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He does not react to anything: a case of Carbo vegetabilis
Whenever I think of children, one striking thing that attracts me is the child's energy! It is pure and uninhibited; it flows unbounded and expresses itself in every act. These expressions of energy are very peculiar and individualistic to each child. They are visible in every action of the child, his emotions, perceptions, fears, dreams, stories, plays, imaginations, drawings and in countless other ways. When the child is in a healthy state, he or she has a vibration pattern which is completely unique and individualized.
During disease, this unique vibration pattern is altered by another form of energy. This altered pattern expresses itself vividly and distinctly in the way the child thinks, feels, perceives senses and reacts to the whole world around him or her. The child lives through the energy of his altered pattern. This energy is easily expressed through the child's gestures, actions, moves, behavior, and mannerisms. The child expresses this altered energy pattern without restraint. [1]
I apply the 3 steps of the case witnessing technique in children cases, too. The passive, active, and active-active case witnessing process [2] but the real challenge was when I would deal with cases where the child could not speak. I used to be at my wits end to find out the holistic picture in such special children who couldn't express themselves verbally, wondering how to make a better prescription in such cases.
The following is a case of such a pre-verbal child who is around 2 years old. He is a factor 7 deficient child, who underwent a liver transplant and now came to me with the complaints of fever, rash, malaena and diarrhoea. The parents gave me a detailed clinical history, but the real challenge was to obtain a 3 dimensional holistic picture of the child.
Dinesh Chauhan (DC): Hi, please come in.
Father (F): "My son was factor deficient for (clotting agent) factor seven: at the age of two months he had blue spots over his body. His PT (Prothrombin Time) was prolonged: sometimes it was it was 62 or even up to 120. He passed blood in his stools and occasionally by mouth. He had a liver transplant in August 2010, and two or three days later his PT INR was back to normal. In December, he had diarrhea; he was tested positive for cytomegalovirus (CMV, PCR) so he was given oral and IV acyclovir.
"In January, he had fever with rashes and started passing bloody stools. The doctor discovered a huge ulcer of the anthrum; luckily it didn't perforate. He was then given Novomex, Flagyl, and Ocid, but in August, he started to get fevers and rashes again: another endoscopy revealed a large ulcer with an infection of Helicobacter pylori. He was given four antibiotics for fourteen days. So, now the main problem is this fever and the rash."
DC: Fever and rash.
F: "This morning's report says that the Creatinine, ESR, and CRP are high, so maybe there is kidney damage. He has been given an immunosuppressive; I am quite worried about that."
DC: To treat him homeopathically, we need to understand his particular energy pattern. Can you describe him to me, tell me what he does when he has a fever?
F: "Zero energy. He used to walk, he used to talk. He used to climb up literally everything; he was very naughty. He would open all the cupboards and check out everything. All his activity was perfectly normal, but for the past month everything stopped. He usually doesn't just sit so quietly."
Mother (M): "For the last two weeks he is not walking, not even one step. He wants to be carried around. He is not even sitting."
DC: Tell me more about him, what he loves, what he does…
F: "He has a habit of putting everything into his mouth; we have to stop him because he is on immunosuppressive therapy. He is also very stubborn - what he wants to do he does. If he wants to go out, we have to take him out straight away."
M: "He understands, he grasps things very fast. He doesn't talk much, barely four or five words but he can explain many things to us anyway."
DC: What is peculiar to him, what is kind of different compared to other children? Each child has his own peculiar things that he does when he is alone. How does he behave since he's ill?
F: "Everything has completely stopped. He use to climb but now he just sits, there's no reaction at all. Earlier, if anyone was going out he would cry and want to go with them. I used to hide and then go out. Now, we tell him "Daddy is going" but he is not interested. For the last month and a half, he is just sleeping."
M: "Before that, when there was fever he used to become very weak. When the fever was gone he used to move around a little, but since we came back from Delhi he's completely lost everything. He does not walk one step. For instance, at the airport, I changed his diaper and said "I'll wash my hands, you just wait." Then, I called him many times to come but he just stood there, as though he was completely lost. He just wants us to carry him."
F: "His appetite is completely gone. We sing songs to him, play little games, but he doesn't react. If you offer him food he says "No". He is hardly eating. If we force him to eat, he burps a lot and vomits. He's also been passing some blood in his stool. His Hemoglobin is reduced to 8.5. Since the fever he has a red rash all over his body."
DC: He vomits everything. Tell me more about him?
M: "He used to go to the neighbors' house and play but now he just sits at home. He cries a lot, which he didn't do before. If anyone, even my mother or my grandmother, tries to take him in their arms he just shouts 'Mamma, Mamma'."
DC: Tell me more observations about him, non-medical things…
M: "He loves kids; he'll laugh on seeing them. He doesn't shares things, he is very stubborn, whatever he says, we have to do."
(Meanwhile, I noticed that the child has not moved at all; he is sitting in one place for the past 30 minutes.)
F: "When he has a fever, he just sleeps in his blanket like this (hands on head)."
DC: Tell me more about him…
F: "He likes Papad a lot (Indian food), even in the hospital he wanted Papad. He used to like ice-cream but now he doesn't eat that."
DC: What one thing does he especially like to eat?
F: "He doesn't like fruit, only banana. He burps when he eats apples."
DC: How much does he perspire?
F: "He likes to have the fan on, he needs it all the time. Even if the air-conditioning is on he does not shiver during the fever, or let anyone put on his covers. During fever, we noticed that his palms and soles are cold, only his neck, head and abdomen are hot."
Mother's History during Pregnancy
DC: Did you notice any changes in yourself during those nine months, mentally, physically and emotionally, which were usual for you but came up only during these nine months?
M: "Before his pregnancy, I had a miscarriage, so I was very depressed. After three months, I was expecting again, so for the first three months I had bed rest. I was tense from three months on, wondering how I would manage to sleep, since I was at my in-laws' place. In my fifth month, I went outside a lot. In the sixth and seventh month, I used to get a lot of swelling; I could not sit due to that, so I was in the house. I used to eat everything. I rarely felt the motions of the baby. In my ninth month, I sometimes used to feel a lot of movement but sometimes, I felt there was nothing there inside; I could hardly feel him.
"I was losing a bit of fluid, but the doctor told me I was fine. Finally, during a routine test, it turned out that my blood pressure was too high and the doctor admitted me in order to artificially induce the labour. They gave me injections, but the delivery pains did not start. I was just sleeping in the hospital, nothing was happening. The water had burst but I was still not having labour pains and the doctors were worrying why nothing was happening. They gave me another injection, then I had a severe pain and the baby came, after three days in hospital."
DC: This will help me. Anything else? Any dream which came up in those nine months?
M: "I had a scary dream that something was going wrong – I don't remember what."
DC: Any change in your food habits during those nine months, anything you suddenly started liking?
M: "I started eating bananas for the whole nine months, which I never ate before and I never eat now. I ate apples for two or three months, but then I didn't like them anymore – I used to get a lot of acidity from them."
DC: During the pregnancy, did you notice any changes in your body temperature?
M: "No. I had got lot of marks on my stomach; after the delivery my whole belly was black. I have never seen anything like that. It took a long time to go, about six months."
DC: One thing you said was that there was no movement inside you.
M: "I rarely felt any movement. Obviously, the baby was moving around but I rarely felt it move."
Analysis of the case
1. My observations of the child
- During the complete interview, the
child was sitting absolutely still and motionless, or he was sleeping for the
most of the time when the parents were talking to me.
- I offered him different toys to
play with but he did not pick up any of them.
2. Parents' observations
- The most peculiar
observation of the parents was that since the illness, his energy levels had
become very low – zero energy.
- He is not interested in anything.
- All the activity was perfectly
normal but for the past month, everything has stopped: he doesn't move around,
he just sits and looks, or sleeps.
- He looks completely lost. He wants
us to carry him, he doesn't walk.
- He is very stubborn, whatever he
says, we have to do.
- Needs his mother all the time
- Cries easily
- He likes Papad and banana, but
burps from other fruit such as apples.
- Requires fan or air-conditioning
all the time, dislikes being covered during air-conditioning
- Cold palms and soles, warm head,
stomach and neck
- Fever with rashes
- No shivering during fever despite
- Blood in stools
- Ulcer of the antrum
- Blue spots all over the body
- Diarrhea
- Reduced appetite
3. Mother's History during Pregnancy
- Much swelling
- Rarely feeling baby's movement
- No pain despite injections to induce labour
- Craving for bananas
- Lot
of acidity
- Whole abdomen was black
4. Observing the
pattern running through the case
We observe that there is a lack of
reaction, no movement, lost, quiet, no interest: this came up in the
observations of the child as well as his mother's history during pregnancy.
