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11 Problems All Girls Experience, As Demonstrated By Red Velvet
1. Walking in heels
Joy's wobbly walk is all too familiar. Sometimes heels are just too tall or feel too awkward to walk normally. Luckily, Joy had Irene to give her a much needed helping hand. Plus Joy deserves some much needed props for defying the laws of gravity with those towering heels on! I can't say I wouldn't have face-planted if I was in that same situation!
2. When your friends embarrass you
During one fan sign event, Joy revealed that when Yeri said she had a stomach ache she really needed to go to the bathroom. Yeri couldn't help but laugh off her embarrassment. This kind of embarrassment isn't just down to idols. Our friends are always willing to call us out and aren't afraid to embarrass us! Then again, what are friends for?
3. When you accidentally put on too much highlighter
Makeup can be a tricky beast. Sometimes it makes you look flawless other times the application doesn't go so well. While highlighter can add a little something, it's easy to get out of hand! Seulgi may look fantastic with all that light on her face, but if I tried that look I would end up looking like a ghost or something!
4. When you wear the wrong outfit
Let's be honest, we've all made fashion mistakes before. Even Seulgi wore an outfit that had her fellow members thinking about food! I mean who can't think of a time when you seriously regretted an outfit you wore?
5. When you struggle to wake up
Waking up is hard even for idols. I don't think I've ever related to anyone more than Irene right now!
6. When you're caught doing something strange
Who doesn't like to have their own dance party when their by themselves? Only normally we all keep this a secret because our dance moves are…kind of strange!
7. When you struggle with technology
We may like to pretend we're the queens of social media and tech gurus but in reality, we all struggle. Thankfully even Wendy seems to have this problem!
8. When our dancing gets a little out of control
You know what they say. Dance like nobody's watching, even if it means losing control and landing on your butt!
9. When you can't do things that everyone else seems to
Don't you just love it when someone assumes that you can do something just because you're a girl? While a lot of girls can do the splits, there are many many more that are like Seulgi!
10. When you think your cute but no one else agrees
People often expect girls to act cute at all times but sometimes this just doesn't work. Instead you just may end up embarrassing yourself and your friends!
11. When you accidentally get scared
There's just nothing worse than getting scared. It ends up being even worse when you get scared over something silly. And to top it off, doing said embarrassing thing in front of someone else is just the worst.
Red Velvet
Fans Praise Aespa's Karina And Red Velvet's Joy For Touching Gesture Towards Irene
"Main Dancer" K-Pop Idol Nails RIIZE's Dance Challenge, But A Behind-The-Scenes Video Shows The Chaotic Reality Of Learning The Choreo
Leaders Supporting Leaders — aespa's Karina Seems To Check In On Red Velvet's Irene At SM Concert
Red Velvet's Irene Appears At Jakarta Concert Despite Earlier Plans Of Sitting It Out


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Basque to Lithuanian Translation
Note: We are committed to user privacy, so we never save any kind of data on our server.
Most common spoken Basque to Lithuanian sentences
|In Basque
|In Lithuanian
|Egun on
|Labas rytas
|Zelan zaude?
|Kaip laikaisi?
|Ondo nago.
|Man viskas gerai.
|Eskerrik asko
|Nola deitzen zara?
|Koks tavo vardas?
|Urte askotarako.
|Malonu susipažinti.
|Nola lagun zaitzaket?
|Kaip galėčiau jums padėti?
|Zer egiten duzu?
|Ką tu darai?
|Ederra zara.
|Tu graži.
|Zure herrialdea maite dut.
|Aš myliu tavo šalį.
|Zapore ona duela uste dut.
|Manau, kad skanu.
|Zer esan nahi duzu?
|Ką turi galvoje?
|Bihar libre al zaude?
|Ar esate laisvas rytoj?
|Polita izan da zurekin solasean aritzea.
|Buvo malonu su jumis kalbėtis.
|Eskerrik asko.
|Labai ačiū.
|Bihar arte.
|Pasimatysime rytoj.
|Gau on
|Labos nakties
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According to Wikipedia, Lithuanian is spoken by approximately 3.6 million (2012) people around the world. Among these, it is the native language of around 3 million people, and 600,000 use it as their second language. Lithuanian is the native language of Lithuania and is the official language of Lithuania and the European Union. At the same time, it is a recognized minority language in Poland.
Importance of language converter for a Basque speaker.
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Which is the best tool to translate Basque to Lithuanian with correct grammar
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Out of these, Google translates Basque to Lithuanian sentences most accurately
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Tom Robertson continues to bring us words and images covering the Euro Cross Campers experience, this time from the Loenhout Azencross. Missed his previous post? Check out his photos from the Diegem Superprestige.
by Tom Robertson
The Euro Cross campers loaded up on an early Wednesday for a drive towards the border with The Netherlands for the GVA race in Loenhout. The race is run on the edge of town, and a large crowd showed up early to see all of the races. When the gun went off for the Junior race the track was still partly snow, but starting to turn to mud. Yannick Eckmann was easily placed inside the top 10 at the start, but a crash in the early laps knocked him back a bit. Andrew Dillman caught up to Eckmann and hung on for a bit, before Eckmann recovered and went on to finish 8th, while Dillman finished 18th. Jeff Bahnson had his best race this trip so far to finish in 20th.
In the U23 race, Zach McDonald got caught up behind a crash on the first turn, and was in 21st by midway through the first lap. By the third lap however, he had worked his way all the way up to 5th and was looking comfortable. One rider was off of the front, but McDonald was in a small group. A long stretch of pavement on the course allowed for groups to be able to get some speed. With three laps to go McDonald's group had swelled to around 20 or so, but he was still placed nicely towards the front. Chris Hurst was riding a nice race, and was in a larger group not far behind. With two laps to go McDonald again got caught up behind a spill in the same corner where the crash happened in the first lap. His large group splintered and he chased the rest of the way to finish 19th. In recounting his race afterwards he was upbeat about the experience. He said that he would struggle on the surges on the paved sections, but in the mud and snow he was stronger than the rest. Already looking forward to next year, McDonald will have a couple of more years in the U23 ranks, and anticipates racing for podium spots.
By the time the elite race started, the mud was ultra thick in a number of spots. Even before they hit the mud, the elite race had a crash after 25 Meters, with Mitchell Hoke getting caught up behind it. After three laps though, Hoke had already worked his way up in the field, and was gaining speed. Towards the front of the race Sven Nys had a gap after one lap, with Neils Albert eventually catching him. The two of them worked together and amazingly increased their speed throughout. This eventually led to half the field being pulled. Nys had a mishap on the last pit and Albert was able to finish with a 10 second gap.
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Gimmie: A New Panel for Gnome – Installation in Ubuntu
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Install Gimmie in Ubuntu
Preparing Your System
First you need to install the following packages
sudo apt-get install make gcc g++
sudo apt-get install python2.4 python2.4-dev python-gnome2-dev python-gnome2-desktop-dev libgnomecups1.0-dev
Now you need to download the Gimmie latest version from here using the following command
wget http://www.beatniksoftware.com/gimmie/releases/gimmie-0.2.1.tar.gz
Now you have gimmie-0.2.1.tar.gz file you need to extract this file using the following command
tar xzvf gimmie-0.2.1.tar.gz
You should see gimmie-0.2.1 directory you need to go in to the directory using the following command to install
cd gimmie-0.2.1
Now you need to start the compilation
make check
make install
This will complete the installation
Now you need to restart your gnome session or logout and login back in to your desktop.
Adding Panel Applet
Now you need to right click on the panel select add panel
Once it open you should see similar to the following screen here you need to select Gimmie under Utilities section and
click on add
Once it added to the panel you should see the following screen
Gimmie Screenshots
Now we will see some screenshots
Gimmie Bar
Computer Screen Options
Applications Screen Options
Documents Screen Options
People Screen Options
Common Problems and Solutions
When I try to compile Gimmie i got the following two problems so i am giving the solutions for this
When i try to compile i got the following error
checking for GIMMIE... configure: error: Package requirements (gtk+-2.0 >= 2.6
pygtk-2.0 >= 2.6
pygobject-2.0 >= 2.6
gnome-python-2.0 >= 2.10
gnome-python-desktop-2.0 >= 2.10
libgnomecups-1.0 >= 0.2.2) were not met:
No package 'gnome-python-2.0' found
No package 'gnome-python-desktop-2.0' found
No package 'libgnomecups-1.0' found
You need to install the following packages
sudo apt-get install python-gnome2-dev python-gnome2-desktop-dev libgnomecups1.0-dev
Whe you try to add panel it doesn't show up in add to panel even after logging in and out
You can try installing gimmie into /usr by passing the "–prefix=/usr" arg to the configure script, which should place
the GNOME_GimmieApplet.server file in the proper location for bonobo-activation-server to see it: usually /usr/lib/bonobo/servers.
