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Bulletin of the World Health Organization, Mar 2006
Counting the dead in China
In China, home to 1.3 billion people, or one-fifth of the world's population, complete registration and medical certification of every single death is, at present, logistically and financially unattainable. As part of a major revamp of its health information system, China is merging two systems for collecting mortality data to gain a more accurate picture of how many people die and why.
Cause-of-death data are playing an increasingly important role in the public health policy of China.
"When we have this kind of information, we can see how patterns have changed," says Dr Wu Fan, Director of the National Center for Chronic and Noncommunicable Disease Control and Prevention, China's Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Recently, CDC took part in a research project led by the Center for Statistics of the Ministry of Health on the disease burden and long-term health problems in China; the results were dramatic.
"Now we know that infectious diseases are lower, and noncommunicable diseases are greater, and that in rural areas injuries are increasing. We can know which population has major problems and so we can target them, and we can know which diseases will have a long-term impact. This helps us to understand what our priorities should be."
Cause-of-death data have led to a better understanding of changing disease patterns in China, but public health officials are still forced to hazard a guess at disease patterns in the less-developed west, where mortality data are scant to non-existent.
China has two systems to count deaths: the Ministry of Health (MOH) vital registration system and the disease surveillance point (DSP) system, which is monitored by the country's CDC.
In 2003, there was a growing concern that the DSP system was not reflecting the true situation across the whole country. "The problem with the DSP system is that currently it's not completely representative of China," says Dr Wu. "They [disease surveillance points] tend to be in developed in areas and cities along the more prosperous east coast, and less in the rural areas in the less-developed west."
Furthermore, at that time the DSP system was being used only in areas with a population range of 20 000 to 100 000, and nationwide covered just 1% of the population. "That was a very obvious weakness," Dr Wu says, adding that because of the small sample base, the numbers for rare diseases were not stable, and changed every year.
Since it was launched in 1989, the DSP system has reported on causes of death through a mix of verbal autopsy and medical certification. Many indicators were not reliable, and the system needed to be readjusted.
Over the last two years, adjustments have been made to the DSP system. The number of sample sites has risen slightly to 160 all over China from the initial 145. This makes the DSP system more representative because sites are selected on the basis of the census data to make them better reflect the entire population.
"We are now trying to make the system more representative of the whole of China and add more sites in the north and west, and especially in poor areas," Dr Wu says. She says that China has extended the DSP coverage of the population to 6% of the nation. In addition, Dr Wu says that if government departments collaborated more closely, gathering such data would be easier.
The Chinese Government is planning to merge the DSP and vital registration systems— which are already complementary— to reduce running costs and increase efficiency; last year, unified guidelines were drafted to do this and software was created.
The two systems will continue to run for several more years before being merged, according to Wu Xiaoling, Director, Division of Statistics, Center for Statistics Information at the Ministry of Health. Ms Wu says that the delay is due to the need to train more doctors to certify deaths. The merger will also depend on when the DSP system is able to provide data that can be converted into usable statistics, Ms Wu says.
Ms Wu says that in a large country such as China, it was often difficult to gather statistics. "In western China there are not enough personnel, and infrastructure may be lacking," says Ms Wu. "Or there may be snow in the winter, and it is difficult to get the information you need."
Before 1950, the only causes of death reported were tuberculosis, measles, acute infectious diseases, "infant disease", respiratory disease, heart disease, "urinary disease", digestive disease, stroke and ill-defined causes and these data covered only Beijing and Nanjing. Cancer was not listed.
In 1957, death registration was expanded to other major cities, including Shanghai, Tianjin, Harbin and Wuhan, according to a study by Yang et al. published in Population health metrics (available at:http://www.pophealthmetrics.com/content/3/1/3). 1. China's vital registration system started to record the fact and cause of death in 1987, classifying by ICD-9 (International statistical classification of diseases and related health problems). In 2002, the vital registration system started reporting according to the ICD-10 rules. This system now covers 41 cities and 85 counties and roughly 8% of the national population.
There are many challenges to obtaining a more complete picture of the number of people who die and why in China. About 70% of people die at home, and this can make it difficult for a local doctor to determine the cause of each death and make an accurate report due to distances and unfamiliarity with each case. And there are not enough doctors who are adequately trained to do this. In southern China, especially in rural areas, access to hospitals is difficult and for cultural reasons people don't always want to die in hospitals, preferring to stay at home.
There are two types of doctors in China: one is trained in a similar way to doctors in developed countries and the other— the village doctors— have basic education from a junior college. "We have to rely on them, or we could not do our work," says Dr Wu referring to the village doctors, adding that the current system "is better than nothing." But she says that these personnel need to be trained and retrained.
One challenge to gathering meaningful statistics via the DSP system is that the sites are included on a voluntary basis. That means communities volunteer to collect data on their populations and these communities tend to be in more affluent areas.
Another problem is that when a person dies at home in rural areas, a village doctor visits the family and asks about the person's symptoms before he or she passed away as part of a verbal autopsy and write their findings based on those symptoms. Formal death certification— the most reliable method for ascertaining cause of death— has been introduced in such areas, but the quality needs further improvement, Dr Wu says.
"Using these symptoms, we can later speculate on the cause of death," says Dr Wu, referring to the findings of these verbal autopsy reports. The village doctor's report is sent to the local Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where it will be checked. If any problems arise, they will refer back to the village doctor for clarification.
One or two medical personnel then do the coding and enter the data into a computer for input into the national computer system. Local Centers report to the provincial and national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention once every three months, up from the previous once a year. "At every level, we have quality control measures," says Dr Wu.

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X Games Fourteen officially kicked off for snowboarding tonight with the Superpipe elimination round—and for just being the qualifiers, it was pretty bangin. Among the judges up in the tower were Forum pro Pat Moore, who's recovering from shoulder surgery, and Colorado killer Chad Otterstrom. Sending it in the pipe were sixteen women and as many men, of which only six women and eight men would be moving on to the finals.
The action kicked off at the twilight hour with the women's event. Torah Bright was absent from the start list after hitting her head in a recent practice, and Jamie Anderson apparently surrendered her spot to focus her energies on slopestyle. But Ellery Hollingsworth was there, linking up a tricky Cab to regular 720 combo into a Cab 900 that put her in a top-five spot. Hannah Teter and Elena Hight kept it smooth and stylish with back fives and front sevens (and a backside 900 for Elena). The real competition, however, wasn't really about tricks but rather amplitude, and it was mainly between Gretchen Bleiler and Kelly Clark. Both women stepped up their runs from the first round to second in an effort to beat out the other. Bleiler upped her clean front five off the first hit to a savage frontside 900 second run, but the judges favored Kelly's ante-upping technique—a flawless back-to-back 720s and the biggest air of the day for the women's side, a juicy backside off the first hit.
On the men's side, second through eighth was a throw-down match between many talented riders, but the number one spot was all sealed up from the get go. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Luke Mitrani arrived at the hill halfway through practice, frantically tossed a double-Michalchuk and some sweet rotations into a run, and finessed his way into a finals-making position. Louie Vito banged out back-to-back double-corks first run only to sit on a straight air, but he held it together second run (and threw in a 1260!), touching down just above the bubble position. What else? Kazu Kokubo's electric second run (steezed-out McTwist, 10-to-10 combo, et cetera), bumped him up into fourth.
U.S. Olympian Greg Bretz and Iouri Podladtchikov duked it out for the podium spots. iPod's lofty airs and double-cork ten into back-to-back nines beat out Bretz's double-cork ten to Cab ten combo. But … of course, Shaun White had the top spot on lock, which was immediately clear after his first run. He simply had the biggest amplitude and most insane trick combos—massive backside air off the first hit and a litany of spins and double-cork madness. Everyone was sick, for sure, but Shaun was just sicker.
