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Runners often wonder if arthritis is their inevitable destiny. Twinges of pain in hips, knees and ankles trigger concerns that years of running cause irreversible damage to joints. To escape this possible fate, some dismiss ambitions of running a marathon while others abandon running altogether in favor of low impact sports such as swimming.
These concerns are not unreasonable. Consider the prodigious demands on the joints of a runner. As the foot strikes the ground, the forces borne by the bones and joints of the leg can reach six times the body's weight. While enduring this stress, one end of a joint must move smoothly and efficiently against the other end virtually free of friction. In the event of a misstep or stumble, each joint must have the stability to maintain perfect alignment.
Osteoarthritis, the fate runners dread, is caused by degeneration of articular cartilage, a particularly remarkable tissue which covers the ends of bones in the joint. It absorbs shock, distributes loads evenly to avoid a focus of peak stress, and glides smoothly against the opposing articular cartilage in a joint. The ability to run, free of arthritis, for years, even decades, depends on uncompromised function of this cartilage.
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Articular cartilage is constructed as a matrix of collagen, a protein that creates sturdy, rope-like fibers. Saturated with water, the collagen matrix has the consistency of a tough, wear-resistant gel. Synovial fluid, a clear, viscous lubricant, bathes the tissue, providing nutrients and removing waste products, since no blood vessels penetrate into articular cartilage.
As osteoarthritis progresses, the surface of articular cartilage becomes roughened. Fissures in the cartilage cut down to the underlying bone, and fragments of cartilage break off causing further damage. The bone, stripped of its protective cartilage, reacts by over-producing bone and forming osteophytes, tiny fingers of bone that extend into the joint space.
Participation in sports can stress and potentially damage articular cartilage, leading many to indict athletic activity as a major cause of osteoarthritis. Baseball pitchers, for example, are reported to have a higher incidence of arthritis in their throwing arms. High impacts, twisting forces, joint injuries, muscle weakness, and joint instability can all lead to abnormal forces and greater peak stresses on certain areas of articular cartilage. All of these influences have been demonstrated to increase the risk of developing osteoarthritis. Nevertheless, a substantial body of research in both animals and humans now demonstrates that for normal joints, moderate levels of physical activity, even over the course of a lifetime, does not cause permanent joint damage or a predisposition to osteoarthritis.
What is the risk of osteoarthritis for runners in particular? Several studies provide evidence that runners, even those who have run competitively for many years, do not have an increased prevalence of osteoarthritis. Some studies have shown that radiographs of runners' joints are more likely to have osteophytes, the outgrowths of bone often seen in osteoarthritis. The significance of this finding is not clear, however, because many individuals have osteophytes but do not have damaged articular cartilage and do not have symptomatic arthritis.
Confusing the issue for many runners is the misdiagnosis of a reversible joint injury as arthritis. Any component of the muscle, tendon, ligaments and joint can cause pain and injury. The most common cause of knee pain in runners, for example, is not arthritis but patello-femoral dysfunction, caused by abnormal tracking of the kneecap.
Inactivity was once thought to prevent arthritis and protect fragile, arthritic joints from further damage. More recent research has demonstrated the opposite. In the absence of use, joints lose flexibility; without stress, the matrix of articular cartilage is gradually modified and weakened. Furthermore, numerous studies have clearly demonstrated that moderate exercise improves the symptoms of arthritis without causing further joint damage.
Joints are, in fact, strengthened and modified by exercise. These adaptations explain the utility of physical activity in the treatment of arthritis, and the ability of joints to endure years of running without permanent damage. Ligaments and muscles, which support joints, are strengthened and reinforced by the stresses of athletic activity, improving joint mechanics. The flexibility of muscles, encouraged by exercise, can also aid the mechanical function of joints.
Articular cartilage actually has its own feedback mechanism to respond to exercise. Chondrocytes, the living cells that make up just 1% of cartilage, sense the loading of articular cartilage and regulate the production of matrix components to repair and remodel the tissue in response to stress.
So, can running hasten the onset of arthritis? Certainly, in particular circumstances. Abnormal joint stress increases the risk of arthritis and can be caused by running on an injured joint, poor biomechanics, or muscle weakness due to inadequate cross-training.
Does running, however, inevitably cause arthritis? No. Many people run and compete for an entire lifetime without being hindered by arthritis. Aging by itself causes gradual deterioration of articular cartilage, either due to decades of use or because of changes in the cartilage matrix. By the age of 65, over 75% of people show at least minor evidence of osteoarthritis.
Can running help prevent or treat arthritis? Yes, the adaptations of joints to running can help prevent or treat the degeneration associated with inactivity.
The salubrious benefits of exercise are major incentives for many runners, so the thought of incurring permanent damage to a joint is particularly demoralizing. Running is a high impact activity that strains joints to the very limit of their resilience and capabilities. But joints have a wonderfully sophisticated structure that resists damage and adapts to stress. Potential injuries abound, and osteoarthritis is extremely prevalent in both athletes and non-athletes, but permanent joint damage is not an inevitable consequence of running.
Benjamin Ebert, M.D., Ph.D., is a physician and scientist in Boston, MA. His column "Rock Solid" appeared in the July/August 2001 issue of Running Times.


