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Folks in the Anchorage bowl woke Wednesday morning to widespread power outages, trees down, traffic lights out, and closed schools and businesses. An early September winter storm created hurricane force winds. The power at the house was out for about eight hours, and we have a tree down in the yard. Much of Anchorage is in the same boat. Score one for Mother Nature in man's apparent battle for control over nature. Fortunately this power outage came in early September and not the dead of winter, serving as a good consciousness-raising event and needs assessment for future power outages. So this post is both pragmatic and fanciful, covering personal, pragmatic issues related to sudden loss of complexity events and some "what if" questions about the future of digitization. I'm typing this during brownouts and occasional triggers of the generator, which got its first real test last night. We are near a trunk line, with underground power, so our power came back quickly. But close neighbors are not so lucky. Today is woodcutting day, for us and our friends, whether we need the wood or not. So this post may ramble a bit, like my thoughts, between the impacts of events at the larger scale like windstorms and regional blackouts, and personal preparation at the local scale.
As we progress further into descent, we will see more electricity brownouts, blackouts, and other events where there is a sudden failure of complexity, resulting in a shutdown of productivity. This failure of complexity has created a new urban word–"digital snow day." And since our digital snow day in Anchorage coincided this time with termination dust on the mountains, the name is especially fitting. When we lose complexity suddenly, much of modern life stops, as our subsystems are highly connected. When complexity brownouts occur, what systems will be impacted, and what will some of those snow days look like? Does digitization make the failures worse, with a drop to a lower trophic level than would have occurred without digitization?
We used to live in southern Mississippi, in Hurricane Alley. The locals there were resigned to big winds, and were pragmatically proactive about protecting power lines and the house. Many would cut down all the pine trees in the yard, as pine trees were wont to snap off about 20 feet up in a big windstorm. A tree came down in our yard last night next to the house. Trees that stand together are protected from high winds but once you thin or have isolated trees, they are hit with the full impact of a storm and are vulnerable. The Venturi effect also creates vulnerability, as wind is funneled around rigid structures such as buildings that do not sway with the wind. What might have been harmless in a yielding natural system is magnified and made deadly in a man-made system ill adapted to flexibility in the face of the larger scale impacts. Beach groins, dams, and channelization of rivers are similar examples of the dangers of inflexibility. These physical principles have lessons to teach us about the importance of community and flexibility in descent. We recycled the branches into a brush pile at the back of the property. Our command and control neighbors don't like our brush pile, but it keeps biomass on the property and helps to create a complete ecosystem, with homes for voles, ermine, rabbits, and other small consumers.
Alaskans are able; we loaned out both of our come-alongs before 9 am Wednesday morning. One friend with no backup source of heat was already reevaluating her situation for the winter. Another friend called around to find freezer space for her salmon stock. Much of the communication occurred via cell phone and Facebook–those without either cell phone connectivity or internet access were isolated. One acquaintance admitted to driving around in her car so that she could charge her cell phone. Our social reliance on the digital world may be our worst Achilles heel. A friend complains that if she lost her cell phone, she would be in trouble, since she no longer memorizes or writes down phone numbers. As more and more communication shifts to digital means, we hollow out face to face relationships and old ways of doing, such as analog address books, land lines, and snail mail. We don't have to talk to neighbors anymore, talking instead to friends around the globe. If digital communication fails, our local support systems lack history and a basis in habit to support trust and resilience during times of stress.
A nursing friend recently had a digital snow day. And when the digital snow day occurs in intensive care, it is a bad day. The computer systems went down together in the hospital early in the day, stopping all work. Pharmacists couldn't access the drugs, orders couldn't be placed, lab-work couldn't be processed, and notes couldn't be written. Because all the systems were interconnected, they all went down, and the systems couldn't be easily rebooted. Paper alternatives existed, but did not work as there were too many complexities of returning to the old system. Patients did not get any medications, because nurses are now required to scan all medications using a bar code scanner system, and pharmacists use several computerized dispensing and cross-checking systems. Nurses went home in tears, as most of their responsibilities were thwarted. Chaos ensued, and patient care was inadequate. My friend charted on the electronic medical record the next day, when systems resumed function.
Hospitals are one of the worst places for power outages. Intensive care units have red power receptacles that will supply generator power for essential equipment such as ventilators. But what happens to the many other operations of a hospital in a blackout? What happens when your essential people are trapped on an elevator, and patients cannot be transported downstairs for diagnostic tests? Or employees cannot come and go, or wash their hands adequately, or a myriad of other essential tasks in a hospital? It is hard to put complexity in reverse and back down.
Science fiction? No, this is an event happening all over the US, now that we have digitized many aspects of healthcare. The same sort of paralysis could happen in many other digitized forms of modern life. Consider some of the many existing forms of complexity created by reliable electricity and the added complexity of digitization:
- Reliance on electricity for moving resources, people, and wastes in urban settings
- Digitization of communication systems through cable, internet and cellphones–landlines and public telephones are increasingly rare
- Digitization of books and journals, with storage and retrieval issues
- Digitization of photos
- Digitization of journalism as the newspapers switch to the internet
- Digitized commerce through RFID, cash register systems, payroll systems, time clocks, and inventory systems with just-in-time vulnerabilities
- Digitization of money through credit and debit cards, Bitcoin, ATMs
- Digitization of stock markets through securitized assets, exchange traded funds, and other complex derivative trading systems that are only achievable through computerization
- Digitization of clocks, ignition systems for furnaces, and other appliances
- Data storage and retrieval for large internet commerce and financial companies (is the cloud one step too far?)
- Distance delivery education and digital libraries–how many of our university libraries have dropped paper journals and books in their transition to electronic media?
- Digital security and civil defense systems such as municipal safety 911, and warning systems at the personal, municipal, and national levels (who has a windup radio these days?)
- Digital voting systems such as Diebold
- Transportation system coordination (traffic lights, trains, buses, airport traffic control, runway lights and beacons, scheduling, coordination, ticket systems, TSA, and electric power for gas stations)
- Digitization of records such as mortgage deeds (MERS robosigning scandal)
- Digitization of music–in the digital era, you cannot easily share or bequeath your music collection, and if formats change, your collection is subject to instant obsolescence
- Digitization of electricity, especially in security and stability of smart grids
- Digitization of social relationships through reality games such as Second Life, smart phones, Facebook communications, messaging, and other digital relationships
- Global networks (trade, missile defense, satellites)
If there is a human institution in life, we are rapidly creating a simulacrum online. We work, we shop, we love, and we connect online. Digital reality can hollow out our real lives and the real economy, so that digital interruptions create vulnerabilities and gaps. Those connected and vested in a digital second life are part of our information storm, separated from reality and vulnerable to events that decrease complexity.
Vulnerabilities from added levels of complexity
Trophic levels are descriptions of organisms' position in the energy hierarchy through their positions in the food chain. But what people do not realize is that trophic levels extend from natural ecosystems on into human economies, as higher and higher amounts of energy and other resources are transformed to build added complexity. If we consider human economies as complex extensions of the food chain, then electricity and transmitted cultural information yield higher trophic levels that have undergone a series of energy-using transformations that exert top-down control in regulating productivity. Information is one of the most highly embodied forms of energy, and high transformity digital information can be shared over a large territory with global impact. Odum was especially concerned about the long-term storage of information in a digital age. How many of these digitized formats have paper backups that are relatively secure for the long-term in an increasingly chaotic world?
Digitization allows for centralized control and potential manipulation, hacking, and other security issues, as demonstrated in some trading schemes and Diebold voting machines, for example. Information systems that grow and change too fast do not allow the legal system to keep up with inequities and problems. Digitization can be an excuse for planned obsolescence, with the need to buy the same music or book in a different format with little added value. We are sure that more technology and more complexity is always an improvement, but when resource inputs fail, vulnerabilities cascade. Technology requires increasing amounts of energy for every step in added complexity.
Technology is a double-edged sword, with our over-reliance on consistent operation as an Achilles heel. Exploding transformers in a windstorm create fires. Nuclear power plants without power are at risk of meltdown. Online courseware and e-textbooks fail. Infrastructure that expects electric power as a given creates safety hazards when inner rooms of larger buildings become completely dark. Newer university buildings have digital classrooms with lock-down features–what happens to those in an outage? Students said that many doors in their dorms use electronic key readers. They were stuck in their dorms on lock down because they could not come or go easily, with finger foods to eat since the complex electronic ignition gas stoves in the cafeteria did not work either. One wit in my class said that the unintended lockdown was probably a good idea, because, "at least it kept the Zombies out." Tall buildings that are taller than four stories rely on electric power for elevators and plumbing to move people, resources, and wastes up and down. Fixed windows mandate a controlled climate demanding heating and air conditioning. In a world with variable power, we will need to either abandon or rethink these buildings. Our engineers have a blindspot about the reliability of electric power in the future.
What we need are low-tech or down-sizing specialists, who consider and prepare backup systems for some of our high-tech organizations. In my nursing friend's case, that hospital needs a resilience committee to begin decomplexifying their systems. At the very point in our complex economy when we should be making choices to simplify overly complex systems, we are going for broke with one last step into digitization of systems that is difficult to step down from, even on a short-term basis.
I started collecting manual appliances about ten years ago. I try to avoid acquiring things that have an electric plug. Students said that they had cans, but no manual can opener. Friends this morning found that they could not grind their morning coffee, use their cell phones, open their small businesses, get gas for their car, or flush their toilets if they were on wells, at least on a local level. My friend without the coffee rescued her habit when she remembered that she had powdered commercial coffee and a camp stove. But that is a
short-term fix, reliant on storages of imported, commercially prepared foods with a long shelf life from big companies. When outages are patchy geographically or temporally, community can accommodate losses, especially when the community has adequate storages. But when outages are uniformly broad over a geographic space or over long periods of time, trouble arises and behaviors rapidly fall back to a lower trophic level. In the example of the hospital network failure, my friend was able to finish her charting the next day. But in a long-term outage, the system would have to adapt to a lower trophic level of complexity in a hurry. Another example of this was one of the many hurricanes that hit south Florida in 2004. Many gas stations were closed, since gas stations cannot pump gas without electricity. Friends spent all day waiting in a line to get gasoline to run their generator. Our friends found that the time spent in long lines was better spent working on other problems like downed trees, while adapting to lower energy for basic activities of daily living by skipping the gas-hungry generator, instead using their camp stove and outdoor grill to cook, which only sipped fuel. Attempts to support the higher trophic levels of complexity fail over time as we try to sustain complexity when the power wanes.
Monetary digitization is especially vulnerable. It is much easier to trade globally and control the system when your money is digital. In a crisis, printing digital money is easier and faster than devaluing paper money, and switching to a new currency could be seamless and helpful for those in control, but not for affected people who might lose out in conversion of currencies. If we were forced to rely on paper money alone, could we have built the level of complexity in securitized assets, derivatives, and global financial complexity that we now see?
After a while, failure of the internet becomes unthinkable. But we need to think the unthinkable, as the internet is not a permanent, growing, expanding aspect of a future with fewer resources. Ironically, this week, I updated WordPress and an interaction with a plug-in in the update locked me out of the website. I had to cut the complexity by deleting all fancy bell-and-whistle plug-ins, at least temporarily. While not actually degrading information directly, successive iterations of improvement (tape player, 8 track, personal music player, ipod, iphone, beta/vhs, dvd, blu-ray) destroys information by demanding growth and expansion of the system with each improvement, making old information storage defunct and demanding continued investment while companies have mandates for growth, creating a mandate to always innovate, whether the innovation adds any value or not. Are we at the limits of information, when adding value becomes counter-productive?
At this point, iterations of improvement are derivative. Eventually the derivatives are piled on more derivatives so that profits can continue, becoming so far removed from reality that they become unstable and unsupportable by the resources. Complexity of information creates instability and errors. Complexity collects until it reaches the limits of resource availability. Descent will be complicated by the volume and interconnected nature of complexity that needs to be maintained for a large, concentrated population that is heavily reliant on just-in-time processes. Waste products of our complex civilization such as environmental pollution, swings in weather due to climate change, and accumulation of waste, information errors, and decreasing infrastructure and information maintenance will complicate the problems.
Ever increasing complexity cannot be supported in a lower energy world. Where do we draw the line and begin to make choices for a simpler society? The time is now for people to develop less complex backup systems, in response to a message sent by blackouts and disaster preparedness memes. At some point in the future, those simpler backup systems will evolve into the main system, with higher complexity residing in pockets of higher resource availability. As I edit this post on Saturday morning, some people in Anchorage are still without power after four days. I think we got the message here in Anchorage.


