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The average user of the Android-based G1 phone has downloaded 14 applications, out of 200 now available on the Android Marketplace, a Google executive said Wednesday.
Application developers and chip and handset manufacturers are happy with the Android platform and the Marketplace, especially since Android was made open source following the introduction of the G1 by T-Mobile USA Inc. last month, said Eric Chu, group marketing manager for the Android Mobile Platform. He spoke at the Wireless Communications Association International conference in San Jose, California, alongside a Motorola executive.
Google held back from open-sourcing Android until after the first Android handset shipped, and some handset and semiconductor makers had questions about Google's commitment to open-sourcing until it made the move, Chu said. Since then, Google has seen a surge of interest, he said.
"There were a lot of people waiting in the wings," Chu said, without naming particular companies. Motorola announced last week it would focus its future handset development on Windows Mobile and Android. The company still belongs to the LiMo Foundation, an industry group for mobile Linux, and will continue to make LiMo-compliant phones through the end of this year, said Rick Hartwig, director of marketing for emerging communications at Motorola. He wouldn't commit to anything beyond that but said Motorola sees part of the value of Android in the fact that it is based on Linux.
Google's Chu called the Android Marketplace the "killer app" of the platform, saying developers have been happy with the channel, which currently offers all applications free. Once developers can charge for their software, a change expected in the first quarter of next year, 70 percent of the revenue will go to the developers, Chu said. Of the remaining 30 percent, a small portion will cover the cost of the transaction, such as credit-card transaction fees, and most of the rest will go to the mobile operator, he said.
Developers have been happy with the statistics on downloads form the Marketplace, as mobile data use has been very high on the G1, Chu said. Google has seen "huge spikes" in activity as consumers use the browser, Google Maps, and various Google and third-party services, he said, without giving specific numbers.
A true open-source community is also building around the Android platform itself, with nearly 50 contributions from outside parties so far, including comments on code and drivers from chip companies, he said.
Google expects to get help from outside developers in keeping Android secure, Chu said. The company has built a process for handling reports of flaws and quickly fixing them, uploading patches and having them downloaded to handsets, he said. All G1 phones have gotten an over-the-air software patch for a hole announced last week that security researchers said might allow a user's sensitive information to be stolen, Chu pointed out.
Android may also show up on some WiMax devices, speakers at the conference hinted, though they gave no details. Google, one of several major investors in the WiMax joint venture being formed by Clearwire and Sprint Nextel, is working with Clearwire on innovation for devices and user experiences on the WiMax network, Clearwire CEO Benjamin Wolff said earlier Wednesday. This is in addition to Google providing search and advertising services, he said.


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I want you to try and make me furious! Come on! Enrage me! :-)
im DOESNT think that you should ARGUES about this because if does ARGUING then it POINTLESS because american dossent KNOWS enything about other countries so they cant SAYES enything true because they is has been not TEACHED about enything but theirs OWN country in SCHOOL so that why they be IGNORRANT. im is think that AMERICAN does be 13rd best country because they DOES haved good things but they have very many BAD THINGS too but im is thinking that maybe they can COMMED BETTER later when maybe someone GOOD and RELIGIOS take over PRESIDENT PLACE.
Lega's right, despite any intellectual ideas, people, or aspirations. Psychopaths will be psychopaths, and people that either do or don't understand them will insist that they do. Basically, just shut up.
Lega - Why do you type like that? With random words in capitals and stuff?
Do you always type like that?
Not being rude, just curious...
Its free on British TV. After 11PM.
Lega is a good spirited person from some other culture.
Here's a question. Why do I feel more alive when my reality is distorted?
I think about the void often now. Trying to figureout how I got rid of it. It creates isolating feelings. I believe it's because I finally defined my life.
And how did you define your life?
im DOSSENT understand your question REALLY because if you is GOOD in ENGLISH then you know how to make TEXT more effective by put EMPHASIS on IMPORTANT word. and im not OTHER culture im is from ENGLISH.
I speak English very well, "im DOSSENT understand" should be "I don't understand."
"If you is good english" should be "If you speak good English".
"im is from ENGLISH" - "I am from England".
Putting capitals on random words and adding s's to most words isn't good English.
The list goes on...
Welsh is the only explanation, honestly.
Yeah, But he says hes English...
But it's nothing like English
Oh, right. :)
I wonder if he's just meesin' with us..?
And you speak good English for a Finnish..
While I can read your English I doubt I'd understand your blathering in person. Even when I watched Snatch I had to put on subtitles. Don't even get me started on how dull and uninteresting English people and their movies are either.
No matter how badass a person looks... if they open their mouth and sound English I just die laughing. The English are the most nonthreatening people I've ever met. Well in my head. I'm sure there are tough British people. But you have to admit they sound stupid. I take homosexuals more serious.
We created English, You corrupted it.
Our movies are boring? Have a look at the box office. We occupy 6, 7 ,8 ,9. You have number 1, but I think American films are great.
Non-Threatening? Mate, you oughta go to Manchester, Tell them about your views on Britain and have your face ****ed up.
I don't think we sound stupid, We created the language you are speaking, and even then you managed to **** that up.
I cant help but laugh at our interactions, one of us says something insulting, the other frantically tries to defend themselves...
Us 3 have not only scared the other forumers away, we've ruined this forum... :-)
We've hugely strayed away from the subject of psychology... LOL
Fun though, for me.
Interesting and fun for us, not for anyone else. But I don't care. Its fun throwing insults... :-)
You also make me laugh, so I will forgive you for being burger eating invasion monkeys.
It's mainly us two driving people away with our arguing. LOL
You guys should check the statistics of the winter war that Finland fought against Soviets, if you want to be afraid of a nation. :P
I remember hearing about that when I was younger, Finland lost about 25,000 troops and the USSR lost 120,000 or something thereabout.
You whooped there communist asses!
Their lossses were much, much worse. They lost 126k killed or missing, 188k wounded or burned, 3.5k tanks, 261-515 aircrafts and 5.5k captured. We lost 25k, 43k wounded, 20-30 tanks and 62 aircraft. The numbers just make me laugh, to be honest.
I laughed too actually, the largest army at the time were ****ed up. :-)
I didn't know you wouldn't fight. I thought you would say loads of crap to me about how I am a coward, and that crap, but you didn't. :D
We managed to kill more Germans than they killed British. :)
We didn't run away! When the Germans attacked us with their cowardly "Blitzkrieg" we defended against them while America refused to participate.
I suppose I have to be thankfull they stayed in there country and increased the prices of there inferior style weaponry while our troops fought on the front line.
Everyone thinks you saved us, but people are often ignorant of the fact the Germans had surrendered before you dropped your bombs on Japan. Germany had given up, just not Japan.
They got what was coming to them after flying planes into pearl harbour.
Boooooooooom! - LOL
We're the only three forumers left, I guess we're thr strongest, most intelligent ones. :-) Well, not you. LOL Joking.
Well... If the smiley yellow face says so....
nope nobody did GOTTED what them DESERVED. and FINLAND did gotted that good in WAR only because the CAESAR in SOVIET UNION did ordered troops not takes one step away to RETREATED so they coulded TRAPS them because they couldent RETREATED. and CAESAR stalin did killed most TACTICORS and HIGH OFFICERS so not could make PROPER COMAND.
im IS THINKING you shouldent also say that we be better then you because we did killed more people moer EFFICIENT because that be dumb. and also you DIDENT haded anything to do with that. im is THINKING you should stop anger and INSULTS so people can enjoys forum and you oculd be HAPPIER too.
