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The links between autoimmune diseases, infections, genetics and the environment are complex and mysterious. Why are people who live near airports more susceptible to autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis and lupus? How do hormones in meat trigger the onset of a disease?
Our immediate environment interacts with our genetic programming and can determine if we will succumb to an autoimmune disease, says rheumatologist Prof. Michael Ehrenfeld of Tel Aviv University's Sackler School of Medicine, who is seeking to unravel those mysteries. Prof. Ehrenfeld recently published a report in Autoimmune Reviews on how "Spondylo-arthropathies," a group of common inflammatory rheumatic disorders, appear to be triggered by environmental factors. He has also done research on how the dry-eye and mouth disease "Sjögren's syndrome" can be triggered by environmental influences.
Minimizing the risks
"The onset of autoimmune diseases is a mixture of genetics, which you can't change, and environmental factors, which in some cases you can," says Prof. Ehrenfeld. While he cites pollution as a trigger in many autoimmune disorders, "there are some environmental factors harder to avoid. For example, reactive arthritis is caused by a severe gastro-intestinal, urinary or sexual infection in some people," he says.
Afflicting more than 2 million Americans, rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic inflammatory autoimmune disease, three times more prevalent in women than men. The disorder causes the body's own immune system to attack its joints, leading to pain, deformities and a substantial loss of mobility.
It is still impossible to tell which genes encode this disease and make some people more susceptible to autoimmune diseases, but there are some basic behaviors that may keep these disorders at bay. One root cause of arthritis is extreme stress, says Prof. Ehrenfeld, for which there are already therapeutic strategies. And some medications, such as the birth control pills, might be linked in some cases to the onset of lupus.
"You won't know if taking the pill or getting a certain virus will trigger arthritis, because we don't yet know the genes that encode the various autoimmune diseases," he says. "Obviously those people whose family members share a history of rheumatoid arthritis, or other autoimmune diseases including thyroid problems, should be more vigilant, because their chances are higher."
Triggers include hairspray and lipstick
Environmental pollution is also a cause for concern to those genetically predisposed to an autoimmune disease. Second-hand smoke, food chemicals or chemicals in the air, jet fuel fumes, UV exposure and other forms of environmental pollution are amongst the triggers considered to provoke the onset of autoimmune diseases.
Industrial regions, particularly in Northern Europe and North America, still exhibit the highest rates of most autoimmune diseases. But on a much more local scale, Prof. Ehrenfeld also singles out hairspray as well as lipstick as known occasional triggers.
"Most people think arthritis has to do with old age," says Prof. Ehrenfeld. "This is false. There is only one major type of arthritis in older people: osteoarthritis, which is brought on by degenerative changes in the body. What you see in older adults is usually a non-inflammatory and non-autoimmune type of arthritis.
"Most of the other kinds of arthritis we see in the clinic, the debilitating and inflammatory types, usually occur in young women between the ages of 20 and 40," Prof. Ehrenfeld says. "We hope that our research will lessen the occurrence and onset of these painful disorders."
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How to navigate back-to-school traffic in Honolulu
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6:30 a.m. Hit snooze three times before dragging your butt out of bed.
7:00 a.m. Spill coffee all over your new silk blouse.
7:30 a.m. Realize you left your cell phone on your nightstand.
7:45 a.m. Meet bumper-to-bumper traffic halfway to the office.
Bad mornings can sneak up on you. Don't let traffic, especially back-to-school traffic, do the same. Today, we've compiled a list of tips and websites to help you navigate your crazy commute. So whip out your phone and let's get this show on the road.
1. Use social media for a quick snapshot of current conditions.
Facebook is great for major accidents and traffic backups – follow the major news outlets and you'll easily spot photos in your news feed. But for neighborhood fender benders and stalled vehicles, the best updates can be found on Twitter by following people and accounts devoted to traffic or searching for the hashtag #hitraffic. We've listed some of our favorites below.
Star-Advertiser: Facebook / Twitter
KHON: Facebook / Twitter
KITV: Facebook / Twitter
Hawaii News Now: Facebook / Twitter
HPD Traffic: Twitter
Rachel Pacarro: Facebook / Twitter
Danielle Tucker: Twitter
KITV Traffic: Twitter
2. Check HPD's traffic information website.
This site logs every single traffic incident received by the Honolulu Police Department in real time, from accidents and stalled vehicles to parking violations and hazardous drivers. Scan the address and area columns first for potential snafus along your route. The only downside? It doesn't tell you how bad an accident is, or if there are any road closures, which is why you'll want to…
3. Pull up the city traffic cameras online.
Looking at traffic cameras is your best shot at previewing road conditions before you start driving. We prefer the Zone View, which allows you to view up to six cameras at one time. Was there an accident on the H-1 Freeway? Click through the cameras to pinpoint where the backup begins and plan your exit accordingly. Keep in mind, traffic cameras are typically only available along main thoroughfares, and not all the cameras work (H-1 and Old Waialae Rd., for example, has been out more than a year).
4. Know your alternate routes.
This one's pretty self-explanatory, but the key is to make sure your alternate route isn't actually slower than your current route. If there's an accident on the H-1 Freeway in Aiea, a lot of cars may have already diverted onto Kamehameha Hwy., which means Moanalua Rd. might be your best option.
5. If all else fails…
Well, that's why we put together this rockin' back-to-school playlist. When you've got nowhere else to turn, pump up the volume and sing away.

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Google Reader team has finally realized that nobody likes their interface (well, except for a couple of noisy people). I know it's cool to see all the new posts in a continous flow, but nobody reads news like that.
So Google Reader adopted the best way of creating a feed reader: Bloglines. No, they didn't buy it from Ask, they decided to do their own Bloglines. The difference is that Google Reader uses labels, instead of folders.
Other new features:
* Expanded view and list view (similar to Gmail, list view shows only the title and a small snippet, while the expanded view shows the entire post)
* Simplified sharing functionality (just click on the share link, and add snippets from blog posts to a public page. You can share that page with your friends, so they can read your favorite pieces.)
* Infinite scrolling (no upper bound for how many blog posts you can read and instead of clicking to read the next post, you can just scroll)
* Unread counts (can't count more than 100 items)
* Mark all as read
The new interface is much better, and uses more from the screen space. You also have a list of feed packages you can choose and a "Next" bookmarklet you can add to your browser to read blog posts directly from their site. The only questions are why Google Reader is not a part of Gmail yet and where is the search functionality.


