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When election day comes upon us, so do the traps that come with it. Be sure
you avoid these pitfalls, and help others avoid them, too!
This trap overlooks the lessons of history that show how elections can be
decided by a single vote or by a handful of votes. Can we forget the ordeal of
the 2000 Presidential election? Less well known, perhaps, are these facts:
Way back in 1845 in the U.S. Congress, Texas became a state by one vote. In
1923, one vote in the German Parliament gave Hitler leadership of the Nazi
A shift of less than one vote per precinct in a handful of states would have
defeated Woodrow Wilson in his bid for re-election in 1916. A few votes per
precinct in Illinois and a couple of other states and then Vice President
Richard Nixon would have defeated John F. Kennedy in 1960. The same is true in
elections at every level. In 1974, Congressman Louis Wyman was declared the
victor in the U.S. senate race in New Hampshire, after a recount, by just two
votes. If only a few additional people in each precinct in Ohio had voted
differently in the 1976 presidential election, Mr. Ford would have been our
president, not Mr. Carter. Around the same time, the Governor of Ohio beat out
challenging candidate by a margin of one vote per precinct.
Yes, your one vote counts, and you can also influence many other votes!
This is the trap of looking for the non-existent perfect candidate. But your
vote is not to canonize the candidate; it is to give him or her temporary power
to do some limited good. If both choices look evil, try to see how one may be
better than the other. This is not "choosing the lesser evil." Rather, it is
choosing to limit evil, and that choice is a good.
First of all, most people are. It is a "single issue" that usually motivates
a person to rally around the candidate who supports that issue.
But if you don't want to be a "single-issue" voter, at least you can be an
intelligent one, and realize how the many issues are related. At the foundation
of them all is the right to life, without which no others are possible. If a
politician can't respect the life of a little baby, how is she supposed to
respect yours?
We don't put our trust in earthly power and government, but in the Lord.
Political involvement is not our salvation, but it is our duty. It is God
Himself who gives us the opportunity and wisdom to shape our society according
to His laws. Surely, any human leader can disappoint us, and many do. But we are
not responsible for predicting or controlling the future, nor are we capable to
do so. We are responsible for analyzing the positions of the candidates and
choosing those whose positions correspond to the moral law and the common good.
Sometimes individuals or groups vote reactively. A candidate, or a party, did
them wrong, and so they want to teach them a lesson by voting vindictively. This
may help to vent a personal frustration, but who suffers in the process? It
would be far better to go to the gym and take out your anger on a punching bag,
or go into a field and yell. But those you elect to public office will influence
a lot of people -- and unborn babies -- for a long time. Look beyond your
personal problems or agendas.
Look, what you do determines what the polls say, not vice-versa. Decide whom
to vote for based on who is the better candidate, and then cast that vote
without paying any attention to what the news reports are saying. If you think
you will be swayed by a news report, don't listen to the news until after you
Go to vote first thing in the morning. If you delay going to vote until later
in the day, you increase the chances that you will be distracted or hindered by
some problem that arises unexpectedly. You may also become more busy than you
anticipated, and might forget. The rule is: the earlier, the better.
At end of election day, don't say, "Ah…Now I don't have to worry about
elections for a while." No, you have to start working on the next election now.
This is the best time to start. The mistakes you made in this election cycle are
fresh in your mind, and now is the time to make a list of all the things you
could have done if you had thought of them sooner. Plan to do them for the next
So it's not "until next time…" Next time is here.
If the election goes the way you want, do not become overconfident or lazy.
Work harder than ever to encourage and assist those whom you helped elect.
If it does not go the way you want, set your energies on doing damage
control, and on challenging those who were elected to govern in a way that
follows the moral law.
In all cases, keep your focus on God and on the future. There is work to do,
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PLEASE REMEMBER: when performing this repair you should keep a fire extiguisher handy AND DO NOT SMOKE (you shouldn't anyway coz it's very bad for you).
1st of all you will need to remove the filler cap to let the excess presure and fumes out of the tank.
You can replace it once released...
Now you will need to fold down the back seat and pull away the carpet and sound mat, At this stage u will see tha top of ur tank and a cover. Unplug all conectors and remove the cover.
Now Below this is a plate with screws holding it down... with this is dirty or has even a spec of dust on it clean it well and truely! Now remove the screws and very GENTLY start pulling the plate upwards, althought it maybe a wee bit stiff so try to rotate round and wiggle side to side but please be very careful.
"The bottom end plate is held on with a retaining wire which can be bent and the end plate, wire, float and tube will fall back into the tank. Then you're screwed. Take your time and get it out in one piece"
Disassembly and cleaning. Holding the unit up side down remove the pin from the end and carefully remove the end cap and tube. You MUST note the orientation of the float on a piece of paper or in your mind before sliding it off. If you don't you'll have a 25% chance of putting it on right (2 180° increments times 2 planes of rotation). The heart of the sending unit is a ceramic coated steel bar element with "printed on" carbon resistors and "lands". DO NOT bend this under any circumstance! If you do you will crack the ceramic and open the circuits. It is pretty rugged so you would almost have to do so intentionally. Get some Acetone, Tri-chlor, MEK or any strong industrial solvent (hardware store should have it). Scrub the element with a paper towel and solvent several times until no more yellow/brown varnish comes off on the towel. You can also polish the long "lands" on the element with a Pink Devil drafting eraser or a pencil eraser. Inspect the inside the float for bent or missing leaf contacts. Clean the tips of the contacts CAREFULLY with a cotton swab soaked in solvent. Don't bend them.
OK there is some more test which you can do which involves an OHM Meter so if you would like to know about doing this please say so and i'll post it here also!
