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TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp has sold one of its most prized Tokyo office buildings to Japanese real estate trust Nippon Building Fund Inc and one other investor for 111 billion yen ($1.2 billion), its second high-profile building sale this year.
The 25-storey Sony City Osaki building, completed in March 2011, houses 5,000 of its workers on a site once known as the "holy land" for Japan's television manufacturing industry, where Sony's Trinitron TV was launched in 1968.
Nippon Building Fund will take a 60 percent stake in the property, while another investor, which Sony did not name, will hold a 40 percent interest in the property, where Sony will continue to work for the next five years.
Last month Sony agreed to sell its U.S. headquarters building in New York City for $1.1 billion, the highest price paid for a single U.S. office property in two years.
It and other Japanese consumer electronics makers are selling assets to bring in cash as they fight to end losses at their television units, besieged by competition from South Korean rivals such as Samsung Electronics Co Ltd.
Sony City Osaki, near the firm's Tokyo headquarters, is the nerve centre of its struggling TV and audio divisions.
The firm expects to report a gain on the sale of around 41 billion yen, to be recorded as operating income in the fourth quarter of the fiscal year that ends in March, it said in a statement.
Before the sale was announced, Sony had forecast net operating profit of 130 billion yen for the full year.
The transaction is the most expensive office property sale in Japan in almost four years, excluding a transfer of a property between two companies in the same group.
Japanese property fund manager Secured Capital bought an office building in central Tokyo's Marunouchi district in 2009 for about 140 billion yen. ($1 = 91.6050 Japanese yen)
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- A 16 year old from Brazil has set a Guiness texting record
- Marcel Fernandes typed 25 tricky words in 18.19 seconds
- The previous record was 18.44 seconds
A 16-year-old from Brazil can dash off a wordy, complicated, text message in the time most of us can thumb "Where R U?" And the folks with Guinness World Records have noticed.
Marcel Fernandes typed a 25-word pre-selected paragraph into his touchscreen phone in 18.19 seconds, just enough to break the record of 18.44 seconds set in January. And that phrase was no easy task, either.
It reads: "The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human." The entire phrase had to be spelled and punctuated correctly.
Guinness officially acknowledged the record on Thursday. Fernandes set it on April 25 in New York.
The teenager comes by his texting speed honestly. He said his skill started developing in 2009, after the then-13-year-old grew frustrated with a wonky monitor on his desktop computer.
"So one day I got so stressed out about it that I literally took a hammer and broke my desktop monitor," he said in an e-mail. "With no money to buy a new one, I resorted to using exclusively my iPhone 3Gs, which I had at the time, to do everything that I needed to do.
"I basically lived, from that day on, using my smartphone."
Fernandes was flown to New York by Fleksy, makers of the keyboard app he used to break the record. He said he's been using the app since 2012.
"We've been passionate about building the most comfortable, beautiful, and fastest smartphone keyboard ever since we started" says Loannis Verdelis, Fleksy's founder. "The Guinness World Record is a great testament to our progress."
A college student studying physics, Fernandes maintains that, despite the record, he's no texting junkie like some teens.
"Since I was a child I always loved phones, and still love smartphones today ...," he said. "But I don't consider myself addicted to using smartphones, as I don't spend all day using them."


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Jennifer Austin is a Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at Rutgers University, Newark. She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from Cornell University with a minor in Cognitive Science, and before coming to Rutgers-Newark she taught at Williams College. Her research interests include first and second language acquisition, language contact, and the effects of bilingualism on language and cognition. She co-authored the book Bilingualism in the Spanish-Speaking World: Linguistic and Cognitive Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and has written articles on syntactic and morphological development in children learning Basque, Spanish, and English. Austin is a member of the graduate faculty in Global Urban Studies and in Psychology at Rutgers-Newark and in Spanish and Portuguese at Rutgers-New Brunswick, where she is also a member of the Bilingualism and Second Language Acquisition Group. In addition, she is a co-founder of HoLa, a dual-language charter school in Hoboken, NJ, and the faculty supervisor of the Lives in Translation Project.
Courses Taught
Rutgers-Newark: Language Acquisition, History of the Spanish Language, Latino Bilingualism, Teaching Methodologies for World Languages, Introduction to Linguistics
Rutgers, New Brunswick: Bilingual Language Acquisition (graduate seminar)
Bilingualism, Language Acquisition, Hispanic Linguistics
Research Initiatives
Jennifer Austin's new research projects include a longitudinal study of the development of verbal agreement and subject expression in monolingual children and young heritage speakers acquiring Spanish, in collaboration with Liliana Sánchez and María Blume. In another project, she is looking at the acquisition of quantifiers in bilingual and monolingual children who are learning Spanish and English; this work is being doing in collaboration with Kristen Syrett, Liliana Sánchez, Anne Lingwall and Silvia Pérez-Cortés.
Ph.D., Linguistics, minor in Cognitive Science, Cornell University
B.A., English and Spanish, Earlham College
Austin, J., Blume, M. and Sánchez, L. (2015). Bilingualism in the Spanish-speaking world: Linguistic and cognitive perspectives. Cambridge University Press.
Edited Volume
Austin, J. (editor). (2019). Special issue on Bilingual Morphology. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism.
Journal Articles, Book Chapters and Conference Proceedings
Austin, J. (In press). Cross-language Contact in the Developing Grammars of Bilingual Children. In E. Adamou and Y. Matras (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Language Contact.
Austin, J. (Accepted). Differential object marking in the speech of children learning Basque and Spanish. In S. Montrul and A. Mardale (eds.), The Acquisition of Differential Object Marking.
Austin, J. and Sánchez, L. (Under review). Distributed Morphology and acquisition. In A. Alexiadou, R. Kramer, A. Marantz and I. Oltra-Massuet (eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Distributed Morphology.
Sánchez, L. and Austin, J. (Under review). Negation in L2 acquisition and beyond. In V. Déprez and M. T. Espinal (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Negation.
Choi, K., Lapidow, E., Austin, J., Shafto, P. and Bonawitz, E. (2018). Preschoolers are more likely to direct questions to adults than to other children (or selves) during spontaneous conversational act. In C. Kalish, M. Rau, J. Zhu & T. Rogers, (eds.) Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Madison, WI: Cognitive Science Society.
Austin, J. (2017). The role of defaults in morphological acquisition: The case of child Basque. In J. Coon, D. Massam and L. Travis, (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Ergativity. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Austin, J., Sánchez, L. and Pérez, S. (2017). Null subjects in the early acquisition of English by child heritage speakers of Spanish. In S. Perpiñán and D. Heap, (eds.), Proceedings of LSRL 44.
Syrett, K., Lingwall, A., Perez-Cortes, S., Austin, J., Sánchez, L., Baker, H., Germak, C., and Arias-Amaya, A., (2017). How Spanish-English bilingual children approach entailment-based scalar implicatures. Glossa special issue: Acquisition of Quantification.
Syrett, K., Austin, J., Sánchez, L., Germak, C., Lingwall, A., Perez-Cortes, S., Arias-Amaya, A., and Baker, H. (2016). The influence of conversational context and the developing lexicon on the calculation of scalar implicatures: Insights from Spanish-English bilingual children. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism.[pdf]
Austin, J. (2015). Transfer and contact-induced variation in child Basque. In C. O'Shannessy, (ed.), special research topic: Acquisition in Contact. Frontiers in Psychology. [pdf]
Austin, J. (2013). Ergativity in child Basque. In E. Banvin and S. Stoll, (eds.), The Acquisition of Ergativity. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 35-70.
Austin, J., Blume, M. and Sánchez, L. (2013). Morphosyntactic attrition in the L1 of Spanish-English bilingual children. Hispania, 96 (3), 542-561.
Austin, J. (2013). Markedness, input frequency and the acquisition of inflection: Evidence from Basque/Spanish bilingual children. International Journal of Bilingualism, 17(3), 259-283. Special issue on Basque bilingualism edited by P. Larrañaga and P. Guijarro-Fuentes.
Austin, J. (2012). The case-agreement hierarchy in acquisition: Evidence from children learning Basque. Lingua, 122 (3), 289-302. Special issue on ergativity edited by I. Laka and B. Fernández.
Austin, J. (2010). Rich inflection and the production of root infinitives in child language. Morphology 20 (1), 41–69.
Austin, J. (2009). Delay, interference and bilingual development: The acquisition of verbal morphology in children learning Basque and Spanish. International Journal of Bilingualism 13 (4): 447–479.
