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Fight Inflammation and Improve Gut Health With This Superfood
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In this article:
- Nutritional Benefits of Cranberries
- Cranberries Boost the Gut's Good Bacteria
- Cranberries Fight Inflammation with Polyphenols
- How to Add More Cranberries to Your Diet
- Cranberry Orange Bliss Bites Recipe
Cranberries have impressive health benefits for keeping your body, and especially your gut, in tip top shape!
Tiny but mighty, cranberries are true superfoods that come in a variety of easy-to-consume forms: as a whole, fresh fruit, dried, juiced, and as cranberry pills and powders. This tart and tangy berry historically gained attention for its impact on urinary tract health, but in recent years, cranberries are being studied for their benefits a little farther up the gastrointestinal system, in the stomach and large intestine. Two of the most studied and talked about, benefits of cranberries are their prebiotic quality and polyphenol levels, both of which can have positive effects on the gut microbiome. Before talking about the gut health benefits of cranberries, let's get to know this fruit a little bit better.
Nutritional Benefits of Cranberries
Cranberries are a unique food item that represent one of only three commonly cultivated fruits in North America. They are at their peak of ripeness throughout September and December, and can also be easily found frozen, as dried cranberries snacks, as a canned jelly, tart unsweetened cranberry juice, cranberry juice cocktail, and even dried in loose powder form or capsules.
Nutritionally, one cup of raw, chopped cranberries provides 50 calories, mostly from carbohydrates, and about five grams of fiber. If dried, ½ cup of these berries is equivalent to one fruit serving. This superfood contains high levels of vitamin C, a potent antioxidant that is useful for cold prevention and treatment, as well as manganese, vitamin E, vitamin K and copper.
When choosing how to incorporate cranberries into your diet, pay attention to how it's packaged. Raw cranberries are quite tart and rarely eaten alone - they are usually processed into a sauce or sipped as a beverage. Many of these preparations utilize added sugar to sweeten things up, but it's important to be mindful of your overall added sugar intake throughout the day. High, frequent consumption of added sugars can provoke inflammation in the gut and throughout the body, which is exactly what we're hoping to decrease by consuming this superfood in the first place!
Cranberries have been having a heyday in the research world and are being studied for their potential implications in decreasing inflammation in the digestive system and positively impacting the microbiome. Let's take a closer look at this superfood and its role in gut health.
Cranberries Boost the Gut's Good Bacteria
If you're clued into gut health, you've probably heard about probiotics, which are the "good" microbes that reside in our intestinal tract and produce beneficial compounds with far-reaching positive effects. Perhaps what you've heard less about, though it's just as important, are prebiotics. Prebiotics are fibers found in cranberries - as well as other foods like apples, artichokes and leeks - that pass through the digestive system unchanged and get fermented by the good bacteria in the colon. Essentially, they are the food that nourishes good gut bugs.
Cranberries contain a special type of prebiotic fiber - a carbohydrate called xyloglucan - that good bacteria are particularly adept at using as an energy source. This can lead to the production of many beneficial compounds that protect against systemic inflammation. In fact, a team of researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst studied this exact effect and found that the indigestible cell walls of cranberries allowed gut bacteria to produce more bifidobacteria and formic acid, and less lactic acid. You may recognize bifidobacteria as a subspecies found in fermented foods that can help with irritable bowel syndrome, stomach infection and post-antibiotic diarrhea. This area of research is quite new, but grabbing some cranberry snack bars wouldn't be a bad idea!
Fiber is only found naturally in plant-based foods, so if you typically eat a diet high in animal products and processed sugar, your body and gut are getting less of a boost. Still, a small 2018 study found that giving a cranberry powder supplement to volunteers who ate a diet high in saturated fat and added sugar for two weeks reduced the presence of cancer-causing bile acids and improved production of antioxidant compounds.
Another study published in OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology suggests that a serving of sweetened dried cranberries with lunch for two weeks is enough to completely shift the balance of gut bacteria. They found changes in the Firmicutes/Bacteroidetes ratio (bacteria that may produce more inflammation vs. bacteria that produce beneficial short-chain fatty acids), increases in commensal (friendly) bacteria, and decreases of bacteria associated with negative health effects. The results definitely warrant more investigation, but the research is pretty encouraging.
While there needs to be more studies on cranberries' prebiotic benefit, the anti-inflammatory benefits are promising! Plus, it really can't hurt to supplement your diet by adding cranberry juice or powder to a smoothie or including fresh cranberries in a sweet relish or chutney. Snacking on trail mix filled with dried cranberries would also be a tasty way to boost gut health.
Cranberries Fight Inflammation with Polyphenols
Perhaps more talked about than fiber is cranberries' high concentration of polyphenols, specifically the flavonoid proanthocyanidins (PACs). You may have heard that blueberries rule when it comes to PACs, but cranberries actually contain higher levels of the A-type of PACs. This subspecies of proanthocyanidins is found to have powerful anti-adhesion properties that strengthen intestinal cell linkages and prevent damage from invading bacteria.
Since our guts are often the first line of defense against pathogens that could cause infection and inflammation, we want our intestinal cell bonds to be strong and able to defend against harmful bacteria. The great news is that a lot of recent research has found that the antioxidant properties of cranberries can actually help protect the stomach against such infections. Cranberries' PACs can help prevent E. coli and H. Pylori, two harmful pathogens, from sticking to intestinal cells.
In a 2018 study, it was observed that as the concentration of PACs increased, the tight bonds that hold together the intestinal cell walls also increased. This research suggested that cranberries' PACs inhibit the invasion of pathogenic E. Coli. which can cause diarrhea, abdominal pain, fever, serious dehydration and kidney damage.
In women, the addition of cranberry juice to a stomach ulcer fighting regimen of antibiotics and proton pump inhibitors was shown to speed up the eradication of H. pylori in one study. These results were interestingly not observed in men, so, ladies, find yourself some tart cranberry juice and drink up!
How to Add More Cranberries to Your Diet
Cranberry research is promising and there are a variety of ways to include this superfood into your routine. Cranberry supplements, which are often made of cranberry extract or powder, are a convenient way to reap the anti-inflammatory benefits, but whole foods can be more delicious and often just as easy to incorporate! To include more of this superfood, try the following recipe.
Cranberry Orange Bliss Bites Recipe
- 2 1/3 cups rolled oats
- 2 Tbs. chia seeds
- 2 Tbs. flax seeds
- 2/3 cup creamy almond butter
- 1/4 cup honey
- 1 tsp. orange zest
- 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
- 1/2 cup dried cranberries
- 3 Tbs. coconut oil
- Add all of the ingredients to a large food processor. Blend on high for about 30 seconds until the oats are chopped well and the mixture starts to come together.
- Using clean hands, roll the mixture into golf-ball-sized bites. This recipe will make approximately 24 bites.
- Store the bites in an airtight sealed container in the fridge for up to 2 weeks, or freeze in a freezer-safe bag for up to 2 months.
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- Rodríguez-Morató, Jose, et al. "Cranberries Attenuate Animal-Based Diet-Induced Changes in Microbiota Composition and Functionality: a Randomized Crossover Controlled Feeding Trial." The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry, vol. 62, 2018, pp. 76–86., doi:10.1016/j.jnutbio.2018.08.019.
- Bekiares, Nell, et al. "Effect of Sweetened Dried Cranberry Consumption on Urinary Proteome and Fecal Microbiome in Healthy Human Subjects." OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology, vol. 22, no. 2, 2018, pp. 145–153., doi:10.1089/omi.2016.0167.
- Alfaro-Viquez, Emilia, et al. "Cranberry Proanthocyanidin-Chitosan Hybrid Nanoparticles as a Potential Inhibitor of Extra-Intestinal Pathogenic Escherichia Coli Invasion of Gut Epithelial Cells." International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, vol. 111, 2018, pp. 415–420., doi:10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2018.01.033.
- Nicolescu, Florica. "Particulars of the Helicobacter Pylori Infection in Children." Trends in Helicobacter Pylori Infection, 2014, doi:10.5772/58326.
- Shmuely, Haim, et al. "Effect of Cranberry Juice on Eradication Of Helicobacter Pyloriin Patients Treated with Antibiotics and a Proton Pump Inhibitor." Molecular Nutrition & Food Research, vol. 51, no. 6, 2007, pp. 746–751., doi:10.1002/mnfr.200600281.


