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Steering and brake updates for a high school street rod
For a lot of veteran street rodders it's difficult to understand the interest kids have in cars with little engines and big tailpipes, but there are still some young'uns who go to the old school of thought when it comes to a cool ride. Rick Love's son, Matt, is a great example.
Rick has been involved with cars most of his life as an enthusiast and by profession as vice president of Vintage Air. As he explains it, "Matt had not been the prototypical car kid up to this point. He grew up with Hot Wheels and rides to school in my well-worn '39 Ford, but he never really had the urge to be out in the garage working on cars. To be fair, he has always been pretty heavily involved in basketball and other sports, so he hasn't had unlimited free time.
"I'll admit I was surprised when we started discussing possible car options. As his 16th birthday approached and he got his driver's permit, Matt decided that he wanted an old car to drive rather than a pickup or late-model like most of his friends. He had spent some time on the Internet and looking through magazines, and really like the styling of '50s cars, specifically '56-57 Chevys." Unfortunately most of the Chevys fell outside Matt's budget, but while searching the Internet he came across some pictures of '55-56 Fords, and decided he liked them as much as the Chevys.
As luck would have it, Rick and a friend had a '56 Ford Victoria project car that was purchased a few years back. It was a good solid car, but it was basically a shell with a motor that needed just about everything. Bolstered by youthful enthusiasm, the decision was made to build the Ford and it wasn't long before it was in the Loves' garage as a father and son project. Together Rick and Matt installed Fatman Fabrications' new 3-inch dropped spindles, disc brakes with Granada rotors and GM single-piston calipers, a new Mustang II disc/drum master cylinder and proportioning block from Stainless Steel Brakes Corporation, and a power steering gearbox from Borgeson.
Although the project was progressing nicely, Rick could see the handwriting on the shop wall. It was going to take a while to get this car on the road for Matt to enjoy, so he decided to follow his own advice. Rick always tells people to get the absolute best car they can afford for their first hot rod. As luck would have it a friend decided to sell a '56 Victoria he had restored and owned for over 20 years. A quick look confirmed this was a great car with nice paint, excellent chrome, and a good reproduction interior. Even better, it was running and driving and the time and parts savings would really pay off down the road, not to mention the fact it would have Matt driving and enjoying his first hot rod a lot sooner.
As soon as the second Vicky arrived at its new home Matt was able to take it for a ride—and we all know how exciting driving your first car can be. But proving the acorn doesn't fall far from the tree, it wasn't long before Fords were side by side in the garage and Matt and Rick began turning a stock restoration into what they both describe as a cool and dependable first hot rod. Here's how they did it, twice.

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Accenture is able to track and trace products throughout the value chain to enable a sustainable business for our clients. Our track and trace services provide comprehensive, reliable details on the quality and origin of products and provide information that improves traceability of products. That information enables better crop quality and yield, leading to increased volumes and higher average prices, and allows farmers to gain end-to-end visibility into the journey of their products.


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February 5th, 2015. As we consistently raise awareness on the twin technologies of AR / VR, we as a company has garnered some well deserved media attention along the way. This section underlines some of our most noteworthy highlights as seen on various media outlets.
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soon. By Gibson, of course." 1961 advertisement for the new Les Paul Custom, renamed the SG Custom in late 1963.
The introduction of the remodeled Les Paul models of the early 1960s sought to bolster Gibsons reputation as a quality builder of electric solid body guitars, something the Les Pauls of the late 1950s had failed to do. And although those Les Paul models of the late 1950s would eventually become the worlds most iconic six-stringed instruments, the introduction of the redesigned models in 1961 would also signal an important new era in electric solid body design. Characterized by a much thinner body with two cutaways, pointed horns, beveled edges and no body binding, the new Les Paul Custom as it was called until 1963 signaled the end of the ¾-size versions of the Les Paul Junior and Les Paul Special, leaving the Melody Maker as the only ¾-size Gibson model. This sleek-looking new design, however, didnt immediately grab the guitar worlds attention, and sales of the new model continued to hover below 1,000 units per year until the 1970s. Additionally, Les Paul himself did not fully approve of the new design, which lead to the removal of Les Pauls name in 1963 in favor of its new name, the SG Custom.
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Global research team decodes genome sequence of 90 chickpea lines
In a scientific breakthrough that promises improved grain yields and quality, greater drought tolerance and disease resistance, and enhanced genetic diversity, a global research team has completed high-quality sequencing of not one but ninety genomes of chickpea.
Nature Biotechnology featured the reference genome of the CDC Frontier chickpea variety and genome sequence of 90 cultivated and wild genotypes from 10 different countries, as an online publication on 27 January 2013. The paper provides a map of the structure and functions of the genes that define the chickpea plant. It also reveals clues on how the sequence can be useful to crop improvement for sustainable and resilient food production toward improved livelihoods of smallholder farmers particularly in marginal environments of Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.
The research milestone was the result of years of genome analysis by the International Chickpea Genome Sequencing Consortium (ICGSC) led by the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) headquartered in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh India, involving 49 scientists from 23 organizations in 10 countries. ICRISAT is a member of the CGIAR Consortium.
The global research partnership succeeded in identifying an estimated 28,269 genes of chickpea after sequencing CDC Frontier, a kabuli (large-seeded) chickpea variety. Re-sequencing of additional 90 genotypes provided millions of genetic markers and low diversity genome regions that may be used in the development of superior varieties with enhanced drought tolerance and disease resistance. This will help chickpea farmers become more resilient to emerging challenges brought about by the threat of climate change. The genome map can also be used to harness genetic diversity by broadening the genetic base of cultivated chickpea genepool.
