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Hey, I'm Alair. I live (at least for now) around Boston, MA. I play all sorts of games, both tabletop and Vidya, and of course, I watch Anime. I'm always happy to get a new message, and am even happier to reply [does this guy like to see himself type or something?]. So, if you're in the area, or just wanna say hi, die in a fire, or where's my $2, I'll be checking back frequently, don't hesitate to write. =D
Hobbies and Interests!
Tabletop Roleplaying Games are probably my top hobby, followed closely by Video Games and Anime. I also enjoy taking bad photos ['cause he doesn't know how to take good ones] and writing bad fiction [again, because he can't write anything good].
Movies: Lord of the Rings, Pulp Fiction, Other stuff that I can't think of right now.
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Music: All sorts, ask me about a specific song, if you're actually interested. >.>
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Sometimes you truly feel sorry for Richard Nixon. Why should anyone, 15 years after his death, having suffered the greatest disgrace in American political history, continue to be bombarded with irrefutable evidence of his own sins?
More than 2,370 hours of intimate presidential musings are now public. A further 700 hours are likely to be released. They provide a raw portrait of power stripped of flacks and handlers. But one can only wonder: how different, really, are the unfiltered back-stage conversations of others in similar positions: Blair, Brown, Bush, even saintly Obama?
These tapes confirm that for 11 years, between 1963 and 1974, the White House was surely home to two of the most psychologically complex men, fascinating yet repellent, ever to lead a democracy.
Lyndon Johnson was crude, vain and bullying. But he was also a political force of nature without whom the great civil rights legislation of the 1960s might not have happened. Nixon was no less full of contradictions. He was paranoid, petty, as crude as LBJ – but an extraordinarily creative foreign policy thinker, a quality that would have served Johnson well in the morass of Vietnam.
Nixon's morass was Watergate, a conspiracy that fed upon his insecurity, and his conviction – not entirely unjustified – that the world was out to get him.
The greatest question of all remains unanswered. Why did he tape himself at all? Was it a means of blackmailing his close associates – or to provide evidence to rebut what others said of him? In fact, the recordings merely provided confirmation. And without them he would never have been toppled by Watergate.
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We want to spend a few months caravanning around southern Europe this winter with our dog, Toby. But how serious is the risk of his catching rabies? How can we ensure that he doesn't pick anything up?
James Dillon
Dr Larry Goodyer replies: Rabies can be contracted from a bite or scratch from mammals in many countries of the world. It is obviously important to keep Toby away from any wild animals, particularly foxes, which are a major source of the disease.
Apart from the UK, there are several countries in Europe where there is said to be "no risk" of contracting rabies. These include much, but not all, of mainland Spain and Italy. France is considered to be low risk; much progress has been made towards eradicating rabies in foxes by a programme of vaccination with treated bait.
Anyone who receives a bite or scratch from an animal in a rabies endemic area should seek medical advice, whether or not pre-exposure vaccination has been given. It is also important to wash thoroughly any bite and then ideally irrigate the wound with an iodine containing disinfectant.
If you are considering taking your pet to mainland Europe, have you thought carefully about the quarantine restrictions imposed when re-entering the UK?
Dr Larry Goodyer is the superintendent of the Nomad Pharmacy (3-4 Turnpike Lane, London N8; tel: 0181-889 7014). Contact the travel medicine helpline on 0891 633414 (calls cost 50p per minute).
Have a good time being one of the crowd
I shall be spending four nights in Chiang Mai in November. What can you suggest for a woman on her own to do? I would welcome some company, especially in the evening. Sadly, I am beyond spending the evening with young backpackers, fun as they are.
C Matthews
The travel editor replies: Chiang Mai is not a small city but it is largely devoid of the urban hassle which afflicts Bangkok. It is a quiet, friendly, laid-back place where making contact with local people is very easy indeed.
In the evening, one sociable experience is simply to join the crowds exploring the huge Night Bazaar on Chang Khlan Road, which contains endless stalls selling crafts, clothing and ethnic cuisine. If you want somebody to have meals with, an excellent idea is to approach any of the numerous local tour operators (your hotel will have one) who can supply you with an English-speaking local guide. These are often students earning cash in their spare time and are delightful company.
You are unlikely to be short of entertainment in the evening in Chiang Mai. There are numerous traditional cultural performances taking place at various venues around the city, including dance shows at the Chiang Mai Cultural Centre in which members of the audience are invited to participate.
Most of this is fairly touristy. Chiang Mai has a large American expat population, as well as big, flashy American hotels hosting "cultural" events for tourists. But if you want to delve a little deeper, why not try an activity such as traditional Thai massage or cookery? The Institute of Thai Massage (tel: 00 66 53 218632) and the Chiang Mai Thai Cookery School (tel: 00 66 53 206388) both provide short courses for tourists.
Incidentally, if you will be in town between 2-4 November you will be able to enjoy the spectacle of the Lantern Festival in Chiang Mai, in which floats carrying hundreds of candles are set adrift on the river under the full moon. There will also be float contests, Lanna-style hot air balloons ("Lanna" refers to a period of Thai history which spawned much notable architecture), as well as a Thai-style beauty contest, which is a spectacle not to be missed ( the girls appear being carried in high, golden litters rather than in skimpy bikinis). For further information, including leaflets and brochures, call the Thai tourist board (tel: 0171-499 7679).
