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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 355 diseños de 105 diseñadores freelance.
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I'm a professional fashion, portrait, and wedding photographer. I host of "This Week in Photography", one of the world's most popular photography-related podcasts, and regularly lecture and conduct training classes on topics ranging from business to photographic technique.
I began my career as a Combat Photojournalist in the United States Air Force, where I served for 8 years and was decorated many times for my work in the field. My unit was among the first in the military to receive, and put into daily action, the very first digital camera technology — I was awarded the Air Force Commendation medal for my role in facilitating the transition from film-based photography to digital.
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The target audience for this brand is the creative pro. That includes designers, photographers, videographers, and more. Because the audience is comprised of professional creatives, the standards for the quality of the logo are a bit higher. Due to the fact that creative professionals tend to have a higher-level of attention to detail and creativity.
This logo needs to be timeless. I would like it to be comprised of a graphical element that can be used on t-shirts, business cards, etc. Ideally it will be square in orientation to make it easier to use as icons, Gravatars, etc. I am a huge fan of very SIMPLE and elegant designs. Some of the logos I like are:
The Wordpress theme I am considering using for this project is here:
I actually like the color scheme they've chosen for this theme, and in fact the sample logo they're displaying is quite nice in terms of its simplicity. Though it won't work for MediaBytes, it's a good example of the simplicity I'm looking for in the logo.
I'd like the logo to be comprised of both a graphical element AND the MediaBytes name, however the logo should be able to stand on it's own and be recognized.
The logo should support:
Graphical element only
Horizontal display (graphical element on left, text on right)
Vertical display (graphical element on top, text on bottom)
Please avoid anything too three dimensional as those types of designs don't translate well to multiple uses.
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DALLAS (AP) — A writer and activist linked to the hacking collective Anonymous pleaded guilty to federal charges on Tuesday alleging that he shared stolen data and posted an online threat saying he would try to harm a federal agent who was investigating him.
Barrett Lancaster Brown, 32, pleaded guilty in Dallas federal court to obstructing the execution of a search warrant, making Internet threats and being an accessory to an unauthorized access of a protected computer.
While Brown's attorneys got prosecutors to drop nearly a dozen other counts, he still faces up to 8½ years in prison. He will be sentenced in August.
Brown was a writer and one-time spokesman of sorts for Anonymous, a worldwide hacking collective that has staged attacks on governments, businesses and organizations. Brown acted as a self-appointed spokesman for the group and has been quoted by several news outlets, including The Associated Press, even if some within the movement dismissed him as a fabulist who craved attention.
Brown was arrested two years ago after posting YouTube videos and tweets threatening an FBI agent who was investigating him. In a rambling, angry series of posts, Brown vowed to "ruin his life and look into his (expletive) kids."
Some of his tweets hinted at violence, including one before his arrest in which he said he would regard "any further armed raids as potential Zeta assassination attempts and respond accordingly," referencing the Mexican drug cartel.
Federal authorities came down hard on Brown, obtaining three separate indictments against him. Free-speech advocates protested an indictment accusing Brown of trafficking in stolen information by posting a link to data hacked by Anonymous from Stratfor, an Austin, Texas-based defense contractor.
"Barrett's always wanted to accept responsibility for what he's actually done," said Ahmed Ghappour, one of Brown's attorneys, after the hearing. "The problem is that the allegations in the government's case did not reflect what he'd actually done until the government dropped the majority of charges."
Brown's supporters say he was working as a journalist investigating the data. Among his defenders is Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who published information from documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
Prosecutors also charged Brown's mother, Karen McCutchin, with helping him hide two laptops during the execution of a search warrant in March 2012. She pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge and was given probation. McCutchin attended Tuesday's hearing, saying afterward that she was "cautiously optimistic" about Brown's upcoming sentencing.
According to signed plea agreement documents filed earlier this month, Brown acknowledged he sent online messages "threatening to shoot and injure agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation." He also admitted to helping someone using the nickname "o'' access stolen Stratfor data, as well as obstructing the execution of the search warrant at his home.
His attorneys succeeded in getting most of the indictment for republishing a link to the Stratfor data dismissed. They argued that Brown was working with contributors around the world to investigate public materials "such as information obtained from leakers and hackers."
With the help of his attorneys and supporters, Brown has continued to write and publish from jail. He's written online columns on the television habits of fellow inmates and other aspects of jail life, and his supporters have published an e-book in which he critiques the mainstream media and television pundits.
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Although known primarily for its Marvel Comics tables, the pinball simulator Pinball FX 2 has other crossovers, like Rocky & Bullwinkle and Street Fighter. The game's latest team-up is with Twisted Pixel's Ms. 'Splosion Man, and it is available Aug. 31.
The add-on runs 240 Microsoft points. (Pinball FX 2 is an Xbox Live Arcade exclusive). You can see about 90 seconds of gameplay in that trailer above. A news release from Zen Studios, Pinball FX 2's maker, says the table will offer players sets of "'sploding missions and combos, culminating in a final battle with Mighty Eternal."
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The rumors around Apple's scheduled announcement next week, as per usual, have focused on a next-gen iPad with a higher-resolution screen. A newer Apple TV and, possibly, another version of a remote may also be in the mix to support the increase in visual definition.
Many reports around the web, and this one from 9to5Mac, point to a new Apple TV box that would boost its video output to 1080p, up from the present 720p. There's mention of a possible remote, as well, perhaps integrating Siri's voice function and iCloud's accessibility.
The Next Web's Matthew Panzarino has an interesting correlation to the reports, tying the remote to Steve Jobs' mention of having "cracked" the "simplest user interface you could imagine." That could point to a remote that changes modes for different devices, uses a microphone for Siri commands and surfaces content channels as apps -- basically syncing all devices around the big screen on the living room wall.
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Admittedly, the remote could be something as simple as improving the line-of-sight limitations of the present one. For that matter, it could be remotes coming in an array of iPod-type colors.
With 9to5Mac's track records, MG Siegler's conjecture and The Next Web's analysis, there does seem to be a synergy forming around iPad3/Apple TV/improved remote interface.
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HPC blog The cluster kids on eight international university teams have now deployed their clusters at the 2013 International Supercomputing Conference in Leipzig, Germany. The 2013 ISC Student Cluster Challenge entrants are now fighting each other to win a series of HPC benchmarks and scientific apps.
The two teams below - Costa Rica's Rainforest Eagles 2.0 and South Africa's ... err, scary animal nickname - are, so far, the only teams representing their regions: in South Africa's case, they're standing in for the whole continent while the Eagles are fronting for Central America. I shot some short video interviews with each team to give you folks a closer look.