Centre of the case
- Lack of reactivity
- Craving for banana
- Palms and soles cold even during
fever, but head, neck and stomach hot
- Blue, black spots on the body
- Fanning
- Blood in urine, stool
Rubrics of the case
- Generalities;
reaction; lack of : CARB-V
- Generalities;
food and drinks; fruits; agg. : CARB-V
- Fever,
heat; uncovering; aversion to : CARB-V
- Extremities;
coldness, chilliness; hands : CARB-V
- Extremities;
coldness, chilliness; feet : CARB-V
References from Leaders in Homeopathic
Therapeutics by Nash (Carbo vegetabilis)
- Vital force is nearly exhausted,
completely collapsed, lies motionless as if dead
- Blood stagnates in the
capillaries, venous congestion, surface cold and blue
- Hemorrhages (nose, bowel, stomach,
bowels, bladder, or any mucous surfaces)
- Desire for fan, air-conditioning,
dislikes covering
- Mucous membranes break down and become putrid, spongy, bleed and ulcerate
Prescription: Carbo vegetabilis 1M
Follow ups
- During the first few follow, ups
his activity levels gradually started improving; there were no fevers or
rashes. His appetite remained the same
and there was no change on the endoscopy.
- Over a period of two months, his
appetite improved and his activity slowly became normal.
- His parents said that
he started to become naughty again.
- After three months, the size of the
ulcer had started to reduce; the base of the ulcer was much clearer and less
deep than the previous gastro-duodenoscopy. The activity level of the child
became normal and there were no episodes of fever, rashes and malaena. The
hemoglobin, PT and creatinine levels normalised.
- After four months, he had nearly
no more episodes of fever, vomiting, or diarrhea, his ulcer started to heal and
his appetite improved. There was no bleeding in stools or by mouth.
- The patient improved gradually and
continues to come for regular follow ups since two years now.
Trying to see through their vision…
Trying to see their world through their eyes…
Trying to listen to their song
Trying to focus on their focus
The above case illustrates how even in non-verbal or pre-verbal children we can get the individualistic holistic expression of the patient and come to the most appropriate similimum. Compared to an adult, who has extremely well-developed verbal skills, a child does not have developed verbal skills, but their non-verbal skills come naturally to them. Their actions, behaviours, and movements are strong indicators of their energy pattern. Hence I focus on those behaviors that come naturally to him and are not taught to him by others: the stories, imaginations and fears which are also not part of the child's cultural background but are part of his pure uninhibited energy right from conception.
The mother is the medium of expression of the child's energy during the nine months of pregnancy; her feelings, and imaginations, perceptions that she has observed and experienced only during those nine months would be those that are coming from the child's energy.
Hence, a combination of the following observations would increase one's chances of a good prescription:
? 1: Physician's observations about the child: What the child does in the Consulting Room
? 2: Parents' observations of the child
? 3: Mother's history during pregnancy
? 4: Physician's examination findings of the child
? 5: Observing one pattern which is running through the case
All these taken together form the totality of symptoms which leads to the appropriate similimum.
To perceive a child's energy so pure
Undrape your conscious covering, bringing forth the child within obscure
Then beyond the verbal and non-verbal there'll be an energy allure
That waits for you to procure
The other song is revealed to you be sure…
- Rina
[1] For further details on children case taking refer to: Chauhan Dinesh, "A Wander with a Little Wonder"- Child Centric Case Witnessing, Philosia Publications, Mumbai India, 2010
[2] For further details on case taking refer to: Chauhan Dinesh, "The scientifically intuitive case witnessing process- A journey of three steps" Philosia Publications, Mumbai India, 2011
Photo: Flickr: Philippe Put; CC BY 2.0
Categories: Cases
Keywords: clotting factor factor seven deficiency, inertia, lack of reaction, ulcer of anthrum, Helicobacter pylori, desire to be fanned
Remedies: Carbo vegetabilis


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Countering Mitt Romney's announcement that he paid 15 percent in taxes, Newt Gingrich said his bill came to 31 percent, more than most Americans pay and closer to the top rate of 35 percent.
The AP reportsthat Gingrich was careful not to criticize Romney for paying a lower tax rate than most Americans.
"My goal is not to raise Mitt Romney's taxes, but to let everyone pay Romney's rate," he said according to the AP.
"Gingrich's taxes were in line with the total effective federal tax rate, which was 31.2 percent in 2010 for top 1 percent of taxpayers.
"The former House speaker said his campaign went through his documents three times to make sure he paid a 31 percent rate, but said he would need to check whether that was only federal or both federal and state taxes.
"'We're pulling together the documents,' he added. 'We hope to get it out sometime tomorrow. ... And we'll release 2011 as soon as we put it together.'"
As Mark noted, yesterday, all of this comes as Romney is being pressured to release his income tax returns. Romney at first refused, but recently, he's relented and said he would release them closer to April.
Today, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who was urged to run early in the primary race by many conservatives, said Romney should release his returns before April.
"I would say if you have tax returns to put out, you know, you should put them out sooner rather than later because it's always better in my view to have complete disclosure, especially as the front-runner," Christie said on NBC's Today Show, according to CNN.
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At the Fennel Valley Pokémon Center, Ash is practicing attacks with his Pokémon while Brock is excited to be cooking with Nurse Joy. His excitement quickly disappears when he finds Nurse Joy unconscious on the floor. They put her in bed, and Professor Oak says she needs rest. Meanwhile, Team Rocket is incredibly lost from when Harley sent them blasting off, and to choose their path, Jessie throws a stick that hits several Pokémon and damages a small bus passing on the road below.
The bus belongs to a Pokésitter named Matt, who is looking after several Pokémon. Ash, Brock, Professor Oak, and Scott go to pick him and the Pokémon up. Scott tows the bus back while the kids take care of the Pokémon, but a Bagon runs off and Ash and Matt are unable to catch it. The rest of the Pokémon are brought to the Pokémon Center where May and Max look after them, including a Larvitar that likes to use Sandstorm.
Ash and Matt see the Bagon jump off a cliff and fall into a raging river where it is then attacked by Carvanha. Ash has Pikachu and Sceptile help, with the Bagon eventually falling into Matt's arms. Unfortunately, the adventure has made Bagon sick. They bring it back to the Pokémon Center where Professor Oak and Brock attempt to make it well. While the other kids wait, Team Rocket comes in disguised as "assistant Pokésitters" and steals all the other Pokémon. They take off in their balloon, but Larvitar brings them down with a Sandstorm.
Back at the Pokémon Center, Bagon has gotten worse, but Nurse Joy is better. She manages to heal Bagon, and Scott fixes the bus. As Matt prepares to leave with the Pokémon, the kids say goodbye, while Ash receives some good news—Brandon has returned, so Ash can have his rematch.


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Sen. Brown To Donate Funds From Pharmacy To Charity
Republican U.S. Sen. Scott Brown said Thursday he will donate to charity about $10,000 in campaign donations he received from executives at the Massachusetts compounding pharmacy linked to a deadly outbreak of fungal meningitis.
Brown said the deaths linked to the outbreak were tragic and he plans to donate the money to the Meningitis Foundation of America.
Federal Election Commission reports show Gregory Conigliaro, a founder of the New England Compounding Center, donated $2,500 to Brown on June 28. Conigliaro and his wife also held a fundraiser on Sept. 7 for the senator at their Southborough home.
The fundraiser was held before the company was linked to the outbreak.
"To politicize that situation and try to say somehow that there's a connection there, it's sad," Brown told reporters Thursday.
Officials have identified the Framingham based-firm as the source of steroid shots suspected in the fungal meningitis outbreak that has killed 14 people and made 170 others sick across the country.
Also, Dr. Madeleine Biondolillo of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health has said it appears the New England Compounding Center violated state laws governing compounding pharmacies, which aren't supposed to do large-scale production like a drug manufacturer.
Brown and other lawmakers have advocated for changes to federal rules governing how drugs can be distributed by compounding pharmacies. He and 10 other senators sent a letter July 24 to the federal Drug Enforcement Administration asking that it reconsider its determination that it is "categorically illegal to transfer controlled substances from pharmacies to treating physicians." The letter was posted online Thursday by WCVB-TV.
Currently, the DEA allows the drugs to be delivered to patients who can take them to their doctors, who can then administer them.
Brown and the other senators argue that the DEA's position "puts patients at a very real safety risk" and the rules should be changed to allow the pharmacies to deliver the drugs directly to doctors.
