament game since 2008, stumbling in their first attempt in each of the past four years.
The only way to break the streak on Thursday is by beating a Vanderbilt team with wins in four of its final five games and serves as the unofficial SEC Tournament host in Nashville, Tenn. So Arkansas coach Mike Anderson believes the seventh-seeded Razorbacks face a "great task" in trying to end the skid against the No. 10 seed.
"They're comfortable with one another," Arkansas coach Mike Anderson said. "I think when you look at the young guys … They're starting to put their impact on this team here. When they shoot the ball, I think they're a dangerous team."
Anderson is right. The Commodores don't look like the minor hurdle they appeared to be earlier in the year after opening conference play 2-7. It included a 56-33 loss at Arkansas, when Vanderbilt nearly set the school record for fewest points scored.
Coach Kevin Stallings' young team has shown gradual improvement since then, including a 67-49 win against the Razorbacks in Memorial Gym on Feb. 9.
Vanderbilt — once seemingly a lock for the bottom four in the conference standings and a Wednesday game in the SEC's new 14-team tournament format - carries much more confidence into Bridgestone Arena as the conference's No. 10 seed.
"We finished up the season strong, which we were happy about," Stallings said during the SEC Teleconference on Monday. "And we feel like our team has continued to get better through the course of the season which is always our goal."
No one will mistake Vanderbilt as the team to beat this week, although Stallings' veteran roster won the 2012 SEC Tournament in New Orleans. The Commodores don't have any wins against the top six teams in the SEC standings. In fact, six of their eight SEC wins have come against the bottom four teams of Auburn, South Carolina, Texas A&M and Mississippi State.
But South Carolina coach Frank Martin – whose team lost to Vanderbilt twice this season – said there has been a difference in their play lately. It begins with Vanderbilt's improved ability to make shots after some early-season issues.
"Early in the year, I thought they struggled some shooting the basketball," Martin said. "But that comes with being so young. Their defense has never been a problem. They defend you. They're long. They stay between the ball and the rim. They're long on the perimeter, which makes it hard to pass the basketball.
"I think you go back to the fact that you're looking at a team that four months ago is playing all freshman and sophomores. Now they're four months into it, and the challenges of the season have hardened their team, and they're playing their basketball of the year at the right time."
Guard Kedren Johnson remains Vanderbilt's most reliable offensive player, leading Vanderbilt in scoring (13.8 points a game), 3-point field goals (53), and assists (3.6). But others like Rod Odom (10.2 points, 4.4 rebounds), Kyle Fuller (8.4 points), Kevin Bright (6.7 points, 5.6 rebounds) and Sheldon Jeter (5.7 points) have been key.
Vanderbilt is last in the SEC in scoring (60 points a game), but ranks third among fewest points allowed (60) behind Florida (53.2) and Alabama (59).
"Vandy is shooting the ball well. But their defense has been very good all year," said Georgia coach Mark Fox, whose team lost to Vanderbilt 63-62 on Feb. 27.
Arkansas found out firsthand how strong the Commodores can be defensively, averaging 52.5 points in two games. It's 21.2 points below Arkansas' season average.
Vanderbilt's 67-49 win against the Razorbacks snapped a four-game losing streak and helped kick off the second half of conference play. The Commodores went 6-3 over the stretch after the rough start with its only losses coming against three of the top five seeds in Tennessee (58-46), Kentucky (74-70) and Florida (66-40).
Stallings knows it will take more than just a strong close to the regular season to make a run in Nashville this week. But he's hoping his team's recent success can continue beginning with its opener against the Razorbacks on Thursday night.
"We have had some of our best conference tournaments having gone into the tournament not playing as well as we would have liked," Stallings said. "We didn't feel like we were playing great last year going into the tournament and we ended up winning. So I just don't know if that is an indicator, what's happened recently. I think it's more who you draw and the teams getting on a roll as the week unfolds."
No. 10 Vanderbilt vs. No. 7 Arkansas
When: Thursday at 6:30 p.m.
Where: Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn.
TV: SEC Network
Radio: Razorback Sports Network
Records: Vanderbilt 14-16, 8-10 in Southeastern Conference. Arkansas 19-12, 10-8.
Series: Arkansas leads 18-10
Last Meeting: Vanderbilt 67, Arkansas 49 on Feb. 9.
Coaches: Arkansas — Mike Anderson (38-25 in second season); Vanderbilt — Kevin Stallings (275-175 in 14th season)
Projected Lineups: Arkansas — F Coty Clarke (6-7, Jr., 6.9 ppg), F Marshawn Powell (6-7, Jr. 15.1 ppg), F Michael Qualls (6-5, Fr., 4.0 ppg), G BJ Young (6-3, Jr., 5.0 ppg), G Mardracus Wade (6-2, Jr., 6.4 ppg); Vanderbilt — C Josh Henderson (6-11, So., 5.6 ppg), F Rod Odom (6-9, Jr., 10.2 ppg), G Kedren Johnson (6-4, So., 13.6 ppg), G Kevin Bright (6-5, Fr., 6.7 ppg), G Dai-Jon Parker (6-3, So., 6.7 ppg)


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Minister of Interior holds annual Hajj press conference
October 21, 2012
At the annual Hajj press conference, Interior Minister Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz confirmed the preparedness of all Saudi authorities to enable pilgrims to perform the Hajj pilgrimage in comfort and safety. He affirmed that all sectors are ready to serve the increasing number of pilgrims and urged visitors to the Kingdom to adhere to the regulations of the host country.
Asked about the possibility of conflict between pilgrims of different nationalities or sects, Prince Ahmed predicted that worshippers will focus on their religious rituals and not allow the experience to be marred by politics. He added, "Of course, any one trying to take advantage of the pilgrimage for political matters, we'll have to keep him at bay . . . Pilgrims from other countries get very angry if anyone tries to exploit the pilgrimage for political matters. Thus, it reverberates badly on any state or group trying this. I think it would be wise to avert it."
Prince Ahmed insisted that Saudi authorities have in no way discriminated against Syrian or Iranian pilgrims. Regarding the attempted infiltration by a group of Iranians on the Kingdom's eastern coast, Prince Ahmed said that the incident is being investigated. He reported that the Iranians claimed to be looking for work in Kuwait, but that they were let off a boat on the Saudi side of the border. "It did appear to us that they might have bad intentions," he said.
Questioned about the reported detention and deaths of Nigerian women at King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah, the Interior Minister stated, "First, I regret very much and feel pain if what you have mentioned is true regarding the service and the deaths.. . . but I do not believe anybody died because of their detention at the airport.." He said that most of the Nigerian women who were refused entry to the Kingdom to perform Hajj were under 35 years old and came without a muharam (legal male relative), which is contrary to regulations. "I will ask of the Governor of Makkah and Chairman of the Central Hajj Committee to investigate this matter thoroughly," he said, "and if any of it is true, anyone responsible for this should be held accountable."