South Africa: I heard the team say their nickname at the very beginning of the competition, but I didn't hear it clearly and forgot to ask them during our first interview. I'm pretty sure it was a scary animal or something like that, though.
It slipped my mind because these kids were so animated and engaging. In the video, we banter a bit, but also discuss how they ended up competing in Leipzig. Along the way, we talk about their Dell-sponsored trip to Austin, Texas, and the training they received there.
Team Costa Rica: Like Team South Africa, the Rainforest Eagles 2.0 team from Costa Rica are representing Central America (and South America, neither of which have had much of a presence in cluster-offs to date).
In the video, we meet the team and talk about their cluster experience so far.
Both of these teams are on the leading edge of a revolution in technology education in their respective countries. In fact, these teams were formed in hopes that the competition would attract more current and new students to technology courses and careers.
According to the team coaches and advisors, participating in the cluster competitions has really helped highlight the quality of their universities' programmes and students. It has also helped the schools forge stronger relationships with vendors and employers in their regions. ®
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PENFIELD, Ill. - Scott Stewart has witnessed the anxiety hospice patients suffer when they don't know what's going to become of their beloved pets.
Unfortunately, he said, too many dying patients have to give up their pets when they go into hospice care and don't see them again.
"What happens to some of these animals is they end up in kill shelters or somebody in the family puts them down," he said.
Stewart, who is a hospice nurse, and his wife, Jessica Sempek, want a kinder solution for people who are dying and the animals that have been part of their lives.
They've launched Hospice Hearts Sanctuary, a new organization, with a goal of building a sanctuary on their own property in Penfield for several of the pets of area hospice patients.
Sempek said she and her husband will donate the land, and they hope to raise $20,000 for the building shell to house the animals. They have plans for donated labor to finish the inside, she said.
The shelter would house about three to five dogs and eight to 12 cats for hospice patients from Champaign, Ford, Piatt, and Vermilion counties in Illinois with six months or less to live, and volunteers would work to maintain a relationship between pets and their dying owners, Sempek said.
After the owners die, she said, the organization will work to find new homes for the pets and continue to provide a home for those that aren't adoptable.
"We want it to be a peaceful place," she said.
Stewart said the idea for the sanctuary grew out of his work as a hospice nurse and seeing patients worrying about their pets.
"During the course of my career, I've had many encounters with patients who had pets where there was just no place for them to go," he said.
Hospice is about providing comfort at the end of life, Sempek said.
She and her husband hope to see some hospice patients comforted knowing their dogs and cats will be OK, she said.
As for the animals themselves, they'll need comfort, too, and space to grieve, Sempek said.
"They are little emotional beings with psychological needs, too," she said.
Champaign County Humane Society Executive Director Mary Tiefenbrunn said the local Humane Society doesn't have the resources to maintain a relationship between a pet and its person - even a dying person - once a pet has been surrendered, though death of an owner is one of the reasons animals are given to the Humane Society.
Tiefenbrunn said she's familiar with the Hospice Hearts Sanctuary plans.
"What they want to do, I think, there is definitely a need for it," she said. "It's a wonderful, humane thing to do for the humans and the animals, to allow them to have a relationship. It's just not something we're able to do."
Stewart and Sempek are familiar with the animal-human bond. They have three dogs and four indoor cats of their own and take care of two or three outdoor feral cats at any given time. And they consider their pets family, they said.
Sempek also has a health care connection through her work, coordinating continuing medical education program for physicians, she said.
Construction of the sanctuary in northeast Champaign County would start in the fall, with a goal of opening by next January, Sempek said.
Hospice Hearts Sanctuary has applied to the state to be registered as a charitable organization and is in the process of seeking nonprofit status from the IRS, the couple said.


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South African Journal of Animal Science
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S. Afr. j. anim. sci. vol.41 no.3 Pretoria Jan. 2011
Effects of oxidised oil and vitamin E on performance and some blood traits of heat-stressed male broilers
H. BayraktarI,*; Ö. AltanI; Z. AçikgözI; S.H. BaysalII; Ç. SeremetI
IFaculty of Agriculture, Department of Animal Science, Ege University, Bornova, Izmir, Turkey
IIFaculty of Sciences, Department of Biochemistry, Ege University, Bornova, Izmir, Turkey
The present study was conducted so that the possible effects of thermally-oxidised dietary oil and vitamin E supplementation could be determined on the performance, lipid peroxidation, antioxidant defence system and some blood and meat quality traits of broilers. Broilers were fed grower diets containing fresh or oxidised oil, supplemented with and without vitamin E (200 mg/kg) from four to six weeks of age. Neither oxidised dietary oil nor vitamin E supplementation had any adverse effect on weight gain, feed consumption or feed conversion ratio. However, the broilers that received oxidised oil had lower levels of plasma cholesterol and triglyceride compared to the control. The glucose level was neither influenced by oxidised oil nor by vitamin E supplementation. The plasma malondialdehyde level increased slightly in broilers fed oxidised oil, indicating increased lipid peroxidation. Higher glutathione peroxidise (GSH-Px) activity observed in the broilers fed oxidised oil suggests greater oxidative stress. Vitamin E supplementation partly depressed GSH-Px activity in broilers fed oxidised oil. This depression in enzyme activity might be the result of homeostatic compensation. The uric acid concentration was not affected by oxidised oil and vitamin E supplementation. Feeding oxidised oil did not cause a marked discolouration in breast meat. Vitamin E supplementation had some beneficial effects on colour measurements.
Keywords: Lipid peroxidation, oxidative stress, poultry, performance, meat colour
Vegetable oils, rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs), are highly digestible in chickens and are used in relatively large quantities in broiler diets to increase growth rate (Engberg et al., 1996). However, oils are susceptible to oxidation during storage and after addition to the diet, especially under the promoting effects of oxygen, high temperatures or metallic catalysts. Lipid oxidation is a serious problem to both the food industry and the consumer, because it shortens the shelf life of meat and meat products, and increases the development of rancid odours and flavours. In addition, free radicals formed during oxidation may be a potential health risk to consumers (Jakobsen, 1999).
Furthermore, the usage of oxidised oil in diets can lead to growth depression in poultry (Cabel et al., 1988; Lin et al., 1989; Sheehy et al., 1994; Dibner et al., 1996; Engberg et al., 1996; Jankowski et al., 2000) and in other animal species (Keller et al., 2004). It has been suggested that growth depression might be due to a reduction in feed intake as a result of reduced palatability and off flavour of rancid feed, or a decrease in digestibility of the oxidised oil (Wideman, 1986; Zdunczyk et al., 2000; 2002).
