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Wounded Veterans Climb in Nepal | OutsideOnline.com - http://outsideonline.com/adventu...

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"Beneath Baskis, several more climbers whose bodies had been battered by war were scattered on rope teams along the rock slabs. They'd had legs taken by explosions and crashes, brains rattled by bombs, and spirits hammered by loss and fear and the disorienting journey home from the battlefield. Those moments, the worst of their lives, had brought them here: working up the side of 20,075-foot Lobuche in Nepal's Himalayas, hours before dawn. For some it was their first trip to a foreign country not at war. They climbed alongside their expedition teammates—ten mountaineers who had scaled Everest in 2001, including Erik Weihenmayer, still the only blind person to summit that peak. Weihenmayer and his friends, many of whom had since become professional mountain guides, wanted to commemorate the climb. Leading ten injured veterans up Lobuche, in Everest's shadow, seemed an appropriate parallel. "An expedition has the ability to renew you, to renew your soul," Weihenmayer had told the veterans several days earlier in Kathmandu. "I've been on dozens and dozens of expeditions, and I've died and been reborn on every one." The two groups had far more in common than each had first imagined. U" - Jenny H - -

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"The U.S. military has always excelled at training soldiers, but they've had a tougher time helping them adjust to peace. The author joins 11 combat veterans in Nepal as they test the most promising new postwar therapy: adventure." - Jenny H - -

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Gordon, I know! I am pining for San Francisco tonight! - Jenny H - -

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This is my favorite Radiohead song and Weezer kills it. \m/ - Jenny H - -

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friendfeed. I'm listening to Rodfather sing karaoke, worrying that Rochelle isn't getting enough sleep, grinning from ear to ear because MICHAH put my #RodfatherSadEyes on a box of Wheaties, and wondering if all pasta really does need mushrooms. I love you all.

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This was supposed to be posted to Lovefest, too! Gah! I love you all, but want to kick myself in the ass. - Jenny H - -

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If only to combat that weird costume guy Shawn keeps bumping- #RodfatherSadEyes

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AKA "Just finished my beer look." - Jenny H - -

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There have been a lot of animals in my feed tonight and not all of them SFW. o_O

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In college, my nickname was “the wolf whisperer” and when I would enter the classroom, my classmates would howl at me. This was the consequence of being a vocal and avid proponent for wolf conservation. My home boys (the Field & Stream crowd, as I liked to think of them) liked to tease me for being a tree hugger, but it was always good natured. I...

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Closest I got to working with wolves was collecting wolf scat in Alberta. I did see wolves while I was working up there, which was a total win. I've spent some time with some ambassador wolves before (had my teeth licked by them, even), which was pretty awesome. I'm not obsessed with working with wolves like I once was, but I still l love 'em. - Jenny H - -

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I've had some awesomely vivid dreams with wolves... - Jenny H - -

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Living Up to Her Legacy: Alexandra Cousteau | The Outside Blog - http://outside-blog.away.com/blog...

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"Why is the Colorado River so important? The Colorado River runs 1,450 miles from the Rocky Mountains to the Gulf of California. It has carved the geography, history, and culture of the American Southwest and made the desert bloom. What most people don't know is that we have so over-allocated the river that it no longer reaches the sea. This has not only resulted in the loss of the Colorado River Delta which once was the size of Rhode Island, but it has created great hardship for the people who live there and depend on natural resources for their survival. The good news is that this is one of the systems we can work to restore." - Jenny H - -

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Buzz Kill: Federal Warnings Hit Medical Pot Boom : NPR - http://www.npr.org/2011...

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"How each state interprets those letters is different. Some are going ahead with their programs despite the warnings. Others are in the same limbo as Rhode Island, where patients are getting frustrated. "I don't know about you, but I feel mad. Do you?" Ellen Lenox Smith is a familiar face at the podium in the Rhode Island State House. She testifies in favor of dispensaries at every opportunity, with her wheelchair and service dog nearby. She says marijuana helps lessen the pain of her two incurable diseases. She grows her own plants, for now. "I have to wonder, as I progress with my two conditions, where am I going to be headed? What happens when I can no longer grow? Where am I supposed to turn?" she says. For now, the answer to Lenox Smith's question is unclear, as states weigh the new risks of opening dispensaries. Local governments are looking to a lawsuit filed by the governor of Arizona to clarify the federal government's stance on state marijuana programs. Meanwhile, the sale of the drug continues to follow a pattern of fits and starts across the country." - Jenny H - -

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"What the policy is, exactly, depends on how you interpret what's called "the Ogden memo." "In 2009, the Department of Justice indicated that it would be a low priority to prosecute anyone who was complying with state medical marijuana laws," Jay Rorty of the American Civil Liberties Union explains. He says the 2009 memo from then-Deputy Attorney General David Ogden made advocates think the federal government wouldn't interfere with state medical marijuana stores. U.S. Attorney Michael Ormsby from Washington state disagrees with that interpretation. "I think the ACLU takes that statement out of context," he says. According to him, the memo means the federal government won't go after patients who are growing their own marijuana — but retail stores were never part of that exception. "We're talking, in some instances, about thousands of dollars a week being generated by these enterprises," he says. It's a problem familiar to Colorado's Attorney General John Suthers. He says Colorado's more than 800 dispensaries are probably not what the federal government had in mind when it issued the Ogden memo. "We've had just a plethora of retail dispensaries develop. We've got grow operations; we're now at 125,000 patients," he says. "And it's a joke." That's why he asked his U.S. attorney for advice. Suthers guesses that the letters from other U.S. attorneys are an attempt to prevent more states from becoming like Colorado." - Jenny H - -

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800-Mile-Wide Hot Anomaly Found Under Seafloor Near Hawaii - http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news...

