OBAMA AND THE CHOOM GANG | Weekly World News

President Barack Obama?s pot smoking days have been given the Taiwanese animation treatment.

The prolific company, called Next Media Animation, has used an unpublished biography of the President?s younger years as the basis of their latest cartoon salacious re-enactment.

David Maraniss? book, the yet-unreleased ?Barack Obama: The Story?, reveals how?a teen Obama and his friends formed The Choom Gang ? slang for smoking marijuana ? in which he invented inhaling techniques and rode a car called the Choomwagon.

The 2-minute animated clip takes inspiration from Mr Maraniss? research about Mr Obama when he was a teenager in 1970s Hawaii.

Playing on the acronym for the President?s nickname, the clip is titled ?Obama and marijuana: POT-us dope-smoking daze revealed.?

It shows him sitting in the Oval Office, frustrated at the stagnant economy, and quickly an imaginary pot dragon wisks him away to his high school days in the Choomwagon.

He and his buddies proceed to take strong hits off of a bong before racing eachother in cars while high.

The dream ends when one friend flips over his car- which Mr Maraniss asserts as a truth in his book- and Mr Obama wakes up, rolling on the floor of the Oval Office. The first lady?s back is to the camera and she glares at her disobedient husband before he sobers up.

The revelations about young Barry?s drug use come weeks after Mr Maraniss released an excerpt about his college girlfriend and their sex life.

Though the President has disclosed his drug use in previous statements- including a portion of his memoir- the new details may surprise some because of the extent of his usage.

Among his friends, Mr Obama was considered the rule maker of the pot-smoking group. One was ?total absorption? or ?TA?, the rules of which stated that if you exhaled early, ?you were assessed a penalty and your turn was skipped the next time the joint came around.?

Another idea was ?Roof Hits? ? rolling up car windows to stop smoke blowing out and going to waste.

?\?Wasting good bud smoke was not tolerated,?\? an old school friend told the author.

Maraniss goes on to reveal he was known for his ?interceptions? when a joint was being passed around.

?He often elbowed his way in, out of turn, shouted ?intercepted?, and took an extra hit,? he writes.

The anecdotes are from Obama?s time studying at Punahou School in Honolulu, Hawaii and Occidental College in Los Angeles.

One of Obama?s friends, Mark Bendix, had a Volkswagen microbus that they called ?the Choomwagon?, the book continues, and they would use it to drive up?Mount Tantalus in Honolulu.

Once parked, they??turned up their stereos playing Aerosmith, Blue Oyster Cult and Stevie Wonder, lit up some ?sweet-sticky Hawaiian buds? and washed it down with ?green bottled beer? (the Choom Gang preferred Heineken, Becks, and St. Pauli Girl).?

The book also documents Obama?s early democratic leanings, explaining that the group operated by concensus and any member could veto a suggestion.

?Whenever an idea was broached, someone could hold up his hand in the V sign (a backward peace sign of that era) and indicate that the motion was not approved?

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McGurn on the HHS-mandate lawsuit, Notre Dame's involvement ...

CWN - May 29, 2012

Wall Street Journal columnist William McGurn applauds the decision by the University of Notre Dame to join in the lawsuit against the HHS contraceptive mandate. McGurn points out that with Notre Dame among the plaintiffs, it is impossible to charge that the suit is being filed only by conservative groups hostile to President Obama; after all, Notre Dame?s administration has been roundly condemned by conservatives for inviting Obama to speak at commencement.

McGurn goes on to discuss the widening gap between the Obama administration and Catholic voters. He notes that in the past, Democratic presidential candidates (including Obama) have formed campaign efforts to reach out specifically to Catholics. ?The lack of prominence of a similar Catholic effort today points to the obvious: Where can Joe Biden or other Catholic surrogates go where they will not now be on the defensive??

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The Pros of Having Rattan Cube Garden Furniture | Cap1sucks ...

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Cube rattan furniture can last for years. This is mainly due to the flexibility of the material used to manufacture them. Rattan, a material mainly used for furniture making, known as one of the strongest natural materials are the most expensive that people can use to work at the hand of art that is different from or in cases furniture. Individually, they may resemble small vineyards, but they certainly can withstand a certain amount of force before breaking. This material is not something people see every day, but different artisans have adapted the use of these materials to make different models of years. This is a natural substance that does not smell or decay. It is commonly found in regions with tropical climate. So that decision makers of rattan formed they want, they need to do is heat it. This procedure is called a technical strap. After the cane cools, it hardens and retains its shape. This is just a high quality rattan makes the perfect material to be used for making furniture.

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This StartUp loan scheme won't inspire young ... - Business Division

You can?t keep a good entrepreneur down. Take David Young, Lord Young of Graffham, who as a minister tried to rebrand the Department for Trade and Industry (as was) as the ?Department for Enterprise? in the 1980s. In spite of a slight mishap 18 months ago, when he stepped down as a business adviser to David Cameron for talking insensitively about the recession, he has bounced back to speak up for entrepreneurship and the government?s new StartUp loan scheme for under-25s. You can see what Margaret Thatcher saw in him, famously musing that ?David brings me solutions? while other ministers merely whinged.

Young displays many of the characteristics that mark out a true entrepreneur. He is energetic, he is resilient, he is driven and he doesn?t give up. These are the qualities that all business people need when the economy is as troubled as ours is today. The question is: can a new loan scheme for young people really help the economy by making entrepreneurialism more likely to flourish?

