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Arrival of European Jews in Shanghai, China. Jewish refugees aboard SS Conte Biancomano at a port in Shanghai.. The refugees are processed by reception officials at a desk on deck, as they disembark. Some appear to travel by smaller boat to another location. The Japanese Cruiser Idzumo is at dock in front of the Japanese Consulate. Scenes of the travelers with their belongings on the Bund. They walk up a steel ramp to the back of an open truck and representatives, of the International Settlement organization,drive them to their next location. They stand in line at a food stand. A group looks at a map, together. Another group learns basic English words of "please" and "thank you." Group at table practices writing. The men and women have fun by going down a slide in what appears to be a school playground.
Film opens showing British Shanghai Light Horse 'A' Company parading along Bubbling Well Road in Shanghai, China, past crowds who have turned out in numbers to cheer for the International battalions of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps (SVC). Visible, in the background, is the clock tower on the clubhouse of the Shanghai Racing Club. View shifts to the reviewing stand, where Mr. Cornell Franklin, Civil Commandant and Chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Council, stands in front of military officers, Vice-Admiral Sir Percy Noble, Major General Telfer-Smollett, Colonel Price, Colonel Andreini, Lieutenant-Colonel Perretier, and Commander Takeda. Next, a contingent from 1st Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders, shouldering rifles with fixed bayonets, execute eyes left as they march past the reviewing stand. A large crowd of spectators watches the parade from a stands set up near the reviewing stand. Next, Armored cars of the SVC Armoured Car Company, drive past in a column. Photographers take pictures. Japanese naval officers are seen in full dress uniforms, watching the parade. Led by a mounted officer, another formation of SVC soldiers march past, shouldering rifles with fixed bayonets.
Shanghai American School in Shanghai, China. School children and a teacher in a classroom. A boy writes on a blackboard. Next, a girl writes on the blackboard. The teacher reads from a book and shows a picture to the students. Small boys and girls in the classroom. A boy writes on the blackboard. Students raise hands. Students in a Physics laboratory. Children in a boys' dormitory. A boy studying at a desk. Other students talk nearby. A signboard reads 'Shanghai American School'. Children enter through the gate of the school.
Series 'Why We Fight' episode "Prelude to War" depicts the battles during World War II. United States soldiers parade on street lead by a band. Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor.December 7, 1941. The London Blitz with buildings destroyed and burning. The Eiffel Tower in Paris with Nazi flag flying atop it. German troops marching into Paris, through the Arch of Triumph. Japanese warplanes bombing shanghai, China, in 1937. Chinese residents running for shelter. Glimpse of German "Schwerer Gustav" 80 cmrailway gun firing during German offensive against Soviet Union in 1941. German forces entering Czechoslovakia in 1938. German mounted troops entering France in 1940. Heavy guns firing. German ships en route to Norway 1940. German Ju-52 aircraft flying low over trees. Montage showing rapid succession of war scenes, including heavy guns firing, smoke rising, explosions, an aircraft shot down and crashing straight down, German armor on the move, German Ju-52 aircraft dropping paratroopers into Holland and one flying over Athens, Greece, with Mount Lykabettus in the background. More of the same with Narrator mentioning Belgium, Albania, Yugoslavia, and Russia (where citizens are seen digging anti-tank trenches and fortifications). Cavalry charging across a field. A German tank rolling forward. A German Dornier Do-17 bomber taking off, and bombs falling.
Industries in Shanghai, China. A building with 'Shanghai Power Company' written on it. A U.S. flag flutters atop the building. Smoke comes out of stacks. Power company tugs in the water body in front of the building. Machinery in operation in the company. Coolies fill coal in baskets. The entrance of the company. U.S. Marine sentries at the entrance. The coolies carry coal out through the gate. A sign at the entrance proclaims it to be a restricted area.
University of Shanghai in Shanghai, China. Chinese students in a temporary classroom. They take down notes.


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None of us at Power Line have been big fans of the "Road Map" to peace in the Middle East. I've accepted it on the theory that I, like Ariel Sharon, trust George Bush. My impression is that the "road map" has plenty of wiggle room and doesn't commit Israel to anything unless and until the Arabs cease their attempted genocide. Which is, after all, the whole point.
But I am troubled by the fact that the Minneapolis Star Tribune has endorsed the road map, which it terms a "Promising new start in the Mideast." Endorsement by the Star Tribune is more or less a kiss of death. The Strib starts in a reasonable way, saying that "Promising steps in the past have often been followed by devastating acts of violence by Palestinian extremists." True enough. But the Strib continues with a truly stunning bit of moral equivalence: "Israel's settler movement, violent in its own way, will certainly oppose Sharon in the matter of withdrawing from occupied Palestinian territory." "Violent in its own way"? What on God's green earth does that mean?
Whatever it means, it was no accident. The moral equivalence continues: "Israelis doubt that Palestinian leaders will or can disarm the bombers; Palestinians doubt that Sharon will or can dismantle Israeli settlements in occupied land." So blowing people up with bombs is the same as building homes for one's family.
The Strib doesn't completely dissuade me, but only because I am very confident that George Bush doesn't share the rather bizarre worldview of the Star Tribune, the Palestinian Authority and others who can find only the most subtle kind of difference between blowing up other people, and being blown up.
And it looks like Yasser Arafat's view of the situation is closer to mine than the Strib's, as the Associated Press reports that he is doing his best to scuttle the upcoming "summit." Rather than comment further, it makes sense to say "stay tuned," as we will all know shortly what comes of the present effort by the Administration.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve launched another aggressive stimulus program on Thursday, saying it would pump $40 billion into the U.S. economy each month until it saw a sustained upturn in the weak jobs market.
The central bank's decision to tie its controversial bond buying directly to economic conditions was an unprecedented step that marked a big escalation in its efforts to drive U.S. unemployment lower. Stock prices jumped, while gold hit a six-month high as investors braced for faster inflation.
Unlike in its two previous bond-buying sprees, the Fed said it would only purchase mortgage-backed securities, hoping in part to unstick a housing sector that Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke called "a missing piston" in the U.S. recovery.
One top Republican charged that the move was a bid to help President Barack Obama ahead of November's closely contested presidential election. Republican nominee Mitt Romney's campaign said it confirmed the failure of Obama's policies.
Bernanke dismissed talk the Fed was taking sides, saying it acted solely because of the dire state of the U.S. labor market.
