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This post from NPR, Radio: The Port In The Storm, got me thinking about radio, and while I'm pretty well entrenched in the world of podcasts and my own music library, I do still love radio, and the interesting thing is, I think we've increased the amount of radio we listen to in our household this year.
Part of the rise of radio in our house might be due our dumping cable TV. We didn't completely dump TV, as we still get the local channels, but it's not that 500 channels (and nothing to watch) world we're used to. We still use Netflix and Amazon, and we still record a few shows using an EyeTV Hybrid, but overall, our TV consumption is down, and our radio listening is up.
It's mostly Radio Milwaukee and NPR, and the quality of both of those tends to outdo the TV we'd usually watch. It was just too easy to flip on the TV and let it play whatever… even with a laptop out and browsing/working, vapid television in the background isn't that useful, and good radio is a better alternative.
I'd be interested to know if others who "cut the cord" ended up just replacing all their TV watching with online video alternatives, or if radio is taking some of their attention.


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HARRISON, N.J. (May 19, 2016) – New York Red Bulls II has signed midfielder and former Red Bulls academy player David Najem, the club announced today.
Najem, a native of Clifton, N.J., joins the club after spending two seasons in Regionalliga Bayern, Germany's Fourth Division, with FC Eintracht Bamberg 2010.
"I've had a long relationship with David and he's been with the club in the past," head coach John Wolyniec said. "He came through our academy and he's someone we've had our eye on for a long time. David was over in Germany for a bit, came back and it made sense to have him back. We're looking forward to having him and he's a kid that's going to add a lot to this squad."
The 23-year-old played 37 games between 2014 and 2015 with FC Eintracht Bamberg 2010, scoring two goals. Prior to beginning his professional career in Germany, Najem played college soccer at Columbia University. Upon graduating early in December 2013, the midfielder made 64 appearances for the Lions, scoring 10 goals and adding 11 assists.
During his Columbia career, he was a four-time All-Ivy League selection, including first team honors as a senior after leading the Lions with 16 points on five goals and six assists. His offensive prowess earned him Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year accolades by College Sports Madness.
The midfielder also spent a number of years with the Red Bulls academy, beginning at age 14. Since then, he has played for the Red Bulls U-16s, U-18s and U-23s in NPSL. With the Red Bulls U-23s, Najem played three seasons (2010, 2011, 2013).
Najem attended Paramus Catholic High School where he was a two-time captain and set the school record with 54 goals and 146 career points in his career. In 2009, he was named the NSCAA New Jersey High School Player of the Year and adidas/NSCAA First Team All-America selection.
Najem is the twelfth player signed to a USL contract on the Red Bulls II roster, and the club's seventh signing of 2016.
David Najem
- Position: Midfielder
- Hometown: Clifton, N.J.
- Date of Birth: 5/26/92
- Citizenship: United States
- Previous Club: FC Eintracht Bamberg 2010
- How acquired: Signed with NYRB II on May 19, 2016.

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CLEMSON – Tickets are on sale now for the Clemson University Center for Visual Arts (CVA) Celebration, a social event with fine art, food and music that supports art student research, internships, residency programs and student-generated curatorial projects.
This year's Celebration will be at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, April 5, with the theme "In the Garden" and celebrates the beginnings of warm weather and springtime. Alumna Jane Robelot will be emcee for the evening. More than 100 unique works of fine art will be available for purchase through a silent auction featuring paintings, sculptures, jewelry and more from regional and national artists.
The Celebration will be at the Madren Conference Center. Dress will be cocktail attire. This event is made possible by the Friends of the Center for Visual Arts.
The community is encouraged to purchase tickets now until March 27 to receive the discounted price of $75 each. Tickets will be available for $85 after this date leading up to the Celebration. The community is also encouraged to become Friends of the Center for Visual Arts and purchase tickets quickly, as there is a limited supply to ensure attendance at this popular event. All tickets will be held at the door.
To become a sponsor contact, Denise Woodward-Detrich (864) 656-3883, firstname.lastname@example.com.
For more information about the event, visit www.clemson.edu/cva/celebration
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Conservatives love Small Town America™. They extol its virtues all the time. Too bad conservative economics is wiping Small Town America™ off the map.
Move over ! Two years ago, I wrote that Colorado Springs was a conservative "Utopia," for its rejection of tax increases, which led the city to lay off firefighters and police officers, stop paving roads, eliminate evening and weekend bus service, reduce garbage service, turn off streetlights, and asked residents to mow the grass in public parks (light work, since the city's water cutbacks ensured most grass in most parks would be dead). Tent cities began springing up as the city cut social services.
David Sirota called it conservatism's real "shining city on the hill."
This is what Reaganites have always meant when they've talked of a "shining city on a hill." They envision a dystopia whose anti-tax fires incinerate social fabric faster than James Dobson can say "family values"—a place like Colorado Springs that is starting to reek of economic death.
But that was so two-years-ago. Move over, Colorado Springs! Youngtown, Arizona has totally got you beat.
In Youngtown, Ariz., city officials are contemplating the legal equivalent of shutting down.
The city of about 6,500 people 30 minutes northwest of Phoenix is, for all practical purposes, a small-government, low-taxes, no-compromise kind of place. Youngtown sold its water authority to a private company nearly two decades ago. It's been nearly three years since city crews, instead of private contractors, mowed the lawn outside town hall. And trash pick-up has never been a city-run operation.
Youngtown was founded almost 50 years ago as the nation's first all-senior citizen city, where part of the attraction was the absence of a property tax. A 1998 court order forced Youngtown to welcome younger residents. But as the city expanded its police force and other services to meet its changing needs, it never instituted a property tax, the single most important revenue ingredient in most municipal budgets.
Now, faced with a $183,000 deficit that will force the city to drain more than 10 percent of its rainy day fund, officials are considering everything from the historic to the nearly unthinkable, The Arizona Republic reported Tuesday.
Youngtown officials are considering which of the few remaining city services to cut. They're discussing levying a property tax for the first time in history. And they're exploring allowing the city to be annexed by a nearby municipality or simply giving up Youngtown's status as a city and becoming an unincorporated piece of the surrounding county.
OK. It's not quite like Youngtown is going to become a ghost town, but the officials are literally willing to wipe Youngtown off the map rather than levy taxes. The funny part of the article is when Mayor Michael LeVault says the city government is avoiding "the ostrich option" — "You know, stick your head in the sand and let the next guy deal with it." Um, isn't being annexed by a nearby city or becoming an unincorporated part of the surrounding county letting "the next guy deal with it"? Wouldn't Youngstown's problems then become someone else's?
In a sense, Youngtown is the product of conservative policies. The article says that "[I]t can no longer depend on the state and federal governments to round out its balance sheet." That's probably party due to conservative shenanigans like the debt ceiling debacle, which set in motion "extraordinary measures" at Treasury, leading to headaches for cash-strapped cities and states. Austerity's impact on job loss has hit cities and states the hardest, as loss of government jobs increaswa states' unemployment numbers. (According to EPI's David Cooper, government job losses accounted for 100% of job losses in 27 states, including Arizona. Meanwhile Washington doesn't do much about it, as conservatives spend their time cutting school lunches and holding hearings on radical Islam instead of passing bills like the American Jobs Act, with its $35 billion to help state and local governments save 400,000 jobs by rehiring or retaining teachers, firefighters, police officers and first responders.
