West Branch State Park is located just east of the city of Ravenna in Portage County. The trails here are Northeast Ohio's oldest legal public mountain bike trail system. It started out when park officials allowed local mountain bike enthusiasts to use the snowmobile trails during the warm months. Volunteers began to build singletrack in between the existing trails, and in time, the trail network grew into the 11 miles of dedicated mountain bike trails that exist today.
Continue as Interstate 480 East becomes State Route 14 South.
Turn left onto State Route 59 East.
State Route 59 East becomes State Route 5 East.
Turn right onto Rock Spring Road, then see below.
Take Interstate 77 to Interstate 76 East.
Take exit 38B to State Route 5 East/State Route 44 North.
Proceed on State Route 5 East.
Follow Rock Spring Road across the reservoir. Less than ½ mile after crossing the reservoir, take the next left onto Cable Line Road. You'll see a sign on the right indicating the OPEN/CLOSED status of the mountain bike trails. The road curves sharply to the left, then take the next right into the trailhead parking lot.
Please do not park on the grass unless all of the gravel lot is full.
There is a pit toilet/changing room adjacent to the parking lot.
Follow the short access trail from the parking lot, then turn left onto Cable Line Road, then look for the entrance to the singletrack almost immediately on your left.
This part of the mountain bike trail is informally known as the "lake side trail," since it curves in and out of coves close to the shore of the reservoir. Made of the sections called the "2 Mile Trail," "Machine Trail," "Kitchen Sink Trail," and "East Davis Trail," this part is the most beginner-friendly of the West Branch Trails. There are a few brief rock gardens, short and steep climbs, and stream crossings to keep you on your toes. but there are some long, smooth, and flowing sections.
When you reach the end of East Davis Trail, beginners may want to turn right onto Cable Line Road and follow it all the way back to the parking lot. Otherwise, turn left onto Cable Line Road, then take a right onto Porter Road. Almost at the end of the uphill, look for the entrance to the "Quarry Trail" on the left. This is the newest trail in the area. While it has some smooth and flowing sections, there are a lot of extended rock gardens that will challenge even intermediate and advanced riders. The Quarry Trail ends at the same place it starts; turn right onto Porter Road, then left onto Cable Line Road.
Look for the entrance to the singletrack on your left. This part consists of the "Rock Run Trail," "Rock Wall Trail," "Bit O' Honey Trail," then ends with the "Exit Ramp Trail." As the names imply, there are LOTS of rock gardens here, some short, some long. There are also numerous sharp curves and narrow passages between trees. A skinny wooden and rock bridge tests your skills even further on the Exit Ramp Trail.
At the end of Exit Ramp Trail, turn left onto Cable Line Road, then take an immediate right onto the access trail that leads back to the parking lot.
The West Branch mountain bike trails are usually CLOSED from February through late May due to wet conditions. There are also intermittent closures throughout the fall hunting season (November and December). Check the park's web site or the Cleveland Area Mountain Bike Association for details. As always, even if there are no posted closures, use common sense and do not ride if the trails are wet and muddy when riding would cause damage.


Hi, I replaced the purge valve on my Buick Encore. I had an issue getting the clip off and in the process I broke it off. Can someone tell me is there a fix for this? Any help is greatly appreciated!
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Where is the valve located in the Encore? I know its on the front of the engine and is really easily accessible on Enclaves but where is it on Encores?


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28. Trump's Bumbling Belligerence is More of the Same
Author: Adekeye Adebajo
Date: 2 October 2017
Image supplied by: Geralt via pixabay
United States (US) president Donald Trump's recent speech at the United Nations (UN) in New York has been widely condemned as a belligerent perversion of an institution established in 1945 to promote global peace. Breathing fire and brimstone in his debut appearance on Turtle Bay, Trump spoke in biblical terms, warning that "If the righteous many do not confront the wicked few, then evil will triumph". He then explicitly noted that Washington would have "no choice but to destroy North Korea" if it continued its recent six nuclear tests and two ballistic missile launches. Trump was effectively threatening to annihilate not just a regime, but an entire country. As he crudely put it, referring to North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un: "Rocket man is on a suicide mission." Trump then described North Korea, Iran, and Venezuela as "rogue regimes", before hypocritically criticising threats to Ukraine and the South China Sea by Russia and China. He conveniently forgot his own launch in April of 59 Tomahawk missiles – without any investigation or a UN mandate – against the Syrian regime for allegedly using chemical weapons.
As abhorrent and condemnable as Trump's UN speech was, such actions are actually not unusual for US presidents who routinely engage in this type of martial posturing and religious self-righteousness. George W. Bush's notorious "axis of evil" speech in 2002 included two of Trump's "rogue regimes" – North Korea and Iran – as well as Iraq, which Bush disastrously invaded a year later without UN authorisation. Drawing on a sanctimonious, muscular, born-again Christianity, Bush's arrogant and deeply insulting insistence – in the days following terrorist attacks on the US on 11 September 2001 – that the whole world decide whether it was "with America or with the terrorists" came right out of an atavistic Old Testament world where doctrines such as "an eye for an eye" reigned supreme. In this absolutist "new world order," there was no more room for nuance or subtlety. One could not at the same time condemn terrorism and caution America not to kill innocent civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq in a vainglorious attempt to "impose" democracy around the world through the barrel of a gun. The frequent depiction by Bush of America as a "liberator" was also repugnant in its hypocrisy and historical inaccuracy, at least as viewed by Africans, Asians, Caribbeans, Latin Americans, and Middle Easterners who have suffered and, in some cases, continue to suffer, from the brutality of American-backed tyrants.
Barack Obama is often erroneously depicted as one of the most peaceful contemporary US presidents, despite sending drones that killed an estimated 3,500 innocent civilians mostly in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and participating in the "regime change" mission in Libya in 2011 that assassinated Muammar Qaddafi and left Libya anarchic and destabilised the Sahel region. Obama's Nobel peace prize speech in Oslo in 2009 also demonstrated the same "American exceptionalism" that Bush and Trump had expressed. Much of the speech – delivered in the shadow of two US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq – explained why force had to be used to bring about peace. A celebration of peace thus turned into a justification for war.
Obama perversely used the Christian-derived doctrine of "just wars" to explain why he could not be guided by apostles of non-violence like Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. In stark contrast to his earlier condemnation of the historical imperial actions of the US in Latin America and the Caribbean, he glorified his country for having "helped underwrite global security for more than six decades.. and enabled democracy to take hold in places like the Balkans". Obama went on, rather inappropriately in the context of a Nobel speech, to criticise Iran and North Korea's nuclear ambitions, while reserving his own country's right to act unilaterally, in an echo of Bush's "pre-emptive" use of force doctrine.
These martial musings are deeply ingrained in the DNA of an America that has historically been in a perpetual search for enemies, wishing to slay foreign dragons as if in a recurring Hollywood nightmare of sequels. This time, the imperial country is actually led by a reality TV star who has turned the presidency into one endless version of "The Apprentice", with Trump himself in the starring role: a bumbling, brutish, buffoonish rookie always one episode away from pressing the nuclear button in a fit of violent rage.
Professor Adekeye Adebajo is the Director of the Institute for Pan-African Thought and Conversation at the University of Johannesburg.
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"The Kicks" Sophia Mitri Schloss in indie Lane 1974
'Ray Donovan' Actress Katherine Moennig Joins 'Lane 1974' (Exclusive)
by Rebecca Ford
Katherine Moennig – AP Images/Invision
The indie follows a 13-year-old living within the confines of her mother's bizarrely rigid counter culture philosophies in Northern California.
The L Word and Ray Donovan actress Katherine Moennig is joining newcomer Sophia Mitri Schloss in indie Lane 1974.
The indie, directed by S.J. Chiro, is based on Clane Hayward's memoir, The Hypocrisy of Disco. It follows a 13-year-old (Schloss) who attempts to live within the confines of her mother's (Moennig) bizarrely rigid counter culture philosophies in a commune in Northern California.
