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Reader Charlie sent me a link to this article in the September 2007 Scientific American, in which professors from the Harvard School of Public Health argue that the idea of fat not being intrinsically unhealthy is "complete nonsense." Specifically, it criticizes a 2005 paper by Katherine Flegal et al, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. People in the fat acceptance community know that paper well: it was the big one that said people in the overweight category have the lowest mortality rate, and suggested that previous estimates of the death toll of obesity were off by, oh, a couple or three hundred thousand a year.
For some reason, Scientific American decided it was time, two years after the study was published, to attack Flegal's research. So they gave the boys at Harvard a jingle.
[Harvard professor Walter] Willett thinks this assertion is simply the latest recycling of the notion that Americans have been somehow duped about the risks of obesity. "About every 10 years this idea comes along that says it's better to be overweight. And we have to stomp it out," he says. Willett's research has identified profound advantages to keeping weight down—even below the so-called healthy levels.
That's the kind of quote that might have caused me to despair if I hadn't remembered Willett's name from Rethinking Thin. See, there's a whole section in Kolata's "The Fat Wars" chapter (pp. 201-209 in the hardcover) about how, after Flegal published that paper, the Harvard School of Public Health went apeshit. They even
held a seminar to refute it, making sure that newspaper reporters were not only invited to the meeting but able to watch it and listen on a Webcast if they could not attend in person. It was an exercise in attack science.
A seminar to refute one paper. Why on earth would they do that?
Well, The Harvard School of Public Health was home to one of the most important previous studies of the health effects of fat, a long-term one done on nurses. The nurses' study showed that being fat carried a substantially increased mortality risk. But Flegal's paper pretty much said, "You did it wrong and you got it wrong."
So that's pretty much what they said back to her in that seminar. And are now saying 2 years later in Scientific American.
The difference between the Scientific American article and Rethinking Thin is, Gina Kolata actually talked to Katherine Flegal and the other researchers with whom she published that 2005 paper. So, for instance, where the SA article just reports the Harvard boys' assertion that Flegal's study was fucked because she didn't exclude smokers or the chronically ill, Kolata adds that A) Flegal deliberately didn't, because she felt that previous studies (like, uh, the Harvard nurses' study) had cherry-picked their subjects, and she wanted a group that was actually representative of the general population, and B) once she and her co-researchers had all that raw data,
They looked at the results both with and without current or former smokers and people who had chronic diseases. They posted the extensive analysis on the Internet — journals like the Journal of the American Medical Association allow for only so much additional data — and the results always came out the same: There was no mortality risk from being overweight and little from being obese, with the exception of the extremely obese, whose death risk was slightly higher.
Here's how Scientific American presented that:
Flegal has acknowledged that she did not exclude the chronically ill from her study but argued in a follow-up report that she had done further analyses that showed it would not have made a difference. The disagreement turns on subtle statistical arguments. What is clear, however, is that Flegal's paper is one of a handful that contradict many studies that support the conclusion that being overweight is harmful. Flegal is not necessarily wrong, but the preponderance of evidence clearly points in the other direction.
Do you see what just happened there? First, they make it seem as if Flegal acknowledged a mistake and scrambled to compensate for it, as opposed to acknowledging only that she deliberately included those populations and then analyzed the data both with and without them. Then, they bury the fact that she did it on purpose under the real point of this article: a gazillion obesity researchers can't be wrong!
Seriously, that's the entire argument the article makes. "Flegal is not necessarily wrong," but boy, a whole lot of other studies found something else! Um, yeah, that was kind of the point of Flegal's study. Flegal and David Williamson, an epidemiologist at the CDC, looked at previous studies, determined that those had gotten the statistics wrong, and designed a study that made a good faith effort to get the statistics right. Oddly enough, their conclusions turned out vastly different from those of previous studies. And two years later, this article is here to tell us Flegal, Williamson, et al, are wrong because… their conclusions are vastly different from those of previous studies.
Here's Kolata again:
Flegal says she had a real education in the politics of obesity.
"Everyone thinks they already know the answer," she says. "Anything that doesn't fit, they have to explain it away or ignore it. All these people who just know weight loss is good for you. It's just taken for granted regardless of the evidence." She was not naive about her findings, she said. "I expected people would get perturbed, but I really didn't expect the way they did it. All these erroneous so-called fact sheets. And these misinterpretations and making up things we'd said."
Paints a slightly different picture than the Scientific American article, don't it?
And how many people who read that article are going to know off the top of their heads that The Harvard School of Public Health A) did one of the studies Flegal and Williamson deemed egregiously flawed before beginning their research, and B) has apparently had a hate-on for them ever since their paper about that was published?
Not many, I'm guessing. But Gina Kolata took the time to look into Flegal and Williamson's side of the story — like, you know, an actual journalist might — so I knew it off the top of my head, and now you know it, too. And it changes everything, doesn't it? Knowing that, you can see quite clearly that the SA article isn't actually saying Flegal's wrong — in fact, the author takes pains not to say that — it's just saying a whole lot of people in the obesity research community don't agree with her. And I mean, duh. That's worth writing about two years later?
So the Scientific American article did not remotely convince me that Flegal is wrong and fat is bad for you. It did, however, strongly reinforce one thing I've believed to be true for most of my life: reading is good for you.


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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. -- In their final tune-up before running in the Ohio Valley Conference championships in two weeks, the Tennessee Tech women's and men's cross country teams will be in north Georgia Saturday for the Berry College Invitational.
The meet will feature 17 women's squads and 14 men's teams, with the 8K men's race beginning at 8:45 a.m. ET and the women's 6K to follow at 9:30 a.m. ET.
TTU coach Tony Cox will determine the lineup for the OVC meet from the results this weekend. Tech will have eight entries in the men's event and nine running in the women's race.
The TTU men's lineup will include Kolbe Andrzejewski, Matt
Bishop, Daniel Francis, Charlie Jordan, Mike Mahan, Adam McLeod,
Matt Pennycuff and Sterling Smith. Mahan, a junior from Tullahoma,
Tenn., posted Tech's fastest time last week at the TTU
Running for Tech in the women's event will be Rebecca Cline, Kathryn Forbes, Landry Loving, Amelia McCoy, Beth Miller, Elizabeth Mitchell, Meghan O'Donoghue, Kara Webb and Peri Winborne. Tech's top runner this season has been Beth Miller, a senior from Watertown, Wis.
Results will be posted on the Berry College athletics website www.berryvikings.com <http://www.berryvikings.com/>as soon as the races are completed. A complete race review will be available on TTUsports.com later in the day.
In addition to Tech and host Berry College, schools scheduled to compete include Chattahoochee Tech, Covenant College, Cumberland University, Emory University, Fort Valley State, Georgia Southwestern, Georgia State, Gordon College, LaGrange College, Point University, Savannah College of Arts and Design, University of the South, Union College, Wesleyan College, West Georgia and Young Harris College.
For fans planning to follow the teams to the meet, Berry College has provided a campus map (click here). When you enter the campus (2277 Martha Berry Hgy Mount Berry Ga.), turn right off the roundabout at the flag pole to get to the course. The course is located on the west side of the Ford Buildings numbered 3-9 on the map. Parking will be located on the west and south sides of the Ford complex. Overflow parking will be available behind Hermann Hall (#2 on the map) and the Science building (#25 on the map).


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. . . between 13 and 16, which yields the result that "you don't even have a bubble." No, not a housing bubble, higher education bubble, or any of the other fashionable speculative bubbles of the moment. What the heck am I talking about? I'm talking about my score on the 20-question "How Thick Is Your Bubble?" quiz. (Try it: it only takes about 60 seconds.)