Republican governors and legislators across the country did their part, pushing through radical right-wing agendas state by state. The budget deadlock between Gov. Mark Dayton and Republicans in the state legislature cost Minnesota alone $23 million a week. Republicans in the legislature pushed the state into shutdown due to their insistence on remedying the state's budget shortfall with drastic cuts to government services, and their refusal to increase taxes. Extreme agendas led to budget cuts and job losses in states like Wisconsin, Ohio, Florida, and Michigan.
Speaking of Ohio, Youngtown is not alone. Uniopolis, Ohio is also on the verge of extinction.
This small village of low-slung houses and squeaky swing sets in western Ohio's farm country has already laid off its part-time police officer and decided not to replace its maintenance worker, who recently retired. To save cash, Mayor William Rolston will propose Monday that the town turn off the street lights, and that Uniopolis disincorporate after more than a century in existence.
"We've decided that with the budget cuts, we just can't do it anymore," said Rolston, the mayor of 19 years, speaking from the town's one-room municipal building, its wallpaper covered with heart-shaped American flags. "About the only thing that can save it now is an act of God."
As local governments grapple with the aftermath of a brutal recession, communities across Ohio and the nation have cut back on spending. Voters elected politicians who pledged to balance budgets, but now that the effects are being felt, some are changing their minds.
They ultimately will have to answer this question: Is balancing a budget in hard times a necessity, as House SpeakerJohn A. Boehner, whose district is just down the road, has said, or is cutting to the bone right now just too much to ask of a small town?
We already know John Boehner's answer to that: "So be it."


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Cold, winter weather is finally here. If you've been taking some time off or haven't had to endure cold-weather riding in awhile, you may not be fully prepared for the frigid onslaught.
So, what do you need to do to continue riding as it gets colder? For one, learn to dress for warmth on the bike. Although it'll mean making an investment in winter clothing, it doesn't have to break the bank. Try these tips and you'll ride warm and strong all winter long.
General Rules
A good rule of thumb when preparing for a cold weather ride is to start off just a little cold, because after about 10 minutes of pedaling, you'll warm up quite nicely. If you overdress, overheating can be uncomfortable, so you may have to experiment a little before you get it right.
More: Winterize Your Cycling Wardrobe
The Core
First, consider the rule of layering. This is a technique of wearing varying weights of clothing designed to wick, trap, hold and block. The overall purpose of layering is to trap insulating air between layers of clothing and subsequently hold heat in.
Wear a lightweight, high-performance, polyester-based wicking fabric next to the skin. Several manufacturers produce excellent high-quality, high-performance fabrics that are designed for cyclists. This type of garment will wick moisture away from the skin, keeping your skin and clothing dry to avoid heat loss through evaporation.
Next, wear something with thermal capabilities (polyester is excellent here as well) that retains warmth while allowing a slow "breathing" process of the fabric. Modern synthetic fabrics like polyester breathe and will help you stay warmer longer.
More: 8 Tips to Survive Winter Cycling
The outer garment will serve two purposes: Hold warmth in, while blocking the cold air and wind. The outer garment should serve as thermal barrier as well as a wind block, since cycling through cold air increases the wind chill factor. Fabrics like nylon serve this purpose well. Natural fabrics like wool and cotton get wet and stay wet, so don't wear your cotton T-shirt next to your skin thinking it will act as the primary wicking garment.
Also, if you're riding without a windbreaker and find that you need one, insert sections of a newspaper inside your cycling jersey. Insert it in the front to block on-coming cold air, and in the back to conserve core body heat and act as an insulator. You'll see amateurs and pros alike using this technique on long, cold descents.
The Head
About 30 percent of the body's heat is lost through the head. A tremendous supply of blood circulates through this area, so if you keep your head warm, your body will stay warm. Depending on the severity of the cold, differing levels of head gear can be used. Ear bands or ear warmers are a good beginning. A scull cap of synthetic fabric is a good lightweight remedy.
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America's deadliest export
A once quintessentially American disease has become a global pandemic. Obesity and the diseases that come with it – diabetes, hypertension and heart disease – are finding new frontiers in the developing world.
The US spends roughly $150 billion a year on obesity and associated diseases. Most countries don't have that kind of money to spend: people will either go untreated or health budgets will be strained.
In richer countries diabetes is a manageable disease. However, as an endocrinologist put it recently in The New York Times, elsewhere on the globe 'patients often lack access to care and can't get insulin, blood-pressure pills and other medicines that diminish the risk of complications. As more and more people develop the disease, hospitals may soon be overrun with patients experiencing all of its worst outcomes: blindness, limb amputation, kidney failure (necessitating dialysis), coma and death.'
While the US government likes to brag about its foreign aid, it has played a large role in creating an obesity crisis in poorer countries that will saddle their health budgets with billions of dollars of extra spending.
America's public-health crisis hasn't stopped Taco Bell from a prolonged advertising campaign urging people to consume a fourth meal; however, at this point, the US market is so saturated that it is difficult to sell Americans more junk food than they're already eating.
Therefore, the junk food oligopoly is looking to push their products onto the Majority World.
All the way back in 2005, Mark Berlind, executive vice-president for global corporate affairs at Kraft, testified before the US senate: 'The 50 US states are currently Kraft's largest market. Given US demographic realities, however, future growth for Kraft – as well as for the entire US food and agriculture complex – is inextricably tied to our ability to access export markets. Mr Chairman, as you and most other farm state members know, 95 per cent of the world's consumers live outside the US. That is where future growth will take place.'
The US is exporting the worst of its eating habits to once-healthy countries and traditional diets have been supplanted by globalization. According to the medical journal The Lancet, 70 per cent of adult women and nearly 40 per cent of men in South Africa are overweight or obese.
Meanwhile, in the Gulf region, Business Week refers to America's gastronomic influence as 'the other Gulf-war syndrome'. When thousands of US troops were stationed in Kuwait, fast-food outlets followed them there. Today, Kuwait, alongside its neighbours Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, is one of the fattest countries in the world.
Places as far-flung as the Marshall Islands (where diabetes takes up 25 per cent of healthcare expenditure) and Samoa are also home to some of the most morbidly obese populations on the planet.
Since the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994, Mexicans, too, have ballooned in size. According to a study by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, this is no coincidence. Trade liberalization has facilitated a significant change in Mexico's food consumption patterns, which has resulted in a decline in public health. Mexico is now the highest consumer of soft drinks per capita in the world (163 litres per year) while many people in the country lack access to potable water. Indeed, soft drinks are often cheaper than bottled water.
Of course, the soft-drink market is dominated by US-based companies. Exports of high-fructose corn syrup from the US have massively increased and NAFTA has also led to a greater flow of ready-to-eat calorific processed snack food into Mexico and the expansion of US fast-food restaurant chains.
KFC, for example, is seeking to expand across Africa. Similarly, as The Guardian reports, 'Nestlé is using a floating supermarket to take its products to remote communities in the Amazon. Unilever has a small army of door-to-door vendors selling to low-income villages in India and west and east Africa. The brewer SABMiller, as a leading Coca-Cola bottler and distributor, is aiming to double fizzy-drink sales in South African townships.' America's 'obesogenic' environment is becoming a global norm.
A 2004 article in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that for $1 spent in a supermarket, an American could buy either 1,200 calories of unhealthy processed food or 250 calories' worth of carrots, 875 calories of soda or just 170 calories of fruit juice. Why are nutrient-poor, energy-dense foods so much cheaper?