Chickpea is the second largest cultivated grain food legume in the world, grown in about 11.5 million hectares mostly by resource poor farmers in the semi-arid tropics. The highly nutritious, drought-tolerant chickpea contributes to income generation and improved livelihoods of smallholder farmers in African countries like Ethiopia, Tanzania and Kenya, and is crucial to the food security in India (being the largest producer, consumer and importer of the crop). Chickpea is also an important component of the pulse industry in Australia, Canada and USA.
"ICRISAT and its partners have once again demonstrated the power of productive partnerships by achieving this breakthrough in legume genomics," says Dr William Dar, Director General, ICRISAT. "Under the CGIAR Research Program (CRP) on Grain Legumes led by ICRISAT along with other CGIAR Consortium members and program as well as national partners, genome sequencing will play a crucial role in speeding up the development of improved varieties for smallholder farmer crops such as chickpea."
"In the face of the growing global hunger and poverty amid the threat of climate change, the chickpea genome sequence will facilitate the development of superior varieties that will generate more income and help extricate vulnerable dryland communities out of poverty and hunger for good, particularly those in the drylands of Asia and sub-Africa for whom ICRISAT and our partners are working," Dr Dar adds.
"Genetic diversity, an important prerequisite for crop improvement, is very limited and has been a serious constraint for chickpea improvement. This study will provide not only access to 'good genes' to speed up breeding, but also to genomic regions that will bring genetic diversity back from landraces or wild species to breeding lines," explains Dr Rajeev Varshney, coordinator of ICGSC and Director – Center of Excellence in Genomics, ICRISAT.
"At the moment, it takes 4-8 years to breed a new chickpea variety. This genome sequence could reduce to half the time to breed for a new variety with market-preferred traits." he adds.
According to Professor Jun Wang, Director of BGI, "The collaboration between BGI and ICRISAT has yielded significant achievements in orphan crops research, like the pigeonpea genome before and now, the chickpea genome. I believe that our partnership will revolutionize research on orphan crops, which are key staple crops in many low-income countries and are extremely important to smallholder farmers worldwide. The chickpea genome sequencing project was undertaken by the ICGSC led by ICRISAT, the University of California-Davis (USA) and BGI-Shenzhen (China) with key involvement of national partners in India, USA, Canada, Spain, Australia, Germany and Czech Republic.
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When Graeme Glaser of rural Peabody gets up each morning, he goes out to take care of his livestock. It is something he has done all his life as a career farmer and agriculturist - take care of things.
Since 1978 Glaser and his wife, Diane, have farmed in Marion County, raising crops and livestock. Since Oct. 1 this year, he has been hauling water to his 25 cows every other day, stretching resources to combat drought conditions in central Kansas.
"I am just trying to keep them out on grass as long as possible," Glaser said on Monday. "These times remind me of the 50s, when we had three or four years of drought. We've had about two so far, so I expect another year or so before things turn around."
Glaser has experience farming; he has experience taking care of things responsibly. When asked recently to fill a position on a Farm Service Association ballot for election to a committee that oversees farm programs, Glaser said yes.
"It's a thankless job, but somebody has to do it," he said. "I guess it's my turn, my duty."
Glaser understands duty. Prior to moving to Marion County in 1978, he worked for DeKalb in agriculture research at stations in Wichita, Dumas, Texas, and Elk City, Okla. He also served a tour of duty in the U.S. Army, a 2nd Lieutenant during the Vietnam War.
"I was ROTC at Kansas State University in the 60s," he said. "I was a survey instructor, but when they came through and needed us for the war, I was assigned to the 1st Infantry Platoon on the Ho Chi Minh Trail."
In 1966 Glaser served as a forward observer in the artillery division in Vietnam.
"I was embedded right in the infantry," he said. "It was my job to call in artillery strikes as needed, which we did quite often."
The Ho Chi Minh Trail was a network of roads built from North Vietnam to South Vietnam through Laos and Cambodia. Glaser was positioned on the main traffic road from north to south for one year, where the average life expectancy of a soldier was less than a week.
"I felt very lucky to get out," he said. "Many of my very good friends didn't make it."
Glaser said he thinks about those friends often, almost every day, especially around Veterans Day.
"I've never been one to talk about it much," he said. "If you weren't there you just don't understand it."
On Feb. 9, 1967, the U.S. Army awarded Glaser a Bronze Star Medal for meritorious achievement in ground operations against hostile forces.
After his term of duty was over, Glaser came home to a wife and child, and picked up life where he left off, in agriculture.
"They wanted me to sign up for more, and I did spend four years in the reserves," Glaser said. "But I figured I'd done my duty, so I came home."
After a few more years in Oklahoma, home for the Glasers became Marion County. They raised three children, crops and cattle on a farm four miles west of Peabody before moving to their current location north of Peabody just west of 110th and Nighthawk.
"There is not a lot of other places I'd rather be," Glaser said. "It's beautiful here. There are more trees in Kansas than in Oklahoma. Sure, it gets hot and dry, but not as hot and dry as Texas. It gets cold, but not for that long, and not as cold as further north."
Glaser owns a quarter section of land in Catlin Township where he still runs a 25-head cow/calf operation. He has leased out his farm ground to younger farmers in the area.
"We're slowing down some," he said. "My wife and I like to travel to see our kids and grandchildren when we get a chance. We just recently celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary with a trip to Ireland."
At age 70, he said he enjoys having more time to participate in church, community, and farm program activities.
"Part of my life has been really busy," he said. "I didn't always have time to serve as I wanted, but I think it is each person's responsibility to serve in whatever capacity they can to keep our country strong."
