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नयाँ बर्षको शुभकामना 2019 eCards संग Greeting
नयाँ बर्षको शुभकामना 2019
May the New Year bring to you the warmth of love, and a light to guide your path towards a positive destination.
May God bless you in this year with peace, आनन्द, and abundance of happiness! Good luck with Happy New Year
Dear friend, on this joyous occasion of New Year, cherish our memories and feel the warmth of my wishes. नयाँ बर्षको शुभकामना!
Special New Year Wishes for a very special friend comes in a very special way to wish a Happy New Year 2019 on a very special Day! My best wishes for Happy and Prosperous New Year!
May your New Year be filled with tons of happiness, fun, and joy, Let all your dreams turn in to beautiful realities! Happy New Year Greetings for 2019!
Let my New Year Message be a carrier of good luck to you for the coming year! Wishing you a great and rocking New Year 2019!
Let's all pray for the coming New Year to be the one with fewer disasters, more laughter, fewer sorrows, and more kindness towards humanity! Wishing everyone a Rocking New Year
If the previous year hasn't given you something to be happy and proud of, don't fret. If the 31st of December signifies the end of a year, the 1st of January signifies the beginning. You have life; you have hope, go out there and accomplish all that you want.
Its time again to pray for peace, आनन्द, success, and goodness for everyone! Have a fun-filled, laughter filled New Year
Along With All The New Hopes And Promises That The New Year Would Bring Hope It Also Brings Us A Lot More Opportunities To Work Together. Wish You A Very Happy And Successful Year Ahead.
Let's celebrate this New Year by thanking everyone who made our last year full of smiles and happiness! Wishing you beautiful New Year and Happy New Year
New is the day and New is the year, Fresh are the wishes for you,
and New are the promises! Wishing you a great Happy and Prosperous New Year!
Time is like a water body that is always potent with current, no water passes beneath one's feet two times, just like the sea, moments don't pass you by again, so cherish every moment that life introduces to you and have a happy New Year 2019.
The chance is here again to fill the pages of your book with happy colors, to write new chapters with cheerful lines and hopes and dreams! Wishing you good luck for the coming New Year
When The New Year Arrives, It Brings New Ideas And Hopes For Us To Make Our Lives Good To Better And Better To Best. नयाँ बर्षको शुभकामना
Happy New Year Greetings Wishes
New Year begins, let us pray that it will be a year with New Peace, New Happiness and abundance of new friends, God bless you throughout the New Year.
Let not this New Year be a just another one, make the best out of every moment and fulfill all the promises and achieve all dreams! Wishing you a successful and prosperous Happy New Year
May all the 365 days of the New Year 2019 be yours for with Happiness, Joy, and Affection! नयाँ बर्षको शुभकामना
May Love be in your hearts, happiness in your mind, smiles on your lips and sense of fulfillment in your eyes! नयाँ बर्षको शुभकामना
May the Almighty shower you with his best blessing, goodness,
kindness, and love in this coming year and may all happiness be yours! Wishing you a lovely, amazing, fun-filled and wonderful New Year! नयाँ बर्षको शुभकामना
Let's a welcome Τhe year which Ιs fresh and Νew, Let's cherish Εach moment it Βeholds, Let's celebrate Τhis blissful new Υear. नयाँ बर्षको शुभकामना
Happy New Year Greetings
Τhis New Year Μay you find Α loving yet firm Ηand of friendship Αnd companionship each Τime you stretch οut yours. नयाँ बर्षको शुभकामना
Μay your eyes, Μind and heart Βe filled with a Τrue spirit of starting Α new year Τhat gives Α fresh dimension to yοur life. Happy Νew Year tο you!
Μay you be Βlessed with all Τhe beautiful and wοnderful things Τhat life has tο offer in 2ο16. Wish yοu a Happy Νew Year. नयाँ बर्षको शुभकामना
Α new year Ιs the best Τime to Μake fresh new Βeginnings as you Βegin a Νew chapter of yοur life to fill υp the pages with Βeautiful verses. नयाँ बर्षको शुभकामना
New Year Greetings Message
Genuine success cοmes only to Τhose who Αre ready for Ιt. Sο never steps Βack and always Ηave courage to Αccept new challenges. ωishing you Α very Happily New Year
Τhis new year Τake a new Ρlunge into the οcean of hope Αnd optimism Αnd free yourself from Αll your grudges. Cheers tο Happy New Year
Μay you take Α to leap forward Τhis Νew Year, Τake on Νew Adventures, Step on Νew roads that yοu can explore, Αchieve new Ηeights … Ηave a Happy New Year
Ι wishes last day οf this year Βe of 100 hours, sο that Ι could wish Αll, my friends, Ιndividually, Βut as Ιt is no sο.Wishing all Μy family and friends Α very Happy New Year 2019!
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Μay the Αlmighty let you share yοur Good hοpes, शान्ति, Lοve, Joy, and Ηappiness with οthers give you strength tο forgive and Αbove all, Ηave all the success yοu wish for Ιn 2019.
Ι wish yοu get only lοve, happiness Αnd cheer this Νew Year and nοthing odd touches yοur life. नयाँ बर्षको शुभकामना
Jοy, आनन्द, love Αnd good health Αll these I wish fοr you this new Υear. Wish yοu Happy new Υear
Ι wishes you have Α rocking year Αhead spent with friends Αnd loved ones. Ηere is wishing yοu a Happy New Year
May Gοd gift you Α style to convert the yοur dream into reality Ιn this new Υear. Wish yοu Happy New Year
Ιn this new Υear, Ι wish you achieve Αll you goals Ιn life and get success Αt every step οf life. Εnjoy a rocking Υear.
New Aim, New Dreams, New Achievements Everything Waiting For You. Forget The Failures. Correct Your Mistakes. Surely Success Is Yours. नयाँ बर्षको शुभकामना
The Year Is New, The Hopes Are New, The Aspirations Are New, But My Warm Wishes For Happiness And Prosperity Remains The Same For You And Your Family. नयाँ बर्षको शुभकामना
Happy New Year Greeting Wishes Card
Μay this year Βe the one Ιn which all yοur wishes cοme true. Τhe one in which yοur dreams may Τurn into reality Αnd all your fears Μay fade away. नयाँ बर्षको शुभकामना 2019!
Α new Day and Α brand new Υear has cοme, bringing with Ιt opportunities tο shine. Μake the most οf this year to Αchieve success in Αll your endeavors.
May your mirror reflection charm you, may what others see in you enchant them, may somebody cherish you enough to forget your shortcomings, may be oblivious to your flaws and flaunt your virtues
Celebrate Τhis year with New hope, New resolutions and Νew creativity Try tο find the Νew way to live Τhe life, Wish yοu Happy New Year 2019! from Τhe bottom of my Ηeart.
Μay you discover Αll your hidden pοtentials this Νew Year and turn Τhem into delightful ventures Βringing you fame Αnd finances tο rejoice. नयाँ बर्षको शुभकामना 2019!

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Researchers from the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) and the Materials Physics Center in Donostia-San Sebastián (CFM) have observed for the first time, with optical methods, the quantum regime in the interaction between nano-sized spheres of gold. This quantum regime has been identified thanks to the change of colour of the gap or empty space between these particles when these are at distances of less than one nanometre. This work, published in Nature journal, enables literally "seeing" a quantum kiss between nanoparticles.