When is a rucksack not a rucksack? When it's a travelbag
I am used to going backpacking, but I am planning a six-month journey around Europe, and I'd rather like to carry my luggage in something a bit more suitable for general travelling, but still on my back. Any suggestions?
Sarah Fisher
Clive Tully replies: Providing you are of average fitness, I reckon your back is the most logical place to carry your luggage. It keeps your hands free for proffering tickets and passports when required, and it enables you to fend off over-friendly souvenir sellers, children - and cattle. None of that arm-stretching business with suitcases, or badly designed wheeled luggage teetering along uneven pavements or airport concourses.
But the rucksack does have its disadvantages. Unless you are careful about how you secure the harness, it can end up getting caught up and damaged while travelling through airport baggage systems, and the fact that the average backpacking rucksack is top-loading means it is more likely that you will have to unpack it completely to get at something near the bottom.
The answer is a convertible travel bag - essentially a smart piece of soft luggage, but with a full rucksack harness concealed beneath a zipped panel on the back. Most convertibles are panel-loading, so with the bag lying on its back, the front panel will unzip to give you full suitcase- type access to your belongings. There will be a padded soft handle on the side, and possibly the top, to enable you to carry it suitcase style - handy when you are checking in to posh hotels - while the full harness of shoulder straps and hip belt are there for when you need to get a move on, or you are spending more time on your feet.
Convertible travel bags vary in design, depending on whether they are intended mainly as a trekking bag - more like a rucksack with a main compartment and separate one at the bottom for your sleeping bag, but capable of hiding its harness; or more like a soft suitcase which is capable of turning into a rucksack.
Whichever design you go for, one important feature, which should be common to both, is side compression straps, which enable you to take up any excess volume inside the bag and stop the contents slopping about - important for stability when it's on your back.
The following companies all make good convertible travel bags: Berghaus (tel: 0191-415 0200); Karrimor (tel: 01254 893000); Jack Wolfskin (tel: 01275 472815); Lowe Alpine (tel: 01539 740840); Wynnster (tel: 01372 377713).
Clive Tully is one of Britain's leading commentators on clothing and equipment for walking, trekking and backpacking. He is editor of 'TrailWalk', an online magazine devoted to the subject. The 'TrailWalk' website is at http://www.trailwalk.com.
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Ceres, Mardi,
I had some freeze damage too, but for the most part they will pop out of it.
I was most concerned about a Maackia tree I'd gotten from Forest Farm last
month, still in it's 5 gallon container. (for the display gardens) But
spring is when the plants have all their energy, they always have a plan B,
just in case, so I am expecting it to put out new growth. I asked the Hort
Ed about it and he suggested giving it a root booster treatment. We use the
Green Light brand. This might be a good idea for all your plants that have
suffered at this time. Of my perennials, my yellow flowered Toadlily
received the most damage - a lot of new growth blackened.
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> Mardi, I think the tree will push forth new foliage however, I have a new
> tree still I have not planted and I am concerned with it.
> I started Japanese Lilac trees from seed and had just potted up 4 and
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Now that your Cfengine framework is configured, here are a few ideas for continued improvements:
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Things are really starting to hot up for the Skeelz right now. The other clans have had time to get over the surprise of their arrival and are starting to get organized. And they're determined they're not going to be dictated to by a group of snooty-nosed kids. But fortunately for the Skeelz, with the arrival of Sasha, Greem, Manfred, Tomas, Sandro and Cley, they've now got the numbers to stick around for a long time. Get these characters in the shop's New Blood and Action packs.
There's a new ability centered around "CONFIDENCE"...
Is this the opposite of Revenge?
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I thought it was like courage only you play on the second turn.. o.O
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The day was overcast, but we were still able to enjoy the beautiful beach. It was very clean and all the people were extremely friendly.
We wanted an a Island tour but it was over $100 per person. Asked around and got a wonderful tour guide who was amazing and so knowledgable. Ernesto charged $100 for our group of four! It was at our own pace and showed us the whole Island.
After a zip lining excursion, we were taken to the Mayan Princess Resort for the afternoon. The beach is absolutely amazing with long views out into the ocean, tons of sports/activities available, and local vendors for food/crafts. The hotel offered a couple complimentary drinks, and a secure area on their beach (security guard patrolled). Lounge chairs are provided either in...
I highly recommend a day pass to the Mayan resort (see my other review of the resort). Great pool, pretty grounds, good buffet, lots of drinks and good sevice
This was a last minute cruise excursion choice. We boarded a small bus and headed out for the resort. Due to traffic and distance, it took a while to get there. The tour guide, Stanley, gave an informative talk along the way. I had my doubts but once we got there, it was beautiful. The pool area was really nice...
Sometimes when you are on a cruise ship, you may want to do a local tour and getting a Mayan day pass is not a bad thing to do. A lot depends on which cruise ship that you come in on. If you are on the local cruise ship dock at Coxen Hole, it is somewhat easy to find with...
another must do while wandering around Roatan Its so laid back and fun I could just walk around every day and have not a care in the world
We were on a cruise and this was the second half of our day trip through South Shore Excursions in Roatan. Great way to end! The food we had for lunch was amazing - get the seafood stew- I know sounds weird right especially in June - but take it from a restaurant guy - worth it!!! Ceviche delish!
