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Climate change is likely to be worse than many computer models have projected, according to a new analysis.
The work, published yesterday in Science, finds evidence that Earth's climate is more sensitive to the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than some earlier studies had suggested.
If the new results are correct, that means warming will come on faster, and be more intense, than many current predictions. Moreover, the impacts of that warming, including sea level rise, drought, floods and other extreme weather, could hit earlier and harder than many models project, said study co-author John Fasullo, a climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
"Temperatures are likely to go up to the high side of current projections, as is [atmospheric] water vapor," he said. "To the extent those environmental impacts influence events like [Superstorm] Sandy, expect the impacts to be on the high side."
For scientists like Fasullo and co-author Kevin Trenberth, head of NCAR's climate analysis section, determining the climate's precise sensitivity to the CO2 accumulating in the atmosphere has been an unusually tough task.
Researchers normally define the problem, known as equilibrium climate sensitivity, as the warming that would result if the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere rises to twice the preindustrial level.
Probing the behavior of clouds
A groundbreaking 1979 climate report from the National Academy of Sciences put the likely warming from that doubling of CO2 at 1.8 to 8.1 degrees Fahrenheit. But over the next 28 years, scientists were able to narrow that range only slightly. The estimate listed in 2007 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is 3.6 to 8.1 degrees F, with a best guess of 5.4 degrees.
That uncertainty is represented in the latest crop of global climate models, which assume a climate sensitivity of anywhere from about 3 to 8 degrees F.
What the new study does is attempt to change the angle of attack on the sensitivity problem. It tries to turn a major factor in the uncertainty in climate sensitivity estimates -- the behavior of clouds -- into a strength.
Clouds can act to heat or cool the atmosphere, depending on their location and structure. But scientists have had a hard time representing cloud behavior in models, in part because there is little high-quality data on cloud behavior.
To get around the problem, Fasullo and Trenberth decided to examine how well 16 global climate models reproduce recent satellite observations of relative humidity in the tropics and subtropics, a quantity that is directly related to cloud formation.
Relative humidity is the measure of the actual amount of water vapor in a given location's atmosphere, compared with the maximum it could hold. When relative humidity is high enough, it triggers cloud formation.
"The trick here is we're not using any trends, [not] looking at trends in dry zones," Fasullo said. "Instead, we're just trying to ask the question, do the models resolve dry zones? We're trying to get at the processes that drive sensitivity, instead of observing the actual changes themselves."
When the scientists compared the output of climate models with a decade of satellite measurements of relative humidity, they found that the models that best reproduced observed conditions were built on the premise that climate sensitivity is relatively high -- 7 degrees F or more.
The models that were least accurate also had the lowest climate sensitivity baked in, the scientists said.
The results are promising, Fasullo said, but he also sounded a note of caution.
A way to judge the models
"This problem has been around for 30 years, and very little progress has actually been made on it in 30 years," he said. "In no way would I be under the delusion that this solves the problem."
But experts who were not involved in the research said it is a promising new approach to an issue that has sometimes seemed intractable.
Karen Shell, an atmospheric scientist at Oregon State University, called the new findings "one piece of the climate sensitivity puzzle."
"Knowing that a modeled relative humidity is incorrect does not directly translate into the necessary model improvements, and models might not correctly simulate the dependence of cloud properties on relative humidity," she wrote in an essay accompanying the research, which was also published in Science.
Even models that correctly capture cloud behavior may fail to fully account for other climate feedbacks from factors like changing snow and sea ice cover, atmospheric water vapor content, and temperature. Yet even with those caveats, Shell praised the approach laid out in the new research as a "simple diagnostic ... [and] an encouraging step that links observations to climate sensitivity."
Similarly, Reto Knutti, a climate scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, called the findings "impressive."
"For years we've been trying to find relationships between quantities we can measure and climate sensitivity in order to narrow the plausible range for climate sensitivity. We have largely failed in doing so," Knutti said.
"This new paper is one of the few cases where there is a clear relationship that offers hope to constrain the models, or to identify the better ones based on observations. And it's particularly nice because the authors offer a plausible physical mechanism to explain the results, not just a correlation."
Reprinted from Climatewire with permission from Environment & Energy Publishing, LLC. www.eenews.net, 202-628-6500


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'Basketball Wives' -- On Set Brawl ... Meatballs Thrown
'Basketball Wives' On Set Brawl ... Meatballs Thrown!!!
Beware of flying meatballs ... "Basketball Wives" stars Suzie Ketcham and Kenya Bell got into an all out physical brawl on set last week ... that started when one threw a plate of meatballs at the other.
Sources close to the production tell TMZ that the fight went down at a restaurant in L.A. where the cast was taping an episode for season 5 -- in which Kenya (who was fired last year) was temporarily brought back to settle her beef with Suzie.
But it didn't go as planned ... OR DID IT??? We're told the two got into a heated verbal exchange ... which quickly escalated when Suzie threw her plate of meatballs across the table, striking Kenya.
According to our sources, Kenya fired back by lunging at Suzie and then punches were thrown on both sides. Producers were forced to step in and break it up.
Our sources say fellow cast members Evelyn Lozada and Tami Roman walked away -- wanting no part in the melee. Police were NOT called to the scene.
We're told the fight WILL be shown in the upcoming season. Of course it will.

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The collections from B O U D I CC A are stories, short scenes from films, that at times are simple and reference the obvious, at others become complex and ill fitting. The modern paranoia of human life, the beauty and the vanity of modern life, the anger of another, the fake lies that we are told and the real truths we forget...
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Ever since fashion, trends have been under controversy, eventually leading to significant dissimilarities among fashion senses. Besides the trends in fashion, it seems that individual preferences can make the difference when it comes to clothes.
Suits versus jackets and vice versa is beyond any shadow of a doubt a major fashion dilemma, active men are frequently dealing with. Choosing suits over jackets is a decision which may be explained in many ways. First and foremost, the events and the settings weigh a lot when men and women are choosing both appropriate and comfortable outfits. The same is true for suits versus jackets. As we all know, the dress code is very much depending on our professional activity, and not having the adequate outfit we may compromise the outcomes of our endeavors.
A business meeting sets certain dress codes. Wearing a suit shows great consideration for the prospective business partner. Not being compliant with the dress code by wearing a sport jacket is a gesture which can be interpreted in so many ways. In this case, the partner of discussion might be tempted to judge your business abilities by your clothes and then to mistrust your sense of responsibility. However, if you succeed to convince him or her that your unconventional fashion style has nothing to do with your business skills, you are indeed an innate communicator.
Instead of risking your chances of success in business terms and career terms, it is much wiser to save your sport jacket for other occasions where casual outfits are preferred. In general, leisure activities require less formal outfits. Either you are wearing a classy suit or a casual sport jacket you can easily show a high sense of fashion since both styles allow buyers to express their personality and creativity. By wearing the Barbour Enfield jacket or the Barbour International jacket, your appearance will be flawless. The same happens if you will be choosing the Barbour Liddesdale jacket.
The differences between suits and jackets are also concerning the fabrics. It goes without saying that suits require special types of fabrics. In contrast, when designers are creating jackets they can choose much more fabrics. In short, the jackets are less restrictive, allowing designers and buyers to fully explore their creativity, but having an elegant suit in our wardrobe is mandatory mainly if we may be invited to attend certain events where casual outfits are not recommended