"Proper storage and administration, in which physicians (as opposed to patients) are specially trained and competent, is imperative," the letter reads.
Brown told reporters at a campaign event in Hudson that the letter was a bipartisan effort "completely unrelated to what happened to these people."
A campaign spokeswoman said Brown supports a full investigation into the meningitis outbreak to hold those responsible accountable, pointing out that the Food and Drug Administration, not the DEA, oversees the safety of the drugs.
Brown is locked in a tight race with Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren. The contest is already the most expensive political race in Massachusetts history.
This program aired on October 11, 2012. The audio for this program is not available.


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This is book number 1 in the Anna Dressed in Blood Series series.
From Kendare Blake, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Three Dark Crowns, a beautiful and haunting ghost story
Cas Lowood has inherited an unusual vocation: He kills the dead.
So did his father before him, until he was gruesomely murdered by a ghost he sought to kill. Now, armed with his father's mysterious and deadly athame, Cas travels the country with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat. They follow legends and local lore, destroy the murderous dead, and keep pesky things like the future and friends at bay.
Searching for a ghost the locals call Anna Dressed in Blood, Cas expects the usual: track, hunt, kill. What he finds instead is a girl entangled in curses and rage, a ghost like he's never faced before. She still wears the dress she wore on the day of her brutal murder in 1958: once white, now stained red and dripping with blood. Since her death, Anna has killed any and every person who has dared to step into the deserted Victorian she used to call home.
Yet she spares Cas's life.
Kendare Blake's Anna Dressed in Blood is a 2011 Kirkus Best Teen Books of the Year title.
One of NPR's Top 5 Young Adult Novels of 2011.
"Abundantly original, marvelously inventive and enormous fun, this can stand alongside the best horror fiction out there. We demand sequels." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review
"Anna Dressed in Blood is a dark and intricate tale, with a hero who kills the dead but is half in love with death himself. By the end of the book, you will be too. Spellbinding and romantic." —Cassandra Clare, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Mortal Instruments series
"Cinematic and compelling. Blake's smooth combination of gore and romance should have little problem attracting the Twilight crowd." —Booklist
"It's the old boy-meets-girl story, if the boy is a wry, self-destructive ghost-hunter bent on avenging his father and the girl is a homicidal ghost trapped in a house full of everyone she's ever murdered. Needless to say, Cas and Anna are my new favorite twosome. When I got to the last page, I flipped back to the first." —Holly Black, New York Times bestselling author of Red Glove


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So my friend Chris has decided he wants to become a record producer - this despite the fact that has hasn't so much as helmed a decent demo in all his years of music making.
"What's the big deal?" he said to me. "All you've got to do is push some buttons and twist a few knobs. People make records on laptops nowadays - and you know I got a kick-ass laptop!"
True, Chris's laptop does kick some major ass. But when I put it to him that being a record producer takes a little more than owning a bitchin' computer, that one should have a vision, be a keen spotter of talent, and should know how to dissect a song from top to bottom, his eyes merely glazed over. "Dude, I just don't think you believe in me."
Chris, I do believe in you. And because I believe in you, I've decided to put together the following list of the greatest record producers of all time. Not that I want to sway you from your new career - far from it. But I think it's important to understand the size of the footprints you're following. Granted, some of the record-makers mentioned here didn't employ kick-ass laptops when they worked on little-known albums like Revolver and Pet Sounds, but imagine if they did.
This first installment of great producers focuses on Legends and Pioneers. In the coming weeks, we'll look at The Next Wave and The New Guard.
Without whom, there might never have been this thing called rock 'n' roll. Having set up shop at a little recording studio in Memphis, Tennessee, Phillips started his own label called Sun Records. At Sun Studios, which it was eventually named, Philips recorded early blues artists such as BB King, Howlin' Wolf, and Ike Turner. But it was white artists who adopted this new sound - Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis and a greasy-haired kid named Elvis - who put Philips on the map. Early '50s recordings were sometimes lacking in vocal punch, so Philips decided to use tape delay to give more of a kick to Elvis's singing. Things were never the same.
It was called The Wall Of Sound, Spector's dramatic assemblage of echo, meticulous overdubbing and ambitious orchestration. His wizardly guidance of studio aces (known as The Wrecking Crew) led to masterful and emotive "teen dramas" that defined the sound of the early '60s on records by artists such as The Ronettes, The Righteous Brothers, The Crystals and The Teddy Bears. His one commercial misstep was also his artistic peak, Ike and Tina Turner's River Deep, Mountain High.
Just as it's hard to picture rock 'n' roll or the '60s or much else without The Beatles, so too is it difficult to imagine modern culture without the stamp of George Martin. A classically trained musician who worked at EMI Studios, producing classical, jazz, light pop and comedy records, Martin made history with his throw-out-the-rules production of The Beatles's music. Singling out specific songs or albums is ludicrous - they all matter, they're all timeless. But what counts is that, when everybody in Britain had written off this little pop group from Liverpool as nobodies, Martin saw a spark.
As Motown's leading songwriting-and-production team of the early to mid '60s, Brian Holland, Eddie Holland and Lamont Dozier wrote and produced over 25 top ten hits including Heat Wave, Nowhere to Run (Martha Reeves And The Vandellas), Can I Get A Witness, How Sweet It Is (Marvin Gaye), I'm Losing You (The Temptations), Baby I Need Your Loving (Four Tops) and Baby Love (The Supremes). When it came to the spectacular success of the "Motown sound," Holland/Dozier/Holland were as integral as any of its performers.
As the lead singer of The Miracles, Robinson possessed the kind of voice that could melt butter. Behind the scenes, he was no slouch either, writing and producing stellar hits such as Just To See Her, Tracks Of My Tears, Ooh Baby Baby, Tears Of A Clown, My Girl, My Guy and Get Ready. Other Robinson production credits include Mary Wells, The Temptations, Marvin Gaye, The Four Tops and the Supremes.
Joining Motown in 1963 as a composer/producer for The Temptations, Velvelettes and The Marvelettes, Whitfield set out to toughen up the acts he saw as too mellow on songs like Ain't Too Proud To Beg, Beauty Is Only Skin Deep and I'm Losing You. Whitfield's writing and production of I Heard It Through The Grapevine yielded hits for both Gladys Knight And The Pips and Marvin Gaye. Later, he scored triumphs with The Temptations's I Can't Get Next To You and Ball Of Confusion and Edwin Starr's War. A huge force in black music.
Veteran Atlantic label producer Tom Dowd began his career in the '50s and went on to record Aretha Franklin, Allman Bros, Eric Clapton, Rod Stewart, Wilson Pickett, Ray Charles, Otis Redding, Ornette Coleman, Joe Turner, Charles Mingus, The Drifters, The Young Rascals and James Brown. His working relationship with Eric Clapton lasted from the guitarist's days with Cream through Derek And The Dominos and his later solo successes. Dowd also supervised such classics as Live At Fillmore East by The Allman Brothers Band.
John Hammond Sr.
The guy knew how to pick 'em. As an influential influential talent scout, producer and critic for over five decades, Hammond was responsible for starting the careers of artists such as Billie Holiday, Count Basie, Charlie Christian, George Benson, Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Bruce Springsteen and Stevie Ray Vaughan. Hammond was no mere A&R man kicking back listening to tapes and saying "I don't get it." He went out and found it - and then made damn sure it happened.
Besides The Rolling Stones, The Beach Boys were the only band that made The Beatles sweat - and in truth, it was Brian Wilson who caused the real perspiration. As lead songwriter, bassist, singer and producer for the American surf pop combo, Wilson pioneered eight-channel multi-tracking. His "teenage symphonies to God," exemplified on shimmering tracks like Wouldn't It Be Nice and Good Vibrations, inspired Sgt. Pepper. Wilson would eventually opt out of touring with The Beach Boys so he could commit to writing and producing - and going crazy.
The guitarist's groundbreaking production of the first two Led Zeppelin records would warrant his inclusion on this list. But before those albums, Page was a Yardbird and an in-demand session player, and his productions for Screaming Lord Sutch, John Mayall, and Paul And The Fleur De Lys were causing a panic in the UK. Those early recordings taught Page much about mic placement, ambient sound and reverse echo - all of which would loom large in Led Zep's future.
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Why I'm not excited about the Higgs boson
A friend at work (@obviouscorp) asked me why the Higgs boson was such a big deal. And as nearly as I can tell, the answer is "It's not."
Now don't get me wrong. I think the discovery of a particle we have been hunting down for 50 years is a big deal. But I'm still not excited.