That is not at all clear. As Neil Lee, senior economist at the Work Foundation, points out, the failure rate for startups is high, and young people are less likely to be equipped for success than other more seasoned operators. ?Successful entrepreneurship requires either a rare talent or skills, which most entrepreneurs only develop through time,? Lee says.

While ?2,500 may be enough to set up a modest office at home, it won?t do anything to boost demand in the part of the economy you are trying to do business in. And while some mentoring is apparently going to be available, it will be a lonely task for a sole trader keeping a business going in this market.

Entrepreneurs are different. They don?t take no for an answer. They pursue obsessions, beyond the point where other more conventional or conservative types would back down. They are also, crucially, often not really in it for the money. Their inner drive is emotional and may not have a rational basis. Sometimes entrepreneurs are trying to right a perceived wrong: they grew up in poverty and want to prove themselves, or perhaps they were bullied at school for being eccentric or a slow learner. Maybe a parent was unusually demanding, cruel or remote.

Whatever lies behind their ambition, true entrepreneurs will put up with a great deal of hardship and uncertainty in pursuit of their goals. So for many, while a small loan will be welcome, it is actually neither here nor there in terms of providing an incentive to start a business. They are going to do it anyway.

Young is right that today is not necessarily a terrible time to start a business. Some costs, such as office space, are low, and if you can keep revenue coming in at a time like this you should be well set for the moment (it must come, surely?) when the economy is more vigorous again. The growth in self-employment in recent times has kept official unemployment figures lower than they might have been. Clearly, many people are having to work hard and be ?entrepreneurial? just to survive right now.

Still, we should be realistic about what this new loan scheme is likely to achieve. In an 80s TV commercial that trumpeted the then DTI as a ?department for enterprise?, a frustrated business leader declared that while his business was doing OK, it was ?not doing great?. In the summer of 2012 our problem is that the economy is not even doing OK, and there is not very much a new gang of enthusiastic wannabe entrepreneurs can really do about that.

Article source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/may/28/start-up-loan-scheme

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Facebook phone may finally become reality

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Suzanne Choney

You've heard it before, but this time it may come to fruition: Facebook is working on its own phone.?

Why would it be different this time than in the past, when such an effort was reported, although denied by the social networking giant??

There are at least a few reasons:?Google, definitely not Facebook's BFF, recently completed the purchase of Motorola Mobility; and ahead of Facebook's recent?IPO, the company acknowledged that mobile is a key area in which it needs to grow, with more and more?Facebook users accessing the site via mobile than on computers. And right now, the social network has not pushed advertising ??its key revenue source ? onto mobile. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg contends that will change,?saying recently that transforming its mobile and advertising experience are top priorities in 2012. ? ??

"We don't comment on rumor and speculation," said a Facebook spokeswoman when asked for comment by msnbc.com about the Facebook phone. But, she added, "Our mobile strategy is simple: We think every mobile device is better if it is deeply social. We're working across the entire mobile industry; with operators, hardware manufacturers, OS providers and application developers to bring powerful social experiences to more people around the world."

Of additional interest: Facebook is also looking at buying Opera, the mobile Web browser prized for its efficiency. In a report Tuesday, Reuters quoted Arctic Securities as saying such an acquisition would "enhance the now limited mobile experience of Facebook, improve Facebook's mobile monetization problem, help Facebook retain online game developers leaving the social network over the lack of a mobile platform and further improve Facebook's ability to target ads."?

The New York Times reported over the weekend that "people briefed on Facebook's plans" say the company "hopes to release its own smartphone by next year. These people spoke only on the condition of anonymity for fear of jeopardizing their employment or relationships with Facebook."

Facebook has "already hired more than half a dozen former Apple software and hardware engineers who worked on the?iPhone, and one who worked on the?iPad, the employees and those briefed on the plans said."

Last year, HTC released what was described as a Facebook phone, with a dedicated hard-key button for Facebook on it. The phone, called the Status, never took the market by storm like the iPhone or Samsung Galaxy or Motorola Droid models.?

Check out Technolog, Gadgetbox, Digital Life and In-Game on?Facebook,?and on Twitter, follow Suzanne Choney.

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The Importance Of Physical Therapy | Online Business Article ...

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Physical therapy is a type of healthcare specialty that deals with assessing and treating mobility issues. A licensed physical therapist provides the treatments. When patients have an injury or illness, physical therapists assist them in managing their pain, improving their movements and reintegrating them into the community. They use a range of exercises to improve a patient?s range of motion, posture, muscle performance and respiratory system. In addition, they also work to help patients achieve better balance and coordination.

Physical therapists typically work in clinics or hospitals; however, they can also work in nursing homes or private offices. A small percentage of physical therapists are self-employed, so they manage their own practice. The job requires people to stay on their feet for most of the day; therefore, they must be physically active while on the job.

In order to treat patients, physical therapists use the disablement model. This model involves the use of pathophysiology. It is used to treat impairments, functional limitations and disabilities. When using the disablement model, physical therapists can help restore limb function, relieve pain, improve mobility and prevent permanent disabilities. They encourage patients to take steps to keep up their overall health and fitness. Patients who see a physical therapist often include accident victims and those who have a disabling condition. Some of the most common disabling conditions include arthritis, lower back pain, cerebral palsy and heart disease.

