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In Memoriam: Rick Woudenberg
On retreat, we have the opportunity to deeply experience the value of simplicity, of being, stillness, and solitude. These are doorways that open into a deeper understanding of Emptiness, through which we see more clearly how our lives and the life of this planet are inextricably interwoven, and that how we live and what we do really matters.
Upon entering a new century together, can we learn to meet life with compassion rather than judgment? With generosity rather than greed? With humility instead of arrogance? With the intention to include rather than exclude? And with a genuine openness to what we do not know, and therefore might fear? I believe these are urgent questions for the global situation, and rich questions for Dharma inquiry.
For several years, I have been teaching classes in meditation and the creative process. I see the creative process (in whatever medium) as a living engagement with the understanding of the Heart Sutra that "form is no other than emptiness, emptiness no other than form." For those who practice Dharma, engaging in a creative process is a bridge between the stillness of meditation and the activity of the world. It teaches us about non-doing and non-clinging in action.

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BROOKFIELD — The last thing he heard before the bobcat's fangs and claws sank into his flesh was hissing.
Roger D. Mundell Jr. had just stepped into his garage at 9 a.m. Sunday to retrieve some tie-down ratchet straps for a friend waiting in a car outside. At the time, he didn't realize that the other door to the garage had been left open.
He heard the hiss and barely had time to register what it meant.
"In an instant it was on me. It jumped up and bit me above the eye, on my forehead. I have claw marks on the back of my shoulders, like it had me in bear hug," Mr. Mundell recalled Sunday night.
He was wearing a military winter field jacket, which he was able to shrug off over his head, dislodging the bobcat. Mr. Mundell said he dashed out of the garage and slammed the door behind him just in time to see the leaping feline hit the window in the door at full speed.
But the bobcat got out through the other door.
Mr. Mundell's wife came out of the house to see what the commotion was about. They went to warn his 15-year-old nephew, who was outside helping prepare a trailer to be towed away, but the bobcat beat him there, Mr. Mundell said.
"My forehead and face were bleeding like crazy already. I'm just in a T-shirt now, so my arms are exposed, and I have to go after this thing on my nephew. It scratched up my arms pretty good," Mr. Mundell said.
Mr. Mundell said his wife got some metal crutches out of a car, which they used to try to pin the wild animal down. He shouted for his wife to go get a semi-automatic pistol from inside the house as the hissing bobcat struggled to free itself, he said.
Mr. Mundell said he shot and killed the bobcat in his driveway.
He estimated the animal weighed about 40 pounds, slightly smaller than the family dog, but strong and lightning fast in its attack.
His nephew was bitten a couple of times on the forearm and back and had several scratches. Mr. Mundell had several deep puncture wounds from the bobcat's fangs on his face and more than two dozen scratches all over him, he said.
State Environmental Police took the bobcat's body away to have it tested for rabies, but, given its behavior, Mr. Mundell and his nephew, as well as his wife, got the first of several rounds of rabies shots yesterday as a precaution. His wife has to be treated for rabies exposure, Mr. Mundell said, because he handed the blood-spattered gun to her to engage the safety latch.
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"If it didn't have rabies, as soon as it got out of the garage, it would have run away. It just went right for my nephew," Mr. Mundell said.
The Mundells live on 10 acres down a long driveway off Route 9, near the Clam Box restaurant. The family's land is surrounded by an even larger tract owned by Mr. Mundell's father, so it's not unusual to see deer, turkeys and other wildlife on the property, he said.
A friend had come by to do some cross-country skiing on the property Saturday and reported seeing a bobcat, Mr. Mundell said. The friend had two dogs with her and the bobcat kept its distance, she said.
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The Law Offices of Scanlon & Wojton have extensive personal injury litigation and insurance settlement experience regarding accident claims and wrongful death civil actions. They can represent victims in court, or file insurance claims when an injured party is not fully at fault. It is in the best interests of insurance companies to close out claims in a timely manner, so it is important for accident victims to consult with an attorney soon after a mishap occurs. To that end, an experienced attorney may use their expert resources by:
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Pennsylvania laws provide for compensation, based on assigned fault and proven claims of negligence, when dangerous mishaps occur in the workplace, on private property, on public property, under medical care, during vacation, or in motor vehicles. An injury attorney in Atwood PA can explain how the law applies in each setting and offer a timeline for making a legal claim.
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In a recent conversation with my friend Knut Rostad, the founder and CEO of the Institute for the Fiduciary Standard, I had one of those "I wish I'd thought of that!" moments. We were talking about the current debate about whether brokers should have to disclose to their clients the recruiting bonuses they receive from their B/Ds (as chronicled by AdvisorOne's Gil Weinreich in "Should Brokers Be Forced to Disclose Their Bonuses to Clients?" and my Oct. 31 posting and subsequent Nov. 13 blog).
The points we were discussing:
- Ron Rhoades' contention that because recruiting bonuses create a financial pressure to recoup them (through higher fees, excessive commissions, hidden costs, etc.) they create a material conflict which should be disclosed.
- My response that many things create financial pressures on both brokers and RIAs, but disclosing them all is a slippery slope that I doubt either group really wants to go down.
After listening to my position, Knut thoughtfully responded: "Sure, that's all well and good, but isn't the real point that all fees, commissions and costs should be disclosed to the clients, who could then decide whether they are excessive for whatever reason, including just plain greed?"
Hmmm. Good thought. In general, I'm not a big fan of disclosure to protect financial consumers. For one thing, in practice, most financial disclosures I've seen are written so as to obscure as much as possible what's really being disclosed. Even when disclosures are relatively clear, few retail clients have enough knowledge or understanding to correctly evaluate the information they're being given.
With that said, Knut may well have hit upon one of the few instances when full disclosure could prove to be a tremendous benefit to clients. Of course, retail investors probably don't have enough perspective to know whether a 2% (or 3%) AUM fee is excessive; or if a 5% commission plus a 1% trail competitive; or that 160 bps to manage a bond fund might be a tad high; or that a $10 spread on a principal trade may be too much. But if all those costs which are born by the client were disclosed in one place—on one simple document—rather than buried in multiple statements and prospectuses (prospecti?—see note below-Ed.), then they could relatively easily use the power of the Internet to compare what they are paying with what other investors pay for similar products and advice.


