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Doctors Use Chin Implant to Make Man's Testicles the Same Size
A man born with lopsided testicles has become the first person ever to have them made more symmetrical with — get this — a chin implant. Kinda adds new meaning to the phrase "balls on chin," eh? There's no official word, by the way, on whether the man's nether region now sports a manly cleft.
The 45-year-old man was born with a tiny right testicle that never descended. So, doctors removed the non-functional testicle several years ago and replaced it with a large implant. Problem is, his testicles still looked uneven and he obsessed over the physical imperfection because he suffers from body dysmorphic disorder.
So, doctors in Mexico last year made a small incision in the man's groin and inserted a silicon chin implant between his left testicle and several layers of tissue, a procedure which they say is safe and doesn't impact fertility or sexual function.
In fact, the man's surgeon and urologist, Fernando Ugarte, said he resumed sexual activity a month after the surgery. And now, a year later, the man's "testicular function is perfect" and he's reportedly feeling fine.
But Ugarte wasn't done there. Since the man's breakthrough surgery, the doctor has performed the same procedure twice, describing it as a viable alternative for men who aren't happy with the size of their testicles.
"There are many people who are probably not feeling satisfied with their testicular size, and now they have a new option," said Ugarte.
Um, thanks but no thanks, doc. We're perfectly happy with ours the way they are.


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Lady Gaga Lawsuit Update: Personal Assistant Was Former Best Friend, Slept In Same Bed
Lady Gaga never sleeps alone, and we're not talking about her (bad) romances, either. In a particularly ugly and nasty lawsuit with her former "personal assistant" Jennifer O'Neill, the deposition of which leaked yesterday, O'Neill claims that the Mother Monster forced her to sleep in the same bed while on tour. Gaga also tweeted that O'Neill was not really her former personal assistant but her best friend since she was 19.
A ha! That's why this case is so hurtful or Ma Monster and is likely why she was so angry and dropping expletives about O'Neill during the deposition. If this was her friend, it stings beyond belief to be sued by someone you were once close with.
A recap: O'Neill worked for Gaga twice over a period of 13 months and is suing for 7,168 hours worth of unpaid overtime at a sum of $380,000. Gaga claims she does not pay her staff overtime, and while she could likely settle out of court and easily pony up the near 400 grand O'Neill is asking for, it appears to be a matter of principle. $380,000 is a nominal amount for someone as rich and famous as Gaga.
While Gaga called O'Neill a "f---ing hood rat"in her deposition, O'Neill revealed that she was never provided with her own hotel room while on tour and had to sleep in the same bed as her boss. While we all love Gaga and would die to hang out with her, sleeping in the same bed as a boss doesn't sound like fun on any level!
However, when you consider that these women were friends, it changes the whole complexion of the story and the case. Besties often share a bed, and not in that way.
O'Neill said, "I was by her side virtually 24 hours a day, seven days a week. That includes sleeping in the same bed with her. Because she did not sleep alone … Unlike anybody else on that tour, I did not have my own hotel room. I was not asked if I wanted my own hotel room … I had no privacy, no chance to talk to any family, no chance to talk to any friends, no chance to have sex if I wanted to have sex. There was no chance to do anything."
She did say, when asked, that she felt sleeping in the same bed was part of her job.
As we said when the initial story broke, working for Gaga is a lifestyle, not a career choice. There is no way any of this should have been a surprise to O'Neill.
She also said Gaga told her she needed to be available 24/7.
Again, why would this be surprising? Being an assistant to any celeb is a commitment beyond that of a marriage. Gaga appears to be the type to take care of her employees like family, too.
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Overcoming Moisture in a Compressed Air System
After receiving a litany of abuse from fellow hot rodders and mechanics about my lack of pneumatic capabilities in my shop in the past, I decided once and for all that it was time to get real and set up my current shop with a capable compressed air setup. I tend to be a scapegoat of used equipment so needless to say, when the time came for me to receive my first air compressor, it was in the shape of a frozen hand-me-down from an editor that shall remain unnamed. He decided that storing his horizontal 20-gallon unit in a vertical position for years on end made sense and then proceeded to revert it to said horizontal state and ran it less oil to blow out the cat hair that covered his garage. Needless to say after about ten minutes, the motor froze. And that's how I received my first air compressor.
A quick teardown revealed a frozen connecting rod in the pump portion of the compressor motor and after a bit of convincing with a torch and a big hammer, the rod was free and the compressor was back in the game. Fast forward a few months and yet another frozen compressor was soon in the back of my truck, this time a 60-gallon unit. Like I said, I'm a glutton for punishment when it comes to abused, free shop equipment, but this one turned out to have the same ails as the first and within an hour, I had the compressor humming and sounding great. Attaching a 50-foot air hose, I began grinding, cutting, and sanding until the cows came home. And then I hit my first snag; I noticed that my gloves were getting damp with moisture from the pneumatic tools. Not too concerned about the $10 die grinder in hand, I kept working. The more I worked, the more moisture built up and soon the grinder was spitting out water onto the bare metal panel I was working; a big problem. I could deal with the wet gloves and even the ruined grinder that might result but the direct water contact on the bare metal panel was a problem. Taking that into consideration in addition to the fact that I'd just picked up a plasma cutter from HTP and a blasting cabinet meant that I needed to solve this moisture problem once and for all. Not to mention that I needed to paint my F-1 in the coming months and a water bath in my new paintjob is not what I needed.