"The employment situation ... remains a grave concern," Bernanke told reporters. "While the economy appears to be on a path of moderate recovery, it isn't growing fast enough to make significant progress reducing the unemployment rate."
By buying mortgage-linked debt, the Fed hopes to press mortgage rates lower, helping the housing market and also encouraging investors in MBS to switch into other assets, such as corporate bonds, lowering their yields as well.
Those lower borrowing costs should spur more lending and foster faster economic growth, officials believe. U.S. growth cooled in the second quarter to a tepid 1.7 percent annual rate, and forecasters do not think the economy is expanding much faster, although it is faring better than many other developed economies.
In August, the United States created just 96,000 jobs, less than needed to keep up with population growth. While the unemployment rate edged down to 8.1 percent, it was only because many Americans gave up on the search for work.
Businesses have held the line on hiring and put investment plans on hold out of concern Europe's debt crisis and the so-called U.S. fiscal cliff of scheduled tax hikes and government spending cuts could derail the economy, economists say.
In an additional move, the Fed said it was not likely to raise overnight interest rates from their current near-zero level until at least mid-2015, a shift from its previous late-2014 guidance. To underscore its resolve, it said it would pursue an easy monetary policy "for a considerable time" even after the economy strengthened.
"If the outlook for the labor market does not improve substantially, the committee will continue its purchase of agency mortgage-backed securities, undertake additional asset purchases, and employ its other policy tools as appropriate until such improvement is achieved in a context of price stability," the Fed said in a statement.
Asked repeatedly during a post-decision news conference to amplify on that pledge, Bernanke said the Fed wanted to see a convincing improvement in the economy that could deliver sustainable job creation and a gradual decline in unemployment.
"There's not a specific number we have in mind, but what we have seen in the last six months isn't it," he said.
U.S. stocks shot higher on the Fed's move, with the S&P 500 .SPX closing at its highest level since December 2007 and the Dow Jones industrial average .DJI adding more than 200 points.
Stocks had already been supported by expectations the Fed would act and an aggressive plan by the European Central Bank to tackle the debt crisis there.
Stephen Stanley, an economist at Pierpont Securities in Stamford, Connecticut, said that by tying its purchases to progress reducing U.S. unemployment, the Fed had "basically locked on the handcuffs and swallowed the key."
Economists said the Fed could eventually buy more than $1 trillion in debt given the open-ended nature of its new policy. Capital Economics estimated purchases could top $1.4 trillion.
The plan fueled some nervousness in financial markets over the potential for inflation, even though the Fed would pull back on its buying if the economy strengthened. Bernanke stated explicitly that pushing up prices was not the Fed's intention.
The price of gold, a traditional inflation safe haven, hit a six month high, while oil also gained on expectations investors would pile into riskier assets such as commodities and equities.
Prices for most U.S. Treasury debt rose, although the 30-year bond fell, reflecting both disappointment that government debt was not on the Fed's purchase list and inflation worries.
The decision comes in the face of widespread questions about the likely effectiveness of a further foray into unorthodox monetary policy, including from Romney. The Fed has already bought $2.3 trillion in U.S. government and housing-related debt it two rounds of so-called quantitative easing.
Those programs, dubbed QE1 and QE2, bought bonds at a pace closer to around $100 billion per month.
Bernanke said the Fed's new policy would not be a panacea, and that the central bank would be unable to fully protect the recovery if Congress and the White House could not agree on a plan to avoid the fiscal cliff — the $500 billion or so in expiring tax cuts and government spending reductions set to take hold at the start of next year.
But he argued that the Fed's efforts could help.
Senator John Cornyn, head of the Senate Republicans' campaign committee, said the Fed appeared to be "trying to juice the economy" ahead of the November 6 election, while Lanhee Chen, policy director for the Romney campaign, argued the decision pointed to a need for new policies from the White House.
"We should be creating wealth, not printing dollars," Chen said.
The White House, which scrupulously avoids commenting on Fed decisions, declined to be drawn into the debate, but other Democrats rallied to defense of Bernanke, who once served as an adviser to Republican President George W. Bush. It was Bush who first nominated Bernanke to the Fed.
"It is unfortunate that Republicans already have expressed disappointment in this action and are clearly upset that they were unable to intimidate the Fed into putting partisan politics ahead of national economic interests," said Democratic Representative Barney Frank.
The Fed also caused ripples abroad. Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega said he would monitor the impact of the action on Brazil's real currency. Mantega had accused the Fed's earlier bond buying of unfairly weakening the U.S. dollar.
In its statement, the Fed said the fresh MBS purchases, which it will start on Friday, would come on top of its so-called Operation Twist program, in which it is selling short-term bonds to buy longer-term U.S. Treasury debt.
With its new MBS purchases, the Fed said it would now be buying about $85 billion in long-term securities each month.
In a reflection of optimism over their new policy path, Fed officials lowered their forecast for the unemployment rate at the end of 2014 to a 6.7 percent to 7.3 percent range, down from a range of 7.0 percent to 7.7 percent forecast in June.
One official, Richmond Federal Reserve Bank President Jeffrey Lacker, dissented against the decision, as he has at every Fed policy meeting this year.
Editing by Andrea Ricci, Tim Ahmann and Andre Grenon


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A genetic algorithm simulates the process of evolution in order to find an optimal solution to a problem. This sort of algorithm can be used when there isn't a single perfect answer, but software can be built to search for the best solution given the amount of time we're willing to spend on it.
Here, we will solve a simple problem to introduce the structure of a genetic algorithm in F#. We want the machine to find a path around an obstruction. Say you have a grid and the starting point is the origin, and there is a line on the X-axis from (0,-2) to (0,+2) that the algorithm needs to find a way around. Not an incredibly difficult problem, there are certainly many ways to solve it and may possible solutions, but I'll use it to introduce the mechanics of solving such a problem.
First, a few definitions (types). A "trait" is a characteristic, and a list of these characteristics makes up an "individual", which might be a solution to our problem. Given that our problem is to navigate a grid, our traits will be four operations – Forward, Up, Down, and Back. For a genetic algorithm, you start with a pool of individuals, which we will refer to as a "population".
type Trait = | Forward | Up | Down | Back type Individual = Trait list type Population = Individual list
A genetic algorithm will combine two (or sometimes more) individuals in one generation to create the next generation of individuals. We'll refer to those as "parents".
type Parents = Individual * Individual
The general process is to take an initial population, evaluate each individual against some fitness function to rank each of them, then combine the best performers into a new population – a generation. Repeat until an optimal solution is found amongst the individuals in a population. Prevent stagnation between generations by adding mutation, which can "tweak" individuals a bit so each generation will differ from the previous at least a little bit.