I happen to have a PhD in physics, but I left the field right after getting my degree almost 20 years ago. So I'm basically a layman at this point, but I do have a background in some of this stuff.
I've done a good amount of digging into articles, forums, etc., and I find that a lot of the information out there is confusing. This is my current understanding of what the Higgs actually is. It think it's basically right, but there is a chance that I have some of it wrong. If anyone who is current on the research can help correct any misperceptions I have, that would be awesome.
Different kinds of mass
Roughly speaking, scientists are interested in the Higgs field because it helps explain where mass comes from. But the word "mass" can mean many things.
The term "inertial mass" is the idea of how hard it is to push something. If something is massive, you need to apply more force in order to move it.
The term "gravitational mass" is the idea of how strongly a piece of matter attracts other things with mass. If something is massive, it pulls you toward itself.
As it turns out, these two concepts of mass are identical. In other words, if something is twice as heavy in terms of "hard to push", its gravity also pulls twice as hard.
The confusing molasses analogy
Many science writers talk about the Higgs field giving mass to particles by "slowing them down" like marbles traveling through molasses. This is obviously just a colorful metaphor, but I took this to mean that the Higgs field explained the concept of inertial mass, i.e., why massive things are hard to push.
If that were true, it would be super exciting, because it's such a fundamental concept. But I couldn't see how it could possibly be true, for a bunch of reasons.
As it turns out, that's not what scientists are saying. To understand what scientists are actually saying, you have to know a little bit about our current view of the world of subatomic particles.
Mass, vs. other properties
As far as we know, the "stuff" in the world is made up of quarks and leptons. An electron is an example of a lepton. There are six leptons total (or 12, if you count anti-particles). There are also six kinds of quarks (or 12, if you count anti-quarks). Finally, there are four force mediating particles (e.g, photons, gluons, etc.).
All of these particles have properties, like "charge". An electron has a -1 charge. An up quark has a +2/3 charge.
These properties tend to come in exact increments. For example, the spin of a particle can be 1/2, 1, -1/2, etc. Nothing in between.
Mass is different. The masses of particles have totally bizarre values. Photons have zero mass. Neutrinos (probably) have mass, but it is such a tiny, tiny amount of mass that we have trouble detecting their existence. Meanwhile, the top quark has as mass of 170GeV or so. That's something like 100 billion times heavier than a neutrino.
So scientists look at that and say "why is mass so weird?"
Rest mass vs. energy
The masses of particles I referred to above is more properly called "rest mass". We use that specific term because energy also counts toward "mass". If an electron is at rest, it has .5 MeV of mass. But if it's moving really fast, that electron has more mass because of the energy of its motion.
All kinds of energy contributes to mass. For example, let's look at protons.
A proton is composed of two up quarks and a down quark. But if you add up the "rest mass" of two up quarks and a down quark, you end up with much, much less mass than the mass of a proton. That's because 99% of the mass of a proton comes from the energy that binds all three quarks together. Weird, right? 99% of the mass is just energy. 1% comes from the rest mass of the stuff inside.
No more rest mass
Ok… with all that in mind, here's my current understanding of what it means for the Higgs field to be the source of mass.
The Higgs field lets you replace the rest mass of particles with another energy term, which means that all particles are massless, and there is no such thing as "rest mass". That makes our equations cleaner, and gets rid of a messy concept (rest mass).
That's pretty fundamental, so I guess I understand why people are excited.
Why do you keep saying "Higgs field" instead of "Higgs boson"?
In the standard model, all fields are mediated by force-carrying particles. The electromagnetic force is mediated by photons, and the strong force is mediated by gluons. It's kind of complicated, but the force and the particle are kind of the same thing.
When you talk about stuff that comes out of particle accelerators, you tend to talk about the particles (Higgs boson). When you talk about how they affect things in the world, you tend to talk about fields or forces (the Higgs field).
But it's all the same thing.
Why I'm not excited
Ok. So we found something that looks like the Higgs boson, which gives more weight to this theory that the Higgs field is the source of the rest mass of fundamental particles.
We still have the question of why the masses of particles are so different from one another. Before, we said "we have no idea what mass is, and why the values are so weird." Now, we say "rest mass comes from the Higgs field, and we have no idea why the coupling constants are so weird." (coupling constant is just a fancy way of saying "how much each kind of particle is affected by the Higgs field")
Now the normal answer to the question of why the coupling constants got to be the way they are is "spontaneous symmetry breaking", which is a fancy way of saying "it happened a long time ago, and was basically random".
I guess that's progress, but it's not super satisfying.
Another way to read the news is something like this: "Our model for how the universe works is still basically correct".
I guess that's news, but I would have been more excited by the opposite result.


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Judge: Urban Outfitters Case Can Continue
A federal judge has ruled that the Navajo Nation's lawsuit against Urban Outfitters can proceed.
Senior U.S. District Judge LeRoy Hansen filed an order on March 26 stating that the court is still considering allegations by the Navajo Nation against the retailer. However, as a report from the Farmington Daily-Times has noted, the court has dismissed some elements of the lawsuit.
The lawsuit stems from Urban Outfitters' use of the terms Navajo and Navaho in referring to products not made by the Navajo Nation. Court documents said that "The Navajo Nation alleges in its Amended Complaint that it and its members have been known by the name 'Navajo' since at least 1849, have continuously used the NAVAJO trademark in commerce, and have made the NAVAJO name and trademarks famous with numerous products."
The claims dismissed by the court were those that condemned the merchandise itself as "derogatory, scandalous, and contrary to the Navajo Nation's principles" and labeled the alternate spelling "Navaho" as "scandalous." The products that precipitated the lawsuit, which were re-labeled or pulled from stores altogether, included the "Navajo Hipster Panty" and the "Navajo Print Fabric Wrapped Flask."
The Daily-Times adds that the Navajo Nation has until the end of the week to file a revised amended complaint.


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ARON HELLER Monday, 05 June 2017 12:01 PM EDT
JERUSALEM — Israel had a secret plan to detonate an atomic bomb in Egypt in the event that it faced defeat during the 1967 Middle East war, a leading American think tank said Monday, citing newly released documents.
The operation was never carried out, as Israel swiftly vanquished its enemies in six days. But details about the doomsday scenario, in which Israel planned to set off a nuclear weapon atop a mountain in the Sinai Peninsula, shed new light on the fearful climate at the time. It also could undermine Israel's decades-long policy of nuclear ambiguity.
The Nuclear Proliferation International History Project of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington unveiled a website Monday devoted to "Operation Shimshon," the codename for the hastily arranged contingency plan of placing an improvised nuclear device in Sinai to be detonated upon the prime minister's orders.
The operation's name, Hebrew for Samson, invoked the biblical figure of great power and aimed to scare Arab armies into quitting their offensive should Israel face what was feared to be an existential threat.
The new information was based on interviews with Yitzhak Yaakov, a retired brigadier general who in 1967 was the chief liaison between the Israeli military and the civilian defense industries, including those overseeing the nuclear project.
In a series of interviews in 1999 with Avner Cohen, a leading scholar of Israeli nuclear history, Yaakov detailed how he came up with the plans at his superiors' urging and how a pair of helicopters was chosen for the mission along with forces from the elite Sayeret Matkal unit.
The selected landing site was a mountain in eastern Sinai, about 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the large Egyptian military complex in Abu Ageila. There, the semi-assembled "spider" device was to be connected with its nuclear core and linked to ignition wires.
"You've got an enemy, and he says he's going to throw you to the sea. You believe him," Yaakov said, according to a transcription of his taped interview with Cohen.
"How can you stop him?" he asked. "You scare him. If you've got something you can scare him with, you scare him."
The distance of the site from Egyptian population centers, and the relatively small size of the device, indicated that the plan was meant to send a message of deterrence, not inflict heavy damage.
In an accompanying essay, Cohen concludes that Israel's leadership did not seriously consider conducting a nuclear demonstration. But he said Yaakov's testimony was significant since it revealed that Israel had the capability to improvise a nuclear explosive device in June 1967.
Israel maintains a policy of nuclear ambiguity, neither confirming nor denying the existence of an arsenal. But it is widely believed to possess hundreds of nuclear bombs. Israeli officials have often hinted that the country possesses nuclear capabilities, and a former employee at Israel's nuclear reactor served 18 years in Israeli prison for leaking details and pictures of Israel's alleged nuclear weapons program to a British newspaper in 1986.
The Wilson center's project was first reported by the New York Times. Israel's Foreign Ministry had no comment.
But deputy minister Michael Oren, a former ambassador to the United States and a historian who has written extensively about the 1967 war, said he was convinced it never happened.