Not completely sure what I needed to do to solve this problem, I consulted my buddy Zane Cullen at Cotati Speed Shop to see what they used to dry out the air in their shop and paint booth. Zane's shop has been turning out high-end paint jobs since his days as a teenage mini-trucker and expecting a high-dollar solution well out of my reach, I was surprised when Zane tossed me a simple desiccant filter and an oil separator. We used this for years before we got an actual refrigerated air dryer system. Sounds good to me! But the key to their success was more than just a simple oil separator and desiccant system, it was in the actual routing of the air lines themselves, something I was soon to find out for myself.
My original air line exited the compressor and ran straight, via a three-foot hose, to the oil separator and desiccant filter; number one no-no. First off, compressed air needs at least 25-feet to cool down before it reaches any sort of filtration system since it leaves the compressor nice and hot and therefore full of moisture. With the filtration system that close to the compressor, the compressed air simply overcame the filtration system I installed, hence the moisture received at the grinder. What I needed to do was to mount the filtration system at least 25-feet from the compressor, giving the air time to cool down and separate the water molecules from the compressed air. And so, the next step was to mount the filtration unit across the shop, far from the compressor.
There are a dozen ways to run a compressed air line across a shop or garage, with everything from PVC pipe to galvanized tubing, but by far the easiest setup I've seen is now offered by Eastwood in their Complete Garage Air Line Kit. Consisting of PVC lines and press fittings, it's a simple cut-to-fit application with more than 100-feet of line. In addition to the lines and fittings, the kit also comes with an aluminum outlet manifold that allows two outputs for air hose attachments and an additional manifold that can be used as either a drain or as an additional outlet. Eastwood also offers an inline moisture separator and lubricator that works perfectly for all those pneumatic tools that need to be lubricated yet kept moisture free.
Since I was setting up a pneumatic system that would serve two purposes, the availability of extra Eastwood distribution manifolds made this very simple. The first line would run through Eastwood's inline moisture separator and lubricator and run all my standard pneumatic tools such as my grinders while the second line, run through the oil separator and desiccant system I picked up from Zane, would allow me to paint, blast, and run my plasma cutter without any worry of picking up moisture. I also devised a drainage system that would first run out of the compressor and then just before the filter station to try and gather as much moisture as possible.
The resulting system has performed flawlessly with no moisture building up in my tools and leaving my gloves nice and dry, just the way I like them! I still drain my compressor every day, something you'll need to do regardless, but I've found that my drains before the filters have little moisture built up in them, just as I expected.
With this setup, I'm confident that not only will I not get water in the line when painting, but I won't be ruining my brand-new HTP plasma cutter, nor will I have any problem with moisture in my blasting cabinet. A few hours of work ends up paying off in dividends when it comes to drying out that compressed air, and I did it on a budget restoring hand-me-downs. CCT


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Research Data Access and Preservation Summit Program
|Friday, April 9, 2010
|8:30 9:00
|Summit Introduction
|Gary Marchionini - Introductions
|Reagan Moore Overview on socialization of collections versus life cycle management
|9:00 10:30
|Panel 1 - Data Life Cycle Management (top-down re-use scenario)
Panel Questions:
Which phases of the data life cycle are managed by your repository?
How do data management requirements differ across the data life cycle?
What systems do you use to support the data life cycle?
Can you generalize the mechanisms used to migrate data between different phases of the data life cycle?
Panel Participants:
M. McFarland, Texas Digital Repository {PowerPoint]
Sarah Michalak, Carolina Digital Repository [PowerPoint presented by Erin O'Meara]
Stacy Kowalczyk, Indiana University [PowerPoint]
Cynthia Ghering, Michigan State University [Paper]
Michael Wright, National Science Digital Library [Paper]
|10:30 11:00
|11:00 12:30
|Panel 2 - Promoting Re-use of Scientific Data Collections
Panel Questions:
How do you handle organization of collections today?
What are the biggest issues with building collections for new communities?
When new communities access existing data collections, what new access capabilities are required?
What level of description is required to meet expectations of new communities?
Is long-term sustainability enabled through repurposing of collections?
Are their other driving purposes behind promoting re-use of collections?
Which institutions can be approached for sustaining re-purposed collections?
Panel Participants:
Peter Wittenburg, Max Planck Society, Institute for Pyscholinguistics [PowerPoint]
Sudha Ram, iPlant Collaborative [Paper]
Roy Williams, International Virtual Observatory Alliance [PowerPoint]
John Harrison, SHAMAN [PowerPoint Talk, PowerPoint Responses]
Jonathan Crabtree, Odum Social Science Institute [PowerPoint]
|12:30 1:30
|1:30 3:00
|Panel 3 - Large-Scale Data Management Challenges (bottom-up drivers for infrastructure): Chair William Michener
Panel Questions:
What technical solutions exist that meet your academic project requirements?
What technical solutions exist that meet corporate requirements?
What requirements are unique to the academic environment?
What requirements are unique to the corporate environment?
Are there common approaches for managing large-scale collections?
Panel Participants:
John Orcutt, Ocean Observatories Initiative
Ed Kearns, National Climatic Data Center [PowerPoint presented by Kenneth Galluppi]
Laurin Herr, Cinegrid [PowerPoint]
Philip Maechling, Southern California Earthquake Center [PowerPoint]
|3:00 3:30
|3:30 5:00
|Panel 4 - DataNet Federation: Chair William Anderson
Panel Questions:
How challenges are addressed by your data management infrastructure?
What are the current practices for data management, curation, preservation?
What are the interoperability mechanisms for federating registries, ontologies, and processing models (workflows)?
"What do you see to be the biggest challenges and opportunities with respect to evolution of a DataNet Federation?"
"What is your vision for a DataNet Federation?"
