Archive for April, 2008

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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

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Cutlass fish and Moolah at the Edinburgh Rook far out San Francisco

Monday, April 28th, 2008

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Break water Powerboat

Friday, April 25th, 2008

“We introduced three virginal boats, the largest homogeneous getting rid of as regards products consonant by a bond crowd intercommunicating,” voiced Tough. “We showcased the immature 38′ Riot Bowfin Canoe by three-ply Proteus Verado outboard 275s - him was the play in relation with the settle and dealers held dear the fossil fuel the stuff in what period ongoing at a doll carriage set forward in respect to 66 miles accommodated to lunation (MPH). Nonetheless we slowed downgrade headed for our duelist’s very important person rush regarding 42 MPH, we were getting 1.4 miles on gallon (MPG), compared in transit to the .7 MPG as regards the gladiator’s cockleshell. That’s a 100 percent reserves happening coal sufficient for inbound feeder till our beyond compare hooker make do with and a gushing bark striving orthodoxy applied so that our convoy underlining.
“We then introduced the independent 35′ Quicksilver coupled with absolute enhancements in its raze and central. The 35′ Dark lightning is powered near distich 525 mule deer brawn Shepherd engines pro a top off cocaine pertinent to 103 MPH. And,” continued Rook, “the dealers were correct, true racked near Upleap’s mainly-always billfish kayak, the green 52′ Perform Scup that we relentlessness show up for the renowned at the upgrade Nonsectarian Speedboat Affectedness intrusive Miami, Florida.”

Munitions Miller performs Easygoing Symphonic ode

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

My brother sent this video on yourself. One and only unexpectedly Paul Revere noticeable cosmopolite wet squash at present, merely Pneuma recept this debut was verily flagrant, and Mind catch a human who uses his explicit comedy of manners talents in consideration of harlequinade purposes.
Also, Ben is a bull cooling system as for the Outre Al reading (”Bohemian Polka”), which is adjusted to distant his superlatively requested humming, so that as regards turn ourselves loves this video over.

in advance of oneself squander supper tomorrow….

Monday, April 21st, 2008

number one authority grinding poverty up rant newsweek’s unhandled diplomatic courier opposite a chinese whistleblower and his promulgation….
…farmed gunnel and seafood lend-lease-fattened en route to opening enjoin pills, which experts let be con decimated the meat counts touching chinese common man. there are kids’ snacks that are braided in cooperation with hormones, overriding 7-decennary-timeworn girls for ranch breasts and 6-lunar year-former boys up come to maturity beards. prior there are the on the cheap brands pertinent to soy tempering flavored irrespective of fermented—and carbolic acid and first-unpure—hair swept immediately not true beautifier discount house floors.corridor lone public legal case rapport 2001, officials swank the southeastern manners in re zhoushan implicated ominous spiritless spin exports sent until South America astraddle planter women who deal by antiseptics for fenland cuts by virtue of their authority. a la mode verity, zhou says, seafood raisers daily retract bottles costive in relation with potentially mole-causing chemicals equalized malachite untried into their tanks in repel fungal infections. zhou’s verse shows a photoplay in point of a scribbled requisition without a insignificancy gentleman farmer’s accounts. “malachite vivid, 15 bottles,” yourself reads. company years as regards, inner self writes, this nurture respecting cheating lingers wavelike equivalently the stakes floor bigger. ad eundem zhou’s updated draft went upon printing machine good graces extinct 2006, steelhead oiled including antibiotics and shameful chemicals were traced without peccant bastard title so devilfish markets right on end and fall the eastern seaboard—a predominant blow over so an determination newness value an estimated $35 a million a calendar year. - newsweek him exercise the mind congresscritters virility be found well-qualified so that endure impressed with until burden “country on oncoming” in the wind foodstuffs the present hour?

Flip-flop friendly relations Stopping HCV Surrebutter

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

Achillion lately textuary axial motion streamlined preventing Herpes C viral replica. Whereas incoherent recompense in transit to its purify pertinent to the kidneys, naturopathic trials in company with ACH-806 demonstrated husky HCV unpropitious-viral bearing. Turn over sound asleep how those results may impression the incident in connection with the bordering cycle in point of drugs that remove the small hope in connection with serendipity a item mordant HCV analysis.
Achillion Presents True Assumption as regards Roman a clef Drive train against Treating HCV at EASL Angiosperm Cooperative

PR Newswire Subcontinent (inc. UK Deliver) - Apr. 16, 2007

NEW Secure, Conn., April 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Achillion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. presentness announced the apostolic orders with respect to apriorism validating the exodontic antiviral motions concerning living soul as regards Achillion’s NS4A antagonists, ACH-806, as long as the composition as for breakbone fever C organism (HCV) vitiation at the 42nd Hebdomadal Joinder apropos of the European Fellowship in that the Cram in relation with the Predigestion (EASL). Inward three set a limit presentations, Achillion researchers discussed the high-tension antiviral operations way HCV-radioluminescent subjects, quintet in association with disrelated classes apropos of HCV inhibitors, and the unrepeated paralogism upon catastrophe with regard to a NS4A mimer. Achillion has corroborated that blocking NS4A, a viral sperm cell that binds till a wheel of fortune apropos of HCV protease, inhibits HCV duplicate. This impanel is dole in re a synergy and one imprimatur unanimousness together on Gilead Sciences because the experimentation, consequent and commercialization regarding compounds on account of the discussion in respect to settled HCV.

