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Canadian Corporation Behind Efforts to Shut Down Occupy Wall Street Has Ties to Big Oil
Emma Pullman | October 14, 2011
By Emma Pullman • Friday, October 14, 2011 - 08:49
Occupy Wall Street is about challenging the power of the richest 1%. But what happens when that 1% owns the land of the occupation? It has been revealed that a Canadian company was behind efforts to shut down the birthplace of the movement, Zuccotti Park.
Mayor Bloomberg and the NYPD notified Occupy Wall Street participants about plans to "clean the park"— the site of the occupation—starting this morning at 7am. "Cleaning" has been repeatedly as a pretense to shut down peaceful occupations. It was used to evict protesters from the Wisconsin state house. It was used by Bloomberg himself to shut down a peaceable demonstration against budget cuts. The "cleaning" was essentially a ploy to evict protesters, but in a remarkable turn of events, the company backed down from threats to evict the park.
The attempted eviction comes hours before a global day of solidarity actions. The movement is taking the world by storm with a message that resonates powerfully with the millions of regular people: growing economic inequality is corrupting our democracies and making most people's lives worse.
So, who is behind the eviction threats? Brookfield Asset Management, a Canadian company, owns Zuccotti Park and the adjacent office building, One Liberty Plaza. The company has an agreement with the city that the park will be open to public use.


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With Thanksgiving under its belt, Dolores is marching into the Christmas season with enthusiasm.
Anyone who shops at participating businesses between Nov. 26 and Dec. 21 will be eligible to win Dolores Dollars in two drawings, scheduled for Dec. 14 and 21.
Shiela Wheeler, of the Flying Pig, is putting together a Light Up Dolores movement to promote Dolores for the holidays.
In conjunction with the Christmas in Dolores shop local promotion, businesses are banding together to light up the Christmas season with clear Christmas lights that can be used throughout the year.
The new lights will be illuminated for the first time on Dec. 8. Santa will turn on the tree lights at the Galloping Goose and Town Hall at 5:30 p.m., and merchants will turn on theirs as well. There will be a Yule log for warmth, and hot chocolate, cookies and candy for the whole family.
The annual Christmas lighting contest will be judged on Friday, Dec. 14. The winners will receive cash prizes, so be brainstorming your best displays!
Two shopping extravaganzas are scheduled for Dec. 1. The Dolores Community Center will host its annual Christmas bazaar from 4 to 8 p.m., with more than 50 booths offering fun and unique gifts for everyone.
The Fourth Street Girls at the Ginger Jar, Rivers Edge, Terris Hair and Nails, and Art Girls Studio and Quilting will host a tea from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Dec. 1, for munchies and great deals.
On Dec. 13 at 6 p.m., the Dolores Library will offer Storytelling with Santa for preschoolers only.
From now until Dec. 14, the annual Dolores Toy Drive organized by Dolores Christian Child Care, Party Lite consultant Laurie McGuire, Bees in a Bonnet, Mary Kay consultant Laurie Shearer, will accept new, unwrapped toys at various locations around town. Drop-off points include Dolores Visitors Center, Dolores State Bank, Riverside Convenience Store and the Ponderosa.
Volunteers will distribute the toys on Saturday, Dec. 15.
Farther afield, the Cortez Cultural Centers annual Christmas bazaar at the Montezuma County Annex in Cortez will be held tomorrow, Nov. 24, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Cultural Center board, staff and volunteers are working hard to keep the Center afloat, so visit the bazaar to show your support, register for door prizes, and shop for handmade items and franchise projects.
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Rumor Patrol: New Spider-Man Suit to Appear in 'The Amazing Spider-Man 2'?
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While already hard at work prepping for the sequel to his summer smash, The Amazing Spider-Man, director Marc Webb has also been spending plenty of time promoting the DVD/Blu-Ray of the film, which was released on November 9. While promoting the release, Webb and his effects team recently revealed that the first film contained several secret clues, or "Easter Eggs" that could reveal details about The Amazing Spider-Man 2. This of course, got the rumor mill churning, and got fans wondering what else Webb may be hiding.
Leading to the sequel's 2014 release date, Webb is certainly keeping plenty of secrets but we're hearing unofficial talk that a new, "more traditional" Spidey suit could appear in the The Amazing Spider-Man 2.
Nuke The Fridge is reporting the rumor (which they got from "a source close to the production" of the film), who claims that Spider-Man will don a crime-fighting costume that is different from the one he wore in The Amazing Spider-Man.
The decision to change the suit would likely be in reaction to many die-hard fans' requests for a suit more faithful to the original comics. Fans often think their outcries, protests and suggestions go unheard, but a suit update could mean that Webb, and other leaders in the reboot, are at least willing to take fan opinion into consideration.
Of course, Spider-Man has worn a lot of different suits over the years in the comic books but the costume many fans are calling for could, as a result, end up resembling the one Tobey Maguire sported in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man. Fans tend to favor that suit, which featured brighter tones, and consider it to be more traditional than the one Andrew Garfield donned in the reboot.
That all said, anyone who follows pre-production movie news knows that "sources close to the production" are often debunked – meaning that, for the time being, we wouldn't throw out those Amazing Spider-Man action figures in hopes of dramatically updated toys. Slight updates to superhero suits generally occur from movie to movie (just look at the evolution of the Dark Knight's batsuit in Nolan's trilogy or the ever-evolving Iron Man armor) but, until we hear something more official, this is little more than hearsay. It's certainly possible that whatever updates the Spider-Man suit will see in the sequel could push it a bit closer to the "traditional" look of the character but without an official comment or photo, we're not convinced that it'll see a massive overhaul. After all, the entire Amazing Spider-Man reboot is based on the "Ultimate" comic book series' version of the character – which is anything but "traditional."
At this point, all we can do at this point is speculate about what the updated suit could look like, assuming that this rumor is true. However, regardless of how you might feel about The Amazing Spider-Man suit, we can all probably agree that Webb should scrap those silver shoes Garfield wore in the film!
Let us know which suit your prefer in the comments below and don't forget to check out The Amazing Spider-Man available now on DVD and Blu-Ray and catch The Amazing Spider-Man 2 when it swings to a theatre near you on May 2, 2014.
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with a charmingly smooth swing rendition of 'Begin the Beguine,' to George Benson's groovy, boogaloo-flavored 'Love for Sale,' a century's worth of musicians show their love for this Broadway icon. The perfection of Porter's songwriting is already common knowledge, so the real treat here is listening to the range of interpretations. Dinah Shore gets intimate on 'You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To,' Billie Holiday is beautifully woozy on 'Night & Day' (there's also a technically astonishing Django Reinhardt take on the same song), and Bing Crosby lends his timeless croon to 'Don't Fence Me In."All Music Guide


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The department I study in at University of Edinburgh manages the largest supercomputer in the UK on behalf of academic and industry users throughout Europe. The computer in question, HECToR (High End Computing Terascale Resource) was recently upgraded to it's "Phase 3" incarnation. The upgraded machine is a Cray XE6 and currently sits at number 19 (660 Teraflops of LINPACK performance) on the Top 500 list of most powerful computers in the world.
I'm going to give a whistlestop tour of the machine's anatomy divided over two posts. In this post, Part 1, I will cover the structure of the individual processors from within a single core up to the physical package which fits into a socket on a system board. In Part 2 I will then continue from the level of the single socket up to the system as a whole which ultimately consists of 90,112 cores.
HECToR, like all Cray XE6s is a homogeneous system, i.e. all the processing cores are of the same type. Cray also sell a sister system called the XK6 which is heterogeneous, swapping half the CPUs in the XE6 design for Nvidia GPUs. Both systems use Cray's award winning proprietary Gemini Interconnect for high-bandwidth low-latency system wide communication.
In HECToR all the processors are AMD's recently released Interlagos variant of the Bulldozer x86 CPU architecture running at 2.3Ghz. This particular processor architecture is quite a unique and distinctive design for an x86 CPU as it follows a Cluster Multithreading (CMT) philosophy to increase hardware thread concurrency compared to the Chip Multi-Processor (CMP) and Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) approaches common in Intel and previous AMD x86 processors. The Interlagos processor has the highest core count of any commercially available processor at 16 CMT cores, providing 16 hardware threads (Intel's Xeon E7 provides a higher hardware thread count of 20 with 10 SMT cores). Interlagos is aimed specifically at data centre server type workloads with a nod to the comparatively niche (i.e. small revenue) High Performance Computing (HPC) market.
Starting at the worm's eye view we have a single core in the multi-core Interlagos processor. The cores in the Bulldozer architecture are not standalone units but come in indivisible pairs only, called modules. While the two cores in a module still run two hardware threads simultaneously they share some physical components which traditionally would be replicated in every core. This partly shared two-core design presents interesting flexibility to software in how to use the resources available across the two cores.
In Fig. 1 we see the two cores with their own integer schedulers, integer arithmetic pipelines and L1 data caches. The elements highlighted in red are shared (including 2MBs L2 cache and fetch/decode hardware) among the two cores in the module. In a more traditional design these elements would be split straight down the middle to give two independent standalone cores. The main motivation for this partly shared design is that instead of each core only having access to its own 128 bit floating point Fused Multiply-Accumulate (FMAC) unit (centre of Fig. 1) either core can requisition both 128 bit FMAC units to execute a single 256 bit floating point instruction as shown in Fig. 2 below. The opportunities this flexibility presents for better performing software are another day's discussion.