The agriculture lobby is a powerful force in the US and it has used its influence on government to create some perverse agricultural policies. A 2013 report by the US Public Interest Research Group, 'Apples to Twinkies: Comparing Federal Subsidies of Fresh Produce and Junk Food', found that since 1995, high-fructose corn syrup, corn-starch and soy oils (all commonly used in junk food) have been subsidized by the US taxpayer to the tune of over $19 billion, without an equivalent subsidy for fruit and vegetables.
The resulting cheap junk products are exported throughout the world.
Obesity now kills more people worldwide than hunger, but the political response couldn't be more different: while emaciated bodies elicit calls to do something, the obesity crisis induces diatribes against the 'nanny state'. The government, we are told, shouldn't meddle in our lives. Meanwhile, corporations are free to meddle as much as they want – to subject us to manipulative, pervasive and sophisticated marketing.
The US spends untold sums on the war on drugs, yet junk food kills more people than crack cocaine and heroin combined. Billions of dollars and whole careers are spent researching cures for diseases, yet today's biggest problem is an ailment humanity has inflicted upon itself.
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Three men relive their carefree college years by killing off as many brain cells as possible in this over-the-top comedy. Mitch (Luke Wilson) returns home from a less-than-pleasant business trip one evening to discover his wife, Heidi (Juliette Lewis), involved in a ménage a trois with two blindfolded strangers. Feeling less than welcome at home after this, Mitch rents a house near the campus of a nearby college; two of Mitch's old college buddies, Beanie (Vince Vaughn) and Frank (Will Ferrell), stop by to cheer him up. They soon become regular guests at Mitch's place, despite the fact that Frank only recently wed Marissa (Perrey Reeves), while Beanie and his wife, Lara (Leah Remini), are busy with two kids. Beanie decides to throw a housewarming party for Mitch, and since Beanie sells audio equipment for a living, he's able to trick out the big bash with a massive PA system and an appearance by Snoop Dogg. Mitch soon finds he's the not-entirely-willing proprietor of the school's leading party spot, which raises the ire of Pritchard (Jeremy Piven), a dean at the college who was the target of Mitch, Frank, and Beanie's abuse when they were all students. Pritchard arranges to have Mitch's neighborhood zoned into a student housing district, but Beanie and Frank respond by forming a fraternity and making Mitch's home their headquarters. Mitch, however, is not enthusiastic about the idea, especially as he's trying to impress Nicole (Ellen Pompeo), a beautiful divorcee who is less than enchanted with Frank and Beanie's "party hearty" lifestyle. Old School director Todd Phillips knows more than a bit about the seamy side of fraternity life as director of the infamous unreleased documentary Frat House.
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The first smartphone based on the new "Mango" edition of Microsoft's Windows Phone platform was unveiled on Wednesday in Tokyo.
The phone is the first of several handsets due over the next few months, that Microsoft hopes will signal its return to the smartphone market as a serious player.
In Video: First Windows Mango Phone Unveiled
If that wish sounds familiar, it is. This time last year the company was hoping the first version of the Windows Phone 7 would accomplish the same thing. But that didn't happen.
Despite getting several thousand applications and generally positive reviews, the new platform, which replaced Windows Mobile, was relegated to the sidelines by a rush of new Android devices and updates to Apple's iPhone.
Far from boosting its market share, the introduction of the new operating system saw Microsoft lose share.
Microsoft captured 2.7 percent of the smartphone market during the first quarter of 2011, according to IDC. But a year earlier during the first quarter of 2010, its market share was 7.1 percent, the market research company said. In terms of handsets shipped, those with Windows Phone 7 or Windows Mobile fell from 3.9 million to 2.8 million phones in the two periods.
"We've gone from very small to….very small," quipped Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer earlier this month on his company's lackluster performance.
Mango, officially Windows Phone 7.5, adds some 500 improvements to the Windows Phone 7 platform, according to the company. They include an e-mail "conversation view" that is said to make long e-mail discussions more efficient, a "threads" feature that brings together text, instant messages and Facebook chat, and Internet Explorer 9 for faster Web browsing.
Some of those improvements can be seen in the new handset, the IS12T, which will be available in Japan only. Built by Fujitsu Toshiba Mobile Communications, the phone will be available in September or after. No price was disclosed.
The company is one of several partners Microsoft is working with on Mango handsets. Others include Taiwan's Acer and China's ZTE, but perhaps the most awaited phones will be from Nokia.
The Finnish cell phone maker threw its weight behind Windows Phone 7 earlier this year when it announced a wide ranging agreement with Microsoft to collaborate on future handsets and technologies.
Nokia is losing market share to aggressive competitors, but it remains one of the world's largest manufacturers of smart phones, so it has the potential to help Microsoft shift the market.
The launch of the phone came just hours after Microsoft signed off on the operating system and declared it ready to be installed in consumer handsets. That should mean additional phones will get launched in the coming weeks.
For Japanese consumers, the IS12T phone has a 3.7-inch screen and a 13.2 megapixel camera. Bluetooth and Wi-Fi are included in the CDMA-based phone. It weighs 113 grams and Fujitsu Toshiba says the battery should provide more than 11 days on standby and more than 6 hours of talk time.
The phone has 32GB of memory and is waterproof with an IPX5 rating.
Martyn Williams covers Japan and general technology breaking news for The IDG News Service. Follow Martyn on Twitter at @martyn_williams. Martyn's e-mail address is firstname.lastname@example.com


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12 Holistic Remedies for the Common Cold
This blog does not intend to provide diagnosis...
In this article:
- Get Plenty of Rest
- Apple Cider Vinegar
- Ginger
- Neti Pot
- Eucalyptus Oil
- Raw Honey
- Eat Healthy
- Vitamin C
- Herbal Liquid Extracts
- Vitamin D
- Lemon Oil
- Peppermint Oil
Treating the common cold holistically may expedite recovery.
The common cold is just that: common. It's often the body's way of getting one to slow down, take a break, and relax for a bit. While most of the time it will go away on its own, there are many all-natural remedies to ease symptoms so that it's easier to breathe, coughs become lighter and less frequent, and overall, the sufferer feels less miserable. What's more is that natural or holistic remedies for the common cold are often less expensive than over-the-counter medicine. Many of the "side effects" from these holistic remedies are positive.
Get Plenty of Rest
Rest is definitely on the list of remedies for those suffering from the common cold. This can entail taking the day off of work and getting a massage. Basically, having a common cold is the perfect excuse to do nothing without feeling guilty about it. Resting will allow the immune system to pool the body's energy for healing and strengthening. Also, those who get plenty of rest when suffering from the common cold usually recover more quickly.
Apple Cider Vinegar
Sipping or gargling apple cider vinegar tea three of four times a day will also help with quick recovery from a cold. The amount of water added to each cup can be modified based on the preferences of the individual.
- 2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
- 1-2 tablespoons honey
- Lemon juice according to preference
- Preferred amount of hot water
The ingredients are all mixed together in a cup, and then the drink is sipped or gargled.
Makes 1 serving
Ginger Tea
Drinking 2 or three cups of ginger tea a day will help strengthen the immune system, clear up congestion, soothe a sore throat, and reduce inflammation. Make your own ginger tea or you can purchase ginger tea in bags or as loose tea.
- 2 teaspoons grated ginger
- 1 cup hot water
- honey if desired
The grated ginger is placed in a cup and the hot water is poured over it. If desired, honey can be added to taste. This tea can be sipped at leisure.
Makes 1 serving
Ginger Gulps
For the brave of heart, there are ginger gulps. Taken right when it feels like a cold is coming, this will definitely nip it in the bud. Follow this recipe.