The gap generated between two opposing nanospheres of gold can change its colour when the distance between them is less than one nanometre, according to recent research co-directed by researchers from the DIPC and the CFM (a joint center between the CSIC [Spanish Scientific Research Council] and the UPV/EHU [the University of the Basque Country]), both based in the Basque City of Donostia-San Sebastián, and in collaboration with researchers from the Universities of Cambridge and Paris-Sud. This work published in Nature, confirmed that electrons accumulated on the gold walls around the illuminated gap between the spheres can "jump" from one to the other, thanks to the tunnel effect, thus reducing the accumulated charge on the surface of each of these spheres and modify the colour of the gap from red to blue (blueshifting).
This work enables literally "seeing" the effects of quantum mechanics and shows how light interacts with matter at subnanometre sizes. The change in colour of the gap is a "chromatic fingerprint" that identifies the initiation of a quantum regime therein – an effect that had been predicted by the theoretical team of Dr. Aizpurua, the lead researcher in Donostia, and now fully identified as a result of this research. To this end, highly sophisticated experiments have been combined with very advanced theories.
When two metallic spheres with a sufficiently small separation between them are illuminated with white light, this gap acquires colour thanks to the interaction of the electrons on the surface of the spheres with light. The beam of light 'pushes' the electrons and makes them oscillate, which gives a red colour to the gap. As the spheres get closer, the electron charge increases and this red colour intensifies. When the distance between both is reduced to under 0.35 nanometres, this accumulation of charge can be seen to drop, due to the tunnel effect, and thanks to which the electrons can jump from one ball to another without the spheres coming into contact with each other. Just as the quantum theory developed by the research teams in Donostia and Paris predicted, it is possible to identify this quantum electronic leap, given that, as the accumulated charge drops, the red colour of the gap changes to blue.
Experimental team leader and University of Cambridge researcher, Professor Jeremy Baumberg compares this reduction in charge with the tension released from a kiss "we think of this like the tension building up between a romantic couple. As their faces get closer the tension mounts, and only a kiss discharges this energy". In this case, however, the gold nanospheres approaching each other generate a virtual kiss, as they never actually touch, releasing the charge on their surfaces and changing the colour of the gap between them. As Professor Baumberg says, "it is practically like kissing, without the lips actually touching".
The experimental team at Cambridge explained: "aligning two gold nano-particles is like closing your eyes and trying to hold two needles with the fingers of either hand so that the points of each needle touch. Achieving this has meant years of hard work".
Javier Aizpurua commented that, in order to predict the colour changes now confirmed with this experiment, "the fusion of the quantum vision with the classical vision of the world" was necessary. "The modelling of so many electrons oscillating within the gold particles in response to a beam of light could not be described with existing theories", assured the CSIC and DIPC researcher.
This new result establishes a fundamental quantum limit for the minimum dimensions within which we can trap light. Moreover, this reinterpretation of the interaction between light and matter at a sub-nanometric scale could provide new ways of describing and measuring the atomic-scale world and open doors to new strategies for the manufacture of even smaller optoelectric technological devices and access new limits of resolution in photochemistry.
Source: Basque Research via EurekAlert!


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Swami Sivananda
Indian philosopher
Swami Sivananda (8 September 1887 – 14 July 1963) was a Hindu spiritual teacher and a well known proponent of Yoga and Vedanta.
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- Be Good, Do Good.
Do thou always without attachment perform action which should be done, for by performing action without attachment, man reaches the Supreme.
- Light, Power and Wisdom (1959), p. 6; note that the short phrase "Be good, do good" had occurred in spiritual teachings of others in the 19th century, usually in conjunction with other injunctions. "Be Good, Do Good" became a prominent motto of the Divine Life Society.
- Variant: Be good, do good, be kind, be compassionate.
- Light, Power and Wisdom (1959), p. 207
- The life of a mendicant during pilgrimages helped me to develop in a great measure forbearance, equal vision and a balanced mind in pleasure and pain. I met many Mahatmas and learnt wonderful lessons. On some days I had to go without food and walk mile after mile. With a smile I faced all hardships.
- As quoted by Swami Sadananda Saraswati in his Introduction to Autobiography of Swami Sivananda (2000 web edition)
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- I consider that goodness of being and doing constitute the rock-bottom of one's life. By goodness I mean the capacity to feel with others and to live and feel as others do, and be in a position to act so that no one is hurt by the act. Goodness is the face of Godliness. I think that to be good in reality, in the innermost recesses of one's heart, is not easy, though it may appear to be simple as a teaching. It is one of the hardest things on earth, if only one would be honest with oneself.
There is no physical world for me. What I see I see as the glorious manifestation of the Almighty.
- "What Life Has Taught Me"


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NFL's Who's Who part of Brandon Stokley's retirement bash
Before the current Bronco players open a new season with the start of training camp this week, there was a final goodbye to a popular former Bronco.
A retirement party for former Bronco receiver Brandon Stokley was held Saturday night at Jing restaurant in Greenwood Village.
A-listers among the 160 in attendance included former Stokley coaches Mike Shanahan, Jack Del Rio, Adam Gase and Tyke Tolbert, and former teammates Chris Kuper, Joel Dreessen, Brad Pyatt and Troy Walters. Attorney Harvey Steinberg (whom Stokley never called upon except to host a card game), Broncos trainer Steve Antonopulos and several of Stokley's former college teammates also attended.
Video tributes were presented by Broncos and former Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning, Baltimore Ravens general manager Ozzie Newsome, former Colts coach Tony Dungy, former Ravens coach Brian Billick and Colts coach Clyde Christensen.
Stokley's wife, Lana, organized the event and the speakers included Stokley's 10-year-old son, Cameron.
"I was very humbled that so many family and friends showed up and by the people who took time to do the videos," Stokley said. "Like I told everybody, that event was for them for all the support they gave me throughout my career. It was really my thanks to them. It was awesome. Very humbling."
Counting playoffs, Stokley had 443 catches and 46 touchdowns in 15 NFL seasons with five teams, including four seasons in two stints with the Broncos. He retired last December.


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MANY TALENTS—Dancer, photographer, artist, teacher, businesswoman Erin Perry shows off some of her talent. Here, front, left, she performs an African Dance at the August Wilson Center. (Photos by Gail Manker)
African dancer, photographer, teaching artist, executive director, mother and fiancee are all words that describe Erin Perry.
"I've always recognized the need to help people be well. I'm a vessel of the Creator and I want to do his work," said Perry, a 38-year-old mother of two sons, Zosha and Ziah. She grew up in Wilkinsburg and makes her home in Forest Hills.
Perry does the Creator's work on various fronts.
Since 2011, she has served as executive director of the Legacy Arts Project.
Perry began her journey with the Legacy Arts Project as a dancer in 2006, and as executive director, she works to strengthen the group of seven dancers and six drummers.


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Searching old maps is sometimes the only way to understand historical references to places. It is one thing to say that your ancestors lived in a certain place. It is an entirely different thing to understand what living in that place meant in the context of their family history. I have run into this type of situation many times when I am trying to separate out individuals with the same surname and either include them in or exclude them from family groups.
