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One Model Nation review
What do one of The Dandy Warhols, a band on the run in postwar Germany and David Bowie have in common? CJ investigates a strange new graphic novel...
By CJ Wheeler | February 21, 2012 |
It's not often I use the term 'graphic novel'.
The format is used to try to give validation to comics when none has been necessary, and is about as meaningful as 'static movie'. Graphic novel has become a Procrustean bed that's used incorrectly to describe trade collections of comics storylines, miniseries or limited series that may not be written as a whole. One Model Nation, though, is a graphic novel in the best sense of the phrase.
Why does One Model Nation work a graphic novel? A key ingredient is its 20th century, almost real-world setting. The 1970s were a fascinating time for music, despite the best efforts of cheesy phenomena like Stayin' Alive. The grooviest decade birthed some of the world's biggest names and influenced successive generations of musicians. One Model Nation's titular band move through an age of musical legends.
The hit German band become embroiled with the Baader-Meinhof Gang. As a project, One Model Nation approaches film in its execution. It takes the reality of '70s youth and terror and embellishes it. Accompanying the story are a writer's commentary and alternate scenes. A historian – Donovan Leitch – was consulted and there are producer credits.
That postwar, dingy and tumultuous period in European and world politics was balanced by alien, futuristic personas like Ziggy Stardust, Gary Numan and Tubeway Army, John Foxx's Ultravox! and, of course, Kraftwerk. It was music as performance art in a way trending performers like Lady Gaga and LMFAO can't match.
The book's design is well considered from cover to angular red, white and black cover. Inside, colourist Jon Fell sweeps from hazy, graphite grey through deep purple nighttime to a crisp daylight, to fascistically communist blood reds and, finally, back to stark, drab greys. Figures like David Bowie are rendered in strong colour against the members of One Model Nation. The team behind this book aren't just peddling another superhero whammy.
Chances are that if you like music you'll have heard of the memorably monikered Courtney Taylor-Taylor, nee Courtney Allbritton Taylor. One Model Nation's author is frontman of The Dandy Warhols and exactly the sort of dude you'd expect to geek out over old bands and indie comics. If you like comics then you'll probably know of the book's artist Jim Rugg too.
Rugg is the illustrator behind Dark Horse's The Guild and one of the most awesome creator-owned books ever, Slave Labor Graphics Street Angel – about a homeless, ninja skateboarder girl. Pick it up in trade, it's gnarly. Rugg is one of the few artists in modern comics capable of compelling panel-work.
One Model Nation has taken awhile to get over the pond to the UK – Taylor-Taylor and Rugg's book originally popped up from Image in the US in 2009. It's already received high praise from comics, music and film luminaries. Director Gus Van Sant calls the story "awesomely executed", and retro-cool artist and credited producer Mike Allred agrees. Allred is known for atypical superhero work with Peter Milligan on X-Statix and comics, like Red Rocket 7, that have delved into musical history.
Thanks to Titan Books we're finally getting an opportunity to read this American take on a very European period in musical history. In the meantime, Taylor-Taylor has managed to pull together a whole CD based on the concept of his fake Krautrock band. The album is entitled Totalwerks.
A graphic novel like One Model Nation doesn't come along very often: aesthetically engaging, movie-like and complete. As Taylor-Taylor says, "[It] is nowhere near an accurate historical text… It is merely inspired by the outrageous behaviour and style during this amazing time and place." There might not be life on Mars anymore but there's certainly some in Titan.
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DraftKings is to roll out its online sports betting product for customers in West Virginia through a licensing agreement with Penn National Gaming.
The agreement with the land-based gaming operator's Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races venue will allow DraftKings to deploy its mobile and online sports betting platform in the state, pending regulatory approvals.
"We are thrilled to work with Penn National Gaming to bring our online sportsbook product to West Virginia," DraftKings chief revenue officer and co-founder Matt Kalish said.
The online roll-out in West Virginia will mark the second time DraftKings has launched an online offfering, with its Kambi-powered offering currently leading the New Jersey market. It has also launched retail sportsbooks in New Jersey and Mississippi.
It looks set to be among the first online sports books to go live in West Virginia. While the state permits land-based operators to offer online and mobile wagering, none have launched, with operators taking longer than anticipated to develop and test their products.
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Kazushi Maruya, Takao Sato; A contribution of early motion systems on stream-bounce perception. Journal of Vision 2005;5(8):138. doi: 10.1167/5.8.138.
The stream-bounce stimulus induces a bi-stable motion perception (Metzger, 1934). In this phenomenon, two identical moving objects with trajectories crossing each other are perceived either as streaming through (stream) or colliding and bouncing off (bounce). Although this phenomenon is often related to a high-level motion processing, we explored a possibility of earlier contribution by examining the effect of inter-stimulus interval (ISI) which supposedly disrupt energy based detectors (Braddick, 1974).
Method: The stimulus comprised two moving white discs (1 deg diameter) on gray background. Each disc moved on one of two linear motion paths that inclined 30 deg from perpendicular i.e. 60 deg angle between the two trajectories. The motion was 9-frame apparent motion with 2 deg displacements and a fixed SOA of 120 ms. The two trajectories met at the center and the 5th disc shared a position, i.e. only one disc was presented there. ISI was manipulated in 6 steps from 0 to 100 ms and duration covaried accordingly to make SOA 120 ms. Subjects were asked to judge whether motion appearance was "stream" or "bounce" with a 2-AFC method.
Results and Discussion: The response rate that "stream" was perceived at 0 ms ISI was calculated for each subject. As a result, response rates were higher or lower than chance for 6 of 7 subjects. That is, although there was a strong individual difference in preferred percept, each subject had a dominant perception. Next, we calculated the response rate that "dominant perception" was reported (dominant rate) in each ISI condition. Regardless of the initial dominance type, dominant rate decreased as ISI increased and the dominance reversed at the largest ISI (100 ms). These results indicate that motion perception with the stream-bounce stimulus is sensitive to ISI, and thus suggest strong contributions of Fourier-type early motion detectors (Adelson & Bergen, 1985).