There is quite a way to go up the system hierarchy once we have covered this smallest unit. In the Interlagos processor four modules (i.e. 4 x Fig 1.) are first aggregated into what AMD, from a hardware perspective, call an Orochi die. From a programmer's logical perspective the physical Orochi die is referred to as a Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) region.
As can be seen from Fig. 3 each NUMA region contains four Bulldozer modules plus 2MBs of Level 3 cache for each Bulldozer module and a single DRAM interface to connect the NUMA region to some main memory. The DRAM interface is what makes this collection of components a distinct logical entity from a software perspective when multiple NUMA regions are aggregated into a single package. In HECToR there is 8GBs of DRAM connected to each NUMA region (resulting in a ratio of 1GB of main memory per core).
At the next step up the system hierarchy AMD takes two of these NUMA regions (i.e. 2 x Fig. 3) and puts them together side by side in a single physical package as shown in Fig. 4 below. This physical package I refer to as a socket (well it fits into one, and allows me to avoid the term processor which is too vague in the current context). So with each of the two NUMA regions in a socket connected to their own 8GB of DRAM the purpose of the NUMA region distinction becomes clear. Each region has faster access to its own 8GB of DRAM than it does to its twin NUMA region's DRAM – with associated performance implications for software running across multiple cores in multiple NUMA regions.
This is the point where we leave the world of AMD's commodity products behind and enter the system level where specialist HPC vendors like Cray take over. Their expertise lies in turning thousands of these commodity parts into a single coherent massively parallel High Performance Computer. A product which they may only sell something in the region of low double digit numbers of each year worldwide.
In Part 2 I will continue the tour from the socket level (Fig. 4) up to the system as a whole. Along the way we'll see how Cray combine sockets to form nodes and use their proprietary Gemini Interconnect to build out the system to thousands of nodes. Nodes are packaged into blades, blades into chassis and chassis into cabinets.
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Fulton upset after latest NRL concussion
Wests Tigers forward Liam Fulton thinks it'd be rough justice for the NRL to sit him out because of a concussion caused by Newcastle's David Fa'alogo given the Knights forward won't face the judiciary for his actions.
The Tigers and Fulton are far from impressed that Fa'alogo on Monday escaped charge from the match review committee for a stray elbow after a tackle which caused the veteran back rower to leave the field on Sunday with his fourth concussion from just six matches this year.
Tigers chief executive Grant Mayer took the extraordinary step of personally calling the NRL's head of football Todd Greenberg after Sunday's match to implore the panel to look at what they perceived to be an attack on Fulton's head.
It's understood the Newcastle Knights are upset at Mayer's comments and refute any suggestion that one of their players would have deliberately attacked Fulton based on his history with concussion.
Although a player's welfare and whether or not a tackle warrants a charge are two separate matters, Fulton is frustrated that he might be forced into another spell on the sidelines while the man he says injured him is free to play on.
"If Fa'alogo isn't having any weeks out, I'm not having any weeks out. And the NRL can't step in and do anything because they said there's nothing in it and gave him no suspension," Fulton told AAP.
"If they're saying there's nothing wrong with the tackle then there's nothing wrong with the tackle and I'm right to play this week. There's not much I can do about it. I'm laying on the ground and get an elbow to the face."
The NRL's chief medical officer Ron Muratore will contact the Tigers doctor this week to discuss Fulton's health, however the NRL says it is confident the club will make the right call without it having to intervene.
Earlier this season, the NRL fined the Tigers $20,000 with $10,000 suspended for breaching the NRL's concussion rules in letting Fulton play on despite showing concussion signs in a round five clash with Manly.
In regards to the latest incident, Fulton says he was left dazed but has full memory from the game.
The Tigers say they'll continue to apply the strict duty of care they have shown with Fulton all season before a decision is made on whether he will face South Sydney on Friday night.
Fulton doesn't feel his concussion problems have made him a target on the field, and isn't considering sitting out for an extended period.
"No, I've had a couple of head tests over the last couple of weeks while I've had a back injury," he said.
"And everything is fine. We've got a good club doctor.
"It's just been a bit of an unfortunate year ... but I'll get through it, I'll be right."
In other judiciary news, Fa'alogo's Newcastle teammate Kade Snowden is facing two weeks on the sidelines after receiving two separate careless high tackle charges.
An early guilty plea will see Canterbury forward Sam Kasiano escape suspension for a grade one charge for making dangerous contact with Daly Cherry-Evans while the Manly halfback was kicking.
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You've never really seen
Ocean City until you are inverted over the Atlantic Ocean a few thousand feet
in the air or flipping about in the midst of a head-spinning aerobatic stunt
over Assateague Island.
For world champion
aerobatics pilot Rob Holland, who is one of the many featured acts in this
weekend's 3rd Annual Ocean City Air Show, it's the way he likes to
see the world: upside down.
On Wednesday, Holland,
the Nashua, N.H. native, who just happens to be one of the biggest names in
aerobatic flying on the planet (see his 2008 Advanced Aerobatics World
Championship and numerous other awards for details), was gracious enough to
take this reporter up in the air for what quite literally will go down as one
of the coolest things that I will ever do journalistically speaking, and more
than likely, ever.
Millions of people flock
to this area each summer, and Ocean City and Worcester County have proverbially
hung their hat on being known as a premiere coastal destination with
breathtaking views, pristine beaches, and memory making family activities for a
Yet, viewing the Ocean
City coastline and Assateague Island at 260 mph and at 6 G's force was enough
to quite literally take my breath away, as the pressure of the G-force firmly
secured me in the seat for what felt, at times, (even at 260 mph) like a
leisurely jaunt up the Ocean City coastline.
Then we started doing
First off, a bit about
the plane, which is sponsored by Window World: Holland flies a MX2 by MX
Aircraft, which is incredibly light (about 1,240 pounds when its empty), wicked
powerful (385 horsepower), and unbelievably agile (a roll-rate of 500 degrees a
second). It's made purely of carbon fiber and is designed specifically for
doing awe-inspiring and jaw-dropping tricks at high rates of speed and high
"[The MX2] is made
specifically for unlimited aerobatics, so there's really nothing you can do to
this aircraft in the air that can hurt it," said Holland. "Every type of plane
is designed for a purpose, so most of the planes you see at an airport are just
to get you from point A to point B, but this plane is literally designed to go
up and do aerobatics. It's like the difference between a pickup truck and a
To put things into
perspective, Holland and I never reached more than 6 G's and minus one G of
force when we were inverted, but he says he will reach 10 G's and minus 7 G's,
respectively, during his solo performance this weekend. The plane, which
Holland calls the "latest and greatest model of aerobatic monoplanes," is
capable of reaching up to 16 G's, for anyone who might be keeping score,
statistically speaking.
We took off from the
Ocean City Municipal Airport Wednesday morning and in a matter of seconds we
reached breakneck pace, lifted slightly off the ground and seemed to be zooming
toward the neighboring traffic on Route 611 before Holland calmly quipped "up
we go" and instantaneously shot the plane straight into the air a few thousand
feet in a matter of seconds.
I will admit that the
initial thrust up into the stratosphere was the only time where I looked down
at my "sick sack" and thought I might need it.
From there, Holland took
us through a series of aerobatic maneuvers including a simple slow roll, a full
deflection fast roll, a full loop in the air over Assateague and the
aforementioned inverted dive.
There was a moment
coming out of the loop where the ocean and the Assateague shoreline was
starring right up at me as we were literally pointed straight down towards
imminent doom. Yet, as my face was being pummeled by the force of the G's,
terror was the last thing from my mind; it was more like pure euphoria, as I
could see a few specs that were undoubtedly a few of Assateague's wild horses
galloping up the beach.
If life was going to
flash before your eyes, other than my wife and children's smiles, there's
really no snapshot I'd rather see if I'm being perfectly honest.
The next handful of
tricks were a bit more on the extreme side, as Holland initiated a
"hammerhead", which is where the plane goes straight up, pivots 180 degrees and
comes straight back down. Then, he took us through a "tumble", which is exactly
what it sounds like. Holland takes the tail of the plane and literally tumbles
it over the nose of the plane creating a feeling of movement that feels as
incredibly out of control that it must look for those watching from the ground.
Essentially, it's a maneuver that makes the plane look like it's spinning out
of control and headed for nothing short of disaster.
It kind of felt that way
too, but Holland urges that although the plane appears to be out of control, it
is all just an illusion.
"If it was just
stunt-flying I wouldn't be doing it," said Holland. "I'm doing aerobatics which
is very disciplined and technical, but it all is supposed to create the
illusion of being totally out of control. It's all a show. You try to make
people say 'holy cow.'"
The final maneuver that
Holland took me through before taking me on a coastal fly-by at 260 mph past
the Ocean City Inlet and up to about 30th Street, was a torque roll,
which spun the plane while inverted that actually made the plane fly backwards
for about a hundred feet. A little blue ribbon, which tells wind direction on
the wing, literally changed directions in the middle of the maneuver, proving
that we were in fact flying backwards.
