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Anxiety and distress can affect the quality of life of patients with cancer and their families.
Patients living with cancer feel many different emotions, including anxiety and distress.
Anxiety and distress may affect a patient's ability to cope with a cancer diagnosis or treatment.
Patients may have anxiety while being screened for a possible cancer, waiting for the results of tests for cancer, receiving a cancer diagnosis, being treated for cancer, or worrying that cancer will recur (come back). It may cause patients to miss check-ups or delay treatment. Anxiety may increase pain, affect sleep, and cause nausea and vomiting. Even mild anxiety can affect the quality of life of patients with cancer and their families and may need to be treated.
Patients living with cancer can feel different levels of distress.
Some patients living with cancer have a low level of distress and others have higher levels of distress. The level of distress ranges from being able to adjust to living with cancer to having a serious mental health problem, such as major depression. However, most patients with cancer do not have signs or symptoms of any specific mental health problem. This summary describes the less severe levels of distress in patients living with cancer, including:
This summary is about adjustment to cancer, anxiety, and distress in adults with cancer.
See the following PDQ summaries for information on these mental health problems:
Patients living with cancer need to make adjustments in their lives to cope with the disease and changes in treatment.
Living with a diagnosis of cancer involves many life adjustments. Normal adjustment involves learning to cope with emotional distress and solve problems caused by having cancer. Patients with cancer do not make these adjustments all at once, but over a period of time as their disease and treatment change. Patients may need to make adjustments when they:
Coping methods help patients adjust.
Patients find it easier to adjust if they can carry on with their usual routines and work, keep doing activities that matter to them, and cope with the stress in their lives.
Coping is the use of thoughts and behaviors to adjust to life situations. The way people cope is usually linked to their personality traits (such as whether they usually expect the best or worst, or are shy or outgoing).
Coping methods include the use of thoughts and behaviors in special situations. For example, changing a daily routine or work schedule to manage the side effects of cancer treatment is a coping method. Using coping methods can help a patient deal with certain problems, emotional distress, and cancer in his or her daily life.
Patients who adjust well are usually very involved in coping with cancer. They also continue to find meaning and importance in their lives. Patients who do not adjust well may withdraw from relationships or situations and feel hopeless. Studies are being done to find out how different types of coping methods affect the quality of life for cancer survivors.
Patients who are adjusting to the changes caused by cancer may have distress.
Distress can occur when patients feel they are unable to manage or control changes caused by cancer. Patients with the same diagnosis or treatment can have very different levels of distress. Patients have less distress when they feel the demands of the diagnosis and treatment are low or the amount of support they get is high. For example, a health care professional can help the patient adjust to the side effects of chemotherapy by giving medicine for nausea.
The way each patient copes with cancer depends on many physical and emotional factors.
The following factors affect how a patient copes with the stress of cancer:
Cancer patients need different coping skills at different points in time.
The coping skills needed will change at important points in time. These include the following:
Learning the diagnosis
The process of adjusting to cancer begins before learning the diagnosis. Patients may feel worried and afraid when they have unexplained symptoms or are having tests done to find out if they have cancer.
A diagnosis of cancer can cause expected and normal emotional distress. Some patients may not believe it and ask, "Are you sure you have the right test results?" They may feel numb or in shock, or as if "This can't be happening to me". Many patients wonder, "Could I die from this?"
Many patients feel they are not able to think clearly and may not understand or remember important information that the doctor gives them about the diagnosis and treatment options. Patients should have a way to go over this information later. It helps to have someone with them at appointments, bring a tape recorder, or make a second appointment to ask the doctor questions and go over the treatment plan. See Talking with the Health Care Team in the PDQ summary on Communication in Cancer Care for more information.
As patients accept the diagnosis, they begin to feel symptoms of distress, including:
When patients receive and understand information about cancer and their treatment options, they may begin to feel more hopeful. Over time, by using ways to cope that have worked in the past and learning new ways to cope, patients usually adjust to having cancer. Extra professional help to deal with problems such as fatigue, trouble sleeping, and depression can be helpful during this time.
Being treated for cancer
As patients go through treatment for cancer, they use coping strategies to adjust to the stress of treatment. Patients may have anxiety or fears about:
Patients usually adjust well when they can compare short-term discomfort to long-term benefit (for example living longer) and decide, "It's worth it". Questions that patients may ask during treatment include, "Will I survive this?"; "Will they be able to remove all the cancer?"; or "What side effects will I have?". Finding ways to cope with problems caused by cancer such as feeling tired, getting to and from treatment, and changes in work schedule is helpful.
Finishing treatment
Finishing cancer treatment can cause mixed feelings. It may be a time of celebration and relief that treatment has ended. But it may also be a time of worry that the cancer could come back. Many patients are glad that treatment has ended but feel increased anxiety as they see their doctors less often. Other concerns include returning to work and family life and being very worried about any change in their health.
During remission, patients may become stressed before follow-up medical appointments because they worry that the cancer has come back. Waiting for test results can be very stressful.
Patients who are able to express both positive and negative emotions are more likely to adjust well. Patients are more able to cope with the emotional stress of finishing treatment and being in remission when they:
Learning that the cancer has come back
Sometimes cancer comes back and does not get better with treatment. The treatment plan then changes from one that is meant to cure the cancer to one that gives comfort and relieves symptoms. This may cause great anxiety for the patient. The patient may feel shock and be unable to believe it at first. This may be followed by a period of distress such as depression, trouble focusing, and being unable to stop thinking about death. Signs of normal adjustment include:
Patients slowly adjust to the return of cancer. They stop expecting to be cured of cancer and begin a different kind of healing. This healing is a process of becoming whole again by changing one's life in many ways when faced with the possibility of death. It is very important that patients keep up hope while they adjust to the return of cancer. Some patients keep up hope through their spirituality or religious beliefs. (See the PDQ summary on Spirituality in Cancer Care for more information.)