The people fighting for the soviet union didn't get what they deserve, they were normal people. Kill or be killed.
But the USSR got what they deserved as a country, and if you think they didn't, then your wrong.
But your right that arguing and insulting each other gets no one anywhere, but without it where's the fun? :-)
War and violence is wrong, Fullstop.
How would you act if your country was invaded?
I'm not saying that someone though to be an idiot has to die? Where did you get that from?
What do you like so much about the Soviet Union? The beheadings, hanging and stonings of innocent people? Or perhaps the Communism?
And I'm sorry but I really can't understand what you're saying. Are you calling me stone? or saying war is like a stone? or I should fight a stone?
Why do you talk (type) like that if you're British.
I thought you would just like to disagree with what I was saying. So I assume you would say that you where a communist.
Indeed. By the way, what is a "lurker"?
Believe me I'm fighting the temptation to say "you".
It's someone who reads message boards and forums but doesn't actually write anything or join in/participate.
Alright, I admit. I was monitoring the discussion, however, it is because my opinion on the subject had already been expressed, and I'm not going to re-state it and add to the trite attempts at intellect(that goes for all humans, not just the people here). It's just odd to me that I was label stamped because I know when not to flap my lips(fingers). And Wolf, I've looked up slang on www.dictionary.com before, and what I learned was apparently WAY off from the proper(or improper) usage of that word. I was new to the internet at that time, and being as obsessive as I am, I ended up making my own "Web Slang Dictionary". Brimming with confidence and drive I plunged into conversation. Word after unknown word crossed my eyes as I frantically flipped through my homemade guide. As a result, I became "The Catalyst", unintentionally and inevitably leaping into the cross-hairs of moderators.
I'm saying that if someone is reluctant to say something in a fist-ranged debate that may get their enemy angry, then it was very unlikely that what they had to say was an actual counter-point containing logic and not an insult.
Whitewolf - Look what they put your email as....
It's obviously an idiot with nothing better to do. They must really have a pathetic life if they have to pretend to be someone else on a forum for fun.
Sad, sad person.
Also there is a post for you from some MyTherapy person.
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I'm sure it has something to do with olive trees budding and blooming, because whenever I am in the vicinity of them, it's noticeably worse. I feel the effects of my allergies ten times more in the San Fernando Valley (where Grace Church is) than I do here in the Santa Clarita Valley (where I live and work).
Anyway, this year my very own personal allergy season has been especially bad already, and that is not a good sign. Last week's trip to Mt. Hermon did not help; on the contrary, it made my eyes dryer, my nose itchier, and my sinuses more congested than before. There was an olive tree in the backyard of the place we stayed.
Today Darlene had to attend a meeting after church (dealing with the nursery volunteer staffing system), so I had to stay in the San Fernando Valley a couple of hours extra after church, and I felt so miserable when I got home that I had no choice but to take two Benadryl. That means I'll be lethargic and unfocused for the next 3 days.
Have I ever mentioned that I don't do well with drugs? Especially allergy tablets (which make me want to sleep); sleep aids (which usually keep me from sleeping at all); and pain killers (which tend to irritate my stomach and esophagus). If I mixed all three, they would basically cancel each other's side-effects but leave me either hyperactive or totally unconscious. I prefer the allergy symptoms, and when that gets to be too much, I choose the lethargy I get from Benadryl.
Anyway, I've got a few little things I want to blog about, but no one thing significant enough to devote a whole Sunday afternoon post to. So quick, before the Benadryl kicks in and leaves me unable to do anything productive but watch reruns of "The Rockford Files," I'm going to try to make a list:
- Despite all the militant language flying around the blogosphere suggesting you're about to witness a bloody cage match over the issue of cessationism, I personally don't expect anything rancorous.
In the first place, cessationism was not even an issue I planned to raise in my current series of posts on false prophecy. I'm still hoping to finish what I originally intended to say before seriously taking up the cudgels against the non-cessationists. In the second place, I recognize this issue is an extremely difficult one in the minds of many people (including some dear friends of mine). So I intend to be uncharacteristically patient.
While I'm at it, let me say that if all charismatics were of the Mahaney/Piper/Grudem variety, I probably wouldn't pick a fight over our differences on the charismata. That's not to say I approve of any kind of charismatic mysticism, but if no one ever went any further than, say, the typical guy from Sovereign Grace Ministries, I don't think I would spend much energy arguing against them.
I grew up in Tulsa, however, and the true roots of the charismatic movement are there, not in Geneva. Despite what they want you to think, "Reformed" charismatics are a fairly new kind of hybrid, and they do not represent the mainstream of either the Reformed or charismatic movements. I like their zeal. I appreciate (and share) their desire for passionate (rather than cold and dry) orthodoxy. There's a lot about them I esteem highly, and I am certainly not merely looking for another group of people to make angry.
But in the context of what is going on today, there are so many dangers associated with "new revelation" that it's not an issue I'm willing to ignore. And if cessationism is the main issue in the minds of people who are undecided about whether or not to listen to voices in their heads, I'm willing to argue the point. But not in an acrimonious way, and not until I've finished what I was going to say. So if you're looking for me to verbally bust some charismatic heads this week, you may be bitterly disappointed.
- If you just can't wait to get into the cessationism issue, at least three guys have already posted some pretty decent stuff. One is Daniel J. Phillips ("'Cessationism': ragged dress for a rich lady"); a second is Dave Ulrick, "The Inscrutable Observer" ("Two tiers of inspiration?"); and the third one is William Dicks ("Hearing God and Moving in the Prophetic: A critique").
- If you're looking for something like my old "Monday Menagerie" posts, Andrew Lindsey, newlywed, has something I think you will like.
- Here's a guy I seem to have a few things in common with.
- Here's I guy I seem to have almost nothing in common with.
- The Benadryl is having the expected effect. Look for Monday's regular Spurgeon post around midday Pacific time tomorrow.


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Assistant offensive line coach Eugene Chung isn't in the media guide, but he's running the Eagles' OL, with Howard Mudd basically part-timing the job at age 70.
Eugene Chung doesn't appear in the listing of Eagles coaches posted on the team Web site, but he does indeed exist. Chung was seated at a long table in the NovaCare cafeteria Monday afternoon, answering questions about the offensive line.
The Eagles offered a rare chance for reporters to talk to offensive position coaches, and Howard Mudd was absent, as he was for the recent rookie camp, as he will be for this week's start of full-team OTAs.
The Eagles insist that Mudd is OK and will be back long before the spring minicamps are over. Basically, at 70, having been lured out of retirement last year by Andy Reid, Mudd decides when he wants to work.
Chung, 42, is Mudd's assistant, and maybe even his heir apparent, having transitioned into OL coaching after originally assisting with strength and conditioning. He was the 13th overall selection in the 1992 draft, by the Patriots, out of Virginia Tech, but played just six seasons, for three teams.
In Mudd's absence, Chung is the guy teaching newcomers the Mudd system, which last year took some transitioning for veterans used to Juan Castillo's approach. Mudd's o-linemen tend to be more athletic and take a more proactive approach to pass blocking.
"His style is very unique," Chung said Monday, when asked about teaching the Mudd system. "It allows a player to be athletic. It's a good style, once you know the concepts."
The biggest issue facing Mudd and Chung is plugging in free-agent signee Demetress Bell for Jason Peters, who almost certainly will miss the 2012 season with a twice-repaired Achilles'.
