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United States: Incentivizing Renewable Energy in the US NortheastPublished at Oct 2, 2013
source: Biomass Magazine
Anna Austin identifies the necessity to increase incentivizing renewable energy in the US Northeast. Especially the northeast of the United States and its high demand...
United States: Energy Innovation: Biogas Enjoying the Last LaughPublished at Jul 22, 2013
source: The Energy Collective
Biogas was not mentioned once in Al Gore's 2007 documentary An Inconvenient Truth, and at the time the now failed solar firm Solyndra was negotiating...
United States: New Yorkers get juiced with solar charging stationsPublished at Jun 18, 2013
source: Treehugger
Street Charge stations will come equipped with iPhone 4 and iPhone 5 chargers, as well as microUSB and USB cords for charging other devices. The...
United States: Hickenlooper signs bill to double rural renewable-energy requirementPublished at Jun 7, 2013
source: The Denver Post
In a move to boost renewable-energy generation in Colorado, Gov. John Hickenlooper on Wednesday signed a controversial bill doubling the renewable-energy target for rural electric...
United States: Mid-Size Solar PV Installations Accounting for over 60% of US Project PipelinePublished at Jun 4, 2013
source: Renewable Energy World
The trend for U.S. solar PV projects in the mid-size range (100 kW to 2 MW) has been changing considerably, from individual installations (on municipal...
United States: Cheap Batteries for Backup Renewable EnergyPublished at Jun 4, 2013
source: MIT Technology Review
Investors recently chipped in $15 million to fund battery startup EOS Energy Storage, a company that says its batteries could eventually compete with...
United States: First US Offshore Wind Turbine Launches in MainePublished at Jun 3, 2013
source: Renewable Energy World
This particular project will focus on a semi-submersible platform, with a concrete hull and lightweight composite materials instead of steel. It also includes
United States: Finding the "Green Lining" when Disaster StrikesPublished at May 31, 2013
source: Renewable Energy World
America finds itself again rebuilding from disaster, this time from tornados in the middle states, last fall from Superstorm Sandy in the Northeast. If this...
United States: Eighty KC buildings will go solar in ambitious city effortPublished at May 28, 2013
source: The Kansas City Star
The solar units on the 80 buildings could together supply all the power needed by 200 homes. Some city governments, such as San Francisco's,...
United States: Tesla & Solar: A Glimpse of the New Energy EconomyPublished at May 24, 2013
source: Real Clear Politics
If you want a glimpse of what the nascent new energy economy looks like, pull off Interstate 5 in Southern California just before the steep...


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Amongst all of the announcements about new additions to genealogy websites, some need more attention than others. Findmypast.com has announced a partnership with the Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center to add the PERSI Index of 2.5 million records dating back to 1800.
OK, now why is this news? The PERSI or Periodical Source Index has been around for quite a while and copies of the Index are available on a few other websites. But historically, if you wanted to see anything you found in the PERSI, you had to hunt it down, or send away to the Allen County Public Library for a copy. Here is the announcement from findmypast.com so there is no misunderstanding:
LOS ANGELES – Findmypast.com, an international leader in online family history, today announced a partnership with the Allen County Public Library (ACPL) Genealogy Center to revolutionize the PERiodical Source Index (PERSI), the world's largest and most widely used subject index for genealogy and local history literature. As part of the partnership, findmypast.com is enhancing PERSI, most notably by linking thousands of individual genealogical periodicals and resources to the index, allowing the original content to be accessed and connected digitally for the first time in the history of PERSI.
Over the past thirty years, the ACPL Genealogy Center has created more than 2.5 million searchable records in PERSI, indexing every article from more than 8,000 different periodicals, including magazines, newsletters and journals, according to location, topic, surname, ethnicity and methodology. In the coming months, findmypast.comwill launch the most complete version of PERSI online. Once launched, findmypast.com will work in tandem with the Genealogy Center to provide frequent updates to the collection as new entries are added.The operative words here are "allowing the original content to be accessed and connected digitally for the first time in the history of PERSI." This is huge. I don't think that most genealogists have ever used PERSI because having an index entry didn't help much. Part of this lack of use of the product comes from a lack of understanding of exactly what the Allen County Public Library has produced. PERSI contains information about local genealogical and historical publications from all around the United States. The impact of having all of these local publications available is incalculable. Here's a summary from the announcement that vastly understates the impact:
The future of online search through this partnership aligns with findmypast.com's Society Data Initiative, a joint project between the Federation of Genealogical Societies and findmypast.com to preserve, digitize and provide access to the rich resources created by family history, genealogical, and historical societies over many decades.As far as content in the United States, this is a huge increase in usability for findmypast.com.

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Based on this comment thread, we should find a consistent way of handling new badge ideas. Recently, badge: answering machine was closed as a dupe of Additional Badge Ideas, while the Overtime suggestion seems to warrant its own thread (although it has now been closed as well).
I suggest posting serious badge suggestions (that have an actual chance of being implemented) as new questions, while keeping the fun, not so serious ones in Additional Badge Ideas.
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I have a nasty habit of being all over the place – well, I guess you'd call it more of a personality trait than a habit, but my point still stands. If you need better evidence, just take a look at the majority of papers and drafts I've gotten back from my professors. Somewhere there is a "lack of clear focus" or "these ideas aren't tied together" scribbled in the margin. To be honest, the only situation I'm really good at fixating in is anxiety attacks, and I certainly don't want to make a life out of that.
Journalism school terrifies me sometimes because I feel like everybody has a trademark: there are the fashion-obsessed, the foodies, the music junkies, the editors-in chief, and the technologically savvy mass media people, and they all have outlets in which they represent themselves accurately and wholly. And then there's me, the one who blogs almost anything from recycled homework to rants about stupid people and ideas she really doesn't agree with. And I don't know why, but I feel like trademark people just have everything together and are taken way more seriously because of it. Just thinking about it frightens me (go anxiety theme). My fingers are even trembling right now.
But I have to stop thinking about things like this, because I don't think I can ever be one of those one-track people. I can't even pick a single favorite color or food. Not that there's anything wrong with being a trademark. It's a quality I envy and don't think I can ever have, just because of my history, genealogy, and influences.
Everything about me is a multiple. I consider myself multiracial to a degree, or at least multicultural – if I can't qualify as multiracial because I look white and middle eastern is technically white on every standardized test I have ever taken (even though I check both "white" and "other"), then I'll just settle with spicy. My home life is split in two. Ever since I was six and my parents split up, I've had to live under a joint custody. My shrink says I'm a dichotomy between an old soul and a child. I'm a double major because I couldn't decide whether I liked literature or writing stories more – I like words! Why can't I just like everything about words?
One hundred percent of me agrees that I'm not cut out to be one of those one-track people, and at least now I am entirely agreeing on something. I like too many things. I like words. I like eating. I like humor. I like sleeping. I like clothes. I like music. I like traveling. I like playing psychologist. I like taking pictures and recording things. I like people (well, sometimes). I think most of all I like liking things. It's way easier to narrow down a list of the things I hate: bees, brussels sprouts, not being warm enough, being the tallest person under the umbrella, and numbers. See how much easier that was for me?
I don't know if dualities are the way to get noticed in the real world and the future, but I guess I'm going to have to deal with it, because even though not having a clear focus makes me look really juvenile, I kind of like not having a trademark.
So from now on, I'll just sell myself as someone who likes everything excluding that list above, because god forbid I will ever write a story about something like beekeeping.