Reassembly and reinstallation. Holding the unit up-side-down slide the float back on while observing the correct orientation. Slip the tube and the end plate on. Insert the pin under the "hook" in the end. Before reinserting into the fuel tank be sure the rubber "O" ring seal is in place and undamaged. This is important as the tank pressurizes during operation venting fumes and moisture could seep in during periods of inoperation. Carefully negotiate the sending unit into the fuel tank, fasten and reconnect the cable. Watch your fuel gage over the next few days and see what it does. It may not be perfect but if it is working right it will be reasonably accurate and you will always know when your tank is full and when it is empty
OK Hope this helps people,
Note: I must warn you that this is intended as a guide ONLY and is NOT 100% acriate, if you are unsure about doing it DONT DO IT... but keep in mind the worst thing you can do is end up buying a new one which is what you should be doing anyway, but for some of us fixing the one we've got is good enough
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Everyone's favorite law enforcement team is back by popular demand with the long anticipated follow up to the cult comedy classic - SUPER TROOPERS. When an international border dispute arises between the U.S. and Canada, the Super Troopers- Mac, Thorny, Foster, Rabbit and Farva, are called in to set up a new Highway Patrol station in the disputed area. Unconventional police work follows, and the result is - SUPER TROOPERS 2.
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OSWEGO — Little did SUNY Oswego senior Katharyn Christiana know it at the time, but her family's frequent trips to Disney World when she was a child would set her on a roller-coaster path to a college major and research subject she will present at the Quest on April 17.
Oswego student to present roller-coaster research at Quest
dynamics at the college's Quest symposium.
Christiana and her mentor and co-author, physics faculty member Dr. Carolina Ilie, have studied the mechanics of thrill rides with the aid of a working model of a roller coaster that Christiana has built. The Kingston native will make a presentation on roller coaster dynamics at Quest, the college's daylong celebration of scholarly and creative activity.
"I once went to Disney four times in a year," said Christiana, who has been accepted for a University of Rochester graduate program in engineering and business and is waiting to hear from two universities with mechanical-engineering master's programs.
"You start developing favorites among the rides," Christiana said. "They have books in the parks about how Disney Imagineers design them. I'm the nerd that has to know everything about how things work."
The physics major has gone further with that passion than most. With Ilie's encouragement and the support of a SUNY Oswego Student-Faculty Collaborative Challenge Grant, Christiana has a senior thesis in progress: roller coasters, their history, design challenges, physical forces and the sensations the physics give riders.
Ups and downs
Christiana ordered a kit for a precision working model of a roller coaster, then has systematically set about learning all she could about coasters. It hasn't all been a joy ride.
"I made it and it worked, then it didn't run and I made certain customizations," Christiana said recently. "Then a part dried out and I'm trying to fix it."
Ilie's own passion for physics and mentoring fuel Christiana's own determination, as she understands the rigorous and constant testing it takes to bring a roller coaster design to life and keep it running.
"She read all about the safety aspects engineers need to think about," Ilie said. "What are the challenges? The main challenge is money, as everywhere. So how do you have maximum safety for budgeted money?"
Quest will be Christiana's third scholarly presentation on roller coasters. She spoke last fall on health and safety of thrill rides at a Rochester Academy of Science symposium at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, then recently made a presentation to the American Physical Society's undergraduate division in Baltimore.
"That was an experience," she said of APS. "I've never been around quite that many physicists before."
Christiana has her sights set on someday becoming a Disney Imagineer.
"I realized that Imagineers think a little bit differently," she said of her childhood — now adult — passion for how thrill rides work. "It was a lot like me: I'd watch a Disney movie and say, 'That would be a neat idea for a ride design.' Then I heard that people get paid
to do this and I thought, 'Cool — that would be the best!'"
Parking is free April 17 for visitors to Quest, when hundreds of talks, panel discussions, demonstrations and concurrent events will take place largely in the Campus Center and nearby Lanigan and Snygg halls.


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Upgrades to State System Make Reporting Simple
One Website Enables State Agencies to Electronically Upload Many Required Filing Types
Launched in November 2008, the first phase of the system enabled agencies to file Administrative Rule changes. The new system changes allow state agencies to file Fee Increase Notifications, Agency Reports, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) data, and Ethics Commission Constitutional Rules all in one location: https://www.ok.gov/state/filings/index.php.
"The system was initially built as a result of Senate Bill 1507, passed during the Second Regular Session of the Fifty-first Oklahoma Legislature (2008)," said Nelda Kirk, Deputy Chief of Staff for Administration, Office of Governor Brad Henry. "By moving these filings online, it positions Oklahoma for transparency. In fact, by next year, the public will be able to view submitted Administrative Rules online through this system."
Other benefits of the system include:
The state plans to add more filing types in the future.
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Some attribute ratings are easily understood, if not self explanatory: Speed. Agility. Strength. Others, you're often left guessing what's really going on: Trucking? Finesse Move? Press?
Bowling Green alumnus and Mid-American Conference ambassador Matt Sussman, also a longtime friend of Deadspin, went looking for the league's best player in each category and ended up writing an appendix to what they all mean. For example, "Awareness" means "Wearing brightly-colored ribbons in the hopes that disease is eradicated." Break Tackle involves damage to fishing equipment. "Catch In Traffic" means "I don't recommend this."
I recommend reading all of it, however, as there are nearly 40 attributes in need of a definition and Sussman gives one to all of them. If you want to search through your favourite team or conference's ratings, player-by-player or attribute-by-attribute, you can use the same tool he did, via Prima Games' official guide.
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Nicaragua's leftist government, which has diplomatic relations with Taiwan, is seeking to lure investments from China — in part to offset a possible loss of support from its regional ally Venezuela.
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's government is heavily dependent on aid from fellow leftist Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, including subsidized oil and preferential terms on long-term loans.
However, Chavez faces a stiff challenge in his bid for another term in the Oct. 7 presidential election from Henrique Capriles, candidate from the unified opposition.
Even if he is re-elected, Chavez has battled with cancer for more than a year, and his health remains a question mark.
Since Ortega was re-elected in 2007 Nicaragua has received about US$2 billion in Venezuelan aid, according to official figures — and if elected, Capriles has vowed to review that aid.
"Ortega is getting prepared for a possible reduction in aid from Venezuela" given Chavez's "uncertain" future, opposition lawmaker and ex-foreign affairs minister Victor Tinoco said.
