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Camping at Flamenco Beach on Culebra Island in Puerto Rico is an excellent choice for a person or family that is on a budget, seeking something different than merely staying in a hotel, or who wants to experience living in a somewhat primitive and very natural environment for a while. Many visitors opt to camp in Culebra to get off the beaten path or to experience spending time on an island where accommodations are often otherwise expensive. Many are brought to Flamenco beach's campground due to the beauty of the natural environment and the allure of spending a few nights on one of the most beautiful beaches in the world. No matter what your reasons are for considering camping at Flamenco beach, you are bound to experience a memorable trip that you will cherish for a very long time.
Many people who camp at Flamenco beach find it hard to leave. Many individuals dream of returning again, even though 'roughing it' has its challenges. However, with all the amenities that are available at one's disposal, camping at Flamenco is not as much roughing it as it is a pleasure.
Imagine, camping a few meters from the ocean, falling asleep and waking to the sounds of the surf hitting the shore. In the morning, being surrounded by deer making their way through camp, or by the tropical breezes that blow in between the palm trees that line the coastline. Imagine crossing the island via foot to the lesser visited beaches of Carlos Rosario or Playa Tamarindo. Taking a plunge into the nearby reef to see some of the tropical fish and return in time to hunt for coconuts. Afterwards, you can make your way into Dewey for dinner, or enjoy an evening meal by candlelight right on the beach. Infinite opportunities await you.
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Culebra has changed over time but still holds its unique charm. When you arrive you will find a laid back group of people who love their island home. You will quickly understand why. Life is a lot slower here, but that does not mean it is not exciting. On the contrary, there is magic to be found all over the island. From its amazing beaches to its hillside vistas. Even under the sea the world comes to life. This is how it is on the island of Culebra. We hope that you enjoy it and get as much out of it as you possibly can.
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SCB Student Awards
Student awards are given out during the Society for Conservation Biology's International Congress for Conservation Biology. Specific information and deadlines can be found on the upcoming conference web page.
In general, any SCB student member presenting a paper at the meeting can be considered for an award. During the call for papers, interested students are asked to submit 2 copies of their abstract. A group of papers are selected by a panel prior to the meeting and these students present in special groups during the meeting. After the papers are presented student award winners are chosen and awards are given out at a ceremony held during the conference.
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An international group of experts on cognitive science has asserted that animals, including many that are much different from humans, experience the same degree of consciousness as humans. Per the article:
An international group of prominent scientists has signed The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness in which they are proclaiming their support for the idea that animals are conscious and aware to the degree that humans are ....What's also very interesting about the declaration is the group's acknowledgement that consciousness can emerge in those animals that are very much unlike humans.... "Consequently, say the signatories, the scientific evidence is increasingly indicating that humans are not unique in possessing the neurological substrates that generate consciousness....The declaration was signed in the presence of Stephen Hawking .... (bold added).
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Of course, we are not much different from animals and vice versa. Heck, we are animals.
« L'homme n'est qu'un animal plus parfait que les autres et qui raisonne mieux. » de Napoléon Bonaparte
Think of that when you want to buy meat...
How sensitive.
Sensitive, no. Amused, yes.
And the trees and grain too, of course.
We better just eat people, I hear they taste like Pork anyway, so, bacon.
The article ... at least that bit which John pasted ... gives far too vague of a statement of kinship. There's a wide range of consciousness, most of which doesn't come close to approximating our own in breadth or depth. Insects possess neurons, but for most or them, their neural processing is so simplistic that I think they're less likely to be conscious than is the computer on which I'm typing this.
If you want to talk about dolphins and some mollusks, you've got a completely different discussion.
Chris tried to take it a step further, and I think her post demonstrates the danger of making statements that are too broad, as this one is.
I feel no sympathy for the chicken that I just ate, earlier this evening. Chickens are stupid and seem to be little more than a vaguely complex series of responses to stimuli. Chickens aren't high enough on the scale for me to give a damn. The most you can say for them is that they use a similar set of tools, but that doesn't necessarily lead to a comparable end result.
A few weeks ago, I slaughtered a few colonies of ants, without a second thought, because they annoyed me. I place that little value in both the existence of an individual ant and that of its queen. As long as we're not wiping out a species of ant, I don't care.
So you thought about it; that's all I asked. I didn't tell you what to do.
I'm an animal lover too. Notwithstanding, it has been my experience that even insects run or, otherwise, take evasive action like all get out when something is trying to kill them. This is pretty strong evidence to me that they have a sense of self.
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Put on your snow boots and snuggies and head to the park on Monday nights for the first Citi PondSM Winter Film Festival, produced by Upsilon Ventures. The festival opened with a special Saturday presentation of Happy Feet and continued with March of the Penguins last night. Here's the rest of the schedule...films will be shown snow or shine!
Monday, January 31 - Ice Age
Monday, February 7 - Blades of Glory
Monday, February 14 - The Cutting Edge
The 900 square foot screen is located on the west side of the Pond and can be viewed from the ice, the deck surrounding the rink, and winter pop-up restaurant, Celsius. Click here to check out NYC family blog Mommy Poppins' rankings of cold, warmer, and warmest spots to watch from.
To get the complete movie experience, swing by the Film Bites kiosk on the east side of the park (next to the entrance of Celsius) for popcorn and other snacks. And if you need extra reinforcements against the cold, just look next door at the Pond Shop where you'll find souvenir hats, sweatshirts, and blankets.


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The Disciplined Disciple Compiler (DDC)
Disciple is a dialect of Haskell that uses strict evaluation as the default, and supports arbitrary destructive update, effect and closure typing, type directed field projections and allied functional goodness. Many Haskell programs are also Disciple programs, or will run with minor changes. Our target applications are the ones that you always find yourself writing C programs for, because existing functional languages are too slow, use too much memory, or don't let you update the data that you need to.
DDC is still in the "research prototype" stage, meaning that it will compile programs if you are nice to it, but expect compiler panics and missing features. However, it is under active development, and things are improving on a daily basis.
State of Play
This section records what the DDC developers are actively working on. If you're hacking on something DDC related then by all means add yourself here. Records are dropped off if they haven't been updated for more than a month.
Ben (benl23) -- updated 11th June 2010
- I'm cleaning up the core language and rewriting the core type checker. We currently have Core.Reconstruct that reconstructs some type annotations as well as checks the type information, but we want to split this into two separate phases. We only have to do the real reconstruction during conversion between the desugared and core language, but we want to run the checker after every stage (during debugging).