Alternately, if you installed into the default configure location (probably /usr/local) you can just copy the .server file to /usr/lib/bonobo/servers.
sudo cp /usr/local/lib/bonobo/servers/GNOME_GimmieApplet.server /usr/lib/bonobo/servers
If all of this still doesn't work, you may need to kill bonobo-activation-server, and/or restart gnome-panel itself.


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During the time of the seven year tribulation period the godless gentile world will be seeking the complete annihilation and destruction of the Jews, the nation of Israel and Almighty God's Two Witnesses and messengers (Zech. 14:2, Dan. 9:27, Rev. 11:3-6, 12:6-17; 13:7 17:14).
(after the Rapture) that countless Muslims from Egypt, Libya, Turkey, Syria, Gaza, Lebanon, Jordon, Iraq, Iran etc. will come to a SAVING KNOWLEDGE of the Messiah of Israel by the preaching and teaching of the Two Witnesses of Israel (i.e., MOSES and ELIJAH). It will be MOSES and ELIJAH that will be the CATALYST to bringing countless Muslims to the saving knowledge of the Messiah (Jesus Christ) via the 144,000 Jewish evangelists (Rev. 7:1-10). Islam has the utmost and greatest respect for MOSES and ELIJAH. It will be by these very two patriarchs of old that Almighty God will send to Israel first (Rom. 1:16) to call that nation to repentance and to SALVATION to the Messiah of Israel, the Lord Jesus Christ (Ps. 110:1, Isa. 53), and it will be by their MIGHTY ministry that they will lead (firstly) a remnant of Jews to a saving knowledge of their Messiah and then countless Muslims also (Matt. 8:11, 25: 31-40, Luke 13:29, Rev. 7:13-17; 14). Many Muslims will lose their lives(via beheading – Rev. 20:4) for their obedience to Israel's Messiah the Lord Jesus, the Savior of the world, but at the end of this seven year tribulation age - these individuals will be resurrected and given glorified bodies and dwell in the Kingdom age with the Messiah of Israel (Rev. 20:4)!
after the Rapture of the Church and the murder and resuscitation of Moses and Elijah 3 1/2 years later) Rev. 11:7-19, that Almighty God's newly chosen army of BELIEVING evangelical Jews in the Messiah of Israel will GO FORTH into the entire world giving the Gospel of Salvation unto ALL gentiles nations (Matt. 24:14, Acts 17:30-31, Rev. 7:9-10)! One particular group which these newly BELIEVING Jews will seek to reach will be their arch enemy, the millions of individuals of Islam that remain alive at this point (Ezek. 38-39, Rev.6-9). These Islamic individual's zeal and hostility toward Israel at present and then will be raging, but the ETERNAL LOVE of Almighty G-d's redeem will be abundant (Psalm 40:1-3, John 3:16-17, Rom. 2:4). These 144,000 Jewish evangelists (during this time) will be sealed by Almighty God for a great Divine task in the direst of hours (Rev. 7:1-10). These messengers of Almighty God will be fearless! These Jewish evangelists will lead countless individuals from among ALL nations to the ETERNAL saving knowledge of the Messiah of Israel, the Savior of the World (Gen. 18:8, 22:18, 26:4, Matt 24:14, John 3:16-17, Gal. 3:8). What is most amazing is that a great number of these gentile individuals will be those of the Muslim people (Isa. 19:23-25, Luke 13:29, Rom. 5:20). The very despised and abominable thing in the mind of a Muslim will be the VERY vehicle for their ETERNAL salvation in the near future! (1 Cor. 1:18-31)
(Rev.6-16) that countless followers of Islam will abandon their spiritual ideology for HEAVENLY REALITY and RIGHTEOUSNESS (Rom. 10:2-4). Many in the most darkened region of the world will OPEN their hearts and minds and cast off their oppressive Islamic ideological shackles and will come to FULLY acknowledge the RIGHTEOUS REALITY that the Messiah (Jesus Christ) of Israel IS also the Savior of the world! When these Muslim individuals come to see this REALITY for all that it is worth, they will be radically transformed and will worship and serve Almighty God their Creator in SPIRIT and TRUTH (John 4:24, 17:17)! They will love NOT their lives even unto death and will profess to their fellow Muslim brethren that Jesus Messiah Saves (Rev.12:11, Rev. 20:4)!
Even today, countless thousands of Muslims each year are leaving the oppressive and fatalistic delusion of the Islamic religion (i.e., spiritual philosophy). These masses have come to a saving knowledge of Jesus the Messiah, the Savior of the world (John 14:6, Acts 4:12) and have found that it is He ALONE who truly saves and loves and is truly full of all GRACE and MERCY (Isa. 60:1-3, Micah 4:1-3, Zech. 8:21-23, Matt. 8:11,John 3:1:17)!
The countless inhabitants from Islamic nations, who have come to a saving knowledge of the Messiah of Israel during this tribulation period will be LOVED and PROVIDED for in the Messiah's 1000 year reign and for ALL ETERNITY (Isa. 19:20-25, Rom. 5:10, Eph. 2:3-5, Col. 1:20-21). Oh my beloved, can you not just rejoice in the WONDROUS GRACE AND MERCY of Almighty God!!!
"In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians. "In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land: Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance" (Isa. 19:23-25).
"Moreover the law entered, that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound" (Rom. 5:20)
to a saving knowledge of the Savior of the world before the Day of the Lord begins! It is ONLY by and through the LOVE of Almighty God that enemies can become reconciled and become brothers and co -labors for the glory of God (Rom. 3:22, 29, 1 Cor. 5:14,12:13, Gal. 3:8,26, Eph 2:14). It is our sincere desire that many would come out of Islam in these days before the Day of the Lord and into a saving relationship to the ONLY TRUE Savior for this fallen world, the Lord Jesus Christ! (John 3:16-17)
The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!


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And now for a little stomach-churning media goodness. One of the inevitable downsides of ESPN's new "Live" SportsCenter are some of the slip-ups that occur during live broadcasts which unfortunately make it to air. Case in point — this morning, at approximately 10:28, it appears NFL beat reporter John Clayton was suffering from a bout of uncontrollable flatulence while on the phone with morning host Josh Elliot. Mr. Clayton's unfortunate accident occurred just as Elliot inquired about the status of Derek Anderson in Cleveland. Right after he utters the phrase "Brady Quinn is lurking..." you can hear the distinct sound of a gaseous emission trumpet through the microphone right before Mr. Clayton gives his Browns report. (Smell the junior high irony, if you will.) ESPN's media relations machine "could not possibly comment about that", but Elliot did say that he asked the newsroom "What the F was that?" after the incident occurred, but denies having personally "dealt it." Maybe it was Hannah Storm playing a prank? She's a scamp, that one. — A.J. Daulerio
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Discussion: Portfolio, Epicenter, Google Blogoscoped, CNET News, The Technology Chronicles and John Battelle's Searchblog
Meghan Keane / Epicenter: Sergey Reveals Risk of Parkinson's on New Blog
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped: Sergey Brin Starts Blog
Stephen Shankland / CNET News: Sergey Brin starts blog, tells of Parkinson's risk
Verne Kopytoff / The Technology Chronicles: Google co-founder at higher risk of developing Parkinson's
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog: Add This to Your Feed Reader
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Sergey Brin Launches A Personal Blog, Talks About His Risk Of Parkinson's
Sergey Brin Launches A Personal Blog, Talks About His Risk Of Parkinson's
Discussion: Business Technology, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Search Engine Land, New York Times, BBC NEWS and Brier Dudley's blog
Jessica E. Vascellaro / Business Technology: Googler Gets Personal
Jessica Guynn / L.A. Times Tech Blog: Google co-founder Sergey Brin starts blogging at Too
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: Now Blogging: Google Cofounder Sergey Brin
Darren Waters / BBC NEWS: Google co-founder starts personal blog
Nathania Johnson / Search Engine Watch:
Google Searches at 63% of the Search Market for August 2008 — comScore has released their search market data for August 2008. Google saw 63% of the 11.7 billion core searches conducted in the U.S. during the late summer month. The number of core searches barely changed from July to August …
Discussion: Reuters
Eric Auchard / Reuters: Google's U.S. Search Share Hits 63%
comScore Releases August 2008 U.S. Search Engine Rankings
comScore Releases August 2008 U.S. Search Engine Rankings
Discussion: Search Engine Journal, Microsoft Pri0, CNET News and Digital Daily
Arnold Zafra / Search Engine Journal: Oops! Google Did It Again, Gets Big Chunk of Search Market Share for August
Benjamin J. Romano / Microsoft Pri0: Microsoft continues downward trend in August search share
Stephen Shankland / CNET News: Google snatches search share in August
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily: Report: Google Search Market Share Huge ... Again
Twitter Blog:
Changes Afoot — We're getting ready to launch a refresh of parts of the Twitter.com interface. This release does not include any new features (well, one). It's mostly cosmetic changes. This post describes what we're doing and why. — Moving the tabs
Jennifer Leggio / Feeds: FriendFeed redesign - win; Twitter redesign - 'lipstick on a pig'?
Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider: Twitter's Redesign: New Look, No Search?
Michelle Lentz / bub.blicio.us: Twitter gets prettier
Dave Jeyes / TECH.BLORGE.com: Twitter adds themes, no Fail Whale in sight
Harrison Hoffman / Webware.com: Twitter unveils interface redesign
Alan Patrick / broadstuff: TWITTER AND MY ILLUSION OF CONTROL
J. Angelo Racoma / Blogging Pro: Twitter Updates Design
Amit Chowdhry / Pulse 2.0: Twitter Gets A New Slick Look
Arnold Zafra / RotorBlog.com: Twitter Gets a Site Refresh Too
Sean Percival / Sean Percival's Blog: Twitter: "Ya we got a new look too ya know"
Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins / Mashable!: Twitter (and You!) Redesign the Page
Charlie Anzman / SEO and Tech Daily: Twitter launches new look !
Duncan Riley / The Inquisitr: Twitter website gets a facelift
Market Wire:
Cisco Announces Definitive Agreement to Acquire Jabber — Jabber's Presence and Messaging Software to Enhance Cisco's Collaboration Portfolio — Cisco (CSCO - News) today announced its intent to acquire privately held Jabber, Inc., a provider of presence and messaging software.
Discussion: Reuters, Between the Lines, Tech Trader Daily and Collaborative Thinking
Tiffany Wu / Reuters: Cisco to buy messaging software company Jabber
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines: Cisco gobbles up Jabber
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily: Cisco To Buy Jabber; No Terms Disclosed
Andy Greenberg / Forbes:
Next-Gen E-Readers Arrive — Amazon's Kindle was fun. Now it's time for electronic readers to get to work. — On Monday, Netherlands-based iRex Technologies is slated to unveil the iRex Reader 1000, the first in a wave of e-reader devices that promise bigger screens and improved interfaces and functionality.
Luigi Lugmayr / I4U News: iRex launches new 10.2 inch eBook Reader 1000 next Week
Joseph L. Flatley / Engadget: iRex: something awesome this way comes
Bernard Lunn / ReadWriteWeb:
Zoho: The Little Engine That Could (Take on Both Microsoft and Google) — We all love the David and Goliath story. What about David vs two Goliaths? That is the improbable story of Zoho, the Web Office startup competing head on with both Microsoft and Google.
Discussion: InformationWeek
Serdar Yegulalp / InformationWeek: Web 2.0: Zoho Gears Up
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:
The Problem with Every Implementation of a "Forgot Your Password?" Feature I've Seen Online — I recently read that Sarah Palin's Yahoo! email accounts had been hacked. What is interesting about the hack is that instead of guessing her password or finding a security flaw in Yahoo's email service …
Discussion: greg hughes, Lifehacker, Threat Level, Zero Day and Valleywag
Adam Pash / Lifehacker: How to Protect Your Email from Hackers
Kim Zetter / Threat Level: Palin E-Mail Hacker Says It Was Easy
Dancho Danchev / Zero Day: Attacker: Hacking Sarah Palin's email was easy
Nicholas Carlson / Valleywag: How a b-tard hacked Sarah Palin's Yahoo account
JR Raphael / Today @ PC World:
Palin Hack: How It Happened and How to Keep Your Account Safe
Palin Hack: How It Happened and How to Keep Your Account Safe
Discussion: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Voices and Cathode Tan
Adam Pash / Lifehacker:
Yugma Integrates Screen Sharing with Skype — Windows/Mac OS X: Free Skype plug-in Yugma Team Collaboration adds a screen sharing feature to Skype. The plug-in is an offshoot of previously mentioned Yugma, a standalone web conferencing and screen-sharing tool that you can use independently if you're not already a Skype user.
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Too-Powerful Google Thumbs Its Nose at Everyone-Good Luck With That, Eric! — It used to be, many years ago, that longtime Silicon Valley tech exec Eric Schmidt could work up a very significant head of steam when talking about the thuggish monopolistic practices of Microsoft and its negative impact on the tech industry.
Discussion: Technology blog, Valleywag and WebProNews
Bobbie Johnson / Technology blog: Tech's high rollers scoff at Wall Street
Owen Thomas / Valleywag: Google hikes ad prices even before Yahoo deal kicks in
Doug Caverly / WebProNews: Economic Woes Don't Scare Schmidt
Jibi / Boy Genius Report:
BlackBerry OS 5.0: your first looky looky — Remember when we first mentioned OS 5.0 nearly one and a half years ago? Yes, it's been that long. Although that version matured into what we now know as OS 4.5, earlier this year, we broke the story about the formal introduction of OS 5.0 within the walls of Waterloo.
Discussion: IntoMobile and BlackBerry Cool
Simon Sage / IntoMobile: BlackBerry OS 5.0 to offer remote file access
Saul Hansell / Bits:
How Wall Street Lied to Its Computers — So where were the quants? — That's what has been running through my head as I watch some of the oldest and seemingly best-run firms on Wall Street implode because of what turned out to be really bad bets on mortgage securities.
Discussion: broadstuff
Alan Patrick / broadstuff: HOW DO YOU BUILD A SMALL INVESTMENT BANK?
Adam Pash / Lifehacker:
Five Best BitTorrent Applications — The days of peer-to-peer file sharing tools ushered into popularity by the original Napster are over and done, and today, BitTorrent reigns supreme. It took some time for BitTorrent to gain mainstream popularity, but now that it has …
Bret Taylor / FriendFeed Blog:
New FriendFeed design launched... with an exciting new feature! — You might have noticed the new look for FriendFeed. We've been tinkering with a new design for a few weeks, and after spending some time in beta, it's finally ready for primetime. — larger screenshot
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, RotorBlog.com, Pulse 2.0, webmonkey, Webware.com and The Inquisitr
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb: FriendFeed Dials Down the Noise With Duplicate Detection
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch: FriendFeed's New Design Is Live
Amit Chowdhry / Pulse 2.0: FriendFeed Launches New Look & Features
Scott Loganbill / webmonkey: Friendfeed Facelifts and Threads Microblogs
Josh Lowensohn / Webware.com: FriendFeed solves noise problem with redesign, duplicate roll-up


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One of the most contentious issues in the current political climate is the ongoing debate over the border wall. Democrats have accused Republicans of using the issue to divide the country and stoke fear, while Republicans argue that the wall is necessary to protect American citizens and stem the flow of illegal immigration. The question of how to address the issue will be a key factor in the midterms and beyond.
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Tyson is recalling about 131,300 pounds of ground beef because a family in Ohio fell ill after eating meat produced by the company that was contaminated with E. coli, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported Wednesday.
The recall involves beef sold as Kroger brands at Kroger Co. supermarkets; Butcher's Beef at Food Lion supermarkets; and generic beef sold to SAV-A-LOT, Spectrum Foods, Supervalu and the Defense Commissary Agency, company spokesman Gary Mickelson told The Associated Press.
Tyson produced the affected meat at its plant in Emporia, Kan., on Aug. 23, the USDA said in a news release.
Four children became ill after eating the meat with their family in Butler County, Ohio, in the second week of September, said Butler County Health Department director Pat Burg. A 9-year-old child was hospitalized for about 10 days with severe diarrhea, said Burg, who declined to release the family's name.
Ground beef from the family's home tested positive for the bacteria. No other cases have been reported in the southwest Ohio county, Burg said.