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Thursday June 17, 1982
Pix #1 - Early view of Floyd Harrison's Heritage House at 215 W. Tiffin St.
Today's article has been delayed many months, believing it might be possible to confirm dates for the time of construction of Floyd Harrison's Heritage House at 215 W. Tiffin St.
The Donald Watkins Heritage House, better known to most Fostorians as the Lockhart House, was in a Potluck article August 20, 1981 and at that time the two houses, side-by-side, were said to be constructed at about the same time.
Since many readers have looked forward to the Heritage House Series it seems best to not delat further, even though a firm dae for construction is not available.
According to legend, passed along some years ago by older Fostorians, the Harrison house was built first, and the house next to it was built later to be used as servants quarters. However, who the owner was is unknown, since Harrison has never had an original abstract.
Your author's guess is that the Harrison house was built in the lat 1840's or early 50's. It may be the oldest house on West Tiffin Street.
Photo #1 shows the house as it appeared when first constructed, reflecting the Italianate architecture, with Mansard roof campanile and balcony areas. The balcony railing was of decoratively carved wood.
During Mr. Harrison's ownership, the wood railing, which had deteriorated, was replaced by wrought iron. The Seneca Lumber Co. had the tooling to duplicate the original but the cost would have been prohibitive.
Your author believes photo No. 1 was taken in the late 1890's or early 1900's at which time the house was owned by Mr. and Mrs. John Ebersole. My wife said one of the ladies in the photo was her grandmother, Hatie Drenner, sister of John Ebersole. John Ebersole is probably standing on the balcony. Photo No. 2 shows the house as it appears today.
Exclusive of the basement, the house is four stories high. The two top stories could logically be called "lookouts", and that mey be exactly what they were used for back at the time of construction.
The day Harrison took me on a tour of the house, we climbed the narrow, steep stairs which leads from the second floor (where the man in photo No. 2 is standing in the doorway leading to the balcony) to the highest point in the structure. In both of the two top levels, I could see in all directions.
Whoever built and owned the house originally must have been at least moderately wealthy and probably owned farmland south of the village of Rome. As mentioned previously, legend had it that the original owner of the Harrison house also owned the one next to it for servant's quarters... probably to help farm.
The "lookout" suggestion isn't out of the question and really seems plausible. Those working in the fields, or perhaps caring for cattle, south of the village, could have been summoned by bell or gunshot, in the case of emergency. Also, from the high vantage point, poachers or thieves could have been detected.
The first floor of the house was six rooms; the second floor has four rooms. Harrison's busy schedule made it impossible to schedule a date for taking interior views of the house unless further delays were considered, which seemed undesirable.
Who the owners or residents of the house may have been in the earliest days is unknown, but it is known that J.F. Richart resided there in 1893, followed by John P. Ebersole from 1899. Charles W. Fox, who owned and farmed land south of town, was owner of the property from 1915 until Harrison became the possessor.
It seems a bit ironic that Floyd Harrison should now own and live in the house. When Floyd was a boy, his parents lived east of Fostoria on a farm, and Ebersole was the mail carrier for that area.
When it was time for Floyd to start to school, his parents asked Ebersole if he could ride from their house to the school since he went past it on the mail route.
Floyd said Ebersole accommodated them for a ride or two, but said it was against government rules to reansport passengers in his horse and buggy when delivering mail.
John Ebersole worked at the Davis and Foster Grocery Store from 1893 until about 1910, when he became a rural mail carrier. When the Ebersoles sold the property they moved to a fine old home just west of the present offices of The Mennel Milling Co. The house was demolished when the highway and underpass were constructed in that area.
The Harrison house has, in your author's view, the most unusual appearance of any in town. It was originally well constructed and has stood the test of time. The present owner has preserved it through good maintenance and it is not only a credit to early period design and construction, but worthy of being selected as a Heritage House by the Antique Study Club.
Deputy Surgeon General of the Navy George E. Gorsuch, MC, USN, will join the American College of Physicians staff in July as vice president of the Membership Department.
As a descendent of John Gorsuch, the founder of the village of Risdon, which later joined with Rome to form Fostoria. Rear Admiral Gorsuch's name has appeared in Potluck often and he keeps in touch with your author.
When Dr. Gorsuch retires June 30 from his present job as senior manager and administrator of the Navy Medical Department at the Navy Regional Medical Center at Portsmouth, he will be leaving one of the largest direct health cate systems in the world. That department employees 3,600 physicians, 2,650 nurses, nearly 2,000 corpsmen, with an anuual budget of $1.5 billion.
After obtaining his MD degree from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Dr. Gorsuch interned at the Naval Hospital in Philadelphia and did his residency at naval hospitals in San Diego and Bethesda.
Dr. Gorsuch was fleet surgeon to the 7th and Pacific fleets and served as commanding officer of the Naval Regional Medical Center in Japan. He was second in command of the Naval Hospital in Oakland, California, from 1973 to 1975.
He is an associate fellow of the American College of Cardiology and member of the Association of Military surgeons, The Society of Medical Consultants to the Armed Forces and Alumni of the Federal Health Care Executives Institute.
"Dear Paul: I have been very fornuate in having a niece living in Fostoria who saves your Potluck for me. (Mr. and Mrs. Edward Lee), I've enjoyed so very much your interesting articles and can well appreciate the amount of time you do in research.
About your articles, my niece and husband have one big gripe. They want to save your articles for me, and they sometimes would like to use the coupons which always seem to be on the back of your page. Consequently they forego the coupons to please me.
I mention this believing that there are a lot of Fostoria people sending the articles to former Fostoria friends and relatives who have this same problem, or who may cut out coupons and send the paper anyway.
Anyhow, just maybe your paper could find another spot for those restaurant ads. I know your Potluck has wide circulation. Best regards, Myron Liegengood, Columbus, Ohio".
"Dear Paul, - I'm sorry to be so late in thanking you for the very good write up you did on our town Booneville, (Booneville MO), naming their new street "Al Bersted Drive". I had some extra copies made and have sent one to Ed and Louise Elkington who now live in Las Vegas, NV. Also one to Adam and Alyce dicken who live in Indiana near Louisville, KY. Also want to send a few to some of the salesmen I know are still among the living.
Helen Cotter lives here in Booneville and she sends her very best regards. She is still employed part-time, having retired from McGraw in 1970.
George retired i 1971, and I retired in 1975.
Mrs. George Schmidt"


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Since I reviewed the original Driven Machine Drums release a little over a year ago, Nathaniel at Tonebuilder has worked hard to make this excellent drum machine & percussion sample library even better by adding tons of new sounds to it in version 1.5.
New samples were created with a number of new sound sources, including various modular gear components: Euro Modular (Cwejman, Wiard, MOTM, MakeNoise+), Serge Modular, Acidlabs Miami, Roland TR-909, Jomox MBrane 11, Drumfire DF500, Simmons SDS-1000, MFB-503, Elektron Monomachine, Avedis E-27, TK-BC1, Valley People Dynamite, Schippman Ebbe und Flut, and all the tubes, pres, compressors and tape devices from the first DMD collection.
The new samples are categorized into the following folders:
- Hand Percussion – good variety of percussion type sounds (54).
- Hats and Cymbals – sharp (25) and soft (29) hihat and cymbal sounds, both open & closed.
- Kicks – Dirty (14), Mid Punch (17), Sharp (23), and Soft kicks (29). Deep, raw, distorted, round, thumpy, punchy, etc. All there.
- Other Percussion – Some "offbeats" sounds (20). These are shorter samples including snare, clap, clang type hits etc.
- Snares – Alt Anlg (26), Soft Anlg (21), Dirty (29), Tight (24).
- Toms – Electro Clean (32), Electro Dirty (18), Electro Organic (41), Electro Polite (41).
- Unknown Electronic – FM Klanks (38), Inharmonic (39), Mod Blue (48), Mod Red (50). Great assortment of original sounds.
It is a shame most computer operating systems are still limited to having files in a single folder as quite a few samples fit in more than one sound category. Some kicks sound like toms, toms sound like snares, and there are snares that make good hihats… Anyway, I am quite happy with the way the DMD library is structured. Even with close to 4,500 audio files it is easy to navigate around and find the type of samples you are after.
I made a few short audio clips to demonstrate the sounds of Driven Machine Drums 1.5. The loops were done with the new samples only, using a tiny amount of reverb and compression.
The version 1.5 update to DMD also includes the complete Hi-Fi 909 and Hi-Fi Miami libraries. These are high quality sample sets of the Roland TR-909 and the TR-808 based Acidlabs Miami drum machine.
There are well over 800 samples in each library, including clean sounds as well as a variety of processed versions (compression, tube, EQ, etc).
Check the audio clips below for some more examples of the DMD 1.5 and Hi-Fi 909.
The new content – adding a total of close to 2,300 new sounds to the original DMD collection (all in 24bit/96kHz format), is included with all new copies of Driven Machine Drums and is available to previous DMD customers as a $27 USD upgrade.
I know some people were a bit disappointed with the upgrade not being free. Nathaniel explains:
I had two options, which was to release a DMD 2 for $77/$87, or reward the early adopters by releasing it as 1.5 instead of V2, and hope to make the investment of time/gear by selling new copies of DMD.
Upgrade pricing, special promo deals, bundle discounts, etc. There are always customers who will be upset with however you deal with the commercial side of things. Personally I think the upgrade price for DMD 1.5 is more than reasonable. The additional content is well worth it (Hi-Fi 909 actually sold separately for $23 USD).
So what do I think?
Format: 24bit/44kHz and 96kHz samples
Price: $77 USD (Guru/Wav/Aif) / $87 USD (Kontakt/EXS24/Wav/Aif)
Like: high quality drum machine samples and unique synthetic percussion sounds, much variety and originality
Don't like: —
Verdict: 10/10
Driven Machine Drums already was a superb sample library before the v1.5 update, so it should not surprise you that I am giving DMD 1.5 full marks.
The new content increases the library's versatility by including more mainstream sounds (Hi-Fi 909 & Miami) as well the less conventional glitchy sounds from the modular synths. The quality is of the same high standard as the original release, but now even in 24bit/96kHz.
Comprising more than twice the amount of sounds of the original, Driven Machine Drums is quite the "no brainer" deal, superb value for money.
Note that only less than 250 of the 997 Driven Machine Drums copies available to purchase remain, so check it out and take the DMD 1.5 library for a spin with the 144 free samples included in the demo pack available from the Tonebuilder website.
Note: the original DMD library is no longer available but you can grab the DMD3 + MD Bundle with 5,159 samples for only $47 USD at ShareIt!
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Plants or meat: That's about all that fossils ever tell paleontologists about a dinosaur's diet. But the skull characteristics of a new species of parrot-beaked dinosaur and its associated gizzard stones indicate that the animal fed on nuts and/or seeds. These characteristics present the first solid evidence of nut-eating in any dinosaur.
"The parallels in the skull to that in parrots, the descendants of dinosaurs most famous for their nut-cracking habits, is remarkable," said Paul Sereno, a paleontologist at the University of Chicago and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence. Sereno and two colleagues from the People's Republic of China announce their discovery June 17 in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
The paleontologists discovered the new dinosaur, which they've named Psittacosaurus gobiensis, in the Gobi Desert of Inner Mongolia in 2001, and spent years preparing and studying the specimen. The dinosaur is approximately 110 million years old, dating to the mid-Cretaceous Period.
The quantity and size of gizzard stones in birds correlates with dietary preference. Larger, more numerous gizzard stones point to a diet of harder food, such as nuts and seeds. "The psittacosaur at hand has a huge pile of stomach stones, more than 50, to grind away at whatever it eats, and this is totally out of proportion to its three-foot body length," Sereno explained.
Technically speaking, the dinosaur is also important because it displays a whole new way of chewing, which Sereno and co-authors have dubbed "inclined-angle" chewing. "The jaws are drawn backward and upward instead of just closing or moving fore and aft," Sereno said. "It remains to be seen whether some other plant-eating dinosaurs or other reptiles had the same mechanism."
The unusual chewing style has solved a major mystery regarding the wear patterns on psittacosaur teeth. Psittacosaurs sported rigid skulls, but their teeth show the same sliding wear patterns as plant-eating dinosaurs with flexible skulls.
Citation: "A new psittacosaur from Inner Mongolia and the parrot-like structure and function of the psittacosaur skull," Paul A. Sereno, University of Chicago; Zhao Xijin, Chinese Academy of Sciences;
Tan Lin, Bureau of Land Resources, Hohot, People's Republic of China, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, June 17, 2009
Funding sources: National Geographic Society; David and Lucile Packard Foundation; Biological Sciences Division, University of Chicago; and the Long Hao Institute of Stratigraphic Paleontology