I've always wondered how
pilots or any athlete that does death-defying feats train to do such complex
maneuvers without literally killing themselves during practice. Holland says it
takes a lot of forethought and planning before he even thinks about taking off.
"There's definitely a
discipline to it. You have to practice all the time, but you have to practice
smart. You can't be out of the air for a week and then go up and start doing
wild tricks and beating your head around the cockpit," said Holland. "You have
to think about it for a long time if you are going to do something new, maybe a
month or even two months so you can analyze the aerodynamics, what's happening
with the plane, what could possibly go wrong, and obviously, what are your outs
if something does go wrong, so by the time you try it for the first time, it's
like you have done it a hundred times."
Holland, who has been
flying since the age of 18, and has logged more than 10,000 hours in the air,
caught the so-called "flying bug" after his father took him to an air show like
the one he'll be flying in this weekend here in Ocean City. Ironically, he
flies air shows for a living, and is booked for about 24 appearances across the
United States and Canada in 2010.
Holland was a part of
the first ever Ocean City Air Show in 2008, and said he's impressed with how
far the event has come.
"It's a big air show,
and [event organizer] Bryan Lilley has done such a great job coordinating the
whole thing," said Holland. "Likewise, the city and the local businesses seem
to be very happy that we are here, and the people who are watching seem to be
really passionate and enthusiastic about the event itself. Plus, it's such a
beautiful place to have an air show, so I hope to come back as long as they
keep inviting me.
In addition to his solo
performances, Holland will be doing a tandem performance with acclaimed veteran
air show pilot Jack Knutson.
"There's a lot of trust,
as he flies lead and I fly wing, so his job is to not run me into anything and
my job is to not run into him", said Holland, "so halfway through the routine,
I'm not exactly sure where we are because I'm totally fixated on where he is
and trusting him to get me to where we need to be, so you have to be careful
with who you are flying with."
To encourage crowd
participation and perhaps to corral the masses who use social networking now,
event organizers will be taking votes on the official Ocean City Air Show's
Facebook and Twitter pages to choose what Holland's final trick will be during
his solo performances. Voters can choose from the 'Cardiac Express', the
'Double Hammerhead' or the 'Slidewinder.'
As we banked left over
the Ocean City oceanfront hotels, and flew back past the Air Show headquarters
that will undoubtedly be packed with what could be hundreds of thousands of
onlookers this weekend on what has become one of the resort's premiere special
events, I could literally feel the adrenaline rushing and I asked if he ever
got desensitized to the feeling of aerobatic flying.
"I don't take my
flyalongs through my full-on air show performance just because it gets pretty
intense and you wouldn't be having too much fun, but we did bits and pieces of
it," he said, "but yeah, views like this never get old, and it sure beats
sitting in an office."
After a flight with a
world champion, I couldn't agree more.
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The Road To The Super Bowl Begins Now
With the start of the NFL's regular season finally upon us, anxious fans are looking forward to action where it counts most — on the field. The season kicks off officially tonight with the defending Super Bowl XLVI champion New York Giants hosting the Dallas Cowboys at MetLife Stadium.
Of course, we're so excited about the 2012–2013 season that we cut right to the chase. We asked a group of musicians to offer their predictions for Super Bowl XLVII. Some of you may be thinking it might be way too early to make predictions — after all, just days ago the league's teams finalized their rosters. But it's that same foolhardy earliness that makes this particular exercise in prognostication so much fun.
It was a daunting task, but we found some musicians/NFL fans brave enough to put on their analyst caps. Will the Giants repeat their victorious road to the Super Bowl? Can recent champs like the New England Patriots and the Green Bay Packers regain the crown, or will an underdog emerge to nab the prized Vince Lombardi Trophy?
Musicians — start your crystal balls!
Artist: Lee Brice
Position: Country singer/songwriter
Favorite teams: Carolina Panthers ("because that's where I grew up") and Tennessee Titans ("I've lived in Nashville with the Titans for over 10 years")
AFC champion: New England Patriots
NFC champion: Green Bay Packers
Super Bowl XLVII winner: New England Patriots
"Neither team lost many players from last year and both have outstanding quarterbacks, but the Patriots will probably pull it out. If each team can stay healthy, they will both be hard to stop."
Artist: Lewis Cosby
Position: Bassist for 10 Years
Favorite team: Tennessee Titans
AFC champion: New England Patriots
NFC champion: Green Bay Packers
Super Bowl XLVII winner: New England Patriots
"Tom Brady is a winner and I think he has a bad hangover from last year's playoffs that he wants to get rid of. Brady shows that he can make any receiver look like a star because he puts the ball where he wants it. Of course, Green Bay is stacked with talent as well, but I think between the minds of Bill Belichick and Tom Brady, the Patriots will overcome whatever may come their way."
Artist: Eric Hutchinson
Position: Singer/songwriter
Favorite team: Washington Redskins
AFC champion: New England Patriots
NFC champion: Green Bay Packers
Super Bowl XLVII winner: Green Bay Packers
"I've learned not to bet against Bill Belichick and Tom Brady in New England. And I think the addition of wide receiver Brandon Lloyd gives them so many offensive weapons. The Green Bay Packers had an off year last year, but in the era of the quarterback, Aaron Rodgers reigns supreme."
Artist: Christian McBride
Position: GRAMMY-winning jazz bassist
Favorite team: Philadelphia Eagles
AFC champion: Baltimore Ravens
NFC champion: Philadelphia Eagles
Super Bowl XLVII winner: Baltimore Ravens
"I hate to say this, but if it went head-up between the Ravens and Eagles, I think the Ravens — sadly — would beat my Eagles. The Ravens' defense is legendary. I think [Eagles quarterback] Michael Vick runs around too much. Ray Lewis, Terrell Suggs or one of those Ravens linebackers would just knock the stew out of Vick."
Artist: Outasight
Position: Hip-hop artist
Favorite team: New York Giants
AFC champion: New England Patriots
NFC champion: New York Giants
Super Bowl XLVII winner: New York Giants
"The AFC is so wide [open] with only a few teams currently standing out to have breakout seasons … [it] could be interesting, but until otherwise noted, the Pats are still the team to beat. On the other side, the NFC is loaded. When picking the Giants, please do realize I'm being a pure, unadulterated homer. The Packers, Eagles and 49ers will all be gunning for the champs and are very real threats, especially the Pack and the league's best quarterback, Aaron Rodgers. Look out for the Bears, too."
Artist: Q Parker
Position: Vocalist for GRAMMY-winning R&B group 112
Favorite team: Atlanta Falcons
AFC champion: New England Patriots
NFC champion: New York Giants
Super Bowl XLVII winner: New York Giants
"The Giants always put it together. If you look at the last two Super Bowl seasons, they peaked at the right time. Eli Manning is arguably the best quarterback in the game, and a championship starts at the QB position. He is a proven winner. The Giants' offense and defense are very talented and consistent ... Super Bowl champs again!"
Artist: Marc Roberge
Position: Guitarist/vocalist for O.A.R.
Favorite team: Washington Redskins
AFC champion: Baltimore Ravens
NFC champion: New Orleans Saints
Super Bowl XLVII winner: New Orleans Saints
"I think the Saints take the Super Bowl at home in a big way. Despite needing to bounce back from major off-season nonsense, New Orleans has talent that, if healthy, won't be stopped. And the story of a Super Bowl win in their home city is too good."
Artists: The Roys' Lee Roy and Elaine Roy
Position: Country duo
Favorite teams: New England Patriots and Tennessee Titans
AFC champion: New England Patriots
NFC champion: Green Bay Packers
Super Bowl XLVII winner: New England Patriots
"Being from New England, we are very big fans of the Patriots. Love Tom Brady! They are a strong team and know how to handle pressure. We'll see if this year they bring the title home one more time."
Artist: Blair Taylor
Position: One-half of hip-hop duo speakers
Favorite team: New Orleans Saints
AFC champion: New England Patriots
NFC champion: New Orleans Saints
Super Bowl XLVII winner: New Orleans Saints
"The New Orleans Saints should win the Super Bowl because of two important things — we have a chip on our shoulder from everything with the bounty scandal, and the Super Bowl is in New Orleans. Being from New Orleans, our pride is everything and we have a lot to prove. Our defense has improved slightly, and our offense is as potent as ever with Drew Brees leading as he always does. Who Dat 2 Dat!"
How did our guest analysts do? We'll have to wait until February. Until then, spike the ball and drop us a comment below with your Super Bowl predictions.
(Bruce Britt is an award-winning journalist and essayist whose work has appeared in The Washington Post, USA Today, San Francisco Chronicle, Billboard and other publications. He lives in Los Angeles.)


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PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (Oct. 5, 2012) – SUNY Plattsburgh's Department of Music will present Daniel Gordon in a faculty recital with the Frontier Saxophone Quartet Sunday, Oct. 21, at 2 p.m. in Krinovitz Recital Hall, located in Hawkins Hall. Admission is free.
