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Consumption worldwide declines, China rises
Like you, maybe, I'm continually befuddled by statistics, which can be argued any which way. Take wine. Has the current worldwide recession been good or bad for it? I've heard reports that people are drinking more — which is good — but spending less — which is good if you're a lower-tiered winery, but bad for mid- and high-priced ones.
Well, this is the kind of report that seems to cut through the bull and state something memorable. The headline, "World wine consumption falls for 1st time in years," is shocking. Anytime anything "falls for the first time in years" it's memorable and bears analysis.
So let's analyze this one. The statement is from The International Organization of Vine and Wine, the famous OIV that keeps its fingers on the pulse of all things vinous around the globe. Its director, Federico Castellucci, said at a news conference, "It is obvious that the world economic crisis has played a role in lowering overall demand."
However, the devil is in the details, as usual. Most of the decline is happening in the world's biggest wine-drinking culture, Europe, where Germans, French and Italians are drinking less. They accounted for such a huge percentage of the world's consumption total — around 50% — that even a minor drop can have a negative impact on worldwide numbers.
Why is Europe drinking less? I'm not sure. Health has been reported to have something to do with it, but we Americans are addicted to healthy lifestyles (well, except for all those porkers in red states and counties), and we're drinking more, so health can't entirely explain it. It can't even be the recession, which is digging into European pockets as deeply as into ours. So if anybody can tell me why Europeans are drinking less, I'd appreciate it.
Meanwhile, the sinking numbers in Europe are balanced out by rising consumption here in the U.S. and in Canada and Australia. And people are also drinking more in Asia and below the Equator in South America. Chinese wine consumption is rising so quickly — it's already in the top ten — that wine producers around the world "are pinning their hopes for growth during the financial crisis" on it, according to Xavier de Eizaguirre, president of Vinexpo, who was quoted by AFP, a new, online worldwide news service.
Once upon a time, the world looked to America to rescue it from whatever ailed it. With Obama in the White House, it's still a temptation, but with the transfer of wealth to China, I think the best Obama can do is slow the slide and transition Americans to getting used to being poorer but, perhaps, happier. (The audacity of hope.) The World Bank is reporting that China is likely to emerge from its slump this year, and maybe lead the world back toward economic health. A billion and a half people, all drinking wine or with the potential to do so, could rescue world wine producers from these scary times, but they're going to have to hire Chinese-speaking people who understand Chinese culture; and while there may be a few California wineries that have done that, there are thousands and thousands that haven't.
It's a demographic issue. French and Italian Millennials are drinking more spirits / less wine than their seniors do. As the people who used to consume the contents of the wine lake die off, they aren't being replaced by drinkers with similar habits.
Steve, I know you to be a committed journalist and oenophile. I also admire your verve and persistence. But, have you noticed the drop off in comments each time you veer off the vinous highway into oncoming socio-political traffic? Hope it's not a trend but, hey, it's your football.
The devil is in the details. I'm surprised that you fail to quote this paragraph from the report:
"World wine consumption last year fell to 243 million hectoliters (6.4 billion gallons), down from 245 million hectoliters in 2007. Consumption fell in all of Europe's major wine-producing and consuming countries, including France, Italy and Germany, Europe's biggest wine-drinking nations."
243m HL v. 245m HL is statistically insignificant. We in the wine business would do well to remember this: the sky is not falling. Yet, anyway…
Ray hit it on the head. As I sit here all I can remember from the post was the "poorer but, perhaps, happier" comment. I won't get into why that statement is so bothersome to me, but I really enjoy the content when it focuses on wine without the diversions.
Just my prespective maybe others enjoy it.
Chuck states it nicely. It's a shift of influence from one generation to another. Drinking habits have changed and as the groups grow older and gain more disposable income they will purchase more only in their line of habit.


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NASA to choose between 2 Mars landing sites
NASA is deciding between two places on Mars to send its next rover.
The space agency said Wednesday that the project team and outside scientists have narrowed the options to two landing sites.
The nuclear-powered rover nicknamed Curiosity will touch down either in Gale Crater near the Martian equator or Eberswalde crater in the southern hemisphere.
Scientists are intrigued by a mountain inside Gale that contains rich minerals. They're also interested in Eberswalde because it's thought to be the site of a former river delta.
NASA will make a final decision later this month.
Engineers are prepping the rover for launch from Florida in November. It's scheduled to arrive on the red planet next summer and will study whether the site ever had an environment favorable for life to emerge.
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The Q2 brings the content-rich world of internet radio into your home with style. And because this button-free 10cm cube incorporates a rechargeable Li-ion battery you can take it outside, too – as long as your Wi-Fi coverage matches your territorial ambitions.
It's easy to use, thanks to an accelerometer similar to that built into the Wii controller. Placing the cube onto one of four sides selects a different station. Tilting the radio up or down adjusts volume, while the face-down position shuts it up.
And from a single charge, you can expect to get over 10 hours of moderate-level listening.
There are no physical buttons to trap dust or malfunction. The only switch, on the rear panel, turns the thing off altogether.
Alongside this are a small bass-reflex port and an earphone socket. Behind the speaker grille lurk LEDs showing power and connection.
Sound quality is great for the size. The Q2 goes far louder than expected, without unacceptable levels of distortion. Its speaker's range is unexpectedly wide, too.
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However, you only get an immediate choice of four stations or podcasts from a choice of thousands. To change them, you have to plug the Q2 into a computer via its USB port, and use downloadable software to assign new stations to these 'presets'.
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616, 616 East Lincoln Avenue, Addictions, Death, Domestic Violence, Happy Birthday, Homelessness, Mother-Son Relationship, Parenting, Parenting Lessons, Poverty, Running Away, Self-Reflection, Soul-Searching, Vanity, Welfare Poverty, Yiscoc Washington
"I took care of my kids! I put food on the table, put a roof over y'all's heads, put clothes on yo' back! I did the best that I could, and none of y'all can tell me different…" That's what my Mom yelled at us the day before Sarai's funeral seven Julys ago. It was an excited utterance, after she had spent five days in a trance, unable to do as much as eat a piece of toast. We were in the living room of Mom's flat at 616, me, Mom, Maurice, Yiscoc and Eri, being yelled at over a lifetime of disappointment and frustration. Ours and hers.