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After looking at any of Cung Le's films, all packed with intense fight scenes, brutal finishes, and acrobatic jaw dropping moves, the first thing that may come to your mind is, yeah, it's a movie, but it's got to be a pretty exhausting process regardless. Le won't deny that, but he also won't say it's more exhausting than getting ready for a fight.
"Training for a fight is definitely more draining," said the UFC middleweight, who makes his second Octagon appearance this Saturday night against Patrick Cote. "It also depends on what role you've got – if you've got the lead and you're carrying the movie, like in Dragon Eyes, where I choreographed all the fights and I starred in the movie, that was very draining, but it was nothing like getting punched or kicked at. And you work in spurts. You shoot a scene and then you get ready for the director to set up the next scene, or you're choreographing a fight and making sure that everyone's on the same page so that no one gets hurt. So it's nothing compared to training for a fight and taking your body to that point where you're ready to break."
Yet despite his successes in his other job (he'll be heading off to Comic-Con after the Cote fight to begin promoting what is expected to be a Fall hit, "The Man with the Iron Fists"), the 40-year old native of Saigon isn't about to leave the world of combat sports where he first made his name all those years ago. Yeah, it's more draining and more taxing, both physically and mentally, but Le will always be a fighter.
"I started out as a martial artist, and I love to compete," he said, noting that while working in movies has gone from a hobby to something that he can enjoy and get paid for, he is content doing both while he can. "Kind of like the Bo Jackson of entertainment and MMA," he laughs.
Yet as the films and roles get bigger for Le, there is a bit of a juggling act to be done to make sure he's getting in the proper work that will have him ready to compete against the best fighters in the world. That never was an issue, then it became one, but as he prepares for Cote at UFC 148, he seems to have found his working rhythm.
"A lot of people don't realize that training and getting in shape for a fight is tough," explains Le. "You've always gotta deal with injuries, and in my case, I've got a dual career, doing movies. Before, it was a lot easier to shoot a movie because I wouldn't have a big role. I could be gone for two weeks or at the most three weeks and come back and have all this time to train. And now instead of two or three weeks, I'm gone for two or three months because the roles are getting bigger, and it's tougher. But now I'm starting to get it down where if I'm away for that long, I have to maintain a certain amount of cardio and strength training so when I get back, I have the right amount of time to prepare and really put myself through the proper training so I can be at my best when I compete. I feel like at my best, I can compete at a higher level and execute all the things that I usually do in all my fights. It's just how to manage it, how to maintain it, and stepping into the cage and executing it."
After a storied kickboxing career and a run in MMA that garnered him a Strikeforce middleweight title and wins over Frank Shamrock, Tony Fryklund, and Scott Smith, Le got the call to the UFC late last year for a bout against Wanderlei Silva. It was expected to be a war, and it was, though Le didn't really expect what he got from "The Axe Murderer" at UFC 139.
"We figured that Wanderlei was gonna come in and just attack," said Le. "In every single tape we had seen, he just comes forward and we didn't expect for him to change his gameplan, so he completely changed his gameplan to fight me and the next thing I know, he's backpedaling and circling away and he's not coming forward. It completely threw me off, and hats off to that gameplan. I expected him to come forward and I ended up chasing."
It worked well enough for a while, as Le threw a varied array of his dynamic kicks and combinations at Silva, and he looked to be on his way to an emphatic win in his UFC debut. But grabbing victory from the jaws of defeat, Silva roared back late in the second round and caught and stopped Le. It was only his second loss as a mixed martial artist (the first was to Smith – and later avenged), and it didn't sit well with him.
"For me, it's really hard to lose," said Le. "It hurt just as much as when I lost the first time against Scott Smith, but it happens, and you can't change it, so you've just gotta take from it. What I took from it was that I definitely know what I'm made of, because even though when I felt my nose get broken, I thought I've got a good nose doctor and I can continue. If the round would have ended and if they would have let it continue, I would have gone back to my corner and said I'm gonna finish it. I definitely would not want to stop, and I would go out on my shield or have one of the greatest comebacks. It's not the first time I broke my nose. My second MMA fight was the first time I broke my nose, and actually the bone popped out, but I finished the fight and ended up knocking the guy out. So it is what it is, I learned from it, and it's definitely character building."
If you're one of the few cynics out there who think that Le has gone Hollywood, the above statements should clear up that misconception immediately. But what about the lifelong martial artist's family? You've got to assume that they wouldn't mind if he decided to make acting his full-time job, and does knowing that he is willing to walk through fire to compete and win make the idea of him continuing to fight even harder?
"My wife Suzanne, she supports me one hundred percent," said Le. "I'm sure no one's wife wants to see them get beat up or come home with a limp or a broken nose – or in my case, three of them (Laughs), but I've got complete support. My mom, I think she's gonna skip out on this one; she says that she's a little too old for this and her heart might not be able to handle it, so I understand. I think it's my first fight that she's not gonna be at, but I'm just gonna get going there, fight my heart out, and do my best."
We expect nothing less from Le, one of the game's most exciting fighters and best ambassadors. Yet what may be the scariest part about seeing the Sanshou master still competing at 40 is that he says he's not done getting better.
"I'm always a student of martial arts and MMA," he said. "You can never stop learning, and once you think you've learned everything, that's when it kinda goes downhill. I basically feel like you always can learn, and if you keep an open mind, you can always improve."


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White House to give senators Benghazi documents
Published 4:48 pm Friday, February 22, 2013
WASHINGTON — The White House has agreed to give the Senate Intelligence Committee documents related to the attack on a U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, a congressional aide said Friday.
Republicans had demanded the documents as a condition of voting on the nomination of John Brennan to be CIA director.
The documents include emails between top national security officials showing the debate within the administration over how to describe the attack and other documents the committee had been asking for, the aide said. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.