Becoming a cancer survivor
Patients adjust to finishing cancer treatment and being long-term cancer survivors over many years. As treatments for cancer have gotten better, cancer has become a chronic disease for some patients. Some common problems reported by cancer survivors as they face the future include:
Most patients adjust well and some even say that surviving cancer has given them a greater appreciation of life, helped them understand what is most important in their life, and stronger spiritual or religious beliefs.
Some patients may have more trouble adjusting because of medical problems, fewer friends and family members to give support, money problems, or mental health problems not related to the cancer.
Feelings of emotional, social, or spiritual distress can make it hard to cope with cancer treatment.
Almost all patients living with cancer have feelings of distress. Feelings of distress range from sadness and fears to more serious problems such as depression, panic, feeling uncertain about spiritual beliefs, or feeling alone or separate from friends and family.
Patients who are in distress during any phase of cancer need treatment and support for their distress. Patients are more likely to need to be checked and treated for distress during the following periods:
Patients who are having trouble coping with cancer may find it helpful to talk with a professional about their concerns and worries. These specialists include:
Patients who are in distress can be helped by different kinds of emotional and social support.
Studies have shown that patients who are having trouble adjusting to cancer are helped by treatments that give them emotional and social support, including:
These types of treatment may be combined in different ways for one or more sessions. Studies have shown that patients with cancer who receive such therapies receive benefits compared to those who do not receive these therapies. Benefits include having lower levels of depression, anxiety, and disease- and treatment-related symptoms, as well as feeling more optimistic. Patients who have the most distress seem to get the most help from these therapies. However, patients who received these therapies did not live longer than those who did not receive them.
Adjustment disorders may cause serious problems in daily life.
An adjustment disorder occurs when the patient's reaction to a stressful event:
Causes of adjustment disorders in cancer patients include the following:
An adjustment disorder usually begins within three months of a stressful event and lasts no longer than six months after the event is over. Some patients may have a chronic adjustment disorder because they have many causes of distress, one right after another.
An adjustment disorder may become a more serious mental disorder such as major depression. This is more common in children and adolescents than in adults. (See the PDQ summary on Pediatric Supportive Care for more information.)
Counseling can help patients with adjustment disorders.
Individual (one-to-one) and group counseling have been shown to help cancer patients with adjustment disorders. Counseling may include treatment that focuses on the patient's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. The following may help patients cope:
Counseling may be combined with antianxiety medicine or antidepressants.
Counseling should be tried before medicine. Some patients are not helped by counseling or have a more severe mental health problem, such as severe anxiety or depression. These patients may be helped by an antianxiety or antidepressant medicine along with counseling. (See the PDQ summary on Depression for more information.)
Current Clinical Trials
Check NCI's list of cancer clinical trials for U.S. supportive and palliative care trials about adjustment disorder that are now accepting participants. The list of trials can be further narrowed by location, drug, intervention, and other criteria.
General information about clinical trials is also available from the NCI Web site.
Anxiety disorders are very strong fears that may be caused by physical or psychological stress.
Studies show that almost half of all patients with cancer say they feel some anxiety and about one-fourth of all patients with cancer say they feel a great deal of anxiety. Patients living with cancer find that they feel more or less anxiety at different times. A patient may become more anxious as cancer spreads or treatment becomes more intense.
For some patients feelings of anxiety may become overwhelming and affect cancer treatment. This is especially true for patients who had periods of intense anxiety before their cancer diagnosis. Most patients who did not have an anxiety condition before their cancer diagnosis will not have an anxiety disorder related to the cancer.
Patients are more likely to have anxiety disorders during cancer treatment if they have any of the following:
Anxiety disorders may be hard to diagnose.
It may be hard to tell the difference between normal fears related to cancer and abnormally severe fears that can be described as an anxiety disorder. The diagnosis is based on how symptoms of anxiety affect the patient's quality of life, what kinds of symptoms began since the cancer diagnosis or treatment, when the symptoms occur, and how long they last.
Anxiety disorders cause serious symptoms that affect day-to-day life, including:
There are different causes of anxiety disorders in cancer patients.
In addition to anxiety caused by a cancer diagnosis, the following may cause anxiety in patients with cancer:
Anxiety from these causes is usually managed by treating the cause itself.
A cancer diagnosis may cause anxiety disorders to come back in patients with a history of them.
When patients who had an anxiety disorder in the past are diagnosed with cancer, then the anxiety disorder may come back. These patients may feel extreme fear, be unable to remember information given to them by caregivers, or be unable to follow through with medical tests and procedures. They may have symptoms including:
Patients with cancer may have the following types of anxiety disorders:
Phobias are fears about a situation or an object that lasts over time. People with phobias usually feel intense anxiety and avoid the situation or object they are afraid of. For example, patients with a phobia of small spaces may avoid having tests in small spaces, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans.
Phobias may make it hard for patients to follow through with tests and procedures or treatment. Phobias are treated by professionals and include different kinds of therapy.
Panic disorder
Patients with panic disorder feel sudden intense anxiety, known as panic attacks. Symptoms of panic disorder include the following:
A panic attack may last for several minutes or longer. There may be feelings of discomfort that last for several hours after the attack. Panic attacks are treated with medicine and talk therapy.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Obsessive-compulsive disorder is rare in patients with cancer who did not have the disorder before being diagnosed with cancer.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder is diagnosed when a person uses persistent (obsessive) thoughts, ideas, or images and compulsions (repetitive behaviors) to manage feelings of distress. The obsessions and compulsions affect the person's ability to work, go to school, or be in social situations. Examples of compulsions include frequent hand washing or constantly checking to make sure a door is locked. Patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder may be unable to follow through with cancer treatment because of these thoughts and behaviors. Obsessive-compulsive disorder is treated with medicine and individual (one-to-one) counseling.
Post-traumatic stress disorder
See the PDQ summary on Post-traumatic Stress Disorder for information about this condition.