Chiro, who grew up on two communes in the '70s, is making her directorial debut with the project.
Schloss has guest starred in TNT's The Librarians, the NBC series Grimm and has a series regular role on Amazon Studio's upcoming show The Kicks. She's repped by Koopman Management.
[ click to read full article at THR ]
Posted on August 31, 2015 by Editor
Wes Craven Gone
from TIME
Wes Craven, Creator of the Nightmare on Elm Street Movies, Dies Aged 76
by Rishi Iyengar
Acclaimed Hollywood horror maestro Wes Craven, director of classics like the Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream movie series, died on Sunday in his Los Angeles home.
The 76-year-old director passed away after a lengthy battle with brain cancer, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Craven is best known for creating the iconic character Freddy Kruger, one of the best-recognized horror villains ever, in his five Nightmare on Elm Street movies — which he said were inspired by a cemetery opposite his childhood home on Elm Street in suburban Cleveland.
Dr. Oliver Sacks Gone
Oliver Sacks, the Doctor
By Jerome Groopman
PHOTOGRAPH BY CHRISTOPHER ANDERSON / MAGNUM
Oliver Sacks, a dear colleague of mine at The New Yorker and in the world of medicine, was an inspiration to me and to countless physicians. A great deal will be said in the coming days about Oliver's unique literary output—masterful books including "An Anthropologist on Mars," "Awakenings," and "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat." But we should remember that he also embodied in his medical practice a kind of ideal approach—creative, sensitive, and large-hearted—to his many patients. He was an extraordinary and exemplary doctor.
Neurology is often depicted as a discipline of great detachment. Sacks, who was eighty-two when he died, trained in the field before the advent of the CT scan and the MRI. He learned to observe his patients in extreme detail, calling on his professional training and uncanny perception to make meticulous analyses of motor strength, reflexes, sensation, and mental status; in doing so, he arrived at a diagnosis that might locate a lesion within the anatomy of the brain or spinal cord. And yet, because medical technology had only gone so far in those days, once this intellectual exercise was completed, there was often very little that could be done to ameliorate most neurological maladies.
Sacks showed that it was possible to overcome this limited perspective. He questioned absolutist categories of normal and abnormal, healthy and debilitated. He did not ignore or romanticize the suffering of the individual. He sought to locate not just the affliction but a core of creative possibility and a reservoir of potential that was untapped in the patient. There was the case history, for instance, of a color-blind painter who lost all perception of color but discovered that he could capture the nuances of forms and shapes in hues of black and gray with great mastery.
[ click to continue reading at The New Yorker ]
Leptons Decaying At Different Rates, Oh My.
from Yahoo! News
Subatomic particles that appear to defy Standard Model points to undiscovered forces
By Hannah Osborne | International Business Times
Subatomic particles have been found that appear to defy the Standard Model of particle physics. The team working at Cern's Large Hadron Collider have found evidence of leptons decaying at different rates, which could possibly point to some undiscovered forces.
Publishing their findings in the journal Physical Review Letters, the team from the University of Maryland had been searching for conditions and behaviours that do not fit with the Standard Model. The model explains most known behaviours and interactions of fundamental subatomic particles, but it is incomplete – for example it does not adequately explain gravity, dark matter and neutrino masses.
Researchers say the discovery of the non-conforming leptons could provide a big lead in the search for non-standard phenomenon. The Standard Model concept of lepton universality assumes leptons are treated equally by fundamental forces.
[ click to continue reading at Yahoo! News ]
Kurt Perschke's RedBall On The Run
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Whew! I didn't waste those four years after all.
Tech companies are hiring more liberal-arts majors than you think
By Brian Fung
(Mark Lennihan / AP)
Silicon Valley has a reputation for being filled with egghead coders who popped out of college as brilliant engineers (or who never finished college in the first place). Films like "The Social Network" have played a big role in popularizing this impression. Google, too, is notorious for putting job candidates through grueling programming tests. Against these geniuses, what hope would a humanities or social science major have of getting a job at one of these companies?Quite a lot, actually. In fact, liberal arts graduates joined the ranks of tech companies at a faster clip in the past few years than their engineering and computer-science counterparts, according an analysis by LinkedIn of its own users. And of the recent liberal arts grads the company examined, as many as 2 in 5 now work at an Internet or software company. That's a staggering number.
Coding isn't the biggest role for these folks — that is, liberal arts majors who graduated from college between 2010 and 2013 and who lack graduate degrees — but programming is still surprisingly high on the list. According to LinkedIn's study, it's the third most popular job.
Most emerging liberal arts majors go into the tech sector after holding one other job first, but a substantial number go straight into the industry, too. Fourteen percent of liberal arts majors from schools in the top-20 wind up at tech companies as their first jobs, for instance.
[ click to continue reading at WaPo ]
Old Man in Speedo Beats, Permanently Disfigures Mermaid
from artnet news
Greek Artist Demolishes His Own Work to Avoid Bizarre Government Fine
by Christie Chu
A statue of a mermaid by Greek artist Dionysis Karipidis, which was created in 1997 on the Portokali beach in Chalkidiki, Greece, has been destroyed by the hands of its own maker.
The artist took to his statue with a sledgehammer when he was asked by the area's tourist authorities to pay a fine for "destroying the natural landscape," according to the Greek Reporter.
Chalkidiki is known for its three peninsulas that stick out into the Aegean sea like Poseidon's trident. Famous as a tourist spot, the Greek peninsula is also known as the birthplace of Greek philosopher Aristotle.
The mermaid, which is carved from the natural limestone on the beach, has been a tourist attraction for almost a decade. The issue arose a little over a year ago when the artist, who has largely remained anonymous, received a letter from the local municipality leveling a 533 euro fine for the work. In March 2014, Karipidis responded with his own letter stating that if he was forced to pay the fine, he would destroy his work.
[ click to continue reading at artnet ]
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Aspect Ratio F†ckery
Suck on this, salad eaters.
Why salad is so overrated
By Tamar Haspel
Minus their greens, left to right: the Caesar Salad With Chicken from the Cheesecake Factory; the Quesadilla Explosion Salad from Chili's Grill & Bar; the Waldorf Salad from California Pizza Kitchen. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/For The Washington Post)
As the world population grows, we have a pressing need to eat better and farm better, and those of us trying to figure out how to do those things have pointed at lots of different foods as problematic. Almonds, for their water use. Corn, for the monoculture. Beef, for its greenhouse gases. In each of those cases, there's some truth in the finger-pointing, but none of them is a clear-cut villain.
There's one food, though, that has almost nothing going for it. It occupies precious crop acreage, requires fossil fuels to be shipped, refrigerated, around the world, and adds nothing but crunch to the plate.
It's salad, and here are three main reasons why we need to rethink it.
Salad vegetables are pitifully low in nutrition. The biggest thing wrong with salads is lettuce, and the biggest thing wrong with lettuce is that it's a leafy-green waste of resources.
In July, when I wrote a piece defending corn on the calories-per-acre metric, a number of people wrote to tell me I was ignoring nutrition. Which I was. Not because nutrition isn't important, but because we get all the nutrition we need in a fraction of our recommended daily calories, and filling in the rest of the day's food is a job for crops like corn. But if you think nutrition is the most important metric, don't direct your ire at corn. Turn instead to lettuce.
[ click to continue reading at The Washington Post ]
Coitus Atop Castle Walls Not Recommended
from The Independent
French couple 'having sex' on a castle die after plunging 40ft into moat
Police announce pair were discovered beneath a fort in Chausey
A French couple have fallen to their death while having sex at a historic fortress, it has been reported.
The couple in their early thirties apparently fell into the moat from the walls surrounding the castle at the Vauban Fort on the island of Chausey Archipelago in the English Channel. Reports have said the drop into the moat is 40ft high.
