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A close up of an adult female, an adult male, nymph and larva ticks. Ticks do cause Lyme disease, which is treatable with antibiotics, but some doctors prescribe mega-doses of antibiotics to patients who they say suffer from "chronic Lyme disease."
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Let?s play doctor. A patient comes to you with joint pain, difficulty concentrating, anxiety, poor attention, and mood swings. You might run a series of tests to rule out a persistent infection or other disorder. If your patient lives in a tick- and Lyme-disease-infested area, you would be wise to test for the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi and, if detected, prescribe a course of antibiotics. But suppose the tests come back negative and there is little evidence that your patient was bitten by a tick or was infected with the Lyme disease bacterium. If you are a good doctor, and you are, you might explore a diagnosis of depression, a disease that afflicts almost 10 percent of the population at any given time.
If you are a doctor who believes that the CDC and NIH have misrepresented carefully vetted clinical trial data about the diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease, however, you might diagnose your patient with chronic Lyme disease and prescribe an intensive, long-term, side-effect-laden, mega-dose of antibiotics.
And who would be the biggest supporter of your and your patient?s right to pursue a worth-testing-but-found-wanting treatment? Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan.
A Weekly Standard tipper sent in a campaign mailer from northern Virginia titled: ?Romney-Ryan: Doing More To Fight the Spread of Lyme Disease.? It?s a little more tightly focused than most campaign mailers, maybe, but I admire them for thinking about the local angle: The D.C. suburbs are filthy with ticks, and Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses are a huge public health problem.
But the details are delicious. The mailer promises that Romney and Ryan will:
IMPROVE SYNERGY Ensure that government agencies have an open line of communication and work with patients, researchers, doctors, and businesses in an objective, comprehensive manner.
SUPPORT TREATMENT Encourage increased options for the treatment of Lyme Disease and provide local physicians with protection from lawsuits to ensure they can treat the disease with the aggressive antibiotics that are required.
Here?s a translation: Forget the science, just channel your legitimate fear of a dangerous disease and your misguided fear of the medical establishment into a vote for us.
As a Slate story pointed out years ago, chronic Lyme disease?not the persistent effects of a long-term bacterial infection but a collection of mysterious symptoms?has powerful supporters. Advocates for the diagnosis tend to blame the medical establishment for not taking them seriously enough. In 2008, the attorney general of Connecticut investigated the Infectious Diseases Society of America, a 50-year-old organization with more than 9,000 physician and scientist members, for misrepresenting the science of Lyme disease.? Not to be outdone, Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell assembled a governor?s task force on Lyme disease. He appointed Michael Farris as its chair. Farris is a lawyer and the chancellor of Patrick Henry College, aka God?s Harvard, whose motto is ?For Christ and for Liberty? and whose ?Statement of Faith? holds that the ?Bible in its entirety? is ?inerrant.?. The school isn?t known for its biology department.
The task force?s report (PDF) makes some reasonable suggestions. People should be warned about the dangers of ticks. They should shower and do a tick-check after walking in tick habitat. We should shoot more deer. But the task force seems to have bought into the conspiracy theory that the infectious disease establishment is maliciously interfering with proper treatment. It states: ?There is no scientific basis for concluding that 30 days or less of antibiotics is sufficient treatment for every case of Lyme disease.? Again, tell it to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Another treatment point is telling: ?We received substantial testimony from lay witnesses that they had been successfully treated with long-term antibiotics.? Pro tip: the plural of anecdote is not data. Just because someone signed up to address a public portion of the task force meeting does not mean their understanding or explanation of their own medical care is accurate or relevant.
I don?t mean to make fun of people who are suffering from what they think is chronic Lyme disease. Their symptoms are real, and they deserve help. But giving them a phantom diagnosis and making them part of a crusade to bring truth to medicine just perpetuates the idea that the symptoms they describe must be part of a complex, classic disease. It?s much more likely to be depression, and depression is treatable. As the CDC gently points out, mentioning other diagnoses that have been favorite catch-alls, ?Your doctor may want to treat you in ways similar to patients who have fibromyalgia or chronic fatigue syndrome. This does not mean that your doctor is dismissing your pain or saying that you have these conditions. It simply means that the doctor is trying to help you cope with your symptoms using the best tools available.?
Disregarding my own advice about not taking an anecdote as data, I have my own story about chronic Lyme disease. A friend of one of my brothers had been suffering for years from headaches, fatigue, a sense of despair, a belief that she wasn?t worthy of her job or her boyfriend. She was diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease and was treated with antibiotics, which were ineffective. What she wasn?t treated for, and could have been, was severe depression. She killed herself.
Listen up, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, and Bob McDonnell: Medical research and treatment save lives. Please do not perpetuate a mistrust of them in vulnerable, confused people.
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This space Buddha, also known as 'iron man' to the researchers, is of unknown age, though the best estimates date the statue to sometime between the eighth and 10th centuries.
By Stephanie Pappas,?LiveScience Senior Writer / September 27, 2012
A Buddha statue dating back to the 8th to 10th centuries is carved from a rare iron meteorite.
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It sounds like a mash-up of Indiana Jones' plots, but German researchers say a heavy Buddha statue brought to Europe by the Nazis was carved from a meteorite that likely fell 10,000 years ago along the Siberia-Mongolia border.
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This space Buddha, also known as "iron man" to the researchers, is of unknown age, though the best estimates date the statue to sometime between the eighth and 10th centuries. The carving depicts a man, probably a?Buddhist god, perched with his legs tucked in, holding something in his left hand. On his chest is a Buddhist swastika, a symbol of luck that was later co-opted by the?Nazi party?of Germany.
"One can speculate whether the swastika symbol on the statue was a potential motivation to displace the 'iron man' meteorite artifact to Germany," the researchers wrote online Sept. 14 in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science.
