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Girl Scout badges, patches, awards, and other insignia should be presented, worn, or displayed only after Girl Scouts have completed the requirements outlined in the appropriate program materials.
The GSUSA National Board updated the Girl Scout uniform policy recently to reflect the changing needs of our members and transformation of the Girl Scout Leadership Experience.
Girl Scouts at each level have one required element (Tunic, Sash or Vest) for the display of official pins and awards which will be required when girls participate in ceremonies or officially represent the Girl Scout Movement.
For girls ages 5 to 14, the unifying look includes wearing a choice of a tunic, vest, sash for displaying official pins and awards, combined with their own solid white shirts and khaki pants or skirts. Girl Scouts in high school can also wear a scarf that unites their look with the sisterhood of Girl Scouts around the world. For adult members the unifying look of the uniform is a Girl Scout official scarf or tie for men, worn with the official membership pins, combined with their own navy blue business attire. Girl Scouts at the Daisy and Brownie levels will continue to have a full uniform ensemble available.
Click on an grade-level above to find out where to place insignia on a Girl Scout uniform. You can also view a list of all insignia organized by category, or by grade-level.
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This should be required reading for every American – hell, for everyone in the whole world. (emphasis mine.)
Now that a slight majority of American voters have caught the French, I will share visions of the times ahead with those who are still immune to this ghastly Western Occidental disease, and with the infected themselves.
Hear ye, hear ye, Great American Tribe: thou hast lost thy ways and hast forged thyself chains of iron. Hear the Revelations of the prophet Frogman, he who wandered through the barren wasteland of Europa under a wooden yoke and witnessed the terrible plight and dreadful blight that will now descend upon thee:
TO THE GLOATERS crowing over the comments sections of every conservative and Republican websites: burn through every gallons of that sweet euphoria as quickly and fully as you can, for it will very soon become stale and leave only the putrid taste of rot in your mouth. I know you, for I've seen your peers and walk among them in the Land of the Frenchmen. Tomorrow, the effects of your plebiscite will pierce through the exhilaration of your victory, and they will crush you as much as they afflict those you mock today.
Just as they did in France, the policies you champion will affect everyone's standards of living, directly and indirectly. If you are wealthy today, your wealth will dwindle tomorrow. If you are already poor or believe yourself so, you will never rise and prosper.
Soon, just as the French did, you will realize that you've elected yourself servants of anunaccountable oligarchy courted by a small intelligentsia to which you will never belong, from which you will never profit and of which you can never get rid. Then, you will join the legions of what the French call les déçus de la Gauche, or "the Left's disappointed"—Indeed, even in Left wing France, the Left never fails to disappoint its followers for it is made of and thrives on fallacy and deceit.
Just as the French, when you realize that the effects of the political model you tout today cascade and accumulate to the point where you have effectively handed that oligarchy a permanent majority that begins to feed on its pawns—you—it will be too late and your loss will be complete.
Please go read the whole thing at the dissident frogman.
So are you back yet? Rather disheartening, huh? Kinda feels like a Pandora's Box/genie out of the bottle situation, doesn't it? I know you already read this, but this bears emphasis.
"Some of you believe that shifting demographics have now relegated the American Right to a permanent minority status, and that to regain the initiative, you must disown the "Right-wing nut jobs" and "move to the center". That notion would be stupid and self-defeating enough at face value, even if it wasn't echoed by a slew of Left wing pundits, who smelled the blood and see your doubts as a unique opportunity to demolish you further.
For the results of such a 'strategic' move, one needs only to turn, once again, to France.
Look at the French Right. See it? Look harder, as it is now very difficult to distinguish from the Left. Back in 1981, when the French elected their first officially Socialist president in a long time, and the French Right went on a losing streak, collapsing at the polls under what was then dubbed la vague rose ("the pink wave". Rose in French meaning both the color pink and the rose flower, emblem of the French Socialists) they figured, quite cynically, that they had to give the voters whatever they demanded—and moved left. They are now only nominatively Right wing, yet are consistently chided and scorned by the French press as right-wingers, ultra conservative and free market fundamentalists.
In other words, the French "Right" is now always wrong, and only has herself to blame."
Substitute American Right for French Right and there you have it.
"I am not going to lecture you on what Republicans and conservatives should or shouldn't do—if you want patronizing political advice, ask any of the other 60 millions+ French, they'll happily oblige—but in light of the rapid destruction of the French Right, I'll just state the obvious: what you need to change isn't your principles, it's the narrative.
Some of you believe that societal collapse or civil war are coming soon hereafter, and advocate stocking supplies and ammunitions for the conflict they see ahead.
Truly, there isn't such things as too much food and weapons, and yes, collapse and conflict could come to America. Yet it is not written."
Thank you, Dissident Frogman for an outstanding post – the "been there, done that" is strong with you!
As for us here in the US living this nighmare? Don't blame me – I campaigned, cajoled and voted for the candidate that might have turned this around.
Sigh…that is all.

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Key Content
- OCHA: Ethiopia Humanitarian Bulletin Issue 72 | 7 - 20 January 2019
- FEWS NET: Ethiopia Food Security Outlook, December 2018
- UNICEF: UNICEF Ethiopia Humanitarian Situation Report #11 – Reporting Period: November 2018
Appeals & Response Plans
- OCHA: Operational Plan for Rapid Response: Internal Displacement around Kamashi and Assosa (Benishangul Gumuz) and East and West Wollega (Oromia), 26 December 2018
- Govt. Ethiopia: Ethiopia: Immediate Humanitarian Funding Priorities, 3 August, 2018
- Govt. Ethiopia: Response Plan to Internal Displacement around Gedeo (SNNPR) and West Guji (Oromia) Zones - 22 June 2018
- IOM: IOM Appeal Ethiopia: Gedeo & West Guji, July - September 2018 | Published on 23 July 2018
- UNHCR: South Sudan Regional Refugee Response Plan, January 2019 - December 2020
Useful Links
- Tropical Cyclone Sagar - May 2018
- Ethiopia: Floods and Landslides - Apr 2018
- Ethiopia: Floods - Aug 2017
- Ethiopia: Measles Outbreak - May 2017
- East Africa: Armyworm Infestation - Mar 2017
- Ethiopia: Acute Watery Diarrhoea (AWD) Outbreak - May 2016
- Ethiopia: Floods - Apr 2016
- Ethiopia: Floods - Oct 2015
- Ethiopia: Drought - 2015-2019
- Ethiopia: Floods - Oct 2014
Most read reports
- UNHCR welcomes Ethiopia law granting more rights to refugees
- Multi-dimensional Child Deprivation in Ethiopia - First National Estimates
- Ethiopia Humanitarian Bulletin Issue 72 | 7 - 20 January 2019
- Ethiopia | Internal displacement (December 2018) – DG ECHO Daily Map | 22/01/2019
- Ethiopia – Inter-communal fighting in South Sudanese refugee camps (DG ECHO, DG ECHO partners) (ECHO Daily Flash of 21 January 2019)
In a complex and fast-changing world, we remain focused and resolute in pursuit of our goal – to provide the most appropriate, effective medicine in the harshest of environments. As well as responding to vital needs, our aid is born of a desire to show solidarity with people who are suffering, whether as a result of conflict, neglect or disease.
Global Overview MAY 2018
Global Overview APRIL 2018
↗ International prices of wheat and maize rose in March for the third consecutive month and averaged more than 10 percent above their levels in December 2017. Prices were mainly supported by concerns over the impact of prolonged dryness in key-growing areas of the United States of America and Argentina, coupled with strong demand. International rice prices remained relatively stable.
Global Overview MARCH 2018
↗ International prices of wheat and maize increased further in February, mainly supported by weather-related concerns and currency movements. Export price quotations of rice also continued to strengthen, although the increases were capped by subsiding global demand for Indica supplies.
↗ In East Africa, in the Sudan, prices of the main staples: sorghum, millet and wheat, continued to increase in February and reached record highs, underpinned by the removal of the wheat subsidies and the strong depreciation of the Sudanese Pound.
Key messages
International prices of wheat and maize were generally firmer in January, supported by weather-related concerns and a weaker US dollar. Export price quotations of rice also strengthened mainly buoyed by renewed Asian demand.
In East Africa, in the Sudan, prices of the main staples: sorghum, millet and wheat, rose sharply for the third consecutive month in January and reached record highs, underpinned by the removal of wheat subsidies and the strong depreciation of the Sudanese Pound.
Key messages
↗ International prices of wheat and maize remained relatively stable in November, reflecting good supply conditions, while export quotations of rice strengthened amid increased buying interest and currency movements.
Key messages
The benchmark US wheat price declined in October mostly because of higher supply prospects while maize quotations firmed due to rain-induced harvest delays. International rice prices strengthened in October, mainly reflecting seasonally tight Japonica and fragrant supplies.
Key messages
International prices of wheat increased in September mostly because of weather-related concerns, while maize quotations fell further on crop harvest pressure. International rice prices remained generally firm, supported by seasonally tight availabilities of fragrant rice and strong demand for higher quality Indica supplies.