- After doing this we should be able to use the TConstrain form of type expressions in the core language, ditch the TFetters version, then finish work on the new interface file format.
Erik de Castro Lopo (m3ga) -- updated 25th May 2010
- Above all, I'm doing bug fixing. However there are still large chunks of the compiler I don't understand. These bits need Ben's attention.
- The top of my list are bugs (in numeric order) #7 (waiting on #168), #102 and anything marked with a milestone of 0.1.3. These bugs are all deeper than the ones I've worked on previously and I'm not sure if I can make progress on these or not.
- Working on finding examples of of code (currently concentrating on list comprehensions) which compiles with GHC but fails with DDC. We'd like to make DDC as Haskell compatible as possible.
- Working on making the library more usable.
- Looking into doing an LLVM backend.
Syntactic differences to Haskell?
The Language Definition is still evolving, but the wiki should be in sync with the development branch.
- Compiler Commentary?
- Development Builds
- Build Bots and Servers
- Building the Code documentation
- Syntax Highlighting?
- Coding Conventions
- Using Darcs?
- Debugging Help
- Memory and CPU Usage Profiling?
- Making Patches
How you can help
- Download out the compiler, write programs, and file bug reports!
- Write more test programs.
- Fix the bugs on the 0.1.3 Buglist
- Write more quick check tests.
How to get help
- Send mail to disciple-cafe at Google Groups.
- Ask in the #disciplined channel on the freenode IRC network.
Further Reading
- Type Inference and Optimisation for an Impure World, ANU 2010 (PhD thesis)
- Witnessing Purity, Constancy and Mutability, slides, APLAS 2009


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Simulink Design Optimization™ lets you configure, manipulate, and run parameter estimations. It provides a graphical tool and functions that let you:
Simulink Design Optimization can use measured input-output data from hardware to estimate and validate the parameters of a Simulink® model. The product lets you import measured data from the MATLAB® workspace, as well as from MATLAB, Microsoft® Excel®, ASCII, and CSV files. Measured data often has offsets, outliers, missing values, and other anomalies that can lead to inaccurate parameter estimation. Simulink Design Optimization lets you preprocess your data to remove these sources of error. You can:
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Simulink Design Optimization provides a variety of optimization algorithms that can be used for parameter estimation, including gradient descent, nonlinear least squares, simplex search, and, with Global Optimization Toolbox™, pattern search. You can fine-tune performance by setting parameter ranges, or adjusting the optimization algorithm settings, such as convergence tolerances and the number of iterations. You can find a good initial starting point and identify which model parameters you should focus on for the estimation process by using the Sensitivity Analysis tool. To accelerate the parameter estimation process, you can use Parallel Computing Toolbox™ and also enable the Simulink Fast Restart feature. By compiling the model only once and using this version for all subsequent simulations, the Fast Restart feature enables you to improve performance, especially in large and complex models.
Simulink Design Optimization lets you set up and maintain multiple estimation tasks. For each task, you can specify the model parameters and initial conditions to estimate and the measured data to use. This approach lets you independently estimate parameters for different sections of your model using various combinations of data sets. You can further refine the parameter-tuning process by using parameter values from previous estimation tasks as initial values for subsequent estimations.
In addition to estimating model parameters, Simulink Design Optimization estimates static lookup table values and provides a Simulink block for implementing adaptive lookup tables. You can connect your adaptive lookup table directly to a physical system by compiling your Simulink model and implementing the code using an appropriate host such as Simulink Real-Time™.
Simulink Design Optimization helps you determine which model parameter values result in the best fit for the measured data by comparing the measured data with the simulated model outputs. Validation involves comparing the model output with an independent set of measured data to determine whether the calibrated model accurately captures the system dynamics. Simulink Design Optimization lets you compare model outputs with validation datasets and check residuals to select the best estimated parameter set.
With Simulink Design Optimization, you can tune Simulink model parameters to meet time-domain requirements, frequency-domain requirements, or both simultaneously. Using the Design Optimization tool in Simulink Design Optimization, you can add and edit design requirements graphically or by entering tabular data. The graphical tool also lets you monitor optimization progress. It shows plots for each requirement as well as the optimization status in a single view. As with parameter estimation, you can simultaneously optimize multiple model parameters, including scalars, vectors, matrices, or fields of structured variables defined in the MATLAB or Simulink model workspace or in a Simulink data dictionary.
You can choose from a variety of optimization algorithms, such as gradient descent, nonlinear least squares, simplex search, and, with Global Optimization Toolbox, pattern search. To improve performance, you can adjust optimization algorithm settings, such as convergence tolerances and number of iterations. Using the Sensitivity Analysis tool, you can explore your design space using techniques such as Monte Carlo simulations, and choose initial guesses for the optimization process.
To accelerate the process by performing the optimization on multiple cores or processors, you can use Parallel Computing Toolbox with Simulink Design Optimization. The Simulink Fast Restart feature allows you to improve performance, especially in large and complex models, by compiling the model only once and using this version for all subsequent simulations.
You can add a time-domain design requirement by selecting a requirement type and specifying the model signals to use for evaluating the requirement, without adding any blocks to your model. Simulink Design Optimization lets you specify design requirements on a signal to:
These requirements can be edited graphically or by entering numeric values. For example, to edit a step response envelope requirement, you can graphically adjust the bounds or enter values for rise time, overshoot, settling time, and other parameters that define step response characteristics.
You can optimize your model response for multiple design requirements at the same time. During the optimization process, the tool updates the plots for each design requirement so you can visually monitor the requirements and the parameters being tuned in a single window.
For frequency-domain optimization, you can use Simulink Design Optimization with Simulink Control Design™ to linearize a Simulink model and use the resulting linear model to incorporate requirements such as:
This enables you to optimize the frequency-domain characteristics of your control system as well as the plant model.
Simulink Design Optimization lets you manage tradeoffs between requirements, such as stability and performance, as you fine-tune your design.
You can specify a variety of time-domain and frequency-domain requirements to optimize system performance. Typical requirements include gain and phase margins, damping ratio constraints, minimum bandwidth values, and constraints on the step or impulse responses. You can optimize the poles, zeros, and gains of your compensators, or directly tune the parameters of the corresponding blocks in Simulink.
Simulink Design Optimization lets you specify custom constraints and cost functions for optimizing the parameters of your Simulink model. For example, you can design the cross-sectional area of a hydraulic cylinder while limiting the pressure in the cylinder and ensuring the piston position meets the specified step response characteristics.