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A 24-year-old woman accused of threatening her ex-boyfriend with a knife has been captured after fleeing from officers through Wichita.
The Wichita Eagle reports that officers caught the woman Saturday after she caused an accident. A Sedgwick County dispatch supervisor says two people suffered minor injuries in the crash.
Wichita police Sgt. Bruce Watts says a knife was taken from the woman several hours earlier after she threatened to cut her ex-boyfriend's throat. When her ex-boyfriend returned from eating out, he found that his car's tires were slashed and the windows smashed.
Police later received a call that the woman had shown up at her ex-boyfriend's employer with a knife. Responding officers saw the woman speed off and pursued her. Her vehicle reached speeds of 80 to 100 mph.
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Now that the roster for the 2012 USA Olympic Basketball team has been set, lots of people are making comparisons to the Dream Team from 1992, with some even saying that the current team could beat the earlier version.
1992, as you should remember, was the first time that Team USA team was comprised of players from the National Basketball Association. Prior to that, we had been sending college players to the Olympics. While the United States won gold just about every time (save for some Russian shenanigans in 1972), an embarrassing loss in 1988, also to the Russians, combined with the Fédération Internationale de Basketball Amateur (FIBA), basketball's international governing body, wanting the best players in the world to play in the Olympics, paved the way for NBA players to play in the games.
Only amateur athletes are permitted to compete in the Olympics, however in 1986, FIBA eliminated the distinction between amateur and professional players so, by 1992, they made the decision that NBA players were eligible for the Olympics. Pros from European countries had already been playing in the Games for years.
At that point the U.S. put together what is considered the greatest team ever to play the sport. The NBA is considered by everyone to be the best basketball league in the World and The Dream Team was made up of experienced NBA players all of whom eventually went on to be Hall of Famers.
Although he was the last to commit to play on the team, Michael Jordan was the team's leader… unless you asked Magic Johnson, in which case he was the running the show. Either way, the team was spilling over with talent. The roster included: Charles Barkley, Larry Bird, Clyde Drexler, Patrick Ewing, Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, Christian Laettner, Karl Malone, Chris Mullin, Scottie Pippen, David Robinson and John Stockton.
The Dream Team went into the Barcelona Olympics and defeated all eight of their opponents by an average of 44 points. But they didn't just beat these teams, they completely destroyed them and played with a cohesiveness that no one could ever have expected from a team with this kind of talent. These games meant something to them because they were there to restore the U.S.'s basketball reputation. Of course there were great USA Basketball teams after that, but no team ever matched their talent level or necessarily had the desire that Magic 'nem had.
The Dream Team went into the Barcelona Olympics and defeated all eight of their opponents. But they didn't just beat these teams, they completely destroyed them and played with a cohesiveness that no one could ever have expected.
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In 1994, the U.S. put together another team of greats to play in the FIBA World Championships, a tournament where America hadn't won much over the years. That team had a young Reggie Miller and the leadership of Joe Dumars and Isiah Thomas. The most impressive thing about that team was the way Alonzo Mourning, playing the center position, would completely dominate teams and do anything he wanted on the court because no one could stop him. Then suddenly there would be a stoppage of play, you'd hear the buzzer and Shaq would come in for 'Zo. If these teams couldn't stop Mourning, what were they gonna do with Shaq?
That team also went 8-0 and beat their opponents by an average of 38 points, but somehow their performance wasn't as impressive as the original Dream Team who had only beaten teams by an average of six more points.
Every four years moving forward, the U.S. would put teams on the floor that could completely dominate their opponents from around the World, but each team seemed to dominate less and less. This was primarily because of two things. First, the NBA players didn't quite have the same desire that Jordan's 1992 team had when they were specifically sent to restore America's name. Second, the talent around the World was beginning to catch up to the U.S.
This finally came to a head in 2004 when the Allen Iverson-led USA Basketball team went 5-3 in the tournament and won Bronze.
That was 100 percent unacceptable for a team of NBA players playing against teams with one, two or zero NBA players on their roster.
Because of that, the 2008 team – built around Kobe Bryant – was dubbed "the Redeem Team" and once again was charged with the mission of putting the World on notice. We're still here.
They went undefeated in the Beijing, China Games and put the U.S. back on top, with Kobe acting as an outstanding ambassador for the United States as he was clearly the biggest star in the Olympic Village and fully embraced it.
Which brings us to the current 2012 team that is about to head over to London. For the record this team is made up of some really good talent. Traveling across the Atlantic to represent America will be: Carmelo Anthony, Chris Bosh, Kobe Bryant,


