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The life simulator used is Golly which has a built-in script to generate these metapixel grids (select a pattern, and choose "metafier.py" from the scripts list).
Outer Totalistic Cellular Automata Meta-Pixel:
The metacell uses a period 184 tractor beam, which acts as a clock. It pulls a block downwards by eight cells per impact, releasing a glider in the process. Some of the gliders are utilised; the rest are eaten. When the block reaches the base, it is restored at the top to begin the cycle again. Period 46 and 184 technologies (which are compatible) are used extensively throughout the configuration.
The rule is encoded in two columns, each of nine eaters, where one column corresponds to the 'Birth' rule and the other corresponds to 'Survival'. The nine eaters correspond to the nine different quantities of on cells (0 through 8). The presence or absence of the eater indicates whether the cell should be on in the next meta-generation. The state of the eater is read by the collision of two antiparallel LWSSes, which radiates two antiparallel gliders (not unlike an electron-positron reaction in a PET scanner). These gliders then collide into beehives, which are restored by a passing LWSS in Brice's elegant honeybit reaction. If the eater is present, the beehive would remain in its original state, thereby allowing the LWSS to pass unaffected; if the eater is absent, the beehive would be restored, consuming the LWSS in the process. Equivalently, the state of the eater is mapped onto the state of the LWSS.


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Ferag to Feature Solutions for Newspapers and Magazines at drupa
HINWIL, SWITZERLAND—March 19, 2012—At drupa 2012, Ferag will be ready with innovations and developments for the production of newspapers, magazines and advertising titles.
TapeFix is a new way to secure insert collections. So processes in the production of advertising freesheets become simpler and less expensive. TapeFix takes the place of a wrapper, making sure that the collections stay together. TapeFix is also an inexpensive alternative for inserting supplements as part of the newspaper production process.
In the area of polybagging, Polypacer now processes bundles in the DIN A4 to A5 range of formats. By offsetting the inkjet head, or attaching a second head, inline labeling is possible on packed or unpacked products.
MiniSert, meanwhile, lets you take a straightforward, low-cost step from the manual to automatic inserting process. The modular inserting line means that a modest capital outlay can bring inserting production to a new performance level with a low cost basis.
In newspaper production, the trend is increasingly towards top performance – with the shortest production routes from the folder delivery to the loading docks. Everything points towards the online inserting process, as can be assured by Ferag technology alone. Production on the inserting system is at 75,000 cph.
Now, the Accraply application module can be integrated in front of the JobStack 90 compensating stacker inlet. The solution shows how the MemoStick advertising format can also be used on simple, inexpensive online configurations incorporating components from WRH Marketing AG's JobFolio series.
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Asked by David, Tampa, Florida
Really, how much secondhand smoke does a nonsmoker get anyway? If a person who smokes a pack a day for 30 years is only 1/3 more likely to die younger than a nonsmoker, then how likely is it that a nonsmoker is even more likely to die younger merely because other people smoke?
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Dear David,
I have to say I disagree with some of your risk assumptions. Smoking is always to be discouraged. I can think of no epidemic as devastating and preventable as that caused by tobacco consumption. Tobacco is the only product that I can think of that, when used as intended, causes premature death to at least half of its users. Smoking causes lung cancer, at least a dozen other cancers, as well as cardiovascular disease and lung disease.
Secondhand smoke, which is also called environmental tobacco smoke, is smoke inhaled involuntarily.
Secondhand smoke also causes lung cancer, heart and lung disease in non-smokers. There is no safe level of exposure, but long-term exposure increases risk of lung cancer by 10% to 15% and heart disease by 30%. This translates into 5,000 to 10,000 lung cancer deaths and 40,000 heart disease deaths each year in the United States. Worldwide, it is estimated that exposure to secondhand smoke caused 50,000 lung cancer deaths and 379,000 heart disease deaths in 2004.
Components of tobacco smoke such as carbon monoxide, nicotine, benzene and small particles can easily be measured in the air of a smoker's home or workplace. It is truly a form of indoor air pollution. These smoke byproducts can be measured in the blood and urine of nonsmokers exposed to them. This means they inhaled the byproducts and the byproducts got into their body.
Someone who is around a smoker inhales more benzene, a cause of leukemia, than he or she would inhale spending the same amount of time filling a car with gasoline.
We worry about exposure of children and especially young children who cannot get away from adult parents who smoke. Children are also destined to long-term secondhand smoke exposure. Secondhand smoke exposure causes eye irritation, asthma and other acute respiratory diseases and is thought to be a cause of infant crib death.
The initial studies showing that secondhand smoke is dangerous compared nonsmoking spouses of smokers with age-matched nonsmoking controls who were married to nonsmokers. The spouses of the smokers had a significantly higher risk of lung cancer. Also, a study of nonsmoking flight attendants who worked when smoking was allowed on aircraft had higher lung cancer rates than nonsmoking airline employees who did not work onboard. The tight confines of the airplane gave them especially heavy doses of secondhand smoke.
Numerous studies of secondhand smoke have been completed over the past 40 years. A meta-analysis of 52 studies prepared for the 2006 Surgeon General's Report on Smoking and Health showed that nonsmokers who had long-term (more than 20 years) exposure to secondhand smoke were 1.21 times more likely to develop lung cancer compared with nonsmokers who were never exposed to secondhand smoke.
A second meta-analysis of 25 studies showed that nonsmokers who are exposed to secondhand smoke were 20% more likely to develop lung cancer compared with nonsmokers working in a smoke-free environment.
Interestingly, the biggest benefit from limiting secondhand smoke is from reduction in cardiac disease. It has been demonstrated several times that towns initiating laws limiting public and workplace smoking see in a decrease in heart attack rates within one year of enacting the laws.
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With the death of Robin Williams I thought I would share a press release I wrote today about his battle with addiction and depression and how important it is for those who are struggling with mental health issues to get the help they need in order to prevent tragedies such as this one.
Robin Williams's Apparent Suicide and its Relation to Depression & Addiction
Our hearts go out to one of the great comedians of the era
Aug. 12 – Yesterday, Robin Williams passed away of an apparent suicide. As we remember the many amazing ways in which he enriched media and culture with his comedy and acting, we should also take a look at what drove Robin's actions to his untimely death.
Robin identified as an alcoholic early in life, all the way back to his days in his hometown. As he gained celebrity status, he also came to battle with cocaine addiction. His drug and alcohol abuse ran rampant until the death of John Belushi – also from drug addiction – in 1982, after which Robin said he remained sober for 20 years. In 2006, Robin entered rehab for drinking, and sought treatment again as recently as June of this year. Questions that come to mind to all of us:
Why did this happen, especially to someone who seems to have had everything? Alcoholism and drug addiction, as well as mood issues such as depression have genetic, physical, and environmental triggers. There is no one single cause. A core precept of alcohol recovery is that alcoholism is a disease; you are always in recovery, never cured.
Did no one see the kind of place Robin was in? He did go into treatment multiple times. This highlights the importance not only of communicating regularly and deeply with our loved ones, but being able to identify signs and symptoms that indicate the need for care. Related to this, it is critical to have a full continuum of care: from 24 / 7 help in inpatient or residential treatment environments for crises and acute situations and aftercare programs that offer ongoing support and maintain recovery.
How did the addiction and depression issues interrelate? There is concept in mental health treatment of "co-occurring disorders". A person can have depression or anxiety issues from a young age, or develop them later in life as a result of a traumatic event. Some men and women then turn to drug abuse as a coping mechanism. That is why modern treatment focuses on addressing all elements of a person's mental health, to get at the root of the original issues. Treating only the addiction without the mental health component leads to higher rates of relapse. Robin himself, in a 2009 interview, said he had previously failed to confront the core issues at the root of his addictions, contributing to his own return to rehab.
All mental health and addiction treatment programs offer free, confidential screenings that you should take advantage of if you feel even the slightest need, and will help you find the most appropriate care for yourself or your loved one. Inpatient programs also offer immediate services for those battling with suicidal ideations.
Our hearts go out to Robin's family. This is a reminder to all of us to remember to communicate with our loved ones regularly, and seek professional care and support when it may be needed.


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On election night, when the president did that little drop-in during his victory speech about the barriers erected around the country against the full exercise of the franchise, many people were elated that somebody was finally taking seriously the fact that, here in the World's Greatest Democracy, we run out elections on blueprints apparently drawn up by the Marx Brothers. Now, of course, the matter has movedinto the World's Greatest Deliberative Body, wherein the elves and mountain dwarves are busying themselves with the task of burying the whole thing in persiflage, a substance more thick and gooey than oatmeal, but not anywhere near as tasty.