Custom requirements can be specified as an objective to be minimized, an equality constraint, or an inequality constraint. They can be specified in both the time and frequency domain. You can also include statistical properties in custom requirements. For example, you can optimize the damping characteristics of an automotive suspension system to minimize the mean value of displacement for a Gaussian passenger weight distribution.
Simulink Design Optimization lets you test and improve the robustness of your design against variations in model parameters using Monte Carlo simulations. You can set the nominal and bounding values for each uncertain parameter in the model and check the effects of these parameter variations on the system response and your design requirements.
Simulink Design Optimization enables you to analyze and explore your model's design space using techniques such as Monte Carlo simulations and design of experiments. This helps you identify which parameters in your model have the greatest impact on a cost function, such as the model output or design requirements.
You can perform global sensitivity analysis to evaluate how changes in model parameters can affect your model's behavior and also see how these parameters are correlated with the cost functions. Simulink Design Optimization provides you with a graphical tool in which you can:
Create sample sets of your model parameters using techniques such as Monte Carlo sampling
Define time and frequency domain model requirements as well as custom cost functions
Perform graphical and statistical analyses on the relationship between the parameter set and model requirements
Simulink Design Optimization provides you with parameter estimation and design optimization capabilities to tune model parameters based on test data or design requirements. If you have a large model with tens or hundreds of parameters, the optimization process may take a long time if you wish to tune the model parameters. Sensitivity analysis helps identify parameters that have the greatest impact on model behavior and, it determines how these parameters are correlated to the requirements. It can also help you find good initial estimates for the optimization process, which can significantly improve performance.
To explore your model's design space or to perform sensitivity analysis using Simulink Design Optimization, you must first create a sample set describing the model parameter variations. You can create multiple sample sets and use techniques such as design of experiments to select one for analysis. The values for these parameters can be drawn randomly or can be a set of gridded values defined by the user. With Statistics and Machine Learning Toolbox™, you can access Latin hypercube and Copula sampling methods and also create custom probability distributions from which you can draw parameter values.
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Once your cost functions have been evaluated against the parameter sample set, you can plot the results to gain insight into the behavior of your model. These plots help you identify trends, such as high cost function values for low values of certain model parameters. For more detailed analysis, you can compute statistics, such as the correlation and partial correlation, to determine the influence of different parameters on the cost functions.


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For some people it was a lonely Valentine's Day. And this goes out especially to them.
When we played in Pune last year we decided we weren't going back without cake and cookies from the famous German Bakery. Enjoying them in Bangalore the next day, we didn't foresee having to reflect on that simple pleasure like this.
Terror could have struck then as it did on the night of February 13, 2010. But we lived to write this. And we shall make the most of the life and joy granted to us.
It is somewhat edifying that we were able to reach out to Pune on February 14. Opus Pune webcast the One Small Love concert live to its patrons.
Thank you for turning up (and turning down your other Valentine's Day engagements) and for your support and encouragement right through this initiative.
Foremost, our thanks go to the fabulous folks at Trumpit and Opus – Carlton, Shonali, Priyanka, Venkat, Adrian and all the staff whose names fail us but whose smiling faces fill our minds when we recollect that lovely evening. Thank you for event support, your gracious hospitality and for making our artists and guests feel at home at Opus in the Creek, such a tranquil setting with its giant Buddha and tippling fish.
Thank you Konarak Reddy, Gerard Machado, Ravichandra Kulur, Alwyn Fernandes, Gaurav Vaz and Karan Joseph for your soul-stirring performances. A special thanks to Vasu, Varun, Jishnu, Montry, Pavan and Sanjeev, the awesome musicians of Swarathma, for playing a pulse-quickening show. In a market where live performances can hardly pay the bills, these wonderful people unquestioningly played for love.
For making the One Small Love concert a resounding success we thank Niranjan, the man at the soundboard whose admirable patience with the tantrums of rock stars is legend.
Thanks to Saswati Chakravarty, C K Meena, Prakash Belawadi and Harish Bijoor for articulating their special messages to our audience because rock stars (with the notable exception of Gaurav Vaz) are so pathetic at making speeches.
For his time-saving and completely impromptu comic interlude, a whopper of a thank-you goes out to our friendly neighbourhood Bollywood star-in-the-making Rajeev Ravindranathan.
Thanks to Merwyn Rodrigues of JumpMedia, Dubai, who accepted a brief that few designers would, and delivered a poster and profile image for our Facebook page in just a few hours.
We thank Smita and the very talented and even-tempered folks at Kieon for online support and web design.
Thanks to Kartik Iyer, Praveen Das and the beautiful minds at Happy Creative Services for dreaming up the original One Small Love music video. Special thanks also to Ashvin Naidu of Avakkai Films.
Thank you, PG Santhosh and his colleagues at MIPL-GraphicsAllAround, for the One Small Love giveaway stickers and for the big yellow smiley that graced the stage throughout the show.
Thank you, Gaurav Manchanda, for being Ayrton Senna to our guests when the cab guys ditched us at the eleventh hour.
We thank Dean Umesh PN, professors Srijayanth and Ananth and research fellow Bindu of the TAAQ Roadie Institute of Technology (RIT) for running the show like a smoothie, and especially for committing themselves to the odious task of filming people drawing smileys under hot lights.
We are immensely grateful to Facebook and WordPress for their fabulous (and free) online products, which make social messaging and online publishing look ridiculously easy. Ten years ago, we would have struggled to drum up opt-in support for an event like this. This year, we didn't phone a single journalist.
In the same breath, we thank Facebook evangelists such as Martin D'Souza for spreading the message of One Small Love to their networks. Thanks also to the 1,300+ fans of the One Small Love page for your endorsement of this movement. You have a lot to look forward to.
We have had many managers and we love and respect all of them. But no one merits a bigger ovation than Divya Joseph, who deserves a lifetime royalty from Adidas for living the slogan 'Impossible is Nothing'. The list of things she deserves to be thanked for cannot be accommodated here, so let just it be said that she was the smile on the face of One Small Love.
Thanks to Velu Shankar, a long-time friend, philosopher and guide of Thermal And A Quarter, for his advice and encouragement.
One Small Love begins at home. Our families deserve our utmost love and gratitude for their support and suffering in the face of our absences, late nights and many missed dinners. Since this suffering, and our solicitations for support, are not about to stop in the near future, we thank you in advance.
The show must go on, no matter what threats loom up to stop us. And we will do everything in our power as musicians and artists to fight violence and hate with messages of love, tolerance and freedom. To paraphrase Harry Belafonte: "You can cage the singer but not the song."