Oren said Cohen's paper relied on a single source, which was highly unusual among serious researchers. "It's not sound history," he said.
"I also interviewed Yitzhak Yaakov and I wasn't convinced that his story held water. Tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of classified documents from the Six-Day War have been released," he said, "and there is not even one shred that supports Avner Cohen's version. If there was something, we would have found additional evidence."
Yaakov died in 2013 at the age of 87. Cohen said he promised Yaakov he would publish his story at some point and said the 50th anniversary of the 1967 war this week seemed the appropriate time.
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text: MY LADY OF THE BREECHES A HISTORY --- WITH A VENGEANCE BY GEORGE RAFFALOVICH MY LADY OF THE BREECHES 0 THE FOOL "WOULD you marry me, then?" the widow said. "Yes, of course!" the man replied. "You are a greater fool than I took you for." "What do you mean?" he queried, vexed and puzzled. "Am I to take it that you had the intention --- that you were prepared ...?" "Go on." "I don't know." "I will be," she said, repressing a merry chuckle, "quite outspoken. I was prepared to ... do nothing. Had you formulated some reasonable request ... well, it might have ended otherwise. But marriage! Whom do you take me for?" And the lady --- she was dark-haired --- whistled to her favourite monkey, a reddish animal, who bounded on her lap. Lionel Tabard left them both, in their inspiring contrast; never unfrowning his well-shaped but delusive brow. A few days later, he attempted to kiss the whimsical widow, who then horse- whipped him, meaning to teach him --- not manners, but a-propos. Then she laughed. But he proved unintelligent, and never repeated his insult. Hence a nasty nickname from her lips. {27} I THE JUGGLER "AND he well deserves it!" "oh! it must have been ripping. I do wish I had been there; ... the horse- whip, and the monkey. He is such a silly fellow, poor 'cheval hongre!" "Ah, yes! the new nickname." "Don't you think that it fits him?" "Oh, yes." The silent man of the party moved uneasily in his armchair. He was slow of cogitation. "Like the waistcoat of the late Nessus fitted Hercules, eh, what?" he suggested. "A fool!" "Hercules?" "No, Lionel ... and, er ... yes, Hercules also. Tabard reminds me of that Bible chap." "Potiphar's Joseph!" the silent man exclaimed triumphantly. "Wrong again, Bernard. I meant Mary's Joseph." The silent man threw his cigar over the fender. II LA PAPESSE LIONEL TABARD had been horse-whipped by a woman; he had received --- to taken --- no compensation. This I attribute to his mother. One reads many tales, the paper thereof being {28} damnably wasted; in most of these, mothers are all author-made angels --- sweet, loving, kind, forbearing, forgiving creatures, who feel the responsibility they undertook when they called upon a part of the spiritual world to come down among us. Of course, such mothers are the ideal mothers of a perfect human race, and the authors may consider themselves justified. Nevertheless, let us be true in this one history, and acknowledge the fact that some mothers are a thoroughly bad lot. They are mostly to be found among the well-to-do people, I suppose --- and I do not wonder. When I see a mother smiling upon her grown-up son, I feel very sad. I remember my own parent ... There! I called this a history --- with a vengeance. You have it. Now for a lesson in psychology. Lionel's mother was queen and "regente" of bad parents. She was cleaver, but void of reasoning powers; inclined to religious mania, her immediate neighbourhood was crowded with foul larvae. In a legal and womanly manner she had despatched her first husband to the night of a Sanatorium and thence to an early grave. She had suffered badly at the hands of her second. This we may take a being the coarsest form of that automatic justice, which is dealt only to the coarsest natures. It had not, however, extirpated an iota of her fund of self-esteem and lust for authority. To the latter, Lionel had often fallen a victim. he was born bright and happy; the Houses had done well by him. His mother gradually turned him into a self-concentrated, self-conscious, frightened and deceitful youth. She had mentally emasculated him; and, in his fits of understanding, he cursed her with no mean-spirited lips. He never forgave her the death of his {29} father, her lying, under-handed ways, especially her brutality. his was a noble hatred, utter, blood-thirsty, virulent, eternal. After years of melancholy and the physical consequences thereof, Lionel Tabard found himself free from his tyrannical parent. He soon forgot her, and, as the Divine Blinkings passed by, his recollection became less and less distinct. he only remembered two facts. She had once, during his sleep, broken a bone of his nose with a poker, because he snored; and, at another time, she had broken in two a valuable riding-crop on his shoulder. Her death pleased him. But his constitution was much weakened by boyish exertions and the physical feeling of emptiness and marrowlessness, the consequences of his shyness and lack of sportsmanship. The first use he had to make of his freedom and of his fortune was to book a cabin on the first liner bound for New Zealand, where he was let to expect a total recovery. III THE EMPRESS LIONEL lived on a large estate, rode, hunted, played games, was made love to; discovered the joys of Nature, the pleasures kept in reserve for man by Isis, and the superiority of the numbers two and three over the unity. He found, to his surprise, that women could take interest in him. His shyness was apparent, but tempted them. In this eyes they met an eager hungry expression, a longing infinite for all things human, which tickled their desires. He seemed to be ever staring at an invisible goal. The goal was the Tree of the {30} full knowledge. Lionel felt within himself a tenacious longing, a perpetual desire. His lack of physical courage as counterbalanced by his intellectual daring; he meant to collar the Angel, and to re-enter the Paradise of that first victim of womanhood, Adam of the bent shoulders, Adam of the foolish resignation to the self-preserving decree of the frightened divinities. His errors of tactics were caused by the fact that he hoped to test the apple without the help of Woman. Often enough, Lionel Tabard unwittingly repelled the advances of many a feminine would-be initiator. VI1 THE LOVER BUT he was not prompted by the wisdom of a Master; merely by cowardice and self-consciousness. He could not command love and desires; the angels of love and desires therefore digged a deep trap before his feet... Tabard was sitting in the verandah. The men had gone to bed, the women also. He lighted his pipe, the use of which a life in open air had permitted his lungs to tolerate. He was thinking, pondering, meditating upon the most important matter in life, the personal one. He looked at his hands, white, well shaped, well kept, but the left retaining a stiffer and curved appearance. Lionel felt ashamed of himself. He took his watch in his hand and looked at the time of night. {31} Twenty-one minutes past one o'clock --- the day war marching towards its first duality. The door opened behind him, and the creaking wood caused him to jump up. The daughter of his host stood in her night-garments, a poem in pale green and white. She said nothing; and he imitated the wisdom of her silence. His heart began a wild, unhealthy fandango; his temples ached; his legs shook under him. He felt himself paling; strange impulses prompted him to a return to ancestral savagery. Alas, he sadly lacked experience. However, the woman had burned her vessels, and meant to help him. "Lionel," she said, "I have come." "I see," he managed to answer hoarsely, but the words in his throat seemed to feel like two huge hard lumps. "Kiss me!" Instinctively he stepped towards her and opened his arms. She fell heavily within their embrace. She hugged herself close against his breast and nestled on him, her eyes half-closed, her tongue and teeth searching blindly and savagely for his lips. Contrary to his expectations, and more according to some of his past sensations and fears, Lionel Tabard felt more uneasiness than joy, more pain than pleasure. He congratulated himself upon the fact that the cool night had caused him to dress warmly, and that he had not trusted his body to the protection of the garment to which he owed his surname. As it was, the fierce Maenad was overcome by her passion ere she could have made him take a share in it. Nevertheless, Woman often wins through sheer obstinacy, {32} and Lionel allowed himself to be conquered. Gradually, as the relations between them grew with the force of habit, his disgust increased, while his condescension plunged him deeper into the pit. He longed to tear himself away, and gradually discovered that she had become a necessity to him. He lost pleasure in himself and found none in her; finally he played an old trick and caused a telegram to be sent, calling him away. He swore to return speedily --- which he didn't. He sailed back to Europe, found himself in London, where his first experience caused him to waver between eagerness and self-consciousness. At that time, he met with the adventure which I related. A young widow horse- whipped him. Lionel was still very far from his salvation. 1 For reasons which are obvious to anyone who has mixed the Gluten of the White Eagle with the Red Powder, or accomplished the Third Projection, the order of the Tarot trumps cannot any longer be preserved. Nor will their number exceed seven. IX THE HERMIT HE went to seek it in the wilderness. A cottage green as a lizard, surrounded by flowers and trees, well furnished, well kept by a couple of servants, male and female, such was the chosen retreat. It proved very comfortable --- and lonely. He pursued his education, often troubled by horrid visions, when he saw himself the centre of a stage where men and women crowded above, around, and beneath him. They reminded him of the terrible prediction of the French poet, who showed the two sexes dying away, irrevocably parted, La femme ayant Gomorrhe et l'homme ayant Sodome.2 All the Messalines and Circes of an impure sex were {33} balancing before him their tempting, repulsive, holy and foul, loose or firm, twin breasts. Himself, cloven-hoffed and curl-horned, had to flagellate his own flesh with iron chains, which failed to overcome the moral urtication, as had the repeated physical purgings of his early years. narcissus, in a corner, pale and smiling, urged him to renewed efforts; Spirits, both incubi and succubae, thrusting themselves upon him, ate him away... But all these dreams gradually faded out. Lionel had become a translucid set of bones, with two big eyes heavily crowned. The time of his knowledge had come. XV THE DEVIL I TRUST I said nothing that could lead the reader into the belief that the cottage was a lonely spot. Men and women lived in its almost immediate neighbourhood. Among others, Sir Anthony Lawthon and his daughters. I propose that we concern ourselves solely with the eldest of these, Mary Lawthon. I hardly know how to describe her. She was a woman of six and twenty, most easy to understand, very simple and very complex, simple in her complexity, complex in her simplicity. To men she seemed a man, strong, healthy, a rough- rider, a ski-runner, a champion in many sports, who smoked her pipe and emptied her glass passing well. To women she seemed a woman, whose hands were ever ready for a soft caress, whose lips were full and red, whose skin was velvet. As a whole, she was very manly in her life, speech and {34} habit. She dressed often as a man; and, one day, riding by Lionel's cottage, she noticed the thin-armed youth whose eyes were big and haloed. Their eyes met; she smiled, he trembled. Both were pleased. The next day rose and brought them again together. A formal introduction followed. Mary the male conquered Lionel the female. Thereafter, the "cheval hongre" lost his nickname. Nor did he give any widow the chance of horse-whipping him again. XVIII THE MOON THEY were very happy; he learnt the joy of health and the ineffable delectation of surrender; she the thrilling pain-pleasure of possession. Here, she, being the heroine of our tale, passes out of it. They are very happy. Man and woman. The complete being. May their love last longer than the bee's! 2 Alfred de Vigny: "Col?re de Samson." GEORGE RAFFALOVICH


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In an interview with Fox News Channel Friday, the Alaska governor said she was disappointed that the McCain campaign decided to stop competing in Michigan. In an indication that the vice presidential candidate had not been part of the decision, she said she had "read that this morning and I fired off a quick e-mail" questioning the move.