With studies suggesting that long lines at the polls cost Democrats hundreds of thousands of votes in November, party leaders are beginning a push to make voting and voter registration easier, setting up a likely new conflict with Republicans over a deeply polarizing issue.
Deeply polarizing.
In the United States, in many ways, it is always 1857.
A Massachusetts Institute of Technology analysis determined that blacks and Hispanics waited nearly twice as long in line to vote on average than whites. Florida had the nation's longest lines, at 45 minutes, followed by the District of Columbia, Maryland, South Carolina and Virginia, according to Charles Stewart III, the political science professor who conducted the analysis.
The gob remains unsmacked.
But getting anything passed without Republican support will be impossible, Democrats acknowledge. And so far, conservatives have complained that Democrats are politicizing an issue that should be handled by the states, not the federal government. "It's ridiculous to stand in line a couple of hours to vote," said Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, the senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee. "But I think it's also ridiculous to make a political issue out of it when it's very easily handled."
It shouldn't be necessary to point this out to Senator Grassley — who, when they handed out the stupid, admittedly got in line twice — but the simplest solutions to this problem are the ones that he and his party are fighting most vigorously against. The simplest one of all is for various state legislatures to stop enacting laws for partisan purposes that make it harder for people to vote. The simplest solution is to change the legislative emphasis to expand the franchise and, if your ideas do not prevail in that expanded electorate, then simply to re-examine whether your ideas are worth having. Yeah, right. If we can't geta governing consensus in 2013 that, when more people vote, our system works best for the most people, then we're absolutely nowhere as a country.
And it shouldn't be necessary to point out to anyone over the age of four that leaving things up to the states in this regard is a bad idea at the moment, and looks even worse in historical retrospect, especially with conservative lawyers right now gearing up to try and get the Supreme Court to gut the Voting Rights Act.Because, as we know, the country's far beyond all that nasty stuff that happened in the 1960s. That's history, which doesn't count any more.
Charles P Pierce is the author of four books, most recently Idiot America, and has been a working journalist since 1976. He lives near Boston and has three children.


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Palm Beach Atlantic University has received a $50,000 grant over two years from the Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties to support the Coastal Biodiversity Conservation program, a research initiative involving Palm Beach Atlantic and Forest Hill High School students.
|Dr. Thomas Chesnes (left) and Palm Beach Atlantic University students conduct field research in the Everglades.
The program, which begins this fall, will promote awareness and collect data on marine species in Palm Beach County coastal waters, estimate their contribution to the coastal economy and raise awareness among the region's stakeholders. University faculty will oversee the project, and PBA students will work with Forest Hill students on their field work and help them develop community presentations based on their findings.
"The project will give Forest Hill and PBA students an opportunity to conduct major ecological field research in our coastal waters and collect data on these undervalued organisms, which are extremely important to the ecosystem and the economy of coastal communities," said Dr. Thomas Chesnes, associate professor of biology and director of the project.
"It also will provide opportunities for our PBA biology students to mentor teens while helping to educate members of the public about life forms that, unlike birds or manatees, they might not come in contact with on a regular basis or know much about."
Dr. Linda Sedlacek, assistant professor of earth science and oceanography, is the assistant director of the project. "I hope that the students will gain a better appreciation for our environment and the lesser-known organisms that call them home," she said.
The Coastal Biodiversity Conservation program is part of a larger neighborhood initiative known as the Parker Avenue Consortium, which fosters community partnerships to benefit kindergarten through university students and their families living in the vicinity of PBA's Marshall and Vera Lea Rinker Athletic Campus in West Palm Beach.
Through the consortium, PBA has partnered with Belvedere Elementary, Conniston Middle School and Forest Hill High School to bring educational resources to the community.
The Community Foundation awards annual grants through a competitive application and review process. The PBA grant is funded by the Environmental Fund.
About the Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties
The Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties is one of Florida's largest community foundations. The nonprofit organization has invested more than $100 million in grants and scholarships over its 40-year history. At its core, the Community Foundation is an organization created with gifts from generous people committed to local causes. For donors, the Foundation serves as a philanthropic advisor. For the community, the Foundation serves as a grant maker and a civic leader. Through the support of its donors and fundholders, the Foundation has been able to address some of the community's most pressing needs, including hunger, housing and education. For more information, visit www.yourcommunityfoundation.org.


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text: Back Losing Weight at Work Losing weight may be tricky when you have a challenging career. Consider the many potential saboteurs: having little time to exercise, eating out frequently for business events, and facing the constant temptation of cookie trays. Your weight is controlled by the number of calories you eat balanced against the number of calories you use. To lose weight, you must use more calories than you eat. The first step? Keep a food and exercise diary for about two weeks. Record when, what, and how much you eat throughout the day, and also record when and for how long you're physically active. Then, evaluate the information you've gathered. What kinds of situations, thoughts, or emotions trigger you to eat or not eat, exercise or not exercise? Do you snack under deadline pressure? Do you save most of your eating for when you get home from work? Are you grabbing a piece of candy every time you pass the receptionist's desk? Once you have a firm idea of your eating and activity patterns, tailor your weight-loss plan to address those problem areas. The following strategies can help you troubleshoot and personalize your weight-loss plan to manage common workplace weight-loss roadblocks. Plan ahead The number of calories you need to eat each day and not gain weight depends on your activity level, age, and gender. To lose weight, eat fewer calories than you require and use more calories by increasing your physical activity. To help you discover the number of calories and the amounts of healthy foods you should eat each day, go to the USDA's Choose My Plate website. Your daily calorie allowance should come from foods that supply the vitamins and other nutrients your body needs. Your eating plan should include a variety of vegetables and fruits, whole grains, lean meats, poultry, beans, and low-fat or fat-free milk. Try to avoid foods that provide calories without nutrition. From the office goodie jar and impromptu birthday parties to vending-machine fare and leftover office-meeting food trays, workplaces typically offer a cornucopia of opportunities for unplanned eating and, thus, extra calories. To reduce the temptation to indulge, have your weight-loss plan include three average-sized meals and at least two small healthy snacks, or five small mini-meals. By fueling yourself well throughout the day, you won't be as hungry and vulnerable to nibbling. It also can protect you from overeating at night. Many people don't eat that much at work because they're distracted. But once they get home, they consume a full day's worth of calories and then some because they're so hungry. Breakfast is an especially important meal to include in your plan. It jump-starts your metabolism, which actually helps you burn more calories throughout the day. Dining out If your job requires frequent eating out, you can still stick to your weight-loss goal by taking control of the situation. If possible, plan ahead. Research the restaurant and check out the menu before you arrive. Many restaurants now provide their menus online, or you can have it faxed to your office. If you don't have time to plan, ask at the restaurant to see the heart healthy or lower fat dishes on the menu, which most restaurants do provide. Most restaurants also serve portion sizes that are too large. Consider eating half or less of the portion you are served; take the rest home for another meal. Don't deprive yourself If you really want the birthday cake at the office party or the steak and potatoes with sour cream at the restaurant meeting, go ahead and have some, but limit the portion size. Don't deprive yourself of enjoying foods that you are craving. If you do, you can run the risk of overeating. Portion control is key. So, have a small piece of cake or the petite filet and factor it into your daily plan. Meanwhile, team up with others who share your healthy goals and spur each other on.


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Q ... do you think that "don't ask, don't tell" is unconstitutional?That's exactly what I would ask him. You may remember my dissecting his MTV townhall last week and showing you how evasive he was about that.
THE PRESIDENT: It's not a simple yes or no question, because I'm not sitting on the Supreme Court. And I've got to be careful, as President of the United States, to make sure that when I'm making pronouncements about laws that Congress passed I don't do so just off the top of my head.See? Infuriating. He's the President. He took an oath to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States" — "to the best of [his] ability." He won the Presidency in part because of his high achievement at Harvard Law School. He accepted responsibility for the U.S. military. His administration is fighting to defend DADT in courts. This issue didn't pop up yesterday, so his answer couldn't possibly be "just off the top of [his] head. He sure as hell better have an answer to the question. This preamble to his answer is therefore either a lie or an outrage.
I think that -- but here's what I can say.Thanks for revealing that you know you are withholding what you really think.
