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PHILADELPHIA -Nat King Cole first sang about those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer back in the 1960s, but America has always been enamored with beach season.
Whether they're loading the kids into the minivan for a trip down the Jersey shore, fishing in the Florida Keys or driving down the Pacific Coast Highway with the top down, people all across the country see the summertime as a chance to recharge the batteries.
Football is generally off people's radar as the summer months approach. Baseball is just heating up, the Indy 500 and Coca-Cola 600 are Memorial Day traditions and the NBA Finals own June.
Behind the scenes, however, America's real passion -- professional football -- is still churning along, engrossed in preparation for the 2013 NFL season.
And dozens of veteran players don't have the time to enjoy a lazy day here and there. It's rise and grind every single day for the bubble player.
I caught up with one them at Eagles OTAs on Monday in South Philadelphia.
To most, the writing is on the wall and the die is cast for Eagles tight end Clay Harbor, a serviceable if nondescript backup to Brent Celek since arriving in the City of Brotherly Love as a fourth-round draft pick out of Missouri State in 2010.
Harbor was never the type of player Andy Reid was going to build around and he has spent nearly every summer fighting for his NFL life. Three years into his career, the 6-foot-3, 255-pounder has amassed 46 receptions for 421 yards and four touchdowns -- not exactly Tony Gonzalez-like numbers.
That said, despite his inconsistencies as a player, Harbor always had a leg up when it came to a roster spot when Reid called the NovaCare Complex home. Whether it's fair or not, all NFL coaches have "their guys," and "their guys" are generally the draft choices taken on their watch.
After all, personnel people are like anyone else, they want to be successful and they want to think their choices are the right ones. It's all human nature.
Chip Kelly and his staff blew into Philadelphia with no allegiance to Harbor or anyone else, save the guys they have brought in since arriving, two of which happen to be high-profile tight ends.
First the Eagles signed a movement-type H-back in free agency in former Houston Texans stalwart James Casey, a player who really fits what Kelly wants to do offensively as far as disguising formations and creating mismatches. Then the selection of Stanford All-American Zach Ertz in the second round of the 2013
draft virtually sealed Harbor's fate.
Or did it?
It's always interesting to watch how football players react to a numbers game which seems insurmountable toward them. Some are so competitive they develop tunnel vision and stay focused on their own business, letting the chips fall where they may. Others give up when they can no longer see the carrot of a roster spot dangling in front of them.
Harbor has taken the positive approach, developing a do-anything mentality that has to be desirous to any coach whether the mentor has a history with the Illinois native or not. The fourth-year pro spent most of his day at OTAs on Monday at tight end and on special teams as usual, but created whispers when it was revealed he also has been lining up as a rush linebacker in Billy Davis' hybrid 3-4 scheme.
In fact, Harbor confirmed he recently spent an entire day practicing as an outside linebacker, a position in which the Eagles are painfully thin.
"I haven't played much defense since high school, when I was a safety, but as an offensive player, we think we have to know more and be a little smarter than those D-lineman," Harbor joked before explaining tight end is still his main job description.
"I'm still a tight end," Harbor continued. "I'm not switching to linebacker. In certain situations -- emergency-style situations -- if something happens, you need to learn that ability to play some defense."
A glass is half empty-type might point out that veteran players who switch sides of the ball often do so because they are not in the team's plans at their current position.
"I'm not looking at it like that," Harbor explained. "I know there is a lot of good tight ends and there is a good chance that I could end up going somewhere else. I'm just going to go out there and compete."
Perhaps Harbor's key to making this team is becoming the NFL's version of a utilityman who can help it in multiple spots depending on what it might need in a particular week. Troy Brown did it in New England for years and these days you'll see Julian Edelman occasionally flip sides for the Patriots.
"There isn't many 6-3, 250-some guys that can run well is their thinking, and they're athletic," Harbor said. "There are 45 guys that dress every Sunday. If something happens, someone gets nicked, if I know the defense, I can help out there."
The odds remain stacked against Harbor in Philadelphia, but if the curtain is indeed closing on his time with the Eagles, there are still 31 other teams in the NFL.
And some of them may want a versatile tight end willing to do anything to help his team win.
"I want to make myself more diverse as a player. Do more things, line up in more situations. If defense helps me out there, I'm going to learn some defense."
*WR Jason Avant has also been taking some snaps with the defensive backs, indicating he's also on the bubble heading into training camp.
*LT Jason Peters, CB Cary Williams, S Patrick Chung, DE Fletcher Cox and offensive line coach Jeff Stoutland all missed practice due to weather-related travel issues
*The Eagles made a roster move before practice, releasing rookie free agent running back Miguel Maysonet and signing Youngstown State tight end Will Shaw.
*Nick Foles had a slight edge on Michael Vick when it came to work with the first team, It's still clearly a three-horse race between those two and rookie Matt Barkley. Foles had the biggest completion of the day, hitting Avant in stride down the right sideline.
*WR Ifeanyi Momah always turns heads with his 6-foot-7, 240-pound frame which screams mismatch every time he steps on the field. Everyone seems to love the Boston Collge product but I just don't see the suddenness or route running ability. Momah hung Foles out to dry on a quick comeback with a painfully slow break.


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Daily jabs of insulin are a painful reality for many with diabetes. That may change if researchers who have successfully tested oral insulin in rats are able to replicate those results in humans.
Nearly 350 million people worldwide suffer from diabetes, and that number is predicted to grow to more than 500 million by 2030. While the more common form, type-2 diabetes, does not always need insulin treatment, nearly a quarter of all diabetes patients depend on insulin injections. Estimated annual sales of oral insulin could be as high as $17 billion.
The benefits of an insulin pill include more than just ease of taking the drug. A pill would mean patients can start taking insulin earlier in the disease's development, which could reduce some of diabetes' secondary complications like blindness and the impaired healing that leads to amputations.
The idea of oral insulin has been around since the 1930s, but the difficulties of making it have previously seemed too large to overcome. First, insulin is a protein—when it comes in contact with stomach enzymes, it is quickly destroyed. Second, if insulin can pass through the stomach safely, it is too big a molecule (about 30 times the size of aspirin) to be absorbed into the bloodstream, where it needs to be in order to regulate blood-sugar levels.
In spite of the difficulties, Sanyog Jain at India's National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research and his colleagues have been working on delivering insulin in the oral form for many years. Their first fully successful attempt came in 2012, when they developed a formulation that successfully controlled blood-sugar levels in rats. But the materials used were too expensive to consider commercializing the technology.
Now, in a paper published in the journal Biomacromolecules, they have found a cheaper and more reliable way of delivering insulin. They overcome the two main hurdles by first packing insulin into tiny sacs made of lipids (fats) and then attaching to it folic acid (vitamin B9) to help improve its absorption into the bloodstream.
The lipids they use are cheap and have, in the past, been successfully employed to deliver other drugs. They help to protect insulin from being digested by stomach enzymes, which gets it to the small intestine. When the lipid-covered sacs enter the small intestine, special cells on its lining, called microfold cells, are attracted to the folic acid. The folic acid helps activate a transport mechanism that can let big molecules pass through into the blood. The amount of folic acid used in the formulation also appears to be in the safe region.
In rats, Jain's formulation was as effective as injected insulin, although the relative amounts that entered the blood stream differed. However, it exceeded injected insulin in one key aspect: whereas the effects of an injection subside in 6 to 8 hours, Jain's formulation helped control blood-sugar levels for more than 18 hours.
The most important part of the research comes after successful testing in animals—the formulation needs to be given to human volunteers. But, Jain said, "at a government institute like ours, we don't have the sort of money needed for clinical trials."
He may not have to wait for long, as big pharma companies have been searching for an insulin pill formulation for decades. Two of them, Danish pharma giant Novo Nordisk and Israeli upstart Oramed are in a race to come up with a solution. Google's venture capital arm, Google Ventures, recently invested $10m in Rani Therapeutics with the hope it will help develop an oral insulin product. Indian firm Biocon also does oral insulin research, and it recently signed an agreement with pharma giant Bristol-Myers Squibb.
Oramed is ahead of Novo Nordisk, with its oral insulin product soon to enter phase-II clinical trials, which is the most advanced stage any oral insulin formulation has ever reached. Oramed chief scientist Miriam Kidron said of Jain's research: "Most people have the same basic idea to develop an insulin pill, but it's the little differences that will determine ultimate success."
