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Boeing 747-400
Father of a legend
Boeing 747-400
The jumbo jet is one of aviation's greatest achievements. The latest version, the Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental, is also destined for great things. We visited Joe Sutter, chief engineer of the original design, the man responsible for the jumbo's phenomenal success
Joe Sutter clearly feels quite at home in the "aquarium." "I make suggestions," he remarks casually, narrowing his eyes a little as he speaks. "Sometimes they listen to me, sometimes they don't." Did he just wink at me? The aquarium is actually a room overlooking the production hall at the Boeing plant that owes its nickname to its all-glass walls. Joe Sutter probably likes spending time in the aquarium because from here, he can watch as a Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental takes shape below. The fact that the latest generation of the legendary jumbo jet is being produced here in Everett, near Seattle, has quite a lot to do with a suggestion Mr. Sutter once made – and the fact that people took his suggestion on board.
Joe Sutter, who was born in 1921, is a member of the Senior Advisory Group at Boeing, but more importantly, he is the father of a legend. Back in the 1960s, he was the chief engineer responsible for building a plane of hitherto unheard-of dimensions. In fact, his giant baby was to set new standards, both as a passenger and a cargo aircraft. The production schedule was breathtakingly tight: It dictated that the 747 be rolled out less than two-and-a-half years after the first technical drawings had been completed. It would be a Herculean task, but then there was Herculean spirit in the air back then. Joe Sutter remembers: "The late sixties were a turbulent time, a bold period in US history. The 747 team was inspired by and filled with the same 'can do' attitude that put human beings on the moon."
Given the methods of the day, this kind of enthusiasm was absolutely crucial. "Think of the scale of the program and then consider how such projects are conducted nowadays, with all these computers," Sutter adds. Instead of high-performance computers, he only had first-class engineers and, during the most intensive phase of the development program, over 4,500 skilled people on his team. To this day they are reverentially known as "The Incredibles" at Boeing – and justifiably so. After 29 months during which 75,000 technical drawings were completed and ten million working hours invested in its development, the first 747 rolled out of assembly hangar at the Everett facility, which had been purpose-built for the construction of the giant aircraft. The plane that slowly and majestically emerged from the hangar was nothing short of an aviation revolution. The four-jet, long-haul aircraft had twice the number of seats of any of its contemporaries, and its fuselage with the characteristic hump made it unmistakable. As far as safety was concerned, Joe Sutter had gone far beyond all standard requirements of the day. Only one question remained: How would this ultramodern giant perform in the air?
That question was answered on February 9, 1969, a historic day at the Boeing airfield in Everett that Joe Sutter remembers very well. "Patches of snow dotted Paine Field. The clouds bunched thickly but we elected to proceed because of a radio report from a 707 on a test flight over the Olympic Peninsula." Conditions were far from ideal for the 747's first test flight and Sutter grew increasingly tense as the time for takeoff drew nearer. "There was no doubt in my mind that the 747 would fly; the only question was, how well." It would be up to the "three W's" in the cockpit, pilots Jack Waddell and Brien Wygle, and flight engineer Jess Wallick, to assess this. Only after they had gently touched down again and reported back were Sutter's doubts dispelled. "In an hour and a quarter aloft, Waddell, Wygle and Wallick had learned that the 747 flew well, was stable and had light controls with well-balanced forces," he recalls.
The Boeing 747's outstanding handling capabilities would very soon make it a pilots' favorite. But the jumbo jet's cost effi- ciency and safety were also excellent selling points. Lufthansa was the first European airline to operate the Boeing 747 on long-haul flights back in 1970. By 2013, Boeing's customers had taken delivery of more than 1400 jumbo jets of different types, each one an updated version of the last; and more than 3.5 billion passengers – the equivalent of half the world's population – had traveled on board a 747. What began as a high-risk financial venture became an economic success story.
The enduring success of the Boeing 747 was possible only because its basic design was developed with the future in mind. As Joe Sutter says, "it has been able to absorb technology in every area – structure, aerodynamics, power plant, cockpit systems. It's just as modern as any airplane flying out there because Boeing has continued to invest in the product and the basic product was right, so the investment pays off."
When the father of the 747 looks down from the aquarium onto today's jumbo production line, he sees an old, familiar aircraft and at the same time, one that is entirely new. "If you look at the latest version, the 747-8, it looks just like the original airplane, except for the stretched upper deck. Technically, the new generation is far more advanced, of course, but the basic design has survived. It's absolutely amazing, so my comment is: Those guys working with me, they did the right thing."
But the man who got it right above all others was Joe Sutter, because he listened very carefully to Boeing's airline customers right from the start. He has always maintained that "the most important thing in the early stages of a development program is to ask questions. If you don't understand what a customer wants, you won't end up with a successful product." Whereas Pan American World Airways was the driving force on the customer side at the time of the original 747, it was Lufthansa that urged Boeing to develop the latest generation plane. Long before 2005, when Boeing decided to develop the new "dash 8" series, Lufthansa had specified that it was looking for a larger aircraft than the 747-400 that should be more efficient, and technically and environmentally superior to the then current version. Once the 747-8 Intercontinental's development program was launched, the airline worked alongside Boeing to create an almost entirely new aircraft.
So does Joe Sutter consider this kind of involvement mere meddling? Does it hurt his pride? On the contrary. "The best development results are born of dialogue with the customers," he says. A man of his caliber has no time for petty jealousy or sensitivities; he is only interested in the end result. And the current version of "his" 747 looks set to make history.


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Monday Morning Mirth
Nothing, but nothing, my friends, keeps Chicagoans away from their Jollies!
With so much holiday cheer to be found around town, one must just put on a happy face and about 20 lbs of down, hermatically seal the wrists, ankles and neck areas, and get to it!!
This lovely young lady is styling a wonderful grey number while enjoying the annual Christkndlmarket in Daley Plaza. Notice that quite a few folks aren't even bothering with a cap (I think it was about 19 degrees, but who's counting?)
Not these fellows who are workin' it: the excellent head gear includes a dancing Santa Cap and wiggling Xmas Tree (notice the wonderful German beer in hand that makes many of the plaza walkers burst into song). I am tempted, even espcially drawn to the glog called Glühwein served up in a little red plastic boot, but like many others, I actually only have one thing in mind:
No, not the spirit of christmas, the loveliness of the tree, it's what these ladies and about everyone else is clutching if they're not holding a drink in the cold cold air:
Every year, I enjoy the hot sausage in the cold air; every year I almost buy the one called Leberkaese, until I realize, it looks like a giant slab of spam.
And with sammie in hand, I remember the real reason for the Christkindlmarket:
And I am especially delighted to find such lovely Sheep in the City:
I love the way they convey the hopefullness of the season (left) and the hopelessness of getting everything done (right) and even the fact that they don't mind that they've been joined in the nativity crèche by what appears to be
A darling little French Poodle! So very holly jolly!