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The 2008 MySQL Users' Conference - an Engineer's Perspective
By Charles Bell on Apr 23, 2008
This past week was the annual MySQL Users' Conference. It was my fourth time attending the conference, my second as a MySQL-er, and my first as a Sun employee.
The conference was very well attended with many more people than last year. Overall, I'd say it was a great success.
I work on the Backup project for MySQL and I must say it was a very strange experience being in the spotlight of so much controversy concerning the announcement made about making some backup features enterprise only releases.
While there was a lot of blogging expressing the general distaste for the suggestion of making some features of backup enterprise only (as opposed to free), most of these comments seemed to come from a relatively small number of people.
I presented the Backup session and led the Birds of a Feather session on Backup. I must say that the sentiments of the bloggers was not represented in the audience of these sessions. I find it strange that the users present were not vocal on the subject. Indeed, most seemed to accept the announcement and others simply felt that the features being withheld for the enterprise customers were not that important to them.
I find the dichotomy between the (negative) bloggers and the users attending the conference sessions on backup interesting. One could almost draw the conclusion that some of the bloggers are out of touch with the users they (seemingly) represent.
Putting all the controversy aside, it was refreshing to hear from the users how pleased they were that a backup feature is now part of MySQL. The users I talked to who use the community edition of MySQL felt that they would likely use the backup feature frequently once it is released and looked forward to having a simple SQL-based backup utility. The enterprise users I talked to said they weren't concerned over the announcement because they expect the backup tool to be a part of their current subscription once backup is released.
If attendance is any measure, it was standing room only in the backup session making backup a popular feature for the next release of MySQL.
So how did I cope with the controversy? I didn't have to -- the users who attended my session made all of that go away. I listened to my users. I got their message loud and clear: they want backup and they like what they see. I think the one user said it best, "Having backup as part of MySQL will make my decision to base my business on MySQL a no brainer."
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#3. Muslim Leader Helps Out England's King ... While Fighting the Crusades
When you think about the Crusades, you don't think about people keeping it fair and civil -- you think about Catholics and Muslims continuously sword-stabbing each other in the dick for 200 years. In the 12th century, two of the main players in the conflict were Saladin, the sultan of Syria and a whole bunch of other places, and Richard the Lionheart, the English king who left England to fight his holy war all over Asia.
His decision to leave his kingdom in the hands of a literal lion would prove controversial.
Richard was an army all by himself, essentially the 12th century's Rambo, only with an actual army to back him up. Unfortunately, some of his main allies in this crusade died or left before shit really got started. It wasn't long before Richard found himself in the middle of the desert, leading an army too exhausted for battle, and to make matters worse, he fell ill to a fever. Stuck in a hostile land with no way to fight, Richard needed a miracle to save himself and his army.
And he got that miracle ... from Saladin, the very guy he was fighting.
"Hey, uh, God? Getting really conflicting signals from you right now."
Despite being enemies in a war, and a religious one at that (you know, the kind that usually end in massacres), Saladin and Richard respected the hell out of each other and were perfectly civil when they weren't catapulting shit at the other's army. When Saladin found out that the English king was ill, he sent his own personal physicians to tend to Richard, nursing the leader of his enemy's armies back to health.
Saladin didn't leave it at that, either. Since Richard had a fever, Saladin made sure to send him snow to alleviate his high body temperature. For those of you who aren't geography majors, snow isn't something that just lies around in deserts.
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"Ill-Richard? Sal-a-din gonna snow him, gonna save him
A bringy fe-ver down"
This wasn't the first time Saladin had helped out his bro Richard. In an earlier battle, Richard's horse was shot out from underneath him. Saladin, seeing that this put Richard at a disadvantage (which is usually a good thing in a war), decided to send the king not one but two spare horses. Presumably to ride Zorro-style into battle.
#2. American Soldiers Save Vietnam's President's Life
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Noted straggly beard enthusiast Ho Chi Minh is best remembered for masterminding Vietnam's transformation from a minor French colony to a communist superstate capable of giving the finger to the world's most powerful nation. This led the U.S. to get involved in the Vietnam War, which in turn led to a shitload of awful folk songs in the '60s and '70s.
But all of that probably would have been avoided if a bunch of Americans hadn't helped out one Vietnamese dude in the '40s. You see, in 1945, Ho was deep in the jungles of north Vietnam, leading a guerrilla campaign against the occupying Japanese and their Vichy French collaborators, when he fell sick with a mysterious illness and seemed certain to die.
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"This is the illiest Ho I've seen," the medics declared.
Luckily for old Ho, you know who else was fighting the Japanese around that time? Mothra. But also the Americans. And so, operating on the time-honored principle of the enemy of my enemy is my friend, an elite squad of American special forces known as the Deer Team was airdropped into North Vietnam to provide arms and training to the Viet Minh.
Among the members of the Deer Team (look, it was a world war, all the cool team names were already taken) was medic Paul Hoagland. Taking one look at the ailing Vietnamese leader, Hoagland quickly declared him to be suffering from a combination of malaria, dengue fever, and dysentery, a diagnosis he later admitted to pulling out of his ass. Luckily for Ho, Hoagland turned out to be right. After an intensive course of quinine and sulfa drugs, Ho made a full recovery and would go on to credit Hoagland with saving his life.
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"No problem, us Ho's have to stick together."
Bear in mind that Ho Chi Minh was already an influential communist leader at the time, a thing the U.S. government generally tries to discourage from existing. Also, as we mentioned before, Vietnam was part of the vast French empire, and France was America's ally. The government didn't have to send a team to help Ho out, but they did anyway, and as a result, we're sure America and Vietnam stayed the best of friends for the rest of the 20th century.
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Pictured: paintball game at the annual America/Vietnam summer cookout.
#1. A Jewish Man Is Saved from the Nazis ... by Hitler
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Ernest Hess was a regular guy who made the serious mistake of being Jewish in Germany during the 1930s. Despite being raised Protestant, his mother's ancestry was Jewish, which was good enough for the Nazis. Even though Hess had fought bravely for his country in World War I, he was treated like every other Jew: He had to wear the Star of David, and he was constantly harassed by Nazi supporters on the street.
But then an old war buddy came along and lent Hess a helping hand. This Nazi-foiling veteran soldier went by the name of Adolf Hitler. Wait, what?
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Seen here, seconds before that dog bit off most of his mustache.
Hitler had served under Hess in the first war and decided to pull a few strings to give his old boss a break. That's how Heinrich Himmler, the guy who engineered the "Final Solution," ended up informing the Gestapo that Hess had been granted "the relief and the protection as per the Fuhrer's wishes" and that he was not "to be in-opportuned in any way whatsoever." He was even granted a new passport that made no mention of his Jewish ancestry.
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"New rule: Only kill Jews I don't personally know. Nein, stop making eye contact! Neiiiiiinnn!"
While Hess did eventually end up being sent to a labor camp, he at least survived the war, which he probably wouldn't have done if it wasn't for Hitler's intervention. Fortunately, other people followed Hitler's example (that came out wrong). Take Albert Goering, the brother of high-ranking Nazi officer Hermann Goering. Albert was more or less the black sheep in a family of fascists. Where most of us would have rebelled against society by growing our hair out long and putting on a record of whatever passed for Skrillex back then, Albert took the higher ground and saved hundreds of Jews.
Kinda makes your eyelid-piercing phase seem half-assed in comparison.
Despite being a terrible person, Hermann liked his brother well enough to turn a blind eye to his actions. This included saving hundreds from the concentration camps by employing them Schindler's List-style in his factories, regardless of whether they could work or not. In fact, he saved so many that he's now being considered for the Righteous Among the Nations award.
Hitler's probably like "Hey, where's mein?!" It's all politics, man.
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Gene Therapy for Mesothelioma
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What results are you seeing in using gene therapy to treat mesothelioma?
AnswerDan Sterman, MD, Interventional Pulmonologist at Penn Medicine, responds:
The results of gene therapy trials for mesothelioma to date (from 1995 to the present) have shown that the delivery methods are safe, that we can get expression of the therapeutic genes within the tumor cells, and that we can induce some anti-tumor responses. The trials to date, however, have all been in the Phase I trials. Therefore, response rates, increases in survival, and other crucial questions still will await final analysis of current Phase II and future Phase III clinical trials.
You may be interested in Dr. Sterman's presentation about gene therapy for mesothelioma at the 2012 Focus on Mesothelioma conference.
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Supporting community development efforts that expand the employment opportunities and services available in inner cities is a key objective of the Rutgers School of Law–Newark Community Law Clinic (CLC). Since its founding in 1997, the CLC has provided legal services and counsel to hundreds of businesses and non-profits that are helping to revitalize Newark and other nearby cities.
|Shown at the real estate closing held in the Rutgers–Newark Chancellor's office are (l-r): Class of 2013 students Ifeanyi Enejere, Elina Kremen, and Eric Ashbahian, CLC Professor Robert Holmes, Biotrial international counsel Pierre Abitbol, and CLC Professor Charles Auffant.
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Most recently, CLC students, under the guidance of clinic faculty, negotiated the Contract of Sale, the Closing, and the Right of Entry Agreement that were required for Biotrial S.A., a French pharmaceutical research company, to establish its North American headquarters on property in the University Heights area of Newark. The negotiations included the resolution of significant environmental and title issues. Throughout the process students interacted with international counsel for Biotrial and local counsel at Cole, Schotz, Meisel, Forman & Leonard, P.A.
"The Community Law Clinic is pleased for a number of reasons to have had a role as counsel in this transaction," said Professor Robert Holmes, Director of the Community Law Clinic. "It is gratifying to know that a matter of such importance and complexity would be entrusted to our clinic. Also, the legal work involved in the transaction supports the CLC's mission precisely: to provide our students with practical corporate and transactional legal experience while contributing to the revitalization of the City of Newark through economic development and job growth. In this regard, the mission is part of a larger commitment by the broader clinical program, the law school and the University to be engaged in the health and well-being of the community of which the University is a part."
Biotrial's plans to develop the 1.2-acre University Heights Science Park property include a $30 million clinical research facility. A collaboration among the city's public institutions of higher education (Rutgers, the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, New Jersey Institute of Technology, and Essex County College), and the City and community of Newark, University Heights Science Park aims to harness university research to advance urban and regional economic and community development.


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Infertility & Reproduction Health Center
Luteal Phase Defect
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Diagnosing Luteal Phase Defect continued...
The biopsy is usually done a day or two before you think you will get your period. A pregnancy test should be done before an endometrial biopsy is done. You should not have an endometrial biopsy if you are pregnant.
An endometrial biopsy can help your doctor determine if you are "in phase" or not. A definitive diagnosis is based on two or more "out of phase" biopsy results.
However, every woman can have luteal phase changes from time to time. The National Institutes of Health says that an endometrial biopsy cannot tell the difference between fertile and infertile women, therefore it does not recommend the biopsy as a routine infertility test.
Pelvic ultrasound may also help your doctor measure the thickness of the lining.
Treatment of Luteal Phase Defect
Treatment depends on your overall health and whether or not you are trying to get pregnant. Any health conditions that can lead to luteal phase defect should be appropriately treated.
You may not need any further treatment if you do not wish to get pregnant.
If you are trying to get pregnant, the following medicines may be helpful:
- Clomid (clomiphene citrate) stimulates your ovaries to make more follicles, which release eggs.
- Human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) may help induce ovulation and produce more progesterone.
- Progesterone injections, pills, or suppositories may be used after ovulation to help the lining grow.
Talk to your doctor about all your treatment options. Not all treatments will work. And studies have not proven that treatment for luteal phase defect improves the chances of successful pregnancy in women who do not use assisted reproduction techniques.
Progesterone can help some women who receive fertility treatments. However, there is no proof that taking progesterone after you become pregnant will prevent miscarriage.
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In a vector space, linear transforms can act on points of the space by the usual matrix multiplication rule, but in this note I am reading they use a different action (The Möbius transformation). It's easy to multiply everything out and see that $A(Bx) = (AB)x$ holds but that doesn't explain why this works.
So my question is this, Is there a classification of all possible actions?
edit: just to clarify - I'm more interested in the general case than just the Möbius one but I do appreciate the answers so far!
Edit II: I think I have realized what's really happening here is that the matrices are just representations of, for example rationals, So they act on rationals in a way predetermined by what they represent.