Tinoco said the government is looking at new investors in "all the mega-projects" that it intended to pursue with Venezuelan capital.
Those projects include a US$30 billion inter-oceanic canal through Nicaragua to compete with the Panama Canal, and a US$6.5 billion petrochemical complex to refine, store and distribute fuel to all of Central America.
One possible replacement for Venezuela is China — but Nicaragua is one of 23 countries in the world that has diplomatic relations with Taiwan instead of China.
Latin America, the South Pacific and Africa have been the main battlegrounds for China and Taiwan, which have accused each other of luring allies away with "checkbook diplomacy."
However, Managua's ties to Taipei have not stopped Nicaragua's interest in dealing with China.
This month, Nicaragua said it is in negotiations with China to purchase a US$300 million satellite which they hope launch into orbit by 2016.
The project, Nicasat-1, will cost approximately US$300 million. The Nicaraguan government plans to seek financing from Chinese banks, which have offered favorable interest rates.
"In mid-October of this year, the two parties are going to conclude the negotiations on all aspects of this contract," said He Xing (何星), vice president of the Great Wall of China satellite company, on a visit to Managua.
Earlier this month, Ortega announced that a Chinese company will conduct a feasibility study on building the inter-oceanic canal.
"This is an extraordinary and very important piece of news that may affect the future not only of Nicaragua, but of Central America as a whole," Ortega said.
The current plan calls for building a canal from Monkey Point on Nicaragua's Caribbean coast to Puerto Corinto on the Pacific Ocean. The announcement was made after Ortega met with Chinese businessman Wan Jin (王靖), head of Xinwei Telecom, who is interested in a license to operate a mobile telephone network in Nicaragua.
Trade between the central American country of six million and the Asian giant reached US$17 million last year.
Just as the Chinese government "has shown interest in the Grand Canal project that we are proposing, we also will continue provide openings," said Ortega's son Laureano, an adviser to the government investment agency ProNicaragua, on the government's official Web site.


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C.J. needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 31 designs submitted by 19 freelance designers.
We need a new logo for DosDeals.com.
DosDeals is a site that provides online shoppers with deals and coupon codes.
Open to different design ideas. We are going to base the site re-design (colors, fonts, etc.) around the logo so it shouldn't match the current site design. We want to convey the idea that "dos" means two.
DosDeals is a site that provides online shoppers with deals and coupon codes.
- Simple, clean.
- Logo should convey that this is a shopping site.
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Visit the Galloway Lab website
Injuries to tendons and ligaments result in a slow and imperfect regenerative response. In most cases, the original biomechanical properties of the tissue are never restored, resulting in scarring and limited mobility. Research in our laboratory uses a multidisciplinary approach, combining genetic and chemical screening with different model systems such as zebrafish and stem cells, to identify essential regulators of tendon and ligament biology.
One major area of research in the laboratory aims to identify the cues that direct progenitor cells to become mature tendons and ligaments. During embryogenesis, progenitor cell populations will form the tendon or cartilage tissues in our limbs, head and spine. We are interested in elucidating the factors that regulate this fate decision, expand tendon and ligament populations and promote more faithful differentiation into these lineages.
We are also focused on understanding the critical factors that coordinate the attachments between muscle, tendon, and bone. By combining live-imaging and high-throughput screening approaches, our goal is to identify the molecules and cellular behaviors governing these processes. In the long term, my laboratory aims to transform these discoveries into regenerative biology solutions to better heal and repair tendon and ligament injuries.
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For research positions, please contact email@example.com
Fujimori S, Novak H, Weissenböck M, Jussila M, Gonçalves A, Zeller R, Galloway J, Thesleff I, and Hartmann C. (2010) Wnt/β-catenin signaling in the dental mesenchyme regulates incisor development by regulating Bmp4. Dev Biol, 348 (1):97-106.
Galloway JL*, Delgado I*, Ros MA, and Tabin CJ. (2009) A reevaluation of X-irradiation-induced phocomelia and proximodistal limb patterning. Nature, 460(7253):400-4.
Burns CE*, Galloway JL*, Smith AC, Keefe MD, Cashman TJ, Paik EJ, Mayhall EA, Amsterdam AH, Zon LI. (2009) A genetic screen in zebrafish defines a hierarchical network of pathways required for hematopoietic stem cell emergence. Blood, 113(23):5776-82.
Blitz E, Viukov S, Sharir A, Shwartz Y, Galloway JL, Pryce BA, Johnson RL, Tabin CJ, Schweitzer R, and Zelzer E. (2009) Bone ridge patterning during musculoskeletal assembly is mediated through SCX regulation of Bmp4 at the tendon-skeleton junction. Dev Cell, 17(6):861-73.
Galloway JL, Wingert RA, Thisse C, Thisse B, Zon LI. (2008) Combinatorial regulation of novel erythroid gene expression in zebrafish. Exp Hematol, 36(4):424-32.
Wingert, R.A., Galloway, J.L., Barut, B., Foott, H., Fraenkel, P., Axe, J., Dooley, K., Davidson, A.J., Weber, G., Paw, B., Shaw, G., Kingsley, P., Palis, J., Schubert, H., Chen, O., Kaplan, J., Tübingen 2000 Screen Consortium, and Zon, L.I. Deficiency of glutaredoxin 5 reveals Fe/S clusters are required for vertebrate haem synthesis. Nature, 436, 1035-1039.
Galloway, J.L., Wingert, R.A., Thisse, C., Thisse, B., and Zon, L.I. 2005. Loss of Gata1 but not Gata2 converts erythropoiesis to myelopoiesis in zebrafish embryos. Dev. Cell, 8(1), 109-116.
Wingert, R.A., Brownlie, A., Galloway, J.L., Dooley, K., Fraenkel, P., Axe, J., Barut, B., Davidson, A.J., Noriega, L., Sheng, X., Zhou, Y., Tübingen 2000 Screen Consortium, and Zon, L.I. 2004. The chianti zebrafish mutant provides a model for erythroid-specific disruption of transferrin receptor 1. Development, 131(24), 6225-6235.