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Why Women Are Reluctant to Report Workplace Harassment to HR
Fashionable Women'S Club Issues 2019 Why Women Are Reluctant to Report Workplace Harassment to HR
Podcast 19: Typical Workplace Bullying Scenario (July 2019).
If we've learned anything in the past few months, it's that sexual harassment in the workplace is rampant — and, that the current system to hold the accused responsible is badly broken.
In most large companies, that system is the human resources department. A recent article in the New York Times examines why the HR model so consistently fails women.
The conundrum present in every HR department is obvious: those responsible for fielding complaints also work for the very company against which a woman may be issuing a grievance.
Who is HR really accountable to? The complainant or the company's executives? This troubling double role means the apparent confidentiality that is a tenet of HR often simply does not exist.
What does this mean in practice? Women describe a range of negative consequences of reporting, from general indifference to getting fired.
One of the most devastating consequences is silence. The Times pointed to a study that found of all the options available to those facing harassment in the workplace, taking formal action was the least likely option to be pursued.
In some companies, HR may actually work against accusers to protect serial harassers who are also high performers.
An article in Business Insider points to the case of Susan J. Fowler, the former Uber employee who, in a now high-profile blog post, described just such a system:
"When I reported the [sexual harassment], I was told by both HR and upper management that even though this was clearly sexual harassment and he was propositioning me, it was this man's first offense, and that they wouldn't feel comfortable giving him anything other than a warning and a stern talking-to. Upper management told me that he "was a high performer" (i.e. had stellar performance reviews from his superiors) and they wouldn't feel comfortable punishing him for what was probably just an innocent mistake on his part."
Fowler later spoke with other female employees and discovered it was far from the man's first offense. She continued to complain about sexist behavior and harassment and says HR eventually decided that she was the problem, and not her alleged harasser.
Of course, not every HR department is terrible. But even when staff genuinely want to help, they are often forced by protocol to carefully avoid saying anything that could be construed as an admission of wrongdoing on the part of the accused.
Women have been complaining about the lack of a viable way to hold harassers in the workplace accountable since forever. The avalanche of allegations now coming to light means those in power are finally acknowledging the current model does not make women feel safe. It also means people are talking about solutions, and that's the first step towards dismantling a broken system.
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Tania Bruguera Agreed to Leave Cuba in Exchange for Release of 25 Prisoners
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The Cuban government is using the 14th edition of the Havana Biennial, slated to open in mid-November, to "erase…the suffering of the Cuban people," artist and activist Tania Bruguera said on social media today. Using the hashtag #ImmoralBiennial, Bruguera urged visitors to boycott the 2021 show, the island's largest visual arts event.
Bruguera also disclosed this week that she agreed to leave the country in exchange for the release of 25 prisoners, including Hamlet Lavastida, the Cuban artist who had been held in a maximum-security prison in Havana for the last three months. In an interview with Radio Martí this Tuesday, Bruguera said she accepted an offer to join Harvard University as a senior lecturer in media and performance and used the opportunity to barter with the Cuban regime, which had been pressing her to leave the island.
"I said, 'Look, you want me to leave, well now you have an opportunity,'" Bruguera explained. "But I'll leave on the condition that you release [them], and I handed a list of several people." She named artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, Lavastida, rapper Maykel Osorbo, and Luis Robles, who was arrested in March for holding up a placard on a street corner in Havana. She also requested that members of the 27N Movement, a loose collective fighting censorship on the island, as well as youth detained during this summer's protests, be freed.
"This may be one of the first times in the history of Cuba that an activist negotiates the release of another activist," Bruguera told Radio Martí. "Generally, this is done between governments, but in this case we were the intermediaries."
In the end, the regime agreed to release some of the detainees, such as Lavastida, who was forcibly exiled to Poland with his partner writer Katherine Bisquet. The younger protesters were also freed, Tania's sister Deborah Bruguera confirmed in a message to Hyperallergic.
"[Tania] was escorted to the airport by a dozen agents to ensure she left the country," Deborah Bruguera added.
Last month, the Cuban government decided to reopen the country to vaccinated visitors on November 15 — a move perfectly timed with the start of the Havana Biennial on the 21st, as writer and artist Coco Fusco pointed out in an op-ed for Artnet. But the intervention of artists and activists like Bruguera — whose wide recognition in the international art world offers both support and visibility — may have an impact on the outcome of the show and, more importantly, its ability to distract from the ongoing crisis in Cuba. In 2019, she penned an opinion article for Hyperallergic explaining her decisions to boycott the 13th edition of the show, citing the proposed Decree 349, a law severely curbing artistic liberties.
Amid a deepening economic crisis, food and medicine shortages, and the seemingly incessant persecution of dissidents and artists, skepticism around the art exhibition is growing. Fusco wrote that "it would be hard not to see the next biennial as something of a smokescreen." Many of those who remain behind bars in Havana are peaceful protesters who participated in the largest anti-government demonstrations on the island in decades this summer.
Among them are Otero Alcántara, who has gone on hunger and thirst strikes to denounce artistic repression on the island, as well as Osorbo and photographer Anyelo Troya, who collaborated on the song and video "Patria y Vida" ("Homeland and Life"), an anthem for Cuban liberation.
"The Havana Biennial was previously suspended when there was a hurricane in a distant province, but now, with a pandemic, a public health crisis, and hundreds of political prisoners and artists like Luis Manuel [Otero Alcántara] and Maykel Osorbo still imprisoned, I find it immoral to move forward with an event like the Biennial," Bruguera told El Nuevo Herald. The artist added that foreigners should not visit or participate in the event, and for the Cubans who live on the island, she leaves the decision "up to their conscience."
"Tania speaks on something that I keep seeing in the history of Cuba: fear," Christian Casas, a Cuban-American artist based in Columbus, Ohio, told Hyperallergic. "The regime is fearful of artists and activists because they know they have the power to fully revolt."
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The SCMA's 30th Annual Conference will take place on November 2-3, 2018 at the the L.A. Grand Hotel Downtown in Los Angeles. This year's conference theme is "Striving for Excellence: The Emergence of the Modern Mediator," and the event will honor Avis Ridley-Thomas, who will receive the Cloke-Millen Award, and Professor Lisa Klerman, who will receive the Randolph Lowry Award. A broad diversity of workshops and programming that provide the latest and most cutting-edge thinking on how professional mediators can grow and develop their practice will be offered. More information may be found here.
The SCMA Mentorship Program is designed for new mediators who have some experience and training and who are serious about starting their mediation practice. You will be mentored by top tier practitioners on the steps and goals of starting your own mediation practice. Each class is designed to move you closer to the launch of your practice, so it is expected that you make the effort commensurate with the tasks necessary for launching your paid mediation practice. To learn more, please click here.


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Q: Which types of strain tensor are positive definite? I am taking a look at different types of strain tensor. Specifically, I am thinking about if the infinitesimal strain tensor
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\epsilon_{ij} = \frac{1}{2} (\frac{\partial u_i}{\partial x_j} + \frac{\partial u_j}{\partial x_i})
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is positive-definite. I have Google searched some resources, and one of them says it is positive-definite. However, I think that it is not always positive-definite, as in the one-dimensional trivial case, if $\partial u/\partial x$ is negative, then it will not be positive-definite. Other sources say that other strain tensors, like the Lagrangian strain tensor, are positive-definite. I am not sure which types of strain tensor are positive-definite and also the implications if so. (I am thinking about the strain surface being an ellipsoid or not.) Any ideas will be greatly appreciated!

A: I think the material you found is just wrong. A trivial counter example is zero displacement = zero strain, which is not positive definite.
Nor do I see where such a property would be particularly useful when calculating anything.
It's a different story when talking about the other tensors we deal with (such as the elasticity tensor), where it definitely is a important property.
Looking at reputable resources (wikipedia, https://www.continuummechanics.org/) i see no mention of such claims when they present different strain measures.

A: The strain tensor does not have to be positive definite, as mentioned before.
On the other hand, you are asking what type of strain tensor are positive definite. A positive tensor would have positive principal strains. That implies a tensor where you have elongation in 3 different directions.

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Un amplituedro (amplituhedron en inglés) es un objeto geométrico descubierto en 2013 que simplifica drásticamente los cálculos de interacciones de partículas en algunas teorías de campos cuánticos. En la teoría supersimétrica N=4 de Yang-Mills, un amplituedro es definido dentro de un espacio matemático conocido como grasmaniano positivo.

La teoría del amplituedro desafía la noción de que la localidad y la unitariedad del espacio-tiempo son componentes necesarios de un modelo de interacciones de partículas. En vez de eso, ellas son propiedades que emergen a partir de un fenómeno subyacente.

La investigación en esta área ha sido encabezada por Nima Arkani-Hamed. El físico Edward Witten describió el trabajo como "muy inesperado" y dijo que "es difícil adivinar qué sucederá o cuáles serán las lecciones".

Descripción

En este acercamiento, los procesos de dispersión on-shell son descritos por un grasmaniano positivo, una estructura en geometría algebraica que generaliza la idea de un símplex en un espacio proyectivo. El simplex es un politopo, un tipo de poliedro de dimensión más alta, y los valores calculados son amplitudes de dispersión y de esta manera, el objeto es llamado un amplituedro.

Usando la teoría de twistores, las relaciones de recursión BCFW implicadas en el proceso de dispersión pueden ser representadas con un pequeño número de diagramas de twistores. Estos diagramas proveen efectivamente el medio para construir el grasmaniano positivo, es decir, el amplituedro, que puede ser capturado en una sola ecuación.