The White House has said it has already turned over more than 10,000 pages of Benghazi-related documents, along with witness interviews, staff briefings and hours of testimony.
Tommy Vietor, spokesman for the National Security Council, said the administration was talking with members of Congress about their requests regarding both the Benghazi attacks and the use of drone strikes, but he declined to say whether those requests had been granted.
"That being said, the confirmation process should be about the nominees and their ability to do the jobs they're nominated for," Vietor said.
The attack on the Benghazi compound last Sept. 11 killed U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans. The Obama administration sent conflicting signals about whether the assault was a terrorist attack or an incident touched off by protests over an anti-Muslim video.
Republicans accused the administration of an election-year cover-up of an act of terrorism and repeatedly pressed for more information about the attack. An independent review that faulted the State Department and led to four employees being relieved of their duties failed to placate GOP lawmakers. They demanded testimony from former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who spent more than five hours before two congressional panels, and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey about the military's response to the attack.
Republicans also pressed the administration for emails, communiques and videos, and threatened to hold up the nominations of members of President Barack Obama's second-term national security team, including the choice of Chuck Hagel for the Pentagon and Brennan for CIA director.


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However: I care a TON about the consequences of this particular game: A one-game playoff to determine not just (at least) one half of the national game, but to find the team that will be favored to win it all.
It could be OSU-Michigan, it could be Little Sisters of the Poor vs.
In our BCS-formulaic world, this is as close as we'll get to a real playoff. Come on: It IS a playoff game, if not actually officially sanctioned by semantics.
That's why it would be so bad for college football if the loser of this game could simply sit back, wait idly for the other teams in the Top 5 to lose over the next two weeks and back their way into the national-title game.
The beauty of this OSU-Michigan game is that we can determine – head-to-head, on the field – which of the two deserves to play for the national title game. One of these teams can EARN it. To reward the loser with a second chance makes a mockery of every fan like me who considers this game a playoff.
In one-and-done playoff systems, there are no second chances.


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Chronic Female Pelvic Pain
Topic Overview
Is this topic for you?
This topic focuses on pelvic pain that has lasted longer than 6 months. If you have new, sudden pelvic pain, see your doctor as soon as you can. To learn more about new pelvic pain, see the topic Abdominal Pain, Age 12 and Older.
What is chronic female pelvic pain?
Female pelvic pain is pain below a woman's belly button. It is considered chronic (which means long-lasting) if you have had it for at least 6 months, and it's not related to pregnancy. The type of pain varies from woman to woman. In some women, it is a mild ache that comes and goes. In others, the pain is so steady and severe that it makes it hard to sleep, work, or enjoy life.
If your doctor can find what's causing the pain, treating the cause may make the pain go away. If no cause is found, your doctor can help you find ways to ease the pain and get back your quality of life.
What causes chronic female pelvic pain?
Some common causes include:
- Problems of the reproductive system, such as:
- Scar tissue (adhesions) in the pelvic area after an infection or surgery.
- Diseases of the urinary tract or bowel, such as:
- Irritable bowel syndrome.
- Chronic bladder irritation.
- Problems with the muscles, joints, and ligaments in the pelvis, lower back, or hips.
Doctors don't really understand all the things that can cause chronic pelvic pain. So sometimes, even with a lot of testing, the cause remains a mystery. This doesn't mean that there isn't a cause or that your pain isn't real.
Sometimes, after a disease has been treated or an injury has healed, the affected nerves keep sending pain signals. This is called neuropathic pain. It may help explain why it can be so hard to find the cause of chronic pelvic pain.
What are the symptoms?
The type of pain can vary widely and may or may not be related to menstrual periods. Chronic pelvic pain can include:
- Pain that ranges from mild to severe.
- Pain that ranges from dull to sharp.
- Severe cramping during periods.
- Pain during sex.
- Pain when you urinate or have a bowel movement.
- Pain in certain postures or positions.
Chronic pain can make it hard to sleep, work, or enjoy life. It can lead to depression. Depression can cause you to feel sad or hopeless, eat and sleep poorly, and move slowly.
How is chronic female pelvic pain diagnosed?
At your first visit, your doctor will do a complete pelvic exam to look for problems with your reproductive system. The doctor will also ask questions about your past and present health and about your symptoms. You may have some tests, such as:
- Blood and urine tests to look for signs of infection.
- A pregnancy test.
- Tests for sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
Emotional issues can play a big role in chronic pain. Your doctor may ask questions to find out if depression or stress is adding to your problem. You may also be asked about any past or current sexual or physical abuse. It can be hard to talk about these things, but it's important to do it so you can get the right treatment.
If the first tests don't find a cause, you may have other tests that show pictures of the organs in your belly. These may include:
- Transvaginal ultrasound.
- CT scan of the pelvis.
You may also have a type of minor surgery called laparoscopy (say "lap-uh-ROS-kuh-pee"). In this surgery, the doctor puts a thin, lighted tube with a tiny camera through a small cut in your belly. This lets the doctor look for problems like growths or scar tissue inside your belly.
Finding the cause of pelvic pain can be a long and frustrating process. You can help by keeping notes about the type of pain you have, when it happens, and what seems to bring it on. Show these notes to your doctor. They may give clues about what is causing the problem or the best way to treat it. And whether or not a cause is found, your doctor can suggest treatments to help you manage the pain.
How is it treated?
If your doctor found a problem that could be causing your pelvic pain, you will be treated for that problem. Some common treatments include:
- Birth control pills or hormone treatment for problems related to your periods.
- Surgery to remove a growth, cyst, or tumor.
- Medicine to treat the problem, such as an antibiotic for infection or medicine for irritable bowel syndrome.
Chronic pain can become a medical problem in itself. Whether or not a cause is found, your doctor can suggest treatments to help you manage the pain. You may get the best results from a combination of treatments such as:
- Pain relievers called NSAIDs, like ibuprofen (such as Advil or Motrin) or naproxen (such as Aleve). You can buy these over the counter, or your doctor may prescribe stronger ones. These medicines work best if you take them on a regular schedule, not just when you have pain. Your doctor can tell you how much to take and how often. Be safe with medicines. Read and follow all instructions on the label.