While Kidron did not reveal Oramed's formulation, she said, "we attempted liposomal delivery before, just like Jain's work, but we weren't successful." She warned that translating success from rats to humans is very difficult. And she is right—most drugs have a high cull-rate at each stage of their development. Even so, research like Jain's gives hope that an insulin pill may not remain a dream for long.
Biomacromolecules, 2013. DOI: 10.1021/bm401580k (About DOIs).
This article was originally published at The Conversation.


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Outspoken fashion commentator Stacy London is best known for her work alongside Clinton Kelly on TLC's clothing-conscious makeover show "What Not to Wear." There are plenty of makeover shows crowding the airwaves these days, but "What Not to Wear" stands out for its personality, its sense of humor and its downright practical advice to some of America's most poorly dressed individuals. (Plus, it's just fun to razz clueless people and their god-awful sense of style.)
Now, London is now seeking to parlay her fame by creating the world's first fashion-based talk show. ... Although, for all I know, there could be dozens of them over on the Style Network. My interest in fashion is limited, and the fact that I find "Fashionably Late" more than fitfully entertaining says quite a bit about the show, its producers and its host.
Patterned (so to speak) after your typical late-night chat show, "Fashionably Late" sets a fine after-dinner mood. London is loose and dishy, and her set resembles a cross between a New York loft and a trendy nightclub. The set actually includes a wet bar (complete with hunky bartender), and London isn't averse to sharing a shot with guests before the interview segments (which may also contribute to the show's loose feel.)
London doesn't start off with a monologue exactly, but she frequently pops into the audience to analyze clothing choices, talk shop or bestow Oprah-like gifts (lots of handbags, shoes and coats). In-between gabbing with models/actresses (Rebecca Romijn) or actresses/models (Mariel Hemingway), London mixes things up with in-studio segments (giving audience members makeovers or hosting impromptu fashion shows) and pre-recorded bits (a visit to a makeup factory, for example).
Over her years on "What Not to Wear," London has crafted a recognizable television personality, complete with catchphrase (the interjectional "Shut up!"). She milks it more than usual here, but I suspect the "Chatty Cathy life of the party" isn't far off London's day-to-day persona. She wouldn't look all that out of place on "Sex and the City," but she'd be more attractive, funnier and certainly better dressed than the four leads. There's no arguing that London knows her way around fashion and she isn't above dumping on stupid trends. One recurring show segment even allows ordinary Manhattanites to "road test" cresting fashion trends, deciding whether or not assorted haute couture concepts (trash bag dresses?) should make the transition from runway to sidewalk.
With its cute shoes, cocktail recipes and clothing talk, "Fashionably Late" feels like a good, old-fashioned girls' night in. Although she occasionally mentions men's fashion, and will sometimes give tips on how to dress your beau, there isn't a lot here for the straight men in the audience (aside from ogling the occasional model-


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Tom Brady picks his toughest cornerback opponents
New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady has identified Tampa Bay Buccaneers cornerback Darrelle Revis as one of the toughest opponents he's faced.
Speaking to ESPN reporters, Brady was asked to rattle off some of the top cornerbacks he's faced over the course of his career so far.
And while he rates the likes of Champ Bailey and Patrick Surtain from years gone by, he believes Buccaneers star Revis is at the top.
"Ty [Law] was a great player," said Brady. "We played a lot of zone with Ty and Ty always had a great feel.
"I remember him intercepting me a lot of times in practice and 'how did he see that or get to that ball?' He had such great field vision. That's what it is with those guys in the secondary. There are certain corners that are really man-to-man corners.
"Like the Jets over the last few years with Revis and [Antonio] Cromartie, they just put those guys on one particular guy and say 'take the ball away.' That's what they do a good job of.
"Darrelle has been a great man-to-man corner. They're probably playing a little more zone now than what he used to play.
"There are some great corners I've been able to play against – Champ Bailey and Patrick Surtain, that goes back a few years. Charles Woodson, I love the way he plays the game still.
"Darrelle is certainly at the top."
Revis, a four-time Pro Bowler, was widely regarded as the NFL's best cornerback before he suffered a season-ending ligament injury with the New York Jets last term.
He was traded to the Buccaneers in April for two draft picks, with the Tampa franchise banking on the University of Pittsburgh alumni returning to his former lockdown-corner best.
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Absolute Blank – Creative expression
Absolute Blank, the new marketing campaign by Absolute Vodka, gives artists a platform to express themselves creatively.
The base is a large cardboard Absolute Vodka bottle. The shape is the only limitation. The rest is up to the artist. Participants are artists such as: Adhemas Batista, Aestethic Apparatus, Brett Amory, Dave Kinsey, David Bray, Eduardo Recife, Fernando Chamarelli, Good Wives & Warriors, Jeremy Fish, Ludovica Gioscia, Marcus Jansen, Mario Wagner, Morning Breath, Robert Mars, Sam Flores, Thomas Doyle, UVA and Zac Freeman. You can find more information on the website of Absolut Blank. Absolut Blank: "The 20 artists participating in ABSOLUT BLANK represent a variety of creative disciplines from across the globe; from drawing, painting and sculpting to film making and digital art. Among the artworks are UVA's high intensity, bright and striking light installations, Mario Wagner's attention-grabbing cut-out imagery, the colourful and playful graphic design of Aesthetic Apparatus, the bold illustrations of Kinsey and the detailed work of Good Wives and Warriors." read more
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As observant chroniclers of the automobile scene will note (along with students of Hollywood B-lists and Sunday-dinner fixings), midlife makeovers are not always good news. Alleged improvements are easy to count in the version 2.0-or, as we used to say, Mark 2-editions; we've got press releases just in case we miss them. But sometimes these revisions are harder to feel behind the wheel. Indeed, be they mortal or super, most cars are lucky to emerge from the face-lifting process no worse than they were before.
So welcome, first, the most exceptional of the many exceptional features of the new Ferrari F430 Spider, the just-launched revision of the Ferrari 360 Modena, which debuted in 1999. This follow-up is a striking exception to the rule, not only equaling but fairly blasting past the incredibly super model it updates. As if it suddenly had 483 hp and 343 lb-ft of torque at its disposal, which, of course, it now does. Not since the Z06 version of the C5 Corvette debuted in 2001 has a vessel already so exciting to drive gone in for a mid-ocean course correction and returned to steam so wickedly strong and so noticeably improved.
Outward refinements seem subtle on this most unsubtle machine, until you learn that the only carryover sheetmetal is the doors. Plus, there are improvements to the wind-deflection system, a revised power convertible top, and new polished stainless-steel tailpipes. There's an updated instrument binnacle, a slimmer central tunnel, and a driver's-mirror shell now embossed to read "F430," just in case anyone was in doubt that yours was the latest and greatest example of a car that now costs about $200,000.
But the F430's biggest news lies under a glass cover, just behind the driver and just ahead of its nineteen-inch rear wheels, cradled in the exposed rails of a high-tech aluminum spaceframe.
Seven-tenths of a liter in additional cubic capacity doesn't sound like much, even if it does represent an almost 20 percent increase over the none-too-shabby 360 Modena's 3.6 liters. But it turns out the old adage about the lack of a suitable replacement for displacement holds as true for fancy-pants DOHC V-8 rev monsters crafted from aluminum by Italian artisans as its does for the V-8 rock crushers puked out by American factories in cast iron when the adage was new. The F430's larger-displacement V-8 and new four-valve cylinder heads serve up an additional 91 hp and 67 lb-ft of torque, shaving half a second off its 0-to-60-mph time (now about 4.0 seconds) and raising top speed to 193 mph.
Back home, of course, a red Ferrari driven in anger is a surefire invitation to the courthouse anywhere, anyplace, anytime. But in Italy- in the hills above Maranello, at least- it's an entirely different kettle of fettuccine.
