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I went to the grocery store tonight.
This was a mistake.
Apparently, I forgot that if there is one thing Bostonians love to do, it's freak the hell out over impending storms.
You see, while I was going to the store because we were out of things like milk, bread, and coffee; the rest of the entire eastern seaboard went to the grocery store because "OHMYFUCKINGGODWINTERSTORMNEMOISGOINGTOMURDERUSALLINTHEFACE!!!!!"
The carts and baskets were all gobbled up.
The aisles were all packed shoulder-to-shoulder.
The produce, bread, and milk were all picked over.
The people were acting like ruthless savages.
It was madness, pure madness, I tell you.
I'm lucky I made it out alive.
The worst-part, however, is that no one seemed to grasp the reality of the situation.
Check out this batshit cart I stumbled upon:
Two days.
Two freakin' days.
That's how long this blizzard is supposed to be in town for; it's going to roll in Friday afternoon with its heavy snow and crazy winds. Then it's going to dip-out before supper on Saturday.
That's it, yet this dude was preparing for the apocalypse.
Admittedly, this gave me a brief moment of panic where I thought "holy hell, maybe I'm not taking this thing seriously enough?!"
Then I remembered that I'm from the Midwest and it's just a little snow.
I then bought a couple of Kit-Kats and a box of Trix to add to my storm preparation pack.
Oh and by "storm preparation pack," I mean the case of beer I bought during my lunch break.
Bring it on, Nemo.

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iPhone 4 Parts costs $188
According to Businessweek, market research firm iSuppli estimates that the 16GB iPhone 4 components costs approximately $187.51. The latest iteration of the iPhone retails for $199 on a 2 year term and is rumored to go for $599 without a contract. Not surprisingly, the most expensive part is the highly touted retina display, which comes in at about $28.50. The snappy A4 processor (manufactured by Samsung and also found in the iPad) adds $10.75 to the total. As well, the gyroscope chip costs $2.60 per unit, compared to the $0.65 price tag of the accelerometer found in all iPhones.
Of course, this estimated figure doesn't factor in all the costs associated with manufacturing the phone (labor, R&R, packaging to only name a few), but it's interesting nonetheless to see just how much it cost Apple for some of the iPhone 4 components. And in case you're wondering, the $188 is essentially in line with the cost in parts for previous iPhones.[via MobileCrunch]


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text: Seller: mythology (1,108) 100%, Location: Brooklyn, New York, Ships to: Worldwide, Item: 173864599560 When ordering from the US, parcels may be subject to import tax and duty charges, which the buyer is responsible to pay. Culture- Egyptian. Date- 664 - 332 B.C. Material- Alabaster. Condition- Intact. Provenance- Ex: American private collection; European art market. Measurements- 2.1 in. High (5.3 cm.) This object is unconditionally guaranteed authentic. It has been legally imported to the U.S., and is legal to sell under U.S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14. A note to our international buyers: Import duties, taxes and charges are not included in the item price or shipping charges. These charges are the buyer's responsibility. Please check with your country's Customs office to determine what these additional costs will be prior to bidding/buying.At times there may be delays at Customs depending on the country we ship to. Please note that delays at Customs abroad are beyond our control. We ask you to be patient and to allow additional time for your shipment to clear. Kindly note these points regarding the item you are buying: 1- This item is guaranteed authentic. 2- The images, size, and condition in this listing are accurate and for the actual object offered. 3- We ship within 1 day of receipt of payment. 4- Returns are allowed within one week from date of receipt for full refund less shipping charges. Buyer pays for return charges.About UsWe are among the top world-wide online ancient art sellers with a physical gallery location in New York City on Museum Mile. We have extensive experience in buying and selling antiquities. When acquiring antiquities, we tend to buy the finest objects and offer them at reasonable prices to our customers. We hand-pick every object and make sure it has great eye appeal as well as good upside investment potential. All objects we buy have been legally acquired, with clear titles, and if imported by us to the United States, has been done so in acstringnce with international laws concerning the trade in antiquities. Our buying sources are private collectors and major auction houses worldwide. Collecting antiquities can be fun, exciting, and quite rewarding, provided that you buy from the right dealer- one that you can trust and build a long lasting relationship with. All objects we sell are:1- Unconditionally guaranteed authentic (A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany every item over $100).2- Reasonably priced compared to others.3- Professionally packed.4- Shipped upon receipt of payment (1 day turnaround).5- No hassle seven day return privilege for full refund, less shipping. Our commitment to you is:Offer sincere advice, friendly service, and great value for your money. Whether you have been collecting antiquities for a while or just starting, our publication, "How to Buy & Collect Ancient Art", can be of great help to you. It will provide you with valuable information and advice, and after all it is free! Kindly email us to request a copy. *Our vast inventory of ancient art includes one of the finest and most comprehensive ancient glass collections ever assembled; it includes nearly every variety of pre-Roman, Roman, and eastern Mediterranean ancient glass. Aside from those objects listed on eBay, we have many more ancient glass and antiquities in all categories and at all price levels. If you have any specific inquiries, please let us know.


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If you generate points in $\mathbb R^n$ via a process that respects a Gaussian normal distribution, then compute the persistent homology / barcodes, to my eye something fairly regular seems to be happening, with the barcodes tending towards something like a "wing" shape, fat in lower dimensions, thinning out towards dimension $n$.
Has anyone proven any theorems that describe the asymptotic "shape" of the barcodes?
Ideally I'd like a test so that I can look at some barcodes and say "that's typical of a Gaussian normal distribution".
The closest thing I've been able to find is experiments and results on the expected Euler characteristic of the persistent homology, in the references below.
I did a very rough computation to try and get some kind of guess as to what the distribution of barcodes should look like. So I made a very coarse estimate based on a distribution of points that is roughly `locally cubical' and approximately respecting a normal distribution.
The density is given by:
$$\mu = N e^{-r^2}$$
where $r$ is the distance from the origin. Then if $\epsilon$ is the parameter for persistent homology, it appears that $H_0$ is rank approximately
$$N \int_{\sqrt{\ln(N\epsilon^{1/n})}}^\infty r^{n-1}e^{-r^2} dr$$
and $H_k$ for $k \in \{1,2,\cdots,n-1\}$ has rank approximately
$$ {n \choose k+1}\frac{(\sqrt{\ln(N\epsilon^{1/n}/\sqrt{k}))}^{n-2}}{4\sqrt{k}\epsilon^{1/n}} $$
These are fairly coarse estimates, and in no way rigorous. But if something like this is actually true it seems to be saying that for $N$ large and $n \geq 3$, the $H_0$ betti number tends to some asymptote (dependent on $\epsilon$), and $H_1, \cdots, H_{n-1}$ are non-trivial but small. So most of the points in the distribution are in a giant homology `black hole' at the centre and persitent homology sees the thin crust around the outside.
I'd be curious if people have done other similar guestimates (or better) and if they had similar-looking results.


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Update: An anonymous blog reader has very kindly left a link to the site for these patterns. Thank you, whoever you are!
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Dressmaking patterns
Update: An anonymous blog reader has very kindly left a link to the site for these patterns. Thank you, whoever you are!
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MPL's official site
Those patterns for children are published by Sun planning.
Sun planning is a subsidiary company of Janome.
- December 5, 2008 at 4:52 AM
- R.M. said...
I am so very happy to have found your blog! Will be back very soon, oh yay! Hope you don't mind I am linking you ^_^
- December 5, 2008 at 2:44 PM
- arun said...
Unfortunatelly MPL is not selling these patterns by their webshop, but some shops at Rakuten, craftmax, as well as Yahoo, do.
These Rakuten shops do international shipping (the pages are in Japanese only, though...)
Goto (Kids)
Hideki (Kids)
Hideki (Ladies)
- February 11, 2009 at 10:50 AM
- Heather said...
I would love to order these patterns, but cannot figure out how to do so, since I cannot understand the links on these (Goto and Hideki) pages. Any tips?
- February 24, 2009 at 7:39 AM
- arun said...
Heather, if you want to use credit card for payment at Rakuten, the shopping guide is here, for using paypal,
the guide is here. Basically Rakuten is asking you to browse the pages in Japanese pages via Google translation tool, for example, to browse Goto's, click here.