In addition to serving with the FSA, Glaser is a member of the Marion County Rural District Water Board. He and his wife are members of the United Methodist Church in Peabody.


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Part I: Making the Move to Dashboards.
Chapter 1: Getting in the Dashboard State of Mind.
Chapter 2: Building a Super Model.
Part II: Building Basic Dashboard Components.
Chapter 3: The Pivotal Pivot Table.
Chapter 4: Excel Charts for the Uninitiated.
Chapter 5: The New World of Conditional Formatting.
Chapter 6: The Art of Dynamic Labeling.
Part III: Building Advanced Dashboard Components.
Chapter 7: Components That Show Trending.
Chapter 8: Components That Group and Bucket Data.
Chapter 9: Components That Display Performance against a Target.
Part IV: Advanced Reporting Techniques.
Chapter 10: Macro-Charged Reporting.
Chapter 11: Giving Users an Interactive Interface.
Part V: Working with the Outside World.
Chapter 12: Using External Data for Your Dashboards and Reports.
Chapter 13: Sharing Your Work with the Outside World.
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Computer Science ColloquiumIm Rahmen des Informatik-Kolloquiums, das von den Instituten des Fachbereichs Informatik, der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Informatik (ÖGI), der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Datenverarbeitung (ADV) sowie der Österreichischen Computergesellschaft (OCG) abgehalten wird, spricht
Prof. Dr. Michael Franz
University of California at Irvine, USAüber das Thema:
Leveraging Parallel Hardware to Eradicate Worms, Viruses and Common Programming ErrorsZeit: Mon 17.3.2008, 16:15, 60 Minuten
Ort: K153C (Keplergebäude)
ZusammenfassungMany large software projects contain residual buffer-overrun vulnerabilities that somehow have managed to escape static analysis and source code reviews. We present an automated software-only technique to detect at run-time when such residual vulnerabilities are exploited, enabling us to stop attacks before they can cause damage. Our technique is based on generating several slightly different variants of the same software and running these variants simultaneously and in lock-step on different cores of a multiprocessor. The different variants are created in such a way that their behavior under
VortragenderMichael Franz is a Full Professor of Computer Science in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and has an additional courtesy appointment as a Full Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in the Henry Samueli School of Engineering. Franz received a Dr. sc. techn. degree in Computer Science (advised by Niklaus Wirth) and a Dipl. Informatik-Ing. degree, both from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich. He is a Distinguished Member of ACM and a Senior Member of IEEE.
Einladender: o. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Hanspeter Mössenböck
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Route Amsterdam to Jakarta, via Dubai (en route to Sydney).
Aircraft Airbus 330-200.
Seat Business 3K.
Flight time 16hr 25min, including a one-hour transit in Dubai. From there I "connect" to a Jakarta-Sydney flight (6hr 45min) — the flight from Amsterdam arrives in Jakarta at 8.25am; the flight to Sydney departs at 11.45pm. The long layover doesn't have to be a negative: I booked a room at the nearby Sheraton Bandara Hotel (from $160, including airport transfers), where I had a swim and a few hours' sleep. Later, back at the airport, I while away another hour or so sampling cosmetics in the duty-free shops, having a massage (about $20) and dining in Garuda's executive lounge.
Seat width and pitch 180-degree lie-flat seat, 21in wide with a pitch of 74in.
Seat configuration 2-2-2 layout for 36 business-class seats in two cabins.
Comfort The cabin is clean, modern and spacious; the easy-to-operate seat feels roomy and comfortable, with a lumbar massage feature. I sleep well on the flat bed with soft blanket. L'Occitane products in the bathroom compensate for an unexciting amenities bag.
Luggage 40 kilograms of check-in luggage (30 kilograms in economy).
Entertainment An unimaginative selection of 37 English-language options leaves me struggling to find more than a couple of films I want to see on the 28-centimetre touchscreen. The classical music channel is disappointing, with only 13 choices and inadequate information in the guide.
Service The Indonesian flight attendants are charming, friendly and chatty, and make us feel welcome and special.
Food and beverages Maurice Leger champagne and juice are offered on boarding. With a choice of Indonesian or Western dishes for lunch, I'm rewarded by following the "when in Rome" principle. An appetiser of western Sumatra beef-cheek sate is followed by beef rendang, fish curry, stir-fried prawns with chilli and lemon sauce, caramelised crispy potato, sauteed string beans and gado-gado. I'm unfamiliar with the wines — two red and two white, all French — and I enjoy the 2009 Michel Leon Riesling.
Fare and frequency A low-season business-class return fare from Sydney to Amsterdam costs from $3891, including tax, which is outstanding value, provided you don't mind that long connection. There are four flights a week between Amsterdam and Jakarta via Dubai; daily flights between Sydney and Jakarta.
Bookings The website www.garuda-indonesia.com is unlikely to direct you to the cheapest business-class fares. Instead, try phoning 1300 365 330.
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Know Your Zine Author – David Greenberger
Posted by Matthew Moyer on July 6, 2010
David Greenberger has been faithfully releasing The Duplex Planet zine since the late Seventies. What started out as a quirky, compulsively readable collection of interviews with senior citizens Greenberger encountered in his daily life and work has since blossomed into books, comics, albums, art installations, and segments on NPR. Even with all of these new outlets, the indefatigable Greenberger is devoted to the print zine above all else, with two (!) new issues on the way. You can find many issues of The Duplex Planet in the Zine Collection, after reading the interview, of course.
Tell me about your first exposure to zines.