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another post from last year that i thought was relevant again:
What Business is Wall Street In ?
May 9th 2010 11:36AM
My last two posts were designed to stimulate discussion. But lets talk the real problem that regulators, public companies, investor/shareholders and traders face. The problem is that Wall Street doesn't know what business it is in. Regulators don't know what the business of Wall Street is. Investor/shareholders don't know what business Wall Street is in.
The only people who know what business Wall Street is in are the traders. They know what business Wall Street is in better than everyone else. To traders, whether day traders or high frequency or somewhere in between, Wall Street has nothing to do with creating capital for businesses, its original goal. Wall Street is a platform. It's a platform to be exploited by every technological and intellectual means possible.
The best analogy for traders ? They are hackers. Just as hackers search for and exploit operating system and application shortcomings, traders do the same thing. A hacker wants to jump in front of your shopping cart and grab your credit card and then sell it. A high frequency trader wants to jump in front of your trade and then sell that stock to you. A hacker will tell you that they are serving a purpose by identifying the weak links in your system. A trader will tell you they deserve the pennies they are making on the trade because they provide liquidity to the market.
I recognize that one is illegal, the other is not. That isn't the important issue.
The important issue is recognizing that Wall Street is no longer what it was designed to be. Wall Street was designed to be a market to which companies provide securities (stocks/bonds), from which they received capital that would help them start/grow/sell businesses. Investors made their money by recognizing value where others did not, or by simply committing to a company and growing with it as a shareholder, receiving dividends or appreciation in their holdings. What percentage of the market is driven by investors these days ?
I started actively trading stocks in 1992. I traded a lot. Over the years I've written quite a bit about the market. I have always thought I had a good handle on the market. Until recently.
Over just the past 3 years, the market has changed. It is getting increasingly difficult to just invest in companies you believe in. Discussion in the market place is not about the performance of specific companies and their returns. Discussion is about macro issues that impact all stocks. And those macro issues impact automated trading decisions, which impact any and every stock that is part of any and every index or ETF. Combine that with the leverage of derivatives tracking companies, indexes and other packages or the leveraged ETFs, and individual stocks become pawns in a much bigger game than I feel increasingly less comfortable playing. It is a game fraught with ever increasing risk.
The Pimco (who I think are the smartest guys on the Street) guys talk about a new normal as it applies to today's state of the world economy. I think just as important is the new normal as it applies to Wall Street. Wall Street is now a huge mathematical game of chess where individual companies are just pawns. This is money in the bank for the big players like Goldman, Morgan, etc. Why ? Because the game of chess is far too complicated for 99pct of the institutions out there investing money. So to keep up, they turn to Goldman, Morgan and the like to invent products for them. "You don't know how to play the housing boom, let us show you". "You think the housing boom is about to crash, let us show you how to play that". "You think that PIIGS are in trouble because they can't print money to pay debt holders, let us create a product to allow you to play that game" The big houses have the best hackers in the business and they put together the games and sell them to the many, many institutions managing Billions and Billions of dollars. They are the ultimate Hackers selling their attacks to the highest bidder, regardless of which side they are on. That is a new normal.
Again, I'm not passing judgement one or the other. I'm just recognizing what is going on in the financial world today.
It's rare for companies to go public these days. Just as rare for secondary offerings. The only thing that keeps me in the market is that most of the stocks (not all) pay dividends or some other sort of cash payout. For the first time in my life, I bought outside the United States. I bought Australia in a big way because it is becoming increasingly hard to find new domestic investments that are not influenced by the "hackers" and the games being played on a macro level. It's hard to believe, but evaluating countries as an investment is now easier than evaluating companies . Even with all the unrest in Europe. Or maybe because of it.
So back to the original question. What business is Wall Street in ?
Its primary business is no longer creating capital for business. Creating capital for business has to be less than 1pct of the volume on Wall Street in any given period. (I would be curious if anyone out there knows what percentage of transactions actually return money to a company for any reason). It wouldn't shock me that even in this environment that more money flows from companies to the market in the form of buybacks (which i think are always a mistake), then flows into companies in the form of equity.
My 2 cents is that it is important for this country to push Wall Street back to the business of creating capital for business. Whether its through a use of taxes on trades, or changing the capital gains tax structure so that there is no capital gains tax on any shares of stock (private or public company) held for 5 years or more, and no tax on dividends paid to shareholders who have held stock in the company for more than 5 years. However we need to do it, we need to get the smart money on Wall Street back to thinking about ways to use their capital to help start and grow companies. That is what will create jobs. That is where we will find the next big thing that will accelerate the world economy. It won't come from traders trying to hack the financial system for a few pennies per trade.
And solutions won't come from bureaucrats trying to prevent the traders from hacking the system. The only certainty when bureaucrats step in is that the law of unintended consequences will smack us all in the head and the trader/hackers will find new ways to exploit the system that makes them big money and even more money for the big institutions that develop products for the other institutions that are desperate to play the game.
Regulators have got to start to recognize that traders are not investors and vice versa and treat them differently. Different regulations. Different tax structure. Different oversight. Individual investors and the funds that just invest in stocks and bonds are not going to crash the market. Big traders who are always leveraging up and maximizing the number of trades/hacks they make will always put the system at risk. We need to recognize that they do not serve much of a purpose other than to add substantial risk to the global economy. That their stated value add of liquidity does not compensate the US and World Economy nearly enough for the risk of collapse they introduce into the system.
Wall Street as a whole needs to be in the business of creating capital for companies and selling shares to investors who believe they are shareholders. The Government needs to create incentives for this business and extract compensation from the traders/hackers for the systemic failure level of risk they introduce.
There will be another crash, because there are too many players looking for the trillion dollar score. They can't all win, yet how many do you think wouldn't risk everything, even what is not theirs, for that remote chance to score big ? Put another way, there is zero moral hazard attached to any trade. So why wouldn't traders take the biggest risk possible ?
Update at 10pm 5.9.10
One more consideration. If there are traders of any kind that are unregulated or unmonitored, and trade for their own account, how do we know how big they are and how much of a threat they pose to the system, individually and in aggregate ?. For any High Frequency or big leverage derivative folks out there- is it possible there could be firms that have billions at risk with questionable ability to make a margin call or fulfill their side of the trade if things went against them ? Could there be hidden AIGs that few people know about or a bunch of AIG like situations ,which in aggregate fail and put the system at risk ? I have no idea. Just asking the question.
Update 8-9-2011
As a follow up from a comment, I found it interesting that Australia treats professional traders very differently than individual investors that invest in shares of companies. Traders pay regular income tax on their gains, investors pay capital gains and if held more than a year can even get a discount on the capital gains rate. Something that would make a ton of sense in the USA as well
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Derrick Rose's NBA career is off to a phenomenal start. The number one overall pick is averaging 18 points and six assists so far in his rookie year, he's already become the leader of his Chicago Bulls squad, and his highlight reel moves are electrifying crowds across the land. It seems the only thing that can stop this wunderkind is the sinister threat of raw unsliced produce.
Derrick Rose isn't practicing Monday after needing 10 stitches to close a gash in his arm. The Bulls said Rose suffered the injury when he rolled over onto a knife he was using to carve an apple while in bed.
Rose shouldn't miss any time, but that has to go pretty high up on the exalted list of bizarro athlete injuries. Maybe not as bad as throwing out your back while putting on socks, but it's close.
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Biden: I'll Be More Mindful Of Respecting Personal Space
Apr 3, 2019, 6:51 PM | Updated: Jun 8, 2022, 5:12 pm
Former Vice President Joe Biden acknowledged Wednesday that his tendency toward physical displays of affection and encouragement has made some women uncomfortable, and he promised to be "much more mindful" of respecting personal space.
"Social norms have begun to change. They've shifted," the 76-year-old Biden said in a cellphone video posted to Twitter . "And the boundaries of protecting personal space have been reset. And I get it. I get it. I hear what they are saying. I understand."
Wearing a suit and open-collared shirt, Biden also teased an announcement of his political plans, promising to "be talking to you about a whole lot of issues." Shortly after the video was released, a union announced Biden would speak at their conference in Washington on Friday.
The video was Biden's first direct comment on what has tripped up his preparations to enter the 2020 Democratic presidential campaign. He did not directly apologize but seemed to be seeking to ease some people's discomfort, which has raised questions about whether he could wage an effective campaign.
On Friday, former Nevada politician Lucy Flores wrote in New York Magazine that Biden approached her from behind, touched her shoulders and kissed the back of her head in 2014.
Since then, another woman has said Biden grabbed her face when he was thanking congressional staff at a 2009 event.
Biden, a former longtime U.S. senator from Delaware, first said in a statement that he did not recall the episode that Flores initially described in the magazine piece and then in subsequent weekend interviews.
In the video Wednesday, Biden insisted that what he described as the compassion from where the affection comes will not change and again nodded to the steps he's taking toward running.
"But I'll always believe governing — life, for that matter — is about connecting, connecting with people," he said. "That won't change."
Biden also said that he would be more careful about his actions in the future.
"And I'll be much more mindful. That's my responsibility, my responsibility, and I'll meet it," Biden said.
And in so doing, Biden was tacitly acknowledging a nagging concern for some voters: that he cannot adapt.
"The idea that I can't adjust to the fact that personal space is important, more important than it's ever been, is just not thinkable," he said in closing. "I will. I will."
President Donald Trump, who has been accused by multiple women of sexual misconduct (which he denies), was asked Wednesday whether Biden should apologize for the ways he has interacted with women. The president replied, "No, he's going to make his own decisions. He's very capable of making a decision, I assume."
A day earlier, Trump taunted Biden at a National Republican Congressional Committee fundraiser, saying, "Our former vice president, I was going to call him. I don't know him well. I was gonna say, 'Welcome to the world, Joe. You having a good time, Joe?'"