Austin, J. (2007). Grammatical interference and the acquisition of ergative case in bilingual children learning Basque and Spanish. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 10 (3): 315–331.
Austin, J. (2006). Dative overmarking in Basque: Evidence of Spanish-Basque convergence. Euskalingua 9, 136–145. [pdf]
Foursha, C., Austin, J. and Van de Walle, G. (2006). Is language processing identical in monolinguals and early, balanced bilinguals? In D. Bamman, T. Magnitskaia and C. Zaller, (eds.), Proceedings Supplement of the 30th Boston University Conference on Language Development.[pdf]
Santlemann, L., Berk, S., Austin, J., Somashekar, S. and Lust, B. (2002). Continuity and development in the acquisition of inversion in yes/no questions: Dissociating movement and inflection. The Journal of Child Language. 29(4):813-842.
Austin, J., Blume, M., Parkinson, D., Lust, B. and Núñez del Prado, Z. (1998). Interactions between pragmatic and syntactic knowledge in the first language acquisition of Spanish null and overt pronominals. In J. Lema and E. Trevino, (eds.), Theoretical Research on Romance Languages: Selected Papers from the Twenty-sixth Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages. Amsterdam, New York: John Benjamins. 35-52.
López, L. and Austin, J. (1997). Theories of VP structure and the typology of structural case. Linguistic Analysis. 27:186-219.
Austin, J., Blume, M., Parkinson, D., Proman, R., Lust, B. and Núñez del Prado, Z. (1997). The status of pro-drop in the Initial State: Results from new analyses of Spanish. In A. Pérez-Leroux and W. Glass (eds.), Contemporary Perspectives on the Acquisition of Spanish. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press, 37-54.
Austin, J., Blume, M., Parkinson, D., Proman, R., Lust, B. and Núñez del Prado, Z. (1997). The acquisition of Spanish null and overt pronouns: Pragmatic and syntactic factors. In S. Somashekar, K. Yamakoshi , M. Blume and C. Foley (eds.), Papers on language acquisition: Cornell Working Papers in Linguistics 15, 160-177.
Austin, J., Blume, M., Parkinson, D., Proman, R., Núñez del Prado, Z. and Lust, B. (1996). Current challenges to the parameter-setting paradigm: The pro-drop parameter. In C. Koster & F. Wijnen (eds.), Proceedings of the Groningen Assembly on Language Acquisition 1995. Groningen: Centre for Language and Cognition, 87-97.
Austin, J. and López, L. (1995). Nominative, absolutive and dative languages. In J. Beckman, (ed.), Proceedings of the Twenty-fifth North Eastern Linguistic Society. Amherst, MA: GLSA, 1-16.


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no grand reports of world travels
or secret liasons that kept me from
updating since...when? july?
i'm not even sure if i'm on anyone's "radar" anymore.
and that? is okay.
when i started this blog in may of 2006 (586 posts ago),
it was before i wasn't going to be able to go to the states for the summer and, to be honest, i was a little depressed about that. blogging helped me "meet" friends and gave me something else to think about.
since last july, we've been busy....doing a lot of little things....but things that, when i sat down here to tell you about, didn't seem too interesting or "blogworthy". so, i typed out a sentence or two over on facebook and called it good....and that became the pattern.
not a bad pattern, but still....not blogging.
i'm back.
i've missed it here.
it will be
baby steps
baby. steps....
cute, little bitty baby steps...
to get some blogging mojo back.
i hope you're having a good one....
it's cold here in nagasaki and if it's cold outside, it's freakin' freezing INside the house.
yikes. not too much fun.
i may have a blogpost soon on
"how to stay warm in japan"....i've had a lot of experience in this.
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- William Fustos, the former chief operating officer at East Resources, will be giving a lecture on "The Marcellus Shale: Economic Boom for Pennsylvania, Energy Security for the U.S.," as Penn State's 2013 G. Albert Shoemaker Lecturer in Mineral Engineering. The event begins at 3:30 p.m. Friday, April 26, with a reception in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences Museum Gallery on the ground floor of Deike Building. The lecture begins promptly at 4 p.m., in Room 22 Deike Building.
Fustos graduated from Penn State in 1979 with a bachelor's degree in petroleum and natural gas engineering. He began his oil and gas career with Texaco Inc. in their Gulf Coast Operations in Louisiana as a reservoir engineer. He moved back to his hometown of Pittsburgh in 1981 and worked in the Appalachian Basin for several independent oil and gas companies including Delta Drilling Co. and Kerr-McGee Corp. until 1994, when he formed Fustos Energy Services, an engineering firm whose work included reservoir engineering consulting along with a contract well servicing business.
Fustos joined East Resources in 1998 as vice president of operations. In 2002, he became East's chief operating officer. By 2010, East Resources owned and operated approximately 2,500 oil and gas wells in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, New York and Colorado, and employed more than 300 people in the Appalachian Basin. In 2006, East began a Marcellus Shale exploration effort in northeast Pennsylvania. Ultimately, the company held in excess of 650,000 acres of Marcellus Shale rights in Pennsylvania, New York and West Virginia. After the formation of a successful private equity partnership with the firm of Kohlberg, Kravis and Roberts in 2009, the company was sold to Royal Dutch Shell in 2010.
Fustos has been married to his wife Lindsey for 28 years. Lindsey earned a bachelor of arts degree in history from Penn State in 1975. They have three children: Elizabeth, 26, Emily, 22, and Andrew, 19. All three children have either graduated from or are attending Penn State. Bill and Lindsey have lived in the Pittsburgh area for the last 28 years, and now also maintain a residence in the State College area.
The G. Albert Shoemaker Lecture Series in Mineral Engineering was established in 1992 by Mercedes G. Shoemaker to honor the memory of her husband, a Pittsburgh civic and industrial leader dedicated to the support of higher education. G. Albert Shoemaker, a Penn State Distinguished Alumnus, had an eminent career in the mineral industries. He was for many years a leader of the coal industry, serving as president of the Pittsburgh Coal Division of Babcock & Wilcox and later as president of Consolidation Coal Co. from 1960 to 1966. Among many civic and philanthropic activities, he served as a member of the University Board of Trustees from 1957 to 1978 and as board president from 1970-72.
For more information, including a lecture abstract, visit http://www.eme.psu.edu/news-events/events/shoemaker-lecture-2013.


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NFC playoffs: New Orleans at Seattle 3:30 p.m. Ch. 9 100.3-FM
AFC playoffs: Indianapolis at New England 7 p.m. Ch. 4 1130-AM
European PGA: Volvo Champions 6 a.m. GOLF
PGA: Sony Open 6 p.m. GOLF
NHL: Tampa Bay at Philadelphia noon NHLN
H.S. boys: Legacy at Chisago Lakes noon 95.9-FM
H.S. girls: Totino-Grace at Chisago Lakes 4 p.m. 95.9-FM
College women: Ohio State at Gophers 6 p.m. BTN
NHL: Chicago at Montreal 6 p.m. NHLN
NHL: Colorado at Wild 7 p.m. FSN 100.3-FM
College men: Harvard at Yale 7 p.m. NBCSN
H.S. boys: Buffalo at Rogers 7 p.m. 106.1-FM
Premier: Chelsea at Hull City 6:40 a.m. NBCSN
Premier: Crystal Palace at Tottenham 8:55 a.m. NBCSN
Premier: Swansea City vs. Manchester U. 11:30 a.m. Ch. 11
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College men: Nebraska at Purdue 11 a.m. BTN
College women: Texas at West Virginia 11 a.m. FSN
College men: S. Mississippi at Tulsa noon FS1
College men: SMU at Louisville noon CBSSN
College women: Florida at LSU noon ESPNU
College men: Iowa at Ohio State 12:30 p.m. Ch. 4
College men: LaSalle at Duquesne 1:30 p.m. NBCSN
College women: Nebraska at Illinois 1 p.m. BTN
College women: Northwestern at Gophers 2 p.m. 1500-AM
College men: Xavier at Creighton 2 p.m. CBSSN
College women: Purdue at Penn State 2 p.m. ESPN
College women: Louisville at S. Florida 2 p.m. ESPNU
College men: Colorado at Washington 2 p.m. FS1
College women: Michigan St. at Michigan 3:30 p.m. BTN
College women: Tennessee at Vanderbilt 4 p.m. ESPN
College women: Missouri at Kentucky 4 p.m. ESPNU
College women: St. Joseph's at VCU 4 p.m. CBSSN
College men: Stanford at Oregon 4 p.m. FS1
NBA: Timberwolves at San Antonio 6 p.m. FSN 830-AM
College men: Illinois at Northwestern 6:30 p.m. BTN
College men: Maryland at Florida State 7 p.m. ESPNU
College men: Arizona State at UCLA 9 p.m. ESPNU
PBA: Japan Cup noon ESPN
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U.S. Championships 2 p.m. Ch. 11
NFC playoffs: San Francisco at Carolina noon Ch. 9 100.3-FM
AFC playoffs: San Diego at Denver 3:30 p.m. Ch. 4 1130-AM
European PGA: Volvo Champions (tape) 6 a.m. GOLF
PGA: Sony Open 6 p.m. GOLF
College men: Gophers at Penn State 6 p.m. 1500-AM
NHL: Wild at Nashville 6 p.m. FSN PLUS 100.3-FM
NHL: Philadelphia at N.Y. Rangers 6 p.m. NBCSN
Premier: Newcastle at Manchester United 8:05 a.m. NBCSN
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The Rijksmuseum was inaugurated in 1885 and still dominates the area around Museumplein. The museum's collection is as impressive as the building itself: here you will find the masterpieces of the Golden Age, including Rembrandt van Rijn's world-famous Night watch, which draws daily crowds.
