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Vitamin B5
Veterinarian Reviewed on June 19, 2012 by Paulina Nelega, RH
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Vitamin B5
Vitamin B5 is also called Pantothenic acid and is a part of the B vitamin family. All the 8 B vitamins are needed to convert carbohydrates into energy; the process involves burning glucose for energy use. The B vitamins may also be called complex vitamins since it is needed in the many complex metabolic processes for healthy skin, eyes, hair, nervous system and internal organs.
Vitamin B5 is water soluble and can easily be digested. It is also found in many kinds of food making regular intake easy.
History and Origin
The discovery of the B vitamins has led to the research of the many benefits of each of the 8 B vitamins. Pantothenic acid has been found to be beneficial in the many metabolic processes of the many organs of the body. It is also found in most staple foods making it one of the easiest vitamins to find. There are also vitamin B5 supplements that you can take to help augment your dietary intake of this necessary vitamin.
The name pantothenic acid comes from the Greek word pantos meaning everywhere.
Ancient Uses
Vitamin B5 was not heard of during ancient times but the food sources of this B vitamin are a staple food of most cultures. Animal meat, organ meat, poultry, eggs, nuts, seeds and whole wheat are rich sources of this vitamin and these foods are a part of our ancestor's regular diet.
Modern Uses
Vitamin B5 has many uses; aside from being found naturally in most foods that we eat, vitamin B5 can also be taken in supplement form.
Vitamin B5 is necessary for the breakdown and the digestion of carbohydrates, fats and proteins for the body's energy use. It can also be used to maintain healthy body organs such as the skin, eyes, hair, digestive tract, immune system and nervous system.
Vitamin B5 is known to be effective in the treatment and prevention of stress and anxiety attacks. It is also great in lowering blood cholesterol and may even lower blood pressure as a result as well. Wound treatment and remedies to increase wound healing often contain vitamin B5. Vitamin B5 combined with vitamin C is a great way to speed up wound healing especially in post surgery. There are also studies regarding the effectiveness of vitamin B5 in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis symptoms.
There are many sources of vitamin B5 and it is impossible to be deficient from this vitamin. It is found in fresh animal meats, organ meats, poultry, eggs, fish, yeast, whole wheat, vegetables, lentils and seeds.
Side Effects
In normal doses (adults 19 years and above: 5mg a day), vitamin B5 is relatively safe since it is easily absorbed by the body. It is however possible to develop diarrhea and bleeding in very high doses.
Take vitamin B5 with water and take supplements after eating a meal. It is important to consult a doctor regarding the intake and dosage of multivitamins or vitamin B5 supplements. Pregnant and breastfeeding women must not exceed allowable doses of 6 to 7 mg per day.
Our Expert
Paulina Nelega, RH, has been in private practice as a Clinical Herbalist for over 15 years. She has developed and taught courses in herbal medicine, and her articles on health have appeared in numerous publications. She is very passionate about the healing power of nature. Ask Dr. Jan


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The Goodguys Invade Ohio
As has been said plenty of times before, summer fun doesn't stop when the 4th of July fireworks end, it just means the time has finally come to join the Goodguys at their huge midsummer bash in Columbus, Ohio. This year's 5th Annual Goodguys PPG Nationals was attended by more than 5,000 participating vehicles and was again one of the most enjoyable and largest shows on the Goodguys calendar, as well as one of the premier events of the automotive season.
After making our latest trek to Columbus we were delighted, as usual, at the awesome array of cool hot rod trucks and cars in attendance and at just how much fun we had. But then, it is a Goodguys event, and they're experts at hosting fun, laid-back gatherings that provide a little something for everyone.
If you're on the competitive side, you're more than welcome to have your vehicle judged for a possible Boyd Coddington Pro's Pick, one of the many Goodguys trophies, or maybe a CLASSIC TRUCKS Top-10 Award. Content to just cruise? No problem! The massive Ohio Expo Center offered plenty of room for cruising around. And if you got tired of driving, there were plenty of places to power park and show off your ride.
Of course, with over 5,000 vehicles on hand, there was a plethora of sights to see and fellow gearheads to bench race with. If that wasn't enough, you could always check out the swap meet, manufacturer's displays, and the car corral. As usual, the Goodguys also staged a variety of technical seminars covering subjects like chassis, suspensions, and air conditioning. Where else are you going to find such valuable (yet freely given) information?
With thousands of pre-'73 vehicles on hand and great weather blessing the entire weekend, capturing a bunch of cool classic trucks on film was as easy as pie. If you ask us, you owe it to yourself to check out this awesome summer celebration. And if you live within a day's drive of Columbus, we fully expect to see you there next year!