- Tricyclic antidepressant medicine or anticonvulsants, which can help with pain and with depression.
- Cognitive-behavioral therapy or biofeedback, to help you change the way you think about or react to pain.
- Counseling, to give you emotional support and reduce stress.
- Physical therapy to help you relax your muscles, improve your posture, and be more active.
- Pain relievers that are injected (local anesthetic) into specific areas to help with pain.
You may need to try many treatments before you find the ones that help you the most. If the things you're using aren't working well, ask your doctor what else you can try. Taking an active role in your treatment may help you feel more hopeful.
Female pelvic pain is typically caused by a medical condition involving the reproductive organs, urinary tract, lower gastrointestinal tract, or nerves or muscles of the abdominal wall, hips, or pelvic floor. Some causes are always short-term (acute), and others can become long-lasting (chronic) unless successfully treated. Sometimes, no cause can be found.
Pain with no known cause
Experts don't yet understand all possible causes of pelvic pain, especially when it has become chronic. So even after a lot of testing, many women never find out the reason for their pain.
One reason might be what's called neuropathic pain. Long after a disease or injury has healed, nerves can continue firing pain signals. This is thought to be caused by an overloading of the nervous system by extreme or long-lasting pain.
Not finding a cause doesn't mean that there isn't one or that there's no possible treatment.
Problems with the reproductive system that can cause chronic pain
- Endometriosis. This is when the tissue lining the inside of the uterus starts growing outside of the uterus.
- Adenomyosis. This is when the lining in the uterus starts growing into the uterine muscle.
- Noncancerous (benign) tumors of the uterus, such as fibroids or polyps.
Other problems in the pelvic area that can cause chronic pain
- Scar tissue(adhesions) inside the pelvis and belly. This is usually caused by pelvic inflammatory disease, radiation treatment, or surgery.
- Bowel problems,such as irritable bowel syndrome.
- Urinary tract problems, such as bladder inflammation.
- Various cancers that occur in the pelvic area.
- Muscle spasm or pain in the lower abdominal wall muscles.This is sometimes linked to past surgery in that area.
- Pelvic congestion syndrome.This is a problem caused when veins in the pelvis don't drain properly and get enlarged or twisted as a result.
- Pudendal neuralgia. This is a rare problem with the nerve that runs through the pelvic region, including your genitals, urethra, anus, and the area between the anus and genitals (perineum).
- Referred pain from the abdomen, lower back, or hip, which can cause pain that is felt in the pelvic area.
Physical or sexual abuse
Although the link isn't well understood, past or current abuse is strongly linked to chronic pelvic pain.
Female pelvic pain symptoms can include:
- Pain that ranges from mild to severe.
- Pain that ranges from dull to sharp.
- Severe cramping during periods.
- Heavy or irregular vaginal bleeding.
- Pain during sex.
- Pain when you urinate or have a bowel movement.
Depression symptoms are commonly linked to chronic pain. Signs of depression include:
- Sleep problems.
- Appetite changes.
- Feelings of emptiness and sadness.
- Slowed body movements and reactions.
For the best chance of recovery from pain, depression must be treated along with any known physical causes of pain.
What Happens
It can sometimes be hard to know how long pelvic pain will last and how best to treat it. It's a little different for every woman. But in general:
- When a cause is found and treated, such as an ovarian cyst, the pain will most likely go away.
- When it's hard to find a cause, your doctor can do a number of tests and try certain treatments to see if they work.
- Symptoms that are caused by hormone fluctuations often go away without treatment when menopause occurs and the ups and downs of hormone levels settle down.
What Increases Your Risk
Risk factors are things that increase your chances of getting a certain condition or disease. Risk factors for pelvic pain that becomes chronic include:
- History of pelvic inflammatory disease.
- History of physical or sexual abuse. Women with chronic female pelvic pain are more likely to report abuse in their past.footnote 1
- History of radiation treatment or surgery of the abdomen or pelvis. This includes some surgeries for urinary incontinence.
- History of depression. Pain and depression seem to be related.
- Substance use disorder.
- Something abnormal in the structure of the female organs.
- Pregnancy and childbirth that put stress on the back and pelvis, such as delivery of a large baby, a difficult delivery, or a forceps or vacuum delivery.
When should you call your doctor?
Call a doctor for immediate care if you have sudden, severe pelvic pain, with or without vaginal bleeding.
Call a doctor if:
- Your periods have changed from relatively pain-free to painful.
- Pain interferes with your daily activities.
- You start to have pain during intercourse.
- You have painful urination, blood in your urine, or an inability to control the flow of urine.
- You have blood in your stool or a significant, unexplained change in your bowel movements.
- You notice any new pelvic symptoms.
- You haven't yet seen a doctor about your chronic pelvic pain.
Watchful waiting
Watchful waiting is a period of time during which you and your doctor watch your pelvic pain symptoms without using medical treatment.
During this period, you can keep a daily record of your symptoms and menstrual cycle and any other life events that you consider important. A watchful waiting period may last from a few days to weeks or possibly months.
Who to see
The following primary health professionals can generally evaluate and help you manage the symptoms of female pelvic pain:
For advanced treatment methods, see a gynecologist or a urologist who specializes in female pelvic disorders.
If you have ever been physically or sexually abused, that trauma may be playing a part in your pain. So you'll need to let your doctor know about the abuse. This may be hard for you, but it may be easier if you find a doctor you feel comfortable talking to.
Exams and Tests
Although your condition may be diagnosed during your first exam, don't be surprised if you need to have a series of medical appointments and tests. For many women who have pelvic pain, diagnosing the cause is a process of elimination that takes a while.
Even if tests don't find any problems, it doesn't mean that there's no physical cause for your chronic pain. Tests aren't yet able to detect all causes.
Initial tests
It's a good idea to make a calendar or diary of your symptoms( What is a PDF document? ), menstrual cycle, sexual activity, and physical exertion. And keep track of any other things that you think are important, such as stressful events or illnesses. Bring it with you when you see your doctor.