"Demetress is a great athlete also," Chung said. "I'm not concerned with our left tackle position because Demetress is in there. I know Jason was a great leader out there; I'm sure Demetress will be, too. He's an older vet [28] now, the guys have embraced him ... I'm not concerned."
But surely, given Peters' extraordinary, All-Pro-level athleticism, the Eagles will do a few things differently without him?
"I don't believe that," Chung said. "I look at Demetress, and we've studied his film quite extensively, what he is is, he's an incredible athlete. He was a basketball player, so you know he's athletic, you know he can stay in front of people. It's just teaching him what we do ... he's picking it up now. He understands it and he's embraced it. By the time training camp comes around, he'll be fully evolved into our system. I'm not worried at all about that."
Chung said not having Mudd around all the time this spring hasn't been odd, "it's been a good learning period for me, to kind of take the reins, teach the room, lead the drills outside. It's been fine. Last season, we were out there together, and I saw everything he did ... There's times when I'll have a question, but he's available to me all the time."
Chung said he speaks with Mudd two or three times a week when Mudd is away. Mudd currently is on the West Coast, Chung said.


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There seems to be an issue with Blogger at the moment. No comments are making it to the blog. Just so you know, we are getting your comments via email, they just are not being published to the blog its self. I have alerted Blogger and hope to have the problem fixed shortly. In the mean time, keep commenting! Meli, Cali, Caryl and I will get your messages and I will make sure they all get addressed as needed.
To this point-
As far as broken chainguards are concerned- there are several links that have been sent to me, some of which I have tried in the past. The issue with my bicycle is that it has external derailleurs and a triple in the front, so most of what is on the market is not appropriate. Unlike the SKS guard, this has no hole in the top to accommodate the derailleur and is just made to fit around it all (there have been issues with the SKS guard grabbing pants because of the gap in the top).
I will try some of the links that have been sent so far (thanks Trish!) and I will take pictures of the back of the part (Andy in Germany, it would be great if you have the part!) and, alas, duct tape will not help my problem, for once (I thought of you, Oldfool, as soon as this happened). I will look at the Torker parts (thanks to those who have made this suggestion!) and there is an ebike dealer in SF that has bikes with similar looking guards who I will approach, as well (his all seem to be brown, though). I am still way open to any fabricators who think they have a good idea!
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The Oversharers Win
We are now living in a time in which the first generation in history that never experienced life before the internet is coming into cultural power. And it is awful.
I don't seek to generalize about the tendencies of "a generation," which is just a fun but completely made up thing that hack writers such as me do on other days, for fun. I seek only to point out that in its most virulent form, a life spent consumed by sharing one's own life on the internet can completely erode the very sense of "the self" as something separate and apart from the reaction that one's own actions get from others. Life is pure performance; outside validation is everything; contemplation of the self is merely a pose designed to elicit comments of sympathy, respect, or even disagreement or dissent. It doesn't matter, really. The addiction is to the reaction itself, not to its nature.
This has the effect of destroying not just privacy—all this oversharing is voluntary, after all—but also of diluting the river of public dialogue with endless quantities of worthless self-absorption. I'm not talking about Twitter and Facebook; they're made for worthless oversharing and self-absorption, and wading through it is the price you pay for choosing to partake. I'm talking about writing. Stuff that is published, for others to read. Again, I won't argue that narcissism and a garish lack of self awareness is anything new among writers; I'm just arguing that if I keep reading posts on Thought Catalog, I am probably going to hurl myself in front of an oncoming subway train in despair sometime this winter.
The One Thing I Won't Write About
This is the title of a post, on Thought Catalog, by Ryan O'Connell, one of the best extant examples of the aformentioned phenomenon. Let us examine this: it is an essay-style blog post, 433 words in length, about the fact that there is something about Ryan O'Connell's life about which Ryan O'Connell will not write a blog post. In this blog post, Ryan O'Connell expends hundreds of words discussing with his readers the mere fact that he considers some unnamed aspect of his own existence to be off-limits, when it comes to writing blog posts.
Imagine that, right? Something I can't even post about?! Dear god, what could it be?! But it's okay when this happens. It makes me remember that I live a life that isn't always meant for public consumption. As a writer, you have to keep some things private. Otherwise, everything feels cheap.
Note what Ryan O'Connell did not do, regarding this most private and secret aspect of his life: shut up. The idea of keeping something to one's self is wholly out of the question. The only course of action, when faced with something that one wants to keep private, is to write a 433-word blog post declaring to one's readers that this private thing exists. It is imperative to know that the nature of our private thing is, at this very moment, being speculated upon by hundreds of faceless strangers—otherwise, what's the point of having a secret? Secrets are only useful insofar as they can be used to stoke further public interest in me, me, me. Me? Me. Me!
As Richard Nixon knew when he touted his "secret plan" to end the war, and as Joe McCarthy knew when he declared he had "in my hand" a list of undercover Communists, it doesn't really matter whether you actually have something too secret to share. All that matters is that others think you do, and lavish attention upon you as a result. Mission accomplished, Thought Catalog. You guys are better at this game than I am.
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Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
Release: Real Personal Income for States and Metropolitan Areas
Regional price parities (RPPs) are regional price levels expressed as a percentage of the overall national price level for a given year. The price levels are determined by the average prices paid by consumers for the mix of goods and services consumed in each region. Taking the ratio of RPPs shows the difference in price levels across regions.
Other services refer to services consumption products, except rents, that are used in the estimation of the RPPs. Other services categories include education, food, housing, medical, recreation, transportation, and other services.
For more information about this release go to http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/regional/rpp/rpp_newsrelease.htm or http://www.bea.gov/regional/methods.cfm.
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Price Parities: Services: Other for Abilene, TX (MSA) [RPPSERVEOTH10180], retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RPPSERVEOTH10180, October 4, 2023.


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With the huge group of baby boomers hitting retirement age, we're seeing a lot of businesses up for sale—and Gen-Xers won't be far behind.
When the time to exit rolls around, it's extremely important to get the most value out of your company, because there are no "do-overs" when exiting your business.
Consequently, a large and growing industry has developed around the business of selling businesses. Not to question the value of those in these ancillary businesses, but let's face it: They all take a share of your money, and the goal of selling your business is to end up with the biggest chunk of change in your pocket. Right?
This is why if you decide to sell your company, you need to explore all your options before you commit to one path. There might be popular business brokers in your community that are recommended, but they are going to take at least 10% of your proceeds, so don't sign on with anyone just because of convenience.
Take a long look at doing a DIY or hybrid DIY sale of your business. I recommend this approach because today, more than ever before, you have excellent free resources available to you, including:
- Free advice from experienced retired owners and executives
- Excellent internet assets
- A dedicated Small Business Administration (SBA)
Start early
The first major guidance for squeezing the most money out of the sale of your company is to start early. And, by early I'm talking years, like five years or so. Any sale that has to happen within a short time frame is almost doomed from the get-go. When you know you have to sell by a certain date, you're forced to be more receptive to offers that you might otherwise never consider. Further, early succession planning will pay dividends from the day you begin to the day you sell.
Again, the good news is you have great DIY resources available to help you get your business in shape, and command the best selling price on the day you're ready to put it on the market. There are good online articles that will give you an overview of the steps you should take to groom your business in preparation for a sale, and this is where you should begin.
However, on a crucial issue like this, you don't want to trust completely in "book learning." This is a situation where the old saying about two heads being better than one applies. There's a good chance you're not too far away from an excellent SCORE mentor who has experience in your industry and with selling businesses. And even if you can't find someone nearby, you can connect via email and video chat.