The ingestion of oxidised oils also reduces tocopherol levels of tissues and plasma (Sheehy, 1993; Fei, 1995; Eder, 1999a; Jankowski et al., 2000) and increases the amount of thiobarbituric acid-reactive substances (TBARS), suggesting an elevation in lipid peroxidation and cellular fragility (Asghar, 1989; Sheehy et al., 1993; 1994; Fei, 1995; Enberg et al., 1996; Eder & Kirchgessner, 1999; Juskiewicz et al., 2000). Similarly, Zdunczyk et al. (2000) and Keller et al. (2004) reported that oxidised dietary oils lead to a reduced antioxidant status of erythrocytes and make them more susceptible to haemolysis. It is also suggested that these detrimental effects of oxidised dietary oils can be alleviated by vitamin E supplementation (Jakobsen et al., 1993; Sheehy et al., 1993; Dibner et al., 1996; Keller et al., 2004).
Increasing the fat content of diets helps birds to cope with heat stress and can overcome growth depression in broilers (Gous & Morris, 2005). However, special care should be taken to prevent fat oxidation at high ambient temperatures. Jankowski et al. (2001) reported that short and long-term feeding of diets containing oxidised oils decreased the final body weight of turkeys kept at high environmental temperatures. Furthermore, raising the fat level in diets by using vegetable oils, can promote oxidation problems in meat and meat products.
Heat stress stimulates the release of corticosterone from the adrenal gland, initiates lipid peroxidation in the cell membrane and leads to the generation of free radicals (Etches et al., 1995). These free radicals can damage cell membranes by inducing lipid peroxidation of PUFAs in the cell membrane (Halliwell et al., 1992; Yu, 1994; Etches et al., 1995; Altan et al., 2000; 2003). However, the peroxidation induced by heat stress might disappear upon the stimulation of the antioxidation ability (Lin et al. 2000). Puthpongsiriporn et al. (2001) also reported that lipid peroxidation in yolk and plasma, induced by heat stress, can be ameliorated by vitamin E supplementation. Therefore, the requirements of vitamin E for stabilization of cell membrane oxidation, are higher during heat stress (Kirunda et al., 2001).
Generally, feed producers do not use oil with a high peroxide value in animal diets. However, feedstuffs stored in silos or broiler diets stocked on farms, especially during high summer temperatures, can easily undergo thermal oxidation, resulting in potentially toxic lipid peroxidation products. There are a few studies in which the effects of oxidised oil and vitamin E supplementation have been evaluated on the performance of broilers exposed to heat stress. Therefore, lipid peroxidation induced by heat stress and oxidised dietary oils in broilers must be taken into consideration.
The aim of the present study was to determine the possible effects of oxidised dietary oils on lipid peroxidation, some biochemical and production parameters of broilers reared under a high ambient temperature, and to determine whether vitamin E supplementation is able to alleviate the possible adverse effects of oxidised oil on lipid peroxidation. Colour measurements of breast muscle were also evaluated to determine whether oxidised dietary oil resulted in colour deterioration.
Materials and Methods
Three hundred and eighty-four day-old male chicks (Ross 308) were obtained from a commercial hatchery and randomly assigned to three dietary treatments with four replications (32 chicks per pen). The birds were maintained in an open-sided broiler house and received feed and water ad libitum. A lighting programme of 1 h dark : 23 h light was provided during the experimental period. The average daily temperature and relative humidity inside the house ranged from 30 to 35 ºC and 50 to 70%, respectively. Individual body weights and feed intake for each pen were measured at four and six weeks of age, and mortality was recorded daily. The feed conversion ratio (FCR) was adjusted for mortality.
All birds were fed a commercial starter diet (235 g crude protein/kg and 12.68 MJ metabolizable energy/kg) for the first three weeks. From four to six weeks of age the experimental birds received one of three grower diets, all containing 13.3 MJ metabolizable energy/kg and 219.1 g crude protein/kg (Table 1). The basal diet (control), prepared with fresh sunflower oil, was supplemented with a vitamin premix containing 75 mg α-tocopherol acetate/kg. The second group received the basal diet containing oxidised sunflower oil (100 meq O2/kg oil). The third group was fed the same diet as the second, but was supplemented with α-tocopherol acetate at a level of 200 mg/kg. The chemical composition of the diets was determined according to Verband Deutscher Landwirtschaftlicher Untersuchungs und Forschungsanstalten, VDLUFA (Naumann & Bassler, 1993). The metabolizable energy content of the diets was calculated from the chemical composition (TS, 1991). Sunflower oil was saturated with oxygen and intensively aerated during a heating process at 70 - 80 ºC until the peroxide value reached 100 meq O2/kg oil (Zduńczyk et al., 2000). The peroxide analysis was performed in accordance with the procedures recommended by TS (2006).
At the end of the study, 12 broilers from each group were slaughtered and their p. majors were immediately removed from the right side of the carcasses, wrapped in film and stored at 4 ºC for 24 h for pH and colour measurements. The pH values were measured in each breast muscle at three different locations, using a digital pH meter (Hanna Instruments H1 8314). Objective colour was measured at the surface of skinless breast samples using a reflectance spectrophotometer (Minolta CM 508d). Each colour parameter (L*= brightness, a*=redness and b*=yellowness) was taken at three different locations across the p. major (CIE, 1986).
A sample of 5 mL of blood was obtained from the wing vein of 13 birds per treatment and kept in an ice bath until the laboratory analysis could be performed. Blood samples were divided into two. The one subsample was used immediately after collection for antioxidant enzyme analysis. The second subsample was centrifuged at 4000 rpm for 10 min at 4 ºC to separate plasma and stored at -70 ºC, for later cholesterol, triglyceride and glucose analysis. Randox cholesterol, triglycerides and glucose Liquid Enzymatic Colorimetric Method kits (Randox Laboratories, Ardmore, Crumlin, UK) were used which are based on the CHOD-PAP, Glycerol-Phosphate Oxidase and GOD-PAP methods, respectively. Glutathione peroxidise (GSH-Px) activity was determined using a commercially available enzyme kit (Ransel, RANDOX/RS-504) supplied by Randox Laboratories, Ardmore, Crumlin, UK. The Randox Uric Acid Enzymatic Colorimetric method kit was used for uric acid analysis. Uric acid is converted by uricase to allantoin and hydrogen peroxide, which is under the catalytic influence of peroxidase, oxidizes 3.5-Dichloro-2-hydroxybenzenesulfonic acid and 4-aminophenazone to form a red-violet quinoneimine compound. Lipid peroxidation was measured using the TBA method (Satoh, 1978; Yagi, 1984). This method evaluates the oxidative stress assayed for malondialdehyde (MDA), the last product of lipid breakdown caused by oxidative stress.
