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Seeking Proof For Why We Feel Terrible After Too Many Drinks
This is FRESH AIR. It can be nice to relax with a glass of wine, a beer or a shot of whiskey. But one drink too many, and you'll be paying the price. To understand why drinking can make us feel so good and so bad, we have to know a little bit about science, which is why Adam Rogers wrote the book "Proof: The Science Of Booze." He's the articles editor at Wired and formerly covered science and technology for Newsweek. Adam Rogers, welcome to FRESH AIR. You say over the past five years, researchers have revealed the pretty much everything anyone has ever told you about the causes of hangover is wrong. So what are some of the things that people had assumed were right that turned out to be wrong?
ADAM ROGERS: Well, the famous one is probably dehydration, right? Like everybody will tell you - oh, it's because alcohol dehydrates you and that's what's causing the hangover and...
GROSS: Right, right. And so therefore you're told drink a lot of water as you're drinking alcohol -
ROGERS: Right.
GROSS: - And that will help.
ROGERS: Yeah, exactly - or like alternate or have a big glass of water before you go to bed. And some of that comes from the fact that you do get dehydrated. But in fact, the dehydration does not seem to be what's causing the hangover. You can fix the dehydration and you're still hung over.
GROSS: OK, so we got rid of that one (laughter). Is it because your blood sugar is affected?
ROGERS: It is probably not the case that blood sugar is again what's causing the hangover. When you drink, your blood sugar levels are affected. But by the time you're hung over, your blood sugar levels are back to normal. And drinking a Gatorade or some other sports drink that changes your blood sugar levels doesn't seem to affect the hangover either.
GROSS: OK, what else were you told in the past about how to avoid a hangover that turns out to be scientifically wrong?
ROGERS: Well, there's that thing about mixing your drinks.
GROSS: Right, right, right.
ROGERS: Not drinking a beer -
GROSS: Don't do it. Yeah.
ROGERS: - And then drinking wine and then drinking - right? Again, no, you can do sort of - you can do the study where you have somebody drinking the same drink and getting to the same blood-alcohol level and somebody drinking different drinks and getting to the same blood-alcohol level. And they both get the same hangover. They both report the same symptoms. And similarly - like if you say, well, OK, maybe it's like impurities in the alcohol. So it's - I'm going to stick to vodka, you know, because that's pure somehow - just ethanol and water, right? And so they're drinking bourbon or drinking tequila or something, right? And there have been actually a couple of studies. The problem is they're kind of crummy. They were presented at conferences. They're not peer-reviewed. They were very small populations where people did report a worse hangover for something like brandy than they did for vodka. But everybody got the hangover, right? You still have those bad outcomes.
GROSS: OK, so we've dismissed some of the things that we've all been told will help prevent a hangover. What have scientists learned in the past that five years that might help us avoid a hangover?
ROGERS: Well, a couple of interesting things. One thing that scientists have started to figure out is that hangovers have a lot of symptomatic overlap with migraines. They look a lot like a migraine. So it started to look...
GROSS: I could've told them that. They didn't need to do a lot of research.
ROGERS: Yes, thank you science. Well, it turns out they did. Actually, it was until very recently that the researchers who studied hangovers even had a shared kind of language or vocabulary to talk about them. They didn't even have survey instruments that they could use to give people to have a reliable account of, like, whether your hangover was worse than mine or different from mine. And part of the issue here, too, is that hangovers have different symptoms for different people, right? Some people wear their hangovers in their guts and some people have horrible headaches. But we still see all of those things as a hangover. For a while, the only thing that people would have in common in terms of describing their hangovers - they would say I have a hangover. But everything else was different. So they finally got around that. They finally have a survey instrument that they can give somebody and assess, you know, you have a level-nine hangover. And you have a level-seven hangover. And they finally started to see that overlap with both migraine and also with an inflammatory response. So the kind of thing that you would have if you had the flu, let's say. Right, where you feel achy and you feel slow and your brain doesn't work as fast and you - just kind of general malaise. And so looking at that, they could go well, OK, let's see if in fact this is an inflammation. And if you look at people with hangovers, the same markers in the blood that you would see with an inflammatory response - things like cytokines, for example, which are a molecule that the immune system uses to talk to itself - actually do seem elevated. And even better, you can induce what looks like a hangover by giving somebody those same molecules. You can administer them and then you get symptoms that look like a hangover. So that's good news because if you say well, if it's an inflammatory response, then maybe I can go at it with anti-inflammatory drugs. And we have those.
GROSS: Well, we have those. But do they work for a hangover?