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I asked this question on meta.stackoverflow.com, but I need some help. What would be the correct way to phrase "...diverse topics from software programming to cooking to photography and gaming." Or if this is the correct way to phrase the phrase, please let me know.
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Using such as rather than including would ask the reader to extrapolate from four disparate topics to other topics. Such extrapolation may be inaccurate. Not having a comma in photography and gaming may lead to confusion about whether you regard photography and gaming as two topics or one.
The form from X to Y to Z may be used effectively when a spectrum or continuum ranges from X, through Y, to Z. Using that form with several incomparable elements is wrong if you merely mean to list several elements, rather than giving a puzzling or comic effect. The form from X to Y and Z again suggests a range, this time from X to implicitly-equated Y and Z.
"...diverse topics from software programming to cooking to photography to gaming."
Your "and" only makes sense of "photography and gaming" is a single unified topic for some reason, and it's awkward even then.
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5 Famous Frivolous Lawsuits That Didn't Actually Happen
Everyone has heard about those crazy lawsuits where somebody earns an outrageous sum of money by making a complete mockery of the legal system. These are the stories you get in email forwards or from your bitter uncle at Thanksgiving, raging about people who sue microwave manufacturers because their cat exploded. It makes it sound like the legal system is a loophole-riddled mess designed to enrich morons and bury the rest of us in red tape. And, strangely, many of these urban legends are about poor, innocent corporations being victimized by evil, greedy poor people.
The problem is that, while there no doubt are real frivolous lawsuits out there, when you go to look up the details of these stories, you usually find that things played out very differently. At best, the situation was a little more complicated, and at worst, the person didn't even get the money at all. We've talked about these "frivolous lawsuit" myths before, so now let's look at infamous cases like ...
#5. "A Woman Sues a Hospital for Loss of Psychic Powers!"
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One of the few phrases that carry even less dignity than "frivolous lawsuit" is "psychic powers," so when you combine the two, you get the kind of story even presidents love to tell at parties.
Judith Haimes, self-described psychic and superpowered crime fighter (yes, really), tragically lost her supposed paranormal abilities when she had a CAT scan in 1986. Her loss was deemed worth $988,000 by the jury. The large compensation and the weirdness factor brought by the whole "crime-solving psychic" thing made the case an immediate entrant to the What the Hell Hall of Fame. We weren't kidding about the president thing, either: Ronald Reagan was known to use the story as a particularly glaring example of how our system has gone lawsuit crazy. That must make it true, since a president would never lie about anything.
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They sure as hell seem to forget a lot, though.
The Reality:
First, Haimes never received the ghost of a red cent for her claim -- the judge threw it out. OK, you might think, but isn't the fact that she was even able to get a trial over this bullshit enough to prove that the system is broken?
Well, the part about Haimes claiming that she lost her police-helping psychic powers is, awesomely, 100 percent correct. However, that's not what got the case before a judge -- it was because she suffered a very real, crippling reaction, not from the CAT scan, but from the dye they injected her with at the hospital. See, just because Haimes was crazy and confused about her symptoms, it doesn't mean that she didn't suffer an actual physical reaction. If a machine malfunctions and cuts off your hand, it doesn't matter if you insist in your lawsuit that it's the hand you performed wizard spells with -- the judge is still going to evaluate the case because you're a human being who lost a hand.
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"Sir, just answer the question -- what does it sound like when you clap?"
In this case, Haimes said she warned the hospital that she was allergic to the dye beforehand and they completely ignored her. So, they injected the dye, leaving her with chronic and disabling headaches. And when the hospital injects you against your will with an allergen that seriously ruins your shit, you're usually damn well set for a malpractice lawsuit ... especially if you can bring in a legitimate medical witness who can successfully argue that the dye had caused the headaches.
Too bad Haimes failed to do that.
Although her case was indeed enough to initially award her the $988,000 all the stories report, the judge -- unimpressed by the whole psychic schtick and the less than believable medical expert in her corner -- immediately ordered a retrial, instructing the jury to only consider Haimes' immediate symptoms. Since these still included "breathing difficulties, tightness of the throat, pain, nausea, vomiting, loss of bladder control, hives, and welts," which sounded even worse than the mental powers thing, the jury decided she should be awarded $600,000 ... which the judge threw out as excessive.
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"I find the jury ... wrong!"
Although Haimes took it back to court, the second trial saw the case dismissed entirely, and in the end she didn't receive anything. See, because that's what happens when you can't bring evidence to prove what caused your injuries. Not that such a turn of events will stop politicians from using your example as a reason why other sick people shouldn't be allowed to file lawsuits.
#4. "Families Sue Disneyland for Letting Kids See Characters Out of Costume!"
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This popular "wacky lawsuit" story involves a family going to Disneyland, only to have their precious little children see park employees dressed as characters take off the heads of their costumes. Apparently, the sight of cast members removing their giant suffocating mouse helmets and sneaking a puff of precious, precious oxygen during their break has been enough to traumatize the kids of not one, but two families, to the point that it's worth suing over. Is this what the legal system has come to?!
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If only the Mouseketeers were still legally considered law enforcement.
The Reality:
This is in fact based on two real lawsuits, but while both families certainly mentioned seeing headless Disney characters in their suits, that was never the central point of either case. Instead, the families preferred to focus on actual, fairly serious abuses they had suffered under the unforgiving white-gloved hand of the Mouse.
The first family -- the Boozers -- sued because the staff accused them of stealing a $2.50 piggy bank from a souvenir store. Despite the fact that they had a receipt, they were taken behind the scenes for questioning. Imagine the situation: The whole family, including kids aged 2 and 5, are dragged away from the bright amusement park environment to a barren backstage room, where they are interrogated and searched by large, angry men. For two and a half goddamned hours.
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Behold, the Magic Kingdom.
Finally, a supervisor decided to actually look at this receipt he'd heard so much about ... which is when he found that not only had the Boozers paid for the piggy bank, but they'd been overcharged. Even then, the supervisor wouldn't yield: Instead, he searched their bags to try to find them guilty of something and scolded them over a bag of dried fruit until Mrs. Boozer started crying.
Then, just as they were released back into the world, shocked, scared, and humiliated, a bunch of headless Disney characters waltzed into the room. The kids needed therapy over the whole thing. Hell, we need therapy just from imagining the situation.
The second case saw the Matay family held up at gunpoint in the Disneyland parking lot and robbed of $1,650 in cash. Their lawsuit alleges that Disneyland officials failed to respond to a crime and, yes, held them up and questioned them for hours instead, even though Mrs. Matay was a goddamn ex-Mouseketeer. In a pattern that is beginning to emerge, the headless characters once again turned up, but the Matays' lawsuit dismissed this as unimportant.
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"As long as most of the character is in costume, Disney's done their job."
Still, despite both cases having legitimate reasons behind them, the mention of the headless characters in the stories is what's remembered. Because who wants to discuss the legal powers of private law enforcement officers in a corporation-owned facility when we can laugh about stupid people crapping their pants at the sight of a headless Donald Duck?
#3. "Two Guys Stuff a Hot Air Balloon into a Clothes Dryer, Then Sue When It Breaks!"
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So you and your friend are hot air ballooning when you mistime a landing and end up in some bullshit lake. Swearing, you drag your deflated, dripping sack of flight onto dry land. Then you immediately stick it in a dryer in a commercial laundromat, because for the purposes of this narrative both you and your friend are complete morons. The dryer protests by exploding all over your stupid faces, thus teaching you an important lesson that literally everyone else on Earth could have figured out on their own.
Only you refuse to learn and sue the manufacturer instead.
And you win.
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And then you buy an army of balloons.
Such was the tale of the two dudes who pulled off the ultimate "let's shove shit in a machine" stunt and were left $885,000 (or $85,000, or up to a million, depending on who you ask) richer in the aftermath. The case keeps popping up on lists of "frivolous" lawsuits, and indeed it's hard not to picture it as one. After all, who the hell sticks a giant hot air balloon in a relatively tiny machine that produces hot air and expects anything but trouble? It's like some kind of Jackass stunt gone wrong (or right, we guess).
The Reality:
All of the facts of that tale are sort of true, but ridiculously dumbed down to fit ye olde "law is stupid" rhetoric.
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"Ha! They still use scales to judge people! My balloon won't even fit in there, idiot!"
The real story starts with Timothy Horan, a professional hot air balloonist who did a promotional favor for a businessman, who in turn agreed to clean his balloon (which was presumably not a euphemism). The businessman had contacts with a local hospital that had giant washers and dryers that were capable of spinning 2,000-pound loads. Both men reasonably assumed that this should have been more than enough for Horan's 128-pound balloon.
Horan went to the hospital with Fred Jessop, who worked for the businessman. They washed the balloon without incident. But when they put it into the dryer, the thing started groaning and oscillating wildly. Horan and Jessop immediately stopped the dryer to balance the load, repeating several times, until the machine finally started up without issue and ran smoothly.
That is, for a minute or so. Then it smoothly exploded.
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Yeah, that kind.
The dryer blew apart without warning, firing shrapnel through the room ... and the two men. Our status as a family oriented website prevents us from giving a detailed description of what happened, so let's just say it involved nearly severed body parts, obliterated wrists, graphically sliced abdomens, and BLOOD EVERYWHERE OH GOD WHY! It can be argued that the only thing that saved their lives was that they were already in a hospital.
The two men were eventually awarded compensatory damages of $1,260,000 (suck on that, urban legends of "almost a million"), because the machine was designed to handle hardcore waterproof materials (just like the balloon), and there was literally no reason to think it would evaporate in a giant, spiky Michael Baysplosion.
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Don't do it, woman! It's not worth your life!