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The best thing about pro wrestling is anyone can buy a ticket, take a seat and cheer or jeer to their heart's content.
It is all part of the unique atmosphere. It is all part of the fun.
Pro wrestling is live and it is interactive. That has always been one of the honoured traditions of the industry.
In the past few weeks though, some media types and unfortunately, even some wrestling legends, have taken issue with that long-standing convention. They've slammed fans for communicating their opinions after spending their hard-earned money on tickets to a show they are encouraged to be a vocal part of.
During Mark Henry's promo on the July 1st Raw, fans mocked him by chanted "What?" in response to his long-winded diatribe.
That night on Twitter, Mick Foley wrote: "Nothing I like less than that stupid 'what' chant. Takes away from the product, throws off the timing on promos, and just flat-out sucks."
Jim Ross also Tweeted: "No more WHAT chants. YES is fine. Fans can chant whatever they want but WHAT chants seem dated too me. Just my opinion."
Here we have two squared circle legends who've made their living playing off of live crowds ripping those people for not reacting the way they want them to. The comments were rather shocking considering they came from two icons who I respect in the highest degree for all of their contributions. They are usually the voices of reason. They are usually the ones who put things in perspective for everyone but those comments were completely unfair.
A pro wrestling event ain't a night at the opera. You can agree or disagree with their reactions but neither of them were in any position to judge those fans, especially when the person cutting said live promo is a heel who is expected to be booed and taunted.
It is a live edition of Raw, which unlike a regular house show, can test the patience of even the most loyal fan due to the constant breaks in the action. On an already bloated telecast, Henry chewed up more match time by explaining his reasons for attacking Cena and his phoney retirement. In the feud, Henry is the heel and Cena is the face.
With all that in mind, how did Foley and Ross expect the fans to react? I just don't get it.
Next up, the debut of the Wyatt Family on the July 8th Raw. First off, I am going to swerve severely off topic for a moment.
I admit the promos were well done. Very polished and very creepy but haven't we done the whole evil hillbilly angle before? Anyone remember the Godwinns? And what's with the Skinner-Nailz inspired drab wardrobes of both Luke Harper and Erick Rowan? Love those overalls. Are they gonna wrestle in those every single week? Ugh.
I have undeniable respect for the Rotunda and Windham families. BlackJack, Barry and Mike continue to be three of my all-time favourites which is why I want nothing but the very best for Windham but dude, Dan Spivey wants his gimmick back, yesterday.
With that out of my system, let's get back to the matter at hand.
Critics ripped into the Baltimore crowd for chanting "Husky Harris" when Rotunda appeared as Bray Wyatt, the leader of the Family, seemingly a cross between The Sawyer Family of Texas Chainsaw Massacre fame and Max Cady from Scorsese's Cape Fear. They felt it was insulting and rude to throw his old persona in his face during the debut of his new character on Raw.
I say, tough crap. The resentment of these critics is misplaced. Maybe if the WWE had done a better job managing people's careers in the first place the talent wouldn't have to reappear as 45 subsequent personalities.
Furthermore, I didn't see these people complaining when Matt Bloom returned as the much improved Lord Tensai and the crowd chanted "Albert" or began the "Shave your back!" chants again.
I was never a fan of Albert but I really feel for Matt Bloom these days. Tensai was different, he was gaining ground and he was portrayed as an honest threat. It was a massive step forward and improvement for Bloom. The WWE had another formidable and legit heel in their stable.
Now, the WWE has demoted him to a comedy act. After all that effort to establish his new personality, they've relegated him to comic relief again. What a wasted opportunity and a waste of talent.
Nobody cries for Bloom — or Ryback, for that matter, when fans chant "Goooolberg" — but they are furious on Rotunda's behalf.
Selective outrage, it seems.
The beauty of pro wrestling is the fans have the final say. Their unexpected reactions can change the course of history. Fans brought back Hulkamania by cheering Hogan on in his match against The Rock at WrestleMania 18. Fred Ottman's Tugboat gimmick was so despised by fans, the WWE teamed him with Earthquake in the Natural Disasters. Dolph Ziggler has such positive support at the present time, the WWE had no choice but to switch his and Alberto Del Rio's roles in their current feud.
That is the magic of the industry. Unlike music, film or literature, the crowd has a major impact on the pro wrestling product and its ultimate direction. Like it or not, the people have spoken and have every right to express how they feel about everything from the wrestlers themselves, to the vignettes, to the pace of the matches, to the angles presented that night. For good or bad, it is their money, it's their prerogative and that's the way it should always be, like it or not.

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Despite a hysterical nationwide campaign by the Democratic Party on behalf of its candidate, former governor Mark Sanford has easily defeated Elizabeth Colbert Busch, who is best known for being the sister of a comedian. CNN reports that with 70% of the vote counted, Sanford holds a commanding 54%-45% lead. So the race wasn't close after all.
The polls showed this special election as a very tight contest. Public Policy Polling is a Democrat-leaning firm that did well in 2012 because it foresaw a massive Democratic turnout, despite the Obama administration's record in office. At one point, PPP had Colbert Busch ahead by nine points, and its final poll had Sanford leading by one. Which means that this time, the Democrats didn't turn out the way PPP expected.
Mark Sanford's victory shouldn't be a surprise–Mitt Romney carried the district by 18 points–but it is nevertheless good news for Republicans. The key political question, at the moment, is whether the Democrats' extraordinary turnout in 2008, which was unexpectedly replicated (largely) in 2012, was a unique phenomenon related to Barack Obama's status as the First Black President, or whether it signals a game-changing ability on the part of the Democrats to turn out minority voters, and others, on a consistent basis. The fact that Sanford, a deeply flawed candidate, substantially outperformed the polls is just one data point. But it suggests that the Obama phenomenon may not be easily replicable. If that is the case, 2014 could look a lot like 2010.


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The most useful words of wisdom about spending actually came from my credit card company. "Distinguish between wants and needs. Be honest." I cut that out and taped it on my card to remind me.
"But Mo-om, I want it!" How many times have you heard that in the grocery store, or the toy store, or anywhere else, for that matter? Probably more than you can count. And what do you think when you hear it? That poor parent? Or, thank God that's not me anymore! Or, What is wrong with that child? Most of us go on our way, relieved for some reason. It's not our kid, it's not us, and we don't have to deal with it.
Or don't we? The truth is that, as adults, there are times when we keep ourselves from throwing these sorts of tantrums by buying something we don't need. We see an item, feel the same desperate need that child felt, and assuage our own feelings by buying the item. We have the power to do that for ourselves as adults. But these are the purchase we often feel guilty about, and one of the main ways to get rid of the guilt is to find a way to classify that purchase as something we do need. Actually, we can do this any time we regret a purchase. (See also: 9 Simple Ways to Stop Imipulse Buying)
So it's time for all of us (and I include myself in this) to grow up, time to stop looking like adults on the outside but acting like chidren on the inside. To do this, we must learn to distinguish between what we need, what we need in certain conditions, and what we want.
These are the obvious things that every person needs to stay alive. I include food, water, shelter, and not much else in this category. These are the things without which we would not be alive. You'll notice that I don't include a certain kind of food or shelter here. If you're in a truly desperate situation, spending what money you have on the best food, water, and shelter that you can makes the most sense. If you're in less desperate circumstances, it's up to you to determine what sort of these things would be best for you, on your budget, etc.
We each have our own circumstances that dictate some other needs. For instance, in order to keep my job, I need reliable transportation. Since public transport is wretched where I live, that means I need to have a vehicle. Since I don't have a motorcycle license, it means I need to have a car. It doesn't have to be the nicest car, or in the best repair, but it does need to work consistently. I also need a few items of a certain type of clothing, because if I don't dress a particular way, I will lose my job. These aren't basic needs, but they are things that I need in order to be a responsible adult in my life as it currently is. Stay-at-home parents will have these sorts of needs, but theirs will be different than mine. It requires a certain level of maturity to determine what these needs are, but this develops over time and as we put in the effort. (See also: 5 Ways to Snag Budget-Friendly Business Clothes)
Everything else is a want. Read that again. Everything (every single, little, tiny thing) is a want. They're not needs. Now, there are levels of wants. Some are much nearer to needs than others. For instance, I want a new computer. I could tell you that I need it to do my writing, but that would be a lie. I have a computer that's not dead yet. And if it dies, there are other computers I can use with enough ease that a new machine is not necessary for me to do my job. But a new computer would help. For instance, it would be faster, which would mean that I could do more work in less time. It would also have a must lower chance of crashing, which would mean that my work would be safer, which would also help me immensely. So there are aspects of a new computer that would aid me in legitimate ways. So a computer might be closer to a need for me than, say, that library of GK Chesterton's work that I've been eyeing, or the several new pairs of boots that I know I would enjoy.