The global burden of Improvised Explosive Devices
Iain Overton and Jennifer Dathan
There is no day that goes past without the impact of an improvised explosive device (IED) making headlines around the world. Of all explosive weapons used, the IED is the most widespread, the most harmful and the most pernicious. Based on the belief that to overcome a problem, we must first understand it, this monitor is a small step in seeking to address the terrible realities of today.
It is a monitor that is, also, a response to a call to action.
On Monday 16 October 2017 the Council adopted the EU Annual Report on Human Rights And Democracy in the World in 2016.
2016 was a challenging year for human rights and democracy, with a shrinking space for civil society and complex humanitarian and political crises emerging. In this context, the European Union showed leadership and remained strongly committed to promote and protect human rights and democracy across the world.
El CIVICUS Monitor, una nueva herramienta de investigación online que califica el espacio cívico y documenta las violaciones a los derechos en todo el mundo, pone de manifiesto un impacto global.
Los gobiernos restringen el espacio cívico y callan las voces disidentes
L'impact mondial est exposé au grand jour par le CIVICUS Monitor, un nouvel outil de recherche en ligne notant l'espace civique dans le monde et documentant les violations des droits.
Les gouvernements referment l'espace civique et font taire les voix dissidentes
Global impact laid bare by the CIVICUS Monitor, a new online research tool that rates civic space around the world and documents violations of rights
Governments shutting down civic space and shutting up dissenting voices
Global Overview – Trends and Outlook
The month saw Venezuela's political, economic and humanitarian crisis worsen amid heightened tensions between the government and opposition, a situation which could lead to state collapse and regional destabilisation. Another major setback in electing a new president in Haiti prompted fears of further civil unrest. In West Africa, deadly violence in central Mali and south-east Nigeria spiked, while a power struggle in Guinea-Bissau led to a dangerous standoff.
The month saw conflict continue to rage in Turkey's south east between Ankara and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), looking likely to further escalate in March. Afghanistan and Somalia both saw armed insurgencies capture new territories. In Africa, political tensions rose in Chad, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, while in Venezuela, deadlock between the opposition-held parliament and government has brought the country closer to political and economic implosion.
November 2015 – Trends
Deteriorated situations
Bangladesh, France, Kosovo, Lebanon, Nepal, Syria, Turkey, Venezuela
Improved situations
Burkina Faso, Myanmar
December 2015 – Watchlist
Conflict risk alerts
- Conflict resolution opportunities
October 2015 – Trends
Deteriorated situations
Central African Republic, Israel/Palestine, Macedonia, Republic of Congo, South China Sea, Turkey
Improved situations
November 2015 – Watchlist
- Conflict risk alerts
- Conflict resolution opportunities


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The Susan Blouse also makes for a nice dress, you know?
Added May 13, 2011
by paranoire
Bochum, Germany
I knew I loved the Susan yoke as soon as I saw it. Didn't dig the unfitted waistline, though. So after altering the pattern and making a blouse in subtle green chiffon, i knew there had to be a dress!
I had bought so much fabric on my last shopping spree and this project was a good way to "burn" some of it :D
The chiffon is pretty sheer, so I still have to make/organize a slip for underneath, but I don't have matching jersey and I don't really want to go fabric shopping AGAIN still have about 60-80% from said shopping spree, argh!
I think it looks pretty flapper-esque when I wear the sash on my hip :D After the Boheme Sauvage Soiree, I'm all <3 for 20ies-40ies clothing :D
The instructions are now up, so you can make your own dress, too!
Material Notes
navy satin and chiffon, cotton interlining for the yoke, vintage fabric for the yoke lining
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May 14, 2011, 01.25 PMby makerland
Wow, that looks gorgeous! When I saw the picture of you in it, I thought it looked very 1920s too, which is an era that I love! Totally inspired by this, and look forward to reading about the changes you made.
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May 14, 2011, 02.20 PMby paranoire
Thank you :)
The changes I've made are now written in the instructions section (above the picture).
Hopefully we'll see a lot more Susan dresses :D
May 14, 2011, 12.50 PMby lyrameneses
So beautiful and so inspiring! <3
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May 14, 2011, 02.20 PMby paranoire
Thank you so much!
May 14, 2011, 11.34 AMby stars
Thanks, I'm looking forward to having a go at this :)
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May 14, 2011, 11.44 AMby paranoire
Be sure to share, I'm really excited to see what you make :)
May 14, 2011, 05.44 AMby Ralf Schmitz
elegant, lovely, fantastic, and so special! i love this dress!!!!
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May 14, 2011, 10.54 AMby paranoire
Thank you very much!
May 14, 2011, 03.25 AMby alicerain
Love it! It does look kind of flapper-era. I'm also in love with the room you took the pictures in – beautiful!
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May 14, 2011, 10.54 AMby paranoire
Thank you :D
I love my bedroom birch trees. It kinda makes me forget I have to live in the city for at least another 5 years :)
May 13, 2011, 07.29 PMby stars
Gorgeous, really elegant. I hope you find time to write up those changes!
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May 14, 2011, 10.58 AMby paranoire
Thank you :)
I think I'll write them up now, but I don't have pictures, hope that won't be a problem.
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I mentioned I made a cannon in highschool a while back.
I dug it out of its box, dusted it off and took some pictures.
The gun carriage is 2.25 inches long.
The wood has no fasteners, just friction.
Warhead wrote:Frikin' cool as almighty fuck. Need to test it using ball bearings for shot and small models boats on a pond. Aaar!
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Guest post from Meyer Tanuan (email@example.com | @kwmobidev) – Ed.
As I prepared to teach the Mobile Application Programming course of the Conestoga College Computer Programmer/Analyst (CPA) program for the fall 2012 school term, I chose the new BlackBerry PlayBook tablet and BlackBerry 10 platforms because they are both developer and student-friendly. In this blog post, I will present my top three reasons for choosing the BlackBerry platform.
1. The BlackBerry Platform has excellent HTML5 support
In fall 2012, the BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 had an HTML5Test.com score of 373. The recently released OS 2.1 update continued to lead with a score of 411.
Under the mobile category, the upcoming BlackBerry 10 browser has an HTML5Test.com score of 484 – higher than iOS 6 or Android 4.0. TechVibes recently published an article entitled "BlackBerry 10 is going to have the best web browser of any mobile platform".
The independent HTML5test.com score measures how well the browser supports HTML5, and the new BlackBerry Platform has scored very high. This is great for BlackBerry developers and students who want to test new HTML5 features on a tablet or mobile device. Having excellent HTML5 support means that HTML5 features working on desktop computers will likely work on the tablet or mobile device without recoding. It also means that richer apps can be built using HTML5. More recently, CNET Australia published an article stating that the BlackBerry 10 browser beats every desktop browser.
2. The new BlackBerry Platform has lots of FREE tools and online resources
A computer programming course is effective only when there is a lot of hands-on programming assignments and projects. The new BlackBerry Platform has lots of excellent software development tools and online resources, and the best part is that they are all FREE. Using both free and online tools provides equal opportunities to all students.
All the BlackBerry tools and documentation can be downloaded with ease. Some of the most downloaded free software includes:
- Ripple Emulator plugin for Google Chrome
- VMWare and BlackBerry simulators (Tablet OS, BlackBerry 10 Beta)
- BlackBerry WebWorks SDK and Native SDK (Tablet OS, BlackBerry 10 Beta)
Several online resources were also available, including:
- The Main BlackBerry HTML5 Page
- Provided easy instructions and links to tools, documentation and sample code
- The BlackBerry Support Forums
- Provided many relevant articles
- E.g., the Remote Web inspector can debug web content running on a live device or simulator
- Free and up-to-date BlackBerry Jam recordings
- BlackBerry hands-on labs and resources
- Hands-on Labs for a Mini-Course on Mobile Application Development
- Open-source frameworks and sample code for the BBUI.js framework is available in GitHub
- To learn about the changes to the new BlackBerry Platform, there are webinars and online sessions available for free
In addition to the free tools and online resources, RIM donated BlackBerry Bold 9900 smartphones and BlackBerry PlayBook tablets as part of the BlackBerry Academic Program Canada (http://bit.ly/TFaBur ). These devices allow students to test their apps before final submission and release to the public. At the start of the term, a class survey was conducted, and the survey found that 33% of the class had their own BlackBerry PlayBook tablet and 36% have their own BlackBerry smartphone. In addition, 94% of students were satisfied with their being no mandatory textbook for this course. Furthermore, approximately 33% of students indicated that they will acquire a BlackBerry PlayBook tablet on their own. The BlackBerry PlayBook tablet WiFi 16 GB currently retails for less than C$130. This price is affordable given that the price of most mandatory textbooks can be over C$100.