Let me start off by saying I don't use the word "zine" in reference to my work. I was first drawn to the idea of self-publishing as a means of artistic expression from my exposure to artists' books in the early seventies. That led to mail art which brought forth not only the postcards and singular mailings, but a range of chap-book sized publications.
How long have you been writing Duplex Planet? What made you decide to create a print zine? And what gave you the inspiration to collect (and publish) interviews with the elderly?
I started publishing The Duplex Planet in 1979. This was not my first entry into the world of self-publishing, but it was the first time I conceived of producing a periodical. My earlier fascination was with the world of artist's books. In the mid-seventies I'd mail order regularly from Printed Matter in New York City, which stocked all manner of publications at affordable prices. I was especially taken with something Ed Ruscha said in an article I read, describing the thrill he got from seeing a stack of his new books back from the printer and in neat piles in front of him on the table. As I looked around the studio at my paintings that were leaned everywhere, this held a certain fascination for me.
The Duplex Planet found its shape and size within the first four issues and has remained basically the same since. Though the material has reached a broader audience in its other forms (books, CDs, performances, comics books, etc), I still feel very attached to the whole act of publishing it myself for it's relatively small audience. On the one hand, it keeps me on my toes, coming up with new material on a regular basis, and on the other, the aesthetic of the work itself is enhanced by its very means of production and distribution. Most copies go to subscribers, and, since one of my aims is to sketch in characters little by little — the way you'd get to know someone you bump into once in a while — that process is heightened by each new issue being actually dropped into a reader's hands over a period of time. (It was monthly for about a dozen years, bimonthly for a decade and a half and lately it's been quarterly or thereabouts.)
My initial impulse to do this was entirely personal: I wanted to get to know people who were nearing the end of their lives but whom I'd never met before. I never knew them before so wasn't caught up in mourning their assorted losses (internal and external). I found this personally enriching and realized it was a rare occurrence in our society. Most people are exposed to aging solely by witnessing family members age and die. Our own mortality is so tied up in that familial parade that it is very hard to learn anything from it that doesn't underscore our own finite lifespans. Meeting new people, no matter what age they are, can be a rich and vivid experience -– it makes us feel good. The wonderful mystery of all relationships is that they start at the point we meet and move forward, with all the life that preceded that meeting being asked and told about, but never coming to life the way the present does.
All of the major decisions in our lives — choice of career, where to live, whether or not to have a family, etc – are made having had examples of others already doing them. As regards aging and decline, we are generally limited to the loss of those we've known the longest: first our grandparents and their generation, and then our parents. I have benefited from meeting so many elders who are not related to me over the past thirty-two years (which is to say, I never knew them before and they new knew me, so we both started from the same point and moved forward together, however briefly). The Duplex Planet is my way of taking that personal experience, abstracting it somewhat, and letting it land on people as it may. Depending on who encounters it, there are many different responses. I don't seek consensus but relish the messiness of art: that there is no one right way to perceive it. If someone reads or hears it as dadaist wordplay, that's fine. If someone else is moved by the fleeting but potent glimpses of ordinary people talking in ordinary ways, that's perfect too.
Was Studs Terkel or the WPA an influence on your work? How did you develop your interviewing style? It's very subtle, mostly open-ended questions and letting the interviewee set the tone and pace.
I read and admire his work, but other than the fact of it being other people's voices I'm gathering, I feel that it's a very different undertaking. I like to find material that is unique to someone talking to me –- the way a real conversation is a unique occurrence. Furthermore, I'm interested in what I call fractured narratives –- incomplete story arcs that allow the character to resonate rather than a complete story.
To end up with conversational material I need to put myself into the mix, so the things we talk about reflect me as well as the person I'm talking with. And, with many of the people experiencing memory loss, I need to get things going in a way that will engage them, but then also keep them engaged. If they change the subject midstream, I go with them wherever that may lead. I'm not after historical information or data of any sort, but the vivid presence of another person in whatever condition they may be in, or however small their orbit has gotten.
When you first started publishing Duplex Planet, did you encounter any resistance or suspicion about what you were doing? (I'm thinking from nursing home officials, etc.)
None at all. I took a job at a nursing home as an activities director specifically so I could meet a range of elderly. It was a wonderful place, a small family-owned home, forty-five beds, all male, run by the son of the man who'd started it. Ray Murphy, the owner, was a wonderful man who truly cared about the men who lived there. I worked there for a few years (1979-82), long enough to find that I didn't want to be working at a nursing home, but wanted to continue to meet the people who lived in them. In the decades since, the history of my work becomes a way in. Also, I've been doing artist residencies to create new works (monologues with music, also books, as well as material in the ongoing periodical). These have been for museums and universities and that also helps to open doors.
Is there a particular interviewee that stands out in your memory? Do you have a favorite story or anecdote that you've been told? Has there ever been a time when you were completely caught off guard by a response?
There have been so many people I've met and talked with over more than half of my life that many of them come to mind depending on what I'm doing. Surprise ones seem to always resurface, prompted by something that was said or occurred. They even show up in my dreams. I am routinely knocked out by the people I meet — just as I am when it's not in the context of this ongoing work of mine. Most recently, there was a woman in Milwaukee (I was there as artist in residence for three months) named Maxine Gilboy. She had very little short term memory but loved to converse with me. I followed wherever it went, even if it didn't make sense. In the end, the emotional resonance was the same — or even more potent -– than the hundreds of thousands of conversations I've had in my lifetime with people who do have all their memory. I remember pretty much none of those conversations, because the main purpose of most conversation is to give us an emotional memory of a person. We'll forget what was said, but will remember, "Oh, I liked that guy, I'd like to see him again."
Duplex Planet has a nice web presence right now. Would you ever publish exclusively online?