It's hard to transition into thinking this way. I know; I've been working on it for months know. It requires us to be ruthless with ourselves, to tell ourselves the truth, no matter how much we don't want to hear it. It requires us to say NO! when we really want to say YES!, and it requires us to value skills that some people don't develop over an entire lifetime. However, in a world where we're constantly bombarded by advertisement, by people telling us what we do and do not need, this ruthlessness is essential to our financial survival. We must constantly evaluate what we see, hear, and even what we think, because only then will we have money to save and complete honesty with ourselves.
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The most useful words of wisdom about spending actually came from my credit card company. "Distinguish between wants and needs. Be honest." I cut that out and taped it on my card to remind me.
Needs can be further categorized by urgency. For example, I know I'll need new pants at some time in the future because the ones I'm wearing are developing holes in the pockets. I didn't have to buy new pants right away, but when I saw the 75%-off clearance sale at Target last night, I just had to get the $6 pants.
Rstlne funny you mention that as C&A was having a huge clearence sale today and the wife picked up 2 suits and for me a pair of pants all for 80 euros. Can't beat that, best part we paid cash.
I find it's extremely helpful to have a husband who is as, or maybe even more so, frugal than I am. Lots of times, I'll ask "Should we get xxx?" (that being certain food items, cleaning supplies, movies, clothes... etc) Usually he answers "Maybe later" of which later never comes. Oh well. If we really needed it it gets brought up again and again (like that hand soap we ran out of two weeks ago, hmmm) until it's bought. This helps a lot for when I feel we "need" something, but really just it would just be convenient.
Great reminder. I am on an online recycling group and I OFTEN get people posting that they DESPERATELY NEED an item such as a treadmill or a little black dress or a houseplant.
It occurs to me that they probably have never known what desperate need feels like, let alone know the difference between needs and wants.
Great post and reminder. Choosing to say NO to a want is very powerful. it's amazing how quickly you discover that even powerful desires to buy/have something pass when you realize the consequences of buying it.
I think we also need to be careful about how we define our needs. Is it really a need? You mention needing a car because you don't have a motorcycle licence. Rather than getting a car, you could get a motorcycle licence...?
"Do I want it? Do I need it? Can I live without it?
I've used this mantra for years when shopping. It has allowed me to stay simple, live within my needs - and acknowledge that non-physical needs also play a role in my life. In tight financial months, a book is sometimes the best buy for soul food - but certainly not needed for purely getting by! The "shopping mantra" also helped explain shopping and needs to teenagers.
Isn't it true that most unhappiness comes from wanting those things that we cannot have ? Although, I believe that we don't always want to be happy, to avoid much sadness, wouldn't it be fun to learn to enjoy those things that we can have. A good friend, a sunny day, a warm breeze, a cool drink. Life is so good it seems such a shame that it takes adversity for us to recognize it. Right now I need to breathe but I am also enjoying it greatly. Have a most enjoyable Day.
Need or want? What about burning desire..?
Wishing alone will never bring results. Most people live a life based on shoulds instead of wants
In our marriage, I'm the penny pincher.
To weight the necessity of an item, I usually ask myself, "What is the consequence of NOT having/buying something?" 99% of the time, the consequence is something I can easily live with. Hence I don't buy much or truly 'need' much. I've been able to save amazing amounts of money this way.
I struggle with need vs. want all of the time. I appreciate this article as insight and guidance. I buy a lot of things from a thrift store or goodwill so they are considerably less than buying at the mall or department store. I try to buy things that I feel I could sell on ebay to make money and that is how I justify some of my purchases. I guess no matter how much an item costs, we can still justify it's purchase in some way...
Since making the decision to only spend money on what we need (food, shelter, clothing, medicine and utility bills) we have saved a lot on a VERY small income. Thank you for sharing your point of view it is a huge money saver and a realistic way of looking at life.


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Vulture is holding the ultimate Sitcom Smackdown to determine the greatest TV comedy of the past 30 years. Each day, a different notable writer will be charged with determining the winner of a round of the bracket, until New York Magazine TV critic Matt Zoller Seitz judges the finals on March 18. The semifinals conclude today with author David Lipsky deciding who will go against Cheers for the ultimate title: Seinfeld or The Simpsons. Make sure to head over to Facebook to vote in our Readers Bracket, which has already veered from our critics' choices. We also invite tweeted opinions with the #sitcomsmackdown hashtag.
It was always coming to this: the two big brawlers clomping into the same alley. The two best shows of the nineties. And really, the two best comedies we've had. The Stones versus the Beatles. Dashing JFK running against not Nixon but Teddy Kennedy. (The Simpsons is the wild, drunk, bouncing-on-its-head Teddy, the comedy version of Seinfeld's JFK. The rock-jawed features and all internal crumble.) Hemingway said this about Huckleberry Finn: "All American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since." That's the big fellows: Seinfeld and The Simpsons.
The network era's last great comedies; the end of that plush ride, before TV flapped out of the habitat, leaving an empty marsh of 30-second spots and block programming, and before the slick midnight drama took over defining the way we see ourselves. Tony Soprano, Walter White, Don Draper: They're Jerry and Homer with the comedy scraped away; me, my family, an assortment of co-workers face stuff together. Maybe the combination of stomach-pincher war and Worst President Ever and the financial slurry (always February but never Valentines) left us too cramped for humor to be central. You stopped thinking, I resemble Jerry. Or, In certain ways, yes, there are elements of Homer to be found in me, I believe. Now it is: I wouldn't confide this to my wife, but I am Walter White. If the shit finally comes down, when shoulder presses wall, there is nothing I wouldn't do. (The funny thing about The Walking Dead — what makes it in conception funny — is that it's the other dramas with the metaphor sheared off. You turn on Breaking Bad and think, That's me, if everything went to hell. The only way Walking Dead could be more direct was if the sets included pitchforks and sulfur.)
Even our strongest comedies — the Michael Scott Office, Arrested Development, Archer — are compromised, anxious. The central joke is the non-competence of the face at the head desk. (On 30 Rock, Liz Lemon frets about not being qualified for her job. A friend's consolation: "This is America. None of us are supposed to be here.") And Louie and Girls take place in a tidal pool of the seventies, a recovery zone of not enough sleep or money and optional showers. It's wobbly, hangover, bedhead. The Simpsons and Seinfeld are how we looked to ourselves when the sun was still out. It's why their jokes remain so Olympianly well formed: They hail from a era when the world featured enough time and calm.
Either winner would mean the scores got tallied wrong. And if you accomplished your second growing-up — the adult one of relationships and leases — during the nineties, there's a statistical Seinfeld loyalty bias that has to be corrected for.
I thought I'd watch each show's best five episodes. This quickly proved impossible, since after some rickety taxiing and runway work, for nine seasons they're both pretty much all best episodes. For what it's worth, my Seinfelds would've been the perfectly designed jewel boxes: "The Fusilli Jerry," "The Bizarro Jerry," "The Little Kicks," "The Fatigues," "The Betrayal." With The Simpsons, "Mr. Plow," "Rosebud," "HOMR," "Lemon of Troy," "You Only Move Twice" (the great 007 backdrop show, wherein Homer's new boss is a Bond villain who speaks in bluff warm management cliché: "My butt is for sitting, not for kissing." Homer accidentally disposes of James Bond and discovers a sound motivational technique: "Doughnuts — and the possibility of more doughnuts to come.") I watched whole seasons; it was the happiest I've been in months. A better treat-yourself weekend than shotgunning a drama like House of Cards. Eight hours of House of Cards makes you feel imprinted, like a mattress the show has slept in. Eight hours of Seinfeld or The Simpsons is like being jagged in the head by lightning. You walk outside with clear eyes, lighter tongue, keener mind.
