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The UNC findings, from research at UNC's Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, were based on an animal model of chronic alcohol dependence, in which adult rats were given alcohol over four days in amounts that produced alcohol dependency. The study is in the Oct. 27 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience.
In 2002, Dr. Fulton T. Crews, Bowles Center director, and Bowles Center research associate Dr. Kim Nixon were the first to report that alcohol, during intoxication, has a detrimental effect on the formation of new neurons in the adult rat hippocampus. This brain region is important for learning and memory - in animals and humans - and is linked to psychiatric disorders, particularly depression.
"When used in excess, alcohol damages brain structure and function. Alcoholics have impairments in the ability to reason, plan or remember," said Crews, also professor of pharmacology and psychiatry in UNC's School of Medicine. "A variety of psychological tests show alcoholics have a difficulty in ability to understand negative consequences."
In the new study, senior co-author Crews and co-author Nixon found inhibition of neurogenesis, or brain cell development, during alcohol dependency, followed by a pronounced increase in new neuron formation in the hippocampus within four-to-five weeks of abstinence. This included a twofold burst in brain cell proliferation at day seven of abstinence.
"We looked at dividing cells after our four-day binge model of alcohol dependency and confirmed what we previously observed: When the animals were intoxicated, the measure of dividing cells decreases," said Nixon. "And after abstinence for one week, we saw a huge burst in the number of new cells being born."
Nixon said the findings were confirmed by use of several biological markers, including bromodeoxyuridine, BrdU. Animals were injected with BrdU, which labels dividing cells. BrdU inserts itself into the DNA of a cell during cell division, so that it's found only in cells that have divided during the two hours that the substance is in the animals' system.
Imaging studies report shrinkage in brain ventricles - the fluid-filled spaces within the brain - indicating that the brain is growing as the spaces shrink as alcoholics recover from alcohol dependence.
"And when they stop drinking, you can show in a period of weeks, months, years, the brain grows back, there's a return of metabolic activity, and cognitive tests show a return of function," Crews said.
The findings may have significant implications for treatment of alcoholism during recovery. The discovery of regeneration of neurons in recovery opens up new avenues of therapies aimed at regeneration of brain cells. "When animals learn, they make more neurons. When animals exercise, they make more neurons and learn faster, as well," Crews said.
"Pharmacological agents such as antidepressants and behaviors such as running, increased physical activity and learning experiences apparently help regulate the process of neurogenesis," he added. "Our research suggests they could be considered in the treatment of chronic alcohol dependency."
In their report, Nixon and Crews also said that their findings for the first time provide a neuronal regeneration mechanism that may underlie the return of normal cognitive function and brain volume associated with recovery from addiction during abstinence from alcohol.
"This is really the first biological measure of a major change in neuronal structure consistent with changes that are known to occur when individuals are able to stop drinking," said Crews.
For decades, neuroscientists believed the number of new cells, or neurons, in the adult brain was fixed early in life. Adaptive processes such as learning, memory and mood were thought tied to changes in synapses, connections between neurons.
More recently, studies have shown that the adult human brain is capable of producing new brain cells throughout life, a neurogenesis resulting in formation of hundreds of thousands of new neurons each month. "Prior to our work, everyone merely assumed that glia, the supporting cells of the brain, regenerated or that existing brain cells altered their connections," said Nixon. "We have shown a burst in new cell birth that may be part of the brain's recovery after the cessation of alcohol."
Chronic alcoholism, a disease affecting more than 8 percent of the adult U.S. population, or more than 17 million Americans, produces cognitive impairments and decreased brain volumes, both of which are partially reversed during abstinence.
Alcohol dependence also is associated with depression, which is consistent with inhibition of neurogenesis. Cessation from alcohol is associated with improved cognitive abilities, Crews said.
The research was supported by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, the Alcoholic Beverage Medical Research Foundation and UNC's Bowles Center.
By LESLIE H. LANG
UNC School of Medicine
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Settlement costs
There are so many different charges involved in buying a home, it is important to know what to expect at the colsing. Your lender is required to give you a Good Faith Estimate (GFE) of your settlement costs of your loan application. Once you get it, review the charges below to avoid any surprises when you sit down to close on your loan.
There are three basic categories of settlement costs:
- Fees to get a mortgage.
Specific lender fees can include:
Loan Origination Fee. This is a charge for your lender's work in evaluating and preparing your mortgage loan.Application Fee This charge covers the initial costs of processing your loan application and obtaining your credit report.Appraisal Fee Your lender will need an opinion from an independent appraiser of the market value of the home you wish to purchase.Survey This fee goes to a surveying firm who will verify that your lot has not been encroached upon by any structures since the last survey conducted on the property and to ensure that the home and other structures and legally where the seller says they are. A survey is generally not required but is available at the borrower's request.Mortgage Insurance A lender may require this type of insurance for buyers who make a down payment of less than 20 percent of the value of the house. The policy covers the lender's risk in the event the buyer fails to make the loan payments. Premiums are typically paid annually from an escrow or reserve account, or in a lump sum at closing.Homeowner's Insurance Insurance that protects property against loss caused by fire, some natural causes, vandalism, etc., depending on the terms of the policy. Also includes coverage such as personal liability and theft away from home. Your lender will expect you to have a policy in effect by closing.
Fees to establish and transfer ownership of the property. Your lending institution is not likely to give you a loan on a house unless you can prove that the seller owns the property you want to buy. This is where title search and title insurance fees come into play. A title agent will verify that the seller is, indeed, the owner of the property and issue a title insurance policy to guard the lender against any errors that could have occurred in the searching process. The cost of the policy is usually based on the loan amount. There may also be attorney, escrow, courier fees and other charges involved in the settlement process.


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- 1/4 to 1/3 cup filling (see below for suggestions)
- 1 teaspoon butter (or 2 teaspoons if sautéing filling)
- 2 eggs
- 1 tablespoon milk or water
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
- Herbs (optional)
- First, prepare the filling. A basic rule of thumb is that you need one quarter to one third cup of filling for every two eggs. If you are using a filling that needs to be cooked — such as apples, mushrooms, onions, peppers, leeks — quickly sauté in a small frying pan with 1 teaspoon of the butter. If you are making a cheese omelette, either slice the cheese thinly or grate it finely and put aside.
- Crack the eggs into a small mixing bowl. Stir gently with a fork until well-beaten. Add the milk or water, salt and pepper, and any herbs, and set aside.
- Heat a 6- to 8-inch omelette pan over high heat until very hot (approximately 30 seconds). Add the butter, making sure it coats the bottom of the pan. As soon as the butter stops bubbling and sizzling (and before it starts to brown), slowly pour in the egg mixture.
