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Monthly Archives: September 2006
Something to wear
by Chris Clarke
Since a couple people have suggested "Enemy Combatant" T-shirts, I fixed it so that you can get some. The above design and a simpler one are available here. I put a small markup on the shirts: any leftover money I'll give to an appropriate organization. Suggestions welcome.
by Chris Clarke
There was a request in comments yesterday for suggested actions. The always clear-minded BitchPhD has some:
[O]kay, so what are you going to do about it?
Here's my list.
1. Mail in my registration to vote at my new address today.
2. This weekend, talk to Mr. B. about volunteering, money, and a strategy for what to do about the upcoming election.
3. As I get to know the other parents at PK's school, ask what they think about the upcoming election, the new law suspending habeas corpus, etc.
4. Convince my dad, who lives in a reddish part of a blue state, that he has both the time and responsibility to call *his* local Democratic organization and volunteer to help register/get out the vote.
5. Call *my* local Democratic organization and volunteer to help with whatever.
6. Join the ACLU. No, I don't belong yet. Yes, I am ashamed. Find out who else to join/read/subscribe to, especially locally, to get the political lay of the land here.That's for starters. You? Suggestions?
And yeah, I know what some of you (including me) will think about that "getting involved with the Dems" thing. We're not in a position to throw tools away, says this Green.
Oh, and let's be clear about what happened yesterday
by Chris Clarke
What happened yesterday is that the Republican-controlled Congress decided to make formal policy what has been de facto policy for years.
That's a clip from Peter Davis' devastating 1974 Viet Nam documentary, Hearts and Minds.
There is more information on this fine American tradition here. This is nothing new. Yesterday's vote marks a shameful expansion of and acquiescence to this evil, but this is nothing new.
The difference between me and Eric Muller, UNC professor of law
by Chris Clarke
… is that I knew some weeks ago about the existence of the alleged Michelle Malkin 1992 spring break photos Muller refers to in this post, and it was manifestly clear to me that it would be wrong to use them to the left's political advantage. In fact, a friend and I briefly considered informing Malkin that they were there. And now it seems we should have.
Why was it wrong to use the photos? Because when you adopt Karl Rove's tactics, the abyss will look into you.
Isn't that right, Wonkettesters?
I am an enemy combatant
by Chris Clarke
I have been thinking a lot these days of the story they tell about King Christian: when the occupying Nazis required Danish Jews wear the yellow Star of David armband, the king donned one for his daily rides through København as an expression of solidarity. This inspired the common Danes, who all started wearing armbands, making it impossible for the Nazis to tell Jew from Gentile.
The story is untrue: Danish Jews faced many dangers from the genocidal Nazis, but they were never ordered to wear the yellow badge. But the story resonates, with its "I Am Spartacus" moral of taking a firm, perhaps risky stand with those who are oppressed.
I have been thinking as well of the Free Speech Fights. Starting a century ago and lasting well into the Great War, municipalities across the western US banned sidewalk oration in response to a surge of union organizing. In Fresno, in Spokane and Seattle and Kansas City and about two dozen other places, union organizers were arrested for the crime of addressing passers-by. The Industrial Workers of the World responded: IWW activists — "Wobblies" — came into town, stood up on soapboxes, uttered the usual Wobbly salutation "Fellow Workers!" and were hauled off to jail. Soon the jails were full to bursting with Wobs, and towns realized they'd better rescind the free speech bans or go broke feeding prisoners. A simple idea behind a strategy that won every time: "They can't take us all." The Wobs faced more than arrests. They faced occasional mob violence from the equivalents of modern day Freepers. But they won, and today we assume their victories as our birthright. No Wobs, no blogs.
Forty years ago, one of my late neighbors involved in a very similar Free Speech fight stood on the steps of Sproul Hall, UC Berkeley's administration building, and told an assembled crowd:
There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part, you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!
For all its manifold faults, for all its history steeped in racism and genocide, for all its wars of empire and Know-Nothing heritage, this country was manifestly founded on the notion that a just government bases its authority in the consent of the governed. Now the Bush administration has declared that the interests of this country are coincident with, and limited to, the short-term interests of the administration and its corporate backers, and the most basic, most essential Constitutional rights of the citizenry be damned, not by the odious exceptionalism of privilege that marred this country's history, but across the board. All of us are three-fifths of a person now, granted the privilege of full protection only if we do nothing that requires protection, unless we are unlucky enough to be falsely accused. And I withdraw my consent.
I withdraw my consent. I am no one: a cog in the machine Mario Savio described. I am a man who would rather tell jokes than argue politics, would rather hike than march. But I have fought, over the course of my life, when the operation of the machine deprives me of the privilege of self-absorption. I have worked the past 14 years to educate, to inflame the public so that they might oppose environmental destruction done to enrich those who run the administration. I have worked the last three decades, if sporadically and without much consequence, to oppose the use of violence in the service of politics — any politics.
The Bush administration claims that all those who oppose it, though they think themselves loyal citizens sworn to defend the US Constitution, are enemies. I have opposed the Bush administration since before it began. The conclusion is a simple matter of logic.
I am an enemy combatant.
I am an enemy combatant, and I admit it freely and without reservation. You who reserve the right to climb up on that soapbox to say things unflattering to those in power: enemy combatants all. I am putting on that yellow armband. There are unlimited yellow armbands to be worn. One size fits all.
Daily dog report
by Chris Clarke
More lab results in, and unsurprisingly, as Zeke is not a Lab, they're negative. This means the vets have ruled out Addison's Disease and Cushing's Disease as reasons for Zeke's odd suite of slightly-off blood-enzyme-and-hormone readings and the low blood sugar. "Could it be," I asked her this afternoon, "that he was just hungry?" "Possibly," she said. They still haven't ruled out myelopathy to their satisfaction, though if that's what it is it's such a slow onset case as to be a wild outlier in the myelopathy bell curve.
We might treat his low thyroid levels, or we might not. They're borderline. I did some digging on the web, and found out that some vets are using the anti-viral amantidine as a pain control drug for chronic pain in dogs, in conjunction with more traditional drugs such as Tramadol, first described in a novel by Kurt Vonnegut a synthetic opioid Zeke's already taking. Amantidine works to numb the section of the brain responsible for "windup pain," and thus the drug should work in positive synergy with the Tramadol. I suggested it to my vet, and despite the fact that I thus became the most annoying type of person in the medical world, namely "caretaker who looks things up on the web," and our vet hadn't used amantidine that way ever, she looked into it and is all for it.
Meanwhile, to combat his low blood sugar problem, we've been offering him tempting food three times a day. By "tempting food" I mean ground turkey, roast beef hash, chicken breast, mashed potatoes, etc. I saw ground bison at the store today, remembered how much Zeke liked sharing it with me, and thought "what the hell." He's lucky, I know, but we're luckier.