Data was subjected to one-way ANOVA using the General Linear Model Procedure of SAS (1985). Means were compared using the Duncan test (α = 0.05).
Results and Discussion
The effects of oxidised oil and vitamin E supplementation on broiler performance are shown in Table 2. Oxidised dietary oil and vitamin E supplementation did not affect body weight gain and feed intake during the four to six week experimental periods. These results agree with other studies which reported that body weight and feed intake were not adversely affected by oxidised oil in rats (Zdunczyk et al, 2000.; Eder et al., 2002; Keller et al., 2004) and in miniature pigs (Eder, 1999b). There were no differences in FCR of the treatment groups, which is in accordance with the results reported for broilers by Lin et al. (1989) and Engberg et al. (1996).
The findings showed that body weight and FCR were not adversely affected by oxidised oil and implied that oxidised oil did not alter palatability, odour or digestibility of the diet. In fact, it is reported that neither protein nor fat digestibility was affected by mildly oxidised oil (Zdunczyk et al., 2000). In contrast, there are some studies that report depressed growth and impaired health in birds fed oxidised oil (Lin et al., 1989; Jacobsen et al., 1993; Sheehy et al., 1993; Engberg et al., 1996; Jankowski et al., 2000; Zdunczyk et al., 2002; Eder et al., 2003). In these studies, the detrimental effects of oxidised oil may be due to the administration of oils with high peroxide values or higher secondary lipid peroxidation products which have toxic effects. In the present study the peroxide value of the grower diet was 6.0 meq/kg and was lower than in most other studies. Interestingly, an increased cell proliferation in the gut and liver of birds fed oxidised oil occurred, suggesting that it may be related to a reduced FCR because of an increase in the maintenance requirement of these tissues (Fei, 1995; Dibner et al., 1996). The supplementation of oxidised oil, with or without vitamin E, to grower diets did not affect the levels of glucose and total cholesterol in plasma. However, the triglyceride level in plasma was strongly influenced by the oxidised oil treatment. The birds fed oxidised oil had a significantly lower triglyceride level in their plasma than the control group. The depression in the triglyceride level caused by oxidised oil was less pronounced in the group supplemented with vitamin E (Table 3). The effects of oxidised oil on cholesterol and triglyceride concentrations are largely speculative. While some researchers obtained no significant effects in rats (Eder, 1999a) or birds (Juskiewicz, 2000), others reported that oxidised dietary oil reduces cholesterol and triglyceride concentrations (Eder & Kirchgessner, 1999; Eder, 1999b; Eder et al., 2003). However, Narasimhamurthy & Raina (1999) observed higher cholesterol and lower triglyceride concentrations in the plasma of rats fed heated/fried oils compared to the fresh group. The reduction in cholesterol concentrations has been explained by elevated faecal excretion of cholesterol, impaired liver cholesterol uptake (Hocgraf et al., 2000) and increased plasma thyroxin levels (Eder, 1999a). However, the oxidised oil-induced decline in triglyceride concentrations might be due to a reduced de novo synthesis of fatty acids (Eder & Kirchgessner, 1998; 1999; Eder, 1999b). Fei (1995) suggested that birds fed oxidised oil had a higher glucose uptake capacity primarily due to an increase in the energy-dependent uptake. However, in the present study the plasma glucose level of the oxidised oil group did not differ from that of the fresh oil group.
There was a large individual variation in response to the oxidised oil treatment, ranging from 0.08 µM to 1.17 µM, but no statistically significant differences were obtained among treatment groups for MDA concentrations (Table 3). Nevertheless, the birds fed the oxidised oil diet showed a tendency towards a higher MDA concentration in erythrocytes compared to the control group, suggesting an increase in lipid peroxidation. In other words, the vitamin E level of the basal diet might be insufficient to ensure optimum protection against the damaging effect of oxidised oil. These results seem to agree with many previous reports in which higher TBARS levels were obtained in birds fed oxidised oil (Sheehy et al., 1993; 1994; Engberg et al., 1996). Similar findings have also been reported in rats (Eder & Kirchgessner, 1999; Juskiewicz et al., 2000; Eder et al., 2003; Tabatabaei, 2008). However, Eder (1999a) suggested that the susceptibility of plasma lipids to lipid peroxidation was not significantly affected by feeding oxidised oil to miniature pigs.
Vitamin E, a major chain-breaking antioxidant of membranes, can scavenge the hydroxyl, alkoxyl, peroxyl and superoxide anion radicals and increase membrane stability (Surai, 2003). Dietary vitamin E supplementation has been shown to protect cells from oxidative stress mediated by oxidised oil and to improve the stability of meat (Lin et al., 1989; Wang et al., 1997; Asghar et al., 1999). Supporting these results was the negative correlation between the dietary vitamin E and hepatic TBARS levels obtained by Mercier et al. (1998) and Guo et al. (2001).
In this study, although the effect of vitamin E supplementation was not statistically significant, the lower MDA levels of the vitamin E supplemented group (0.49 ± 0.09 µM) compared with the oxidised oil group (0.60 ± 0.05 µM) might be a sign of the beneficial effect of vitamin E in alleviating oxidative damage induced by the oxidised oil. In agreement with our findings, Eder & Kirchgessner (1998) reported that with a low vitamin E supply, the susceptibility of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) to lipid peroxidation was slightly increased by feeding oxidised oil. In contrast, with a high vitamin E supply, there was no adverse effect by using oxidised dietary oil on the susceptibility of LDL to lipid peroxidation. Higher levels of vitamin E may be sufficient to scavenge free radicals or increase fatty acid saturation and decrease instauration, thus making lipids more resistant to lipid peroxidation (Barja et al., 1996; Iqbal et al., 2002). The activity of GSH-Px was significantly different, with the oxidised oil group having the highest value, the vitamin E supplemented group the lowest value and fresh oil group having an intermediate GSH-Px activity (Table 3).