Generalized anxiety disorder
Patients with generalized anxiety disorder may feel extreme and constant anxiety or worry. For example, patients with supportive family and friends may fear that no one will care for them. Patients may worry that they cannot pay for their treatment, even though they have enough money and insurance.
A person who has generalized anxiety may feel irritable, restless, or dizzy, have tense muscles, shortness of breath, fast heart beat, sweating, or get tired quickly. Generalized anxiety disorder sometimes begins after a patient has been very depressed.
There are different kinds of treatment for anxiety disorders.
There are different types of treatment for patients with anxiety disorders, including methods to manage stress. Ways to manage stress include the following:
Patients with anxiety disorders need information and support to understand their cancer and treatment choices. Psychological treatments for anxiety can also be helpful. These include the following:
Other treatments used to lessen the symptoms of anxiety include the following:
Using different methods together may be helpful for some patients. (See the Psychological and Social Distress section of this summary for more information.)
Medicine may be used alone or combined with other types of treatment for anxiety disorders.
Antianxiety medicines may be used if the patient doesn't want counseling or if it's not available. These medicines relieve symptoms of anxiety, such as feelings of fear, dread, uneasiness, and muscle tightness. They may relieve daytime distress and reduce insomnia. These medicines may be used alone or combined with other therapies.
Although some patients are afraid they may become addicted to antianxiety medicines, this is not a common problem in cancer patients. Enough medicine is given to relieve symptoms and then the dose is slowly lowered as symptoms begin to get better.
Studies show that antidepressants are useful in treating anxiety disorders. Children and teenagers being treated with antidepressants have an increased risk of suicidal thinking and behavior and must be watched closely. (See the Treatment section of the PDQ summary on Depression for more information.)
Check NCI's list of cancer clinical trials for U.S. supportive and palliative care trials about anxiety disorder that are now accepting participants. The list of trials can be further narrowed by location, drug, intervention, and other criteria.
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For those fields where specialization is applicable, Larry sees the trend toward someone with broad experience covering the spectrum of audit, tax and MAS: one who can coordinate a team of functional specialists in these areas; one who can counsel in financial, operational and organizational matters as well as in the traditional accounting problems. While the overall focus is narrower, the specialist's background will have to be more inclusive. "The pattern seems to be, if it is useful to have a specialty, if that is characteristic of an industry, the accounting firm with a strong corps of specialists will tend to dominate that industry." Larry shares the general feeling that as businesses become more complex there will be an increasing need for specialization. "In recent years," he says, "we have seen a number of industries develop which are highly specialized. Financing by lease, virtually unheard of thirty years ago, is now widely used. Fast-food franchising and real estate investment trusts are instances of relatively new, specialized industries. To sum up, I think more and more new businesses will fit the mold of the unique and the particular, thus requiring the attention of a specialist." In addition to this, the Firm continues to place greater emphasis on constructive services. "It may well be true," Larry notes, "that you can perform an audit and per- "The real push comes from within..!' form it well without an in-depth knowledge of an industry. But if you can talk about the business with the people involved, be conversant with a wide variety of problems in that one field, you can offer a range of services beyond the audit. You come to recognize the usefulness of assigning audit people who are familiar with the industry, and this in itself leads to specialization. "The question of how to train a specialist is a complicated one. I feel that time and resources should be budgeted to this end, but in the final analysis it is the training the potential specialist gets in actual client work that is of most importance. A specialist does not evolve in some abstract realm; his stimulus comes from his own interests and from the availability of clients." Larry Walsh has ample reason to know about the way a specialist develops. Henry Forer has contributed to the strong position that the Miami office holds in the savings and loan industry. According to Larry, Henry had the background and expertise, plus a broad reputation and a solid client base, at a crucial time in the industry's history. His success with clients then, and his continued service to them now, has led to his being sought out by many other S&L associations. What Henry has done with savings and loan, partner Al Leiter has done with commercial banks. 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Also, we expect to render valuable constructive service in two areas that we see coming up in the future—mergers of existing bank holding companies and substantial broadening of branch banking. I have heard Al Leiter, counseling our younger staff, predict that many new and exciting challenges still face us since banks are experiencing difficulties with their loan portfolios, liquidity and capital. Developing expertise, Al tells them, to serve this specialized industry will provide the professional accountant with significant challenges, and he will derive much satisfaction from his services. "For many years now," Larry goes on, "Haskins &. Sells has enjoyed leadership in a number of specialized fields — railroads, universities, consumer finance, stockbrokerage, to name a few—and our specialists in these fields are widely recognized." So the idea of an industry specialist is not new, but the concept has been gaining increased recognition over the last few years. 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delete the Puppy001 and create a new one
do a restore
- I think I have misnunderstood what you are trying to do?
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Posted: Thu 19 May 2005, 07:20
Post subject: Further explanation
Ok, I'll try and explain in more detail.
Currently my pup001 is 186MB. However it takes quite a long time to load into memory, and on shut down quite along time to write back to USB.
the real content of pup001 probably only adds up to 1Mb or so. Most of the time on shutdown is spent 'zeroising' 185MB, which seems pretty pointless.
pup001 would only be large enough for the files it contains there would be no zeros.
I would be happy to have a pup001 that was only 10Mb or so as long as when needed I could extend it to 20, 30 Mb etc. This would significantly speed up my startup/shutdown cycle
so is there a tool that does . . .
set pupsize to 10MB and just safely gets rid of the zeroised parts and not the real files
I hope that's a more complete explanation of my problem, even better I hope it means someone can help with a solution!
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I think you may be wrong about why Puppy is taking so long to boot on your machine. Operating systems don't waste time reading from or writing to an area of memory that the file system thinks is blank. The "size" of your pup001 file is only what has been allocated by the filesystem, not, as you said, the amount of data which are actually in it. My pup001 file is over a Gig and yet my computer boots/shuts down Puppy very quickly. What takes the most time during boot is
loading "usr_cram.fs"
(about 50 MB) into RAM. That should take less time from a hard drive than from a USB flash memory stick, especially if your computer only has USB1.1. At about 1 MB/s, 50MB will take about 50 seconds to transfer.