Each show was hunting something radical. The first Seinfeld I ever saw was the season-two classic "The Deal." (And before we press on, let's consider the assurance and elegance in those titles; every episode, that doughty the. Right from the start, they were tooling out a high-end, unified product line.) I was straightening a room. Onscreen, Jerry and Elaine were negotiating the marshy ground rules of post-relationship sex. It was such a big jump for TV that I remember the weather outside the window. I sat on the corner of the bed. It wasn't just the sexual frankness — and no series was ever smoother at showing how to discuss sex in official company. The emotional forthrightness was the thrilling part. This was going to be a show you could use to explain how you feel.
The Simpsons' agenda was more radical: pure comedy. Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David, Seinfeld's co-creators, were former stand-ups. You and a mike at the end of a club. Pressing yourself forward, finding the stuff inside that's relatable instantly. Fox had decided to make a show out of Matt Groening's cheerfully dead-end comic strip "Life in Hell"; producers booked talent out of the Harvard Lampoon and from Harvard-equivalent colleges. There's a photo of the famous early staff: skinny faces, shy eyes, it looks like a reunion of the Backgammon Club.
So what The Simpsons immediately offered was how the world looked to extremely intelligent people in whom high school had perhaps encouraged skepticism and unconfidence. The result is a chaos of noisy, less-intelligent people holding onto authority by bullying and jargon. Cops and doctors are incompetent; the bartender keeps caged pandas. No straight men; everyone is funny. It wasn't so much an observational show as one written by ear. When Seinfeld does a parody movie title, it's something like Sack Lunch or Agent Zero. You nod. Pretty good, yeah, that does sound like a movie. When The Simpsons does this, it's so exact it stops you. A romantic comedy called Love Is Nice. Homer visits an experimental lab named the Screaming Monkey Medical Research Center. The show is so tight, these jokes come within 30 seconds of each other. The comedy of the particular dialect any job and worldview locks you into; it's something that writing staff hears too. Lisa Simpson provides timely advice to an in-crisis TV producer. "That's it, little girl," he says. "You've saved Itchy and Scratchy!" A lawyer steps forward: "Please sign these papers indicating that you did not save Itchy and Scratchy." Hideous space aliens, impersonating the presidential candidates, are unmasked before a startled crowd. "It's true, we are aliens. But what are you going to do about it? It's a two-party system: You have to vote for one of us." Human crowd-member: "Well, I believe I'll vote for a third-party candidate." Alien: "Go ahead — throw your vote away."
What Seinfeld and David heard with special fidelity were the surprising things their heads said. The inner world, not the outer. George to Jerry: "She just dislikes me so much, it's irresistible. A woman who hates me this much comes along once in a lifetime." Jerry to Elaine: "You're attracted to him because he can't remember anything about you." Elaine: "But that's so sick." Jerry: "That's God's plan. He doesn't really want anyone to get together." Jerry meets a woman — she's more or less a female him — he can finally love, and reports, "I just realized; I know what I've been looking for all these years. Myself. I've been waiting for me to come along, and now I've swept myself off my feet." A few scenes later: "I realized what the problem is: I can't be with someone like me. I hate myself."
Both shows heated and decorated our conversations. People crow "Woo hoo!" with the footnote omitted; they've forgotten they're quoting Homer. And his signature "D'oh!" has joined the thumbable, scalloped pages of the dictionaries. Seinfeld gave us re-gift, spongeworthy, close talker, master of my domain, the pop-in, the vault, yadda yadda yadda (the only bad one), relationship george, hipster doofus, the I-love-you return. And a lovely phrase for tears: Jerry swatting at his eyes, his first emotional experience — "What is this salty discharge?" The totalitarian dream of observational comedy. You'd reach back for a concept — sift through the back of your head — and what you came up with would be Seinfeld.
A lot of this was about sex, which goes mostly unexplored in the Simpsons world; it's an available Springfield good, like Itchy and Scratchy or Duff Beer. (One of The Simpsons best-known lines: "To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.") Seinfeld did its part to fell trees and pave valleys for our current porn highway system, the envy of the world. There was "The Contest," about who could resist masturbation the longest. (It holds the No. 1 position on TV Guide's "100 Best Episodes of All Time"; accepting the best writing Emmy, Larry David told his audience, "This is all very well and good, but I'm still bald.") There were men shy about oral sex ("He doesn't like to do … everything"), faked orgasms ("sexual perjury"), make-up sex ("the best feature of the heavy relationship"), conjugal visit sex (runner-up only to fugitive sex), dirty talk, plagiarized sex moves, the effects of abstinence (bonus for men, detrimental to women), shrinkage. (Elaine: "It shrinks? I don't know how you guys walk around with those things.") More viewer loyalty — a sort of Berlin Wall collapse between what matters in private and what matters in public.
The Simpsons, when it covered relationships, sticks to the quick and funny. "Homer," Marge asks, "Is this the way you pictured married life?" "Pretty much. Except we drove around in a van solving mysteries." The writers deployed its travel advantage as an animated show: to Australia, to the space shuttle, to the future. It's compiled an astonishing record for celebrity pop-ins; the Wikipedia page dedicated to the guests — Stephen Hawking, Anthony Bourdain, Julian Assange — reads as weird pop history, an abstract and brief chronicle of the time. And the show, over its decades, has blobbed into every corner, situation, dialect: corporate retreats, environmentalism, many kinds of convention, cruise ships, reality show, cable argument show, Japanese product design. As Seinfeld narrowed to one island, The Simpsons covered the world.
Seinfeld has an overall story; it's connected to the show's recurring joke, abrupt genre immersion. Kramer takes a corporate job; Jerry instantly becomes a nagging, ignored wife; Kramer a harried salaryman ("You know this is my crazy time"). The series' overall story doesn't happen to either of them; they don't change, you sit and watch time add meat to their faces. And it doesn't happen to Elaine, who in later years the series treats with a mystifying hostility. The overall story happens to George. It's about someone trying — and failing — to leave their tribe. George nearly marries. And as he's getting engaged, Kramer tells Jerry, "You asked yourselves, 'Isn't there something more to life?' Well, let me clue you in to something: There isn't. What are you thinking about? Marriage? Family? They're prisons. Man-made prisons." The story is about not submitting, in life, to the one particular genre of any single relationship. This is what Larry David understood by ending the series behind actual bars. To never accept the one choice turns out to be the opposite of freeing.
So how do you choose? Seinfeld and David have always claimed that their show was about nothing. This is of course untrue, and it's the kind of bad map and anti-personnel device artists sometimes scatter behind themselves, to make sure no one successfully follows. Four stories in 24 minutes that curl and twist to the same point; Seinfeld is the perfect sitcom. Which it still feels like. Watch it on DVD, and when it goes to act break, you brace for commercials; the familiar sets, incidental music, laugh track, flat lighting — everything cues you. The Simpsons is The Simpsons, its own thing, and that's led to live-action Simpsons like Arrested Development and Community, plus animated Simpsons like Family Guy, South Park, as well as Archer, right now TV's funniest show. And there's the specter of Jerry himself: He's become a sideline figure, queerly neutralized by success. You see him on talk shows, on his own Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. If time ran backward, would you watch a show about this man?
Both shows were born in 1989; nine years later, Seinfeld tipped over its king, the other show continued to play. I was watching a Simpsons crowd scene and realized I recognized nearly every face; a townscape entirely filled in, populated by stories you know — an amazing thing to have pulled off. (The Simpsons is TV's longest-running series. Twenty-four years, 523 episodes, 191 hours; by another standard, the math is perverse, since it means more than two decades of full-tilt work by teams of professionals at the top of their fields amounts to only eight solid days. That's how long it takes to build a world.) In "HOMR," Homer heads to the Screaming Monkey Research Center with a problem: He's had his intelligence increased, it's made Springfield life impossible. On the plus side, he reads more and has bonded with his bright daughter, Lisa. On the debit, he can no longer enjoy town, church, job, bar, movie theater. He's ejected from Love Is Nice — "Point out your plot holes elsewhere!"— and moans to heaven, "Is there no place for the man with the 105 IQ?" Think what a dark, Harvard joke that really is. He returns home his old self, surgically dimmed, to Lisa's dismay. She finds a note. Lisa: I'm taking the coward's way out. But before I do, I just wanted to say being smart made me appreciate just how amazing you really are. Only one show could pull off that tonal shift: meanness defused by humor diluted by clarity and smoothed into warmth. As the Coen Brothers say in A Serious Man, a sad family comedy of their own, "Accept the mystery."
Winner: The Simpsons
David Lipsky is the author of the books Absolutely American and Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself.


