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Alan Pittman and Associates
Alpha Signs & Lighting
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Alpine Fresh, Inc.
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Ambassador Inn
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American Flooring
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American Tree and Stump Removal
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Amy Bill
Amy Bill is a Local Christian Singer/Song Writer based out of Fayetteville, NC.www.amybill.com
Attorney Coy E. Brewer, Jr.
A Fayetteville, NC based attorney.www.lawyerbrewer.com
Axes And Xs
Axe throwing involves players throwing an axe at a target to accumulate points for a win – think darts, but waaay cooler.http://www.axesandxs.com/
Benson Construction
Benson Construction, Inc.www.bensonconstruction.com/
Beyoutiful Faces
Cosmetic and Nail Artisthttps://beyoutifulfaces.com/
Bordeaux Center
Bordeaux Center is a pedestrian friendly, medically oriented, professional community. Our mission is to provide space for medical and professional offices and businesses that support the needs of our community.https://www.bordeauxcenter.com/
Burkehead Devane
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Callahan & Rice Insurance Group
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Cape Fear Mobile RV Service
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Cape Fear Partners
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Carolina Aquatech Pools and Spas
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Carolina Pressure Pros
Pressure Washing company for residential and commercial clients.www.carolinapressurepros.com
Charles Broadfoot & Associates USTCOM Ultimate System
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Chavis' Inc.
Chavis? Inc. is a ?one-stop shop? general contractor offering impeccable service and quality work at competitive prices.www.chavisinc.com/
Club Barcelona
Upscale private club – Fayetteville, NCwww.clubbarcelonanc.com/
CrossFit Metanoia
All CFM Programs are developed by our Head Coach to specifically address the needs of our members and aimed to develop their physical capacity across all aspects of fitness. CrossFit Metanoia employs only professional coaches in our 6000 square foot fully-equipped facility.https://www.crossfitmetanoia.com/
Cumberland County Schools
Cumberland County NC Public School Systemccs.k12.nc.us/
Cumberland Dance Academy
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Cypress Lakes Stables
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Daniel's Doodles
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Dave's Dryer Vent Cleaning
Dave's Dryer Vent Cleaning, LLC is a local, veteran-owned-and-operated business that specializes in cleaning, replacing, and repairing dryer vents in Fayetteville, NC and the surrounding areas.www.davesdryerventcleaningllc.com
Day Spa Eutaw
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Deon Arnold HAC
Our full-service heating and air conditioning company offers installations, repairs, and maintenance services for homeowners and businesses throughout Fayetteville, NC and the surrounding areas.https://www.deonarnoldhac.com/
Drag Racing Spots
Production facility for tracks, promoters and motorsports agencies.www.dragracingspots.com
Draughon Cattle Company LLC
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Eastern Turf Equipment, Inc.
Outdoor Equipment Companywww.etenc.net
Elizabeth's Pizza
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Environmental Asbestos
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FayBlock Materials, Inc
Concrete Unit Producerswww.fayblock.com
Fayetteville Academy
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Fayetteville NC Self Storage
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Fayetteville PWChttps://www.faypwc.com/
Five Star Global Security
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GameChanger Archery
GameChanger is a revolutionary new concept in archery targets. While using both old and new techniques, the GameChanger system utilizes a layered foam compression system for extremely longer life while combining the first ever series of ?High Definition? graphics of wild game animals from around the globe. Bowhunters can now visualize the hunt they have dreamed about?.on their own property.www.gcarchery.com/
Gill Security Systems
Security Systemswww.gillsecurity.com
H & H Fleet and Truck Services
Heavy truck and trailer repair services.www.hhtruck.com
Haigh, Byrd & Lambert, LLP
A Fayetteville, NC based accounting firm. Our practice serves a wide range of clients providing traditional accounting, auditing and other assurance services, as well as tax assistance and preparation to both small and large entities.www.hbl-cpa.com
Hallmark Spa and Pools
Spa and Pools Retailerwww.hallmarkspapools.com
Holmes Electric Security Systems
Fayetteville Security Companywww.holmeselectricsecurity.com
Homemaker's Furniture and Interiors
We are a locally owned and operated family business, conveniently located in downtown Fayetteville, North Carolina. Homemakers has been providing our products and services to this community since 1945.http://www.homemakersfurniturenc.com/
HottHeads Salon
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Independent Insurance Group
Insurance Agencywww.iiginc.net
Industrial Power Inc.
Industrial Power, Inc. is a regional provider of power transmissions products, hydraulic & pneumatic components, and MRO supplies for industry.www.industrialpowerinc.com
International Self Storage
Storage Facilitywww.intlselfstorage.com
John Allen Shoes
John Allen Shoes is a locally owned and operated specialty shoe store serving the Fayetteville, Ft. Bragg, Cumberland County & Pinehurst, North Carolina area.www.johnallenshoes.com
King Electric
Installing Conduitwww.kingelectricinc.com
Lisa's Custom Framing
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Loyel Studios
Audio production companywww.loyelstudios.com
Major Appliance
Major Appliance Company is your local professional appliance store.www.majorappliancenc.com
McCormick Farms
McCormick Farms is family owned and operated and located in the Sand Hills of North Carolina.https://www.mccormickfarmsnc.com/
McKenzie Supply Company
Founded in 1953, McKenzie Supply Company has provided Southeast North Carolina plumbing and electrical contractors with quality products and professional service unmatched by competitors.www.mckenziesupplyco.com
Metz Glass
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Minuteman Graphics
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MMX Transportation
Professional, safe and courteous employees providing excellent services to our customers. We are currently serving major customers throughout the United States with both freight and warehousing needs.http://www.mmxtransportation.com/
Omni Cinemas
Omni Cinemas is the only place in Fayetteville where you can see a movie for $2 before 6pm and $3 afterwards.www.omnicinemas.com/
Omni Moving & Storage
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Ops Services Inc.
