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Is there a young adult in your life who could use some help in social situations? Starting this January, Transitions is presenting PEERS®,
an in-depth course aimed at helping young people succeed socially. Anyone within the targeted age group can register.
What is PEERS®?
• The Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills
• A manualized social skills training intervention for adolescents and young adults
• Developed at UCLA in 2005 by Dr. Elizabeth Laugeson and
• Dr. Fred Frankel
PEERS® will help the students with:
• Interacting with others
• Developing relationships
• Entering groups
• Building confidence in social situations
• Navigating bumps in relationships
• And more!
Who can take the PEERS® course?
• PEERS® has a strong evidence base for use with teens and young adults with autism spectrum disorder.
• It is also appropriate for teens and young adults with ADHD, anxiety, depression and other socioemotional problems.
• Students should be either high schoolers in grades 9 to 12 or young adults ages 18 to 26.
• Each student must also have a "coach" attend sessions at the same time as them with a different instructor.
o Coaches can be parents, caregivers, siblings or anyone committed to helping the student succeed socially.
o Coaches will learn to develop and encourage the skills learned.
Important facts:
• This 16-week course takes place every Tuesday from January 5 to April 19 from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
• The cost is $350 and covers both the student and the coach. Scholarships may be available upon request.
• All classes take place at Transitions, 2736 State Highway 30, Gloversville, 12078.
• The instructors for this course are Certified PEERS® Instructors Mary Kaye Ormiston, speech-language therapist and behaviorist, and Victoria Morrison, speech-language pathologist.
For more information and to register, call Terry Williams at (518) 775-5384 or email email@example.com.
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text: 1-donde_andaba_12 Untitled 12, from the series Donde Andaba The images in Donde Andaba juxtapose wild plant life and urban architecture to explore the perseverance of life despite its ambient conditions. For it, I used a 6x7 camera and photographed the vegetation that emerged from the cracks in the sidewalks or from between the bricks on the walls of buildings in my neighborhood. I made the work in 2005 after living in Mexico City for three years and was inspired by my observations of Mexican culture, in particular its tenacious spirit.

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By about 4:30 Monday afternoon, Bruins players were reporting to Causeway Street, prepared as usual for a night's work against the Ottawa Senators at TD Garden.
But within minutes, many were headed back out of the Garden, informed by management once inside the dressing room that the game had been called off, just one of the many consequences of the fatal bombing earlier in the afternoon at the finish of the Boston Marathon.
"The thoughts and prayers of everyone in the Bruins organization are with the city of Boston and all those affected by today's tragedy,'' team president Cam Neely said in a release issued just before 6 p.m.
No makeup date for the game was announced. It is possible, though not likely, that the game won't be rescheduled, provided the outcome has no consequence on the NHL's final standings. However, given how tight the standings are, the odds are in favor of a makeup, possibly Sunday, April 28. Both clubs are off that day, each of them scheduled to wrap up their seasons that weekend.
Earlier Monday afternoon, some 30-60 minutes before the players began to straggle in, there was no immediate sign that the game would be postponed.
A visitor to the Garden box office at 4 p.m., a little more than an hour after the blasts, was told that the game was still on as scheduled.
Meanwhile, in the press room, many of the reporters who arrived in the building before 10 a.m. for the Bruins' day-of-game workout continued to work on stories and prepare for the planned 7:05 puck drop. A couple of miles away, in and around the Marathon finish line, chaos was the order of the day — but time stood still inside the game-day time capsule of Causeway Street.
While the likes of Dougie Hamilton and Anton Khudobin filed out of the building, newcomer Jaromir Jagr was just arriving, a somewhat quizzical look on his face as he eyed the exiting players.
His teammates already had been told to go home, but Jagr wouldn't be told the same, reportedly by general manager Peter Chiarelli, until he walked through the big black swinging doors to the dressing room.
Meanwhile, some 60 feet down the hallway, support staff could be seen loading Senators equipment bags onto skids that would transport them to the team bus on the opposite side of the building's third floor.
At approximately 5:12 p.m., the Ottawa team bus slowly pulled away, the day's light growing dimmer on the chilly, somber afternoon.
"We fully support the NHL's decision to postpone tonight's game,'' the Senators team account tweeted.
Another official Ottawa team tweet noted, "The thoughts and prayers of the entire Ottawa Senators organization are with those people affected by today's tragic events in Boston.''
No Bruins were made available to the small press corps that remained in the building in the minutes before and after the players were told to go home.
A member of the media relations staff shooed members of the press away from the dressing room door and later closed two doors in the adjacent hallway, blocking reporters' views of players as they arrived and departed.
Goaltender Tuukka Rask was willing to accommodate a reporter's request to talk until the member of the media staff abruptly cut him off.
Neely's statement was issued just prior to 6, and at 6:03 p.m., Matt Chmura, the club's director of media relations, informed the few stragglers in the press room, "So, that's it, we're closing up here at 6:30.''
Pedestrian traffic in and around the Garden was very light as 6:30 approached. Garden security members checked commuters' bags as they made their way to trains headed north and west from North Station.
A reporter nodded in near silence as one security member peeked inside his three bags and politely said, "I doubt you have any bombs in there.''
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Monday and Tuesday of last week I was lucky enough to be invited to participate in a Children's Internet Protection Act Symposium, hosted by the American Library Association and Google in Washington DC.
The first day was pure think-tanking and brainstorming about where to go from here to help school and public libraries better cope with the legislative requirements of CIPA and work toward a future with better legislation.
The second day some of us participated in public Google Hangouts about the issues and our discussions. Those are archived for viewing at your leisure. I participated in the first Hangout and had a blast explaining how filters (don't) work, what their effectiveness rates are, and how to get around filters.
Part 1: Introduction and Overview of CIPA 10 Years Later
Part 2: Symposium Themes and Conclusions
Both videos are absolutely worth watching and I guarantee you will learn something in each!


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It got better.
Well it had to really otherwise I may have thrown myself from a bridge. I had a meltdown - it was pretty bad. Completely lost it at my husband. On that particular day I was hot, bothered, exhausted and covered in baby sick. Boychild had been screaming all day and I just felt as though my life was over.
5 months ago I was juggling a £1M budget and booking some of the best musicians in the world and now I was looking like shite wearing clothes my mother wouldn't be seen dead in (too fat for regular clothes and too thin for my maternity clothes), spending hours trying to clean the flat but not able too as my child wouldn't sleep for long enough (or allow me to put him down) so fed up of living in a pigsty, constantly washing bottles and trying desperately to keep my milk supply up (after the abominable mess made of breastfeeding caused partly by the midwives and partly by the bureaucratic arses at Kings College Hospital - another long story for another time) and having absolutely no life whatsoever as that would only be achievable with some energy - something I was clearly lacking.
Husband listened. He didn't really understand and thought I was criticising him (I wasn't) but he knew I was close to breaking point.
I stopped trying to be superwoman and also gave up fighting the losing battle of my own milk. Husband therefore could do some of the night feeds. He now does Friday and Saturday night feeds - I can't expect him to get up at 3am during the week when he has to go to work, I'm not that unreasonable. I've still only been out alone 3 times but I can live with it. 2 on Friday nights so that hubby can do the feed and I can sleep and once to a Pilates class. It's a vague hope of trying to get back my pre-baby bod and shake off the backache!