The program consists entirely of works by Seattle composer John David Lamb, who has written more than a dozen compositions for saxophones in various combinations. The Frontier Quartet will divide up to perform the works, which call for differing numbers of players. They will all join together to perform a movement from Lamb's "Affirmations" for saxophone quartet. In addition, pianist and SUNY Plattsburgh faculty member Dr. Karen Becker will provide accompaniment for several of the selections.
Lamb will be in attendance to discuss his work.
The Frontier Saxophone Quartet, founded in 2003, is a chamber music ensemble comprised of soprano, alto, tenor and baritone saxophones. Its members are active performers in the North Country and Montreal. The name "Frontier" reflects the cross-border cooperation that allows their musical collaboration to take place, as well as the group's frequent performances of new works that explore the "musical frontier." Since its founding, the Frontier Quartet has premiered works by SUNY Plattsburgh composer William Pfaff, Texas composer Dominic Dousa and Finnish composer Janne Ikonen.
Soprano saxophonist Gary Scavone teaches music technology at McGill University in Montreal. Todd Pray, who plays alto sax, is a music instructor for Peru Central Schools and director of the Adirondack Youth Orchestra. Tenor saxophonist Linda Sullvian is director of the Plattsburgh High School Band and president of the Clinton County Music Educators' Association.
Meanwhile, Gordon, who plays baritone sax, is member of the music faculty at SUNY Plattsburgh and currently serves as department chair. His responsibilities include teaching studio saxophone, directing the Saxophone Ensemble and Symphonic Band, and instructing various classroom courses. In 2002, he founded the Adirondack Wind Ensemble. Gordon regularly performs and conducts both regionally and abroad.
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Myopia, or nearsightedness, is a very common vision problem. It's estimated that up to one-third of Americans are nearsighted. Nearsighted people have difficulty reading road signs and seeing distant objects clearly, but can see well for up-close tasks such as reading or sewing.
Signs and Symptoms of Myopia
Nearsighted people often have headaches or eyestrain, and might squint or feel fatigued when driving or playing sports. If you experience these symptoms while wearing your glasses or contact lenses, you may need a stronger prescription.
What Causes Myopia?
Myopia occurs when the eyeball is slightly longer than usual from front to back. This causes light rays to focus at a point in front of the retina, rather than directly on its surface.
Nearsightedness runs in families and usually appears in childhood. This vision problem may stabilize at a certain point, although sometimes it worsens with age.
Myopia Treatment
Nearsightedness may be corrected with glasses, contact lenses or refractive surgery. Depending on the degree of your myopia, you may need to wear eyeglasses or contact lenses all the time, or only when you need sharper distance vision, like when driving, viewing a chalkboard or watching a movie.
If your glasses or contact lens prescription begins with minus numbers, like -2.50, you are nearsighted.
Refractive surgery is another option for correcting myopia. This includes laser procedures such as LASIK and PRK, or non-laser options such as corneal inserts and implantable lenses. One advantage of the non-laser options is that, although they're intended to be permanent, they may be removed in case of a problem or change of prescription.
Then there's orthokeratology, a non-surgical procedure where you wear special rigid gas permeable (GP) contact lenses that slowly reshape the cornea while you sleep. When the lenses are removed, the cornea temporarily retains the new shape, so you can see clearly during the day without wearing glasses or contact lenses.
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Your eyes reveal a lot about your overall health. This makes going to the eye doctor once a year important for everyone, regardless if you have prescription eye glasses or contact lenses. Our comprehensive eye exam checks for the following:
1. Complete evaluation of eye symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment
2. Refraction for glasses prescription
3. Contact Lens Evaluation, performed as needed
4. Ocular motility testing/depth perceptual (3D) testing
5. Automated visual field testing
6. Eye balance testing
7. Color vision - Ishihara or Farnsworth D-15 testing
8. Glaucoma testing
9. Cataract Testing
10. Diabetes testing - use of retinal photos or dilation
11. Complete eye health assessment
12. Blood Pressure
13. Retinal examination
Most eye diseases do not display symptoms in the beginning stages, therefore you could have an issue with your eyes and not even know it. Annual eye exams are essential to early diagnosis and treatment of conditions. In more extreme cases, doing so can save you from losing your vision entirely.
Some of the most common symptoms you could experience if you have an eye disease are as follows:
1. Complete loss of peripheral vision
2. Sudden loss of vision
3. Slowly or suddenly blurred vision
4. Eye floaters
5. Sudden increased reaction to bright lights or sunlight glare
6. Eye discomfort
If you do notice yourself suffering from an eye symptom, schedule an exam as soon as possible. Ignoring a symptom can become increasingly more uncomfortable and could also make the problem much worse than it has to be. We are here to help and will be sure to evaluate all your symptoms so that we can get to the root of your issue and provide you with the best treatment possible.
Many eye conditions are common problems experienced by millions of people around the globe. When you visit the eye doctor, whether it's for a specific reason or just for your checkup, you don't have to feel alone if you have some of these common problems: dry eyes, cataracts, and retinal disorders.
Dry Eyes
Whether it's from allergies or it's simply a year-round issue, dry eyes affect more than 3 million people in the U.S. each year. They are treatable but oftentimes self-diagnosed because it's truly only noticeable by the sole person. Dry eyes are simply just as it claims — an inadequate amount of moisture in the eyes and therefore can lead to inflammation. Dry eyes are also referred to as keratoconjunctivitis sicca.
With dry eyes, minor discomfort may occur and light sensitivity is common. To help with the discomfort, prescription and lubricating eye drops are available.
There are more than 200,000 cases of cataracts in the U.S. each year. This is a chronic condition that can last for years or even an entire lifetime, but can also be treatable by a specialist. This condition requires a medical diagnosis by an optometrist, as cataracts tend to develop slowly over time.
Everyone is susceptible to developing cataracts, especially those that spend a fair amount of time outside. Many times, the progression of cataracts can be slowed by wearing sunglasses when outdoors. Those who spend more time outdoors and do not wear sunglasses will require surgery much sooner than those who wear sunglasses or do not spend as much time outside.
Typically, the main symptoms are blurry vision and having trouble seeing in certain lighting — dim lighting, or seeing halos around lights. Surgery is available for cataract correction. When cataracts disturb someone's day-to-day tasks, it is highly recommended that they undergo the replacement of the cloudy lens with a clear, artificial lens.
Retinal Disorders
Retinal is the chemical basis for vision. There are many different retinal disorders that people may be faced to cope with, all affecting visual clarity, including:
· Macular degeneration: this is a disease that destroys the sharp, clear, main focus of vision.
· Diabetic eye disease: this disease is found in those who suffer from diabetes. Due to the fluctuation in blood sugar, there is damage done to the blood vessels in the back of the eye where the retina is.
· Retinal detachment: this is considered a medical emergency, and it's when the retina is pulled away from the back of the eye.
· Retinoblastoma: this is cancer of the retina.
These are just a few of the common, and sometimes severe, cases of retinal disorders. All are diagnosed by a specialist and can be cared for on a case-by-case basis. Visit your optometrist to learn more about your eyes and have your vision assessed today.
The cost of routine eye exams and prescription eyewear can be of real concern, especially for large families. In many cases, vision insurance can lower these annual expenses.
A vision insurance policy is not the same as health insurance. Regular health insurance plans protect you against financial losses due to unexpected eye injuries or disease. Vision insurance, on the other hand, is a wellness benefit designed to provide routine eye care, prescription eyewear and other vision-related services at a reduced cost.
Where Can I Get Vision Insurance?
Group vision insurance can be obtained through your company, association, school district, etc., or through a government program such as Medicare or Medicaid.
Also, as an individual, you have the option of purchasing your own vision benefit plan.
Vision insurance is often a value-added benefit included in indemnity health insurance plans, health maintenance organization (HMO) plans and plans offered by preferred provider organizations (PPOs):
What Kinds of Vision Insurance Plans Are Available?
Vision insurance typically comes in the form of either a vision benefits package or a discount vision plan.
Typically, a vision benefits package provides enrollees eye care services in exchange for an annual premium or membership fee, a yearly deductible (a dollar amount) for each enrolled member and a co-pay (a smaller dollar amount) each time a member accesses a service.
A discount vision plan provides eye care at fixed discounted rates after an annual premium or membership fee and a deductible are paid.
Both kinds of vision insurance can be custom-designed to meet the different requirements of a wide range of customers, including school districts, unions, and big and small companies.
What Does Vision Insurance Cover?
Vision insurance generally covers the following services and products:
Generally, services acquired from network providers are cheaper than services from out-of-network providers.
What Are My Payment Options?
Typically, if group vision insurance is available from your employer, you pay for it through payroll deductions or flexible spending accounts (FSAs).
An FSA, sometimes called a cafeteria plan, allows an employee to use pre-tax dollars to purchase selected health benefits such as vision insurance. You save money because you receive the full benefit of income that has been set aside for health costs, making it not subject to or reduced by taxation.
If you purchase an individual vision insurance plan because your employer doesn't offer a group plan (or because you are self-employed), you can expect to be billed monthly or annually.
Many normal, age-related problems affecting vision can be addressed with practical solutions, such as extra lighting for reading recipes or tinkering with garage projects.