- Tilt the pan to spread the egg mixture evenly. Let eggs firm up a little, and after about ten seconds shake the pan a bit and use a spatula to gently direct the mixture away from the sides and into the middle. Allow the remaining liquid to then flow into the space left at the sides of the pan.
- Continue to cook for another minute or so until the egg mixture holds together. While the middle is still a little runny, add the filling. Put in sautéed vegetables or fruit first, near the center, then sprinkle any cheese on top.
- Tilt the pan to one side and use the spatula to fold approximately one third of the omelette over the middle. Shake the pan gently to slide the omelette to the edge of the pan.
- Holding the pan above the serving plate, tip it so the omelette rolls off, folding itself onto the plate. The two edges will be tucked underneath.
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If you've followed this podcast you know that – or at least I think that – Spencer crushed our intro. Sound editing with great clips that demonstrate moments (IT'S MARCH AND WE LOVE MOMENTS) in Pac-12 basketball. It's fantastic. To open this Pod, he crushes (different use) the Pac-12 right during that very intro. It's also fantastic.
And then I also crush the Pac and explain why no, right now, I don't #BackThePac.


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If you are offended by depictions of sodomy, bestiality, "alternative sexual practices," racial and ethnic stereotypes, or just about anything else, you should leave now.
Tijuana Bibles were pornographic tracts popular in America before the advent of mass-market full-color glossy wank-fodder such as Playboy. A typical bible consisted of eight stapled comic-strip frames portraying characters and celebrities (eg. John Dillinger, Popeye, Disney characters) in wildly sodomistic situations. Many could be considered grossly racist, sexist, and otherwise wholly "politically incorrect." Browser discretion is advised.
My name is Quinn, and I've scanned in a few dozen of these literary gems.
Due to their underground nature, these works are largely anonymous. If you have any information on the authors, where the bibles were sold, personal stories, or wish to buy/sell or loan bibles for scanning, please contact me!
[ 03/16/2017 ] If you read Italian or don't mind running it through a translator, do please check out this write-up on Tijuana bibles by Michelangelo Scali. Oh, and if you send me a complete scan, I promise to add it. After ... a decade of inactivity? I'm bad.
[ 03/19/2012 ] Hakes is having another auction March 20th through 23rd featuring a dozen+ eight-pagers. Oh, and I removed those mobile ads mentioned below. Not worth the ridiculously annoying redirection behavior.
[ 11/23/2011 ] I'm trying out a new mobile ad service, but it seems as if it just redirects a hit to the homepage when it detects a mobile device. Not sure I like it. Sorry for the inconvenience. Will return soon to (a) remove it unless it yields hundreds of dollars a day and (b) do some site updates. I've been slacking, and for that I apologize. But hey, my wife "o/~ took the children away and [left] me alone o/~" a few months ago, so cut me some slack.
[ 6/21/2011 ] Todd at Hakes Americana and Collectibles has delighted me with three new scans of classic super-hero bibles: Plastic Man, Superboy, and Captain Marvel! Many thanks to Todd and to Hakes for their gracious contribution. Be sure to visit them for all your rare American pop-culture desires.
[ 6/8/2011 ] Our pal Todd at Hakes Americana and Collectibles has informed me that they are are currently running online auction #203 through June 21-23 with some large lots of bibles each starting at $175. Interested in selling? Check out their consignment page.
[ 6/8/2011 ] My current (free) host is experiencing some issues which may force me to shut down the site indefinitely sometime in July. If you know of any cheap hosting that can handle ~75K page hits per day, please let me know. I'll check out what kind of bandwidth I actually use and give an update.
[ 3/21/2011 ] With the help of Google, roughly translated Schneewittchen und die 7 Zwerge. If any native speakers can do better, contact me with any name or link to which you'd like your contribution attributed. I'm keen to add new bibles, so if anyone has any scans they want to contribute, do please send them. At least 640px width for the largest display size, but the better the quality, the better my scripts will handle the resizing.


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History of Observation of Noctilucent CloudsObservations of noctilucent or "night-shining" clouds were first reported in the summer of 1885. The observations were made in northern Europe and Russia. In the late 1880s, it was proposed that the clouds had a connection with the volcano dust thrown into the Earths atmosphere by the eruption of Krakatoa in Indonesia in 1883. This theory was later disproven. The first photos of these eerie clouds were taken in the late 1880s.
In the early 1900s, many scientists were trying to figure out what made up these clouds. Some proposed theories included the fact that they were made of cosmic dust, water ice, or ice-covered cosmic dust. Knowledge about these clouds improved over the century with scientist Malzev proving that noctilucent clouds did not form just because volcano dust had been thrown into the Earth's atmosphere. More regular observations in Europe began around 1957 and the first rocket was launched into a noctilucent cloud in 1962. Also in 1962, regular North American observations of noctilucent clouds began. Around the same time the first noctilucent clouds were observed from the Southern Hemisphere.
In the more recent past, more ground-based observations and space satellites found out that noctilucent clouds are mainly made of water ice. How they form exactly and any ties they have to global climate change will be researched by the AIM satellite mission to be launched in 2006.
Crews aboard the International Space Station still routinely see noctilucent clouds while orbiting the Earth. You can be an observer of noctilucent clouds too and share that information with others on the Internet.


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»Autobahnschleife (motorway loop)«, 1996, offers the driver a chance to leave the motorway at a sign-posted exit and take a 360 degree bend which loops back to the motorway, rejoining it at the point where he left.
»kurz vor fünf (shortly before five)«, 2001, combines the disciplines of film and photography, in which the 4,290 individual frames from each of several short films have been printed to form a chronologically sequenced photo-mosaic to make up one large image for each film.
»Olympic Pong«, 2003. All three projects by M+M.


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A rough childhood branded Jasper Storm trouble. A bad boy. Not worth a damn. His love of cars was the only thing that could battle his delinquency. With the need for speed in his blood, he overcame his wayward ways. Mostly. Now the broken city of Detroit hails him their shining star. And the man behind a new cutting-edge automobile is ready to turn this bankrupt town around.
Charlotte Lane was the tomboy who lived next door. She was his best friend. He was her protector. Then tragedy struck and she disappeared, forever—or so he thought.
Everything Jasper does in life is fast. He talks fast, f*cks fast, and drives fast. But when one reckless turn brings him face-to-face with the childhood he has tried very hard to forget, he finds himself on the edge of wondering if he shouldn't slow down.
Time hasn't erased who they are though. Jasper has many reasons to hate Charlotte and keep his distance, which is easier said than done. Soon she's infiltrating his every thought and he can't stay away. Back in town with an agenda of her own, she should push him aside. Make him turn around. Walk away herself. Yet she can't.
