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Once I finally accepted that my Tank Man costume wasn't physically possible, I gave up on that idea and reset my imagination with a blank slate.
My best costumes have had these two properties:
1) Some character or essence that people already love
2) Use some unexpected engineering
Inspired by oversized costumes I've been seeing lately, I decided to try a tornado costume. The engineering feat would be to get it to spin around like a top, with me inside.
Adding a motor into a costume has never been my strong point. I have had some experience with small motors, tying the motions of a display to the tiny rotating shaft of an electric motor. But I wasn't confident that a battery-powered motor was the right choice.
Almost a year before the costume needed to be finished, I was dying to know if it could be done. Could I build a costume which spins?
In November, my plumbing got clogged.
Sitting near an open sewer pipe, feeding a 50' plumbing snake into the ground, I realized I could easily transfer the twisting power from my own hand to the spinning axle above my head. I'd use an auger.
Building the Harness
I began with my usual Pvc pipe shoulder harness. For this one I built a wooden template, so my pipe bends would be even.
I heat pvc pipe with a heat gun until it becomes soft, then I bend it around a radius. When it cools, the bend stays in the pipe. This had to be a sturdy support for my tornado, so I overbuilt it a bit, ensuring that the pipes fit snugly around my body.
The goal of this harness was to support an open ring (a collar) directly above my head. This is where a bearing of some kind would allow the tornado support to spin around above me, like the blades of a helicopter.
I used a $8 toilet auger, turned upside down. It seemed to be the exact right size to power my spinning contraption.
My harness had four tubes extending upwards, nearly meeting above my head. In that spot I added a 2" collar, which would hold a shaft in place. The shaft was another piece of pvc, ending in a four-way cross at the top.
At this stage there was no bearing, the turning part would just rub along the top of the harness collar.
I attached the auger with duct tape for a test spin. It worked! All I needed now was a ring around the top and a conic curtain of fabric to hang down from it. I didn't actually know how to make a cone of fabric, so I dissected a party hat to see how it was made.
Using the height and radius of the top and bottom rings, calculated the circumfrence of the rings, then using the desired height, projected where the imaginary apex of his cone would fall. Then I laid out three wide strips of gardening fabric and taped them together with black duct tape. The shape I needed could be described as a fat arc.
I tied a string to a stick and stuck one end of the stick into the ground on the edge of my field of fabric. This point was my imaginary apex. Now all I had to do was to draw two curved lines on the fabric, one with a four-foot string and one with a nine-foot string, defining the top and bottom of my tornado storm cloud.
My rough sketch had a storm cone with an eight-foot diameter at the top.
I wanted the costume to be gigantic, but not SO gigantic that I had to rent a truck to get it to the contest. I also needed to be able to squeeze through regular 36" wide doors.


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9-10-11 PNC Park
It was a Saturday, so the gates open an extra half hour early. However, I wasn't able to take advantage of it, as I didn't get to snag a ball until 4:50. That was thrown by Alex Presley, pictured at right here:
My second ball of the day was a ground rule double that I snagged here:
A fan in the front row tried to knock it down, but they just slowed it down and it came right to me.
Ball #3 was a glove trick ball that I gave away to another ballhawk who hadn't gotten one yet.
My fourth ball of the day was a clean catch of an Andrew McCutchen home run ball in section 136. I had to get up on the bleacher to make the catch.
When the Marlins came out, I changed into my Marlins gear and caught a John Buck home run on the fly.
My sixth ball of the day was retrieved using the Cleveland Stick. A ball had landed in the ivy on the 'S' in Pirates during the early portion of batting practice. As soon as the rest of the stadium opened, I ran over and knocked it out with the Cleveland stick, and reached in with my hand to pick it up. Pretty simple.
In the mean time, Burke Badenhop spotted me about eight rows back after I had snagged this ball and attempted to toss me a ball, but it ended up short. I could've still gotten it, but a younger ballhawk ran by and caught it two rows in front of me. Luckily, Badenhop had another ball in his back pocket that he tossed me for ball #7. This time his throw was right on the money.
My final ball of the day was a towering home run hit by Mike Cameron. I ran to my right, up some steps, and picked the only open row that was available to me and made the clean catch. I had to manuever amongst these stationary fans:
I ended up catching it in the eighth row behind the guy in the gray shirt.
After BP I left, as Amy and Olivia were at home waiting for me.
Game: 8 balls (4 hit, 2 thrown, 2 device)
Season: 373 balls (158 hit, 79 thrown, 87 device, 49 found)
Games: 70 games
Career: 1,495 balls
Attendance: 34,063
Remaining games to reach goal of 413: 6
Needed to reach goal: 40 (6.7 per game)

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Twice as nice: Papi adds to postseason homer total
Red Sox slugger goes deep twice, giving him 14 career playoff homers
BOSTON -- David Ortiz will be 38 next month, but the gregarious Red Sox designated hitter wanted no reminder of that late Saturday night. Instead, the question of his hovering birthday brought about an abrupt "Next question" response to disperse the huge media crowd around Ortiz, who made sure the group was still well within earshot for his final remark: "Did you see me swing that [bat]? I feel 20."
Ortiz had a point. The Red Sox's all-time leader in postseason homers came up big again in Saturday's 7-4 win over the Rays in Game 2 of the American League Division Series, as he turned in the first multihomer playoff game of his 17-year career.
"I watched Chipper Jones have a pretty good year last year at 40 and this guy, he's really good," catcher David Ross said of Ortiz, who now has 14 career postseason homers. "Appreciate what you see. Tell the fans that, write that. Appreciate what you see. This guy's really good."
Ortiz has shown no signs of slowing down as his seasons start to add up, with his two-homer achievement even more impressive considering who was on the other side: Rays ace David Price. The Cy Young Award-winning lefty had held Ortiz homerless in 37 career at-bats, the longest such stretch for Ortiz against any southpaw.
That changed in Papi's first at-bat, with Ortiz connecting for a two-out first-inning homer, sending Price's 1-0, 86-mph cutter soaring into right-center field.
"He's definitely one of the best superstars I've ever played with," said Jonny Gomes. "There is a method to the madness with David Ortiz. It's not just this big caveman taking this huge bat up there and swinging as hard as he can. There's a lot of work going into every single one of his swings."
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"He's a guy who is just so clutch," added reliever Craig Breslow. "He's shown at-bat after at-bat there are certain guys that kind of swell up in the postseason, and he's historically been one of those guys. He's such a good hitter on top of being such a slugger. I think that's often underappreciated. He's 6-foot-4 and hitting 30 home runs a year you think he probably has some holes or doesn't make adjustments pitch-to-pitch, but he's such a smart hitter also. He doesn't have a glaring weakness and you can't throw the same pitch to him twice."
Price didn't make that mistake, but it didn't matter, as Ortiz opened the bottom of the eighth with a towering homer around the Pesky's Pole in right field. The 1-0 shot, which came on a 91-mph two-seam fastball, made Ortiz the first Boston hitter to collect a multihomer postseason game since teammate Dustin Pedroia in Game 2 of the 2008 AL Championship Series.
"Can't say enough about him," manager John Farrell said. "He's probably surpassed our expectation of number of games played. He's been so productive, which has been consistent with his entire career. It was always a matter of health, and the work he's done to maintain the health. He's the main cog in our lineup. And to build around him, leading up to him and guys that follow him in the lineup we're capable of scoring runs in a couple of ways, but when you can score it in one swing of the bat, as he's done many times over, he's a huge threat for us."
Health was a question surrounding Ortiz when the season began. Last year, he suffered a right Achilles injury and played just 90 games. Ortiz was still recovering from the ailment when Spring Training began and wasn't activated from the 15-day disabled list until April 20.
Ortiz came out for a curtain call after the sold-out crowd at Fenway Park roared chants of "Papi" in exuberance, and his second homer was met with equal enthusiasm in the Red Sox's dugout.
"That's just power on power," Gomes said of the majestic nature of Ortiz's homers. "You saw Price rear back for the first two, you saw big Papi's knee come up a smidge higher. Price's pitch count was getting up, he reared back for his best pitch, Papi came at him with his best swing. It's not always going to work out that way, but that was loud."
And perhaps not entirely unexpected.
"He came in and told me, I wore my A game today because I'm going to be doing interviews after the game," Ross said. "He said he wore his best clothes. Only Papi can do that."