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Ram Announces CNG Pickup, Extended-Cab Tradesman Models
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Chrysler used its presence at the 2012 Work Truck Show in Indianapolis to roll out several new Ram Truck variants, including a natural gas-powered Ram 2500 HD and a few new twists on the Ram 1500 HD Tradesman.
Ram 2500 Heavy Duty CNG Pickup
Fleet customers -- especially energy and utility companies -- are frequently fond of running vehicles on compressed natural gas (CNG) -- not only is it generally cleaner burning than gasoline, it also typically carries a lower purchase price than gasoline or diesel. As such, it's not too surprising to hear Ram will offer a CNG-fueled variant of its 2500 HD pickup, although it is a little surprising to hear the entire conversion will be built within the confines of Chrysler's factory in Saltillo, Mexico, instead of an independent supplier.
Like the new bi-fuel 2013 Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra 2500 HD pickups, the Ram 2500 HD CNG truck is a bi-fuel vehicle, meaning it can run on either CNG or conventional gasoline. All Ram 2500 Heavy Duty CNG pickups are powered by Chrysler's 5.7-liter Hemi V-8 that has been modified to run on both conventional gasoline and compressed natural gas. New valves and valve-seat materials have been added to the redesigned cylinder heads - a move necessary to allow the engine to run on both compressed natural gas and conventional gasoline. It also gains an additional fuel rail and injectors for the compressed natural gas. Finally, new spark plugs and a new engine management computer monitor the engine when running either fuel.
Two 130-liter CNG tanks reside in the front of the Ram 2500 Heavy Duty CNG pickup's eight-foot bed. Combined, the two natural gas tanks capacity provide a gasoline equivalent of 18.2 gallons. The tanks are mounted to the frame and covered by a steel enclosure. The Ram 2500 Heavy Duty CNG pickup has a range of 255 miles on compressed natural gas and an additional 122 miles thanks to the eight-gallon gasoline tank, for a total range of 367 miles. The fuel filler door hides both the CNG filler connection and the gasoline fuel neck.
The Ram 2500 Heavy Duty CNG uses a small amount of gasoline on initial start up but switches over to compressed natural gas. When the compressed natural gas tanks are depleted the engine computer seamlessly transitions to conventional gasoline.
The Ram 2500 Heavy Duty CNG powertrain components - including the CNG-specific parts - are covered by a 5-year/50,000 mile powertrain warranty. The rest of the truck carries a 3-year/36,000 mile bumper to bumper warranty, which includes the compressed natural gas tanks, storage compartment and fuel filler equipment.
Ram 1500 Tradesman
Ram also announced today that the Ram 1500 Tradesman would be available in Crew Cab and Quad Cab models to complement the regular-cab Ram 1500 Tradesman models already on sale. The Ram 1500 Tradesman was a value-priced package for half-ton trucks for small business, construction, and commercial fleet uses.
The Ram 1500 Tradesman is powered by a 310-horsepower 4.7-liter V-8 FFV engine. Chrysler says the engine cranks out 330 lb-ft of torque, can tow up to 7700 pounds, and is rated 20 mpg highway. The 390-horsepower 5.7-liter Hemi V-8 is optional. The Hemi ups the ante with 407 lb-ft of torque. Both engines are mated to a six-speed automatic transmission.
Ram 1500 Tradesman models also get unique steel wheels and a factory-applied sprayed-in bedliner. Models equipped with the 4.7-liter V-8 come with the RamBox cargo system including lighted, lockable storage for tools and adjustable tie downs. Other features include a Class IV receiver hitch and four- and seven-pin trailer connectors.
Also available is the Ram 1500 Tradesman HD. The HD version of the half-ton truck is available only as a two-wheel-drive, long-bed, regular cab pickup. It has a towing capacity of 11,500 pounds, and a payload of 3125 pounds.
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Close to two years ago, we began writing material for a new album. It was exciting for us as not only had Benjamin Schaefer just joined us on percussion, we entered the process with a blank slate. Full of ideas that had been placed on the back burner in the time following the release of For Highbrow Sideshows and Rowboat Serenades, we were eager to explore the sounds that a new collaborative process would create. Lady of Stone is the first of many new songs that were born out of that initial writing process.
Last summer, we got the opportunity to shoot a music video in the historic Riverside Theater, and selected Lady of Stone. Rather than performing to a pre-recorded soundtrack, we elected to capture the performance live, working with the Riverside's sound engineer, Simon Bundy. Video production and editing was handled by Blend Studios. The result is a beautiful video that captures the essence of our music, the textures of our aesthetic, and serves as a new introduction to The Vitrolum Republic. We can't wait to share with you where we go from here.


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A former IT staffer has been sentenced to a year and a day in prison for stealing sensitive information belonging to his co-workers and using the data to make money filling out online health surveys.
Cam Giang, 31, was fired from the University of California San Francisco Medical Center earlier this year after investigators discovered that he'd been using the names, birthdays and Social Security numbers of other UCSF employees to fill out hundreds of online surveys. The point was to collect online vouchers, worth US$100 each.
He had worked at the medical center's IT department for five years and had access to the sensitive information through his job, according to court records.
Between January and April of this year, Giang filled out 382 surveys before the company that was paying for them, StayWell, figured out what was going on. StayWell had been offering UC employees the gift vouchers as incentives to fill out health surveys, but it grew wise to the scam.
The company received complaints from employees who couldn't fill out the survey. When StayWell investigated, it turned out that Giang had already filled out surveys in their names.
In court filings, Giang's attorney said he received 218 vouchers (total value $21,800) but never managed to cash them in. Giang only used part of the Social Security numbers of his co-workers while filling out the survey, his lawyer states in a sentencing memorandum. "Mr Giang never intended to steal their identity, and other than losing the opportunity to participate in StayWell's marketing surveys, the victims did not lose anything," says the Oct. 20 memorandum asking the judge for probation instead of jail time.
Giang has been "despondent since his arrest and attempted to commit suicide," the memorandum states.
Giang pleaded guilty to wire fraud and identity theft charges on July 22. He was sentenced Wednesday by Judge Jeremy Fogel of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
In early May, the UCSF warned 486 people that their information had been accessed.
Robert McMillan covers computer security and general technology breaking news for The IDG News Service. Follow Robert on Twitter at @bobmcmillan. Robert's e-mail address is firstname.lastname@example.com


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It's official. Over a million guitarists chose Spider® amplifiers!
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How To Deal With An 11 Run Loss: DRINK!
People deal with hardships in different ways. For the Blue Jays 11 run loss to the Red Sox, I chose to delve into the alcohol. But then, a funny thing happened … so did everyone else!
@Spankadia chose to go with something a little stronger, Sambuca.
@TaoofStieb on the other hand resorted to the good old Kronenbough.
@ArchiZuber would've partaken in the festivities, but they're only allowed bottled water in the edit bay. Poor guy.
@mererog turned to Heineken for some comfort after the Jays were behind by 14 runs in just the fourth inning.
@ILBlueJay grabbed for an ice cold Miller Lite, and usually after about 10 or so of them, Cito's decisions start to look pretty good.
@s_findlay choose a bit of a different route going non-alcoholic with a tea, but a great choice nonetheless because nothing like an Earl Grey to calm those nerves after watching Romero implode.
@DrewGROF brought some backup for the Blue Jays in the form of champagne. This one's for my homeys.
@BKBlades ensures me this was just some Dr. Pepper and melted ice, but this snifter look and awfuly lot like Courvoisier specially from the liquor cabinet of Leon Phelps the Ladies Man.
@PowerofGiggle continued the soft drink theme, going with a Coca-Cola Classic to ease the pain.
@_L_Jay_ dipped into the liquor cabinet for some Prince Igor vodka accompanied by the Blue Jays shot glass.
@powder_blue was there to watch the entire game go down from start to finish at the Rogers Centre, and it took a few brews to even make this one bearable.
@MichelleEddie and @SandyMacLeod accompanied tonight's game with a couple of Stella Artois.
@Roll_Fizzlebeef missed out on the action, but here is an artist's rendition of what would've gone down.
@heyscottsmith sipped on some sake to help numb the pain of what was a pretty tough game from the Blue Jays fans perspective.
It just goes to show you that even during blowout losses, there are still some thing to celebrate. Cheers!


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Unarmed man jailed and charged for worrying bus driver
An Oregon man riding a public bus was arrested and booked into the Multnomah County Jail Tuesday for allegedly mentioning firearms during a conversation.
According to reports, a TriMet bus driver claims to have overheard comments made by 41-year-old Patrick O'Brien Nolin, who is accused of telling another passenger that he was carrying a firearm.
TriMet police were immediately called to the scene and began approaching the bus at the intersection of Northeast 82nd Avenue and Sandy Boulevard. Preparing to board, officers suddenly received new reports claiming that Nolin was not only armed, but had his firearm "cocked and loaded."
Police carefully made their way onto the bus before finally confronting Nolin, who it turned out had no firearm or weapon whatsoever. Despite breaking no law, police decided to arrest Nolin anyway, charging him with "Interfering With Public Transportation," a Class A Misdemeanor. Nolin was released on his own recognizance several hours later.
According to TriMet regulations, no person, except for law enforcement, can bring or carry any firearm, knife or any other instrument, article, device, material or substance specifically designed for, or attempted to be used to, inflict or cause bodily harm to another.
As Oregon state law preempts any regulation that restricts the possession or transfer of firearms under ORS 166.170, TriMet also goes on to state that a person in possession of a weapon, that cannot be legally banned, may not display or carry the weapon in a manner which is likely to result in fear or alarm by other persons or District employees.
Regardless, Nolin's arrest clearly illustrates the establishment's over-the-top reaction to anything Second Amendment related. In countless examples across the country, people, mostly children, have been punished for completely legal activity.
Last April, a highly decorated military veteran was illegally detained and disarmed after an officer accused him of "rudely displaying his rifle while out on a hike with his son.
In 2012, a 5-year-old girl in Pennsylvania was suspended for making a "terroristic threat" after telling fellow students about her "Hello Kitty" toy bubble gun.
The following year, a 5-year-old Maryland boy was interrogated for 2 hours until he wet himself after bringing a toy cap gun to school.
Last September, a 9-year-old boy in Detroit was suspended indefinitely after a teacher accused him of pointing his spinning top machine like a gun.


