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I was very very lucky to receive Harold the giraffe from Fiona's giveaway. He came yesterday in the mail and he's getting in the Christmas spirit by making himself at home under the Christmas tree. Thank you so much Fiona, he is beautiful!
My sister-in-law and wee niece are particular lovers of giraffes, so I bought Homespun magazine to make him a cousin some time in the future. There's also a great quilt pattern in there from another blogger I follow which may have a place in baby's room some time in the future.
I have succumbed to a revolting cold so I'm cosy at home today rather than spreading my germs at work. Perhaps I'll muster the energy to finish off some baby knitting then have something else to show you here. I knitted up this little bear for a friend on the weekend from this Little Cotton Rabbits pattern - my first (though very minor) go at stranded colour knitting and she came out pretty cute I think!


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You don't just watch Titanic, you experience it.
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His (Cameron) movie may not be perfect, but visually and viscerally, it pretty well is.
Titanic floods you with elemental passion in a way that invites comparison with the original movie spectacles of D.W. Griffith.
It is flawlessly crafted, intelligently constructed, strongly acted and spellbinding.
A film that sweeps us away into a world of spectacle, beauty and excitement, a realm of fantasy unimaginable without the movies.
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Great movie, but not appropriate for all kids.
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Parents need to know that James Cameron's King-of-the-World saga Titanic is one of the highest-grossing movies of all time and is still sure to attract young teen and tween audiences. There's brief nudity (a topless Rose poses for a nude drawing) and sexuality (Jack and Rose make love in the backseat of a car), but the forbidden romance between the main characters (played by Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio) is otherwise rather chaste by today's PG-13 standards. It's the epic Titanic sinking scene that may make this movie too intense for younger kids. Throughout the mass chaos, people are fighting, shooting at each other, plunging to their watery deaths, and in some cases, even committing suicide. The fact that this is based on a historical event may be too intense for sensitive children, but mature kids fascinated with the Titanic will find it compelling to watch.
Messages: Early 20th-century class issues are at the heart of the conflict between Jack and Rose's whirlwind relationship. High-society folks didn't socialize with those beneath their status at the time, but Jack and Rose fall in love despite those societal trappings, proving that a person's worth is far greater than the station they were born into. Both of them overcome numerous obstacles to be together. The idea that first-class passengers' lives are somehow more important than lesser-class passengers is exposed as disgusting.
Role models: Jack and Rose transcend societal expectations and fall in love with each other, acting bravely to help save themselves and others. The "Haves" for the most part -- excepting Molly Brown, the Captain, and the ship architect -- aren't the most admirable lot. Many people onboard act selfishly, like Cal, who pretends a small child is his to get a spot on a lifeboat, or the shipworker who refuses to allow his half-filled lifeboat to return to save more people.
Violence: Extremely intense action, especially as the Titanic begins to sink. There's mass chaos that leads to fist fights, pushing, gun violence, and even suicide. People plunge to their deaths in icy waters, some of them being killed by falling debris from the ship. Almost everyone left in the water drowns, and there are close-ups of some passengers who choose to never even attempt to leave the ship, preferring to await the inevitable in their rooms or lounges.
Sex: One scene of a topless woman as she poses for a painting, plus shots of that painting, as well as a few other nude drawings. Jack and Rose flirt, kiss passionately, and eventually make love. The love scene doesn't include any nudity, but the couple is sweaty, out-of-breath, bare-shouldered, and on top of each other.
Language: The most commonly used swear is "s--t," which is repeated several times throughout the movie. Other strong language includes one "f--k," "son of a bitch," "damn," "hell," "ass," "bloody," and several "goddamns" "oh my Gods," and other exclamations, especially toward the end. Insulting taunts include "slut," "whore," and "moron."
Consumerism: Not applicable
Drinking, drugs and smoking: The first-class passengers drink wine and champagne with dinner, and the men leave to smoke cigars and drink brandy after dinner (accurate for the time period); the steerage passengers get drunk at a late-night party where beer is plentiful. Jack smokes cigarettes in a few scenes. Rose tries to smoke a cigarette, but her fiance stops her; later she does smoke one.
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We study the problem of constructing complements to the valuation ring of a valued field, which are $k$-algebras over the residue field $k$.
These $k$-algebras have many important arithmetic properties, and are closely related to truncation integer parts.
We work out the case of henselian fields and study the canonical integer part $\Neg(F)\oplus\Z$ of any truncation closed subfield $F$ of the field of power series $k((G))$, where $\Neg(F):=F\cap k((G^{<0}))$. In particular, we prove that $k((G^{<0}))\oplus\Z$ has (cofinally many) prime elements for any ordered divisible abelian group $G$.
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The three-month average of worldwide bookings in March 2014 was $1.28 billion. The bookings figure is 1.2 percent lower than the final February 2014 level of $1.30 billion, and is 16.1 percent higher than the March 2013 order level of $1.10 billion.
The three-month average of worldwide billings in March 2014 was $1.21 billion. The billings figure is 5.9 percent lower than the final February 2014 level of $1.29 billion, and is 22.3 percent higher than the March 2013 billings level of $991.0 million.
"Bookings levels for North American semiconductor equipment have remained consistent over the last few reports," said Denny McGuirk, president and CEO of SEMI. "We look to the months ahead for signs of any inflection."
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I agree...sorta.
Doing my own testing with RawDigger, I found, for the 5D3, that I could spot meter the highest significant highlight and then place it at +3 to +3.5 stops over metered. This gave me an image exposed as far to the right as possible, without any channels clipped.
But it's not obvious as I tried to illustrate with the Canon. A higher ISO produces less noise than a lower one (again, due to ETTR).
It's only a problem when the photographer doesnt understand the basics of exposure and the role it plays on other aspects of photography which I mentioned (ETTR that causes camera shake, undesired DOF etc). Otherwise ETTR is simply an attempt at producing the best quality data. In the old days, we could pop ISO 100 film OR ISO 800 film based on what we knew or thought we knew about exposing a scene. We used ISO 100 when we knew we wanted lower noise (grain) than ISO 800 and we had abundant light to produce the desired results (san's camera shake etc). IF you have enough light, why would you not setup the camera system to provide the most noise free image? Then you can go out and buy a plug-in that adds noise to look like film <g>.
But it's not obvious as I tried to illustrate with the Canon. A higher ISO produces less noise than a lower one (again, due to ETTR).
And that is a given with some cameras depending on how the sensor responds to changes in ISO. With the so-called ISOless sensors the higher ISO and ETTR won't produce lower noise. With some cameras, including some Canons it will - up to a point. Where that point is will vary from camera to camera. With the 5D it was about, if I recall, ISO 800. With the newer 5D models it's a stop or so higher.