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One afternoon in the spring of 2006, for reasons unknown to those who knew him, Mitchell Henderson, a seventh grader from
/b/ is the designated "random" board of
Measured in terms of depravity, insularity and traffic-driven turnover, the culture of /b/ has little precedent. /b/ reads like the inside of a high-school bathroom stall, or an obscene telephone party line, or a blog with no posts and all comments filled with slang that you are too old to understand.
Something about Mitchell Henderson struck the denizens of /b/ as funny. They were especially amused by a reference on his MySpace page to a lost
Someone hacked Henderson's MySpace page and gave him the face of a zombie. Someone placed an iPod on Henderson's grave, took a picture and posted it to /b/. Henderson's face was appended to dancing iPods, spinning iPods, hardcore porn scenes. A dramatic re-enactment of Henderson's demise appeared on
In the late 1980s, Internet users adopted the word "troll" to denote someone who intentionally disrupts online communities. Early trolling was relatively innocuous, taking place inside of small, single-topic Usenet groups. The trolls employed what the
Today the Internet is much more than esoteric discussion forums. It is a mass medium for defining who we are to ourselves and to others. Teenagers groom their MySpace profiles as intensely as their hair; escapists clock 50-hour weeks in virtual worlds, accumulating gold for their online avatars. Anyone seeking work or love can expect to be Googled. As our emotional investment in the Internet has grown, the stakes for trolling — for provoking strangers online — have risen. Trolling has evolved from ironic solo skit to vicious group hunt.
"Lulz" is how trolls keep score. A corruption of
Another troll explained the lulz as a quasi-thermodynamic exchange between the sensitive and the cruel: "You look for someone who is full of it, a real blowhard. Then you exploit their insecurities to get an insane amount of drama, laughs and lulz. Rules would be simple: 1. Do whatever it takes to get lulz. 2. Make sure the lulz is widely distributed. This will allow for more lulz to be made. 3. The game is never over until all the lulz have been had."
/b/ is not all bad. 4chan has tried (with limited success) to police itself, using moderators to purge child porn and eliminate calls to disrupt other sites. Among /b/'s more interesting spawn is Anonymous, a group of masked pranksters who organized protests at
But the logic of lulz extends far beyond /b/ to the anonymous message boards that seem to be springing up everywhere. Two female Yale Law School students have filed a suit against pseudonymous users who posted violent fantasies about them on AutoAdmit, a college-admissions message board. In
Jason Fortuny might be the closest thing this movement of anonymous provocateurs has to a spokesman. Thirty-two years old, he works "typical Clark Kent I.T." freelance jobs — Web design, programming — but his passion is trolling, "pushing peoples' buttons." Fortuny frames his acts of trolling as "experiments," sociological inquiries into human behavior. In the fall of 2006, he posted a hoax ad on
Fortuny's Craigslist Experiment deprived its subjects of more than just privacy. Two of them, he says, lost their jobs, and at least one, for a time, lost his girlfriend. Another has filed an invasion-of-privacy lawsuit against Fortuny in an
While reporting this article, I did everything I could to verify the trolls' stories and identities, but I could never be certain. After all, I was examining a subculture that is built on deception and delights in playing with the media. If I had doubts about whether Fortuny was who he said he was, he had the same doubts about me. I first contacted Fortuny by e-mail, and he called me a few days later. "I checked you out," he said warily. "You seem legitimate." We met in person on a bright spring day at his apartment, on a forested slope in Kirkland, Wash., near
A flat-screen HDTV dominated Fortuny's living room, across from a futon prepped with neatly folded blankets. This was where I would sleep for the next few nights. As Fortuny picked up his cat and settled into an Eames-style chair, I asked whether trolling hurt people. "I'm not going to sit here and say, 'Oh, God, please forgive me!' so someone can feel better," Fortuny said, his calm voice momentarily rising. The cat lay purring in his lap. "Am I the bad guy? Am I the big horrible person who shattered someone's life with some information? No! This is life. Welcome to life. Everyone goes through it. I've been through horrible stuff, too."
"Like what?" I asked. Sexual abuse, Fortuny said. When Jason was 5, he said, he was molested by his grandfather and three other relatives. Jason's mother later told me, too, that he was molested by his grandfather. The last she heard from Jason was a letter telling her to kill herself. "Jason is a young man in a great deal of emotional pain," she said, crying as she spoke. "Don't be too harsh. He's still my son."
In the days after the Megan Meier story became public, Lori Drew and her family found themselves in the trolls' crosshairs. Their personal information — e-mail addresses, satellite images of their home, phone numbers — spread across the Internet. One of the numbers led to a voice-mail greeting with the gleeful words "I did it for the lulz." Anonymous malefactors made death threats and hurled a brick through the kitchen window. Then came the Megan Had It Coming blog. Supposedly written by one of Megan's classmates, the blog called Megan a "drama queen," so unstable that Drew could not be blamed for her death. "Killing yourself over a MySpace boy? Come on!!! I mean yeah your fat so you have to take what you can get but still nobody should kill themselves over it." In the third post the author revealed herself as Lori Drew.
This post received more than 3,600 comments. Fox and CNN debated its authenticity. But the Drew identity was another mask. In fact, Megan Had It Coming was another Jason Fortuny experiment. He, not Lori Drew, Fortuny told me, was the blog's author. After watching him log onto the site and add a post, I believed him. The blog was intended, he says, to question the public's hunger for remorse and to challenge the enforceability of cyberharassment laws like the one passed by Megan's town after her death. Fortuny concluded that they were unenforceable. The county sheriff's department announced it was investigating the identity of the fake Lori Drew, but it never found Fortuny, who is not especially worried about coming out now. "What's he going to sue me for?" he asked. "Leading on confused people? Why don't people fact-check who this stuff is coming from? Why do they assume it's true?"
Fortuny calls himself "a normal person who does insane things on the Internet," and the scene at dinner later on the first day we spent together was exceedingly normal, with Fortuny, his roommate Charles and his longtime friend Zach trading stories at a sushi restaurant nearby over sake and happy-hour gyoza. Fortuny flirted with our waitress, showing her a cellphone picture of his cat. "He commands you to kill!" he cackled. "Do you know how many I've killed at his command?" Everyone laughed.
Fortuny spent most of the weekend in his bedroom juggling several windows on his monitor. One displayed a chat room run by Encyclopedia Dramatica, an online compendium of troll humor and troll lore. It was buzzing with news of an attack against the
WEEV: the whole posting flashing images to epileptics thing? over the line.
HEPKITTEN: can someone plz tell me how doing something the admins intentionally left enabled is hacking?
WEEV: it's hacking peoples unpatched brains. we have to draw a moral line somewhere.
Fortuny disagreed. In his mind, subjecting epileptic users to flashing lights was justified. "Hacks like this tell you to watch out by hitting you with a baseball bat," he told me. "Demonstrating these kinds of exploits is usually the only way to get them fixed."
"So the message is 'buy a helmet,' and the medium is a bat to the head?" I asked.
"No, it's like a pitcher telling a batter to put on his helmet by beaning him from the mound. If you have this disease and you're on the Internet, you need to take precautions." A few days later, he wrote and posted a guide to safe Web surfing for epileptics.
On Sunday, Fortuny showed me an office building that once housed
We walked on, to
"You have green hair," he told me. "Did you know that?"
"Why not?"
"I look in the mirror. I see my hair is black."
"That's uh, interesting. I guess you understand that you have green hair about as well as you understand that you're a terrible reporter."
"What do you mean? What did I do?"
"That's a very interesting reaction," Fortuny said. "Why didn't you get so defensive when I said you had green hair?" If I were certain that I wasn't a terrible reporter, he explained, I would have laughed the suggestion off just as easily. The willingness of trolling "victims" to be hurt by words, he argued, makes them complicit, and trolling will end as soon as we all get over it.
On Monday we drove to the mall. I asked Fortuny how he could troll me if he so chose. He took out his cellphone. On the screen was a picture of my debit card with the numbers clearly legible. I had left it in plain view beside my laptop. "I took this while you were out," he said. He pressed a button. The picture disappeared. "See? I just deleted it."
The Craigslist Experiment, Fortuny reiterated, brought him troll fame by accident. He was pleased with how the Megan Had It Coming blog succeeded by design. As he described the intricacies of his plan — adding sympathetic touches to the fake classmate, making fake Lori Drew a fierce defender of her own daughter, calibrating every detail to the emotional register of his audience — he sounded not so much a sociologist as a playwright workshopping a set of characters.
"You seem to know exactly how much you can get away with, and you troll right up to that line," I said. "Is there anything that can be done on the Internet that shouldn't be done?"
Fortuny was silent. In four days of conversation, this was the first time he did not have an answer ready.
"I don't know," he said. "I have to think about it."
Sherrod DeGrippo, a 28-year-old
Weev, the troll who thought hacking the epilepsy site was immoral, is legendary among trolls. He is said to have jammed the cellphones of daughters of C.E.O.'s and demanded ransom from their fathers; he is also said to have trashed his enemies' credit ratings. Better documented are his repeated assaults on LiveJournal, an online diary site where he himself maintains a personal blog. Working with a group of fellow hackers and trolls, he once obtained access to thousands of user accounts.
I first met Weev in an online chat room that I visited while staying at Fortuny's house. "I hack, I ruin, I make piles of money," he boasted. "I make people afraid for their lives." On the phone that night, Weev displayed a misanthropy far harsher than Fortuny's. "Trolling is basically Internet eugenics," he said, his voice pitching up like a jet engine on the runway. "I want everyone off the Internet. Bloggers are filth. They need to be destroyed. Blogging gives the illusion of participation to a bunch of retards. . . . We need to put these people in the oven!"
I listened for a few more minutes as Weev held forth on the Federal Reserve and about Jews. Unlike Fortuny, he made no attempt to reconcile his trolling with conventional social norms. Two days later, I flew to
As we walked through Fullerton's downtown, Weev told me about his day — he'd lost $10,000 on the commodities market, he claimed — and summarized his philosophy of "global ruin." "We are headed for a Malthusian crisis," he said, with professorial confidence. "Plankton levels are dropping. Bees are dying. There are tortilla riots in
Ideas like these bring trouble. Almost a year ago, while in the midst of an LSD-and-methamphetamine bender, a longer-haired, wilder-eyed Weev gave a talk called "Internet Crime" at a
We arrived at a strip mall. Out of the darkness, the coffinlike snout of a new Rolls Royce Phantom materialized. A flying lady winked on the hood. "Your bag, sir?" said the driver, a blond kid in a suit and tie.
"This is my car," Weev said. "Get in."
And it was, for that night and the next, at least. The car's plush chamber accentuated the boyishness of Weev, who wore sneakers and jeans and hung from a leather strap like a subway rider. In the front seat sat Claudia, a pretty college-age girl.
I asked about the status of Weev's campaign against humanity. Things seemed rather stable, I said, even with all this talk of trolling and hacking.
"We're waiting," Weev said. "We need someone to show us the way. The messiah."
"How do you know it's not you?" I asked.
"If it were me, I would know," he said. "I would receive a sign."
Zeno of Elea, Socrates and Jesus, Weev said, are his all-time favorite trolls. He also identifies with Coyote and Loki, the trickster gods, and especially with Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction. "Loki was a hacker. The other gods feared him, but they needed his tools."
"I was just thinking of Kali!" Claudia said with a giggle.
Over a candlelit dinner of tuna sashimi, Weev asked if I would attribute his comments to
Weev, Claudia and I hung out in Fullerton for two more nights, always meeting and saying goodbye at the train station. I met their friend Kate, who has been repeatedly banned from playing XBox Live for racist slurs, which she also enjoys screaming at white pedestrians. Kate checked my head for
Does free speech tend to move toward the truth or away from it? When does it evolve into a better collective understanding? When does it collapse into the Babel of trolling, the pointless and eristic game of talking the other guy into crying "uncle"? Is the effort to control what's said always a form of censorship, or might certain rules be compatible with our notions of free speech?
One promising answer comes from the computer scientist Jon Postel, now known as "god of the Internet" for the influence he exercised over the emerging network. In 1981, he formulated what's known as Postel's Law: "Be conservative in what you do; be liberal in what you accept from others." Originally intended to foster "interoperability," the ability of multiple computer systems to understand one another, Postel's Law is now recognized as having wider applications. To build a robust global network with no central authority, engineers were encouraged to write code that could "speak" as clearly as possible yet "listen" to the widest possible range of other speakers, including those who do not conform perfectly to the rules of the road. The human equivalent of this robustness is a combination of eloquence and tolerance — the spirit of good conversation. Trolls embody the opposite principle. They are liberal in what they do and conservative in what they construe as acceptable behavior from others. You, the troll says, are not worthy of my understanding; I, therefore, will do everything I can to confound you.
Why inflict anguish on a helpless stranger? It's tempting to blame technology, which increases the range of our communications while dehumanizing the recipients. Cases like An Hero and Megan Meier presumably wouldn't happen if the perpetrators had to deliver their messages in person. But while technology reduces the social barriers that keep us from bedeviling strangers, it does not explain the initial trolling impulse. This seems to spring from something ugly — a destructive human urge that many feel but few act upon, the ambient misanthropy that's a frequent ingredient of art, politics and, most of all, jokes. There's a lot of hate out there, and a lot to hate as well.
So far, despite all this discord, the Internet's system of civil machines has proved more resilient than anyone imagined. As early as 1994, the head of the Internet Society warned that spam "will destroy the network." The news media continually present the online world as a Wild West infested with villainous hackers, spammers and pedophiles. And yet the Internet is doing very well for a frontier town on the brink of anarchy. Its traffic is expected to quadruple by 2012. To say that trolls pose a threat to the Internet at this point is like saying that crows pose a threat to farming.
That the Internet is now capacious enough to host an entire subculture of users who enjoy undermining its founding values is yet another symptom of its phenomenal success. It may not be a bad thing that the least-mature users have built remote ghettos of anonymity where the malice is usually intramural. But how do we deal with cases like An Hero, epilepsy hacks and the possibility of real harm being inflicted on strangers?
Several state legislators have recently proposed cyberbullying measures. At the federal level, Representative Linda Sánchez, a Democrat from
Many trolling practices, like prank-calling the Hendersons and intimidating Kathy Sierra, violate existing laws against harassment and threats. The difficulty is tracking down the perpetrators. In order to prosecute, investigators must subpoena sites and Internet service providers to learn the original author's IP address, and from there, his legal identity. Local police departments generally don't have the means to follow this digital trail, and federal investigators have their hands full with spam, terrorism, fraud and
If we can't prosecute the trolling out of online anonymity, might there be some way to mitigate it with technology? One solution that has proved effective is "disemvoweling" — having message-board administrators remove the vowels from trollish comments, which gives trolls the visibility they crave while muddying their message. A broader answer is persistent pseudonymity, a system of nicknames that stay the same across multiple sites. This could reduce anonymity's excesses while preserving its benefits for whistle-blowers and overseas dissenters. Ultimately, as Fortuny suggests, trolling will stop only when its audience stops taking trolls seriously. "People know to be deeply skeptical of what they read on the front of a supermarket tabloid," says Dan Gillmor, who directs the Center for Citizen Media. "It should be even more so with anonymous comments. They shouldn't start off with a credibility rating of, say, 0. It should be more like negative-30."
Of course, none of these methods will be fail-safe as long as individuals like Fortuny construe human welfare the way they do. As we discussed the epilepsy hack, I asked Fortuny whether a person is obliged to give food to a starving stranger. No, Fortuny argued; no one is entitled to our sympathy or empathy. We can choose to give or withhold them as we see fit. "I can't push you into the fire," he explained, "but I can look at you while you're burning in the fire and not be required to help." Weeks later, after talking to his friend Zach, Fortuny began considering the deeper emotional forces that drove him to troll. The theory of the green hair, he said, "allows me to find people who do stupid things and turn them around. Zach asked if I thought I could turn my parents around. I almost broke down. The idea of them learning from their mistakes and becoming people that I could actually be proud of . . . it was overwhelming." He continued: "It's not that I do this because I hate them. I do this because I'm trying to save them."
Weeks before my visit with Fortuny, I had lunch with "moot," the young man who founded 4chan. After running the site under his pseudonym for five years, he recently revealed his legal name to be Christopher Poole. At lunch, Poole was quick to distance himself from the excesses of /b/. "Ultimately the power lies in the community to dictate its own standards," he said. "All we do is provide a general framework." He was optimistic about Robot9000, a new 4chan board with a combination of human and machine moderation. Users who make "unoriginal" or "low content" posts are banned from Robot9000 for periods that lengthen with each offense.
The posts on Robot9000 one morning were indeed far more substantive than /b/. With the cyborg moderation system silencing the trolls, 4chan had begun to display signs of linearity, coherence, a sense of collective enterprise. It was, in other words, robust. The anonymous hordes swapped lists of albums and novels; some had pretty good taste. Somebody tried to start a chess game: "I'll start,
Shortly after 8 a.m., someone asked this:
"What makes a bad person? Or a good person? How do you know if you're a bad person?"
Which prompted this:
"A good person is someone who follows the rules. A bad person is someone who doesn't."
And this:
"you're breaking my rules, you bad person"
There were echoes of antiquity:
"good: pleasure; bad: pain"
"There is no morality. Only the right of the superior to rule over the inferior."
And flirtations with postmodernity:
"good and bad are subjective"
"we're going to turn into wormchow before the rest of the universe even notices."
Books were prescribed:
"read Kant, JS Mill, Bentham, Singer, etc. Noobs."
And then finally this:
"I'd say empathy is probably a factor."Continue reading the main story