Today is my brother Yiscoc's thirty-sixth birthday. That he's here at all is a bit of a miracle. Especially with the number of times he ran away from 616 between 1989 (when he was eight years old) and 1994, with his one-time video game addiction, and with muggers and pedophiles out there and all too willing to take advantage of a vulnerable preteen.
I started with Mom, though, for a reason. Her yelling at us was probably meant for me, but it was in response to Yiscoc, who shared a personal secret with her for the first time. Mom's response was to defend her record as a parent, to tell us that we had no right to judge, critique, or assess her record. That she added, "That's what you get for…" in response to Yiscoc's tearful sharing session was shameful and disgusting.
"But you don't understand, your Mom was mourning the loss of her only daughter," would be the response of Mom-defenders everywhere. To which I say, really? Your Mom's response is to push four of your five living children away with a tirade? One where she says, "this fucked up, piece of shit life I helped set up for all of you was the best I could do, and if you don't like it, that's on you, and you can kiss my Black ass!" Would that really be acceptable under any circumstances, much less during a week of mourning?
Yiscoc ran away from home, hung out with several wrong crowds, and dropped out of Mount Vernon High School a year and a half before he could have completed his coursework. Seventeen years later, and Yiscoc still doesn't have his GED (the last two times, he failed the social studies portion of the exam — ain't that a kicker!). I'm not laying all of this at my Mom's feet. But Yiscoc's adult life wasn't exactly set up for success by his growing up years. The normative permanence of systemic racism on the one hand, and domestic violence, welfare poverty, and the 616 fire of 1995 that left Yiscoc and my other younger siblings temporarily homeless on the other, would make any kid itching to run away.
A second younger brother has now reached the second half of his thirties. Yiscoc's the same age I was eleven and a half years ago, when I began working on Boy @ The Window in earnest. One of the things I figured out in writing such a torturous book was that I blamed myself for so many of my parents'/legal guardian's failures and sins. I had blamed myself for not putting an end to the domestic violence at 616 since I was twelve, for not doing enough to support Mom and my younger siblings since I went away to college at Pitt in 1987. I also came to understand how much Mom deflected, defended, and denied when it came to her parenting, especially when we called on her to do more than find temporary shelter, meager food options, and threadbare clothing. Mom was and remains one of the vainest and unaffectionate people I have ever known — vain, insecure, and likely clinically depressed.
I also know that Mom has passed these traits down to each of us. I've been dealing directly with them for three decades. I'm not sure Yiscoc has ever peered behind his mask long enough to see Mom lurking in the shadows, warts and all. If he has or ever will, it has been or will be an ugly sight. But if we are truly attempting to rebuild and remake ourselves, it is a sight we must endure. A painful process of honesty, soul-searching, revelation, and admitting that on some level, we've fucked up, and been fucked up, by life, oppression, and parenting.
Happy Birthday, Yiscoc. Know that despite everything, I do love you. I hope that this next year brings you closer to the person you want and need to be.


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LONDON -- In Paris, the Eiffel Tower went dark. In London, a kaleidoscope of famous sites switched off their lights -- Tower Bridge, Big Ben, Piccadilly Circus, the London Eye.
That scene was repeated over and over across the world on Saturday night: at Sydney's Opera House; at New Delhi's great arch; at Kuala Lumpur's Petronas Towers; at Edinburgh Castle in Scotland; at Brandenburg Gate in Berlin; at St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow.
It lasted for just an hour and its power is purely symbolic. But in countries around the world, at 8:30 p.m., people were switching off their lights for Earth Hour, a global call for international unity on the importance of addressing climate change.
Since beginning in Sydney in 2007, Earth Hour has spread to more than 180 countries, with tens of millions of people joining in, from turning off their own porch lights to letting the grand sites like the Opera House go dark.
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo said 300 Paris buildings observed the blackout to send a "universal message."
Those 60 minutes are "an opportunity" to shift "the consumption culture and behavior change toward sustainability," Indian Environment Minister Harsh Vardhan said.
Hello Pakistan! Thank you for joining us for #EarthHour! We're hoping you'll join our conversation about how you #Connect2Earth! Head to our Facebook pinned post at https://t.co/tHRt2qPCRW to tell us about how you connect to nature [?] [?](c)Taseer Ali Mirza / WWF-Pakistan pic.twitter.com/lCIJh6Vkka-- Earth Hour (@earthhour) March 24, 2018
All this happens and yet many people, of course, barely notice.
Around India Gate, New Delhi's monument to the Indian dead in World War I, thousands embraced the city's nightly warm-weather ritual Saturday. They bought ice cream and cheap plastic trinkets. They flirted. Young children rode in electric carts that their parents rented for a few minutes at a stretch.
But for an hour the arch stayed dark, a silent call for change.
In Jordan, the Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature arranged 11,440 candles on a hilltop in the capital of Amman, establishing a Guinness World Record for the largest candle mosaic.
The candles spelled the Earth Hour motto of "60+." However, attempts to light the candles largely failed because of wind on the hilltop, which is close to the city's landmark, the Amman Citadel.


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2015 Spelling Bee: Co-Champions Triumph Again, as Vanya and Gokul Prove UnbeatableMay 29, 2015By Ben Zimmer
Last year's Scripps National Spelling Bee saw the first tie since 1962, with co-champions hoisting the big trophy together. This year it was déjà vu all over again, as Vanya Shivashankar and Gokul Venkatachalam battled to the finish, exhausting the championship word list and finishing as co-champs. Continue reading...


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Delving into my Universal Monsters The Essential Collection Blu-rays Christmas pressie — I was drawn to some of the lesser titles, partly so they wouldn't get neglected, partly so I could save some good ones for last. (All images here are from the lowly DVDs.)
First I ran THE WOLFMAN, which is not a very good film, alas. After THE OLD DARK HOUSE it's nice to have another Welsh-set Universal horror — a pity they couldn't have arranged for Melvyn Douglas to drop in as Penderell, or something. They manage to waste Warren William and miscast Ralph Bellamy, who doesn't get to exploit his uncanny ability to remind one of that fellow in the movies, what's his name? Ralph Bellamy, that's it.