With the past lurking between them, they proceed with caution. That is until one sex-filled night leads to murder, and things are forced to change. Now that Detroit's biggest ally has suddenly become suspect number one, will Charlotte—the girl Jasper once kept safe—be the one to save him?
Set the Pace
© 2016 by Kim Karr
Buzz. Buzz. Startled, I jump and quickly place the frame back in its place. Buzz. Buzz. It's the call button from the lobby. I'm not sure what to do. I should probably ask Jasper if he is expecting anyone before I let whomever it is up. The hallway he disappeared down is fairly long and at the end are two doors. Both are slightly ajar. I can hear the shower running and music playing. I try to place the song. Just as I go to knock, I pause, and then grin, it's Led Zeppelin—the same music that used to blare from his garage when he was out there with his father. Somehow in my absentminded quandary, my fingertips have nudged the door open just enough that I can see inside the bathroom. Perfectly. In my direct line of sight is a huge glass wall and he is just beyond it. My pulse is beating so hard I can feel it pounding at all my pulse points. I should leave. I don't need to bother Jasper. Whoever it is buzzing to come up can just come back later. Yet, I can't move. Or maybe it's more like I don't want to move. Steam hovers in the air but there's not nearly enough to obscure anything. And there he is, naked in the water, head bent as it sluices over him. His eyes are closed. One hand is on the wall. The other slides slowly down his belly and lands between his thighs. Oh, God. Now I really can't move. I'm frozen in place. His hand is on his cock. I swallow the noise my throat tries to make, but I'm sure I don't do a good job of it. Thank you, Jesus, he doesn't seem to notice. No, he definitely doesn't notice because oh, my God, now he's stroking himself. Slowly. Deliciously. Up, then down, and a twist of his palm around the head of his cock. I shouldn't be watching this, and yet I can't look away. This is private. For him only, and yet I have to wonder if it's because of me. Is it his attraction to me that made him step back just moments ago? Made him have to relieve the desire he was feeling? Then why did he say he wouldn't kiss me again? When he moves his wrist faster, I have to stifle my sudden harsh breath with my hand. My eyes are glued to his body and although I should leave, I can't. I just can't. Jasper, doing this to himself, is the most erotic thing I've ever seen in my life. The only thing stopping me from reaching between my own legs is my perverted fascination with wanting to watch him come. Oh, and of course the terror of getting caught. His mouth opens, water filling it and overflowing when he tips his face into the spray. I want so much to be in there with him, share the water, and feel that mouth on my body, but I'm not sure that's ever going to happen. We seem to be dancing around the attraction we feel for each other. Like both of us are afraid to take that leap from a two-decade-old friendship to intimacy. Afraid perhaps of where it might lead, or maybe where it won't. I can't be sure. Then again, it could be that the ghosts that accompany us are just too strong to bear. Soon he's fucking into his fist with a deliberation that makes me weak at the knees, and I watch. I watch the way his muscles cord in his arms, the way his cock moves within the confines of his fist, the way his face contorts into pure pleasure. Looking at Jasper, watching him about to come, it opens up something within me. The feeling is hard to describe and I can only think of one word that is fitting—primal. His cock disappears inside his curled fingers and this stroke seems somehow more determined. Up, down, a twist around his crown, and then another twist. This time his head dips down, and then lowers still. I press my thighs together to ward off the ache of arousal that is flooding me. I can't hear him, but I wish I could. I know what he's feeling, though, because I can see his mouth open and his face contort with satisfaction. He's close. I can tell. And then soon enough, his taut belly strains, the muscles in his legs bunch, and then it happens—his desire jets out. Never in my life have I wanted to make myself come like I do right in this moment. No, that's not true. Never in my life have I wished for a man to take me the way I wish for Jasper to take me right now. Still, this is all kinds of wrong. I shouldn't have watched him. I know this. Chiding myself, I lick salt from my upper lip and slowly, cautiously take a step back. "Is there a show going on that I wasn't invited to?" That voice. I know that voice. The cynicism behind the tone. Oh, God. No. No. No.
Reader * Writer * Coffeelover * Romantic
Kim Karr is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author. She is a daydreamer. So much so that if daydreaming could be a hobby it would be her favorite. It's how her stories are born and how they take root. An imagination that runs wild is something to be thankful for, and she is very thankful.
She grew up in New York and now lives in Florida with her husband and four kids. She's always had a love for reading books and writing. Being an English major in college, she wanted to teach at the college level but that was not to be. She went on to receive an MBA and became a project manager until quitting to raise her family. Kim currently works part-time with her husband and with the rest of her time embraces one of her biggest passions–writing.
Kim wears a lot of hats! Writer, book-lover, wife, soccer-mom, taxi driver, and the all around go-to person of her family. However, she always finds time to read.
She likes to believe in soulmates, kindred spirits, true friends, and Happily-Ever-Afters. She loves to drink champagne, listen to music, and hopes to always stay young at heart.


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Set of 5 cabochons Faux Petoskey Stone, Polymer Clay
Collection: Faux Stones – Petoskey Stone Imitation.
Made by my unique Petoskey Stone technique from polymer clay. Each cabochon is sanded by hands and buffed to a shiny effect. All cabochons have one faced side, backside not decorated.
These cabochons you can use for beading techniques, polymer clay techniques, as well as for leather working techniques.


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Release Date: 2013 |
Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound OffHoly fuck, wall of text. Well, if any album's worthy of this much talk this year it's this (sorta
makes sense why people are reluctant to review this thing).
Anyway, this is my first music review ever so feedback is greatly appreciated.
Keep in mind that I'm just a dumb 17 year old from Norway, though, so don't get too mad about the
Album Rating: 4.0this is astonishing for a first review, very good job and a hard pos. didn't notice any grammatical errors either but then again i'm Finnish so perhaps i'm not the best to judge it
without you my life would beeeee
Album Rating: 3.8Amazing review man.
yay a 4.5 review
great job on this man
Album Rating: 4.0Really good review, I have this album but I have not listened yet, I shall get to that
Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Offgr8 album.
Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound OffRaging Lung has insane drums, I love it.
Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound OffFinally, a review this album deserves. Grew on me like a cancer.
Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound OffThx for the pos, everyone.
I've mainly been doing film reviews for the last couple of years. Thought I'd give this a try. More confident on writing more reviews now, this was fun.
Album Rating: 5.0very difficult album to get into. some great stuff though
excellent review
Album Rating: 3.5where should i start with The Knife y'all?
i'd recommend tomorrow in a year for you
it's probably their least accessible but it's undoubtedly my favorite
this is their second best for me followed by silent shout
they're all great though, incredible group
Album Rating: 3.5awesome, thanks ethixx!
Album Rating: 4.0Silent Shout is their most accessible and a lot of people would say their best.