The Ohio Department of Health confirmed that two Butler County siblings received medical treatment after becoming sick from E.coli, while other two children reported to be ill didn't get medical treatment, spokeswoman Tessie Pollock said.
The family told health officials that they bought the Tyson beef at a Kroger supermarket. Kroger said it sells both a generic and a Kroger brand of beef, but the recall in Ohio applied only to generic products.
Cincinnati-based Kroger spokesman Keith Dailey said the ground beef in question would have been taken off store shelves on Sept. 12, because of when it was produced. He said Kroger tracked beef to three geographic divisions where it was distributed and will have in-store signs notifying customers of the recall and details of the recalled beef.
"We encourage our customers to check their freezers and refrigerators," Dailey said. Kroger loyalty card holders who bought the beef will be notified by email or telephone, and their cashier receipts will automatically print out recall information.
The Kroger divisions are: Cincinnati-Dayton, which includes Kroger stores in northern Kentucky; Delta, which includes Memphis and western Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, and stores in Murray and Paducah, Ky., and Poplar Bluff, Mo.; and Central, with stores in Illinois and Indiana that include some local banners such as Food 4 Less in Chicago.
The Butcher's Beef brand meat was shipped to Food Lion stores in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Virginia and West Virginia and to Bottom Dollar Food stores in North Carolina, the company said in a news release.
Food Lion encouraged its customers to check their freezers for the product, with UPC code (725439922241) and return it to the store for a full refund.
The products being recalled include 5-pound packages of Kroger-brand ground beef packed in 40-pound cases, with a product code of D-0211 QW, which was distributed in Tennessee and Indiana; 3-pound packages of Butcher's Brand beef packed in 36-pound cases with the code D-0211 LWIF, which was distributed in North and South Carolina; and 3-pound packages of generic labeled beef packed in 36-pound cases with a product code D-0211 LWI, which was distributed in Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin.
The beef, all 73/27 lean to fat ratio, had a "best before" date of Sept. 12 and the number 245D inked on the packages.
The ground beef was sold in pre-packaged printed tubes that are put directly into retail meat cases, Mickelson, Tyson Fresh Meat's spokesman, said in a news release. He said it is likely that most of the affected product has already been consumed but urged consumers to check their freezers and return or discard any beef listed in the recall.
South Dakota-based Tyson Fresh Meats is a subsidiary of Tyson Foods Inc., of Springdale, Ark.
A list of retail stores that received the product will be posted on the USDA's website: www.fsis.usda.gov/FSIS_Recalls/


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Published November 1, 2012 05:33 PM
As former LSU defensive back Tyrann Mathieu tries to shift his focus from returning to college football to preparing for the NFL draft, he'll get a change of scenery.
Jennifer Hale of WVUE reports that Mathieu has moved to South Florida, where he'll live with the family of Cardinals defensive back Patrick Peterson.
Peterson, who attended LSU, and Mathieu are close friends. After Peterson left LSU, Mathieu changed to No. 7, which had been worn by Peterson in Baton Rouge.
Per Hale, Mathieu hopes to escape negative influences in Louisiana, where he recently was charged with marijuana possession. He previously was kicked off the LSU football team after failing multiple drug tests.


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It's the most wonderful time of the year
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- Mrs. Mom said...
"The interesting thing is, that wherever I resided, that particular team would win a conference or national title during my tenure there. "...
Is there ANYWAY we can get you to move back to Tallahassee?! PLEASE!! Just for the football season...
I am dying with the seasons we have been having lately! IT IS NOT LIKE IT USED TO BE! We really were spoiled back then. Oh...to have Charlie Ward or Warrick Dunn again! Shit...I would even settle for Danny Kanell. It is just not the same! And don't even get me started about Jeff Bowden. HE NEEDS TO BE FIRED! I think my 83-year-old grandmother would make a better offensive coordinator than him!
I will stop ranting...my point is that I second your excitment about the start of another college football season and this time of year. My only problem is that I cannot open my windows and enjoy the fall weather. It is still about 100 degrees down here! Kinda makes it hard to remember that it is September already.
I will be keeping my fingers crossed for tomorrow night. When you are yelling and screaming at the TV...know that I will be doing the exact same thing here!
I already have a little FSU get-up washed and ready for my little man to wear tomorrow...he has no idea what he's in for! Poor little guy! Should I dig out the war paint? :)
- dr. whoo? said...
Mrs. Mom~ If it would help (and I could stand being in the Florida heat again) I totally would move back just for football season. Don't get me started on Jeff "Run it up the Middle" Bowden! I could go on and on! You know Bobby will never fire him, so we are stuck until Bobby retires. It sucks to see so much talent wasted on boring and predictable plays. This is so not *our* FSU!
My little one has FSU socks and a cheerleader outfit lined up. She can do the warchant (she learned by our singing FSU bottle opener this weekend!) Of course, by all means paint your little guy up now, that way if he ever makes the wrong choice and chooses another school (especially another Florida school!) you can blackmail him with the pictures! Fingers crossed for tonight!
Go Seminoles!
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Top Items:
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Memo To Comcast: Show Us the Meter for Metered Broadband — Comcast is out defending its bandwidth caps and how they are not bad. And how 250 GB transfer is plenty and enough to do whatever we want to do. Of course, in today's terms that is more than enough, but what happens in the future?
Grant Gross / PC World: Critics Question Comcast Broadband Caps
Karl Bode / DSLreports: Industry Reacts To Comcast Cap Plans - From no big deal to end of the world...
Erica Ogg / CNET News.com: CNET News Daily Podcast: You only need 250GB of downloads a month, says Comcast
Paul Glazowski / Mashable!: Ode to an Internet Patrolman
Steve Borsch / Connecting the Dots: Will Comcast crush internet innovation?
Neil Savage / Xconomy: Daily TIPs: Conventional Wisdom, Cyber Support, Greenhouse Gas Breakdown, & More
Jeff Baumgartner / Contentinople: Comcast Installs 250 GB Ceiling
Andrew Orlowski / The Register: Comcast users get UK-style capping, throttling
Richard Koman / ZDNet Government: Comcast sets 250GB ceiling
Kevin Maney / Portfolio.com: The Comcast Internet Cap Debate
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org: Comcast To Roll out Monthly Usage Cap
Warner Crocker / GottaBeMobile: Comcast to Go With 250GB Cap for Broadband
Scott Blitstein / WebWorkerDaily: Clearing The Cache - Going Online Edition
Soulxtc / Zeropaid File Sharing P2P Technology News: It's Official, Comcast to Have 250GB Data Cap Starting Oct 1st
Steve Gillmor / TechCrunch:
Goodbye, BitTorrent. Hello, Streaming. — Comcast's decision to cap monthy broadband usage at 250GB is being decried as the end of the Internet as we know it. Maybe so, but it can also be seen as the dawn of the Streaming Era. As the Olympics drew to a close with big numbers …
Discussion: Newest Industry and Don Park's Daily Habit
Josh Lowensohn / Webware.com:
More tidbits on the new Comcast cap — Thursday's news about the upcoming 250 GB monthly cap for Comcast data subscribers left some questions unanswered. I shot a few of my own, as well as some from readers over to Comcast to get them answered. These are mostly items that did not appear …
Discussion: Susan Crawford blog, Boy Genius Report, DailyTech and InformationWeek
Zach Epstein / Boy Genius Report: Comcast 250 GB Cap Coming on October 1st
Tom Corelis / DailyTech: Comcast Sets Data Cap at 250 GB
Mark Wilson / Gizmodo:
Rumor: Apple and AT&T Developing iPhone Tethering Plan — According to a pretty legitimate-looking email thread from one of our readers, Steve Jobs may have responded to complaints that, since the pulling of NetShare from the App Store, iPhone-to-laptop tethering is impossible without jailbreaking one's phone.
Jason D. O'Grady / The Apple Core: iPhone tethering rumored
Justin Mann / TechSpot: iPhone 3G to support tethering?
Tom Krazit / CNET News - Apple: Tethering coming soon to iPhone 3G?
Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab: Rumor: Apple Considers iPhone Tethering Option
Mike Schramm / TUAW: Rumor: Apple and AT&T working on tethering deal
Cleve Nettles / 9 to 5 Mac: iPhone Tethering en route... luv Steve (sent from my iPhone)
PR Newswire:
Microsoft to Acquire Greenfield Online Including Its European Subsidiary Ciao, a Leading European Price Comparison and Shopping Site — Microsoft Corp today announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire Greenfield Online Inc, owner of Ciao GmbH, one of Europe's leading price comparison …
Andrea James / Andrea on Amazon.com …: Microsoft to buy European Web shopping site
Kelly Fiveash / The Register: Microsoft bags European price comparison sites
Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider: Microsoft Buying Research/Shopping Engine Outfit Greenfield Online …
Olaf de Senerpont Domis / Tech Confidential: Microsoft emerges with suprise bid for Greenfield
Brian Heater / AppScout: Microsoft Buys European E-Commerce Site
Stan Schroeder / Mashable!: Microsoft Acquires Greenfield Online for $486 Million
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines: Microsoft to bolster Live Search in Europe with Greenfield acquisition
Svetlana Gladkova / Profy: Microsoft Outbids Quadrangle Private Investment Fund by $60 Million for Greenfield
Charlie Anzman / SEO and Tech Daily: Microsoft acquiring Greenfield Online
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Microsoft Beats Quadrangle To Buy Research Firm Greenfield For $486 Million; Selling Off Most Of It — In a complex and slightly confusing transaction, Greenfield Online, the online market research and surveys company, which earlier this week rejected a bid by media PE firm Quadrangle …
Emil Protalinski / One Microsoft Way: Microsoft forgets Yahoo, buys Greenfield for $486 million
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM: Microsoft Sets Sights on Europe With Shopping Site Buy
John Murrell / GMSV: Microsoft goes shopping in Europe, comes back with lovely chain
Mike Ricciuti / CNET News.com: Microsoft to drop $486 million for European shopping site
Ernst-Jan Pfauth / The Next Web: Microsoft buys Ciao.com's mother company, will it plug its products?
Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch: Microsoft Says Hello to Ciao, Buys European Shopping Site
Nathania Johnson / Search Engine Watch Blog: Microsoft to Acquire European Price Comparison and Shopping Site
Chris Crum / WebProNews: Microsoft Says Ciao to Online Shopping Search
Ian Williams / Inquirer: Microsoft to snap up Greenfield Online
Hakon Lie / The Register:
Microsoft breaks IE8 interoperability promise — Microsoft said the right things, then blew it — Comment In March, Microsoft announced that their upcoming Internet Explorer 8 would: "use its most standards compliant mode, IE8 Standards, as the default." — Note the last word: default.
Discussion: All about Microsoft and Brandon Live!
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft: Opera grasps at straws with latest IE criticism
Brandon Paddock / Brandon Live!: Opera begins smear campaign against IE 8
Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Report: Facebook screenplay based on book — If an anonymous source is correct, the confirmed screenplay-in-the-works about Facebook's origins by West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin is tied to a forthcoming book about the social network by Bringing Down The House author Ben Mezrich.
Discussion: Valleywag and Texas Startup Blog
Nicholas Carlson / Valleywag: Facebook movie to be based on Ben Mezrich's controversial tell-all
Alexander Muse / Texas Startup Blog: Facebook movie and book coming!
Greg Atwan / 02138mag.com:
Aaron Sorkin and Ben Mezrich Are Now Friends. — It turns out the Aaron Sorkin Facebook movie is also the Ben Mezrich Facebook movie. — The Sorkin project (with producer Scott Rudin and Sony Pictures Entertainment) has created a media buzz since its recent disclosure on Facebook.
Discussion: All Facebook and L.A. Times Tech Blog
Nick O'Neill / All Facebook: More Details on the Upcoming Facebook Movie
Jessica Guynn / L.A. Times Tech Blog: Facebook the movie based on Facebook the book?
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Google to buy GeoEye satellite imagery — Google has signed a deal under which GeoEye will supply the search giant with imagery from a satellite due to launch in coming days, the companies said. — Under the deal, Google is the exclusive online mapping site that may use the imagery …
Discussion: Screenwerk, VentureBeat, eWeek and Gadget Lab
Greg Sterling / Screenwerk: GeoEye Brings More Resolution to Google Maps
MG Siegler / VentureBeat: Sky rockets in flight. Google Maps delight
Dylan Tweney / Gadget Lab: Google Launches Super-Spycam, Google Logo Into Orbit
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Study: spammers mind their Ps, forget about the Qs — E-mail addresses with common names—and addresses that begin with common letters—are much more likely to receive spam than those with uncommon names and letters. That's what Cambridge University researcher Richard Clayton has detailed in his new paper …
Richard Clayton / Light Blue Touchpaper:
An A to Z of confusion — A few days ago I blogged about my paper …
An A to Z of confusion — A few days ago I blogged about my paper …
Discussion: The Register and Macworld
John Leyden / The Register: Common usernames get more spam
Carrie-Ann Skinner / Macworld: Study: Common letters get more spam
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
The Google Android Challenge Winners — Google announced the winners of the first phase of the Android Developer Challenge. Android is the mobile operating system and software library to-be pushed by Google and others. Here are some of the ideas whose creators received $275,000 …
Discussion: LinuxInsider, Silicon Alley Insider, Tech Beat, InformationWeek, Android Developers Blog, CyberNet and WebProNews
Vasanth Sridharan / Silicon Alley Insider: The Five Android Apps We Want To See On The GPhone (GOOG)
Marin Perez / InformationWeek: Google Shows Off Android App Winners
Doug Caverly / WebProNews: Android Developer Challenge Concludes
Ed Burnette / Ed Burnette's Dev Connection:
New Android Market is YouTube for mobile applications
New Android Market is YouTube for mobile applications
Discussion: Ars Technica, BetaNews and TG Daily
Jacqueline Emigh / BetaNews: Google markets Android Market as the 'anti-App Store'
Matt Asay / The Open Road:
Could governments effectively subsidize open-source development? — At the Utah Open Source Conference yesterday I presented a dilemma. Briefly, the idea is that as open-source buyers grow comfortable with open source they will stop spending money on open source.
Discussion: OStatic blogs
Timothy Lee / Techdirt: Is Military Spending the Key to the Next Silicon Valley?
Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
With 'followers,' Blogger gets—surprise!—more social — With blog platforms Movable Type and WordPress adding social-networking features to their software, it was only a matter of time before Google's Blogger did the same. A post on the official Blogger blog earlier this week announced …
Discussion: TechCrunch, The Social Times, Valleywag and The Inquisitr
Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch: Seeds Of A Social Network: Blogger Adds New "Following" Feature
Nick O'Neill / The Social Times: Blogger Gets More Social, Get Excited!
Owen Thomas / Valleywag: How Google killed Blogger's social network
JR Raphael / The Inquisitr: Will "Following" Give Blogger a Boost?
Matt Asay / The Open Road:
Google's weird ways with open-source licenses — CNET's Stephen Shankland has already picked up on Google's decision to allow two popular open-source licenses back onto its Google Code open-source repository. Up until now, the Mozilla Public License (MPL) and Eclipse Public License (EPL) were both banned from the site.
Discussion: eWeek and The Register
Chris Williams / The Register: Google makes Mozilla licence U-turn
Google Open Source Blog:
Mozilla and Eclipse Licenses Now Available for Hosting Users
Mozilla and Eclipse Licenses Now Available for Hosting Users
Discussion: 451 CAOS Theory, BetaNews and CNET News.com
Tim Conneally / BetaNews: Google extends its investment in Mozilla, restores MPL license
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com: Google Code reverses open-source license ban
Claire Cain Miller / Bits:
Does Silicon Valley Face an Innovation Crisis? — Judy Estrin, who has built several Silicon Valley companies and was the chief technology officer of Cisco Systems, says Silicon Valley is in trouble. In a new book, "Closing the Innovation Gap," which will be in bookstores Tuesday …
Discussion: Portfolio.com, The Social Times, Why does everything suck? and Silicon Valley Watcher
Nick O'Neill / The Social Times: The Increasing Market for Free
Hank Williams / Why does everything suck?: Former Cisco CTO Judy Estrin Says Tech is Lame
Amar / Mash Blog:
Yahoo! Mash is shutting down — You may have received an email recently regarding the shut-down of Mash on September 29, 2008. To provide more information about what will happen to your Mash profile, and how you can save your profile information, please see the list of FAQs below.