Screenwriter Curt Siodmak, idiot brother of the great Robert, knew that Lon Chaney Jnr was ridiculous casting as a nobleman, but doesn't seem to have reflected too much on the implications of his story, which has a Gypsy tribe importing a contagion into peaceful Anglo-Saxon terrain. It's a distasteful narrative for a German-Jewish refugee to serve up to American audiences during wartime, the more I consider it.
As a kid, I was disappointed by the slow pace and lack of screen time awarded to Jack Pierce's make-up, which I dug. But I was fascinated by Maria Ouspenskaya, who seemed genuinely uncanny.
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA seems to have always been a tricky property — it has seminal scenes, the unmasking and the chandelier drop and the general mood of skulking about in shadows in a cape, but nobody seems able to settle on what order they should come in or who the characters ought to be. I think perhaps a failure to realize that Christine is the main point-of-view character lies at the heart of many of the problems — this may be the big thing Andrew Lloyd-Webber got right. But Chaney was the only one to get a good makeup, and played the character without any cast backstory, as a mystery.
The forties Technicolor version that's in the box set concentrates on singing and romance and comedy as much as melodrama, and top-loads the story with an origin for the Phantom that's sympathetic but deprives him of mystique — it also leaves no time for his Svengali act, surely the heart of the story. Claude Rains is in good form, though his coaching scenes as a disembodied voice are underexploited — this should have been the perfect companion piece to THE INVISIBLE MAN.
Screenwriter Samuel Hoffenstein is more important here than second-string director Arthur Lubin: he did a great job on Mamoulian's DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE, so I don't know why this is so muted — partly the Production Code, I suppose. His other finest credits are THE WIZARD OF OZ, LAURA and CLUNY BROWN, and his gift for light comedy is more evident here than his knack for dramatic construction. The rather stunning ending, in which
Jeanette MacDonald Susanna Foster chooses her career and her two beaux, Nelson Eddy and Edgar Barrier, go off together arm in arm to dinner, makes the thing worthwhile — they fade to black very fast at that point.
Oh, and the three-strip Technicolor is bee-you-tiful.
(Screenwriter and memoirist Lenore Coffee quotes a couple nice lines by Hoffenstein, not from his scripts but from his conversation. In response to the Variety headline BABY LEROY'S CONTRACT UP FOR RENEWAL, the Hoff remarked "If they don't meet his terms he'll go straight back to the womb… a swell place to negotiate from!" And when the legal department asked for a progress report on his latest script, a slightly tipsy S.H. bellowed "How any department as sterile as a legal department could have the impertinence to inquire into the progress of any writer, however poor… What do you think I do? Drink ink and pee scripts?")
I believe the scene where Claude Rains strangles Miles Mander had to be taken several times because Mander's head kept detaching when shaken.
Hume Cronyn has a tiny part and it's great fun watching him steal his scenes.
Backstory is a problem. I quite enjoyed the intro to Dario Argento's PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, in which the baby Phantom, cast adrift in the sewers in his cot, is rescued by rats, who presumably raise him as one of their own, like a rodent Tarzan. Tarzan had a fine operatic yodel, of course. But Argento's Phantom isn't deformed, he's Julian Sands, which leaves him no motivation to be masked or live underground or do any of the things the plot requires.
The Hammer PHANTOM, which I recently watched too, borrows heavily from the 1941 version — impoverished composer, acid scarring, etc. Apparently Cary Grant had expressed an interest in playing the Phantom, but his agent nixed it. I kind of wonder if that's why the meaningless hunchback character was added, in order to give all the murderous stuff to someone else. It's completely nonsensical and wrecks the film, which Terence Fisher handles rather nicely. Michael Gough's slimy Lord Ambrose is a one-note baddie, and Gough hammers that note with relentless enthusiasm. Herbert Lom gets almost nothing to do.
That one was cackhandedly written by Anthony Hinds, a Hammer producer. There are undoubtedly some great producers-turned-writers — Joseph Mankiewicz springs to mind. The trouble in general is that producers can give themselves the job of writing without having any ability at it, as I found when I worked for Tern Television. Both Anthony Carreras and Anthony Hinds at Hammer got a number of writing gigs, without having the slightest sense of story structure, or even apparent awareness of what a story IS.
Also watched DRACULA PRINCE OF DARKNESS since Fiona's brother was visiting, which Hinds authored — but his ramshackle narrative was fleshed out by the competent Jimmy Sangster, and then the very droll Francis Matthews acted in it, with delivery that's as close to Cary Grant as Hammer ever got. A line like "Well I'm sure it would be educational if we knew what was going on," isn't necessarily witty in itself, but he gets a laugh with it. And I have to take my hat off to Sangster for the line he awards Dracula's sepulchral manservant, Klove: "My master died without issue, sir… in the accepted sense of the term."
The UK release is cheaper than the American, though admittedly it doesn't come in its own coffin ~
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As I went to see Avatar last week, I felt resigned. It had all of the predictors of a bad movie.
First, it cost half a billion dollars to make. This may seem promising. What film wouldn't benefit from vast sums to improve cast, scripts, and special effects? Yet big budgets are usually the death of good films because studios become obsessed with recovering their investments. The question of "how do we make a good film" becomes eclipsed by "how do we make a film that brings in 500 million dollars of audience?" The recipe for this is well known: find big name actors, put them in a romance story which doubles as an action film, and sprinkle liberally with special effects. Toy merchandising helps too.
Second, Avatar was developed as a 3-D computer graphics film, only occasionally including scenes with human actors. While CGI has revolutionized film-making, it has often been used indiscriminately, creating scenes that are ill-conceived, implausible, or – with hundreds of moving points of animation – impossible to watch. George Lucas is the poster-child for CGI abuse. The coherence and narrative tension of the original Star Wars series was no where to be found in the prequel episodes of the last decade, as the demands of the blue-screen eclipsed plot, drama, and character development.