Cuando es calculado el volumen del amplituedro en el límite planar de la teoría supersimétrica N=4 D=4 de Yang-Mills, éste describe las amplitudes de dispersión de las partículas subatómicas. Por lo tanto, el amplituedro proporciona un modelo geométrico más intuitivo para los cálculos cuyos principios subyacentes eran anteriormente altamente abstractos.

Implicaciones

El acercamiento por twistores simplifica los cálculos de las interacciones de partículas, En un acercamiento perturbacional a la teoría cuántica de campos, tales interacciones pueden requerir el cálculo de cientos de diagramas de Feynman. En contraste, la teoría de twistores proporciona un acercamiento en el que las amplitudes de dispersión pueden ser calculadas de una manera que produce expresiones mucho más simples.

El acercamiento por twistores previamente ha sido relativamente abstracto. El amplituedro proporciona un modelo subyacente por primera vez. Su naturaleza geométrica sugiere la posibilidad de que la naturaleza del universo, tanto del espacio-tiempo relativista clásico como de la mecánica cuántica, también pueden ser descritos con geometría. Los cálculos pueden ser realizados sin asumir las propiedades de localidad y unitariedad de la mecánica cuántica, que podría ayudar a la investigación de las teorías de la gravedad cuántica.

Puesto que el límite planar de la teoría supersimétrica N=4 de Yang-Mills es una teoría de juguete que no describe el mundo real, la relevancia de esta técnica para teorías cuánticas de campos más realistas es actualmente desconocida, pero proporciona indicaciones prometedoras para la investigación en las teorías acerca del mundo real.

Referencias

Bibliografía

 , Subramanyan Chandrasekhar Lecture, 25 September 2012.
 N = 4 D = 4 super Yang–Mills theory from nLab
 Arxiv paper on Total positivity, Grassmannians, and networks (Sept 2006)
 Arxiv paper on Scattering Amplitudes and the Positive Grassmannian (Dec 2012)
 4 gravitons and a grad student; The Amplituhedron and Other Excellently Silly Words

Véase también
 Grasmaniano
 Espacio de twistores
 Bucles de Wilson
 Teoría de twistores

Enlaces externos
 The Amplituhedron by Nima Arkani-Hamed (video)
 Una joya en el corazón de la Física Cuántica
 El amplituhedron: cálculo de diagramas de Feynman mediante geometría algebraica I
 N=4 D=4 super Yang-Mills theory from nLab
 Arxiv paper on Total positivity, Grassmannians, and networks
 A Jewel at the Heart of Quantum Physics
 Amplituhedron
 Physicists Discover Geometry Underlying Particle Physics
 The amplituhedron: A deeper insight into quantum reality?
 What is the actual significance of the amplituhedron?

Física teórica
Geometría
Mecánica cuántica
Gravedad cuántica
Ciencia de 2013
Ciencia y tecnología de Canadá