Still puzzled? The quiz is connected with the appearance of Charles Murray's new book, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010, which will be published next Tuesday. The book lays out Murray's thesis that much of America's upper middle class and upper class—a "cognitive elite"—exist in a bubble from the rest of the middle and working class. A long excerpt appeared over the weekend in the Wall Street Journal:
For most of our nation's history, whatever the inequality in wealth between the richest and poorest citizens, we maintained a cultural equality known nowhere else in the world—for whites, anyway. . . Americans love to see themselves this way. But there's a problem: It's not true anymore, and it has been progressively less true since the 1960s. . .
Over the past 50 years, that common civic culture has unraveled. We have developed a new upper class with advanced educations, often obtained at elite schools, sharing tastes and preferences that set them apart from mainstream America. At the same time, we have developed a new lower class, characterized not by poverty but by withdrawal from America's core cultural institutions.
As with his past books, Coming Apart is an exercise rich in social science data but accompanied with original analysis and clear prose. I'm hoping to have an exclusive Power Line video interview/conversation with Charles about the book some time in the next couple of weeks, if we can get our schedules coordinated. Stay tuned to this blog!
In the meantime, try out the quiz (and report your score in our comments section if you want), check out the complete WSJ excerpt, and buy the book.
And yes, my Bubble Score means I'm a lousy representative of the cognitive elite.
JOHN adds: Steve, I took the test too and finished near the middle. But you aren't saying you got a perfect score, are you? Because that would mean that you have watched Oprah, saw the latest Transformers movie, and can tell one NASCAR driver from another. Say it ain't so!
STEVE responds: It ain't so! I missed at least four of the questions, and in any case a number of my yes answers are more than 30 years old (like riding a Greyhound bus–twice in 1979). Ditto my factory floor work; plus–my dad owned the factory, so that probably doesn't count. If the questions had been qualified by a shorter time horizon I'd surely have scored in solid bubble territory. I grew up in what Charles calls a "Super-ZIP" (San Marino, California), and I live in a Super-ZIP now (McLean, VA).
But I have watched one full episode of Oprah: the episode in the 2000 campaign when George W. Bush was on. Wanted to see how he did (quite well, is my recollection). Not even 10 seconds any other time. So that really doesn't count either.


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I've been writing about the use of open source software in business for nearly a decade and during that time I discovered the level of interest in free software to be somewhere between non-existent to various point solutions for routine or mission-critical tasks.
It was therefore with pleasant surprise that I was invited to report on the activities of an independent Sydney-based health insurance company, IMAN International Pty Ltd, which has committed to an end-to-end open source strategy and is reaping measurable results.
The company's founder and managing director, John Braithwaite, has a long history in IT dating back to punch card machines and sees a similarity between now and 50 years ago when hardware came with free software.
When IMAN started in 1981, the company was using DOS and "everything revolved around Microsoft", Braithwaite said.
"All we operated with for 25 years was Microsoft and it served us very well so we can't complain," he said. "I saw the opportunity open source offered and it was time to make the move."
IMAN is a provider of health insurance services to people living in Australia under 457 visa temporary work permits.
There were two changes in the software and insurance industries that ultimately pushed IMAN towards open source.
Changes in Microsoft's technology road map meant legacy VB applications would need to be modernized with .Net and the Financial Services Reform Act (2001), which mandated a higher standard of data integrity for auditing purposes.
"Moving to .Net was going to cost a lot of money, so it was better to take the punt and use open source," Braithwaite said. "Microsoft was going to cost us $300,000 a year in licence fees, but with open source we only pay for development and have reduced operating costs to 40 percent of the industry standard.
IMAN spent $800,000 developing its core information system with local open source software development company Polonious, and adopted global BI with the help of another local provider, Bizcubed.
IMAN was not alone in that staff frequently used Microsoft Access and Excel to build up silos of information that was not visible across the organization.
"I realized open source had the potential to get a single view of the company operations," Braithwaite said. "Everyone lives in fear of the 'VP of No' in the IT department, so they build their own spreadsheets and this is becoming a nightmare for auditors."
IMAN, with $20 million in revenue, 15 full-time equivalent employees, and some 10,000 members, may be small by insurance company standards, but its breadth of open source software adoption eclipses even the largest of enterprises.
The company has even prepared a diagram illustrating what open source components it uses and what business processes they are used for.


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"Life was tough," said Ms. Cano, who shared an apartment with her aunt in the Bronx when she first arrived.
Without legal status, she took any job she could get, including cleaning houses and factory work.
When she finally was granted her documents, she drove a New York City taxicab for 10 years and went on to work at the post office for another 10 years.
In 1991, she began taking classes at Queens College and in 1996 graduated cum laude.
After that, she earned her law degree from CUNY Law School in 1999.
Before graduating from law school, she founded Centro Comunitario y de Asesoria Legal, Inc., a non-profit organization in Jackson Heights that educates immigrants about their legal and civil rights. After running the non-profit for four years, she opened her law office.
Last January, Cano took the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program at LaGuardia Community College, which elevated her business and pitch skills.
"I tell my colleagues that this program will make a difference in their business," she said.
By the second class, she discovered that her law practice was indeed a small business.
"All along, I thought that I simply had to be a lawyer," she said. "10,000 Small Businesses made me realize that I also had to be a businesswoman. It changed my mind and my perspective."
With her new outlook, Cano said she is ready to branch out. She has set her sites on a satellite office on Park Avenue South and is already cultivating networks in Manhattan to make that move possible.
"I was not making signs or cleaning office buildings," said Cano, but "I was providing a service to the neighborhood's residents. I never thought of my community law practice as a small business."


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Waihi in Words and Pictures
Waiheathens: Voices From a Mining Town by Mark Derby, with Paintings by Bob Kerr (Atuanui Press, $30)
Reviewed by Alison McCulloch
As the year of the Waihi gold miners strike centenary drew to a close, Waihi was still a town divided over mining. And while the times and issues have certainly changed, the wounds often run just as deep.
Waihi's 21st century struggle bears little resemblance to the labour versus capital clashes of 1912. For one thing, this time the union is firmly on the company's side. "We have a well-established respectful Union/Employer relationship with the Waihi Gold Company Ltd," the EPMU said in a submission on Newmont Waihi Gold's latest expansion plan, "and have considerable confidence that they will deliver what they say they will."
Others, however, are not so sure. Among an increasing number of Waihi and area residents expressing opposition to the proposal, known as Golden Link, is a local iwi, Te Kupenga o Ngati Hako. One of the oldest surviving Hauraki tangata whenua groups, Ngati Hako says the company promised to close the biggest mine in town, the Martha Pit, by 2006 – something Newmont has disputed – and it objects to Golden Link, which would include mining underneath the eastern part of Waihi township.
The Māori dimension is often lost in the present day struggle amid technical debates about things like decibel levels and vibration limits. Similarly, its absence echoes through accounts of earlier disputes, including the 1912 miners strike.
Which is why the opening chapter of Mark Derby and Bob Kerr's book Waiheathens: Voices From a Mining Town is so welcome. Titled "The Flesh of the Land," its four short pages chronicle the ultimately hopeless effort by Ohinemuri Māori, and one kuia in particular, named Mere Kuru, to keep surveyors and prospectors off their tribal lands. "The gold will not be given up," Mere reportedly told a hui in 1868, "there is death in giving it up."