A large variation in GSH-Px activity appears to have been caused by individual variation in response to the oxidised oil treatment. Shaaban et al. (2003) also obtained significant differences in GSH-Px activity in different genotypes of chicken. GSH-Px removes hydrogen peroxide and lipid hydroperoxides from cells (Shaaban et al., 2003; Surai, 2003). Therefore, a higher GSH-Px activity in birds fed oxidised oil, can be explained by enzyme synthesis which may be an adaptive response to greater hydrogen peroxide production and to greater oxidative stress in the present study. Supporting this result, Davies (2000) and Surai (2003) reported that organs can adapt to oxidative stress by increasing their production of antioxidant and repair enzymes and restore the antioxidant/pro-oxidant balance. A similar response has been reported for rats, in which feeding oxidised oil resulted in increased antioxidant enzyme activities (Hayam et al., 1995; Juskiewicz et al., 2000). Furthermore, Iqbal et al. (2002) suggested that higher GSH-Px and SOD activities observed in the liver tissue of broilers with ascites, may be the response to a greater degree of oxidative stress. Supporting our findings, Maraschiello et al. (1999) observed that lipid and cholesterol oxidation were positively correlated with GSH-Px activity, suggesting that the GSH-Px activity can be used as an indicator of meat oxidative stability. However, some contradictory results were reported for antioxidant enzyme activity in relation to dietary oxidised oil. While Engberg et al. (1996) reported that the total GSH-Px activity in broilers was not influenced by oxidised oil, Keller et al. (2004) suggested that oxidised dietary oils reduced the antioxidant enzyme activities such as super oxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT) and GSH-Px of erythrocytes in rats and guinea pigs.
In the present study the broilers were reared at a high ambient temperature, and the heat stress caused increases in MDA levels and antioxidant enzyme activities (GSH-Px, SOD and CAT), leading to oxidative stress (Altan et al., 2000; 2003). Eder et al. (2002) also indicated that feeding rats with oxidised fat reduced the activity of GSH-Px in either high or low selenium diets. In birds fed oxidised oil, supplementing the diet with 200 mg vitamin E/kg depressed the GSH-Px activity in erythrocytes (Table 3). It seems possible, therefore, that the higher level of vitamin E might control the level of oxygenated radical scavenging systems such as GSH-Px and depress antioxidant enzyme activities by homeostatic compensation. The decrease in the GSH-Px activity found in the present study, agrees with that of Maraschiello et al. (1999) who reported a lower oxidant enzyme activity in broilers supplemented with α- tocopherol. In some stress conditions, the first stage of antioxidant defence in cells (antioxidant enzymes and metal binding proteins) is not able to prevent free radical formation. In this case, the second stage of defence consists of chain-breaking antioxidants. Uric acid, an end-product of purine metabolism, is a chain-breaking antioxidant and scavenger of single oxygen and radicals (Surai, 2003). In the present study, feeding oxidised oil and vitamin E supplementation did not alter uric acid levels in treatment groups, suggesting more mildly oxidative stress (Table 3).
There were no significant differences between the treatments in redness (a*), yellowness (b*) or pH, whereas the L* value was significantly lower in the control group compared to the oxidised oil and vitamin E supplemented groups (Table 4). As the b* value increases, poultry meat is characterized as yellow-brown whereas lower b* values cause poultry meat to go ivory-cream pink (Jensen et al., 1997). Lower L* and slightly higher b* values in the control group indicated darker coloured breast meat compared to the vitamin E supplemented group. Colour differences on CIE-Lab coordinates can be discerned by the most normal observers, and consumers can detect one CIE-Lab unit change in colour coordinates (Zhu & Brewer, 1999). Although there were no statistically significant differences in the b* values of groups, colour development in the vitamin E supplemented group could be detected by the naked eye as light coloured breast meat, compared to other groups. Likewise, dietary vitamin E increases the stability of membrane-bound lipids and delays oxidation of red oxymyoglobin to brown metmyoglobin, thus improving the colour stability of the meat. These beneficial effects of vitamin E have been reported by Faustman et al. (1998) and Morrisey et al. (1998). However, Coetzee & Hoffman (2001) were not able to obtain a beneficial effect of vitamin E on colour measurements in broiler meat. In turkey meat, Mercier et al. (1998) also reported that vitamin E supplementation delays lipid oxidation, but has no positive effect on colour stability.
We have hypothesized that detrimental effects of dietary oxidised oil are more pronounced in broilers reared at high ambient temperatures than at lower temperatures. Surprisingly, in spite of a high ambient temperature, feeding moderately oxidised oil did not cause drastic decreases in growth, feed consumption or feed efficiency of the broilers. Although the consumption of oxidised oil induces oxidative stress, there was only a slight increase in GSH-Px activity and MDA level. Supplementation of a diet with vitamin E (200 mg/kg) resulted in some alleviation of these adverse effects. Feeding oxidised oil did not cause a marked discolouration of breast meat, although vitamin E supplementation had a beneficial effect on colour measurements.
In conclusion, birds receiving adequate nutrients, particularly protein and vitamin E, were able to metabolise the undesirable components in oxidised oil and respond to mild oxidative stress by reregulating antioxidant defences and other protective mechanisms that exist in the cell for maintaining homeostasis.
We wish to thank the Scientific Research Projects Committee of Ege University and Özlem Tarim Ürünleri A.S. for their contribution to this study (Project number: 2002-BİL-027).
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In yet another sign that Marc Staal may be out for a LONG time, the New York Rangers have announced that they have signed defenseman Anton Stralman to a deal. While the team does not announce terms, TSN's Bob McKenzie reported that it is a one-year $900K deal.
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That's still an open question. There's a good chance that if we find an elegant solution, we'll get some new syntax.
In an effort to (re)start this conversation and get us thinking about the possibilities, I've drawn together some examples from various Lisps. At the end of the post, we'll review some related data structures in LFE... as a point of contrast and possible guidance.
Note that I've tried to keep the code grouped in larger gists, not split up with prose wedged between them. This should make it easier to compare and contrast whole examples at a glance.
Before we dive into the Lisps, let's take a look at maps in Erlang:
Erlang Maps
Common Lisp Hash Tables
Racket Hash Tables
Clojure Hash Maps
Shen Property Lists
OpenLisp Hash Tables
LFE Property Lists
LFE orddicts
I summarized some very basic usability and aesthetic thoughts on the LFE mail list, but I'll restate them here:
- Erlang syntax really is quite powerful; I continue to be impressed.
- Clojure was by far the most enjoyable to work with... however, doing something similar in LFE would require quite a bit of additions for language or macro infrastructure. My concern here is that we'd end up with a Clojure clone rather than something distinctly Erlang-Lispy.
- Racket had the fullest and most useful set of hash functions (and best docs).
- Chicken Scheme was probably second.
- Common Lisp was probably (I hate to say it) the most awkward of the bunch). I'm hoping we can avoid pretty much everything the way it was done there :-/
That being said, I don't think today is the day to propose unifying features for LFE/Erlang data types ;-) (To be honest, though, it's certainly in the back of my mind... this is probably also true for many folks on the mail list.)