Panel Participants:
Bill Michener, DataOne
Sayeed Choudhury, Data Conservancy [PowerPoint]
Reagan Moore, DataNet Federation Consortiuim [PowerPoint]
|5:00 6:00
|6:00 8:00
|Poster and Demonstration Session / Reception
|Brad McLean, Fedora
Reagan Moore, iRODS
Alan Tackett, L-Store
John Harrison, SHAMAN
|Saturday April 10, 2010
|8:30 10:00
|Panel 5 - Developing Assessment Criteria
Panel Questions:
Who defines the required assessment criteria?
How is a consensus reached on the required assessment criteria?
Can an international standard form the basis for assessment criteria?
Are assessment criteria dependent upon the organizing community?
Panel Participants:
Mark Conrad, NARA LCDRG and ISO MOIMS-rac [PowerPoint]
Jane Greenberg, Dryad [PowerPoint]
John Graybeal, Ocean Observatories Initiative
Steve Richard, Arizona Geological Society [PowerPoint]
|10:00 10:30
|10:30 12:00
|Panel 6 - Legal and Social Implications of Shared Collections
Panel Questions:
For your domain, what are the legal requirements related to data management (Sarbanes-Oxley, IRB, HIPAA, IP)?
What implications does sharing of data impose on data management systems?
Can legal requirements be expressed as policies that automate enforcement?
What are the issues (legal, proprietary, accessibility) behind internationally shared collections?
Panel Participants:
Ann Zimmerman, University of Michigan [PowerPoint]
Noshir Contractor, Northwestern University [PowerPoint]
Melissa Cragin [PowerPoint]
|12:00 12:30
|12:30 1:30
|Lunch for those participating in tutorials
|1:30 3:00
|Tutorial Session 1
|Brad McLean, Duraspace
|3:00 3:30
|3:30 5:00
|Tutorial Session 2
|Reagan Moore, iRODS [PowerPoint]


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The news comes a few days after Bally and its senior lenders agreed last week to a restructuring plan that will provide new financing and reduce Bally's debt by $660 million as the company exits bankruptcy.
In 2001, GAIC issued directors and officers liability coverage to Bally for 2001-2002 and 2002-2003, according to the Internet publication Law360, but later, Bally restated its financial results for the 2000 and 2001 fiscal years. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission began investigating Bally after the restatement.
GAIC agreed to Bally's request to provide coverage, but GAIC put in place an interim fee advancement that allowed it to file a rescission action and seek reimbursement of funds, Law360 reports.
GAIC filed a lawsuit against Bally in January to recover the funds after Bally filed for bankruptcy in December. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.GAIC asked the court for a declaratory judgment that the advanced funds were held in an implied trust and should not be considered part of Bally's bankruptcy estate, but the bankruptcy court denied that claim. U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin also rejected GAIC's claim on Tuesday, saying that the advanced funds were not held in a trust, Law360 reports.


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When journalists ask Herbie Hancock which musicians he listens to, he thinks that they're expecting him to say Oscar Peterson and Chick Corea -- that is, virtuoso jazz pianists like himself.
"I do listen to those musicians," Hancock said recently, savoring some morning downtime in his Westside home's tranquil garden filled with African sculptures and sashaying felines. "But there's more than that. Actually, what I try to listen to is life."
Life must be sounding pretty good to Hancock these days, and not only because as a practicing Buddhist for 38 years he cultivates personal equanimity like a well-tended flower bed.
On April 12, Hancock turned 70, a passage that's prompting splashy official and semi-official musical tributes across the continent. And although he looks easily a decade younger, he's embracing the occasion.
Last month he was feted at Carnegie Hall. On Sept. 1 he'll be the pièce de résistance of the Hollywood Bowl program Herbie Hancock: Seven Decades -- The Birthday Celebration," in which he'll perform with saxophonist nonpareil Wayne Shorter (Hancock's former cohort in Miles Davis' "Second Great Quintet"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Davis_Quintet) and the wife-husband blue-eyed soul/blues/rock artists Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks.
Hancock also is marking the launch of his eighth decade with the release of his latest record, "The Imagine Project" (issued on his personal label, Hancock Records), and an extensive summer tour that will take him from Beaver Creek, Colo., to Bratislava in the Slovak Republic.
"I've got this window of all of this year and part of next year up 'til April 12," he said, referring to the marathon merrymaking. "I'm trying to milk that sucker for everything it's got!"
The Bowl's Sept. 1 encomium coincides with Hancock's appointment last year as the Los Angeles Philharmonic's creative chair for jazz. In that post, previously held by vocalist Dianne Reeves and bassist Christian McBride, he'll oversee programming for jazz concerts both at the Bowl and Walt Disney Concert Hall during his two-year tenure.
A lifelong self-identified "techie," Hancock said that, in addition to pushing the mix of guest jazz musicians at the Bowl and Disney Hall, he's hoping to incorporate more dance and performance, as well as computer graphics and film clips, into jazz presentations.
"The idea of employing visuals is two things," he said. "One of them is: other ways to attract an audience, other pathways that they can use in order to get to the heart of the music. And it's also the 21st century. It's not like 40 years ago, it would've been just financially impossible to do. A blank CD costs, what, 25 cents? A blank DVD costs maybe, what, 50? So all of the prices for the technology, it's all come down."
Although the classically trained Hancock has explored R&B, pop, rock and world beat, jazz remains the alpha and omega of his career, "the springboard for any project that I do." And it's a springboard with a very broad base. Although other jazz orchestras and programs, such as Jazz at Lincoln Center, have attempted to articulate a sort of classic jazz canon over the years, Hancock is careful in avoiding drawing boundaries about what jazz is or isn't.
"If you feel it's necessary for you, in your own mind, to define jazz, make sure that the definition is broad enough," he said. "I think you're putting the death knell on jazz when you try to narrow it. It's not the nature of jazz to be narrow."
