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Commercial, Military, Personal/Corporate, Public Service, Regulatory
By Veronica Magan | November 1, 2006
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FAA Focus on Operational Control Unsettles Industry The U.S. FAA is cracking down on how aircraft operators control, fly and market their flights, and its moves have unnerved some in the aviation industry-particularly those involved in helicopter emergency medical services.
The agency's moves could force a revamping of arrangements in which operators acquire, fly and maintain aircraft under contract to medical providers and supply pilots for them. It also could force helicopter EMS operators not directly affiliated with a hospital to beef up their aviation dispatch and flight-following practices.
Top agency officials said they are not looking to impose the kind of dispatch requirements contained in Federal Aviation Regulations Part 121, under which the pilot in command and a dispatcher on the ground have shared responsibility for the safe conduct of a flight. But they do want greater control over flight operations commensurate with the degree of complexity of a certificate holder's operations.
The crackdown is not limited to EMS operators; it applies to all Part 135 certificate holders.
The agency's actions follow a series of accidents and investigations that unmasked common practices in which non-certificate holders marketed and booked flights using an air operator certificate holder's aircraft and crews, sometimes on a routine basis. Most notable among the crashes were two involving business jets. One ran off a runway at Teterboro, N.J. in February 2005, injuring 20 people. The other crashed in Montrose, Colo. in November 2004, killing the 14-year-old son of the head of the NBC television network's sports division.
The discovery of those practices also unnerved top regulators and lawyers at the FAA, who were confronted with a situation in which key provisions of the FARs had fallen into disuse over time-at times with the knowledge of the agency's own inspectors.
As a result, top agency officials have been conducting "road shows" to clarify for both operators and FAA inspectors what the regulations require. Agency officials briefed leaders of the Helicopter Assn. International in late August and attendees at the Air Medical Transport Conference in Phoenix in late September.
At the heart of the matter is the issue of operational control of aircraft operated under FAR Part 135. The FAA planned to issue by the end of October an amendment to paragraph A008 of a certificate holder's operations specifications that is intended to clarify the operational control requirements of the FARs. FAA inspectors would then inform certificate holders of the clarified requirements. The certificate holders would have to revise their op specs to meet those requirements.
"A very important point is that we have made no regulatory changes," a top FAA official involved in the process said. "These are all requirements already in the FARs."
In a summary presented at AMTC in Phoenix, FAA officials said the amended op specs will specify that operational control is the responsibility of the certificate holder, that that responsibility cannot be transferred by any business agreement, and that no agreement between a certificate holder and other parties can supercede the certificate holder's operational control responsibilities.
FAA officials have said repeatedly that they are looking for more than manual changes through this effort.
"What we are looking for is a cultural change," said Hooper Harris, head of the commuter, on-demand and training branch of the FAA's Air Transportation Div. Certificate holders will have to establish and maintain absolute operational control of their aircraft, with its customers making requests for air transportation. "To meet the regulations, both the words and the actions have to be right."
CIVIL: MD Helicopters Shifts Gears to Speed Fuselages From Mexico
MD Helicopters has revised its plan for a Mexico production site to get fuselages from the facility faster.
The Mesa, Ariz. manufacturer had planned to gain FAA certification of the site near Monterrey to produce its single-engine MD500- and MD600-series helicopters, with plans to start production by year's end. But the FAA certification process was too protracted to meet MD's production plans.
The company will now build single-engine fuselages in Monterrey and ship them to Mesa for final assembly and completion. The first is expected to reach Mesa before the end of the year.
In other production-related news, MD reported in September that it has reduced the number of MD aircraft-on-ground (AOG) by 90 percent since the company's July 2005 acquisition by Patriarch Partners, LLC, the $5-billion private investment firm that holds a controlling interest in MD. Patriarch's chief, Lynn Tilton, is now MD's chairman. MD also said it is now able to provide both routine and higher priority parts on the same day the order is received in over 80 percent of the requests. The company said it has also been able to fill 90 percent of customer AOG orders in less than 72 hr. The news confirms the company's commitment "to rebuild the high level of customer service and operator feedback critical to supporting the large MD Helicopter operating fleet," said Jeffrey L. Snyder, general manager for customer support.
MILITARY: U.K. Weighs Options for Closing Vertical-Lift Gap
The United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence is weighing several options to close a "priority" shortfall in vertical-lift support for its troops operating in southern Afghanistan under NATO command. Options include leasing aircraft from Eurocopter, extending the use of its Westland Pumas and Sea Kings, borrowing EH101s from Denmark and Portugal and contracting with a British company for Soviet-era Mi-17s.
The outgoing commander of U.K. forces in southern Afghanistan, Brigadier Ed Butler, has called for extra helicopters "as a priority" to boost the troops' ability to combat Taliban insurgents. "If we had more helicopters," Butler has been quoted as saying, "we could generate a higher tempo, not just of offensive operations," but to press on with reconstruction and development efforts.
The head of the UK Joint Helicopter Command, Maj. Gen. Gary Coward, has said a 5-10-year lease of helicopters could close the vertical-lift gap and allow the ministry to complete an assessment of its long-term vertical-lift needs.
In a related development, the head of Boeing's Chinook program, Jack Dougherty, said the manufacturer and British officials are close to resolving a dispute over avionics software certification that has kept eight Royal Air Force Chinook HC3s grounded for seven years. Discussions on resolving the dispute, likely with installation of Thales TopDeck cockpits, picked up under pressure from the highest levels of the U.K. government..
MILITARY: Japan Looks to Buy 24 Military Helos in Fiscal 2007
The Japanese government is proposed to buy 24 military helicopters in Fiscal 2007 as part of a ¥4.8-trillion ($41-billion) defense budget for the year.
Plans call for the acquisition of 21 rotorcraft valued at ¥41.2 billion ($345 million) for Japan's Ground Self-Defense Forces.
The army's requested aircraft include 16 Fuji/Bell UH-1J utility helicopters, two Kawasaki OH-1 scout aircraft, one Fuji/Boeing AH-64D Apache Longbow attack rotorcraft, one Mitsubishi/Sikorsky UH-60JA and one Kawasaki/Boeing CH-47JA.
Japan's Air Self-Defense Forces are seeking an aircraft acquisition budget of ¥148.5 billion ($1.25 billion), but rotorcraft make up a small portion of that service's plans.
The air force is requesting two Mitsubishi/Sikorsky UH-60J utility helicopters and one Kawasaki/Boeing CH-47J Chinook transport helicopter in 2007.
If approved, the budget could be a boon for Kawasaki, which is operating on a plan to build one Chinook a year.
MILITARY: Armed Recon Helo Slips, But U.S. Army to Grow Program The U.S. Army and Bell Helicopter have agreed to slip the Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter program by at least six months, with the milestone of a first unit equipped moving from September 2008 into 2009, according to Frank Wallace, Bell's deputy ARH program manager.
Challenges with integrating target-acquisition and other sensors with Rockwell Collins' Common Avionics Architecture System is a primary reason.
The program has achieved a number of successes, flying two system design and development aircraft (shown below) within 13 months of contract award. It also added its own aircraft to the program to help overcome test and development risks. The slip is the latest delay in plans to retire the venerable but war-weary OH-58D Kiowa Warrior.
The program won't stay delayed if the Army's vice chief of staff has anything to say about it. Gen. Richard Cody, an Army aviator, said he visited Bell Oct. 8 and "was very clear with Bell leadership. We want first unit equipped in 2008, not 2009." In their defense, the Bell briefers have said they are working to get the program back on schedule.
Despite the delay, the Army is still working to increase the program from 368 to 480 aircraft or more, with the additional ARHs intended for the National Guard.
MILITARY: Sikorsky Taps PZL to Assemble International Black Hawks
Sikorsky Aircraft has signed a strategic memorandum of understanding with aircraft maker PZL Mielec to negotiate agreements that would establish the Polish company as the assembly center for International Black Hawk helicopters and key helicopter components.
The pact was announced last month by the Polish Ministry of Treasury Sept. 20 and confirmed by Sikorsky.
PZL Mielec is wholly owned by the Industrial Development Agency (known by the Polish acronym ARP), which is a government holding company under the treasury ministry.