The concert is only the beginning. In the future that is about to unfold, One Small Love will reach out to the world in many ways and touch many lives.
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Here comes the sun, to Saturn? Photographs from space this weekend will show photos of Saturn you've never seen before and a side of Earth you'd never thought you'd see.
Two NASA spacecraft are in position to take stunning photos of Saturn and its rings, showing the planet eclipsing the sun Friday and Saturday. The photos will also show Earth as just one pixel in size, according to NASA.
The photos, taken from the Cassini and Messenger spacecrafts, will show Saturn and its "dusty" rings back-lit by the sun. Coincidentally, Earth should appear in the background of some of the images. At the time of the photos, the Cassini spacecraft will be nearly 900 million miles away from our planet.
"My sincere wish is that people the world over stop what they're doing at the time the Earth picture is taken, to revel in the sheer wonder of simply being alive on a pale blue dot of a planet, and to appreciate the ever-widening perspective of ourselves and our world that we have gained from our interplanetary explorations," Carolyn Porco, head of the Cassini mission's imaging team, said in a press release.
The Cassini spacecraft is scheduled to take its photos between 5:27 and 5:42 p.m. EDT, Friday, July 19, while the Messenger expects to shoot at 7:49 a.m., 8:38 a.m. and 9:41 a.m. EDT, both today and Saturday.
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During the interplanetary photo session, NASA is encouraging people to go outside and look in the direction of Saturn and take photos of themselves waving and share them on Social Media using the hashtag #WaveAtSaturn.
"The Cassini team is looking forward to giving the world a chance to see what their home looks like from Saturn," Porco also said. "With this advance notice, we hope you'll join us in waving at Saturn from Earth, so we can commemorate this special opportunity."


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As you might have read in the 'about me' section, I grew up in Lexington, a small town in Missouri. It is so great to be home - especially when the whole 'fam-damly' is there. The weekends are filled with big breakfasts, all day snacking, and huge dinners. Food. Aren't all family weekends around food? I felt no guilt because it was our "Thanksgiving" since we'll be unable to travel for Thanksgiving this year.
Above Left, the entire crew (including Macy, the golden) gathered around after our s'mores making night. I hate that Mr. Darcy can't travel back home with us. He is too big to fit under the seat of the plane... Does anyone have any ideas about sneaking a 30 lb. cock-a-poo on a plane?
We took Sam over to the farm to see the cows. There was a baby calf that had been born later than all of the other babies this year - my Dad said it was about 2 months old.
Look at those boots! Definitely looking forward to those hand-me-downs.
Sam pretending to drive the mule. Only Sam can pull off wearing white leggings on the farm.
Uncle Mike tickling Sam before the shower... such a giggler.
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My mom and sister put together the favors (above) in the boxes. Isn't that a cute idea? Inside each box was a chocolate bird nest with pink M&M's.
My Aunt Phyllis did the flowers - I love how her arrangements look natural and garden-like. She has a great design sense. We used to 'help' her with weddings when we were younger - we were in charge of tying the bows... which I'm sure she re-tied later.
More flowers - I love the garden rose.
Isn't this Diaper Wreath amazing? My friend Leah created it. The "bow" is the softest swaddle blanket.
Hydrangea Cupcakes with "Aunt Joanie" icing. Her icing has a secret ingredient... vodka! My Aunt used to decorate wedding cakes - we also loved to go over to house and 'help' her decorate cakes. I'm sure we were great at licking the bowls!
I made these favors for all of the Hostess of the party (DIY instructions here!)
Sam had to undress for the pre-party cupcake I gave her (what are aunts for?). She has a major sweet tooth - remember her first birthday party?!
After the shower, we got out Jill's batons from high school to show Sam. I know... but, hey, we grew up in a small town. You should've seen her 'outfit' - basically a sequins swimming suit.
During these moments with the girls in the front yard are usually when my mom forces me to do a back walk-over while she 'spots' me. Thank goodness for the pregnancy pass this year. Instead we made Jill do a cartwheel and cheerleading jumps... Sam was thoroughly impressed by her Mom.
She was very interested by the cassette tapes she found in the bag - what are these and how do I play them in my ipad? Don't you like that skirt? It was a gift from me. Something I was sure I would've loved when I was little. There is a rumor that I wouldn't leave the house unless I was wearing pink or a skirt... and on occasion heart-shaped sunglasses. To church. With gloves.
She loved the ribbon! I think we have a future twirler in our midst... wait, do high school bands still have twirlers?! Look how much fun Macy is having! Poor Mr. missed out.


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Whether it's that pulsating pain of a migraine, or the vice-like grip of sinus congestion, nobody likes a headache. Headaches (and their causes) are all different. With that in mind, here are the causes and treatments for the most common headaches.
According to the National Headache Foundation, at least 150 different variations on headaches exist, and they range from being caused by not eating to genetics. That said, most of us will never (hopefully) feel all 150 types. A few common types exist that we're all prone to. Here's how to deal with them.
Tension Headaches
Tension headaches are the most common headache for most of us experience. They're accented by mild to moderate pain, tightness, and pressure in the forehead (or back of the neck). Typically, the pain is "throbbing" and although annoying, doesn't usually ruin your day.
Causes: Since a tension headache is so common, the causes are pretty widespread. They're caused by anxiety, eye strain, caffeine, food, poor rest, bad posture, stress, hunger, or just about anything else you change in your daily schedule. Tension headaches are also usually the type of headache you end up with after a night of alcohol. Essentially, if something is abnormal about your day, whether it's a late lunch or a series of deadlines at work, a tension headache might pop up.
Treatment: Tension headaches are usually best handled with over-the-counter painkillers like aspirin or ibuprofen before the pain gets severe. Those aren't cures, but they make the pain go away for a while. In general, your best bet is to rest and relax until the headache goes away. Even a hot pepper may provide some relief. If your headaches are common enough, your doctor may have other solutions. Otherwise, it's good to find your triggers, minimize them, and fight back. If a headache comes from stress, meditation may help, if you're hungry, then eat. If it comes from eyestrain, get away from the computer for a while.
Prevention: Tension headaches are best prevented by tuning your routine to minimize potential triggers. It's a little trial-and-error to find the exact cause of a tension headache, but if you know they come around when you're stressed, hungry, or tired, then you can work on preventing them. Even certain food allergies can trigger a headache.
If you get a headache (or you're getting them a lot), think back through the day and see what you did differently. If something stands out, it might be the trigger. If you need a little help, Tylenol's Headache Tracker makes it simple to track you day and root out the causes.