- February 28, 2009 at 7:00 AM
I usually get my Japanese craft books at the ebay store below andI asked whether they could get hold of the patterns. They got back to me today and said they can list the patterns in a few days :)
- March 31, 2009 at 5:26 AM
The patterns are now on sale on ebay at the above link :)
- April 11, 2009 at 4:38 AM
- ~ Kim ~ said...
I've also seen some of these on etsy by seller pomadour24.
- December 9, 2009 at 6:33 PM


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During this years GNOME conference GUADEC Andreas Proschofsky had the chance to conduct the following interview with GNOME designer William Jon McCann. It touches on a range of different Linux desktop related topics, like the current thinking about a dedicated GNOME OS, all the ongoing criticism in regards to GNOME3 and which form-factors are the most important ones to GNOME.
derStandard.at: Windows Vista was often cited as a (missed) "Window of opportunity" for the Linux desktop. At the moment it looks like Windows 8 could potentially alienate lots of current "classic" Microsoft users, do you see a new chance there?
William Jon McCann: I think every time there is a new version of Windows people will say that but I'm not entirely certain that it's actually true. Any time there is a new product that changes the marketplace and that people will have to adapt to some will use that as an opportunity to do something different.
For me personally - and I can't speak for my company or any of my colleagues - I'm not all that interested in switching people from Windows. I think that was an interesting problem probably 10 years ago, but I don't think we still have to encourage people to leave Windows, it's just going to happen over time. People are moving to other devices - they are just not as stuck to the desktop like they used to be.
Basically for many of the same reasons we wanted to do something different from GNOME2, people are finding new ways to interact with computers. Essentially we were designing GNOME2 to be the free software version of a desktop computer system. And at some point we took a step back and asked ourselves: Are the problems people are having still the same? And really they weren't. There now is a wider variety of form factors, different types of devices, different types of interaction models - people are interacting with online services as much or if not more than with local data. So there definitely are lots of possibilities out there.
derStandard.at: But what is GNOME's target market in the midst of all of that?
William Jon McCann: Well we have existing partners that are actually using GNOME to make money, to serve their own customers. GNOME doesn't really have customers directly - and that's at the center of one of the ongoing discussion in the project right now. Why don't we have customers directly? Why do we have to have this distance between us? And I think a lot of people would like that to be a lot closer.
derStandard.at: So you agree with that?
William Jon McCann: I do. I don't expect that we do this alone without the partners we have - or without new partners - but I think we need to find a way to be able to reach a huge population that we could have never reached before.
A lot of the Windows users we have been talking about, that could be potentially interested in our stuff, I don't know if they even have a way to get GNOME. So why aren't there devices out there shipping GNOME? Which would be the most natural way to deliver our software.
derStandard.at: Apple and Microsoft seem to view the future in some sort of convergance between the mobile and the desktop space. So: What is primary target device for GNOME? Is it still the workstation, are we looking at a tablet future or is it a mix of both?
William Jon McCann: Unfortunately I don't think we get to choose, some of the bigger companies define the hardware platforms. We've always been following what the industry does, trying to get our software to run on whatever is out there. I would love to see free software on every possible device. But I think there are limits to what we can actually do with GNOME.
Our main target for GNOME3 is laptop use, which I think is by far the overwhelming majority of computing use today - in the non-mobile space. The second target is existing high-performance workstations. We've got a lot of criticism that we would not be interested in those, but as it turns out a lot of us still use them, so we are very interested in making those work perfectly.
A more aspirational goal is to be able to reach tablet-sized form factors. And part of the reason for that is a good number of laptops already do that, they are convertible into tablets. And basically we don't want to fail embarrassingly on those - as we do today. So we need kind of a hybrid approach, being able to do high-precision targeting and laptop use to the best of our ability and to have some capabilities for touch devices.
derStandard.at: During the conference the term "GNOME OS" was used quite a few times. What would you envision such a GNOME OS to be? Just a way to deliver GNOME to developers? A reference distribution? Or a full-blown operating system?
William Jon McCann: My definition of operating systems is basically two things: It's a well defined user experience and it's a well defined developer experience. So those are the two interfaces we need to provide and everything else is an implementation detail - down to the hardware.
I don't know if you saw Lennart's talk the other day, he said that we should let the user experience and the developer experience drive everything in the lower level stacks. So developers agree with that and it is not just designers making stuff up.
derStandard.at: But the question is: How to deliver all of that to the users? Ubuntu has its own distribution for instance, GNOME has to rely on others...
William Jon McCann: Exactly. And it's not only difficult for our users to get, it's also difficult for our developers. My primary interest right now is being able to validate our design decisions, being able to validate code commits. We need something to test, to find out if we break things. So if you go down that line of thinking - What are we making? What are we testing? What are we
delivering to our partners? - there is no other name than operating system for it.
derStandard.at: Still this is a developer system you are talking about. Do you think it might be interesting in the long run to also target "regular" users?
William Jon McCann: My goal is to put free software into the hands of basically everybody on the planet. So if we really believe in free software we have to believe that everyone has the right to it. Not just developers, not just currently active users. And we are really trying to do something about it. The designs that we do target potentially everyone. But on how to deliver it to users - this is something the whole community has to discuss and decide on.
derStandard.at: There are a lot of different proposals being made at GUADEC, but one thing seems to be pretty unclear to me: Who is ultimately going to decide which path to take?
William Jon McCann: This is a really good question, but there is no clear answer in open source or open communities in general. But as with probably pretty much everything the first steps are experimenting and just doing things. And probably in the end the right answers will prevail, the people doing the right things will prevail. But as far as who is going to make such a decision - I don't know. But if people are interested in something they will move forward with it regardless. And even though there might be some people who critique those ideas circulating, I really haven't heard any alternatives yet.
derStandard.at: Until now GNOME3 was "only" delivered as part of community distributions, next year RHEL 7 is supposed to be released. Is GNOME3 ready for the Enterprise Desktop use case?
William Jon McCann: I do think it's ready, yes. In fact we have been adding enterprise features all along. For GNOME 3.6 we are adding enterprise login support, so you can login to your desktop with your kerberos authentication, you can login to your domain. We are fleshing out the internationalization support that you need for a serious product like that, with iBus going in.
derStandard.at: Red Hat developer Benjamin Otte posted a blog entry recently, basically stating that GNOME is losing contributors. Do you think there was some fallout from the GNOME3 change or is this attributed to other factors?
William Jon McCann: I look at things a bit differently. I walk around the conference and I'm absolutely amazed by the energy we are seeing in the GNOME community right now. I am more optimistic about GNOME than I've been in a long time.
I think there was a time when GNOME had kind of a crisis, we didn't know where we wanted to go, we were lacking goals and vision - that was the end of the GNOME2 cycle. So we pulled together and formed a vision where we want to go - and actually did something about it. And now we have been marching on that plan for quite some time.
I think there are some valid criticisms of how people are getting our software, but I really don't see a drop in contributions. If you look at the number of Google Summer of Code students and the quality of their work it's absolutely amazing. We have a lot of new contributors there and we are very excited about that. But what I do see is a drop in number of testers, especially during the development cycles. We have fewer people testing GNOME outside of the active contributors. And there are a number of reasons for that, but that's also why we have these discussions around making GNOME more easily testable.
derStandard.at: Is this a result of Canonical going a seperate path, because especially during test cycles Ubuntu was GNOME's main test base?
William Jon McCann: That is a significant part of it, yes, but it's not the only one. Even when Canonical was collaborating and not making its own operating system we should have been doing better in GNOME. Why should we wait on others to build packages and deliver them? The turnaround time is way too long.
But there is another benefit to doing something like GNOME OS: When I started getting involved in free software I came from the outside, I started using some of the enterprise products. And I saw things that I could help fix, mostly design issues so I did patches but I didn't know the right way to submit them. So I sent patches to an enterprise's downstream bug tracker, but it turns out that's basically worthless. Because that package in an enterprise release is years away from the current source code. Then I figured out that you have to go to the community version of the enterprise product, but it turns out that's maybe not years but weeks and months too late. From there to getting things upstream - there is this huge divide. How do you get upstream? And for us, as a project, the question is: How do we get that person involved when she wants to?
derStandard.at: So you hope to also get more contributors into the project through GNOME OS?