Rodriguez CI, Buchholz F, Galloway J, Sequerra R, Kasper J, Ayala R, Stewart AF, Dymecki SM. 2000. High-efficiency deleter mice show that FLPe is an alternative to Cre-loxP. Nat Genet, 25(2), 139-40.
Review Articles:
Galloway JL and Tabin CJ. (2008) Classic limb patterning models and the work of Dennis Summerbell. Development, 135(16):2683-7.
Galloway, J.L. and Zon, L.I. 2003. Ontogeny of hematopoiesis: examining the emergence of hematopoietic cells in the vertebrate embryo. Curr Top Dev Biol, 53,139-58.
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All we ever hear from NBC when it pitches Stargate Universe is how it beat Stargate Atlantis in some fashion. They keep trying to equate Stargate Universe ratings to something spectacular. Sure, the way they spin it, the numbers are great. But let's take a closer look at a few items from both shows.
When Stargate Universe (SGU) premiered on October 2nd of 2009, Syfy announced its excitement about the viewer numbers. The 2-part SGU premiere produced 2.3 million viewers, which for Syfy on a Friday night, were decent numbers.
The show averaged almost 2.9 million viewers through October and Syfy noted with a press release that 2.9 million viewers was better than the last season of Stargate Atlantis. Or 36% more viewers.
The First 8 Episodes of SGU
More recently, (January 2010) Syfy was getting even more excited about SGU's ratings because when they add in the Live+7 DVR ratings, the first 8 episodes of SGU averaged of 2.64 million viewers.
They go on to compare these numbers to the 5th and final season of Stargate Atlantis, purporting that it's a 26% increase in viewers. They just keep comparing SGU's online and live numbers to Stargate Atlantis 5th season. WHY?
Wait, it gets better. Do you think I'd be going on and on if it didn't?
The First 10 Episodes of SGU
From one of NBC's latest press releases, "the winter season of Stargate Universe became the most watched Stargate franchise series since 2005 (Stargate Atlantis season 1)." As if there are a lot of Stargate shows to choose from!
Including Live + 7 DVR viewing data, Stargate Universe's first year averaged 2.57 million total viewers. Notice the average dropped from the first 8 episodes?
They go on to compare to SGA, again: Compared to the 2008-09 Stargate Atlantis season 5, SGU had 22% more total viewers. This number, is again, down from the first 8 episode stats. They've also referenced the first 10 episodes in their press release as "Stargate Universe's first year."
I'm getting suspicious. So now they outright call a half-season of 10 episodes a full season, and declare that it will return for a 2nd season in 2010.
Now that we're done extolling the virtues of Stargate Universe, comparing it to everything dating back to 2005, I think I want to pitch just one more Stargate Atlantis fact. One that I dug up on my own, without any help from NBC / Syfy.
The Stargate Atlantis 2004 Numbers
So why doesn't NBC compare SGU to the 2004 numbers of Stargate Atlantis?
When Stargate Atlantis premiered in 2004, it drew in 4.2 million viewers. If I were to quote percentages like Syfy likes to do, SGU's premiere only drew in 56% of the audience that SGA had. (Did they have DVR numbers in 2004? Oh... no?). The 4.2 million viewers was the biggest ratings for any of their series', up to that point.
So What Am I Seeing?
What I'm seeing is how NBC totally torqued the premise of Stargate into a dark mimic of Battlestar Galactica. They think they're doing great and they keep telling us just how awesome it is... compared to the last few years of SGA.
Though they went "BSG dark", their numbers didn't compare to the BSG mini-series that brought in approximately 3.7 million viewers. But then they didn't learn their lesson as the ratings declined consistently from there. After the mini-series, the Battlestar Galactica series premiere pulled in a Nielsen number of a 2.6, or just under 3 million viewers and on a fairly consistent level, numbers declined from there. Much like most shows do actually.
So, don't be fooled by the SGU spin that NBC is pitching at us about how awesome it is performing and what it's beating. Sure, it's doing OK. But it's not hitting it out of the park. As I like to think of it: Most little league parents go totally berserk when their little one nails one... out of the batter's box. So too is NBC with their SGU press releases.
Can SGU Be Fixed?
NBC needs to reevaluate their approach to Stargate Universe. It can be saved, but it needs some serious duct tape to do it. They've set a tone that has caused irreparable harm with the core Stargate audience. They now need to kiss our a** and make some changes. That, is what will get their numbers up.
I don't mind it as it is, but with the depression that is Caprica premiering on January 22nd, Stargate Universe will no longer stand out as the only dark tragedy on Syfy. Maybe now that Comcast has bought into NBC, maybe they'll step up.
Call me, NBC. I'd be willing to work with you and help make a few changes. Let's get Teal'c and Ronon on the Destiny. That should straighten out Dr. Rush! Let's get Lt. Colonel John Sheppard in the mix. For real, with no stones. Make something up and get them on the ship! I know you can do it.
ScreenRant readers, sound off for us. What do you think they need to add to the show to crank it back up to the Stargate it used to be? Be creative and be productive. We already know its shortcomings. Come up with some constructive changes! Let NBC know what you're thinking!
Sources: Sci Fi Wire, NBC Press Release, Variety, Gateworld, TV By the Numbers, io9


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The Intimate Link Between Erectile Dysfunction and Heart DiseaseOctober 2007
By William Davis, MD
In the early years of my cardiology practice, I was surprised by the number of men with heart disease who also suffered from impotence. In fact, being incapable of having an erection was the norm rather than the exception after heart attack. In those days, impotence was widely attributed to the psychological depression that often followed heart attack.
But closer questioning often revealed a very different story—men would admit that struggles to achieve an erection usually preceded a heart attack or other cardiac event by one, two, or three years. Back then, the pattern of erectile dysfunction and cardiac disease was so widespread, that most in the medical profession attributed it to simple "aging," as common as wrinkles and constipation.