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This dissertation focuses on the involvement ofthe Lutheran Church in poverty alleviation in Makete, Tanzania. My view is that the level of poverty is escalating at an alarming rate contrary to many people's expectation ...


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Tyra Banks Tweeted this photo of what she described as her "juicy muffintop." And thanks to Tyra Banks' selfless action, millions of women and girls around the world now feel better about their bodies. For good measure, the supermodel mogul included the hashtags #assmaintenance and #perfectisboring. (What is she, trying to shame perfect people now? Perfect-shaming? How are perfect Americans supposed to feel about that?) [@TyraBanks]
Karl Lagerfeld explains the Chanel hula-hoop bag in this video. It's big because "You need space for the beach towel. And then you can put it into the sand and hang things on it." So it's a portable towel rack. Awesome. Then Lagerfeld added, "It's not up to me to say it is chic. I thought it was but I cannot say it myself." [Telegraph]
Jennifer Lopez's 4-year-old daughter, Emme, wore $2,410 worth of Chanel accessories to the Chanel show. Emme nonetheless looked kind of sad to be there. [Fashionista]
Raf Simons talks about his first Dior women's ready-to-wear collection in this video. "The main idea was about freedom," he pronounces in his stern, Belgian fashion. "But also sensuality, sexuality, the future, the modern, movement." Then he goes on to consider the coat-dress — "it's kind of like a new jacket, one could say, or it's kind of like a jacket-dress, or is it a dress, or is it a jacket coat? One cannot really say it" — for several minutes. [YouTube]
Sarah Jessica Parker is on the new cover of Elle. [Elle]
This Wonderbra ad demonstrating the company's new iPhone app that allows you to scan a QR code to reveal the bra a model is wearing under her clothes is painfully awkward. [YouTube]
- Although critics were mostly lukewarm about Hedi Slimane's first women's wear show for Yves Saint Laurent — many said Slimane relied too heavily on the house's back catalog, and was too commercial — some buyers expressed excitement. [WWD]
- Michelle Obama just became the first person to wear Jason Wu's new lower-priced line, Miss Wu. [TDB]
- Kanye West reportedly went to Paris Fashion Week without Kim Kardashian because she hurts his fashion cred and he "wants to be taken seriously." [NYDN]
- Cynthia Rowley's spring collection includes bangles that double as flasks. Hallelujah! [Racked]
- Rumor has it that Deborah Needleman was in talks with the New York Times to take over T magazine before Sally Singer even left. Among Needleman's negotiating points: she wanted a separate publisher for the magazine (not one shared with the poorly performing New York Times Magazine) and a reduction from 15 issues per year to 12. It's not clear whether she got either, but the Times apparently did have to dip into discretionary funds to meet her salary request (a move that doubtless won't impress the union still in contract negotiations). Needleman started in her new job two days ago. [WWD]
- Agyness Deyn says marriage to Giovanni Ribisi is "so fucking cool! I love being a wife." The couple knew each other "for a while" but only began dating this spring and married within weeks. "But when you know, you know … He's fucking awesome." The model-turned-actor will not be converting to Scientology, she says. [ES]
- Carine Roitfeld threw a black-tie party to fête the launch of her M.A.C. collection. The former Vogue Paris editor says she's been wearing smoky eye makeup for 20 years. [WWD]
- Andrej Pejic is apparently making lots of money: "According to well-placed industry sources, Pejic could easily earn $50,000 for VIP billing at an international fashion event that involves multiple runway appearances," such as the Digital Fashion Week Singapore, which he just worked. In addition, the Australian male model nets five-figure appearance fees for parties. All of these figures are in Australian dollars. [Frockwriter]
- All Saints hired William Kim, a former senior vice president of Burberry, to be its new C.E.O. [Vogue UK]
- You guys, the Times just broke this amazing story about how sometimes models make jokes about themselves on Twitter and use the hashtag #modelproblems! [NYTimes]


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• We do not substitute medical doctors. We advise you to seek proper medical help.
• In addition, we advocate the use of herbs, and take a holistic approach towards your healing.
• We do not guarantee that the herbs can cure you of your cancer, but experiences of others showed that the herbs brought great relief and healing.
• Healing can only come if you lead a healthy lifestyle, free of stress (physical and mental) and take proper food. Having peace of mind and to believe in God – the Almighty Healer – is just as important as taking herbs or medicine.
The cock crows at the break of dawn
Reminding me of the new born resolve
With the knowledge You've bestowed upon me
Show me Lord, Your way.
- Prayer of 1995
In May 1995, CA Care was born. It started from the sitting room of the home of Dr. Chris K H Teo and his wife, Ch'ng Beng Im.
We started by helping Benedict Yeoh who was down with liver cancer. A week later, Ben brought in Vijay who had lung cancer. From this humble beginning, the word spread and many came to us for help. As of date, we have helped many hundreds of people who had cancer.
Dr. Chris K. H. Teo, Dip. Agr. (M), B. Agr. Sc. (Hons.)(M), M.S, Ph. D. (Hawaii), Dip. Hom., was formerly a Professor of Botany at Universiti Sains Malaysia. He retired from this position in 2000, after teaching and researching at that University for 26 years. He has written numerous research papers and more than a dozen books. He was a fellow of the Matsumae International Foundation, fellow of the Alexander von Humbolt Foundation, and also was a consultant to UNDP-OPS-Bhutan Government.
Ch'ng Beng Im, B. Sc. (Edu.) (Hons.), is a school teacher and has contributed tremendously towards the success of CA Care.
The CA Care Prayer
Make us Lord,
An instrument of Your love and a light in the path of darkness.
To those who are lost, help us show a way
To those in despair, let there be Hope
To those in sadness, let there be Joy.
Grant us Lord,
Wisdom to do things rightly,
Strength to humbly help others, and
Courage to resist greed and self-glorification.
Our CA Care Family
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Rapid Influenza Tests Often Fail to Detect H1N1
Doctors' offices and hospitals are using "rapid influenza diagnostic tests" to identify the presence of the H1N1 flu in patients; however, these tests actually do a poor job of sniffing out H1N1 because the rapid test does not detect H1N1, only influenza A. A confirmatory test must be done to identify H1N1 – a strain of influenza A.
Scientists confirmed this theory recently in a report published in The Journal of the American Medical Association, which found that one-third of California patients hospitalized with H1N1 flu were given a rapid test that came back negative. A different test that uses more sophisticated technology confirmed they had H1N1.
The discrepancy is caused by the high specificity (80-90 percent) and the low sensitivity (10-70 percent) of the rapid test for influenza A. The test often does not identify influenza A, especially in adults, who don't shed as much virus as children. Therefore, correctly identifying those with influenza A, which could be either H1N1 or seasonal flu, is the real issue with the rapid tests. Since about 90 percent of circulating influenza A is H1N1, doctors can be fairly sure that anyone with flu-like symptoms who is also positive for influenza A – either on the rapid or more advanced tests – has H1N1 flu. But, there is still a 10 percent chance that it is seasonal flu.
Regardless, many are not taking the chance that their illness could be something other H1N1. Dartmouth pediatrician Hank Bernstein, who's on the American Academy of Pediatrics' infectious diseases committee, said in a recent USA Today article, if symptoms look like the flu, "it's H1N1 until proven otherwise, almost."
Stephen Baum, an infectious-disease physician at New York's Albert Einstein College of Medicine, in the same USA Today story, says: "If you test positive, you got it. If it's negative, you may still got it."
Therefore, it is important to understand the symptoms of flu versus a common cold. Those symptoms, not the test results, should be the trigger to take relevant action – either treatment or protecting others from exposure. Further, a negative test shouldn't make one complacent in taking steps to prevent spreading the flu. Learn what you can do to keep your family healthy this winter by visiting the "Prevention and Treatment" section on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention H1N1 website.
(Jerod M. Loeb, PhD, is Executive Vice President, Division of Quality Measurement and Research, The Joint Commission, and a member of the Water Quality & Health Council).