We are a small defense contracting company that seeks to service the needs and requirements primarily of government organizations involved in national security, defense and homeland security.www.opsservicesinc.com
P. R. Moss, Attorney
With over 30 years of legal experience, P.R. Moss has a reputation for aggressively representing individuals facing felony or misdemeanor charges. Her ability to analyze and evaluate cases, prepare strong defenses and obtain favorable outcomes and results is well known.www.prmossattorney.com/
Piedmont Technology Partners
Your I/S Systems Partnerwww.piedmonttechnologypartners.com
Pineora Handi House
Pineora Handi-House offers a great selection of portable storage buildings to meet your specific storage needs. Their portability, weather-proof durability and design styles make them a convenient and practical solution for storing anything from tools to ATVs, and other household goodshttps://www.pineorahandihouse.com/
Planet Janet Media & Marketing
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Plumbing By BFW
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Rainbow Room -Fayetteville
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RLM Communications
Government and military contractorhttps://www.rlm-communications.com/
Sal's Home Improvement
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Salon 103
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SAS of Fayetteville
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Smokers Quick Out
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Stay NC
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Street Level Media
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Wade Harding Plumbing
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Westwood Shopping Center
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Guest: Dr. Robert (Bob) Zubrin. Topics: Everything Mars, Mars Society Arctic 365 and more. Please direct all comments and questions regarding Space Show programs/guest(s) to the Space Show blog, http://thespaceshow.wordpress.com. Comments and questions should be relevant to the specific Space Show program. Written Transcripts of Space Show programs are a violation of our copyright and are not permitted without prior written consent, even if for your own use. We do not permit the commercial use of Space Show programs or any part thereof, nor do we permit editing, YouTube clips, or clips placed on other private channels & websites. Space Show programs can be quoted, but the quote must be cited or referenced using the proper citation format. Contact The Space Show for further information. In addition, please remember that your Amazon purchases can help support The Space Show/OGLF. See www.onegiantleapfoundation.org/amazon.htm. For those listening to archives using live365.com and rating the programs, please email me as to why you assign a specific rating to the show. This will help me bring better programming to the audience. We welcomed Dr. Zubrin back to the show for this 90 minute discussion about everything Mars and the Mars Society. Dr. Zubrin opened up by telling us about the Mars Artic 365 program (http://ma365.marssociety.org) and their fund raising efforts through Indiegogo and other programs (www.indiegogo.com/projects/ma365-a-one-year-mars-simulation-in-the-canad...). Throughout the entire program, Dr. Zubrin received questions/comments about Arctic 365. He was asked about telepresence and having the sim in a more populated place than the arctic. Bob dismissed telepresence as not being nearly as effective as having humans work "on Mars" & he stressed the importance of simulating a real Mars working mission. Bob went over the logistics and scheduling for this first crew for Arctic 365, plus remaining opportunities and ways for people to participate in the program as the crew selection process is closed. We talked about the costs and crew skill sets, plus Mars Society fund raising efforts for this program. Jack emailed about radiation on Mars and as before, Bob suggested it was not as big a risk as many claim. He was also asked about teaming up with Mars One on Arctic 365 program. Bob said he was open to doing things with Mars One and suggested Arctic 365 would be a perfect training program those who train the Mars One crews. Later, Bob was asked about doing a completely private mission to Mars. Bob used this as a spring board to describing the kind of policy & political leadership in government and NASA, both of which he said absent for now. He even proposed some broad based financing suggestions. Doug called wanting to know his thoughts on Phobos & Deimos. Bob used this as an opportunity to support a flyby mission. He was not that supportive of visiting the Marian moons. Don't miss his explanation for his position. As the segment was ending, I asked him about life on Mars. Bob thinks there probably is life on Mars, don't miss what he had to say about this. In the second segment, Steve asked Bob about the Delta V needed for going to the Moon as compared to Mars. He talked about the Moon being easier than Mars. Again, don't miss all of Bob's response to Steve's question/comment. NASA and political leadership were more fully discussed in this segment, then he was asked about the SLS. Here, Bob had a lot to say. While critical of SLS, he would not cancel it. Again, don't miss his comments on this topic. He talked about SpaceX & Falcon 9, heavy lift in general, crew size on a Mars mission, and finally possible threats from the Chinese space program. Toward the end he talked about electric propulsion for slow cargo missions, then I asked him for his thoughts on the Mars cycler system. Please post your comments/questions on TSS blog. You can email Dr. Zubrin through me.


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author: Andrej Krevl, Fakulteta za računalništvo in informatiko, Univerza v Ljubljani
published: April 5, 2012, recorded: March 2012, views: 2239
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There's an interesting trend going on in the productivity niche. For the longest time, the focus of productivity has been on how we can get more done. Here recently, the trend is on quitting.
That we're at this stage in the dialect is fairly predictable. After years of being led by acolytes of the corporate masters into thinking that we need to get more done, we're tired. We recognize that we can't get it all done – so now we're quitting.
Another reason we're at the quitting stage in the discussion is due to the overwhelming popularity and influence of Tim Ferriss' 4-Hour Workweek. Tim makes a very strong and persuasive case for quitting – and the quitting bug has bitten many people.
But I think we need to think about something here. While I completely agree with Tim and the Quitting Cult that quitting is a logical option and, in some cases, the most reasonable course of action, let's be real here – not too many of us are in the position to quit.
Take a second to consider that many of the disciples of the Quitting Cult share an important feature: they're single.
Before I get tons of comments (okay, my readership is not that big) that cite many cases of married people with kids quitting and becoming happier or accusing me of blatant ad hominem, let me just submit that quitting and facing the prospect of not making ends meet for a few months is fine when you're making that choice for yourself. When you're making that choice for others, though, the consequences take on a completely different weight.
So, I think the Cult is right that many people are afraid to quit, but I also think that many people choose not to quit because they have obligations to others that they feel they need to see through reasonably, and quitting, often times, is not conducive to filling obligations to others.
But the Quitting Cult is also right – we can't continue to live the lives we live the way we live them, and something has got to give.
Rather than being taught how to get more done (being more productive), we are in serious need of being taught how to do fewer things that are more valuable. What the rest of us need to be taught is the art of the strategic withdrawal.
What's the difference between strategically withdrawing and quitting? The former is a program that allows us to fulfill the obligations that are value-added or important while not taking on any more that aren't. It recognizes that there are some obligations that we have that we really don't want, but that it's nonetheless important to see them through. The starting point for strategic withdrawal begins with internal conditions, i.e. it starts with the type of life you want to live, rather than external conditions, i.e. being in a job you don't like.
To be fair, Tim does a great job of designing a program that allows us to strategically withdraw without simply quitting. Those following in his footsteps may be stressing quitting more for the rhetorical point, and, if that's the case, we may be advocating the same course of action.
At some undetermined point in the future I'd like talk more about the steps for strategic withdrawal in detail. But since I hate critiquing without supplementing it with an alternative, I'll make some preparatory suggestions.
Don't take on any more externally-motivated commitments from this point forward
You've already made commitments in the past. Whether or not you'll be able to see them through is not quite the point yet. The point is to stop taking them on. Learn the art of saying "No." Your default answer for all future externally-motivated commitments should be "No."
Figure out what living from the inside out means for you in your context
So few of us have know how to live our lives from the inside out, meaning that we let societal standards dictate how we live our lives our rather than our talents, values, and goals. Until you figure that out, you'll continue to do the wrong things unless you get lucky through experimentation.
I stress in your context because being homeless while starting a new business may not be for you and your family. It may turn out that you can't live from the inside out right now – but you're making a plan for what it looks like so that you can start acting on it.
Determine which of your current obligations are actually important to your vision
You may find that it's important for you to finish something you've started even though you don't like that task or don't want to do it. The important thing is to do this on a case-by-case basis and not to decide that, holistically, you are going to be the type of person that fulfills obligations. Commitments are not all on par – some really do need to be let go.
Get out of commitment debt
Okay, you've figured out what needs to go. If it's something that you can quit – do so NOW and don't lose any sleep for doing so. If you can't, figure out which of those obligations you can get out as soon as possible with as little work as possible. What's most important here is that people know that you are downscaling and you want to see things through, but you're not taking any more additional work than you need to.
Take the resources you gained from quitting or fulfilling your commitments and put them to completing the other unwanted commitments
Not what you were expecting, eh? It's better to clear the plate of unwanted Stuff rather than leaving it on there to irritate you as you start your new lifestyle. The sooner you can get rid of the unwanted, the sooner you can start living your life commitment-debt free.
The key thing throughout the program is to quit making commitments in the areas you're trying to get out of. The reason people are recommending quitting is because it immediately gets you out of the tug of the future from those things you quit. Continually withdrawing is hard because so few of us know how to say no and we're all too likely to keep committing to things we don't want to do.