Derby chronicles the canny efforts of government agent, James Mackay, to cultivate tribal dissent and break down Māori resistance. His methods included advancing credit to iwi for store goods, credit that – together with some creative accounting by storekeepers – ultimately left them deeply in debt. As Derby explains it, Māori were then advised "that this crushing debt might be cleared at a stroke if it was treated as an advance payment on the prospecting rights in their region".
The deal that followed has been described by Crown lawyers in more recent times as a "particularly regrettable transaction". Among those who had misgivings at the time – besides Mere – was a chief named Mataia, from whom the chapter draws its title: "Although I gave you the flesh of the land," he is reported to have said, "I kept the skin of it, and the golden parts have been handed over to you… I want to see whether I will have life in the part I keep or whether the contract will be a cause of ruin for me."
This chapter, together with 14 other equally short, stirring reports, comprises the first half of the book. (The second is filled with Bob Kerr's art, of which more later.)
Derby is well equipped to tackle an issue as fraught this. He is an accomplished historian and author who has worked for Waitangi Tribunal, and is a skilled reader and translator of Te Reo. His previous works include The Prophet and the Policeman – the Story of Rua Kenana and John Cullen and Kiwi Compañeros – New Zealand and the Spanish Civil War.
In an introduction, Derby points out that much about the events of 1912 remains unresolved, with a paucity of authentic source material on the strike. His chapters don't "attempt to repeat, summarise or contest earlier accounts", but to supplement them "with relatively little-known or previously unpublished sources of information", in particular, a focus on the voices of participants rather than commentators.
Those first-person accounts are what bring the written half of this compact book to life. Among the voices speaking through these pages are pioneering New Zealand filmmaker Rudall Hayward, who got a taste for cinema helping out at his family's movie screenings around the Waikato and Coromandel in the first decades of the 20th century; miner and unionist Tim Armstrong, whose 1917 prison letter to his children provides a rich account of a workingman's life; a local police inspector writing in the middle of the six-month strike to the infamous anti-union police commissioner, John Cullen (a subject of Derby's The Prophet and the Policeman) that he foresaw no imminent trouble (miner Fred Evans was to be killed in violent clashes just a few months later).
Waiheathens, along with Kerr's exhibition marking the 1912 strike, were unveiled in Waihi on 10 November 2012 as part of a commemorative weekend organised by Derby and other members of the Labour History Project. The crowd gathered inside the Waihi Arts Centre and Museum for the launch was packed fairly tight making it a little difficult to step back and really look at the paintings, which deserve both space and close attention.
Those depicting the mining landscape, like "The Pukewa Workings", "The Open Cut", and "The Talisman Battery", have a bleak air to them. In browns and deep greens and blues they, like the portraits, feel haunted, with soft paint strokes that blur one element into another.
Kerr says he sometimes thinks of painting as "controlled accident" – "a balance between being in control of the painting and being open to accidental runs and drips and big swipes of the brush." Those swipes evoke movement, or impermanence, or both. The figure in "The Rebel" bleeds into the background as he dashes across a railway line clutching a sheaf of papers – perhaps one of the many articles he wrote about Waihi. (The subject of that painting, Charles Smith, was a miner, a socialist who wrote about Waihi under the pen-name "The Rebel".)
What's striking about many of Kerr's portraits – "Pat Hickey", "Bob Semple", "Paddy Webb" and "Georgina Parry" for example – are the piercing eyes that glare out at you. Suddenly, though, there's "Peter Fraser", eerily blinded under Kerr's brush by his opaque spectacles.
The book's cover is from the painting titled "Bill Parry" after the miners' union president (he was jailed for his activism during the 1912 strike) who helped found the Federation of Labour and was later a Labour cabinet minister and Michael Joseph Savage Loyalist. "Bill Parry," one of the larger works (180 cm x 45 cm and, like all the paintings, oil on board) is a staunch painting – if you can say that about a work of art – depicting a fearless Parry in the foreground, his arms folded in determination, his figure dominating mine workings in the distant background.
"Gold Strike" is part of a series of five exhibitions dealing with the period 1912 to 1935, and Kerr worked on the Waihi paintings for about three years "on and off". (The others in the series are "The Rua Expedition", "Number One Field Punishment – Archibald Baxter's Opposition to Military Conscription," "Hell Here Now – The Gallipoli Diary of Alfred Cameron," and "The Three Wise Men of Kurow".)
In an email exchange, Kerr explained that the shows "look at issues of authority, dissent and the role of the police and the state". "I find it interesting how the leaders of the Waihi strike were defeated by the state and the police in 1912, but by 1935 many of them were in Cabinet where they teamed up with those 'Three Wise Men of Kurow' to come up with some remarkable social legislation that shaped New Zealand." (For more information on Kerr and his work, visit his blog, Undercoat.)
"Gold Strike" will be showing next at the Rotorua Museum from mid April till the end of June. Waiheathens is available from Atuanui Press.
Alison McCulloch is a freelancer based in the Bay of Plenty. She contributes book reviews to The New York Times Book Review, and writes for other outlets including Werewolf. Her book on the abortion rights struggle in New Zealand is forthcoming from Victoria University Press.


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Ruby (Japanese: ルビー Ruby) is a main character in the manga series Pokémon Adventures. As a counterpart to Sapphire, Ruby has a great passion for Pokémon Contests. While he's an excellent battler, he only fights when necessary or when no one takes notice. He believes that Pokémon battles are barbaric, and get his Pokémon dirty — something that he does not like.
His first Pokémon were Skitty, Poochyena, and Ralts, all given by his father Norman; his "starter" Pokémon was a Mudkip which he received from Professor Birch.
For his skills, he is given the title of "Charmer" (魅せる者 Charmer).
Ruby has admitted to having a crush on his rival, Sapphire.
Ruby is extremely good at sewing and knitting. He makes clothes for all his Pokémon to wear, and even made Sapphire the clothes she wears for much of her adventures. He is nearsighted, and he has a pair of glasses to correct this. However, he is usually too vain to wear them.
His other hobby is photography. He has a photo album of all of his Pokémon's biggest moments - such as evolutions or Pokémon Contest victories. He's not shy about showing it off, either. He is constantly lying to Sapphire about not being powerful enough, but then, his secret is revealed when he tries to save Sapphire from the Grumpig stampede.
Ruby can be quite shallow at times, putting too much emphasis on outward appearances. After going through character development, he managed to learn that appearances aren't the only thing that makes one beautiful.
Besides necessities, Ruby also has a "Makeup Box" and "Sewing Box" in his backpack, for his Contest appearances. Ruby has a pair of Running Shoes made by the Devon Corporation which he received from his father for his eleventh birthday. They are extremely powerful and useful, and propel Ruby along the ground with bursts of compressed air.
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Ruby was born in Goldenrod City, Johto. His father was Norman, who was an aspiring Gym Leader. He met Sapphire once, and the young Ruby and Sapphire had a lot of fun with each other, until their fun was interrupted by a Salamence. Acting quickly, Ruby was able to knock it out with his Pokémon, but got his forehead split open in the process. It was his fault that his father failed the Gym Leader Test because the Salamence broke into Rayquaza's containment area and set it free. At that time, Rayquaza was being held by the Pokémon Association near the place he and Sapphire were playing. Sapphire ran away crying, and later came to realize she ruined Ruby's dignity, and vowed to become stronger. Ruby, on the other hand, realized he had been too brutal, and promised to suppress his strength in battle.