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Posted: Thu 19 May 2005, 09:48
Post subject: More help on slow shutdown
What I can be sure about is that a large amount of time is taken in shut down is 'zeroising' when writing the pup001. I'll see if I can get the message from the boot process - although that may be tough. I'll have a look and see if the 'zeroise' message is coming from the script or something else.
If anyone knows what's causing this I'd be very grateful.
I have separately noted how much time it takes to load the usr_cram.fs and this is not the real issue.
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Posted: Thu 19 May 2005, 10:02
Post subject: zeroise again
I noticed this from Puppy News
Puppy version 0.9.4 released. The live-CD ISO file is 49.5M. Release notes:
Pudd, the drive/partition/image-file copy application, has received a makeover. Thanks to suggestions from guys on the Forum, I have put in the capability to copy to a remote computer over a LAN or the Internet, using nc. The image is transferred gzipped to minimise transmission time. Remote copying is not yet tested. Another enhancement to Pudd is when copying a partition to an image-file (on local PC), there is an option to zeroise the unused space in the partition, potentially greatly enhancing compression of the file (the destination file is gzipped).
Can anyone explain this further - it seems to be the slow step in my shutdown process
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Posted: Thu 19 May 2005, 23:08
Post subject: Re: More help on slow shutdown
MwPhoto wrote:
What I can be sure about is that a large amount of time is taken in shut down is 'zeroising' when writing the pup001. I'll see if I can get the message from the boot process - although that may be tough. I'll have a look and see if the 'zeroise' message is coming from the script or something else.
I seem to recall reading somewhere that there a way to stop the boot sequence, and then either step through it or at least backtrack. If there is, maybe it will also work during shutdown.
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Posted: Thu 19 May 2005, 23:28
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Hi Malcolm,
To get back to your original question, the puppy "Resize Root Filesystem" wizard is found on the start menu under "utilities". However, this only allows you to grow your pup file. According to the wizard "you can't make it smaller". Now, whether that means "this wizard cannot make it smaller" or "it is impossible to make your pup file smaller", I don't know.
BTW, when I run puppy from a USB key, the zeroising part on shut down only ever takes a second or so. (Even on a USB 1.1 connection). My pup file is only 60mb on that key, but still I wouldn't think you should be seeing a much greater time than a few seconds. Are you sure your key is ok?
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Posted: Fri 20 May 2005, 03:16
Post subject: Booting speed issues
With more thought and discussion I am now sure that my problem is that my pup001 file was created at 186Mb on a clean installation. I would assume this is way over the top.
I did notice during the creation phase it wanted to create a 256Mb pup001 files and compromised on a 186Mb file so this may have happened as there wasn't enough USB space for a 256Mb file. In particular there may be a bug in the code that happens in the branch that occurs if the available space is < 256 Mb
I will investigate further . . .
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Posted: Fri 20 May 2005, 03:58
Post subject: Partial solution
I've solved my problem, I realised the reason pup100 was so big was the syslinux.cfg file when I initially created the USB stick. SO I started again with a clean install and set the file to be pup100-none-40960 ie a 40Mb file. Everything is much quicker now.
I haven't checked yet but I hope I can extend this further as needed. I'm also hoping I can recover my old files from the other pup100 file.
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Posted: Fri 20 May 2005, 04:46
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Yes, you should be able to mount the old pup001 file and copy out the files. -- I think there is something about how to do this in the Wiki.
The "Utilities" menu has an entry to resize the pup001 file, but as was mentioned above, only to make it bigger.
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Posted: Fri 20 May 2005, 10:43
Post subject: Re: shrinking the puppy
MwPhoto wrote:
I use puppy on a USB 256Mb device and at present the pup001 file is 186Mb. I don't need all that space right now and it's taking a long time to load and unload. Is there a way I can safely reduce the size of this file and increase it again later if I need the space?
Hi Malcolm.
I just had a thought reading this thread. If you want to keep your pup001 file small after you resize it, consider storing files you don't use very often, (such as mp3's, saved documents, etc) in a separate directory on your USB key. Then when you want to access them, you can just mount the key to get to them.
This is also a good way to be able to access them from other operating systems.
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The Blue Jays have activated outfielder Travis Snider from the 15-day disabled list and optioned him to Double-A New Hampshire. It was a surprising move, considering manager Cito Gaston's comments on Friday made it sound like Snider was set to rejoin the Jays in the next few days.
At first glance, the move does not seem to make much sense. Snider is part of the future, so he should be playing every day in the big leagues. He has nothing left to prove in the Minors. That said, GM Alex Anthopoulos would not make this decision without proper reasoning behind it.
Either the Blue Jays don't feel Snider's swing is ready — he's coming back form a right wrist injury — or Anthopoulos needs to buy some time to figure out how to clear a roster spot for the young outfielder's return. Or, it could be a combination of the two. The July 31 Trade Deadline is coming up after all.
Snider is only required to remain in the Minors for the next 10 days, so this could be a short stint before coming back. And the fact that he was optioned to Double-A and not Triple-A Las Vegas does not matter much. Snider is seeing good pitching, he is closer to Toronto and offensive numbers tend to be misleading in the Pacific Coast League.
Well, so much for all the conspiracy theories…
After tonight's 3-2 win for the Blue Jays, the team announced that it had designated infielder Nick Green for assignment to clear a spot for pitcher Shaun Marcum (due to be activated from the disabled list). What does this have to do with Snider? Let me explain.
Removing Green from the roster leaves the Jays with 12 position players and 13 pitchers (six starters and seven relievers). For the next 10 days or so — or the minimum amount of time Snider must remain in the Minors — Toronto will play short-handed on the bench. Why, you ask? To ease the workload for the starting pitchers.
Confused yet?