Today, we know that a convergence of findings relates male impotence—called erectile dysfunction (ED)—with heart disease. The two conditions are varied expressions of a common phenomenon, and are surprisingly similar. If you have one, you're likely to have the other.
Powerful clinical and scientific experience suggests a close link between erectile dysfunction and heart disease. Studies like the Health Professionals Follow-up Study have revealed the risk factors for erectile dysfunction to be very similar to those for heart disease. Hypertension, smoking, diabetes, high cholesterol, obesity, and physical inactivity all strongly predict sexual dysfunction in men, as they do heart disease.1
The Massachusetts Male Aging Study of 1,290 men, aged 40–70 years, has documented the extraordinarily high prevalence of erectile dysfunction among aging men: 50% of men at 50 years of age, and 70% by age 70 have erectile dysfunction.2 Furthermore, a recent Italian study of men with severe heart disease has uncovered an astounding 93% with erectile dysfunction 24 months before their heart attack or onset of heart disease symptoms.3
As many of us failed to recognize years earlier, these studies reveal that erectile dysfunction and coronary disease are, in many respects, one and the same. The risks are identical, the paths to both are largely the same, though the immediate consequences are different.
Erectile Physiology
In their younger years, most men take the physical act of attaining an erection for granted, as natural and automatic as sweating or digestion. But a complex interplay of physio-logical activities needs to be initiated and precisely coordinated to trigger, achieve, and maintain an erection.
First of all, libido (sexual desire) triggers a sympathetic (adrenaline-dependent) nervous system reaction mediated through the thoracic spinal cord. Also important is tactile stimulation, the pleasurable effect of touch, which is mediated through the acetylcholine-dependent parasympathetic nervous system. Both the sympathetic and parasympathetic forces regulate the release of nitric oxide—the universal artery-relaxing agent—from the cells lining the penile arteries and all its smaller branches. Nitric oxide causes the arteries to enlarge, increasing blood flow into the penile tissues. This is followed by compression of blood-draining penile veins, which causes blood to engorge the penis and create an erection.4
A disruption anywhere along the complex chain of events will impair the capacity to have an erection. Any man who has experienced the frustration of male impotence knows that the consequences extend beyond physical dissatisfaction to anxiety, tension, and embarrassment. A common reason for failure of the erectile apparatus is disruption of the path leading to nitric oxide production and blood flow control.
Nitric Oxide—A Common Denominator
Nitric oxide is crucial for a normal erection to proceed. A universal substance in biological systems, nitric oxide has a primal, powerful ability to dilate (relax) blood vessels.5-7 In the human body, nitric oxide exerts its dilating effects for only a few moments before being degraded.
In the vessels that supply the heart, healthy arteries enlarge in diameter up to 50% during exercise when sufficient nitric oxide is present. Because of its brief half-life, a continual supply of nitric oxide is required for optimal effect. If the supply of nitric oxide is inadequate, endothelial dysfunction—a core factor in heart disease—is made worse. Endothelial dysfunction can trigger the growth of coronary plaque.8
A similar situation develops in the fragile penile circulation. Any disturbance in nitric oxide production lowers the capacity to dilate penile arteries, impairing penile engorgement for erection. Release of nitric oxide is readily sabotaged by many conditions, including elevated levels of cholesterol, high blood pressure, increased triglycerides, smoking, metabolic syndrome and diabetes, and excessive consumption of dietary saturated fat.9 If an artery's inner wall can't produce nitric oxide, an abnormal constriction of the arteries to the penis follows, effectively choking off blood flow.
Disruption in Nitric Oxide Synthesis
The body's source for nitric oxide production is the amino acid L-arginine, which is naturally found in many foods. The average American ingests about 3,000–5,000 mg of L-arginine per day, as it is an amino acid naturally contained in many foods. Meats of all varieties, nuts, and dairy products are rich in L-arginine, so the body is accustomed to intake levels of several thousand milligrams every day.
A deficiency of L-arginine, however, does not generally disrupt nitric oxide synthesis because L-arginine availability is not the rate-limiting step in this process. In fact, research over the past five years has identified an endogenous (occurs in the body naturally) inhibitor called "asymmetric dimethylarginine" or ADMA, an amino acid which blocks the production of nitric oxide. By acting as an L-arginine mimic, this damaging look-alike effectively elbows out L-arginine and pushes it off to the side in the biochemical pathway leading to the synthesis of nitric oxide. ADMA is relatively elevated in patients with hypertension, high levels of cholesterol, triglycerides, homocysteine and low-density lipoprotein (LDL), and low levels of high-density lipoprotein (HDL), as well as with aging itself. This inhibitor of nitric oxide synthesis may very well be the common factor shared by all of these abnormal conditions. Increased levels of this detrimental inhibitor (ADMA) block nitric oxide production, leading to endothelial dysfunction.
Impact of Metabolic Syndrome
A collection of risk factors that strongly predict heart disease—termed the metabolic syndrome—is also associated with erectile dysfunction. An increasingly prevalent condition, this syndrome includes low HDL, increased triglycerides, high blood sugar, and heightened inflammation and causes a three-fold or greater risk of heart attack, stroke, and diabetes. It is largely attributable to excess weight, poor diet, and inactivity and afflicts at least 47 million Americans, signaling that an epidemic of erectile dysfunction is sure to follow. Indeed, a survey of 2,400 men participating in a health screening revealed that metabolic syndrome increases the likelihood of erectile dysfunction by 48%.10
Metabolic syndrome is characterized by HDL below 50 mg/dL in women, below 40 mg/dL in men; triglycerides above 150 mg/dL; blood pressure above 130/85 mm Hg; excess abdominal girth, and fasting blood sugar above 100 mg/dL. The likelihood of developing metabolic syndrome escalates sharply above a body mass index (BMI) of 27.