Once they have examined their patients, physical therapists create treatment plans. These plans describe the strategy; they form a purpose and have an anticipated outcome. On occasion, a physical therapist assistant is the one who implements the treatment plan. The assistant works directly under the supervision of the physical therapist.

Most physical therapy treatment plans involve some form of exercise. If a patient is immobilized and lacks flexibility, then exercise is used to improve his or her levels of strength and endurance. Physical therapists urge patients to use their muscles to improve their flexibility. Once they have achieved a wider range of motion, patients move on to advanced exercises. These advanced exercises improve balance, strength and coordination. Since patients reach a higher endurance level, they can function better at home and in the workplace.

Besides exercise, treatments may also involve the use of electrical stimulation. If a patient is in a wheelchair, the physical therapist may use electrical stimulation on his or her leg muscles. Some other treatment methods include the use of hot packs or cold compresses. An ultrasound can even be used to reduce swelling and relieve pain symptoms. Traction and deep-tissue massages are another way to ease pain.

In addition to implementing treatment plans, therapists teach patients how to use helpful devices. For instance, they may show patients how to use crutches the proper way. It is also common for them to teach patients how to use prosthetics and wheelchairs. They even demonstrate how the exercises can be performed at home to make for a speedier recovery. Throughout the treatment plan, a physical therapist documents the patient?s progress. Whenever necessary, the therapist conducts periodic tests and modifies the treatment plan. This is the best way to identify and focus on areas that need more attention.

Physical therapists usually consult with other medical professionals when working with patients. For instance, they may consult with physicians, occupational therapists and audiologists. A physical therapist is allowed to specialize within a certain area of the field. Some choose to work in either pediatrics or geriatrics. If someone is a fan of sports, he or she can choose to specialize in sports medicine. Other areas within the field are orthopedics, oncology and neurology.

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Egypt's Brotherhood would keep Israel treaty-Carter

By Tom Pfeiffer

CAIRO May 26 (Reuters) - The Muslim Brotherhood may seek to modify, but will not destroy, Egypt's 33-year-old peace treaty with Israel, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said on Saturday.

Carter, 87, was speaking after initial vote tallies put the Brotherhood's candidate ahead in the first round of Egypt's presidential election, which his Carter Center helped monitor.

The U.S. statesman, who brought together Israeli leader Menachem Begin and Egypt's Anwar Sadat in 1978 to agree the Camp David accords which led to a 1979 treaty, said he had held long discussions with senior Brotherhood figures in Egypt this week.

"My opinion is that the treaty will not be modified in any unilateral way," Carter said at a news conference in Cairo to present the preliminary findings of his election monitors.

Official results in Egypt's first free leadership election are due on Tuesday, but informal tallies put the Brotherhood's Mohamed Mursi and Mubarak's last Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq in the lead. If confirmed, they would fight a run-off in June.

Hamdeen Sabahy, a leftist who has championed Palestinian resistance against Israel, was running a close third.

The peace treaty remains a lynchpin of U.S./Middle East policy and, despite its unpopularity with many Egyptians, was staunchly upheld by President Hosni Mubarak until his overthrow last year in a popular uprising.

The Brotherhood, long suppressed under Mubarak, is vehemently critical of Israel, and its Palestinian offshoot Hamas rules the Gaza Strip. Israeli officials have watched political turmoil since Mubarak's overthrow with growing wariness. ? Continued...

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Open Laboratory 2013 - submissions so far

It is now expected by the science blogosphere that I post the full updated listing of all the submissions every Monday morning. This serves as a reminder for bloggers to submit their (and other people?s) posts, and to some extent prevents duplicate entries. But most importantly, it presents a growing listing of some of the most exciting work on science blogs. This is a weekly post where bloggers can discover each other and discover blogs they were not previously aware of. Thus it is also a promotion for all the bloggers involved.

The submission form for the 2013 edition of Open Lab is now open. Any blog post written since October 1, 2011 is eligible for submission. We will close the form on October 1st, 2012.

We accept essays, stories, poetry, cartoons/comics, and original art.

Once you are done submitting your own posts, you can start looking at the others?, including on aggregators like ScienceSeeker.org, Scienceblogging.org and Researchblogging.org.

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3 Quarks Daily (Julia Galef): My Little Pony: Reality is Magic!

The II-I- blog: We, the pioneers.
The II-I- blog: The Great Revolution

A Blog Around The Clock: The New Meanings of How and Why in Biology?
A Blog Around The Clock: #scio12: Multitudes of Sciences, Multitudes of Journalisms, and the Disappearance of the Quote.
A Blog Around The Clock: Books: ?Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science? by Michael Nielsen
A Blog Around The Clock: Myths about myths about Thanksgiving turkey making you sleepy

A Hippo on Campus: Why men don?t listen and women are great at maths

A Schooner of Science: Fever dreams ? the true tale of Richard Spruce

Addiction Inbox: Reward and Punish: Say Hello to Dopamine?s Leetle Friend
Addiction Inbox: Army Doctor Sees Victory, and a Dangerous Drug Bites the Dust?Almost.
Addiction Inbox: Night Owls Get a Coffee Break

Almost Diamonds: About Those Gay Homophobes
Almost Diamonds: Writing Fiction with Science: Pedophilia
Almost Diamonds: About That Evo Psych Polygamy Stuff

Anole Annals: If You Want A Lizard To Run Fast, Yell At It

Anthropology in Practice: Beware: The Ides Have Come. No, Really. This Time It?s True.