This has been a scary week. He's feeling better, and it seems he's got a shot at reaching birthday number 16, five months from now, in some comfort. Nothing is certain, of course. Turkey and mashed potatoes: every day is Thanksgiving around here these days.


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Park City, Utah This historic silver mining town's Main Street resembled Mardi Gras on snow Saturday afternoon. With extra cops.
"Can I look inside your bag?" the police officer in a bright yellow ski jacket asked politely.
The brightly garbed law enforcement officers were everywhere on Park City's steeply pitched main drag, gathered in bunches of two and three every half block. The street was closed to traffic, and Olympic celebrants roamed the outdoor food stands.
The extra law enforcement presence did not dampen the enthusiasm of people from all over the globe who came to see and be seen.
"Do you know what a rooster says in English and what a rooster says in Spanish?" a man from South America called out to passersby. "In English a rooster says 'cock-a-doodle doo.' In Spanish he says, 'Cook-ooo-loo-koo!'"
Whatever. It was a street party with extra security.
The folks from Coca-Cola put a heated tent over a vacant lot and built a false-front western building on the street level. Inside, kids shopped for Coke souvenirs. On the street three hyper young men employed by Coke were using drum sticks to bang out staccato rhythms on metal trash can lids. They weren't particularly gifted, but the crowd that gathered screamed for more.
Kent Kirkpatrick of Steamboat Springs wandered by, relaxing after serving as a ski jump marker during the morning's Nordic combined K90 competition. Kirkpatrick observed wryly that he had been assigned to stand at the 54-meter mark on the landing hill. Since no competitor jumped fewer than 80 meters, Kirkpatrick was somewhat superfluous during the competition.
"I was standing right next to Mitch Clementson," Kirkpatrick said. "We just stood in the sun all day and watched them soar over us.
"It was fantastic."
At a store called "Roots," the line of people waiting to get in stretched out the door and numbered 43. The eager shoppers wanted a crack at the official uniform clothing of the U.S. Olympic Team.
"My wife sent me here to get a certain hat," Ken Klestinec of San Diego deadpanned. Kathy Herriage came all the way from Dallas to be at the Winter Games. But she doesn't expect to actually attend any competitions.
She came as part of the "More Than Gold" ministry, simply to volunteer. She began at 8:15 a.m. dispensing coffee to other volunteers. From 2 to 6 p.m. she had a special duty, manning one of the many outdoor burners that celebrants used to warm their hands. The burners were well-disguised in large steel cauldrons fitted with gas-logs. Strangers gathered by the warming flames and fell into conversation.
Herriage stood faithfully by her burner with an igniter, in case the wind blew out her own personal Olympic flame.
The security on Main Street, though pervasive, was unobtrusive.
It was even less of an issue for spectators arriving in the pre-dawn light at Utah Olympic Park for the Nordic Combined ski jumping. The process, which took about 45 minutes, was very similar to going through airport security. The screeners were cheerful, but required people to activate all cell phones and cameras so it could be verified that they were genuine.
They even shoot a single frame with the cameras, obligingly pointing the point-and-shoots at their owners. The volunteers were backed up by soldiers in fatigues, but they did not appear to be armed.
Larry Glueck was another Steamboat resident who volunteered as a ski jumping marker. He used the opportunity Saturday to get acquainted with his colleagues. "I'm meeting some fascinating ski jumping people," Glueck said. "I met a guy who jumped in the 1942 Olympics."
For former Nordic combined Olympian Ryan Heckman Saturday marked a chance to finally enjoy the Olympics as a spectator.
Heckman competed in 1992 at Albertville, France, and in 1994 at Lillehammer, Norway. "In 1998 at Nagano, I was working for CBS," Heckman said. "That was hard for me. Now that I've gone off and done other things, I can enjoy these Olympics."
Nancy Spillane, mother of Steamboat Nordic combined Olympian Johnny Spillane, was just glad to get the opening competition jitters behind her.
"I did all my crying at 5 a.m. this morning," Nancy said. "I just cried into my pillow. I said, 'OK, I've got that out of the way.'"
Tom Ross is on assignment at the Olympics. His e-mail address is firstname.lastname@example.com

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The Metadata Community — Supporting Innovation in Metadata Design, Implementation & Best Practices | |||||||
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Creator: | Diane Hillmann |
Date Issued: | 2001-04-12 |
Identifier: | http://dublincore.org/documents/2001/04/12/usageguide/ |
Replaces: | http://dublincore.org/documents/2000/07/16/usageguide/ |
Is Replaced By: | http://dublincore.org/documents/2003/08/26/usageguide/ |
Latest Version: | http://dublincore.org/documents/usageguide/ |
Translations: | http://dublincore.org/resources/translations/ |
Status of Document: | This is a DCMI Recommendation. |
Description of Document: | This document is intended as an entry point for users of Dublin Core. For non-specialists, it will assist them in creating simple descriptive records for information resources (for example, electronic documents). Specialists may find the document a useful point of reference to the documentation of Dublin Core, as it changes and grows. |
3. Basic Principles of Descriptive Elements
6. Examples
7. Glossary
8. Readings and References
Metadata has been with us since the first librarian made a list of the items on a shelf of handwritten scrolls. The term "meta" comes from a Greek word that denotes "alongside, with, after, next." More recent Latin and English usage would employ "meta" to denote something transcendental, or beyond nature. Metadata, then, can be thought of as data about other data. It is the Internet-age term for information that librarians traditionally have put into catalogs, and it most commonly refers to descriptive information about Web resources.
A metadata record consists of a set of attributes, or elements, necessary to describe the resource in question. For example, a metadata system common in libraries -- the library catalog -- contains a set of metadata records with elements that describe a book or other library item: author, title, date of creation or publication, subject coverage, and the call number specifying location of the item on the shelf.
The linkage between a metadata record and the resource it describes may take one of two forms:
Examples of embedded metadata that is carried along with the resource itself include the Cataloging In Publication (CIP) data printed on the verso of a book's title page; or the TEI header in an electronic text. Many metadata standards in use today, including the Dublin Core standard, do not prescribe either type of linkage, leaving the decision to each particular implementation.