In keeping with that expansive view, Hancock is frank in acknowledging how jazz and jazz audiences have changed over the years, and must continue to do so.
"The mainstream jazz audience, just like the musicians that have come through or from the mainstream, including myself, we're getting older and older, right? And we're dying off, you know? It's a natural process of life. But the audiences are getting older and older too. And they're dying off, right?"
Part of the genre's regeneration, Hancock believes, will come from outside the country where jazz was born. "Jazz is a gift of America to the world, and it has affected people from all cultures. That's why the new flock of jazz musicians is not just coming from America. They're from all over the planet now."
Reflecting that reality, his first-year's programming for the Phil is integrating such genre-stretching artists as the reggae-pop-rock influenced Jason Mraz and the Grammy Award-winning gospel-R&B singer BeBe Winans. Other performers will include Nancy Wilson, Lula Washington Dance Theatre and Trey McIntyre Dance Project.
Quincy Jones, who has known Hancock since they were both rising young Chicago players and calls him "my brother from another mother," is eager to see what his friend will bring to the Bowl and Disney Hall over the next two years.
"He can do it all," Jones said. "He hasn't talked to me about any plans, but Herbie will try anything he feels, man."
Deborah Borda, the Phil's president and chief executive, said that although the job's "basic duties haven't really changed" since the position's inception, each of the creative chairs for jazz has brought specific new ideas and collaborators into the mix.
As one example, she cited a 2006 Bowl program in which James Brown performed music from "Soul on Top," his 1969 funk-meets-big-band album, for the first time in public. That event, Borda said, "absolutely would not have happened without Christian McBride," a huge Brown buff who'd been involved in the 2004 CD reissuing of "Soul on Top," which had been out of print for decades.
Borda also pointed to the performance of a piece by L.A. pianist Billy Childs that Reeves had commissioned. She's expecting similarly fruitful collaborative ventures from the artistically well-connected Hancock, as is his friend Reeves.
"The beautiful thing about Herbie is he views music without boundaries and he loves making music with everybody," said Reeves, who'll be performing Wednesday at the Bowl in one of Hancock's programs that also will include Lee Ritenour, Dave Grusin and Taj Mahal. "He has this ability to put people together who wouldn't ordinarily be together."
Few ventures in Hancock's voluminous career demonstrate that more than "The Imagine Project," which takes its title from John Lennon's paean to a possession-less world living as one. Jeff Beck, Chaka Khan, Oumou Sangare, India.Arie, John Legend, the Chieftains, Los Lobos, the Brazilian chanteuse Cèu and the Colombian rocker Juanes were among the all-star project's contributors.
"This record is like a call to arms, in many ways," Hancock said. "If we don't want globalization to be what we don't want, why don't we create the globalization we do want?"
Of course, coordinating recording sessions with a group of artists separated by multiple time zones can be almost as tricky as, say, getting the U.S. and China to concur on trade policy. Although he described the record-making process as enjoyable overall, Hancock said that he and his team "ran into some huge obstacles at the worst time" in getting the disc to hit its production deadline.
"Things started falling apart, almost like unraveling," he said. "A lot of the people on my team are like flipping out. And I'm really glad I practice Buddhism because I didn't flip out."
Hancock's chilled-out outlook also derives from his sense of connection to life's mundane rhythms. He absorbed that ability from one his foremost teachers, Miles Davis.
"If you're walking down the street with Miles, and you get to a corner, and somebody else is walking and you both happen to see this person, and they sort of make a misstep and they stumble, Miles would say, 'Play that!'"
Hancock, grinning, affected Davis' raspy whisper. "I mean, who else would think like that, you know? Like, 'Do that musically!' Because that's life."
At least it is for those who, like Hancock, have the ears to hear it.
When journalists ask Herbie Hancock which musicians he listens to, he thinks that they're expecting him to say Oscar Peterson and Chick Corea -- that is, virtuoso jazz pianists like himself.


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Greg Fleniken traveled light and lived tidy. After so many years on the road, he would leave his rolling suitcase open on the floor of his hotel room and use it as a drawer. Dirty clothes went on the closet floor. Shirts he wanted to keep unwrinkled hung above. Toiletries were in the pockets of a cloth folding case that hooked onto a towel rack in the bathroom. At the end of the day he would slide off his worn brown leather boots and line them up by the suitcase, drop his faded jeans to the floor, and put on lightweight cotton pajama bottoms.
Most evenings he never left the room. He would crank up the air conditioner—he liked a cool room at night—and sit on the bed, leaning back on two pillows propped against the headboard. Considerately, to avoid soiling the bedspread, he would lay out a clean white hand towel, on which he placed his ashtray, cigarette pack, lighter, BlackBerry, the TV remote, and a candy bar. He smoked and broke off candy bits while watching TV. This is where Greg was on the evening of Wednesday, September 15, 2010, in Room 348 of the MCM Eleganté Hotel, in Beaumont, Texas—lounging, smoking, snacking on a Reese's Crispy Crunchy bar, sipping root beer, and watching Iron Man 2.


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''Breaking Dawn Part 2'' in ''Ciak'' Italian Magazine
Would you make another movie of the series ?
Only if Stephanie Meyer wrote it. But at this point I wonder what could possibly happen. Maybe Edward could turn into a bad guy? Yeah, that would be something.
What was the weirdest experience you've had with a fan ?
At the last Comic Con in San Diego, I was with Kristen who was also promoting Snow White and the Huntsman, and a girl approached me to ask if I felt comfortable being Prince Charming. I wasn't able to convince her that it wasn't me...
Wasn't it a blow to your ego ?