Totally agree. The Canon's here are kind of unique. What I'm not fully understanding are the results and they differentiation between read noise and these settings versus exposure as defined by aperture/shutter to increase photon's which result in less noise. IOW, upping ISO on this Canon without adjust exposure lower results in less noise, this isn't ETTR?
I do not think it is....as the "classical" definition of ETTR is to increase the amount of photons captured, thus reduce SNR. Increasing ISO does not increase the light (photons) captured.
In the case of the Canon used here...the real reason for increasing the ISO in this case is to reduce the read noise. Photon noise will be unchanged, since the number of photons collected is the same...Bill
Bill...With a camera such as the Canon, how do we know when it is beneficial to increase ISO to reduce noise?
But it sort of is. At least in the context of the higher ISO. If you shoot at ISO 100, f4 and 1/125 and that gives you a 'normal' exposure, then you switch to ISO 200 and shoot at the same aperture & shutter speed you're going to push the exposure 1 stop higher. That's, essentially, what ETTR is doing. Let's take it as a given for the moment that the 1 stop pushes the histogram to the right edge without clipping.
Hi John,Jim Kasson devised an illustrative way to determine the maximum useful ISO setting, beyond which it is better to just underexpose and boost with the Raw converter's exposure setting.Cheers,Bart
Jim did a great piece of work. However, none of his testing included the Canons which have more of the ability to increase ISO. Nor, if I remember correctly, a correlation to the DxoMark DR charts, which does seem to be valid.
What I initially thought too but now I'm more confused <g>. My main purpose for the test I did and shown was to point out to those that write "Upping ISO always increases noise". Clearly that's not the case, at least with the Canon's. IS the reduction I see in noise the result of ETTR or how Canon deals with this ISO (Read Noise)? IF our goal is to test ISO and exposure such we get the lowest noise, and altering ISO up provides less, is this or isn't this ETTR? Going back to film days, when I'd buy film in bricks, fill a refrigerator, run exposure, ISO and processing tests (with CC gel packs) to nail everything. I feel we need to do the same today with digital. It appears that with the Canon sensor, bringing ISO into the mix is necessary. Not fully sure why.
I don't see anything but full agreement <g>. What part did I mess?On my 5DMII using an incident meter, I was about 1.5+ stops but less than 2 stops before I clipped highlights (using the BableColor tile) with ACR/LR PV2010.
The "sorta" was that with film many photogs had handheld incident or spot meters to support their testing and field work....today we often need to rely on what the cameras give us....which is why I mentioned what I d and Kasson's work.
With digital, I do not believe that an incident meter is key to optimizing exposure.
Middle grey is interesting; the significant highlight is what is most important as we want to get that properly placed without clipping.
This is why I use the camera spot meter and Kasson used other methods to arrive at a histogram which mimic the Raw.
On Lightroom, as you know, 2010 and 2012 PV are significantly different on highlight clipping. On 2012, a highlight above 96-97% will have at least one channel clipped and recovery applied. this is why RawDigger was needed to calibrate the 5D3 readings...
IF they used such equipment in the past, why wouldnt they do so today? Exposure is exposure. The only differences I see are: 1. We have an LCD to look at, which in this context is wrong. 2. We have linear encoded raw data which isn't like a JPEG or film which has a curve (film being H&D). So we treat this like a different kind of 'film' if you will. The same is true for film. The differences are that an incident meter is less fooled than a reflective meter in an inexperienced users's hands. If they point that reflective meter at a white dog on snow and take what it tells them as a fact for proper exposure, they are in for a rude awaking. Not the case with the incident meter. But which ever you use, you have to use the tools properly. And no meter is useful until we decide on the ISO and that means we also have to put the processing (development) into the mix. You can do this with either meter once you know how they behave and how your exposure and development behave. And if you point that at the white dog and understand it will inform you how to end up with a gray dog, then adjust, all is fine. Yes but nothing brings back clipped data so you still need to figure out the limits here. In that context, this part of the test is somewhat raw processing agnostic. If you blow out all data at plus 2 stops over what the meter recommends, nothing will bring that back. Yet I agree that you can't separate the development further on, so again, we have to test the process, just as we did with film. That means finding the proper ISO, along with proper metering and development.
Yes but nothing brings back clipped data so you still need to figure out the limits here. In that context, this part of the test is somewhat raw processing agnostic. If you blow out all data at plus 2 stops over what the meter recommends, nothing will bring that back. Yet I agree that you can't separate the development further on, so again, we have to test the process, just as we did with film. That means finding the proper ISO, along with proper metering and development.
Yes. Exposure settings for aperture and shutter are identical, the only difference is the ISO setting. And the differences in the amount of noise is significant as one would expect with ETTR (optimal exposure for raw).
I don't care about the Histogram! But what I see is a vast difference in noise whereby the ONLY setting change is ISO. So it's obviously affecting the degree of noise.
You saying increasing the ISO in this case is to reduce the read noise, this isn't also ETTR? Seems the number of photons collected should be the same since what he's calling exposure is fixed in both examples. The results however are clear in terms of the differences in noise and I understand that not all camera sensors respond as this Canon does.
First, there are a whole class of people, today, who never had all those tools...or want/need to carry them around if not necessary. They need to understand how to use the tools they have available to them.
Second, I think you missed my point. An incident reading will not help you find the significant highlight in a scene....and place it as far to the right as possible.
I agree that a wide reflective meter can be easily fooled. However, I am talking about the spot meter, which is fairly narrow on a 5D3.
Reading the reflected light from the significant highlight with a spot meter places it (with knowledge and pretesting) in the right of the histogram....without any clipping (of significant tones). All the other tones fall where they may. No guessing on tonal values is needed.


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The Army of the Seventh Crusade (King [Saint] Louis IX) vs. the Ayyubid Sultanate of Egypt (Emir Fakr-ed-din)
Egypt, February 8, 1250
2nd Homs
Those of you who are enjoying the flying arrows and hooves that dominate the recent GBoH volume, Devil's Horsemen, will find their entertainment grow exponentially with these two new battles for the game.
2nd Homs, the follow-up battle for Ayn Jalut, pits the two great Eastern armies of the era against each other, in force: The Mamluks and the Mongols of the Ilkhan. A massive, swirling cavalry battle so large that one wing never knew what was happening on the other wing, a factor which led to the Mongol downfall.