To make matters worse, men with features of the metabolic syndrome are far more likely to have low levels of testosterone, the primary male sex hormone.11 Obesity is also associated with reduced testosterone levels; the greater the excess body weight, the lower the testosterone.12
Declining Testosterone Levels
Low testosterone represents another link between erectile dysfunction and heart disease. A man's testosterone levels gradually diminish beginning at age 30. By the time he reaches his 70s, testosterone levels may have dropped to a tenth of youthful levels. Diminishing testosterone levels contribute to loss of muscle, increased body fat, and reduced libido. Fatigue is common, as is depression. Low testosterone levels can also result in reduced concentration, irritability, passivity, loss of interest in activities, and even hypochondria.
Some call the transition period of the mid-40s the "male menopause" or "andropause." The changes are indeed distinct, though not as visible as the female menopause. As there is no external cue comparable to cessation of a woman's menstrual cycle, most men simply dismiss the changes as "getting old."
Testosterone replacement can help to reverse many of the manifestations of reduced testosterone, boosting muscle strength and vigor, restoring lost libido, and helping control weight.13
Potential benefits of testosterone replacement in men with low starting levels include:
Low testosterone levels have been found to be more common in men with heart disease. In one study, men with confirmed heart disease had lower testosterone levels than healthy control subjects, whereas those with the most severe heart disease had the lowest levels of testosterone.18
Severe testosterone deficiency, known as "hypogonadism," is present in approximately 2–35% of men with erectile dysfunction.19 However, lesser degrees of deficiency are common, perhaps present in the majority, depending on the definition of "low" applied, the method of measurement, and the parameter being used to define testosterone (total, free, or bioavailable) deficiency.19,20 Most authorities agree that a total testosterone level below 300 ng/dL is clearly low, and that 300–400 ng/dL is low to low-to-normal. Most studies using testosterone replacement for erectile dysfunction have attempted to achieve blood levels of 450–850 ng/dL.
In years past, before nitric oxide and its role in the erectile response was appreciated, testosterone was used to treat sexual dysfunction in men. It proved a partial success as a standalone therapy, resulting in improved erectile potency in 40–60% of men with low-to-normal testosterone levels. The likelihood of success increased, however, if starting testosterone levels were low (usually defined as below 300 ng/dL), in which case improved erections were experienced by as many as 65% of men, compared with 16.7% receiving placebo; topical testosterone preparations were also noted to be superior to oral replacement or injections.21 These findings were confirmed by another study that showed testosterone produced modest improvements in erectile function and libido in men with low-to-normal testosterone levels.22
Now that we better appreciate the complex sequence of events necessary for erections to occur, it's no surprise that testosterone alone yields less than perfect results. Erectile dysfunction represents more than just low testosterone, which is just one facet of the spectrum of dysfunctional phenomena that cause sexual dysfunction. Nonetheless, when testosterone is combined with popular drugs like Viagra®, success is enhanced to an even greater degree—orgasmic function improves, along with erectile capacity and libido.20 Testosterone also activates penile nitric oxide; ultrasound studies have demonstrated a 27% increase in arterial blood flow into the penis with testosterone supplementation.23


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Lübeck is unique and wonderful. This is why UNESCO declared the existing cityscape to be a World Cultural Heritage Site in 1987. The water-enclosed Old Town with its roughly 1,800 listed buildings, historical alleyways and criss-crossed lanes is not, however, just pretty to the eye, but is also the hub of an extremely lively, major city with roughly 214,000 inhabitants.
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Here is a new video game trailer. It starts with an attempt to be serious, with an expression of a desire — presumably by some unseen game creators — for a video game to mean something.
Yes, it starts with gravitas... joke gravitas, we'll soon find out.
That lasts about 30 seconds, because in the context of this trailer, gravitas doesn't seem like much fun. Blowing stuff up is more fun (let's be honest, in video games it usually is!.
Forty seconds in, the selling point is: "zero accountability".
A few seconds after that, we get bad one-liners and then the clincher: "Hot damn, I love this war."
The trailer here is ostensibly for an early-2013 downloadable Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network helicopter action game Thunder Wolves, but it also doubles as a perfect encapsulation of a cynical view of the video game industry: that the attempts to be serious are but a tedious token effort eagerly disposed of by those who would rather just get to the action and the blowing up of things.
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Take a photo on the first day of school, frame it and then have your child hold it for a photo at the end of this school year. You may be amazed at just how much they've grown! A variation on this idea is to have your child hold last year's photo, and then the next year they will hold a photo of them holding a photo from the previous year and so on. The idea is by the time they hit 12th grade, one photo will show them all the way back to kindergarten.
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Many families have a tradition of measuring kids each year and marking it on the wall to showcase how much they've grown. If you're looking for a discreet way to track your child's height, consider using the inside of a doorjamb. Or, you could embrace it and turn your measuring system into an attractive piece of home décor. We love these gigantic school rulers!