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Volkswagen will use the upcoming Beijing motor show to preview the Beetle convertible ahead of its launch later this year, according to company sources.
VW will show the E-Bugster concept in Beijing. The concept was first unveiled at the Detroit auto show in January, but in Beijing it will be shown without a roof to preview the new Beetle convertible.
Also on VW's Beijing stand will be the new version of the Lavida compact sedan. The China-only car is built with local partners SAIC and is the biggest seller in its segment, with sales of 248,035 in 2011.
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A former intrusion specialist is training a gathering of European law enforcement agents in how the bad guys work on the Internet. Contributing editor Markus Feilner stops in for a lesson in attack techniques.
November 2008. Freiburg is supposed to be Germany's "sunniest city," but today, on my way to a special forensics conference, the rain is constant. Tobi, an ex-hacker who is now a forensics expert and trainer, is training 20 representatives from a smattering of European law enforcement agencies (Figure 1). The sessions over the next few days will cover topics such as rootkits, CSS scripting attacks, and browser compromise. The participants will also learn how attackers use professional software to create, distribute, and administer botnets, trojans, and viruses.
Even showing up for this event invites some legal risk. German law forbids such training. Yet many agencies feel it is impossible to maintain IT security without an understanding of the tools used by professional intruders.
The whole problem is that the criminal world isn't too worried about statutes. A well-trained and highly organized community of intrusion specialists even distributes user-friendly software to aspiring beginners so that anyone can get in the game. One of the agents groans, "By now, any mouse-pusher or script kiddie can practice his art at breakneck speed."
Eager to learn, the students set themselves an intense schedule for the next three days. Soon, the participants have words like Metasploit, MPack, and DreamDownloader reverberating through their heads.
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Tobi is visibly pleased with Linux Magazine's presence. The chemistry works; it takes no more than a minute before a greeting turns into a conversation about the advantages of the nVidia GeForce graphics card. However, it's not about games, it's about how the card's performance is especially suited for cracking passwords.
Companies from Russia and Eastern Europe, especially the older Soviet states, provide much of the sample hacker software Tobi is demonstrating in the course (Figure 2). For instance, ElcomSoft [1], which is headquartered in Moscow, makes a business of cracking passwords with the nVidia GeForce graphics card.
Admittedly, Tobi's first contact with law enforcement wasn't quite voluntary. When the Phatbot attacks were happening a few years ago, he was at the wrong place at the wrong time – that is, on the wrong server and under criminal police surveillance because he maintained contact with the malware originators. "Some of the guys behaved pretty badly, even bragging on the web! No wonder they were caught." Tobi survived the ordeal, but you can tell the experience left its marks.
Tobi's hacker name is Newroot, and he writes his e-mail address like graffiti. These days, he works for one of Germany's leading pen testing and security service firms. At work, he hacks the newest aerotechnology software, outwits the firmware for VoIP phones, and informs international forensics experts about the newest software tricks.
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According to Tobi, "It takes just a few simple things to make it hard for attackers, but most admins aren't even aware of them. Just mount the right partitions with nonsuid and nonexec, and your attacker has a bad hair day. Or set the append-only attribute on logfiles or in the Bash history. It's hard to wipe away your tracks, especially when a cron job is picking them up on another system."
It doesn't take long before he starts listing a score of "gray area" websites that admins need to be aware of: InvisibleThings [2], Matasano [3], the Fake Name Generator [4], and the Milw0rm exploit database. He uses sites like these regularly in his training to build rootkits or demonstrate the newest Internet Explorer bug. Even seasoned Microsoft fans are speechless when Tobi shows, inside of two minutes using Metasploit or BackTrack, how an attacker on the local net can take over a Windows machine and get a full root shell on the MS server. Windows has enough back doors, says Tobi, that an attacker who knows the right websites can really do some damage [5].
To understand the damage introduced by client-side bugs and buffer overflows in the browser, Tobi introduces BeEF, the Browser Exploitation Framework [6]. BeEF is a professional tool designed to demonstrate the real-time effect of browser vulnerabilities. Tobi then directs the participants to the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) [7] [8].
The group studies the various ways to take control of a Windows client, examining the differences among stored, reflected, and DOM-based cross-site scripting [9]. Tobi also shows how to integrate a JavaScript script from a third web page and then leave the script in the guestbook of a foreign, unprotected site. With holes like the IFrame Tag Buffer Overflow Exploit in Internet Explorer, it's only a small step to take complete control of the Windows computer.
The agents take in the demonstrations with amazing calm. "Oh yeah, what we're seeing here is just the tip of the iceberg," one officer shrugs. "The reporting rate from victims is so pathetically bad because no one wants to admit they've fallen into a trap or that an attacker compromised their supposedly secure enterprise net."
His colleagues on the Swiss team (Figure 3) take a more positive approach: "Totally correct. But everyone makes mistakes. Every attacker, no matter how skilled, leaves tracks. That's where we come in." Denying the attacker a shell with admin privileges might make an attack more difficult, but Tobi shows that this isn't enough to thwart a determined intruder. The attack can still continue with help from professional solutions like MPack and DreamDownloader. "Redirecting the browser to your page is wonderfully transparent in the background over the IFrame tag, and the Windows user won't have a clue …. The port is open, and we can install whatever program we want." Even automation is easy. With a remote administration tool like Poison Ivy [10], execute a few mouse clicks, package the newly created trojan with DreamDownloader, infiltrate the Windows system with MPack, and you've got yourself a botnet.
Rainy Night
The training is almost over, and it's beginning to get dark in Freiburg; The rain won't subside. Why hasn't anyone hacked the weather?
- ElcomSoft: http://www.elcomsoft.com
- InvisibleThings: http://www.invisiblethings.org
- Matasano Security: http://www.matasano.com/log
- Fake Name Generator: http://www.fakenamegenerator.com
- E-learning CD for Web Security: http://www.badstore.net
- BeEF: http://www.bindshell.net/tools/beef
- OWASP: http://www.owasp.org
- OWASP Top Ten Project: http://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Top_Ten_Project
- Cross-site-scripting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-Site_Scripting
- Poison Ivy: http://www.poisonivy-rat.com
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SDSU helps fight porcine epidemic diarrhea virus in the U.S.
BROOKINGS – South Dakota swine producers and veterinarians have been closely monitoring the developments surrounding Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea (PED) virus infections over the past several months. In early May 2013, the industry was informed that this virus had been detected in swine herds in Iowa and Indiana. Since those first reports, as of Oct. 26, 2013, PED infections have been detected in 924 case submissions from 18 different states, said Russ Daly, SDSU Extension Veterinarian.
"The PED virus has been detected in one grow-finish site in late May in South Dakota, with an additional environmental sample found positive in August. Detection of PED in U.S. swine herds is remarkable, since the virus has not previously been recognized in our country, despite its long history in Europe and Asia," Daly said.
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At South Dakota State University's Animal Disease Research and Diagnostic Laboratory, a diagnostic test was developed and made available to veterinarians within a couple weeks of the virus's first detection. Initially, a gel-based polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test was developed; following that, a "real time" PCR test was perfected at SDSU as well.
"These tests can accurately differentiate PED virus from other similar viruses, and can detect the virus in very small numbers," Daly said.
The preferred sample for the test is manure from affected pigs or intestines from pigs that have died. The main reason for having diagnostics performed is to differentiate disease due to PED from disease caused by similar viruses such as Transmissible Gastroenteritis (TGE) virus. Some herds may wish to monitor their buildings or vehicles for the presence of PED virus; environmental samples may be submitted for that purpose.
After the first outbreak of PED, a pointed effort quickly took place, and is ongoing, among veterinary diagnostic labs to perform further research on PED, including the development of additional diagnostic tests such as blood tests that would detect antibodies, therefore previous exposure, to the virus.
"SDSU researchers were among the first in the U.S. to grow the actual virus in the laboratory, a critical step in development of new tests and experiments that will help us understand the disease even better," Daly said.
While PED and TGE viruses are very similar to each other, Daly explained that the diseases caused by them are very similar also.
"Diarrhea, most severe in young piglets, is the hallmark of infections with PED. This diarrhea often results in severe dehydration and death in pre-weaned pigs. Milder clinical signs are noted in older animals," he said. "Even though PED is very closely related to TGE, immunity to TGE, through previous exposure or through vaccination programs, does not confer resistance to PED. There currently is no vaccine against PED."
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At SDSU to date, over 1,800 samples have been submitted and tested for PED since the emergence of the virus. From South Dakota herds, 168 samples have been tested as of November 4, 2013 with no positive results. The previously mentioned South Dakota positive samples were detected at other diagnostic laboratories.
Daly said this would indicate either that producers and veterinarians are cognizant of the disease and do not see the need for diagnostic confirmation, or that there simply are not many suspect cases in our area.
"Reports from regulatory and local veterinarians would suggest that the latter case may be more likely," he said.
He added that basic biosecurity procedures should be effective in keeping the virus out of non-infected premises. The more familiar, but closely related, TGE virus infections typically occur more frequently during fall and winter months. If PED behaves similarly, swine producers and veterinarians may need to employ heightened vigilance as the seasons change.
"Attention to personnel and vehicle traffic, in addition to proper animal movement and isolation protocols, should be reinforced with all farm personnel," he said. "However, producers and veterinarians should keep in mind that our state's swine herd would be very susceptible to infection with PED, having no previous exposure, making biosecurity efforts more important than ever."
If cases of PED are suspected, Daly said producers should work with their veterinarians to determine the best diagnostic strategy.
"It's important to the industry that suspect cases get promptly investigated and confirmed with diagnostics in order for us to better understand how PED is affecting our US, and South Dakota's, swine populations," he said.
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Wade Michael Page is dead, having shot himself in the head after being wounded by police responding to the fatal shooting of six people at a Sikh temple outside Milwaukee. Although detectives have interviewed more than 100 people, combed through Page's email and recovered evidence from the scene — 139 items were taken from the temple's parking lot alone — their findings might never be presented in court.
"We have not identified anyone else responsible for the shooting and we have not identified a motive," Teresa Carlson, FBI special agent in charge in Milwaukee, told a news conference this morning.
So will the full story behind the attack ever be known? And how long will investigators keep looking for an elusive motive that might provide answers to devastated Sikh families, as well as valuable information about white supremacists?
At the moment, detectives are sifting through the gunman's life, assembling the biography of a man who apparently had few relatives, a spotty work history and a thin criminal record. Carlson said Wednesday that investigators have not found any kind of note left by Page.
The Sikh community holds out hope.
"We just want to get to the bottom of what motivated him to do it," said Amardeep Singh, an executive with the New York-based Sikh Coalition. "It's important to acknowledge why they lost their lives."
The 40-year-old Army veteran strode into the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin shortly before Sunday services and opened fire with a 9 mm pistol. The dead included temple President Satwant Singh Kaleka, who was shot as he tried to fend off the shooter with a butter knife.
Page shot a responding police officer in the parking lot at least eight times before another officer wounded Page in a shootout.
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Dear Miss Lonelypants:
I read this article on the internets and am really worried. It says for example "the more a person rides, the greater the risk of impotence or loss of libido," and "A college student who had competed in rough cycling sports was unable to achieve an erection until microvascular surgery restored penile blood flow." There was lots of other scary stuff to. It was medical and stuff. Anyways, I like my bicycle but I also like "Mr. Happy" (that's what I call him–my GF call's him "Mr. Shrimpers," but won't tell me why!!). What do you think about this?
Sammy Shrivels
Dear Sammy:
I think she calls it Mr. Shrimpers because it's…oh, never mind. It is true that the more a person rides, the greater the risk of impotence. Studies show that despite their top physical conditioning, after a 15-hour mountainous stage in the Tour, less than 1% of the finishers are capable of achieving an erection.
Factually limp,
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Dear Miss Lonelypants:
I like to ride my bike, and am faster than most of the other women, but of course there are lots of guys who are much faster than me. I hate it when I'm grinding on a long grade and some nasty ol' pervert puts his hand on my butt, paws me a little, then gives me a "push" like he's helping me. Is there a polite way to tell creeps like that to keep their hands to themselves?
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When you get to be Miss Lonelypants' age, and your pants are really lonely, you'll treasure those moments when some sweaty, hairy, muscular, lascivious ol' dog runs his hand up the inside of your thigh and gently "nudges" you up the hill…for thirty or forty minutes. Some of the best
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Dear Miss Lonelypants:
I'm thinking about joining a cyclists singles' group. It seems like a great way to meet a woman who shares my interests. Thoughts?
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Please check out CyclingSingles.com, and look carefully at the photos on the home page. What do you notice? Yes. The man looks like a starving Arnold Schwarzenegger. And he is wearing a Camelbak. Now then. Look at the woman. She is totally p*wning him on the downhill, and splashing the shit out of him as they rocket through the creek. Finally, they're straddling their top tubes as the sun sets. Do you know what she's saying? I do, because I was once that woman. She's saying, "You are slow and weak and I don't want to fuck you or even let you look at my ass from behind anymore. Please delete me from your account." Still sound like a great way to meet women? Yes? You're weird.
Miss Lonelypants
Dear Miss Lonelypants:
Okay, so next Saturday's my gal's birthday, and my gal's not into the bike, and I've got a big race in Bakersfield so I'm, like, going to be back in LA late and tired and the gal's gonna want me to celebrate her birthday and all that shit. So I'm trying to get her to go with me to the race and then we can hit the In-N-Out on the way back and maybe catch a early chick flick so I can be in bed to be rested for CBR on Sunday. If I do all that do I still need to get her a present I was thinking like maybe some bag refills for the vacuum cleaner.
Androstene Diol
Dear Android:
Here are some ways to make her feel really special:
- Don't race that weekend.
- Take the money you were going to spend on entry fees, gas, food, and equipment and buy her a nice gift–something she'll treasure.
- Surprise her with an overnight trip to Catalina Island, a romantic dinner, and Sunday breakfast in bed.
- After breakfast, cuddle with her and use these words: "You're the most important thing in the world to me."
Just kidding! Sure, burgers and a movie will be fine, and don't bother with a present, because IT'S THE LAST FUCKING BIRTHDAY SHE'LL EVER SPEND WITH YOU.
Miss Lonelypants