ROGERS: The study that is the one that most people refer back to on this used a drug called Clotam. And Clotam is a sort of - it's like a super-powered anti-inflammatory. It's prescribed for migraines in Europe. And in fact, it did work - that it did seem to alleviate a lot of the symptoms of hangover. Now the problem is that it's not in the U.S. pharmacopeia. You can't get it here. I tried. But there are obviously other anti-inflammatories that we get over-the-counter - ibuprofen, things like that. The problem is that things like ibuprofen have side effects - potentially dangerous ones if you take a lot of them - that are in some ways synergistic with the effects of a hangover. So if you drink too much you have a lot of gastrointestinal issues, for example, right? There hasn't been a good study peer-reviewed with a lot of people in it looking at things like Advil - looking at the kind of stuff you can get over the counter. Nobody's actually done that yet. They've only done it with the sort of prescription-strength high-powered inflammatories.
GROSS: So, you're saying the jury's still out about whether over-the-counters are really going to be effective with hangover?
ROGERS: Yeah...
GROSS: Other than the way everybody already uses them, which is...
ROGERS: Yeah exactly, the issue here is ...
GROSS: Oh my God, I have a hangover.
ROGERS: ... also like how often you're going to be doing that. You know?
GROSS: Right, right. So, I'm surprised you didn't fly to France as part of your research to test out this drug that you say isn't available in the United States but was used in this anti-inflammatory hangover study.
ROGERS: You know, that actually would've been a really good reporting move.
GROSS: Oh you're so welcome. (Laughing).
ROGERS: Next book.
GROSS: (Laughing) So, you were talking earlier about myths about hangovers that scientists have disproven. One of the long-term remedies for a hangover is hair of the dog, the next morning you have a drink.
ROGERS: Right.
GROSS: Scientifically does that work?
ROGERS: Well, there is a good story about why it might work, although this is very, very hypothetical. And that is the idea that a hangover is caused by methanol toxicity. So, methanol is another the kind of alcohol right, alcohols as a class or a class of molecules in organic chemistry, ethanol is the one that we drink to feel like we've been drinking. But in any preparation of fermenting and especially distilling you'll get a little bit of methanol too. And if there's too much, that's that, it's the stuff that makes you go blind in bad moonshine right? But there's a notion that in small amounts it might be what's causing symptoms of a hangover too. And when you're treating methanol toxicity in a hospital - you show up in an ER with methanol toxicity. They'll give you a big dose of ethanol because it displaces the methanol off that enzyme. It keeps the enzyme from breaking it down into toxic stuff. So the idea's, well maybe the hair of the dog is like that. Maybe the hair of the dog is you're giving yourself a ethanol and that's displacing the methanol and so you feel better. That's all very hypothetical and the real bummer there is that people who - of the people who admit to using hair of the dog as a treatment for their hangovers they're also - they turn out to be the ones more likely to have an alcohol dependency later in life.
GROSS: That's not a surprise?
ROGERS: It has some intuitive power, yes.
GROSS: (Laughing.) But the thing is, I thought that most alcohol that we'd be drinking that's legit doesn't have methanol in it. So how would the ethanol help?
ROGERS: These would be trace amounts. If you drink enough, then the trace amounts add up, and it's just enough to give you the kind of discomfort - the symptoms of a hangover.
GROSS: So, you're referring to the alcohol that's in, you know, liquor, beer or wine as ethanol. I've always thought of ethanol as something that's mixed in with gasoline at the pump, and it's used as an alternate fuel - made out of corn. So, when you say that the alcohol we drink is ethanol, what exactly is that?
ROGERS: Well, so those are all the same thing. You're right, and alcohols are a class of molecules in organic chemistry, so it's just a combination of carbons and hydrogens and oxygens in a particular order and depending on how many of those and what order you have them and how they're built togethe, you can have - you know, methanol is an alcohol. Ethanol is an alcohol. The kind of alcohol in the rubbing alcohol you buy as a - to sterilize a cut, you know, is another kind of alcohol. But ethanol is the one that we drink. It's the one with the psychoactive effects, and it's not - doesn't have the toxicity that some of the other ones would. And it also - because there's a lot of energy packed into the bonds in those - in the molecules - packed into the chemical bonds that hold the molecule together, it's also possible to use as a fuel just like gasoline.
GROSS: Now that you've done a lot of research for your book about the science of booze and, you know, you've interviewed distillers and winemakers and you've done a lot of tastings, you've traveled around. Are there things that you will not drink anymore that you used to because, you know, you basically after learning about how it's made or what its effect on you is you lost your interest in it?
ROGERS: So, I have, I've kind of stopped drinking cheap slivavotz, which I use to drink every once and a while, mostly at Passover, because I can sort of identify off flavors in it.
GROSS: And that's plum brandy.