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January 2008 Journal of Geoscience EducationVolume 56, Number 1
Mandy R. Petty, Oswego County BOCES Migrant Program
Audrey C. Rule, University of Northern Iowa
Spatial skills are necessary for mapping success and conceptual understanding in the geosciences. This study investigates the efficacy of using toy figures, toy buildings, digital plan-view photograph maps and digital photograph snapshots in increasing the spatial skills of children ages 2.5 to 9 years. A pretest-intervention-posttest design study with matched experimental and control groups (n=20) was conducted. The investigators examined children's performance in six skill areas: diminution in scale; identifying the simple perspective of another; mental linear displacement; mental rotation; using an aligned map and rotating an unaligned map into alignment; and identifying a more complex viewpoint of another. Pretest mean total scores were not significantly different. Posttest scores showed a twenty percent gain for the experimental group, but no net gain for the control group. Activities as described in this study can build a foundation of spatial skills needed for later geoscience map activities.
URL for this article: http://www.nagt.org/nagt/jge/abstracts/jan08.html#v56p5
Investigating the Sedimentary History of a Pond During a Multi-Week Laboratory Project
John A. Diemer, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Andy R. Bobyarchick, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
URL for this article: http://www.nagt.org/nagt/jge/abstracts/jan08.html#v56p15
To Attract, Engage, Mentor and Sustain: Outcomes from the Minority Students Pursuing Higher Degrees of Success (MSPHD'S) in Earth System Science??? Pilot Project
Ashanti J. Pyrtle, University of South Florida
Vivian A. Williamson Whitney, Institute for Broadening Participation
The goal of Minority Students Pursuing Higher Degrees of Success (MS PHD'S) in Earth System Science??? is to attract, engage, mentor and sustain the involvement of undergraduate and graduate minority students within the Earth system science disciplines. The pilot project for this new initiative, entitled the MSPHD'S in Ocean Sciences Program, provided yearlong opportunities for mentor/mentee engagement via academic, scientific and professional development activities. The 2003-2004 MSPHD'S in Ocean Sciences Program facilitated the involvement of 25 mentor-mentee partnerships during the May 5-8, 2003, Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS) Program Open Science Meeting in Washington, D.C. MS PHD'S students received in-depth exposure to leading edge ocean science research, mentoring support from scientists responsible for these advancements, and insight into future marine research initiatives. Evaluation data for this pilot project indicate that virtual and face-to-face mentoring, on-site professional development and community-building activities resulted in increased participant exposure to and engagement in the Earth system science professional community and served to better equip student participants to make informed post-baccalaureate academic and professional career decisions.
URL for this article: http://www.nagt.org/nagt/jge/abstracts/jan08.html#v56p24
Rise and Fall of Geology in Nineteenth Century American Secondary Schools: History and Textbook Reviews
James X. Corgan, Austin Peay State University
Richard G. Stearns, Vanderbilt University
Geology was widely taught in American secondary schools during much of the nineteenth century. As geology evolved so did textbooks. As schools and teaching changed so did textbooks. This study examines nineteenth century secondary school geology texts and a crucial government report. It fits these nineteen publications into a general cultural context, tracing the gradual expansion and abrupt decline of geological education in American's nineteenth century secondary schools.
URL for this article: http://www.nagt.org/nagt/jge/abstracts/jan08.html#v56p33
Simulating Social and Political Influences on Hazard Analysis through a Classroom Role Playing Exercise
T.C. Hales, Cardiff University
Katharine V. Cashman, University of Oregon
URL for this article: http://www.nagt.org/nagt/jge/abstracts/jan08.html#v56p54
Earth Data, Science Writing, and Peer Review in a Large General Education Oceanography Class
William A. Prothero, Jr., University of California, Santa Barbara
Gregory J. Kelly, Penn State University
Writing assignments were introduced to a large introductory Oceanography class at UCSB. The assignments evolved, over a period of 10 years, from papers handed in to the instructor, to online peer reviewed assignments using the calibrated peer review methodology. The assignments required students to acquire and plot data and use these data plots to create scientific arguments in support of a theory. The topics addressed plate tectonics, the Indian monsoon, the Earth's climate, and the world fisheries. The course activities were managed by the EarthEd software package, which supports course management functions such as online writing and peer review, image storage and upload, auto-graded homework problems, and course grade computation. Access to Earth data is integrated within the EarthEd software through the "Our Dynamic Planet" CDROM, Global Ocean Data Viewer, and links to other data browsers available on the web. Data representations are captured as images, uploaded to the student's image library (in EarthEd) and then can be edited and linked to the writing assignment text. Convenient commenting, scoring, grade curving, and posting is also implemented. The peer review assignments were successful in providing accurate grades for students, while reducing grading by the instructor by about 70% to 80%.
URL for this article: http://www.nagt.org/nagt/jge/abstracts/jan08.html#v56p61
Fudge Factors in Lessons on Crystallization, Rheology and Morphology of Basalt Lava Flows
A.C. Rust, University of Bristol
K.V. Cashman, University of Oregon
H.M. Wright, Monash University
Fudge is an excellent analog for basaltic lava and making or tasting fudge leads to memorable lessons on the importance of crystals in controlling the morphology of basaltic lava flows. In particular, students learn why 'a'a flows have rough broken surfaces, while pahoehoe flows are smooth or folded. Furthermore, fudge provides an interesting analog in lessons on the factors that control crystal nucleation and growth as well as how crystals affect magma rheology. Although the full process of making fudge from scratch is too long for a lecture demonstration, fudge can be incorporated into lessons on basalt flows by way of taste-tests, photographs or simplified experiments with pre-made fudge and syrup. Advanced students can run experiments during a laboratory period and examine the crystal textures under a microscope, or do their own experiments in small groups outside of the classroom. Evaluation with written quizzes shows that fudge demonstrations can be an effective aid for teaching the complex concepts of crystal nucleation and growth and their effects on basalt lava flows.
URL for this article: http://www.nagt.org/nagt/jge/abstracts/jan08.html#v56p73
Causality in Complex Dynamic Systems: A Challenge in Earth Systems Science Education
Federica Raia, City College of New York
URL for this article: http://www.nagt.org/nagt/jge/abstracts/jan08.html#v56p81