Women's Elimination Results
1. Kelly Clark
2. Gretchen Bleiler
3. Elena Hight
4. Hannah Teter
5. Ellery Hollingsworth
6. Soko Yamaoka
7. Queralt Castellet
8. Kaitlyn Farrington
9. Clair Bidez
10. Sarah Conrad
Men's Elimination Results
1. Shaun White
2. Iouri Podladtchikov
3. Greg Bretz
4. Kazuhiro Kokubo
5. J.J. Thomas
6. Luke Mitrani
7. Louie Vito
8. Steve Fisher
9. Antti Autti
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Tablet Guides Med Students in Gross Anatomy Lab
A digital dissection manual, published by a professor and students at Columbia's medical college, aims to improve the gross anatomy student experience. WSJ's Jason Bellini reports.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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There's a sad irony to the fact that these days, the American wrestling promotion which most closely exemplifies the traditions of the sport, languishes in popularity far behind those who seem to do their utmost to ignore it.
WWE, and to a much lesser extent, TNA, own today's wrestling world -- the former with their brand of questionable storylines, and the latter with copycat idiocy.
Ring of Honor, on the other hand, has been quietly -- all too quietly, if you are Canadian resident -- putting on pay-per-view shows to blow away any wrestling product, perhaps the world over. Though great matches have not been limited to the main event players, there's no doubt that so far in this series, the company's MVPs have been the likes of Nigel McGuinness, Takeshi Morishima, and Bryan Danielson, all of whom wrestled on the latest pay-per-view, Rising Above.
Taped at the Manhattan Centre in New York on December 29, 2007, but only airing in the United States as of March 7, 2008, ROH's fifth PPV offering was headlined by an ROH World Title match, as McGuinness defended the World Title against Austin Aries. In the semi-final, Jay & Mark Briscoe defended the Tag Team Titles against the No Remorse Corps, while Danielson and Morishima squared off in the battle of the former World champions.
Match #1: Brent Albright vs Delirious
After an introduction from hosts Dave Prazak and Lenny Leonard, Adam Pearce took the microphone in the ring, and vowed revenge on Delirious for attacking him on a previous show. This led to Pearce's Hangmen 3 partner, Brent Albright, donning a Delirious-style mask, facing Delirious in a singles match.
Delirious emerged from the locker room with a fury, taking out Pearce by spraying him with a Muta-like mist, and ripping the mask from the face of his much larger opponent. Albright, however, soon countered with a vicious released Dragon suplex, and continued to dominate when he belly-to-bellied Delirious directly into the turnbuckles.
The former Gunner Scott clearly had the power advantage, but not so when he went to the top rope, where he missed a flying headbutt. Delirious then hit the Shadows Over Hell backsplash, and almost squeezed a submission with the Cobra Stretch. Albright powered out, but just as he thought that he had resumed the offence, Delirious countered a simple bodyslam with a cradle, and collected the victory.
Winner: Delirious
Match rating: 6.0 / 10
After the bout, the victor was attacked by Adam Pearce, Shane Hagadorn, and BJ Whitmer, which led to a save by Kevin Steen and El Generico. Then, The Age of the Fall group (Necro Butcher, Jimmy Jacobs, Tyler Black, and Lacey) hit the ring, noting that "Ring of Honor is the platform for our revolution," words in turn that brought The Vulture Squad (Jack Evans, Ruckus, Jigsaw, and Julius Smokes) to the ring, for an impromptu Scramble Tag Team Match (no tags necessary, the contest ends with the first pinfall).
Match #2: Scramble Tag Team Match -- Hangmen 3 (Adam Pearce & B.J. Whitmer) vs Kevin Steen & El Generico vs The Age of the Fall (Jimmy Jacobs & Tyler Black) vs The Vulture Squad (Jack Evans & Ruckus)
With the brawl continuing at ringside, Jigsaw set a speedy tone for this match -- though he was not an official part of it -- with a cannonball splash over the top rope on Necro Butcher. With a referee finally in the ring, the bout began to take shape, as various combinations of wrestlers began to battle inside the squared circle.
High impact was the order of the day here, with lots of aerial and power manoeuvres from all concerned. Of particular note, Whitmer and Pearce hit a combination rib-breaker/released German suplex, and Evans landed an incredible 630° splash on Whitmer. But it was Steen and Generico who claimed the win over Black, supplementing a top-rope DDT with a cradle piledriver, before hitting a brainbuster for the three-count.
Winners: Kevin Steen and El Generico
Match rating: 7.5 / 10
Match #3: Lacey vs Daizee Haze vs Sara Del Ray
Following a backstage promo in which the Briscoe Brothers unleashed their fury at The Age of the Fall, it was time for this one-fall Women's Triple Threat match-up.
Haze was the aggressor in the early going, employing Lucha-style armdrags and headscissors on both opponents, as Tammy Sytch looked on from ringside. No doubt the former Sunny was impressed, as everyone was, by one of Haze's follow-up moves, applying simultaneous abdominal stretches on her opponents, from an elevated position, while Del Ray had Lacey caught in an Indian Deathlock.
It took several minutes before anyone but Haze to take control of the bout, but when Del Ray had the opportunity, she showed she was no submission slouch either, applying a double Royal Butterfly hold on her opponents.
No-one could stop Haze, however, and she took the win over Lacey, with a Mind Trip face-slam.
Winner: Daizee Haze
Match rating: 6.5 / 10
Match #4: Erick Stevens vs Davey Richards
Stevens and Richards wasted no time going for one another in this fourth contest of the evening, billed as a Grudge match, based on an injury sustained by Stevens following an attack by Richards and other members of the No Remorse Corps.
The mohawked Stevens began positively, enforcing his will on his opponent with a belly-to-back suplex, and a pump-handle slam. But Stevens was soon distracted by the presence in the crowd of sometimes MMA fighter Daniel Puder, which partially contributed to Richards -- who looks more and more like the Dynamite Kid as each ROH event passes -- being able to apply an armlock to Stevens' previously injured limb.
Stevens was able to power out once, but when Puder provided a distraction once again, Richards flew across the ring with a missile dropkick, before locking on the Kimura-style hold once again for the submission.
When he recovered from the hold, Stevens took the mic and challenged Puder to jump the guard rail, and face him in the ring. But this, seemingly, was the cue for Larry Sweeney to appear alongside Puder in the crowd, at which point he invited Puder backstage for a meeting.
Winner: Davey Richards
Match rating: 6.5 / 10
Before departing, Sweeney took the opportunity to lambast the fans, and Claudio Castagnoli, who quickly chased down the "Super Agent." Tank Toland and Bobby Dempsey made the save for Sweeney, but after Castagnoli disposed of them, it was Chris Hero who really did the damage, beginning their bout with a Yakuza kick from behind.
Match #5: Claudio Castagnoli vs Chris Hero
The stipulation for this bout was that if Hero could defeat Castagnoli, the latter's contract would be owned by Sweeney, who threatened to "sell him down the river." Hero showed off his acrobatics for the crowd in the early going, but it was Castagnoli who put his agility to good use, with a middle-rope tope and a top-rope European uppercut on target.
Hero countered with a Blockbuster neckbreaker, and a cravate suplex, but this match went quickly back and forth, as Castagnoli soon hit a top-rope headscissors and a giant swing. He then went for his patented Ricola bomb, but Hero reversed it, dropping his opponent awkwardly with a huracanrana. Hero tried to finish things with a Cravice submission hold, but Castagnoli countered into the Ricola bomb for the pinfall.
Winner: Claudio Castagnoli
Match rating: 6.5 / 10
Match #6: Takeshi Morishima vs Bryan Danielson
This was a rematch from the Man Up PPV, in which Morishima defeated Danielson, to retain the ROH World Title. On that day, the referee had stopped the match due to Morishima's attack of Danielson's injured eye, even though the current NOAH GHC Champion had given his word that he would not do so. The "American Dragon" gained some retribution, in his mind, by attacking Morishima with blatant groin stomps in November at Glory by Honor Night II.
Neither competitor waited for this one to get inside the ring before going at it, as Danielson raced down the aisle to meet Morishima, who was waiting for him. Morishima, clearly the more powerful, used his weight advantage to fling Danielson into the guard rail, and bust him open early with a table.
Danielson was visibly dazed, and it was several minutes before he was able to unload any offence, but even then, he was stopped in his tracks by a brutal lariat. Morishima then quickly hit the Backdrop Driver, and another lariat, but remarkably, Danielson kicked out just before the count of three.