Although the concept of metadata predates the Internet and the Web, worldwide interest in metadata standards and practices has exploded with the increase in electronic publishing and digital libraries, and the concomitant "information overload" resulting from vast quantities of undifferentiated digital data available online. Anyone who has attempted to find information online using one of today's popular Web search services has likely experienced the frustration of retrieving hundreds, if not thousands, of "hits" with limited ability to refine or make a more precise search. The wide scale adoption of descriptive standards and practices for electronic resources will improve retrieval of relevant resources from the "Internet commons." As noted by Weibel and Lagoze, two leaders in the field of metadata development:
"The association of standardized descriptive metadata with networked objects has the potential for substantially improving resource discovery capabilities by enabling field-based (e.g., author, title) searches, permitting indexing of non-textual objects, and allowing access to the surrogate content that is distinct from access to the content of the resource itself." (Weibel and Lagoze, 1997)
It is this need for "standardized descriptive metadata" that the Dublin Core addresses.
The Dublin Core metadata standard is a simple yet effective element set for describing a wide range of networked resources. The Dublin Core standard comprises fifteen elements, the semantics of which have been established through consensus by an international, cross-disciplinary group of professionals from librarianship, computer science, text encoding, the museum community, and other related fields of scholarship.
Another way to look at Dublin Core is as a "small language for making a particular class of statements about resources" (Baker, 2000). In this language, there are two classes of terms--elements (nouns) and qualifiers (adjectives)--which can be arranged into a simple pattern of statements. The resources themselves are the implied subjects in this language. In the diverse world of the Internet, Dublin Core can be seen as a "metadata pidgin for digital tourists": easily grasped, but not necessarily up to the task of expressing complex relationships or concepts.
The Dublin Core element set is outlined in Section 4. Each element is optional and may be repeated. Each element also has a limited set of qualifiers, attributes that may be used to further refine (not extend) the meaning of the element. The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) has defined standard ways to "qualify" elements with various types of qualifiers. A set of recommended qualifiers conforming to DCMI "best practice" is available, with a formal registry in process..
Although the Dublin Core favors document-like objects (because traditional text resources are fairly well understood), it can be applied to other resources as well. Its suitability for use with particular non-document resources will depend to some extent on how closely their metadata resembles typical document metadata and also what purpose the metadata is intended to serve. (Implementors interested in using Dublin Core for diverse resources are encouraged to browse the Dublin Core Projects pages for ideas on using Dublin Core metadata for their resources.)
Dublin Core has as its goals the following characteristics:
Simplicity of creation and maintenance
The Dublin Core element set has been kept as small and simple as possible to allow a non-specialist to create simple descriptive records for information resources easily and inexpensively, while providing for effective retrieval of those resources in the networked environment.
Commonly understood semantics
Discovery of information across the vast commons of the Internet is hindered by differences in terminology and descriptive practices from one field of knowledge to the next. The Dublin Core can help the 'digital tourist' -- a non-specialist searcher -- find his or her way by supporting a common set of elements, the semantics of which are universally understood and supported. For example, scientists concerned with locating articles by a particular author, and art scholars interested in works by a particular artist, can agree on the importance of a "creator" element. Such convergence on a common, if slightly more generic, element set increases the visibility and accessibility of all resources, both within a given discipline and beyond.
International scope
The Dublin Core Element Set was originally developed in English, but versions are being created in many other languages, including Finnish, Norwegian, Thai, Japanese, French, Portuguese, German, Greek, Indonesian, and Spanish. The Special Interest Group on Dublin Core in Multiple Languages is coordinating efforts to link these versions in a distributed registry using the Resource Description Framework technology being developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
Although the technical challenges of internationalization on the World Wide Web have not been directly addressed by the Dublin Core development community, the involvement of representatives from almost every continent has ensured that the development of the standard considers the multilingual and multicultural nature of the electronic information universe.
While balancing the needs for simplicity in describing digital resources with the need for precise retrieval, Dublin Core developers have recognized the importance of providing a mechanism for extending the DC element set for additional resource discovery needs. It is expected that other communities of metadata experts will create and administer additional metadata sets. Metadata elements from these sets could be linked with Dublin Core metadata to meet the need for extensibility. This model allows different communities to use the DC elements for core descriptive information which will be usable across the Internet, while allowing domain specific additions which make sense within a more limited arena. Specific instructions for implementing such a model are currently under development.
This document is intended to be an entry point for users of Dublin Core. For non-specialists, it will assist them in creating simple descriptive records for information resources (for example, electronic documents, JPEG images, video clips). Specialists may find the document a useful point of reference to the documentation of Dublin Core, as it changes and grows.
The guide will show in a non-technical fashion how Dublin Core metadata may be used by anyone to make their material more accessible. This guide discusses the layout and content of Dublin Core metadata elements, how to use them in composing a complete Dublin Core metadata record, as well as how to qualify elements to support use by a wide variety of communities.
Another important goal of this document is to promote "best practices" for describing resources using the Dublin Core element set. The Dublin Core community recognizes that consistency in creating metadata is an important key to achieving complete retrieval and intelligible display across disparate sources of descriptive records. Inconsistent metadata effectively hides desired records, resulting in uneven, unpredictable or incomplete search results.
In this guide, we have chosen to represent Dublin Core examples in several different syntaxes, including: HTML ( the Web's Hypertext Markup Language format), RDF/XML (the Resource Description Framework using eXtensable Markup Language) and in a generic form (Element="value"). HTML provides an easily understood format for demonstrating Dublin Core's underlying concepts, but more complex applications using qualification may find that using RDF/XML makes more sense. When considering an appropriate syntax, it is important to note that Dublin Core concepts are equally applicable to virtually any file format, as long as the metadata is in a form suitable for interpretation both by search engines and by human beings.
"Encoding Dublin Core Metadata in HTML" (Kunze, 1999) provides guidance for using HTML with unqualified Dublin Core, whether the metadata be embedded in the resource or in a separate file.
HTML can also be used to express qualified Dublin Core, although there are limitations inherent in doing so. The current thinking on how this might best be accomplished is contained in the working draft: Recording qualified Dublin Core metadata in HTML meta elements.
RDF (Resource Description Framework) allows multiple metadata schemes to be read by humans as well as parsed by machines. It uses XML (EXtensible Markup Language) to express structure thereby allowing metadata communities to define the actual semantics. This decentralized approach recognizes that no one scheme is appropriate for all situations, and further that schemes need a linking mechanism independent of a central authority to aid description, identification, understanding, usability, and/or exchange.
RDF allows multiple objects to be described without specifying the detail required. The underlying glue, XML, simply requires that all namespaces be defined and once defined, they can be used to the extent needed by the provider of the metadata.
For example:
<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"> <rdf:Description rdf:about="http://media.example.com/audio/guide.ra"> <dc:creator>Rose Bush</dc:creator> <dc:title>A Guide to Growing Roses</dc:title> <dc:description>Describes process for planting and nurturing different kinds of rose bushes.</dc:description> <dc:date>2001-01-20</dc:date> </rdf:Description> </rdf:RDF>
This simple example uses Dublin Core by itself to describe an audio recording of a guide to growing rose bushes. With XML and RDF, Dublin Core can now be mixed with other metadata vocabularies. For example, the simple Dublin Core description above might be used alongside other vocabularies such as vCard that can describe the author's affiliation and contact information, or a more specialised "rose description" vocabulary that described the rose bushes in greater detail.