The naked bodies of a man and woman, who were both born in 1984, were found on Thursday morning.
[ click to continue reading at The Independent ]
Hallucinatory Collages in Culver City
Object Lesson: Hallucinatory collages tell the story of the U.S.-Mexico border
by Carolina A. Miranda
Cross-border brother artist team Einar and Jamex de la Torre are known for creating wild collages and assemblages that fuse the high and the low, such as this 2014 lenticular piece, "Rites of Passage," which takes on the U.S.-Mexico border as its subject. (Einar and Jamex de la Torre / Koplin Del Rio)
As far as art forms go, it doesn't get more lowbrow than lenticulars, the 2-D printed pictures that, with the aid of a rippled, plasticized coating, appear three dimensional, often with animated effects. Think of those thrift store portraits of Jesus that appear to be winking.
Artists Jamex and Einar de la Torre have used this technology — generally reserved for popular religious art and advertising campaigns — to fantastic effect.
In fact, a current show of their work at Koplin Del Rio in Culver City offers a bounty of pieces that employ the device. Among them: a mandala-type design studded with images of skulls, anatomical sketches and religious iconography and a Last Supper-style scene in which the disciples' faces have been replaced with those of the artists. (I made a Vine of the former, to capture the trippy sense of movement these pieces have when you see them in person.)
Among the most elaborate works are a pair of lenticulars that take on the U.S.-Mexico border as their subject: "Rites of Passage," shown at top, and "Border Park of Earthly Delights," both of which were made in 2014. (Unfortunately the images shown here don't capture the works' psychedelic effects, which is why it's best to see them in person.)
[ click to continue reading at LATimes.com ]
The Fate of Ten
See the electrifying trailer for The Fate of Ten, the penultimate I Am Number Four book — exclusive
by Isabella Biedenharn
On Sept. 1, Pittacus Lore's I Am Number Four series gets nearer to its close, as The Fate of Ten—the series' second-to-last book—hits shelves everywhere. The Fate of Ten sees the Garde stretched across North America: John is fighting the Mogadorians in New York City, where his human friend Sam has suddenly developed a Legacy; Six, Marina, and Adam are in Mexico where they've reached the Sanctuary, but can't escape. Can they fight this war without destroying each other, and humanity itself?
Check out the electrifying, exclusive trailer above, and read the prologue [here].
[ click to continue reading at EW ]
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Coolest B-ball Court Ever
Kazimir Malevich-Inspired Basketball Court Unveiled in Paris
by Henri Neuendorf
The colorful court is squeezed between two apartment buildings. Photo: DeZeen
Who says art and sports don't mix? Parisian streetwear brand Pigalle teamed up with creative agency Ill-Studio to build a spectacular and colorful basketball court inspired by avant-garde painter Kazimir Malevich.
Nestled between two apartment buildings in Paris' 9th arrondissement, the court was first launched in 2009 by Pigalle founder Stephane Ashpool. Now, the court has undergone renovation to host the presentation of Pigalle Basketball's spring/summer 2015 collection.
Wild Flying Grizzly Eagle Kills Drone
from USA Today
Watch: Eagle punches drone out of sky
by Lori Grisham
An eagle in Australia knocked a drone out of the sky.
In the footage from Melbourne Aerial Video, a Wedge-Tailed Eagle flies up to the drone and hits it directly. The drone sputters and falls to earth.
The eagle was unharmed, according to a statement on YouTube. "She was massive, and used talon's to 'punch' the drone out of the sky," the statement said.
However, the drone didn't fare so well.
[ click to continue reading at USA Today ]
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Roger Steffens & The Family Acid
from The Huffington Post
Roger Steffens: Reggae Encyclopedist and "Family Acid" Photographer
by Eric Trules
If you know anything about the world of reggae music, you know the name, Roger Steffens, the man who began the first radio broadcast of the "Reggae Beat" on KCRW (along with Hank Holmes) on Oct. 7, 1979. It was the only reggae show in Los Angeles at the time, and it went on to set annual fundraising records for the radio station, L.A.'s local NPR affiliate, which is still going strong.
Eventually "Reggae Beat" was syndicated to 130 stations worldwide. Steffens first guest on the show was Bob Marley, and Steffens spent two weeks on the road with Marley in 1979 on the original "Survival" tour. Since then, Steffens has written six books about Marley and the history of reggae, and he has lectured internationally for the past 31 years on "The Life of Bob Marley," in a multi-media presentation that has been seen everywhere from the bottom of the Grand Canyon, to the Smithsonian to the outback of Australia. I saw the show twice, once at Steffens reggae exhibition installed on the Queen Mary in Long Beach, a second time, more recently, at USC' s School of Cinematic Arts. Roger spoke while his wife, Mary, ran the slides and videos.
Steffens' world-famous reggae archives are housed in a labyrinthine maze below the first floor of his home in Echo Park, filling the entire lower level of seven rooms from floor to ceiling. "We've had to move twice just to house the collection," he told me. "And now we're about to burst this one too. We need a permanent institutional home, just in case you know of one."
His Marley collection has been called the most complete in the world, by the very Wailers themselves, Bob's band members. It's not just shelves of records, tapes, and CDs pushing out from every corner, but tens of thousands of reggae photographs, 30,000 reggae fliers from all over the world, 2,000 reggae posters (many of them signed by the original artists), 140 cubic feet of alphabetized clippings, and an array of invaluable books and magazines, including the full 48-year run of Rolling Stone. (He bought the first issue the day before he went to Vietnam.)
Yet Steffens is not only a reggae "encyclopedist" and collector. He has also hosted programs of African music, poetry, the Sixties, and a wide-open talk show, called "Offbeat." He has interviewed countless colorful musicians, and he is the man who turned Paul Simon on the Ladysmith Black Mambazo for his landmark and Grammy-winning 1986 "Graceland" LP. Steffens was the first speaker at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, and the most frequent, nine times. In 2013 he spent the first two months of the year on the road as the Wailers' opening act on their international "Survival Revival" tour.
Where is the reggae guru from? What's his story? Well, Steffens, who was born in Brooklyn in the early Forties, likes to begin his story of influence with serving for the last 26 months of the Sixties in the army in Vietnam. He was assigned to Psychological Operations in Saigon, but when the TET Offensive hit the capital, Roger found 52 families living in sewer pipes outside his barracks. He began a refugee campaign that raised over 100 tons of food and clothing, mainly from Racine, where he had read poetry in the school before being drafted. He built villages and brought medical and dental assistance to war victims from the DMZ to the Mekong Delta. For his actions, he was awarded a Bronze Star.
"I've always had a Hippie heart," Steffens says proudly. And after a post-war 'we gotta get out of this place' year in Marrakech, Morocco in 1971, he moved to Berkeley, California. He photographed his activities hanging with early Rolling Stone writers, musicians, artists, poets, painters, and fellow actors, as avidly as he had taken photos during the Vietnam War. Since that time, all the slides (1967-1993) and prints (1993-2007) stayed hidden behind closed doors — 100,000 images that virtually no one outside the family had ever seen, except in living room slideshows. (He's taken another 240,000 digital images since.)
Then, in 2013, Roger's son, Devon Steffens, spent a year digitizing some 40,000 slides. Next, his daughter, Kate, asked, "Why don't I start an Instagram site?" Right on cue, Steffens replied, "What's an Instagram?" After his daughter explained and her dad agreed, she began posting two pictures a day under the rubric "The Family Acid," so called, she said, because her childhood friends told her that her family was "like the Waltons on Acid." The fact that Roger and his wife, Mary, met on an acid trip in a pygmy forest in Mendocino under a total eclipse of the moon on Memorial Day, 1975, may have also helped influence the title.
[ click to read full article at The Huffington Post ]
Niantic Sails Solo
from Computerworld
Google's Niantic Labs to become independent company
The developer of mobile game Ingress will go solo as it aims to reach bigger audiences
By Zach Miners / IDG News Service
Credit: Google
Two days after announcing a sweeping reorganization, Google detailed its first departure. Niantic Labs, an augmented reality unit, will be spun off into an independent company.
