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Perform some Ba duan jin's. You can do them at work, throughout the day. You do not need much space, It does not build muscles, but it will relax your muscles so that blood circulation is improved, and if you do them regularly it will do wonders for your health.

Also, change your eating habits. Replace anything that contains carbohydrates with fat & proteins, and you will shed body fat very quickly. Read the excellent book Life Without Bread, written by a guy who is now 96. Ive replaced all sugary snacks I normally ate throughout the day with almonds, peanuts (unsalted!), and 90% chocolate. Especially unsalted almonds are the perfect finger food. They are highly addictive AND healthy, and although they contain lots of fat you will loose weight eating them.

• M&M used the wrong version of Mann et al. (1998). (that should be enough right there.)
• M&M eliminated 70% of Mann's data due to some methodological misunderstanding. (I will not summerize, you must read. It's on page 13-14.)
• Mann et al.s reconstruction is reproducible, and within close approximation (2 standard deviations) of other methods. M&M's is not.
• Interestingly, the hockey stick does appear in a reconstruction using M&M's method and subset of data. This fact is left out of their report.

Good enough? If not, I don't care - honestly. There's a whole page on McIntyre and McKitrick myths. I think James Annan said it best on google-groups: Steve McIntyre has found a molehill and is doing his best to make a mountain out of it.


"I want to know what the observed experimental data is, from a ~10 meter tube, or the observed atmosphere, or such, not computer models" - the absorption spectrum of CO2 is measured by a spectrometer over ~1cm, I think it's important to have done the (simple) experiment that would verify we know how CO2 behaves over longer distances, if it's a fundamental part of our models.

Here is a derivation. Here is an article on observations of CO2 absorption. Also, the linked diagram was observational data.

I did some googling, and I think I found the argument your putting forward - that CO2 absorption saturates after 10m. See here

My specific claim about standard deviation is that no one has taken the observed temperature readings, and calculated the standard deviation from that, for 1 day, 1 week, 1 month, and 1 year. If you've read a paper which has this value, please provide a quote, and link.

Is this some oblique way to assert that prediction models don't have standard deviations built into them? Here is a model from 2002, that includes variance of estimates

Anyway, you wanted to know what's wrong with the equation you specified, *I don't care about the rest*. Please upload a well-formated copy somewhere, with the numbers and working for Earth and Venus. I'll figure it out and get back to you.

It's rather disingenuous to expect me to provide a simpler derivation

If you say so, however, I'm not after a simpler derivation. I'd like to see your working with your numbers, and formatted so I can read it without having to write is out from scratch. I don't want to do the leg work only to have you tell me I didn't do it right. I want to see you do it, and be happy with the equation, and then I'll do the leg work.

I know that there are publishers that make their textbooks available in a web-based format, such as Wiley...but Wiley's textbooks have gotten pretty terrible, at least at college level. Hopefully California will be able to find a better product in this vein.

Those who have those urges towards children may feel prodded seeing the depicted acts to try them in the real world.

Maybe. Although nobody has come up with any convincing evidence yet; most studies find no effect. And some psychologists have suggested the effect could be the opposite (i.e., not being able to see the acts they already fantasize about may push them to do them themselves, rather than watching somebody else do them), although I have yet to see a study examining this hypothesis explicitly.

I.e., we don't know whether the effect of limiting access to such material is to reduce or increase the number of offences that are committed. Therefore, IMO, it is hideously irresponsible to act based on hunches and guesses of what might be the case.

According to a shocking report [time.com] by "Time Magazine", "if the world gets even 10% of its energy from these new kinds of crops, most tropical forests will probably disappear."

Hold on a minute. The important question is if in the entire life cycle of ethanol, does it release more greenhouse gases than gasoline. We need to remember that plants also consume carbon from the atmosphere as they grow. A University of Nebraska study showed ethanol had a 50% reduction in GHG over gasoline.

has anyone noticed that no one has mentioned the #1 reason for the growing energy problem and its associated pollution problem? The #1 reason is overpopulation.

There is an easy solution to that one. If you're so adamant about it as a problem you're more than welcome to go first...

Hear hear! Philosophy of Mind and Cognition: An Introduction, 2nd Edition http://au.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1405133244.html

Bah, missed the second link:
Ultraviolet wavebands and melanoma initiation

Not really any strong conclusions in there.

Conclusions from the research papers (emphasis mine):
Are tanning beds "safe"? Human studies of melanoma:

Although the data appear to indicate a clear relationship between sunbed use and the development of melanoma, these data could be confounded by the lack of accurate measurement of timing and dose of sunbed exposures and lack of thorough control for concurrent sun exposure and host factors such as phenotype and genetic susceptibility. Until these factors are better characterized, we must exercise caution in evaluating the extent of the risk for cutaneous melanoma posed by sunbeds. Nonetheless, because of this very uncertainty, the data do not support a claim that sunbeds are safe, and such claims should be considered misleading.

In conclusion, it is clear that both UVA and UVB are mutagenic for skin, and for melanocytes in particular. UVA is much less mutagenic in unpigmented cells, but UVA flux to the basal epidermis from sunlight is typically around 50-100-fold higher than UVB flux. Moreover there is evidence that melanin and especially pheomelanin can photosensitize cells to UVA mutagenicity. UVA can initiate melanomas in fish and melanocytic hyperplasia in pigmented opossums, while UVB can induce melanoma in susceptible mice and UVA has generally not been tested. Pending better experimental data on whether UVA can indeed cause melanoma in mammals, and given that it is mutagenic and cell mutations can cause cancer, much stronger steps should be taken internationally to warn users of sunbeds â" even those emitting UVA only â" that this activity may be hazardous, such as mandatory warning notices. An example of such a notice has been made available in the UK (Health and Safety Executive 1995), also at http://www.hse.gov.uk/radiation/nonionising/sunbeds.htm. Specifically use by those under 18 should be banned, and publicity claiming that UVA sunbeds are safe should not be permitted.

