If people could keep checking and let us know when it is back online??
You're asking that here... that site's gonna be up and running REAL soon, really...
look for "The Pirate Bay to be spread over six countries":
Pirate Bay goes up in six countries + conclusion
Today,
The Pirate Bay (TPB) informed us that the site will be back up tonight or tomorrow [June 2nd or 3rd]. They also said there will be four copies of the site in Holland, Russia, Ukraine and another country within the EU. This statement was delivered during an address of Rasmus Fleischer of Piratbyrån and a representative from The Pirate Bay (TPB) here at the Reboot conference in Copenhagen.
Maybe it's only a way of standing out for the few people who spearhead the latest trends and fashion, and the billion people who are all wearing the same things are just the people who don't want to be seen as 'unable to adapt to the latest 'best thing''.
I think he meant that an Italian facade looks great... on an Italian building. Throwing a bunch of beautiful parts together doesn't make a pretty whole.
simply justifying Santayana's claim that "Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit."
Except there is a reason, and a benefit: procreation
Fashion is a way of standing out, of being noticed. As soon as an old hype becomes generic, new ways of being noticed have to be developed! Although I still don't understand why you don't get laid right then and there when you wear bright purple pants and a pink shirt in public...
I understand your feelings on this, but imo people should be able to at least have the ability to experiment with computers. The only reason I know the things I know now, is because I messed up and had to figure out a way to repair the damage.
Maybe an easy to use version of "system restore" would give people the nerve to try some things, and if whatever they try fails: just push some reset button and a default OS magically respawns. Fear of doing something wrong again after a bad experience with computers stops a lot of people from learning more about them.
OMG!! That correlates beautifully with the declining number of pirates in UK waters!!!
Seriously, you can't say something like that without some serious (statistical) evidence that CCTV's are effectively helping prevent crime.
"The New York grape breeding program places a high priority on the development of highly disease resistant grape varieties. Resveratrol, a compound produced by grapes and just a few other plants, is associated with resistance to downy mildew and Botrytis bunch rot in grapes. Moreover, scientific evidence for its role in reducing the risk of coronary disease and cancer is mounting quickly. Our goal was to screen breeding program selections for resveratrol production in order to aid in the development of disease-resistant hybrids which also carry the potential for high resveratrol content. We also sought to identify commercial varieties with high resveratrol production potential. Relative resveratrol levels in leaves and berries of 48 varieties and selections were analyzed. Highest levels of leaf resveratrol were found in Vitis aestivalis, Ill. 547-1 (rupestris x cinerea)..."
"Seventy red wines submitted by New York wineries were analyzed for resveratrol. The range was from 1 to 46 micromolar resveratrol. A 46 micromolar resveratrol wine is extraordinary. We had considered 25 micromolar the highest possible concentration. We do not yet have an explanation for the cause of this high concentration.
"New York Pinot Noir averaged the highest in resveratrol of all wine types analyzed. Sixty-five percent of New York Pinot Noir were above 10 micromolar and the average of the seventeen analyzed was 14 uM. New York Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Cabernet Franc wines averaged around 8 uM. Hybrid and American red table wines averaged 4 uM resveratrol."
"Forty wines from regions other than New York were analyzed. The average resveratrol of New York wines of each wine style was higher than from other growing regions."
So if I understand this coorectly, the grapes grown in cooler regions are more susceptible to rot than those grown in sunny regions, so their levels of resveratrol to combat rot are higher.
(on a side note: it seems peanuts also have high levels of resveratrol, so bring on the peanut butter and have a glass of Pinot Noir with that!:P)
The chemical compounds found in red wine are called resveratrol, polyphenols and anthrocyanidins. Resveratrol is described to be "a potent anti-oxidant (about 20-50 times as effectively as vitamin C alone) and act synergistically with vitamin C enhancing the effects of each. Resveratrol has been demonstrated to have an anti-clotting effect that prevents the formation of thrombi or blood clots in the blood vessels."
The article I found goes on to explain why alcohol can cause a hangover and why it is bad for the body: "When alcohol is consumed, the alcohol level in the blood increases and produces the intoxication effect. The body then begins "detoxifying" or metabolizing the alcohol. The first step is the conversion of alcohol to acetaldehyde by the enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase. This happens fairly quickly in individuals who regularly consume alcohol. The second step is the conversion of acetaldehyde into acetate by the enzyme aldehyde dehydrogenase. This process is a bit slower and leaves a quantity of acetaldehyde in the system for several hours or longer. It is the acetaldehyde that produces most of the undesirable toxic effects..."
"Acetaldehyde, produced primarily in the liver, but also in other organs to a lesser extent, readily binds to the walls of red blood cells and hitches a ride to all parts of the body including the brain. By attaching itself to the red blood cells, it makes them more rigid and prevents them from entering the smaller capillaries. (The smaller capillaries are much smaller than a red blood cell and the cell is forced to stretch, elongate and squeeze its way through.) This reduces the oxygen supply to most of the cells of the body including the brain. ( The Brain consumes 20% of all the oxygen we breathe). Acetaldehyde also combines with the hemoglobin in the red blood cells further reducing its ability to carry oxygen."
"In addition to inducing hypoxia (oxygen starvation at the cellular level), Acetaldehyde reduces the ability of the protein tubulin to assemble into microtubules. Microtubules provide a structural support for the neurons and dendrites in the brain and actually transport neurochemicals manufactured in the nerve cells to the dendrites, including genetic material. Without the microtubules, the dendrites gradually atrophy and die off..."