Artologica: From the Cells to the stars

Au Science Mag: Geomagnetic Reversals ? the end of the world?
Au Science Mag: Homeopathy and Medical Ethics ? Aberdeen Skeptics in the Pub

Beach Chair Scientist: An important call for more forage fish to remain in the sea
Beach Chair Scientist: Dear Online Science Writing Community: A reminder for ?call to actions? because your perspective is priceless

Beatrice the Biologist: How the Brain Works (cartoon)
Beatrice the Biologist: Amoeba Hugs (cartoon)

Biobabel: On Transposable Elements and Regulatory Evolution

The Bug Chicks (Michael Barton): A taste for collecting beetles is some indication of future success in life!

Bug Girl?s Blog: How to get free media coverage for a bogus beehive design
Bug Girl?s Blog: Transcript of my ESA talk about Social Media

Byte Size Biology: The Search for Small finds Life on a Gradient
Byte Size Biology: So what?s new with humans?
Byte Size Biology: Using phylogenetics to reconstruct a 59 million year old drug
Byte Size Biology: Life is short
Byte Size Biology: The Origin of Gender Symbols in Biology

Cedar?s Digest: Purple Doesn?t Exist: Some thoughts on Male Privilege and Science Online

The Cellular Scale: The ?Human Neuron?, not so special after all?

CENtral Science IYC 2011: Chemistry Carnival: Your Favorite Chemical Reactions!

Chemjobber: How do institutions change? Not easily
Chemjobber: Ozymandias, senior med chemist (poem)
Chemjobber: Why choose a Ph.D. in chemistry? A response to @DocFreeride

Chimeras: Another genetic puzzle: why is mitochondrial DNA only inherited from the mother?s side?

Cocktail Party Physics: The Science of Mysteries: Of Granular Material and Singing Sands

Contagions: Mapping Malaria in Anglo-Saxon England
Contagions: Did India and China Escape the Black Death?

Cosmic Variance (Sean Carroll): Everything is Connected

Curiouser and Curiouser: James Randi: An Honest Liar
Curiouser and Curiouser: On Stanislaw Burzynski, the Streisand Effect, and Standing Up for Skeptical Bloggers
Curiouser and Curiouser: On Codes of Conduct, Part II

The Curious Wavefunction: The unstoppable Moore hits the immovable Eroom

Deep Sea News (Miriam Goldstein): A wicked bad idear: National Geographic hunts bluefin tuna for entertainment and Eating Wicked Tuna: A marine scientist tries to figure out what the heck is going on fused into a single post.
Deep Sea News (Alistair Dove): On common names
Deep Sea News (Kevin Zelnio): #IamScience: Embracing Personal Experience on Our Rise Through Science
Deep Sea News (Alistair Dove): No fish is an island
Deep Sea News (Craig McClain): What knowledge of the deep sea tell us about life on other planets
Deep Sea News (Alistair Dove): A (fetid) river runs through it, the Brooklyn edition
Deep Sea News (Alexis Rudd): True Confessions of a Dolphin-Loving Marine Biologist
Deep Sea News (Craig McClain): Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow
Deep Sea News (Craig McClain and Alistair Dove): James Cameron?s Deep Sea Challenge: a scientific milestone or rich guy?s junket?

Deep Thoughts and Silliness: The Problems of Interpreting Data

The Demarcationproblem: What chronic stress does to your immune system (cartoon)

Denim and Tweed: Baby steps versus long jumps: The ?size? of evolutionary change, and why it matters

DiverseScholar: #SCIO12 Policy Report: Academia is Productive but Messy ? Effects on (Mis)Communication

Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The Wool of Snowfall

Eruptions: Looking Back at the 1982 eruption of El Chich?n in Mexico
Eruptions: The Mysterious Missing Eruption of 1258 A.D.

EvoEcoLab: The Message Reigns Over the Medium
EvoEcoLab: Trying to Catch His Breath With a Hole-Ridden Safety Net

The Febrile Muse: Inflammatory Language No 1. The ongoing cycle

From The Lab Bench: Google Search Engine Software goes ?Chemistry?
From The Lab Bench: Old News for Carbon Dioxide, New Threats for Climate Change
From The Lab Bench: A Planet Under Pressure, and Why Gender Matters
From The Lab Bench: Putting the ?Fear? in Climate Change
From The Lab Bench: The Nature of Learning, or the Learning of Nature?
From The Lab Bench: Climate Change Communicators Should Listen to the Public
From The Lab Bench: Melancholia and the ?Dance of Death?

Gaines, on Brains: Seeing into the future? The neuroscience of d?j? vu

Galileo?s Pendulum: If You Love a Flower Found on a Star

GeoSphere: The Art of Geology

Green Tea and Velociraptors: What is a Fossil Species..?
Green tea and Velociraptors: Dinosaurs: Then and Now

The Happy Scientist: Teach It Right the First Time.

The Haystack: How Jagabandhu Das made dasatinib possible
The Haystack: On Birth Control,?Plan B,? and?Batman
The Haystack: Biogen Idec Reveals Clinical Data for (Really) Small Oral MS Drug BG-12

ICBS Everywhere: Science and Spin Are Very Bad Bedfellows
ICBS Everywhere: Are Atheists More Compassionate or Prosocial Than Highly Religious People?