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Reams and reams have been written about John Lennon, gentle activist and one-half of the world's most famous, prolific, and successful songwriting team: the half that was brutally slain on December 8th, 1980. Much of John Lennon's continuing eulogies, including a PBS special airing on November 22, 2010, stem from deeply devoted fans, those who keep his music and his memory close to their hearts. I was not one of those fans. And yet, John found a way to touch me.
Before I reveal how he did that, I should clarify why I was not a true fan. When you understand that, you will have a clearer view of how he did touch me — from beyond the grave.
When Ed Sullivan unveiled The Beatles and thus changed the entire face of contemporary music, I was just nine years old. Like every other kid and weeping, fainting adolescent girl, I fell in love with four mop-topped cuties from Liverpool. But the love affair ended with their I Wanna Hold Your Hand phase. A few months after The Beatles burst into living rooms across the U.S., you see, Ed introduced us all to The Rolling Stones.
Sneering, pug-ugly smoking guns with a lead singer embodying the log flume to hell for innocent little Catholic girls like me, the Stones' gritty music was 180 degrees removed from the bright, bouncy tunes of The Beatles. One look at and one listen to Mick and Company and The Beatles were nothing but a fond memory, pleasant little ditties on the radio. Of all the bands to grace Ed Sullivan's stage in that most glorious musical era, The Stones were the quintessential purveyors of bluesy rock. With its roots deep in the blood-soaked cotton fields of America's Deep South, this music spoke to me, a nine-year-old kid, like no other.
As my friends played the latest Beatles' LP backwards to hear the message about Paul's "death" and decipher the group's dress code on the album cover, (inferring his "demise"), I simply shrugged and spun The Stones, Creedence, my older Animals platters, and similar, blues-soaked rockers. When my friends ooh'd and ahh'd over Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, I thought the entire concept — and the music — tres strange as I eased Joplin (Janis, not Scot!) and Led Zeppelin onto my turntable.
John Lennon, however, interested me, before and after the biggest band in the world disbanded. He'd married a distinctly unattractive artist-cum-business mogul, when he could have had any woman in the world. I liked that John saw beyond superficialities, put his money where his mouth was, and embraced Yoko's quirkiness.
John was true to Yoko even though the world at large seemed to despise her, blaming her (unfairly) for the band's breakup and unprecedented outrages such as the couple's nude sit-in in their own bedroom, to which they'd cheerfully invited the press. And then John broke the cardinal rule, the one established by legions of die-hard Beatles fans. He began to make music with Yoko! Paul, George, and Ringo he'd tossed aside, but Yoko became his new partner, and not only in music.
The daughter of a Japanese cattle rancher, she managed the couple's businesses and finances. John, in turn, became the stay-at-home dad "watching the wheels go round and round" as he raised his and Yoko's only child, Sean Lennon. John was watching those wheels not from a castle in the English countryside, but from a New York City apartment overlooking Central Park. And while the British Tax Man that John had immortalized in song was sucking 90% of the income out of its mega-earning musicians, making expatriates out of many, John Lennon could have lived in a mansion in Beverly Hills or a beachfront in The Bahamas. Instead, he chose an apartment in New York City – My City.
He said he'd liked Manhattan for its anonymity, and largely, he was right about that. Those of us born and raised in New York rarely blink when we spy a celebrity, for in the city, there are nearly as many famous people as there are fish in the Hudson River. Most native New Yorkers respect the privacy and personal space of celebrities. But it was more than that that drew John to my city.
I think he must have loved it as I do, as every New Yorker does. I think he loved waking up every morning to look down upon the huge oasis of Central Park, upon Cleopatra's Needle, the lake, the zoo, the skating rink, and the rolling green miles of trees, grass, and trails (see the Park from the sky and you'll understand how truly immense it really is). I think he liked the museums, the Planetarium, the theater, the art galleries, the little clubs and the bigger venues, the restaurants, the street artists and musicians, the thousand dizzying cultures all melding and yet unique, the fact that life teemed and throbbed and never seemed truly quiet on such a tiny island, connected to the rest of the world by a series of bridges and underground tunnels. And I think that, in the midst of this beautiful, cacophonous, rushing city, he found peace. For John was a man of peace.
When news of his murder at the hands of a twisted non-New Yorker broke, I was entrenched in the world of publishing. Editors and editorial assistants, authors, the entire production department, sales and customer service reps, all laboring under terrible deadlines, came to a grinding halt. Women burst into tears while the men were struck speechless. One editorial assistant fled the building and returned later with black armbands.
I was among the few who did not cry; neither did I wear an armband. I wasn't crazy about John's post-I Wanna Hold Your Hand music. It was just okay by me. Perhaps it was too simple and gentle for me, for I was still steeped in hard, bluesy rock and getting my head turned by the angry young man who was Billy Joel and the nerd punk-rock god, Elvis Costello. John Lennon did not need me to mourn him. The world was mourning him and particularly, I think, my city — the city where he had felt so safe, the city that had loved him back.
As a strange, communal quietude hung over the city, its citizens grieved, laying armloads, truckloads of flowers at The Dakota, the building before which John had been gunned down, the building in which he'd lived with his wife and young son. The faces on the subway and the crowded city streets were oddly subdued. Eventually, the city stretched slowly, painfully back to life, like an arthritic too long asleep.
And still, I had not mourned John.
The week after his assassination, I found myself, at 6 AM, in the Port Authority — the old Port Authority. This was the bus terminal where angels feared to tread, as the homeless struggled to find warm alcoves from which they would not be tossed, and muggers preyed gleefully upon commuters … including very young women, like me, sitting all alone on an empty bench at 6 AM on a weekday.
As a production vigilante in the days before desktop publishing, I was scheduled to sit shotgun on a typesetter in Connecticut, just before the book went to press. Peter, my editor on this project, was coming along in case of disaster, but Peter was afraid to fly. Young idiot that I was, I felt bad for him and decided to take the long bus ride up to Connecticut to keep him company. I was an idiot because Peter and I were about as far apart in musical and artistic tastes, preferred cuisines, fashions, and personalities as Earth is from Alpha Centuri. He was quiet to the point of being aloof; I was the Italian-American firecracker who abhorred protracted silences.
Peter was notoriously late, and I was notoriously early: another difference that separated us, another thing about him that ticked me off. On that morning, waiting (once again!) for my editor, I bought a container of orange juice and a copy of Time magazine. There on the cover was John Lennon.
It was just a headshot, or perhaps it was a drawing. I cannot remember now, but I remember John's face on that cover, still. It was John, quintessential John. The gentle, quietly confident musician-singer-songwriter with the ubiquitous round spectacles. The man who'd more than once turned the world on its ear, the man with the kind, knowing eyes whose wry humor telegraphed that nobody was getting one over on him. The man who'd made gentle music and who had rallied for peace, even when half the world had jeered at him for doing so.
Inexplicably, my throat constricted and my eyes swelled. On the cover of Time, John's picture curdled with my salty tears. I knew how utterly stupid it was to be crying all alone in the cavernous, pre-rush hour Port Authority; I knew that it made me a target for the muggers, the homeless, and the just plain crazed. Still, I could not stop crying.
A shadow fell across the magazine and I looked up. There stood Peter, his handsome face changing from sanguine to concerned the minute that he saw me. "What's wrong?" he demanded. "Are you okay?" Silently, I shook my head; the words would not come. Again, he insisted, "What's wrong?!?" In answer, I held up the magazine and said only, "John," in the voice of one who suddenly realizes she has lost something ephemeral and very precious, something irreplaceable.
I watched as Peter's face changed again, to complete understanding. In that moment, I had finally achieved total, soul-level understanding with a man with whom I had worked closely for months, a man who had not previously understood one damned thing about me — and whom I had not understood. John Lennon did that. He made that connection. He leveled the barriers between two hard-nosed, stubborn, diametrically opposed New Yorkers and brought us to a moment of total understanding … and afterwards, a sort of silent truce.
I think that John Lennon did that for many, many other people all around the world. I think that somehow, he is doing that still.