To begin the search for a solution, we need to create some initial population of individuals. Individuals can be generated completely at random (as we will here) or with some predefined logic.
let createIndividual (rng:Random) (size:int) : Individual = let rec buildList numLeftToAdd lst = match numLeftToAdd with | 0 -> lst | left -> let nextRandom = match rng.Next(4) with | 0 -> Forward | 1 -> Up | 2 -> Down | 3 -> Back | n -> failwithf "No operation mapped for %i" n nextRandom :: lst |> buildList (left - 1) buildList size List.empty
So what did that do? It recursively builds a list, prepending a random trait to be beginning of it. Next, we need a function to create a population of a given size. This function should accept the population size and a function to create individuals for the population.
let createPopulation populationSize newIndividual : Population = let rec buildPopulation numLeft population = match numLeft with | 0 -> population | n -> (newIndividual ()) :: population |> buildPopulation (n - 1) buildPopulation populationSize List.empty
Not a lot to this, as it's delegating the hard work to the
newIndividual function. And now we need to run our simulation. This would accept a candidate individual, run them through the simulation, and return the result for that candidate. This can be represented a
Result record that contains the final coordinate and the candidate, which we will need if this is one of the members of the population that is selected for the next generation.
type Coordinate = { X:int; Y:int } type Result = { FinalPosition:Coordinate; Candidate:Individual } let runSimulation initialPosition (candidate: Individual) = let newPosition coordinate operation = match operation with // First the case of moving forward but hitting the obstacle | Forward when coordinate.X + 1 = 3 && coordinate.Y >= -2 && coordinate.Y <= 2 -> coordinate // goes nowhere // With no obstruction, go ahead and move forward | Forward -> { coordinate with X=(coordinate.X + 1) } // Also can't move backward and hit the obstacle | Back when coordinate.X - 1 = 3 && coordinate.Y >= -2 && coordinate.Y <= 2 -> coordinate // goes nowhere // Go back without obstruction | Back -> { coordinate with X=(coordinate.X - 1) } // Can always go up or down - the block is a line. | Up -> { coordinate with Y=(coordinate.Y + 1) } | Down -> { coordinate with Y=(coordinate.Y - 1) } /// Fold over each operation going from initial to final position let finalCoordinate = candidate |> List.fold newPosition initialPosition { FinalPosition=finalCoordinate; Candidate=candidate }
Now we determine the fitness for a result. The goal here is to move as far to the right as possible, so the position along the x-axis is effectively the "score" for an individual's result.
type Fitness = { X_Position:int; Result:Result } let fitness result = { X_Position=result.FinalPosition.X; Result=result }
A whole population can be evaluated by running the simulation and the evaluating the fitness of each individual. We can compose the
runSimulation and
fitness functions, and pass each member of the population through this composition to get the fitness of each. Each member starts at the same initial position – the origin – (0,0).
let evaluateGeneration initialPosition (generation:Population) = generation |> List.map (initialPosition |> runSimulation >> fitness)
After evaluating the population, we will want to create a new population for the next generation. This consists of selecting the best individuals, mutating some, and crossing them with each other in some way to result in a new population.
First, we can define a crossover function:
let crossover crossoverPoint (parents:Parents) = let parent1, parent2 = parents |> fst, parents |> snd [ parent1 |> List.take crossoverPoint parent2 |> List.skip crossoverPoint ] |> List.concat : Individual
This will concatenate the first part of one individual with the second part of another list to create a new individual. This is one of the areas you may decide to try some different strategies to see what works best. You could interleave traits from the two individuals, you could combine traits from more than two, but the general point is that you need to build a new individual with building blocks from the parents. A little randomness is often good here as well. If you always crossover parents at the middle, then after a few generations they are always swapping the same traits back and the algorithm won't evolve as well.
Next, we need mutation. Without some diversity, these same traits will always be selected as the best and never really get any better. By adding mutation, different individuals can be pushed to the top so they crossover with others, preventing stagnation and moving the population forward. The mutation below will create an entirely new individual in the population, although this is another place where different strategies should be attempted.
let mutation newIndividual (population:Population) = population |> List.mapi (fun idx individual -> if idx % 13 = 0 then // replace 13th member of the population newIndividual () else individual )
If we just wanted to skip mutation altogether, we could have this sort of mutation function:
let noMutation (population: Population) = population
Armed with a crossover function to make an Individual from Parents and a mutation function to modify some elements of a population, we can take the results for one generation and apply the mutation and crossover to get the next generation.
We want the better part of the current population, and we will make our next generation by combining the best two with the better half of the population.
- Get better half + 2 for the parents
- Apply the mutation function to the better half
- Crossover the best two with the rest of the population to get a new population
let nextGeneration (mutation:Population -> Population) (crossover:Parents -> Individual) (generationWithResults:Fitness list) = let betterHalf : Population = generationWithResults |> List.sortByDescending (fun fitness -> fitness.X_Position) |> List.truncate (generationWithResults.Length / 2 + 2) |> List.map (fun fitness -> // and get just best of the population fitness.Result.Candidate ) // Apply some mutation before the crossover. betterHalf |> mutation |> function // take the first two and crossover with the rest. | first::second::rest -> [ rest |> List.map (fun prevGen -> crossover (first, prevGen) ) rest |> List.map (fun prevGen -> crossover (second, prevGen) ) ] |> List.concat | _ -> failwithf "Population is too small (%i) for another generation." betterHalf.Length
It's important to note that the mutation should generally occur before the crossover. If it is applied afterwards, then you just have a few unusual candidates that will probably perform poorly and be eliminated before they ever crossover with others.
