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iCell® Neurons Enable Alzheimer's Disease Modeling and Demonstrate Potential Use in High Throughput Screening at GlaxoSmithKline
MADISON, Wis., Dec. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Cellular Dynamics International (CDI), a leading commercial producer of human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) lines and tissue cells, today announced the publication of research demonstrating the use of human iPSC-derived iCell® Neurons to model Alzheimer's disease (AD) and how they may be used in high throughput drug screening. This research was performed by the lab of Zhong Zhong, Ph.D., head of discovery in the regenerative medicine group within GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), and recently published online in Stem Cell Research (DOI 10.1016/j.scr.2012.11.005).
The GSK researchers used CDI's commercially available iCell Neurons, comprised of human neurons with characteristic forebrain markers, to model neuronal loss in human AD brains by exposing them to beta-amyloid 1-42 (AB1-42), a peptide known to be associated with AD. AB1-42 builds up in the brains of those susceptible to the disease and acts as a plaque that causes progressive memory loss and cognitive decline. Because iCell Neurons meet tight quality standards and are available commercially in large quantities, the researchers used this AD cellular model to screen hundreds of compounds and ultimately identified several small molecules that inhibited the AB1-42 toxicity.
This is the first known use of human iPSCs to model Alzheimer's disease through AB1-42 toxicity in a drug screen and demonstrates the value of commercial-scale quantities of human iPSC-derived cells for use in disease modeling, drug discovery, and target validation.
"Prior to iCell Neurons, the research models available to study AD included mice, human postmortem tissues, and immortalized neuronal cell lines. These models all have severe physiologic and genetic limitations," said Emile Nuwaysir, chief operating officer of CDI and co-author on the paper. "To make rapid progress in AD research, it is critical to have a cellular model that accurately recapitulates normal and disease pathology. We were excited to work with a team as talented as Dr. Zhong's to perform this study, which demonstrated that when you have a physiologically relevant and reproducible system like iCell Neurons as the basis for your screening platform, you can make rapid and dramatic discoveries."
Robert Palay, chief executive officer of CDI, added, "CDI's iCell Neurons exhibit true functional human biology. This study demonstrated the potential of high throughput screening on iCell Neurons in identifying novel therapeutic compounds. The work contained in this paper is just another example confirming that CDI's ability to supply our customers with fully functional, standardized human cells enables pharmaceutical scientists to quickly discover new drug candidates, particularly for challenging pathologies such as neurodegenerative diseases."
About Cellular Dynamics International, Inc.
Cellular Dynamics International, Inc. (CDI) is a leading developer of next-generation stem cell technologies for drug development, cell therapy, tissue engineering and organ regeneration. CDI harnesses its unique manufacturing technology to produce differentiated tissue cells from any individual's stem cell line in industrial quality, quantity and purity. CDI is accelerating the adoption of pluripotent stem cell technology, adapting its methods to fit into standard clinical practice by the creation of individual stem cell lines from a standard blood draw. CDI was founded in 2004 by Dr. James Thomson, a pioneer in human pluripotent stem cell research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. CDI's facilities are located in Madison, Wisconsin. See www.cellulardynamics.com.
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Bode Miller and Ted Ligety were supposed to light up Friday's super combined. Instead they flamed out, finishing a disappointing 6th and 12th place, respectively.
One look at their deflated finish line reactions — Ligety hitting his helmet in frustration, Miller merely grimacing in disgust — was all it took to realize Friday wasn't their day.
On paper, soft snow conditions foiled their chances, but in reality their own sloppy skiing was equally at fault.
After drawing unlucky bibs for the downhill portion of the event that saw them running toward the rear of top seeded skiers, Miller (the defending Olympic champ from Vancouver) and Ligety (the reigning world champion) were forced to contend with a choppy course that had been shredded and rutted by early racers.
Considering his relatively mediocre downhill ability, Ligety made the most out of his opening run, finishing a respectable 18th place, albeit a full second behind slalom specialists like Ivica Kostelic (who would go on to collect his second straight silver in this event).
Miller, on the other hand, tried off-setting his poor starting position with a straighter, riskier line but paid for it with costly errors from start to finish. Rather than live up to his potential and win the downhill leg, his blunder-filled run put him in a distant 12th, well over a second adrift.
With both skiers on the back foot, the only option was to attack the slalom. But with a tight, tricky course and worries about the ever softening Sochi snow — temperatures reached an unseasonable 55 degrees Fahrenheit and racers were seen rubbing snow on their necks to cool down — each had their doubts.
After watching racer after racer crash, Ligety switched up his game plan and chose to ski conservatively, hanging on his edges instead of executing the quick, snappy weight transfers he's known for, clocking the third fastest run for the time being. But with 17 skiers still to come, the Utah-native knew his provisional placing wouldn't hold.
"To put it simply, I choked. That's disappointing, and it would have been easier to be a lot faster, but it didn't go that way" Ligety told reporters, refusing to blame the course and claiming conditions were far better than expected. "I could have gone way, way harder."
As for defending champ Miller, not even a course report over the radio from Ligety (who urged, "give yourself a little space, but this snow is completely rip-able, do not hold back") could help him salvage his race. Right out of the start house, the Olympic vet — who rarely races or trains slalom these days — sat back, flailed his arms and got behind and low on his line, letting the course ski him instead of vice versa.
Like Ligety, Miller made no excuses for his disappointing performance. "I was pretty lousy," he told reporters, before tweeting: "I'll never stop pushing myself past my limits, but the mistakes that come with it are hard to swallow. #frustrationstation."
Frankly put, if Miller's slalom run was an example of his limits, then those limits are pretty low these days. In Salt Lake, the then Olympic rookie burst onto the scene with a stunning slalom portion in the combined (back then the event featured two slalom runs), surging to the silver medal position. Eight years later in Vancouver and with his best slalom days behind him, Miller was still able to take gold. But on Friday, the five-time Olympic medal winner laid down a run littered with mistakes no skier of his caliber should make.
Fortunately, Miller and Ligety will have a shot at redemption in Sunday's super g, where they'll again be considered among the favorites for gold.

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JGE 1979 - Volume 27
JanuaryField Observations and Interpretations Given New Emphasis
Timothy Vick, C.E. Buckwald, Eiler L. Henderson, Shelby J. Boardman Carleton College
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As the quantity of available knowledge has expanded, the teaching of processes has become as important in undergraduate geology education as the teaching of facts. Reasons for modifying field trips to conform to this shift in focus are presented with a "schedule" of field observations to be used at outcrops.
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One of the smaller frustrations that I've experienced in Twitter for iPad 3.2 is how it continues to show more information of a single tweet when you click on it - then that tweet is *always* selected.
A few workarounds I used were to click the @Mentions and then back to the Timeline which did unselect the tweet. However in this never version of Twitter for iPad, for some reason - that took longer than in the previous version.
Then today - I accidentally discovered how to do it! Yes, you can unselect a tweet using the software.
Step one: after a tweet is selected, drag the new window of that tweet all the way to the right so you can see your Timeline again. Then drag the timeline column to the right and hold. Here is the icon you'll see:
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How Saks Dresses Up Its Windows for the Holidays
The holiday window displays at big-city department stores draw huge crowds at this time of the year. Andria Cheng visits Saks for a look at this season's decorations and what it takes to design them.