Conclusions from the research papers (emphasis mine):
Are tanning beds "safe"? Human studies of melanoma:

Although the data appear to indicate a clear relationship between sunbed use and the development of melanoma, these data could be confounded by the lack of accurate measurement of timing and dose of sunbed exposures and lack of thorough control for concurrent sun exposure and host factors such as phenotype and genetic susceptibility. Until these factors are better characterized, we must exercise caution in evaluating the extent of the risk for cutaneous melanoma posed by sunbeds. Nonetheless, because of this very uncertainty, the data do not support a claim that sunbeds are safe, and such claims should be considered misleading.

In conclusion, it is clear that both UVA and UVB are mutagenic for skin, and for melanocytes in particular. UVA is much less mutagenic in unpigmented cells, but UVA flux to the basal epidermis from sunlight is typically around 50-100-fold higher than UVB flux. Moreover there is evidence that melanin and especially pheomelanin can photosensitize cells to UVA mutagenicity. UVA can initiate melanomas in fish and melanocytic hyperplasia in pigmented opossums, while UVB can induce melanoma in susceptible mice and UVA has generally not been tested. Pending better experimental data on whether UVA can indeed cause melanoma in mammals, and given that it is mutagenic and cell mutations can cause cancer, much stronger steps should be taken internationally to warn users of sunbeds â" even those emitting UVA only â" that this activity may be hazardous, such as mandatory warning notices. An example of such a notice has been made available in the UK (Health and Safety Executive 1995), also at http://www.hse.gov.uk/radiation/nonionising/sunbeds.htm. Specifically use by those under 18 should be banned, and publicity claiming that UVA sunbeds are safe should not be permitted.

My friend, I have a teaching degree in vocational education. Look it up - those are not so easy to get, requiring not only a concentration in a particular field, but documented years of working in that field with *strong* references from employers for your concentration in that field, then documentation of work training in industry in that field, then years of teaching as an intern at a post-secondary school. And you study things in depth the way that many teachers to not have to, such as educational psychology and - the IQ test.

The IQ test was invented for one reason and one reason only to assist teachers. It is the quotient of your intellectual age / chronological age. It was - and is - meant to apply to developing minds. At the time of its conception, it was so that teachers could recognize those kids who needed help catching up with their peers, and which didn't need that so much. It could even be used in pairing up study partners.

And for that reason, under the theory that it was a valid idea at the time, IQ results were to be kept confidential, so as to not be abused and not stigmatized anyone.

It is was never meant to become some constant that follows a person around in life. If you think about it, if you have an IQ of 130 when you're ten, and nothing changes, then you'll have an IQ of 100 when you're thirteen years old.

Enlightened educators have all but given up on IQ tests. They are not easy to keep up to date. When the IQ theories were first postulated, the developers could not and did not foresee the technological and social changes that were to come - and most importantly, the rate of acceleration of those changes.

Imagine thinking you're doing a good job on designing IQ tests when suddenly, immigrant Muslim children as a group are scoring lower and you find one example question stands out in your quality study: they misidentify pig as the source animal for bacon because they are either unexposed to "bacon" or can prove from the packaging that "bacon" comes from turkeys. I did not make this example up, it was documented in the 90s.

Now - your source link says that the military uses IQ tests very effectively. That's true. I've worked with them on training programs. But their tests are at least geared toward their demographic of less-privileged, post-secondary school ages, and not generalized for all possible knowledge, but specific enough for judging things like spacial-oriented thinking. They do it to save soldiers' lives, so they're pretty good at it.

Your reference also says that IQs are validly applied to groups because it washes out statistical noise. That's true. As in, groups of post training at this Air Force base vs. same at that Army base. Or for northern-state 9th graders vs. southern-state ones.

But, and I choose my bacon example carefully - not for comparing against races or nationalities with different cultural and linguistic backgrounds. If you follow this link from your link - http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118996255/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0 - [Ethnic group differences in cognitive ability in employment and educational settings: a meta-analysis, Personnel Psychology 54, 297-330.] then you will be surprised to find this statement in the study's abstract: We conduct similar analyses for Hispanics, when possible, and note that Hispanic-White differences are somewhat less than Black-White differences. That said, I warn the no-RTFA types (like me, usually) that this was focused to one adult-job metric, not to a whole race or anything sweeping.

And that said, I hereby declare the following:
1. You have abused the use of IQ
2. You have done so against the tenets of your own IQ reference
3. I will not believe without a lot of supporting evidence that you have anything but asinine references to peg Hispanics at 90-95, of any subgroup beyond those in prison (where they would most probabl

nature reserves mean less food production (especially, again, in Africa)

This is not only wrong, but it is way wrong. The study Economics, Objectives, and Success of Private Nature Reserves in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America shows that private nature reserves can be profitably run. With it's nature reserves Limpopo Province is South Africa's breadbasket.

meaning less population AND THEY ALREADY HAVE OVERPOPULATION (ie food production is insufficient to keep the population alive).

The insufficiency of food in Africa has 2 causes, climate change and politics. Ethiopia has had a food crisis because of a change in their climate. Reduced rainfall has caused "ever more frequent droughts". On the other hand Zimbabwe has turned from the bread basket of Africa into a basketcase. President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe ruined Zimbabwe. He kicked all the white farmers, who produced most of the food, off the farms. He then gave those farms to his cronies, who did not know how to farm. Zimbabwe went from being a big exporter of food to needing food donations from other nations. Another cause of lack of food was the economic policies that forced or encouraged small scale farmers to leave those farms. "Africa: Civil Society Blames World Bank, IMF and WTO". However with the new Green Revolution in Africa farmers are starting to grow more food.

Falcon

Fucking ignorant bullshit.

Articles like this are designed to fool and manipulate the public. After reading three paragraphs into the article, everyone's bullshit detector should have gone through the roof. Read this:

The Times reviewed every case on record in the last 15 years in which a tenured employee was fired by a California school district and formally contested the decision before a review commission: 159 in all (not including about two dozen in which the records were destroyed).