Under the MOU signed at a public ceremony in Warsaw, Sikorsky's strategic investment in PZL Mielec would provide funding for factory improvements and tooling to support assembly of the International Black Hawks and other helicopter component production. Financial terms of the MOU were not disclosed. Sikorsky and ARP have agreed to work toward finalizing the terms outlined in the MOU before the end of the year. They anticipate initial component deliveries in 2008 and International Black Hawk deliveries in 2010.
CIVIL: Maryland Troopers Seek to Replace Dauphin Fleet
The Maryland State Police has begun studying options for replacing its fleet of 12 Eurocopter AS365s. The agency took delivery of its first AS365N1s in 1990, and nine years later began converting the aircraft to the N3 configuration. The selection of a new aircraft is complicated by the diversity of the missions that the agency flies, which include law enforcement, search and rescue, medevac and interfacility transfer and homeland security. The agency, which also flies fixed-wing aircraft, conducts roughly 9,000 missions a year.
CIVIL: Pilot Faces Charges in Deputy's Death
A helicopter pilot faces trial on charges that he failed to maintain his helicopter, leading to a crash that killed a Franklin County, N.C. sheriff's deputy. Ben Barrick is charged with involuntary manslaughter for the 2004 crash that killed Deputy Ted Horton. He was to go on trial Oct. 1, but a judge agreed to lower his $50,000 bond to $25,000 to free money to allow him to hire a defense attorney. The trial is now set for January.
CIVIL: PHI Pilots' Union Strikes
Have 200 or so PHI pilots scuttled their helicopter careers by walking out on strike? Opinions are divided on the matter.
Offshore and EMS pilots led by the Office and Professional Employees Union International walked off the job Sept. 20 after 2.5 years of talks failed to produce a new labor pact. The union claimed 330 pilots struck. PHI said in an October financial filing that 210 did so, but it noted that was 35 percent of its pilots and the strike was having a "significant" impact on its operations.
PHI sent letters to the strikers telling them they'd been fired. "Because you are engaging in a strike activity," one letter reportedly sent by the company said, "you are being permanently replaced." The strike created the embarrassing situation of pilots picketing against PHI outside the annual Air Medical Transport Conference in Phoenix, headquarters of PHI's EMS operation.
Top officials of other EMS and offshore companies were split on whether they would hire PHI strikers. Two interviewed said no way; one said he would unless an applicant lied about his involvement in the strike.
CIVIL: FAA to Test New EMS Weather Tool
The FAA and U.S. meteorologists plan to soon field a new, experimental, computerized weather tool aimed at helping helicopter Emergency Medical Service (EMS) pilots in deciding whether they should decline missions. The tool is designed to provide ceiling and visibility data in 5-sq.-km. blocks throughout the entire United States, regardless whether an area is covered by a staffed or automatic weather reporting station. The agency is working with the National Center for Atmospheric Research to develop and field the tool, which is an add-on to the Aviation Digital Data Service that provides aviators with text, digital and graphical forecasts, analyses, and observations of weather. It is intended solely as a "no-go" tool. Pilots could use it to decide not to fly, but it could not be used as justification for accepting a mission.
MILITARY: Poland Unveils Medevac Mi-17
The Polish army took the wraps off its first Mil Mi-17AE medevac helicopter during the MSPO international defense expostion.
Poland may deploy the aircraft to Afghanistan to support NATO's security-assistance operations there.
The aircraft is assigned to the 25th Air Cavalry Brigade in Leznica Wielka. It is the first of two Mi-17s to be modified with rescue equipment, including oxygen systems, air conditioning, new power supply systems and a 660-lb (300-kg) capacity winch.
Poland's WZL-1 defense manufacturer in Lodz reconfigured the Mi-17's cabin to accommodate up to seven stretchers and three medical personnel.
The Mi-17AE's cockpit has been modified to permit use of night-vision goggles. It includes a GPS receiver, improved communications suite, identification friend-or-foe equipment and a searchlight.
If the aircraft is configured for combat search-and-rescue missions, it can be equipped with modular armor and defensive countermeasures, such as radar warning receivers and chaff and flare dispensers. WZL-1 is also modifying an army PZL Mielec W-3W Sokol for medevac duties.
MILITARY: AgustaWestland to Revive Indian Sea Kings
AgustaWestland has won a contract from the Indian Navy to return to service seven Sea King Mk 42B helicopters. Work on the contract was to start in late September, with AgustaWestland providing a specialist team to work with personnel from the Indian aerospace industry to launch the recovery program.
Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. is to repair and overhaul rotable items, including the transmission and rotor heads. In March 2004, AgustaWestland signed a contract with HAL to enable it to perform indigenous Sea King repair and overhaul work in support of the Indian Navy Sea King fleet.
The Indian Navy has received a substantial number of AgustaWestland Sea King helicopters, including advanced Sea King Mk.42B and Mk.42C variants which were delivered in the late 1980s.
MILITARY: High-Performance EH101 Enters Flight Test Program
A high-performance variant of the AgustaWestland EH101 fitted with new-technology British Experimental Rotor Program (BERP) 4 main-rotor blades, more powerful General Electric CT7-8E engines, and a new integrated cockpit display system took flight for the first on Sept. 26 at AgustaWestland's Yeovil, England facility. Following an initial flight in the morning, the aircraft performed a second flight, operating at speeds up to 135 kt and performing a range of maneuvers. All results were as predicted, the company reported.
The BERP 4 Technology Demonstration Program, which is jointly funded by the U.K. Ministry of Defence and AgustaWestland, was launched with seven key objectives: reduced first cost, reduced life cycle costs, reduced rotor vibration at high and low speeds, improved hover and forward flight performance, improved damage tolerance, increased erosion resistance and reduced signatures. The program is delivering the technology for the next generation of advanced composite rotor blades, which will deliver significant improvements in whole life costs and operational capability of future helicopters including variants of the EH101.
The more powerful General Electric engines, rated at 2,527 shp (1884 kW) each for takeoff, provide 12 percent more power than previous CT7-family engines, increasing the EH101's payload by at least 2,000 lb while operating on hot days at high altitudes. Following an extensive flight test program utilizing a US101 test aircraft, development flying for the CT7-8E engines is nearing completion.
MILITARY: AgustaWestland Argues LUH Award Wasn't "Best Value"
Two losing bidders in the U.S. Army's award of the Light Utility Helicopter contract differ on why the decision was flawed, but their protests have been combined into a single case by the U.S. General Accountability Office.
The GAO heard arguments on the protests during a Sept. 20 hearing in Washington. It is expected to rule on the protests by Nov. 8.
AgustaWestland argues in its protest that the Army's choice of EADS North America's EC145-based bid was not made on the "best value" basis outlined in the request for proposals but on a "best price" basis.
Had it known that was the basis, AgustaWestland argues, it would have bid a version of its smaller, less expensive A109.
MD Helicopters' protest argues its MD902 Explorer bid was the lowest-price offering.
CIVIL: HAI Extends "Salute to Excellence" Deadline
HAI has extended the deadline for submitting nominations for its "Salute to Excellence" awards nomination deadline to allow more time for members and non-members to send in their submissions.
Nominations must be submitted with signed acknowledgement forms.
The new nomination deadline is Nov. 22.
HAI presents 13 "Salute to Excellence" awards yearly. They recognize outstanding achievement in the international helicopter community. Winners receive their awards at the annual "Salute to Excellence" awards banquet, to be held on March 2, 2007, during Heli-Expo 2007 in Orlando, Fla.
By acknowledging the exceptional merit of an individual or organization, the "Salute to Excellence" awards are intended to encourage the continued attainment of the highest standards of professionalism in the international helicopter community.
Nomination forms are available to download at HAI's Web site, www.rotor.com.
Nominations may be submitted through the Web site, or you may download the appropriate nomination form and mail it to HAI, 1635 Prince St., Alexandria, Va. 22314-2818, or fax it to 703-683-4745. Remember to include supporting documents with your nomination. HAI asks that you not send electronic materials, such as videotapes, DVDs, or CD-ROMs.
CIVIL: HAI Pursues "Virtual" Helicopter Museum
The Helicopter Assn. International is working with the American Helicopter Museum to create a "virtual" museum that enthusiasts around the world could visit to learn the history of rotorcraft and their uses. A key part of the effort is dispatching scribes to capture the oral histories of industry pioneers before those opportunities are lost to death or illness. HAI is pursuing the initiative through the Helicopter Foundation International, of which it recently resumed control. The foundation is working on digitizing the West Chester, Pa.-based American Helicopter Museum's archives to make them available on the Web, where conversations with pioneers also could be accessed.