"Todd and I, we'd be happy to get to Michigan and walk through those plants of the car manufacturers," Palin said, referring to her husband. "We'd be so happy to get to speak to the people in Michigan who are hurting because the economy is hurting."
Palin acknowledged the GOP ticket's lackluster poll ratings in the state, but said: "I want to get back to Michigan and I want to try."
Word of the McCain campaign's decision to move staff out of Michigan and stop advertising in the state broke around midday Thursday -- the same day as Palin's vice presidential debate against Democrat Joe Biden. The campaign had decided Wednesday night that the $1 million a week it was spending in Michigan wasn't worth it with internal polls showing Democratic nominee Barack Obama approaching a double-digit lead.
On Friday, Palin sought to re-establish herself as an asset for Republican John McCain's struggling presidential candidacy, branding their Democratic rivals as liberals not ready to lead in a time of crisis.
Fresh off an upbeat debate performance, Palin told a ballroom full of $1,000 donors in Dallas that McCain advisers warned her that Biden was "a skilled debater."
"Now I know what they meant," she said. "He did his best to convince us that the two most liberal members of the Senate belong in the White House. But that was a tough sell, and especially in a time of crisis for our country."
The Alaska governor's fiesty tone came as she eased back into the campaign trail. She attended two fundraisers Friday in Texas and also meet privately with Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens to discuss energy policy. Pickens, once a major Republican Party donor, is sitting out this campaign to promote a plan to expand wind power.
As a governor of Alaska, Palin has dealt with a variety of oil and gas issues. She told the Dallas donors that as vice president, "one issue I will be leading is energy independence."
The campaign has planned a series of rallies for Palin in other battlegrounds. Among the stops scheduled for the days ahead are Colorado, Florida, North Carolina and Pennsylvania. She will also be in California this weekend for a fundraiser and rally.
Based on the schedule, the campaign appears to be relying on Palin to invigorate Republican voters in Colorado and North Carolina, states that have reliably voted Republican in past presidential elections. Obama leads in polls in Florida and Pennsylvania.
Palin is hitting the road after being sequestered for three days of debate preparation at McCain's Sedona, Ariz., compound and after interviews with ABC and CBS where she stumbled over foreign and domestic policy issues.
Palin told Fox News that she would spend more time speaking to reporters, a switch from the tightly managed media relations during the past month.
"I look forward to speaking to the media more and more every day and providing whatever access the media would want," Palin said.
Palin said she had been "annoyed" in her interviews with CBS News anchor Katie Couric and had been caught off guard when asked what newspapers and magazines she read and to name Supreme Court decisions she disagreed with -- questions Palin appeared not to be able to answer.
Her responses, Palin said, were "an indication of being outside that Washington elite, outside of the media elite also."
But Palin held her own in the debate with Biden, displaying facility with some issues such as energy and comfort as an advocate for McCain and as a hard-hitting critic of Obama.
Later, in San Antonio, she let on that she was breathing a little easier now.
"Last night was fun, the debate," she told donors at the Marriott Rivercenter. "I was glad it was over when it ended."


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The Greenlee County Treasurer serves the county in many capacities. The Treasurer is responsible for the cash management of county, school district and special district funds. Duties include collection of real and personal property taxes, payment of warrants and distribution of funds for all taxing authorities, receipt of revenue, debt service payments on bonds and investment of all funds on deposit.
Our goal in the Treasurer's office is to provide our taxpayers with friendly and courteous service and to fulfill the duties to all entities in an honest and efficient manner.
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SRS To Increase Funding For Domestic Violence Victims
KSCB News - May 4, 2012 8:24 am
Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services Secretary Phyllis Gilmore announced Thursday that the agency will offer $2 million in grants directly to the state's community domestic violence centers to fund the services they provide to clients of SRS' Temporary Assistance to Need Families (TANF) program who have been victims of domestic violence.
This will be an effective increase of $600,000 for the local programs.
"Funding domestic violence programs directly through the community providers will allow us to deliver services and support straight to the victims," Secretary Gilmore said. "In addition to increased funding, the community programs will have more flexibility and be able to better tailor their programs to individual needs."
The grants will go into effect July 1, which marks the beginning of the state's fiscal year.
The community programs provide support and a safe haven for victims of sexual and domestic violence, focusing primarily on women and children. They deliver direct services, such as counseling, victim advocacy and prevention and public awareness campaigns.
The Kansas Coalition against Sexual and Domestic Violence (KCSDV) decided to withdraw its bid to oversee case management for the local providers this week. SRS's current $1.7 million contract with KCSDV will expire June 30.
"We are not surprised that KCSDV is backing away from providing services for the approximately 450 TANF clients in the domestic violence program," the Secretary said. "KCSDV had been struggling to meet our new accountability standards for several months."
"We tried to work with them, but in the end the bid that KCSDV submitted did not meet even the minimum performance standards set in the request for bid, and they were the only bidder," Secretary Gilmore said. "As a result of their withdrawal, we have decided to take the program in house, manage it ourselves and provide direct funding to the community programs," she said.
"We are working to get this funding in place to provide to local programs so these services will continue to be supplied without disruption," the Secretary said. "We are also reaching out to the tribal groups that, in the past, have not been included in the program."


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Icebergs are large pieces of ice that are floating in the ocean. They broke off of ice shelves or glaciers in Earths polar regions. Icebergs are a part of the cryosphere.
Almost all of an iceberg is below the surface of the seawater. Because ice is less dense than water, a small portion of the iceberg stays above the seawater. Some icebergs are small. Others are huge. The largest ones are known as ice islands.
In 1912, a brand new ship called the RMS Titanic, collided with an iceberg in the North Atlantic on its first voyage. The collision caused the boat to break apart and sink. Only about a quarter of the passengers and crew who were on board the Titanic survived the shipwreck. Since then, people have been keeping track of the location of icebergs and warning sailors when the danger is high. In an average year, nearly 500 icebergs pass through the shipping routes in the North Atlantic Ocean. Today satellites are used to keep track of the icebergs locations.
As they travel from the polar areas where they form into warmer waters, the ice melts, and icebergs become smaller.