Clearly frustrated at the incredible resilience of his foe, Morishima was warned by the official for a groin stomp, but failed to heed it, eventually being disqualified after shoving the referee to the ground. When further officials ran from the locker room, Morishima struck one with a vicious Backdrop Driver, but was then attacked by Danielson, wielding the timekeeper's hammer, attempting to do damage to the former champion's eye.
Winner: Bryan Danielson (by disqualification)
Match rating: 7.0 / 10
Match #7: 2/3 Falls for the ROH Tag Team Championship -- Mark & Jay Briscoe (c) vs Roderick Strong & Rocky Romero
The crowd chanted "Two straight!" as the ROH Tag Team Title match begun, denoting the fact that in four previous 2/3 falls matches, the Briscoes had yet to lose a fall.
That record did not seem to be under threat in the early going, as the Bricoes used a variety of double-team tactics on Strong, including a vicious pair of low Yakuza kicks in the corner.
Strong and Romero did counter, notably with a springboard DDT from Romero to Mark, but when he made a tag to Jay after a moonsault press, the first fall looked to be in the Briscoes' hands. That was until Romero blocked Mark's Springboard Doomsday Device dive, and hit his own on Jay from Strong's shoulders, after which Jay was pinned with a Tiger Bomb.
The action restarted for the second fall almost immediately, with Romero striking Jay with his wide variety of kicks, but when he went once again for the springboard DDT, it was countered with a falcon arrow. Mark then received the hot tag, and after a springboard corkscrew splash on Strong, he pinned the former TNA competitor with a jackknife roll-up.
This left the match as essentially a one-fall contest, which the No Remorse Corps appeared sure to take, as they unloaded on Mark with yet more vicious striking. But when the tag was made, it was The Briscoes who had the head of steam, and they combined to plant Strong with a dangerous spiked J-Driller, to retain the titles.
Winners: Jay & Mark Briscoe
Match rating: 8.0 / 10
Match #8: ROH World Title Match -- Nigel McGuinness (c) vs Austin Aries
McGuinness came into this match sporting tape on his left shoulder, due to a torn bicep suffered in October, and Aries was right onto the injury, trying to grab an armbar on the ground.
But within moments, the focus of the bout was completely altered, as Aries struck McGuinness -- who was berating fans on the outside of the ring -- with a middle-rope tope, which sickeningly sent the Englishman thudding forehead-first into the guard rail. McGuinness appeared out on his feet, with a huge gash now visible above his right eye.
Almost certainly not in control of his faculties, McGuinness attempted to retaliate by himself going to work on Aries' arm, but it was Aries who gained the upper hand with various submission holds, all of which focused on the torso and shoulder of the champion. That was until Aries went for a second tope, which was caught and turned into a Tower of London on the floor.
McGuinness replicated the move inside the ring, but when he got only a two count, Aries took the bout to the outside, delivering a nasty brainbuster to his opponent, dropping him head-first once again on the guard rail. Aries then hit another two brainbusters inside the ring, and went for the Horns of Aries submission hold, but McGuinness fought to his feet, thundering a lariat to the back of the head of Aries. He then struck another lariat off the ropes, the force of which caused Aries to land on the top of his head, for the deciding pinfall.
Winner: Nigel McGuinness
Match rating: 8.0 / 10
Backstage, the show closed with a brawl between The Briscoes, The Age of the Fall, Hangmen 3, and the Vulture Squad. A bloody ROH champion was also shown being treated by a doctor.
Overall, if the PPV title of "Rising Above" was an ode to the company's in-ring qualities, as compared to its more illustrious competition, then it is one that is fully justified. Here, there was no backstage buffoonery, nonsensical booking, nor Divas matches -- instead, just good, modern wrestling from top to bottom.
If you are looking for negatives, it could be said that the first six of the eight matches perhaps could have been dealt a little more time to develop, but to say that would be to ignore that each of those matches certainly made excellent use of what they had. Throughout the two-hour broadcast, the action was fast-paced, with nigh on zero in the way of filler.
Clearly, this event was built around the two closing bouts, in Jay & Mark Briscoe vs The No Remorse Corps, and Nigel McGuinness vs Austin Aries. The former was a typical Briscoes bout, fast-paced and high-flying, but it also told an interesting story, with the Briscoes finally losing a fall in a 2/3 falls encounter.
The main event was passionately received by the New York crowd, who were mesmerized by the effort of both men, particularly McGuinness, who battled through a quite horrendous injury to retain his title. Technically, the bout may not have been a classic, but it will likely be memorable for a long time.
One has to wonder how many times you will have thought likewise, after shelling out for the latest WWE, or TNA, offering.
Brian Elliott is British journalist covering pro wrestling, fight sports, and soccer. He can be visited online at http://spaces.msn.com/brianelliott.


text: Brian E. Coughlan, 56, son of the late Robert E.Coughlan, III, of Baltimore MD, and Meredith Fuller (Coughlan) Sonderskov, of Chestnut Hill, died suddenly, July 9, at his home in Hyattsville MD. Survivors include his wife, Laura (nee Burrell), their two young sons, James and Andrew; his brother, Stephen, of Baltimore, as well as several nieces and nephews. He graduated from Loyola High School in Baltimore and John Carroll University in Cleveland. A memorial service was held Sunday, July 14, in Maryland. He will be buried at St. Mary's Episcopal Church cemetery, Warwick (Chester County,) next to his older brother, David, his grandparents' Fuller and five generations of relatives. The family requests those who wish to do so may make a donation to the Coughlan Family Memorial Fund at New Hope Academy, 7009 Varnum St., Landover Hills, MD 20784, attn: Laurie Toker.


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COMMERCE - With a sophomore goalkeeper and a high-scoring junior leading the way, the Glendale High boys' water polo team took a big step Saturday in its quest to qualify for the CIF Southern Section Division V championship match.
In a quarterfinal contest against Los Altos at the Brenda Villa Aquatics Center in Commerce, the Nitros turned in a shining effort at both ends of the pool. Led by a stifling defense that held the Conquerors scoreless for nine minutes and 10 seconds midway through the contest, Glendale stepped up to defeat Los Altos, 11-6, in a quarterfinal match.
With the victory, the No. 1-seeded Nitros (21-5) will make their way to the semifinals for the first time since 2009, which was the first year under current coach Forest Holbrook, who got a match-high seven goals from junior Arman Momdzhyan.
Glendale will take on Riverside Poly in a final four contest Wednesday at Mount San Antonio College. The match is scheduled for 5 p.m. Riverside Poly won its Saturday quarterfinal against Flintridge Prep, 17-9.
"Our goal is to hold teams to under eight goals a game," said Holbrook, whose team won the Pacific League championship this season. "Any time we do that our defense gives us a great chance to win the game. This was a real defensive battle and our boys showed a lot of focus and they worked hard."
The key to Glendale's success was its ability to alter the shots of the Los Altos (16-15) shooters and keep them from getting many scoring opportunities around the goal.
That defense clamped down after Los Altos' Justin Contreras scored with 2:10 remaining in the first quarter to tie the score at 2. The Nitros scored two goals and didn't allow any for the rest of the quarter, as they ended with a 4-2 lead after one. The Conquerors were then held scoreless through the entire second quarter, as they weren't able to make good on any of their 10 shot attempts.
It was more of the same in the third for Los Altos, as it was again held scoreless during regulation, missing on all nine of its shot attempts. However, as the buzzer went off ending the quarter, Los Altos got off a shot. It was ruled that a Glendale defender had blocked the effort with two hands, prompting a five-meter penalty shot. Contreras made good on the shot. However, the Nitros still held the lead, 7-3.
Glendale's defense was anchored by sophomore keeper David Sarkisian, who made 13 saves — seven in the second alone. Sarkisian stopped his share of point-blank shots, most of which came on rebounds.
"I just tried to get my mind in shape in preparing for this game," Sarkisian said. "I knew that they had some good shooters, but I just went out and did what I had to do. I am really grateful with the guys and the defense they have in front of me. I don't want to brag, but I think we have the best defense out there."
Los Altos, which placed second in the Hacienda League, had trouble converting its shots all match. Over the final three quarters, the Conquerors scored just four goals on 28 attempts.
While the Glendale defense was doing its thing, Momdzhyan was frustrating the Conquerors with his physical play around the net. Despite being continually hounded and double-teamed, Momdzhyan was able to get his shot off with regularity.