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HTC is proud to present the third annual Rhizome Seven on Seven Conference. Seven on Seven will pair seven leading artists with seven influential technologists in teams of two, and challenges them to develop something new --be it an application, social media, artwork, product, or whatever they imagine-- over the course of a single day. The seven teams will work together at locations around New York City on Friday, April 13th and then unveil their ideas at a not to be missed, one-day event at the New Museum on April 14th, 2012 from 12-6pm.
Participating technologists are Jeremy Ashkenas, Blaine Cook, Michael Herf, Marissa Mayer, Aaron Swartz, Khoi Vinh, and Anthony Volodkin. Artists are Aram Bartholl, Xavier Cha, Latoya Ruby Frazier, Naeem Mohaiemen, Jon Rafman, Taryn Simon, and Stephanie Syjuco.
More information about this year's participants and past conferences here.
Seven on Seven 2012 is presented by HTC and organized by Rhizome. The following Conference Partners collaborated to help produce the event: eBay, Knoll, RRE, betaworks and Wieden + Kennedy. We would like to thank our media partner New York Magazine and the Standard Hotel for their hospitality.


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Cher has already conquered the worlds of music, film and television – so, is the next stop for her directing her own film?
Access Hollywood caught up with the icon on Tuesday where she revealed that she's ready to take a seat behind the scenes.
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"Well, I'd like to see more films. I wanna direct a film," Cher told Access at the Glamour Magazine 2010 Women of the Year Gala in New York City when asked about what lays ahead for her career.
The "Burlesque" star was modest when it came to talking about her lifetime of achievements.
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"They give you something if you can hang around long enough," she said of her honor from the magazine, which was presented by one of her "Burlesque" co-stars, Stanley Tucci.
In addition to her work in Hollywood, the 64-year-old is lending her support to those in need on the other side of the globe.
"I have a school in Africa and I also feed the children there," Cher said, explaining that she would also like to devote more time working with charitable organizations that feed the hungry.
"Burlesque" hits theaters on November 24.
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Navy to Host Spouse, Veteran Hiring Fair at Bethesda
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"America is clearly hiring once again and efforts like this from our nation's employers are exactly what's needed to put our talented veterans and their spouses to work," Brad Cooper, executive director of Joining Forces, said in an activity news release. "Teaming with the Navy at an event in Bethesda that brings job opportunities to veterans, spouses and wounded warriors is a win for everybody."
This event, the release explained, differs from traditional job fairs by aligning registered candidates to specific companies and positions based on their interests and qualifications before the hiring event begins. Hiring managers will be on site to conduct interviews and may offer jobs that day.
More than 25 employers from diverse industries will be at the event, seeking to hire veterans and military spouses for jobs ranging from entry level to management positions. Other organizations also will be on hand to offer information about free programs veterans can use to help with their transition.
People are encouraged to register early for this event by visiting http://www.100000jobsmission.com. Job-seekers wishing to attend must have a current military ID card or proof of military service and a photo ID to access the base.
"We are looking forward to holding this hiring event," said Nate Herman, executive director of military and veterans affairs for JPMorgan Chase, a founding member of the "100,000 Jobs Mission." "Veterans bring much-needed skill and talent to the workplace. They are disciplined, hard-working and excellent team players. Every member of our coalition recognizes that and understands how valuable they are to our businesses."
Through Joining Forces, the first lady and Biden have been leading White House efforts to reduce veteran and military spouse unemployment with America's private sector in response to a presidential challenge to hire or train 100,000 veterans and military spouses by the end of 2013. Due to their efforts, more than 1,500 companies from around the country have committed to hiring 145,000 veterans in the next two years.
In the same spirit, 10 employers launched the 100,000 Jobs Mission in March with a goal of hiring 100,000 transitioning service members and military veterans by 2020. The coalition since has grown to 29 member companies who collectively hired more than 6,600 veterans under this program last year.
Working in conjunction with the Naval District Washington's Fleet and Family Support Program, this hiring event connects the two endeavors in a more powerful and efficient effort that has one goal: to hire the nation's veterans and military spouses.
*Related Sites:*
100,000 Jobs Mission [ http://www.100000jobsmission.com ]
Joining Forces Campaign [ http://www.joiningforces.gov ]
Special Report: Military Family Support [ http://www.defense.gov/home/features/2012/0212_familysupport/ ]