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BrikRacing involves, almost solely, tackling BrikWars as a racing wargame. It's just a large enough difference to warrant some more detailed rules or guidelines on how to expand the vehicle section of the core rules into a larger, more focused ruleset which may present players with more options and customization.
BrikwaRPGs transform the wargame into a roleplaying game. Players typically take on the roles of singular characters (instead of whole armies) and interact with the BrikWars setting (instead of merely smashing it to pieces with their hordes). Most BrikwaRPGs are much the same as the wargame they're based on, with characters being the ones doing all the heroic smashing, but there is a much greater potential for storytelling (batshit crazy type storytelling) in the BrikVerse than players would usually experience (such as with backstories for battles). Furthermore, several BrikWarriors have built their own systems which handle necessary details like character growth and longevity. At some point, it is believed, the best of these systems will merge together and create a new game set in the BrikVerse.
Most commonly seen in the form of "MicroSpace," where mini sized capital starships do furious battle in the depths of outer space, MicroScale BrikBattling can actually represent any scaled down wargames. These may be scaled down to save space on the gaming table or they may be scaled down because the "true" size of the models would be impossible or costly to represent (such as with capital starships or colossal warmachines). Most of the differences here lie in the prefabricated conversion work necessary to run such smaller scale encounters. However, some contributors have created systems designed to generate a more specific play experience using an expanded version of a rules section.