Quitting may be the route to go for some people, but strategic withdrawal is the way to go for the rest of us.


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MOHS SURGERY is an outpatient surgery/procedure performed at both the Valencia and Palmdale offices by Dr. McCray and Dr. Chow.
Mohs Micrographic Surgery
Mohs micrographic surgery is a tissue sparing surgical procedure developed for the removal of skin cancers. It is typically utilized for skin cancers located in cosmetically sensitive areas and where functional tissue preservation is paramount. The strength of this procedure is that the tumor is mapped and the entire surgical margin is examined to confirm tumor clearance. This process results in a high cure rate and a low recurrence rate compared to other treatment modalities. Because this is a tissue sparing technique, the least amount of normal tissue is removed.
What is MOHS Micrographic Surgery?
MOHS micrographic surgery is a special form of surgical technique that uses pathological evaluation to remove skin cancers that are high-risk or located on cosmetically sensitive areas. In essence, it allows Mohs Surgeons like Dr. McCray/Chow to be able to remove the skin cancer by examining the entire margin of the skin while simultaneously minimizing the amount tissue needed to be excised out.
The most important part of MOHS surgery is the method of preparing the tissue for histological evaluation that allows examination of 100% of the margins of the skin cancer. The ability to produce a precise micrographic map of where the skin cancer is located and his ability to be both a surgeon as well a pathologist give him the unparalleled opportunity to have a high cure rate while providing tissue sparing ability for this type of surgery.
What are the indications for MOHS Micrographic Surgery?
Basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma are examples of non-melanoma skin cancers, which are the most common types of cancers worldwide. They carry with themselves significant morbidity and occasionally mortality. There are many different methods of managing non-melanoma skin cancers, ranging from electrodesiccation & curettage (C&D), topical chemotherapy, regular surgical excision, radiation therapy, and Mohs surgery. Mohs Micrographic Surgery allows examination of 100% of the tissue margins and has the highest cure rates of all forms of skin cancer surgeries. However it is not practical to use this technique for the management of every type of skin cancer, especially those that have lower risk of recurrence or in areas where sparing of tissue is not of paramount importance. Therefore, Mohs Micrographic surgery is very commonly used for skin cancers that are on cosmetically sensitive areas of the body such as the face, the hands and the feet where there is not much tissue to spare. Also, MOHS is also indicated for skin cancers that are poorly differentiated or of higher metastatic risk. Finally, skin cancer that have perineural invasions or lesions that are greater than 2 cm in diameter or lesions that have very poorly-defined clinical borders are also candidates for Mohs Micrographic surgery.
How is MOHS surgery different from routine skin cancer excision?
A routine surgical excision requires that a wide margin of tissue be removed around the clinically involved skin. Because the cancer cannot be seen with the eye, a larger margin of normal skin (compared with Mohs surgery) must be excised. This tissue specimen is then sent to a pathologist or dermatopathologist to confirm tumor clearance, with the patient being notified of the results one to two weeks later. Due to the technique used to evaluate the histological margins (bread loaf technique), only a small portion of the surgical margin is evaluated (<1% compared to 100% with Mohs surgery). To compensate for this, a greater amount of tissue is excised so that there is an increased probability of overall tumor clearance.
For a small percentage of cases, a re-excision may be necessary if the tumor is not cleared. This contrasts with Mohs surgery, where the patient is not discharged from the office until the tumor is cleared. The decreased certainty of tumor clearance at the time of excision generally prohibits implementation of advanced reconstruction techniques. A routine excision, however, can be an appropriate treatment when overall tissue preservation is not essential. This technique is also less expensive compared to Mohs surgery.
What is the cure rate for MOHS Micrographic Surgery?
Mohs surgery has the highest cure rate and lowest recurrence rate among all the current treatment modalities–as high as 98% to 99%.
What is the history of MOHS Micrographic Surgery?
MOHS surgery was pioneered by Dr. Frederick Mohs, a professor of surgery at the University of Wisconsin, who first published his surgical procedure in 1941. The technique was originally known as chemosurgery. The technique involved the use of zinc chloride paste that was pasted on the cancerous tissue for 24 hours prior to surgical removal. When the skin cancer was excised, it was sectioned into several different pieces and the areas were marked with color dyes for orientation. The color dyes allowed for detailed mapping of the tumor indicating where the skin cancer might be located within the actual tissue.
Then physical pressure was applied to the tissue in order to flatten it so that all the lateral and deep margins will be present on the histological examination. Then several tissue sections were cut and then examined under microscope. If any skin cancer was observed, the exact location of the residual skin cancer was noted on the map using the dyes as orienation markers.
Over the next 30 years, the tissue processing for Mohs' surgery has evolved from the zinc chloride paste to fresh frozen technique that was later described by Tromovitch and Stegman in 1974. The new fresh frozen technique, in contrast to the zinc chloride paste technique, is very important because it does not need zinc chloride paste, which leads to necrosis of the skin. It also allows dermatologist the opportunity to completely clear the skin cancer using multiple levels all in one day. The fresh tissue technique has become the standard of care in the MOHS micrographic surgery.
Steps in MOHS Micrographic Surgery:
1. Excise the tumor
2. Prepare the tissue
3. Interpret the fresh frozen histological slides
4. Creating the map of where the possible residual tumors might be
5. Cut out the residual skin cancer and repeat this process until the entire tumor has been completely excised
6. Close the surgical defect.
Mohs' micrographic surgery requires the MOHS Micrographic surgeon to have an excellent understanding of both the cutaneous as well as the soft tissue anatomy, especially that of the face both for the excision of tumors as well as for reconstruction. One of the most important aspects of Mohs' surgery is that the surgeon not only has to be able to excise the lesion but also serve as a pathologist to read the specimen during the surgery as well as having the capability of reconstructing the wound itself. Dr.McCray and Dr. Chow have performed many successful MOHS Procedures.
Are most skin cancers removed by MOHS surgery?
No. The majority of Basal cell and Squamous cell skin cancers in United States are treated by non-MOHS surgery techniques. These involved electrodesiccation & curettage, topical chemotherapy, regular surgical excision permanent sections as well as radiation therapy. These techniques provide reasonable cure rates that are also cost efficient. In contrast, MOHS micrographic surgery is designated only for high risk skin cancers or for skin Basal Cell and Squamous Cell carcinomas of the face, neck, hands and feet.
What are the treatment options for non-melanoma skin cancers?
Depending on the cancer type and location, other treatment modalities are available. Sope options include electrosurgery, routine excision, imiquimod, radiotherpay and 5-fluorouracil cream. These options are discussed with patients at their initial consultation.
What are some of the key features for MOHS micrographic surgery?
100% of the tissue margina are examined.
There is a very high cure rate.
This is a tissue sparing procedure.
A very precise map of where the residual tumor might exist can be produced.
Dermatologist is both trained in surgical excision of skin cancer as well as is trained as a pathologist to read the skin cancer during the same day and finally is trained to reconstruct the defect that has been created.
There are less side effects and complications because of the tissue sparing ability of MOHS surgery.
The cure rate is very high and leads to less recurrence of the skin cancer.
Office Hours
Both McCray Dermatology offices are open Monday through Friday.
Please call for hours because they are subject to change.