text: Dragon Lord Walk around outside of house and pick up hammer (back of house) and sword (in cart). Talk to uncle. Take right path and continue to pasture area. Get bone. Go back to previous screen and give bone to dog. Get bowl in previously blocked area. Return to house and give bowl to uncle. Get all items from house (sulphur, rope, flint, shield, armour, walking stick). Put on armour and shield. Take left path and get cow. Use Rope. Go all the way back around the path to the pasture. Tie rope on tree. Return to house and talk to uncle. He gives you ring and whistle. Take left path. Use whistle on dog. Go to circle of stones. Enter left skull. Get key. Enter right skull. Use key on grate. Either fight skeleton or go past him. Continue halfway down hall. Turn right and push button. Get out of way of rolling stone. If you didn't kill skeleton previously, the rolling stone has now. Go look at pieces of rock. Take key. Go back down hall and use key on iron grid. Go down trapdoor. Use ring on door. Use ring on casket. Talk to dragon. Get spell for Open Door. Leave. Continue down path. Talk to knight. Continue down path. Enter cave. To the left you will find a peculiarity with the wall. Use hammer. Take spellbook. Put spell in spellbook. Walk up to door. Cast Open Door spell. Go down path. Visit Inn on left. Talk to occupants (several times). Receive ladle. Go across to cave and kill dragon fly. Go to far side of cave and use ladle. Return to Inn. Give ladle to occupants. Receive a morning star, rope and fireball spell. Add fireball spell to spellbook. Go outside and continue journey. Use fireball spell to pass through web. Continue down road. Talk to black knight. Kill creature and get axe and pole. Use pole on ferry. Cross river. Continue down road. Find skull beside flytrap. Join skull and rope. Use on tree. Talk to knight on other side. Continue down road. Talk to knight in mushroom village. Take path near knight back across river. Take left path at fountain and enter tree house. Talk to woman with wings and receive cog. Go upstairs and get cloth from drawers. Exit house. Return to fountain. Take path to left. Take an apple and give it to dog. Activate lever which takes you up to tree house. Talk to woman with wings and take key. Activate lever in tree house to get back down. Go back to fountain. Wet cloth in fountain. Put cloth on face. Enter area with flowers. Get blue flowers. Go back to mushroom village. Eat blue flowers. Kill scorpion. Enter mushroom by dead scorpion. Go upstairs. Talk to Sprite. Receive Reveal Illusion spell. Put spell in spellbook. Go back outside. Find blue potion (heals hit points). Search for other mushroom you can enter. Go upstairs. Search cabinet beside bed. Find green potion. Go outside. Drink green potion. Return to flower area. Follow path on far left and find a Japanese Knight. Talk to him. Place cog on wall. Find illusionary door to the right. Cast Dispel Illusion. Enter. Find torch (talk to knight while there), pail (fill with water from far right room), place pail of water on lever outside, enter grate, get silver chest, go back outside and enter illusionary door again and find skeleton on a bed. Give skeleton the silver chest. Receive ring. Go to door at end of room. Use torch. Go outside. Talk to knight. Follow path to river. Jump in. Get swallowed by carp. Take diamond. Use weapon on inside of fish. Carp spits you out on opposite shore. Go to waterfalls. Go down bank. Go through and behind waterfalls. Give diamond to turtle dragon. Take huge crystal from previously blocked location. Exit cave and return to river. Jump in river (this time you jump out on opposite side). Return to knight. Give him huge crystal (he promises his vote). Return to falls. Take stepping stones across. Follow path. Go to the top of stonehenge. Accept challenge of knight. Receive pick. Go down to path. Go to right until you are on path. Turn around so you face end of path. Use pick on rocks in front of you. Follow path. Talk to black knight. Cut down tree. Approach two thugs. Kill both. Take possessions. Open bag and remove vase. Dispose of broken vase. Follow path. Talk to duo in front of castle. Give vase to duo. Follow path to castle. Enter castle. Take door to left. Show ring to small dragon guarding door. Enter castle. Kill zombie. Explore rooms. In bedroom, push metal bracket on log grate. Go through curtain. Get key from ceiling light. Use key on chest. Take portion of crest. From chapel, take water shaker. Go to opposite end of chapel. Go through door on right. Take candles and bible. Go back to chapel. Insert candles in candelabra. Get another piece of seal. In library, click on man size dragon and find out how to release spirit. Take stairs down. Get sword to right. Go back upstairs and go to room with table and fireplace. Use sword on coat of arms which is missing a sword. Take final piece of crest. Join pieces of family seal together. Go back to main room. In room in upper left corner (referenced by where you first came in), find dragon effigy and stone eyeball (break half full bottle). Go downstairs. Place seal on door. Search all rooms. Climb ladder and find broken key. Search other rooms. Find stone eyeball in skeleton's skull on bed. Find another stone eyeball under blanket in another room. Find ladle in kitchen area. Find crowbar in banquet area. Find charcoal in room off blacksmith area. Find forge hammer and hacksaw in blacksmith area. Put charcoal in brazier. Use ladle to get water from trough. Use flint on sulphur. Use fire to light charcoal. Use bellows. Put broken key in charcoal. Put key on anvil. Use blacksmith hammer on key. Use ladle of water on key. Take key. Go back to main room. Use key on door that wouldn't open. Search weapon room for another stone eyeball. Use the four stone eyeball on the two skeleton heads in this room. The crystal containers will disappear. Take all items (sword, shield, crossbow, key). Go back outside to the large room. Take skeleton in centre cell. Use skeleton on the skelton in the right cell. Use the bible. Use the holy water shaker. Click on skeleton to free him. Go up to room with pool of water. Jump in. Get crank. Jump out of water. Go back down and use crank on dragon head. Go back up to pool room (water is now gone). Jump in pool and go through door. Follow path around to find dragon. Receive items. Go back upstairs. Go back to first entrance to castle. Use sleeping powder on dragon. Take sphere. Go back inside castle. Go to door with stairs up. Use magic powder and go upstairs. Find 4 metal balls - 1 in bedside table in first room left (kill skeleton after entering, Ball in next room), 1 in plant to left in second hallway, 1 in nursery, 1 in bookcase. In room with balcony, go arond balcony and talk to stone imp. Take imp. Go to hallway with window looking into egg. Use hacksaw on window. Place sphere in nest. Use pliers on sphere. Take baby dragon back to large dragon in basement. Receive item from dragon. Use stone imp on dragon. Dragon flies you to top of castle. Get teleport spell and vial of blood. Teleport back to dragon. Talk to dragon. Go back upstairs to room with eagle. Take twig from fireplace. Use flint on sulphur. Use fire on twig. Use lit twig on eagle. Use 4 metal balls in the holes in front of the eagle. Eagle opens up. Take talon. Go back to hallway with stairs leading up to door. Use key from basement. Go into room with several pots. Find pot with hole in the bottom. Use talon to get key which was hanging over eagle. Climb stairs and use key from over eagle. Go through door. Talk to mage. Place items from basement (sword, shield, crossbow) in the pentagram. Go up to next level. Take Ruby from railing. Go back to mage. Talk to mage. Teleport to skull cave. Use ruby on coffin. Take dragon armour. Teleport back to mage. Talk to mage. Get cup and amulet. Take amulet out of cup. Follow mage's instructions. Take dragon effigy and break it. Receive crystal ball. Teleport to dragon. Enter back room and take dragon saddle and lance. Put on dragon armour. Use saddle on dragon. You are flown to vote where you either become a dragon lord or are turned down. If you followed these instructions, you became a dragon lord.