As an artist, I struggle to carry out my ideas and stay afloat. That's not a complaint, it's a simple fact. It's the trade off for doing things exactly the way I want to, rather than tailoring it to the marketplace. I believe in what I do, and enough other people also do, so that I know what I do matters. That said, I like making things that you hold in your hand (or put on your wall), objects. The website has been a tool to get people to find out about these things that I make: The Duplex Planet, CDs, books, drawings, etc.
What kind of work goes into creating an issue? How much time?
I print two at a time, I get a better price from the printer that way. That's how I've been doing it since the early nineties. I have files for pieces that will go into issues and sometimes they fit what I'm doing, but lately issues have been built around regional projects: Chatanooga, TN, Portland, OR, Erie, PA, Cape Cod, Milwaukee. The issues are filled with pieces all derived from conversations with people in those cities.
The layouts for Duplex Planet are simple but very eye-catching. Who are some of the people who have contributed art and illustrations to your zine?
Most are by me, both covers and photographs inside, but over the years many friends have done artwork for covers. Some are comic artists (such as Gary Leib, Doug Allen, Wayno), others are artists in other media (including Darryl Vance, Michael Hurley, Bill Whorrall). The photographer Jim Herrington did portraits of some of the elderly I spoke with in Milwaukee and those are being incorporated into recent issues. I'm also pleased to have been able to use art by Ed Ruscha and Ralph Steadman for a couple of my CDs.
What sort of feedback and reactions do you get from your audience?
That's a whole chapter unto itself, but in a nutshell, I hear primarily from people who are moved by my work. There are those who don't understand it, which reaffirms for me that I'm on the right track. Their resistance to witnessing aspects of decline reveals more about them than about the piece at hand.
You've been able to do some amazing offshoot projects from the zine – radio segments, documentaries, music, books. How do you approach projects like these?
It's all a mix of aesthetics, a set of skills and problem solving. I've found that one discipline can empower me in others –- being a bass player affected me as a painter, which affected me in making The Duplex Planet, which, in its various forms, is like painting and music for me.
What zines are you enjoying right now?
I don't see too many lately, but The Alterrian, The Lowbrow Reader, and Ice Cream For Quo come to mind. From the past, I'd mention Dishwasher, Closest Penguin, Lost & Found Times, any by Blaster Al Ackerman, Eight Track Mind, and Symphonic & Popular Music Journal, Nancy's Magazine, Kooks, and Civitas.
Would you give us a preview of what you are working on next?
I've got to get a couple issue of The Duplex Planet to the printer and have one about done, again drawn from my Milwaukee months. I'm also readying four CDs for release in the late fall. Each is with a different musical collaborator, and the titles are Never Give up Study, Oh Pa, How I Became Uncertain, and Tell Me That Before.
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Executive Director Paul T. Graziano made a similar point in July after two of the defendants, William Alvin Darden and Keith Eugene Daughtry, both of Washington, were indicted. "The bottom line is, we have a system, and this proves that it worked," Graziano said at the time.
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It's common to feel sick to your stomach (nauseated) or to vomit when you get chemotherapy. Nausea and vomiting are caused by cancer drugs you may get during treatment. You may feel sick or vomit soon after your treatment session. But with some chemotherapy medicines, you may not get sick until days later. Some people have only nausea or only vomiting. Others have both. Some people don't get sick at all from chemotherapy.
There are many drugs that can prevent nausea and vomiting. Preventing nausea and vomiting will help calm your stomach so you can eat, stay strong, and give your body a chance to rest between cancer treatments.
Antinausea drugs work best if you start taking thembefore you start chemotherapy.
What causes nausea and vomiting?
Doctors believe that some drugs can affect the nervous system or irritate your stomach lining and make you feel sick. This may cause nausea and vomiting.
How big a dose you get can also affect how you feel. A drug may be fine at a low dose. At a higher dose, it may make you sick. But that higher dose may be what's needed to kill cancer cells.
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There are more than 100 different drugs to treat cancer. Some are much more likely to cause nausea and vomiting than others. You and your doctor will decide which cancer drugs you will get based on the type of cancer you have, where the cancer is in your body, and how serious the cancer is (its stage ).
Other things besides cancer drugs can raise your risk for nausea and vomiting. If you had chemotherapy before and it led to vomiting, your brain will remember it. So just thinking about your cancer treatment can make you feel sick. This is called anticipatory nausea and vomiting. Antinausea medicines may not work well for anticipatory nausea or vomiting, but other methods that relax or distract you may help. These methods include progressive muscle relaxation, hypnosis, acupuncture, or distraction with music or video or mobile games.
How are nausea and vomiting treated?
The goal of treatment is to prevent nausea and vomiting. Your doctor will look at which cancer drugs you are taking and your history of getting sick. You will probably be given a medicine that works to control nausea and vomiting in other people who are getting the same cancer treatment. You may be given two or three medicines to take.
Antinausea medicines are usually taken as pills. But you might also get them through an IV or as a patch that's taped to your skin. These medicines are usually given before your first chemotherapy session. You will need to take antinausea medicine as long as your cancer treatments last.
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Medical marijuana is legal in some areas and may be used to control nausea. Other man-made forms of marijuana, such as dronabinol (Marinol) and nabilone (Cesamet), may also used to treat nausea and vomiting in some people when other medicines don't work.
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The purpose of screening is early diagnosis and treatment. Screening tests are administered to people without current symptoms, but who may be at high risk for certain diseases or conditions.
Screening Guidelines
There are no standard tests or current guidelines for peptic ulcer disease.