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Johnson scores 4 TDs, N. Iowa beats Iowa St 28-20
David Johnson ran for a career-high 199 yards and two touchdowns and caught passes for two more scores to lead Northern Iowa past Iowa State 28-20 on Saturday night.
Northern Iowa, seeking a return to the FCS playoffs after a rare losing record in 2012, jumped to a 21-7 lead on a steamy Midwest evening and handed Iowa State its first season-opening loss in five seasons under coach Paul Rhoads. It was just the fifth victory for the Panthers in 28 games with the Cyclones, who are coming off two straight bowl appearances.
Iowa State drew to 21-20 on Cole Netten's third-quarter field goals of 23 and 38 yards, the first of his career. But Johnson caught a short pass from Kollmorgen, slipped through three defenders and went 29 yards for a touchdown early in the fourth quarter for an eight-point lead that held up.
Johnson, a 6-foot-3, 214-pound junior who showed both power and speed, piled up 125 yards on his first six carries, including scoring runs of 37 and 27 yards. He carried 23 times in all in topping his previous best of 149 yards last year.
Kollmorgen, who was thrust into the starting job as a freshman last year, completed 14 of his first 15 passes and finished 21 of 28 for 218 yards, no interceptions and the two touchdowns to Johnson, whose four TDs tied the school's single-game record.
Tormenting Iowa State with passes on short underneath routes, Kollmorgen was so effective in the early going that the Cyclones did not break up a pass until freshman linebacker Luke Knott knocked one away with 1:32 left in the first half.
Iowa State's Sam Richardson, making his third career start, completed 22 of 32 passes for 242 yards and two TDs and added 74 yards rushing on 21 attempts.
But the defensive failures and inconsistency in the new pistol offense doomed the Cyclones in a game that drew a crowd of 56,800, which matched the largest ever at Jack Trice Stadium.
The temperature at kickoff was 92 degrees, making it the warmest game on record at the stadium. Temperatures cooled to the upper 70s by the second half, though the humidity remained high.
Northern Iowa scored on its first three possessions, on drives of 69, 78 and 82 yards, as Johnson and Kollmorgen shredded a young Iowa State defense left even more inexperienced by the absence of senior cornerback Jansen Watson, who watched from the sideline in sweat clothes.
Johnson broke three tackles on a 37-yard touchdown run that put the Panthers up 7-0 and walked into the end zone on a 9-yard reception from Kollmorgen that made it 14-7.
On the Panthers' next possession, Kollmorgen completed four straight passes before runs of 13 and 27 yards gave Johnson his third TD and a 21-7 lead with 6:52 left in the half.
Richardson threw first-half touchdown passes of 59 yards to senior Justin Coleman -- his first career catch -- and 7 yards to James White. But the Cyclones stalled twice inside the Northern Iowa 20-yard line in the third quarter and had to settle for the Netten field goals.
The second opportunity came after Deon Broomfield forced and recovered a UNI fumble at the Panthers' 20. Sam Tim's sack of Richardson, one of five by the Panthers, and an incomplete pass forced the field goal.


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Today's New York Post, as a whole, crystallizes the 2012 Jets. On the cover, Tebow and Sanchez are depicted as passengers in Rex Ryan's clown car. Sanchez looks especially despondent. But the paper's big season preview article predicts that the Jets will have a winning record and return to the postseason, despite their offense. This is astute, by the way: Football Outsiders ranks the Jets as the eighth-best team in the NFL.
Do you see what the Post did? It used a spectacle to draw readers in so that they would spend more time with the Jets, who are, underneath it all, a truly good team. It's the same thing the Jets are doing with Tebow and Rex's mouth. But on the eve of the season, the ostensibly superior national football media still sees only the sideshow. Their loss.


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As we are so spoiled for choice when it comes to dining, we had to spread this segment over a few blogs…so to continue the theme, please read on for some of the best restaurant choices in the area.
This is the Pacific Northwest, and this also means that we are incredibly lucky to be in an area that is literally swimming with delicious Seafood, most notably Pacific Northwest Salmon.
The majority of Restaurants, bars and cafes will have some sort of Fish Dish on the menu, but our pick for Seafood are the following..
The Boathouse – Located down on Beach Avenue/Burnaby St and overlooking the stunning English Bay, here you will find a fantastic menu that showcases a great and vast menu of seafood.
The Sandbar – A very popular establishment found on Granville Island, this is a real gem, and has an Asian infusion twist to the menu which sees Sushi and North American cuisine all together, so if one fancies Sushi, the other would rather go with traditional Fish and chips, and another needs a burger, try here and eat in style…its surprisingly affordable too!
Another alternative is The C Restaurant, wonderful creations and an expansive menu, ideally situated close to False Creek and Burrard Bridge.
GLUTEN FREE Restaurants and Awesome!
Quite often we are asked about the best Gluten free options in Vancouver, thankfully for those who need this there are a couple of great restaurants that will fulfill your needs and they are very good establishments too.
Lazziza which is located on Davie Street is fantastic, the menu is Mediterranean/Mid East style…it also boasts an excellent Wine and Beer list to perfectly compliment your meal.
Central Bisto, A great little place down on Denman Street, boasting the finest Organic ingredients and local produce with a seasonal menu to change things up, also a great place for Martini's, craft beers and a little live Jazz if you fancy it!
Now, as we are an apartment hotel, you do know that you do have fully equipped kitchens at your disposal, (this includes an Oven and stove, Fridge, fully stocked with essential utensils, cutlery pots and pans – so please use them, and, for your convenience we have a few grocery stores that are in close proximity to the Sunset Inn and Suites.
Check out these stores, West Valley Market, Kins Market (good discounted produce at the back of the store) And then there is Largest Supermarket (formally known as Supavalu). If you are needing essentials there is also the Shoppers Drug Mart too.