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PEORIA, IL—Daintily rising from his desk chair as he meekly whispered a pitiful apology into his iPhone, local accounting assistant and pathetic little pussy Andrew Kirby, 32, reportedly needed to take an incoming call in another room Thursday, office sources confirmed. "Hold on, let me go somewhere quiet," said the cowering excuse for a man while scampering like a little bitch into an unoccupied conference room where he could hold his oh-so-precious conversation without fear of coworkers overhearing. "Sorry about that. You there? Okay, good." At press time, the company's sales team had entered the conference room for a meeting, forcing the gabby, ball-less weakling to emit a girly little sigh and puss out altogether by saying he would call the other person back later.
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China now has the iPhone and more big-name smartphones are due in the country, but few buyers overall are choosing smartphones despite promotion by China's mobile carriers.
High prices are slowing smartphone sales growth despite work to cut their prices down to around 1,000 yuan ($146). Smartphone sales in China—not counting sales on the country's gray market—passed 7 million units in the final quarter of last year, but that accounted for less than 15 percent of mobile phone sales in the country, Chinese consultancy Analysys International said this week.
"Price is still the biggest obstacle," said Liu Ning, an analyst at technology consultancy BDA. Smartphones remain expensive because they require more powerful hardware and their makers often must pay to use their operating systems, he said.
China's three big carriers—China Unicom, China Mobile and China Telecom—have all sought more diverse handset lineups to match expansion of their young 3G networks. China Unicom late last year started selling the iPhone, China Mobile has a deal to get a BlackBerry model with its homegrown 3G standard and China Telecom has said it is in talks to offer the Palm Pre.
But the carriers have also worked to fill in their lower-end handset offerings. China Mobile's chairman has said smartphone sales would get a big boost if prices drop below 1,000 yuan.
Many smartphones, including the iPhone, can be had for that price or less when bought with certain mobile service contracts. But the goal is more to get unsubsidized prices down to 1,000 yuan, which the carriers have yet to do for most smartphones, said Wang Liusheng, an analyst at Analysys International. The more common price range now is 1,500 yuan to 3,000 yuan, he said.
To boost smartphone sales, the carriers also need to widen their pool of applications and other content, such as music services or mobile TV, Wang said. Each carrier is building its own app download store to expand phone content and pull in more revenue, but the range of apps available remains small.
High-end handsets have also faced a rough road. China Unicom sold 100,000 iPhones in roughly six weeks after the phone's launch, well short of post-launch sales figures for carriers in other countries. Many Chinese users have instead bought cheaper versions of the iPhone from outside the country. Android smartphones are starting to appear, but their prices can be high as well. The newly launched Motorola XT701 costs 4,299 yuan on a China Unicom Web site.
China Mobile has developed its own mobile OS based on Android, partly to help lower the cost of its smartphones, said Liu of BDA. Taiwanese chipset vendor MediaTek entering the smartphone market will also help cut costs, Liu said.
MediaTek chipsets currently power many of the low-end mobile phones sold in China. Microsoft and Google have teamed with MediaTek for phone hardware packages that support the Windows Mobile 6 and Android OSes, respectively.
Smartphone penetration is highest in China's major cities, where residents have more buying power than their rural counterparts, said Wang of Analysys. The gradual spread of 3G service is helping boost smartphone use. But 3G remains relatively new and its coverage is best in big cities, he said.
"In remote areas it definitely still has a long road to travel," Wang said.


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Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus
Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus Lyrics
What if I told you voting Republican really wasn't His mission?
What if I told you Republican doesn't automatically mean Christian
And just because you call some people blind doesn't automatically give you vision?
I mean, if religion is so great, why has it started so many wars?
Why does it build huge churches but fails to feed the poor?
Tells single moms God doesn't love them if they've ever had a divorce
But in the Old Testament, God actually calls religious people whores
Religion might preach grace, but another thing they practice
Tend to ridicule God's people; they did it to John the Baptist
They can't fix their problems, and so they just mask it
Not realizing religion's like spraying perfume on a casket
See, the problem with religion is it never gets to the core
It's just behavior modification, like a long list of chores
Like, "Let's dress up the outside, make it look nice and neat"
But it's funny that's what they used to do to mummies while the corpse rots underneath
Now I ain't judging; I'm just saying, quit putting on a fake look
'Cause there's a problem if people only know you're a Christian by your Facebook
I mean, in every other aspect of life, you know that logic's unworthy
It's like saying you play for the Lakers just because you bought a jersey
See, this was me too, but no one seemed to be on to me
Acting like a church kid while addicted to pornography
See, on Sunday I'd go to church, but Saturday getting faded
Acting if I was simply created to just have sex and get wasted
See, I spent my whole life building this facade of neatness
But now that I know Jesus, I boast in my weakness
It's not a museum for good people—it's a hospital for the broken
Which means I don't have to hide my failure; I don't have to hide my sin
Because it doesn't depend on me; it depends on Him
See, because when I was God's enemy and certainly not a fan
He looked down and said, "I want that man."
Which is why Jesus hated religion, and for it He called them fools
Don't you see so much better than just following some rules
Now let me clarify—I love the Church, I love the Bible, and yes, I believe in sin
But if Jesus came to your church, would they actually let Him in?
See, remember He was called a glutton and a drunkard by religious men
But the Son of God never supports self-righteousness—not now, not then
Now back to the point—one thing is vital to mention
How Jesus and religion are on opposite spectrums
See, one's the work of God, but one's a man-made invention
See, one is the cure, but the other's the infection
See, because religion says "do"; Jesus says "done"
Religion says "slave"; Jesus says "son"
Religion puts you in bondage, while Jesus sets you free
Religion makes you blind, but Jesus makes you see
And that's why religion and Jesus are two different clans
Religion is man searching for God; Christianity is God searching for man
Which is why salvation is freely mine, and forgiveness is my own
Not based on my merits, but Jesus' obedience alone
Because He took the crown of thorns, and the blood dripped down His face
He took what we all deserved—I guess that's why you call it grace
And while being murdered, He yelled,
"Father, forgive them; they know not what they do."
Because when He was dangling on that cross, He was thinking of you
And He absorbed all your sin, and He buried it in the tomb
Which is why I'm kneeling at the cross, saying, "Come on, there's room"
So for religion—no, I hate it; in fact I literally resent it
Because when Jesus said, "It is finished," I believe He meant it
Jeff Bethke's poem Jesus > Religion was written, and introduced, in 2012 through a 4-minute video titled, Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus. It literally became an overnight sensation, with 7 million YouTube views in its first 48 hours (and 23+ million in a year). The message blew up on social-media, triggering an avalanche of responses running the gamut from encouraged to enraged. It Also later inspired his Book, Jesus > Religion: Why He Is So Much Better Than Trying Harder, Doing More, And Being Good Enough.
A poem I wrote to highlight the difference between Jesus and false religion. In the scriptures Jesus received the most opposition from the most religious people of his day. At it's core Jesus' gospel and the good news of the Cross is in pure opposition to self-righteousness/self-justification. Religion is man centered, Jesus is God-centered. This poem highlights my journey to discover this truth. Religion either ends in pride or despair. Pride because you make a list and can do it and act better than everyone, or despair because you can't do your own list of rules and feel "not good enough" for God. With Jesus though you have humble confident joy because He represents you, you don't represent yourself and His sacrifice is perfect putting us in perfect standing with God!
–Jefferson Bethke
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A brew and a bro — it's the classic pairing, right? Not necessarily.
From the rise of female brew masters to the growth of women's tasting groups, women are becoming much more than a pint-size part of the brewing world.
The emergence of women as both beer-lovers and brewers happened as the craft beer scene grew overall by leaps and bounds, and that's no coincidence, says Lisa Morrison, Oregon-based writer, blogger and author of "Craft Beers of the Pacific Northwest.â€
"I think that women are finally discovering, thanks to craft beer, that beer has flavor,†she says.
"When we start getting into the artisan stuff you start realizing that there's an entire rainbow of flavors that you can enjoy. And because of that you can pair that with all kinds of different food flavors,†Morrison says. "Women love food. We love cooking. We love tasting food. We love sampling different things. So when you put all that together, the cooking with beer, the pairing food with beer, the whole wide-ranging genre of beer styles and beer flavors — it's something that women can get really excited about.â€
The marketing message is also different, says Julia Herz, home brewer and craft beer program director at the Boulder, Colo.-based Brewers Association.
"Historically, the mass-produced lagers have been marketed as a beverage targeting males in their mid to high 20s, and it seems to me in advertising that I see for craft beer that it's really not marketed as a gender-specific beverage.â€
It's hard to put a number on the trend, but Morrison and others say they've personally seen more women take an interest in beer.
"It used to be at beer festivals, I was pretty much the only gal. Now it's definitely venturing more toward 60-40†with women being the 40 percent, says Morrison, who has been involved in the craft beer scene for nearly 15 years.
On the business side, beer management remains predominantly male, though there have been changes there, too, says Irene Firmat, founder and CEO of Full Sail Brewing Co. in Hood River, Ore.
To support female brewers, a support network called the Pink Boots Society was formed. It includes a consumer tasting group organization, Barley's Angels, that has chapters in the U.S., Canada, Australia and South America.
Being a female beer producer means standing out, says Rosemarie Certo, cofounder and owner of Dock Street Brewing Co. in West Philadelphia.
Certo's interest in beer started when she began making beer at home because she wasn't happy with what was available domestically at the time. She started Dock Street in 1985 and remembers in the early days going to make a sales pitch to a distributor and being the only woman in a room of more than 50. "I remember not being bothered by it,†she recalls.
She sees the craft segment as generally having a different approach to business. "I think it's easier for women to enter the craft industry only because the craft industry is different to begin with,†she says, pointing out that most people don't go into the labor-intensive craft beer business with dreams of piling up a fortune. "It's an industry that is born from a lot of love.â€
Firmat also started in beer about 25 years ago, a time when there were about 20 craft breweries nationwide compared to today's 2,000. Back then, it was considered more outlandish to be challenging the big domestic producers than to be a woman in the beer business, she says.
As far as operating in a man's world, she says, "the thing that I always focused on, and it's what I always tell women in our company, is really focus on being competent. Focus on being good and doing your job and don't go in expecting to get a reaction.â€
And, of course, there's always a silver lining. "You can always tell when you're at a beer conference because there's a line in the men's room and there's none in the women's room,†she says with a laugh.
One of the things that Firmat sees as a challenge is keeping craft beer accessible to women, which means guarding against the snobbery that can creep in when consumers become very enthusiastic about a product — think wine.
"Our responsibility is making sure that the way we communicate is very respectful to men and women,†she says.