Some implementations using Dublin Core have chosen to embed their metadata within the resource itself. This approach is taken most often with documents encoded using HTML, but is also sometimes possible with other kinds of documents. Simple tools have been developed to make provision of Dublin Core metadata within HTML encoded pages fairly easy. One such tool, DC.dot, extracts metadata information from an HTML document, and formats it so that it can be edited, then cut and pasted back into the HTML header of the original document.
Stand-alone metadata can exist in any kind of database, and generally provides a link to the described resource. This approach is likely to be most practical for many non-textual resources, and is increasingly used for text as well, primarily to support easier maintenance and sharing of metadata.
Each element is optional and repeatable. Metadata elements may appear in any order. The ordering of multiple occurrences of the same element (e.g., Creator) may have a significance intended by the provider, but ordering is not guaranteed to be preserved in every user environment. For instance, RDF/XML supports ordering, but HTML does not.
Content data for some elements may be selected from a "controlled vocabulary," which is a limited set of consistently used and carefully defined terms. This can dramatically improve search results because computers are good at matching words character by character but weak at understanding the way people refer to one concept using different words, i.e. synonyms. Without basic terminology control, inconsistent or incorrect metadata can profoundly degrade the quality of search results. For example, without a controlled vocabulary, "candy" and "sweet" might be used to refer to the same concept. Controlled vocabularies may also reduce the likelihood of spelling errors when recording metadata.
One cost of a controlled vocabulary is in needing an administrative body to review, update and disseminate the vocabulary. For example, the US Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) and the US National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) are formal vocabularies, indispensable for searching rigorously cataloged collections. However, both require significant support organizations. Another cost is having to train searchers and creators of metadata so that they know when using MeSH, for example, to enter "myocardial infarction"' instead of the more colloquial "heart attack."
Using controlled vocabularies can be done most effectively using qualifiers.
This section lists each Core element by its full name and label. For each element there is a reference description (DCMES 1.1) and there are guidelines to assist in creating metadata content, whether it is done "from scratch" or by converting an existing record in another format. Links to examples and to recommended Dublin Core Qualifiers for each element are also provided.
The elements are listed in the order they were developed, but there are other useful ways to group them. In the following table, you can see that some elements relate to the content of the item, some to the item as intellectual property, still others to the particular instantiation, or version, of the item.
Content | Intellectual Property | Instantiation |
Coverage | Contributor | Date |
Description | Creator | Format |
Type | Publisher | Identifier |
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In July of 2000, the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative issued its list of recommended Dublin Core Qualifiers. At the time of the ratification of these qualifiers, the DCMI recognized two broad classes of qualifiers:
The use of qualifiers as an additional level of detail introduces the situation where a client can encounter collections of resources that are described using Dublin Core with qualifiers that are unknown to the client application. This can happen either because the client does not support qualifiers and the collection does, or the collection supports specialized qualifiers developed by implementors for specific local or domain needs.
The useful interpretation of such descriptions will depend on the ability to ignore the unknown qualifiers and fall back on the broader meaning of the element in its unqualified form. The guiding principle for the qualification of Dublin Core elements, also known as the "Dumb-Down Principle," is that a client should be able to ignore any refinement and use the description as if it were unqualified. While this may result in some loss of specific meaning, the remaining element value (minus the qualifier) must continue to be generally correct.
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Published: 21-Feb-2013
The Plug-In Electric Vehicle Community Readiness Scorecard (PEV Scorecard), developed by NREL for DOE's Clean Cities initiative, is a detailed, interactive online assessment tool that collects information about a community's PEV readiness, provides feedback on its progress, and offers guidance for improvement. Municipalities, counties and states can use the PEV Scorecard to ensure they're prepared to facilitate the electrification of transportation and reap the environmental, economic and energy security benefits that come with it.
"The nationwide deployment of electric vehicle is a revolution in transportation," said NREL engineer Mike Simpson, who led the tool's development. "There's a significant amount of thought and effort involved in shepherding these new technologies into our communities, and the Energy Department saw a real need to provide local and regional leaders with some interactive blueprints."
PEV readiness is a community-wide effort that requires charging infrastructure, planning, regulations and support services. And it demands coordination and collaboration among dozens of stakeholders, including utilities, charging equipment manufacturers, vehicle dealerships, metropolitan planning departments, electrical contractors and community organizations. The PEV Scorecard helps communities make sense of the necessary steps and track their progress along the way.
Available online at DOE's Alternative Fuels Data Center (www.afdc.energy.gov/pev-readiness), the PEV Scorecard walks users through a variety of PEV readiness topics, including permitting and inspection processes for charging equipment installations, incentives and promotions, education and outreach, coordination with utilities, likely PEV adoption rates, and long-range infrastructure planning.
Within each topic, community representatives answer a series of multiple-choice questions related to their level of preparation. Communities receive scores for each topic, ranging from "Needs Improvement" to "Excellent." The tool then provides customized recommendations, resources, and case studies to help communities raise their scores within each topic. A community's scores and recommendations are private and cannot be viewed by other users of the tool.
"The PEV Scorecard helps communities see the forest and the trees in terms of PEV deployment," NREL's Simpson said. "They can get a big-picture assessment of how ready they are, and then drill down to the finer points to find out how to improve."
Once a community begins its assessment, multiple representatives can return as often as needed to make updates and track progress. DOE encourages each community to designate a central point of contact who collaborates with local and regional stakeholders to coordinate their input when using the tool.
"The Energy Department is excited to provide this tool to help make it easier for communities across the country to access more transportation energy options," Clean Cities Co-Director Linda Bluestein said. "Not only will it allow them to identify new opportunities for deployment, but it will also provide them with access to a large collection of expert tools and resources."
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Aside from the unveiling of the Nintendo Revolution and the release of more information regarding the DS's wireless network, the Nintendo press conference also unveiled the Gameboy Micro, a pint-sized version of the Gameboy Advance. Luckily for interested gamers, the Gameboy Advance's tiny little brother was available at E3 for people to test drive.
As pretty much anyone might expect, the Gameboy Micro is the Gameboy Advance, only much, much smaller. Unfortunately, this also means the screen is much smaller, albeit brighter. Though I only got a few minutes with the Micro, I was able to tell that any prolongued, heavy gameplay could possibly cause some hand-cramping; it's just too small to play hard-gameplay titles like Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories.