I think "don't ask, don't tell" is wrong. I think it doesn't serve our national security, which is why I want it overturned. I think that the best way to overturn it is for Congress to act. In theory, we should be able to get 60 votes out of the Senate. The House has already passed it. And I've gotten the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to say that they think this policy needs to be overturned -- something that's unprecedented.That's his canned answer, which was also served up at the MTV townhall. It's completely nonresponsive to the question.
And so my hope and expectation is, is that we get this law passed. It is not just harmful to the brave men and women who are serving, and in some cases have been discharged unjustly, but it doesn't serve our interests -- and I speak as Commander-in-Chief on that issue.If you really believe it is that harmful and unjust, then how do you resist the conclusion, under the case law, that it is unconstitutional? Even at the level of minimal scrutiny, what is the rational basis for this law? You are saying — in so many words — that there is no rational basis, so why do you not conclude that it is unconstitutional? Are you lying when you intone your criticism of DADT, or are you lying when you purport to adhere to the sort of constitutional analysis that is done by the kind of people you nominate to be on the Supreme Court?
Are you trying to say you'd have joined Justice Scalia's dissent in Lawrence v. Texas? Here's Scalia: "What Texas has chosen to do is well within the range of traditional democratic action, and its hand should not be stayed through the invention of a brand-new 'constitutional right' by a Court that is impatient of democratic change. It is indeed true that 'later generations can see that laws once thought necessary and proper in fact serve only to oppress,'; and when that happens, later generations can repeal those laws. But it is the premise of our system that those judgments are to be made by the people, and not imposed by a governing caste that knows best." Hello? That's what Obama is saying about Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
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Let me go to the larger issue, though, Joe, about disillusionment and disappointment.Oh, yes! The larger issue is how people feel about Barack Obama. Constitutional rights just aren't that large compared to the grand question of Me. And apparently Joe doesn't have the nerve to stop the President and point out that there has been no answer to the question. The President has called him by name and wants to talk about his feelings.
I guess my attitude is that we have been as vocal, as supportive of the LGBT community as any President in history....But no other President directly inspired the hopes of gay people and won big support with promises like you did. You're not even saying that you're better than all those other Presidents, only that none of them were any better. Your support for "the LGBT community" is as good as George Washington's. Thanks a lot.
On "don't ask, don't tell," I have been as systematic and methodical in trying to move that agenda forward as I could be given my legal constraints, given that Congress had explicitly passed a law designed to tie my hands on the issue.Admit it: You love having your hands tied like that. Because you're fighting against a legal decision that deemed DADT unconstitutional! The rope of legislation was untied, and here you are begging for other judges to tie you back up again. Don't ask me to believe you don't love the bondage.
And so, I'll be honest with you, I don't think that the disillusionment is justified.I'll be honest with you... Speaking of Don't Ask, Don't Tell. That's a "tell." He's lying. "I'll be honest with you" means I'm about to lie to you.
Now, I say that as somebody who appreciates that the LGBT community very legitimately feels these issues in very personal terms. So it's not my place to counsel patience. One of my favorite pieces of literature is "Letter from Birmingham Jail," and Dr. King had to battle people counseling patience and time. And he rightly said that time is neutral. And things don't automatically get better unless people push to try to get things better.Speaking of time, he's really trying to run the clock out on this interview. He's also, I imagine, ashamed of what he finds himself needing to say. He wants to identify with King, but he knows he's on the wrong side of King when he asks gay people to wait longer. Obama sounds like an old man rifling through his memories for something relevant to say. He calls "Letter from Birmingham Jail" "[o]ne of my favorite pieces of literature" — as if it's all about him and people who are waiting for their rights to be recognized are fascinated by what pleasure reading he enjoys. Under the circumstances of this conversation, "Letter from Birmingham Jail" is or should be nagging at his conscience. ("Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of ... injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.")
So I don't begrudge the LGBT community pushing...Begrudge! That he would even think of that word suggests these people are annoying him!
... but the flip side of it is that this notion somehow that this administration has been a source of disappointment to the LGBT community, as opposed to a stalwart ally of the LGBT community, I think is wrong.The short answer to Sudbay's original answer was: Don't Ask.
Q So I have another gay question. (Laughter.)I am resisting typing curse words here. Look at Sudbay abasing himself. Now these rights he must care about are reduced to jocose "gay questions." Something to laugh at. There indeed was a time, and it was not too long ago, that the idea of gay rights itself seemed funny to people. And Sudbay allows himself to get pushed back toward that place. The President treats the remark as if it were an apology. He says "It's okay, man." Man. See? He's a cool guy. He's taming Sudbay.
THE PRESIDENT: It's okay, man. (Laughter.)
Q And this one is on the issue of marriage. Since you've become President, a lot has changed. More states have passed marriage equality laws. This summer a federal judge declared DOMA unconstitutional in two different cases. A judge in San Francisco declared Prop 8 was unconstitutional. And I know during the campaign you often said you thought marriage was the union between a man and a woman, and there -- like I said, when you look at public opinion polling, it's heading in the right direction. We've actually got Republicans like Ted Olson and even Ken Mehlman on our side now. So I just really want to know what is your position on same-sex marriage?Another good question. Sudbay came prepared. Let's see if he lets Obama push him back again.
THE PRESIDENT: Joe, I do not intend to make big news sitting here with the five of you, as wonderful as you guys are. (Laughter.) But I'll say this --
Q I just want to say, I would be remiss if I didn't ask you this question.Oh, don't beg, Joe. Don't apologize.
THE PRESIDENT: Of course.
Q People in our community are really desperate to know.
THE PRESIDENT: I think it's a fair question to ask.That's big of him.
I think that -- I am a strong supporter of civil unions. As you say, I have been to this point unwilling to sign on to same-sex marriage primarily because of my understandings of the traditional definitions of marriage.Check out those weird plurals: understandings of the traditional definitions. That's another tell. He is lying, I presume. His opposition to same-sex marriage is, quite simply and obviously, politically expedient. It is impossible for me to believe that Obama, coming from his academic background, is hung-up on the traditional definition — or "definitions" — of marriage. He's posing as a seeker of truth, slowly coming round.
But I also think you're right that attitudes evolve, including mine.Attitudes? I thought he was into traditional definitions.
And I think that it is an issue that I wrestle with and think about because I have a whole host of friends who are in gay partnerships. I have staff members who are in committed, monogamous relationships, who are raising children, who are wonderful parents.So is he saying that previously he had an attitude that was antagonistic to gay people and by extensive social contact with gay people, he came around to perceiving them as fully human? I just don't believe that. And if I did, I would think less of him.
And I care about them deeply.You know, your position on the rights of others should not depend on whether they are your friends. That's not the way law works. People have rights whether you care about them or not. And rights don't spring into existence because you care about the people who want them.
And so while I'm not prepared to reverse myself here, sitting in the Roosevelt Room at 3:30 in the afternoon, I think it's fair to say that it's something that I think a lot about. That's probably the best you'll do out of me today. (Laughter.)Laughter. Oh, it's so lovely sitting with the President in the Roosevelt Room. Something that I think a lot about. Men have thought more clearly in jail.
Later, the conversation comes back to DADT, and the President intimates that he will try to push its repeal during the lame duck session of Congress. He makes an effort to shift the blame to the Republicans, especially John McCain, and he indicates that it will be a problem getting the votes for cloture. (He loves that problem, I'll bet. It's so helpful to appear to want to act and have your hands tied.)
He wonders why the Log Cabin Republican are pursuing their court case, when they could instead try to get a few Republican Senators to vote for repeal. He says he doesn't "understand the logic of" using the courts when you could go to Congress, but of course he does. People conceive of their equality in terms of their individual rights — which don't depend on the support of political majorities and supermajorities. As a Harvard-trained lawyer and sometime law professor, he knows that. He knows why people go to courts. I don't buy his understanding of the logic. Or should I say his understandings of the logics?


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In the eastern part of Nimbasa City lies its amusement park which sports various facilities, including its signature Rondez-View Ferris Wheel. Black stands in front of a flashy building next to a giant Pikachu figure, and tells Musha that the park seems to be full of fun. However, their main aim there today is to challenge the Nimbasa Gym, which interior is also built like an amusement park.
Black steps into the building, and sees that the entire room is essentially a huge rollercoaster system which has maze-like railways connecting a multitude of transparent platforms. The Gymleader, Elesa, who is also a top fashion model and idol, shows up on the railway on a scooter-like cart, and tells Black that there are switches on each platform to change the course of the tracks. Basically, the challenger will have to find his way through the rollercoaster puzzle to reach the end, where she will be waiting.