ROGERS: It's a plum brandy, that's right. And there are a few small distilleries making whiskey that I don't drink anymore even though I love the craft distilling movement and I like whiskey a lot because for me now I know, having been exposed to the - some flavors that come from aging whiskey in small barrels, which taste different than if you age the whiskey for a longer time in a larger barrel. And I don't like those flavors, so I've stopped drinking those.
GROSS: Well, thank you so much for talking with us.
ROGERS: My pleasure. Thank you for having me.
GROSS: Adam Rogers is the author of the new book "Proof: The Science Of Booze." You can read an excerpt on our website freshair.npr.org. Coming up, Ed Ward tells us the story of the pioneering solo group the '5' Royales. A new box-set collects their recordings. This is FRESH AIR.
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23-year old patient, high-speed road traffic accident, rear passenger, in hemorrhagic shock on the arrival of the emergency services. The body scan performed after hemodynamic stabilization is provided.
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- No posttraumatic lesions in the cranioencephalic, spinal, and thoracic spaces.
- Massive right hemoretroperitoneum with intraperitoneal contamination due to probable rupture of the right renal vein with active bleeding. Delayed secretion and no excretion from the right kidney with contusions of the upper and inferior poles. Delayed excretion to the left; it is thus not possible to rule out trauma to the excretory system. Small 4 mm thrombus of the left renal vein.
- Hematoma on the right adrenal gland with no active bleeding.
- Infiltration and tumefaction of the greater omentum (contusion?).
- Hypo-dense striations of the head of the pancreas, to be monitored closely as this is suggestive of pancreatic lacerations.
- No other posttraumatic lesions of the intra-abdominal organs.
Renal vein rupture, Adrenal hemorrhage
The patient underwent immediate surgery confirming rupture of the right renal vein, which could not be sutured. A right nephrectomy and adrenalectomy were therefore performed to achieve hemostasis. The remainder of the perioperative traumatic evaluation revealed contusion of the greater omentum (with no repercussions on gastrointestinal vitality, standard monitoring) with no other traumatic lesions of the intra-abdominal organs (and notably an intact pancreas).The patient's kidney function was normal in the postoperative phase.
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- Active bleeding that is visible in the arterial phase is of arterial origin, but active bleeding that is visible in the portal phase may be of arterial or venous origin (as arteries often go into spasm following injury, or the patient may be in hypovolemic shock resulting in delayed vascular opacification).
- In the absence of urinary excretion, it is not possible to rule out trauma to the excretory system, particularly if hemoretroperitoneum is also observed.
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How would you feel if somebody managed to put you inside a tiny plastic bag, where you could barely move, feeded by a disgusting liquid where you also would pee in, until you die?
"Living turtles, fish and salamander in tiny bags of water are being sold in Beijing as key rings for children.
To the horror of animal rights activists, the sale of live animals as trinkets is a growing trend in China. A vendor at Beijing market said "I sell fifty of these a day!".
"I bought one because my child wanted one", a mother explained.The bags are so small that the creatures can barely move inside and critics say they are likely to die within weeks.
The price tag is little more than the cost of a few sweets. Although animal rights groups have highlighted the cruelty of these "living toys", there is no law in China preventing their sale."
Source: EURONEWS ll http://www.euronews.com/2013/05/20/china-live-turtles-in-bags-sold-as-key-rings/
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This petition closed about 4 years ago
This animals are being sold for less than 1£ each. Shall we do something to stop this cruelty? We are animals as well. SIGN IT NOW PLEASE!


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Today was another busy day.
While this is my first institute, I understand from talking with other students, that they are similiar in that you get up, have breakfast, go to class, have lunch, go to class, have dinner, go to evening program, and go to bed. Of course during all of this you are talking, and talking, and talking genealogy, if you aren't listening, listening, listening. And these classrooms are great since we have power to each table and internet access, so we can go online at the same time we are trying to listen, etc. Chaos!!! No, not really. Tiring? Yes, to a point. Exhilarating? Absolutely!!!
Today, Josh and Paula were in our room (remember Intermediate Genealogy: Tools for Digging Deeper) for two sessions each. Paula spoke on court and military records. Oh, my, are there a lot of different names for the same type of court, depending upon where you are looking. So it's important to know the correct name for the locale in order to be able to get the information you are seeking. With military records, Paula showed us why it's so very important to look at more than just pension files. And there are such a huge variety of resources in so many different places. While I don't know of many ancestors who served in the military, I now have a great number of places to look to find out more about them.
First thing this morning Josh spoke on tax and land records. No, we definitely didn't go back to sleep. He reminded us that our ancestor may have paid taxes even if he didn't own land. To me one of the most important points regarding land was that we need to account for ALL of the land our ancestor owned, and follow it at least two land exchanges before and two after our ancestor owned the land. And the last date could be decades after our ancestor either died or moved out of the area. Good things to remember.