Iron man adventure
The iron man first came to Germany after a 1938-1939 Tibet expedition by zoologist and ethnology Ernst Sch?fer, who was sent to the region by the Nazi party to find the roots of Aryan origin. The statue then passed into the hands of a private owner. [Fallen Stars: A Gallery of Famous Meteorites]
Stuttgart University researcher Elmar Bucher and his colleagues first analyzed the statue in 2007, when the owner allowed them to take five miniscule samples of it. In 2009, the team had the opportunity to take larger samples from the inside of the statue, which is less prone to contamination by weathering or human handling than the outside where the initial samples were taken.
They found that the statue is carved from a rare class of space rocks known as ataxite meteorites. These mostly iron meteorites have a high level of nickel. The largest-ever known meteorite, the Hoba meteorite of Namibia, is an ataxite meteorite that may weigh more than 60 tons.
It came from outer space
A chemical analysis of the iron man samples revealed they are a close match for a famous scattering of space rocks from the Siberia and Mongolian border. The Chinga meteorite field holds at least 250?meteorite fragments, most relatively small, though two topping 22 pounds (10 kg) have been found there. Scientists estimate the Chinga meteorite fell 10,000 to 20,000 years ago. The field's first discovery was recorded in 1913, but the statue's existence suggests people were mining the field for artistic materials long before that, Buchner said.
The identity of the carved man is unclear, but the researchers suspect he may be the?Buddhist god?Vaisravana, also known as Jambhala. Vaisravana is the god of wealth or war, and he is often portrayed holding a lemon (a symbol of wealth) or moneybag in his hand. The iron man holds an unidentified object in his hand. The statue is about 9.5 inches (24 cm) tall and weighs about 23 pounds (10.6 kg).
Many cultures used meteorite iron to make daggers and even jewelry, Buchner and his colleagues wrote, and meteorite worship is common among many ancient cultures. But the Buddha carving is unique.
"The Iron Man statue is the only known illustration of a human figure to be carved into a meteorite, which means we have nothing to compare it to when?assessing value," Buchner said in a statement. "Its origins alone may value it at $20,000; however, if our estimation of its age is correct and it is nearly a thousand years old it could be invaluable."
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My career as an Instructional Designer (ID) has been heavily influenced by the field of Curriculum Design and Development. What is curriculum design and how is it different from instructional design? Curriculum design is essentially the practice of designing lessons for students. The term is most commonly used when describing K-12 education. Teachers may cover up to seven different lessons in a day with students. Each of those lessons is an instructional activity to be designed.
While many design concepts are present in both instructional design and curriculum development, they are typically labeled with different vocabulary. For example, the controversial concept of learning styles debated in instructional design might be discussed among the teaching community as multiple intelligences or differentiation of instruction. While many curriculum development concepts have influenced my own ID, there are four primary practices that have inspired me the most: protocols, illustrations, professional learning communities, and artifacts.
Protocols
I was introduced to protocols in my job at the All Kinds of Minds Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to giving teachers strategies to reach all of the students in their classroom. There, the National School Reform Faculty Protocols served as inspiration for both staff activities and instructor led training. The constructivist-inspired protocols they publish provide instructions for how to facilitate transformative small group activities. ?A protocol consists of agreed upon guidelines for a conversation,? states NSRF (www.nsrfharmony.org). NSRF has published dozens of protocols that deepen thinking, solve problems, push an issue or examine student work. The protocols are tested, and they work.
When I design instructor-led training, I often reference a book called ?The Power of Protocols: An Educator?s Guide to Better Practice?. It contains two dozen protocols. Each protocol includes the purpose, details, steps, facilitation tips and variations. Particular favorite protocols of mine include the ?Rich Text? Protocol, and ?Marvin?s Model?. Protocols are an incredible tool for facilitating social learning conversations.
Illustrations
Dan Roam?s book, ?The Back of the Napkin? tells us that 75% of the sensory part of the brain is dedicated to the sense of sight while the other 25% is shared among smell, touch, taste and hearing. Biologically, we are all visual learners. K-12 teachers ask students to draw on a regular basis to develop critical thinking skills. A group that we?re currently working with?Thinking Maps, Inc., based in Cary, NC, has been training teachers for many years on how to use eight core learning maps with students. In this model, students draw the various maps, like circle maps, tree maps and flow maps, to help them brainstorm, define, sort, describe, compare and contrast, classify and more. Research on academic achievement shows that illustrating vocabulary terms contributes greatly to comprehension and retention.
When was the last time you asked your employees or customers to draw? Think of some opportunities to incorporate this powerful instructional strategy into your upcoming learning initiatives.
Professional Learning Communities (PLCs)
Professional learning communities are small groups of teachers and administrators who assemble on a regular basis to examine student work and push their own practice. PLCs have also been referred to as ?communities of continuous inquiry and improvement?1. PLCs are ongoing, reflective, collaborative, supportive, and focused on outcomes. Many schools post PLC norms and meeting templates on the Web. Consider implementing professional learning communities to support the transfer of skills into practice following a formal training program.
Artifacts
Corporate America is largely a testing culture. We like to know what each learner scored on an assessment at the end of a course or module. In addition, organizations might have a formal supervisor or mentor observation plan or other operational performance metrics. In the field of education, teachers are asked to produce artifacts from the classroom to show how they are implementing the Common Core Curriculum standards. These could include lesson plans and student work samples. What kind of workplace artifacts could your employees or customers share ? perhaps in a safe small group environment (PLC) ? to demonstrate performance?
There are many fields that can inspire and enhance learning design including gaming, entertainment, and K-12 Curriculum Development. The field of Curriculum Development has many tried and true methodologies including protocols, illustrations, PLCs and artifacts. I look forward to a continued sharing of design best practices.
The Avengers are back in the spotlight this week with its home video release on Tuesday, aiming to break records just as it did in theaters worldwide. Proving that comic book movies are not only still the golden ticket in Hollywood, Marvel Studios demonstrated that just like in the comics, separate stories and characters can be brought together in a shared, interconnected cinematic universe.