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Colonial Response to British Policies 1763-1776
Toby Goldman AP U.S History Essay 2 Organized colonial resistance began between the years 1763-1776. The policies of Britain toward their American colonies over this time period escalated tension between the two, and finally led to the rejection of Royal power by the colonies. The British policies caused this outcome because they threatened the colonists' republican values. These were ideals adapted from the early classical Greek and Roman republics, as well as from laws established by the British. These core beliefs centered strongly on God-given inalienable rights, liberty of the people, and the belief that all should take part in the government. The combination of harsh British policies regarding taxation, settlement and everyday…show more content…
The Coercive Acts were the next challenge to the colonists sense of free will. These acts ignited conflicts across the colonies. These acts affected almost all aspects of life, from taxation to social and political factors. The Coercive Acts mainly consisted of five separate policies. The first act was the Boston Port Act, which effectively closed the port of Boston. This caused famine in Eastern Massachusetts, leading colonies to unite out of necessity, as the Boston population
The Differences Between The British And The Colonists
Most colonists referred to themselves as English subjects until 1763, when the administrative changes and enforcement of imperial policies brought the differences between the British and the colonists. These differences prevailed between 1763 and 1776, when the British enforced series of policies and acts/taxes that restricted the colonists on certain things under the Grenville ministry, this then led to the colonists intensified resistance through different types of protests and revolts towards
Causes Of The American Revolution
for the American Revolution in the years before 1763. For example, mercantilism, The Navigation Acts, and the French and Indian War. Three examples that led the 13 colonies to finally declare independence from England in 1776 were the Stamp Act of 1765, the Townshend Acts of 1767, and the Coercive Acts of 1774. The years before 1763 the English economic policies have evolved in response to the international trade wars. England has increased its policies on trade and the control over the colonies. Mercantilism
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On July 2, 1776, John Adams wrote a letter to his wife Abigail, a date that "will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America" (202). On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence, marked as the official statement of the American position (202). Thirteen of American colonies severed their political connection to Great Britain. The Declaration summarized the colonists' motivations for seeking freedom—an independence. The formal declaration of independence
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2. Analyze the Ways in Which British Imperial Policies Between 1763 and 1776 Intensified Colonial Resistance to British Rule and Their Commitment to Republican Values.
2. Analyze the ways in which British imperial policies between 1763 and 1776 intensified colonial resistance to British rule and their commitment to republican values. As generations grew up in America, nationalism within the colonies grew towards their new country. These settlers slowly lost their patriotic tie to Great Britain and it's ruler, King George III. So when the French and Indian War ended in America, and the indebted England needed some compensation from American settlers in
The American Revolution : A Significant Part Of American History
colonists in the thirteen American colonies rejected the British monarchy and aristocracy, overthrew the authority of Great Britain and founded the the United States of America. By 1763 the crisis had begun to develop. John Adams was right when he wrote; "The revolution was in the minds of the people, and the union of of the colonies, before hostilities commenced. The revolution and union were gradually forming from the years 1760 to 1776." The minds of the people were storehouses not only of a list
The Declaration of Independence Essay
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE (1776) Thomas Jefferson Context The Declaration of Independence, completed and signed in July of 1776, marked the official separation between the 13 colonies and Great Britain. An armed struggle between the colonies and Britain had begun just over a year before, with the Battles of Lexington and Concord. The formal declaration of independence established the new American revolutionary government and officially declared war against Great Britain. The primary
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When French and British both claimed expansion into the Ohio River Valley in 1756, the war broke out. This war was called the French Indian War, also known as the Seven Years' War. Actually, it was the first worldwide war because it was a massive conflict between Spain, France, England, North America, Austria, Philippine, and Prussia. The Seven Years' War lasted from 1756 to 1763. It ended with British's victories at Louisburg, Fort Frontenac and Quebec. The Treaty of Paris in 1763 was an afterward
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Home / Winter 2014 Issue / Food & Drink / Signature Dishes
Food & Drink December 11, 2013
BY Jody Orr PHOTOGRAPHY BY Paulette Phlipot and Kirsten Shultz
Every foodie has vivid memories of the "best meals they ever ate." If they're lucky, they live within walking distance of the restaurants that made it happen. In Ketchum, it's not unusual to experience such transformative and long-resonating meals. In researching the signature dishes that have helped define the local restaurant scene, I spoke to the masterminds behind the process and learned the difference between simply cooking and creating food that resonates forever after.
Ketchum Grill's Mushroom Strudel
Chef/Owner: Scott Mason
Scott Mason was hunting for mushrooms in Oregon when I spoke to him, so it seemed only fitting that he chose Mushroom Strudel as one of Ketchum Grill's signature dishes. Mason opened the Grill 22 years ago, after training and cooking in kitchens in Santa Barbara, Paris and Alsace. The Grill is the culmination of his efforts; a place where he creates food that diners come back for season after season.
"I had this mushroom mixture in the back of my mind and Anne (his wife and pastry chef) was making Apple Strudel at the time. I thought I'd like to make it a savory thing instead of a sweet thing,"he said.
Mushroom Strudel is a magical marriage of cream cheese, mushrooms and herbs rolled into layers of Filo dough, baked and left to cool. It's then baked in breadcrumbs and herbs until brown and served warm with an onion marmalade, sautéed spinach or atop a salad. It's tough to beat when accompanied by a glass of wine on a cold winter's night in Sun Valley.
Cristina's Restaurant's Spezzatino
Chef/Owner: Cristina Ceccatelli Cook
Cristina Ceccatelli Cook comes by her culinary credentials naturally—she was born and raised in Tuscany, surrounded by wonderful food and wine. She came to Idaho to see America and stayed for love, marrying Ketchum architect Steve Cook. This year marks the 20th anniversary of Cristina's in its current location, a quaint, salmon-colored bungalow rife with cozy elegance and food that is flavorful without being fussy. She loves comfort food, which is why she chose Spezzatino, classic Tuscan stew, as her signature dish.
Spezzatino is a "stufato" (Italian for food cooked on top of the stove)—loaded with beef, potatoes, tomatoes, wine, pancetta, onions and kale—cooked at low heat, all day long, ensuring a rich, delicious outcome. Spezzatino can be customized to include elk, lamb or venison, giving it a definitive Idaho twist.
Globus Restaurant & Wine Bar's Muc Chien (Calamari)
Owner: Wendy Muir Chef: Ryan Stadelman
After managing Globus for six years, Wendy Muir bought the restaurant in 2005, after what began as a "world cuisine" bistro had slowly morphed into an Asian-themed eatery. In Wendy's hands, that trend is changing. "My chef and I are trying to move it back to a global-fare restaurant. We still have Asian dishes, but we do some Indian dishes and others that make it more reflective of a world-themed restaurant." Globus' menu changes four times a year and includes the construction of seasonal salads that complement the weather. There are many local favorites, but Muir believes the Muc Chien (calamari) is a standout.
This light and airy take on an appetizer that changed the way Americans looked at squid is gluten-free and delicious. Briefly washed in egg whites, breaded with cornstarch and seasoned with salt and pepper, it's flash fried and joined on the plate with a sweet chili Thai vinegar sauce that makes itself right at home in your mouth. It's a great way to start off any evening.
The Kneadery's Hiker's Delight Oatmeal & Oatmeal Pancakes
Owners: The Witmer family
Since The Kneadery first opened in 1974, oatmeal has been a staple on the menu. The Witmer family (who also the own The Pioneer Saloon) knew a good thing when they saw one. They purchased the popular breakfast and lunch restaurant in 2004 and have maintained its home-cooked, rustic, family-friendly vibe ever since. Listed as the "Hiker's Delight" on the menu, The Kneadery's oatmeal has just the right amount of warmth, sustenance and flavor on cold Ketchum mornings and is the main ingredient in the oatmeal pancakes. Alyson Witmer, who bussed tables as a youngster with her dad at "The Pio" and learned the finer points of the restaurant biz at The Kneadery, is proud to be involved in this Ketchum fixture. "It's great to see people of all ages come in together and start their day at the breakfast table. Our customers feel very at home at The Kneadery. I think our staff and our food have a lot to with that, but it's really the customers that have made The Kneadery the local favorite that it is," she said.
You'll get most of your food groups covered in this old-fashioned oatmeal topped with raisins, seasonal fruit, walnuts and vanilla yogurt. For an extra hearty meal, the oatmeal can be included in their Famous Kneadery Pancakes.
Vintage's Sun Valley Pecan-Crusted Chicken
Owner/Chef: Rodrigo Herrera
The diminutive and intimate setting at Vintage doesn't prepare diners for the big flavors that come from the kitchen. Chef Rodrigo Herrera, who bought Vintage from founder Jeff Keys last summer, is a native of Mexico and learned about food as a child while picking produce alongside his father. "It was fun," recalled Herrera. "It's hard work, but it helps you understand the whole dynamic of food. From the farmer, to the broker, to the kitchen." Herrera came to Vintage seven years ago after more than a decade in the industry. He said Vintage's signature dish is the Sun Valley Pecan-Crusted Chicken, "We make it year-round and people come in just for that."
A tender, organic chicken breast is encrusted with pecans, roasted and served with a sour cream Dijon mustard sauce or tomato currant chutney. Herrera varies the side dishes based on what's seasonal—asparagus in the spring or artichokes in the fall.
Roundhouse's Cheese Fondue
Owner: Sun Valley Company/The Holding Family
A scenic gondola ride up the mountain takes you back in time to 1939, when the The Roundhouse first opened. The Roundhouse was the mountain's first real on-mountain "lodge" and the restaurant and bar have gone through a facelift or two over the years, but continue to offer sumptuous fare in an Old World setting with epic views. This spring they'll unveil a remodeled Averell's, the downstairs bar that pays homage to the resort's founder.
Ordering fondue at The Roundhouse is a picture-perfect end to any day of making turns. In true Tyrolean tradition, fondue is one of the restaurant's signature dishes.
"The biggest mistake that most people make with fondue is that they don't get the right mixture of cheeses," explained Todd Rubenstein, Director of Mountain Food and Beverage. That's not a problem at The Roundhouse. Their fondue's golden, gooey goodness is so filling it can do the job of two meals. With an expanded fondue menu this winter, they hope to do what they've always done—offer great food in a setting that's nothing short of paradise.
This article appears in the Winter 2014 Issue of Sun Valley Magazine.
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The risk of pandemic influenza is serious. With the H5N1 virus now firmly entrenched in large parts of Asia, the risk that more human cases will occur will persist. Each additional human case gives the virus an opportunity to improve its transmissibility in humans, and thus develop into a pandemic strain. The recent spread of the virus to poultry and wild birds in new areas further broadens opportunities for human cases to occur. While neither the timing nor the severity of the next pandemic can be predicted, the probability that a pandemic will occur has increased.
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Hydrogen generators are becoming popular. However, most people do not know what one is. Hydrogen generators come by many names. Also, there are different types of hydrogen generators. Therefore, ignorance surrounds the industry. Well-meaning, but false claims, abound. This article attempts to solve some of the mystery concerning these generators.
Usually when one thinks of a "generator", one thinks of a "portable generator". One may buy a generator from the local hardware store. Such a generator typically uses gasoline to produce AC electricity. When public electric utility is not available, a portable generator is a handy device.
Most people have at least a cursory understanding of such machines. These kinds of generators have moving parts. That is easy for people to understand. However, a hydrogen generator has no moving parts. This is where most people get lost in the discussion.
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A generator generators something. Usually electricity. It requires the combustion of gasoline to produce electricity. But the kind of hydrogen generator discussed here produces hydrogen, not electricity. This kind of generator requires DC electricity to produce hydrogen. The generator has no moving parts. OK so now most people are more confused before they started thinking about it. Fair enough.
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Additional articles may better clarify the substance and form of these kinds of generators than can be done here and now. However, the purpose of a hydrogen generator is to improve gas mileage. This people can understand. A thing is what it does. Hydrogen generator kits improve gas mileage on average 35%. That's a lot of gas savings over the course of a year's worth of driving.
Supplemental hydrogen production developed from 19th century science. But here you may find a list of more recent scientific articles on the subject.
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Adding hydrogen to gasoline significantly increased flame speed and allows for a leaner air/fuel ratio. All emissions levels decreased at these leaner conditions.
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Advanced Emission and Fuel Economy Concept Using Combined Injection of Gasoline and Hydrogen in SI-Engines
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CDC's Changed Testing Guidelines Could Lead To Less Testing, Experts Fear
By Richard Harris • Aug 26, 2020
Testing contacts of those with confirmed cases of the coronavirus is a common public health practice. New CDC guidelines make it optional.
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Originally published on August 27, 2020 4:55 pm
Updated Thursday at 4:55 p.m. ET
The Trump administration has stirred confusion and concern by rewriting its guidelines for coronavirus testing. Public health experts fear the revised guidelines will lead to less testing – something the president has repeatedly asked for — but the administration denies that.
Part of the concern stems from the way the new guidelines were unveiled. There was no press release or announcement in advance, but instead on Monday the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention quietly updated the website that provides guidance for coronavirus testing. Journalists discovered the change.
The old guidelines said people who had been exposed to someone with the coronavirus should get tested. The new guidelines leave the call about whether a test is necessary to people's doctors and state and local public health officials. That led to widespread speculation that the guidance is intended to reduce testing.
"This makes no sense," tweeted Dr. Leana Wen, an emergency medicine specialist, former health commissioner of Baltimore and past president of Planned Parenthood. "People without symptoms account for up to 50% of transmission. We need MORE testing, not less."
Former CDC Director Tom Frieden called the change "highly problematic" in a tweet.
On Wednesday, Adm. Brett Giroir, who heads coronavirus testing for the Department of Health and Human Services and serves on the White House Coronavirus Task Force, said that reducing testing was not the intent.
"We don't expect that the volume of tests will be reduced," he told reporters, "In fact we do believe with some upcoming programs ... that the number of tests will go up significantly over the next couple of months."
Giroir acknowledged that the guidelines were reviewed and edited by members of the coronavirus task force and were not simply a CDC product. But he said there was no political interference.
Giroir said the most prominent member of the task force, Dr. Anthony Fauci, worked on them.
In a statement to NPR, Fauci said that while he reviewed an early version of the new guidelines, he wasn't present for the Aug. 20 task force meeting in which they were discussed and finalized. In fact, he said he was under general anesthesia for a minor operation at the time.
He said that now that he's reviewed them carefully he has "some concern that the revised guidelines could be interpreted as lessening the importance of asymptomatic spread of virus in the community, which is an important issue."
Thursday, CDC Director Robert Redfield tried to quell the concern around the new change. A statement issued under his name says, among other things, that testing "may be considered for all close contacts of confirmed or probable covid-19 patients." But that language tweak does not appear on the CDC website.
Giroir defended the changed guidelines, saying the intent is to shift testing so it's driven more by public health officials around the country and less by individuals who want a test because they're worried but not sick.
"In fact, the goal is to make this more strategic and intelligent by putting more power and more authority in the hands of the public health officials," Giroir said. "That's clearly the intent, and I think it's explicit within the guidance."
But springing this change on public health officials, as happened here, may be a fraught way to accomplish that.
"Nobody knows what they mean," said Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association. "They didn't share this, as far as I know, with anybody beforehand." He said Giroir's explanation is "spinning it a little bit."
Frieden noted that it's true there are not enough tests and they must be prioritized. But "[a]n asymptomatic close contact IS priority for testing," he tweeted. "CDC does say defer to state and local guidance, but they should lead."
Benjamin agreed that there's a lot of room for improvement in who gets tested and under what circumstances. But he said this new directive doesn't help.
"At the end of the day, this undermines the credibility of the CDC because now you've got everybody pointing fingers at one another," he said.
"The truth of the matter is, if you want to make sure that the right people get tested with the right test at the right time, then you need a national testing strategy that's been very thoughtful, that's science-based, that's in print, and that everybody understands. And they've not done that yet."
You can contact NPR science correspondent Richard Harris at rharris@npr.org.
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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is working "to build a revolutionary new data system" for COVID-19 hospital data collection that the CDC will run upon completion, according to Dr. Deborah Birx of the White House Coronavirus Task Force.
Birx's comments this week come a month after the Trump administration mandated that hospitals sidestep the agency and send critical information about COVID-19 hospitalizations and equipment to a different federal database managed by the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the CDC.