The young woman wishes Black good luck, and speeds away with a wink. Black climbs into a coaster car with Musha, and as soon as the glass cover is lowered, the car starts dashing along the railway, turning at abrupt angles and even doing vertical loops at some point. Every time the car stops at a platform, Black lifts the glass cover to catch his breath, and finds himself on an unexpected spot. He grunts that it seems harder than it looks to get to where he wants, and decides to ask for Musha's help.
On the Gymleader's platform, Elesa watches as the Munna clamps on Black's head, and the boy immediately goes into a contemplative mode. A minute later, he steps back into the coaster car, and appears to know exactly what he should do now. He accurately sets the switches in place, and arrives on her platform in no time.
Elesa congratulates him for reaching her, but as Black lifts the glass cover once more, he discovers that the overhead safety bar would not unlock. He thrusts it several times, all to avail, and believes that it must be malfunctioning. Elesa checks on the safety bar herself, and fears that it is indeed broken. She offers to let Black come back another day to continue challenge, but the boy frantically refuses, and opts to start the battle like that.
The young woman grins that Black is as impulsive as she has heard, and tells him that he will have no right to complain if he loses since he made the choice. She announces that it will be a 2 vs 2 switch-in battle, and proceeds to send out her Zebstrika, while Black calls out Tula from its Pokeball.
In that instant, Black's coaster car suddenly starts moving, and the boy cries out in horror as he is sent onto the railway once again. Elesa remarks that it is why she suggested a rematch, but on a deeper thought, thinks that it is rather exciting, as she has never done something like that before.
Holding his cool, Black orders an Electro Ball from Tula, and the electric spider hurls a sparkling globe towards Zebstrika while still on the moving car. The attack hits the zebra right in the chest, but to Black's surprise, it quickly recovers and starts chasing after him on the tracks at an unbelievably high speed. In a matter of seconds, it catches up with the coaster car, and delivers Flame Charge, which burns and knocks out Tula instantly. Black is bewildered by Zebstrika's agility, and Elesa explains that when Galvantula hit it with an electric type attack, it activated its Motor Drive ability, raising its speed sharply. She is surprised that Black isn't aware of this, and reminds him that he is challenging the number one electric type expert in Unova.
Black grunts in frustration, since it is indeed something which he should know after such an extensive research on Elesa, but he has never expected to have his challenge in a coaster cart, which definitely affected his judgment. On the other hand, Elesa herself has never battled in such a situation either, which he thinks makes them equals.
Black retrieves Tula into its Pokeball, and sends out Nite. The Pignite quickly engages in a close-up combat with Zebstrika, and despite the speed difference, adeptly evades all of the electric zebra's kicks. Elesa is impressed by Nite's swiftness and footwork, since its bulky body would suggest it being slow, and Black states that its evolution has equipped it with the fighting type, raising its skills in the physical department.
The Nimbasa Gymleader wonders exactly how agile it can be, and orders a Volt Switch from Zebstrika. Nite jumps into the air to avoid the electric currents, and Black orders it to retaliate with a kick. However, just as Nite is about to land its blow, Zebstrika suddenly disappears. The confused Pignite frantically looks around for its opponent, and subsequently gets ambushed from behind from Emolga.
Black bolts in shock, wondering how Emolga entered the battlefield in the first place, and Elesa grins that Volt Switch is one of her signature moves, which incorporates attack and switching in a single motion. Emolga delivers a Volt Switch to smack at Nite's face, but just as Nite thrusts its arm forward to strike, the electric squirrel vanishes, and Zebstrika materializes again, ramming its powerful forelegs into the unsuspecting Pignite.
The same process goes on for a few turns, and Black, who is still circulating on the railway, grunts that he must find a way to counter the rapid succession of assaults. As Emolga fires another Volt Switch to hit Nite from the back, Black grabs the chance and orders a Bulldoze. Nite thumps its heavy body onto the ground to pull of the attack, right at the moment Zebstrika reenters the field, and the supper-effective move instantly knocks out the electric zebra.
Elesa is slightly surprised that the Pignite packs such a move, but thinks the battle is as good as over anyway, since Pignite is already worn out from all the damages it took. She remarks that it will not be able to land its attacks on Emolga as long as it is hovering, and if Bulldoze is the trump card Pignite has for this battle, she can already see Black losing.
With that, Elesa orders Emolga forward, and the electric squirrel skydives towards Nite, striking it with an Aerial Ace. Black is bewildered by its speed, and Elesa believes that the next move will finish his Pignite off. She wants to know why Black did not use his Munna to turn on his detective senses, just like he did while solving the rollercoaster maze, and thinks it might help him figure out a way to handle the situation. However, Black declares that he will not do it, because he is in a Pokemon battle, and he never does that in a Pokemon battle.
The boy states that as the trainer of his Pokemon, he shares a coach and athlete relationship with them, and it will be his failure as a coach if he could not figure out the strategy in a match and turn to his athletes for help instead. That said, he will find a way out of this situation by himself, and not resort to gimmicks from his team members…
Elesa is impressed by his big words, and hopes that he can show her what his strategy is in that case. She motions to Emolga, and the electric squirrel gets ready as Black's coaster car enters another vertical loop, planning to strike with another Aerial Ace when the car comes down from the height. Black looks around as he thinks hard, and knows that a good trainer will utilize everything, including the weather, the landscape, the abilities, and even his current unexpected situation.
The coaster car reaches the highest point of the loop and starts coming down, and Elesa commands Emolga to attack. However, as the electric squirrel skydives towards its opponent, it sees that Nite is not on the car. Confused, it looks around, and it turns out that Nite has stayed at the highest point of the loop by grabbing onto the railway. It times the moment Emolga is hovering right beneath it, and let goes to deliver a downward strike with its forearm, which lands directly on Emolga's face, fainting it in the process.
Elesa realizes that Black has pulled off an aerial battle by using the vertical loop, and grins that Black took good advantage of his situation of being stuck in the coaster car. She states that Black has outsmarted her, and declares him the winner of the battle. She takes out the Bolt Badge, which is a symbol of victory at the Nimbasa Gym, but just as she is about to give it to Black, the coaster car moves and ends Black spiraling on the railways once more.
This time, it enters a track that leads to the outdoors, and Black cries out in horror as he speeds out through a hole in the Gym's side walls. As soon as he gets out, he is hit by a heavy downpour, and he is surprised at the weather condition since it isn't supposed to rain like that during the season. Just then, he spots a silhouette hovering next to the coaster track ahead, which soon reveals itself to be a blue genie-like creature who sits on a cloud with a single horn on its head and a long tail made of grenades.
Without warning, the creature zaps Black with a highly charged electric blast, and Black is instantly charred with his hair smoking and sticking out to the sides. When the coaster car returns indoors and takes him back to the Gymleader's platform, Elesa and Nite gasp at his condition and hurriedly check on him. Black stutters that he is alright, and also points out that the shock has actually helped unlock the overhead safety bar.
Elesa helps him get out of the coaster car, and Black explains what he just saw. The Nimbasa widens her eyes in surprise when she hears that the boy just encountered a one-horned creature who fired electric bolts, and believes that it is the same being she saw as a child when she visited her granny on Route 7 many years ago. Back then, her Zebstrika was still a Blitzle, and her granny told her that what she saw was one of the two flyers of Unova, the bolt strike Pokemon, Thundurus, whose counterpart is the cyclone Pokemon, Tornadus.
Elesa reveals that it was actually Thundurus who inspired her to become an expert in electric types, and says she has looked into the folklore and even searched and tried to capture it. She remarks that Thundurus is said to be able to circle around the entire Unova region in just one day, and Black is really lucky to have seen it today.
Later, as Black leaves the Nimbasa Gym, he is surprised that it has become sunny again, almost as if it never rained. He thinks of Virizion which he appeared momentarily to him at the Pinwheel Forest, and now Thundurus, and realizes that there are a lot of Pokemon which he doesn't know of.
Feeling glad about beating his fourth Gym, the boy pins the Bolt Badge to his jacket's collar, and tells Nite that they should get back and meet up with the president now…Thanks To Coronis For Writing this for us
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It seems Teresa Giudice isn't the only Real Housewife of New Jersey star facing major financial troubles! A new report states that Twitterholic, Jacqueline Laurita and her husband Chris Laurita were recently named in an $8M lawsuit for "improperly using funds and assets" from their company Signature Apparel.