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... I ... the UI retailer's joint picture is about to ... get on a window at the time right yet ... no one can think you're making that pressure holiday we know ... I've talked to back to find out ... so we shut the window for us is actually in December while the previous years when desert and ... we walked by this you know what they're doing is talking to Wall Street to see what they like and what they're responding to Suby do more of that next year ... any differ way in and thinks that maybe we thought were does well and are working as well ... we can take those out for next year so ... initially the start that early and in early January February ... will start our concept or sketching for next year ... working through to storyboards in the middle straight into the summer Rex prototyping ... and start building some proponents of the windows ultimately by fall we built all six windows offsite completely ... and then we break it down with diminutive and as of the bill that you ... know it's exciting for us this year the first few reasons one is because it reduced the level of interactivity that we haven't had the past so ... we have a kaleidoscope wouldn't that answer these traditional kaleidoscope since you might recognize or know from ... your childhood ... but now we've had this to Joe Allen and maybe Cameron them into the next ... turns viewers as they walk by Into Digital snowflakes in the window ... given what are the other exciting with the lead on this year's be found a couple of artists from Australia on YouTube ... and actually use them to do a video for stop motion talk video ... that's in our last window ... of it is a labor of love by all means you're working with some of its little in the other side of the world ... was a blast and we're really pleased how it turned out to what I'm not talented enough to calm I think that the kid that ... I have to say probably the hardest one that we did so for there to ending the first winter the snow globe window ... their shells during their suddenly turn in on themselves within about thirty seconds of an inch of each other so they're very very close turning ... in to keep them turning in balances of an engineering ... miracle honestly ... most tablets that were never maybe a hundred times ... in their whole lifetime if you will ... be so close are turning thousands of times for six weeks twenty firms in a piece that looks turning ... to me actually cut one up ... to a motor in the shop ... and had a turn constantly for two weeks to see what happened in the window where you make it snow was certain the town's how we make it snow it's to fifty five degrees outside and it's not cold in the windows of easing the impact that ... the boys to this record for snow in the minutes that was ... certainly no small feat there's a will see that it's it's that there's an we'd been through several iterations of ... what we can do to make it look like snow in what was the most like so ... and after tests and trials over the summer we tried out the week for five different ... components that fall like snow ... we landed on Featherston literally will reopen the window we take a down pillow part of the feathers and that their noses and ... now we have snow in them and it's you know the behind the scenes because of all these motors this wires and cables and ... computers that are putting everything in it and it's also the ... hidden away and that's how it all works but we don't really ... want the people outside even know or be concerned with how it works it is part of what we do but these ... miles and miles of wire and tape and paint them ... and glued all of that expected that's that's for the fun that we had so that you don't see them ...


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We have been standing in solidarity with our colleagues from the Arctic Sunrise here in Moscow since September 19th. All day, every day for nine days so far. We stand in a one-person picket near the entrance of the Moscow headquarters of Gazprom supporting our friends – the 30 Greenpeace activists arrested during a peaceful protest against the extraction of oil by the Gazprom Arctic platform "Prirazlomnaya" in the Pechora Sea.
It has to be a one-person picket because in Russia you don't need permission from the authorities for one person to protest. In contrast, for a large rally or protest you have to ask for permission in advance from the local authorities, and it is often denied.
We've stopped keeping track of the exact times and dates that our protest receives extra attention from Gazprom. Instead, we keep track of the weather and notable events… "It was the day when it rained and rained all day long that the 'gardener' came", for instance. Or "that morning, when Gazprom headquarters decided to have a renovation", or "the day when the Special Police Force came." That was particularly memorable.
September, this year in Moscow, is particularly cold and rainy. So it's very uncomfortable to stand with poster in hands for a long period. Our activists relieve each other every 1.5-2 hours.
At the very beginning of our picket, the Security service of "Gazprom" called the police every single time an activist replaced another near our protest tent. At the beginning the police claimed they were shown invalid passports from our activists. They tried to make trouble for us, to get us to stop protesting. During these 9 days of protest we have had the chance to teach the police that we will not allow them to infringe on our rights to peaceful protest.
After that, the Gazprom security decided it was their job to try and intimidate us into stopping. They forced our activists out of their spot in front of the Gazprom building by using a sidewalk cleaning machine to push them aside, then even used a mini-bulldozer! They left a parked car running, on the sidewalk just next to our activist, forcing them to inhale terrible exhaust fumes. But the worst weapon employed by Gazprom security was the "drunk gardener", defending his grass from the peaceful Greenpeace activists that wanted to stand on it, one at a time. Of course he didn't care at all about oil production in the Arctic or about our Greenpeace colleagues being detained, the main thing was to scare our activists away. The police got our calls regularly about these problems. The "gardener" was drunk and not interested in listening to the reasons from our activists, only in seeming unpredictable and intimidating. But when the police came he made his way back inside the Gazprom enclosure, watching what the police would do from behind the protection of the fence.
At our solidarity protest we call the police every day, and sometimes more than once a day. And we know that Gazprom is calling the police every day too. Their security officers photograph and film our every step, and we photograph and film theirs. Sometimes they even try to "accompany " our activists to the metro or a waiting car, when their turn protesting is over. This is obviously done to scare them into never coming back.
We wonder what kind of people are watching us: is this just Gazprom security, the Federal Security Agency (FSB), or someone else?
They desperately want our protest day to be short, they hope that when it's raining we will cancel our peaceful protest and go away. But now, even they are beginning to understand that we will only stop supporting our friends, the Arctic 30, when they are free.
Alena Kislitsina is an Online Editor at Greenpeace Russia.
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...its hard to be brave BUT BRAVERY IS NECESSARY...YOUR SAVING THE LIVES OF ALL HUMANS and ALL the SPECIES... INCLUDING THE OPPRESSOR...ironically it ...
...its hard to be brave BUT BRAVERY IS NECESSARY...YOUR SAVING THE LIVES OF ALL HUMANS and ALL the SPECIES... INCLUDING THE OPPRESSOR...ironically it doesn't matter what the country...oppressors act the same...the greed virus is everywhere...REHABILITATE YOUR THINKING..."REDISTRIBUTE YOUR EQUITY" Gazprom...an NEW MARKET AWAITS ANY COMPANY that wants to not only redefine ENERGY itself, but to profit GREATLY in capitalism BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY to profit GREATLY in HAVING a FUTURE...there is no future If you have a BREAKING OF YOUR ARCTIC SHEET...this will absolutely be catastrophic for your whole land...so don't do it...simple...AND REDISTRIBUTE YOUR EQUITY AND START A NEW MARKETPLACE OF CLEAN/GREEN/RENEWABLE...LETS ALL FORGIVE AND ADVANCE...WHO WANTS TO START???...
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Neil Jones
Maybe only one at a time in Moscow, but millions of us are standing with you - all over the world. Stay strong.
29 September, 2013 at 1:05
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Jeni Shergold
Maybe one at a time but hope there are enough of you to make the point that we are not going away.??
I stand with every single one of the...
Maybe one at a time but hope there are enough of you to make the point that we are not going away.??
I stand with every single one of these protesters and I bet millions more would agree.
Thanks a million for what you are doing in a very oppressive regime!!
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This is not easy. Well done.
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Chris Ruzycki
I would like to THANK everyone for their support in our ongoing efforts in helping free our activists and (my brother who is chief mate) on the Arctic...
I would like to THANK everyone for their support in our ongoing efforts in helping free our activists and (my brother who is chief mate) on the Arctic Sunrise.Your show of support means alot to our family!
Thank you so much!!
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Gregory S. Berlin
Absolutely full of admiration for these tough and courageous activists, especially in standing up to the outrageous intimidation tactics of the police...
Absolutely full of admiration for these tough and courageous activists, especially in standing up to the outrageous intimidation tactics of the police and Gazprom. Maybe one day true democracy will come to Russia.
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Same here! It is so inspiring that people are willing to do this for what they believe in! I can't believe the police would actually do that. I su...
Same here! It is so inspiring that people are willing to do this for what they believe in! I can't believe the police would actually do that. I support the activists completely!
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United we will stand...
30 September, 2013 at 9:49
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(Unregistered) NateBoo
whoe'er you are,whate'er you have done。we,greenpeace,are here to help you hold the hope。it has its costs!
30 September, 2013 at 15:34
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(Unregistered) Sun Wu
'...a relict from earlier times...' (DOCTOR Naidoo)
Where do you live, my friend?
Sun Wu; CEO of GPI in spe
'...a relict from earlier times...' (DOCTOR Naidoo)
Where do you live, my friend?
Sun Wu; CEO of GPI in spe
PS: by the way, the MV Laodicea (ex Beluga Enterprise) travelling between Ukraine and Syria for two to three years noe...