Momdzhyan said he's used to dealing with physical opponents.
"I just know they're just trying to get under my skin," he said. "I just have to fight through and do my best to get the shot. I just have to keep my mindset and try not to get too overly aggressive."
Momdzhyan scored three of Glendale's four goals in the first quarter to give his team a two-goal lead. He also tallied the lone goal by either team in the second and had two of three in the third, as the Nitros increased their advantage to four heading into the fourth.


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Biological Sciences
Research Highlights
November 2010
Identifying the Degradome
Protein pieces provide path toward early detection of breast cancer
Example of substrate cleavage specificities for human plasma protein Apolipoprotein A-IV. Sequence encased in red is the signal peptide; the detected peptides are represented by the yellow curves. Enlarge Image
Researchers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center developed a new technique that brings the scientific community one step closer to discovering novel circulating biomarkers for early breast cancer detection.
The strategy targets the blood plasma peptidome, which consists of naturally occurring peptides and small proteins or protein fragments. The team used this strategy to comprehensively identify degradation products in proteins—the degradome. Protein degradation is a well-established component of many diseases, including cancer. Cancer-specific changes in protein degradation have the potential to provide markers that may enable earlier detection of cancer.
Their research appeared in the October 18 issue of PLoS ONE and is highlighted in the PNNL news release "New clues to how cancer-related proteins plasmin, thrombin lose inhibition." It also appeared in the May 7, 2010 issue of the Journal of Proteome Research.
Why it matters: Breast cancer is the most common malignancy in American women. In 2009, it was estimated that 192,000 American women would be diagnosed with breast cancers, and more than 40,000 would die from the disease. In addition to tumor size, shape, location, and metastasis, prognosis is based on molecular characteristics, such as whether the tumor is hormone receptor-positive or -negative, genetic factors, and the rate of cell division.
Acknowledgments: The research team included Yufeng Shen, Richard D. (Dick Smith), Nikola Tolic, Tao Liu, Rhi Zhao, Marina Gritsenko, David Camp, Ronald Moore, Samuel Purvine, all PNNL; former PNNL scientists Brianne Petritis; and Francisco Esteva, MD Anderson Cancer Center. Portions of this research were supported by the NIH National Center for Research Resources (RR18522) and the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Biological and Environmental Research (DOE/BER). The work was performed in EMSL, a DOE national scientific user facility located at PNNL.
References: Shen Y, N Tolic, T Liu, R Zhao, BO Petritis, MA Gritsenko, DG Camp, RJ Moore, SO Purvine, FJ Estiva, and RD Smith. 2010. "Blood peptidome-degradome profile of breast cancer." PLoS ONE 5(10):e13133. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0013133
Shen Y, T Liu, N Tolic, BO Petritis, R Zhao, RJ Moore, SO Purvine, DG Camp II, and RD Smith. 2010. Strategy for degradomic-peptidomic analysis of human blood plasma. Journal of Proteome Research 9(5):2339-2346. doi:10.1021/pr901083m


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Kevin at TasteTV.com writes to tell me of Karen Foley's interview on the TasteTV site. (Thanks, Kevin!) Karen talks about the ideas behind Imbibe magazine. The interview appears to be a couple of months old because they talk only about the first two issues, but it's worth a watch if you haven't seen it.
Unless your broadband is fast like Speedy Gonzalez, I advise you to let the video fully load before you watch.
Here's a direct link, if you'd rather go out to TasteTV to watch.


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at Garstang Library every Friday
All pre-school children and their parents or carers are welcome to join us. We'll be reading from the best and brightest and most funny picture books in the library for your kids to enjoy and to inspire them to find books and reading fun!
No need to book ~ just drop in.
You might also be interested in…many of our libraries also hold regular Toddler Rhyme Time sing-along sessions and Baby Bounce and Rhyme.


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Centrifecal force!
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Uforia needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 433 designs submitted by 71 freelance designers.
Uforia Studios or just Uforia. We would like to see logos with both names
Uforia is:
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1) Feminine colours or feel, although a majority of our members will be women we don't want to give the impression that this is a women only facility
2) Any logo that is really sporty or has a picture of a person running or working out
A few things we want in the logo:
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From the AUR package page: "Folding@home is a distributed computing project which studies protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and related diseases."
Please see the Folding@home site for a fuller description.
- 1 Installation
- 2 Configuration
- 3 Multi-Core CPUs and Folding@home
- 3.1 A Quick Note On Hyperthreading
- 3.2 Multiple Folding@home Installs
- 3.3 Folding@home SMP Support
- 4 GPU Client
- 5 Monitoring Work-Unit Progress
- 6 External Resources
Folding@home is no longer in the community repository due to licensing issues. However, it is still possible to build it from AUR. If you are familiar with PKGBUILDs and AUR then build it and skip to configuration.
To install manually, first download the tarball at the Folding@home AUR page. Open a console and untar the tarball. cd to the resulting directory and:
$ makepkg
and if there are no errors you will be left with a package called
# pacman -U foldingathome-version-number.pkg.tar.gz
being sure to replace version-number first ;)
If all went well, Folding@home should now be installed.
Firstly, you will want to open your
/etc/conf.d/foldingathome configuration file, with your editor of choice.
# nano /etc/conf.d/foldingathome
The config is self explanatory, if you wish to have Folding@home run as a user other than root (handy on single user systems, probably more secure on multi-user systems), or in a different group, then change these values.
Now run the Folding@home process for the first time with
# systemctl start foldingathome
Or, for Initscripts:
# /etc/rc.d/foldingathome start
Remember, this is foldingathome-smp for the SMP client.
give it a few seconds and then run
# systemctl stop foldingathome
Or for initscripts:
# /etc/rc.d/foldingathome stop
You will find under your
/opt/fah/ directory, either new files or a new folder, if you set the user variable in
/etc/conf.d/foldingathome. You will find a file called client.cfg, either in the /opt/fah dir or the
/opt/fah/FAH_USER folder.
# nano /opt/fah/client.cfg
$ nano /opt/fah/FAH_USER/client.cfg # Replace FAH_USER first
The most important settings here are:
- username, username associated to the work-units you return (not related to the FAH_USER variable in
- team, the team number you wish to contribute points to (earned for work units returned), you will of course want to fill in 45032, the arch-linux team number.
- bigpackets, defines whether you will accept memory intensive work loads. If you have no problem with Folding@home using up more of your RAM, then set this to big. Other settings are normal and small.
- machineid, covered in the Multi-Core section.
After editing that, run
# systemctl start foldingathome
# /etc/rc.d/foldingathome start
again, to start Folding@home up.
Assuming it all ran correctly, you will want to start it when the system boots:
# systemctl enable foldingathome
Or for initscripts, put it in
# nano /etc/rc.conf
and add @foldingathome to your DAEMONS array (the @ causes it to start in the background, so as not to slow startup, see Daemons).
/etc/rc.conf, otherwise starting foldingathome will fail with segmentation faults.
Folding@home is now installed and running.
Multi-Core CPUs and Folding@home
A Quick Note On Hyperthreading
If you have a single-core hyperthreading CPU, you may be tempted to follow the multi-core instructions. It is highly recommenced that you do not do this as the Folding@home team prefers fewer results quickly, than more results slowly. There is also a time-limit on work-units, so if it runs slower, your work-units may not be returned in time, and so distributed to another user. If you have one core, run one folding process.
Multiple Folding@home Installs
It is very simple to set up an extra install, although after each (rare) upgrade of the Folding@home package, you will have to perform some maintenance, unless you wish to build separate packages with custom PKGBUILDS / scripts (beyond the scope of this tutorial). This method should also scale to however many cores/processors you have.
First, stop Folding@home if it is running
# /etc/rc.d/foldingathome stop
# cp -r /opt/fah /opt/fah2
If you wish to call it something different, then by all means do. This tutorial will assume you are using
/opt/fah2 for your second install and that you have the FAH_USER directory.
$ rm -rf /opt/fah2/FAH_USER/work /opt/fah2/FAH_USER/queue.dat
if they exist, this way the new process will not start working on the same work-unit as the original thread.