Discussion: The Social, paidContent.org, Epicenter, GMSV, WebProNews, TechCrunch and Pulse 2.0
Caroline McCarthy / The Social: Yahoo Mash: When getting social isn't enough
David Kaplan / paidContent.org: Yahoo Shutters Social Net Site Mash
Chris Snyder / Epicenter: Yahoo Sheds Some Skin, Drops Mash
John Murrell / GMSV: Yahoo moves Mash from beta straight to post-omega
Chris Crum / WebProNews: Yahoo!'s Social Network Aspirations Mashed
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch: Yahoo Shuts Down Mash, 0-4 On Social Networking
Amit Chowdhry / Pulse 2.0: Yahoo! Mash To Be Eradicated On September 29
Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Yahoo Mash gets smashed, bashed, quashed
Yahoo Mash gets smashed, bashed, quashed
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Andrew Mager / The Web Life: Say goodbye to Yahoo! Mash
Svetlana Gladkova / Profy: Yahoo Mash Closes. …
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Copyright Office, EFF wrestle with Kafkaesque royalty issue — If you've followed the travails of the digital music market, even casually, you've probably picked up at least a passing sense that the whole process of licensing music copyrights can be... complicated.
Google A Go For Search Ad Deal With Yahoo — Google CEO Eric Schmidt tells Bloomberg Google will move forward with its search advertising deal with Yahoo. The deal was inked in June as a way to derail Microsoft's hostile bid for Yahoo. Microsoft wanted Yahoo to boost its flagging search engine business.
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Google to Start Yahoo Deal by October, Schmidt Says
Google to Start Yahoo Deal by October, Schmidt Says
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Lewis Page / The Register:
Psychologist invents new uber-wiki — 'Mememoir' tech to make Wikipedia obsolete? — An American psychologist has invented a new form of wiki in which every word is directly linked to its author. He believes the so-called "mememoir"* project will "revolutionize publishing in all of science".


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Researchers at the University of Stanford have identified the secret to how nerves withstand the wear and tear of bending joints and moving tissues.
Make a fist, and pity the nerve cells in your hand. Some are stretched taut across the outside of your fingers and others are squished within your palm. Despite that, they continue to do their jobs, sending signals to detect touch or pain and controlling your muscles to release the fist or clench it tighter.
The question is how.
If nerves were like floppy strings, the constant bending and stretching could damage their delicate membranes and prevent them from sending signals to and from the spinal cord.
Michael Krieg was pondering this issue of nerve resilience when he began studying some tiny roundworms whose nerves buckled and broke over time.
The worms had a mutation in a protein called spectrin, and spectrin had long been known to form an elastic lattice under the surface of red blood cells to help them bend and flex as they traverse the circulatory system.
Krieg wondered: If spectrin could help provide flexibility to blood cells, could it also help nerves withstand the push and pull of their daily lives?
The answer appears to be yes, according to work published February 23 in Nature Cell Biology.
Weak nerves
Krieg is a postdoctoral fellow in the labs of Miriam Goodman, who studies the neurons that sense touch, and Alex Dunn, who is interested in the physical properties of cells. Bridging those labs, Krieg began studying the physical properties of nerves that sense touch, specifically the role of spectrin in keeping those nerves stable and able to transmit signals.
Goodman remembers the first time Krieg showed her the worms with the mutation and buckling nerves. "He called me over to look at the worms and I said, yeah, that's not normal." Goodman is an associate professor of molecular and cellular physiology in the Stanford School of Medicine.
Alex Dunn, an assistant professor of chemical engineering, likened the nerves in these worms to old socks. "When we looked at bending we realized that this looked a lot like an old sock. It looked loose and floppy. We thought maybe what's going on is the spectrin is acting like elastic."
When other researchers had previously mixed that floppy-nerved mutant with another mutant worm that lacked the ability to move, the nerves remained intact well into the worm's old age. Without squishing and pulling in the immobile worm, the lack of spectrin was apparently not a problem. If the worms just held still, their nerves would have less need to be resilient. But they don't, and thus, apparently, the need for spectrin.
There are hints that the same might be true in people – some movement disorders appear to be caused by mutations in spectrin, and the spectrin protein is very similar in worms and people.
Sensing touch
Goodman's expertise is in nerves that sense touch. She had long wondered what it was in the nerve that detects pressure and transmits that signal to pores in the nerve membrane. Once opened, those pores, called ion channels, then send signals flying down the nerve to the spinal cord and up to the brain.
"How those channels get activated is something I'm intensely interested in understanding," Goodman said. "We began to wonder if spectrin also had a role in transmitting the mechanical energy carried by touch."
To find out, Krieg touched the worms in a lab dish to see what they did. Normally, the roundworms wiggle away when touched lightly on their sides. Worms with a spectrin mutation were about half as likely to notice the sensation.
All this seemed to add up to two things. First, spectrin might be a sort of elastic mesh under the nerve cell surface to allow the nerves to bend and flex and still send signals. Second, in the nerves that sense touch, the spectrin matrix might help to transmit touch to the ion channels.
Creating tension
Krieg went on to complete a tour de force of experiments ultimately showing that the spectrin matrix seems to hold the nerves in a state of tension that keeps them stable. Dunn goes back to socks. "If you imagine taking a sock and pulling it past its resting length it is straight. And when you release it part way it's still straight. But when the elastic is gone the sock doesn't hold its shape."
One of the experiments Krieg did to demonstrate this tension in the spectrin matrix came about as a happy coincidence.
Before Krieg had joined their labs, Dunn and Goodman had thought it would be helpful to develop a tool for studying force within cells. They'd gotten funding through Stanford Bio-X to create a springy fluorescent protein fragment that they could insert into other proteins within a cell. If that protein is being stretched, then its fragment glows cyan blue under fluorescent light. When the protein isn't stretched, the protein fragment glows yellow.
Krieg took advantage of this technique by inserting the springy fragment into spectrin in normal worms. When he looked at the touch-sensitive nerves, he found that the fragment glowed more cyan than yellow, showing that the spectrin was being stretching in those nerves, much like the elastic in Dunn's hypothetically stretched sock.
In fact, their spring is so sensitive they could estimate the force being placed on it by the spectrin network: about 2 piconewtons.
To put this in perspective, the force of an apple pushing down on a scale is about 1 newton. So, divide that apple into 1,000,000,000,000 pieces, and the force that just two of those pieces put on the scale is about the force generated by the spectrin in these nerves. That's not enough to hold a sock up, sure, but it's actually comparable to other types of forces and motors within a cell.
Krieg did this work in the nerves that sense touch, but said what he discovered might apply to all nerve types. "We think our results have a generalizing effect and apply to other neurons as well. It is not a unique property of touch receptors."
The scientists are now hoping to learn if spectrin creates the elastic that holds other types of nerves taut, what role spectrin plays in transmitting touch, and also whether this discovery in the lowly worm applies broadly to other animals and to our own battered nerves.
Reference: "Mechanical control of the sense of touch by β-spectrin" by Michael Krieg, Alexander R. Dunn and Miriam B. Goodman, 23 February 2014, Nature Cell Biology.
DOI: 10.1038/ncb2915


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Wahhh, how cute is my little nephew!? For his Totoro-themed very first birthday party, Coco Cake (also known as: L.K. Sung) worked super hard in preparing the 100 mini and regular sized cupcakes and very special fondant-covered, chocolate ganache and chocolate buttercream-filled cutting cake. Do you know Totoro? He is a very hilarious and majestic Japanese animated character who lives in a mythical forest. He flies around trees with his two other Totoro buddies and helps little children in distress. For the Totoro party, my sis requested chocolate cupcakes with chocolate buttercream topped with bright green fondant leaves, and vanilla cupcakes with blue vanilla buttercream topped with little acorns. Plus, a Totoro special cupcake for little Brody. But instead of a cupcake… I made Brody a crazy Totoro cake starring Totoro, blue Totoro, white Totoro, leaves, acorn and that little dustball character!
"Team Totoro" also went crazy with decorations: my sis Shelley, my husband Rich and I spent hours making felt decorations, including the cute orange felt "Happy 1st Birthday Brody" sign, the huge felt trees, branches and leaves, and the mini felt Totoros! Oooh and the custom cake stand I made, as pictured at the very top. This birthday was certainly crazy but a very fun project… and anything for our sis Leanne and our beloved little guy Brody!
Hope you had a Happy Happy Birthday little BB! We love you lots!
Love, Auntie Lyndsay


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WASHINGTON—Sen. Dikembe Mutombo (R-CO) showed that he is still one of the most dominant big men in Congress Thursday, blocking a record 16 bills in one legislative session.
