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Minute tissue samples or single cells increasingly provide the starting material for gene expression profiling, which often requires RNA amplification. Although much effort has been put into optimizing amplification protocols, the relative abundance of RNA templates in the amplified product is frequently biased. We applied a T7 polymerase-based technique to amplify RNA from two tissues of a cichlid fish and compared expression levels of unamplified and amplified RNA on a cDNA microarray. Amplification bias was generally minor and comprised features that were lost (1.3%) or gained (2.5%) through amplification and features that were scored as regulated before but unregulated after amplification (4.2%) or vice versa (19.5%). We examined 10 sequence-specific properties and found that GC content, folding energy, hairpin length and number, and lengths of poly(A) and poly(T) stretches significantly affected RNA amplification. We conclude that, if RNA amplification is used in gene expression studies, preceding experiments controlling for amplification bias should be performed. ?? 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Neuropeptides have widespread modulatory effects on behaviour and physiology and are associated with phenotypic transitions in a variety of animals. Arginine vasotocin (AVT) is implicated in mediating alternative male phenotypes in teleost fish, but the direction of the association differs among species, with either higher or lower AVT related to more territorial behaviour in different fishes. To clarify the complex relationship between AVT and alternative phenotype, we evaluated AVT expression in an African cichlid in which social status is associated with divergent behaviour and physiology. We compared AVT mRNA expression between territorial and non-territorial (NT) males in both whole brains and microdissected anterior preoptic areas using transcription profiling, and in individual preoptic nuclei using in situ hybridization. These complementary methods revealed that in the posterior preoptic area (gigantocellular nucleus), territorial males exhibit higher levels of AVT expression than NT males. Conversely, in the anterior preoptic area (parvocellular nucleus), AVT expression is lower in territorial males than NT males. We further correlated AVT expression with behavioural and physiological characteristics of social status to gain insight into the divergent functions of individual AVT nuclei. Overall, our findings highlight a complex association between AVT and social behaviour.
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Sensory physiology has been shown to influence female mate choice, yet little is known about the mechanisms within the brain that regulate this critical behaviour. Here we examine preference behaviour of 58 female swordtails, Xiphophorus nigrensis, in four different social environments (attractive and unattractive males, females only, non-attractive males only and asocial conditions) followed by neural gene expression profiling. We used a brain-specific cDNA microarray to identify patterns of genomic response and candidate genes, followed by quantitative PCR (qPCR) examination of gene expression with variation in behaviour. Our microarray results revealed patterns of genomic response differing more between classes of social stimuli than between presence versus absence of stimuli. We identified suites of genes showing diametrically opposed patterns of expression: genes that are turned 'on' while females interact with attractive males are turned 'off' when interacting with other females, and vice versa. Our qPCR results identified significant predictive relationships between five candidate genes and specific mate choice behaviours (preference and receptivity) across females exposed to males, with no significant patterns identified in female or asocial conditions or with overall locomotor activity. The identification of stimulus- and behaviour-specific responses opens an exciting window into the molecular pathways associated with social behaviour and mechanisms that underlie sexual selection.
Complex brains and behaviors have occurred repeatedly within vertebrate classes throughout evolution. What adaptive pressures drive such changes? Both environmental and social features have been implicated in the expansion of select brain structures, particularly the telencephalon. East African cichlid fishes provide a superb opportunity to analyze the social and ecological correlates of neural phenotypes and their evolution. As a result of rapid, recent, and repeated radiations, there are hundreds of closely-related species available for study, with an astonishing diversity in habitat preferences and social behaviors. In this study, we present quantitative ecological, social, and neuroanatomical data for closely-related species from the (monophyletic) Ectodini clade of Lake Tanganyikan cichlid fish. The species differed either in habitat preference or social organization. After accounting for phylogeny with independent contrasts, we find that environmental and social factors differentially affect the brain, with environmental factors showing a broader effect on a range of brain structures compared to social factors. Five out of seven of the brain measures show a relationship with habitat measures. Brain size and cerebellar size are positively correlated with species number (which is correlated with habitat complexity); the medulla and olfactory bulb are negatively correlated with habitat measures. The telencephalon shows a trend toward a positive correlation with rock size. In contrast, only two brain structures, the telencephalon and hypothalamus, are correlated with social factors. Telencephalic size is larger in monogamous species compared to polygamous species, as well as with increased numbers of individuals; monogamy is also associated with smaller hypothalamic size. Our results suggest that selection or drift can act independently on different brain regions as the species diverge into different habitats and social systems. Copyright © 2007 S. Karger AG.
The molecular mechanisms underlying complex social behaviours such as dominance are largely unknown. Studying the cooperatively breeding African cichlid Neolamprologus pulcher, we show that dominant females were similar to dominant males in dominance behaviour, high testosterone levels and brain arginine vasotocin expression (a neuropeptide involved in vertebrate territorial, reproductive and social behaviours) compared to subordinate helpers, but had lower levels of 11-ketotestosterone than males. Furthermore, brain gene expression profiles of dominant females were most similar to those of the males (independent of social rank). Dominant breeder females are masculinized at the molecular and hormonal level while being at the same time reproductively competent, suggesting a modular organization of molecular and endocrine functions, allowing for sex-specific regulation.
Summary 1. Many aquatic studies have attempted to relate biological features, such as species diversity, abundance, brain size and behaviour, to measures of habitat complexity. Previous measures of habitat complexity have ranged from simple, habitat-specific variables, such as the number of twigs in a stream, to quantitative parameters of surface topography, such as rugosity. 2. We present a new video-based technique, called optical intensity, for assaying habitat complexity in aquatic ecosystems. Optical intensity is a visual, quantitative technique modifiable for any scale or for a nested analysis. We field-tested the technique in Lake Tanganyika, Tanzania, on 38 quadrats (5 x 5 m) to determine if three freshwater habitats (sand, rock and intermediate) were quantitatively different. 3. A comparison of the values obtained from optical intensity with a previous measure of surface topography (rugosity) showed that the two corresponded well and revealed clear differences among habitats. Both the new measure and rugosity were positively correlated with species diversity, species richness and abundance. Finally, whether used alone or in combination, both measures had predictive value for fish community parameters. 4. This new measure should prove useful to researchers exploring habitat complexity in both marine and freshwater systems.