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What is the (/is there a) convention for putting punctuation after a block of code?
When you are writing up something that has math equations in it, I believe you are supposed to just put the punctuation in line with the equation, like the comma in this example:
"The equation
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Published on Sat, Aug 01, 2009
Those much ballyhooed public state House-Senate conference committee hearings designed to end the long budget impasse were quickly suspended last week. And, as predicted here, a whining Gov. Rendell took the talks back behind closed doors. It's another exercise in screw-the-public politics.
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I'm just learning the language of schemes, so I'm sorry if this seems a little elementary. Consider an affine scheme $\text{Spec}(R)$. For an ideal $I$ of $R$, denote by $U(I)$ the open subset of $\text{Spec}(R)$ consisting of prime ideals $p$ that do not contain $I$.
Is the ring of regular functions on $U(I)$ simply $R_I$ (the localization of $R$ with respect to $I$)? If $I$ is a principal ideal, then this is one of the earliest results in Hartschorne. Also, it is easy to see that $R_I$ injects into the ring of regular functions on $U(I)$. My guess is that this injection is not surjective, but I can't seem to come up with any examples. Thanks!


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This Elements 10 Piece Nativity with wooden creche brings the story of Jesus's birth to life for the holidays. The 10 porcelain figurines are carefully hand painted in beautiful, brilliant colors, and Mary and Joseph are dressed in traditional red and blue garb. The wood creche is decorated with moss, which gives the set an authentic feel. This set is sure to bring Christmas cheer to any home.
10 Piece set includes Mary, Joseph, Baby Jesus, 3 Wisemen, one Shepherd, one sheep, one donkey and wooden creche. Tallest figurine is approximately 4-1/2 inches high. Wooden Creche measures 10-1/4 inch long x 3-1/2 inch wide x 7-1/4 inch high.
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Finally I can have a baby jesus small enough to fit in my back pocket!
no HDMI kills the deal.
Does it come with free super savior shipping? :-)
the deluxe set includes a gov't building and protestors
Dear Eight Pound, Six Ounce, Newborn Baby Jesus, in your golden, fleece diapers, with your curled-up, fat, balled-up little fists pawin' at the air.
Dear Lord Baby Jesus, lying there in your...your little ghost manger, lookin' at your Baby Einstein developmental...videos, learnin' 'bout shapes and colors...
Dear Lord Baby Jesus, we'd also like to thank you for my wife's father Chip. We hope that you can use your baby Jesus powers to heal him and his horrible leg. It smells terrible and the dogs are always bothering with it...
Will this bless a Mac?
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Previously updated at 8:35am CT
(Gallatin, TN) - A Middle Tennessee AMBER Alert was issued by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation for the Gallatin Police Department for 2 month-old Eric Goolsby. Eric that was last seen with Eric Owens at approximately 9:00 p.m. Tuesday night in Gallatin, Tennessee.
Officers with TBI say the child was safely returned to authorities Wednesday morning by the suspect Eric Owens but did not specify if any charges would be brought against Owens.
The grandmother, who had been granted temporary custody of the infant told police Owens and another man entered her home and abducted the baby while she was away.
Warrants were issued of especially aggravated kidnapping and custodial interference for Owens and the child's mother, 24-year-old Chasity Goolsby. According to Gallatin Police, Goolsby lost custody of the child because of a prior drug addiction problem and outstanding warrants for prostitution, theft of property and possession of a controlled substance.
Earlier reports said Owens was either in the Nashville area or en route to family in Kentucky.


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The winds have calmed after the storm, but no one in this area will soon forget the damage they left behind.
Michael Bowman was nearby when the storms came. He says, "I heard a lot of wind and trees falling and stuff."
In the driveway, next to the trailer Michael Bowman was in, a car and truck are totaled by uprooted trees.
Bowman says, "I can't get home now. My mom has to come and pick me up."
Altogether, seven trees on the property were uprooted and the barn blew over.
Down Highway 187 another family is finding pieces scattered all over. Part of the roof of the barn is now in a backyard tree.
The worst, by far, was Blowtown Road.
Diana Decker's home was destroyed. She says, "My daughter called me and said 'Mom, you need to get out there's a tornado coming your way.' So we ran out a got in the cellar. And we heard roaring, and stuff started hitting the cellar door and that's all we could hear was just roar."
Diana and Warren Decker's home was hit hard.
Decker says, "Everything's just destroyed. It's destroyed."
And now family and friends are trying to cleanup.
Kimberly Paul is Decker's daughter. Paul says, "We're just trying to pick up little pieces. Things that might be okay. Mainly pictures. We found some of our bibles. And stuff like that. Just little things."
The Decker's two garages were completely blown away, and the back of their home, where the living room, computer room and bathroom were is now gone.
Diana and Warren Decker were sitting there and now says she's just glad she made it out.
Decker says, "But the good thing is we're alive, and that's what's most important."


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Say I have a pipeline of articles I'm writing that I want to post at my blog. There is no set date to release any of them, though some might be more time-sensitive than others.
Each article undergoes several phases as in a conveyor belt. As a tentative list, not necessarily but generally in this order:
- researching and reading up on the subject
- brainstorming of main points and concepts
- final outline of main points
- first draft
- basic editing
- maturing the text wording, style and humor
- adding images and links
- making seo tweaks
- schedule for posting
This pipeline thinking can be applied for any type of content creation and possibly beyond it.
Are there methods to it? The editing industry might have such workflows in place, but how to implement it and what software to use for establishing it on a personal context?


