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LASHKARGAH (Pajhwok): The foundation stone of a modern cricket ground has been laid in the capital of southern Helmand province, where a 180-bed rehabilitation center for drug addicts put into service.
Afghanistan Cricket Board director Shukrullah Atif Mashal on Friday told Pajhwok Afghan News that the cricket ground would take two years to complet in Safyan area of Lashkargah at a cost of $650,000 being provided by the Ministry of Counternarcotics.
He said other facilities like a cricket academy and others would also be established by the cricket board.
Mashal said the people of Helmand loved cricket and some would be able to make it to the national team with their talent.
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ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. – It might be time to consider calling off the search party for Mario Williams and the Buffalo Bills' long-lost defense.
For one week at least, the high-priced, much-maligned unit wasn't missing in action.
Williams — Buffalo's $100 million defensive end — had one of the team's three sacks, and safety Jairus Byrd recovered a fumble and had an interception in a much-needed, long-awaited stifling performance that produced a 19-14 win over the Miami Dolphins on Thursday night.
"That's how it's supposed to be," Williams said. "It was definitely a must win. With the way things turned out earlier in the season, we had to come out and play like it's the playoffs."
A defense that entered the game ranked 31st in the NFL in yards allowed and dead last in giving up an average 31.67 points, limited the Dolphins to 184 yards and 16 first downs. Buffalo held Reggie Bush to a mere 20 yards — or 183 fewer than the Dolphins running back in his previous trip to Orchard Park last December.
Just as important, the defense closed it out by forcing turnovers on Miami's final two drives.
Byrd intercepted rookie quarterback Ryan Tannehill's pass with a diving catch at Buffalo's 35 with 1:54 left. And Bryan Scott followed a little over a minute later, jumping in front of Tannehill's pass intended for Davone Bess at midfield.
"Seeing the predicament we're in, it was a must win," Byrd said. "We dug this hole for ourselves."
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Leodis McKelvin opened the scoring 90 seconds in by returning a punt 79 yards for a touchdown in a game the Bills never trailed.
That made up for an offense that lacked finish. Rian Lindell hit four field goals, including a 42-yarder, as Buffalo failed to score an offensive touchdown despite four trips inside the Miami 20.
The outlook is suddenly much different for the Dolphins (4-6), who have lost three straight and whatever momentum and hope they had generated after getting off to a better-than-expected start.
"Couldn't run the ball, and we couldn't throw the ball either," Bush said. "We just have to do a better job as a team, and find a way to better game-plan, better way to execute, offense and defense, and all phases of the game."
Tannehill continues to show signs of regressing. A week after throwing three interceptions in a 37-3 loss against Tennessee, he added two more against a Bills defense that hadn't forced a turnover in three previous games.
"It's really frustrating, especially with the success earlier in the year," Tannehill said. "Being in situations where we're going three-and-out or six-and-out, it's frustrating. We have to be able to find a rhythm and get things going early on."
The player drafted eighth overall out of Texas A&M finished 14 of 28 for 141 yards with 2-yard touchdown to Bess.
Marcus Thigpen accounted for the other score, a 96-yard kickoff return that cut the lead to 10-7 in the first quarter.
It wasn't all Tannehill's fault.
The Dolphins' usually sturdy defense gave up 120 yards rushing, including 91 to C.J. Spiller, who took over the bulk of the rushing duties in place of Fred Jackson (concussion). After allowing 307 yards rushing in its first five games, Miami has given up 661 in its past five.
Cornerback Nolan Carroll had a particularly dreadful outing. He was penalized four times for 56 yards, including a 31-yard pass-interference penalty while defending Bills wideout T.J. Graham.
Bills quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick finished 17 of 27 for 168 yards. Spiller also had three catches for 39 yards, while Stevie Johnson had six catches for 79 yards.
Fitzpatrick gave much of the credit to how well the defense played.
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NOTES: The 184 yards allowed were a season-low for Buffalo, and the fewest the defense has allowed since limiting Washington to 178 in a 23-0 win Oct. 30, 2011. ... Miami had 50 yards and two first downs in the first half. ... Thigpen and McKelvin scored 8:05 apart in the first quarter. The last time there was a punt return touchdown by one team and a kickoff return touchdown by the opposing team in the same quarter was December 1999 in a game between Washington and Detroit, according to STATS LLC. Washington's James Thrash had a 95-yard kickoff return and Detroit's Desmond Howard had a 68-yard punt return in the second quarter.
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Returning To Brice Road
Minnesota To Columbus:The "Schlepping The Editor" Tour!
I'll be honest, I like to think of myself as a "the glass is half full" kinda guy, but when the call came three days before I was supposed to fly into the Twin Cities to lead that leg of the tour, I had a real hard time seeing it as anything but empty.
This year we relied on friends and aftermarket companies to get us from points A to B. Unfortunately, three days before I was to pick up my borrowed wheels in Minnesota, the car got stranded in California and there was no way to get it up north.
And actually, I'm glad. The solution to my transportation dilemma was bumming rides with different participants on the tour all the way from Minnesota to Columbus. I rode in a pair of hard-topped E-Bodies, a closed 340 Dart, and three drop-tops: a Belvedere, a Coronet 500 and a Canadian 'Cuda. I'd say I had the most enviable ride of the staff!
Departing from MAS Racing in St. Paul, Minnesota, we headed for John Balow's Muscle Car Restorations and Brats Shop in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, for lunch, and then went on to Naperville, Illinois, to finish the first day. The following morning we left from Koller Dodge and headed East to The Paddock's Knightstown, Indiana, store where we were supposed to meet Chuck James and the Kansas City contingent for lunch, and then travel on to Brice. Unfortunately, our group got split right out of Naperville, and the lead vehicles drove about 15 miles per hour under the speed limit for an hour or so, hoping the stragglers would catch us. As a result, we rolled into Knightstown 15 minutes after the K.C. tour left. The kicker was when the stragglers rolled in twenty minutes after us-they'd decided not to deal with waiting in traffic and took a "quicker" route that took them through every small-town stop light between Naperville and Knightstown.
While riding in the cars was cool (the biggest thrill for me was when Rick Walsh asked if I'd like to drive his Coronet the last 60 miles into Columbus), the best part was riding with the participants, getting to know them, and bench racing for two days.
The upshot is that unless my '61 Plymouth station wagon is able to make the journey from Florida to Columbus under its own power next year, I'm planning on thumbing it again. It's definitely not the destination-it's the journey. Thanks to all who schlepped me and my gear from Minnesota to Columbus! -Brad Ocock
It's always great to meet up with old friends and make new ones. This year our caravan started out from Weld Wheel Industries in Kansas City, Missouri, where we were met by Gregory Smith, Director of Marketing, and given a tour of the facilities. After our drivers meeting, I was accompanied by Tom Eddy of The Paddock as we led the group out of downtown Kansas City behind the wheel of Borla's Fire Rescue 4x4 Dakota. Heading east on I-70, we were aiming for our first night's stop: the HoJo in Effingham, Illinois. If we only knew what was in store for us that day! I've never seen so much road construction in my life! It's amazing that our caravan stayed together with all the merging we had to do. At one point after St. Louis, it took us about an hour to get through one construction zone where two major Interstates merged down to a single lane. Despite all of this, we made it through, arriving in Effingham around 6 p.m. Hungry and tired of dealing with traffic, Tom and I met up with Ed and Ruth West and enjoyed an excellent dinner at Niemerg's Family Restaurant. If you're ever in Effingham, this is the place to eat.