Ruby & Sapphire chapter
On Ruby's eleventh birthday, he and his mother moved to Littleroot Town, Hoenn. Ruby was displeased with this decision as he preferred Johto's modern cities over Hoenn's rural countryside. After getting to the small town, Ruby ran away as he didn't want to face his father, who didn't approve of Ruby's hobby of competing Pokémon Contests. Just as he left the town, he met Professor Birch, who was attacked by two Mightyena. Ruby refused to battle, stating his reason was because he didn't want his Pokémon dirty. Instead, he asked the two Dark types to join him on his quest to conquer the Contests of Hoenn. However, they started to chase him. Ruby still didn't fear them and instead picked up Birch's nearby Pokédex and used it to learn about Mightyena.
Amazed by the fact that the Mightyena were evolved, he sent out his Nana, a Poochyena, and showed off her elegant moves against the stronger Pokémon. However, the attacks did no damage and Ruby and Birch were forced to run from the wild Pokémon. Due to the Running Shoes that had been given to him by his parents for his birthday, Ruby got ahead of Birch and fell off a cliff and was knocked unconscious. Fortunately, a mysterious Pokémon caught him and brought him into its cave.
Ruby was soon awakened by the lick of Nana. Upon waking up, he received a call on Professor Birch's Pokégear from the researcher himself. Ruby explained where he was and Birch introduced himself formally. During the conversation, Ruby realized that Birch was a friend of his father but the man didn't know that the boy had run away yet.
The Pokémon then noticed that Ruby was awake and spoke to him. Shocked, Ruby backed up in fear and Nana attacked it. The Pokémon then revealed itself to be a human girl. She attacked Nana with her Torchic. In order to help the boy, Birch told him to take out the Water-type Pokémon Mudkip out of his bag. Ruby was disappointed by the lack of coolness and beauty in the Pokémon, but also stated that it could be in a tough Contest. Ruby refused to battle, which angered the girl. It was at that point that Birch realized that it was his daughter Sapphire that Ruby was fighting. As Birch explained this to Ruby, the reception between the two was lost. Moments later, the two children were attacked by a Seviper.
Ruby still refused to fight, forcing Sapphire to defeat the Tail Snake Pokémon all by herself. After this the two got into an argument over their interests, which made Sapphire ask Ruby to take a bet. The two would go on a journey and see who would reach their goals in 80 days. Ruby agreed and then Sapphire fainted from the damage that she received from the battle with the Mightyena. Realizing the girl was hurt, Ruby helped her and left her some new clothes. Before he left, the Seviper awakened, but Ruby released a mysterious light from a Poké Ball and the Seviper fell to the floor.
After leaving the cave, Ruby came to a bridge, where he showed his new Mudkip how to perform in a Contest. When he had the Water-type try for itself, they were attacked by a Dustox. He and his party ran away and Ruby noticed that he had accidentally forgotten to give back Birch's Pokédex. The machine then scanned the Bug-type and Ruby learned that it was incredibly powerful. However, Mudkip saved them with his Water Gun and Ruby nicknamed it Mumu. He then set off yet again.
The next day, Ruby arrived in Petalburg City. He headed through the city carefully so that he wouldn't be found by his father. However, he came across a sickly boy named Wally, who had been attacked by a Nuzleaf while trying to catch a Pokémon. After receiving a compliment from the other boy, Ruby quickly offered to try to catch a Pokémon for him. However, Ruby learned that his dad was coming to help Wally do the task.
Upon seeing his father come, Ruby grabbed Wally and jumped into a nearby bush. Wally, however, came out and asked Norman if he would help him catch a Pokémon but the Gym Leader said that he wouldn't because Wally was too ill to journey with one. Although his father nearly caught him, Ruby was able to stay hidden, but when he came out of hiding he found Wally unconscious on the ground.
Ruby took the sick boy home and that night the two left home and Ruby promised to let Wally use his Rara in order to catch a Pokémon. The two found a Kecleon, which Wally was determined to catch. Although Wally failed to catch it many times, Ruby stuck by him and was given a PokéNav as thanks. After Wally caught Kecleon, the area they were in was struck by an earthquake and Ruby fell into the sea. Thankfully though, he was saved by Mr. Briney, who took him to Dewford Island.
After arriving on Dewford, he once again met up with Sapphire and went into the Granite Cave in order to find the powerful, yet beautiful Water-type Pokémon Milotic; however, he instead found a bunch of Mawile. He was saved by Steven Stone. During the battle with the Mawile, Ruby's Nana and Kiki evolved. After the battle, Ruby left the Island by riding Sapphire's Lorry. One night, they stopped at the Abandoned Ship on Route 109. There, Ruby and Sapphire teamed up with a Plusle and a Minun to fight Team Magma. After this fight, the two Trainers left the Electric types behind.
Soon, Ruby was let off Lorry at Slateport City. There, his Mumu evolved into Marshtomp, which attracted the notice of the Hoenn Pokémon Fan Club Chairman. He took Ruby to the Contest Hall, where they made Poké Blocks with Captain Stern before being taken away by Team Magma, who was targeting Stern. Ruby fought against Blaise in the Submarine Explorer 1 in order to free the Chairman and Stern.
After winning, he drifted away from Slateport and landed on Route 118, where he caught a Feebas before being attacked by a Zangoose and a Seviper. Ruby and the Swimmer that he had befriended escaped into the Weather Institute, where Ruby was found by Norman.
The father and son have a showdown, which results in Ruby falling off the Weather Institute. He is saved by his father, who goes on to give Ruby permission to participate in Contests. Overjoyed, Ruby heads off with Gabby and Ty, a pair of interviewers who had witnessed the battle between Ruby and his father, to Verdanturf Town. There, he participates in, and wins, all of the Normal Rank Contests. After winning he spots Wally in the crowd and chases after him, only to find out it was not Wally after all, but his cousin Wanda.
Soon, Ruby, Ty and Gabby hear of a riot caused by Whismur. They go to the Rusturf Tunnel to investigate and fight against Team Magma's Courtney. After a long battle, Ruby and his two new comrades head towards Fallarbor Town.
Upon arriving in the Contest Hall, Ruby immediately entered the Tough, Cool, Cute and Smart categories of the Super Rank Contests. However, he was too late to enter the Beauty category and was forced to watch. During the Beauty category, he fell in love with Wallace's performance and, afterward, asked the older man to be his master. Although Wallace originally refused, he changed his mind after witnessing Ruby battle. The two then headed for Fortree City, where Wallace was to meet with the other Gym Leaders.
After arriving in the city, Ruby meet up with Sapphire again and battled against a group of Grumpig, during which Sapphire realized that Ruby wasn't as weak as he claimed to be. This led to the biggest argument between the two and Sapphire telling Ruby that she never wanted to see him again.
Due to this argument, Ruby ran from Fortree and went to the flooded Slateport City and participating in all the Hyper Rank Contests. He won all of them too, but lost to Wallace in the beauty category, which led to Ruby telling Feefee that she was ugly after which Feefee ran away from Ruby, who cried himself unconscious.
When he awoke, he was feeling bad about what he had done when he saw Sapphire on TV, along with her new Relicanth, which he recognized as the Pokémon that Mr. Briney said could dive deep into the sea. Realizing that he was the only one who knew this, Ruby left the first aid station and saved a blind boy's Magikarp that he had initially thought was Feefee. The boy then made Ruby realize that he should help out in the crisis that was happening in Hoenn and Ruby then sent a letter to Wallace stating that he would fight against the Ancient Pokémon.
Wallace drove Ruby in his air car to Sapphire's location. He then explained to everyone that Relicanth could take him and Sapphire to the Seafloor Cavern. They then dived under the sea together, their goal to defeat Maxie and Archie.