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from __future__ import print_function,division
import numpy as np
import six.moves.cPickle as pickle
import theano
import theano.tensor as T
from theano.tensor.nnet import conv2d
from lmlp import LMLP
from optimize import rmsprop
from ops import tmax,tmin

class LipConvLayer(object):
    def __init__(self,rng,input,shape,W=None,b=None,init=0):
        #shape =(num images(0),
        #        height(1),width(2),
        #        filter height(3), filter width(4)
        #        num input feature maps(5),
        #        num intermediate filters per output map(6),
        #        num output feature maps(7),

        #correspondes to "valid" filter

        filter_shape = [shape[6],shape[7],shape[5],shape[3],shape[4]]
        image_shape  = [shape[0],shape[5],shape[1],shape[2]]
        bias_shape   = [shape[6],shape[7]]
        output_shape = [shape[0],shape[7],shape[1]-shape[3]+1,shape[2]-shape[4]+1]

        self.input=input
        self.shape=shape
        n_in = shape[3]*shape[4]*shape[5]
        self.n_params=np.prod(filter_shape)+np.prod(bias_shape)
        if W is None:
            if init == 0:
                min_value = -1.0 / n_in
                max_value = 1.0 / n_in
            elif init == 1:
                min_value = -np.sqrt(3.0/n_in)
                max_value = np.sqrt(3.0/n_in)
            elif init == 2:
                min_value = 0.5 / n_in
                max_value = 1.5 / n_in
            self.W = theano.shared(
                np.asarray(
                    rng.uniform(low=min_value, high=max_value, size=filter_shape),
                    dtype=theano.config.floatX
                ), borrow=True)
        else:
            self.W=W
        if b is None:
            self.b = theano.shared(
                np.asarray(
                    rng.uniform(low=-0.5, high=0.5, size=bias_shape),
                    dtype=theano.config.floatX
                ), borrow=True)
        else:
            self.b=b

        intermediate=[]
        for i in range(shape[6]):
            conv_out=conv2d(
                input=input,
                filters=self.W[i],
                border_mode='valid',
                filter_shape=filter_shape[1:],
                input_shape=image_shape
            )
            intermediate.append(conv_out+self.b[i].dimshuffle('x',0,'x','x'))
        self.output=T.max(intermediate,axis=0)
        self.params=[self.W,self.b]
        self.pre_gradient_norms=T.sum(abs(self.W),axis=(2,3,4))
        self.gradient_norms=tmax(self.pre_gradient_norms,1.0)
        self.max_gradient=T.max(self.pre_gradient_norms)
        self.scale_W = self.W / self.gradient_norms.dimshuffle(0,1,'x','x','x')
        self.scale_params=[self.scale_W,self.b]

class LCNN(object):
    def __init__(self, rng, input, shape_layers,params=None,init=0):
        self.input=input
        current_input=self.input
        self.layers=[]
        self.max_gradient=1.0
        self.n_params=0
        if params is None:
            for shape in shape_layers:
                self.layers.append(LipConvLayer(
                    rng=rng,
                    input=current_input,
                    shape=shape,
                    init=init
                ))
                current_input=self.layers[-1].output
                self.max_gradient*=self.layers[-1].max_gradient
                self.n_params+=self.layers[-1].n_params
        else:
            index = 0
            for shape in shape_layers:
                self.layers.append(LipConvLayer(
                    rng=rng,
                    input=current_input,
                    shape=shape,
                    W=params[index],
                    b=params[index+1]
                ))
                index+=2
                current_input=self.layers[-1].output
                self.max_gradient*=self.layers[-1].max_gradient
                self.n_params+=self.layers[-1].n_params

        self.output=self.layers[-1].output
        self.params = [param for layer in self.layers for param in layer.params]
        self.scale_params=[param for layer in self.layers for param in layer.scale_params]

def test_mnist(n_epoch=1000,batch_size=500):
    from load_mnist import load_data_mnist
    import timeit

    valid_time=1
    cale_factor=0.01
    #one entry per layer
    CNN_shape=[[batch_size,28,28,5,5,1,2,20],
               [batch_size,24,24,5,5,20,2,50]]
    fc_info=[[2,20*20*50,500],[2,500,10]]

    datasets = load_data_mnist()

    train_set_x, train_set_y = datasets[0]
    valid_set_x, valid_set_y = datasets[1]
    test_set_x, test_set_y = datasets[2]