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President of the 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly
On 13 June 2016, the United Nations General Assembly elected Ambassador Peter Thomson of Fiji to serve as President of its seventy-first session, which runs from September 2016 to September 2017. Ambassador Thomson took office in New York as Fiji's Permanent Representative to the United Nations in February 2010, serving concurrently as Fiji's Ambassador to Cuba until assumption of his duties as President of the UN General Assembly's seventy-first session. Ambassador Thomson held office as Vice-President of the UN General Assembly in 2011-2012. He was elected as President of the Assembly of the International Seabed Authority's 2011-2012 session and then as President of the Council of the Authority's 2015-2016 session. For the duration of 2013, he chaired the United Nations' largest negotiating bloc, the Group of 77 and China. From January 2014 to January 2015, he served as President of the Executive Board of UN Development Programme/UN Population Fund/UN Office for Programme Support (UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS).
Between 1972 and 1987, he was a civil servant in the Government of Fiji working in the fields of rural development and then foreign affairs. His Fiji government career began as a district officer in the rural regions of Navua, Macuata and Taveuni. In 1978, he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Suva, where he took on political and overseas development assistance responsibilities before being seconded to the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat in 1979.
He was posted to Tokyo in 1981 with the responsibility of opening the Embassy of Fiji in Japan. He remained in Tokyo thereafter as First Secretary (Economic) until 1984, when he was appointed Consul-General of Fiji in Sydney.
In 1986, he returned to Fiji to become Permanent Secretary of Information, first under the leadership of Prime Minister Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, and then under Prime Minister Dr. Timoci Bavadra. In May 1987, he was appointed Permanent Secretary to the Governor-General, Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau, a position he held until his resignation from the civil service following the second military coup d'etat of 1987.
Ambassador Thomson has served as a board member of the Fiji Visitors Bureau, Fiji TV and the Fiji Broadcasting Commission. From 1988 to 2009, he worked in private enterprise as a company director, an investment consultant and a management consultant specializing in Pacific affairs, with clients ranging from government agencies to regional organizations, banks, universities and investment corporations. Ambassador Thomson is a founding member of the executive committees of the Australia-Fiji Business Council and the New Zealand-Fiji Business Council and in 2007 was made a life member of the latter.
He was born in Suva, Fiji in 1948 and was educated at Suva Grammar School and Natabua High School in Fiji. In 1966-1967, he attended the International Centre at Sevenoaks School in the United Kingdom. A graduate in political studies (Auckland University, New Zealand) and development studies (Cambridge University, United Kingdom), Ambassador Thomson has had a lifelong involvement in the field of development.
He is a published author, with one of his books, Kava in the Blood, being the winner of a Montana Book Award for non-fiction. In 2014, he was made an Officer of the Order of Fiji, an award bestowed by the President of Fiji recognizing contributions and achievements by Fijians to the nation. He married Marijcke Thomson in Suva in 1973. They have a son, a daughter and three granddaughters.


text: THE LAST MINE It is still nighttime. The sun has yet to rise and the sky has this dreary dark grey colour that forecasts a cloudy day. Gilles, 55, is getting ready for another day at work. The road that leads to his house goes through a rather pastoral landscape. Rolling hills, stonewalls, lonely trees, and the mist in the air are reminiscent of an Irish landscape. Here and there a silhouette of a farmhouse with one or two lights on emerges out of the darkness. Past the highest peak, the scenery that lays ahead morphs. It is an arresting experience; the bucolic becomes lunar, the fields, the windy roads and the rustic farmhouses give way to large tailings, looming and lifeless. It is at the bottom of this road that stands the city of Thetford Mines, the result of over a century of Asbestos mining. Gilles lives amidst this unorthodox landscape. The path to his home zigzags through abandoned mining properties. He was born here. Like his father and grandfather before him, he started working in the asbestos mine as soon as he could. He did so for 35 years, until Black Lake Operation, the last remaining mine in a region that once boasted ten, closed. "We're not just loosing money", Gilles said over breakfast. "The people that have built this industry did so with their hearts and souls. A bit of that is being lost too." The Last Mine Story and images by Laurence Butet-Roch. Thetford Mines, Quebec September 2009 to December 2011.