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Your first visit to Dr. Chapman's office promises to be a pleasant experience. Many times patients are relieved to find out that their periodontal health is better than they thought it was! Don't wait until it hurts. The sooner you begin to get your mouth healthier, the better! Gum disease frequently has no symtoms unless it is quite severe.
Making sound decisions about your dental care and oral health is an easy thing to do with the right preparation beforehand:
Make a list of questions to ask our office, so you don't forget anything on the day of your appointment. This includes any concerns you have, or oral problems you've been experiencing.
- If you have dental insurance, remember to bring your insurance card with you. Also, if your dentist has given you X-rays or a referral form, please bring them with you as well.
Periodontics is a dental specialty that involves the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the supporting and surrounding tissues of the teeth or their substitutes and the maintenance of the health, function and esthetics of these structures and tissues.
Who is a periodontist?
A periodontist is a dentist who specializes in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of periodontal disease and in the placement of dental implants. A periodontist typically has had two to three years of additional training in diagnosing and treating gum disease and its associated problems. Periodontists are experts in the most successful techniques for diagnosing and treating periodontal disease. Additionally, periodontists can perform cosmetic periodontal procedures to improve your smile. Often, dentists refer their patients to a periodontist when their periodontal disease is advanced.
During your first visit, Dr. Chapman will review your medical and dental history, as well as any medications you may be taking. This will be followed by:
- A complete oral and periodontal exam of your gums to check for gum bleeding and swelling, and gum recession; your jawbone, to help detect the breakdown of bone surrounding your teeth; and your teeth, to determine their proper alignment and if any are sensitive, loose and how they fit together when you bite.
- An assessment of the depth of the spaces, known as periodontal pockets, between your teeth.
- X-rays, to show the bone levels between your teeth to check for possible bone loss.
- Once the exam is completed, Dr. Chapman will in most cases immediately discuss with you his diagnosis and recommendations for treatment. He will answer your questions and you will have a thorough understanding of what your situation is and what needs to be done for optimal health.
Treatment choices include:
- Root Planing and Scaling, which is one of the most effective ways to treat gum disease when it is caught in its early stage, before it has progressed to significant bone loss. This is a thorough cleaning and removal of the disease -causing deposits on your teeth called tartar and is done by a dental hygienist.
- Pocket Reduction Treatment (PRT) is without a doubt the most successful and time tested treatment for moderate and advanced cases of periodontal disease available today! PRT is so effective because it involves the complete removal of tartar and the recontouring of the bone that supports the teeth to bring it back to the healthy shape that it is supposed to have. Pocket Reduction Treatment is very beneficial when pockets are 5mm or greater. With PRT the diseased pockets are very predictably reduced by 50%! This allows your toothbrush to keep the now healthy pockets clean and leads to long term periodontal health!
- Bone Grafting/Bone Regeneration is a very valuable procedure done at the same time as Pocket Reduction Treatment where Dr. Chapman places a special material into indentations in the bone caused by periodontal disease that commonly occur next to teeth. Bone grafting helps to re-build some of the bone that supports the teeth.
- Soft Tissue Grafts including: Connective Tissue Grafts which help to cover up the exposed root surfaces of teeth and can be a cosmetic problem as well as cause sensitivity; Free Gingival Grafts, which move healthy gum tissue from one part of the mouth to another, and Pedical Grafts, which shift gums to cover areas where healthy tissue is needed.
- Implants are the most natural, most functional, best looking replacements for lost teeth that dentistry has today! Think of an implant as a man-made tooth root that your dentist places a crown (cap) on. Alternatives include a bridge where your dentist drills down on the teeth next to a space and the bridge is glued onto those teeth replacing the lost tooth in between. This can lead to tooth decay (cavities) on those teeth, and can also put too much pressure on those teeth in some cases leading to additional tooth loss. Another option is a partial denture, an appliance that you take out at night and put back in in the morning. Many patients find that partials are cumbersome and difficult to chew with, not to mention unsightly.
- Ridge Preservation is done to help decrease the natural loss of bone that will occur after a tooth has been extracted. This is commonly done in an area where an implant is to be placed.
- Ridge Augmentation may be recommended if the bone where an implant is to be placed is too narrow and needs to be widened.
- Crown lengthening is the lowering of the gum around a tooth, most often done so that your dentist can gain access to a cavity or fracture below where the gumline was.
- Cosmetic surgery is done to help reveal a beautiful smile where patients have too much gum tissue covering their teeth giving the appearance of very small teeth. This is a simple procedure that can have a dramatic effect on a persons smile!
- Frenectomy is another easy procedure where excess gum tissue is removed from between the upper two front teeth that may be causing a spece to exist. This is usually requested by an orthodontist who is trying to straighten teeth and close gaps between them.
- Fiberotomy is the easiest of all procedures again done at the request of an orthodontist to assist in the long term maintenance of straighter teeth.
Oral changes with age
Is tooth loss inevitable in your later years? How much should adults be concerned about cavities? Here you will find helpful answers to some frequently asked questions about oral health questions you may have as you get older.
National survey reveals baby boomers miss links between oral and overall health
Baby boomers looking for the warning signs of adult-onset diseases may be overlooking key symptoms in their mouth that should signal alarms about their overall health. According to a survey commissioned by the Academy of General Dentistry, 63 percent of baby boomers (ages 45-64) with an oral symptom considered to be a key indicator of a more serious health condition, were unaware of the symptom`s link to the condition. Boomers` failure to recognize that oral health holds valuable clues could negatively impact their overall health.


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Well-Needed Lambast Of Democracy-Worship
I've come out with criticisms of democracy at many times in the past. I believe simple "majority rule", which is what democracy is, is not a very good form of government. When most westerners think of "democracy", they actually think of a western liberal form of government similar to that we have in the USA, where the government is hamstrung from becoming too heavy-handed by the natural history of the culture (in our case, English common law and natural rights doctrine), and Constitutional limits on the scope of power. Thus, many applaud the spread of "democracy" around the world, but do not understand that democracy without the above restraints ceases to be a good form of government.
I've pointed out that those restraints are beginning to crumble here in the USA, and we'll all be worse for it. TJIC, along the same lines, gives his take on democracy:
I continue to assert that the leftist love affair with "democracy" is a horrid mistake. Or, rather, democracy is something horrible, and leftists love it for that very reason. Justice and freedom are the two important things in society, and democracy is neither – it is a tool whereby the political leaders are selected. Certainly, there is some reason to believe that a polity with a feedback loop whereby the worst leaders can – maybe – be ejected from power via the ballot box is preferable to the identical system where no leader can ever be ejected from power … but that's hardly a ringing endorsement of democracy as the be-all, end-all of governance.
I am convinced that leftists love democracy, though, particularly because it does not promise freedom. Individual freedom (a negative right; an ability to say that government may not do something) is often distasteful to leftists, and "democracy" is an ideology that makes it easy to subvert the desire to stop government. "Stop government?" they say "why, the government is not something 'other' – the government is just you and me! All of us, working together, to accomplish a common goal! Now, it's only fair that we the people …", and thus begins the justification for all manner of theft, destruction and regulation.
I spoke about Libertarianism and Democracy two years ago, where the salient point is this:
Libertarianism isn't anti-Democracy. In fact, the statement itself is nonsensical. Libertarianism is a moral system, valuing individual liberty as it's highest ideal. Democracy is a form of government, consisting of majority rule. Or, to make it more plain, liberty is an end, democracy is a means to an end.
Unrestrained democracy does not always (some would say not even usually) lead to liberty. In fact, democracy is a subterfuge by which liberty can be restrained. The majority is often wrong, and many infringements of liberty (slavery, Jim Crow and segregation) were upheld by the majority. It's not that I'm opposed to majority rule; I'm opposed to unjust rule. Unjust rule is far more difficult to defeat when it is justified by "the will of the people".