RadarOnline is reporting that Chris and his brother Joseph formed Signature Apparel Group (a company that once owned brands such as Rocawear and Eve's Fetish) in 2005 and "drained the company" amassing a debt of $7,804,227 which was used to "support their luxurious lifestyle"!
According to documents the company banked more than $250 million between 2005 and 2009, but then surprisingly declared bankruptcy in September 2009, and just like their friend Teresa, someone started complaining that the bankruptcy petition might just be fraudulent. The suspicious bankruptcy filing prompted the debtor "to come forward with the complaint", claiming company monies were "misused," RadarOnline reveals.
Chris and Joseph "drained the Company of all its funds and assets in order to support their families' increasingly opulent lifestyle of private jets, limousines, extravagant parties, premium automobiles, designer clothing, ostentatious home furnishings and lavish vacations," the complaint filed November 2, 2010 alleges. "Signature's assets were misused to make outright and unjustified payments to Laurita family members, and to fund the operations of the Laurita brothers' other companies and business ventures."
So what exactly did the Lauritas spend all that money on? Well, according to the documents, here's the breakdown:
- Nearly $2 million in credit card payments for the Laurity Family, including payments to more than 40 bank accounts
- At least $331,637 for payments on no less than eleven leased cars, including a Bentley and a Maserati
- At least $284,793 in airline travel expenses for the Laurita Family
- At least $145,894 for private airplane rentals for the Laurita Family
- At least $7,280 for travel agent expenses for the Laurita Family
- At least $755,184 to defendant Christopher Laurita for undocumented or insufficiently documented reasons
- At least $784,160 of disbursements directed by the Laurita Director Defendants (Chris and Joseph) to unknown recipients, without any documentation whatsoever
Even worse, the complaint alleges that Jacqueline had knowledge that shady business dealings were taking place and willing participated in wrongfully accepting money from the company, which is why she is named as part of the suit! The documents claim Jacqueline, along with Anthony Laurita, "knew of the Laurita Director Defendant's wrongful conduct, and each substantially assisted the Laurita Director Defendants in breaching their fiduciary duties by, among other conduct, accepting funds they each knew belonged to Signature and for which they each knew they had performed no services and/or provided no value."
"Funds that should have been used to grow Signature's business and to pay Signature's vendors and creditors, instead were diverted to the Laurita Family Defendants." Oops – that's not good.
Chris has denied "nearly all of the 155 allegations made in the claim" and believes it should be summarily dismissed, citing: "a failure to state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action and a failure to state a claim upon which relief may be granted." The case is still pending so Reality Tea keep you posted with all the updates! Jacqueline has yet to comment, but if Bravo had wind of this matter it may have been another reason she skipped the RHONJ Season 3 Reunion!
In my limited knowledge of bankruptcy law, this is what I understand to have happened: it seems that instead of paying creditors to keep the business lucrative the Lauritas allegedly pocketed the proceeds and spent the money for personal use, then filed bankruptcy to avoid paying their bills. Now they are being accused of fraudulently filing bankruptcy. Any legal or financial experts out there please chime in!
In other news, when it flurries it becomes a Norwegian! Just a few days ago it was reported that Jacqueline was indeed a stripper before marrying Chris and Jacqueline is still adamantly denying it! You know the old expression "the lady doth protest too much…"
Jacqueline took to her personal website to clear up any lingering suspicions about how she met Chris and is sticking to the story that they met while she was a convention model. She also posted yet another Tweet denying she was a stripper and accusing someone (ahem…Teresa) of leaking false stories: "Im being 100% honest w/everyone w/my story of how Chris&I met in Chicago. I WAS NOT A STRIPPER/PROSTITUTE as said by shady people 4 money"
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Where were you when the Internet's lights went out?
Me, I discovered how often I use Wikipedia when researching stories -- which is to say, too often. So the inability to reach the world's largest encyclopedia yesterday was a bit annoying until I found a workaround. (Use Google's cached copy of each page -- shhh, don't tell anyone.)
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Still, I appreciate Wikipedia's contribution to the Stop SOPA soap opera, because it was the key to yesterday's symbolic Web blackout.
All a protest like yesterday's blackout can do is shine a light on a particular problem. After Jimmy Wales's crew signed on, that light turned from a tiny spark into a flood lamp. Everybody with an Internet connection and/or school-age child knows what Wikipedia is. Google felt compelled to follow suit in a nominal way, by blocking its logo if not its actual site.
That meant mainstream media had to pay attention, and the protest couldn't be written off as a "tantrum" thrown by a bunch of pro-piracy geeks, no matter what Rupert Murdoch and MPAA president Christopher Dodd want you to believe.
Now that the world has said nopa to SOPA, we still have her wall-eyed half sister PIPA to deal with. Senator Harry Reid has said he plans to continue to push that legislation forward.
[Update: The day after this post appeared, Reid announced he was postponing the Senate's scheduled vote on PIPA. Feel free to celebrate in a manner of your own choosing.]
What should we do about the scourge of online piracy? In a blog post, Google's chief legal beagle Dave Drummond suggests a simpler and more effective solution: follow the money.
Fighting online piracy is extremely important. We are investing a lot of time and money in that fight. Last year alone we acted on copyright takedown notices for more than 5 million webpages and invested more than $60 million in the fight against ads appearing on bad sites. And we think there is more that can be done here--like targeted and focused steps to cut off the money supply to foreign pirate sites. If you cut off the money flow, you cut the incentive to steal.
This is the tactic used to track down spammers. The CAN-SPAM Act was too little too late, but at least it opened the door for AOL, EarthLink, Microsoft, and other service providers to sue the biggest spammers for every dime of their ill-gotten gains. Along with various state antispam laws, it allowed prosecutors to toss the worst of the worst into the slammer.


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President Barack Obama was waiting for the question. That was made clear by the force and length of his Tuesday comments on Guantánamo, where the United States has imprisoned upwards of 800 noncitizens over the course of the last 11 years. As posted, right now many of the remaining 166 detainees are refusing to eat. Nearly 2 dozen of the 100 hunger strikers are so weak that the government is force-feeding them, and sending in more medics to aid the effort. Thus came CBS reporter Bill Plante's question at a presidential news conference:
'Q: Mr. President, as you're probably aware, there's a growing hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay, among prisoners there. Is it any surprise, really, that they would prefer death rather than have no end in sight to their confinement?'
"It is not a surprise to me," Obama began, then followed with an I-told-you-so response. As indicated in the full transcript, Obama reminded reporters that closure of the post-9/11 camp had been a centerpiece of his 2008 presidential campaign. GTMO, he said, "is not necessary," "not sustainable": "It is expensive" and "inefficient," a practice that "hurts us in terms of our international standing," that "lessens cooperation with our allies on counterterrorism efforts," and that operates as "a recruitment tool for extremists."
All this was true in 2007, as the President said. It remains true in 2013. So why's GTMO still open?
Obama placed the blame squarely at the feet of Congress, contending that legislation had blocked his efforts to transfer detainees. But that explanation failed to acknowledge the Administration's role in the current state of affairs:
► The day after his 2009 inauguration, Obama did sign a close-GTMO-in-1-year order. But he did not put full political capital behind it, concentrating instead on the health care overhaul, and so the year's deadline came and went.
► Congress did hamstring detainee transfers. But Obama never tested his complaint that this legislation could be unconstitutional. What's more, The New York Times' Charlie Savage reminded in a "News Hour" segment Tuesday, Congress relaxed its restrictions in 2012, yet "the administration has not exercised that authority once." Yemenis make up "56 of the 86 detainees long since approved for conditional release," Savage said, adding that "it is Mr. Obama's own self-imposed ban on any transfers to that country which has primarily kept them locked up."
► Many in Congress did favor GTMO military commissions. But as Wall Street Journal reporter Jess Bravin writes in his new book, The Terror Courts, it was because of the insistence of an official Obama had placed at the Pentagon, then-Defense General Counsel Jeh Johnson, that the commissions did not end with Obama's election. Bravin reports that only after that decision was made did Johnson discover the abysmal shape of the case files he'd inherited. Most cases are not much further along than they were when I observed commissions proceedings 'way back in December 2008 (and made the photo at top). Moreover, acceding to continued GTMO prosecutions has undermined the Administration's professed preference for trying terrorism suspects Stateside – a fact demonstrated in last month's calls to label the Boston Marathon arrestee an "enemy combatant."