CIVIL: New Helo Museum Opens in Tennessee
A new helicopter museum has opened in Pigeon Forge, Tenn., home of Dolly Parton's Dollywood amusement park. Helicopter Headquarters is an $8-million attraction designed to "showcase the development of helicopters and to encourage visitors to experience wingless flight." Portions of the attraction are interactive, including three custom-made flight simulators and a green-screen experience through which visitors can get a DVD souvenir that shows them piloting a helicopter--or diving from one.
CIVIL: Air Methods Commits to 10 AS350s A Year
Air Methods Corp. has signed an agreement with American Eurocopter to purchase 10 AS350B2/B3 "AStar" helicopters annually for an indefinite period. The AStars will join Air Methods' fleet of about 200 rotary- and fixed-wing aircraft.
"We need additional aircraft because of the forecasted requirements for single-engine platforms in the medical field, and to replace older aircraft that are more costly to operate and maintain" said Archie Gray, Air Methods' vice president of technical services.
By adding B2s and B3s to its fleet on a continuing basis, Air Methods hopes to achieve a balance between price, performance, and power.
Powered by the 732-shp Turbomeca Arriel 1D1 turbine engine, the AS350B2 can carry up to six people (one pilot and five passengers), cruise at 133 kt, and fly up to 360 nm without using reserve tanks.
The AS350B3 offers the B2's carrying capacity beefed up with a 847-shp, FADEC-equipped Turbomeca Arriel 2B engine capable of boosting the aircraft's cruise speed to 140 kt, and provides the AS350B3 the extra power it needs to work in extreme conditions.
CIVIL: China's AVIC 2 to Invest $380M in Helos
China Aviation Industry Corp. (AVIC 2I) plans to invest more than 3 billion yuan (US$380 million) into the nation's fledgling civil helicopter industry.
The money is to be spent on research and development and co-operative projects with foreign counterparts during the company's 11th five-year plan, which runs through 2010.
"In the next five years, we will stick to a market-oriented approach, boosting the helicopter industry in terms of R&D and manufacturing capability, marketing and servicing," Ni Xianping, deputy chief engineer of AVIC 2, the country's only state-owned helicopter maker, told China Daily.
"After figuring out our clients' specific market demands, we will develop new products and redesign existing ones to meet them."
Specific projects in AVIC 2's five-year plan include a new, 5.5-6-ton commercial helicopter, which will be entirely self-developed, and several joint programs with international counterparts, said Ni.
CIVIL: Turbomeca to Expand Parts Production in U.S.
Look for Turbomeca to open a new parts-production plant in the Midwest United States soon, to help it meet worldwide demand for engines. The new plant would be roughly the same size as Turbomeca USA's engine production and repair facility in Grand Prairie, Texas but would focus solely on parts production. The French engine maker, a subsidiary of Safran Group, expects to produce up to 2,000 engines a year and is exhausting the ability of its current production facilities to provide parts.
CIVIL: Houston P.D. Taps Sapphire For Maintenance Program
The Houston Police Dept.'s aviation unit has hired Connecticut-based Sapphire International to develop an all-in-one aircraft management database for the Helicopter Patrol Div. The $88,000 contract calls for the design and installation of FoxFlight, a software package that will manage a variety of operational data on the agency's aircraft and their usage.
Houston's current administrative software is an in-house design that uses an MS-DOS format with limited capabilities. After several failures with that system, Houston became interested in finding new computer-based software that could track nearly every conceivable management and usage parameter. Sapphire International, the only company to respond to the invitation to bid, won the contract, and expects to have the software ready for installation by the end of the year. FoxFlight will track and collate every aspect of aircraft usage based on routine post-flight and post-maintenance information entered by unit personnel. That information will then be retrievable by category. Stored data can also be accessed by administrators.-By Ernie Stephens


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ARM has announced dual, quad, and eight core Cortex-A9 processors, with clock speeds as high as 2Ghz. They're really aiming for Intel's Atom here: performance-per-watt is up to eight times more efficient than Intel's offerings, with the highest-performance designs delivering five times the performance of Intel's Atom chip at the same power consumption levels.
"This is a huge departure from what we've done in the past," Eric Schorn, vice president, marketing for ARM's processor division, told ZDNet UK, "We really wanted to take off the handcuffs and see what could be done with performance, performance, performance." The new designs come in two variants, optimised for either low power consumption or high performance.
"The sweet spot for most customers is dual-core," Schorn said, "but the base design can go up to quad-core and some partners are already building those. Eight way is coming. Everyone's high-end roadmap is putting down more cores, and we do that. We're headed in the direction of Intel's mainstream processors. We have other plans that surpass the current performance, and we'll intercept Intel in a high-margin area, not just with Atom."
Key to ARM's low power requirements is the ability to turn off different parts of the chip. Parts of the cache, maths, media and general processing areas can be turned off when these parts are idle.
ARM licenses their designs out to countless manufacturers, known as ARM licensees. Interested parties can license the new designs now, with delivery of the finalised designs delivered in the last quarter of 2009. Palm also says they will have evaluation chips ready in the first quarter of 2010.
These new chips will make their way to all sorts of devices, but the most promising application (at least, for me) is the prospect of seeing chips like this in netbooks. Currently, netbooks powered by Intel's Atom chip are slow and very power-hungry, mostly because Intel decided to pair the Atom chip to an old and power-inefficient chipset. Since innovation in the battery industry is slow, we have to rely on the rest of the hardware to become more efficient, and it seems like ARM is the one really pushing the envelope.

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Metabolic SyndromeJuly 2006
By Steven V. Joyal, MD
Dropping dead from a heart attack, being crippled by a catastrophic stroke, having limbs amputated as a result of peripheral vascular disease—these are among the frightening consequences of vascular disease, the number-one killer of Americans.
Metabolic syndrome and its associated condition of insulin resistance pose a major threat to cardiovascular health that most health care practitioners do not even discuss with their patients. Remarkably, the public knows very little about this silent but deadly condition, and many affected individuals are not even aware that metabolic syndrome is inflicting severe damage to their arteries and brain cells.
The news media and health care providers pay almost no attention to the epidemic of insulin resistance, the fundamental cause of metabolic syndrome.
To avoid the potentially disastrous cardiovascular consequences of metabolic syndrome, you need to understand:
Gauging Your Risk for Insulin Resistance
Metabolic syndrome is characterized by insulin resistance. Before explaining insulin resistance, we need to understand what insulin is and how it acts in the body.
A hormone produced in the pancreas, insulin's major function is to regulate blood sugar, or glucose, levels. Insulin helps to shuttle glucose molecules from the blood into the cells of the body. When blood sugar levels increase, insulin output increases.
Insulin resistance means that insulin does not work optimally at its target tissue—such as muscle, fat, or liver tissue—to drive glucose into cells. This has numerous adverse consequences, including glucose and insulin levels that are much higher than normal. As the body attempts to overcompensate for poor insulin action by pumping out more insulin from the pancreas, insulin levels rise. Eventually, over time, the pancreas can "burn out" and no longer produce enough insulin to control blood sugar. When insulin levels are not sufficient to bring blood sugar levels down to the normal range, type II diabetes mellitus can result.
The gold standard for measuring insulin resistance is a very complex procedure called a "hyperinsulinemic euglycemic clamp" that is offered at specialized academic medical research centers. In this two-hour procedure, insulin is infused intravenously at a constant rate according to body weight. At the same time, glucose is infused intravenously at a variable rate to balance out the insulin infusion. The rate of glucose infusion into blood during the last 30 minutes of the test determines insulin sensitivity.
Fortunately, to help determine your risk of insulin resistance, you do not have to travel to an academic medical center to have the "hyper-insulinemic euglycemic clamp" performed; instead, you need only undergo some simple blood tests.
Certain blood tests such as fasting insulin can serve as surrogate markers for insulin resistance. Excess insulin (fasting hyperinsulinemia) is defined when levels equal to or greater than 15 µU/mL are found. These higher fasting insulin levels are associated with insulin resistance.1 Other blood tests that are very useful in evaluating the risk of insulin resistance include serum triglycerides and high-density lipoprotein (HDL). Triglycerides equal to or greater than 130 mg/dL and a triglyceride:HDL ratio equal to or above 3.0 suggest a high risk of insulin resistance.1 In fact, the Life Extension Foundation has consistently advocated even lower levels of triglycerides (less than 100 mg/dL) as being optimal.
