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Outgoing chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix.

Outgoing chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix has described certain members of the US administration as "bastards" who set out to undermine him during his three years at the helm.

"I have my detractors in Washington, "Blix said in an uncharacteristic outburst to a British newspaper.

"There are bastards who spread things around, of course, who planted nasty things in the media. Not that I cared very much."

In his interview with The Guardian, Blix also accused Washington of regarding the United Nations as an "alien power" which it hoped would sink without trace.

Asked if he believed he had been the target of a deliberate smear campaign, Blix said: "Yes, I probably was at a lower level".

On the way he was treated over weapons inspections in Iraq, Blix said: "By and large my relations with the US were good".

But as the war against Iraq loomed, Washington "leaned on" his inspectors to produce more damning language in their reports, he said.

He added that US President George W Bush's administration was particularly upset that the inspectors did not "make more" of their discovery in Iraq of cluster bombs and drones in the run-up to the US-led war.

Blix, who retires in three weeks, says he is convinced that there are people in Bush's administration "who say they don't care if the UN sinks under the East river, and other crude things".

Rather than seeing the UN as a collective body of decision-making states, Blix said Washington viewed it as an "alien power, even if it does hold considerable influence within it".

Blix said he "remained agnostic" when asked if he believed weapons of mass destruction (WMD) would ever be found in Iraq.

He said the prospect of them being uncovered was passing by "quite fast and instead of talking about (finding) WMD they're talking about the programs. We know for sure that they did exist ... and we cannot exclude they (the coalition) may find something."

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Three killed as tornado hits

Three people are dead, seven in hospital and hundreds left homeless after a tornado ripped through parts of Auckland.

The tornado, which hit the suburb of Hobsonville about 12.15pm (10.15am AEDT), ripped roofs from houses, toppled trees and sent debris flying onto cars.

Up to 150 homes were badly damaged, leading to 250 residents being given shelter at the Whenuapai Air Force base.

Two construction workers were killed when a concrete slab landed on a truck at the building site of a secondary school.

A third death was later confirmed, believed to be caused by a fallen tree.

Authorities ordered Hobsonville residents to take shelter in their homes throughout the afternoon with the MetService, New Zealand's weather bureau, warning of the potential for further tornadoes.

The residential centre of the tornado's destruction was Wallingford Way, in Hobsonville; a street lined with Defence Force state housing.

Every house in Wallingford Way was damaged in some form with broken windows, damaged roofs and trees uprooted.

Most residents were evacuated from the street but army and emergency services continued to work to clear the debris.

A resident said they saw wheelie bins and pot plants flying past their windows and were forced to duck for shelter as windows were smashed in.

The highest windspeed recorded at Whenuapai airbase, close to the time of the tornado, was 110km/h. That constituted a severe gale but would not have been the speed in the tornado itself, which was not measured.

The tornado was accompanied by heavy rain, with hundreds of homes losing power, several major roads closed and delays caused at Auckland International Airport.

Prime Minister John Key, whose electorate covers the damaged area, extended his sympathy to friends and family of the victims.

Witness reports

Toni Hayward, administrator at the Open Wananga Office in Hobsonville, saw the tornado rip through the area.

"It came right through here and picked stuff up an threw it on the road."

"The sky went all dark and there was a big clap of thunder, all the trees were flattened."

Hobsonville RSA cook Deborah Carlson said she was trapped in her car during the storm, too terrified to go outside.

"I was just sitting there because it was pouring with rain and I thought I'd wait it out. But then my car started shaking and there were things flying everywhere. I thought it was going to flip, I was terrified."

Casey Davenport, who lives in Hobsonville, was at work when the weather started to turn.

Fallen or uprooted trees and pieces of debris were blocking the road to her house, which she said was leaking like a sieve".

"We're missing tiles, broken windows ... it's full of water now because it's leaking. But we're one of the better ones I think."

Brendan Muir, who was working at Hobsonville Point, said he was sitting in a ute when the tornado hit.

"It was just mayhem. I had to put my seat belt on, I thought it was going to flip."

Muir said that, around him, he could see trees "that looked like a plane had crashed into them", walls and fences knocked down and Portaloos scattered about.

He said for about 10 minutes there were so many sirens sounding it "seemed like 9/11".

Frances Schuster said the tornado only lasted 12 seconds but was terrifying.

"It went blurry for a while, it just happened so fast. It was really loud and the windows were shaking."

Part of a roof fell onto her car.

Prior history

In May, last year, a tornado in Albany, on Auckland's North Shore resulted in the death of construction worker Benedict Dacayan.

The 37-year-old North Shore resident worked for Fletcher Building and was part of a team of 15 helping to demolish the old Placemakers building in Albany when the tornado lifted him into the air and threw him into a concrete wall.

The tornado caused extensive damage to sectors of Westfield, Pak 'n' Save and other commercial locations and tossed cars in the air.

In September, last year, more than a dozen houses were damaged by a tornado that ripped through several streets in the West Auckland suburbs of Avondale and Te Atatu South.

In September 2009, another tornado tore the roof off a house in Ramarama, South Auckland and in July 2008, four homes were damaged by a twister in Glendowie. A person was injured in July 2007 when a tornado tore roof tiles in Botany.

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Intel unveils details of dual-core processors

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Promising improved performance without greatly increased power
needs, Intel Corp. has unveiled details of upcoming
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The world's largest chip maker plans to use the technology across its processor lines, from those powering mobile computers to the brains of high-end servers. In all, Intel has 15 projects under way developing dual-core or multi-core chips.

Intel plans to launch dual-core desktop chips in the second quarter, offering two varieties geared toward high-end and mainstream users, respectively. It's also planning dual-core and multicore chips for servers and notebooks for release later this year and in 2006.

The high-end desktop chip, dubbed the Intel Pentium Processor Extreme Edition, will run at 3.2 gigahertz - slower than the 3.8 GHz of today's top-of-the-line Pentium 4. Still, during one demonstration, it performed a task in half the time of its single-core counterpart.

Stephen Smith, vice president of Intel's Digital Enterprise Group, said on Tuesday that performance improvements would vary depending on the job. Multicore chips offer the greatest improvement when the software is designed to distribute tasks over the multiple engines.

But the technology should also improve performance when multiple programs are running at the same time, he added. All PCs typically have several pieces of software working in the background.

Also, the Extreme Edition's cores will use a technology that essentially nearly doubles the amount of work that can be handled by each core. Because of this, the operating system will work as though there are four cores, instead of the physical two.

The mainstream processor, dubbed the Pentium D, won't have that feature enabled. Smith also did not indicate that chip's clock speed.

Prices for the new processors were not disclosed.

Intel is not alone in bringing multicore chips to market. Rival Advanced Micro Devices also has plans to launch dual-core chips later this year.

And a trio of companies - International Business Machines Corp., Toshiba Corp. and Sony Corp. - are building a multicore chip based on a completely new architecture. It is expected to power Sony's next-generation PlayStation game console, among other devices.

The industry's move toward multicore processors comes as the number of transistors crammed on a single chip continues to increase in accordance with a famous prediction made by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore in 1965.

But while higher clock speeds are resulting in greater power demands, that is not translating into major gains in performance, threatening the historical growth in computing capabilities.

"It's the way the industry is going to be able to continue Moore's Law going forward by increasing the processing power in an exponential fashion over time," Intel chief executive officer Craig Barrett told reporters at the company's forum for developers.

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June 21, 2006

SOUTHERN Cross Station's wavy roof — the centrepiece of its $700 million redevelopment — is trapping fumes from diesel trains and causing a string of illnesses ranging from vomiting to runny eyes, say concerned staff.