I also have given up being bothered about Freddie crying when we're out. He needs to get used to it as needs must and one must shop occasionally! Now I'm more relaxed, then he is too. I always knew that would happen but it's very tricky to implement when one is completely shattered.
He still won't nap much - 30 minute bursts - but now he's older he will sit in his chair for a short while and watch me in the kitchen so I can at least clean all his bottles and prepare his feeds.
This morning he slept for 90 minutes whilst I attended a mum and baby fitness class - Pushy Mothers. He loved it and I can barely move. Lord, the last time I ached that much I had been beasted by a personal trainer in preparation for my wedding! And that time, I got to come home, have a bath and cry quietly in the corner. Today I had to come home, wash my sweaty face and change my t-shirt and carry on with looking after Baby Boy. I must stink! But I am so proud of my little one - he clearly loves being out in the fresh air and has absolutely no interest in watching me exercise!
Basically, what I'm trying to say is that he has got better - it's not perfect and I'm still not getting anywhere near enough sleep, but I can live like this and not feel like a total failure. I'm even beginning to get quite sad about having to go back to work - something I never thought I would say. People change I guess.
The ramblings and random thoughts of someone who never thought she would get married, let alone at an age when her friends were on 'second time around' or sending their children off to school and university.
About Me
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- A first time mum at 39, trying not to let my son kill me off too soon. Busy juggling a new family, a new house and a tricky recording schedule I figured blogging would be less expensive than therapy and less embarrassing than shouting at rude and stupid people in the street/on trains/at the supermarket.
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Blame it on the guns. No, blame the judges who banned Godtalk in schools, along with most lessons about right and wrong.
No, our lousy national mental health care system caused this hellish bloodbath.
No, the problem is the decay of American families, with workaholic parents chained to their desks while their children grow up in suburban cocoons with too much time on their hands.
No, it's Hollywood's fault. How can children tell the difference between fantasy and reality when they've been baptized in violent movies, television and single-shooter videogames?
Why not blame God?
These were the questions in 1999 when two teen-aged gunmen at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., killed 13 people and themselves in the massacre that set the standard for soul-searching media frenzies in postmodern America.
All the questions asked about Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold are now being asked about Adam Lanza after he gunned down 20 first graders and six employees at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., before taking his life. He began his rampage by killing his mother in the suburban home they shared after the 2008 divorce that split their family.
After Columbine, Denver's archbishop wrote an agonizing reflection that looked toward a future after all the headlines and endless cable-news coverage. Last week the staff of Archbishop Charles Chaput, now leader of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, circulated those words once again. What has changed?
"The media are already filled with 'sound bites' of shock and disbelief; psychologists, sociologists, grief counselors and law enforcement officers -- all with their theories and plans," he wrote. "God bless them for it. We certainly need help. Violence is now pervasive in American society -- in our homes, our schools, on our streets, in our cars as we drive home from work, in the news media, in the rhythms and lyrics of our music, in our novels, films and video games. It is so prevalent that we have become largely unconscious of it. ...
"The causes of this violence are many and complicated: racism, fear, selfishness. But in another, deeper sense, the cause is very simple: We're losing God, and in losing Him, we're losing ourselves. The complete contempt for human life shown by the young killers ... is not an accident, or an anomaly or a freak flaw in our social fabric. It's what we create when we live a contradiction. We can't systematically kill the unborn, the infirm and the condemned prisoners among us; we can't glorify brutality in our entertainment; we can't market avarice and greed ... and then hope that somehow our children will help build a culture of life."
Columbine unfolded in the Easter season, noted Chaput, a time in which believers are reminded that even the Son of God was not spared the reality of death.
"The Son of God descended into hell and so have we all, over the past few days," noted the archbishop. "But that isn't the end of the story."
Now, the Newtown massacre has shattered the season of Advent, in the days preceding the 12-day season of Christmas -- another biblical event that included violence and the deaths of innocents, as well as the singing of angels and signs of ultimate hope.
Little has changed.
Death is real and life is precious. Innocence is fragile and sin is terrifyingly real. The violence that haunts our culture is real and at times impossible to prevent. America is blessed and cursed with charge cards, computers, cellphones and many other gifts of modern life.
Chaput and other clergy faced familiar questions this week. The only option, he said, is to look in the mirror.
"God is good, but we human beings are free, and being free, we help fashion the nature of our world with the choices we make," he said, in a new letter. "Every life lost in Connecticut was unique, precious and irreplaceable. But the evil was routine; every human generation is rich with it. Why does God allow war? Why does God allow hunger? ...
"We are not the inevitable products of history or economics or any other determinist equation. We're free, and therefore responsible for both the beauty and the suffering we help make. Why does God allow wickedness? He allows it because we -- or others just like us -- choose it. The only effective antidote to the wickedness around us is to live differently from this moment forward."


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It's finally here.
New music from Justin Bieber and Major Lazer just dropped and this new track is definitely worth the wait.
The song, titled "Cold Water," has been teased by both Diplo and the Biebs over the past week on their Twitter pages and Snapchat accounts.
But it looks like the duo aren't the only ones on the summer single, "Lean On" singer M is also heard hitting all the right notes.
And as if the three musicians mentioned above weren't enough to come together to make a memorably hit song, it looks like another famous face was involved in the song-writing process.
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Ed Sheeran is listed as a co-writer, along with Benny Blanco, on "Cold Water."
This marks the second time that Sheeran has worked with Bieber, the first time being "Love Yourself."
Earlier in the week, Bieber took to Twitter to share some of the lyrics with his diehard fans.
"I just want to stay afloat...If you feel you're sinking, I will jump right over, into cold, cold water for you," he's tweeted and is heard singing in the chorus.
Bieber just completed the North American leg of his sold-out Purpose Tour at New York City's Madison Square Garden earlier this week.
He's expected to travel to Asia in mid-August and then Europe in September through the end of November.


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Outlook recently published, on their website, Jakob de Roover's reaction to "l'affaire Doniger". In the article, de Roover cooks up a story to explain how the "deeply flawed" narrative of the caste system and the Hindu religion is responsible for the creation of Hindu fundamentalism.
What brings Hindu organizations to filing petitions that make them the butt of ridicule and contempt? Whence the frustration among so many Indians about the way their culture is depicted? Why is this battle not fought out in the free intellectual debate so typical of India in the past?
Nevermind the fact that the inspiration of this story is S. N. Balagangadhara, the Ghent University professor and beacon of caste-Hindu privilege blindness and arrogance ("how can we conclude from just 38 murders that caste discrimination exists in India?"), the story even in its isolation stands as a shining example of caste privilege apologia.
What comforts me is the prompt responses it received from Nivedita Menon (first published by Kafila and later by Outlook) and Prashant Keshavmurthy of McGill University.
The following is from Nivedita Menon's article,
So let us imagine another growing child— not De Roover's boy, but his sister. She hears (and retains) some other stories that the boy chooses to forget or ignores —the cruel slashing of Surpanakha's nose for her merely expressing desire for a young handsome man, the even more cruel abandonment of pregnant Sita, the Lakshman Rekha that she is called upon to observe every single day of her twentieth century life—imagine her excitement when on growing up and entering the world of scholarship, she comes across Indian feminist scholarship that attacks both Western Orientalist critiques of Hinduism as well as nationalist responses that reconstruct a Golden Age before "Muslim invasions"—for instance, Uma Chakravarty's critique of the 'Altekerian Paradigm'. Or Iravati Karve's Yuganta. Or Nabaneeta Deb Sen's account of women's Ramayanas in which Rama is a far cry from the ideal man. Village women sing "Ram, tomar buddhi hoilo nash'. Oh Ram, you have lost your mind. Molla, a Shudra woman in the 16th century wrote a perfect classical Ramayana, which the Brahmins did not allow to be read in the royal court. Chandrabati's version that told the Ramayana from Sita's point of view was criticized as a weak and incomplete text by the same arbiters of taste and morality.