We headed skyward at the suggestion of photographer Mark Bramley, who knew too well Ferrari's planned route for the U.S. journalists who were there to drive the F430, having negotiated the same course with a group of British scribes the week before. So, while I and the rest of the American journalists were busy letting out a collective gasp as our bus pulled into the Palazzo Ducale in Sassuolo to reveal a dozen topless F430s with keys in ignitions, Bramley was already plotting our escape. He had it in mind for us to take an intentional wrong turn out of the plaza, with no goals beyond driving hard for nine hours and rejoining the group at day's end, in the parking lot of the Galleria museum and gift shop adjacent to Ferrari's shrinelike Maranello factory. It sounded like a plan.
In the name of photographic possibility and to smooth our way through the Italian countryside, we were fortunate to detach German (pronounced "Herrman") Gilli, a Ferrari wrench and test driver, complete with company car-in this case, Italy's people mover of choice, the Fiat Multipla diesel. Gilli would serve as our guide, translator, and rabbit.
Initially, it proved hard, comically so, to keep pace with the Multipla, at least as conducted by the twenty-eight-year-old Gilli, who came to Maranello three years ago from his native Argentina. A man possessed, Gilli piloted the Multipla at breakneck speed most everywhere. Showcasing what we took to be local custom, he drove on the wrong side of the road and ignored solid lines as he shot apexes and overtook on blind corners. This in villages whose size, along with general notions of etiquette and the natural impulse toward self-preservation, would seem to have dictated hauling it down to a walking speed or facing the prospect of certain arrest.
But instead of calling out the cops or helicopters with rocket launchers the way we would in America, the natives exulted as we barreled through their towns. Children shrieked and jumped up and down excitedly to the accompaniment of squealing, folded-under Multipla tires and the popping and farting of Ferrari's brilliant V-8 on the overrun. Thick-waisted middle-aged women looked up from their chicken tending and smiled, while old folks stopped shuffling long enough to look, nod, and sometimes even wave. Of course, we told ourselves, we were in Ferrari country. It might be different if we were trying this stuff in a yellow Hummer.
If you had to identify a single thing about the Ferrari driving experience that stands out, it would be its engine. Without the V-8's sound and the big balls it confers, you might think you were sitting in a bigger, heavier, more comfortable Lotus Elise, a car that
handles as well, looks as wild, and costs about one-fifth as much as the F430 Spider F1's expected $206,000 list price, while going almost as fast. But the Lotus lacks the exotic engine and the exotic engine sound, as well as the exotic gearbox of the F1 model we were driving, and, as we steeped ourselves in the music they made together, we were increasingly convinced that the noise alone justified the premium.
The route we'd ditched had been designed to celebrate the five senses. But where our compatriots' first stop was Villa Verdi, the home of the legendary Italian composer, signifying the sense of sound, we were treating ourselves to actual sound sweeter than any opera. Call us Philistines.
At idle, the newly chain-driven V-8 ticks over like some sort of high-performance sewing machine. But take the tachometer to four grand or above (it reads all the way to 10,000 rpm but is electronically limited to 8500 rpm) or just stomp the accelerator anywhere past one-quarter of its travel, and the engine instantly transforms, erupting as someone would if someone else had just deliberately dropped a cinder block on his big toe-real mad, real fast. With its state-of-the-art Bosch Motronic injection system, the latest Ferrari V-8 may not make the same great sucking sounds as its carbureted ancestors, but its sound is just as addictive and still worthy of immediate induction into the Engine Note Hall of Fame.
Maximum enjoyment of aural and performance potentiality is made possible by the optional F1 gearbox, a wondrously slick, paddle-operated, six-speed transmission that makes every bozo look like a master of the gearshifting arts. (A six-speed manual is standard.) Its mood is programmable, along with the car's suspension settings and stability and traction controls, thanks to the manettino, a dial on the steering wheel meant to evoke the more complicated steering-wheel controls on Scuderia Ferrari's F1 racing cars. When the manettino is set to Race, the F430 whips off shifts with brutal speed and buttons down its suspension to the max. Other settings include Ice, Low Grip, Sport, and the hotshoe's favorite, Everything Shut Off, which makes entry to the sideways motoring club an option coming out of just about every corner. The rest of the time, traction control systems, working with Ferrari's race-derived electronic differential, work imperceptibly, but with feverish speed, to keep the car and the would-be hero behind the wheel squarely on the black stuff.
A seriously expensive option at close to $11,000, the F1 transmission stands out for its uncanny ability to match engine revs and gears perfectly during downshifts, automatically blipping the throttle for you to minimize unwanted jerking and body motion while offering constant, convenient access to the Ferrari V-8's mellifluous range of tones. Not since the invention of the karaoke machine has a device made singing so easy.
While our fellow journalists were invited to exercise their sense of smell at the scheduled lunch stop, ours had kicked in earlier. While far from the petrochemical-dump aroma of old Weber-carbureted Italian stallions, the open-topped F430 did give us a generous whiff of old-fashioned gasoline fumes.
It is hard to sidestep one's sense of taste in connection with an F430 Spider. Some will doubt the taste of those who buy them. Not because they're not great cars but because they tend to be painted bright red, look like demented anteaters, and have enormous yellow prancing-horse badges stuck to their fenders, outsized emblems that might look more at home on a teenager's bedroom wall.
Price: $195,000 (est.)
Engine: 4.3L DOHC V-8, 483hp, 343lb-ft
Drive: Rear-wheel
0-62 mph: 4.1 sec
Top speed: 193 mph


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When the iPhone was first released last year, we saw Apple hit with a number of patent infringement lawsuits over the device. Apple has been accused of copying multitouch technology as well as the Visual Voicemail feature, but things were fairly quiet on the legal front during the holiday season. The heat is on once again, though, as a company called Minerva Industries has filed a lawsuit against Apple and a company called AtlanticRT alleging that the iPhone infringes on one of Minerva's patents.
The case involves a patent just awarded to Minerva this week. The patent covers a "mobile entertainment and communication device," which Minerva feels is very similar to the iPhone. The company even let Apple know about the patent filing in advance, but Apple took its sweet time and only submitted prior art a week before the patent issuance. The USPTO took a look at the prior art and granted the patent anyway, prompting Minerva to accuse Apple and AtlanticRT of infringement.
Minerva wants Apple to stop using the technology, but also wants the usual boatload of damages, although the boat won't be as big this time since Apple has sold few iPhones (compared to, say iPods). It's hard to tell which track Apple will take with this one. The recent USPTO decision gives Minerva legal ammunition, which might prompt Apple to settle.


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I'm Mexican, But Date Black Men
After Ernest Baker's essay about interracial relationships, "The Reality of Dating White Women When You're Black," ran on Gawker earlier this month we received hundreds of comments and emails objecting to, agreeing with, or otherwise responding to Baker. This week, we're publishing some of those responses as part of a conversation about race and relationships.
Thirteen years of dating boys outside my race and it took sitting down to write this essay to have the first, real conversation with my parents about interracial dating.
I used to say I didn't have a type, but if we go off consistency, I do. While I've dated other races, I'm mostly attracted to black men. My eyes and heart tend to steer me in that direction. I can't pinpoint physical features or characteristics of black men because that's not only wrong, it's just not the entire case. What I'm attracted to can be found in men of all races: strong arms (sense of protection), a great smile, nice build (healthy), ambitious, passionate, a sense of humor—a touch of sarcasm helps—and a kind heart.
I've dated other races aside from black men—my first and only boyfriend of two years was Korean. But I've never dated someone of my own ethnicity: Mexican. Dominican, yes. And I would say Colombian, but that courtship never blossomed into much after he came over my house and serenaded me with his acoustic guitar. My parents were more impressed by him than I was. I was 16, but not emo enough apparently.
Would I date a Mexican guy? Yes. Have I come across one that's caught my attention? No. I have strong Mexican men in my life, too—my father and my two brothers—that I hold close, respect, and admire. My brothers never seemed to have an opinion as to the type of men I dated, and were only concerned with how each guy treated me. They didn't connect one with the other. My dad has always been a quiet man, and his only insertion in conversations about my dating life: "Are you happy, mija?"
My parents, I should say, have never forbidden me from dating black men, or a man of any race, but their silence, more so my mother's, has been felt—it rendered each guy invisible. Time and again, after being introduced to a black guy I was dating, my mother either let out heavy sighs or foretold my future under her breath. "You're going to end up pregnant before you're married," she once said.
My parents were born and raised in Mexico. They were each other's first love.