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The younger sister of pilot Al McBain confirmed he was killed in a charter float plane crash on northern Vancouver Island along with three others last Friday.
Nathalie Chambers says her brother was a lifelong adventurer who loved nature, could fix any engine and had flying in his blood.
"I'm so devastated and shocked that this would've happened because he was a perfectionist beyond measure," said Chambers, who is a city councillor in Saanich on the island's south end.
Five people were rescued from the wreckage on Addenbroke Island, about 85 kilometres north of Port Hardy, after the of the Seair Seaplanes Cessna 208 went down. Three people were sent to a local hospital and two airlifted to Vancouver.
Authorities have yet to release the names of anyone who was on board.
Chambers says it was strangely fitting that their late father Maj. John Harold McBain had been a pilot for the Comox 442 Rescue Squadron — the same group that was dispatched after the crash to investigate and rescue the survivors.
She had been camping over the weekend at the Walbran Valley on western Vancouver Island when the crash occurred.
"We experienced some really bad weather, and I think that that weather was felt all over the Coast," she said.
She was out of internet range while away and only found out about her brother when she returned from camping on Sunday.
Seair has only commented on its Facebook, says staff are devastated at the news.
What caused the plane to crash is still under investigation by the Transportation Safety Board.
– with files from The Canadian Press
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Seven weeks after the death of King Ludwig II in 1886, Neuschwanstein was opened to the public. The shy king had built the castle in order to withdraw from public life – now vast numbers of people came to view his private refuge.
Today Neuschwanstein is one of the most popular of all the palaces and castles in Europe. Every year 1.4 million people visit "the castle of the fairy-tale king". In the summer around 6,000 visitors a day stream through rooms that were intended for a single inhabitant.
The setting of Neuschwanstein could not be more idyllic. However, movement in the foundation area has to be continuously monitored, and the sheer rock walls must be repeatedly secured. The harsh climate also has a detrimental effect on the limestone façades, which will have to be renovated section by section over the next few years.


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(WASHINGTON, DC) When it was discovered late Friday afternoon that Space Rock 2012 DA14 would not miss earth as scientists earlier predicted but would, in fact, impact its surface resulting in an extinction-level event — most of the planet's population reacted with impotent panic. Wayne LaPierre, visiting D.C. on a lobbying junket, on the other hand, responded to the crisis with steely resolve.
"I had already run the numbers and suspected that we had been given bad information by the astronomical community," LaPierre told a gaggle of reporters on the Capitol steps late in Friday evening. "My calculations suggested that DA14 would strike the Earth at approximately 4:15 and 12 seconds Eastern Standard Time, and that D.C. would be an excellent place from which to mount a defense."
"I already had plans to be in Washington, so it was just a matter of making sure I had a weapon as powerful and efficient as the Bushmaster semi-automatic and a drum of at least 100 rounds of hollow-point ammunition with me should it turn out my a calculations were correct."
As it turned out, LaPierre's assessment was accurate within millimeters and fractions of a second.
"Sometimes I hate it when I'm right," LaPierre said, "but there was nothing to do but take care of business."
So, at 3:59 PM Eastern Standard Time, as other denizens of D.C. scattered powerless in terror, Wayne LaPierre cooly assembled his weapon (a heavily modified AR-15 with special stock and scope) on the steps of the Capitol Building, walked out onto the mall and, in under twenty seconds of firing, placed one hundred precisely positioned hollow-point projectiles into the surface of the approaching meteor.
The results were spectacular.
"I would have thought it fanciful had I not seen it myself" stated astrophysicist Albert Jackson, "but having seen the event and spoken to Mr. LaPierre, I now understand that the perfect placement of the 100 small projectiles, married to the rapidity of the delivery and the nature of the hollow point ammunition itself all combined to create a chain-resonant effect on the asteroids surface. It was this effect that — through a series of harmonic reactions — superheated the combustable surface of the space rock, forcing the outer shell of the meteor to explode, ricocheting the remainder of the rock back into space. To the layman and the naked eye, it might have simply appeared that LaPierre blew the meteorite up with his rifle. But that would be impossible. This was just good science and, critically, the availability of the tools necessary to get the job done. I can only thank God and the vigilance of the NRA that Mr. LaPierre had those tools available and was able to save the lives of every man, woman and child on the face of planet Earth."
Indeed, the revelation that the world owes its continued existence to an assault rifle and large ammunition drum has had an immediate and profound impact on the political landscape. Late Friday night, a contrite and humbled President Barack Obama announced his intention to drop all attempts at further gun regulation, as well as his decision to award Wayne LaPierre the Presidential Medal of Freedom — the nation's highest civilian honor.
"For months, I have argued that there was no valid reason for regular citizens to possess these high-powered weapons which are capable of firing so many high-caliber rounds so fast without the operator even needing to pause to reload," the President stated. "Clearly I, and liberals like me, have been dead wrong the whole time. There is no longer a doubt in my mind that we must arm our population with these powerful tools in order to destroy and divert deadly planet-killing Meteors and other space-based threats. It is my profound hope that Mr. LaPierre can find it in his heart to forgive me and work with my administration as we see to it that every man, woman and child in America is provided with a Bushmaster rifle and a 100-round drum so that we are at least minimally prepared should another asteroid ever take a path that threatens our very existence and way of life."


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Girls who yearn to have a body like Barbie's need to seriously reconsider. As this new infographic from Rehabs.com shows, not only are her idealized proportions anatomically impossible — they would also be incredibly debilitating.
This photo-realistic rendering of barbie shows how absolutely ridiculous she looks when set next to a real human. And the stats back up what the eyes can clearly see.
According to Rehabs.com, an advocacy group that helps to connect people with mental health treatment centers in the U.S., Barbie's unrealistic features include an oversized head supported by a neck that's twice as long as normal (thus making her "incapable of lifting her head"), freakishly short arms — and a 16-inch waist that would only provide for "half a liver and a few inches of intestine."
Barbie's 3.5-inch wrists would make it extremely difficult for her to lift anything, while her absurdly small size-three feet would make it impossible for her to support and balance that long frame; Barbie would "have to walk on all fours."
The odds of finding a woman with a chest-waist ratio like Barbie's are 1 in billions of billions, which basically means it's impossible.
Interestingly, the chart also considers models and women suffering from anorexia. Not surprisingly, those two groups are off when compared to the average American female, but still considerably off when compared to Barbie.
Oh, and apparently this is what Barbie would look like without any makeup on (via Jezebel):


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Affiliation: St. Louis Community College at Meramec
Dr. Michael Fuller was a Geology major in college, but turned to Anthropology for his MA and PhD, both received from Washington University in St. Louis. He served as a contract archaeologist for Missouri State University in the 1970s before joining the faculty of St. Louis Community College during 1982. Dr. Fuller is a specialist in Near Eastern Archaeology (Egypt, Jordan, and Syria). He co-directed rescue excavations at the site of Tell Tuneinir from 1987 until 2001. His latest work has focused on the medieval archaeological remains of the Slavic populations on the border of Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Honor and awards include a Fulbright Travel Grant to Russia in 2006, and the AIA's Joukowsky Distinguished Service Award (shared by Neathery Fuller) in 2009.