Somatostatin is a neuropeptide best known for its inhibitory effects on growth hormone secretion and has recently been implicated in the control of social behavior. Several somatostatin receptor subtypes have been identified in vertebrates, but the functional basis for this diversity is still unclear. Here we investigate the expression levels of the somatostatin prepropeptide and two of its receptors, sstR2, and sstR3, in the brains of socially dominant and subordinate Astatotilapia burtoni males using real-time PCR. Dominant males had higher somatostatin prepropeptide and sstR3 expression in hypothalamus compared to subordinate males. Hypothalamic sstR2 expression did not differ. There were no differences in gene expression in the telencephalon. We also observed an interesting difference between dominants and subordinates in the relationship between hypothalamic sstR2 expression and body size. As would be predicted based on the inhibitory effects of somatostatin on somatic growth, sstR2 expression was negatively correlated with body size in dominant males. In contrast sstR2 expression was positively correlated with body size in subordinate males. These results suggest that in A. burtoni social status affects the relationships between somatostatin prepropeptide and receptor gene expression in the hypothalamus and the control of somatic growth. ?? 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Sex and reproduction sculpt brain and behavior throughout life and evolution. In vertebrates, gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) is essential to these processes. Recent advances have uncovered novel regulatory mechanisms in GnRH signaling, such as the initiation of sexual maturation by kisspeptins. Yet despite our increasing molecular knowledge, we know very little about environmental influences on GnRH signaling and reproductive behavior. Alternative model systems have been crucial for understanding the plasticity of GnRH effects within an organismal context. For instance, GnRH signaling is under the control of seasonal cues in songbirds, whereas social signals regulate GnRH in cichlid fishes, with crucial consequences for reproduction and behavior. Analyzing cellular signaling cascades within an organismic context is essential for an integrative understanding of GnRH function. ?? 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Animals respond to environmental and social change with plasticity in the neural substrates underlying particular behavioral states. In the African cichlid fish Astatotilapia burtoni, social dominance status in males is accompanied by reduced somatic growth rate as well as increased somatostatin neuron size in the preoptic area. Although somatostatin is commonly studied within the context of growth, we show here for the first time that this ancient neuropeptide also plays a role in controlling social behavior. Somatostatin antagonists increased aggressive behavior in a dose-dependent fashion and the potent somatostatin agonist octreotide decreased aggression. We cloned and sequenced the genes encoding two somatostatin receptor subtypes in this species to study transcription in the gonads. When we examined somatostatin receptor gene expression in testes, expression of the somatostatin type 3 receptor was negatively correlated with an aggressive display and androgen levels. However, octreotide treatment did not reduce plasma testosterone or 11-ketotestosterone levels, suggesting that the behavioral effects of somatostatin are not mediated by androgens. These results show that somatostatin has important effects on social behavior. In dominant male A. burtoni, somatostatin may function to contain energetically costly processes such as somatic growth and aggressive behavior.
Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) undergo spectacular marine migrations before homing to spawn in natal rivers. However, males that grow fastest early in life can adopt an alternative 'sneaker' tactic by maturing earlier at greatly reduced size without leaving freshwater. While the ultimate evolutionary causes have been well studied, virtually nothing is known about the molecular bases of this developmental plasticity. We investigate the nature and extent of coordinated molecular changes that accompany such a fundamental transformation by comparing the brain transcription profiles of wild mature sneaker males to age-matched immature males (future large anadromous males) and immature females. Of the ca. 3000 genes surveyed, 15% are differentially expressed in the brains of the two male types. These genes are involved in a wide range of processes, including growth, reproduction and neural plasticity. Interestingly, despite the potential for wide variation in gene expression profiles among individuals sampled in nature, consistent patterns of gene expression were found for individuals of the same reproductive tactic. Notably, gene expression patterns in immature males were different both from immature females and sneakers, indicating that delayed maturation and sea migration by immature males, the 'default' life cycle, may actually result from an active inhibition of development into a sneaker.
Organisms that share the same genotype can develop into divergent phenotypes, depending on environmental conditions. In Atlantic salmon, young males of the same age can be found either as sneakers or immature males that are future anadromous fish. Just as the organism-level phenotype varies between divergent male developmental trajectories, brain gene expression is expected to vary as well. We hypothesized that rearing environment can also have an important effect on gene expression in the brain and possibly interact with the reproductive tactic adopted. We tested this hypothesis by comparing brain gene expression profiles of the two male tactics in fish from the same population that were reared in either a natural stream or under laboratory conditions. We found that expression of certain genes was affected by rearing environment only, while others varied between male reproductive tactics independent of rearing environment. Finally, more than half of all genes that showed variable expression varied between the two male tactics only in one environment. Thus, in these fish, very different molecular pathways can give rise to similar macro-phenotypes depending on rearing environment. This result gives important insights into the molecular underpinnings of developmental plasticity in relationship to the environment.
BACKGROUND: Unravelling the path from genotype to phenotype, as it is influenced by an organism's environment, is one of the central goals in biology. Gene expression profiling by means of microarrays has become very prominent in this endeavour, although resources exist only for relatively few model systems. As genomics has matured into a comparative research program, expression profiling now also provides a powerful tool for non-traditional model systems to elucidate the molecular basis of complex traits.\n\nRESULTS: Here we present a microarray constructed with approximately 4500 features, derived from a brain-specific cDNA library for the African cichlid fish Astatotilapia burtoni (Perciformes). Heterologous hybridization, targeting RNA to an array constructed for a different species, is used for eight different fish species. We quantified the concordance in gene expression profiles across these species (number of genes and fold-changes). Although most robust when target RNA is derived from closely related species (<10 MA divergence time), our results showed consistent profiles for other closely related taxa (approximately 65 MA divergence time) and, to a lesser extent, even very distantly related species (>200 MA divergence time).\n\nCONCLUSION: This strategy overcomes some of the restrictions imposed on model systems that are of importance for evolutionary and ecological studies, but for which only limited sequence information is available. Our work validates the use of expression profiling for functional genomics within a comparative framework and provides a foundation for the molecular and cellular analysis of complex traits in a wide range of organisms.
How does the environment, particularly the social environment, influence brain and behavior and what are the underlying physiologic, molecular, and genetic mechanisms? Adaptations of brain and behavior to changes in the social or physical environment are common in the animal world, either as short-term (i.e., modulatory) or as long-term modifications (e.g., via gene expression changes) in behavioral or physiologic properties. The study of the mechanisms and constraints underlying these dynamic changes requires model systems that offer plastic phenotypes as well as a sufficient level of quantifiable behavioral complexity while being accessible at the physiological and molecular level. In this article, I explore how the new field of functional genomics can contribute to an understanding of the complex relationship between genome and environment that results in highly plastic phenotypes. This approach will lead to the discovery of genes under environmental control and provide the basis for the study of the interrelationship between an individual's gene expression profile and its social phenotype in a given environmental context.