Album Rating: 4.0"where is the staff on this, more importantly adam downer?"
srsly and now with potsy gone there's like no one to hype this.
Album Rating: 3.5OH and where are my manners, great review - especially for a first!
which is a shame cuz this is top 15 of the year
Album Rating: 4.0yep
Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound OffI'd say starting with Silent Shout is good. Tomorrow, In A Year will scare off most first-time listeners.
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Fiscal 2008 Intelligence Authorization (H.R. 2082)/Motion to recommit with instructions to increase the CIA's human intelligence budget by $23 million, offset by an equal cut for the National Drug Intelligence Center
house Roll Call 340 May 10, 2007
This vote was on an amendment to legislation authorizing funding for the intelligence agencies for fiscal 2008. Proposed by Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), the motion to recommit would have increased the CIA's human intelligence budget by $23 million, offset by an equal cut for the National Drug Intelligence Center.
A motion to recommit with instructions is the minority's last chance to make substantive changes to a bill before a final up-or-down vote on the measure. If successful, the motion sends the legislation back to committee with instructions to amend the legislation as specified.
Rogers said that the intelligence bill had some very good points, but the sections that cut human intelligence programs would jeopardize "soldiers in the field in not getting the proper assistance and information that they need."
"You know, for a time of war, the priorities of this bill are completely misplaced in critical areas," Rogers said. "The motion to recommit would readjust those priorities by increasing human intelligence funding for the Central Intelligence Agency by $23 million. That money would come from an earmark funding for the National Drug Intelligence Center which a formal oversight report of the House Committee said: 'An expensive and duplicative use of scarce federal drug enforcement resources.'' And the U.S. News & World Report called it a 'boondoggle.'"
The motion to recommit would have also directed the Department of Justice inspector general to conduct an audit of the National Drug Intelligence Center to determine if the center was wasteful and duplicative. Rogers said Democrats blocked the audit in committee "with no substantive explanation."
House Intelligence Chairman Silvestre Reyes (D-Texas) chastised Rogers for discussing the classified intelligence budget in public debate. He also outlined substantive problems with Rogers' amendment. He said the program Rogers would cut to offset the cost of an increase to the human intelligence budget "makes valuable contributions to the war on drugs and to homeland security, first and foremost."
"This motion is also misleading because the underlying bill provides our intelligence officers everything they need," Reyes said, adding that the underling bill already increased the budget for human intelligence. "It adds funds to the CIA and Defense Department for human intelligence training so that our operators can be more effective. It invests in language training for case officers so they can operate effectively overseas."
Reyes also said that the study Rogers sought has already been done.
Rogers' motion was rejected. Only one Democrat broke ranks and voted for it, while 16 Republicans voted against it. Thus, on a mostly party-line vote of 181 to 241, the House rejected a Republican attempt to amend the intelligence authorization bill to cut $23 million for the National Drug Intelligence Center and spend the funds on additional human intelligence operations. Legislation authorizing intelligence spending for fiscal 2008 proceeded without the provision.
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Jan. 31 is an important day for some ambitious attorneys in Kitsap County. It is the deadline by which superior court applications are due to the office of Gov. Christine Gregoire, who will use them to appoint Kitsap County's two newest judges.
A gaggle (Or perhaps a herd? Or flock?) of lawyers have each informed the Kitsap Crime and Justice blog they intend to fill out a lengthy application form and ask for the chance to take the bench. Here's who have confirmed they're going for it:
Steve Dixon, a Port Orchard-based general practice lawyer. Dixon had applied previously for appointment to the seat that ultimately went to Kitsap County Superior Court Judge Sally Olsen in 2004.
Jennifer Forbes, attorney at McGavick Graves PS in Tacoma, handling "representation of governmental entities and private clients in land use cases, civil litigation, and criminal defense," according to the firm's web site. She's applied for judge before, most recently in 2006.
Bill Houser, criminal defense attorney currently working in the Kitsap County Office of Public Defense.
Kevin Hull,
chief senior deputy
prosecutor in charge of the Kitsap County Prosecutor's Office's
Assault Unit.
Karen Klein, Bainbridge-based attorney and chief executive officer and general counsel of Silver Planet, Inc., a senior health care concierge service. Klein, formerly a general practitioner, also put in for the seat Olsen was appointed to in 2004.
Craig Lindsay, a partner in Silverdale-based Lindsay Olsen PLLC is a former Kitsap County deputy prosecutor. Now works primarily as a family law attorney.
Marilyn Paja, Kitsap County District Court judge since 1999 and former Gig Harbor municipal court judge and Port Orchard general practice lawyer.
Diane Russell, a Silverdale-based general practice lawyer and former Kitsap County deputy prosecutor.
Greg Wall, Port Orchard-based general practice lawyer. Wall had previously run unsuccessfully for Kitsap County Superior Court judge in 2008. He was elected in November to the South Kitsap School Board.
Two other general practice attorneys, Tracy Flood and Bruce Danielson (who has run for judge and for county prosecutor), both of Port Orchard, are still weighing whether to submit an application.
I did also confirm with several other lawyers that they're not seeking the seat, including Bremerton general practice attorney Ed Wolfe and Port Orchard defense and family attorney Melissa Hemstreet. I even asked Brian Moran, the state's chief deputy attorney general under Rob McKenna, if he'd pondered a run. His answer: no. "I thoroughly enjoy my current job and I am very, very fortunate to be able to serve in this capacity with Attorney General McKenna."
Two seats on the bench opened in December after Kitsap County Superior Court Judges Russell Hartman and Theodore Spearman announced their respective retirements. Hartman plans to enter into "other forms of public service" and Spearman, sadly, passed away after fighting a brain aneurysm.
The governor's office has consolidated the process to pick the two judges into one.
"Applicants to fill the position created by the retirement of Judge Russell W. Hartman will also be considered for (Judge Spearman's) judicial vacancy, with no separate application or other communication necessary," according to a Jan. 23 letter from Narda Pierce, Gregoire's general counsel. The governor is aiming to make the appointments as soon as possible.
The Kitsap County Bar Association is also going to vet candidates and conduct a "judicial preference poll." We're hoping to get results of the poll and will post them to the blog.
Bear in mind two other things:
- This is different than the race currently cementing for Washington Court of Appeals Judge David Armstrong's seat.
- Any candidate this year that is appointed to superior court by Gregoire must be elected by the people this fall (though it's no secret incumbents in judicial races are hard to beat).
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Unfortunately for me, in my first attempts at the pouch, I misunderstood the enlargement instructions, perhaps due to a lack of an appropriate level of caffeine. Just in case you fall into that same boat when you make your pouch, be sure to only enlarge the pouch pattern piece - not the corners or the hexagon, those don't need enlarging. Because if you enlarge the hexagons, they finish up around the same size as the whole pouch. Trust me. Want to know how I know?