Third, Avatar follows two of the most cliched genres in films: it is coming-of-age movie, a bildungsroman in space, and a "going native" story where the lead, Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), a paraplegic marine, finds meaning in life by becoming a member of "primitive" tribe, the Na'vi on the planet of Pandora. This feat is made possible by the creation of a Na'vi avatar that Sully inhabits for most of the film. (To see how easily Avatar maps on to other 'going native' films, see these mashups here and here of Avatar & Disney's Pocahontas)
So I was surprised that I really like this movie. The millions of dollars used in production and marketing have not corrupted the soul of Avatar. Credit for this goes to director, James Cameron, who has proven capable of directing massively expensive, CGI intensive films (Terminator, Aliens, and Titanic) without surrendering plot and coherence.
As for the CGI effects, they are stunning to behold. The planet of Pandora is rendered with brilliant color and movement, texture and imagination. The ten-foot tall Na'vi – who in the real universe would already have been recruited for the NBA, move with all of the grace of real humans, or rather, humanoids. After a few minutes, I forgot I was watching CGI, or more accurately, I forgot about the distinction between CGI and "real life." This is a clever effect since the viewer is, in a sense, recapitulating Sully's experience with his avatar.
Most importantly, the story of Jake Sully's assimilation into the world of the Na'vi, while predictable, is not mawkish. It isn't hard to believe that a man who has lost the use of his legs, spent six years in space, and no longer functions within the world of the Marines, would find running and flying through wilds of Pandora exhilarating.
Indeed, it is the idea of the avatar that keeps this 'going native' story interesting. Other films in this genre, from Apocalypse Now to Dances With Wolves, follow men as they cut themselves off from the world left behind. By contrast, Avatar follows Sully as he moves back and forth between worlds: his avatar existence with the Na'vi and his human existence in base camp. How does one go native if there is constant access to the world one is leaving? The moral conflict which results provides Avatar with much of its narrative tension.
Finally, Avatar proves three-dimensional in another sense, by taking this theme of remote connection beyond the story of Sully and the Na'vi. The Marines on Pandora have found their own avatars of sorts, in the weaponized "Amplified Mobility Platform" or AMP (which bears more than a passing resemblance to the cargo loader operated by Sigourney Weaver in Aliens).
The Na'vi, on the other hand, are able to link, through neuro-chemical connections to other beings on Pandora. Indeed, the planet itself operates as an organic neural network. Avatars, in other words, have many incarnations and, in their most developed states, begin to emulate a kind of Gaia or world-soul. At what point does neural connectivity cross the line into spirituality? While Avatar sometimes crosses the line into a preachy environmentalism, the bigger questions that it raises make it worth the ride.


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What is hyperparathyroidism?
The parathyroid glands are tiny glands. Each one is about the size of a grain of rice. They are located in the neck, next to the thyroid gland but completely separate from it. They are responsible for keeping the amount of calcium in your blood in a normal range. Hyperparathyroidism is caused by one or more overactive parathyroid glands. Overactive parathyroid glands produce too much parathyroid hormone (PTH), which in turn stimulates increased levels of calcium in the bloodstream.
This excess calcium happens because the PTH causes calcium to be released from your bones. This loss of calcium from the bones can lead to osteoporosis, osteopenia, and bone fracture. As the blood containing this high calcium goes through the kidneys, the calcium may be filtered into the urine and lead to kidney stones.
Hyperparathyroidism is usually the result of a benign enlargement of a parathyroid gland that produces too much PTH. Most people with hyperparathyroidism have one abnormal gland. A small number of people may have two abnormal glands at the same time, and some people have all abnormal glands. Having four glands involved is rare, and it is usually a hereditary problem.
What are symptoms of hyperparathyroidism?
The following are the most common symptoms of hyperparathyroidism. However, each individual may experience symptoms differently. Symptoms may include:
Joint aches and pains
Abdominal pain
Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)
Peptic ulcer disease
Excessive urination
Muscle weakness
Kidney stones
The symptoms of hyperparathyroidism may resemble other conditions or medical problems. Always consult your doctor for a diagnosis.
How is hyperparathyroidism diagnosed?
Hyperparathyroidism is usually found by noticing an elevated calcium level on routine blood testing. Blood tests include measuring levels of calcium and PTH. Urine tests measure the urine for calcium across 24 hours.
How is hyperparathyroidism treated?
The only treatment for hyperparathyroidism is removal of the abnormal parathyroid gland. Before surgery, an imaging test may be used to find out which parathyroid is abnormal. Ultrasound of the neck can be very effective in finding the abnormal parathyroid. Sestamibi scanning is another test that may be used. Knowing which parathyroid gland is abnormal will help keep the operation as quick and focused as possible.


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Last meal: Bacon cheeseburger, onion rings, soft drink, and pecan pie
William Rousan's last words were,
"My trials and transgressions have been many. But thanks be to my Lord and savior, Jesus Christ, I have a new home in his heavenly kingdom."
April 23, 2014
BONNE TERRE, Mo. — Missouri executed an inmate early Wednesday who was convicted of killing a farming couple in 1993 as part of a plot to steal their cows.
William Rousan's last words were, "My trials and transgressions have been many. But thanks be to my Lord and savior, Jesus Christ, I have a new home in his heavenly kingdom."
Before he was killed, Rousan, 57, mouthed words to his brother-in-law and a minister he had invited to his execution. As the drug was administered, he breathed deeply twice and then was still. He was declared dead at 12:10 a.m., nine minutes after the procedure started.
Prosecutors say Rousan, his teenage son, Brent Rousan, and his brother, Robert Rousan, murdered Charlie and Grace Lewis on Sept. 21, 1993 as part of a plot to steal their cows. Brent Rousan is serving life in prison without parole, and Robert Rousan served seven years in prison before being released in 2001.
The slain couple's son and two daughters were among those who witnessed the execution, which took place only a few miles from where their parents were killed. Their son, Michael Lewis, spoke afterward.
"I draw no real satisfaction from Mr. Rousan's incarceration or execution, for neither can replace or restore the moments lost with my parents or give my sons back the grandparents they never got to know," he said.
Gov. Jay Nixon declined William Rousan's clemency request Tuesday evening, clearing the way for the execution to proceed. In a statement explaining his decision, Nixon said he thought Rousan's sentence was appropriate for his alleged role as the mastermind behind the "cold-blooded plot" that led to the couple's slayings.