Valencia (661) 254-7200 or
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The No. 19 Michigan State Spartans host the Loyola-Chicago Ramblers on Saturday at the Breslin Center in East Lansing, Mich.
The Spartans (7-2) shoot for their third consecutive win after losing to Miami on Nov. 28, a loss that snapped a five-game winning streak. Since then, Michigan State has notched blowout victories over Nicholls State and Arkansas-Pine Bluff.
Loyola-Chicago enters the game with a 6-2 record, but the Ramblers haven't faced much significant competition. In its only game against a major-conference opponent, Loyola-Chicago was defeated handily by the South Florida Bulls.
Assuming the Spartans can take care of business, they'll win their 70th consecutive game over an unranked non-conference opponent. The Ramblers may have emotion on their side, though; head coach Porter Moser was an assistant under the late Rick Majerus at St. Louis, and he'll be missing the legend's funeral in order to coach his team against the Spartans.
Tipoff is slated for 2 p.m. ET, and the game can be seen on the Big Ten Network.


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Chevy has unveiled the most powerful production Corvette with the debut of the 2019 Corvette ZR1. With a supercharged LT5 6.2L V8 the Corvette ZR1 has an insane 755 horsepower and 715 lb-ft. of torque.
The LT5 engine generates the highest output ever for a Chevy production vehicle thanks to an efficient intercooled supercharger system and dual-fuel-injection system, which employs primary direct injection and supplemental port injection. The 6.2L V8 can be mated to either a seven-speed manual or eight-speed automatic transmission.
In addition to the 755 horsepower engine, the 2019 Corvette ZR1 gets some exterior upgrades to generate more downforce. The Corvette ZR1 will feature two aero packages: a standard rear low wing, which delivers the highest top speed and helps generate up to 70 percent more downforce than the Z06's base aero package, and an available two-way-adjustable High Wing that offers maximum downforce on the track for the quickest lap times — about 60 percent more downforce than the Z06 with the available Z07 Performance Package.
Both aero packages also include a front underwing. If you opt for the ZTK Performance Package, you also get a front splitter with carbon-fiber end caps, Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 summer-only tires, and specific chassis and Magnetic Ride Control tuning for greater cornering grip.
A new Sebring Orange Design package is also available that features a Sebring Orange Tintcoat exterior color, orange brake calipers, orange rocker and splitter accent stripes, orange seat belts, orange interior stitching and unique, bronze aluminum interior trim.
"I've never driven a Corvette like this before, and nobody else has either, because there's never been one like this before," said Mark Reuss, executive vice president, Global Product Development, Purchasing and Supply Chain. "Its unprecedented performance puts all other global supercars on notice that the ZR1 is back."
Chevy hasn't announced the pricing for the 2019 Chevy Corvette ZR1, but it will go on sale next spring.
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If not in the exact geographical centre of Canada, Winnipeg is certainly in the centre of Canada in most Canadians' minds. The capital of Manitoba, it is often referred to as The Gateway City, or simply the 'Peg by locals. It has a long and varied history, starting from when it was called Fort Garry, an outpost of the Hudson Bay Company."Cosmopolitan community" is not an oxymoron when describing Winnipeg, it's a fact. With its vibrant nightlife, world renowned arts scene, chic boutiques and dining experiences to suit every palate, Winnipeg is a trendsetter.
Yet its neighbourhoods are steeped in cultural tradition.This is a diverse but harmonious city with many continental flavors. Historic St. Boniface, the largest Francophone community in Western Canada, is only a short drive from Corydon Avenue's Little Italy with it's eclectic mix of shops and outdoor patios. From Ukrainian, to Aboriginal, to Filipino, other cultures have made their presence felt with businesses, stores and restaurants reflecting their heritages.Speaking of restaurants, perhaps the diversity of Winnipeg is best evidenced in its cuisine; baked, stewed, sautéed or grilled to perfection in over 900 restaurants.
From four-diamond rated restaurants to homestyle eateries, the visitor is sure to find whatever they are looking for.Whether you're interested in architecture, history or perhaps ghost hunting in one of the reputedly haunted locales, there are walking tours for every taste. Of course there are shops of all kinds, malls to prospect for sales and galleries and museums to explore.
Later, change your walking shoes for your party shoes. Have dinner at one of those 900 dining choices, go dancing, or take a gamble with Lady Luck at one of Winnipeg's glittering, Vegas-style casinos with a new twist: whoever stays in Winnipeg, plays in Winnipeg!.Not to be overlooked is Winnipeg's hosting of the arts. There is the globally renowned Royal Winnipeg Ballet, the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, as well as the Winnipeg Art Gallery with over 23,000 paintings, sculptures and objets d'art in its collection. Largely due to the foregoing institutions, Winnipeg is a mecca for Canada's finest writers, playwrights, actors and musicians.Manitobans love a good party! And just to prove it, Winnipeg has more than 130 festivals and events every year.
Folklorama is the largest and longest-running multicultural festival in the world, with over 50 pavilions showcasing the traditions and customs of Winnipeg's ethnic communities. In fact, Folklorama has been rated as one of the top 100 best events in North America for group travel in the United States and Canada. Other festival highlights include North America's second largest Fringe Festival.
In the summer there is the internationally acclaimed Winnipeg Folk Festival, which draws top flight performers from around the world to Birds Hill Provincial Park for a lively gathering of folk musicians and appreciative audiences.In the wintertime, it's Le Festival du Voyageur in St. Boniface. Grab your toque and help celebrate the colorful history of the fur trade and the cultural heritage of the Francophone community.
Winnipeg is also home to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League and the Manitoba Moose hockey team that plays in the AHL.Other interests might be the sternwheelers, the River Rouge and the MS Paddlewheel Queen that sail through the heart of Winnipeg from mid-May to Mid-September. These offer sightseeing cruises during the day and dinner/dance cruises in the evenings. And then there's the Prairie Dog Central, a turn-of-the-century vintage railway train, pulled by either an 1882-steam locomotive or a 1958 diesel.
The train consists of fully restored wooden coaches built between 1901 and 1913 and runs most weekends during the summer months.Winnipeg is a great place to start making Western Canadian memories. It has a rich heritage and a cosmopolitan lifestyle; the visitor can expect to be charmed by this unique city and its welcoming residents.
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Harwell Oxford provides a complete package of amenities including places to eat, services including a dentist, bank, post office, shops to buy cbd oil from, and convenient professional childcare located a short walk from your offices. It has superb mature landscaped grounds and natural areas to enjoy a stroll and spot local wildlife, as well as a great range of local gastro-pubs, restaurants and country hotels within a few minutes drive or cycle.
The extensive sports and fitness opportunities include a newly re-laid cricket square, several football and rugby pitches, a running track, tennis courts and modern changing facilities.
Many recreational clubs cater for everything from archery to photography and campus-wide rounders and football tournaments are a popular feature of campus life.
Harwell Oxford sits within the North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, linking to many footpaths including the Ridgeway National Trail, which passes within a mile of the campus. Local residents enjoy pituresque villages, historic market towns and the bustling city of Oxford; all this just a 40-minute train journey from London.