At the bottom of the sea, the young pair squared off against Maxie and Archie, gaining the edge by taking advantage of their selfish mindsets. However, the two leaders became fully taken over by the power of the orbs they held, and dragged their foes to Sootopolis City, where the two titans were having their tremendous battle. Ruby and Sapphire, seeing the overwhelming power the two monsters held before them, lose all hope and tell their mentors to abscond. Winona and Wallace, however, managed to snap them out of it, and after the two young Pokédex holders reminisce of their forgotten past, are able to drive the Red and Blue Orbs out of the insane leaders' bodies using the Meteorite that deactivated Mt. Chimney earlier.
In the ensuing explosion, the two were blown away, and soon were then taken to Mirage Island, where they, under the leadership of Wallace's master Juan, trained and learned that they had absorbed the Blue and Red Orbs. After they complete their training and learn to control the orbs to their will, Sapphire receives the Mind Badge and the Rain Badge.
Just before leaving Mirage Island to embark on their final mission, Sapphire told a shocked Ruby that she liked him. Before Ruby could respond, they had to leave and he didn't get to tell that he felt the same way until they reached Sootopolis City, where he pushed Sapphire away in order to protect her. Ruby then left with Courtney in order to fight against Maxie, Archie, and the Ancient Pokémon Groudon and Kyogre.
After Courtney's death, Ruby reunited with Feefee, who then evolved into a Milotic. Sapphire then came to the battle field and the two rivals charged up Plusle and Minun and finally defeated Archie and Maxie. Ruby then used Celebi to restore peace.
The next day was the eightieth day of the bet and Ruby had succeed in his goal of getting all of the Ribbons in Hoenn. He then ran off into the sunset with Sapphire to Littleroot Town, where a party was awaiting them.
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Almost a year later, Ruby, along with Sapphire, was sent to the Battle Frontier by Professor Birch to help out the third Pokédex holder Emerald in his quest to save Jirachi from Guile Hideout. They first met up with the boy at the Battle Dome but it soon became clear that he resented them. So, in order to get to know Emerald, the two entered the Battle Dome tournament. Ruby fought Emerald in the semi-finals but lost. He did however help Emerald's Sceptile regain its memories of its past with Professor Birch. He and Sapphire were then kicked out of the Battle Dome by Emerald.
Outside, the two ran into Palace Maven Spenser, who recognized Sapphire as a person who had held the Blue Orb. Ruby found this odd and recorded this encounter with the power of the Memory Lighter that he had been given from Marge. After Guile Hideout captured Jirachi, Ruby and Sapphire teamed up with Noland and Emerald and challenged the Battle Tower as a four man team.
On the top floor, the team found Anabel brainwashed and under the control of Guile Hideout. With the use of Latios and Latias shared sight ability, Spenser informed the trio of Pokédex holders that Guile had touched the Blue Orb, forcing Guile to reveal his true identity as Archie. After Archie summoned the Great Sea Beast to flood the Battle Frontier, Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald were joined by Crystal and Gold, who revealed that Ruby and Sapphire needed Jirachi to revive their senior Pokédex holders Red, Blue, Green, Yellow and Silver, who had all been petrified by a beam that was meant for Deoxys at the end of the FireRed & LeafGreen chapter.
After Emerald was able to awaken the older Pokédex holders from their petrification, Ruby used Mumu's newly learned Hydro Cannon attack to destroy the sea beast. After the battle was over, Ruby participated in a tournament between all ten Pokédex holders, which he, at some point, lost.
In the original version and Chuang Yi translation, the nicknames of Ruby's Pokémon are derived from their Japanese species names with a certain syllable repeated twice. In the VIZ translation, the English names are used instead. In the original Japanese version, the names are written in the Latin alphabet as opposed to kana.
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Nana (Japanese: NANA) was given to Ruby as a Poochyena from his father, Norman. During Ruby's adventure, she evolved into a Mightyena at the Granite Cave. She has an Adamant nature and is used in Cool Contests. Her Contest call is, "Regardless of the effects of time, the coolness that this body encompasses never changes. Carrying with her the tough Intimidate, this is the Pokémon Mightyena—Nana!"
|Creeping Past Cacnea
Kiki (Japanese: COCO) was given to Ruby as a Skitty from his father, Norman. During Ruby's adventure, she evolved into a Delcatty at the Granite Cave. She has a Naive nature and is used in Cute Contests. Her Contest call is, "Regardless of the effects of time, the cuteness that this body encompasses never changes. Oozing Cute Charm from her body, this is the Pokémon Delcatty—Kiki!"
|Creeping Past Cacnea
Mumu (Japanese: ZUZU) was first used by Ruby as a Mudkip to defend himself from an angry Sapphire. After the misunderstanding had been cleared, Ruby kept Mumu on his team and used him in Contests. During Ruby's quest, Mumu eventually evolved into a Marshtomp and a Swampert. He has a Relaxed nature and is used in Tough Contests. His Contest call is, "Regardless of the effects of time, the toughness that this body encompasses never changes. Boiling with raging Torrent, this is the Pokémon Swampert—Mumu!"
|Making Mirth with Mightyena
| Fofo (Japanese: POPO) used to belong to Mr. Stone, but she was given to Ruby after the Weather Institute battle with his father. Her Contest call is, "Regardless of the effects of time, the smartness that this body encompasses never changes. Hopping between rain, sun, and snow with Forecast, this is the Pokémon Castform—Fofo!" She has a Careful nature and is used in Smart Contests.
Fofo's known moves are Sunny Day, Shadow Ball, Hail, and Weather Ball, and her Ability is Forecast.
|Lombre Larceny
Feefee (Japanese: MIMI) was fished by Ruby on Route 118 as a Feebas, much to his disgust. After saving Ruby and a Swimmer from some wild Pokémon, Ruby reluctantly added her to his team and used her in Beauty Contests. During the battle with Archie and Maxie, Mimi evolved into Milotic after Ruby realized that she had inner beauty.
Feefee's Contest call as a Feebas was, "Regardless of what becomes of the body, the beauty that lies in the heart never changes. Floating with Swift Swim, this is the Pokémon Feebas—Feefee!" but after her evolution it became, "Having released its body with its heart, it shines with overwhelming beauty. Possessing the Marvel Scale, this is the Pokémon Milotic—Feefee!"
|Not So Fetching Feebas
| Rara (Japanese: RURU) was also given to Ruby by his father as a Ralts. She was intended to use in Smart Contests, but was separated from Ruby after being lent to Wally. During his training with Norman, Rara had evolved into Kirlia under Wally's care, much to his frustration because he didn't properly own her. After the battle with Groudon and Kyogre had ended, Rara was returned to Ruby. In the Emerald chapter, Rara faced Emerald's Dusclops in battle, which ended in a tie. In the beginning of the Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire chapter, while training with Sapphire's Kiruru, she evolved into a Gardevoir. She has a Gentle nature.
Rara's known moves are Confusion, Imprison, and Hypnosis, and her Ability is Synchronize.
|Creeping Past Cacnea
Status unknown
| Plusle was first encountered on the Abandoned Ship along with Sapphire's Minun. They initially caused trouble for Ruby, but helped battle against Tabitha and Courtney. During Kyogre's rampage, they were blown off the Abandoned Ship and made their way to Mirage Island, where they became Ruby and Sapphire's Pokémon. At the final battle, Plusle and Minun defeated Archie and Maxie by trapping them in a sphere of electricity powered up by the New Mauville Generator. As of It All Ends Now VII, he is at level 53 and has a Jolly nature.