Do You Have Metabolic Syndrome?
Afflicting one of every five Americans (with even higher rates in certain ethnic populations), metabolic syndrome has ominous implications for cardiovascular disease risk.2
More than 20 years ago, scientists identified the constellation of conditions that characterizes metabolic syndrome in a group of patients with a drastically elevated risk of heart disease and stroke. Initially called "Syndrome X" by scientists, it is now known as metabolic syndrome. This dangerous condition is characterized by insulin resistance, which leads to abnormally high serum lipids and cholesterol, high blood pressure, abnormally high blood sugar, and increased blood-clotting tendencies.3
Metabolic syndrome dramatically increases cardiovascular disease risk.4 Recent trial results in more than 1,200 men followed for 11 years found that those with metabolic syndrome were up to 360% more likely to die from coronary heart disease.5
The diagnostic criteria for metabolic syndrome can differ slightly depending on the medical experts consulted. A standard, accepted definition was established by the Third Report of the National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) Expert Panel on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults (Adult Treatment Panel III).6 According to its definition, you have metabolic syndrome if you have three or more of the following criteria:


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To easily get to the Google products you use most, like Gmail or Google+, you can use the Google bar that runs across the top of the screen on many Google products. You can also use it to search, share, and manage your Google account, all in one place.
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You can also add Google products you use that don't appear in the "More" section. Just go to the product you'd like to add and open the App launcher, and you'll see a prompt to add it as an app. If you don't see the app launcher on the product page, you may not be able to add that product to the App launcher right now.
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Book - Brave New World Revisted By Aldous Huxley
When the novel Brave New World first appeared in 1932, its shocking analysis of a scientific dictatorship seemed a projection into the remote future. Here, in one of the most important and fascinating books of his career, Aldous Huxley uses his tremendous knowledge of human relations to compare the modern-day world with his prophetic fantasy. He scrutinizes threats to humanity, such as overpopulation, propaganda, and chemical persuasion, and explains why we have found it virtually impossible to avoid them. Brave New World Revisited is a trenchant plea that humankind should educate itself for freedom before it is too late.
Paperback, 144 pages.
About the author:Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) is the author of the classic novels Island, Eyeless in Gaza, and The Genius and the Goddess, as well as such critically acclaimed nonfiction works as The Devils of Loudun, The Doors of Perception, and The Perennial Philosophy. Born in Surrey, England, and educated at Oxford, he died in Los Angeles.


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BPD: 2 people shot during a family disturbance
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) -- Police are investigating a shooting that left one man dead and another wounded at a home in northwest Bakersfield.
Officers were called to the 10000 block of Artist Court for a domestic dispute with shots fired just after 8 Saturday morning.
"Upon arrival, they made contact with a female occupant who advised us her husband and her son were involved in some type of altercation," said Bakersfield Police Sgt. Frank Gonzales.
Officers reported going inside and finding a man in mid-70s dead and another man in his 30s suffering from gunshot wounds.
The son was taken by ambulance to a local hospital where he is being treated for his injuries, Gonzales said.
The investigation is still in the preliminary stages; there is no word yet if more than one gun was recovered.
The home is owned by the deceased man and his wife. The son is believed to have just recently moved in.
Neighbors say they are shocked by the incident and describe the family as a quiet one, who generally kept to themselves.


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Bob Newhart, a native Chicagoan and infamous Cubs fan, may have forgotten his "W" flag at home, but that didn't stop him or his grandkids from taking a DIY approach to properly celebrate their team's historic NLCS win Saturday night.
"I'm in Seattle with my grandkids," Newhart tweeted. "I forgot my W flag, so my grandkids made me one. Isn't it beautiful! #GoCubsGo #FlyTheW."
Newhart was one of multiple famous, die-hard Cubs fans who took to Twitter after the win.
Actor John Cusack simply tweeted, "It's. Done."
He followed up with a photo of himself and Kerry Wood "moments before it happened- and IT happened."
"New Girl" actor and Evanston native Jake Johnson tweeted, "They did it!!!!! #FlyTheW @Cubs."
Actor Joe Mantegna and Fall Out Boy and Wilmette native Pete Wentz were succinct in their tweets. "CUBS WIN! CUBS WIN!," Mantegna wrote. "Yessss!!!!! CUBS!!!!" Wentz said.
Then there was the moment Hillary Clinton found out the Cubs won.
Clinton's press secretary Nick Merrill tweeted a photo of the Democratic presidential candidate looking at her phone totally shocked when she learned the Cubs were headed to the World Series.
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(a) Support for efforts to develop information on quality
(1) Scientific and technical support
In its role as the principal agency for health care research and quality, the Agency may provide scientific and technical support for private and public efforts to improve health care quality, including the activities of accrediting organizations.
(2) Role of the Agency
With respect to paragraph (1), the role of the Agency shall include—
(A) the identification and assessment of methods for the evaluation of the health of—
(B) the ongoing development, testing, and dissemination of quality measures, including measures of health and functional outcomes;
(C) the compilation and dissemination of health care quality measures developed in the private and public sector;
(E) the development of survey tools for the purpose of measuring participant and beneficiary assessments of their health care; and
(b) Centers for education and research on therapeutics
(1) In general
The Secretary, acting through the Director and in consultation with the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, shall establish a program for the purpose of making one or more grants for the establishment and operation of one or more centers to carry out the activities specified in paragraph (2).
(2) Required activities
The activities referred to in this paragraph are the following:
(A) The conduct of state-of-the-art research for the following purposes:
(i) To increase awareness of—
(ii) To provide objective clinical information to the following individuals and entities:
(iii) To improve the quality of health care while reducing the cost of health care through—
(B) The conduct of research on the comparative effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, and safety of drugs, biological products, and devices.
(c) Reducing errors in medicine
The Director shall, in accordance with part C of this subchapter, conduct and support research and build private-public partnerships to—
(1) identify the causes of preventable health care errors and patient injury in health care delivery;
(2) develop, demonstrate, and evaluate strategies for reducing errors and improving patient safety; and
Source(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title IX, § 912, as added Pub. L. 106–129, § 2(a),Dec. 6, 1999, 113 Stat. 1656; amended Pub. L. 109–41, § 2(a)(1),July 29, 2005, 119 Stat. 424.)
Prior Provisions
A prior section 299b–1, act July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title IX, § 912, as added Pub. L. 101–239, title VI, § 6103(a),Dec. 19, 1989, 103 Stat. 2192; amended Pub. L. 102–410, §§ 5(a)(1), (c)(1), 6 (b),Oct. 13, 1992, 106 Stat. 2096, 2097, 2100, related to the duties of the Office of the Forum for Quality and Effectiveness in Health Care, prior to the general amendment of this subchapter by Pub. L. 106–129.
2005—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 109–41inserted ", in accordance with part C of this subchapter," after "The Director shall" in introductory provisions.
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The X-E2 is small and takes incredible images. Street photography with this camera is magic, and since I've started using it I've been inspired again to document the everyday world around me.
On a recent trip to Paris with my family, I used the X-E2 almost exclusively for street photography, which is one of my passions. It was a dream. I was able to be non-intrusive on the people and environments I was shooting, and the images I created are some of the best work I've ever done. I'm not a pixel peeper by any means. I just want to create photographs with beautiful tones, and that I'm happy with. I was blown away by this camera's ability.
The one worry I had was the speed of actually using this camera. But I was surprised at how quickly I was able to figure it out and get comfortable. The biggest reason for this was the electronic viewfinder, and being able to see my exposure adjustments as I made them. That's probably my favourite feature of this camera.
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James Belton Braswell born 1834 in South Carolina or (Georgia). Married Mary Jane ? and had 5 children. Traveled through Indiana, Kansas and Missouri as brick mason. Appears that Mary Jane died after 1875.
James Belton Braswell married Sarah Elizabeth Hughes and had 8 more children.