With initial generation, fitness, crossover, and mutation in place, let's write put it together. We state our goal, make an
evolve function that processes a generation and then continues until it finds an optimal solution, up to a maximum number of generations.
let main argv = /// Some randomness for generating individuals' traits. let rng = Random () /// We'll have 25 moves to get around the obstacle and head to the right. let numberOfMoves = 25 /// Start at the origin. let initialPosition = { X=0; Y=0 } /// make a function to create an individual let newIndividual () = createIndividual rng numberOfMoves /// define a function to mutate let mutate = mutation newIndividual /// Function that will evolve a population through generations let rec evolve max current population = let randomPoint = rng.Next(0, numberOfMoves) let crossoverAtPoint = crossover randomPoint match current with | i when i = max -> () | i -> let results = population |> evaluateGeneration initialPosition let best = results |> List.sortByDescending (fun fitness -> fitness.X_Position) |> List.head printfn "gen %i results: %A" i best let nextGen = results |> nextGeneration mutate crossoverAtPoint nextGen |> evolve max (i + 1) let initialPopulationSize = 35 /// make the initial candidates let initialPopulation = newIndividual |> createPopulation initialPopulationSize printfn "Initial candidates: %A" initialPopulation /// Run 1000 iterations starting with the initial population evolve 1000 0 initialPopulation
Running the application will generate a population and run it through generations to find an optimal solution. Here are a few sample generations:
gen 0 results: {X_Position = 3; Result = {FinalPosition = {X = 3; Y = -8;}; Candidate = [Back; Down; Back; Down; Forward; Forward; Up; Forward; Back; Back; Forward; Back; Down; Forward; Down; Down; Forward; Forward; Back; Down; Forward; Forward; Down; Down; Down];};}
Wow, kind of just wandering aimlessly, going backwards a bunch. But by the 4th generation, it figured out to go forward a lot more. Still hit that wall a few times, wasting moves.
gen 4 results: {X_Position = 7; Result = {FinalPosition = {X = 7; Y = 2;}; Candidate = [Forward; Forward; Back; Forward; Forward; Up; Forward; Up; Up; Up; Forward; Down; Forward; Up; Forward; Forward; Down; Forward; Up; Back; Down; Down; Down; Up; Forward];};}
It starts to look figure things out, going up or down early on, then going forward a lot.
gen 112 results: {X_Position = 13; Result = {FinalPosition = {X = 13; Y = -8;}; Candidate = [Down; Forward; Forward; Down; Down; Forward; Forward; Down; Up; Down; Back; Forward; Forward; Forward; Forward; Forward; Down; Forward; Down; Forward; Down; Down; Forward; Forward; Forward];};}
I let it go 1000 times. Probably not so necessary, but here's where it ended up, heading down below the obstruction then mostly forward after that.
gen 999 results: {X_Position = 17; Result = {FinalPosition = {X = 17; Y = -2;}; Candidate = [Down; Forward; Down; Down; Forward; Forward; Forward; Up; Forward; Forward; Up; Forward; Up; Forward; Forward; Forward; Forward; Forward; Forward; Down; Forward; Forward; Forward; Down; Forward];};}
- Define the traits that make up an individual.
- Define functions to create individuals and an initial population
- Define a function to simulate what you want the individuals to attempt
- Define a fitness function to determine which individuals perform the best
- Define a crossover function and a mutation function to create better generations
- Evolve the individuals through generations until you achieve an optimal result.


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The 19-year-old centre-half has been superb for City in their flying start to life under Sven-Goran Eriksson and he has also performed well at right-back for England.
He said: "I was a big Ian Wright fan when I was younger, so I supported Arsenal. Wright and Patrick Vieira were my idols so yeah, if the opportunity came to play for them one day I´d take it."
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Review: Nancy Drew Secrets Can Kill
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Secrets Can Kill was the very first Nancy Drew video game and was originally released in 1998. Twelve years later, Her Interactive decided to give the game an engine makeover and re-release the game in 2010 capable of running smoothly on modern Windows computers. The original game remains intact, only the engine displaying it is updated so the original acting, story, gameplay, puzzles and graphics are still there.
There is no doubt that Secrets Can Kill shows its age. The update is great and makes the game installs and plays smoothly (we tested via Steam) without any problems on Windows 10, which is great. The game is much shorter than, say, Shadow at the Water's Edge, which was released right after the 2010 remake of Secrets Can Kill.
The game is a classic, it started the entire Nancy Drew series and is well worth a play. My eight year old said that even she still enjoyed it very much, while obviously not as good as the later games.
The acting on this original title, as the writing for the characters, leaves them extremely flat. They don't really feel like living characters at all and it makes it hard to really be pulled into the game. The number of locations is very limited, although this is pretty common in the Nancy Drew games in general.
Overall the game is dark and feels a bit creepier than it should because of the flat, lifeless characters and the sense of being "trapped" unable to explore very broadly. The game has some dark elements and the puzzles are a bit hard and non-intuitive. You spend a lot of time looking at bulletin boards and in the end, none of it makes any sense. But it has such historic importance to the gaming franchise that it is valuable for that reason alone.
Overall the game is worth playing, but very weak. If you are looking to test the series, this is not the title to try. If you are dedicated to playing through the series in its entirety, then this title is, quite obviously, a must. And starting with the 2010 remake is not a problem at all as the game play elements are left completely intact.
How to Buy:
Secrets Can Kill on Steam
Secrets Can Kill on Big Fish Games


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Briton relaxes after grueling solo ocean trek
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Sarah Outen can be excused for being a bit of a slacker this week, relatively speaking, having just become the first woman to row solo from Japan to Alaska.
The 28-year-old British adventurer is taking a brief break in a small town in Alaska's Aleutian Islands. Outen, of Oakham, England, arrived in Adak late Monday after 150 days and 3,750 miles (6,035 kilometers) at sea in her boat, Happy Socks.
Outen said Wednesday that the journey has been the most amazing adventure of her life, full of the highest highs and the lowest lows. She's experienced unforgettable encounters with whales, sharks and the blackest nights exploding with stars. She's battled fierce storms, whiteout fog, exhaustion and a close call with a cargo ship, not to mention the challenge of living in a tiny space amid the turmoil of the ocean while all alone.
There were times deep desperation set in.
"It's a pretty relentless place," she said. "It really contrasts the feeling of just contentment. When things go right and it feels good and you're happy to be there, it's just a magical feeling to be alone in the ocean."
Her trek is part of her plan for a global excursion by boat, kayak and bike. Outen plans to fly to New York next week before heading back home to begin training for the next leg of the trip.
She plans to pick up where she left off in Adak next spring, bringing along a teammate, Justine Curgenven, to continue by kayak to Alaska's mainland. The two will then bike across Canada and North America. The last phase of the journey is planned for 2015, when Outen will attempt a solo row across the Atlantic Ocean to the United Kingdom.
The first leg took place in 2011 with a kayak-and-bike expedition from London to Japan. Her first attempt at this year's phase ended in 2012 when she and another ocean rower had to be rescued near Japan after their boats were badly damaged in a tropical storm.
Before Outen's "London2London"project, she became the youngest person and the first woman to row alone across the Indian Ocean in 2009.