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Nashville, Tenn. – The Tennessee State football team fell to Bethune-Cookman in a defensive battle on Sunday night, 12-9, in the 15th annual John Merritt Classic.
TSU (0-1) held B-CU (1-0) to just 260 yards, the lowest since Oct. 27, 2012 against Tennessee Tech, but only mustered 248 on offense.
"We were able to get downfield, but just didn't execute in the red zone," head coach Rod Reed said. "Ultimately, we didn't score enough and that is what got us beat."
TSU got into the red zone on three occasions but had to settle for field goals.
Junior linebacker Nick Thrasher led Big Blue with 10 tackles, six solo.
The TSU offense got off to a very slow start to begin the game, only mustering one first down and 15 total yards during the squad's first two possessions.
Meanwhile, the B-CU offense put together a pair of scoring drives that featured a good mixture of run and pass (42 yards rushing and 45 passing). The Wildcats had no problem moving down the field, but their spread-attack sputtered near the red zone, forcing the team to settle for a pair of field goals from Jonathan Cagle.
Tight end A.C. Leonard finally got the Tiger offense started with a 31-yard run on a reverse. The junior All-American set up TSU for a first down on the B-CU side of the field for the first time all game, but it did not lead to points. The first quarter ended with the Tigers trailing, 6-0.
The TSU defense forced its first three-and-out on B-CU's opening possession of the second quarter, setting up a punt from the Wildcat 33. The long snap hit the punter Cagle in the facemask, sending the ball careening backwards. Cagle picked up the ball and tried to punt it away, but Harold Watson blocked the kick and the ball ended up out of bounds at the seven-yard line.
Big Blue was unable to find the end zone after the botched kick, but finally got on the board at the 11:28 mark in the second quarter when Jamin Godfrey connected on a 21-yard field goal.
After the TSU defense forced another stop, Big Blue marched down the field on a 15-play, 63-yard drive that featured a crazy play that went in TSU's favor. Quarterback Ronald Butler found running back Telvin Hooks on a screen pass and Hooks eventually fumbled the ball fighting for extra yards. The ball rolled approximately 20 feet downfield, squirted around B-CU defenders and was recovered by TSU lineman James Lewis.
Hooks finished the game with 52 yards on 13 carries for a 3.6 yards per carry average.
The stroke of luck set up a 44-yard Godfrey field goal that tied the game at six with 1:48 to go in the half. The score was the last of the first half.
The Wildcats received the ball to begin the third period and drove all the way down to the TSU 22-yard line. After a fumbled hand off on first down, B-CU's Jackie Wilson tried a deep pass on second and long, but senior safety David Van Dyke read the play perfectly for his second career interception.
TSU took advantage of its opportunity and went 86 yards down the field, eating up 10:22 of the game clock. A 26-yard grab by Leonard and an 11-yard reception by Devin Wilson highlighted the 18-play drive. Still, the offense was unable to score a touchdown and settled for Godfrey's third field goal of the night, this one from 26 yards out. The boot brought the score to 9-6 in favor of the Tigers.
Leonard led the Tigers with five grabs for 38 yards while Wilson's 36 yards ranked him second on the team.
After the sides traded punts, B-CU was finally able to find the end zone on the 12th play of a 71-yard drive. Wilson found Jordan Murphy with a six-yard completion for the score. The duo connected three times on the day, all on the touchdown drive.
TSU had two more chances to score in the game's final 5:01, but the comeback bid fell short when TSU committed three costly penalties on its final drive, leaving Godfrey a 49-yard field goal attempt. The senior's kick missed wide right as the final horn sounded, giving the Wildcats a three-point victory.
Butler, who made his first career start at quarterback, was 13-of-21 for 132 yards. The freshman did not throw an interception, but also did not have a touchdown.
The last time that TSU did not manage to find the end zone was Nov. 13, 2010 against UT Martin when the Tigers fell 37-0.
TSU will try to recover from the loss on the road when the club travels to Tallahassee, Fla. for a tilt against the Rattlers of Florida A&M on Sept. 7.


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Nursery Reef is a shallow rocky reef off Rainbow Beach that is always full of surprises. The least dived site in the area, due to its shallow depth and exposed location, Nursery Reef is only 5 metres to 7 metres deep. Although shallow, this rocky reef is decorated with a good range of hard corals, soft corals and sponges. While small tropical reef fish dart about the reef, divers will have to search the countless ledges and caves to find the reefs more interesting inhabitants. Species to look out for at Nursery Reef include moray eels, ornate wobbegong sharks, crayfish, boxer shrimps, stonefish, lionfish, brown-banded bamboo sharks, scorpionfish, blue-spotted stingrays and nudibranchs.
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THIS WEEK'S GUESTBIANS: Malaya Rivera Drew gets what she wants; Elizabeth Keener anticipates drama; Alicia Leigh Willis tags along as usual; Patricia Velásquez learns how to kiss; Kate French caves under contract; Melanie Lynskey turns Alice's head.
Voilà, Lez Girls — Jenny's twisted vision is coming to life before her very eyes. She's watching a rough cut of a Lez Girls scene. It's the one where Tina upends a table at The Planet in response to Bette's announcement that she has broken up with Candace because she loves Tina.
Only there are, of course, several differences between the movie and real life — er, fake life. First, Bev is nothing like Bette. She's mincing and weak and, well, not hot.
Also, the decor is more like The Mod Squad than The Planet.
Third, and most important, the scene ends far more happily than it did in Season 2. Bev and Nina reconcile right there on the spot, and they even announce their pregnancy to their supportive friends. In Season 2, Tina stormed out in her baby-bump-hiding trench coat and everyone felt awful — including Toxic Tonya, who was there in her coffee-drenched white pants. (The "poopy s—" coffee, remember?)
Season 2
Oh, well. Of course the scenes are going to be different. I guess it's a relief that Jenny's memory is inaccurate in a happy way for a change. That's far preferable to a memory that's inexplicably aquatic or overly shroomy.
Some of that, however, was not just happy — it was downright Up With People (or Up With Gay People, I guess):
Ugh. Begoña looks like she can't believe she had to say that. Meanwhile, can you believe Cammie actually makes a decent Shaun/Shane? I'm shocked! But, on the other hand, I guess a Dark Crystal Muppet isn't that far off from a Fraggle.
Back in the fake real world, Jenny's not that happy with the scene, but before we can find out why, the theme song encroaches yet again.