For me the most unusual session today was the last one, by Josh, "Building a Locality Profile." Now, at dinner tonight, I heard some current and past ProGen students talk about doing this for one for one of their assignments. But I had never heard of this idea before. Yes, I have collected a little information about repositories in the area, but nothing to the extent that Josh described. But I can definitely see the advantages. Of course, he kept reminding us that while we were putting together this locality profile, we weren't supposed to be researching. (How many of us will be able to do that completely?) After listening to Josh guide us through items to include in our profile, and places to find the information, many of us went online and looked at some counties. There is a lot more information regarding research opportunities than I ever knew. I think I'm going to have to commit to doing at least one county (or locale) a week, or something like that. It just makes so much sense.
We have completed 12 sessions (3 days, 4 sessions each day). We have 6 more to do since we only have a half day on Friday. By then I think I'm going to have so much information "stuffed" in my head that I would be unable to find room for any more. But oh, am I glad I came.
Now I'm going to see if I can find anything to help a fellow student with a "brick" wall before finish up with some other homework stuff.


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Why do we need a download manager program if we can download directly from our Web Browser?
If you only download some small or medium files size into the same directory then we don't need it.
If you download big files size into the same directory or into some different directories and sometimes you have to stop in middle of the downloading process, then you have to use a Download Manager program.
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Just paste a link of file that you want to download, set the download directory and start to download.
From Ubuntu Terminal screen (Applications > Accessories > Terminal), type:
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[sudo] password for taufanlubis:
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
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Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
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Setting up gwget (0.99-0ubuntu1) …
Running the program
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This the main screen. Click 'New' to start a new download.
Enter the web link into URL text box.
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thats too bad if he was,,, one of the most entertaining members here.
It's not hard to believe that little revenue is generated hereToby wrote:having more page views/ad revenues because someone disrespects other people?
Not my way, sorry!
well those are just the people you knowToby wrote:again, nothing against opinions, just about how to treat other people.
And the majority of people I know and meet all show respect towards others and their opinions.


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No.2-Ranked Mount Union Rallies To Beat B-W, 25-20, On Late Fourth Quarter Touchdown
ALLIANCE, OHIO -- The No.2-ranked University of Mount Union football team scores a late fourth quarter touchdown to rally and defeat Baldwin-Wallace College, 25-20, today (Saturday, November 5, 2011) in an Ohio Athletic Conference game at Mount Union Stadium. This game was televised and will be shown on SportsTime Ohio on Sunday, Nov. 6 at 5:00 a.m., Monday, Nov. 7 at 12:00 noon and on Thursday, Nov. 10 at 5:00 a.m.
The Purple Raiders clinched their 20th straight OAC title, won their 61st straight regular season game and improved to 9-0 overall and 8-0 in the OAC. B-W is now 7-2 overall and 6-2 in the OAC and ends its regular season next Saturday when it hosts OAC and Cleveland cross-town rival John Carroll University in the Annual Battle for the Cuyahoga Gold Bowl Trophy on Tressel Field at The George Finnie Stadium at 1:30 p.m.
Mt. Union jumped out to a 3-0 lead at the 40 second mark of the first quarter when Tyler Almeida connected on a 26-yard field goal. The Purple Raiders added to their lead when Almeida hit his second field goal of the first half from 25-yards as time expired in the second quarter to give Mt. Union a 6-0 lead at halftime.
The Purple Raiders continued the scoring attack when Matt Piloto connected with Chris Denton on 14-yard touchdown pass play at the 10:57 mark of the third quarter. The two-point conversion by Piloto failed and the scored stood at 12-0. Mt. Union tacked on another touchdown when Jeremy Murray scored on a 14-yard touchdown run and Almeida added the extra point to extend the lead to 19-0 with 4:29 left in the third quarter.
The Yellow Jackets responded just 13 second later when sophomore wide receiver and kick return specialist Josiah Holt (Elyria/Grafton Midview) returned the ensuing kick off 85-yards to paydirt with 4:19 left in the third quarter. Sophomore placekicker Chris Mohler (Kent/Roosevelt) added the extra point to cut the Purple Raiders lead to 19-7. The touchdown was the third career kick return score for Holt.
B-W continued to cut into the lead when junior quarterback Andrew Dziak (Maple Heights/Padua Franciscan) scored on a three-yard touchdown run at 14:53 of the fourth quarter. Mohler tacked on the extra point to cut the lead to 19-14 The touchdown was the first offensive touchdown scored by the Yellow Jackets in Alliance since November 13, 1999 when B-W fell to Mt. Union, 26-7.