- 4 grams of ginger, juiced
- A drop of oil of oregano
- A sprinkle of cayenne pepper
All of the ingredients should be put in a glass and gulped down. This mix can also be added to 1/4 cup of orange juice or another favorite juice to make it easier to drink.
Neti Pot
A neti pot can be used to clear nasal passages and relieve sinus symptoms. A neti pot looks like a small peculiarly shaped teapot, and it's used to clear sinuses of mucus and congestion.
What's Needed:
- Sterilized water brought to a boil and then allowed to reach a warm temperature
- Salt or saline solution
A teaspoon of salt or a packet of saline solution is placed in the neti pot, and sterile, not distilled, warm water is poured over it. Once the salt is dissolved, the lid is placed on the pot. The user then tilts his or her head to one side, and the spout is inserted into the top nostril while leaning over a sink. The salt water will flow into the nasal passages where it will kill bacteria, flush out the nasal passages, loosen and wash out mucus, and then flow out the other nostril ultimately relieving sinus symptoms. This is done every morning and night for as many days as required. The water can be tested on the inside of the arm before use to make sure it's not too hot.
The neti pot, lid, and any other components should be cleaned after each use either in the top rack of a dishwasher or by hand with dish soap and a dishcloth. If cleaning by hand, then the final rinse should be done thoroughly with hot boiled water or distilled water.
Eucalyptus Oil
Eucalyptus oil is used to clear a stuffy nose and make it easier to breathe when suffering from the common cold. A few drops of eucalyptus oil are put on opposite sides of the shower stall or into a bathtub of warm water before taking a hot shower or bath. Four to five drops of eucalyptus oil are placed in a large bowl and boiling water is poured into it. The bowl is then placed on a firm flat surface, and the patient leans over it with a towel or blanket draped over his or her head and the bowl for 5 to 10 minutes. These treatments can be done twice a day. Those with liver problems should avoid eucalyptus.
Raw Honey
Locally sourced raw honey boosts the immune system, softens coughs, and soothes sore throats with its antioxidants and antibacterial and antiviral properties. Having 1 to 2 tablespoons in a cup of warm water, lemon water, or a favorite tea is all that's needed to feel the benefits. Please note that babies under the age of 1 shouldn't have honey.
It may seem comforting to have sweet things when sick, but the body requires a lot of energy to process sugar, thus weakening the immune system. Unless it's honey-sweetened or just a little bit, then it's recommended to forego the sweet stuff. Cough drops usually have a minimal amount of sugar, and other hard candies, ice cream, popsicles, jellies, and puddings can be soothing to those suffering from a sore throat, but it's best to keep in mind that too much sugar will do more harm than good.
Eat Healthy
It's beneficial to follow a healthy diet when suffering from the common cold. Eating light and avoiding gluten, sugar, and dairy will give the immune system the energy it needs to heal the body. The best foods for those with a cold are fresh fruits, vegetables, sugar-free juices, and chicken soup. This type of diet may also reduce inflammation in the lungs.
Vitamin C
Vitamin C can help heal colds too. If taking it as a supplement, then the recommended daily amount is 500 to 1000 milligrams for kids and 2 to 4 grams for adults. These amounts should be broken up into a few doses and taken throughout the day. Other great sources of vitamin C are fruits that are locally sourced and in-season, such as oranges, and juices. A couple of vitamin C supplements to consider are pure elderberry syrup and acerola.
Herbal Liquid Extracts
Some extracts can work wonders if taken right when it feels like one is coming down with a cold. Recommended extracts are Echinacea extract, goldenseal extract, and cayenne extract. A drop under the tongue a couple of times a day should give instant results and ward off a cold.
Vitamin D
Vitamin D has been proven to seriously reduce symptoms of the common cold or stop it in its tracks completely. Natural vitamin D is obtainable by getting plenty of sunshine but may not be obtainable from milk if dairy is being avoided to minimize cold symptoms. A vitamin D3 supplement taken according to the suggested dosage has been proven to nip a flu in the bud or reduce its symptoms considerably. There are even Vegan Vitamin D supplements that are available.
Lemon Oil
Lemon oil can chase away a cold, too. This is the oil that is extracted from the rind of the fruit. Adding a drop to 2 liters of water and sipping it throughout the day makes drinking plain water much more fun and fights off a cold in the process by cleansing the body and remedying a sore throat. Two drops can also be added to a diffuser to assist with easy breathing.
Peppermint Oil
It seems like no list of holistic remedies for colds would be complete without mentioning peppermint oil. A drop can be added to a little bit of coconut or almond oil in the palm of the hand and massaged into the chest and soles of the feet in the morning before getting dressed or before tucking in at night to enjoy easy breathing and an energized feeling.


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What happens when an entire family is passionate for nature? They abandon city life and move to countryside. This is the story of Kioutsoukis family (Dimitrios, Eleftheria and their children). Dimitrios Kioutsoukis with his family assistance and inspiration planted 11 hectars of vines (mainly Greek grape varieties: Assyrtiko, Malagousia, Roditis, Xinomavro) in northern Greece near Thessaloniki, an area well known from ancient times for its wines.
Dimitrios (chemical engineer- UC Davis winemaking) and his daughter Stavroula ( agronomist- oenologist) carrying on the family tradition and passionate about permaculture principles use more than organic methods in viticulture and winemaking. Their main goal is to give birth to wines versatile, unique that express both their philosophy and the terroir.
Seeking the real taste of life they created the Kamara pure wines, low intervention wines (natural wines).
All Kamara pure wines are naturally fermented with indigenous yeasts , have no oenological substances added and they are bottled without filtration and no added sulfites
"Let the nature do the fertilization"
Does this method makes winemaking easier, or harder in the long run?
In the first years, we have a lot of hard work to do, because human in general has destroyed the nature up to a point. The use and abuse of fertillisations, pesticides, fungicides are only some of the factors having led to this destruction as well as to a subsequent weakening of nature's power. For generations, the majority of farmers and agronomists thought of nature as flawed, as something that really needed his intervention. So, in order to undo the negative results of those bad practices which have been going on for so many generations, hard work need to be done. We have the vineyard checked every 2 days for diseases; most of the work in the vineyard is done manually, so that we do not bother the wildlife as much as we can.
Regarding the vinification, we could not say that the work is easier or harder. What we can certainly say is that work is more risky. We should throw away the grapes that are not 100% healthy and good and as a consequence the production is much less than in a conventional vineyard. In the winery, the work continues with controling the wines or the fermenting musts every day. We taste the wines in order to see if there is any fault, we control the temperatures of the tanks, we check the wines in our laboratory-analysis of volatile acidity, analysis of biomass( to see the population of the yeasts ) etc.
In the long run, to be honest, I could not say for sure whether the work will be harder or easier; for the moment we have to face a lot of difficulties, but I think –and hope!- that in the future the situation will become more stable and thus a bit easier. Right now, only one thing is beyond every doubt: that the winemaking of this type will continue to intrigue me no matter how hard it is.
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A $2.1 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to the University of California at Berkeley, through the Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics (BCCP), will fund the development of revolutionary technologies for BigBOSS, a project now in the proposal stage designed to study dark energy with unprecedented precision. BigBOSS is based at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).
"BigBOSS is the next big thing in cosmology," says Uroš Seljak, Director of the BCCP, who is a professor of physics and astronomy at UC Berkeley and a member of Berkeley Lab's Physics Division. "It would map millions and millions of galaxies, allowing us to measure dark energy to high precision – and would yield other important scientific results as well, including determining neutrino mass and the number of neutrino families."