The 7-foot-2 senator, who broke the record previously held by Sen. Shawn Bradley (D-NJ), Rep. Arvydas Sabonis (D-OR), and current Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), batted away legislation left and right, sometimes swatting bills so hard that they were sent flying all the way back to committee.
Mutombo punctuated his final block, a clean rejection of the Criminal Justice Reinvestment Act, with his signature finger wag.
"He stuffed the new jobs bill right back in Harry Reid's face," Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) told reporters. "And then when Reid tried to put the bill back up for consideration, Sen. Mutombo blocked it a second and then a third time. That's when I knew he had a chance at the record."
"He just completely dominates the Senate floor," McCain added.
His biggest rejection came 20 minutes into the first half of the session when 5-foot-10 Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) had his Peace Corps Improvement and Expansion Act emphatically slapped away by a leaping Mutombo. Following the rejection, Mutombo glared at Dodd from the Senate podium and said, "Get that weak-ass legislation out of my house," in a yell that was reportedly heard in the top rows of the Senate Chamber.
"You don't mind giving up the blocks record to a talent like Mutombo," said Sen. McConnell, who is still considered the Republican floor leader. "Some say he's too centrist, and he may take that position at times, but the fact is he can get stuff struck down like nobody's business."
Mutombo, who has been called a "force" by his Republican colleagues and is a key player in their legislative game plan, had a career-best nine blocks during the first half of Thursday's session. He easily rejected several appropriations bills, barely even getting off the Senate floor on two of them. For his 10th block of the day, he also got a piece of the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act.
"He's like a brick wall out there," a visibly tired and sweaty Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) told reporters. "Sen. Mutombo's arms are so long that if legislation is introduced anywhere in his vicinity, he's probably going to knock it away. There's no way we are going to get health care through with Mutombo out there."
"You can try and alter your legislation or fake him out by attaching a rider to a bill, but in the end he's just too big," Kerry continued. "And fast. He's got surprisingly quick footwork."
Dikembe Mutombo Mpolondo Mukamba Jean-Jacques Wamutombo started his political career as a city councilman in Denver, quickly gaining a reputation as an elected official focused on getting that stuff out of here. Campaigning on a platform of defense, defense, defense, the popular Mutombo was elected to the State Legislature in 2002 and then to the U.S. Senate in 2006. According to Senate sources, the rookie lawmaker came out of nowhere to stuff Ted Kennedy's Vaccine Access and Supply Act "so far down the late senator's throat" that he easily won the respect of his Republican colleagues.
"He reminds me of myself out there, just rejecting stuff left and right," said former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN), who retired in 2007. "Even when he gets called an obstructionist, or for goaltending, he's established psychological dominance and made his point: You don't come through his part of the floor."
Though many Democratic senators have called Mutombo's legislative style extremely partisan, one-dimensional, and completely unfair, some of his colleagues across the aisle have praised Mutombo's willingness to assist them in getting their legislation through Congress.
"The thing about Mutombo is that, for a big man, he can actually pass bills really well," Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) said in reference to their bipartisan work on the Trade Act of 2007 and the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008. "Because he's so tall, he sees the perimeter of the entire Senate floor and knows when a senator from the left or right might offer some weak-side help."
"Reminds me of a young Bill Bradley," Baucus added.
Such praise from Democratic lawmakers is rare, however, with many saying that Sen. Mutombo is directly responsible for the gridlock currently facing Washington.
"Sometimes I get the impression that he'll block something just because it's introduced by a Democrat or, quite frankly, just because he's taller than the rest of us," Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA) told reporters. "Why else would he reject a resolution supporting stability in Sudan?"
Specter went on to express concern for the future of his party, saying that the only hope for getting meaningful legislation passed through Congress is to make sure Rep. Greg Ostertag (D-UT) is elected to the Senate during November's midterm election.


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As any fashion magazine can tell you, the trick to retro kitsch is moderation. And for director Jared Hess, whose zeal for Goodwill grotesquerie knows no bounds, the contrast between his cultishly adored Napoleon Dynamite and Gentlemen Broncos is the difference between wearing a perfectly faded concert T-shirt, and draping yourself in double-knit polyester. Every frame of Hess' new film—the wood-paneled walls coated with winking unicorn posters, its characters' high-waisted-jean-shorts-and-turtlenecks ensembles, the gaunt-faced extras straight out of R. Crumb—is crammed with so much deliberate tackiness that it borders on exhausting self-parody. And much like thrift-store scavenging, Gentlemen Broncos yields scant few returns to make digging through all that mysteriously stained ugliness worthwhile.
Whereas Napoleon rooted for its socially retarded protagonist, Broncos just pities its underdog, a round-shouldered doormat (Michael Angarano), who idles away the hours in the geodesic home he shares with his widowed mother (a gamely bedraggled Jennifer Coolidge) crafting sci-fi tales about a yeast-loving redneck space warrior named Bronco. At a fantasy writers' camp, Angarano meets a pushily flirtatious girl (Halley Feiffer) and her best friend, an amateur filmmaker (Héctor Jiménez) whose mouth is frozen in a toothy rictus every bit as strained as the efforts to make his character loveable. They encourage Angarano to submit his story to a contest judged by his hero, a washed-up author played by Flight Of The Conchords' Jemaine Clement; in a fit of deadline-driven desperation, Clement steals Angarano's story, tweaking minor details and turning it into a bestseller. Meanwhile, Jiménez takes his own considerable license in adapting Angarano's ravaged opus, and the film volleys between scenes from the competing versions—with Sam Rockwell clearly having a ball playing "Bronco" (and Clement's swishily effete update, "Brutus") while zipping around on rocket-powered reindeer—as Angarano slowly works up the courage to reclaim his creation.
The film hints at a Rushmore-esque showdown between Angarano and Clement that never really materializes. Instead, Clement spends his too-few scenes in regrettable isolation from the rest of the cast—and while he's likeably odious as a pretentious gasbag, he isn't enough to save a film that wrings its biggest laughs from diarrhea-afflicted snakes, hideous sweaters, and Mike White (as a burnout "guardian angel") in a David Coverdale wig. Most damning of all—and in stark contrast to Napoleon—Broncos doesn't have a single memorable line of dialogue. Its most lasting impression is its overbearing gaudiness, and that isn't a look anyone should try pulling off.


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The Inner Nature of Music and the Experience of Tone
Lecture III
26 November 1906, Berlin
To characterize the theme of today's lecture, we shall begin with an observation already made in the previous lecture. We explained how, in the same way that a man's shadow appears on the wall, a shadow-image of the Devachanic life is given to us on the physical plane in music and generally in the life of tones. We mentioned that twenty-nine more-or-less gifted musicians were born into the Bach family within a period of 250 years and that the mathematical talent was handed down through the generations just as mathematical talent was handed down in the Bernoulli family. Today we shall illuminate these facts from the esoteric standpoint, and from this standpoint we will receive various answers to important questions about karma. Something that lives as a question in many souls is what the relationship of physical heredity is to what we call an ongoing karma.
In the Bach family, the great-great-grandfather of Johann Sebastian was an individuality who lived on earth some fifteen or sixteen hundred years ago, when the human being was constituted quite differently. In Bach's grandfather another individuality was incarnated. The father is yet again a different individuality, and another incarnates itself in the son. These three individualities have absolutely nothing directly to do with the inheritance of musical talent. Musical talent is transmitted purely within physical heredity. The question of physical heredity is superficially resolved when we realize that man's musical gift depends on a special configuration of the ear. All musical talent is meaningless if a person does not have a musical ear; the ear must be specially adapted for this talent. This purely bodily basis for musical talent is handed down from generation to generation. We thus have a musical son, father, and grandfather, all of whom had musical ears. Just as the physical form of the body — of the nose, for instance — is handed down from one generation to another, so are the structural proportions of the ear.
Let us assume we are dealing with a number of individualities who happen to find themselves in the spiritual world and who bring with them from the previous incarnation the predisposition for music that now wishes to come to expression on the physical plane. What significance would the predisposition have if the individuals could not incarnate in bodies possessing a musical ear? These individualities would have to go through life with this faculty remaining mute and undeveloped. Hence, these individualities naturally feel themselves drawn to a family with a musical ear, with a bodily predisposition that will enable them to realize their potential. The family below on the physical plane exerts a power of attraction on the individuality above in Devachan. Even if the individual's spiritual sojourn perhaps has not been completed and he might have remained another 200 years in Devachan, if a suitable physical body is available on the physical plane, he may incarnate now. Chances are that the individuality will make up the 200 years during his next time in Devachan by remaining there that much longer. Such laws lie at the basis of incarnation, which depends not only on the individuality ready for incarnation but also on the force of attraction being exerted from below. When Germany needed a Bismarck, a suitable individual had to incarnate, because the circumstance drew him down to the physical plane. The time in the spiritual world thus can be cut short or extended depending on the circumstances on earth that either do or do not press for reincarnation.