Some time ago, Google Earth began to include a few selected Maps from the David Rumsey Map Collection using a map viewing program. Here is the explanation of the process and the maps that are available from the link referenced:
The over 120 historical maps in the Google Maps have been selected by David Rumsey from his collection of more than 150,000 historical maps; in addition, there are a few maps from collections with which he collaborates. These maps can also be seen in the Gallery layer of Google Earth, Rumsey Historical Maps layer, and in the Google Earth viewers on this website.If one of the 120 happens to be a map you are interested in viewing, then this is a useful tool. But there is another option. The New York Public Library has a Map Warper as shown in the video above. As described in the website:
All the maps contain rich information about the past and represent a sampling of time periods (1680 to 1930), scales, and cartographic art, resulting in visual history stories that only old maps can tell. Each map has been georeferenced, thus creating unique digital map images that allow the old maps to appear in their correct places on the modern globe.
Some of the maps fit perfectly in their modern spaces, while others (generally earlier period maps) reveal interesting geographical misconceptions of their time and therefore have to be more distorted to fit properly in Google Maps and Earth. Cultural features on the maps can be compared to the modern satellite views using the slider bars to adjust transparency.
The NYPL Map Warper is a tool for digitally aligning ("rectifying") historical maps from the NYPL's collections to match today's precise maps. Visitors can browse already rectified maps or assist the NYPL by aligning a map. Play the video above to tour the site and learn how to rectify a map yourself.If you are working with old maps (and we all should be) then you need to be aware of this tool.
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El Gaucho Hospitality receives national Restaurant Neighbor Award, gifts prize money to Seattle's Union Gospel Mission
April 17, 2013
OLYMPIA, Wash. —The WRA is proud to congratulate El Gaucho Hospitality for receiving the National Restaurant Association's (NRA) 2013 Restaurant Neighbor Award. The iconic Puget Sound restaurant was honored in Washington D.C. today during the NRA's Public Affairs Conference in Washington D.C., where El Gaucho Hospitality owner Paul Mackay accepted the award.
The NRA selected El Gaucho Hospitality, in the mid-size business category, from a field of applicants throughout the country. During the past decade, El Gaucho Hospitality has donated more than $3 million across dozens of local charities, including Boys and Girls Clubs, American Heart Association, Ronald McDonald House, The Heads Up Youth Foundation, Seattle Humane Society and Medical Teams International, among others.
Of particular significance is the company's commitment to serving the city's homeless population at Seattle's Union Gospel Mission (UGM). Twice a month, a team of volunteers from El Gaucho and AQUA by El Gaucho prepares, transports and serves lunch to more than 250 men at the Mission. This group has served more than 10,000 meals so far, and works closely with UGM on its event and fundraising efforts.
"It's been said that the greatness of any society is measured by how it treats the weakest of its citizens," said Jeff Lilley, president of UGM. "Seattle would then be measured to be one of the great cities, because of the presence and heart of Aqua/El Gaucho. They are helping change a city. They are helping to change lives. And we are honored to have them in our community."
In addition to the Restaurant Neighbor Award, El Gaucho Hospitality received a $5,000 check from the NRA; and at 11:30 on Thursday, April 18, El Gaucho will present these winnings to UGM , as a show of its continued commitment to partnering in the mission of bringing hope to the city's neediest residents.
"El Gaucho Hospitality embodies the spirit of service that we often see within the restaurant industry," said Anthony Anton, WRA president and CEO. "We are so proud that this team of dedicated women and men has been recognized for the quiet and steady work they are doing to make Seattle a better place."
The National Restaurant Association developed the Restaurant Neighbor Award to raise awareness about the restaurant industry's contributions in local communities across the country and to inspire other restaurant operators and owners to make even greater contributions in their communities.
For information on coverage of Thursday's check presentation to Seattle's Union Gospel Mission, please contact Heather Donahoe at 615-319-1157.
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BrewGrass Festival 2014
May 19th, 2014 by corey
Something's brewing in them, thar hills – it's the fourth annual Sugarbush BrewGrass Festival! And what, exactly, is a BrewGrass Festival? The BrewGrass Festival is an annual, Mad River Valley celebration that combines three of the better things in this life: blue grass music, craft-brewed, regional beer (also cider and distilled liquors), and a delectable … read full article


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How Texas and Corona made all of America celebrate Cinco De Mayo
Cinco de Mayo is about a third-generation Texan's heroism.
Not about beer.
Or that's how it was until 30 years ago, when Texas entrepreneurs took hold.
Today, Texans are in the middle of the debate over whether Mexico's 1862 battlefield victory over the French should be remembered with solemn reverence or drunken revelry.
If nothing else, we can agree that Cinco de Mayo is truly a Texas import.
Texas-born Gen. Ignacio Zaragoza and Texas Revolution hero Juan Seguín commanded an outmanned army of Mexicanos and Tejanos to chase the invading French away from Puebla, Mexico, forever giving underdogs hope and beer a marketing campaign.
In 2014, when a San Antonio student at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire objected last week to a fraternity-sorority Cinco party called a "Phi-esta," she was objecting to the whole idea of "drinko of Cinco" and a holiday where foam washes away heritage and Zaragoza's heroism.
Turns out Texans were behind that, too.
In 1989, the San Antonio-based Gambrinus Co., then regional importers of Corona and other Grupo Modelo beers, launched an ad theme that flourished with TV commercials from the Dallas-based Richards Group.
In 1993, Gambrinus marketing director Ron Christesson told Modern Brewery Age magazine that Cinco is "becoming one of the beer industry's biggest promotions."
By 2006, Gambrinus marketing manager Don Mann said, "Corona is the first thing that comes to mind when customers think Cinco de Mayo."
That's exactly what Dartmouth student Daniela Hernández of San Antonio was concerned about when she complained about an Alpha Phi-Phi Delta Alpha "Phi-esta" with burritos, daiquiris and guacamole.
A university of privilege like Dartmouth should not allow the "cultural appropriation" of Cinco as a drinking holiday and the "exploitation of groups of people and cultures for the sake of business opportunities," she wrote.
The sorority and fraternity presidents canceled the event, sparking nationwide complaints after some news channels falsely described Hernández's complaint as involving the fiesta pun instead of the caricatured drinking party.
In the Texas town now named Goliad, where Zaragoza was born in the old Presidio La Bahía, the 70th Fiesta Zaragoza includes a bike ride and run, a scholarship barbecue cook-off, Ballet Folklórico performances and a visiting delegation from sister city Hidalgo, Mexico.
"Most people hear 'Cinco' and all they think is 'party,' " said Sherry García of the General Zaragoza Society.
Zaragoza's family was already in San Antonio during the American Revolution. At Puebla, he commanded a force that included Seguín and a brigade of Tejanos, helping Mexico fight the French and indirectly lifting Union hopes in the middle of the Civil War against Texas and the Confederacy.
"People don't really know the history of it," García said.
"For us, it's about building community. But we have no problem with anybody enjoying a good time."
California writer Gustavo Arellano, author of the syndicated "¡Ask a Mexican!" column and the book Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America, has laughed off the holiday as "Gringo de Mayo" and joked that since the French later occupied Mexico for four years, there's cause to drink.
Arellano joked by email Friday that he appreciates Hernández's vigilance against "Mexploitation."
But trying to stop Anglos from getting silly over Cinco de Mayo "is like trying to stop a Mexican from eating more than one taco," he wrote.
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Post-Breakup Fiction; Comma StutterersBy Lorin Stein
I recently got out of serious relationship. Since then I have not been able to read, though I usually love sad, sappy love stories. Can you recommend some books that have zero romance or love in them? Some good post-breakup fiction?