Brandon Morrow, who started on Saturday, is going to be skipped once in the rotation. It was assumed that either Jesse Litsch or Marc Rzepczynski would be sent down to clear room for Marcum's return. What is going to happen instead is Litsch will start on Tuesday and Rzepczynski will start on Wednesday in Kansas City.
Morrow is currently at 107 innings after logging 124 2/3 innings last season. The Blue Jays want to avoid shutting him (or any other starter) down later in the season. So, by skipping a start, it helps manage his innings. Similarly, the Jays put Marcum on the 15-day DL with a minor elbow issue over the All-Star break and he only missed one start.
Morrow is scheduled to return to the rotation on July 26 in Toronto, giving him eight days of rest. So the rotation in K.C. will be Brett Cecil, followed by Litsch and Rzepczynski. In Detroit it will be Ricky Romero, followed by Marcum, Cecil and Litsch. When Morrow's turn comes up again, the Jays may decide to go back to a 12-man staff.
Gaston noted that the Jays will likely do this with other starters leading up to September. In the final month, though, Toronto may go with a true six-man rotation to help limit the innings that the starters are piling up. Last year, Toronto was forced to shut Cecil and Rzepczynski down in September. The Jays hope not to do something like that this year.
So, given the rotation situation, Snider stays at Double-A for now. It also just so happens that the July 31 Trade Deadline is coming up. This move not only helps the starting staff, but it also gives Anthopoulos time to dip his toes in the trade waters to see if there are options out there to clear an easy path for Snider's return before the end of the month.
OK, so I guess conspiracy theories can still exist…


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|Beatrice von Bismarck, Rike Frank, Benjamin Meyer-Krahmer, Jörn Schafaff, Thomas Weski (Eds.)Cultures of the Curatorial 2
Timing: On the Temporal Dimension of Exhibiting
Contributions by Pierre Bal-Blanc, Bassam El Baroni, Claire Bishop, Beatrice von Bismarck, Sabine Breitwieser, Barbara Clausen, Maeve Connolly, Rike Frank, Adrian Heathfield, Inka Meißner, Benjamin Meyer-Krahmer, Maria Muhle, Philippe Parreno, Jörn Schafaff, Bennett Simpson, Kerstin Stakemeier, Thomas Weski, et al.
Processuality and performativity, and more recently dramaturgy and choreography, are terms often used in analyses of exhibitions and other curatorial formats. These attributions reflect the changes curatorial practice has undergone over the past twenty years in the wider context of cultural and economic globalization and the related notions of acceleration, action orientation, and mobility. In this light, the exhibition manifests itself as a transdisciplinary and transcultural set of spatiotemporal relations, which is time-based by its very nature. Focusing on time instead of the typically predominant category of space, this publication—the second volume in the Cultures of the Curatorial series—takes up the key aesthetic, social, political, and economic issues of the early twenty-first century running through the field and framed by the axes of exhibiting and the temporal.
Copublished with Kulturen des Kuratorischen, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig
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Justin Timberlake's bringing the sexy-cool Rat Pack era back.
The singer-actor's first album in seven years, "The 20/20 Experience," is now streaming on iTunes one week ahead of its official March 19 release date. And by the fawning of the critics, it would appear Timberlake hasn't missed a beat since taking a break from music to pursue a film career.
With the record's 10 tracks clocking in at an average of seven minutes each, J.T., with the help of longtime producer-collaborator Timbaland, mixes up his R&B pop rhythms with some boundary-pushing flourishes, among them shout-outs to Afrobeat, Punjabi-inflected Bhangra and electronica. The grooves are also supplemented with lush horn and string arrangements, like the album's first single, "Suit &Tie," giving Timberlake's new sound an old-school Rat Pack-era vibe.
Here's a sampling of some of the most notable reviews:
Justin Timberlake reveals 20/20 album cover and track list
- "'The 20/20 Experience' is the biggest pop event of 2013 so far, but it's not quite a pop album. Its sense of musical space-time is more elastic and sprawling than anything on the radio," gushed Rolling Stone, which gave "The 20/20 Experience" four out of five stars. "The music is catchy, but the emphasis is on rhythm and flow...You might call The 20/20 Experience Timberlake's neo-soul record. (It has more in common with D'Angelo and Maxwell than Usher or Bieber.) "
- "If you are looking for this to be another 'Justified' or 'FutureSex/LoveSounds,' it's not. While those albums were more about instant-gratification pop, 'The 20/20 Experience'...is the more challenging vision of an artist creating a cohesive work rather than a collection of singles. But he hasn't gone totally retro," wrote People. "This time he's bringing romance back."
- "The songs are a little too slow, too long, too lacking in the flashy tap-dance energy that made him a giant solo success when he was 23. Maybe he wants to be the young Frank Sinatra. But for now, he'll have to settle for being a slightly older JT," countered Entertainment Weekly, which gave "20/20" a B grade.
Justin Timberlake looks sharp in "Suit &Tie" lyric video
- "Although 'The 20/20 Experience' showcases Timberlake's impressive vocal stylings and the songs are expansive, employing creative and experimental musical progressions, the album is lacking in Timberlake's signature pop vibe, and the tracks seem to drag. Then again, perhaps all pop music is heading the way of JT--back to its R&B roots, as singers like Frank Ocean have exhibited (albeit with more thrilling results)," penned The Daily Beast.
- "As a song craftsman, Timberlake is, like so many of his contemporaries, only as good as his collaborators. There are a bunch on 'Experience,' from J-Roc to Jay-Z, but it's surely not for nothing that Timbaland is, on the standard version's 10 tracks, always credited first among the producers and second, to Timberlake, among the writers," wrote USA Today, giving it three out of four stars.
To listen to The "20/20 Experience" on iTunes, click here.