In fact, after about age 60, you may find you need additional illumination for most tasks performed indoors or in darker conditions outdoors. This is because your eye's pupil no longer opens as widely as it once did to allow light to enter. Because less light is reaching your retina, where vision processing occurs, images are no longer as sharp as they once were.
To help offset this problem, you might consider extra steps such as:
Also, make sure you have regular eye exams that include critical tests for older eyes to rule out potentially serious age-related eye diseases that may affect vision quality. Your eye doctor also can advise you about the best vision correction options to reduce the effects of normal age-related declines in near vision, color vision and contrast sensitivity.
Cataracts, which are very common in the over-60 age group, also can cause cloudy or hazy vision. Cataracts usually are easily remedied with surgery that removes the eye's cloudy lens and replaces it with an artificial one.
What Can You Do About Permanent Vision Loss?
Unfortunately, some age-related eye diseases — including glaucoma, advanced macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy — can cause serious vision loss and blind spots.
Many low vision devices are available to assist people with permanent vision loss so they can perform daily living tasks more easily. These devices include:
Vision Loss and the Elderly
One disturbing trend noted in recent years has been an increased tendency in our society to overlook or neglect the vision correction needs of elderly citizens, including those living in nursing homes.
As an example, researchers say almost one third of older Americans diagnosed with glaucoma receive no treatment for this potentially blinding eye disease.
Consequences of delaying vision correction or needed treatment, especially in elderly people, can be severe. Uncorrected vision problems can contribute to falls that seriously injure elderly people and greatly reduce their confidence in their ability to live independently.
If you have older relatives or friends living alone or in a nursing home, consider serving as their advocate to make sure they receive appropriate vision care and treatment of age-related eye diseases, to maximize their quality of life.
Just as our physical strength decreases with age, our eyes also exhibit an age-related decline in performance - particularly as we reach our 60s and beyond.
Some age-related eye changes, such as presbyopia, are perfectly normal and don't signify any sort of disease process. Similarly, cataracts can be considered an age-related disease that is extremely common among seniors and can be readily corrected with cataract surgery.
Some of us, however, will experience more serious age-related eye diseases that have greater potential for affecting our quality of life as we grow older. These conditions include glaucoma, macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy.
When Do Age-Related Vision Changes Occur?
Presbyopia. After you pass the milestone age of 40, you'll notice it's more difficult to focus on objects up close. This normal loss of focusing ability is called presbyopia and is due to hardening of the lens inside your eye.
For a time, you can compensate for this decline in focusing ability by just holding reading material farther away from your eyes. But eventually you'll need reading glasses, multifocal contact lenses or multifocal eyeglasses. Some corrective surgery options for presbyopia also are available, such as monovision LASIK and conductive keratoplasty (CK).
Cataracts. Even though cataracts are considered an age-related eye disease, they are so common among seniors that they can also be classified as a normal aging change. According to the Mayo Clinic, about half of all 65-year-old Americans have some degree of cataract formation in their eyes. As you enter your 70s, the percentage is even higher. It's estimated that by 2020 more than 30 million Americans will have cataracts.
Thankfully, modern cataract surgery is extremely safe and so effective that 100% of vision lost to cataract formation usually is restored. If you are noticing vision changes due to cataracts, don't hesitate to discuss symptoms with your eye doctor. It's often better to have cataracts removed before they advance too far. Also, multifocal lens implants are now available. These advanced intraocular lenses (IOLs) potentially can restore all ranges of vision, thus reducing your need for reading glasses as well as distance glasses after cataract surgery.
Major Age-Related Eye Diseases
Macular degeneration. Macular degeneration (also called age-related macular degeneration or AMD) is the leading cause of blindness among American seniors. According to the National Eye Institute (NEI), macular degeneration affects more than 1.75 million people in the United States. The U.S. population is aging rapidly, and this number is expected to increase to almost 3 million by 2020. Currently there is no cure for AMD, but medical treatment may slow its progression or stabilize it.
Glaucoma. Your risk of developing glaucoma increases with each decade after age 40 - from around 1% in your 40s to up to 12% in your 80s. The number of Americans with glaucoma is expected to increase by 50% (to 3.6 million) by 2020. If detected early enough, glaucoma can often be controlled with medical treatment or surgery, and vision loss can be prevented.
Diabetic retinopathy. According to the NEI, approximately 10.2 million Americans over age 40 are known to have diabetes. Many experts believe that up to 30% of people who have diabetes have not yet been diagnosed. Among known diabetics over age 40, NEI estimates that 40% have some degree of diabetic retinopathy, and one of every 12 people with diabetes in this age group has advanced, vision-threatening retinopathy. Controlling the underlying diabetic condition in its early stages is the key to preventing vision loss.
How Aging Affects Other Eye Structures
While normally we think of aging as it relates to conditions such as presbyopia and cataracts, more subtle changes in our vision and eye structures also take place as we grow older. These changes include:
Because the loss of visual field increases the risk for automobile accidents, make sure you are more cautious when driving. To increase your range of vision, turn your head and look both ways when approaching intersections.Â
What You Can Do About Age-Related Vision Changes
A healthy diet and wise lifestyle choices - including exercising regularly, maintaining a healthy weight, reducing stress and not smoking - are your best natural defenses against vision loss as you age. Also, have regular eye exams with a caring and knowledgeable optometrist or ophthalmologist.
Be sure to talk to your eye doctor about any concerns you have about your eyes and vision. Tell them about any history of eye problems in your family and any health problems you may have. Also, let your eye doctor know about any medications you take, including non-prescription vitamins, herbs and supplements.
Sight-threatening eye problems affect one in six adults aged 45 and older. And the risk for vision loss increases with age. In fact, a recent American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) report estimates that more than 43 million Americans will develop age-related eye diseases by 2020.
Tips for Protecting Your Eyes
To protect your eyesight and keep your eyes healthy as you age, consider these simple guidelines:
Following these steps is no guarantee of perfect vision throughout your lifetime. But maintaining a healthy lifestyle and having regular eye exams will certainly decrease your risk of sight-stealing eye problems and help you enjoy your precious gift of eyesight to the fullest.
An occupational lens is a type of multifocal that is specifically suited for performing a particular job or hobby. Glasses with these lenses are special-purpose eyewear and are not designed for everyday wear. By strategically placing t he near, intermediate and far vision zones on certain areas of the lens, specific visual tasks are made easier.
The Double-D Bifocal: For Reading and Overhead Near Work
The Double-D is an occupational bifocal that consists of a D-shaped flat-top bifocal at the bottom of the lens and an upside-down flat-top near segment located at the top of the lens. The rest of the lens area consists of distance correction.
People in occupations such as auto maintenance and repair can benefit from a Double-D occupational bifocal. This design allows workers to be able to see well up-close, both when looking down and when looking up to work on the undercarriage of a car on a lift. Mail clerks and others who read documents and may need to file them overhead might also find this lens useful at work.
The E-D Trifocal: For When You Need to See Everywhere, but Especially at Arm's Length
The E-D trifocal has the distance correction in the top half of the lens and an intermediate correction for vision at arm's length in the bottom half of the lens. The line separating these two zones extends across the entire width of the lens, like an Executive bifocal. But in the E-D trifocal, a small D-shaped segment for near vision is embedded within the intermediate zone.
The E-D trifocal is an excellent choice for someone who needs a wide field of view at arm's length, but also needs to see clearly close up and in the distance. A television production person, who must keep an eye on several TV monitors while being able to read notes from a clipboard and recognize someone across the room, would be a good candidate for this lens.
Need to Read All Day at Work?
Sometimes, a common multifocal can become an occupational lens simply by changing the position of the intermediate or near segment or the characteristics of the progressive design.
For example, if your job requires you to read most of the day, you may want to consider a separate pair of glasses for work that have the bifocal or trifocal segments placed higher than normal in the lens. This would enable you to read or use your computer for extended periods without having to tip your head back in an uncomfortable posture.
Or you may want to try an "office" progressive lens, which has a larger, wider intermediate zone for computer use and a smaller zone for distance vision. These occupational lenses give you more usable vision for your computer and desk work, yet still provide adequate distance vision for spotting people across the room. However, because the distance zone of occupational progressive lenses is limited, they're not suitable for driving or for other tasks that require a wide field of view in the distance.
What About on the Golf Course?
If you're a golfer and wear multifocal lenses, you know these lenses can be a problem on the course. The near vision zones of bifocal, trifocal and progressive lenses can interfere with your view of the ball, requiring you to tilt your head down in an uncomfortable posture. Everyday multifocals can also make lining up a putt much more difficult.
The solution? Consider trying an occupational multifocal commonly called a "golfer's bifocal." The small (usually round) near segment is placed very low and in the outside corner of just one lens, so it's completely out of the way when you address your ball or line up a putt. But it still gives you enough near vision to read your scorecard or browse a menu for lunch in the clubhouse.
Customized Eyewear Solutions
Nearly all adults - especially anyone over age 40 who needs multifocal lenses - can benefit from having more than one pair of eyeglasses, with the second pair having an occupational design.