Not really, it only made me laugh. There was another time during a road trip, I found myself in a small village in an Indian reservation in New Mexico. As soon as I got off the car, I was surrounded by a group of kids who started calling me by my name. This should compare with story of Comic Con.
Which was the hardest movie of the series ?
Breaking Dawn. It's two movies but we shot them back to back. Which means a 2 hour in the make-out trailer every day for 8 months.
What will you miss next year ?
The 3 months in Vancouver. I grew attached to that city.
Do you think that Bella becoming stronger somehow represents today's society and women's more and more important role ?
I don't know, but it would be a good thing to be honest.
Do you like the archetypal strong woman ?
I grew up in a house full of women, my mother, my sisters, my father even. No, no, it's a joke, don't write that, I wouldn't want my dad to get hurt. I'm sorry, my sense of humour is a bit weird.
What have these 5 years been like ?
A revolution. I never would have thought I could have this career or I would live in America. The downside is that it would have been better if it had happen before twitter and phones with cameras.
What do you think of this job ?
We have become the most conservative people in the world. You can't even raise your voice, because everything will affect your career.
Do you ever feel alone ?
It's hard to make new friends because you always think they actually want something else.
The wrongest thing people say about you ?
That I'm like Edward. People tend to forget that Twilight is a movie.
An actor you like ?
James Franco. He's intriguing in eveything he does, and he seems to have so many interests that he never does the same things.
How is the new Bella like ?
As I expected her to be from the first movie. I couldn't bear any longer to stand and watch the others face dangers. I was't even allowed to get on a motorbike. Bella is now powerful and brave, and is confident. Maybe it'll be more difficult for the audience to identify themselves with her, but it was more fun for me. It has been a great experience, in every way.
Do you ever happen to re-read your old interviews ? And if you do, what do you think of them ?
I feel like we probably talked too much. We all talked too much.
Do you think it'll be hard to say goodbye to Bella ?
Now that there's no stress anymore, it's a different relationship. I don't belong to Bella and she doesn't belong to me anymore. Actually, I never really say goodbye to my characters, I always take them inside of me. I believe I wouldn't have any problem if I had to reshoot some scenes of every movie I made, even the oldest ones. Of course my relationship with Bella has been longer and more complex, because I've never lived with any other character for 5 years.
Do you think you'll always be "the girl from Twilight" ?
I don't know, but I've worked a lot, I have other two movies that came out this year. I certainly won't draw any comparison between these characters, even if Snow White is obviously more similar to Bella than to Marylou. But each character has her own identity: there never are two identical roles.
Could you compare Bella's evolutionary process to your professional evolution ?
Bella has to make decisions that one usually doesn't have to at that age, and I've been there too, as I started acting when I was 12. I also had to deal with more people than girls of my age that usually only relate to friends and school mates. Playing Bella is like being in a videogame, you have to overcome obstacles, sometimes by defending yourself, some others by attacking, in order to get to the target. It's a journey.
Would you like to have a guide in your career who protects you just like Edward protects Bella ?
I already have it, and it's not just one person, but several people, even in my family. This job is such a common effort that it wouldn't be fair to take all the credit for the results.
How have you changed since the first Twilight ?
I've grown 2 cm taller! Really, I only realized it last time I've been measured.
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The answer is a qualified one. They're safe, says Robert L. Wolke, Ph.D., a professor emeritus of chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh and the author of What Einstein Told His Cook: Kitchen Science Explained, as long as they're not overheated. When they are, the coating may begin to break down (at the molecular level, so you wouldn't necessarily see it), and toxic particles and gases, some of them carcinogenic, can be released.
"There's a whole chemistry set of compounds that will come off when Teflon is heated high enough to decompose," says Wolke. "Many of these are fluorine-containing compounds, which as a class are generally toxic." But fluoropolymers, the chemicals from which these toxic compounds come, are a big part of the coating formula — and the very reason that foods don't stick to nonstick.
If the danger begins when pans overheat, then how hot is too hot? "At temperatures above 500ºF, the breakdown begins and smaller chemical fragments are released," explains Kurunthachalam Kannan, Ph.D., an environmental toxicologist at the New York State Department of Health's Wadsworth Center. DuPont, inventor and manufacturer of Teflon, agrees that 500 degrees is the recommended maximum for cooking.
Sticking Point
How fast will a nonstick pan reach 500°F, the point at which its coating can start to decompose? The Good Housekeeping Research Institute put three pieces of nonstick cookware to the test: a cheap, lightweight pan (weighing just 1 lb., 3 oz.); a midweight pan (2 lbs., 1 oz.); and a high-end, heavier pan (2 lbs., 9 oz.). We cooked five dishes at different temperatures on a burner that's typical in most homes. The results: Even we were surprised by how quickly some of the pans got way too hot. Check out the test details on the next page.
At very high temperatures — 660° F and above — pans may more significantly decompose, emitting fumes strong enough to cause polymer-fume fever, a temporary flu-like condition marked by chills, headache, and fever. (The fumes won't kill you — but they can kill pet birds, whose respiratory systems are more fragile.) At 680° F, Teflon releases at least six toxic gases, including two carcinogens, according to a study by the Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit watchdog organization. "However, even if those gases are formed, the odds that you're going to breathe enough of them to be sick are low," says Wolke, a point corroborated by several of the experts we interviewed. What no one has yet researched is whether overheating these pans regularly for a prolonged period might have long-term effects.