The Southern Cross Station Authority and the Rail, Tram and Bus Union plan to conduct air testing at the station over the coming weeks to determine the extent of the problem.

Each weekday nearly 200 country and interstate services use the station (formerly called Spencer Street station), all of them powered by fume-spewing diesel locomotives.

The problem seems to be most severe at the southern end of the station, on the ticket barrier walkway, although all parts of the station are affected.

One Connex worker, who did not wish to be named, said workers had filed incident reports listing symptoms including irritated eyes, noses and throats, light-headedness, feeling "high", heartburn, headache, weakness, numb extremities, chest tightness, wheezing and vomiting.

Connex (suburban train) staff were forced to leave their positions at ticket barriers and ticket booths when the fumes were at their worst, she said.

"Most of the workers on V/Line (country train) staff, especially the platform staff and the ticket staff, are also affected by it. The diesel fumes go up halfway onto the roof, stay there for a while, then come down again. It is visible most of the time," she said. "It is not an issue of the workers' safety only but for the public as well, especially the regular commuters."

Another station worker said: "It really hangs around. You can really smell it, particularly on the ticket barriers in the upper level of the station … Before, when you didn't have the roof coverage, most of the stuff went up into the atmosphere."

He said he had seen one member of staff vomit as a result.

Union organiser Victor Moore said the station authority's testing was due to begin this week and the union would start its own testing soon.

"We've had reports of our members getting severe headaches and feeling queasy on the (ticket) barrier in particular," he said. "Sometimes it seems to be a lot worse than others."

The union believed fumes from diesel locomotives were to blame, but could not be certain until the tests were done, he said.

"We've had reports from station staff that passengers have been complaining as well," Mr Moore said.

Spokesmen for the station authority and the private consortium redeveloping the station, Civic Nexus, said the roof had been designed to naturally expel the fumes. Both said the roof would not reach its "optimum" ventilation effect until a glass wall was built alongside the station's western edge, near Wurundjeri Way. This would result in better "internal wind flows" designed to expel fumes through the roof.

A station authority spokesman said the wall, part of the 664 Collins Street development, was due to be built by September.

However, a Civic Nexus statement also said: "We are working with V/Line Passenger to identify measures to reduce the level of diesel fumes from locomotives within the station."

A Civic Nexus spokesman said there had never been plans to install fans in the roof to help remove fumes.

A spokeswoman for Transport Minister Peter Batchelor said the Government would leave all comments on the issue to the station authority.

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On an icy mid-morning in February 1947, after seven seedy years of privation and shame, Paris and its most important industry came exuberantly back to life. In what remains the most famous fashion show in history, the new House of Dior presented its inaugural collection in its Louis XVI salon. In steady tempo, model after model swirled in dresses and suits in neutrals and luscious colors with tight bodices and wasp waists, their long, profligately full, elaborately pleated skirts scattering the audience’s cigarette ashes as they flared open. Adopting the silhouette and requiring the intricate dressmaking art—and layers of underpinnings—of the Belle Epoch, the “New Look,” as Carmel Snow, the editor of Harper’s Bazaar, dubbed it on the spot, was in fact a defiant anachronism. But fashion instantly and effortlessly changed direction: the New York buyers who’d left for home before Dior’s launch had to turn around and sail back to France to put in their orders (“It took one swish of the hips and America was won,” the writer Colette said). More important, as several new books elliptically show, the New Look ushered in haute couture’s waning but most glorious era, even as Dior’s triumph—winsome and lovely in itself—helped take fashion and femininity down what has proved to be a pernicious path toward the frivolous and jejune.

The new edition of Marie-France Pochna’s intelligently illustrated, thorough 1993 biography, Christian Dior draws heavily on the designer’s own memoirs to elucidate two contradictory facets of his short career (he died just 10 years after the debut of the New Look): his almost religious dedication to nurturing the then already antiquated craft of Parisian dressmaking; and his revolutionary creation of an international luxury-goods empire comprising lucrative licensing, a global chain of boutiques, and ready-to-wear lines. In Dior’s formula, both facets depended on media attention, which he secured through regular, often nonsensical changes in the direction of his designs. Dior generated the once-popular fixation with ever-changing hemlines, and each year, as his fellow couturier Hubert de Givenchy explained, the market demanded a “new New Look, because his styles became too quickly too Seventh Avenue.”

Paradoxically, this media-stoked frippery revived haute couture, an essentially 18th-century industry whose products were made inch by inch by a mighty force of cutters, seamstresses, embroiderers, and other hand workers skilled in the production of buttons and ribbon and in the application of beads, paillettes, and pearls (two out of five French workers were employed in dressmaking and allied trades in the mid-1950s). A single dress could take 200 hours to make; a couture house’s seasonal collection could take more than 100,000 hours. Couture was nearly equally labor-intensive for the customer: in one season Barbara Hutton ordered from Balenciaga 19 dresses, six suits, three coats, and a negligee, each of which required at least three lengthy and intricate fittings. An art form, the most finely wrought expression of femininity ever devised, and a vital if obscenely inefficient source of national pride and foreign exchange (in 1949, two years after its first collection, the House of Dior accounted for a full 5 percent of France’s export sales, mostly with ex–quisite handmade dresses), couture reached its apogee in the postwar years—even as its participants and devotees knew it to be doomed.

This poignant and brilliant flowering was probed in a highly touted exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum this fall and in the text-heavy, exceptionally pretty, intelligent, and well-written companion volume, The Golden Age of Couture. Although the book occasionally looks askance at the excesses and legacy of Dior, it insists that he was the era’s defining force (the period it covers, 1947 to 1957, spans his entire career in couture; cognoscenti will notice that its white cover with gold lettering and pearl-gray ribbon bookmark match the colors of the original interior of the Maison Dior). Thus it all but ignores the other design houses that characterized couture’s renaissance, including that of Coco Chanel, who made her famously triumphant comeback in 1954, and those quintessentially Parisian houses Balmain and Lanvin.

The one figure given equal treatment is Cristóbal Balenciaga, whom Dior, as generous as he was self-promoting, acknowledged as “the Master of us all.” Aloof and ascetic, Balenciaga (1895–1972) shunned the publicity, commercial deals, and social whirl Dior depended on, refusing to be photographed by the press and granting only one interview, three years after his retirement. Repeatedly offered a fortune to develop a prêt à porter line, he invariably answered: “I shall never prostitute my art.” A man once rumored not to exist, he can never be the subject of the kind of chatty, conventional biography Pochna has written of Dior. But his oeuvre has been covered in a number of books, most discerningly by Lesley Ellis Miller and by Marie-Andrée Jouve and her co-author Jacqueline Demornex. Balenciaga Paris, published in late 2006 to coincide with an exhibition at the Louvre, mines the House of Balenciaga’s archives year by year, collection by collection. It affords the most rigorous, richly detailed examination of the evolution of the couturier’s lines.

Balenciaga’s seamstress mother taught him to sew at 3, and he was apprenticed to a tailor at 12. Strongly influenced by English tailoring—its marriage of ease and refinement, and its stress on precise cutting—he was, with his incredibly nimble fingers, the prime craftsman of his collections, each of which included a dress made entirely by him. He alone, according to Chanel, was “a couturier in the truest sense.” She added, “Only he is capable of cutting material, assembling a creation and sewing it by hand. The others are simply fashion designers.”