Imagine this young woman trying to engage her sulky brother in dialogue as he rants about the denigration of Hinduism. Imagine the absolute lack of empathy from his side as he fulminates…
Imagine after this, the daughter of the Dalit woman who cleans the toilets of that young Hindu boy's home. Imagine her excitement at learning, if she ever reached school, that one BR Ambedkar had torn apart the entire foundation of the religion so celebrated by the boy and his family. Or that Ranganayakamma had written a book called Ramayana The Poisonous Tree, saying we should reject it because it supports the powerful against the powerless. Or that EV Ramasami had deconstructed the story of the killing of Shambuka by Rama for daring to recite the Scriptures despite being a Shudra.
Imagine the fact that this girl would literally have been invisible to the sulky boy as the household spun silently around him on the labour of women and lower castes, as he prepared to go to America 'for a few years.'
For De Roover and his 'Hindu gentleman', sexuality is not the problem, mention of caste discrimination is. By putting Christian distaste for both sexuality and caste in the same basket, De Roover is able to suggest that both critiques are tainted. But of course, some of us may want to take a more nuanced position, celebrating sexuality and attacking caste oppression, even if critique of the latter comes exclusively from 'the West', which of course, it does not.
And this one is by Prashant Keshavmurthy,
One doesn't have to have read the theorist of post-colonial identity, Edward Said, to expect a modicum of reflexivity in the use of such categories of identity. Nor does one have to be familiar with the English poetry (that adapted an American Modernist minimalism by discovering its elective affinities with ancient Tamil poetry) and scholarship (bringing European Folklore Studies and semiotics to bear on pre-modern Tamil and Kannada literatures) of the founder of South Asian Studies in the University of Chicago, A.K. Ramanujan, to expect a minimum of intellectual sophistication in not simplistically equating ethnicity with scholarly identity. So much for shallowness and theoretical poverty.
In the end I'd like to say that, de Roover's Hindu Boy is not a fictional character, but a real one. I see him in my family, in my father, my cousins, neighbours, roommates, friends, on the social network, everywhere. He definitely exists and he is someone to be wary of, since avoiding him is not an option in India right now.


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GREENEVILLE, TENN. – Five Cobras scored 10 or more points as Coker closed out the regular season with a 90-71 victory over Tusculum in South Atlantic Conference men's basketball action Saturday (Mar. 1). With the win the Cobras secure their spot in the Food Lion SAC Men's Basketball Tournament next week.
The Cobras jumped out to a 20-9 lead in the first half, only to have the Pioneers battle back and make it a one-point Coker lead, 37-36, at halftime. Coker turned up the pressure on both ends of the floor in the second half as they scored 53 points and held Tusculum to just 35 to take home the 90-71 victory.
As a team the Cobras shot 45.5 percent from the field and out rebounded the Pioneers 42-30. They also scored 23 points off 17 Tusculum turnovers and added 20 second-chance points.
Larry Felder led the way for Coker with game's only double-double of 12 points and 12 rebounds. Julian Nelson scored a game high 22 points and Errick Bethel chipped in 14 points. Eren Moses added 11 points and six rebounds, while Trey Marshall scored 10 points with four rebounds and four assists.
Next up for the Cobras will be the quarterfinals of the Food Lion SAC Men's Basketball Tournament on Wednesday (Mar. 5) evening. As the No. 7 seed in the tournament, Coker will travel to the No. 2 seed Carson-Newman. Tip-off is scheduled for 8 p.m.


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In January, St. Peter's Church in Sussex, England, made the news by selling out its first printing of a new recording—of silence, recorded inside the church. "The Sound of Silence" may be today's hottest inaudible hit record. But it is hardly the first. Since John Cage composed his silent work "4'33" " in 1952, for example, it has been covered thousands of times by symphonies and rock bands including Cage Against the Machine, a supergroup convened especially to plug in and play nothing.
The genre of blankness— silent compositions, white canvases, blank books, empty pages—crops up again and again in the art world, fascinating and rankling us perhaps more than any other kind of art. "4'33" " is Cage's most famous composition; Robert Ryman's all-white paintings have sold for over $1 million at auction. These works raise dizzying questions: How does not writing a poem qualify as poetry? Once one painter proffers a white canvas, how does another artist's blank canvas add anything? If blank works look and sound the same, how can some be considered satirical, some mournful, and some exuberant?
Craig Dworkin, an English professor at the University of Utah, has dedicated an entire new book to picking apart what's going on in these works where, seemingly, nothing's going on at all. In "No Medium," he examines art such as Robert Rauschenberg's 1953 "Erased de Kooning Drawing"; literary works like French psychoanalyst Gérard Wajcman's "L'interdit," a frequently blank novel about an amnesiac; and more than 60 silent compositions, from "Blank Tapes" by an Argentinian trio called Reynols to the moment of silence in Jean-Luc Godard's film "Bande à part."
In the process, he aims to show how these "equally unmarked pages can enact different significances," and to explore just why they're so provocative. The absences in blank art, Dworkin says, have an unusual power to overturn the notion of the artist as someone with new ideas, and thus can expose political and cultural fault lines that underlie both art and authorship.
Dworkin spoke with Ideas from his home in Utah. This interview has been condensed and edited.
IDEAS: How do you begin to evaluate a blank page?
DWORKIN: Their specifics are always going to be slightly different...[and] the social context and social circumstances in which that paper is encountered. The blank sheet of typing paper handed to you as a conceptual poem seems very different than the one handed to you by the clerk at Kinko's, even those two sheets of paper are physically identical. I definitely think some are better than others.
IDEAS: How? What makes them better?
DWORKIN: [The Russian poet Vasilisk] Gnedov's [1913] "The Poem of the End" [a blank poem that appeared at the end of a book]...is one of the most important blank literary pages [because] it establishes such a clear connection between the aspirations of an avant-garde, conceptual poetics and the conceptual avant-garde in the other arts....[It's] imagining that literature could aim for a kind of radical degree zero that painting was aiming for at the time.
IDEAS: This impulse comes out of modernism, right? How did it arise?
DWORKIN: [There was] an impulse across the arts in modernism that would begin to pursue various genres of art to their most reduced essence. This is what we think of as [critic Clement] Greenberg's insistence on the essence of the medium—the essence of sculpture is gravity, the essence of painting is the monochromatic plane of the canvas—[and] one way to think of the essence of the poem is to reduce it to it barest essence, which might be the page.
IDEAS: How have other artists received these works?
DWORKIN: Extreme or avant-garde works...[tend to] either seem momentously, deadly serious or completely goofy and hoax-like. It seems they work best in those moments when [these feelings] are unresolvable. John Cage was clearly a prankster and a Dadaist and a provocateur, but he played the role for so long that you started to believe that he was also really serious.
IDEAS: Cage's work becomes important in the '50s and '60s. Why was this another boom time for blank and silent art?