Scrambled eggs 218° F
Cooked on medium for 3 minutes in a lightweight pan
Empty pan, preheated 507° F
Heated on high for 1 3/4 minutes in a lightweight pan
Chicken-and-pepper stir-fry 318° F
Cooked on high for 5 1/4 minutes in a lightweight pan
Pan preheated with 2 Tbsp. oil 514° F
Heated on high for 2 1/2 minutes in a lightweight pan
Bacon 465° F
Cooked on high for 5 1/2 minutes in a medium-weight pan
Hamburgers 577° F
Cooked on high for 8 1/2 minutes in a heavyweight pan
Steak 656° F
Cooked on high for 10 minutes in a lightweight pan
Outdated Fears
If cookware is flaking, you might accidentally swallow a chip — but don't be concerned, says Paul Honigfort, Ph.D., a consumer safety officer with the Food and Drug Administration. "A small particle would most likely just pass through the body, without being absorbed and without having any ill effect on the person's health," he says.
Also of less concern than previously believed: the danger of nonstick pans exposing the family to PFOA (perfluorooctanoic acid). A chemical used to manufacture the fluoropolymers that make up nonstick cookware's coating, PFOA is associated with tumors and developmental problems in animals, and experts are concerned about its possible effects on humans. In 2004, DuPont agreed to pay up to $343 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that PFOA, used in the manufacture of Teflon at a certain plant, had contaminated drinking water nearby. This year, a study at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found an association between PFOA exposure and small decreases in head circumference and body weight in infants (except those born by cesarean section). Last year, an independent review panel advised the EPA to classify PFOA a "likely " human carcinogen. The EPA has not yet adopted the recommendation, which is disputed by DuPont. In the meantime, the EPA has reached an agreement with eight companies, including DuPont, to phase out the use of PFOA completely by 2015.
But while PFOA is still a concern, it's unlikely that we get most of our exposure from the use of nonstick pans. Sources of PFOA are everywhere: in microwave-popcorn bags, fast-food packaging, shampoo, carpeting, and clothing. Studies show that most of us have PFOA in our bloodstreams, and babies show trace amounts at birth. The FDA has tested nonstick pans to evaluate the danger of PFOA exposure to humans. "What we found was that the manufacturing process used to make those pans drives off the PFOA," says Honigfort, meaning that the chemical evaporates. "The risk to consumers is considered negligible."
Cook-Smart Precautions
You can use nonstick safely, as long as you use it properly. Any food that cooks quickly on low or medium heat and coats most of the pan's surface (which brings down the pan's temperature) is unlikely to cause problems; that includes foods like scrambled eggs, pancakes, or warmed-up leftovers. And many other kinds of cooking are safe as well: In GHRI's tests, the only food prep that yielded a nonstick pan temperature exceeding 600ºF in less than 10 minutes was steak in a lightweight pan. But to be cautious, keep these tips in mind.
Never preheat an empty pan. In GHRI's tests, each of the three empty nonstick pans we heated on high reached temperatures above 500 degrees in less than five minutes — and the cheapest, most lightweight pan got there in under two minutes. Even pans with oil in them can be problematic; our cheapest pan zoomed to more than 500 degrees in two and a half minutes.
Don't cook on high heat. Most nonstick manufacturers, including DuPont, now advise consumers not to go above medium. (DuPont maintains, however, that Teflon does not pose any health risks, and that its guideline is simply meant to maximize the life of the product.)
Do people still cook on high, despite manufacturers' instructions? "There's no statistical answer to that question," says the FDA's Honigfort. But you know if you're doing it, and if you are, the consensus is clear: It would be safer if you stopped. (Since some people won't switch to medium, or will overheat accidentally if distracted, says Jane Houlihan, vice president for research at the Environmental Working Group, "we recommend that people simply phase out the use of nonstick pans.") To play it safe, set your knob to medium or low and don't place your nonstick cookware over so-called power burners (anything above 12,000 BTUs on a gas stove or 2,400 watts on an electric range); those burners, seen more often in recent years, are intended for tasks like boiling a large pot of water quickly.
Ventilate your kitchen. When cooking, turn on the exhaust fan to help clear away any fumes.
Don't broil or sear meats. Those techniques require temperatures above what nonstick can usually handle.
Choose a heavier nonstick pan. Lightweight pans generally heat up fastest, so invest in heavier-weight cookware — it's worth the extra money.
Avoid chipping or damaging the pan. We've all been told not to use metal utensils on nonstick pans. Newer products may be harder to chip, "because the adhesion between the pan and the nonstick coating is better," says Honigfort. Still, if pans do chip or flake, they may be more likely to release toxic compounds, says Kannan of the New York State Department of Health. To prevent scratching, use wooden spoons to stir food, avoid steel wool, and don't stack these pans. (If you do, put a paper towel liner between them.)
How long can you expect your nonstick cookware to last? DuPont's estimate, based on moderate usage, is three to five years. Some experts, like Kannan, advise replacing your nonstick cookware every couple of years. What should you do if the pan does become damaged? A clear answer, from Kannan: Throw it out.
Check out the Good Housekeeping Research Institute Best Picks: Nonstick Cookware and Best Picks: Traditional Cookware for different options and styles.
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UK researcher finds Bluetooth more of a privacy threat than RFIDWritten by JOJY on May 9, 2008 – 1:44 am -
Privacy advocates have long since pointed out that the sniff-ability of Bluetooth signals were cause for concern, but now one University of Bath researcher has a little data to back that up. Vassilis Kostakos placed four Bluetooth receivers in the city's center for four months, during which he and his team tracked over 10,000 BT-enabled mobiles. According to Mr. Kostakos, they were able to "capture and analyze people's encounters in pubs, streets and shops." He continued on to mention that "Bluetooth is now more of a privacy threat than the more frequently publicized RFID chips," and he encouraged worried denizens to turn off the BT function on their phone to help curb the paranoia. Of course, that won't stop Big Brother from seeing your every move whilst in the UK. Source: Engadget
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Since I was a young boy Formula 1 racing was a big part of my weekends. Who could ever forget the epic battles of Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill? With the release of the new F1 time app (also available for the PlayBook) I decided to do a review but unfortunately with BBW and BBjam10 on full swing I couldn't find the time. Lucky for us all our good friend and N4BB community member Urbanglowcam stepped up to the plate and did a review for us. Enjoy and feel free to comment!