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Shhh: Is It Possible To Keep Your Home Private Today?
We live in a know-all, tell-all world, with TMI lifestyles being the rule of thumb rather than the anomaly. While some people are more private than others, it's literally impossible to carve out an existence completely off the information grid, no matter what your personal choice may be. Once upon a time, only those with paranoid delusions lived in fear of being watched. Currently, it may be the wisest among us who are most attuned to that fear, both for themselves and their kids. Who's watching you? What are they learning about you? And how can you turn it off?
Tracking the Trackers
Your body is composed of trillions of cells and your online persona, almost as many data points. Just as you slough off cells without realizing it, you also shed information about your data without conscious effort with every key stroke of your computer. Sure, you know your Twitter updates are out there for the world to see, but your cell phone, apps and browsing history are also being recorded and analyzed, telling a story about you and your day-to-day life that corporations, the government and other savory or not-so-savory individuals are seizing upon and utilizing.
Privacy is not a Constitutional right and the laws we expect to protect us have simply not kept up with technological advances. The results can range from annoying to catastrophic. There are, however, some things you can do to track the trackers and at least partially safeguard yours and your family's privacy.
Black Hats in Suits
"Not all apps are what they seem," says Domingo Guerra, President and Co-Founder of Appthority, an app-risk management company. "People often opt for free versions of apps they would have to pay for in the Apple Store or Google Play. These are sometimes repackaged with malware or spyware. Even if a trusted logo is included, such as Disney, always check the source of the app. Remember that two million apps are trying to catch your eye and earn your download. Make sure you know where yours is coming from and also make sure your child's phone is not jailbroken or unlocked" he adds.
It's not just about apps, however. Nordstrom gained notoriety for tracking its customers' in-store buying habits through their cell phones and Target collected an astonishingly vast treasure trove of data on their customers, in what proved to be a very successful attempt to predict their future pregnancies. Many airports are already housed with facial recognition software and despite the fact that applications for Google Glass are currently on hold, it won't be long before your photo or your child's photo may be covertly snapped by anyone, at any time, without your knowledge or consent. In person, online or on the go, you are probably being tracked by multiple entities, 24/7.
It's literally impossible to turn off the data-collecting machine, but you can stifle some of its choke-hold on your online privacy by installing blocking software, so cookies cannot suck up data from your usage of the web, says Pernille Tranberg, author of "Fake It! Your Guide to Digital Self Defense." Tranberg also suggests ignoring Facebook's real name rule and using an alias on social media websites as well as your running apps and tracking gadgets, like fitbit flex. "You can also use alternatives to the many 'free' services where you are actually paying with your data," she says. "Consider using some of the brilliant alternatives out there such as startpage.com or duckduckgo.com," she suggests.
Black Hats in Sweats
Then there's plain old common sense and the need to protect more than just your data. You may not want to believe it, but the love of your life today may turn into your revenge-hungry nightmare tomorrow. Thousands of women who thought it could never happen to them have woken up to the nightmare of seeing explicit photos of themselves on websites like revengeporn.com by former boyfriends or even husbands. Adding to this horror is the knowledge that these men did not break the law by doing so.
The photos often include identifying information like names and addresses as well as links to sites such as Facebook. Unless you're Miley Cyrus, this is more than just an embarrassment, it is also a potentially dangerous situation which puts women on the radar of stalkers and rapists as well as current or future employers and friends.
And then there are those cute baby photos of your little ones in the raw. Show caution before you post these, even on a site you think is private. "Many postcard-making websites and apps are geared towards families but the pictures are not kept private," says Guerro. "Unlike Instagram where you know the pictures will be made public, on other postcard applications, people's private pictures often get posted on Amazon web services where they live forever." What represents love to you may represent sex to someone else.
Don't post a photo of your baby or child anywhere online unless you would be comfortable having your boss see that same photo of you as a child. And don't make the mistake of thinking your address is private or that your child's identity, or whereabouts, can't be tracked by someone who wishes to do them harm.
We live in a world so comfortable with complete access to private information that we are no longer horrified to hear 911 calls on the news, and gleefully download celebrity photos we know they do not wish us to see. This assault extends to every one of us. Our buying habits, friendships and interests have been laid bare for anyone who wishes to look and has the technology to do so. This is cause for outrage as well as concern. Clearly it's no longer paranoid to fear we're being watched or to wonder whose doing the watching. On any given day, at any given time, the answer appears to be just about everybody.
Corey Whelan is a freelance writer in New York. Her work can be found at Examiner.com.
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Welcome to the Evidence-based Toxicology (EBT) course. In medicine and healthcare, evidence-based medicine has revolutionized the way that information is evaluated transparently and objectively. Over the past ten years, a movement in North America and Europe has attempted to translate this revolution to the field of toxicology. The Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT) within the department of Environmental Health and Engineering at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health hosts the first chair for EBT and the secretariat for the EBT Collaboration on both sides of the Atlantic. Based on the Cochrane Collaboration in Evidence-based Medicine, the EBT Collaboration was established at the CAAT to foster the development of a process for quality assurance of new toxicity tests for the assessment of safety in humans and the environment. Regulatory safety sciences have undergone remarkably little change in the past fifty years. At the same time, our knowledge in the life sciences is doubling about every seven years. Systematic review and related evidence-based approaches are beginning to be adapted by regulatory agencies like the Environment Protection Agency (EPA), the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), and the US National Toxicology Program. They provide transparent, objective, and consistent tools to identify, select, appraise, and extract evidence across studies. This course will showcase these emerging efforts and address opportunities and challenges to the expanded use of these tools within toxicology.
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What you know as oil is actually called petroleum or crude oil and may exist as a combination of liquid, gas, and sticky, tar-like substances. Oil and natural gas are cleaner fuels than coal, but they still have many environmental disadvantages.
The secret to fossil fuels' ability to produce energy is that they contain a large amount of carbon. This carbon is left over from living matter — primarily plants — that lived millions of years ago. Oil and natural gas are usually the result of lots of biological matter that settles to the seafloor, where the hydrocarbons (molecules of hydrogen and carbon), including methane gas, become trapped in rocks.
Petroleum sources are usually small pockets of liquid or gas trapped within rock layers deep underground (often under the seafloor). Extracted crude oil is refined and used to manufacture gasoline (used in transportation) and petrochemicals (used in the production of plastics, pharmaceuticals, and cleaning products).
Like other resources, oil isn't evenly distributed across the globe. The top oil-producing countries are Saudi Arabia, Russia, the U.S., Iran, China, Canada, and Mexico. Together, these countries produce more than half of the total oil resources in the world.
While some petroleum is found in gas form, the most common natural gas is methane. Methane usually occurs in small amounts with petroleum deposits and is often extracted at the same time as the petroleum. Natural gas can be found in certain rock layers, trapped in the tiny spaces in sedimentary rocks.
The environmental impact of drilling for oil
Oil companies pump liquid oil out of the ground by using drilling rigs and wells that access the pockets of oil resources. The oil fills the rock layers the way water fills a sponge — spreading throughout open spaces — instead of existing as a giant pool of liquid.
This arrangement means that to pump out all the oil, drillers have to extend or relocate the wells after the immediate area has been emptied. Oil drilling rigs set on platforms in the ocean to access oil reserves below the seafloor must therefore employ a series of more technically complex drill rigs built to access oil reserves in deeper water.
This figure illustrates some of the most commonly used ocean drilling rigs and platforms and the water depths they're most suited for.
Oil is a cleaner fuel than coal, but it still has many disadvantages, such as the following:
Refining petroleum creates air pollution. Transforming crude oil into petrochemicals releases toxins into the atmosphere that are dangerous for human and ecosystem health.
Burning gasoline releases CO2. Although oil doesn't produce the same amount of CO2 that coal burning does, it still contributes greenhouse gases to the atmosphere and increases global warming.
Oil spills cause great environmental damage. Large oil spills sometimes occur during drilling, transport, and use, which of course affect the surrounding environment. But these spills aren't the only risk.
Although large oil spills with catastrophic environmental effects — such as the 1989 Exxon Valdez in Alaska or the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico — get the most media coverage, most of the oil spilled into ecosystems is actually from oil that leaks from cars, airplanes, and boats, as well as illegal dumping.
The environmental impact of fracking for natural gas
Natural gas is a relatively clean-burning fuel source — it produces approximately half the CO2 emissions that coal burning produces — so demand for natural gas has increased in the last few decades as concerns grow about carbon emissions and global warming.
Now fuel producers are exploring natural gas in reservoirs separate from petroleum as sources of this fuel. To release the gas from the rocks and capture it for use as fuel, companies use a method of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
Fracking for natural gas requires injecting a liquid mix of chemicals, sand, and water into the gas-bearing rock at super high pressures — high enough to crack open the rock, releasing trapped gases. The gas is then pumped out of the rock along with the contaminated water.
The sand and chemicals are left behind in the rock fractures, leading to groundwater pollution and potentially less stable bedrock. Currently scientists are concerned that earthquakes in regions of the Midwestern United States that have never experienced earthquakes before are the result of wastewater from natural gas fracking operations.


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A Month with a Mac - Part II: The Mobile Experienceby Anand Lal Shimpi on January 24, 2005 12:01 AM EST
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The Aftermath of Part IBefore proceeding with this article, please read through the first Mac article, "A Month with a Mac article", to get a foundation for the purpose, perspective and background that led to this article. This article is very much intended to be a sequel and not something that will stand on its own. If you've never used Mac OS X at great lengths or haven't read through the positive and negative points of the Mac platform from a PC user's perspective (from the first article), go back and read Part I before continuing.
When I originally committed to doing a Mac section on AnandTech, I actually committed it to the readers before discussing it with the rest of AnandTech staff. So when it came time to implement it, the rest of the staff didn't see much of a place for Mac articles on AnandTech. It took a lot of convincing (as well as some executive privilege) for the establishment of the Mac section, and then came the publication of the first Mac article: A Month with a Mac: A Die Hard PC User's Perspective.
Within the first three days of publication, that little Mac article skyrocketed to becoming one of the all-time most popular articles ever published on AnandTech. The flood of emails that came in as a result of that article is greater than the response to any single product launch that I'd ever seen. Even to this day, I get tons of emails from users just now stumbling upon the article, searching for PC user experiences with OS X as folks contemplate trying out OS X for the first time, thanks to the release of the Mac mini.
Immediately after the publication of the first Mac article, I already thought about doing a follow-up. The scope of the first article was already quite massive and the depth was as thorough as I could be without writing a book on the experience, yet there was already so much more to cover.
Then there were the responses to the article - Mac users complained that I was being too harsh on the one-button mouse, PC users complained that I was being too positive on the OS, but then the vast majority of users actually provided some very good feedback, asking for more information in certain areas. In fact, I'd say that the Mac article resulted in the most positive email responses that I've had from an article to date. I introduced the original article by talking about how difficult of an article it was to write, but after the overwhelming response to it, a sequel didn't seem that difficult.
One problem with these types of articles is that they inevitably take much longer to put together, simply because there are no structured tests to run and analyze. Articles like this are very much about the experience, and to do the experience justice, it's truly something that you have to integrate into your daily routine for a while. Prior to the first Mac experiment, I'd used Macs at various stages in my computing life, but never actually trying to integrate them into my daily routine. Writing an article based on any of those experiences would have turned out very differently compared to what the first article ended up being.
The downside to these long-term subjective evaluations is that the hardware industry changes at a spectacular pace and a lot happened during and immediately after the publication of the first Mac article that changed things dramatically. Before diving into the focus for this article, I'd like to briefly touch on some of the hot items that have surfaced since Part I.
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MIDIman - Monday, January 24, 2005 - linkAs always - great article! Two of my friends last year moved from PC to apple notebooks, but kept their PC desktops.
Here's to looking forward to your Mac Mini article ;)
xype - Monday, January 24, 2005 - linkI predict in one year's time Anand will be advocating Macs on the anandtech forum, flaming PC users and wearing Steve Jobs themed tshirts all the time! Teeheee!
Ok, maybe not. But the article is nice and I hope it manages to get more users to look into alternative platforms, be that Macs or Linux desktops or whatever else is interesting and/or useable.
jtntwozz - Monday, January 24, 2005 - linknice article
well done anand
zekester - Monday, January 24, 2005 - linkYes, Sidetrack might be just what the doctor ordered. Personally I've been using Mac notebooks long enough to have developed the knack of hitting modifier keys and the trackpad simultaneously -- with one hand, no less -- but for the PC switcher/adder who's missing that second button, Sidetrack can separately map the hardware button and touchpad to yield "left" and "right" clicks.
BTW it seems to be $15 now, but still shareware so you can try before you buy.
grug2k - Monday, January 24, 2005 - linkI thought I'd point out theres a program called Sidetrack available at ragingmenace.com. It allows you to fully customize the trackpad behaviour. I have it set up so tapping the trackbad now acts as a mouseclick, I don't have to use the button at all (except click+dragging). Additionally, tapping the bottom right corner acts as a right click (fancy that), and the very right edge acts as a scrollwheel.
It used to be free but I think its $10 now. Either way, well worth it, and I consider it essential for any iBook or Powerbook user.
crazycarl - Monday, January 24, 2005 - linknice article!
addragyn - Monday, January 24, 2005 - linkApple recently released their results for the previous quarter, iBook sales were up 35% over the same quarter last year.
271,000 iBooks / $297 million
knitecrow - Monday, January 24, 2005 - linklast i checked, apple ibooks sales weren't too good. I wonder if centrino marketing and Penium-M had anything to do with it.
HermDogg - Monday, January 24, 2005 - linkI still say new PBs show up tomorrow or Tuesday. Mark my words!
Excellent article.
habibbijan - Monday, January 24, 2005 - linkNice article Anand. I enjoyed it.
You don't need to "ctrl-click" the Applications shortcut in the dock to expand it. Just click-and-hold for a second. You'll get the same results.