DWORKIN: If you think of the post-surrealist works from the '40s like the abstract expressionism of [Jackson] Pollock and his peers, these are big, messy canvasses that are freighted with overwrought psychological expressiveness. One of the powerful statements that someone like [Robert] Rauschenberg's uninflected, house paint, ruler-applied white canvasses makes is [to] establish a stark contrast to the mess and splatter of all of those visceral, gestural, angst-filled paintings. All the politics around individual expression play out in contrast against quiet, minimal works.
IDEAS: What about silent compositions—what makes these interesting?
DWORKIN: In CD technology, there's more than one value assigned to null. There are empirically, digitally, different silences encoded, so we don't hear them exactly the same.
[But there's] also social context. There are silences in churches that are fraught with emotional meaning, like a moment of silence. There is silent prayer, there is silence when people are bored, or simply when nobody's there. Context makes us imagine a moment of silence in different, affective ways.
IDEAS: But the audience hears the same thing in each case. How can silent compositions evoke different emotions?
DWORKIN: "Two Minutes Silence" by John Lennon and Yoko Ono...memorializes the death of their child. It follows a track called "Baby's Heartbeat," which is the sound of their unborn baby's heartbeat, and then you get two minutes of silence. I find it heartbreakingly sad.
There's this garage punk band called the Phantom Pregnancies. When their record label, Damaged Goods, put out a compilation set, which was called "Hey Mom! The Garage Is on My Foot," the Phantom Pregnancies just gave them a short, silent track as a statement of refusing to contribute to a digital project rather than to the analog vinyl that had made the label what it was. That silence sounds no different from Yoko Ono's, but it's very affectively different.
There's a Czech composer named Ervín Schulhoff who in 1919 publishes a piece called "In Futurum," which is entirely silent but, rather than a blank score or an empty page, is scored with all the kinds of notations for rests in music. To look at the score is not to see one stately silence, but to see the jittery, jumpy, syncopated silences that the musician is frantically counting out so the audience isn't going to hear anything. The instructions say to always play it all the way through with feeling and expression.
IDEAS: Why do you think this sort of art bothers people so much?
DWORKIN: It has to do with the audience's insecurity about making judgments and about evaluating work....When audiences come across something unfamiliar, there's an impulse to think that maybe they're being tricked, which is a version of feeling that they're not up to what the work is demanding of them. In all fairness, sometimes the avant-garde does like to trick its audience. It's not an unreasonably paranoid thought.
Eugenia Williamson is a writer and editor living in Somerville.


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When it was founded by a group of hand surgeons in 1970, the purpose of the American Association for Hand Surgery was to provide an educational forum to increase the professional expertise and knowledge of surgeons involved in hand surgery. The association now has a membership of 1100 and includes, hand therapist and other health professionals who care for patients with hand and upper extremity problems.
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Ballinamallard boss Gavin Dykes heaped praise on his players following Friday night's victory over second-placed Ards.
First half goals by skipper James McKenna and substitute Ryan Morris secured the Mallards a first home win of the season and a second on the bounce following last Saturday's victory at Glenavon.
The win lifts the Ducks up to ninth and above Glentoran.
A delighted Dykes insisted it was his side's best performance of the season thus far.
"Tonight the players put in a shift, they also put in a shift last week," said the Sligo man.
"I keep telling the players if they work hard and keep at it they'll get results. It was an important three points to win at home. I'm delighted for the people who came because they haven't had a lot to cheer about so far. We scored two really good goals."
The Mallards sprinted out of the blocks to take a second minute lead.
Following an Ards corner, Shane McCabe released Ryan Mayse on the right and the little attacker picked out the galloping McKenna, who controlled before steering past Aaron Hogg.
Despite the early setback, Ards shaded the verdict in terms of possession but after Guillaume Keke had a shot deflected wide and Micheal Ruddy had an effort chalked off for offside, the home side doubled their advantage.
On 35 minutes, Ryan Morris, a 17th minute replacement for the injured Steve Feeney, chested down a headed clearance and from all of 25 yards volleyed into the roof of Hogg's net.
But two minutes later Ards were back in business when Joe McKinney scampered through on the right to fire across Stefan McCusker and inside the far post.
Both sides threatened early in the second half with Mayse fizzing inches wide before Mallards keeper Stefan McCusker denied Keke at the other end.
McCusker's opposite number Hogg then gathered a daisy-cutter from Lafferty before Mayse blazed over after being released by Adam Lecky.
Ards pressed late on but much to the disappointment of their manager Niall Currie couldn't find an equaliser.
"I thought the minimum we deserved tonight was a point," he said.
"We started poorly and gave away two shocking goals and you can't do that in the Premier League.
"But we showed good character, we had good spells and had good chances in the game.
"In fairness Ballinamallard defended better than us."
Ballinamallard United: McCusker; McMenamin; Taheny; Feeney (Morris 17); McConnell; McCartney; McKenna; McCabe; Mayse (Armstrong 90); Lafferty; Lecky.
Subs not used: Crawford; McGinty;McIlwaine.
Ards: Hogg; Hall; Friars; McMullan; Ruddy (Rae 90); Cherry (Arthurs 6); McCullough; McKinney; Douglas (Hughes 46); McComb; Keke.
Subs not used: McAuley; Byers.
Referee: Ross Dunlop (Carrickfergus)


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"And she's buying a stairway to heaven." (J. Patrick and R. Plant, 1970)
Much can probably be conjectured about the meaning of Led Zeppelin's famous song. Certainly the line above speaks to the woman's conceit in believing she can bring heaven to earth; and this by constructing a ziggurat, or stairway connecting heaven and earth.
Her conceit is not unique to her, though. It was the original conceit of humankind that resulted in the separation of humankind from the Creator--that is, Death. The conceit was and still is heaven can be attained by trusting in creation instead of God. The lie Satan proffered to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden was just that: You will become god by trusting in yourself.
It was also the conceit behind one of the most famous of ziggurats, the tower of Babel (Gen. 11:1-9). The people banded together to bring heaven to earth by constructing a tower touching heaven. This tower was a ziggurat, which they believed would allow them to bring heaven to earth.
God wants heaven to be brought to earth; this was His purpose in creation; heaven and earth would be His dwelling place with His image bearers (humankind) in an eternal relationship of holy love (Gen. 1:26-2:1-3). God's purpose in creation was to establish a kingdom for Himself. Humankind loused this up because of their aforementioned conceit. Nevertheless, God will realize His purposes; God will bring heaven to earth. But He must be the one who constructs the ziggurat. God must do it; it is impossible for human beings.
We see this prophesied in a dream of Jacob:
"He reached a certain place where he decided to camp because the sun had gone down. He took one of the stones and placed it near his head. Then he fell asleep in that place and had a dream. He saw a stairway erected on the earth with its top reaching to the heavens. The angels were going up and coming down it and the Lord stood at the top. He said, 'I am the Lord, the God of your grandfather, Abraham and the God of your father Isaac. I will give to you and your descendants the ground you are lying on. Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west, east, north and south. All the families of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using your name and that of your descendants. I am with you! I will protect you wherever you go and will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I promised you!' Then Jacob woke up and thought, surely the Lord is in this place, but I did not realize it! He was afraid and said, 'What an awesome place this is! This is nothing else than the house of God! This is the gate of heaven!" (Gen. 28:11-17 [NET])
God would of course partially fulfill this by a covenant with the nation of Israel (the new name God would give Jacob at Peniel [Gen. 32:22-32]) through their exodus from Egypt, wondering in the wilderness, entering the Promised land, and the construction of the Temple, where God would dwell with them.
