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Periodontitis: A Closer Look At What's Going On
Periodontitis: A Closer Look At What's Going On
Whenever a patient is identified with periodontal (gum) disease, periodontists may choose whether surgical or non-surgical procedure option is needed. The primary reason for periodontal disease is bacteria as a sticky, transparent plaque that grows persistently in your teeth. This kind of condition needs regular dental visits and professional cleanings. Natural solution
Experts recommend the least invasive and budget-friendly to achieve and keep periodontal health. One non-surgical procedure option that's both economical and has fewer invasive is known as scaling. This is done by a cautious cleaning from the root surfaces to get rid of plaque and tartar from the deepest part of periodontal pockets and also to smooth out your tooth root to get rid of microbial harmful toxins. The scaling is then an adjunctive therapy for antimicrobials and host modulations, as determined with an individual situation-by-situation basis.
Stages Of Periodontal Disease
You will find two fundamental stages of Periodontal Disease. The very first stage, gingivitis, might be tough to notice because individuals usually experience virtually no discomfort. However, the nicotine gums might be red-colored, inflamed, and bleed easily. Gingivitis is generally triggered by poor dental hygiene habits — not brushing and flossing enough. This milder stage of gums and teeth is generally reversible with a trip to your dental professional and modified brushing and flossing habits. If gingivitis goes without treatment, it can result in the greater severe periodontitis. Within this stage, plaque starts to spread and grow beneath the gum line. This can lead to the introduction to the tissue and bones that protect the teeth. The nicotine gums outside of one's teeth will become infected. Because the tissue and bones become further broken, your tooth or teeth may become loose, drop out, or have to be removed. See it here
Why People Get Periodontitis
There are several reasons why people are at risk of getting the earliest signs of the gum problems.
Among these would be poor dental hygiene habits, failure to get dental checkups, and eating too much sugar or meals and drinks loaded with sugar. People who smoke cigarettes or chew tobacco, diabetics and those who are struggling with autoimmune illnesses are at higher risks as well. Great concern goes out also to people who have poorly built teeth fillings or crowns, and those who have physiological teeth irregularities.
Women tend to be more prone to periodontal problems than males are because of female the body's hormones. Hormonal changes throughout pregnancy can worsen existing gingivitis, and individuals taking dental birth control methods will also be in a greater risk for developing the condition
Going Through Treatment & Recovery
When identified with periodontal disease, a far more complex plan for treatment might be necessary as well as your periodontist may recommend periodontal surgery. Periodontal surgical treatment is necessary whenever your periodontist determines the tissue around your teeth is unhealthy and can't be fixed having a non-surgical procedure option. The four types of the much recommended surgical remedies include pocket reduction methods, restorative healing methods, crown lengthening and soft tissue grafts.
Research indicates that lasers, when used along with scaling and root planning, may improve the potency of this process. Patients can experience less bleeding, swelling and discomfort when lasers are utilized correctly throughout periodontal therapy. Proper and professional utilization of lasers is essential as each laser has different wavelengths and energy levels that may be securely used throughout different periodontal methods. Today read more info visit here https://fix-recedinggumsnaturally.cabanova.com/
If incorrect wavelengths and/or energy levels are utilized throughout a periodontal procedure, harm to periodontal tissue can happen.
After getting a scaling and root procedure, most periodontists agree that lots of patients don't require further active treatment, including more invasive surgery. Most sufferers will, however, require additional on-going maintenance therapy to sustain the health of their teeth. However, non-surgical procedure options will have restrictions so when non-surgical treatments don't achieve periodontal health, surgery might be required to restore periodontal anatomy broken by periodontal illnesses.


text: Although they were initially grouped in with the legions of pop-metal bands that dominated the American heavy metal scene of the '80s, Queensryche were one of the most distinctive bands of the era. Where their contemporaries built on the legacy of Van Halen, Aerosmith, and Kiss, Queensryche constructed a progressive form of heavy metal that drew equally from the guitar pyrotechnics of post-Van Halen metal and '70s art rock, most notably Pink Floyd and Queen. After releasing a handful of ignored albums, the band began to break into the mainstream with the acclaimed 1988 album Operation: Mindcrime. Its follow-up, Empire, was the group's biggest success, selling over two million copies due to the hit single "Silent Lucidity." Queensryche never sustained that widespread popularity -- like most late-'80s metal bands, their audience disappeared after the emergence of grunge. Nevertheless, they retained a large cult following well into the ensuing decades. br /br /Guitarists Chris DeGarmo and Michael Wilton formed Queensryche in 1981 in the Seattle, WA, suburb of Bellevue. Both guitarists had been playing in heavy metal cover bands and had decided to form a group that would play original material. The duo recruited high-school friends Geoff Tate (vocals) and ba**ist Eddie Jackson (ba**), as well as drummer Scott Rockenfield. Instead of hitting the club circuit, the group rehearsed for two years, eventually recording and releasing a four-song demo tape. The ca**ette came to the attention of local record store owners Kim and Diana Harris, who offered to manage Queensryche. With the help of the Harrises, the tape circulated throughout the Northwest. In May of 1983, Queensryche released the EP Queen of the Reich on their own record label, 206 Records. Queen of the Reich sold 20,000 copies and, in the process, earned the band major-label attention. By the end of the year, the band signed to EMI, which released an expanded version of the EP as the Queensryche LP later in the year; the record peaked at number 81. br /br /At this stage, Queensryche sounded closer to British metal bands like Iron Maiden and Judas Priest. Over the next few years, the group continued to refine its sound, opening for hard rock acts as diverse as Bon Jovi and Metallica. Their next two albums -- 1984's The Warning and 1986's Rage for Order -- sold respectably, with the latter reaching number 47 on the U.S. charts. Rage for Order also demonstrated a flowering of progressive rock influences, an idea that would reach its fruition with 1988's Operation: Mindcrime. Boasting orchestral arrangements from Michael Kamen, the album was Queensryche's most ambitious and focused effort to date, earning both positive reviews and strong sales. Operation: Mindcrime stayed on the American charts for a year, selling over a million copies during its run. br /br /Queensryche returned in the fall of 1990 with the equally ambitious Empire. The album proved to be their commercial high watermark, peaking at number seven on the U.S. charts and going double platinum in America; in the U.K., the album also cracked the Top Ten. Empire's success was instigated by the stately art rock ballad "Silent Lucidity," which received heavy airplay from MTV and album rock radio. All the exposure eventually sent "Silent Lucidity" to number five on the U.S. singles charts. Following the long Empire tour -- which included a spot on the 1991 Monsters of Rock tour -- Queensryche released the live Operation: LIVEcrime in the fall of 1991. Recorded on the Operation: Mindcrime tour, the album replicated the group's live performance of the rock opera that comprised their 1988 artistic breakthrough; the package also included a video and a thick book. br /br /In the three years following the release of Operation: LIVEcrime, the band rested and leisurely worked on the follow-up to Empire. Occasionally, they contributed a song to a soundtrack, such as "Real World" for Arnold Schwarzenegger's 1993 movie Last Action Hero. Queensryche finally delivered their sixth studio album, Promised Land, in 1994. Though the heavy metal audience had changed drastically since Empire, with many fair-weather metal fans switching their allegiance to grunge and alternative rock, the group retained a strong following, as evidenced by Promised Land debuting at number three on the U.S. charts. Promised Land would eventually go platinum and spawn two album rock hits, "I Am I" and "Bridge." br /br /With 1997's Hear in the New Frontier, Queensryche stripped back their sound to the bare bones, leaving behind the prog rock influences that made them distinctive. Although the album debuted at 19, it received mixed reviews and quickly fell down the charts, leading shortly thereafter to founding guitarist Chris DeGarmo's exit from the band. (DeGarmo would soon resurface as part of former Alice in Chains' guitarist Jerry Cantrell's touring band.) Q2k followed in 1999, as new guitarist Kelly Gray took DeGarmo's place. Queensryche's first best-of set, Greatest Hits, was released in 2000; the band supported the CD with an opening slot on one of the year's hottest metal concert tickets -- Iron Maiden's Brave New World reunion tour, which also included former Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford. br /br /In 2001, the band issued the double CD and DVD Live Evolution. Meanwhile, former member DeGarmo was also gearing up to form a new band, said to include former Alice in Chains drummer Sean Kinney and ba**ist Mike Inez; although he appeared on Jerry Cantrell's Degradation Trip in 2002, no solo material was forthcoming. Queensryche finally returned to the studio and released Tribe in 2003 on Sanctuary. In 2006, Queensryche released Operation: Mindcrime II, the long-awaited sequel to their 1988 conceptual smash. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine & Greg Prato, All Music Guide