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There are lots of recycling programs that will happily salvage the raw materials from your outdated electronics. But if you still can't let your old 386 go, maybe Rodrigo Alonso has another solution for you—turn it into gaudy furniture.
His N+ew, or No More Electronic Waste, stools are composed of a small mountain of defunct electronics and other hardware including circuit boards, wires, mice, computer components, and even entire keyboards. They're all dumped into a large mould which is then filled with a clear epoxy resin to bind everything together.
Once it's set and has been polished to a high-gloss finish, the results are like a time capsule that you don't have to wait 100 years to look inside. Oh crap, that's where my keys went! [Rodrigo Alonso via Inhabitat]


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"I think they (documentaries) are key to the future of human sleep."
A documentary is an important, interesting, educational film designed specifically to put students and other academics to sleep. One who makes a documentary is a documenterrier, though sometimes documentarianist is sometimes used.
Documentaries are hailed by teachers everywhere who are too lazy to design lesson plans and/or too stupid to cover course curriculum and/or were out drinking late the night before and need some time to sleep during class. They are usually reviled by those who must watch them.
Although making a documentary can be as simple as finding an old man, turning on a camera and asking him a question about anything, traditional documentaries feature reels of random film footage about an event, place, animal or scientific discovery over-dubbed with a commentary recorded by an aloof gentleman speaking snooty English. Sometimes, the over-dubbing is interrupted with short interviews of boring academics with PhDs who apparently boast some expertise in the topic of the film.
Types of Documentaries[edit]
Most documentaries can be lumped into five categories
- Documentaries about wildlife
- Documentaries about past or present events
- Documentaries about past or present societies and cultures
- Documentaries about dead people and their involvement in past events, societies and cultures
- Documentaries about advances or discoveries, technology and science, and why no one cares about them unless they are related to mp3 players or making pigs glow in the dark.
There are also a few oddball documentaries that do not fall into these categories, and may be called fuck-you-mentaries. These usually involve someone trying to make a comment on society for the sole purpose of heckling one societal group or another. This rankling delights the documenterriers, who are well satisfied that their documentary reinforces one group's previously-held views while being completely ignored and denigrated by the group of which it is critical.
For example, working class hero Michael Moore's epic fuck-you-mentary Fahrenheit 9/11 galvanized Americans unafraid of changing the status quo by challenging American sheep and their shepherds for suggesting their own version of the truth was actually unjust and inhumane. In response, many Americans were unable to catch the spirit and instead focused on Mr. Moore being fat.
Documentaries About Wildlife[edit]
Wildlife documentaries are created using a standard formula which states that all documentaries about wildlife must include:
- A close-up shot of the animal(s) mating
- A close-up shot of something eating the animal, or the animal eating something else
- An interview with an animal 'expert' telling you how exciting the animal "actually is"
- A commentary about how the animal is endangered by human activity
There have been reports of documentaries being made about plants. This cannot be proven as nobody has managed to stay awake long enough for verification.
Documentaries about past or present events[edit]
Documentaries about past events often include a discussion about war, disease or social violence. A must have is a depiction of dead bodies and/or shots of cemeteries where people who died in the war, or the disease or during the social violence, are buried. Showing dead bodies and gravestones is the documenterrier's best proof that the past event did indeed occur.
Documentaries about present events are often more interesting and attract public attention. However, documentaries about present events soon become documentaries about past events and so the documentary becomes as dry as toast pretty darn quickly.
Documentaries about Technology and Science[edit]
Documentaries about technology and science are often filmed on subjects such as space and DNA and computers and other equally boring non-living things. The film footage in these documentaries is unoriginal and often contrived; most of what is discussed in these films is too small for a normal camera to film or too far away. In the instances where there is something physical and concrete to catch on film, camera-men take the opportunity to get as many shots of said item from as many angles as possible while musicians play ominous music and/or music with a lot of beeps and zips to give the impression that the highlighted piece of technology is thrilling, important, and futuristic as well.
Documentaries about Societies and Cultures[edit]
This type of documentary is the easiest way for documentary makers to get up close and personal shots of women wearing no shirts, and men wearing only loin cloths. If people of the society being portrayed wear ample amounts of clothing then shots of people in saunas, or in swimming pools, or exploding are present.


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The group of US riders calling the Euro Cross Camp house in Izegem, Belgium, home for the holidays this year is a gifted lot. Some of the best in the nation, including current National Champions Zach McDonald (collegiate) and Jeff Bahnson (Junior), who, along with with Gunnar Bergey, finally got out of Heathrow airport after four days, and are currently preparing to face the best in the world.
Euro Cross Camp has given up-and-coming riders from the US a chance to live the life of the pros for the week between Christmas and New Year's, focusing only on riding, racing and gaining the experience that will put them on the top of the World's podiums. Geoff Proctor and the rest of the crew ensure the riders have everything they need, including the activities needed to fill the off-days.
In between the six to eight races that the riders will do over their time in Europe, there is a gap that allows for a little friendly competition. Geoff Proctor held a training race just down the road from camp headquarters on Wednesday, December 22, in an effort to keep some spark in the legs between racing on the weekends.
Kona's Ryan Trebon came down to join the camp's racers as they departed the house just before noon for the 2 kilometer ride down to the start. The course was run down along the canal, just on the edge of Izegem, and on a classic Belgium day that was damp, wet and ultra foggy. The race was 30 minutes with bragging rights and a day off from chores around the house for the winners of each category. In the end Rapha-Focus' Zach McDonald edged Ryan Trebon for the overall win with a bike throw at the finish.
Photographer Tom Robertson was on-hand to catch all the action. See his gallery documenting the outing below:


