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The true author of Sun tzu's art of war. Also invented the boston steamer however that was earlier in his career and he did not take credit, claiming the inspiration came from his name. Sun Tzu was a peasant he paid to put his name on the book so it would sell better, unfortunately while it made him rich this move allowed history to forget him.
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It is not often that medical students are exposed to the legislative process of enacting health policy. UC Davis School of Medicine students have better opportunities than most because of their school's proximity to California's State Capitol in Sacramento. Each year for example, students participate in "Lobby Day," which enables them to meet with lawmakers and advocate on behalf of various health-care issues. Five students recently got a further opportunity to engage in health-policy debates and discussions when they attended the California Medical Association's (CMA) House of Delegates convention in Anaheim.
Thanks to support from the CMA Foundation, Sierra Sacramento Valley Medical Society and the School of Medicine's Office of Student and Resident Diversity, first-year students John Paul Aboubechara, Christina Lee, Diego Vargas, Jeremy Johnson and Lucy Ogbu were able to participate with the professional organization that represents California physicians in legislative, regulatory, economic and social advocacy. They were joined by Darrin Latimore, assistant dean for Student and Resident Diversity, and two Sacramento-area physicians, Richard Thorpe and Lee Snook.
The CMA's overall goal is to help physicians navigate the increasingly complex challenges of practicing health care in a rapidly evolving society.
"One of the best aspects of the weekend was the overwhelming support and warm reception we received from the physicians," said Ogbu. "Many of them expressed how important medical students are to the CMA and the future of medicine. Plus, the networking contacts we made serve as an important launching pad for our continuing involvement in health-care advocacy as we complete our medical education."
Ogbu and her fellow students joined more than 400 physicians and students from other medical schools at the annual House of Delegates meeting, where members deliberated resolutions and reports on a broad range of issues related to medical practice and governance as well as health policy and patient advocacy. Delegates spent four days considering detailed resolutions and recommendations from both individual physicians and delegations. Each item of business was assigned to a "reference committee," consisting of six delegates, which conducted hearings or meetings to receive testimony for or against proposed resolutions. The committees then formulated recommendations for action by the full House.
Reference committee meetings presented the students with an exciting opportunity to voice their opinions about issues under consideration in the Medical Student Section of the conference. One resolution called for California physicians to have the authority to identify minors at risk for sexual exploitation and refer them to appropriate social services. The UC Davis group also was impressed by fellow student delegates who successfully passed a resolution calling for California medical schools to have greater autonomy in setting graduation requirements.
Another highlight was the full House of Delegates meeting. Controversial subjects generated passionate debate among attendees, especially the topic of a single payer health-care system. Despite heated deliberations, the students noted the collegial and respectful atmosphere of the caucus, which they said created a safe environment for amicable discussions.
"The more time we spent at the conference," said Ogbu, "the more insights we gained in how physicians can truly impact health policy and patient care on a broader scale."
Ogbu and her classmates returned to Sacramento with a renewed vigor and enthusiasm for recruiting fellow students to take a more active interest in health policy.
"One of the most resounding lessons we got from the conference was the incredible scope of influence that we, as medical students, can have on policy during our medical and post-graduate education," Ogbu said. "Our goal now is to engage and educate classmates throughout the School of Medicine about the opportunities and importance of getting involved in physician associations like the CMA. We can make a difference!"


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The Trio, sometimes known as the Golden Trio, is a popular name for the three main characters of the Harry Potter series. The Trio, hence the name, holds three members, being Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. The trio is often allied with the Order of the Phoenix and Albus Dumbledore.
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- The term has been widely adopted by fans and is used for the title of "The Trio theme" heard in the films of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Harry Potter series author J. K. Rowling also once used the term in a 2007 interview.[1]
- Interestingly, the members of the Golden Trio have all three of the blood statuses of the wizarding world as Harry is a half-blood, Ron is a pure-blood, and Hermione is a Muggle-born.
- The Trio also differ from each other in appearance. They each have different eye colours. Harry has green eyes (although portrayed as blue in the films), Ron has blue eyes (although often portrayed as green or brown), and Hermione has brown eyes.
- They not only have differing eye colours, but also various hair colours. Harry has black hair (although portrayed as brown in the films), Ron has red hair, and Hermione has brown hair (although portrayed as dirty blonde in the films).
- All three members are related or blood related to the Weasleys, as Ron is a Weasley, Hermione married Ron making her a Weasley by marriage, and Harry married into the Weasley family through Ginny making him an in-law to the Weasley family, as well.
- Each of their wand cores is a core of the wands made in Ollivander's: Hermione's wand's core is dragon heartstring, Ron's first and second wand cores are unicorn hair, and Harry's is phoenix tail feather.
- Interestingly, despite Harry being the leader of the Trio he is actually the youngest of the Trio. Whereas Hermione is the oldest and Ron is the second oldest.
- The three bring different parts to the Trio, Harry brings leadership and power, Ron brings muscle and comedy, and Hermione brings intelligence and reason.
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It only takes a quick look at Kevin Minter's stats to understand what kind of impact the junior linebacker had on LSU's fortunes this season.
But as he joined his teammates Sunday night at LSU's annual football banquet, Minter said he had no idea he would be named the recipient of the Charles McClendon Award as the team's most valuable player.
"I was looking down at my plate, eating a little more of my cheesecake," Minter said. "All of a sudden, I heard my name."
Minter entered the year with less fanfare than defensive teammates like Sam Montgomery, Barkevious Mingo and Eric Reid, but finished the season as a first-team All-Southeastern Conference selection, a Butkus Award finalist and a second-team All-American.
He led the Tigers with 111 tackles to go with 13.5 tackles for loss in his first year as a full-time starter, playing a big part in the success of a defense that allowed 296.2 yards and 16.9 points per game.
In a loss at Florida, he racked up a school-record 17 solo tackles.
Minter twice earned National Player of the Week honors, but said the award Sunday as the team's MVP was his greatest individual achievement.
"I'm a linebacker," he said. "I don't score points or anything, so I really didn't expect it."
Minter will have a chance to cap his junior season back home in Georgia when the Tigers face Clemson in the Chick-fil-A Bowl on New Year's Eve.
'Tis the season
When you stick around the LSU football program as long as Josh Dworaczyk has, you have an opportunity to win many games, meet many new friends and make many lasting memories.
You also have an opportunity to receive many bowl gifts.
Bowl games traditionally dole out gifts to players from both participating teams, an honor Dworaczyk, a senior offensive lineman, will soon experience for the sixth time.
Dworaczyk said some of the bowl gifts he still owns. Some, he does not.
"A couple years, it became a last-minute Christmas deal," Dworaczyk said. "All of a sudden, my brothers and sisters had bowl gifts (for Christmas presents) and that was their gift from me."
Dworaczyk said his siblings never complained.
"When you're getting stuff like iPod docking stations, iPads and Wiis, trust me: my brothers and sisters are excited about those gifts," he said.
Dworaczyk began his career at LSU in 2007 as a redshirt and later spent two seasons as a starting guard. He got a sixth year of eligibility after suffering a knee injury in 2011 that kept him out the entire year.
As a starter at left tackle this season, Dworaczyk was recently named a permanent 2012 team captain.
No word yet on what this year's bowl gift will be.
Palmetto State reunion
LSU has several players from Georgia who see the Chick-fil-A Bowl as a chance to play a game back home. Defensive end Montgomery, a Greenwood, S.C., native, sees it as a chance to play a team from back home.
Montgomery said the Clemson campus is a short drive from where he grew up.
"It's right down the street," he said. "About 40 minutes, depending on who's driving."
When the LSU-Clemson matchup was set, Montgomery said he received several phone calls from South Carolina players wishing him luck against their renowned rival.
"That's the matchup of the century for them," he said. "Now, it's my turn."