Game theory predicts that at least some of the behaviour patterns displayed during aggressive encounters are used to assess asymmetries in variables that indicate fighting ability and resource value. Game theoretical models such as the sequential assessment game see assessment as the major activity during a fight. However, while these models acknowledge the existence of physical and motivational assessment parameters, there are only a few examples where a mechanism for the assessment of fighting readiness has been shown. In staged encounters between male Mediterranean field crickets, Gryllus bimaculatus, fighting behaviour follows a stereotyped escalation cascade with ritualized displays in the beginning and physical combat towards the end. Despite their larger size, heavier animals lost 30% of the encounters even if weight asymmetry was large. To examine whether the contestants provide assessment cues that might explain this surprising result, we analysed two stereotyped displays in detail (antennal fencing and mandible spreading). The duration of antennal fencing, which is necessary to initiate a fight, was independent of experience and weight asymmetry between the contestants, but was prolonged after shortening the antennae by almost 90%. Fights escalated only when antennal movement frequencies were high in both contestants. In blinded crickets few contests were settled by another ritualized display, mandible spreading, and fights that escalated beyond this stage were significantly shorter than in untreated crickets. We suggest that antennal fencing may be used to assess fighting readiness of the opponent, while mandible spreading may indicate fighting ability. We conclude that high willingness to fight may help crickets to overcome inferior fighting ability.
Aggressiveness recovers much faster in male crickets forced to fly after a defeat
Many animal species show flexible behavioral responses to environmental and social changes. Such responses typically require changes in the neural substrate responsible for particular behavioral states. We have shown previously in the African cichlid fish, Haplochromis burtoni, that changes in social status, including events such as losing or winning a territorial encounter, result in changes in somatic growth rate. Here we demonstrate for the first time that changes in social status cause changes in the size of neurons involved in the control of growth. Specifically, somatostatin-containing neurons in the hypothalamus of H. burtoni increase up to threefold in volume in dominant and socially descending animals compared with cell sizes in subordinate and socially ascending fish. Because somatostatin is known to be an inhibitor of growth hormone release, the differences in cell size suggest a possible mechanism to account for the more rapid growth rates of subordinate and socially ascending animals compared with those of dominant or socially descending fish. These results reveal possible mechanisms responsible for socially induced physiological plasticity that allow animals to shift resources from reproduction to growth or vice versa depending on the social context.


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See Known Issues, More Information and Post Release Changes at the end of this post.
Last changes released on June 28th, 2:30AM EST.
Hi There,
We just released a new version of the game with the following features and bug fixes:
1. Father's Day decorations and 3 new World Cup items in the Fun category.
2. 25 New Levels: Coming in about 2 weeks.
3. Farm 23: See prices below:
12x12 - 2,000,000,000 coins or 40 FarmCash (New Farm)
14x14 - 2,500,000,000 coins or 20 FarmCash
16x16 - 3,000,000,000 coins or 20 FarmCash
18x18 - 3,500,000,000 coins or 20 FarmCash
20x20 - 4,000,000,000 coins or 20 FarmCash
22x22 - 4,500,000,000 coins or 25 FarmCash
24x24 - 5,000,000,000 coins or 25 FarmCash
26x26 - 5,500,000,000 coins or 25 FarmCash
28x28 - 6,000,000,000 coins or 25 FarmCash
30x30 - 6,500,000,000 coins or 25 FarmCash
32x32 - 7,000,000,000 coins or 30 FarmCash
34x34 - 7,500,000,000 coins or 30 FarmCash
36x36 - 8,000,000,000 coins or 30 FarmCash
38x38 - 8,500,000,000 coins or 30 FarmCash
4. Multiplanter 8 x 8 and 12 x 12: If you already own the Multiplanter 4 x 4 then you can by these new Multiplanters to plant up to 64 or 144 trees or flowers at the same time, using 6 different layout or patterns.
5. Multiplanters now works with items in the Item Storage: If you go to your Item Storage and you own the Multiplanter tool there is a new 'Multi' button for trees and flowers to select the Multiplanter you want to use to plant the items in the farm.
6. When moving things out of the Item Storage you can now select which rotated view you want.
7. When mouseover the first step of a quest it now shows on which Facility the product needs to be Loaded or Produced.
8. Quest Farms: If you own any of the animal tools below you will see a new checkbox on the window that shows when you click on your farm name at the top. If you enable the 'This is a quest farm' checkbox then when you use the Harvest All option in the facility manager, the animal buildings in that farm will be ignored, this is useful when completing quests.
a) Milking Station
b) Shearing and Cutting Set
c) Egg Collector
d) Manure Collector
9. Farm Stats improvement: When you show the stats for All Farms at once and a product is present on more than one farm you will have the option to click on that product to see all the farms where that product is located. Also, you will be able to navigate to that farm by clicking on the product.
10. General Improvements and bug fixes:
a) Online status for neighbours in the Neighbours Bar is now accurate again
b) Corrected some xLink errors
c) Corrected some x025 errors
d) The offline messages window now shows the last 40 messages instead of the last 10
e) Farm photos removed from the Farmtown Wall Request
11. Beekeeping Supplies factory (FC): Produces Beekeeping Supplies.
Queen Catcher
Uncapping Fork
Pollen Trap
Honey Press
Beekeeping Gloves
Beekeeping Smoker
Beekeeping Hat
Beekeeping Hive
12. Restroom Supplies Factory (Coins): Produces Restroom Supplies.
Bathroom Trash Can
Wall Mirror
Toilet Seat Cover
Water Faucet
Toilet Cubicle
Toilet Float Ball
Wall Hung Toilet
New Products in other facilities: Zinc Ore in the Mineral Mine and Brass Sheet in the Metal Mill.
13. Beekeeping Shop (FC): Provides Beekeeping retail services and can be stocked with products from the Beekeeping Supplies Factory.
14. Public Restrooms (Coins): Provides Restroom services and can be stocked with products from the Restroom Supplies Factory and with Soap and Hand Sanitizer from the Personal Care Goods Factory.
This was an old building that was converted to a Service Facility.
Post Release Updates - June 28th, 2:30AM EST
- Launched Restroom Supplies Factory and Public Restrooms Facilities.


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As the title says the moose was in Jyväskylä. No, not a real one but the moose from the Moose Cup 2014! You don't know what the Moose Cup is all about?
Let me tell you then!
Moose Cup is our annually hosted floorball tournament fully organized and executed by the students of the Department of Sport Sciences. It is part of our curriculum which sees us in full lead and responsibility of making this event as unique as possible.
If you think now that this whole thing sounds like a lot of work, you are completely right! But this amount of work pays off in the end of the tournament when the final whistle blows and you are able to give the trophy to the well deserved winning team.