Dark energy is the unknown something that appears to account for almost three-quarters of the mass-energy of the universe and is the cause of its accelerating expansion. The discovery of the accelerating universe, announced in 1998 by two teams, resulted in the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics, divided between Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley astrophysicist Saul Perlmutter, leader of the Supernova Cosmology Project, and Brian Schmidt and Adam Riess of the competing High‑z Supernova Search team.
"After we won the Nobel Prize, the question we all heard most was, 'Now that you've discovered dark energy, what comes next?'" says Perlmutter, who is the Executive Director of the BCCP as well as principal investigator for the Moore Foundation's BigBOSS grant. "The answer is pretty clear: we have to find out what dark energy is. There's no end of theories. To know which are possible, what we need most is the kind of accurate observational evidence that only BigBOSS and other advanced experiments can give us."
BigBOSS program director Michael Levi says, "BigBOSS represents the next big leap, to the highest level of gain in understanding the mystery of dark energy. With BigBOSS, Berkeley Lab and NOAO" – the National Science Foundation's National Optical Astronomy Observatory – "were the first to present a detailed, practical plan for a next-generation, wide-field spectrographic instrument to address these fundamental questions in cosmology."
BigBOSS would measure "baryon acoustic oscillations" (BAO) – regular variations in the density of mass in the universe – which are evident in the netlike tendrils and voids of visible galaxies and intergalactic gas. Ordinary matter adds up to only five percent of the mass-energy in the universe, but its large-scale distribution maps underlying invisible dark matter, another 20 percent of the total, and echoes the minute temperature variations of the ancient cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB). Thus BAO's recurring peaks in density, from the CMB to the present, represent marks on a standard ruler of the cosmos that can be used to measure its expansion history from early times until now.
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"If we tasked all the telescopes in the world on this project, we wouldn't be able to make such a comprehensive map of the universe in less than 10 years, with existing instruments," says David Schlegel of Berkeley Lab's Physics Division, the principal investigator of BOSS and scientific leader of the BigBOSS project. "We've figured out how to make such a map with a single telescope, the Mayall Telescope, with the right kind of clever instrument."
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I've become quite the fan of Processing. When I first started to dig into the Arduino world, I turned to my old friend Perl to deal with Arduino<->Computer communication, but quickly discovered that Processing was an ideal environment for such a thing.
Perl is great (you know, IMHO and all that) but the main appeal for me has always been in Perl's data processing capabilities, and having CPAN and a module for almost everything. Perl is fun, but it's not FUN. I've dabbled with generating graphics with Perl using GD and SVG modules, but it's not anywhere near the area known as fun.
Processing, in my mind, is built for fun. So what is Processing?
Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to create images, animations, and interactions. Initially developed to serve as a software sketchbook and to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context, Processing also has evolved into a tool for generating finished professional work. Today, there are tens of thousands of students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists who use Processing for learning, prototyping, and production.
Processing sometimes gets called a "multimedia programming language" and is used quite a bit by artists and designers, and probably much less by hardcore software developers. Check out OpenProcessing for some great example sketches.
My own sketches are not very impressive yet, but as I said, Processing it a lot of fun. It's reminiscent of the olden days of graphics on the Apple ][ where you plotted things out in HIRES graphics mode but, you know, way more advanced.
It's pretty easy to build Processing sketches that respond to sensors connected to a microcontroller like an Arduino (see Accelerometer Art) and that's something I'll definitely be exploring more of in the future.
Processing runs on top of Java, or is a subset of Java, or whatever. This is great because you can easily create a Processing sketch that can run on Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux, and even create a standalone application for each platform. (It's that promise of Java we had long ago!) But the real excitement is that the latest version of Processing lets you target Android as a platform. Supposedly you can build an app in Processing and get it into the Android Marketplace. (I'm not aiming to get anything into an 'App Store' but just want to run my own apps on my own devices, as mentioned in my Android vs. iPhone post.)
And speaking of the iPhone, it looks like iProcessing and Processing.js may be able to get Processing sketches running on iOS… neat! (Processing.js is also on my TO DO list. I've toyed with it briefly and it's pretty amazing.)
One of my complaints about this "new world of Apps" on phones and tablets and non-traditional devices is that there is too much of a barrier to entry to building things that run on them. I'm hoping Processing might help bring that barrier down a bit.
Update: It seems May is Processing Month. I didn't know! Now I feel compelled to do more.


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Microsoft's Silverlight technology has been chosen to stream U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's swearing-in ceremony live on the Presidential Inaugural Committee's Web site, Microsoft said.
Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden are due to be sworn in and deliver inauguration speeches next Tuesday in Washington, D.C. Both events will be streamed live on the PIC site using Silverlight, a cross-browser technology for delivering live and on-demand video over the Web.
The PIC also streammed video of an event with Obama and Biden in Baltimore on Saturday as part of their "Whistle Stop Tour," which took them from Philadelphia to Washington for the inaugural ceremony and celebrations.
Obama was elected on Nov. 4 as the first African-American U.S. president, giving Tuesday's inauguration particular historical significance.
iStreamPlanet, an online content-delivery company in Las Vegas, Nevada, is working with Microsoft to stream the event, Microsoft said.
The inaugural event is the latest high-profile use of Silverlight, which was first released in April 2007 as a rival to Adobe Flash. The technology comprises a tool for developing and designing Internet applications and a media player for delivering content.
It wasn't until the release of Silverlight 2 in October, however, that the technology became a viable alternative to Flash for building rich Internet applications (RIAs), developers said. The technology is Mac-compatible, but only with Intel-based machines.
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While Silverlight 2 was in beta in August, the 2008 Democratic National Convention Committee used it to stream proceedings from the convention, including Obama's acceptance speech to more than 80,000 people at an outdoor stadium in Denver.
Microsoft also teamed up with U.S. television network NBC that month to deliver thousands of hours of both live and on-demand coverage from the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
Silverlight has had its bumps in the road, however. The first high-profile user, Major League Baseball Advanced Media's MLB.com site, dropped the technology in November and signed a two-year deal to use Adobe Flash for streaming live baseball games.


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The episode begins with our heroes having finally arrived in Veilstone City, excited at the prospect of the upcoming Gym Battle. The group look over the city from above, in awe of the large city and huge buildings. All of a sudden, a large ball of blue energy comes flying towards them from the forest, which the group narrowly dodge. The group notice several of these balls flying out of the forest, and Ash realises that it is Hadou, a special form of energy known to a very small amount of people.