Miles' Christmas plans
During his media session Tuesday night, LSU coach Les Miles was asked about his plans for the holidays.
"I am going to practice with a group of men that I enjoy fully, that's going to be a wonderful football holiday. I'm preparing to play a quality opponent. I'm going to roar right up to the 22nd. I'm going to work a little bit the morning of the 23rd."
Miles added that he would have a party Dec. 22, inviting "all my close friends, assistant coaches, people that work in this building."
A Miles tradition is taking eldest daughter Smacker shopping on Christmas Eve, which Miles said he looks forward to again this year. Miles said he'd also attend church on Christmas Eve and open presents with his family that night.
"Santa Claus comes Christmas night, so in the morning we would open whatever gifts Santa left for us," Miles said. "I think once you get older, Santa doesn't bring you a lot of stuff."


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CONTESSA is a three-car electric multiple-unit with powered end cars seating a total of 237 passengers. Rapid acceleration and a high top speed contribute to short journey times. The wide doors also make for shorter journey times, as station stops can be kept short. The central car's low floor facilitates embarking and disembarking for disabled passengers and passengers with bulky luggage. Each train is equipped with the unique Flex Front System, which offers an elegant and wide corridor between the units in coupled trains. Up to five train units can be combined to form a multiple-unit train. In the development of the CONTESSA particular emphasis was placed on the environmental friendliness of the train. This is achieved through low energy consumption and careful choice of production methods and materials. Over 90% of the train is recyclable.
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Ravens fans are ready to rush New Orleans for Super Bowl XLVII, emptying their pockets for tickets to the big game and scrambling for a seat on an available flight. With travel packages going for thousands of dollars, you'll want to make your stay in the Big Easy well worth it - that means seeing something beyond the inside of the multimillion-dollar refurbished Mercedes-Benz Superdome. We've come up with 10 things for Baltimore travelers to see and do in New Orleans. For more information on lodging, restaurants, attractions and Mardi Gras, go to neworleanscvb.com. For details and schedules on the Super Bowl, go to neworleanssuperbowl.com. -Reuters and Tribune Newspapers contributed to this article.
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Hungry Kunchong confirmed hardest boss in the instance.
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Hungry Kunchong confirmed hardest boss in the instance.
We could photoshop one in right next to Shaetano
nice, statue'd right in the middle of the screenshot this time, even if I can't ever get myself to face forward using it.
Just because you were luckier than others doesn't mean ours are fake
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Wielder of a set of Warglaives of Azzinoth.
really dude...
When you farm an instance from June 3, 2007 to April 7, 2008 the luck factor goes down quite a bit.
This is just my opinion but novelty items like this should have simply been locked out or removed from the game after their content patches were expired. Things like glaives, Al'Ar's mount, Mimiron head, Val'anyr, Atiesh, Shadowmourne should have not been obtainable after the fact. They should have been treated like the OG mounts were for Tauren, Orcs, and Trolls.


text: We Do Not Condone Online Cheating and You will Not be given any help with such. GBATemp Ocarina Guide After much discussion, the GBATemp staff has agreed to provide support for Ocarina codes in a limited way. These can be very useful when teaching your 3 year old how to play super mario bros, infinite lives can help to quell frustrations. Online cheats should never be used. This affects the game play for other users, and will not be condoned or supported here. Side Effects It is important to note that the use of cheats can sometimes cause unintended side effects, which may affect the game's playability or function. Before reporting any issue with loading games/functionality, please turn off all cheats and verify that the behavior is the same without this enabled. Essentially what is happening here is someone has reverse-engineered the code for the game and effectively "short-circuited" it in some way to accomplish specific behaviors. This can be a dicey proposition, and is not guaranteed to work for everyone. How this works Warning: Spoilers inside! People reverse engineer the code to figure out how to achieve certain behaviors. They then create what is essentially a "patch" for the game, and distribute the requisite changes to the code a text file. Generally a number of tweaks are included for each game and distributed as a single file. To use these, you need to pick which tweaks you wish to enable, and create a machine-readable version of them, which is a "GCT" file. The process of choosing which tweaks you want and creating the GCT file can be achieved in a couple different ways: If you have an active internet connection to your Wii, most (all?) loaders can handle this for you and you can enable this functionality directly on your Wii. Alternatively, and if you want more options, you can create the GCT file on your PC (MACintoy?) and transfer it to your SD card. Things You Will Need And Do Warning: Spoilers inside! 1.) Ocarina App. There will be an Ocarina folder , PC folder and a TxtCodes folder, Take the Ocarina Folder and put it in your apps folder on the sd card. Now take the TxtCodes folder and put it on the root of the sd card or the Usb Hdd. 2.)Take the folder that says pc and move it to your desktop for convenience.I will explain later on how to use this as well. 3.) You will need this link if you can only transfer your cheats by computer.Link-> Gecko Codes I will explain how to do this later on. 4.)An Sd Card and or Hdd, Yes, you can have your codes on your hdd. We will be putting the txt files in a folder named txtcodes and the Gct files in a folder called codes. You can also just place them on the root of the sd/hdd,Either way you decide on doing it, it will still need to be place at the root of the sd card/HDD drive. It will look like this...SD:RSPE01.txt or SD:Txtcodes/RSPE01.txt and or HD:RSPE01.txt or HDD:codes/RSPE01.txt etc.The same goes for the Gct files. Wiird Codes How To Warning: Spoilers inside! 1.)Go to Gecko Codes, and click your region or All Regions. 2.) Press the Beginning alphabet of the title, for example, Animal Crossing start with an "A", so tap that letter..... 3.) Select your game/s, I will be selecting Animal Crossing. 4.) If you look below at the image you will see it right under the game ID (RUUE01), that says I've never had any luck with the GCT option, so we will be using the TXT feature here. 6.) Open up where you have saved the Txt file and copy that Text file to the txtcodes folder I supplied, then place that folder on the root of the sd card/HDD.This is how It should look on your Sd Card or HDD. Now look in the spoiler below (Creating A Gct File/w Ocarina Cheat Manager) to turn that txt cheat in to a Gct file. Creating A Gct File w/ Ocarina Cheat Manager For the Pc Warning: Spoilers inside! 7.)Go to the program (Ocarina Cheat Manager,Which is In The Pc Folder) for the PC and Press the File button , which is in the left top corner and select open tXt File and go to the txt file you just downloaded and select it.It will look like this... 8.) If you look at the image below , you will notice that we have codes on the left side that you can choose to enable by clicking the box, Enable the ones you want. 9.) Now that you have selected the codes that you want enabled, it should look like this... 10.) Lets create the gct file...Look at the bottom of the program and you will see this, Press that button and this window will pop up.. 11.) Now change the Drive letter in the options in that window to your sd cards/HDD letter, This will copy it directly to your sd or Hdd..It should look something like this, Now click the store button and you should see a message in the image below, if so you have created your file. 12.) Now disconnect your Sd Card or HDD from your computer, as you are done. Directly Downloading GCT File Cheats Warning: Spoilers inside! Go to Gecko Codes .... ... Go to the letter of the game you need the cheats for... ... Now select the game that you need the cheats for. ... Select the GCT instead of the Txt buttons from the top left.... ... Now press the ADD CODES button... ... Select the cheats by checking the boxes on the right side of your screen... ... Now just download the gct by hitting said button. ... Now take the GCT file and put it to your sd / Usb drive, in the CODES folder on the root of the SD CARD. ... And your Done. Usb Loader Gx Path Options. Warning: Spoilers inside! Open up your Usb Loader Gx, so we can get started. Please make sure you have your paths where you would like to have your txtcodes and gct codes stored at. Paths Warning: Spoilers inside! To Change your paths follow the below. 