Dior, a charming if exceedingly plain-looking dilettante, came to couture late and by chance through his skill as a draftsman. Whereas a joshing glamour characterized the atmosphere at the House of Dior, silence and intense concentration governed the House of Balenciaga. “It was like entering a convent of nuns drawn from the aristocracy,” Marie-Louise Bousquet, the Paris editor of Harper’s Bazaar, remembered. It’s often facilely argued that Dior’s and Balenciaga’s strikingly different styles—the former fanciful, the latter austere—sprang from the designers’ opposing temperaments. It would be more accurate to say that the differences emerged from their opposing approaches to their craft. For Dior, the dress evolved from sketches; for Balenciaga, it evolved from the fabric (an indifferent sketcher, he would often design by draping cloth over his models’ bodies). Dior made the fabric conform to his vision, by having his workrooms stiffen, line, and back the cloth using the traditional methods of dressmaking; Balenciaga’s innovations in cutting techniques allowed him to respect the fabric’s inherent qualities.

Most important, behind the differences in their conceptions of design lay profound differences in their conceptions of women. An intensely romantic and nostalgic vision of femininity impelled Dior’s New Look. But that Platonic ideal required a notorious if finely crafted armature—padded hips, underwire bustiers, horsehair petticoats, girdles, and built-in corsetry. To achieve the pretty, youthful “new softness,” women reshaped their bodies to fit the requirements of the dress. One model told Snow: “It is the most amazing dress I have ever seen. I can’t walk, eat, or even sit down.” In contrast, one of Balenciaga’s “absolute pronouncements,” as Givenchy recalls in an essay in the recently published collection Balenciaga and His Legacy, was “The dress follows the woman’s body; it’s not the woman’s body that follows the dress.” He designed for a time and a society in which young women strove to look 20 years older, a time that valued attributes that came only after 35: a sense of style and an intelligent beauty dependent on what the great fashion writer Kennedy Fraser called “a kind of nerve-end understanding that life is often very sad.” His garments, in their legendary range of grays, browns, and blacks, and influenced by the clean lines of ecclesiastical dress, were supremely beautiful, never pretty. They weren’t for the undeveloped, for they projected assertiveness, authority, and sexuality. His streamlined styles—the tunic, the chemise, the empire—flattered both the svelte and those with curves and a stomach (“M. Balenciaga likes a little stomach,” one of his fitters famously said), since they overlooked the waist. With wit and a graceful, vaguely exotic convex line, his elegant, superlatively comfortable “semi-fitted” suit—his most- imitated creation—banished Dior’s wasp waist. His shift barely skimmed a woman’s body; his barrel dress enveloped it. His skirts, usually somewhat gathered into the waistband at the front, accommodated no-longer-flat stomachs. What Yves Saint Laurent defined as “the ease of Balenciaga” was based on what was universally recognized to be his unrivaled knowledge of the female body (“he builds clothes for the Woman, not for the Headlines,” Snow wrote)—a fact that makes his clothes deeply erotic, especially for the woman wearing them.

The Dior who emerges from Pochna’s chronicle and from The Golden Age of Couture is at worst a winning operator and at best a delightful genius of commerce with an eye for pretty things. By all accounts, Balenciaga—severe, uncompromising, taciturn—is couture’s Soup Nazi. As his friend and Vogue’s fashion editor, the high-born and high-minded Bettina Ballard, wrote, “His life is his work … It rarely seems to give him a sense of fulfillment, as it never reaches the perfection he desires.” For all his Gallic charm, Dior had no interest in women, the cynosure of his career. He was interested in publicity, and so hired only young, beautiful models. Balenciaga’s art emerged from his sympathy with women. He knew, for instance, that he had three generations of women to dress, and so always had some older models. Ernestine Carter, fashion editor of The Times of London, was spot-on in her evocation of his favorite model and the muse for many of his early masterpieces, the notoriously unpleasant Colette (not the writer): “her Dracula walk, her big head low like a bull ready to charge, her shoulders hunched down, … and a look of almost violent hatred on her face.” She wouldn’t have fit in at the House of Dior, where woman was ornament, but she was extremely useful to Balenciaga’s customers: “Any woman could wear Colette’s clothes—one of those tricks of proportion.” No woman was Dior’s muse. He simply kept up a stir, and so his creations from collection to collection have an untethered and empty quality.

By contrast, as Balenciaga Paris shows, Balenciaga developed a line over time, and returned to and refined an idea. “Make it new” would have been anathema to him; the assemblage contains no gimmicks to surprise or impress customers or the press, but there is a progression that somewhat gives the lie to Balenciaga’s much-commented-upon “timelessness.” Gradually, as form increasingly follows function, his shapes become cleaner, purer, more severe. By 1968, the year he abruptly retired, this archtraditionalist (he was a lifelong practicing Catholic and probably a monarchist to boot) seems to have embraced a modernist— or is it a monastic?—aesthetic.


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People from South Carolina to New York to Akron, Ohio, felt an earthquake that struck near Richmond, Virginia, this afternoon. It was a rare earthquake for the eastern seaboard and a rare kind of earthquake, in general.

The Virginia quake struck at a depth of just 6 kilometers. That's unusual as the plot above shows (note it's logarithmic scale on the vertical axis). Most strong quakes occur deeper in the Earth's crust. The depth of a quake has a direct relationship with how intense humans at the surface perceive its shaking to be, although that depends on a lot of other things, too. Still, relative to a deeper quake, this 5.8-magnitude tremor was felt more strongly than you'd expect.

But there's something else going on, too. At first, I had the West Coast-native thought that perhaps it wasn't actually that far from Richmond to New York and it was just the weird perception of East Coast distances that made it seem a long way. But then I mapped the distance between Richmond and New York. It turns out that it's a little further than San Francisco to Santa Barbara. It'd be one strange quake that hit SF but left buildings in the LA metro area seriously shaking.

That's backed up by more data, too. The USGS maintains a website called "Did You Feel It?" that crowdsources perceived earthquake intensity data. The Virginia quake has a very interesting graph. Its intensity stayed high over hundreds of kilometers. Compare those numbers with yesterday's Colorado quake.

I should note, though, that depth doesn't fully explain these numbers. The Colorado quake was even shallower than the Virginia one, which means that some other geological factors account for the long-distance effect. That's probably because East Coast crust is "older and colder," which makes it a more efficient transmitter of seismic energy.

Of course, these are still just guesses. Every earthquake is different in precisely how it manifests. Earthquake intensities are determined by the acceleration of the earth in all three dimensions. In fact, if you record the x, y, and z motion, you can "play back" historical earthquakes on shake tables at places like the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center.

We'll keep you updated on what geologists think happened.

Update 6:11pm: Check out this great post from Virginia geologist Callan Bentley for more about the interesting dynamics that produced this quake. (Via @burritojustice)

Update 7:18 AM: Watch seismic shocks ripple across the country. Credit: IRIS.


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            No it wasn’t upgraded I Need to move My Computer Closer to the WI FI is what it is

          • waqif

            hi sir how can u download it in one hour?

    I have downloaded Windows 7 32-bit Professional ISO file and installed. Where do I get the product key ?

    I have downloaded and installed Windows 7 32-bit ISO. Where do I find the product key ?

    • You can use your windows Product key. If you don’t have it go buy it or use windows as trial version.

  • Scott Moerke

    very slow speed i have the max highest internet speed and still shows 18 or 2 days left

  • Nitesh Rana

    Download it from at high speed

  • 689

    Is this Windows 7 SP1?

  • Hi Bluepig2 Please check now

  • Phillip

    Hi there, will this ISO work with an OEM Windows professional SP1 x64 product key? It is for a new installation on a brand new assembled PC without any OS.
    (Some ISO files are retail only I believe)

  • trash, as expected

  • D3

    Hi, can any mod fix Window 7 64 bit download?. the connection has slow down at 2.4gb.