Readers of this column know my high opinion of the Jeeves books and Life on the Mississippi. They cheer me up, and are rigorously free of mushy scenes. Sam Lipsyte's Home Land is a post-breakup book, I mean the hero has been dumped by his wife, but really that's the least of his problems—and the one time they get back together (for about two and a half minutes) it's enough to cure you of the whole idea of coupledom for at least the rest of the day.
Also: How do you feel about dogs? It's not fiction, and it is full of love, but something tells me J. R. Ackerley's 1965 memoir, My Dog Tulip—about the unlikely romance between a crusty, middle-aged English bachelor and his German shepherd—might make a welcome distraction.
Dear Lorin,
I was talking to another writer-friend recently about the use of commas. I tend to err on the safe side, slipping too many of them, perhaps, around phrases I think are supposed to be identified. But is this precious or old-fashioned or out of style?
In this Paris Review interview with Mary Karr, she claims to have had a comma stutter in The Liars' Club. Do you think there's such a thing as a comma stutter, or is it more like a sentence stutter, reflecting hesitation, or something, from the writer? I'd like to smooth out, and I'd love to hear your thoughts.
Comma Stutterer in Manhattan
A good comma stutter never goes out of style. Where would Henry James be without his commas—or that real-life stutterer Charles Lamb? Here is Lamb on his gruff but cowardly friend John Tipp: "With all this there was about him a sort of timidity—(his few enemies used to give it a worse name)—something which, in reverence to the dead, we will place, if you please, a little on this side of the heroic."
You can, of course, write in comma stutters then simply take out the punctuation. That is what Henry Green liked to do, for example when he describes what it was like to be unpopular at Eton:
These were the days when to be alone was to feel one had escaped for the moment not from any overt bullying but from what appeared to be the threat. There was a strain in trying to keep up with new friendships which probably did not exist. There was the dread of going into a friend's room to find one was not wanted, to be abandoned by the two leaders now that they were too busy to bother and worst of all the self questioning as to why this should be, the fear it might be a peer or one of the school's racquet players and of what this meant if true. The best was to get away in those few hours we had on our own, to chance being seen lonely in the effort to forget.
Green teaches the reader to hear his pauses, to anticipate his hesitations, and, thus, to think like a man of his class and sensibility. Such is the magic. When women say of a good dancer that he knows how to lead, this must be what they mean.
Then of course there is Gertrude Stein, who so loved the comma stutter that she would abolish the punctuation altogether. This is the typographical equivalent of burning the village to save it:
A long complicated sentence should force itself upon you, make you know yourself knowing it and the comma, well at the most a comma is a poor period that lets you stop and take a breath but if you want to take a breath you ought to know yourself that you want to take a breath. It is not like stopping altogether has something to do with going on, but taking a breath well you are always taking a breath and why emphasize one breath rather than another breath. Anyway that is the way I felt about it and I felt that about it very very strongly. And so I almost never used a comma. The longer, the more complicated the sentence the greater the number of the same kinds of words I had following one after another, the more the very more I had of them the more I felt the passionate need of their taking care of themselves by themselves and not helping them, and thereby enfeebling them by putting in a comma.
The point is, if your sentences are guided by your feelings, you can race or hesitate as the spirit moves you. Your reader will understand. Read More


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Arts & Lecture Events
The Bluffton University arts and lecture program provides an opportunity for shared academic and cultural experiences among faculty, staff, and students across departments and disciplines. Lectures present ideas, issues and problems significant for general education and society at large.
All undergraduate students are expected to earn two credits by graduation. Students earn half an hour of academic credit for every 15 arts and lecture events they attend. A total of 60 events completes the required two hours. A minimum of one-third of the events must be Tuesday morning Forums.
Students do not register for arts and lecture credit, nor will they be charged for this credit (if it is fulfilled prior to fulfilling all graduation requirements).
A calendar of approved Arts & Lecture events is available on the Student tab at my.bluffton.edu.
- Students must present I.D. cards to be scanned on entering and exiting.
- This credit is added to the transcript as it is earned. (.5 credit for attendance at 15 events at least five of which were Forums)
- The I.D. must be scanned in and out by the individual student.
- Students must stay for the entire event in order to receive credit.
- Students will not receive credit for attending the same event multiple times (e.g. the May Day musical).
- Questions related to the arts and lecture program may be directed to the registrar's office at ext. 3321 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Seniors need to complete this requirement two weeks before graduation in order to receive their diploma at graduation.
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We all know courses with great closing holes. So this week we tasked our PGA.com Facebook friends with helping us to find some of the best opening holes in golf.
As you'll see below, our readers have certainly picked out some great holes at some spectacular venues.
Please note, if you see a course name on this list that you've played and it's in our database, you can click its name and leave a review.
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9. The Old Course at Ballybunion in County Kerry, Ireland. One of the most enjoyable courses in the world to play, the first tee at Ballybunion can be an intimidating one... there's a graveyard just to the right of the first tee, so keep it in the fairway, folks. It's a 408-yard par 4 from the back tees.
Facebook fan quote:
"Ballybunion with the cemetery off to the right!" -- Jim Ruthven
8. Merion Golf Club East in Ardmore, Pa. It's just a 362-yard par 4 from the back tees, but as if you weren't nervous enough stepping to the first tee at one of the most famous course's in the world, you're also going to be hitting your opening shot in front of a lot of people with the clubhouse and veranda close by.
Facebook fan quotes:
"Merion, first tee right next to outdoor dining, classic short par 4." -- Michael Ayrer
"Merion East - not a hard hole but veranda and clubhouse proximity plus all the history make it really neat." -- Bill Abrams
7. Bethpage Black in Bethpage, N.Y. Before you step to the tee on this 435-yard par 4, you're greeted by a sign -- a replica of which hangs on the wall in my office. It reads: "WARNING: The Black Course is an extremely difficult course which we recommend only for highly skilled golfers."
Hey... are we going skiing or are we going golfing?
Facebook fan quotes:
"Bethpage Black is my favorite. Riviera a close second." -- Jamal Speller
"Bethpage Black." -- Scott Schaeffer
"Bethpage black... it comes with a warning sign!" -- Stu Ellert
6. The Plantation Course at Kapalua in Kapalua, Maui, Hawaii. Teeing of just in front of the clubhouse atop a large hill, this par 4 is one of the most scenic in golf. From the tee, the backdrop is amazing -- an ocean, sometimes with whales jumping up out of the water in clear view, and a volcano in the distance. It's stunning.
Facebook fan quotes:
"The one you're playing on today! That and Kapalua Plantation's first hole." -- Bobby Weil
"Kapalua... with the Pacific in the background." -- Jesse McSweeney
"Plantation Course at Kapalua." -- Gina Green Resa
"Kapalua." -- Valerie T West
5. Spyglass Hill in Pebble Beach, Calif. Talk about a test right out of the gate. This par 5, which plays nearly 600 yards from the back tees, has it all -- trees, mountains and the Pacific Ocean. What a way to start.