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Victory for Obama Brings Opportunity and Challenges
Michael Brune
Did you find it hard to sleep the night before election day? Me too. However, it wasn't pre-election jitters that kept me and my wife awake, but our little newborn baby, Genevieve.
As I got out of bed a little before dawn on election day to take my shift, I thought about the polls opening on the East Coast and wondered whether the day would end in celebration, disappointment or indecision. Rocking sweet Genevieve back to sleep in the darkness of our bedroom, I also thought about what the country might be like when our little girl is able to vote. Will voters still have to wait in line for hours? Will ads from wealthy donors still dominate the airwaves? Will we finally have modernized voter registration?
Now we know that President Obama will get another four years in office. In re-electing the president, voters have handed him both an opportunity and a challenge. During his first term, Barack Obama was the first American president to clearly articulate a vision of America leading the world toward a clean-energy future that can meet the challenge of a changing climate. Now, he has four more years to deliver on that promise.
The past week has underscored the urgency of this challenge. As families in the Northeast try to rebuild after Hurricane Sandy, and as all of us gird ourselves for more consequences of climate disruption, the American people deserve and demand strong leadership on this issue.
Here's how President Obama can start delivering that leadership right now:
• First, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must finish the job it has begun of cleaning up dirty power plants. Working with the U.S. EPA to finalize carbon pollution standards for new power plants and to begin emphasizing efficiency and clean energy over currently operating plants will continue to be a high priority for the Sierra Club and our partners in the environmental community.
• The president should take a hard look at what burning toxic tar-sands oil would mean for our climate future—and reject Canada's plan to pump dirty tar sands through our farmlands and water sources.
• Make conservation and public recreation the top priority for our public lands and use the Antiquities Act to establish national monuments that will protect entire landscapes for this and future generations to enjoy.
• Last, but not least, President Obama must boldly elevate the issue of climate disruption and climate solutions. The American people understand and accept that the climate crisis is upon us. They also know that—with Iowa and South Dakota generating more than 20 percent of their power from wind and with solar-industry jobs growing at more than 10 percent annually—a clean-energy future is already here. We need strong leadership and action to address our climate challenge directly and to build on this clean-energy growth.
By the time my daughter is eligible to vote, we'll need to have done a lot more than modernize voting and clean up our elections, though both are vital to a strong democracy. By 18 years from now, we should be well on our way to a clean-energy turnaround. The urgency of fighting climate change should be undebatable, and dirty fuels should be viewed as anachronisms from a distant era.
Congratulations Mr. President. It's been a long, hard fight to reach this day. Now, let's move forward on the challenges—and the opportunities—that this election has made possible.
Visit EcoWatch's CLIMATE CHANGE page for more related news on this topic.
EcoWatch Daily Newsletter
By Jeremy Deaton
You may have heard about the hole in the ozone layer, which hovers over Antarctica. It has shrunk over time thanks to policies that curbed the use of ozone-depleting chemicals. In the nearly 40 years that NASA has kept track, it has never been smaller. That's the good news.
Polar stratospheric clouds activate the chemicals that deplete the ozone layer. NASA
- Healing Ozone Layer Shows Why Environmental Treaties Matter ›
- Saving the Ozone Layer 30 Years Ago Slowed Global Warming ... ›
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By Stephanie Woodard
Many Americans are now experiencing an erratic food supply for the first time. Among COVID-19's disruptions are bare supermarket shelves and items available yesterday but nowhere to be found today. As you seek ways to replace them, you can look to Native gardens for ideas and inspiration.
Aubrey Skye, Standing Rock Sioux tribal member, tills gardens for himself and other tribal members. He does some by hand, and others with this tractor. Photo by Stephanie Woodard.
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- Three Sisters Garden — How to Plant Corn, Squash & Beans Together ›
By Kristeen Cherney
Skin inflammation, which includes swelling and redness, occurs as an immune system reaction. While redness and swelling can develop for a variety of reasons, rashes and burns are perhaps the most common symptoms. More severe skin inflammation can require medications, but sometimes mild rashes may be aided with home remedies like aloe vera.
When Aloe Vera for Redness May Treat Irritation and Inflammation
Aloe vera has anti-inflammatory properties that may help soothe skin rashes. As a bonus, aloe is also thought to have antimicrobial capabilities, which may in turn help to prevent infections. Additionally, aloe vera gel is known for its ability to help moisturize your skin without leaving any residue that heavy creams sometimes can.

While aloe vera can't cure any skin disease or treat every single instance of skin inflammation, here are the instances where it could possibly help:

Burns

Aloe vera gel is perhaps best known for its ability to help treat burns. If you've ever had a sunburn, you may have used an OTC gel to help reduce itchiness, redness, and overall irritation. The same concept may apply to mild heat or chemical burns.

To use aloe vera for burn treatment, apply it liberally to the affected area multiple times per day. You may know it's time to apply more if your skin starts feeling hot. Aloe vera is safe to use until symptoms of your burn start to improve after a day or two.

While aloe vera may provide temporary burn relief along with a cooling effect, it won't reverse any damage that may have been done to your skin. It also isn't an appropriate treatment for more severe burns, which can include symptoms such as boils, blisters, and peeling skin.

When Aloe May Worsen Symptoms
Aloe can help alleviate symptoms of skin rashes that are mild in nature. However, it's not considered an effective treatment for more serious inflammatory skin conditions. Aloe vera may also—in rare cases—cause skin inflammation. Don't use aloe vera if you have an allergy to it.

Can aloe vera cause a skin rash?

While considered safe for most people, there is a risk of an allergic reaction to aloe vera. In such cases, you might see signs of contact dermatitis, which can develop when your skin comes in contact with an irritating or allergenic substance. Symptoms may include:

redness

hives

itching

skin rash

If you've never used aloe vera before, you should conduct a patch test to make sure you're not allergic. This involves applying the gel to a non-conspicuous area of skin, such as the inside of your elbow. The downside is you have to wait at least 24 hours to see if any irritation develops. If no such reactions occur, then it should be safe to use the product on your skin rashes.

Can Aloe Vera Make Eczema Worse?
Aloe vera won't likely make eczema worse unless you're allergic to it. The greater risk is relying on aloe for eczema treatment when it may not actually work. Aloe vera gel could temporarily alleviate feelings of burning, but it can't treat the underlying causes of your eczema rashes.

Sometimes eczema rashes may bleed due to scratching. You should not apply aloe to broken skin, as this can increase burning sensations.

When to See a Doctor
Aloe vera can help soothe certain cases of skin inflammation, but most effects are temporary at best. If your symptoms last longer than a few days, get progressively worse, or spread throughout your entire body, then it's time to see a doctor to evaluate your skin rash.

A doctor may also refer you to a dermatologist, who specializes in the treatment of skin disorders. They can help diagnose the cause of your rashes and help treat the underlying source of inflammation, rather than the symptoms alone.

You should also see a doctor if you experience any negative reactions after using aloe gel. This could indicate an allergy to aloe vera. If you suspect an allergic reaction, stop using aloe right away.

Never take aloe vera gel or cream, aloe latex, or whole-leaf extract orally.

Seek immediate medical care if you suspect your rash is infected. Signs may include fever, blisters, and pus-filled lesions in your rash. Extremely painful rashes also require medical attention.

Takeaway
Due to its ability to soothe inflammation and wounds, aloe vera can be a temporary solution to treat the symptoms of a mild burn or skin rash. However, aloe vera isn't a viable treatment option for more severe burns or severe inflammatory skin conditions, such as eczema and rosacea. Stronger medications are needed for more severe skin rashes.

While rare, aloe vera may also cause an allergic reaction in some people. Always conduct a skin patch test for use, and discontinue any aloe gel products if you notice any new rashes.

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By Katie Lambert and Sarah Gleim
The United Nations suggests that climate change is not just the defining issue of our time, but we are also at a defining moment in history. Weather patterns are changing and will threaten food production, and sea levels are rising and could cause catastrophic flooding across the globe. Countries must make drastic actions to avoid a future with irreversible damage to major ecosystems and planetary climate.
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Blue Light Disrupts Your Sleep
Your body has an internal clock that regulates your circadian rhythm — the 24-hour biological cycle that influences many internal functions.

Most importantly, it determines when your body is primed for being awake or asleep.

However, your circadian rhythm needs signals from the external environment — most importantly daylight and darkness — to adjust itself.

Blue-wavelength light stimulates sensors in your eyes to send signals to your brain's internal clock.

Keep in mind that sunlight and white light contain a mixture of various wavelengths, each of which has a significant amount of blue light.

Getting blue light, especially from the sun, in the daytime helps you stay alert while improving performance and mood.

Blue light therapy devices may help treat depression, and blue light bulbs have been shown to reduce fatigue and improve the mood, performance, and sleep of office workers.

Yet, modern light bulbs and electronic devices, especially computer monitors, likewise produce large amounts of blue light and may disrupt your internal clock if you're exposed to them during the evening.

When it gets dark, your pineal gland secretes the hormone melatonin, which tells your body to get tired and go to sleep.

Blue light, whether from the sun or a laptop, is very effective at inhibiting melatonin production — thus reducing both the quantity and quality of your sleep.