Getting back to the amount of work you will see yourself in a lot of situations where you need to find out how and when to solve different problems. This may result in stressful situations or thinking about giving-up at that time but as soon as you see that your own thinking and acting starts to work out you will get an extra boost of motivation out of it and keep going on organizing the best tournament ever.
This year our group apparently did quite a good job as we set the new record for "Most participating teams" as we were able to get 20 teams registered for the tournament. This saw us in the situation where we had to figure out how to allocate all the people – both the project team and the participants. If you think about having around 200 people at the facility at almost the same time this task required a lot of good nerves for all of the team. But you start to cope with it and try to make the best out of it as nothing can really shake you anymore after organizing those things. Not even a group of people who stay longer on their court prior to the tournament which sees you in the position of being almost 20 minutes late to start the first games. You just start to realize that getting all frustrated and nervous about being late doesn't make anything better but worse. So you kick off the tournament as nothing ever happened and simply catch up with the pre-set time schedule. Nothing as easy as that 😉
The set-up of the boards was not the only problem that arose during the tournament but as previously said nothing can bring you out of your balance anymore and you just get along with it. I think that this will benefit us a lot in our future studies as you become more and more flexible and less and less frustrated when things change in the last seconds.
In the end we had one "hell of a tournament" which also the participants felt like as we good really good feedback from them. And that's the thing you are striving for – doing things that others enjoy and which makes you happy because of that. (After the final whistle I couldn't stop smiling for at least 1 or 2 minutes)
To finalize this entry I dare you – future SpoSMaPro students – to beat our tournament and make it even better than this year. We would be more than happy to help you achieving this target with the knowledge and experiences we gained this year.
We will see you on the other side! (as players and not as organizers anymore)


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By Suzan Haskins, InternationalLiving.com
A legendary Latin lover once gave some advice to a younger man.
"You cannot make love to every beautiful woman you meet," he said, "but oh, my son, at least you might try."
I was thinking about this…about love affairs…as I gazed across the rooftops of Casco Viejo, Panama's historic quarter.
Some are passionate and last a lifetime, some are fleeting, and some exist only in our minds. But no matter how strongly we feel them, we can't act on every desire.
For me, Casco Viejo is one that got away.
That night, from the balustrade that lines the rooftop bar of the Tántalo Hotel, gazing across the red-tile roofs and past the whitewashed and pastel-hued stucco buildings to the shimmering bay, I felt more than a bit of remorse.
The setting sun cast a silvery glow across the stone-paved streets below. It was that quiet, wistful time between the bustle of daytime activities and the raucous nighttime revelry that would soon descend…a time for reflection.
"This is a very different city today than when I first came here 16 years ago," I told my companion. "And this neighborhood, Casco Viejo, in particular was so very different.
"It was a slum, really, a scary place. And look at it now. I wish we had bought one of these old buildings…I would love to live here today."
In 1671, after the British pirate Henry Morgan sacked and burned the Spanish settlement on a thumb-like peninsula that juts into the Bay of Panama, Casco Viejo was founded. Two hundred years later, French colonists erected many of the buildings that have recently undergone renovations. Wrought-iron balconies and flat red Marseille roof tiles have been maintained. Imagine Old Havana meeting the New Orleans French Quarter…
On our first visit to Panama in 2001, my husband Dan and I ventured into the "Casco," but not for long. Its rundown tenements, in squalid condition, were off-putting. Barefoot children in tattered clothing chased each other loudly through the streets, while their mothers, also barefoot, sat in doorways without doors. Bleary-eyed men lurked on street corners, watching us.
In the pages of International Living back then, we said that this area would soon gentrify. Now is the time, the experts said. The government was offering incentives to help relocate squatters and renovate these historic old buildings.
If only we'd had the courage to act.
Today, even though it is still a bit rough around the edges, Casco Viejo is Panama City's crown jewel. Families have indeed been relocated to better conditions. New life has been breathed into the neighborhood and its historic old buildings.
You'll find trendy boutique hotels, even trendier artisan shops and clothing stores, chic restaurants, and hip nightclubs built around decaying ruins. Coolly modern loft-style apartments with exposed brick walls and courtyard gardens would not be out of place in the likes of Architectural Digest magazine.
If only we had listened…and if we'd had the courage to act…one of these could have been ours.
There have been many moments like this over the years. When you live overseas, a world of options opens to you…and a world of desire. There are so many things you want to do. But you can't do everything.
We've passed on more than a few opportunities. But we've acted on others. In 2004, we partnered in a condo renovation in Buenos Aires, Argentina, when that country was on the cusp of one of its many recent economic immersions. A year later, we were able to sell it at a small profit.
We've been able not only to invest, but to live in some of the world's most beautiful up-and-coming cities and towns. Years before it was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site—and more than a decade before it was named "the world's best city to live in" by Condé Nast Traveler—we bought our first home overseas in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
We might still be living in San Miguel if we hadn't ventured beyond its allure and fallen hard for the charms of other locales.
With thoughts of our missed opportunity in Casco Viejo in mind, we bought and renovated a ruin of an old colonial-style home in Mérida, the capital of Mexico's Yucatán state. It was our dream house…until one morning we awoke in the picturesque, perfect-climate little village of Cotacachi, Ecuador.
Sight unseen, we plunked down money for a small one-bedroom condo that was soon to be built. Only a handful of expats lived there at the time. For more than seven years, we were among them, happily watching the expat population grow and mature into the vibrant, friendly community it is today.
And now we're on another adventure, again in Mexico. Despite what some U.S. politicians may want you to believe, this is a country ripe with opportunity—just as Casco Viejo was, and still is… Just as Ecuador and Nicaragua and Costa Rica and points beyond are…
When you are an expat, your eyes are opened to a world of beautiful opportunities you could never have imagined. And even though you can't possibly act on all of them, at least you can try…
This article comes to us courtesy of InternationalLiving.com, the world's leading authority on how to live, work, invest, travel, and retire better overseas.


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I am interested to know different consortiums formed supporting XI technology.
I know some of them, which includes, Rubber networks, Anamika etc..
If you know the other, I would appreciate if you can provide some links of their websites along with some information very briefly.
Suraj Kumar
I don't think that XI will be named with as "official supported" from any consortiums, for the reason that XI use open standards and it's possibly to use if in any scenario with no-proprietary standard.
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Raja (Jackie Shroff) lives by his wits in a fishing village. He does not have much respect for God and this is a cause of conflict between him and his beloved Priya (Manisha Koirala) who works for the church. Also Priya does not know that Raja works for some people involved in smuggling on the sea coast. But Raja's otherwise helpful sort of person. When Jaya (Sudha Chandran) seeks Raja's help, he helps her to get a job with his brother Vijay (Akash Khurana) who is rich but uses his wealth the poor and needy.