Good one day beach stop. They had a great beach area with a buffet/bar, plenty of beach chairs and areas both in and out of the sun. We would definitely come back again
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7th Annual Hillsborough Memorial Day Parade Carnival & Music Festival
BIG NEWS… a CHP helicopter will be landing on the Crocker field on Monday afternoon to be part of our celebration of Memorial Day! It is a Eurocopter of America, 350B3, 3 blade and weighs 4500 pounds. Don't want to miss this!!
Our community will kick off the celebration Monday, May 30, 2016, starting with the PARADE! We have floats walking and riding through town in honor of this patriotic holiday, celebrating our community and our country.
The PARADE starts at 10:30am at Town Hall, line up beginning at 9:30am. The route goes straight up Floribunda, left on Eucalyptus, finishing at North Hillsborough Elementary School. Anthony Ranii, for his second year, will be the parade announcer at the Floribunda circle and Larry Raffo is our announcer at North School, for his 7th year in a row!
At North School the CARNIVAL has an early start at 10am. The Observance Ceremony will be right after the end of the parade, at approximately 11:45am. The MUSIC FESTIVAL will begin immediately after that, at 12:00ish.
Line up is at Town Hall at 930am. All float participants will be receiving line up information the week before the parade. To view the parade map click here.
Games, crafts, petting zoo, and dunk tank are all part of the fun again this year! The Petting Zoo is enhanced this year, adding miniature animals, and other treats.
Our pricing structure is new, there are hand stamps instead of tickets:
Carnival games and Crafts $10
Petting Zoo $10
Dunk Tank is 3 balls for $5
Bring your picnic blanket! Food trucks this year include Speedy Panini, Sam's Chowder House and Flamin' Dog with new comers Tacos Peralta and Sajj Street Eats. We will also have ice cream service as well.
The line up is ready! Come and enjoy so much local talent!!!!
Logan & Ellery
Maxine Marcus
School of Rock Band
Elena Huang
The Artists Formerly Known as FBO
Adopt-A-Unit Donation Suggested Items
The town continues to collect items for our adopted military troop that is currently deployed in Iraq.
This year West School has organized a Treats for Troops drive. Under the leadership of 3rd grader Rohan Dalal, items for the troops are being requested to be dropped off at North School after the parade. Here is the desired list of treats:Click here for suggested items
In addition at Town Hall, donations will be accepted for donuts, bagels and coffee that will be available during Parade line up time. All money collected goes to cover shipping. Come by the table, enjoy a coffee and a donut and sign the banner with some good wishes for our troops!
Plan to park at the Crocker black top and take the (free) Cable Car Shuttle to Town Hall. The shuttle will run from 9:00am to 10:00 am with pick up at the Crocker School and North School entrances. Drop off at Town Hall. The shuttle will start up again after the parade, picking up at North and Crocker entrances and dropping off again at Town Hall. The shuttle will end at 1:00pm. Parking is allowed on street NOT on the parade route, see Parade Map above.
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- Honored Veterans
- Girl Scout Troops
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- San Mateo County Horsemen's Association
- San Mateo High School Marching Band
- Los Trancos Marching Band
- Wells Fargo Stagecoach
- Life Moves (formerly known as Inn Vision Shelter Network)
- North, South and West Elementary Schools
- North and West School Preschools
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- Central County Fire Department
- Fabulous vehicles
- Recology
- Heavy Equipment
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- Hillsborough Girls Chorus
- Hillsborough Little League
- COY and CCA
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PARADE starts at 10:30 (line up starts at 9:30)
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Bruce Bower Chimps with little social status influence their comrades' behavior to a surprising extent, a new study suggests. In groups of captive chimps, a method for snagging food from a box spread among many individuals who saw a low-ranking female peer demonstrate the technique, say primatologist Stuart Watson of the University of St. Andrews in Fife, Scotland, and colleagues. But in other groups where an alpha male introduced the same box-opening technique, relatively few chimps copied the behavior, the researchers report online February 7 in the American Journal of Primatology. "I suspect that even wild chimpanzees are motivated to copy obviously rewarding behaviors of low-ranking individuals, but the limited spread of rewarding behaviors demonstrated by alpha males was quite surprising," Watson says. Previous research has found that chimps in captivity more often copy rewarding behaviors of dominant versus lower-ranking group mates. The researchers don't understand why in this case the high-ranking individuals weren't copied as much. The spread of new behaviors in groups of monkeys and apes depends on a variety of factors — including an innovator's social status, age and sex — that can interact in unpredictable ways. "That's why social learning in groups is so interesting to study," says Elizabeth Lonsdorf, a primatologist at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa., who did not participate in the research. |© Society for Science & the Public 2000 - 2017.