After getting a good night's rest, we were once again on our way, aiming to be at The Paddock in Knightstown, Indiana, by noon, where we were going to meet up with Brad and the Minnesota tour. Making excellent time, we pulled into The Paddock at noon. After a group photo in front of the building, we headed back to the food tent where we indulged in some good barbecue.
Brad's tour hadn't arrived yet by 1:30, so we rolled out of The Paddock and hit the road once more, this time traveling Route 40 to avoid the construction along Interstate 70, which proved to be a much nicer drive through small-town America. We eventually had to get back on Interstate 70, though, which was actually fairly easy until we arrived in Columbus, where we met up with more delays trying to get onto Brice Road
Despite the long waits in traffic that seemed to dominate our tour, if you were to ask me what the most memorable time was, I would have to say it was the folks who were along on the cruise. They all made it a very enjoyable trip me. Thanks to you all. -Chuck James
When my faithful companion and Mopar Muscle Advertising Team Leader John Nichols agreed to join me on the Return To Brice Road tour from Memphis to Columbus, I think we both initially thought we'd be living in the lap of luxury. Perhaps our trip to Memphis would start on Beale Street...a little barbecue, a little blues...wait, make that a lot of barbecue.
Well, we did that, but only after sampling Rick Bottom's '64 Dodge 880 Custom station wagon. Sure, it had the ultra-cool lo-profile treads, polished American Racing Wheels' Torq-Thrusts and a booming sound system. With its down-in-the-weeds stance and the downright stylin' cheetah-trimmed interior, we knew we would be the double-take that every car enthusiast desires.
But What About The A/C?The ride itself was downright comfortable with a case of Zephyrhills water and iced-down towels draped around our necks courtesy of our tour host Competition Cams. Despite over 100-degree temperatures and heat advisories all the way across Tennessee and into Bowling Green.
However, even more impressive was that none of our fellow travelers had A/C in their Mopars either.
Upon arriving in Bowling Green, temperatures dropped to a downright delightful 89 degrees. On Thursday morning, Holley's Bill Tichenor took us on a tour of the Holley facility. At 10:15, we promptly put our Mopars in gear and headed north toward Cincinnati, anticipating a midday rendezvous with the folks on the Atlanta tour. Unfortunately, they were running about one hour behind us. Despite a couple of minor problems with caravan participant vehicles, we continued north to Columbus, meeting up with the Atlanta tour approximately 60 miles from our destination-Brice Road.
When we pulled into the lot on Brice, the caravan participants waited patiently. With over 150 cars in the tour and over 300 cars in the lot, the Return To Brice Road caravan achieved what we had hoped-making the event more than just being there, it was about getting there as well. Next time, however, I'll opt for making the Memphis caravan an evening tour if we have to travel without A/C! -Jerry Pitt
Atlanta, Georgia:For me, it was the third time around on a Mopar Muscle Nats Caravan, this time originating at Year One's facility in Atlanta and running with the crew from Year One and the participants on the two-day cruise up to Columbus. Actually, my odyssey began at home in Southern California several days before. Borla offered their 2000 Dakota Fire Rescue vehicle; the only problem was getting it from Borla's plant in So-Cal to Kansas City, Missouri, the cruise starting point. "Wanna drive Borla's 4x4 truck to K.C?" Jerry asked. Having never wheeled through that much of the country, I said "Yeah." Once in K.C., the Borla truck was deposited at Weld Industries for the Kansas City Caravan in the morning, and I caught a flight to Atlanta for the Year One Caravan.
Wednesday was the kickoff for the Year One Caravan. Last year, I had taken the run from Memphis, which hooks up with the Atlanta caravan near Cincinnati, so I had a taste of the way Year One does things. Pat Staton and the crew at Year One have a lock on making this event work, and the Year One caravan only gets bigger and better, since lessons from the previous runs are incorporated into making the next year's event work even more smoothly. For me, once I grabbed my first cup of coffee at the Year One welcome marquee, it was cruise control all the way to Columbus. The word must be out with Mopar fans in the region, as the turnout was great, with nearly twenty cars. From checking-in the cars and running the drivers meetings to providing breakfast and staging the cars for the cruise, everything was so well scienced-out, I had nothing to do but enjoy the scene and shoot photos.
Our Year One-organized police escort led us out of Atlanta and towards our first destination, Mopar Performance shop and engine builders Hensley Racing in Knoxville, Tennessee. There we browsed the Mopar goods in the front showroom and were treated to a tour of Hensley's well-equipped, Mopar-only machine shop.
After our overnight stop, our next destination was Floyd Garret's Muscle Car Museum in Sevierville Tennessee. Floyd was on hand to greet the Caravaners and granted free admission into the display area of the finest collections of American muscle to be found anywhere. Definitely worth the stop.
From Floyd's, the cruise participants (now swelling in ranks with even more cars), lined up for the advance on Columbus. At Garrett's, we hooked up with long time Mopar Muscle contributor and new staffer Geoff Stunkard. Geoff is an ace lensman, having cut his teeth on the life of a drag racing photographer. With Geoff on board for the rest of the journey, I was just about out of a job with Pat Staton running the cruise and Geoff taking over with photographic duties. Nothing to do but sit back and enjoy the rest of the ride. -Steve Dulcich
Memphis To ColumbusDavid Connelly of Waldo, Arkansas, won our prize for shortest distance between fuel stops. At about 140 miles, the 440-powered '76 Dart began needing a fuel stop. He always carried a spare five gallons, just in case." class="wp-image-322533" />
Sevierville, Tennessee:It was only fitting that the leg of the tour I was on would start at Floyd Garrett's Muscle Car Museum. As many of you might guess from my stories, my roots are deeply in the kingdom of nitromethane, where there's nothing but Hemi engines. Due to the hectic nature of drag racing, the Mopar Nationals had usually fallen on weekends when I was busy with quicker pursuits, so this would be my first time to Brice Road.
By mid-morning, we were underway with Tom O'Toole's StarCoach-built PT Cruiser at the lead as the caravan headed toward I-40 and then I-75. Now on the move, it was time to run some film through the cameras. With Steve Dulcich in the shotgun seat, Pat Staton from Year One more than willingly took our borrowed Toyo Tires Dakota quad-cab up into the...er, upper limits of the speedometer...while I leaned out the rear window and began hitting the motor drive. The problem was that the caravan, moving from 65 mph on up, had spread out over 4 or 5 miles, so Pat had his work cut out as we made our way to the front of the line, not to mention my backseat-driving yells to slow down or speed up. Actually, the back seat of the truck was comfortable enough, but with most of my upper body hanging out the window and a death grip on the Nikon, I had little time to enjoy it (or the truck's custom DVD movie system).
Pre-scheduled fuel stops came every 150 miles or so, and we had only one incident where a car had problems; luckily, another caravan member, whose normally-trailered car was on the road this day, was able to pick up the wavering beast and catch us by the next gas stop.