Other Articles From AllBusiness.com:
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Market your business
As I wrote earlier, brokers are going to take a minimum 10% cut. It's true they provide good services for their share of the pot, but the internet has leveled the playing field in one of the most important services they provide: marketing your business.
Almost every purchase today begins with a web search, and I don't think the shoppers looking to buy your business are any different. Any business broker is going to advertise on the internet, but you can do that without a broker.
If you're unfamiliar with placing ads on search engines, check out the services offered by DIY business-selling sites like ExitAdviser, which include advertising credits and marketing guidance, as well as DIY tools that let you measure the readiness of your business for sale and estimate a value for your business, among other services.
Start the final countdown
When crunch time arrives for completing the sale, there are some legal and financial matters to take care of. The SBA offers an excellent 30-minute video exercise "Selling Your Business" that sheds light on some of these important issues.
Because you don't want to make mistakes closing the sale or not be prepared for the tax implications, it's a good idea to connect with an attorney and an accountant as you get closer to your actual sale. That's why I mentioned the "hybrid DIY" option earlier. Despite the fact that their fees will slightly lessen your proceeds, the risks you take by trying to work without them outweigh the cost of the security you receive by working with them.
I know that a DIY business sale isn't for everyone, but I strongly urge you to investigate this option before you sign on with a broker. Talk to others who have chosen this route and then honestly evaluate how much time you'll have to work on your own sale.
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It Came Out Of The Sky, All 2.3 Lbs.
Kevin L. Hoover
Eye Editor
HUMBOLDT – Duke Lindsay and his wife Cindy Harmann find all kinds of things on local beaches, simply because they look for them.
Duke is from Utah, a state popular with paleontologists for its abundance of fossils. "That's where I got started," he said.
On April 11, Duke and Cindy were beachcombing on Agate Beach, where it's fairly easy to find semi-precious stones. There, lying on a sand bank, was what Duke immediately recognized as an iron meteorite.
"I was excited," he said.
The 1,052 gram/2.3 lb. lump bears the typical appearance of iron-nickel alloy meteorites. It's the largest one Duke has ever found – most are thumbnail-sized.
Iron is common in the universe, and is one of the elements formed during nuclear fusion inside older stars, which then explode and send the material out into the galactic mix.
Duke and Cindy are advertising the meteorite for sale via the Co-op info kiosk at a price of $4,000. They don't really want to sell it, but, says Cindy, "We can't hold on to everything."
The meteorite comes in its own carrying case and is cossetted in a plaid cloth.
If you'd like to buy it, contact Duke Lindsay at (707) 382-9372.


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Why do we need to look at a World Map?
We need a world map to act as a reference point to all that what is happening in various parts of the world. A world Map works best with the data set it is mashed-up with. A World Map is a representation of all continents and countries in the world. Looking at a world map tells us the depth and shallowness of our knowledge about our world, at the same time.
The 206 listed states of the United Nations depicted on the world map are divided into three categories: 193 member states, 2 observer states, and 11 other states. The 191 sovereign states, are the countries whose sovereignty is official, and no disputes linger. There are 15 states under the category of "sovereignty dispute". There are 5 member states, 1 observer state and 9 other states. This image of map of the world is current as on date January 01, 2019.


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While discussion of Israeli elections has largely (and reasonably) focused on the different parties' views on the occupation of Palestine and the prospect of war with Iran, the ongoing effort to craft a coalition government may carry risks for science education, too.
Ha'aretz asked the leaders of the eleven parties competing for seats in the election a series of questions, including questions about evolution and climate change. On climate change, all seven who responded spoke in support of action. Unfortunately, the remaining four parties declined to answer, and all four are likely to be part of the governing coalition.
On evolution, only two of the seven enthusiastically endorsed the teaching of evolution; three opposed it, one dodged the matter, and another seemed to suggest that evolution be taught alongside creationism. Again, the four parties likely to be included in the ruling coalition all declined to answer, with a spokesperson for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party dismissing the questions as "cheeky."
Of those who answered, two have been part of coalitions with Likud before, and may be included in the new government. Kulanu's Moshe Kahlon responded on evolution: "Israel inscribed on its flag the topics of research, curiosity and human development. That is our strength. We believe that in schools various approaches should be taught, including evolution." Shas's Arye Dery declined to go even that far, declaring: "As an ultra-Orthodox party that believes that our forefathers were Adam and Eve, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and that our holy matriarchs were Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel and Leah, we refuse to teach our children that they originated from apes."
Yesh Atid's leader Jacob Perry, who served as science and technology minister in the past, relegated science to an educational afterthought, saying: "The children of Israel must be raised on the values of the Bible and the Jewish tradition. But I am in favor of the expansion of horizons and teaching the history of humanity from other angles as well, and therefore I am not against also teaching evolution—but not only evolution."
The left's parties were largely united in support of evolution. Joint List's Ayman Odeh, who grew up Muslim but is now an atheist, said, "I support teaching the theory of evolution as the theoretical foundation accepted today by science for the development of the variety of species on Earth." Zehava Galon explained: "Meretz supports the teaching of the sciences, including the theory of evolution. We see no contradiction between teaching evolution and teaching the Bible or other Jewish studies in a pluralistic and open approach." Zionist Union, the second-largest votegetter, largely dodged the question, with Isaac Herzog answering: "The state's withdrawal from responsibility led to a loss of trust in the education system, which is at an unprecedented nadir. Our children are not receiving a sufficiently high level of education and we are forced to pay high sums merely to receive the minimal requirement. We believe that knowledge is power and therefore the Israeli education system under [our government] will be as pluralistic and as varied as possible, and as such it will enrich the students with knowledge and with many tools."
Those pro-evolution parties took 42 seats, with the creationist parties who answered garnering 28 votes, and an additional 50 votes distributed among the conservative parties that declined to answer.
The prospect of battles over evolution in Israel is likelier than one might expect. It was only last year that Israel mandated the addition of evolution to the nation's secular middle school curriculum (and it remains out of the curriculum for state religious schools). Five years ago, the education ministry's chief scientist spoke against evolution, leading to his rapid ouster. While the Israeli public is not as anti-evolution as the US, 43% told the International Social Study Programme in 2000 that it is "definitely" or "probably not true" that humans evolved from earlier species of animals. In the same survey, 46% of the US respondents were similarly anti-evolution, with only the Philippines (48%) showing higher rates of evolution rejection.


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It appears that the most common route taken is to pick an author and just systematically vote for (or against) every one of their nodes. So I think it appropriate and useful to reduce the number of votes one can cast if one is only casting them toward a single author. The tough part for me is how to (mildly) discourage casting most of your votes for a single author while not unduely causing frustration when one reasonably runs into several nodes by one author that all deserve an up-vote.
I see a certain 'danger' (probably a word with too many negative connotations for the exitable, but...) in such an implementation, and perhaps you have already considered them...
One of my "voting behaviours" is to sometimes seek out (via Super Search some area of interest, say, charting and graphing, and work my way back through those threads with promising authors/titles. As I do so, I very often find old nodes/entire threads still worthy of an upvote. And so I find myself sometimes casting many votes on a given topic.
Now, the 'danger' I perceive here is that, possibly, because of my choice of topic, it may appear (to an algorithm, anyway) that I am casting a disproportionate number of votes for a given author... Say, our very wise zentara may receive a "showering" of upvotes simply because he seems to hold the corner on the market for Tk and Gtk2 knowledge.