One can spend days in the Rijksmuseum and still discover something new. The building was designed by architect P.J.H. Cuypers and houses thousands of historical artefacts that depict the history of the Netherlands. The various rooms in the museum are organised by century. The museum is unique in displaying paintings from a certain century together with other art forms from that period, providing a great historic framework of that era. The museum pays a great deal of attention to the Golden Age; the Gallery of Honour is entirely dedicated to that period.
The Rijksmuseum's collections contain many masterpieces from the Golden Age, including the painting known as The Jewish bride and various self-portraits, such as Self-portrait as the apostle Paul. The highlight of any visit to the Rijksmuseum is of course the Night watch from 1642, the pièce de résistance of the Gallery of Honour. The painting is special because Rembrandt portrayed the characters in action, something that no one had ever done before. It is also the largest and most famous painting by the artist.
Rembrandt van Rijn was one of the great Dutch Masters. He was born in Leiden but moved to Amsterdam in 1631, where he painted many of his famous works. Rembrandt is admired for his playful use of light and darkness, lending his work a certain dramatic touch. When we admire Rembrandt's paintings it feels as if we are drawn in by the lively scenes he depicted.
The Rijksmuseum also features works by Johannes Vermeer, another 17th-century Dutch Master. Vermeer had a unique talent for illuminating the subjects in his work. There are a remarkable number of paintings that depict light pouring in through a window on the left side of the painting. One of the most famous examples of this is undoubtedly the painting The Milkmaid. In addition to this masterpiece, the Rijksmuseum displays 3 more paintings by Vermeer, including the famous work View of houses in Delft (also known as The little street).
Johannes Vermeer is one of the most famous Dutch painters from the Golden Age. Today, the painter is world-famous, but back in the 17th century – and the following centuries – his work was barely recognised. In the 19th century he was even referred to as the Sphinx of Delft, because so little was known about his life history. And that is quite remarkable as his paintings are very unique. Vermeer enjoyed painting quiet, intimate moments, where time seems to stand still.
The list of 17th-century Dutch Masters is not complete without the expressive portraits by Frans Hals, including Portrait of a couple and the painting known as The Merry Drinker. Hals was especially famous for his casual painting style, described by his contemporaries as a 'rough style'. Also casual, but in a very different way, are the works by Jan Steen. This painter is mostly famous for his genre pieces that depict jolly and cheerful subjects, such as The Drunken Couple and The Merry Family.
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What if we could fight childhood obesity, reduce crime, create jobs, and revitalize communities all at the same time? Congress introduced a new bill to do all those and more in the very places we live and work every day. Called the Urban Revitalization and Livable Communities Act (HR 709), the legislation would provide grants to help communities build or revitalize more than 2,300 parks and recreation centers every year.
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Academy of Pediatrics both support the use of the built environment to combat obesity, yet no current legislation exists solely to create these public spaces. If we want active, healthy people we need to provide safe and accessible places for children and adults.
But Congress won't act without your help. Contact your representatives now.
Why are parks important?
Urban parks provide significant economic, social, and environmental benefits to everyone in the community. Parks are not just pretty places, but critical to the fabric of our daily lives:
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Learn more about the issue:
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Corvallis, Ore. – In concluding its nonconference schedule, UC Santa Barbara was dealt an 8-1 loss at Oregon State.
The Gauchos' record falls to 21-15, as the team has dropped its past five games. Oregon State improves to 12-18 with the win.
In total, six of the Gauchos' starting nine recorded a hit against the Beavers. Kristen Clark led UCSB with two singles, while DeJanee Moore had the team's biggest hit of the day with RBI double. Clark has increased her league-leading hits total to 58, which is nine more than the next closest player.
In the circle, Shelby Wisdom (9-9) was credited with the loss after pitching five innings and allowing six earned runs, while nabbing three strikeouts. The senior breezed through the first two innings and only allowed one hit after facing seven batters.
The Beavers got on the scoreboard first with a three-run third inning. Wisdom struck out the leadoff hitter, but Oregon State with four hits. After the team took its 3-0 lead, Wisdom got her team out of the inning by getting CJ Chirichigno to an infield pop fly.
After Oregon State jumped ahead 5-0, UCSB put up a run in the top of the sixth. Kathryn Pilpil led off the inning by reaching base from an error by Chirichigno at shortstop. Two batters later, MeShalon Moore connected on a double driven to left center, which sent Pilpil in for the score.
The Beavers added to their lead and found themselves on top 8-1 entering the seventh inning. In the circle, Amanda Najdek recorded two quick outs with a line out and a pop-up. Looking to keep the Gauchos alive, Stacy Cavazos dropped a single down the right field line. Following her was Clark who mimicked Cavazos's hit to right field for her second single of the game. Those runners wouldn't reach home plate, Najdek ended the game with a lineout.
UCSB returns home this Saturday to open their Big West home schedule with a doubleheader with Cal Poly starting at noon. The games will be the first and second of a three game series. Tickets are available at the Ticketing Office at the Intercollegiate Athletics Building, over the phone at 805.893.UCSB (8272), and online here.


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Seeing how a food grows makes a difference to how you feel about it. Standing by beds of pine-green watercress in Hampshire, I could be in a different age. This is not the stuff I see used as a garnish then pushed to the side of the plate. This watercress looks vital and abundant, the beds, with springwater flowing through them, ancient. And things appear healthily "natural" – trained hawks and falcons fly over the watercress to deter pigeons and rodents, so pesticides aren't needed.
Watercress was a staple of the English diet way back. A watercress sandwich was a regular working-class breakfast in the 19th century (in fact, watercress was known as "poor man's bread" because it was eaten on its own if you were too poor to buy bread). It was also one of the first "foods on the go", as bunches were wrapped in paper cones and eaten rather the way an ice-cream is today. But it was gradually eclipsed by other leaves and imported greens.
With its "superfood" status, watercress is back in business, but I love it for its flavour and beauty. The bite is peppery and that green is a great background for other strong colours – beetroot, radicchio and pumpkin. It's also the best salad leaf for putting with hot foods – which is why you see it garnishing steaks and roast chicken – because it wilts rather than slumps, and its pepperiness works well with meat.
I'm sceptical about "superfoods", but Steve Rothwell, one of the scientific brains behind watercress cultivation, is a passionate watercress advocate (despite working with it all day every day, he picked and ate sprigs of the stuff the whole time we chatted). He gives me the hard facts. Watercress contains more vitamin C than oranges, more calcium than milk, more vitamin E than broccoli and more folate than bananas.
It is also at the top of the Aggregate Nutrient Density Index. Developed by an American doctor, this grades fruit and vegetables from one to 1,000 according to their nutrient content. But here's the real biggie: research undertaken at the University of Ulster found that a daily portion of watercress (about 85g, the amount you can fit in a cereal bowl) reduces DNA damage to cells and increases their resistance to further damage by free radicals. Even if you can't manage a whole bag of it a day, eating watercress is good for you.
Why am I writing about watercress in September? Because it was traditionally in season when there was an R in the month. It's the cold-weather salad leaf. Fill your boots with it.