3. The new BlackBerry Platform is open, flexible and future-proof
RIM has started to build partnerships with open-source leaders. BlackBerry WebWorks and the Ripple Emulator are shared on GitHub, and many code samples for BlackBerry WebWorks and Cascades are also freely available on GitHub. As of this writing, there are now 330 samples in the BlackBerry GitHub catalog. This allows students to get the latest source code and extend the framework, learn sample code, and customize them to satisfy their project requirements. The new BlackBerry Platform has SDKs on Windows, Linux and MacOS. With this selection, students can use their favorite OS to build their mobile apps.
The new BlackBerry Platform is flexible. It supports many development platforms: HTML5 WebWorks, Native C/C++ and Cascades, ActionScript Adobe AIR, and Java Android Runtime. Although HTML5 and Mobile Web provides the opportunity to build one mobile app code base for multiple platform devices (i.e., Android, BlackBerry and iOS), there are instances where the Native Development option is a better approach. Students who want to build mobile applications other than HTML5 can either port their existing Android applications or build new Native SDK/Cascades applications and make them available on the new BlackBerry Platform.
Teaching mobile programming is challenging because the mobile technologies change frequently. Using mobile web technologies such as HTML5, JavaScript, jQuery Mobile and PhoneGap to build mobile apps is the first step in future-proofing mobile apps. In Part 2 of this blog post, I will discuss other future-proofing characteristics of the new BlackBerry Platform.
The new BlackBerry Platform is developer-friendly and student-friendly. Do you believe I made the right choice for using the new BlackBerry Platform to teach mobile application programming? Do you want to know the results of student assignments and projects and how they compare to student projects from the past two years? In Part 2 of this blog post, I will answer these questions with examples of student projects.


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FX's 'The Bridge': Go Behind the Scenes as "The Mystery Begins"
We've been amused by the ongoing teasers for FX's upcoming border drama 'The Bridge' that have run the gamut from unsettling to bizarre without giving away much of anything about the series itself. But at long last, a new behind the scenes featurette gives us an honest look at the buzzworthy FX drama premiering July 10. So are you ready to cross 'The Bridge?'
Artful though the past teasers may have been, the latest look inside 'The Bridge' delivers what we've been waiting to see for months. The new featurette (courtesy of FX) goes behind the scenes with stars Diane Kruger and Demian Bichir, along with director Gerardo Naranjo, to preview the dark nature of the series with plenty of new footage and character details. Plus, there's even a tiger!
Based on the original Danish/Swedish drama of the same name, FX's latest head-turner is executive produced by Meredith Stiehm and novelist/television writer/producer Elwood Reid, and described by FX thusly:
'The Bridge' is a present-day crime thriller exploring the tensions on the US-Mexico border. When an American judge known for her anti-immigration views is found dead on the bridge connecting El Paso and Juarez, Sonya Cross (Diane Kruger) from El Paso PD must work with her Mexican counterpart from Chihuahua State Police, Marco Ruiz (Demian Bichir), to catch a serial killer operating on both sides of the border.
Marco understands the slippery politics of Mexican law enforcement, and while his police force slowly succumbs to the pressures and demands of the cartel, he's one of the last good men in the department. He's charming, but also cunning as he will do whatever it takes to get what he needs. This does not sit well with Sonya, who has Asperger's and strictly follows rules as well as protocol. Her candid and off-putting personality fuels an unforgiving drive for truth.
The case quickly pulls them into a string of murders on the border, a scene already consumed by illegal immigration, drug trafficking, violence and prostitution.
The above featurette definitely gets us more interested than the previous teasers. But tell us in the comments what you think and if you'll cross 'The Bridge' when the new series premieres on July 10!


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Section 110.12 contains arguably the least understood and most commonly violated requirements in the NEC. For example, consider 110.12(A), which requires closing unused openings in equipment. If your facility already has this problem nailed, the odds are good you can find dozens of such violations in a tour of any facility picked at random.
You can't close these openings with duct tape or other flimsy material. The closure must provide protection substantially equivalent to that provided by the enclosure. Though the NEC doesn't explicitly state what kind of protection, it means protection from shock and arc flash. So use the standard enclosure plugs to close these openings.
Another "gray area" is the requirement that electrical equipment be "installed in a neat and workmanlike manner." While the NEC doesn't explicitly say the equipment must be maintained that way, common sense tells us there's no point in the NEC's installation requirement if you don't maintain that neatness.
But what does this mean? Although the NEC doesn't say (to understand why it doesn't digress into this area, read 90.1), it does refer the reader to the applicable ANSI/NECA standard. Your best bet is to obtain the standard and follow these three steps:
- Make your own checklist to use with PMs and repairs.
- Conduct training on methods and finish.
- Photograph examples of good workmanship; use for training.


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Malnutrition is the condition that occurs when your body does not get enough nutrients.
Alternative Names
Nutrition - inadequate
There are a number of causes of malnutrition. It may result from:
- Inadequate or unbalanced diet
- Problems with digestion or absorption
- Certain medical conditions
Malnutrition can occur if you do not eat enough food. Starvation is a form of malnutrition.
You may develop malnutrition if you lack of a single vitamin in the diet.
In some cases, malnutrition is very mild and causes no symptoms. However, sometimes it can be so severe that the damage done to the body is permanent, even though you survive.
Malnutrition continues to be a significant problem all over the world, especially among children. Poverty, natural disasters, political problems, and war all contribute to conditions -- even epidemics -- of malnutrition and starvation, and not just in developing countries.
Related topics:
Malabsorption Hunger Beriberi Binge eating Deficiency - Vitamin A Deficiency - Vitamin B1 (thiamine) Deficiency - Vitamin B2 (riboflavin) Deficiency - Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine) Deficiency - Vitamin B9 (folacin) Deficiency - Vitamin E Deficiency - Vitamin K Eating disorders Food guide plate Kwashiorkor
- Megaloblastic anemia
Pellagra Rickets Scurvy Spina bifida
Symptoms vary and depend on what is causing the malnutrition. However, some general symptoms include fatigue, dizziness, and weight loss.
Exams and Tests
Testing depends on the specific disorder. Most work-ups include nutritional assessments and blood work.
Treatment usually consists of replacing missing nutrients, treating symptoms as needed, and treating any underlying medical condition.
Outlook (Prognosis)
The outlook depends on the cause of the malnutrition. Most nutritional deficiencies can be corrected. However, if malnutrition is caused by a medical condition, that illness has to be treated in order to reverse the nutritional deficiency.
Possible Complications
If untreated, malnutrition can lead to mental or physical disability, illness, and possibly death.
When to Contact a Medical Professional
Discuss the risk of malnutrition with your health care provider. Treatment is necessary if you or your child have any changes in the bodys ability to function. Contact your health care provider if the following symptoms develop:
- Fainting
- Lack of menstruation
- Lack of growth in children
- Rapid hair loss
Eating a good, well-balanced diet helps to prevent most forms of malnutrition.
Klein S. Protein-energy malnutrition. In: Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds. Goldman's Cecil Medicine. 24th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 222.
Alderman H, Shekar M. Nutrition, food security, and health. In: Kliegman RM, Stanton BF, St. GemeIII JW, Schor NF, Behrman RE, eds. Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics. 19th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 43.
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I heard (alas! 'twas only in a dream)
Strains--which, as sage Antiquity believed,
By waking ears have sometimes been received
Wafted adown the wind from lake or stream;
A most melodious requiem, a supreme
And perfect harmony of notes, achieved
By a fair Swan on drowsy billows heaved,
O'er which her pinions shed a silver gleam.
For is she not the votary of Apollo?
And knows she not, singing as he inspires,
That bliss awaits her which the ungenial Hollow
Of the dull earth partakes not, nor desires?
Mount, tuneful Bird, and join the immortal quires!
She soared--and I awoke, struggling in vain to follow.
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
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The other day, a commenter chastised me for saying an "organization" didn't learn from its mistakes. Organizations, of course, can't make mistakes, only individuals. I completely agree. I was speaking in metaphor, but it's important to discourage the careless use of collectivist terminology when discussing economics.
And that brings me back to American Needle, Inc. v. National Football League, the antitrust case argued before the Supreme Court yesterday. The question is whether the NFL is a "single entity" or a collection of 32 separate, competing businesses for antitrust purposes. A single entity has greater freedom under the Sherman Act than "competing" entities.
The operative words are "for antitrust purposes." In the absence of antitrust statutes, nobody would care whether the NFL was one or thirty-two entities. But with antitrust statutes, this question suddenly becomes the "most important sports law case in U.S. history," to quote law professor Michael McCann.
Like all state-made law, antitrust emphasizes categorization. Antitrust practitioners spend hours upon hours labeling every economic actor and activity as a precursor to dividing them into "good" and "evil" piles. Joint ventures are good. Cartels are bad. Single entities are good. Multiple entities "colluding" are bad.
The NFL's dilemma is that it thwarts the simplistic labeling scheme of even the brightest antitrust lawyer. Teams compete on the field. They compete for the services of players, coaches, and administrators. But they also cooperate - er, "collude" - on matters like scheduling, revenue distribution, and playing rules. The NFL is both a a floor wax and a dessert topping.