The scariest moment of this year's trip occurred on a foggy day toward the end. That was when she almost hit a cargo ship after her radar failed because the batteries were struggling to charge after going without sunlight for a week. Outen figured it was too late to get out of the way, so she went into her cabin hoping for the best. Then a wave from the bow of the cargo vessel pushed her boat to safety.
Among the highlights, she got engaged to her longtime girlfriend during a satellite phone call from the sea. She also got up close to whales and birds and once watched a shark circling her boat as she rowed. It was not unusual for flying fish or jellyfish to land inside her boat. All the creatures that made it on board died except for one jellyfish that landed in the bilge locker. Outen managed to put that one alive back in the ocean.
So even though she lacked for human contact, she had plenty of company among creatures, including fish that accompanied her for long stretches.
"It was really nice to be followed by fish," she said.
Outen left Choshi, Japan, on April 27. After arriving in Adak, she celebrated with a bottle of champagne, a hot bath and clean clothes.
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I am supposed to give a talk tomorrow on why I homeschool, and it is supposed to be under 3 minutes. Here is my planned talk:
My name is Jonathan Bartlett, and I am a homeschooling Dad. In Oklahoma, the homeschooling movement is growing by leaps and bounds, but some people on the outside are curious about what motivates us. Therefore, I thought it might be helpful for me to take a moment and share a bit why our family does homeschooling, and I think many of these reasons are shared by a large number of homeschooling families.
To begin with, I should say that I graduated from Union Public Schools, and at the time it was one of the best schools in the region, and probably still is. I had great teachers and great classmates. However, after graduating, I started to realize that there were problems with my education. These were structural problems – problems that are innate to the very way that public schooling is organized.
First of all, my own first goal with education is teaching my children the family's values and morals. I hold this goal much higher than the intellectual education itself. However, as a public institution, schools are not permitted to instill deep values in the pupils. They can instill some surface ones, like don't cheat and don't steal, but they are systematically incapable of shaping students to the values of the families they belong to.
Along the same lines, each subject is missing many important aspects because of the need for being secular. Philosophy, morality, aesthetics, human nature, and the design inherent in nature are integral parts of EVERY subject, but are systematically left out of a secularized education. The lesson to children is implicit but quite clear – nothing except the material aspects of subjects are really worth knowing.
Another issue is with family and community. Public schools minimize the importance of both the family and community. After taking the bus, spending time at school, and staying after school for sports, your family becomes just a group of people you happen to eat dinner with. Homeschooling, instead, puts family membership at the center of children's lives. It also exposes children to more people outside their own age group – younger kids, older kids, the elderly, professionals, and homemakers. It puts them in the center of a much wider community than is available in an age-segregated school, to allow them to see and experience the wide variety of gifts and needs that different members of the community have.
A final issue is that I think that all of our children deserve special attention. The fact is, in any class, there will be kids who make trouble. The only option that teachers really have is to minimize the damage that these kids do. But is that the best option for those kids? When homeschooling, parents can know the problems that their children are causing and actively work to solve them without worrying how that impacts twenty other students.
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The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, or AUVSI, is the world's largest nonprofit dedicated to advancing unmanned systems and robotics, and serves thousands of members. Motley Fool analyst Rex Moore was able to chat with AUVSI president Michael Toscano, a leading expert in the field, about the future of drone deliveries -- such as Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) is proposing -- and other applications of the technology.
In this video segment Toscano explains that the technology is already being employed in non-military, commercial use by Boeing (NYSE:BA) and AeroVironment (NASDAQ:AVAV), among others.
A full transcript follows the video.
Michael Toscano: We've already had a commercial application, up in the Arctic. There's another great place; the Arctic is one of those difficult places to do things, for the most part, because of the weather conditions and whatnot.
When you look at it from a wildlife standpoint, unmanned systems lend themselves tremendously for us to be able to explore whether it be mother nature -- weather -- or whether it be wildlife, whether it be things that we were never able to do before, but now we can because we don't put a human being at risk in doing this.
If you look at some of the statistics of how many people are killed and injured, trying to follow the migration path of the polar bear or the penguins or something like that, the numbers are pretty staggering in that regard. Well, now we can do these things in a much more effective, efficient, and safe way.
In the Arctic, they have utilized two UASs to do oil exploration and wildlife monitoring.
Rex Moore: AeroVironment (NASDAQ: AVAV)...
Toscano: AeroVironment was one of those, and so was Boeing (NYSE:BA) Insitu. Insitu and AeroVironment were the two that they used. Those were the systems. They used the Puma, and they used ...
Moore: Boeing (NYSE:BA) Scan Eagle.
Toscano: Scan Eagle, thank you very much -- it's been a long day!
There is a case where we've already had a successful operation. Again, if you can do it once, now we can do it multiple times and we can do it even safer as we go forward in the future.
This is a learning experience. I believe the FAA is going to take a crawl-walk-run. You look at what Jeff and Amazon put out there; they were at the run stage. They were at the run stage, saying, "This thing is going to be autonomous, it's going to go off line-of-sight, and it's going to go do this whole, from A to Z, in less than 30 minutes."
That's what we want to get to, but we've got a ways to get there. I believe Charlie Rose made the statement, "So, is this 10 years out?" and Jeff made the comment, "Well, I'm a very optimistic person and I'm hoping that we can do it in the next four to five years," so that's looking at the 2018, 2020 timeframe.
I know there are aspects of that low-hanging fruit that I alluded to earlier, where we can do that in that timeframe. I think these are going to exciting times. If I had one wish, I wish I was 20 years younger, because this is going to be a very interesting time, and I think a very exciting time.
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Six years have passed since Mecanoo architecten won the design competition for the new Llotja theatre in Lleida, the second Catalan city after Barcelona, and with just one month until the doors open for all, the project is photo-fit for preview.
The much anticipated opening is set for 23 March, when the top-heavy theatre will begin fulfilling its purpose, although it has already passed its first occupational test acting as the opening venue for Llerida's cultural season in January with a performance of Verdi's "Il Trovatore" to a full capacity crowd of over 1,000 theatre aficionados.
Working with local architects LABB arquitectura, Mecanoo have devised a performance and conference space across 37,500 sq m with a 1,000 seat theatre hall doubling as a congress hall, two further congress halls with 400 and 200 seats, a multifunctional space, 2 foyers, 9,500 sq m of parking, a 15,325 sq m public square, and 2,591 sq m office and retail space.