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Top Stories Sure, you could read the box score and know who won, but we all know that won't tell you everything that happened in a football game. So, we will give you Bird Bits providing you with the analysis, quotes and notes from the Cardinals' 27-13 loss to the San Francisco 49ers.The Story:The Arizona Cardinals concluded their dismal 2012 campaign in fitting fashion, as they lost to the San Francisco 49ers 27-13 in a clunker. Noted:• Dave Zastudil has been one of the few bright spots in 2012. Sunday, he added to his league-record with two more punts inside the 20-yard line, including a 70-yard bomb in the first quarter.• If Sunday was Beanie Wells' final audition for the other 31 teams in the NFL, it didn't exactly go according to plan. Ken Whisenhunt pulled the curtain on the running back's final act of 2012. Wells didn't play at all in Arizona's loss.• The last time Arizona lost 11 games in a season was 2010, meaning Ken Whisenhunt has had two 11-loss campaigns in six seasons.Coming Up Next:The Cardinals will have to wait until 2013 to rectify their underwhelming 11-loss season. Until then, expect plenty of notable personnel moves to take place in the offseason. – / 22 Derrick Hall satisfied with D-backs' buying and selling Arizona's offense was not abysmal on Sunday, but the unit was also not very efficient. After two first half field goals by Jay Feely, Brian Hoyer and Co. were stifled by the league's fourth-ranked pass defense for most of the afternoon. Hoyer, making his first career NFL start, finished 19-of-34 for 225 yards with a touchdown and an interception. The problem was most of his positive play came with the game out of reach. Hoyer completed 10 passes for 90 yards in the fourth quarter.William Powell, arguably the team's most talented running back in a group decimated by injuries, poor protection and inconsistency, rushed for 52 yards but wasn't a focal point of the offense after the Cardinals fell behind by double digits in the second half.Playing from behind started to take its toll on the Cardinals defense, as well. After giving up just 10 yards of offense in the first quarter, Ray Horton's unit looked susceptible to the big play and Colin Kaepernick and Co. took note. San Francisco accumulated 397 yards over the final three quarters en route to an easy victory and a second straight NFC West title.The Good:Brian Hoyer didn't light up the scoreboard Sunday afternoon, but outside of a late interception, he also didn't commit costly turnovers like his predecessors John Skelton and Ryan Lindley. Hoyer might not have made the case to be the team's leading option at starting quarterback heading into 2013, but the veteran looks to have the tools to be a quality backup.He also threw the team's first passing touchdown since Week 9.Michael Floyd saved his best for last in his rookie season. The No. 13 overall pick had eight catches for 166 yards and a touchdown Sunday.Arizona gave up several big plays through the air but managed to keep Frank Gore in check. San Francisco's leading rusher had only 68 yards on 20 carries. The Bad:Larry Fitzgerald was a non-factor on Sunday, a theme which has been constant over the team's final 11 games. The six-time Pro Bowler had two catches for 13 yards and was targeted just five times.Patrick Peterson may have made great strides as a cornerback this season, but the two-time Pro Bowler has a long way to go when it comes to defending San Francisco's Michael Crabtree. In their Week 8 showdown, Crabtree had five catches for 72 yards and two touchdowns. Sunday he had even more fun toying with Peterson. The former Texas Tech star recorded eight catches for 172 yards and two scores.He Said It:"It's hard because you want to gain consistency with one guy, but we just have to stay together. And that's what we did. Fitz and the older players always say that when the ball comes to you, you have to make a play. Because if you don't, you never know when the ball will come back to you." – Wide receiver Michael Floyd on quarterback situation Former Cardinals kicker Phil Dawson retires Comments Share The 5: Takeaways from the Coyotes' introduction of Alex Meruelo Grace expects Greinke trade to have emotional impact


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I came into the office this morning and discovered someone had left mysterious little fossils on my desk. I think I can identify these fossils (although nailing the specific species may be tricky). Can you identify them?
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Emotional AI (or emotion recognition AI) can be described as the automated detection of human emotions and feelings using software. Read on for an overview of emotional AI and potential use cases/applications.
Each year, EContent magazine compiles a list of the 100 companies that matter most in the digital content industry.
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Company: The New Yorker MagazineThe New Yorker is a literary giant, one of the cornerstone magazines of the past 100 years. Now part of Conde Nast Publishing, the New Yorker continues to have a healthy print publishing business, and has built an impressive online business that includes an advertising-supported Web site and a comprehensive ecommerce site that markets everything from framed reprints of the New Yorker's famous cover illustrations to note cards and shower curtains. www.newyorker.com; http://archive.newyorker.com
Business Challenge The New Yorker was interested in providing a complete archive of its magazine to its readers, and was intent on also providing a disc-based product. As Ed Klaris, general counsel and project director, put it, "The goal was to give people the archive the way they want it, with the feeling of ownership that we thought would be important to them." Yet the archive is a complicated one—more than 80 years of a weekly magazine chock-full of text, illustrations, advertising, and photography—and a requirement to provide a reading and viewing experience that meets or exceeds the print magazine itself.
Vendor of Choice: Bondi Digital Publishing and LizardTech Bondi Digital Publishing provides magazines with solutions for digital distribution. For this project, Bondi provided the overall product design, software development, and integration, working closely with the New Yorker team through all phases of the product development. Because of the size of the archive (over 60GB) and the demanding rendering requirements, Bondi and the New Yorker chose the DjVu viewing technology from LizardTech. The DjVu technology provides excellent rendering of both the typography and the graphics, with a compression ratio better than Adobe's PDF. The better compression enabled the product to be delivered on eight DVDs. www.bondidigital.com; www.lizardtech.com
Yet the text rendering is just as critical. The 80 years of the weekly New Yorker totaled more than 200,000 pages, many chock-full of text. The viewing technology would need to provide excellent rendering of the text. As Murat Aktar, president of Bondi Digital, explained, "The New Yorker team was very focused on how people would use the product, especially the reading experience. Making something glitzy is great, but in this case, reading is critical, and the reading should be easy and not fatiguing."
Along with the rendering, the size of the content base also presented practical challenges of search and navigation. In addition to digitizing the magazine content itself, the New Yorker team also decided to digitize index cards of article and illustration metadata that dated back 80 years. This metadata would allow lookup by typical features such as author, genre, date, and keyword, but would also allow readers to look up articles and illustrations by which department of the magazine they originally appeared in, which is a well-understood part of the magazine.
One additional practical challenge loomed, which is that New Yorker readers would expect a Macintosh version of the software to be available. While the overall Macintosh market might be 5%-6% of the market, New Yorker readership is about 30% Macintosh, as so many of their readers work in the creative industries and education, where the Macintosh has its strongest foothold. So the goal from the beginning was to create a product that was identical in functionality and interface across the two platforms. But the driving overall challenge, as the New Yorker team saw it, was to provide a high-quality experience to the reader, befitting its tradition of editorial and design excellence.


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The 24th Annual GLAAD Media Award Nominations were announced this morning. The list includes several pleasant surprises, such as the The L.A. Complex nominated for "Outstanding Drama Series." The series and its delicious storyline about a closeted gangsta rapper attracted a cult fanbase ... but not nearly enough viewers to avoid cancellation last month.