...used to be one of 70 vessels financed via Greenwashing. Beluga, green companie...and one of the bigger financial scandals in German history
What a wonderful world where GREEN -Ships are used to carry weapons...How do we call this era, DOCTOR Naidoo?
Where is the Beluga Skysails, DOCTOR Naidoo?
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As I was told Russia is a place where international juridiction is playing a key-role...
There is one question Greenpeace...
As I was told Russia is a place where international juridiction is playing a key-role...
There is one question Greenpeace has to ask themself:
Do we allow anyone to board our ships and take our crew hostage? And if yes, do we allow them to do so, what message this is transporting to other countries where Greenpeace is activ.
Greenpeace used to be a leader in whatosoever...battlefield is the media, and anyone doing buisness with Gazprom, Rosneft which is financing the world of Wladimir P...
...and the weapons given to Assad by his friend Wladimir P...
Dear Mr. President, according to my way of thinking BP is financing your sick strategic moves in Syria...
And Gerhard Schröder, Germany's ex president, took a job Wladimir P, his friend and 'flawless democrat' offered him directly after not being re-elected in 2005
Who else is making buisness with Wladimir P? I am sure Greenpeace Research Specialists can find out more targets sensitive to
You started a war, and now lets have some fun...but please, stop to talk about laws - Putin proofs on a daily basis that he gives a shit about it...
PPS: hey Captain Wilcox, only 14years, 11 month and two weeks to go...keep on smiling, and always keep in mind: we Germans are funny people :)
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Release Date: March 21, 2012
ROCHESTER, N.Y. and BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The University at Buffalo, Roswell Park Cancer Institute and Melissa's Living Legacy Teen Cancer Foundation will sponsor a "Duel in the Pool" competition at 4 p.m. Saturday, April 28, in UB's Alumni Arena Natatorium to raise funds for Teens Living with Cancer in Rochester and Buffalo.
Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong has accepted a challenge issued by Orchard Park native, former UB student, and triathlon coach Mary Eggers to battle it out in a 50-meter kickboard sprint in the pool prior to his scheduled UB Distinguished Speakers Series lecture at 8 p.m.
Eggers, a fitness coach working with the Teens Living with Cancer (TLC) program, issued her challenge to Armstrong via Twitter upon learning of Lance's speech at UB. She intended to draw attention to the organization's mission and its TLC Fit program.
Proceeds from this event will benefit LIVESTRONG and the Teens Living with Cancer program in Rochester and soon-to-be established chapter in Buffalo at Roswell Park -- a new venture being made possible due to this collaboration and the "Duel in the Pool" fundraiser.
Attendance at the "Duel in the Pool" will be by invitation only and closed to the public and media. Video footage and photographs from the private event will be provided to media upon request at the evening lecture.
The audience for the event will be teen cancer patients from both Roswell Park and Teens Living with Cancer in Rochester, making it the first opportunity for both current and future members of the support group to meet and share their experiences. The videotaped race results and behind-the-scenes footage will be presented during Armstrong's 8 p.m. public lecture.
"Teens who are facing cancer deserve access to a wide range of unique and age-specific support services," said Lynda Kwon Beaupin, MD, coordinator of Roswell Park's Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) Program. "Thanks to Mary Eggers and Lance Armstrong, the "Duel in the Pool" will allow Teens Living with Cancer to expand its reach to both Buffalo and Rochester, providing more opportunities for teens to seek these important services and find support from their peers."
Teens Living with Cancer is the peer-support program of Melissa's Living Legacy Teen Cancer Foundation. Its mission is to provide resources and support that enhance the quality of life for teens with cancer. Inspired by Melissa Marie Sengbusch who died in June, 2000 at age 19, the foundation has grown from a grassroots organization to an internationally known and respected provider of age-appropriate resources for teens with cancer. Since its beginning, the organization has supported thousands of teens and their families around the globe.
"We share a vision with Lance Armstrong in helping cancer survivors live their best lives," said Lauren Spiker, Melissa's mom and executive director of Melissa's Living Legacy Teen Cancer Foundation. "The spirit of this event has Melissa written all over it."
Eggers has had a long triathlon career during which she has set several amateur course records, raced in elite categories and qualified for the Hawaii Ironman three times. She is an USAT All American, multi-sport coach, yoga instructor and registered nurse. More information about Mary can be found at http://www.ironmomma.com.
The fundraising goal set by LIVESTRONG and TLC is $100,000, of which 100 percent will benefit both organizations. To find out more about the "Duel in the Pool" and how to donate, visit http://www.teenslivingwithcancer.org.
Tickets to the Armstrong lecture -- which will include the "Duel in the Pool" video -- are available through the Alumni Arena Ticket Office, which is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, and Ticketmaster. For more information, visit http://www.specialevents.buffalo.edu.
Lauren Spiker, TLC, Executive Director
Office: 585-563-6221
Mobile: 585-503-4074
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Head Coach Chris Denker
"We lost by 10 points and we were down 9-0 after the first two minutes of the game. That was the difference tonight. Why we came out so sluggish, I have no idea. We talked about it. The girls don't know why, they're disappointed in themselves. I pleased with their effort from that point on. The first half was not a good half, but we kind of scratched and clawed and hung around for a little while until we could wake up. We dominated the game in the second half. At one point, we were only down by five, so at one point we had cut a 21-point deficit to just five. All-in-all, I thought that was our team that I had expected to see and hope to see every night, we just didn't come out that way in the beginning. It was more defensively than anything else."
On the beginning of conference season next week
"It's a whole new season. We're pleased to be 10-3 at this point, although we'd rather be even better, but records don't matter anymore. It's a whole-new deal in the WCC, everything counts."
Senior Guard Caroline Gruening (9 points, 7 rebounds, 6 steals)
"Chris made the point after the game we lost by 10, and after the first two minutes, we were down 9-0. So, it was all about the way we came out. I'm not sure why we did it, our two other losses were the same way. The biggest difference for us was that we came back and played a good second half, we didn't do that against Minnesota or Stanford, but we just need to not let it happen again, period. We can't just show up, we have to come out ready to play every game."


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For discussion of Electric Universe and Plasma Cosmology. The ideas and opinions expressed on this forum do not necessarily reflect those of T-Bolts Group Inc or The Thunderbolts Project(TM)
I have wondered what would cause so much silicon to be in the water when most of the fossils and petrified forests were submerged.
how did fossils get from another island and then ride the magma to get deposited on a newly formed island?!
MGmirkin wrote:cigarshaped wrote:My other concern, slightly off base, is explaining the lower gravity conditions that must be necessary for these enormous lifeforms to exist. I haven't searched the entire forum for this discussion yet. Until we have (or I read) an electrically adjustable gravity theory I just go with a faster rotating earth....
Not to go too far out on a limb, but if mass is variable under Thornhill's interpretations, then might gravity (which seems to depend on mass) also be variable in kind?
(Electric Gravity in an Electric Universe)
We now return you to your regularly schedule discussion of fossils, et al.
Brigit Bara wrote:Lloyd said,
"* Silicon is the most common element in Earth's crust and, megalightning can pulverize most rock, which would scatter a lot of silicon powder, along with other elemental powders, over a wide area. What do you think of that?"
I think you all have lightning on the brain around here!
I have always thought that less gravity does not entirely explain the loveliness and lushness of life on the earth in the past (as shown in the fossil record--not off topic I hope!), or the long lifespans of the megafauna. I think the atmosphere may have been very rich in nitrogen, which is a wonderful preservative. Apples stored in nitrogen can last for 30 months. And of course I am a huge fan of MiracleGro. I thought perhaps the earth expanded and thinned out the atmosphere. But in EU, lightning can lift away and deposite gases and mineral layers.