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Vermont Court Records
This entry was originally written by Scott Andrew Bartley and Alice Eichholz, Ph.D., CG for Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources.
Historically, the major purpose of the county system in Vermont was the operation of the county courts, which recorded deeds for unorganized towns, levied county taxes, heard civil and criminal matters, and granted divorces and naturalizations.
Before Vermont became independent (1777), New York and New Hampshire both claimed some county jurisdiction over Vermont land. For this reason, New York and New Hampshire records must be consulted even up to 1791.
Beginning in 1777, each county had one county court that heard both civil and criminal matters. The state supreme court served an appellate function. In 1967 district courts were added, covering territorial units within the counties. District court jurisdiction is not exclusively over criminal cases; it may also hear some civil cases. In 1974, the county courts were renamed superior courts, with countywide jurisdiction over all matters previously entertained by the county courts and not covered by district courts. Beginning in 1990, the superior court functions involving family matters (divorce, child custody, etc.) were transferred to one statewide family court with divisions of that court operating in each of the counties.
The Vermont Public Records Division now has microfilms of county court records for Bennington, Chittenden, and Windsor counties before 1825, with the only index available typed alphabetically by plaintiff for each book. In early records, debts are the major subject of litigation in the courts. The division is continuing the microfilming of all the county court records and has completed Addison and Washington counties, although no comparable index exists for these. The division houses many of the original early records, sent for preservation by the county courts. Others remain in the county court offices. Check with the division for updated holdings.


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Everyone has wants, every single one of us has dreamed about that perfect guy or that perfect girl. Many of us have long, long lists of must haves. But what is it we really want? What will make us say yes "He is the One!" or "There goes my future wife!"
For the past nine years, we have been blessed to have had thousands of couples visit the theater, enjoy and be moved by Platanos Y Collard Greens, our hilarious tale of two college students who fall in love, until mom finds out and has a heart attack! We've had the enormous pleasure of watching the audience laugh till it hurts and of having them tell us how it leaves them feeling triumphant, knowing that love conquers all.
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Over the years when people have found out that we work together twenty-four seven and that we have not only not killed each other, but that our love has grown stronger, they demand to know our secrets. The result is our much loved relationship guide: Perfect Combination: Seven Key Ingredients to Happily Living & Loving Together. We have been thrilled by the readers' response. Many people have said, "If people read this book, there would never be another divorce or breakup!" We are cheerleaders for love, and our mission is to spread the message of love and happiness by sharing some of the things we've learned so that everyone can live and love happily.
He Says: What Men Want
Men want to be friends and lovers too
I know it's a lot to ask ladies, but men are inconveniently demanding that way. We want a woman who we can share our interest with, from our adult aspirations (like wanting to open a business) to our hobbies (whether it be Hip Hop Karaoke or going to the movies or watching the NBA Finals (and feigning enough interest to let us talk strategy and complain about the refereesJ). In short, we want a friend. Jamillah and I are friends and lovers. In fact, Jamillah is my best friend. Now, I know that she doesn't like basketball as fanatically as me, but I love that we can go to a Knicks game together and cheer a last second game winning shot as happened the last time we went! I know that she's not into comic books like me, but I love that for Valentine's Day she bought me a Green Lantern ring (not that I'm wearing it in publicJ). I also know that it's not a one-way street. It's about balance and I have to be open to being interested in things that she's likes as well. For example, without Jamillah, I wouldn't even know that HGTV existed (for all you guys (or for all the uninitiated– that's Home and Garden Television), but the truth is, now we're both fans of House Hunters, and we both love Top Chef. She's trying to get me into the Housewives shows, but I have to draw the line somewhere.
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Men want a woman who they can share laughs with
I always knew that laughter was important in any relationship, but now I appreciate even more how important it is that you share a sense of humor. I'm a very serious person, but I like to laugh, every day, all day. Laughter can brighten up any day and lighten up those moments when you forget something or when you don't always present the best you. Keeping each other laughing is essential to helping couples be friends and lovers. For Jamillah and me, even though we are business partners, it's great when we get to be silly together! Like when on the spur of the moment we decided to go ice skating together fully knowing that neither of us had ever put on a pair of skates before, and secretly wondering which one would chicken out first. And even though we were holding on to the rail for dear life, we had a great time making fun of each other as we fought the ice to stay upright and not to fall down and break our necks. Plus laughter is attractive. Jamillah is a natural beauty, but when she's laughing, her smile is so beautiful, that I'm just wrapped around her finger, and there's nowhere I would rather be.
Men want a woman who helps us believe in our dreams
I'm a playwright, so it's only natural that I'm a dreamer. Most people and especially men are dreamers. When we are little boys we have no shame in sharing our dreams, whether it's that one day we are going to grow up and be better than Michael Jordan or that we are going to be the youngest President ever. As we grow up, however, we slowly become afraid to share our dreams. When we first meet someone who we are excited about, and who inspires us, we find ourselves sharing our dreams again. It feels really amazing when a woman surprises us by doing something that makes us realize that not only is someone listening, but that they are actually actively helping to bring our dreams to reality.
When we first met, Jamillah and I hung on each other's every word, and we still do. Last Valentine's Day we were walking around our neighborhood when I noticed that we were taking a long exaggerated route. To my surprise we ended up at a studio where they teach an "Absolute Beginners" Capoeira class. I had been talking about wanting to take a class for a long time, but I hadn't signed up. What I didn't realize was that Jamillah had heard me and had taken concrete steps to get me started by signing me up for the class. I love to run my mouth, but Jamillah is a doer. It's a beautiful thing when she inspires me to not only dream about my dreams but to make them come to life.
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Antagonyms, Social Circles and Chattering about VRM is a deep and helpful piece by Cliff Gerrish on his Echovar blog. He starts by visiting antagonyms and contranyms (words that carry dual and opposing meanings) and how context tilts perception and meaning toward one side or another. By example he suggests that Google's problems with Buzz were (at least in part) a result of internal perspective and experience ("Google launched Buzz as a consumer product, but tested it as an enterprise product"). From there he suggests that CRM and VRM also require that we consider perspective and reciprocity:
Meanwhile, SalesForce.com introduces Chatter to the enterprise and rolls it out at no extra charge to all employees on the internal network. And while it will start inside the enterprise, Chatter will quickly expand to the boundaries and begin to cross over. From a business perspective, it'll be used to turbo-charge collaboration and create real-time communication for project teams and business units. But very quickly you'll see friends sending messages to each other about meeting up for lunch, and a public-personal communications channel will be opened within the enterprise. And the circles will connect and widen from there.
Here are a couple more Contranyms:
clip (attach to) – clip (cut off from)
cleave (to cut apart) – cleave (to seal together)
Salesforce.com calls itself the leader in Customer Relationship Management and Cloud Computing. Chatter may just be the communication medium that ultimately contains both CRM and its opposite number, VRM. Vendor Relationship Management is a reaction to the data toolsets belonging to the enterprise and not to the individual customer.
In a narrow sense, VRM is the reciprocal — the customer side — of CRM (or Customer Relationship Management). VRM tools provide customers with the means to bear their side of the relationship burden. They relieve CRM of the perceived need to "capture," "acquire," "lock in," "manage," and otherwise employ the language and thinking of slave-owners when dealing with customers. With VRM operating on the customer's side, CRM systems will no longer be alone in trying to improve the ways companies relate to customers. Customers will be also be involved, as fully empowered participants, rather than as captive followers.
If you were to think about what kind of infrastructure you'd want to run VRM on, Salesforce.com would be ideal. To run the mirror image of CRM, you need the same set of services and scale. The individual Chatter account could be the doorway to a set of VRM services. I can already see developers using the Force.com platform to populate a VRM app store.
Some corporations will attempt to maximize the business value of each individual worker, stripping out all the extraneous human factors. Chinese walls will be erected to keep the outside from the inside, the personal from the business, and the public from the private. But when you put messaging and communications tools into the hands of people they will find ways to talk to each other— about work, life, play, the project, and the joke they just heard at the water cooler.
I'll need to study Salesforce's services before I venture opinions about how well they apply on the VRM side. But in the meantime I do think there is an especially appropriate optical illusion for illustrating CRM/VRM reciprocity: the Rubin Vase:
As Wikipedia currently puts it,
Rubin's vase (sometimes known as the Rubin face or the Figure-ground vase) is a famous set of cognitive optical illusions developed around 1915 by the Danish psychologist Edgar Rubin. They were first introduced at large in Rubin's two-volume work, the Danish-language Synsoplevede Figurer ("Visual Figures"), which was very well-received; Rubin included a number of examples, like a Maltese cross figure in black and white, but the one that became the most famous was his vase example, perhaps because the Maltese cross one could also be easily interpreted as a black and white beachball.
One can then state as a fundamental principle: When two fields have a common border, and one is seen as figure and the other as ground, the immediate perceptual experience is characterized by a shaping effect which emerges from the common border of the fields and which operates only on one field or operates more strongly on one than on the other.
Says Rubin (in Synsoplevede Figurer, 1915),
One can then state as a fundamental principle: When two fields have a common border, and one is seen as figure and the other as ground, the immediate perceptual experience is characterized by a shaping effect which emerges from the common border of the fields and which operates only on one field or operates more strongly on one than on the other.
Over the next century Rubin's vase illusion has more commonly been illustrated with a wine glass between two faces (perhaps because we're drinking more and arranging flowers less):
I think this imagery does a better job of illustrating the figure-ground distinctions of CRM and VRM. I suggest that CRM sees the wine glass (from which they might drink from the wealth of well-managed relationships with customers), while VRM sees two faces that represent one-to-one interactions between equals.
After CRM and VRM come to be working well together, vendors and customers will still have their own tilted perspectives — one's figure will be the other's ground — but both will be fully present.
As of today that's not the case. CRM is a multi-$billion industry, while VRM is just getting started. Perhaps, by thinking about CRM from a VRM perspective (and vice versa), we can build out tools and solutions better, and faster.