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Are you ready for some football? Super Bowl XLVI kicks off Sunday, February 5th at 6:29 p.m. ET, which can only mean one thing: bring on the Super Bowl parties!
We thought we'd give you our highlight reel of some of our favorite football-friendly items that will help add to the excitement as your guests root for their favorite team.
No Super Bowl Party is complete until you have everyone's favorite snack: chips! And now you can serve them to your guests with team spirit with the Game Time Personalized Football Snack Bowl.
The bowl displays our exclusive modern football field design and features any 3-line message you choose. And you can also select the colors for the text and design border. Have fun coming up with playful message, such as, "Michael's Halftime Hot Wings" or "Reserved for Patriots Fans only."
The only thing better than eating chips while relaxing and watching the Super Bowl is adding a good dip to the mix!
That's why we'd like to share a tasty recipe we came across on BetterRecipes.com for The Ultimate Super Bowl Dip, aka the Cheesy Italian Sausage Dip.
This hearty dip includes cheese, Italian sausage, garlic, and peppers among other things so it's sure to fulfill all your guests' hunger.
If you're not a fan of tortilla chips, set it out with pretzels or crackers and you're ready for all the football you can take!
After you and your guests have had your fill of chips and dip you'll need to wash it down with a nice cold beverage. Instead of dealing with water rings on your coffee table protect it and add to your festive atmosphere by personalizing the Football End Zone Personalized Coaster Set for your home or man cave. The set of 4 coasters features your first or last name incorporated into our exclusive end zone design, then you can choose any 2 lines of text to be printed below the design like the clever phrases "Post-Game Highlights & Commentary," or "Good Friends, Cold Beer." The set retails at $24.95 and includes a beautiful mahogany wood caddy to store and display the coasters when they are not in use. But just like the snack bowl, you can save 20% off these coasters when you use the code: SUPERBOWL12 at checkout.
If you are a fan of our End Zone design make sure you check out the matching Football End Zone Personalized Doormat and our Football End Zone Personalized Bar Art that will help complete the personal touch you've added to your Super Bowl party.
We hope you enjoy the dip and party tips and remember to take advantage of the coupon code we gave you above before it expires, Sunday, February 5th!
Here's hoping the football is just as good as the commercials!


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WASHINGTON (Routers) Outraged over the insult to their Fuehrer by a film recently released by RKO, German troops reportedly engaged in violent attacks on Americans attempting to consolidate a beach head in the area of Salerno, Italy, today. The attack was seemingly sudden and spontaneous, waged against the 36th and 45th Divisions near the villages of Altavilla and Battipaglia.
The casualties are severe. The 1st and 3d Battalions, 142nd, and the 3d Battalion, 143rd, have been thrown back from Altavilla. Company K, 143rd, has been cut off. The 1st Battalion, 142nd, has lost all except some sixty of its men. The 2nd Battalion, 143rd, has been smashed in the Sele-Calore corridor and the 1st Battalion, 157th, has been hit hard as well. The American line has been dented, even pierced, and only the artillery is preventing a complete break-through. Worst of all, there are almost no reserves available to mend the line.
Titled Der Fuehrer's Face, the short film that caused the uprising mocks not only Adolf Hitler, but also his aides Goering and Goebbels, and the Nazi belief system itself, and is clearly intended to do so. Featuring an insulting Donald Duck, it seems like crude propaganda, depicting Germans as cruel and stupid. It also makes fun of Hitler's Mein Kampf. It also includes a racist depiction of General Tojo, the Japanese military leader. It features a silly and insulting song released last year by the so-called "comic" musician Spike Jones that mocks the Nazi Party.
Despite warnings by some that the film might inflame tensions with the peaceful German people, it had been shown in many theaters in the U.S. during the summer, but the State Department believes that the Germans had only recently become aware of it. There seemed little other explanation for the sudden outbreak of violence in the newly captured section of Italy. In hopes of tamping down the sudden and unexpected bloodshed, the State Department issued a press release:
The U.S. State Department condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the feelings of Germans, Nazis and other fascists — as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all beliefs. Respect for others' beliefs is a cornerstone of American democracy. We firmly reject the actions by those who abuse the universal right of free speech to hurt the feelings of others.
A State Department spokesman followed up: "The German people have to understand that the American government had nothing to do with the making of this film, and unfortunately, that pesky First Amendment to our Constitution doesn't allow us to prevent such despicable things from being created. But this cannot justify all the bloodshed that we see taking place in Italy today."
However, sadly and shockingly, the statement has done nothing to quell the rioting. Some aren't surprised, however.
"The notion that this was caused by a propaganda film is ludicrous," said one source at the War Department on background. "No one is surprised that the Germans would counterattack when we've invaded their territory. This is war."
When asked if the attacks weren't spontaneous, he scoffed. "The Germans have been massing troops for days in preparation for this operation. The State Department people don't know what they're talking about. People protesting propaganda films don't come armed spontaneously with tanks and artillery."
But the State Department is holding its ground, for now.
"Our current best assessment, based on the information that we have at present, is that, in fact, what this began as, it was a spontaneous — not a premeditated — response. What happened today in Italy, and many other parts of the region was a result, a direct result, of a heinous and offensive film that was widely disseminated, that the U.S. government had nothing to do with, which we have made clear is reprehensible and disgusting."
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Ready to make game-changing plays in pets' health? You must start by opening yourself to messages from your coaches and practice leaders.
In football, as the clock ticks down to two minutes the referee blows the whistle and the quarterback trots to the sideline to confer with his coach, while the defensive team captain does the same. In a few minutes the game resumes, with both sides having received important input from their coaches at a critical moment of the game. The same coaching can happen in a veterinary practice. And learning to be coachable offers many benefits: better patient care, more career satisfaction, a greater potential for raises and advancement and a more pleasant workplace.
Now imagine what would happen if the quarterback and defensive captain ran to the sideline to talk with their coaches and argued instead of listening. This an example of an uncoachable player. As powerful and effective as coaching can be, it won't make any real difference in the performance of a team that isn't open to being coached. Let's explore coaching and how committed team players can become coachable. (Then send your manager here to read about how to be a great coach.)
What is coaching?
Coaching is a special relationship created and maintained through a unique form of communication. A coach and the team speak and listen to each other in a way that they are unlikely to speak and listen to anyone else. Their relationship exists in the conversations they have with each other.
An important part of this coach/player relationship is the mutually shared commitment. In sports, that commitment is to win as many games as possible. In a veterinary practice, it might be to help the practice continue to grow financially while providing the highest quality care available. It's the coach's job to positively impact the performance of the player. And it's the player's job to listen for the advice the coach provides and to then take the coaching. Remember that you're on the same team, committed to producing the same result: high-quality care.
How to be coachable
Start by recognizing that, as human beings, we're not automatically open to coaching. Actually, it's worse than that. We aren't open to coaching and we walk around thinking that we are until someone says something that we don't agree with or that doesn't match our personal beliefs. Then our open minds shut faster and with more force than a bear trap.
It's human nature to hear contributions from others as criticism. How much of a difference a coach can have on a player's performance depends on whether the player is willing to listen. Being coachable occurs in your listening.
Here are two powerful ways to listen that can help you develop into a coachable player:
1. The try-it-on-and- see way of listening. Rather than being concerned about whether you agree or disagree with what the other person is saying, be willing to consider what they're saying. Try it on, looking from their point of view, to see what opens up for you.
2. Listen for the contribution in what the other person says. It's amazing the difference someone can make in your life when you start listening for good advice.
Of course, part of your training is to stay open to coaching. At first, you may hear your employer's comments as criticism. Adjust in those moments to a try-it-on-and-see way of listening. As you develop yourself as a coachable player, you start listening to many others in this way. Suddenly, everyone has something to contribute to you.
Listening will also help you become a powerful team player; someone who's both open to being coached and who applies it to his or her job performance. Don't be surprised if other people start asking you for coaching. Coachable players often become some of the best coaches.