So, 183 firings were contested. In 15 years. Anyone bother to think for a moment about what percentage of teachers this was?

LAUSD is the 2nd largest district in the country. This year alone, there were 46,496 teachers employed in the district. In one year. I would estimate that the average year over the last 15 years saw 43858 teachers. 183/15 = 12.2 teachers contested per year. 12.2/43858 teachers means that there were problems with .03 PERCENT of the teaching staff. That's roughly one out of every 3,600 teachers each year.

If anyone here thinks that teacher unions should be done away with because 1 out of 3,600 teachers is a bad apple in LAUSD, you are an idiot. Public schools are the greatest economic equalizer in the world today. They allow the poorest of children to still become part of the middle class. No other economic factor even comes as close to achieving this. And the more empowered teachers are to concentrate on teaching, the better the school. Unions help provide this.

Stop bashing unions, and instead bash the government officials who turn our public schools against themselves, their students, and their communities.

Pieces of paper tend to continue working even many disaster scenarios. I'm not sure if most hospital generators would power _everything_ required to keep the computerized crap up.

Yep skip the 100% digital bullshit. Use paper where it still works better. The computerized stuff is useful too but in most IT stuff you can't quickly read and scribble something on the record and rush off to the next patient. You can do that in paper (ok the minus is the scribble could be unreadable...).

Spending the millions on more staff, better training and protocols[1], MRI, dialysis machines and other things that would really help directly.

[1] For example the handover protocols could probably be improved in many hospitals. That could save a fair number of lives.

See:
http://www.nesta.org.uk/how-can-formula-1-be-useful-for-healthcare/
http://www.formula1.com/news/features/2008/7/8015.html
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118498011/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0

Humans aren't capable of long distance running 'in the wild' so to speak. In the context of Savannah marathons, we'd be dehydrated severely after a few miles. We have great cooling but it comes at a huge cost, it uses a lot of sweat up. If you run 5 miles in the blazing hot African sun without stopping to drink and there's no water at your destination, you're finished. Most mammals which don't use heavy sweating will have to stop in the shade a often to cool down when running distances but won't be as much at risk of dehydration.

We're designed for running in hot weather but not distance running.

Do you have any evidence at all for your beliefs, or are you just being obstinate? Because you might have a problem running 5 miles in the desert, humans are physically incapable of it?

The abstract of this scientific paper says that "The Tarahumara Indians of Northwestern Mexico have long been famous as endurance runners. These capabilities are best displayed in the traditional Tarahumara sport of kick-ball racing. Participants in such races may cover up to 100 miles in 24 hours and races lasting 48 hours are not uncommon."

There's been some hubbub the past several days about these Tarahumara Indians, but this is well-known in anthropological circles ( the "science of man"), and its not controversial. Do a little googling, it's very interesting.

Here's another referenced research paper that provides evidence for long-distance running, also in cold weather places like Greenland.

COBOL script:

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?CobolScript

OO-COBOL

http://www.wiley.com/legacy/compbooks/catalog/12974-7.htm

and of course the joke that Java is nothing more than OO-COBOL.

case. They have virtually NO self esteem and they use.

Citation needed!

I asked for citations so I'll provide one myself:

"The mental and physical health of female sex workers: a comparative study"
"Results: There were no differences in mental health on the GHQ-28 or in self-esteem (measured by an item on the Present State Examination) between the two groups. Neither were there any differences in their assessment of their physical health or the quality of their social networks. Sex workers were less likely to be married and had been exposed to more adult physical and sexual abuse than the comparison group. They were more likely to smoke and to drink heavily when they drank. One-third said that their general practitioner was not aware of their work. A subgroup not working with regular clients or in a massage parlour had higher GHQ-28 scores and may be an at-risk group. Narrative information about the work, particularly its intermittent nature, is presented."

"Conclusions: No evidence was found that sex work and increased adult psychiatric morbidity are inevitably associated, although there may be subgroups of workers with particular problems. The illegal and stigmatized nature of sex work are likely to make usual public health strategies more difficult to apply, considerations which should give concern from a preventive health standpoint."

Falcon

Any thoughts on this? I don't know how "mainstream" the thinking is but it is being proposed as a factor, i.e. could allow other damage to take place (they seem to be concentrating on newborns). There's research being done in the area. Obviously, scientific results tend based on statistics, rather than experiments - although some more ghoulish stuff has been done with monkeys.

You can read the abstract of the article in the Annals of Neurology at http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122266379/abstract

Vacuous lack of information? What's this 'scientists in Switzerland' rubbish? We may not be the biggest country, but it would be polite to say which scientists, even where. For anyone that cares, the study was led by Asaid Khateb, a neuropsychologist at Geneva University Hospitals. Published in the Annals of Nuerology, abstract here: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122269076/abstract

yes, there are a lot of new drugs
I was thinking less drastic surgery and better preventative treatment.

... circumcision isn't [dangerous].
Unless a screw up leads to your penis being amputated, or damage so extensive that you have to be surgically reconstructed as a girl, or it kills you - all rare, but quite possible. And then there's the [perhaps not technically dangerous] possibility of infection, changes in pain response, undesirable cosmetic outcome, etc.

As to mastectomies, women's breasts are functional, foreskins aren't.
Are you saying that providing sexual pleasure isn't a function, or that you believe that the mucous membranes of the penis don't provide sexual pleasure?

"The glans of the circumcised penis is less sensitive to fine touch than the glans of the uncircumcised penis. The transitional region from the external to the internal prepuce is the most sensitive region of the uncircumcised penis and more sensitive than the most sensitive region of the circumcised penis. Circumcision ablates the most sensitive parts of the penis." - British Journal of Urology, April 2007

I'm a biochem post-doc working in a molecular-microbiology lab. We're studying E.coli O157:H7 and attempting to inhibit intimin formation.

intimin is a protein on the surface of the cell membrane which allows the bacteria to adhere. no intimin and the bacteria stay in solution, therefore no more quorum sensing, no more bio-film and no infection! voila!