Of course, if alcohol is the cause, you have a few ways of dealing with it. The same goes for those headaches caused by 3D movies, or eyestrain. With eyestrain, it's also worth looking into seeing if you might need glasses as well (or at least clean yours if you're already wearing some). If your headaches come from bad posture, that can be improved, and ergonomically optimizing your workspace can help as well. Photo by Rob Sinclair.
Migraines are typically described as a moderate to severe pounding pain that can last from three hours to several days. You also get symptoms like sensitivity to light, noise, or odors, as well as nausea and loss of appetite.
Causes: According to the Mayo Clinic, the exact causes of migraines are still unclear, though it's thought that genetics and your environment can both cause migraines (around 70 percent of migraine sufferers have a hereditary influence). It's thought that hormonal changes, stress, unusual sensory stimuli (like weird odors or bright lights), changes in sleep patterns, and even a change in the weather all act as potential triggers for a migraine. Your diet can also play a roll in migraines.
Treatment: Migraines are a mixed bag for treatment options, but doctor-prescribed triptans (like Imitrex, Zomig, Maxalt) are the most commonly effective pain reliever for people when over the counter solutions like Aspirin don't work. In the middle of a migraine stretching can relieve some symptoms. If all else fails, when you're waiting out the pain, a cold head wrap may provide a little relief.
Prevention: While migraines may be hereditary, they're still usually caused by triggers, and it's typically recommended that you narrow down those triggers and avoid them. Again, a headache diary can be helpful in narrowing down those triggers. It's also thought that light exercises like walking can help prevent migraines. While inconclusive, certain remedies like butterbur (a plant extract), magnesium (found in wheat bread, almonds, spinach, and more) and riboflavin (found in cereals, pastas, sauses, and more) may be effective in reducing the frequency of attacks. Getting the exact amount of good sleep every night is also thought to help decrease the occurances of migraines. Photo by Robbie Wagner.
Sinus Headaches
Sinus headaches are when you have a constant pain in the bridge or your nose, around the cheek bones, or forehead. The painful headache is also usually accompanied by other unpleasant symptoms like ear aches, fever, swelling in the face, and a runny nose.
Causes: A sinus headache comes about when the sinus gets inflamed, usually from an allergic reaction (that causes sinus congestion) or infection (like a cold or flu). As the sinuses get inflamed, the inflammation causes swelling and increased mucus so everything gets blocked up.
Treatment: Treatment of a sinus headache is a tricky business because you're attacking on two different fronts: the pain relief of the headache itself, and treating the sinus infection. According to WebMD, the best treatment is usually an antibiotic to deal with the infection and antihistamines to help you deal with the symptoms. In the heat of a sinus headache, drinking lots of fluids is key to recovery. A humidifier or salt water nasal spray is often helpful.
Prevention: Since sinus headaches often come from two sources, prevention is all about lowering your exposure to both. For allergy related headaches, humidifiers, nasal sparays, steam, and neck stretches are thought to help. Certain dietary supplements may also help, including bromelain (found in pineapple stems), and quercetin (brewed black or green teal, kale, red onions, and others). Lowering your contact with allegens is also key to prevent sinus infections.
Of course, if the infection comes from a cold or flu, then your best idea is to avoid getting sick. A good amount of sleep, washing your hands, and cutting out cigarettes and alcohol are the best way to prevent illness. That said, a little steam is good for preventing colds as well. Photo by Eunice.
As we mentioned at the outset, 150 different kinds of headaches exist with a variety of causes. If headaches are a repeating problem, it's good to visit your doctor. You should expect them to ask about the frequency, time, type of pain, other symptoms, sleeping patterns, and more to help them diagnose the problem.
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In Alcalá de Henares you'll find it easy to learn Spanish, and you can also boast of having done so in the city which saw the birth of Cervantes, the author of the most universal work of literature in Spanish: 'The ingenious knight Don Quixote of La Mancha'.
You'll have the chance to prepare the official DELE (Diploma in Spanish as a Foreign Language) at one of the oldest universities in Europe, and you can do so at the pace you like, because there are intensive courses, courses for one term or a year, and courses in Spanish for business. Alcalá de Henares is also the perfect place to put into practice everything you learn, as it's a university city where you're bound to meet lots of new people to talk to and to make your stay all the more enjoyable.
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Your your feet support your whole body, so what you put on them is incredibly important. I have purchased a new pair every year for each of my three daughters since the CNX line was introduced. (My oldest graduated to the adult version two years ago). I've also converted all six of my nieces and nephews. These sandals provide the support a full shoe would give but feel like you're wearing a sandal. Two of my girls wear them with prescription orthotics which fit comfortably inside. They are especially good at the cottage when playing on the rocks finds you suddenly in the lake or you get wet beaching the kayak but still plan to explore the island. Also, at night when the bugs come out, you can get away with 'socks with sandals' and long pants. However, I think one of the most important features is they are machine washable. I would use a mesh bag or pillow case in a top loader but no need in a front loading washer. Don't put them in the dryer but since they dry so quick, it won't be an issue. Note: i used to hand these down to cousins, get them back and give to my next kid. However, since they wear custom orthotics now, my girls get new every year, but they are still in fabulous shape to be passed on to cousins or charity.


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REAL ESTATE- ON THE BLOCK- Cabin living: Promised land holds affordable promise
Address: 2195 Promised Land Lane
Neighborhood: Biscuit Run (sort of)
Asking: $224,900
Year Built: 1984
Assessment: $267,300
Size: 2,494 fin. sq. ft./144 unfin.
Land: 2 acres
Curb Appeal: 6 out of 10
Agent: David Sloan, Sloan Milby Real Estate Partners, 220-5656
First off, don't try to get to Promised Land Lane on your own. I tried. Hard. After half an hour, I finally started turning down unmarked roads and finally found homeowner Larry Ryalls patiently waiting for me at the bottom of his gravel driveway, which is edged in chunky quartz rock. I apologized, telling Ryalls that I just couldn't find the street sign.
"That sign disappears every year," Ryalls tells me, "just around August when the UVA students move in." And not because the University of Virginia student body are Zionists. Ryalls suspects some students have a penchant for what else the promise implies. "And I can't blame them," he says.
Ryalls, who is an electrician by trade, built this log cabin simply because he "always wanted one." It's a perfect design for this secluded spot off of Old Lynchburg Road, minutes away from Walnut Creek, the county's popular hiking/biking/swimming spot. The lot boasts a nice clearing in the front and back of the house, with healthy azaleas and redbud trees providing color in spring. In spite of that, the log cabin does feel like a pioneer outpost. It's almost enveloped by woods, with Biscuit Run, the waterway, just 150 feet away. (Biscuit Run, the 1,400-house planned mega-development is a mile and half away.)