And, indeed, there Ortiz was in a crowded Red Sox's clubhouse wearing a dapper suit talking about the respect he has for the Rays and Price in particular. He congratulated Tampa Bay's ace a few days ago in the weight room on his complete game in Texas and capitalized on a fastball that wasn't as crisp as Price typically carries.
"His home run in the first, I thought, was a real good one," said Price, who stared down Ortiz after he watched his eighth-inning homer in the box to make sure it was fair. "The one in the eighth was a good one as well. I second-doubted myself on the pitch. It's not the pitch I really wanted to throw. I should have stepped off or got the sign I wanted. It's not [catcher Jose Lobaton's] fault. It's nobody but mine."


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At first, the Rev. Jan Bolerjack couldn't figure out why the line at her church's food pantry was studded with men and women in what she described as "airline gear," uniforms they wore as baggage handlers and ramp workers at nearby Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
"It confused me," she recounted recently. "Why were these people working full time at the airport and standing in line for food?"
Bolerjack became pastor at Riverton Park United Methodist Church in 2007, two years after Alaska Airlines contracted out an estimated 500 jobs for baggage handlers, whose wages were slashed from an average of $13.41 an hour to a starting wage of $8.75.
That shift by the major airline at the busiest airport in the Pacific Northwest set the stage for Proposition 1.
The measure, on the Tuesday ballot in this working-class enclave south of Seattle, would raise the minimum wage for certain airport and hotel workers to $15 an hour and guarantee them sick leave. About 6,300 employees at an estimated 70 businesses would be affected.
SeaTac has become the latest battleground over "living wages" and income inequality, a fight being played out in fast-food restaurants and airport terminals nationwide and pitting organized labor against the airline and hospitality industries.
Although only about 12,000 residents are registered to vote here, campaign donations have poured in on both sides of the hard-fought measure. By Friday more than $1.9 million in cash and in-kind services had been raised, or about $160 per registered voter. Supporters have outraised opponents by nearly 2 to 1.
If passed, Proposition 1 would bring the airport in line with California's major aviation hubs, which have set pay rates above state and federal minimums. The living wage ordinance at Los Angeles International Airport, for example, guarantees $15.67 an hour for covered workers who do not get health benefits and $10.91 for those who do.
"West Coast airports have been leaders in addressing the issues of low pay and high turnover in our airports," said Ken Jacobs, chairman of the University of California, Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education. He argues that low pay "has impacts on the airports themselves in terms of turnover and quality of performance that affect safety and security."
In a detailed study of airport worker wages nationwide released Monday, the Berkeley center found that the outsourcing of baggage worker jobs, for example, more than tripled in the last 10 years, and pay for all porters during the same period dropped by nearly half, from more than $19 an hour in 2012 dollars to $10.60.
Fully 37 percent of cleaning and baggage workers at airports live in or near poverty, said the report, financed by the Service Employees International Union.
"Because of low wages and benefits, a similar share of these workers and their families must rely on public benefit programs to make ends meet," the report said.
But Mike West, co-chairman of Common Sense SeaTac, which opposes Proposition 1, warned that raising the minimum wage would hurt entry-level workers in his hometown, where many new immigrants do not speak English and one neighborhood along gritty International Boulevard is nicknamed "Little Mogadishu."
West, who recently retired, owned an auto body shop called Southtowne Auto Rebuild for four decades. Through the years West hired numerous entry-level workers at minimum wage, employees he could not have afforded, he said, if he had had to pay them the equivalent of $15 an hour.
On Friday, West was driving his red pickup past dueling Proposition 1 billboards and signs, when the driver in the next lane honked and waved. At the wheel was a smiling James Heidelberg. West hired him in the 1990s.
"There's a kid I took on who couldn't get to work at 8 a.m.," West recounted fondly. "He took the bus. He'd show up at 10. I 'put up' with him for 15 years. He was a detailer. We trained him. ... I was taking a tax receiver and changing him into a taxpayer."
Common Sense SeaTac points to a recent study by the business-friendly Washington Research Council, which estimated that the ballot measure would kill 5 percent of the city's low-wage jobs and that an additional 5 percent to 10 percent of affected workers "would be replaced by more experienced and educated employees."
But Heather Weiner, spokeswoman for Yes! For SeaTac, discounted the report as "scare tactics" and said Proposition 1's aim was "to help people who work for a living make a living."
Airport concession workers such as Roxan Seibel are among those who would benefit. Seibel is a single mother who has worked at the airport for 30 years, raising two adopted daughters, one of them a child with serious medical needs.
When the girl, born with fetal alcohol effects, would get sick or break her feeding tube, Seibel said, she had to take unpaid time off to care for her.
Seibel said she had not taken a single sick day for herself. She feared the consequences and loss of pay.
"I have come to work sick," she said. "I have thrown up in garbage cans. I am not the only one. ... I feel that everybody that works should have paid sick time."
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Will there be a shortage of peanuts by the time the 2012 planting season rolls around next April and May?
Weather in the last 40 days of the 2011 crop season will have a partial answer to the question, but the big answer may come from the final tally on the 2010 crop.
If peanut growers are looking for high prices for their peanuts, the 2011 and likely the 2012 crop may be the most valuable on record. On the other hand, getting supply and demand so far out of kilter gives these crops the potential to be the most destructive on record to the entire peanut industry.
A perfect storm is brewing, consisting of a poor quality in 2010 crop, a lower than expected planting acreage in 2011, a poor growing season in 2011 and growing demand for peanut products.
If all these factors come together, it could be a devastating storm for the peanut industry to weather.
Whether we will run out of peanuts by the end of the 2011 growing season is still open to debate and highly dependent on harvest-time weather.
There is considerably less doubt that we will run out of edible peanuts before the 2012 crop is planted.
The 2010 peanut crop was good one! Or was it? From a yield standpoint it was good — national average was just over 3,400 pounds per acre, but from a quality standpoint, the 2010 crop was one of the poorest in history, rivaled only by the 1980 crop.
"Had it not been for improved technology since 1980, in the area of blanching and resorting, we likely would have had a shortage of edible peanuts last year," says Jim Leek, president and owner of JLA International.
Leek, who spent many years analyzing the peanut-food industry for Procter and Gamble and subsequently has tried his hand at growing peanuts, says the 2010 U.S. peanut crop was the most expensive in history to clean up.
The 2010 crop, he says, appears to have had the highest level of aflatoxin of any crop since the drought plagued 1980 crop. When all is said and done, he adds, the 2010 crop may prove to have had the highest levels of aflatoxin — ever.
Leek says from his perspective, there is better than a 30 percent chance that by the time this year's crop is dug, we will run out of peanuts.
As of mid-July, there were less than 550,000 tons of peanuts in the U.S. pipeline. It takes 150,000 to 160,000 tons per month for the U.S market. Even with ideal harvest time weather, it will be a tight fit to get 2011 peanuts into the pipeline before we run out.
World in same boat
Tyron Spearman, long-time peanut marketing expert and publisher of the Spearman Reportsays most of the world is in the same boat as the U.S. when it comes to quality and quantity of peanuts.
"Argentina has some peanuts, but quality is always an issue. Other peanut producing countries had similar challenges as U.S. growers, and the result is just a so-so year for peanuts worldwide," Spearman says.
Marshall Lamb, head of the USDA National Peanut Lab in Camilla, Ga., says as many as 30-35 percent of the 2010 peanut crop could go into the loan program for oil, because of quality problems.
"The crop looked good, yields were good, and even visually looking at the crop, it looked good from a quality standpoint, but the quality just wasn't there when chemical analysis was done on samples," he adds.
Approximately 45 percent of the 2010 crop delivered to buying points had to be further processed to reduce the aflatoxin level enough to deliver these peanuts to a buyer to use in edible peanut products.
Long-time North Carolina Peanut Grower and recent winner of the Virginia-Carolina Peanut Profitability Award, Vic Swinson says his crop of peanuts in 2010 was difficult to figure out. "Our yields were good, but the quality just wasn't there. We had to blanch and re-sort lots of peanuts to get them ready to sell," he says.
The 2010 crop put some shellers and buyers in a precarious financial position and may yet knock some of them out of business, Leek says.