For my third pouch, I pulled a few fun scraps for a pouch for me, using Robert Kaufman Quilter's Linen in Azure as my main pouch fabric. The pattern calls for tweed, but the only source I could find locally for tweed (Jo-Ann's) didn't have any tweed that I felt compelled to work with, so I went with (faux) linen instead. I love the look of Quilter's Linen, and I especially enjoy that it behaves like cotton when you work with it, rather than linen, which can sometimes stretch in odd ways. I did use some actual linen for the pouch corner accents, Robert Kaufman's Essex Linen in Chartreuse. For my lining, I pulled my current favorite Spoonflower find, from none other than Rashida Coleman-Hale herself - an outtake print from Washi that you can only find on Spoonflower. Isn't it adorable?
The directions for the pouch are really quite straight-forward, with the exception perhaps of the zipper instructions. If you are new to zippers or less than confident in using them, I highly recommend you follow the Kelbysews style of zipper pouch making - adding tabs to the zipper after shortening it to 1.5" shorter than the pouch itself, so in this instance, trim your zipper to 8.5", lopping off the excess on the end rather than the pull side of the zipper.
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Hand Gestures May Help Kids Solve Problems
Children up to age 5 who gestured did better with shape-and-color sorting in study
Friday, August 16, 2013
It included children 2.5 to 5 years old who were asked to sort cards printed with colored shapes, first by color and then by shape. The switch from color to shape can be challenging for children in this age group, the San Francisco State University researchers explained.
The children who used hand gestures were more likely to make the mental switch and group the shapes accurately, acording to the study in the August issue of the journal Developmental Psychology.
Gestures included children rotating their hands to show the orientation of the card or illustrating the image on the card using their hands. For example, they might gesture "rabbit ears" for a card depicting a rabbit.
The researchers were surprised by the impact that gesturing had on the children's ability to sort the cards.
"Still, the findings are consistent with a growing body of research showing that mind and body work closely together in early cognitive development," Patricia Miller, a professor of psychology, said in a university news release.
She added that the "findings are a reminder of how strong individual differences are among children of a particular age. Certain 3-year-olds look like typical 4-year-olds. This likely reflects an interaction of natural talent and particular experiences -- both nature and nurture, as usual."
Increasing evidence suggests that gesturing may play an important role in the processes that people use to solve a problem or achieve a goal, according to the news release. For example, research has shown that gesturing can help older children learn new math concepts.
"Really, though, there is evidence that gesturing helps with difficult cognitive [mental] tasks at any age," Miller said. "Even we adults sometimes gesture when we're trying to organize our tax receipts or our closets. When our minds are overflowing we let our hands take on some of the cognitive load."
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Williamsburg, VA, January 20, 2018 – Home 4 Life Building & Remodeling of Williamsburg, VA has won "Best of Client Satisfaction" on Houzz®, the leading platform for home remodeling and design. The company was chosen by the more than 40 million monthly unique users that comprise the Houzz community from among more than one million active home building, remodeling and design industry professionals.
The Best of Houzz is awarded annually in three categories: Design, Customer Service and Photography. Design award winners' work was the most popular among the more than 40 million monthly users on Houzz. Customer Service honors are based on several factors, including the number and quality of client reviews a professional received in 2017. Architecture and interior design photographers whose images were most popular are recognized with the Photography award. A "Best Of Houzz 2018" badge will appear on winners' profiles, as a sign of their commitment to excellence. These badges help homeowners identify popular and top-rated home professionals in every metro area on Houzz.
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The Boston University hockey team has a crisis on its hands. Last December, one player was charged with sexual assault; just a few months later, another was charged with rape. And though only two of the team's players have been formally accused of wrongdoing—and the rape charge was dropped in June—there has been a sense ever since the scandal broke that their alleged crimes were not isolated incidents, but symptoms of something deeper.
Then, earlier this month, the task force conducting the investigation confirmed that suspicion. In a disturbing report, it identified a "culture of sexual entitlement" that had taken root among the players. This was not a matter of a few individuals that could simply be kicked off the team: It was something intangible and pervasive. Now, as the university responds to the problem, it faces the challenge of stamping that out. What it needs to do, in other words, is change a culture.
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The notion of transforming a culture gets tossed around so frequently — by corporate consultants, political candidates, overexcited entrepreneurs — that it's hard to appreciate just how difficult it can be. Culture, the mix of rituals, values, and traditions that defines a group, is tenacious and sticky. Whether the culture belongs to a sports team, a neighborhood, or a country, it persists because it's one of the main ingredients in the glue that holds the group together—because it exists in the space between people, rather than residing in any one individual. Studies have recently shown that cultures can be almost unimaginably persistent. In Germany, for instance, towns in which Jews were blamed for the Black Plague still exhibited more anti-Semitism than other towns 600 years later.
What researchers have found is that there are techniques for changing a culture that appear to work, but they are not always the obvious ones. Doing so in a way that produces lasting results, but doesn't involve destroying the group entirely, requires finesse, subtlety, and patience. It also requires a certain suspension of optimism about human nature. To really change how a group of people thinks and behaves, it turns out, you don't need to change what's inside of them, or appeal to their inner sense of virtue. You just have to convince them that everybody else is doing it.
"The inner conformist is stronger than the inner activist," said Michael Morris, a psychologist at Columbia University who studies the role of culture in decision-making.
We want to think of progress as the spread of enlightened thinking and the expansion of morality. We'd like to think that in trying to change the culture of a hockey team, we can just appeal to the players' sense of right and wrong, and awaken their better angels. But in order to actually achieve that kind of progress, we may need to stop trying to tap into people's desire to be good or virtuous, and instead take advantage of something less lofty and, frankly, harder to admire: the powerful drive to be normal.
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When a toxic culture takes root—whether it's a culture of corruption, or domestic violence, or cheating in school—the most simple and dramatic way to deal with the problem is to take the scorched earth approach. In 2005, when the president of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, decided to rid his country's police force of corruption, he fired 30,000 officers and hired new ones. It's the equivalent of dealing with a bedbug infestation by selling your house, or burning it down.
But starting over is arguably not so much a way to change a culture as to end it. When you take such a radical step, you inevitably throw away the good with the bad — institutional memory and know-how, or the spirit and pride that come with a team tradition. Stopping short of that — saving the house while killing the bedbugs, or saving the system while condemning the behavior it once fostered — is significantly harder.
One straightforward way to bring about that transition is to start monitoring people and punishing them with devastating severity for stepping out of line. That's what New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg did when he wanted to stop visiting diplomats from taking advantage of their immunity to park illegally all over his city. "Bloomberg [got] permission to remove their plates," e-mailed Ray Fisman, a professor at Columbia who studied the diplomats' parking habits as a window into the connection between corruption and culture. "That worked in a hurry."