You now have to open up the configuration for the new process
$ nano /opt/fah2/FAH_USER/client.cfg
and change the machineid to a number different to the one in
If you are using the bigpackets option in client.cfg, you should only have it set to yes for one of your Folding@home processes as it can overwhelm your system unless you have plenty of free RAM (1GB at least).
Editing Init Scripts
Now comes the fun part. A second init script needs to be created and a little editing needs to be done, but this way you can turn each process on and off as wanted and it is simpler than one script managing both.
First, some initial editing has to be done to the current script and saved under another name
# nano /etc/rc.d/foldingathome
. /etc/rc.conf . /etc/rc.d/functions . /etc/conf.d/foldingathome
This is to cut down on later maintenance.
Next, change
PID=`pidof -o %PPID /opt/fah/FAH504-Linux.exe`
PID=`pgrep -f /opt/fah/FAH${FAH_VER}-Linux.exe -u $FAH_USER`
The reason for this is that pidof detects the first and second Folding@home process as the same and so stopping one init script will kill both processes. On the other hand, pgrep will find the process' associated filename/location. The "-u $FAH_USER" part is tacked on as a precaution, in case you are doing something strange with Folding@home threads and users. You will also notice the FAH_VER has slipped in there.
There should be two more instances of
/opt/fah/FAH504-Linux.exe, change them to
Next, find the lines
add_daemon foldingathome rm_daemon foldingathome
and change them to something like
add_daemon foldingathome1 rm_daemon foldingathome1
You can also change the
stat_busy "Starting Folding@home" stat_busy "Stopping Folding@home"
lines to have some extra description such as "on Core 1" if you need to.
Now save the file as
/etc/rc.d/foldingathome1 , this is to prevent it being over-written by a package upgrade.
Make a copy of the script
# cp /etc/rc.d/foldingathome1 /etc/rc.d/foldingathome2
Now you have to find and replace instances of /opt/fah with /opt/fah2 in this script, double checking you are not getting any false positives (there should not be any, but scripts change). Make sure you get the one in the PID variable, otherwise the whole pgrep bit was a bit pointless ;)
Also, find the lines
add_daemon foldingathome1 rm_daemon foldingathome1
again, and change them to something like
add_daemon foldingathome2 rm_daemon foldingathome2
Now, save this script and open up /etc/rc.conf and add @foldingathome1 and @foldingathome2 to the DAEMONS variable. Start up the two processes
# /etc/rc.d/foldingathome1 start # /etc/rc.d/foldingathome2 start
and if all goes well, you have got 2 Folding@home processes running!
When upgrading the Folding@home package, it is recommended you stop both Folding@home init-scripts first
# /etc/rc.d/foldingathome1 stop # /etc/rc.d/foldingathome2 stop
On upgrading,
/opt/fah/FAH504-Linux.exe will be replaced with a new version, this needs to be copied into your
/opt/fah2 directory and the old executable deleted.
You then just have to change the FAH_VER variable in both scripts to reflect the new version number. You can then restart both scripts with
# /etc/rc.d/foldingathome1 start # /etc/rc.d/foldingathome2 start
It may also be worth checking that there have been no other significant changes to the updated original script.
Alternative: Single Init Script
I could not get the above method to work with the current (6.02) version of the client. I found an old script on the forums and modified it slightly which works just fine on my system.
#!/bin/bash #/etc/rc.d/foldingathome # # Starts the Folding@home client in the background . /etc/rc.d/functions case "$1" in start) stat_busy "Starting Folding@home" cd /opt/fah/ /opt/fah/fah6 > /opt/fah/myfah.log & cd /opt/fah2/ /opt/fah2/fah6 > /opt/fah2/myfah.log & stat_done ;; stop) stat_busy "Stopping Folding@home" killall fah6 stat_done ;; restart) stop start ;; *) echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}" RETVAL=1 esac exit 0
Just make sure you do not forget to follow the first section under "Setting up Multiple Folding@home installs".
Folding@home SMP Support
There is now a Folding@home client available for 64-bit multi-processor or multi-core computers (aka SMP). The creators of Folding@home suggest the SMP client runs best on quad core machines but many people run it on dual cores with no trouble. This client is definitely NOT recommended for single-core CPUs with Hyperthreading. So, if your machine meets the requirements (Arch 64-bit, true multi-core/processor) you may want to give the SMP client a try instead of running two of the standard client!
Setup is identical to that of the standard client EXCEPT for the following:
- the name of the package in the AUR is foldingathome-smp
- lib32-glibc is required to install and run the client (this is reflected as a dependency in the PKGBUILD)
- the package installs to
- the configuration script in
/etc/conf.dis foldingathome-smp
- the daemon that should be added to
/etc/rc.confis foldingathome-smp
When migrating from the standard FAH client/s to SMP, you may wish to finish off the work units currently running but without the FAH client downloading new ones. This is possible through the init-scripts as long as you make sure to check the status of the current work-unit before shutting down / rebooting.
This may seem a bit over the top and whether you do it depends on how committed you are to returning all work-units sent to your box. At the worst, your work-unit will be distributed to someone else after the cut-off date.
To do this, stop the folding client/s
# /etc/rc.d/foldingathome1 stop # /etc/rc.d/foldingathome2 stop
open up your
/etc/rc.d/foldingathome file/s and change
su $FAH_USER -c "/opt/fah/FAH504-Linux.exe -verbosity 9 > /opt/fah/$FAH_USER/myfah.log" &
su $FAH_USER -c "/opt/fah/FAH504-Linux.exe -oneunit -verbosity 9 > /opt/fah/$FAH_USER/myfah.log" &
This will force the FAH client to only finish its current work-unit and upload it without downloading a new one. The problem arises in that if you reboot (or restart the init-scripts) after it is finished and sent back the work-unit, it will download a new one to finish and send back. You will just have to monitor the status of the work-unit before you restart, and if it is at 100% and the end of
/opt/fah/FAH_USER/FAHlog.txt says the work-unit has been returned, you can remove that script from the DAEMONS= line in
If you know how, you can probably find a way of stopping it from doing this, maybe with a check in the init-script which stops it running when the work-unit file is no longer in the
/opt/fah/FAH_USER/work directory.
If you are currently on i686 arch, you will also need to migrate to X86_64 arc, and it would be a good idea to read the Arch64_FAQ
Cannot find ./mpiexec
If you are using the $FAH_USER variable, you will find on starting the smp client that it cannot find
./mpiexec, this is because it is in the
/opt/fah-smp/ directory and not your local one. Copy it to
/opt/fah-smp/$FAH_USER and it should run fine.
SMP client not doing any work / stalling ( NNODES=4 )
( This is adapted from the folding@home SMP FAQ )
If you run
# /etc/rc.d/foldingathome-smp start
from the console, you will get some output. If this output stalls with a
line and top/htop shows the smp-client running but with no CPU usage, you will need to check your local network settings. Check that your
/etc/hosts file is set up with 127.0.0.1 linked to the hostname you set up in
Work Unit progress sitting at 100%
If your Work Unit progress is sitting at 100%, there is usually a delay in uploading. If your client is running non-backgrounded, there will usually be a prompt to press 'c' to upload the data to the server. However, if you run your client backgrounded, you will want to enable automatic uploading of work data. This can be done by editing
client.cfg in your Folding@Home directory (usually
/opt/foldingathome/ for i686 or
/opt/fah-smp/ for x86_64) and changing the settings line 'asknet=yes' to 'asknet=no'. This will allow Folding@Home to upload data automatically, rather than waiting for user input to upload.
Invalid pointer glibc error at client launch
If you start foldingathome and get an error similar to
*** glibc detected *** ./fah6: free(): invalid pointer: 0xf756c3b8 ***
try running
export MALLOC_CHECK_=1, then start the client again (ex.
rc.d start foldingathome). You should only need to start the folding@home client once with this environment variable set, so adding
MALLOC_CHECK_=1 to your profile is unnecessary.
GPU Client
The GPU client does not currently have a native build, and so the AUR package downloads the Windows build and runs it through wine. The package on AUR is designed for 64-bit systems but requires the 32-bit CUDA libraries. If you want to install it on a i686 system, it may still work, but you will have to edit the PKGBUILD to change the required libraries to the correct versions.