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Making Space in LaTeX Documents
by eric
A recent major proposal deadline gave me a chance to brush up on my LaTeX skills. As a rule, it's better to make your proposal more concise than to play formatting tricks to squeeze more text in. For this proposal, though, I needed the big guns–for some sections the instructions alone were a significant fraction of the allotted space! Below are some tested methods for cramming more material into your page limit:
- Choose your text size. As a first step, be sure your text is set to the minimum allowed point size.
- Get the margins right. The geometry package provides the easiest means to specify margins.
\usepackage[paper=letterpaper, margin=1in, nohead, pdftex]{geometry}
If there aren't firm margin requirements, the fullpage package is an alternative:
- Compress your lists. Standard LaTeX list environments leave lots of whitespace between the items. The paralist package provides
compactenum, drop-in replacements for
\usepackage{paralist} \begin{compactitem} \item Item text. \end{compactitem}
- Use runin headers. If your document is of any length, it's helpful to organize it into parts, sections, subsections, and possibly even subsubsections. Standard LaTeX classes give each of these large headings on their own lines. The titlesec package provides an alternative: run-in headers. These appear in-line in the text, saving space. You can adjust the format and numbering with the
\titleformatcommand. The commands below set up small-caps part headers on their own lines ("hang"), and variously sized run-in bold headings for sections.
\usepackage[compact,medium]{titlesec} \titleformat{\part}[hang] {\Large\scshape}{}{0pt}{} \titleformat{\section}[runin] {\large\fontseries{b}\selectfont\filright}{}{0pt}{} \titleformat{\subsection}[runin] {\normalfont\fontseries{b}\selectfont\filright}{}{0pt}{} \titleformat{\subsubsection}[runin] {\fontshape{it}\selectfont\filright}{}{0pt}{}
- Use superscript citations. If your field allows it, no citation notation uses less space than superscripted numbers. The natbib package makes it easy.
\usepackage[super,sort&compress]{natbib} \bibpunct{}{}{,}{s}{}{,}
- Put captions beside floats. Figures and tables can end up with unused whitespace on the sides. The excellent LaTeX Wikibook provides several suggestions, including using the wrapfig package to wrap the text or using a minipage or the sidecap package to move the caption beside the text. I have used floatrow to accomplish the same task:
\usepackage{floatrow} \begin{figure} \floatbox[{\capbeside\thisfloatsetup{capbesideposition={right,center},capbesidewidth=0.46\textwidth}}]{figure}[\FBwidth] {\caption{ {\small Caption text here. \label{fig:myfig} }}} {\includegraphics[width=0.52\textwidth]{myfig.pdf}} \end{figure}
- Single-space the bibliography. The code below removes the bibliography section label and single-spaces the entries: put it in the document header.
% no title on bibliography header: this duplicates the section of % article.cls, removing the refname section \makeatletter \renewenvironment{thebibliography}[1]{% \list{\@biblabel{\@arabic\c@enumiv}}% {\settowidth\labelwidth{\@biblabel{#1}}% \leftmargin\labelwidth \advance\leftmargin\labelsep \@openbib@code \usecounter{enumiv}% \let\p@enumiv\@empty \renewcommand\theenumiv{\@arabic\c@enumiv}}% \sloppy \clubpenalty4000 \@clubpenalty \clubpenalty \widowpenalty4000% \sfcode`\.\@m} {\def\@noitemerr {\@latex@warning{Empty `thebibliography' environment}}% \endlist} \makeatother % make bibliography single-spaced \let\oldthebibliography=\thebibliography \let\endoldthebibliography=\endthebibliography \renewenvironment{thebibliography}[1]{% \begin{oldthebibliography}{#1}% \setlength{\parskip}{0ex}% \setlength{\itemsep}{0ex}% }% {% \end{oldthebibliography}% }
- Use or make a compact bibliography style. Exclude anything you can from the reference list. I made a BibTeX style file which defaults to "et al." anytime there is more than one author.
- Discourage floats from getting their own pages. LaTeX uses a number of numeric weights to calculate where to position floats. Fiddling these parameters in the document header will encourage LaTeX to place them closer to each other and the text.
% discourage floats from getting their own page \renewcommand\floatpagefraction{.9} \renewcommand\topfraction{.9} \renewcommand\bottomfraction{.9} \renewcommand\textfraction{.1} \setcounter{totalnumber}{50} \setcounter{topnumber}{50} \setcounter{bottomnumber}{50} % shrink space between/after figures: \setlength{\textfloatsep}{10pt plus 1.0pt minus 2.0pt} \setlength{\floatsep}{10pt plus 1.0pt minus 2.0pt} \setlength{\intextsep}{10pt plus 1.0pt minus 2.0pt}
- Vacuum up the extra whitespace. Several more header parameters adjust white space between document elements.
% Reduce space between section titles % Arguments are space before, vertical space, and space after \titlespacing{\part}{0pt}{*0}{2ex} \titlespacing{\section}{0pt}{2pt}{1ex} \titlespacing{\subsection}{0pt}{2pt}{1ex} \titlespacing{\subsubsection}{0pt}{*0}{1ex} % suck up extra white space \setlength{\parskip}{0pt} \setlength{\parsep}{0pt} \setlength{\headsep}{0pt} \setlength{\topskip}{0pt} \setlength{\topmargin}{0pt} \setlength{\topsep}{0pt} \setlength{\partopsep}{0pt}
- Encourage paragraphs to consolidate words on their own lines. Individual paragraphs can be tweaked with
or simply set
at the beginning of the document.
- (Adjust or remove indentation.) Changing the paragraph indentation level can recover a few characters, but it makes the text harder to scan.
- (Black Hat: Shrink the inter-line spacing.) While I'm not comfortable with this measure and it makes the text hard to read, it is possible to make the line spacing less than one.
As usual with LaTeX, there are multiple ways to accomplish the same goals–these are methods I personally have found convenient. The savetrees package provides an all-in-one solution which may be sufficient if you don't want to tune the document style yourself.


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Why Snowden and Assange line up with alleged digital pirate Kim Dotcom
Kim Dotcom is fighting extradition to the US on charges he ran a sophisticated scheme to share hundreds of millions worth of stolen movies and music. Now he has famous friends in his fight to unseat New Zealand Prime Minister John Key.
Julian Assange, Glenn Greenwald, and Edward Snowden all appeared at a political rally yesterday in New Zealand for a party founded by a German national wanted in the United States on racketeering, money laundering, and piracy charges.
Kim Dotcom was their host – a virtual host in the case of Snowden and Assange, who appeared via video links from Russia and Britain, respectively. Mr. Dotcom (birth name: Kim Schmitz) has spending his fortune as he fights extradition to the US to build New Zealand's Internet Mana Party, which is competing in Saturday's general election. He hopes to unseat Prime Minister John Key, who has a comfortable lead in the polls.
Aside from the strange spectacle of four foreigners being the stars of a New Zealand political rally, the support for Dotcom is revealing of the non-residents' views. While they mostly talk and write in public about the evils of what they claim is pervasive government surveillance (Russia appears to get a pass), Dotcom made a vast fortune distributing the creative work of others without payment. It can only be assumed that they share Dotcom's views.
Mr. Snowden wrote in a piece timed for the event that "if you live in New Zealand, you are being watched," despite Mr. Key's insistence that this is a false claim by Dotcom's party. Mr. Assange alleged that the US controls New Zealand's surveillance efforts and that therefore has "proceeded with annexing" the country.