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TORONTO - Victoria-raised pop star Nelly Furtado says she loves playing gigs on New Year's Eve — even if it means having to freeze in icy climes, which will be the case Monday night when she takes the outdoor stage at Niagara Falls, Ont.
"It's fun and you get to be onstage and you get to serenade all the couples that are kissing at midnight. It's a great vantage point," she said in a recent interview, noting she was shopping for a coat that was warm enough for the gig.
Plus, New Year's Eve revellers who brave the cold weather and in a group setting are usually "there to party, they're there to have a good time, so you know what the MO (modus operandi) is, right?" she added with a laugh.
"It's an easier gig that way in terms of meeting expectations, I guess. But no gig is easy, because you've got to bring the party."
Furtado plans to bring the party by singing a mix of new and old tunes from her five albums at "Entertainment Tonight Canada"'s fourth annual "New Year's Eve at Niagara Falls." The two-hour show, hosted by Cheryl Hickey and Matte Babel, starts at 10 p.m. ET/PT on Global.
Other acts on the bill include electro-pop trio Dragonette and Vancouver rockers Hedley, Furtado's fellow Free the Children charity ambassadors.
Hedley lead singer Jacob Hoggard is known for pulling pranks and Furtado is bracing for a surprise of some sort.
"I'm sure his prank will be showing up with, like, no shirt on. Like, Niagara Falls in the freezing, sub-zero temperatures and somehow being able to sing, without a scarf on," she said.
"That's what rock stars do."
Furtado plans to deliver a high-energy set with songs including "Parking Lot" and "Big Hoops (Bigger the Better)" from the recently released "The Spirit Indestructible," her first English-language album in about six years.
"It's always challenging when you're playing for an audience in front of you and you're also playing for an audience at home, watching it on television," said Furtado.
"You have to kind of be engaged in many different ways, and they break it up for commercial breaks, so we're going to be out there for a while and the audience will be freezing along with us. So we'll be unified in spirit, I think."
The event is a far cry from Furtado's most memorable New Year's Eve gig: a spontaneous set at a bar in Victoria just before she got her big break with the 2000 album "Whoa, Nelly!"
"My band that I used to jam with, Velvet, were playing this gig at this club and I kind of dressed up and showed up at the club and bum-rushed the stage and did a little mini improv set. It was really fun," she said.
Furtado's end-of-year celebrations are typically much more low-key these days, though, given that she has a young daughter now.
"My most memorable New Year's Eve was maybe last year, I got together with the whole family and we just had a huge food fest and we popped all these balloons at midnight and it was just about 30, 40 people all crammed into my aunt's house," said the 34-year-old.
Furtado said she hadn't crafted a New Year's resolution for 2013 yet. But if/when she does, she won't be keeping it a secret.
"I believe in making a testimonial-style resolution, where you might be amongst family or friends and you say out loud maybe one thing around the dinner table, maybe at Christmas or something," she said. "Because then you have somebody holding you accountable to your resolution."
Furtado's never played in Niagara Falls before. It's an area she's been fascinated with since she was a child, though.
Growing up on the West Coast, Furtado never got to visit the roaring waters, but she heard about it from her Portuguese relatives who always stopped by the tourist destination during their visits.
"I remember looking at pictures of Niagara Falls as a child, of other family members on vacation, and thinking 'Wow,'" she recalled.
"I was mesmerized by this one photo of my brother and sister in the barrel looking like they were about to tumble over Niagara Falls and I thought it was real, as a child, and I'm thinking, 'Wow, my brother and sister really went down Niagara Falls in a barrel!'"
Furtado kicks off "The Spirit Indestructible" tour in Canada at the beginning of the New Year, starting with Jan. 8 in Victoria.


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Happy New Year from the Choob – and a very Happy Birthday to exiled friend of the Choob, Leanne!
It's only natural for one to reflect – usually the day after one's birthday, with a hangover – on another year gone by and the relentless march of time. Just remember, as a wise man once said (well, two wise men, if you count me repeating it), "It's not the years, honey, it's the mileage!"
Mind you, given that Leanne is working far, far, far away from her beloved Scotland, in Bermuda, I'm not sure what that implies…
Ahem. Anyway, hope you have a great day/night with your tropical island chums and maybe sip a sherry or two. I know you were home over Christmas but hurry back for another visit soon because we miss you (nothing at all to do with the Bermuda rum cake you bring, nope, no siree, not at all, I took a straw poll and missing you got, ooh, several more votes that the rum cake…).
By way of a birthday present to you from me, here are a few classic clips I think you'll like. Happy birthday, with love from the Choob!
First up, since you had Cat singing Tongue Tied last year, here's Rimmer's Munchkin Song – in fact, the whole Rimmer Experience tour – from the fifth episode of Red Dwarf season 7:
But wait! There's more. Here is the (very slightly) extended version of the song, introduced by Kryten:
Now, moving on to the awesome Twin Peaks, don't forget to check out these brilliant Albert scenes and Agent Cooper's Tibetan crimefighting, which I've already spotlighted. But just for you, here's another couple of great scenes from this awesome show.
First of all, the extended opening credits from the pilot episode – with Angelo Badalamenti's beautiful, haunting theme tune, of course – plus the opening scenes of the show that made such an impact on us all back in 1990:
And here's the legendary, backwards-filmed, Cooper's dream scene from episode two:


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The Moretown Select Board invited The Valley's representatives to the state Legislature, Maxine Grad (D-Moretown) and Adam Greshin (I-Warren), to their meeting on Tuesday, February 19, to inquire about state assistance for the town should Moretown Landfill close.
Right now, Moretown Landfill is awaiting a March 8 decision from the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources (ANR) as to whether permits for two of its existing trash cells will be recertified. The ANR issued an "intent to deny" the landfill's recertification in December after a string of on-site environmental violations, but the agency is considering some 200 public comments—as well as the landfill's—before it makes a final decision.
If Moretown Landfill's cells are not recertified, the facility will soon reach capacity and will have to close. When it does, Moretown will lose out on the over $500,000 annually it receives from the landfill in tipping fees and property taxes.
Already, the landfill has reduced its trash intake by 90 percent, and Moretown is beginning to get a sense of its financial impact. This past January, Moretown received about $13,000 in tipping fees from the landfill, where in January of 2012 it had received about $46,000, select board chair Tom Martin explained.
This potential loss of revenue "is significant for us as a town," Martin explained to Grad and Greshin. "The residents are certainly worried about what's going to happen."
Martin then went on to ask the representatives if there is anything the state can do to create a "soft landing" for the town if the landfill closes.
"Maybe not a soft landing, but a gentle crash landing," select board member Clark Amadon later clarified.
"They [the state] would certainly be willing to address this issue," Greshin responded, and Grad added that she believes there are options available, at least in the short term, and that they'll look into them.
Certainly, the town has benefitted from hosting the landfill, "but this is a site that has benefitted a significant part of the state as well," Amadon said, explaining Moretown's request for out-of-town help.
While many of the comments submitted to the ANR during its public comment period come from Moretown residents both in support of and against the landfill's recertification, many comments came from out-of-towners, such as small business owners worried about having to pay more to ship their trash farther if one of the state's two landfills closes.
Moretown Landfill's fate lies in the hands of the state, but ultimately, "We need to be responsible for all of the things we produce and throw away," Amadon said.


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A Sandwich a Day: Las Tortugas Oreja de Elefante Torta in Memphis
A different sandwich profiled every single day.
In this great country of ours, one could eat a different sandwich every day of the year—so that's what we'll do. Here's A Sandwich a Day, our daily look at sandwiches around the country. Got a sandwich we should check out? Let us know. —The Mgmt.
Las Tortugas Deli Mexicana owner Pepe Magallanes hails from Mexico City and is dedicated to providing an authentic version of the torta that bears no resemblance to the offerings of cookie cutter Tex-Mex establishments. The interior walls are full of Pepe's rules and rants, explaining that good food takes time to fix, they buy fresh ingredients every day so that's why the prices are higher than Taco Bell, and then there's a complaint about jury duty and some drawings of Pepe as his superhero alter ego "Viperman".
Most of the menu items are available in either torta or taco form. For the seafood options, I prefer the tacos, but my go-to sandwich is the Oreja de Elefante ($9.95). The "elephant ear" is made from Neola Farms sirloin that's griddled with onions, roasted tomatoes, and poblano peppers. The custom-baked bread is hollowed out, filled with the grilled goodies, and topped with lettuce, slices of avocado, and spongy queso fresco. The last step involves a brief toasting in a sandwich press. On the side, you get a handful of freshly fried tortilla chips and tiny portions of thin but delicious guacamole and salsa.
There are other treats like pork tamales and elote, and you can wash it all down with a variety of aguas frescas (fresh fruit and juices blended with ice).
Las Tortugas Deli Mexicana
1215 South Germantown Road, Germantown, TN 38138 (map); 901-751-1200
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I notice that in madDisAsm.pas there is this line:
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CErrorStr_CodeNotInterceptable : PAnsiChar = 'This code is not interceptable due to it''s design.';
Instead of it's you should write its. "It's" is an contraction of "it is", and "its" is the possessive, that is "belonging to it".
I found this by chance doing a global search for uses of "it's" in my own codebase and it just happens that your madExcept code is included in my codebase.


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BATAVIA – About 800 people will swim, bike and run Sunday in Batavia to raise money for local charities.
The 11th annual ET Batavia Triathlon and Duathlon will be at various locations throughout the city. Last year's event raised $27,500 for the The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Batavia MainStreet, the Batavia Interfaith Food Pantry, Batavia Fireworks Committee and the Batavia Bike Commission.
"We are hoping to exceed that amount this year," race director Joe LoPresto said. "We try to give back to the local community."
The event will start with a 400-meter swim at the outdoor, unheated pool at Quarry Beach Park, followed by a 14.7-mile bike loop and 4.1-mile run along the Fox River.
Participants can compete in one of three races – the triathlon, a duathlon or a triathlon relay. Spectators are encouraged to watch anywhere along the course.
The event will be held rain or shine, except if there are unsafe weather conditions, LoPresto said.
"Right now, the weather is looking very good, with temperatures in the mid- to upper 70s, not too hot, not too cold," he said.
Motorists should expect increased bicycle traffic between 6 and 10 a.m. on both Main and Wilson streets, Route 31 and Randall, Bliss, Seavey and Nelson Lake roads. In addition, they should anticipate increased runner traffic between 9:30 and 10 a.m. on Shumway and Island avenues and at the intersection of Wilson Street and Island Avenue.
There will be a complete road closure on Main Street between Route 31 and Van Nortwick Avenue between 6:30 and 9 a.m. for the safety of bike course participants.
In conjunction with the triathlon and duathlon, there will be a Kids' Dash, a noncompetitive event for children 8 and younger, and the ET Batavia Splash and Dash, a youth event that combines running and swimming. The focus is on participation rather than competition.
In addition, a youth triathlon has been added this year as part of the race.
"We're trying to have something for everybody in the family," LoPresto said. "We try to position it as a family, healthy lifestyle event."
Dr. Brian Babka, part of the Cadence Physician Group who specializes in sports medicine, is participating in Sunday's triathlon. He also participated in the event in 2009.
"I think it is a great way to stay fit," Babka said. "I like the cross-training part of it."
He had a few tips for race participants, including making sure they get a good night's sleep before the race, as well as eating a decent pre-race meal consisting of low fat, complex carbs and good lean protein. Babka also advised participants not to stress out too much.
"We all need to remember that it is supposed to be fun," Babka said.
Know more
Information about Sunday's ET Batavia Triathlon and Duathlon is available at its website, www.bataviatriathlon.org.