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Statins May Cut Risk of Death From Cancer, Study Suggests
Cholesterol-lowering drugs might benefit cancer patients, but more research is needed
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
The research, published Nov. 7 in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that statin use at the time of cancer diagnosis reduced the risk of dying from cancer-related causes by up to 15 percent.
"That doesn't sound like that much, but chemotherapy only offers about a 15 percent to 20 percent reduction in the risk of dying," said Dr. Stig Bojesen, an author of the study and staff specialist in the department of clinical biochemistry at Copenhagen University Hospital, in Herlev, Denmark.
Previous studies of statins such as Lipitor and Crestor have not shown that the drugs significantly affect overall cancer risk. But some research has suggested that statins may have a role in treating particular forms of cancer.
Last January, for example, researchers at Columbia University in New York City showed that treating certain breast cancer cells with statins in the laboratory stopped them from spreading, and in some cases even killed the cells. Last year, a study published in the journal Cancer showed that men taking statins may be 30 percent less likely to have prostate cancer recur.
Bojesen said the study results need to be tested further. But for those who are taking statins when they get a diagnosis of cancer, he said, "there is no reason whatsoever to stop taking them." And, he added, "there is a small chance that taking statins for cardiovascular disease may reduce your risk of cancer."
How could cholesterol-lowering statins, one of the most commonly prescribed class of drugs worldwide, help patients more effectively fight cancer?
According to the U.S. National Cancer Institute, researchers have found that statins work against critical cellular functions that may help control tumor initiation, tumor growth and the spread of cancer (metastasis). Statins seem to block a key enzyme associated with processes involved in the growth and spread of cancer.
"Cholesterol is a vital building block in all cells, and when you take away the building blocks, the cells may stop proliferating," Bojesen explained.
Using the Danish Civil Registration System, a network of national databases, the researchers tracked statin use by individuals over time. They focused on about 296,000 patients who were diagnosed with cancer between 1995 and 2007, with follow-up until the end of 2009.
Patients who had statin prescriptions filled six months to two years before their cancer diagnosis were included in the research. Among those aged 40 or older, almost 19,000 had used statins regularly and about 277,000 had never taken the medications.
Dr. Neil Caporaso, branch chief of the genetic-epidemiology branch at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., said he was impressed by the study but also was a bit skeptical.
"What mechanism could extend to every tumor type? We just don't know," said Caporaso, who wrote an accompanying journal editorial.
Many questions must still be answered, he said. "How soon does the effect begin and how long does it last? When is the window [of time] when the response would be expected to be observed?" he said.
In his editorial, Caporaso expressed concern that the research did not reveal what dose would reduce the risk of dying from cancer.
"Although the findings suggest, with a few exceptions, that there were consistent and substantial declines in mortality across diverse cancers, there is no clear pattern of decreased mortality with increased dose," he wrote in the editorial. "All these issues mandate caution in interpreting the findings."
Eric Jacobs, strategic director of pharmacoepidemiology at the American Cancer Society in Atlanta, said that although the study results are intriguing and exciting, "they do not mean that people with cancer should start using statins in the hopes of improving their prognosis."
Jacobs explained that "because this study was an observational study [as opposed to a trial], the slightly lower cancer death rates among cancer patients who had used statins before their cancer diagnosis could have been caused by factors other than the statin itself."
Jacobs said more research is needed to ascertain if and how statins might influence survival in cancer patients.
Copyright (c) 2012 HealthDay. All rights reserved.


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Fedora Weekly News : Issue 296
Fedora Project welcomes you to the Fedora Weekly News(FWN): Issue 296[1].
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In this August 2012 Issue, Fedora Project news stream covers the changes to the Packaging Guidelines, FUDCon Paris Updates(October 13-15, 2012), Fedora Infrastructure announces about status.fedoraproject.org, new bodhi release in production, build F-18 collection packages for all language translators, and Fedora 18 Alpha to slip by another one week.
The trade press and Fedora Marketing stream covers news of 5 most popular Linux distributions where Fedora has been criticized along with RHEL future, and why Fedora 18 Will Be The Practical Choice For Vanilla Enthusiasts.
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Singer/songwriter Sarah McLachlan comes to the US Cellular Center on Saturday, September 22nd at 7pm. This show is ALL AGES. This concert is a benefit hosted by the Green Side Up Foundation to support local pediatric cancer patients in the Asheville area. More information at www.greensideup.foundation. Tickets go on sale Friday, August 17th at 10am and will be available through the USCC Box Office, online at Ticketmaster.com, and by phone at 800-745-3000.
Sarah McLachlan is one of the most celebrated singer songwriters in entertainment with over 40 million albums sold worldwide. She has received three Grammy Awards and twelve Juno Awards over her career and was recently inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.
In addition to her personal artistic efforts, McLachlan founded the Lilith Fair tour, which showcased female musicians and raised over $7 million for local and national charities. In 2002 McLachlan founded her non-profit organization, the Sarah McLachlan School of Music, which provides top quality music instruction at no cost, in a safe and nurturing environment, for at-risk and underserved children and youth. From an early age, music provided McLachlan with the tools she needed to navigate the challenges she faced in her life, so she recognizes how important it is for every child to have those same opportunities.
In 2014 McLachlan released her seventh studio album, Shine On, for which she received a Juno Award for Adult Contemporary Album of the Year. Shine On explores her personal journey over the previous few years of navigating love, loss and change.
McLachlan's latest release is her 2016 Christmas album Wonderland, for which she received a Juno Award for Adult Contemporary Album of the Year as well as a Grammy Nomination for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album. Wonderland contains fresh and inspired interpretations of 13 traditional and contemporary holiday classics.


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In Intuit's "A Giant Story," entrepreneur Pari is inspired to create a giant invention that gives the power of big business to everyone.
Harnessing the power of TurboTax, QuickBooks, and Mint, Intuit Giants work on their customers' behalf, enabling them to spend less time worrying about their finances and more time doing the things they love.
When movement connects the 'I' and 'me', you become unstoppable. I MOVE ME is a philosophy on life, how you and only you are all you need to overcome everything. #IMoveMe


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Shoddy construction behind Ghanaian shopping center collapse?
The five-story building, located in a working-class neighborhood in the capital city of Accra, collapsed early Wednesday, killing at least four people and trapping dozens more in the rubble.
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Authorities on Thursday blamed faulty construction for the collapse of a five-story building in Ghana's capital that killed at least four people and trapped dozens of others until they were freed by crews picking through broken concrete with axes.
The five-story structure housing a popular home goods store crumbled early Wednesday, just nine months after it was built in a working-class neighborhood.
Kate Adobaya, a spokeswoman for Ghana's National Disaster Management Organization, blamed the building collapse on structural weakness.
"The foundation was not good enough," she said, adding that crews worked in shifts through the night to search for other possible victims.
President John Dramani Mahama toured the scene Wednesday and told reporters those responsible for the building's collapse would be punished.
The building was being leased by Melcom Ltd., but the retail company did not construct the building, according to the chief operating officer of Melcom Group of Companies.
Arvinder Singh said he wanted to be "very, very, clear" that the property was being rented.
Ghanaian Information Minister Fritz Baffour says four people are confirmed dead. Accra's mayor, Alfred Oko Vanderpuiye. said Thursday that 68 people had been pulled from the rubble.
An 18-man team from Israel was expected in Accra later in the day to help locate any remaining survivors.
"The team will make an initial assessment of the site using special equipment and sniffer dogs that will help identify the locations of possible survivors or corpses," according to a statement signed by the president's spokesman.


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Renishaw to address manufacturing's need for process control at IMTEX 2011
At the IMTEX exhibition taking place in Bangalore, India, from 20th to 26th January 2011, Renishaw will highlight a range of process control solutions that help tackle the increasing drive to lean manufacturing.
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At the IMTEX exhibition taking place in Bangalore, India, from 20th to 26th January 2011, Renishaw will highlight a range of process control solutions that help tackle the increasing drive to lean manufacturing, from new technologies for pre-process machine calibration, to on-line and off-line post-process measurement.