1.) Go to the "Sprockets" (Settings), It's located in the lower left corner and select it. 2.)You will be brought to this screen..... Press the "+" button to get to page 2.Now scroll down to the bottom where it says,"Custom Paths" and select it. 3.) Scroll down to where you see the paths for "Txt CheatCodes" and "Gct CheatCodes". Now change the paths to either Usb or Sd Card. Once you selected the paths, press the ok button. This window below will pop up, just press the ok button and exit out. You are done. Ocarina App Guide For The HBC. Warning: Spoilers inside! You Should have the Ocarina app in your apps folder on the sd card/Usb Hdd, if not , do it now. 1.) Open up HBC. 2.) Load Ocarina app 3.) Insert the game in to the wii. 4.) Load the game by pressing the "A" button. Make sure you have the codes on the root of the sd card. It will look like this Sd:/txtcodes/RSPE01.txt and Sd:/codes/Rspe01.gct. Action Replay To Ocarina Guide Warning: Spoilers inside! This is a simple guide that shows you how to convert AR codes to Ocarina codes. * Go to this site for the Action Replay Codes 1.) Download The GCNcrypt_v1.5 and extract it to your desktop. 2.) Download The AR To Wiird and extract to your desktop. 3.) Download The Codemanager And etract to your desktop. 4.) Open up the GCNcrypt program and take the codes you want to decrypt and place them in the left box And press the "Decrypt " Button. 5.) Now open up the the "AR To Wiird.jar" program, take the "decrypted" codes you made above and put them in the left box and click the "Convert Code Type" Button. If you Decrypted the codes with GCNcrypt then you will need to click the box on the left bottom, that says "Each Code Has A Verifier Line.", If it was already Decrypted, leave it unchecked. 6.) Open up the "CheatCodeManager" and where it says "Code/Comment/Category" Enter the codes name, now add the code that you just converted in to the "Code Contents" box. Now check the box (Codes Name) that's right under the Game ID. You are going to need the Game I.D. for whatever game the codes are for. Example...GF7E01 is for Star Fox , that I.D. will need to be entered in the the box of the CheatCodeManager that says "Game ID", once your done with that press "Export To GCT". If you need to get the game ID use neogamma or wii backup manager. 7.) Take the Gct file (GF7E01.GCT) and place it in your sd card in a folder name codes and enjoy. Credits Warning: Spoilers inside! Thank You To,CJizzle for the Directional Support. Thank You To,Bluphant for the CFG Loader Write Up and The Warning Write Up. Thank You To, Bmarlo For The Banner. Thank You To, Gamer89420 for the Suggesting of the AR TO Ocarina Guide.


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Samantha from Wolf Point, MT
Reviewer is A current student here.
1 of 4
Categories Comments Food and Dining
I don't use the college food since I don't live in the dorm.
Dorm Life
I don't live in the dorm.
Academic Rigor
Its fair. Many of the student don't take academics seriously and don't work hard for it, but those who do succeed.
Tips for prospective students
Know what career you want to go into and look at some of the degrees that they have since some come with extra benefits.
In three sentences
It serves my purpose well, is close to my home, and inexpensive. I wouldn't be going to college if Fort Peck Community College wasn't in my area. It is worthwhile and I enjoy most of the people here.
O'Dale from Poplar, MT
Reviewer is A current student here.
2 of 4
Categories Comments Campus Safety
everyone looks out for their neighbor
Greek Life
we're still working on something more concise and fun
Clubs and Activities
Student Government Blue Stone Indian Club Cultural Committee
Great for these types of students
internally-motivated and determined to excel at everything we do
Share any unusual traditions or locations on campus
the learning center is probably the most frequented spot on campus aside from the student lounge
Bang for the buck
very inexpensive tuition
What to do for fun
camping at the lake fishing at the lake and the river mentoring youth walking
Food and Dining
Meals are usually served once a day inside of our Greet the Dawn Auditorium.
Dorm Life
A very peaceful facility with much space and amenities.
Academic Rigor
Excellent programs of study. Strong leadership and faculty. Wonderful professors assisting in various ways possible to achieve academic excellence.
Tips for prospective students
Remain inspired through positvely and agressively pursuing your coursework. Never accept failure and less than your best. Stay focused while utilizing a strong and influential support system. Develop a raport with a mentor and or leader in your area of interest.
In three sentences
The Fort Peck Community College is an institution of higher learning, that constantly strives towards bettering ourselves, our communities and life A college where your mental, emotional, physical and spiritual well-being is important to us! A college that aims high in striving to remain safe with a healthy eduacational environment.
Christian from Poplar, MT
Reviewer is A past student here.
3 of 4
Categories Comments Bang for the buck
Fort Peck Community College is very affordable and a great place to get started.
Food and Dining
You don't eat at campus unless there is a big event.
Dorm Life
I did not live in the dorms, but my friend did and she enjoyed living there. They are newly built dorms and in a good location for the college.
Academic Rigor
Some classes were very challenging, while others were not so hard. The science classes I thought were the most challenging.
Tips for prospective students
To anyone that is going to attend Fort Peck Community College, my best advice is to get involved and always apply for the scholarships offered.
In three sentences
Fort Peck Community College is a great college. The staff and administration go out of their way to help the students attending. They go out of their way to make sure that every student has the best chance possible for success.
Cami from Wolf Point, MT
Reviewer is A current student here.
4 of 4
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anyone with versatility
Tips for prospective students
Get your generals out of the way first then you can focus on your core classes much easier.
Bang for the buck
I am at my financial limit so I have to pay for college myself.
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BOSTON (AP) — Hundreds of runners are joining victims of the Boston Marathon bombings to finish the last mile of the race, reclaiming the triumph of crossing the finish line after explosives went off while many athletes were still running.
More than 2,000 runners and bombing victims gathered in light rain Saturday morning to run the final mile of the world's oldest annual marathon. The event, known as OneRun, begins at Kenmore Square and concludes at the official finish line.
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OT: Sanchez to stay with Tigers
Well, it looks like Dombrowski signed Anibel Sanchez for a 5 year hitch at $80M. I'm very curious to see what happens with Porcello now that Sanchez is wrapped up for the foreseeable future.
I thought Sanchez was (imagine Ernie Harwell voice here) long gone. Looks like more evidence to support the theory that Mike Ilitch is in "win now" mode. I wonder if this is a deal the Tigers will regret at their leisure - Sanchez is below .500 in W/L for his career, although sabremetricians will quickly point out there are better measures of a pitcher's worth than W-L. In any event, Ilitch gets a lot of credit for investing in his club and giving Dombrowski the ability to do deals like this.


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Soterix Medical Inc. reports positive results from High-Definition tDCS Fibromyalgia Trial at Harvard Medical School
– Source: PRNewswire, February 20, 2013
Soterix Medical, Inc. is pleased to report positive results of a double-blind, sham-controlled, crossover trial of 18 patients with Fibromyalgia conducted at Harvard Medical School1. Fibromyalgia is a prevalent chronic pain syndrome characterized by altered pain and sensory processing in the central nervous system, which is often refractory [resistant] to multiple therapeutic approaches. The Harvard clinical trial examined the effects of the Soterix Medical's exclusive 4×1 High Definition – Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (HD-tDCS) on overall perceived pain in patients. HD-tDCS proved well tolerated and produced a significant reduction in overall perceived pain in Fibromyalgia patients as compared to sham stimulation.
"We are thrilled at these positive results in Fibromyalgia," said Dr. Abhishek Datta, CTO of Soterix Medical, "Patients with Fibromyalgia are often refractory [resistant] to pharmacological intervention and experience side-effects, so the ability of just one session of HD-tDCS to reduce pain without side-effects is striking. The effects observed in a single session were larger than with either conventional tDCS or FDA approved Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS). We expect that with repeated HD-tDCS, both the magnitude and durability of effects will increase and this is precisely the objective of our enhanced HD-tDCS Fibromyalgia multi-center trial – which is now recruiting, including at Harvard Medical School. These results are only possible with the proprietary Soterix Medical HD-tDCS where unique electrode and specialized arrays provide non-invasive targeted Neuromodulation not possible with any other technique. Soterix Medical will continue to pioneer HD-tDCS and its investigation in Fibromyalgia and other pain syndromes."