Raja and Priya have a dream; of getting married and settling down in a house they can call their own. They decide to built the house but Priya protests when she discovers that Raja's source of income is not clean. Raja loves Priya too much to see her unhappy, he decides to go straight and earn honest living. He is helped in his decision by ACP Doshi (Avtar Gill) who is
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Philly2Philly.com Gridiron NFL Picks Week 16: Michael Vick and Company Will Crush Vikings Sunday Night
Last week in week 15, Steve O and myself each had 9 wins. It's a two-man race for Philly2Philly Gridiron Picks supremecy as Steve O leads Jesse by 4 wins as we had into the final two weeks.
So here we are in week 16 and the Eagles are now in the driver's seat for the NFC East Crown following The Miracle In The Meadowlands Part 2. After last week's miraculous comeback against the Giants this team is defying all odds as they make their playoff push, despite having a mediocre defense at best. With Michael Vick playing out of his mind and having a supporting cast of DeSean Jackson, Jeremy Maclin, LeSean McCoy, and Brent Celek all playing at a Pro Bowl level- this team can put up 30 on just about any defense. Look for Michael Vick and company to have a field day against the lifeless Vikings. If you have any of the Eagles' offensive starters in the fantasy playoffs, start 'em and smile.
Once again the geniuses in the NFL offices have screwed the Philadelphia fanbase (who have to go to work early Monday morning) by moving this game to Sunday night. Why they moved a game between out-of-division opponents is beyond me, especially when you consider the Vikings' season was long over with.
Now here are our Week 16 NFL Picks:


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Below are few important purposes of having Fun Day:
- 1. Facilitates better communication – Activities that create discussion enable open communication among employees, and between employees and management. This can improve office relationships and in turn, the quality of work done.
- 2. Motivates employees – Team leadership and team building go hand in hand. The more comfortable your employees are to express their ideas and opinions, the more confident they will become. This will motivate them to take on new challenges.
- 3. Promotes creativity – Taking a team outside of an office setting and exposing them to new experiences will force them to think outside of their normal routine. Working together with other team members can ignite creativity and fresh ideas, which are great qualities to bring back to the office.
- 4. Develops problem-solving skills – In public relations a crisis can happen at any time. Team building activities that require coworkers to work together to solve problems can improve the ability to think rationally and strategically. Teams that can determine when a problem arises and know what they can do about it, can then effectively take charge when a real crisis occurs
- 5. Breaks the barrier – Team building increases the trust factor with your employees. Often in corporate settings there is a disconnect between the leadership team and employees because the employees sense too large of a gap between the two. Team building exercises give leadership the opportunity to be a colleague rather than a boss, which can do wonders for employee morale.
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The games that were played during fun day was soccer, touch rugby, netball, volleyball and fun games such as spicy pani puri eating, tug of war and apple eating. All the employees were divided into four teams named Life, Yoghurt, Galaxy and Moochi. Before any games began, Mr. Satish Kumar (Corporate Service Manager) directed all the employees on stretching and warm up activities.
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Should New Dads Be Allowed to Stay Overnight in Hospital? England Struggles With Answer
For most American fathers, it's a no-brainer: you stay with your wife in the hospital the night your kid is born. Usually it means pushing a couple of chairs together to stretch out or sleeping sitting up. But across the pond, England has had a long-standing struggle with new dads and their desires to be involved in their children's first nights.
For example, a new father from Dunstall, England was sent home from Samuel Johnson Community Hospital because the hospital says it doesn't have the facilities to accommodate fathers overnight. The dad, Gareth Howes, insisted that he merely wanted to sleep at his wife's bedside but was still denied.
"I had to leave my wife and newborn son who I was so excited to hold and bond with during his first hours," Howes told The Burton Mail. "It was very surprising. I got home and was furious. How can this still happen in this day and age?"
Rules are rules, the hospital answered; New fathers are allowed a 12 hour window to spend with their wives and new babies, from 8am to 8pm. After that, dads are turned away to go home. Or, as I'm guessing some dads may do, sleep in the parking lot.
The policy doesn't just apply to Samuel Johnson Community Hospital's "small midwife-led maternity unit," and not everyone thinks it's a bad idea. Laura Perrins, writer for The Telegraph, wrote a piece in May about this very topic. Her opinion? "Only a bloke could think this is a good idea." Well, I never.
Her feelings are based on English Labour Party's policy review chief, Jon Cruddas, who had mentioned in May that the Labour party encourages hospitals to allow new dads to spend the night with their wives, and is looking into offering new fathers paid leave for antenatal classes during their wives' pregnancies.
Quoth Perrins:
Now this bloke Cruddas may be some genius policy wonk but I know he has never and will never give birth. So he will never have an episiotomy, or a third degree tear, or leaking nipples, or leaking from other parts of ones body. Now we have to do this parade in front of every man and his dog not just during the day but at night too, and have some strange man snoring on a chair next to us. Cheers Cruddas.
Comments on Perrins' article vary from agreement to disgust from both mums (that's "moms" to us yanks) and dads – further evidence that England can't decide on a policy.
There was no accompanying photo along with Perrins' quote in The Telegraph, but 8BitDad has it on good authority that Perrins was flipping the double-bird as she said it.
A program, however, was launched in 2010 in the Bath region called "Partners Staying Overnight," with Royal United Hospital being the biggest name to take on the initiative.
In 2011, we mentioned that a midwife manual entitled "Reaching Out: Involving Fathers in Maternity Care," was released by the Royal College of Midwives, the Department of Health, the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the Fatherhood Institute. In November of 2012, University Hospital of Hartlepool started allowing new dads to spend the first night with their wives and babies. England's National Health Service is also considering putting in double beds in maternity wards for dads. But you can find this issue brewing in earlier years – England's Fatherhood Institute has reported on programs aimed at fathers sleeping at the hospital as early as 2002.
In 2008, The Fatherhood Institute also published a survey caled "The Dad Deficit: The Missing Piece in the Maternity Jigsaw" (PDF) where they reported (among other things):
- 70% of men and women agree that dads should be able to stay overnight with their partner in hospital when their baby is born.
- 79% agree that dads should be encouraged to stay overnight with their partner in hospital when their baby is born.
Clearly, England has been struggling with involving fathers in the birthing process for years, but making progress.