As the sun got lower in the west, we met up with the Memphis crew for the last leg into Columbus. Now almost 40 cars strong, we hit the city limits running like a freight train, watching for potential "welcome committee" officers who might not be so pleased about our rate of travel. As it was, nobody got tagged, and within the hour, we were on Brice Road for the big get together in the sunset.
All in all, the "Return to Brice Road" was a blast. It had been some time since my own days of "outlawing" on Philadelphia's Front Street, and cruising Brice during the weekend brought back a lot of old memories and made new ones. -Geoff Stunkard
Of course there was a New Jersey leg. There were 18 cars in it, for heaven's sake! We evenhave a picture of them all in front of the Summit truck on our second day. The participants had set up an impromptu photo session amid cries of, "Hey, the photographer wants to get a picture set up over here. Put your car in the line!"
The photographer was Dustin The Intern, who had been happily snapping pictures for three days, since it took us that long to make our way up the coast from Florida to New Jersey, and then he took more when we met our caravan at Just Suspension in Fairfield. And when we got started, we had a blast dropping our Holley Dodge Durango to the back of the caravan, then blowing past the others and taking pictures of the cars and drivers with the gorgeous Interstate 80 scenery as a backdrop. But alas, without going into great detail, Dustin the Intern experienced camera problems. And Debbie The Managing Editor was having too good a time socializing and trying to figure out just where the heck we were to learn about the cars that were driven. Rookies! We'll have to send them again next year to see if they're capable of learning from their mistakes.
New Jersey To Columbus:The drivers meeting before we headed out on the backroads into Columbus. Our tour guide was giving us an idea of what the curves are like. Nah, not really." class="wp-image-322659" />
Hearing horror stories of massive construction delays on our regular route, Lou, a local who joined us at Summit, knew a great route on the back roads. He led the caravan into Columbus, then we never saw him again, even as we waited for the other caravans to show up on Brice Road. And we desperately wanted to get a snapshot of his Mopar-logo'd tennis shoes.
Despite having rookie leaders, the caravan went off without a hitch, and we had great fun with all the participants and hope they had as much fun as we did. We had several families with kids ranging from four to fifteen, a group from Sweden and Norway, and three unidentified stragglers that joined up on the backroads. Never saw them again, either. We made great friends that we hope to see again next year, and we wish there was enough room to tell all the stories. We have to embarrass the teenage girls in the caravan who had a crush on Dustin The Intern, though. We won't mention any names, but you know who you are. -Debbie Fanatia
The shortest trip of Mopar Muscle's Return to Brice Road caravans doesn't necessarily mean that the fun and excitement is equally abbreviated. Besides, there's a bit of honor in parading from the birthplace of our favorite musclecars to the biggest event in the country celebrating the same.
This year the Detroit City brigade was fortunate to have the newly-opened Walter P. Chrysler Museum serve as the departure point for the Michigan leg of the caravans. Although administrative miscommunications threw our schedule off by a couple of hours, the attending crew took the advantage to hold an impromptu car show right in the museum parking lot. Given the 30-plus vehicles present, this little get together gave everyone time to get acquainted and mentally prepared for the dash to Columbus.
If you haven't been to the museum yet, you really should check it out. The numerous cars (vintage through late-models) and informational displays are not only interesting in themselves, but they trace the history of the corporation from its early days, through the madness of the 1960s and '70s, up to the present. Vintage film clips available at audio-visual stations throughout the museum help bring Chrysler's noble past to life. All Mopar fans worth their Pentastar should aim their sights on this facility, located within the DaimlerChrysler World Headquarters, any time they're in the Detroit area.
Our trip south to Columbus proved fairly uneventful, which for a comfortable caravan cruise is exactly the way we like it. Easy-going traffic, a casual lunch break (wherein we swamped a one-register McDonald's), and a half-mile long line of vintage and late-model Mopars rolling confidently down the highway was the stuff this cruise was made of. -Rob Reaser


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Ramps are elusive creatures -- staunchly seasonal, local and wild in ways few foods can claim to be anymore. After posting this week's contest theme, we realized that even among the fast-growing cult of ramp aficionados, questions remain about the coy little plants. To better understand them, we talked with Hubert McCabe, a seasoned ramp forager and farmer at Windfall Farms in Montgomery, New York.
The entire length of a peak-season ramp (technically a wild leek) is tender and edible and has a more nuanced oniony quality than standard grocery store leeks. Ramps grow in wild clumps in the woods of the Eastern U.S. and don't take well to traditional farming. "They're like a present," McCabe says. "You stumble on them, and nobody will tell anybody else where their secret spots are."
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Each Wednesday and Saturday, McCabe and other farmers from Windfall bring upwards of 150 bunches of ramps to the Union Square Greenmarket in Manhattan, and at $5 a pop, they sell out by 11am. Chefs and savvy home cooks clamor for ramps as others would tickets to a Lady Gaga show or the last iPad.
"It's hilarious," McCabe says. "I think it's great, because it helps to further connect New Yorkers to the fact that they actually live in an environment. The very finite nature of ramps ties them to a distinct bioregion with distinct weather patterns, as opposed to when we get people asking about tomatoes on the first day of March. In that regard, I think it's fantastic."
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X-Men: First Class director Matthew Vaughn revealed back in 2011 that Roberto "Sunspot" Da Costa, the Brazilian mutant with the ability to absorb solar energy was a "pain in the ass" to film and too expensive. So he had to be cut. But this newly released concept art shows the mutant that could have been. Plus new Emma Frost art that proves her bra getup could have been even worse!
Concept Artist Josh Kao worked on both the Emma Frost and Sunspot illustrations. Thankfully we won't have to wait forever to see Sunspot on the big screen, as the above image was taken from the X-Men: Days of Future Past trailer. We'll be getting Sunspot along with Bishop, Blink and Warpath. New Mutants!
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Obama, lawmakers square off over NSA authority
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration squared off with skeptical lawmakers Tuesday over efforts to terminate the government's authority to collect phone records of millions of Americans, a proposition that exposed sharp divisions among members of Congress.
With a vote nearing on amendments to a $598.3 million bill to fund the military, the White House raised the alarm over a move to end the National Security Agency's authority under the USA Patriot Act, preventing the secretive surveillance agency from collecting records unless an individual is under investigation.
And in an unusual, last-minute lobbying move, Gen. Keith Alexander, head of the NSA, traveled to Capitol Hill to urge lawmakers to oppose the amendment in separate, closed-door sessions with Republicans and Democrats.
"We oppose the current effort in the House to hastily dismantle one of our Intelligence Community's counterterrorism tools," White House press secretary Jay Carney said in a late-night statement. "This blunt approach is not the product of an informed, open or deliberative process."
Carney said President Barack Obama is still open to addressing privacy concerns in the wake of documents leaked last month by former NSA systems analyst Edward Snowden that revealed that the vast nature of the agency's phone and Internet surveillance. But he said Obama wants an approach that properly weighs what intelligence tools best keep America safe.
In another sign the White House was treating the measure with serious concern, its rebuke came directly from the press secretary, rather than the more routine notices from Obama's budget office the White House normally uses to weigh in on pending legislation.
The proposal offered by Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., dovetails with another amendment to the defense bill to cut off funds for the NSA. The House is likely to vote on the amendments Wednesday.