William Jon McCann: Absolutely. We have that huge chasm between where the users are and where the development happens.
derStandard.at: In your talk you mentioned doing a Software Development Kit (SDK) and a new release of the Human Interface Guidelines (HIG), what are your goals there?
William Jon McCann: Well application development for GNOME is incredibly hard right now. But that's where the energy should be, and that's where the variety should be, where the choice should be. Historically we've had so much choice in the operating system level. If you wanted your computer to do something different, it was like "add an option", "add a mode", "add an extension or plugin or an applet" - and that's completely the wrong way to do it, in my opinion. It comes at the expense of having any kind of application story.
It's kind of ironic if you think about it: If you limit the choice particularly in the APIs you provide you exponentially expand the choice in the applications you have - they are completely in indirect proportion. And I think that's really what we want to see, we want to see way more applications and way more users.
derStandard.at: Wouldn't that also mean, that distributions should rethink what their role actually is in the Linux world? On which levels they differentiate?
William Jon McCann: Absolutely. They might even want to rethink why they have to differentiate at all, what their specific purpose is. And if they are just there to spread free software I think we should ask ourselves: Is it more effective to have it the way it was or could we join forces and do it better? Is the application story easier to write if there is one application store, if there is one app that you can install on anything that implements the GNOME OS? Or is it better to have third party application authors writing for 20 different distros? Which one would they do? Which one COULD they do?
I think it's fairly obvious when you look at it, why we have basically no applications for Linux - it is impossible. It's impossible to write an application that runs consistently on even two or three distros. And that's only in the current release. If you want to support something that runs essentially forever without having to uninstall it every three or six or twelve months you are completely out of luck.
derStandard.at: This would essentially boil down to having something like a core OS for everyone, which you could then define as stable?
William Jon McCann: The discussions are still ongoing, so this has yet to be decided in any way, but I think that's a pretty good idea. What seems to work in other systems - I think it makes sense to define some things that are stable and could be shared between applications and then have some certain private APIs that the operating system only could use. But anything beyond that the application should find its own way to do.
derStandard.at: In GNOME 3.6 the file manager has been redesigned quite significantly, adding a stronger focus but also dropping some functionality, which already got some pretty strong reactions from the community...
William Jon McCann: I don't think this will be the same once the final version comes out, you have to realize what people are seeing right now are very, very unstable releases and the story is nowhere near complete...
derStandard.at:...but for instance there seem to be a whole bunch of strong opinions against the removal of the split view.
William Jon McCann: It's always hard to gauge how many people are really using it from the responses. The people who did use it obviously felt pretty strongly about it - that's what we know, and I can't argue with that. But it always was a pretty impossible feature to find if you didn't know that it is there. Before I looked into it I was always wondering why Nautilus had these empty "Copy To" and "Move To" submenus unless you were using an extra pane - which was really weird.
derStandard.at: What I was trying to get to: If the long term goal is to get rid of the file manager and use specialized apps like Documents or Videos for content discovery, why not keep the file manager as a power user tool?
William Jon McCann: Well it is. But there are few things to note right now. We don't have all of our applications ready right now, Music and Photos for instance are still missing. So this puts us in the position of how do you find things in the overview if they aren't provided by these applications? Conceptually, the way it is supposed to work is that if I type in a name the photos app should display all the results it knows about or the music app will come up with an artist that I type in. But as we don't have those applications - who is going to provide those results? And I guess the natural answer is "Files".
But we have a problem there because Files had completely broken search functionality. It could either work with Tracker [GNOME's search system] - or not, and that was decided at compile time. Tracker indexes only a very small set of your files, if it wasn't in that indexed set, it would return no results. And if wasn't compiled with Tracker it would do this manual filesystem search which could take many, many minutes. Basically there was no provision for how we handle removable devices. So long story short: It's completely broken. And that's one of the main things we want to fix, making the file manager effective for actually finding files. Which it wasn't. It was ok for dragging and dropping files around, but that's not enough.
derStandard.at: Isn't that a bit like reinventing desktop search?
William Jon McCann: I don't think it is reinventing anything. I can't name any file manager these days that doesn't have an effective search function. That would be crazy - but that's what we had.
So that's the first thing we have to make work. Another thing is to make it easier to manipulate files. We've added things like being able to select a group of files and making a folder out of them. And we now have a way to take files and move them to someplace explicitly. Up until now, we used this very odd mental model of copying files into some strange place called the clipboard and then paste them somewhere later. We had bug report after bug report of how Copy and Paste really confused people when it came to files. So we added an explicit way to copy and move files, you select some files, choose move and it asks you where. And this has some relation to extra pane, because this is basically an extra pane on demand. You get a file chooser that lets you put anything anywhere you want, you don't have to have another location already open. So it's very quick, you don't need to pre-setup your windows and I think it's a lot more effective.
Another change that we've made is showing recent files by default. Before, Nautilus would just open with your home directory, which was sort of the best guess we could come up with for what you might be interested in. But most likely the stuff you are looking for is somewhere else, in a subfolder, on an external drive. So we thought a better place to start with the file manager is a list of your recent files.
And this list goes on and on. So essentially we removed one or two things to make room for dozens of new features. And a lot of those are actually responding to bugs that have been open for years. There is not a lot of stuff that people didn't ask for that we are getting in.
derStandard.at: In a recent interview Mark Shuttlworth said that they (Canonical) really had to push hard through all the criticism they got for introducing Unity, otherwise they wouldn't have been able to realize their vision. I guess you would say the same about GNOME3....
William Jon McCann: I think what we are experiencing is actually quite different from what they are experiencing which is in some ways is pretty ironic. We work as a community, we do everything in the open, this is in stark contrast to the way Canonical works. There are good and bad sides to that. The people who want to be involved with GNOME can be involved in even the earliest conversations we have. But they can also be involved in the very earliest complaints about something - it just depends on what sort of person they are. When you see the guts of the process you can pick up on a mockup that goes into a git repository - and even thought it's just an experiment it suddenly becomes an article and people are flaming it like: "Look what they are doing!" Or people pick on a very, very early development release of the file manager. If we worked like Canonical we would only put out things that are finished and have a press release to handle the whole situation - that's a completely different way of working.
derStandard.at: Is the free software world a hostile place for change?
William Jon McCann: The free software world to me is the same as the world. I think you will always hear more from people that don't like something than from people who do. And I think that's one thing that people who are reporting on GNOME3 haven't taken into account - that there are actually a lot of people who love it. But if you love something and it just works, it's part of your daily life and you don't feel the need to talk about it all the time.
But we do need to listen to people who aren't happy with what we are doing, and try to figure out what the actual problems are they are experiencing. And if you are trying to do this, you tend to ignore the tone, the rudeness that comes with it sometimes.
derStandard.at: Do you get used to this after some time?
William Jon McCann: I personally read just about everything anybody has ever written about GNOME. I do it every single morning, directly after I wake up, I have saved searches in all the online media, all the social media, all the mailing lists. And I read all of them, basically as an exercise to extract data from them to inform my opinions. But I don't think you can get used to the way people sometimes say things.
(Andreas Proschofsky, derStandard.at, 19.08.12)


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One Streak Ends
Everything has an ending, except promises by politicians.
The longest sellout streak in NL history ended last night, 257 regular-season games since 7/7/09. During the incredible streak, the Phillies averaged an amazing 45,082. That's a real tribute to passionate Phillies fans. So, thanks, thanks, thanks.
Only streaks longer are 772 by the current Red Sox (Fenway capacity 37,493) and 455 by Cleveland, 1995-2001.
One streak that hasn't ended is the Braves' spell over the Phillies. Atlanta made it seven in a row last night. Phillies haven't beaten the Braves at Citizens Bank Park since 9/11/11. During the seven games, Atlanta has outscored the Phillies, 35-11. Braves also have fewer errors, 7-0.
Down On The Farm
Lehigh Valley ended six straight games against Pawtucket with a 7-1 loss. Two home game and then four in the road. One of the strange schedule quirks. 2B Cesar Hernandez had half of LV's 4 hits. Since his promotion to AAA, he's hitting .333. Remember the name.
Reading and Clearwater were not scheduled.