The split, which is unusual for Google, means that Niantic Labs won't be part of Alphabet, the new holding company that is expected to be formed later this year to include Google and other parts of the company.
The move was announced by Niantic Labs in a Google+ post on Wednesday, and confirmed by Winnie King, a Google spokeswoman.
The split would allow Niantic to accelerate its growth, she said, "which will help them align more closely with investors and partners in the entertainment space," but didn't provide any more details.
Niantic said it will allow the company to work with new partners while continuing to collaborate with Google.
Ingress has been downloaded more than 12 million times and has attracted more than 250,000 users, the group said in its announcement on Wednesday.
Niantic also developed Field Trip, a mobile discovery app that shows users local places of interest as they pass by them.
More recently, Niantic has been developing a new game called "Endgame: Proving Ground," which follows the storyline of the novel "Endgame: The Calling."
[ click to read full article at Computerworld.com ]
Dark Night Of The Perseids
from Pioneer Press
Sky Watch: This year's Perseid meteor shower should impress
By Mike Lynch
One of the best meteor showers of the year will light up the night sky this week. The Perseid meteor shower will peak Wednesday night and early Thursday morning, but the meteor viewing should be pretty good most of the week.
Last year, the Perseids gave a lousy show because the sky was whitewashed by a full moon. This year, the sky will be a lot darker, thanks to a thin crescent moon rising after midnight.
Even if you're stuck watching the Perseids from an urban or suburban location, you still should be able to see a decent number of "shooting stars." But if you can get into the country where there is a dark backdrop, you should be able to see as many as 60 meteors per hour.
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Amen, Adam Weinberg
6 Tips for Getting the Most from a Liberal Arts College
by Adam Weinberg – President, Denison University
In just a few weeks, thousands of students will go off to a residential liberal arts college, including two of my own children. So what does success look like at college? Why are the first six weeks so critical? And how do the components of a liberal arts education — academics, co-curricular learning and community — come into play?
Here are six pieces of advice I would offer for getting the most out of your next four years, while setting yourself up to thrive for the rest of your life.
1. Dive into a full range of courses. This is why you are here. An adventurous mixture of courses will teach you more than you can imagine. So lean in. Learn to communicate effectively, especially to write well. Work with numbers and data. Weave disparate ideas into new ways of thinking. Frame questions. Argue. Create. Do research. The true advantage of a liberal arts education is that it will prepare you — and I mean you, as a unique individual — to identify the kind of life you want to lead. It also will help you develop the skills, values, and habits to take on that life and be successful. All of this is built upon a foundation of learning across different disciplines, including some areas of study that will be totally new to you.
Taking a wide range of classes is more important now than ever. It prepares you for just about anything. Professions change. The economy goes up and down. Being a great learner who is unafraid of unfamiliar territory makes you adaptable, creative and entrepreneurial. It helps you do well in life — as a colleague, a parent, a leader, a citizen and a friend. Worry less about matching your major with a profession. Worry more about becoming knowledgeable, discerning, skilled and dependable. That is the job candidate who gets hired.
2. Get to know your professors. Truth is, the most important factor in college is mentorship, and student-faculty interactions are the magic of the liberal arts. So step up, and step into your classes. Build relationships with your professors. Take full advantage of their passion for working with students. The professors who have chosen to teach at a liberal arts college have done so for a reason: you. Liberal arts professors are engaged on the front lines of learning, and they love to see the spark that happens when students get excited about an idea. Seek out faculty who can be your mentors. Say hello before class. Go to their office hours. Invite them out for coffee. And engage them when you are struggling. They are terrific guides through your college experience. I can't say this enough: don't be afraid or shy about going to see your professors. They want to help.
3. Bring a passion and develop a new one. Many students select a liberal arts college because they have a particular passion they want to pursue. Maybe it is athletics, or arts or community service. You already know you love it, and liberal arts colleges provide amazing opportunities to keep at it.
[ click to continue reading at The Huffington Post ]
Is this a Graffix which I see before me, The chalice toward my hand? Come, let me toke thee.
from CBS DC
To Smoke Or Not To Smoke: Scientist Says William Shakespeare Used Marijuana
A South African researcher says traces of cannabis were found in fragments of clay pipes discovered in William Shakespeare's garden. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
LONDON (CBSDC) – The man who wrote Hamlet and MacBeth may have been enjoying some Midsummer Night's Dreams.
South African researchers examined some 17th-Century clay tobacco pipe fragments found in William Shakespeare's home town of Stratford-upon-Avon, reports Time Magazine.
They examined 24 fragments, including some had been excavated from the site of the Bard's personal garden.
Using advanced gas chromatography methods, they detected cannabis on eight of the fragments, including four that were confirmed to dome from the garden.
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Oliver Sacks' Heart-wrenching Goodbye
Oliver Sacks: My Periodic Table
By OLIVER SACKS
Aidan Koch
I LOOK forward eagerly, almost greedily, to the weekly arrival of journals like Nature and Science, and turn at once to articles on the physical sciences — not, as perhaps I should, to articles on biology and medicine. It was the physical sciences that provided my first enchantment as a boy.
In a recent issue of Nature, there was a thrilling article by the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek on a new way of calculating the slightly different masses of neutrons and protons. The new calculation confirms that neutrons are very slightly heavier than protons — the ratio of their masses being 939.56563 to 938.27231 — a trivial difference, one might think, but if it were otherwise the universe as we know it could never have developed. The ability to calculate this, Dr. Wilczek wrote, "encourages us to predict a future in which nuclear physics reaches the level of precision and versatility that atomic physics has already achieved" — a revolution that, alas, I will never see.
Francis Crick was convinced that "the hard problem" — understanding how the brain gives rise to consciousness — would be solved by 2030. "You will see it," he often said to my neuroscientist friend Ralph, "and you may, too, Oliver, if you live to my age." Crick lived to his late 80s, working and thinking about consciousness till the last. Ralph died prematurely, at age 52, and now I am terminally ill, at the age of 82. I have to say that I am not too exercised by "the hard problem" of consciousness — indeed, I do not see it as a problem at all; but I am sad that I will not see the new nuclear physics that Dr. Wilczek envisages, nor a thousand other breakthroughs in the physical and biological sciences.
A few weeks ago, in the country, far from the lights of the city, I saw the entire sky "powdered with stars" (in Milton's words); such a sky, I imagined, could be seen only on high, dry plateaus like that of Atacama in Chile (where some of the world's most powerful telescopes are). It was this celestial splendor that suddenly made me realize how little time, how little life, I had left. My sense of the heavens' beauty, of eternity, was inseparably mixed for me with a sense of transience — and death.
I told my friends Kate and Allen, "I would like to see such a sky again when I am dying."
"We'll wheel you outside," they said.
[ click to continue reading at The New York Times ]
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World's Greatest Diver Gone
The Disappearance of the World's Greatest Free Diver
By Alec Wilkinson
Natalia Molchanova, pictured here in 2005, trained like an old-school Soviet athlete, but her voice was full of laughter and even joy. Credit PHOTOGRAPH BY JACQUES MUNCH / AFP / GETTY
It seems clear that the great free diver Natalia Molchanova is dead. She was diving last Saturday off the coast of Spain, giving lessons to a rich Russian, when she made a dive of her own and didn't return. She was almost surely the greatest diver in the history of her sport, which, as mentioned in The New Yorker in 2009, is sometimes described as the world's second most dangerous activity, after jumping off skyscrapers with parachutes.