The dramatic cantilevered circumference of the building is glazed around the outer edge offering glimpses of colour and activity, while the lower pedestrian scene offers little sign of the happenings within, electing instead to draw visitors passed the earthy façade through small light emitting permeations. While bold, the architects advise La Llotja is appropriate to its surroundings: "Regarded from the large scale of the region, the building forms a link between the river and the mountain. Viewed from the urban scale, La Llotja and the river form a balanced composition. At street level the cantilevers of La Llotja de Lleida theater and conference centre provide protection from sun and rain."
In fact, the Netherlands architects advise its Spanish surroundings inspired the design. Situated between the Seu Vella mountain and the Segre river, the contrasting Spanish surroundings are echoed in the design. Earthen stone cladding on the exterior contrasts with a light bathed interior, and vibrantly coloured accents representing the fruits of the region are used to distinguish between difference areas. The entrance hall and the multi-functional hall have a marble floor, while the foyer has a floor of mixed hardwood. Inside there are mainly white, plastered walls and either wooden or marble floors, whereas outside is stone.
The striking theatre hall is designed as an evening orchard with walls of dark wood in which trees of light have been cut out and a ceiling resembling the night's sky.
Providing a new public space as well as a performance venue La Llotja utilizes space according to its surroundings and is divided according to function. Conference facilities, the theatre and VIP rooms are all separated within, navigated to using a single foyer. Restaurants with bars are located on the side of La Llotja facing the river and the square making the most of the surroundings as public space.
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Notice is hereby given that pursuant to section 37-92-401(4) C.R.S. (2011), the Division Engineer for each Water Division, in consultation with the State Engineer, has developed a revised abandonment list which contains those water rights that the Division Engineer has determined to have been abandoned in whole or in part. The revised abandonment list, when concluded by judgment and decree, shall be conclusive as to the water rights determined to have been abandoned.
Any person who wishes to protest the inclusion of any water rights on the revised abandonment list shall file a written protest with the Water Clerk for the Water Court and provide a copy to the Division Engineer in accordance with the procedures set forth in section 37-92-401(5), C.R.S (2011). A form for such protest is available at: http://www.courts.state.co.us/Forms. All such protests shall be filed no later than June 30, 2012. The fee for filing such a protest with the Water Clerk is found on the water court website and is made payable to the Water Clerk.
The State Engineer or Division Engineer may request the Water Court order the physical abandonment of diversion structures no longer associated with any decreed water rights as a result of this revised abandonment list.
The revised abandonment list is available to print or download. These lists are in Adobe Acrobat® PDF format, which requires a PDF Viewer for viewing. To download these files, right-click on the desired list download and select Save Target As.


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Trump Administrations Womens Rights Lip Service Turns Irony Up to 11
Today, White House press secretary Sean Spicer announced to a room of incredulous reporters that President Donald Trump made womens empowerment a priority during his campaign. But that wasnt even the emptiest gesture the Trump administration made for womens rights today.
After civilization collapses and humans are all but wiped from Earths memory, all that will be left are cockroaches and the echoes of bitter guffaws of feminists who watched this years International Women of Courage Awards.
Todays ceremony, emceed by first lady Melania Trump and acting Deputy Secretary of State Thomas A. Shannon, honored the work and bravery of 13 women from around the world, each of whom has devoted their lives to causes the Trump administration actively works againstor is, at best, indifferent to beyond the photo op.
The ceremony carried on as though it were operating in a completely different universe than the one in which were currently living, a veritable smorgasbord of hypocrisy.
President Trump and his administration are committed to expanding opportunities for women and girls domestically across the globe, said Shannon, who was there because Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is on his way to Brussels, where he will meet with the President of NATO and ostensibly ask for money in exchange for the U.S.s continued involvement in the important peacekeeping alliance.
After a brief statement, Shannon introduced first lady Melania Trump as a philanthropist and cyberbullying opponent, although it was unclear what, if anything, the first lady has done to stop cyberbullying. It is safe to say that if shes instructed her husband (a big fan of cyberbullying) to knock it off that the message hasnt really stuck.
The first ladys speech extolled the virtues of the impressive women being recognized that day, offering mawkish lip service to their bravery in standing up to corruption, fighting gender-based discrimination, and oppression.
These honorees, the first lady noted, are true heroes. Some of them, she noted, had even stood up for their own rights in countries with laws designed to protect powerful predators at the expense of victims.
Imagine living in a country like that.
But the truly so-ironic-Im-worried-Ill-pull-a-muscle part of the ceremony came when the biographies of the honorees were read aloud. Trumps actual conduct and policies ended up sitting there unsaid, an 800-pound elephant in the room. The honorees achievements didnt serve as a simple award ceremony as much as an unintentional litany of feminist indictments of the Trump agenda.
Among todays honorees were a Rebecca Kabugho of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a nonviolent protester who has been repeatedly arrested for insisting her country hold fair elections. As a candidate, Donald Trump once offered to pay the legal fees of rally attendees who punch protesters in the face.
Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh is currently confined to a Vietnamese jail after an illustrious career of fighting for free speech and against pollution. This week, a Trump administration executive order rolled back regulations that would protect Americans against the sort of pollution she fought in her home country.
Sandya Eknelygodas husband, a journalist, went missing in their home country of Sri Lanka in 2010. Trump has routinely denigrated the work of journalists, more than once referring to them as the enemy.
Major Aichatou Ousmane Issaka is one of the first women to have ever joined the army in Niger. Meanwhile, in America, President Trump has proposed a budget that eliminates the Interagency Council on Homelessness, an organization that works, in part, to reduce homelessness of military veterans.
Jannat Al Ghezi works for the Organization for Womens Freedom in Iraq, an organization that helps domestic-violence survivors. Veronica Simogun runs an anti-domestic-violence organization in Papua New Guinea. Malebogo Molefhe of was nearly killed by an ex-boyfriend and now works as an anti-gender-based-violence advocate. Arlette Contreras Bautista is a woman whose severe beating at the hands of a partner was captured on camera and ignited a movement in her home country of Peru. Trumps proposed budget threatens to funnel funding for programs that benefit domestic-violence survivors stateside into other concerns like border protection and immigration enforcement. In parts of the country, domestic-violence survivors are reportedly afraid to come forward to the police out of fear of deportation.
Fadia Najib Thabet is a Yemeni woman who worked with the United Nations to reduce the number of child soldiers fighting for al Qaeda. The Trump administration has threatened to cut off funding to the United Nations. She also works on behalf of child refugees that, had Trump gotten his travel ban enacted, would have been been barred from the U.S.