"I talked to one sheller who told me 100 percent of the peanuts he bought that were in the #1 category, or good for the edible market, went to oil. Another sheller told me he spent 25 cents per pound, not per ton, to clean up the peanuts he bought," Leek says.
"Just to make these peanuts edible, shellers who bought some of these high aflatoxin peanuts had to pay up to $500 per ton just to make the peanuts edible," Leek adds.
"When you add 25 cents per pound to the cost of the peanuts, plus sheller costs, many peanut buyers lost money on every pound of peanuts they bought in 2010. Obviously, not many buyers are going to want to repeat that business decision next year."
"Further processing was expensive. Many shellers and buyers went out on a financial limb to reduce the threat of aflatoxin, and still a lot of these peanuts won't be used in the edible market, Leek adds.
Based on trend yields, the 2011 peanut crop is projected at 3.6 billion pounds — a 14-percent decline from last year and a 5-year low. The decline in acreage is likely to go considerably higher, because thousands of acres in the drought-plagued Southwest peanut belt either didn't get planted or were destroyed and not re-planted.
Even the country's top peanut producing state — Georgia — is looking at a huge drop in peanut acreage and perhaps a big dip in yields as well. Planting time drought and high temperatures have left little planting moisture for dryland peanuts and has clearly taken a toll on irrigated peanuts.
Georgia is projected to plant and harvest the fewest acres of peanuts since 1982. Nationwide, peanut acreage could fall below one million acres, or as much as 20 percent below projected pre-plant estimates.
Not only is this year's crop one of the smallest on record, but yields are expected to be below average. As of mid-July, only 30 percent of the crop nationwide was rated in good-to-excellent condition.
Long-time South Carolina Peanut Specialist Jay Chapin says the key to reducing insect and disease damage to the 2011 peanut crop is water.
Late rainfall the key
"If we get decent moisture in the last 40 days of the crop, we could have a decent yield year and good crop quality. If we don't get the needed moisture, it could be a disaster, especially in quality," Chapin says.
Dry harvest time weather, combined with an already dry growing season, could be a bad recipe for aflatoxin again in 2011.
Leek uses the analogy of having a cut on ones hand. "If you keep the cut clean and keep the skin around the cut well treated with an antiseptic, the chances of getting an infection are low. With peanuts, if you can keep insects from poking feeding holes in the pods and leaf feeding insects from destroying peanut foliage, the risks to aflatoxin infection is low," he says
Unfortunately, lack of water and high soil temperatures put peanuts in high risk of white mold, burrowing bugs, and a number of other pests and diseases that can stress the peanut plant and open it up to the fungi that causes aflatoxin.
Especially in the Southeast, and in some areas of the Virginia-Carolina peanut belt, high temperatures and drought have plagued the 2011 crop from the start. In many areas, peanut planting was pushed back, and even under the best of pod production environments, late planting is typically a bad deal for peanut yield and quality.
In 2009, the peanut industry was hit by tidal wave of bad publicity because of an outbreak of salmonella from peanut-containing products. Bad as the salmonella outbreak was, the peanut industry took its shots, regrouped and did a phenomenal job of mending fences and rebuilding markets.
In less than two years, The National Peanut Board, state and regional peanut organizations, even efforts by individual peanut growers has restored confidence in peanut products and the market is rebounding nicely.
Demand for peanut butter has steadily grown since the salmonella crisis and demand has increased at a slower pace for other peanut-containing products.
The recession played a role in the renewed culinary interest in peanuts, as more and more American families looked for lower cost, high protein food sources.
While safety and protein value of peanuts continues to climb, the lower cost component of growth could take a severe hit, if shortages in supply and good demand, push peanut prices above sustainable levels.
Virtually everyone in the peanut industry agrees that prices pushing $1,000 per ton aren't sustainable. Reality is a shortage in peanuts, especially edible peanuts, would push peanut prices further toward unsustainable levels.
Unfortunately land prices, fertilizer, and other input costs traditionally follow high crop prices. When commodity prices fall, input costs are often slow to follow suit.
If there is a shortage of peanuts prior to the 2012 season, high prices could undo a lot of hard work and innovative work done by a number of professionals charged with building peanut product markets.


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Dear Sgt. Shaft:
I am the widow of a deceased veteran. My husband was rated as priority 8 in the VA health care system. After he died in April from Type II diabetes and ischemic heart disease, I contacted our local VA representative about possible benefits because I knew he had been exposed to Agent Orange in Vietnam.
I was told I wouldn't be eligible unless proof could be found that he had been in certain areas of exposure. I found an old folder where my husband had saved every order he received while in the Air Force during his tour in mid-1960s.
While I can't draw compensation from Agent Orange because he had not applied for it himself, I am now receiving $1,200 per month from VA after they ruled his death service related.
So, I've just sent in paperwork to start CHAMPUSVA. I'm 62 and uninsured. Should I apply for TRICARE, also? (TRICARE is the health care program serving uniformed service members, retirees and their families worldwide.) Your input would be greatly appreciated.
Sincerely, Brenda H. Texas
Dear Mrs. H:
You are receiving VA benefits based on the cause of your husband's death being related to military service. Proof of exposure to Agent Orange is no longer an issue.
I sent your missive to the Department of Veterans Affairs for the purpose of determining your entitlement to medical benefits from them. Please keep me informed. I hope this helps.
Shaft notes
• The following press release comes from U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson's office:
U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson (GA-04) has sent a letter to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel urging the Defense Department not to close the commissary at Fort McPherson in Atlanta before a new one is built at Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta.
Rep. Johnson's letter was signed by Georgia Sens. Johnny Isakson and Saxby Chambliss, and Reps. John Barrow, Sanford Bishop, Paul Broun, Doug Collins, Phil Gingrey, Tom Graves, John Lewis, Tom Price, Austin Scott, David Scott and Lynn Westmoreland.
The Fort McPherson Commissary is scheduled to close Sept. 30, 2013.
"The commissary at Fort McPherson serves thousands of veterans and service members across northeast Georgia, including metro Atlanta," the letter said. "These heroes have earned this benefit through service to our nation. In these difficult economic times, with veterans and service members facing the impact of sequestration, reduced benefits, and the effects of two recent wars, it is deeply disappointing that the Department would make the decision to deprive Atlanta-area veterans of a commissary."
• An attaboy to The American Legion for its Sept. 11 report on current treatments and best practices for traumatic brain injury (TBI) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
The following press release comes from The American Legion:
The report, entitled "The War Within," includes findings and recommendations based on comprehensive research, conducted from January 2011 to February 2013, by an American Legion ad hoc committee chaired by William Detweiler, past national commander of the Legion.
Detweiler said the report shows that while the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) use a number of traditional medical treatments for TBI and PTSD cases, "they have not done a lot of research on alternative methods. There's no simple answer to what works as far as PTSD or TBI is concerned, but we found that the (DoD and VA) medical profession shied away from certain things which they considered to be alternative medicine."
For example, Detweiler said that hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is one alternative treatment that "works for some people. It's not the answer for everybody, but (DoD and VA) have shied away from putting any serious money into doing studies."
Key findings from the Legion's report include:
• Currently, VA and DoD have no well-defined approach to the treatment of TBI; providers are merely treating the symptoms.
• Initial attempts to diagnose TBI is often complicated by the clinical overlap of TBI with PTSD and substance-abuse disorder.
• VA and DoD research studies are lacking for new, innovative and non-pharmacological treatments, such as virtual reality therapy, HBOT and other complementary/alternative medicine therapies.
• DoD and VA have no fast-track mechanisms for employing innovative or novel therapies in a standardized way.
The report recommended that:
1. Congress should provide oversight and funding to VA and DoD for innovative TBI and PTSD research currently used in the private sector.
2. Congress should increase DoD and VA budgets to improve the research, screening, diagnosis and treatment of TBI and PTSD, and to develop joint offices for research collaboration.
3. DoD and VA need to accelerate their research efforts to properly diagnose and develop evidence-based treatments for TBI and PTSD.
4. Service members and veterans suffering from TBI and PTSD should not be prescribed medications that are not FDA-approved; those participating in research studies should give their consent and be provided with the disclosure of any negative effects associated with the treatment.