In free diving, men and women descend as deep as they can on a single breath. Not infrequently, when they reach the surface after a deep dive they pass out. In a competition, if they pass out before five seconds after reaching the surface their dive doesn't count. There are eight disciplines in free diving, three of which take place indoors in a pool and involve holding one's breath and swimming as far as one can underwater on a single breath. The other five are deep-water disciplines. Two of them, variable weight and no limits, are too dangerous for competitions; a diver can only attempt a record. In variable weight, a diver is pulled down by a metal sled, then swims to the surface. In no limits, the diver also rides a sled but ascends by means of an air bag. In the remaining three disciplines, the divers descend by pulling on a rope, or wearing weights. The most prestigious event is constant weight, in which a diver wearing fins or a monofin, a device that looks like a mermaid's tail, must return to the surface with the weight he or she wore to the bottom. Molchanova, who held the record for breath holding (nine minutes and two seconds), excelled at this, but she was pretty much better than everyone else at nearly all the tasks. She was challenged from time to time by other women, but never really seriously. She was so consistent that she was sometimes called "The Machine."
Suicide By Shakespeare
from The Wall Street Journal
The Suicide of the Liberal Arts
Indoctrinating students isn't the same as teaching them. Homer and Shakespeare have much to tell us about how to think and how to live.
By John Agresto
'Achilles Slays Hector,' by Peter Paul Rubens, circa 1630. Photo: Art Resource
I was a few minutes early for class. Father Alexander, my high-school sophomore-homeroom teacher, was standing outside the room, cigarette in his mouth, leaning on the doorjamb. "Morning, Father."
His response was to put his arm across the door. "Agresto," he said, "I have a question I've been thinking about and maybe you can help me."
"Sure, what's up?"
"Do you think a person in this day and age can be called well educated who's never read the 'Iliad'?" I hadn't read the "Iliad," and am not even sure I had heard of it. "Hmmm. Maybe, I don't see why not. Maybe if he knows other really good stuff . . ." His response was swift. "OK, Agresto, that proves it. You're even a bigger damn fool than I thought you were."
I grew up in a fairly poor Brooklyn family that didn't think that much about education. My father was a day laborer in construction—pouring cement, mostly. He thought I should work on the docks. Start by running sandwiches for the guys, he told me. Join the union. Work your way up. There's good money on the docks. And you'll always have a job. He had nothing against school, except that if bad times came, working the docks was safer.
I also grew up in a house almost without books. All I remember is an encyclopedia we got from coupons at the grocery store and a set of the "Book of Knowledge" from my cousin Judy. Once in a while I'd head over to the public library and borrow something—a book on tropical fish, a stamp catalog, a book by someone called Levi on pigeons. It never dawned on me to look at what else there was. Who read that stuff anyway?
So now I'm a professor and former university president who grew up without much real childhood reading until eighth grade, two or three years before the "Iliad" question. Sister Mary Gerald asked me one day if I read outside of class. I told her about the pigeon book and the stamp catalog. No, she asked, had I ever read any literature?
Whereupon she pulled out something called "Penrod and Sam," by a guy named Booth Tarkington. She said I should read it. I did. I can't say that "Penrod and Sam" is great literature, but it changed a small bit of my neighborhood. Penrod had a club. So my friends and I put together a club. Penrod's club had a flag; we had a flag. Penrod would climb trees and spy on the surroundings. We had to be content with climbing on cyclone fences.
Who would have thought there was a new way of having adventures, learned from a book? A book, by the way, of things that had never happened. Something had pierced the predictable regularity of everyday street life. And that something was a work of someone's imagination.
[ click to continue reading at WSJ.com ]
Another Hero Dog
from NBC10
Service Dog Saves Blind Owner's Life During House Fire
By David Chang
A service dog is being hailed a hero after she jumped into action and saved her blind owner's life by alerting authorities to a house fire in Philadelphia Thursday morning.
The fire started inside Maria Colon's home on the 4300 block of Oakmont Street in the city's Holmesburg section. The woman was asleep at the time, but awoke at the smell of smoke.
"I said, 'Oh my God, It's smoke. And I can't breathe,'" Colon, a Puerto Rico-native who lost her eyesight in 1992, told NBC10's George Spencer Friday.
She shouted the word "danger" to her service dog, a golden Labrador named Yolanda, prompting the dog to dial 911 on a specialized phone. Yolanda had been trained to step in and call for help when Colon used the emergency word.
"I hear the phone — tke, tke, tke. And she's growling. And I said, 'Oh my lord, she called the police,'" Colon recalled.
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Remington Steele Instagrams The Art Market
Are Pierce Brosnan and High-Profile Collectors Really Using Instagram to Buy Art?
by Cait Munro
Photo: Instagram/@piercebrosnanofficial.
The New York Times has finally caught on to a little trend we discovered almost two years ago: collectors—many of them high profile—using Instagram to purchase art from galleries and auction houses.
What took the Grey Lady so long to catch on to this wonderfully democratizing trend? We're unsure, but we do know that it was one Pierce Brosnan who exposed the world of social media sales, which is hidden in plain sight.
In late April, Brosnan visited the showroom of Phillips auction house in London and posed for a quick photo in front of designer Marc Newson's Lockheed Lounge, which he then posted to his Instagram account along with the caption "let the bidding commence."
Later that week, the auction house broke the world record for a design object, selling the work for an impressive $3.7 million.
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Mobstr vs. Pressure Wash
from Yahoo! Makers
by Yahoo Makers
Graffiti buffs and street artists battle authorities and clean-up crews all the time, but they're rarely as long or as good-natured as this one. A London-based street artist who uses the moniker Mobstr played cat and mouse for nearly an entire year with a determined and persistent cleaner. He finally conceded defeat and documented the battle on his site, mobster.org. "I cycled past this wall on the way to work for years," Mobstr wrote. He noticed that when the surface was tagged in the red area, it was painted over, and when it was tagged on the bare brick, it was pressure washed. This gave way to full on battle that started on July 17th, 2014 and continued until just a few days ago.
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Nikki Finke's Hollywood Dementia
from VULTURE
Nikki Finke Is Now Making Up Her Stories (Sort Of)
By Jessica Pressler
Photo: Jen Rosenstein
For Nikki Finke, fiction was always the enemy. "As a journalist, that was the worst thing you could say about something," she says. "That's fiction."
In the years she spent covering the entertainment industry for the L.A. Times, L.A. Weekly, and her own Deadline website, Finke became famous — and famously feared — for telling the unvarnished (and highly entertaining) truth about everyone in Hollywood, even her own business partner, Jay Penske. "I am a very old-school journalist," she says throatily over the phone from her home in Los Angeles. "I believe you make the comfortable uncomfortable, and that's the whole point of doing it. A friend of mine who is in the business always used to say, Why do you always act surprised when people hate you for something you have written? And I said, But it's the truth! My feeling was always the truth trumps everything. You know, the point is to try and get at that. As uncomfortable and difficult as it is."
One thing the truth doesn't trump: non-compete clauses.
Last year, a legal battle with Penske over Deadline resulted in Finke walking away with a reported multi-million-dollar settlement and a sworn promise not to report about the industry for anyone else. For a while, it seemed Penske had done something people in the industry had been trying to do for years: Put Finke out of commission. Under their agreement, Finke couldn't even go online and expound about the Sony hack — the kind of cataclysmic event that would have had the old Finke, who goes on reporting benders the way studio executives used to go on coke binges, sleepless for days.
Finke clears her throat. ("In 2010, I completely had an operation to remove a parathyroid and they paralyzed one of my vocal cords. I couldn't talk, I would croak. Of course all the agents would go, 'That's so sexy.'") "The hack presented Hollywood the way it really is," she says. "It demonstrated what Hollywood insiders have always known." (She's being careful, but you can hear it in her voice: TOLDJA!)
[ click to continue reading at VULTURE.com ]
Ernest Ranglin Rips It Up
from The Seattle Times
Reggae giant Ernest Ranglin plays rare Seattle gig | Concert review
By Charles R. Cross
Guitarist Ernest Ranglin, one of the founders of ska and reggae guitar style, gave a rare performance in Seattle Saturday, Aug. 1.