Monitoring Work-Unit Progress
There are several ways of monitoring the progress of your FAH client/s, both on the command line and by GUI.
In AUR there is silent blades fahmon, which provides a GUI with the ability to watch multiple clients and get info on the work-unit itself. Fahmon has a dedicated site at http://www.fahmon.net/
On the CLI, you can add a command to your .bashrc , .zshrc or .whateverrc :
fahstat() { echo echo `date` echo cat /opt/fah/FAH_USER/unitinfo.txt #(replacing FAH_USER first) }
Or for multiple clients :
fahstat() { echo echo `date` echo echo "Core 1:";cat /opt/fah/FAH_USER/unitinfo.txt #(replace FAH_USER first) echo echo "Core 2:";cat /opt/fah2/FAH_USER/unitinfo.txt #(replace FAH_USER first) }
Also, replacing cat with tail -n1 will give just the percentage of work unit complete.
On foldingathome-smp 6.43, the unitinfo.txt file is not placed inside the user folder. The correct directory would be
External Resources
- Folding@home Site
- Folding@home FAQ
- Folding@home Configuration FAQ
- SMP Client in the AUR
- Folding@home SMP Client FAQ
- Arch Folding@home team page
- Extended Arch team statistics in extremeoverclocking.com


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I partially stopped the motor and saw the current draw rise to 1A.
How is this even possible, I thought usb could only supply 500mA.
That is probably a minimum specification so manufacturers of
No, 500mA is the maximum for USB according to the USB specification (versions 1 and 2, anyway, not sure about USB3).
QuoteThat is probably a minimum specification so manufacturers ofNo, 500mA is the maximum for USB according to the USB specification (versions 1 and 2, anyway, not sure about USB3).USB spec says a device can have 100mA for "free", and can negotiate with the host for up to 500mA. In practice, many hosts will supply 500mA without negotiation. There are also other deviations from that spec, such as the Macs that provide 1A or more for charging iPads.Powering a motor directly from an output on the arduino will kill the processor - maybe one output pin, maybe the whole IC. The maximum for a single pin is 40mA (that's on the original ATmega8, newer may be a bit higher but similar).Keep trying to drive a motor from an output pin and you will kill your arduino, if you haven't already.-j
QuoteI partially stopped the motor and saw the current draw rise to 1A.Placing drag on the motor causes the current to rise toward the stall level. Thus if the motor coil has 5ohm resistance, a 1amp current is quite possible.USB standard requires 500 milliamp supply. An externally powered hub can provide more. I hope you are not directly powering with your laptop usb. You do not want to conduct a 'smoke test' on your pc
Probably better stated as "it depends".http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Serial_Bus
What is wrong with powering it via a laptop usb? please explain
The arduino was powered using a desktop computer, not the motherboard but the case
QuoteProbably better stated as "it depends".http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Serial_BusI guess wikipedia trumps the official USB specification. :|
Hello,I have my arduino powered via usb and have connected this motor https://www.sparkfun.com/products/10171? to the 5V pin on the arduino directly.I have a 1n4001 diode connected across the motor. No load current I find to be: 210-230mAI partially stopped the motor and saw the current draw rise to 1A.THIS IS MADNESS!!!How is this even possible, I thought usb could only supply 500mA.
looks like your offcial USB specification is totally optional. Post your official USB specification link.
1.2 Objective of the Specification This document defines an industry-standard USB. The specification describes the bus attributes, the protocol definition, types of transactions, bus management, and the programming interface required to design and build systems and peripherals that are compliant with this standard.
This section describes the USB power distribution specification.
The power source and sink requirements of different device classes can be simplified with the introduction of the concept of a unit load. A unit load is defined to be 100 mA. The number of unit loads a device can draw is an absolute maximum
A device may be either low-power at one unit load or high-power, consuming up to five unit loads. All devices default to low-power. The transition to high-power is under software control. It is the responsibility of software to ensure adequate power is available before allowing devices to consume high-power.


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Angry Birds Trilogy Gets Anger Management DLC
Anyone with a healthy obsession for flinging irate birds at smug-lookin' pigs on consoles will be glad to know that the new downloadable content pack for the Angry Birds Trilogy is now available.
Rovio has just released the Anger Management DLC, which packs 130 brand new levels, including stages from levels like "Ham 'O' Ween", "Wreck the Halls", "Birdday Party", and a whole lot more. That's 130 more valid excuses for you to procrastinate on your work or not study for your finals. The DLC also adds the Orange Bird, which can be seen in action in the video below.
You can download Anger Management now on the XBox Live Marketplace for 400 Microsoft Points or on the PlayStation Store for $4.99. The Angry Birds Trilogy is also on the 3DS, but there haven't been any announcements concerning DLC for the handheld version yet.


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Background Library
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. : Affiliates : .
Total Games: 161
Total Backgrounds: 71,034
Author: ibm2431
Date: 3/30/2007
Time: 7:30PM
Yes! I have an update for you all! And it's an
actual BG update this time! Like most of the games I've been ripping recently,
these are the ones that Watar started ripping and brought over with him during
the BGHQ - BGX merge but never finished. I'm getting closer and closer to
finishing this project with each update. These can all be found in the Super
Nintendo section:
Clock Tower (139)
Hagane (398)
Last Fighter Twin (75)
Magical Pop'n
Mickey's Ultimate Challenge (41)
Wedding Peach (24)
Total: 1,418 BGs
Hagane was an interesting game to say the least. You play as a cyborg ninja
trying to save feudal Japan from getting nuked by a giant missile. No, really. A
cyborg ninja. ..I think. It looks like a cyborg ninja at least. Magical Pop'n
was a cute little platformer, and should be tried out sometime if you have the
time. However, Clock Tower was the hardest game to rip out of all of these. Why?
It's creepy as hell. I had a hard time playing through it. Seriously, try
playing Clock Tower alone, in a dark room, with your speakers up, and try to
tell me that it's not the scariest game of the 16-bit era. Unlike other horror
games, you don't get weapons to shoot at the evil things that are chasing you
(or even a camera like in Fatal Frame 3). What do you get? Nothing. Now run.
There are a few other things that I should point out. First, as I'm sure some
of you have already noticed by now, I've fixed the page header scripts so that
they correctly display the game's name and the current section name. I've also
coded a spiffy news script that'll let the staff update via a PHP form and
insert the post into a MySQL database which will be displayed on the front page
and automatically archived. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click "All
News" to see older posts. Finally, BGHQ has a pseudo-new affiliate. It's Twisted
Renders, ran by Tree, and has replaced Rockman Metro. So it's technically a new
site - just ran by the same people and with the same purpose but with a broader
scope. Take it as you will.
That's all from me for now. Hopefully I'll be updating again sometime soon
(which by now, all of you should know that by "soon" I mean "maybe in a month").
All of you have fun and have a good evening!
Author: Lyrea
Date: 3/22/2007
Time: 3:13AM
Some backgrounds in the background library
were lacking thumbnails, this has been corrected today.
Hello! I'm Lyrea! I'm a new staff member here, and not under my Background
Library name of
SuperSonicChaos2. Twelve of mine total.
Another new submitter, Smit,
has three backgrounds up in the Library as well.
Author: Xergrim
Date: 3/19/2007
Time: 1:42AM
Hello there! I'm Xergrim, the new guy here at
BGHQ. I bring you two more games from the SNES. One's been done for almost a
month now but because poor ibm2431 has been so busy, these just never got around
to being up.
So why am I here? Well, like many of you coming here, I'm a sprite comic
author. Figured it only right to give to the community in any way I can, so here
I am! And here are your games!
Bubsy II's backgrounds are for the most part bright and happy, but it's also
platforming hell and ranges from being very crowded to almost void like. Take a
look, maybe you'll find a good one you'd like.
Nosferatu's backgrounds are definitely going to be handy for folks sick of
using Castlevania for all their castle needs. Even has some a handful of forest
and grass areas you might like!
Site created and maintained by ibm2431.
Backgrounds are copyrighted by their respective owners. Fair use claim.


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The presidential race is still too close to call, the debates won't shift things much from a statistical perspective and there's a fair chance Democrats will retain their majority in the U.S. Senate.