  • lilian sejko

    7 hr 17 min remaining! is that possible? the hrs are actually going up, up from 3hr 40 something min. should I cancel? how much is this going to cost me in wifi charges?

    • Hello lilian sejko
      Use Internet download manager for fast download.

      • lilian sejko

        tks, good to know this. found software disk that came with computer.

  • Tomas

    Does this work with oem prod key or only retail?

    • We haven’t tried it with OEM key but I think it should work with it.

  • vektro

    does it support swedish language?

    • it is English version. We are working on providing Windows in different languages. Go with Windows 7 Ultimate.

    • giz

      you can install this then install the swedish language pack

  • Yuri

    seed plz !!!!!

    • It may be your internet speed. We provide high speed direct downloads.

  • Hello Hisham use Internet download manager for faster download speed

  • Cheap Product

    No doubt, As Windows 7 is the most recommended OS, Which through user can do almost all work without any problem, Where I recommend you to activate your OS being purchased its license key from: Which is distributing license for almost all types of Microsoft Products. I personally use it and have a good experience.

  • Kim Fry

    do i need kms activator ?

  • This is not right place to talk about win xp. first create a bootable cd

  • Sandi we have deployed high performance dedicated servers for speed. Hope you enjoy download experience with us

    • sandi alm

      your welcome Mrs. Zaibe and Thanks for the dedication, now i can use win 7 pro with my serial number, i buy ori from microsoft thx

  • Zhen Azhari Al – Ikhsan

    Is it a full version ? I need Win7 on my Mac and install it using Bootcamp.

    Btw, thanks for the sharing.

    • It is untouched windows 7 professional ISO version, you can use it through bootcamp to install it on Mac

  • Have you tried internet download manager for high speeds

  • Rihan true

    hey thanx for that but inside

    Product Key option ?

  • nOOb

    So, where i can dowlnoad it??!!

    • Vanessa Garsson

      Does it works?

  • Spirit In Motion

    Thank you so much for the iso download of windows 7 but its asking for activation key

  • Spirit In Motion

    The windows xp sp3 worked perfectly thank you

  • Indeed this ISO download is for those people who have their original windows Product key. This ISO is not meant to give crack or distribute pirate copy of windows. If you have original license key then this windows ISO will work otherwise you can use this as trial for 30 days.

  • jdms

    windows7 compatible with INTEL HD GRAPHICS?

  • @Zaibe:disqus Can we activate this windows using KMSpico?

    • I guess yes, but i am not sure about it

      • @Zaibe:disqus okey thanks, I will try this & share about it

      • @Zaibe:disqus Is it updated to latest updates??

        • NO this is untouched official ISO

          • Cost of Official activated windows is approx 150$ . You mean this is also official & same as original copy but it’s inactivated only trial? because there is so many scam over the internet related to original Windows. And please explain “untouched” refers to? @Zaibe

          • Untouched simply means no change of files in windows package. We share original copy inactivated or trial, If you have key you can activate windows. Please keep in mind that windows is licensed product we don’t have legal right to share pirated or modified copy of windows. We do not share or promote ways to crack windows.

          • @Zaibe:disqus Thanks so much for paying your attention towards my comments & clearing my confusions. Well your windows working fine but only hanging problems is there for sometimes. And your windows is not installing via pendrive but installing only through DVD. Any reason behind all of these things ?

          • Addison Mcdaniel

            The Download file is in iso format, It runs on boot from DVD only.

  • Yes i guess but i am not sure about it, try out

  • Is it updated upto latest updates?

  • Abdelrhman Adel

    is this support windows updates ??

  • I tried to install it via Pen-drive it was showing an error, but when I burn it into DVD then it worked, any particular reason behind that? @@Zaibe:disqus

  • sumesh chandran

    booting through usb but after microsoft logo screen, scree go black with mouse pointer.

  • Patrick

    Does it work if i Install this OS using USB? plss reply ASAP

    • Yes you can, create a bootable USB to install windows 7

  • sean

  • Ingrid Lie

    Hi I recently installed a Windows 7 pro sp1 which I bought online. But this comes with the windows update kb976902 which is a disaster and it can’t be uninstalled since it is from the installation dvd. I suspect it cause Windows update to be checking for update forever. Anyway does this version of sp1 refers to that kb976902?

    • As long as you have valid license key you can download and install untouched official windows ISO files from

  • Diego Rolando

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  • Lawrence Berlinski Sr.

    ?Can I use my Microsoft XP product key to activate Win7

    • No you can’t use XP key to activate windows 7

  • konathala tharun babu

    i have an msdn subscription but my account has expired on april but i have my own product key can i use the product key to ur os that which i wanted to download pls reply to my comment…..

  • disk not burn what can i do

  • You can choose between following options
    1) Ask the company to downgrade the windows 10 to Win 7 or Win 8.
    2)Install Windows 7 on your computer as Dual Boot, you can use windows 7 or windows 8 in trial mode.
    3)Buy windows 7 or 8 product keys from third party sources and activate your copy with them. ( Authenticity of these keys are questionable )

    My suggestion is to download windows 7 from and use this in trail mode . If you need more help feel free to ask

  • Sushant Kadam

    Product key? Win7 32 bit

  • aggabagga

    If I install this version of 7 on my Vista laptop but I can’t find my product key after the free trial, can I go back to Vista?

    • Gilbert J. Straight

      You can always reinstall it

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  • yty

    will installing the windows 7 64bit iso file clear all my datas?

  • Joseph

    well windows 8 is free all you have to do is get the iso for win8 and install it on a usb then boot the laptop on the usb then install win8 once in win8 it should ask for a product key it should be on the botton of his laptop

  • starsky

    there no key for win 7 you can crack it with windowsloader programme

  • Richard Dube

    If i bought a brand new pc (let say a Acer or a Lenovo) with win7 64bits. Can i download the 32bits version (for compatibility reason) here and use my windows key wich come with the computer ?

  • working

    i need 32 bit is it both in this file or only 64 bit ?

    • You can get 32Bit version from 32Bit Tab

  • working

    is this activated version ot not

    • No you have to activate it with your key

  • John Cherish

    I have a good version of Windows 7 professional 32 bit DVD on order but I want to install it before the official disk arrives I already have the Activation Key all I need is the disk. I have downloaded versions of it prior to this and installed on my Virtual Machine only to find the versions I downloaded had rootkit trojans on them and thus were unusable. Does the 32 bit version you have for download have rootkits on it as well? AVG antivirus detected them in the 2 instances before. These were not downloaded from your site but from 2 different web sites also saying their ISO’s were virus free which they weren’t

    • We offered official untouched ISO. You need original windows activation key, we do not share or host illegal or crack copies of any software.

  • John Cherish

    It is of use if you have a damaged disk and want to install re-install on your machine AND you have the legal license Activation key to use with it. Any other use of them providing an activation key would be software piracy and illegal

    • You are right, you need activation key for this package

      • Nakurai

        not to mention this works great for OEMs! kukuku

      • Arshad Rahim

        how to get the activation key

  • Midian Nabwani

    i got the file but when i opened it up it says that this is a win home prem not pro can you please share link for the pro v?

  • CWM

    I have a window 7 home activation code for my Dell computer. 3 months after upgrading to windows 10, I want my win 7 back. Can I use the original win 7 code for 1) windows 7 home or 2) windows 7 Pro?

  • kshitij

    what is the size of the iso file?