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State Offers Funds to Purchase Bosque Land
City moves to condemn proposed Bosque Wilderness Subdivision
From a bird's eye, it's just the Bosque. You have to get down real close to the dirt to see the property markers and barbed wire fence lines that separate the proposed Bosque Wilderness Subdivision from the plain old Bosque wilderness. But the line markers are there. And when news of the proposed subdivision circulated publicly a few weeks back, public officials began to take more than the bird's-eye view of the situation and started working on getting some money together to buy the property.
Thin Line
Cry us a river. In a lame-ass attempt to convince folks that she cares about something other than lining the pockets of pharmaceutical companies at the expense of America's senior citizens and under the guise of extending "a prescription drug benefit" to the very people that are actually getting screwed by inflated drug costs, Rep. Heather Wilson (R-N.M., unfortunately) literally cried foul on Wednesday as a House Telecommunications Committee spent two hours chastising Viacom president Mel Karmazin over this year's Super Bowl halftime festivities.
News Feature
The Politics of Conservation
Interview with Rick Smith, former acting superintendent of Yellowstone National Park
Richard Nixon is remembered mostly as a disgraced liar, but by today's standards (summed up in four words—Dick Cheney Energy Czar) he was one helluva Republican environmentalist. After all, Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency, signed the Endangered Species Act and the Clean Water Act. The first President Bush was no Nixon, but he did sign the 1990 Clean Air Act.
Payne's World
When We Talk About Infill, Part II
Win the battle councilors, and you'll win the war
It's one of life's more poignant ironies: Everyone wants into heaven—it's the part about dying that's a drag. On similar lines, many of our elected officials say they want greater infill and redevelopment of the existing city and less of the current Westside growth pattern. But whenever the political heat from area neighborhood associations gets a little too hot, all those lofty ideals go straight to hell.
Ortiz y Pino
Heartbreak of Media Illiteracy
Heather Wilson's bizarre outburst misses the point
I keep hearing about "media literacy" and find I'm intrigued by the concept. I heard a presentation on it by an Albuquerque Academy teacher and a panel of students a few years ago and my curiosity has grown ever since, whetted by occasional references to it.
Odds & Ends
Dateline: Taiwan—A 57-year-old motorcyclist was struck in the head with more than 20 million in Taiwanese dollars as he passed under a highway bridge in a Taipei suburb. The cash, bound up in two plastic garbage bags, had been tossed off the overpass by the relatives of a kidnap victim, just as the kidnappers had instructed. According to the United Daily News, the bags knocked out 57-year-old Lu Fang-nan who was on his way home at the time. The bags were immediately picked up by the kidnappers, who were waiting nearby. Lu regained consciousness a few minutes later and was hospitalized with bruises and a swollen leg. He did not realize that he had been cold-cocked by flying cash (worth some 600,000 in U.S. dollars) until television reported the kidnapped businessman's safe return and the delivery site of the ransom payment. "What does this have to do with me? Why did I get hit? I'm certainly unlucky enough," United Daily quoted Lu as saying.
Thank you for the outstanding article "Free-Speech Zone" (Feb. 5-11). Every time I think I will no longer be surprised by the Bush administration's excesses and abuses of power, I'm surprised again. It's good to know that there are still publications willing to engage in journalism rather than just printing the latest press releases from Washington. I was most recently appalled by the administration's "Federal Marriage Amendment" (H.J. Res. 56/S.J. Res. 26). This measure would amend the U.S. Constitution to define marriage as strictly between a man and a woman as well as invalidate all the protections that many families currently enjoy.
Swoop It Up
Return of the Sandhill Crane Celebration
Lakshmi Puja
Diawli: Festival of Lights
Diwali is one of the most popular religious festivals in Hinduism. The festival of lights, as it is also known, occurs during the Hindu Lunisolar month Kartika (basically mid-October to November on the Gregorian calendar) and is generally focused offering on puja to Lakshmi—goddess of wealth and prosperity and wife of Vishnu—but may also include the worship of Durga or Kali, depending on region and denomination. For this year's celebration, the India Association of New Mexico presents Diwali: The Festival of Lights, an evening of dance, music and performing arts amid lamp and candle lighting as adherents perform Lakshmi puja. This sacred event takes place at the National Hispanic Cultural Center's Journal Theater on Saturday, Nov. 16, from 5:30 to 7:30pm. Tickets for this all-ages celebration are available for $10 via the India Association of New Mexico or by calling 306-9624.


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Litchfield Plantation on Pawley's Island in Georgetown County, South Carolina, was a 1420 acre rice plantation on the Waccamaw River. In 1859 the plantation was owned by John Hyrne Tucker. At his death the plantation passed to John Hyrne Tucker's son Dr. Henry Massingbird Tucker.
You Can read more about Litchfield Plantation at Wikipedia.


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Kim Kardashian & Kris Humphries Getting Married This Weekend? 11 Reasons It Could Be!
HollywoodLife.com has collected several pieces of evidence that lead us to believe Kim Kardashian is tying the knot with Kris Humphries on Father's Day!
Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries's upcoming nuptials will be the United States' version of this year's Royal Wedding — and HollywoodLife.com is convinced it's happening sooner than anyone ever anticipated. We think Kim, 30, and Kris, 26, will tie the knot this Sunday, June 19 (which is conveniently Father's Day) and here's why…
- When Khloe Kardashian got married to Lamar Odom, she did her registry the Monday before her wedding — and coincidentally, Kim registered last Monday, June 13.
- Kim and Kris took dancing lessons from her former "Dancing With The Stars" partner Mark Ballas at an L.A. dance studio on Thursday
- Kris went to a tux store this week with Lamar and Scott — and cameras were there to film them!
- Kim had her hair cut and thinned out this week, which is what is recommended when you're about to get a lot of extensions. Plus, she wouldn't get her hair cut far ahead of her wedding…she would want it to be fresh.
- Kim has said she wants to be pregnant by the end of 2011, which means she'll be tying the knot sooner rather than later.
- Kim will want to have her wedding done quickly, so there will be less chance paparazzi will find out where it is and she doesn't lose money on selling exclusive wedding photos.