New pre-process calibration tools include the QC20-W wireless ballbar, as well as Renishaw's latest advancement in fast 5-axis CMM measurement – the motorised PH20 probe head with "head touch" capability. Rounding out the exhibit will be the company's CMM retrofit service, encoder technologies and demonstrations of software for calibration, machine tool probing and CMMs. Major highlights include:
QC20-W wireless ballbar
In addition to the conveniences of wireless operation, the new QC20-W ballbar is the first calibration tool to allow testing in 3 orthogonal planes through a single reference point. A single, simple hardware set up means quicker testing and the ability to produce a representative volumetric measurement of positioning accuracy.
Fast, automated health check for multi-axis machine tools
AxiSet™ Check-Up extends Renishaw's market leading range of machine tool testing and calibration systems, with a new cost-effective solution for checking the alignment and positioning performance of rotary axes. In just a few minutes, users of five-axis machining centres and multi-tasking mill-turn machines can now identify and report on poor machine alignments and geometry that can cause extended process setting times, as well as non-conforming parts.
PH20 5-axis probe for CMMs
The PH20 increases touch-trigger CMM throughput up to three times, using fast, infinite, rotary positioning and unique "head touch" capability for high-speed point capture with minimal CMM movement. The PH20 uses two-axes of head motion to minimise CMM movement and associated dynamic errors at higher measurement speeds. Its unique "inferred calibration" feature determines head orientation and probe position in a single operation, eliminating the need for calibration at each orientation.
New machine tool probes with optical and radio signal transmission
Renishaw's new RLP40 and OLP40 lathe inspection probes offer a choice of signal transmission technologies – radio or optical – to make part set-up and inspection on turning centres accurate, simple and reliable. Measuring just 40 mm (1.57 in) in diameter and 58.3 mm (2.30 in) long, the probes provide unidirectional repeatability of 1µm (0.00004") and can be used to reduce set-up times, scrap, and fixture costs, while improving process control.
CMM retrofits and software
Renishaw will detail its certified coordinate measuring machine (CMM) retrofits to upgrade existing machines to state-of-the-art capabilities – including REVO™ five-axis ultra-high-speed scanning. The comprehensive retrofit program applies to all brands of machines. The Renishaw Retrofit™ service enables manufacturers to raise CMM throughput by factors of four, five and more, increase measurement automation, collect more data points for form measurement, and utilise open source software and future probing technology developments.
New multi-axis software for machine tool probes
New OMV Pro software includes more advanced CMM-type capabilities with an extended range of geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) functionality, plus the ability to work with multiple alignments in a single program, an advantage in working with multi-axis machine tools. The software includes simulation capability, an intuitive graphical interface and crystal-clear reporting format that make it accessible to shop-floor staff. OMV Pro's GD&T measurement wizard helps users create standardised report elements based on internationally recognised symbols, allowing operators to compare part measurement results on the machine with those on the manufacturing drawing.
Absolute optical encoder and 1 nm resolution incremental encoder
RESOLUTE™ is the world's first true absolute encoder capable of 27 bit resolution at 36,000 rpm. The fine-pitch system offers excellent dirt immunity, while delivering market-leading resolution of just 1 nanometer at up to 100 m/s, for both linear and angle encoding applications.
TONiC™ incremental optical encoders provide the accuracy of fragile fine-pitch encoders, but in a rugged, simple-to-install package. Advanced optical design and innovative electronics are featured in a compact readhead (35 mm x 13.5 mm x 10 mm L-W-H) for great design/application flexibility and installation even on micro-manufacturing systems. New additions to the TONiC range of linear and rotary encoders include 1 nm and 2 nm resolutions, a dual output encoder interface, and compatibility with Renishaw's Dual Signal Interface (DSi) for high accuracy angle encoding.
For full details of Renishaw's range of metrology products visit www.renishaw.com
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The knowledge of accurate thermophysical data is essential for understanding natural processes and the design of technical applications. Despite of longstanding efforts in experimental thermodynamics, there is only a scarce data base because laboratory work is time-consuming and costly, particularly when there are safety concerns. With suitable computational methods and high-performance computing (HPC), molecular modeling and simulation may substantially contribute to the thermodynamic data supply in a much more efficient manner.
The TaLPas project, which is funded by BMBF, deals with fundamental research on HPC software and is a cooperation of six academic institutions. Due to advanced many-core architectures, programming models for numerical simulation codes have significantly changed. More efficient hybrid approaches, that combine shared-memory with distributed-memory parallelization, are required. In order to reap the full benefits of HPC hardware for molecular simulations, an optimal node-level performance is intended. Furthermore, optimized workflow scheduling is vital to reach improved time-to-solution and thereby an efficient workload of supercomputers. In the TaLPas project, we are working on innovative auto-tuning based software solutions for optimal node-level performance of particle simulations that rest on massively scalable task-based sampling methods.
The chair of Thermodynamics and Process Engineering is working on a wide field of molecular dynamics (MD) and Monte-Carlo (MC) simulation techniques to predict accurate thermophysical data. Examples are atomistic simulations of homogeneous gas bubble formation, surface tension of classical fluids, multi-criteria optimization of molecular models, transport properties and the development of the molecular simulation codes ls1 mardyn and ms2.
Cooperation partners:
Lehrstuhl für Wissenschaftliches Rechnen (Prof. Bungartz)
Technische Universität München
Wissenschaftliches Rechnen (Dr. Neumann)
Universität Hamburg
Höchstleistungsrechenzentrum Stuttgart (Prof. Resch)
Universität Stuttgart
Visualisierungsinstitut (Prof. Ertl)
Universität Stuttgart
Lehrstuhl für Parallele Programmierung (Prof. Wolf)
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Fachgebiet Thermodynamik und Thermische Verfahrenstechnik (Prof. Vrabec)
Technische Universität Berlin
Lehrstuhl für Thermodynamik (Prof. Hasse)
Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
Configuration of an ionic liquid in contact with CO2 (MD simulation).
Equimolar quaternary liquid mixture tetrachlormethane + methanol + toluene + cyclohexance (MC simulation).


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Debt limit to be hit by mid-October
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew on Monday warned congressional leaders that the government will run up against its borrowing limit by mid-October, setting up an earlier-than-expected deadline for what will be the fall's most contentious battle between the Obama administration and Republicans.
Lew said his department will soon run out of the accounting maneuvers it's been using to stave off default and warned lawmakers not to wait until the last minute to raise the debt limit.
"Congress should act as soon as possible to protect America's good credit by extending normal borrowing authority well before any risk of default becomes imminent," Lew said in a letter sent to the Hill Monday.
( PHOTOS: Jack Lew's career, life)
The deadline, sooner than what some forecasters had estimated, comes amid concern that Congress has no plan for handling the needed increase to the government's borrowing authority.
The Obama administration has said it will not negotiate over raising the debt limit , while Republicans have a long list of demands, including revising President Barack Obama's signature health-care law .
Raising the debt ceiling is just one of a handful of fiscal deadlines facing lawmakers this fall. They also need to fund the government into the next fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1, as well as decide what if anything to do about another looming round of the automatic spending cuts known as sequestration.
House Speaker John Boehner is considering short-term legislation that would fund agencies into the beginning of the next fiscal year.
That's designed to allow lawmakers to focus on the debt limit and sequestration as well as to figure out how much to spend on those agency budgets for the duration of the 2014 fiscal year.
Exactly when Congress must act on the debt limit is usually hard to predict, mostly because tax revenues can vary widely from month to month. Treasury has been using accounting maneuvers to avoid busting the borrowing cap since May, the last time it was increased. By mid-October, those so-called "extraordinary measures" will be exhausted, Lew warned, leaving the government to pay its bills out of incoming tax revenue. That would leave the agency with only enough cash on hand to pay some of the 80 million payments it makes each month, Lew said.
The administration has said any talk of not raising the debt limit quickly is irresponsible and will hurt the economy, pointing to the problems in financial markets during a tense standoff over the the debt limit in 2011.
"We cannot afford a repeat of what happened in 2011," Lew said earlier this month in a speech in California. "We cannot afford for Congress to wait until some unknowable last minute to resolve this matter on the eve of a deadline. We cannot afford another unnecessary self-inflicted wound."
Goldman Sachs has predicted the government will hit the limit around November 1, though it said it could end up being two weeks sooner – or later – depending in part on the strength of quarterly corporate-income tax payments that are due next month. The Congressional Budget office has said the deadline will come either in October or November.