In the Company of Plants and Rocks: Taxonomy of Agaves and Vino-mezcal

io9 (Maria Konnikova): What Happens When Alice and Anti-Alice Meet? (A Celebration of Lewis Carroll?s 180th Birthday)
io9 (Annalee Newitz): You are bitching about the wrong things when you read an article about science

Iqsoft science blog: Dilemma

Just Like Cooking: Petition Expedition ? Cancer in Laundry Detergent?
Just Like Cooking: This Just In ? File Under ?Huge Marine Polyethers?
Just Like Cooking: Did Someone Say Pink Slime?
Just Like Cooking: hERG: Legs, Drugs, and Heartbeats
Just Like Cooking: Super Tasters and Smells in Space
Just Like Cooking: The Chemistry Popularity Conundrum
Just Like Cooking: Sunscreen Chemophobia: Oxybenzone
Just Like Cooking: Chemistry Words, with Friends
Just Like Cooking: Friday Fun ? Lab Arts-n-Crafts

Katatrepsis: Why are there imperfect mimics?

KatiePhD: What exactly is a genetically modified plant?
KatiePhD: The Trouble with Teeth?
KatiePhD: Pain-free but itchy: Morphine?s alter ego

LabHomepage: Getting in on the ?what they think? meme

Last Word on Nothing (Sally Adee): Better Living Through Electrochemistry
Last Word on Nothing (Christie Aschwanden): What beer and running taught me about science (part 1 of 2) and/or Life without beer: part 2 of my beer & running science experiment

Life Traces of the Georgia Coast: Georgia Life Traces as Art and Science

Listen to Us!: Moby the Manta Ray

Literally Psyched: Our Storytelling Minds: Do We Ever Really Know What?s Going on Inside?

Lithics: Fault Dynamics 101

Magma Cum Laude: This is what a geologist looks like

My Growing Passion: When Plants Parasitise Fungi: myco-heterotrophy

Neurophilosophy: Sleights of hand, sleights of mind

Neurotic Physiology: Do you love Science? Well, that depends, do you like sleep?
Neurotic Physiology: Friday Weird Science: Does your menstrual blood attract BEARS?!
Neurotic Physiology: Friday Weird Science: Laptops and WIFI are coming for your SPERM. Again.
Neurotic Physiology: Overeating and Obesity: Should we really call it food addiction?
Neurotic Physiology: Friday Weird Science: The Social Psychology of Flatulence

Nottingham Science Blog: Interview : Eben Upton at Raspberry Pi

Observations (Ferris Jabr): Animals Exposed to Virtual Reality Hold an Emergency Meeting

The Organometallic Reader: Ligand Field Theory & Frontier Molecular Orbital Theory

Oscillatory Thoughts: Automated Science, Deep Data, and the Paradox of Information

Powered by Osteons: From Birth to Burial: the Curious Case of Easter Eggs
Powered by Osteons: Childbirth and C-Sections in Bioarchaeology
Powered by Osteons: Line on the left, one cross each: Bioarchaeology of Crucifixion
Powered by Osteons: A Brief History of Bioarchaeology ? Part I: America
Powered by Osteons: Lead Poisoning in Rome ? The Skeletal Evidence

Providentia: That X-ray Vision
Providentia: Why Are People So Skeptical About Psychology?

PsySociety: Why Jersey Shore Won?t Make You Dumber: The Importance Of Responsible Science Journalism
PsySociety: If I Were A Well-Off White Man? I Might Not Understand Other People Very Well.

Quantum Diaries: Error Control in Science

Reciprocal Space: What?s your favourite colour?

Reportergene: Where are your cells from?
Reportergene: Packaging madness

The Scicurious Brain: Cocaine and the sexual habits of quail, or, why does NIH fund what it does?
The Scicurious Brain: It hurts so good: the runner?s high

Science Calling: Seeing through sound

Science. How hard can it be?: A tale of generations
Science. How hard can it be?: When we become nature?s mice.

Science Is Everyone?s Story: The Health Cost of Black Women?s Hair Products
Science Is Everyone?s Story: Energy Journalism: Cleaning up the Numbers

Science Sushi: Evolution: The Rise of Complexity
Science Sushi: Time ? and brain chemistry ? heal all wounds
Science Sushi: The Joke Isn?t Funny ? It?s Harmful

Scientific American Guest Blog (See Arr Oh): Cochineal Dye Bugs Starbucks Customers
Scientific American Guest Blog (Alexis Rudd): Singing Snails and Killer Whales: Parallels in Conservation
Scientific American Guest Blog (Deborah Blum): About Pepper Spray
Scientific American Guest Blog (Meera Lee Sethi): Internet Porn Fills Gap in Spider Taxonomy
Scientific American Guest Blog (Cheryl Murphy): Learning the Look of Love: That Sly ?Come Hither? Stare
Scientific American Guest Blog (Cheryl Murphy): Music can change (the way we see) the world
Scientific American Guest Blog (The Dog Zombie): The Hearty Ingredients of Canis Soup
Scientific American Guest Blog (Paige Brown): Catalytic Clothing?-Purifying Air Goes Trendy
Scientific American Guest Blog (Melanie Tannenbaum): Trayvon Martin?s Psychological Killer: Why We See Guns That Aren?t There
Scientific American Guest Blog (Melanie Tannenbaum): If It Looks Like a Compliment, and Sounds Like a Compliment?Is It Really a Compliment?
Scientific American Guest Blog (Sam McNerney): A Brief Guide to Embodied Cognition: Why You Are Not Your Brain
Scientific American Guest Blog (Danica Radovanovic): Digital Divide and Social Media: Connectivity Doesn?t End the Digital Divide, Skills Do
Scientific American Guest Blog (Danica Radovanovic): Phatic Posts: Even the Small Talk Can Be Big

The Scorpion and the Frog: The ?Love Hormone? Pageant and The ?Love Hormone? of 2012 fused into one.