• Send letters to Sgt. Shaft, c/o John Fales, P.O. Box 65900, Washington, D.C. 20035-5900; fax 301/622-3330, call 202/257-5446 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Fish where the fish are
By Babe Winkelman
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21, 2013]
There is a 100 percent chance you won't catch a
fish that isn't there. Yet it's amazing how much time anglers spend
on spots that simply don't have any finny critters around. So,
before you even think about what live bait or lure you're going to
use, or how you're going to present that bait, job No. 1 on any
angling adventure is to first find the fish.
An accurate lake depth contour map is a
fisherman's best friend. Whether it's in the old-fashioned form of a
printed map, or a digital rendering in your sonar or GPS unit, it's
critical to know the "lay of the land" beneath your boat.
With your map open in front of you, the first things you want to
do are to identify classic structures and to eliminate dead water.
By classic structures, I mean sharp drop-offs, underwater points,
humps, saddles and inside turns. Also, locate potential areas that
could have defined transitions in bottom content. For example, where
a shallow bay meets a deep main lake basin, there's a good chance
there will be a transition from soft silt to a hard bottom. Fish
like these transition areas.
Highlight all such areas with a pen if you're using a paper map,
or with waypoints if you're mapping digitally with GPS. You'll want
to check out these areas. In the process of identifying them, you'll
also effectively eliminate dead water. Places where there are no
striking depth contour features, like big midlake flats, are often
lacking in good fish populations.
Now remember, this is a generalization and not a hard rule.
Because some lakes, like legendary Mille Lacs Lake in Minnesota,
have huge, featureless flats that are actually fish magnets. In the
case of Mille Lacs, it's because the big flats are muddy and are
breeding grounds for bug hatches — which all fish like to eat.
Embrace technology
I already mentioned GPS. Ever since accurate GPS and digital
mapping became available to anglers, recreational fishing changed
forever. It's simply amazing technology, and if you truly want every
advantage when fishing, you owe it to yourself to invest in a GPS
unit. But if you can't or don't wish to, at the very least I
encourage you to own and use a high-quality sonar unit. Sonar is the
single best way to determine whether you're on fish or you aren't.
Armed with your marked contour map, go to the areas you have
selected as potential fish hangouts and slowly explore those spots
while looking at your sonar for fish. Maybe you'll spot suspended
"hooks" on your screen. Or perhaps you'll mark fish hugging the
bottom. Either way, if they're there, fish 'em! If your screen is
blank and fishless, don't bother fishing there. Move on and keep
moving on until technology tells you, "This is the spot, buddy!"
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See underwater
Nothing tells you there are fish present like your own eyes. And
there are two ways to see the fish. The first is simple: with a good
pair of polarized sunglasses. Polarized lenses help deflect surface
glare so you can more easily see down into the depths and spot fish.
This is especially true when fishing the shallows for bass, bedded
panfish, pre-spawn pike in bays and more.
Another piece of underwater viewing equipment is a submersible
video camera. These are dynamite for positively identifying the
particular fish species you're after — after locating the presence
of fish with your sonar unit. An underwater camera will also show
you the size of the fish beneath you. Finally, by using the camera
while fishing — best done when ice fishing — it will teach you a lot
about fish behavior, how they respond to different baits and how
different bait presentations can trigger strikes. Plus, it's just
plain fun to watch fish on your TV screen above water.
Look on top
Let's not forget the most basic way to find fish, which is by
watching the surface. Naturally, this is best done on nice, calm
days. If I go out for bass or panfish on a calm day, the first thing
I do is sit and scan the surface for several minutes. If I see
panfish rising and popping, or spot a big bass crashing something on
top, then that's proof positive that there's a catchable fish right
on that spot!
I hope these fish-location tips help you find what you're looking
for next time you're out on the water. May all of your hot spots be
Good fishing.
[By BABE WINKELMAN]
Babe Winkelman hosts "Good Fishing" and
"Outdoor Secrets," the most-watched fishing and hunting programs on
television. Tune in on NBC Sports Network, Destination America,
Velocity, Time Warner Sports Texas & New York, and many local
broadcast channels. Visit
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I've been experimenting with how to use the iPads in my fifth grade writer's workshop. I decided to try it out by launching a unit of study using my document camera, student iPads, and Edmodo. Usually we study a wide variety of mentor texts so that we can understand what the genre is and students can begin to notice good things that they want to include in their writing.
I showed projected articles and talked through them while students responded on Edmodo. I gave them one question and asked them to put their thoughts in the reply section. As the students typed their comments in I told them to post a comment and then go back and see what their classmates had written. I also told them that they could participate verbally at any time, so we had a bit of a mix of talking and typing going on.
Plus: Everyone was participating
Minus: I wasn't really getting the quality of responses that I was looking for…yet. Twenty-nine kids on one discussion…too much!
Here is the first part of our discussion, with student names removed. You can see that they start picking up on some of the elements such as title and illustrations.
As I monitored what comments the students were making I began to ask questions and respond to them verbally in order to prompt them to go deeper. Here are some other comments from that discussion.
I notice that there is a lot of little text boxes and not one big one.Students began to see that the article was visually and graphically organized as well as organized in the writing. This was one of the reasons we chose this genre, to help students learn to organize.
For 12345 i see paw prints
Yeah wait why is it called high five?They began to look at the creative details such as creative title. High Five is a feature in Faces Magazine every month.
I like the author's use of alliterations : five fascinating factsThey weren't noticing much of the writing style so I made the above comment to get them thinking of it.
Started a little intro saying what your gonna learn. =]
The writer was bringing the reader inWhen the conversation got too big I started adding new questions to help them focus more.
This went on for awhile, with me prompting students to compare and contrast the articles and notice new or different characteristics as I shared various examples. Some students got tired of trying to type so they just jumped in and shared verbally while others seemed to prefer the rapid fire conversation on Edmodo.
What I liked about this was that it provided a way for everyone to be engaged and participate. Although they might have been too engaged and I'm wondering if they were really able to attend to the most important parts of the conversation. I think a debrief where we use the work we did to create a class chart would help summarize the most important elements of the genre.
One thing I did at the end of class was to post a question about topics. I asked everyone to toss out some thoughts on what they might write about because I know generating ideas is a huge struggle for many students They put together a huge list of things and I think this might have been the best part of the lesson because at the end of the day it will be the most helpful.


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Florida fisherman Mark Quartiano had the catch of a lifetime when he reeled in an 800-pound fish off the coast of Miami Beach.
Quartiano believes the fish is a "RARE DEEP WATER DACTOYLOBA," according to his Instagram caption. No such fish exists, but perhaps he was thinking the fish is a Dactylobatus clarkii, otherwise known as a Hookskate.
Whatever it is, it is a monster. We've seen some big fish on this site, but this guy is another thing altogether.
Here's another view:
Quartiano was fishing at a depth of 500 feet and was looking to haul in a shark for a Japanese TV show, which was filming onboard. What he got instead was an 800-pound skate. It took him four hours to haul the thing in.
From International Business Times:
"When we first saw it, we didn't know what it was. It looked really odd … like some kind of dinosaur," Quartiano told GrindTV, adding that the creature was out of the water for three or four minutes for a photo before being set free.
Quartiano also said he's caught a fish like this before, but never one as big.
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CHICAGO – High risk patients have better outcomes when undergoing aortic valve replacement at hospitals that perform high volumes of the procedure, according to a study in the November 2013 issue of The Annals of Thoracic Surgery.
Valve replacement, with or without coronary artery bypass grafting surgery, is the most commonly performed valvular procedure in the United States, and as the population ages the number of these procedures is expected to increase.
"The growing use of transcatheter aortic valve replacement as a viable alternative to conventional AVR for certain patient groups warranted an examination of patient outcomes for conventional AVR," says the study's lead author Himanshu J. Patel, M.D., cardiac surgeon at the University of Michigan Frankel Cardiovascular Center and the Michigan Society of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons Quality Collaborative (MSTCVS-QC).
Patel and colleagues reviewed outcomes for isolated AVR and AVR with CABG procedures performed at 33 hospitals in Michigan between January 2008 and December 2011 to assess hospital and surgeon volume relationships with patient outcomes.
Using the MSTCVS-QC database, the authors identified 3,487 patients who underwent isolated AVR and 2,738 patients who underwent AVR with CABG during the study period. The median age of the patients was 72. The data came from 100 cardiothoracic surgeons.
The researchers found that post-operative outcomes for high-risk patients appeared to be better at high-volume hospitals, but hospital volume did not impact low-risk patient outcomes. Additionally, individual surgeon volume had no impact on patient outcomes.