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"But after analyzing 20 years' worth of earthquake data, geophysicists say they've found an 800-mile-wide (1,300-kilometer-wide) region of hot rock in the Hawaiian region—but nothing beneath the Big Island of Hawaii. The island, the youngest in the chain, is traditionally thought to be above the purported plume. Although the new evidence flies in the face of the giant-plume theory, "we can't rule out a narrow plume below the island, but the main source comes from a different place. It can't be linked directly below," said geophysicist Robert van der Hilst of MIT, co-author of the new study, led by his colleague Qin Cao and appearing online today in the journal Science." - Jenny H - -

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"A technique called seismic tomography uses the sounds of earthquakes rippling through the planet and bouncing around to detect such plumes, or hot spots. But this kind of data has been limited for Hawaii. "It's been very difficult to image the mantle below Hawaii, simply because it's so far away from [large] seismic-sensor networks," van der Hilst said. Data suggesting a plume directly below the island is very limited and based on relatively narrow sampling by seismic waves, he said. By contrast, Van der Hilst said, the new study analyzed two decades' worth of seismic data and extracted subtle but clear signals. Those signals point to the giant anomaly, about 410 miles (660 kilometers) down: a relatively disklike segment of rock between 540 and 720 degrees Fahrenheit (300 and 400 degrees Celsius) hotter than its surroundings and between 370 miles (600 kilometers) and 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) west of the Big Island. The team suspects the plume is pooling at the boundary between the upper and lower mantle, then snaking its way to the crust below the archipelago before rising to feed Hawaii's volcanic islands." - Jenny H - -

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I'm hungry. Hmmn...

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if I had some honey I would make some for y'all. but alas, I have none. - Jenny H - -

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Eivind, that won't do! I need sustenance! - Jenny H - -

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Wonderful and so much better music selection than hearing the standard school band music for the 100th time. But it could use a tuba solo! - Jenny H - -

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PUNK ROCK TUBA PLAYERS UNITE! - Jenny H - -

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Sometimes iTunes Genius really comes through for me. Like this morning.

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Concerns Aired About Arsenic-Containing Bacteria - ScienceInsider - http://news.sciencemag.org/science...

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"A debate that erupted 5 months ago over whether a bacterium incorporates arsenic into its DNA is about to start simmering again. Today online in Science eight research groups voice their concerns about a paper that appeared 2 December 2010 online in Science and will be published in next week's issue of the journal. The original article presented an exception to one of the fundamental rules of life on Earth. To survive, microbes, plants, and animals all require six essential elements: oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen, sulfur, and phosphorus. But NASA astrobiology fellow Felisa Wolfe-Simon and her colleagues isolated a bacterium that, when grown with high arsenic concentrations and no added phosphorus, appears to replace some phosphorus with the chemically similar arsenic in key biomolecules, including DNA." - Jenny H - -

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"A startling discovery in and of itself, the finding became even more controversial because a NASA press announcement in December implied a connection to the search for extraterrestrial life. Yet many scientists were sharply critical of the paper, including several who blogged about their concerns in posts that drew hundreds of comments that offered additional attacks on the work. When journalists tried to follow up, Wolfe-Simon, then at the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, California, and her colleagues initially declined to respond, fueling speculations about the soundness of the research. The group eventually posted a response. And in a subsequent interview, Wolfe-Simon said she and her co-authors welcomed the debate but, "We wanted to be able to have that discourse in the scientific community, as a record." That discourse has now begun with the so-called Technical Comments published today online by Science, along with a response by Wolfe-Simon and her colleagues. The exchange does not put forth new data on the matter, but centers on the original experiments in which Wolfe-Simon isolated bacteria from arsenic-laden Mono Lake, California, and then tried to grow them in cultures with large amounts of arsenic and no phosphorus, which is typically required for growth. One strain called GFAJ-1 still managed to multiply, despite the dearth of phosphorus, the original paper reported." - Jenny H - -

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The state of the feet address:

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Boo... I second the soaking, but I'd soak them in cold water to help that swelling go down. And epsom salts, of course. Then, elevate. :( - Jenny H - -

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Who's red faced, with feet covered in blisters, and just passed the pack test? THIS GIRL.

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Brilliant! - Jenny H - -

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Well, get a good night's sleep and a light but nutritious breakfast. - Jenny H - -

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Sorry, Chopin, but NyQuil whoops your ass in the getting me to sleep competition. Zzzzzzz.

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