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As an experienced Software Engineer, your mission is to help lead our team of innovators and technologists toward creating next-level solutions that improve the way our business is run. Your deep knowledge of design, analytics, development, coding, testing and application programming will help your team raise their game, meeting your standards, as well as satisfying both business and functional requirements. Your expertise in various technology domains will be counted on to set strategic direction and solve complex and mission critical problems, internally and externally. Your quest to embracing leading-edge technologies and methodologies inspires your team to follow suit. And best of all, youll be able to harness massive amounts of brainpower through our global network of technologists from around the world.
This role will work to enhance the functionality of various analytical libraries used for pricing, risk and valuation of mortgage, ABS/MBS and related financial products.
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Photos of Mark Donnelly's dramatic weight loss can be viewed here
Vancouver Canucks anthem singer Mark Donnelly had tried almost every weight-loss plan in the book — Atkins, Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig and even the grapefruit diet — before he hit upon the one that enabled him to drop 172 pounds over the last year and a half.
It sounds unorthodox: cut your calories to 500 a day — about a fifth of the recommended daily intake for men — and inject yourself with the pregnancy hormone (human chorionic gonadotropin or HCG) to suppress your appetite.
Donnelly's doctor was skeptical about the plan, but the results were dramatic. Donnelly lost 45 pounds over the first month and his test results came back better than ever.
He did four more rounds of treatments, which last from three to six weeks.
During that time he injected himself with HCG and ate 100 grams of protein, usually lean chicken or seafood, two servings of fruit and one serving of vegetables twice a day. Treatments must be spaced out at increasing intervals: six weeks, then eight weeks, then 12.
Donnelly is now within 12 pounds of his target weight, and while he says he will work to lose the rest through exercise and responsible eating, he said it is unlikely he will take any more hormones.
"Right now I feel great the way I am. My clothes fit better than they ever have in my life. This is the first time it's fun to put clothes on."
However, many doctors, as well as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, say the HCG diet is dangerous.
Dr. Hanh Huynh of the University of B.C.'s pathology and laboratory medicine department warns any diet that recommends cutting calories to such a degree is "totally irresponsible."
"It is very detrimental to the health of the individual," he said.
"By doing that, you're actually doing much more harm to your body than actually doing any good."
This is because the body will consume non-fat tissue — such as muscle — as well as fat when it is deprived of food, he said. These non-fat tissues absorb excess glucose in the bloodstream, which the body would otherwise store as fat, he said. This means that when the person's diet returns to normal, more glucose is stored as fat than burned off as energy, causing them to regain the weight.
"Everybody needs to be aware that when you are trying to lose weight, there is no magic bullet."
Richard Mathias, a professor at UBC's school of population and public health, said HCG's supposed appetite-suppressing properties are entirely fictional.
"What's happening is that you're basically eating very low carbs and very low fat," he said, explaining that ceasing to eat carbohydrates, especially sugar, after eating them for a while has the effect of suppressing your appetite. "Nothing to do with hormones."
Anyone who restricts their calories to such an extent will lose a dramatic amount of weight, he added.
"At 500 to 600 calories, you're well into starvation. ... So if you have some protein around, which is what you're basically eating, the body will use its greatest source of calories, which is fat. That's a basic physiological response to starvation," he said.
HCG has been authorized in Canada for treatment of fertility-related issues in women and men since the 1980s, Health Canada spokeswoman Christelle Legault said in a statement, but is not authorized for use as a weight-loss treatment.
"There is no scientific evidence that the use of HCG, either orally or as an injection, could promote weight loss," she said. "When used to treat a condition for which it is not indicated, such as weight loss, HCG could cause a number of serious side-effects. In women this could include painful cysts occurring as the result of over-stimulation of the ovaries."
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has banned over-the-counter HCG weight-loss products and calls the 500-calorie-a-day limit "hazardous" on its website.
Donnelly, who now weighs about 220 pounds, emphasized that the HCG diet is not for everyone and advised people wanting to lose weight to listen to their bodies in order to determine what works for them.
"I don't want people to come away thinking that I'm pushing the HCG diet, even though without it I wouldn't have been able to do what I was able to do," he said. "But the way I view it is it happened to be the thing that worked for me."


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Statistics On Fees and Prizes of Design Competitions
Design Competition Statistics and Survey Results On Participation Fees and Award Prizes
Today, the design competition space has advanced in two distinct paths. Firstly, there are free competitions where young designers try to demonstrate their skills and aim for earning prizes, and secondly there are the professional design competitions and awards that offer fame and publicity to participants.Considering 466 design competitions within the designcompetition.com database, almost two thirds of all competitions said they are free competitions. However, there is no such thing as a free competition, as when we also consider the previously done survey, designers do indeed spend significant time on competitions. The average cost to join table has a sample size of 81 design competitions which answered the questions, it is seen that a professional design competition costs on average 130 euros for joining it when early, late and standard costs are accounted for. These costs do not include the participants' time investment either.The average further fees table demonstrates the amount of extra money requested from winners. It is seen that the Gala-Night and PR campaign fees are the highest. The Total Fees in this graph is the average a designer has to pay after winning the award. Compare it to A' Design Awards, where there are no further fees.The entry cost distribution table helps us to understand the entry fees for each competition. The top bars are usually the most prestigious competitions such as Red Dot, If Design Award or A' Design Award and Competition. Meanwhile, the lowest bars are usually for photography contests where participants make dozens of submissions.Again in the Cost to Join Scatter Graph for Design Competitions, we could see that the majority of competitions costs 300 Euros or less to join. Again, the time involvement is not included; if we were to include the time requirement, the line would have become flatter; i.e. the difference between cheap and expensive competitions is almost reaches to zero as a project becomes more complex.This is the average prize of 269 design competitions that offered monetary compensation to winners. It is indeed a good sum when we consider the total amount of money that could be earned, yet again, considering the number of entries, it is a very small sum; each competition honors around a dozen designers, among hundreds entries, making the prizes less than 5 euro per entry.This graph shows the distribution of award prizes that is less than 500 euros. Most of the competitions have an award sum less than 100 euros, and only a few offer more. It is interesting that organizers choose rounded numbers as prizes such as 100, 200, 300, 400 or 500. My personal opinion is that any competition that offers less than 500 award prize is not a good time investment. These are usually small design contests organized by small companies.This graph shows the award prize distribution between 500 and 5000 euros. These are the median competitions; joining them is again not a good time investment, however they could contribute to the portfolio and provide slight returns of prestige. Competitions in this range start offering winners services and benefits. These are usually organized by education institutions.These are premium design competitions, usually organized by governments, or events that are funded by government level initiatives, a very few are organized by very large companies. It makes sense to join these competitions as winners and participants are usually offered a lot benefits such as yearbook inclusion, award prize, exhibition etc. They could be compared to winning an international famous design award.This graph shows the Prize Sum Distribution for design competitions. It looks to have a normal distribution with the exception that some competitions do offer very limited prizes (i.e. competitions that offered no monetary prizes were discarded therefore this data shows that some competitions put really small prizes)This graph shows how the money is distributed within a design competition or contest. Design awards and some competitions do not offer any prize. Regular competitions offer money to winners only, and a percentage of competitions distribute the prizes equally to all participants; these are the new types of crowdsourcing competitions.This graph shows whether yearbooks are sold or given free to winners. It must be noted most competitions do not even feature a yearbook. Only a quarter of design competitions give free books to winners and participants while others will not sell it at all. It is strange that 2.5 percent of competitions do provide books to press only.Exerpt:Today, the design competition space has advanced in two distinct paths. Firstly, there are free competitions where young designers try to demonstrate their skills and aim for earning prizes, and secondly there are the professional design competitions and awards that offer fame and publicity to participants.Considering 466 design competitions within the designcompetition.com database, almost two thirds of all competitions said they are free competitions. However, there is no such thing as a free ..