    • 64Bit Size = 3.09 GB
      32Bit Size = 2.38 GB

  • Robel

    i download windows 7professional 64bit, can u advise me how i wil install in lenovo z500 laptop
    from usb.becoz my laptop is dos..and also do i need active key?with out key can i install..
    waitng for ur kind answer…

  • Travis Trapani

    Wow horrible download speed….5 days?!?

  • sinu

    pls hefp me window 8.1 activation key

  • Conc

    Can i use this with a Virtual machine ?

  • David Ipek

    U can skip the activation key mate!

    • Csirura-csan

      Really? How?

  • Gilbert J. Straight

    Oh…BTW Everyone need’s to upgrade their Internet Explorer (IE) to IE11 and that will solve the Issue with the Updates. Very Important that everyone knows this.

  • Matt Hucker

    great, very thanks!

  • Hi Eric, many people download this every day and no one complained like this. I’m not suggesting that you are wrong but please re-download this and see if the problem remains.

  • Billy Chen

    I got the same error too.

  • Sarun Rajasekhar

    i have my hp laptop whith win10 installed how can i use product key for this
    i want to change to win7 32 bit .can i ?

    • Yes you can but you should keep win 10.

  • Nickolas Nery

    muito bom valeu mesmo eu tava precisando atualizar o meu windows xp.

  • Viesturs

    To my great surprise this download turned out to be real, legitimate, unmodified Windows 7 ISO!

    You can check the SHA1 checksum after downloading this and compare with official Microsoft lists here:
    (press on ‘details’ and one of Windows & Professional 64bit versions has the same SAH1!)

    Thank you very much guys, I was looking for this for a long time as Microsoft won’t allow me to download ISO from their site with my product key as it is from OEM.

  • Arshad Rahim

    do they ask the product key to activate this os

  • gerfex

    i dont know why im getting error and stops, then try to dl again and continue from where it stops

  • Saksham Arora

    Can it be used without product key ?

  • Devgopal Das

    it is 30 days trail

    • Yes but you can use it after trail ends

  • Kai Hao Choong

    where to install the latest windows 7 support software from apple??
    The software from bootcamp assistant is not working~ help~~

  • Rancho Preysler

    is there anyone who tell me that ..where I can get the windows 7 professional product key???

  • Clovis

    Guys the download speed depends on your internet connection, these files are Image Files and are huge, some of them are 3GB and it will take a while for them to download them, also they do not come with a Windows Key, we have to assume that you have your own key or that you had purchase the key, example, if you have windows 7 pro, you want to download windows 7 pro, reinstall windows, and them put the Windows Key that came with your machine there, if you run into any issues contact Microsoft and let them know this is the same PC with the Same Key you are just installing the OS.

    You can’t install windows 7 pro on a Windows 7 home basic and put the Windows 7 Home Basic Key that your computer came with, it will never work, unless you have windows 7 pro key from somewhere else.

    My Example:

    I had a Windows 7 64 bit OEM Home Premium.
    Downloaded the Windows 7 pro 64 bit ISO and installed it on my machine, it did not work because my key is for Home Premium, so i got a Windows 7 pro 64 bit product key i found ;) and wala !!! it worked !

  • Ramakant

    rply pllzzz…..


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June 11, 2013

CDC recently launched "Reasons/Razones," a national bilingual AIDS prevention campaign for Latino lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. CDC Spokesperson Lorrie Alvin stated that although Miami is a focus city for the campaign, the messages will be seen nationwide in advertisements and at major Gay Pride events. The campaign focuses on increasing HIV testing among Latino LGBT people. According to CDC, Latinos accounted for 21 percent of new HIV infections in 2011 and 70 percent of HIV-positive Latino gay and bisexual men ages 18 to 24 did not know their status.

The campaign asks Latino gay and bisexual men to think about their reasons for getting tested. It was developed with input from Latino gay and bisexual men, community leaders, and experts. The campaign encourages HIV testing using a series of campaign advertisements featuring gay and bisexual Latinos sharing their reasons for getting tested and encouraging others to do so. It includes online, print, and billboard advertising as well as social media outreach.

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After 20 wonderful years together, today my sweet Samantha kitty went to the Rainbow Bridge.
It was so hard to say goodbye to her but over the last two weeks her health and quality of life went downhill quickly.
I miss her so much!
post #2 of 19
The twenty wonderful years of love, head butts and purrs from your beloved Samantha will always be with you.

Rest in peace sweet Samantha.
post #3 of 19
That is great she made it to 20. So sorry that you lost her.
post #4 of 19
i'm sorry you're missing your companion of 20 years... but it's so wonderful that you had her for that long!
a for Samantha, & for you.
post #5 of 19
What a sad sad loss for you. Sending virtual hugs your way. Hopefully soon her wonderful memories will warm your heart with smiles.

Rest In Peace Samantha
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I am soo very sorry for your loss You are in my prayers tonight
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It is so hard to lose a cat after spending 20 years with her. May your sadness turn into fond memories of Samantha. My thoughts are with you.
post #8 of 19
I'm very sorry for your loss. Rest in peace Samantha.
post #9 of 19
Although sad, i love to read that they were a good old age when they passed. I hope i'm as lucky to have my babies that long, but i can imagine how utterly heartbreaking it must be after having their company for so long

RIP Samantha Your going to be missed so much, but you will see everyone again one day

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I'm so sorry for your loss. I can't imagine how hard it must be to lose a cat after 20 years, I lost my cat after 8 years and that was hard enough. Rest in Peace Samantha.
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I am so sorry for your loss. My thoughts and prayers are with you.

RIP Samantha
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i'm so sorry for your loss but how wonderful to have shared so many years together.

RIP precious girl.
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Thank you for the kind words everyone.
Thank you for the gifts, Felicia's mom and xocats.
I need to clean out my PM box because I got two e-mail notices from xocats and I think it was Siobhan, you can try to send the PM's again in a little while.
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Jess x
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My heart is sad for you today...20 years is a long time and I know how hard it is to say prayers are with, Samantha

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RIP Little One
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I'm so sorry that your dear beloved Samantha has passed on. My heart goes out to you.

May memories of the love, joy, comfort and purrs she brought into your life over your many years together bring you comfort.

Rest in peace and play joyfully over the Rainbow Bridge, Dear Samantha
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I am so sorry Vt Cat!!! Please accept my sincere condolences and I really hope those times you recall with your dear Samantha will help you get you through this time. She's always be in your heart!
((((((((Vt Cat)))))))))
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So sorry for you loss. What a wonderful 20 years you gave each other though! I hope the happy memories replace the sadness very soon.
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Paleontologist To Re-create A Real Dinosaur Within 10 Years

Paleontologist To Re-create A Real Dinosaur Within 10 Years

No, there isn't dinosaur DNA trapped in amber, waiting to be replicated and cloned.

But that's not the only way to make a dino, said Jack Horner, the paleontologist who worked on "Jurassic World" (and the rest of the "Jurassic Park" films), and he wants to make it happen.

How did we get to this point, where Horner — one of the main inspirations for Michael Crichton's "Jurassic Park" character Alan Grant — thinks we can make a live dinosaur within five to 10 years?

"It all started with 'Jurassic Park,'" Horner told Business Insider in an interview.

In 1993, the same year the first movie came out, he and then-graduate student Mary Schweitzer, who has continued to make some amazing discoveries in the field of paleontology, tried to extract DNA from dinosaur bones.

They failed. DNA basically starts coming apart as soon as a cell dies, says Horner, and no one has ever found intact dinosaur DNA — he doesn't think it's possible. "If you did the thing they did in 'Jurassic Park,'" says Horner (referring to the story's solution of filling in dino DNA gaps with frog DNA), "you'd basically have a frog."