Aside from all that, what Nintendo says is what you get. The Micro plays all Gameboy Advance games and has all of the features that the GBA SP has, as well. One thing that may be of concern to some gamers was the extension port of the top of the system. It's different from the one on the GBA SP, which probably means that the Micro won't be able to connect to its predecessor or the GameCube. Nintendo never addressed this issue at the conference, so there's no information yet on whether the company plans to release all-new connector cables for use with the Micro.
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Dan Flynn, weblogger and author of Intellectual Morons, took time out to speak with me at CPAC about Ward Churchill and his latest book.
On Ward Churchill, Flynn's "convinced that he's not an Indian at all" who "used an ethnicity to capitalize, to exploit it for his own career purposes." In the name of "political solidarity" and diversity the University of Colorado hired him, questionable past and all.
On what to do about Churchill, Flynn differs from me and others who want schools to drop his upcoming speeches. Flynn told me "Once you invite someone to speak there's really nothing you can do about it." He also fears retaliation on conservative speakers. Having his books burned was just one of the bad experiences Flynn had on the college speaking circuit. Banning Churchill will empower the Left to stop conservative speakers. A intellectually stifling tit-for-tat.
In Flynn's new book Intellectual Morons he examines how "ideology acts like a mental straightjacket." He went on,
It blinds adherence to reality. It breeds fanaticism. It justifies dishonesty….
Ideology makes smart people stupid.
How do we know we've stumbled upon an intellectual moron (IM)? Flynn describes them:
An IM is someone who's blessed with great cognitive abilities, but because they squander those abilities by relying on ideology to provide them their thoughts rather than their brain.
A prime example of an IM on the Left is Noam Chompsky. He earned his academic position as a linguist, but he's most known as a radical, anti-American preacher. For Flynn having a "high IQ is not an antidote to thinkheadedness." "Because you're brilliant in that one field doesn't give you license to start making proclaimations about everything under the sun," Flynn continues.
As for right-wing IMs Flynn mentioned Leo Strauss and Ayn Rand. Strauss believed thinkers through history had hidden messages in their works. One level of reading was for the lay public while another was for learned scholars. Flynn find Strauss philosophic approach as "Plato's noble lie writ large." It's acceptible for the intelligensia to lie to the public if it's a noble cause. Think of it as a merging of Machiavelli and Plato.
Flynn criticizing Ayn Rand. He's a fan of her novels and views them as "propagandist." Some of her followers are known to be a little cult-like. Flynn told me some have gone so far as to talk with a Russian accent.
By going after IMs of both Right and Left Flynn demonstrates his book is not the shallow polemic the title implies.
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By CricketCountry Staff
London: May 17, 2012
The team from West Indies will face England in the first of a three-Test series at Lord's on Thursday. The batting of the visiting side is likely to determine the course of the match
English bowlers are expected to thrive under seaming conditions at home. West Indies have registered only two wins in the last 30 Tests since beating England in 2009.
Kieran Powell made his second first-class hundred in West Indies' 10-wicket defeat by the England Lions at Northampton last week, a match where number four Darren Bravo made two fifties.
However, Powell's opening partner Adrian Barath and Kirk Edwards managed just 26 runs between them at Northampton, having only compiled 16 and eight respectively in the near washout against Sussex at Hove.
A lot would depend on Shivnarine Chanderpaul, who is currently the world number one batsman, to help West Indies give a tough fight to the home side.
There has been talk of promoting Chanderpaul up the order but it appears he is set to stay put – at least for the time being.
Although the stand-off between the West Indies Cricket Board and Chris Gayle came to an end, the Jamaican would be joining the team only after his commitment with the Indian Premier League comes to an end.
West Indian coach Ottis Gibson has backed his younger batsmen to come good.
The tourists, whose three leading pacemen – Kemar Roach (ankle), Fidel Edwards (back) and Ravi Rampaul (stiff neck) – have all overcome minor injury concerns, boast some firepower of their own.
England will be keen to make a commanding start after seeing their status as the world's number one Test side diminished somewhat during a recent 3-0 defeat by Pakistan in the United Arab Emirates and a 1-1 draw in Sri Lanka.
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A good review, James ... interesting that you and I reacted a bit differently. I thought it picked up faster than the first book, but then again, I *just* read the first book before I read the second, so it was fresh in my mind.
Also, the story really grabbed me ... was there anything in particular that didn't work for you? Or was it hard to put your finger on? - 8:50 AM
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I see you got the picture of the front cover to post to your website. I've tried and tried to make this happen with different covers on mine.
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I had read the first a while back and just never could get into it...the second turned out better, but just wasn't my cup of tea I suppose...strange, because I love to read and write YA fantasy. Some stories just click with a person while others don't, but I'm sure many young people will enjoy it.
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Moses regards these special events as prime examples of the enduring need for 'on-site conventions.' "During the first six months of my Executive Directorship I've spoken with hundreds of exhibitors, educators, attendees, event developers and participants," he says. "Virtually every one of them has emphasized the value of the 'human connection.' Social media remains a vital and constantly growing part of our messaging effort. But, the opportunity for face-to-face networking remains indisputable. On site conventions will continue to play an integral role in the AES mandate to help our attendees 'Listen, Learn and Connect.'"
The 133rd AES Convention Committee boasts an all star-line up analogous to the famed Wrecking Crew. The key difference is Convention Committee members are volunteers! Co-Chairs Jim McTigue and Valerie Tyler are pooling their time and energy with: Broadcast/Streaming Chair, David Bialik; Education Co-Chairs, John Krivit and Ezequiel Morfi; Facilities Chair, Bob Megantz; Game Audio Chair, Steve Martz; Historical Chair, Bill Wray; Live Sound Chair, Michael "Bink" Knowles; Master Classes/Tutorials Co-Chairs, Mike Wells and Jose "Vene" Garcia; Networked Audio Chair, Nathan Brock; Papers Co-Chairs, Veronique Larcher & Alan Seefeldt; Product Design Chair, Conrad Cooke; Sound For Pictures Chair, Brian McCarty; Special Events Chair, Christopher Smith; Tech Tours Chair, Jessica Livingston; Volunteers Co-Chairs, Evan Peebles and Michael McConnell and, Workshops Co-Chairs, David Bowles and Jeffrey McKnight. AES Executive Director Bob Moses; Deputy Director, Roger Furness; Director, Convention Management, Chris Plunkett; Business Development Manager, Steven Green; and Chief Information Officer, Steve Johnson continue to provide exceptional organizational support to the complex effort.
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For most Americans, pollen means allergies and bees mean stings. Bees and pollen should mean much more to us because one out of every three bites of food we take is made possible by a pollinator. Pollinators play a tremendous economic role. The problem is that too many people see the pollination process as a free service from nature. Most people don't know the unprecedented threats facing wild and managed pollinators worldwide.