Studies link melatonin suppression in the evening to various health problems, including metabolic syndrome, obesity, cancer, and depression.

Summary

Blue light in the evening tricks your brain into thinking it's daytime, which inhibits the production of melatonin and reduces both the quantity and quality of your sleep.

Tinted Glasses May Help
Amber-tinted glasses offer the easiest and most effective way to avoid blue light exposure at night.

These glasses effectively block all blue light. Thus, your brain doesn't get the signal that it's supposed to stay awake.

Studies show that when people use blue-light-blocking glasses, even in a lit room or while using an electronic device, they produce just as much melatonin as if it were dark.

In one study, people's melatonin levels in the evening were compared across dim light, bright light, and bright light with tinted glasses.

The bright light almost completely suppressed melatonin production, while the dim light did not.

Notably, those wearing the glasses produced the same amount of melatonin as those exposed to dim light. The glasses largely canceled out the melatonin-suppressing effect of the bright light.

Likewise, blue-light-blocking glasses have been shown to spur major improvements in sleep and mental performance.

In one 2-week study, 20 individuals used either blue-light-blocking glasses or glasses that didn't block blue light for 3 hours before bedtime. The former group experienced major improvements in both sleep quality and mood.

These glasses have also been found to greatly improve sleep in shift workers when worn before bedtime.

What's more, in a study in older adults with cataracts, blue-light-blocking lenses improved sleep and significantly reduced daytime dysfunction.

That said, not all studies support the use of blue-light-blocking lenses or glasses. One analysis of several studies concluded that there's a lack of high quality evidence supporting their use.

Nevertheless, blue-light-blocking glasses may provide some benefits.

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Summary

Some studies suggest that blue-light-blocking glasses may increase melatonin production during the evening, leading to major improvements in sleep and mood.

Other Blocking Methods
If you don't want to use glasses every night, there are a few other ways to reduce blue light exposure.

One popular way is to install a program called f.lux on your computer.

This program automatically adjusts the color and brightness of your screen based on your timezone. When it's dark outside, it effectively blocks all blue light and gives your monitor a faint orange hue.

Similar apps are available for your smartphone.

A few other tips include:

turning off all lights in your home 1–2 hours before bedtime

getting a red or orange reading lamp, which doesn't emit blue light (candlelight works well, too)

keeping your bedroom completely dark or using a sleep mask

It's also important to expose yourself to plenty of blue light during the day.

If you can, go outside to get sunlight exposure. Otherwise, consider a blue light therapy device — a strong lamp that simulates the sun and bathes your face and eyes in blue light.

Summary

Other ways to block blue light in the evening include dimming or turning off the lights in your home and installing an app that adjusts the light your laptop and smartphone emit.

The Bottom Line
Blue light, which is emitted from smartphones, computers, and bright lights, may inhibit your sleep if you're exposed to it at night.

If you have a history of sleeping problems, try reducing your exposure to blue light during the evenings.

Amber-tinted glasses may be particularly effective.

Several studies support their ability to improve sleep quality.

Working From Home During the Pandemic Has Environmental Benefits — But We Can Do Even Better
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By Matt Casale
For many Americans across the country, staying home to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) means adapting to long-term telework for the first time. We're doing a lot more video conferencing and working out all the kinks that come along with it.
The author (above) wrote this while working from home, baby in tow. Emily Anderson (author's wife/home office mate)
The coronavirus will pass, but it's looking more and more like remote work will stick around. This time has demonstrated that, despite the ups and downs many of us have experienced, telework works for way more of us than we knew.

Even before this we knew that there were several benefits for both employers and employees to sidestepping the office. Studies have shown that it can lead to increased productivity, higher morale and lower employee turnover. It can also reduce real estate and office operation costs for employers.

We may now also be seeing some larger societal benefits that make the case for taking telework even further. Our current situation has provided a window into how a reduction in driving, buoyed, in part, by a greater adoption of telework, could relieve some of the stress on our overburdened transportation system and help heal at least a portion of the environmental damage it causes.

Today, roads that would normally clogged at all hours of the day are virtually empty, even during rush hour. And the reduced car travel leads to fewer crashes and less air pollution, which harms human health and contributes to global warming. Air that's usually cloudy with smog has cleared. Los Angeles, which has notoriously pollution-choked skies, could recently boast having the cleanest air in the world. And this year, experts predict, the transportation transformation will contribute to the largest-ever annual decline in global carbon emissions.

Virtually empty Los Angeles streets on May 7. Chris Yarzab / CC BY 2.0
Clearly not every job can be done from home, and it's not just commuting for work that has come to a halt during coronavirus lockdowns. In 2017 only around 28 percent of total miles driven were work-related. Even if telework continues or expands on a much larger scale, non-work-related car trips — shopping, recreation, visits to doctors and the like — can be expected to go back to normal.

Still, telework's potential for taking cars off the road can clearly have an impact on global warming emissions and air pollution. Just how much of an impact could telework have? As it turns out, the answer is a significant one — and with a few important steps, the benefits can be even greater and more sustainable.

How Much of the Workforce Could Reasonably and Permanently Transition to Telework?
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 5.2 percent of U.S. workers — around 8 million people — worked from home in 2017. But that's still just a fraction of potential teleworkers. Earlier this month researchers at the University of Chicago found that 37 percent of U.S. jobs can plausibly be performed at home. The U.S. workforce reached 164.5 million in February 2020, before the pandemic, meaning approximately 61 million of those workers could plausibly telework permanently once the economy starts up again.

Of course, the full economic consequences of this public health crisis are still unknown. It's possible that coronavirus-related job losses will impact the overall number of those employed for some time. But for these purposes, this assumption of 53 million new remote workers will be useful to illustrate the potential impacts of telework.

How Much Driving Would Full-Capacity Telework Avoid?
In 2019 Americans drove a total 3.23 trillion miles, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. The DoE doesn't break that down by reasons driving, but we know that in 2017 there were 683 billion total commute miles driven. Reducing the commuting workforce by about 32 percent (37 percent of total workers who could telecommute minus the 5.2 percent of them who already do) would theoretically decrease commuting totals by about 219 billion miles.

A traffic jam on January 17. Raphael Labaca Castro / CC BY-SA 2.0
Of course telecommuting won't let us avoid logging all of those miles, since people may occasionally still need to travel to an office for meetings and may need to make new trips they wouldn't otherwise have taken (you can't stop at the grocery store on the way home from work when you work at home). Various studies have found that telecommuting actually reduces driving somewhere between 60 and 90 percent of commute vehicle miles traveled (VMT). We'll split the difference and calculate that telework reduces commute miles by about 75%, meaning the new teleworkers could avoid around 164 billion miles driven.

U.S. Department of Energy, Alternative Fuels Data Center
Still, that much of a transformation may not work for everyone, as people will still need to do face-to-face work — and, let's be honest, the other thing the lockdowns have taught us is to appreciate the value of regular social contact. That said, even if most people worked from home two to three days a week and the actual VMT reduction were closer to 2 or 3 percent, the difference would still be significant — especially considering that VMT has been steadily rising since the 1970s, except for a few years during economic downturns. Even if just a quarter of American workers started working from home one day a week, total vehicle miles traveled would fall by 1 percent — not a huge amount, but enough to make a difference on a grander scale.

Impact on Global Warming Emissions
The cars and trucks we drive every day are major sources of air pollution and global warming emissions. Transportation as a whole accounts for 28 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S., more than any other source. Light-duty vehicles and medium- and heavy-duty trucks are responsible for 82 percent of the transportation sector's emissions.