Mansourah brings in what many gamers have been waiting for: a full-blown Crusader army. This time its that of Louis IX, invading Egypt for a second time, advancing up The Nile only to get stopped by the Mamluks of the last-gasp Abbuyid Dynasty outside their brand-new city, Mansourah. Not only do we have 3 "battles" of Crusader heavy cavalry - acting as so many of their bretheren too often did throughout these wars - but lots of crossbows, field artillery, and even street fighting.
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I spoke last night at the one-year anniversary of the Boston Windows 8 App Developers & IT Group. Here's a peek at my presentation, Transitions, which I had originally planned to publish as a long-form article on this site.
The basic theme is that we're in the early stages of a transition from traditional PCs and locally-stored data to computing devices and cloud services, which I see as just the latest in a long list of personal technology transitions over the past 30 years. For some reason, however, users have so far rejected Windows 8, which combines the past (desktop Windows) with the future ("Metro" mobile OS and deep services integration) in a single system, while fully embracing alternative device platforms like Android and iPad. Why is this?
In trying to write about this phenomenon, which in retrospect is I think easily explained, I discovered that it was a big topic, and unwieldy in article form. So when the Boston Windows 8 App Developers & IT Group asked me to speak at their September event, I figured this might be an interesting topic to meld into a presentation. I think that was the right approach.
So while I'm never going to finish that article, I will at least provide my presentation here, in picture form with notes, and the parts of the original article I did write, which you'll see is just a tiny part of the overall story. And not the important part really.
Transitions presentation
What's the major difference between me and you?
Assuming you are developers
It's that I can complain about what's wrong, but I can't actually fix anything. I don't have any answers.
By definition, you fix things. And I do envy that
Technology is nothing but frustration, day in and day out. You wake up one day and nothing works. Or you wake up one day and Microsoft is broken
BTW – I do have a background in software development. (Explain)
And yes, this is a spoof of a Cialis ad.
Looking just at technology—we can discuss our transitions from parents to grandparents some other time—we've making transitions since the dawn of the PC age.
Multiple micro-computers to a PC standard
Command line to GUI
Keyboard to mouse+keyboard
CRT to flat-screen
Desktop PCs to portable computers --- offline to always connected Internet – software to services – PCs to devices
If anything the change has accelerated over time. You'd think we'd be good at this by now
So it's not worth stepping through all of the tech transitions we've made. Instead, let's focus on one of the more important ones. Video games.
This is Castle Wolfenstein 3D. You may remember this game.
Of course, this is not how I originally experienced this game.
I experienced it like this, in grayscale. Well, it was probably worse than this, since my wife's computer could only display 4 shades of gray. But you get the idea.
This game opened my eyes to a number of things, but mostly that the PC was a viable architecture for fast and immersive games. I transitioned from joystick/mouse on the Amiga to keyboard on the PC.
Over time ... DOOM, other games. All keyboard based.
Quake – real 3D, transition to the mouse + keyboard.
Quake III etc.
And then the Xbox happened. Halo and then Call of Duty 2 on the Xbox 360 convinced me that game controllers were first viable and then even superior. (I know, I know.)
And that is quite a transition—set of transitions—over 20+ years.
And we all made these kinds of transitions over that time period.
So why is THIS so fricking hard for people?
No one had any issues with this, after all. The iPad doesn't have a Start button or a Start menu. Neither does Android. And yet these devices are now selling in the 10s or 100s of millions of units per year. What is it about Windows 8—and Windows Phone, too—that has triggered such a visceral response from users, the same users who had no issues at all with mixing Android and iOS into their daily lives?
I think it just boils down to basic psychology. When you pick up and iPad or an Android tablet, you expect it to be different, and you naturally forgive the differences. There's no expectation of the UIs you know from Windows. There's no expectation that it will run the same apps or have the same capabilities. You give it a pass. Over time you get used to it. And one the key learnings of these devices is that users are smart enough to handle different UIs on different device types.
But when you pick up a Windows PC—sorry, a Windows device—you do have certain expectations.
And that is the first issue.
The second issue—also psychological, btw—is that Microsoft, in its mad zeal to be backwards compatible and solve all customer problems with a single platform, Windows. The alternative was a different mobile platform—I guess Windows Mobile was the right name, but had been used before—that no one would have bought. That device would have been incompatible with everything, including Windows desktop apps. So they combined the two. Problem solved, right?
The problem is that Microsoft trampled on the good will of its users by pushing a new mobile platform, which I'll still call Metro—on top of the Windows desktop. And this integration made it impossible for users to avoid Metro on the 1.5 billion PCs already out there in the world.
Conversely, it was also impossible to avoid the desktop on the few Windows mobile devices that anyone bought. Windows 8 didn't please anyone. It was released perhaps a bit early. Why?
I listened to the Audible version of Stephen King's "Riding the Bullet" recently. It mentions this phrase as being from Dracula by Bram Stoker. "The dead drive fast."
Looked it up. The actual quote is "For the dead travel fast." It's a 1773 poem called "Lenora" which is also happens to be about Vampires, basically.
My point isn't that Microsoft is sort of a vampire. It's that with Windows 8 Microsoft was implicitly acknowledging something that is really happening. The personal computing world is changing fast. And it needed to get to market fast. So for once, it actually moved quickly. Maybe too quickly. Because the market for traditional PCs running traditional Windows is dropping off a cliff.
This data is from Forrester and it's probably out of date. But let's not worry about the details. This is a wonderful if rough approximation of what's happened and what's happening.
Microsoft dominated personal computing when that market was just PCs. But add smart phones and tablets into the mix and something interesting happens. Microsoft is roughly one-third, splitting the market with its Windows and iOS and Android.
Anyone see what crucial information isn't present in this chart? It only shows percentage of each platform. Not the size of market. Which will grow big-time between 2008 and 2016.
2008 = 500M? We know that 1 billion smart phones will be sold in 2013, 325 million PCs and 225 million ish tablets. 1.6 billion devices. More by 2016
Microsoft's share of the overall market shrinks, and this what everyone focuses on. But the market will grow. Microsoft's total take should be much higher ... Microsoft will grow too.
That's my theory anyway. That is certainly what the data tells me. We'll see what happens.
In the meantime we have this terrible transition to get through. And you guys, as the front-line third parties who will be most affected by this change, have a lot at stake. I think you're going to do great.
So. How do we get there?
First, Windows 8.1. This is nothing less than an apology for Windows 8 and can be seen as the release Microsoft should have waited for.
Pretty amazing, really. Makes it easier for desktop users to ignore Metro. But also makes it easier for tablet/devices users to avoid the desktop. It sounds like a minor thing, but I think Windows 8.1 is good enough to squash a lot of the negativity.