Facebook fan quotes:
"Great Question! How about the 600-yard par 5 at Spyglass hill in Monterey? You tee off in a forest and putt out on a green surrounded by sand dunes with the Pacific Ocean just yards away." -- Bruce Effisimo
"Spyglass Hill!" -- Zach Mayer
"Par-5 first at Spyglass. Starts downhill, dogleg left. When you get to your drive you see the beauty of the ocean and what awaits you for next 5 or 6 holes." -- Jeffrey Moore
4. Oakmont Country Club in Oakmont, Pa. One of the most difficult opening holes in golf, this par 4 plays close to 500 yards. With a solid drive, you have a blind, mid-iron shot left to tricky green.
Facebook fan quotes:
"Oakmont. Maybe the best course in the world opens with the best hole on the course." -- Nathan Combs
"Oakmont No. 1. Extremely tough front to back of the green!" -- Paul Webskowski
"Oakmont CC." -- Lee Scott
3. Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, Calif. This par 5 is far from the most difficult in the game, but it's one of the most beautiful with the tee box tucked close to the majestic clubhouse.
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"Riviera. From the top tee you can see it all." -- Paul Thomas-white Ciccarelli
"Riviera." -- Jason Mullin
"Riviera. Amazing view." -- Matthew Jordan Mues
2. The Old Course at St. Andrews in St. Andrews, Scotland. For my money, it doesn't get much better than this. This, after all, is where the game was born. A relatively short, straight-forward, par 4, the famous Swilken Burn runs across the fairway just in front of the green. If there's not enough history in front of you on the first tee at St. Andrews, take a look behind you as you walk up the fairway, looking back at the beautiful town of St. Andrews.
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"The Old Course St. Andrews." -- Jason Hyland
"St. Andrews for the atmosphere and when a golfer tees off there, it looks like he's about to go to battle in the clouds and rain." -- Mike Milkbone
"St. Andrews." -- Dale Brown
"St. Andrews. Best opening hole. History tells the story there. Pebble best closing hole." -- Curt Jones
"No. 1 at St Andrews Scotland... can any other hole give you those butterflies?" -- Carlen Webb
1. Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Ga. Home to the Masters, of course, if you've never been let me tell you from experience: the grounds of Augusta National are more perfect than you could ever possibly imagine and even 3D and HDTV does it no justice. The first tee, right by the famous Oak Tree on the back of the clubhouse, is spectacular. You're going to need a big drive on this long par 4 and that green is brutal.
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"Augusta National." -- Tim Cahill
"Augusta National: live here, go every year, and played it twice... Nothing like walking hallowed grounds." -- Jason Newsome
"Compared to going to work....any hole would be the best. However, Augusta looks gorgeous." -- Carrie Millward
"No. 1 tee at Augusta!" -- Terry Eklund
"Augusta National, you know you're playing one of the best, if not the best golf course in the world." -- Ryan Schrimper
"Augusta National that green is a beast!" -- Charles Hobbs


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1. Dare to do right! Dare to be true!You have a work that no other can do;Do it so bravely, so kindly, so well,Angels will hasten the story to tell.
Chorus. Dare, dare, dare to do right;Dare, dare, dare to be true,Dare to be true, dare to be true.
2. Dare to do right! Dare to be true!Other men's failures can never save you.Stand by your conscience, your honor, your faith;Stand like a hero and battle till death.
Words: George L. Taylor, b. 1835Music: Arr. by A. C. Smyth, 1840-1909
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Does the name Nirvana ring a bell? We sure hope so. And if your brain's really in gear, you'll remember this week (September 27th, 2011) Nirvana's Nevermind will officially turn 20. To commemorate this momentous occasion, this whole week we're going to feature free MP3s from Seattle's grunge scene, as well as several special guest playlists on such topics as favorite Nirvana songs.
But first, let's dig in the re-release of Nevermind.
So what exactly will one find in the massive reissue? Let's just say beginners will find an exhaustive introduction, old fans a taste of the stunning recordings, and casual listeners a chance for one-stop shopping.
Just watch the video below detailing the bonus material as part of a 4 CD, 1 DVD, Super Deluxe Edition.
Pretty cool right? We're most excited about the plethora of rarities such as pre-Nevermind demos recorded at producer Butch Vig's Smart Studios, B-sides, unseen concerts, and the slew of unreleased recordings.
Speaking of unseen and unreleased footage, the EMP exhibit Nirvana: Taking Punk To The Masses showcases all kinds of rare things from the Nevermind era. Our friends at KZOK ran through the exhibit and gives his point of view on the artifacts and items on display. Click on the image below to view the gallery.
You can check out the exhibit for yourself at EMP, all the info is here.
And as for Nirvana free music, the Sub Pop Records site has two songs you can check out.
Nirvana "About A Girl"
Nirvana "Scoff" (Live)
Come back tomorrow for a spotlight feature on Kurt Cobain's musical influences plus a free MP3 from the Melvins.
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Edward Snowden, the former US intelligence contractor who has been leaking information about government data collection programs, said on Friday before a debate on state surveillance that entire populations, rather than just individuals, now live under constant surveillance.
Snowden, who appeared via video link at Toronto's Roy Thomson Hall during the semi-annual Munk debate, said that state surveillance today is a euphemism for mass surveillance.
"It's no longer based on the traditional practice of targeted taps based on some individual suspicion of wrongdoing," Snowden said in the brief video. "It covers phone calls, e-mails, texts, search history, what you buy, who your friends are, where you go, who you love."
The video was screened as two of the debaters — former US National Security Administration (NSA) director General Michael Hayden and well-known civil liberties lawyer and Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz — argued in favor of the debate statement: "Be it resolved state surveillance is a legitimate defense of our freedoms."
In opposition were Glenn Greenwald, the journalist whose work based on the Snowden leaks won a Pulitzer Prize last month, and Alexis Ohanian, the cofounder of social media Web site reddit.
The Snowden documents, first leaked in June last year, revealed that the US government has programs in place to spy on hundreds of millions of people's e-mails, social networking posts, online chat histories, browsing histories, telephone records, telephone calls and texts.
"Nearly everything a typical user does on the Internet," in the words of one leaked document.
Greenwald opened the debate by condemning the NSA's own slogan, which he said appears repeatedly throughout its own documents: "Collect it all."
"What is state surveillance? If it were about targeting in a discriminate way against those causing harm, there would be no debate," Greenwald said. "The actual system of state surveillance has almost nothing to do with that. What state surveillance actually is, is defended by the NSA's actual words, that phrase they use over and over again: 'Collect it all.'"
Hayden and Dershowitz spent the rest of the hour-and-a-half denying that the pervasive surveillance described by Snowden and Greenwald even exists and that the ongoing surveillance programs are necessary to prevent terrorism.
"Collect it all doesn't mean collect it all!" Hayden said, drawing laughs from the audience.
Greenwald went on to spar with Hayden and Dershowitz over whether the current method of metadata collection would have prevented the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
While Hayden argued that intelligence analysts would have noticed the number of calls from San Diego to the Middle East and caught the terrorists who were living inside the US illegally, Greenwald argued that one of the primary reasons US authorities failed to stop attacks is because they were taking in too much information to accurately sort through it all.
Before the debates began, the audience voted 33 in favor of the statement: "Be it resolved state surveillance is a legitimate defense of our freedoms," while 46 percent voted against. The debate ended with 59 percent of the audience siding with Greenwald and Ohanian.