Lakewood ended a 3-game losing streak by beating West Virginia, 8-5. 1B Brock Stassi, 3 hits, 4 RBI. Win went to 19-year-old Lino Martinez (6-5), who matched his career high set a year ago at Williamsport.
Williamsport lost its fourth in a row to Connecticut, 7-1. 19-year-old SS Roman Quinn, single, 5th double, league-leading ninth triple and an RBI.
Gulf Coast League Phillies dropped their third straight, 4-2, to the Braves. LV CF Derrick Mitchell, rehabbing in Clearwater, hit a home run. So, Atlanta defeated Philadelphia on the major league level and rookie league ball in the same day.
Alumni Weekend.
A Phillies tradition in which stars from the past return is right around the corner. It starts with a Thursday noon luncheon for Seniors and ends on Sunday afternoon, when Alumni will surprise fans several times. Check everything at www.phillies.com.alumni.


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The CIC program is designed to meet the insurance professional's need for technical knowledge in all areas of the industry. The program provides an in-depth practical approach for both agency and company practitioners. The program is made up of seven two day institutes (16 hours) with the optional 2-hour exam the following morning. Pass five of the seven to earn the CIC designation.Exam Information
The exam is optional and not required for state CE credit.
An individual must successfully complete five CIC examinations within five calendar years following the year the first exam was passed.
Successful completion of the five examinations earns the right to use the coveted CIC designation. Maintain the designation by attending one approved update option a year. Ruble Seminars are one option and only dues paid CICs, CRMs, CISRs and CSRMs may attend.
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JACKSON, Miss.—The Birmingham-Southern women's basketball team continued Southern Athletic Association action today on the road, falling to Millsaps, 59-48 in Jackson, Miss. The Panthers fall to 6-8 overall and 2-2 in the SAA, while the Majors move to 7-6 overall and 2-2 in conference play.
After going up 3-0 to start the game, BSC fell behind thanks to a 14-2 run by the Majors to pull up 14-5 by the 11:19 mark. The Panthers ended up scoring only five more points in the half, trailing 30-10 at halftime.
Millsaps maintained a double-digit lead for the entirety of the second half, with the Panthers only coming as close as 10, 50-40, at the 3:31 mark.
Junior Sydney McLendon, a junior transfer from UAH, led BSC off the bench with 14 points in only her third appearance this season. Senior Elizabeth Bromirski and sophomore Jane Romano scored 11 points each, and Bromirski led with 12 rebounds for her fourth double-double of the year.
Velvet Johnson led the Majors with 19 points and five assists, and Miah Brooks led with 11 rebounds.
BSC shot 28.8 percent (15-52) from the field including 25 percent (5-20) from three-point range, and the Panthers shot 76.5 percent (13-17) at the free throw line. Millsaps shot better overall, hitting 40 percent (20-50) from the field, 28.6 percent (4-14) from beyond the arc, and 88.2 percent (15-17) from the line.
The Majors out-rebounded the Panthers 38-29, and rebounds were nearly even with Millsaps turning the ball over 14 times, once more than BSC.
BSC is on the road again this Tuesday, Jan. 21, stepping out of conference play to face in-state rival Huntingdon in Montgomery at 5:30 p.m.


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The Community Hazards and Nuisance Complaint Center (CHNCC) takes complaints on all swimming pools in the county and city. This office's jurisdiction includes county or city public pools, health club pools and spas. Any complaint or concern about pools may be addressed to this office. For example, if an individual has been injured or has a concern about safety issues such as unsafe equipment or facilities, no fences, or if someone develops a rash or disease from unsanitary conditions, he or she may file a complaint with the CHNCC. The complaint is then forwarded to the proper County agency for resolution.
The Community Hazards and Nuisance Complaint Center takes complaints concerning swimming pool issues in the county and city. Issues concerning fences are forwarded to the Building Inspections Department and are taken by this department for the unincorporated areas of the County only. These issues concern private and public swimming pools and are considered a priority.
Community Hazards and Nuisance Complaint Center
9700 Goethe Road, Suite C
Sacramento, CA 95827
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County of Sacramento Environmental Management Department
8475 Jackson Road, Suite 240
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The mission of the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF) is to find a cure for multiple myeloma by relentlessly pursuing innovation that accelerates the development of next-generation treatments to extend the lives of patients. Founded in 1998 by Kathy Giusti, a multiple myeloma patient, and her twin sister Karen Andrews as a 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization, the MMRF is a world-recognized leader in cancer research. Together with its partners, the MMRF has created the only end-to-end solution in precision medicine and the single largest genomic dataset in all cancers. The MMRF continues to disrupt the industry today, as a pioneer and leader at the helm of new research efforts. Since its inception, the organization has raised over $400 million and directs nearly 90% of the total funds to research and related programs. The MMRF is in the top 1% of all charities, having earned Charity Navigator's 4-star rating for 16 years. To learn more, visit themmrf.org.
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- If you come 5th, 7th or 10th in the first Leg, you won't win the race (Michelle and Jo, Paul and Steve)- If you come 5th in the 5th Leg, you won't win the race (Shane and Andrew)
Jail date, then treasure for Amazing Race finalistsA STINT locked up in Boggo Road Jail and digging for a treasure chest in the sands of Fraser Island await the three finalists in tonight's Amazing Race Australia finale.After a 65,000km race that has criss-crossed four continents, cheerleading twins Jo and Michelle, police officers Shane and Andrew, and workmates Paul and Steve, complete their run in Queensland. Filmed earlier this year, the three teams arrived at Brisbane International Airport before being sent to a park under the Story Bridge for their first clue.In a race to Boggo Road - or, as the twins insist "Bo Go" - all end up heading the wrong way back across the bridge, except for the police officers who perform a U-turn mid-bridge. "Safely," adds Shane.A challenge at the jail sees them leave for Fraser Island to search for $250,000 in cash in the sands of Lake McKenzie and the finishing line.Channel 7 has renewed the series for a third season.* The Amazing Race Australia, Seven, 7.30pm
'Amazing Race' to end at Fraser IslandFRASER Island is the beautiful backdrop for the high-stakes race to the finish line in tonight's grand final of The Amazing Race Australia.In the epic final leg of the round-the-world race, the final three teams will travel from China to Brisbane, where they will race through the city before hopping on sea planes to land on Fraser Island's picturesque 75 Mile Beach.Navigating the island's sand roads could prove difficult for cheerleading twins Michelle and Jo, who have struggled with driving manual cars throughout the race.The final leg once again sees tempers flare in the fierce rivalry between Michelle and Jo and work mates Paul and Steve.But Victorian coppers Shane and Andrew are still very much in the running for the $250,000 grand prize.The Amazing Race Australia grand final airs tonight at 7.30pm on Seven.
I've been to Fraser Island and I know for a fact that 4WDriving there is really hard!
That leaves us with the Final 3, I think that twins will lose their chance early and make some sort of huge blunder
Shane and Andrew will win!!
Quote from: Declive on August 15, 2012, 12:32:05 AMShane and Andrew will win!!Andrew doing the ONE with his finger
guys, don't believe the editors, they edited one team out of the whole season, the real winners.
Quote from: Дussie on August 15, 2012, 06:33:26 PMguys, don't believe the editors, they edited one team out of the whole season, the real winners.
THE MEMORY TASK! WHY! Out of ALL the memory tasks they could've copied from other seasons they designed such an easy one!
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Every week -- often with your help -- FOOD52's Senior Editor Kristen Miglore is unearthing recipes that are nothing short of genius.
Today: It's Ice Cream Week! Nathan Myhrvold explains the magic behind the one-ingredient "ice cream" that's taken the internet by storm.
It's one ingredient. It's creamy. It's frosty. It's vegan. It's raw. It's ice cream? It's bananas!No really, it's bananas. This might sound like a riddle, but it's actually a wonder of food science -- specifically fruit science.
Making one-ingredient ice cream is as simple as this: Cut up bananas. Freeze them. Whir them in a food processor. Eat quickly, or refreeze and blend again. You don't really need a recipe for this. It comes out like the frozen bananas you ate at the boardwalk as a kid, except it whips up like Marshmallow Fluff, instead of the gluey puree you might be picturing.