Sounds easy, right? Those little critters just won't cooperate though!

But, back to papers. At the institutions I've been at it's quantity first, quality 2nd, and brand-name distant 3rd. Quantity is easy. Quality is harder - it's best judged over time by the number of cites. If your peers cite your papers as the basis for their work, you're doing something right. Scientists are being rated by their citations now.

As for brand - no one really cares if you publish in Cell, Journal of Bacteriology, Molecular Microbiology or PLoS Pathogens. (unless, of course it's top-tier Science/Nature/PNAS, etc. any guess as to what percentage of submitted papers those top tiers represent?)

Why would you give your work away to some publisher so they can make a buck? What do you get out of it? You give them your paper. Signing the copyright over to them. You work for them for free, peer-reviewing papers so they can have a peer-reviewed journal. And then they make $$$ money selling them, restricting their audience, and give you nothing. That seems right to you? Just so you can say your insignificant little paper [>90% are] was published in XXX journal?

I don't care if I never make a major discovery, but if the guy/gal who "cures" EHEC cites my work on intimin formation my scientific dreams would have been fulfilled. I will have participated in what Newton described with "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants".

rho

O Rly?

Scratch that..... found http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/121556773/abstract

This study found that violent stimuli made some people more aggressive, but only the people who were already predisposed to being mean. Those with friendlier personalities were actually less hostile after seeing violent themes. Furthermore, a follow-up experiment found that the latter group actually had more thoughts about doing good for others after seeing violent themes. The authors suggest that these people develop mental patterns that prevent them from becoming violent after seeing violent themes.

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118597331/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0

Violent video games are not used directly in the study; instead, it was a word task, with one group getting lots of violent words. Still, it provides evidence that one already has to have violent tendencies for violent themes to have an effect. It is also an experimental study rather than correlational, so causation is easier to infer.

If findings like these are correct, video games are probably fine as long as one as developed a mature mode of thinking with respect to these games.

which trees? where? how many?

if you aren't worried about invasive plants, you could let punktree take over south Florida. of course, all the rich (mistyped that as "reich" at 1st... hmmm...) folks in their subdivisions might get annoyed when the Melaleuca overtakes the rest of their manicured "natural areas".

it'd be better if people stopped making so many babies. or stopped making more roads and cutting down more trees to move into natural areas for their fantasy nature cabin.

sorry, that was pretty snappy. but it's not looking for tricks, it's changing people's behavior that will ease (or reverse?) climate change.

As far as I can tell you are the first communist person to respond on this thread. From your signature I take it you go to a Russian University? And you study Math, Lisp, and Linux there? Very cool! Are you ethnic Vietnamese living in Russia or ethnic Russian?

You may be right about life in Vietnam and life in GDR or Poland. However, that is because Vietnam was such a backwards country from the beginning. They had a lot of catching up to do. But Poland is no longer communist. And the life there is still much better than the life of the average Vietnamese. And either way, we ultimately found out that the sort of economy that the Soviet Union was trying to create was not sustainable or practical and even Russia had to move towards a more free-market economy.

According to:

http://globalis.gvu.unu.edu/indicator_detail.cfm?IndicatorID=116&Country=PL

The life expectancy in Poland in the year 2000 was 68.6 years. In Vietnam it was 64.9. And according to:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)_per_capita

The nominal GDP per capita of Vietnam is $829. In Poland it is now $11,072. Huge difference. And compare that to what it was in Poland before they became a free country. Huge difference.

Had GDR and Poland not suffered communism it is a pretty sure bet that they would have had even better lives. Saying life there was better than life in Vietnam is not saying anything at all.

I know many party members in Vietnam. In private they all tell me they love the Doi Moi "new thinking" which brought in the free market economy which made them richer. Now they are working on slowly moving away from the communist form of government. It has not escaped them that the more they get away from communism/socialism (two different but related things, I know) the more successful their country becomes. This study:

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119050150/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0

shows a 42% increase in GDP attributable to "Doi Moi" aka the move away from the socialist system to a market economy.

But they have to somehow maintain the pride of the people. They are all brainwashed into loving Ho Chi Minh (similar to how many Russians still like Lenin). They forget the bad and remember only the good (a lot of which is unsubstantiated). They spend a lot of time in school studying about him instead of studying reading, writing, arithmetic which puts them behind educationally. They have to somehow change course while the elders who got 2 million Vietnamese killed in their war to destroy their own country try to save face. They can't just come out one day and say it was all a big mistake and "I'm sorry." It would destroy their pride. So they must make the very slow change which ensures everyone feels good about it.

Right now they are fighting the scourge of corruption. There are far too many selfish people ruining the economy with the efficiency sapping corruption.

Yes, there was corruption in the government of South Vietnam. Because it was run by Vietnamese. That was part of their society at the time. And at that time the entire country was corrupt from north to south. It makes me wonder: Does communism bring corruption? Or does the corruption allow the communism to happen? It is hard to tell.

Things are slowly getting better in Vietnam as they change their society.

But there is still so far to go. Petty crime is everywhere. On Christmas day (3 days ago) my mother in law was standing in front of a very nice shopping area (Diamond Plaza) in downtown Saigon. A thief ran by and ripped the necklace right off of her neck. Fortunately, she was not injured. The communist police there do nothing about it. They are too busy confiscating peoples motorbike

The placebo effect is a short term 'feeling better' from some mild problem.

I suggest you google for placebo surgery. Placebo techniques have given individual patients relief from angina pectoris, Parkinson's disease, and osteoarthritis of the knee. One patient in the Parkinson's study had not been physically active for years before surgery, but following placebo surgery she resumed hiking and ice skating.

It's clear that you are the one here who does not know what a placebo is. I suggest you start here.

Massage does no more then if you spent a quite hour reading a good book.

I love reading a good book, but I don't think that it can reduce depression and hostility and increase NK cells and lymphocytes in cancer patients, or help with migraines.