The average American car or SUV emits 404 grams of carbon dioxide (CO2) per mile traveled. So reducing commuting by 164 billion miles would avoid 66 million metric tons of CO2 emissions annually. These are significant emissions reductions, but they'd only make a small dent in total transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions, which reached nearly 1.9 billion metric tons in 2018.

Impact on Health-harming Air Pollution
People across America regularly breathe polluted air, which increases their risk of attacks and other adverse health impacts, and even premature death. In fact, in 2018 108 million Americans lived in areas that experienced more than 100 days of degraded air quality. Our cars and trucks are a major source of this pollution, which includes ozone, particulate matter and other smog-forming emissions.

There's a reason the air has cleared over many of our major cities during the coronavirus lockdowns. When you remove cars from the road, you also remove smog. The lockdowns have resulted in an extreme reduction of VMT — between 68 and 72 percent across the country (and in some places closer to 90 percent). Assuming that telework has contributed something close to its peak potential reduction of 7 percent, it seems likely that it has played at least a supporting role in helping to clear our skies.

Additional Emissions Reductions From Reduced Traffic
The average American commuter wastes 54 hours a year stuck in traffic. That's lost time with friends and families, lost productivity at work, wasted money, tons of unnecessary stress, and a lot more pollution from idling cars.

Traffic patterns are complicated because traffic is non-linear, meaning there isn't a one-to-one ratio of percentage of cars removed to percentage of traffic alleviated. As such, just a few extra cars on or off the road can have an outsize impact on traffic. Reducing commute VMT by up to 7 percent would have a huge impact on rush hour traffic (when bottlenecks are at their worst and most of that driving occurs). A greater adoption of telework could give people back some of those 54 hours so they can spend it doing the things that matter to them. And slow moving or stop and go traffic results in greater emissions than free-flowing traffic. So freeing up the roads and alleviating traffic for the remaining will result in even greater emissions reductions.

What Needs to Happen for Telework to Live Up to Its Potential?
It's clear that telework can have significant societal benefits, including less global warming pollution and cleaner skies. But significant benefits are only possible if everyone whose job could plausibly be done from home has that opportunity.

To reach that goal, several barriers must be overcome:

Technology: We've all had technical mix-ups when using Zoom or Google Hangouts or one of the other conferencing platforms. But the real technological barrier is access to broadband. Roughly three-quarters of American adults have broadband internet service at home, but the rate of access is much lower in rural parts of the country, according to a report by Pew Research Center. Those locations often don't have broadband infrastructure and even 14 percent of households in urban areas lack access, usually because they are not able to afford it. States should make funding available to develop broadband capacity in underserved areas.

Employer policies and managerial reluctance: Coronavirus lockdowns across the country have forced employers and managers to adapt to large-scale telework quickly on an emergency basis, meaning these barriers are less likely relevant now than before. But general employer and manager reluctance to embrace working from home has slowed this transition. Cities and states can encourage employer acceptance of telework by providing tax benefits or other incentives for greater adoption.

Car-centered transportation policies: Our current transportation policies often incentivize driving or parking. From commuter and parking benefits to decades of outsized spending on highway infrastructure, we tip the scales toward getting behind an automobile's wheel. In other words, our transportation policies are meant to move cars rather than incentivize things, such as telework, that would take cars off the road.

We need to rethink this approach and shift toward better "Transportation Demand Management." This requires the implementation of a set of strategies aimed at maximizing traveler choices. Those strategies should include greater employer and employee incentives for telework, as well as policies designed to facilitate more walking, biking, ridesharing, vanpooling and public transportation use.

Bikeshare in Milan, October 2019. Guilhem Vellut / CC BY 2.0
That's important, because the potential gains we'd see from telework would only be sustained if that shift were paired with other policies to ensure those commuter miles aren't just replaced with other trips. We usually talk about this in relation to widening or building new highways, but when you open up highway capacity, it usually fills quickly. This is what the wonks call "induced demand." People who otherwise would have driven at a different time of day, taken a different route, taken public transportation or would have avoided traffic on the highway some other way, come back to the road. The same could happen here if additional measures aren't taken.

It's likely that, even after the coronavirus lockdowns are over, telework is going to become more and more common in the American workforce. As it does, the environmental benefits will be significant. In a time when climate change presents an existential threat to life as we know it and millions of people across the world are subjected to unhealthy levels of air pollution, we need to be taking an all-hands-on-deck approach to solving these problems. Telework can clearly be a significant part of the long-term solution — especially if we take further steps to maximize its potential.

- Social Distancing Is Also Helping the Climate - EcoWatch ›
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Public Parks Matter More Than Ever During a Pandemic
By Richard leBrasseur
The COVID-19 pandemic has altered humans' relationship with natural landscapes in ways that may be long-lasting. One of its most direct effects on people's daily lives is reduced access to public parks.
Making Healthy Places
Olmsted was born in 1822 but became a landscape architect rather late in his career, at age 43. His ideas evolved from a diverse and unique set of experiences.

From the start, Olmsted recognized the positive effect of nature, noting how urban trees provided a "soothing and refreshing sanitary influence." His "sanitary style" of design offered more than mere decoration and ornamentation. "Service must precede art" was his cry.

Olmsted's 1874 plan for the U.S. Capitol grounds in Washington, DC. Architect of the Capitol
Olmsted came of age in the mid-19th century, as the public health movement was rapidly developing in response to typhoid, cholera and typhus epidemics in European cities. As managing editor of Putnam's Monthly in New York City, he regularly walked the crowded tenement streets of Lower Manhattan.

At the U.S. Sanitary Commission during the Civil War, Olmsted led efforts to improve sanitation in Union Army military camps and protect soldiers' health. He initiated policies for selecting proper camp locations, installing drainage and disposing of waste, ventilating tents and preparing food, all designed to reduce disease. And in 1866 he witnessed adoption of New York's Metropolitan Health Bill, the first city law to control unhealthy housing conditions.

Antidotes to Urban Stress
The insights Olmsted gained into connections between space, disease control and public health clearly influenced his landscape architectural career and the design of many urban park systems. For example, his design for the interlinked parks that forms Boston's Emerald Necklace foreshadowed the concept of green infrastructure.

This system centered on stagnant and deteriorated marshes that had became disconnected from the tidal flow of the Charles River as Boston grew. City residents were dumping trash and sewage in the marshes, creating fetid dumps that spread waterborne diseases. Olmsted's design reconnected these water systems to improve flow and flush out stagnant zones, while integrating a series of smaller parks along its trailways.

Boston's Emerald Necklace park system today. Emerald Necklace Conservancy / CC BY-ND
Olmsted also designed America's first bike lane, which originated in Brooklyn, New York's Prospect Park. Of the tree-lined boulevards in his design for Central Park, Olmsted said, "Air is disinfected by sunlight and foliage. Foliage also acts mechanically to purify the air by screening it."

In all of his urban parks, Olmsted sought to immerse visitors in restorative and therapeutic natural landscapes — an experience he viewed as the most profound and effective antidote to the stress and ailments of urban life.

Parks in the Time of COVID-19
Today researchers are documenting many health benefits associated with being outside. Spending time in parks and green spaces clearly benefits urban dwellers' psychological, emotional and overall well-being. It reduces stress, improves cognitive functioning and is associated with improved overall health.