Progressive addition lenses (also called progressives or PALs) are the most popular multifocal lenses sold in the United States. Sometimes called "no-line bifocals," these line-free multifocals provide a more complete vision solution than bifocals. Instead of having just two lens powers like a bifocal - one for distance vision and one for up close - progressives have a gradual change in power from the top to the bottom of the lens, providing a range of powers for clear vision far away, up close and everywhere in between.
Progressive lenses provide the closest thing to natural vision after the onset of presbyopia - the normal age-related loss of near vision that occurs after age 40. The gradual change of power in progressives allows you to look up to see in the distance, look straight ahead to clearly see your computer or other objects at arm's length, and drop your gaze downward to read and do fine work comfortably close up.
While progressive lenses typically are worn by middle-aged and older adults, a recent study suggests that they may also be able to slow progression of myopia in children whose parents also are nearsighted.
Choosing the Right Frame for Progressive Lenses
Because a progressive lens changes in power from top to bottom, these lenses require frames that have a vertical dimension that is tall enough for all powers to be included in the finished eyewear. If the frame is too small, the distance or near zone of the progressive lens may end up too small for comfortable viewing when the lens is cut to fit into the frame.
To solve this problem and to expand options in frame styles, most progressive lens manufacturers now offer "short corridor" lens designs that fit in smaller frames. Today, an experienced optician can usually find a progressive lens that will work well in nearly any frame you choose.
Different Progressives for Different Purposes
Many different progressive lenses are available on the market today, and each has its own unique design characteristics. There are even progressive lenses designed for specific activities. For example, for the computer user, special "occupational" progressive lenses are available with an extra-wide intermediate zone to maximize comfort when working at the computer for prolonged periods of time. Other designs for office work have a larger reading portion.
It may take a few minutes to a few days before you are completely comfortable with your first pair of progressive lenses, or when you change from one progressive lens design to another. You have to learn how to use the lenses so that you are always looking through the best part of the lens for the distance you are viewing. While you get used to the lenses, you may notice a slight sensation of movement when you quickly move your eyes or your head. But for most wearers, progressive lenses are comfortable right from the start.
Once we reach our mid-40s, presbyopia - the normal, age-related loss of flexibility of the lens inside our eye - makes it difficult for us to focus on near objects.
In the past, reading glasses were the only option available to contact lens wearers who wanted to read a menu or do other everyday tasks that require good near vision.
Today, a number of multifocal contact lens options are available for you to consider. Multifocal contact lenses offer the best of both worlds: no glasses, along with good near and distance vision.
Types of Multifocal Contact Lenses
Some multifocal contact lenses have a bifocal design with two distinct lens powers - one for your distance vision and one for near. Others have a multifocal design somewhat like progressive eyeglass lenses, with a gradual change in lens power for a natural visual transition from distance to close-up.
Multifocal contacts are available in both soft and rigid gas permeable (RGP or GP) lens materials and are designed for daily wear or extended (overnight) wear. Soft multifocal lenses can be worn comfortably on a part-time basis, so they're great for weekends and other occasions if you prefer not to wear them on an all-day, every day schedule.
For the ultimate in convenience, one-day disposable soft multifocal lenses allow you to discard the lenses at the end of a single day of wear, so there's no hassle with lens care.
In some cases, GP multifocal contact lenses provide sharper vision than soft multifocals. But because of their rigid nature, GP multifocal contacts require some adaptation and are more comfortable if you condition your eyes by wearing the lenses every day.
Hybrid multifocal contacts are an exciting new alternative. These lenses have a GP center and a soft periphery, making it easier to adapt.
Astigmatism? No Problem
All types of multifocal contact lenses - GP, soft, and hybrid - are available to correct astigmatism at the same time as presbyopia.
Until you have a contact lens fitting, there's no way to know for sure if you'll be able to adapt successfully to wearing multifocal contact lenses. If multifocal lenses aren't comfortable or don't give you adequate vision, a monovision contact lens fitting may be a good alternative.
Monovision uses your dominant eye for distance vision and the non-dominant eye for near vision. Right-handed people tend to be right-eye dominant, and left-handed folks left-eye dominant. But your eyecare professional will perform testing to make that determination.
Usually, single vision contact lenses are used for monovision. One advantage here is that single vision lenses are less costly to replace, lowering your annual contact lens expenses. But in some cases, better results can be achieved using a single vision lens on the dominant eye for distance vision and a multifocal lens on the other eye for intermediate and near vision. Other times, your eyecare professional may choose a distance-biased multifocal on your dominant eye and a near-biased multifocal on the other eye. These techniques are referred to as "modified monovision" fits.


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text: And I would love to see the faces of all those who go running around like headless chikens screaming Tobi is Obito and not paying attention to the unavoidable timeline fact. My be his body, but NO F******G WAY his mind!!! The true is that even if he turns to be other than Obito, The psycological impact on both Kakashi and Gai will be devastating.


text: That is utterly wrong. Madara GAVE HIMSELF the shodaime's cells, he said he implanted it in his youth and only at the end of his life did it activate his rinnengan. We don't know what involvement orrochimaru played, but it is most likely extremely minor to the point where he didn't contribute anything. He "might" have tried to revive Madara, which his an interesting theory, but we can't really know.


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More than 10 hours later, the operation to give the Gunn High School senior a new heart was successfully concluded.
On its own, the operation would have been dramatic enough. But it was only one of three heart transplants that took place over a course of three days at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital.
"Normally we do 15 or 16 transplants a year," said Dr. Daniel Bernstein, pediatric cardiologist.
Reinhartz was lead surgeon for all three operations, each of which took 10 to 12 hours to perform. He said Wylie-Modro's case was the toughest because he was in the most unstable condition coming into the operation.
"He was one of these cases where you're in there constantly concerned about the patient," he said. "And you're not sure whether you can actually save the patient. And I was very happy to see that he woke up."
Wylie-Modro was born with single ventricle physiology, a congenital heart disease. Whereas normal hearts have two separate chambers to pump blood to the lungs and body, his heart had only one chamber.
The heart transplant was not the end of his ordeal. His mom, Sheron Wylie-Modro, said in the days after the operation, doctors discovered and removed a blood clot from his brain.
"That new heart actually carried him through quite a major brain hemorrhage operation," she said.
"We're certainly very, very grateful to the donor," William Wylie-Modro said, the emotion apparent in his voice, "and grateful for any other potential donors."
Wylie-Modro will graduate this month with honors from Gunn. He has also received a scholarship to help pay for his tuition at the University of California, San Diego, where he plans on studying aerospace engineering. His admission has been deferred for a year to give him time to recover.
Bernstein said Wylie-Modro will be in the hospital for at least two more weeks.
He will turn 18 in June and said after his release he and his family may visit England, where he has family ties.
He said he plans on "going to a pub and buying my dad a pint," explaining the British tradition of buying one's father a pint upon turning 18.
Amanda Sechrest and James Spencer also received heart transplants, with their operations occurring on May 3 and 5, respectively.
Sechrest, who also received a liver transplant, is projected to stay in the hospital for a couple more weeks. She is currently studying education at St. Mary's College.
"It's a roller coaster," she said of her experience with her congenital heart disease and the operations. "But I finally feel like the roller coaster's coming to an end."
Spencer was released from the hospital nine days after his operation and said he looks forward to "getting back on my feet, and just getting back to where I was at."
He plans on continuing his studies at Santa Rosa Junior College, where he plans on majoring in kinesiology, with a minor in physical education.
His mother, Kim Spencer, expressed her gratitude to the donor family and said her family planned on making contact with them some time in the future.
"Hopefully it's some comfort to them that a portion of their loved one lives on," she said.
Kim Spencer and Sheron Wylie-Modro both praised the doctors and medical staff at the hospital as well.
"We're so lucky that we live in the area where we do, to be able to come here to Stanford," Kim Spencer said.
Dr. Reinhartz credited the size and skill of the medical team with making the multiple operations go relatively smoothly.
"Despite this sounding like a big marathon effort, it actually went pretty easy," he said. "And that is because we have so many people involved in the process, and everybody knows what he's doing."
Reinhartz said it was "fun" to do the three operations in a row and see successful outcomes.
"You get a lot of satisfaction out of my job," he said, "and that's why I consider it one of the greatest jobs you can do."
While Wylie-Modro was not well enough to leave his hospital room, Bernstein stood in the lobby with Spencer and Sechrest in front of a group of reporters and urged members of the public to sign their donor cards.
"We wouldn't have these two young people if it weren't for some very courageous and very special families," he said.
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Wine Enthusiast magazine of New York covered the recent international 2012 Nederburg Wine Auction in Paarl, South Africa, where Professor Mike Veseth, Robert G. Albertson Professor of International Political Economy, was the keynote speaker.
Veseth, the magazine writes, "had the crowd cheering after delivering what was widely considered to be one of the best keynote speeches in the auction's history."
Veseth, author of The Wine Economist blog and the best-selling book Wine Wars: The Curse of the Blue Nun, The Miracle of Two Buck Chuck and the Revenge of the Terroirists, spoke about how South Africa could win the "Wine Wars."