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Cookbook cover image courtesy of Random House
Serve with pita toasts or crackers, or smear it on grilled chicken breast or tuna steaks for a main course.
- Yield
- 6 to 8 servings
- 1/2 cup (85 g) stemmed and quartered dried Black Mission figs
- 1 cup (250 ml) water
- 1 cup (170 g) black olives, rinsed and pitted
- 1 garlic clove, peeled
- 2 teaspoons capers, rinsed and drained
- 2 anchovy fillets
- 2 teaspoons whole-grain mustard
- 1 teaspoon finely chopped fresh rosemary or thyme
- 1 1/2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 1/4 cup (60 ml) extra virgin olive oil
- Coarse salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 1. In a small saucepan, simmer the figs in the water with the lid askew for 10 to 20 minutes, until very tender. Drain.
- 2. If using a mortar and pestle, mash the olives with the garlic, capers, anchovies, mustard, and rosemary. (Sometimes I chop the olives first, which means less pounding later.) Pound in the figs. Once they are broken up, stir in the lemon juice and olive oil. Season with salt and pepper.
- 3. If using a food processor, pulse the olives, figs, garlic, capers, anchovies, mustard, rosemary, and lemon juice to create a thick paste. Pulse in the olive oil until you've achieved a chunky-smooth paste. Don't overdo it; good tapenade should be slightly rough. Season with salt and pepper, if necessary.
Nutritional analysis provided by TasteBook, using the USDA Nutrition Database
From The Sweet Life in Paris by David Lebovitz. Copyright (c) 2009 by David Lebovitz. Published by Broadway Books.
David Lebovitz lived in San Francisco for twenty years before moving to Paris. He baked at several notable restaurants before starting his career as a cookbook author and food writer. He's the author of four highly regarded books on desserts, and has written for many major food magazines, sharing his well-tested recipes written with a soupçon of humor. His popular, award-winning blog, <u>www.davidlebovitz.com</u>, entertains readers from around the world with sweet and savory recipes as he tries to unravel the complexities of living in Paris.


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With all the times we've mentioned this cheese over the past year, is our No. 1 bubbly-worthy pick any surprise?
This triple-cream cheese from New York's Nettle Meadow Farm is made from 75 percent goat's milk and 25 percent cow's milk, and the result is 150 percent spectacular. Read more.
Happy new year! May 2011 be the cheesiest year yet.


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For Christmas I thought I would post some of the work I have been doing on this novel. My goal was to have the entire 1st chapter done by today, but I got sick last night so there is about 1/3 left.
Ever since I started translating, this novel has been my ultimate goal and lately I have been feeling that my skills are finally getting good enough to jump into it Hopefully one day I can find someone to take over Longsword Master so I can focus on this full time. Until then I will have to go back and forth.
This novel's title has also been translated as "Twins of Brothers" but that has to be the worst rendition of the title I have ever seen so I changed it.


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Lewis feels stronger in latest rehab outing
Pitcher among several Rangers making progress toward returns
FRISCO -- Colby Lewis could not get through the third inning in his rehab assignment with Double-A Frisco on Wednesday at Dr Pepper Ballpark, but he felt he rebounded well in his first rehab start in nearly two months while recovering from right elbow surgery.
His outing ended when he allowed a two-run homer to the 14th batter he faced on an 82-mph changeup. Lewis allowed four runs on four hits in 2 2/3 innings with a walk and a strikeout. He threw 45 pitches, 27 for strikes, in his fourth rehab start this season. He has not had a rehab start since May 25 with Triple-A Round Rock.
"I was hoping it would feel a lot better, and it definitely does," Lewis said. "It's just a case of I need to go out and continue to get reps and be able to repeat my delivery and repeating what I'm best at -- pounding the ball down in the strike zone on both sides of the plate -- I feel like I'll get that, I'll be where I need to be."
Lewis threw 20 pitches in the first inning facing six batters. He started the outing with a six-pitch walk and let two of the next three batters on with a single and double. Lewis allowed two runs in the first, throwing mostly fastballs at about 87 mph.
He settled down in the second with a six-pitch inning, retiring Double-A San Antonio in order. Lewis allowed a one-out single in the third during his second time through the order. He struck out the next batter looking on an 85-mph fastball before allowing the home run.
"It was a decent outing," Lewis said, "3-2 changeup [on the home run]. I threw some good changes. Overall, I need to get some sharpness back, be able to locate a little bit better. That's going to come with a couple of more starts, and I'll be ready to go."
Lewis had just one swing and miss in the outing. His velocity dipped as the outing progressed, but Lewis felt he still had some arm strength in the third. He said it was easier to get in the inning. Overall, Lewis felt he had more whip than he did May 20 in his last rehab start with Frisco.
"The ball is coming out of my hand a little easier," Lewis said. "It was a lot of effort trying to get the ball to the plate the last time I was here. Hopefully it gets easier each time I go out.
"The first time I tried to do this, it didn't feel as good as it did this time. Chalk it up as trying to get your feet wet and being able to locate pitches. I felt you locate one, and the next time you try to locate it, it's not there. It's just being able to repeat, be able to repeat your delivery and get some quick outs."
Lewis now has a 10.80 ERA in two starts with Frisco in five innings. He expects to work out with the club as Frisco hits the road for the next four days. Lewis thinks his next rehab start will be Monday when the RoughRiders return home, but he is unsure when he will return with the Rangers.
"I want to get back to the form I've been in the last three years," Lewis said.
Also rehabbing with Round Rock is Alexi Ogando, on the 15-day DL with right shoulder inflammation, who was scheduled to start Thursday with a 95-pitch limit in his third rehab outing. Ogando could be activated Tuesday to face the Yankees.
Yu Darvish will throw his bullpen Friday, and he is scheduled to be activated from the 15-day DL on Monday against the Yankees after experiencing a right shoulder strain. The Rangers will open the second half with Derek Holland, Martin Perez and Ross Wolf against the Orioles.
The Rangers remain persistent in their search outside the organization for pitching. Matt Garza has been their main target, and the club has had ongoing discussions with the Cubs. Lewis' rehab start could influence their pursuit of the right-hander.
As for position players, Craig Gentry and Jeff Baker played in both games of Frisco's doubleheader as a part of their rehab assignments. Gentry went 3-for-8 with a double and three strikeouts. He has been on the 15-day disabled list since June 21 with a non-displaced fracture of his left hand. He is 3-for-13 in four rehab games with a walk and a RBI.
Baker went 2-for-8 in the doubleheader with a strikeout. He is 2-for-11 with two strikeouts in three games with Frisco. The right-handed hitter was placed on the disabled list June 18 after spraining his right thumb.


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Le Tigre are no more, according to the organisers of All Tomorrow's Parties.
The claim was made as part of a statement released on the festival's website, which was explaining why some bands hadn't been booked for the weekend.
"There are a lot of bands in there that just won't play," the post claimed. "i.e LE TIGRE who broke up last year."
Their out-of-date website reveals nothing, except that the band have no shows lined up. Wikipedia simply says they're on hiatus.