The Avengers was both risky and ambitious, but it paid off and now Joss Whedon is overseeing the entire Phase Two of the Marvel cinematic universe to keep the growing universe organized and within the same continuity. Twentieth Century Fox plans to do the same with the?X-Men and?Fantastic Four franchises and they?ve hired Mark Millar to be their very own Joss Whedon-esque mastermind.
When doing the press rounds for his YouTube series?H+, Bryan Singer couldn?t avoid questions about his next X-Men project, a followup to last year?s?X-Men: First Class directed by Matthew Vaughn. He wasn?t shy about confirming that the film will be based on?X-Men: Days of Future Past, a time travel story from Marvel Comics, and he explained that it will attempt to bridge together all of the films so far, to make sense of the continuity and do something larger and grander with the universe just like Marvel Studios has done with the characters they own film licenses to.
?I think there?s a strong desire to broaden out the universe. I mean, the X-Men universe is every bit on its own as big as the Marvel universe and I think it?s time to reach out and explore it and perhaps even bring some connectivity between the films,as Marvel?s done so well. You may see some of that, I don?t know (laughs).?
We absolutely will see some of this and the man behind The Ultimates and Marvel?s successful Civil War crossover event will help guide the future X-Men movies along with Josh Trank?s?Fantastic Four reboot. As the official press release reads, Mark Millar has been hired as ?creative consultant on the studio?s upcoming projects based on Marvel Comics properties.? The Marvel Comics properties of course, do not include Daredevil which the studio is dropping after passing on Joe Carnahan?s reboot pitch due to time restrictions.
Millar?s official statement on the new gig (full press release here on page 2):
?As someone who has spent his entire life obsessed with both comic-books and movies, this is essentially my dream gig as it?s a unique combination of both. I spent ten years working at Marvel and am really happy with the work I did on the comic side of things so the idea of working with these characters now in a brand new medium is enormously exciting for me. I really like the Fox team, love this bold new direction they have for their franchises and am proud to be working alongside some of modern cinema?s biggest talents. James Mangold is incredible, Matthew Vaughn?s one of my closest pals and Josh Trank gave us, in my opinion, one of the greatest superhero movies of the last decade with Chronicle. The invitation to join this crew was maybe the coolest phone-call I?ve ever had.?
Millar not only has experience crafting major story arcs and superhero team-ups in the books but it was his?Kick-Ass books that brought him close to Matthew Vaughn, who of course, is now intimately involved with the?X-Men franchise. With Singer, Vaughn, Millar, Mangold and Trank all potentially working together, Fox has assembled a creative team with strong potential.
Coincidentally, Joe Carnahan is working on adapting Mark Millar?s Nemesis?(also a Fox movie) and it all comes full circle.?What?s really odd about this, is that writer Zak Penn (who wrote the first draft of?The Avengers) also wanted to include cameos from the Fantastic Four back when he was writing the X-Men films but Fox wouldn?t let that happen at the time. Now, that?s exactly what they?re doing. Poor guy had his entire script rewritten by Joss Whedon too. Give this guy some credit!
There?s no release date set for?Fantastic Four but it?s safe to assume there will now be some crossover between those characters and the?X-Men, at least in reference. There are now officially two Marvel cinematic universes. Your move, Warner Bros./DC Entertainment.
The Wolverine?hits theaters July 26, 2013.?X-Men: Days of Future Past?hits theaters on July 18th, 2014.
This is a fascinating topic for any student of the human condition.
Most people are conditioned to experience boredom as a deeply unpleasant experience. I recall a program that Bill Moyers did a few years ago on the mind/body duality, in which he joined in a sitting meditation. It might have been zazen or something like it. He couldn't stand it. He found that he just couldn't remain in stillness, not even for a few minutes. Instead he became agitated and had to stand up and leave the room. The way he described it made me think it was a kind of panic attack. Of course he was deeply curious about this powerful reaction to nothing at all. I'm sure he's been thinking about it ever since. And so he should.
If you reflexively avoid boredom, you are not able to access the enormous richness of experience in just being. In my view, that's a terrible loss. Read any of Arthur Ransome's "Swallows and Amazons" books for children and you will get a taste of that experience of just being, as it was even a generation or two ago: people not always rushing about, multitasking and never really experiencing their real environment, but instead sitting and watching all the minute and lovely activities of the world. It's a child's way of looking at the world, and Ransome perfectly captures the wealth and innocence of it.
Or consider Hermann Hesse's "Siddhartha", in which the main character, when asked what makes it possible for him to succeed where others have so often failed, answers, "I can think. I can fast. I can wait."
The thing is, boredom is not real. It's an illusion, a passing symptom of addicive withdrawl, Beyond it lies a world of real experience, exquisite in its quiet subtlety. "Pay attention" says the Zen master, who is roundly ignored because the advice he gives isn't mysterious enough, doesn't require any shiny technology.
2)????? Has your portfolio averaged gains of 720% since 2001?
3)????? The answer is that investing is ALWAYS ABOUT VALUE!
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1)????? Yet, VALUE is different things in different parts of the long-term cycle.
2)????? This is because VALUE IS ?SEEN? IN DIFFERENT ASSET CLASSES? at different points in the cycle depending on how money printing and interest rates affect different parts of the economy.
3)????? We are currently in the portion of the long-term cycle where money is being aggressively printed to devalue the Dollar.? Here, GOLD AND SILVER ARE THE KINGS OF VALUE because long-term they have a relatively constant value so their price rises aggressively as the Dollar is devalued.
4)????? The dollar has already been devalued over 60% so it is like every Dollar Bill in your pocket been more than cut in half.? Every Dollar in your savings account has been more than cut in half in terms of what you can buy with it.? Other investments that you own that do not have ?intrinsic value? like Gold and Silver have been severely cut in value as the Dollar has been devalued, even if their price has not fallen.? That includes your general stocks, your Bonds, the value of your life insurance policy, and any fixed income that you have.? They are all devalued along with the Dollar they are denominated in.
I have partially addressed how price and value diverge during aggressive Dollar Printing in 2 articles I have already written on Munknee.com, linked below.