The fierce debate over privacy and national security has divided Congress, transcending the partisan lines that typically characterize legislative fights — especially in the House. Tea party conservatives and liberal Democrats have backed the amendments. But leaders from both parties have strongly defended the programs, including Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio
At issue is where to draw the appropriate balance between national security in a post-9/11 America and the right to privacy that Americans expect to enjoy. National security hawks argue that the surveillance programs have helped disrupt numerous attempted terrorist attacks, and warn that future attacks will be harder to prevent if the programs are dismantled. But libertarians and others have contended that the programs constitute an overly broad intrusion into people's communications that, because they're kept secret, have little accountability.
The White House has tried to deflect criticism sparked by the Snowden revelations by arguing that it's taking steps to be as transparent as possible, including declassifying on Friday the fact that the secret court overseeing the programs had renewed an order authorizing part of the records collection. Obama has also discussed the programs with a federal privacy oversight panel.
Civil liberties advocates, however, have rejected those steps as too little, too late, pointing out that Americans would still be in the dark about the NSA's activities had they not been exposed by Snowden, whom the Justice Department is now pursuing on felony charges.
Alexander made the Tuesday trip to ask lawmakers to reject the amendments at the request of House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Mich., and the committee's top Democrat, Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger of Maryland. The two also warned in a statement that ending the program's authority would put the nation at risk of another terrorist attack.
Separately, seven Republican committee chairmen sent a letter to colleagues calling on them to oppose the Amash amendment. Meanwhile, House Republican leaders struggled to limit amendments on the overall bill, concerned about hampering national security and anti-terrorism efforts.
The defense spending bill would provide the Pentagon with $512.5 billion for weapons, personnel, aircraft and ships plus $85.8 billion for the war in Afghanistan for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1.
The bill is $5.1 billion below current spending and has drawn a veto threat from the White House, which argues that it would force the administration to cut education, health research and other domestic programs to boost spending for the Pentagon.
In a leap of faith, the bill assumes that Congress and the administration will resolve the automatic, across-the-board spending cuts that have forced the Pentagon to furlough workers and cut back on training. The bill projects spending in the next fiscal year at $28.1 billion above the so-called sequester level.
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Athlete's foot is the most commonly known of the fungal skin infections and well over half of the population will have it in some form some time in their lives! As with any fungal infection you will notice a rash-like redness, usually peeling, and flakiness. The itching and burning are usually quite bad. Do not be alarmed – you will not actually see a fuzzy fungus – unless you have ignored your infection for a long long time. Fungal infections are actually quite hard to diagnose and doctors need to use a special tool to look at the infection up close or use a swab that will need to be tested, to differentiate between a fungal infection and a regular infection or dermatitis.
The best way to prevent fungal infections is to make sure you shower properly, especially after sweating or getting hot, and to make sure you dry your skin off completely after washing it – especially pay attention to all of your "folds" like your armpits, groin, back of knees, and between the fingers and toes – as moist skin can speed up bacteria growth. Most of the time any fungal infection you get will be passed on from others so avoid sharing towels and shoes, wipe off any gym equipment before using it, and be sure to use flip flops or other foot coverings when in a shared area such as a pool deck, locker room, or communal shower.
If you have already contracted a fungal infection there are some creams available at your pharmacy or by prescription, however studies have shown that a tea tree oil solution works as good if not better than any of those. You can buy a solution already made at most health food stores. Other people have found a simple solution of water and vinegar relieves the itch when they soak in it – then follow with a sprinkle of baking powder to dry out the area and keep it clean. If you are prone to fungal infections – eating a diet low in yeast and sugar has been known to help.


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I mentioned two out of three paladin specs above. That third spec has been a thorn in our side for a long time. Paladins in general have a knack for that. I kid. (Mostly.)
Heh. I'm pretty sure we're all down with this. Ghostcrawler goes on to say:
I'm talking about Intellect plate. We don't like Intellect plate, but we haven't come up with a good alternative for it. The pitches we hear most often have downsides we don't like. Yes, a Holy paladin could wear mail… at which point their silhouette would look a lot like a shaman instead of a paladin. Yes, Holy paladins could derive their spell power from Strength… at which point they also hit with their weapons nearly as hard as Ret paladins. Yes, we could convert all that Strength to spell power, and convert the Hit to Spirit and the Expertise to Mastery or whatever. The Spirit to Hit conversion does the job, but it's not super elegant or intuitive. I'm not sure we want to pile more onto that design.
I like Intellect plate. I'm really happy that the devs have refrained from expecting Holy paladins to wear mail. To me, it's one of the iconic elements of the class. Paladins wear plate. I played through the times where Holy Paladins would dress in cloth, and they were terrible.
As for wearing Strength plate, in my mind the real problem with that solution is the non-armor item slots like rings and weapons. Right now, holy paladins have their own armor and share the non-armor slots with the other healers. If we were expected to wear Strength plate, would we also wear Strength rings and use DPS weapons? Or would we wear Strength plate but Intellect rings? Or would we become the new hunters, and simply roll on everything.
It sounds a loot more complicated than the current system. The current system is simple. You're a paladin so you wear plate. You're a healer so you go for Intellect and Spirit. That's pretty much all you need to know to get a good start gearing your Holy paladin.
Intellect plate isn't ideal. But I think it's the most workable solution. Between the larger amounts of loot dropping from bosses, tier tokens, and vendor items, I think that having Intellect plate isn't too much of an inconvenience.
Now, if only Blizz would make a two-handed healing mace with Intellect and Spirit.


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-- Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA -----Original Message----- JApplewhite_at_austin.isd.tenet.edu Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 11:25 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L David forgot to mention a couple of things about working for AISD:Received on Thu Sep 25 2003 - 09:04:54 CDT
- We don't wear neckties (well, David does sometimes).
- We get 23 paid Holidays (how does 2 weeks off for Christmas and a week off
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- We have an unlimited site license for Oracle EE. I slap databases out
there as needed without a second thought.
- Before he became MIS Director, David was an Oracle DBA and a UNIX Sys
Admin before that, so he really understands the technology and the challenges.
- Did I mention that we don't wear neckties?