Not long after we find the group running beside a fence, with the energy balls continuing to be fired from behind it in the middle of various trees. Ash shouts that they'll find the source soon enough, just before one of the energy balls bursts a hole through the fence allowing Ash and co. to gaze through. Through the hole they see a young, pink aired girl dressed in sports gear dodging and returning attacks from an angry Pokemon. Ash recognises the Pokemon as Lucario, and checks the Pokemon on his Pokedex as the fighting display continues. Dawn asks what sort of power Lucario is using, and Ash tells her that it's using 'Hadou' power. The girl thinks that they should stop as Lucario is getting more and more agitated, but the gruff Pokemon doesn't listen and creates a bone out of energy to use its Bone Rush attack. The girl dodges over and over as Lucario continues to attack, but eventually the Bone Rush vanishes much to Lucario's surprise. The group wonder what's wrong, when suddenly an electric attack is fired at them. The attacker appears to be an Electabuzz, who is confronted by Pikachu and Piplup. Electabuzz doesn't seem bother however, and merely laughs at them. The three Pokemon then start fighting amongst themselves, despite Ash and Dawn telling them to stop. The pink haired girl notices the fighting, and tells Lucario to use Aura Sphere to stop them. Lucario does so, but as the girl points out, put a little too much power into the attack which has left Electabuzz, Pikachu and Piplup fainted on the floor. Ash and Dawn run towards their Pokemon, who get up along with Electabuzz. The girl apologises for her Pokemon's attack, just as a tall, ponytailed man runs up calling for Electabuzz. Electabuzz isn't happy to see the man, and starts trying to tiptoe away. Realising it's been noticed and unable to escape, Electabuzz turns around and acts innocent, laughing and smiling as if nothing had happened. Ash asks Pikachu if the Electabuzz is Paul's, and Pikachu nods. The man upon hearing Paul's name, introduces himself as Reiji, Paul's older brother and that he's looking after Paul's Electabuzz. Reiji also informs Ash that Paul had been by recently, not only to drop off Electabuzz, but also to challenge the Gym Leader. At this point, he nods towards the girl who Reiji informs Ash is the Gym Leader. Ash is happy to meet her, saying that it's amazing to see her have Lucario as her Gym Partner. Maylene, the girl in question, doesn't look so happy however, and has to turn down Ash's request for a Gym Battle. Lucario doesn't seem happy either, and blasts Maylene with its Aura Sphere. Reiji explains that Lucario has lost its confidence in battling and in its own abilities. He also senses some distrust between Lucario and its trainer Maylene.
From the bushes, Team Rocket are watching all of this taking place. James is impressed at the sight of Lucario, and the three think they should try and steal it. The scene then goes back to the main group, who have now been joined by three large men. The three men are wondering why Maylene hasn't been at the Gym, Maylene tells them she wants to quit being a Gym Leader. The three then tell her to not give up so easily. Lucario then tries again to fire an attack at her which is quickly deflected by a quick reaction by Maylene. Reiji asks her if her mood and unconfidence is because of her battle with Paul. Maylene is sad to hear the name, and Reiji explains the battle between Paul and Maylene. Paul obviously had learned that Maylene used Fighting type attacks and thus used his own Honchkrow to battle against Maylene's Meditite and Machoke. He also used Magmar against Lucario, due to Lucario's half-Steel type. All three Pokemon are taken down easily without problems, which has shaken Maylene's confidence in herself, and Lucario's confidence in itself and Maylene. Maylene, upset, then runs off, apologising. Lucario tries to follow but isn't able to catch up in time and stops running. Ash suggests that they go find her, but Dawn says that she'll handle it. Lucario seems to agree with Dawn's suggest and goes along with Dawn and Piplup to find Maylene. After a short while, Dawn and Lucario find Maylene meditating by a river. The scene then shifts to Reiji talking to Ash and Brock in their house, giving Pikachu and Chimchar some Pokemon food. The three start discussing Maylene, and Brock thinks that she's starting to feel some pressure over her position and the expectations of her. Back with Maylene and Dawn, the two have a heart to heart talk, with Dawn opening up about her Contest experiences and losses. Lucario isn't impressed by Maylene's feelings however, but Dawn tells it to calm down. Watching the discussion is Team Rocket, who after hiding for some time, walk out of the bushes, along with Wobbuffet. Dawn jumps to her feet, and Maylene asks who they are. Team Rocket then start reciting their usual motto, and after which Dawn warns Maylene to be on guard, no doubt Team Rocket is after her Lucario. Maylene gets to her feet and with Lucario gets battle ready. Jessie ignores them both, telling them that they're here to 'scout' Lucario out. Dawn seems confused, and James explains that they understand Lucario is unhappy with Maylene, but they can offer it a much better lifestyle as a member of their team. Elsewhere, Reiji and Ash start to discuss Paul. Reiji mentions Paul's unique battling and training style, but Ash doesn't seem happy and gets angry thinking about the way Paul treats his Pokemon.
Jessie runs over to Lucario, trying to pitch a Team Rocket lifestyle to it. Meowth butts in, saying it'll be able to ride in the Team Rocket balloon, and James offers access to his entire rare bottle cap collection. Jessie pulls some chocolate out, saying that it can have it if it joins them. Lucario is definatly not impressed however, and creates a bone out of aura energy, using its Bone Rush attack which it then uses to blast Team Rocket away. Maylene thanks Lucario for dealing with Team Rocket, and Lucario grunts in response. Dawn then turns to Maylene and thinks that it would be a good idea for them both to have a Pokemon battle. Maylene seems a little shocked at the idea at first, but both she and Lucario soon agree. Back with Ash and Brock, a similar proposal is being made. Both Reiji and Ash think it would be a good idea to battle, and Ash runs outside to get ready. Just as Ash leaves, Brock notices the various badges adorned in glass cases on the mantle piece. He asks if they belong to Paul, to which Reiji says that they don't, they belong to him. According to the cases, Reiji has collected all the badges from Kanto, Johto, Hoenn and Sinnoh, as well as 6 of the Frontier Symbols.
Outside, the two trainers face-off against each other, with Brock acting as the judge for the battle as usual. Dawn and Maylene then walk onto the scene, wondering what is going on, and Brock explains that Ash and Reiji are about to battle. Ash sends out Gligar, telling it that it would be a good idea for it to watch the Pokemon battle and get a feel for what they are like. Gligar nods, taking its place beside Chimchar and Pikachu. Dawn and Maylene take a seat to watch also, as Ash sends out his Turtwig to go against Reiji's Bibarel. Ash starts things off by telling Turtwig to use Energy Ball. Turtwig does so, firing out a large ball of energy. Ash is happy with the power of the attack, considering how long the two took training to learn it. Reiji tells Bibarel to use Super Fang, which it uses to take on the Energy Ball attack. It then uses Secret Power, which due to the grassy enviroment that the two are battling on, creates a Sleep Powder esque effect that puts Turtwig to sleep. Ash shouts at Turtwig telling it to wake up, but the Pokemon is in a deep sleep. Reiji takes advantage of this and tells Bibarel to use Take Down, charging at Turtwig and smashing into it, but causing it to wake up. Reiji then tells Bibarel to use Super Fang, which is dodged and countered by Razor Leaf by Turtwig. Reiji conpliments Ash on how strong Turtwig is, and Ash thanks him and then tells Turtwig to use Energy Ball. Reiji orders Bibarel to use Ice Beam, and Ash counters telling Turtwig to jump up. Turtwig jumps, dodges the attack and fires a high-powered Energy Ball attack right at Bibarel which explodes on contact and causes Bibarel to faint. The energetic nature of battle is starting to get both Dawn and Maylene excited, and Maylene seems to have cheered up from before. Reiji calls back his Bibarel telling it did a great job, and then sends out Swalot. Ash responds by sending out his fearsome Staravia. Staravia bursts out of its Pokeball, happy to see the light of day. Ash tells it to Quick Attack, which it does, smashing into Swalot who is told to use Stockpile. Swalot opens its mouth wide, sucking in air. Ash wonders what it is doing, and Reiji seems confident enough to stick with the strategy as it gets hit once again by Staravia's attack.