B-W took its first lead of the game when Dziak scored his second touchdown of the game on an one-yard dash with 5:53 left in the game. The two point conversion by junior quarterback Ryan O'Rourke (Avon) failed to give the Jackets a 20-19 advantage. The lead by the Yellow Jackets marked the first time the Purple Raiders trailed in a game since September 10, 2009 when Capital University lead the Purple Raiders 21-14 early in the fourth quarter. Mt. Union rallied to win that game 28-21.
The Purple Raiders won the game when Denton caught his second touchdown pass of the game on a 29-yard pass play from Piloto on a fourth down and 11-yards to go play with 2:14 remaining. The two-point conversion rush by Murray failed to give Mt. Union the 25-20 victory.
B-W had one final drive with 2:08 remaining in the contest but the Yellow Jackets could only make it to the Purple Raider 30-yard line where the Yellow Jackets turned the ball over on downs with 10 second left in the game. Mt Union took over possession and ran out the clock.
Offensively for B-W, junior running back Tyler Lohr (Kent/Roosevelt) rushed for 54 yards on 16 carries and Dziak rushed for 41 yards on 14 carries with two touchdowns. O'Rourke completed eight of 19 passes for 92 yards. Sophomore wide receiver Gabe Adams (Hudson) caught three passes for 58 yards. Senior safety Corey Hildreth (Massillon/Washington) led the defensive with 12 tackles.
The Mt. Union offense was led by Murray who rushed for 155 yards on 28 carries and one touchdown. Murray was the first running back to rush for 100 yards or more against the Yellow Jacket defense this season. Piloto completed 18 of 32 passes for 231 yards and two touchdowns and one interception. Denton led the receiving corp with seven catches for 111 yards and two touchdowns, including the game winner. The Purple Raiders defense was anchored by Nick Driskill with 14 tackles.
Next week's B-W versus JCU matchup is another great rivalry. The all-time series is tied at 23-23-4 and the Cuyahoga Gold Bowl Series is tied at 11-11. If JCU defeated Heidelberg University today, each school would enter that game at 6-2 in the OAC and the game would be for sole possession second place. Next Saturday's B-W versus JCU game also will be televised by STO and fans can listen to that game live on B-W campus radio station WBWC, 88.3 FM, or via the WBWC Internet web site at www.wbwc.com.
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Hero or villain? WWII partisan Bandera still animates Ukraine-Russia fight
The rhetoric out of Moscow is consistent, bombastic and, to the Western ear, perhaps a bit puzzling: Ukraine today is run by thugs, fascists and Banderists.
"Thugs" and "fascists" are easily understood. But Banderists? It's a reference to Ukrainian nationalist and, many say, Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera. And while his name is unfamiliar to American and western European ears, it's a trigger to both Russians and Ukrainians, but for different reasons.
To Russians and ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine, Bandera is a villain, a vile betrayer who allied himself with Adolf Hitler in the worst years of World War II.
To residents of western Ukraine, he's a hero.
Bandera's story _ or, experts say, more correctly his myth _ is powerful stuff. Russian President Vladimir Putin referenced Bandera twice during his speech to the Russian Parliament calling for the annexation of Crimea. And he and his administration have repeated the reference since to describe Ukraine.
"Many government agencies have been taken over by the impostors, but they do not have any control in the country, while they themselves _ and I would like to stress this _ are often controlled by radicals," Putin said of Ukraine. "I repeat, just as it has been for centuries, it will be a home to all the peoples living there. What it will never be and do is follow in Bandera's footsteps!"
And later, "We can all clearly see the intentions of these ideological heirs of Bandera, Hitler's accomplice during World War II."
Meanwhile, at Maidan, Kiev's Independence Square, Bandera's image is displayed as an inspiration, sharing space only with poet Taras Shevchenko, who's considered the father of the Ukrainian language. In the past month, Ukrainians have started answering their phones with the Bandera phrase "Glory to Ukraine" rather than the more traditional "Hello."
Exactly who Bandera was has no easy answer.
He and his Ukrainian insurgent army, depending on the point of view, fought with Hitler or fought against Hitler. He betrayed the Soviet Union or tried to save Ukraine from Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. He slaughtered Poles, or, well, everyone acknowledges he killed Poles, though Ukrainians would say it was part of their fight for independence. Nevertheless, Poles share Russia's distaste for Bandera, whom the Soviet KGB killed in 1959, when he was living in West Germany.
He remains wildly controversial, among Ukrainians too.
Former President Viktor Yushchenko, the pro-West leader of the 2004 Orange Revolution, which many consider the democratic high point in Ukrainian history, posthumously named Bandera "Hero of Ukraine."
Viktor Yanukovych, the pro-Russia president who succeeded Yushchenko and whose flight to Russia in February presaged the showdown in Crimea, revoked the honor.