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The "Solar Generation 2010" report also projects investments in solar photovoltaic (PV) to double from €35 billion today to €70 billion in 2015. At the same time, costs for PV systems are expected to almost halve (-40%). As a result, PV systems can compete with current electricity costs for households in most industrialized countries. This so-called "grid parity" will change the PV market significantly.
You can download the report's executive summary here:
Solar Generation 2010


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This handbook is intended to assist employers in meeting their obligations under current Wisconsin Unemployment Insurance (UI) law, Chapter 108, Wisconsin Statutes. The handbook is not a substitute for legal advice. For legal disclaimer see Section 7.
Other resources include the ability to search the handbook and review an update history. This handbook is also offered as a printable PDF version. Related information available includes: UI Hours & Telephone Numbers, UI Calendars and UI Legal Resources.
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DUBLIN, Ohio (AP) — Phil Mickelson ended a peculiar week at the Memorial on Sunday. He had one round under par, one visit from FBI agents and lingering questions about an insider trading investigation that he says he won't discuss until it's over.
One day after Mickelson said he had done "absolutely nothing wrong" in the trading probe, he closed with a 1-over 73. Mickelson was so far out of contention that he finished his final round about the time the leaders were starting.
"From a golf standpoint, it wasn't a bad week, as far as I started to hit the ball well," Mickelson said.
RELATED: Phil Mickelson Cooperating in Insider-Trading Probe, Says He's Done 'Absolutely Nothing Wrong
A federal official briefed on the investigation told The Associated Press the FBI and Securities and Exchange Commission are analyzing trades Mickelson and Las Vegas gambler Billy Walters made involving Clorox at the same time activist investor Carl Icahn was attempting to take over the company. When Icahn's intent became public, the stock price jumped.
Mickelson said the investigating was not a distraction "until Thursday," when FBI agents approached him after his opening round at Muirfield Village. It was not clear if they met him at the golf course or off property.
The five-time major champion made it clear that his schedule would not change. He is playing the FedEx St. Jude Classic in Memphis, Tennessee, next week before he goes to Pinehurst No. 2 in North Carolina for the U.S. Open. Mickelson was a runner-up at Pinehurst in 1999. He needs to win the U.S. Open to become only the sixth player to capture golf's four major championships.
Mickelson made no reference to the investigation after his final round, and there were no questions about it.
RELATED: 'Buy, Buy, Birdie!' Mickelson on Cover of New York Post
Tournament host Jack Nicklaus said he doesn't think Mickelson's golf will suffer from any distraction associated with the investigation. Nicklaus said the only outside distraction he faced was in 1981 when son Steve was 18 and was involved in single-car accident in Ohio – on Jack Nicklaus Boulevard, no less — while Nicklaus was at the British Open. Nicklaus shot 83 in the opening round, his highest score in a major.
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"That had nothing to do with Steve. I just played (badly)," Nicklaus said. He shot 66 the next day.
"In Phil's case, I think when Phil gets on the golf course, he'll play golf," Nicklaus said. "He's a golfer first. Does he have an issue with what's going on? Probably. Their [the FBI's] timing was not exactly courteous. But I don't know enough to comment. I think Phil will play and be fine playing."
Mickelson has not won since winning the third leg of the career Grand Slam at the British Open last summer. This is the first time in 11 years that he has gone this deep into a season without winning.
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NZQF Overview (NCEA)
New Zealand's National Qualifications are highly regarded world-wide and students with New Zealand's National Qualifications are widely accepted in Universities around the world. The New Zealand Qualifications Framework (NZQF) is the national secondary school qualification that most Senior School students enter in New Zealand. NZQF consists of NCEA Achievement Standards and Unit Standards. Most courses at Kristin consist only of NCEA Achievement Standards.
Year 11 students generally enter Level 1 standards, Year 12 Level 2 and Year 13 Level 3 and a few Year 13 choose to sit Scholarship standards as well. All Year 10 Kristin students will also enter parts of this Qualification.
View the 'How NCEA Works' video from NZQA >>
Each course or subject is made up of a number of Achievement Standards or Unit Standards. Each Standard is a unit of work. For instance Mathematics AS91027 (AS1.2) is Algebra. Some of these are internally assessed and the rest are assessed by way of a 3-hour external examination in November.
Students are assessed for each standard and may gain one of the following grades:
- Achieved
- Merit
- Excellence
- Not Achieved
Each Standard is worth a set number of Credits. These generally reflect the length and content of the unit. The number of credits varies from 2 to 12 per Standard. Mathematics AS1.2 is worth 4 credits. Students gain these credits when they achieve the standard, regardless of the level of achievement. Students accumulate credits from all their courses in a given year to go towards their NCEA Certificate.
To achieve a Level 1 Certificate a student must accumulate 80 credits altogether, 10 of which must be in Numeracy (Mathematics) and 10 in Literacy (English).
To achieve a Level 2 Certificate a student must accumulate 80 credits; with at least 60 credits at level 2 or higher as well as up to 20 credits from any level.
To achieve a Level 3 certificate, students need 80 credits, with at least 60 credits at level 3 or higher plus up to 20 credits from level 2.
In addition, each of the above Level Certificates may be endorsed according to how well the standards have been achieved. If a student has gained Merit or better in at least 50 credits, their certificate is endorsed with a Merit. If they have gained 50 or more credits at Excellence level, their certificate is endorsed with Excellence. Similarly each course or subject may be endorsed with Merit or Excellence if the student has gained 14 credits or more with Merit or Excellence grades - with at least 3 credits from external standards and 3 from internal standards.
University Entrance
University Entrance (UE) is the minimum requirement to go to a New Zealand university. To qualify you need:
- NCEA Level 3
- Three subjects - at Level 3, made up of:
o 14 credits each, in three approved subjects
- Literacy – 10 credits at Level 2 or above, made up of:
o 5 credits in reading
o 5 credits in writing
- Numeracy – 10 credits at Level 1 or above, made up of:
o Achievement standards – specified achievement standards availabe through a range of subjects, or
o Unit standards – package of three numeracy unit standards (26623, 26626, 26627 – all three required).
Once you have met the requirements for University Entrance it will appear on your Record of Achievement.
Useful Links
Understanding NCEA (Brochure) >>
NCEA resources and past exam papers (TKI website) >>


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Earlier this year, a one-game suspension imposed by the NFL on Bucs safety Dashon Goldson was overturned by hearing officer Matt Birk.
On Monday, the league took a second run at Goldson — and this time Ted Cottrell upheld the banishment.
Per a league source, Cottrell has heard the appeal and confirmed it. As a result, Goldson will miss Sunday's game at Detroit. He'll be eligible to rejoin the team on Monday, November 25.
Goldson has an extensive history, this year alone, of applying illegal hits on defenseless receivers. When his prior suspension was overturned, a $100,000 fine was imposed instead.
With the suspension, Goldson will lose one game check in the amount of $264,705.88.
Also pending is the one-game suspension of Colts linebacker Erik Walden. Walden was suspended after applying a head butt to Titans tight end Delanie Walker, who wasn't wearing a helmet.