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By Jennifer Couzin-Frankel At least two dozen junior and senior researchers are stuck in scientific limbo after being barred from publishing data collected over a 25-year period at a National Institutes of Health (NIH) lab. The unusual ban follows the firing last summer of veteran neurologist Allen Braun by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) for what many scientists have told Science are relatively minor, if widespread, violations of his lab's experimental protocol. Most of the violations, which were unearthed after Braun himself reported a problem, involve the prescreening or vetting of volunteers for brain imaging scans and other experiments on language processing. The fallout from the case was recently chronicled on a blog by one of Braun's former postdocs, and it highlights a not-uncommon problem across science: the career harm to innocent junior investigators following lab misconduct or accidental violations on the part of senior scientists. But this case, say those familiar with it, is extreme. "We're truly collateral damage," says Nan Bernstein Ratner of the University of Maryland in College Park, who researches stuttering. She spent 5 years collaborating with Braun. Now, two of her graduate students have had to shift their master's theses topics, and an undergraduate she mentored cannot publish a planned paper. "The process has been—you can use this term—surreal." © 2017 American Association for the Advancement of Science
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By Jessica Hamzelou Three people with paralysis have learned to type by thought alone using a brain implant – at the fastest speeds recorded using such a system. Two have motor neurone disease, also known as ALS – a degenerative disorder that destroys neurons associated with movement – while the other has a spinal cord injury. All three have weakness or paralysis in all of their limbs. There is a chance that those with ALS will eventually lose the ability to speak, too, says Jaimie Henderson, a neurosurgeon at Stanford University Medical Center in California. People who have lost the ability to talk may be offered devices that allow them to select letters on a screen using head, cheek or eye movements. This is how Stephen Hawking communicates, for example. But brain-machine interfaces are also being developed in the hope that they may one day be a more intuitive way of communicating. These involve reading brain activity, either externally or via an implant embedded in the brain, and turning it into a signal that can be used to direct something in the environment. At the moment, these devices are a little slow. Henderson and his colleagues wanted to make a device that was quicker and easier to use than those currently in trials. © Copyright Reed Business Information Ltd.
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By Michelle Roberts A multiple sclerosis treatment being tested in patients can stop the disease for at least five years, say doctors. The risky therapy involves wiping out the person's immune system with strong cancer drugs and then rebooting it with a stem cell transplant. Doctors say only some patients will be suitable to try it, particularly because it is so high risk. Out of 281 people who had the treatment, nearly half benefited, but eight died shortly afterwards. The work in JAMA Neurology is one of the largest and longest investigations of this aggressive MS treatment. Mark Rye, 41 and from Surrey, had his transplant just before Christmas 2016. Two months on he is doing well. "It was a hard decision, knowing what could go wrong. My wife and I discussed it for many, many hours. We've got small children and I didn't want my MS to get worse and end up in a wheelchair. "I did this to halt the condition and so that I can be there for my children, who are still so young. I want to be able to play rugby and football with them as they grow up." What is not clear is for how long the therapy might ultimately work. Freeze frame MS is not fatal, but it is incurable. The disease causes the immune system to attack the protective coating of nerves in the brain and spinal cord, which can create problems with a person's vision, walking and balance. © 2017 BBC
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By Esther Landhuis For much of her life Anne Dalton battled depression. She seldom spoke with people. She stayed home a lot. The days dragged on with a sense of "why bother?" for the 61-year-old from New Jersey who used to work at a Wall Street investment firm. After trying more than a dozen combinations of antidepressant drugs to no avail, things got so bad two years ago that Dalton went in for electroconvulsive therapy—in which "basically they shock your brain," as she puts it. Like Dalton, most of the estimated 16 million U.S. adults who have reported a major depressive episode in the past year find little relief even after several months on antidepressants—a problem that some researchers say may stem from the way mental illness is diagnosed. Objective lab tests can physically confirm heart disease or cancer, but psychiatric conditions are classified somewhat vaguely as clusters of reported symptoms. Doctors consider people clinically depressed if they say they have low mood and meet at least four additional criteria from an overall list of nine. Yet depression can manifest differently from person to person: One might be putting on pounds and sleeping much of the time whereas another might be losing weight, feeling anxious and finding it difficult to sit still, says Conor Liston, a neuroscientist and psychiatrist at Weill Cornell Medical College. "The fact that we lump people together like this has been a big obstacle in understanding the neurobiology of depression," Liston explains. © 2017 Scientific American,
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Link ID: 23262 - Posted: 02.21.2017
By JOANNA KLEIN The good news is, the human brain is flexible and efficient. This helps us make sense of the world. But the bad news is, the human brain is flexible and efficient. This means the brain can sometimes make mistakes. You can watch this tension play out when the brain tries to connect auditory and visual speech. It's why we may find a poorly dubbed kung fu movie hard to believe, and why we love believing the gibberish in those Bad Lip Reading Videos on YouTube. "By dubbing speech that is reasonably consistent with the available mouth movements, we can utterly change the meaning of what the original talker was saying," said John Magnotti, a neuroscientist at Baylor College of Medicine in Texas. "Sometimes we can detect that something is a little off, but the illusion is usually quite compelling." In a study published Thursday in PLOS Computational Biology, Dr. Magnotti and Michael Beauchamp, also a neuroscientist at Baylor College of Medicine, tried to pin down why our brains are susceptible to these kinds of perceptual mistakes by looking at a well-known speech illusion called the McGurk effect. By comparing mathematical models for how the brain integrates senses important in detecting speech, they found that the brain uses vision, hearing and experience when making sense of speech. If the mouth and voice are likely to come from the same person, the brain combines them; otherwise, they are kept separate. "You may think that when you're talking to someone you're just listening to their voice," said Dr. Beauchamp, who led the study. "But it turns out that what their face is doing is actually profoundly influencing what you are perceiving." © 2017 The New York Times Company
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By Sam Wong Can a mouse be mindful? Researchers believe they have created the world's first mouse model of meditation by using light to trigger brain activity similar to what meditation induces. The mice involved appeared less anxious, too. Human experiments show that meditation reduces anxiety, lowers levels of stress hormones and improves attention and cognition. In one study of the effects of two to four weeks of meditation training, Michael Posner of the University of Oregon and colleagues discovered changes in the white matter in volunteers' brains, related to the efficiency of communication between different brain regions. The changes, picked up in scans, were particularly noticeable between the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and other areas. Since the ACC regulates activity in the amygdala, a region that controls fearful responses, Posner's team concluded that the changes in white matter could be responsible for meditation's effects on anxiety. The mystery was how meditation could alter the white matter in this way. Posner's team figured that it was related to changes in theta brainwaves, measured using electrodes on the scalp. Meditation increases theta wave activity, even when people are no longer meditating. To test the theory, the team used optogenetics – they genetically engineered certain cells to be switched on by light. In this way, they were able to use pulses of light on mice to stimulate theta brainwave-like activity in the ACC. © Copyright Reed Business Information Ltd.