AISD's infrastructure is truly awesome. The fiber WAN allows our widely-scattered users to connect dependably to our databases and me to push tons of data around quickly and reliably. All the UNIX and other servers (not to mention our Users' PCs) are either brand new or about 3 years or less old. The oldest Oracle databases we have are 188.8.131.52.0 and we've already started upgrading to 18.104.22.168.0. We'll be moving our only Win2k database to HP-UX in the next few months. All the other DBs are already on either HP-UX or Linux. We've got a couple of less-than-perfect 3rd Party COTS applications for Financials and Student Information, but we're rapidly applying Oracle features to improve them and add functionality their producers never even thought of, as well as providing Web-enabled access to our thousands of AISD users and the Community at large. Our Developers have hardly a Duh(veloper) among them and their supervisor is top-notch, too. An all-round great bunch of folks to work with District-wide. I've been with AISD for 15 months - my first Public Sector gig ever - and I'm loving it. Also, with the Economy the way it is (and will be for a while to come), this Public Sector organization is very competitive in salary and benefits with the Private Sector. I know, I shopped around and got other offers before coming here. Oh, and Austin being the "Live Music Capital of the World" doesn't hurt, either. And I certainly don't want to forget the part about not having to wear a necktie! Jack C. Applewhite Database Administrator Austin Independent School District Austin, Texas 512.414.9715 (wk) 512.935.5929 (pager, 5129355929_at_page.metrocall.com) JApplewhite_at_austin.isd.tenet.edu DBarbour_at_austin.isd.tenet.edu Sent by: ml-errors_at_fatcity.com 09/23/2003 03:39 PM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> cc: Subject: DBA needed in Austin, TX With permission from Jared: 'Needed' is kind of strong. We've got a position open, but we're not real needy folks. We're a school district. The 37th (depending on the day of the week) largest in the United States. If we were a business, it'd be pretty good-sized. Our annual operating budget is 730 million dollars plus (of which MIS gets a really small, tiny, little itty bit), we have 15,000 employees, 130 branch offices, our own police force and post office. We fix 150,000 meals a day and need to collect cash or validate for every person through the cafeterias. We're moving from a mainframe environment to client-server computing with an Oracle back-end running on HPUX and Linux for both our student data and ERP systems. It's a pretty dynamic shop. We've got 40 or so people (depending on the day of the week) split into three areas, business systems, student systems and programming. We don't do the network piece, but that's solid - switched gigabit ethernet running on over 300 miles of fiber with 100MB to the desktop. I don't hire or set salaries. HR does that. I only recommend. The salary for this position will be somewhere between $60K and $80K depending on experience (and whatever bizarre decisions are reached by the compensation analyst). You've got to be REAL strong in backup and recovery. And curious. We're planning to go where no school district (or very few) has gone before. Your assistance will be vital in making the investment Austin has made in technology pay off. If you've got any questions, please send me an email. If you'd like to apply, you can do so on-line at http://www.austin.isd.tenet.edu/about/hr/search/index.phtml Under 'classified' positions, see if you can find the DBA position. If it isn't there (depending on the day of the week), and you can't possibly wait, apply for either the Programmer/Analyst or UNIX Admin position. It should be there sometime after 4pm CDT, or maybe tomorrow, or maybe not. [We don't do the Internet piece - yet]. David A. Barbour Director, Management Information Services AISD -- Author: INET: DBarbour_at_austin.isd.tenet.edu Note: This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary or legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you receive this message in error, please immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it and notify the sender. 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After spring fire, historic Truckee landmark for sale for $1.45M
TRUCKEE, Calif. — A historic downtown building that dates back to the 1870s is on the market following a suspicious fire last spring.
The Kruger-White House at 10292 Donner Pass Road (formerly known as C.B. White House) is listed with Truckee River Associates for $1.45 million.
The property has been "quietly" listed since September 2013, as repairs to the building were under way, said Robyn Connor, one of the agents who holds the listing.
At about 3:45 a.m. on April 11, 2013, a fire broke out at the structure — known then as JStones Whitehouse Restaurant — with fire damage contained to its rear and smoke damage throughout.
The fire is still being investigated as suspicious due to it starting in the early morning and originating outside, said Paul Spencer, spokesman for Truckee Fire Protection District.
"I was devastated after the fire," said Denise Johnstone, building and restaurant owner.
She called the blaze the latest incident in a long string of setbacks since purchasing the property in November 2011. The restaurant was only open for about three months when it happened.
Afterward, Johnstone decided to put the 5,600-square-foot building, complete with an outdoor patio and rear parking, up for sale.
Work to repair the building started in August 2013, with special care given to maintaining its historical integrity, while also making code upgrades, Johnstone said. Completion is expected in the coming weeks.
When asked for repair costs, Johnstone declined to give a figure, but said it's "extensive and very expensive." Insurance is expected to cover the majority of costs.
"It'll be back, better than ever, just under new ownership," she said.
Connor said there has been "a good amount" of interest in the property by out-of-state investors and second-home owners. No offers had been made as of Tuesday.
Johnstone said she and her family are looking for the right person to own the building.
"I hope someone can come in that loves the historic nature that I do…" she said. "(To) be a caretaker and love the building, while building it into an iconic business."
The Kruger-White House was built in 1874 by William Henry Kruger. The Queen Anne Eastlake Victorian was constructed during the town's boomtown years when Kruger and E.J. Brickell were partners in the Truckee Lumber Company.
Over the years, it has been a single family residence, hotel and restaurant. In 1982, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.


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OSU program prepares high school students for college life
by Bend Weekly News Sources
CORVALLIS – This summer Oregon State University will host "A Taste of College," the two-week college prep program for high school students in grades 10-12.
The program, held on the OSU campus and open to Oregon and out-of-state students, runs from June 24 through July 6. Now in its third year, "A Taste of College" was developed to create a seamless transition from high school to college. Participants will live on campus in a residence hall, sample summer classes and explore the university's facilities, including OSU's Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport and the tsunami research lab on campus.
Students also meet with OSU advisers and staff to learn the basics of getting into college and being successful once there. Skills emphasized in the program include critical thinking, study skills, college writing and leadership skills. Students who complete the program will earn two college credits.
Dave Moore, high school program specialist for OSU P-12 outreach, said "A Taste of College" attracts students from diverse backgrounds, and from both rural and metropolitan high schools.
"The program not only provides a head start for students looking forward to their college career, but often acts as a confidence builder for those unsure about attending college," Moore said. "We've seen participants come away from this program with valuable skills and life lessons, real excitement about the prospect of attending college, and increased confidence in their ability to succeed."
Moore oversees students each day to make sure their questions are answered and OSU resident assistants supervise them in the evenings and on the weekend. Students have time to study, do library research and work in the computer labs. Time is also set aside for students to socialize with new friends on campus. During the two weeks, students post their observations and photos online in a blog.
"A Taste of College" is offered through OSU P-12 Outreach, a branch of Extended Campus.
Program cost is $950 and covers tuition and fees for two OSU credits, all meals and lodging, field trips, instructional materials, and staff costs.
Registration for the 2007 program begins April 1. For more information and application forms, visit the Web site at http://p12.ecampus.oregonstate.edu/atoc/ or contact Dave Moore at 800-667-1465, email@example.com.


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Bridgeport, CT - The SUNY-Potsdam Bears rallied in the third period, defeating the Sacred Heart Women's Hockey team 5-3 Friday night at the Wonderland of Ice.
Breanna Roy gave the Bears a 1-0 lead with a ringing slap shot that found the back of the net from just inside the blue line at 11:57 of the first. The Bears outshot Sacred Heart 16-9 in the first period. The Pioneers however had a nice opportunity to score the first goal but could not capitalize. Briana Connolly (Duxbury, MA) was all alone in front of the net but was denied with a nice save from goaltender Jen Conophy.
The second period saw the Pioneers firing on all cylinders, scoring three goals to take a 3-1 lead. Maura Leahy wasted little time getting Sacred Heart on the scoreboard with a goal just over a minute into the period, assisted by Meaghan Souza. Nicole Palazzo scored the next two goals for the Pioneers to take the lead 3-1. The first goal at 13:36 was assisted by Leahy on the power play, and the second assisted by Catie Ladner at 18:47. A five-minute major penalty for checking to Potsdam State's Izzy Fayerman gave SHU.