Vegan and raw foodists have long known this trick, but a few years ago, The Kitchn published a photo tutorial and one-ingredient ice cream went mainstream. Bloggers spread the gospel and suddenly it wasn't just a workaround for ice cream, but an exciting dessert in its own right, regardless of its pure reputation.
Now there's even a machine built specifically for making banana ice cream, and one of the most talked about stands at Brooklyn's Smorgasburg sells only raw banana ice cream, plus toppings -- they're called Rob & Anna's (say it out loud!). But what no one's dug into yet is this: How do the bananas do this? Why doesn't a frozen avocado or mango or pint of berries behave this way under the crush of the food processor's blade? (And they don't, trust me.)
The internet and various food science manuals didn't have the banana-as-ice-cream coverage I was hoping they would, so I wrote to Nathan Myhrvold, author of Modernist Cuisine and the forthcoming Modernist Cuisine at Home (which we're thrilled to be offering in the FOOD52 Shop at an exclusive discount October 8th!). "I am pretty sure the reason is that bananas are very high in pectin." Myhrvold wrote. "So much so that if you add them to strawberry jam, you can omit the pectin you would otherwise need to add."
Pectin lives in the walls of plant cells, just waiting to bond together to form sturdy gels. Its most notable achievements are in jams and jellies, but it even works behind the scenes in this creamy vegan cauliflower soup.
Here, as the blades slice through the frozen bananas, pectin chains form and the banana churns up into the spitting image of soft serve ice cream, with the most intense banana flavor this side of Chunky Monkey. According to Myhrvold, exploiting pectin this way can work for mango after all, making an ultrastable mousse that won't even melt at room temperature -- if you own a Pacojet.
But until one of you fine people donates your Pacojet to the FOOD52 test kitchen, we're sticking with our one-ingredient food processor treat, and lots of it.
The Kitchn's One-Ingredient Ice Cream
From TheKitchn.com
Serves 4-6 (or save the leftovers, freeze, and process again)
1 bunch bananas
See the full recipe (and save and print it here).
Check back tomorrow, when our New Veganism columnist Gena Hamshaw will show you what else one-ingredient ice cream can do.
Got a genius recipe to share -- from a classic cookbook, an online source, or anywhere, really? Please send it my way (and tell me what's so smart about it) at [email protected].
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The Genius Desserts cookbook is here! With more than 100 of the most beloved and talked-about desserts of our time (and the hidden gems soon to join their ranks) this book will make you a local legend, and a smarter baker to boot.
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The Bluffton Gardeners held its annual luncheon at the home of Diana Ameer and officers for 2011-2012 were elected.
Annelore Harrell presented outgoing officers and committee chairpersons with a token of appreciation for the work done throughout the past year.
Julia Causey was elected president; LuEllen Robertson, vice-president; Elaine DiFlugentiz, recording secretary; and Margret Maloney and Ann Elliott, corresponding secretaries.
The following Committee chairpersons were also elected to a one-year term: Donna Young, June Salvesen, Julia Causey, June Salvesen, Diane Stortz, LuEllen Robertson, Florene Saracco, Donna Young, Zuleime Bennett, and Nancy Becker, and Margaret Heyward will serve as chaplain.


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Time Management
Many university students find that they do not have enough time needed to obtain the A's in their classes, especially those who have other responsibilities outside of academics (e.g., family & work). Taking time to plan your schedule may seem overwhelming when you already don't have enough time. However after some initial set-up time, the 5 minutes you spend each day on time management can significantly improve your effectiveness in various aspects of your life.
Where Do You Spend Your Time?
The first step in organizing your time is to assess where you are currently spending your time. Try one of these worksheets to get an idea: Weekly Calendar or Time Log Tool. After completing your worksheet, decide whether the time you spent on various activities fit with your priorities.
Although the following tips may seem overwhelming when you are not used to regularly using a scheduler/planner, you will find that implementing these tips will increase your effectiveness in various areas of your life.
Priorities/values. Before you try to manage your time, it is helpful to know your priorities/values in life.
- Make a list of what is important for you. (e.g., physical health, deep relationship connections, continual intellectual development, etc.)
- Differentiate between what is IMPORTANT and what is URGENT; Urgency (e.g., phone call) does not necessarily mean it is important at the moment.
- For the items that are important to you, make sure you set aside time for them (e.g., eating lunch for your health).
- Identify long-term (5-year; 1-year) goals according to your priorities. Be specific in your goals, and make sure they are realistic & achievable (e.g., finish college within 4 years with a 3.5 GPA).
- And, create short-term goals (weekly and monthly goals) that get you closer to your long-term goals.
- Keep your list of goals and priorities with you and visible at all times so that you are reminded often of your desired life direction.
Use a planner.
- Create a semester (for that big picture) and weekly schedule that relates to your goals. If your priority is "to get at least a 3.5 GPA this semester," then write in your planner the things you need to do to accomplish that GPA. For example, you may want to block out time in a specific date when you will go to the library to start that research paper that is due at the end of the semester.
- Remember that a planner is only effective if you use it at least once a day, and keep it with you at all times in cases when you need to change your pre-planned schedule.
- During the first week of class as you get your green sheets (syllabi) from various classes, write in your planner when exams, quizzes, and projects are due. Then, estimate how much time you need to complete those assignments. Divide each assignment into smaller goals, and write the tasks associated with those smaller goals in your planner as well, spacing them out over time.
- Insert all the regular commitments on your calendar (e.g., classes, work, meetings).
- Keep priorities/goals in mind.
- Include study and non-study activities.
- Include time for family and exercise, if family and your health are important for you.
- Block out class time, group project time, and time for meals, sleep, so that you have a balanced schedule.
- Keep in mind that in order to obtain that A in a class, it is recommended that you study 3 hours per week outside of class for every unit of the class. (This time recommendation is for the majority of university classes, though some will require more or less depending on the demand of the class.) Thus, block out your schedule to fit this recommendation.
Optimal performance.
- Know the time of day when you are most effective. Block out your schedule and study most difficult or boring subjects at that time.
- Use the same place to study every time -- enhances concentration ability.
- Avoid noise distractions -- research indicates that silence is best.
Use all the minutes and seconds.
- Use waiting time -- 3x5 note cards can be reviewed, for example, while you wait for a doctor's appointment.
- While you wait for the next class to start, take the few minutes to review your notes from the class that you just had. Research has found that you retain more information if you review the material immediately after a lecture.
To-do list.
- Create a daily to-do list, preferably alongside your daily schedule.
- Use the ABC system to rank your priorities on the to-do list. A=Have to do that day; B=preferably do that day; C=Would be nice, but there's no hurry.
- Keep your to-do list with you at all times, so that you can add as you remember things to do, re-prioritize if needed, and check off as you complete each item.
Time wasters.
- In addition to these planning tips, there are some interpersonal skills that may be helpful to learn as well.
- Learn to say "no" or "let me think about it" before you automatically say "yes." Some other alternate answers include: "Thank you for the invite, but I've promised myself to be better in finishing my class work," "thanks for asking, but I've made other plans" or, suggest another time.
- Screen calls. You do not have to answer that phone right away or return that e-mail this hour.
Be Flexible!
- Even with the most efficient planning, things will happen that will throw off your schedule and intentions (e.g., you or someone else may get sick, meetings may be rescheduled to a different time). This is the same reason it is recommended that you have your planner with you to make adjustments when things happen.
Build in extra time.
- Although you can't add minutes to your day, you can set aside some insulation in your schedule to anticipate unexpected changes. For example, if you estimate that it will take you 2 hours to read for 1 chapter, add in an extra half hour when you block out your schedule.
Know Your Resources
- Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) (408-924-5910)
We encourage you to come to CAPS in Student Wellness Center, Room 300B (third floor), to consult and learn more time management skills. Our personal counselors are available for appointments and for more information, and it's a FREE service for you!
We also have educational counselor available to help you with study skills, career decisions, and time management.
- Student Health Center (408-924-6120)
Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, and a Registered Dietitian are all available to help you maintain a physically healthy life
- Learning Assistance Resource Center (408-924-2587)
Tutoring services
Academic improvement workshops
- Career Center (408-924-6031)
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By John Goralski
Sports Writer
The Greek god Hermes was said to streak across the heavens in a barely visible blur. The Romans called him Mercury and lent his name to our fastest planet. In paintings and sculptures, he's shown with wings upon his feet. In myths and poems, he's described as having the wind at his heels.