Since 2010, Soft Pauer Limited, a small company based out of the UK was given the rights to develop the Official Formula 1 Timing App. It was initially released for the iOS platform. Later it was released for Android. As you might have guessed, BlackBerry and Windows Phone 7 have been left out of the fun. BlackBerry has had timing apps that functioned fairly well. However, for the 2012 F1 season, Soft Pauer has generously released their Official F1 2012 Timing App in BlackBerry App World for a hefty $19.99.
Being built on an old Java platform, one would imagine that the BlackBerry version of the app could not match the rich features of the more modern Android or iOS counterparts. While this holds true, it holds its own in several ways. Fortunately, Soft Pauer saw the value in releasing a BlackBerry app despite the recent growth in the Windows Marketplace. It's most likely due to the demand internationally with Formula 1 being so prevalent. BlackBerry still has a strong presence throughout the world, even as they transition to BlackBerry 10. Now to the app..
Once it's downloaded and started, it will begin to automatically download updates to the app. After the updates, you will be presented with the main live leaderboard. The track location will be automatically selected using your data service and detect which practice, qualifying, or race session is currently going on. You will typically be given an alert to say when the next session will occur or which is currently taking place. Information like driver position, tyre, lap time, gaps, and sector times are presented in real time and pulled from the official F1 data center. There is a ticker at the bottom with up to date highlights as well as a race timer and lap indicator.
If there is not a current session, the app will go into demo mode where the app runs as a simulated occurrence of a race in every regard. Race packs can be downloaded to view the desired race session after they are completed.
Navigating to different areas of the app for more information just takes a press of the BlackBerry key and selecting the desired section. This includes full timing, map, info, news, and setup. The full timing goes more into depth for each driver currently with specific gap times, sector timing, pit stop count, and laps completed.
The map menu shows a birds-eye visual of the current track location while each driver zooms around the track in real time with their locations accurately represented. You can highlight whichever driver you choose and the view will follow them on the track. There is also a pinch-zoom capability which allows you to see more of the track or get in closer to the driver. Unfortunately, this is where the BlackBerry version is lacking. The Android/iOS versions are shown in full 3D and can be rotated beautifully in real time. There is also a live pause and replay feature. Still, the BlackBerry app gives the general information, only without the bells and whistles.
The next menu is the info section. Initially, it will prompt you to download the info pack. You will be taken to a sub-menu with latest results, standings, drivers, teams, and races. Upon clicking each, you will be given more detailed information for that section.
The news section will briefly list the latest information popping up from the world of F1. There are two tabs here. One is for the news articles and the other includes live feed messages for when they are available from the race sessions.
Lastly, there is the options menu. Here you can choose which 2012 track to view at any given time. The session can then be selected. Here you can toggle between practice 1-3, qualifying, or the race of the race track that was chosen. The start time is given to you after. The other options relate to the map section where you can choose to hide stopped cars and/or fade cars. Finally, you can clear your local store to clean up the apps downloaded components if necessary.
All in all, if you are a big F1 junky, this app is a great companion for the season. It gives fans information quickly without having to browse the internet for it. It can also be useful during races when your favorite broadcast might be on a commercial break. Extensive, live information can be difficult to get while viewing the race during the live broadcast. It will be difficult to get specific lap records and sector times any other way. There have been times when the app has failed to receive information from the server, but with the app being fairly new, I'm sure updates will come to fix these annoyances. Soft Pauer Limited is a group of developers that listens fairly well. I have personally received feedback and insight into their project. I suggest anyone to contact them through Facebook, Twitter, or their e-mail with any feedback. Their information can be found at http://www.softpauer.com/f1site/.
At the price of $20, it is hard to recommend it for just anybody. But if you're the type that needs a constant feed of Formula 1 data, and are still on the BlackBerry train this is the app for you. Hopefully, they Soft Pauer Limited will develop a BlackBerry PlayBook app with even better features.
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The title of Say It Loud! is taken from James Brown's anthem "Say It Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud," the R&B/funk classic that Lou Donaldson covers on this album. Instead of providing a thematic and musical touchstone for the rest of the record, the song is an attempt to prove that Donaldson is still on top of musical trends, but the lazy groove he and his band -- trumpeter Blue Mitchell, guitarist Jimmy Ponder, organist Charles Earland, drummer Leo Morris -- work up shows they're not quite comfortable with this contemporary funk. They sound much more at ease with standards like "Summertime" and "Caravan," which give them a chance to stretch out, even if they are arranged like commercially oriented soul-jazz. Nevertheless, their simple presence on the album puts the stiffness of Donaldson's groove-oriented soul-jazz in sharper relief. Midnight Creeper was a successful soul-jazz record because the group managed to hit the right tone and groove, but here his group sounds awkward and uneasy. There are a few good moments scattered throughout the album, particularly by Mitchell, but overall, Say It Loud! is one of the weakest records in Donaldson's catalog. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine


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ALLOCATION PERSPECTIVE : Bull market or bubble ?
Market analysis by Franck Nicolas, Head of Investment and clients solutions.
"US equities have posted annual gains of more than 24% on a total-return basis over 5 years, i.e. cumulative gains of 210% since the low point in March 2009. Although not yet the case, but it could be in less than one year (in April 2015 to be precise), this rally would become the third-longest bull market in history.