The Bears surged back in the third period, scoring four unanswered goals to finish off the Pioneers 5-3. Caitlin Manahan scored from Katie Komas at 4:04, followed by the game-tying goal by Jenn Crawford, set up by Fayerman and Brittany Lucky at 10:53. Roy netted the game-winner from Emilee Hazelden at 14:39 with her second of the night, followed by Crawford with an unassisted goal for her second of the night as well.
The Bears and Pioneers face off once again tomorrow at 2:00 pm at the Wonderland in the regular season finale. There will be pregame ceremonies to honor the eight graduating seniors, as well as a post-game Skate with the Pioneers.


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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The addition of the antidepressant nortriptyline to conventional smoking cessation therapy didn't improve the chances of longterm success among male prisoners, Australian researchers have found.
Depression and other mental illnesses raise the likelihood of smoking, and quitting can depress a person's mood - which in turn can make it harder to quit. Studies have shown that antidepressants, including nortriptyline, can improve the success of smoking cessation efforts.
And prison inmates are notoriously heavy smokers, with higher rates of depression and other mental illness than the general population.
But the new study found that nortriptyline (marketed as Aventyl) - which is not FDA-approved for smoking cessation but often is used for that purpose - did not seem to help inmate smokers stay tobacco-free over time.
Compliance with the therapy appeared to a significant issue, however, said Robyn Richmond, a public health researcher at the University of New South Wales, in Kensington, who led the study.
Prisoners who were faithful to the treatment as ordered at least three-quarters of the time were much more likely to break their smoking habit than those who could not stick to the regimen, Richmond told Reuters Health.
Another factor, Richmond added, was that the prison population in the study tended to migrate, making follow-up of the participants difficult.
"One thinks that you have a captive audience" in prison studies, she said. "However, half of the prisoners were either transferred to another prison within the study or released into the community."
The study, which appears in the journal Addiction, included 425 male inmates from prisons across Australia. All were smokers, with a habit lasting on average 20 years and more than 23 cigarettes a day.
Nearly three-quarters of the inmates in the study had tried to quit in the previous year, according to the researchers.
All of the prisoners in the study received 10 weeks of smoking cessation therapy consisting of nicotine patches and two sessions of behavioral counseling. To that was added either a dummy pill or nortriptyline.
The researchers recorded the inmates' tobacco use at three, six and 12 months after the end of treatment, relying on self-reporting and direct measurements of exhaled carbon monoxide, a byproduct of smoking.
At the three-month mark, about one-quarter of prisoners who had received the antidepressant had managed to stay off smoking continuously, compared with 16 percent of those who had not taken the drug. But by the one year mark, the abstinence rate had fallen to about 11 percent for both groups.
Psychologist Karen Cropsey, a smoking researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, said most jails and prisons in the United States have significantly restricted tobacco use by inmates. Roughly half of prisons, and many jails, now ban smoking completely, she said, while facilities that permit it typically require inmates to go outside to smoke.
Cropsey, who has studied tobacco use by female inmates, said the latest work is the first to look at smoking by male inmates.
Source: bit.ly/U67ejn Addiction, online December 11, 2012.


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"Trial and Error" - Monday, Feb. 18, 9 p.m. (ET/PT)
Ryland continues his onslaught of Ann, exposing secrets from her past that threaten to destroy her. Meanwhile, John Ross' plot to take over Ewing Energies solidifies; Christopher changes tactics with Pamela Barnes; and an enemy from the Ewings' past resurfaces.
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 15 diseños de 9 diseñadores freelance.
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- Sites that are too dark
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Cloud Knowledge Sources
Cloud Architecture Design Guidance
Cloud Computing is OSSM (pronounce: "awesome"), according to Dave Nielsen's definition! So stay current with the evolution of cloud computing and Cloud Application Design (CAD) by checking out these blogs and online books:
- NIST Cloud Computing Program (e.g., definitions)
- David Linthicum's website
- InfoWorld
- DZone Cloud Zone
- InfoQ on cloud computing, e.g. cloud portability eMag
- Werner Vogels' AllThingsDistributed blog, Amazon Web Services (blog, white papers, ...) and AWS Cloud Design Patterns by practitioners (2013)
- MSDN patterns & practices on cloud development, e.g. Cloud Design Patterns book
- RightScale blog, e.g., 2016 State of the Cloud Survey
- 12-Factor App and Architecting Applications for Heroku
- Cloud Computing Patterns website and book (Christoph Fehling, Frank Leymann, Ralph Retter, Walter Schupeck, Peter Arbitter, Springer-Verlag 2014) and C. Fehling's PhD thesis (e.g., introducing IDEAL cloud application properties) and early patterns paper.
- IEEE Cloud Computing community
- Cloud-Native Computing Foundation
For knowledge and advice regarding migration of existing applications to the cloud, start exploring the Web at these places:
- Cloud Native Application Architecture tutorial by M. Stine
- Cloud Migration Patterns by IC4 Lero
- AWS Migration Patterns
- MSDN Moving Applications to the Cloud, 3rd Edition
- Cloud Migration Book (Web Edition)
Click here for information on the Cloud Deployment and Architectural Refactoring Lab (CDAR).
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Getting Religion
Howard Dean's Theological Critics
Miss the Mark (and Matthew)
And when you pray, do not imitate the hypocrites:
they love to say their prayers standing up in the
synagogues and at the street corners for people to
see them. I tell you solemnly, they have had their
reward. But when you pray, go to your private room and,
when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who
is in that secret place, and your Father who sees all that
is done in secret will reward you.
Matthew 6:5-6*
In their relentless compiling of reasons why Howard Dean is unelectable,
members of the Stop Dean movement seem to think they have found their strongest one yet: the Democratic frontrunner's apparent lack of religiosity.
Advanced by Very Smart People with a conventionally wise bent, these critiques have so far tended to be based on a frightfully simplistic view of American religious belief or, in one notable case, logical inconsistency. They depend on a misreading of what the word "secular" actually means, whether through ignorance
or guile. And all smack of a quiet contempt for the mind of the American public, a view of those who toil outside the citadels of power as pathetic primatives.
This current torrent of doubt seems to have begun with a well-written, informative and even thoughtful piece ("Beyond Belief") by Frankin Foer in The New Republic that simply takes one leap too many. (You can get the piece online by signing up for a four-week free trial of TNR.)
There's secular, then there's secular
Foer is right to note that Dean's spiritual path lacks the evangelical fervor that has come to tinge the official biographies of many successful politicians of the last two decades. And it is true that this may pose something of a challenge for Dean, who has so far, in this campaign, never met a challenge he wouldn't take on.
However, in his interpretation of a 2000 poll by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, Foer rules Dean out of the category of "a person of faith" to which 70 percent of the American people want their president to belong. Foer's conclusion is apparently based on a troublingly narrow reading of just who qualifies as a "person of faith"; regular church-going seems to be his number-one qualifier, no matter how often a man gets down on his knees and talks to his Maker.
The same seems to go for the word "secular"; anyone who is not in church every Sunday is deemed to be "secular" regardless of personal belief or devotion. Yet this is surely a misuse of a word that, according to my Webster's Unabridged, implies not only an absence of religion, but of spirituality, as well. By Foer's reckoning, no less a light than Thomas Jefferson would be a purely secular politician, since he rarely attended church and declared himself a "sect unto myself."