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EMA The Future's Void
April 04, 2014 | Slang50058
Having teased us with a new track 'Satellites' last month, released to rave reviews and scored Pitchfork's Best New Music who said "The most bracing thing yet from an artist already more bracing than most", EMA returns with her highly anticipated second album The Future's Void, released on 7 April via City Slang.
Erika M. Anderson first graced the limelight under the guise of EMA in May 2011, when the brilliantly scuffed debut album Past Life Martyred Saints was released to a multitude of acclaim. After having spent time in the California underground fronting the genre-defying cult duo Gowns with Ezra Buchla, Past Life Martyred Saints offered a deeper glimpse into the world of EMA. An absorbing and ambitious masterpiece that revealed a unique and feed-backed noisy guitar style, a skill for visceral songwriting and a DIY recording ethos, it showcased a distinctive sonic signature that sounded like nothing else around.
If Past Life Martyred Saints was an inward exploration of human relationships and their toll, The Future's Void catapults them out into space, both thematically and musically. The album meditates on universal themes of how we interact with the wider world and how that interaction is increasingly modified by technology. Through collaboration with Leif Shackelford on production duties, the sound of this record reflects these themes and instead of using electronics to create a polished, airless environment, Anderson's techno-future thrashes strongly between harsh tones and paranoia, to beautiful colour bursts and mellow guitar strums.
Lyrically, Anderson tries to answer the question so often put to her during the last round of press and interviews: "How does it feel?" to be pushed through a media vortex and back. The answer is of course, complicated. On '3Jane' she seems plaintive and introspective, with lyrics about visuals and consent that are even more poignant in the age of posted YouTube assaults, bullied teen suicides and revenge porn. On 'Neuromancer', an electronic punk rant with analog synths and machine drums, she rages, and explores the implications of building an online database of all your pictures and information. "It's basically an AI (artificial intelligence)" she says. And it's not just those in the media spotlight who have them, it's all of us.
This is where Anderson has always excelled, in taking the chaos and angst of the modern age and making it relatable. While sonically The Future's Void is a big step up and out, lyrically it's in a similar vein to Past Life Martyred Saints, with EMA herself laying bare, cracking sly jokes, and making the nuances of her story seem like ours as well.
"I realised that we were all kind of building these AIs, whether intentionally or not, and how the data we post online is parsed by programs that see patterns in our behaviour that we fail to see ourselves; how and where and what we eat, status reports that reveal our moods, our shopping habits, who we date and who we stalk, where and how we spend our money. Literally, they know more than you do about the things that you do. And that's just the data we give up willingly, to say nothing of what is taken surreptitiously."
The opening track "Satellites" was written before the current NSA scandal and hints at a more nostalgic paranoia, in drawing current parallels to the dream of the former Soviet "satellite" countries, where "everyone has equal access but is also under constant surveillance". Musically the track hints at a further emboldened EMA, without forgoing the industrial-noise and glorious fuzz of her solo debut and previous work with Gowns. Opening with a wall of hiss, scree and galloping piano motif, 'Satellites' bursts into a flame of feedback and bass to provide one her best tracks to date, as well as introducing analog modular synths into the mix.
As well as EMA pulls off these topical and outspoken tracks, she's still got a knack for a classic pop tune as heard on the likes of 'So Blonde', with its hooky grunge riff and playful lyrics about "generic and specific cool blonde kids, maybe you knew one in high school or college or at a party at 5am in your 20s". Similarly, the catchy 'When She Comes', a nostalgic paean about a teenage Riot Grrl friendship. Along with 'Dead Celebrity', these tracks are at odds with the more abrasive and electronic likes of 'Solace' and 'Cthulu', the latter climaxing with a Gary Numan 'Are Friends Electric' style breakdown that sounds like nothing Erika has produced before. Despite moving towards electronic sounds, the machines are mostly played live and they often possess a DIY 'first take best take' aesthetic that rails against the carefully constructed and glistening sheen of the digital age. This punk spirit maintains a spontaneity that is all too often lost.
"This record is the sound of resistance to digital commodification" Erika explains. "I naturally gravitate towards hooks and melodies and in some ways, the structure of these songs is the poppiest yet. The harshness and production strikes a balance with that so they don't sound like they could be on adverts."
So, The Future's Void means the future IS void? Or the void that belongs to the future? According to Anderson, both work.
Either way, The Future's Void is a record that seeks to deal with the fact that certain ideas that once seemed futuristic are now the norm, while also trying to sidestep a lot of the musical tropes that come along with exploring technology. It straddles the ugly and animalistic, the pretty and civilised, the digital and the analog and the past and the present, resulting in a timeless and yet timely piece of work. And like any great punk record, it questions social convention and rebels against the status quo.
EMA continues to evoke a unique and ambitious sound that saw her rightfully recognised as one of the most singular artists to emerge in 2011, and is likely to send her back into the public consciousness once again in 2014.
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Just as Charles Darwin was proposing his radical theory of evolution, paleontologists discovered a curious fossil specimen in modern-day Germany: Archaeopteryx. The feathered specimen, pegged by many as the first bird, helped provide further evidence for the theory of evolution and the idea that modern birds evolved from dinosaurs.
Archaeopteryx's status as the first prehistoric bird has held for more than a century, but a new high-tech analysis of a rare sample of bones from a German specimen challenge that long-held presumption. It turns out that the 150-million-year-old Archaeopteryx appears to have matured to adulthood slowly, more like a dinosaur than a bird, pushing the appearance of more modern bird characteristics forward to the more recent past.
"Our research shows us that this is much more like a dinosaur than a modern bird," says Gregory Erickson of the Department of Biological Science at Florida State University in Tallahassee, and a lead author on the new report, which was published online yesterday in the journal PLoS ONE. By looking at the growth patterns in bone, Erickson and his colleagues were able to discover that Archaeopteryx had a slow and stilted growing period like other dinosaurs, and unlike modern birds, which "just explode into adult size," he explains.
The new data were obtained by studying tiny, 250-micron-long chips from the fossilized leg bones of Archaeopteryx and more than a dozen other species of birds and dinosaurs using polarizing microscopy. The researchers found features in Archaeopteryx's bones, including annual growth lines, small blood vessels and parallel bone cells, shared by other similar-size dinosaurs, such as the Jeholornis prima. Fragments from a more birdlike animal, the Ichthyornis dispar, which lived about 94 million years ago, revealed no annual growth lines, substantial vasculature and a more random distribution of bone cells—all characteristic of quick growth.
Researchers now estimate that Archaeopteryx would have taken a little more than two and a half years to mature—compared with just a few months for modern birds of similar size. The findings confirm the previous assumption that all 10 known Archaeopteryx specimens are, in fact, juveniles. The news also bumps the estimated size of an adult Archaeopteryx up to about the size of a raven, larger than had previously been estimated.
Despite the general similarities to modern birds—feathers, a beak and a wishbone—that led to its avian categorization in the first place, the Archaeopteryx "would be very foreign to bird-watchers today," Erickson says.
The distinction, however, that many casual observers have drawn between non-avian dinosaurs and modern birds is perhaps an exaggerated one. As Erickson points out, "We know that birds are dinosaurs," that is, even modern birds belong to the same lineage as dinosaurs. "Everybody would agree now that birds are really a kind of dinosaur, just like humans are a kind of primate," adds Mark Norell, chair of the Division of Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Modern birds—or avian dinosaurs—share a different set of traits, such as hollow bones and rapid growth, than those exhibited by their prehistoric predecessors.
Research published by one of the co-authors (Dongyu Hu, of the Paleontological Institute at Shenyang Normal University in China) last month in Nature also moved a once-supposed avian species more firmly back into the dinosaur clan. (Scientific American is part of the Nature Publishing Group.) The well-feathered, 155-million-year-old Anchiornis huxleyi was shown to share more skeletal similarities with bona fide dinosaurs, despite its heavy plumage.
The Archaeopteryx's new qualification as a more dinolike creature does not change its status as what Erickson calls a "poster child for evolution." It does, however, underscore the extent to which many of the early birds still looked—and acted—a lot like dinosaurs. "It's not just a simple story," Norell says. "These things didn't evolve overnight…. The assembly of modern birds is a very complex process—there's intermediate stages in metabolism, there's intermediate stages in morphology."
The new findings further augment the argument Darwin's adherent Thomas Henry Huxley made nearly 150 years ago that birds did evolve from dinosaurs. In fact, modern analysis techniques and a heap of new specimens have helped to fill in many of the gaps that 19th-century scientists still faced. "It's no longer a missing link by any stretch," says Erickson of the bird–dinosaur connection.
Not all of the blanks have been filled in, however. The next step will be to pin down more specifically when modern bird physiology really started to appear, Erickson says. That hunt will certainly be helped along by new fossil finds and improved technology. But like this study, future discoveries may also be illuminated by reexamining well-known fossils. "The field is moving quickly enough that a lot of people are asking new questions about the same old specimens," Norell says. Progress is not only made through finding new animals and better examining equipment, he adds, but can also be made simply by uncovering "new ways of looking at old materials."
Bye-Bye Birdie: New Look at Archaeopteryx Shows It Was More Dinosaur Than Bird
Microscopic analysis of Archaeopteryx fossils shows that the animal grew to maturity like a dinosaur rather than a modern bird
Just as Charles Darwin was proposing his radical theory of evolution, paleontologists discovered a curious fossil specimen in modern-day Germany: Archaeopteryx. The feathered specimen, pegged by many as the first bird, helped provide further evidence for the theory of evolution and the idea that modern birds evolved from dinosaurs.