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I have a table called 'individuals'. It has 5 entities i.e. ID (int,) name (String), surname (String), Age (Int) and currencyBalance(double). These are stored in a mySql Database.
I would like to make a GUI that allows the user to enter a value (as currency). This value is then added to the currencyBalance in the database.
I was thinking of making 2 SQL queries. One that returns the balance as an integer and the other updates the Balance by adding the balance returned to the user input. However how do i enter the user data in the SQL query? The idea is to have a simple working application.
I think the SQL Query queries should read something like this am i right?
SELECT balance FROM individuals WHERE ID='1'
Query 2
UPDATE individuals (SELECT balance FROM individuals WHERE ID='1') SET balance=USERDATAGOESHERE WHERE name='George'
Any better refinement on the logic? Is there a better and more effective way to do this?


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Hillary Clinton appealed to voting mothers Tuesday outlining ways she hopes to curb gun violence as president and provide paid family leave and sick days for struggling working moms. Donald Trump tried to blame his opponent about revelations that his massive financial losses could have allowed him to avoid paying federal income taxes for years.
Clinton, appearing at a family town hall outside Philadelphia, said, "It should not be so hard to be a young parent. And it should not be so hard on the other end of the age spectrum to take care of your loved one."
She was making a case to suburban female voters who have sometimes backed Republicans in past presidential races.
Trump, meanwhile, sought to shore up support in deep-red Arizona during a challenging stretch for his campaign that aides hoped would be steadied Tuesday night by a strong performance by his running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, against Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine in the vice presidential debate.
The celebrity businessman -- who was also grappling with new allegations of boorish treatment of women and criticism of his comments about veterans' health -- resorted to blaming Clinton for the tax code that could have allowed him to not pay taxes for nearly two decades after he apparently lost nearly $1 billion in 1995.
"Why didn't she ever try to change those so laws so I couldn't use them?" asked Trump in the Republican-stronghold of Prescott Valley, before suggesting that Clinton's desire to protect her rich donors prevented her from passing any legislation while she was in the Senate.
Trump has refused to release his tax returns. His tax reform proposals do not call for changing the provision that would have allowed him to avoid paying.
He attempted to change the campaign conversation by seizing on former President Bill Clinton's comments describing the nation's current health system as "the craziest thing in the world."
"Can you imagine what he went through after making that statement? He went through hell," said Trump. "But you know, honestly, there have been many nights when he's gone through hell with Hillary."
Despite frequently depicting Bill Clinton as an abuser of women, Trump said he wanted "to thank him, honestly, for being honest" about Obamacare.
Asked about her husband's comment on Tuesday, Hillary Clinton said she would attempt to "fix what is broken and keep what works" if elected president, adding that Republicans want to repeal the entire health care program. She also condemned Trump's recent comments about veterans, in which he suggested that soldiers who suffer from mental health issues might not be as strong as those who don't.
She said Trump's comments "are not just ignorant, they're harmful."
Trump's campaign said Monday his comments were being misconstrued.
There were signs Trump's troubles were trickling down to other Republicans on the November ballot.
New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte, a Republican running for re-election, stumbled on Monday night when she was asked whether she considers her party's nominee to be a role model for children. Ayotte, who is in a close race with Democratic Gov. Maggie Hassan, initially answered "absolutely," but then backtracked in a statement afterward saying she had changed her mind.
"I misspoke tonight," the statement said. "While I would hope all of our children would aspire to be president, neither Donald Trump nor Hillary Clinton have set a good example, and I wouldn't hold up either of them as role models for my kids."
Ayotte's trouble answering the question underscores Trump's trouble with independent, moderate and college-educated women who are turned off Trump.
Those were precisely the type of voters Clinton was seeking to connect with in suburban Philadelphia's Delaware County, where President Barack Obama earned 60 percent of the vote in both the 2008 and 2012 election but has often served as a swing area in the battleground state.
During the town hall, 15-year-old Brennan Leach, the daughter of Democratic state Sen. Daylin Leach, told Clinton that "body image" was a major issue for girls her age at school, adding, "I see with my own eyes the damage Donald Trump does when he talks about women and how they look."
Responding to how she would "undo some of that damage," Clinton thanked Leach as the crowd cheered, saying she was "so proud of you for asking that question." She said "it's shocking when women are called names."
First lady Michelle Obama joined in, assailing Trump at a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina. She said, "The presidency doesn't change who you are, it reveals who you are."