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I have requested the new changes you now see on the site that make the forums cleaner visually.
The next step is to have a lot more data presented when you mouse over an item.
I know some people won't like the changes, but as someone who lives on these forums, I really need the site to be cleaner and quicker to navigate through.
The recent posts section looks great, less clutter and it appears to load faster., imo. I may be one of the minority but I may like the changes. Carry on.
I like it, but I'm going to miss the Last Poster name (re: spam).
Seems fine to me, but as DaveRI said the Last Poster name would be nice to leave on. It would also be really nice if you could add the ability to drag and drop image uploads in the forums too Brad.
" be really nice if you could add the ability to drag and drop image uploads in the forums too Brad"
I'll second that!
I'll third that, pictures make it easier to show what the problem or solution is.
3 or 4 times in the past 2 years you have made a topic. Asking us members what we would like to see changed or added. There have been several suggestions but I can't remember any that said to remove the last posters name for a time or date on the "Recent Forum Posts" But as you stated you wanted this so here it is and that is fine.
The biggest thing always listed is the ability to to upload images here on WC.
My believed is when a thread is made asking for what the members would like to see or added it be addressed. It wouldn't take long for example to say. " We have no intentions on providing a method to upload images through Wincustomize. We either like it or don't but at least have an answer. If we had the ability to upload images I truly believe this place would be better. Screen-shot threads would be jumping. People that have questions which many have. A quick screen-shot from someone that has the answer could actually show the person how or location.
Maybe the cost to do this would be much to high. I think people would understand. But a reply would be nice. Or just no more threads asking what we would like to see added or changed.
I'm another one who has wanted images in the posts as opposed to links, especially now that Photobucket, as an example, has removed all links unless you pay them $99 a year (I believe it is).
Looks like the thing that auto subscribed you to a thread has been fixed. Thank you!!
Hmmm, not fixed here Jim, the "Subscribe to this post" and "Email me when someone replies " boxes are both checked now, you have to un-check both before clicking Post Reply.
Hmmm, wasn't there earlier, I swear!
It is frogboy's forum and I never complain.
Here is some data.
One laptop I use is running windows 8.
I haven't let it update in over a year and a half.
It is running no security software what so ever.
I update the browsers and run no add-ons or extensions.
The laptop uses low resources that I monitor all the time.
It is super fast never hangs and works perfect.
I enjoyed skinning, I don't skin anymore, I like stopping by the forums.
I like the web sites when they are functioning.
Well, I hope Brad is pleased with the changes. But the significant decrease in useful information available at a glance is a little disappointing. There may also be at least one bug - posts with new replies since my last login no longer appear in boldface. FTR, I only visit JU.
RE: The Subscribe/Email checkboxes - Subscribe is now unchecked here*, but Email remains checked. IIRC, the behavior you designate in your profile overrides those per-post options, anyway.
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Hmmm, not fixed here Jim, the "Subscribe to this post" and "Email me when someone replies " boxes are both checked now, you have to un-check both before clicking Post Reply.
Yes. I insisted on that change so that it works like every other forum out there.
Instead of bolding the font we put an icon on the left and we eliminated the display of an icon if it's simply a post you've never participated in before to clean that up.
The two areas we are looking into:
1. Showing the avatar of the person who posted the post
2. Showng the avatar of the last response
Plus, tooltips.
They are necessary for Admin purposes...
2. Showng the avatar of the last responseThey are necessary for Admin purposes...
Though, most spam posters don't have any avatar.
All I need is a name....'to point the gun at'...
Paul is always on top of the situation.
really cool
Thanks for the explanation. I get the code now.
Here is the name you requested Jafo.
It is not the only one.
I found it on a news site.
20,040 Bytes per second going out.
Bring back bolding of unread posts - much simpler to determine what you have or have not seen as yet. Had the same change happen at another site and the condemnation of that change was deafening.
To tell you the truth when I saw the 'new' forum I didn't think it looked 'cleaner', I thought it was broken - had to refresh the page twice convinced it had not finished loading or something. Then I noticed this thread.
Yes, sometimes less is more, but I don't think this is one of those cases. Did anyone ever complain that the forums looked cluttered?
EDIT: Well, looking at it again, I guess people eventually get used to (almost) everything.
We are going to add the article post and last responder info back but in a way that that allows it to be a single row.
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Beluga Lookout Lodge & RV Park
RV Rates
Lodge Rooms
Gift Shop
Bear Viewing
Charters and Tour Rates
Things to do in Kenai
Information about Kenai
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Beluga Lookout Lodge and RV Park offers a unique camping experience overlooking the mouth of the World-Famous Kenai River.
We are conveniently situated in Old Town Kenai, with spectacular views of the Kenai River, Cook Inlet, and the volcanoes Mt. Redoubt and Mt. Illiamna.
Come, relax, and enjoy an Alaskan camping vacation.
Watch for beluga whales, eagles, seals, moose and caribou.
Fly a kite or fish from the beach, rent our unusual fun bikes, tour a historic Russian Orthodox Church and the historical town site of Old Town Kenai.
Enjoy a round of golf at the Kenai Golf Course, or watch the Kenai Peninsula Oilers play baseball.
Watch the commercial fishing fleet during the fishing season.
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Book your Alaska Wildlife & Glacier Cruise to the Kenai Fjords National Park or Prince William Sound.
Our park offers view sites and pull-thrus all with full hook-ups, wireless Internet and cable TV.
We also have a gift shop, clean restrooms, showers, laundry, and fish cleaning facilities, as well as a pavilion for your use.
Pets are welcome in the RV Park (sorry no pets in the cabins or rooms) but must be kept on a leash and cleaned up after.
There are vets and dog kennels in the area.
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Vittoria Group
Edinburgh's Favourite Italian Restaurants
For award-winning Italian restaurants and eateries throughout Edinburgh, family friendly hospitality and authentic gourmet Italian dining, it has to be The Vittoria Group. An Edinburgh institution since 1970, this family run operation serves up some of the best Italian restaurants in Edinburgh, providing venues for any occasion.
For fine wine and even finer dining try the hidden gem that is Divino Enoteca, or sample award-winning wood-fired pizza at La Favorita, one of Britain's best Pizzerias. Host your next event at Vittoria on the Bridge or treat your family to delicious Italian pastas, pizza and more at Vittoria on the Walk. Sample pre-theatre classic Italian café style cuisine with a Taste of Italy.
If you don't yet know where to eat in Edinburgh, then you don't know The Vittoria Group.


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Children wake up,
hold your mistake up,
before they turn the summer into dust.
Songs just pop in your head suddenly. This is what popped when I saw these photos today of Sisters JailBait Miley and Noah Cyrus going through Miami airport. Miley is 17, Noah is 9. And they look it. And this is good. And it should be acknowledged.
The age difference between Miley and Noah is the same as the age difference between Lindsay and Ali Lohan.
Lindsay has the word "breathe" tattooed on her wrist. Miley is now showing off a new tat too. Under her left breast. Click here to see. It reads "Just Breathe".
I'm just saying.
And now that it's in your head, this version always makes me cry.
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No two knives are alike. Depending on its length, width, thickness and blade edge, each knife is suited for very specific tasks. Just the same, all of the models in the three new Fissler lines – profession, perfection and passion – have three things in common: They are precision-forged in Germany for optimal sharpness from chromium molybdenum vanadium steel, are extremely comfortable to hold due to their ergonomically shaped handles, and, with their distinctive design, are as sharp as they look.
The Little Fissler Knifeology shows how they are used and explains what knife is suited for what purpose.