In my view, government agencies should work to make these vital services as widely available as possible, especially during stressful periods like pandemic shutdowns. Certain types of public green spaces, such as botanical gardens, arboretums and wide trails, are well suited to maintaining social distancing rules. Other types where visitors may be likely to cluster, such as beaches and playgrounds, require stricter regulation.

There are many ways to make parks accessible with appropriate levels of control. One option is stationing agents at entry points to monitor and enforce capacity controls. Park managers can use timed entries and parking area restrictions to limit social crowding, as well as temperature screening and face mask provisions.

- National Parks to Start Partial Reopening - EcoWatch ›
- Singapore Uses 'Scary' Robot Dog to Enforce Social Distancing ... ›
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This notebook contains many blank pages (all shown) and has been used by Newton from both ends. Our presentation displays the notebook in a sensible reading order. It shows the 'front' cover and the 30 folios that follow and then turns the notebook upside down showing the other cover and the pages that follow it. Full transcriptions are available for folios 88r-135r, a famous section of the manuscript where Newton organises his notetaking according to 'Questiones quaedam Philosophiae' (certain philosophical questions). The notebook was photographed while it was disbound in 2011

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(Brought forward on account of the opening of the "Manimandapam" at Rameswarem Island of India in memory of Late Dr Abdul Kalam - Former President of India today the 27-07-2017 by Thiru Narendra Modi - the Prime Minister of India)
(Brought forward on account of his 85th Birthday today 15-10-2016)
The demise of Dr A.P.J Abdul Kalam the "Ex-President of India" - a great Nuclear Scientist of immense fame, and a "great Native Tamilian of Islamic Faith" from Rameswarem of Tamil Nadu.
Bharat Ratna Dr A.P.J Abdul Kalam (15 October 1931 – 27 July 2015) a great son of Tamil Nadu & India - the 11th President of India from 2002 to 2007, and a great Nuclear Scientist fell ill today evening (27-7-2015) and met his death at the hospital at Shillong, Meghalaya, India.
Our sympathies on his death and may his Soul rest in peace at the feet of "Almighty Allah"
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"தாய்மொழியான தமிழ் வழியில் கல்வி பயின்று", அறிவியல் துறையில் உலக சாதனைகள் செய்தவர் அப்துல் கலாம் - Dinamalar (Translation): "Having (primary & secondary) education by way of (his) Mother Tongue Tamil", (one who) made great World achievements in the field of Science was "Abdul Kalam"
Dr Abdul Kalam was well versed in Tamil Literature and often referred to them in his discussions with others. He was a scholar in "Tamil Thirukkural" and very often has made quotes from "Thirukkural" in his speeches at the Conferences, Meetings and Seminars in India and Overseas.
At the opening session of the "European Union Conference" held recently in Europe, Dr Abdul Kalam quoted a Tamil Verse of the "Tamil Poet Kaniyan Poongkuntranaar" from the Tamil Literary work "Puranaanooru" of the Third Sangam period of the first century B.C. This verse states "Every Country is my Country and every Citizen is my Kinsman" stressing the universal nature of the Internationl Relations, and he also explained on the content of the balance portion of this Tamil verse at the conference. Refer the fourth Video below
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Other dogs came and went so fast, they're now completely forgotten, lost among the dust bunnies of consumer-tech history. For those of us in the tech-review business, however, these flopperoos live on as painful memories—and cautionary tales.
Olympus M:Robe (2004). "It's a camera. It's a music player," said the narrator of Olympus's $5 million SuperBowl commercial. Unfortunately, it was buggy and horrible at both tasks. Olympus took the M:Robe off the market the following year.
(Even the name didn't work. M:Robe was meant to be short for "Music Wardrobe." Okay, what?)
Akimbo (2005). It was the Hulu concept, years before Hulu: a set-top box that was supposed to deliver any TV show, any time, from over the Internet.
The first problem was pricing: you had to pay not only for the box, but also a monthly subscription fee as well as a per-show price.
The second was selection: American TV companies, terrified by what the Internet had done to the music industry, refused to participate. As a result, the Akimbo's TV-show catalog included such gems as AdvenTV, "the first on-demand Turkish station in the U.S.," Veg TV ("vegetarian cooking instruction") and Skyworks, "helicopter flights over the most spectacular landscapes of Britain." (The entire list of sports categories was this: Billiards, Extreme Sports, Golf, Martial Arts, Documentaries and Yachting.)
Vulkano box (2010). The dream of a do-everything set-top TV box lives on with the Vulkano box, which was intended to do both what a TiVo does (record TV onto a hard drive for playback later) and what a Slingbox does (let you watch your recordings while away from home, over the Internet).
Unfortunately, the original box could not auto-record a favorite show each week; required laymen to reprogram their network routers with port forwarding; locked up if you tried to scroll the TV guide grid; could rewind or fast-forward at only one speed; and required you to specify in advance, at the time of programming a recording, what device you intended to play it on later (iPod Touch/iPhone, iPad, Droid, Mac, PC, TV and so on).
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Who Wins in the Housing Bust?
Frequent contributor Albert T. has often alerted us to below-the-radar factors--for instance, the Basel II banking regulations which are roiling global financial markets just as he predicted over a year ago: Basel II, Risk and Leverage (July 11, 2006).
For just one example of Basel II's effects, take the smaller German banks which are taking huge losses in U.S. subprime-related losses: Banking bother .
Albert has a new line of inquiry:
Right now I am trying to answer one question... Who won in the housing bust?
1. Small banks. Since I am more or less constantly look for jobs lately I notice several odd things: A lot of credit officer / credit analyst training programs and entry-level positions in small banks in my area. Which is making me think they are having a boom. And the reality is they probably offloaded all their garbage to big banks who preferred to repackage securities.
2. Prudent homeowners who sold out. The prudent homeowner whom toiled away and paid for the house he could afford for a decade or two until he sold it to the bubble junkie supplied by the neighborhood dealer (broker).
3. Everyone on the other side of the losses/trade. The figure I am thinking of is not 200 billion but closer to 1.5 trillion if we take the last 3-5 years of loans and discount all ARMs and exotics by 20 cents and normals by 10 cents we come to something around 1.5 trillion of losses (transfers) since there is always the other side.
4. Domestic banks. I am guessing at least half of these transfers are borne by foreigners in some way. The other half is carried by our biggest banks and brokers who are going to slowly digest it over the next 3-5 years unless they get a handout to accelerate the process.
The benefit of our banks as opposed to others is two-fold: on the one hand they have no currency risk and the Fed can supply liquidity at will, on the other the winners are probably depositors as well so their liabilities (deposits) bulk up against the banks assets (bad loans) and allow the aggregate income to eat away at them. Although some foreign banks probably benefit as well due to having large operations here which makes it easier for them to survive the upcoming shock.
5. Buyers of bank assets after the banks fail. Shock is probably when the income stream begins to dry up from the asset sheet (ergo MBS securities, etc...) when the net flow payments turns negative there will huge upheaval (but probably prior to that those banks will be dissected and bought up with bad parts left to fail and the large loss taken by the govt or populace (which is more or less the same thing).
Freddie Mac's net drops 45% on provisions .
6. Society at large. perhaps we all win once we get to reality and property stops being the objective of people and be all and end all social status. perhaps we will focus on a different set of things once full collapse of housing prices is in order.
7. Re-Ordering of employment to the public good. perhaps unwinding of risks and their slow digestion will benefit us in the long run somehow although udnoubtedly a lot of suffering will occur. I am sure there will be lots of job cuts in big brokerages & banks once losses start coming in. it might perhaps trigger some of those smart people to start businesses. if you search right now any job site with the word "quantative" there will be a zillion hits with offers from every financial firm out there but maybe those people would serve better as math teachers, engineers, physicists, etc... since that is whom they look to for quant analyst candidates.
Thank you, Albert, for a stimulating review of upsides to the housing bust. Although some may doubt that small banks and credit unions might prosper in such troubled times, I know from conversations with executives in a small, locally-owned and operated midwest bank and a Virginia-based credit union that they have virtally no exposure to subprime or derivative losses. As old-fashioned as it sounds today, they write their own mortgages and hold them as assets. Since they planned on holding the debt, they were careful in their assessments of value and risk when originating the mortgages. What a concept, eh?
I leave you with a chart which depicts the dire straits we face as a nation of borrowers and lenders:
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Getting hurt anywhere is a pain – literally – but when it happens in the workplace an injury can be disruptive not only to the person who suffers the misfortune, but also to the employer. The inconvenience associated with workers compensation follow-up care and the paperwork involved with an on-the-job injury complicates matters, and costs can be substantial. In 2012, almost 3 million non-fatal workplace injuries were reported in the U.S. (Bureau of Labor Statistics). A researcher at the University of California, J. Paul Leigh, estimated in a study he conducted that the costs of occupational injuries and illnesses add up to $250 billion per year.
According to Southwest Memorial Hospital emergency department physician Todd Fowler, MD, the most common workplace injury he and his colleagues see in the ER is back strain.
"It's usually due to someone doing something they shouldn't be doing like lifting something that's too heavy for one person or lifting without good form," said Fowler. "Back injuries are the most common across the board in the U.S. as far as workers compensation claims go."
The good news is that most back injuries that occur on the job are not serious.
"It's usually a strain or ligament problem and will get better with time," said Fowler. These injuries are treated with over-the-counter anti-inflammatory medication and occasionally with a muscle relaxer or short course of narcotics.
Next on the list in terms of common workplace injuries are those involving the upper extremities, frequently shoulders and hands.
"People hurt their shoulders while lifting and they get lacerations, contusions, and fractures of the hand," said Fowler.
Hand injuries often involve machinery or heavy equipment.
Among farmers and ranchers, Fowler says he treats quite a few hand injuries that are the result of unfortunate encounters with irrigation equipment. "The hand will be cut or pinched or crushed," he said. Depending on the type of injury and the severity, treatment may involve suturing, splinting, and pain medication. Workers with severe hand injuries requiring surgery may be referred to an orthopedic or hand surgeon.
Injuries of the feet and ankles occur fairly regularly in the workplace. "Something falls onto the foot or someone slips or trips," said Fowler. Something as simple as stepping off a piece of equipment and landing the wrong way can result in an ankle sprain or fracture. This time of year (well, if we were actually having winter, that is) slipping and falling on patches of ice while working outside are also a common cause of workplace injuries.
"Most ankle sprains don't require surgery," said Fowler. Foot and ankle fractures, however, may require an orthopedic surgeon or podiatrist to get involved. It depends on the severity of the fracture.
Fowler says he treats quite a few eye injuries that occur on the job, the most frequent one being a foreign body in the eye. "It might be sawdust or a small piece of metal," said Fowler. "We do our best to remove it and can usually get it out. Occasionally we'll refer someone to an ophthalmologist because they have better tools." Sometimes an eye injury is just a scratch on the cornea. Either way, eye injuries tend to be quite painful. "We treat them with antibiotic drops or ointment and pain medication. Fortunately, eye injuries usually heal quickly – within a few days," said Fowler. Wearing eye protection on the job is very important, but Fowler says even with protection injuries sometimes occur.
Coming in at fifth place on the most common list is head injuries. "These are usually caused by someone falling or having something hit them on the head," said Fowler. Concussion is the main concern with any head injury. "If someone is knocked out for an extended period of time of vomiting after a head injury they should be seen by a doctor," said Fowler. "We usually do a CT scan of the head on those patients." If an individual is hit on the head, not knocked unconscious, and does not have vomiting or confusion, a CT scan may not be required. "Even if a CT scan is normal, patients may have post-concussion symptoms such as nausea, headaches, dizziness and blurry vision," said Fowler. "It all depend on how hard they were hit." Most people slowly bounce back from a concussion and pain and nausea symptoms can be treated in the meantime if needed.
The bottom line
Be careful at work. Follow the safety procedures and guidelines provided by your employer and if you do suffer an injury at work, report it to a supervisor or business owner immediately.
Southwest Health Notes is a public service feature provided by Southwest Memorial Hospital in Cortez, Colorado. The information provided herein is not intended as patient-specific medical advice or as a substitute for consultation with your personal health-care provider.