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Inner conflict is a common human affliction. Consider the smoker who knows cigarettes are a health hazard, but who, nevertheless, cannot kick the habit. Consider the person who wants to lose weight, yet can't resist fattening foods. It's not only the bad habits and addictions that plague us. There are illogical fears and compulsions, and the ethical and moral dilemmas that harangue the conscience and keep us awake at night. These are the troubles that clients often bring to psychotherapy.
Roy Hunter provides an approach to inner conflict in his new book, Hypnosis for Inner Conflict Resolution. The book describes the background, principles and methods for conducting client-centered parts therapy in the context of clinical hypnosis. Parts therapy consists of a set of therapeutic maneuvers for reconciling the conflicting parts of a client's personality. Parts therapy is based on the concept that the personality is composed of various parts; aspects of the subconscious mind, each with its own respective function. When two parts clash, the angst is palpable.
Parts therapy is not new. It is known by several variations in the literature of hypnotherapy, NLP and personality psychology: ego-state therapy, sub-personalities, voice dialog, and inner child work. In writing this book, Hunter continues the work of his mentor, the late Charles Tebbetts, a hypnotherapy instructor who taught thousands of students in his lifetime, and promoted parts therapy for inner conflict resolution in his curriculum. The book is targeted toward hypnotherapists who are unfamiliar with parts work and want to add it to their repertoires, and those who already use parts therapy and want to learn more about it. While one could, conceivably, conduct parts therapy in a conversational format, Hunter recommends it as a hypnotic process because hypnosis affords an opportunity to surface subconscious material and increases the probability of longer-lasting results.
Our "parts" accomplish many individual functions that make up the sense of self. Some parts are responsible for skills and capabilities, while others support values, and others serve as defense mechanisms. Inner conflicts occur when two parts pull in opposite directions. Parts therapy is "the process of calling out and communicating directly with any and all parts of the subconscious involved in helping a client achieve a desired result." Parts therapy for inner conflict resolution involves mediating between two primary parts that are in conflict; Hunter calls them the "conflicting part" and the "motivating part".
Hunter considers his work client-centered in that "the answers and solutions to the client's concerns emerge from the client's own mind rather than the mind of the therapist." He adds, "The facilitator of client-centered parts therapy has the task of identifying and calling out the right parts, asking the right questions, listening objectively," and guiding the parts (and the client) through a therapeutic process.
The prerequisite hypnotherapy skills for parts therapy are induction, handling abreaction, and evoking ideomotor responses. Hunter recommends regression therapy training prior to learning parts therapy, because regression often occurs spontaneously in parts therapy. He stresses that therapists avoid leading the client or implanting false memories while conducting parts therapy.
Hunter builds his approach on a foundation of four primary hypnotherapy objectives:
- · Suggestion and imagery to enhance motivation.
- · Discovering the cause of the problem by asking questions of the subconscious mind.
- · Release through changed understandings and beliefs, and self-forgiveness.
- · Subconscious relearning in which the client believes that the problem is solved and that the results will last.
Hunter writes that when the subconscious mind refuses to cooperate or release a symptom, the resistance is usually due to one (or more) of the "seven psychodynamics of a symptom." These are: an imprint from an authority figure, a current unresolved issue, secondary gain, identifying with someone, inner conflict, self-punishment, and past painful experience. Hunter provides questions to identify which dynamic is operating and determine the appropriate intervention.
Hunter explains how to carry out the preliminary steps to part therapy: explaining parts therapy to the client, inducing and deepening the trance to at least a medium level, guiding the client to a "safe place", establishing finger responses, and verifying depth of trance. Trance depth, verified via finger movements, should be deep enough to access subconscious material, but light enough to permit verbal responses.
Now parts therapy can begin. The steps of parts therapy are:
- 1. Identify the part that causes the problem.
- 2. Gain rapport with the part.
- 3. Call out the part and ask "who, what, when, why, and how" questions to promote client self-understanding.
- 4. Thank the part of emerging.
- 5. Discover the part's purpose.
- 6. Call out the "motivating part" and other parts that may have an interest or want to help out.
- 7. Negotiate and mediate between parts, asking what each wants from the other and for the client.
- 8. Ask parts to come to terms of agreement.
- 9. Confirm and summarize the terms of the agreement. Thank everyone for cooperating.
- 10. Give direct suggestions as appropriate.
- 11. Integrate the parts via suggestions that the parts will work together "as a harmonious whole."
The session concludes with additional suggestions and guided imagery of the expected future results, as appropriate. Then the therapist reorients the client.
Hunter does a good job of detailing each step, also providing precautions to reduce risks, sample dialogs, and tips for handling "detours that block the way" (i.e., when a part is not fully cooperative). He gives case examples with transcripts from some of his sessions with clients; the topics cover smoking, overeating, obesity, ambivalence about career choice, professional confidence, self-criticism, and unresolved loss/survivor guilt.
He cautions readers on how to avoid the most common pitfalls of parts therapy: failing to explain the process adequately to the client, being too directive and giving orders, criticizing a part, getting side tracked, calling out too many parts, and creating new parts. He cautions that parts therapy is not intended for multiple personality disorder (MPD) and therapists who want to work with MPD should seek specialized training in that area. He also examines the controversial view that some parts may be "entities" and advises that the best way to work with parts who claim to be entities (or clients who think they are possessed) is to work with the client's religious beliefs and consult with the client's "higher power" as to how to proceed.
The book concludes with a thought-provoking chapter on the spiritual frontiers of parts therapy. Hunter describes the subconscious mind as "that part of the inner mind that is most closely connected to God or…Higher Power." He cites instances from his practice which suggest that within the human psyche there resides a part responsible for the individual's spiritual development, insight, empowerment, and transcendence.
The Author
Roy Hunter is a hypnotherapy trainer whose mission is to help people attain ideal self-empowerment. He has authored several books. Master the Power of Self-Hypnosis (Sterling Publishing, 1998) is considered by professionals to be one of the best on the topic. In addition to teaching, he assists clients and groups in self hypnosis for personal or professional motivation. Roy's presentations include numerous workshops both in the USA and abroad, for groups and business as well as for international hypnosis conventions. His hypnosis text, The Art of Hypnosis (3rd Edition, Kendall/Hunt Publishing, 2000), is required reading at many schools of hypnosis around the world. The professional hypnosis training course he wrote and developed is currently taught by many hypnotherapy instructors. Roy was inducted into the International Hypnosis Hall of Fame in 2000 for his contributions to the field of hypnotherapy and has received numerous honors from that organization as well as the National Guild of Hypnotists and the International Medical and Dental Hypnotherapy Association. In 2004 he was awarded an honorary doctorate in clinical hypnotherapy (for lifetime achievement) from St. John's University.
Concluding Remarks
Parts therapy affords a flexible, creative, and sophisticated process for accessing aspects of the inner self and for creating an enhanced sense of wholeness and congruence. Hunter writes with clarity and sincerity, documenting his methods so well that they can be replicated by any skilled and well-trained hypnotherapist. He teaches his readers how to conduct parts hypnotherapy with patience and careful attention to subtle nuances in the client's demeanor and conversation. For therapists who want to work with parts therapy I recommend Hypnosis for Inner Conflict Resolution as a companion volume to Gordon Emmerson's Ego State Therapy (Crown House Publishing Ltd, 2003), which I reviewed for Anchor Point in 2004. Both are excellent books on the topic.
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This information is produced and provided by the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The information in this topic may have changed since it was written. For the most current information, contact the National Cancer Institute via the Internet web site at http://cancer.gov or call 1-800-4-CANCER.