Plusle's known moves are Double Team, Helping Hand, and Fake Tears, and his Ability is Plus.
|Adding It Up with Plusle & Minun I
| Latios, along with his sister, Latias, were friends with Emerald. After Emerald gained friends in the form of the other Pokédex holders, they returned to their home on Southern Island. In the Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire chapter, Ruby traveled to Southern Island and summoned the two siblings via the Eon Flute. Ruby asked for their help with the upcoming crisis that will threaten Hoenn, which Latios accepted. With Ruby's Mega Bracelet and Latios's Latiosite, Latios can Mega Evolve into Mega Latios.
Latios's only known move is Luster Purge.
|Never Spritz a Knotty Sudowoodo
|After the events of the Gold, Silver & Crystal chapter, Celebi purposely joined Ruby's team, although Ruby didn't even know what Pokémon it was. Ruby used Celebi to end the battle with Archie and Maxie by having it take the Red and Blue Orbs from them and breaking them into pieces. It used its time travel powers to bring the people who had lost their lives in the battle back to life. With its duty fulfilled, Celebi sent Ruby away to be with his friends and left.
|It All Ends Now VIII
Ruby won all 20 Hoenn Contest Ribbons in the four ranks of each of the five categories.
In addition, at the start of his journey, Ruby had eleven unknown Ribbons in his possession that had been won by Kiki, Nana and Rara prior to Creeping Past Cacnea.
- A ruby is the birthstone for those born in July, the month in which Ruby was born.
- Ruby has the most awards in his respective field of any Pokédex holder, with a total of 20.
|ルビー Ruby
|From Pokémon Ruby
|From Pokémon Ruby
|From Pokémon Version Rubis
|루비 Ruby
|From Pokémon Ruby
|Chinese (Mandarin)
|路比 Lùbǐ
|Transliteration of his Japanese name
|Chinese (Cantonese)
|路比 Louhbéi
|Transliteration of his Japanese name
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- Netkun on Ruby (Japanese)
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|This article is part of both Project Manga and Project CharacterDex, Bulbapedia projects that, together, aim to write comprehensive articles on the Pokémon Manga and CharacterDex, respectively.


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just a all round good tutorial on how to learn programing
I would like a good C tutorial!
I really doubt anyone on the forum could create a tutorial of C programming comparable to all the amazing books out there. It doesn't matter if the book isn't specifically microcontroller orientated, because the C is the same no matter what. New books may be too expensive, but there are many sources of second-hand books. Also, if you search hard enough for any book, cough*rapidshare*cough, you will probably be able to find the book in pdf form.A tutorial id like to see is MCU audio. Maybe 1-bit audio. It looks really interesting.Anyone have any experience with it?
and i've heard rapidshare has very good discounts on ebooks
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I wanted a clean way of upgrading the default ruby 1.8.7 installation on my new Mac OSX 10.6.7 host, and couldn't locate a decent explanation. As a result I've spent surprisingly little time unpicking the dependencies and getting my shiny new ruby 1.9.x installation sorted. Here's how I achieved that. (Please note you need to have XCode installed if you plan to build the ruby installation from source.)
Firstly it's important to understand the landscape when considering this upgrade. Firstly, the existing 1.8.x ruby installation exists in the /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework location. Beneath that root folder is a Versions folder. Versions contained another folder called 1.8 (referring to the version of ruby contained therein) and a symlink by the name of Current, which pointed to that 1.8 folder.
Decision 1: Seemed like a good idea to place all my future versions of ruby in version-aware subfolders in this …/Ruby.framework/Versions folder.
Next thing to understand is that all of the key commands relating to using the ruby framework (e.g. ruby, gem, irb, erb, …) live in the /usr/bin folder. Each of these commands are symlinks to executable files within the current ruby framework subtree. The convention here can be seen in this example:
/usr/bin/ruby -> /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/Current/usr/bin/ruby
Next thing to understand is that all of the key commands relating to using the ruby framework (e.g. ruby, gem, irb, erb, …) live in the /usr/bin folder. Each of these commands are symlinks to executable files within the
Decision 2: If I correctly install all my subsequent versions of ruby into this same location then it should be possible for me to simply modify the Current symlink in the …/Ruby.framework/Versions folder to set the active ruby version I wish to use. All /usr/bin dependencies can simply resolve to the correct subfolder beneath the frameworks root.
Next I downloaded the latest source distribution from somewhere, in my case I used the 1.9.2 source from here (http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2010/12/25/ruby-1-9-2-p136-is-released/). After downloading and unpacking into a temporary folder, I then executed the following commands from the root of the ruby source folder structure:
- sudo mkdir /System/Frameworks/Library/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.9.2/usr to create the new version subtree root.
- ./configure –prefix=/System/Frameworks/Library/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.9.2/usr to instruct the make utility to use my new installation folder for the deployment of the newly compiled binaries.
- sudo make && make install to create my new subtree and binaries beneath my newly created target.
- sudo unlink Current
- sudo ln -s 1.9.2 Current


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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – The No. 4 Georgia College & State University baseball team (41-16) landed five players on the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA)/Rawlings All-Southeast Region teams, with centerfielder Sean Harrell (Martinez, Ga.) and starting pitcher Martin Dewald (Mannheim, Germany) earning first-team distinction.
Dewald and Harrell took first team slots, while rightfielder Shawn Ward (Martinez, Ga.) second baseman Jason Veyna (Lamar, Colo.) and catcher Richard Pirkle (Norcross, Ga.) earned spots on the second team.
The team's ace, Dewald is 11-3 this season with a 3.53 ERA and 117 strikeouts over 112 1/3 innings. This is the second ABCA All-Region honor for Dewald, after being named to the first team in 2009 as a closer.
Harrell is hitting .441 with 11 home runs and 55 RBI this season. He adds 79 runs with 20 stolen bases. He is slugging .700 with a .522 on-base percentage. The last Bobcat outfielder to take ABCA All-Region honors was centerfielder Justin Mills (2003-07) in 2007.
Ward is hitting .370 with 16 home runs and 86 RBI, scoring 55 runs while slugging .664. Pirkle is hitting a .359 clip, swatting 17 home runs and driving in 65. He has 15 stolen bases, slugging .750 and scoring 59 runs. Pirkle is the first catcher to take an ABCA All-Region spot for the Bobcats in program history.
Veyna is hitting .311 this season with four home runs and 46 RBI. He's scored 46 runs and stolen 13 bases with a .967 fielding percentage. He is the first Georgia College second baseman to make the ABCA All-Region list since Hans Stancil (2003-07) in 2007.
Dewald and Harrell move on to the All-America ballot. All-time, the Georgia College baseball program has now earned 50 ABCA All-Region awards.
The Bobcats are back in action Thursday, May 27 at 3 p.m. facing No. 9 University of Southern Indiana at the Division II College World Series.
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Wasn't that a safe time to go unprotected?
Heather Corinna replies:Me and my boyfriend had unprotected sex on the second to last day of my period, we thought this would be safe as it is highly unlikely to become pregnant at that time. I am now 8 days late, and never usually late, but have been experiencing abdominal cramps for about 4 days on and off as though my period is going to start. Could I be pregnant?
Depending on when exactly you ovulate, that may not have been a safe time at all. Some people ovulate fairly early in their cycles, so for those people -- let's say someone who ovulates on day 10, and had unprotected sex on day 7 -- that would have been a very high risk time.
Please understand that there is no way of predicting what is and is not a most fertile and least fertile time for you without charting your cervical mucus and basal temperatures. The calendar method alone is relatively useless. Even when you are charting, natural family planning is NOT a reliable birth control method for younger women, and if you're going to use it at all, beyond using it properly, you'll need to use it combined with another method of birth control. For example, you might use condoms with sex for all times saving your most fertile times, and then when you are most fertile, abstain from intercourse altogether.