So is the NFL a single entity or thirty-two separate entities? The answer is neither. Well, the economic answer is neither. The political answer is whatever five Supreme Court justice say it is. At the end of the day, antitrust is just another form of state-made law: The court is simply acting as an ad hoc legislature in deciding what arbitrary and capricious rule to apply for now.
Although there's a lot of economic-sounding rhetoric in antitrust cases, there's rarely any economic content. The NFL's brief states that "economic realities, not matters of form, dictate whether" the Sherman Act applies to the NFL. That's nonsense. This case is all about matters of form - political form - and the "economic realities" aren't, er, real.
The NFL claims that its individual clubs are not independent "sources of economic power." American Needle, the NFL Players Association, and dozens of antitrust academics claim they are. Murray Rothbard knew better:
The first truth to be discovered about human action is that it can be undertaken only be individual "actors." Only individuals have ends and can act to attain them. There are no such things as ends of or actions by "groups," "collectives," or "States," which do not take place as actions by various specific individuals. "Societies" or "groups" have no independent existence aside from the actions of their individual members. (Italics in original.)
The National Football League is a metaphor for a group project encompassing thousands of individuals who contribute specialized services. The NFL is a division of labor. That is the economic reality.
The political "reality" is trickier. Antitrust further complicates things. For example, the NFLPA - the union representing all NFL players - opposes any expanded "single entity" definition that reduces the NFL's antitrust exposure. This is hypocritical, because the NFLPA itself is considered a single entity for antitrust purposes. More to the point, the NFLPA has monopoly power to exclude any competing union, and it can compel any present or future player to abide by its state-sanctioned authority.
How do antitrust statutes rationalize the inconsistent treatment of the NFL and the NFLPA? It's simple. Antitrust only applies to commodities and acts of commerce. The antitrust statutes clearly state, "The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce." So by definition, state-sanctioned labor unions can never violate antitrust rules.
But the NFLPA enjoys an additional layer of privilege not afforded most other unions. As long as the NFL is defined as thirty-two separate entities, if and when labor negotiations break down, the NFLPA can "decertify" itself as a union and file an antitrust lawsuit against the NFL for "restraint of trade." This is what happened after the 1987 NFLPA strike. It's why the NFL is eager for the Supreme Court to define the league as a single entity - it removes the antitrust weapon of mass destruction from the NFLPA's arsenal.
This is what the state has wrought. Two groups of individuals with related economic interests - the NFL can't exist without the players, and vice versa - are forced to take up political arms in order to satisfy the whims of an irrational antitrust regime. It's great for the law professors who will spend years deciphering whatever half-hearted "ruling" the Court issues in this case, but it does nothing for the NFL's owners, managers, players, or customers.
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Leading up to the PlayStation press event, one of the most asked questions in regards to the PS4's capabilities wasn't what its power was like or what its online connectivity would be, but rather would it play used games. This stems from an old rumor – or more likely rumors – that can probably trace their origins to as far back as when the first online passes required people to pay to take used games online. But then in January a patent filed by Sony clearly showed that the manufacturer was at least exploring the option of blocking used games. The Internet erupted.
Everyone from anonymous commenters to the CFO of GameSpot had an opinion on the matter. But until the PS4 was officially confirmed, it was all speculation. That speculation can now be put to rest, as Sony's Shuhei Yoshida, President of Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios has confirmed that the PS4 hardware will play any PS4 discs.
"When you purchase the disc based games on PS4, that should work on any hardware," Yoshida confirmed.
That should put that controversy to rest. Of course, publishers may still decide to add things like online passes, but that is nothing new.
The ball is now firmly in Microsoft's court. Rumors of the next Xbox blocking used games have been equally prevalent. If Microsoft does follow through – and to be fair there is no evidence that it will beyond rumors – then Sony have have just gained a huge advantage.


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Welcome back fans of Greek and Latin roots as they relate to English vocabulary words! Recently I have been focusing this SAT and GRE English vocabulary blog on analyzing the Greek and Latin root words of titles of great works of literature, and then discussing why those works are nonpareil. I am currently perusing Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, translated by Chip Hartranft. I have found the aphoristic style of the these sutras (sutra means "aphorism") to be not only engaging, but also deeply profound; in them, Patanjali discusses the considerable spiritual, mental, and physical rewards that one can derive from the continuous practice of Yoga, which is much, much more than the usually held western conception of Yoga as just the asanas, or physical postures/poses.
The purpose behind Yoga, according to Patanjali, is seeing things as they really are, not as our minds construct them to be; to do this, the ultimate goal or teleology of yogic practice is to cease the fluctuations of the mind, to calm the sem, that part of our minds that generates an annoying 60,000 random thoughts per day and mostly misperceives samsara, and can lead us down paths of irreality. This calming of the mind's thoughts causes suffering to cease, the ultimate goal of what Yoga can do for us.
During the next three years, I will devote myself to writing about each of Patanjali's sutras, sequentially, contained in his remarkable 2nd-century BCE text, with a focus on analyzing the text in terms of its classical Greek and Latin roots of the fine English translation, and then providing an individual's exegesis of the text itself, based upon my own wonderful experience with Yoga thus far. It has been said that memorizing the Sanskrit text of the Yoga-Sutra in and of itself can re-pattern the mind; I am most curious to see if this phenomenon is also metalinguistic, that is, can English and its root words via Greek and Latin effect the same transformation?
Last post I focused on the Latin roots of the Yoga-Sutra: Chapter 1: Aphorism 13: Practice is the sustained effort to rest in that stillness. This week I move on to: Yoga-Sutra, Chapter 1: Aphorism 14: This practice becomes firmly rooted when it is cultivated skillfully and continuously for a long time.
Let's first take a look at the Latin and Greek root words of this sutra:
Practice: via the Greek root prassein: to make, do, or achieve (morphemes from various principal parts of this verb include: pract and prax). Hence, practice is "doing," "making," or "achieving." Other SAT and GRE level vocabulary words include: pragmatic (via pragma: deed, act); malpractice; practitioner; praxis; and impractical.
Firmly: via the Latin root firmus: strong, stable, immovable. When one does something firmly, one's intent in that action is "strong" and "stable." Someone who is infirm, on the other hand, is not strong or stable, but weak; hence he or she possesses an infirmity of some kind. When one affirms an action, one is "strong" in one's acceptance of it. Other SAT and GRE level derivatives include: confirm, unfurl, furl, and affirmation. Note that the word "farm" derives from this root as well, as the land of a "farm" is "stable, strong, and immovable."
Cultivate: via the Latin root word colo, colere, colui, cultum: to till, grow, tend, maintain, develop, revere, worship, or inhabit. When one "cultivates" an action, one "grows" it by carefully "tending, maintaining, and developing" it over time so that it bears fruit (like a farmer cultivating her fields). SAT and GRE vocabulary words that come from this root include the ff.: acculturate, subculture, cyberculture, and terricolous. Note that a "cult" is a place where a divinity of some kind is "worshiped," whereas a "horticulturist" is one who "tends and grows" gardens.
Continuously: From the Latin root teneo, tenere, tenui, tentum: have, hold; "continuous" is the "thorough holding" of something over a long period of time (note that the prefix "con" comes via the Latin root word cum, which in this case acts as an intensive prefix meaning "thoroughly"). The difference between "continual" and "continuous" is this: whereas something that happens on a "continual" basis has breaks (continual rain would have periods of relief), a "continuous" action is nonstop. Teneo, tenere is another one of those huge roots that have given rise to a multiplicity of SAT and GRE English derivatives, such as: abstain, abstinence, tenacious, pertinacious, tenet, pertinent, detain, appurtenance, malcontent, etc. etc.