But God would completely fulfill His promise and restore His kingdom through the living ziggurat--through the person who would come out of Israel. That person would be God Himself entering into Human history:
And the Word became flesh and dwelled among us, and we saw His glory, glory as the only begotten and unique one from the Father, full of grace and truth. (John 14)
God has restored His kingdom through His son, Jesus the Christ, so that through Christ we see God and consequently know Him and are known by Him, which is to dwell together no longer in a fixed place, but in the totality of heaven and earth made one in Christ.
Jesus is the ziggurat through whom God brings heaven to earth. Indeed, this is what Jesus meant when he told Nathanael,
"Because I said to you that I saw you beneath the fig tree, you are believing? You will see greater things than these." And Jesus said to him, "Truly, truly, I say to you [you is plural, here] you will see the heavens having opened up and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man." (John 1:50-51)
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"And she's buying a stairway to heaven." (J. Patrick and R. Plant, 1970)
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The Oddity
It was an odd thing--something for Ripley's. Everyone thought so. Both young and old and all those in between would stop and stare and wonder. It stood bravely upright against the push of humanity from all sides--a silent yet colorful contradiction to the concrete, asphalt, grime, and litter that was the legacy of a race in lethal pursuit of ambition. "How could it be?" someone would say. Another pointed out weeds sometime grow out of a crack in the pavement, as if to remind us of our delusions of beauty. Yet another would clarify, "This is no weed. And there is no crack, either. It has just come up as if it had pushed itself through the cement from somewhere deep below." Everyone nodded in agreement, secretly enthralled by the loveliness shining before them they had been taught long ago couldn't happen. Some looked up and all around for a camera or other evidence of a hoax. Others brought themselves close and sniffed in a fragrance of indescribable splendor. Still others gently touched the pedals, delighted to discover their softness exceeded their promise. There were those, too, disquieted by the phenomenon. "It's not natural!" someone opined in thinly veiled trepidation. Many gave the flower a wide berth, suspecting it had been cleverly placed there to lure them into something. The oracle remained steadfast in all its resplendent colors, day after day through inclement weather and sun. The bloom never closed at night; and even gave off its own special light. It became a place for people to come together. A happening where those who came with food or wisdom liberally shared with those who did not. Those who couldn't recall the last time they had smiled, grinned and pointed. Faces that for eons had mingled in nonrecognition, became as kin. Before long the laughter and chatter around the flower challenged the din of industry that seemed to sulk. The tints and hues of grays and blacks and soiled whites soon grew unbearable. Slabs were cut away, and trees and planters and fountains installed. Gardens rose up alongside places that made light the revelry and camaraderie. And then it happened.
Song birds arrived and nested in the burgeoning trees, filling the air with a palette of melodies rivaled only by the creatures' varied colors. It was an odd thing--something for Ripley's. Everyone thought so.
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For years, bicycles have had an avid group of supporters within Congress—the 180-member Bicycle Caucus—led by Representative Earl Blumenauer, the guy who wears a bow tie and hails from bike-friendly Portland, Oregon, and James Oberstar, from Minnesota, who chairs the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
Blumenauer and his bike-partisan colleagues have lobbied successfully to get bike infrastructure funding into the economic stimulus package, and in January, they passed a new commuter law that allows cycling to qualify for reimbursement as a work-related transportation expense—so your employer can cover the costs not only of your bus or car commute or parking fees, but of your bike commute as well.
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Since , I've been inspired to figure out ways to fit bicycling into my life.
With a young child, competing priorities, and nothing we need (including a bus stop) within easy walking distance of our home, I find it difficult to live without a car. Even my bike commute is a well-timed, well-planned venture that only occurred the same day each week, when I could work late, and my husband could pick up our daughter from school.
But last week, I decided to test my preconceived notion that I couldn't possibly bike home in the middle of the afternoon and still manage to reach my car and the school on time.
I tried to find a backup plan—biking straight to school, taking the bus to within half a mile of our house—but alas, the bus doesn't go everywhere we want it to, or when. So it was bike home first, risk being late to school.
With a little research into additional bus routes and times, though, I was able to get closer to home and minimize cycling time on city streets with lots of traffic lights. The end result: a ferry/bus/bike commute, and a child picked up on time.
Obviously, a bike adds more travel time than a bus or car. I met a friend for lunch over the weekend and decided to bike the 50 minutes to her house (50 minutes home, too). But—on a sunny day, anyway—I'd rather do that than a) sit in traffic; b) spend money on gas and pollute the air; or c) have to look for and potentially pay to park. Practically speaking, could I ride my bike on every errand, every outing with a friend? Perhaps. But for my life, simply cycling more often works for now. The next challenge will be cycling to work in the fall, in the dark.
The Longest Bike... for the Shortest Commute
Adam MacKinnon, Online Editor
We sold our car 5 years ago, and to celebrate, got ourselves an electric bike to help get around the West Seattle hills with our increasingly heavy toddler in tow. Now, another child later, and a couple of house moves on, I've exchanged a 9-mile commute for one of just a few blocks.
We've added a trail-a-bike to the burley, and made a contraption we call the "Bike Train." Our 5-year-old pedals gamely in the middle, our 11-month old rides behind, and there's even room for all the groceries in the back. One particular bike triumph was bringing home our Christmas tree in the burley.
We make quite a sight riding around town and exploring the island, turning heads everywhere, and hopefully inspiring a few others to try biking. The photo above was taken en route to the beach.
The Mechanics of Self-Reliance
|Colette Cosner, Media & Outreach Intern
What kind of bike: Vintage Bianchi
Length of your commute: 2 miles
Do you ride year round?: I will now
Your favorite bike gadget: tool-kit
Most interesting place you biked: Alki Beach
I know next to nothing about bikes. Apparently, mine is very cool, and you'll even hear me concur from time to time, "oh yes, she's a beauty," though in all honesty I have no idea why. I am new to the "bike person" identity. For years, I've been huffing behind my hard-core hipster bike friends in doubt of my skills—a doubt stemming mostly from my complex relationship with speed and hard right turns. As was true with my late great automobile, any sign of mechanical malfunction turns me into a regular Scarlett O'Hara: "I have always relied on the kindness of strangers." My feminist inklings get lost somewhere between the metal thingy that doesn't work right and the knob doodad that just fell off in my hand.
Despite my aforementioned incompetence, I have made the decision to participate in a two-day fundraising bike ride. The (Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador) 2nd Annual bike trip raises money for grassroots organizations committed to promoting democracy and sovereignty in El Salvador. According to their website,
CISPES was founded in 1980 as civil war broke out in El Salvador. The goals of the organization were to stop U.S. government funding for the repressive Salvadoran dictatorship and to support those in El Salvador who were putting forward an alternative vision for the country based upon equality, social justice and democracy. Though the war ended in 1992, the majority of Salvadorans remain in poverty, while political repression, violence, U.S. intervention and other forms of injustice are still prevalent.
CISPES works with allies in El Salvador, including the new political party, to support efforts for social justice in El Salvador and here in the United States. The FMLN was a coalition of rebel guerillas who fought the US-backed military government during almost two decades in which more than 70,000 people died.