To begin narrowing down the list of possible causes of your pain, your doctor will review your symptom diary and:
- Ask about your health history. This includes the history of your menstrual cycle and any pelvic surgery, radiation treatment, sexually transmitted infection, pregnancy, or childbirth.
- Do a pelvic exam to look for signs of abnormalities. You may also have a digital rectal exam. Your doctor may conduct these exams in a slower, more thorough manner, carefully checking for tender areas.
You may also have tests, such as:
- A pregnancy test. If your test is positive, you'll also have an ultrasound to check for signs of a tubal pregnancy.
- Blood tests, to look for infection, anemia, and other problems.
- Tests for sexually transmitted infections.
- Urine tests, to look for infection and kidney stones.
- Stool tests, to check for signs of blood.
Further testing
Sometimes more tests are needed. Your doctor may recommend one or more of the following:
- Imaging tests (tests that take pictures of the pelvic area), such as:
- Abdominal ultrasound and/or transvaginal ultrasound of the pelvic area using a small ultrasound device inserted into the vagina.
- Intravenous pyelogram, which uses an injected dye combined with X-rays to create pictures of the kidneys, bladder, ureters, and urethra.
- CT scan, which uses X-rays to create pictures of organs and bones.
- MRI, which uses a magnetic field and pulses of radio wave energy to create pictures of organs and bones.
- Laparoscopy. This surgical procedure uses a thin, lighted viewing instrument inserted through a small cut in the belly. If needed, scar tissue or a growth can also be removed during the procedure.
- Cystoscopy, which uses a viewing instrument inserted through the urethra into the bladder.
- Urodynamic studies. In these tests, a catheter is inserted through the urethra into the bladder to check for bladder problems.
- Other evaluations:
- For irritable bowel syndrome.
- For abdominal wall "trigger points." These are specific places on your abdomen that cause pain when pressed.
Your mental health
Chronic pain can have a wearing effect on the mind and emotions, which can in turn make harder to manage pain.
Your doctor may recommend a mental health assessment. You'll be asked questions to find out whether such conditions as depression, insomnia, or stress are adding to or being caused by your chronic pain.
For the best chance of recovering from pain, you will need treatment for emotional problems like these, plus treatment for any known physical causes of pain.
Treatment Overview
Treatment for chronic female pelvic pain can be approached in two ways: treating a known, specific cause of the pain or treating the pain itself as a medical condition. When it's possible, your doctor will do both.
Treating a known or suspected cause
Depending on the cause, treatment may include:
- Medicine to control or stop the ovulation cycle. This is done if cyclic hormonal changes seem to make your symptoms worse.
- Medicines to treat other diseases, such as an antibiotic for infection or medicine for irritable bowel syndrome.
- Cognitive-behavioral therapy, counseling, or biofeedback to treat depression or other mental health problems.
- Surgery to remove painful growths, cysts, or tumors.
- Healthy lifestyle choices, such as regular exercise to manage stress and improve strength, mood, and general health, along with dietary changes, such as those recommended to manage irritable bowel syndrome.
Treating the pain itself
Finding a treatment that works may take a while. It's common for women to try many treatments before finding one or more that help.
Medicines that may help manage your pain include:
- Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). These medicines are the first-choice treatment for relieving pain and inflammation. They work well for menstrual pain. Be safe with medicines. Read and follow all instructions on the label.
- Medicines that control hormone levels, such as birth control pills. They sometimes work well for pain that seems to be caused or made worse by menstruation.
- Certain antidepressant medicines. These are used to treat chronic pain in other areas of the body also.
Counseling and mental skills training, such as cognitive-behavioral therapy, help you manage your pain and the stress that makes it worse. For more information, see Other Treatment.
Alternative pain treatments that may help you manage pain include such things as acupuncture and transcutaneous nerve stimulation (TENS). For more information, see Other Treatment.
If your chronic pain hasn't responded to treatment or seems to have no physical cause, you may have neuropathic pain. This means that your nerves still create pain signals long after an original injury or disease has healed. If your doctor suspects that you have neuropathic pain, he or she may refer you to a pain management clinic for evaluation and treatment.
What to think about
Decisions are complicated when you are considering treatment for chronic pelvic pain. Think about these questions, and talk to your doctor about them:
- Are the symptoms bothersome enough to require treatment?
- Do you want to have a child or more children?
- Has a specific cause of the pain been discovered? Or is the cause unclear?
- Is menopause, which may stop symptoms, going to occur soon?
- Would an opinion from another doctor be helpful?
- Would an opinion from a doctor who specializes in chronic pain be helpful?
If you are close to menopause (usually around age 50) and your symptoms are likely related to hormones, your best option may be home treatment and medicine while you wait for menopause.
The hormone changes of menopause may get rid of your chronic pain, but the pain may come back if you use hormone therapy. If you are nearing menopause, talk with your doctor about your options.
Early diagnosis and treatment of pelvic pain may help keep the pain from becoming chronic.
One cause of chronic pelvic pain is pelvic inflammatory disease. You can greatly lower your risk of getting this disease by practicing safer sex. Safer sex includes using condoms and using them correctly.
Home Treatment
You can try these steps at home to ease pelvic pain:
- Try nonprescription medicine, such as ibuprofen (for example, Advil or Motrin) or acetaminophen (for example, Tylenol).
- Try heat.Put a heating pad, a hot water bottle, or a warm compress on your lower belly, or take a warm bath. Heat improves blood flow and may relieve pain.
- For back pain, lie down and elevate your legs by placing a pillow under your knees. When lying on your side, bring your knees up to your chest.
- Try relaxation techniques, such as:
- Exercise regularly. It improves blood flow and reduces pain.
Medicine won't cure female pelvic pain. But it can help control the pain and keep it from getting worse or becoming chronic. There is no one medicine that works for all women.
Medicines to control hormones
- Birth control pills are commonly used for menstrual pain. They are also often prescribed for endometriosis-related pain.