Earlier Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court turned down Rousan's request to delay his execution.
Efforts to spare Rousan's life hinged an argument that has held little sway over the courts — concerns about the secrecy used to obtain the execution drug, and the possibility that a substandard drug could cause pain and suffering in the execution process.
Several states, including Missouri, now use compounded execution drugs purchased from unnamed pharmacies. Courts so far have allowed most executions to move forward. However, on Monday, the Oklahoma Supreme Court stayed the executions of two death row inmates who challenged the secrecy surrounding the process of procuring execution drugs.
Missouri has executed one death row inmate each month since November. Another Missouri inmate, Russell Bucklew, is scheduled for execution on May 21. Only Texas, with seven executions, has executed more inmates than Missouri's four so far in 2014. Florida has also executed four inmates this year.
According to prosecutors, William Rousan masterminded the plot to kill Grace Lewis, 62, and Charles Lewis, 67, at their farm near Bonne Terre. At the time, Rousan also lived in the same area of St. Francois County, about 70 miles southwest of St. Louis.
Authorities say the three men drove by the farm, and William Rousan pointed out the cattle to steal. They parked about two miles away and hiked through the woods to the farm. They watched as the couple returned home. Charles Lewis began cutting the lawn with a riding mower while his wife spoke to the couple's daughter on the phone.
Brent Rousan, then 16, ambushed Charles Lewis, shooting him six times. Grace Lewis told her daughter on the phone she heard gunfire and stepped outside to check on the commotion. Brent Rousan shot her several times. She managed to go back into the home, but William Rousan followed her, placed a garment bag over her head and carried her outside.
He turned to his son and said, "Finish her off." Brent Rousan fired a single shot into the side of her head.
The men placed the bodies in a tarp and put them near a shed. Later that night, they returned, along with another Rousan brother, loaded the bodies in the Lewis' pickup truck, and took two cows, a VCR, jewelry, a saddle and other items.
For almost exactly a year, they got away with the crime. The couple seemingly had vanished without a trace.
In September 1994 investigators received two tips that helped them solve the case: Rousan's brother-in-law, Bruce Williams, called police to implicate Rousan in the couple's killings and a sister of William and Robert Rousan sold a VCR to a pawn shop that had been stolen from the Lewises.
The bodies were found buried in a shallow grave covered with concrete and a pile of horse manure on the farm where William Rousan was living at the time. After a four-day manhunt, Rousan was arrested while hiding in a barn on Sept. 20, 1994. He was caught with a .22-caliber semi-automatic rifle and a knife.
Brent Rousan pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Robert Rousan cooperated with prosecutors and pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.


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Here I just thought I'd note that the relation between lawyering and timekeeping is a truly ancient one. In Plato's Dialogue Theaetetus, we hear Socrates (who was no fan of lawyers) disparage the notion that a lawyer could be a teacher. He asks (in his Socratic way):
Do you imagine that there are any teachers in the world so clever as to be able to convince others of the truth about acts of robbery or violence, of which they were not eyewitnesses, while a little water is flowing in the clepsydra? [Jowett trans.]A "clepsydra" was a water-clock (similar to an hour-glass but employing water rather than sand) that was used by the Greeks to ensure that the lawyers for each side had equal time to make their respective cases to the jury. The clock was filled for the beginning of the presentation and the lawyer had to finish by the time the clock was empty. To my knowledge, Plato does not report whether lawyers in his day billed by the hour or worked on contingency.
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A Change of Pace initially came together around high-school buddies Torry Jasper (vocals/guitar) and Jonathan Kelly (drums), who were both itching to graduate so they could get out of their sleepy hometown of Peoria, AZ. Bonding over a shared love of pop-punk, the guys would see the lineup shift around them early on as they perfected their explosive, pop-edged alternative rock. They self-released their first EP in 2003, Change Is the Only Constant, and toured with Senses Fail before being accidentally discovered by their future manager through their Purevolume webpage. A deal with Immortal quickly followed and A Change of Pace's debut full-length, An Offer You Can't Refuse, appeared in March 2005. By now, Jasper and Kelly were joined by Johnny Abdullah (bass/vocals) and Adam Rodgers (guitar). Summer 2006 saw the addition of guitarist Dan Parker (formerly of Peoria's Don't Let Go) to the lineup, and Jasper consequently focused on vocals. The band toured briefly leading up to the August 2006 release of Prepare the Masses, including a handful of Warped Tour dates. ~ Corey Apar, Rovi
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Treasury prices jumped Friday as the market grappled with a jobs report that showed slow payrolls improvement, with intermediate-term yields leading the way lower on easing expectations for Federal Reserve rate hikes.
The Labor Department said the U.S. created 192,000 new jobs in March, slightly below consensus expectations of a 200,000 reading. The unemployment rate remained unchanged at 6.7%. Across Wall Street trading desks this week, expectations had ramped up above economist forecasts as the market began expecting a spring rebound in employment after a particularly cold winter.
Despite some signs of strength in the report, the disappointing headline number pushed investors toward the safety of Treasurys.
"I think the bond market got a little ahead of itself in pricing a bigger bounce, so now they are recovering a lot of those losses," said Kim Rupert, managing director of global fixed-income analysis for Action Economics LLC. She added: "The market has a very myopic view on the report and just focuses on the headline number and revisions by and large. But the rest of the report was pretty solid."
The 10-year Treasury note US:10_YEAR yield, which falls as prices rise, was down 6 basis points at 2.732%, remaining within the trading range between 2.60% and 2.80% that has characterized the past few months. The benchmark yield is up 1.5 basis points on the week.
The 5-year note US:5_YEAR yield, which had jumped the most as the market began expecting earlier rate hikes, fell 8.5 basis points to 1.705%. The 7-year note US:7_YEAR yield fell 8.5 basis points to 2.296%, and the 30-year bond US:30_YEAR yield fell 3.5 basis points to 3.591%.
After the report, the premium that long-term bonds pay over short-term debt rose, in what's known as a steepening yield curve, suggesting later expectations for when the Federal Reserve will begin hiking its key policy rate. The yield curve had flattened to its lowest point since 2009 after Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen suggested last month that rate hikes could be on the horizon.