So, my question is, might node age and also node topic (perhaps using keywording) influence the determination of whether or not a disproportionate number of votes is going to one author?
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FROOD, THOMAS, teacher and prospector; b. 23 April 1837 in McNab Township, Upper Canada, son of Thomas Frood, a farmer, and Barbara Forrest; m. first 18 Aug. 1865 Mary Matilda Biggar (d. 1886) in Hamilton, Upper Canada, and they had two daughters; m. secondly 14 Aug. 1889 Christina McKay in Tiverton, Ont.; d. 5 May 1916 in Wallace Mine, Ont., and was buried in Kincardine.
A son of Scottish immigrants, Thomas Frood led a peripatetic existence for the first 25 years of his adult life. He taught school in communities throughout the province, including Hamilton, Aldborough and Trafalgar townships, Burnstown, Gillen's Springs, and Kincardine. While in Hamilton he was decorated for his service with the 13th Battalion's medical corps during the Fenian raids. Along the way he found time to become a chemist and manage a drugstore in Southampton.
In 1883 Frood left his teaching post in Kincardine for the wilds of northern Ontario. He worked for the Canadian Pacific Railway as a timekeeper on a construction crew and then, in mid decade, for the Department of Crown Lands as a woods ranger. Enthralled by prospecting, he had no particular expertise in the field, like most other men who became legendary in mining in the Sudbury region. Identifying gossan (the tell-tale rust stain on outcroppings) was not difficult, however, and by November 1883 Frood had noted indications of a mineral deposit in a railway cut west of Sudbury. In October 1884 others would patent this location, later the Murray mine, but Frood claimed to be the first to assay the ore and prove the presence of copper.
The discovery of the property that would bear his name, the famous Frood mine, occurred in May 1884 when, acting on a trapper's report, Frood and A. James Cockburn prospected lots 6 and 7 of concession 6, McKim Township. The two men fell out. Frood took out the patent for the south half of 7 while Cockburn patented 6, which he transferred to two speculators from Pembroke, John H. Metcalf and William Balmer McAllister. Typical of most prospectors, Frood lacked the capital to develop properties and normally he had to settle for finder's fees. In 1888 he would complain to the provincial royal commission on mineral resources that he was forced to "give away 95 per cent. of mineral land to secure the other 5 per cent."
Frood sold a quarter and a third of lot 7 respectively to fellow prospectors Peter Campbell and Robert J. Tough. For several of his other discoveries, such as Lady Macdonald (1884) and Copper Cliff (1885), both of which were patented to Metcalf and McAllister, he received only a few hundred dollars each. Extremely bitter, he hoped that "in the coming changes of relations of Capital and Labor, there will . . . be more encouragement given to individual effort and less crushing by capitalists."
A few prospectors, among them Tough and Rinaldo McConnell, proved adept at transforming discoveries into wealth. Frood himself did not do badly out of his remaining share of lot 7, which he refused to sell to Metcalf and McAllister. In 1886 Frood, Campbell, and Tough negotiated with Samuel J. Ritchie*, president of the Canadian Copper Company, who was anxious to buy what promised to be (and was) one of the richest deposits in the district. The three drove a hard bargain, receiving $30,000, with $12,500 going to Frood. By comparison, Ritchie had paid Metcalf and McAllister only $13,000 for five properties less than a year earlier.
Frood continued to prospect, from Thessalon to Mattawa, but he made no more strikes of any magnitude. By 1889 he had moved to Wallace Mine, a community at the mouth of the Whitefish River on Lake Huron's north shore. He lived there for the remainder of his days, working as a farmer and labourer, investing in mineral properties and timber limits, mining on a small scale, and writing the occasional newspaper article boosting northern Ontario.
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Friday, May 21, 2010
Review: Harmonic Feedback by Tara Kelly
Title: Harmonic Feedback
Author: Tara Kelly
Publisher: Henry Holt BFYR
Pub. Date: 5/25/10
Genre: Contemporary YA
Keywords: Asperger's Syndrome, Music, Friendship, Romance
Pages: 278
Description (from GoodReads):
Sixteen-year-old, music- and sound design-obsessed Drea doesn't have friends. She has, as she's often reminded, issues. Drea's mom and a rotating band of psychiatrists have settled on a touch of Asperger's."
Having just moved to the latest in a string of new towns, Drea meets two other outsiders. And Naomi and Justin seem to actually like Drea. The three of them form a band after an impromptu, Portishead-comparison-worthy jam after school. Justin swiftly challenges not only Drea's preference for Poe over Black Lab but also her perceived inability to connect with another person. Justin, against all odds, may even like like Drea.
It's obvious that Drea can't hide behind her sound equipment anymore. But just when she's found not one but two true friends, can she stand to lose one of them?
By simply reading the description of Harmonic Feedback, you'll discover that the main character has Asperger's Syndrome. Asperger's is characterized by social awkwardness and repetitve behaviors, which, understandably, sets Drea apart from other main characters in the genre. Unfortunately, some people may see Kelly's debut novel on the shelf, and, like Drea's peers, be unable to see past the Asperger's. This aspect of the novel is well written and allows it to stand out on crowded YA shelves, but that isn't the only thing that makes it shine.
As indicated by the title, Drea is heavily influenced by music. Whether the reader is familiar with the bands or types of music in the novel is irrelevant; it's Drea's passion that resonates. Often, a main character will dabble in hobbies and activities, but readers rarely see the protagonist so completely dedicated to something, other than a boy. Drea's ability to both lose and find herself in music reminded me of how I feel about reading. I think many readers will feel this connection to Drea, no matter what their individual passion. It's the fact that the reader can identify with Drea that makes her unforgettable.
It's impossible for me to discuss Harmonic Feedback without mentioning Justin, the boy who unexpectedly walks into Drea's life and turns it completely upsidedown. Not only does Justin challenge Drea's ideas about her music, he challenges her ideas about herself. In ways, Justin is Drea's knight in shining armor. He awakens her to a whole new world that I fear she never would sought out on her own. Kelly wrote Justin as both a supportive friend and a boy falling head over heels for a girl, which is exactly what Drea needs.
I can't say enough good things about Harmonic Feedback and, even then, I don't know if I could do it justice. Tara Kelly has written a powerful novel that both inspires and entertains and I urge you to read it!
Grade: A
Cover Comments:
I love the cover, especially because the cover model could be me, you, or you.
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I love the idea for this book - asperger's and music. great to hear that the author did it justice!ReplyDelete
This sounds so good! I was interested in it a few months ago but other books managed to worm their way into my shopping cart before Harmonic Feedback. Now... oh Sara. M bank-account draining, walking, talking human book recommendation... you've done it again. I love the sound of this and I really can't wait to read it! Great review!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 22, 2010 at 2:52 PM
I would never have picked this book up, if it weren't for your review! Now, it's a must-read. Thanks!ReplyDelete
I loved this one so much! I can't wait for her next book.ReplyDelete
This book is number one on my wish-list. I've heard so many amazing things. Ever since I saw the movie 'Adam', I've been DYING to read this. Definitely even more psyched (if that's possible) after reading you review.ReplyDelete
This book sounds wonderful. I didn't know what it was about, but the cover captured my attention and the summary sounds just as interesting. Now reading your review I'll definitely have to get this book.ReplyDelete
This looks great. Definitely adding it to my list.ReplyDelete
I can't wait for this to get here!ReplyDelete
This does sound like a great read! Thank you for the review - I will definitely add this to my wish list!ReplyDelete
ooh thanks for the review! its on my to-read list now!ReplyDelete
Thanks for reviewing! I'm definitely going to check this one out!ReplyDelete
This sounds really unique. I can't wait until this comes out!ReplyDelete
I'm glad you liked it so much, I really have to read it now! (:ReplyDelete
Thanks for this review Sara! Your description makes me really want to check out the book myself.ReplyDelete
*Hope I win the contest*
I think it's great to point out that the novel is much more than Drea's Asperger's syndrome. I've read a lot of contemporary YA "issue" books lately, and there is always something more going on. I'd never only recommend most of them for just those who have the same problems - many people can identify with them, even if they've never had the issue.