These results follow mechanistic findings at University of Michigan – tDCS using the Soterix Medical 1×1 promotes release of endogenous opioids providing a mechanistic substrate for the treatment of pain disorders and Migraine2.
CAUTION: tDCS and HD-tDCS are limited by Federal (or United States) law to investigational use only.
BACKGROUND: High-Definition tDCS (HD-tDCS) is an exclusive Neuromodulation technology developed by Soterix Medical Inc. Invented at The City College of New York, it is the only technology platform that allows tolerated non-invasive delivery of therapeutic current to desired brain regions. As a result, HD-tDCS offers potential for safe and effective treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders not possible with any other technology. HD-tDCS is made possible through innovations in electrode design allowing safe and tolerated passage of current through proprietary "High-Definition" electrodes, individualized brain current-flow modeling and through patented targeting algorithms indicating how to place and energize HD-electrodes on the head.
Soterix Medical Inc. is a Biomedical Engineering company based in New York City committed to developing innovative medical therapies. Soterix Medical is the leader in non-invasive electrical Neuromodulation including the exclusive High-Definition tDCS. Soterix Medical Inc. supports clinical trials aimed at treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders. Soterix Medical's patented Limited Total Energy (LTE-tDCS) is the only Neuromodulation technology optimized for susceptible populations. The Soterix Medical Clinical Trials (CT-tDCS) is being used in multi-center clinical trials internationally.
Focal Modulation of the Primary Motor Cortex in Fibromyalgia Using 4×1-Ring High-Definition Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (HD-tDCS): Immediate and Delayed Analgesic Effects of Cathodal and Anodal Stimulation.
– Source: Journal of Pain, February 14, 2013
By Mauricio F. Villamar, et al.
Fibromyalgia is a prevalent chronic pain syndrome characterized by altered pain and sensory processing in the central nervous system, which is often refractory to multiple therapeutic approaches. Given previous evidence supporting analgesic properties of noninvasive brain stimulation techniques in this condition, this study examined the effects of a novel, more focal method of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), using the 4×1-ring configuration of high-definition (HD)-tDCS, on overall perceived pain in fibromyalgia patients.
In this patient- and assessor-blind, sham-controlled, crossover trial, 18 patients were randomized to undergo single 20-minute sessions of anodal, cathodal, and sham HD-tDCS at 2.0 mA in a counterbalanced fashion. The center electrode was positioned over the left primary motor cortex. Pain scales and sensory testing were assessed before and after each intervention. A finite element method brain model was generated to predict electric field distribution.
We found that both active stimulation conditions led to significant reduction in overall perceived pain as compared to sham. This effect occurred immediately after cathodal HD-tDCS and was evident for both anodal and cathodal HD-tDCS 30 minutes after stimulation. Furthermore, active anodal stimulation induced a significant bilateral increase in mechanical detection thresholds. These interventions proved well tolerated in our patient population.
PERSPECTIVE: 4×1-ring HD-tDCS, a novel noninvasive brain stimulation technique capable of more focal and targeted stimulation, provides significant reduction in overall perceived pain in fibromyalgia patients as compared to sham stimulation, irrespective of current polarity. This technique may have other applications in research and clinical settings, which should be further explored.
Source: Journal of Pain, February 14, 2013. By Mauricio F. Villamar, Pakorn Wivatvongvana, Jayanton Patumanond, Marom Bikson, Dennis Q. Truong, Abhishek Datta, Felipe Fregn. Laboratory of Neuromodulation, Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; School of Medicine, Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador.


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At Logan Hall in London, the Deen Institute organized a conference named "Did Muslims misunderstand the evolution?" Dr. Oktar Babuna presented the invalidity of Darwinism while explaining the scientific facts and the verses of the Qur'an.
The lecturers from United Kingdom, United States and Canada explained in detail that there is no proof of evolution in the Qur'an but there is a fact that everything has been created all of a sudden by Allah. Besides, a fossil exhibition was organized in scope of the conference.
Almost 1000 people attended the conference and they applauded enthusiastically at the end.
The Guardian, one of the prominent newspapers of United Kingdom, published news about the conference and mentioned about Dr Oktar Babuna's presentation about the invalidity of evolution.


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Hey, everyone. "Moriarty" here. Warner Bros loveses them some Guy Ritchie right now. I saw REVOLVER, so forgive me if I'm confused. I like Ritchie, certainly, but that film suggested a filmmaker who was so far off the reservation that he wasn't even interested in making films for audiences anymore. I think he's got great visual ideas, and he can build a sequence in terms of mood and rhythm, and the actual filmmaking craft in REVOLVER is lush and sumptuous. But the film overall is a car wreck and a train crash and a bus explosion all rolled up into one. If I were a studio looking at that film, I'd be at a loss in terms of knowing what to do with him. Can this filmmaker be trusted? Well, they've seen ROCKNROLLA by now, and we haven't, and all of a sudden, Warner Bros is in the Guy Ritchie business in a big way. When I interviewed Joel Silver for the SPEED RACER release, he talked to me about how SGT. ROCK was set to finally find its way in front of the camera with Ritchie directing, the latest name in a long line of people who took their shot at that one. And Silver told me point blank that ROCKNROLLA works, that he thinks it's awesome, and that it is a turning point for Ritchie as a director. Could it be true? I hope so. I like the idea of his SGT. ROCK, and I am equally intrigued at him replacing Neil Marshall as the guy who wants to write and direct this reinvention of Sherlock Holmes for the 21st century franchise-hungry modern cinema landscape... no small task, indeed. We got this review in recently from a guy that you should take as just one small part in what I've personally heard as a rising tide of good buzz on Ritchie's return to the full-blown gangster romp. I think Gerard Butler's having a no-shit movie star moment these days, and he's doing it well. And the rest of the cast is equally interesting. I would love it if this turns out to be as good as this guy says...:
Hey Harry Saw this movie, thought you should know. Use it or lose it. And glad you're feeling good, big guy ... One of the really annoying things about the success of this site and others like it, and the studios subsequent attempts to co-opt them all, is the undoubted preponderance of plants. There was that review here a while back of Repo, the Paris Hilton execrescence, blatantly dictated by someone on the production team. That's not so bad, everyone spotted the author's leafiness, because no way is that film not a crock of shit. But where it gets annoying is when your girlfriend gets you in to see a movie that's not released for a bit, a movie you know that geeks and many more are going to dig with a big old spade, and while you want to tell everyone about it, you feel the need to temper your gibbering praise because of the inevitable talkback suspicion that will ensue. But fuck it, I saw ROCKNROLLA, and it kicked MIGHTY ARSE. And while it doesn't have the shock of the new, I reckon this is the best of Guy Ritchie's good movies. And that bar's pretty damn high. I saw it in London, where it's set, although the London of the film is totally Ritchiefied. We're back in Lock Stock and Snatch territory (thank fuck), where everyone has a name like One-Two or Mumbles, and speaks a deranged mockney argot. Come to think of it, they did that in Revolver too, but here we don't have to deal with Jason Statham shouting at his own ego in a lift for minutes that felt like days. Anyway, from the moment the opening credits not so much kick in as explode onto the screen – up there with Seven, Catch Me If You Can, and The Incredibles, in recent years – it's clear Ritchie means business. He must know what dogs his last two movies were, he must know he won't get too many more chances, but despite that, there's a bravura confidence to this I wasn't expecting. In the first five minutes we meet about a thousand characters, and if it wasn't for Mark Strong's splendidly laconic voiceover you'd be utterly lost. Even with it you're struggling, but who cares? The camera's flying around, the performances are mostly spot-on, the music kills. The plot is basically about upstart oligarch Russians taking over London properties from the old-school likes of Lenny Cole, played by the