Acupuncture doesn't work. It has been tested in blinded tests.

As I've been pointing out, if you apply that same set of criteria to surgery, then surgery doesn't work.

As for these "blinded tests" of acupuncture, many used acupressure as their control, which is as ridiculous as using morphine as the control in your test of heroin. Others did not test acupuncture as it is actually applied, but used fixed point prescriptions that did not take into account the diagnostic methods of Chinese medicine - rather like testing if an antibiotic can treat sinus congestion without regard to whether the congestion is caused by an infection or not.

Better blinding, such as that used by John J.B. Allen et. al., compares two geninue treatments, one for the condition in question, the other for an unrelated complaint. This study of major depression found acupuncture more effective than the control.

You kill people. That's right, people like you lead people away from proven treatments until it's too late.

Look, jerkwad, I always suggest that clients see a physician at the very first sign that they might have a serious condition. It's right there on my website: "Shiatsu can also be a beneficial form of supportive care for people facing serious illness, such as cancer; it can help relieve stress and some of the side effects of invasive treatments. Shiatsu does not cure disease, but helps support and stimulate the body's own healing potential. It is not a substitute for conventional medical treatment."

Indeed, since I spend a lot more time listening to clients than a physician does, I may be able to spot early warning signs that would otherwise be missed.

The only time I would lead someone away from a treatment would be that if the condition is not life-threatening and is not going to degrade, I would suggest trying a less invasive therapy first - so yes, I will suggest trying bodywork to relieve chronic pain before going under the knife.

Of course, that's not leading anyone away from a proven treatment.

The placebo effect is a short term 'feeling better' from some mild problem.

I suggest you google for placebo surgery. Placebo techniques have given individual patients relief from angina pectoris, Parkinson's disease, and osteoarthritis of the knee. One patient in the Parkinson's study had not been physically active for years before surgery, but following placebo surgery she resumed hiking and ice skating.

It's clear that you are the one here who does not know what a placebo is. I suggest you start here.

Massage does no more then if you spent a quite hour reading a good book.

I love reading a good book, but I don't think that it can reduce depression and hostility and increase NK cells and lymphocytes in cancer patients, or help with migraines.

Acupuncture doesn't work. It has been tested in blinded tests.

As I've been pointing out, if you apply that same set of criteria to surgery, then surgery doesn't work.

As for these "blinded tests" of acupuncture, many used acupressure as their control, which is as ridiculous as using morphine as the control in your test of heroin. Others did not test acupuncture as it is actually applied, but used fixed point prescriptions that did not take into account the diagnostic methods of Chinese medicine - rather like testing if an antibiotic can treat sinus congestion without regard to whether the congestion is caused by an infection or not.

Better blinding, such as that used by John J.B. Allen et. al., compares two geninue treatments, one for the condition in question, the other for an unrelated complaint. This study of major depression found acupuncture more effective than the control.

You kill people. That's right, people like you lead people away from proven treatments until it's too late.

Look, jerkwad, I always suggest that clients see a physician at the very first sign that they might have a serious condition. It's right there on my website: "Shiatsu can also be a beneficial form of supportive care for people facing serious illness, such as cancer; it can help relieve stress and some of the side effects of invasive treatments. Shiatsu does not cure disease, but helps support and stimulate the body's own healing potential. It is not a substitute for conventional medical treatment."

Indeed, since I spend a lot more time listening to clients than a physician does, I may be able to spot early warning signs that would otherwise be missed.

The only time I would lead someone away from a treatment would be that if the condition is not life-threatening and is not going to degrade, I would suggest trying a less invasive therapy first - so yes, I will suggest trying bodywork to relieve chronic pain before going under the knife.

Of course, that's not leading anyone away from a proven treatment.

>Its starting to look like the increase is due to people living in an environment that is 'too clean'

Cite multiple peer reviewed studies in respectable journals or else stop spreading New Age myths on the internet. Thanks.

What, google too hard for you to use? There are literally hundreds of such studies with enough results to back my original statement.
How about from now on you fuck off with your self-aggrandizing judgmental imperative. Thanks.

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Oldstone MBA. Prevention of type 1 diabetes in nonobese diabetic mice by virusinfection. Science, 1988; 239: 500-2.

Braun-Fahrlander, C.H., et al. 1999. Prevalence of hay fever and allergic sensitization in farmer's children and their peers living in the same rural community. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Allergy 29(January):28.

Farooqi, I.S., and J.M. Hopkin. 1998. Early childhood infection and atopic disorder. Thorax 53(November):927.

Kramer, U., et al. 1999. Age of entry to day nursery and allergy in later childhood. Lancet 353(Feb. 6).

hmm, I again suggest that you carefully read some of the recent articles on lucas before stating a misleading argument.
these issues are all discussed in a scientific setting regarding the feasibility of lucas for various applications that you commented.

especially check these links:
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/121401991/abstract
http://www.rsc.org/publishing/journals/LC/article.asp?doi=B813943A

i am not going to repeat the same arguments listed in these papers.
i hope it clarifies/clears your misunderstanding/bias.

I suggest you read some recent articles on lucas technology.
it yields much more information than just the size of the cell.
the recorded quantities are transmission holograms of the cells, which contain the phase and the amplitude information of the cells.
so it is quite powerful to even detect small bacteria such as e. coli.
I am not sure where you got the impression that it can not do any better than 15 um.
it can easily go down to a micron. FYI.
http://www.rsc.org/publishing/journals/LC/article.asp?doi=B813943A
http://www.technologyreview.com/Biotech/21439/
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/121401991/abstract

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This is a common misconception. Think about a society were there is no tea or car (somewere in africa). Do you think their children would choose tea set and car toys based on gender?

I'm sure the evolutionary biologists out there will be very surprised to hear that their lab experiments, as detailed in journals like the Journal of Evolutionary Biology, aren't scientific.

Here's a random example: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/118631879/HTMLSTART

Or maybe you have no idea what you're talking about. I wonder which it could be.