To comprehend how the human being is organized, we must look at the nature of man in more detail. Man has a physical, an etheric, and an astral body. He has the physical body in common with all beings one calls inanimate and the etheric body in common with all plants. Then comes the astral body, in itself quite a complicated entity, and finally the "I."
When we examine the astral body closely, we have first the so-called sentient body. This man has in common with the entire animal kingdom, so that all higher animals, just like the human being, possess a physical body, an etheric body, and a sentient body below on the physical plane. Man has an individual soul here on earth, whereas the animal has a group soul. Thus, the animals of a particular species share a common group soul, which can be studied only by ascending to the astral plane. In man's case, however, the soul is here on the physical plane. With the human being, the sentient body is only one part of his astral body. The fourth member of man's organization is the "I," which is active from within.
Let us imagine ourselves back in a distant age, the Lemurian age. Something extremely significant took place during that period. Man's ancestors who existed on earth millions and millions of years ago were completely different from human beings today. On the physical plane of the earth at that time, there was a kind of strangely shaped higher animal, of which nothing remains any longer on the earth today, since it became extinct long ago. The higher animals of today are descendants of those completely differently shaped beings, but they are descendants that have degenerated. Those beings of the ancient past are the ancestors of present-day physical human nature. They possessed only a physical body, an etheric body, and a sentient body. During that age, the "I" gradually united with these beings; it descended from the higher worlds. Animality developed itself upward, while the soul descended.
As a whirling cloud of dust spirals up from the earth and a rain cloud descends to meet it, so did the animal body and the human soul unite. The sentient body of this animal living below on earth — man's ancestor — had developed itself to the point where it could receive the "I."
This "I" was also composed of various members, namely the sentient soul, the intellectual soul, and the consciousness soul. Imperceptible to the outer senses, this "I"-body [Ich-Leib] descended to meet the upwardly evolving physical body, etheric body, and sentient body.
Had beings possessing a physical body, an etheric body, and a sentient body existed a million years earlier, they would have been able to feel these "I's" hovering above. They would have been forced, however, to say, "A union with such beings is impossible, for the sentient souls hovering above are so delicately spiritual that they are unable to unite themselves with our coarse bodies." Gradually, however, the soul above became coarser and the sentient body below more refined. A kinship came into being between the two, and now the soul descended. Like a sword fits into a scabbard, so the sentient soul fits into the sentient body. We must understand in this sense the words of the Bible: "God breathed into man the breath of life, and he became a living soul." In order to understand these words fully, one must know the various states of matter that exist on earth. First, we have the solid state. The esoteric term for it is the "earth." In using this term, however, the esotericist does not refer to the actual soil of the fields but to its solid condition. All solid components of the physical body — the bones, the muscles, and so forth — are termed "earth." The second state is fluidity; the esoteric term for it is "water." Everything fluid — blood, for instance, is called "water." Third, we have the gaseous state, "air" in esoteric terminology.
The esotericist goes on to consider higher and subtler substances, more delicate states beyond air. In order to understand this better, we must consider, for example, a metal such as lead. In esoteric terminology, lead is "earth." If subjected to intense heat it melts and becomes "water" in the esoteric sense. When it vaporizes it becomes in the esoteric sense, "air." Any substance thus can become "air" in its final state. If "air" is more and more diffused, it becomes increasingly delicate and reaches a new state. The esotericist calls it "fire." It is the first state of ether. "Fire" is related to "air" in the same way that "water" is related to solidity. A still more delicate state than "fire" is called "light ether" by the esotericist. Continuing to a still higher state, we come to what esotericists call "chemical ether," which is the force that enables oxygen, for example, to link itself with hydrogen. A still more delicate state than "chemical ether" is "life ether."
We thus have seven different states in esotericism. Life in any substance ultimately can be attributed to the life ether. In esoteric language, what lives in the physical body consists of earth, water and air. What lives in the etheric body consists of fire, light ether, chemical ether, and life ether. While physical body and etheric body are united, they are at the same time separated. The physical body is permeated by the etheric body; similarly the astral body permeates the etheric body. The astral element can descend as far as the state of "fire," but it can no longer mix with "air," "water," and "earth." The physical, on the other hand, can ascend only as far as "fire." Let us make it clear that the physical as vapor or esoteric "air" ascends to "fire"; in the vapor we sense the "fire's" diffusing force. The physical ascends to "fire," the astral descends to "fire," and the etheric body occupies the central position between the two.
In the Lemurian age, a time long before the seven members of man had united, we find beings existing on the physical plane who had not yet brought the physical body to the state of "fire." They were as yet incapable of developing warm blood. Only a physical body capable of developing warm blood links a soul to itself. As soon as those beings had evolved to the level of fire ether, the "I" soul [Ich-Seele] was ready to unite itself with the physical body. All the animals that remained behind as stragglers, such as the amphibians, have blood with variable temperatures.
We must keep in mind this point in time from the Lemurian age. It was a moment of the utmost importance, when the being consisting of physical body, etheric body, and sentient body could, through the warm blood, be fructified with a human soul.
Evolution continued from the Lemurian to the Atlantean age. In the Lemurian age, body and soul came in contact with each other only in the element of warmth. At the beginning of the Atlantean age, something new took place. The soul element penetrated more deeply into the physical body, mainly to the level of "air." In the Lemurian age, it had progressed only as far as "fire"; now it penetrated to "air." This is very important for human evolution since it marks the beginning of the ability to live in the element of air. Just as there were only cold-blooded creatures at the outset of the Lemurian age, so up to now all creatures had been mute and incapable of uttering sound. They had to master the domain of air before they could emit sounds. Now, the first, most elementary beginnings of singing and speaking took place.
The next stage will bring about the soul's descent into the fluid element. The soul will then be capable of guiding consciously the flow of blood, for example, in the arteries. We will encounter this stage of evolution in the distant future.
One could argue that the cold-blooded insect also "speaks," but in the sense used here, where speaking is the soul resounding outward from within, this is not the case. The sounds made by the insect are of a physical nature. The chirping of the cricket, the whirring of its wings, are outer sounds; it is not the soul that resounds. We are concerned here with the soul's expression in tone.
At the point in time just described, man became capable of pouring forth his soul in sound. He could not emit from within the same element that reached him from outside. Man came to receive tone from outside through the ear and to return it as such to his surroundings. The ear is thus one of the oldest organs and the larynx one of the youngest. The relationship between ear and larynx is different from that between all other organs. The ear itself reverberates; it is like a kind of piano. There are a number of delicate fibers inside the ear, each of which is tuned to a certain tone. The ear does not alter what comes to it from outside, or at least it does so only a little. All the other sense organs, like the eye, for example, alter the impressions received from the environment. All the other senses must develop in the future to the stage of the ear, for in the ear we have a physical organ that stands at the highest level of development.
The ear is also related to a sense that is still older, the sense of spatial orientation that enables one to experience the three dimensions of space. Man is no longer aware of this sense. It is intimately connected with the ear. Deep in the ear's interior we find three remarkable loops, three semi-circular canals that stand perpendicular, one on top of the other. Science does not know what to make of them. When they are injured, however, man's sense of balance is upset. They are the remnants of the sense of space, which is much older than the sense of hearing. Formerly, man perceived space in the same way he perceives tone today. Now the sense of space has become entirely part of him, and he is no longer conscious of it. The sense of space perceives space; the ear perceives tone, which means that which passes from space into time.
Now one will understand how a certain kinship can exist between music and the mathematical sense, which is tied to these three semi-circular canals. The musical family's distinguishing feature is the musical ear. The mathematical family shows a special development of the three semi-circular canals in the ear to which is linked the talent for grasping spatial relationships. These semi-circular canals were particularly developed in the Bernoulli family and passed from one member to another, just like the musical ear in the Bach family. In order to be able to live fully in their predispositions, individualities descending to incarnation had to seek out the family in which this hereditary trait existed. Such are the intimate relationships between physical heredity on the soul, which seek one another out even after many hundreds and hundreds of years. In this way we see how man's outer nature is connected with his inner being.