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Technology and the Past Decade In Music: Indie College Takes A Look Back
-Clay Riedesel
The music scene of the sixties was defined by LSD, the 70s by cannabis, the 80s by cocaine, and the 90s by heroin. Music and drugs have been inseparable since music was invented, but the drug of choice for the new millennium isn't a psychoactive substance, it's technology.
On July 2, 2001 the music world was forever changed when Bram Cohen released BitTorrent, a peer to peer file sharing software. The software works by utilizing "torrents", media files that are broken into "bits". These easily download-able bits are shared between computers running BitTorrent and the selected torrent. While downloading, the program acts as a "leech", primarily downloading and sharing little. Once the download is complete, the program then "seeds" the torrent bits to other lechers. Every BitTorrent user has a leech to seed ratio that tracks how much they seed and how much they leech. People who leech but never seed have low ratios, and are frequently kicked out of torrents. This encourages BitTorrent users to keep a 1:1 ratio, the ideal balance between giving and receiving.
BitTorrent is so effective that even people with dial-up Internet can download media quickly. While torrents exist for everything from movies to video games to computer software, Mp3s are by far the most commonly torrented media.
When it comes to the law, torrenting exists in a grey area. Torrent supporters claim it's no different than sharing a CD with a friend so he can burn it to his computer. Opponents argue that torrenting is more like going into a record store and taking whatever you please without paying. While technically illegal, so many people torrent that it's impossible for companies to sue everyone. So instead of prosecuting individual users companies go after torrent websites like The Pirate Bay and torrent software developers.
Some musicians adamantly disavow torrenting sties. Gene Simmons, bassist for the rock band Kiss, has been quoted saying "Make sure your brand is protected. Make sure there are no incursions. Be litigious. Sue everybody. Take their homes, their cars. Don't let anybody cross that line."
Other musicians that abhor torrenting include legendary metal band Metallica. In 2000 Metallica discovered an unreleased demo was receiving radio airplay. They tracked the leak back to the first peer to peer file sharing website, Napster. There they discovered their entire discography was available for free. Upset, the band took Napster to court. Other artists including Dr. Dre joined in on the lawsuit. The artists won, and Napster filed for bankruptcy. Napster would later reincarnate itself as a digital music store similar to iTunes.
Not all musicians are opposed to torrenting. In June 2003 English rock band Radiohead fulfilled their six album contract with EMI. Instead of renewing it, they chose to record their seventh album In Rainbows independently. On October 10, 2007 Radiohead released In Rainbows on their website, declaring that fans could play whatever they liked to download it, including nothing at all, and encouraged fans to spread the album via torrenting. In Rainbows would go on to be a huge commercial and critical success. While bands like Asthmaboy have been releasing their music for free online long before Radiohead, In Rainbows made free online music distribution mainstream, and played a huge role in advocating torrenting as a positive thing. Other major label bands including Nine Inch Nails would go on to release albums with a pay what you want system similar to In Rainbows.
Torrenting has had a huge impact on artists, and not where you might expect. Bands get very little money from record sales, the majority of which goes to record companies. Instead artists make bank from ticket and merchandise sales at live concerts. Torrenting is usually beneficial to artists, helping them gain more fans than what they might have had otherwise. On the downside, torrenting has made it much harder to become a successful, innovative artist. Why should somebody listen to you when they can listen to The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, The Cars, Nirvana, and Pearl Jam for free? As an artist, how do you out innovate Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, Rage Against The Machine, Sonic Youth, or David Bowie?
Torrenting has had a major effect on consumers too. Before the Internet music acted as a badge of cool among fans. Going to a live concert meant you experienced your favorite artists and songs differently than people who only heard them via vinyl or CD. Thanks to streaming video sites like YouTube and torrented concert DVDs, you can experience your favorite band live from the front row in high definition relaxing on your sofa without getting distracted by the noisy drunk standing next to you. Live concerts mean nothing anymore. Who cares about your shelf full of records when I can fit 3000 albums in my pocket?
The other piece of technology that revolutionized the music industry was video streaming website YouTube. With YouTube, any musician with a web cam and an Internet connection could have their voice heard. While streaming video existed before YouTube, it was awkward, clunky, and difficult to use. Artists like Bo Burnham and Tay Zonday have become famous and acquired record deals from their songs distributed on YouTube. While bands like OK Go, which write shitty music but direct amazing music videos, achieved unprecedented levels of success from YouTube distribution.
Many people complain that modern day music is inferior to music from the 60s and 70s. What these people don't realize is there was just as much music floating around back then, but only the best musicians acquired record deals and garnered radio play. The truth is the quality of music hasn't changed, the volume has. Forty years ago the music market was much smaller and tighter than it is today. Thanks to technology we are exposed to more music than ever before, and while our crop has gotten larger, so has our cream, and it's just as sweet if not sweeter.
Ed. note: Thanks to Clay for this thought provoking piece! Read more from Clay Riedesel on our sister site, Radio Free Chicago.


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The Annual Guilt Trip
I had not really planned on taking a trip this time of the year, and yet I found myself packing rather hurriedly. This trip was going to be unpleasant, and I knew in advance that no real good would come of it. I'm talking about my annual "Guilt Trip." It is indeed the annual guilt trip.
I got tickets to fly there on "WISH I HAD" airlines. It was an extremely short flight.
I got my baggage, which I could not check. I chose to carry it myself all the way. It was weighted down with a thousand memories of what might have been.
No one greeted me as I entered the terminal to the Regret City International Airport. I say international because people from all over the world come to this dismal town.
As I checked into the Last Resort Hotel, I noticed that they would be hosting the year's most important event, the Annual Pity Party.
I wasn't going to miss that great social occasion. Many of the towns leading citizens would be there.
First, there would be the Done family, you know, Should Have, Would Have and Could Have.
Then came the I Had family.
You probably know l Wish and his clan.
Of course, the Opportunities would be present, Missed and Lost.
The biggest family would be the Yesterday's. There are far too many of them to count, but each one would have a very sad story to share.
Then Shattered Dreams would surely make and appearance.
And It's Their Fault would regale us with stories (excuses) about how things had failed in his life, and each story would be loudly applauded by Don't Blame Me and I Couldn't Help It.
Well, to make a long story short, I went to this depressing party knowing that there would be no real benefit in doing so. And, as usual, I became very depressed.
But as I thought about all of the stories of failures brought back from the past, it occurred to me that all of this trip and subsequent "pity party" could be cancelled by ME!
I started to truly realize that I did not have to be there. I didn't have to be depressed.
One thing kept going through my mind, I can't change yesterday, but I do have the power to make today a wonderful day.
I can be happy, joyous, fulfilled, encouraged, as well as encouraging. Knowing this, I left the City of Regret immediately and left no forwarding address.
Am I sorry for mistakes I've made in the past? YES! But there is no physical way to undo them.
So, if you're planning a trip back to the City of Regret, please cancel all your reservations now. Instead, take a trip to a place called, Starting Again.
I liked it so much that I have now taken up permanent residence there. My neighbors, the I Forgive Myself and the New Starts are so very helpful.
By the way, you don't have to carry around heavy baggage, because the load is lifted from your shoulders upon arrival.
God bless you in finding this great town. If you can find it — it's in your own heart — please look me up.
I live on I CAN DO IT street.
"I can't change yesterday, but I do have the power to make today a wonderful day." — Anonymous photo credit: huffingtonpost.com
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Thanks to @LSEImpactBlog and Jonathan Eisen, I found out yesterday about a potentially very handy new feature in Google Scholar.
I've had a Google Scholar profile for some time: after all, I might as well be wherever a potential reader might find me – and the work involved is minimal. However, I've been rather sceptical of its value, not least because of its persistent inability to distinguish me from an oceanographer with the same name.
However, this new Updates feature would seem to take things to a new level. The Google Scholar blog explains:
We analyze your articles (as identified in your Scholar profile), scan the entire web looking for new articles relevant to your research, and then show you the most relevant articles when you visit Scholar. We determine relevance using a statistical model that incorporates what your work is about, the citation graph between articles, the fact that interests can change over time, and the authors you work with and cite.
Jonathan Eisen gives a very interesting account of just how useful these results seem to him, on first try, in the LSE Impact Blog. In the interest of providing more initial feedback on a new tool, I thought I'd do something similar.
Looking at the four Top Updates – those that Google thinks should be most interesting to me – it's pretty good. One I am interested in (and indeed had already read). Two more are by Grace Davie (who I have cited extensively), but which I didn't know of; and a fourth is by a new author to me, which looks to be of general interest. So: of four, I might read three, especially those that are available Open Access; but none for definite.
Looking then at the further five not rated as Top, it's a little more wobbly. One I can't see the relevance of at all; one I think is connected to a tangential footnote in a rather elderly article of mine; the others, whilst kind-of interesting, I'm unlikely to read unless I found myself with some sabbatical leave. To be fair, my work has spanned early modern and modern periods, as well as digital resources and Open Access publishing, and so that diversity presumably presents difficulties to a model that is trying to figure out what I'm most interested in.
So: on first encounter, I can appreciate some very impressive computational work going on to make this work, but it doesn't demand that I recast my research habits to incorporate it into the normal run of things – or, at least, not yet.


text: On June 10, 2013, Frieda Gulin (nee Fine); beloved wife of the late Samuel Eli Gulin; devoted mother of Sylvia Harriet (Aaron) Grebow, Dr. Stanley Philip (Ina) Gulin and Doris Gulin (Charles F.) Reichert; loving sister of the late Rose Littman and Eleanor Plovsky; cherished grandmother of Iain Myles Gulin and Sarah Hannah Grebow. Services at SOL LEVINSON & BROS., INC., 8900 Reisterstown Road, at Mount Wilson Lane on Thursday, June 13, at 10 a.m. Interment at Beth Isaac Adath Israel Cemetery, North Point and German Hill roads. Please omit flowers. Contributions in her memory may be sent to Jewish Community Services, 5750 Park Heights Ave., Baltimore, MD 21215 or Towson University Foundation, P.O. Box 17165, Baltimore, MD 21297.