New device types help too. The go-to-market last year wasn't all that great, and the v1 Surface devices didn't exactly set the world on fire. What I know about the second-generation tablets and hybrid PCs isn't overwhelmingly positive, but it is better. New Surface 2, Surface Pro 2 and Surface mini as well.
This is a photo that depicts what I hope is Microsoft's next CEO, on the left, Alan Mulally, and Microsoft's previous (current) CEO, Steven Ballmer.
Ballmer has gotten a bad rep but I think he did a great job for reasons I've already written about. And finding a guy who could manage this incredibly complex company will be next to impossible.
Microsoft, let Alan Mulally gut this company and start over. Review the strategy, shed businesses that don't make sense.
Quick sidebar. Which businesses should Microsoft shed? Yes, that's an ivory tower.
There are two. Kind of like Oldsmobile and Pontiac and you're a car fan who understands history.
They are Online Services and Xbox.
Xbox – Several billion dollars lost in R&D on Xbox and Xbox 360, each, never recovered. $1 billion warranty bill for the most unreliable consumer electronics product ever produced.
Online services - $17 billion in Bing losses in 10 years. $6 billion aQuantive write-off.
Spin these businesses off.
Since Microsoft will ignore my earlier comment about Xbox...
Going back to the Peanut Butter Cup model, Microsoft should take the next logical step and move its platforms together. Not just from a user experience standpoint but from an API standpoint.
We have WinRT and WinPRT. Why not WinXRT? Why not make them all based on a common core—WinRT Core or whatever—and have each have platform-specific additions? I have to think they're moving in this direction.
Certainly, this will benefit anyone who got started with WinRT early.
We'll see. I'm batting about .000 on predictions, so I'm one to talk.
But like you, I've bet my future on Microsoft and its platforms. So I have a horse in this race. Am I concerned? Sure. But I also look at the alternatives and find myself curiously ambivalent. I really like what Microsoft is doing, prefer it.
Transitions article excerpt: Cloud computing and mobility are messing with your heads
Reading through the feedback I get via email, Twitter, and the comments on this site, one thing is brutally clear: A significant percentage of the Windows user base is freaking out—absolutely losing it—over what they see as forced transitions to new ways of doing things: Mobile devices, not PCs. Cloud computing, not locally stored data. Metro, not the Windows desktop. Folks, these kinds of transitions are a vital part of the history of personal computing. And we've been through this before.
Change is hard, I get that. But the sheer amount of complaining that greets every Microsoft product announcement these days is a bit much. The transitions to cloud computing generally or from Zune/iTunes to Xbox Music/Xbox Video specifically (to use an obvious recent example) are just modern, 2013-era versions of transitions we've been making since the first personal computers appeared over 30 years ago. And really, that was always sort of the point.
Looking back at my own personal history, I can cherry-pick a few transitions that were difficult for me at the time.
Amiga to PC. Faced with the extinction of the Amiga in 1992 or so, I realized I'd be getting a PC, which in those days meant DOS and Windows (or possibly OS/2, though that was short-lived). Productivity software and software development were two areas in which I knew the PC would excel. But what about games? At the time, I played the types of games at which the Amiga excelled: Sideway scrollers like "Shadow of the Beast," and I used a variety of joysticks (the Epyx 500XJ, for example) for this purpose.
So what was available on the PC? Sad-looking but surprisingly playable DOS-based games like "Jill of the Jungle," which featured basic graphics (EGA? VGA?) with no parallax scrolling, PC speaker blooping sounds and required you to use the keyboard for control. I played a lot of games like this—Commander Keen, Duke Nukem 2 (in pre-3D form)—in my early PC days, and while they never lived up the Amiga titles, they got the job done.
The thing is, I had to transition from joystick to keyboard. It was awkward, and frustrating. And more often than not, I'd lose a life in a game because of some ham-fisted control mistake. But I adapted, and over a short period of time got used to it.
And then 3D gaming happened. First with Wolfenstein 3D. Then DOOM. And Heretic. And Duke Nukem 3D. Quake. And so many more amazing MS-DOS games. And I never looked back.
Keyboard to keyboard/mouse for gaming. Speaking of Quake, first person games that preceded that title were not "really" 3D in that you were really just playing on a single plane and couldn't look (or shoot, or move) up, down or in any other direction. So just playing with a keyboard didn't just make sense, it was the most efficient control method. And for years over a series of many games, that's exactly what I did.
But then Quake happened. This first "true" 3D game brought with it a new need for better control, because you could look and move and shoot in any 3D direction. If an enemy was on a platform above you, you could look up, target him, and then shoot in that exact direction. Suddenly, a mouse wasn't just useful. It was necessary.
It was also amazingly painful to make this transition, hard coded as I was to the keyboard. This transition took a while. But having your butt handed to you in enough online multiplayer matches has a way of inspiring the necessary work. Over time, I became proficient at using the mouse and keyboard. I actually became quite proficient at it, in fact.
And then the Xbox happened.
From mouse/keyboard to Xbox controller for gaming. While there were some first person shooters for gaming consoles before this, the first truly successful console-based shooter was the original Halo for the Xbox. I believe I actually played the original game with mouse and keyboard on the PC first, but with Halo 2, I saw that a controller could work with such a game, though I felt it lacked the precision of mouse/keyboard.
That was surely true, but with the release of the Xbox 360, I made the painful transition from mouse/keyboard on the PC to using a controller with the console. Games like Call of Duty 2 proved to me that a controller could indeed work quite well and I spent the next year honing my controller/first person shooter skills online. And since then—2005/2006—this is pretty much all I do, gaming-wise: First person shooters on the Xbox.
While my own history is full of game-related transitions, there are of course more general and obvious tech transitions from the past as well.
DOS to Windows. Microsoft previously moved its entire user base from MS-DOS to Windows, and it did so in a way that mirrors the current transition from traditional PCs to multi-touch, mobile computing devices: At first, you could use both the old and the new and over time the new took over for the old. MS-DOS went from being the foundation of the PC operating system to being a little-used console application in Windows over a period of years.
Windows 9x to NT. Microsoft also made a similar transition from the DOS code base to the NT code base and it did so in a way that was mostly transparent to average users. Though regarded quite fondly now, Windows XP was initially the subject of some scorn and ridicule by gamers, for example, in the early days because it couldn't run DOS games as quickly as could Windows 98. There were compatibility issues across the board. Moving to the NT code base, however, allowed future transitions—like the move to 64-bit computing—happen even more seamlessly.