About 20 years of genetics research later, however, Horner has another plan — and it relies on the fact that we have a more effective way to get "dinosaur" DNA.

Going back in time

We have creatures on the planet that are the direct descendants of dinosaurs: birds. And if you ask a paleontologist, birds are dinosaurs, specifically avian dinosaurs.

They might not look like dinosaurs, but birds have feathers, just like dinosaurs, including the ferocious velociraptor. Over time, their descendants' snouts turned into beaks, they stopped growing tails, and wings further evolved into modern bird wings.

But birds didn't necessarily lose the genes that code for tails or arms or snouts — instead, those same traits most likely exist in their genetic code, inactive, while the newer genes for wings, tail feathers, and beaks are expressed.

Horner thinks that we can suppress these new genes and express the atavistic, throwback dinosaurian genes instead. And his plan is to do this first with a well-researched bird that we're all familiar with, a chicken, giving us... a "chickenosaurus," as he described in a TED talk, or a "dino-chicken."

Picture it: a small, feathered creature, with a tail that helps it balance, small arms with claws, and a toothy snout, instead of a beak.

Remember, real velociraptors were just the size of a large turkey.

Horner has talked about pet dinosaurs for a while. Publishers of his book, "How to Build a Dinosaur: Extinction Doesn't Have to Be Forever" came out in 2009, originally planned to release it around the same time as "Jurassic Park 4."

Basically, Horner says, he's trying to discover the genetic pathways that turned birds into the modern creatures we know, so we can turn back the clock on a chicken's evolutionary history.

And as wild as this may sound, Horner's not the only one doing this type of work. A pair of Harvard and Yale scientists recently announced they'd found a way to turn chicken beaks back into dinosaur snouts. Skeptics think building a dino snout won't be so easy, and will involve as-yet undiscovered genetics. But the researchers counter that their work shows just how fast the science in this field is developing.

Horner says we can look at the beak study as a "proof of concept" that this reverse engineering process is feasible.

That Harvard-Yale team is working on the beak. In 2014, another group reported in PLOS Biology they'd figured out how dinosaur arms fused into wings. Horner is working on the tail. And he thinks that with the right funding, we can reverse-engineer and grow a dinosaur in five to ten years.

Creating something new

If researchers reverse-engineer a bird, they'd have some sort of dinosaur, though it would still be a new species — the process by which modern birds evolved happened over tens of millions of years, and the few changes we're talking about here probably wouldn't represent an exact creature that existed 65 million years ago.

And dinosaurs that weren't of the avian variety still wouldn't be represented. We have no modern descendant of a stegosaurus or a brontosaurus (newly restored to real dino status).

But the rapidly changing world of genetics could open up the possibility for creating animals just like, say, a triceratops.

Horner says that if we were interested, we could genetically engineer creatures like these, or like anything else we can figure out a genetic code for, even if it never existed in nature. Once we figure out the genes that create a trait, those genes could potentially be incorporated into an animal. We've already done this. Researchers used the genes from jellyfish to make rabbits that glow in the dark, and other researchers made mice with transparent skin. Once we know the code for a trait, we could use that to make a creature.

Horner uses a unicorn as an example — we'd just need to add genes for a horn. "We could probably get to a unicorn before we get to a dino-chicken," he says.

So why do it?

Though some of this might sound like it's totally out there, there are practical applications. If Horner's team figures out how to make a tail grow, that might unlock the ability to better understand the growth of vertebrae and neural tissue, with fascinating medical implications.

He also thinks "if we can make a dino-chicken, it's pretty cool." It might help get kids interested in genetics at a young age — what kid doesn't love dinosaurs?

Plus, Horner points out that we've been genetically modifying the genes of animals for thousands of years. We've just called it "breeding."

"People made chihuahuas out of wolves, for God's sake," he says.

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The Senate Finance Committee passed Obamacare on Tuesday. Matthew Yglesias says if this bill doesn’t pass the whole Senate, the president’s next offer will be a far more bitter pill.

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In Finland last December, where taxes are 43.6 percent of GDP (compared to just 28.2 percent in the United States), a politician told me “we’re not socialists like in Sweden” but still felt it would be absurd to charge tuition for people to go to college. Now for the past two weeks I’ve been in Sweden and Denmark, where taxes hover at around 50 percent of GDP, and socialism, as defined by Finns, actually looks pretty nice. Here in America, though, it’s Barack Obama who stands accused of wanting to turn the United States socialist with a health-care proposal that allegedly amounts to a freedom-sapping government takeover soon to end in disaster.

It’s true that the changes in the bill the Senate Finance Committee passed on Tuesday are fairly far-reaching. Still, it’s worth putting them in perspective. Compared to health-care systems that exist elsewhere—and that seem to work a lot better than ours—bill proposes extremely modest changes that would leave the overwhelming majority of the health-care system in private hands.

What Obama and Baucus are proposing is close to the minimum amount of change conceivable. If insurance-industry groups succeed in killing the bill, the lesson will be that appeasement hasn’t worked.

The opposition party's hostility to this modest reform looks hysterical, and the interest groups fighting against reform don't really seem to grasp how easy on them Obama and Congress are being. Private-sector players, in particular, ought to recognize that the Senate Finance Committee’s bill is incredibly generous to their interests by international standards and that if that generosity isn't rewarded with political success, next time around they're likely to see proposals they like a whole lot less.

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Consider, for example, not health insurance but the actual provision of health care. Under Obamacare, it doesn’t matter whether you’re covered by Medicare or an expanded version of Medicaid or employer-sponsored insurance, or a private plan purchased on the new health-care exchange, or the still-possible—and controversial—”public option” that may or may not be in the exchange; your actual health-care provider will be a private-sector entity. In Sweden, by contrast, most health care is provided by a hierarchy of government-run institutions. There are 18 county councils in Sweden given funds by the central government and charged with organizing the provision of health care. The 18 counties are grouped into six larger regions. The counties run just over 1,000 small “health centers” to provide basic care, about 70 county hospitals for more complicated cases, and eight regional hospitals for specialized care. Certain illnesses are sufficiently rare that not every region maintains the ability to treat them, and the counties are expected to work out arrangements to transfer patients from one county to another in order to deal with those cases.

The care provided at these institutions isn’t free, but it’s pretty darn cheap. Nobody ever has to pay more than a total of 900 Swedish kroner for treatment over the course of a year—that’s about $125 in terms of today’s very weak dollar. The point of the fees isn’t really to raise revenue, but to encourage people to seek care at the appropriate level. The health centers are dirt cheap, the county hospitals cost a bit more, and the regional hospitals a bit more than that. Overwhelmingly, the bills are being paid by the government; that’s what the high taxes are for.

In Denmark, by contrast, health care is absolutely free for 98.5 percent of the population. Everyone signs on with a general practitioner. If you have a problem, you see the GP. If he thinks you need to be admitted to a hospital or sent to a specialist, then to the hospital or the specialist you go. The country is divided into five regions, and the regions run the bulk of the hospitals. Thanks to the right-wing coalition that’s been ruling for about eight years, the regions also sometimes contract-out care to private hospitals. But either way, the government pays 100 percent of the cost. A further 1.5 percent of the population is in rare “Group B” insurance where you have a (small) co-payment to see a doctor, but also the right to make an appointment directly with a specialist without going through a GP.