Fathers – spoiler alert – want to be involved with their babies lives. And no longer are new dads hanging around the hospital waiting room with cigars for family members. Most dads want to be in the delivery room for their childrens' births – and no matter the comfort and conditions, be in the room overnight when their children are born. Most dads would say that they don't need a bed – a bare minimum recliner would do.
Hopefully England will hear the call of its fathers and continue to expand overnight hospital services for new dads.
I guess i was pretty lucky that my wife's (Canadian) maternity room came with a cushioned window bench for me and my cooler bag full of sandwiches and snacks. It was like camping! I loved it.
Sandwiches were for me, the hospital gave me a nice bed but they didn't feed me. We shared the snacks.
Oh and total medical bill for maternity care: 20 bucks for parking, about 6 bucks for coffee
I should clarify that I wasn't just sitting around eating beef jerky. I think our experience shows why it's good for dads to be in the maternity room. I'm the one who shadowed the pediatricians, logging birth weights and preparing to absorb the blow of any bad news. I'm the one they taught to bathe a newborn. I learned how to change a diaper on those first couple meconium poos; no diaper that followed ever seemed as bad (that's mostly true) I stood right next to the lactation consultant so I could see it from her perspective, which saved our butts at home when my wife had a lot of trouble. I'm the one who took notes on the timing of every important little thing, a little handscratched agenda that my wife still looks at lovingly.
I think my favorite part of staying overnight was doing what you said – bathing my son for the first time, doing diaper changes, etc. Because mom's laid-out (and uh, torn-open), so she's in no mood to learn stuff like swaddling, diapering and bathing. So I was happy to be the one to say "don't worry, rest" while we were there.
Learning these things together seems to me like a key step in making sure new dads feel like a competent equal parent rather than an uneducated outsider
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I had to say loved reading this. I did the exact same thing as you and Zach. I absorbed everything I could, even provided some humour for the nurses when I practically dove to the floor when my son almost sprayed poop all over me. I also saved the nurses a lot of time by refilling my wife's water pitcher, refilling her ice pack (she had a c-section) and helping her in and out of bed. It's my opinion that nurses are training proffesionals and shouldn't be a maid service if there is a capable family member that can help.
For our third child, the hospital had actually upgraded their recliners for couches that turned into a nearly comfortable bed.
I would have been beside myself if I wasn't able to stay!
Awful policy.
"Let's just keep this thing being a mum's club".
Zach, what you are missing, what Perrins is assuming, is that the standard procedure for the NHS to place new mothers in a shared ward, not give them the private rooms that are probably common in the US that enable the father to stay with his wife and new child. (I loved that experience.)
So if Perrins assumption is that of course women in the the care of the NHS will not get a private room, it does seem likely this is caused by the UK's National Heath Service, and may be a possible future for a US with a single payer healthplan or Obamacare.
FWIW, I would very much like to see a single payer plan take over in the US, but if it does, we may see bizarre cost cutting measures like this….
We have universal healthcare in Canada. Private maternity rooms are a paid option, often covered by one's company health plan, but its only a hundred and change, so it's an easy choice. But even in the shared rooms, I've never heard of a dad being kicked out. Some of my relatives have stayed next to their wives all night in a shared room with the curtain drawn. If a woman is having post-birth complications, she's usually moved out of the shared rooms anyway.
My wife's maternity room was bigger than most hotel rooms I've ever stayed in.
In the wards, you can have several women in a single room. Yuck. I just…no.
Thanks. I clearly have no knowledge of what is common maternity or hospital practices in England, Canada, or even the US.
Regardless, Perrins' assumption is still that women go to a ward shared by many mothers.
I can't help but picture that in terms of 1930s or 1940s war torn England, or perhaps something from the Victorian era.
It is interesting she doesn't recognize her assumption is "merely" an assumption and that she might be able to fight that and gain a win/win for mothers and fathers (that is, get private rooms to be a paid option.)
(My wife's maternity rooms were the size of a small bedroom, smaller than any hotel room I've ever been in, but they were actually very pleasant and had a "sleeper" chair that pulled out and reclined and let me sleep much of the night or rest with my daughter. (Alta Bates, Berkeley)
I'm not sure whether to read your first paragraph as a defensive reaction or not. My post was purely informational; if it got your back up, that wasn't my intent. If I read it wrong, please disregard.
I can see how it might come off that way, but I was truly just admitting my ignorance and thanking you for relating your experience.
This is a very true point – and I actually had considered this while writing the article and literally (or some would I'm sure say "conveniently") forgot to put it in.
Some of the comments on Perrins' article were from women who had needed their husbands' presences in the ward after childbirth because there weren't enough staff (in some cases) to help and support the post-partum women. Me, I'd prefer for the main source of discomfort to be someone's husband snoring.
With my first, I had a semi-private room because they were renovating the Women's Wing. Our husbands both stayed, and neither of us were disturbed. In fact, both husbands kept showing each other their new babies, which was really cute.
By Perrin's logic — that the women don't want men around seeing them all post-ickiness — a lesbian partner would be allowed because she's got the same bits as the preggy mum. So maybe dads can sneak in in drag. I hear those Brits are always up for a man-in-a-dress gag.
The existence of this article makes me sick to my stomach. Although, if you force me to go home and watch Game of Thrones instead I guess I have no choice but to comply? In all seriousness if my wife wouldn't want me there (which based on our last birth is not the case) all she has to do is ask. I'll be hurt and even a little upset but her physical an mental health is what is important at that time.
I really appreciated having my husband in the room with me for the 3 nights I spent in recovery. I'd had a c-section, so the help was very needed. However, I think the main difference is that I had a private recovery room. The situation in the UK seems to be that most women are moved into a recovery ward after giving birth, where everyone who's had a baby is dumped into the same room, with perhaps not even as much as a curtain between them. That sounds perfectly miserable to me, even without other women's husbands there, but with other women's husbands there…I get what Perrin is saying. It would be deeply uncomfortable to be surrounded by strangers in the recovery ward–husbands and any other family and friends as well. I barely wore any clothes at all during recovery, between the ongoing leaking fluids and the continuous breastfeeding. In a hospital with private rooms, which is the standard here, by all means, husbands should be allowed in. But in a recovery ward…that's a whole different animal. It sounds frightful to me all the way around. I'd probably have a home birth if I could, even without husbands staying overnight.
oh, good point yah we had a private room as well.
Yeah. I mean, I would 100% want my husband there and was completely outraged, too…until I read the part about the maternity wards. And then I was like…oh. Yeah, I wouldn't want to deal with that either. So for me, it's not at all about wanting parenting to be a mom's club. Trust me. It's much better to have the 100% partnership and support of your spouse. BUT. I completely get why in a maternity ward situation women might be uncomfortable, especially for women who might have to stay a few nights there.