So here we are. It's 2013, and a few important trends are sweeping our industry. Cloud computing has moved the storage of our critical data from being locked in a single app on a single PC to being globally available to us from any app on any device at any time.
It kind of just stops there. I have the following notes as well:
No angst moving to iPad
Some buy one as companion
Have PC to fall back on
Over time, realize they can use PC less or not at all
The transition is made
With windows 8, you're replacing a pc with another pc
No one is really using them only as companion devices
More angst
And that's as far as I got. You get the idea. :)


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Grape Powdery Mildew
One of the most serious and persistent diseases that plagues grape growers on the West Coast is Grapevine powdery mildew (Erisiphe necator). It is a fungal disease that effects wine grape, table grape, and raisin vineyards. This disease has a very swift onset and if not controlled immediately can have devastating consequences to a vineyard in terms of severely reducing yields or requiring the use of very expensive fungicide controls and washes. Despite a significant number of dollars spent on powdery mildew control, crop losses attributed to the disease remain extremely high. Powdery mildew persists in each California commercial grape production area. (See Fig 1.)
Powdery mildew develops in two stages. It survives the winter as dormant mycelium under infected buds or as dormant cleistothecia, which are washed off leaves and shoots onto the bark of upper trunks and cordons during fall rains. In the primary infection stage, a combination of warm, wet conditions cause the cleistothecia to release ascospores. If these ascospores land on green tissue such as leaves and buds then they initiate the primary infection phase and fungal colonies can develop in a little as 6 to 7 days.
With the correct temperature conditions (canopy temperatures between 67° and 86°F, the optimum being 77°F) the fungal colonies can move into a secondary infection stage. This stage is sometimes referred to as the epidemic stage as the fungus reproduces asexually at an extremely fast rate. At optimum temperatures, the generation time between spore germination and production of spores by the new colony is only 5 days. Vineyard managers and growers strive to avoid reaching this stage because the efforts to recover control of the disease at this stage can be extremely expensive.
Not only can recovering control be expensive, but the effect on crop quality can be significant:
Infection can shorten storage life of table grapes
Wine quality can be affected by as few as 3% of diseased berries
Severe mildew may cause berries to crack, allowing rot organisms to enter
Early fruit infections cause stunted berries, scarring, and off-flavors
Severe infection may affect the rate of photosynthesis by the leaves
Severe infection of the vines may impair their ability to produce adequate amounts of sugar
Gubler-Thomas Grape Powdery Mildew Model
Early powdery mildew control strategies focused on a fixed or "calendar" treatment schedule. With this strategy treatments are applied at a regular schedule. The schedule may vary depending upon how long a particular material/application can protect the crop, but in general there is no period where the vine/crop is left unprotected. Under this calendar method, a vineyard being treated with a chemical/material that lasts one week is faced with applying 20-28 treatments each season, depending upon when bud break starts and the length of the season.
Although this type of calendar treatment strategy can be effective in the short term, it has a number of drawbacks. These include a tendency to over-apply fungicides and chemicals, as well as contributing toward the disease's resistance to a particular treatment. This can be a significant issue as the development process for acquiring new fungicides/chemical treatments can be lengthy and extremely expensive.
Many fungicides, chemicals and cultivation practices have been developed to help combat grape powdery mildew. One of the most effective tools developed to date is the UC Davis Gubler-Thomas Grape Powdery Mildew (GPM) model. Dr. Doug Gubler is an Extension Plant Pathologist and lead author/developer of the Gubler-Thomas Grape Powdery Mildew Model. He has been working for more than 29 years helping grape growers combat grape powdery mildew.
Dr. Gubler's GPM model helps growers predict the onset of disease and sporulation by the pathogen so that growers can proactively treat for the disease without wasting resources. The model uses weather conditions to track the primary infection and lets growers know when to start treatment in the beginning of the season. In particular for tracking the secondary infection cycle, the model includes a powdery mildew index (PMI) that is an indicator of the growth conditions for the fungus. The PMI ranges from 0-100 and helps growers estimate the timing for their next fungicide application. (See Fig 2.)
Research has shown that growers using the Grape Powdery Mildew Model save an average of three fungicide applications per year. It is estimated the model is used on over 250,000 acres in California alone. Considering the average sulfur application is approximately 10 pounds per acre, the model is therefore helping avert the unneeded application of more than 7.5 million pounds of sulfur each year – a significant savings in terms of both labor and material.
Facts about the Gubler-Thomas Powdery Mildew Model include:
The majority of PMI users report an increase in confidence using the model from the initial use to 2012
• The percentage of grape growers who report regularly using the Gubler-Thomas PMI has increased from about 50% in 2007 to about 75% in 2012
• Approximately 50% of raisin growers regularly use the model
• About 50% of wine grape growers use on-site weather stations to run their PMI
• The PMI can be easily used without a computer
• A single weather station can support multiple blocks and varieties of grapes in a similar climate
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Accurate weather data is critical for developing the model for grape powdery mildew. Dr. Gubler and his Team have been using McCrometer CONNECT wireless field stations and sensors since 1995. These durable UHF radio systems have been used with the PMI model since it was introduced 18 years ago with automated weather networks established in Napa, Sonoma, and Kern counties. Dr. Gubler has continued his partnership with McCrometer by expanding with 18 additional weather stations. The choice to continue with the McCrometer CONNECT turn-key product line was based on "quality, ease of use and proven reliability" as cited by Dr. Gubler.
The new weather stations are the latest generation wireless data loggers using upgraded sensors and GPRS (cellular) communication. The GPRS (cellular) based technology of these field stations allows the research team greater flexibility for deployment nearly anywhere in California (or the USA). For further ease of use, data hosting and technical support are provided by McCrometer CONNECT. The data is automatically delivered via a web based platform where the research team can use trending tools, modify and run variations of the PMI model, run statistics or export the data as needed for continued improvement of the model.
Site Specific Powdery Mildew Disease Risk Assessment for Growers
The most accurate way to calculate a Powdery Mildew Index for a vineyard is to deploy a site specific weather station. The temperature, relative humidity and leaf wetness sensors are set within the grape canopy to record the exact conditions the vine/fruit are experiencing. This data is automatically fed into the model, serving to help growers reliably achieve:
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The same McCrometer CONNECT weather stations being used by Dr. Gubler and UC Davis are available for growers as well. The field stations are wireless and designed to run on small solar panels and rechargeable battery packs. Wireless options include satellite, GPRS (cellular), and radio to flexibly cover the needs in any vineyard. The data is recorded and automatically delivered to a web based platform and available via PC, smart phone, or tablet. (See Fig 3.)