Sister Carolin Tahhan Fachakh works with women in Syria displaced by the conflict. Trumps aforementioned travel ban would make life more difficult for refugees seeking shelter in the U.S. and his proposed slashes to funding for the UN population fund would make it much more dangerous for pregnant women fleeing war to give birth in refugee camps.
This isnt even the most grossly hypocritical act by the Trump administration vis–vis women and girls in the last 10 days. Last week, the Trump White House worked to push a health-care overhaul through Congress that would have eliminated maternity-care benefits from many insurance plans. His daughter Ivanka, a self-proclaimed advocate for women and children who doesnt actually appear to do anything, was on a ski vacation and never weighed in on the legislation.
The International Women of Courage Awards have a bit of an ironic origin story. They were started by Condoleezza Rice in 2007. As Secretary of State, Rice advocated the invasion of Iraq, which one could argue led to events that necessitated many 2017 recipients activism in the first place. Past winners include Zhanna Borisovna Nemtsova, whose father, a Russian politician and vocal Putin critic, was assassinated in 2015.
This years ceremony ended with a photo op.
Read more: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/03/29/trump-administration-s-women-s-rights-lip-service-turns-irony-up-to-11


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A 2014 report from the CCPA called documented the increasing wealth gap in Canada. Using data from Statistics Canada, CCPA economist David Macdonald demonstrated that for every new dollar of real wealth generated in the country since 1999, 66 cents has gone to the wealthiest 20% of families. As a result, in 2012 Canada's wealthiest 86 families had a combined net worth of $178 billion, roughly the same amount of wealth held by the country's poorest 11.4 million people.
"[M]any gasp at the fact that Canada's richest 20% of families take almost 50% of all income," wrote Macdonald. His comments were more than a rhetorical device: people do want change. Another report in 2014, this one from the Broadbent Institute and based on the same data, surveyed Canadians on their views about the country's wealth gap. It found that "the desire for a more equitable distribution of wealth holds regardless of demographics or past political preferences, including those who voted for the Conservative party in 2011."
Clearly there is an appetite among voters to do something about economic inequality. But do what? I argue that Canada's tax system contributes to and exacerbates this type of economic inequality in Canada, and that a few possible changes to that system would have an immediate positive effect. Some of these changes would affect or eliminate tax breaks that may appear, at first, to be broadly beneficial for a very limited group of taxpayers. But if we are honest about who really benefits most from these measures, and their costs, I think people will agree they are overdue for reform.
We tend to think of taxes and the tax system as being primarily geared toward revenue generation. That is, taxes are collected from individuals and corporations then spent on government programs. In fact, our tax system is meant to serve many different purposes, including redistributing income and wealth in an effort to reduce inequalities between rich and poor. For example, progressive marginal income tax rates—rates that go up at intervals depending on how much you earn—are used to ensure there is a more equitable distribution of disposable than there would be if everyone, regardless of pay, were taxed at the same rate.
But when it comes to redistribution (the distribution of financial, property and other assets) the tax system fails completely and indeed exacerbates the wealth gap. The main reason is that Canada has an extremely low overall tax rate on capital (wealth). Until this issue is redressed, the gap between the rich and poor in Canada will continue to grow.
An international comparison demonstrates this point. OECD statistics show that Canada lags far behind both the United States and the United Kingdom with respect to the overall rate of taxation on capital. For example, Canada is one of only seven of the OECD's 34 member countries that does not have some form of estate or gift tax, the most commonly used tool for taxing capital.
Combined with Canada's non-taxation of capital gains arising from the disposition of property (bonds, shares, real estate and other valuables), the absence of an estate or gift tax results in huge pools of wealth being passed on, tax-free, from generation to generation. This oversight is not just expensive for the government, but it tends to widen the gap between rich and poor in Canada.
Subject to certain exceptions, which I'll address in a moment, if a taxpayer makes money disposing of a capital property, that profit (the difference between what it cost when you acquired the property and what you eventually sold it for) is considered a capital gain, only half of which is taxable under Canadian tax rules. (In the past, three-quarters of the capital gain was taxed, decreasing to two-thirds and finally to half in the year 2000.)
To see how this is preferential treatment, consider that there is no way to avoid paying taxes on 100% of your income. In other words, when wealth creates wealth it is taxed more generously than most people's main source of income, their labour.
Each year, the federal government publishes an account of tax expenditures that details the value of tax revenues foregone because of tax breaks on things like capital gains. It is a lot of money. In 2016, the cost to government of taxing only 50% of capital gains is estimated to be over $6.3 billion. Contrast that amount with the modest $210 million in taxes not collected on social assistance payments.
While some capital gains are taxable, if only in part, many others are not taxed at all. A well-known example is the tax exemption for gains made selling a principal residence (your home). The policy of not taxing home sale profits is clearly meant to encourage home ownership. It is a popular exemption that can be extremely valuable to people of varying incomes, especially when the real estate market is hot. It is therefore difficult to imagine any government willing to end this tax break.
But taken together with the other exemptions for capital gains, there is a problem here in the form of a large and substantially inequitable tax advantage going to those with the money to invest in a home. The comparison with income tax is useful again here. Tax-free profit on property is not usually due to any particular effort on the part of the taxpayer, especially in metropolitan areas such as Vancouver and Toronto, whereas a person's labour is fully included in their taxable income.
Consider also that the higher the profits are from home sales and the hotter the market, the more unlikely it is that lower-income earners will be able to buy in and one day realize the same gains. While many homeowners like the capital gains exemption on principal residence sales, it is worth discussing a cap on the tax expenditure. For example, would it not be reasonable to tax windfall profits (above $500,000) on more expensive homes? This would serve a dual purpose of cooling over-hot real estate markets while letting low- and middle-income homeowners keep the tax benefit.
Another significant exemption from taxation relates to gains arising from the transfer of capital property to a spouse. This tax loophole allows one spouse (a person who is married or who is in a common-law relationship lasting at least a year) to defer taxes on the transfer of capital property to the other during their lifetime and, importantly, also on death. Taxes must eventually be paid when the spouse who receives the property disposes of it or dies, but overall the policy encourages people to keep wealth in the family, as a disposition to anyone else would trigger an immediate tax liability.
The issue of preferential tax treatment of spouses is complex: the idea that one should be able to move property within a relationship without having to pay tax has its obvious attractions and rationale. But it is important to note the class dimensions of this feature of the Canadian tax system.