But Yellen said in a speech Monday that the current labor market demands accommodative monetary policy, helping walk back the hawkish interpretation of her earlier comments. Friday's payrolls report helped confirm that outlook on the economy and push back thoughts of an imminent rate hike, according to Richard Gilhooly, U.S. director of interest-rate strategy at TD Securities.
"The market has been very schizophrenic about Yellen," he said, noting that investor expectations have been swinging alongside her every word.
After the payrolls report, traders who bet on the future path of policy rates using fed funds futures contracts expected a first rate hike in June 2015, one meeting later than they had expected ahead of the payrolls report, according to CME FedWatch.
The yields of struggling European nations continued to fall in the wake of a European Central Bank meeting in which the monetary policy-makers said they considered additional forms of easing. Yields have been falling sharply since ECB President Mario Draghi vowed to do "whatever it takes" to preserve the euro in 2012. The Italian 10-year note IT:IT10YT yield hit a record low on Friday, while the Spanish 5-year note yield briefly dropped below the U.S. 5-year yield.
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The embedded video below is one of my all-time favorite movie clips. It's from an episodic movie called RoGoPaG (1963), to which Pasolini contributed the segment La Ricotta. In Pasolini's segment, Orson Welles plays an American director making a movie about the life of Christ in Rome.* It is simply brilliant, on so many levels (I love the music and the dancing). It is rivaled only by the sequence where Welles recreates Pontormo's Deposition in the Church of Santa Felicita in Florence.
In the clip, Orson Welles reads a poem by Pasolini, "I am a force of the past." In thinking about culinary tradition, pizza paired with wine, and the recent censoring of "ethnic" food in Italy, I realize that the poem is actually and entirely topical (even more so when considered in the context of the entire Welles sequence).
I am a force of the Past.
My love lies only in tradition.
Here's an as-of-yet unpublished translation by the Italian translator I admire most, my friend Stephen Sartarelli, who has also translated the Montalbano detective series. I wrote to Stephen who graciously shared his excellent rendering.
I am a force of the Past.
My love lies only in tradition.
I come from the ruins, the churches,
the altarpieces, the villages
abandoned in the Appennines or foothills
of the Alps where my brothers once lived.
I wander like a madman down the Tuscolana,
down the Appia like a dog without a master.
Or I see the twilights, the mornings
over Rome, the Ciociaria, the world,
as the first acts of Posthistory
to which I bear witness, for the privilege
of recording them from the outer edge
of some buried age. Monstrous is the man
born of a dead woman's womb.
And I, a fetus now grown, roam about
more modern than any modern man,
in search of brothers no longer alive.
Io sono una forza del Passato.
Solo nella tradizione è il mio amore.
Vengo dai ruderi, dalle chiese,
dalle pale d'altare, dai borghi
abbandonati sugli Appennini o le Prealpi,
dove sono vissuti i fratelli.
Giro per la Tuscolana come un pazzo,
per l'Appia come un cane senza padrone.
O guardo i crepuscoli, le mattine
su Roma, sulla Ciociaria, sul mondo,
come i primi atti della Dopostoria,
cui io assisto, per privilegio d'anagrafe,
dall'orlo estremo di qualche età
sepolta. Mostruoso è chi è nato
dalle viscere di una donna morta.
E io, feto adulto, mi aggiro
più moderno di ogni moderno
a cercare fratelli che non sono più.
A little Sunday poetry. Thanks for reading…
Buona domenica a tutti…
* Pasolini was a deeply religious man and he made a beautiful film about the life of Christ, Il vangelo secondo matteo (The Gospel According to St. Matthew, 1964).


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Friday, 11 September 2009
Ethical cycle chic
Vogue magazine, the ultimate indicator of what is truly fabulous, recently gave mention to London-based designer Karta Healey's new collection of cycling gear, TWO n FRO. Excitingly the range, including these rather gorgeous ankle spats, will soon be available to buy here at www.cyclechic.co.uk!
Made from materials perfect for cyclists which are often also sustainable and recycled, the range includes this rather dapper tux with matching reflective cummerbund and bow tie - perfect for the modern gentleman who wants to combine bar-hopping with cycling.
If your man is jealous of this Cyclodelic cycling cape, the range has a man's cape that will compliment ours perfectly!
Healey says his range is 'designed for the silent confidence of city cyclists everywhere - cycle like a champ without looking like a cycle champ'.
Materials include bamboo, soy, silk and recycled fabrics. Bike parts and sails are recycled into accessories like this clever chain cover for carrying your lock in style.
'I am an advocate of sustainable cities, as I believe vehicles are a key component of any cities' success or failure,' Healey, who studied at St Martins, says. His collection is part of a wider project, AgotoB, to encourage sustainable cities.
3 comments:
- KarmaCycle said...
I very much like this stuff - very cool, and I like the idea of developing a bit of a batman image while flying through the streets of London on my trusty steed. (errr... bike that is).
I was wondering - do you think there is a bit of a trend towards people wearing horse-riding style gear on bikes? I did a little blog entry about it the other day and I suspect I may well be wrong. Anyway, here's my link. I'll put a link on my blog to you as this seems like a very cool blog!
- 14 September 2009 at 12:40
- Caz said...
I am totally with you on the horse-riding gear thing. We actually just did our photoshoot for cyclechic.co.uk Autumn/Winter and the styling has a definite equestrian look to it! Photos will be on the blog and the site soon. x
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Another victim of the McEwen ammunition plant explosion has been released from the hospital and the final hospitalized victim is improving.
Officials with Vanderbilt University Medical Center on Friday confirmed that Sheila Edwards had been released and Joey Clark had been upgraded to stable condition.
A third worker, Rodney Edwards, was killed in the Wednesday blast at the Rio Ammunition plant about 55 miles west of Nashville. Another worker was treated and released.
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Staël, Nicholas de nēkôlä´ də stäl [key], 1914–55, French painter, b. St. Petersburg, Russia. Reared in Brussels, he traveled extensively before settling in France in 1940. De Staël evolved c.1942 a highly abstract style, developing a rich color fabric combined with strong elements of tension. His later works became gradually more representational. His artistic reputation was firmly established by the time of his suicide.