Now, let's take a look at aphorism 14: This practice becomes firmly rooted when it is cultivated skillfully and continuously for a long time. The mind is very, well, sticky, very pertinacious, very, very busy. One has been thinking continuously everyday for almost one's entire life (one would like to think that as infants we were spared that continuous barrage, merely continually delighting without spurious, fallacious analysis, golden years of the mind, as it were). Because of this neverending thought stream (stream of consciousness) it is very hard at first to cease those fluctutations of the mind, that interminable mind stuff, that never seems to want to be quiet. The sem, or flea-mind, has over 60,000 thoughts/day ... no wonder the goal of Yoga of cessation of that sem is so very difficult. This is why the practice of yoga must be "firmly" rooted in one's life, imbued in one's day, always and continuously present in one's actions and thoughts; it must be cultivated and tended lovingly and skillfully each and every day on a continuous basis over a long, long period of time. Then, and only then, will the amazing fruits of yoga be realized. Otherwise the mind and its diabolical vrittis or fluctuations will continue to take us over, making us slaves to our false selves. Be sticky. Be tenacious. Be pertinacious. This is well within the range of anyone who has sticky gumption. B.K.S. Iyengar, one of the world's masters of Yoga, states this in his preface to his enlightening book Light on Life: "If this book is to lay any claim to authenticity, it must make one point clear above all others. It is this: By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom." "Sadhana" is the Sanskrit term for the "practice of Yoga." Be continuous in your sadhana. One's life, to have meaning, must have a teleological bent; what good is a goal if it is for material gratification only? "I've always wanted a Porsche." Then, when you finally get one, all of a sudden you want something else. Then something else again. Ad nauseam. But when one realizes the ultimate goal of Yoga, there is no wanting. No grasping. Only joy and bliss. One of the nicest conceptualizations of yogic practice is the idea of aparigraha: nonpossession. That alone can set you free. Today's world is one of instant gratification. I remember at one time when I was a kid that if I wanted a particular song, I'd have to travel 10 miles to the record store, only to find out that it was out of stock; I would then order it, and have to wait another two or three weeks--but was it sweet when I finally got it! The waiting, in and of itself, was educative. Now, what with instant downloads on one's iPod, one can get music immediately. Periods of waiting are on the decline. Which continues to create false needs because we get into the habit of avarice, wanting more and more and more ... how many gigabytes do you really need on that iPod anyway? You can only fit 5000 songs on it? Why not more? Patience and diligent application are a fire that refines the soul, refines the character, and defines who you are. You are not your likes, dislikes, status, professional standing, or any of the other trappings of modern life. You are purusa, which is realizable via continuous practice. The soul, purusa, the Witness, is not of the physical world; it is of a timeless, non-spatiotemporal realm. Meaning cannot come overnight; rather, those things which really matter in life take many, many years of hard practice before they come to fruition. A man may seek his beloved for an entire lifetime before he finds her; and yet, in that meeting, he will see that all his searching, all his efforts, all his time were more than worth the pain and agony in getting there. One cannot build castles upon sand, but one must carve out the difficult rock to construct something lasting. Ani Tenzin Palmo says in Reflections on a Mountain Lake that humans are lazy; that we let our minds run away with us, being too filled with lassitude to care. Yoga is well worth the effort. What could be more important than a search for the soul, for the ending of suffering, for finding the immanent transcendent that dwells within each and every one of us? If we all understood that the phenomenological manifestations of prakrti are nothing but illusory, merely there for the entertainment of purusa, then we would know that we all are the same, less the specious trappings that we all think are ourselves. What freedom, what peace, what joy, what love, and what bliss would come from that realization. Is that not worth the continuous effort of the discipline that Yoga offers each and every one of us? Fascinated with English vocabulary words? Want to pick them apart into their constituent Greek and Latin roots? Want to know even more SAT and GRE words that come from the Latin root words teneo, tenere; colo, colere, and firmus? Studying hard for the SAT or GRE verbal section, and just can't get a handle on all of those vocabulary words, which are truly legion? Check out the Greek and Latin roots site Word Empire, where you will find the most comprehensive Greek and Latin roots dictionary available today, and also the most beautiful ... it's in full color, and artistically designed. There's even a Greek and Latin roots poster available, which nicely illustrates the full power of what Greek and Latin root words can do for you. Interested in Greek and Roman mythology? 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TL, you mean Dana might not be as bad as portrayed...maybe a counter-spy? Or whatever they call it. Kinda like Tony Almeida?( Good guy/bad guy/never know guy )
Quote from: RudyRules on May 02, 2010, 03:57:08 PMTL, you mean Dana might not be as bad as portrayed...maybe a counter-spy? Or whatever they call it. Kinda like Tony Almeida?( Good guy/bad guy/never know guy )Well, yes, like Tony, she could be useful as a shooter but only if she's in front of Jack and Cole at all times and only a few bullets in her gun. BTW, My hubby has a theory which he is sticking with, he thinks Renee isn't dead, that they just pretended that she died. I like his theory and hope he is right, but haven't much faith in this happening.
TL, you mean Dana might not be as bad as portrayed...maybe a counter-spy? Or whatever they call it. Kinda like Tony Almeida?( Good guy/bad guy/never know guy )
Dana, we didn't know what to make of you but you went out with a bang. (Or two bangs to be precise.) Didn't see that coming.Me neither, and must admit it was a satisfying ending to that episode. I felt no remorse for Dana. Questions for the final four hours. Did Jack think Dana killed Cole and is that one of the reasons he shot Dana? I wondered that too. Was sure relieved to find out Cole was still alive!Has Jack gone to the dark side and will he take out everyone who wronged Renee? It seems he's definitely out for revenge, but think it's a temporary reaction. I don't think he's going to take out everyone who wronged Renee. I think Jack's trying to save Madam President from all the damage Weasel Logan is causing & he'll save her & her office from disgrace somehow. Will Madam President realize the bad mistake she's made by listening to former President Weasel or will she continue down that bad path because cover-up is the next thing to come if she does. At some point, she'll realize it all and she won't cover it up. She impresses me as honorable & respects her duty as President. If necessary, she will step down, imo. Will Chloe figure out what is happening and protect Jack as she has always done in the past? (I say yes!) Yup. She will. My best friend thinks Jack & Chloe might get together, but there aren't enough hours left for that to culminate. Maybe the writers will give us a hint of it? Hard to tell! But isn't she married & has a kid? Or am I confusing it with Jack's daughter. hmmm...Will anyone ever find the dead body stuffed in CTU's conference wall by Dana? Sniff sniff...THAT has bugged me! Why hasn't anyone smelled it yet? But wait! We must remember the timeline is in HOURs, not Days. By the time the Day ends, we should be smelling the dead body! yuk.
I still have 7 episodes to watch. My DirecTV lost the local channels early this year. Thus, I lost my Fox affiliate. I have so many things to catch up on.
Fini. (Or is it?) A few loose ends and one big question...
Ohh, I forgot about the prospective 24 movie. Hope it happens!
The new season begins Sunday January 17, 9/8C, a 2 night, 4 hour opener.Can't Wait!
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Monday, October 04, 2010
Where Studios are Located
There are obvious benefits to these sites for anyone trying to find a job. However, not everyone realizes the repercussions of various locations until they've experienced them.
I'm not talking about specific cities, but I am talking about studio density. Depending on where someone is in his or her career, density makes a big difference.
The problem with low density locations (i.e. with just one or two studios) is that if you get laid off or a studio closes, you have to relocate in order to continue working in the industry. This is what happened to people in Arizona when Fox closed it's studio, to people in Florida when Disney closed there, and to people in Portland when Laika laid off the crew after Coraline.
This isn't much of a problem for people who are unattached, but it becomes a much larger problem once people form romantic relationships and have children. Uprooting other people in pursuit of one's own career can create powerful resentments.
As a result, people tend to flock to those areas with half a dozen or more studios, so that if they have to change jobs, they don't have to relocate. Of course, it means that people starting their careers often have an easier time finding work in the smaller centers as it is harder to entice people to move there.
Regardless of where you might be in your career, these maps may prove useful.
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- JPilot said...
Density of city/studios is only one small factor in why people move around from country to country for work. You may have a good position in a large city with a large contingent of studios on high profile films with successful box office, at the end of a project, that successful studio can still tell you to not let the door slam you on the derriere even though there is much more work coming down the pike. Other times, moving around is the only way to keep advancing in your carreer. Once you sta put geographically, your carreer may take a downward turn. That's why a lot of high positions are filled by perpetual professional nomads building a stellar resume while the family oriented workers keep losing ground where they stand.
You can put as many years of experience on grand project and have an impressive body of work in your resume. As long as you're moving, you're thriving. Once you set roots, you're winding down.
Salmons keep swimming upstream, the other fish find whatever falls at the bottom of the river.
- October 04, 2010 11:10 AM
- dwilson said...
Mark, thanks for the links. Regardless of the last person's comments I'm a family man looking to create some stability and be involved in some great work. Thanks for the pointers about relocating and job pooling.
- October 04, 2010 11:40 AM
- David B. Levy said...
JPilot raises some good points. Although I wouldn't simplify the argument quite to that degree. Working at different studios, by traveling to other cities or by working at several studios in the same industry hub city, does grow one's contacts and experiences.
A person who stays put in one place runs the risk of getting too comfortable. And, comfort has never been a friend of ambition. Add to this that you are seldom a hero in your own backyard, meaning that any of your successes while working for a long term stint at a company belong to the whole company. Its often only outside studios that will put your contributions in better perspective and give you the credit you deserve.
BUT, a person working a long time job can reap some of the benefits of a traveling worker, IF they continue to pursue their own artistic endeavors such as making an indie film.
- October 05, 2010 12:05 PM
There's a heck of a lot of missing studios in that map. Thank god there's a lot more than 2 in NZ (both the listed ones are weta), and 1 in Melbourne.
- October 14, 2010 2:09 AM
- Paige Halsey said...
This is so helpful! Before I saw this I hadn't realized how many studios were in New England, where I'm currently living and graduating from. Thank you so much for posting this!
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I grew up riding bikes. I also grew up around water. Living in Michigan, you couldn't swing a dead cat and NOT hit water, so it was a natural to be out in it in some capacity whenever the temps were warm enough. And lots of times when they weren't. The only way to find your true limits is to go past them, then pull back a bit, right?