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Rockford resident Nicholas La Salla had no idea when he started the Forest City Film Review blog that it would capture the attention of a filmmaker halfway across the world. Australian producer Linda Curry, head of Gutzee Geko films, had written a sci-fi short film named "Dralien," but was unsatisfied with the dialogue. Curry stumbled upon a Facebook page recommending La Salla as a writer and was impressed with his blog. She contacted him, and the rest is filmmaking history.
"Initially, she hired me to do a script consultation, but after talking, she thought it would be better to scrap the script and hired me to write the short film from scratch." La Salla said.
Curry was so impressed by La Salla's writing that she knew the film had to be expanded.
"After collaborating with Nicholas, he came up with a far superior script, with an edge I couldn't write," Curry said. "I loved it so much that we decided to go from a seven-minute film to a 15-minute film instead."
Filmmaking is an expensive endeavor, so Curry created a fundraising campaign for "Dralien" through global crowdfunding website Indiegogo. Her efforts were successful, and resulted in raising $10,000 in donations from around the world.
"Through the generosity of people from Spain, America, Canada, England and friends and family, we were successful in raising the money." Curry said.
The project has moved quickly. La Salla wrote the story in February, financing took place in May, and filming wrapped up in early July. It is now in post-production in Australia.
"Dralien" is the story of a determined detective who traces a missing author back to the fantasy world she created and joins her fight against an evil sorcerer. La Salla is proud of the project, and hopes that it will do well in the film festival circuit and beyond.
"Once post-production is finished, Linda's looking at admitting it to a number of film festivals, most notably the Cannes Film Festival in France," La Salla said. "It is a dream of mine to have something I wrote play there. Linda is also in talks with producers about expanding the short film into a web series."
La Salla is no stranger to screenwriting, and has worked on various projects for close to 20 years.
"I've always been fascinated by film," La Salla said. "Since I was little, I wanted to be a writer and make movies. I took my love of film to the next level by starting the blog."
La Salla's first blog, Forest City Short Film Review, became so successful that it prompted him to create a sister site, Forest City Film Review, where he writes about feature length films. La Salla has also interviewed talent from television and movies for the blogs, and is currently working on a horror project titled "Hawking the Dead. "
"I'm putting the finishing touches on the screenplay right now and plan to also direct the picture," La Salla said. "It's about a young apprentice at a mortuary whose life is put in danger when he discovers the terrible secret of where the dead bodies go when they leave."
La Salla hopes to utilize resources from the Forest City in the filming of "Hawking."
"I'm hoping that we can start shooting next year here in Rockford, and I hope to use as many local businesses and talent as possible." he said.


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New parts for your truck to help tow your race car safely and easily
The legendary Detroit Locker started the revolution in performance differentials and still leads the industry today. After all these years, the design and quality of a Detroit Locker makes it one of the most durable and dependable automatic locking differentials on the market. It's the only differential sanctioned to run in Nascar.
One of the latest products offered is the Ford 9.75-inch (PN 72147). It is a 34-spline unit for SUV and pickup use and is available in all gear ratios. It carries a retail price of $645.
Detroit Locker maximizes traction by delivering 100 percent of the torque and power to both drive wheels. It's engineered to keep both wheels in a constant drive mode and has the ability to automatically allow wheel speed differentiation when needed.
No other performance differential has the reputation for quality and durability of the Detroit Locker, delivering traction no matter what the surface. For more information, contact Detroit Locker, 800/328-3850 or visit the Web: www.DetroitLocker.com.
Ford's venerable Power Stroke(r) diesel is a favorite of truck owners looking for a hot-performing tow vehicle. Owners looking for the ultimate transmission package (and those with power-added aftermarket enhancements) will certainly want to install the new TCI(r) TruckMaster(tm) Torque Converter, which is available in three configurations (forged steel four-lug front cover for early model applications; aftermarket six-lug front cover and heavy-duty clutch; and billet steel six-lug front cover, three heavy-duty clutches and hand-built steel stator). Regardless of the application, there's a TCI(r) TruckMaster(tm) Torque Converter to meet everyone's needs. The secret behind TCI(r) TruckMaster for Ford Power Stroke(r) E4OD/4R100 is the one-of-a-kind, hand-built, steel stator that reduces the stall speed and increases the torque converter efficiency to a new class and standard. The lower-than-stock stall speed converter reduces overall transmission temperature, which increases reliability, especially when towing large loads. The heavy-duty steel torque converter cover reduces converter flex, increasing clutch life. The furnace-brazed impeller blades increase reliability and efficiency, and that makes it the best diesel truck converter on the market. For information, contact TCI(r), 662/224-8972 or visit www.tciauto.com.
COMP Cams(r) New XFI(tm) (Xtreme Fuel Injection) camshafts for Hemi-powered Chrysler vehicles dramatically increase engine horsepower and torque, yet retain compatibility with all OEM vehicle computer systems. Available in three different profiles (XFI 260, XE 268, and XFI 273), the new camshafts are application-specific with designs for street performance and towing.
In recent dyno tests on a Hemi engine using COMP's #26918 beehive valvesprings and upgraded exhaust, the XFI 260 netted 20 additional pound-feet of torque in lower rpm ranges with a peak of 31 additional horsepower. The XE 268 camshaft added 14 lb-ft of torque at low rpm and 47 additional peak horsepower. The amazing COMP Cams(r) XFI 273 camshaft yielded its most significant horsepower increases over 4,500 rpm, generating 61 more horsepower than the stock Hemi 5.7L engine.
"We're extremely pleased with the power gains we have achieved with these camshafts," said Scooter Brothers, VP of Engineering. "When we set out to offer specialized Hemi camshafts, we had an acceptable power increase figure in mind. We have far exceeded that original target figure and believe that these three camshafts will offer customers the ability to find the exact camshaft that is right for their vehicle-car or truck." For more information about the new COMP Cams(r) XFI(tm) Series Chrysler Hemi engine camshafts, call 800/999-0853 or go online to www.compcams.com.
Taylor Cable Products announces new additions to their 8mm Spiro-Pro and ThunderVolt 8.2 Ignition spark plug wire offering for the Hemi 5.7L utilizing Chrysler's new cylinder deactivation Multi-Displacement System (MDS). Dyno tests performed using the Taylor ignition wires showed increases in the range of 3.5 to 5 additional horsepower over the factory wires.
These new wire sets are designed specifically as a performance replacement to fit the Chrysler platform cars (Magnum R/T and 300C) utilizing the MDS through the '05 model year. Each set features eight ignition wires that are number sequenced to their respective dual plug-per-cylinder configuration (one wire onto the well plug-in cylinder head valve cover routed over the intake manifold to the adjacent and corresponding coil pack plug).
According to Chrysler sources, the '06 models, Magnum, 300C, along with the new Dodge Charger R/T and Ram Trucks with the 5.7L Hemi or new 6.1L SRT Hemi motor, will feature a "Coil on Plug" ignition system and will no longer utilize spark plug wires. For more information, contact Taylor Cable, 816/765-5011, www.taylorvertex.com.
Eliminate clutch failures and ensure reliability with Hays Super-Truck performance clutch kits. These kits are ideal for utility, off-road, and performance street trucks, and they utilize top-of-the-line components to ensure extended service life at a price you can afford. All kits include a pressure plate, a disc, a throwout bearing, and an alignment tool.
The Hays Super-Truck line is specifically designed for severe usage. Every unit is built to withstand extreme conditions and overuse. The clutch kits are made in the U.S.A. and feature all-new parts, not remanufactured. Super-Truck kits can significantly extend the service life of clutches used in off-roading, towing, snow plowing, and performance street trucks. All popular diesel applications are also available. For information, call 216/688-8300, ext. 500 or visit the Web site: www.haysclutches.com.
Hooker is pleased to announce the availability of single-outlet Turbo-Back diesel exhaust systems for the '99-'02 Ford F-250 and F-350 trucks powered by the 7.3L Power Stroke engine. The robotic-welded Hooker diesel exhaust system (PN 16950-2HKR) is mandrel-bent from 4-inch, 16-gauge, 409-grade stainless steel to resist corrosion, increase exhaust flow, reduce power-robbing backpressure, and lower EGT's-resulting in longer engine and turbocharger life. All systems include a 7-inch round muffler with a free-flow perforated core, which exhibits an aggressive yet mellow "big rig" diesel sound. The system includes a polished stainless steel 4- to 5-inch slash cut exhaust tip. Hooker includes all necessary clamps, hardware, hangers, and comprehensive instructions written for the home mechanic that likes to run his own wrenches.
For more information, contact Holley, 270/781-9741, or visit www.ilovemyhookerheaders.com.