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Karen Hutton shoots nature with the GF250mF4 lens
Karen Hutton uses the new XF80mF2.8 macro lens to capture scenery in Sierra Nevada
Karen Hutton is a professional light bender and storyteller. That's shorthand for her style of fine art landscape & travel photography, and the fact that she's also a voiceover artist, online show host, writer, speaker and teacher. She's been photographing for over 35 years, has over 2 million followers on social media; with over 9 billion views of her photographic work. Karen and her photography has been featured at Google and on Stuck in Customs, TWiP, Macphun Software, Forbes.com, The Grid, Rick Sammon's DPE Podcast. She lives in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California.
Karen believes that "living your life as if it were your art" is the highest calling. That when you let it, light, artistry and passion flood everywhere, pouring through life's nooks and crannies, uplifting everyone in their path. She aims to create works that offer her collectors and clients a full-body jolt of inspiration… and make them feel transported. Because after all, "Life is Light."
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The Fiscal Agent
The Fiscal Agent
By Josh Harris, Founding Partner, The Bon Vivants
This cocktail picks up slightly bitter notes from the Green Chartreuse and cacao tincture. The sweetness of the Luxardo® Maraschino Liqueur blends well with the sweet vermouth and Maker's Mark® Bourbon. This drink is a rocking apéritif.
- 1-1/4 parts Maker's Mark® Bourbon
- 1/2 part Green Chartreuse
- 1/2 part Carpano® Antica Vermouth
- 1/4 part Luxardo® Maraschino Liqueur
- 3 dashes cacao tincture*
- Burnt orange zest and orange peel for garnish
- Cacao nibs
- *For cacao tincture, pack a mason jar with cacao nib. Fill with Maker's Mark® Bourbon and cap.
- Let it sit for at least a week, shaking a little every so often. When peak flavor has been achieved, strain through a chinois packed with cheese cloth and store in an empty bitters bottle or eye dropper.
- Combine all ingredients in a mixing glass.
- Stir until well chilled and diluted.
- Strain into chilled coupe.
- Burn orange zest on top of the cocktail and discard the peel.
- Using a potato peeler, peel an orange peel, zest the fresh oil on top as well, then rub around the rim of the glass and drop in.
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Wednesday, August 22, 2007
8 Random Facts About Me
The rules for this meme are:
1. Let others know who tagged you.
2. Players start with 8 random facts about themselves.
3. Those who are tagged should post these rules and their 8 random facts.
4. Players should tag 8 other people and notify them they have been tagged [I've tagged only 5, because I'm a rule-breaker like that.]
Eight Random Facts About Me
1) I have had a lot of jobs, and they are every bit as varied as my personality and my interests. Among other things I have worked as a prep cook, a soda jerk, a UPS airplane loader, calendar editor for a magazine, a warehouse manager, an adult toy salesperson (ahem), an administrative assistant, a leather-cutter and a railroad conductor.
2) The past few months I've been having a love affair with the area where I grew up and recently returned after my 10 year self-imposed exile.
3) I drive a purple car. I like to call the color "eggplant", and it does look black at first glance, but really it is purple. And kind of sparkly. It is the first car I have ever owned.
4) At any given time I have about 5 different business plans stewing in my brain.
5) I want to have a big Jewish family with a whole slew of kids.
6) I cannot understand why people live with animals. I am allergic to cats and many dogs, and the idea of sharing my living space with a non-human mammal makes me shudder. However, I love farm animals and wildlife.
7) I really love pickles, a whole lot. But only sour pickles - The more sour the better. Sour dills, sour garlics, they are all good to me. Pickled veggies, too. But sweet pickles offend me on every level. When I was in high school, before I had to worry about things like heartburn, when I went out with friends at night it was usually to the diner (the only 24-hour place in town), where I would order a whole plate of pickles and an orange soda. Yes, I have always eaten like a pregnant woman. I also find eating sour and salty foods like pickles and olives helps me with sugar cravings.
8) I have just become an honest-to-goodness college student for the first time in eight years. I am doing the prerequisites to (G-d willing) transfer into a program to become a Registered Dietitian or a Nutrition Educator.
And if I were to be allowed a ninth thing, it would be that I think/hope many of you are going to be pretty excited about the next recipe I'll be posting!
I tag:
Gluten-Free [Etc] Goddess
Please Don't Pass the Nuts
Gluten-Free Gastro-Gnome
My Basement Years
Tag, you're it! [But I promise not to take it personally if you don't want to join in]
8 comments:
- Allergic Girl said...
is that a picture of your lovely self, along with 8 great facts! fun! and thanks for the tag. i'm working on it...
- ByTheBay said...
Why yes, that is indeed part of my face! :)
- Karina Allrich said...
I love seeing a sneak peek of you. And of course, reading your eight random factoids. Especially the sales job (ahem!). I'll be working on mine. Thanks for tagging me, Babycakes!
Karina (etc.) ;)
- Melissa said...
Thanks for the welcome! I'm a bit dazed right now, but am thrilled you stopped by my website. I don't have you on my resource list, so I will add your link. I work with people with celiac and gluten issues (I'm a nutrition therapist) and am always looking for good food connections for people. How did I miss you? Your blog is wonderful!
In good health!
- Sheltie Girl said...
Hey, I'll play along. Thanks for the email letting me know. We've been trying to enjoy the last of our summer as well.
I'll work on my 8 facts and get them posted...
Sheltie Girl @ Gluten A Go Go
- Karina Allrich said...
Hey Bubela, I'm up. :)
- Slacker Mom (aka Mrs. GF) said...
Nice to learn a bit more about you...
(this is so late, but have had barely any time to get online and read, nevermind POST!!!)
This is the first time since I went gluten free (40 days ago) that I found a bunch of recipes that conform with my ideas about good food, ingredients I actually have in the house plus the food and recipes really look delicious. Thank you!!!!


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Don't let burnout ruin your next training cycle.
Training is a game of stress and adaptation. Workouts stress your body by challenging the limits of its speed and endurance. If you apply the right amounts of stress with the right frequency, your body will change in response to this stress — adapting in ways that make it better able to handle the same stress when repeated.
For example, when you perform a long workout that depletes your muscle glycogen fuel stores, genes that control your muscles' glycogen storing capacity are stimulated, resulting in the hoarding of greater glycogen stores for the next workout. As a result, your endurance increases.
Subjecting your body to too much exercise stress, however, will cause negative adaptations in your body. For example, every workout breaks down a certain amount of muscle tissue, triggering an inflammation response that subsequently repairs the damage. Given enough time, this process will not only heal the damage but change your muscles in ways that make them more resistant to damage in future workouts.
But if you do another hard workout that causes more muscle damage before the damage caused by the previous workout has been fixed, it will begin to accumulate and the resulting inflammation might get out of control. If you persist in this manner, your muscles will become more sore and weaker, and your performance will nosedive.
This process of negative adaptation to training stress is called overtraining. The primary sign of overtraining is an unexpected decline in workout performance. Other signs and symptoms include persistent fatigue, muscle soreness and loss of motivation for training. The cure for overtraining is relative rest — that is, reducing your training load until you begin to feel and perform better.
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Note that the above-mentioned signs and symptoms do not always indicate overtraining. There's a grey area on the edge of overtraining known as "overreaching" that can be beneficial when properly controlled. Overreaching is a brief period (1-2 weeks) at the height of the training process when your training workload applies more stress than your body can fully adapt to, so that your fatigue level steadily increases and your workout performance stagnates. But before the process gets out of hand, you reduce your training load, enabling your body to fully recover from and adapt to the training stress of the preceding week to two weeks. A big boost in fitness usually follows.
When persistent fatigue and declining performance occur unexpectedly and reach a severe level, that's another matter. That's overtraining — something you want to avoid at all costs, because it can take a while to recover from. Here are four tactics that you can use to avoid the downward spiral of overtraining.


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America is lost. Four years after the epic conclusion of Resistance 2, dishonorably discharged Sentinel Joseph Capelli is in hiding from the invading Chimeran menace with a pocket of survivors, including his new wife and young son. But when Dr. Fyodor Malikov arrives with a desperate plan, he sets into motions the events of Resistance 3.
Set in a brutal, alternate 1950s universe, America has been successfully conquered and destroyed by the deadly Chimeran race, forcing the last remaining human survivors to seek refuge in hiding. Players must take on the role of Joseph Capelli, the last surviving Sentinel from a clandestine military program, as he comes out of hiding to journey across a land of ruin in a heroic fight for survival against the merciless Chimera. In addition to an epic single-player campaign, Resistance 3 will offer two-player online or split-screen co-op through the single-player campaign, and a new, focused progression-based multiplayer experience.