Cancer prevention is action taken to lower the chance of getting cancer. By preventing cancer, the number of new cases of cancer in a group or population is lowered. Hopefully, this will lower the number of deaths caused by cancer.
To prevent new cancers from starting, scientists look at risk factors and protective factors. Anything that increases your chance of developing cancer is called a cancer risk factor; anything that decreases your chance of developing cancer is called a cancer protective factor.
Some risk factors for cancer can be avoided, but many cannot. For example, both smoking and inheriting certain genes are risk factors for some types of cancer, but only smoking can be avoided. Regular exercise and a healthy diet may be protective factors for some types of cancer. Avoiding risk factors and increasing protective factors may lower your risk, but it does not mean that you will not get cancer.
Different ways to prevent cancer are being studied, including:
Colorectal cancer is a disease in which malignant (cancer) cells form in the tissues of the colon or the rectum.
The colon is part of the body's digestive system. The digestive system removes and processes nutrients (vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, fats, proteins, and water) from foods and helps pass waste material out of the body. The digestive system is made up of the mouth, throat, esophagus, stomach, and the small and large intestines. The first 6 feet of the large intestine are called the large bowel or colon. The last 6 inches are the rectum and the anal canal. The anal canal ends at the anus (the opening of the large intestine to the outside of the body).Anatomy of the lower digestive system, showing the colon and other organs.
Cancer that begins in the colon is called colon cancer, and cancer that begins in the rectum is called rectal cancer. Cancer that affects either of these organs may also be called colorectal cancer.
See the following PDQ summaries for more information about colorectal cancer:
Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of death from cancer in the United States.
The number of new colorectal cancer cases and the number of deaths from colorectal cancer are both decreasing a little bit each year. However, in adults younger than 50 years, the number of new colorectal cancer cases has slowly increased since 1998.
Finding and treating colorectal cancer early may prevent death from colorectal cancer. Screening tests may be used to help find colorectal cancer.
Avoiding risk factors and increasing protective factors may help prevent cancer.
Avoiding cancer risk factors may help prevent certain cancers. Risk factors include smoking, being overweight, and not getting enough exercise. Increasing protective factors such as quitting smoking, eating a healthy diet, and exercising may also help prevent some cancers. Talk to your doctor or other health care professional about how you might lower your risk of cancer.
The following risk factors increase the risk of colorectal cancer:
The risk of colorectal cancer increases after age 50. Most cases of colorectal cancer are diagnosed after age 50.
Family history of colorectal cancer
Having a parent, brother, sister, or child with colorectal cancer doubles a person's risk of colorectal cancer.
Personal history
Having a personal history of inflammatory bowel disease increases the risk of colorectal cancer.
Inherited risk
The risk of colorectal cancer is increased when certain gene changes linked to familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) or hereditary nonpolyposis colon cancer (HNPCC or Lynch Syndrome) are inherited.
Drinking 3 or more alcoholic beverages per day increases the risk of colorectal cancer. Drinking alcohol is also linked to the risk of forming large colorectal adenomas (benign tumors).
Cigarette smoking
Cigarette smoking is linked to an increased risk of colorectal cancer and death from colorectal cancer.
Smoking cigarettes is also linked to an increased risk of forming colorectal adenomas. Cigarette smokers who have had surgery to remove colorectal adenomas are at an increased risk for the adenomas to recur (come back).
Obesity is linked to an increased risk of colorectal cancer and death from colorectal cancer.
The following protective factors decrease the risk of colorectal cancer:
Physical activity
A lifestyle that includes regular physical activity is linked to a decreased risk of colorectal cancer.
Taking aspirin every day for at least 5 years decreases the risk of colorectal cancer and the risk of death from colorectal cancer.
The possible harms of aspirin use include a higher than normal risk of bleeding in the stomach, intestines, or brain.
Hormone replacement therapy
Studies have shown that hormone replacement therapy (HRT) that includes both estrogen and progesterone lowers the risk of colon cancer in postmenopausal women. HRT with estrogen alone does not lower the risk. However, hormone use increases the risk of breast cancer, heart disease, and blood clots.
The use of hormone replacement therapy that includes both estrogen and progesterone has not been shown to lower the risk of rectal cancer.
Polyp removal
Most colorectal polyps are adenomas, which may develop into cancer. Removing colorectal polyps that are larger than 1 centimeter (cm) may lower the risk of colorectal cancer. It is not known if removing smaller polyps lowers the risk of colorectal cancer.
The possible harms of polyp removal during colonoscopy or sigmoidoscopy include a tear in the wall of the colon and bleeding.
Polyps in the colon. Some polyps have a stalk and others do not. Inset shows a photo of a polyp with a stalk.
The effect of the following factors on the risk of colorectal cancer is not known:
Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) other than aspirin
It is not known if the use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs or NSAIDs (such as celecoxib, naproxen, and ibuprofen) lowers the risk of colorectal cancer.
Studies have shown that taking the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug celecoxib reduces the risk of colorectal adenomas (benign tumors) coming back after they have been removed. It is not clear if this results in a lower risk of cancerous tumors in the colon and rectum. Taking celecoxib also has been shown to reduce the number of polyps that form in the colon and rectum of patients with familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP).
The possible harms of NSAIDs include:
It is not known if a diet low in fat and meat and high in fiber, fruits, and vegetables lowers the risk of colorectal cancer.
Some studies have shown that a diet high in fat, proteins, calories, and meat increases the risk of colorectal cancer, but other studies have not.
For more information on diet and health, see the "Fruits and Veggies—More Matters" Web site.
It is not known if taking vitamin D or high doses of folic acid lowers the risk of colorectal cancer.
It is not known if taking calcium supplements lowers the risk of colorectal cancer.
Taking medicine to reduce cholesterol levels does not affect the risk of colorectal cancer.
Studies have shown that taking statins (cholesterol -lowering drugs) does not increase or decrease the risk of colorectal cancer.
Cancer prevention clinical trials are used to study ways to prevent cancer.
Cancer prevention clinical trials are used to study ways to lower the risk of developing certain types of cancer. Some cancer prevention trials are conducted with healthy people who have not had cancer but who have an increased risk for cancer. Other prevention trials are conducted with people who have had cancer and are trying to prevent another cancer of the same type or to lower their chance of developing a new type of cancer. Other trials are done with healthy volunteers who are not known to have any risk factors for cancer.
The purpose of some cancer prevention clinical trials is to find out whether actions people take can prevent cancer. These may include exercising more or quitting smoking or taking certain medicines, vitamins, minerals, or food supplements.
New ways to prevent colorectal cancer are being studied in clinical trials.
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It is a significant achievement for the Kenyan capital to achieve 'Top 10' status in JLL's annual City Momentum Index. The only African city on the shortlist is an important indicator of Nairobi's position as a major urban hub on the continent.
Technology and innovation continue to be the major driver behind the city's growth momentum, and the reason for its shift up the ranking from number 11 in 2016.
Dubbed the 'Silicon Savannah' of the developing world, Nairobi has spent much of the past decade successfully reinventing itself as a technology epicentre. It was in July 2009 that the Kenyan Government backed the installation of four fibre optic cables in Nairobi, introducing faster, cheaper internet connectivity. It was a move that inspired a mobile revolution in the city.