Given that you had a high risk, and your period is late, it's time for you to go ahead and take a pregnancy test. You can do that with a home test, or at your local sexual healthcare clinic. Too, if you and your partner have not been practicing all aspects of safer sex before this risk -- that's SIX months of monogamy and latex barrier use AND at least two full, negative STI screens for BOTH of you -- then you and he will need to be sure to get a full STI screening soon as well.
Obviously, you'll also want to sit down with your partner, too, and make clear that both your ideas about "safe" times and ways to determine what was safe were off. You'll also want to make clear that from here on out, if you do not want to/are not ready to become pregnant that a reliable method of birth control -- such as condoms -- is non-negotiable if you're going to be having sex together, okay?
And if you really are interested in finding out when your fertile times are, I'd highly recommend Toni Weschler's new book on cycles expressly for young people, Cycle Savvy.


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The best way to attract birds into your garden is to provide food for them – but with a 6kg bag of sunflower hearts costing about £15, and similar size seed mixes from £5 to £12, it's easy to spend more than £25 a month. The solution is to grow your own. Many garden plants provide seed for free, and by choosing the right combination, you can help a variety of seed-eaters, such as finches, tits, sparrows and siskins, through the winter.
Plants that have easy-to-access or plentiful seeds mean that birds don't have to waste energy looking for food, and they will also add interest to a winter garden. Teasels and ornamental thistles are also a low-energy alternative to importing nyjer seed from India and Africa to feed goldfinches.
So start planting now, and remember to leave seed heads standing for as long as possible through the winter.
1 Miscanthus sinensis 'flamingo'
Leave the seed heads of this striking ornamental grass standing until March for greenfinches and goldfinches to feed on when other seed heads may have been dispersed by wind or freezing temperatures. A graceful grass, with pink flowers that change to buff in midsummer, it prefers open sunny positions and moist but well-drained soil. Alternatively, try panicum grasses, especially varieties of P. virgatum, which provide lots of winter seed.
HxS 1.5m x 1m (5ft x 3ft)
Attracts greenfinches and goldfinches
Plant from late February, once the soil has warmed up
2 Hazel (Corylus avellana)
An excellent wildlife plant for smaller gardens, usually grown as a multi-stemmed shrub. The tough, woody shell of the small nuts protects the nutritious seed inside, but strong-billed birds such as nuthatches can hammer holes in the shell or break it into pieces to get at the nut inside. Copes with shade, but does not suit acidic or waterlogged soils.
HxS 5m x 5m (16ft x 16ft) (slow growing)
Attracts woodpeckers, nuthatches, jays, wood pigeons
Plant from now until March as a bare-root or potted shrub
3 Teasel (Dipsacus fullonum)
Making statuesque border plants, the tawny seed heads of this biennial provide structure in the winter garden and a natural source of food for agile goldfinches. They contain thousands of small oblong seeds which these birds can prise out from between the spines with their relatively slim beaks, while clinging on to the stiff stalks even in strong wind. The purple and bright green flower heads are a summer bonus. Teasels will grow in most soil types but self-seed freely, so be prepared to weed out unwanted plants.
HxS 1.8m x 50cm (6ft x 19.5in)
Attracts goldfinches
Sow February
4 Globe thistle (Echinops ritro)
Globe-shaped flower heads produce brown seeds inside each spiky calyx that finches find easy to pick off. The steel-blue flowers are also popular with insects in summer. Prefers full sun and a well-drained site.
HxS 1.2m x 50cm (4ft x 20in)
Attracts finches
Plant from late February once the soil has warmed up or sow seed outside in April or May
5 Silver birch (Betula pendula)
This fast-growing native tree supports more than 300 different insect species. The catkins (above) go on to produce layers of tiny seeds, encased in papery wings, after flowering. It prefers open, well-drained sites. The white, peeling bark and trailing delicate limbs are a decorative bonus in winter gardens.
HxS 8m x 3m (26ft x 10ft) (in 20 years)
Attracts tits, goldfinches, greenfinches, siskins, redpolls
Plant from now until March, as a potted or bare-root tree
6 Cirsium rivulare 'Atropurpureum'
Flowers of thistles produce masses of seeds that are a favourite with finches. This perennial with big, sword-shaped leaves displays its blooms on upright stems from June to September. Plant it in a sunny well-drained site – it's easier to handle than most thistles. Leave the last flush of flowers to set seed for the birds.
HxS 1.5m x 50cm (5ft x 20in)
Attracts finches, dunnocks
Plant from late February once the soil has warmed up
7 Sunflower (Helianthus annuus)
Packed tightly in the centre of the annual sunflower, the large striped "seeds" are in fact a type of dry fruit called an achene, each containing a single seed. As soon as they ripen in autumn, many birds will feast on the oil-rich hearts and discard the husks. Grown in a well-watered, sunny position, these plants can reach a height of 3m (10ft) in a season.
HxS 1.5m-3.5m x up to 24cm (5ft-12ft x up to 10in)
Attracts blue tits, great tits, chaffinches, goldfinches, house sparrows, siskins, greenfinches
Sow February to March under cover, or direct into the soil in April
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Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (The Red Shoes, Stairway To Heaven) create a feverishly romantic, phantasmagoric marriage of cinema, ballet and opera in this one-of-a-kind film on a classic story. A melancholy poet dreams of three women — a mechanical performing doll, a bejeweled satanic siren and a consumptive opera singer — all of whom break his heart in different ways. Shot in glorious three-strip Technicolor with over-the-top color schemes, highly stylized sets and sumptuous costumes, this lavishly imaginative film features world-class prima ballerinas Moira Shearer and Ludmilla Tcherina amongst a cadre of haunting characters — everything from a dozen half-human/half-puppets and a wild-eyed "magic spectacle maker" with foot-long eyebrows, to a bewitching courtesan and her "Satanic master, collector of souls."
With ingenious use of visual effects incorporating old fashioned theatrical tricks, double exposures and reverse action and slow motion, this wildly innovative story-within-a-story evokes a sumptuous dream state of pure artifice and otherworldly strangeness. No wonder Scorsese is a huge fan and supporter of the film, and none other than George Romero said this is the movie that made him want to make movies.
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Dave Mosher works for Popular Science. He doesn't like cars, and he wants to represent an entire generation of people that he thinks feel the same way. The thing is, I don't believe we all feel the same way. I know that I don't personally, and I know people who remain passionate about automobiles.
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Configuring Nginx
After saving the configuration file and bouncing the daemon via its init script, I had a fully functional PHP environment, and I was ready to turn my attention to the Web server. How could I adapt an existing Apache configuration, one that included functional SSL/TLS support, to Nginx?
Turns out it's actually pretty darn easy, since Nginx doesn't have nearly the configuration richness of Apache. For small sites, this is a very good thing! Nginx, when installed under Ubuntu via a package manager, uses an Apache-like directory structure. Everything user-configurable resides under /etc/Nginx; there's an Nginx.conf file for holding all the global settings, a conf.d directory for placing additional conf files that will be parsed and included in the running configuration, and sites-available and sites-enabled directories, for defining the actual websites and their specific configurations.
It's notable what Nginx doesn't use for configuration—there's no support for .htaccess files. Any configuration you want done on specific subdirectories must be handled in either a conf file or one of the site definition files. If you're thinking of switching to Nginx and your site relies heavily on .htaccess trickery, either for defining access or for adding rewrite rules or anything else, you need to reassess and see if whatever you're doing can be recreated in the conf files instead. This also means that some Web applications that depend specifically on the presence of .htaccess files probably won't work well (or at all) under Nginx.