Keyword: Attention
Link ID: 23260 - Posted: 02.21.2017
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Keyword: Alzheimers; Language
Link ID: 23259 - Posted: 02.21.2017
By Matthew Hutson, Veronique Greenwood For some things, such as deciding whether to take a new job or nab your opponent's rook in chess, you're better off thinking long and hard. For others, such as judging your interviewer's or opponent's emotional reactions, first instincts are best—or so traditional wisdom suggests. But new research finds that careful reflection actually makes us better at assessing others' feelings. The findings could improve how we deal with bosses, spouses, friends and, especially, strangers. We would have trouble getting through the day or even a conversation if we couldn't tell how other people were feeling. And yet this ability, called empathic accuracy, eludes introspection. "We don't think too hard about the exact processes we engage in when we do it," says Christine Ma-Kellams, a psychologist at the University of La Verne in California, "and we don't necessarily know how accurate we are." Recently Ma-Kellams and Jennifer Lerner of Harvard University conducted four studies, all published in 2016. In one experiment, participants imagined coaching an employee for a particular job. When told to help the employee get better at reading others' emotions, most people recommended thinking "in an intuitive and instinctive way" as opposed to "in an analytic and systematic way." When told to make employees worse at the task, the participants recommended the opposite. And yet later experiments suggested this coaching was off base. For instance, in another experiment, professionals in an executive-education program took a "cognitive reflection test" to measure how much they relied on intuitive versus systematic thinking. The most reflective thinkers were most accurate at interpreting their partners' moods during mock interviews. Systematic thinkers also outperformed intuiters at guessing the emotions expressed in photographs of eyes. © 2017 Scientific American
Keyword: Emotions; Attention
Link ID: 23258 - Posted: 02.21.2017
Many people think of fish and seafood as being healthy. However, new research suggests eating certain species that tend to have high levels of mercury may be linked to a greater risk of developing amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. Questions remain about the possible impact of mercury in fish, according to a preliminary study released Monday that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's 69th annual meeting in Boston in April. Fish and seafood consumption as a regular part of the diet was not associated with ALS, the study said. "For most people, eating fish is part of a healthy diet," said study author Elijah Stommel of Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., and a fellow of the academy. In addition, the authors said their study does not negate the fact that eating fish provides many health benefits. Instead, it suggests people may want to choose species that are known to have a lower mercury content, and avoid consuming fish caught in waters where there is mercury contamination. The researchers stressed that more research is needed before fish consumption guidelines for neurodegenerative illness can be made. While the exact cause of ALS is not known, some previous studies have suggested the neurotoxic metal to be a risk factor for ALS, a progressive neurological disease. ©2017 CBC/Radio-Canada.
Keyword: ALS-Lou Gehrig's Disease
; Neurotoxins
Link ID: 23257 - Posted: 02.21.2017
By Greta Keenan The ocean might seem like a quiet place, but listen carefully and you might just hear the sounds of the fish choir. Most of this underwater music comes from soloist fish, repeating the same calls over and over. But when the calls of different fish overlap, they form a chorus. Robert McCauley and colleagues at Curtin University in Perth, Australia, recorded vocal fish in the coastal waters off Port Headland in Western Australia over an 18-month period, and identified seven distinct fish choruses, happening at dawn and at dusk. You can listen to three of them here: The low "foghorn" call is made by the Black Jewfish (Protonibea diacanthus) while the grunting call that researcher Miles Parsons compares to the "buzzer in the Operation board game" comes from a species of Terapontid. The third chorus is a quieter batfish that makes a "ba-ba-ba" call. "I've been listening to fish squawks, burble and pops for nearly 30 years now, and they still amaze me with their variety," says McCauley, who led the research. Sound plays an important role in various fish behaviours such as reproduction, feeding and territorial disputes. Nocturnal predatory fish use calls to stay together to hunt, while fish that are active during the day use sound to defend their territory. "You get the dusk and dawn choruses like you would with the birds in the forest," says Steve Simpson, a marine biologist at the University of Exeter, UK. © Copyright Reed Business Information Ltd.