Ahem. Bikes. And water.
Until a few years ago it never occurred to me that they could be combined in such a way as to be fun. I remember reading a NatGeo article way back when about an out-there (in both thinking and execution) expedition that traversed the entire Alaska Range using bikes and packrafts. And, of course, lotsa foot travel to connect the dots. But that didn't sound very appealing, especially when the participants themselves referred to it as 'Hellbiking'. They'd concocted and executed a novel, creative way to see a huge chunk of country, but to me it didn't sound like enough pure fun to be worth the cost--in dollars or suffering. The reality is that I hadn't yet acquired the experience or imagination needed to appreciate what they'd achieved.
Lately the bikerafting idea has sunk it's teeth into my hide, largely as a result of the waaaaaay-out-there exploits of Roman, Eric and Dylan, and lately Doom. Yes, ferchrissakes, you have my attention!
I've been reading their stories and salivating over the images, all the while feeling a certain momentum building inside. A few months ago a conversation started that has been building and building into something concrete: a trip involving bikes, a few friends, and some wild Alaskan country that will require the use of boats. Dave has been the driving force behind the planning, and his early efforts at learning to become a bikeboater succeeded, finally, in pulling me down that road too.
I acquired a boat and some helpful literature, devoured said literature in two late night benders, took my maiden voyage on a windy pothole lake with Fang along for company and entertainment, then decided that I needed to get into some moving water, stat.
It didn't hurt that Fruita Fat Headed Geek Week is happening right now--that's enough to dissuade any rational non-sheeple to avoid the trails entirely.
I spent the better part of Friday night fiddling with different ways of strapping the bike to the boat, and of carrying the boat on the bike. There isn't really a 'right' way to do either, just varying shades of grey depending on how far you're going to go, how strong your back is, and how brushy the creeks are. This realization, amidst a pile of junk straps and little used gear from the depths of the closet, brought me to a more important realization:
I know nothing about paddling rivers.
Canoeing on midwestern lakes comprises 99% of my experience, and most of that was an early-teenage me in the bow with Dad in the stern doing the real work of propulsion and control. Other than that, one rubber-ducky trip down the Middle Taylor (which I swam, repeatedly) and one sea kayak trip down Ruby/Horsethief on the Colorado.
In a word: Noob.
But hey--at least I know my place, and can start working from there.
Which means yesterday AM I found myself looking at aerial pics of the Colorado River a few miles from home.
Note to the unsuspecting--when you're ignorant and you know it, and you're prone to paranoia about worst-case scenarios, AND you know enough about spring snowmelt to be dangerous if not informed, the more quasi-pertinent info you find, the more paranoid you'll become. In short, the aerial pics were meant to give an idea of a put-in and a take-out. What they really did was to make my eyes sore trying to decipher which of many braids were runnable and which were too boney, or too full of strainers and sweepers. The end result of all the map lookee looing was a Grade-A case of analysis paralysis. I nearly made myself sick with anxiety.
Knowing that action of the right kind can diffuse a/p pretty quick, I tied my shoes, strapped on a helmet, and pedaled gently downhill toward the river.
I rode along the Riverfront Trail (aka the Homeless Highway) headed upstream, and stopped often to scramble through the brush and take wide-eyed looks at the river. In a word, it seemed big, and the thought of my bigger-than-a-breadbox, smaller-than-a-bathtub boat bobbing along out there brought the anxiety level right back up. The water also seemed to be moving much faster than I could ever remember.
I got back on the bike and kept pedaling.
Eventually I came to a calmish slough with a grassy out-of-the-wind place to rig up, then dropped the bike and the pack. It was getting on toward evening and I wasn't likely to find a much better spot. Time to commit.
In a few short minutes I had the boat inflated, then started fiddling with straps and trying to remember which went where.
Maybe 10 minutes later the bike was secure, all extraneous gear had been stowed, and there was nothing left to do but get in and shove off.
I slid into the boat, secured the velcro spraydeck, took a last look on the bank for odds and ends, then pushed off. I could see that the slough met the main channel of the river about 300 yards ahead, so I used that distance to practice ferrying (forward and backward) across the current, moving back upriver, changing direction 90 degrees, then 180 degrees, picking a spot on land then trying to move to it without altering course, etc... Basically trying to make these moves seem somewhat ingrained, instead of having to think about them. I have a very small amount of muscle memory for canoeing, but kayaking is just completely different.
After maybe 10 minutes of avoiding the main channel, I let myself be carried out into it. And, as most of you are already aware, it just wasn't any big deal. I was moving faster in a larger volume of water, but this little boat is so stable and nimble that it just didn't seem to matter. The biggest thing was that I needed to learn to look farther down the river--just like driving (or, um, riding) when speeds increase.
The most obvious things I noticed on this section were hordes of swifts, swallows, and martens swooping along at water level. I couldn't see any bugs but why else would they be there? They parted as I bobbed past, then came back together in my wake and proceeded, I hoped, to tear hell out of a fresh mosquito hatch.
Clouds blew in fast, obscuring the sun and dropping the temps. It rained some, then snowed a little, then just like that they were gone and it was back to sun.
The sun/rain/snow/sun cycle repeated itself on into the evening. Looking upriver at a receding cell.
Then looking downriver at another approaching.
When the water was flat and calm I could peel back the spray deck, dig out the dry bag, open it, fiddle with a few dials and then take a picture or three. Then I'd hear or see an approaching change in the river, so I'd stash the camera and get both hands back on the paddle.
In reality, there wasn't much cause for concern. An occasional sweeper, a few deep undercuts with perplexing (to my uneducated mind) currents that seemed to plow straight into solid earth, and a few small rapids with wave trains but no holes. Naturally, I was moving the boat into what seemed the 'safe' places through all of these, thus you only get to see pics of calm, flat water.
I didn't manage to snag any pictures of the 'homeless' camps along the river, partially because I was in such a state of disbelief at how many there were. Dozens if not hundreds of tents, some of them assembled into compounds where it seemed they had electricity (there was LOUD music playing from a stereo, somewhere), communal tents with huge amounts of bike parking, and communal trash pits at the apparent edges of the camps. But mostly the tents were in ones and twos. I was barked at by several of their dogs, but never saw any of the people.
It was also nice to observe that tamarisk seems to be on the downswing--mostly brown if not outright dead.
Around here I realized that most of my anxiety and apprehension were gone--I was just observing and ruminating, even as I read the river and adjusted my position in it.
And that seemed to be a pretty big milestone to me.
After that the sounds and sights of birds seemed to fill my whole world. Swifts and martens, plover and sandpiper, rails and herons, canada geese and mallard ducks, even an invisible but audible ringneck pheasant somewhere out in the reeds. Lots of life out here, but, at least on the water, I saw no people.
Maybe 40 minutes later, just before sunset, I saw an obvious takeout and ferried over to it. Not much mud, a short scramble up to flat earth, and my first bikerafting trip was 2/3 done.
A few minutes of de-rigging and reassembling and I was zipping down the Homeless Highway, bubbling with enthusiasm not at what I'd just done, but at what I would now be able to do.
Inspired. Enthusiastic. Giggling. All of these describe my state of mind as I rolled back into town.
Later, I pulled out some maps. Maps that I've been poring over for years, that I've used to plan and execute other trips in other times. And you know what?
They all look different now.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Men's tennis defeated Nichols College, 6-3, on Saturday afternoon. After doubles, the Engineers were ahead 2-1 and kept getting stronger as the day went on, only losing two of the six singles matches. MIT are now 2-0 for the 2012 season, while the Bison dipped to 3-2.
In the first doubles match of the afternoon, junior Edwin Zhang (Falls Church, Va.) and senior Matthew Skalak (Croton-on-Hudson) had a tough 9-8 loss to Eduardo Irizarry and Brandon Roode. After that, however, sophomore Eugene Oh (Alparetta, Ga.) and junior Curtis Wu (Yorba Linda, Calif.) had an 8-6 win over Justin DeLuca and Isiah Prosper, and seniors Tymor Hamamasy (New York, N.Y.) and Brian Oldfield (St. Thomas, Virgin Islands) defeated David Drucker and Josh Halpern with a score of 8-1.
With a 2-1 lead over Nichols, the Engineers started off singles strongly when Zhang won against Roode, 6-3, 6-3. Oh won his first set against DeLuca, 6-7(14), but lost the other two, 7-5, 10-4. Oldfield had an impressive win against Irizarry (6-3, 6-0), which was followed up with another win by Skalak over Drucker (6-4, 6-4). Hamamasy won the first set against Prosper, 4-6, but was not able to keep up for the final two (6-3, 10-7). In the final match of the day, freshman Jeffrey Bu (Arcadia, Calif.) had a 6-1, 6-0 win over Halpern.
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dagny wrote:Bowser wrote:That is not a good period of hockey.
They gave up near 20 shots, had a goaltender struggling to find the puck, and too many defensive zone turnovers.