Read the Wine Enthusiast article here: Wine Enthusiast, Oct. 5, 2012
Read surprising coverage of the speech in the Cape Argus here: SA Politicians need remedial classes in public speaking
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Note that DBI *dbh isn't used. That should be irrelevant, since its constructor doesn't care.Code:#include <dbi.h> using std::cout; int main() { clock_t t_start = clock(); clock_t t_fin; DBI *dbh = new DBI; // position 1 cout<< "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; for( long i=0; i<1000000000; i++ ) ; cout<< "Counted to a billion!
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K N Vajpai [Convener]: A native of Himalayas his work and interest remained in these mighty and beautiful mountains. A seasoned professional, worked on various environment and development issues over last 15 years in Himalayan region. He is trained on various ecosystem approaches in water resources, bio-diversity, farming and climate adaptation. An Environment Specialist, he conceptualized the Climate Himalaya initiative and now involved in developing the first phase of knowledge networking and partnership among interest groups. He is the Chairman of Prakriti group that hosts Climate Himalaya's Secretariat. His quest is about various environmental and developmental efforts in Himalayan region and their impact on the people. They are about various practices, policies and institutional functioning and about contemporary to traditional science. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Gajendra Rautela [Co-Convener]: A native of Himalayas he contributed largely towards expanding the work of Prakriti in different parts of Indian Himalayas. As Executive Secretary at Prakriti he is among the driving force behind every initiative of this group and keeps the momentum on with his energetic and down to earth functioning. A Sociologist Rautela extensively worked on rural development and low cost agriculture technologies for over 15 years in the mountains of India and Nepal. A master trainer he is responsible for implementing various projects and programs of Prakriti group. Rautela is the Co-Convener of Climate Himalaya and manages the Secretariat at Prakriti Head Office. Other leading initiative by him are 'taki sanad rahe' and 'samaun' and organization of 'Umesh Dobhal memorial meet' . Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Dr. Sudhirendar Sharma: Whether or not one has worked on any aspect of mountain systems, there is a bit of 'mountain' in each one of us. Mountains not only exist in time and space but are as much part of our imagination too. If it is firm and rugged in reality, it is soft and metaphorical in imagination too. Haven't each of us encountered 'mountain of challenges' in our life? It is ironic that unlike sages and devotees, researchers and planners have continued to perceive 'mountains' as a problem in themselves. This perception ought to change and thanks to the perceived threats from 'climate change', the approach and attitude towards the 'global freezer' is just about beginning to change. Unless the 'idea of mountain' from socio-cultural, spiritual and meta-physical perspective is superimposed on all pervasive bio-physical understanding, mountains may not 'be the change that we want them to be'. Sudhirendar Sharma was born in the mountains but has lived all his life 'downstream", holds degrees in agriculture and environmental science and is an accomplished researcher, academic, activist, analyst, author, consultant and critic. Email: email@example.com
Pabitra Mukhopadhya: Pabitra is an Honors graduate in Civil Engineering and a Fellow of The Institution of Engineers (India). He has specialized in the field of River Hydraulics working for more than two decades training rivers, protecting banks and beaches and fighting erosion of the river banks/beds. He has worked with Bio-Engineering models involving mangroves using them as tools for cost-effective and natural means of anti-erosion technology. His work is mostly concerning the extremely morpho-dynamic Hugly estuary with Bay of Bengal. In course of his work, he got exposed to indigenous people of the Sunderban wetlands, who are fighting a losing battle against aggressive Industrialization. Pabitra loves to read and write and he is full of crazy ideas. He is a contributor member of THINK ABOUT IT platform of European Journalism Center and core team member of their other initiative. He also writes regularly in Project Reason about his secular and progressive ideas. Pabitra believes that he has a tryst with the strange river-country south of Bengal. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com


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San Gabriel Mountains > Mount San Antonio (Mount Baldy) > Climber's Log
Mount San Antonio (Mount Baldy) Climber's Log
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|first time
Date Climbed: Jan 29, 2011
|Ascended "Once is Enough" chute between Dusties Dare and the Hourglass. Snow was in great shape, spring like. Fun local mountain!
|Posted Jan 30, 2011 6:50 pm
|Baldy Bowl
Date Climbed: Jan 8, 2011
|Went with Taco and crew to practice arrest skills and ascend the bowl. A beautiful day but windy as hell on top.
|Posted Jan 10, 2011 11:21 am
|Great mountain!
|I'm a local so this is a favorite: Baldy Bowl, RR, North Ridge, Backbone, and ski hut trail.
|Posted Dec 21, 2010 2:00 pm
|First time
Date Climbed: May 1, 2010
|Via Ski Hut Trail
|Posted Dec 10, 2010 2:00 pm
|Ran up on a beautiful day
Date Climbed: Dec 7, 2008
|In town for my sister's XC meet---ran up the regular route, chilled on the top (it was cold!), and then came down the devil's backbone route which was INCREDIBLE. Great views, great pictures, great running!
|Posted Nov 8, 2010 3:28 pm
|Baldy with snow
Date Climbed: May 28, 2010
|Up via ski hut and down via the devil's backbone. It was absolutely still up at the summit for a bit - absolutely NO wind! That road sucks at the end sucks. I still wish the ski lifts were running that day.
|Posted Oct 4, 2010 7:07 pm
|Ol Walsher
|Ski Hut to the Register Trail
Date Climbed: Aug 11, 2010
|Met Diving Dan at the trailhead and he gave me the grand tour on Mount Baldy. Very cool day!
|Posted Sep 11, 2010 10:00 pm
|Spectacular ridge
|Mount Baldy is the beautiful, bulky, and bald head of the San Gabriels. There is a nice alpine forest present on its slopes, but the summit, however, is nothing but rocks. Winter time brings forth good amounts of snow, which makes both the Baldy Bowl and the Devil's Backbone excellent arenas for mountaineers.
Have done the Devil's Backbone from TR and San Antonio Ski Hut Trail back down in August.
|Posted Sep 6, 2010 7:03 pm
Date Climbed: Aug 9, 2010
|Up Baldy Bowl, down Devil's Backbone. Nice hike but didn't like the road much.
|Posted Aug 25, 2010 11:35 am
|Numb toes!
Date Climbed: Jul 27, 2010
|Climbed via Blue Ridge route. Lots of loose rock on the way, some class 3 scrambling. Did 3 summits: Pine Mountain, Mount Dawson, and Baldy. Round trip in little over 9 hrs. Very strenuous hike, all the travel is either up or down the slopes. Good, comfortable boots will make all the difference.
|Posted Jul 30, 2010 4:23 am
|Had to come back
Date Climbed: Jul 8, 2010
|Was back in the area on business again so had to head up to Baldy after meetings. Starting from the ski lift parking lot, did the trail under the ski lifts up to the notch, then the backbone. Up in 1:45, down in a fun 0:45. Car to summit to car: 2:30. Ran into only three persons on the trail on a Thursday evening.
|Posted Jul 9, 2010 1:47 am
|Father's Day
Date Climbed: Jun 20, 2010
|I told my sons that all I wanted for Father's Day was for them to accompany me up Mt. Baldy. They agreed, and after a quick drive from San Diego & breakfast at IHOP we were on the Manker Flats trail by 9:45. I missed the Sierra Hut trail, and we ended up taking the fire road up to the ski hut. They bailed at that point so I did a quick push to the summit and back via Devil's backbone. 4 hours from car to summit to car. Although it would have been better to share the top with my sons, it was a great day all around.
|Posted Jul 2, 2010 7:15 pm
|Ran to the ridge on Bear Canyon Trail
Date Climbed: Jun 23, 2010
|Business meetings got out early, so I took advantage of the opportunity in the afternoon. Should have picked an easier trail and summited.
|Posted Jun 23, 2010 10:29 pm
|Son and Dad Trip
Date Climbed: May 22, 2010
|My son's first time up to the top. Great day. Great weather. Little snow, but lots of wind.
|Posted May 24, 2010 12:20 am
|Scenic and snowcovered
Date Climbed: Oct 24, 2004
|Last minute trip made very scenic with all the snow on top, just went in regular hiking boots. Was my 9th CA county HP and the last one I did inadvertently before I started going for them intentionally.
|Posted May 9, 2010 4:02 am
|Baldy Round 2
Date Climbed: Apr 3, 2010
|Great day got an early start missed most of the people
Trip Report
|Posted May 6, 2010 4:31 pm
|kevin trieu
|best Socal training
|did a bunch of times year round from different trailheads
|Posted May 5, 2010 7:15 pm
|Baldy Loop
Date Climbed: Nov 16, 2009
|Went up from the ski hut, and down the backbone all the way to the ski lifts.
|Posted May 4, 2010 5:50 pm
|Baldy Bowl!
Date Climbed: Apr 21, 2010
|The Baldy Bowl was a fun route. Whiteout conditions pretty much the whole day. Crampons and ice axe still needed past the ski hut.
|Posted Apr 23, 2010 7:40 pm
|First Time!
Date Climbed: Mar 28, 2010
|Went Up to the hut with my dad, then met a great group of people including Shin and Rick. Me and my dad both got up, hes 61 so I'm proud of him!
|Posted Apr 4, 2010 1:16 pm


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SANDY, Utah – With the possible exception of a few intensely optimistic Real Salt Lake fans, nobody is thinking seriously that the team will finish the season undefeated.