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Posted by Editoress on 07/13/05
Mark French's Suspension Overturned
Cycling Australia
Statement by Mr Graham Fredericks, Chief Executive Officer, Cycling Australia
The Court of Arbitration for Sport Appeals Panel has today overturned the suspension of cyclist Mark French which was imposed by CAS on the 8th of June, 2004.
Cycling Australia respects the processes of the Court of Arbitration for Sport which in this case is the final arbiter. As a result we have no alternative but to abide by this final ruling.
The Court has stated that in this case they have demanded a very high standard of proof almost approaching beyond reasonable doubt and that we have failed to meet that standard. We are certainly frustrated that despite two hearings in the Court of Arbitration for Sport, three independent inquiries and hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on this case there is no cut-and-dried resolution.
The CAS Appeals Panel has ruled there is insufficient evidence to prove the charges in relation to Equine Growth Hormone and are not satisfied that Testicomp contains banned glucocorticosteroids despite the label saying it does. We presented our evidence and it hasn't been enough. We have exhausted all our legal avenues and there is nothing else we can do.
We have an obligation to our members and the public to vigorously pursue cases and that is what we have done. We presented our evidence and it was tested in court. Mr French exercised his rights under the same policy and this case is now closed.
I'm sad that cycling has been dragged through this because the sport doesn't deserve it. Cheating is the rare exception not the rule and we'll keep fighting to keep it that way for the thousands of Australians who get on their bikes every day to train and race.
I think Australians recognise how much is good in the sport of cycling. The public has been enthusiastic in their support of our athlete's during and since the Athens Olympic Games and this year at major events both here and overseas. Australians do not condemn the innocent and have demonstrated that quite clearly. We will not let cheats destroy our sport.
In relation to some of the specifics of the judgement Cycling Australia believes the DNA evidence ultimately was of no evidentiary value. In fact the panel has ruled that cross-contamination is a viable possibility and hence decided that any evidence relating to DNA in the bucket is unreliable. That would have been the case regardless of any action by us after discovery of the bucket.
It is clear from the findings of the Anderson report there was no cover up by Cycling Australia or the Australian Sports Commission and Mr Anderson found we followed the correct procedures and handled the matter expeditiously, conscientiously and in good faith and with concern for the rights of Mr French and others affected by the case. This case is a unique and complex one in the history of Australian sport and I honestly don't know what else we could have done.
This case is obviously one that would have immediately been referred to ASADA and we applaud the setting up of the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority. Obviously we hope we are never in a position where we have to refer something to them but will not hesitate to do so if the need arises.
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For some peculiar reason, the news that there will be a vote on the Paycheck Fairness Bill today has somehow slipped right under the radar. How could that be?? Where is NOW? This issue gets second billing on their front page.
Did anyone really buy that crap the Democrats were floating about Lilly Ledbetter? I'm not saying it's not an important bill but it's sort of like the People's Front of Judea fighting for a man's right to have babies even though he " 'asn't got a 'oomb' ". Come to think of it, if men wanted to have babies, that bill would probably get passed first.
C'mon people. Who's really going to go to HR and ask to see the salaries of everyone in the department? It's like branding your forehead with a giant "L". HR is there to serve management, not troublemaking upstarts. And it's only after you have the information that you know whether there's a suit worth pursuing.
In any case, the bill is supposed to fall 60 votes short in the Senate. Are you frickin' kidding me?? There are a bunch of lame ducks in the Senate. If they can't take a stand for women and do something right now, when can we ever expect such a thing? And this would be a great boost to the economy that wouldn't cost the government a cent. Yeah, actually pay women what they're worth so they can go and buy stuff. What we really need for the economy to improve is for wages to increase and we're half the fricking country. It's a no-brainer guys. Even Republican women will love you for it. You don't get better political cover than this.
So, what gives? Why is the concept of Paycheck Fairness, getting paid the same wages for the same work, regardless of your gender, meeting so much resistance in the 21st century? If there was only one regulation worth passing on business this session, this bill would be it.
And we hear- nothing.
Filed under: Gender Equity | Tagged: gender, Lilly Ledbetter, NOW, paycheck fairness bill, Senate |


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The illness suspected of killing several dozen children in Cambodia is no stranger to the region, according to the CDC.
Some 40,000 cases of hand, foot, and mouth disease caused by enterovirus-71 have been reported since the start of the year in neighboring Vietnam, the CDC reported on its website, and other countries have been affected in recent years.
In fact, large outbreaks "occur frequently in some countries in Asia," the agency said in an advice to travellers that was released May 25. Affected countries have included China, Japan, Singapore, and Australia, as well as Vietnam.
But the question that is currently preoccupying investigators is why the disease appears to be so severe in the relatively small outbreak in Cambodia, a CDC spokesman told MedPage Today.
According to the World Health Organization, the outbreak killed 52 of 59 affected children, but Phnom Penh pediatrician Beat Richner, MD, who first called attention to the outbreak, reported 66 cases, with just two survivors.
Either way, the case fatality rate is markedly higher than health officials have seen in Vietnam, where just 20 deaths in 10 provinces have been reported.
Hand, foot, and mouth disease associated with enterovirus-71 can be mild, but a rapidly fatal syndrome of brainstem encephalitis combined with neurogenic pulmonary edema was identified in 1999.
That seems to match Richner's description of the symptoms seen in his Kantha Bopha children's hospitals: encephalitis followed by "total destruction" of the alveoli, which is the main cause of death.
But in most outbreaks that fatal syndrome has been relatively rare. The CDC spokesman said the agency is working with Cambodian officials and the WHO both to pin down the cause of the deaths and to investigate why so many are fatal.
Although samples were not taken from all of the affected children, the WHO reported that a "significant proportion" of available samples tested positive for enterovirus-71
The Cambodian cases began showing up in April at the Kantha Bopha hospital in Phnom Penh, a regional pediatric center, with what the WHO called a "common syndrome of fever, respiratory and neurological signs."
They ranged in age from 3 months to 11 years, but most were younger than 3 years old.
Hand, foot, and mouth disease is contagious, although it usually leads to mild, self-limiting disease with few complications. Common symptoms include fever, sores in the mouth, and a rash with blisters on hands, feet, and buttocks.
It is usually a result of infection with coxsackievirus A16, but enterovirus-71 can also cause the illness.
Indeed, earlier this year, the CDC reported 63 cases of the disease caused by coxsackievirus A16 in four U.S. states.
There is currently no vaccine or medicine to prevent hand, foot, and mouth disease, but the CDC advises that good personal hygiene can be protective, including frequent hand-washing before meals and after using the toilet.


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Civil rights victory: DADT smacked down by judge in Maj. Margaret Witt case – National liberal | Examiner.comPosted: September 25th, 2010 | Author: Kink On Tap Editorial Staff | Filed under: Briefs | Tags: 60, dadt, glbt, homophobia, law, military, politics | Comments Off on Civil rights victory: DADT smacked down by judge in Maj. Margaret Witt case – National liberal | Examiner.com
A second legislative victory for gay rights was won as America's homophobic Don't Ask, Don't Tell law was again ruled unconstitutional. Despite the law's name, even if you're never asked and you never tell you can still lose your career in the military. That's what happened to Maj. Margaret Witt in 2006, whose case formed a legal precedent around DADT when Judge Ronald Leighton found her discharge legally binding. On Friday, however, "Judge Ronald Leighton ruled in favor of military nurse Maj. Margaret Witt, and said that she was constitutionally entitled to be reinstated to the military," Jean Williams reports.
"It has been an anti-noble lie that gays and lesbians are a threat to military morale," Williams writes, noting Leighton "looked into the case and focused on Maj. Witt's individual record" instead of looking only at DADT myopically. Leighton's decision expressly opposes claims that gay service-members reduce unit morale or cohesion.