Ukrainian historians say that most of what's said about Bandera has a grain of truth. He did make a pact with Hitler, whom he considered more likely to bring about a free Ukraine. But the historians also say it didn't last long, and Bandera ended up in the Nazis' Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin, while two of his brothers died in Auschwitz.
And, they note, as soon as Hitler's forces invaded Ukraine, the pledge by Bandera's men to "fight the occupier" applied to the Nazis.
But beyond the reality of Bandera is the myth, and what he represents. Historians and analysts in Ukraine think that by attacking Bandera, Putin isn't attacking simply a man reviled by Stalin but also the broader notion of Ukrainian independence.
"During 300 years of Russian imperial occupation, there have only been three Ukrainian nationalist heroes," said Stanislav Kulchytsky, the head of the department of Ukrainian history at the country's National Academy of Sciences. "All three have been turned into one-word pejoratives by the Russians. To be a Ukrainian hero is to be a Russian villain. Bandera is the most recent."
The first was Ivan Mazepa, a Cossack Ukrainian leader who began as an ally to Peter the Great but later turned against him. That so-called betrayal was the beginning of Ukrainian nationalism, and it gave Ukraine its flag and state emblem. It's also why the Russian Orthodox Church excommunicated Mazepa in 1708, a sanction the church has refused to lift despite entreaties from Ukraine.
The Russian pejorative for Ukrainian nationalists became "Mazepists."
Until, that is, the arrival of Symon Petliura. Petliura was a journalist and political activist who headed Ukraine's breakaway government after the Russian Revolution, battling the Bolsheviks until 1921, when, his forces defeated, he fled to Poland, then eventually to Paris. Petliura also drew mixed reviews, and many accused him of not doing enough to stop pogroms against Ukrainian Jews, which took thousands of lives during the independence war. It was a Ukrainian Jewish anarchist who killed him in Paris in 1926.
Soviets sniffingly renamed Mazepists "Petliurists."
Then came Bandera.
"The real issue here is that Russians do not and never have accepted that Ukraine is a real country," Kulchytsky said. "Poles have Poland, Germans have Germany, Turks have Turkey. But in the Russian view, Ukrainians are really Russian. It's an imperialist view, and it isn't going away."
Bandera, in particular, troubles Putin, who's known to be a student of Stalin. The Germans released Bandera in September 1944 and provided his men with weapons in hopes they would blunt the advance of the Red Army. Obviously, that failed.
At the end of the war, Bandera remained in Germany, promoting Ukrainian independence until 1959, when he was found dead in his apartment in Munich of cyanide poisoning. A German court convicted a KGB defector of the crime three years later, finding that the hit had been ordered by then-Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.
Whether Bandera was anti-Semitic is an open issue. Kulchytsky said there wasn't any evidence, though he acknowledged that anti-Semitism was common in western Ukraine, and it would be surprising if many of Bandera's followers were not.
Volodymyr Viatrovych, a historian whose use of once-secret Ukrainian police files has earned him a reputation for controversy, is the director of the Center for Research of the Liberation Movement in Lviv and a leader of the protest movement at Maidan.
Viatrovych thinks that what Bandera actually did, and who he actually was, isn't important these days. (For the record, his take: Bandera was an underground fighter who used terrorist tactics against superior forces, and who was sentenced to death by Russians, Germans and Poles for his efforts). All that matters today is which myth someone wants to buy into.
"It's common for two nations at odds to believe differently about historical figures," Viatrovych said. "With Bandera, it's no accident that his name can be pronounced to sound similar to the word for bandits. He was used as a boogeyman in old Soviet propaganda, and many, many people watching Maidan unfold knew of him only from that propaganda."
In fact, Viatrovych said that when Bandera banners first started popping up on the square during protests, many of the protesters were ill at ease with the association. Bandera was no hero to them or their families.
Then they saw how quickly Russian media seized on those few banners, including a famous one that was Photoshopped to show Hitler, and heard the hatred of Russian leaders toward both them and Bandera, and they wondered whether he was similarly wronged. Soon he was adopted as one of the movement's spiritual leaders.
"They arrived believing Bandera was a bandit, realized that they may have been misinformed and now they are continuing his struggle," Viatrovych said. "And Putin is using Soviet-influenced memories to infer that Ukraine is a land of bandits."
The Nazi link, Viatrovych said, makes the Bandera image work for Putin in the world outside Russia. Putin used Bandera as the link to fascism. In Crimea, election posters combined images of the protesters at Maidan with Nazi swastikas because of Bandera.
"Bandera's forces did sign up to back Hitler," Viatrovych acknowledged. "But Putin isn't pointing out that their agreement with Hitler lasted one week longer than Stalin's agreement with Hitler. The truth is, Hitler had no use for Bandera. But Putin does."