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Starting with a single collagen product launched in 1982, La Maison Clayton Shagal Products now offers a complete line of superior skin care formulas designed to regenerate skin. Privately owned, Clayton Shagal Collagen products are formulated in Germany and manufactured in Quebec, Canada.
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Bailey taking contract talks one day at a time
Righty weighing benefits of signing a deal now vs. waiting until after '14 season
CINCINNATI -- Typical of a period of high-stakes contract negotiations, Reds pitcher Homer Bailey was more diplomatic than emphatic about his situation. While Bailey remains open to a long-term contract with Cincinnati, he certainly isn't willing to paint himself into a corner ... yet.
Bailey is one of two Reds players eligible for arbitration, with closer Aroldis Chapman being the other. But Bailey is the one who can be a free agent after the 2014 season. His agent, Casey Close, and Reds general manager Walt Jocketty have been engaged in talks about a multi-year contract throughout the winter.
"There is [interest], but it has to be something that works out for both ends," Bailey said on Sunday before a Reds Caravan event at Great American Ball Park. "That's kind of tough to do. You see a lot of the signings that are going on, so, of course, it's going to raise eyebrows on my behalf. Obviously, with a mid-market team, it's tougher for them, also. We're just going to have to see how everything goes."
During a Saturday caravan stop in Ashland, Ky., Bailey appeared with Reds CEO Bob Castellini. The two then flew back to Cincinnati together on Castellini's private jet, but Bailey said no discussions about his contract came up while on the brief 20-minute flight.
Bailey has an intriguing set of options in front of him. He could get immediate long-term security now or wait until after the season and potentially get an even bigger contract once he's on the free-agent market next winter.
"That's just a gamble that every player takes," Bailey said. "There's always risk of injury or no performance or whatever the case may be."
Even though the Reds are aiming to lock in Bailey with a multi-year deal, the two sides already exchanged arbitration figures for a one-year pact earlier this month. A wide disparity exists, as Bailey filed for $11.6 million, while the Reds countered at $8.7 million -- a gap of $2.9 million. If a deal -- for either a multi-year or a one-year contract -- is not reached, the two sides will have an arbitration hearing sometime in February.
A year ago, the Reds and Bailey avoided arbitration with a one-year, $5.35 million contract.
Bailey, 27, wasn't concerned that something be completed before Spring Training opens on Feb. 14.
"I'm not going to sit there and put a timeline on anything," Bailey said. "These things are not processes that get done overnight. Last year, we did our [arbitration-avoiding contract] four days before we went to the hearing. They had a bunch of guys to sign. I'm not one to just rush things and say, 'Hey, it has to be done by this type of date.' It's not something I really want to deal with during the season."
Bailey is coming off of back-to-back strong seasons in his first two arbitration years. In 32 starts last season, Bailey was 11-12 with a career-best 3.49 ERA. He achieved career bests in innings (209) and strikeouts (199). He threw the second no-hitter of his career on July 2 vs. the Giants at Great American Ball Park. The righty had a 13-10 record and 3.68 ERA in 33 starts over 208 innings in 2012, and threw his first no-hitter vs. the Pirates near the end of that season.
The Reds will have a new manager this season in Bryan Price, who has been the team's pitching coach the previous four seasons. Bailey already has a good relationship with him, and was optimistic he would work well with new pitching coach Jeff Pico. Don't discount Price's presence as a chip in the Reds' favor.
"That's obviously something," Bailey said. "You hear from players who have been with other teams talking about other managers, other GMs, other front-office people -- whether it's good or bad. [It's important] knowing Bryan and knowing the relationship I have with him. I like our front office. It's a good bunch of guys. I like the owners. They do a lot here. Yeah, that definitely counts for something. At the end of the day, this is still a business. This is the way baseball works."
Bailey, who had surgery after last season to repair a hernia, maintained his fondness for the city of Cincinnati and the club itself. The Reds selected him in the first round of the 2004 First-Year Player Draft, and he debuted in the Majors for them during the 2007 season.
"If you've only been one place, you only know one thing, right? You know what's here," Bailey said. "That's one of the variables that you do know. You can go somewhere else and, again, that's part of the gamble that you have to take."
Is Bailey the gambling type?
"We'll find out," he replied.


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This blog is not like our normal ones. It's for anyone interested in full time van life or considering doing it. Basically it's the story of how and why we do what we do.
Category: wanderlust
Following the Loire River in our Motorhome
We've found a few Aires that haven't been listed in the Aires books, just general, pretty, car parks with no services. That's the good thing in France in a motorhome, you can park anywhere a car can park, as long as there isn't a sign saying "no camping car". Someone had turned the heat up … Continue reading Following the Loire River in our Motorhome
Aurevoir Brittany….
This blog's a bit different to our usual. Tina has taken a back seat and Kev has written it. Don't be fooled by knowledge, He's still a sarcastic sod!
Southern Brittany
Due to the weather not being that great we decided to give Roscoff a miss and head further South, in search of the sun. The place of choice was Cameret-sur Mer. The Aire was ok, nicely spaced bays and close to the GR34 coastal path. Kev wasn't himself. He was very quiet, no laughing or … Continue reading Southern Brittany
Motorhoming on the Côte de Granite Rose, Brittany
We had a discussion as to who should write this blog, me or Kev. Kev's advice was to put after the title.... "or for you thick f*cks out there, it translates as "The Pink Granite Coast" we decided I was best to do the blog! 😂🤐 This coastline is stunning and it stretches for more … Continue reading Motorhoming on the Côte de Granite Rose, Brittany
Western France
How my husband is alive with some of the things he says to me is a miracle.
A week on a campsite in Brittany. Now this part of France has "wowed" us.
Our first French campsite in the motorhome. A week in Dinard near Saint Malo. If this is how Brittany is we're going to love it!
Motorhoming in France….it doesn't need to be expensive
when you're travelling for 4 months you can't spend like you're on holiday. we found ways to enjoy France without breaking the bank balance.
Our Maiden Voyage across the Channel in the Motorhome
Our first trip abroad in the motorhome and the longest time we'll have spent in it since bought it, a year ago! Could we do "full timing"?
Trelew, Welsh Patagonia
Who would have thought that Patagonia had an old Welsh colony.