Many people believe it is to their advantage to be taxed as a couple, and that they will pay less tax than they would if taxed as two individuals. That assumption is correct in some cases, mostly affecting those in middle to upper income brackets, and mainly due to the intra-spousal tax-free transfer of capital. But couples with low incomes and little or no wealth cannot benefit from this tax break. Furthermore, these couples often pay more tax when taxed as a couple than they would when taxed as individuals.
One reason for this is because individuals can lose the GST tax credit and, if they have children, some portion of the Canada Child Benefit when they are taxed as a spousal unit. Those tax breaks come with an income ceiling, based on aggregated spousal incomes, above which one can lose the benefit. This issue was illustrated starkly when lesbians and gay men were included as spouses for tax purposes. The result was a tax windfall for the government because couples with low incomes were now paying more tax than when they were taxed as individuals.
If we are serious about redistributing wealth in Canada and removing the current tax penalty for couples with low incomes and little wealth, removing the tax exemption for intra-spousal transfers of capital property is a good place place to start.
Some dispositions of capital property take place on a completely tax-free basis. One of the most expensive tax loopholes in this category—the lifetime capital gains exemption—will cost the federal government an estimated $1.5 billion in 2016. The tax exemption covers profits from disposing of shares in a small business corporation or certain farming and fishing property.
While the capital gains exemption is meant to encourage entrepreneurship, it is but one of several big bonuses linked to activities that already benefit from significant income tax–related breaks. Those who earn business income enjoy many more tax breaks than those who receive employment income, and several tax breaks are already designed specifically to reduce the tax paid by farmers and fishers.
If we focus on the fairness of Canada's tax regime, and how effectively it helps redistribute national wealth from top earners to those making lower incomes, we cannot forget tax shelters such as registered retirement savings plans (RRSPs), registered education savings plans (RESPs) and tax-free savings accounts (TFSAs). Taxes are deferred on RRSPs until they are removed from the plan in retirement, while capital gains in RESPs and TFSAs escape taxation entirely.
There are tax policy reasons for encouraging people to contribute to these plans. For example, a well-financed RESP can make paying for a child's post-secondary education easy. But we must ask ourselves who is taking advantage of these tax shelters and, more importantly, who has no access to them because of their low income and lack of wealth.
Contributing to RRSPs, TFSAs and RESPs is dependent on having the discretionary income available. Studies show, for example, that men contribute more than women to these savings vehicles, and those with high incomes save more than those with low incomes. The Parliamentary Budget Officer has reported on how, over time, foregone government revenues from TFSAs will represent a staggering pool of untaxable accumulated wealth—a process that in itself perpetuates inequality in Canada while impoverishing efforts at redistribution.
As mentioned already, Canada is further limited in this respect by being one of the few countries that does not levy an estate tax, succession duties (tax on inheritances) or gift tax. The federal government ceded this field of taxation to the provinces in 1971, but eventually they dropped out, too. In 1993, the Ontario Fair Tax Commission called on the federal government to introduce an estate tax, as exists in so many of Canada's OECD contemporaries, but there have been no serious moves in that direction since then.
As long as Canadian tax breaks for capital gains remain as they are, the wealth gap will continue to grow. While our income tax system is relatively progressive in the way it helps redistribute the national income, we need to get serious about the redistribution of wealth in Canada. Our record is woeful compared to other countries. It is time to start removing some of our tax exemptions on capital property, and to consider the use of an estate and gift tax regime as part of any effort to redress economic inequality.
How bad does CRPS get? He noted the plight of two CRPS patients in one of his studies. Their CRPS was triggered by rotator cuff surgery and by a broken toe. Their pain became so bad that one's forearm and the other's lower leg were amputated. That – and the changes he saw occurring in their skin tissue – stunned him.
Hooking up with another researcher, Howard Fields, he began using techniques never before used in pain researchto examine the nerves in the skin of people with a variety of chronic pain conditions.
First came a study on shingles, then one on CRPS, and then last year a Fibromyalgia study. All revealed increased numbersof autonomic nervous system and, in particular, sensory nerves in the skin of the hands of FM patients.
How the Fibromyalgia Study Got Done
It took three years to get the Fibromyalgia study done. They'd noted that the serotonergic and noradrenergic reuptake inhibitors (SNRI) approved for Fibromyalgia affect the nerve fibers in the skin – in particular, the nerve fibers that converge on and regulate the blood vessels that control the flow of blood to the skin. Two types of sympathetic nerve fibers – one that constricts and one that dilates the blood vessels – are found. Through the production of noradrenaline these nerve fibers also influence that activity of the sensory nerves in the same way that SNRIs are supposed to work. Using that information they got drug company money to help them complete the study.
Study Results
They found ten times the number of nerve fibers expected surrounding the shunts that regulate blood flows into the hands of people with Fibromyalgia. This suggested blood might be readily flowing into the hands of FM patients but might be having trouble flowing out. The hands, it turns out, serve as blood reservoirs for the rest of the body. They fill up with blood when the body is at rest and send blood to other areas of the body when needed. Their findings suggested that reduced blood flow out of the hands of FM patients could result in low blood volume in, say, their muscles, when they attempted to exercise, thereby causing fatigue and pain. They suggested that sleep, pain, and cognitive issues could also be associated with this problem.
Cautionary Note
He cautioned that it was a small study (24 FM patients) and needs to be validated, but the fact that 75% of the FM patients in the study demonstrated the pathology was striking. That kind of consistent result, he said, does not often happen. He said he was 'very excited' about the findings.
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I'm in Ontario Canada . Do you have anything here ? Around the Toronto area would be helpful. Thanks .
You have to mention gearchase.com, it searches all the sites above in one search for deals on outdoor gear. Kindof like kayak does for flights.
Would be nice to have suggestions for Canadians!
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Hey Matt can you help me out
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In this work, the composition of the family Upogebidae is reassessed and the classification of its included taxa is critically reviewed. The material examined mainly originates from the collections of the Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, Frankfurt am Main and the Zoological Museum of the university of Copenhagen, comprising samples from the Galathea Expedition 1950-1952, Dr. Th. Mortensen's expeditions, including the Java South African Expedition 1929-1930, and Dr. G. Thorson's Persian expedition. In all, two subfamilies, 11 genera and 157 species are represented in this revision.
The contents of the book are not only of interest for systematists but also for ecologists and environmental biologists focusing on neritic and benthic biocoenoses, as those mud shrimps are important agents in bioturbation proceses of the sea flora.
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