I learned of this history through my step-father, who fled El Salvador during the war and received amnesty here in the U.S. I see solidarity movements, and this bike ride, as a way to fight the historical amnesia of the US involvement in the civil wars of Central America, I just never thought my politics would entwine so deeply with my petty "bike person" identity crisis. Not unlike our recent presidential victory, the newly elected Salvadoran President, Mauricio Funes, has sent a wave of hope rippling through El Salvador that change is possible. Moreover, a declaration of on election outcomes from the Obama administration scored the U.S. major points in regard to respect for the sovereignty of nations. CISPES and other solidarity activists played a major role in lobbying for self-determination. And so my weekend began with a three-hour political discussion on the role of solidarity groups in the new political climate of El Salvador and ended in a 40-mile training ride. Needless to say, I am exhausted.
The weekend's intense combination of sovereignty ponderings and near asthma attacks inspired an unlikely turn of events in the bike saga of yours truly. I bought some tools. I'm ready to take bike maintenance into my own hands, strange as it may be that it took a small country in Central America to convince me to do so. I am in no way trying to compare my buying a wrench to the incredible social movements of El Salvador but, in the vast landscape of what it means to act locally and think globally, you've got to start somewhere. For me, it starts with a question: What are the tools of self-reliance? Sometimes it takes a nation to inspire an individual answer.
For more information about CISPES and the solidarity bike ride please visit .
First-Time Commuter
|Kim Eckart, Associate Editor
What kind of bike: Nearly 10-year-old Specialized Allez road bike
Length of your commute: 17 miles one way (estimate); 1 hour, 20 minutes to Seattle ferry terminal; return commute is 4.5 miles, after putting bike on bus and riding from a park-and-ride lot
Do you ride year round?: Only occasionally. First bike commute.
Most interesting place you biked: The most challenging ride I've ever done: A three-day, 174-mile ride over three mountain passes in Washington— Snoqualmie, Blewett, and Stevens
I spent more time stressing about my first bike commute than I spent on the commute itself.
Incurable planner that I am, I researched routes, estimated distances, looked up commuting advice on the Cascade Bicycle Club's Web site and talked to my husband—an occasional bike commuter himself—and experienced colleagues. Should I ride the ferry at Edmonds and bike from Kingston to Bainbridge, or ride to downtown Seattle and ride the ferry from there? Which was better: ride first, then relax on the ferry; or get the ferry crossing out of the way first, then ride? I was nervous about navigating downtown Seattle, and about riding up and down the steep hills. And then there was the dreaded, but required, task of putting my bike on the bus for the trip home: What if I was so flummoxed and took so long that I delayed all the passengers? Or, much worse: What if I didn't mount it securely, and it fell off and caused an accident, or the bus ran over it? Couldn't I just carry it on and stand with it? (No.) These were the thoughts that, quite literally, kept me up at night.
Before I had a family, I used to ride more regularly, often with a friend who is an avid cyclist. Today, running fits more easily into my routine, which means I have, if not cycling-specific attire, clothing for the weather: tights, jacket, gloves and the like. I'd taken street clothes to work, along with a few clean-up items, ahead of time so that I would minimize how much I'd need to carry on The Big Day.
It was a rainy Big Day. Light rain, nothing blinding or downright dangerous, but it was not the sunny, dry morning I'd imagined when I signed up for this. I asked myself: Would a typical bike commuter avoid riding in this? I noticed some reflective yellow stickers with my husband's bike gear and, remembering Madeline's advice to stay visible, slapped them on my helmet.
|A happy and tired Kim returns home after completing her first commute to YES!
I rode away from my house at 5:30 a.m. There were few cyclists on the Burke- Gilman Trail, and relatively low traffic on the streets of Seattle. I made sure to stay in the lane, like a car, as other cyclists recommended. I walked my bike down one particularly steep block (there's no shame in that, I reasoned). And within a few more blocks, I was waiting in line at the ferry, doing as other cyclists did when it was time to board.
Admittedly, as I sat on the ferry back to Seattle, it was hard to muster the energy for the trip home, even though it would only be a fraction of the distance. But once off the boat, I again braved the ride through a few blocks of downtown Seattle, walked the final block to my bus stop and—thanks to the help of a fellow passenger—successfully placed my bike on the bus rack. Much easier than I thought it would be, both getting on and off the bus. My ride home from the park-and-ride—4 ? miles—was a low-traffic, quiet end to the day.
On my list to buy: a better bag. The only reason the contents of my all-purpose cloth backpack didn't get wet was because, on a whim, I'd wrapped each item in a plastic bag. A red reflector for the back of my bike. Possibly better tires (I haven't even mentioned my fear of flat tires).
What I'm glad I did: Used the aforementioned plastic bags. Brought a pair of slip-on shoes (wrapped in those same plastic bags in my backpack) for the ferry, and a change of socks for the ride home. Had the ferry card/bike fee/bus money in my pocket and ready to hand over. Brought my work clothes and some food the day before.
Now that I've done it once, I am relieved and ready to it again.
How I Became a Bicycle Superhero
(And How You Can Become One, Too)
|Madeline Ostrander, Senior Editor
What kind of bike: Fuji Touring Bike
Length of your commute: 5.75 miles
Do you ride year round?: Mostly, though I ride more frequently in summer.
Your favorite bike gear/gadget: My high-beam bicycle headlight, which has the power to ward off oncoming cars, or at least get their attention.
Most interesting place you biked: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
I married into a cycling family. In 1973, David, the man who is now my father-in-law, began commuting by bicycle, and he's kept up the habit almost daily, even as the distance grew from a round-trip of two miles in Oberlin, Ohio, to 15 miles when he started teaching in Washington, DC. He's now 66, and will finish his last ride to work this summer, but only because he's retiring.
|Madeline's father in law David on his daily commute.
David inspired his sons to the same bicycle devotion. In the 1980s, his teenage son, Joel, who is now my husband, often biked the length of the W&OD pedestrian trail, a converted former rail line that runs for 45 miles from Arlington, Virginia to almost the West Virginia border. At 16, he got his license and started driving to school, but the bicycle was already the more powerful symbol of independence and freedom for him—it was muscle-driven, liberated from gasoline, with nothing between him and the air and the experience. By the time he had finished high school, he had spent two summer vacations on his bicycle—a pedal-powered trip through Cape Cod, and another following the coasts of Washington, Oregon, and California. The summer before he began college, Joel, his father, and his younger brother, then 15 years old, embarked on an epic ride across the country from Arlington, Virginia to Portland, Oregon. They traveled in 90 to 100-mile-a-day segments, bought food along the way, and hauled their shelter (a pair of tents) with them. The take-away lesson for the younger brother was that cars are superfluous. Joel's brother refused to get his license the next year, or share the costs of car insurance, a household requirement for anyone using the family car. Now 35 years old, my brother-in-law has lived in three states and traveled to nearly all 50, along with the Philippines, Paraguay, Vietnam, Spain, Morocco, and host of other countries. But he's never driven a car.
|Joel and his younger brother, on their epic summer ride across the country from Arlington, Virginia to Portland, Oregon.
When I met Joel, I was by comparison a cycling neophyte. Sure, I had done several long day-rides and commuted between my graduate school campus and my house—a mile—but nothing that measured up to his cycling feats. I finished my degree and moved to Arlington, Virginia. We'd been dating less than a year. His parents offered me a room in their house for a month while I worked a temporary administrative job in Alexandria, 12 miles away, and searched for an apartment and a more permanent source of income.