The bottom line is that Gold and Silver have been seen as having high levels of intrinsic value by man for thousands of years.? Commodities also have a high, but lessor intrinsic level of value, as ?needs for man.?? There is a gradient of value at any point in the economic cycle.? Eventually, once the economy recovers, the general stocks like the Dow Stocks will rise aggressively in value and price as earnings and dividends rebound as they did from 1930 to the 1970?s; and as they did from the 1970?s to the year 2000.? In both cases the Dow Stocks rose by 10 times their price, or more.? Once this part of the economic cycle is over, we would expect the Dow Stocks to rise 10x, again, or more if enough Dollars are printed.? (I will return then as DJIA-Runner)? That might mean that the DJIA will rise to around 140,000 over the next approximate 15 years in lower valued Dollars.? Yet, for the next few years Gold and Silver will continue to be King while Dollar printing is ramped up even more aggressively to devalue the massive debts and to balance the US Budget based on how much Gold the US holds, and how much higher Gold will go in lower valued Dollars.
Periodically through history the prices of Gold and the DJIA meet in about a 1:1 ratio.? With aggressive Dollar printing the price of the Dow will likely go lower over the next couple of years, but will remain fairly high in cheaper Dollars.? My work suggests that Gold and the DJIA will likely meet on a 1:1 ratio in a range of 10,000 to 12,000.? If so, that would mean approximately another 600% rise in Gold while the DJIA stays flat, or falls about 10%.? Anybody who thinks the Dow is ?going to crash? while Dollars are aggressively printed does not understand simple math.? In fact, the Dow has already crashed by 80+ percent, but it was a ?Silent Crash? in terms of VALUE- not PRICE.
At the recent low area for Gold, the Central Banks of the World were huge buyers.? These are the same guys who are aggressively printing paper money, and they know the printing will force the price of Gold much higher.? In fact, they are depending on exactly that to devalue the huge government debts and to force Gold higher to balance the government budgets.? They were buying Gold as ?insiders?, knowing they will be forcing the price of Gold higher, eh?
VALUE- At this point in the cycle Gold creams practically everything in terms of value so it rises aggressively in price as investors ?chase it.?? The same is true for Silver.? The Gold and Silver Stocks are just now entering the point where they gain huge leverage to the price of Gold and of Silver which will increase their earnings, BUT it will be the huge increases in Gold and Silver RESERVE VALUATIONS in the ground as Gold and Silver go parabolic that will really jettison the Gold and Silver Stocks, higher.? That is exactly how it was from this point forward in the late 70?s.? Has anything changed in terms of Dollar Printing?? I don?t think so!
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A much more extensive writing on Gold and Gold charts, where Gold might be going, and when; is linked, below, to Jim Sinclair?s site.? You will have to scroll about half way down the page, but the article is there in its entirety.
As we go further in this series on ?Big Picture Gold?, we will eventually merge our thoughts with those currently being added in my series on ?Price Versus Value? in the series on ?Dow Stock Crash.?? I?ll post the links to Part I and Part II, below, so that you can start to become familiar with the concepts of ?price versus value.?
And finally, if you need a break from all of the negativity, you might want to take time out to read the following story to a younger loved one in the family.
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SEATTLE (AP) ? All night, Steve Sarkisian felt if he could just get the ball past the first, stout wave of Stanford's defense, the opportunity was there for Washington to make big plays.
It happened only twice and thanks to a stunning defensive effort by the Huskies, it was enough Washington to pull out the upset of the eighth-ranked Cardinal.
"The way we executed in the most critical moments, that's what I'm most proud of those guys for," Sarkisian said.
Kasen Williams took a quick screen pass from Keith Price, broke a tackle and the line of scrimmage and raced 35 yards for the go-ahead score with 4:53 left, and Washington rallied from 10 points down to stun No. 8 Stanford 17-13 on Thursday night.
Trailing 13-3 late in the third quarter, the Huskies (3-1, 1-0 Pac-12) got a 61-yard touchdown sprint from running back Bishop Sankey on fourth-and-1 for their first offensive touchdown against an FBS opponent since the first quarter of the opener against San Diego State.
Then Washington put together a nine-play drive that included another fourth-down conversion and was capped by Williams' catch-and-run that gave the Huskies their first lead.
It was Washington's first win over a top 10 ranked opponent since its upset of then-No. 3 USC back in 2009, Steve Sarkisian's first season at Washington. And it was thanks to an inspired defensive effort that was the opposite of a year ago when Stanford (3-1, 1-1) bulldozed the Huskies to the tune of 446 yards rushing and 65 points.
If nothing else, new defensive coordinator Justin Wilcox earned his lofty salary with a unique scheme that stymied Stanford's power attack.
"Against Stanford we know what they were going to do, we knew they were going to try and power the ball down on our throat like they did the last four years and it's worked," Washington safety Justin Glenn said. "But coach Wilcox just told us focus on each play. If something happens, erase it and focus on the next play. We kept battling down after down."
Washington's student section poured on to the turf of CenturyLink Field after Price took a knee for the final time. It was a crucial win for the Huskies in the first game of a schedule that only gets tougher next week at No. 2 Oregon before returning home to host No. 13 USC.
Price finished 19 of 37 for 177 yards and the touchdown toss to Williams. Sankey had 144 yards on 20 carries after Stanford's defense had allowed just 124 yards rushing combined in the first three games of the season.
But for all the offensive fireworks the Huskies playmakers showed at key times, this victory rested with the Washington defense.
Given extra time to prepare for the Cardinal with a bye last weekend, Wilcox used every minute of it to devise a defensive scheme to slow Stanford's rushing attack.
Most notably, Wilcox regularly had eight or nine defenders near the line of scrimmage, daring Stanford quarterback Josh Nunes to beat them through the air. Stanford went more than 21 minutes of the first half without gaining a first down and Nunes couldn't lead a winning drive in the closing seconds.
Stanford finished with just 235 yards of total offense, the fewest yards allowed by Washington since the 2010 Holiday Bowl against Nebraska. The Cardinal were held without an offensive touchdown for the first time since Oct. 27, 2007 at Oregon State, a 23-6 Stanford loss.