    # compute number of minibatches for training, validation and testing
    n_train_batches = train_set_x.get_value(borrow=True).shape[0]//batch_size
    n_valid_batches = valid_set_x.get_value(borrow=True).shape[0]//batch_size
    n_test_batches = test_set_x.get_value(borrow=True).shape[0]//batch_size

    print('... building the model')

    index = T.lscalar()
    x = T.matrix('x')
    y = T.matrix('y')
    rng = np.random.RandomState(1001)
    reshaped_input = x.reshape((batch_size, 1, 28, 28))
    convnet = LCNN(
        rng,
        input=reshaped_input,
        shape_layers=CNN_shape
    )
    fc_layer_input=convnet.output.flatten(2)
    fc_layer=LMLP(
        rng,
        input=fc_layer_input,
        info_layers=fc_info
    )
    print('number of parameters: ' + str(fc_layer.n_params+convnet.n_params))
    params = convnet.params+fc_layer.params
    scale_params = convnet.scale_params+fc_layer.scale_params
    max_gradient = convnet.max_gradient*fc_layer.max_gradient
    get_gradient_max = theano.function(
        inputs=[],
        outputs=max_gradient,
        givens={
        }
    )
    cost = fc_layer.mse(y*scale_factor)
    validate_model = theano.function(
        inputs=[index],
        outputs=cost,
        givens={
            x: valid_set_x[index * batch_size: (index + 1) * batch_size],
            y: valid_set_y[index * batch_size: (index + 1) * batch_size]
        }
    )
    prediction=T.argmax(fc_layer.output,axis=1)
    ground_truth=T.argmax(y,axis=1)
    accuracy=T.mean(T.eq(prediction,ground_truth))
    validate_model_acc = theano.function(
        inputs=[index],
        outputs=accuracy,
        givens={
            x: valid_set_x[index * batch_size: (index + 1) * batch_size],
            y: valid_set_y[index * batch_size: (index + 1) * batch_size]
        }
    )

    updates=rmsprop(cost,params)
    train_model = theano.function(
        inputs=[index],
        outputs=cost,
        updates=updates,
        givens={
            x: train_set_x[index * batch_size: (index + 1) * batch_size],
            y: train_set_y[index * batch_size: (index + 1) * batch_size]
        }
    )
    rescale_model = theano.function(
        inputs=[],
        updates=list(zip(params,scale_params))
    )
    print('... training')

    start_time = timeit.default_timer()

    for epoch in range(n_epoch):
        if epoch % valid_time == 0:
            validation_losses = [validate_model(i) for i
                                    in range(n_valid_batches)]
            this_validation_loss = np.mean(validation_losses)
            validation_acc = [validate_model_acc(i) for i
                                    in range(n_valid_batches)]
            this_validation_acc = np.mean(validation_acc)
            print(
                'epoch %i,mse %f, g_max %f, acc %f' %
                (
                    epoch,
                    this_validation_loss,
                    get_gradient_max(),
                    this_validation_acc
                )
            )

        for minibatch_index in range(n_train_batches):
            minibatch_avg_cost = train_model(minibatch_index)
            rescale_model()

    end_time = timeit.default_timer()
    print(('The code ran for %.2fs' % (end_time - start_time)))

if __name__ == "__main__":
    test_mnist()

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Tickets are non-refundable but can be exchanged without any additional fees if they are purchased on tickets.shenyun.com.
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Marion Oliver McCaw Hall at Seattle Center is the region's premier performance venue. McCaw Hall opened in June 2003 as a $127 million renovation of the Seattle Opera House, made possible by a partnership between the Hall's two world-class resident performing arts tenants, Pacific Northwest Ballet and Seattle Opera, Seattle Center and the Seattle Center Foundation. This partnership secured $55 million in public funds and over $72 million in private philanthropic gifts to make the Hall a reality. The Hall is owned by the City of Seattle and operated by Seattle Center, in accordance with a unique 25-year Operating Agreement with its resident tenants, which provides them with on-going oversight and shared responsibility for its operations and budget.
McCaw Hall includes the state-of-the-art 2,900-seat Susan Brotman Auditorium, the 380-seat Nesholm Family Lecture Hall, Prelude Café, elegant lobbies fronted by a luminous five-story serpentine glass wall, two beautiful donor/special function rooms, and a 17,800-square-foot public plaza (the Kreielsheimer Promenade) that serves as an entry into McCaw Hall and the Seattle Center campus. Designed by local architectural firm LMN, the Hall's design emphasizes elegance balanced with flexibility and functionality. Its open, airy lobbies strive to minimize the separation between exterior and interior, inviting the community to view and join the anticipation of audiences prior to a performance. As well, the Hall incorporates a number of environmentally sustainable design features which minimize its use of resources, waste generation and carbon footprint.
McCaw Hall is located on Mercer Street between 3rd and 4th Avenues, on the north edge of the Seattle Center campus, approximately 2 miles north of the Downtown Seattle business district.
Parking is available at the Mercer Street Garage, conveniently located across the street from McCaw Hall. A covered skybridge provides easy access between level C of the garage and McCaw Hall.
Tickets may be purchased without service fees 90 minutes prior to the event at McCaw Hall's box office located in Kreielsheimer Promenade Lobby.
Special Seating Accommodations:
Wheelchair accessible seating is available. Please contact Ticketmaster to make accessible seating arrangements for the show you wish to attend.
There are a limited number of transfer seats available. These seats have a movable arm that allows for easy transfer from wheelchair or walker to the seat. Aisles need to be clear during each performance. If you are not specifically sitting in designated wheelchair seating, walkers and wheelchairs cannot remain with you during the show. Usher staff can assist with stowing your walker or wheelchair in an appropriate nearby location.
For additional accommodations, please contact Event Services at 206-684-7202