Managed honey bee colonies have shrunk by 25 percent since 1990, and there are fewer bee hives in the United States than at any time in the past 50 years. For more than a decade, biologists have documented declines in populations of migratory pollinators including butterflies, bats, and birds. Habitat loss, excessive exposure to agrichemicals, the spread of diseases, parasitic mites, and the invasion of African honey bees are commonly cited as the causes of what has been called an impending pollination crisis.
Pollinators are particularly important to fruit, vegetable, and nut growers. These crops are valued at billions of dollars. California producers rent half a million bee hives a year for almond trees alone.
On your land, there are several things you can do to help pollinators.
Don't disturb wild areas. Bumblebees nest in old mouse nests found in grassy areas and other bees nest in dead wood.
Plant pollinator friendly crops. Clovers, alfalfa, trefoils, and other legumes enrich and protect the soil and are pollinator favorites. A number of commercially available cultivars of native plants are also valuable to pollinators. Plant a group of species that will flower for as long as possible throughout the growing season.
Use conservation buffers. The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) offers several programs that will aid pollinators by providing habitat through contour strips, grassed waterways, hedgerows, stream buffers, filter strips, and windbreaks. These plantings can also be located within the field that needs the services of pollinators.
Let plants bloom. Try to time mowing, tilling, or grazing management decisions so that plants have the opportunity to bloom.
Time pesticide application. Your pesticide label lists bee toxicity and residual time.
For more information about conservation practices that can improve wildlife habitat on your land, stop at the local NRCS office.
Did you know.... A bee's wings vibrate about 435 times a second. More than 75 percent of the crop plants that feed the world, and many plant-derived medicines in our pharmacies, rely on pollination by insects or other animals for healthy fruit development.
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My Spam Assassin was throwing false errors because of the date bug described here: http://www.faqforge.com/linux/how-to-fix-the-spamassassin-bug-with-the-fh_date_past_20xx-rule/ So I ran "/home/admispconfig/ispconfig/tools/spamassassin/usr/bin/sa-update" as described in the tutorial. But that gave me this output: Any ideas anyone? The server is running on Debian Lenny, ISPConfig 2. Also, sometimes when I write to someone and they reply to me, there's a "-->" just before my e-mail. This also happens when I send e-mail to myself. So it must be something on my server.
Looks like that did it! I ran the sa-update line again and now it finished without errors. Danke Falko
I've done a brand new install of ISPConfig 2.2.36 after following completly the perfect setup for my debian 5 lenny distro and had the same problem. Code: aptitude install liblwpx-paranoidagent-perl or Code: apt-get install liblwpx-paranoidagent-perl Should be missing or in the installation script or in the perfect setup Then I've done: Code: /home/admispconfig/ispconfig/tools/spamassassin/usr/bin/sa-update After doing those commands my spamassassin is filtering now correctly. Thank you for everything and for your very good work on ISPConfig Michael


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Mumbai Indians are currently at the bottom of the points table, but playing at home might ensure they get their second victory. Pt. Anil Chaubey makes the predictions from the MI vs RCB match.
The Mumbai Indians (MI) looked like a team that just couldn't do anything right in IPL 7, till they pulled off a victory over then-table toppers Kings XI Punjab. Playing at home, it looks like they will keep their home-winning track record intact in the 27th match of the Indian Premier League (IPL).
Key Players: Rohit Sharma, Mike Hussey, Harbhajan Singh. Sharma and Harbhajan are expected to do well, while out-of-form batsman Hussey could have a good game if played. For the Bangalore side, skipper Virat Kohli, Yuvraj Singh and AB de Villiers are expected to do well for their side. Kohli hasn't been in good nick, and this could be the match where it changes.
Who will win: Mumbai Indians will break from their bad run of form, as the Royal Challengers are likely to come out the losers. With the seasoned pros likely to do well, MI will win.
Match Date | May 6, 2014 | ||
Teams | Bangalore | Mumbai | |
Who will bat first | Yes | ||
Key players | Hits | Virat Kohli | Rohit Sharma |
Yuvraj Singh | Michael Hussey | ||
AB de Viliers | Harbhajan Singh | ||
Flops | Mitchell Starc | Ambati Rayadu | |
Ashok Dinda | Lasith Malinga | ||
Score | First 10 overs | 70-80/3 | 70-90/2 |
Next 10 overs | 70-85/3 | 70-85/3 | |
Total | 150-165/6 | 160-175/5 | |
Who wins? | Yes |
Click here for IPL 2014 Points Table and Team Standings
Click here for IPL 2014 Schedule: Match time table for IPL 7
Click here for IPL 2014 Schedule & Results
Click here for IPL 2014 complete coverage
(Pandit Anil Chaubey is a renowned astrologer, based in New Delhi. He started learning astrology at a very young age and has been making accurate predictions and providing astrology based solutions for his clients in India and abroad. He has devised his own mechanisms to make precise predictions, which his clients have found really useful in life and business. He writes regular columns on box office prediction for movies and astrology based customised predictions for celebrities).


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Rocks Like: Thrice, Deftones, Jawbox
Check Out: 'In the End...' EP
Sometimes the time is just right. At least that's how guitarist Dave Yarkovsky describes what happened when, in 2010, the four members of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Red Hands came together. It only took the band one song to realize there was the potential to create something both sincere and driving. Red Hands have played as many shows as they possibly can and putting as much energy into those performances as possible, thereby building up a pretty good following. "We all like to move around and go a little nuts when we play," says Yarkovsky, "so while we may not be the most handsome group of gentlemen, I'd like to think we're pretty fun to watch, at least."