My dad used his seasonal, strictly temporary passport for work and came to Arizona to pick fruit. But my grandfather—my mother's father—wasn't too fond of my dad. My dad knew that in order to ask for my mom's hand in marriage, he had to have a house ready for her. He couldn't work fast enough. He also knew that the American Dream was the dream he wanted to achieve for them. My mom knew her father wouldn't approve either way. My dad wasn't wealthy. And he was older. She's always said that he's 'mi media naranja' (a Spanish saying for soul mate). She knew if she wanted to be with my dad, she'd have to runaway with him.
So she ran.
Despite not knowing she was pregnant with my older brother at the time, she hid in a bunk in the back of my father's van and they crossed the border together. They settled in a largely Mexican neighborhood in San Jose, California. Then, when I was five-years old, they moved to Tracy, about an hour drive east of San Jose, where the population was, and remains, predominantly white.
The majority of what my parents know about other races they've learned through media or second-hand stories. Stories, which laced with racial stereotypes, were told continuously that they became truth. Those "stories" tell of black men leaving their women, and of black men being promiscuous and violent. My mother internalized all of this. While problematic, my parents' thinking was the thinking of their time. And, really, it roots deeper than my parents, my grandparents, and their parents before them.
Racial tension between Mexicans and blacks, especially on the west coast and in some parts of the south, is tied to an ugly history. Take the segregation and gang rivalry in Los Angeles or the hate crimes in southern states, like Texas and Atlanta. This past April, a Hispanic father attacked his 14-year-old daughter after she chose a 15-year-old black guy as her dancing partner for a pre-quinceañera party. In Georgia—where the Hispanic population has increased 130 percent from 1980 to 1995, and became the third largest state with migrating Hispanics and Latinos—there's been numerous hate crimes between Hispanics and blacks. In the fall of 2005, six Mexican immigrants were murdered when a group of black guys attempted to rob trailer parks known to house immigrant workers. Both minorities have been reported to confront more than cooperate in certain areas; reports have pinpointed competition for jobs as a factor.
What's crazy to me is that both groups, Mexicans and blacks, have been marginalized historically, and dealt with levels of oppression by systems, yet tension is between individuals. But it's not only about where and how it started; it may not even be right to think it started from any one place. There's a myriad of factors that are both onset by personal experience and exposure to what people see on television or read in the news. The curse is that those factors establish tradition.
I've experienced my share of racism and have had racial slurs thrown in my direction. Mostly, if not all, from white people. I've overheard conversations about me where people spewed hateful words because they didn't think I knew English.
As far as dating, I've encountered men who've thought of me as the Mexican woman that is there only to serve, speaks Spanish in bed, or has a connect to an inner drug cartel member. And those misconceptions were directed at me from men of all shades. Once, in 2011, my then-boyfriend and I left a photo of us, taken at an event, at a bodega by accident. When we came back to retrieve it, the guys behind the counter, which looked to be Latino, handed it to us ripped in half.
One thing I took away, but have yet to fully unpack, from my recent conversation with my mom is that I fear I may have heightened stereotypes, too. She mentioned how the majority of stories of heartbreak and depreciation I shared with her in my younger days—one of which was physically harmful—involved black men. But in actuality, it was me who was at fault. I was attempting to find love in a person I found attractive, consequences and all. I kept getting hurt by guys, a lot of which had to do with my belief in fairytale love. I'm a hopeless romantic to a fault. And although I've gone through bullshit in various relationships before, as many have, my hope is to find my own 'media naranja.'
My mom knows about most of the men I've dated, but she's only met the guys that have changed my life significantly, which I can count with one hand.
It's weird to mention, let alone, specify the physical features of the men I've dated when telling their stories, because the shitty experiences I've gone through weren't because of their color; it was because they weren't right for me. I was the naive one running toward any mirage of love I could find.
When it's more than one black guy I've had bad luck with, others—in this case my parents—see a pattern. But as wide-eyed as I used to be, it's more naive to think the times I've fallen short are attributed to a whole group of people.
My time with my boyfriend of two years, who was Korean, was my only "official" relationship and it was special. But we also had our downs. My mother adored, and still asks about him, but I want to believe that it's because he was the one (from the bunch) who called me his girlfriend, which also touches on another generational point. The way my mother was raised, a couple wasn't really a couple until the man asked the woman to be his girlfriend. While I don't necessarily agree with every part of that approach—the rules for dating are a lot less defined these days—it has influenced my thinking some. I was okay dating him until we fell into that label, until my mother mentioned that.
That experience taught me to keep my relationships close to the heart, because, ultimately, the heart wants what the heart wants. And that's something that my parents and myself neither read about in the paper nor saw on television, but experienced first hand.
Erika Ramirez is the senior editor of Billboard.com, where she spearheads the R&B/Hip-Hop column, The Juice. She has contributed to Rolling Stone, New York, MTV RapFix and other publications. Follow her on Twitter @3rika.


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ADRIAN, Michigan - The Bluffton University softball team scored a run in the seventh and another in the eighth to pull out an improbable 2-1 win at Adrian College in the opener on Wednesday, March 14, 2012. The Bulldogs (7-4) took game two by a 4-0 count as Bluffton moved to 8-6 on the season.
The home team put three hits together in the bottom of the first to take a 1-0 lead when a BERTRAND single plated KATIE DEWYRE. Pitching ruled for the next five innings until Bluffton threatened to score in the top of the sixth. With two down, EMILY MANAHAN(Columbus/Bishop Watterson) singled up the middle, but pinch runner JENELLE THEISEN(Carleton, MI/St. Mary Catholic Central) was thrown out at the plate trying to tie the game.
Bluffton finally broke the ice an inning later when MEAGAN PRICE (Toledo/Springfield) laced an RBI single to left center, plating fellow senior CHELSIE OSBORNE (Chillicothe/Waverly) from second base. The Bulldogs had runners on second and third with one out in the bottom of the frame, but freshman MEGAN PATTON (Waynesfield/Perry) came on and induced a fielder's choice at the plate before fanning Bertrand to send the game into extra innings.
With the international tie-breaker in place, the Beavers were unable to get their sacrifice bunt down to start the eighth. However, Emily Manahan continued her clutch hitting with an RBI single up the gut, sending freshman BRITTANY BAKER (Springboro) home for a 2-1 lead. Patton set Adrian down in order to cinch Bluffton's first victory over the Bulldogs since Jayme Marbaugh pounded a walk-off homer at the Rebel Spring Games in 2009.
Freshman CHLOE SHELL (Covington) was superb in the circle, limiting a talented Adrian club to just one run on nine hits in 6.1 innings of work. She fanned three and did not issue a walk. Patton improved to 3-1 after tossing 1.2 inning of scoreless relief with one crucial strikeout in the seventh frame. Manahan paced the Bluffton offense with three hits and the game-winning RBI.
The home team again put a run on the scoreboard in the first inning when a wild pitch allowed leadoff hitter MAGGIE HEIN to cross the dish in spite of just one infield single for the Bulldogs in the frame. Bluffton managed one hit an inning in the early going, but the Beavers were unable to get to EBERHARDT who tossed 13 innings on the afternoon.
Adrian ended any thoughts of a re-enactment of game one when the Bulldogs took advantage of a Bluffton error and three-run triple by K. HINOJOSA in the bottom of the fifth. The Beavers went hitless over the final three innings as Adrian secured the split with a 4-0 shutout.
Patton slipped to 3-2 after allowing four runs, one earned, on four hits in five innings of work. Sophomore KAYLA OWENS (Cincinnati/McAuley) worked a perfect sixth for the Beavers.
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To communicate with lights is one thing, but to develop a myth and fiction behind them is another. When faced with the design problem of communicating through the various pulsing ofLED lights, we decided to fabricate a story that would supplement the Blink-M's programmable functions.