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Clinical Quiz
Derm Dx: A patient with erosions and reddish urine
Poprhyria Cutanea Tarda 1_0712 Derm Dx
Porphyria Cutanea Tarda 2_0712 Derm Dx
A 50-year-old white man presents complaining he's had blisters and erosions on the back of his hands, forearms and posterior neck for months. He describes the erosions as mildly painful, and said they heal with small scars.
The patient recently started managing a construction project, and he has been spending most of the day outdoors. His past medical history is significant for chronic hepatitis C. He has no significant family history. On exam, he is in no acute distress. Physical exam is significant only for erosions on his dorsal hands and posterior neck.
A complete metabolic panel, complete blood count and iron studies are performed. The results of these tests are significant for hemoglobin and iron levels at the very upper limit of normal. The patient's urine sample appears coral red when illuminated with an ultraviolet Wood's lamp. The accompanying images show this patient's urine next to a normal urine sample. What's your diagnosis?
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This patient was diagnosed with porphyria cutanea tarda (PCT). The term porphyria encompasses a group of acquired or familial metabolic diseases that occur due to deficiencies in enzymes involved in the heme biosynthetic pathway and result in the accumulation of...
This patient was diagnosed with porphyria cutanea tarda (PCT). The term porphyria encompasses a group of acquired or familial metabolic diseases that occur due to deficiencies in enzymes involved in the heme biosynthetic pathway and result in the accumulation of precursor proteins called porphyrins. There are eight porphyrias, which dermatologists categorize as acute or non-acute.
Acute porphyrias are characterized by potentially life-threatening neurological attacks, which do not occur in the non-acute forms of the disease. Acute porphyrias include acute intermittent porphyria, variegate porphyria, hereditary coproporphyria and enzyme delta-aminolevulinic acid dehydratase (ALAD) deficiency porphyria.
Non-acute porphyrias consist of PCT, erythropoietic protoporphyria, congenital erythropoietic porphyria and hepatoerythropoietic porphyria. With the exception of acquired PCT, the porphyrias are inherited diseases.1,2
PCT, the most common porphyria, results from decreased activity of the enzyme uroporphyrinogen decarboxylase (UROD) and has an average age of onset of 45 years. There are both acquired and inherited forms of PCT, but the acquired form is significantly more common (80% vs. 20%).
When UROD activity decreases in patients with PCT, uropophyrin accumulates in the skin and in the urine. Uroporphyrin absorbs light intensely in the Soret-band region (400-410 nanometer, UVA wavelength), which can result in the development of reactive oxygen species that damage tissue. This manifests clinically as increased photosensitivity, skin fragility, erosions, blisters, scarring and milia in sun-exposed skin — particularly the dorsal hands, face and posterior neck. Other cutaneous manifestations include hypertrichosis, most frequently seen on the temples and cheeks, and scleroderma-like skin changes. 1,2
Due to the excessive porphyrin accumulation, urine may appear reddish after exposure to natural light and may have a bright pink fluorescence when exposed to UVA light from a Wood's lamp. However, these urinary color changes are not sensitive or specific. 1,2
Liver disease is common in patients with PCT. Alcoholism, estrogen therapy, hepatitis, HIV and hereditary hemochromatosis are among factors that contribute to hepatic dysfunction and excess accumulation of iron in the liver. The excess iron leads to oxidation products, which inhibit UROD. In order for clinical disease to manifest, patients must experience a 75% reduction in the activity of hepatic UROD.3
In the United States, 94% of PCT patients have hepatitis C, and 20% have hereditary hemochromatosis. Approximately 15% to 20% of patients with PCT have diabetes.
PCT can be suspected on the basis of clinical presentation, but the definitive test is elevated urinary porphyrin levels in a 24-hour urine collection, with a greater than 3:1 ratio of uroporphyrin to coproporphyrin. Biopsied skin blisters will demonstrate a subepidermal split with hyalinized blood vessel walls in the mid and upper dermis. 1,2
Patients with pseudoporphyria develop blistering and skin fragility similar to those with PCT, but porphyrin levels are normal, and hypertrichosis and sclerodermoid changes are not present. A reaction to the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug naproxen most commonly causes pseudoporphyria, but the disease may occur in response to various other medications, as well as in association with hemodialysis or tanning-bed use. Ibuprofen is a safe alternative to naproxen in patients with pseudoporphyria. 1,2
Erythropoietic protoporphyria (EPP) is an autosomal dominant or recessive disorder that occurs as a result of a defect in the enzyme ferrocheletase. EPP generally presents in early childhood, and the hallmark symptom is an immediate burning sensation of the skin upon sun exposure.
Cutaneous EPP manifestations include waxy scars limited to sun-exposed areas. Patients with EPP are also at increased risk for cholestatic liver disease. In contrast to PCT, urinary porphyrin levels are normal in patients with EPP. 1,2
Variegate porphyria is an autosomal dominant disorder caused by decreased activity of protoporphyrinogen oxidase, and most commonly occurs in South Africa. Patients may have skin lesions similar to PCT, but also experience acute neurologic attacks. Elevated urinary coproporphyrins are a symptom of variegate porphyria, rather than the increased uroporphyrins that occur in PCT. 1,2
Therapeutic phlebotomy is the treatment of choice for PCT. Removing 500 mL of blood at two-week intervals until hemoglobin levels reach 10-11 g/dl elicits iatrogenic iron deficiency anemia, which lowers hepatic iron stores. This treatment may take several months, during the course of which the patient's cutaneous manifestations gradually resolve.
An alternative to phlebotomy is low-dose antimalarial therapy. Remission after either therapy may last many years. In the event of a relapse, treatment should be repeated. Discontinuing precipitating factors, such medications (estrogens) and alcohol, is also important. Be sure to emphasize the importance of sun protection in the form of physical blockers, such as clothing, hats and inorganic sunscreens (zinc oxide). 1,2
In this case, the patient's urinary uroporphyrin level was significantly elevated in relation to coproporphyrin levels, confirming the suspected PCT diagnosis. He underwent five months of therapeutic phlebotomy and ultimately achieved a sustained remission.
Adam Rees, MD, is a graduate of the University of California Los Angeles School of Medicine and a resident in the Department of Dermatology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.
1. Bolognia J, Jorizzo JL and Rapini RP. "Chapter 49: Porphyria." Dermatology. St. Louis, Mo.: Mosby/Elsevier, 2008.
2. James WD, Berger TG, Elston DM and Odom RB. "Chapter 26: Errors in Metabolism." Andrews' Diseases of the Skin: Clinical Dermatology. Philadelphia: Saunders Elsevier, 2006.
3. Poh-Fitzpatrick MB. "Porphyria cutanea tarda." Medscape Reference. Published May 30, 2012. Available online. Accessed 1 Jul 2012.
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The 9 digit number was the smallest possible. What was it?
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As a kid I loved to read stories. Now I write them as well, and get a fantastic kick from it.
So far I've got four of my own titles on Amazon and short stories included in another anthologies:
Lady of Foxdale (Western Lands Book 1) and Daughter of the King (Western Lands Book 2)
This isn't really fantasy, more a parallel world story on an Earth where all the landmasses are different and the inhabitents are descended from a mixture of Celts, Romans and Germanic tribes who have crossed over from our world.
Mary is a young English girl of West Indian origin, whose life is at a crossroads who wished for a new life. She did not expect her wish to be granted so completely, and finds herself in a the middle of a civil war, and forced first to take sides and then to face up to tyrrany on a path that will lead her to be first the Lady of Foxdale, and then the Daughter of the King.
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This is a set of four short stories and the introduction to Lady of Foxdale, which stands up fairly well by itself.
The title is a bit of a giveaway, there's one story about a ghost, one about a werewolf, one about a troll, and one about a vampire.
But this time the werewolf is the heroine, the troll has a royal destiny, the ghost story is set against the shadows of a future war and the vampire story is about courage and integrity.
This is really a short story, published as part of a series by T.K. Richardson.
Why it has that Victorian cover I have no idea, after all it is set in a future Colony in Space. Still quite a few people said they liked it.
I've been published in several anthologies as well. Here's the ones I know are still available.
The Tanist's Wife and other stories: Stories of Alternative Histories
I've got two stories in the collection, one in a world where the British Celts conquered the incoming Anglo-Saxon tribes, and one, a Professor Challenger pastiche, where the American Revolution had a different ending.
Betrayal and Other Short Stories
Contains a short new horror story. It's based on my own experience of having a deformed spine, but I never want to go down this path.
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What is earthshattering and can be carried in a small container? In my story it's a Gateway to the past which comes into the hands of a grieving widow.
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Two entries in this collection of stories with a religious theme. One a man coming home to the place he has never seen, and one about the dangers of superstition and folk religion.
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Sonam Gupta Jokes and Whatsapp Status I don't know about the country but while surfing online, especially Facebook, whenever I come across any joke or status related to Sonam Gupta, I do have all the sympathies with the girls named alike. It all started earlier this year when a frustrated lover posted picture of a 10 Rs note with a message.
"Sonam Gupta Bewafa Hai" which means 'Sonam Gupta is unfaithful'. Though the lover had intention to malign name of his 'Sonam Gupta' but today things get Viral on internet like the fire in jungle.
People started making jokes and status on Sonam Gupta in no time. However, with the passing time it started to vanish but before 'The Sonam Gupta' could take sigh of relief, our beloved government changed the currency.
Government of India should declare Sonam Gupta as national bewafa.
People putting relationship status as, 'Bewafaizoned by Sonam Gupta', Sonam Gupta declared internation bewafa by UNESCO, and many more.
This wasn't the end, the Sonam had to answer and the people began sharing her message 'Mein Bewafa nahi hun'.
The jokes and status on Sonam Gupta began to flood twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. It isn't just the normal people trolling with entire Sonam Gupta jokes and status. Even the celebrities landed and didn't leave any stone unturned to troll with 'Sonam Gupta' jokes and statuses can be seen everywhere.
However before signing off I would just say that the sudden wave where on one hand tickled the fun bone, on another it created a bit of mess for the girls named 'Sonam Gupta' all around the world. Whatever way it goes, the entire scenario is indeed gaining attention for all the good reasons.