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Let $X$ be a subset of the real line and $S=\{s_i\}$ an infinite sequence of positive numbers. Let me say that $X$ is $S$-small if there is a collection $\{I_i\}$ of intervals such that the length of each $I_i$ equals $s_i$ and the union $\bigcup I_i$ contains $X$. And $X$ is said to be small if it is $S$-small for any sequence $S$.
Obviously every countable set is small. Are there uncountable small sets?
Some observations:
A set of positive Hausdorff dimension cannot be small.
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The audit profession operates in a highly legal environment, and because of this, audit firms must find ways to manage their risk exposure. One way to reduce the risk of litigation against the firm is to manage the client portfolio and resigning from high risk clients. According to the study, family owned firms are less of a litigation risk to the auditor than non-family owned firms, especially when the CEO of the family-owned firm is not a family member. However, if an auditor does resign from auditing a family-owned firm managed by a non-family CEO, the investing public reacts less negatively to this than if the firm were not family owned.
For more information on this study, please contact Samer K. Khalil.
Khalil, S., J. Cohen, and G. Trompeter. Auditor resignation and firm ownership structure. Accounting Horizons 24 (4): 703-727.
The author claims that motivating the CEO to reveal information may or may not be beneficial. The disconnection between compensation and outcomes results from active monitoring. Compensation contracts rely on board evaluation, not on the final outcomes, to provide incentives. The proactive board activity can result in poor firm performance. This proactive activity requires extra care to reign in an expert: the CEO.
Tian, J. J. 2014. Board Monitoring and Endogenous Information Asymmetry. Contemporary Accounting Research 31 (1): 136-151.
The findings of this study suggest that the training and functional expertise of the CEO can affect the auditor's perception of engagement risk, observed through a reduction in audit fees. They add to the growing literature of CEO characteristics which highlight how top managers influence firm outcomes.
Kalelkar, R., S. Khan. 2016. CEO Financial Background and Audit Pricing. Accounting Horizons 30 (3): 325-339.


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Bajor VIII was the inhabited eighth planet with an inclined orbit in the Bajoran system. This system was located in the Bajor sector, a region of space in the Alpha Quadrant. This planet had two moons and was smaller in size than the planet Bajor. (DS9: "The Nagus").
Prior to 2369, the Bajorans had established six colonies on this planet. By that year, the population on this planet was counted in the thousands.
In 2369, Bajoran terrorist Tahna Los, aboard the runabout USS Yangtzee Kiang, rendezvoused with Lursa and B'Etor's Bird-of-Prey near the lower moon of Bajor VIII to receive a quantity of bilitrium explosive. The USS Ganges, monitoring the exchange from behind the second moon, attempted to intercept him, but Tahna threatened to detonate the bomb in low orbit and wipe out the colonies on the surface. The Ganges was forced to allow him to head towards the Bajoran wormhole. (DS9: "Past Prologue")
|Bajoran system
|Bajoran sun
|Bajor I • Bajor II • Bajor III • Bajor IV • Bajor V • Bajor VI • Bajor VII • Bajor VIII • Bajor IX • Bajor X • Bajor (Bajor XI) • Bajor XII • Bajor XIII • Bajor XIV
|Jeraddo • Derna • Denorios belt • Bajoran wormhole
External link
- Bajor VIII at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works


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The MDRC George F. Cahill, Jr Lecture:
A Tribute to an Outstanding Clinical Research Scientist
Dr. George F. Cahill, Jr.
July 7, 1927 - July 30, 2012
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
by C. Ronald Kahn, M.D., Mary K. Iacocca Professor, Harvard Medical School, Chief Academic Officer, Joslin Diabetes Center
On July 30, 2012, Dr. George F. Cahill, Jr. passed away in Peterborough, New Hampshire at the age of 85. Dr. Cahill was a world-renowned diabetes researcher who served as Joslin's Research Director from 1962 to 1978.
Dr. Cahill did his undergraduate education at Yale (which he described as "one party with a few academics thrown in") and then went to Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, where his father was on the faculty as a urologic surgeon. After medical school, George came to the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, where George W. Thorn, the great endocrinologist, was Physician-in-Chief. He was strongly influenced by Thorn, as well as by his senior resident, a Swiss physician named Albert Renold, who also was destined to become a great diabetes researcher. Renold had spent two years in the Department of Biological Chemistry with Prof. A. Baird Hastings prior to his Brigham senior residency studying carbohydrate metabolism and, following this example, after his second clinical year, Cahill joined the Hastings laboratory to study glucose metabolism. After two years in the Hastings lab, he returned to the Brigham for another clinical year and then joined Renold, who had moved to the Baker laboratories at the New England Deaconess Hospital. In 1962, when Renold returned to Switzerland, Cahill took the reins as head of research as the Baker labs joined the Joslin Foundation and began to evolve into what is now the Research Division of the Joslin Diabetes Center. Cahill also served as head of the Endocrine-Metabolic Unit of the Brigham and gradually rose up the academic ranks to become Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Cahill's research at Joslin focused on defining the normal physiology of glucose and amino acid homeostasis during feeding and fasting, as well as in obesity and diabetes. His studies set forth many of the tenets that form the basis of our classic understanding of these processes. His early interest in ketoacid metabolism stayed with him through his life, and even led to a late interest in developing high energy supplements for military personnel in combat areas situations on this pathway.
Cahill was also a devoted and supportive mentor who trained many of the individuals who went on to further the field, including Oliver Owen, Philip Felig, Errol Marliss, Thomas Aoki, Guillermo Herrera, Neil Ruderman, Aldo Rossini, Fred Morgan and Murray Brennan. As a result, Cahill's influence on diabetes research was felt worldwide through both his many seminal discoveries and through the training of hundreds of fellows and students who have become leaders in diabetes research, care and education throughout the world. In addition, for those of us who knew him, Dr. Cahill's skill, unique style and passion for teaching of students, young investigators and colleagues of all ages is one of the hallmarks of his remarkable career at Joslin, the Brigham and Women's Hospital, the New England Deaconess Hospital, and Harvard Medical School.
In 1972, George joined the Scientific Advisory Board of Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), which was in control of candidate selection, as well as reviews of investigator performance. In1978, he left Joslin to become Director of Research for HHMI where his influence on this organization increased. He was eventually elevated to a Vice President of HHMI. In 1989, he resigned that position to move to his home in Stoddard, NH. Being the consummate teacher, he joined the faculty of Dartmouth College (about 50 miles away) to support their biology programs and was given the title of Professor of Biological Sciences. There, he taught a course of biology for non-scientists which was so popular that within a few days after starting, they had to move from a classroom designed for 100 to an auditorium that held more than 400 students. He taught this course for seven years and received a teaching award from the students who loved it. In 1996 he retired completely to spend more time with his wife Sally, his children and grandchildren.
In addition to his many academic skills George was fit and trim throughout his life, and a great athlete, being an extremely competitive squash and tennis player. He was always intellectually engaged, but also thought broadly in science, outside his own area of metabolic expertise. His career was recognized by many honors and awards, including a symposium held in his honor at Joslin in November, 2006. George Cahill was a very important man in the history of diabetes research of the 20th century. Both the Joslin and the world will miss him.
In 2006 the George Cahill, M.D. Scholarship Fund was created to provide a permanent source of funding for student positions at Joslin during the summer, continuing Dr. Cahill's great tradition of mentoring young investigators just beginning their careers in diabetes research.
In the memory of George F. Cahill Jr., the Montreal Diabetes Research Center is proud to organize each year "The George F. Cahill Jr. lecture" given by world-leaders and outstanding speakers.
The George F. Cahill Jr Lecture 2018 will be given on February 2nd at the CRCHUM by Dr. Jean-Pierre Després from Université Laval, His lecture is entitled: Obesity, lifestyle and cardiometabolic diseases: time to align clinical practice/public health recommendations to scientific evidence
Previous George F. Cahill Jr lecturers were:
Title of the lecture
Jean-Pierre Després
Obesity, lifestyle and cardiometabolic diseases: time to align clinical practice/public health recommendations to scientific evidence
David M Nathan
On diapers and septic fields: recent Advances in the prevention and Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes.
Daniel J Drucker
Redefining classical concepts of incretin hormone action.
Ralph DeFronzo
Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes: A rational approach based upon its pathophysiology.
Bernard Zinman
The Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT). Impact on our understanding and prevention of Complications in Type 1 DM.