It's August 1957, four years after the conclusion of Resistance 2 that left Lieutenant Nathan Hale dead on the battlefield against the invading Chimeran race. Joseph Capelli has been dishonorably discharged from the U.S. Army for killing Hale. With the Chimera completely occupying the planet, Capelli has given up on the seemingly hopeless fight and has retreated into hiding underground with his wife and young son in Haven, Oklahoma. But as the climate of the planet continues to collapse, scientist Dr. Fyodor Malikov finds Capelli with a plan to deliver a devastating blow against the occupying Chimeran force. In order to protect his family, Capelli must leave them behind and embark on a harrowing mission across the country to New York City. Along the way, he and Malikov will encounter the survivors and remnants left in the aftermath of the brutal Chimeran invasion.
When you pick up your copy of Resistance 3, you'll also be getting access to playable PlayStation demos for titles like Killzone 3, MotorStorm Apocalypse (both in 2D and 3D!) and inFAMOUS 2, as well as a host of trailers and developer videos from some of your favorite PlayStation titles, including UNCHARTED 3: Drake's Deception, Starhawk, God of War: Origins, and SOCOM 4. Insomniac Games also sprinkled in lots of content from Sony Pictures and Sony Music, including movie trailers and music videos from leading artists like Ozzy Osbourne, Incubus, Foo Fighters, and AC/DC.
Key Features:
- Journey as mankind's last hope, Joseph Capelli, across a devastated America, making your way from Haven, Oklahoma to New York City.
- Resistance 3 returns with a fully loaded arsenal of innovative weapons, including classics like the Bullseye, Auger, Rossmore, and Marksman, and increase the firepower of each with a new weapon upgrade system. With the return of the fan-favorite weapon wheel, players now have access to the entire sandbox of weaponry, giving them strategic choices for any situation they encounter.
- Engage smarter and more agile Chimeran enemies – due to Insomniac's new awareness and cinematic traversal technology that gives the Chimera the ability to traverse any environment to reach you: nowhere is safe. Newly evolved Chimeran species - such as the powerful, leaping Longlegs - are larger and more deadly than ever.
- Two-player online and local/split-screen co-op gameplay allows players to team up with a friend during Capelli's journey to New York.
- A new, more focused, progression-based multiplayer experience builds on Insomniac's multiplayer pedigree, while allowing players to take part in the global resistance by battling in locations set around the globe.
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THE CRISIS, Columbus, Ohio, March 19, 1862
* President Abraham Lincoln
* General John C. Fremont
Among the articles are: "Official War Orders" by the President, signed in type: Abraham Lincoln, plus his: "General War Order No. 2" and "...No. 3", each also signed in type: Abraham Lincoln.
Also of interest is Lincoln's letter to General Fremont concerning the latter's controversial Proclamation, and note the very anti-Lincoln preface the editor included (see).
Other items include: "General Halleck on the Thieving Contractors" "...Letter from the Governor of Georgia--Preparing for the Future" "From Fort Henry" and much more.
Eight pages, very nice condition.
Described as "The Hottest Rebel Sheet to be found in the North or the South", this newspaper opposed the war and attracted the hatred of the Republicans and the Lincoln administration. It insisted that slavery could not be prohibited by law. So obnoxious was this paper to Unionists that it was denied circulation in some cities. In 1863 the press was raided by a hateful mob.
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Thick and Chewy Double Chocolate Cookies
While I fully realize that most of my recent posts have been of the treat/dessert variety, I must continue in this thread because I would not be a good blogging friend if I didn't share this latest cookie with you.
With almost two pounds of chocolate hidden in their deep, dark depths, these cookies are not for the faint of heart. But oh my are they worth it. I can easily say after making these (three times in the last month), they are my new favorite cookie.
Let me tell you why: 1) they are intense chocolate, and in my book, that is not a bad thing, 2) they are so soft and chewy, they literally melt in your mouth, and the bits of melted chocolate chips inside the cookie are heavenly, 3) straight out of the freezer (which is how I store my cookies after I bake them so I don't eat them all in one sitting), they are to die for and amazingly, are still chewable and soft and 4) they are just too good for anymore words.
I'm both excited and anxious for you to try these because I know you will love them, but you will probably hate me, too, because did I mention?
These aren't exactly classified as health food. Enjoy them anyway!
Thick and Chewy Double Chocolate Cookies
- 2 cups (10 ounces) all-purpose flour
- ½ cup (1 ½ ounces) baking cocoa
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 16 ounces semisweet chocolate, chopped (It is best not to substitute chocolate chips since they melt differently; I use Baker's baking chocolate usually found in the baking aisle above the chocolate chips)
- 4 large eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 10 tablespoons (1 ¼ sticks) butter, softened to room temperature
- 1 ½ cups (10 ½ ounces) packed light brown sugar
- ½ cup (3 ½ ounces) granulated sugar
- 1 ½ cups semisweet chocolate chips
- Whisk together the flour, cocoa, baking powder, and salt in a medium bowl; set aside.
- Melt the chocolate in the microwave (50% power for 2 minutes, then stir and microwave in 20 second intervals until chocolate is melted – be careful not to overheat or chocolate will sieze). In a small bowl, beat the eggs and vanilla lightly with a fork; set aside.
- Beat the butter at medium speed until smooth and creamy, about 5 seconds. Beat in the sugars until combined, about 45 seconds; the mixture will look granular. Reduce the speed to low and gradually beat in the egg mixture until incorporated, about 45 seconds. Add the chocolate in a steady stream and beat until combined, about 40 seconds. Scrape the bottom and sides of the bowl with a rubber spatula. With the mixer at low speed, add the dry ingredients and mix until just combined. Finally add the chocolate chips. Do not overbeat. Cover with plastic wrap and let stand at room temperature until the consistency is fudge-like, about 30 minutes.
- Meanwhile, adjust the oven racks to the upper- and lower-middle positions and preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line 2 sheets with parchment paper or silpat liners (this is pretty important – if the cookies are baked on a greased baking sheet only, they will probably stick). Roll the dough into 1 ½ inch balls and place them on the cookie sheets, spacing them about 1 ½ inches apart.
- Bake until the edges of the cookies have just begun to set but the centers are still very soft, about 10-11 minutes, rotating the baking sheets from top to bottom halfway through the baking time. Cool the cookies on the sheets about 5 minutes or until set and transfer to a cooling rack to cool completely. Repeat with remaining dough.
Resist the urge to bake the cookies longer than indicated; they may appear underbaked at first but will firm up as they cool.
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Recipe Source: adapted slightly from The New Best Recipe


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Briktopian Infantry (Theblackdog)
Raszack takes a ride on the Jaguar.
The next photo got corrupted. :-/
It showed the Jaguar and the Red Tub racing towards the Vindicator all guns blazing at the DSM.
The Red Tub ripped apart one of the close combat troopers The Jaguar mowed down three DSM with its
minigun before it ran out of ammo and killed three more with the grenade launchers. Rszack took down a
DSM as well.
Both vehicles manage to unload their troops into the transport bay. All but one DSM which got crushed by the
Red Tub bailed.
Troops continue to run towards the supertank.
Apollyon gets himself up...
...flies to towards the top of the tank...
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Minnesota High Court Says Online Post Legally Protected
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The Minnesota Supreme Court says a man's online post calling a doctor "a real tool" is protected speech.
The high court on Wednesday dismissed a case by Duluth neurologist David McKee, who took offense when a patient's son posted critical remarks about him on some rate-your-doctor websites. Those included a claim that a nurse called the doctor "a real tool."
The justices say the comments posted by Dennis Laurion don't add up to defamation. They say referring to someone as "a real tool" is a protected statement of opinion that can't be the basis of a defamation claim. They also say it doesn't matter whether the unnamed nurse actually exists.
The decision reverses a Minnesota Court of Appeals decision that would have let the doctor's lawsuit proceed to trial.
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*sequel to 'half way across the world***** Loui was...