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Lacuna Coil Issue Update on Dark Legacy Tour
Lacuna Coil continue to issue personal updates informing fans of what's going on in their world. The latest came in the form of a two-minute video courtesy of beautiful frontwoman Cristina Scabbia. The lovely singer filmed the clip while getting ready for a gig in Sardinia. She was sequestered in the bathroom while she shared some news about the band's forthcoming Dark Legacy tour.
First, Scabbia revealed that she has a few gigs with Rezophonic and then she will be immersing herself fully into Lacuna Coil again.
"For the first time, we are going to be doing a very special show called 'Dark Legacy…' celebrating 15 years of Lacuna Coil. That means the new songs from 'Dark Adrenaline,' at least some of them, but also a lot of the old songs that celebrate the history of the band," she said. So fans can expect a mixed bag set list featuring both classic and current tunes.
Scabbia asked fans to continue to check the band's official web properties, such as their website and official Facebook page in order to remain fully updated about the band's whereabouts on the road and when they will be hitting your town to play both new and old songs.
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Paula Deen Responds to 'Cruel' Criticism Regarding Her Diabetes
(NEW YORK) -- Bacon burgers sandwiched between two donuts and fried cheesecake was what Paula Deen was known for — until news of her type 2 diabetes diagnosis was made public.
Since then, the 67-year-old Food Network host has received backlash from critics, including chef Anthony Bourdain, for not being upfront about her 3-year-old diagnosis until she made a paid endorsement commercial with pharmaceutical company, Novo Nordisk.
Bourdain, host of the Travel Channel's No Reservations, went public with his criticism in January tweeting, "Thinking of getting into the leg-breaking business, so I can profitably sell crutches later."
"When your signature dish is a hamburger in between a doughnut, and you've been cheerfully selling this stuff knowing all along that you've got type 2 diabetes. … It's in bad taste if nothing else," he told Eater.
Responding to Bourdain's remarks in the May edition of Prevention Magazine, Deen said: "I thought, oh my gosh, what hospital did he just get out of?…People out there with diabetes haven't chosen this. It's not their fault. I thought that was very, very cruel."
Bourdain first expressed his disdain for Deen a year before her diabetes announcement, telling TV Guide that her artery-clogging ways made her the "worst, most dangerous person in America."
But Deen says she's made changes to her diet by cutting out carbs and eating in moderation. In her ad for Novo Nordisk she says, "I have made simple changes like cutting back on one of my favorite things… sweet tea."
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"Monta Ellis have it all."
Yeah, he said it. Just like that. Monta meant it, too. Go to YouTube and search his classic five-word proclamation from a year ago this month and check the look in his eyes when he said it. He had zero doubt about the veracity of his statement, made to explain how he's as good as Dwyane Wade.
Go ahead. Laugh.
While you chuckle, Monta is quietly morphing into the player many thought he couldn't become. Now plying his trade with Dallas, he returns to Oracle Arena on a Mavericks team looking down at the Warriors in the standings. He's averaging 21.5 points on 47.4 percent shooting with 5.6 assists. Those look like the pre-moped numbers that had Golden State fans buzzing about their burgeoning star.
Monta, 28, wasn't the problem in Golden State. Sure, he has earned his reputation as an inefficient volume shooter who dislikes passing as much as he does the media. He can be petulant when things don't go his way and has a way of dominating a room — in a bad way. And he's a tweener who gambles on defense when he isn't coasting on that end.
But that monster was crafted. It was the Warriors who mismanaged his talent, pegging him to be face of the franchise after he thrived as a brilliant third star. It was Golden State who nurtured his metamorphosis from charming, baby-faced southerner to the tatted NBA malcontent.
Monta is showing you just how effective he can be when his strengths are highlighted. When you put him with the kind of talent that pushes him down the priority list. When you don't let his moods shape the world and his stratospheric confidence dictate your offense.
Here is the best part, though. And you should probably stop laughing right about now. Ellis is exactly what the Warriors need right now.
How much could Golden State use a reliable scorer off the bench right now? The Warriors' roster is crying out for a veteran to consistently come into games and change them.
Yeah, I know. Good luck getting Monta to come off the bench. This is the same guy who once said he was the second-best player in the NBA behind LeBron James, ahead of Kobe Bryant.
But that's what makes Monta who he is. He's 6-foot-3 and 175 pounds with a bag of oranges over his shoulder. He made it out of the slums of Jackson, Miss., to the NBA fresh out of high school. You don't get to this level without believing Goliath is but a G.I. Joe figurine.
He is a dynamic player with an exceptional skill set. When used properly, he is a dynamic weapon that can sometimes be impossible to defend. And when his head is on straight, he can help you win.
The trade of Monta was a no-brainer. Not only is it just about always good to trade small for big, but his run in the Bay Area was done. There was too much history to overcome.
Former team president Robert Rowell threatening to void his contract after the moped. The dismantling of the We Believe squad around him. The ouster of G.M. Chris Mullin, who supported Monta most. To the drafting of another player (Stephen Curry) at his position. To Don Nelson making an example out of him and riding him for being a diva. To the sexting scandal. To being the poster child for the defenseless, futile Warriors. His time here was up.
But you'd be incorrect to lay the blame solely on him. He is the birth child of a poorly managed franchise and the $66 million raise he received his fourth season. He didn't make himself the entire offense and approve of his inefficient chucking from outside. But Monta's inability to win with the Warriors wasn't exclusively his fault. It was much more Golden State's fault for succumbing.
Go ahead. Laugh.
Monta doesn't care. He has an uncanny ability to only see and hear the people he wants to see and hear. But you'd better get all those giggles in now. Because Monta is with a coach in Rick Carlisle who won't allow him to be his own worst enemy. He is with a player in Dirk Nowitzki who allows him to relish being No. 2. He is under an owner in Mark Cuban who will spare no expense to produce a winning team. And Monta is entering the prime of his career, when his athleticism and experience and hunger is clicking harmoniously.
Next time you see Monta, he might be the one laughing.
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There was a lot of talk about Tim Tebow in New York this week, but the Jets haven't used him much on offense.
They did try another fake punt with Tebow in his role as personal punt protector, however, and, for the first time this year, it didn't work. Tebow made a flip pass to Lex Hilliard, who got swallowed up by the Rams defense immediately.
And it was the Rams defense, not their punt team. In response to the Jets converting three fake punts already this season, the Rams kept the defense on the field with the Jets needing five yards to convert for a first down. The Jets didn't audible out of the play, which is something that is sure to come up during postgame media briefings, and wound up handing the ball to the Rams.
The Rams would hand it right back when Muhammad Wilkerson stripped Sam Bradford on a sack. Bart Scott recovered and took the ball into Rams territory, where Mark Sanchez hit Chaz Schilens for a 25-yard touchdown that made the score 10-7 in the second quarter. Sanchez has hit on 7-of-10 passes for 79 yards, but three sacks have kept the Jets offense from generating much momentum.
It was the second Rams turnover of the game, but the Jets couldn't convert a Bradford interception into points when Nick Folk's field goal was blocked by cornerback Janoris Jenkins.


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Ted Post, a veteran television and film director who directed a young Clint Eastwood on TV's "Rawhide" and later directed the film legend in the hit movies "Hang `em High" and "Magnum Force," has died. He was 95.
Post, who had been in failing health, died early Tuesday at UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica, said his daughter, Laurie Post.
Beginning with an episode of the TV dramatic anthology series "Danger" in 1950, Post went on to direct segments of series such as "Armstrong Circle Theatre," "Schlitz Playhouse of Stars," "Medic," "Waterfront," "Perry Mason," "The Rifleman" and "Gunsmoke."
For television in the '60s, he directed series such as "Twilight Zone," "The Defenders," "Combat!" and, most frequently, "Peyton Place," the hit continuing romantic drama that aired up to three times per week.
Post also directed more than 20 episodes of "Rawhide," the popular western series launched on CBS in 1959 starring Eric Fleming and Eastwood.
After Eastwood's big-screen successes in Italian director Sergio Leone's "spaghetti westerns," the star insisted that Post direct his 1968 western "Hang `em High."
Post went on to direct Eastwood in the 1973 film "Magnum Force," the first of the "Dirty Harry" sequels featuring Eastwood's signature San Francisco police inspector, "Dirty" Harry Callahan, first seen in the Don Siegel-directed "Dirty Harry" two years earlier.