Sure, seven games into the 2014 MLS season, Real Salt Lake (3-0-4) are the sole remaining unbeaten team. Which is a point of pride for the team, but it's not something they're obsessing over.
"It doesn't come up in our locker room," RSL coach Jeff Cassar told MLSsoccer.com.
Ask members of the team what they think their chances are of keeping the streak going until October, and they'll look at you like you're, well, intensely optimistic. No team has managed the feat since MLS launched in 1996.
The fewest losses by any squad is four, a record achieved by RSL (15-4-11) and FC Dallas (12-4-14) in 2010 and San Jose (18-4-10) in 2005 – all in shorter seasons than the current 34-game schedule.
Defender Tony Beltran acknowledged that being 3-0-4 is "great" at this point in the season.
"But it's not really something we're cognizant of or focusing on," he told reporters. "It's a little too early to look at the standings. It's about continuing to get better each game. It's a long season."
And that's part of Cassar's plan to keep all this in perspective.
"At the beginning of the year, I wanted the guys to concentrate on not having too high of highs and too low of lows," he said. "So we're just going about business. It's about what we do and the work-rate and the passion and the energy that we play with. And if we bring that every week, we think that in the long haul we'll do great."
RSL have opened seasons with seven-game streaks before, but not like this. They began both the 2006 (0-1-6) and 2007 (0-3-4) seasons with seven-game winless streaks.
And it would be easy to argue that, despite the lack of a loss, this is only the third-best start in team history. RSL's 13-point total in the standings is behind 2011 (5-1-1, 16 points) and 2012 (5-2-0, 15 points).
With 80 percent of the season left to play, RSL are a long way from setting any MLS records. The team's regular-season unbeaten streak actually stands at 11; it ended the 2013 season on a 2-0-2 run. But even that is still well short of not only the all-time MLS regular-season unbeaten streak of 19 games (held by Columbus 2004-05 and Dallas 2010), but of the RSL team record of 18 games (2010-11).
"Obviously, the media's talking about it," RSL defender Chris Wingert told MLSsoccer.com, "but we've just got to try to make sure we keep earning points. We realize that we're not going to go undefeated the whole season. We're not too worried about being undefeated, but we are worried about winning that next game."
That starts with Saturday's home game against the Vancouver Whitecaps, a team RSL haven't lost to against in four straight matches.
"We aren't thinking about [being unbeaten]," RSL midfielder Javier Morales told MLSsoccer.com. "We think about every game. Now, Vancouver, we try to win. Then we go to Chicago [on May 3] and try to win. If we lose, that's what happens. Sooner or later, that's what happens."
Not that he's downplaying his team's great start.
"I like it. I like to be undefeated," Morales said. "I hope that we can keep that record for a long time, but it's just game by game."


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Super Rugby
Carter returns for Crusaders
ESPNscrum Staff
March 22, 2012
Dan Carter: Ready to return against the Cheetahs © Getty Images
All Blacks fly-half Dan Carter is set to make his much-awaited return to rugby after being named on the bench for the Crusaders' Super Rugby clash with the Cheetahs on Saturday.
The 29-year-old has been sidelined since suffering a groin injury during New Zealand's Rugby World Cup campaign. However, after a long road to recovery he is now fit to take his place in the match-day 22 when the Crusaders christen their new Christchurch home.
Crusaders coach Todd Blackadder has made further changes with Israel Dagg returning to his favoured position of full-back while fit-again Ryan Crotty comes in at inside centre and Tom Taylor takes over from Tyler Blayendaal at fly-half. In the pack Sam and Luke Whitelock are promoted from the bench to start in the second-row and back-row.
The Melbourne Rebels have recalled fly-half Danny Cipriani for their clash with the Western Force on Friday. The 24-year-old, who will return to England next season to play for Sale Sharks, was on the bench for the Rebels' defeat to the Cheetahs last time out. However, he returns with James O'Connor moving back to inside centre and Nick Phipps also being recalled at scrum-half.
"The combination of Nick [Phipps], Danny [Cipriani] and James [O'Connor] worked well towards the end of the match last week so we've kept with that, while Richard Kingi is an evasive and illusive runner so we'd like him to spark the back three," Rebels coach Damian Hill said.
The Blues, who are without injured forwards Jerome Kaino and Keven Mealamu and the suspended Luke Braid, kick off the weekend's action against the Hurricanes in Auckland on Friday. The Auckland outfit have recorded just one victory in their opening four Super Rugby matches but have All Blacks Piri Weepu, Ma'a Nonu and Tony Woodcock all starting against the Canes.
The Waratahs, who have picked up just one victory so far this season, will hope No.8 Wycliff Palu can give them a lift when they face the Sharks in Sydney on Saturday as they look to keep pace with the Reds and the Brumbies at the top of the Australian conference.
''He's a world-class player, probably one of the best players in his position in the world,'' coach Michael Foley told the Sydney Morning Herald. ''The expectation is not for Cliff to go out there and win the game, but that he provides a fair bit of momentum for the team physically and mentally.''
The Brumbies welcome back lock Sam Carter and half-back Nic White for their clash with the Highlanders in Canberra as they look to bounce back from their narrow defeat to the Chiefs last time out.
Wallabies winger Digby Ioane will miss the Reds' clash with the Bulls after being banned for five weeks for a dangerous tackle on the Sharks' Marcell Coetzee.
In the weekend's final clash the Lions entertain the Stormers in Johannesburg
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Defying congressional opposition, US President Barack Obama will nominate Chuck Hagel as his next defense secretary, setting up a potentially contentious confirmation fight over the former Republican senator's views on Israel and Iran.world Updated: Jan 07, 2013 14:30 IST
Defying congressional opposition, US President Barack Obama will nominate Chuck Hagel as his next defense secretary, setting up a potentially contentious confirmation fight over the former Republican senator's views on Israel and Iran.
The president will announce Hagel's nomination from the White House Monday, a senior administration official said, requesting anonymity in order to discuss the nomination ahead of Obama. Hagel, 66, served in the Senate with Obama and the two grew close during congressional trips overseas.
A moderate Republican and decorated Vietnam veteran, Hagel would add a whiff of bipartisanship to Obama's Cabinet if confirmed. But the former Nebraska lawmaker has faced withering criticism from Congress Republicans in particular since emerging as the front-runner for the Pentagon post. Still, Republican lawmakers have stopped short of saying they might try to block the nomination.
Hagel is the second straight Obama favorite for a top national security post to face criticism from Capitol Hill even before being nominated. United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice withdrew her name from consideration for secretary of state amid charges from Republican senators that she misled the public in her initial accounting of the attacks on Americans at a diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya.
After Rice withdrew, Obama named Sen. John Kerry to lead the State Department. Kerry is expected to be easily confirmed by his longtime Senate colleagues. Seeking to soften the ground for Hagel, the White House alerted Senate Democrats on Sunday that Hagel would be nominated to succeed Defense Secretary Leon Panetta in Obama's second-term Cabinet, according to a congressional official who requested anonymity.
If confirmed, Hagel would take over a Pentagon that faces budget cuts and a scaling back of the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan. Afghan President Hamid Karzai is expected to meet with Obama in Washington this week to discuss the U.S. presence in his country after the war formally concludes at the end of 2014. Hagel is likely to support a more rapid withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan.
Sen. Mitch McConnell, the top Senate Republican, said Sunday that he was reserving judgment on whether to support Hagel. But he predicted the former Nebraska senator would face serious questions about his stands on Iran and Israel.
Any nominee must have "a full understanding of our close relationship with our Israeli allies, the Iranian threat and the importance of having a robust military," McConnell said on ABC's "This Week."
Hagel has criticized discussion of a military strike by either the U.S. or Israel against Iran. He also has backed efforts to bring Iran to the table for talks on future peace in Afghanistan. Some lawmakers have been troubled by his comments and actions on Israel, including his reference to the "Jewish lobby" in the United States.
"This is a controversial pick," Sen. Lindsey Graham, a Republican, told CNN. "He is an antagonistic figure when it comes to the state of Israel. It's a signal you're sending to Iran at the worst possible time and to our allies."
McConnell said Hagel, who left the Senate in 2009, has "certainly been outspoken in foreign policy and defense over the years. The question we will be answering, if he's the nominee, is do his views make sense for that particular job?"
McConnell said he would "wait and see how the hearings go and see whether Chuck's views square with the job he would be nominated to do." He added, "I'm going to take a look at all the things that Chuck has said over the years and review that, and in terms of his qualifications to lead our nation's military."
The second-ranking Senate Republican, John Cornyn of Texas, said in a statement that making Hagel defense secretary would be "the worst possible message we could send to our friend Israel and the rest of our allies in the Middle East." Cornyn did not say he would try to block a Hagel nomination.
Obama, in an interview that aired last week on NBC's "Meet the Press," called Hagel "a patriot" who "has done extraordinary work" in the Senate and on an intelligence advisory board.
Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, the second-ranking Senate Democrat, told CNN's "State of the Union" that Hagel "is a serious candidate if the president chooses to name him."