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Blue Springs
|Battle Name:
|Blue Springs
|Other Names:
|Greene County
|East Tennessee Campaign (1863)
|October 10, 1863
|Principal Commanders:
|Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside [US]; Brig. Gen. John S. Williams [CS]
|Forces Engaged:
|Department of the Ohio [US]; 1st Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry Regiment, 4th Kentucky Cavalry Regiment, and some home guard troops and artillery [CS]
|Estimated Casualties:
|316 total (US 100; CS 216)
|Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside, commander of the Department of the Ohio, undertook an expedition into East Tennessee to clear the roads and passes to Virginia, and, if possible, secure the saltworks beyond Abingdon. In October, Confederate Brig. Gen. John S. Williams, with his cavalry force, set out to disrupt Union communications and logistics. He wished to take Bull's Gap on the East Tennessee & Virginia Railroad. On October 3, while advancing on Bull's Gap, he fought with Brig. Gen. Samuel P. Carter's Union Cavalry Division, XXIII Army Corps, at Blue Springs, about nine miles from Bull's Gap, on the railroad. Carter, not knowing how many of the enemy he faced, withdrew. Carter and Williams skirmished for the next few days. On October 10, Carter approached Blue Springs in force. Williams had received some reinforcements. The battle began about 10:00 am with Union cavalry engaging the Confederates until afternoon while another mounted force attempted to place itself in a position to cut off a Rebel retreat. Captain Orlando M. Poe, the Chief Engineer, performed a reconnaissance to identify the best location for making an infantry attack. At 3:30 pm, Brig. Gen. Edward Ferrero's 1st Division, IX Army Corps, moved up to attack, which he did at 5:00 pm. Ferrero's men broke into the Confederate line, causing heavy casualties, and advanced almost to the enemy's rear before being checked. After dark, the Confederates withdrew and the Federals took up the pursuit in the morning. Within days, Williams and his men had retired to Virginia. Burnside had launched the East Tennessee Campaign to reduce or extinguish Confederate influence in the area; Blue Springs helped fulfill that mission.
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[222 U.S. 191, 192] Messrs. John Trumbull, Aldis B. Browne, Alexander Britton, and Evans Browne for plaintiffs in error.
[222 U.S. 191, 194] Mr. W. C. Keegin for defendant in error.
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This case arose out of the collision, on May, 7, 1906, of the steamer Norwood, owned and enrolled at San Francisco, with a supporting pier of a toll drawbridge between Aberdeen and South Aberdeen, in Chehalis county, Washington, over the Chehalis river, a navigable stream flowing into an arm of the Pacific ocean. The pier stood upon the bed of the river, in navigable water, and the bridge was maintained and used as a connection between highways on either side of the stream, and not as an aid to navigation. The vessel was engaged in interstate commerce, was proceeding under her own motive power, and so struck the pier as to do serious injury to it, and to cause one span of the bridge to collapse and fall into the river within a few hours thereafter. The cause of the collision was the negligent management of the vessel by her master and owners.
In a suit brought in the superior court of Chehalis county, by the owner of the bridge, against the master and owners of the vessel, the former asserted and sought to enforce, under a statute of the state ( Ballinger's Anno. Codes & Statutes, 5953, 5954), a lien against the vessel for his damages so sustained; caused the vessel to be seized and detained by a temporary receiver, until released by the substitution of a bond by the master and owners in place of the vessel; and recovered a judgment, assessing his damages at $13,751.89, and establishing the lien so asserted. The judgment was affirmed by the supreme court of the state ( 51 Wash. 85, 21 L.R.A. (N.S.) 324, 97 Pac. 1102), and its decision is now called in question upon various grounds, which, in view of our prior decisions, require but brief notice. [222 U.S. 191, 196] The pertinent portions of the state statute are as follows:
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1.It is objected that the statute does not include injuries to a fixed structure like a bridge, but only to persons or property while being transported, or, at most, to movable property susceptible of being transported; and does not include a foreign vessel, such as the Norwood, but only domestic vessels. But of this it is enough to say, the supreme court of the state has construed the statute otherwise, and the case is on in which we accept that construction. The Winnebago (Iroquois Transp. Co. v. De Laney Forge & Iron Co.) 205 U.S. 354 , 51 L. ed. 836, 27 Sup. Ct. Rep. 509; Smiley v. Kansas, 196 U.S. 447 , 49 L. ed. 546, 25 Sup. Ct. Rep. 289; Gatewood v. North Carolina, 203 U.S. 531 , 51 L. ed. 305, 27 Sup. Ct. Rep. 167.
2.It next is insisted that the injury on account of which the lien was asserted was a maritime tort, and therefore the cause of action was within the exclusive admiralty jurisdiction of the courts of the United States; the argument being that, as the collapsing span of the bridge fell into the river, it was there that the substance and consummation of the wrong took place. [222 U.S. 191, 197] It may be that the damage ensuing from the collision was aggravated by the fact that the span fell into the stream and was subjected to the force of the current, and submerged in the water; but, if that be so, it furnishes no criterion for determining whether the tort was maritime or nonmaritime because that question must be resolved according to the locality and character of the injured thing-the bridge, with its spans and supporting piers-at the time of the collision. It was then that the causal influence of the negligent management of the vessel took effect injuriously and gave rise to a cause of action; and what followed is important only as bearing upon the extent of the injury and resulting liability. This is well illustrated in Johnson v. Chicago & P. Elevator Co. 119 U.S. 388 , 30 L. ed. 447, 7 Sup. Ct. Rep. 254. There, the jib boom of a schooner, in the Chicago river, was negligently driven through the wall of a warehouse on adjacent land, whereby a large quantity of shelled corn, stored in the warehouse, ran out into the river and was lost. It was held that the substance and consummation of the wrong took place on land, and that the tort was nonmaritime, although the damage inflicted consisted chiefly of the loss of the corn. Other applications of the same principle are shown in The Strabo, 90 Fed. 110, and The Haxby, 95 Fed. 170.
As the bridge was essentially a land structure, maintained and used as an aid to commerce on land, its locality and character were such that the tort was nonmaritime (The Plymouth [Haugh v. Western Transp. Co.] 3 Wall. 20, 18 L. ed. 125; The Blackheath [United States v. Evans] 195 U.S. 361 , 49 L. ed. 236, 25 Sup. Ct. Rep. 46; Cleveland Terminal & Valley R. Co. v. Cleveland S. S. Co. 208 U.S. 316 , 52 L. ed. 508, 28 Sup. Ct. Rep. 414, 13 A. & E. Ann. Cas. 1215; The Troy, 208 U.S. 321 , 52 L. ed. 512, 28 Sup. Ct. Rep. 416); and consequently it was admissible to pursue in the state court the remedy provided by the state statute, even though that law gave a lien on the vessel (Johnson v. Chicago & P. Elevator Co. supra; Knapp, S . & Co. Co. v. McCaffrey, 177 U.S. 638 , 44 L. ed. 921, 20 Sup. Ct. Rep. 824; The Winnebago, supra).
3. Lastly, it is contended that the statute, as inter- [222 U.S. 191, 198] preted by the supreme court of the state, offends against the commerce clause of the Constitution of the United States, in that the creation and enforcement of such a lien against a foreign vessel engaged in interstate commerce is an unwarranted interference with such commerce.
We do not perceive in the statute, as interpreted and applied in the present case, any basis for this contention. As interpreted, the statute embraces all vessels, whether domestic or foreign, and whether engaged in intrastate or interstate commerce, and therefore it cannot be said that its purpose is to regulate the latter. Its enforcement may occasionally and temporarily interrupt or prevent the use of a vessel in such commerce, as in this instance; but such an interference is incidental only, is almost inseparable from the compulsory enforcement of liabilities of the class in question, is not in conflict with any regulation of Congress, and does not in itself offend against the commerce clause of the Constitution. Johnson v. Chicago & P. Elevator Co. 119 U.S. 388, 400 , 30 S. L. ed. 447, 451, 7 Sup. Ct. Rep. 254; The Winnebago (Iroquois Transp. Co. v. De Laney Forge & Iron Co.) 205 U.S. 354, 362 , 51 S. L. ed. 836, 840, 27 Sup. Ct. Rep. 509; Davis v. Cleveland, C. C. & St. L. R. Co. 217 U.S. 157, 179 , 54 S. L. ed. 708, 720, 27 L.R.A. (N.S.) 823, 30 Sup. Ct. Rep. 463, 18 A. & E. Ann. Cas. 907.