I had my children in the UK. Maternity wards are the norm/standard. Private rooms are rare and reserved for people with lots of spare cash. Saying that because shared wards (and of course shared bathroom and shower facilities bleugh) are so absolutely hideous and guarantee that any sleep you may have got will be wrecked whenever any baby on the ward cries, they are in very high demand and generally unavailable. I was placed in one when I was readmitted with a post section infection and it was bliss compared to the main ward. There isn't room between the beds for husbands to be squeezed in tbh, and it's unpleasant enough as it is. For the privileged its an option
As the comments roll in, I do feel like I underplayed the idea that many hospitals in England probably do have wards with many women in it at once. Thanks for reading and for the comment!
All my children (3) were born in a midwife unit in a major metropolitan public hospital in the USA. I was at each of the births and stayed with my wife until she was discharged. My sister was gracious enough to babysit so I could stay with the second and third child. That was 35, 33, and 30 years ago. It was a private room. For me, it was the only way to begin the journey with each child. I am proud to say, my son has followed in my footsteps just 6 months ago.
I've had all three of my children in the UK courtesy of the NHS. Each time I was put into the main ward. The private rooms are usually only used by those women who have had complications. I desperately wanted a private room, particularly last year as I was in a bed in a ward that just so happened to be visible from all the way down the bottom of the corridor and I was trying desperately to breastfeed my son who wasn't very good at it.
All the beds on the ward have a curtain for privacy, but it does get very very warm and a little claustrophobic.
Each time i've been in the ward with between 3 and 5 other mums, i've been the only one breastfeeding their baby and it was horrible having limited privacy when when all the other mums were not going through the same thing.
I would have loved my husband to have stayed over, and I hate being alone on that first night which is why i've desperately tried to be discharged within hours so i can go home to my own bed and my husband. However all of my babies have had some minor problem which has made the hospital keep us in for longer.
I do understand why husbands aren't allowed to stay. mostly due to lack of beds and also it is a security risk. NHS hospitals are probably not as well staffed as your hospitals, but then we don't pay for any of the care we receive.
In Short: You get what you pay for 🙂
My husband legit slept on the floor with his back against the wall when I had my first child with him. Luckily they were prepared for dads in the hospital where we had our second child, they even had cots!
Aaaaaaand, yet another reason I don't live in England.


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The icon theme is Iris. You can download it here: http://art.gnome.org/themes/icon?page=2
This is my Xdefaults file: http://omploader.org/vMm05ZA - Oct 25 2009
The set is not complete (some mimetype icons are missing), but it is one my favourite icon themes.
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The Gtk theme is something I threw together to go with this Openbox theme. It is still a work in progress (and I keep changing back and forth between the rezlooks and xfce engines). It is not (yet?) available anywhere.
The wallpaper is also something I made. Let me know if you are interested in it, and I'll see if I can upload it somewhere. - Jan 25 2009
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I modified the areo icons with the Gimp myself, but the set is far from complete (I only did a few icons I see regularly, and didn't bother about the others, yet)
The clock in Openbox' dock is lal. See Dave Foster's blog (http://d.minuslab.net/?p=62) for more info. - Jun 15 2008
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!! osd
osd.bg: flat solid
osd.bg.color: #f69307
osd.bg.border.color: #f69307
osd.label.bg: parentrelative
osd.label.text.color: #4a2c02
osd.hilight.bg: flat solid
osd.hilight.bg.color: #9e5e05
osd.unhilight.bg: flat solid
osd.unhilight.bg.color: #f69307
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There is a small error, though. According to the theme file, the unfocussed buttons should load "button.png", but that image isn't in the archive. This makes the unfocussed images display improperly (at least when changing themes; when unfocussed windows are later focussed they display the focussed buttons even when unfocussed). - Apr 06 2008
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The font used in conky is Aerofoil. I downloaded it from dafont.com. - Feb 01 2008
The Gtk I use is the variant of Dandelion (http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Dandelion?content=67280).
That is indeed conky. The white stripes belong to the wallpaper. - Jan 31 2008
There is a small error in the theme file, though, which makes the harbour display garbled. To fix this, the harbour section should read:
Harbour {
Texture = "Solid #f3f3f3"
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The icons in the screenshot are GnomeCorsair. You can download them at http://rodolphe.bachelart1.free.fr/index.php/gnome-kde/
I've also sent you an email. - Jan 07 2008
There is an error in your theme file, though. In the harbour section you have (using the Purple one as an example):
Pixmap = "Solid #e9e9e9"
Texture = "Empty"
This should be:
Texture = "Solid #e9e9e9"
I look forward to seeing some of your other themes ported as well :-)
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There is an error in your theme file, though. In the harbour section you have (using the Purple one as an example):
Pixmap = "Solid #e9e9e9"
Texture = "Empty"
This should be:
Texture = "Solid #e9e9e9"
I look forward to seeing some of your other themes ported as well :-)
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The fonts are just regular Sans. The wallpaper is a painting called "Monk by the Sea" by Caspar David Friedrich. I found this version through Google, but can't find it now. There are plenty of other version available, but generally the colours don't come out well. If I'll find it, I'll link to it here. - Nov 25 2007
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But thank you - Nov 17 2007
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xcompmgr -cC -t-3 -l-5 -r5 - Nov 11 2007
The wallpaper is Prana by Tumb. You can find it (and other colour variations) here: http://customize.org/wallpapers/51331
The font on pypanel is HeldustryFTVBasic Black.
To get the menu title in the menu, you'll have to add a separator with a title to your menu.xml file (in /home/USERNAME/.config/openbox/). Obmenu does not support this (yet), so you'll have to do it manually. This is what you should have at the beginning of that file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu id="root-menu" label="Openbox 3">
<separator label="openbox 3"/>
I hope this helps. - Nov 06 2007
Do you have difficulties with the theme? - Nov 06 2007
gtk-toolbar-style = GTK_TOOLBAR_TEXT
Make sure you also have a .gtkrc-2.0 file in your home directory that has the following line in it:
include "/home/USERNAME/.gtkrc-2.0.mine"
Hope this helps. - Nov 10 2007
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The wallpaper is by the very talented netghost. You can download it here: http://netghost.deviantart.com/art/pine-glitch-1146003 - Oct 09 2007
I'm still working on the Dandelion gtk theme, which is based on Calla. Once it is ready, I'll upload it to gnome-look. - Sep 30 2007


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Drop clamp ACC cable can be used on dead-end or double dead-end fiber network routes.
FTTH drop cable accessory is very easy for installation. Can be applied for cable diameters 2 to 6 mm.