Southington's version was Rick Black, and his stories are just as legendary. He blew through town in the early 1980s, collecting four varsity letters when track was a three year varsity program. He captured two Class LL titles in cross country and paced his teammates to Southington's only state title as a long distance team.
Wings on his feet? Not quite. Legend has it that Rick Black didn't need them.
"He was just a great kid, and it was almost pathetic he was so easy to coach. He was serious about what he was doing, and it was his passion," said former Blue Knight track and cross country coach Wayne Nakoneczny. "There's no question that he was talented. He couldn't have done what he did without the physical ability, but he would have probably just been an average runner if it wasn't for his diligent work. He worked so hard."
In fact, Nakoneczny said that Black was one of the only athletes that he ever had to send home to rest. Black had just tied a state record at the Class LL meet as a junior, and he showed up on the track the following Monday to prepare for the state open race. The heat continued to build, but Black wouldn't quit. Nakoneczny remembers throwing in the towel on that Memorial Day practice.
"I actually told him that he had to back off a little bit," the coach remembered. "It was a hot day. It was a tough workout. We were on the track, and it was right before the outdoor state meet. He did some reps, and I'm talking about half mile reps that were incredible. He was sucking eggs at the end of the workout, but he was eating it up. He wouldn't quit."
Black was a runner. He wasn't interested in anything else. As a kid he played baseball and tried soccer, but it was the running that really captured his imagination. By the time he reached DePaolo Junior High School, Black had committed to his long distance dreams. For two years, he competed with the Patriots until the town slashed the junior high school program at the start of his ninth grade season.
Not one to give up, Black petitioned the school board to be allowed to compete with the high school team. He begged them through the fall and pleaded his case all winter. Finally, they relented. In the spring of his freshman year, Black joined the Blue Knights one year ahead of schedule.
That was the spring where he met his cross country teammates, a group of long distance runners from St. Thomas Junior High School. They had risen to the top of the Catholic school ranks, and Black was the final piece of the puzzle. It set the stage for their rise to the top of the varsity ranks.
"I actually got to meet the coach and train with him in ninth grade, so when I actually went up to the high school we already had the same core of runners—the Cavaliers, the Theriaults, and Marty Burns," Black said. "We had run together as freshmen even though they had gone to St. Thomas Junior High School, and I went to DePaolo. They were actually faster than I was, so I was lucky that they didn't really run my event. Had I ran the distance races they did, they would have probably beaten me."
Even if that was true, it didn't take long for Black to rise to the top. He earned a varsity letter in the 1500m as a freshman and swept into the lead by start of his sophomore season. Black captured all-conference titles in each of the next three seasons and claimed all-state titles as a sophomore, a junior, and a senior.
As a sophomore he won the Class LL title in the 1500m (4:09.8) and as a member of the 4x100m relay team. As a junior he captured the Class LL title in the 3000m (8:43.24) and eclipsed his winning time in the 1500m by nearly 30 seconds (3:54.08) to set a new state record in the final year of that event. As a senior, Black fought off early season injuries to place second in the 3200m in both the Class LL and state open races.
Almost three decades later, his time in the 3200m (9:12.5) is still the school record.
"Set your goals high. Break down your goals into small steps, and do it," he said. "Stay focused because, if I can do it, there are plenty of kids that can do it. That's they key thing. I hope kids say that, if I could rise up to those levels and reach outside myself, they can do it too. That's the most important thing that coach taught us. He taught us to set goals, dig deep, and strive for things that are bigger than ourselves."
Black graduated as one of the most accomplished track runners in school history, but it was his cross country accomplishments that really pushed him over the top. For three years, he paced a group of runners to the top of the state rankings.
As a sophomore, Black broke into the top 20 at the Class LL championships and pushed past a big field of upperclassmen to claim 13th at the state open. As a junior, Black captured the Class LL cross country title (15:27). In his senior season, Black won the Class LL race again, paring almost 30 seconds off his time (15:01) to claim back-to-back titles.
He finished in the top five at the state open in each of his last two seasons.
"I think what sometimes happens with runners is that you get into the off-season, and you kind of get lazy or lackadaisical after a good season," Nakoneczny said. "He wasn't like that. He just kept running. He trained, and he had a great attitude. He wanted to work, and he did it."
Black said that he was surprised by his success, especially in his first season when he overtook runners that he had looked up to for years.
"One of the trickiest things to do is to beat people that are heroes for you," he said. "It takes a certain mindset, and it's as much mental as it is physical. You have to overcome the barrier, so that you can actually beat a person that you might have thought was untouchable before. That was my biggest challenge."
Barriers never stopped Black. As a senior, he paced his teammates to Southington's first and only team championship at the Class LL race. He continued into the state open, where he led them to the Blue Knights' only cross country state title. When the dust had settled on his high school career, Black's teams had earned an impressive 39-1 record in dual meets and finished as No. 1 in the state.
"People said that we were the best team in about 20 years. Our score was a 99, and that was unheard of at the time," said Black. "It was a great team. In fact, I would argue that I wasn't the best runner on the team. I ran the fastest, but there were some really talented guys on that team. There were a couple of them with more raw talent than I had."
Black wasn't done after graduation. The Southington harrier earned a scholarship to Northeastern University where he collected 12 varsity letters over his college career. An injury sidelined him as a sophomore, but Black made up that season in his fifth year at school to finish with four letters in cross country, indoor track, and outdoor track. In 1989, his team was devastated by injuries. Despite the challenge, he narrowly missed qualifying for his third national championship, missing the cutoff for the finals by less than one second.
"I had a good college career," he said. "It wasn't great. It wasn't as good as I wanted, but I ran some good races. I ran some bad races, and I ran everything in between. It was a good experience. I finished my eligibility. It was pretty grueling, but I did it."
With his long distance success in high school and college, it was no surprise that Black was selected to represent the town in the Southington Sports Hall of Fame. On Thursday, Nov. 8, he will be inducted in a ceremony at the Aqua Turf in Plantsville.
"I was kind of surprised. My first thought was that I wish my legs were in as good shape as the memories of the guys on the committee," he said. "I hope that people respected me as a competitor. As an athlete, I gave it all I could. I would have always loved to have done better, but I put all that I had into it. I don't have any regrets. I'm just amazed that people remember it."
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Dr. Sivadas Cardiologist Dubai UAE – Profile of Dr. Sivadas at Aster Clinic, Deira, Dubai
Dr. Sivadas
Dr. Sivadas NP completed his MBBS (1972) and MD Medicine (1977) from the Calicut Medical College and subsequently acquired his DM [cardiology] from Kasturba Medical College, Manipal. His first appointment was as a Medicine Unit Chief in district headquarters Calicut in March 1977, immediately following which he worked as a Registrar in Cardiology in Calicut Medical College from Oct. 1982 to Oct 1983. He then went on to join Kasturba Medical College Manipal, first, as a Senior Registrar Cardiology in 1982, and eventually ascending to the post of Chief of Medical Unit in Charge of Cardiology in Jan. 1987. Dr. Sivadas started his overseas service after joining Shaheen Polyclinic Bur Dubai in May 1993 as a Cardiology Specialist. He then joined Aster DM Healthcare's Aster Medical Centre as a Cardiology Specialist in April 1997 and is currently practicing at Aster Clinic Al Muteena.
1972: MBBS, Calicut Medical College [Kerala University] 1977: MD [Medicine], Calicut Medical College [Calicut University] 1986: DM [Cardiology] Kasturba Medical College, Manipal [Mangalore University]
Professional Experience:
Mar 1977 – Mar 1982: Medicine Unit Chief, District Headquarters Calicut, India
Oct 1982 – Oct 1983: Registrar Cardiology, Calicut Medical College, India.
Jan 1984 – Dec 1986: Senior Registrar Cardiology, Kastruba Medical College Manipal, India
Jan 1987 – Nov 1992: Chief of Medical Unit [Cardiology], Kasturba Medical College Manipal, India
May 1993 – April 1997: Cardiology Specialist, Shaheen Polyclinic Dubai, UAE
Apr 1997 – Present: Cardiology Specialist, Aster DM Healthcare, UAE
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Cardiologists in Dubai
Most people have very little understanding of what someone in the field of cardiology does aside from working on hearts. With a little research you can learn that a cardiologist is one specialized physician that you'll want on your side if the need ever arises.