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Savino's Hideaway review
Reborn and ready for its close-up, Savino's Hideaway lives up to its romantic name. The sprawling restaurant, secluded within a residential area, is a visual knockout: lots of classy white wainscoting and dark polished wood, along with stylish little touches such as dish towels doubling as napkins. Service is gracious and -- quite a coup -- at prices you'd expect at a strip mall pizza-pasta place. The Sguera family -- owners Savino and Rita and their children, Leo and Joseph Sguera and Maria Carson -- collaborated on both the Italian-style recipes and the restaurant redesign.
The Margherita pizza makes a fine first impression, with its crisp, clean-tasting crust and meltingly good topping. Another evening, a meatball-topped pie shows off the restaurant's winning way with ground meat and spices. A starter of grilled calamari comes off as smoky and garlicky. Simple and refreshing: a baby arugula salad topped with ringlets of red onion, lemon and olive oil. A soup special of stracciatella, though, cries out for more seasoning.
The moist, juicy superiority of dark over white meat is illustrated by "chicken a la Leo," boneless thighs roasted with rosemary and plated with roasted potatoes. Chicken Parm, on the other hand, suffers from having spent too much time in the oven, the white meat dry and stringy. The kitchen redeems itself with flounder française, a generous serving of egg-battered whitefish in a lush lemon butter-wine sauce that balances tart and mellow. Served with spinach, the dish is pure comfort.
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Blue Jays shuffle the deck
Here are today's roster moves by the Blue Jays:
3B Edwin Encarnacion (contract selected), LHP Marc Rzepczynski (recalled)
3B Jarrett Hoffpauir (optioned)
RHP Shaun Marcum (right elbow inflammation)
OF Jeremy Reed (outrighted; refused assignment)
In a perfect world, Hoffpauir would have hit better out of the gates in his first stint with the Blue Jays, giving Encarnacion more time to work on his consistency at the plate and in the field at Triple-A. Unfortunately for the Jays, the entire offense has gone missing and Hoffpauir was not contributing much with the bat.
The fact that Encarnacion hit well with Vegas (.438 in seven games) should not surprise anybody. It's a hitters' league and he's got legitimate power. It's those five errors (granted, I didn't see them to guage them accurately) that create more concern for me. With the Jays' offense tanking, though, promoting EE makes sense.
The Jays do not seem to believe that Marcum's injury is anything that should cause much concern. They feel, with the All-Star break, it's a good time to give him some rest if he's complaining of some mild soreness. So, Rzepczynski gets a look and maybe he stays if Jesse Litsch continues to be inconsistent.
The Jays needed to outright Reed to clear a spot on the 40-man roster for Encarnacion. If you remember, Encarnacion was designated for assignment, cleared waivers and then outrighted to Vegas. Jays said it was a paperwork move to clear a spot for RHP Scott Richmond, who had been on the 60-day DL. Richmond, as it turns out, is currently on the 7-day DL in the Minors. Reed chose not to accept the assignment to see what other jobs might be out there.
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Great analysis as always, Jordan. I'm not sure why there is such a hate-on for Encarnacion amongst Jays fans. I didn't understand the demotion to begin with. Yes, he was hitting .200, but so are a few of the other regulars. There were whispers about his lack of hustle. Well, Overbay doesn't hustle either and nobody was complaining about him. I'm not in the clubhouse, so maybe there's more to the Encarnacion demotion than I'll ever know.
Don't forget the defensive side of the players. Overbay is a great fieder. E5 gets this nickname from his throwing skills. Without Overbay, E5 might have double the throwing errors. Although EE only has 7 errors so far this year at MLB, as Jordan pointed out he was charged with 5 errors at AAA in not much time. I'm guessing that the quality of the first baseman makes a big diff in EE's error rates. I wonder if any of Overbay's errors this year should have been charged to EE.


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By Curtis Riggs | April 1, 2009
CAREFREE – The Sonoran Arts League will hold its signature spring event in the Carefree Town Center this weekend.
The 8th annual Sonoran Festival of Fine Art will feature 100 local and nationally acclaimed artists. It will be held on Easy Street, and in the Town Center, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. the weekend of April 3 through 5. Admission is free.
Besides the 100 painters, sculptors, jewelers and other artists there will also be artist demonstrations and live entertainment at the festival. The Carefree Farmer's Market, which features fresh produce, chef demonstrations and organic meats and cheeses, will also be occurring in downtown Carefree during the festival.