Mr. Greenwald, who traveled to the event on the Internet Party's dime (he said his fee would be donated to charity), engaged in a war of words with Key via the press after the prime minister labelled him a "clown" and Dotcom's "henchman." In an unusual move, Key released declassified government documents that he said proved Greenwald and Snowden's claims were false.
Naturally, this didn't satisfy Greenwald. "This information should never have been marked classified in the first place because it was being hidden not for national security reasons but to conceal from the public what this government was doing," he wrote.
Assange's libertarian leanings are well known. He's deeply hostile to virtually all Western governments and advocates some form of government of, by, and for digital natives. This is what Assange said to Dotcom yesterday: "We share the same prosecutor, so I understand what is going on there... [the US] is trying to apply US law in as many countries as possible, applying their law in New Zealand to coerce and pluck out people to other states."
Extraditions and interdictions
This may play well with the faithful, but is a very odd statement when unpacked. Assange jumped bail to hide out in the Ecuadorian embassy in London two years ago after a United Kingdom court ruled that he could be extradited to Sweden, where he's accused of rape by two women. While the US has investigated Assange and Wikileaks for their role in publicizing the documents provided to them by jailed former soldier Chelsea Manning, it hasn't made any formal request to extradite Assange, either before or after he fled to the embassy.
To Assange, there is no daylight between a rape investigation in Sweden and a US desire to punish him for Wikileaks' work. And putting himself in the same camp with Dotcom – two victims of American persecution – indicates he has no regard for the law, at all.
Dotcom is wanted in the US for running the now-defunct file-sharing site Megaupload, which fueled his lavish and puckish international lifestyle. In January 2012, a grand jury in Virginia indicted him for allegedly running a "worldwide criminal organization whose members engaged in criminal copyright infringement and money laundering on a massive scale, with estimated harm to copyright holders well in excess of $500,000,000 and reported income in excess of $175,000,000."
Dotcom's website provided high speeds to file sharers in exchange for a small fee, and also provided cash and other rewards to website users for uploading more content. In its heyday, it was the premier site for sharing and trading stolen movies, music, and software. Dotcom's lawyers have defended him by saying that he was merely providing a cloud storage service, and can't be held responsible for any copyright infringements by his customers.
'Mafia' plate
At the time of the US indictment, Dotcom was living in a $18 million mansion near Auckland. Police broke into a panic room there to arrest him and seized assets that included luxury cars with vanity license plates that read "HACKER," "MAFIA," and "GOD."
Now the German national has created a political party that advocates doing away with copyright laws and digital surveillance, spending $2.5 million of his own fortune. Like Assange, Dotcom sees a political conspiracy behind his legal troubles.
He's repeatedly alleged that New Zealand granted him residency status in 2010 as an elaborate set-up negotiated between Key and Warner Brothers, the Hollywood movie giant. He charges that a promise was made by Key to the US company that he would be arrested and extradited, in exchange for the company agreeing to film The Hobbit trilogy in New Zealand. Director Peter Jackson filmed his earlier Lord of the Rings trilogy in the country. Yesterday, Dotcom gave out what he alleged was an email written by Warner CEO Kevin Tsujihara proving the conspiracy. Warner Brothers and Key both said the email was a fake.
What good the event will do for Dotcom and his party is hard to say. Polling before the event showed the party likely to win just 3 seats in New Zealand's 120 seat parliament – in part due to their linkup with a party focused on rights for New Zealand's Maori.


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The decision to take President Jacob Zuma to court by the family members, injured workers of the Marikana massacre and AMCU is the best action to force Zuma to release the findings of the investigation. As the United Democratic Movement, we are in full support of this decision and we hope he will realise the importance of the findings being made public as it is not just a report for the family and the injured miners but a closure of what happened to their loved ones on the 16 August 2012 who were victims in the hands of police while they demanded a better life in the work place.
It's been more than 4 weeks since Zuma received the report but up to now he has not made it known. To South Africans, this is a sign that government does not care about the poor. It is unfair to the victims who lost loved ones while others were brutally injured and now the North West police commissioner Zukiswa Mbombo is evacuating her office at the end of the month while the report has not been made public and she is one of the main state officials to answer to what happened on that day when police officers went berserk killing innocent souls for demanding their rights.
Mbombo is not retiring but playing hide and seek, running away from what is in the report. This shows clearly that the delay by Zuma is a way of protecting those close to him and this is disgusting.
Statement issued by UDM Secretary General, Bongani Msomi


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TouchPico thinks you need Android on a tiny projector
Remember pico-projectors? Startup TouchPico wants to bring them back with Android installed, and it has a clever digital pen system that it's hoping will persuade the crowdfunding community to invest. We caught up with the prototype to see how it all works.
According to TouchPico, the goal is social collaboration. That could be an impromptu presentation, or it might be playing casual games projected onto your living room wall: anything, the company says, to bring the attention back up from staring at a 5-inch smartphone screen.
So, TouchPico takes a regular 854 x 480 pico-projector – capable of projecting up to an 80-inch image – and loads Android 4.2 on it. It's a stock build of Google's OS, though you don't get official Google Play access or any of the apps like Gmail or Google Maps (the company hopes to have the production model qualified by Google, though the initial developer version hitting Indiegogo will need to have its apps side loaded).
Right alongside the projector lens is what makes TouchPico special: an infrared camera. That tracks the tip of a special stylus, and allows you to draw or tap on the wall and interact with Android. Tap points are automatically converted into their touch equivalents by TouchPico's system, meaning regular Android apps don't need modification in order to work.
On top of that there's an auto-calibration system which, once you've set it up the first time, can keep the touch and projection layers synchronized even if you move the projector closer or further away from the wall. It'll even keep working if the projection is at an angle.
In practice, it works fairly well, though "drawing" on the wall takes a little getting used to. You have to be sure to keep your hands and arms out of the way of the projection, since otherwise the camera can't track properly, meaning holding the stylus at the end rather than as you might normally grip a pen is better.
So far so good, but there are a few factors which keep TouchPico as a niche product. The specifications are relatively mid-tier, with an unnamed dual-core processor running Android, while connectivity includes WiFi, a microSD socket, HDMI input, AV input, USB OTG port, and an audio output. Unfortunately there's no Bluetooth, so you couldn't connect up a wireless keyboard and use TouchPico as an impromptu desktop alternative.
Instead, you can slave the projector to a nearby smartphone using WiFi Direct and show content that way, though the 45 minute battery life means you'll run out of steam long before a movie is through. It should be sufficient for a presentation and maybe a few games of Angry Birds, however.
At 150 lumens it's not the brightest projector we've seen, and you do need to have a fairly dim room in order to get the best picture quality. TouchPico has plans for larger versions that would be more powerful, though of course they'd not be as pocket-friendly.
You could well argue that TouchPico is the perfect candidate for crowdsourcing at its purest: a product that's probably too niche for any of the major companies to consider, but which will try its luck at seeing whether there are enough intrigued individual buyers to help it raise the $55,000 it's looking for. Assuming that happens, it's expected to ship from October.
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"The war against nature is a war against your own biology."
— Paul Stamets
Paul Stamets (@PaulStamets) is an intellectual and industry leader in the habitat, medicinal use, and production of fungi. Part of his mission is to deepen our understanding and respect for the organisms that literally exist under every footstep taken on this path of life. Paul is the author of a new study in Nature's Scientific Reports, which details how mushroom extracts—specifically extracts from woodland polypore mushrooms—can greatly reduce viruses that contribute to bee colony collapse.