Cardiologists are intimate with your heart. They work to diagnose and treat many conditions and disorders of the cardiovascular system. From coronary artery diseases to congenital defects, there is very little a cardiologist can't do, except surgery. Usually they leave that up to the cardiac surgeon, though in some cases and communities they can have a dual role.
It's important to know some of the specifics about the disorders that fall in the realm of cardiology. Coronary artery disease occurs when the inside walls of your arteries begin to accumulate with plaque. This plaque prevents the proper amount of blood and nutrients to get through the artery. This disease can cause a sudden heart attack, though the disease generally shows symptoms long before an attack.
Another common condition diagnosed and treated by cardiologists are congenital defects. These are defects of the heart; it's valves and structure, which occur at birth. Congenital defects cause anything from incorrect blood flow to conditions that upset the muscle's pace. Occasionally, these conditions go undetected during childhood and need medical attention later in life.
Within the field of cardiology, there are not only specific disorders treated, there are also specializations that must be chosen during study of the cardiovascular system. The physician will have a chosen specialty as the focus of their career. These specialties include, but aren't limited to postoperative care of cardiac surgery patients, cardiovascular pharmacology, echocardiography, electrophysiology, and pacemakers, even biostatistics and epidemiology.
With obesity, cholesterol and diabetes on the rise, the work of a good cardiologist in Deira Dubai is never done. There is not a lack of patients to keep themselves and their practice busy. At the same time, there is a multitude of disease causing factors out there giving hard working cardiologists lots of business. However, most physicians will tell you that they focus on prevention and would prefer to keep you healthy and out of their office.
In the end, though, it may be an emergency situation that causes you to need the expertise provided by a cardiology office and its staff. When that happens, all of their specializations and education may go on the back burner if they aren't available. It can feel like you just need to find someone that's taking patients. Cardiologists are in high demand these days and finding a doctor that is accessible can be difficult. In these moments rely on recommendations from your primary care physician as well as friends and family.
Regardless of the situation that brings you to a cardiologist in Dubai, you should go to your appointment knowing that you are in the hands of someone extremely knowledgeable about your heart and its ailments. Cardiologists in Deira Dubai take great pride in providing you high quality care that you can trust.
About Cardiology
Our lives move to the rhythm of our hearts. From the musical sounds resonating from cafes, to the rhythmic chimes of a bustling coffee shop, every facet of our well-being depends on a steady beat. But what if that beat becomes irregular, slows, or frighteningly stops? The signs of a heart attack may not be so obvious at times and that's why paying attention to your body's language is so important. Read on for some essential cardiology tips to keep your heart in tip-top shape.
Maintaining a Healthy Heart – Team sports are a great way to blow off steam, have fun, and, best of all engage in a cardiovascular activity. The physical benefits of basketball are well documented, and what makes basketball such a desirable activity lies in its overt accessibility. Virtually every neighborhood has a basketball court and balls are inexpensive. Organizing a quick game is as easy as showing up to the court dressed in your digs and declaring your eligibility. That's it!
Sure, taking the stairs instead of the elevator is one thing, so why not consider walking to the store, running with your dog, or playing outdoors with your kids as a form of exercise too? All of these activities require a semblance of constant movement, which is great for the heart, and all are encouraged in cardiology books everywhere. In fact, the risk of experiencing a heart attack can be greatly reduced simply by adding more low impact activities to your daily routine.
Signs of Heart Disease – Cardiology is the branch of medicine that deals with diseases and abnormalities of the cardiovascular system. Engaging in activity to curtail abnormalities is one thing, but if you have a condition that persists, such as numbing and chronic headaches, it might be time for you to see a cardiologist.
Spells of dizziness, seeing black spots that aren't there, and abnormal chest pain are other signs that you may need to see a doctor. Any of these symptoms could be related to heart disease and your exercise routines, no matter how strenuous or light, should be retired until a cardiologist tells you otherwise.
Seeing a doctor regularly can help you detect early signs of heart disease, even before you have a chance to experience the obvious symptoms; pain in the jaw, weakness or coldness in your arms and/or legs, shortness of breath. These can be scary if you don't what you're up against.
Heart disease is the #1 killer of males and females in Dubai, accounting for 40% of all deaths. Why? Doctors say that people tend to ignore the symptoms. Yes, someone overcome by intense chest pains is going to call 911, but symptoms aren't always that obvious.
Seeking Help – Because most symptoms of heart disease are difficult to sense, cardiologists warn against ignoring the signs, or worse yet, waiting to see if they go away. That's especially true for the elderly, as well as for people with preexisting conditions, such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, smoking, or a family history of heart disease. A heart attack can happen suddenly, and even result in death.
If you've experienced any of the symptoms showcased, are a smoker or are diabetic, or if your family has a history of heart disease, you should consider speaking with a cardiologist about heart disease and what you can do to combat it.


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By Alex Dobuzinskis
Jan 23 (Reuters) - With U.S. backers of legalized marijuana emboldened by victories in two states during the November elections, foes are ramping up efforts and honing their message to focus on risks they say the drug poses to mental health and intellectual development, especially for the young.
A newly formed group, Project SAM, launched this month in Denver and headed by former Congressman Patrick Kennedy, has emerged as one of the main adversaries of legalizing pot.
"I believe that drug use, which is to alter the mind, is injurious to the mind ... It's nothing that society should sanction," Kennedy, a Democrat from Rhode Island who spearheaded legislation in Congress to expand access to mental health care, said in a phone interview. Kennedy has admitted to past drug use and has been treated for addiction to prescription painkillers.
In November, voters in Washington state and Colorado approved measures to allow adult recreational pot use, despite a federal ban on the drug. Both states are creating frameworks to tax and regulate marijuana sales.
Leaders of Project SAM say the group has no plans to push for repeal of legalization in Colorado and Washington, but will challenge any future legalization efforts.
Kevin Sabet, a co-founder of Project SAM, said warning of the mental health dangers of pot would be a "central part" of his group's work. At the same time, the group is developing model legislation to take to lawmakers to achieve such goals as improving access to drug treatment programs, he said.
Leaders of Project SAM, which stands for Smart Approaches to Marijuana, have highlighted studies that show a link between marijuana and schizophrenia and suggest heavy use of the drug among teenagers can lead to an IQ drop.
But the science around many aspects of marijuana's effects on the brain remains unsettled. A pair of papers published this month called into question any harm to intelligence and the possibility that marijuana causes schizophrenia.
One Project SAM board member, Dr. Paula Riggs, a psychiatry professor at the University of Colorado at Denver, said she fears that legalization will lead to more teenagers in Washington state and Colorado getting marijuana second-hand from adults.
For teens who use marijuana, it will "affect their development for a very long time, if not forever," Riggs said.
Project SAM's experts cite a 2012 study of over 1,000 New Zealanders by researchers from Duke University and King's College London. It found those who used pot heavily before age 18 and continued for years afterward had an average IQ decline of eight points from age 13 to 38.
But that study's conclusions came under fire this month, as a statistical analysis in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences questioned the link between pot use and lower intelligence. The paper's author, researcher Ole Rogeberg of Norway, argued socioeconomic factors rather than marijuana use could also have produced any drop in IQ.
Project SAM researchers have also pointed to studies showing an association between marijuana use and schizophrenia.
Dr. Sharon Levy, a Harvard Medical School assistant professor of pediatrics and a leader with Project SAM, cited a study of Swedish conscripts in 1969 that found heavy users of cannabis were six times more likely to develop schizophrenia.
The study by Sven Andreasson and other Swedish researchers was published in 1987 in The Lancet.
"The hypothesis is that there are people who are more susceptible to developing schizophrenia," Levy said. "For whatever combination of genes they have, they're more susceptible. These people still may not develop schizophrenia, but if they are stressed enough they will develop it."
"Cannabis is on the list of those kinds of stresses, that's the hypothesis," she said.