Skulls in the Stars: Fran?ois Arago: the most interesting physicist in the world!
Skulls in the Stars: The secret molecular life of soap bubbles (1913)

Social Dimension: New Ways to Measure Science
Social Dimension: The Fractal Dimension of ZIP Codes

Southern Fried Science: If fish evolved on land, where did they all go? Evolution and Biodiversity in the Ocean

Southern Limits: Seven Myths Deniers Use To ?Debunk? Peak Oil, Debunked

Speakeasy Science: Cough Syrup, Dead Children, and the Case for Regulation

Squid A Day: Neurotoxins In Stranded Squid (With Bonus Rant About Academic Publishing)
Squid A Day: Why Aren?t Humboldt Squid Giant?

Starts with a Bang: So, you?ve learned that the Sun is going to explode?

The Starving Neuron: Fooled by the senses.
The Starving Neuron: 24 hours in the lab
The Starving Neuron: Bad behaviour

This View of Life: There is Grandeur (Really)

Tim Poisot?s blog: What should the next generation of ecological journals look like?

Token Skeptic: Eye-Witness To A Crime And Not Raisins ? Reflections On The Bystander Effect In Helping Behaviour
Token Skeptic: The Special-Ness Of Species
Token Skeptic: Live-Blogging #ASC2012 ? Monday Morning At The Australian Science Communicators National Conference

Trauma Recovery: Parents tell about their children?s recovery from trauma

Universe Today: A New Look at Apollo Samples Supports Ancient Impact Theory
Universe Today: Is Earth Alive? Scientists Seek Sulfur For An Answer

The Virtuosi: A Very Small Slice of Pi

Watershed Moments: Tree die-off in western North America
Watershed Moments: C is for Communication
Watershed Moments: Food, water & energy

We Beasties: Allergies 101
We Beasties: Allergies 101 ? Part deux
We Beasties: Allergies 101: Part the Third

Words in mOcean: I?m a marine biologist, but sometimes I wish that what I did sounded a bit less interesting?

Zoonotica: How do we know what causes an infectious disease? Part 1 and How do we know what causes an infectious disease? Part 2

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Egypt: Islamist, Mubarak's ex-premier in runoff

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Rumor: Facebook To Buy Opera Software To Join Browser Wars

Okay take this with some skepticism as there is no official confirmation about this yet, and the only source for the article is an unnamed one. According to web magazine Pocket-Lint, Facebook is considering buying the Norwegian company Opera Software, which developers the Opera web browser for various platforms.

Opera Software, which had a very strong q1 financially is known for the Opera desktop browser, one the two major browsers that is not backed by a multi-billion Dollar company (the other is Mozilla), the mobile versions of the browser. Recently, the company has also made further investments in the advertisement space, improving the impressions served to 86 billion in the first quarter of 2012.

A Facebook owned Opera browser would provide Facebook with additional revenue possibilities, and save it from creating a browser of their own. And Opera?s experience in the mobile market could improve Facebook?s presence here, both app-wise but also advertising-wise.

For Opera it could mean additional manpower and development funds to develop the browsers in a faster pace.

It is the users that may have issues with the acquisition, if the rumor should turn out to be true, considering that a Facebook browser would certainly make some changes that the devoted community may not be pleased with at all. One change could be the tight integration with Facebook, another that certain features of the browser may be modified or retired completely to streamline it further.

So how realistic is the rumor? Opera Software is a public company with a revenue of about 160 million in the last four quarters. It is definitely a possibility that Facebook would make an offer for the company if it is really interested in getting into the browser market. It is actually the only company with a market share of more than 1% that is available at all, as the top 4 remaining companies are owned by Microsoft, Apple, Google and Mozilla, who all would not even think of selling their browser to Facebook.

For now I?d say it is unlikely that Facebook will buy Opera Software, and the main reason for that is that the source has not been mentioned. For all I know, this could be some form of link-baiting. What is your take?

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Memorial Day grief for military suicide families

Charlie Mahoney / Prime for msnbc.com

Kim Ruocco poses outside her home in Newbury, Mass., on Thursday. Ruocco is the national director of suicide education and outreach at the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors, or TAPS. Marine Maj. John Ruocco, her husband, killed himself after a deployment in Iraq in 2004.

By Rebecca Ruiz

For the family and friends of service members who died by suicide, Memorial Day can be not only a solemn day, but also a painful reminder that military suicides are not treated the same as combat deaths.?

Kim Ruocco, the national director of suicide education and outreach at Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors, or TAPS, has experienced this isolating grief firsthand. This weekend, she is bringing together about 100 suicide survivors at TAPS' annual Memorial Day weekend National Military Survivor Seminar and Good Grief Camp for Young Survivors.