Joel pulled out the bicycle maps and looked at my commute. "I think you could ride to work," he said. I was both petrified and thrilled by the idea. The route was 11 miles. I was certain I would get lost, be struck by a car, or at least be late to work. "We'll ride it together," he said.
That Saturday we wound our bicycles through residential neighborhoods to the Potomac River, past Reagan National Airport, through the swamps and parkways to my office door and back home again. The route was twisty and circuitous. I said I would never find it again, but that Monday I loaded up a bag with maps, a change of clothes, and water, and ventured into the morning sunlight. The muscle memory carried me through turns and twists to the river. I never once unfolded the map. The ride was far more pleasant than the stifling, body-packed trip on the DC Metro train. There were bird calls. There was light on the river. Some of the cherries were still shedding blooms.
The job was one of the dullest I've ever held—hour after hour of monotonous data entry and filing. But high on endorphins and fresh air, I glowed all day. I beamed at my boss and announced I was going to lunch. "Still jazzed from the bike commute, huh?" she said. She looked amused. I simply nodded.
I've been biking to work, on and off, for about eight years. Now I live in Seattle and pedal five and half miles across a bridge, along a road, and onto a ferry boat that takes me to the YES! offices on Bainbridge Island. I could probably name a hundred environmental and health reasons to commute by bicycle. It's carbon-free and cardiovascular. It can burn fat, clear your skin, and tone your muscles. But the real reason I bike to work is pure enjoyment. I'm happier when I'm riding. My neighbors wave to me. On a clear day, I take in long gazes of Mount Rainier as I cross the bridge. I notice the change of seasons more—the trees leafing out in March and April and turning golden in October; geese, gulls, and the occasional bald eagle crossing Puget Sound; the plums, rhododendrons, and lilacs in bloom. I don't even mind the rain so much.
I ride in a neon yellow jacket and black cycling pants. My husband calls it my "superhero outfit." Several summers ago, he and I biked the coast of Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia. I've never felt more powerful than when I loaded my bike with food, clothing, and a sleeping bag and pumped my way to the top of a mountain from sea level. Tourists on the side of the road paused to applaud and cheer.
It's true—there's something heroic about conquering miles of road on muscle power alone.
Discover Your Bike Superpowers
May is National Bicycle Month, and the perfect time to connect with your own hidden inner cyclist. Here are some tips for getting started on your bicycle commute:
- Plan your route. Many cities and counties publish free bicycle maps showing bike lanes or low-traffic streets that are easy to ride. Consider doing a test run of the route on the weekend with a friend. It's much easier to try out the ride when there's no pressure to arrive on time.
- Be visible. The easiest way to stay safe is to make sure that drivers can see you. Wear bright clothing. Make sure your bike has reflectors.
- Wear a helmet. A good helmet dramatically reduces the risk of fatal injuries.
- Depending on the dress code at your office, you may want a change of clothes. I like to bring clothes that are wrinkle-proof, or keep an extra change of clothes and shoes at the office.
- Stay safe. Be familiar with the cycling rules of the road, and learn basic tips for bicycle safety. Follow a straight and predictable path instead of weaving in and out of parked cars. Ride a few feet left of the edge of the road, so drivers will see you and won't cut you off.
You can find more tips in by John S. Allen, published by Rodale and Bicycling Magazine. Cautious, commonsense cycling practices can keep you safe on the road. In fact, down the street, according to at least one study.
For more commuting tips and information, visit these websites:
Commute by Bike (commutebybike.com), featuring commuting articles for beginners, including .
Paul Dorn's
The (from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation), useful to riders in any state.
The , a national clearinghouse of information about cycling and walking, funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration: Learn how to promote cycling infrastructure, prevent bike crashes, and promote bike-friendly policies in your city.
Sightline Institute's ""—a collection of articles, both personal and political, on bicycles, bike infrastructure, bike safety, and bike culture.
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|Fran Korten, Executive Director
What kind of bike: 11 year old Trek bike
Length of your commute: 3.4 miles
Do you ride year round?: Yes
Your favorite bike gear/gadget: My two panniers—to lug all my stuff.
Fran's rain-or-shine commute gives her 3.4 carbon-free miles and an intrepid outlook.
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When I arrive at work, rain dripping from my helmet and coat, my colleagues greet me in wonder. "Wow, great job, Fran—biking even the in the rain." But it's actually no hardship. Oddly enough, one of my favorite times to bike is when it's raining. Well, not if there's a torrential downpour, but light rain like we had this morning.
I suit up in my rainpants and raincoat, gloves, boots, and helmet, so I'm warm and dry. Then I head off to enjoy the freshness of the air and the feeling of rain on my face. I love the way all the trees and plants (and even cars and buildings) glisten from their bath. And today, birds were out in the park, darting about in amorous chase, and daffodils were bobbing perkily on the sides of the path as I rode past.
Every once in a while I drive to work, usually because I'm hauling a lot of stuff. And when I do I'm struck all over again with how the car cuts me off from the space I'm in. I'm enclosed in a box, with a slightly smudged windshield between me and the world. I feel like I'm in a hazmat suit. On my bike, I'm in the elements—seeing, and feeling, and smelling the place I'm in. What a treat.
I know not everyone can ride a bike to work nor has such a pleasant route as mine. I recognize my privilege and just hope we can build a world where biking to work is an option for everyone.
In celebration of , YES! staffers are joining one of the biggest bike commuter events on the west coast: the . Check back soon, as we will share bicycle experience, stories, and helpful tips from our commutes with you.
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Anna Russell joins Lunch Break with a look at at the far-reaching appeal of Durer's "Praying Hands," which the curators at the National Gallery call "surely the most famous drawing in the world" and certainly one of the most heavily reproduced. Photo: Getty Images.
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Redskins accuse Seahawks of cheap shots
ASHBURN, Va. -- The chippiness of Sunday's NFC wild-card game culminated with Washington Redskins left tackle Trent Williams unleashing a right smash to Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman's face after the game ended — an act, caught on video, that went viral.
But the sniping also included Seahawks defensive end Red Bryant trying to stomp rookie running back Alfred Morris, the Redskins said.
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Williams and Sherman started going at it from the game's first play, with Sherman allegedly taunting Redskins coach Mike Shanahan and the normally mild-mannered Morris, a rookie, coming off the field yelling profanities after Bryant supposedly tried to step on him following a play.
"There was a cheap shot — Red Bryant tried to step on him after a play and hit him in the head,'' Redskins fullback Darrel Young said Monday. "Alfred Morris is one of the nicest guys you'll meet.
"We'll see them again. When Alfred comes to the sideline cursing, you've got a problem because this is a kid who doesn't curse.''
Young said Sherman was the chippiest, lippiest Seahawks player. Sherman said Williams came up to him after the game and said, 'I'll swing on you.'" So, Sherman said, he told Williams to take his best shot. Williams responded with an open palm to the face.
"That's just frustration," Sherman said. "He threw his full jab. I'll keep walking, smiling.''
Sherman, fans will recall, is the cornerback who jawed at Tom Brady during Seattle's upset of the New England Patriots in October. Sherman then tweeted a photo of the two of them face-to-face after the game with a caption: "U Mad Bro?"
Sherman "was taunting Mike Shanahan on the sideline, telling Mike, 'You can't throw over here.' "I wanted to go over and punch him (Sherman) myself," fullback Darrel Young said.