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NORMAN, Okla. - West Virginia assistant football coach Joe DeForest is at the center of a Sports Illustrated investigative report that alleges years of misconduct within Oklahoma State's football program that includes paying players and providing sex to prospective recruits. The magazine informed OSU officials of the investigation and many of its findings late last month, according to The Oklahoman newspaper. The series of stories is expected to begin in the next few days. DeForest is a key figure in the investigation, which alleges that the improprieties occurred primarily between 2001 and 2007 under head coaches Les Miles and Mike Gundy, but continued in some fashion as late as 2011. DeForest was an assistant coach at Oklahoma State during all of that period, primarily as a safeties coach and special teams coordinator. Among the most damning accusations is that as recently as 2011 he was running a bonus program that paid players for specific plays. DeForest, who was hired by WVU coach Dana Holgorsen in January of 2012 as his defensive coordinator and associate head coach, denied the accusations Saturday. West Virginia athletic director Oliver Luck late Saturday afternoon issued a statement in response to the news and said WVU would begin its own investigation. "West Virginia University is aware of an upcoming investigative reporting series in Sports Illustrated which, while focused on another institution, includes allegations against one of our current assistant football coaches regarding his time of employment at his previous institution,'' Luck said. "Upon learning of the pending investigative report, WVU launched an internal review to ensure the coach's full compliance to NCAA rules while at West Virginia. The NCAA has also been contacted. While our assistant football coach has denied the allegations, it is the right thing to do to look into the matter and review practices here.'' Holgorsen also coached at Oklahoma State, although for just one year (2010). DeForest, who is one of two WVU assistants who make $500,000 a year, spent less than a full season as the school's defensive coordinator before he was replaced by Keith Patterson. West Virginia's defense was among the worst in the nation in 2012. DeForest is now just the team's special teams coach, one of only about a dozen assistants in the country who hold that position as a full-time job and almost certainly the highest-paid of that group. He also retained his title as associate head coach. Initially it was believed that DeForest was not working under a formal contract. He had worked under only a term sheet his first season, one which stipulated that DeForest's "appointment is made at the will and pleasure of the Director of Athletics, and your service in this position or termination from it is at the discretion of the Director of Athletics.'' Nowhere in the letter, dated Jan. 12, 2012, was there a specific length of term mentioned. However, WVU sources said Saturday night that between January and now DeForest has signed a formal contract. The details aren't known except that he still makes $500,000. The term of the contract and any buyouts are likely included. The WVU source also confirmed that DeForest is no longer the only WVU assistant coach making half a million dollars annually. Patterson, the new defensive coordinator, was apparently bumped up to that figure as well, although the university never mentioned it publicly. The Sports Illustrated project alleges that both coaches and boosters paid athletes at Oklahoma State, including paying them for jobs not performed or overpaying them, in addition to the pay-for-plays accusations. It also alleges academic fraud, drug use and that hostesses in the Orange Pride program provided sex to recruits. Oklahoma State president Burns Hargis issued a statement calling the accusations "deeply troubling.'' AP photo Joe DeForest before the game. Reach Dave Hickman at 304-348-1734 or [email protected] or follow him at Twitter.com/dphickman1. |
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WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court continued to hear arguments today in Chamber of Commerce v. Whiting, the first challenge to the recent wave of state and local anti-immigrant laws to reach the Supreme Court. The case, brought by a broad coalition of civil rights and business groups including the American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Arizona, MALDEF, the National Immigration Law Center (NILC) and the United States Chamber of Commerce, challenges an Arizona law that imposes penalties on businesses that the state determines have employed workers not lawfully authorized to work in the U.S.
One of the strictest such state laws in the nation, the Arizona scheme imposes severe sanctions on employers who have hired unauthorized workers and improperly requires all employers in the state to participate in an employment verification database system, E-Verify, that is explicitly voluntary under federal law. The coalition's lawsuit charges that the Arizona law conflicts with federal law and violates the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution. The United States Justice Department has filed a brief supporting the coalition's position.
The following quotes can be attributed as stated:
Omar C. Jadwat, staff attorney with the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project: "Arizona's employer sanctions law is an unwise, unfair and unconstitutional attempt to unilaterally override federal law that creates an unacceptable risk of discrimination against lawful workers. The Court should firmly reject the Arizona law."
Linton Joaquin, National Immigration Law Center General Counsel: "In enacting comprehensive regulation of immigrant employment in 1986, Congress expressly prohibited state laws such as the Legal Arizona Workers Act. Arguments presented today illustrated the dangers workers and employers face from such unjust and unconstitutional state efforts to create their own immigration regulations. We are hopeful that the Court will finally put this matter to rest and quell the rising tide of state-level anti-immigrant legislation, which would result in an untenable system of patchwork immigration policy."
Cynthia Valenzuela Dixon, MALDEF Director of Litigation: "We hope that after hearing oral argument today, the Supreme Court understands and agrees that Arizona's unconstitutional law carries with it serious civil rights implications. Congress created E-Verify as a voluntary program for good reason. The government's own studies show that E-Verify is riddled with problems, and that the error rates are significantly higher for naturalized citizens, foreign-born workers with employment authorization, and workers with non-English surnames. Allowing states and local jurisdictions to mandate what Congress made voluntary would blatantly disregard the civil rights protections that Congress purposely put into place."
Attorneys representing the plaintiffs Valle del Sol, Chicanos por la Causa and Somos America include Jadwat, Lucas Guttentag and Jennifer Chang Newell of the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project; Daniel Pochoda of the ACLU of Arizona; Jonathan Weissglass and Stephen Berzon of Altshuler Berzon LLP; Valenzuela Dixon of MALDEF; and Joaquin and Karen C. Tumlin of NILC.


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Hey there,
I had a massive clean up of my craft room this weekend - wow - how on earth did I manage to accumulate so much stuff? It is a really good feeling to clear it all out and actually realise what is in there. I could actually see my desk for once, well, for a little while anyway ;)
Still having fun playing with these new stamps over here.... This is Sweetness Angel Tilda from the new A Touch of Love collection.
I have coloured her with Copics and fussy cut. She's really cute! I think she has to be my favourite for this collection.. but I still have a few more to colour yet so that is still open to change.
The papers are Kaisercraft. Die cuts are a mix of Magnolia Doo Hickeys and Lawn Fawn Lawn Cuts.
Ribbon and flowers are a mix from Ribbon Girl and Live Love Crafts.
My little guys are still home on summer school holidays..... three weeks to go!
They've been enjoying a few crafty days too.
I'm sure I'll be back with another card orr project to share soon.


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Stocks climbed on Wall Street, led by materials and energy companies after a rally in commodity prices.
The Dow Jones industrial average was up 62 points to 14,677 as of 3:50 p.m. The Standard & Poor's 500 index climbed eight points, or 0.6%, to 1,571.
The prices of metals like copper, gold and silver have rebounded this week after slumping for the first three months of the year on waning demand. Oil is also rising following a sharp decline last week.
"You're seeing some pretty decent action in the overall market, with today's leadership coming from the basic materials sector," said Robert Pavlik, chief market strategist at Banyan Partners. "It's an area of the market that does represent some value because it's underperformed."
Material companies were the biggest gainers of the 10 industry groups in the S&P 500, rising 1.2%. Energy companies posted the second best return, advancing 1%.
Cliff's Natural Resources, an iron ore mining company, rose $1.54, or 8.2%, to $20.32. The company's stock is still down 47% this year. Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, another mining company, was up $1.34, or 4.1%, at $33.77.
The stock of First Solar Inc. soared after the solar panel maker issued a better-than-expected outlook for 2013 and solid predictions for the following two years, helped by continued growth in shipments. The stock price rose nearly $13, or 46%, to $39.52.
Tuesday's advances put the Dow on track for a record close and suggested that a three week period of indecisiveness for traders and investors may be over.
The stock market has mostly moved sideways since the middle of March. The Dow has alternated between small gains and losses, after starting the year on a tear. Signs of slowing growth and concerns about the outlook for Europe had checked investors' confidence.
Alcoa, traditionally the first company in the Dow to report results, was little changed at $8.40 after the company posted its earnings late Monday. The aluminum producer's earnings beat Wall Street's expectations but the company was still weighed down by depressed aluminum prices, which offset strong demand from auto and plane makers.
Online auto retailer CarMax, home goods retailer Bed Bath & Beyond and banks Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase are among companies that will report earnings later this week.
Investors will be looking to see whether companies are feeling an impact from government spending cuts that kicked in recently, said Jim Russell, investment director at U.S. Bank. They will also want to know what impact there will be from the ongoing debt crisis in Europe.
"The market is looking for companies to fill in those blanks," said Mr. Russell.
J.C. Penney Co. plunged $1.87, or 12%, to $13.99 following its ouster of CEO Ron Johnson after only 17 months on the job. J.C. Penney announced late Monday that it had rehired Johnson's predecessor, Mike Ullman, who was CEO of the department store operator for seven years until November 2011.
Analysts and investors are questioning whether Mr. Ullman has what it takes to turn around the retailer's fortunes after sales plummeted under Johnson's reign.
The Russell 2000 index, a measure of small companies rose two points, or 1.1 percent, to 933. The index has slumped this month after rising 12 percent in the first quarter and performing better than both the Dow and S&P 500.
The Nasdaq composite gained 18 points to 3,240.
While stocks are struggling to extend their gains from the start of the year, bonds have rallied.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury note was unchanged at 1.75%. But the benchmark rate has fallen from a high of 2.06% reached March 11 as demand for low-risk assets increases.