Growers can use the Powdery Mildew model in a number of ways. The PMI index can be used as a general guideline or the grower can enter each treatment into the system's web based software and track the detailed treatment recommendations provided by the model. This detailed use of the model allows the grower to integrate the exact control duration, wash off limits (if the treatment was counter-acted by being washed off) and an integrated spray stretching algorithm that allows growers to stretch the interval between treatments when weather conditions are not conducive for disease growth.


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Judy Humeston Pfeifle
April 28, 1950 - December 22, 2012
Judy passed away suddenly and peacefully at home, at the age of 62. She was one of three daughters born in
Stockton to Floyd and Thelma Humeston. Judy enjoyed traveling and started in her early years as a flight attendant with Hughes Air West, where she was stationed in Seattle. She met her best friend and love of her life, Clyde, and together they spent 41 years living in Stockton. Judy and Clyde partnered in construction
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Judy is survived by her husband, Clyde, son Scott Pfeifle (Dianah); granddaughters Delaney and Daphne; brother-in-law Steve Pfeifle (Chris); nieces Ruth Silva Erwert (Kevin), Shelli Richards (Mike), Kristy Trujillo (Michael),
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Bellator announced some changes to its title-contender structure today, and I'm going to do my best to summarize them in one sentence: Basically, if you win a Bellator tournament and receive a title shot, you no longer have to win another tournament in order to get another title shot. Which is weird, because didn't they already kill that rule a long time ago? I mean, how else did Eddie Alvarez vs. Michael Chandler 2 and 3 get booked? I can think of several instances where Bellator's vow that "title shots are earned, not given" hasn't meant a whole lot.
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Like most viaduct/tunnel updates, this one leaves the average Seattlite feeling vaguely dissatisfied, in the same way light ice cream can (it should feel more filling, and people are sure to make it sound like it's sweeter than it is). But hey, it's really something. Imagine if the EIS were rejected! If you're feeling wonky, you can download the EIS for your summer reading pleasure—but not until July 7–here: http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/projects/viaduct.
For those who wonder what this actually means; what's next: The tunnel project is now cleared for federal approval. We can expect that to happen via the Federal Highway Administration in mid-August; that will clear WSDOT to give the contractor notice to proceed with construction.
Also in August, Seattle primary voters will get to decide the fate of Referendum 1, which will have no bearing on whether the tunnel project will proceed. It's just a chance for voters to weigh in on contract verbiage between the city council and the state. Confused? Let's let WSDOT's Chad Schuster explain: "The judge said that the vote would not affect whether a tunnel is built. It concerns only the process the Seattle City Council will use to confirm city-state agreements once the environmental process is completed."
When it comes to all things viaduct, confusion reigns. Hence "Viaduct for Dummies," a semi-regular bloggy update for Seattleites who don't have time to keep score. Up next: a look at a few basics: Who's paying for this? Didn't I already vote on this? And what's next—if anything—for tunnel opponents? And if you have a question you want me to ask the state department of transportation (keep it clean, people!), be sure to comment here.


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Bridging the Global Gap
The Work of the International AIDS Women's Caucus
January/February 2002
By the early 1990s, it was evident that the incidence of HIV/AIDS among women was increasing at a rapid rate globally, disproportionately affecting women in the developing world and marginalized and poor women in the global North. It was clearly established that HIV/AIDS has gender-specific implications. Global contingencies have a significant impact on the regional and local experience of the pandemic. Yet at the global level, AIDS research, prevention and treatment targeting women were a marginal concern. Had the case been different, today women worldwide may have already seen the advances in combating the HIV/AIDS pandemic that are so urgent.
Recognizing the crucial need for women to organize and have a voice at international conferences and forums on HIV/AIDS, women from around the world formed the International AIDS Women's Caucus (IAWC), at the 8th International Conferences on AIDS, in 1992.
The IAWC is a caucus of the International AIDS Society (IAS). It has focused on networking at the regional level in Africa, Europe, Asia and the Pacific Islands, Latin America and the Caribbean, and North America, to prepare for international AIDS conferences. Women network regionally by mail, by fax, at conferences, and by Internet and e-mail, to share information and organize around regional, local and global HIV/AIDS issues.
At international conferences, where researchers and organizations from around the world convene, policy and research decisions on HIV/AIDS are significantly shaped.
The IAWC has fought to have women's issues placed on the agenda at international AIDS conferences. It has foregrounded the imperative to place scientific research and results within the reality of unequal gender relations. HIV/AIDS issues are integrally related to women's general predicament in society, to women's human rights, political and economic disempowerment, traditional and cultural practices, gender roles and sexuality.
Pushing for Research AdvancesThe 1998 World AIDS Conference in Geneva had the title "Bridging the Gap." Officially, this referred to efforts to bridge the North-South divide. The IAWC organized a Satellite Meeting to voice the concerns of women from across the globe. For the IACW it was manifest that a chasm remained between the medical research and treatment agendas and the needs of women, the community and the developing world.
The under-representation of women in studies on the effects of medications and the death of clinical trials and longitudinal studies specifically for women led to serious questions about their relevance of scientific information for women (Hunter, 1999).
Discussion at the Satellite Meeting led to the formulation of three areas of concern that could be addressed by future conference organizers and presenters. These were: maternal-infant transmission and child-rearing; women's access to treatment and care; and women's sexuality.
Issues related to appropriate counseling and infant feeding were raised. Questions asked included: "Are women offered follow-up care during pregnancy and primary health beyond the birth of the child?", "What are the implications of wide-scale testing?" and "How can researchers justify unlinked testing of pregnant women?" (Hunter, 1999). Major issues arose around breastfeeding and the stigma women have to deal with if they choose not to breastfeed. Women demanded more information about AZT and the effects it has on women and their children, including its consequences for women who have multiple pregnancies.
Because women often do not have access to conventional treatment and care, there were questions raised as to why there are no trials on alternative treatment and care. The suspicion was voiced that pharmaceutical companies have an interest in restricting access to natural substances for pilot tests in order to control the development of patents over chemical formulations. As an African woman pointed out:
All of these new treatments -- the protease inhibitors -- mean very little to those of us who can't even access health care, let alone drugs that are expensive. Just tell us how we can support each other! (Hunter, 1999).
There were complaints that women's issues in relation to prevention were not being sufficiently addressed. The gender-specific social and biological vulnerability of women requires that prevention models meet their cultural and social needs. Female-controlled methods of prevention need research and development, within a cultural context.