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Q: Is there a narrative reason why Majora's Mask reuses so many art assets? The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask reuses many art assets (including NPC models) from Ocarina of Time. Is any narrative explanation ever given for this? For example, is the game a dream or an alternate dimension or anything like that, which would explain why the same person has a different name in the sequel?
To clarify: I understand that in the "real world", this was done to speed up development. I'm just trying to remember if they ever tried to explain it away within the narrative.
I found a quote from Zelda Wiki about reasons for reusing assets:

Eiji Aonuma, a key developer of the game, had stated that reusing many
  aspects of Ocarina of Time allowed his team to program the game in
  less than two years (as Ocarina of Time took no less than four years
  of development).

But that again doesn't provide any "in-universe" explanation.

A: There is no one reason that was ever given why this has occurred, however there are a few theories about this.
The main one that stands out is that Link is actually dead/dying. The events of Majora's Mask are actually in a sort of limbo/purgatory environment. Hence why he is remembering all of these things in his delusion, as deaths cold embrace takes him...
Hey, explains why everyone else is dead and dying. It's a way for Link to come to accept his own death.
Another theory, though probably not as well known or accepted is that Link has wandered into the Lost Woods. Without Navi, he has lost his way and begun to go slightly mad. Why he has gone mad? Magic? He's been lost for a lot longer than we could perceive? Who knows.
Again, in his delusions, he is remembering things from his past, and placing them together in his mind.
So the one thing we can take away from this is that basically, (while this is never truly explained and we can only ever speculate) the world of Majora's Mask is a delusion, constructed in Link's mind.
EDIT: Some key points to support the Dead Link theory are:

*

*The fall to reach Termina (which is inside a tree) doesn't make physical sense. Link fell a long way, only to end up... back outside?

*The characters that you gain the transformation masks from are either dead/dying.

*The "Elegy of Emptiness" allows Link to create statues of the (dead) Characters he transforms into... including himself.

As for the "Lost in the Woods" theory,

*

*The Skull Kid was originally found in the Lost Woods, which the wiki states

A Skull Kid is what a child becomes after getting lost in the Lost Woods. They appear in Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, and Twilight Princess. One first interacts with Link in Ocarina of Time, and later plays a major role in Majora's Mask.

*As Link is not a Kokiri child, he is actually susceptible to the effects of the Lost Woods.

*Additionally, further down the official timeline in Twilight Princess you meet with a Stalfos claiming to be the Hero of Time. While a Skull Kid is the outcome of a child being lost in the Lost Woods, a Stalfos is what adult turns into when lost in the Lost Woods:

"That guy isn't here anymore. Anybody who comes into the forest will be lost. Everybody will become a Stalfos. Everybody, Stalfos." — Fado (Ocarina of Time)
"Adults lost among the trees turn into Stalfos, while children turn into Skull Kids; both are doomed to wander the woods." (Hyrule Historia (Dark Horse Books), pg. 84)

A: The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask is a direct sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. And according to the official timeline, it takes place on the child Link timeline.
At the end of Ocarina of Time, Link is sent back to his childhood by Zelda, acting as one of the seven sages. Thus creating the child and adult timeline branches. Majora's Mask takes place very shortly after the end of Ocarina of Time, and the Link in Majora's Mask is precisely the same Link in Ocarina of Time; the Hero of Time.
The key difference here is the setting. Link finds himself in Termina, which is not Hyrule. And given that Link fell through a tree to get there, it seems impossible that Termina and Hyrule are the same world.
The original Majora's Mask game manual appears to confirm this, and more (emphasis mine):

[Termina] is a kind of parallel world that is similar to, and yet different from the land of Hyrule.... Termina is a mysterious place, and the people Link meets here may look vaguely familiar at first glance

Hyrule Historia says about as much about Termina:

Termina: A strange parallel world, where many of the inhabitants look identical to the people of Hyrule (Hyrule Historia, p 111)

This is the closest thing to any official explanation comes as to where Termina is. It suggests that Termina is some sort of parallel world, and confirms our suspicions that the people here look familiar. It offers no real explanation as to why the people look familiar (other than the fact that Termina is parallel to Hyrule), and there is no official in-universe explanation as such per se.

On the "Link is Dead" theory
There is a theory that Termina is a sort of purgatory, and that Link is actually dead all throughout Majora's Mask. And indeed there is a good amount of dialogue, particularly from the Happy Mask Salesman, that seems to support this theory. However, there is no hard evidence that supports this theory.
Parallel worlds are not a foreign concept to the Zelda universe. In A Link to the Past and A Link Between Worlds, our hero travels between the Light World and the Dark World, Hyrule and Lorule. The Dark World is a near exact clone of the Light World, so it's not that far fetched that the Hero of Time has found himself in a parallel world.
Furthermore, fall damage is a consistent element of Zelda games, but also consistently deals around 1 heart of damage at most. Furthermore, in Majora's Mask, if Link lands on a Deku Flower (which he does at the end of the falling scene in the opening), all fall damage is negated. So the idea that a long fall necessitates death isn't necessarily the case.
Hyrule Historia offers some strong evidence against this theory. Let's go to Twilight Princess to find where it is.
Hyrule Historia says that the Hero's Shade is the spirit of the Hero of Time, of whom, the Hero of Twilight is a descendant. (point of order: the Hero's Shade is not a Stalfos) Furthermore, it identifies that this is not a metaphorical descendence: (emphasis mine)

...Link, a young man from Ordon Village in whose veins flowed the blood of the Hero of Time. (Hyrule Historia, 115)

In-game dialogue from Twilight Princess further suggests that the Hero of Time and the Hero of Twilight are of the same blood line. Which implies that the young Hero of Time may have gone on on to have a family. None of this is explicitly stated, however, it is very strongly implied that the Hero of Time continues to live his life after Majora's Mask. While death is a recurring theme of Majora's Mask, there's no hard evidence that Link, himself, is dead throughout Majora's Mask.

A: Majora's Mask was also developed under a deadline of ~8 months, so reusing assets from OoT was necessary to meet said deadline.


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Kansas Postgame Notes vs. Memphis
Recap | Box Score |
Kansas' Win Over Memphis…
…Made KU 2-0 for the third-straight season.
…Improved the KU-Memphis series to 5-2 in favor of the Jayhawks, including the last three meetings.
…Made KU 59-15 against current membership of Conference USA.
…Made Bill Self 171-40 while at Kansas, 378-143 overall and 2-1 against Memphis.
…Made Kansas 1,972-793 all-time.
– Cole Aldrich posted his 23rd career double-double with 18 points and 11 rebounds. It was his first of the season.
– Sherron Collins reached double figures in scoring (12 points) for the 70th time in his career.
– Collins tied Adonis Jordan for seventh place on the all-time KU 3-point attempts list. Collins now has 437 career 3-point attempts.
– Collins moved into 23rd place on the all-time KU list for steals. His two steals increased his career total to 109. He moved passed Mark Randall who had 108 (1987, 89-91).
– Xavier Henry reached double figures for his second straight game with 11 points.
– Aldrich increased his career total in blocks to 137 and passed Paul Mokeski for 11th place. (Mokeski 136 blocks (1976-79).
– Kansas trailed only once in the game when the score was 5-4 at 14:09 in the first half.
– KU started the same five as the season-opener (Collins, Taylor, X. Henry, Mk. Morris, Aldrich).