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Academic Journals | Popular Periodicals | Books | Chapters in Books | Working Papers | Kennedy School Cases | Research Reports
Academic Journals
- Andrew Carson-Stevens, Eva Patel, Sarah L Nutt, Jay Bhatt and Sukhmeet S Panesar 2013 The social movement drive: a role for junior doctors in healthcare reform Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Volume 106, Issue 8 (August 2013), pp. 305-309
- Hahrie Han, Marshall Ganz, Kenneth T. Andrews, Matthew Baggetta, Chaeyoon Lim 2011 The Relationship of Leadership Quality to the Political Presence of Civic Associations Perspectives on Politics, Volume 9, Issue 01 (March 2011 ), pp. 45-59
- Kenneth Andrew, Marshall Ganz, Matthew Baggetta, Hahrie Han, Chaeyoon Lim 2010 Leadership, Membership, and Voice: Civic Associations That Work American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 115, No. 4. (1 January 2010), pp. 1191-1242
- Ariane Liazos, Marshall Ganz 2004 Duty to the Race: African-American Fraternals and the Right to Organize Social Science History, Vol. 28, No. 3 (2004) pp. 485-534
- Marshall Ganz 2001 " Motor Voter or Motivated Voter: The Impact of the 1993 Voter Registration Reform Act on American Politics" The American Prospect, December 2001
- Theda Skocpol, Marshall Ganz, Ziad Munson 2000 A Nation of Organizers: The Institutional Origins of Civic Voluntarism in the United States American Political Science Review, Vol. 94, No. 3 (Sep., 2000), pp. 527-546
- Marshall Ganz 2000 " Resources and Resourcefulness: Leadership, Strategy and Organization in the Unionization of California Agriculture (1959-1966)" American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 105, No. 4 (Jan., 2000), pp. 1003-1062
- Marshall Ganz 1994 " Voters in the Crosshairs: How Markets and Technology are Destroying Politics" The American Prospect, January 1996
Popular Periodicals
- Marshall Ganz 2014. "Not the Cesar Chavez I knew" The Nation, April 1, 2014
- Marshall Ganz 2012 "Organizing as a Campaign Strategy" Mobilizing Ideas, September 3, 2012
- Marshall Ganz 2012 "We can be actors, not just spectators" New Statesman, July 11, 2012
- Marshall Ganz 2010 "How Obama lost his voice, and how he can get it back" Los Angeles Times, Novermber 3, 2010
- Marshall Ganz, Kate Hilton 2009 " The New Generation of Organizers" Shelterforce , Fall/Winter 2009
- Marshall Ganz, Peter Dreier 2009 "We Have Hope; Where's the Audacity?" The Washington Post, August 30, 2009
- Marshall Ganz 2009 " Why Stories Matter: The art and craft of social change" Sojourners 38, No. 3 16, March 2009
- Marshal Ganz 2007 " Staying Connected to Our Moral Sources" Talking Points Memo (TPM), March 29, 2007
- Marshall Ganz 2007 " Organizing for Democratic Renewal" Talking Points Memo (TPM), March 27, 2007
- Marshall Ganz 2007 " Hillel's Three Questions: A Call to Leadership" Sh'ma, A Journal of Jewish Ideas, January 2007
- Marshall Ganz 2002 " What Is Organizing? " Social Policy Vol. 33, No. 2 , Fall 2002
- Marshall Ganz 2009 " Why David Sometimes Wins: Leadership, Organization, and Strategy in the California Farm Worker Movement" Oxford University Press
- Theda Skocpol, Ariane Liazos, Marshall Ganz 2006 " What a Mighty Power We Can Be: African American Fraternal Groups and the Struggle for Racial Equality" Princeton University Press
Chapters in Books
- Marshall Ganz 2011 " Public Narrative, Collective Action, and Power", Chapter 18 in Accountability Through Public Opinion: From Inertia to Public Action, Edited by Sina Odugbemi and Taeku Lee (Washington, DC: The World Bank, 2011), p. 273-289
- Marshall Ganz 2010 " Leading Change: Leadership, Organization and Social Movements", Chapter 19 in the Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice, Edited by Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana (Danvers: Harvard Business School Press, 2010), p. 509-550
- Marshall Ganz, Chaeyoon Lim, Matthew Baggetta, Kenneth Andrews, Hahrie Han 2010 " Learning Civic Leadership: Leader Skill Development in the Sierra Club" Interest Group Politics. Ed. Allan J. Cigler and Burdett A. Loomis. (CQ Press, 2010), p. 110-138
- Marshall Ganz, Emily Lin 2010 " Learning to Lead: Pedagogy of Practice" Chapter 22 in the Handbook for Teaching Leadership. Ed. Nitin Nohria, Rakesh Khurana and Scott Snook. (SAGE Publications, 2011), p.353-366
- Marshall Ganz 2009 "Thoughts on Power, Organization and Leadership" Dispatches from the Religious Left: The Future of Faith and Politics in America. Ed. Frederick Clarkson. (Ig Publishing, 2009), p. 141-152
- Marshall Ganz 2004 " Organizing as Leadership" in Encyclopedia of Leadership, Edited by George Goethals, Georgia Sorenson, and James MacGregor Burns, (SAGE Publications, 2004), p. 1134-1144
- Marshall Ganz , Kim Voss, Teresa Sharpe, Carl Somers, George Strauss 2004 " Against the Tide: Projects and Pathways of the New Generation of Union Leaders, 1984-2001" Chapter 6 in Rebuilding Labor: Organizing and Organizers in the New Union Movement, Edited by Ruth Milkman and Kim Voss, (ILR Press, Cornell University Press, 2004), p. 150-194
- Marshall Ganz 2004 " Why David Sometimes Wins: Strategic Capacity in Social Movement" Chapter 10 in The Psychology of Leadership: New Perspectives and Research, Edited by David M. Messick and Roderick M. Kramer, (Erlbaum Press, 2004), p. 209-238
- Theda Skocpol, Marshall Ganz , et al 1999 " How Americans Became Civic" Chapter in Civic Engagement in American Democracy (Brookings Institute Press and Russell Sage Foundation, 1999), p. 27-80
- Marshall Ganz , Margaret Weir 1997 " Reconnecting People and Politics" Chapter in The New Majority: Toward a Popular Progressive Politics, Edited by Stanley B. Greenberg and Theda Skocpol, (Yale University Press, 1997), p. 149-171
Working Papers
- Marshall Ganz 2009 " Organizing Obama: Campaign, Organization, Movement" , Presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, August, 2009
- Marshall Ganz 2008 " Hope in the Story of Hagar, Sarah, and Abraham"
- Marshall Ganz 2008 " What Is Public Narrative: Self, Us & Now"
- Marshall Ganz 2006 " Reflections on the Binding of Isaac"
- Marshall Ganz 2006 " Left Behind: Social Movements, Parties, and the Politics of Reform" , Presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, August 2006.
- Marshall Ganz 2003 " Reflections on Faith and Politics"
- Marshall Ganz 2001 " The Power of Story in Social Movements" , Presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Anaheim, CA. August 2001.
Kennedy School Cases
- KSG Case 1603.2. "KMart Union in Greensboro Fights for a Contract (Teaching Note)," by Taeku Lee and Marshall Ganz . 6/20/02.
- "The Living Wage Debate Comes to Harvard." 4/1/02.
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Living Wage B
Research Reports
- Leadership Development Project: Pilot Project Report and Recommendations. Report to the National Sierra Club. Co-authors Marshall Ganz and Ruth Wageman. Presented in San Francisco, May 8, 2008.
- National Purpose, Local Action: Sources of Chapter and Group Effectiveness, Report to the National Sierra Club. With Kenneth Andrews, Hahrie Han, Chaeyoon Lim, Matthew Baggetta. Presented in San Francisco, CA September 10, 2005.