Slow to RespondOne of the most significant global women's forums, the Beijing Conference in 1995, did not prioritize HIV/AIDS as a critical reproductive and sexual health and rights issue. Instead, when women and representatives of governments met to analyze the status of women and to propose recommendations to improve women's status worldwide, HIV/AIDS activists had to struggle to get AIDS issues on the agenda.
During the Beijing Conference, there was opposition to any discussion of gender or sexual health reform, with the assertion that it would promote homosexuality. Discussions also raised resistance to any definition of family that did not include the "nuclear family" of father, mother and children. These attitudes were a major barrier to a fruitful discussion on HIV/AIDS and women.
The Beijing Plan of Action and other women's human rights instruments have not effectively addressed the issues of women and HIV/AIDS, particularly in those countries where there are prejudices, ideologies and restrictions against addressing sexuality and sexual health problems.
The Global ContextFive years after Beijing, in June 2000, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly convened a special session "Women 2000: Gender Equality, Development and Peace for the Twenty-First Century" informally called Beijing+5, to report advances made and obstacles remaining since the 1995 Beijing Conference. The general consensus is that women's status related to HIV/AIDS has not improved worldwide.1
Why? Globally, women, particularly in the developing world, are disproportionately infected and affected by the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and Asia, including India and Thailand, are among the regions with the most severe epidemics (Kimball, 1998). Poverty continues to increase, affecting particularly women and girls, who are the providers and caretakers of infected children and partners. Sexual abuse and rape, important causes of HIV/AIDS infection among adolescent girls, has increased and now affects girls at younger age worldwide (UNAIDS, 1999). In many countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, for example, the age of sexual abuse and rape predominates in girls younger than 10 years old. A follow-up study done by the Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Network in five countries demonstrated that this has been happening in Nicaragua, Peru and Colombia (Bianco, 1998).
Globalization of the economies and the effects of economic transition and Structural Adjustment Policies developed since the 1990s have aggravated poverty. Women have been more affected due to unemployment in public and governmental sectors where many women previously worked as teachers and health and social services personnel. Education programs have suffered and fewer young people have the opportunity to obtain an education. There have also been program cuts in social, health and governmental community activities due to public services budget cuts, which have produced a scarcity of social services for poor people. The economic restructuring has led to a decrease in the resources and management capabilities of governments to address the needs of disadvantaged groups. The consequence of this has been the feminization of poverty and the increased economic inequality of men and women.
Poverty and unemployment have also increased migration from developing countries to wealthier countries, with resulting experiences of discrimination. A study done in the Dominican Republic among Haitian immigrants there has demonstrated how women are the most affected. They have a lack of health services and a lack of services for couples to help women survive domestic violence, economic dependence and other factors which subordinate women to men, increasing HIV/AIDS vulnerability.
Sexual abuse, rape, prostitution, and child/adolescent sex work as a family strategy to survive are some of the consequences (UNAIDS, 1999). In the year 2000 more families in developing countries survive due to sexual work of some of their members, particularly children and adolescents of both sexes and women. They are accepted by their families but discriminated against by the society. While for men working outside their communities sexual intercourse is accepted and tolerated as a natural behavior, for women the same behavior is cause of discrimination and risk of life.
Because of their unequal status and the socio-cultural censoring of women's sexuality, women are particularly vulnerable to discrimination, stigmatization, ostracism and scape-goating as a result of HIV/AIDS infections. In consequence, human rights violations against women have grown in number (Bianco, 1998). Again, as Beijing +5 has demonstrated, world leaders have failed to address these issues which have life threatening effects on women worldwide.
Caucus at the Durban AIDS ConferenceAt the 13th International AIDS Conference (2000) the IAWC, with other women's action groups and individuals, held a pre-conference Satellite Meeting to begin organization around the priority concerns that are identified during the conference. The five major areas of focus identified for the conference were: gender and human rights, care-giving and support, treatment and health care access, prevention, and activism.
Care-giving and support: The AIDS pandemic has placed a major burden on the health care and social services in all countries, particularly in the developing world. Women and girls are being called on increasingly to carry the extra burden of nursing the sick. How can the gap between the need for care and available resources (medical doctors, other health care providers, hospital in-patient care, new drug treatments, and monies to pay for this care) be met?
Treatment and health care access: Access to adequate nutrition, clean water, and basic health care are among the major challenges in HIV prevention.There is little or no access to new treatments and multi-drug therapies for those living in developing countries. Clinical drug trials must take place increasingly in developing countries. There are ethical implications, such as how women can ensure that gender-specific results for women are included, that they are included in trials and that they know their rights as participants in trials.
Prevention: With limited or no access to health care, the critical issue for many women is how to prevent AIDS. At the World AIDS Conference in Geneva, many women questioned how women can gain power at international and local levels in order to begin women-centered discussion on sexuality and sexual rights. There is a need for women to share successful local HIV prevention strategies themselves and for their families.
For too long, prevention messages, with few exceptions, have focused exclusively on risk behaviors (such as unprotected sex and drug and alcohol abuse), as if they existed outside of any social context. Social constructions of gender and gender power relations, sexuality and human rights are risk elements that need to be considered in effective prevention strategy designs for heterosexual, bisexual and lesbian women.
Activism: Women need opportunities to set their own advocacy agenda and gain support for existing advocacy efforts, in all four areas discussed above.
Women around the world must organize to advance women's HIV concerns. These concerns are integrally related to women's human rights, gender roles, sexuality, as well as economic discrimination. We have always had to fight for our rights as women. At world AIDS conferences, we have had to fight for inclusion and visibility.
We have an opportunity to build on the work of women before us to strengthen an international network of activists for women's health and HIV issues, in order to save women's lives, and to improve the quality of their lives. Activism must lead to action on issues that pertain to our survival. We are setting the stage for a new wave of activism.
Mabel Bianco, M.D., M.P.H. is the Director and Coordinator of the Executive Unit on HIV/AIDS and STDs at the Ministry of Health of Argentina. Joyce Hunter, D.S.W. is a research scientist and Director of the Community Liaison Program at the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, Columbia University, New York and is the International AIDS Society's liaison to the Women's Caucus. This article is re-printed with permission from Agenda, a quarterly journal published since 1987 by a women's media project in South Africa.
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A 22-year-old Ohio man was arrested after authorities say he barked at a police dog during a traffic stop.
Dayton Daily News reports that Cameron Dunn was being detained in the back seat of a cruiser in Washington Township Monday when a police dog and handler were called to check the car for drugs.