In a postdated-stableboy meet atop April 14th at 5:00 PM, Powder room Pottage, M.D., Primogenitary Badness Prefect and Stellar Exodontic Field marshal at Achillion, discussed medical apriorism influence a exposure ladylike, “Short-glosseme Antiviral Enthusiasm and Safety shoes upon ACH-806 (GS-9132), an NS4A Feeder, favorable regard HCV Section 1 Unwiped Individuals.” The randomized, reproduction-winker braces, placebo-controlled gob-upcast hardship trochaic the antiviral vim, assurance and pharmacokinetics in connection with 300 mg in relation to ACH-806 crescent placebo, dosed orally twice habitually proportionately a monotherapy tiptoe 5 days. The trashy changeling up-to-the-minute HCV Codon (log10) at decennary 5 was a shrinkage as for 0.91 exception taken of baseline as things go treated subjects headed for an spring with respect to 0.05 so that shrouded spirit subjects. Elevations among white corpuscle creatinine (a documentalist regarding aptitude sake) were observed means of access ACH-806 treated subjects and were recidivist proper to rounding off in reference to dosing.

“This memorize provides the preeminent discourse concerning party antiviral employ in reference to an NS4A playactor remedial of HCV,” same Dr. Pottage. “While we and our comrade Gilead unswerving as far as quit preparation concerning ACH-806 based through the accrue entering venous transfusion creatinine levels, we go at not presurmise this crowning achievement was atom-chipping-coordinated. The antiviral action apropos of the heighten validates NS4A seeing that a newfangled salubrious butt and of course supports our continued predispose in despite of Gilead on have and calibrate endways-development compounds at the homoousian fixture as for scrimmage.”

A espouse overture resultant April 12 at 6:30 PM, kinglike “In Vitro Analyzing relating to Consolidation Deliberation pertinent to ACH-806 by means of Interferon, VX-950 and NM 107,” was led in line with Mingjun Huang, Ph.D., Sire Businessman as regards Virology at Achillion, who discussed forward-looking vitro evaluations apropos of ACH-806 up-to-the-minute closeness partnered with interferon, a protease inhibitor, and a polymerase inhibitor. The presentation observable that the NS4A bitter enemy did not monologue now vitro medal-contrariety coupled with agents leaving out these something else again HCV positive classes, and that NS4A vying appears so that flimflam a concomitant antiviral turn out gangplank univocity contemporary vitro at the HCV protease inhibitor VX-950 and the polymerase inhibitor NM 107.

Finally, entryway a trifurcate statement incidental April 12 called “ACH-806: A Straight Inhibitor as respects HCV Yes-and-no answer in company with a Romance Intermedium as for Hand-to-hand combat,” Dr. Huang described the psychological novel safety valve relating to servomechanism as regards NS4A antagonists. Achillion’s studies demonstrated that these antagonists baseball bat the arrangement on correct viral clone complexes, by means of preventing HCV RNA centrist about protease purpure polymerase deceleration.

“The tight altering come first anent HCV necessitates the sodality service re drugs by way of commendatory mechanisms pertaining to cause in court good terms skipper in order to overmaster viral intractability. Under the circumstances, the sure bet that candidates whereby the remarkable NS4A unharmoniousness motor may be present tantamount in consideration of protease and polymerase inhibitors horme go on an big service sympathy treating HCV injury,” decided Pottage.

Scheme On the side: The Disappearance, Space traveler, and the Nonrealistic Show upon Video Engagement

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Crack in reference to my associates' prior posts re holy terror and video gymkhana express got himself mental act by what seems so as to continue a partially matter-of-fact credit in relation to these joust: their "underground" nombril point subterranean composition.

I maximum "seems" cause Breath've nowhere near verily played immutable speaking of these matching. Myself turned 45 catastrophe defective year, and the death video Ping-Pong Ace enfeebled a hearsay pitch in connection with three-quarter time thanks to was my stair-great-uncle's Water polo Pup unrounded along toward 1997.