Revision Information
- Reviewer: Daus Mahnke, MD
- Review Date: 12/2016 -
- Update Date: 05/20/2015 -


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Wednesday round-up
Several high-profile developments in the lower courts are raising the question: what, if anything, will the Supreme Court do?
One such development came from the Second Circuit yesterday, in a case that has been before the Justices once already. In April 2009, the Court issued a five-to-four opinion in FCC v. Fox Television Stations, upholding the Federal Communication Commission"™s policymaking process that resulted in a ban on broadcasting "fleeting expletives." But the Court remanded the case to the Second Circuit for that circuit to determine whether the policy violated the First Amendment. Yesterday the Second Circuit answered, finding the policy to be "unconstitutionally vague" and striking down the ban. As all of the news outlets covering the Second Circuit"™s decision "" which include SCOTUSblog, NPR, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Constitutional Law Prof Blog, the Volokh Conspiracy, the Washington Post, PrawfsBlawg, First One @ One First, and the L.A. Times "" note, the Supreme Court could become involved in the case again if the FCC opts to appeal. The WSJ Law Blog describes the potential downside of such an appeal for the FCC: several Justices, including Justice Thomas, have previously cast doubt on the constitutionality of the policy, so the FCC "risks that the court overturns much of its First Amendment jurisprudence on the governmental regulation of speech . . . and strips the FCC of further power to regulate speech over the airwaves."
Another Second Circuit decision also drew significant attention yesterday. The court held that part of Connecticut"™s public campaign financing law is unconstitutional, a decision which the Hartford Courant predicts "will have immediate implications for one of the most competitive state political campaign cycles in years." Although the court found that the law does not unconstitutionally discriminate against minor party candidates, it upheld a lower court decision that threw out two of the law"™s "trigger provisions" governing excess and independent campaign expenditures. Rick Hasen of Election Law Blog explains that the ruling on the trigger provisions is "at odds with the Ninth Circuit decision in the McComish v. Bennett case, and the split makes it even more likely that the Supreme Court will agree to hear the McComish case." The Associated Press and Constitutional Law Prof Blog also have coverage of the Second Circuit ruling, as well as a related decision from the Second Circuit on Connecticut"™s campaign finance law.
Two other lower court developments have Supreme Court implications. Yesterday an Algerian prisoner at Guantanamo Bay asked the Supreme Court to delay his transfer to Algeria while he appeals a recent D.C. Circuit ruling against him. Politico and SCOTUSblog have the story, both reporting that Chief Justice Roberts has asked the government to respond to the request by Friday afternoon. The other development "" a recent district court ruling that part of the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional "" may not reach the Supreme Court for some time, if at all. Even so, at Balkinization, Jack Balkin is already considering six scenarios for how the case could play out in the federal courts. Also analyzing the Supreme Court"™s possible reaction to the case, Andrew Koppelman has an opinion piece in the L.A. Times in which he argues that the Tenth Amendment basis for the decision "doesn"™t make much sense" but that the Equal Protection argument "is so strong that it has a good chance of being accepted by the U.S. Supreme Court." In USA Today, Joan Biskupic provides an overview of the various same-sex marriage lawsuits across the country, observing that "[t]he outcome of any case could depend on Justice Anthony Kennedy, author of the major gay-rights rulings and the pivotal vote on the court."
On the Kagan nomination, three new headlines emerged yesterday. One is that the Senate Judiciary Committee delayed its vote on the nomination until next Tuesday, as reported by the Boston Globe, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Christian Science Monitor, and SCOTUSblog. (C-SPAN has video from the Committee meeting.) Another headline is that Republican senators are pressing Kagan to answer definitively whether she would recuse herself from lawsuits stemming from this year"™s health care reform law. Politico and the Wall Street Journal have coverage of that story. The final Kagan-related story comes from David Savage and James Oliphant in the L.A. Times. They report on a new ad from the NRA that shows a clip from Justice Sotomayor"™s confirmation hearings in which she voices support for individual gun rights; the ad then urges viewers to call their senators and "tell them not to fall for the same trick twice."
- Tony Mauro has a trio of posts at the Blog of LegalTimes on Justice Potter Stewart"™s papers, which are being released to the public now that Justice Stevens has retired. (Stevens"™s retirement leaves the Court with no Justices who overlapped with Stewart"™s tenure, which was Stewart"™s condition for releasing his papers.) Mauro concludes that "it does not appear . . . that scholars will learn much about how his brethren won over his vote. The case files generally contain just successive drafts of opinions, with little else." (At First One @ One First, Mike Sacks recalls a personal conversation with a Stewart clerk who "told [him] that Stewart burned much of his more sensitive papers.")
- In an opinion piece in the Washington Post, Stuart Taylor Jr. offers four reasons why "originalists cannot avoid subjective judicial policymaking."
- Politico and MinnLawyer Blog report that Justice Thomas swore in his former clerk""and former SCOTUSblogger""David Stras to serve as a justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court.
- Abram Shulsky and John Burleigh have an opinion piece in the Weekly Standard asserting that Justice Souter"™s much-discussed commencement speech at Harvard amounts to a defense of Plessy v. Ferguson.
- And finally, Becky Krystal has a stinging review of the Supreme Court cafeteria in the Washington Post. Her verdict? "This food should be unconstitutional."


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Pia Zadora Performs for One Night Only at the Suncoast Showroom, 2/23
Golden Globe winner, Grammy nominee, ShowWest winner, accomplished singer, film and Broadway star Pia Zadora will perform at the Suncoast Showroom Saturday, February 23.