Stanford finished 5 of 18 on third downs and had only one drive of longer than 50 yards. Nunes, the replacement for Andrew Luck, finished 18 of 37 for 170 yards. But the most important factor was Washington's ability to control Stanford running back Stepfan Taylor.
Last year, Taylor ran for 138 yards against Washington and had 153 yards rushing in the upset of then-No. 2 USC on Sept. 15. He finished with 75 yards on 21 carries, none of them longer than 7 yards.
"We didn't play well enough to win," Stanford coach David Shaw said. "We didn't make the throws we needed to make. We didn't make the catches we needed to make. We didn't sustain our blocks in the running game as long as we should have. We got outplayed tonight."
Washington started its winning drive at the 35 with 8:57 left and converted on fourth-and-1 at their own 44 with Dezden Petty bulling for 2 yards. They eventually got down the Stanford 35 with 5 minutes remaining. That's when Sarkisian called for the quick screen to his star receiver. Williams broke the tackle of Terrence Brown at the line of scrimmage then sprinted down the sideline ahead of safety Ed Reynolds, who caught up enough to knock the ball loose but only after Williams had crossed the goal line.
"I put my head down, I think that's one of my strengths is putting my head down and fighting through tackles and that's what happened on that play," Williams said.
Stanford, whose only touchdown came on Trent Murphy's 40-yard interception return in the third quarter, tried to put together one last drive. Ty Montgomery dropped a potential touchdown at the Washington 5,and Stanford eventually faced fourth-and-4 at the Huskies 34 with 2 minutes left. With the defense spread out, Nunes tried to throw a fade route down the sideline to 6-foot-8 tight end Levine Toilolo. But the ball was poorly thrown and Desmond Trufant was in position to intercept the pass at the 8 with 1:46 left. Stanford used its final two timeouts to force third-and-4, but Ben Gardner jumped offside giving the Huskies a first down and the clock ran out.
"I've lost to Stanford every time since I've been here. It's great to be on the other side this time," Trufant said.
O2 and ThreeUK have announced that they'll be carrying Sony's Xperia T, the phone James Bond totes 'round in Skyfall. He's got a tough decision on his hands depending on which network he chooses, however, with O2 offering an exclusive tie-in edition of the handset with custom ringtones and pre-release images. On the other hand, he probably gets through plenty of data reading classified files and flicking through the Tom Ford catalogue, so perhaps he'd prefer Three's unlimited data. Either way, you can follow in the footsteps of your hero right now, with price plans starting from £30 per month.
How many women do you know, including yourself that starts a diet with good intentions and a week or so into it things fall apart? For many of the women of the world, it is a battle to lose weight. Weight loss for women can very often be a fighting battle. We make countless commitments in our lives; an important one should be a commitment to living a healthy lifestyle. The fact of the matter is that it is much easier to gain the pounds than it is to lose them. Most women, to a lesser or greater extent, and at some point or another, take our ?health for granted.? For many of us, it is only when we get the ?wake-up call? all of sudden serious ill-health, that we actively plan and nurture good woman health and fitness. But do you really need to wait until you get to that stage before you act? A vital step to good health is making the right choices. Most women are well aware that weight gain will be much more likely if a woman does not take the proper steps to stop it. Weight loss for women is more efficient when a woman can rely on a healthy weight loss plan that will be able to provide long term results. Eating healthy, exercising daily, going for walks or run are all great choices for healthy weight loss. It is also best for all women who feel they suffer from a weight problem to know that they must set realistic goals for themselves to reach. It is usually not realistic that a woman will lose many pounds in a short span of time.
Health for women is like what a piece of real chocolate is to our taste buds. Yet many women take their health for granted by not giving it the attention it deserves. Weight loss for women can be broken down to discipline and consistency. These two factors can help any woman accomplish her weight loss goals. With a proper diet, exercise and the right amount of supplementation applied to a woman?s everyday agenda, weight loss can be achieved. This scheduling will allow a woman the results of faster weight loss. However, if this lifestyle is not maintained, a woman can easily fall victim to their old habits and regain all the weight they have worked so hard to lose. Dropping an everyday program and regressing to old habits can also lead to a woman?s weight problem becoming worse than before starting the weight loss program.
When it comes to health and women, there is a tendency to prioritize the other priorities, which, if given less attention, would most probably take care of themselves. Well, not any more. A healthy woman?s care regime involves making choices. These choices include you actively promoting your health. Weight loss for women can also be attained by steering away from all deep fried foods. Deep fried foods contain an extraordinary amount of fat, so are not recommended in a healthy weight loss plan. Also, do not let chicken and fish fool you when they are deep-fried. Chicken and fish can be more fattening than beef when deep-fried. If a person is on a strict diet, they are advised to grill out all of their meats, as grilled food contains less fat than before the food was cooked. Weight loss for women can also be found in the absorption of water. A woman will want to drink no less than six glasses of water a day. Faster weight loss depends on how well a person?s body can eliminate the body?s waste. A person that is better hydrated is processing their wastes more efficiently so makes reaching weight loss goals easier.
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How many women do you know, including yourself that starts a diet with good intentions and a week or so into it things fall apart? For many of the women of the world, it is a battle to lose weight. Weight loss for women can very often be a fighting battle. We make countless commitments in our lives; an important one should be a commitment to living a healthy lifestyle.
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BEIJING/TOKYO (Reuters) - China claimed islands at the core of a row with Japan as its "sacred territory" in talks between the two countries' foreign ministers, Chinese state media said on Wednesday, as neither side showed any sign of backing down in a long-festering feud.
Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba urged China to exercise restraint over the dispute during what he called a tense hour-long meeting on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York, Japan's Kyodo news agency reported.
The spat has triggered violent anti-Japanese protests in China and hurt trade ties between Asia's two biggest economies.
China's Xinhua news agency said Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi reiterated Beijing's "solemn position on the issue of Diaoyu Islands, which have been China's sacred territory since ancient times".
Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura told a news conference in Tokyo the two sides had agreed to keep talking.
"There is no magic bullet in foreign diplomacy. We need to hold talks through various channels taking into account of broad perspective," Fujimura told a news conference in Tokyo.
Sino-Japanese relations deteriorated sharply this month after Japan bought the isolated East China Sea islands, called Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, from their private owner, sparking protests across China.
In a sign of the economic fallout, Japanese automakers Toyota Motor Corp, Nissan Motor Co Ltd and Suzuki are curtailing production in China in the wake of the protests that shuttered dealerships and darkened their sales prospects in the world's top car market.
China's meetings with Japanese diplomats -- both at the United Nations and a day earlier in Beijing -- suggest Beijing does not want the row over the island chain, believed to be in waters rich in natural gas deposits, to lead to a rupture in relations. This is, after all, the Year of Japan-China Friendship.
But the unyielding tone of China's published remarks suggests that the dispute is far from over. Beijing has repeatedly called the islands its "sacred territory since ancient times".
"The Japanese move is a gross violation of China's territorial integrity and sovereignty, an outright denial of the outcomes of victory of the world anti-fascist war and a grave challenge to the post-war international order," said Yang, according to the Xinhua summary of his comments.
RETREAT DIFFICULT
Sino-Japanese ties have long been plagued by China's bitter memories of Tokyo's military aggression in the 1930s and 1940s as well as present rivalry over regional resources and clout.
The row coincides with a once-in-a-decade leadership change in China, while Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's ruling party faces a drubbing in an election expected in months, domestic dynamics that make it hard for either side to retreat.
Noda is under fire from the main opposition party, which picked former prime minister and security hawk Shinzo Abe as its new leader, and possible next premier, on Wednesday.
Abe has been most vocal of the candidates in urging Tokyo take a tougher line in its territorial disputes with China and South Korea but on Wednesday he struck a balanced tone.
"We must show our will to firmly protect our territorial waters and Senkaku amid China's movements," he told a news conference after being elected party chief.
But he added: "Even if our national interests clash, we should acknowledge that we need each other and control the situation while thinking things strategically. My stance on this has not changed."
Japan, which says the islands' purchase was meant to fend off a more provocative bid by the nationalist governor of Tokyo, Shintaro Ishihara, to have his metropolitan government buy them, is trying to keep communication channels open.
China postponed a ceremony marking the 40th anniversary of the resumption of diplomatic ties with Japan, but an official at the Japan-China Economic Association said Toyota Motor chairman Fujio Cho and Hiromasa Yonekura, chairman of Japanese business lobby Keidanren, and other representatives of Japan-China friendship groups would attend an event on Thursday in Beijing.
Patrol vessels from the two countries have also been playing a tense game of cat-and-mouse in the waters near the disputed islands, raising concerns that an unintended collision or other incident could escalate into a broader clash.
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) ? An opposition radio station in Hungary won a court ruling Wednesday in its bid for a broadcast license, but that was still no guarantee it could survive government efforts to control the media.
The Budapest Court of Appeals rejected a decision by the country's Media Council invalidating Klubradio's bid for a broadcast license, the latest in a long line of legal victories for the news-and-talk radio station.
Yet despite the rulings, the Media Council ? whose members were elected by parties led by Prime Minister Viktor Orban ? has repeatedly sought new ways to keep the station from gaining a long-term contract.
"The media authorities ... are capable of (doing) anything to ensure that Klubradio does not get a broadcast frequency or that if it does, it's under the worst possible conditions," said Gabor Polyak, a university professor and director of Mertek Media Monitor, an independent media watchdog.
The decision was repealed grounds of "serious procedural errors affecting the merits of the case."
Klubradio is the only major opposition radio station in Hungary and the Media Council's persistent efforts to shut it down have led to speculation about the council's motives.
"From a legal perspective, it's impossible to achieve Klubradio's disappearance, so there can only be political motivations behind it," said Klubradio managing director Andras Arato.
Because of the long legal process, Klubradio has been operating on temporary permits for nearly two years, crippling the station's advertising revenues. It's tenth consecutive, two-month temporary license expires Oct. 5.
Arato said the station was also being excluded from broadcasting state ads, an important source of income for Hungarian media. Funding for the station hoping to celebrate its 10th anniversary in December has come mostly through donations from listeners.
"Klubradio and its audience of several hundred thousand listeners are being bled and starved to death," he said.
In a brief statement, the Media Council said the court ruling Wednesday meant there were no valid bids for the broadcasting license in question, so the bidding process was void.
Earlier this year, EU Commissioner Neelie Kroes mentioned Klubradio's struggles as an example of the Hungarian government's efforts to limit political debate in the media.
Orban and his right-wing Fidesz party swept into power in 2010 and have used their two-thirds majority in parliament to radically change Hungary's political, economic and social landscape.
The EU and the United States have expressed concerns about issues like press freedom in Hungary and the independence of its judiciary and the national bank.
"Klubradio has an established role among the voices that don't agree with the government," said Polyak, the media expert. "Klubradio's disappearance would clearly diminish the pluralism of opinions and the access to information in Hungary."
Foreclosure rates in Fresno fell in July over the same period last year, according to newly released data from CoreLogic. Fresno area foreclosures in the month stood at 2.53 percent among outstanding mortgage loans compared with 2.90 percent in July 2011, marking 11 consecutive months of declines. That also beat the national foreclosure rate, which fell from 3.46 percent to 3.25 percent over the year but not California's foreclosure rate, which fell from 2.61 percent to 2.17 percent. The mortgage delinquency rate in Fresno also decreased, with 6.49 percent of mortgage loans more than 90 days delinquent in July compared with 8.36 percent last year. The national delinquency rate stood at 6.71 percent in July compared with 7.23 percent last year while California's rate fell 7.81 percent to 5.82 percent. Fresno's foreclosure rate in June was 2.57 percent while it's delinquency rate was 6.49 percent.