I've been wanting to read this book for the longest! Glad to see a great review for it. ^_^ReplyDelete
My family's quite musical [I play the violin grade 5, my sister and dad guitar] and I love music [Green Day!] so this should be a great, heart touching read for me!ReplyDelete
I love love loved! Harmonic Feedback! The cover is just so awesome and the characters are just all kinds of fun. I'm so glad you liked it! <3ReplyDelete
Great Review! This has been on my list for awhile - the cover is what attracted me but when I read the synopsis I knew I had to read the book.ReplyDelete
I've been looking forward to reading this books since I first saw a snippet of it on Tara's blog. And after this review I want to read it even more!ReplyDelete
It sounds like such a fantastic book! I can't wait to read it! :)ReplyDelete
Its a nique story in that Drea has Asperger's Syndrome. Its not something I would usually pick up and I think you've managed to change my mind about it.ReplyDelete
I love the unique angle of this bookReplyDelete
I cannot wait to read this book. It has been on my wish-list ever since I found out about it!ReplyDelete
The music theme of the book definitely makes it sound worthwhile, yet I think also that adding Asperger Syndrome to this book can make it unforgettable. Thanks for the positive review!ReplyDelete
I love it when music is incorporated into the story. Thanks for the review, It sounds great.ReplyDelete
I keep hearing great things about this book and reading your review makes me want it even more. I was actually intrigued by the Asperger's element since I don't know much about it and of course since I love music myself that was what has really drawn me to the story. Thanks for the review.ReplyDelete
I don't know much about aspergers so I want to know it better. This book looks great! Thanks for the great review!ReplyDelete
Yes! I love books that are music inspired - I learn about the best bands usually through books.ReplyDelete
And I agree, that cover is awesome. I'll definitely have to check out this book, it sounds great.
Everyone I know who's read this has read it. Can't wait to read it!!!ReplyDelete
Oh, this book sounds good. I've had an interest in Asperger's syndrome, since reading THE MADNESS OF LORD IAN MCKENZIE, which has a hero with Aspergers.ReplyDelete
I really want to read thisReplyDelete
After reading this review I am going to have to add this to my TBR mountain. I have heard of Aspergers but don't know much about it. However, I'd like to learn more. from the brief description I can see myself. I don't socialize much and feel uncomfortable in many social aspects. I'm very co-dependent upon my hubby, I go nowhere without him or on occasions I substitute my Mom. So this interests me a great deal. I'm glad I looked for book contests and found this page.ReplyDelete
I can't wait to read this! I've been hearing wonderful things about it all over the blogosphere! This sounds really different, and definitely interesting. I would love to read about a knight in shining armor myself!ReplyDelete
I love how music is really involved in this book, I like to say that "music is my life". The cover looks incredible, and I think I should get this (I know I should!)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 10, 2010 at 9:41 PM
Awesome ! Books that are close to music are always good !ReplyDelete
It sounds like an awesome book, and very unique! I can't wait to read it sometime. <3ReplyDelete
Wow, this sounds like such an amazing book. I have seen the cover before but never read a review. Thanks!ReplyDelete
Loved this book. The voice is pot on, stunning and powerful plot.ReplyDelete
Find an independent bookstore, get a copy and read it.
You won't be sorry.


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The tall, lanky patient enters the room bent over and shuffling like a man twice his age. He climbs on a gurney and lies back, head throbbing. Then Carlton Haywood pulls out a bottle of Tums, relief-in-waiting for the nausea he fears will come.
"You never know how bad it's going to get," he says with a cordial smile.
Haywood, 37, belongs to the 0.003 percent of the U.S. population that suffers from sickle cell disease, which predominantly affects blacks and which he has battled since birth. A health care team at the Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center is about to remove 75 percent of his blood and replace it with donated units, a procedure he undergoes monthly.
As rare as the blood disorder is, Haywood's situation is even rarer. A bioethics and hematology professor at the Johns Hopkins University, he's one of the few academicians who root a career studying the illness in personal experience.
Haywood the scholar knows Haywood the patient, a fact that imparts a special meaning and power to an often lonely mission.
"There's so much Carlton brings to our work that no one else can," says Dr. Sophie Lanzkron, the director of the Adult Sickle Cell Clinic at Hopkins. "He has significant illness, lives with this discomfort every day and manages it incredibly well. It's one reason he knows as much about [sickle-cell] as anybody I've met."
On this June morning, Haywood reclines in fatigue as the bad blood flows from his body and the good enters through tubes in his chest. If he's lucky, he'll be well enough next week to return to a schedule of lecturing, writing and researching the state of sickle cell treatment in the U.S.
On that last subject, he turns learned professor.
Most sufferers, Haywood says, have horror stories of locking horns with their health care providers. Many in the general population still believe the "black disease" they heard so much about 40 years ago has been cured. Worse, funding for research is 1/300thsof that available for comparable genetic illnesses.
"Sickle cell disease represents a uniquely bad confluence of problems," he says in a voice far gentler than his disorder.
Haywood pops a Tums.
"We have a long way to go, mm-hmm," he says
A full-blown case
Medical historians have traced sickle-cell disease to four regions of Africa, where they say it developed thousands of years ago and was first described in medical literature in 1870. Today it affects about 100,000 people in the United States, nearly 3,300 of them in Maryland.
It strikes individuals of many ethnicities, including Caucasians, though more than 90 percent of sufferers are black.
The medical system calls it an "orphan disease" — that is, like muscular dystrophy, cystic fibrosis and other disorders, it affects fewer than 200,000 people. But to those who have it, the numbers are more than big enough. And the problems start early.
Haywood was born in Atlanta, and for the first three years of his life, he screamed so often and so terribly that his parents, Carlton Sr., and Harriett Haywood, thought they must be doing something wrong. By 1979, when his sister Tammy was born, they had moved to Alabama, a state that mandated sickle-cell testing for all newborns. She didn't have the disease but carried some of its traits, so doctors suggested they test their son.
The results were "devastating," says Harriett, now 61 and living in Columbia, S.C. "The doctors told us Carlton wouldn't live through childhood. It was very, very difficult to deal with."
The condition refers to misshapen red blood cells, according to the National Institutes of Health.
Normal red blood cells are doughnut-shaped and malleable, and contain hemoglobin, a protein that allows the cells to carry oxygen throughout the body. Hemoglobin-A — the normal kind — is ball-shaped, allowing the cells to move smoothly around even the sharpest turns in the body's vascular system, reaching every organ.
Those born with sickle-cell disease, though, inherit from both parents hemoglobin-S, which causes the cells to develop a crescent shape. The cells clump together and get stuck in curves and crannies, causing dangerous blockages that can last for hours.
As he explains the impact, a gentle smile crosses Haywood's round face, his default expression whatever the subject. "During those crises, otherwise known as vaso-occlusive episodes, my organs are being starved of blood and oxygen," he says.