Political analyst Scott Rasmussen attends a reception at The Westin Memphis Beale Street Hotel as part of the Lipscomb Pitts Breakfast Club.
(Photo: Lance Murphey)
Those are some of the prognostications national pollster Scott Rasmussen shared with a few Memphis audiences this week, one day, incidentally, after the second presidential debate at Hofstra University. Rasmussen was here as the latest guest of the Lipscomb Pitts Breakfast Club for its monthly speaker series.
On an overcast night when many elsewhere in the city were racing home to beat the rain, Rasmussen held the attention of a group of business leaders Wednesday, Oct. 17, at The Westin Memphis Beale Street Hotel for nearly an hour at a private reception sponsored by FedEx. He talked politics, sports, business and the national economy, eventually fielding questions from the crowd and then facing a line of private inquisitors afterwards.
Rasmussen and his father founded the cable sports network ESPN. He's also the founder and president of Rasmussen Reports, and his political polling is often mentioned alongside that of the Gallup and Quinnipiac organizations in the national press.
Not surprisingly, he gave a feisty defense of his fellow pollsters, some of whom have come under fire recently for, the claims go, stacking their samples too much with voters of one political persuasion or the other.
"There's not a pollster out there deliberately skewing results to influence anything," Rasmussen said.
The presidential debates were naturally at the top of the crowd's mind since, of course, the rhetorical bare-knuckled brawl from the previous day still was dominating the news cycle. Rasmussen, though, took the crowd back to the first debate, the one widely acknowledged that former Massachusetts governor and Republican nominee Mitt Romney is believed to have won over a lackluster performance by President Barack Obama.
On the morning of the first debate, Rasmussen said, his organization had the president up 49 percent to 47 percent over Romney. In the first debate's immediate aftermath, his polling flipped that to 49-47 with Romney on top.
What that showed, he went on, is some 98 percent of the country didn't change its mind after the first debate.
A female questioner drew Rasmussen's attention to Congress. She referred, without realizing it, to the same basic thing Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan was asked about when he was in Memphis in recent days for a fundraiser.
An attendee pressed Ryan on how effective a House of Representatives controlled, as it is now, by Republicans could work with the White House if Obama won. Not well, Ryan told the attendee at his fundraiser at the Racquet Club of Memphis. Everyone, he went on, is too firmly entrenched politically, and Ryan said he doesn't see that changing at all if Obama wins.
That said, Rasmussen said he sees a 60 percent to 65 percent chance that Democrats retain control of the U.S. Senate. Right now, he went on, the presidential campaigns are essentially fighting a political version of the trench warfare that dominated World War I – intense clashes with high stakes to try and win what amounts to very little ground.
The Romney and Obama camps, he said, are trying to "cobble together just enough votes to win."
Rasmussen also offered an unsolicited piece of advice for Republicans. If he were running for office as one of them, he'd advocate some level of cuts to the military, which he said would give a Republican the political cover needed to secure the cuts they most want to get on programs on the domestic side of the ledger.
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Twenty-freakin'-three? Holy crap, we're just shy of the two-year mark! Many, many thanks to Marleigh for hosting this month's Mixology Monday!
Brandy MxMo is a challenge. With so many fruit brandies out there, how do you choose? Aside from apple brandies, I haven't quaffed much from the many barrels of non-grape brandies that are available. So I played it safe and chose cognac. I looked through a lot of recipes–some familiar, others new–trying to find something that excited me. I thought briefly of the Between the Sheets, since I love the rum/cognac marriage, but I figured, if I'm going familiar on the spirit, I should at least take a chance on an unfamiliar recipe.
I finally clicked over to the drinks database at Esquire magazine, selected Brandy as my main spirit, and paged through the recipes. The Brandy Daisy caught my eye. As reimagined by Dave Wondrich, it's not quite the Daisy of yore.
Traditionally, the daisy mixes a spirit with lemon juice and some sort of sweetener. The Brandy Daisy usually calls for both grenadine and sugar, apparently, and then it's poured over crushed ice, topped with seltzer, and decorated with fruit. Wondrich prefers the recipe of the Englishman Edward Spencer, who uses yellow Chartreuse to provide the drink's sweet tones.
Brandy Daisy
- 1-1/2 oz. brandy (I used cognac)
- 3/4 oz. yellow Chartreuse
- 3/4 oz. lemon juice
Technique: Stir well with cracked ice in a mixing glass. Strain into a chilled Collins glass and top with a splash of chilled club soda or seltzer. Wondrich notes: "To bring this more in line with Daisy orthodoxy, half-fill a silver julep mug or stemmed wine goblet with cracked ice, pour in the ingredients, top…with a couple ounces of seltzer or club soda, and stir until the glass frosts. Decorate with sprig of mint and wheels of orange and lemon and harpoon with a straw."
I pared it down even farther and then, to further piss off the drink gods, used a different glass! I omitted the fizz and the fruit and served it up, in a cocktail glass. Wondrich would tell me, rightly, that I made a Sidecar variant, with the Chartreuse replacing the orange liqueur.
So be it.
Lip-smacking good. Yellow Chartreuse is sweeter than its green counterpart and not quite as complex on the palate, so it's probably the best choice for mixing with cognac. Although yellow Chartreuse can overwhelm a drink with its sweetness, I still love its undertones of honey. This drink really plays to that. The lemon cuts through the sweetness while still allowing some notes of honey to play off the herbal tones and the cognac. Mixed to spec, this is a very well-balanced drink.
Dave also mentions a version by his hero Jerry Thomas, which uses curacao and just a weeeeeee bit of rum. That sounds delightful as well. And, just for shits and giggles, let's say you replaced the fizzy water with, oh, I dunno? A fizzy wine? I don't know what ol' Longbeard would say, but you could invite me over for that!


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Australian divers got a new wreck dive when the HMAS Adelaide was sunk off Avoca beach NSW several days ago with public dives beginning soon.
Photographer Robb Westerdyk went for a dive on her soon after the sinking and took these photos.
September 23, 2012
Type- Twin hold general cargo vessel Built- Kuryshima Dock Company of Imabari, Japan. Launched- 1969 as the Shoyo Maru Weight- 2932 ton Dimensions- Length, 99.5m; Width, 16m; Draught, 6.53m Engine- 6 cylinder diesel, Max speed 12 knots. Wrecked- 20th April 1983 Location- 27° 34' 42″ N, … Continue reading
August 16, 2012
The diving last week with diving.de and Marlies Lang was not only because of the sharks very impressive. On certain divespots you also can see massive sea turtles. On one dive we were very lucky and saw Green Turtles and Hawksbill Turtles. If you … Continue reading
August 15, 2012
Sometimes you just hang around in the water and have to wait. I was diving with an instructor and his student and they asked me if I could take a few nice shots for the family album. I jumped into … Continue reading
August 14, 2012
The best dive in El Quseir with diving.de and Marlies Lang was of course with the sharks. But that does not mean everything else is boring down there. The dive sites are beautiful – like the rest of the Red Sea. As an … Continue reading
August 13, 2012
Certain dives you never ever forget in your live. We knew that we have a good chance to see sharks in El Quseir with diving.de. A good friend of mine, Course Director Marlies Lang, works there and we decided to visit … Continue reading
May 1, 2012
I really don't know what to say?! Most people related to underwater sports know that it is important to protect the fragile underwater ecosystem and especially the corals. Freediver Fred Sessa or his student has nothing better to do then sitting … Continue reading
April 25, 2012
This happened on a beach in Brazil. This episode was filmed right from the start and shows the instant reaction by the people on the beach.
April 21, 2012
Well I could not fit more into the headline – but the whole last day of the Dahab Festival was packed with events. First there was the second raft race. This time Team Sinai Divers was unbeatable. Around 5pm suddenly a Flash … Continue reading
April 20, 2012
Yesterday on the second last day of the Dahab Festival there was a very nice potpourri of bands playing. From Fun Rock to Blues via Reggae we spent a really nice evening at the main festival area by the bridge. So here … Continue reading
April 15, 2012
Just a few impressions from the first day of the Dahab Festival 2012. The Raft Race was starting at Lighthouse an ending at the bridge. Desert Divers came first – congratulations! The snake charming show was held in Mirage Village. … Continue reading


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3 Golden Keys for Recent College Grads on the Job Hunt
February 17, 2010
So you just graduated college finally and are looking for your first real entry-level job. How should you go about your job hunt? Just sit home and click away at the "submit resume" button all day? Stop what you're doing! Find out what are the real keys to job hunting as a new grad in this economy and improve your chances out there!