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A barnacle-covered seafood storage bin has been identified as the first piece of debris to arrive in Hawaii from the 2011 Japanese tsunami.
The blue cubed bin, about 4 feet (1.2 meters) on each side, was spotted floating off the coast of Waimanalo, Oahu, last week and was towed ashore by marine officials, according to a statement from Hawaii's Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR).
Officials said the plastic container belongs to Japanese seafood company Y.K. Suisan, Co., Ltd., based in the Miyagi prefecture, a region hit hard by the earthquake-triggered tsunami. As the disaster also set off a nuclear crisis with a partial meltdown at Japan's Fukushima power plant, health officials tested the bin for radiation but did not find any abnormal levels.
The bin was housing gooseneck barnacles and crabs that typically live on floating debris in the open ocean. Officials said the organisms are not invasive to Hawaii.
A few dead birds also were found inside the container.
The Japanese government has estimated that the tsunami swept about 5 million tons of wreckage out to sea.
Seventy percent of this debris is believed to have sunk offshore, but no one knows how much of the remaining 1.5 million tons are still floating in the Pacific Ocean.
A handful of these lost parts have already turned up on or near the west coast of North America, from a small boat that washed up on a remote island in British Columbia to a large Japanese fishing ship that officials had to sink off the coast of Alaska.
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Craigslist may have a peace sign as part of its logo, but the war over its data continues. As TechCrunch reported it would yesterday, 3Taps has today filed a countersuit against Craigslist in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, responding point by point to Craigslist?s allegations of copyright infringement and further levelling counter-accusations at Craigslist of uncompetitive and antitrust behavior. We?ve embedded the full suit below.
Craigslist has been suing 3Taps and another company, PadMapper, over the use of Craiglist?s listings data in 3Taps? API, with PadMapper named in the suit for being a user of that API.
So far, it?s only 3Taps named in the counterclaim, but TechCrunch understands that this could potentially change, as there are a number of companies that have been issued with cease and desist letters by Craigslist. One that has talked to TechCrunch noted that if it gets named in Craigslist?s suit, it will consider joining the counterclaim.
This story began life as some startups innovating on the fact that Craigslist data is freely searchable on Google but is notoriously difficult to navigate, and then took a proprietary turn when Craigslist started to crack down on them using its data. Now it has reached a decidedly legal juncture.
While several of the smaller companies that were issued with C&Ds by Craigslist simply shut down operations, 3Taps has taken a different route.
Represented by the high-power law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, 3Taps and its founder/CEO Greg Kidd feel that this is more than just a fight about getting to use Craiglist data, but also about how data in the public domain should be treated legally, what rights third parties should have to this data, and what the separation should be between technological innovation and information. As Kidd noted in his statement on the suit:
?The issue here is who gets to use exchange related data ? product descriptions and prices ? in a vital online marketplace. By allowing search engines to capture this information, Craigslist is making it publicly available in an attempt to drive users to its site, yet refuses to accept the consequences: consumer-driven innovation,? Greg Kidd, the founder and CEO of 3Taps, said in a statement. ?That public data could be leveraged to spur innovation that will render markets more efficient and create better experiences for consumers. But Craigslist would prefer to stymie any potential competition at the expense of its users.
?While we respect what Craigslist has accomplished in attaining dominance over online classified advertising, we object to them using that market power illegally to stifle innovation and hurt consumers. As craigslist spends heavily to bully and intimidate companies that challenge them, consumers are deprived of better ways to find and execute real-time exchange transactions.?
Sherwin Siy, VP of legal affairs at data advocacy group Public Knowledge, believes that Craigslist may have some difficulty proving their position on copyright:
The vast majority of postings on Craigslist aren?t going to be covered by copyright anyway. For something to be copyrighted, it has to have at least a ?modicum of creativity.? My Craigslist posting about how I have a chair for sale for $25 (OBO) is not at all creative. And even if there?s a minority of posts that are creative, the copyright in those posts belongs to the people who wrote them, not Craigslist.
Craigslist might be trying to claim that their terms of service require posters to sign their rights over to Craigslist, but that?s highly unlikely to be held a valid transfer of rights by a court.
Basically, there?s not much of a copyright case there for Craigslist.
From what we understand, Craigslist now has a 20-day period to respond to the countersuit, with a possible month extension to that.
As for damages, Kidd notes that any antitrust case has a loss-of-business, triple-damages result. ?And after those C&D orders, most of our customers left us. But that?s not the purpose of this lawsuit. It?s just to get them to stop suing us and everyone else. We and others want to be able to to use the data without fear of being sued.?
As for others joining 3Taps, Kidd is hesitant: ?They could join the suit, but I?m not sure I want to invite anyone into a swimming pool with an unknown level of expense. And we don?t want more litigation.?
Craigslist is a supremely popular listings site. Craigslist was founded by Craig Newmark in March, 1995, as an email list site for San Francisco and Bay Area events. In June 2000, it added its second city, Boston, and then expanded to the major metropolitan cities in August 2000. As of February 2008, Craiglist now covers 450 in 50 US States and 50 Countries. Craiglist.org ? note the .org domain suffix ? is interesting in that...
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3taps, founded in 2009 by Greg Kidd, is a platform for exchanges of goods, services and information that allows users to search in real time for postings ??? transaction-specific information about items offered for exchange, such as a job offering or a watch for sale. For the developer community, 3taps offers customizable firehoses of normalized, exchange-related data via its APIs and directly from its website, www.3taps.com.
Adopt the Arts and Little Kids Rock?two nonprofit organizations-- announced a partnership last week at Rosewood Elementary School to revitalize and develop music programs in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD).
The Los Angeles School Board approved a budget this past March that would eliminate hundreds of programs including art and music, kid-care, and adult education. LAUSD has since postponed the plan in the hopes that California voters support a statewide ballot measure to raise taxes and spare additional budgets to schools.