- The Right Prescription: A Call to Action on the use of Antipsychotic Drugs for People with Dementia. Mobilizing and organizing for large scale change in healthcare. Alan Boyd, Bernard Burnes, Elaine Clark, and Dr. Adrian Nelson. November 2013.
- Leaders Everywhere: The story of NHS Change Day. A learning report by Kate B. Hilton and Chris Lawrence-Pietroni . November 2013.


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water retention or worse?
water retention or worse?
I have a problem. I've been on a test enth cycle for about two and a half weeks now (600 to 700 mg/wk, injects on wed and sun)and a few days ago my left forearm, wrist and hand have swollen up on me. I literally have no muscle defintion in that area anymore. I strained some muscles in that area a while back but have been working out through the pain. It wasn't so bad that I couldn't work out at all. I went lighter on the lifts that hurt my wrist area the most. mostly pressing lifts like benchpresses, dumbell presses, military presses etc. anything that caused my hand to press straight down into my forearm. After a week or so I was able to go back to normal without much discomfort. My wrist still hurts around the thumb area the most. I would just go to the Dr. but I don't want to go while running a cycle. It seems to me if it was going to swell at all, It would have during the time I first strained it and not after it was seemingly getting better. But if it was a side effect of the enth, then wouldn't both arms swell up the same? This is my first cycle and I'm a bit naive on what to totally expect in terms of side effects. Don't get me wrong I read up on the stuff. It's just that I don't have any experience with cycling. Any help would be greatly appreciated on this as I'm leaving a Dr. visit as a last resort.
Swelling is a very relative term, so its hard to tell whats going on....Water retention from a cycle is generally symetrical.....and it definitely will blur lines and definition if its bad, which is not uncommon.
I have seen cellulitis firsthand....that often looks like swelling when it first manifests itself...
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A Sonnet for Snooki
As the Jersey Shore's breakout star campaigns for her own dating show, Snookin' for Love, Betty's Poet Laureate has some words of wisdom for her favorite guidette.
-Betty's Poet Laureate
You introduced yourself as the princess of Poughkeepsie,
Then five seconds later you were way, way beyond tipsy.
Our first impression of you only got worse, dear Snooki,
You couldn't handle your liquor and puked like a rookie.
You cried, packed your bags and kept threatening to leave,
We couldn't care less what you did that early summer eve.
At first you were not our favorite, no, not by any means,
But then you got punched in the face by a guy from Queens.
Read The Ballad of Tiger Woods
You were knocked to the ground, bloody, your eyes tearing,
Suddenly you turned from obnoxious to utterly endearing.
You won our hearts as did your poof and white hair clip,
And dazzled us with your trademark dancing back flip.
When you held your solo dance party on the boardwalk,
We begrudgingly admitted we'd watch you round the clock.
(Guys we know are mesmerized by your eating of a pickle,
They think you're the best thing since sliced pumpernickel.)
We all cheered for you during the rough times at the shore,
By the second fight we swore to have your back forevermore.
Read An Ode to Gerard Butler's Lost Abs
Again you got clocked in the face, though not by a teacher,
Your attacker this time around was a female "zoo creature."
You really tried but had zero luck in love or in lust,
Every single guy you brought home was an absolute bust.
We thought you'd hook up with that one guy in the Jacuzzi,
But on the deck he started puking and even we felt woozy.
You're looking for a juicehead who takes many a steroid,
Who'll pick up when you call from a duck, iPhone or Droid.
Read An Open Letter to Heidi Montag
We'd love to observe the dating life of our pint-sized guidette,
A show called Snookin' for Love — that's your best idea yet.
We hope to see this televised, your guido-hunting expedition,
But in exchange for our viewership, we have one condition.
Please promise us one thing no matter your sexual frustration,
We're begging, Snooks, no more hooking up with the Situation.
Betty's Poet Laureate spends more time than she'd like to admit reclining on her sofa, eating grapes and writing odes to her home state of New Jersey.


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Chris Sharma and a team of climbers are organizing a psicobloc (deep-water soloing) competition which will feature a 50-foot wall over a deep pool in early August. With a $20,000 purse, this should draw some serious climbers, and lead to some serious whippers! Should be a blast!
Read the story: http://www.climbing.com/news/sharma-and-team-plan-psicobloc-comp-in-utah/


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While Brustein says that Williams'splay offers some enjoyment, he ultimately finds Night of the Iguana to be "too aimless, leisurely, and formless to satisfy" a discerning theatregoer.
In The Night of the Iguana, Tennessee Williams has composed a little nocturnal mood music for mutved strings, beautifully performed by some superb instrumentalists, but much too aimless, leisurely, and formless to satisfy the attentive ear. I should add that I prefer these Lydian measures to the unmelodious banalities of his Period of Adjustment or the strident masochistic dissonances of Sweet Bird of Youth; for his new materials are handled with relative sincerity, the dialogue has a wistful, graceful, humorous warmth, the characters are almost recognizable as human beings, and the atmosphere is lush and fruity without being outrageously unreal (no Venus flytraps snapping at your fingers). With this play, Williams has returned once again to the primeval jungle, where...
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I'm creating a documentary film titled Nervosa.
I need your help to begin the initial filming.
Working as a videographer and film editor for Invisible
Children over the past two years has shown me the power that film has - to
bring attention to unspoken/unseen subjects and to change people's lives.
Traveling, filming, editing, and learning more about good story-telling has
encouraged me to create my own film: Nervosa.
There are some existing support systems for people battling
Anorexia (doctor visits, hospitalization, psychologists, nutritionists), but
many of these supports are not covered by insurance and are very expensive. As
many people who struggle with anorexia are young (and do not talk about the
challenge they are facing), it can be extremely difficult for them to find a
long-term, affordable solution.
This documentary film will expose the stories of 5
characters who have fought Anorexia Nervosa over the past few years. Walking
the line between recovery and addiction to this illness, they strive to
discover a solution to the challenges they face daily. It will also
explore: the history of Anorexia Nervosa, the way it is perceived by
the individual/their family/friends, and the pre-existing support system
for Anorexics.
The goal of the film is to find sustainable, long-term,
affordable support for people facing Anorexia Nervosa - while providing the
viewer an opportunity to step into the shoes of someone who has faced an eating
While I have already begun applying for grants for this film, I need initial funding to begin filming interviews. If you believe in what I hope to accomplish through this film, please consider donating to help me bring this to fruition. I'm excited to begin filming!
(To see the game-plan and progress of this film - as well as
my personal experience with Anorexia Nervosa - please visit: www.nervosafilm.com)