However, the specter of the internet bubble which marked the end of the 1990s is looming once again. Tech giants are wielding their overabundant liquidity and driving the price of unlisted start-ups through the roof, while valuations among certain NASDAQ stocks have also reached excessive levels. Despite the current sector rotation towards defensives, tech stocks are still trading on high valuation multiples.
Total market capitalization is thus dangerously close to the March 2001 peak, expressed as a percentage of GDP (142% at the moment). It would therefore appear normal to question the sustainability of the rally. Of course, since that period, US companies have generated a greater proportion of their profits abroad and US Gross Domestic Product should therefore not be used as their sole yardstick. However..."


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Oklahoma Children of Incarcerated Parents Task Force
January 1, 2012
On any given day, more than 26,000 Oklahoma children have a parent in an Oklahoma prison. This number does not include children with parents jailed or imprisoned in county jails and federal correctional facilities. More than half of these children were living with their parent immediately before incarceration. With thousands of inmates entering the prison system each year, these numbers underrepresents the total number of children the impacted in the state.
Objective: To foster communication among children, caregivers, and incarcerated parents in order to maintain contact with their parents and to minimize the impact of the parent's incarceration on the children.
• Recommendation: Support activities to maintain contact between an incarcerated parent and a minor child when it is in the best interest of the child.
Objective: To encourage parents and caregivers to seek services for the child regardless of social stigma.
• Recommendation: Eliminate any barriers preventing children of incarcerated parents from accessing quality health care.
Objective: To train all criminal justice professionals and individuals whose responsibility is to provide services to children when parent(s) is/are involved with the criminal justice system, either through arrest, county jail placement, or incarceration.
• Recommendation: Develop a statewide training curriculum which serves to educate participants on the sweeping adverse effects that parental involvement in the criminal justice system has on children.
Objective: To improve the parent-child relationship by providing quality approved education programs.
• Recommendation: Provide parent education programs (including child development) to parents to help support a healthy and strong parent-child relationship.
Objective: To provide validation of the parent-child relationship and eventually a possible avenue for financial support of the child.
• Recommendation: Provide information to incarcerated non-custodial parents on how to responsibly address financial obligations to their children while incarcerated.
Objective: To reduce reliance on incarceration through expansion in the availability and use of programs and interventions which serve as viable alternatives to periods of incarceration. Use of alternative programs and interventions should especially be considered when imposing sentencing options for individuals who are custodial parents of minor children.
• Recommendation: Expand the use of community-based sentencing options utilizing evidence-based intervention programs and services targeted to reduce criminal risk factors.
Objective: To help support and sustain resources which foster transformation in the lives of children of incarcerated parents through the following: support of a statewide data repository, raising public awareness, a clearinghouse for community resources, an overall better collaboration and communication among state agencies and organizations that serve this population.
• Recommendation: Designate the Oklahoma Commission on Children and Youth as the official state agency responsible for increasing public awareness, coordinating research, creating a resource clearinghouse which identifies available services to children of incarcerated parents, and coordinating an advisory committee. This work should continue collaboratively with agencies, community and faith-based providers to better meet the needs and improve the quality of life for children of incarcerated parents.
On a given day approximately 3.3% of Oklahoma children have a parent incarcerated. This number will increase significantly to include all children in a year who have had incarcerated parents due to the admissions and releases during the year.
In 2009, there were approximately 4,624 minor children in Oklahoma who had a mother in prison, 2,430 who lived with their mothers at the time of incarceration.
In 2011, a total estimated number of children impacted by an incarcerated father in the Oklahoma Department of Corrections are 21,482.
In 2011, a total estimated number of children living with an incarcerated parent at the time of arrest are 12,634.
Oklahoma currently ranks number ONE for female incarceration per capita in the United States.
Oklahoma currently ranks number FOUR for male incarceration per capita in the United States.
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Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Memorial Service....
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- Satish Ashtaputre said...
superb article Madam ! You deserve an applause for your candid opinion.In fact,you spoke the same feelings as that in the minds of several professionals like me in this horrible country.Are we bothered about poverty,illiteracy,filthiness,corruption in India than so called 'sthals'and memorials? Here people can't speak English with proper pronunciation,state of science & commerce is pathetic with no good schools or colleges.only politics,vote-bank,khana-pina,slums & bollywood; this is India story,nothing else ! And on top of it,our joker netas shamelessly preach that mera mahan Bharat is going to become super power by 2020.
- December 12, 2012 at 5:42 PM
- saket suryesh said...
One of those writings of yours, Ma'am with which no thinking man can argue. Brave and spectacular. Hope you are not going in with Article 66A.
- December 13, 2012 at 4:38 PM
- Jogeshwar said...
Never thought about this perspective. You are right we can't afford to mismanage our inhabitable land, especially when our cities are so densely populated. Surveys suggest that areas having high population density have a much lower human development index. Poverty eradication, better human development index etc. are some of the gravest challenges that our country faces. In the face of such challenges, it is imperative for our survival, that we use our natural resources very wisely.
- December 13, 2012 at 5:15 PM
- Chitra Parmar said...
This ones a hit Ma'am! It reflects a common mans message, of course he wouldn't have this much courage.
Bold and Thoughtful!
- December 13, 2012 at 6:58 PM
- Caravan Family said...
I'm actually a little disgusted by the maharaja/noble class after my Rajasthan and Gwalior visits...these guys live in unimaginable luxury while their aam junta starved and lived very miserable lives.
Granted (and I understand) that they're kings/noblemen but these guys did nothing or barely anything by way of social programs or schemes to better their subjects' lives.
On the contrary, they were off playing polo and jaunting around the world while sending their over-privileged spoilt and obese kids to Harvard and Stanford..tch, tch..tres disgusting
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