- This Sunday is Father's Day, which holds a special meaning for Kim. Her father, Robert Kardashian, passed away when she was young — but she always takes special note to remember him. Having her wedding on Father's Day would do just that…
- Some people think planning a wedding at this scale would be too difficult to pull off — but Kim has had a month, where Khloe planned her entire wedding in nine days.
- The MuchMusic Awards are this weekend, which can serve as a distraction for some of the press.
- Kim went to New York last week and could have been fitted for a Vera Wang gown, just like Khloe was right before her wedding. (Khloe flew to NY just before her nuptials as well) Additionally, she didn't do press with Khloe and Kourtney in NYC, even though she could have. Was she taking care of wedding details?
- Several of Kris's New Jersey Net teammates are in California right now. Anthony Morrow (@BlackBoiPachino) tweeted, "Jus landed in Santa Barbara." The guys who are in Los Angeles are the ones closest to Kris and his family, which we know because his sister, Kaela, follows them on Twitter.
- Khloe is supposedly celebrating her birthday June 17 at Chateau Nightclub & Gardens at the Paris hotel in Las Vegas…which could very well be a cover for Kim's bachelorette party. Plus, one of Kim's BFFs, LaLa Vazquez, is reportedly planning the Bachelorette party and LaLa is going to be in Vegas June 18 for Carmello Anthony's birthday. What's one day earlier for the bachelorette party?
So what do you guys think? Are you as convinced as we are that Kim and Kris could get married this weekend? Or do you think they'll wait a little longer … until July 4th maybe? July 4th is another one of our guesses. It fits the requirement of being very soon, would still hold shock value, and has the added benefit of being a three-day-weekend, which usually means less press attention on celebrities. Or are we completely off and it's months away? Sound off your thoughts below!
The HollywoodLife.com Staff
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Inquiry Question
The Prairie Idealized--
Supplementary Resources
By looking at Columbus Park: The Prairie Idealized, students will learn about a famous landscape artist and his efforts to promote conservation and an appreciation for the native plant life of the United States. Those interested in learning more will find that the Internet offers a variety of interesting materials.
Chicago, Illinois, Travel Itinerary
National Park Service (NPS) Historic Landscape Initiative
Columbus Park: A Cultural Landscape
Library of Congress
The Industrial Revolution
Columbus Park and Jens Jensen Resources:
Jens Jensen Legacy Project
Native Plant Conservation Resources:
The Tallgrass Prairie in Illinois
American Journal of Botany


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Ruge 人造皮梳化單座位 - 灰黑色
The Danish furniture in mid 20th Century varies from stylish 60s and 70s utility furniture to the classic pieces from designers such as Charles Eames, Hans Wegner, Merrow Associates, Arne Jacobsen, Robin Day et.
As a revival of those periodic masterpieces with a cultural sensibility, RETRO VINTAGE series is revived of modeling, color and property of matter in Danish wood that had led to Scandinavian furniture golden age. Just like the Macaron series furniture, it would promote an atmosphere of joy and intensify people's feelings of happiness.
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There are various ways of transporting queens, bees, and/or any other life stage of bees for the purpose of propagating colonies.
1. In house home methods
2. Commercial courier routes
3. Keeping sent material alive during same.
Let's get a discussion going on the above to further understanding of these various methods so beekeepers can use them appropriately.
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Now on to Recipe of the Week: Super Bowl Snacks
The big game day is in a week. What do we all associate with Super Bowl? Amazing FOOD! I have to admit it, I am always much more excited for all the Super Bowl snacks then the actual game 🙂 I know a lot of people are going to be on the prowl for the perfect thing to serve at their parties, so here is your chance to shine. Post your favorites to share!
3. Click on the "Add Your Link" button and follow the steps. It's just that easy!
Rundown of the week:
1. Sunday: Winner/Featured Recipe of the Week is announced & new linky theme is started. Recipes will be accepted until the following Wednesday, 11:59 pm CST.
*note: Sometimes I may post 1 of my recipes to get the ball rolling, but my entry will not be included in the giveaway. The recipes you enter must be from your blog. The Featured Recipe of the Week will be announced Sunday mornings, and the winner will have until the following Tuesday (6:00pm CST) to claim their prize by emailing me at firstname.lastname@example.com. Prizes will only be mailed to addresses within the United States. I reserve the right to delete any inappropriate entries at any time. These rules may be subject to change as this Linky grows, but I will always notify you of said changes. This giveaway is not affiliated with Walmart. Gift card has been purchased by Family Fresh Meals for giveaway.


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By Fareed Zakaria
We tend to think of dictators as all-powerful leaders who act with naked cruelty and impunity. Think of Bashar al Assad in Syria. Or, for a celluloid reminder, think of Sacha Baron Cohen as Gen. Admiral Aladeen, a North African despot.
But the film "The Dictator" — and our imagination of dictators — is getting outdated. The new dictator is more evolved and more attuned to how people think.
A new book highlights that trend. It's called "The Dictator's Learning Curve" by William Dobson.
Dictators have gotten smart, Dobson writes, to keep pace with changes in technology. Old-school oppressors like Mao, Pol Pot or Idi Amin could keep their atrocities relatively secret. That's not possible today. If a dictator tried to orchestrate a mass killing and keep it secret, he'd likely fail. It would end up on YouTube.
Uganda's Joseph Kony is now an internet phenomenon. Charles Taylor of Liberia was recently found guilty by the U.N. Special Court for Sierra Leone. Sudan's President Bashir has been indicted.
So today's cleverest dictators have evolved. They allow a certain amount of dissent, as an escape valve.
Consider China. There's a new study out this week by three political scientists at Harvard. They've devised a way to analyze millions of social media posts in China. What's special is that they claim to do this before the Chinese government gets to censor them - so it provides a unique insight not just into what the Chinese people think, but also what the government deems necessary to censor.