The emergency is immediate — and has wide-ranging implications.
The pain is overwhelming, often so severe that only extremely powerful opiods can touch it. The affected organs can fail, sometimes fatally. And possibly most maddening, there exists no medical test to prove any attack is happening.
"Imagine you're a 20-year-old African-American male in Baltimore City. You're having intense pain. You go to the ER, where you're appropriately pleading for narcotics, but you can't prove anything is wrong," says Lanzkron, who has treated Haywood as a patient and co-authored some of his research work. "You can imagine how that goes: often, not well."
Haywood's unsure why, but he always got fair treatment from physicians when growing up. It wasn't until later that he realized how lucky that was.
A jagged shape
Sickle-cell disease is so painful, complicated and poorly understood that for generations, medicine men in certain parts of Africa believed it was a curse.
Many Western patients use that word to describe it, Haywood says. He doesn't blame them.
He remembers childhood as a blur of pain crises, breathing tubes and oxygen masks. The weeks he spent in hospitals were lonely and frightening.
The episodes struck 10 or 12 times a year, usually starting in his chest or arms and spreading like a slow-burning fire to other parts of his body.
"Think of the worst pain you've ever had — a broken bone or a migraine — and imagine it as a steady rainfall," he says. "Then it blossoms into a thunderstorm that lasts for hours."
Nothing could kill the pain, but doctors prescribed morphine and other opiods to reduce it — just enough to bring relief without causing organ failure.
The discomfort went beyond the physical.
Like many boys, Haywood loved sports, and he inherited a competitive nature from his father, the first African-American to win a full football scholarship to the University of South Carolina.
But those who have sickle-cell must monitor their activity. Overexertion, like dehydration, extreme weather, poor diet and stress, can spark attacks.
He landed in the emergency room so often that his mother drew a line. "I told him, 'If you can't strike a balance, I'm going to keep you in the house,' " she recalls. Between the ages of 11 and 14, he watched through a window as his friends played ball.
He threw himself into reading: science fiction, Stephen King and especially comic books, his preference during hospital stays. His parents discouraged him from delving into sickle-cell, but he couldn't help it. What he learned shocked him.
"Thinking about dying [as a child] is a nightmare," Haywood says. He'd cry and scream and ask his parents, "Why?" They didn't know, they said, but their answers gave him a bit of hope.
Carlton Sr., a manager for a credit company, taught him statistics. "Those are broad figures," he'd say. "If 17 is the median [life span], some people live longer."
"Everyone has an issue they're dealing with," said Harriett, a homemaker and devout Baptist. "This is yours. The question is, how will you deal with it?" Both told him to trust God.
They fetched his school assignments and made sure he kept up when he was out sick. He became a straight-A student.
When he was 13, a doctor in yet another emergency room asked what he wanted to be when he grew up. Carlton wasn't sure, but he did know that many comic-book superheroes were born of physics accidents.
"A physicist," he said.
"Well, you already know more about sickle-cell than I do," the doctor replied. "What about medicine?"
Years later, Haywood narrows his eyes at the memory
"Isn't it interesting," he says, "how a well-timed question can change the way you view what you might be able to do?"
Sickle-cell overwhelmingly affects the urban poor, a demographic that suffers disproportionately from social instability, many studies show.
That means, among other things, that they often lack support when crises come.
As Haywood grew older, he realized he'd never had to drop out of school as so many with sickle-cell do. He'd never had the disabling strokes that ruin school careers and wipe out futures by the thousands. His grades got him into the University of Virginia, where his plan was to pursue a career in medicine.
Harriett had always told him God gave him sickle-cell for a reason. The idea used to make him angry. Now he wondered whether she had a point.
The attacks never went away — the day before his freshman year began, he suffered his worst crisis ever, causing him to miss a semester — but once he enrolled, even failure seemed to give him direction.
Early that first year, for instance, when he realized he disliked working in laboratories, an adviser suggested a subject he'd never heard of.
"Intro to Bioethics changed my life," Haywood says. "I loved reading about ethical dilemmas in medicine. It presented a whole new way of asking questions."
He earned a master's degree in bioethics from Virginia and his doctorate in public health from Hopkins. Along the way, he saw as few others could that sickle-cell, a disease at the molecular level, radiates into the world.
Take socioeconomics. Most patients, he learned, receive government medical assistance, which means their health care providers are undercompensated. This discourages others from going into the field, one reason so few primary-care physicians know the rudiments of sickle-cell.
That problem reinforces another: lacking knowledge, health care providers are less likely to empathize with the patients' unique needs, causing poorer treatment and more stress.
Worse, he found, funding for sickle-cell research is abysmal. In 2004, Haywood came across a federally supported study that compared how well the U.S. funds research into two comparable genetic disorders: sickle-cell disease and cystic fibrosis. The results shocked him.
In 2003, it turned out, sickle-cell disease attracted about $500,000 in private charitable funding. Cystic fibrosis, which affected fewer than a third as many people (nearly all of them Caucasian) attracted $150 million — 300 times as much.
That year, there were also 115 federally funded comprehensive care centers dedicated to cystic fibrosis. There were 10 for sickle-cell disease according to the study, which later appeared in the journal Pediatrics.
Experts say the figures haven't changed much. Sickle-cell, it's clear, is an orphan disease in more ways than one.
"The disparities are jaw-dropping," says Lanzkron, who in 2008 founded the Sickle Cell Infusion Center at Hopkins, the only facility in Maryland that treats both children and adult patients. "The reasons, of course, are complicated. But when you show people these figures, it stuns them. We're doing our best to spread the word."
Elephant in the room
After two hours in a small room at HATS — the Hemaphaeresis and Transfusion Support Center at Hopkins Hospital — Haywood has had little nausea, a common side-effect of his treatment.
Dr. Jay Brooks Jackson, a pathologist, and three nurses are draining most of Haywood's blood and replacing it with 15 fresh units — about 1.18 gallons, or more than the average person has in his or her body.
In three weeks, he'll have generated enough of his own blood to need a repeat.
Relieved that the end of the treatment is near, he's glad to talk shop. He says he wears three hats in his sickle-cell life, those of patient, professor and advocate. He trades them with ease.
Haywood the patient says medicine has made uncertain progress in his lifetime. When he was a child, a patient's median life span was 14 years and few lived to age 18. By 2006, all 50 states had adopted universal newborn screening, which means every sufferer can be identified and given penicillin daily to head off infections. That has boosted the median life span to about 45 years, and 96 percent live at least 18 years.
But the Food and Drug Administration has approved just one drug, hydroxyurea, for use against sickle-cell, and while it can reduce complications and pain in some patients, the treatment regimen is so complex that few who can use it do. Bone-marrow transplants have cured about 200 people, but they're so invasive that few patients qualify.
Haywood the professor says patients and health care providers are still mutually wary. He has studied, among other things, what factors contribute to mutual trust in sickle cell-related doctor-patient relationships and how that level of trust compares to those in other disease populations. (Answer: not well.)
Can the gap be traced to race? After all, most patients are black, and most health care providers are not. Lanzkron calls the question "the elephant in the room." Haywood is delicate on the subject. "It would make little sense to exclude [race] as a possibility," he says, adding that any firm conclusions are a long way off.
Haywood the advocate heads a monthly research group at Hopkins that looks at disparities in sickle-cell disease care, travels often to share his findings and speaks to each new class at the medical school.