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Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulationtranscutaneous electrical nerve stimulation, transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation device
Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation TENS or TNS is the use of electric current produced by a device to stimulate the nerves for therapeutic purposes TENS, by definition, covers the complete range of transcutaneously applied currents used for nerve excitation although the term is often used with a more restrictive intent, namely to describe the kind of pulses produced by portable stimulators used to treat pain1 The unit is usually connected to the skin using two or more electrodes A typical battery-operated TENS unit is able to modulate pulse width, frequency and intensity Generally TENS is applied at high frequency >50 Hz with an intensity below motor contraction sensory intensity or low frequency <10 Hz with an intensity that produces motor contraction2 While the use of TENS has proved effective in clinical studies, there is controversy over which conditions the device should be used to treat3
- 1 Medical uses
- 11 Pain
- 12 Labor pain
- 13 Dentistry
- 2 History
- 21 Modern
- 3 Safety
- 4 References
- 5 Further reading
Medical usesedit
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TENS devices available to the domestic market are used as a non-invasive nerve stimulation intended to reduce both acute and chronic pain One review from 2007 felt that the evidence supports a benefit in chronic musculoskeletal pain4 while another review from the Cochrane Collaboration in 2008 deemed the evidence of poor quality and thus no conclusions were possible regarding chronic pain5 Results from a task force on neck pain in 2008 found no clinically significant benefit to TENS for the treatment of neck pain when compared to a placebo treatment6 A 2010 review did not find evidence to support the use of TENS for chronic low back pain78 There is tentative evidence that it may be useful for painful diabetic neuropathy7 As of 2015, the efficacy of TENS therapy for phantom limb pain is not known as no randomized controlled trials have been performed9
In principle, an adequate intensity of stimulation is necessary to achieve pain relief with TENS1011 An analysis of treatment fidelity meaning that the delivery of TENS in a trial was in accordance with current clinical advice, such as using "a strong but comfortable sensation" and suitable, frequent treatment durations showed that higher fidelity trials tended to have a positive outcome12
A few studies have shown objective evidence that TENS may modulate or suppress pain signals in the brain One used evoked cortical potentials to show that electric stimulation of peripheral A-beta sensory fibers reliably suppressed A-delta fiber nociceptive processing13 Two other studies used functional magnetic resonance imaging fMRI: one showed that high-frequency TENS produced a decrease in pain-related cortical activations in patients with carpal tunnel syndrome,14 while the other showed that low-frequency TENS decreased shoulder impingement pain and modulated pain-induced activation in the brain15
A head-mounted TENS device called Cefaly was approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration, on March 11, 2014, for the prevention of migraines The Cefaly device was found effective in preventing migraine attacks in a randomized sham-controlled trial16 This was the first TENS device which the FDA approved for pain prevention, as opposed to pain suppression17
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A significant number of TENS machine brands have been targeted for use for labor pain, although a 1997 report of a study done by the University of Oxford said that TENS "has been shown not to be effective in postoperative and labour pain"18 Use is documented in the attached references: in obstetric care, particularly in labor19
TENS has been extensively used in non-odontogenic orofacial pain relief20 In addition, TENS and ultra low frequency-TENS ULF-TENS are commonly employed in diagnosis and treatment of temporomandibular joint dysfunction TMD20 Further clinical studies are required to determine its efficacy20
Electrical stimulation for pain control was used in ancient Rome, 63 AD It was reported by Scribonius Largus that pain was relieved by standing on an electrical fish at the seashore21 In the 16th through the 18th century various electrostatic devices were used for headache and other pains Benjamin Franklin was a proponent of this method for pain relief22 In the 19th century a device called the electreat, along with numerous other devices were used for pain control and cancer cures Only the electreat survived into the 20th century, but was not portable, and had limited control of the stimulus23 Development of modern TENS unit is generally credited to C Norman Shealycitation needed
The first modern, patient-wearable TENS was patented in the United States in 197424 It was initially used for testing the tolerance of chronic pain patients to electrical stimulation before implantation of electrodes in the spinal cord dorsal column25 The electrodes were attached to an implanted receiver, which received its power from an antenna worn on the surface of the skin Although intended only for testing tolerance to electrical stimulation, many of the patients said they received so much relief from the TENS itself that they never returned for the implant
A number of companies began manufacturing TENS units after the commercial success of the Medtronic device became known The neurological division of Medtronic, founded by Don Maurer, Ed Schuck and Charles Ray, developed a number of applications for implanted electrical stimulation devices for treatment of epilepsy, Parkinson's disease, and other disorders of the nervous system
Today many people confuse TENS with electrical muscle stimulation EMS EMS and TENS devices look similar, with both using long electric lead wires and electrodes TENS is for blocking pain, where EMS is for stimulating muscles
There are several anatomical locations where TENS electrodes are contraindicated:
- Over the eyes due to the risk of increasing intraocular pressure26
- Transcerebrally27
- On the front of the neck due to the risk of an acute hypotension through a vasovagal response or even a laryngospasm2628
- Through the chest using an anterior and posterior electrode positions,26 or other transthoracic applications understood as "across a thoracic diameter"; this does not preclude coplanar applications28
- Internally, except for specific applications of dental, vaginal, and anal stimulation that employ specialized TENS units26
- On broken skin areas or wounds, although it can be placed around wounds26
- Over a tumor/malignancy based on in vitro experiments where electricity promotes cell growth2628
- Directly over the spinal column
TENS used across an artificial cardiac pacemaker or other indwelling stimulator, including across its leads may cause interference and failure of the implanted device Serious accidents have been recorded in cases when this principle was not observed A 2009 review in this area suggests that electrotherapy, including TENS, "are best avoided" in patients with pacemakers or implantable cardioverter-defibrillators ICDs They add that "there is no consensus and it may be possible to safely deliver these modalities in a proper setting with device and patient monitoring", and recommend further research The review found several reports of ICDs administering inappropriate treatment due to interference with TENS devices, but notes that the reports on pacemakers are mixed: some non-programmable pacemakers were inhibited by TENS, but others were unaffected or auto-reprogrammed29
The use of TENS is likely to be less effective on areas of numb skin/decreased sensation due to nerve damage It may also cause skin irritation due to the inability to feel currents until they are too high26 There's an unknown level of risk when placing electrodes over an infection possible spreading due to muscle contractions, but cross contamination with the electrodes themselves is of greater concern30 TENS should also be used with caution in people with epilepsy or pregnant women; do not use over area of the uterus as the effects of electrical stimulation over the developing fetus are not known2831
- ^ Robertson
- ^ Robinson, Andrew J; Lynn Snyder-Mackler 2007-09-01 Clinical Electrophysiology: Electrotherapy and Electrophysiologic Testing Third ed Lippincott Williams & Wilkins ISBN 0781744849
- ^ DeSantana JM, Walsh DM, Vance C, Rakel BA, Sluka KA December 2008 "Effectiveness of Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation for Treatment of Hyperalgesia and Pain" Curr Rheumatol Rep 10 6: 492–499 PMC 2746624 PMID 19007541 doi:101007/s11926-008-0080-z
- ^ Johnson M, Martinson M 2007 "Efficacy of electrical nerve stimulation for chronic musculoskeletal pain: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials" Pain 130 1–2: 157–165 PMID 17383095 doi:101016/jpain200702007
- ^ Nnoaham KE, Kumbang J 2008 Nnoaham, Kelechi E, ed "Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation TENS for chronic pain" The Cochrane Library 3: CD003222 PMID 18646088 doi:101002/14651858CD003222pub2
- ^ Haldeman S, Carroll L, Cassidy JD, Schubert J, Nygren A 2008 "The Bone and Joint Decade 2000–2010 Task Force on Neck Pain and Its Associated Disorders" Spine 33 4 Suppl: S5–S7 PMID 18204400 doi:101097/BRS0b013e3181643f40 CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list link