Given my positive experience with maps (hash tables) in Racket, and Robert's initial proposed functions like map-new, map-set, I'd encourage us to look to Racket for some inspiration:
- "map" has a specific meaning in FPs (: lists map), and there's a little bit of cognitive dissonance for me when I look at map-*
- In my experience, applications generally don't have too many records; however, I've known apps with 100s and 1000s of instances of hash maps; as such, the idea of creating macros for each hash-map (e.g., my-map-get, my-map-set, ...) terrifies me a little. I don't believe this has been proposed, and I don't know enough about LFE's internals (much less, Erlang's) to be able to discuss this with any certainty.
- The thought did occur that we could put all the map functions in a module e.g., (: maps new ... ), etc. I haven't actually looked at the Erlang source and don't know how maps are implemented in R17 yet (nor how that functionality is presented to the developer). Obviously, once I have, this point will be more clear for me.
Looking at this Erlang syntax:
My fingers want to do something like this in LFE:
That feels pretty natural, from the LFE perspective. However, it looks like it might require hacking on the tuple-parsing logic (or splitting that into two code paths: one for regular tuple-parsing, and the other for maps...?).
The above syntax also lends itself nicely to these:
The question that arises for me is "how would we do this when calling functions?" Perhaps one of these:
Then, for Joe's other example:
We'd have this for LFE:
Before we pattern match on this, let's look at Erlang pattern matching for tuples:
Compare this with pattern matching elements of a tuple in LFE:
With that in our minds, we turn to Joe's matching example against a specific map element:
And we could do the same in LFE like this:
I'm really uncertain about add-pair and update-pair, both the need for them and the names. Interested to hear from others who know how map is implemented in Erlang and the best way to work with that in LFE...


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Farm Press Associate Editor Chris Bennett wrote a nice blog on golden rice, which may soon be widely planted in the Philippines and Bangladesh. When it happens, it will be the first step in a great humanitarian achievement of preventing blindness in as many as 500,000 children annually by providing vitamin A in their daily rice diet.
Miami Herald columnist Glenn Garvin also wrote about golden rice in a recent commentary, focusing on the "Luddite shock troops of progressivism like Greenpeace" which hide behind environmentalist monikers to the detriment of millions of people. He says this movement is coming from the "left wing."
"What role does science plays in the left-wing opposition to golden rice and other genetically modified crops? None. Study after study has shown no detectable deleterious effects on human health from genetically modified food.
"Every time some Republican nut from Hooterville makes a jackass statement about rape or evolution, it's immediately ascribed as a doctrinal belief of the entire GOP and conservatives in general. But liberal resistance to science is far more organized, far more destructive and far less covered in the media."
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Nuclear power is another topic the left shock troops have attacked, despite no scientific evidence to support the negative blitz. The result has been virtually no nuclear power plants built in the U.S. due to this misinformation campaign from the likes of Greenpeace.
But scientific consensus, invoked like clockwork whenever lefty activists and their journalist friends talk about global warming, is "mysteriously irrelevant" when the left is discussing nuclear power or genetically enhanced crops. Garvin points out that in 2005, the International Council for Science, a coalition of 140 scientific organizations, reviewed 50 studies and declared flatly "Currently available genetically modified foods are safe to eat."
"There are a few million dead Third World kids who wish that somebody had listened," Garvin concluded.
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Obviously, we like our loyal customers and would hope they don't go anywhere. But, the idea is to attract new customers who don't yet know about our store. The target audience is obviously 21 years or older and consists of Upper East Side residents as well as some out of town-ers. It's wine lovers, casual wine drinkers, and even people who hardly know white from red. Above all else, it's people who demand great prices for whatever their wine-, liquor-, or spirit-needs.
This is a re-do of a previous contest. Please do not submit a design unless you were invited.
The design will be for the two pieces of signage on the storefront. One is like a lateral banner, about 2.5 ft x 19 ft, and the other is more square, about 5.5 ft x 9 ft (height x width). The two should go together or complement each other in any way you deem appropriate. The only requirement is that the full store name must be prominent: "Yorkshire Wines & Spirits". You are free to decide on the color scheme and font and to incorporate graphics in any way you please, though simple and clean is the aim here. Attached are signs you are designing for. There is also potential for further, direct collaboration with the winning designer for other parts of our redesign, including the website.


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Boulder, CO (PRWEB) January 02, 2013
PsychiatristSites, the leading website and online marketing company for psychiatrists announced today a new feature to their websites package to be launched in 2013. This new feature means PsychiatristSites will offer a great selection of websites that includes an online scheduling appointment calendar available to all patients.
PsychiatristSites specializes in creating websites that are engaging, professional, cost-effective, and extremely simple to maintain, and help psychiatrists successfully market and manage their practice online. PsychiatristSites package (with no set-up fees or contracts) includes everything that's needed for a professional online presence including Search Engine Optimization, integrated email, editing tools, credit card processing, online appointment notifications, and unlimited technical and customer support. In 2013, this package will also include a scheduling calendar.
Ever wondered how to cut time in your practice and still gain patients? PsychiatristSites provides the solution. The new scheduling calendar, an online-cloud based scheduling tool with 24/7 accessibility from any computer, tablet or smart phone, provides patients with easy access to available times and allows patients to book appointments at their leisure. This added feature gives psychiatrists the opportunity to grow their patient-base by focusing on core business rather than administration.
Calendar Benefits:
-Substantially reduce no-shows up to 40%
-Easy access to patient information
-Automated customized appointment reminders
-Streamline entire appointments
"This new feature provides cutting edge technology and helps psychiatrists offer convenience services that their patients demand," say's Sara Sims, Director of Business Development for PsychiatristSites. "Our customers have asked for this calendaring feature and we've listened. The best part is, we're including this in our all-inclusive website package without raising the $59 a month price."
Often times, psychiatrists use their personal phones and email to send appointment reminders. This new feature provides psychiatrists with the opportunity to customize automated appointment reminders right from their websites. This easy to use feature can reduce no-shows up to 40% and invites patients to confirm or cancel their appointments. In addition, the scheduling calendar provides a response-based reminder. This reminder indicates patients attendance, which enables psychiatrists to rebook time slots in advance. This feature allows psychiatrists to see their scheduled appointments for the week and assign resources accordingly. The best part of it all is this feature is included in PsychiatristSites $59/month package.
Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/WebsitesForPsychiatrists/PsychiatristSites/prweb10276534.htm.
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text: Portland, Oregon – TimeStream Software announces free downloads of its new "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" Notescast for the iPod Classic, iPod nano and iPod Video. Available as a free download for a limited time, it's the classic tale of Alice's journey down the rabbit hole filled with some of the most notable and interesting characters in literary history, and now iPod owners can read it wherever they go on their iPod Classic, nano or Video. The iPod features a screen wider than the iPhone's, and no Wi-Fi or Internet access is required.