Additional biological roles of microbes:
Kervran has discovered some biological transmutations involving elements that suggest a possible pathway for silification without introducing silica from outside. These involve the production of Si from C and O, or from N2. Leo says that Scurfield et al. (1974) "observed that silica particles often occur with starch grains or with polyphenolic material in the same cell, and suggested a causal relationship to be operative" (Leo, supra, p. 47). This is consistent with the idea that carbon and oxygen in the cell in the form of starch grains (carbohydrates) and polyphenolic material (hydrocarbons with oxygen) combine to form silica. (N2 C + O; C+O Si). Such transmutations occurring locally within the cell, each of them in a nano-space, seems more consistent with the preservation of microscopic cell structure that often occurs in silification and petrification, than if the silica came in from outside the dead tree cell to replace carbohydrates in the cell that are somehow driven out of the dead cell. Other more recent experiments using bacteria or yeasts to cause petrification have reported petrification within a period of about three years using wood soaked in the residue from making beer, and embedded in sand. Here the silica in sand may play a role mentioned above by Kervran of assisting the transmutation by overcoming an enzyme that otherwise would block the transmutation, as explained by Monod and Jacob.
In conclusion, there is now extensive evidence that microbes are ubiquitous through the crust of the earth, and that they play a major role in a great many geological processes and formations. There is also excellent experimental evidence that microbes in numerous cases perform transmutations of elements so as to produce such formations. Most microbiologists are not aware of the theory, even though the evidence unmistakably favors the theory as the only reasonable explanation. However, biological transmutations is like the elephant in a room that no one will talk about because the theory appears to violate the laws of physics. Yet when consistently reproducible facts violate a theory, it is time to reexamine the theory. Microbiologists and geomicrobiologists do often admit that the phenomena they are describing defy an explanation, and they generally come up with speculative solutions, such as the theory that microbes "concentrate" minerals, or the minerals "migrate", and other unproven statements. In my opinion, these phenomena should be studied thoroughly with an open mind, and a concerted effort should be made to reexamine our theories of the atom to see if one might be devised that could explain the facts of transmutations as well as other natural phenomena.
Krackonis wrote:Most certainly, Recently declassified experiments in microgravity have been said to have been preformed in Skylab which showed a charged sphere has gravity. Directly variable according to voltage input.
I suppose some megalightning would do nicely to blast silicon into the atmosphere, as you said, but why would it coincide with a deluge? What has water got to do with interplanetary arcing?
"transmutations occurring locally within the cell [seem more plausible] than if the silica came in from outside the dead tree cell to replace carbohydrates in the cell that are somehow driven out of the dead cell."
Suppose the "dirty little secret" about fossilization is that massive heat is required?
Do you and Krackonis agree about whether there was some kind of tide in the north, or a "Rankine vortex"? I suppose since the moon controls the tide, that if earth were orbiting Saturn, than the water would really be tugged one way.
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10-year wines: wines worth saving for a decade.
My wedding is coming up in October and when the Future Husband and I discussed ideas for the ceremony, the wine box ceremony seemed to be the perfect fit.
Essentially, in lieu of unity sand or a candle, each of us writes a love letter to the other, and locks them up inside a box with a good bottle of wine, only to be opened on X anniversary, or if the marriage falls on hard times, and the couple needs a reminder of the way they felt on their wedding day. Further reading on that subject here.
Since I'm planning to open the box on our 10-year anniversary, I pose this question to the SE community: what wines are worth saving for a decade? Immediately, I think big reds (merlot, malbec, etc) but my fiance isn't always fond of them. Champagne or sparkling wine seems like a great option, but the issue of storing it that long concerns me. It seems tough store it at an angle, let alone turn it occasionally if it's locked in a box. I'm also not looking to spend a huge fortune on this, I'm shooting for $50 or less.
Does anyone have suggestions? Should I just go red and try to develop the fiance's palette over the next decade?
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SAN DIEGO - The UC Santa Barbara women's volleyball team continued its push for a postseason berth, winning its seventh straight match with a 25-23, 22-25, 26-24, 25-19 victory over San Diego State on Friday night in the Turkey Time Tournament.
Kara Sherrard led UCSB with 14 kills and was one of two players with double doubles as she also picked up 13 digs for the Gauchos (19-11 overall).
Leah Sully, named to the All-Big West Honorable Mention team earlier this week, had 13 kills and a team-best 22 digs in the penultimate match of the season for Santa Barbara.
Senior Stacey Schmidt was the other Gaucho with double-digit kills as she tallied 11 to go with eight digs and five block assists. The three-time All-Big West First Team pick helped pace a Gaucho defense that had 13.0 total team blocks on the night.
Chelsey Lowe, who was also a Big West All-First Team pick had 14 digs for UCSB as she moved closer to setting the single-season digs mark at UC Santa Barbara.
With things tied at one game apiece, the pivotal third game saw UCSB jump out to a quick 7-4 lead only to see the Aztecs (17-10) score 10 straight points for a 14-7 advantage. UCSB head coach Kathy Gregory burned both of the team's timeouts during the run, but it didn't thwart SDSU's run.
A service error by SDSU finally stopped the rally but San Diego State still led 20-15 later in the set. A kill from Schmidt and three straight attack errors from the Aztecs gave UCSB new life as the Gauchos then trailed 20-19.
Kills from Lily Lopez (eight kills on the night) and Schmidt gave UCSB a 21-20 lead before an Aztec hitting error gave UCSB a two-point advantage.
The teams traded points until a kill from Lopez put UCSB up 24-23. After SDSU tied it, a service error and an attack error by the Aztecs gave the Gauchos the game.
It also gave them the momentum for the fourth set and, eventually, the match.
San Diego State had 26 hitting errors and a whopping 12 service errors on the night.
The Gauchos look for 20 victories on the season on Saturday when they close the Turkey Time Tournament with a match vs. TCU. First serve is at 4:30.
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As you may know, astronomers for several decades have been finding planets outside of our own solar system. The total number found so far is, I believe, over 400.
For reasons having to do with the discovery process, most of those are very large planets. Also, most of them are too close or too far from their suns to be able to have liquid water, which is believed to be vital to the existence of life. Therefore, so far there haven't been any earth-like planets found where life could exist (according to our understanding of how life can form and even exist). But even within our own solar system, some of the moons of Saturn or Jupiter might be able to support life.
In any event, it is probably only a matter of time before planets similar to our own Earth are found. Of course that does not mean that they will be found to have life, let alone intelligent or highly evolved life.
But also, astronomers have been speculating about intelligent life outside of our own earth for a long time; and the famous, late Carl Sagan in fact proposed a formula for calculating the likelihood of extraterrestrial life given the enormous number of galaxies, each with many stars, and many stars no doubt having planets.
So if you want to believe the speculation and calculation, they're out there--though we have not yet contacted them. (Some people of course believe they have visited us.)
Well, if we do ever confirm the existence of creatures like ourselves (or not) elsewhere in the universe, that will pose a problem for religion. Christianity holds that God sent his Son to Earth. Did God send the same son--or anyone else that he progenerated--to other planets? If not, why was Earth singled out? Can we assume that somehow Earth is special in God's sight and was singled out for the blessing of having His Son sent to us?
So the eventual discovery or confirmation of life elsewhere should, in principle, pose a problem for religion--at least for Christianity. But you know what? I think it will survive. Some sci-fi writers have even speculated that Christianity will simply send missionaries and export its religion throughout the universe, just as it did all over the Earth.
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I think the religious can wrangle and twist their "story", regardless of what evidence is presented.
Way back in the 70s, catholics wanted to start preparing priests for space travel so they could spread the "good" news in case the astronauts ran into aliens. Crazy stuff.
I'm with the good doctor, here. If religion could survive the rise of humanism, democracy, and modern science, it will survive finding life off Earth. Just like previous survival strategies, there will probably be a combination of denial and revisionism lasting just long enough to pretend it was never contrary to religious belief at all. It has worked for over 500 years. It does appear to be growing thin, thank "god", but I expect it has a few more centuries before it falls through completely.
There appears to be no expiration date on BS.