This might sound like change you can believe in or change to fear, depending on your point of view. But one thing can’t be doubted—for the U.S. to adopt either of these systems would be a major change. The reform bills in Congress are, by contrast, small fry. In the United States, the idea that Medicare should simply be expanded to cover all citizens is regarded as something of a lunatic fringe position and even that wouldn’t take us all the way to what they’re doing in Scandinavia. The Democratic bills all hold sacrosanct the overwhelming role of the private sector in the actual provision of health care as well as the dominant role of the private sector in insuring the non-elderly, non-impoverished population. They also preserve the American principle that, in a fundamental sense, the quality of the health care you get should depend in crucial ways on your ability to pay. This is a deep contrast with Sweden, where official government documents explain that “health and medical care is based on the principles that care should be provided on equal terms and according to need, that is should be under democratic control and financed on the basis of solidarity.”

Whether that sounds good to you or not, it’s not the principle we operate under in the United States and it’s not the principle that the Obama administration is aiming for. Instead, they’re simply trying to achieve the much more modest aim of guaranteeing that a basic standard of care is available to everyone irrespective of the idiosyncrasies of employment status and medical history.

In part, the administration’s goals are so modest because the overwhelming lesson of the past is that changing American health care is hard. So rather than try to crush the special interests, Obama has tried to appease them. But it looks like that may not be good enough, as the insurance industry decided to cast a cloud over this week’s Finance Committee vote on reform by releasing a deeply deceptive report accusing the Max Baucus version of reform of unleashing a dystopian future.

Something they may want to consider: Whether reform passes this year or not, the status quo really is untenable. Something will have to change someday. And what Obama and Baucus are proposing is close to the minimum amount of change conceivable. If insurance-industry groups succeed in killing the bill, the lesson will be that appeasement hasn’t worked. And that may mean that next time around, reformers will start thinking big and try to put health care under Democratic control and financed on the basis of solidarity. Industry may vehemently oppose even modest reforms, maybe trying to kill it off entirely. That would be an ugly fight that would mean years of delay in providing help to people who urgently need it. But unless insurers can recognize how much the powers that be are bending over backward to be nice to them, it might be the only way forward in the long run.

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An Epidemic of Absence: Destroying the Bugs in Our Bodies Can Be Dangerous to Our Health

Lifelong asthmatic Moises Velasquez-Manoff infected himself with parasites to improve his health. He describes the latest thinking of scientists who suspect we’ve been too thorough about cleansing our bodies of microbes and bacteria. His new book is An Epidemic of Absence.

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One cool winter day two years ago, I deliberately did what most sane people try very hard not to do: I traveled to Tijuana and acquired a parasite infection.

Call it stupidity, idiocy, madness. Call it lunacy. I consider it biological gonzo journalism in pursuit of the ultimate story—the betterment of my own health.

Let me explain. I’ve had asthma for as long as I can remember. As a child, it landed me in the emergency room several times a year, my lips and nails purple from lack of oxygen, my limbs slack from breathlessness, my parents frantic from my seemingly imminent suffocation.

The asthma has improved with age, but it never went away entirely. Like many among the 25 million Americans with the lung disease, roughly 8 percent of the population, I am utterly dependent on an inhaler for day-to-day functioning.

I’ve also had food allergies for as long as I can remember, to peanuts and sesame. The reaction isn’t life-threatening, but it isn’t pleasant either.

And that’s not all.

At age 11, a nickel-size bald spot appeared on the back of my head. It signaled the arrival of an autoimmune disease called alopecia areata. Whereas in allergic diseases like hay fever the immune system turns savagely on harmless proteins in the environment—tree pollens, say—in autoimmune disease, the immune system attacks the self.

The very white blood cells tasked with protecting me had turned on my hair follicles.

A few years after that first bald spot showed up, I was completely hairless—no eyebrows, no eyelashes, no forearm hair. Just skin.

I coped mostly by ignoring the suite of illnesses. And really, what bothered me most wasn’t the problems themselves but that no one could explain what had happened to me.

As a science writer in my 30s, I revisited the issue. And one thing was immediately clear. The real question wasn’t what happened to me but what happened to us. Scientists were throwing around the word “epidemic” to describe the steep rise in recent decades of immune-related disorders. It was as if the human immune system had suddenly and inexplicably gone berserk.

In the developed world, allergic diseases like asthma and hay fever have increased between two- and three-fold since the ’50s. In certain populations—usually in high-latitude, industrialized nations—the incidence of inflammatory bowel disease, a family of painful gut disorders, has increased by significantly more.

In some northern European countries, type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks the insulin-secreting pancreas, has surged so dramatically that some consider it a public health crisis. And it’s predicted to double again within the decade.

What could explain these alarming trends? Theories abounded. We encountered too many pollutants. We were stressed. We were hyperexposed to allergens. We had bad diets. Others blamed autoimmune disease in particular on infections—some bug that camouflaged itself as you and then, when you pursued it, tricked your immune system into hounding yourself.

But the epidemiology just didn’t match up. In the early 20th century, before antibiotics and most vaccines, we suffered from far more infections than now. And yet we seemed to have had far fewer autoimmune and allergic diseases.

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Allergens like pollens, dust mites, and cat hair, meanwhile, weren’t exactly new to the human experience. They’d been alighting in our noses for many millennia. And while pollution clearly wasn’t good for us, at least the airborne kind had declined in the same period—the late 20th century—in which respiratory allergies had burgeoned.

What explained these patterns better? It wasn’t pretty, but it was profound. It stemmed from the repeated observation that people living in environments that resembled our evolutionary past—rife with mud, animals, parasites, and sundry microbes—suffered from these problems far less often than, say, me in my apartment in the mostly paved-over island of Manhattan.

Stumbling upon this minor observation was the beginning of a journey, a thread that led to a tapestry of science that, as a whole, comprises a kind of revolution taking place beneath our very feet.

In the early 21st century, scientists began to see with new clarity that you are not really you at all—that you are an ecosystem of mutually dependent organisms, an aggregation of life whose stability and coherence requires the utmost attention and care.

It was Joshua Lederberg who, just a decade ago, coined the term that best encapsulates the newly evident weirdness of the human condition.

You are a “superorganism”—an organism squared.

Here are your stats. In your body, bacterial cells outnumber human cells by 10 to 1. (As one scientist once told me: we’re born 100 percent human. We die 90 percent microbe.) Forget who’s bigger and who’s badder, and consider what this means in terms of information. If you look at the combined genome of that community, most of which lives in your gut, it contains 150 times the instructions contained in “your” genes.

That’s worth pondering. If the entire recipe for a human being fits on a single page, the instructions for the “microbial organ” at the heart of that being fill a 150-page tome. But here’s the key. The directions for the superorganism—the walking, living, eating, breathing, correctly functioning you—comprise 151 pages.

You are everything together.

Which brings me to the problem: we haven’t necessarily added something that’s making us sick; we’ve removed something—many things, actually—that have been with us since time immemorial and which, in very complex ways, make us well.

What have we lost? Probably some purely beneficial organisms, true mutualist microbes that disappeared without our noticing. Definitely a few unpleasant characters, like parasitic worms, which we deliberately and with good reason evicted. And a few infamous bugs, like the corkscrew-shaped bacterium called Helicobacter pylori, which can be downright carcinogenic.

I won’t say I’m not happy about these departures. But my feelings don’t change the basic facts of biological interdependence. As the immunologist Graham Rook is fond of saying, co-evolution invariably leads to codependence. And when you tear asunder codependent organisms, trouble comes knocking.

That’s my wheezing, my food allergies, and maybe even my alopecia areata. That’s the roughly 1 in 5 Americans with allergic disease, and the 1 in 20 with an autoimmune disease.