Importance of robust clinical data
Many previous examinations of early mortality following AVR used administrative datasets, which have been criticized for lack of accuracy and availability of clinical information.
Therefore, the researchers said the results of this study are unique because the MSTCVS-QC is a multidisciplinary collaborative consisting of all 33 hospitals performing adult cardiac surgery in Michigan. All data submitted to the STS National Database from this group are simultaneously submitted to the MSTCVS-QC and are audited.
"Our results allow the MSTCVS-QC to review the preparation, planning, and conduct of operations in the most complex patient groups, creating a platform for analysis, open discussion, and quality improvement," says Patel.
"The next step may be to identify the processes of care for AVR from the higher-volume hospitals that can be embraced by lower-volume hospitals. Our goal is to improve patient outcomes at all institutions in Michigan."
The MSTCVS Quality Collaborative is partially funded by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Blue Care Network.
Press release courtesy of STS. Media contact: Cassie Brasseur, 312-202-5865, [email protected]
Founded in 1964, The Society of Thoracic Surgeons is a not-for-profit organization representing more than 6,700 cardiothoracic surgeons, researchers, and allied health care professionals worldwide who are dedicated to ensuring the best possible outcomes for surgeries of the heart, lung, and esophagus, as well as other surgical procedures within the chest. The Society's mission is to enhance the ability of cardiothoracic surgeons to provide the highest quality patient care through education, research, and advocacy.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery is the official journal of STS and the Southern Thoracic Surgical Association.


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Invalid File Errors
I have been hearing from a lot of students as well as faculty that they have been encountering this problem when trying to submit a file to a Blackboard assignment: The system allows you to browse for the file and attach it but when you click submit a pop-up warning tells you that your file is "Invalid".
This is almost always caused by a browser incompatibility. Firefox 3 and Internet Explorer 8 (beta) are not supported by our Blackboard environment at this time and will almost always throw this error up when trying to attach a file in Blackboard. If you encounter this, please try a different browser; Firefox 2 or IE 7 are both supported browsers and should work much better.
We are currently looking into a possible system upgrade to our Blackboard system that would support these browsers, but the downtime associated with such a change demands that it be done over the summer break.


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Saw this today: Elementary School Cafeteria Goes Vegetarian.
A New York City elementary school cafeteria is one of the first in the nation to go meatless.
Students at P.S. 244 , the Active Learning Elementary School, are being treated to eclectic fare, including black bean and cheese quesadillas, falafel and tofu in an Asian sesame sauce.
"It's been a really great response from the kids, but they also understand it's about what is the healthiest option for them," principal Bob Groff told ABCNews.com. "Because we teach them throughout our curriculum to make healthy choices, they understand what is happening and believe in what we're doing too."
Well, in a truly rational world, principal Bob Groff would not be able to talk out of his toothless mouth, anymore, given that he would already have been beaten to a bloody pulp.
All meals have to adhere to USDA standards, he said, making sure students get plenty of nutrients, including protein, for their growing bodies.
He wouldn't know a nutrient if it knocked his teeth out.
The sort of brain rot infecting the general population nowadays (like this…do take a quick glance) is just the quotidien norm. It's like everyone is in a mad rush to be demonstrably more stupid, more led by the nose, more conforming, more "team moron" than the next guy.
But it's a simple thing, easy to understrand. This is about money. It's all and only about money. It's combined with the sort of 1984, NewSpeak ignorance where War = Peace, and so bankrupt food conglomerate nutrition = Healthy!!! …Real, fresh, quality food—meat, fish, fowl, vegetable, fruit, nuts—is comparatively far more expensive than the cheap, packaged, multi-year-shelf-life industrial EXCREMENT that Bob Groff is feeding the children of that school.
And the derelict parents are probably lining up to applaud because they get to be as stupid as they want to be.
Guess how this would go over in France? No, really; just guess. And that's just France. Here, you can see that just about every country on Earth cares far more about the nutrition of children than here is good ol' Merca, land of the perpetually moronic, a veritable Idiocracy.
Here's but one quote of many.
This spring I joined the International Exchange Forum on Children, Obesity, Food Choice, and the Environment in France's Loire Valley, where 16 of us met first with each other, then with our French counterparts working in diet and health, and finally in the lunchrooms of two schools. The school lunches we ate were meals I'd be proud to serve.
At one school, students were served a choice of salads — mâche with smoked duck and fava beans, or mâche with smoked salmon and asparagus — followed by guinea fowl with roasted potatoes and carrots and steamed broccoli. For dessert, there was a choice of ripe, red-throughout strawberries or clafoutis. A pungent washed-rind cheese was offered, along with French bread and water. Yes, the kids took and ate the cheese.
French schoolchildren eat in brightly colored lunchrooms. Lunch hour includes exercise and lasts for two hours.
Our second meal was a little simpler, but then, the kids were younger, too. Children served themselves a butter lettuce salad from a bowl set on the table. The main dish was mashed potatoes with a sauce of ground beef (delicious!). Bread and water again were offered as well as the pungent cheese, and a choice of fresh strawberries or a little pastry.
In addition to the goodness of the food, there were other good things about these school lunches. First of all, they weren't rushed. About two hours are given for lunch, a portion of which is used for very loud and active exercise. Second, they were civilized. Food was served on heated plates; real silverware and glasses — not plastic — were used; and the lunchrooms were pretty and comfortable for the kids.
I think it's wonderful for America to be so dreadfully shamed by the French in this regard. There is no other word for it. Hey, Americans: stick your "Freedom Fries" up your pathetic asses. You can't carry France's bread, or water. Fact.
"The food is very good, Madame. The meat is 100% French," the official said, picking up a brochure from her desk. I knew this brochure well, having e-mailed it to friends in the U.S. last year as a this-could-only-happen-in-France conversation piece. It lists in great detail the lunch menu for each school day over a two-month period. On Mondays, the menus are also posted on the wall outside every school in the country. The variety on the menus is astonishing: no single meal is repeated over the 32 school days in the period, and every meal includes an hors d'oeuvre, salad, main course, cheese plate and dessert.
There is more: the final column in the brochure carries the title "Suggestions for the evening." That, too, changes daily. If your child has eaten turkey, ratatouille and a raspberry-filled crepe for lunch, the city of Paris suggests pasta, green beans and a fruit salad for dinner.
I finally saw the system in action earlier this month. Caught short by a sick nanny, my son, who was accustomed to eating leftovers from the refrigerator, sat in silence with his 25 classmates at tables in the nursery-school cafeteria, while city workers served a leisurely, five-course meal. One day, when I arrived to collect him, a server whispered for me to wait until the dessert course was over. Out in the hall, one of the staff shouted for "total quiet" to a crowd of 4-year-olds awaiting the next lunch seating. "I will now read you today's menu," he told them. "First, you will begin with a salad."
"4-year-olds." This country is pathetic in this regard, and principals like Bob Groff are too ignorant to even understand the depth of their stupidity (it's why it's hard to fix stupid: ignorance gets in the way).
In other news, a mother emails in to let me know that in an annual 5th grade state study project, part of it is the "foods of…" and the kids always look forward to the various regional specialties that get served. Not this year, though. Doesn't conform to the USDA guidelines for cheap-ass crap, so the kids have to be content with pictures of food.
Oh, well, it's just another day in "The Land of the Free."


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Star-gazing software helps fight breast cancer
Last Updated: 2013-02-20 10:00:21 -0400 (Reuters Health)
LONDON (Reuters) - In an unlikely tie-up, astronomers and cancer researchers have joined forces to study breast tumors using image analysis software originally developed to explore the distant stars.
The automated system offers a speedy way to test if tumors are aggressive and may mean pathologists one day no longer have to peer down a microscope to spot subtle differences in tissue samples.
Scientists at the University of Cambridge said on Wednesday that astronomical algorithms, or problem-solving procedures, adapted to biology had proved much faster and just as accurate as traditional tumor analysis procedures.
Astronomers have long used sophisticated computer systems to help pick out indistinct objects in the night sky, and the software used by the Cambridge team first developed to help spot planets that might harbor life outside our solar system.
But such star-gazing skills have gone largely unnoticed in biomedical field, at least until now.