I've often wondered what would happen as well. I once said to a co-worker, knowing full well he was a devout christian, "our only hope is to get off the planet". Being the first time I'd ever done that, I assumed it would throw him for a loop. Nope, he just went on his way as if we were talking about "other" people who are making our lives miserable. I was the one thrown for a loop. It really hadn't occurred to me that some people think christianity, or any other religion, would be able to survive when we moved off-world. I think they'll just rationalize it. In fact, we should look forward to future new sects, similar to LDS, that will find new scriptures to retread the old ones.
I was really disappointed. I was hoping for a silver bullet, stake through the heart, stubbed toe, something...sigghhh.
Can you imagine praying towards Mecca from Titan? Ha! I am 100% sure it would happen, though.
Speaking of which, have there ever been any observant Muslim astronauts? I wonder how they got through that issue.
It's amazing how mormonism survived with no apparent setback when we visited the moon, given the fact that the first two "prophets" said there were people living on the moon.
Don't mormons teach that there are many planets and they come from the planet Cobol or something? Or is that Battlestar Galactica?
Hehe. Close. There are many gods, each with his own planet. Our god lives on a planet nearest to the star Colob.
Another interesting fact: The 2nd prophet Brigham Young said there are people living on the sun.
Nice and toasty for winter retreat!
I just noticed how, if you drop the second m in mormonism, you get moronism. Maybe a better name for them. . .
Actually, regardless of the improbability--no, make that absurdity--of so much of what they believe, I hate them because they're anti-gay and spent millions of dollars to help pass Proposition 8 in California, which repealed gay marriage.
Yes, that's just one of the ways they try to control peoples sex lives, creating huge amounts of guilt and disfunctionality.
Religion will not survive onslot from life on earth let alone discovery of life in space. Real danger to it is from humen scientific method of attaining knowledge which don't accept any thing true without testing.
As a matter of fact if religious beliefs had something to do with the logic and reasoning, there is enough on the earth to shake them. And to an ilogical, emotional believer life in space dosn't make much difference. They will take it to glorify their gods.
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2012 Indoor Championships - Final Day Recap
By Rudy Roediger, Media Coordinator
GENEVA, Ohio - (Team Scores) (Individual Results) Azusa Pacific (Calif.) captured its first women's national title since 2004, while Wayland Baptist (Texas) was crowned the men's champion at the NAIA Indoor Track & Field National Championships at the Spire Institute on Saturday. Wayland Baptist accomplished the most dominating team performance since its last title in 1989.
A dominating performance in the women's distance races helped propel the Cougars to a tight women's team championship by less than a point. APU squeezed out a 108-to-107.5 team result. Wayland Baptist used a balanced team effort to secure a 38-point margin over the 2011 champion, Shorter (Ga.) for the men's title. The point difference is the most in championship history in 23 years.
Azusa placed four in the top seven of the women's 5000-meter run to put pressure on Oklahoma Baptist for the team championship. In that race, Lauren Jimison earned 10 points for her first-place finish, while Kristie Sikma, Sarah Higgens, and Melissa Telon combined for another 10 points as they finished fourth, sixth, and seventh, respectively.
Oklahoma Baptist had its chances to repeat for the third-straight year heading into the grueling distance medley relay. The Bison needed to finish no worse than sixth in the DMR to keep their chances alive. However, they slipped to second in the team standings, despite winning the final event of the day with a meet record 3:39.83 in the 4x400-meter relay.
Azusa Pacific's Victoria Martinez ran 6,200 meters to win the Most Valuable Performer. The 5-foot-5 senior from Apple Valley, Calif., won the 3,000-meter run, one mile run, and anchored the women's distance medley champion to secure the individual title. The MVP, based on total points scored in a national championship meet, went back to California for the first time since Natasha Miller of Biola won it in back-to-back years ('09, '10).
"A lot of the energy and momentum came from the girls yesterday," said Martinez. "They did fantastic; they gave me the confidence that I could do something too. After that it just started rolling to a perfect day."
Oklahoma Baptist's Jura Levy secured the women's Most Outstanding Performer by winning the 60-meter dash championship with a mark of 7.32. That time was close to the record set by Kimberly Smith of Wayland Baptist's 2010 best of 7.20. Oklahoma Baptist's Verone Chambers finished third while fellow OBU Stacy Warrior finished sixth.
"All around we did a great performance," Levy said. "We lose by point twos, so we are disappointed but we are still champions."
In the 60-meter hurdles, Breanna Leslie of Azusa blazed down the track to capture the women's title just shy of the national championship record. Her 8.47 time missed on Crystal Bardge of Embry-Riddle's mark by .07. That record was set last year at the Spire Institute.
Jerry-Lee Davis helped Wayland Baptist to their first men's team championship since 1989. The senior from Bridgetown, Barbados, won the 400-meter dash edging out Shorter's Randall Dameron and Siena Heights (Mich.) Doug Dawson. The three sprinters finished within .11. Davis secured the championship with a dash of 47.14.
Freshman Dewayne Booker edged out Morningside's (Iowa) Monte Larsen in the 600-meter run. For the Wayland Baptist first year man, his 1:19.15 clocking came in just out of the reach of Larsen who ran 1:19.34.
Jarrod Morris joined his Pioneer teammates as national champions by winning another close race. Morris used a photo finish to squeak out the 800-meter run by a .02 edge over Central Methodist's (Mo.) Lucas Manring. Morris continued the stellar team performance for WBU with a 1:50.14 mark.
Not to be outdone by his Wayland Baptist teammates, Edward Taragon won the 5,000-meter run with a time of 14:30.37 edging past Evans Kirwa of Embry-Riddle (Fla.) by .05 seconds.
Durawn Howard, Lorenzo Dolphus, Gregory Turner, and Jerry-Lee Davis wrapped up Wayland's dominating team effort nearly capturing the 4x400 relay championship record. The quartet blew the field away with a time of 3:09.6 just missing St. Gregory's (Okla.) 2007 record. That year Thornton, McCaskill, Jones, and Hughes set the mark at 3:09.4.
Wayland junior Edward Taragon took home the 5,000-meter run title with a time of 14:30.37 edging out Evans Kirwa of Embry-Riddle (14:31.22) and Oscar Ogwaro of Shorter (14:31.76).
In the field events finals on Saturday, Milika Tuivanuavou of Fresno Pacific (Calif.) captured the women's shot put with a toss of 48 feet, two and a half inches, while Christopher Adams of Northwood (Texas) won the men's shot put with a throw of 18.71 meters.
Eastern Oregon's Robbie Haynie won the men's pole vault when he cleared the bar at 16 feet, 10 and three quarter inches. For Haynie, it marked his second-straight pole vault championship and he also added to his stellar 2012 championship where he won the men's heptathlon in record breaking fashion and finished third in the high jump. Haynie scored 26 of Eastern Oregon's 34.3571 points to lead the team to a seventh-place finish. Overall, the Nampa, Idaho, native won the men's heptathlon with a championship record 5,473 points. Haynie's point total is currently the ninth best of any collegian. He earned that record by breaking the heptathlon pole vault record with a 17 feet, seven inch mark and set the heptathlon high jump record with a seven feet, and one quarter inch leap.
Erinn Shaughnessy and Evan Shimanek of Oklahoma Baptist took the top two spots in the women's pole vault with identical vaults of 12 feet, three and a half inches.
Ethan Dejongh of Fresno Pacific (Calif.) followed in the footsteps of fellow Sunbird Eugene Vollmer to win the program's second-straight men's triple jump crown with a leap of 51 feet in just his second of six jumps. Vollmer finished second as Fresno took the top two spots and had Josiah Ford finish just out of the scoring.
After taking the women's shot put, Fresno Pacific's (Calif.) Milika Tuivanuavou finished second in the women's triple jump just under two inches off Shorter (Ga.) Tamala Daley's 39 feet, nine and three quarter inch jump.
In addition, Rohan Thompson won his first Men's Coach of the Year honor for Wayland Baptist while the Women's Coach of the Year was awarded to Azusa Pacific's Mike Barnett as his team won its first indoor championship since winning back-to-back titles in 2003 and 2004.