But the link between pot and schizophrenia was challenged by a paper this month in F1000 Medicine Reports from researchers Suzanne Gage, Stanley Zammit and Matthew Hickman. They said stronger evidence was needed to show marijuana plays a key role in causing schizophrenia in the general population.
These researchers said pot use has increased in recent decades in the United Kingdom and Australia, but those countries have not seen a higher incidence of schizophrenia.
Project SAM leaders also say the science shows that for those who have mental illnesses or are predisposed to them, using marijuana can worsen their condition. Some supporters of pot legalization agree those people should avoid the drug.
Levy also cited a 2010 paper in the American Journal of Epidemiology that used data from more than 50,000 adults taking part in a World Health Organization mental health study. It found pot use before age 17 was linked to a 50 percent increase in the risk of later developing a spell of depression. (Reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis; Editing by Cynthia Johnston and David Gregorio)


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I didn't grow up with hockey, and if you didn't grow up with a sport, it can be difficult to catch up as an adult. I've essentially known every Major League Baseball and NBA player since I was seven years old, so staying abreast of everyone every year is easy. With hockey, by the time I realized I sort of liked the sport, I was too far behind to catch up. My favorite team is the St. Louis Blues, but I can make no claim to being a true fan: I check their scores every morning after they play, but I couldn't name more than five players on the team. I like to pretend, but I'm not a real fan.
Of course, "not being a real fan," in most sports, makes you the target demographic. ESPN is the best example of a sports corporation maxing out the diehard market and thus selling itself to the sports tourists who just casually watch sports -- but they're hardly the only one. The entire sports industrial complex is based around assuming you have the most avid fans no matter what, that they're not going anywhere. Your profits are made from people only slightly paying attention.
But hockey is not like this at all. I think hockey exists only for the diehards. This leaves me often on the outside looking in when it comes to hockey. But it makes me freaking love hockey fans.
Tuesday night, I went to the Montreal Canadiens-New York Rangers game at Madison Square Garden with Sports On Earth hockey writer Joe DeLessio and I was reminded once again how hockey fans are the greatest fans in the world. There is no such thing as a casual hockey fan. When you go to a baseball game, or a football game, or (especially) an NBA game, you will always find people only sort of keeping one eye on the game, checking their phones, there for conversation or social engagement rather than the game itself. There's nothing wrong with this, of course: Everybody who pays to get in can pass the time at the game however they'd like.
But you don't see this at hockey games. Hockey fans are into it, across the board, screaming and chanting ("Potvin sucks," still!) and stomping and going nuts, essentially for 2 ½ hours straight. Everyone's wearing a hockey sweater -- and it was a little crazy how many different names I saw on the back of Rangers fans' jerseys. Everybody at a Knicks game has Carmelo on their back, but I counted at least 35 different names on the back of jerseys in my section alone -- everyone's intense and everyone knows everything about everyone on the ice. It's like a massive family of people glaring in one direction.
Hockey fans are just so dorky, and I say that with nothing but respect: As a sports fan, I consider it the ultimate compliment. There is no posing, no ulterior motive, no nothing other than obsession with the game itself. There's a manic look in the eye of a hockey fan that doesn't compare to anything you see in the other three major North American sports; I might be a lunatic during Cardinals playoff games, but you can still tell, no matter how much I'm jumping around and biting the shoulders of everyone in my vicinity, that I'm aware the world will not, in fact, end if the Cardinals lose. The planet outside of the game exists, and I plan on returning to it. You don't get this from hockey fans. Hockey is all there is, and hockey is all that matters.
You can tell a hockey fan immediately upon meeting them, whether it's from that glint in their eyes, the ever-slightly-jutting-forward body language momentum, the jersey sweater sticking out from under their suit jacket, or the hair. (It's actually the hair. It's the hair. Has to be the hair.) They love their sport in a way few people love anything.
This is why discussions of whether hockey can "break through," whether it's a "mainstream" sport, are completely beside the point. Hockey fans could care less whether or not you accept their sport, whether you think it worthy of coverage, whether it won its time slot in the Nielsen ratings. You are a mere visitor to their lands. If you enjoy the game, that's great, but if not, they don't need you. This will always be their game.
The Canadiens and Rangers are both Original Six teams, and much fuss was made out of that, but not in the faux-nostalgia way we do it in other sports. There is a sense that the game itself is all that matters, that the Original Six is less a hazy look at a "better" time and more a reminder of what the game is at its core: A regional game for obsessives. The National Hockey League has had its problems, to say the least, but none of that has ever affected The Game. Hockey isn't something you pick and choose based on frustration over labor strife; it simply is, and forever is, and we can only hope more fallible humans just do their best to stay out of its way.
I'm never going to make it all the way as a hockey fan; it's not in my bones the way it is for true fans. (Baseball is always going to have that place for me.) But this is my problem, not hockey's. Honestly: I wish every sports fan loved their sports, their team, their fandom, as much as hockey fans love theirs. I wish every person loved anything as much as hockey fans love hockey. Game on.
Also: "Slap Shot." Remember, this column is meant as a valve, a release, for when you're yelling at your television during games, or, after reading a particular column, you're pounding your fists into your computer. Obviously, I'll need your help to do that. Anything you want me to write about, let me know, through email or Twitter. I am at your beck and call.


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World News: 09:34 GMT Friday 27th June 2014. [FT Business Blog via SPi World News]
The global system for taxing multinational companies is broken, but no country wants to alter it too radically for fear of making it worse. That was my impression after hearing international tax experts gathered in Oxford this week to discuss reform.
Reform of corporate taxation has been thrust onto the political agenda in Europe and by controversy over the tax policies of companies such as Google and Starbucks. The ease with which they can shift intellectual property and royalty payments to low tax regimes has outraged politicians on both sides of the Atlantic.
The attempt by Pfizer to turn itself into a UK company for tax purposes by acquiring AstraZeneca has also drawn attention to the use of "tax inversion" by US companies. They want to use the cash piles held overseas to make acquisitions that allow them to change corporate nationality and reduce their taxes.
But while most countries agree that the system of global taxation in place since the 1920s is flawed, there was no consensus at the conference held by the LINK on how to fix it. Instead, most prefer to play defence.LINK
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Mustang Baby
Back story on this shoot, I've known both Shaun and Sarah through modelling and we decided to combine our creative forces to do something on our own merits. It was actually the second time I used my new camera (D700) awhile back - it was supposed to be a submission but no one seemed to want it. I'd rather share it with all of your anyway. ;)
Willow in New York
Gorgeous Emma Balfour for Willow.
And a few of my favourite looks from S/S2011. Simple silhouettes with incredibly beautiful detailing. How rare it is to find and Australian designer who refuses to make no compromise on quality and yet maintains longevity in the business.
(pics courtesy of Style.com)
Blogger collaboration with the very handsome JAKE LIVES HERE.
All clothing Jake's own.
(styling references etc to come.)
Hey Hannah
A quick post before I head out of town for the weekend, such a sweet relief to escape the city again.
I shot these images of Hannah after we worked on a lookbook together, she mentioned how she didn't have any new shots of her blonde hair so we raced outside and spent five minutes in the afternoon light to snatch these babies.
Model, Hannah McCarthy @ Viviens
Photography, Me
coat, Alistair Trung
tights, Camilla
Silver Screen
I feel so guilty! I haven't had much opportunity to post lately, been busy and too tired. I'm setting up an office soon so I can work on my blog and photography more, I've had much modelling work lately which is absorbing my time.
This is the gorgeous Chantal Croccolo from Priscillas. She looks like an Italian movie star from the Black and White era. We had an afternoon to shoot at the beach and someone how I lost most of the shots we took... so disappointing. I'll be doing another shoot featuring the beautiful Chantal in the coming weeks.
Photography, Me
Model, Chantal Croccolo @ Priscillas.
Dress, Finders Keepers
CJ & Cece
Heres the good news, my girls at are having a sale! If you're in Sydney then you should go!
WHEN? This Saturday 2nd Sept, 10am - 5pm and Sunday 3rd, 11am - 4pm.
WHERE?! 3/144 Cleveland, Chippendale.
WHAT?!?! 50% off or MORE on the Supers and Midnight collections. I hear that everything has got to go.
Oh Yes.
Edit: Sorry I put the wrong date guys!
Here's me wearing a dress from the Supers collection to refresh your memory.
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