The popular art interactive activity "A Brush With Fine Art" which allows festival patrons to try their hand at painting will again be part of the festival. Two tents will be set up with several canvases, paints and brushes for people to use. They will contribute to an overall piece of art, which will be painted over the weekend. Similar to a mosaic style, adults and children will be able to paint a square on the canvas while adding to the overall painting.
Inka Gold will perform contemporary music while using traditional instruments made of raw bamboo and clay on Friday. Michael SG, a talented folk rock artist from California, will play from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday. Dave Kenney, of the jazz duo Mood Indigo, will perform on Saturday afternoon. The Pete Pancrazi jazz duo and Michael SG will both perform on Sunday.
Festival chairwoman Michelle Russell said the success of the Out West Art Fest, which was held at Stagecoach Village in Cave Creek in February, has helped to generate more interest in this weekend's festival in downtown Carefree.
"The Sonoran Festival of Fine Art has always been well received by artists and art collectors, but we are seeing even more interest after our February show," she said. "Our roster of artists participating in this show is top notch."
Scottsdale sculptor Al Glann is this year's featured artist. His contemporary sculpture entitled "Fashion" was chosen for this year's festival poster.
The posters will cost $15. A portion of the proceeds will support Sonoran Arts League scholarships. Poster sales are crucial to the League, as they provide the primary funding for student art scholarships and other League programs.
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2011-12: Saw action in the #6 seat on the varsity boat at the Head of the Charles (10/22) … competed in the MIT A boat at the Foot of the Charles in the #8 seat (11/19) … rowed in the #8 seat on the MIT freshman team at Yale (4/7); against Harvard (4/14); versus Cornell (4/21) and at Penn (4/28).
High School: A 2011 graduate of Lakeside School … team captain … first place at the US Rowing Club National Championship in the jr. A 8+ … second place at the US Rowing Youth National Championship in lightweight. 4+ … rowed with the Seattle Area Rowing Association … National Merit Finalist.


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As we enjoy the season of Christmas and prepare for it's ultimate meaning, I have been wandering the internet considering other distinct holiday traditions that are not part of the American Yuletide season. Traditions like the Portugese Christmas morning meal with places set for dead relatives definitely caught my eye.The lines of Japanese trying to get into KFC for a traditional Christmas Chicken dinner entertained me (and reminded me of the power of advertising). And the Catalonian tradition of the "Caganer" statue found hidden away in Spanish and Italian Bethlehem scenes showing a man secretly relieving himself left me completely puzzled.
However, the Christmas season tradition that I couldn't get off my mind was the "Krumpus" or "Krampas" from the Alpine countries of Austria, Germany and Switzerland.
In the good old U.S.A. kids are put on a "naughty" or "nice" list, resulting in sweet gifts or a lump of coal in their stocking. But in Germanic countries, an unruly or petulant child receives a holiday beating from a boozy, ill-tempered 7 ft goat man – the Krumpus.
Now, the Krumpus show up on the eve of Dec. 5th, swat the kids good and warn them they only have
3 weeks to shape up or instead of gifts they'll receive a real beat down on Dec. 25th.
How did these guys ever get reduced to a lump of coal in America?
The only answer I could come up with: Liberals.


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Tiger Woods came back out of his underground therapy cave yesterday to take a practice round at Augusta National and hold a press conference. And not only did Woods make it through the entire day without any new accusations of illicit affairs, but he looked downright HAPPY in his surroundings. And it was evident from the events of the day that, merely by returning to the setting of a golf course, Woods' public troubles have already begun to dissipate.
Privately, of course, Woods is still likely in a world of hurt, and likely to stay there for life eternal. But as far as public obsession goes with his assorted sexual dalliances, it's clear that, by the end of this week, many people around the world will think of Woods for his golfing ability, and very little else.
You saw this coming. In the course of all his public statements and miniature interviews in the wake of the scandal, Woods had done little to take the focus off his behavior and bring closure to the matter. There was only going to be one way to get people off the subject, and that was to pick up a golf club. The second he did that yesterday, the entire conversation shifted, and you could tell that it boosted Woods' spirits immeasurably.
Woods has long been something of a control freak. He's fiercely guarded his public image and everything else surrounding him, including anyone who dares snap a camera ten seconds before he begins his backswing. Part of the fun (and let's face it, it was kinda fun) of this whole sex scandal has been watching Woods squirm in the face of realizing he has absolutely NO control over the consequences of his affairs. It's something most of us learn at a far earlier age than Woods: Life doesn't work out as planned, and there's little use in trying to force it to do so.
To see Woods at Augusta yesterday was to see him, at last, back in a situation where he had absolute control. Over his club selection. Over his ball. Over his swing. He used to feel like he could control everything, but THIS is all he has left. And it showed. In a way, it's kind of sad.
But it certainly won't seem that way when the guy is eight strokes under come Sunday.