While providing shade for the house– and therefore cutting down on cooling bills– the trees also darken the interior of the house. With the dark wood of exposed logs lining the walls, it looks like you'd have to switch on a lamp to read in the living room, even during the day. There's a massive, varnished stone, wood-burning fireplace, which Ryalls built himself out of local stone, that dominates the room, turning the living space into a man-lair. That's just one of the charming and eccentric details of this house.
A 9x4 true divided light window (Ryalls found it at an auction) faces the driveway, and the main floor of the house is efficiently and economically heated by a wood burning stove in the basement. Ryalls installed vents leading up to the main floor, so the rising heat dissipates throughout the house.
The kitchen– with dark oak cabinetry and a half bath off to the side– could use an upgrade. Its linoleum floors and the dark brown carpet in the living room aren't doing the house any favors. But the four-foot-wide oak staircase is impressive. (The frame of this house is all done in oak, which Ryalls chose because it's three times stronger than the cheaper option, pine.)
The staircase leads up to three bedrooms with slanted ceilings. Two are quite small; one would be a perfect nursery. But the master bedroom is a stunner. It's the sunniest room in the house with loads of windows and knotty pine floors. The boarded-up skylight in the ceiling is a little awkward, though. Ryalls intended to install skylights, and had them piled up on the edge of his lawn when his children broke all three while playing. Oops. That doesn't prevent you from having skylights installed, which would be a welcome addition to 2195 Promised Lane. That and central air. This log cabin currently runs on window units.
The basement contains storage space, a small bedroom, and a den. It's dark, but with some work could be a private space for guests, with a separate entrance of sliding glass doors leading out to a small stone patio. Outside, there's also a balcony off of the kitchen with a staircase leading down to the yard and a storage shed, which Ryalls said he's willing to knock down at the buyer's preference.
2195 Promised Land Lane was nearly auctioned off on September 24. Ryalls staved off the foreclosure, and the house is still on the market with several offers, according to the realtor. This log cabin could use some updating to take it into the 21st century. But as a detached house close to town on two acres of grass and woodland for under $225,000, it's worth the work.
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Hi Bengt/Linda,
If one wants to compare LC structures across samples, how similar should the sample sizes be? It would seem that having very disparate sample sizes would stack the deck against finding the same class structure (even if it truly was the same) because it would be easier to justify additional latent classes with a larger sample size. I've gone through the Hagenaars & McCutcheon text, but havn't found a place that addresses this issue specifically.
Anyone have any thoughts?
Thanks for your time!
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I assume LC means latent class models - I guess it could happen that more classes are found with larger samples; I haven't seen a literature on that - one the other hand, the larger sample has a chance to reveal more classes that are real while a smaller sample might have too volatile a likelihood for finding this. Also, a bootstrapped LRT test (Mplus Version 4) is probably protective against sample size matters.
Sylvana Robbers
posted on Tuesday, September 08, 2009 - 1:58 am
Dear dr. Muthen,
I am doing LCGA with 2 groups and there is a large difference in sample size (N=700 versus N=4600). In the larger group I find an additional class. I understand there is no reference stating that more classes are found with larger samples?
About the LRT test, what do you mean by 'is probably protective against sample size matters'? Could I use the bootstrapped LRT test in both samples, and would the results then be adjusted for the difference in sample size?
Thanks in advance.
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, September 08, 2009 - 6:38 pm
I know of no methods reference pointing to finding more classes with larger samples - I have not seen studies of BIC and BLRT as a function of increasing sample size among sample sizes that are large (as in your case with n=700 and 4600). Perhaps that is a good methods topic. My assumption is that BLRT is less sensitive to pointing to more classes with increasing large sample size, but that is no more than a conjecture. We know that BIC tends to underestimate the number of classes for small n (see Nylund et al).
I would focus on how the classes relate in the 700 and 4600 groups. Perhaps some of the 700 classes split into sub classes for 4600 in which case one can see the increased sample size as having more power to detect more classes.
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Memory cards are an essential part of our digital life day in day out, and also one of the best options to store all your data, pictures, music, e.t.c. Media cards have always been around for quite a bit of time. With the first one invented in 1994, the digital storage scene has since then evolved to give us what we have now. Memory cards, also known as flash cards, are electronic flash memory data storage devices used for storing digital information. They are commonly used in portable electronic devices such as digital cameras, mobile phones, tablets, portable media players, video game consoles, and personal computers.
Sizes on SD cards can be measured in megabytes (MB) and with sizes ranging from 10 megabytes to 512 gigabytes, the possibilities are endless. They come in different classes, brands, sizes and speed. The most commonly used type of media cards is the Secure Digital type (SD) and most mobile devices use the microSD cards. Classes are also divided into the Speed class and the Ultra-high Speed class, depending on what class is compatible with your device and the read and write speed you desire.


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Over the years, we've expanded our focus to include many disciplines and embrace the best of new technologies, but we've remained true to our original commitment to excellence, innovation, and meeting the needs of our customers.
We're proud to be continuing the family tradition begun by Inge and Eric Boehm. Today, ABC-CLIO is owned by the Boehm and Snyder families and operates under the direction of Ron Boehm and Becky Snyder. Together we continue to strive to produce the best materials and to support learning at all levels through innovative solutions.
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Updated 2:13 pm ET Responding to the insurance claims of property owners hit by last October's super-storm Sandy, both the House and the Senate voted Friday to approve $9.7 billion in additional borrowing authority for the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) which covers property owners in flood-prone areas.
Top Talkers: The Morning Joe panel – including NBC News' Andrea Mitchell, Bloomberg News' Al Hunt and former RNC Chair Michael Steele -- discusses the tense New Year's week that resulted in a last-minute House passage of a deal to avert the fiscal cliff and the swearing in of the 113th Congress.
The House vote was 354 to 67. Among Republican members, 161 voted for the bill and 67 voted against it. No Democrats opposed the bill and 193 voted for it. The Senate passed the measure by voice vote later Friday.
Elected officials in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut had assailed House Speaker John Boehner for not allowing a vote Tuesday night on additional funding for people affected by last October's storm. Friday's vote was a prelude to another vote on Jan. 15 to make additional outlays to cities, towns and property owners affected by the storm.
Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., blasts Speaker John Boehner and Congress for delaying action on a bill that would provide aid toward Hurricane Sandy relief efforts
The flood insurance bill was considered under a House procedure used for noncontroversial measures with wide support called "suspension of the rules," meaning it needed a two-thirds majority to pass.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency notified Congress Wednesday that additional borrowing authority was needed -- otherwise NFIP funds available to pay claims would be exhausted next week.
FEMA said that to date nearly 140,000 NFIP claims have been made and $1.7 billion has been paid to people affected by Sandy.
The flood insurance program collects premiums from the insured, but borrows money from the Treasury when premiums are insufficient to pay claims. The funds must be repaid with interest.
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Homes and docks damaged by Superstorm Sandy remain uninhabitable in the Broad Channel section of Queens, New York, Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013.
"The victims of super-storm Sandy can wait no longer. It's been 11 weeks. Haven't they suffered and waited long enough?" asked Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y. during Friday's debate. She said people in New York "are screaming for assistance." She said many people in her state are "shivering tonight in the cold of New York where temperatures are again below freezing. They are in homeless shelters and hotels, with friends, they are waiting. This body needs to act and needs to act today."
But Rep. Scott Garrett, R-N.J., noted that "the people in the area have not been waiting; their (NFIP) claims have been paid from Day One. We are just here today to ensure that those payments continue."
House Financial Services Committee chairman Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, said during the debate Friday, "There's no doubt that Hurricane Sandy rendered unspeakable damage to both lives and property on our East Coast. It represents truly one of the great natural disasters of recent history."
He said, "For the victims who paid for flood insurance policies with the National Flood Insurance Program, their claims need to be paid – and paid now."
But he added the NFIB "is beyond broke – it is taxpayer-bailout broke."
He called for reforms to the program to ensure that "taxpayer bailouts are never needed again" and to get NFIP "on a path towards actuarial soundness." But despite some reforms enacted last year, Hensarling said, "Sandy has hit before many of these provisions could take effect."
He said his committee would take up a bill this year "to transition to a private innovative, competitive, sustainable flood insurance market."


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Here's the headline news about the LA Marathon: According to the Los Angeles Times, this year's marathon fell on what was "the stormiest day in race history." It rained the entire day. Poured. Torrentially. The Today Show stated that Los Angeles got "more rain in 24 hours yesterday than they received the entire previous month." Streets were flooded. Runners were walking. Walkers were shuffling. Hundreds of participants dropped out due to hypothermia. Yes, I finished the whole 26.2 miles. But it wasn't easy.
Here are the gory details.
I should have realized from the start that any athletic event which requires a wake up time of 3:45am is probably not for me, being the non-morning person that I am. But somehow I managed to wake up, and with my teammates Deb and Ron, catch a 4:30am shuttle bus to Dodger Stadium, which was the starting point of the marathon. The three of us, along with 20 other members of Team Concern who had raised money for cancer research, were treated by CBS to a catered pre-race breakfast in a luxury suite at the stadium. Watching daybreak at Dodger Stadium was pretty awesome. Little did we know it would end up being the highlight of the day.
I knew even before I left Albuquerque that there was a 70% chance of rain predicted for race day. By Sunday, that chance had gone up to 100%, with chilly temperatures and gusty winds predicted as well. The weather conditions weren't ideal for a marathon,but we weren't too worried about it. After all, what's a little rain? We threw on extra layers of clothing (which we planned to throw off once we warmed up at mile 2 or 3), and plastic rain ponchos that Deb had purchased for us the previous day. The 99-cent hooded plastic ponchos were pretty fancy; many other runners opted for more casual outerwear and donned Hefty trash bags with a hole cut for their heads to keep them dry. Because of the rainy forecast, our small sub-team, "69000 steps 4 cancer" decided that we should run/walk the marathon, instead of just walking it, to speed things up. Having run 2 previous marathons myself, I knew full well that it takes a solid 6 months to train to RUN a marathon. OMG. I hadn't even trained to WALK in this marathon, much less run. I rationalized that walking's easy, right? Anyone can do it, can't they? Who needs training?
It started drizzling at about 7am, as the 20,000 runners participating in the marathon lined up at the start. No one even noticed at first, as our adrenaline made us oblivious to anything except hearing the the starting buzzer.
During the first few miles there was intermittent rain. Most people threw off their extra "warmth" layers in these first few miles. I refused to even consider removing one piece of clothing, even the too heavy sweatshirt that I was planning to discard before the race started. It was chilly! By mile 5, the rain was constant, and the winds were blowing well over 10 or 15mph. By mile 10, it was a downpour, and the winds had picked up significantly. It was hard to stay dry because the wind gusts blew up our ponchos and blew off our hoods, so we got soaked everywhere. Our wet shoes and socks were the worst. They got heavier and more uncomfortable with every step. It was like walking with each foot trapped in a bucket of water. Miraculously, we kept up our run/walk routine, but at about mile 10 I started to "hit the wall", which is when racers start feeling weak as their stored glycogen is depleted. (Guess I didn't carbo load enough the night before.) I made it to mile 12, and then had my first fix of "gu" with an Advil chaser. "Gu", an electrolyte-
By that point we had adopted a new teammate, Sean, who was doing his first marathon. He liked our run/walk pace, and so joined us for the rest of the race. Sean was wearing only a t-shirt and shorts. With no other protective clothing, he was totally drenched from head to toe. His cellphone, which he had put in his pocket before the race, was waterlogged and non-functional. We stopped at a med station so he could get a mylar sheath, which is what they usually hand out to runners AFTER the race to prevent chills. However, due to the weather conditions, they were handing them out along the entire route. All of us got one and wrapped it around us tightly.
By mile 15, the rain was a torrential downpour that never let up for the rest of the day or night. By this time it was impossible to avoid stepping in the puddles that had formed below us, as the streets were becoming flooded. Who said it never rains in southern California,anyway?? The winds were gusting to over 25 or 30mph now. Our hands were so cold and swollen that we could barely get the wrappers off the energy bars we had packed. My always upbeat friend Deb started skipping, to break up the monotony of running and walking, and soon she had a whole group of marathoners skipping behind her. Ron refused to skip with us, stating that under no circumstances should heterosexual men ever skip. We cheerfully disagreed!
At mile 20, we decided we were no longer going to even attempt to run. It was walking only from here on in. Getting from mile 22 to 26 was the hardest part of the race. By this time it was so windy that the trees were blowing sideways and the rain was pelting in our faces. The mile markers seemed to be hundreds of miles apart. It was getting hard to remain upbeat. I had hit the "wall" again, but my hands were too numb to tear open another packet of "gu" and no one else around me could manage it either. The rain had melted Ron's stash of Advil.