If ever there was a "once in a blue moon" concert, it was Saturday night's show at Nectar by Jamaican guitar legend Ernest Ranglin. The club billed the night as Ranglin's first Seattle appearance, but backstage, the guitarist said he thought he may have played here before — perhaps with a jazz band, perhaps as a reggae artist, or maybe with a world music band.
If, at 83, Ranglin's memory is a bit hazy, that can be forgiven considering his lengthy, multi-phased career. In an informal interview, he talked about his first records in the fifties, and his own influences, which included jazz great Charlie Christian.
But when Ranglin came onstage, his musical memory was flawless. Over the course of a 90-minute set with Avila, he put on a clinic that touched on jazz, ska and, most certainly, reggae guitar.
Though he's modest, Ranglin was one of the inventors of reggae and played with Bob Marley and Jimmy Cliff. Saturday he skipped their repertoire, and stuck to reggae classics like "Satta Masa Ghana."
[ click to continue reading at The Seattle Times ]
Mr. Lear Speaks His Mind
TV legend Norman Lear gives 6 strong opinions about American life
by James Hibberd • @JamesHibberd
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Legendary TV producer Norman Lear stopped by the Televisison Critics Association's press tour in Beverly Hills to promote an upcoming PBS documentary covering his career that's set to debut next year. But what seemed to most impress reporters was the 93-year-old's opinionated tangents, covering politics, TV, America and mindfullness. Below are six highlights from a press conference with the creator of hits like All in the Family, The Jeffersons and One Day at a Time:
— On politics: "Everybody knows me to be a progressive or a liberal or lefty or whatever. I think of myself as a bleeding-heart conservative. You will not f— with my Bill of Rights, my Constitution, my guarantees of political justice for all. But does my heart bleed for those who need help and aren't getting the justice that the country promises them and the equal opportunity the country promises? Yes. I'm a bleeding heart, but I think myself to be a total social conservative. The people who are running just don't seem to have America on their minds, not the America I think about. When I was a kid we were in love with America. As early as I can remember, there was a civics class in my public school. And I was in love with those things that guaranteed freedom before I learned that there were people who hated me because I was Jewish. I had a Bill of Rights and a Constitution, those words out of the Declaration that protected me. And I knew about that because we had civics in class. We don't have that much in the country anymore. So before World War II or shortly after, we were in love with America because we understood what it was about and that's what we were in love with. I believe everybody's patriotic today. Everybody loves America. But I don't need their flag plans to prove it. I'd like to go back to civics lessons."
— On waking up: "I want to wake up feeling as I usually do, loving the day. The title of my book is Even This I Get to Experience, and that's the way I basically look at life moment to moment. And now I'm looking out at you. I was 93 on Monday. So it took me 93 [years] and five days to get here. It took you every split second of each of your lives to get here for me. So I'm way ahead of you. It took all your lives to get here, so this moment is the moment. Even this we get to experience."
— On the Golden Age of television: "I think this is the Golden Age. I understand what the Golden Age was when I was coming into television, and it was those years of Playhouse 90 and Philco Playhouse. But there's great drama and some great comedy on television today. I can't see it all."


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Countries are arming themselves in response to the war in Ukraine. "Politicians in Europe already need to start preparing now for the post-war period. They need to formulate a comprehensive plan for peace that moves beyond the previous logic of deterrence," says Professor Dr Andreas Zick, Director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research of Conflict and Violence (IKG) at Bielefeld University. The goal, according to Zick, should be a peacekeeping treaty and rules for Europe. On 24 March the IKG held its first "Peace & Conflict Talk (PaCT)". Andreas Zick on the lessons to be drawn from the outbreak of this war and what what the arrival of hundreds of thousands of refugees might mean for German society. This interview is the first of a series of talks on the war in Ukraine with experts from Bielefeld University.
In view of the war in Ukraine, you urge western politicians to pursue a new approach to peace. What does this strategy look like?
Andreas Zick: This includes a peacekeeping plan that is capable of bringing together the areas of security, politics, society, and the economy, shifting from the logic of war and deterrence to a logic of stable peace. After all, the war has shown just how unstable the previous peace had been. The "guardrails" of peace include—beyond the rejection of violence—conflict prevention that addresses root causes, and problem-solving by way of dialogue and negotiation.
Right after the outbreak of the war, you called for the establishment of a European peacekeeping mission. How does this differ from the peacekeeping mission advocated for by the Polish deputy head of government in a press conference in Kyiv last week?
Andreas Zick: Jaroslaw Kaczynski called for a NATO peacekeeping mission. But this will not be enough because the focus is largely on military options. Economic sanctions and the military are meant to bring about peace. This will not work. What I am talking about is a peacekeeping mission that would incorporate a European peace architecture, including peacekeeping forces from states that do not belong to the EU and NATO. Similar to climate change, the challenges that have to be solved here are global ones: arms control and disarmament, preventing new information wars, better predicting escalations, and determining potential scenarios for peace. This encompasses issues of preserving culture and strengthening civil society and democracy, as well as preventing extremism, conflict, and violence. These building blocks are essential to effective peacekeeping, and they now need to be cast into a new plan. We already need to know where more violence is brewing, where scenarios of war and violence are prevailing, and ultimately, we need to know where peacekeeping must be rethought. We already need to assume that this war will result in renewed extremism here in Europe.
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'We must make peace compelling and not let it deteriorate into the toleration of localized violence, which is what happened in Crimea', says conflict researcher Professor Dr Andreas Zick.
According to Putin's propaganda, the war is serving to "denazify" Ukraine. You study right-wing extremism – how are we to understand what Putin is claiming here?
Andreas Zick: In war, enemies must be depicted as threateningly and heinously as possible in order to legitimize the use of violence. Putin is transfiguring the war and Russian identity with this myth that Ukraine should be liberated from Nazis. Part of this war is propaganda, which we did not take seriously enough early on. For me, the crucial question here is why populism and the distortion of historical facts resonate with the Russian people: Is it because there are no other media outlets or public discourse, or is it because a new radical nationalism has emerged in Russia, which was built up over years and has done away with historical facts? We also need to figure out why such messages catch on. We know that the Russian government shut down democracy-building efforts, controlled the media, and replaced the national consciousness with a national populism.
Some 225,000 refugees from Ukraine have been registered in Germany so far. What impact will the growing number of refugees have on social cohesion in Germany?
Andreas Zick: The large number of refugees who have been taken in is an expression of social cohesion – and this can also simultaneously strengthen cohesion. It is therefore a good thing that it is being acknowledged how much solidarity is being shown daily. Cohesion includes belonging, trust, the experience of community, participation, and contact between different groups. This can be witnessed first-hand in such crisis situations. Society is seeing that it can also create cohesion for others who are not first screened for admission according to criteria for assessing their ability to integrate. Of course, the question of how many refugees is too many will soon come up. This is a question of at what point society will no longer be able to peacefully regulate conflicts over resources, identities, and values. We will have conflicts – that is part of it. But after the massive hate crimes and extremist movements that occurred after the refugees were admitted in 2015, we should now better understand that many of the conflicts that tipped over into violence were fueled by radical right-wing and extremist politics, and were based far less on actual competition, for example over jobs or housing. In short, we need to be better prepared for conflict given that war results in massive losses in all areas of life and society.
Professor Dr Andreas Zick is the Director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research of Conflict and Violence (IKG) and a Professor for Socialization and Conflict Research at the Faculty of Educational Science at Bielefeld University. Dr. Zick studies discrimination, violence, group-focused enmity, and prejudice.
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A new report from information management analyst group AIIM claims modern businesses are drowning in the sheer volumes of information they gather on a day-to-day basis.
How to get business insight out of all the information we are gathering.
"Information (documents, emails, videos, podcasts, voicemails, texts, tweets, Facebook posts, LinkedIn conversations, customer analytics, etc.) surrounds us. We rely on this information for entertainment and to do our jobs," says the author of the report.