"[Suicide survivors] are surrounded by people whose loved ones were killed in action," Ruocco said. "There's a real sense that their loved one's death was not an honorable death."

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Ruocco's husband, Marine Corps Maj. John Ruocco, killed himself seven years ago. He?was a Cobra helicopter pilot who ran 75 combat missions during a five-month deployment in Fallujah, Iraq, in 2004. He had struggled with depression in the past, particularly after a training accident in the 1990s when two Cobras collided in midair, and he lost four friends.

In February 2005, while living temporarily in a hotel room near Camp Pendleton in California, awaiting a redeployment to Iraq and considering mental health counseling, John Ruocco hanged himself.?

"He was so ashamed of being depressed and not being able to do his job," Kim Ruocco, 49, said. He was going to seek treatment, but she believes that "when he?sat there and thought about what it meant to get help, how people would see you, how young Marines viewed him, how his peers viewed him ... he thought the problem was him."

Kim Ruocco, who has a master's degree in social work, provides counseling resources to suicide survivors, helps family members secure benefits and facilitates support groups. TAPS also tries to change procedures and policies that can be hurtful to suicide survivors, such as the exclusion of service members who died by suicide from state memorials and?the distribution to suicide survivors of different Gold Star pins than the ones given to families when a service member dies in action.

This weekend's?four-day event for survivors is expected to draw more than 2,000 participants. It?will feature panels and peer support groups on dealing with grief,?sessions on spirituality and meditation,?and events for children.

In 2011, 301 active-duty service members died by suicide, according to the Department of Defense. More than half of those deaths occurred in the Army, where the suicide rate last year was projected at 24.1 per 100,000, outpacing the national rate adjusted for the comparison of 18.6 people per 100,000.?A study released earlier this year by the U.S. Army Public Health Command found that the number of active-duty soldiers who committed suicide increased 80 percent between 2004 and 2008.

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Though the Department of Defense has worked to de-stigmatize mental illness in recent years through various initiatives and training programs, challenges remain. On Thursday, Maj. Gen. Dana J.H. Pittard, commanding general of Fort Bliss in Texas, retracted a blog piece he posted on Jan. 19 in which he called suicide "an absolutely selfish act."?

"I am personally fed up with soldiers who are choosing to take their own lives so that others can clean up their mess," he wrote.?

Dennis R. Swanson, a public affairs officer at Fort Bliss, told msnbc.com that the post was written in an emotional moment after Pittard had attended two memorial services for soldiers who killed themselves, and then learned of a third suicide. In the 2012 fiscal year, there have been six suicides at Fort Bliss.?

In his retraction,?Pittard apologized for his "hurtful statement," which he said was "not in line with?the Army's guidance regarding sensitivity to suicide."?

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"We must continue to do better each and every day, reaching out, encouraging?and helping those in need," he wrote.?

Ruocco worries that Pittard's original comments, which were removed from his blog, may have done damage. "By saying those words, he is telling the troops and their families that thinking about suicide is a weakness, it's not a mental illness," she said.?

Culture of stoicism
Leslie?McCaddon, 36, knows this conflict well. Her husband, Army Capt. Michael?McCaddon, a doctor,?killed himself in March. McCaddon, who served on a bomb squad on a deployment to Bosnia in the 1990s and was a first responder at the Oklahoma City bombing, battled severe depression for seven years and had a family history of suicide.

McCaddon said she urged him to seek help and he sporadically attended counseling sessions. But Michael, 37, was in his residency at Tripler Army Medical Center in Hawaii, and the demanding schedule made it difficult to seek intense treatment, she said. Michael also did not want to let his colleagues down or become a liability, McCaddon said.?

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"Personally, I have visions where mental health counseling is as standard and routine and mandatory as physical training," said McCaddon, who will attend the TAPS gathering for the first time with her three children this weekend. "All the men and women can grumble and say that?s a waste of time, but they?d still go because it?d be their place of duty. Someone like Mike, if he?d been told he had to be there, he would have gone."

McCaddon believes that the military culture of stoicism, and the stigmatization of mental illness, kept her husband from seeking help for fear of ruining his career.?Many service members worry that they'll be passed over for promotions or even discharged after admitting and receiving treatment for a mental illness, Ruocco said.

'Somebody's got to talk to people'
It is the same fear that Bob Bagosy says keeps friends and colleagues of struggling service members from admitting how severe mental health issues can be. His son, Tommy, was considering in-patient mental health treatment in 2010, but repeatedly heard from fellow service members that it might hurt his career. Tommy, a 25-year-old Marine sergeant, had completed a tour in Fallujah, Iraq, from 2006 to 2007, and a second tour in Afghanistan in 2009. He sustained a traumatic brain injury during his deployment and had post-traumatic stress disorder.

When he threatened suicide to his wife, Katie, she asked Tommy's psychologist at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina to mandate in-patient treatment. Tommy was brought in to make those arrangements, but then walked out of the office, and after an encounter with the military police, shot himself to death.

Military women and suicide: Home safe but not sound

Bagosy believes that Tommy's life might have been saved had there been more candid discussion about struggles like his. "Somebody's got to talk to people," Bagosy said. "They've got to hear that just because you?re a Marine, and you survived the wars, does not mean you're not subject to having these thoughts."

Bagosy, a former Marine reservist, does his part by telling Tommy's story to groups of Marines, urging them to seek help if they need it.