- ^ a b Dubinsky RM, Miyasaki J 2009 "Assessment: Efficacy of transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation in the treatment of pain in neurologic disorders an evidence-based review: Report of the Therapeutics and Technology Assessment Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology" Neurology 74 2: 173–176 PMID 20042705 doi:101212/WNL0b013e3181c918fc
- ^ Khadilkar A, Odebiyi DO, Brosseau L, Wells GA 2008 Brosseau, Lucie, ed "Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation TENS versus placebo for chronic low-back pain" The Cochrane Library 4: CD003008 PMID 18843638 doi:101002/14651858CD003008pub3 CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list link
- ^ Johnson MI, Mulvey MR, Bagnall AM August 2015 "Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation TENS for phantom pain and stump pain following amputation in adults" Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 8: CD007264 PMID 26284511 doi:101002/14651858CD007264pub3
- ^ Bjordal JM, Johnson MI, Ljunggreen AE 2003 "Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation TENS can reduce postoperative analgesic consumption A meta-analysis with assessment of optimal treatment parameters for postoperative pain" European Journal of Pain 7 2: 181–188 PMID 12600800 doi:101016/S1090-38010200098-8
- ^ Rakel B, Frantz R 2003 "Effectiveness of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation on postoperative pain with movement" The journal of pain : official journal of the American Pain Society 4 8: 455–464 PMID 14622666 doi:101067/S1526-59000300780-6
- ^ Bennett MI, Hughes N, Johnson MI 2011 "Methodological quality in randomised controlled trials of transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation for pain: Low fidelity may explain negative findings" Pain 152 6: 1226–1232 PMID 21435786 doi:101016/jpain201012009
- ^ Ellrich J, Lamp S 2005 "Peripheral Nerve Stimulation Inhibits Nociceptive Processing: An Electrophysiological Study in Healthy Volunteers" Neuromodulation: Technology at the Neural Interface 8 4: 225–232 PMID 22151549 doi:101111/j1525-1403200500029x
- ^ Kara M, Ozçakar L, Gökçay D, Ozçelik E, Yörübulut M, Güneri S, Kaymak B, Akinci A, Cetin A 2010 "Quantification of the Effects of Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation with Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging: A Double-Blind Randomized Placebo-Controlled Study" Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 91 8: 1160–1165 PMID 20684895 doi:101016/japmr201004023
- ^ Kocyigit F, Akalin E, Gezer NS, Orbay O, Kocyigit A, Ada E 2012 "Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Effects of Low-frequency Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation on Central Pain Modulation" The Clinical Journal oF Pain 28 7: 581–588 PMID 22699130 doi:101097/AJP0b013e31823c2bd7
- ^ Schoenen J, Vandersmissen B, Jeangette S, Herroelen L, Vandenheede M, Gérard P, Magis D Feb 2013 "Migraine prevention with a supraorbital transcutaneous stimulator: a randomized controlled trial" Neurology 80 8: 697–704 PMID 23390177 doi:101212/WNL0b013e3182825055
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- ^ van der Spank JT, Cambier DC, De Paepe HM, Danneels LA, Witvrouw EE, Beerens L 2000 "Pain relief in labour by transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation TENS" Archives of gynecology and obstetrics 264 3: 131–136 PMID 11129512 doi:101007/s004040000099
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( Based on my remarks at the launching of Amar Bhushan's spy fiction "Escape To Nowhere" at the Press Club, New Delhi, on July 23,2012. )
The book has already received rave notices. I have no doubt it will be one of the best-sellers of this year. I am sure an exciting movie will follow provided a woman could be introduced into the film script. One misses the presence of a spooky woman in Amar's narrative. There are woman-spooks in the R&AW---some doing very well. Any spy-fiction has to highlight their role in Smiley's World.
2.Amar's book will have a very high excitement value. I hope it will also have an equally high educative value. There is an acute shortage of scholarly works on the craft and profession of intelligence in India. There is an even greater shortage of works on the craft and profession of counter-intelligence.
3.Some of us, who had served in the intelligence profession, have come out of the spooky purdah and started sharing with the public our thoughts and insights on the state of our intelligence in the hope of better educating the public , but we still hesitate to write freely and frankly on the state of our counter-intelligence lest we unwittingly play into the hands of foreign intelligence agencies looking for clues as to how our counter-intelligence operates. What are their weak and strong points? What are the techniques employed by our counter-intelligence? It is much more difficult to write carefully on counter-intelligence than on intelligence without weakening our armour. Amar has sought to do this, but some professionals will doubt the advisability of his discussing the techniques of surveillance employed by the R&AW. A description of the techniques is exciting for a fiction and a movie, but hazardous and weakening for a counter-intelligence set-up.
4.Your intelligence capability helps you to collect information about others that you need for strengthening your national security. Your counter-intelligence capability enables you to prevent others from collecting information about you which they could use against you. You may be able to collect valuable intelligence about others, but if you are not able to prevent others from collecting intelligence about you, your national security will remain weak.
5.The best intelligence comes from human and technical penetration of other governments, intelligence and security agencies, terrorist and other organizations. In Smiley's World, there is a demonic competitive bid to penetrate each other. The more capable you are in penetrating others, the better the quality of your intelligence.
6.The highest value is attached to the penetration of foreign intelligence agencies. When you manage to place a mole in a foreign agency, you are not only able to collect high-grade intelligence, but also influence the thinking of the political leadership and policy-makers of the penetrated countries through intelligence officers who are generally very close to the senior levels of decision-makers. That is why when there is a mole in an intelligence agency, it is difficult to make a damage assessment when the mole is discovered. It is comparatively easy to establish what information was lost through the mole, but it is difficult to establish what wrong decisions were taken by the political leaders and policy-makers as a result of the use of a mole by a foreign agency to influence thinking at the decision-making levels.
7. The likelihood of the penetration of an intelligence agency by a foreign agency is a constant nightmare for all counter-intelligence set-ups. The ability of an agency to prevent penetration by a mole depends on various factors---the personal and professional integrity of its officers, their security consciousness, their loyalty to the country, their ethical standards, their ability to withstand temptations, their courage to report to their seniors any indications of suspicious conduct of their colleagues and even close friends. When these factors are weak, penetration is facilitated.
8. That is why we as a nation and the R&AW as an intelligence organization ought to have been worried by the ease with which the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) penetrated the R&AW twice and managed to evade detection for a long time .The penetration and the ease with which the CIA and its moles managed to evade detection spoke poorly of the state of counter-intelligence in the R&AW.
9. Maj.Rabinder Singh was not only a mole of the CIA carefully planted deep inside the R&AW, but was also the only mole in our intelligence set-up who managed to give the slip to our counter-intelligence and flee to the sanctuary provided by his controlling agency. Rabinder was India's Kim Philby, the KGB's mole in the MI 6, the British external intelligence.
10.In the years after the Second World War, the KGB managed to plant in the MI 6 a network of moles believed to have been operated through Kim Philby. When the network came under suspicion, Philby and two others managed to escape to Moscow giving the slip to the MI-5, the security service, which is responsible for counter-intelligence in the UK.
11.After the escape of Kim Philby, there were many years of agonising debate in the British intelligence establishment on how the KGB managed to penetrate the MI-6 and what damage was caused to national security and to the intelligence establishment. The enquiries brought out shocking instances of ethical permissiveness, lack of integrity and old boys' network ( I cover you up, you cover me up) that prevailed in the MI 6 that made the penetration possible. Did the KGB's network consist of only Philby and his two associates who fled to Moscow or were there others who remained undetected? There were some who believed strongly that there was at least one more----the fourth man---who remained undetected and continued to cause damage.