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Professor Tien, Norman Chihnan 田之楠
|Awarding Institution
|University of California San Diego
|University of Illinois System
|University of California Berkeley
Professor Norman C. Tien has become the Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Institutional Advancement) at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) since 2019. He was the Dean of Engineering at the HKU from 2012 to 2018. Prior to his arrival at the HKU, he served for five years as the Dean and Nord Professor of Engineering at Case Western Reserve University's Case School of Engineering in Cleveland, Ohio. He was also the Ohio Eminent Scholar in Condensed Matter Physics.
During his tenure as Dean of the Case School of Engineering, Tien realized several key elements for his vision for the school with initiatives in energy and global outreach. He created the Great Lakes Institute for Energy Innovation to develop and advance sustainable energy generation through research, development, and education. The Institute also served as a vehicle to drive cultural change in the school by promoting multi-disciplinary, collaborative, large-scale research. In his mission to expand the school's external presence, Tien began the San Diego-based Wireless Health Technology program, the school's first office outside of Ohio. He also developed new collaborative partnerships with Chinese and Southeast Asian universities.
Tien's research interests are in the area of micro and nanotechnology-including microelectromechanical (MEMS) systems-the fabrication of small structures, tools and instruments for use in wireless communications, biomedical systems and environmental monitoring. With over 115 publications in the field, he has had 13 Ph.D. students graduate under his supervision since he began teaching in 1996. He helped establish the International Networked Sensor Systems Conference (INSS), and served as editor for the leading MEMS publication, the IEEE/ASME Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems. Tien was also founder and chief technology officer of AIP Networks, an optical communication components company now part of Optoplex Corporation.
Prior to CWRU, Tien served as chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California at Davis and held a joint appointment at the University of California at Berkeley. He also served as co-director of the Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center. He previously held faculty positions in Cornell University's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Tien serves as a guest professor at Peking University and has received the distinction of honorary professor of Tianjin University in Tianjin, China.
A National Science Foundation CAREER award recipient, Tien received his Ph.D. from the University of California at San Diego, his MS from the University of Illinois, and his BS from the University of California at Berkeley. He received the second annual Chang-Lin Tien Education Leadership Award that recognizes the accomplishments of rising Asian American leaders in higher education to support their professional development and advancement.
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Home Page Chess Life Online 2008 January USCF Receives Two Generous Bequests
|USCF Receives Two Generous Bequests
|By Bill Hall
|December 31, 2008
The USCF is proud to announce that we have received a bequest in the amount
of $350,000 from the estate of the late Philip C. LeCornu of Florida. We
only have a few details about Mr. LeCornu at this time, but he was believed
to be an active and strong player in the 1950's and he was a Life Member.
The gift was to the USCF and was not targeted to a specific endeavor. The
USCF plans to honor Mr. LeCornu's generous act by permanently naming the
King at the USCF Headquarters after him and signifying this with a plaque in
his honor.
Yesterday, we received an additional bequest from the Herbert W. Gustafson
(from California) estate in the amount of $24,625.77. Previously, we had
received $23,055.55 for a total of 47,681.32. This bequest did have a
request that a portion of it be used in support of correspondence chess. We
are working on some ideas to present to the Board on this in the coming
weeks. We plan to similarly memorialize Mr. Gustafson.
Additionally, Daniel Lucas, USCF Director of publications is planning an
article about these gentlemen in a future issue of Chess Life. If you knew
either of these gentlemen, have information regarding them, or have access
to any of their games, please contact Daniel at [email protected].
On behalf of the Federation, I would like to say to both of these gentlemen,
"Thank you and your generosity will not be forgotten." To the friends and
family of Mr. LeCornu and Mr. Gustafson, we in the chess community
offer you our condolences for your loss. But rest assured that the memories of both men will be honored.