?Yes, the District has experienced drastic cuts. We used to be able to send 67 instruments to schools for their music classes, this year we were only able to send 47,? said LAUSD K-12 Arts Coordinator, Steven McCarthy. While the contracts for the 2012-2013 school year have been secured, McCarthy said, ?Elementary School programs could disappear (in the future), but even if that happens, we won?t leave kids without the arts.? The LAUSD plans to integrate the arts within core subjects like English, Math, and Science if budget cuts eliminate art and music teachers.
Rosewood Elementary?s music teacher didn?t agree with LAUSD?s proposed method.
?Good teachers are going to know that kids need a creative outlet so they do it in the classroom, but it is not the same when you have somebody like me who is a professional, who can offer it to the children than a teacher who is busy trying to get all of that academic standards in their life,? said music teacher Abby Loces.
Adopt the Arts President and Executive Director Abby Berman says she founded the organization when she struggled to raise money for Loces. The organization operates on the concept of inviting ?well-known artists, public figures, policy makers, and the general public to save the arts in America's public schools?, as stated on organization?s website. ?
?Every year the arts education budget is on the table, and it?s been whittled away year after year after year. So although the $18 million that they were going to be cut was reinstated, there is still about 50% of elementary school students in LAUSD who are not getting any kind of musical or artistic education outlet during the day at school,? said Berman.
Little Kids Rock Founder, David Wish agreed with Berman.
?Everybody says that children are our future, but a lot of people don?t invest that way,? said Wish. Wish also said that the partnership with Adopt the Arts is a ?perfect match? because while his organization donates musical instruments and provides musical instruction to underprivileged schools across the country, Adopt the Arts brings awareness through celebrities and public figures.
The event at Rosewood brought several celebrities who extended their support for the arts and stressed the importance of arts.
?If children don?t have arts, they don?t want to stay in school. The dropout rate is so large in America in certain areas, not just the low-income areas, that with arts and creativity, they stay in schools for a longer time,? said actor Johnathon Schaech.
??Music gave my life a purpose. If a guitar influences some kid to be as lucky as I have been, then that?s why we are here? said actor John Stamos.
Adopt the Arts and Little Kids Rock plans to serve ?60,000 kids in the next three years," said celebrity and Adopt the Arts Co-President Matt Sorum.
The LAUSD sees Adopt the Arts and Little Kids Rock?s collaboration as ?a true celebration and a great way to help save the arts,? said McCarthy.?
NEW YORK (AP) ? Apple Inc. said Monday that it sold more than 5 million units of the iPhone 5 in the three days since its launch, less than analysts had expected.
Apple shares were down $6.60, or 0.9 percent, at $693.49 in morning trading. The shares are still close to their all-time high of $705.07, hit Friday as the phone went on sale in the U.S., Germany, France, Japan and five other countries.
The sales tally is a record for any phone, but it beats last year's iPhone 4S launch only by a small margin. Apple said then that it sold 4 million phones in the first three days.
Topeka Capital Markets analyst Brian White expected Apple to sell 6 million to 6.5 million iPhone 5s in the first three days. He said the shortfall was largely due to limited supply. White said the phone was sold out at 80 to 85 percent of the U.S. Apple stores he and his team contacted Sunday evening, and the ones that were still available were mostly Sprint models.
Online delivery times have stretched to three to four weeks.
The phone will go on sale in 22 more countries on Friday and in more than 100 countries by the end of the year.
While diet is generally the biggest factor involved in any successful weight loss program, exercise is a crucial element to accelerate your fat loss and put you on the path to long term good health and weight maintenance.
However, I see people all the time sabotaging their success by following conventional wisdom methods. At best, these nonsense exercise programs are boring waste of time. At worst, they can actually slow your progress!
If you were going to design an exercise program to compliment your dieting efforts, what type of exercises would you do? If you?re like most people, the first thing that comes to mind is long, grueling sessions of aerobic exercise. Maybe you picture jogging lap after lap, or putting on your headphones in tuning out on an elliptical machine. Maybe your idea of a weight loss program is signing up for the step aerobics class at your local gym.
If so, then I?m delighted to give you the good news that your days of sweating and huffing and puffing are over.
Now, I don?t mean to say that Cardio workouts are completely useless. As part of a general health program, they can be very helpful. They are a great way to improve your cardiovascular function and can low your cholesterol and blood pressure.
However, if your goal is to lose weight, cardio can actually hurt your progress. The reason is that the goal of exercises for weight loss is to increase your total daily calorie expenditure.
When you do cardio, you are only burning calories while you are doing the exercise. When you do weight Lifting, you keep burning calories for days after your workout. When you do cardio, you can actually make your muscle shrink which means you will gain fat even if you eat don?t increase your calorie intake! When you lift weights, you gain metabolically active tissue (that is to say, muscle) which will mean you can eat more food without gaining fat.
Let me explain the three main reasons that resistance training is definitely the best method for sustainable fat loss:
1. Lifting Weights Burn Calories for Days!
Weight lifting causes something called EPOC, which stands for Excessive Post-exercise Oxygen Consumption. In layman?s terms, this means your muscles keep using up oxygen to burn calories (just like when you do cardio) for days after your stop working out. The effect of this can be very dramatic. Often a single 20min weight lifting workout will burn more calories than hours of cardio.
2. Lifting Weights Builds Muscle!
Muscle burns calories all day, every day. Even when you?re sleeping. This raises your basal metabolic rate, meaning that you can eat more calories while losing weight. That way, you?ll feel better and won?t be hungry all the time, so you?ll stick to your diet longer.
Don?t worry ladies, because you have low testosterone levels, you won?t build bulky muscles. You will still receive the fat loss benefits though.
3. Lifting Weights is Easier, Faster, and More Fun!
The rule of thumb with any lifestyle change is that the more unpleasant it is, the harder it is to stick with. If you?re anything like me, its hard to imagine anything more unpleasant than cardio! With weight lifting, you can be in an out of the gym is less than half an hour, and you only have to do it two or three times a week. What could be easier?
If you don?t know how to set up a weight lifting program, check out the links to my website below where you can find more info on setting up an effective program for weight loss.
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