reliably superb Tom Wilkinson. He's having an extraordinary run right now, and this is a nice addition to the canon. His consigliere is the cool-as-all-shit Mark Strong, and the pair of them rock together. Lenny is owed a serious amount of money – I couldn't tell you how much, not having understood the mockney slang – by a bunch of would-be gangsters, led by Gerard Butler's One-Two, and it's their attempts to get that money, inadvertently sabotaging Lenny's deals with the Russian mogul every time, that form the central spine of the movie. But like I said, there are any number of other spin-off storylines and characters, including various junkies, thieves, gangsters, pop stars, music promoters (the slightly underused Ludacris and Jeremy Piven), and a scheming accountant, played with drawling deadpan sexiness by Thandie Newton. While not even Guy Ritchie's agent would argue that he can write good parts for women – anyone remember a female character in Lock Stock? Or Snatch? And then there's Swept Away, which makes you glad there weren't any women in the others – at least here the single note he gives Newton to play is a good one, and she seems to be having a fine old time. As do all the others. Gerard Butler finds a nice line in self-mockery; he and Newton have a spectacularly uncool dancing scene together that drew howls of laughter from the audience. He's kind of a dork, and all the cooler for it. Also in his crew are Idris Elba and Tom Hardy, whose romantic yearnings form the basis for some of the best jokes in the movie. But the standout performance, the one that really makes you feel you're watching a new star beginning to shine, is that of Toby Kebbell. He made a good impression in the magnificent Dead Man's Shoes, and I remember him in Control, but not a lot else. In fact, nothing else. But here, as the dissolute rock star Johnny Quid, he just fucking blazes. Women will want to do him (my girlfriend was stuck to her seat), men will want to be him; basically, the world is his to own. Or it would be, if Ritchie didn't have it in his pocket already. Reannouncing himself as a superb director both of set-pieces – a STUNNING chase scene where Butler is pursued by two Russian heavies who absolutely will not stop – and pure comedy – the aforementioned dance scene, the shortest sex scene in the world, and many more - Ritchie is on top form here. And as a writer, he's having fun again. There's no Kabbalahian subtext to distract, annoy or confuse. There's just a cool story to tell, and a party to be had telling it. It's not a perfect film. A couple of the performances don't really work, and occasionally it loses itself in needless exposition, as if it doesn't realise what a good time we're having in our ignorance. But basically it fucking pegs along, looking great and sounding even better, until the cool and genuinely surprising twist in the tail. And then, in typically confident style, the film ends by announcing that a sequel will be coming soon, which is a) good news and b) a flat-out ballsy move considering that this one hasn't even opened yet. But judging from the audience response throughout, and the applause at the end, the sequel will be coming, and I'll see you there. Let the mistrust begin. For a few months. Then you'll see it, and know I was right. PROFESSOR MARCUS


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We sometimes forget that music can be more than just a soundtrack for our dancing, partying, and romancing. For example, there's the music of Rob Zombie. Yes, you can do all of the aforementioned activities to it, but his music also creates an atmosphere that's similar to a classic horror film. That's because Zombie is greatly inspired by sinister cinema. He has even sampled dialogue from scary movies in his songs. In other words, his music is dark, heavy, and frightening (but in a good way).
It should come as no surprise that when the singer isn't making music, or selling Rob Zombie tickets to venues all over the world, he's directing horror films. His credits include House of 1000 Corpses, The Devil's Rejects, and The Lords of Salem. In 2007, he directed a remake of the 1978 film Halloween. His remake is the highest grossing film of the series.
Zombie formed White Zombie in the mid-1980s with his then-girlfriend Sean Yseult. They released their first album, Soul-Crusher in 1987 and their sophomore effort, Make Them Die Slowly, in 1989. Neither did very well. The band's big break came in 1993 when the video to their first single, "Thunder Kiss '65," aired on MTV's Beavis and Butt-head. The album from which it came, La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Volume One, peaked at #26 on the Billboard 200 and eventually achieved a 2x platinum certification.
White Zombie released what would be their last album, Astro-Creep: 2000 – Songs of Love, Destruction and Other Synthetic Delusions of the Electric Head, in April of 1995. It peaked at #6 on the Billboard 200. White Zombie officially broke up in 1998. According to Rob Zombie, there were no bad feelings amongst members; it was just time to call it quits.
Zombie's first solo album, Hellbilly Deluxe: 13 Tales Of Cadaverous Cavorting Inside The Spookshow International, dropped Aug. 25, 1998. The album was a bona fide success and produced three hit singles: "Dragula," "Living Dead Girl," and "Superbeast." Zombie followed up Hellbilly Deluxe with The Sinister Urge in 2001.
As you might imagine from a fan and director of horror films, Rob Zombie's live shows are very theatrical. He employs many horror-film related elements into his concerts. What else would you expect from someone who married his wife, actress Sherri Moon, on Halloween of 2002.


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CCHA's Anastos named MSU coach
Former Spartan comes home to coach Michigan State
EAST LANSING, Mich. -- Tom Anastos, a Michigan State alumnus who has excelled in the sport of hockey as a player, coach, administrator, and visionary, has been appointed to the position of Head Coach of the Michigan State Hockey program, according to an announcement made by Athletics Director Mark Hollis. Anastos, who has served as the commissioner of the Central Collegiate Hockey Association since 1998, becomes just the sixth Michigan State hockey coach in program history and the fourth in the modern era.
"I am extremely excited about returning to Michigan State to lead the Spartan Hockey program and once again be a part of the MSU Athletics Department family," said Anastos. "I have obviously maintained a relationship with MSU and been in close contact with the hockey program for the last 13 years in my role with the CCHA, but this opportunity is incredibly special.
"The expectations I have for our program will be to compete annually for conference and national championships. That was the expectation when I was here as a player and as an assistant coach, and I don't believe it should be any different in my role as head coach. In our locker room, we have quality young men who are good players, good students and good citizens, which are all hallmarks of this program. I am excited to get started, to hire a staff, and to get myself re-acclimated within the MSU community."
"Bringing Tom Anastos into the MSU Athletics Department to run our hockey program brings someone with energy and passion not only for the sport of hockey, but for our University and program as well," said Hollis. "He can attract high-caliber talent and develop those players into those who are attractive to the National Hockey League. He places a premium on education, and the drive and desire to compete for championships.
"Hockey is important in the state of Michigan, and it is also important to Michigan State. We will continue to provide the resources to appropriately support this program, and to best prepare our student-athletes for their personal future ... in the NHL and the business world."
"Tom Anastos is an incredibly accomplished individual, and the same characteristics which have made him such a successful leader since his graduation from Michigan State will pay dividends for our hockey program, our entire athletic department and University," added Michigan State president Lou Anna K. Simon. "Tom is a dynamic individual who will be an asset for Team MSU as we move forward. There is no doubt that he is passionate about developing young people, and we are excited for our next era to begin."
Recognized by The Hockey News in each of the past five years on the list of the 100 most influential and powerful people in the sport (No. 46 in 2011), Anastos has an unrivaled passion for the game and savvy blend of administrative, business and communication skills, a Who's Who list of connections, and has provided progressive vision and dynamic leadership for college hockey. He will now bring those traits to Michigan State to advance the on-ice success and stature in college hockey of his alma mater, where he will guide the Spartans into their 70th varsity season when the puck drops on Oct. 7 in the Icebreaker Tournament. He will also be helping Michigan State into the Big Ten Hockey Conference, as was recommended by athletic directors in an announcement on Monday, March 21 and would begin play with the 2013-14 season.