12.The Philby enquiries led to a revamp of the Western counter-intelligence set-ups. Despite this, the KGB managed to penetrate the CIA through Aldrich Ames, who exposed to the KGB the identities of some valuable sources of the CIA in the former USSR and Russia, who were arrested and executed. Weak professional integrity and an old boys' network in the CIA were among the factors identified for this fiasco. The counter-intelligence set-up in the US has since been further strengthened under the joint leadership of the FBI and the CIA.
13. The Gary Saxena Task Force on Intelligence Revamp set up by the A.B.Vajpayee Governmet in 2000, of which I was a member, had recommended the strengthening of the Counter-Intelligence set-up under the leadership of the IB.The Rabinder Singh episode indicates shortcomings in the implementation of the recommendations.
14.Amar Bhushan was the chief spy catcher of the R&AW, the Czar of its counter-intelligence. He has first-hand knowledge of the sins of commission and omission that prevented the early exposure of Rabinder and enabled the CIA to whisk him out of India. His book, which is in the fictional format, throws some light on what went wrong, how and why. It provides some answers but not all the answers to questions regarding the state of our counter-intelligence. A fictional format cannot be a scholarly in-depth format. It is hoped his initiative in writing this book will act as a trigger for undertaking a more in-depth analysis of the state of our counter-intelligence. ( 23-7-12)
( The writer is Addiotional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt of India, New Delhi


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PICKERINGTON, Ohio — The American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) praised U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) for standing up against a proposal that would have indirectly forced states to pass mandatory helmet laws.
U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) was poised to introduce the proposal on Dec. 14 during a Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee hearing on S. 1449 — the Motor Vehicle and Highway Safety Improvement Act of 2011. His proposal was an amendment to S. 1449, but he decided against offering it in the committee.
In a statement for the record, Ayotte noted that the amendment would take away the right of the people in a state to decide whether to have a mandatory helmet law "by indirectly forcing all states to pass mandatory universal helmet laws in order to receive funding for motorcycle safety.
"States without mandatory universal helmet laws — such as New Hampshire — would be subject to stricter eligibility criteria, and would be forced to use 50 percent of their grant funds to promote helmet use," she said.
"This amendment violates the original intent of the motorcyclist safety grant program, which has traditionally focused on encouraging states to fund motorcycle safety awareness, education and training," she said. "This amendment would divert funds away from awareness and education and, instead, use them to place federal pressure on states to enact mandatory universal helmet laws."
Wayne Allard, AMA vice president for government relations, thanked Ayotte for her statement, noting the AMA also opposed the Lautenberg amendment.
"Federal efforts should focus on preventing crashes rather than mandating what gear riders should wear," Allard said.
Besides opposing the Lautenberg amendment, the AMA has been working on Capitol Hill to try to ensure that motorcycle-only checkpoints don't proliferate around the nation, and working to ensure that motorcyclists' concerns about possible engine damage are considered before federal officials approve the use of higher ethanol-gasoline blends for motorcycles.
"We need the help of all riders," Allard said. "More AMA members means more political clout, from the statehouse to the White House. We urge motorcyclists to join the AMA to help protect motorcycling now and in the future."
To join, go to http://www.americanmotorcyclist.com/membership/join.


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He is widely considered Canada's most impressive orator, a born statesman whose most casual utterances exude the quality of a well-polished speech.
And as a towering figure in the social democratic movement taken to historic heights this year by the late Jack Layton, former Ontario NDP leader and ex-UN ambassador Stephen Lewis can be expected to deliver a memorably stirring eulogy on Saturday for a man he has already credited with lifting Canadian politics to a new plane.
In an interview earlier this week with Postmedia News, on the day before it was revealed he'd been tapped by Layton's family to offer the principal words of tribute at the Opposition leader's state funeral in Toronto, Lewis gave glimpses of how he'll memorialize Layton's special contribution to Canadian public life.
"There's no question that Jack Layton connected with Canadians more intensely than any politician of his generation," Lewis said on Monday, just hours after Layton's death from cancer. "There was something very special about his honesty and openness to which the Canadian people felt attached."
The 73-year-old Lewis — who also served a high-profile term as the UN's special envoy on HIV/AIDS in Africa, and chairs a Toronto-based foundation dedicated to the cause — said he did not share an extensive personal relationship with Layton.
"My interactions with Jack were largely around issues," he said. "We didn't have much interaction on a social basis."
But Lewis, now a distinguished professor at Ryerson University, was described in Layton's 2006 memoir Speaking Out Louder as an early inspiration for his political career, during which he came to embrace HIV/AIDS as a key issue at the municipal level in Toronto and later as federal NDP leader.
"I was always touched and sometimes overwhelmed by the degree to which he cared about HIV and AIDS, cared about developing countries, cared about the need for compassion and humanitarianism in the underprivileged and beleaguered parts of the world," Lewis said of Layton on Monday. "It was so unusual — the authenticity of the guy —that he could feel strongly about housing in Canada and about poverty in Africa. And that was a dimension of humanitarian instinct which very few others possess."
Notably, in October 2009, the musical Layton spent a Saturday afternoon in his downtown Toronto constituency busking with his guitar to raise funds for the Stephen Lewis Foundation, where Layton's daughter Sarah works as office manager and volunteer co-ordinator alongside Lewis' daughter, foundation director Ilana Landsberg-Lewis.
Layton's guitar fundraiser was typical of his populist brand of politics, which Lewis described as one of the NDP leader's most important endowments to modern Canadian political history.
"That's what's so fascinating about the phenomenon of Jack Layton. Everybody feels that he's a friend — and a friend that they would willingly follow," Lewis observed. "Beyond the sadness and pain of his death — and it is an incomparable loss — there will lie a legacy which continues. I really feel that."
He added: "It is as though Canadian political life turned a corner with Jack Layton — not merely in the extraordinary advance of social democracy, of our ideology, and the number of seats and the breakthrough in Quebec and all the things that are easily measurable — but in the integrity of political life and the civility of political life and the recognition that if you focus on issues, that that's the most important dimension of the political process."
Lewis further suggested that Layton's success in engaging young Canadians and other voters in the May election will endure.
"I don't think that's reversible," he said. "It's certainly now deeply ingrained in the psyche of New Democrats. And I think that the outpouring of grief says that it's ingrained in the psyche of the country."
Lewis, who led the Ontario NDP to new levels of popularity in the 1970s, is also the son of former federal NDP leader David Lewis, whose leverage in the 1972-74 Liberal minority government of Pierre Trudeau was seen by Layton as a model for NDP influence in national affairs.
While Lewis described Layton's death as a "staggering loss" to the party, he expressed confidence that the NDP would be able to sustain the unprecedented successes achieved this year under Layton's leadership.
"My own feeling is that Jack has left such an imprint on the party that the legacy will be carried forward," he said. "It won't be easy, it won't be automatic. But there will be a willingness in Canada, I think, to honour Jack's legacy and to see it carried forward."


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Figures resembling oversized flying squirrels will be visible for a short period of time in Denver Tuesday evening when professional base jumpers take on a 42-story flight downtown.
Red Bull Air Force athletes Jeff Provenzano and Miles Daisher will attempt to land in the outdoor swimming pool at Four Seasons Hotel Denver, 1111 14th St., after hurling themselves from the skyscraper's 45th floor.
Thirteen professional skydivers, base jumpers and para-glider pilots comprise the Red Bull team, which makes its Denver debut Tuesday. The daredevils, all men, conduct more than 50 stunts in a year and have incorporated 13 buildings around the country.