A report says Dunn began barking at the dog and hitting the window of the cruiser. He's now facing a misdemeanor charge of assaulting or harassing police dog.
Officers found marijuana seeds on the floor of the car. He's scheduled to appear in municipal court next week.
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On a day when Mitt Romney's presidential campaign vowed that he'd provide more specifics on his policies and positions, the campaign found itself responding to some potentially damaging specifics that Romney uttered at a closed-door fundraiser.
In a video obtained by Mother Jones, Romney characterizes supporters of President Barack Obama as irresponsible, non-taxpaying, "victims" who are strictly dependent upon government in almost all aspects of their lives.
Romney's campaign Monday night didn't challenge the authenticity or editing of the undated video. Instead, campaign Communications Director Gail Gitcho released a statement saying that "Mitt Romney wants to help all Americans struggling in the Obama economy."
"As the governor has made clear all year, he is concerned about the growing number of people who are dependent on the federal government, including the record number of people who are on food stamps..., Gitcho said. "Mitt Romney's plan creates 12 million new jobs in four years. grows the economy and moves Americans off of government dependency and into jobs."
In the video, Romney is standing and addressing a group of people whose faces are blurred out. In one portion of the video Romney says "There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what."
"All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who belive that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it," he added. "That's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what...These are people who pay no income tax."
Romney said he doesn't worry about these people because "I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives."
Instead, Romney said he needs to focus on the "five or six" percent of independent voters who may be more receptive to his campaign message.
Needless to say, Obama's campaign pounced on the video with the same zeal that Romney's camp jumped on Obama's "You didn't build that" line that has become a Republican rallying cry.
"It's shocking that a candidate for President of the United States would go behind closed doors and declare to a group of wealthy donors that half the American people view themselves as 'victims,' entitled to handouts, and are unwilling to take 'personal responsibility' for their lives," Obama campaign manager Jim Messina said in a statement. "It's hard to serve as president for all Americans when you've disdainfully written off half the nation."
Romney didn't limit his remarks to entitlements, according to Mother Jones. Alluding to the fact that his father, the late Gov. George Romney of Michigan, was born in Mexico, Mitt Romney joked to the fundraiser audience that "Had he been born of Mexican parents, I'd have a better shot of winning this."
He added that his presidential campaign is having a hard time attracting Hispanic voters. He warned that "if the Hispanic voting bloc becomes as committed to the Democrats as the African American voting bloc has in the past, why, we're in trouble as a party and, I think, as a nation," according to Mother Jones.
Ironically, Mother Jones unveiled the video on the same day Romney addressed the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in Los Angeles.
"I am so please to represent the party of Governor Susana Martinez, Governor Brian Sandoval, Governor Luis Fortuno, Senator Marco Rubio, and the Texas Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, Ted Cruz," Romney said Monday in prepared remarks. "These leaders are Republicans for the same reasons as millions of other Hispanics: they see that ours is the party of opportunity, the party that will restore America's prosperity."


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This is not one of my planned blogs, just something I thought I should report. I have been interested in eicosanoid impact on CFS and ME since 1993, based on the work of Dr. Andriya Martinovic. Eicosanoids are generally very short acting and short range hormones. They are used by a cell to communicate with itself, but also nearby cells.
I am experimenting with a new shotgun protocol. A simplified description is its a combination of methylation, antioxidant and one specific anti-inflammatory, with some minimal mineral support.
In particular:
Methylation: Methyl B12 and methyl folate.
Antioxidants: C, E, Q10, NAC, lipoic acid, resveratrol, grapeseed.
Antiinflammatory: Resveratrol.
Minerals: Magnesium, selenium.
I am still playing with doses, so have no idea what a proper dose is. I have selenium in there because it enhances tolerance to LPS which is something for another (planned) blog next year. I also wonder if molybdenum should be on the list.
Over the last two decades on various protocols I have completely restored my energy a number of times. In the most spectacular partial remission, on my first shotgun protocol leading up to my going to the 1999 Sydney CFS conference, I went from being too exhausted to want to walk across the room to walking five hours per day, every day, on the Sydney beachfront (Manly?). This in a matter of weeks. What is the issue though is that never, I mean absolutely never, has any of my protocols touched my deep down intractable fatigue.
Until today.
I am now having brief episodes of zero fatigue. This does not mean I have energy, I just have no fatigue. I can however feel that I have not had enough sleep, this is a different issue.
A huge downside of resveratrol is that it can wipe out my capacity to sleep if I take too much. No matter how tired I get, sleep is impossible. This is an eicosanoid phenomena I think, probably PGD2 (prostaglandin D2, an arachidonic acid derived eicosanoid) deficiency. On the other hand too much PGD2 can cause hypersomnia. This can be induced by antioxidants, excessive NO or excessive inflammation. The primary source of PGD2 affecting sleep is from the brain, though almost every tissue in the body makes it especially mast cells. PGD2, as well as other eicosanoids, appear to affect vasoregulation.
With respect to mast cells I think most of us do not have a mast cell problem. I do however think we have an eicosanoid regulation problem, and one of the sources of that could be mast cells. However I cannot rule out the existence of subgroups with mast cells disorders.
So the resveratrol, though a herbal antioxidant, makes tolerance of other antioxidants (and probably methylation) much greater, at least for me. However the reverse is also true. The antioxidant pentet makes resveratrol more tolerable.
With respect to methylation I find that the symptoms people are ascribing to low potassium disappear on resveratrol. This implies that these symptoms are eicosanoid induced, though this is not certain. So taking potassium may be a method of altering these symptoms in a drug-like not a deficiency-like way. However I am also aware that about half of us have low intracellular potassium, so there may be subgroups. This is because both potassium and eicosanoids are very important in maintaining blood vessel tone I think.
My respiratory hyper-responsiveness also seems to disappear on resveratrol. If I get an attack while on resveratrol I guess I will have disproved that, but it hasn't happened yet. It has happened when I forgot to take resveratrol and just took antioxidants.
To be clear though I am ignoring something here, at least for now. The source of resveratrol I am using also contains grape seed extract. I think thats a good antioxidant but I am not aware its anti-eicosanoid, though it can have an impact on nitric oxide (a biphasic impact depending on dose). It also might be important that my resveratrol is grape seed sourced.
My new Zombie Science blog is almost done.
Bye, Alex
Is the Fatigue in ME an Eicosanoid Phenomena?
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I am a long term ME patient with many complications. While I have pushed research advocacy since 1993, I became political around 2009. My current project is a book called "Embracing Uncertainty". Uncertainty in medical science seems anathema to too many doctors. "I do not know" is something more doctors should be honest about.