In essence, our project was about forming a fictional present to result in the fictional future of electronics outliving their makers and having to exist in a world without the same care and attention that they are used to receiving. Scientist John Castle realizes this fear [that electronics may need to survive alone] and decides to do something about it. Carefully, while toiling through many years of existence, he crafts a way for the electronics to communicate with the surrounding environment. Believing that they will one day need to survive in nature, he sets up a series of pulses and colors to reflect what he found in the immediate woods surrounding his home. A longer, slower pulse comes through the digital heart of the creature that holds the electronic while a much quicker, more desperate pulse emits from the body–an attempt to reach out to the
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At about 5:30 a.m. yesterday, Jimmy Becker and Michael Schaefer and a few others set out by bicycle from Covington, La., near New Orleans, and headed to Champaign, Ill. They are leading the third annual Biking for Babies tour. Check the site for video from the ride and a daily update. It's an eight-day charity ride that aims to raise $15,000 for pro-life groups and crisis pregnancy centers. Becker and Schaefer are being joined by Stacy Hague, Eric Johannigmeier and Kevin Biese.
Along the way they plan to stop at parishes and radio stations to promote their event and increase awareness about the pro-life cause. The money they raise will go to three charities: the University of Illinois Students for Life, and a crisis pregnancy center in Illinois, called Living Alternatives, and a second pregnancy crisis center in Madison, Wis.
In 2008 Becker and Schaefer thought of the idea to do a pro-life charity ride, and in 2009 they rode from Carbondale, Ill., to Chicago. While other students enjoyed a welcome weeklong spring break, the two young men were out answering the call of Blessed John Paul II to "defend life and to change the culture of death," as Becker put it in a telephone interview with Catholic News Service before this year's ride began.
The event wasn't always so easily coordinated. In 2010, the two led separate rides because Becker had graduated from the University of Illinois in 2009 and was working in campus ministry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Schaefer was still at Illinois (where he'll be a senior this fall), and their respective spring breaks were at different times.
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'Sweat once a day' is printed on every Lululemon shopping bag. It's part of the company's manifesto.
A rare look behind the luon curtain at Lululemon
By Zoe McKnight, Vancouver Sun
"Sweat once a day" is printed on every Lululemon shopping bag. It's part of the company's manifesto.
It's also tattooed on the forearm of at least one female participant of last weekend's SeaWheeze half marathon. The corporation, which started with stretchy yoga wear and branched out later into technical running gear and other sportswear made of trademarked luon fabric, launched the race in 2012 with 7,500 participants.
This year 10,014 luon-clad runners raced the 21-kilometre route around downtown and the seawall: the event was capped at 10,000 but 14 extra were allowed to represent 14 years of Lululemon in Vancouver.
More than 70 per cent of the runners were from outside Vancouver, including a team of 125 runners from Austin, Texas. Someone proposed at the finish line — and she said yes. More than 2,000 people showed up for a sunset yoga class at Kits Beach the night before the race. Feverish crowds waited for hours to buy official SeaWheeze race gear from a pop-up store in the Convention Centre.
How does a company, founded by Chip Wilson in 1998 with one store on 4th Avenue, inspire such devotion to a brand that hardly ever advertises, and only identifies itself with small, subtle logos? (The logo is not an omega from the Greek alphabet, but rather a stylized letter A from "athletically hip," a brand name that was discarded early on.)
Rare glimpse
Though the brand is highly visible in Vancouver, company representatives give few interviews and local media is rarely invited inside the Cornwall Avenue headquarters. As part of the SeaWheeze publicity tour, Lululemon executives pulled back the luon curtain to discuss how the company became such an international force with 225 stores in Canada, the U.S., Australia and New Zealand, and other showrooms in Europe and Asia.
"The brand was built through word of mouth and community. We're becoming a global brand but we're very much local in the communities in which we operate," said Laura Klauberg, vice-president of global brand and community. Company representatives encourage local yoga instructors and athletes to become brand "ambassadors" to promote sales and product knowledge. Billboards are few and far between, and television advertising is non-existent. Print ads appear only in Yoga Journal.
Although menswear is growing in focus, the target market remains women — from teens to those in their mid-60s — who are interested in staying healthy and fit. Lululemon is designed with specific, hypothetical customers in mind: Ocean and her husband Duke.
Ocean is someone who is "super athletic, who is probably in (her) early 30s, who practices yoga, who probably is a runner, very successful in her career. There's a very specific muse we create our product around," Klauberg said.
Klauberg pointed to the shopping bags printed with aphorisms like, "Friends are more important than money" and "Have you woken up two days in a row uninspired? Change your life!"
"That is super inspirational to people. It inspires the way they live their life," she said. "It's about being healthy and living a great life … It's the clothes, but it's more than the clothes. It's a lifestyle brand and the clothes are the catalyst to changing people's lives."
The cult-brand status not only drives sales — Lululemon's revenue has grown to $1.37 billion in 2012 from $40.7 million in 2004 — but also draws devotees to the retail stores and head office.
"My kids are always teasing me. They like to say to me I drank the Kool-Aid. And I say maybe I drank it, but it's such good Kool-Aid. Who doesn't want to live their best life and be so happy to go to work?" Klauberg said.
That ethos is pervasive in Lululemon culture. On social media, employees upload photos of themselves doing yoga with the hashtag #blissarmy. And, during a recent tour of HQ the perky staff, decked out in bright yellows and sporty, patterned shorts, were more than happy to discuss their life dreams.
If it seems strange to have your boss ask about your marriage or your weight-loss goals, it's perfectly normal here. They are written out and framed on the wall for all to see.
Part of the initiation and training in the company, known as "on-boarding," involves setting your vision and goals, referred to as one unit, "vision-and-goals," in company parlance. From the first week of training, and from the part-time sales clerk ("educator") to the top execs, vision-and-goals forms a major part of everyday working life.
"In terms of core values and having the vision-and-goals, those things are really in our DNA," said Margaret Wheeler, senior vice-president of Human Resources ("People Potential").
"We have a really good focus on self-development. It's one of the things you'll notice that's the most different at Lululemon than other places."
Other companies, she said, try to develop their employees "from the outside in," with coaching and professional training. "What we try to do is work on the self first. You'll see that with personal responsibility, with the opportunity to attend (personal development workshops at) Landmark as a choice, with setting a vision for all aspects of our life. That's actually the core of it."
Employees are expected to re-examine their personal, health and career goals twice a year, and check in with them as often as possible. Goals come up in conversation, in meetings and in settings like the in-house yoga studio, which has classes running from 7:30 a.m.
The whole package
"You're a whole brain, a whole body, a wholehearted person. You should be focusing on all these things. When your life is firing on all cylinders — so when home's working, personal's working, career's working, health is working — you're going to be great at work. It's just going to happen," Wheeler said.
She would not divulge turnover rates, but did say it's "an interesting conversation" at Lululemon. In some ways, employees are encouraged to leave. "If people leave for the right reason, we're really happy."
Chloe Gow-Jarrett, who's been a goal coach for 11 years, ultimately wants to open an organic restaurant with her husband. But for now she runs vision-and-goals workshops. Lululemon has, she said, "a transformational corporate culture."
It's an adjustment at first and some new hires describe a culture shock. "To bring your whole self, that just feels weird," Gow-Jarrett said. "It's a rewarding and challenging culture in a lot of ways."
The concepts Gow-Jarrett uses are based on similar ones used by goal gurus like Brian Tracy. While still running Westbeach, a clothing company he sold in 1997, founder Chip Wilson spent a lot of time driving Pacific Northwest highways, and would listen to Tracy's audio tapes in the car. He realized he could bring personal development to his employees, which now number around 5,000.
Employees are encouraged to "put blinders to the past. Don't look back there for evidence. Look forward and declare what you want," Gow-Jarrett said. They imagine snapshots from an ideal life 10 years in the future, like a corkboard in a bright office or a kitchen window with kids playing outside.
They write it down in a mind map, make a list of wants and don't-wants, answer the questions, "Who am I in 10 years?" and, "In 10 years what am I helping to bring into the world?" among other self-reflective questions.
And all employees pledge to help one another meet the deadline ("by-when date"). That's why goals are posted outside most offices, and why your boss might ask not only how that sales report is coming along, but if you're still trying to work out four times a week, and extend an offer of help or support.
"It shows up in the work your people ask you to do, because they're enrolled in their goals," said Erin Hochstein, who does communications for the company.
The concept of "enrolment" comes from Landmark, a worldwide company — which boasts that 94 per cent of participants have made "profound, lasting difference in the way they live their lives" — that's based on the philosophy that limits are self-imposed. All employees are strongly encouraged to attend after one year with Lululemon.