Douglas Adams famously wrote that a Computer Programmer is a Scientist who could never find their field. For me, it was certainly like that - science didn't seem to hold any new and exciting treasures.

If healing might be their thing, then I'd suggest a career in Acupuncture - the field needs bright minds so that there can be more decent scientific papers like this one. It's a lot different to your average Scientific field - it's very inter-personal, and there is a large degree of "knack" to be learned first while the mechanism continues to be elusive (I give it about 5 years myself before one or two of the key puzzles are unraveled histologically, then the fun will really start). Historically, the most renowned researchers have been accomplished physicians, and there is huge scope for learning complementing skills such as taiji, qigong, tuina massage, herbs... several of which are often combined for a patient.

Of course you need to find a good school ... preferably offering degrees, in-depth Western Medical training and research opportunities. Please feel free to write to me for recommendations.

Grandparent is actually correct: As you note, first sale applies. However, there is nothing stopping you from making some other agreement. In the case of movie rentals, the peculiar economics of movie production often makes this a preferable arrangement.

If you are a rental place, buying movies at retail makes it very expensive to build up a large collection, particularly obscure stuff that will take ages to recoup the initial investment, or the bursty demand for new, popular, releases. Instead, you can establish a revenue sharing agreement with the studio, who will furnish you with as many copies of a given title as you need at the cost of pressing, which is trivial, and then share the revenue from each rental.

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118972449/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0
http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=16851899
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=258

There is absolutely no evidence that stretching before exercise weakens muscles (note I used the exact same phrase as the title) so long as you don't over do it.

if you haven't actually read any peer-reviewed articles about it?! You do know about scholar.google.com, right? It's not that hard to check on the people interviewed in the NYTimes article. There are many papers on the subject. Yes, there is still work to be done to answer all the questions, but your ridiculous statement that there is absolutely no evidence that stretching (static) before exercise weakens muscles just shows that you haven't bothered to read about it.

Here's your spoon-fed google search with links to a few abstracts for your edification.

http://www.acsm-msse.org/pt/re/msse/abstract.00005768-200403000-00004.htm;jsessionid=JJgJGzgYVCy4qyLKzfW21kXYSGvYP3tWmM2WDyC6Nr1nvvvH7ykd!-1853705402!181195629!8091!-1

http://eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/contentdelivery/servlet/ERICServlet?accno=ED448119 [PDF]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9368275

http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/abridged/325/7362/468

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119251161/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0

http://www.cjsportsmed.com/pt/re/cjsm/abstract.00042752-200409000-00004.htm;jsessionid=JJgpcrQvSRyyCn1CG2XnW4WS6vzdsmrXnhG43kmLDT1CyhhCknr9!1600976923!181195628!8091!-1

http://apt.allenpress.com/perlserv/?request=get-abstract&doi=10.1519%2F1533-4287(2001)015%5B0098%3AAEOSAN%5D2.0.CO%3B2

Perhaps pro-life people who you think are being unreasonable are merely better informed?

I'm going to call foul here. I never said anything about the pro-life movement, which I happen to agree with to an extent, certainly I didn't call them unreasonable, nor do I think they are. Don't know why you're getting so hostile. If I were to have a low opinion of pro-life people, you wouldn't exactly be helping it with your tone. This is a casual discussion.

I didn't do a google search, but I think I did a pubmed search with a similar string. Pubmed is an index of primary literature, the actual research papers. There were several thousand hits, mostly on neural adult stem cells, which as I mentioned are problematic. Rather than peruse through all that I thought it would be more efficient to ask you for your source, which I did.

I also have to point out that the article you cited was merely showing you could get neurons in a dish from bone marrow cells. That's a long way from being able to use them to heal spinal cords. Had you spent more than 90 seconds on it, you may have found the most recent work from that lab.

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/113489486/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0

It's more promising than the article you posted, since they actually demonstrate these cells can make brain cells in actual brains rather than in a dish. I haven't read it as carefully as I apperantly need to to post on /. but in the last figure we see that bone marrow cells encouraged to differentiate into neurons have extremely low efficiencies of turning into brain cells even when implanted into chicken embryo brains. The efficiencies could be raised, but not without manipulating the bone marrow stem cells with viruses, which the authors did. Obviously there are some problems that raises. And this is still far from showing that bone marrow stem cells can repair damaged CNS in adults.

I was somewhat wrong, and thank you for correcting me. You're absolutely right in that we should not give up on adult stem cell therapies, but it's still too early to say adult stem cells make HES cell research and especially IPS cell research obsolete.

On that subject, may I recommend this paper on meaningful computational chemistry simulations.

Flu shots haven't been shown to be effective, bicycle helmets seem to increase injuries. You can't plan for random events, you can't even imagine how it's going to go down. Work in a tall building? What's the plan? Have a parachute at work and practice your base-jumping I guess.

Please provide some sources for your wildly inaccurate statements.

Flu vaccination is quite efficatious. Helmets are shown to significantly reduce the risk of injury. And the tall building argument is a poorly conceived strawman. However the plan for working in a tall building might include knowing the best route out and practicing it a few times as well as ensuring that you exercise weekly to have adequate physical fitness to promptly exit the building. Though you aren't the first one to suggest parachutes.

Your implication that there is a conspiracy to prevent individuals from obtaining a powerful treatment for PTSD is misguided.

EMDR is well publicized and well debated in the psychological community. It is essentially another form of exposure therapy (ET), similar in nature to the referenced VR technique. While EMDR shows positive results for PTSD treatment, it has not been found to be significantly different from more traditional exposure-based approaches. (see, for example this meta analysis.)

In particular, the importance of "eye-movement" is not conclusively explained or validated as necessary for treatment. Thus, "what is effective in EMDR is not new, and what is new is not effective"

The reason, perhaps, that EMDR is /not/ widely used, is because it is costly to become a "certified" practitioner (and, frankly, has some quacky characteristics). Since evidence to date suggests you're not gaining anything over ET, why should a therapist spend the time and money? Should evidence become clearer or the theorized mechanism of EMDR be validated independently, I'm certain EMDR will be more widely accepted. Until then, ET and its traditional variants will likely remain the treatment of choice for those who prefer evidence-based practices.