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Are Women Really Promiscuous?
Are Modern Women Too Promiscuous? Here's Why We're Not Convinced
In certain quarters of society, the idea that women have become "too easy" is a common complaint. This is generally a conservative position which has the "good old days" as its point of comparison, where women were expected to be modest and chaste until marriage.
This traditional model had its most recent heyday in the 1950s, where traditional family values that centered the importance of marriage and "saving yourself for one person" were at their apex.
After the sexual revolution of the 1960s, which came about due to changing social attitudes and technological advances like the invention of the oral contraceptive pill, attitudes towards pre-marital sex became looser. The rise of various feminist movements also encouraged women to break free of old social norms throughout the 1970s, 80s and 90s — right up until today.
So what's the upshot of these decades of social change? Basically, women these days are, generally speaking, more likely to openly engage in casual sex than they used to be. But the idea that this makes them "easy" — let alone "too easy" — deserves closer examination.
Here are 8 reasons the idea that women have become too easy is wrongheaded, and some discussion of why the rise of more relaxed attitudes about casual sex is actually a good thing for both men and women:
1. It Doesn't Make Sense If You're A Man Who Wants To Have Casual Sex
One key reason to ditch the traditional, puritanical attitude towards sexually liberated women is that sex is — not to put too fine a point on it — really damn fun. Sex is an activity that's widely enjoyed by many people, male and female alike, so what's the sense in leveraging our social attitudes in order to limit how much of it people are willing to engage in? And, more to the point, why shame one particular gender out of having as much sex as the other?
The idea that women are "too easy" (read: have too much casual sex) seems to be a peculiarly self-defeating attitude for straight men to hold. On the one hand, men are famously interested in having as much sex with women as possible — there's a multi-million dollar industry peddling men endless self-help books and YouTube tutorial videos dedicated to helping them get more sex, not to mention the sheer scale of the porn industry — yet on the other hand we're accusing women of being too easy and, by proxy, discouraging them from sleeping with men.
Well, which way is it going to be? Either you want to have sex with women or you don't. If you do, it makes no sense whatsoever to discourage potential sexual partners from being willing to have sex without signing a marriage certificate first by slapping them with derogatory labels like "easy". Come on, this is basic math.
2. There's No Benefit To Discouraging Sex
Consensual sex between adults is largely a victim-free, harmless activity that causes no wider social harms. It's true that sex does come with some (manageable) risks such as STIs and pregnancy, but overall it's no more dangerous an activity that rock climbing or jogging, and it doesn't negatively impact the lives of outsiders (unlike, say, those noisy, pesky jet skiers!)
If everyone is freely participating and being as safe as possible, sex is, in fact, healthy and should be encouraged among people who are interested in it. Sexual activity is a form of physical exercise (something most of us need more of) that increases intimacy and relaxation, and even boosts immunity.
3. Religion Doesn't Dominate Our Lives The Way It Used To
One of the core reasons that "saving yourself" until marriage became such a strong social impetus was because of religion, and religion is still the root cause of most of our judgmental attitudes towards casual sex. Various religions dictate that remaining chaste and modest is a moral impetus ordained by God (in whichever form), and for a long time the idea of displeasing a supreme deity was enough to prevent most of us from doing anything He prohibited (at least, out in the open).
However, these days most of us live in increasingly secular societies and families, and don't let religious dogma determine how we spend our waking hours. By and large, we're no longer spending our Sundays in church and rushing off to confession after every one night stand. Religion doesn't hold the same sway over our behaviour that it used to, and that's partly why questions about whether women are becoming "too easy" look increasingly out-of-place in modern societies.
4. Casual Sex Is Useful & Important
Casual sex allows all of us to explore our sexual desires before we commit to one person for the remainder of our lives (if that's your thing). Let's face it: most people consider sex to be an important component in a romantic relationships, and finding out that you have zero sexual chemistry with your new wife when you finally consummate your marriage is a recipe for divorce.
Fortunately, these days you can avoid that embarrassment by gaining a clear idea of your sexual desires well in advance of your wedding night. Casual sex allows you to experiment in the bedroom without the weight of commitment, and for that reason it's a useful activity that shouldn't be discouraged in women.
5. Sex Isn't Inherently Dirty Or Degrading
There's nothing inherently degrading about having sex with someone you aren't in a committed relationship with or soon after meeting someone new. As we've discussed, it doesn't hurt bystanders or cause widespread social disarray, so why would we shame the individuals involved? (Or, ahem, just the female ones?)
The idea that casual sex is degrading is a social construct, and social constructs only gain life when we repeat them over and over. We don't think other normal, natural activities like eating or breathing are degrading, so why the specific hang up around sex? Collectively we could stop viewing sex as something that debases us and instead come to see it as something that's healthy, normal and fun when consenting adults take part, and doing so would cause us all to be way less stressed and uptight about a normal part of life.
6. The Question Contains A Double Standard
It's interesting to note that the question isn't "Have people become too easy?" but rather "Have women become too easy?" Why isn't anyone asking whether men have become too easy? Casual sex is now more readily available for people of any gender than it was in the past, with fewer risks, so why is it that we're only worried about women doing "too much" of it?
The answer is simple, if a little depressing: sexist double standards. We tend to punish women for displaying the same sexual attitudes that are encouraged in men, and although we like for women to look sexually available and hot at all times, we shame those of them who actually follow through with it by having casual sex. This is pretty self-evidently unfair, and that's as good a reason as any to pause before asking if women have become too easy.
7. Slut-Shaming Hurts Women
If you're not convinced that sexual double standards are bad enough, consider that shaming women for having casual sex causes real, tangible harm to thousands of women every day.
Slut-shaming is a serious form of bullying, and one that's disproportionately targeted at women. Netflix's documentary Audrie & Daisy details the tragic impact of slut-shaming — which can result in isolation, low self-esteem, self-harm and suicide — with heartbreaking clarity, and is a worthwhile watch for anyone who's still not convinced that slut-shaming is "a thing" (a very, very terrible thing).
No one should be shamed for doing something with their own bodies that causes no harm to others, and labelling women with epithets like "easy" or "slutty" plays into this idea that it's okay to torment someone because of their sexual choices. It's not, and that's another reason we're side-eyeing the idea that women are "too easy".
8. Sex Isn't The End Of The Chase
Sometimes the question "Have women become too easy?" is a way of reframing a sense of exasperation that there's no thrill of the chase anymore. If women will have sex whenever they feel like it, what happens to all the wooing and courting and flirting? Isn't that half the fun?
Worry not. For a start, it's not like women don't require wooing and courting to have sex anymore — it's just that these days the whole process can take part over the course of a single evening rather than spanning months or years, and who is seriously arguing that that's less fun?
Moreover, the idea that sex itself is the ultimate end game is a little boring and limiting. There's still plenty more to "chase" left once you've convinced a woman to go to bed with you: for a start, you can get to know her better, or you pursue better, more fulfilling sex for both of you (let's face it, the first night of sex often isn't the greatest). There's no reason that casual sex has to spell the end of courtship, so there's no need to fear women being "easy".
RELATED: Arranging Casual Encounters Online - Here's How To Do It Right
Whatever way you cut it, the idea that women have become too easy is wrong-headed. If you're looking at it from a female point of view, the question is harmful and creates a double standard that punishes women for engaging in activities men can do freely, and that sucks. Similarly, if you look at it from a male perspective, shaming women out of wanting to have casual sex with you is counter-productive and treats sex as inherently shameful and degrading, and that sucks, too!
The idea that women are too easy is lose-lose regardless of what gender you are, so the next time you hear someone asking if women have become too easy these days, feel free to school them on the dodgy assumptions underlying that question.


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On July 13, Warner Bros. Consumer Products and WaterTower Music will release a live Bugs Bunny at the Symphony concert recording, which captures the debut performance of "Bugs Bunny at the Symphony." The first performance was held in May at the Sydney Opera House, and was created and conducted by Emmy Award winner George Daugherty.
The production and recording follows the orchestra and film concert Bugs Bunny on Broadway, which debuted in 1990 at the Gershwin Theatre and was also created and conducted by Daugherty. Both productions feature Looney Tunes characters, including Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, Porky the Pig, and Daffy Duck, as voiced by Mel Blanc and Arthur Q. Bryan, and is composed by Carl Stalling and Milt Franklyn.
The CD will be the first major recording of Stalling and Franklyn's work to be released in two decades. The CD contains nine full-length cartoon scores, excerpts, and songs from 10 others, plus two full-length symphonic overtures which inspired the cartoons.
Bugs Bunny at the Symphony will have the second tier of its world premiere at the Hollywood Bowl July 16 and 17 with the L.A. Philharmonic.