It hosts three-day workshops, which also take place in five cities across Canada including Vancouver, to help "remove the constraints of the past" for $670 a pop. It has courted controversy over the years, leading to charges from some observers that it encourages cultlike adherence and employs overzealous recruitment tactics.
Independent thinking
But spokeswoman Deborah Beroset Miller, who started taking workshops in 1998, said there is no philosophy, no religion and "nothing to believe in," except self-empowerment and "the tools to become aware of how you are operating."
"Here's the ironic thing: people coming out of these programs tend to be thinking more independently than perhaps they ever have in their lives," Beroset Miller said.
Organizations like Apple, Mercedes-Benz USA, NASA and the U.S. Navy have all sent employees to Landmark's flagship forum, during which participants respond to a "led inquiry," or questions that probe how you might have arrived at a world view like "I am not leadership material," or "my marriage is failing," she said.
"It's not like we tell you what to say to your boss or what to do in the meeting. We don't do anything like that. What happens in the course is that somebody suddenly sees they have had this view of themselves and they get to create a new view if they want."
Participants are then pushed to make phone calls during the session to establish a new connection from an old, painful relationship. It can be uncomfortable, Beroset Miller said, "but so is the status quo." She once phoned her father to tell him she realized he wasn't emotionally unavailable — she had been closed off. Others call their bosses or exes to dredge up and get closure on old failures with promises to do better, to take responsibility.
She dismissed the criticism of Landmark as an "old story," she said. "Anytime you have something that doesn't fit easily into a traditionally recognized paradigm or framework, people don't know quite what to do with it."
There was no "a-ha" moment for Lululemon's Whistler store manager Susan Elmas when she first attended Landmark five years ago. "I don't know if I can really explain precisely my specific learning," she said, but "it's given me an ability to be introspective that I didn't have before."
As a manager she now sees her role as one of supporting her staff in their vision-and-goals — as well as educating them on the yoga pants and other products that have made the company so successful.
"There's lots of opportunities for people that work with the company to explore their personal and professional development. We consider it all the same — they go hand in hand. That's been profound for me," Elmas said. "But I have the same amount of vacation as other companies offer. I don't get to go off on yoga retreats unfortunately."
Not everyone is sold on the Lululemon way. Krystyn Peterson worked as an educator for just a few months in 2011, intrigued by the free yoga classes, the company's support for athletes, and as an experiment. "I thought it would be interesting," she said. "Just not so interesting (that) it was unbearable."
Peterson hated the homework: hours of Brian Tracy recordings, a Lululemon library that included Ayn Rand's dystopian individualism, the goal-setting on the company's watch.
"I felt unaligned politically with that association," she said. "It was certainly like new-age, faux-spirituality neo-liberal ideology clad in luon."
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PHILADELPHIA - A leading group of Alzheimer's researchers contends that, as biomarkers to detect signals of the disease improve at providing clinically meaningful information, researchers will need guidance on how to constructively disclose test results and track how disclosure impacts both patients and the data collected in research studies. A survey conducted by a group including experts from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania found that a majority of Alzheimer's researchers supported disclosure of results to study participants. The study is published online in Neurology.
"While this is not a call to immediately tell subjects their biomarker results, it does show that the field is moving to a point where experts want to share valid and meaningful results with participants," said co-senior author Jason Karlawish, MD, professor of Medicine and Medical Ethics and Health Policy. "As we gain more data on the predictive abilities of these measurements, we will need models and methods to effectively reveal results."
The study surveyed 139 Alzheimer's clinical trial leaders and coordinators from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) in April 2012, just before the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the amyloid-binding radiotracer known as Amyvid (florbetapir). 73 percent of respondents supported disclosing amyloid imaging results to study participants with mild cognitive impairment, whereas 58 percent supported giving amyloid imaging results to those with normal cognition.
Six themes emerged from the survey, regarding participant preferences and cognition levels, researchers' requests to develop standardized counseling procedures, participant education, and standardization of data-gathering, and concerns regarding potential harms and benefits to participants, as well as the ways disclosure could impact study results.
Currently, ADNI has a policy to not disclose results to participants, but the survey showed a growing trend of experts who would favor revising this policy. In addition to finding amyloid imaging results valuable, Alzheimer's experts also valued other biomarker data collected in ADNI, such as spinal fluid tests, PET imaging, and other psychometric tests, suggesting that if amyloid imaging results were allowed to be disclosed, it would likely lead to disclosure of other test results.
The study was conducted by a team of researchers, including Dr. Karlawish, co-senior author Robert Green, MD, MPH, Division of Genetics and Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Melanie Shulman, MD, from New York University Langone Medical Center and Kristin Harkins from Penn's Alzheimer's Disease Center. The study was supported by the Marian S. Ware Alzheimer's Program, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health (HG02213, AG027841).
Penn Medicine is one of the world's leading academic medical centers, dedicated to the related missions of medical education, biomedical research, and excellence in patient care. Penn Medicine consists of the Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (founded in 1765 as the nation's first medical school) and the University of Pennsylvania Health System, which together form a $4.3 billion enterprise.
The Perelman School of Medicine has been ranked among the top five medical schools in the United States for the past 16 years, according to U.S. News & World Report's survey of research-oriented medical schools. The School is consistently among the nation's top recipients of funding from the National Institutes of Health, with $398 million awarded in the 2012 fiscal year.
The University of Pennsylvania Health System's patient care facilities include: The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania -- recognized as one of the nation's top "Honor Roll" hospitals by U.S. News & World Report; Penn Presbyterian Medical Center; and Pennsylvania Hospital -- the nation's first hospital, founded in 1751. Penn Medicine also includes additional patient care facilities and services throughout the Philadelphia region.
Penn Medicine is committed to improving lives and health through a variety of community-based programs and activities. In fiscal year 2012, Penn Medicine provided $827 million to benefit our community.


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Sea turtles are spawning in record numbers along Mexico's Pacific coast this year, thanks largely to stepped up protection against poachers, the nation's environmental watchdog said this week.
MEXICO CITY Sea turtles are spawning in record numbers along Mexico's Pacific coast this year, thanks largely to stepped up protection against poachers, the nation's environmental watchdog said this week.
Some 27.2 million Olive Ridley turtle eggs are under guard in nests at main breeding beaches in Oaxaca state, the environmental protection agency Profepa said. Of those, about 9 million are likely to hatch, the highest numbers in 20 years, the agency said.
"This turtle that was seriously hurting in the '80s and '90s is in full recovery, and if these protection efforts continue, we should have much success," said Luis Fueyo, director of marine resources for the agency.
Mexico has several varieties of sea turtles, and they are typically ravaged by natural predators, erratic weather, and human hunters seeking their meat and eggs, sold illegally in big cities as a delicacy.
Humans are their biggest threat, and some of the turtles are still in danger.
But the Olive Ridley has made a comeback, with hundreds of thousands arriving to lay eggs under beach sands this year in a spectacular annual ritual that has taken place for centuries. The egg-laying season runs from June to November.
Of the 27 million eggs under guard, perhaps 30,000 turtles will grow up to lay eggs of their own, Fueyo said. Adults are believed to return and lay eggs on the same beach where they were born. Mexican authorities are tracking the offspring.
An important breeding ground, Mexico has 120 beaches where Olive Ridley turtles lay eggs, though the large majority go to La Escobilla and Morro Ayuta beaches in Oaxaca.
Profepa has increased its vigilance of beaches with help from the military and federal police, but more remote areas are difficult to protect.
Earlier this year, the carcasses of hundreds of sea turtles, most of them Olive Ridleys, were found bludgeoned and carved open by poachers farther north in Guerrero state.
And just last Saturday, authorities stopped three poachers carrying 2,000 stolen eggs, Fueyo said.
International regulations aimed at preventing the accidental capture of turtles and other sea life in deadly fishing nets also are helping boost the populations, he said.
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Squid move by pumping water in and out of their bodies. Propulsion comes from using the water itself, sucked into the mantle and squeezed out through a smaller tube called a siphon in a series of strong pulses. By finely manipulating their siphons, squid maintain precise control the water stream: volume, intensity, and direction. All cephalopods carry siphons, even the lumbering octopus, but squid get the most mileage from them.