Cheers

I was just as interested as you. And I think you got the dramatic nature of the results correct. The Survey seems to be testing reaction to the interviewer rather then the content. I would love to see this done for real though, to test the results of the content rather than the influences.

Title: Response to Bill of Rights Paraphrases as Influenced by the Hip or Straight Attire of the Opinion Solicitor

Abstract:A sample of 375 white middle class residents of suburban Sacramento was randomly distributed among 3 experimental conditions of exposure to paraphrases of the Bill of Rights. The paraphrases were in the form of letters to the "Subcommittee on Crime and Disorder" of the California State Senate. A far greater proportion of subjects would endorse a "negative", somewhat authoritarian version of the Bill of Rights than would sign either a "real" paraphrase of the original text or a rather equivocal "wishy-washy" bill. A minority of those shown the "real" bill would sign it. Solicitors dressed as "straights" were more likely to elicit signatures from subjects than were "hips". The latter effect was observable, however, only for subjects in the negative and to a lesser extent the wishy-washy bill conditions. When the "real" bill was presented the attire of the solicitor made no difference. While an alternative interpretation was viable, the results were explained in terms of reactance (Brehm, 1966) and Rokeach's (Rokeach & Mezei, 1966) hypothesis that liking is mediated by inferred congruity of beliefs.

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119681993/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0

I read all your comments in this thread and I can understand you. But please, before you go around talking about oppression, look at the reasons for WWI and WWII. First time it was unjust divide of colonies, the second time it was the economic destruction of Germany with war damages and industry restrictions. This hard situation, coupled with worldwide economic crisis could give rise to nationalistic characters, like Adolf Hitler and the like. Saying, that only Hitler was responsible for WWII is crazy. I'm not defending him, just saying to look at the reasons for him being there, doing what he did. What we see these days is globalization galore, where undeveloped (by western standards) countries are up for grabs. Money is talking more than ever and global markets make it possible to invest where previously only local money was. Mostly american capital is penetrating everywhere, bringing with it Democracy. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/119399588/HTMLSTART No wonder powerful countries try to use some leverage. Don't try to blind yourselves, America still considers Russia an unfriendly state and wants Russia's influence to diminish, using subversive political maneuvering. As far as I'm concerned, that's aggression, no matter how it looks. As far as the murder of webmaster is concerned, it remains to be seen, what really happened. In every case, somebody will object to findings. It's a nature of mankind.

Clearly something else as going on, how do I know? acu[uctures studies always have failed.

Not accurate. Studies have shown acupuncture to be effective in treating a variety of conditions including depression, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2567439">alcoholism, fibromyalgia, osteoarthritis

Yes, there are some studies with negative findings. All such studies I've seen either don't apply the principles of Chinese medicine to treatment, and so don't test acupuncture as it's actually used; or use poor controls such as comparing acupressure to acupuncture, which is sort of like using aspirin as your placebo in a test of ibuprofen.

More thoughts on this, as well as links to several studies on acupressure, at my shiatsu website.

Og, by the way, the concept "Chinese Medicine" and "Western medicine" is a false dichotomy. There is just Medicine. It is falsifiable and pass, or it doesn't.

Western medicine uses a structural model based on anatomy. Chinese Medicice uses a functional model based on the concept of "qi". So there is clearly a distinction.

Very few therapies from either tradition have been well-tested with blinded studies.

It's fascinating how some self-styled skeptics will demand double-blinded studies of herbs or acupuncture or "alternative" therapies, and yet willingly submit themselves to the surgeon's knife. Every placebo-controlled test of a surgical technique - there have only been a handful - has found the surgery being tested to be no more effective that placebo surgery.

Read & Learn, And Legalize Marijuana

Since the article is often pulled from websites, the first article you should read and burn into your mind is this, Google for the title and archive a copy for yourself:

"A break-in to end all break-ins"
"In 1971, stolen FBI files exposed the government's domestic spying program"

It's an amazing story, and in 2008, how much has this expanded into every corner of our lives? The majority of Americans are brainwashed sheep consumers with a limp wet noodle for a brain, thrashing around with their Wii and Paris Hilton media like a fat dinoasaur in a tar pit. Stay informed, we have no privacy, encryption is good but useless with acoustic monitoring, reflections in the eye and objects in your environment, etc.! If it's electronic, there's always a loophole. You shine brighter with each electronic device you use, in many ways. Don't trust Hushmail or any web based mail service to keep anything of yours secure or to provide any reasonable degree of security. Secure your computer room and rig your computer to shut down if you use encryption like Truecrypt or other when your environment is entered by someone other than you or those you permit and trust (you shouldn't trust anyone, everyone has a price)

Compromising Reflections or How to Read LCD Monitors Around the Corner
http://www.infsec.cs.uni-sb.de/~unruh/publications/reflections.pdf [uni-sb.de]

And more:

http://www.eff.org/wp/detecting-packet-injection
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_remailer
http://cryptome.org/tempest-law.htm
http://seclab.uiuc.edu/pubs/LeMayT06.pdf
http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~dfrankow/files/lam-etrics2006-security.pdf
http://cryptome.org/nsa-vaneck.htm
http://www.alobbs.com/macchanger
http://lifehacker.com/software/ssh/geek-to-live--encrypt-your-web-browsing-session-with-an-ssh-socks-proxy-237227.php
http://www.nononsenseselfdefense.com/five_stages.html
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-92/SP800-92.pdf
http://csrc.nist.gov/itsec/guidance_WinXP_Home.html
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-84/SP800-84.pdf
http://all.net/books/document/harvard.html
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-keyc.html
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-keyc2/
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-keyc3/
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/emsec/optical-faq.html
http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/csep590/06wi/
http://www.wiley.com/legacy/compbooks/mcnamara/links.html
http://lifeha