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The 20-year-old Wisconsin man last year charged with having sex with a dead deer has been sentenced to probation and evaluation as a sex offender, Yahoo! reports.
Bryan James Hathaway was cuffed on a "a misdemeanour charge of sexual gratification with an animal". The court case raised some interesting legal issues, since according to the defence, the relevant "crimes against sexual morality" statute prohibits sex with animals, but fails to mention carcasses.
Hathaway's attorney Fredric Anderson filed a motion which argued "because the deer was dead, it was not considered an animal and the charge should be dismissed". He insisted: "The statute does not prohibit one from having sex with a carcass."
This audacious interpretation of the law clearly cut little ice with the courts, because Hathaway earlier this month pleaded no contest to a charge of "misdemeanour mistreatment of an animal". Judge Michael Lucci sentenced him to six months' probabation and ordered him to be "evaluated as a sex offender and treated at the Institute for Psychological and Sexual Health in Duluth, Minnesota".
The judge admitted: "The type of behaviour is disturbing. It's disturbing to the public. It's disturbing to the court."
Hathaway had previously been convicted of a related offence in April 2005, when he pleaded "no contest to one felony charge of mistreatment of an animal for the shooting death of Bambrick, a 26-year-old horse, to have sex with the animal".
Although he received just probation for his latest escapade, local animals can sleep sound in their beds since he attracted a nine-month jail sentence back in February for violating the extended supervision order slapped on him for his equicide outrage. ®


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CHARLOTTE � The majority of NFL games are played at 1 p.m. East Coast time.
That definitely has been the case for the Carolina Panthers in their 19-year history.
It�s also why games played in prime time always seem to feel a little different.
And even though they are one of the youngest NFL teams, the Panthers have certainly had their memorable moments � good and bad � when playing under the lights at Bank of America Stadium.
Will the upcoming ESPN Monday Night football game with the New England Patriots live up to the hype it has already received?
Only time will tell, but here�s 10 memorable previous night-time football moments in Carolina history � five good and five not-so-good:
The best: Jan. 5, 1997 � After then-Dallas Cowboys coach Barry Switzer infamously wondered where Carolina was, the Panthers defense led by Lamar Lathon and Kevin Greene knocked future Hall of Famers Michael Irvin and Deion Sanders out of the game as Carolina eliminated the defending Super Bowl champions 26-17 in the NFC semifinals on Fox.
Nov. 27, 2000 � They�re not saying �Boo,� they�re saying �Hoov� as in Brad Hoover when the former Western Carolina standout rushes for a 117 yards and a touchdown in a 31-14 victory over the Green Bay Packers on ABC�s Monday Night Football.
Jan. 3, 2004 � In their first playoff game since 1997, the Panthers began their run towards the franchise�s only Super Bowl appearance by scoring the game�s first 13 points in a 29-10 victory over Dallas Cowboys and mistake-prone quarterback Quincy Carter on Fox.
Dec. 8, 2008 � DeAngelo Williams sets then-career-high with 186 yards rushing as Panthers roll Tampa Bay 38-23. Led by Williams� big game, the Panthers set a franchise record for rushing yardage with 299 on ESPN�s Monday Night Football.
Dec. 20, 2009 � The storyline entering the game was about Minnesota and quarterback Brett Favre�s march to the best record in the NFC. Instead, Julius Peppers and an aggressive Panthers� defense sacked Favre four times and its offense scored three fourth-quarter touchdowns in a 26-7 victory on NBC�s Sunday Night Football that cost the Vikings homefield advantage in the playoffs.
The worst: Aug. 31, 1997 � A Labor Day weekend opener on TNT�s Sunday Night Football was ruined for the Panthers as former Clemson standout Terry Allen rushed for 141 yards and two touchdowns to lead the Washington Redskins to a 24-10 victory.
Sept. 13, 2004 � The Panthers led briefly in the 2004 debut of ABC Monday Night Football as the Green Bay Packers rally for a 24-14 victory in a game most remembered for Steve Smith�s late-game injury; A broken left fibula would cost Carolina dearly in a year in which it failed to make the playoffs after a Super Bowl run the year before.
Oct. 29, 2006 � Carolina scores first 14 points of the game, but fails to score again on NBC�s Sunday Night Football as the Dallas Cowboys take 35-14 victory in the first start of Tony Romo�s career.
Jan. 10, 2009 � After a 12-4 regular season and NFC South Division title, the Panthers rolled to a quick lead by scoring on their opening possession. Unfortunately for Jake Delhomme (and Carolina fans), the veteran quarterback would commit six turnovers (five on interceptions and one on a lost fumble) as Arizona routs the Panthers 33-13 in the NFC semifinals on Fox en route to the Cardinals� only Super Bowl appearance.
Sept. 20, 2012 � With the defending Super Bowl champion New York Giants 0-2, many felt the Panthers could pull the upset. Instead, former N.C. State standout Andre Brown rushed for 113 yards and two touchdowns as the Giants cruised to a 36-7 victory on the NFL Network�s Thursday Night Football.
You can reach Richard Walker at 704-869-1841 or by twitter.com/JRWalk22
2013 Carolina Panthers schedule
Sept. 8, Seattle (L 7-12)
Sept. 15, at Buffalo (L 23-24)
Sept. 22, N.Y. Giants (W 38-0)
Sept. 29, BYE
Oct. 6, at Arizona (L 6-22)
Oct. 13, at Minnesota (W 35-10)
Oct. 20, St. Louis (W 30-15)
Oct. 24, at Tampa Bay (W 31-13)
Nov. 3, Atlanta (W 34-10)
Nov. 10, at San Francisco (W 10-9)
Nov. 18, New England, 8:40 p.m.
Nov. 24, at Miami, 1 p.m.
Dec. 1, Tampa Bay, 1 p.m.
Dec. 8, at New Orleans, 1 p.m.
Dec. 15, N.Y. Jets, 4:05 p.m.
Dec. 22, New Orleans, 1 p.m.
Dec. 29, at Atlanta, 1 p.m.
Jan. 4-5, Wild card playoffs
Jan. 11-12, Divisional playoffs
Jan. 19, Conference championships
Feb. 2, Super Bowl XLVIII at East Rutherford, N.J.


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The 2014 Bike Lights Shootout is here! The batteries are charged and the lux meter and lumisphere are ready. We've been riding these lights for the last few weeks and the progress in LED technology is dramatic once again.
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3. Individual Reviews Below – Click on each light below to read the editorial and user reviews.
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