Water is heavy, so you'd expect slow acceleration from a squid. Not so: powerful rings of muscle surround the mantle, squeezing a huge amount of water through the siphon and creating large accelerations. They've also got a secret weapon for emergencies: a lightning-fast escape mechanism.


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Microsoft is spreading FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) with their latest anti-Linux patent campaign. If they had an actual, solid case of patent infringement, they would go to a judge, get an injunction against the distribution of Linux, and sell patent licenses for FreeBSD. The fact that they don't, but are willing to sell patent licenses for an unnamed set of infringed patents, says that they have no legal case.
Their claims of infringement are just claims. Unless and until they name the patents, nobody can tell if their claims are valid. Maybe they are? Maybe they aren't? Nobody but them can say, and they have a huge incentive not to say.
Microsoft's Horacio Gutierrez has been quoted as saying, "This is not a case of some accidental, unknowing infringement." In fact, yes, it is -- and until Microsoft names the patents, it will continue to be. Open Source developers want their intellectual property to be respected, and are willing to respect other people's property. If you look at real property law, you can see emblazoned all over it the principle that you must be effectively INFORMED of your trespass. The property must be posted, or if it not posted, you must be told verbally or in writing "you are trespassing". Without that specific notice, there is no trespass. Without Microsoft identifying specific patents, there is no infringement.
The real patent, one which wouldn't give Microsoft pause, is a patent on something which is basic to the industry, and which cannot be challenged as obvious or prior art. It can't be worked around (usually) and is very solid. If such a patent existed, Microsoft would do something like take a copy of FreeBSD (which doesn't use the GPL), and sell it with a license for this magical patent. That they don't do the obvious, makes it obvious that they can't, so they won't.
The only thing we have to fear is FUD itself.


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New York State Police
Saturday, March 9: Brian Grant, 25, of Rome, was charged with third-degree burglary and fourth-degree grand larceny.
Saturday, March 9: Kason C. Phillips, 32, of Albany, was charged in Verona with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance.
Saturday, March 9: David J. Nadeau, 54, of Rome, was charged with the possession or transport of over 10,000 unstamped cigarettes.


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Bruce Pask: Men's Fashion Director of T: The New York Times Style Magazine, certifiably sharp dresser (as evidenced here, here and here), and mastermind behind the styling of our Fall 2012 Men's Shop Catalog.
Visiting our Seattle headquarters for just a few days this past summer, Pask offered a moment (a rare commodity, between rapid-fire styling sessions, non-stop meetings, and trying to nab a table at the Walrus and the Carpenter for that evening) to chat with us about his favorite pieces from our Fall Catalog.
1. Burberry Peacoat. "You can't go wrong with that, I think it's an amazing piece. It's really trim, the arms are slender, it's really well-cut." (shop this item | shop all peacoats)
2. Wolverine 1000 Mile Boots. "I own them and love them. They just go with everything, they're such a neutral. They looks great with jeans, with khakis—and then you can also use them to ground a dressier look, and it shows a bit more character than just a dress shoe. They're also really well-made." (shop this item | shop all boots)
3. Jack Spade Cardigan. "Some guys are afraid of cardigans, because they think of Fred Rogers, or they think it's too groovy, but this piece has such versatility. It looks great under a sport jacket, it looks great on its own, you can wear it with a T-shirt or with a woven. It's a uniform piece that you can go back to again and again." (shop this item | shop all cardigans)
4. Billy Reid Overcoat. "That Billy Reid coat is beautiful—double-breasted, wool melton, great shape. It's a great length because it'll go over a sport jacket. I like pieces where you can get a lot of use out of them—it's a really dressy coat, but you can also do it more casually, like we did here." (shop this item | shop all overcoats)
5. Gitman Ties. "We're just using them for styling, but we used them a lot—all those Gitman neckties, those skinny wool tartans and foulards, I think are great." (shop Gitman ties | shop all ties)
Bonus Tip: A New Perspective on Pocket Squares. "The thing I love about these [above] is that they're not just this white sliver coming out of a pocket. There was a point when that meant something and kind of evoked something, but I think it's time we reinvestigate what a pocket square's supposed to do. A darker, tonal, wool pocket square—and kind of casually, but artfully placing it in—I just think it gives such a boost to a tailored look." (shop pocket squares)
[Quotes by Bruce Pask. iPhone photos shot this past summer during style-out sessions for the Fall Catalog.]


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Todd has done it again with this great article on the history of the BenJo. I remember playing on that rubber surface well. And I didn't know all the nuggets in his piece. Last night was my last night seeing a game there. I will miss it for sure but so look forward to the new arena.
http://www.goupstate.com/sports/2017021 ... nson-arena


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The Return
Long times don't see, I know that, but there were many things in the past few weeks which made me lazy to write a new post.
As I finished my exams I was very happy but this happiness didn't last too much as I receive the result of the 2nd course & it stroke me bcz I failed in the Pharmacology & I ought to do another exam of Pharma. In September but can u imagine that I didn't feel sad bcz I failed but I am SAD bcz Pharmacology means harder study also I am SAD bcz I did well in the exam so don't understand how I couldn't get 60% (which is the required mark to pass) ?
Although there was a lot of a good things happened in the past few weeks but I am still sad cz of Pharma. Disaster , I wish I had passed it :
One of the good news that my bro. return to Iraq from abroad, in a short vocation & in addition to the happiness of his return & how that affect the whole family feelings, he bought me a Digital Camera in addition to some clothes, so I become crazy about this camera as I didn't see anyone like it before cz (it's a 7 mega-pixel digital camera). So I will fill as I thing my blog with picture & sure some of it will be for my lovely car, As she standing alone in the dark but plz don't laugh on it : bcz she is a part from me now & if I sell it the doctor must do me a "Caroctomy" call whatever u like but I love her :)
I joined the hospital this holiday after 2 weeks home-resting, but this time was quite different from the last time cz:
This time I come loaded with the 3rd grade information which almost related to clinical practicing.
Also this time I come loaded with my primitive new staff like my new stethoscope which is of(Litemann type) I am very proud that I own one of them, My bro. bought it to me as he heard about our charity working in the hospiatal, but I couldn't bought the sphygmomanometer so we can't measure blood pressure as the hospital have only 3 old sphygmomanometers only & the don't let us work on it as the life of all patients depend on those 3 sphygmomanometers : ,in fact I laugh when I tell this events but there is an important Arabic query says: The most horrible things make u laugh.
Also this time I come with more confidence as I get used to the routine of the hospital work, I start walking like a real doctors with signs of being busy on my face :) .
Also I joined the ER (Emergency Room) this time which makes me less helpful than my colleagues as working in this department make u see only the most serious cases of injury & diseases which we are unable to handle by our self so we only walk with doctors & we see how they handle these difficult cases & situations & we learn from them. As most of the ER patient in Iraq die so we didn't take a lot of history from patient unless there is a lucky man pass the dangerous state which is very rare.
Most of the cases of the ER nowadays r bullet-injury which is one of the most worst injury cz the patients here came as group got shot (more than 2 usually & all of them r seriously wounded), & they always came after came after a long time from the time of accident cz of traffic & they came to the hospital & they lost a big amount of blood, so we face a 2 problems in addition the injury:
1-blood deficiency
2-most of the wound presented r infected due to the time of presentation is after a long time from the time of the accident, sometimes there is a lot of patients in ER so the patient wait 30 to 1hr to be presented to a doctors or go to another hospital & see if can manage him immediately or not !!!!!!
I saw a lot of patient die those days & believe me it has a different feelings & I couldn't sleep in the 1st night when I saw it.
One of these stories that:
An IP (Iraqi police man) was standing with her 2 friends in AL-Saidiya city in Baghdad, last Sunday, his friend have a shop & they sell generators, so 3 men presented to them to ask for the price of those generators but suddenly they pull there guns a shot the IP & his 2 friends, Unfortunately the IP get shot in his legs & abdomen & one of his friends got shot in his heart & died immediately.
I told that story to know that death & killing is walking in the Iraqi streets. I survive a car bombing two days ago & my survive/my death was a matter of seconds (I will I survive : !!!!!!)
Tomorrow I will leave Baghdad in the way To Egypt to spend 15 days abroad vocation with my mom as we r both got mad of this situations, we will travel to the land of Big Pharaoh, so plz pray to us to pass through the danger of the road.