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The University of Akron Alumni Association Legacy Scholarship
The University of Akron Alumni Association established the Legacy Scholarship program in 2001 through its governing body, the National Alumni Board of Directors. The Legacy Scholarship assists as many full-time undergraduate students as possible - with limited funds - who are the children, grandchildren or under legal guardianship of a University of Akron alumnus/a.
The scholarship symbolizes the University's commitment to community and student support and recognizes the importance of providing funds to retain students and assist them towards earning a college degree.
To be eligible to apply for this competitive scholarship, applicants must meet the following criteria:
- Parent, grandparent or guardian must be a University of Akron alumnus/a.
- Applicant must be a full-time undergraduate student for the following academic year.
- Earn a minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or better.
- Demonstrate leadership abilities and community activities with a minimum two years of community service required.
- Possess high standards of character as evidenced by letters of recommendation
Financial need may be considered. Preference will be given to the well-rounded student (includes good academic performance, extracurricular activities and volunteer experience).
Did you know?
- The Legacy Scholarship is funded in part by UA-branded Ohio license plates. (UA plates cost an additional $35. Of that, $25 goes directly to the Legacy Scholarship Fund.)
- Since its creation, the Legacy Scholarship has been awarded to over 80 students, totaling over $80,000 in scholarship dollars.
Scholarship Information and Selection Process
The total number of scholarships and award amounts given per year will be based upon available funds from the endowment, and may be renewable. Recipients must enroll full time in both semesters to receive the full award.
The selection committee shall consist of members of the National Alumni Board of Directors and one staff member of the Alumni Association who will consider academic performance, leadership, community service, honors, and career goals in making their selections. There are no restrictions to applicants based on age, gender, race, nationality, country of origin, physical disability, veteran status, or sexual orientation.
Application Deadline
The complete application package must be postmarked no later than Monday, February 6, 2023, which includes submission of the online scholarship application, two mailed letters of recommendation, and an official transcript to:
The University of Akron Alumni Association
Attn: Legacy Scholarship 2023
Akron, OH 44325-2602
For questions or more information, contact The University of Akron Alumni Association at 330-972-7271 or via e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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SAN DIEGO, Calif. – 16-year-old Vera Oliphant shows the scars left behind after being attacked by a group of rattlesnakes.
It happened while she was visiting her uncle in a rural area of inland southern California two weeks ago. She was walking up a hill trying to get a cell phone signal when she heard the rattling.
"I ran backwards and I stepped into a pit of snakes," Oliphant said.
She was bitten at least six times and said her body instantly starting going numb. She limped back to her uncle's house as fast as possible, and he was able to get her to an emergency room.
She was in intensive care for four days. Later, she told KSWB what she learned from the incident.
"If you're in a desert, 1) wear boots, and 2) don't bring your cell phone or go searching for reception," Oliphant said. "You probably won't find it anyways, and you might step into a pit of rattlesnakes."
Dr. Jordan Cohen at Sharp Grossmont Hospital has seen his fair share of rattlesnake bites, and said the important thing to do if you sustain one is not to panic.
"You have more time than you think you do," he said.
But he also said many well-known techniques used by some in the wild don't actually work. Here is a list of four:
- Try not to move
- Don't use any suction (i.e. don't try to suck out the poison), because it can worsen future infections.
- Don't use a tourniquet, because it can cause more harm than good.
- Get to an emergency room ASAP.


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Engineers in India have developed a new kind of lingerie that's pretty much as unsexy as you can get.
Touted as "anti-rape" underwear, these skivvies are equipped with GPS, a communication system that alerts the police (and the wearer's parents), and pressure sensors that can deliver shock waves of 3,800 volts—so they can scare away an attacker and send help in a flash.
A co-developer of the undies says he hopes his product will give women "freedom from situations faced in buses [and] public places." Okaaay…but how does this actually solve the rape problem?
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While the sentiment to help keep women safe is appreciated—and even though these drawers could certainly come in handy in a moment of attack—I'm getting a little tired of how preventing rape is always up to us ladies. As in: Don't go out alone at night, don't drink too much, don't wear revealing clothing, make sure to watch your cocktail at all times, and now, make sure to put on your anti-rape underwear before you go out at night.
Here's a better idea: Instead of making fancy rape-preventing underwear, why don't we spend those resources teaching guys that it's not okay to rape women. Because it's not the short skirts or too many margaritas that "cause" rape, it's the rapists.
Until people start getting that I'm pretty sure nothing is going to change as far as violence against women is concerned. So while these undies are cool and all, I'd rather us work to create a society in which we don't need them.
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The end of homeopathy? – a very lengthy and critical article looking at the alternative medicine of homeopathy. 456 comments and counting. (via Mink Toast.)
After the birth of our son Adam, my wife was told to take Arnica C30 by nurses and doctors. After reading the post above, I searched for Arnica C30. The first result is a double blind test of homoeopathic arnica C30. The summary results aren't encouraging,
73 patients completed the study, of whom 35 received placebo and 38 received arnica C30. The placebo group had a greater median age and the arnica group had slightly longer operations; nevertheless, no significant difference between the two groups could be demonstrated. We conclude that arnica in homoeopathic potency had no effect on postoperative recovery in the context of our study.
On to the links …
- Christmas Spirit – lovely photo and story.
- In the middle of November, Google changed the clickable area on Adsense adverts. Jonathan noticed a large drop in revenue, but I haven't. Click through rate is much the same as before, although I did compensate by making the advert URLs more prominent.
- Sometimes bosses misunderstand tech jargon, in amusing ways. Oh, don't ask an engineer to talk to your class. He might be a bit blunt!
- Google Analyticator is a small WordPress plugin that adds the necessary Google Analytics Javascript to your blog. It also has a neat JS function to track outbound links in Analytics. Just make sure you create two conversion goals, "/outgoing" and "/download" to do the tracking.
- How many famous people?
- Will the real Googlebot please stand? 184.108.40.206, you sit down. You're a fake.
- Jeff's The Two Types of Programmers essay sparked such a response, he wrote a follow up. I definitely know a few 80% programmers. Many of the people I went to college with fall into that category unfortunately. No, none of them read this blog! 🙂