"In shows that we don't cross-communicate as much as we ought to," said lead researcher Raza Ali, a pathologist from Cancer Research UK's Cambridge Institute.
Ali and colleagues studied just over 2,000 tumor samples and found the astronomical algorithm system could process them in a day, compared to the week they would have taken to analyze manually.
They now plan a larger international study involving samples from more than 20,000 breast cancer patients to refine the approach.
Studying tumor samples is a key part of breast cancer treatment since differences can show whether or not a tumor expresses a certain protein. A "positive" result means a patient may be suitable for a targeted drug like Roche's Herceptin.
Some diagnostics companies are already looking at other ways to automate the analysis of tumor samples but Ali said this was the first example of exploiting know-how adapted from astronomy.
The team of Cambridge cancer researchers and astronomers, who published their findings in the British Journal of Cancer, have placed all their algorithms and images in the public domain in the hope of encouraging further collaboration.
SOURCE: http://bit.ly/XkQBlP British Journal of Cancer, online February 19, 2013.
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New management is making progress in reversing problems of an MD Helicopters that was "20 years broken," but it will take years to complete that process, according the manufacturer's CEO.
"This is a company that's 20 years broken," said Lynn Tilton, whose New York investment firm Patriarch Partners bought MD in mid-2005, in her second Heli-Expo press briefing. "It's not a one-year fix. It's not a two-year fix. This is a five-year turnaround."
MD has started accepting single-engine fuselages from a Patriarch plant in Monterrey, Mexico and made gains in reducing aircraft grounded while awaiting delivery of parts. It is focusing on reducing the number of suppliers it uses (from about 300 now) and building relationships with those that remain. But, Tilton said, MD is still struggling with some suppliers. It is "fighting with [Turkish Aerospace Industries] to get twin-engine fuselages on time and with a payment schedule we can afford."
MD aims to deliver 22 twin MD902s and 26 single-engine MD500s and MD600s.


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Intel Pentium 4 Northwood CPU Review (Page 1)
With all the buzz going around about the new Northwood Pentium 4 processors, Intel seems to be on the verge of a large push to regain market share. But is all the hype really true? Come join Cameron "Sov" Johnson as he digs into the newest processor to wear the Intel moniker; namely the Intel Pentium 4 2.2GHz Northwood.
Cameron Johnson | Jan 27, 2002 at 11:00 pm CST
Rating: 90%Manufacturer: Intel Corporation
The Rise of IntelThe Intel Corporation has been making processors and peripherals for computers for the better part of ten years, and for eight out of those ten years, Intel has led the industry with the fastest processors for desktops, servers and workstations. Before the 386 microprocessor age, 99% of CPUs in PC's were Intel 80286, and even then other companies 286 CPUs were somewhat unreliable.Intel's first 32-bit CPU was the Intel i386DX processor line. Code-named "P9", it supported frequencies of 16Mhz up to 33Mhz (using 16-33MHz FSB). Then in June of 1988, Intel released its cut-down version of the i386DX, named the i386SX. The primary difference between the DX and SX was cache. While the DX line supported no L1 cache and up to 128KB of L2 cache on the motherboard, the SX supported NO L1 or L2 cache at all, making it somewhat slower than its DX counterpart. In response to the AMD 386 and IBM 386 line of CPU, Intel decided that increasing the speeds of its 386 line wasn't enough to keep Intel on top. In April or 1989, Intel released to the public the first CPU with a Math Coprocessor or better known as an FPU. This alone gave Intel the crown for fastest CPU, but Intel didn't stop there. Keeping with Intel's style for new innovative designs, the CPU was given a L1 cache size of 8Kb and a L2 cache access size of up to 512Kb or cache on the supported motherboard, this new creation was dubbed the i486DX.AMD responded to this by releasing their 486 line of CPU, and this proved to be a hit in the low cost market. Intel, not happy losing out to AMD in sales took the i486DX, removed the FPU and sold the chip as the i486SX CPU, taking back what Intel had earned.With bus speeds approaching their limit, Intel, AMD and Cyrix tried to get their CPU's to run faster, but expansion devices like hard disks and video cards became unstable as the faster CPU's pushed the limit of the bus speeds. Intel answered this challenge by introducing what we now know as the clock multiplier into the CPU. This clock multiplier was set to 2x, and Intel named this CPU the i486DX2. The i486DX2 used the bus speed x2 to increase the CPU speed. This step is still implemented today in our latest processors.Continuing with the trend, Intel incorporated a 4x multiplier into its next line of 486 class of CPU. This CPU was named the i486DX4, ranging in speeds from 75MHz to 133MHz. This was the last 486 CPU to be made by Intel.In 1993, Intel released a new bus standard. Known to the world as the P5 bus, this new architecture led to a lot of new processors from Intel and its competitors as we will soon see. The first of Intel's P5 CPU's was the Intel Pentium. The Intel Pentium came in speeds of 60MHz up to 200MHz using 50MHz to 66MHz bus speeds. This new CPU introduced another of the new CPU standards which are still used to this day; divided cache. Divided cache technology incorporated two separate cache chips on the L1 platform; one set for data, one set for instruction. This helped boost the power of the FPU system.With the computer market swinging to the home user rather than just the business user, Intel needed to boost its P5 CPU line to support better gaming. Intel took the existing Pentium CPU and added a new Multimedia Xceleration (MMX) technology. The MMX system was a new set of 50 instructions added to the CPU for handling number crunching. This new CPU was available in speeds of 166Mhz up to 233Mhz, the MMX Pentium was the last P5 CPU made by Intel.Intel's most recent line of CPU's was based on the P6 bus introduced by Intel back in 1995 with the Intel Pentium Pro CPU. The Intel Pentium Pro CPU was released in November 1995. This CPU was the first of Intel's line of CPU's to introduce on-die L2 cache. This new cache technology allowed for faster L2 cache access speeds since the L2 cache of the Pentium Pro ran at the same speed as the CPU's core. The Pentium Pro was built mostly for servers and workstations, but around the time that the Intel Pentium MMX arrived, the Pentium Pro found its way into a few of the home users systems. While this CPU was a good performer with the L2 cache on the CPU, it still lacked the support for MMX applications.With the need for the Pentium Pro to support MMX instructions, Intel took the Pentium Pro CPU, moved the L2 cache off the die and added the MMX instruction set, and in May 1997 Intel gave birth to one of the best CPU's Intel had ever created, the Intel Pentium II. The Pentium II was a Slot 1 based CPU since the cache had to be moved off the die to save on costs. But to increase the speed of the cache by having direct access to the CPU, Intel created a slot connector for the Pentium II. With AMD and its K6-2 and K6-3 taking the value market away, Intel needed a new value market CPU. Intel took the existing Pentium II core and totally removed the L2 cache, naming this new CPU the Intel Celeron. The first wave of Celeron CPU's were a disaster. With no L2 cache the CPU ran slower than the AMD K6-2 and cost more than a K6-3. This didn't go down well so Intel decided to take the Celeron core and add 128KB of on-die L2 cache running at the core clock of the CPU and named it the Celeron A series. The Celeron A series started out in Slot 1 format, however, with the L2 cache integrated into the CPU there was no need for the expensive slot configuration, so the Intel Celeron A moved over to the Socket 370 PPGA connector and has remained there. Intel's newest Celeron CPU, known to us as the Celeron II, is based on the Intel Pentium III FC-PGA package. This new CPU is the same old Celeron core and the same amount of memory. The only difference is the reduction in size of the die and the transfer from 64-bit cache to 256-bit Advanced Transfer Cache (ATC).Intel's fastest and mainstream P6 CPU was and is the Intel Pentium III CPU. The Pentium III started out as a Slot 1 CPU, but later moved to the Socket 370 FC-PGA packaging when the cache was moved from the Slot to the die of the CPU. The Pentium III's main feature over the Intel Pentium II was new multimedia instructions called SSE. These new instructions gave the Pentium III a slight boost in the benchmark department.With the AMD K7 line of processors taking the fame away from Intel during the i820/RDRAM/SDRAM disaster, Intel had to come up with a new CPU in order to take back the crown from AMD. Enter the Intel Pentium 4. The Pentium 4, upon its release, was not greeted with the market sales that Intel would have hoped for. This was due to the Intel Pentium 4 having a weaker FPU that the P3 at 1GHz. The P3 1.0GHz could outperform the Intel Pentium 4 in office applications, and this was not a laughing matter for Intel with the consumers staying away from Pentium 4 and its need for high priced, low performance RDRAM. Releases from VIA of the P4X266, SiS with the 645 and Intel with the i845 created cheaper options for the Pentium 4, and with DirectX 8 supporting Pentium 4 SSE2 optimized instructions, the Pentium 4 has gained some ground. Now Intel has made its next move on the Pentium 4 line; the Northwood core.