Paul is the author of six books, including Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World, Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms, and Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World: An Identification Guide, and he has discovered and named numerous species of psilocybin mushrooms. Paul is also the founder and owner of Fungi Perfecti, makers of the Host Defense mushroom supplement line, and it is something I've been using since Samin Nosrat recommended it in my last book, Tribe of Mentors.
Paul has received numerous awards, including Invention Ambassador (2014-2015) for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the National Mycologist Award (2014) from the North American Mycological Association (NAMA), and the Gordon & Tina Wasson Award (2015) from the Mycological Society of America (MSA).
The implications, applications, and medicinal uses of what we discuss in this interview are truly mind-boggling, and we get into some of my favorite subjects, including psychedelics and other aspects of bending reality. If you're interested in contributing to psychedelic science and research, you can do so at MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies), or if you've got $100,000 or more to spare, visit me at tim.blog/science.
I hope you enjoy this entire interview, but if you only have time to listen to one part, I recommend checking in at the [56:24] mark to hear how Paul's first experience with psilocybin mushrooms affected his lifelong stutter. Enjoy!
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Scroll below for links and show notes…
- Connect with Paul Stamets:
Fungi Perfecti | Host Defense | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube
- Extracts of Polypore Mushroom Mycelia Reduce Viruses in Honey Bees by Paul E. Stamets, et al., Scientific Reports — Nature
- Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World by Paul Stamets
- Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms by Paul Stamets
- Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World: An Identification Guide by Paul Stamets
- mushroomreferences.com
- MykoWeb: Mushrooms, Fungi, Mycology
- Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)
- How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan
- 6 Ways Mushrooms Can save the World by Paul Stamets, TED Talk
- Strange but True: The Largest Organism on Earth Is a Fungus by Anne Casselman, Scientific American
- Opisthokonta, NIES Collection
- Fungus-Like Mycelial Fossils in 2.4-Billion-Year-Old Vesicular Basalt by Stefan Bengtson et al., Nature Ecology & Evolution
- Wm. K. Stamets Co. of Columbiana, OH, Vintage Machinery
- The Evergreen State College
- Metarhizium Anisopliae Strain F52 (PC Code 029056), US Environmental Protection Agency Office of Pesticide Programs
- MycoPesticide Update by Paul Stamets, Fungi Perfecti
- Cordyceps: Attack of the Killer Fungi, Planet Earth
- Patents by Inventor Paul Stamets, Justia Patents
- New Anti-Viral Compounds from Mushrooms by Paul Stamets, HerbalGram
- Project BioShield, Stimson Center
- Fort Detrick, MD
- Mycologist Promotes Agarikon as a Possibility to Counter Growing Antibiotic Resistance by Bob Yirka, Phys.org
- Smallpox Defense May Be Found in Mushrooms with Steve Inskeep and Tom Banse, Morning Edition, NPR
- Cidofovir (aka Vistide), RxList
- What is Bioguided Fractionation? by Frederick Williams, Google+
- Cortes Island, BC
- United States Patent and Trademark Office
- BP's Slick Greenwashing by James Ridgeway, Mother Jones
- Potential Health Effects of Pesticides by Eric S. Lorenz, Pennsylvania State University College of Agricultural Sciences
- The King's Speech
- Aircraft Carrier Intrepid
- Altered States of Consciousness by Charles T. Tart
- The Hero's Journey: Mythic Structure of Joseph Campbell's Monomyth by Dan Bronzite, Movie Outline
- Thunderstorms & Lightning Safety, Ohio.gov
- Axis Mundi, New World Encyclopedia
- What Is Synesthesia and What's It like to Have It? by Laura Moss, MNN
- The Glass Bead Game (Magister Ludi): A Novel by Hermann Hesse
- Matthew 4:1-11 (Jesus Is Tested in the Wilderness)
- Psilocybe Mushrooms and Their Allies by Paul Stamets
- Ganoderma Lucidum (Lingzhi or Reishi): A Medicinal Mushroom by Sissi Wachtel-Galor, John Yuen, John A. Buswell, and Iris F. F. Benzie, Herbal Medicine: Biomolecular and Clinical Aspects
- Hericium Erinaceus, an Amazing Medicinal Mushroom by Benjarong Thongbai, Sylvie Rapior, Kevin D. Hyde, Kathrin Wittstein, and Marc Stadler, Mycological Progress
- Niacin, RxList
- Michael Pollan — Exploring The New Science of Psychedelics, The Tim Ferriss Show #313
- Return of the Fungi by Andy Isaacson, Mother Jones
- Aspen Academy of Martial and Healing Arts
- Astromycology: The "Fungal" Frontier by Tristan Wang, Harvard Science Review
- How Mushrooms Can Save the World by Kenneth Miller, Discover
- An Amazing Letter From a Cultivator in Syria, Fungi Perfecti
- Wood Chip Fermentation at the Ranch by Paul Stamets, YouTube
- Fantastic Fungi by Louie Schwartzberg
- Colony Collapse Disorder, EPA
- Pesticides Are Harming Bees — But Not Everywhere, Major New Study Shows by Dan Charles, Morning Edition, NPR
- Varroa Mites Infesting Honey Bee Colonies by Ric Bessin, Entomology at the University of Kentucky
- Amitraz
- Companion Planting with the Garden Giant by Alex Taylor, Fungi Perfecti
- A Google Scholar search for "deformed wing virus" is concerning.