- High-dose progestin is sometimes prescribed for pain related to endometriosis.
- Gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonists can relieve pain from endometriosis by stopping production of the hormones that make endometriosis worse. This treatment may also relieve pelvic pain that comes in cycles but isn't related to endometriosis and pelvic pain related to irritable bowel syndrome. But this short-term treatment brings on symptoms of menopause, with side effects such as hot flashes and loss of bone density, for as long as you take it.
Medicines to control pain
- Prescription nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), taken on a regular schedule, help relieve pain caused by inflammation or menstruation. If one type doesn't work for you, then your doctor may recommend another.
- Tricyclic antidepressant medicines are sometimes used to treat chronic pain in other areas of the body. Limited research suggests that they help relieve chronic pelvic pain in some women.footnote 2
- Anticonvulsant medicines such as gabapentin are sometimes used to treat chronic pelvic pain.
- Opioid pain medicine is only recommended as a last-resort treatment for severe pelvic pain.
Surgery is most likely to help when it's done for a specific condition, such as fibroids or endometriosis.
Hysterectomy, the removal of the uterus, is sometimes used as a last-resort treatment. Depending on the cause, hysterectomy may relieve pain for some women.
Most studies have shown that surgery to remove scar tissue (adhesions) from previous surgery or from pelvic inflammatory disease or endometriosis doesn't relieve pain.footnote 3
With any surgery for chronic pelvic pain, such as hysterectomy or cutting of specific pelvic-area nerves, there is a risk of persistent pain or pain that is worse after surgery. And it can have serious side effects.
Laparoscopy to diagnose chronic pelvic pain may be done before other treatment. Areas of endometriosis or scar tissue may be removed or destroyed during the laparoscopy.
Other Treatment
Chronic pelvic pain takes time to develop and can take a long time to treat. Take charge of how you cope with pain by using one or more of the treatment choices below. Combining your medical treatment with these practices can help you keep a positive state of mind.
Counseling and stress management
Counseling and mental skills training help you learn the mental and emotional tools for managing chronic pain and the stress that makes it worse. Combining medical and psychological treatment increases your chances of treatment success.
Commonly used treatments include:
- Cognitive-behavioral therapy focused on changing the way you think about and mentally manage pain. See a psychologist, licensed counselor, or clinical social worker who specializes in pain management skills.
- Biofeedback. This is the conscious control of body function that is normally unconsciously controlled.
- Interpersonal counseling, focused on managing your life events, stressors, and relationships.
For more information, see the topic Stress Management.
Physical therapy
Physical therapy can help you learn specific exercises to stretch and strengthen certain muscle groups. This helps you to improve posture, gait, and muscle tone.
Alternative pain treatments
Alternative pain treatments for chronic female pelvic pain aren't well-studied. But they are considered helpful for managing stress and building mental mastery over pain.
Acupuncture and transcutaneous nerve stimulation (TENS) have shown some success in relieving painful menstrual periods. Acupuncture and TENS have also been used as a treatment for nonmenstrual chronic pelvic pain, but it isn't yet well-studied.footnote 3
Other low-risk alternative pain treatments that many people use to help manage pain include:
- Andrews J, et al. (2012). Noncyclic Chronic Pelvic Pain Therapies for Women. Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 41 (AHRQ Publication No. 11(12)-EHC088-1). Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Available online http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK84586.
- Rapkin AJ, Nathan L (2012). Pelvic pain and dysmenorrhea. In JS Berek, ed., Berek and Novak's Gynecology, 15th ed., pp. 470–504. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
- Andrews J, et al. (2012). Noncyclic Chronic Pelvic Pain Therapies for Women. Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 41 (AHRQ Publication No. 11(12)-EHC088-1). Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Available online http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK84586.
Other Works Consulted
- Andrews J, et al. (2012). Noncyclic Chronic Pelvic Pain Therapies for Women. Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 41 (AHRQ Publication No. 11(12)-EHC088-1). Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Available online http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK84586.
- Chen J, Roy S (2010). Chronic pelvic pain. In Management of Common Problems in Obstetrics and Gynecology, 5th ed., pp. 256–260. Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.
- Engeler D, et al. (2012). Guidelines on Chronic Pelvic Pain. Arnhem, The Netherlands: European Association of Urology. Available online: http://www.uroweb.org/guidelines/online-guidelines.
- Rapkin AJ, Nathan L (2012). Pelvic pain and dysmenorrhea. In JS Berek, ed., Berek and Novak's Gynecology, 15th ed., pp. 470–504. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
Current as of: February 19, 2019
Author: Healthwise Staff
Medical Review:Sarah Marshall MD – Family Medicine & Kathleen Romito MD – Family Medicine & Martin J. Gabica MD – Family Medicine & Kevin C. Kiley MD – Obstetrics and Gynecology
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Last night around midnight I went to bed as usual, having worked more of the Rhinebeck sweater. I was drifting off mostly with mental images of what I'm going to do with the chest band of the sweater floating about in my head and out of the blue I started crying.
My first partner had a theory about how useful denial (a process he was deeply in touch with) can be, saying it was a protective mechanism in the brain. Denial, he believed, kept things from overwhelming a person, keeping them functional until such time as the brain would be able to deal with whatever it was denying.
I guess last night my brain was finally able to confront the fact that New Orleans as we knew it is gone.
Mind you, I don't have roots there, or relations, or friends. I was there exactly once in my life, for five days. One hesitates to make a tragedy happening to others many, many miles away into a three-act drama starring oneself, and that's not at all what I mean to do.
This is just a personal tribute, that's all.
From childhood, there were only three American cities I really ever cared to visit. The first was New York, the second San Francisco, the third New Orleans. Of the three, New Orleans was the most alluring. I knew it mostly from pictures, both modern ones of the sort that show up in the newspaper travel section, and very old ones like Bellocq's photos of prostitutes. It all built up to an image that was very much the stereotype of the place, with all the attendant cliché words–magical, mysterious, and so forth.