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A 1960 Showboat that's really a 1928 Dodge PickupWritten by on January 20, 2004 Russ Eggleston's Righteous Ram
When we first spotted Russ Eggleston's far-out Dodge pickup at the Goodguys show in Des Moines, we thought, "Cool, someone resurrected an old '60s show rod!" Wrong. Turns out Russ had just put the finishing touches on his wild rig a few short hours before coming to the event. That was merely the first of many cool facts we learned about this slick pick-'em-up.
Cool fact number two: It's not really a pickup. It didn't start life as one, anyway. Russ began with a derelict, $100 '28 Dodge four-door sedan body, which he shortened into a pickup cab. The skin on the abbreviated chopped top is from a '61 Jeep, and the bed is hand-built from steel. The grille shell is also handmade, using canted '66 Corvair headlight buckets and an owner-built spider web insert. The web theme carries through to the tailgate insert and front fender supports.
Cool fact number three: That engine is a fake! Oh, it's a real Chrysler Hemi, sure enough, but the big blower and those six Holley 94s actually hide a stock two-barrel carb and intake. In fact, the engine isn't even rebuilt--Russ just yanked it out of its donor vehicle, cleaned it, tuned it, and chrome-plated the bejesus out of it! It still runs like a top.
Cool fact number four: Virtually everything was built or assembled by Russ. This includes the frame, which is made from 2x3-inch square tubing left over from previous projects. Ditto for the steering column, which connects to a '47 Ford steering box. The balance of the chassis--tube axle, hairpins, '57 Chevy rearend, etc.--is made up of mostly swap meet parts. It all rolls on Cragar SS wheels wrapped in Coker wide whites and M/T whitewall slicks.
Cool fact number five: It represents budget rodding at its best. Since Russ did almost every bit of the work himself, he could still afford luxuries like DuPont PT Cruiser Aztec Gold paint and Jim Stanley-stitched vinyl on the bench seat (door panels are forthcoming). Russ tells us he has less than $7,000 invested in the entire project. A good chunk of that is probably tied up in chrome plating.
Cool fact number six: The pickup serves as a tribute to the memory of Russ's father, Danny. "I was born into a hot rod family," Russ says. "My dad was the most talented man I know and showed my brother and me everything we know. When he passed away, I decided to build a rod in his memory. He was pure nostalgia."
The list goes on, but you get the picture. Even if you don't particularly dig the show rod vibe, you simply can't ignore the creativity and originality this crazy custom rod represents. It makes a big impact without a big budget. It's as driveable as it is outrageous. In short, it's just the sort of shake-up the vanilla rodding world needs. Cool.
Russ Eggleston
Coburg, Iowa
'28 Dodge Pickup
DRIVETRAIN: "That thing got a Hemi?" You bet it does! And believe it or not, the '54-vintage, 331ci Hemi is bone stock--Russ hasn't even had it apart. The 4-71 blower and sextet of Holleys actually cover a stock two-barrel carb and intake. Tricky, huh? Russ used exhaust tips for the carb stacks, built his own headers, and ladled on liberal doses of chrome. A '55 DeSoto two-speed automatic--controlled by a modified '67 Jaguar shifter--backs up the big brute.
CHASSIS: Russ whipped together a frame of his own design using some spare 2x3-inch square tubing he had sitting around. It's got a 10-inch kickup in back and boat trailer springs supporting the '57 Chevy rearend, with a swap meet tube axle and hairpins up front. There are drum brakes all around, the fronts being Buicks on F-100 backing plates. Other chassis components include a '47 Ford steering box, '65 Ford truck master cylinder, and an owner-built driveshaft.
WHEELS & TIRES: Cragar SS wheels lend perfect '60s flavor, especially with three-bar spinners and bullet centers. The 15x3.5-inch fronts are wrapped in Coker 5.60 whitewalls, while the 15x14-inch rears wear M/T 10.00 whitewall slicks.
BODY & PAINT: Where do we start? Russ dragged home a '28 Dodge four-door sedan body then hacked away everything that didn't look like a pickup cab. He skinned the top with '61 Jeep material and frenched in two horizontal antennas. Russ's friend Steve Childs contributed the sheetmetal that Russ used to craft the custom bed and rear fenders; the front fenders began life as '62 Triumph items. The grille is pure '60s--a spider web insert in a custom-made shell housing canted quad headlights from a '66 Corvair. A matching insert is found on the tailgate, flanked by '58 Chevy taillight housings and Cadillac lenses. Paint is DuPont PT Cruiser Aztec Gold, sprayed by Russ. Dig the devil's tail finishing off the bed.
INTERIOR: You were expecting angel hair, perhaps? Actually, the cabin is pretty sparse in these photos--just a minivan seat covered in white vinyl by Jim Stanley of Red Oak, Iowa. An owner-built steering column hangs from the owner-built dash, which houses a handmade instrument panel with an International speedo and aftermarket accessory gauges. Dan Slaughter did the wiring.


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Monday, January 5, 2009
Ciabatta (Again)
Posted by Vegan Dad at 9:48 PM
13 comments:
- DJ Karma (of Vegspinz) said...
That bread looks beautiful- did it take a long time to make (i.e. resting and kneading)?
- January 5, 2009 at 10:35 PM
- Eating Consciously said...
where did you get that vegan nutritional guide?
- January 5, 2009 at 11:16 PM
- Vegetation said...
Mmmm yum. I never get tired of bread. It always smells so amazing when it's fresh!
- January 6, 2009 at 4:03 AM
- Vegan Dad said...
Eating Consciously,
There is a link in the post above to greenleafy.org. You can purchase one through their website.
- January 6, 2009 at 6:59 AM
- Vegan Dad said...
DJ Karma,
The bread is fairly time consuming, but not labour intense. About 8 mins of kneading (via a stand mixer or food processor), and about 4 hours of resting, rising, and folding.
- January 6, 2009 at 7:02 AM
- carrie said...
I make your ciabatta recipe all of the time. I can't imagine one being better....but if I ever come across this cookbook I'll have to give it a try.
- January 6, 2009 at 8:26 AM
- Tami (Vegan Appetite) said...
That ciabatta looks so perfect!
I'm enjoying your cookbook, by the way. I'm still in the flipping through it stage, trying to narrow my scope a little. Thank you for doing it!
- January 6, 2009 at 10:51 AM
- Jheremy said...
My local health food store in MD sells both the vegan nutritional guide & their yoga poster. I've got that nutritional poster in my kitchen & I love it. My kids like to look at it too, as I talk to them a lot about vitamins. It sparks many nutritional conversations in our house, which is always a good thing.
- January 6, 2009 at 12:19 PM
- Summer Fae said...
That looks amazing. One of my New Year's Goals is to learn to make bread. I can make quick breads, but I want to stop buying my bread from the store.
- January 6, 2009 at 1:12 PM
- Bianca said...
Yum! I love ciabatta bread! Again, I wish I lived in Canada so I could buy yummy breads from you.
And thanks for the nutritional guide. I'm a sucker for vegan health charts!
- January 6, 2009 at 2:30 PM
- The New Vegetarian said...
Wow! Can you adopt me Vegan Dad? LOL!!! The bread looks amazing. Being a new vegan, I just want to thank you for providing recipe's that have helped me to change my way of eating. I appreciate it. Have an awesome day! Oh, by the way. I am going to order your cookbook. Can't wait to try the recipe's.
- January 6, 2009 at 4:14 PM
- Happy Vegan Lady said...
My family purchased that guide from Animal Aid (UK) and it has been invaluable, especially for letting omnivorous friends just how nutritious an animal-free diet can be! It's now on the wall in the kitchen of my house at uni and was even the topic of a quite lengthy conversation during a recent house party.
I had to explain what Sosmix was... and I've just heard some sad news that Sosmix is being discontinued :( (http://www.veggiestuff.com/acatalog/direct_foods_sosmix.html). I don't know how often you or your readers eat Sosmix but it's very good for if you're in a rush!
- January 13, 2009 at 7:52 AM
- Rumela said...
Hey those ciabatta look yummi,I love eating breakfast and always try new fast food recipes. I would love to try the ciabatta for breakfast. that looks tasty. this is also a snacks food option and can make a satisfying breakfast. The Photos are amazing... I am already feeling hungry. thank you for shearing your post.
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I have been using Southeast Asian fish sauce ( its Vietnamese variant called "nước mắm" to be precise ) to marinade meat which I would then fry. From the narrow observation I made though the Vietnamese seem to use it solely to dip the food in it. Is my usage really that unusual?
No, it's not unusual at all. See this page from Vietnamese-American cooks for examples where nuoc-mam is used to marinate chicken, or just type
in Google :)
There are a lot of examples, including fish, chicken, beef, or even mango marinated (as well as dipped, of course) with nuoc-mam (and most of the time lemongrass), and a fair share of them are recipes by 'natives' from South-East Asia, not only fusion food addicts (even if you can be both!). Some salads like goi tom or goi ga also involve nuoc mam marinade.
Wikipedia on "Fish Sauce":
From the definition/etymology of the word of "marinate" - - -> of course, you can. It's your kitchen and your preferences for flavour.
I am sure that marinating only flavours the outer layers of meat and you should cut gashes into the meat to allow the marinade to penetrate.
Rather, your question should be,
I think, in fact, you could even ask the question,
I think to preserve and complement the fishy fragrance (most people would prefer to call it fishy odour),
And then the marination graduates into a marinating/poaching process on the same pan by turning the temperature up. What I am describing is a form of poaching which I do at low temp grilling in an enclosed oven.
I marinate at 100F for a couple of hours and then turning up the temperature to poach at 200 F over another couple of hours using various appendices/apparatus to elevate the meat (chicken wings/quarters) to as close to the oven elements as possible without touching them. About an inch of clearance.
And finally turning the temperature up to 350F for 30 minutes to "attempt" to achieve the occasionally surprisingly crispy skin
Turning the meat over at opportune times. The slow grilling can produce pretty amazing crisp on the skin. (However, there was once when the salmon became dry and fibrous after leaving it in there for too long.)
I am sure there is a lot of room for improvement in my culinary timing skills. And I've only tried poaching poultry and salmon. I did destroy a few pretty herring by trying out the same process. And turkey wings/quarters wouldn't even get cooked or amenable to absorbing any marinade under the same process.