What do they find? Contrary to what you'd think, it turns out criticisms of the state are not more likely to get censored. Even vitriolic criticisms are allowed. Instead, the focus is on stopping mass mobilization. Last year Beijing blocked internet searches for Tunisia's "Jasmine Revolution" to prevent discussions about the Arab Spring. Similarly last week searches for the numbers 4/6 were censored - the numbers represented June 4th, the anniversary of the massacre at Tiananmen Square.
The Harvard study shows that Beijing's leaders are making measured concessions. It is said that some 500 protests take place every day across China. But anything that could lead to something larger or more organized is instantly censored and clamped down on.
Another example - Putin's Russia has usually allowed the print media a great deal of freedom, on the theory that what a few tens of thousands of people read in Moscow and St. Petersburg doesn't matter. But the regime has taken over television news completely, so mass opinion is carefully controlled out of the Kremlin.
We're witnessing a trend in China, Russia, Venezeula, and many other countries - even Myanmar. Gone are the days when dictators could completely ignore the demands of their people.
As citizens become more exposed to events around the world, more connected to each other on the internet and social media, dictators will have to make greater concessions. It's a situation that is far better than how things were 10, 20, or 50 years ago. Regimes like those in Syria and North Korea can act with all-out brutality, but they are outliers - they represent a fading order.
The new model is to allow a controlled space for free commerce, for open education, even for dissent. Perhaps people in these countries can use that space to expand the realm of freedom and liberty.
Indians will play the key role in American Elections!
Ecuador Government will give permission to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to live in their Country
West Indies will win the T20 match against England on 24nd June 2012!
Sri Lanka will win the 1st Test match against Pakistan!
England will win the third ODI against West Indies on 22nd June 2012
Sri Lanka will win the Test series against Pakistan – 2012!
It's a relief to find soenmoe who can explain things so well
If the person was your feinrd, they would probably be happy to hear from you. It would be a pleasant surprise to reconnect.If they don't reply, it could be the wrong email address or an email address that they no longer use.I use it every day.
I think this is just a rumor, but you may as well try since you are definitely far enugoh along that you don't have anything to worry about. I wouldn't eat more than a serving or so every few hours. Personally, I think walking is more likely to help than anything else
England will win the T20 match against West Indies on 24th June 2012!
Microsoft will introduce Own phone by 2014!
But why would they a these people crave for a dictatorship position?...Rather than enjoy life?. Are they after money? There are easier ways. Why would they feel the need to impose their opinion on others? Is this healthy? Read Eric Fromm (Art of Loving; Fear of Flying), a psychologist who studied sado-masocist tendencies in society. Some people realy do enjoy being led by a dictator.
This dictators grew up in a not so loving environment. In case of China, Mao engineered it's new generation of people will grow up without siblings (one child policy) and force them to work in labor camps. See factories example factories in China for Iphone and Ipad. It's labor dorms have netting. Young chinese jumps to their death. These dictators are psychopath. They feel no guilt and moral responsibility. You see this kind of Psychopath dictators as a CEO in all of China's state controlled companies. These CEO's just doesn't care. When their workers jump to their death, they just install nets all over the building. With no siblings, no opportunity to develop unique bondage that only a sibling can offer.
The news in the USA is so biased often blatantly misleading, that I wonder how or why anyone would believe that Americans are not among those who are controlled by dictators. Americans believe what they are told to believe. Sad. Freedom, it is not.
The guy who wrote this really out of tune with reality, from living in the west for so long. The government can easily stop things from showing up on youtube by blocking internet access. They can block cell phone calls by blocking access to the antennas China and Iran has done many times. Dictators are just former military strong men and authoritarian regimes, they also include Monarchies, such as Bahrain, Jordan and Kuwait who also have been known to raise the body count when people start to protest en masse.
Most of these dictators and monarchs were put into power and/or financially supported by the West since the break up of the Ottoman Empire in the ME.
It's not just dictators who have adapted, the history of western democratic governments is an adaptation to yearnings for liberty. They give us just enough liberty and no more to keep us happy and to keep us from overthrowing them to keep themselves in power.
There is every reason to believe that, if elected, Romney would impose a corporate dictatorship upon America, and that may well be the current intent of the Republican Party, given the actions of Bush I and Bush II, many of which policies have been extended by President Obama, knowingly or unknowingly.
The founders did not intend for America to become or entertain a dictatorship, and the fact that corporations were not invented at the time, is no reason to conclude that this could be done indirectly for that which could not be done directly.
Holding the American people to an impossible standard – accountable to a corporation, an object – is the equivalent of installing the wizard behind the curtain known as OZ (from the film the Wizard of OZ) to dictate their every action, reaction, and thought. No one needs Corporate morality that the world shall live by or else.
I hardly comment, but i did some searching and wound up here How dictators have evolved
with the times – Global Public Square – CNN.com Blogs.
And I actually do have 2 questions for you if you don't mind. Is it only me or does it appear like some of these responses look like written by brain dead visitors? 😛 And, if you are posting at other online social sites, I'd like
to follow anything new you have to post. Could you list of the complete urls of your community pages
like your Facebook page, twitter feed, or linkedin
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Apple (AAPL) said it plans to investigate the death of a 23-year-old Chinese woman who reportedly was electrocuted while taking a phone call on her iPhone 5 as it was charging.
Ma Ailun, a China Southern Airlines flight attendant from China's Xinjiang region, was electrocuted Thursday when she answered a call on her smartphone, Chinese state media reported, quoting local police.
According to Reuters, Apple said it would cooperate with authorities investigating the incident.
"We are deeply saddened to learn of this tragic incident and offer our condolences to the Ma family," Apple told Reuters in an email. "We will fully investigate and cooperate with authorities in this matter."
A microblog post by Ma's sister about Ma's death warned other users to be careful with their devices, Reuters reported, saying the post went viral in China.
The incident may add to Apple's recent difficulties in the Chinese market. In April, the Cupertino tech giant issued an apology to Chinese consumers after state-run media criticized Apple's warranty policies in the country.