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When Majel Barrett-Roddenberry died, a piece of "Star Trek" went with her…
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Majel Barrett-Roddenberry was Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry's wife – and his favorite actress. She appeared in his television shows and movies again and again, spanning the years from the original series to the recent reboot. From her first appearance in the original Star Trek pilot episode to her final role in 2009's Star Trek movie, a voiceover as the ship's computer recorded just days before her death, Barrett-Roddenberry was an intrinsic part of Star Trek.
Barrett-Roddenberry, who died Dec. 18, 2008 of leukemia, would have celebrated her 81st birthday today. In her honor, we're revisiting some of the great work she did with the franchise that has defined sci-fi since the 1960s.
Barrett-Roddenberry was there from the very beginning – in the very first episode of Star Trek, she played Number One, the Enterprise's first officer.
The character didn't play well with test audiences and was nixed before the second episode. But Barrett-Roddenberry was soon back on the Enterprise in a recurring role as Nurse Christine Chapel.
As a new crop of fans discovered the franchise with Star Trek: The Next Generation, they also were introduced to Barrett-Roddenberry as the overbearing mother of ship's counselor Deanna Troi. When she wasn't embarrassing her daughter, widowed ambassador Lwaxana Troi had her sights set on Captain Picard.
From the original series through The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and Voyager, Roddenberry provided the voice of the onboard computers of Federation starships. And she brought the role to the movies too, voicing the computer in most of the original run of films and bringing continuity to the reboot with her familiar voice.
When Barrett-Roddenberry died, a piece of Star Trek went with her. Though the franchise goes on, with Star Trek Into Darkness coming out later this year, the new movie and future installments won't be the same without the first lady on board.
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Sofia has added the missing scans of the Marion Cotillard feature in the March issue of Interview. Check out the great scans of this oversized magazine.
Then, we (well, mostly Sofia) have added scans of the latest magazine features, mostly to promote 'Deux jours, une nuit' (Two Days, One Night) but there's also one for 'The Immigrant'. I love USA Today's article and the photoshoot of Marion Cotillard and Joaquin Phoenix. By the way, the pictures featured in the print version are slightly different from the ones featured online.
Also, I noticed that the Empire issue with the new 'Macbeth' picture also has a great photo from the set of 'Anchorman 2'.
Additionally, more articles we've added scans of before are now as text versions in our press archive and we've also added some outtakes. Enjoy!
– Marion Cotillard, pose combat, Ciné Télé Obs, May 10
– Marion raconte Cotillard, L'Express Styles, May 14
– Marion Cotillard : "Je suis une anthropologue des émotions", Fémina, May 18
– Marion Cotillard: «Elle joue le jeu», Libération, May 21
– Cannes : éblouissante Marion Cotillard dans «Deux Jours, une nuit», Le Parisien, May 21
– Phoenix, and Cotillard, loosen up to talk 'Immigrant', USA Today, May 22
– Opening doors opened the door for Marion Cotillard and Two Days, One Night, National Post, May 22
012 Scans from 2014 > Interview (US) – March
006 Scans from 2014 > Gala Croisette (France) – May 21, thank you Luise!
001 Scans from 2014 > Le Parisien (France) – May 21
005 Scans from 2014 > Liberation (France) – May 21
002 Scans from 2014 > USA Today (US) – May 22
001 Scans from 2014 > Empire (UK) – June
007 Sessions from 2014 > Madame Figaro / Elle (also replaced existing with better quality)
006 Sessions from 2014 > L'Express Styles
002 Sessions from 2014 > Libération
003 Sessions from 2014 > USA Today


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Corbin Blue Talks Of When He Fell In Love With Dancing With The Stars, Hints On Jive, And More
Entertainment Weekly has posted a fun deal where Corbin Bleu answers questions on the TV show that makes him cry, why he was way too young when he first saw Rain Man, and why he still has a soft spot for Home Alone. They also posted the quote below for when he fell in love with Dancing With The Stars. More at Entertainment Weekly!
It shouldn't be a surprise that Broadway and High School Musical vet Corbin Bleu can move — he proved as much with his debut on Dancing With The Stars Monday night. And, as he tells EW, his stint on the show was a long time in the making. "I visited the show several time [when] Monique Coleman was on, [as well as with] Sabrina Bryan and Kyle Massey," he explained. "I got to fall in love with the show and the format. And then I met [partner] Karina about four years ago, and she since then has been saying, 'Come on the show! I'd love to have you as my partner!' I finally decided the time was right right now, and it worked out perfectly that I was with Karina."
Also, Just Jared has posted some new parking lot photos of he and Karina. He also tweeted out a hint that their Jive will be paying a little visit to East High. More at Just Jared.


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I dunno about that. Ikuhara is a big yuri fan, he constantly pushed for more explicit yuri in Utena TV and finally got it in AoU. When asked why, he said that he liked to see girls kissing. Male gaze, and definitely not coincidental.Kionon wrote:Given that shoujo, at its base, (as I explained to Beowolf in my feminist critique of misogyny in AMV spaces) is not remotely about the male gaze or for the male gaze (written by women for girls), these queer identities cannot be seen as mere fanservice for male watchers. In many cases, I'd argue male interest in this homosocial, homoerotic (even overtly homosexual, like Haruka/Michiru) element of shoujo is entirely coincidental. Perhaps not unexpected, but in spite and of not because of the inclusion of these themes. I'm fairly certain the feminists who have written on shoujo before would agree. Yes, there are anime series which exploit elements of shoujo, including homosocial behavior for the male gaze (Kampfer immediately comes to mind), they are not shoujo and should not be classified as such.
Personally I find yuri a lot MORE erotic when the girls have a complex but believable relationship, than when nominally straight girls start grabbing each others boobs for no reason.
So IMHO male-gaze yuri fanservice and a strong feminist message are not mutually exclusive.


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DURHAM — All Kitty Stryker wants is to not be arrested, beaten or raped.
"I think that sums it up," she said. "Precisely."
Stryker was speaking to a room full of University of New Hampshire students participating in a mini-conference on sex workers sponsored through the school's Women's Studies program on Tuesday.
She, along with two advocates for sex workers' rights from New York City participated in a discussion, "No bad women: Just bad laws," after students watched the movie Scarlet Road. The film is a documentary on an Australian sex worker who works with people with disabilities.
People in this business are looking for rights, whether that means their work is legalized, decriminalized or just to be shed in a better light.
Stryker is a sex worker living in San Francisco. She has also worked with clients in Boston and London, England. After becoming somewhat of an expert at social media when having to market herself, she became a lover of the Internet and now does community management for two television stations as a day job — and pornography on the side.
"Porn is legal," she said. "I don't have to worry about it."
When she was providing sex to clients, which she still does, but not full-time, she said she would always make sure to receive two references before seeing the client.
She is not worried about getting arrested through advertisements she posts online, but is nervous that undercover police will try to book a session with her.
"They definitely can do that. They don't have to tell you they are a cop," she said.
She said it is just a "matter of time" until she could possibly be taken to jail.
"I waive my privilege every day with every speaking engagement and activism that I do," she said. "How much can I push my privilege and get away with things?"
Although prostitution laws differ from state to state, she said that generally states will arrest people who are willing to do certain acts for money and have that money exchanged.
In New Hampshire, a person is guilty of a misdemeanor if they solicit or agree to perform a sex act according to RSA 632-A: 1.
Stryker was not forced into this work. Neither were any of the people on the panel during the conference at UNH.
Stryker said she enjoys watching her clients grow and become people who have the confidence to stop paying for sex and start engaging with women and eventually have girlfriends. She said this work has taught her to love her body, how to set boundaries and gain a closer relationship with her family.
"Having my parents accept my sex work was really valuable," she said during a panel discussion Tuesday night.
Jordan Rondinone, a UNH student who also dances at TENS in Salisbury, Mass., said her family knows about her work in the sex industry, as well.