Keyword: Sexual Behavior; Animal Communication
Link ID: 23256 - Posted: 02.21.2017
By WINNIE HU Ruth Brunn finally said yes to marijuana. She is 98. She pops a green pill filled with cannabis oil into her mouth with a sip of vitamin water. Then Ms. Brunn, who has neuropathy, settles back in her wheelchair and waits for the jabbing pain in her shoulders, arms and hands to ebb. "I don't feel high or stoned," she said. "All I know is I feel better when I take this." Ms. Brunn will soon have company. The nursing home in New York City where she lives, the Hebrew Home at Riverdale, is taking the unusual step of helping its residents use medical marijuana under a new program to treat various illnesses with an alternative to prescription drugs. While the staff will not store or administer pot, residents are allowed to buy it from a dispensary, keep it in locked boxes in their rooms and take it on their own. From retirement communities to nursing homes, older Americans are increasingly turning to marijuana for relief from aches and pains. Many have embraced it as an alternative to powerful drugs like morphine, saying that marijuana is less addictive, with fewer side effects. For some people, it is a last resort when nothing else helps. Marijuana, which is banned by federal law, has been approved for medical use in 29 states, including New York, and the District of Columbia. Accumulating scientific evidence has shown its effectiveness in treating certain medical conditions. Among them: neuropathic pain, severe muscle spasms associated with multiple sclerosis, unintentional weight loss, and vomiting and nausea from chemotherapy. There have also been reports that pot has helped people with Alzheimer's disease and other types of dementia as well as Parkinson's disease. © 2017 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Drug Abuse; Alzheimers
Link ID: 23255 - Posted: 02.20.2017
By Robert F. Service Predicting color is easy: Shine a light with a wavelength of 510 nanometers, and most people will say it looks green. Yet figuring out exactly how a particular molecule will smell is much tougher. Now, 22 teams of computer scientists have unveiled a set of algorithms able to predict the odor of different molecules based on their chemical structure. It remains to be seen how broadly useful such programs will be, but one hope is that such algorithms may help fragrancemakers and food producers design new odorants with precisely tailored scents. This latest smell prediction effort began with a recent study by olfactory researcher Leslie Vosshall and colleagues at The Rockefeller University in New York City, in which 49 volunteers rated the smell of 476 vials of pure odorants. For each one, the volunteers labeled the smell with one of 19 descriptors, including "fish," "garlic," "sweet," or "burnt." They also rated each odor's pleasantness and intensity, creating a massive database of more than 1 million data points for all the odorant molecules in their study. When computational biologist Pablo Meyer learned of the Rockefeller study 2 years ago, he saw an opportunity to test whether computer scientists could use it to predict how people would assess smells. Besides working at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, Meyer heads something called the DREAM challenges, contests that ask teams of computer scientists to solve outstanding biomedical problems, such as predicting the outcome of prostate cancer treatment based on clinical variables or detecting breast cancer from mammogram data. "I knew from graduate school that olfaction was still one of the big unknowns," Meyer says. Even though researchers have discovered some 400 separate odor receptors in humans, he adds, just how they work together to distinguish different smells remains largely a mystery. © 2017 American Association for the Advancement of Science
Keyword: Chemical Senses (Smell & Taste); Robotics
Link ID: 23254 - Posted: 02.20.2017
By JANE E. BRODY "Feeling My Way Into Blindness," an essay published in The New York Times in November by Edward Hoagland, an 84-year-old nature and travel writer and novelist, expressed common fears about the effects of vision loss on quality of life. Mr. Hoagland, who became blind about four years ago, projected deep-seated sadness in describing the challenges he faces of pouring coffee, not missing the toilet, locating a phone number, finding the food on his plate, and knowing to whom he is speaking, not to mention shopping and traveling, when he often must depend on the kindness of strangers. And, of course, he sorely misses nature's inspiring vistas and inhabitants that fueled his writing, though he can still hear birds chatter in the trees, leaves rustle in the wind and waves crash on the shore. Mr. Hoagland is hardly alone in his distress. According to Action for Blind People, a British support organization, those who have lost some or all sight "struggle with a range of emotions — from shock, anger, sadness and frustration to depression and grief." When eyesight fails, some people become socially disengaged, leading to isolation and loneliness. Anxiety about a host of issues — falls, medication errors, loss of employment, social blunders — is common. A recent study from researchers at the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine found that most Americans regard loss of eyesight as the worst ailment that could happen to them, surpassing such conditions as loss of limb, memory, hearing or speech, or having H.I.V./AIDS. Indeed, low vision ranks behind arthritis and heart disease as the third most common chronic cause of impaired functioning in people over 70, Dr. Eric A. Rosenberg of Weill Cornell Medical College and Laura C. Sperazza, a New York optometrist, wrote in American Family Physician. © 2017 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Vision; Development of the Brain
Link ID: 23253 - Posted: 02.20.2017
By Michael Price BOSTON--Among mammals, primates are unique in that certain species have three different types of light-sensitive cone cells in their eyes rather than two. This allows humans and their close relatives to see what we think of as the standard spectrum of color. (Humans with red-green color blindness, of course, see a different spectrum.) The standard explanation for why primates developed trichromacy, as this kind of vision is called, is that it allowed our early ancestors to see colorful ripe fruit more easily against a background of mostly green forest. A particular Old World monkey, the rhesus macaque (pictured), has a genetic distinction that offers a convenient natural test of this hypothesis: a common genetic variation makes some females have three types of cone cells and others have two. Studies with captive macaques has shown that trichromatic females are faster than their dichromatic peers at finding fruit, but attempts to see whether that's true for wild monkeys has been complicated by the fact that macaques are hard to find, and age and rank also play big roles in determining who eats when. A vision researcher reported today at the annual meeting of AAAS, which publishes Science, that after making more than 20,000 individual observations of 80 different macaques feeding from 30 species of trees on Cayo Santiago, Puerto Rico, she can say with confidence that wild trichromatic female monkeys do indeed appear to locate and eat fruit more quickly than dichromatic ones, lending strong support to the idea that this advantage helped drive the evolution of trichromacy in humans and our relatives. © 2017 American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Keyword: Vision; Evolution