Are they in the game because Fleury made some saves, yes, but that was not a good period of hockey.
Sure was exciting, though! Fun to watch.
Did you guys see Melichar hit a Sen, and the Sen fell down!!!
If I didnt know any better I would say that Melichar actually enjoyed that.


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Smart Travels - Pacific Rim With Rudy Maxa "San Francisco" Rudy finds the place locals call The City revels in art, diversity and food. He learns about the famed sourdough bread and tours Alcatraz Island. He finds Chinatown a feast for the senses, stops at Italian cafes in North Beach and strolls through the Haight neighborhood.G
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Kimchi Chronicles "The Seafood Chronicles" Diving into one of the most amazing Korean traditions, Jean-Georges visits with the Haenyos of Jeju Island, who free-dive for seafood off the rocky coast. Jean-Georges feasts on fresh sea urchin, a dream breakfast for a world-renowned chef. Then, he enjoys a fortifying seafood stew at Baekrok Haegwon restaurant, a Korean-style bouillabaisse filled with clams and crab. D
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Remember Zachary Ty Bryan, from Home Improvement? Probably not, which is why he has 486 Twitter followers, despite formerly being a teen heart throb and TV star. Turns out, lots of 90s celebs are now sad on Twitter.
Neve Campbell! She was a sex symbol! Lots and lots of people wanted to have sex with her, and wanted to have sex with Zachary Ty Bryan! They were rich, and had famous roles in famous things that millions of people watched — and now they're forgotten on the Internet, because their celebrity died before social media was born. BuzzFeed collected 17 such social sad sacks, and they are sad. Why should you care? You shouldn't, really — they're either still rich or broke because they squandered their riches.
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Google TV, despite being launched and relaunched with much pomp and expectations, has not quite managed to reach the market it intended to. In fact, it wouldn't be wrong to proclaim that the foray of Internet on our television screens previously has been an utter failure. And this, you see, is despite the fact that there are giants like Apple and Google scampering for the top spot.
Last week, Ubuntu's own little warrior came sauntering into this hallowed market, but only to deliver a nice big surprise. At CES, when the Unity-based Ubuntu TV was unveiled, even the most pious of Apple fanboys couldn't help feeling a tinge of jealousy. The demo, which showcased a beautiful-yet-functional interface, left all the Unity-bashers a tad guilty.
Having said that, it would be wrong to call Ubuntu TV a game-changer, as Apple, Google, and -- yes, we haven't forgotten them -- Microsoft too are working hard on bringing something intelligent and intuitive to the idiot box. However, we're not that interested in the efforts of Apple, or Microsoft, what we, as FOSS fanatics, are interested in is the battle between two Linux-based smart TV platforms: Google TV and Ubuntu TV.
Though Ubuntu TV hasn't reached the consumers yet, a quick demo at CES showed us how clean and intuitive the interface really is. The experience is no different from what we get on our desktops, but having Unity on it makes it a force to reckon with. However, don't think that my derision for the 'NEW' Ubuntu ceases with Ubuntu TV: Unity was and still is, to me, a crippled interface that is just wrong for our desktops. But when, this much-hated feature shows up on the good old television, you forget that you ever criticized Unity. From the CES demo, and the reviews we read on various tech-related sites, Ubuntu TV could, quite unexpectedly, be the TV interface we've been waiting for.
Google TV on the other hand, has been around for a long time. Based on the Android interface, the interface is quite easy to use and clean too. However, when compared to the aforementioned Ubuntu TV, it does seem a bit cluttered and unintuitive. Instead of focusing on content, Google TV tries to bring too many things to the table, adding to the complexity of the interface. Ubuntu TV, however, stays classy by giving you just the content.
Winner: Ubuntu TV
Though Google TV is based on Android, its interface is totally different from what you have on your phone or tablet. There are a few similarities here and there, but the Google TV doesn't make an Android user feel at home. Ubuntu TV however, makes sure that an Ubuntu user gets the best experience without missing their computer. If Ubuntu on mobile takes off as Shuttleworth expects it to, then Ubuntu TV will be a brand you won't be able to ignore.
Winner: Ubuntu TV
It's not clear as to how many tie-ups Ubuntu TV will have, but from what we've seen at CES, it's enough to satisfy the needs of most TV-lovers. On the other hand, the Android-based Google TV goes one step further by providing an assortment of high quality apps, a domain that is very lucrative these days. Undoubtedly, if Ubuntu TV gets a big audience, it might catch up in this department; however, Google TV will always be a step ahead. Google has partnerships with a lot of content providers, and, not to forget, the movies and TV shows you can rent/buy from Netflix, Android store, and YouTube.
Winner: Google TV
At this early stage, it is difficult to know whether Ubuntu TV will be able to live up to its expectations or not. Also, don't forget that Apple too is surreptitiously working on something big for the TV market. So, as good as Ubuntu TV might seem, it won't be easy for Canonical to break into such a big market. Nevertheless, Ubuntu does promise to bring something unexpected and fresh to the TV market, and it might as well be the game-changing product we've been waiting for.


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Of course it's easier to keep your head in the sand than examine the evidence all around you, to believe that evolution happened and is happening requires a questioning mind and that is too much work for some people.
You cant believe in evolution, only understand it as a science..., if people believe it, they have learned nothing.
I believe you, (there is a difference between believing something because you have examined the facts and have agreed that it is most likely true (until something comes along and changes that in your mind) or believing the religious people and their teachings and not bothering to examine if any of it holds any water to the truth).
Speaking of believing, I believe I'll have another hot cup of tea.
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|2011-04-21, 03:44
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Eva and Battler were dispatched to check out the problem, after the epitaph problem was solved, for X reason, they worried that it was unstable, and only they were dispatched.
While they were investigating the potency of the bombs, either coincidence, or accidents caused by Eva/Battler triggered the bomb, Eva was too guilty to talk about her luck of surviving, and felt guilty over everyone's deaths. If there is a corpse, Kinzo's corpse, it shouldn't violate Van Dines corpse rule.
Judging Battler, he probably took it upon himself and acted solo.
Doesn't explain Maria though...but maybe Rosa went a little too far.
Eva, feeling guilty, ''compensated'' the families, which is why all related persons had a wealthy sum of cash given to them.
(Note I'm making this up as I go and not really enforcing it as a good theory. I will probably edit it like 20 times more before I'm done until someone contradicts me)
|2011-04-21, 04:17
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Maria's jaw was just a stroke of luck. Eva solved the epitaph and happened to be out of harm's way by sheer luck. Seeing the detonator, she figured she must have set it off accidentally by entering and never told anyone. Battler, having gone looking for Eva when she vanished, was also out of harms way but left via a different means.
The compensation was Yasu, paying families for participating in her harmless and fun mystery game.
|2011-04-21, 04:26
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Perhaps this random bit of wild mass guessing will have no value, but from how I've read Umineko, the shots at mystery can be seen a bit like this:
There are two ways to view mystery, the first way of viewing it, is a heartless show that picks fun at corrupt people and ignores the heart, ignoring the 'whydunit' and such.
However, there is another way to view it. With love, with love, it is a different story, it's a world that involves a relationship with the reader and the writer, and it's a challenge of romance in getting them to solve their mystery, a battle of logic, and wonder.
You can't see Mystery with heart without love, without love, it cannot be seen. If you think about it, there are two ways to view most of the things put in Umineko.
Perhaps the truth in Umineko, is that a combination of these truths are correct, and we're just being shown the extreme's of the writers sides of the story. Some writers hint that there was a bunch of conspiracy going on in the family, some hint that they were really a caring family. It's also easy for the public to get bad impressions of rich kids and celebrities, no matter how good of people they are. Battler has said that Kinzo had been able to take a joke before(I read that on this thread). We can't believe the perspective of people who just assume Eva is the queen of conspiracy due to their lack of love, so can we really believe what they say about George?
Perhaps, while the family did have some dark sides to itself, this could have been over-exaggerated and they really did play in a harmless and fun mystery until fate simply said ''fuck you'' and screwed them over.
Maybe the Eva post-tragedy made herself play the part of a villain, like Yasu made herself play the part of Beatrice, in the pure shock of what she had experienced, feeling that simply surviving would have got her off the hook. (Haven't read episode 8 but I read this over discussion) We've supposedly shown that the trauma was so horrible for Battler that he lost all of his memories from the tragedy. If we view Eva from the love perspective, we could only pity her.
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|2011-04-24, 21:11
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It's starting to seem like Ryu's main mystery to us wasn't ''who is the culprit'', there seems to be a hidden message in the entire tale that he wants us to figure out, correct me with logic from EP 8 if I'm wrong. But it has never been fully stated that this tale follows Van Dine's, or Knox's rules, however, Dlanor has said that it is okay to use it as a crutch for thinking, meaning that relying solely on the mystery aspect will not work, but still needs to be used partially.