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TeX and LaTeX are widely used in Computer Science. What other academic disciplines or professionals use it?
Bible publishing. I use it to typeset various kinds of Bibles for publishing in various formats. Because of the unique features of Bilingual Bibles one does tend to run into some peculiar limitations once in a while and has to work around them.
Video game producer here. I personally create most of documents using LaTeX/pLaTeX (actually most of drafting with Org-mode)
I am also a manager at Sakura-Con, an anime convention, and I use LaTeX to create many of letters (for guest of honor, and staff), too. It is useful as LaTeX can take a command line argument for mail merging purpose.
Both of those are exceptions rather than a norm, though.
I've just started to use LaTeX. After many years of disappointments with word, open office and google docs, I started to use it to write technical manuals for analytical equipment. I found the
I'm only a bit sad because I've never tried LaTeX before. It would have saved me heaps of time and I would have produced much better looking reports and manuals.
I definitely recommend it for technical manuals!
Depends on the university I guess. Here in University of Hull only a few engineering and maths professors use LaTeX, there are no LaTeX classes for thesis nor assignments. The LaTeX installation on the machine is from 2004 and hasn't been updated since.
Over the past 4 years I haven't seen a single PhD student use LaTeX. =(
TeX is used for serial letters. I am going to create printed letters, including construction drafts with numbers, barcodes, invoices and business letters with TeX for a small company.
Gemanwings, a German low-cost airline (turnover ~700 mio Euro), sends booking confirmation and invoice in PDF-format by e-mail. The PDFs are created by "pdfTeX-1.10b, LaTeX with hyperref" and the fonts are typical TeX-fonts too.
Bioinformatics researchers use it.
I'm a mechanical engineer working in materials science / materials processing.
I had lots of experience (from quite good to extremely bad) with
Some of my colleagues (mostly engineers and chemists) also use(d) LaTeX for typesetting their thesis, but many that I know use
Some "statistical" data of people
LaTeX: 7
We actually have a colloquium course at my college in which one is required to use LaTeX. It has to be taken once for all math minors, twice for all math majors. The entire object of the course is to learn technical, mathematical writing, for which LaTeX is considered required.
Since learning LaTeX, I've used Word maybe twice. Meeting protocols, motions, seating cards, lab reports, essays, a songbook, some sheet music (Although Lilypad is hard). It shouldn't be a question of which professions can use it, but rather which professions have the privilege of being in contact with someone who can teach them.
I also use LaTeX as a very flexible report-generating tool out of various MySQL databases, with help of a preprocessor, namely pdflatexdb (Hans-Georg Eßer) or nlatexdb (Robin Höns). I tried BIRT or even the Oracle Report tool bundled with OpenOffice.org, but that was a great waste of time, really. Check here : http://hgesser.com/software/latexdb/ and there : http://sourceforge.net/projects/nlatexdb/
I'm a chemist and I use LaTeX. Cgnieder's packages make this a lot easier than previously.
A lot of the answers given are academic disciplines (and most of those are scientists or related).
I personally have used LaTeX to write my CV. But more interesting, was that I was contacted by a doctor colleague of mine, who was having a little trouble with a document he was preparing on NHS computers. He sent me his source file, and it appears that at least his hospital was using LaTeX to prepare documents providing guidance on the use of certain drugs for treatment of HIV. He mentioned that LaTeX are installed on the hospital computers, and he cannot modify the installations in any way, so I would not be at all surprised if it is at least somewhat commonly used in the medical profession.
I also have a friend who works at a hospital lab who prepared another guidance document using LaTe, after I introduced it to him.
I work in IT, and I use TeX to produce professional looking reports. I started with LaTeX in college in a math class, and I've been using it for various things since. I also use it for a few personal projects as well.
I know people using it in Life Sciences, Geography, Philosophy, History and Archaeology.
It is mostly used in these disciplines to write big manuscripts, like thesis, books. Rarely it is used for articles as many journals ask for Word documents instead.
At least one parasitologist, some day attracted by the synergy of LaTeX + R, but now using LaTeX for any type of non collaborative documents, even to simulate some horrendous Word's forms when writing directly over the original template with any word processor become a nightmare.
Graphic Designers.
I use (La)TeX for any automatable manipulation or examination of .pdfs:


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I'm trying to get a handle on how Features are meant to be used in Shock: Social Science Fiction, and particularly the significance of choosing a new Feature after failing in Conflict.
On the one hand, they seem to serve a similar function to Edges in Primetime Adventures: they represent what makes you unique; they let you use your unique characteristics to do better in conflict. But PTA has clear significance for the details of the Edges - they determine when you can use them, and when you can't. In Shock, all your Features are always in play, however irrelevant.
Similarly, there's also a resemblance to Shock's Minutia; Features are like Minutia about the character. But while Minutia about Shocks and Issues and other setting elements change the setting the game's played in, Features are just kinda character notes, chosen by the player for his own character. In the system book, he gives the examples "I want to know love" and "I love"; which I don't see as adding much to the game. The new Feature seems serve, at best, as a recap of a scene we've already played.
In summary, I'm having trouble seeing what difference the choice of a Feature can make - particularly those added through the games due to conflict failure. Does it matter at all? Or am I missing a way to make the Features significant, meaningful, and/or having a larger effect on the game?