Morality and religiosity
A far more troubling piece appeared on the New York Times op-ed
page last Sunday, penned by the liberal religious activist, Jim Wallis ("Putting God
Back In Politics"). While Wallis does commendable work fighting poverty, his
piece is so intellectually unsound that he endangers the point he hopes to make,
and insults every believer who attends church less than twice a week. Wallis
rightly expresses concern that Republicans define the terms of debate
on the role of religion in our civic life, but his essay evinces his own acceptance of
those terms. There he confuses morality with religiosity, and church attendance
with religious and spiritual belief.
Wallis demands that Democrats lay bare their personal creeds, even if those
creeds forbid such displays. "God is always personal, but never private," he
asserts. Has he then stricken Jesus's admonition to the contrary (see Matthew
6:5-6, above) from his personal Bible?
Any politician not thumping personal religious themes in the envangelical style,
Wallis essentially says, fails the cause of the liberal believer. It comes across as
a bit of a conceit to this Northeastern believer of immigrant stock that Wallis sees
his own evangelical tradition as the only one valid for producing political
I do concede, however, that he has a point on general rhetoric. For years, I have
myself urged liberal activists to speak more in passionate, and even spiritual,
terms. But one needn't directly accuse the other side of being bad Christians in
order to make one's point. State your own position with the help of unattributed
biblical phrases, and people get the point. They feel the words. People are more
sophisticated than Wallis would care to think.
Still, even though Wallis names "neglect of the environment" as a religious
concern, he scoffs at Dean for leaving his church when it took the part of wealthy
landowners fighting Dean's local environmental project (a bike path). In fact, the
bike path caper seems to be the jumping-off point for all those piling on.
Can a spiritual path accommodate bicycles?
Let's say your church is opposing something you passionately believe is to the
public good, and doing so because, you believe, it is protecting powerful interests.
Would you be wrong to leave your church, and even your denomination, to take up
with one more democratically organized?
As Dean tells it, that's how the bike path project in Burlington, Vermont, became
his road out of the Episcopal church and into the historic home of New England's
iconoclasts, the United Church of Christ, or Congregationalists.
Whether you like Dean or not, find him earnest or opportunistic, it's hard to find
fault with this narrative. Yet Foer chalks Dean's conversion up to a mere matter
of "local politics", and Wallis implies the conflict was over something
inconsequential in the cosmic scheme of things.
To be fair though, I must admit to
being flummoxed, like Wallis, by Dean's statement that his faith does not inform
his politics. True faith informs the thought process of the faithful. I can only
surmise a knee-jerk reaction, channelling, perhaps, John F. Kennedy as the latter
sought to deflect questions about his religion.
But Kennedy's Catholicism demanded fealty to an ultimate mortal religious
authority, the pope, a figure suspect at best in Protestant America. Dean's
denomination descends directly from the church of the New England Puritans who
landed on Plymouth Rock. If he is to address the topic of his religion at all, he
might do well to both remember that, and note it publicly.
Talkin' about Jesus
So lately the frontrunner has been uttering the Savior's name. On Christmas,
Sarah Schweitzer of the Boston Globe reported Dean's first comments
on Jesus, which focused on the earthly ministry, on Jesus as inspirational leader
of people. This sounds authentic; one hopes Dean doesn't try too hard to give his
critics what they claim he needs to speak in terms of his faith, because such a
tack from Dean promises nothing but disaster. The American people are not as
stupid as the politicians tend to treat them. They know when they're being
pandered to. (Comments reported by Schweitzer on Sunday gave me a bit more
pause--not because they seem inauthentic, but because Dean went into the
biblical territory of dissing the Pharisees, whose depiction in the New Testament
has been used in the past as one rationale for anti-semitism.)
What Dean should absolutely not do is tell the world the particulars of his
beliefs. Let him invoke Benjamin Franklin, who also declined a public exegesis of his
belief, remarking that he wanted to "leave this world at peace with the sects," according to theologian Martin Marty.
He should appeal to the sense of justice and individualism of the American people,
simply by telling his audiences that he knows how just and respectful they are,
whether as a result of their faith in God, or in the values upon which this nation
was founded.
When the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC), with its
Southern strategy and vital center, reigned supreme, liberal evangelism became
the means of talking about values. We're now in a new time. Moderates do not
make for an energized base, which is what the party direly needs right now.
Writing in the American Prospect Online, Michael Tomasky makes urges the DLC
to work with Dean, asking, "Is It Time to Believe?"
By discussing values in terms of America's founding, and invoking Jefferson on the
subject of faith, Dean could knock down some walls between the churched and
unchurched within the party. But he must remain true to himself, to his own
tradition, and stop fibbing here and there about what he said last year or last
Jonathan Edwards or Ralph Waldo Emerson? DLC or
In essence, the flap over Dean's religion (or alleged lack thereof) is yet another
incarnation of the fight for control of the Democratic Party between Dean's
insurgents and the Democratic Leadership Council that produced Bill Clinton's
presidential bid. (Indeed, the crusade against Dean as infidel began at the hands
of another DLC disciple, foundering presidential canidate Senator Joe Lieberman.)
In bringing the party toward the center, the DLC saw the value of evangelical
religious expression. Evangelicals, after all, represented a growing demographic.
Today, the disenfranchised represent an even faster-growing demographic, one that cuts across class, racial and religious lines.
It would be wrong, however, to define this contretemps in such small
terms, for the controversy, such as it is, represents a tension that has existed in
American culture since before the founding of the Republic, as represented by the
cool, Enlightment philosophy of Jefferson, and the fire and brimstone of the Great
Awakenings. Dean's private sense of religion, his likely ideosyncratic belief system
and his ecumenical journey evoke not only Jefferson, but one of New England's
later lights, Ralph Waldo Emerson of Concord, Massachusetts.
Yet the evangelical tradition stems, as pointed out in an important piece by Jay
Tolson in U.S. News & World Report, from the first Great Awakening,
the revival fomented by Jonathan Edwards of Northampton, Massachusetts.
Like Dean's edgy centrism and the DLC's moderate conservatism, Edwards'
austere ecstaticism and Emerson's exuberant stoicism stem from the same root.
In the case of Edwards and Emerson, that root was the Congregationalist
Too much at stake
One more thing--before lobbing around terms like "secular" and "religious", the
Very Smart People who do so should show more care. Far too much is at stake
this time to go on making sport of what is written on the human heart.
For more on religion and the presidential candidates, see David Brooks today in the New York Times.
For a sober explanation of anti-Bush anger, see E.J. Dionne in today's Washington Post.


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Selected Research Results by Date
Research spotlights of selected studies are shown below. For a full list of published NCCIH Research to-date, see PubMed.