Ever hear the phrase "looking for a job is a job itself"? That holds true for many people. If you want to be successful in your job search, you must have a certain job hunt process you go through every day and you must carry it out, every day consistently. Now for college grads this shouldn't be anything new; studying in college showed you that consistency brought results. Were you more confident going into a test studying at the last minute, or reviewing content every week? Here's a little example below of a job hunt process:
• You wake up and apply for entry-level jobs online.
• Spend a few hours reading articles on how to brush up your job interview skills, how to improve your resume. Maybe even do a mock interview with your family or friend.
• Later you spend an hour or so trying to figure out who you can network with (who do my friends know? Who does my family know? What about online networking sites like MonsterCollege, who should I contact locally?).
This is just a small example, and by no means should you manage your time particularly like this – but what's important is the fact that these are steps. You must be consistent and keep at what you are doing. If you don't stay consistent during your job hunt, what happens is you see no results.
For example, say you start networking on Monday and apply to jobs, and then don't follow up on networking the next few days and focus just on your resume. A week passes by, and you totally forgot about replying back to the people you networked with. Those people may now think you're unorganized and already you lose any value you could present to them as an acquaintance. You have to stay consistent with what you do as a job seeker; show those people you're on top of things and are eager to find work.


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As I cross over into month number 8 of pregnancy, you would think the usual "ice cream and pickles" mentality would be ruling my personal food court. Not so.
In fact, I thought I might be on vacation from obsessing about food when I had drop culinary school this semester. It was that, or take to standing naked in the walk-in to keep from passing out from the heat of the commercial stoves.
Alas, I was wrong. Enter the glucose test. This is a particularly sadistic test they do to pregnant women in their last trimester. First,you starve them for 12 hours, which, if you ask anyone I work with who has seen me hungry is a VERY BAD IDEA. Then they give you this day-glo orange beverage that is literally saturated with sugar (I think this is marketed in Latin America as Orange Fanta). And wait for an hour. About 70% of us pregnant women(the lab person tells me AFTERWARDS) cannot tolerate the solution. This would have been nice to know before I blacked out. Then they draw blood and see what kind of spike your blood sugar has taken. Mine was high. Mainly due to age, which we don't need to discuss, as I am in great shape and ate a good diet.
So, in their infinite wisdom, they send me off for another test, more starvation for 12 hours, and a DOUBLE STRENGTH dose of the nasty stuff. This time I made it about half an hour, and just before blacking out, uh, "lost" much of the test.
Turns out, only about 20% of us fail this second test. Which does not help the cause for those of us who cannot complete the test. Since this is the only test, they then slap a "high risk" label on you and off and put you on a restricted diet. Too restricted as I found out 9 less pounds later. I now look like a twig with a bowling ball duct-taped to it. My maternity clothes are hanging flat over my ass like one of those old guys with the little chicken legs and a huge beer belly. I live in fear of bending over (if I could bend over) and exposing a severe case of "plumber butt."
Now, you have a pregnant, confused and starving woman, who cannot be diagnosed and may not have an issue, living off 900 calories a day after exercise and baby needs for TWO WEEKS. I tracked every calorie burned and every bit of food I ate in the truest, most anal-retentive chef fashion. I was hungry, angry and mean going into the next appointment. When the doctor reviewed it all ... and proclaimed it "normal" well, kids, you did not want to be in his shoes.
There is a certain point where you KNOW something is not right and the by-the-book-or-we-get-sued medical bullshit is not working. This is when you take control of your own destiny. I demanded to see a dietician because NO, THIS IS NOT NORMAL. This was spoken in a tone of voice that did not invite debate of any kind. Sort of exorcist-like, but I had already spewed the orange "glucola" in a previous scene.
I won. And I got a lot more food. A lot. And a glucose monitor. I even got praise from the dietician for my food choices.
What I did not expect to get from all of this is an appreciation for the joy of being able to eat what I want occasionally (when I am not pregnant) and a realization of how difficult it is to be a diabetic in a world of bad food choices and huge portions.
For me, there should be a happy ending and very likely no problems at all, and no risk of diabetes. In the meantime, I have only certain foods I can eat at certain times, on schedule, with monitoring. In fact my whole day centers around when to eat, what to eat, checking what I ate, and what to eat next. It is nuts. No, wait, nuts are okay. I can eat those.
The moral here is, and what I now realize more than anything (even more than my cholesterol article learnings), is that it is food that is killing us (heart disease, obesity, type 2 diabetes), and food that can save us. It's the choices. As much capacity as a super-size with Biggie Fries has to harm us, healthy choices can heal us.
Food can be as much a cure as a threat. Fascinating. While I have not been great about keeping up this blog, this is a subject I will explore here in future posts. I hope to cover things like serving sizes, and in detail the healing properties of certain foods. Next post: "Spot the problems with this diet."
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Jan. 26 – Boats, Big Bases and Baseball Fields
Tuesday was our first full day in Kuwait and it was full of incredible experiences. I am exhausted to the core after today, both emotionally and physically. We all met in the lobby at 0830 and jumped into a couple cars that took us to Camp Arifjan in Kuwait. We received a full debriefing about the country of Kuwait, including its history, its government past and present, its relationships with other neighboring countries and its relationship with the U.S. and our military footprint in Kuwait. Everyone in our group received a Certificate of Appreciation from the Area Support Group in Kuwait and we met with several officers before heading to lunch at the base and doing some much needed shopping.
After lunch we departed Camp Arifjan and traveled to Kuwait Naval Base where we went out to sea with Col. Shock and members of the U.S. Coast Guard. The boats were so small that we had to split up and take two boats out together. John Baker, Chris Coghlan, Larry Beinfest and I opted for the faster of the two boats and tried to find out how fast we get it to go without dumping anyone out the side into extremely choppy waters. Amazingly, nobody went overboard but we were all drenched by the time we got back to the base.
We all thoroughly enjoyed the experience and I would encourage everyone to check out the photos and videos at Marlins.com, they should be up sometime on Wednesday. After the ride, we were back to land and off to nearby Camp Patriot for a brief visit and Commaner's Call, followed by a stage performance from the Mermaids and autograph session with the troops there.
After a quick dinner at Camp Patriot we were off to the Kuwait Little League for an event that materialized at the last minute on our itinerary. We weren't sure what to expect when we got there and we cerainly couldn't have forseen the crowd of over 300 kids and parents waiting for our arrival! As we started to walk up the path between fields I started to notice a sea of teal as the vast majority of the kids were wearing Marlins shirts. As soon as the kids noticed us, they errupted with cheers and starting chanting "Let's Go Fish!" I still have chills thinking about the reception we received and how excited the kids were to see the players and Mermaids. Meanwhile, Fredi Gonzalez's plane had landed (you may remember that he was not able to get out of Atlanta and join us on our flight Sunday night so he was delayed 24 hours) and he met us at the park for the beginning of the Little League event.
The kids had the opportunity to ask questions for Chris, John, Larry and Fredi for the first 20 minutes, and then they all came up individually to get autographs, take pictures and tell us how important baseball and the league has been to them. The Kuwait Little League has been in existence since just after the first Gulf War and it was a true inspiration to see these kids care so much about baseball and our visit to them.
No matter how big of an impact we may have made on those kids there tonight, it was us who certainly left with memories that will last a lifetime. Our driver Gary, who I have really enjoyed getting to know over the first couple days, is an American who has worked in Kuwait for close to 20 years and he told us that he has never seen an event in all of these tours that touched him so much personally as our visit to the Kuwait Little League tonight. It was a wonderful way to conclude a long day.
The group got together for dinner nearby and then called it a night. Another big day is on tap for tomorrow, including at least two base visits and a possible third before we pack our bags and get ready to head to our next destination.
More updates from SWA soon..