All related to aerial FTTH cable line construction products such as drop cable clamps, Loose Tube Drop cables, round drop cable etc are avaliable in Jera's product range.
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This type of ACC clamp has the principle of a round route for fixing the messenger, this helps to secure it as tightly as possible.
This FTTH clamp us self-adjusting. Flexible plastic hook allows installation of FTTH drop wire clamp on a pole brackets, wall angles, SS hooks. FTTH anchor clamp and FTTH cable brackets are available either separately or together as assembly.
Materials: UV resistant thermoplastic
Analogs: АС@, AC5/35
PON tension clamps passed the tensile tests, operation experience with temperatures ranging from – 60 °C up to +60 °C test, temperature cycling test, aging test, corrosion resistance test etc. Jera is a confident supplier for accessories for FTTH Construction. Feel free to inquire about this fiber optic cable clamp price.


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I have previously written about my Merrell True Gloves, and I have to say I still really like them. Yesterday I was at the Westfield shopping centre though, and there a new Vibram shop had just opened. And – unusually I have to say at the moment – they had stock, and they had stock at my size. So I finally tried the VFF KSO's – and I loved them, bought them, and was seriously thinking about keeping them on in bed. Well, sort of, but I was wearing them all day yesterday, and today again, even taking them to a spin in the gym. So after one day of wearing the VFF's, here my initial assessment:
Barefoot Experience
Here the VFF's win hands down. And not because the Merrel's arent good – it is just that the VFF's are better – much better in fact. I would say that the difference between regular shoes and the Merrells is smaller than the difference between the Merells and the VFFs.
The reasons for this are manifold. Firstly of course, the Merrell True Gloves are not really "true gloves" – at best they are true mittens, but of course that would not have sounded nearly as good. The VFF's on the other hand are "true gloves": the separation of toes makes a huge difference in the overall experience – the foot feels much closer to the ground, being able "grab" it for the lack of a better word. So whilst the Merrell's feel like one single (albeit rather flexible) shoe, the VFF's feel like they have seven different parts that can all move independently: the toes, the ball, and the heel. Awesome!
Facit: whilst the Merrel's are sort of barefoot, you will probably not longer consider them true barefoot once you have tried the VFF's.
Impact on feet
This is sort-of a sub-point of the previous one, but it is still worth pointing out separately: even with my 24h experience I can tell that the impact on the feet will be markedly different. I am a barefoot person – I always take my shoes off in the house, and whenever else I get an opportunity to do so.
When I got the Merrell's, walking in them was OK. Yes, it felt differently, but neither walking nor running did put a lot of stress on my feet. With the VFF's this is different: I was wearing them at Westfield yesterday immediately after I had bought them. After an hour – and how much can you walk in a shopping centre in an hour? – my feet felt tired. Not bad tired, but like they had a real workout.
So my conclusion here is that the VFF's are much harder on the feet – which is a good thing. That's the point after all of barefoot shoes. It is just worth keeping this in mind when first wearing them – I am sure the feet will take a while to adapt.
Comfort is of course highly idiosyncratic. The Merrell's are rather tough to get into, even though this gets easier over time, be it through training, or be it because the shoes adapt. More importantly, at the beginning they were really rubbing my heels. I am not the only one who had this problem by the way – I get a couple of hits from Google every week along the lines of "Merrell rubbing heels". However, this has been over after a couple of days, and now they are extremely comfortable.
With the VFF's it is difficult for me to make the final assessment. On the one hand, they really feel like gloves, and in that respect are even more comfortable than the Merrell's. The only thing is the fabric between the toes – the jury is still out whether or not this will hurt me. I have had other people telling me that they have problems with it, but I believe that I will be alright. Knock on wood.
Social acceptance
That's certainly the point where the VFF's have a problem. I mean, they VFF's just look awful, or ridiculous, or both. I really wish they would sell some with a piece of fabric losely draped over the separated toes so that I wouldnt look like a frog, or a gorilla when I am wearing them. I got quite a few funny looks (and even a number of comments) today – and no, this was not because I was on a scooter. I am on a scooter every day.
The Merrell's on the other hand just look really cool – I am wearing them almost every day, with jeans or sports cloth and they just look – normal.
Horses for courses I guess. I am glad that I have both the Merrell's and the VFF's, the Merrell's for when I need to look half-way serious, and the VFF's for exercise and occasions when I can look a bit more relaxed. My advice: if you can afford it, get both, and dump all other trainers you have.


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First, from Carmen Stockberger: the Black Student Union is hosting a showing of "Fruitvale Station," which is based on events leading to the death of Oscar Grant in Oakland, CA in 2009. In January, members of BSU attended the Afrikan Black Coalition Conference in Irvine, CA and had the chance to meet members of Oscar's family. On a whim, they reached out to the family to let them know they were showing the movie on campus and his uncle has decided to come to campus for that film showing and is willing to speak to anyone attending the event after the movie. As you can imagine, this is a very exciting development for the students who are a part of BSU and they hope to have a big turnout for the movie tonight. I encourage everyone to come if you're able! The movie will begin at 7 pm in Saint Joe's first floor lounge.
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Two Events Tonight and PARKING INFO
Also at 7PM tonight is the special opera performance and celebration honoring the life of Sister Dorothy Stang, who was killed in the amazon ten years ago. The event is free and will be held in the Chapel. See flyer
Finally, with these two very special events on campus tonight, there will be parking issues… and solutions. Please see the notice below from the Dean of Students and allow yourself a few extra minutes to find parking in an alternate location (not far from classrooms, just in lots usually not for NDNU use).
Notification to NDNU Students, Faculty and Staff
RE: Evening Parking, Thursday, February 12
We want to notify you that there will be restricted parking in the upper parking lot this coming Thursday, February 12 in order to accommodate the many guests coming to commemorate the 10 Anniversary of Sr. Dorothy Stang's death.
We have arranged for utilization of additional parking at Notre Dame Elementary School at the end of Laxague Rd. and at Notre Dame High School accessible off Ralston Avenue via the entrance 50 yards west on Ralston Ave. As you enter campus, a Public Safety Officer will be there to direct you to available parking. Please follow their instructions.
To thank you for accommodating the needs of this very special event, the Sr. Dorothy Stang Center invites you to stop by The Café on campus for a complementary beverage of your choice that evening. You are also welcome to stop by Cunningham Chapel after your evening class and meet some of Sr. Dorothy's family and friends who will be gathered in the foyer after 8:30pm, and partake in more hot beverages and refreshments.
In gratitude,
Jim McGarry
Director of the Sister Dorothy Stang Center
Jean Grech Conde
Dean of Students
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