Spotlights for 2015
National Survey Finds People Use Dietary Supplements and Yoga for Wellness Reasons, Chiropractic for Treating a ConditionPeople who take natural products or practice yoga are more likely to do so for wellness reasons, while people use spinal manipulation to treat a specific health condition. (November 2015)
Results of recent NCCIH-supported research suggest that people who self-rated their health below "excellent" were more likely to develop a cold than those who self-rated their health as "excellent." (November 2015)
Who has fibromyalgia? How does this health problem affect their lives? A new analysis of data from the 2012 National Health Interview Survey sheds light on these questions. (September 2015)
Americans pay nearly $15 billion out-of-pocket on complementary approaches for pain, a new analysis shows. (August 2015)
Researchers from Stanford University, with funding from NCCIH, have created an innovative way to produce opioid drugs from sugar using genetically modified yeast. The research is described in a recent issue of the... (August 2015)
New survey results clarify the impact of pain on the U.S. adult population. (August 2015)
New research sheds light on how silymarin, an extract from the herb milk thistle, might protect cells. (July 2015)
Lack of knowledge is a reason why people don't use common complementary health approaches such as acupuncture, chiropractic, natural products, and yoga. (June 2015)
New Clinical Decision Rule for Health Care Providers To Assess Patients' Risk of Developing Chronic PainNCCIH-supported research develops clinical decision rule to identify people most likely to progress from acute to chronic low-back pain (March 2015)
National Survey Reveals Widespread Use of Mind and Body Practices, Shifts in Use of Natural ProductsA new report from the 2012 National Health Interview Survey shows some changes since 2007 in American adults' patterns of use of complementary health approaches. (February 2015)
New statistics show that children's use of some complementary health approaches, including fish oil, yoga, and melatonin, has increased. (February 2015)
A study from Brown University, partly funded by NCCIH, looks at how the brain filters out distractions. (February 2015)
Preferences for Once-Weekly vs. Twice-Weekly Yoga Classes Don't Influence Yoga's Effect on Low-Back PainPreference for once or twice-weekly sessions has little influence on yoga's effect on back pain, function. (January 2015)
Low Risk of Stroke After Chiropractic Spinal Manipulation in Older Patients With Neck Pain, Study FindsAn analysis of Medicare claims data from older Americans who sought care for neck pain from chiropractors suggests that cervical spine manipulation is unlikely to cause stroke. (January 2015)


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Lauren Quisenberry's outstanding rookie season continued with her selection to the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Division III Women's All-America Team. By virtue of finishing the year in the top 20 of ITA Singles National Rankings, she collected MIT's fourth straight All-America honor and sixth overall.
In the national singles standings, Quisenberry placed 20th while Candace Wu was 49th. The pair finished 22nd in the national doubles rankings, becoming the only athletes from the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) to make the list. In the final Campbell/ITA National Team Rankings, the Engineers led the NEWMAC by capturing 22nd place and were followed by Wellesley College (24th) and Wheaton College (29th).


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Naomi Campbell Rings in 40 with $1 Million Bash
>> Naomi Campbell may be having issues due to an alleged diamond gift from Liberia's former president Charles Taylor, but she had no problem accepting gifts on Saturday for her 40th birthday — there were reportedly so many, they had to be be ferried back on multiple boat trips to her boyfriend Vladimir Doronin's yacht.
Doronin planned a rumored $1 million black panther-themed bash for the model (after her favorite animal) at the Hotel du Cap near Cannes, which included a 45-minute set by The Black Eyed Peas. P. Diddy and Tyson Beckford gave tributes during dinner, which saw Campbell seated at a revolving center table. Later, guests like John Galliano, Georgina Chapman, Lorenzo Martone, Edward Eninnful, Bethann Hardison, Shala Monroque, Hamish Bowles, Christy Turlington, Eva Herzigova, Grace Jones, Domenico Dolce, Stefano Gabbana, and Giovanna Battaglia hit the dance floor — where Marc Jacobs supposedly challenged Jennifer Lopez to a walk off.
At midnight, the music stopped so guests could sing "Happy Birthday," and a three tier cake was brought out; Doronin gave a speech, calling Naomi his "wild woman" and his "great love." Speaking of which, the model has been wearing a large emerald ring — sparking rumors — but her reps deny an engagement and Doronin remains married to his estranged wife.
*image: Bauer-Griffin Online


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Responding to criticism that the Washington Post doesn't publish pictures showing the consequences of Hamas rocket atacks on Isral, the paper's ombudsman, Patrick Pexton, says that "the overwhelming majority of rockets fired from Gaza are like bee stings on the Israeli bear's behind." Where to begin?
Let's start at the beginning. The present controversy commenced when, as Scott discussed at the time, the Post published a large front page photo of a Palestinian toddler killed during Israel's Gaza operation. This prompted some to ask why the Post hadn't published photos showing the damage caused to Israel by Hamas rocket attacks. After all, Israel's military campaign was a response to Hamas' rocket attacks, which President Obama declared unacceptable.
Pexton offers several defenses on behalf of the Post. First, he states:
The Post cannot publish photographs that don't exist. No Israeli civilian had been killed by Gaza rocket fire since Oct. 29, 2011, more than a year earlier. The first Israeli civilian deaths from Gaza rocket fire in 2012 did not take place until Nov. 15, when Hamas, the group that controls Gaza, began firing more accurate and deadly missiles in response to the Israeli offensive that had begun the day before. There were no recent photos of Israeli casualties to be had on the night of Nov. 14.
Notice how Pexton tries to shift blame to Israel by saying that Hamas killed no Israelis by rocket attack (in 2012) except in response to Israeli aggression. But, as Alana Goodman points out, a few days earlier, Hamas had pounded southern Israel with more than 100 Hamas rockets, injuring at least three. Yet, Pexton makes Israel sound like the instigator of potentially deadly hostilities. He thereby shows his anti-Israel bias, if not the Post's.
But this isn't the only problem with the quoted portion of Pexton's response. Pexton concedes that Hamas attacks killed Israelis on Novmeber 15, the day that the Post had run the photo of the dead Palestinian (a decision the paper made the previous night). Yet, as Goodman notes, the paper didn't follow up with a front page photo of these casualties and, in fact, hasn't printed any pictures of any Israeli casualties on its front page since the start of Operation Pillar of Defense. Why not?
Pexton seems to admit that the reason is based on a political point of view, not human interest (as he begins his column suggesting) or by lack of available photos. He continues:
I think we can all agree that the Gaza rocket fire is reprehensible and is aimed at terrorizing Israeli civilians. It's disruptive and traumatic. But let's be clear: The overwhelming majority of rockets fired from Gaza are like bee stings on the Israeli bear's behind.
The reference to "the Israeli bear" shows plainly enough where Pexton's sympathies lie. Israel is the big ugly bear attacking innocent Palestinian children.
Beyond that, it is true that most Hamas rockets don't kill or injure anyone. But since Hamas' rocket fire is "reprehensible," and given that it indisputably caused Israel's response, the Post has no excuse for downplaying the impact of those rocket attacks that do kill or injure Israelis.
Furthermore, as Goodman argues:
Hamas's rockets don't cause as many casualties as they otherwise would because Israel goes to great lengths to protect its people. It spends fortunes on bomb shelters and missile defense systems. In contrast, Israel's military responses cause more Palestinian casualties than they otherwise would because Hamas goes to great lengths to endanger its people. It shoots missiles out of hospitals and schools, uses children as human shields, and tells Gaza civilians to ignore Israeli warning pamphlets that advise them to leave targeted neighborhoods.
It is probably inevitable that liberal newspapers like the Post will play into the hands of the evil organization that takes affirmative action to generate the kind of "photo opportunity" displayed on the Post's November 15 front page. One might, however, have hoped for a Post ombudsman who is less open about his anti-Israel bias.
But I suppose newspapers get the ombudsman they deserve.


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