Thompson's squad scored the most points (108) by a team since 1995 when Lubbock Christian scored 108, and their 36 point-margin of victory was the most since Wayland last won the title in 1989. That year, WBU scored 102 points to Azusa Pacific's 59.3.
Most Valuable Performer - Male: Robbie Haynie, Eastern Oregon
Most Outstanding Performer - Male: Gabe Wickham, Hastings (Neb.)
Most Valuable Performer - Female: Victoria Martinez, Azusa Pacific (Calif.)
Most Outstanding Performer - Female: Jura Levy, Oklahoma Baptist
National Event Records Broken During the Championship
Men's Heptathlon: Robbie Haynie, Eastern Oregon, 5,473 points
Men's Heptathlon Pole Vault: Robbie Haynie, Eastern Oregon, 17' 7"
Men's Heptathlon High Jump: Robbie Haynie, Eastern Oregon, 7' 1/4"
Men's Weight Throw: Gabe Wickham, Hastings, 69' 11"
Women's 200-meter Dash: Jura Levy, Oklahoma Baptist, 23.03
Women's 4x400-meter Relay: Oklahoma Baptist (Stacy Warrior, Nikita Tracey, Jura Levy, Verone Chambers), 3:39.83


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A-Z of Paranormal Definitions
Terminology can vary slightly depending on who you speak with or which articles you may read.
The beautiful thing about paranormal research and observations, is that there are so many approaches and viewpoints.
This is healthy, yet it should also be remembered that no one including science or psychics, have all the answers.
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I'm seeing some talk about who is and who isn't an ally. Some of it is good. Some of it is…not. This is slightly modified from what was published here.
Once again, I see the latest in a very long line of posts I've seen that demonstrate that we in the blogosphere very rarely seem to understand what an ally is.
I'm not really sure how it happened. Allies in the culture wars aren't appreciably different than military or political allies, but somehow, the meaning of the word has changed online. We've gone from "In everyday English usage, allies are people, groups, or nations that have joined together in an association for mutual benefit or to achieve some common purpose, whether or not explicit agreement has been worked out between them" to the assumption that the act of alliance comes with specific obligations and that people are "bad allies" or not allies at all if particular things are done or left undone.
This isn't true, of course. There is nothing about an alliance that requires that one of the parties give up its sovereignty, or there would be many fewer alliances. Alliance is not allegiance. We do not set aside our own concerns and our own marginalization because we care about someone else's. We don't let someone else set the terms of our participation in the public sphere, simply because they call us allies, without going through the tricky act of negotiation. We don't give up our autonomy as allies any more than we would, by giving aid that isn't wanted or needed, usurp the autonomy of those we aim to help.
Student groups and others who are working to recruit allies understand this. They talk about the behavior of "ideal allies," presenting aspirational goals and actions that can be adopted by allies. They recognize that learning will need to occur, and continue to occur, throughout the experience of being an ally, saying, "Ask lots of questions and talk honestly about what you do know, what you don't know, and what you'd like to learn." They don't expect perfection, and they don't demand monolithic behavior.
It's quite possible the rest of us could learn something valuable from the pros on this one.


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Aluminum rocks (as does steel) and will make a return over higher carbon frame purchases. Manufacturers like Cannondale know this that why they keep developing their CaaD range. I've a CaaD3 and a carbon Super 6 but the future will see me back to aluminum.
Look at a lot of bike ranges these days and you'd think that carbon is the only material out there for decent-level bikes, but Kinesis UK's Dom Mason reckons there's plenty of scope left for quality metal frames.
Kinesis is a Taiwanese brand but Kinesis UK, based in Brighton, design their own bikes to cater for the UK market, and that's where Dom comes in. He's the man with the ideas and the sketchpad. Dom has been designing bikes for 12 years now and Kinesis UK have built up a loyal following. The range has also been hugely influential.
We caught up with Dom to find out why he thinks metal bikes, in particular alloy bikes, still have plenty of relevance today, and to take a look at a prototype Kinesis UK aluminium Racelight Aithein road frame that he thinks proves the point…
road.cc: With most of the bike industry concentrating on carbon, the Racelight Aithein road bike (pictured below as a Photoshop mockup) you're about to bring out is alloy. Why's that?
Dom Mason: I'm not really a big fan of carbon. It doesn't make me very excited from an engineering point of view. It's brilliant for many things, but it's certainly not the be-all and end-all of frame design. My thing is to push alloy really hard. All the brainpower has been going into carbon, but there's more that we can do with alloy.
Two years ago I knew the Racelight KR810 was getting long in the tooth so I thought, "Let's start pushing alloy development".
So, what have you been able to do here that you've not been able to do before?
Material development pushes everything else. Now we have superplastic forming (SPF)…
Previously, we used hydroforming quite a lot for road bikes. Hydroforming uses heated oil at pressure to shape the tubes inside a steel former – quite a high pressure with not much heat on the tube. You can make nice functional shapes so you can get rid of gussets and stuff, but it doesn't really deliver tubes that are any lighter.
It's difficult to control hydroforming. It can split tubes so you have to make them quite thick. It's brilliant for things like full suspension downhill mountain bikes, but it isn't so good for making lighter road bikes [the white frame in these pics is a prototype - Ed].
With superplastic forming (SPF) the alloy goes into its 'plastic' phase, so we can use lower pressures and tune the tubes more. It uses heated compressed air in a steel mould, the tubing is at a far higher temperature and you can use thinner walled tubing because you can control it much more finely. That allows us to push what we can do. SPF is a Kinesis International patent, so the great thing is that it is exclusive to us.
So, for example, we can now make a carbon-weight fork from alloy at a fraction of the cost. You had to bond the legs onto a solid crown before. Superplastic forming means you no longer have to do that. You can make both legs as one piece, so you can save weight.
What you were aiming at with the Racelight Aithein?
I wanted to do something that looked classic with the advantages of a carbon bike and a similar performance, but in alloy. I wanted it to look like it had been welded together. There are a lot of people out there who don't want bumps and bulges, they want something that's fast and classic looking.
Superplastic forming has allowed us to make an asymmetric seat tube, for example, that's really thin walled but wide at the bottom bracket. That bottom bracket is BB386EVO standard to make the frame stiffer down there and make it most compatible. It has all been tested for EN standards, where we bend it backwards and forwards 10,000 times, and it has passed.
THE PEDALLING TEST from Kinesis Bikes UK on Vimeo.
The geometry is pretty racy with fairly short chainstays, straight seatstays and a low bottom bracket. The frames will weigh about the same as carbon frames from a few years ago – about 1,200g for a 56cm – and the fork will weigh 330g. The finish is anodized for durability and weight saving and the graphics are laser etched. We'll have stock for April.
Who do you think will buy the Aithein?
I see it as for a person who is serious about their bikes and who likes going fast. They like riding with their mates but they aren't necessarily going to spend every weekend racing.
It'll cost about £649.99, for a frame, monocoque tapered fork, headset and seatpost clamp. It'll allow people to build a nice, light bike for not a lot of money.
The new Kinesis Racelite TK3 just did really well when we reviewed it on road.cc and made the top 10 in our Bike of the Year. What do you see as the key features of the new design?
The geometry has stayed the same as that of the TK2. I wanted to make it a proper evolution of the TK2 because I know people like that design and I didn't want to mess it up. People saw the TK3 was coming out and sold their TK2 from last year to get ready for it. I didn't want people going from one to the other and it feeling odd.
One of the important things is that you now get a tapered head tube and fork steerer. It was 1 1/8in before. Now it's 1 1/8in at the top and 1 1/2in at the bottom. It's a logical evolution. It makes the bike track better, feel much happier when you're going fast downhill and stomping uphill out of the saddle. It just feels better.
The Tracer 1.5 fork comes with a long drop height and it's monocoque carbon with mudguard eyelets. Now the front end matches the rest of the tubeset. It's much better balanced and, I think, the best it has ever been.
How important is it that you can fit mudguards?
No one else in the world does a winter bike, really – only the British. When I originally told Kinesis that I wanted to do a road bike and put mudguards on it, they couldn't get the idea.