Zadora's career began on Broadway after she was discovered while studying acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Art. This success led to a number of Broadway shows, including a two-year stint from 1964-66 in "Fiddler On The Roof," and featured roles in "The Sound Of Music," "Little Mary Sunshine," "Funny Girl," "Damn Yankees," "Crazy for You" and "Dames At Sea."
Zadora has also appeared in numerous feature films, including "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians" (1964), "The Lonely Lady" (1983), "Hairspray" (1988) and "Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult" (1994).
Zadora's 75-minute stage show was created by three-time Emmy winning director and choreographer Walter Painter, Emmy-nominated Academy Award writer Jon Macks. Featuring some of the greatest songs ever performed, Zadora will be accompanied by legendary Sinatra pianist and musical conductor Vinnie Falcone and his orchestra. Zadora will perform classics including "The Lady Is a Tramp," "Come Rain or Shine," "All of Me," "Young at Heart" and "The Man That Got."
Showtime is 7:30 p.m. Tickets are available from $15.95, plus tax and fees. Tickets can be purchased at any Boyd Gaming box office, by calling 702.636.7075, or visiting www.suncoastcasino.com.


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New Zealand's most photogenic spots
A guide to photographing nature in New Zealand.
In its native Maori tongue New Zealand is called "Aotearoa", meaning "Land of the Long White Cloud". And it's not hard to see why. Look at satellite pictures of New Zealand and you'll see two long skinny islands with a smaller dot of land below, defined by a backbone of mountains running almost the length of the country. If you can see the mountains beneath the long line of white cloud that is.
The Southern Alps that form the spine of New Zealand sit abreast the joining of the Australian and Pacific tectonic plates. The ridge line formed by this primordial union - separating the vast Tasman Sea and Pacific Ocean weather patterns either side - throw up the high levels of precipitation that give this country it's Maori name. Add in New Zealand's elongated shape and isolated position in the South Pacific and you have a country with dramatically different geographical and climate regions; home to a wonderfully unique range of native flora and fauna.
New Zealand is distinct from almost every other continent in that its wildlife is not dominated by land mammals - it has only two native species of bat. But its large areas of uninhabited evergreen forest and sheer miles and miles of rugged coastline provide a natural environment for around 80,000 native species of plants, birds, reptiles, insects and marine life - the greater proportion of which are endemic to this country. From giant snails to the world's smallest dolphin, trees that live for 2,000 years and a buttercup that grows 3 feet tall, birds that don't fly and around 7,500 different species of fungi, this is a land of unique and unexpected diversity.
Three hour's drive north of Auckland brings you to Northland's stunning Bay of Islands. Here you will find the warmest water in the country and a chance to get up close and personal with New Zealand's large population of dolphins. There are a number of trip options including the chance to swim with the dolphins - time to get out that underwater camera!
Common and Bottlenose dolphins are most numerous and live in and around the Bay, though New Zealand is home to 13 different species in total, including the world's smallest marine dolphin the Hector (and subspecies the Maui dolphin, of which only around 55 exist making them the rarest subspecies in the world).
Also in Northland is the Waipoua Forest on New Zealand's Kauri Coast and a chance to view the mighty Kauri tree. It is the largest tree (by volume) in New Zealand with an average trunk diameter of around 16 feet and growing for up to 2,000 years. Amongst this ancient forest you might be lucky enough to spot the Giant Kauri Snail, a 3-inch carnivore that lives on earthworms, slugs and other soft-bodied insects.
Travelling south of Auckland brings you to Rotorua's famous geo-thermal areas with its accompanying strong smell of sulphur. This is also the hub of New Zealand's Maori culture as well as home to a number of animal parks where some of New Zealand's more well known native species can be viewed in gentle captivity.
The kiwi, New Zealand's native bird and a national symbol of this country, is a small flightless bird which - due to its nocturnal nature and declining numbers - is very hard to view in the wild. However this fascinating creature can be seen in a number of viewing enclosures, including the "Kiwi Encounter" where you can witness baby chicks as part of a breeding program before they are released into their natural habitat.
Although classified as a bird the kiwi has many mammal-like characteristics. Like a number of New Zealand native birds it cannot fly (it has only very small wings), it has no tail feathers (though it does have whiskers like a cat), its feathers are more like soft fur, it has nostrils at the end of its beak (the only bird in the world to do so), it has two ovaries (most birds have one) and it has marrow in its bones just like a human!
Not far from Rotorua lies Te Urewera National Park, one of New Zealand's 14 national parks and boasting the largest remaining stand of native forest in the North Island. The jewel of Te Urewera is the stunning Lake Waikaremoana, named by the Maori to mean "sea of rippling waters".
A good way to experience the park is to hike the Lake Waikaremoana Track. With huts scattered along 46kms of trail winding around the scenic shoreline, a guided option provided by Walking Legends means you don't have to carry an overnight pack, leaving your daypack free for camera gear.
Surrounded by more than 650 species of native plants and trees, look out for native birds including New Zealand's largest population of Kokako (native Wattlebird) which lives in the park.
Another bird watching treat is Cape Kidnappers east of Te Urewera in the Hawkes Bay region. The Cape is home to the world's largest - and most accessible - Gannet colony with around 20,000 birds making their nests here. December and January are the best months to visit when the birds are raising their chicks, whereas come late April / early May the birds have departed on their migratory journey of around 1,700 miles across the Tasman Sea to Australia. Juvenile birds make this remarkable journey in their first year without any previous flight experience, simply taking off for the first time and allowing instinct to guide them!