The pair will jump between 7:30 and 8 p.m. Tuesday as part of Four Seasons' Summer Soiree. The event, taking place from 6-9 p.m., is expected to draw about 200 people to the pool terrace.
The spectacle, however brief, will also be visible from the street.
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Well, cheese desserts, anyway.
Now, cheese sommelier Cynthia Gold addresses this underexplored niche in the gourmet world by giving a broad overview of which teas pair well with which gourmet cheeses.
As for green tea and cheese, she write:
Soft or mild creamy cheeses partner beautifully with green teas like Japanese Sencha . . . . The clean, fresh, vegetal tones of the tea, with hints of earthy sweetness, are a wonderful balance for the light, sweet creaminess of a fresh ricotta, mascarpone, or chèvre. [emphasis mine]But these are, after all, merely guidelines:
In the end, the rules of pairing tea and cheese are subjective. Steep for yourself.Indeed. I recommend starting this gastronomical journey by sitting down with your favorite green tea — one of ours, maybe? — and a plate of your favorite cheeses. In fact, invite a friend or two over and make an event out of it.
At the very least, it will be an excuse to drink a lot of green tea, eat a lot of cheese, and generally have a good time with friends.
Good food, good drink, and good friends — now there's an ideal pairing.
The Monk tried Frosty Garden with some gruyère, fresh goat cheese, and red Leicester (left to right). The green tea's sweet, clean flavor blended superbly with the sharp taste and light creaminess of the gruyère and the red Leicester but was overpowered by the rich, salty creaminess of the goat cheese.
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Graduation for Carroll Catholic School will be
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WATCH: Detroit doctor thinks Tom Brady is winning Super Bowl XLVIII
Prepare yourself for the biggest trainwreck of a TV interview in quite some time.
Here is Dr. Shukri David, a cardiologist in the Detroit Metro area, on a Fox affiliate being interviewed about heart-healthy Super Bowl tips.
He's very adamant that Tom Brady and the Patriots are FOR SURE going to win Super Bowl XLVIII, despite the obvious fact that they're out of contention.
The poor newslady tries to clue him in multiple times, but Dr. David's not willing to change his stance.
Facepalms. Facepalms all around.
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This was published 7 years ago
How Apple nixed the netbook
Netbooks are dead. Good riddance! Just a few years ago, these small, underpowered, ultracheap laptops were considered the future of the computer industry. In 2008 and 2009, recession-strapped consumers around the world began snapping up netbooks in droves. They became the fastest-growing segment of the PC market, and some wild-eyed analysts were suggesting that netbook sales would soon eclipse those of desktops and regular laptops combined. That didn't happen. In the past couple of years the netbook market crashed. Now, as Charles Arthur reports in the Guardian, most major PC manufacturers have stopped making these tiny machines. The last holdouts were the Taiwanese firms Acer and Asus. Both say they won't build any netbooks in 2013.
What killed the netbook? Arthur's smart piece offers three plausible suspects: First, PC makers began making better, cheaper laptops, which made for stronger competition against netbooks. Second, PC makers discovered that netbooks were a terrible business – after paying Microsoft a licensing fee for Windows, manufacturers weren't making any money on cheap computers. And finally, there was the rise of tablets; once machines like the iPad came along, people lost interest in $US400 ($A380) netbooks.
These are all plausible theories, but I think Arthur is a bit too reluctant to tie the whole story together and issue a blistering indictment against the netbook's assassin. If you study the PC industry over the past five years, you find only one company that had the means, motive and opportunity. Apple killed the netbook, more or less single-handedly, and we should all be grateful for it.
Netbooks were terrible machines, a technological blight that threatened to become the future of computing. They had awful, nearly unusable keyboards, very slow processors, and they ran versions of Windows or Linux that were a trudge to use on tiny screens. Yet despite their awfulness, they were embraced by the world's largest tech firms – Intel, Microsoft, HP, Dell and Lenovo were all gaga for them.
Apple alone stood against the tide of netbooks. Apple's brilliant insight was that despite netbooks' popularity, nobody really wanted a netbook per se. Instead, Apple realised that people who were buying netbooks were looking for one of two things – they wanted fully fledged laptops that were very portable, or they wanted cheap machines that allowed them to easily surf the web, use email and do other light computing tasks. Rather than building a single netbook that fit both these audiences poorly, Apple built two machines that were, each in its own way, much better than any netbook ever sold.
In 2008, Apple launched the expensive but very portable MacBook Air, and then in 2010, it put out the cheap but capable iPad. Neither was a direct substitute for the netbook. But consumers immediately recognised their utility – and quickly abandoned netbooks. The iPad and the Air became the blueprints for the rest of the industry, with every other PC manufacturer now making similarly thin laptops and touchscreen tablets. Thus, thanks to Apple, we were all saved from the rise of terrible tiny machines.
It's difficult, now, to appreciate how courageous Apple's refusal to join the netbook parade once was. In 2008, its cheapest laptop sold for more than $US1000. This was crazy expensive in the midst of a global recession, and investors and analysts were hounding the company to lower its prices. Apple's stock price sank to less than $US100.
But Apple had two reasons for holding steady against netbooks. One was noble: Shrinking a laptop to the size of netbooks – which typically had 7- or 9-inch screens and very slow Intel Atom processors – made for an inherently inferior computing experience. At that size, pointing devices and keyboards became very annoying to use, and operating systems designed for systems with more power worked like molasses. In other words, netbooks were awful, and Apple didn't want to make lousy computers. As Steve Jobs told investors in 2008, "We don't know how to make a $500 computer that's not a piece of junk. Our DNA will not let us do that."
The second reason Apple didn't make a netbook was that it couldn't make a netbook. The principal difference between Apple and most other tech manufacturers is that Apple prizes profits over market share. Sure, Apple, like all companies, wants to sell a lot of widgets – but given a choice between making $10 billion by capturing 10 per cent of the market or $1 billion by capturing 90 per cent of the market, Apple will always choose money over sales. (You'd think this was obvious; don't all companies want to make money? Nope: Apple sells fewer PCs than most other companies, but makes much more money doing so than all of its rivals.)
That's why Apple couldn't make a netbook. Netbooks were a market-share play – at $300 to $400 each, PC manufacturers were making very little on each one sold, so the only way to succeed was to get a huge slice of the market. Apple had no interest in playing that game; why spend time and effort selling something you wouldn't make any money on?
Even if you don't use the iPad or the Air and have no interest in ever buying an Apple product, pretty much every mobile computer you can buy today was inspired by the two devices that Apple ginned up to fight netbooks. In netbooks' demise, Apple emerged victorious – but so did the rest of the PC industry, and so did we users.


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Finally, its June. A new moth needs new inspiration, and as always I like to share some from japanese magazines. Starting with my favorite, Happie Nuts~! I am really used to the magazine focusing on dark colors, even tho spring and summer comes and they put more bright and light colors in their magazine, this issue is surprisingly light. Loving it ~
Above: I really love the color if the dress/jumpsuit/top&shors or whatever it is. Just adore the bright lace and the pastel fabric. I also like the shoes very much. And that skirt in the lover corner. I really really want one *w*
Below: Pastel color block? I like it. Light purple, mint green and bright yellow shoes. I would have ended up looking like an easter bunny, but this looks quite nice.
Above: Just love love love that black tights and the pink shirt with cut-out shoulders.
Below: Is it me or don't they usually use a warm tone of brown for make-up? Anyways, I like this cold-toned make-up a lot.
Above: Adorable outfits in light colors, I like it~! Like tha variation too.
Below: Oh, the outfit with those cute pink shorts and the beige jacket. I really like the combination, and I envy her hair so much. Also, patterned shoes seems to be really in this summer!