Half way across the world
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Your name is kayla homes. Your aussie. Currently live in melbourne australia with your best guy friend. The one and only jai brooks. But when you meet 5 very special boys from london can you afford to put 2 relationships on the line by flying from australia to england.....drama. Jealousy. Devotion. Feelings. Mixed emotions. Jet lag. And everything else that come with being 19 and having to choose your best friend and boyfriend? Who will she choose read to find out :)
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Antofagasta Plc (ANTO.L) shares are being watched closely by traders as the Awesome Oscillator signal is revealing a downward trend building over the past five bars, signaling that market momentum is building for the name.
The Awesome Oscillator (AO), created (and aptly named) by Bill Williams, is an indicator which is able to show what is happening with driving force of the market.. The Awesome Oscillator is created using the difference between the 34-period and 5-period simple moving averages of the bar's midpoints (H+L)/2. The AO is usually planned as a histogram in which bars higher than the preceding bar will be colored green. Bars lower than the preceding one will be colored red. The Awesome Oscillator was introduced by Williams in his book "New Trading Dimensions".
The RSI, or Relative Strength Index is another popular oscillating indicator among traders and investors. The RSI operates in a range-bound area with values between 0 and 100. When the RSI line moves up, the stock may be experiencing strength. The opposite is the case when the RSI line is heading lower. Different time periods may be used when using the RSI indicator. The RSI may be more volatile using a shorter period of time. Many traders keep an eye on the 30 and 70 marks on the RSI scale. A move above 70 is widely considered to show the stock as overbought, and a move below 30 would indicate that the stock may be oversold. Antofagasta Plc (ANTO.L) has a 14-day RSI of 24.72, the 7-day is at 12.66, and the 3-day is resting at 4.64.
Antofagasta Plc (ANTO.L) currently has a 14-day Commodity Channel Index (CCI) of -149.83. Active investors may choose to use this technical indicator as a stock evaluation tool. Used as a coincident indicator, the CCI reading above +100 would reflect strong price action which may signal an uptrend. On the flip side, a reading below -100 may signal a downtrend reflecting weak price action. Using the CCI as a leading indicator, technical analysts may use a +100 reading as an overbought signal and a -100 reading as an oversold indicator, suggesting a trend reversal.
Shares of Antofagasta Plc (ANTO.L) have a 200-day moving average of 914.86. The 50-day is 951.76, and the 7-day is sitting at 909.96. Using a bigger time frame to assess the moving average such as the 200-day, may help block out the noise and chaos that is often caused by daily price fluctuations. In some cases, MA's may be used as strong reference points for spotting support and resistance levels.
The Average Directional Index or ADX is technical analysis indicator used to describe if a market is trending or not trending. The ADX alone measures trend strength but not direction. Using the ADX with the Plus Directional Indicator (+DI) and Minus Directional Indicator (-DI) may help determine the direction of the trend as well as the overall momentum. Many traders will use the ADX alongside other indicators in order to help spot proper trading entry/exit points. Currently, the 14-day ADX for Antofagasta Plc (ANTO.L) is 66.78. Generally speaking, an ADX value from 0-25 would indicate an absent or weak trend. A value of 25-50 would indicate a strong trend. A value of 50-75 would signal a very strong trend, and a value of 75-100 would indicate an extremely strong trend. The Williams Percent Range or Williams %R is another technical indicator that may be useful for traders and investors.
The Williams %R is designed to provide a general sense of when the equity might have reached an extreme and be primed for a reversal. As a general observance, the more overbought or oversold the reading displays, the more likely a reversal may take place. The 14 day Williams %R for Antofagasta Plc (ANTO.L) is noted at -93.90. Many consider the equity oversold if the reading is below -80 and overbought if the indicator is between 0 and -20.
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In this video I interview Bernardo Huberman, director of the Social Computing Research Group at HP Labs and author of The Laws of the Web: Patterns in the Ecology of Information.
Bernardo shares why HP is studying social media as portal to understanding their customers and consumers. You'll discover how HP is able to predict sales weeks before a product is released thanks to social media research.
Be sure to check out the takeaways below after you watch the video.


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Reading the forum on your cell phone? There's an easier way. We've enabled a Tapatalk app that makes browsing the forum a whole lot easier. Check it out in the iPhone or Android store if you don't own it already.
This - "We may not climb very hard but we have fun when we can get to the rock!" - is great. Enjoy it.
My wife wants me to get out as much as possible.........So her boyfriend can come visit.
You got a good one there Jeff!!
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Former Texas Supreme Court Justice David M. Medina remembers vividly the day a simple question from Blinn College Music Instructor Larry Campbell changed his life.
"He asked me if I wanted to come to college and play drums. At the time, I didn't know if I was going to school or not," Medina said. "My father had a job lined up for me but that involved climbing under houses and busting pipe. I knew I didn't want to do that forever."
Medina left his hometown of Hitchcock, Texas and enrolled at Blinn as a percussionist in the band. He was the first person in his family to attend college.
In 1978, he graduated with an Associates of Arts degree and transferred to Texas State University, where he earned his bachelor's degree in 1980.
"My experience at Blinn was unbelievable," Medina said Wednesday to more than 150 audience members in the Barbara L. Pearson Banquet Room. "You made a good decision to go to Blinn. It is a great foundation to get you where you want to be."
In 1989, Medina earned his law degree from South Texas College of Law, taking classes at night while working full-time at Cooper Industries, Inc. Upon graduation he became an attorney for the company.
"I was just some kid from Hitchcock, and I got the job," Medina said. "It was an honor. There were times in college where I didn't know how I would pay for the next semester, but I just kept going and believing that I could do it."
In 1996, Medina was appointed by Gov. George W. Bush to the 157th State District Court in Harris County, becoming the first Republican Hispanic justice elected in the county. He was re-elected for a second term in 1998.
In 2004, Medina was appointed by Gov. Rick Perry to serve as general counsel to the governor. That November, Perry appointed Medina to the Texas Supreme Court.
"It's great to be here back at Blinn where it all started," Medina said. "It set me on the path to bigger and better things. I want these students to know that they can find a way to get where they want to be. There's always a way."
Medina's visit was hosted by Blinn's Legal Assistant Program, which equips students for a variety of careers involving the law with an Associate in Applied Science degree or a Legal Office Certificate. Offered both online and in the classroom, courses are taught by a faculty comprised entirely of lawyers and judges.
The Legal Assistant Program will host an information meeting for potential students at 6 p.m. April 24 in Room 237 of the Student Center.
Blinn enrolled 18,413 students this Fall and has experienced 31.1 percent growth since 2006. Founded in 1883, the College's tuition and fees average about one-third the cost of the same classes at most four-year public universities in the state. In addition to its campuses in Brenham, Bryan, Schulenburg and Sealy, the College teaches online courses, dual credit for high school and prepares students for quick employment through its career and technical certification programs.
For enrollment information and to learn about financial aid opportunities, visit: www.blinn.edu.
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Series: Banta
In Okinawa, the precipitous cliffs that fall hundreds of feet to the ocean below are called banta.
For years I have carried with me a vivid memory of the first time I stood atop these cliffs—a memory of beauty in the endless blue expanse of sea and sky intensified by the fearsome height and history that met my downward gaze.
Five years later this memory drove me to revisit and descend those very cliffs. Standing at its feet for the first time I felt in the cliff's full visceral weight something so powerful that I was initially unable to take even a single photograph. The shadows seeping from the cliff's surface, the white craters riddling the cliff's coral limestone, and the charred black caves were stark reminders of all that these cliffs had witnessed.
I returned to my studio after six months of researching and exploring the South Pacific Theater with thousands of image files of the cliffs to piece together. As I re-shaped and re-experienced the original digital images, these cliffs became a metaphor for Okinawa's history as well as digitally-manipulated, hyper-real vision of my experience standing between fear and beauty on Okinawa's banta.
- James Nakagawa
About Osamu James Nakagawa
Osamu James Nakagawa explores his biculturalism through photographs that grapple with cultural histories and alienation. Nakagawa was born in the United States but moved to Japan as a child, and to Texas as a teenager. "I am a stranger in all the places my family could call 'home,'" the artist has said. "The duality and conflict of this experience is the motivation for my photographic exploration, and I am personally invested in finding points of connection and disconnection between actual and constructed memories on both cultural and familial levels." Nakagawa has captured images as diverse as fields in the American Midwest, rainy urban street scenes, and socially charged sites in Japan. In his series of photos of the Okinawa islands, Nakagawa depicts sublime seaside scenery, saturating their colors in post-production. The images suggest the weight and distortion of his memories of and associations with Japan, but also address the site as a World War II battleground.