Rod 2.0 has been nominated for "Outstanding Bog" for the third consecutive year. The other nominees: Autostraddle, Blac(k)ademic, The New Civil Rights Movement and Towleroad. The nominees are terrific. So delighted to be included among them.
The full list of nominees HERE.
Last year we had the honor of being nominated in two categories—"Outstanding Magazine Article" and "Outstanding Blog." The article was "Making It Work: Black Same Sex Couples Raising Kids in the South" in the October 2011 EBONY.
More good news for EBONY this year. Marc Lamont Hill and EBONY.com were nominated for "Outstanding Digital Journalism Article" in "Why Aren't We Fighting for CeCe McDonald?" Other nominees in that category include CNBC.com, Advocate.com, Huffington Post and Buzzfeed's Chris Geidner.
The GLAAD Media Awards are intended to recognize and honor "culture-changing LGBT images and stories." The awards will be celebrated in three ceremonies: New York City on March 16, Los Angeles on April 20 and San Francisco on May 11.
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MILWAUKEE, Wis. - Cardiac Science Corporation, a company which manufactures and markets diagnostic and therapeutic cardiology products and services, violated federal law by refusing severance pay to employees who file discrimination charges with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the EEOC charged in a new lawsuit.
According to John Rowe, director of EEOC's Chicago District, which includes Wisconsin, the agency's investigation revealed that on Oct. 19, 2010, Cardiac Science offered severance agreements to Lashell Love and 56 other employees it had decided to lay off. The agreements were identical except for each employee's name and the monetary amount offered to him or her. When Cardiac Science learned that Love had previously filed an EEOC charge against it, the EEOC said, it refused to give her the severance payments and benefits it had promised her.
"The language in the severance agreements appears to have been intended to deter the other 56 employees from filing their own EEOC charges, and that interferes with our ability to identify discrimination and enforce the law," said Rowe.
Cardiac Science's conduct violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the EEOC said. The EEOC filed suit after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process. The agency seeks lost severance benefits and compensatory and punitive damages for Love, an order barring future discrimination and other relief. The suit, captioned EEOC v. Cardiac Science Corporation (Civil Action No. 13-cv-1079), was filed Sept. 25, 2013 in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and assigned to U.S. District Magistrate Judge William E Callahan, Jr.
"Federal law guarantees each individual the right to file a charge with the EEOC if he or she believes that job discrimination has occurred," Rowe said. "The EEOC cannot stand by while employers try to deter employees from exercising the rights that Congress has guaranteed them."
EEOC Chicago Regional Attorney John C. Hendrickson added, "The EEOC's position is that no employer can take away a benefit -- whether it's vacation time, overtime pay, or, as here, severance pay -- simply because an employee otherwise entitled to that benefit will not give up his or her federal statutory right to contact the EEOC and file a charge. Employers who insist on using retaliatory threats of withheld benefits to force signatures on such agreements can count on a challenge from us. We're determined to ensure that workers are not deprived of their rights under federal law."
According to its website, Cardiac Science is a subsidiary of Opto Cardiac Care Ltd. headquartered in Bengaluru, India. Based in Waukesha, Wis., Cardiac Science also has operations in California, China, central Europe, Denmark, France and Great Britain. It has direct and indirect sales personnel and distribution in more than 100 countries and an extensive worldwide service network.
The EEOC's Chicago District Office is responsible for processing charges of discrimination, administrative enforcement and the conduct of agency litigation in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin, with Area Offices in Milwaukee and Minneapolis. The case will be litigated by attorneys in the Milwaukee Area Office.
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting discrimination in employment. Further information about the Commission is available on its website at www.eeoc.gov.


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z Mobile Marketing Certificate
Program Courses
Advanced Mobile Marketing
Creating Cell Phone Apps for your Business
Introduction to Mobile Marketing
Other Online Certificates and Courses
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Come get the knowledge needed to implement a mobile marketing plan for your organization. Find out about proximity marketing, mobile marketing metrics, and developing a mobile marketing campaign.
Learn how to promote your app on the web, building a landing page for your app, and advanced tracking of your application usage.
Then take home a blueprint for creating guidelines and standards for your mobile marketing effort, and how to measure its success. You will leave this course with the knowledge to implement a mobile marketing plan for your organization.
One month course, Simon Salt, instructor.
About online learning
Online learning is a fun, enjoyable and very productive way to learn. Millions of people are learning online each year. You will engage with the instructor and other participants. You will get to know your instructor and other participants. You may make friends. It's easy. It's fun.
How the Course Works
It is easy to participate in your online course. After you register, you will be given a web address to go to get into your online classroom. You will have a password and use your email address and password to gain access.
Once inside the online classroom, here's what you can expect.
Participate when you want
You can participate any time of day or evening. The online classroom is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
There are no live real-time requirements or meetings. You decide when you participate.
For the best learning, participants should log into the course on 2-3 different days of the week.
What you will do
For each Unit, you will:
For best learning, you should make one or more comments at 2-3 different times each day.
The content (readings, audio lectures, slides) and self quizzes are accessible for the entire course, so you can work ahead, or go back and review again, at your convenience.
The Discussion for each Unit lasts one week. All comments are made in writing and can be made at any time of the day or night.
Your instructor will log into the Discussion area at least once a day and answer questions, make comments, and respond to comments by you and the other participants.
We encourage you to make 2-3 comments each day to maximize your learning and enjoyment of the course.
It's easy. It's fun.
Advanced Mobile Marketing
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Creating Cell Phone Apps for your Business
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Introduction to Mobile Marketing
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Simon Salt is CEO of Marketing Communications Agency IncSlingers. He is the Author of Social Location Marketing. A Blogger, Writer & Digital Strategist. He has been published online by Mashable, Read Write Web & others. He speaks internationally on the topic of Digital, Mobile and Social Marketing. He works with organizations as diverse as Fortune 500's to Startups and Global PR agencies as both a strategic consultant and as an online brand advocate.