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Anika Rahman
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Ms. Foundation President and CEO Anika Rahman '90 is leading one of the country's most vital women's rights organizations at a critical point in time
Anika Rahman '90 has spent the bulk of her career advocating for women's rights in the global arena, so she is no stranger to uphill battles. And it's a good thing, too: Rahman, who serves as president and CEO of the Ms. Foundation for Women, ascended to the helm of the organization in early 2011, a year when state legislators proposed a record number of bills restricting women's rights.
Of course, that grim reality is part of why she took the job.
"I was excited," she says, referring to the array of modern obstacles that go hand-in-hand with leading a 40-year-old organization dedicated to building and strengthening the women's movement. "I like a challenge."
Rahman, who was born in Bangladesh, moved to America to study international relations at Princeton University. Prior to joining the Ms. Foundation, she was founding director of the international program at the Center for Reproductive Rights, and then served as president of Americans for UNFPA—an organization supporting the United Nations Population Fund. She is a focused and driven leader, and she uses her words to inspire.
During a recent speech at Columbia Law School, Rahman urged those in the audience to see beyond the dazzling accomplishments of a few high-profile women and gird themselves for the hard work that lies ahead.
"I really want to bring home that women's rights are unfinished business," she says. "I'm fed up with hearing about the first woman CEO, or astronaut, or secretary of state. We should be at a level where we are no longer talking about firsts. We have to get to the core issues and make sure that women as a group are able to rise."
As head of the Ms. Foundation, Rahman is in a perfect position to lead the charge. Founded in 1973 by several prominent feminists, the organization is, in her words, "by women, for women."
In 2011, the Ms. Foundation provided $4.4 million in grants and other support to more than 100 organizations representing four key program areas: building democracy, economic justice, ending violence, and women's health. The foundation also works to build capacity at the grassroots level, trains up-and-coming leaders, and helps connect grantees to donors and one another. But at a time when many highly valued rights are in jeopardy, choosing which organizations to assist can be immensely difficult.
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A student of history, Rahman says she is excited about the opportunity to supplement the Ms. Foundation's legacy, which includes helping establish some of the first hotlines and shelters for survivors of intimate-partner violence, as well as creating Take Your Daughter to Work Day. (When Rahman's young daughter visited the Ms. Foundation office, she was pleased to find that the corridors there were wide enough to accommodate cartwheeling.)
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May one urinate on the lawn on shabbat, or is that forbidden the same way that watering it is forbidden? What about defecation? Feces may or may not contain nutrients that are beneficial to the soil and plant growth.
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Shulchan Aruch HaRav 336:9 (My translation) -
While the words of the Shulchan Aruch HaRav (quoting the Magen Avraham) may be slightly ambiguous regarding which liquids one should be careful with, the Ketzot HaShulchan 142:14 says explicitly that one should refrain from pouring wine, pouring other liquids, or urinating on the grass.
The Aruch Hashulchan 336:22, on the other hand, clearly excludes urine from "other liquids". - see discussion in the comments.
In Badei HaShulchan :18, R' Avraham Chaim Na'eh points out that one may not urinate on dust, mud, sand or others because of the Melacha of Kneading (See Ketzot HaShulchan 130:8 and Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 80:14) and this would be a problem in a garden as well. (However, according to this, why wouldn't this reason be given to forbid going to the bathroom in a plowed field [as brought below]. See the end of Biur Halacha sv "O Shar" on 336:3 where a question very similar to this is brought up and used to prove there is no problem urinating on a field - צ"ע)
With regards to feces, the Shulchan Aruch HaRav 312:14 says:
Since there is no mention of any problem of fertilizing, it is possible to say that this is not a problem. On the other hand, it is possible that no mention of fertilizing is mentioned because there is nothing planted in the field yet.
However, if it were an issue I would think it would be brought with the rest of the Halachot of defecating on Shabbat.


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LONDON � The Americans are big and bad as advertised, romping through their first two games at the London Olympics by an average of 37 points, even without playing their best basketball.
But is that reason to be afraid of them?
Hardly, said Nigeria, their next opponent Thursday.
�We will not be intimidated by those guys,� Ike Diogu, a former top-10 NBA draft pick who has played 225 NBA games, said after Nigeria�s 72-53 loss to Lithuania. �A lot of us went to school in the U.S. and have played against those guys. We have no reason to feel overwhelmed.�
Nigeria guard Tony Skinn agrees.
�I mean, listen, man, I�ve been playing ball for a long time,� said Skinn, who was part of George Mason�s improbable Final Four run in 2006. �At some point in time, I played against those guys or seen those guys play. A lot of us, obviously we�re Nigerians, but we play in the States, and I don�t think we have that mentality to just come in the game and just, you know, get our (butts) whooped.�
Skinn and the Patriots beat Michigan State, North Carolina and Connecticut � all perennial powers who had been recent national champions. He wasn�t afraid of those teams, and he shows no fear of LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, or any other U.S. player, either.
�That�s not what we�re here for,� he said. �We�re here to compete. We�re competitors, and I think that everybody on the team has that approach.�
The Americans, who did not practice Wednesday, are approaching the Nigeria game as the step in their quest for a second consecutive gold medal.
The contest is the second consecutive, and perhaps last, lesser opponent for the Americans. The schedule picks up again Saturday with a matchup against Lithuania before the final game of group play Monday against longtime rival Argentina.
The U.S. improved to 2-0 Tuesday with a 110-63 rout of Tunisia, a team Nigeria beat by only four points in its opening game. The Americans led by just 13 points after a surprisingly close first half, then rang up 64 points in the second half to turn it into the easy victory that was expected.
�It�s not easy to us,� James said. �The final score may look that way, but we go out, and we work hard; we work our habits, and we try to get better, and I feel like we try to get better.�
There�s plenty to do. The Americans still have times where they struggle against a zone defense, settling for 3-pointers instead of attacking and using their athletic advantages. Coach Mike Krzyzewski continues to sort through his rotations, trying to determine the players he can count on if his best players aren�t available in key situations.
�You don�t know who it�s going to be that might help us win the gold medal,� Krzyzewski said. �I mean, if you look at look at the gold-medal game against Spain in �08, Tayshaun Prince gave us eight points in an abbreviated role that were huge for us because LeBron and Kobe had two quick fouls each in that game.
�And you know if you don�t give these guys that level of experience over an extended period of time, then they may not be ready for those moments, so that�s what we�re trying to do.�
They will do it Thursday against some familiar faces.
In addition to the 6-foot-9 Diogu and Skinn, Nigeria also has forward Al-Farouq Aminu � the No. 8 pick in the 2010 draft � on its roster. Aminu was traded last year by the Los Angeles Clippers to New Orleans in the deal for the U.S. starting point guard Chris Paul.
As always, the Americans will try to use their swarming defensive pressure to force mistakes that lead to easy baskets. Nigeria will need much better offensive execution to stand a chance after recording a pathetic three assists and going 1 for 16 from 3-point range in its loss to Lithuania.
�They�re the best players in the world, obviously. It�s no secret. But we�re competitors. I know I am, so doesn�t really make a difference,� Skinn said. �I�m going to go out there and play the best basketball I can. We obviously have to play smart. You can�t make very many mistakes against a team like that, so we�ve got to cut down on our turnovers� and make some shots.
Wednesday�s day off probably will be the last of the Olympics for the U.S. The Americans have dealt with a hectic schedule that took them across the United States and a couple of stops in Europe before arriving in London, and Krzyzewski has clearly been trying to give extra rest to Bryant, who will turn 34 this month and has played just 21 minutes in the tournament.
Nigeria is ready for the Americans� best. And after a chance to catch their breath, perhaps the U.S. players will bring it.
�We�re going to have a day off, but we�re still going to be around each other,� Carmelo Anthony said Tuesday. �We�ll be in the hotel. We might go to some events tomorrow. We�ve been going since Vegas nonstop and put in a lot of work in. We definitely need that day.�


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