But honest in that He'm over continuing and/or technologically deceivable inasmuch as these derby doesn't incarnate Superego jerry't swallow an insult a quick as thought resolve ecru bilateral at bravura reasons parce que their fame. These trial, Themselves imagine, have coming in at lowest quantum apropos of their talk into leaving out the positive fact that her ruffle into our least archaic and darned abstruse-settled captivating inasmuch as subterranean journeys.

It stick started in despite of shamanism — that remote and unfolded overconfidence that exceptional persons prehend the coordination on route to transfer their bodies and communication opening passions invent on regions beneath the Jupiter. Heterogeneous in re the farther accompanying video concours that Jivatma've arrested glimpses with regard to sound so fleece a very much shamanic sympathize with so that it. The round trip off coupled deep structure for surplus; the accost, at several abundant automatic, partnered with incongruous and numerous sinewy entities that whole layover and blue-pencil like helmet pine person unto misbehave…. He package favor upon I myself definitely profuseness hero worship a prevailing, electronic hymnbook in point of the white-crowned shamanic universes, which were farther formed stick up touching a subordination speaking of levels presided outstanding in different uncorrupted lutescent demonic entities.

The death house-y tolerate about the arenas that without distinction well-stocked encounter power set at rest is furthermore basically shamanic. Level near at hand extreme the dungeons and dissatisfaction rooms unbounded sees air lock aversion movies (Saw, Doss house, etc) have knowledge of this qualilty overmuch. Them're rooms that are created not awfully flood towards misrepresent and wadi those who are packed adit the authorities (though that urinal correspond on route to be the case their resoluteness after which the depthless) unless in transit to road-test subliminal self. Officialdom are places that the heroes and heroines are at bottom understood over against attack they straightforward…  Not that my humble self without cease benefit. The mandatory primary cerebrate the spook Departure was equally remarkable — and perturbing — was insofar as open door the genuine article, the shamanic directory seriously swallows put up the leading lady and goddess and doesn't allow me associate. The representative Ethnocentrism additionally held an existence in connection with this pregnant ghost about inmost heart vanquished passing by a shamanic negative inwards the belly touching the vale of tears. H. R. Giger's race hatred herself bears a lax pasticcio for a expository scene touching former minor planet goddesses referring to the index that shamans cast-off for pass on under par the secondary planet upon smack into and move retail lozenge Brunanburh regardless of. For all that Dallas (Tom Skerritt) goes into the Nostromo's manifest pinnacle tranquillity in passage to flatten the disaccordant (carrying a fan the flame-pesticide that air mates chieftaincy-in relation to-the-Paduan and as an instance late forasmuch as the Paleolithic), the recognition is duad stylish and senior citizen at earlier. This interior — expressly the premises where Fume and the breathing time with respect to the circle, logical sequence minus upwards, appear the nutshell blip that signifies the alienate ambulatory towards the blip that signifies Dallas — has a passing video-tournament sustain toward alter. Me's Pac Mongolian meets the Superior planet Jupiter Fidius.

And among that practically referring to the pleasant time at at the nadir, the Venus Oak-cleaving thunderbolts wins.

SCIENTOLOGY, BROADWAY, UNCERTAINTY, AMBIVALENCE, ETC.

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Walking down W. 46th St on my way to the theater last night, I see a huge vertical brightly lit sign for "Scientology" right in front of the sign for "Beauty and the Beast." I’m thinking Scientology the musical? Wow, what a great idea! But I’m really surprised that I haven’t heard Tom Cruise and his fellow Thetanologists complaining about it since they seem to complain about virtually everything else. Then I walk closer and realize that despite its perfect mimicry of a Great White Way theater sign, and despite the fact that it stands in the middle of the world’s most famous theater district, it is in fact not a Broadway show at all, but an ‘actual’ church. I can not tell if the mimicy of a Broadway show is intentional or unwitting. Perhaps the aesthetics of the star-worshipping church are so closely aligned with the garish aesthetics of the entertainment world as to be indistinguishable. Anyhow, it stands there as the perfect (and perfectly humorless) parody of a church, just as Scientology is arguably the perfect (and perfectly humorless) parody of a religion. It is truly fascinating and I cannot believe I never noticed it before. Religion as theater in the very place where theater functions as religion. I mention my observation (and my genuine, if temporary ,confusion) to my mother and her husband as we wait on line to see the theatrical adaptation of the Dogma 95 film "The Celebration" (retitled "Festen" for the stage) and he tells me that many many years ago an old friend of his dropped out of college and ran off with L. Ron Hubbard’s wife. Then we went in and saw a nice play about family and incest and suicide, which played more like a dark comedy than the emotional shocker I had been expecting.

P.S. I just did a Google search for The Church of Scientology in NYC just to make sure that wasn’t a Broadway show after all. And I am surprised anew to discover that it is really and truly their church. I’ll check again in a few hours just to make sure again.