People get so excited by their winter bike, especially the TK3. People buy their best bike and it's exciting but they haven't put anything of their own on it. But their winter bike is their chance to say, "I should use these wheels and these tyres. What bar tape should I put on? These are the mudguards that work best…"
What we're really about is people buying a frame and fork and making their own thing. They get to build a bike, and they'll probably use it more than their best bike, getting more miles and more hours on it.
The Crosslite cyclocross bikes have had a major impact over the past few years. Why do you think they have been so successful?
I didn't realise but someone said to me the other day, "Those Crosslights helped to change the way cyclocross was in the UK."
I approached them from a completely naive angle and having no respect for anybody like Pinarello or Alan because it wasn't my scene in those days. I'm from a mountain biking background. I realise now that that was quite a good angle because I didn't care what people had done before. I wondered why people were making cyclocross bikes with no clearance, lugs, and flexy little tubes. Let's make it like a mountain bike so that people can actually ride it.
I remember looking at an Alan and not getting it. I made the angles a bit more like a mountain bike's, the tubes a bit more like a mountain bike's, and giving more clearance.
What developments are there in the cyclocross range?
The big change with the Crosslite EVO5 is that it now comes with a new head tube and a tapered fork. The frame has an Easton down tube and seat tube, and a Kinesis top tube. The tubes were always really good but the fork was holding it back a bit before.
The new disc-brake Crosslight Pro6 has been a phenomenal success. We couldn't get enough of them when we launched it.
What else will be coming from Kinesis soon?
We're working on a new disc-compatible, all terrain, titanium frame, called Tripster ATR (pictured below - a Photoshop mockup). ATR stands for 'Adventure, Tour, Race'. I wanted something that was a little bit sporty, for going a long way on, for doing a bit of off-road on – stuff like the South Downs Way.
It will have a geometry a bit like a Racelight's but with slacker frame angles, a lower bottom bracket and longer chainstays, so it'll be stable, comfortable and suitable for going miles on. It'll also have clearance for 40mm tyres. The idea is that it'll be a bit like a new school mountain bike in that it'll be slacker and longer. I'll be advising riders to drop the stem length because the slacker head angle will stop it being twitchy and will add toe clearance for 'guards and larger tyres.
We've had the disc brake mount and dropouts specially made for us and it has rack and mudguard eyelets. It fits in that 'gravel-racing' niche, but with mudguard mounts.
You could use it as a cyclocross bike and put cyclocross tyres on it, but it's not like a true CX bike. I see it more as a distance machine that has a bit of fun to it, and being titanium it's going to last a long time.
Kinesis UK will be exhibiting at The London Bike Show, Excel, January 17-20
Mat has been in cycling media since 1996, on titles including BikeRadar, Total Bike, Total Mountain Bike, What Mountain Bike and Mountain Biking UK, and he has been editor of 220 Triathlon and Cycling Plus. Mat has been road.cc technical editor for over a decade, testing bikes, fettling the latest kit, and trying out the most up-to-the-minute clothing. We send him off around the world to get all the news from launches and shows too. He has won his category in Ironman UK 70.3 and finished on the podium in both marathons he has run. Mat is a Cambridge graduate who did a post-grad in magazine journalism, and he is a winner of the Cycling Media Award for Specialist Online Writer. Now pushing 50, he's riding road and gravel bikes most days for fun and fitness rather than training for competitions.
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Great to hear somebody with a passion for alloy. I've a Cannondale R800 and folk have thought it was carbon at first glance. I'm still in love with her. Also have a fixed wheel with steel frame and a very old hybrid - again, steel. Really don't like the carbon frames.


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The city of Oak Ridge will again be a sponsor for next June's Secret City Festival — and the Arts Council of Oak Ridge will get the money to provide entertainment and activity programs for the 2013 award-winning festival.
The city of Oak Ridge will again be a sponsor for next June's Secret City Festival — and the Arts Council of Oak Ridge will get the money to provide entertainment and activity programs for the 2013 award-winning festival.
One Council member involved with the Secret City Festival indicated that some of the Festival's sponsorships are "iffy" this coming year.
City Council recently approved by a 6-1 vote a resolution authorizing the expenditure of $50,000 from the city's Economic Diversification Fund, designating the city as a "festival sponsor" and authorized a professional service agreement with the Arts Council. Under the agreement, the city will reimburse the Arts Council for actual costs associated with the festival in an amount not to exceed $150,000.
Council member Anne Garcia Garland was the lone "no" vote on both resolutions.
Council member David Mosby expressed his opinion on making the festival self-supporting, something he and other members have expressed in the past, and also questioned why the city asked for $50,000, instead of $36,000 because the fund balance shows a $14,900 carry-over from last year.
Josh Collins, director of Recreation and Parks, told Council the $14,900 rolled over into an emergency account that could be used if the festival has a shortfall on sponsors.
"We're trying to build an account," Collins said.
Council member Ellen Smith said she supports the sponsorship, but would like to see where to find the account in the general fund — prompting City Manager Mark Watson to request an audit of the account to "see if it's efficient."
Mayor Pro Tem Jane Miller, who is an active participant in festival activities, told Council some sponsorships are now "uncertain." She said B&W Y-12 has been a $25,000 major sponsor, but with the possible contract change at Y-12 that may not be in play this year.
"WSI is also in the mix for $10,000," she said. "That's $35,000 that's real iffy."
Council had little discussion before voting on the Arts Council reimbursement, with City Mayor Tom Beehan stating, "It is important for the city to lead the way."
The proposed budget for the 2013 Secret City Festival is $200,000. The festival is on the calendar for June 21 and 22. As in past years, the Festival will feature outdoor concerts, children's activities, arts and crafts, historic tours of Manhattan Project sites and historic exhibits — as well as a popular World War II battle reenactment.
Beverly Majors can be contacted at (865) 220-5514.


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March 2014 Class
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Organizing Genealogical Information:
A Short Course
With Michael John Neill
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Organizing information is an important part of genealogical research—perhaps more important than the actual research. This short course (only 4 sessions) is intended to provide the students with exposure to a variety of ways to organize information with an emphasis on problem-solving. The course will consist of four lectures (topics and schedule below), problem assignments, virtual follow-up discussions, group discussion board interaction, and student submission of work (optional). There is no assigned grade—you get from this what you put into it. Students will also be able to share their work and ideas with other students.
Citation of sources is important, but presentations will not focus on citation theory.
This time the course will be presented a little bit differently. Students will be able to download the lecture and view it at their convenience--ideally all on the same day that the download link is sent to registered students.
Course registration is only $30 for this run of the course. Class size is limited to 30 to encourage group interaction.
- Assignment/Study 1—Charts, Charts, and More Charts (we will discuss a variety of charts and table to organize your information and your searches—all students work on same problem
- Assignment/Study 2—4 Step Research Process (we will discuss a four-step process to research organization)—pick your own problem
- Assignment/Study 3— Constructing Families from pre-1850 Census (discuss of how to ascertain family structure from pre-1850 US census records)---all work on same problem
- Assignment/Study 4— Problem Solving Chart (problem-solving techniques not discussed in previous lectures)– pick your own problem
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Calling Istanbul the Whitest City in the World is probably unfair to some city in Ukraine but if you've ever danced at a Turkish wedding you know it can be pretty white here, and frequently souless (afro-Turks notwithstanding!).
Lots of us have been getting our soul fix from Dirk and Ansel's Soul Sendikası radio show, which they host weekly, in Turkish, on Istanbul's Açık Radyo. When they announced the launch of Soul Nights at the Peyote club, we cleared our very busy schedule. So did lots of other folks -- Turks and yabancılar alike.
As DJs, Dirk (Belgian) and Ansel (American) -- to whom we occasionally refer (with only love!) as the whitest guys alive -- bring it. Their VJ (who might be Ayça Yürük, who posted a video of her great work that night here) coordinated with their playlist brilliantly. It was a super fun night.