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"It was so thoughtful of the Olympic Games and the Queen to time their big events to draw attention to London Collections: Men that I felt momentarily trepidatious: how could fashion possibly compete with a gold medal and a diamond jubilee crown? But if the NEWGEN MEN recipients are any indication, things are going to be just fine. I feel like I already know the work of these designers so well that they can't possibly be "new", but that's the interesting trick that London plays. "New" talent arrives with vision so intact, you feel like you're seeing the work of fully-evolved fashion entities. Congratulations to everyone involved." - Tim Blanks, Contributing Editor, Style.com and a member of the British Fashion Council Fashion 2012 Menswear Committee


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1. Create videos that focus on your brand and reinforce on the people your brand value.
2. The most important tip for your video optimization is a proper content. People need to love your video for your content too; else they would not go in for it.
3. See to that your metadata has the video in it, since many users search with this keyword. On adding this word in the metadata, chances of your video coming up as the search results tends to be high. But remember not to overuse the word.
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9. On using any commercial content in the video, see to that there is a watermark that indicates the origin of the content. In case your video is copied by numerous sites; it will continue carrying your brand and site details benefiting you.
10. Keyword usage in the filename and in the URLs is very beneficial. Search engines give appreciable weight age on these videos. Try avoiding stop words in the filenames, like "the", "and".
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NBA star Dwyane Wade married actress Gabrielle Union in Miami Saturday, E! News confirmed. The couple tied the knot at Chateau Artisan, a moated castle in Miami-Dade, according to reports.
They were surrounded by family and friends, including the athlete's elder two sons and nephew.
Heat owner Micky Arison, Chris Bosh and DJ Irie all posted Instagram pictures Saturday afternoon using #TheWadeUnion prior to the ceremony.
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Wade proposed to Union in December 2013 after four years of dating. Shortly after, it was revealed that he had fathered a son named Xavier with a friend, according to E!.
This is the second marriage for Union and Wade. Wade married Siohvaughn Funches, his high school sweetheart, in 2002. They welcomed sons Zaire and Zion. The pair broke up in 2007.
Union was married to NFL player Chris Howard from 2001 to 2006.


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Nights in Granada are one long party. A night on the town usually begins with a few tapas. Young people tend to frequent the Pedro Antonio de Alarcón area, and there are also traditional tapas bars in the city centre, for example on the streets near Plaza Nueva square and the Cathedral. Having gathered your strength, it's time to enjoy some music, meet people and have a few drinks until the early hours. Calle Elvira street and the surrounding area offer all kinds of bars, from places where you'll dance the night away to all the latest hits, to pubs with alternative music, rock and jazz clubs.
You can continue partying not very far away in one of the night clubs on the Gran Vía, Paseo de los Tristes and Plaza Nueva square. There are also discos and trendy night spots near the Bullring. And as dawn approaches, everyone heads off to the macro-discos and after hours bars on the outskirts of the city.