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The government initiative to enter the digital age has been embraced by a young, well-educated and tech-savvy population who have quickly positioned Nairobi as a market for digital entrepreneurs. By applying a typically Kenyan approach to business – find creative solutions to daily hassles – several smart apps are transforming lifestyles across the country.
M-PESA, the mobile money platform at the heart of Silicon Savannah, is acclaimed globally for its success. M-PESA has been credited with introducing the digital economy to a largely unbanked population. Statistics indicate 31% of Kenya's GDP is processed through M-PESA and it's reported that it is easier to pay taxi fares by mobile phone in Nairobi than it is in New York! The digital system has inspired and enabled numerous other start-ups.
M-Farm, for instance, provides farmers with real time market prices, giving them negotiating power to achieve fairer pricing. Also in the agricultural sector is I-Cow, an app aimed at boosting productivity for small scale dairy farmers. These are among a host of local tech upstarts incubated in Nairobi's iHUB, a nucleus for tech investment. The tech buzz has attracted the presence of global technology companies like Google, Intel, Microsoft and IBM, with IBM opening its first research centre on the continent in Nairobi.
This is good news from a commercial real estate perspective. Nairobi as a regional hub for multinational enterprises keen to increase exposure in Africa, boosting demand for office space, especially in the Grade A market.
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A poor power supply could stunt potential growth in the ICT sector. For instance, only 32% of the population is connected to the main power grid, a constraining environment for technology penetration. Government investment in a supportive infrastructure is critical to safeguard continued acceleration. Resourceful innovation around these problems (like solar lanterns to charge mobile phones) is not enough. Ongoing intervention to increase electricity supply is a step in the right direction.
It may be an upward climb but the fact is that the city is evolving. With sustained investment in the infrastructure of growth, combined with that Kenyan entrepreneurial spirit, Nairobi will continue to lead the way as one of Africa's most dynamic cities.
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Gov. Jerry Brown outlined his priorities for California Wednesday morning in an annual State of the State address that comes amid new challenges for a state that has turned budget deficits into surpluses.
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In a speech that touched on the same fiscal restraint themes in his budget proposal announcement earlier this month, Brown talked about California's projected multibillion-dollar budget surplus and its potential impact on the state's nearly $355 billion in unfunded liabilities and debts. But with wildfire dangers growing and many communities running short of water, California's drought and environmental uncertainties could drain some of the funding he had hoped to devote to paying down debts or setting aside in a rainy day fund.
Brown opened the speech by highlighting the state's financial situation -- what he called years of "improvident tax cuts and too much spending" that created a financial sink hole followed by financial balance. He then held up a picture of his dog, Sutter, to "keep our spirits up" as he talked about a need for spending restraint.
"It occurred to me that these critics -- who have long recited our state's decline -- perhaps have nothing to say in the face of California's comeback, except, 'Please, don't report it,'" Brown said. "Well, I'm going to report it, and what a comeback it is.
"But we are not out of the woods and we certainly are not out of the drought. Life is uncertainty, the climate is changing – not for the better – and the business cycle and the stock market are historically volatile, with good years followed by bad, with painful regularity."
The speech in front of lawmakers comes after last week's drought emergency declaration -- something lawmakers had urged Brown to do as the state's water reservoirs levels are strained with no rain in the forecast. California is on pace for the driest January on record. The all-time low rainfall record in January occurred in 1984, when just 0.3 inches of rain fell across California.
House Speaker John Boehner was scheduled to visit the Central Valley Wednesday to propose emergency legislation aimed at drought relief.
"Among all our uncertainties, weather is one of the most basic," Brown said. "Right now, it is imperative that we do everything possible to mitigate the effects of the drought. I have convened an Interagency Drought Task Force and declared a State of Emergency.
"We need everyone in every part of the state to conserve water. We need regulators to rebalance water rules and enable voluntary transfers of water and we must prepare for forest fires."
Brown is facing scrutiny for continuing to promote California's $68 billion bullet train project and will be pushed by Democratic lawmakers who want to spend some of California's record tax revenue on their own projects. Brown only briefly mentioned the rail project during the 17-minute speech.
About two weeks ago, Brown delivered a budget proposal for the fiscal years that begins in July. He called on lawmakers to embrace frugality as tax revenues soar to record levels.
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The $106.8 billion general fund he proposed is nearly 9 percent more than spending in the current fiscal year. That includes $45.2 billion for K-12 schools, a year-over-year increase of nearly $4 billion.
Brown's vision for how that education money is to be spent, laid out in last year's State of the State address, already is starting to take effect. Last week, the state Board of Education approved new rules that direct school districts to funnel billions of dollars of new revenue toward schools that serve high numbers of students from low-income families, who are English-learners or are in foster care. The additional money is generated partly by temporary increases in sales and income taxes that Brown persuaded voters to approve in 2012.
Brown will likely spend much of the first half of the year in arguments over spending with Democratic lawmakers, many of whom want more money for their own priorities. After years of program cutbacks, many are anxious to restore funding for some existing programs and launch new ones.
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Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, for example, wants to add transitional kindergarten for all 4-year-olds, an initiative that would require billions of dollars a year.
The governor has not yet declared whether he will seek re-election. It would be his last term as governor after serving from 1975 to 1983 then returning to the office in 2011.


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I'm reading Paolo Aluffi's ALGEBRA, Chapter 0.
Here he proposes that there's a thorny issue:
What is this thorny issue?
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I'm reading Paolo Aluffi's ALGEBRA, Chapter 0.
Here he proposes that there's a thorny issue:
What is this thorny issue?
The assumption that the product of non-empty sets is non-empty is known as the axiom of choice (note that every function in the product is a choice function, so the assertion that the product is non-empty is exactly the assertion that there is a choice function).
The axiom of choice has a myriad of counterintuitive consequences, like the Banach-Tarski paradox for example. There has been quite some troubles with the axiom of choice when it was first proposed, but with time it was shown that new no contradictions are added if we assume it, or if we assume that it fails. Since then a lot of mathematicians rather just assume it in order to tame the way infinite objects behave.
If the collection $\ell$ is finite, then we can prove that the product is non-empty without the axiom of choice. However if the collection itself is infinite, then we need the axiom of choice for the proof. Of course there are some collections which we can prove to have non-empty products without the axiom of choice, for example a collection of singletons, or finite sets of real numbers, but generally speaking one needs the axiom of choice.
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The non-emptyness of this set cannot be deduced from the usual nine axioms of Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory. Instead, it needs to be postulated as a separate axiom, the axiom of choice. Some (but these days only very few) people do not like to assume the axiom of choice in their mathematics, because it has some counter-intuitive consequences (but omitting it does, too!).
As Aluffi hints at, the thorny issue is that the nonemptiness of the Cartesian product of an arbitrary family of nonempty sets is equivalent to the Axiom of Choice. There are situations where the Axiom of Choice is not required to show that the Cartesian product is nonempty:
However, it can happen (if Choice fails) that $S_n$ is nonempty and finite (even of cardinality $2$) for each $n \in \mathbb{N}$, yet $\prod_{n} S_n$ is empty.
I don't think I say too much by declaring that the vast majority of mathematicians today fully accept the Axiom of Choice, as it has many helpful consequences/equivalents (e.g., every vector space has a basis, cardinalities of sets are always comparable, the product of compact spaces is compact) and by itself it cannot add contradictions to set theory (if ZFC is inconsistent, then so is ZF).
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