Among Post's other film are "Beneath the Planet of the Apes" (1970), "The Harrad Experiment" (1973) and "Go Tell the Spartans" (1978). He also directed the 1976-77 TV series "Rich Man, Poor Man — Book II" and the 1986 TV-movie remake of "Stagecoach."
Born in Brooklyn on March 31, 1918, Post began thinking of a show business career while working weekends as an usher at the Loew's Pitkin Theatre in Brooklyn in the late '30s.
He studied acting in a workshop taught by a former actress with the Moscow Art Theater but soon gave up thoughts of becoming an actor and began directing at a summer stock theater on Long Island.
After serving in the Army during World War II, he resumed directing in the theater. That included directing Bela Lugosi in a 1948 production of "Dracula" at the Norwich Summer Theatre in Connecticut.
Post is survived by his wife of 72 years, Thelma; his daughter, Laurie Post, a clinical psychologist; his son, Robert Post, dean of Yale Law School; four grandchildren and his brother Joe and sister Ruth.
Services are planned for 1 p.m. Friday at Mt. Sinai Memorial Park, 5950 Forest Lawn Drive, Los Angeles.
McLellan is a former Times staff writer.


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HP's stock is getting smoked today after CEO Meg Whitman lowered the company's expectations at its analyst meeting.
HP's profit forecast for fiscal 2013 is $3.40-$3.60 per share, well below analyst estimates of $4.16. Shares fell 12%, hitting a nine-year low.
Whitman warned analysts that HP will experience "broad-based profit decline" but said the company will be "more contained" than in fiscal year 2012.
Whitman discussed a multi-year turnaround and promised that it will complete its savings targets and restructuring by the end of fiscal 2014. She expects the company's revenues to be "growing in line with gross domestic product" by 2016.
Last summer, HP said that it would shed 27,000 jobs, saving $3 billion. It then i ncreased its layoff to 29,000 jobs, and savings to $3.3 billion. In August, it announced an $8 billion write down, due to a goodwill impairment on its $13.9 billion EDS acquisition.


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Over at Scraps of Darkness, there is a challenge going on right now that is based on Shakespeare's "Midnight Summer's Eve." I chose to enter this layout which features items from the August SOD kit, Midnight Garden and a few pieces of Dusty Attic that I added. I finally got to use one of the fairies!!
Gabrielle P, one of my fellow DT members from Dusty Attic, hand painted her fairy and I LOVED it, so I had to do the same, or at least try lol.
I haven't seen these mushrooms get used very often and they are so dang cute. These come in a pack of four, with two big ones and two small ones. I used marker to color the mushroom tops red and liquid pearls for the bases.
These flowers, except for the brown one, were originally a salmon color. I used a blue smooch spritz on them and I love how they turned out. For the brown flower I used a more silver toned color.
Just a quick note to let you all know that I am doing another blog giveaway starting September 10th!! Instead of just one chance to win, you will get three chances!!! Don't miss it!!
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Fiction Contest: Duct-Taped in Hilo
Presenting the grand prize- winning story from the 22nd Annual Honolulu Magazine Starbucks Coffee Hawaii Fiction Contest.
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Friday night, the Golden Madonna appeared in Hilo. Saturday morning, Papa Joe, backing out of his driveway, checking his cracked rearview mirror, saw golden arms outstretched. "Holy moley," he whispered. Felt a thud. And hit the brakes.
Tiny red birds fluttered from Papa Joe's avocado tree to his mountain apple tree and back again. What was he supposed to do? He reached for the glove compartment, shook his head, then squeezed out of the tiny pickup and limped to the tailgate. "Where the heck," he said, grabbing the Madonna under her arms and dragging her clear of the muffler, "did you come from?"
Golden eyes stared at the blue sky.
Gently, Papa Joe balanced the Madonna's golden feet on the asphalt. Who would do such a thing? Leave a statue in the middle of the street? Didn't people in this town ever forget? He touched the crack at the base of the Madonna's neck. Gently, he brushed bits of asphalt off her lips. His fingertips came away sticky golden.
On a mist-slippery road between Volcano and Mountain View, Theresa Domingo pressed on the gas pedal of her '84 Stanza and yelled into her cell phone, "I love you!" She was headed down the mountain, after a 24-hour shift at the Aloha Aina Mana Bed and Breakfast, to work the breakfast rush at Blaine's. "I love you," she shouted. Then her Stanza flew into the air, hung there for a moment, crashed through a wall of bamboo and slammed into a telephone pole.
"Holy mother of god," a tourist from Virginia said, crossing himself, running, wiping the morning rain from his face. The Stanza had landed on its back. "No one survived this one." Bracing his feet against the rusted metal, he peeled back what was left of the drivers-side window. A woman's hand drooped out, her bloody fingers still clutching a cell phone.
"Theresa? You there?" a man's voice asked. "Theresa?"
The tourist pried the phone out of her fingers and yelled into it, "Send an ambulance. Please. I'm …" He did not know where he was. "On the volcano road," he said. "The phone belongs to a woman. Send an ambulance." He felt Theresa's bloody wrist. Felt a faint pulse. "Hold on, dear," he managed to say. He did not know where to start. He wiped the blood from her arm, uncovering a homemade tattoo, the outline of a cross inked above Kona Girl.
Theresa's lips moved. The cell phone kept talking. "Kona double espresso," a man's voice said.
The tourist was crying, inhaling cold mountain air mixed with the smell of gasoline and ginger perfume. He did not know what to do. "Don't talk, dear. Save your strength," he said, touching Theresa's lips gently with his fingertips. "Be quiet now. It'll be OK, honey." His fingertips came away covered with blood.
Papa Joe watched the woman's bright red fingernails pin his $5 bill to the counter. He didn't like to spend more than 50 cents on coffee, but today he needed Manni's help. "Double ex-large Kona," he said.
"Venti," the girl smiled.
"Howzit," Papa Joe answered. The woman laughed, and Papa Joe remembered a young woman like her, a wild haole girl with red hair and dangling earrings. This woman behind the counter could be her daughter. When she turned to get his coffee, her huge round pregnant stomach brushed against a tray of glasses. "Hard work being one mother," Papa Joe said.
The woman rubbed her belly and smiled, "Isn't he beautiful?" She pushed the $5 bill and a hefty mug of coffee across the counter. "Manni said he'd be out in a minute."
No ring on her finger. Women didn't need husbands these days, not even for having babies. Pretty soon they'd only need to take a pill. Papa Joe wondered why he could think of such crazy things, but when it came to a statue appearing in the middle of the road, his mind refused to work. He left the money on the counter and sat next to the window, in a soft leather chair. When he lifted the mug to his lips, he smelled ginger perfume. The woman had left her scent on the cup handle. He sniffed it again, then set the cup down on the table. He was too old to be smelling yellow ginger. He had lived alone for 25 years, and smelling such things only made him feel more alone.


text: LWN recently did an article entitled "Who wrote 2.6.20?" It was a reponse to a Time magazine article which claimed that Linux was written by volunteers, when most of us know that most Linux kernel development is done by paid developers. http://lwn.net/Articles/222773/ In one of the charts he looked at all the changes to the kernel in the last year, and summed them up by company. The top companies were (drumroll please): (Unknown) 740990 29.5% Red Hat 361539 14.4% (None) 239888 9.6% IBM 200473 8.0% QLogic 91834 3.7% Novell 91594 3.6% Intel 78041 3.1% ... and we didn't even do our own distro! Hee hee. -- greg


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HarryC necesitaba un nuevo diseño de camiseta y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 148 diseños de 45 diseñadores freelance.
Taiwanese Scholar Society from Carnegie Mellon University
Hi all the designers,
We are students from Carnegie Mellon University - Taiwanese Scholar Society and we want a design for the T-shirt to distribute to our 200 members in our club.
Our 200 members in our club and alumnus.
There are few key elements you must have in this T-Shirt
(1) Carnegie Mellon (Word)
- same font as in http://www.cmu.edu
- color must be in red color (CMU color)
(2) Taiwan (Word)
- you should play around with the font (try warp text in photoshop for different effect)
- color - try to use green-ish color
You should play around with the size of the font as well for both Carnegie Mellon word and Taiwan word to fit T-Shirt for a better design. From there you'll need to come out with a design - perhaps adding some graphics.