July 8, 2005
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I have successfully found out about my grandfather and great grandfather's Copeland family in Montgomery County Kansas. I published my findings in my book "An American Genealogy: The Copeland Family of Montgomery County Kansas."
However, there are some gaps in the ancestral line. The family came from Parke County and Orange County, Indiana. Before that, they came from Orange, Chatham, and Alamance County in North Carolina.
Early censuses do not list all the children's names, so I am missing a chunk. These are children of Loyd Copeland(not Lloyd, as commonly mispelled) (or Lord, as incorrectly transcribed in a Quaker marriage certificate) and his wife Mary Barbara May. If you have these as your ancestors and are descended from those who may have remained in NC when Loyd, Barbara, and the rest of the family moved to Indiana in 1851 - I would love to hear from you!
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Liebemarlene and the Nolan House20:04
In the tiny town of Bostwick, Georgia there's this wonderful abandoned plantation without any doors. Peppermint magazine covergirl Rhi...
In the tiny town of Bostwick, Georgia there's this wonderful abandoned plantation without any doors. Peppermint magazine covergirl Rhiannon and filmmaker Drew Tyndell discovered that it was the perfect place for their dreamy Super 8-esque film, the Nolan House. This little gem of a movie is set to Bob Dylan's "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right."
Take a look and let me know what you think!
Nolan house from Drew Tyndell on Vimeo.
Rhiannon said later about the house: "I think it might be haunted though I can't be sure."
Adds to the lure...
Have a lovely day,
(Liss' guest blogger this week).
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Oh... it feels so good: the images, the music!ReplyDelete
Thanks!!!! you just made my day sweeter:)
Gorgeous. Also my absolute fave Dylan song!ReplyDelete
captivating as always!ReplyDelete
I love the video! Dreamy...ReplyDelete
oh I saw this months ago and didn't know the name! isn't just lovely!ReplyDelete
thanks for putting a name to this wonder for me.
Lots of blogging love
- AnonymousTuesday, December 29, 2009
I really like it=)
enjoying the mood~
- AnonymousTuesday, December 29, 2009
Hello. It's exciting to see you as a guest blogger. I follow your blog, too. Thanks for posting this lovely vid. I have this thing for country songs and countryside, so watching this makes me feel nostalgic, but in a beautiful way. =)ReplyDelete
precious! Rhiannon is so darling on her own, and they always find such charming settings to shoot in. Drew is quite talented. I'm feeling so inspired in this coming year to try and learn film-making! Thanks for sharing this!ReplyDelete
omg!!! this is wonderful..ReplyDelete
Oh, I absolutely love this! It is exactly what I imagine an old plantation house outside Savannah, GA to be...all Interview with the Vampire like!ReplyDelete
Absolutely wonderful!ReplyDelete
Wishing you all the happiness for 2010!
although some charm...it kind of scares me....i can't believe she touched that spider!ReplyDelete
a strange house???ReplyDelete
That's wonderful..!! All this old camera effect on the video makes it so much nicer!ReplyDelete
I loved this video! She always seems to find interesting abandoned houses to film/take photos in. I wish I was there.. :DReplyDelete
ow my! one of the best things I've seen in the recent days. great great!ReplyDelete
I saw this a while ago, and I just love it. I love Rhiannon's blog. and this one too!ReplyDelete
Such a beautiful setting. I've always loved the look of abandoned buildings.ReplyDelete
i fell in love with this video the first time i saw it, and it never seems to get tired. there's nothing more beautiful than watching an artist and his muse at work.ReplyDelete
this is such an incredible video! you always post the loveliest things.ReplyDelete
Dreammy, the softness and the sweetness is breath taking.ReplyDelete
I would like to be there as it is.
Yours faithfully*
that's so beautiful! i really really adore it. thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
xo katherine aka. urban flea :)
Tina it is lovely!! Great, great video and photographs!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousWednesday, December 30, 2009
Really liked the dreamy colours and the light eating away at the image. The lo-fi quality of this little film really added to the atmosphere, so did the music...xReplyDelete
Really sweet and very atmospheric; love the lighting. Sabine xReplyDelete
Simply awesome. Maybe the house is hunted, maybe not... but is a wonderful place (And Rihannon is a lovely woman!)ReplyDelete
So gorgeous. Love the pace.ReplyDelete
Adorable! Thanks for sharing :)ReplyDelete
lov your photos and your looks!ReplyDelete
follow you!
That movie was so beautiful! I wish I could have a photoshoot there :D It would be amazing!ReplyDelete
Beautiful! Rhiannon is so lovely-she fits the atmosphere perfectly!ReplyDelete
Tina, thanks so much for posting this. It made my day to see the video on Daydream Lily--I showed Drew right away. :)ReplyDelete
it's so peaceful & sweet.ReplyDelete
I absolutely loved this video. It's a great reminder of why I chose to live in the South in the first place!ReplyDelete
this is just simply lovely! you made my day. :]ReplyDelete
a little yellow button.
I love what she's wearing!ReplyDelete
House, colors, music, clothes... perfect !ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing :)


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This might be the first news.perlfoundation.org blog posting entered. It's not the "inaugural announcement", though. Andy Lester, the TPF SC PR guy, is crafting that now and a link to it will be posted to all the usual locations when it's ready.
What this is all about
This blog is hosted at The Perl Foundation. We hope to open up more communication with the Perl community by talking, mostly informally, here.
As for what I'm doing typing here...
I've been involved there indirectly for a year, more directly for about 3 weeks as the new Steering Committee Chairman. One of the things that we've been talking about is how to be more transparent to the community and approachable, so we're setting up blogs so that we can ramble about what we're up for TPF and generally in life, too. It also gives readers the chance to chat with us here about anything we mention that might catch your eye.
Who I am
I'm just another Perl hacker, living and working in Toronto. I'm in my early (verging on mid) 30s, married, a recent homeowner. My undergrad degree is in applied maths, but maybe it's in astronomy. Depends on how I feel on any given day. I also did my MBA at U of T. (The 'T' is Toronto, of course.)
I've been working with Perl since 1994, coming to it from a Unix & C background from undergrad astrophysics hacking days. My work since then has almost always involved Perl in one way or another. I've hacked it for companies large and small, done some independent consulting, worked as a Perl corporate trainer, done a fair deal of conference speaking about Perl too. I've also contributed to a few Perl books.
I've been active with the Montreal and the Toronto Perl Mongers. In Toronto I organized Damian Conway lecture series in 2001, 2002 and 2004. I was also the conference chairman for YAPC::NA 2005 in Toronto. I covered a lot on this topic in an interview I gave for Perl.com a few months ago --
What I do with The Perl Foundation
As I mentioned a bit earlier, I'm the Steering Committee Chairman. The Steering Committee is essentially composed of the heads of each working group. (Sometimes these are groups of one, sometimes they're bigger than that.) I like to call us the "working hands" of the Perl Foundation. While the executive level makes policy, the steering committee is responsible for jobs being done. My job is to help translate high-level policy into plans that the working groups can execute.
Steering Committee Activities
I'll briefly mention a few threads of conversation that have been going on in the Steering Committee lately.
- We got the blog off the ground! (Thanks Robert, thanks Ask.)
- We're trying to get ourselves on a regular reporting schedule, so that people have a better idea of the things we're trying to accomplish
- Conference organizers (especially ones outside of North America) have been'
asking us if we're able to send a representative to their conferences;
we're trying to work out how we can do this
- We discussed the use of the TPF logo in conjuncture with non-TPF projects and the idea of a "this project blessed by TPM" program
- Prompted by a German Wikipedia entry regarding TPF, we talked about making an English language one too (Jim Brandt put up a first version)
- We've talked about ways that the SC can hold conference calls (i.e. voice)
- We talked about a posting to news.cnet.com regarding a flaw in a Perl
application (webmin) and what was being done to fix the app, fix Perl,
and communicate the issues to people
- We've talked about how we can make more people aware of the wealth of
Perl community / culture sources they can tap into to improve their
Perl skills (e.g. a "perlcommunity" POD)
- We're in the process of reviewing the projects that happened through
the Summer of Code and trying to optimize our processes for participating in
future years
- Allison presented the draft work on the Artistic License 2.0
It's been an active first 3 weeks on the TPF SC for me...