- p-Coumaric acid
- How the Mushroom Dream of a 'Long-Haired Hippie' Could Help save the World's Bees by Evan Bush, The Seattle Times
- Will Humans Survive the Sixth Great Extinction? by Nadia Drake, National Geographic
- The Complete Tales of Winnie-The-Pooh by A.A. Milne
- Mycological Society of America
- WSU HONEY BEES + POLLINATORS | Washington State University
- North American Mycological Association
- How do you pronounce and define fungi and mycelium? [10:05]
- What makes the immunological resilience of mycelium all the more impressive? [11:07]
- In what way is a mushroom like a fish? [13:13]
- From a genetic or an evolutionary perspective, how should people think about mycelium? Is mycology more closely related to botany or zoology? [14:48]
- Why do antifungal drugs have the potential to be extremely dangerous to humans? [18:14]
- Paul describes a Kafkaesque childhood in Columbiana, Ohio after his family's business collapsed in the wake of WWII — bringing much of the town with it. [19:16]
- How living in a carpenter ant-infested house made from military surplus scraps combined with Paul's affinity for vacuuming and curiosity about mycelium to create a natural pest remedy. [22:26]
- If proven so successful, why hasn't this natural pest remedy been brought to market yet? [34:30]
- Fighting viruses with mycelium in a post-9/11 world. [35:47]
- At what point in the research cycle is agarikon being tested against viruses today? [41:47]
- What happened when top secret test results intended for other eyes only were misdelivered to Paul? [44:08]
- What's the upside to the United States Department of Defense taking your patent for reasons of national security, or having naysayers argue against your patent's effectiveness? [46:57]
- As Paul's mycelium solution for fending off carpenter ants isn't yet on the market, what does he suggest to people who want to try it today? [50:12]
- As a 10-year solution that only costs about 25 cents to produce, is Paul's mycelium pest fix perhaps too effective for the liking of those who profit from current, toxic remedies? [51:49]
- When a sincere attempt at disrupting the status quo can't make it past a boardroom only concerned with "greenwashing" its corporate image. [53:34]
- Paul takes us on the epic "superhero's journey" that relieved him of his lifelong stutter as a teenager — with the assistance of "about 20 grams of" psilocybin cubensis. [56:24]
- Has Paul had any stuttering relapses since that day? [1:09:47]
- Paul relays a story about what psilocybin did for an aging friend with failing senses. [1:10:14]
- Why does Paul think his superhero's journey was instrumental in helping him overcome his stutter, and what effects has he witnessed in others on similar journeys? [1:14:35]
- Paul touches on why profit-driven pharmaceutical companies might frown at the therapeutic efficacy of magic mushrooms — in parallel to chemical companies rejecting natural pesticides. [1:16:43]
- Mushrooms are just the tip of the mycelium. Paul elaborates on how fungal biomes operate and why it might be that humans often fear the ephemeral nature of mycelium. [1:18:10]
- Paul talks about the neuroregenerative benefits of lion's mane and soul's eye in mycelium over mushroom form. [1:21:40]
- At nearly 93 years of age, Paul's mother can still beat his brothers at Scrabble — could it be thanks in part to her daily intake of lion's mane? [1:22:54]
- Paul ponders the effects of stacking microdoses of psilocybin with lion's mane and what might be used to treat neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. [1:23:44]
- How might such microdosing be administered and supervised in a research setting? Paul explains why this question is timely and shares his reasons for a strategy of filing what he calls "blocking patents" under certain circumstances. [1:27:08]
- Is microdosing sexy — or at least more attractive to people who might otherwise be afraid to try a full dose of psilocybin? [1:29:48]
- What does Paul Stamets believe makes Paul Stamets Paul Stamets? [1:33:50]
- Paul tells us about that time he (politely) used his black belt prowess to change the life of an angry biker. [1:37:08]
- A reminder that kind acts, even in small increments, can move mountains. [1:40:54]
- You are beautiful. [1:42:10]
- In the network of everything, Paul is an astromycologist now. [1:42:59]
- A wide variety of ways in which fungi could help solve human problems — from environmental cleanup to famine relief to space travel. Bonus: the proper way to pronounce mycorrhizal. [1:44:24]
- How a Syrian refugee is teaching others to cultivate mushrooms for food — a skill set that can be passed along and lay the foundation for sustainable biosecurity. [1:47:42]
- Fantastic Fungi and the Wood Wide Web. [1:49:19]
- Why colony collapse disorder is really just a euphemism for a serious problem — though surprisingly the one issue that bridges liberals and conservatives. [1:50:20]
- "Failure is the price of the tuition I pay to learn a new lesson." [1:56:51]
- Paul's epiphany for how to save the bees came to him in a dream. Really! Why this might be good news in the midst of the sixth Great Extinction. [2:02:25]
- What can people listening who are not mycologists nor future mycologists do to help save the world? [2:09:51]
- Parting thoughts. [1:15:37]
- Michael Pollan
- Samin Nosrat
- Patty Stamets
- John Stamets
- Bill Stamets
- North Stamets
- Andrew Weil
- Dusty Yao
- Dr. Jack Secrist
- Dr. Samir A. Ross
- Hermann Hesse
- Jesus
- Bill Webb
- Daniel Elliot Stuntz
- Henry Miller
- Obi-Wan Kenobi
- Ansel Adams
- Roland Griffiths
- Albert Einstein
- Charles Darwin
- Bashar al-Assad
- Louie Schwartzberg
- Lyn Davis Lear
- Norman Lear
- Suzanne Simard
- Jay Evans
- Hillary Clinton
- Donald Trump
- Lee Stein
- Steve Sheppard
- Winnie the Pooh
- Bill Gates
- Jeff Bezos
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Kicking The Tires
January 15, 2014 | | Kris Tabetando | 0 Comment
Kicking the tires refers to performing due diligence on an investment before investing in it. Like kicking the tires of a car that you are looking to buy as you investigate its reliability and performance.
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Molly P. Rozum
Molly P. Rozum is associate professor and Ronald M. Nelson Chair of Great Plains and South Dakota history at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion. She teaches courses on United States women, the Great Plains, the American West, and South Dakota. She earned a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame. Her research interests center on comparative United States-Canadian northern grasslands, and her book, Grasslands Grown: Sense of Place and Regional Identity on North America's Canadian Prairies and American Plains, 1870–1950, is forthcoming. Rozum is a native of Mitchell, South Dakota.


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The Blues
Music Awards are Thursday May 11th in
Memphis, TN! This show plays SOME samples from SOME of the great
nominees! Good luck to all!
Monster Mike Welch and Mike Ledbetter , "Cry For Me Baby", Right Place, Right Time, Delta Groove Music, Mike Welch nomiated for Instrumentalist – Guitar, Mike...
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Steve Guyger , "The Honeydripper", Radio Blues
First Set –
Muddy Waters, "Honey Bee", The Chess Set, Geffen Label, 1989
Albert Collins, "Honey Hush (Takling Woman Blues)", 35X35, Alligator Records
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Welcome to the chamber of secrets! Our Scorpio new moon ritual entices you to peek into the dark and embrace what is hidden.
Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, a Scorpio new moon supports you in shedding what no longer serves you. This Scorpio new moon ritual helps you manifest what you do want.
Scorpio new moon ritual: Envy map
We first learned the concept of using jealousy as a compass from Julia Cameron's inspiring workbook, The Artist's Way. Since our natal charts have four planets in Scorpio—a sign known for rousing the green-eyed monster—this was a game-changer for us. Instead of viewing envy as a deadly sin, we learned it can be the ultimate guide to our desires. Rather than covet what others have manifested, you can create your own remix and make it wholly your own.
To create your envy map, start with a blank piece of paper (or maybe two if you have a strong Scorpio influence in your natal chart as well!). Draw a vertical line to divide the page into three columns.
Label the first column: Envy Triggers
Then list all the situations or people who have pushed your jealousy buttons. This can be personal: "My sister's engagement" or general: "Rich people who flaunt their wealth."
Label the second column: Hidden Desires
Here's where to get real about wanting what those lucky souls have manifested. For example: "To get in a relationship with my life partner" or "To have financial ease." Tip: Try not to use words like "more" or "better." Just get real about what you want—and phrase your desire as if it's already happening.
Label the third column: Envy Remix
Here's where you alchemize your jealousy into something tangible. For each Trigger, jot ideas for how you can incorporate that enviable quality into your own life. Focus on tangibles, such as: "Set up a profile on Bumble" or "Enroll in the online university's coaching certification program."
Bonus exercise
Reach out to the person who triggers your envy and offer words of admiration, some social media love or a retweet. If you know them personally, ask for advice on how they manifested their dreams. You might win a helpful champion to your side.
Other ideas for a Scorpio new moon ritual
- Replenish your sensuality drawer with lingerie, erotic toys and novels
- Start a jigsaw puzzle: Scorpio energy loves to solve
- Pay off a debt, or make a payment plan—this is the zodiac sign that rules wealth
- Take a dance workshop to get in tune with your sensuality—even burlesque or pole-dancing
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