I'm not sure if you guys agree that Kanon has a reliable point of view, but
Spoiler for Baseless theory:
Spoiler for Baseless and random thought out theory with little thought.:
|2011-04-25, 00:55
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That makes no sense. I...I don't know where to start. For one thing, Erika being alive on the island is pretty much impossible due to Red and whatnot.
Witch Hunters don't think a witch did it, they're trying to uncover the truth of a human murderer (even if they're looking for 'an answer they want').
|2011-04-25, 01:11
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A good amount of red can be worked around in Umineko, can you give me the sentence in English which denies Erika's existence?
''There are only 17 people'', is extremely vague(even though it's a useful red truth still).
The bit of Kanon I posted, was to show that the characters were much nicer than portrayed, Yasu had good memories of everyone if that bit can be taken seriously, meaning they're at least more noble than the mystery argument seems(lying, bribing, ect). Well, I don't take it literally, but that seems like a bit of a hint.
And wait, weren't the cultists and ect trying to find more evidence of a magical story rather than the human story? I guess I must have witch hunters confused.
I'd be smart and say ''without love it can't be seen'', but that'd just be me pretending to know what I'm talking about. Most of what I typed up was just random thoughts that I thought out. Anyone's free to read it and contradict what I say, it takes 2 people at a minimum to create a universe after all.
What I'm trying to suggest, like, when Ange said kids bullied her into saying Kyrie and Rudolph were the culprits, it seemed that the Meta-World aspect of it was Bernkastel killing Ange after revealing the ''truth'' to her. Clearly an over-exaggeration. So why can't the other meta-world experiences be an over-exaggeration?
It would take a LARGE sentence of pure red just to leave NO room whatsoever for Erika to exist alive. After all(I read this on this site), in EP 8 Battler supposedly works around the red truth that Kinzo is dead from all starting games.
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|2011-04-25, 02:09
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Still, if Ep 8 is Fantasy, am I right in saying that any red denying Erika wouldn't apply to the other game boards as well?
|2011-04-25, 02:36
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If they were talking about Erika, it was most likely just to confuse her and deny her existence. Since the scene was blasted by explosives, no evidence suggested she was alive, so she had no way to counter it.
It's basically like in the early stages of Umineko, where Battler keeps trying to deny witches, he used the same logic on Erika, where the theory was used as a weapon against her to kill her rather than a fact.
Just like Bernkastel showing that Lion would be shot by Kyrie.
I think that the red truth saying ''There are only 17 people'' related to Kanon(or someone of the Yasu-tree) and not to Erika, because I don't think saying Erika was dead would expose any of Beatrice's heart, it was made clear that saying that truth would compromise the secret of Beatrice, and Erika has nothing to do with that.
Unless you mean a different red truth.
|2011-04-25, 02:52
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My reasoning for why she was denied for those two episodes is that she stated: I am the visitor, the eighteenth human on Rokkenjima! That's completely incompatible with a game board where there are only seventeen people, even if she's one of the seventeen. In order for the count to reach eighteen, Shannon and Kanon both have to be treated as "people", but we know that they're just two roles being played by one person. So we have:
|2011-04-25, 03:19
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Spoiler for COMPLETELY disregard this if EP5+ wasn't written as a story.:
It's just impossible to argue against a red truth denying Erika's existence, because there is no proof of her existence. But that doesn't completely mean she never was alive on the actual island. The same applied to everyone else, no one can say that any of them were alive or dead before the explosion, why doesn't Erika fit into this category as well?
If Kinzo is dead, he doesn't count. If kanon is an Illusion, he doesn't count. If you add Erika, that makes 17 right?
I don't understand your post, I am not too observant when it comes down to it, I just can't see where the problem is.
|2011-04-25, 03:38
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Red truth doesn't exist in the real world, so if you step outside the confines of the games and into the actual cat box, then yes, Kinzo could have been alive and Erika could have washed up on the island.
But I can also claim that it's possible for space aliens to have shown up on Rokkenjima and caused the explosion, and I'd have about as much supporting evidence. "Erika fell off a boat on the day of the conference?" Where did you read that? ...Right. In the forgery.
Even if a girl named Furudo Erika existed and fell off a pleasure liner that day (what was a pleasure liner doing out in the middle of a typhoon?), she still would have had to miraculously drift ashore without drowning (from several miles away?). And assuming she survived that, she wouldn't even be anything like the Erika we know, because the Erika we know is an exaggerated metagaming psycho detective with magical powers.
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"There is no Ushiromiya Natsuhi. There is only Zuul!"
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I recently realized a huge flaw with Shakanon. Namely, if Kanon is nothing more then a disguise and/or alternate personality for Yasu , then the other Fukuin servants would know his back story was a lie simply by virtue of the fact they had never met him before.
On a different note, one of the problems I always had with Lion/Yasu being the child of Kuwadorian-Beatrice was the fact that Rosa's flashback didn't show any indication that Beatrice had a child. However, I recently thought of an explanation. Beato was pregnant when she died. However, Nanjo was able to transfer her unborn child to a surrogate mother, for example Asumu or Kumasawa.
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After the coffee. Before saying goodbye to July.
The Skinny: You know you need a vacation when you wake up and don't know what day it is. I did get a chance to get to Dodger Stadium last night, but unfortunately the Yankees lost. Wednesday's headlines include a look at "Elysium" and Comcast's first-quarter results.
Daily Dose: Mandalay Sports Media, which creates sports-related content and is headed by Hollywood player Peter Guber and Mike Tollin, said private equity firms Columbia Capital and Rho Ventures have bought a stake in the company and will be represented on its board of directors.
Slow finish. Normally, the big broadcast networks have wrapped up selling commercial inventory for the fall TV season around the July 4 holiday. But this time around, there is a lot of haggling going on between some of the networks and Madison Avenue. On Tuesday, NBC indicated it was finally done selling ads. The slow pace paid off for the Peacock network, which sold $2.1 billion in advertisements and got rate increases between 7% and 8%. ABC, meanwhile, is still negotiating with advertisers. More on NBC's upfront from the Los Angeles Times and Advertising Age.
PHOTOS: Hollywood backlot moments
Slump buster? Big-budget movies laden with special effects have not fared well at the box office this summer. Disappointments include "The Lone Ranger," "Pacific Rim" and "After Earth." Now comes Sony's "Elysium," which is from Neill Blomkamp, director of the surprise hit "District 9," and promises to be more than big explosions and lots of wreckage. There also isn't a glut of producers weighing in on the product. The New York Times on whether "Elysium" can break the summer slump.
Breaking news. Baltimore-based Sinclair Broadcast Group, which owns and operates over 100 local television stations, wants to get into the cable news business. As part of its acquisition of Allbritton Communications, Sinclair now owns NewsChannel 8, a Washington, D.C.-based regional cable news channel and wants to take it national. With a Washington base, and news operations around the country from its local stations, Sinclair may have plenty of content. What will be interesting is whether the often-conservative views of the company's news operations will also be part of a cable channel. Coverage from Baltimore Business Journal.
Strong quarter. Cable and entertainment giant Comcast Corp. had a profit of $1.7 billion for the second quarter on revenue of $16.3 billion. Helping boost numbers was the strong performance of "Fast and Furious 6" and NBC's "The Voice." Bloomberg and the Los Angeles Times on the numbers.
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Another first. Cheryl Boone Isaacs, a former head of publicity for Paramount Pictures, has become the new president of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences. She is the first woman to run the Academy in 30 years and the first African-American ever. She defeated Lionsgate Motion Picture Group Co-Chairman Rob Friedman. Variety on Isaacs' win.
Inside the Los Angeles Times: Radio personality Eddie "Piolin" Sotelo, who resigned under a cloud, may have problems jump-starting his career. The NFL is going long with its digital strategy.
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Nobel winner Vargas Llosa unveils new novel
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MADRID (AP) — Nobel-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa is unveiling his new novel, titled "The Discreet Hero" and set in his native Peru.
The novel revisits two influential cities in Vargas Llosa's past, the Peruvian capital Lima and the small northwestern city of Piura.
Vargas Llosa told reporters Wednesday that the plot centers on a small business owner from Piura who is an extortion victim, and a rich Lima entrepreneur whose children want to kill him.
The author said Peru's economic development over the past several decades is also a key theme for the novel.
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Stock futures are rising after a pair of U.S. companies opened the earnings season with a surprisingly strong start.
Dow Jones industrial futures are up 13 points to 13,280. The broader S&P futures have added 0.80 points to 1,435.10. Nasdaq futures are up 0.25 points to 2,714.25.
After markets closed Tuesday, Alcoa predicted rising demand for its aluminum this year and topped revenue expectations for the fourth quarter. Earlier in the day, agricultural giant Monsanto said its profit tripled and raised its guidance for 2013.
Alcoa's outlook, which could hint at a broader economic recovery, helped to buoy markets overseas Wednesday.
Britain's FTSE 100 rose 0.4 percent, Germany's DAX added 0.3 percent and France's CAC-40 rose 0.4 percent. In Asia, Hong Kong's Hang Seng advanced 0.5 percent.
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