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So what exactly is this product, how does it work, and will it help me? My limiters as I began my first Compex training sessions were impatience, low technical ability, upper leg muscle imbalance, and low fitness. My plan was to use the unit three times per week for strength. I began in mid-January and immediately appreciated the ease of setup and application - with the help of simple color-coded pictures, you press a few buttons and off you go. This made it much more attractive to me because I knew that I would not have the time or patience for a big setup or breakdown.
My primary goals in using the Compex were to address a very apparent quad and gluteal imbalance. I had been doing some single-leg strength work, but without any substantial results. With the first use of the Compex on those muscle groups, it was apparent that, at the same intensity level, the right and left leg felt different. Per the directions, I simply increased or decreased the energy levels independently until I could feel the same impulse on each leg. I did one 33-minute session three times per week, and in two weeks I started to see what I thought was an evening of my pedal stroke. This was indeed confirmed with testing on the CompuTrainer SpinScan. I had increased my power variation on the SpinScan from 54% right leg/46% left leg to 51%/49%, almost even in five weeks. This also resulted in a cadence improvement of about 7%, from 88 rpm to 94 rpm over a two-hour ride. An additional issue during this time was that I was dealing with a stress fracture, prohibiting me from doing impact/weight-bearing movements like running. Compex was able to help me strengthen both legs with no joint loading.
About three weeks into the experiment I realized that with no running, my legs were really getting tired from the additional cycling miles, so I thought it made sense to try the Active Recovery program. This coincided with a training camp that I was running for my professional athletes in California. Needless to say, three days into the trip, the 30-minute climbs were killing me and I almost couldn't put pressure on the pedals. I used Active Recovery that night and the next day I was a new person, riding at the front on a three-hour ride. It was amazing and immediately I knew that I had to get everyone on a Compex. That night we all used Active Recovery and had varying but impressive results across the board. About two months later the whole team was using Compex immediately following our first race of the year in Florida.
For me, the huge gains were in balancing my leg strength. For my pros, the huge gains have been in minimizing their recovery. In my opinion, this is the essential part of racing for a living. It's not important how much you can do in a day but rather how much you can absorb. Having the Compex is like having your own massage therapist with you at all times to accelerate recovery. The Compex, coupled with Recoverite and Hammer Whey, has allowed Team IE to already have some dominant performances in 2012. For me personally, it's a feeling of balance that I haven't felt on the bike in years, and professionally I know that Compex is a huge advantage for my athletes.
My next project is to work with the Potentiation program. This is like a "rapid" warm-up, a muscle activation impulse. We already use muscle activation through dynamic movements. I am confident that Potentiation will bring the same great results that we saw from the other two programs. I will keep you posted on what I find out. HN


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When does a fast-growing e-tailer cut the strings with its 3PL partner and bring its distribution processes in-house?
How does a distribution center operate when its inventory is gone in a flash?
What's more, how do processes differ if the most important metric is the perfect order rather than the lowest cost per unit handled?
Those three questions confronted Chris Halkyard during the design of Gilt Groupe's 303,000-square-foot distribution center in Shepherdsville, Kentucky.
A high-profile, fast-growing e-tailer, Gilt has built a business around a new and unique retail model: the flash sale. The Web site has more than 7 million members who are given the opportunity to buy luxury and designer goods at inside prices. Gilt sales generally last 36 hours and quantity is limited so when an item is gone, it's gone. New merchandise goes on sale every day at noon ET, and 60% to 70% of the merchandise will be ordered and shipped within 24 hours. It's gone in a flash.
Before building the new facility, Gilt relied on two third-party logistics providers (3PL). Order fulfillment was handled in several facilities. The new building not only optimized distribution processes, it also brought them in-house and under one roof.
Working with a systems integrator (ABCO Automation), Halkyard, who is Gilt's chief supply chain officer, oversaw the development of a distribution system that speeds orders through the facility in a flash. "Orders that go through our mobile robotic picking area are on a truck within 30 minutes," says Halkyard. "It is possible to have an item picked from one of the other areas and on an outbound parcel carrier in as little as 4 minutes."
The new facility includes:
The facility is not only efficient, it's a case study in how distribution supports a new business model in an emerging area of retail.
A new retail model
Gilt didn't invent the flash sale. According to the Harvard Business Review, that honor goes to Vente-Privee, a European e-tailer. But by all accounts, Gilt founder Kevin Ryan brought the concept to the U.S. market in the spring of 2007.
The idea was to offer private, curated sales of designer brands and luxury goods in limited quantities on a member's only Web site. The e-tailer assembled a team of buyers who purchase product from high-end brands of men's, women's and children's clothing and home goods.
Quantities are limited: Gilt may receive 1,000 pairs of shoes or it may receive just 100 pairs of shoes. The product is received, processed and ready for sale in a matter of days. New products are launched every day at noon ET; most offers remain on the site for just 36 hours. "Typically, we sell through 60% to 80% of a new item on that first day," says Halkyard. The speed with which a typical product sells out is a reason the emphasis is on short-term rather than reserve storage in the facility.
In just five years, the company has grown from a start-up to more than $500 million a year in sales. The Gilt team is focused on creating what it describes as "the fastest, most exciting shopping experience online ... all at insider pricing." "Everything we do is about the customer experience," Halkyard adds.
To 3PL or not to 3PL
As a fast-growing start-up, Gilt focused on purchasing, marketing and customer acquisition. Distribution was outsourced to a 3PL with one facility in Brooklyn. When the e-tailer outgrew that building, it partnered with Quiet Logistics, a 3PL in Andover, Mass., to fill orders from a second building. That facility was one of the early, high-profile adopters of Kiva Systems' mobile robots.
With exponential growth, order demands outstripped the ability to distribute efficiently. In June of 2010, Halkyard and his team looked at the sales projected for the holiday season and decided they needed to make a change in a hurry. "We decided we had to be in a new building that was somewhat operational in the next three to four months," Halkyard says. He also felt the company had matured to the point where it could bring distribution in-house rather than rely on a third party.
"Using a 3PL allowed us to get up and running, but in my view, a proprietary DC is more effective in the long run," he says. And, Halkyard believed distribution needed to be a Gilt core competency since the e-tailer puts so much of an emphasis on the customer experience, the perfect order metric and the appearance of the order when it was delivered. However, he didn't want to cut the cord with its distribution partners all at one time.
"I didn't have the time to hire and train my own management team and they understood our business," Halkyard says. "What's more, they had developed our warehouse management system (WMS) and had significant experience in warehouse. That was their value-add."
Halkyard negotiated a short contract where the 3PL would operate the new facility for two years and then hand it over to Gilt.
Building the perfect order
Once the decision was made to establish an independent facility, Gilt began meeting with a systems integrator to design the building. "We did not start with a product or technology," says Halkyard. "The business model drove the solution."
As an example, Halkyard originally considered implementing a pick mezzanine with a conveyor and sortation system for the first wave of products that will be sold the next day. It could be done, he was told, but it would be an expensive solution.
Instead, Gilt implemented the mobile robotic order fulfillment solution it was already using in the 3PL facility. A significant amount of time was spent profiling the SKUs by velocity to ensure that only the fastest-moving items were stored in the mobile robotic area. "We were able to use half the robots and pods as were recommended," Halkyard says.
The mobile robotic area required about 45,000 square feet. A similar amount of square feet was devoted to a multi-level pick mezzanine to manage slower moving items, such as those that didn't sell in the first day of a sale. Pallet rack was erected in a third area for non-conveyables, such as strollers, or seasonal items that may not go on sale for a few months. A separate area was designated to process shoes.
Processes were designed to strike a balance between speed and accuracy. "It seems as if more and more e-tailers are talking about their speed of delivery," Halkyard says. "Speed, however, is not the most important thing to us, because of our business model."
There were a couple of reasons for that. One is that the facility has a 6 p.m. cutoff time for parcel pickups and orders don't start rolling into the system until around 1 p.m. "Since we don't start taking orders for a new sale until noon, we start off the day behind the eight ball," Halkyard says. "Anything that gets picked after 6 p.m. isn't going out until the next day anyway."
Instead, the focus was on the perfect order as defined by Gilt. That includes the right product in the right size, quantity, style and configuration, packed correctly and delivered according to the promise date. Halkyard believes that most customers aren't concerned whether they get an order in 2, 3 or 5 days as long as its delivered on the day Gilt promises when it acknowledges the order. "I measure everything that is under our control," Halkyard says. "The only thing I don't ding us for is if a customer asks for a size 4, we send a size 4 and they return it because it doesn't fit."
To deliver the perfect order, Gilt designed a two-step packing process. In the first step, order totes are sorted to a packing station. There, a packer builds a shipping box, prints the packing slip, confirms the item or items for the order and then adds any literature, transport packaging or dunnage. The ready-to-ship package is then conveyed to a quality assurance area. There, the contents of the package are reconfirmed before the package is weighed, taped, labeled and conveyed into the back of a parcel carrier's truck.
While the process includes extra handling, it leads to a better customer experience.
Up and running
Gilt met its ambitious timeline by implementing the project in phases and continuing to work with its 3PL partners. For instance, the mobile robots were up, running and processing home goods by August. Men's fashions were up and running in October. Construction resumed in January following a holiday break. During that period, the 3PL in Brooklyn continued to manage the women's, kids and jewelry divisions.
By March 2011, the rack, pick mezzanine and conveyor system was operational. By July, most of the business had been transitioned to the new facility, with the exception of the jewelry and fine dress business. Those were kept in Brooklyn to be close to the buyers.
"During the 2011 holiday season, we were able to get 90% of our orders out the door within 24 hours," says Halkyard. "In the spring of 2012, we moved all of our costume jewelry and fashion items into the new facility." Last March, Gilt also took over management of the facility.
Now that all of the automated materials handling systems are live, Halkyard plans to go live with a labor management system and implement an employee incentive program in 2013. The goal is to reduce the handling costs associated with an order.
While Halkyard is proud of his perfect order metric—hitting 97% across all of the metrics he tracks on his scorecard—the real measure of the facility is how Gilt's management views the DC.
"One of the biggest compliments I've received is from the president of the company," Halkyard says. "He told me that in the early days, our focus was on top line growth. This facility now gives us the competitive advantage in the marketplace and is considered a strategic asset."
Be sure to read our Gilt Groupe System Report: Gilt's new distribution center delivers the perfect order