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— NASA astronaut Mike Massimino is back on "The Big Bang Theory" in a new episode of the hit CBS comedy, but he soon won't be the only spaceman on network television.
Massimino, a veteran of two actual space shuttle flights to upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope and one made-for-TV mission to the International Space Station, is making his fifth cameo appearance on "The Big Bang Theory." In the episode "The Table Polarization," premiering Feb. 27, Massimino reunites with his "crewmate" Howard Wolowitz (actor Simon Helberg) to offer him another chance to go to space.
Massimino may be the first astronaut to be featured on scripted television in 2014, but as it stands now, he will be far from the last. All four major U.S. networks, ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX, have space exploration-themed shows in development or set to air. Add to that cable networks such as National Geographic Channel, and astronauts are soon to be this year's television stars.
Astronauts, and their wives
Massimino is a real U.S. astronaut playing a fictional one. In ABC's upcoming series, actors — and actresses — will take on the roles of historical NASA astronauts, and their spouses.
JoAnna Garcia Swisher is first lead to be announced for "Astronaut Wives Club," a 10-episode series based on Lily Koppel's same-titled 2013 book about the women behind America's first astronauts. Helmed by Stephanie Savage, the co-creator of "Gossip Girl," "Astronaut Wives Club" is set to launch on ABC this summer.
Swisher will trade in her mermaid tail as "Ariel" on ABC's "Once Upon a Time" for the role of Betty Grissom, the real life wife of Mercury astronaut Virgil "Gus" Grissom, whose spacecraft promptly sank to the oceanfloor after splashing down from space.
Academy Award-winning actress Halle Berry will step into the role of a more modern astronaut, though not on "Wives Club." Premiering July 2 on CBS, Berry will portray "Molly Watts," a fictional space explorer, in the Steven Spielberg-produced "Extant."
The series, described by CBS as a thriller, follows Berry's character after she returns from a yearlong space mission. Little more has been revealed about the series' plot, other than that "her experiences lead to events that ultimately will change the course of human history."
Space history, of a sort, is also the setting for "Mission Control" by executive producer and comedian Will Ferrell. NBC has ordered a pilot episode for the series, which has been described as a "workplace ensemble in the tone of 'Anchorman' [that] examines what happens when a strong woman butts heads with a macho astronaut in the race to land on the moon."
From space to the 'Cosmos'
Two TV documentaries coming in March will seek to take their audiences to outer space, rather than re-stage it with actors.
In "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey," FOX and National Geographic Channel are re-launching the late astronomer Carl Sagan's 1980 groundbreaking science series with 13 new parts. Hosted by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and produced by "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane, "Cosmos" will premiere on 123-branded FOX channels in 125 countries and 90 National Geographic Channels in 170 countries, making it the largest-ever global launch for a TV series.
The first episode, "Standing Up in the Milky Way," airs on FOX on March 9, followed by an encore presentation the following night on National Geographic.
Then on March 14, as "Cosmos" continues to air, National Geographic and Channel 4 in the U.K. will produce "Live from Space," a two-hour, unprecedented television special featuring NASA astronaut Richard Mastracchio and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata live from the International Space Station.
According to the network, viewers will be able to chat via video with Mastracchio and Wakata and have their faces beamed into space to join the conversation. In addition to the astronauts, flight controllers and researchers will also be featured in segments originating from NASA's Mission Control in Houston during the course of the live event.
On the launch pad
Even more astronaut and space-related programming is in the works.
Announced last June, Primeridian Entertainment has hired "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" screenwriter and director Nicholas Meyer to pen a pilot episode and treatment for a TV series to "examine the tense competition between the US and USSR superpowers at the height of the Cold War, starting with the scramble to capture the remains of the Nazi V-2 [rocket] program."
The still untitled space-race-themed project is being based on Matthew Brzezinski's 2007 "Red Moon Rising: Sputnik and the Hidden Rivalries That Ignited the Space Age."
There was also news in April 2013 of a series pitch by the writers behind AMC's "Mad Men" under the working title, "Cocoa Beach." Based in part on veteran space journalist Jay Barbree's 2007 book "Live from Cape Canaveral," the series would focus on the space program of the 1960s and the journalists who covered it.
"Hopefully, it happens," Dave Netterstrom, the mayor of the real Cocoa Beach, told Florida Today. "We want to let people know we're a cool place to visit and a cool place to live."


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Cultural landmark
Kylmäpihlaja lighthouse
Would you like to spend an atmospheric night in the lighthouse and wake up to stunning sea views in the middle of the sea? At the Kylmäpihlaja lighthouse it really is possible!Share on Facebook
Although a night in the lighthouse is a great experience in itself, the island of Kylmäpihlaja offers much more to do: on the idyllic island you can relax in a peaceful natural setting, enjoy the heat of the sauna, spend time in a hot tub or take a refreshing dip in the Baltic Sea. In the immediate vicinity of the lighthouse, you can also find a beach café and a 30-seat restaurant offering traditional local food. If you are looking for an unforgettable place for a holiday in Finland, consider the island of Kylmäpihlaja as your next destination.
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The Poseidon family of SOCs was originally developed by Philips then transfered over to NXP.
PR31100 is is a single-chip, low-cost, integrated embedded processor. PR31100 consists of a 40MHz R3000 3.3V static CMOS CPU with 4 K Instruction / 1 K Data cache memory, without MMU, multiple DMA channels and a high-performance and flexible Bus Interface Unit (BIU) and external I/O modules.
Poseidon v1.0
PR31500 is a 37MHz R3000 3.3V static CMOS CPU with R3000A TLB and 4K Instrution / 1K Data cache. PR31500 also contains multi-channel DMA controller, ROM, Flash, RAM, DRAM, SDRAM, SRAM, and PCMCIA controller and Dual-UART, SPI and High-speed serial interface controllers. Philips licensed a version of Toshiba's R3900 MIPS RISC processor core for the PR31500.
TwoChipPIC (for Personal Intelligent Communicator) chipset consists of the PR31500 microcontroller and the UCB1100 analog interface chip. The UCB1100 provides a 12-bit audio codec and a 14-bit modem codec, a touchscreen interface, and a 10-bit A/D converter for measuring battery voltages and other analog inputs.
Poseidon v1.5
The PR31700 is a 75MHz R3000 (PR3901 Processor Core) with MMU, 4K Instruction / 1K Data cache. PR31700 also contains multi-channel DMA controller, ROM, Flash, RAM, DRAM, SDRAM, SRAM, and PCMCIA controller. It is also identical to the Toshiba 3912 processor from the TX39XX family. It is pretty clear that Philips licensed or bought this core directly from Toshiba.
The datasheet can be found here: http://www.nxp.com/acrobat_download2/various/PR31700USER_GUIDE_2.pdf
The TwoChipPIC Plus chipset consists of Philips™ PR31700 and UCB1200 analog chip.


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Hey all, I had a crazy cool weekend and a mini getaway to the southern part of my state. For anyone who hasn't visited California yet, the South and the North are like night and day. I don't get down south as often as I like to, but it's such a fun place to visit. Palm trees, beaches, breezy tropical cocktails, fish tacos, and plenty of things to see and do. It was my cousin's baby shower but also an opportunity to hang out with family and friends, even if just for a 36 hours.
I met up with my blog buddy JJ from the Blah Blah Blahger on Saturday and she was kind enough to drive us down to the Newport Beach area, and we headed to Crystal Cove for lunch and some great beach views. This is such a cute little beach hangout where you can actually rent cottages if you make your reservations way in advance.
Someday I need a rope fence in my life just like this one.
One of the things I love most about travel is how different the botanicals are. I'm pretty sure this is a yucca tree, they are everywhere, just like palm trees and bougainvillea.
We popped into some shops in the Newport Beach area too and I couldn't help but love this climbing vine, 5,000 points if you can tell me the name of it because I don't know what it is.
How cool are these woody tangled stems and those huge yellow flowers? What is its name? Does it grow from magic beans all the way to the sky? These things I must know.
Speaking of shops, we hung out in an amazing home furnishings and decor store called Juxtaposition – when in Newport Beach you must visit. I love this simple pennant pillow (and psssst…. what a great idea for a DIY project to represent your alma mater).
I prefer smaller scale chevron prints and this one from afar reminds me of a twist on sophisticated houndstooth, and hello fabulous nailhead trim.
This is a favorite conversation area combo: tailored neutral furnishings layered in textured large scale textiles with a rustic coffee table in the middle, I could curl up here all day.
Just behind were rows of divine fabrics from Ikats to summer stripes, I'll take one of each pillow case please!
This large scale floral was one of our favorites, we loved the perfect medley of colors.
Green glass bottles with vintage labels are great for so many things, from storing cotton balls to displaying fresh flowers.
Flags in home decor are still popular, especially here, and I love all the interpretations from pillows, to throws, or even framed as art.
I spied several patchwork patterns and also the 'over dyed' ultra saturated fabrics in many of the decorative pillows and throws on the floor. And it's official, the fiddle fig tree is the hottest indoor botanical right now, they were everywhere too.
This was my favorite display with its curated mixture of textures and styles from rustic to glam, it looked like something straight out of Lonny magazine. That chipped paint concave mirror in person is TDF and so were those silver lamps with black linen shades, swoon!
It was so great to dip my toes in the sand and spend a beautiful sunny day in Southern California.
What's better than a getaway with girlfriends spent by the sea? Not much if you ask me!


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More than 100,000 customers in northern B.C. were without power Wednesday night due to a transmission circuit failure caused by a suspected lightning strike, according to BC Hydro.
The power went out at 8:54 p.m. impacting communities south, north and west of Prince George, including Mackenzie, Vanderhoof, Smithers, Fort St John, Dawson Creek, Chetwynd, Hudsons Hope, Terrace, Houston and Burns Lake.
Crews began restoration efforts across the region right away, working to restore all customers in the next few hours. The utility company said power had been restored in Prince George at about 10:30 p.m. and most customers could expect theirs back by 12:30 a.m.
Dispatch at Prince George RCMP confirmed there was some sort of explosion in Prince George, however, fire crews say they were not connected.
Prince George Fire Rescue Services confirm that there are no local fires connected to tonight's power outage— Prince George, BC (@CityofPG) September 12, 2019
As of 9:40 p.m. there were 72 outages recorded in northern B.C. effecting 78,952 customers and 37 recorded in central Interior B.C. affecting a further 43,542.
Customers in Williams Lake and Cache Creek reported on social media they saw their lights flicker or dim around 9 p.m.
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