Since the article is often pulled from websites, the first article you should read and burn into your mind is this, Google for the title and archive a copy for yourself:

"A break-in to end all break-ins"
"In 1971, stolen FBI files exposed the government's domestic spying program"

It's an amazing story, and in 2008, how much has this expanded into every corner of our lives? The majority of Americans are brainwashed sheep consumers with a limp wet noodle for a brain, thrashing around with their Wii and Paris Hilton media like a fat dinoasaur in a tar pit. Stay informed, we have no privacy, encryption is good but useless with acoustic monitoring, reflections in the eye and objects in your environment, etc.! If it's electronic, there's always a loophole. You shine brighter with each electronic device you use, in many ways. Don't trust Hushmail or any web based mail service to keep anything of yours secure or to provide any reasonable degree of security. Secure your computer room and rig your computer to shut down if you use encryption like Truecrypt or other when your environment is entered by someone other than you or those you permit and trust (you shouldn't trust anyone, everyone has a price)

Compromising Reflections or How to Read LCD Monitors Around the Corner
http://www.infsec.cs.uni-sb.de/~unruh/publications/reflections.pdf

And more:

http://www.eff.org/wp/detecting-packet-injection
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_remailer
http://cryptome.org/tempest-law.htm
http://seclab.uiuc.edu/pubs/LeMayT06.pdf
http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~dfrankow/files/lam-etrics2006-security.pdf
http://cryptome.org/nsa-vaneck.htm
http://lifehacker.com/software/ssh/geek-to-live--encrypt-your-web-browsing-session-with-an-ssh-socks-proxy-237227.php
http://www.nononsenseselfdefense.com/five_stages.html
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-92/SP800-92.pdf
http://csrc.nist.gov/itsec/guidance_WinXP_Home.html
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-84/SP800-84.pdf
http://all.net/books/document/harvard.html
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-keyc.html
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-keyc2/
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-keyc3/
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/emsec/optical-faq.html
http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/csep590/06wi/
http://www.wiley.com/legacy/compbooks/mcnamara/links.html
http://lifehacker.com/software/home-server/geek-to-live--set-up-a-personal-home-ssh-server-205090.php

I realize you're joking but.....

http://www.wiley.com/legacy/compbooks/catalog/12974-7.htm

Not that I recommend it unless you also enjoy root canals. (Sorry about the link, I couldn't find a better one on short notice.)

http://uniset.ca/terr/news/lat_fbibreakin.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_(organization)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedition_Act_of_1918
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_and_Sedition_Acts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SLAPP
http://www.amazon.com/Bowling-Alone-Collapse-American-Community/dp/0743203046/sr=8-1/qid=1172469926/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-3962904-3664448?ie=UTF8&s=books
http://code.google.com/p/torchat/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_Shah's_Men
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_and_Contras_cocaine_trafficking_in_the_US
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_drug_trafficking
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKULTRA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_Fire_Decree
http://web.mit.edu/gtmarx/www/iron.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_Rule_Book
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repeal_of_prohibition
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writeprint
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Eck_phreaking
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
http://www.eff.org/testyourisp/pcapdiff/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon
http://ai.bpa.arizona.edu/COPLINK/
http://ai.bpa.arizona.edu/research/coplink/authorship.htm
http://www.coplink.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
http://www.zurich.ibm.com/security/idemix/
http://packetstormsecurity.nl/filedesc/Practical_Onion_Hacking.pdf.html
http://www.williamson-labs.com/laser-mic.htm
http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~dfrankow/files/privacy-sigir2006.pdf
http://freehaven.net/anonbib/topic.html#Anonymous_20communication
http://www.wiley.com/legacy/compbooks/mcnamara/links.html

Where on earth are you getting this data? Please provide at least some reference to any accumulation of people that is self sufficient on solar and wind. Unless of course you are playing loose with definitions and "renewable technologies" includes geothermal, trash-to-steam, etc.

While I agree about cities being self sufficient in renewable energy, the only place I can think of is Iceland and to a degree Hawaii using geothermal as they are, but there are plenty of people who's house is energy sufficient, Off Gridders. Daily more and more people are going off the grid. Oh and geothermal is just as renewable as solar and wind.

I have a coworker that is very interested in living off grid, and is also an engineer, and cheap to boot. As much as he wanted solar, he couldn't afford it. Why? The payback period (without subsidies) is 100 years! Even with a 50% subsidy, it is 50 years, which still exceeds the life of the panels (which are NOT "emissions free" to manufacture).

I don't know where your friend gets his data from. According a study published by Wiley, "Photovoltaics energy payback times, greenhouse gas emissions and external costs: 2004-early 2005 status" [$30 to buy] payback period is less than 25 years. Some of those who have built their home off the grid, had payback periods of under 15 years, before the warranty of some components expires.

These guys wrote some of the easiest to understand books I've ever seen. I have the old dead-tree versions of Basic Electronics and Basic Electricity, but these days you can get PDFs of them from Wiley

--dave

If your argument is that mutation can't make a large jump - well, welcome to reality. Mutation makes small changes, natural selection picks among them, and over time this build up to large differences.

If your argument is that minor differences can't sum up to an "innovative" difference, e.g. eye evolution from a light sensitive patch, has been shown in rapidly in simulation using minor differences from generation to generation (.1% differences).

If your argument is that such differences would not show up in the real world, then our experience with single strand (genetically identical) mice might of interest - after 3 generations, there's measurable, inheritable size differences, which by definition is a form of mutation (even though I've not seen the direct genes for this being mapped).

For direct gene mapping, there is the repeated longitude (20,000 generation) evolution of cold-resistant e.coli, with subsequent genome sequencing and difference analysis.

These are just a few examples off the top of my head. I don't know what kind of evidence in particular you'd like, because I don't know what you know and don't know. Feel free to ask more questions, and I'll try to find time for an answer. (And sorry for the lack of references for most of this - I've got limited time.)

Eivind.