In spite of this, my site adapted well to Nginx, and the main conf file required almost no editing. The most important setting in the main file is the "worker_processes" setting, which defines how many Nginx processes will run. Since one worker process can handle thousands of simultaneous requests, a good rule of thumb is to have one worker process per CPU core. In my case, I set this to 2. The file also lets you specify which user the Nginx processes will run as; since I installed Nginx via a package manager, this was pre-configured to run as the www-data user, just like Apache.
The remainder of the configuration was done in the sites-available directory. Much like Apache, with Nginx you create site definitions in the sites-available directory and then symlink them into the sites-enabled directory, which Nginx parses through at startup. However, unlike Apache, where I had one separate file for non-SSL and another for SSL, the "default" file included in sites-available has both HTTP and HTTPS virtual hosts defined within.
Nginx carries forward the Apache concept of virtual hosts, and offers enough configuration options to satisfy most sites. You define a virtual host name, a Web root where the files to be served are located, and then call out any specific location permissions and directives. Rewrites are also handled in the same file, rather than potentially being called out in multiple places as in Apache. This can lead to a more complex site definition file then you might have for an Apache site, but the configuration is centralized.
There's a bit of a difference in setting up SSL, too, as Nginx doesn't support separate chain certificates like Apache. If your site's certificate requires an intermediate certificate bundle, you'll have to concatenate your site's certificate into the bundle before you can use it. Further, when serving files with SSL/TLS, Nginx defaults to using the extremely secure but also extremely slow DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA cipher on encrypted connections. This is good if you need very tight encryption for your pages, but not so good if you need your pages to be served quickly, as the extra Diffie-Hellman encryption it adds is computationally intensive. If you're going to be serving encrypted pages, it might be a good idea to disallow the DSE-RSA-AES256-SHA cipher and have Nginx fall back to using plain AES256-SHA. The method for doing so, as well as some more information about the issue, can be found on this page.
In order to make Nginx correctly pass PHP files to the standalone php-fpm installation, all you have to do is set up a handler under each virtual host that needs to use PHP, like this:
location ~ .php$ { try_files $uri =404; fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.soc;}
This tells Nginx that files located anywhere under the Web root and which end in .php should be passed with FastCGI through the socket at /var/run/php5-fpm, which is where the php5-fpm processes are listening for work to show up.
One important tip—there's a well-known potential vulnerability that exists when combining Nginx with FastCGI and PHP that can allow malicious visitors to send non-PHP files through the PHP handler. The vulnerability takes advantage of PHP attempting to be as helpful as possible with the things it gets handed by the Web server; it is possible to tell PHP to execute files that don't actually end in PHP by feeding it an incorrect filename that does end in PHP. There is an option in php.ini that can be set to stop this from happening, but a good number of popular PHP applications actually depend on this overly helpful behavior, so it's easier to address from the server side. That's what the "try_files $uri =404;" line is for—it instructs Nginx to first try to serve the exact URI it's been given, and if that URI does not explicitly exist, to report a 404 error rather than passing the URI on to PHP.
The vast majority of Nginx + PHP tutorials on the Web gloss over this configuration pitfall, even though it's been around for nearly two years. (I mention it here because it's an easy-to-avoid problem!)
The remainder of the configuration file work I had to do was with rewrites, all of which are concerned with cleaning up Dokuwiki URLs and making them easier to read. Translating from Apache's extremely rich rewrite language to Nginx's took a small amount of guesswork, and if your site relies on serious rewriting, you likely don't want to use Nginx. Its rewrite engine is flat-out not as powerful as Apache's.
Smooth sailing
And with that, I was done. So how well does it all work?
It works very well indeed. Putting aside the PHP bits for a moment, the main reason I wanted to switch was because of flat file serving speed. In my entirely subjective tests, Nginx destroys Apache here. The same Tectonicus map that formerly took seconds to fully populate the screen now appears instantly, and is also instantly responsive to mouse input. Dragging and zooming are fluid and fast, unlike the same map under Apache, which would lag and skip like it was being hosted on a hamster-powered server in Antarctica instead of a LAN box on the other end of a gigabit Ethernet connection. I am extremely pleased.
The improvement is a bit murkier with the PHP-based wiki, but it's most decidedly not worse than it was before. There are several image-heavy pages on the wiki and loading them through Apache would take perhaps 3-5 seconds; the same pages load in roughly the same amount of time on Nginx. However, the RAM footprint of the Nginx+php-fpm set up is considerably smaller than the large Apache prefork configuration I had originally, and the CPU utilization while servicing a dozen or so page loads is much lower.
The switch took most of a Saturday between a few false starts and a lot of Googling, with a big chunk of the time burned up trying to fix the rewrite rules and make the wiki happy. I learned a lot from the experience, not the least of which is that Nginx does what it says on the tin—it's a damn fast Web server.


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News on the Hill
|Angela Godby, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Federal Relations for the University of Texas System. She is affected with lamellar/CIE.
President Obama Signs Continuing Resolution. Now what?
On March 27, 2013, President Obama signed into law a bill that keeps the federal government up and running through the end of the fiscal year in September. The bill included a small increase for medical research at the National Institutes of Health ($71 million). That's the good news. The bad news is that the bill comes after the March 1 implementation of over $85 billion in cuts in federal spending (the so called "sequester"), including $1.6 billion in cuts at NIH.
Facing the reality of a nine percent cut in funding for the rest of this year, NIH is scaling back on new research grant opportunities and is reviewing existing grants and contracts. While medical research will still continue, these cuts come on top of level or reduced funding over the past few years. Unfortunately, this means a reduction in the amount of important research on rare diseases like ichthyosis.
Is there any hope for the future? Maybe. While the FY13 process was delayed by almost six months, the FY14 process is already in motion. Normally, the budget process is kicked off by the President's budget submission in February. However, nothing is ever normal in Washington, D.C. This year, the sequester put the President's budget in limbo. The President has not yet submitted his budget plan (it is expected April 8). The House and Senate have passed two very different plans that essentially lay out each side's priorities. These documents are simply blueprints of spending plans. In a divided Congress (currently, a Republican House of Representatives and a Democratic Senate), budget plans tend to look more like political party platforms versus real spending plans.
The rubber meets the road during the appropriations process. That process will be ongoing through the fall. Thankfully, many members of Congress are supportive of NIH, but we need to keep up the fight for additional funding – especially in light of limited increases in recent years and the sequester. I strongly encourage you to reach out to your member of Congress to educate them about ichthyosis and the importance of further NIH research into skin diseases. Make sure to personalize your story!
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What is Lady Gaga Wearing on the Born This Way Ball Tour?
Lady Gaga's old pal, photographer Terry Richardson, visited her in Asia on the opening dates of the Born This Way Ball world tour. He shared some photos of the Mother Monster and her elaborate, head-turning costuming. So, exactly what is Gaga wearing as she entertains her little monsters?
As expected, this tour features ensembles and attire that could be her most outrageous yet. Given Gaga's status as a fashion game changer, she needed to be more extreme than usual and go as far out on that limb as she possible can. We love her for it, too.
From her architectural, geometric white dress complete with ram horn-like mask to the cage she wears on her head, along with a studded, dominatrix-like outfit to the shot of her relaxing during rehearsals in a battered but stylish Anthrax t-shirt, Gaga is kicking her fashion choices up several notches.
Gaga's dom look is quite reminiscent of Madonna, we have to say. But it's not reductive.
Thankfully, Richardson, her collaborator on her 'Lady Gaga x Terry Richardson' photo book, was on hand to capture the pop diva in all of her glory.