It's to be hoped that Obama fulfills his new promise to put GTMO on his policy agenda – that he "re-engage[s]," and not only "with Congress," as he put it during the press conference, but also with officials in his own Executive Branch, to end both the camp and the endless-detention regime for which it stands. As Obama said:
'[T]he notion that we're going to continue to keep over a hundred individuals in a no man's land in perpetuity, even at a time when we've wound down the war in Iraq, we're winding down the war in Afghanistan, we're having success defeating al-Qaida core, we've kept the pressure up on all these transnational terrorist networks, when we've transferred detention authority in Afghanistan — the idea that we would still maintain forever a group of individuals who have not been tried — that is contrary to who we are, it is contrary to our interests, and it needs to stop.'
To which should be added: As I've written here, here, and here, practices have contravened not just "our interests," but also our settled laws.


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A cell phone video that shows police officers repeatedly hitting an unarmed university student with batons and a Taser gun has prompted a criminal investigation into the officers' conduct.
The video, posted by the San Jose Mercury News on its Web site late Saturday, shows one officer hitting 20-year-old Vietnamese student Phuong Ho with a metal baton more than 10 times, including once on the head. Another officer is seen using his Taser gun on the San Jose State math major.
The final baton strike in last month's incident appears to take place after handcuffs have been attached to Ho's wrists.
"It takes me back to the day I saw the Rodney King video on TV," said Roger Clark, a police expert and a retired lieutenant with the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department.
The last baton strike ought to bring a felony charge, Clark said.
Officers arrested Ho on suspicion of assaulting one of his roommates. He was not armed when police arrived and he told the newspaper he didn't resist arrest.
The confrontation began Sept. 3 when Ho's roommate, Jeremy Suftin, put soap on Ho's steak. The two scuffled, and Ho picked up a steak knife, saying that in his home country he would have killed Suftin for doing what he did.
Police were called, and four officers responded.
Officer Kenneth Siegel encountered Ho in the hallway, but couldn't understand the student's accent, police reports said. Ho then ignored a police command to stand still, reports said.
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When Ho tried to follow Siegel into his room, officer Steven Payne Jr. moved to handcuff Ho. Payne wrote in his report that he pushed the student into a wall and then forced him to the floor when he resisted being handcuffed.
Ho, who weighs more than 200 lbs., said his glasses fell off. As he went to pick them up, the officers struck him, he said.
Another one of Ho's roommates, Dimitri Masouris, captured the events on his cell phone. An officer can be heard on the video shouting, "Turn over!" Ho can be heard moaning and crying as he's struck.
"In philosophy, they call it 'dehumanization,'" Ho told the Mercury News. "So when they think me a dangerous guy, they don't treat me like I was human. They hit me like an animal or something."
Masouris said he considered the police response excessive. He sold the tape to San Jose lawyer Duyen Hoang Nguyen, who is representing Ho.
The Mercury News obtained a copy of the video and showed it to Daniel Katz, San Jose's assistant police chief. The police department is taking the matter very seriously, he said.
The city's large Vietnamese-American community is already angry over the police shooting of a mentally ill Vietnamese man in May, the newspaper said in an editorial about Ho's beating. The lack of public disclosure in the investigation that followed was also a problem, the paper said.
Police experts said the grainy, shaky video is difficult to view and may not show actions by Ho that justified the officers' response. Nevertheless, several said the video raises serious concerns.
"Once he is handcuffed, then he is helpless," said Frank Jordan, a former San Francisco police chief and mayor. "If you can show that his hands are behind his back, and he is handcuffed, that is where you get brutality. That would be excessive force."
Siegel and Payne didn't respond to written requests for comment sent through department officials and their union.
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Burping (also known as belching, ructus, erupt or eructation) is the release of gas from the digestive tract (mainly esophagus and stomach) through the mouth.
Burping is generally caused by swallowing air when eating or drinking and subsequently expelling it, so in this case the expelled gas is mainly a mixture of nitrogen and oxygen. Burps can also be caused by drinking carbonated beverages, such as beer, soft drinks, energy drinks, and wine in which case the expelled gas is primarily carbon dioxide from the drink itself. Common diabetes drugs metformin[1] and Byetta[2] can cause burping, especially at higher doses. This often resolves in a few weeks. Burping combined with other symptoms such as dyspepsia, nausea and heartburn may be a sign of an ulcer or hiatal hernia, and should be reviewed by a physician.[3] Other causes of burping include: food allergy, gallbladder problems, acid reflux disease, H. pylori, and gastritis.
The current Guinness world record for the loudest burp is 109.9 dB, set by Paul Hunn on 23 August 2009.[4] This is louder than a jackhammer at a distance of 1 m (3 ft 3 in).
In microgravity environments burping is normally associated with regurgitation. The valve at the top of the stomach (the gastroesophageal junction) does not produce a tight seal, and in the absence of gravity, the stomach contents tend to float near this loose seal, making them likely to come up along with the expelled air.[5]
Inability to burp is uncommon, and chest pain caused by dysfunction of the belch reflex is rare.[6]
Babies are particularly subject to accumulation of gas in the stomach while feeding, and this can cause considerable discomfort and agitation unless the child is burped. The act of burping an infant involves placing the child in a position conducive to gas expulsion (for example holding the infant up to the adult's shoulder, with the infant's stomach resting on the adult's chest) and then lightly patting the lower back so that the child burps. Because burping can cause vomiting in infants, a "burp cloth" or "burp pad" is sometimes employed on the shoulder to protect the adult's clothing.[7]
Cultural acceptance
Some cultures, notably Chinese and Indian,[8] regard burping as acceptable in certain situations. In Japan, burping during a meal is considered bad manners.[9] In others, particularly Western cultures, such as North American and European cultures, burping is also deemed socially inappropriate.[8] In Middle Eastern countries it is not acceptable to burp out loud, and one should silence one's burp, or at least pretend to do so.
"Burped" speech
It is possible to voluntarily induce burping through swallowing air and then expelling it, and by manipulation of the vocal tract produce burped speech.
While this is often employed as a means of entertainment or competition, it can also act as an alternative means of vocalisation for people who have undergone a laryngectomy, with the burp replacing laryngeal phonation. This is known as esophageal speech.
In other animals
Many other mammals, such as cows, dogs, and sheep also burp. In the case of ruminants, much of the gas (wind) expelled is produced as a byproduct of the animal's digestive process. These gasses notably include a large volume of methane, produced exclusively by a narrow cohort of methanogenic archaea in the animal's gut; Escherichia coli (E. coli) and other bacteria lack the enzymes and cofactors required for methane production. Cows are thought to emit an average of 542 litres (if located in a barn) and 600 litres (if in a field) of methane per day through burping and exhalation, making commercially farmed cow a major contributor to the greenhouse effect. 95% of this gas (wind) is emitted through burping.[10] This has led scientists at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation of Perth, Australia, to develop an anti-methanogen vaccine to minimize methane in cow burps.[11]
One reason why cows burp so much is that they are often fed foods that their digestive systems cannot fully process, such as corn and soy. Some farmers have reduced burping in their cows by feeding them alfalfa and flaxseed, which are closer to the grasses that they had eaten in the wild before they were domesticated.[12]
In some animals, a failure to burp successfully can be fatal. This is particularly common among domesticated ruminants that are allowed to gorge themselves on very rich spring clover or alfalfa. The condition, known as bloat, is a high pressure buildup of gas in the stomach(s) and requires immediate treatment to expel the gas, usually the insertion of a flexible rubber hose down the esophagus, or in extreme cases the lancing of the animal's side with a trochar and cannula.
There is no documented evidence that birds burp, though ornithologists believe that there is nothing which physiologically prevents them from doing so. However, since the microbiota of birds doesn't include the same set of gas-producing bacteria that mammals have to aid in digestion, gas rarely builds up in the gastrointestinal tracts of birds.[13]
Some fish are also known to expel air from their gills; here the burp is produced by gas being expelled from the gas bladder.
- ↑ "DailyMed: About DailyMed". Retrieved 4 October 2014.
- ↑ "DailyMed: About DailyMed". Retrieved 4 October 2014.
- ↑ "Eructation (Professional Guide to Signs & Symptoms (Fifth Edition)) - WrongDiagnosis.com". Better Medicine. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
- ↑ "Loudest burp, male". Guinness World Records. 23 August 2009. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
- ↑ Vickie Kloeris (1 May 2001). Eating on the ISS. Interview with Lori Keith. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Retrieved 2011-11-12.