And the list goes on and on, so it's not the alcohol that is beneficial, but the anti-oxidant resveratrol found in red wine.
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If people could keep checking and let us know when it is back online??
You're asking that here... that site's gonna be up and running REAL soon, really...
http://tpbeng.blogspot.com/
look for "The Pirate Bay to be spread over six countries":
Maybe it's only a way of standing out for the few people who spearhead the latest trends and fashion, and the billion people who are all wearing the same things are just the people who don't want to be seen as 'unable to adapt to the latest 'best thing''.
I think he meant that an Italian facade looks great... on an Italian building. Throwing a bunch of beautiful parts together doesn't make a pretty whole.
Fashion is a way of standing out, of being noticed. As soon as an old hype becomes generic, new ways of being noticed have to be developed! Although I still don't understand why you don't get laid right then and there when you wear bright purple pants and a pink shirt in public...
I understand your feelings on this, but imo people should be able to at least have the ability to experiment with computers. The only reason I know the things I know now, is because I messed up and had to figure out a way to repair the damage.
Maybe an easy to use version of "system restore" would give people the nerve to try some things, and if whatever they try fails: just push some reset button and a default OS magically respawns. Fear of doing something wrong again after a bad experience with computers stops a lot of people from learning more about them.
OMG!! That correlates beautifully with the declining number of pirates in UK waters!!! Seriously, you can't say something like that without some serious (statistical) evidence that CCTV's are effectively helping prevent crime.
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To avoid losing the name "alpha", they add "05" (the year) to the name if they retire it. The retired name would be "alpha05".
I just found that it's actually wines from cooler regions that have higher levels of resveratrol:
a study by NYS Agricultural Experiment Station, Cornell University, Geneva, NY
"The New York grape breeding program places a high priority on the development of highly disease resistant grape varieties. Resveratrol, a compound produced by grapes and just a few other plants, is associated with resistance to downy mildew and Botrytis bunch rot in grapes. Moreover, scientific evidence for its role in reducing the risk of coronary disease and cancer is mounting quickly. Our goal was to screen breeding program selections for resveratrol production in order to aid in the development of disease-resistant hybrids which also carry the potential for high resveratrol content. We also sought to identify commercial varieties with high resveratrol production potential. Relative resveratrol levels in leaves and berries of 48 varieties and selections were analyzed. Highest levels of leaf resveratrol were found in Vitis aestivalis, Ill. 547-1 (rupestris x cinerea)..."
"Seventy red wines submitted by New York wineries were analyzed for resveratrol. The range was from 1 to 46 micromolar resveratrol. A 46 micromolar resveratrol wine is extraordinary. We had considered 25 micromolar the highest possible concentration. We do not yet have an explanation for the cause of this high concentration.
"New York Pinot Noir averaged the highest in resveratrol of all wine types analyzed. Sixty-five percent of New York Pinot Noir were above 10 micromolar and the average of the seventeen analyzed was 14 uM. New York Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Cabernet Franc wines averaged around 8 uM. Hybrid and American red table wines averaged 4 uM resveratrol."
"Forty wines from regions other than New York were analyzed. The average resveratrol of New York wines of each wine style was higher than from other growing regions."
So if I understand this coorectly, the grapes grown in cooler regions are more susceptible to rot than those grown in sunny regions, so their levels of resveratrol to combat rot are higher.
(on a side note: it seems peanuts also have high levels of resveratrol, so bring on the peanut butter and have a glass of Pinot Noir with that! :P)
The chemical compounds found in red wine are called resveratrol, polyphenols and anthrocyanidins. Resveratrol is described to be "a potent anti-oxidant (about 20-50 times as effectively as vitamin C alone) and act synergistically with vitamin C enhancing the effects of each. Resveratrol has been demonstrated to have an anti-clotting effect that prevents the formation of thrombi or blood clots in the blood vessels."
The article I found goes on to explain why alcohol can cause a hangover and why it is bad for the body: "When alcohol is consumed, the alcohol level in the blood increases and produces the intoxication effect. The body then begins "detoxifying" or metabolizing the alcohol. The first step is the conversion of alcohol to acetaldehyde by the enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase. This happens fairly quickly in individuals who regularly consume alcohol. The second step is the conversion of acetaldehyde into acetate by the enzyme aldehyde dehydrogenase. This process is a bit slower and leaves a quantity of acetaldehyde in the system for several hours or longer. It is the acetaldehyde that produces most of the undesirable toxic effects..."
"Acetaldehyde, produced primarily in the liver, but also in other organs to a lesser extent, readily binds to the walls of red blood cells and hitches a ride to all parts of the body including the brain. By attaching itself to the red blood cells, it makes them more rigid and prevents them from entering the smaller capillaries. (The smaller capillaries are much smaller than a red blood cell and the cell is forced to stretch, elongate and squeeze its way through.) This reduces the oxygen supply to most of the cells of the body including the brain. ( The Brain consumes 20% of all the oxygen we breathe). Acetaldehyde also combines with the hemoglobin in the red blood cells further reducing its ability to carry oxygen."
"In addition to inducing hypoxia (oxygen starvation at the cellular level), Acetaldehyde reduces the ability of the protein tubulin to assemble into microtubules. Microtubules provide a structural support for the neurons and dendrites in the brain and actually transport neurochemicals manufactured in the nerve cells to the dendrites, including genetic material. Without the microtubules, the dendrites gradually atrophy and die off..."
And the list goes on and on, so it's not the alcohol that is beneficial, but the anti-oxidant resveratrol found in red wine.