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Combining the passion of Italian influences with 'salt of the earth' Britishness, Kirk Vincent, "ex-Head Chef at Antonio Carluccio's Neal Street Restaurant in Covent Garden, London" produces, terrines, soups, salads, sweet tarts and other dishes to rival many a restaurant, all prepared on the premises and ready to take away and enjoy.
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MWC 15 Special
Talking about interaction with TVs, etc. and hot on the heels of the Mobile World Congress, Nokia has finally released another missing piece of software for Windows Phone 8 - it's DLNA client for Lumia which is simply calls "Play To" again. Play To allows to share photos, videos and music from a supported Nokia Lumia Windows Phone 8 phone to DLNA-capable devices over WiFi. This could be one of the new and connected smart TVs, a simple Windows laptop and/or desktop or a Microsoft XBox. Since this is just the first release for Nokia Lumia Windows Phone 8 devices, it's called a public Beta but in terms of functionality, it has the same functionality as the Play To application for Windows Phone 7 based Lumia smartphones.
At the moment, Play To for Windows Phone 8 requires a Nokia Lumia 920, Lumia 820, Lumia 822, Lumia 810 or Lumia 620; some of them with the latest firmware only.
While Play To works as a digital media streamer, doesn't yet work as a digital media server, so unfortunately it won't work with PS3. However, according to the Nokia's Beta site, the company plans to introduce this in some future release. Streaming of music is also limited to local content which is stored on the device.
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Mark Cuban, the colorful owner of the Dallas Mavericks, was charged with insider trading by the Securities Exchange Commission on Monday. Cuban denies the accusation.
The SEC report alleges that in 2004 Cuban sold over 600,000 shares of internet search company Mamma.com after receiving confidential information.
Specifically, the report alleges that the CEO of Mamma.com contacted Cuban on June 28 to inform him of an investment by an investment bank. The CEO stressed to Cuban that all information in the conversation was confidential, to which Cuban allegedly replied, "Well, now I'm screwed. I can't sell."
But that's just what Cuban allegedly did. After calling a rep from the investment bank, Cuban reportedly called his broker and told him to"sell what you can tonight and just get me out the next day."
The stock was sold, and the SEC estimates that by selling his stake, the Cuban dodged more than $750,000 in losses.
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The legal process surrounding this complaint may take months to work out, but the effects on Cuban's investments and reputation will be immediate.
His flirtation with the Chicago Cubs is now almost certainly dead. Meanwhile, Cuban is majority partner of sharesleuth.com, an "independent web-based reporting site aimed at exposing securities fraud and corporate chicanery." That company's brand will take a significant hit immediately.
The NBA has not yet commented on the SEC complaint, but Cuban released a statement on his blog: "I am disappointed that the Commission chose to bring this case based upon its Enforcement staff's win-at-any-cost ambitions. The staff's process was result-oriented, facts be damned. The government's claims are false and they will be proven to be so."
Cuban had blogged about the sale of Mamma.com stock in the past, writing that he sold the stock because he didn't "like" the investment bank's financing.


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By Briana Harmon
Eastfield Et Cetera Managing Editor
After falling in the first game of the Dallas Athletic Conference Tournament to Brookhaven, Eastfield rallied to win the next two games and go up 2-1 over the Bears.
In the final game, the Harvesters led the entire way, extending their lead to 16-12 over Brookhaven as the team's energy exploded.
At game point, Eastfield held a 24-16 lead and fans rose to their feet and held up the No. 1 sign with their fingers.
As the ball hit the ground, outside hitter Cailey Clogston, setter Alyssa Jimenez, and libero Karina Lay leaped in the air and screamed with excitement.
"I am proud of the girls for what they have done and accomplished this year," coach Brandon Crisp said. "We lost the first set, but they didn't crumble and give up. They fought back."
The Harvesters' defeat of conference rival Brookhaven 3-1 came in close games (25-27, 25-15, 25-21, 25-16). Now they advance to the National Junior College Athletic Association Division III National Championship Nov. 11-12 in Rochester, Minnesota.
Eastfield was undefeated in conference play and won the MAC title for the first time since 1994. Brookhaven had won the conference for the previous 12 seasons.
Eastfield's last trip to nationals was in 2013, where they finished sixth.
Throughout the match Crisp talked to the team about playing good defense. Crisp told the girls throughout the game to keep fighting and keep every ball up. Then he began to tell the team to not get ahead of themselves and to focus on the task at hand.
Brookhaven would start out each game with a small lead, but in from the second game on, the Harvesters would pull away in the middle and Brookhaven would be too far behind to catch up.
Lay led the Harvesters defense with 27 digs. Jimenez added 20 digs and Clogston had 16 digs. Jimenez also had 23 assists and Zelda Ortiz had 17.
Courtanae Calhoun led the team with 20 kills, and Kerstin Fredrickson added 13.
Eastfield took complete control of the game; the gym rang with cheering from fans the entire time. After each point scored The Harvesters bench would go wild.
"I'm shaking," Calhoun said. "I have never shook in my life. It's a happy feeling. If we can play just like we played now, we are going to be unstoppable."
Ortiz over the season has developed her own in game ritual. No matter where she is located on the court or bench, when Eastfield scores, you will hear her screams and see her dancing.
"It took every ounce of energy I had in my body to keep my team motivated," Ortiz said. "Being loud and obnoxious gets to [the opposing team]."
Clogston was impressed with how the team came together after losing the first game.
"We got down a little, but we knew it was do or die," Clogston said. "We were leaning on each other for encouragement to lift us up. We beat our rival. There is no better feeling."
Lay was named Dallas Athletic Conference Player of the Week and NJCAA Player of the Week for her performance against Brookhaven.
"It's amazing," Lay said. "We have put so much hard work into this. Every practice was worth this. Brookhaven hasn't lost in forever, so to beat them is a big accomplishment."
Eastfield leads the nation in digs per set with 22.30. The team is ranked third in the nation for kills per set with 11.59 and assists per set with 10.51.
The team talks about playing as a family.
"I showed up today I was extremely nervous," Ortiz said. "I thought about it and said, 'It's for the person next to me, It's not about me anymore. It's gut check time. I'm proud of my team.' We did what we had to do to win."
Crisp doesn't plan to change his approach to get the team ready for the national tournament.
"It business as usual," Crisp said. "It doesn't change. I told the girls today this is nothing new, it's just another day for us. We won't do anything special. We will get back in the gym and practice and work even harder."
Eastfield will play North Hampton Community College at 12:30 p.m. Nov. 11. North Hampton is located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The Spartans are coming into the tournament with a 30-1 record, their only loss being on Sept. 3 to Butler County.