But sometimes that simple, blunt tool doesn't go far enough; you can punish wrongdoers, even expel a handful of players, and still not fix the deeply ingrained attitudes that produced them. Luckily, researchers say there's a workaround that produces lasting change, but doesn't call for somehow reprogramming people's inner values. What it does seem to require is changing their perception of what everyone else thinks. A culture of "sexually entitled" hockey players is driven not by bad people, in other words, but by their shared, and likely inaccurate, belief that that's how all the other guys on the team—as well as the coaching staff—really think a hockey player should behave. By the same token, a culture of respect and kindness isn't necessarily made up of angels—just people who have come to believe that that's what everyone else thinks is the right way to act.
The idea that we're often mistaken about our compatriots' beliefs and behavior has been deployed in anti-binge-drinking campaigns on college campuses, which aim to reduce the pressure students feel to drink by showing them that their peers don't drink nearly as much as they assume. A poster campaign at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill presented students with hard data about their classmates: "Whether it's Thursday, Friday, or Saturday night, 2 out of 3 UNC students return home with a .00 blood alcohol concentration." The program worked: After five years, people at the college were drinking less.
That intervention relied on real-world data, which researchers collected by breathalyzing students as they returned to their dorms. But absent such information, how does the would-be reformer go about changing how people perceive the beliefs of others? One thing that has a profound effect is mass media. This was demonstrated vividly by a team of researchers studying the impact of soap operas on social norms in post-genocide Rwanda. Elizabeth Paluck, a psychologist at Princeton, compared two sets of communities — one composed of villages in which people followed a radio drama that revolved around health care and HIV, and the other in which the preferred show featured characters defined by their willingness to rise up against authority. In surveys and experiments, Paluck found that the second group was more willing to voice dissent and express disagreement with one another. "Observing that other people really love this show informed [their] ideas about what is typical," she said. The pressure to conform to what is typical, she added, tends to be stronger than the pressure to follow top-down rules.
That doesn't mean leadership has no role in cultural change — it's just that influence doesn't always come through official channels. Andrew Cruickshank, a researcher at the University of Central Lancashire in the United Kingdom, worked with a colleague to study an English rugby team that was performing unevenly until a team of new managers took over in 2008. The managers wanted to get the players to stop drinking to excess, and become more professional and disciplined about training; a central plank of their plan was to pinpoint a small group of "cultural architects" on the team and use them as a liaison to the rest of the players. It worked. "These guys—they're not necessarily the best performers. They're the people who hold the right social positions," said Cruickshank.
The power of conformity also appears to explain why some well-intentioned campaigns seem to backfire. It might seem like you could urge people to vote, say, by showing them the disappointing statistics about how few of their fellow citizens show up to the polls every election. But a 2009 paper in the Journal of Politics found the opposite: When told about low voter turnout and encouraged to "buck the trend," people were actually less likely to vote. A more effective approach, the study found, was to tell people that turnout had been higher in the previous election than at any in history. In other words, more people were voting — so if they wanted to be normal, they should vote.
There's something a bit circular about the idea that we change people's behavior by tweaking their perceptions about the behavior of others. It's a self-reinforcing process: The more people believe that smoking is atypical, for instance, the less typical it becomes, which in turn provides further evidence that it's atypical. The most challenging part is kicking off the cycle, by convincing enough people that deviating from existing norms will not leave them shunned by the rest of society.
When you do, the results can be dramatic. The improbable speed with which cultural change can occur can be seen in the history of Prohibition, which, according to a paper coauthored by Michael Morris, most Americans supported "because it was socially undesirable to publicly defend alcohol, and few people did." But when polls revealed that a majority of Americans actually wanted to be allowed to drink — and in fact large numbers of them were drinking, out of public view — more people were emboldened to speak their minds on the subject, and the tide quickly turned against the 18th Amendment.
A similarly rapid shift appears to be underway in the United States on gay marriage: Younger Americans, who grew up in an environment where gay people were more likely to be open about their sexuality and depicted as regular members of society in movies and on TV, are significantly more accepting of the idea than those who grew up with different norms.
Compared to changing the culture of a college hockey team, such grand shifts in values are driven by far more complex forces. But as BU begins the process of making sure that "sexual entitlement" ceases to be part of the Terriers' identity — putting the players through sexual assault prevention training, pairing them with alumni who can serve as role models, trying to make the team less insular in relation to the rest of the student body — it's likely they'll be trying to harness some of the same social pressures that have led to some of this country's most significant steps forward.
Back in February, immediately following the news that a second player had been charged with a sex crime, head coach Jack Parker said in an interview, "You can't change the culture that's evolved here; we're not going to be able to step into people's lives and change them drastically." The good news is he could turn out to be right about the second part and wrong about the first: The players themselves don't have to change, as long as their beliefs about what their teammates expect of them do.
Leon Neyfakh is the staff writer for Ideas. E-mail email@example.com.


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As you've no doubt heard by now, the Director of National Intelligence released a tiny sample of the documents that U.S. Special Operations Forces captured at Osama Bin Laden's compound to the Combating Terrorist Center (CTC) at West Point for it to analyze. Still reading Letters from Abbottabad: Bin Ladin Sidelined?, we'll single out one Focal Point™.
In contrast to Bin Ladin's public statements that focused on the injustice of those he believed to be the "enemies" (a`da') of Muslims, namely corrupt "apostate" Muslim rulers and their Western "overseers," the focus of his private letters is Muslims' suffering at the hands of his jihadi "brothers" (ikhwa). He was at pains advising [the latter] to abort domestic attacks that cause Muslim civilian casualties and instead focus on the United States, "our desired goal."
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… High on his list of concerns was their flexible understanding of tatarrus, which resulted in the unnecessary deaths of Muslim civilians. … Bin Ladin was concerned that regional jihadi groups had expanded the meaning of a classical legal concept meant to be applied in rare circumstances and turned it from an exception into the norm. … Tatarrus refers to special circumstances when it is permissible, from an Islamic law of war perspective, for a military commander to attack enemy territory, even if the attack may result in the deaths of non-combatants, including Muslim women and children [aka] collateral damage.
"Flexible," "expanded"? Stretching the definition to the breaking point would be more like it. The CTC report continues:
As a result, the jihadis, he worried, have lost considerable sympathy from the Muslim public; this loss was compounded when "the mistakes of the jihadis were exploited by the enemy, [further] distorting the image of the jihadis in the eyes of the umma's general public and separating them from their popular bases."
But, even though
… Bin Ladin largely disapproved of their conduct, he did not consider publicly dissociating … himself and al-Qa`ida from the actions of regional groups, as Adam Gadahn strongly urged the senior leadership to do.