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HONOLULU, Hawaii – President Barack Obama has signed a bill that boosts taxes on the wealthiest Americans, while preserving tax cuts for most American households.
The bill, which averts a looming fiscal cliff that had threatened to plunge the nation back into recession, also extends expiring jobless benefits, prevents cuts in Medicare reimbursements to doctors and delays for two months billions of dollars in across-the-board spending cuts in defence and domestic programs.
The Republican-run House approved the measure by a 257-167 vote late Tuesday, nearly 24 hours after the Democratic-led Senate passed it 89-8.
Obama, who is vacationing in Hawaii, signed the bill using an autopen, a mechanical device that copies his signature.


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This butterfly is 11" wide. I cut the wings from 1/8" baltic birch ply. The body is 1/2" dowel rod sanded to shape. The wings are inserted into small dados drilled into the body. Drill the wing dados at an angle so the wings are in the proper orientation.
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by Gary Stepp
Junior guard Cody Stumbo pumped in 21 points while sophomore forward Tyler Rogers had the defensive stop of the night to spark Alice Lloyd to a 75-70 victory over conference foe Cincinnati Christian University. The game was the first on the Eagles' 2014 schedule.
The first half was tight throughout as neither club could get any separation from the other. ALC led by 5 with seconds remaining before CCU guard DJ McCommons drilled a three-point bomb at the buzzer. Still, the hosts took a 38-36 lead into the locker room.
The second half remained close as both clubs battled hard. An Eagle highlight occurred with 14:20 remaining. Leading 44-40, guard Tyler Brewer leaped to save a pass from going out of bounds on a fast break and threw it towards the rim. Rogers, trailing the play, soared in and threw down an empathic lob dunk to bring the crowd to its feet.
Alice Lloyd used this play to go on a 14-7 run, and they took a double-digit lead (58-47) with 8:20 on the clock after a three from Stumbo.
McCommons, however, sparked the visitors, by pouring in 21 second half points. CCU chipped away and reduced the deficit to two with 15 ticks remaining (72-70).
Forced to foul, Cincinnati put Eagle guard Isaac Wilson on the free throw line. The reliable Wilson uncharacteristically saw his first shot rim out, but he swished the second to give the hosts a three-point cushion at 73-70.
After a timeout, the Eagles did not allow McCommons to get the ball back, but CCU found Mitch McLeish, who had sunk two second half trifectas, in the corner with 7 seconds on the clock. As McLeish rose to shoot the potential game-tying shot, Rogers used perfect timing to block the attempt. He then caught the ball and quickly tossed it to the other end to the lightning fast Wilson, who raced in for the game clinching lay-in.
For the victors (7-5; 2-1 KIAC) Stumbo led the way with 21 points. Rogers added 19 points, 8 blocks, and 7 rebounds on the night, while Wilson chipped in 12 points and dished out 4 assists. Senior guard Stuart Stamper hauled down a team high 8 boards.
For CCU (10-5; 2-1 KIAC) McCommons led all scorers with 26 points.
The Eagles play their next game at Union College on Wednesday, January 8th. Tip time is set for 7 PM.


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It seems ungenerous to say anything unkind about Fast Food Nation (Fox Searchlight Pictures), Richard Linklater's fictionalized version of the Eric Schlosser best seller about the junk-food industry. Linklater is an inspiring figure in the film industry: Without ever leaving behind his Austin, Texas, roots (or Austin itself), he's spent the last 15 years quietly and cheerfully churning out what has now become an impressively varied body of work. You never know what he'll do next, or whether it'll work, but you know that it'll be undertaken with passion and care. His animated adaptation of Philip K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly was, to my mind, the most successful translation yet of Dick's work to the screen.
So, it's too bad that Fast Food Nation never really brings together its two reasons for existing: to make us think, in nauseating detail, about the food we eat, and to tell the stories of some of the people who make it, market it, and sell it. Maybe it's that Schlosser, who co-wrote the script with Linklater, is a better muckraker than he is a storyteller. Schlosser's book is a terrific read, but it's episodic in nature, with one chapter set on the killing floors of a slaughterhouse, the next in the flavor labs where chemists fine-tune the smell and taste of french fries and milkshakes. Trying to turn all this reporting into a coherent two-hour-long feature film is like using the ground meat from dozens of cows to produce a single burger (one of the many dangerous industry practices Schlosser assails in the book).
The film's closest thing to a protagonist is Don Anderson (Greg Kinnear), a marketing executive for a fast-food chain that goes by the barely lawsuit-proof name of Mickey's. He's summoned by his boss to be told that the E. coli counts of the new Mickey's Big One burger have been reading off the charts. Or, to put it more bluntly, "There's shit in the meat." So, Don heads to Colorado to investigate the Mickey's meat-processing plant. In another story, a singularly attractive group of illegal immigrants (they include Maria Full of Grace's Catalina Sandino Moreno and That '70s Show's Wilmer Valderrama) cross the border with a coyote (Luis Guzmán) who promises them jobs in that same plant.
On the retail end of the Mickey's machine is Amber (Ashley Johnson), a teenager in Cody, Colo., who works at a Mickey's outlet for extra cash. There, she's mooned over by a fellow burger-flipper (Paul Dano, riffing on the sullen rebel he played in Little Miss Sunshine) and regarded as managerial material by her boss (Esai Morales). At home, Amber's single mother (Patricia Arquette) and lefty uncle (Ethan Hawke, clearly standing in for Linklater and Schlosser as the movie's voice of reason) debate the merits of her job: Is she learning responsibility and good work habits, or just peddling poison in Nowheresville?
Fast Food Nation is full of incident but devoid of momentum. Amber joins an environmental group at her school and stages an ill-conceived protest at the processing plant. One of the immigrants, Coco (Ana Claudia Talancón) starts an affair with a gringo floor manager at the plant (Bobby Cannavale). Good actors drift in and out in small parts: Kris Kristofferson as an old-school cattle rancher, Bruce Willis as a sleazy industry middleman. Cows are herded up, shot, skinned, and sorted, for real, in stomach-churning footage from the killing floor. (That disclaimer about no animals being harmed won't apply to this movie—but, then again, the cows Linklater is filming were going to die anyway.)
Linklater may be trying for an Altman-esque atmosphere of loose, overlapping ministories (a structure he used beautifully in his still-fresh 1991 debut, Slacker), but the effect here is more like John Sayles. This is well-crafted, laudable, socially engaged filmmaking that limps to the finish line in lead boots. Virtually every story line can be reduced to a didactic argument: In order to keep their jobs, fast-food executives are encouraged to turn a blind eye to health and safety issues. Meat plants hire lawyers to prevent workers from collecting on personal-injury claims. All of these facts are alarming, depressing, and indisputably true, and if you rush out of the theater energized to do something about them, then perhaps the movie has done its job. (The movie's credits end with a URL address you can visit.) But even if you swear off burgers forever, it won't make Fast Food Nation's characters come to life.
To watch Candy (THINKFilm), the Australian junkies-in-love film starring Heath Ledger and Abbie Cornish, is to find yourself immersed, however unwillingly, in your own private celebrity gossip blog. How much of a role did Cornish (a cotton-candy blonde with a disarmingly childlike demeanor) play in the Reese Witherspoon-Ryan Phillippe breakup? Was it tough for Ledger to film the scenes in which awful things happen to the pregnant Cornish, given that his own wife, Michelle Williams, was expecting their daughter (Matilda, don't you know?) at the time of filming? It feels unseemly to be pondering these questions as you watch Ledger and Cornish spiraling down the black hole of heroin addiction, but is it the viewer's fault they're attractive public figures with happening sex lives?
Candy is a grim little fable of folie à deux, impeccably acted—especially by the ever more impressive Ledger. But the movie's three chapters (titled Heaven, Earth, and Hell) trace a trajectory that's too familiar to move us as it wants to. Whether in Sid and Nancy, Rush, or Requiem for a Dream, it's not the first time we've watched beautiful young people throw their lives away (while somehow remaining young and beautiful, only with less makeup). Geoffrey Rush is fine as a gay drug dealer who serves as an enabling Santa Claus to the doomed couple. But in the end, Candy is a little too sweet and not quite harmful enough to the audience's health. I'd like to add a warning that no pregnant woman should watch this movie. It contains one image that no one with a baby in her tummy will ever forget, however much she might like to.