Dawn asks what attack it is using, and Brock explains that Swalot is powering up using Stockpile. Staravia speeds towards Swalot, about to land another blow before Reiji tells it to use Spit Up, releasing all the stored energy. The power stored in Swalot bursts out of its mouth in the form of an incredibly powerful beam that blasts Staravia away. Ash tells it to attack again, but the attack is stopped by Swalot's Sludge Bomb that hits and explodes on contact. Staravia falls, and Ash runs to catch it. Luckily Staravia isn't hurt, and Ash thanks it for putting up a great fight. Reiji then offers to help Staravia by showing it a powerful attack it could perfect. He then sends out Staraptor, which Ash checks on his Pokedex that explains that it is the evolved form of Staravia. Ash tells Staravia to watch the battle, as Pikachu steps up to the plate to battle against Staraptor. Pikachu uses Thunderbolt against Staraptor, to which Reiji tells it to use Brave Bird. Staraptor dodges the electric attack, and then dives towards Pikachu, flames engulfing its body as it races towards the ground. Ash tells Pikachu to jump, which it does, but is knocked by by Staraptor and smashed into the ground by Brave Bird. However, due to the high power of Brave Bird, Staraptor had to use some of its energy and was thus damaged by using the attack itself. Dawn asks Brock about it, and Brock explains, saying that there is an element of risk involved with using the attack. Reiji tells Staraptor to use Steel Wing, and Ash counters by telling Pikachu to use Iron Tail, which propels Pikachu from the ground and up into the air causing Staraptor to miss its target. Reiji is impressed by Pikachu's move, and Ash tells it to use Volt Tackle in the air. It does so, as Staraptor uses Wing Attack. The two moves collide, and Pikachu is the one left standing. Reiji congratulates Ash on the battle, and offers to teach his Staravia Brave Bird. Ash is surprised, and thanks Reiji. At this, Dawn gets up saying that she'll be the one to battle Maylene first, surprising Ash. Maylene seems prepared to battle as well. The episode ends with Dawn preparing for her battle with Maylene, as Ash and Reiji look on. Can Dawn win?
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Birds evolved compass 'head up display'
(PhysOrg.com) -- Certain birds may have compass information mapped directly onto their vision, much as fighter pilots have head up displays overlaying flight information on their view of the skies.
Its well known that birds, such as the European Robin, can detect the Earth's magnetic field in order to help them navigate on long migratory flights.
This compass sense must be associated with the eyeball, because the birds cannot detect magnetic fields in darkness.
But now Oxford University and National University of Singapore scientists have shown that birds may really see the invisible force of magnetism, giving them a compass on top of their normal vision: rather like aircraft head up displays which overlay crucial navigation information on a transparent screen in front of the pilot.
According to the new model, when a photon of light from the Sun is absorbed by a special molecule in the bird's eye, it can cause an electron to be kicked from its normal state into an alternative location a few nanometres away. Until the electron eventually relaxes back, it creates an electric dipole field which can augment the bird's vision - for example altering colours or brightness.
Crucially, the alignment of the molecule compared to the Earth's magnetic field controls the time it takes for the electron to relax back, and so controls the strength of the effect on the bird's vision.
There are many such molecules spread throughout the eye, with different orientations. So from the patterns on top of its vision, and the change of these patterns as it moves its head, the bird learns about the direction of Earth's magnetic field.
A report of the research is published in Biophysical Journal.
An important consequence of the new research is that this process piggybacks on normal vision and so could evolve quite easily - it does not require the evolution of a whole new sensory organ.
"We can imagine that in an ancestral birds eye this disturbance to vision, oriented to the Earths magnetic field, gave some individuals an advantage when it came to navigating vast distances," Simon Benjamin of Oxford Universitys Department of Materials and National University of Singapore, an author of the report, told me.
"Natural selection would then favour those individuals so that the effect became stronger and stronger over many generations resulting in the powerful magnetic sense birds have today."
The research shows that, in an ancestral birds eye, just a few molecules could have absorbed photons, creating electric dipoles that made the very weak magnetic field of the Earth faintly visible.
If this effect gave individuals an evolutionary advantage, the number, ordering, and characteristics of those special molecules is likely to have increased over millions of years, creating the compass used by modern birds.
Erik Gauger, of Oxford Universitys Department of Materials and National University of Singapore, adds: "Further experiments will verify whether the mechanism we have proposed correctly describes the bird's compass.
"However, even if it doesn't, our idea could be a powerful blueprint for engineered magnetometers; for instance a compass that is integrated into a contact lens."
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1) Emancipation Proclamation (1863): The first Republican President, Abraham Lincoln, issued an order freeing all slaves in the confederacy.
2) End of the Civil War (1865): Abe Lincoln guides the north to victory in the Civil War and reunites the nation.
3) Women's right to vote (1872): Republicans Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton write the text of the 19th Amendment, which is introduced by Republican Senator Aaron A. Sargent of California. The Amendment was finally ratified in 1920.'
4) Victory in the Spanish American War (1898): Republican William McKinley achieves victory in the Spanish American War and forces Spain to give up its claim on Cuba.
5) Construction of the Panama Canal (1904): Under Republican Teddy Roosevelt, America takes control of the Panama Canal and builds it into one of the most crucial locations in world shipping.
6) First woman elected to U.S. House of Representatives (1916): "Jeannette Rankin, Republican from Montana, becomes the first woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives."
7) Construction of the Hoover Dam (1928): Calvin Coolidge signed a law allowing the construction of the Hoover Dam to begin.
8) Jessie Owens wins four gold medals in the Olympics (1936): Republican Jessie Owens humiliated Hitler by winning 4 gold medals in the Berlin Olympics. Owens said he "was treated marvelous by everyone. Anything any of the American athletes, including myself, wanted they got for us. My biggest thrill was when the American flag was raised after my victory in the 100 meters." FDR responded to Owens legendary victory by refusing to invite him to the White House, prompting Owens to say, "Hitler didn't snub me – it was FDR who snubbed me. The president didn't even send me a telegram." Truman also ignored Owens, but when Republican Dwight Eisenhower became President, he made him "Ambassador of Sports."
9) Jackie Robinson becomes the first black American to play in the Major Leagues (1947): Republican Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball when the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Republican Branch Rickey, brought him up to the major leagues.
10) The Interstate Highway System (1956): Republican Dwight Eisenhower begins construction of the Interstate highway system.
11) Desegregating schools (1957): Dwight Eisenhower "deployed the 82nd Airborne Division to desegregate Little Rock's government schools over the strenuous resistance of Governor Orval Faubus (D., Ark.)."
12) The First Asian-American U.S. Senator (1959): The first Asian-American senator, Republican Hiram Fong, is elected in Hawaii.
13) Civil Rights Act of 1960: "Eisenhower signs the GOP's 1960 Civil Rights Act after it survived a five-day, five-hour filibuster by 18 Senate Democrats."
14) The Reagan tax cuts (1981): Republican Ronald Reagan revitalized the listless U.S. economy with tax cuts that created a massive surge of jobs, economic growth, and prosperity.
15) Collapse of the Soviet Union (1991): Ronald Reagan's tireless work against the Soviet Union finally paid off as it formally dissolved in 1991, while his former Vice-President, George H.W. Bush was in office.
16) The Gulf War (1991): George H.W. Bush formed a coalition that forced Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait.
17) Welfare reform (1996): After Clinton vetoed two previous versions of welfare reform, Republicans sent it back to him a third time and he finally reluctantly agreed to fulfill has campaign promise and sign the bill.
18) A Republican Congress balances the budget (1998-2001): Republicans in Congress forced an unenthusiastic Bill Clinton to balance the budget in his second term.