- ↑ Kahrilas, PJ; Dodds, WJ; Hogan, WJ (October 1987). "Dysfunction of the belch reflex. A cause of incapacitating chest pain.". Gastroenterology. 93 (4): 818–22. PMID 3623025.
- ↑ "Burping a Baby - Topic Overview". WebMD. 18 February 2013. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
- 1 2 Mehrotra, Shirin (10 October 2011). "To burp or not to burp". BURRP!. Archived from the original on 2013-10-30. Retrieved 2013-10-30.
- ↑ "Dining Etiquette in Japan | articles | cultural services". Kwintessential.co.uk. Retrieved 2014-01-22.
- ↑ Polakovic, Gary (13 July 2003). "Bovine belching called udderly serious gas problem: Global warming concerns spur effort to cut methane". Archived from the original on 13 Aug 2004.
- ↑ Nowak, R. (5 September 2004). "Burp vaccine cuts greenhouse gas emissions". New Scientist.
- ↑ "Greening the Herds: A New Diet to Cap Gas". New York Times. 4 June 2009.
- ↑ Schwanke, Catherine (4 June 2009). "Is It True That Birds Can't Fart?". Popular Science. Archived from the original on 26 April 2016. Retrieved 18 June 2016.


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Obama waved the bloody flag of class warfare in his press conference this past week, though it's not clear whether he was effective since he went out of his way to attack a provision for corporate jets that was part of his failed stimulus bill.
In any event, Senator Marco Rubio of Florida was not impressed. His speech on the Senate floor was an excellent response to Obama's politically motivated, soak-the-rich screed. (h/t: Ed Morrissey)
Being a leader involves a lot more than giving a good speech, to be sure, but Rubio has been consistently impressive in his six months if office. He's strongly defended Medicare reform and is a leader in the fight against an illegal IRS scheme to force American banks to enforce foreign tax law.
Let's hope he doesn't "grow in office" and decide that Washington is a hot tub rather than a cesspool.
And let's hope America doesn't become more like Europe, with bigger government, more dependency, and a hostile attitude about wealth creation and capitalism. Those are some of the concerns that motivated my video on the dangers of class warfare.


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Pittsburgh Pirates clinch 1st playoff berth in 21 years
CHICAGOPlayers chanted "MVP! MVP!" as they doused Andrew McCutchen in the visitors' clubhouse, two decades of futility finally washed away.
The last time the Pirates made the playoffs, Barry Bonds was in the middle of the order. The average price of gas was $1.13 a gallon.
Yes, it had been that long.
The Pirates are going to the playoffs for the first time in 21 years, clinching at least a National League wild card Monday night when they beat the Chicago Cubs 2-1 and the Washington Nationals lost to St. Louis. And they hope that's just the start, not the end.
"We're definitely not done," McCutchen said. "We've got some games left. We still could move farther."
Now, they can turn their attention toward bigger goals, the kind that seemed like nothing more than a pipe dream through all those losing seasons.
It will be Pittsburgh's first trip to the postseason since Bonds, Jim Leyland and Co. won three straight NL East titles from 1990-92. Bonds then left for San Francisco as a free agent, and the small-budget Pirates piled up 20 consecutive losing records — the longest streak in the four major professional sports.
"For me, it's not about the last 21 years," Russell Martin said. "For me, it was just about this year, and what we could do this year. They had a good season last year, lost some steam late in September, but I knew that if you're having a good season all the way into September, you know you have a good club."
Starling Marte hit a tiebreaking homer in the ninth inning at Wrigley Field, and the Pirates threw out a runner at the plate for the final out.
The Pirates sprayed each other with bubbly and beer and sparkling cider in the visitors' clubhouse once St. Louis' 4-3 win over the Nationals became final.
The Cincinnati Reds also clinched at least a wild-card berth, when they beat the New York Mets 3-2 in 10 innings. The Pirates and Reds, both 90-67, trail St. Louis by two games in the NL Central with five to go.
Pittsburgh players sang Journey's "Don't Stop Believing." They took pictures and manager Clint Hurdle had them gather for a group photo in the middle of the cramped visitors' clubhouse.
"The people of Pittsburgh have been waiting a long time," said Neil Walker, who homered.
The Pirates snapped a 1-all tie when Marte sent a drive off Kevin Gregg (2-6) with two outs in the ninth into the left field bleachers.
In a fitting coincidence, they then preserved the victory on the final out in a play at the plate.
McCutchen, the center fielder, picked up Ryan Sweeney's bloop single after right fielder Marlon Byrd failed in trying to scoop up the ball and threw to first baseman Justin Morneau, positioned just in front of the pitcher's mound. Morneau caught the throw on one hop and made the relay to catcher Russell Martin, who applied the tag on Nate Schierholtz trying to score from first base.
Still on his knees, Martin held the ball over his head in jubilation. Then, he heaved the ball toward deep left field as the Pirates celebrated near the mound, and Jason Grilli grabbed him, having escaped with his 32nd save in 34 chances.
"Twenty-one years since we popped champagne in a Pirates clubhouse — and we're acting like it's been a long time," Hurdle said. "The hard work, the fun. I'm just proud of each and every man in here, the fans they represent, ownership, general manager, president … the scouts, players. This has been a group effort for a long time."
The Pirates' last trip to the playoffs ended with Atlanta's Sid Bream sliding home with the winning run in the bottom of the ninth inning of Game 7 of the 1992 NL championship series.
The Cubs tied it in the eighth off Mark Melancon (3-2).
Marte's 12th homer set off loud boos for Gregg (2-6), who was almost released last week after going on a rant to reporters when he thought he had lost the closer's job to Pedro Strop.
Walker homered against Jeff Samardzija in the first to give the Pirates a 1-0 lead, and Charlie Morton pitched three-hit ball over seven scoreless innings before the Cubs tied it against Melancon.
Brian Bogusevic led off the eighth with a single, his second hit, and moved up on a groundout by Darwin Barney. Then, after a wild pitch, he scored the tying run on a single by pinch-hitter Donnie Murphy.
That spoiled a terrific start for Morton, who struck out five and walked one.
Samardzija was almost as good, allowing one run and five hits over six innings. He struck out seven and walked four after going 0-1 with a 7.11 ERA in his previous four starts.
Samardzija's only blemish in this one came when Walker drove a 1-1 pitch out to left-center with one out in the first.
With the long ball, Walker matched a career high of 14 set last season. He has four homers in the past five games.
Samardzija settled down after that but got little support as the Cubs lost for the 10th time in 13 games. It was also the second straight day an opponent celebrated at Wrigley Field.
Atlanta clinched the NL East on Sunday, and this time, it was the Pirates' turn to party.
"That's what we need to do," Samardzija said. "I think we're getting there, but we need to get some things ironed out."


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Willard, Frances Elizabeth
Willard, Frances Elizabeth, 1839–98, American temperance leader and reformer, b. Churchville, N.Y., grad. Northwestern Female College, 1859. She was president of Evanston College for Ladies and dean of women at Northwestern Univ. After leaving the university, she helped organize (1874) the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and in 1879 became its president. She devoted most of her life to the organization of women for the prohibition of alcoholic beverages but was active in other causes, especially that of woman suffrage.
See her autobiography, Glimpses of Fifty Years (1889); biographies by M. Earhart (1944) and M. L. Gates (1964).
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Baskett: Onside kick swung momentum
Hank Baskett heard the words, "Blue ball."
And with that, he thought he had recovered his muff for his blue-clad Indianapolis Colts on the onside kick that started Super Bowl XLIV's second half Sunday in Miami.
That's when he relaxed in the pile, he said, and a New Orleans player swiped the ball.
The story's well-known a day later. The Saints scored to take their first lead of the night, and a litany of Colts second-half errors paved the way for a 31-17 New Orleans victory at Miami.
Plays throughout the second half swung against the Colts and towards the Saints. Veteran kicker Matt Stover, who became the oldest player in Super Bowl history Sunday at 42, had a 51-yard field goal attempt fly just left of the crossbar — giving the Saints great field position instead of a 20-16 deficit.
The Saints took the lead for good on a 2-yard pass from Drew Brees to Jeremy Shockey, and got a two-point conversion that was first ruled no good but reversed on a challenge.
The touchdown pass was Brees' 32nd completion of the game, tying a Super Bowl record.