It's obvious that whatever compassion Bin Laden had come to evince for Muslims — infidels, including civilians, were still fair game — he was more concerned that the Muslim public would sour on the al Qaeda brand, thus imperiling the success of jihad, than he was with their actual suffering at the hands of al Qaeda's affiliates.


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Red Coke wins the rat race, doesn't damage rodent testicles
The study written by Lubomira Tothova et al., but not reported in the news until now, was published in the December issue of the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology.
The scientists said their findings conflict with their own 2010 study (Celec & Behuliak) where rats drank as much Coke as they liked for three months; these results showed slight increases in testosterone and estradiol (another sex hormone) in plasma compared with rodents that drank water.
This time around 50 rats were divided into a water-drinking control group (10 animals) then equivalent groups drinking as much Coca-Cola, Coca-Cola Caffeine-Free, Coca-Cola Light and Coca-Cola Zero as they liked.
No negative effects on testicular tissue
The animals were killed after the experiment, and Tothova et al. measured the oxidative status of testicular tissue and plasma testosterone, finding no significant differences between groups.
"Consumption of different types of Coca-Cola beverages for six months instead of water did not induce any negative effects on rat testicular tissue in terms of increased oxidative and carbonyl stress or decreased anti-oxidative status," Tothova et al. write.
"Similarly, neither plasma nor testicular testosterone concentrations were different, suggesting that drinking Coca-Cola beverages for six months does not alter the endocrine function of testes in adult rats."
Future studies will examine if there is an effect on spermatogenesis and fertility, Tothova et al. write, before adding: "However, based on our results, we suggest there is none."
Despite hypothesizing that glucose/fructose, caffeine and artificial sweeteners in Coca-Cola drinks would cause oxidative and carbonyl damage to rat testes, the team found this was not the case in the current study.
"However, it remains unclear whether a longer study with more animals per group would uncover a significant effect of Coca-Cola beverages on testosterone production," Tothova et al. write.
"It could be hypothesized that at least the groups drinking caffeine-containing Coca-Cola beverages could have significantly altered testosterone concentrations," they add.
Few studies on Coke's 'possible harmful effects' on male reproductive organs
Why is this study significant? Introducing their work, Tothova et al. say that only a few studies have examined the possible harmful effects of Coca-Cola branded beverages on male reproductive organs.
They cite "controversial studies" including Umpierre et al (1985), who observed reduced sperm movement after one minute's incubation with different Coca-Cola drinks, with the effect mainly linked to a low pH.
"But since different formulations of Coca-Cola showed different action, the authors stated that the 'secret formula' could also play a role as a co-factor," Tothova et al. write.
Rats prefer Red Coke, followed by Coke Zero...
Since the 1985 study and one other relevant study (Hong et al. 1987) were in vitro, the scientists set out to examine possible effects of Coca-Cola on the oxidative status of testicular tissue and its endocrine function, starting with their three-month in vivo study and moving on to the current research.
Interestingly, the rats in the standard Coca-Cola group drank far more on a daily basis (150ml+) than any other variety. Coke Zero, circa. 60ml/day was the closest rival, followed by water, Coca-Cola Light and Coca-Cola Caffeine Free respectively, which rats drank circa. 50ml/day of on average.
(Rat Photo: Jeffrey Goldsmith/Flickr)
Title: 'No harmful effect of different Coca-Cola beverages after 6 months of intake on rat testes'
Authors: Tothova, L., Hodosy, J., Mettenburg, K., Fabryova, H., Wagnerova, A., Babickova, J., Okuliarova, M., Zeman, M., Celec, P.
Source: Food and Chemical Toxicology, Vol.62, December 2013, pp.343-348


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As we see the end of 2010, Mark has written up a great review of the year for Microsoft DW/BI.
In addition, to end the year right, I wanted to be one of the first to congratulate and announce that Attunity CDC will be shipping in SQL Server 2012 (formerly code-named Denali).
Why is this so cool?
1. SQL Server CDC doesnt support real-time data integration with non-SQL Server relational data sources, so we now get out of the box support for real-time Oracle CDC integration with SQL Server Denali
1.1 So...we now have an even stronger story around why your organization should consider leveraging Microsoft SQL Server for your data warehousing needs when your company is largely an 'Oracle Shop'
2.0 For non-data warehousing scenarios (commonly referred to as Operational Data Replication) this is also big news. Sometimes, we all know it can be tough to get funding for 3rd party components and now out of the box DBAs and developers will be able to easily incorporate real-time data integration using Native SQL Server Denali SSIS Components (for extracting data from non-SQL Server data sources).
At B.I. Voyage we have been using Attunity's market leading CDC software for a long time now and it has always met our expectations and our customers for real-time heterogeneous data integration.
The full press release can be found at http://www.attunity.com/press_releases.aspx?newsId=1532
Happy New Years!