Anastos, who was honored as MSU's "Distinguished Spartan" by the hockey program in 2004, both played and coached at his alma mater before stepping into an administrative role. He was a four-year letterwinner at Michigan State (1981-85) for former coach Ron Mason, and received his bachelor's degree in construction management in 1987. He was in the first class of Michigan State players to skate exclusively in the CCHA after MSU left the WCHA as he helped the Spartans to three Great Lakes Invitational titles, a regular-season CCHA Championship in 1985, and four consecutive CCHA Tournament titles. His Spartan teams made four NCAA Tournament appearances, finishing fourth in the country in 1984 and losing a heartbreaking quarterfinal series to Providence in 1985. As a senior, he earned second-team all-conference honors and was named to the all-tournament teams at the CCHA Tournament and Great Lakes Invitational. In his career, Anastos skated in 151 games, scored 70 goals and recorded 73 assists for 153 points, and amassed 102 penalty minutes. He still holds the MSU record for short-handed goals in a season (7, scored in 1983-84), and ranks in a tie for fourth in the MSU annals with 10 career short-handed markers.
Anastos, a 2000 inductee into his hometown Dearborn, (Mich)., Sports Hall of Fame, played junior hockey for the Paddock Pools Saints of the NAHL and was the first player ever drafted from the league by an NHL team when the Montreal Canadiens selected him in 1981. The sixth-round pick of Montreal (124th overall) played one season in the Canadiens organization, then joined the coaching staff at the University of Michigan-Dearborn where he served as head coach of that program from 1987-90, compiling a 68-37-7 record.
In the fall of 1990, Anastos returned to his alma mater as an assistant coach under Ron Mason. Those two teams went a combined 43-28-13, and in 1991-92, advanced to the Frozen Four, and lost to eventual National Champion Lake Superior State, which was coached by current Notre Dame coach Jeff Jackson.
In his most recent role as CCHA commissioner, he has overseen the growth and changes in the membership over 13 years, and in April 2010, the CCHA played host to the record-breaking 2010 NCAA Men's Frozen Four at Ford Field in Detroit, the first Frozen Four to be held in a non-traditional hockey venue. A crowd of 34,954 watched the semifinal games and 37,592 attended the title game between Boston College and Wisconsin. The individual day attendance marks and the three-game total of 72,546 easily shattered the Frozen Four records, and the title-game attendance figure stands as the North American record for an indoor hockey game.
In concert with his role of CCHA commissioner, Anastos has served as the president of the Hockey Commissioner's Association (HCA), a group comprised of the five commissioners from NCAA Division I Hockey. The HCA addresses common issues and concerns at a national level, and the group's efforts include on-going discussions with the NHL's corporate office in New York, sponsorship of the annual Warrior Ice Breaker Tournament and the College Hockey All-Access radio show on NHL Home Ice XM 204, Sirius 208.
In 2009, in his capacity as president of the HCA, he spearheaded a college hockey delegation which traveled to Florida to meet with the 30 general managers of NHL teams. The same year, he was key in the procuring of a grant from the National Hockey League through USA Hockey. The funding was used by the Anastos-led HCA to create College Hockey Inc., an educational and promotional entity charged with raising the profile and help foster the growth of college hockey. Now in its second year, College Hockey Inc. is under the direction of Executive Director Paul Kelly, former head of the National Hockey League's Players Association.
Anastos' commitment to growing the sport has resulted in an annual statewide celebration known as "Hockey Day in Michigan" The grass roots initiative, which includes the live broadcast of two CCHA games on FOX Sports Detroit, has been successfully imitated by USA Hockey to encourage fans, players, coaches and officials to unite in their passion for their sport and help introduce others to the game.
Television also was a focal point for the CCHA under Anastos. The CCHA was the first hockey conference to sign television agreements with CBS College Sports (formerly CSTV), Toronto, Canada-based Leafs TV, and the NHL Network.
Prior to his appointment with the CCHA, Anastos served as president of the North American Hockey League, a Tier II junior league, for four seasons. During that time, the NAHL attracted strong ownership groups and developed into one of the top leagues for college-bound players in the United States.
Anastos is very active in amateur hockey, both as a coach in the Detroit-based Honeybaked hockey program and as an administrator. He is one of two NCAA representatives on USA Hockey's board of directors and has been a long-time member of its International Council and Junior Council which oversees the activities of the organization's international programs and US junior hockey.
Anastos also serves on the board of directors for One Goal, a non-profit organization comprised of hockey's North American industry leaders seeking to improve awareness and understanding of hockey, so parents can make informed decisions about involving their families in the game. He also is a member of the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame Board of Directors.
Anastos, 47, lives in Farmington Hills, Mich., with his wife, Lisa. They have five children: daughters Lauren, Jenna, Alyssa, and Andrea, and son Drew.


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It's no secret that how we grew up influenced who we are today. And nowhere is that impact more felt than in the role our mothers played in our formative years. Was your mom at home full time, or did she work? How has your memory of your mom from childhood shaped your view of motherhood as a whole? This week's panel comes from different backgrounds, and in a spirited but civil discussion, we talk homemakers, nine-to-fivers, daycare, latchkey kids and the joys and trials inherent in it all.
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I've always liked looking at stars. Growing up outside Tucson, Ariz., I was certainly in the right place to do so. The entire county is subject to strict light-pollution laws, in deference to the half-dozen observatories within an easy drive. We who learned to drive in Arizona are as baffled by the rest of the world's dependence on streetlights as we are by their insistence on grass being green.
The first time I became conscious of my city's ties to space was in third grade. An engineer from the University of Arizona came to tell us about his latest project: the Cassini-Huygens probe, soon to be headed to Saturn. He described how it would take seven years for the school-bus-sized mass of antennas and instruments to reach the ringed giant, by which time I would be 15-an unimaginably advanced age. He told us about Titan, Saturn's largest moon, shrouded in nitrogen so thick we could not see through it-the only other true atmosphere we know. Then he had us all sign a piece of paper. Those signatures, along with more than a half-million others, were burned to a DVD and set inside the probe.
The idea of my shaky cursive cruising the solar system fascinated me. From then on, I learned all I could about astronomy. My book of Greek mythology, already falling to pieces, was carefully reassembled so I could learn the stories of the constellations. Stargazing became a favorite pastime, especially in midwinter, when the Tucson skies are crystal clear. I tortured my little sister (according to her, anyway) by taking her out to our driveway in the middle of the night, where we would lie on freezing concrete while I lectured her on the lifecycles of stars.
In high school, I found that Arizona offered me another unique opportunity. For a month each summer, the observatory on Mount star-obsessed teenagers. I spent a week on the mountaintop, where days began at sunset and ended with eastern twilight, white light was forbidden lest it ruin our night vision, and daddy longlegs the size of our hands were casually removed from bedroom walls and chucked into dustbins.
That week I got to use telescopes professional astronomers beg for, taking pictures of distant nebulae and chasing an asteroid through the outskirts of the solar system. We also visited the Large Binocular Telescope. The telescope's two mirrors together act like an 11.8-meter telescope, making it the largest in the world.
We had the privilege of being in the dome as it opened at sunset, and I stood awestruck next to the 8.4-meter mirrors that had been cast in a lab under the stadium where my hometown Wildcats usually lost.
I left camp with a better understanding of what astronomers do and the thought that my love for the stars might not be a juvenile fascination-it might be my life. That year I started getting letters from colleges, and the first thing I looked for was an astronomy program. Those without went straight into the recycling bin.
The next fall, I packed my bags and left for Cleveland, where a truly mind-blowing number of streetlights mixed with lovely weather and a couple centuries of industrial pollution make it a minor miracle to see anything dimmer than Jupiter.