The Colts drove for the tie, but New Orleans corner Tracy Porter stepped in front of a short route and returned the pick 74 yards for the score to ice the comeback.
For all of the Colts' mistakes and the Saints' highlights, Baskett's special teams bobble still loomed large Sunday night and Monday morning. An ESPN SportsNation poll had 56 percent of respondents say the onside kick recovery was the more vital play than Manning's interception in the Saints' win.
"For tabloid readers who don't follow football," said an Monday entry on the Huffington Post, "the Super Bowl was a match up between reality television personalities Kim Kardashian and Kendra Wilkinson, the girlfriend of Saints star Reggie Bush and the wife of Colts player Hank Baskett. As Kim celebrates the Saints' win, it was no doubt a somber night in the Baskett household."
The first successful non-fourth quarter onside kick in Super Bowl history skipped to the right side of the field, toward Baskett. He dove for the ball, but it bounced off his helmet and hands. Chris Reis of New Orleans first got his hands on it, but Baskett said he was able to get the ball back momentarily in the scrum of Colts and Saints players.
The scrum, with several shouts of "blue ball" audible on replays, lasted about a minute before the official signal that New Orleans had the ball.
"It will go down as a momentum swing," Baskett said, "but I did everything I could to get the ball."
Baskett didn't want to deflect criticism toward other Colts mistakes, saying that "it's easier to play (well) when you're ahead."
Baskett goes into free agency. He signed with the Colts in the second week of the season, after the Philadelphia Eagles cut him to make room for quarterbacks Jeff Garcia and Michael Vick.
The Baskett family, with 7-week-old Hank IV, live in Carmel, Ind.
"I would love to stay in Indy, it's a great organization," Baskett said. "We'll see what happens."
As for the game, Baskett looked at Super Bowl Sunday as an amazing experience regardless of the final outcome.
"The national anthem and everything, it's something to know everybody is watching," Baskett said. "I was thinking back to Play Inc., where it started. All those times you're at practice and your friends are at the lake, you're asking yourself what you're doing it for."


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Empress Road Pictures has unveiled a slate of horror titles, building on last year's success with Elevator.
The LA-based firm is selling worldwide rights here to Dose of Reality, starring Fairuza Balk, found footage horror Stripped, and Things I Don't Understand.
It also has worldwide rights, excluding North America, to voyeurism thriller Gut and road trip horror Killer Holiday.
Empress Road is fronted by Faisal Toor and Galen Christy, both formerly of CAA.


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The movie's not out until January, but you can read now about the black female engineers and mathematicians who were the unseen contributors to the space program.
The movie's not out until January, but you can read now about the black female engineers and mathematicians who were the unseen contributors to the space program.
Sarah— From Hidden Figures
The movie's not out until January, but you can read now about the black female engineers and mathematicians who were the unseen contributors to the space program.
Sarah— From Hidden Figures
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The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA at the leading edge of the feminist and civil rights movement, whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space—a powerful, revelatory contribution that is as essential to our understanding of race, discrimination, and achievement in modern America as Between the World and Me and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. The basis for the smash Academy Award-nominated film starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kirsten Dunst, and Kevin Costner.
Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human computers" used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space.
Among these problem-solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation. Originally relegated to teaching math in the South's segregated public schools, they were called into service during the labor shortages of World War II, when America's aeronautics industry was in dire need of anyone who had the right stuff. Suddenly, these overlooked math whizzes had a shot at jobs worthy of their skills, and they answered Uncle Sam's call, moving to Hampton, Virginia and the fascinating, high-energy world of the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory.
Even as Virginia's Jim Crow laws required them to be segregated from their white counterparts, the women of Langley's all-black "West Computing" group helped America achieve one of the things it desired most: a decisive victory over the Soviet Union in the Cold War, and complete domination of the heavens.
Starting in World War II and moving through to the Cold War, the Civil Rights Movement and the Space Race, Hidden Figures follows the interwoven accounts of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson and Christine Darden, four African American women who participated in some of NASA's greatest successes. It chronicles their careers over nearly three decades they faced challenges, forged alliances and used their intellect to change their own lives, and their country's future.
Margot Lee Shetterly grew up in Hampton, Virginia, where she knew many of the women in her book Hidden Figures. She is an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow and the recipient of a Virginia Foundation for the Humanities grant for her research on women in computing. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
"Meticulous… the depth and detail that are the book's strength make it an effective, fact-based rudder with which would-be scientists and their allies can stabilize their flights of fancy. This hardworking, earnest book is the perfect foil for the glamour still to come." — Seattle Times
"Much as Tom Wolfe did in "The Right Stuff", Shetterly moves gracefully between the women's lives and the broader sweep of history . . . Shetterly, who grew up in Hampton, blends impressive research with an enormous amount of heart in telling these stories — Boston Globe
"Restoring the truth about individuals who were at once black, women and astounding mathematicians, in a world that was constructed to stymie them at every step, is no easy task. Shetterly does it with the depth and detail of a skilled historian and the narrative aplomb of a masterful storyteller." — Bookreporter.com


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Continuing variations on a theme, the FBI has arrested yet another alleged "hacktivist" based on information provided by a confidential informant. This time, FBI agents from the bureau's Chicago field office nabbed Timothy Justin French, who the Justice Department claims was a member of a group called NullCrew. Another alleged NullCrew member, a juvenile offender, was arrested by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police based on information passed by the FBI.
Based on a statement from a member of NullCrew who remains at large, the arrests weren't a big surprise. Calling French and the other hacker "skids" (script kiddies), the NullCrew member mocked their poor operational security and failure to cover their own digital tracks. And in a reference to the LulzSec case, the poster said that French missed "what should've been the most fucking obvious thing ever: don't let just any asshole in the crew, and don't give them the keys to the fucking kingdom. The FBI got someone to get you fuckers, and you deserved it. I've already taken care of that little problem—if it walks like Sabu and talks like Sabu..."
French, who the FBI claims is known by the usernames "Orbit," "crysis," and a number of other IRC, Skype, and Twitter handles, was arrested on June 11 at his home in Morristown, Tennessee. He is accused, along with other members of NullCrew, of launching "computer attacks that resulted in the release of computer data and information, including thousands of username and password combinations," according to a statement issued by the Justice Department.
French and NullCrew's alleged activities were exposed by a confidential informant who was invited into the group's conversations on CryptoCat and Skype and in Twitter direct messages. "Nullcrew members discussed past, present, and future computer hacks, shared current computer vulnerabilities and planned targets, and discussed releases of their victims' information," the Justice Department said in its release. And apparently the informant volunteered the information to the FBI. "The witness has assisted with the investigation primarily in an effort to help the FBI, the affidavit stated.
NullCrew has claimed responsibility for attacks on dozens of websites over the past year on Twitter and in Facebook posts—including those of Sony and the Cambodian government. French was implicated in four different site attacks during a period from July of 2013 to April of this year, targeting organizations that included two universities, a "large Canadian telecommunications company"(which would be Bell Canada), a "large mass media company" and a California-based company. The organizations were not named in the release. "In each of these instances, information allegedly hacked from the victims' computers was released by NullCrew and caused significant financial damages to the universities and companies, including the costs of responding to the computer intrusions, conducting damage assessments, and restoring the computer systems," the Justice Department said.
In a statement posted Tuesday, June 17 to PasteBin, one of French's alleged fellow NullCrew members laid out what got French and another member (whose arrest has not yet been announced by the FBI) caught:
To begin with, and for the love of sweet baby jesus, delete your old fucking personas COMPLETELY before adopting new ones you intend to commit federal crimes with. I told that fucking idiot Timmy (c0rps3, Orb1t_G1rl, rootcrysis) that his dox was too easy to find and provided ways for him to escape it. He obviously didn't. And Dominik (thebinkyp, zer0pwn, phlex, nop_nc, docofcocks, theindigator, NULL), you seemed to think that no one would ever find your old aliases? Next, your OpSec was fucking horrendous. Don't launch attacks from your home IPs, skidlets! Don't log into our compromised servers from your home IPs! Fucking get a clue, get a fucking VPN! Doxxing these two morons was super simple, which explains why the FBI could do it. Did you really think they wouldn't subpoena Skype, fucking told you Timmy. Finally, these morons thought it'd be a good idea to go to war with the other hacking groups on the scene. They tried to SE them, stole exploits from them, etc. If the fucking government didn't bust them, I was pretty confident one of the other groups would.