Nov.14 Update:
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2. Sometimes funny;
3. Always funny.
Later edit: I made this poll because I've seen a lot of feminists say that "rape is never funny" (just google it). As a feminist myself, I find this to be very odd and I wanted to see how the FTB community feels about it. I don't know how anyone can make a general statement about any given subject NEVER being funny. Obviously, rape itself can never be funny (I feel weird for even having to make this disclaimer), but I think that a lot of good comedy originates from horrible tragedies. I guess what I should have asked was if you consider ALL types of rape jokes offensive.
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Explorers have long sought lost cities of the Amazon, now almost entirely obscured by forest. Today it turns out that the "garden cities", which date back 1500 years, were too spread out to make sense of on foot.
Assisted by satellite imagery, researchers have spent more than a decade uncovering and mapping the lost and obscured communities to show they held more than 1000 people each and were once large and complex enough to be considered "urban" as the term is commonly applied to medieval European and ancient Greek communities.
In the Xingu region of the Brazilian Amazon, these garden cities radiated out over a diameter of 150 miles, covering an area of 18,000 square miles that exceeds the sprawl of Los Angeles by 35 fold.
However, they only held around 50,000 people, compared with the 13 million in LA.
The extraordinary conclusion is reached by anthropologists from the University of Florida and Brazil, and a member of the Kuikuro, an indigenous people who are the descendants of the settlements' original inhabitants.
"If we look at your average medieval town or your average Greek polis, most are about the scale of those we find in this part of the Amazon," said Prof Mike Heckenberger of the University of Florida, lead author of the paper published today in the journal Science.
"Only the ones we find are much more complicated in terms of their planning."
The paper also argues that the size and scale of the settlements in the southern Amazon in North Central Brazil means that what many scientists consider virgin tropical forests were shaped by human activity hundreds of years ago.
Not only that, but the settlements - consisting of networks of walled towns and smaller villages, each organised around a central plaza - suggest future solutions for supporting the indigenous population in Brazil's state of Mato Grosso and other regions of the Amazon, the paper says.
Around the communities the scientists found dams and artificial ponds that indicate the then inhabitants farmed fish, which today could be a valuable new food resource.
Prof Heckenberger and his colleagues first announced the discovery of the first settlements in 2003, revealing the largest date from around 1250 to 1650, when European colonists and the diseases they brought likely killed most of their inhabitants.
The communities are now almost entirely overgrown. But Prof Heckenberger said that members of the Kuikuro, a Xinguano tribe that calls the region home, are adept at identifying tell-tale signs of old settlements, from "dark earth" that indicate past human waste dumps or farming, concentrations of pottery shards and earthworks.
The new paper reports that the settlements consisted of clusters of 150-acre towns and smaller villages organised in spread out "galactic" patterns.
None of the large towns was as large as the largest medieval or Greek towns. But as with those towns, the Amazonian ones were surrounded by large walls - in their case, composed of earthworks still extant today.
Each settlement had an identical formal road, always oriented northeast to southwest in keeping with the mid-year summer solstice, connected to a central plaza.
The findings are important because they contradict long-held stereotypes about early Western versus early New World settlements that rest on the idea that "if you find it in Europe, it's a city.
If you find it somewhere else, it has to be something else," Prof Heckenberger said. "They have quite remarkable planning."
Because it means at least one area of "pristine" Amazon has a long history of human activity, the find could change not only how scientists assess the flora and fauna, but also how conservationists preserve the remains of forest so heavily cleared it is the world's largest soybean producing area.


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Where New Ideas Get Vetted
Have you ever seen the Schoolhouse Rock cartoon, "I'm Just a Bill?" It chronicles the seemingly interminable process by which an idea for new legislation becomes a bill that must wait on Capitol Hill until it can finally be voted into law. I received numerous lessons in Civics and American Government growing up, but none made as deep an impression on me as this three-minute cartoon.
This tongue-in-cheek presentation highlights both the strength and weakness of the American legislative process. On the one hand, the system of checks and balances makes it difficult for a new idea to get voted and signed into law. Yet by the time a new law is passed, chances are it has been thoroughly vetted and debated until a consensus has been reached. At least, that's how things are supposed to work.
A similar cartoon could be made about new interpretive insights, theological ideas, and archaeological discoveries related to the Bible. Long before such new ideas find their way into commentaries and dictionaries, they typically get published in scholarly journals and professional magazines. There they get reviewed, challenged, and refined by various scholars and professionals until they become seen as viable possibilities. Only then will they receive mention in a new commentary or dictionary, at which point a wider audience of pastors, teachers, and students will become exposed to them.
The strength of this process is that only the strongest new ideas and interpretive innovations reach a wide audience, while the ill-conceived notions and theological fads hopefully end up as nothing more than curious footnotes in the history of Biblical interpretation. Still, there is a downside to this vetting process: namely, that most of us only interact with a brief summary of these ideas presented in the context of a commentary or dictionary article. We rarely get to examine the full arguments for or against these ideas.
That's where it is helpful to be able to examine archives of the actual journals where this vetting process takes place. For example, I recently taught about the sin of Ham in Genesis 9, a notoriously difficult passage because the nature of Ham's sin is not altogether clear. Was it merely voyeurism or did it go beyond that? When I checked a recent commentary, it summarized the history of that passage's interpretation, and mentioned a relatively new view—that Ham's sin was actually maternal incest. Unfortunately, the commentary only gave a brief summary of this view, and I didn't feel I knew enough to judge its merits. However, the commentary did include a footnote citing an article in the Journal of Biblical Literature (JBL). Since I have that journal archive in Accordance, it was a simple matter to find the cited article and examine the reasoning behind this unusual interpretation. Had I not had JBL in Accordance, I would have had to drive an hour to the local seminary to try to find that particular journal article, and honestly, I never would have bothered.
This is just one of many examples I could give of the value of having journal archives in Accordance. Commentaries will sometimes mention important archeological discoveries which shed light on a passage, but they never cover them with the same depth as the Biblical Archaeology Review (BAR), so I frequently search the BAR Archive for any references to my passage of study, ancient peoples, places, etc. Through the Theological Journal Library I have access to more than 550 years' worth of major evangelical journals—many of which are linked to directly from other Accordance commentaries, reference works, and monographs. If you want to be able to go beyond the overviews to check the sources, journal archives like these are an important addition to your Accordance library.
To help you expand your collection of journals, we're now offering deep discounts on all our journal archives—but only for a limited time.
- The Theological Journal Library is regularly $352, but is now on sale for just $199.99. Upgrades from earlier sets are only $20 per volume instead of $32.
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These journal collections are on sale now through February 10, 2014 (11:59pm EST). Be sure to take advantage of this sale, and you too can begin checking sources and digging deeper.