The past attempt for the graphics design has been involved with using the shape of Taiwan (available in google) and flowers and tweaking around with it. You can also pursue this way but it is strongly suggest that you come out with something creative.
The background color for the T-Shirt should be white/light grey/grey.
The final submission file should be in gif,bmp, and psd file.
The rest is all yours ~


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Remembrance #1 - My father was a barber. Barber shops were known in those days for having an ample supply of magazines for the customers to read. While I do remember my father having National Geographic, Life and Look magazines in his barber shop I am almost positive that he didn't subscribe to them and I am thinking that perhaps a customer would bring in his past issues to share. Those magazines eventually made their way to our home but they were stored in the basement and were not of real interest to me. I can't remember my brother reading them either. They just sat in the basement until my mother tired of them and threw them out.
While my father was an avid reader of the newspaper there were no books in the house and not even any bookshelves. I don't remember ever seeing my father with a book in his hands and only in her later years has my mother developed an interest in reading.
When I was about 8 I developed a love for the Nancy Drew series of books and began collecting them. They were sold at the JL Hudson Department Store at the time and I could always count on a book or two (or maybe three) for a birthday or Christmas. Slowly my collection grew and I was known for taking a book to bed with me and reading with the bed light on until my mother would 'catch' me. I devoured those books and still have the entire collection to this day. Not giving my age away but at least the first half of these books all have a copyright date of 1932 and have the old blue bindings as opposed to the more current colored covers and binding.
I can remember two instances regarding my Nancy Drew books. One involved my search for one elusive volume - "Nancy's Mysterious Letter". For some reason I was not able to find that book. One day at school I was on the playground and there in the dirt and grass was a book with a burgundy masking tape binding. I picked up the book and lo and behold it was "Nancy's Mysterious Letter". I was ecstatic and picked it up quickly. It had obviously seen some wear but I still have that book today in my collection.
The other instance involving my collection was when I was having my 10th birthday party. It was the heyday of my love for Nancy Drew and my grandparents came over to the house for my birthday. My grandmother was carrying a huge present that she handed to me. It was so incredibly heavy that I was just certain it contained lots of Nancy Drew books. Imagine my surprise when I opened the package to find NOT books but rather a very unusual gift for a 10 year old - a set of WHITE bed sheets for my bed. My grandmother remarked to me "your mother needs sheets" and that is what I received. To this day I still remember my disappointment and marvel at my grandmother's thinking - if she wanted to buy me sheets maybe some pretty girly pattern would have been better than stark white. I laugh about it now but that memory has remained.
Remembrance #2 - My paternal grandparents lived in East Detroit as well as we did and were just a few miles away from our home. I spent much time in their home over the years and remember it well. My grandmother was a very particular housekeeper and her home was immaculate. What I remember is that everything was in its place, clean as a whistle and when we were there we were not allowed to touch anything or mess anything up. It was a very scary time being there as my grandmother exuded a spirit of toughness. My grandfather on the other hand was wonderfully loving and tried to temper her personality to little avail. I do remember that while they had no books sitting around or even book shelves, no magazines and if there were newspapers they were quickly picked up, they did have two books in their house that were hidden away (probably so they wouldn't get dusty-dust was NOT my grandmother's friend). They had a large round table with claw feet in the living room that had a series of drawers around the table. Only one drawer opened and when grandma wasn't looking we liked to try and figure out which drawer actually opened. In the one drawer were two books - "Andersen's Fairy Tales" and "Grimm's Fairy Tales". If I asked my grandmother really nice, and caught her in a good mood, she would let me actually open the drawer and read one book.
I had to sit still in a chair and was able to read the various stories in the book. These were both old books, too, with copyright dates in the 1930's as well. I don't have any idea where they came from but somehow or other I was given those books and still have them.
Remembrance #3 - My parents were very active bowlers and my brother and I had to accompany them to the alleys on the 3 nights a week that they bowled. I like to say that I grew up doing homework at bowling alleys and that was true. One of their mixed leagues included an elderly widower in his 80's who loved the game. Sometimes we would drive him home after bowling and one time, noting my persistence with reading at the alleys, he invited us into his home. He said that his wife had been a lover of books and that he had some books in his attic that he wanted to show me. Up the stairs we went and I had never seen so many books in one place other than a library. He told me that I could borrow any books to read at the bowling alley and after the season was over he told me to pick one that he would let me have. I chose "The Search for Peggy Ann" by May Hollis Barton, copyright 1930 and have that book to this day. I think I need to re-read it because I have no memory of the content of the book any more. He was a dear sweet man with no children or grandchildren and I often wonder what happened to all those other wonderful books when he passed away.
Now in my home today I have bookshelves and more bookshelves. Today I counted and I have 8 sets of bookshelves between my bedroom and my lower level office. Between these 8 sets of shelves, there are 38 individual shelves. Also in my living room is an 8 shelf unit built into the wall. I will admit that all these shelves are full - general reading books, children's books, Nancy Drew books and, of course, many genealogical reference books.
I have recently added a new medium to reading and that is a Toshiba Tablet with e-reader. I am finding that I love the convenience of reading a book on my tablet and am delighted with this new concept.
The library has definitely always been my friend whether it is the public library or my own private library. I can't see myself ever losing my passion for reading though my passion for genealogy sometimes gets in the way!
With the Internet, Google, World Cat, etc there is little doubt that any book one is searching for can be found with little difficulty or even after a 30+ year search.
What? A 30+ year search for a book? That's right and in my next post I will reveal the search I undertook for a valuable genealogical reference book that took me from 1981 until 2 weeks ago to actually find.
Stay tuned!
Above photos personal collection of Cheryl Schulte
Copyright (c) 2012, Cheryl J. Schulte


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Junior Wheels No. 81 Machine to Victory in 2004 Food City 250
In 2004, Dale Earnhardt Jr. recorded Bristol's first weekend sweep - piloting his No. 81 Dale Earnhardt Inc. machine to victory lane in Friday's Food City 250 before winning the track's legendary Night Race.
Starting from pole in the Aug. 27 Busch race, Junior survived a then season-high 13 cautions and fended off Matt Kenseth in the Series' first green-white-checker finish to claim the coveted Bristol trophy.
"I was worried because I got a lot of stuff on the tires," Earnhardt said. "But Matt did a good job, he could have run all over me. The last lap I was chugging through corners, just trying to keep it on the bottom.
"He laid off of me. It was a good race, a good win. But he laid off of me and it was a good race, a good win."
Kenseth said he was hampered by spinning his tires on the final restart, which prevented him from closing in on Earnhardt.
"If I wouldn't have spun the tires, I think I would have had a shot at Junior," Kenseth said, nearly drowned out by the cheers for Earnhardt. "But it seems like everybody is happier with this outcome, so that's all right."
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For more information or to purchase tickets, call (855) 580-5525 or visit www.BristolTix.com.


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Eye disease
Eye disease, any of the diseases or disorders that affect the human eye.
This article briefly describes the more common diseases of the eye and its associated structures, the methods used in examination and diagnosis, and the factors that determine treatment and prognosis. The first part deals with conditions affecting the orbit, lids, and external eye, and the second focuses on diseases of structures within the eyeball, or globe. Later sections deal with injuries, ocular conditions associated with systemic disease, disorders of vision, methods of examining the eye, and devices for correcting visual defects. For more information about the medical specialty dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of eye diseases, see ophthalmology; for more information about the health care profession concerned with the eye, see optometry.
Disorders of the outer eye and auxiliary structures
The orbit and lacrimal apparatus
The orbit is the bony cavity in the skull that houses the globe of the eye (eyeball), the muscles that move the eye (the extraocular muscles), the lacrimal gland, and the blood vessels and nerves required to supply these structures. The remaining space within the orbit is filled with a fatty pad that acts as a cushion for the eye and allows free movement of the globe. With aging, this pad of fat tends to atrophy so that the globe recedes, causing a more sunken appearance of the eye that is often seen in elderly people.
Inflammatory conditions of the orbit
Since the bone that separates the orbit from the nose and the nasal sinuses is rather thin, infection sometimes spreads from the nasal sinuses into the orbit, causing the orbital tissue to swell and the eye to protrude. This condition, called orbital cellulitis, is serious because of the possibility that the infection may spread into the cranial cavity via the pathways of the cranial nerves that reach the eye through the posterior orbit. Infections can also spread to the cranial cavity by way of the blood vessels that lie within the orbit. Prompt administration of appropriate antibiotics in most cases eliminates such infections. However, surgical drainage of orbital abscesses (pockets of pus surrounded by areas of tissue inflammation) may be required. Sterile (noninfectious) inflammatory conditions such as Graves ophthalmopathy (eye disease caused by thyroid dysfunction) also affect the orbit.