Link ID: 23252 - Posted: 02.20.2017
JoAnna Klein Some microscopes today are so powerful that they can create a picture of the gap between brain cells, which is thousands of times smaller than the width of a human hair. They can even reveal the tiny sacs carrying even tinier nuggets of information to cross over that gap to form memories. And in colorful snapshots made possible by a giant magnet, we can see the activity of 100 billion brain cells talking. Decades before these technologies existed, a man hunched over a microscope in Spain at the turn of the 20th century was making prescient hypotheses about how the brain works. At the time, William James was still developing psychology as a science and Sir Charles Scott Sherrington was defining our integrated nervous system. Meet Santiago Ramón y Cajal, an artist, photographer, doctor, bodybuilder, scientist, chess player and publisher. He was also the father of modern neuroscience. "He's one of these guys who was really every bit as influential as Pasteur and Darwin in the 19th century," said Larry Swanson, a neurobiologist at the University of Southern California who contributed a biographical section to the new book "The Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal." "He's harder to explain to the general public, which is probably why he's not as famous." Last month, the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis opened a traveling exhibit that is the first dedicated solely to Ramón y Cajal's work. It will make stops in Minneapolis; Vancouver, British Columbia; New York; Cambridge, Mass.; and Chapel Hill, N.C., through April 2019. Ramón y Cajal started out with an interest in the visual arts and photography — he even invented a method for making color photos. But his father pushed him into medical school. Without his artistic background, his work might not have had as much impact, Dr. Swanson said. © 2017 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Brain imaging
Link ID: 23251 - Posted: 02.18.2017
By Nathaniel P. Morris Cardiovascular disease and mental illness are among the top contributors to death and disability in the United States. At first glance, these health conditions seem to lie at opposite ends of the medical spectrum: Treating the heart is often associated with lab draws, imaging and invasive procedures, whereas treating the mind conjures up notions of talk therapy and subjective checklists. Yet researchers are discovering some surprising ties between cardiac health and mental health. These connections have profound implications for patient care, and doctors are paying attention. Depression has become recognized as a major issue for people with heart disease. Studies have found that between 17 and 44 percent of patients with coronary artery disease also have major depression. According to the American Heart Association, people hospitalized for a heart attack are roughly three times as likely as the general population to experience depression. As many as 40 percent of patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery suffer from depression. Decades of research suggest these illnesses may actually cause one another. For example, patients with heart disease are often sick and under stressful circumstances, which can foster depressive symptoms. But depression itself is also a risk factor for developing heart disease. Researchers aren't sure why, but something about being depressed — possibly a mix of factors including inflammatory changes and behavior changes — appears to increase risk of heart disease. © 1996-2017 The Washington Post
Keyword: Depression; Stress
Link ID: 23250 - Posted: 02.18.2017


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Valley Writers
Valley Writers was established in 1982 and became a chapter of the
Virginia Writers Club
in 1991. The state organization has established a set of core values which include enthusiasm, respect, tolerance, and integrity. Strategic goals are to foster literary talent and achievement, maintain efficient operation, build a positive image, and increase membership.
The Valley Writers Chapter strives to support local writers of all levels with peer critiques, networking opportunities, and speakers to further their knowledge of the art and craft of writing. Our chapter serves the greater Roanoke Valley. In practice, we have writers attending who live in the counties of Roanoke, Bedford, Botetourt, Craig, Montgomery, Franklin, and Pittsylvania, and the cities of Roanoke and Salem.
Lake Writers
In September 2011, Valley Writers welcomed its first subgroup,
Lake Writers
from Smith Mountain Lake, a group of over 45 writers, 15 of whom generally attend semi-monthly meetings. Several members attend meetings of both groups. Lake Writers meets on second and fourth Fridays at 10 am. It alternates between the Moneta/Smith Mountain Lake and Westlake libraries. Lake Writers is the literary arm of
Smith Mountain Arts Council
(SMAC) and is closely affiliated with both library programs.
Where We Meet
Valley Writers:
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We are open to writers of all skills, genres, or experience. Anyone who is interested in attending a Valley Writers meeting and would like more information is invited to contact
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Thanks for checking in, Ceres!!! So good to hear from you. So very sorry
to hear about your son, will keep positive thoughts and prayers for a full
recovery! Sorry, too, about the drought, we can relate here in
Texas....although this year has been a bit better. Do hope next year, or
winter/spring brings some relief, so you have a good show of plants for the garden
tours. Look forward to hearing more about this, if you have time.
Perhaps one year when you come to Houston, we can meet....even if it is for
a moment at the Quilt show!
That goes for anyone else coming down this way too.
Again, thanks for checking in....miss hearing from you!