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Most of as using Windows XP as our default operating system,but the boot is long.so if you want to boot the Winxp Fast follow the below procedure
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Teens On Teen Driving Safety: Tips For Parents
Back in June, we covered the Project Ignition top 10 teen driver safety campaigns. Now we've got an important message to parents from teens of Project Ignition on the important issue of teen driver safety.
It's a little different than the usual parenting tips, in that they come from the teens themselves. But this goes to show that communication really does make a difference. And it isn't just parents that have all the answers. Sometimes, they can take a few pointers from their own children.
Support and involvement
According to the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, teen drivers whose parents are highly supportive and involved, set rules and monitor driving behavior have half the crash risk as parents who are less involved.
The students and educators involved with Project Ignition have partnered to positively impact teen driving behavior in communities across the U.S. and Canada for the past seven years through service learning.
One effective strategy they have found is to educate parents about the important role they can and do play in teen driver safety. Here are some of the tips they often share.
Accompanying the list of parenting tips from teens are comments from two Project Ignition spokespeople at Rushville Consolidated High School in Rushville, Indiana, a Project Ignition national leader school.
Taylor Mock is a student leader and daughter, one of thousands of students across America and Canada effectively leading her peers, the community and the state legislature in fighting to change norms around distracted driving and other risky teen driving behaviors. Taylor, who recently graduated high school, is Indiana's 2011 SADD Student of the Year.
Faith Mock is an educator of 32 years, Project Ignition advisor at Rushville Consolidated High School and mom to Taylor.
Open the lines of communication. It's important to talk with your teen about distracted driving. Make sure you both understand what things are dangerous distractions. Listen to your teen. Ask about what it is like being in the car with other teens and what distractions there are to handle.
- Faith Mock: "We regularly sit at the dinner table and talk about distracted driving. I listen and really try to understand Taylor's experiences. I know where she is going, which friends she'll be with, and what time she should be expected home. And I am always her biggest cheerleader when we need to problem-solve together."
- Taylor Mock: "I know my mom is on my side, so it is much easier to talk about important issues like driving safety."
Offer support. Encourage your teen to use his or her voice. Role-play with your teen so that he can become comfortable saying things like, "We both want to live, so let me answer your phone or text while you drive." Help your teen get involved with programs at school like Project Ignition so that she can be a positive example and make an impact."
- Faith Mock: "As mothers, our role should be to help our children feel comfortable enough and strong enough to use their own voices, whether it be in their community, with their legislators or, most importantly, with their peers. We need to make it easy and cool for our children to say, 'I want to live. You want to live. We don't want to hurt anybody else. And therefore, you need to put the phone away. Let me answer the phone, let me take care of the text.' That takes practice and support at home."
- Taylor Mock: "When teenagers ride with friends and their friends are texting, they can say, 'Hey, will you please shut that off or will you please hand me your phone and I can answer the call for you or answer the text for you?' Teens are the new generation with a strong voice. The more we continue to speak out about this issue, the more people, younger and older, will listen. We do have an impact on all ages."
Set rules. It's important to set family ground rules for texting and calling while driving. Your teen needs to know you have high expectations as well as what the consequences will be if the rules aren't followed. Know where your teen is going, who he will be with, and what time he is expected home.
- Faith Mock: "I have set strict and clear rules for Taylor while simultaneously offering the logic behind those rules. She knows, for example, that if she were to be pulled over for speeding or distracted driving, she would lose her driving privileges until she could earn back my trust. And our expectations around communication have changed. Before becoming more knowledgeable about the dangers related to distracted driving, when I called Taylor I expected her to answer the phone. Now if I call, and she doesn't answer, I know she is driving. I also know she will call me as soon as she arrives at her destination. And the reverse is true when she is trying to reach me. We've mutually set high expectations for each other."
- Taylor Mock: "I know that the driving rules are very clear and they are very strict. I know that if I ever got a ticket for speeding or texting, my mother would take away my license my driving privileges for a really long time until I could earn her trust back. The driving rules are clear and strict and I obey them."
Be a positive example. Model the behavior you want your teen to exhibit. If the phone rings while you're driving, don't answer it. Encourage your teen to answer your phone or text, allowing you to drive more safely. Speak up about distracted driving to your friends and peers in front of your teen driver. Help set an example, spread the word and save lives.
- Faith Mock: "If my phone rings when we are in the car, I ask Taylor to answer it. I don't even consider driving distracted because I am her primary example. I also set an example by intentionally having her witness me speaking up about this issue to family and friends. I want Taylor to see how painless and rewarding using her voice to stand up for what she believes in can be."
- Taylor Mock: "Teenagers can play a big part in this issue by not driving distracted themselves and setting an example for the friends who ride with them. A lot of teens I know are stepping up and saying, 'No!' and I know that a lot of younger children are telling their parents not to drive distracted either."
Representing the voice of teens and parents involved in Project Ignition, Faith and Taylor have two more comments that illustrate how important the parent-teen relationship can be with respect to teen driving safety.
Faith says that she has only come to the realization how important safe driving is and how dangerous distracted driving is through Project Ignition. "When teens are telling teens to put away the phone and keep their eyes focused on the road, and parents are supporting that message, change will happen. And, as a long-time educator, I really believe that teens should and do have a voice in this national issue."
As for Taylor, she's very clear on what her behavior is expected to be behind the wheel. "I know exactly what the driving rules are in my house and what would happen if I didn't follow them, so I always follow them. Parents need to know that opening the lines of communication, setting rules, being supportive and being a positive example really does change their teen's perspective on driving safely."
About Project Ignition
Car crashes continue to be the number one cause of death for adolescents. Through their participation in a high school service-learning program called Project Ignition, thousands of young people have taken up the challenge and are playing a role in the solution by engaging their peers and parents in activities that reduce risky driving behaviors.
Project Ignition, coordinated by the National Youth Leadership Council and funded by State Farm, makes grants available to public high schools in the U.S. and Canada. The program provides young people with the tools and opportunity to take the lead in addressing teen driver safety issues in their communities by linking public service to academic curriculum.
- Twenty-five schools will be chosen to receive $2,000 grants to support implementation of teen driver safety awareness and engagement campaigns in spring 2012.
- Ten of these 25 schools will receive $5,000 to sponsor their participation in a national conference or event. They will also have the chance to receive an addition $2,500 to go even deeper with their campaigns during the 2012-2013 school year.
- Additional information and the grant application are available at www.sfprojectignition.com. Applications are due by November 15, 2011.
This story originally appeared at Family Car Guide.
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Stacks of History
At the world's largest library, no one but the staff has been permitted in the stacks for nearly 25 years.
Sydney Sznajder '15, who worked as an intern in the Publishing Office of the Library of Congress as a Comegys Bight Fellow last summer, says visiting those stacks—838 miles of shelves piled with more than 20 million books and 135 million other items (films, maps, photos, music, manuscripts, drawings, paintings)—was both "horrifying" and "every intern's favorite task."
"The staff loved mocking the interns before we went for the first time," she says. "They'd take our phone numbers 'just in case.' We'd always go in trios, never alone, and it was dark and freezing, to preserve the stored materials."
Books are kept in basement rooms known as "decks," many of them accessible only by elevator and notoriously difficult to navigate. "I have a map of my favorite artifacts, including shelves devoted to every work of Dorothy Parker in every available edition and the massive World War II section, and it looks like an Excel spreadsheet," she says. "It was really fun, and kind of terrifying."
In the publishing office, where the mission is to make the Library's holdings available to the public through books, calendars, notecards and other publications, Sznajder worked with writer-editor Tom Wiener and served as his research assistant on two projects. The first was a pictorial life of Mark Twain, and the other was The Forgotten Fifties, with images from the largest collection in the Library's Prints and Photographs Division—some 5 million photographs from the old Look magazine. "I was so lucky to be paired with an editor who was willing to just fold me into the process, no matter what stage he was at in what he was doing," she says.
An American studies major and aspiring novelist, Sznajder devised a creative writing project to complement her internship. "I generated 10 pieces in three media—poems, fiction and creative nonfiction. The idea was to use the library materials as inspiration, to take advantage of three wonderful months of access to those holdings."
It was thrilling, she says, to be part of such a magisterial institution. "Every day you'd walk in and, think, 'Wow, I work here.' It was much harder to leave than I expected. On the last day they let us each take one of the books they'd published over the years. It was hard to choose. And then we went into the stacks one last time, and we just didn't want to leave."
Sznajder was among ten Washington College students who benefited last summer from the Comegys Bight Fellowship Program, offered by the College's C.V. Starr Center for the American Experience. Established in 2003 by Drs. Thomas and Virginia Collier of Chestertown, the program pairs students with curators and directors at distinguished national institutions where they gain hands-on experience in fully paid positions that can launch them into their careers.


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Abyss Lake, Photo Gallery, Summit County - Eagle County - Clear Creek County, Colorado
Abyss Lake
Summit County - Eagle County - Clear Creek County
Abyss Lake (12,650') is located in a deep glacial cirque between Mt Bierstadt (14,060') and Mt Evans (14,265'). While the lake vicinity is exceptional, the hike to reach it is equally compelling. Visitors will enjoy pristine valleys, abundant aspen, open alpine travel and excellent backcountry camping en route to Abyss Lake.
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The trail skirts Helms Lake at 6.1 miles (11,750'), an ideal place to camp before clearing treeline
The trail wraps the base of an unnamed 13,641' peak on the final approach to Abyss Lake
Special protection of the Mt Evans area actually began in 1956 with the establishment of the Abyss Lake Scenic Area
The trail moderates through rolling tundra beneath Mt Bierstadt (left) and Mt Evans (right)
Open meadows at the convergence of two valleys near the Rosalie Trail split
Snowshoe hares are larger than most rabbits, with females slightly larger than males
The trail crosses Lake Fork Creek with rangy views across the upper valley
The trail levels through the vestiges of treeline to the unnamed lake at 6.15 miles
Abyss Lake fills a capacious cirque carved from the base of Mt Bierstadt and Mt Evans
Marmots hibernate from September to May in burrows 15-20 feet deep
The lower and middle valleys are dominated by thick aspen stands
A hiker descends Abyss Lake as storms form over South Park to the west
Bighorn sheep and mountain goat are frequently seen in the Mt Evans Wilderness
The unnamed lake at 11,750 is a compelling destination in itself
Meadows at the Rosalie Trail split precede a challenging climb to treeline
View from Guanella Pass en route to the Abyss Trailhead
The transition through treeline with Mt Bierstadt in view (center peak)
Building clouds presage afternoon monsoon thunderstorms July-August
This picture was taken of Mt Evans around the time a rare funnel cloud struck the mountain in July 2012
Travel moderates on a lengthy transition through treeline
Open alpine travel above Lake Fork Creek en route to Abyss Lake


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Biotech Food as a Necessity in a Warming Planet

With the arrival of climate change, developing new breeds of crops that can withstand higher temperatures, less water, or less fertilizer is going to be critical -- and Arcadia Biosciences has set out to make it happen.