The lacrimal glands, the small glands that secrete the watery component of tears and are located behind the outer part of each upper lid, are rarely inflamed but may become so as a complication of viral infection, such as in mumps or mononucleosis (caused by Epstein-Barr virus). Inflammations of the lacrimal sac are much more common. The lacrimal, or tear, sac lies in a hollow at the inner corner of the eye in the front part of the nasal wall of the orbit; under normal conditions, tears run along the margins of the eyelids toward the nose and are drained through two tiny holes (called puncta) connected by small tubes to the upper part of the lacrimal sac. The lower part of the sac is connected to the nose by the nasolacrimal duct, and infection may ascend this passage from the nose and cause an acute painful swelling at the inner corner of the eye (called dacryocystitis). Blockage of the nasolacrimal duct prevents the passage of tears into the nose and results in a watery eye. Such a blockage, which is often accompanied by chronic inflammation in the lacrimal sac, is usually treated in infancy with a simple massaging technique. However, if the problem persists, a procedure to open or stent the tear passageway can be performed to relieve the obstruction. If this approach also fails, a different operation can be undertaken in which a new opening from the lacrimal sac to the nasal cavity is made.
Tumours of the orbit
Tumours in the orbit are comparatively rare and may arise from within the orbit, as an extension from nearby sinuses, or as a metastasis from a distant tumour. Tumours arising within the orbit include lacrimal gland tumours, lymphoid tumours, vascular tumours, and tumours of the optic nerve, among others. Such tumours may be benign or malignant. Orbital tumours can cause a slow and gradual protrusion or displacement of the eye, which may prevent ocular movements from being coordinated with those of the normal eye. If this occurs, the images of the two eyes, which are normally fused, may separate and give rise to double vision (diplopia).
Disorders of the lids
Inflammatory conditions
The chronic inflammation of the lid margins known as blepharitis is a common and potentially distressing condition. The inflammation may be mild, causing simple redness of the lid margin with scaling of the skin, or it may be severe, causing intense irritation and burning along with eyelash destruction and distortion. Blepharitis tends to be associated with greasiness of the skin and with dandruff. The skin of the lids is particularly sensitive to allergic processes, and itching, scaling, and redness of the lids are common reactions to drugs or cosmetics applied to the eye of a sensitized person.
Another common inflammatory condition of the lid is a sty, in which inflammation of particular oil glands or lash follicles occurs along the lid margin. Sties originating in the lash follicles are usually infectious and start as a painful swelling of the lid. At first it may be difficult to find a localized lesion, but soon one area becomes more swollen, and, as pus forms, a yellow point may be seen near the lid margin. A rather similar appearance can be produced by an inflammation of the tiny glands in the inner eyelid, called meibomian glands, that open onto the lid margin. Since the glands are embedded in tough fibrous tissue, the pain and reaction may be more severe than in a sty of the lash follicle. Examination of the internal surface of the lid often shows a red, velvety area with a central yellow spot through which pus may later discharge. Sometimes the meibomian glands suffer from a chronic infection, and a painless firm lump, called a chalazion, appears in the lid and slowly increases in size. The skin can be moved freely over the surface of the lump, showing that the latter is in the deeper tissue of the lid. The inner surface of the lid will show a discoloured area surrounded by inflammation. If the chalazion persists and does not respond to warm compresses, eyelid scrubs, and massage, it can be removed through an incision made on the inner surface of the lid.
Herpes zoster (shingles) may affect the skin of the eyelids and is of particular importance because the cornea (the transparent covering of the front of the eyeball) and inner eye may also be affected. The condition often starts with pain and redness of the forehead and the eyelids of the same side. Vesicles, or small blisters, form later in the affected area. The pain may be severe, and some constitutional disturbance is common.
Malposition of the lids
Malposition of the lid is common in elderly people. Although usually not serious in itself, it can give rise to considerable discomfort, irritation, and even impairment of vision. Ectropion arises when the lower lid curls away from the globe in such a way that, if significant, the tears overflow the lid. This constant wetting of the skin of the lower lid is abrasive and irritates the skin. In addition, severe cases can lead to exposure of and damage to the cornea. The opposite condition is entropion, in which the lid turns inward and the lashes cause irritation by rubbing on the eye. It may be caused by scarring of the deeper tissues of the lid or may be due to age-related changes in lid muscle tone. In ectropion and entropion, plastic surgery is usually necessary to bring the lid back to a near normal position.
Another type of lid malposition is called blepharoptosis, in which the upper lid margin droops below its normal resting position when the eyelids are open. This can result from age-related changes, congenital abnormalities, or nerve or muscle disorders, among other causes. Severe cases of blepharoptosis can cause significant impairment of vision by blocking light from entering the pupil. In children, such vision impairment may become permanent if not treated promptly. Again, surgical intervention is usually required.
Tumours of the lids
Benign overgrowths of the blood vessels, called hemangiomas, may occur in the lids and give rise to soft, bluish swellings. They are most often present at birth and tend to grow in the first few years of life, sometimes contributing to obscuration of vision and amblyopia. Often they disappear spontaneously, but they can be treated with corticosteroids (steroid hormones such as cortisone, prednisone, or prednisolone), with interferon (potent proteins released by cells of the immune system that block cell reproduction and modulate immune response), or, rarely, by surgical removal. Simple overgrowths of skin, called papillomas, result from viral infections and are common along the lid margin. They require no special treatment except excision or ablation for cosmetic reasons. A nevus (birthmark) is a benign growth, usually pigmented and raised, that arises from pigment cells of the skin. Change in shape, size, or colour of a nevus may indicate transformation into a malignant tumour.
The lids and the skin of the nose near the inner margins of the lids are common sites for the development of skin cancer in older people. The most usual type, called a basal cell carcinoma (or "rodent ulcer"), starts as a small nodule in the skin that gradually enlarges and breaks down to form an ulcer with a hard base and pearly, rolled edges. Bleeding may occur from the base of the ulcer. Although basal cell carcinomas are malignant in the sense that they destroy tissue locally, they do not spread to distant areas of the body by means of the lymph system or the blood vessels. Other malignant cancers affecting the eyelid include sebaceous carcinoma of the eyelid glands and melanoma, the latter of which can arise from preexisting nevi.
Strabismus (squint)
In the lower vertebrates, such as fishes, the eyes are situated on either side of the head to give the maximum view of the surroundings and an early warning of the presence of predators. The field of vision of each eye is separate except for a narrow sector immediately in front of the animal, where the visual fields of each eye overlap. The improved judgment of distance obtained by viewing an object with both eyes conferred considerable biological advantage in the struggle for survival. In the higher animals, particularly the predatory species of birds and mammals, binocular vision became more and more important. Structural changes in the placement of the eyes in the head permitted a larger overlap of the two visual fields until the situation was reached in the higher mammals in which the visual axes of the two eyes—that is, the line of direct sight—became essentially parallel. This desirable visual arrangement is fully realized in humans. However, the structural changes necessary to bring this about seem to have lagged behind the function, and the geometrical axes of most eyes are still slightly divergent (i.e., the two eyes at rest are directed slightly away from the nose). The bony structure of the orbit has lagged even farther behind, and the axes of the two orbits make an angle of only about 45°.
It is the function of using two eyes together that keeps the optic axes straight in a normal person. If, for example, one eye becomes blind, it tends to revert to an anatomical position of rest in line with the axis of the orbit. A blind eye will therefore often appear to be diverging under resting conditions. The visual axes can remain straight only if each eye has reasonably good vision, the ocular muscles can move the eyes in the required directions of gaze, and the complex neuromuscular inputs required to coordinate the movements of the two eyes are intact. Failure to maintain the visual axes parallel may therefore result from visual defects, muscular defects, or paralysis, which may result in loss of normal movement of the eye, or from defects in the central nervous system that affect the coordinating neural pathways. A true strabismus (also called squint) is a condition in which the visual axes are no longer parallel (i.e., one eye deviates in position from the other). A false strabismus may be seen in children as the result of prominent skin folds in the nasal portion of the eyelids, which make the eyes appear to be converging (i.e., appear to cross). These skin folds usually disappear when the bony structure of the nose has developed more fully.