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This tutorial is seventh in the series focusing on sewing pants for children. Here's the story behind the series, the second part of the series is reversible pants, the third part of the series is rumble-tumble coveralls, part 4 is two color pieced pants part 5 is silly frilly ruffle pants and part 6 is skirt leggings.
Here's how you make one for your bug.
I made these with:
1. 1/2 yd of main fabric
2. Quarter yard each of two coordinating fabrics.
But I recommend using:
3/4 yd of main fabric
a quarter yard of a coordinating fabric for waist ties and leg cuffs
Elastic – 15 inches 1 inch wide elastic for waist
Elastic – 20 inches 1/4 inch wide elastic for legs
I recommend using slightly heavier fabrics like baby corduroy, linen or heavier cotton for these pants, but not something too heavy like denim. For the coordinating fabric also its better to use a fabric on the heavier side. I didn't have any coordinating fabric of the right weight so I had to interface the pink fabric to use it as a waistband.
Cut pants using your favorite pattern along with the following modifications: Here's the one I used.( page 1 and page 2 )
Cut them 1.5 inches wider on each side of each leg. This would add 1.5X4 = 6 inches to their width. We need this because this pattern is for pants that are roomier than regular pants.
If your pattern has fabric for the waistband built into it, cut the pant 1.5 to 2 inches lower than what the pattern calls for. This is because we will make the waistband separately here.
You don't need the length for hemming either, If your pattern has the hemming margins built into it, cut it up half an inch because we will sew in a single sided bias tape at the hems.
Ok so you have cut the pants, now sew them like you would sew a PJ. First the inseams on both legs, then turn one leg right side out, insert into the other leg, line up the crotch part and sew the seam along the crotch area. Don not hem or make a waistband. ( If you want a detailed tutorial to see this basic pants pattern)
Now two inches from the center seam, mark three gradual marks of 1.5 inches in both directions. Use these marks to sew three pleats. Make sure that pleats on both sides are facing each other.
Now sew a seam along the rest of the waistline with the longest stitch on your machine, pull the bobbin thread gently to slightly gather the rest of the waistline. Don't fill in too many gathers, though, the pants have to climb up your little one's bottom, so make sure you leave enough room at the waistline for that, we will anyway use elastic in the waistband to get a snug fit.
Now let's work on the waistband, cut a fabric 6 inches wide and 6.5 inches long. Now measure the waist of the pants and subtract 5 inches, let's call this length W. Cut another fabric 6.5 inches long and W inches wide. This is where I ran out of main fabric and had to use the pink peace fabric…moreover since this fabric wasn't right weight, I had to use interfacing to make it stiffer. But since you're smarter than me…you would start with more fabric and cut the longer waistband piece from the main fabric.
Make the waist ties by cutting two strips of 2.5 inches ( length) X 42 inches ( width). Fold each strip in half ( right sides together) and sew along the longer sides. Snip the corners and turn out.
Sew the waist ties on both sides of the 6×6.5 inches piece that we had cut in step
Sew these ties about 1 inch from the bottom of 6.5 inches long sides. Now sew together the other W inches wide fabric and 6 inches wide fabric with right sides together, such that the waist ties get sandwiched between the two fabrics. The pic shows how it will look once you are done. I have just folded the waistband fabrics in half.
Now place the smaller waistband piece ( the 6 inches wide one) over the right pleats of the pants ( right sides together) leave about 1 inch from the starting point and sew along the waistline. Stop about an inch before you complete the circle.
Estimate how much waistband fabric you will need to finish the waist. Sew a seam to join the smaller piece of waistband to the bigger waistband piece. Make sure the waist tie gets sandwiched between the two. Snip off any excess fabric. Now finish the seam along the waistline. Turn out.
Here's how the waistband will look after you turn it out.
Now turn the waistband down again. Fold the raw edge quarter inch inside and sew a basting stitch along the edge.
Fold the waistband inside such that it falls right over the seam joining waistband to the pants. Sew a seam along the waistband from the outside leaving a gap of 1 inch near the small waistband piece. Make sure you're catching the other edge of the waistband on the inside. Use pins or hand baste if needed.
The above pic shows a gap on the right side of smaller waistband piece. You have to do the same on the other side of this 6-inch piece.
Insert elastic in the longer waistband piece using these gaps. Sew zigzag stitch on both sides to secure the elastic.
For the hems, cut 2 inch long and strips with a width equal to the hemline of both legs + 2 inches.
Fold these strips in half along the length and iron. Fold both edges in half again ( turned towards the inside) and iron. The strips should look like a bias tape now.
Sew the strip right side to the wrong side of the hem. Try to sew on the first quarter mark of this tape.
Turn out. Fold the quarter mark along the top edge and sew on the top edge, as close to the edge as possible. Leave a gap of half an inch to insert elastic.
Insert an elastic using the opening. Pull it such that the leg opening becomes snug but doesn't dig into your little one's ankles. Sew both ends of elastic by overlapping on each other and slip them back into the leg cuff. Sew the opening shut.
Repeat step 15 -18 for both legs
Though you could always tie the waist ties into a bow. I highly recommend trying the pants on your child and tying the bow and sewing it permanently ( or semi-permanently). With an energetic toddler, the waist ties may come undone very quickly and a child running around with long ties is no fun.
You could always pick out the sewing and adjust them back when the child's waist grows.
Here's the view from the back
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I've been blogging here at ednbrg since the dark, distant days of May 2008 and it's proven to be my most successful attempt in nearly seven years of trying. There could be any number of reasons, but the two biggest ones are easily the support of the community of cocktail bloggers around the world and the fact that I've finally found a subject that I genuinely enjoy focusing on.
With that in mind, I think it's time to step things up. I'm going to keep posting recipes and reviews and anything vaguely mixological that catches my eye , but I'm moving the operation over to its own shiny new domain:Everything that was – and will remain – here is there. Please update your bookmarks and RSS feeds. Feedback is welcome via email and comments.
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Want to bring your business with you wherever you go? Inner Fence's new Credit Card Terminal accepts payments directly from your iPhone. According to the company's web page, the system offers just enough features so you don't have to drag a lot of equipment around with you, which makes it attractive for off-site use. Inner Fence suggests using it at Antique Shows, Art Festivals, and Farmers Markets, among other venues.
I think that's a pretty rocking cool idea, but this is not for the casual user. Using Credit Card Terminal takes a lot of planning before you can go out and get started. You'll first need to set up an account with Authorize.Net, a firm that handles the actual credit card processing.
I gave John Haycock, of Authorize.Net, a call to see how this all would work. He explained that iPhone users need to establish two accounts: a gateway account and a merchant account. The gateway account is responsible for authorizing cards in order to permit the transaction to go through. The merchant account allows funds to be deposited to a bank, providing the actual payments. You have to set these up before you can go forward.
As for the moolah involved, an Inner Fence page lays out your costs. First, you'll pay a $99.00 set-up fee. Then, a $27.90 monthly fee covers both your merchant and gateway accounts. You then pay a flat $0.35 fee for each transaction, which goes to Authorize.Net. Beyond that, the credit card company gets its percentage, which ranges between 2.19 to 3.3 percent, depending on the kind of credit card in use. This varies by whether you're using a rewards card, a sky miles card, or so forth; the page lays out the surcharges.
After that, you need to buy the program itself. Credit Card Terminal (iTunes) costs $49.99. As you can see, going high-tech sales with your iPhone isn't for the casual user; don't expect the guy sitting on the corner selling roses to whip out an iPhone to accept credit card purchases. And, since Ars didn't get to actually test out the program, there's no guarantee that transactions won't end with the White Apple of Doom™. Caveat venditor.