Of my personal Big Three, New Orleans was the last I visited. Not so many years ago - two, I believe - my employer sent me down there for a conference. Out of my own pocket, I paid for a few extra days in the hotel so I could do some sightseeing. Of course, at that point I'd grown up enough to realize that few places ever live up to their publicized images. I was expecting to have fun, but not to find the city I'd dreamed about.
Imagine my surprise. It was wonderful. It really was as it was supposed to be, from the easy hospitality of the citizenry to the graceful, fragile architecture and the sultry atmosphere. (It can't really be gone, can it? Not all gone? Not really? Please?)
I love cities that Are Very Much What They Are, that have managed in the face of conformity and standarization to hang on to their own points of view and ways of doing things. New Orleans was exactly that. Outside the French Quarter, of course, it was no series of postcard views. The effects of long-term economic depression had done dreadful things to the Central Business District. It was hardly a dreamy Neverland. Storefronts were preserved along Canal Street, but the ones that were occupied usually had dingy chain outlets and dodgy electronics shops in them.
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I was down there accompanied. I was in the first stages of what proved to be a very short-lived long distance thing with a guy who, for a couple months, put stars in my eyes. He was extremely shy and even semi-closeted (note: bad idea). But down there, in New Orleans, for the first and only time, he loosened up.
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I thought my whateveryouwannacallhim was going to drop dead from a mixture of fright and embarrassment, but no. Instead, he reached over and grabbed my hand. I nearly dropped dead of surprise.
After three days in New Orleans, he'd gotten to a point where he spontaneously kissed me in front of the cathedral and the bells went off. I'm sure it was pure coincidence, but it didn't feel like it at the time.
It was the only time I ever saw my poor ex-whateveryouwannacallhim happy with himself and the world. After the trip, he went back north to a Very Cold City where he resumed being semi-closeted and utterly guilt-ridden, living a very buttoned-down life in a more typical American setting.
Alas, wouldn't you know that by not shooting us dead for loving each other, the people of the city of New Orleans sealed their doom? Yes, it's true. I read all about it online. You can read it for yourself here.
According to a group of fundamentalist Christians, Katrina wasn't a natural phenomenon. It is direct evidence of God's wrath against a city that welcomed wickedness. They see the demolition of New Orleans–a unique and beautiful city, home to millions and cradle of so much American culture–as not all bad. It is, in their opinion, more of the silver lining in the cloud.
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"Although the loss of lives is deeply saddening, this act of God destroyed a wicked city," said Repent America director Michael Marcavage on the organization's Web site.You know, that's true, when you think about it. Lots and lots of dead people, destroyed lives and businesses, lost history and art, illness, financial disaster, and displacement is not so bad when you consider that it wiped out a place where men were known to kiss in the street. When you look at it that way, it's a sort of mini-Rapture. Pretty cool.
I'm sure Michael Marcavage will sleep more soundly tonight, knowing New Orleans has been punished and that he himself is utterly pure in the sight of God. (One presumes he must think the same of his city or town, or he'd have moved out to avoid the inevitable.)
Isn't that right, Michael Marcavage? That you're perfect in the sight of God?
Is it right that God, who can see to the bottom of your soul and the depths of your heart, will find there only perfection, purity, not even a single thought or action that you wouldn't be happy to display to the entire world?
This had better be so, because as you've pointed out, God hates people with loose morals and kills them off. I'm sure you can support this with lots of Biblical evidence, too, like that story about the time your Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ beat that fallen woman to death with a brick, and the time He and the Pharisees burned down the house of that tax collector.
No? Oh, I see...you were thinking of Sodom and Gomorrah. Check your text again, Mr. Marcavage. Better still, consult a reputable scholar or historian who has read the source texts and seen beyond several centuries of accrued mistranslation. The sin of Sodom? It wasn't ass fucking. It was a lack of hospitality. A lack of compassion for displaced persons.
Sleep well tonight, Mr. Marcavage. I'm sure you're perfectly safe.


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For an overnight stay or a weekend break, the Château de Saint Michel de Lanes, bed and breakfast situated between Toulouse and Carcassonne, only 5 minutes from the Canal du Midi, one hour from the Pyrenees and Mediterranean beaches, is the ideal place to stay : relaxing and full of historic charm. Only the two prettiest bedrooms, all beautifully restored, are reserved for you.
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Thanks to careful and loving restoration, the grounds and the castle itself bring back to life the gentle and joyful spirit of the end of 18th century. Both sober and ornate, sculptures, mosaics and the gold leaf embossed ceillings have brought life to this engaging residence that remained asleep so long. The effort to reclaim the chateau has born fruit : the lawns lend themselves to relaxation and to open-air receptions and a brand-new slate roof shines under the Occitan sun.


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Arthur Secunda is an internationally renowned artist whose career has spanned eight decades. His one man shows have been seen worldwide in numerous galleries and museums in France, Sweden, Belgium, Holland, Spain, Israel, and Japan. In the United States, he is represented in most major museums of the country, including the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian Museum in Washington D.C., the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the UCLA Museum, the Detroit Art Institute, and the Phoenix Museum. Known for his brilliant collages and striking graphics, Secunda has mastered all types of printmaking, even making his own paper in France and Japan. His impressive body of work includes painting, mixed media, polyester assemblage, ceramics and welded sculpture. His studies began at the Detroit Art Institute as a teenager, and continued in New York at the Art Students League and New York University. After a stint in the Air Force as an artist, he then studied, thanks to the GI bill, in Mexico, Paris and Italy, with many great artists and teachers, beginning a lifelong propensity for travel-- living and working in other countries. For decades, he maintained studios in Paris and LA.
He considers himself a landscape artist, and has developed his own iconography in representing nature, the land and its forms, as well as corresponding inner landscapes. He is known for a specific kind of color gradation and blending of forms in many media. His work tends to oscillate between the serene--striated colors in landscapes--to the expressive, as in many of his oil paintings.
After years in Paris, Secunda has maintained a studio in Scottsdale and Colorado for the last decade--doing what he has done in all of the other places he has lived and worked in the last 70 years--creating imagery.