She said the "umbrella term" of sex work encompasses anyone working within the sex industry and that because she dances sexually she is categorized under it.
Rondinone has also danced in Massachusetts at the Gold Club, Golden Banana and Centerfold.
"I have also done prostitution," she said.
While she, too, has seen positives in her work. She included the feeling of empowerment, the compliments, the control of those watching and the ability to make fast cash. But she said she also feels vulnerable, is at a higher risk for sexual harassment and is in an industry that does live "a very different lifestyle."
She said forming friendships has been difficult and she has not been in an intimate relationship since she started dancing.
"I don't think people completely understand," she said of her work. "Maybe it is almost a jealousy thing?"
Because it has been hard finding a social group, she found another outlet.
"I was in rehab, I'm a lot better now," she said. "But this industry gets you so open to that and for a long time, I didn't have anyone close and that was what was close to me and still can be," she said.
Isabella Beaulieu, who also sat on the panel at UNH as a former student who dropped out and moved to Seattle, said she too had a hard time making friends in the sex industry.
When she got to the west coast, she had difficulty finding a job. She decided to start dancing and really enjoyed the profession.
"There are so many stereotypes of sex workers being victims of being forced, but everyone's experience is so unique and so amazing," she said.
Stryker said most of the time her job is "nice" and that she enjoys it.
"But sometimes it's crappy and I don't want to get up and I don't want to get dressed in some fancy femme drag. I don't want to deal with it," she said. "Sometimes I have clients who are really annoying or they are really boring, like, that happens."
She said because she is a sex worker advocate, though, and because she is vocal, she is not allowed to say she had a bad day.
"Ever," she said. "Because if I have a bad day, then I'm proof that sex work is evil."
Stryker said there is a war on the sex worker community, but that it is not just on them.
"It starts with us, it starts with me, but it is going to come to you," she said to the crowd at UNH. "This is a war on all of us."
She said the United States is too big, with too many different state laws, to try to think of a solution that would work to give rights to sex workers across the board. But, she said, certain laws, such as No Condoms As Evidence, need to be passed to protect everyone, not just people in her field of work.
Emma Caterine, the program coordinator for the Red Umbrella Project in New York City, said No Condoms As Evidence, a New York state bill, will stop police and prosecutors from being able to use the possession of condoms as evidence of prostitution. Right now, they are able to use that as a fact that a person is involved in sex work, which can lead them to being arrested.
"It's not illegal to carry condoms anywhere in the United States," she said. "When you bring these sort of cases forward ... They'll be found not guilty. It's going to happen."
Caterine said that laws like this are preventing some people to even carry condoms, which means they are not using them.
"I hope this is passed soon," Jared Ringer, coordinator for the Hate Violence and Sexual Violence Programs at the New York City Anti-Violence Project said. "I wish it was passed years ago."
Maureen Bradley, a University of New Hampshire student in the Women's Studies program, helped bring the panel to the school on Tuesday. She said the reason for the mini-conference was to bring awareness to the issues the sex workers face and give them attention while teaching students about the lack of rights the workers have worldwide.


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Author: Stephen D. Hans
Discrimination is a serious issue for employers. It can lead to disputes, lawsuits and even forced business sales. Forced business sale, substantial fines and the disgrace of being ousted from the National Basketball Association (NBA) are the challenges Clippers owner Donald Sterling faced over racial comments he made in a taped conversation with his girlfriend, V. Stiviano.
CNN reports this is not the first time discrimination has been a issue for Mr. Sterling. In an earlier lawsuit, Sterling paid millions to settle a federal case where African American and Hispanic claimants accused him of excluding them from his rental properties.
Initially, Sterling agreed to have his wife, Shelly Sterling, handle negotiations to sell the Clippers. Various bidders came forward, such as CEOs of Microsoft and Oracle, Oprah Winfrey and film producer, David Geffen. Recently Forbes magazine reported that after negotiations were in progress, Sterling recanted on the agreement to allow Shelly to negotiate the sale. Subsequently, his estranged wife Shelly had Sterling, who is 80 years old, declared mentally incapacitated, which allowed her to control the trust. Recently, she announced the sale of the team to former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer for $2 billion, which is quadruple the highest price ever paid for an NBA team.
It has been decades since Sterling bought the Clippers in 1981 for $13.5 million. The family will lose millions of dollars through capital gains taxes from the sale, which would have been avoided by having the team ownership pass through Sterling's trust to his estate upon his death. A stepped up basis (current market value at time of death, not time of purchase) is used for estate valuations.
After the sale announcement, Mr. Sterling filed a lawsuit, suing the NBA for damages. However, Shelly Sterling informed parties that the Sterling trust will indemnify the NBA for lawsuits being brought by Sterling.
Needless to say, most business owners do not have millions at stake, but the importance of adhering to anti-discrimination policies does not lack emphasis through this example, even for billionaires.
Stephen Hans & Associates, an employment litigation law firm that has served business clients in the Long Island City and New York area since 1979.


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DOVER — Catch me if you can.
That's more or less the challenge the Dover High School volleyball team put to its rival Spaulding in their Division I match Saturday.
Spaulding played a gritty match, but was not quite up to the catch-up aspect and lost in three games to the Green Wave. Dover, which is now 9-2, won by game scores of 25-16, 25-17, 25-19. Spaulding is 6-5.
In all three games, Dover found itself in front by at least the midway point of each game. That put Spaulding in the unenviable position of trying to play from behind.
"We had to push for every point," said Dover's Megan Priester. "They do have the ability to come back. We just had to keep the pressure on. ... It was key to be ahead because once they fell behind it's even harder to catch up. It wasn't a comfortable gap, but we kept it there and played to our ability."
The Red Raiders hurt themselves with mistakes at key times. Dover did what all good teams do, which is to take what your opponent gives you.
Up 2-0, Dover went up by as many as six (17-11) in the third game on an ace by Lisa Bean.
Spaulding put together its best run of the match. Cassie Miltner's kill gave them a sideout, and the Red Raiders followed with four straight points on Ali Trueworthy's serve. They cashed in on two more Miltner kills and a Trueworthy ace to close the game to 17-16 and force a Dover timeout.
"We were getting a little frantic and needed to settle down," said Dover's Molly Wotton. "We needed one pass and then have someone put it down."
But Spaulding proved to be its own worst enemy.
Two consecutive hitting errors out of the timeout allowed Dover to go up three (19-16). Alex Kenyon blocked a hit by Wotton for a brief Spaulding respite, getting the lead back to two (19-17).
"The big difference were our mishits and our passing," said Spaulding coach George Pendleton. "It's not that they're playing badly, they just had too many unforced errors."
But then Wotton took over.
The junior middle hitter closed out the game and secured the 3-0 win with three kills, a block and an ace on the deciding point.
"I saw the court, saw the holes and just aimed for those spots," Wotton said.
Wotton ended the match with nine kills, Priester added eight, setter Abby Harte totaled 24 assists, and Shannon Goff and Reegan McKenney each had 11 digs.
"We did well when the pressure was on and didn't get down on themselves," said Dover coach Colleen Harte. "Even when we had a few errors, they continued to push the game and play aggressively. That's key for us, to keep playing aggressively regardless of errors that are being made."
Miltner led the Red Raiders with 11 kills, Gabby Connelly had 22 digs, and Kenyon added six kills.
"We were hurting ourselves," Connelly said. "It could have been tighter. In the end, we couldn't pull it together."
In Game 1, Spaulding led early (7-6), before Goff keyed a 7-1 run with six service points, with two aces and kills from Wotton, McKenney and Abby Harte. Dover was suddenly up, 13-8.
Spaulding got the lead back to two (18-16) on a Miltner kill, but a nice place shot by Priester and two Spaulding hitting errors pumped the Dover lead back to five (21-16) and the Green Wave were on their way.
"The great thing about that is it is something you can fix," Trueworthy said. "They didn't overpower us too much. It's something we can work on; fix our mistakes."
In Game 2, Abby Harte served for the first five points with two aces and Dover played ahead from there.
The Green Wave got the lead to as many as nine on three occasions (17-8, 18-9, 24-15) and won by eight.
Dover plays at Keene Monday, while Spaulding hosts Manchester Central the same day.
Red Raiders can't catch Dover
DOVER — Catch me if you can.