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Happy Chinese New Year of the Wood Sheep, dear readers! The Chinese new Year started on February 19, 2015. The auspicious New Year celebration period lasts for 15 days.
As we say in Hong Kong, Gong Hei Phat Choi! (Cantonese for Happy New Year!)
Or in Mandarin: Xīn nián kuàilè (meaning, New Year happiness)
Listen to my very special Chinese New Year interview, packed with lots of fun, useful, and interesting information. In this show, Melodi, the host of the Cat's Eye on the Future, and I discuss: the Chinese New Year of the Wood Sheep and its meaning; the secrets of the Chinese Zodiac and different Chinese zodiac animal affinities; how to celebrate your Chinese New Year auspiciously, what to wear and how to set your table; the red envelope tradition and what to give as gifts; how to energize your home and how to welcome spring.
We also talk about various schools of feng shui and my feng shui practice. For desert, we compare the character of the previous Year of the Wood Horse, with the different energy this new year brings. My Feng Shui Predictions for this year of the Wood Sheep wrap up this very informative and entertaining show, together with some spiritual and personal development advice.
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In the turbulent world of the 21st century, UWC's aims and objectives are as relevant today as they were in 1962 – perhaps even more so.
UWC was founded in 1962 when Atlantic College in south Wales, UK admitted its first students. At a time when the Cold War was at its height, the aim was to bring together young people from different nations to act as champions of peace through an education based on shared learning, collaboration and understanding.
UWC's educational concept was based on the ideas of German educationalist Kurt Hahn, one of the founding fathers of the UWC movement. Hahn believed that school should be a preparation for life, not just for university, and that education should help students to develop resilience and the ability to experience failure as well as success.
The founding of the UWC movement in 1962 was the culmination of Hahn's thinking about education. Hahn was a pioneer in education, some of his earlier initiatives having included Salem School in Germany and Outward Bound. Then, in 1958, while attending a conference at the NATO Staff College, he was inspired by the cooperation he witnessed between former adversaries from World War II. He thought that if we could educate young people from around the world together, we could prevent future conflicts. From this belief in the power of education to change the world, the UWC movement was born, with a mission to make education a force to unite people, nations and cultures for peace and a sustainable future.
Since then UWC has been firmly committed to providing students with a challenging and transformational educational experience to inspire them to become agents of positive change and to create a more peaceful and sustainable future.


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This is the tale of a little Dragon who has a big problem; he cannot control his fire! After a major mishap, he runs away into the forest and has a wonderful adventure where he meets new friends, learns that every creature has a unique gift. He also finds out the special way in which he can use his own remarkable gift of fire. His forest friends help him understand that he really is a very special dragon indeed!
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Shelley asked, looking at Happy expectantly.
Shelley The Turtle said,"Let me ask you something son, when you practice your fire burning skills-what do you tell yourself?"
"Tell myself? What do you mean?" asked Happy not understanding what his new friend was getting at.
Shelley answered, "Well, maybe I should ask instead, how do you feel when you practice holding in your flame?
"Oh that! I feel scared, so scared that I will fail and burn everything up!" Happy answered sadly.
"Well now, I have a suggestion for you. Try feeling like you will not burn everything up. Instead tell yourself you will succeed in keeping your fire to yourself!" Shelley told him.
"But I am so scared. I really don't think I can tell myself that I won't burn everything up when I know I will!"
Happy argued in a worried little voice.
Shelley looked at Happy's very unhappy face and said,"I have news for you Happy, and I want you to listen to me now!"
Then Shelley continued to explain.
"Dragons aren't the only ones who have special gifts, Happy, no, no! All of the animals were given a special gift of one kind or another. All of us had to learn how to use it wisely, just like you. You sort of have to grow into your gift, like growing up! That's why the animals need a teacher.
Can you guess what my special gift is?" Shelley asked, expectantly.
Happy didn't know the answer so he shook his head and just kept quiet.
"Why Happy, I am a teacher!" Shelley said proudly.
Carolyn Wolfe is a freelance writer, poet, and author of six books including her collection of poetry, short stories and bedtime stories for children. In this, her sixth book, "The Unhappy Little Dragon, Lessons Learned" she reveals the journey of Happy, The Unhappy Little Dragon, who, while trying to understand how to master his uncontrollable gift of fire, has an exciting adventure in the woods. His forest friends help him understand his gift and that he really is a very special dragon indeed! Ms. Wolfe lives in the Shenandoah Valley with her Photographer, husband Scott, and her houseful of animal companions.
You can visit her website at When the Moon Speaks.
Look for our interview with Carolyn, coming soon!


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Once, I supported Common Core.
Now, I do not.
Read on to understand why.
Everything you need to know about Common Core — Ravitch
Diane Ravitch, the education historian who has become the leader of the movement against corporate-influenced school reform, gave this speech to the Modern Language Association on Jan. 11 about the past, present and future of the Common Core State Standards.
Here's her speech:
As an organization of teachers and scholars devoted to the study of language and literature, MLA should be deeply involved in the debate about the Common Core standards.
The Common Core standards were developed in 2009 and released in 2010. Within a matter of months, they had been endorsed by 45 states and the District of Columbia. At present, publishers are aligning their materials with the Common Core, technology companies are creating software and curriculum aligned with the Common Core, and two federally-funded consortia have created online tests of the Common Core.
What are the Common Core standards? Who produced them? Why are they controversial? How did their adoption happen so quickly?
As scholars of the humanities, you are well aware that every historical event is subject to interpretation. There are different ways to answer the questions I just posed. Originally, this session was designed to be a discussion between me and David Coleman, who is generally acknowledged as the architect of the Common Core standards. Some months ago, we both agreed on the date and format. But Mr. Coleman, now president of the College Board, discovered that he had a conflicting meeting and could not be here.
So, unfortunately, you will hear only my narrative, not his, which would be quite different. I have no doubt that you will have no difficulty getting access to his version of the narrative, which is the same as Secretary Arne Duncan's.
He would tell you that the standards were created by the states, that they were widely and quickly embraced because so many educators wanted common standards for teaching language, literature, and mathematics. But he would not be able to explain why so many educators and parents are now opposed to the standards and are reacting angrily to the testing that accompanies them.
I will try to do that.
I will begin by setting the context for the development of the standards.
They arrive at a time when American public education and its teachers are under attack. Never have public schools been as subject to upheaval, assault, and chaos as they are today. Unlike modern corporations, which extol creative disruption, schools need stability, not constant turnover and change. Yet for the past dozen years, ill-advised federal and state policies have rained down on students, teachers, principals, and schools.
George W. Bush's No Child Left Behind and Barack Obama's Race to the Top have combined to impose a punitive regime of standardized testing on the schools. NCLB was passed by Congress in 2001 and signed into law in 2002. NCLB law required schools to test every child in grades 3-8 every year; by 2014, said the law, every child must be "proficient" or schools would face escalating sanctions. The ultimate sanction for failure to raise test scores was firing the staff and closing the school.
Because the stakes were so high, NCLB encouraged teachers to teach to the test. In many schools, the curriculum was narrowed; the only subjects that mattered were reading and mathematics. What was not tested—the arts, history, civics, literature, geography, science, physical education—didn't count. Some states, like New York, gamed the system by dropping the passing mark each year, giving the impression that its students were making phenomenal progress when they were not. Some districts, like Atlanta, El Paso, and the District of Columbia, were caught up in cheating scandals. In response to this relentless pressure, test scores rose, but not as much as they had before the adoption of NCLB.
Then along came the Obama administration, with its signature program called Race to the Top. In response to the economic crisis of 2008, Congress gave the U.S. Department of Education $5 billion to promote "reform." Secretary Duncan launched a competition for states called "Race to the Top." If states wanted any part of that money, they had to agree to certain conditions. They had to agree to evaluate teachers to a significant degree by the rise or fall of their students' test scores; they had to agree to increase the number of privately managed charter schools; they had to agree to adopt "college and career ready standards," which were understood to be the not-yet-finished Common Core standards; they had to agree to "turnaround" low-performing schools by such tactics as firing the principal and part or all of the school staff; and they had to agree to collect unprecedented amounts of personally identifiable information about every student and store it in a data warehouse. It became an article of faith in Washington and in state capitols, with the help of propagandistic films like "Waiting for Superman," that if students had low scores, it must be the fault of bad teachers. Poverty, we heard again and again from people like Bill Gates, Joel Klein, and Michelle Rhee, was just an excuse for bad teachers, who should be fired without delay or due process.
These two federal programs, which both rely heavily on standardized testing, has produced a massive demoralization of educators; an unprecedented exodus of experienced educators, who were replaced in many districts by young, inexperienced, low-wage teachers; the closure of many public schools, especially in poor and minority districts; the opening of thousands of privately managed charters; an increase in low-quality for-profit charter schools and low-quality online charter schools; a widespread attack on teachers' due process rights and collective bargaining rights; the near-collapse of public education in urban districts like Detroit and Philadelphia, as public schools are replaced by privately managed charter schools; a burgeoning educational-industrial complex of testing corporations, charter chains, and technology companies that view public education as an emerging market. Hedge funds, entrepreneurs, and real estate investment corporations invest enthusiastically in this emerging market, encouraged by federal tax credits, lavish fees, and the prospect of huge profits from taxpayer dollars. Celebrities, tennis stars, basketball stars, and football stars are opening their own name-brand schools with public dollars, even though they know nothing about education.
No other nation in the world has inflicted so many changes or imposed so many mandates on its teachers and public schools as we have in the past dozen years. No other nation tests every student every year as we do. Our students are the most over-tested in the world. No other nation—at least no high-performing nation—judges the quality of teachers by the test scores of their students. Most researchers agree that this methodology is fundamentally flawed, that it is inaccurate, unreliable, and unstable, that the highest ratings will go to teachers with the most affluent students and the lowest ratings will go to teachers of English learners, teachers of students with disabilities, and teachers in high-poverty schools. Nonetheless, the U.S. Department of Education wants every state and every district to do it. Because of these federal programs, our schools have become obsessed with standardized testing, and have turned over to the testing corporations the responsibility for rating, ranking, and labeling our students, our teachers, and our schools.
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Are You Tone Deaf?
Researcher Jake Mandell has created an online test which measures pitch perception as well as musical memory. The test plays two brief passages of very similar music back-to-back, and you press a button to indicate whether you think the tunes are the same or different. (Often the differences are subtle -- maddeningly subtle.) At the end of the test you can fill out an optional survey about race, sex, and age; data is collected anonymously and periodically analyzed.
The test is hard -- my professional musician friend got a 66%. You can take the test here, or read analysis of over 100,000 test results. Also interesting: Wikipedia on tone deafness. So: how'd you do?