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Paul: GOP can win back youth vote
Sen. Rand Paul believes the Republican Party will make a comeback with young voters, especially in the South, after "drifting toward the other party" in much of the country.
The topic came up Tuesday as Paul met with a high school senior from Arkansas, a meeting POLITICO was invited to attend and which came hours before Paul was to deliver a response to President Barack Obama's State of the Union address.
In 2012, Obama carried a whopping 60 percent of the youth vote, raising questions among Republicans about how to be competitive with an increasingly Democratic demographic.
( Also on POLITICO: GOP ready to yield on debt ceiling)
Paul, a Kentucky Republican who is considering running for president in 2016, didn't say Tuesday why he believed the GOP could lure back the youth vote.
But the libertarian-leaning senator has argued before that young people could gravitate to the GOP out of concerns over privacy issues, especially regarding National Security Agency surveillance. While President George W. Bush, a Republican, was a leading proponent of such data-collection measures, many of the programs have continued under Obama, who has defended elements of the surveillance effort.
"I don't know what it's like in Arkansas, but everywhere else we've had them drifting toward the other party," Paul told the visiting student, Jessica Kloss of Beebe, Ark. "But I think some of them are going to come back, particularly in the South."
( Also on POLITICO: 10 tough Senate races for Democrats)
Kloss was in town after winning an essay contest and had expressed interest in meeting Paul. She will be a guest of Rep. Tim Griffin (R-Ark.) at the State of the Union. She said she was impressed with Paul, and that she likes "how honest and bold" he is in "representing conservative values."


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Interactive Bodies 5.0_Workshp:
"What we are evolving are the rules for generating form, rather than the forms themselves"-John Frazer(1995)
The "Interactive Bodies 5.0 Workshop" is an intensive workshop focuses on the issue of "Interactivity." Interaction can happen between human-human relationship, human-objects, human-climate or even object-object. Unlike the normal so-called interactive architectures nowadays which consider responsive as interaction, the workshop would like to push the notion of interactivity a bit further. In other words, the interaction should build up the emotional protocol and truly precede the communication between the subjects involved in the environment. Bottom-up componential entities is another main focus in the workshop. The design experiment in the workshop keens to ask the participants to think of and design a componential system from bottom-up as an emerging interactive body. Like all natural organisms who build up their bodies with single intelligent entity, the cell, the participants should be able to come up with a systematic design strategy to construct their own interactive architectural bodies based on this componential idea. The participants in the workshop will be mainly introduced to use some parametric tools, such as grasshopper, and interactive tools, such as Arduino, and also Digital Fabrication techniques through Laser cutting.


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|In this June 21, 2008 file photo, the 7,800-ton, 337-foot nuclear-powered attack submarine New Hampshire is tied for christening ceremonies at Electric Boat Division, General Dynamics Corp. in Groton, Conn.
The company said its subsidiary Electric Boat will be responsible for building 10 additional Virginia-class submarines as part of the agreement. It plans to build two ships per year for the next five years with the help of its partner Newport News Shipbuilding, a unit of Huntington Ingalls Industries.
Construction of the first submarine will begin May 1.
Electric Boat and Newport News Shipbuilding already have delivered 10 of these submarines to the Navy, and eight additional submarines are under construction.
In 2012, President Barack Obama's proposed budget called for only nine submarines, not 10, in the next block of Virginia-class ships.
U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney, a Democrat who represents eastern Connecticut, said the contract for the full 10 reflects the strength of arguments in favor of the strategic need for attack submarines, particularly after the loss of the USS Miami in a 2012 shipyard fire in Maine.
Electric Boat president Jeffrey S. Geiger said the award has great significance for the submarine industrial base.
"By continuing to produce two ships per year, the Navy and industry team retains the stability required to achieve increased efficiencies, providing the fleet with the submarines it needs to sustain the nation's undersea dominance," he said.
Shares of General Dynamics Corp., based in Falls Church, Va., closed at $107.39, down $1.62.
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Clivia miniata (Lindl.) BosseAmaryllidaceae
Originally from South Africa, it is mostly a shade plant that is considered very adaptable to Spain given the similarities of the Mediterranean climate of the Iberian Peninsula with its place of origin. The natal lily genus entered Europe mainly by the initiative of the British that in the early decades of the nineteenth century were in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. From there they sent some specimens to England, where they were planted in special gardens of acclimatization, greenhouses, very appropriate so that a plant or subtropical Mediterranean climate like the natal lily could adapt to the colder weather conditions of England. Thus, in the northern European countries such as the UK, the natal lily is used in interior decoration. John Lindley, botanist of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, one of the first in the UK to use the greenhouse technology to grow exotic plants, named these flowering plants clivia in honor of a noble lady, Charlotte Florentine Clive, Duchess of Northumberland. Interestingly, the same day in October 1828 in which Lindley recorded the name of clivia, a fellow British scientist William Jackson Hooker presented a new genus based on the same plant. Regardless of who was the discoverer for the European nations, the natal lily became fashionable as an exotic plant in Victorian England and, and from there it spread to the rest of Europe.


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Vergennes Police Log: Former city resident cited for sexual assault on 15-year-old
VERGENNES — Vergennes police on Monday, Jan. 23, cited a 23-year-old former city resident with sexual assault on a female under the age of 16, a charge Chief George Merkel said was filed after a long investigation largely conducted by Officer Jason Ouellette.
Cited to appear in Addison District Court on March 5 to answer the charge was Christopher J. Edwards, who police described as now transient, but once a resident of Green Street.
The case dates back almost two years, Merkel said, and Edwards' alleged assault on a girl, then 15, occurred in March 2009.
In other recent action, Vergennes police:
• On Jan. 16 spoke to the mother of a habitually truant Vergennes Union Elementary School student about the legal consequences of not making sure he attended school.
• On Jan. 16 helped Vermont State Police execute a search warrant in Monkton, and then aided VSP in the unsuccessful attempt to catch a man after he fled the home being searched.
• On Jan. 16 went to Scovel Lane and mediated a civil dispute between a father and daughter.
• On Jan. 17 heard from a Second Street resident that a man was threatening a member of the household about the alleged theft of an iPod. Because the iPod was stolen from a Lincoln home, the theft was referred to VSP, and city police told the caller not to make further contact with the city residents.
• On Jan. 17 served a relief-from-abuse order to a New Haven Road resident.
• On Jan. 17 were told that a woman's family member was drawing more money than allowed out of an ATM account; police are investigating.
• On Jan. 17, after a traffic stop on West Main Street for defective equipment, arrested Thomas Popke, 31, of Addison for driving with a criminally suspended license and for an outstanding Chittenden County warrant for driving with a suspended license. Popke was jailed at the Chittenden County Correctional Center.
• On Jan. 18 took two truant Vergennes Union High School students to school; police picked up the same two students on Jan. 20.
• On Jan. 18 went to a New Haven Road home to look into a complaint that a woman had violated a no-trespass order, but learned a man at the home had given the woman permission to enter the property. Police also while there investigated an ownership dispute about a car on the property.
• On Jan. 18 helped VSP make a drug arrest after the trooper stopped a car on Main Street.
• On Jan. 19 performed drug-awareness training at Vergennes Area Rescue Squad headquarters.
• On Jan. 20 ticketed three cars that were violating the city's ban on overnight on-street parking.
• On Jan. 20 cited Richard Ambrose, 40, of Vergennes for possession of marijuana after noticing him in a car with an open container while responding to a false alarm on North Green Street. Police said they saw a bag of marijuana that allegedly contained 4.8 grams when they spoke to Ambrose.
• On Jan. 20 called a woman on behalf of her father and asked her to come to a North Street residence to retrieve a cell phone and other belongings.
• On Jan. 21 found a car running on South Street with its door open and no one around. Police checked the ownership when no one showed up and discovered it was registered to a driver with a suspended license. Police took the keys and locked the car, ticketed it for violating the winter parking ban, and plan to issue a further ticket for abandoning a vehicle when its owner shows up to claim it.
• On Jan. 21 helped a motorist get into a locked car on School Street.
• On Jan. 21 looked for but couldn't find a man walking on Panton Road who was said to be cursing and urinating.
• On Jan. 21 cited a woman for failing to register her vehicle when she reported it had been bumped by a hit-and-run driver in a Main Street parking lot.
• On Jan. 21 returned a cell phone to its owner after it had been found in the Small City Market parking lot.
• On Jan. 21 referred to the Ferrisburgh dog officer a driver who picked up two loose dogs on Route 7.
• On Jan. 21 went to Route 7 in Ferrisburgh to help VSP with an accident in which after the car had flipped over the driver left the vehicle and called police, but failed to mention her two children were trapped in the car. VSP are handling the case.
• On Jan. 22 ticketed a car on West Main Street for violating the winter parking ban; police said they have previously ticketed the same car.
• On Jan. 22 took a report that a purse was stolen from a parked car.
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