He has been involved with TAPS' suicide survivor program since 2010 and will attend the gathering this weekend. "This group of people became my other family, my surrogate family. It?s an automatic bonding," he said.

Providing that support is the core of Ruocco's work, and her focus is helping survivors change their perspective on the tragedy they experienced. Their loved ones served and sacrificed, sustaining psychological and sometimes physical wounds, Ruocco tells survivors -- they just died differently.

"How they died defines it instead of how they lived," Ruocco said. "I try to get them to shift to how they lived."

Rebecca Ruiz is a reporter at msnbc.com and a 2011-2012 Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellow. Follow her on Twitter here.

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Cover broken on underground cross community reconciliation talks

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All of a sudden eyes have opened and ears are listening ? the eyes and ears of the political and media worlds.

They have been brought to attention by two speeches at the Sinn Fein Ard Fheis, and the emerging news of a private dialogue between republicans and a ?very significant group of people? from the Protestant/unionist community.

That dialogue is about reconciliation.

And, last night in Killarney, Martin McGuinness and Declan Kearney slipped snippets of information into their party conference speeches; just enough to get the journalists interested.

Then the former Methodist President Harold Good, a witness to IRA decommissioning, confirmed his participation in what have been off-stage talks.

All of this has been developing over a period of some weeks ? its starting point an article penned by the Sinn Fein National Chair Declan Kearney in An Phoblacht at the beginning of March.

That article is remembered for one word ? sorry, and Kearney?s challenge to republicans to use it, not to apologise for the IRA war, but to acknowledge the hurt of all armed actions.

He wrote about wanting to develop? ?authentic reconciliation? ? this to be the next phase in the peace process moving beyond the ending of armed campaigns, decommissioning and political agreements.

That article, and subsequent interviews by Kearney, became the focus of much comment and debate on this website.

And those involved in the conversation at eamonnmallie.com will not have been surprised by the news coming out of the Sinn Fein Ard Fheis.

Declan Kearney told his audience:

?A range of Protestant and unionist people have been engaged privately with myself and other party colleagues to explore our respective concepts, principles and language.

?They have come from within Protestant Churches, loyalism, business, community and civic life,? he said.

That story has been at eamonnmallie.com for weeks. All it needed was a reading of the tea leaves across the various posts and responses.

And, some of those involved in that behind-the-scenes dialogue are regular contributors here ? people who immediately recognised the potential in the type of initiative Kearney said he wanted to develop.

Two months ago on this website, the UDA leader Jackie McDonald criticised the supergrass and HET approaches to dealing with the past, and wrote:

?Surely talking to each other and engaging in conversations such as those involving Declan Kearney, Harold Good and many others is a more positive way forward.?

That talking finally became headlines last night ? talking in which McDonald is involved.

In today?s Belfast Telegraph, he tells me: ?I think it?s for real. Real questions are being asked and real answers are being given.?

Other loyalists are involved, including former prisoner John Howcroft, another regular contributor to this website.

Within days of the Kearney An Phoblacht article, Lord John Alderdice posted the following thought:

?There are some important lines in here, especially given who is saying them and where it?s published, and it would be a serious mistake not to explore them.

Alderdice is now part of that exploration of possibilities that is happening in private, as is Alan McBride ? a man who lost his wife and father-in-law in the slaughter the IRA caused on the Shankill Road in a bomb explosion in 1993.

Someone else involved in the talks is the Presbyterian Minister Rev Lesley Carroll, who was part of the Eames-Bradley Consultative Group on the Past.

She recognised immediately the importance of that word ? sorry, used by Kearney now almost three months ago.

On this website Rev Carroll wrote: ?It is a humanising word for both the one saying it and the one to whom it is said.?

And in his Ard Fheis speech last night Declan Kearney spoke of a dialogue in which ?we listen to each other unconditionally, language is humanised and all voices are heard, north and south, republican, unionist, nationalist and loyalist?.

His use of that word humanised is one small indication of how republicans are reading and listening to what is being said by those from the Protestant/unionist community who are engaged in this discussion.

In today?s Belfast Telegraph Rev Carroll tells me: ?I believe this is a real and genuine request from within the republican movement which requires robust engagement to bring our society closer towards reconciliation.?

In his Ard Fheis speech Declan Kearney again urged political unionism to join this developing dialogue.

So far, the contribution from some in that that quarter could be characterised as more ?Smart Alec? than smart thinking, and, again in this process, the heavy lifting is being left to others in the Protestant/unionist community.

Writing elsewhere on this website Harold Good describes the search for the elusive ?How? ? meaning the structure or process within which the past will eventually be addressed.

?It will only work if it is desired, inspired and owned by the grassroots, rather than yet another solution which has been thought up and handed down from on high,? he writes.

There is also an international thought from Aaro Suonio ? the Finn who had a long role here with the IICD ? the decommissioning commission.

He suggests that this generation ?should record their views, thoughts and sentiments? then leave them for future generations to study with ?less emotion?.

The big conversation that became news last night has been happening for some time now ? and there are people involved who will find the ?How? that Harold Good speaks of.

Others need to join the dialogue, need to help shape the process, and think of reasons to join in rather than excuses to stay out.

We are forty years on from 1972 ? and all of those Bloody Days in what was the worst year of this conflict.

Surely it is time to discuss not only what happened, but why ? and, more important than that, why it should never happen again.

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