My destination of Case Western Reserve University was about as far removed from the pristine Tucson skies as I could get, at least at first glance. A second glance, though, would show the university's telescope is on Kitt Peak, across the valley from the mountain where I spent that amazing week. Last summer, when I returned to astronomy camp as a counselor, the camp had moved mountains, and I spent another wonderful week teaching the next group of astronomers the names of constellations in the shelter of Case Western Reserve's Warner and Swasey Observatory.
Emily Joseph graduated from Case Western Reserve in May with a bachelor's degree in astronomy. She spent the summer stargazing on a mountain again before taking a year to travel the country.


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Berlin May 2004
This is Julian Darley from Global Public Media in Berlin on May the 27, 2004 interviewing Dr. Colin Campbell after the 3rd annual ASPO workshop.
JD: What are your impressions of ASPO 2004 and what is the Rimini Protocol?
CC: Well I think it was a successful conference in two main regards. First, almost 300 people came to it, from all over the world, a wide spectrum of different kinds of people. And secondly, it had enormous media coverage. There were a lot of journalists, a lot of TV people, which told me the peak oil story was really becoming of prime interest to everybody. As far the content of the conference was concerned, I think one could say -- I mean it was deliberate -- the conference organizers wanted to give emphasis to gas and the wider energy issues of Germany in particular, and also to renewable energies, so in a sense it lost the prime message of peak oil. But that said, there was some quite lively debate. There was a moment when Fatih Birol from the International Energy Agency made his presentation which seemed to be based, on really … well it is hard to exactly explain what I mean. I came to conclude there were four different camps in this business: one could almost picture it almost as a medieval field of battle, in different camps and different corners of the battlefield.
I like to say in one camp are the surveyors. These people have the mission of defining, describing, identifying, and above all measuring something. Really that is their job, it is a very simple role.
And then you have the economic fundamentalists, you could call them, who have these really outdated economic principles inherited from the Industrial Revolution, when the world was indeed large and the scope for Man's activities were at that time more or less infinite. So that you are basically living in the past with these economic principles which are very short term in their nature and so on. And so I think these people who say that there can be no shortage in an open market and their battle cry is liberalize markets - these people have become really the enemy, one has to say.
And then, there was another interesting faction, and I rather changed my position on these people. You have institutions like the International Energy Agency, and there was a member from the European Parliament there who explained this rather well. And these people, I thought they were intensely stupid in earlier years. You know, I thought, is it possible that a responsible organization of that kind could be quite so misguided and quite so far from the reality of things. But on second thoughts I realized they are deliberately trying to mislead people as much as possible. And perhaps that's a very good thing that they do, because the reality is such a monumental effect. I mean the stock market crashes, the currencies go to hell, and probably the whole government system is put in threat, if the truth is to be revealed. So I call these people the Pretenders. They understand it fairly well perhaps, but they have to pretend it's something different. And one hopes that behind the scenes it isn't all pretence, that that's for public consumption, and that one hopes in reality somewhere somebody is making some sensible plans. One has to give them the benefit of the doubt: one could say that's what they're doing. So I had a bit of a conflict with this Fatih Birol who apparently took a bit of offence at this interpretation of his role.
And then lastly you have the people I call the Renegades. These are senior politicians who are now out of office and being freed from the system, are able to tell the truth. And some of them do. In the audience was Yves Cochet, the former Minister of Environment of France, who has excellent ideas, and really understands things very well, and is quite forthright in what he says.
So I identified these four different groups and then I think, as far as my own contribution to this thing is concerned, I did come forth with a proposal, the so-called Rimini Protocol And the origin of this is a conference in Rimini last year and the city of Rimini has now agreed in principle to host a conference next year of oil leaders, and I prepared in fact a booklet on this whole subject to be translated to and sent to world leaders.
The proposal is that the producing countries would not produce in excess of their present depletion rate, that the annual production is a percentage of what is left, and in fact few of them can do so anyway, so there's no particular difficulty in them agreeing to such a thing. But more important than that, is that that the importers would cut their imports to the same level and this would have the effect of keeping world prices in reasonable relationship to actual production cost and allow the Third world, the poor countries to afford at least something.
And it would stop the Middle East and whoever controls it from profiteering from shortages. And one has to say in earlier years profiteering was considered to be somewhat immoral, so there's a morality issue enters itself there.
But more important than those general things is the result, which would mean the consumers, the importing countries would have to learn to avoid waste. All I'm saying is that if you look out the window, you see 100 cars go by in ten minutes. And I am simply asking that next year there should be 97. This is not a monumental difference and I think we can do it. They would have to save energy, be more efficient, and there's a 100 ways in which to do that. And then in addition to that they would have to turn to renewables where they could, wind, tides, solar energies. But above all to sort of change the way of life of the age of consumerism, this whole financial system that is built around it would have to change and adapt. And I think that this protocol, if adopted , would take some of the tension of what will be otherwise be an awful shock to the system.
And the other nice feature about is that whereas Kyoto requires all the nations, especially the main polluters to agree in some manner, or at least buy their way out of it, which is a somewhat questionable approach, but at any rate this would not really require everyone to agree but just any country that adopted this principle would be effectively investing in its own future, and within a relatively short period of time, by virtue of having faced reality a little bit before they had to, would be better prepared, better organized and indeed competitive with those who continued to live in the past.
So anyway this proposal seems to be gathering a certain momentum and I think we are getting different countries to at least consider it and come on board. I don't think it matters too much whether the thing's actually signed at the end of the day, so long as this debate now begins to filter into the people in control. I think one incidental effect of this proposal is that one of the conditions [of it]---- the importers would license the imports. So there would be control on what was imported. There would have to be, to control the amount. And as a condition of granting this license they would then require to know from which field the oil was coming, and secondly, they would exert the right at least to be able to go and audit the reserves of this field on the grounds that they have a right to know how much longer they can expect to receive oil from this source. And so in this way this whole obscure situation of what the resource actually is would be resolved in order to calculate what the depletion rate would be. And I think that is an incidental benefit of this thing to bring a certain clarity because, I should emphasize really that all these different viewpoints are made possible by the atrocious condition of the public data. If the real data was made available to everybody, the conclusions would be self-evident --- there would be no need to discuss it at all, it would be incredibly obvious. But there all these different factions are made possible by the extremely unreliable data so anybody can say more or less whatever he wants.
JD: What is the real significance of the recent Royal Dutch Shell reserve write-downs?
CC: The Shell incident has really got quite interesting elements to it, and I think it really says a lot about many aspects of things. You see, Shell regarded itself as a very superior kind of company, you know, Shell was the cream of the cream, at least in their eyes. I'm sure the situation arose, as in all companies, of always under-reporting what they found. This was the standard way in which all companies worked. So you have a financial group whose job it was to make an annual report to the company. And they would report as much reserves as they needed to report to deliver a satisfactory financial result. So this had been going on for years, and it was entirely standard practice. And so, if they needed a little bit more reserves somewhere for their annual report, well, the head office would call their man in Nigeria and say well, we need a bit more this year.
And in the past there was no problem with doing this, there was a huge stock of under-reported reserves that they knew existed everywhere in a sort intangible ill-defined way, they just always knew there was a bit more than they claimed. This was the traditional way the industry worked. And so Shell being Shell, it was one of the few major companies that didn't merge with anybody else. Because with their superbia mentality, why would they soil themselves with mixing themselves up with a lesser entity? Whereas BP and Texaco and Chevron and ExxonMobil, they all overcame this little difficulty that's been unfolding for them all, by merging, and in the course of merging completely confused the reserves and the accounts, and everything else, and in practice the lesser of the partners to the merger was absorbed by the stronger party who effectively bought the reserves of the lesser one.
So all the other companies overcome this fact that they were running out of this stock of under reported reserves but poor old Shell was still trying to do it in the ground, not on Wall St.