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Noreen, I have read the recent messages and glad to hear all is well
those we have heard from. It is hard to believe the storm photos and
hearing the residents plea for help. Seems to be another Katrina.
Auralie, I
am so sorry you are in the dark. Hang on my friend and hope there is
soon. We were recently without power for 12 hrs and it was the longest 12
hrs! We have underground utilies but with the only recent rain which
much, water got into the equipment under ground.
I am doing well but did not attend the Houston show this year as our
son has been in the hospital
since Aug 28 and 31 days was in ICU. He had a successful surgery but
were unable to take him off the vent due to lung failure (ARDS). He now
has a trach but unable to breath on his own. I just had both my
taken care of a week apart. It was painless and hopefully I will not
corrective lenses as I paid the extra and got the best lens. I have mono
vision lens, one for distance and one for close-up which is the same as
contacts were.
This has been the most unbelievable year for gardening. We had 90
deg weather in March, a big freeze in April, extreme drought which
but a beautiful fall. I have hopes for a better year next season however
they are saying to expect the lack of rain to continue. I have 3 large
garden tours scheduled in June.
So glad we have one day remaining till the election. Obama, Michelle
and concert team will be in Des Moines East Village (just at the foot of
the capital) this evening. My youngest GD, Nadia, now a kindergarten
teacher, lives in one of the historical lofts and the bleachers were being
just below her windows. Her sister, Natasha who now lives, works and
on her masters in Denver is so envious.
Sorry this list is not what it was. I am not a part of the social
scene but am a member of Facebook with 2 friends only, no more! I am
there for my spring greenhouse job which uses for means of preseason
information. I spend to much time on the computer as is.
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Japanese Kitchen Knives by Hiromitsu Nozaki, teaches knife cutting techniques like Ken Needle Cut: Cutting Daikon Needle Strips, Chasen-giri Tea-whisk Cut (for Eggplant), and Dividing Fish Heads; and includes recipes like Needle-cut Vegetable Salad with Sesame Dressing, Simmered Eggplant and Chicken Breast, and Braised Tai Sea Bream Head with Turnips.
Fish heads, generally discarded as trash in the West, are prized by Japanese chefs. For one thing, they make a wonderful stock for soups and sauces. When prepared as a dish on their own, fish heads are generally braised or simmered. The tender cheeks are considered a delicacy, as is the soft jelly around the eyes. Since fish heads contain many bones, they are divided into pieces, making them easier to consume. To eat, suck away the tender flesh and spit out the bones.
See the recipe for Braised Tai Sea Bream Head with Turnips.
In order to clearly show the position of the knife, this technique is shown with the fish head already cut in half. As noted below, exercise caution when holding the head with the left hand to avoid getting cut. One good trick for getting a secure grip on the head is grasp it with a clean terry-cloth towel.
1, 2. Holding the head with the left hand, insert the tip of the knife in the mouth. Press to push it in more deeply.
3, 4, 5. Push the tip further into the head, then begin cutting downward, using more of the blade. As you cut through the head, the tip of the knife will not move much; it acts a fulcrum as the blade moves downward. The force should be applied in the direction of point A in the photo. Use caution as the blade comes down; it is awfully easy to slice the thumb of the left hand. When the knife is almost parallel to the board (photo 4), cut through to the base.
6, 7, 8. Divide the halved head into the desired number of pieces, usually about five (see photo 10). If desired, the fins can be removed first, though it's fine to leave them on.
9, 10. Each half of the head is divided into five pieces, as shown in photo 10. The head has hard bones and joints that are difficult to penetrate. Use the heel of the knife to get through them. Holding the knife firmly, add extra force by pushing on the spine of the blade with fist of the free hand.
11. These pieces are great for making broth. The simmered flesh is also delicious. Before cooking, fish head pieces are usually sprinkled with salt to remove excess moisture and fishy odors.
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Articles by Susan Young
Are local option taxes a revenue-generation option for Maine's towns, cities?
By Susan Young on March 27, 2015, at 7:24 a.m.
Did the Pats become impossibly better after 2006? The Super Bowl could be our answer
By Matthew Stone and Susan Young on Jan. 29, 2015, at 3:49 p.m.
A coordinated, efficient county jail system that was nearly broken from the start
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'At least a measure of justice': A life spent hunting Nazis — who show no remorse
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Cross Insurance to buy Bangor Daily News building
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Fact-checking the US Senate candidates as they debate in Lewiston
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Hampden postal facility would stay open if Senate passes reform bill, Collins says
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Boomer women revise expectations to meet economic reality
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Fight erupts over jobs for veterans
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Elderly get too many medical tests
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Tea party will be in spotlight at tonight's debate
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National security Obama's only success
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Fixing the war on drugs
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Maine's 'worst' high schools
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Favorite Places in Maine: Acadia's Great Head trail
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There's nothing good about those ties -- lightly colored satin bowties are only justifiable if you're trying to match your date for the junior prom.
But light ties are just fine, as long as they're darker than the shirt. They should really be worn with a darker coat, too: trying to do a light tie, light shirt, and light coat is rather tough.
That's actually polyester with a "silk" pretense.. Haha.
See, all of my ties are polyester because I have silk pocket squares.. It's difficult to find legit linen ties online (and I have limited funds, so I can't go to the haberdasheries). A polyester tie and a silk pocket square are antithetical fabrics that can otherwise work, yes?
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