"Yeah, that (post-game smash) was uncharacteristic of Trent. But you get enough of something, you want to put a stop to it. I hope we got Seattle on our schedule next year.''
The teams will not play in 2013, unless it's in the postseason.
Said linebacker Rob Jackson: "I definitely felt there was a lot of extra-curricular activity out there. I do know after the first play from scrimmage, Trent and Sherman got after it. I don't know if that carried over. It's hard to get Trent rattled.''
Williams blamed himself for losing his cool in the post-game scuffle.
"I let them get the best of me,'' Williams said after the game. "It's nobody's fault but mine.''
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Breast engorgement is the painful overfilling of the breasts with milk. This is
usually caused by an imbalance between milk supply and infant demand. This
condition is a common reason that mothers stop breast-feeding sooner than they
had planned.
Engorgement can happen:
As you get close to your due date, your breasts make colostrum. Colostrum is a yellowish liquid that contains important nutrients and antibodies that a baby needs right after birth. About 2 to 5 days after your baby is born, your breasts start making milk for your baby. When your milk comes in, your breasts will most
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stimulated to make more milk.
Overfilled breasts can easily become
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Common causes of severe engorgement are:
Severe engorgement can make it difficult for your baby
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worse. As a result:
Without treatment, severe engorgement can lead to blocked
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Engorged breasts:
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to breast-feed.
engorgement is diagnosed based on symptoms alone. No exams or tests are needed.
A few days
after your milk comes in, your milk supply should adjust to your baby's needs.
You can expect relief from the first normal engorgement within 12 to 24 hours
(or in 1 to 5 days if you are not breast-feeding). Your symptoms should
disappear within a few days. If not, or if your breasts do not soften after a
feeding, start home treatment right away.
To reduce pain and
swelling, take ibuprofen (such as Motrin or Advil), apply ice or cold
compresses, and wear a supportive nursing bra that is not too tight.
To soften your breasts before feedings, apply heat, massage gently, and
use your hands or use a pump to let out (express) a small amount of milk from
both breasts.
If your baby can't feed well or at all (such as
during an illness), be sure to gently pump enough to empty each breast. You can
store or freeze the breast milk for later use.
If your breasts
still feel uncomfortable after nursing, apply cool compresses.
you are not breast-feeding, avoid stimulating the nipples or warming the
breasts. Instead, apply cold packs, use medicine for pain and
inflammation, and wear a supportive bra that fits
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Learning about breast engorgement:
Being diagnosed:
Getting treatment:
Ongoing concerns:
Symptoms of
breast engorgement happen when the breasts produce and
fill with milk but little milk is removed from them. Milk overfills and
engorges the breasts.
If your breasts are engorged, you may notice
the following:
If you are
breast-feeding and don't relieve breast engorgement, you are likely to develop
one or both of the following:
Call your doctor now if you
Call your doctor today if you
Call your doctor if you have cracked and bleeding nipples
after trying home treatment for 24 hours.
Blocked Milk Ducts and Breast-Feeding. And for more information, see the topic
Mastitis While Breast-Feeding.
No exams or tests are needed to
breast engorgement. If your doctor suspects a breast
infection (mastitis), you will be treated with antibiotics.
For more information, see the topic
Mastitis While Breast-Feeding.
Breast engorgement is a common problem after birth and during breast-feeding.
You can prevent and treat it at home. You do not need to visit your doctor
unless you have symptoms of an infection (mastitis),
which may require antibiotic treatment.
If you are not going to
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breasts and preventing breast engorgement.
You can use self-care
measures to help prevent or relieve breast engorgement.
For more information on self-care measures to help prevent
or relieve the discomfort of breast engorgement, see the Home Treatment section
of this topic.
If you are planning to breast-feed, do the following to
prevent severe
breast engorgement.
When your baby is breast-feeding well, do the following to help prevent future breast engorgement
If you need to breast-feed but breast engorgement is preventing you from
doing so, use these steps to keep your milk flow going and relieve your pain
and swelling:
If you are bottle-feeding formula and you experience breast engorgement after childbirth, use one or more of
the following measures to help relieve discomfort:
This American Academy of Pediatrics website has information for parents about childhood issues, from before the child is born to young adulthood. You'll find information on child growth and development, immunizations, safety, health issues, behavior, and much more.
The website FamilyDoctor.org is sponsored by the American Academy of Family Physicians. It offers information on adult and child health conditions and healthy living. There are topics on medicines, doctor visits, physical and mental health issues, parenting, and more.
La Leche League International (LLLI) offers information and
encouragement—mainly through personal help—to all mothers who want to
breast-feed their babies. It also offers support and information about
breast-feeding babies with various disabilities, such as cleft lip or cleft
palate. Call for information about a chapter in your area.
The Office on Women's Health is a service of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It provides women's health information to a variety of
audiences, including consumers, health professionals, and researchers.
CitationsLawrence RM, Lawrence RA (2009). The breast and physiology of lactation. In RK Creasy et al., eds., Creasy and Resnik's Maternal-Fetal Medicine, 6th ed., pp. 125–142. Philadelphia: Saunders Elsevier.Other Works ConsultedAmerican Academy of Pediatrics (2009). Feeding your baby: Breast and bottle. In SP Shelov et al., eds., Caring For Your Baby And Young Child: Birth to Age 5, 5th ed., pp. 80–124. New York: Bantam.Cunningham FG, et al. (2010). Breast engorgement section of The puerperium. In Williams Obstetrics, 23rd ed., pp. 652. New York: McGraw-Hill.
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Rebound headache is a type of chronic headache that can result from
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Derek Jeter will make his season debut with the New York Yankees this afternoon in the series finale against the Kansas City Royals.
The Yankees captain will serve as the designated hitter and bat second in the lineup.
"In perfect world Derek would have played in Scranton (Wilkes-Barre, Pa.) today, but what happened to Travis Hafner and Brett Gardner last night, we brought him back," said Yankees manager Joe Girardi.
Jeter, who has missed the entire season while recovering from a broken ankle, was expected to play a fifth game with the Class AAA Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) today, but the injuries to Hafner and Gardner accelerated the decision.
"Derek will finish rehab in the big leagues," said general manager Brian Cashman. "Everyone knows this is where he needs to be ... We're better with him. Period."
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In four games with Scranton, Jeter went 1-for-9 (.111) with four walks in 13 plate appearances and committed one error in three games at shortstop.
Girardi thinks Jeter will pick up where he left off last season -- when he batted .316 with 216 hits -- despite coming of two ankle fractures at the age of 39.
"I expect him to be the Derek he was last year," Girardi said. "There's nothing that tells me he cant be."
Girardi hopes so. Yankees shortstops have struggled offensively in place of Jeter this season. They combined to bat .211 (29th in MLB) with a slugging percentage of .283 (30th) and 88 strikeouts (30th).
Jeter has had a nine-month layoff. He broke his ankle in Game 1 of the American League Championship Series against the Detroit Tigers on Oct. 13.
He was on schedule to return on time for the regular season opener, but played just five spring training games before he began to feel discomfort. On April 18, a new break was discovered that kept him on the disabled list until now.
The Yankees, who head into today's game in fourth place in the American League East with with a 49-22 record, hopes to get third baseman Alex Rodriguez, who his recovering from hip surgery, back after the All-Star break. Center fielder Curtis Granderson is expected back next month after his broken finger has healed.


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