Another aspect of this is that Shell had a rather delegated structure, so the man in Nigeria had a lot of autonomy over what he could do. So you know they are all part of this group, this club, the affiliates have their friends in the head office and they all work together in this club-like environment. But I suppose over the years it began slowly to become evident that well, Nigeria just didn't have anymore on board you know. And then I think the oil in the ground was probably secure enough, I'm sure the reserves as estimated were genuine technical reserves. But they probably weren't strictly commercial at that time.
In places like Nigeria there must be many commercial obstacles and contracts are insecure and hopes are not always met and that kind of thing. And so that in a strict SEC meaning they were sort of over-reporting what they had. And gradually they became aware of this. And then they tried to hope it would somehow solve itself and say let's put it off till next year, a perfectly reasonable reaction actually. And slowly they found they couldn't put it off till next year. And then of course they start accusing each other of having failed and in typical management behavior always finding someone to blame for something going wrong. And they started throwing mud at each other and eventually of course the investment community which really understands nothing about anything in particular went into a complete spasm over this readjustment and it cost the poor old chairman his job and you know the whole pack of cards unravelled.
I think in a certain way Shell was actually more honest than other people who hid it through merger and devious accounting formulae. So it's a sort of an irony in a way. But it does underline at the end of the day that the companies no longer have unreported reserves and that's no longer surprising since the peak of discovery for the world was in 1964. The world as a whole has been finding less than it used since 1981. So what we see in Shell is an echo of what is facing the whole wide world on the widest scale.
If Saudi Arabia were subject to the same stock exchange rules that Shell was, it would face a mammoth downgrading of Saudi reserves.
JD: Are there any similarities between Shell and Saudi Arabia?
CC: Well Saudi Arabia is a very complicated story of course, as we all we know. Saudi Arabia announced an enormous increase in their reserves in I think it was '92. They have not changed since. But, well you know production eats into reserves unless you find something to compensate for it. So, we've long suspected there was something wrong with their reported reserves and it now becomes evident through contacts with engineers who know the details of those fields there and so on, it now becomes clear that Saudi Arabia has been claiming what it has found, not what is remaining. And that's a huge shock, really that's a lot of oil. And so are all the other Middle East countries.
And this is actually surprising --- in the last Oil and Gas Journal the ex-- the chief ex -- and I stress ex, because he was free then to speak -- in Saudi Aramco responded to what we've been saying in ASPO. Amazing that Saudi Arabia would find it necessary to respond to what we've been saying. The man said they had 130 billion barrels of proved developed reserves. Well this is half of what they had claimed!
And this undeveloped reserve is probably nothing more than in the eye, the glint in the eye of some explorer or some unconfirmed discovery somewhere. In any case it's small, and the long and short of it is, they cannot increase their production even if they wanted to.
So the whole Middle East is running at full capacity. That explains why the price of oil is going through the ceiling. There may be speculative interests at work that can give a little volatility in the short term, but in the longer term the price of oil has to go up until demand is cut, which means recession. So I think we enter this volatile period over the next few years. It started in 2000 when we had a little price shock, a recession, then recovered.
Now we're having a bigger price shock, which I suspect will lead to a bigger recession. And over the next few years we see this boom and bust kind of situation, which incidentally has always been a classic phenomenon of the oil business, and it's not unrelated.
JD: The Saudis say they have much more oil yet to be discovered. What do you think of that suggestion?
CC: The Saudis have drilled a large number of wells, and I think even the Sauds would always develop the larger ones first. So the biggest field in the world is Ghawar, with 80 billion in it perhaps, you step outside from this trend to Safaniya with 35 perhaps, Hanifah about 12 and Shaybah 15, and you come on down. If they develop the big ones first, which one must assume they did, you are down to well, still nice oilfields but of a modest scale, and so I suppose the other discoveries they made have made are smaller by orders of magnitude.
I am sure there are more fields to find, of course there are, and they've drilled a lot of wells, and who knows if these are if these are genuine discoveries or not, but it's quite evident that this doesn't come close to the past.
JD: It is claimed that there is much more oil to be discovered in Iraq. Do you think this is true?
CC: Well, Iraq -- In all oil provinces there is a prime trend and if you're in the prime trend that's where the oil is. In the case of Iraq there's three giant fields within this thing. There's Kirkuk, found in 1927; East Baghdad found I think in 1954 if I'm not wrong about this, Rumalia in the south found in about 1978.
So the bulk of Iraq's oil is in these three big ones, and then there are smaller ones in this prime trend. But there's a large shelf to the west which is relatively unexplored though it does have a lot of wells on it and it's quite evident it's outside the main oil belts. So simply by looking at a large stretch of empty territory is not to assume that it's full of oil.
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Last week's vote by the Senate Committee on Armed Services failed to recognize the biofuel industry's potential to revitalize the rural economy, create jobs, boost farm income and reduce America's reliance of foreign fuel, said USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack in a media conference call this morning. That vote prohibits 2013 funding to the Department of Defense (DoD) for the production or purchase of alternative fuel "if the cost of producing or purchasing the alternative fuel exceeds the cost of traditional fossil fuel."
"I hope that people will understand the negative impact this has on rural America," Vilsack said. He added that this was a committee vote. (As reported in last week's blog,
several biofuels organizations, as well as the American Farm Bureau Federation, will step up their efforts to encourage the Senate to restore support within the National Defense Authorization Act for the DoD's commitment to accelerate the production of biofuels for military use.)
The Obama administration will continue to work collaboratively with the private sector to continue to make biofuels cost competitive with fossil fuels. "Government has a role to provide assistance to get industries up and going," Vilsack said, adding that the oil industry still receives help from the government.
Vilsack added that the U.S. should not be so overly reliant on foreign fuel, pointing out that the country's enormous supply of biomass offers tremendous capability for producing biofuels.
Also on the media call, Adam Monroe, president, Nozoymes North America, said that based on the history of technological advances in a very short time, he has no doubt that advanced biofuels will be an important part of the economy moving forward.
Just yesterday, Novozymes inaugurated its new enzyme production plant in Blair, Neb., creating 100 new career positions. Monroe added that the new facility created 400 construction jobs. The Blair plant is the largest and most advanced enzyme plant in the country dedicated to existing and advanced biofuels.
With a 48C manufacturing tax credit (of $28.4 million) from the federal government, Novozymes had the confidence to move forward with the $200 million facility in Blair, which will help the company bring its technology online more quickly and push the industry further toward commercialization, Monroe said. Because of how far technological advances have come, Monroe expects that advanced biofuels will be much less expensive to produce than fossil fuels in the future.


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You have all heard the advice... bake ahead and freeze. Sound advice to be sure, but if you do that, you will miss all the heady smells of holiday baking when you are IN the holiday mood...right? I have a solution that might make your holiday baking easier and less stressful during the busy days right before Christmas.
I schedule a day in late November to chop, toast, grind and measure the ingredients that I plan to prepare during December: nuts, dried fruits, chocolate, coconut, dry ingredients - anything that will not spoil or deteriorate.
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Like obesity, being underweight involves many factors. Undernourishment during infancy and adolescence or nutrient deficiencies of the mother during pregnancy can lead to a lower number of fat cells and thus the potential for lower amounts of fatty tissue. Genetics and conditioning are also factors. Thinness, of course, runs in families, as does obesity. Poor eating habits and low food intake are other causes of underweight. Illness can cause weight loss. Flus or debilitating diseases such as cancer can lead to loss of weight, which can be hard to regain, especially when those with these problems are not used to higher-calorie diets. Stress and anxiety are often found with low body weight. High-strung people and worriers can have trouble putting on weight. During times of extreme emotional upset, it may be difficult to eat, and that can be a problem. People who use stimulants such as caffeine and cigarettes are more commonly underweight than those who do not abuse these stimulants. The caffeine-cigarette combination generates a lot of nervous energy and frenetic mental activity. It may be productive for office work, but not for health.
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