Climate change is here, folks, and I'm not saying so because it's hot outside. This is a big worry, or at least it should be.
But big problems create big business opportunities: A California biotech company called Arcadia Biosciences has set out to help farmers do their part to slow down the process of global warming and adapt to a resource-constrained world -- by developing crop varieties that require less water, tolerate salty conditions and use less nitrogen fertilizer.
This photo shows two varieties of rice. On the left is rice engineered for nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) by Arcadia, on the right conventional rice. In laboratory tests, using typical applications of nitrogen fertilizer, the NUE rice, as it's known, is substantially more productive.
When you can grow more food using the same inputs of land, water and fertilizer, everyone -- farmers, consumers, hungry people and anyone who cares about CO2 concentrations in the earth's atmosphere -- is better off.
So, at least, says Eric Rey, the founder and CEO of Arcadia. Others will disagree because Arcadia deploys genetic-engineering technology that some (many?) environmentalists oppose. But when we met last week in Washington, Eric told me that he considers himself an environmentalists and, in fact, it was his concern about disappearing species, pollution and climate issues that led him to start the company back in 2002.
The company's purpose, Eric said, is to "use the the tools of plant biotechnology, and point them at saving the environment." When developing a new crop variety, he said, "if we can't put our fingers on an environmental benefit or a human health benefit, we won't do it."
"Agriculture has a huge environmental footprint," he went on. "We have to optimize food production and minimize the impact of that production on the environment. I don't think this is the only way to do it, but it's one way and it's valid and it's safe."
Arcadia got its start when Eric, who is 55 and had worked at Calgene Oils (creator of the infamous Flavr Savr tomato) met a free-thinking, left-leaning billionaire named John Sperling, who made a fortune in the for-profit education business and since then has used his money to to promote animal cloning, human life extension, legalized marijuana, saltwater agriculture and shrimp farming in Eritrea.
They got to talking about how genetically-engineered crops could benefit the environment, and Sperling became (and remains) a majority shareholder of privately-held Arcadia.
Since then, the company has made considerable progress in the slow-moving world of inventing, developing, testing and gaining regulatory approval for genetically engineered crops. It has about 85 employees, most of them researchers based in Davis, Calif. (where Eric earned a degree in plant science at the state university), and it has a crop in the field -- a plant known as GLA safflower oil, whose seeds contain oil with as much as 40 percent gamma linolenic acid that is used in supplements and nutraceutical foods. "It's basically a broad-purpose anti-inflammatory," Eric said.
Its work on crops that use nitrogen efficiently could have a much broader impact. Nitrogen fertilizers generate about $60 billion in worldwide revenues, Eric said: "Nitrogen is the fuel of global agriculture." Many farmers spend more on fertilizer than they do on seeds, so crops requiring less nitrogen can save them money. That's the business case for developing NUE crops. "It's kind of like a hybrid car of crops," Eric said. "You can go just as far on half a tank of gas."
Environmental benefits arise because much of the nitrogen now spread on fields is wasted. Some of it flows into rivers and streams and eventually causes algae blooms that create notorious "dead zones" in places like the Gulf of Mexico, and a small amount (estimated at 1-6 percent) is converted into nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas, and released into the air.
Nitrogen-efficient crops could, in theory, be eligible for carbon credits if it can be shown that they reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Arcadia has an agreement with a provincial government to make its seeds available for free, in exchange for the right to sell carbon credits. "The carbon piece is very important to us," Eric says.
Arcadia is primarily an R&D company -- it identifies technologies, brings them closer to commercial application, takes them through regulatory processes and then licenses them to big seed companies. It has licensed its nitrogen-efficiency technology to such companies as DuPont for corn), Belgium-based SES Vanderhave for sugar beets and Limagrain, a French company, for wheat. Nitrogen-efficient rice, barley, canola and cotton are also being developed.
None of this is close to a sure thing, of course. All these crops require regulatory approval, which takes years. European regulators and consumers remain suspicious of genetically modified crops. And some people say the world already has plenty of food, and that the problem is inequality, not productivity.
What's more, Arcadia has numerous competitors. "All the big guys have nitrogen efficiency programs," Eric says.
That's probably a good thing. Farmers are going to need all the help they can get adjusting to a warming world. So are the rest of us.
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Les Poulets de Kentucky
Belgian comic author and press artist Olivier Saive was born in Rocourt and enrolled in the École Supérieure des Arts Saint-Luc in Liège, but only stayed there for one week. He got aquainted with comic artists Fabrizio Borrini, Eric Maltaite and Stéphane Colman and assisted the latter on the coloring of his 1982 comic book 'White le Choc'.
La Ligne Universelle
Saive created his first album, 'Virage', in the Atomium collection of the publishing house Magic Strip in 1984. He then fulfilled his military service, and returned to the profession with his 1987 album 'La Ligne Universelle', published by Éditions du Miroir. Around this time, he also cooperated on several advertising and infographic projects, as well as TV leaders.
By 1989, he made a comics version of the television puppet 'Tatayet' in cooperation with ventriloquist Michel Dejeneffe and scriptwriter Raoul Cauvin. Two albums were published by Marsu Productions in 1990 and 1991. In 1992, he revived the classic Raymond Macherot character 'Chaminou' for the same publishing house and made three albums until 1995, the final two from scripts by his brother Bruno. When 'Chaminou' ended, Saive turned to illustration work for Le Soir, Athena and Imediaire and commercial assignments. In 1998 he published the black-and-white comic booklet 'Saive qui peut!' with publisher Point Image.
He then did two short-lived humorous series for Casterman in the early 2000s, 'Les Jeux sont faits' (with Dugomier) and 'Maman et moi' (with Marylène Bruno). Saive became the artist of the Bamboo series 'Foot Maniacs' from the fourth album in 2006 and continues to draw this humorous soccer comic from scripts by Béka to this day. Saive has also did the artwork for two books in the series 'Fondus', also published by Bamboo.
Foot Maniacs
Saive had been present in magazine Spirou since the early 1990s with editorial illustrations and short stories, but also with short-lived series like 'Les Maitres du Monde' (text by Janssens) and 'Michou Gropou' (text by Zidrou). But his best known series for the magazine became 'Les Poulets de Kentucky', that he started with 'Fondus' co-writer Hervé Richez in 2009. Album collections were published by Dupuis. For Bamboo, he additionally drew two books containing adaptations of sketches by French comedian Olivier de Benoist, in 2012 and 2013.
In addition to his activities as an artist, Saive teamed up with Flemish artist Luc Cromheecke in 2001 to start CartoonBase, a company that serves as a syndication channel for various European artists.
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6.7 +/- Acres w/3 BR/2 BA Home/Lodge, Large Barn, River Running Through the Property & Bordering Shenandoah National Park--SELLING to the HIGHEST BIDDER via ONLINE ONLY BIDDING!!
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6.7 +/- Acres w/3 BR/2 BA home/lodge, large barn and wooded acreage in Madison County, VA -- Robinson River runs through this property -- Very close proximity to Shenandoah National Park, White Oak Canyon, Old Rag Mountain, Graves Mountain Lodge & more!!
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- This home measures 2,839 +/- total sf. (1,925 +/- sf. of living space & 914 +/- sf. basement) and features an eat-in kitchen, living room w/fireplace, dining room, unfinished walk-out cellar/basement and attic w/scuttle hole
- This home needs some TLC, but will make a wonderful primary residence, weekend retreat, hunting lodge, AirBnb, etc.!!
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- .65 +/- acre parcel w/24'x32' barn (concrete floor)
- 3 +/- acre wooded parcel
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- Tax Maps: 13-3Q, 13-3F & 7-8B ; Zoning: C (Conservation); Total Yearly County real estate taxes: $1,787.84; Home was built in 1971 and has metal & wood siding; WE GUARANTEE A FREE & CLEAR DEED
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