19) Retaliation in Afghanistan (2001): After the 9/11 attacks, Republican George W. Bush retaliated by driving the Taliban and their allies in Al-Qaeda from power. He then helped establish democracy in the country. Whether the nation will remain a democracy or how the war will be viewed by future generations is still unknown at this point.
20) Condi Rice becomes Secretary of State (2005): George W. Bush selected Condi Rice to be his Secretary of State. She was the first black woman ever to hold that position.


text: +DJ.J.ROCK Posted January 6, 2009 Share Posted January 6, 2009 (edited) Here is my first design- I hope you all will enjoy my designs, Im bringing a unique style for more modern style coin designs. This one is called Geo-Portal some of the specs in the art have been changed to make the best quailty/show coin possible and still working towards a finished product. I wanted to get this thread started to get some reactions to my design, and I will give more infos tonight after work and answer questions some may have.. hope you like it. DJ.J.ROCK quick edit to say ,,yes it will be trackable.. so dis-regard that on this first draft of art. Edited July 21, 2009 by Flying Spaghetti Monster Quote Link to comment


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Article Link: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jacquelynsmith/2014/01/07/12-tips-for-staying-productive-at-work-through-the-bleak-winter-months/#2a373d871212
By: Jacquelyn Smith
Winter is in full swing. The days are shorter, darker and colder—and some workers will experience the "winter blues." You might be more tired than usual, less active or unmotivated—and your level of productivity in the office may decline significantly.
"People struggle with being productive in the winter for a number of reasons," says Casey Moore, The Productivity Coach. "In January especially there can be a post-holiday let-down. In areas where it's quite cold or very wet, people feel confined to the indoors, which leads to illness or cabin fever," she adds. "Still, other people find that they've already broken their New Year's resolutions and feel discouraged about themselves. And finally, those who suffer from seasonal affective disorder (SAD) or other mental health conditions can find the darkness of winter especially difficult, making them less productive and interested in work."
If you're feeling a little blue, don't just sit with it; take action, says Ned Russell, an executive vice president at Publicis Groupe. "Either try one of the following tips (see below) or speak with your doctor," he says. "It may be just what you need to shed light on making the dark months of winter more productive."
It's important to stay productive through the bleak winter months for the same reason it's important to stay productive during the rest of the year, says Andy Teach, a corporate veteran and author of From Graduation to Corporation: The Practical Guide to Climbing the Corporate Ladder One Rung at a Time. "You have a job to do and you're always expected to produce great results, no matter what time of the year it is." You're not getting paid any less just because it's wintertime; your supervisor doesn't expect any less of you because it's cold outside; and your clients don't care what the weather is like, he says. "They just want results."
Plus, your productivity early in the year can affect your attitude, and even performance, later on, Moore adds.
Here are 12 tips for staying productive at work through the bleak winter months:
Get physical. Moving your body with regular exercise before, after or during work, especially outdoors, helps reduce stress and improve sleep, Russell says. "And the sunshine you feel from being outside may give your spirits a much-needed lift."
Start your year over. If you think you've 'blown it' for 2013 because you've already broken your New Year's resolutions, think again, Moore says. "First, simplify so you focus only on one or two. Next, start your new year today. January 1st is arbitrary anyway. Forget the old all-or-nothing thinking and restart your new habit any time you slip into old behaviors." This may give you the motivation you need to be more productive at work.
Spend time outside. If you suffer from SAD–and even if you don't–get ten minutes of sunshine every day if possible, Moore says. "Getting outside, if only for a little while, changes your perspective and reminds you that spring is just a little ways away."
Russell agrees. He says to take a break, if possible, with a brief stroll around the block of your office building. "The exposure will not only clear your head, it'll brighten your outlook," he says.
Eat well. Watch what you eat and drink, says executive coach Marian Morgan of Coaching That Works. "Comfort foods and sugary drinks will leave you sluggish and bloated. A heavy meal leading to a nap may sound like a good idea on the weekend, but especially during the week you'll want to watch your sugar and carbohydrates intake," she says. Warm yourself up with a cup of green tea to refresh, instead.
Set goals. The wintertime is ideal for focusing on new projects, Russell says. Even if you're feeling a bit sluggish, set new goals and volunteer for a new assignment that excites you. Your initiative will not only give you a sense of accomplishment and make you more productive, but it will most likely impress your boss.
"Spring Clean" during the winter. "Many people wait until the weather warms up before they do their spring cleaning at home, but you can do it at work when it's freezing outside," Teach says. Take advantage of the fact that you prefer to be inside at this time of year. Go through your hard files and computer files and throw out or delete anything that is no longer useful to you. You will be less overwhelmed and feel less stressed out if you do.
Stay healthy. More people get sick during the winter months than the rest of the year with flu, colds, etc., Teach says. "If you miss work due to illness, it only makes it that much harder when you go back and you're constantly trying to catch up. It hurts your productivity." While it's sometimes difficult or impossible to not to get sick when everyone else is, do what you can (i.e. take vitamins, wash you hands) to prevent it.
Take breaks. One of the best ways to increase productivity is to schedule planned breaks. A change in routine always nets positive results, especially from the winter doldrums, Morgan says. "A weekend away is renewing and energizing – whether it's boosting your vitamin D with an escape to sunny South Beach, or hitting the slopes in Vermont for some winter fun. If you plan ahead you will save some money."
Short on time and cash? Plan a personal day to visit museums, have lunch with a friend, enjoy a day of pampering. Breaking your routine will reward you in so many ways, she says.
Follow weather reports closely. There's nothing worse than being late for work because of the weather, Teach says. "If it's going to rain, sleet, hail, or snow the next day, then leave earlier so that you can arrive to work on time and not be stressed out first thing in the morning." If you're prepared, you'll be more focused and productive when you arrive.
Be social. Avoid eating lunch at your desk alone. Ask co-workers to join you in the cafeteria or at a nearby restaurant, Russell says. "Being social helps break your isolation and connect in new ways with others at work." The happier you are, the more productive you'll be.
Stay later. There are only so many hours in the day but if you work late more often, you can be more productive and get more things done, Teach says. "During the summer when it's warm out and doesn't get dark until 8 pm, you want to get out of work as soon as possible to take advantage of the weather. During the winter months, what do you have to look forward to if you leave on time? Dark, cold nights? You might as well stay in your warm office and work a little overtime so you can get more work done and make a great impression on your boss."


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Panic Room by Tilt
ART & DESIGN — 14/01/2017 — by Laura L.
Director: Benjamin Roudet / Big Addict
Year: 2012
Music: Peter Bjorn and Jhon – Up Against The Wall (Writer's Block album)
Label: Wichita Recording / V2 RECORDS
Tilt :
The hotel Au vieux panier asked me to design a room, I first told them that I wasn't interested doing just decoration in the room but I wanted
to create something that will look more like an installation. I thought about it also as a huge canvas where I needed to think about the composition
and play with the empty white part of the room to accentuate more the idea of Chaos on the other part. Then I asked my friend Tober who gat a great
old school style for tags, Grizz who is also the man behind the camera and Don Cho who is a Hip Hop singer from Marseille but who used to be
a tagger from my home town Toulouse. It took one week to do the whole thing cause the idea was to exaggerate what you can usually see in some
abandoned places. Too much tags, too much drips, too much sentences, too much throw ups … What I also wanted to show is that people can appreciate
any type of graffiti, even the more basic, it's just a matter of point of view …


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