Psychology professor Shawn Bediako of University of Maryland, Baltimore County, a friend and colleague, said Haywood is skilled at explaining his work in a way that is accessible.
"No matter if you are a molecular geneticist, a person with a bachelor's degree, or someone who dropped out of high school, you 'get' what he is doing, and you know why it is important," Bediako said.
Haywood hopes to stumble on a donor with deep pockets or a celebrity who can take up a cause that, for whatever reason, has zero A-list spokesmen and little national visibility.
Haywood the man? He's single. His mother keeps tabs on him via cellphone (his parents are separated), and his comic-book collection is bigger than ever. But the illness that shapes him still lurks like a shadow.
He knows some patients live into their 70s and beyond these days, and he realizes he has lived longer than some expected, given his case's severity. But some nights he dreams of being in a strange, colorless void, a place of nothingness, and he wakes up, heart pounding.
He believes in God, he says, though maybe not enough. Next morning, he gets up, pops his pain meds and heads out the door. There are others like him who need help. "I'm a lucky man," he says.
The Morning Sun
Carlton Haywood Jr.
Born: January 1976, in Atlanta
Education: B.A., University of Virginia, 1999; M.A., University of Virginia, 2003; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2008
Positions: Core faculty member, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics; associate faculty, Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research; assistant professor of hematology, Hopkins School of Medicine
Career interests: Bioethics and health services related to sickle-cell disease; African-American perspectives in bioethics
Other distinctions: Serves on Maryland's Statewide Steering Committee on Services for Adults with Sickle Cell Disease and a National Human Genome Research Institute working group investigating the clinical implications of sickle-cell carrier status.
Hobbies: Collecting comic books and watching sci-fi and horror films. Favorite superheroes are the X-Men, of whom he says, "They strive to save society even though society rejects them as people."


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In my day there were rules of engagement in these type of matters.
The Ex didn't cock block, the new dude didn't gloat and the chick didn't act like Kat Stacks at BET Awards. Is this what it has come to?
I don't even like Joe Budden and his cock blocking was suspect (Joe Budden Salty His Ex- Girlfriend Tahiry Hosting Party With Knicks JR Smith), but……JR Smith is no better. OK, you smashed or appeared to smash, why throw it in that man's face especially on Twitter.
Nothing chill about that.
The Knicks will never prosper like this and whatever happened to JR Smith tatted up girlfriend who had his back in China?
With that being said…………
Not bad……..for a Twodel, check out the booty shaking video.
Screengrabs from Jocks& Stiletto Jill. Stiletto Jill who you can also follow on Twitter, also was able to grab Tahiry's replies to these guys acting like they are on Saved by the Bell.
As you can imagine, she is LOVING the attention in true Twodel fashion.


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Rhea's Western Wisps
Icy fractures on Saturn's moon Rhea reflect sunlight brightly in this high-resolution mosaic created from images captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft during its March 2, 2010, flyby. This flyby was the closest flyby of Rhea up to then.
This mosaic of six images shows the westernmost portion of the moon's "wispy" terrain. (See PIA06578 and PIA08120 to learn more.) Among the interesting features depicted here is a very straight east-west fracture near the top center of the mosaic that intersects two north-south fractures. The large crater at the bottom left of the mosaic is Inmar (55 kilometers, 34 miles across).
The closest approach of the spacecraft to Rhea during this encounter was 100 kilometers (62 miles). These images were obtained approximately half an hour later at an altitude of about 16,000 kilometers (10,000 miles).
This mosaic shows part of the side of Rhea (1528 kilometers, 949 miles across) that always faces Saturn. The images were re-projected in an orthographic projection centered on terrain at 7 degrees north latitude, 296 degrees west longitude. The mosaic itself shows terrain centered on terrain at 6 degrees north latitude, 293 degrees west longitude. North on Rhea is roughly up in the image.
The images were taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera. The view was obtained at a sun-Rhea-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 2 degrees. So, Cassini was almost directly between Rhea and the sun as it acquired these images. Image scale is 85 meters (280 feet) per pixel.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging team is based at the Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov or http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/ . The Cassini imaging team homepage is at http://ciclops.org .
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute


text: The RIAA/MPAA empire has been tearing down tracker sites left and right; making tracker operation a risky proposition. Distributed tracking guarantees the torrents on these sites will be available even when the site tracker is down. Distributed tracking also makes publishing content easier. Instead of posting a .torrent file to a tracker site you can publish to a distributed tracker. Then you just post the .torrent file on your blog/fan site/forum. You don't even have to go that far. Azureus can generate a "magnet:" link for any bittorrent file it is currently tracking. Anybody can open that link in their Azureus client and the .torrent file will be retreived directly from the database. I think this system will be great for people publishing their original works since they won't have to provide lots of bandwidth or rely on someone's flakey tracker. Recently support was added to the official client and many more will probably follow. Azureus explains the magic after the jump. Give it a read if you're not too busy downloading crappy RotS cam movies. (EDIT: I guess there is a workprint out there, so the quality is probably pretty good)


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Tyrs – A Twitter client based on ncurse
Sponsored Link
A list of some interesting features:
Supports Identi.ca and Twitter services
OAuth authentication.
UTF-8 support.
Tweets, Retweets, Follow, Unfollow.
Mentions, Replies
Direct messages
Transarency and colors.
Based on ncurses.
Customization of keys binding.
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Easily configurable, readable configuration.
Opens URL with just single key.
Install tyrs on ubuntu
Open the terminal and run the following commands
apt-get install python-setuptools python-distutils-extra
wget http://src.nicosphere.net/tyrs/tyrs-{revision}.tar.gz
tar xvf tyrs-{revision}.tar.gz && cd tyrs
python setup.py build
sudo easy_install dist/tyrs-{revision}-py2.7.egg
Note:- You need to replace {revision} with correct tyrs version number


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Update Your Profile From More Websites — A few weeks ago, we told you about the new ability to import stories into your Mini-Feed from other sites. Since then, we've been working on increasing the number of sites that work with this feature. We're happy to report that now …
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Social networking site bans oldies over sex offender fears — Over 36? You can't play — A social networking site has deleted most of its users over the age of 36 because it claims older users pose a danger of sex offending. It claims to be forced into the action by the Government …
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Social Networking Site Bans Anyone Over Age 36 To (Sorta) Deal With Sex Offender Law
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MicroHoo: The Gates Factor — Sure, Microsoft and Yahoo are talking this weekend and they are talking about a lot of configurations of a revived deal to merge the companies together in some way that makes all parties happy. — But make no mistake: It is Yahoo (YHOO) pushing the one-price-buys-all idea …
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Microsoft Will Shut Down Book Search Program — SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft said Friday that it was ending a project to scan millions of books and scholarly articles and make them available on the Web, a sign that it is retrenching in some areas of Internet search in the face of competition from Google, the industry leader.
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Microsoft shuts down book search
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Blu-ray Awaits Its Spoils — Blu-ray may have won the format war, but it hasn't won over many consumers. — Now was supposed to be the boom time for the young video technology, pitched as a high-definition replacement for the DVD. In January, consumer electronics company Toshiba dropped support …
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Hints of a Facebook Operating System In New Design — It's become a common trope to say that Facebook and Google are vying to become the operating system of the Internet. But there are some very clear hints of that in Facebook's upcoming new design, which it just opened up to today in a developer sandbox.
Pete Bratach / Facebook Developers:
The Sandbox for the New Profile Design Is Now Open
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