Derek & Mark


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October 2009: The trip to Cuba was organized by Bill Bachmann. Twenty-four of us traveled in style in an air conditioned bus -- and Padre Bill got the shots for us! People were friendly, open, and excited to hear we were from "the states". Lots of folks have cousins all over the U.S. and were especially familiar with my home state, California. These are just a few of the photos taken, with more to come.Read More


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Why Edward Snowden Is a Hero
Posted by John CassidyIs Edward Snowden, the twenty-nine-year-old N.S.A. whistle-blower who was last said to be hiding in Hong Kong awaiting his fate, a hero or a traitor? He is a hero. In revealing the colossal scale of the U.S. government's eavesdropping on Americans and other people around the world, he has performed a great public service that more than outweighs any breach of trust he may have committed. Like Daniel Ellsberg, the former Defense Department official who released the Pentagon Papers, and Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli nuclear technician who revealed the existence of Israel's weapons program, before him, Snowden has brought to light important information that deserved to be in the public domain, while doing no lasting harm to the national security of his country. Doubtless, many people inside the U.S. power structure—President Obama included—and some of its apologists in the media will see things differently. When Snowden told the Guardian that "nothing good" was going to happen to him, he was almost certainly right. In fleeing to Hong Kong, he may have overlooked the existence of its extradition pact with the United States, which the U.S. authorities will most certainly seek to invoke. The National Security Agency has already referred the case to the Justice Department, and James Clapper, Obama's director of National Intelligence, has said that Snowden's leaks have done "huge, grave damage" to "our intelligence capabilities." Before accepting such claims at face value, let's remind ourselves of what the leaks so far have not contained. They didn't reveal anything about the algorithms that the N.S.A. uses, the groups or individuals that the agency targets, or the identities of U.S. agents. They didn't contain the contents of any U.S. military plans, or of any conversations between U.S. or foreign officials. As Glenn Greenwald, one of the journalists who broke the story, pointed out on "Morning Joe" today, this wasn't a WikiLeaks-style data dump. "[Snowden] spent months meticulously studying every document," Greenwald said. "He didn't just upload them to the Internet." So, what did the leaks tell us? First, they confirmed that the U.S. government, without obtaining any court warrants, routinely collects the phone logs of tens of millions, perhaps hundreds of millions, of Americans, who have no links to terrorism whatsoever. If the publicity prompts Congress to prevent phone companies such as Verizon and A.T. & T. from acting as information-gathering subsidiaries of the spying agencies, it won't hamper legitimate domestic-surveillance operations—the N.S.A. can always go to court to obtain a wiretap or search warrant—and it will be a very good thing for the country. The second revelation in the leaks was that the N.S.A., in targeting foreign suspects, has the capacity to access vast amounts of user data from U.S.-based Internet companies such as Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and Skype. Exactly how this is done remains a bit murky. But it's clear that, in the process of monitoring the communications of overseas militants and officials and the people who communicate with them, the N.S.A. sweeps up a great deal of online data about Americans, and keeps it locked away—seemingly forever. Conceivably, the fact that Uncle Sam is watching their Facebook and Google accounts could come as news to some dimwit would-be jihadis in foreign locales, prompting them to communicate in ways that are harder for the N.S.A. to track. But it will hardly surprise the organized terrorist groups, which already go to great lengths to avoid being monitored. Not for nothing did Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad go without a phone or Internet connection. Another Snowden leak, which Greenwald and the Guardian published over the weekend, was a set of documents concerning another secret N.S.A. tracking program with an Orwellian name: "Boundless Informant." Apparently designed to keep Snowden's former bosses abreast of what sorts of data it was collecting around the world, the program unveiled the vast reach of the N.S.A.'s activities. In March, 2013, alone, the Guardian reported, the N.S.A. collected ninety-seven billion pieces of information from computer networks worldwide, and three billion of those pieces came from U.S.-based networks. It's hardly surprising that the main targets for the N.S.A.'s data collection were Iran (fourteen billion pieces in that period) and Pakistan (more than thirteen billion), but countries such as Jordan, India, and Egypt, American allies all, may be a bit surprised to find themselves so high on the list. "We hack everyone everywhere," Snowden told the Guardian. "We like to make a distinction between us and the others. But we are in almost every country in the world. We are not at war with these countries." For most Americans, the main concern will be domestic spying, and the chronic lack of oversight that Snowden's leaks have highlighted. In the years since 9/11, the spying agencies have been given great leeway to expand their activities, with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Court, which deals with legal requests from the agencies, and the congressional intelligence committees, which nominally oversees all of their activities, all too often acting as rubber stamps rather than proper watchdogs. Partly, that was due to lack of gumption and an eagerness to look tough on issues of counterterrorism. But it also reflected a lack of information. Just a couple of months ago, at a Senate hearing, Oregon Democrat Ron Wyden, one of the few legislators to sound any misgivings over the activities of the intelligence agencies, asked Clapper, "Does the N.S.A. collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?" To which Clapper replied: "No, sir." (He added, "Not wittingly.") At another hearing, General Keith Alexander, the director of the N.S.A., denied fourteen times that the agency had the technical capability to intercept e-mails and other online communications in the United States. Thanks to Snowden, and what he told the Guardian and the Washington Post, we now have cause to doubt the truth of this testimony. In Snowden's words: "The N.S.A. has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything. With this capability, the vast majority of human communications are automatically ingested without targeting. If I wanted to see your emails or your wife's phone, all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get your emails, passwords, phone records, credit cards." Were Clapper and Alexander deliberately lying? If so, perhaps Snowden should be extradited to the United States and dragged into court—but only as part of a proceeding in which the two spymasters face charges of misleading Congress. I suppose you could make the argument that he is a naïve young man who didn't fully understand the dangerous nature of the world in which we live. You could question his motives, and call him a publicity seeker, or an idiot. (Fleeing to Hong Kong wasn't very smart.) But he doesn't sound like an airhead; he sounds like that most awkward and infuriating of creatures—a man of conscience. "I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things," he told Greenwald. "I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under." So what is Snowden's real crime? Like Ellsberg, Vanunu, and Bradley Manning before him, he uncovered questionable activities that those in power would rather have kept secret. That's the valuable role that whistle-blowers play in a free society, and it's one that, in each individual case, should be weighed against the breach of trust they commit, and the potential harm their revelations can cause. In some instances, conceivably, the interests of the state should prevail. Here, though, the scales are clearly tipped in Snowden's favor. I'll leave the last word to Ellsberg, who, for revealing to the world that that Pentagon knew early on that the war in Vietnam was unwinnable, was described in some quarters as a communist and a traitor: "Snowden did what he did because he recognised the NSA's surveillance programs for what they are: dangerous, unconstitutional activity. This wholesale invasion of Americans' and foreign citizens' privacy does not contribute to our security; it puts in danger the very liberties we're trying to protect." Photograph by Philippe Lopez/AFP/Getty.]]>


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Alcohol Gas Sensor MQ-3
This semiconductor gas sensor detects the presence of alcohol gas at concentrations from 0.04 mg/L to 4 mg/L, a range suitable for making a breathalyser. The sensor's simple analog voltage interface requires only one analog input pin from your microcontroller.
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This alcohol gas sensor detects the concentration of alcohol gas in the air and ouputs its reading as an analog voltage. The concentration sensing range of 0.04 mg/L to 4 mg/L is suitable for breathalysers (the legal limit of breath alcohol concentration, or BrAC, in most US states is 0.08 grams per 210 liters, or 0.38 mg/L). The sensor can operate at temperatures from -10 to 50°C and consumes less than 150 mA at 5 V. Please read the MQ3 datasheet (153k pdf) for more information about the sensor.
Gas sensor with orange plastic case bottom view.
Connecting five volts across the heating (H) pins keeps the sensor hot enough to function correctly. Connecting five volts at either the A or B pins causes the sensor to emit an analog voltage on the other pins. A resistive load between the output pins and ground sets the sensitivity of the detector. Please note that the picture in the datasheet for the top configuration is wrong. Both configurations have the same pinout consistent with the bottom configuration. The resistive load should be calibrated for your particular application using the equations in the datasheet, but a good starting value for the resistor is 200 kΩ.
We offer two breakout boards that make it easier to interface with these sensors: a Pololu carrier board and a SparkFun carrier board. The Pololu version is shown below.
Note: These sensors could have orange or blue plastic cases. There is no functional difference between the two colored cases.
People often buy this product together with:
|Pololu Carrier for MQ Gas Sensors (Bare PCB Only)
|LPG / Isobutane / Propane Gas Sensor MQ-6