At Grace Information Management (GIM), we believe that converting your paper documents to a digital format is one of the most important steps you can take towards better-managing your company's 'information chaos'.
By doing this, you can ensure your past and current records are easily-accessible, and therefore put to good use.
We operate leading-edge scanning technology and capture software, allowing us to provide a first-rate service converting all traditional formats to digital. In addition to your standard paper sizes, our high-speed, full-colour and monochrome scanning handles engineering drawings, architectural sketches, blueprints, sepias, detailed maps, drawings and large colour posters.
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Firstly, we should reflect on the history of index-linked issuance. Inflation-linked bonds were first issued by the State of Massachusetts Bay as early as 1780, in this case, the inflation basket included wool, beef, corn and shoe leather. The UK was the first major government to do so and the first issue came in March 1981, at a time when Retail Price Inflation ("RPI") was at 12.6%, hence it appealed to investors worried about high inflation. With capital and income going up with the RPI, the 2% real interest rate seemed attractive despite the fact that the conventional ten year gilt yields were around 14%. As an investor in the new instrument, you would need inflation to remain above 12% to make up the difference between the 2% index linked and 14% fixed interest rate. Over the fifteen year life of that first bond, the RPI averaged 5.4% thus the bond only returned 7.4%, or about half the return for investors of a conventional bond. However, 7.4% as opposed to 14% was extremely cheap funding for the government. The first bonds were confined to institutional investors and the issue size was just £400 million but the market was quickly opened up to a wider audience and issuance grew. As long as inflation undershoots expectations, it is cheap funding for the government but if inflation rises it is a better deal for investors.


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TYING-up is a generic term commonly used to describe muscle disease in performance horses. Other terms often used interchangeably with tying-up include exertional rhabdomyolysis, azoturia and Monday morning sickness.
Clinical signs of tying-up include a stiff gait, reluctance to move, firm and cramping muscles, profuse sweating, accelerated heart rate and increased respiratory rate.
In addition to clinical signs, horses that tie-up will have moderate to marked elevations in blood serum levels of myoglobin, creatine kinase (CK), lactate dehydrogenase and aspartate aminotransferase. Such elevations indicate muscle cell damage and are considered a diagnostic tool to detect tying-up.
For years, horses that tied-up following exercise were thought to suffer from the same disease. However, treatment and prevention protocols that worked on some horses did not help other horses. As a result, confusion and controversy developed regarding the cause and treatment of tying-up.
Researchers have only recently begun to classify and study the many different disease conditions that result in the common symptoms of tying-up. Initial classification of tying-up is now based on the frequency of the disease symptoms following exercise. Horses that tie-up only a few times in their lifetime are classified as "sporadic," while those horses that tie-up on a repeated basis are termed "chronic."
The following is a brief discussion of both sporadic and chronic tying-up and steps that can be implemented to help prevent the disease. Much of the research involving tying-up and treatment/prevention protocols has been conducted by Dr. Stephanie Valberg's group at the University of Minnesota's College of Veterinary Medicine.
Many horses experience some muscle soreness and strain associated with exercise. These horses often are mistakenly thought to be suffering from a specific muscle disease.
Inadequate warm-up, pre-existing lameness, exercise to the point of fatigue and insufficient training can result in muscle soreness and injury. A similar scenario in people might be overexertion from strenuous physical activity in a person who is conditioned to sit at a desk most of the day.
In horses that actually tie-up, muscle soreness is much more severe and is typically accompanied by elevated blood serum muscle proteins and myoglobinuria (coffee-colored urine). This darkening of the urine is a result of the kidneys filtering myoglobin (a muscle protein) from the blood, which is an indication of severe muscle damage.
The most frequent causes of sporadic tying-up are exercise that exceeds a horse's level of training, electrolyte imbalances, hyperthermia and strenuous exercise while suffering from a respiratory disease.
Sporadic tying-up should be considered a veterinary emergency if horses are sweating profusely, are reluctant to move or have dark urine. Veterinarians may administer medicine to relieve anxiety and muscle pain. In addition, corrections in hydration are made to account for fluid losses and myoglobinuria that may impair kidney function.
Further treatment strategies include stall rest, followed by hand walking and turnout once the initial muscle stiffness has resolved. Grain intake should be drastically reduced or eliminated because these horses are likely to be on a reduced-exercise program.
The amount of time the horse must remain out of training has not been firmly established. However, any training regimen following an episode of tying-up should be resumed gradually and consistently to prevent further muscle damage.
Sound management practices and training may help prevent tying-up. Learning not to overexert unfit horses and remembering to fortify the diet with salt on a daily basis, as well as electrolytes prior to heavy sweat loss, are logical strategies. Adjusting the amount of grain fed to satisfy the energy needs of the horse is also tremendously important.
In other words, one does not want to overfeed carbohydrates (grains) to horses as this may be a potential cause of tying-up. Feeding grain concentrates fortified with fat and necessary antioxidant vitamins and minerals will provide energy while supplying the building blocks to protect muscle tissue. The combination of these strategies will often prevent healthy horses from having another bout of tying-up.
When horses have repeated episodes of tying-up, the disease is considered chronic. Many different horse breeds have been reported to have chronic bouts of tying-up, including Quarter Horses, Thoroughbreds, Standardbreds, Paints, Morgans, Arabians and various breeds of draft and warmblood horses.
The proposed causes of chronic tying-up include electrolyte imbalances, hormonal imbalances, hypothyroidism, muscle ischemia with lactic acidosis and a deficiency of vitamin E and/or selenium.
While chronic episodes of tying-up are frustrating and painful for both horses and their owners, studying these chronic cases has advanced the knowledge of the causes, treatment and prevention of the disease.
Recently, two specific causes of chronic tying-up have been identified in the horse, including a muscle contraction disorder called recurrent exertional rhabdomyolysis (RER) and a disorder in carbohydrate storage and utilization called polysaccharide storage myopathy (PSSM).
RER. RER is common in nervous fillies of Arabian, Standardbred and Thoroughbred breeding. These individuals often develop the condition when they are excited or stressed and/or when a period of stall rest preceding exercise has occurred. Preliminary genetic research and breeding trials point to this condition as an inherited trait in Thoroughbred horses.
The exact cause of RER in horses has challenged scientists for several years. RER in racing horses was believed to be similar to lactic acidosis. However, recent research has shown muscle lactate concentrations to be low -- not high -- in these horses when tying-up occurs.
The most recent thinking is that RER is an abnormality in the way muscle contraction is regulated in the horse. Muscle biopsies from horses with RER have revealed an increased sensitivity to contraction when exposed to various chemicals compared to normal horses. The altered contraction and relaxation of muscle suggests that abnormal intracellular calcium regulation is the cause of RER.
Treatment of horses experiencing RER requires veterinary assistance. Management designed to make the horse comfortable and prevent further stress and muscle damage is warranted. The use of sedatives prior to exercise to calm a nervous horse is also a common practice. Other drugs designed to regulate intracellular sodium and calcium are now being prescribed for horses.
Daily exercise for horses diagnosed with RER is essential. Beginning approximately 24 hours after an RER episode, horses should be hand walked or turned out on a daily basis. Prolonged stall rest seems to be counterproductive and may predispose the horse to further episodes of RER once training resumes. A gradual return to full training can begin once serum muscle protein CK has returned to normal.
Preventing further episodes of RER is difficult. Controlling the environment of these horses is essential. A low-stress environment with a well-established daily routine seems to help. Reducing the amount of carbohydrate (grain) and increasing the amounts of fat (vegetable oil and rice bran) and fiber in the diet of horses with RER reduce excitability and enhance tractability.
Research at the University of Minnesota, in conjunction with Kentucky Equine Research, also suggests that replacing the grain in the diet with a low-starch, high-fat feed will significantly decrease the amount of muscle damage in RER horses.