But, have you ever gone to a bar or a club frequented by homesick immigrants who just want hang out and listen to music that reminds them of the old country? You felt cool and maybe edgy, like you were re-living your teenage years spent grooving in Addis or Guadalajara rather than shoveling horseshit in the rural Pacific Northwest. But you probably didn't notice the old guy sitting in a dark corner alone with his beer, looking at you like "you're on my lawn, would you please step off?"
Well, we've now been both those people.
We would never, ever begrudge Turkish audiences their fill of funk -- in fact, we think it's wonderful that Turks embrace Soul Sendikasi and are developing an appreciation of an important aspect of American culture and what it represents -- but we saw those Soul Train clips when they originally aired! Josie and the Pussycats were at our house on Saturday mornings! We listened to the Jackson 5 on AM radio in morning carpool! That was the music of our youth (true, so was Paul Anka, thanks to the whitest ancestors on the planet)! But that a white girl from Issaquah Washington can appropriate music made by blacks in Detroit is what makes America America.
Anyway, if you're a non-American interested in learning more about a vibrant period in American music or a cranky American nostalgic for a vibrant period of your youth, you shouldn't miss Soul Sendikasi's Soul Night in November.


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New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof shares horrific stories of the Sudanese genocide to spur response. by Karin Fleming '09
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Wireless versus Wired Computer Networking
Other than the transmission method (obviously, one network involves wires and the other is wireless), here are the three major differences between a wired network and a wireless network:
Wireless connections are slower. This difference is the big reason why most larger networks still depend on wired Ethernet for the bulk of their connections.
Wired networks can use fiber optic cabling rather than plain copper wire cabling to hit even faster speeds.
Wireless hardware is more expensive. Depending on the standard supported by your wireless hardware, you pay significantly more for wireless hardware than you do for wired hardware.
Wireless networks require no hubs or switches. Most wireless base stations and WAPs (wireless access points), like the one shown in this figure, can provide connections for up to 253 simultaneous users, so a larger wireless network (with 50 PCs or more) requires far less hardware and upkeep than a wired network that can handle the same number of computers.Use a WAP to connect your wireless network.


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Worship at Central Synagogue is spirited, intimate, and meaningful. The services use a mixture of Hebrew and English to be both traditional and approachable. Music is an essential piece of our Reform Jewish worship experience and there are many opportunities to join in song.
"Worship now needs greater accessibility to the front. It involves greater interfacing of all the elements of the service: music, worship, clergy, the congregation. It demands a greater sense of involvement and participation. And more than anything else, to build now demands that you know that you don't know, that worship and its needs change rapidly and radically."
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The study probably financed by the fastfood industry.
Comment by othman | February 18, 2010
Harvard School of Public Health confounds and confuses by claiming soft drinks are sweetened with sugar when they are,in fact, sweetened with HFCS. It was the timing of the switch from sugar-sweetened to HFCS-sweetened that corresponds to the obesity increase. As the Princeton study linked above notes, 100% of the HFCS-fed rats developed obesity but NONE of the sugar-fed control rats were so affected. The hypothesis is that it is the UN-bound fructose which raises triglycerides and causes obesity so that the bound fructose in fruit is not (yet) implicated. Stay away from fructose in any manufactured form including agave syrup. Your health depends on it.
A recent study at Duke also linked HFCS to liver damage:
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Excellent article! Everyone need to be aware of the consequences of consuming too much sugar, but it's always the bottom line that counts for the manufacturers and not people's health. Thanks for the post!
Comment by JB | August 25, 2010
Very informative post, I'll share this with my students. When I quit soft drinks, I lost 30 pounds.
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Comment by Fish Oil | December 1, 2010
if you want to protect the integrity of your heart, then low fat foods should be the thing to go *""
Comment by Adjustable Dumbbells | December 1, 2010
The real story is to avoid high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), monosodium glutamate (MSG) & aspartame.
Comment by Tim Buck | March 24, 2011
I concur with:
"The real story is to avoid high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), monosodium glutamate (MSG) & aspartame."
I'm unclear about the saturated fats, but fats are 9 calories per gram and I cannot afford the excess calories. I eat ground flax seed for the essential fatty acids (Omega-3). There's no question that the food industry is profiting at the expense of most consumers and all of our taxpayers.
Comment by Dan Westford | September 21, 2011
I am guessing it is all but impossible to find any drink that is sweeten by good old fashion cain sugar. I am guessing that you will not get anywhere near as fat if HFCS was replaced with cain sugar.
Comment by Howard | October 3, 2011
You run across occasional comments from people who have had soft drinks in Mexico where sugar is still used : the difference is immediately noticeable. Trying to explain what has happened to our food – especially corn – without getting into Monsanto and GM foods is almost impossible.
Suggestions : Rady Ananda at Food Freedom on WordPress. A Search on the terms 'Rumsfeld Monsanto'. Looking for the video from the Panelist titled 'The Real Winner in Iraq Was Monsanto.'
A look at Search returns from Care2 on the topic Ditto Current TV, especially the Water news group under JanforGore.
I've collected some articles myself : http://opitslinkfest.blogspot.com/2009/07/corporate-farming.html
But you will find some wild disagreements from 'conventional wisdom' in any group of organic farming, raw milk or raw food, or health food supplement enthusiasts.
But really ; pasteurization, codex alimentarius, GM foods have an absolute cascade of information as topics for Search.
And I still eat some butter and at least an egg a day. This despite believing our 'agricultural' procedures will both cause sickness and starvation : not only unsustainable but with disastrous side effects and instabilities.
Comment by John Farnham | October 29, 2011
GMOs, A 12 YEAR OLD'S URGENT WARNING TO OTHER KIDS
Comment by John Farnham | October 29, 2011
You need to interview Dr. Greg Ellis. Also, watch the movie "Fat Head".
Comment by Stealth | March 5, 2012
Great topic and well presented.
I think I see an uptick in bullshit propaganda articles lately from corporate media which on the surface take a hard line on soft drinks, but they continually equate the toxic HFCS with sugar. It is as if the death merchants realize they have lost the propaganda war on their HFCS and are attempting to 'blend in' with sugar. Their efforts to get regulatory bodies to allow them to call their shit, 'sugars' is another indication of that.
I maintain that organic sugar in moderate amounts with a healthy lifestyle and good organic eating habits is one of life's little pleasures.
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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM)
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), issued by the American Psychiatric Association (APA), is the United States' official dictionary of mental illnesses. Its influence is global. The APA published a radical revision of the DSM in 1980 which reorganised and expanded the classification of mental illnesses. This new classification specified symptoms for each mental illness that had to be met to diagnose a patient with that illness. The new approach was inspired by a variety of intellectual and political developments, including controlled trials for psychiatric drugs, the antipsychiatry movement the decline of psychoanalysis within psychiatry, and the earlier work of Emil Kraepelin on psychiatric classification. The DSM has been revised twice since 1980 to include a growing number of disorders.
Each revision represents the opinion of many psychiatrists. They do not always agree. The 1980 revision was authored collectively and bureaucratically by committees, so in some cases controversies about what counts as a mental illness were settled by majority vote. The most famous was an APA vote that homosexuality, previously regarded as a mental illness, would be excluded from the 1980 revision.
The DSM is now often described as a 'bible' rather than a dictionary. It is a global standard by which researchers, government agencies and health insurance companies measure mental health care. It is difficult to find a psychiatry textbook or study not aligned to the latest DSM categories. Critics argue the DSM is insensitive to cultural differences in the way mental illness is perceived and experienced. Many psychiatrists worry it has promoted a cosy relationship between the psychiatrists who determine the diagnostic rules and the pharmaceutical companies that market psychiatric drugs.
Related links
Techniques and Technologies:
S Kirk and H Kutchins, The Selling of DSM : The Rhetoric of Science in Psychiatry (New York: A. de Gruyter, 1992)
American Psychiatric Association, Diagnostic And Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) (Washington, DC: APA, 1994)
S Walker, A Dose of Sanity: Mind, Medicine, and Misdiagnosis (United States: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1996)


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