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But my mother, you seem to be a little easier to accompany me on the road,
your eyes seem to only my score, as if that is my whole value of the embodiment.
Yes, I know the meaning of good grades, it will make me more loved and
appreciated, it will make you more of the "Swordsman" Achievements and dignity,
it will rewrite our family's situation and fate, it will make me more easily
access to the world of material and spiritual enjoyment ... ... and so on. But
grow up to see you after the sorrows and joys, I often feel so far away. What
about you? Have you ever found me growing under the eyelashes, have more
grievances? Have I found the footsteps of the faster and faster, there are more
stagger? You know, I will be the middle of the night, speechless on the West
floor alone, to see the moonlight as a hook? You know, I will break Che-hung,
the railing shot, sigh, "no one will board the Italian"? Sometimes even to the
rage, sky and shouts? Or even "too long to Xi Xi Xi Xi Xi Xi, sad people's
livelihood as much as difficult"?
You always told me that you love me like life, so I listen, I listen to you, do not ask him something, not greed pleasure, do not play cell phone, do not play volleyball, do not play my good guitar, do not look at my love martial arts ... ... I try to get a little higher and then a little higher, but the volume is difficult to have easy, the spirit of a Fen have decadent, there are mistakes when the test is lower than others, there are fate when teasing people. I remember the second day of the second semester in the math exam, 120 points I took 86 points, after returning home to tell you your face changed, not just you, my dad he knelt down thinking, I do not kneel him slap over, I look down on the ground, that night I knelt for two hours, but the next day the teacher told you that added me 30 points less, plus I was the first grade, home you have a hug I kissed again Pro, but my little heart Bingbing cool. Mom, I can not bear, this is my life can not bear the weight, you know?


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Got this in yesterday:
Dear John,
I stumbled across your blog while doing other research and was interested and then confused. Though I appreciate your loving, Christian manner and what you have to say about Christians not treating homosexuals with hell fire antics, God's word is quite clear on the subject. You suggested that God would not ask any Christian to choose between their heart and faith [here] but doesn't Jeremiah 17:9 tell us "the heart is more deceitful that ALL else and is desperately sick, who can understand it?" As a Christian, many times I have has to choose between what my heart desires and what God commands, we all do. Don't get me wrong, I do not wish for homosexuals to be mistreated though I do feel their "rights" should not discriminate against Christians rights (especially when it comes to marriage). However to tell a homosexual that their lifestyle is not active sin would be a lie and not help them grow closer to God. Just as it would not glorify God to tell an gluttoness [sic], overweight person that they are not sinning. Sin comes in many forms and to cover it up or try to sugar coat it, only allows Satan more an avenue for his lies. My cousin is a lesbian and in a committed relationship with a wonderful friend but we get along because I tell her the truth without being her judge, I love her and her partner even though they, like I, are sinners. Homosexuals have choices to make each day, just like heterosexuals and some of those choices are sinful and some are not but we must be honest about who and what we are, so that God can examine our heart and conform it to His. Thank you for your time.
A little bit later I wrote on the wall of my Facebook page:
And while the great majority of the responses to that statement were hearteningly supportive, it also (as expected) compelled others to rush to alert me to how I was failing to show proper love to my "brothers and sisters in Christ."
Yes, crazy Christian, it is your right to hold the opinion that homosexuality is a sin. You can even pretend that you're unaware of the life-destroying ramifications of that opinion. But do not kid yourself: God knows what you allow yourself to pretend you don't.
Which I think begs the question: Are people who hold the beliefs expressed in the letter above really my "brothers and sisters" in Christ? Such Christians and I do, after all, have radically different, fundamentally opposing ideas about the very nature and purpose of God. So when is it reasonable to wonder whether or not we do in fact believe in the same God at all?
When does the God in which I believe become categorically different from theirs?
At any rate, I'm all for showing deference and respect to people who deserve it—and to anyone who might even almost deserve it. But it is indisputable that the "Christian" belief system evinced by the letter above daily and directly contributes to the ruination of the lives of gay people and those who love them. To my mind anyone who at this point persists in clinging to those beliefs does thereby forfeit their absolute right to respectful treatment. Because when all is said and done such people are nothing but bullies. They are sweet-talking, reasonable-sounding bullies who are daring to use God as their weapon of persecution.
I owe such people nothing whatsoever. My allegiance is to their victims, and to the God they shame by their ignorant bigotry.
Image from my post Christians and the Blood of Jamey Rodemeyer.
P.S. Eighty-five comments later, I'm moved to make the point that I've nowhere claimed that anti-gay Christians are not my brothers and sisters in Christ. I merely speculated on the validity of the automatic assumption that they are.
Follow-up post: I've loved me some gay-condemning fundies.


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OK, I think its safe to now crown a "new" season as the dumbest cast ever. Season 13, still waits in the wings in case season 16 is unable to fullfill its crown.These are crappy racers!!!!
Sometimes the needle-in-the-haystack is the right choice
Somebody gave a spoiler on the episode thread...
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Dinner in 35 minutes: Goan-Style Mussels
Goan-Style Mussels (Thisra)
2 servings
Long before there were takeout tikkas and 15-minute Indian recipes online, Madhur Jaffrey was making the food of her native country accessible for English and American home cooks. The Delhi-born, British-trained actor has published at least 29 cookbooks since 1973. She has educated us about the elements of an Indian meal, how to "paint" with spices and how to soothe and stimulate the palate with yogurt and chutneys.
This dish, rooted in the small western India state of Goa, predates the grocery-store availability of curry paste. The recipe calls for a handful of ingredients and just two ground spices. Jaffrey specified fresh coconut, but we found unsweetened, dried coconut is a suitable substitute and a time-saver. It becomes moist and chewy while the mussels steam to tenderness. Besides the coconut's boost of texture, we also liked its barely perceptible sweetness - as opposed to the more recent trend of relying on canned coconut milk to fulfill that flavor profile.
Serve with nan, and prepare to slurp.
Adapted from Jaffrey's Indian Cooking" (Barron's, 1982).
1/2-inch piece ginger root
4 cloves garlic
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1/4 teaspoon ground turmeric
1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
3/4 cup water
2 pounds shell-on mussels
1 or 2 small yellow onions
1 small serrano chili pepper
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1/2 cup unsweetened flaked/dried coconut
Peel the ginger and coarsely chop; transfer to a mini food processor or blender. Coarsely chop the garlic, then add it to the ginger, along with the cumin, turmeric, salt (to taste) and 2 tablespoons of the water. Puree to form a paste.
Rinse the mussels and clean them as needed, discarding any stringy bits (beards) that might be attached. Do not use any mussels that have opened and will not close when tapped.
Cut the onions (to taste) into small dice.
Seed the serrano, if desired, then cut it crosswise into very thin slices.
Heat the oil in a large saute pan over medium heat. Once the oil shimmers, add the onions and stir to coat. Cook for about 8 minutes or until almost translucent, stirring occasionally.
Pour in the ginger-garlic paste and the serrano pepper. Stir-fry for 1 minute, then add the coconut and the remaining water.
Increase the heat to medium-high; once the mixture starts to bubble, add the mussels. Cover and reduce the heat to medium-low; cook for 6 to 10 minutes.
Uncover; discard any mussels that remain closed.
Divide among individual bowls. Serve hot.
Nutrition Per serving: 310 calories, 14 g protein, 18 g carbohydrates, 21 g fat, 12 g saturated fat, 30 mg cholesterol, 420 mg sodium, 5 g dietary fiber, 5 g sugar


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