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I was planning to write a post about this some time ago, but I was busy with the reviews and just forgot to write this. Sorry!
Our community manager Anita recently left EA, which came to me as quite a shock. She has been the Dutch (or actually, BeNeLux) community manager for many years and it's only fair to wish her good luck with whatever she is going to do next. Thank you Anita for all your hard work. Don't be a stranger, okay? We hope to see you on Gamescom soon!
EA recently invited SNW (among other fansites) to attend the Sims 3 Supernatural hands-on event at EA Netherlands. We'll be attending on Tuesday, July 10 with two of our team members: Rosana and Patricia. We'll be taking some of your questions if you have any. Be sure to comment below this post if you want them answered! And of course we'll write an article about the event afterwards.
Do you play The Sims Social? Well then go check it out today, and get your free penthouse. Lots of quests again, if you're into that sort of thing.
The Real City-Building Simulation Game Is Now Live and Available to Play
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- SimCity™ Social cuts the ribbon on the world's largest social network! Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:EA) today announced that SimCity Social is now live on Facebook. A close collaboration between many talented people at Maxis and Playfish, SimCity Social takes the hallmark features that SimCity fans have loved over the past two decades and integrates them with advanced social features, bringing the real social city-building simulation to the masses.
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Skip to comments.U.S. and Canada foil Al Qaeda terrorist plot to derail New York to Toronto passenger train
Posted on 04/22/2013 4:02:46 PM PDT by MarkBsnr
Terror never rests, even on the placid train trip between New York and Toronto.
With the help of the FBI and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Canadian law enforcement officials announced Monday that they had stopped an Al Qaeda-linked plot to derail a New York-to-Toronto Amtrak passenger train, and have arrested two suspects in Montreal and Toronto.
Police charged Chiheb Esseghaier and Raed Jaser with "terrorism related offenses," officials said at a news conference Monday afternoon. The men were observed gathering information on trains in the Toronto area, officials said, which they planned to attack. The charges against the two men included "conspiring to murder persons for the benefit of a terrorist group."
According to the RCMP, the two suspects were receiving "direction and guidance" from Al Qaeda operatives located in Iran.
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
C'mon folks; either we take on these lunatics or else we will lose to them. And I think most of us know what that means.
Not sure about the Canadian portion, but if Al Kaida goes for an Amtrak train, the joke would be on them...as it would likely be empty.
This is all too weird. Al-Harbi is arrested then released after Obama visits with Saudis and (according to Saudi sources) Michelle Obama visits Al-Harbi in the hospital. Then the Canadians arrest a couple of Saudis today who are trying to blow up a train. Something's going on here. We aren't being given the whole story.
Do you think al-Harbi gave up the cell in Canada to save his own skin? How is he connected to the Saudi Royal family; or is he?
Amtrak is probably grateful for the publicity!
Looks like one of them is from Tunisia. Must be happy about their Arab spring event.
Meanwhile the NYDN shows a pic of a VIA Rail train. The one that runs from Toronto to Montreal.
Amtrak is probably grateful for the publicity
Does this mean the obumbo needs to get more Saudi's out of the U.S.?
OUT? Is that a rhetorical question?
If not, it was the oboma administration that gave the Saudis an open door policy. They're getting preferential treatment right now. All they have to do is walk right in! According to oboma - the more Saudis in the U.S., the better.
We are extremely lucky these guys are so danged stupid.
Most FReepers could out-plan and execute better than any of these knuckleheads.
Chiheb Esseghaier was born in Tunisia.
It's called Psychological Operations.
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Razors at the ready folks; a new scientific study claims to have proven that your chin chaff is about as attractive as draping a mangy cat over your face and then combing yesterday's porridge through it.
OK, so that may be a tad extreme, but there's a fair amount of research backing up the anti-beard brigade this time. Haven't we spent the last few years following in the footsteps of bands like Kings of Leon and Fleet Foxes with a "back to nature" look? What else goes with the wardrobe full of plaid shirts and hunting accessories we've all been collecting for the last half a decade?
Without going too deep into the specifics of the Behavioural Ecology journal, which has re-ignited the debate, cultivating all that fur seems to have been for naught. The journal's researchers asked 127 New Zealand females and 100 ladies of Polynesian decent from Samoa for their opinions on the facial hair of 10 men each from their own race (apparently the island of Samoa hasn't been all that westernised over the years, and produces good subjects in terms of those who haven't been too influenced by western media views on beauty). Though the Samoan test subjects were more forgiving, on the whole, the study showed that beards are out.
The conclusions drawn were, as you'd expect, a hodge-podge of evolutionary theory (there was mention of the importance of lions' manes at one point!), finding that, on the whole, beards merely "augment perceptions of men's age, social status, and aggressiveness, but not attractiveness".
On the totally non-scientific filpside however, having a chat with my female friends suggested that the blokes used as bearded/non-bearded examples in the study weren't exactly Brad Pitt to begin with, which may go some way towards explaining why so few found the guys attractive in the first place.
Which compelled us to do a short study of our own. Called "Good Beard, Bad Beard" we've pulled together a handful of celebrities who, for better or worse, have donned or dashed facial hair over the course of their careers.
Scroll down for our verdict on their beardy looks!
Zack Galifianakis - GOOD BEARD
For some, beards are such an integral part of their character that getting rid of them just leads to weird, nigh-on creepy results. Take Hangover funnyman Zack Galifinakas, whose appeal lies in his off-beat sense of humour. Remove the beard and the rotund comedian starts to look just a little too respectable, and a little less relatable. And we all know that respectable isn't funny.


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Watch 'The Woodwright's Shop' for Less
First, many thanks for your excitement about "The Woodwright's Shop" DVDs – and I have to say I'm awfully excited myself, because when Roy first came on the air in 1980, I didn't know I wanted to be a woodworker (I was 12 years old). Now that I've gravitated to (predominantly) hand-tool woodworking, I'm delighted that I'll soon be able to see all the episodes I missed while I was too busy playing soccer and frittering away my time reading.
Second, we appreciate the comments on several woodworking social media sites about the pricing – and we've listened. As of tomorrow, the DVDs will be on sale for $29.99 each – and everyone who has already placed an order will get the $29.99 price per (and you won't be charged until your order ships). Why are we waiting until tomorrow to update the pricing at ShopWoodworking.com? Well, something about computer inventory systems and overnight automatic updates and I don't know… but the price change couldn't be implemented immediately, and we wanted to get this information out right away.
Also, Roy and UNC-TV own the rights to this material – so your purchase not only brings you hours of traditional woodworking information and entertainment, it helps to support public television – and my favorite woodwright (I suspect he's your favorite woodwright, too!).
p.s. We'll soon have some more information available on streaming video options for "The Woodwright's Shop" – stay tuned!
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WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — A Delaware judge is approving a $110 settlement in a shareholder lawsuit challenging Kinder Morgan Inc.'s $21 billion acquisition of El Paso Corp., a deal that created the country's largest natural gas pipeline operator.
Chancellor Leo Strine Jr. approved the settlement following a hearing Monday.
Strine earlier this year refused to block the acquisition, saying El Paso shareholders should decide themselves whether to approve the deal, despite claims that El Paso executives had undervalued the company and that El Paso's financial adviser, Goldman Sachs & Co., had a conflict of interest because it owned almost 20 percent of Kinder Morgan at the time.
Under the settlement, none of the defendants admitted wrongdoing, but Goldman Sachs was not paid $20 million for serving as El Paso's financial adviser.


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South Lawndale saw two homicides in two days in the last week, a RedEye analysis of preliminary police data found.
On Sunday, a 15-year-old boy was shot to death in the 3000 block of South Kedvale Avenue, police said. One day earlier, a 23-year-old man was fatally shot in the 3800 block of West 26th Street, according to officials.
South Lawndale has logged three homicides so far this year. The West Side community area recorded 10 homicides last year, RedEye determined.
Citywide, gunshot homicides were logged in the last week in Greater Grand Crossing, New City and West Englewood, according to police information.
Meanwhile, a 44-year-old man was beaten to death Jan. 22 in the 7000 block of South Claremont Avenue in Chicago Lawn, officials said.
Twenty-one homicides have been logged so far this month. Forty-four homicides were recorded in January 2013, RedEye found.