In a feeding trial, Thoroughbred horses with RER were exercised on a treadmill for five days a week while they consumed hay and a variety of energy supplements.
When the daily caloric intake of a high-starch ration was kept low, the horses had lower post-exercise serum CK than when this feed was increased to a level commonly fed to racehorses. In contrast, if extra calories were provided from a low-starch, high-fat feed (such as Re-leve), no increase in post-exercise serum CK activity occurred. Since these studies were conducted, Re-leve has been used to successfully manage RER in hundreds of Thoroughbred racehorses around the world.
PSSM. PSSM is a glycogen (muscle sugar) storage disorder that is characterized by the accumulation of an abnormal polysaccharide in muscle. Horses with PSSM are able to quickly clear sugar from their blood and store 1.5-4.0 times the normal amount of muscle glycogen.
The accumulation of an excessive amount of muscle glycogen is not due to the inability of these horses to utilize muscle glycogen for energy production but, instead, appears to be from the creation of more glycogen, as well as an abnormal form of muscle glycogen. The horse may utilize the abnormal filamentous polysaccharide at a much slower rate, thus allowing it to accumulate in the muscle.
PSSM has been identified in Quarter Horses, Paints, Appaloosas, draft horses, warmbloods and a few Thoroughbreds. Horses with PSSM are different from horses with RER in that they have a calm, instead of nervous, demeanor. Horses with PSSM typically have a history of tying-up problems associated with the onset of training while the animal is still relatively unfit.
Horses with PSSM exhibit classic tying-up symptoms, including the long-term elevation of muscle enzymes in serum. A confirmed diagnosis is based on an examination of muscle biopsies with the distinctive feature of abnormal glycogen storage.
Treating horses with PSSM following a tying-up episode involves many of the same veterinary procedures as with other causes of tying-up. Treatment protocols also attempt to minimize the occurrence of future episodes through dietary manipulation.
Horses with PSSM should be fed diets low in sugar (grain) and high in fiber and fat. It is important to completely eliminate grain or sweet feed from the diet of horses with PSSM.
A number of studies at the University of Minnesota have confirmed that PSSM can be successfully managed with Re-leve. Daily activity, riding or longeing, along with pasture turnout, is essential for minimizing the occurrence of PSSM tying-up episodes. Confining horses in box stalls for more than 12 hours per day appears to increase the incidence of tying-up.
Research on factors involved in the cause and treatment of tying-up continues to be conducted. With careful attention to feeding and exercise programs, many horses with this condition can be managed to allow an active and useful life.


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Re: Jewish neuroticism
Posted on February 18, 2020 by Aeoli Pera
This topic came up in a recent comment section, so you may want to familiarize yourself with the argument before reading this addition. You will then appreciate the irony of my argument in favor of being nice to nice people being motivated by the enjoyment of pissing people off as much as possible :DDD.
Onward then:
This article will examine the ambivalence in the views of Jewish authorities towards suicide. There are Jewish rulings which forbid the taking of one's own life, including requested euthanasia. There are seemingly contrary
rulings which tolerate and sometimes admire suicide, particularly under conditions of religious persecution.
The article will attempt an overview of suicide rates in Jewish communities, indicating variations in different circumstances. The question of whether religiosity affects suicide will be raised and examined.
These variations—and of course other factors—may offer some clues to the precursors of suicide, and the processes which may be involved. The causal and risk factors in self-harm among Jews will also be examined.
The article then turns to post-suicide events, behaviours and attitudes in Jewish communities.
Suicide rates
Jewish communities have been reported to have low suicide rates. Early reports included Dubin (1963), and Miller (1976). More recently, suicide rates in Israel were still reported lower than those of other countries, including America (Levav and Aisenberg 1989; Maris et al 2000; Gearing and Lizardi 2009). Kohn et al (1997) among others have concluded that suicide rates amongst both youth and adults in Israel are amongst the lowest in the world. For example in 2015 the suicide rate in Israel was 9.9 per 100,000, compared to 12.6 in the USA and 11.9 in Europe (WHO ). Suicide rates among young adult male Jewish Israelis climbed in the 1980s (Bursztein and Apter 2009), but rates broadly stabilised in 1990s, and with some fluctuation, overall Jewish suicide rates in Israel generally continued low compared to those in other countries. Comparative studies suggest that suicide rates are generally lower amongst Jews than the general population in predominantly Protestant communities (Danto and Danto 1983; Goss and Reed 1971; Levav et al. 1988; Williams 1997). Other countries with suicide rates lower than the Israeli rate include most Muslim countries. But, comparisons with Muslim countries and communities are more difficult. In many Muslim countries (e.g. Pakistan, UAE, Lebanon, Syria) suicide attempts are illegal, and punishable by imprisonment or other penalties. This might be the reason for the low suicide rate in these countries (WHO 2017). Also, there is likely to be under-reporting of suicide. In these countries the ratio of male to female suicides (2:1 or less) is generally much lower than in most other countries – including Israel, where the rate of nearly 4:1 male:female is comparable with that in most other countries (Lubin et al 2001; WHO 2017).
In Israel, the suicide rate among Muslims is lower than that among Jews, and this is not an effect of Israeli law, which allows suicide, but is likely to be an effect of a strong cultural-religious veto against committing and indeed acknowledging suicide. This effect may also exist in the Jewish community, but the veto may be less strong than among Muslims. There are some in the Jewish community who favour openness on the issue (Kremer 2015).
-Kate Miriam Loewenthal
Suicide, Jews and Judaism
https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/201712.0020/v1
Now, explain to me why despite self-reports of low neuroticism and, empirically, low suicide rates (especially considering that IQ is a medium-strong predictor of suicide), it is terribly difficult to believe they're playing up their hurt feelings for gibs.
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16 Responses to Re: Jewish neuroticism
boneflour says:
The virgin Kurt Cobain vs. the Chad David Goldstein
Aeoli Pera says:
You're enjoying the drama I see.
bicebicebice says:
"VAULT-CO
IT DOESN'T MATTER WHO IS RIGHT. IT IS ALL ABOUT WHO IS LEFT."
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-51508616
"A mysterious "ghost population" of now-extinct ancient human-like creatures may have interbred with early humans living in West Africa, scientists say.
Researchers suggest DNA from this group makes up between 2% and 19% of modern West Africans' genetic ancestry."
the virgin manbearbonobopig vs the chad sape
The chad meme is just describing fast life history traits, so yes.
Heaviside says:
Whether you call it neuroticism or not I think there is something wrong with Jews.
I like to think of them as God's ex-girlfriend.
By the way, they TOTALLY dumped God, don't need no man. They'll make their own God…with blackjack…and hookers!
WW3 Architect Boneflour says:
Hitler disliked this Aeoli Pera blogpost?
https://captiongenerator.com/1675342/Hitler-Reacts-To-Low-Jewish-Neuroticism
"The stir-fry Soros" xDDD
Obadiah says:
"The Rhino-Snorting Rothschild"
"Kung-Fu Kabbalist Koanic"
That whole video by Boneflour gave me the biggest lol I've had in quite a while
https://www.haaretz.com/.premium-ashkenazi-gene-increases-schizophrenia-1.5294333
^This is all I have the time/energy to contribute to this conflict atm
We don't have to call it neuroticism if you don't want to, but there is indeed definitely something wrong with le based Synagogue of Friendship
I think Heaviside's comment sums it up pretty well.
Obadizzy says:
Lol at us arguing about joosh neuroticism for like 250 poasts
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even talkinga about Condorcet's circular tie solution.
to add a rule to protect against Condorcet Loser criticism.
are counted, and the voter doesn't just have 1 vote, on 1 candidate.
really important, except for show, & for avoiding academic criticism).
from by Condorcet's "votes-against" rule, which would then follow.
because it talks about "...the smallest group of alternatives that...".
on candidate-countng grounds, would also be a good possibility.