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Dustywater necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 25 diseños de 3 diseñadores freelance.
Dusty Joy Foundation (dustyjoy.org)
The Dusty Joy website is an initiative of the Dusty Joy Foundation, a new nonprofit with a mission to improve the lives of those touched by lung cancer through targeted programs promoting education, early detection and compassion. The Foundation will help usher in much needed research for early lung cancer detection. Dusty is the founder of the organization and a lung cancer survivor and advocate. (We also are posting another web project for http://www.livelung.org with its own unique purpose and brand.)
The Dusty Joy site is a new web site promoting grassroots education and awareness about lung cancer, the #1 cancer killer of men and women. The unique feature of the Foundation is its balloons symbolizing lungs and representing new lung cancer cases and deaths.
Lung cancer is called the "invisible cancer" and its "color" is clear, similar to breast cancer's pink campaign. The Dusty Joy Foundation will use clear balloons to symbolize lung cancer deaths. Clear balloons are a powerful, yet subdued representation of these lives lost to lung cancer. Red balloons will be a bold representation of lung cancer survivors. Red also represents the heart of the Dusty Joy Foundation, which is founded on "compassion for those touched by lung cancer."
The site should be clean, fresh and easy to navigate.
I hope you will find some satisfaction in knowing that your work is for a very good cause.
Our audience will be lung cancer survivors, their loved ones, surviving family members and loved ones of those who lost their battle with lung cancer, public health educators, general public, donors, volunteers and speakers. The site also will be an educational resource for anyone seeking information about lung cancer.
- Be original and creative!
- Design 2 templates: 1 home page, 1 interior
- Use the attached rough storyboard for section categories
- Use the attached logo
- The interior template is more flexible, but should continue the primary elements.
- Top navigation items will be: Welcome, All About, Balloon Releases, Get Involved, Resources, About Lung Cancer and Dusty Joy Store. (Feel free to try different wording.)
- We're open to adding a search box on the top navigation bar if the design fits. However, include a search box somewhere in your design that will be present on all pages.
- A drop-down menu will be used for second-tier navigation. In the design, the drop-down for All About should be: About Our Mission; About Lung Cancer: Quiz, Facts, Resources, LiveLung.org; About Balloon Releases: Why balloons? About the Environment; Contact Us/Comments. It is ok if the titles span two lines, but no more.
- The content width should be 980px wide. It is desired, but not required, for the home page to be a max height of 768px.
- The winner will be required to submit both .AI / .PSD and .EPS files, compatible with CS1, of the final design.
- The winner will also be required to be available for questioning from our developer if it is needed.


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Said President Bush on Larry King last night, as reported by Alessandra Stanley in the NYT, who prefaces that quote with this:
Mr. King's questions rarely rile his guests; instead, his cozy, incurious style encourages them to expose themselves.Mmmm.... so.... Bush makes a classic statement about the way he sticks to principle and does not get hung up on popularity, and the association is to please-please-love-me Liza Minnelli and coming unglued?
And just as Liza Minnelli seemed to come unglued all on her own in her appearance on the show last March, Mr. Bush at times seemed tense and defensive even without needling from his host.
Well, I wasn't watching and am just reading the cold record. I didn't know this was on. I'm pretty much of a TiVo/HBO-on-Demand kind of TV watcher, and I never know what's on. If there's something I should be catching, somebody has to alert me.


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On Sunday, May 4, the Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church will present Citizenship Awards to ten dedicated citizens (and one dog) for their selfless volunteer efforts on behalf of our city.
This year's awardees will be Donna Ardizzoni, for her One Hour at a Time weekly cleanup efforts; Jim Flint, for spearheading the renovation and renewal of the Lanesville Community Center; Martin Krugman, for leading the restoration of the schooner Adventure; John McElhenny, for improvements to Burnham's Field; Barry McKay, for his volunteer work at the Rose Baker Senior Center; Joe Novello, for helming the annual St. Peter's Fiesta and keeping other traditions alive; Linn Parisi, for attracting tourism through Discover Gloucester; Maggie Rosa, for her work with the Gloucester Education Foundation and the preservation of City Hall; Terry Sands, for 23 years of musical theater productions at the Annisquam Village Players; and Ann Straccia and her rescue beagle, Ellie, for providing support and companionship to homeless people at the Grace Center.
The winners were nominated not just by members of the church but by individuals and organizations throughout the city. The final decision was made by the church's Social Justice Committee. Many winners have no idea who nominated them and will not find out until they arrive at the ceremony.
The ceremony, which is informal, begins at 4 p.m. in the church sanctuary at the corner of Church and Middle Streets, with a reception downstairs in the church vestry to follow. Both floors are handicapped accessible. The event is open to all free of charge; freewill donations will be gratefully accepted. Sponsors of the program include Rockport National Bank, Cape Ann Savings Bank, Santander Bank, Jim's Bagel & Bake Shop, The Dress Code, MAC Fitness, BankGloucester, and Dunkin' Donuts.
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Jim Flint
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Hi !
I have written many lines of code involving many headers.
When building the project I get many linking errors. These errors are not so hard to finf : LNK 2001 and LNK 2019 : the compiler is unable to link because it didn't compile some headers or source files that are parts of the projects. I'm sure about that because if I add somme silly lines the compiler doesn't see them. It's weird ! And these headers are included. So I do not understant the issue.
If any idea ...
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LEHI, Utah — Real Salt Lake's defense has been impossibly stingy this season, surrendering only 18 goals so far. On Saturday at Red Bull Arena, however, they will face a New York offense that features two of the most dangerous strikers the league has ever seen: Thierry Henry and Juan Pablo Angel.
"We've taken a lot of pride and done a lot of talking about how good we are defensively," head coach Jason Kreis said. "We're going to be tested severely on Saturday."
Since Henry's arrival, New York have gone 6-2-2 and nearly doubled their scoring total, striking for 17 goals. The strike tandem of Henry and Ángel presents a world-class double threat unique to MLS, and along with the deep-lying passing of Rafa Márquez, represent one of the most dynamic attacks in MLS at the moment.
But while there is respect aplenty for the Red Bulls DPs, RSL must also stop the other eight players who line up against them.
"First and foremost is that when you add players of their stature, you get a bump from the rest of the players around them," Kreis said. "I think everybody knows that Thierry Henry and Rafa Márquez have come in. It's not only what they've been able to produce, but the players around them."
But Henry and Márquez will cause RSL plenty of problems if they get the opportunity, something that Kreis knows all too well.
"Just the sheer quality in Rafa Márquez – with his leadership ability and the experience that he's just been through – to have a guy like that in the midfield to calm things down for you and be steady on the ball, is immeasurable," he said.
"Thierry Henry just with his intelligence in the offensive third is the largest reason why they are creating so many chances. They may not all be coming to him, but I think he's doing an excellent job of providing the players around him with opportunities."
And though Ángel may have received less press this summer than the other two DPs on New York's roster, he has scored more goals than any other player in the league since his arrival in 2007.
"Ángel is Ángel, and I think he's just fantastic, and has been every year he's been here," Kreis said. "It's remarkable how many goals he's scored, especially when you consider the fact that a lot of the goals that were scored have been on a bad team."
The reigning champs are well aware that they will face an immensely talented squad at Red Bull Arena on Saturday, but midfielder Andy Williams is clear about the team's objectives.
"We want to make a statement, especially [in New York]. Big city. Big lights."