However one of the best spots in the North Island to view New Zealand's native birdlife is the Nature Coast north west of the country's capital, Wellington city. Here you can see a range of native birds including the Takahe, Weka, Tui, Kaka, Kereru, Royal Spoonbill, Morepork and more. You can explore the coast on your own or contact Kapiti Island Nature Tours who host day and overnight bird watching and nature tours to Kapiti Island, one hour north of Wellington. The island is a conservation reserve with a profusion and diversity of birdlife giving testimony to nature's wealth and abundance once human interference has been removed or limited.
The larger of New Zealand's two main islands, the South Island, is also the less densely populated - meaning a lot of the landscape is untracked and very remote. From Kahurangi National Park in the north through to Fiordland in the South, much of the South Island is made up of National Park areas including the Te Wahipounamu UNESCO World Heritage Site on the West Coast.
Here you will find arguably New Zealand's most breathtaking scenery - dominated by the snow-capped Southern Alps and trumped by Milford Sound - described by Rudyard Kipling as the "eighth wonder of the world".
If you explore the largely untouched ranges of these National Parks you can uncover a variety of unique and distinctive native life, from alpine herbfields through to podocarp forests, large cave spiders, giant weta (a flightless insect similar to a grasshopper), ancient Tuatara lizards (with a lineage over 200 million years old), flightless birds and native worms that can grow up to three feet long!
One of New Zealand's more colourful native birds - in character if not plumage - is the cheeky Kea. Found only in the South island of New Zealand predominantly in the coastal forests of the West Coast and most alpine regions, these mischievous mountain parrots have developed a strange fondness for the rubber trim found on cars! Many travelers have returned to their vehicle to find the windscreen wipers, door trim, mirror surrounds and much more completely torn apart by their strong, curved beaks. Though it does make them an easy photography subject. Kea's don't seem to be particularly wary of humans and you can get quite close to them in the wild. Just watch they don't take a liking to your camera gear!
Not far from Christchurch on the East Coast lies the small town of Kaikoura, nestled between the mountains and the sea. With 84 different breeds of seabird found in New Zealand (of which around half breed nowhere else in the world), Kaikoura - reputedly the pelagic bird capital of the country - is the best spot from which to view the majority of these species. Different varieties of albatross, petrels, shearwaters, prions, shags and more can be seen within a small area around the Kaikoura coastline.
Originally a whaling port Kaikoura is now a popular tourist destination due to the whale and dolphin watching excursions that operate from here. Though if you'd rather stay on land, a fun and easy option is to visit the Southern Fur Seal colony at the eastern edge of the town. The best time to go is low tide when there is easy access across the rocky shoreline, where you will find the seals basking on the rocks and posing for a ready portrait.
Near the bottom of New Zealand you will find the city of Dunedin and the amazing Royal Albatross, the world's largest marine bird with a wing span of 10 feet! Located at Taiaroa Head 45 minutes from Dunedin this is the world's only mainland breeding ground, allowing fantastic photographic opportunities of this remarkable species.
Also on the Otago peninsula you can find New Zealand Fur Seals, Sea Lions and Yellow Eyed Penguins, as well as Hector's and Bottlenose dolphins offshore.
Although the opportunities for photography in New Zealand are abundant, it helps to do your research and planning before you visit. If there is a particular species you wish to photograph, find out its migratory or seasonal habits, where they are most numerous, and the best time of day during which to see them. If you hope to take home some amazing landscapes, spend some time investigating the best seasons to visit the different regions.
For example Central Otago in the fall will provide you with stunning autumn colors as the trees turn in the month of April. Milford Sound in winter is spectacular with snow capped mountains and glaciers alongside the numerous waterfalls cascading down the sheer walls of the fiord. A summer visit would benefit a trip to the Marlborough Sounds or Abel Tasman regions, where you can explore the coastline by kayak or enjoy the Abel Tasman Coastal Walk. Spring would be a good time to travel the North Island as it is outside the busier summer months yet still warm enough to make outdoor adventure and exploration enjoyable. And with all those bouncy baby lambs frolicking everywhere, what more could you ask for!
Just remember that New Zealand's seasons are opposite those in the Northern Hemisphere, so plan your visit accordingly.
New Zealand has seven international airports but the two largest are Auckland in the North Island and Christchurch in the South. Both have international flight connections with most of the main travel centers around the world.
On arriving into New Zealand by far the easiest way to get around is to hire a vehicle. Public transport isn't prolific though there are some great scenic train journeys on offer, the TranzAlpine from Christchurch to Greymouth is stunning, as is the Coastal Pacific between Christchurch and Picton. The Cook Straight Interislander is a passenger and vehicle ferry between the North and South islands, or you can choose from a range of cheap domestic flights between any of the country's main cities.


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Tooling Update
Press Tools Provide Forming Freedom
To create forms beyond the constraints of their current Trumpf-style punch-press tooling, sheetmetal fabricators now have more forming freedom with the A-Plus series from Wilson Tool Intl., White Bear Lake, MN. This new line of tools extends the range of forming in the A dimension by an inch or more, allowing for longer and larger forms on Trumpf machines. The tools include louvers, lance and forms, and card guides.
The A-Plus series louver tool, which achieves a 4.0-in. maximum range in the A-dimension, features built-in stripping in the lower unit for trouble-free sheet travel and simple programming. A replaceable forming unit in the die allows for cost-effective refurbishment.
With an expanded 3.5-in. maximum A dimension range, the lance and form tool proves useful in applications such as air flow, decoration, location markers, sheer tabs, wire harnesses and clip attachments. And, the card-guide tool adds a full inch of range in the A dimension for a 3.4-in. maximum.
Wilson Tool International: 651/286-6001; www.wilsontool.com
See also: Impax Tooling Solutions, A Div. of Wilson Tool International
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