Above: Hairstyles for summer~! I am going to get better at wearing my hats this season. I am also glad to see that the scarf is still a popular accessorize, I know I will be using mine a lot more when the sunny weather sets in. I just feel like they belong together, the sun and the scarf, it makes me feel a bit like a gypsy.
Below: I know I have said that I didn't like the maxi-dress or maxi-skirt trend, and I really regret it. Oh yes!! I saw it coming some weeks ago, now I am finding myself drooling at the maxi-dress(or skirt?!) below with adorable flowers in warm colors. I might try to get a maxi-skirt or something.
Well, I have learnt my lesson.
Never say I don't like a style, it might back-fire me. But I can always be sceptic to it before it happens. Anyways, loving this issuez~! I am actually more inspired to let the gyaru style be more than just inspiration now, than what I have before. No, I am not going to go gyaru, but I am going to try to learn more from the style I guess.
Also a little update on the my health situation. I finally went to the doctor yesterday, and I was right. It's just a virus and I paid sour money afterwards. But its nice to know, now I don't have to be worried. I just need to let it pass. Really… I suck at being sick, or not 100% well. But I have decided to not work out until after my last exam. I don't want to risk getting a fever on the day of my oral exam, that would really suck.
Anyways~ Last "normal" day at school today. Yay~
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1967 AMC Rumbler
Rumbler RevivedA Stock Eliminator blast from the past
Some guys have a knack for being in the right place at the right time. In the case of Terry Robinson, a railroad car welder from Lake Villa, Illinois, a chance drive through a rural neighborhood brought him face to face with an amazing piece of drag-racing history, the Rumbler, a former AHRA Stock Eliminator competitor that's been mothballed since 1973.
To the average geek zipping past in his M5 with John Tesh wafting from the speakers like a bad smell, this would be just another old car, rating little more than a quip like, "Eww, Honey, did you see that garish eyesore on the side of the road? Lets call the city." But to Terry, a lifelong AMC fanatic, the sight of the Rumbler's Hemi Dart hoodscoop was like a prospector catching a glint of gold under six feet of rapids. After literally skidding to a stop in the street in front of the seller's house, Terry trained his eyes on the custom panel paint job, slotted Rocket mags, and vintage speed-equipment stickers and knew it was something special, very special.
Gathering his wits, Terry pulled into the driveway and put on his poker face. As he strode past the '67 Rambler Rogue racer, a quick look revealed a four-speed stick, 290 badges, and a rudimentary rollbar. Terry began sweating but kept his emotions in check long enough to learn that the seller wanted $4,000 for the car and not a dollar less. Terry's worthy of an Oscar for what happened next--he paid the man. That's right, instead of putting up some song and dance while trying to steal the car for peanuts and risking pissing the guy off and blowing the deal, Terry put down a deposit and raced to the bank to get the balance, all the while knowing he'd have gladly paid much more for such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
What he got for his performance is a true time capsule, a snapshot of what a typical independent AMC "little guy" drag car looked like in the late '60s. While the exact history of the car is not clear, eyewitness accounts among AMC club members confirm it was a regular competitor at Great Lakes Dragway in Union Grove, Wisconsin, an AHRA-sanctioned track between 1970 and 1972.
A little detective work indicates that with 24,000 miles showing on the odometer, the factory 290 four-speed car was likely a street driver for a year or two before a race-car conversion was performed around 1968 or 1969.
Hand-painted lettering on the trunk matches the factory-applied 290 emblems--a big hint that the builders were guided by a strict rule book and were running in a lower stock class where swapping up to a 343 or 390 was prohibited.
The most mouth-watering details are the circular cutouts in the hood, proof positive that the little 290 once wore an Edelbrock STR11 cross-ram intake manifold and dual Holleys. You don't stick one of those things on a stock hydraulic-cammed 290. This motor was built for high-rpm screaming of the 7,000-rpm-and-up variety, points verified by the 4.44:1 rear-axle ratio and the steel blow shield surrounding the clutch.
More specific details of the car's race history are not known because some of its previous owners are either unavailable or unwilling to comment. The car was put into storage in 1973 at a trucking company alongside a bunch of construction equipment. At some point the owner decided to stop paying the storage fees--for over 10 years. So after posting numerous public notices in the newspaper and even getting a judge to summons the delinquent property owner to three court hearings, none of which he appeared at, the judge awarded ownership of the car and construction equipment to the trucking company owner. From there the Rumbler was sold to the trucker's nephew who sold it to Terry in 2005. Terry hopes the original builder will step forward with more details as time passes and hurt feelings mend.
We discovered the Rumbler at the '05 AMC Nationals in Cordova, Illinois, and watched as Terry bashed the car up and down the strip all weekend long. Keep in mind that aside from a brake overhaul and the addition of a single four-barrel induction (the cross-ram was long gone when Terry got the car), it had been sitting idle for over 30 years. Though the Rumbler suffered from a slipping clutch and only ran mid 15s when we saw it, the raspy sound of the 290 left no doubt it packs a very healthy camshaft and some seriously high compression, and it's very likely a fully blueprinted and balanced race motor. We were happy to see him using it for its intended purpose.
TECH NOTESWhat: This Rogue bears serial number A7KM97D100074, which translates to: (A) American Motors; (7) 1967 model year; (K) Kenosha, Wisconsin, assembly plant; (M) four-speed console shift; (9) two-door hardtop; (7) Rogue model; (D) 290 four-barrel Typhoon V-8; (100074) the 74th unit built. Yes, this is the 74th car built by American Motors for the '67 production run.
Owner: Terry Robinson, a railroad-car welder from Lake Villa, Illinois.
Engine: Originally built and blueprinted by the Engine Shoppe, the hot 290 still wears its vintage Offenhauser valve covers, Doug Thorley headers, and Flex-a-lite plastic fan. Whether it's packing a forged-steel Group 19 crankshaft (PN 448 5728) and rods (PN 448 5725) in place of the cast nodular stock parts will only be learned during a teardown.
Body Mods: Mute testimony to the car's glorious past is shown beneath the add-on Hemi Dart hoodscoop where the cross-ram intake used to reside.
Intake: One of the coolest AMC Group 19 speed parts, this is an original Edelbrock STR11/Holley cross-ram induction setup like the Rumbler used. It was also installed on the '69 SS AMX fleet and is a classic AMC goody. The Group 19 moniker comes from where high-performance parts were listed in the AMC parts catalog. Group 1 was for stock engine parts, Group 2 was for the electrical system, Group 3 was for the cooling system, and so on. Even though AMC hid the hot rod parts at the back of the book, at least the company was trying. The Group 19 program got rolling around 1968 and lasted until the factory Trans-Am and NASCAR programs ended in the mid '70s.
Drivetrain: Thanks to its factory V-8 four-speed status, this Rogue also sports the beefy Model 20 rear axle. It's a Twin-Grip that's been fortified with weld-on ladder bars and Group 19 4.44 gears (PN 320 8551).
Safety: The Rumbler uses a crude plumbers-pipe rollbar installed when the car was converted to drag use. Why weld when you can screw your rollbar together?
Interior: We're hoping the owner-added seat covers are a temporary addition until the stock pattern can be restored.
Extras: Lacking a trailer, the original owners towed the Rumbler to the track using a tow bar. Like we sometimes do now.
Paint: Stardust Kustoms in Round Lake, Illinois, applied the original paint. The beautiful two-tone custom treatment still looks great but it's probably radioactive or something.
Wheels and Tires: The 14x6 Rocket wheels (15x8.5 out back) and E78-14 Goodyear bias-ply tires have been with the car since at least 1973.
`It squirts water if he takes away his finger.