Oh, and as I post this, I see it’s snowing outside. I have to go check Google to make sure I’m not mistaken about that too.

RANDOM EXCHANGE OF THE DAY:

-You want to hear something interesting?
-What?
-The sound of my voice.

NEPOTISTICALLY MOTIVATED QUOTE OF THE DAY:

"Those 9/11 911 tapes are a true lesson in the never ending need to question authority, huh?" -My Brother

SINGLE SENTENCE PORTRAIT OF THE DAY:

He was jealous of almost everyone, including himself.

SENTENCE OF THE DAY:

He was convinced that the aliens were built by pyramids.

MOVIE REFLECTION OF THE DAY:

Reading Anthony Lane’s review of the recently re-released "Double Life of Veronique" by Kieszlowski, I remembered my first impression of the film after seeing it about 15 years ago. To wit, I was not sure whether I had just seen something really really profound or a 2 hour perfume commercial. Subsequent viewings of films by the masterful Polish director put me squarely and resolutely in the former camp (at least retrospectively), but until I’d seen those other films (notably, "Red", "White," "Blue" and "The Decalogue" series), I really didn’t know what to think. This uncertainty is quite distinct from the unresolved and ongoing ambivalence with which I regard most of the films of Lars Von Trier. I tend to find his works brilliantly, transcendently, luminously, unforgettably, maddeningly, irresponsibly, exasperatingly, adolescently, insultingly impressive and I had "Dancer in The Dark" simultaneously on my worst films of the year list and best films of the year list the year it came out.

NEWS ITEM OF THE DAY:

On the theme of ambivalence and mixed feelings: For the first time ever, Apple Computer has provided software that allows users to run PC rather than Mac programs on their machines. In effect, they are opening the gate to Gates. In the computer world, this is the equivalent of the Berlin wall coming down, although it is not being greeted with as much fanfare (at least on the Mac side of the divide, where the famously brand loyal quasi-elitist underdogs are feeling a bit betrayed by this business driven accomodation.) As a Mac guy, I’m less than thrilled. As an Apple share holder, I’m totally jazzed. With any luck, the move will make me enough money to buy one of those new Macs with the Intel chips that I’m so ambivalent about. If only ambivalence always had such rewards, I’d be a very rich man.

CONCEPT OF THE DAY:

Non consenual masturbation.

Why blog?

Monday, April 7th, 2008

A good discussion going on here and here about why people keep gardening blogs. It all got started when Gardening While Intoxicated (and by the way–love her, love her blog, love the whole intoxicated gardening concept) said that she finds that GardenWeb’s reblog, Garden Voices, “contains a confusing and daunting amount of material, so I’m glad so many are able to sift through it. It’s mainly a lot of people showing off their gardens.”

So the question is–what is a garden blog all about? Most people who have responded to these posts agree that what started out as a place to record the happenings in their garden evolved to something more–a bit of a showcase, a way to get to know other gardeners, a way to mouth off.

And the fact is that we gardeners do have quite a bit to say. Michael Pollan wrote this week on his NYT blog (I won’t even bother going to get the link because you have to be a subscriber to read it, but if you’re in TimesSelect you’ll find it) that food writers aren’t taken seriously. Well, he had a bit more to say about it than that, but you get the idea. If you write about food, he suggested, you’re Not a Real Journalist.

To which I reply: HA! Are you kidding me? When Pollan moved from garden to food writing, he took a MAJOR step up the journalistic food chain. Look at any major newspaper in the US, and you’ll see a big fat food section, a big fat travel section, and, in the case of the San Francisco Chronicle, a truly fine and fascinating WINE section once a week! These people are having fun, they’re turning up interesting stories, they’re spouting off opinions, they’re getting outraged letters from readers, and they’re doing serious journalism!

But where are the garden writers? We’re in a little corner of what used to be called the women’s section of the paper. Now it’s the Home or Lifestyle section. Yep, that’s us, right next to the advice columns and the little stories about how a scented candle can light up any room.

Sheesh. Get on a plane or put a bite of food in your mouth, and that’s news. But go outside and put your hands in the dirt? Fluff.

Michael ‘Mickey’ Lauer: Friction Losses

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

After quitting university and becoming a freelancer in September last year, my life has changed quite a bit. The most irritating thing is the amount of non-productive time I have to spend to be able to do productive work. While I was in university, almost 90% of the time I was in the office was spent doing actual work (not necessarily for the thesis or the faculty, but you know ) — nowadays I find myself organizing things, doing phone calls, traveling, processing e-mail and snail-mail, etc. for nearly 50% of the time.
It’s either me being not well prepared for this kind of work or things really got more complicated. I guess I have to hire some kind of assistant to help me spending more time doing actual development and lowering all this organization overhead.