We think the questions presented were rightly decided by the Supreme Court of the state, and its judgment is affirmed.
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A first-of-its-kind satellite tagging study of migrating New England leatherback turtles in the North Atlantic offers a greatly improved understanding of their seasonal high-use habitats, diving activity and response to key ocean and environmental features in relation to their search behavior. Leatherbacks are considered endangered species in all the world's oceans.
The study, part of doctoral research by Kara Dodge supervised by her advisor, Molly Lutcavage of the University of Massachusetts Amherst's Large Pelagics Research Center (LPRC) in Gloucester, followed leatherbacks in their northern US feeding grounds. It allowed for a rare glimpse into the migratory patterns and behavior of immature and adult male turtles.
Most satellite tagging studies of leatherbacks have focused on adult females on their tropical nesting beaches, so little is known worldwide about males and subadults, the researcher point out. But now, tagging and satellite tracking in locations where leatherbacks forage has allowed the scientists to get a much richer picture of the leatherback's behavior and dispersal patterns on the open ocean.
Findings suggest that a habitat model that includes ecoregion, topography and sea surface temperature best explains the leatherbacks' search patterns for prey. The tagged leatherbacks in this LPRC-led study showed a strong affinity for the Northeast U.S. shelf during the summer and fall when full-sized jellyfish are present.
New knowledge about leatherbacks, particularly in coastal habitats, is important, the authors say, because "coastal ecosystems are under intense pressure worldwide, with some of the highest predicted cumulative impact in the North American eastern seaboard and the eastern Caribbean. Parts of those regions constitute high-use habitat for leatherbacks in our study, putting turtles at heightened risk from both land- and ocean-based human activity."
Lutcavage and colleagues' findings appear in the current issue of PLOS ONE. These will be useful to agencies such as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries (MassDMF) charged with protecting leatherbacks under international treaties and national laws, and in international efforts to protect leatherbacks throughout the North Atlantic.
Lutcavage, Dodge, and Ben Galuardi of the LPRC, with Tim Miller of NOAA, set out to determine how leatherbacks behave in distinct regions, or "ecoregions" of the North Atlantic, as well as their diving habits in those areas and other new information. For this study, supported by LPRC, NOAA Fisheries, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, and MassDMF, the team worked with commercial fishermen, spotter pilots and the Massachusetts sea turtle disentanglement network from 2007 to 2009 to tag 20 leatherback turtles off the coast of Cape Cod.
Leatherbacks have long been known to inhabit New England waters, says Lutcavage. "We started the satellite tagging work in 1994, but had little understanding of their daily lives until recently because we first wanted to develop ways to directly attach the tag without encumbering the turtle."
"Once that was accomplished, we could collect accurate track locations via GPS along with dive data, and determine the leatherbacks' residence time, high-use habitat and behavior on the Northeast US shelf and beyond," she adds.
The research team also examined environmental features, including bathymetry, or depth information, plus remotely-sensed temperature and ocean productivity data to understand leatherback habitat preferences. Dodge says, "Our study provides new insights about how male and immature turtles behave, how they use their habitats and how that differs from adult females. Resource managers for protected marine species have lacked this key understanding, especially in coastal regions of the U.S. and Caribbean where leatherbacks and intense human activity coincide."
Leatherbacks are the largest turtles in the world, weighing up to 2000 pounds and up to seven feet long. They are warm-bodied, deep divers that can descend below 3000 feet. They have the widest global distribution of all reptiles and are the most migratory sea turtle species, traveling thousands of miles between feeding and breeding grounds. Unlike other sea turtles, leatherbacks exclusively eat soft-bodied gelatinous zooplankton such as jellyfish and salps. Their pursuit of patchily distributed "jellies" and unique thermoregulatory ability contributes to their expansive range.
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Not sure how to regain a clean stove after all that Thanksgiving cooking? Cleaning stove tops can be a pain, but consider that dirty cooking surfaces don't reflect heat as well, meaning that you waste energy and compromise performance when using a messy stove.
Instead, try these useful stove cleaning tips that have worked for me.
When cleaning a smooth top stove, first use a razor blade (yes, I'm serious) to gently scrape off any burnt on food residue. Sometimes smooth top stoves burners discolor with time, but I've found that Mr. Clean Magic Eraser works well to fade dark stains. Apply cooktop cleaner (which we sell for about $5 at all Warners' Stellian stores) with a soft rag or paper towel for general cleaning. Cooktop cleaner also gives a nice, smooth finish to glass- and ceran-top stoves you can't get from soap and water, sorry!
To clean a gas stove top — like I have at home — remove all grates and burner caps to the sink and simply use soap and water to clean. I scrub off all the food residue that ends up around the burners by sprinkling on some Barkeeper's Friend and rubbing it off with a moistened towel. Again, the discolorations (I have a white stove) are removed by Magic Eraser and some elbow grease.
The most important tip I have for cleaning gas stoves, though, is properly replacing the now-clean burner caps, as misplacement could cause stove lighting issues.
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In 1920, Bill Doak, a journeyman pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals, approached Rawlings with an idea for improving the baseball glove from a mere protective device to a genuine aid in fielding. The "Bill Doak" model was so revolutionary that it stayed in Rawlings' line until 1953. Its key feature was a multi-thong web laced into the first finger and thumb, which created for the first time in baseball's young life, a natural pocket.
In 1925, Rawlings unveiled a three-fingered fielder's glove, and ten years later improved the Bill Doak model with a two-piece leather web. At the same time, the "T" web became a rage for first basemen's mitts. The pocket underwent a pronounced change in 1941 when the Trapper Mitt, also known as the Claw, appeared. The "Deep Well" pocket was so unique that Rawlings quickly patented it. The design was improved in 1950 by adding a leather piece across the top. Another significant creation occurred in 1948 with the three-fingered Playmaker. A five-fingered fielder's model, with all fingers laced together, provided greater pocket control.
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Catapult's Data Center Achieves Energy Star Certification
LENEXA, Kan. — Catapult International has announced that one of its data centers has received the Energy Star certification from the US Environmental Protection Agency.
The certification system identifies and rewards current best practices and provides an outline for a Data Center to use less energy, water, and natural resources as well as uncover operating inefficiencies.
CoSentry, who provides the facilities and platform for Catapult's secure cloud and compliant co-location services, attributed the low cost of energy in the Midwest and stringent compliance governance as main factors in achieving the Energy Star standards.
"Catapult looks for partners that are considered to be forward thinking and leading edge in their industry. Having the Energy Star Certification affirms our commitment to the environment," states David Luttrell, CIO of Catapult International.
As well as earning recognition from the EPA, Catapult's Data Center network holds certifications for PCI DSS, SSAE16, NIST 800-53, OSHA, and HIPAA. The Data Center is also pursuing a LEED Existing Building Operations and Maintenance (EBOM) Gold rating from the U. S. Green Building Council. LEED EBOM is the energy efficiency evaluation tool for the ongoing operations and maintenance of existing Data Centers.


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Aldo Cortesi posted a link today to allrgb.com, a site dedicated to images visualizing the RGB colour space - in particular, 4096x4096 images that use each RGB value exactly once. Inspired by his hilbert curve visualization and the urge to spend a day programming, I present to you: the all-RGB Mandelbrot set.
Sort by colour...My idea was this: instead of trying to visualize the colour space directly, why not use a base image for the "shape", and then map the RGB spectrum onto it? I thought that if I could find an image with an even spread of colours, this would let me make each pixel unique yet keep the overall look untouched.
To perform this mapping, I chose to define an ordering based on the 3 dimensional Hilbert curve. Cortesi explains it far better than I can, but the basic idea is this: the Hilbert curve can be used to find an ordering of all 16.8 million colours so that if you were to stretch them out on a line, every colour would be there and they would flow smoothly from one to another. Like this, except a lot smoother and a lot longer.
Choosing an imageWhen I started this morning, I had the idea that the output images would look reasonably close to the source images. I was half right; the images certainly have all the same features as before, but the colouring is all wrong. In hindsight the reason is obvious - unless the original had a perfectly even spectrum of colours, the mapping would be stretched in some places and shifted in others, and in general not line up nicely.
While interesting, this wasn't exactly what I was going for. Hmm...what image could I use where it wouldn't matter if the colours were all shifted? The first thing that came to mind was a visualization like the Mandelbrot set, where the colours are arbitrarily chosen anyways. A quick Google search found me this:
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