The medical stations along the route were crowded, but not just with the normal marathon ailments like sprained ligaments, twisted ankles, and dehydration. Hypothermia was a real concern. It was hard to stay warm at that point no matter what you were wearing. Everyone was soaked through and through, and was chilled to the bone. My legs were so stiff that they felt more like 2' x 4's than human limbs.
Crossing the finish line at 26.2 miles was not as boisterously joyous as it normally is in marathons (we were too cold, tired, and wet to muster the energy for shouts, high fives, and jumping up and down) but it was quietly joyous nonetheless. We made it!!! Incredibly, there were still lots and lots of people behind us. Before attempting to walk the half mile to where our car was parked (a cruel joke, no?) we went into a coffee shop to get hot beverages to warm us up. My teammates started looking at me strangely, and asking me, "Are you okay?" "What day is it?" "Do you know where you are?" I was fine, but apparently because of my extremely blue lips, very pale skin, lack of usual chattiness, they thought I might have hypothermia. Nope. It was nothing that a vanilla latte couldn't cure!
OK, you've heard the bad stuff. Here's the good stuff. I feared that because of the weather forecast, the marathon volunteers manning the water and medical stations along the route wouldn't show up. I was also afraid that spectators, who cheer you on when you are feeling tired, wouldn't show up either. They all did. Perhaps not as many spectators as would have normally been there, but the real troopers, the ones with umbrellas and raincoats and signs that said "Go Dad!", were scattered along the route. Kindly onlookers provided us with banana slices, orange segments, candy, and even food from restaurants that were on the route. Bands, protected by tents, played music for us at the main mile markers. We laughed at signs like "You are at mile 5. The Kenyans just finished mile 15." The Concern Foundation had a booth at mile 17 with an incredible cheerleading squad. The marathon route itself was fun, as it went through every well known area of Los Angeles, including Chinatown, Little Tokyo, Hollywood, West Hollywood (where scantily clad men in drag danced for us on a stage!), Beverly Hills, Century City, Westwood, Brentwood, and Santa Monica. I wanted to take photos of every area, of the runners, of the spectators, of my teammates and I, and of course of crossing the finish line. Alas, it was too rainy for any of us to even get our cameras out. And our hands were too swollen and not functional enough to work a camera until much later.
The best part of participating in this event, of course, was raising a significant amount of money for cancer research. Thanks to my wonderful friends and family, I not only reached my marathon goal of raising $1,000 for the Concern Foundation for Cancer Research, but actually DOUBLED the original goal by raising over $2,000. Our small sub-team "69000 steps 4 cancer" raised over $8,000. In total, Team Concern raised over $80,000 in donations from participants in the LA Marathon. Thank you all so much for your donations! The blue lips were totally worth it.
That said, in the future I may look for a way to donate to charity that does not involve walking, running or skipping 26.2 miles.


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As The FTC Goes After Bloggers, Doctors Making Millions Promoting Drugs With Little Oversight
from the feeling-healthy-yet? deptClay Shirky points us to a column from a few months back by Marcia Angell, which explains why clinical research on drugs isn't even remotely trustworthy, as it all-too-often seems to involve doctors who have serious conflicts:
Or consider Dr. Alan F. Schatzberg, chair of Stanford's psychiatry department and president-elect of the American Psychiatric Association. Senator Grassley found that Schatzberg controlled more than $6 million worth of stock in Corcept Therapeutics, a company he cofounded that is testing mifepristone--the abortion drug otherwise known as RU-486--as a treatment for psychotic depression. At the same time, Schatzberg was the principal investigator on a National Institute of Mental Health grant that included research on mifepristone for this use and he was coauthor of three papers on the subject.Angell notes that this is pretty common:
Indeed, most doctors take money or gifts from drug companies in one way or another. Many are paid consultants, speakers at company-sponsored meetings, ghost-authors of papers written by drug companies or their agents, and ostensible "researchers" whose contribution often consists merely of putting their patients on a drug and transmitting some token information to the company.And as the relationship between doctors and pharma has gotten deeper and deeper, it means that the results of those all important "clinical trials" -- which the pharma supporters always insist are so important -- are highly suspect:
Because drug companies insist as a condition of providing funding that they be intimately involved in all aspects of the research they sponsor, they can easily introduce bias in order to make their drugs look better and safer than they are. Before the 1980s, they generally gave faculty investigators total responsibility for the conduct of the work, but now company employees or their agents often design the studies, perform the analysis, write the papers, and decide whether and in what form to publish the results. Sometimes the medical faculty who serve as investigators are little more than hired hands, supplying patients and collecting data according to instructions from the company.And yet the FTC is more worried about a mommy blogger recommending a book that a publisher sent her for free?
In view of this control and the conflicts of interest that permeate the enterprise, it is not surprising that industry-sponsored trials published in medical journals consistently favor sponsors' drugs--largely because negative results are not published, positive results are repeatedly published in slightly different forms, and a positive spin is put on even negative results. A review of seventy-four clinical trials of antidepressants, for example, found that thirty-seven of thirty-eight positive studies were published. But of the thirty-six negative studies, thirty-three were either not published or published in a form that conveyed a positive outcome. It is not unusual for a published paper to shift the focus from the drug's intended effect to a secondary effect that seems more favorable.


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Sandra Bullock and Usain Bolt were both at Mr Chow last night for dinner. Some people tried to suggest that it was a date. Apparently all they did was pose for a photo together inside. Hilarious, right? Let us not speak of what happened last month at the Worlds. Let's hope that doesn't happen at the Olympics.
As for Sandy, a trailer for the upcoming Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close was released yesterday. Did you read it? I didn't love it. Maybe it's because I read Foer's wife's book A History of Love first. Which is so much better.
Am I an asshole if I say I rolled my eyes at the obviousness of this clip? Am I being disrespectful if I say that I don't like the timing, the sappiness, the carpe diem-ness of the voice-over? Is that an insult to those who suffered that horrible day and still do? Or is it more of an insult to reduce that experience to a child with a tambourine and his eyes closed racing the train, as U2 rises in the background. Tell me. Because I don't mean to be bitchy. And my natural inclination, always, is to want to support Sandra Bullock and Tom Hanks. It's just... this formulaic treatment, these Hollywood tricks, at least the ones highlighted in this preview, I don't know how this is an honour. Perhaps it was a heavy-handed trailer. Perhaps the tone intended by Stephen Daldry - who directed the film and whose work is almost always outstanding - has been lost in the marketing.
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