We are suffering from an epidemic of absence. It’s a strange way for loneliness to manifest, this derangement of the immune system, but who said systems biology would be tidy and predictable?

The task scientists now face is the reconstruction of the superorganism. In the future, they’ll likely replace the inputs our immune systems expect with stimuli designed to provide only benefits, and bear no costs.

But I don’t live in the future. I want to know now: What happens when you reinstate organisms from the world of yore into a body plagued by postmodern immune dysfunction? Will any of my diseases disappear?

One bracing day, that question brought me to a clean spare room in Tijuana, Mexico, where a bandage is pressed against my left bicep.  Within moments, I feel what’s perhaps the most famous sensation in all parasitology: the burning, itching, tingling sensation of 30 microscopic hookworm larvae burrowing through my skin.

The next few months are a rollercoaster ride of good, bad, and ugly during which I discover two things. Yes, the hookworm Necator americanus can change how your immune system works for the better. Peach fuzz sprouted on previously hairless skin. Sinuses were pried wide open as if by a wonder drug.

But the parasitologist Charles Wardell Stiles wasn’t kidding when, after discovering that hookworm infested huge swaths of the American South in the early 20th century, he christened it the “American murderer.” The parasite, which sucks blood from your intestinal wall and which Stiles blamed for economically retarding half the U.S., really hurts.

Would I repeat the experiment? No. But that doesn’t change the basic lesson. The pesky hanger-on evidently possessed an understanding of my immune system that allopathic medicine has yet to match.


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Managing the WDW Crowds: Extra Magic Hours

Welcome to the next stop on Blogorail Red. Today we are discussing how to manage the crowds at the Disney Parks.

Walt Disney World is a magical place, but sometimes the parks can feel a little less than magical when you're waiting in endless lines and oppressive heat. What if you could enter the parks an hour early, or hang out in the parks a couple of hours late? Sounds great...and you can if you're staying at any one of the more than 25 Walt Disney World Resort hotels.

Extra Magic Hours is a special perk just for Disney Resort hotel guests. From the Disney website:
Extra Magic Hours offer a rare and unique opportunity to enjoy additional time in Walt Disney World parks—above and beyond the standard operating schedule—at no extra charge. This special perk is offered to Guests of select Walt Disney World Resort hotels. Each day, one of the 4 Walt Disney World theme parks opens one hour early or remains open up to 2 hours after regular closing time. Additionally, Disney Water Parks offer Extra Magic Hours during select times of year.

In order to take advantage of Extra Magic Hours, all you have to do is:
  • Check the schedule and see which park has Extra Magic Hours
  • Arrive at the indicated park
  • Use a valid Disney ticket and show your resort ID
Not all attractions are open during Extra Magic Hours, but the bigger attractions are almost always included. Don't plan on seeing any shows during this time because most of the shows do not run during Extra Magic Hours.

While Extra Magic Hours sound like an incredible perk, it isn't always your best option. Here are some things to consider:
  • There are thousands of guests staying at Walt Disney World Resort...and all of them are trying to take advantage of Extra Magic Hours. Often the park that has evening Extra Magic Hours will be the most crowded park and it may be worthwhile to visit a different park that is less crowded. Visit and see what the crowd predictions are for each park.
  • Extra Magic Hours can be exhausting. Do not plan on doing morning Extra Magic Hours and stay the entire day. You and the members of your party will likely burn out and it will not be enjoyable. Extra Magic Hours are best used when you either take a break during a day or spend a half day at the parks and a half day at the resort.
  • If you are visiting one park and hopping to another park for Extra Magic Hours, you must have a valid park hopper ticket. Discuss whether this is cost effective for your family or overkill.
So are Extra Magic Hours worth it? They can be in the right situation. Be sure to check Touring Plans beforehand to see the estimated crowd levels and don't overdo it. If you do, they can truly be magical!

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tripswithtykes said...

Couldn't agree more about the mid-day break being essential. Since I have little ones, we are up early and can really take advantage of the early morning extra magic hours, but we definitely are ready for naptime later in the day!

Julie Bigboy said...

We've done the Extra Magic Hour (Disneyland only offers the one extra morning hour) and yes, paired with an afternoon break back at the hotel, it's great.
We've always been able to squeeze a lot into that first hour!

Kimberly said...

I usually find out which parks have extra magic hours and make sure not to go there for the entire day. Since we usually get park hoppers, we'll pick a different park for the day and then head to the one with evening EMHs when the park we're at closes.

Heidi Strawser said...

I usually check for which parks are going to have the lowest crowds on any given day and go that way - which usually means avoiding the park with Extra Magic Hours. We have taken advantage of it a time or two though.

Rosanne Mottola said...

I think that if you only have one or two days, EMH can be great because you want to do as much as possible in a limited time. That's really the only time I've used it.

Rosanne Mottola said...

That's a great strategy! Take advantage of the smaller crowds at non EMH parks and make the most of your day by hopping to an EMH park at night :)

Rosanne Mottola said...

Julie, I find that the morning EMHs tend to be less crowded and better overall! Paired with a nice nap or pool break, it can be awesome.

Rosanne Mottola said...

Now that I have my little munchkin, I have a feeling I will feel the same way during my first trip with him in November. :)

Heidi Strawser said...

Yes, for a short visit, using them would be essential! Gotta get in as much Disney as possible.

lori ketcherside said...

I find the park with EMH will be extra crowded, except during the extra magic hours~ DON'T go to the EMH park unless you plan to use the extra magic hours!

Lin 'Pratt' Leffel said...

We always do Morning EMH at Magic Kingdom but tend to skip them at other parks. We occassionaly do the evening EMH at Magic Kingdom as well, but not as often since our son is still young. Do you find it really benefits you to hit up the EMH park for Hollywood Studios, Epcot and Animal Kingdom?

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Mastering marlinespike

Short splice

Splicing is an art, and the final appearance is your reward. Done correctly, the short splice is aesthetically pleasing and strong.

Although stronger than the long splice, the short splice increases the line’s diameter, making it difficult, if not impossible, to pass through a block.

To splice 3/8-inch laid rope, unlay about 8 inches at the end of each line to be joined, for a total of six strands using three-ply rope. Heat-melt the end of each strand.

Short splice

A. Intertwine the strands as shown, with strand 6 between strands 1 and 3 and strand 2 between strands 4 and 5. Pull the ends to tighten the rope.

B. Secure the center with a twine sack knot to hold the ropes while you complete the tucks.

Short splice

C. Make the first tuck by passing strand 1 over strand 4 and under strand 5. Rotate the splice a bit, and make the second tuck by passing strand 2 over strand 5 and under strand 6.

D. Make the third and last tuck by passing strand 3 over strand 6 and under strand 4. This completes one set of tucks.

E. Make two more sets of the three tucks, going over and under as described above. Make sure that all the strands are pulled and twisted with the lay after each set of tucks to snug the strands in place. This makes the final splice neat and firm.

F. Next, turn the splice end-for-end, making three sets of tucks on the other end as well.

Remove the twine sack knot, place the entire splice on the deck, and roll it back and forth with your foot to smooth the splice and make it uniform. Heat-cut the protruding ends of the strands and hide them by dimpling using a heat melt

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Strangle knot

Jar sling

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Spanish bowline

Stevedore knot

Heaving line knot

Three-part crown knot

Sack knot

Short splice

Constrictor knot

Slip knot

Japanese bowline

Hawser bend

Slipped bowline

Bowline on a bight

Lark’s head

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Jury mast knot

Slipped buntline hitch

Painter’s bowline

Binder’s loop

Wall and crown knot

Inside cow hitch

Toggled reef knot

Long splice

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