Clinically, strabismus can be divided into concomitant, in which the abnormal angle between the visual axes remains constant in all positions of gaze, and incomitant, in which the eye deviation varies with the direction of gaze. A common type of concomitant strabismus seen in young children is accommodative esotropia, in which the eyes are consistently or intermittently crossed when trying to focus. It is usually first noticed between the ages of two and three and is often associated with a family history of strabismus. The etiology of this condition is tied to the "near reflex," which has two main components. First, the visual axes must converge, so that both eyes can view the same object. Second, the focus (accommodation) of the eyes must be adjusted for near vision. The link between convergence of the eyes and focusing is very strong, and normally the two actions work in harmony, resulting in both eyes being appropriately aligned on the object of regard. However, in children with accommodative esotropia, the balance between eye convergence and accommodation is abnormal, such that the eyes cross more than is required for a given amount of focusing demand. This imbalance is more common in farsighted children, who require more focusing effort to see clearly both distant and near objects.
Once parallelism of the visual axes has been lost, the images no longer lie on corresponding areas of each retina, and two images are perceived. This condition of double vision, or diplopia, is detrimental to the child, whose adaptive brain reacts by suppressing the image from the deviating eye. If the brain's suppression of one eye's vision is allowed to continue, the central vision of the affected eye can drop to a low level, a condition called amblyopia. Even if the original disturbance that started the strabismus is corrected, amblyopia may prevent the restoration of normal binocular vision. The longer the suppression is allowed to continue, the less likely the child is to regain normal vision in the deviating eye. Covering, or patching, the good eye will usually encourage the recovery of the suppressed vision, but it must be started as soon as possible. Any refractive error present (i.e., any defect that prevents light rays from focusing properly on the retina, such as nearsightedness or farsightedness) must be corrected, usually by eyeglasses. Early treatment along these lines may be all that is necessary, but, if the visual axes are still abnormal, surgery of the extraocular muscles is usually required to correct the deviation.
Diseases of the conjunctiva
A thin membrane called the conjunctiva lines the outside of the eyelids, covers the anterior surface of the eye (except the cornea), and is lubricated by the tears. This warm, moist habitat can provide a suitable environment for the growth of bacteria, viruses, and other organisms, all of which may cause conjunctivitis (inflammation of the conjunctiva). Bacterial conjunctivitis starts with a feeling of grittiness and discomfort. The eye becomes red and exudes a thick discharge. The discharge is particularly noticeable after sleep, when the lids may be stuck together by the exudate on the lashes. Vision is not affected except by the strands of mucus, which can be blinked away from the cornea. Antibiotic drops usually clear the condition quickly. Vernal conjunctivitis (or spring catarrh) is, as its name suggests, an allergic condition occurring in the spring and early summer. It is more common in young people and may result from sensitivity to external irritants. It usually responds to treatment with antiallergy or anti-inflammatory medication.
Chronic conjunctivitis also causes a gritty feeling, with redness of the eyes and a slight mucoid discharge. It is a common condition, the cause of which may be difficult to find. Often there is underlying chronic inflammation of the lid margin (such as blepharitis); however, sometimes the condition is caused by an allergic sensitivity to cosmetics or to drugs applied to the eye. An unsuspected foreign body or a deficiency of tear secretion may cause similar symptoms.
Trachoma, although rare in more-developed countries, is a significant cause of preventable blindness in the world. Widespread in some Middle Eastern countries, it has remained common in Asia, India, Central and South America, and Africa and occurs sporadically in southern and eastern Europe. The agent responsible is an intracellular bacterial organism known as Chlamydia trachomatis. The disease is contagious and thrives where populations are crowded together in poor hygienic surroundings. Shortage of water for washing and the myriads of flies attracted to human waste aid the dissemination of the disease. In some ways trachoma is more of a social problem than a medical problem. When living standards are improved, overcrowding reduced, flies discouraged, and adequate water supplies ensured, the incidence of trachoma decreases rapidly.
The early symptoms of trachoma infection are pain, watering of the eye, and sensitivity to light. At this stage the conjunctival lining of the lids is red and velvety in appearance, and the cornea may show gray areas. Later the conjunctiva appears to have grains of sand embedded in its tissue, and blood vessels grow into the cornea, causing it to thicken and become hazy. Secondary bacterial infections are common, but the real dangers of trachoma lie in the scarring and contracture of tissue that occur when healing takes place. These changes affect the upper lid in particular, causing it to buckle inward in such a way that the lashes rub across the already diseased cornea, exacerbating the corneal scarring and potentially leading to blindness. Antibiotic treatment is usually effective at eradicating the infection, although any existing scarring will remain.
Viral conjunctivitis, caused by viruses that tend to attack the cornea as well as the conjunctiva, occurs more commonly than bacterial conjunctivitis. Viral infection is contagious and is often responsible for outbreaks of epidemic keratoconjunctivitis (called "pinkeye"), in which infection with an adenovirus causes inflammation of the cornea and conjunctiva. The onset is acute, with redness, swelling, irritation, and watering of the eye and eyelids, along with a tender swelling of the lymph node in front of the ear. Infection frequently spreads from one eye to the other, but strict hygiene, especially hand washing, can limit its spread. Treatment relies on symptom management with artificial tears and cool compresses. Persistent symptoms and changes in the eye surface may occur.
Degenerative conditions of the conjunctiva
Exposure to wind and dust frequently causes degenerative changes in the exposed part of the conjunctiva, particularly in older people. A yellow nodule, called a pinguecula, forms initially on the nasal side of the cornea and later on the opposite side. It is frequently unnoticed until an incidental infection such as conjunctivitis occurs simultaneously, causing the pinguecula to stand out clearly against the red background of dilated conjunctival vessels. It causes no symptoms and requires no treatment.
A more serious degeneration, called pterygium, is found particularly in people who live in bright, sunny climates. It appears as a fleshy growth at the edge of the cornea and has a tendency to progress across the front surface of the cornea, where it may interfere with vision. Treatment consists of surgical removal, but recurrences are common.
Diseases of the cornea and sclera
The cornea is the clear window of the eye. It covers the iris and pupil and serves as a powerful refractive surface. Any surface irregularity or scar in the substance of the cornea can affect vision. The cornea is an extremely sensitive tissue and contains many nerve fibres that respond to pain. Diseases of the cornea also elicit a flow of tears because of a specialized reflex action that is part of the protective system of the eye.
Inflammation of the cornea
As with inflammations of the conjunctiva, bacterial infection of the cornea is much less common than viral infection. Of the viruses, the herpesviruses, which cause the common "cold sore" of the lips and skin and the venereal form of herpes, are a frequent cause of corneal ulceration. Infection is most often spread by personal contact. The herpesvirus causes a typical ulcer of the cornea called, from the pattern of the lesion, a dendritic (branching) ulcer. The disease starts with an acutely painful eye, with tearing and sensitivity to light. The ulcer may heal spontaneously or after medical treatment, but the virus often lies dormant in the tissues. Recurrences are common, and with each recurrence there is danger that the virus will extend deeper into the cornea and cause further inflammation and scarring, with eventual vision impairment.
Oral antiviral medications or application of antiviral eye drops to the cornea usually causes the ulcer to heal more rapidly. The action of these drugs limits the multiplication of the virus by interfering with the formation of virus deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) in the host cell.
Bacterial infections of the cornea usually occur after injury to, or breakdown of, the corneal surface, as few bacteria have the power to penetrate the intact surface layers of the cornea. Such ulcers may be extremely severe, and there is always a danger of perforation of the eye, particularly in debilitated patients.
Spores of fungi are present in the atmosphere, and the normal cornea is resistant to infection by these organisms. However, a fungal infection of the cornea can develop after a corneal injury or other lesion, particularly if corticosteroid drugs have been used in the treatment of these conditions. Intensive treatment with antifungal drugs is usually effective in killing the organisms, but a dense scar may be left.
A corneal inflammation may start in the deeper layers of the tissue, either by direct infection or from immune-related processes. One type is seen in adolescents who have congenital syphilis. Both eyes are usually attacked, although there may be an interval before the second eye is affected. As a result of inflammation, the cornea rapidly becomes hazy, and blood vessels grow in from the surrounding tissues to form a pink patch. With the decline in congenital syphilis in developed countries, the condition is becoming increasingly rare.


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62 x 62 x h81 cm Seat cushion 46x42 cm
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