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NEW YORK -- Add another name to Bernard Hopkins' list of victims.
Hopkins became the oldest boxer to win a major title on Saturday night, scoring a 12-round unanimous decision over Tavoris Cloud to claim the IBF light heavyweight championship.
"It feels good. It feels real good," Hopkins said. "I'm going to Junior's (Restaurant and) I'm going to have cheesecake."
The 48-year-old Hopkins broke the record he set by beating Jean Pascal for the WBC light heavyweight title on May 21, 2011. When asked which fight meant more, Hopkins said "tonight was better. Because I'm older. (It's) more gratifying.
"Tonight was one of the bigger fights (in my career)."
And while he reveled in what he accomplished, he was looking toward the future. Hopkins, who was adamant that he will not fight past 50, laid a challenge at the feet of the 175-pound and 168-pound divisions.
"I'm motivated to do it," Hopkins said. "I don't believe anybody in the 175(-pound) weight class and possibly the 168(-pound) class can beat me."
Hopkins, fighting his 19th title bout, improved to 53-6-2 in the main event of an eight-fight card at the Barclays Center. The 30-year-old Cloud fell to 19-1.
"It was great to break (in) the Barclays Center with a (legendary) performance," Hopkins said.
With Hopkins forcing a patient, technical match, Cloud was unable to press the issue and Hopkins circled him, landing jabs to his face, eventually opening a cut above his left eye.
"I have to throw a lot of substance (into fights). I'm fighting old school in a new world. (I) have to learn to adapt to what (the judges) are looking for," Hopkins said. "We knew a 30-year-old guy was not going to run from a 48-year-old guy."
Hopkins connected on 169 of 417 punches. Cloud landed 139 of 650.
"I was only average tonight," Cloud said. "He hit me with an elbow but I'm not complaining. It is what it is."
Keith Thurman won the WBO intercontinental welterweight title with a 12-round, unanimous decision over Jan Zaveck. Thurman improved to 20-0 and Zaveck fell to 32-3.
Thurman and Paulie Malignaggi engaged in a shouting match after Thurman challenged the WBA welterweight champion to a title fight during the post-fight news conference.
"(There is a) lot of action in the welterweight division," Thurman said before focusing on Malignaggi, sitting in the back of the room. "You better not duck me, son."
Malignaggi fired back, saying "Bring that money. It's prize fighting, dummy. I'm ducking you because you don't bring (any) money."
Michael Perez (18-1-2) and Lonnie Smith (14-4-3) fought to a majority draw in the first bout on the main card. The bout was called midway through the seventh round after Perez absorbed what was ruled "an accidental head butt" that led to blood running down both sides of his face.
Judges Julie Lederman and Carlos Ortiz both had the fight 66-66, while Perez led 67-65 on Joe Pasquale's card.
"The guy kept head-butting me from the first round on. In the first round, he nailed me in the left eye. Fourth round, he cut me up here above my right eye. In the sixth, he got me in my temple," Perez said. "To me, it's all about points and not rushing forward. It's about getting in clean shots and getting points. I'm going to take a little break and rest my body and recuperate and the get back in there."
Steve Bujaj (9-0), Claude Staten Jr. (1-0), Frank Galarza (9-0-1), Marcus Browne (3-0) and Eddie Gomez (13-0) won undercard fights. The announced attendance was 12,293.


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Keeping kids safe all summer long
According to the Safe Kids Worldwide organization, each year one in four children 14 years of age and younger will suffer an injury that requires medical attention. The good news is that many of these injuries are preventable by following a few simple tips and learning how to avoid accidents and injuries. Here are some tips to help your family safely enjoy all the fun summer has in store.
Mowing matters
While it may seem like just a common household tool, thousands of children are injured in lawn mower accidents each year, some with severe effects.
• Teach children to never play on or around a lawn mower, even when it is not in use. They should never be permitted to walk along side, in front of or behind a moving mower.
• Children under 6 years of age should be kept inside the home while mowing.
Fire safety simplified
Every hour, approximately 16 children are injured from fires or burns, according to the Safe Kids Worldwide organization. Use these tips to keep your little ones safe around fireworks, grills and other heat sources:
• Teach kids never to play with matches, gasoline, lighter fluid or lighters. Make a habit of placing these items up and away from young children.
• Do not leave children unattended near grills, campfires, fire pits or bonfires. Always have a bucket of water or fire extinguisher nearby when burning fires.
• To ensure a safe celebration, leave fireworks to the professionals.
• If your child is injured by fire or fireworks, immediately take them to a doctor or hospital.
Playground 101
The Centers for Disease Control revealed that emergency departments treat more than 200,000 children ages 14 and younger for playground-related injuries every year. Before you let them play at the park or school playground, be sure they keep these precautions in mind:
• Use appropriate and properly fitting safety equipment when participating in any sport, such as helmets and goggles, which can greatly reduce the risk of head and eye injuries.
• Take your children to playgrounds with shock absorbing surfaces. Choose parks and playgrounds that are appropriate for their age. Check for hazards or broken equipment and continuously supervise your children while they are at play.
• Teach children to use playground and sports equipment properly.
• Remind children that pushing, shoving and crowding on the playground can result in accidents and injuries.
Make a safe splash
While playing poolside may be a blast, the Safe Kids Worldwide organization also revealed that drowning is the leading injury-related cause of death for children between 1-4 years of age. Fill your family's summer days with these safe practices around the water:
• Teach children to never go near or in the water without an adult present. Children and adults should never swim alone.
• Give children your undivided attention when they are swimming or near any body of water.
• Always have your children wear a Coast Guard approved, properly fitting life jacket while on a boat, around an open body of water or when participating in water sports.
— Family Features