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Key Considerations for Testing Voice Recognition in Mobile Banking Applications
Traditionally, banks have been burdened with high regulations and slow processes. Mobile is completely changing all of that. Mobile has quickly forced banks to catch up with their customers and embrace mobile apps. According to an inforgraphic produced by analytics solutions provider FICO, one billion people are projected to use mobile banking by 2017. Banks are continually innovating and improving their mobile services and even incorporating voice recognition.
The way users engage with mobile applications is completely different than the way they engage with websites. In this context, mobile testing has never been more important to ensure that users have a positive experience. With more customers conducting banking on their mobile devices, including the use of voice recognition, banks need to do their due diligence and choose the right technology partners and testing solutions before incorporating audio into their mobile applications.
The unique challenges that voice recognition poses for banks includes the need to support a full mobile environment, the integration of audio into the application, preparing the app for the real world under various network conditions, and addressing various security considerations.
The Benefits of Voice Recognition in Mobile Banking
Most major banks today offer their end-users a set of robust and feature-rich mobile applications running on Android, iOS and other operating systems. According to Gartner's Hype cycle for consumer services and mobile applications report, July 2012, mobile banking is expected to reach the "plateau of productivity" in less than two years . As new technologies continue to emerge, banks seek ways to take advantage of these technologies to offer their end-users more appealing services that would enhance engagement and increase the use of these services.
Two of the more appealing technologies that banks are focusing on with respect to mobile applications are voice recognition/authentication (aka IVA – Interactive voice assistant) and biometrics.
These technologies complement the payment cards and near field communication (NFC), which were under development and in use over the past few years. The main reasons that banks are investing in voice and biometrics are to enhance the user experience and to bolster security. Voice recognition authentication and biometrics will be the way for banking customers to securely log into mobile banking. At the same time, it is well known that security and convenience do not usually go together. When it comes to mobile banking, banks are trying to ease the pain for end users without compromising security.
ING Direct Canada is currently running a pilot project to test the use of biometrics and voice authentication. According to the bank's CIO, the main advantage of these promising technologies is the fact that they are very difficult to break and thus are a highly secure method to authenticate login to their banking services.
The following use case is taken from USAA bank mobile banking application. As you can see, USAA is using voice commands to perform functions beyond secure login to the application.
The most efficient way to authenticate the end-user's voice is to have a pre-recorded individual voiceprint on file. One of the companies that provide voice recognition solutions to banks is Nuance. When the user starts to work with a mobile application, the system compares the user's voice against the recorded voice file stored and managed securely by the bank. If there is an exact match, the end-user is allowed to login and work with the application. Otherwise, the user will be re-directed to the bank's technical support department for secure validation of the person's identity (e.g., answer secure pre-defined questions, etc.)
Another example of a major bank that took steps toward enabling voice recognition services is Barclays Bank. Matt Smallman of Barclays Wealth and Investment Management stated that the use of voice recognition technologies is a boon for both the bank and its customers: "It increases security and convenience at the same time whilst making client calls shorter and reducing our overall cost to serve."
With the growing usage of mobile banking, voice recognition seems like a great way to serve the customer base while saving costs on manpower that would have been required to support key transactions over the phone. It reduces the need for long phone calls with bank support in which clients need to answer and remember intrusive security related questions. A simple voice capture at the beginning of the call will get them to the right service person.


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Bank of America Vs. Square
With Bank of America's announcement today of its new Mobile Pay on Demand product, the bank is taking what is perhaps the next logical step as the industry continues to battle against "non-traditional" competitors, especially in the payments space.
Designed as an alternative to Square's card reading device, Bank of America's dongle product will also be free and users will be charged a flat 2.7 percent transaction fee -- slightly less than Square's 2.75 percent but the same as PayPal's Here device.
BofA's launch of this product can hardly be considered revolutionary, but may become a necessity for banks to continue to compete in the payments space -- or, as Bank of America's EVP of strategy and emerging products, Trevor Rubel put it to tech blog All Things D, "I hate to come out with a commodity product, but every bank should have one."
Square has obviously moved well beyond its initial mobile credit card reader. The company's partnership with Starbucks announced this past summer gave it further footing in the mobile payments market. And with other non-bank competitors, such as PayPal, not only offering mobile card readers but a whole suite of mobile payments options, it's imperative for banks to ramp up their offerings in this space as well. The guess here is that there will be many more announcements in the coming months from Bank of America regarding this product, and from other financial institutions as well pertaining to mobile payments.
Bryan Yurcan is associate editor for Bank Systems and Technology. He has worked in various editorial capacities for newspapers and magazines for the past 8 years. After beginning his career as a municipal and courts reporter for daily newspapers in upstate New York, Bryan has ... View Full Bio


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Unfortunately, with the growth of the Seaside community, we no longer have public write access to our repositories. We still want to make it as easy as possible for people to contribute, however.
We have fairly detailed coding conventions to help maintain portability, so we ask new contributors, initially, to post their code to the Developer Mailing List or to attach it to an issue in the issue tracker. Note: all Seaside code is licensed under the MIT License and, by submitting code to the project, you are agreeing to provide your code under this license. Before submitting, please also ensure that you have the legal rights to license the code you are submitting; in many areas, your employer may own the rights to code you create even in your spare time.
By far, the preferred way to submit code is using an .mcz file for each modified package but you can also provide a fileout/changeset if necessary. Please take the time to add comments and tests and provide a description of the change and the reason for the change in the commit message. Once you have submitted your code, an existing developer will then review the submission and either provide feedback or integrate the change. Sometimes we decide not to integrate a change. When this happens, there is usually a good reason; please ask if you aren't clear why your submission was not integrated.
Once you have submitted a few patches and are comfortable with our process and coding conventions feel free to ask to be added as a developer on Smalltalkhub Seaside team. Just create an account and ask on the Developer Mailing list, providing your username.
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JOHANNESBURG // Military doctors are treating South Africa's former president Nelson Mandela for a recurring lung infection, an ailment the 94-year-old anti-apartheid leader remains susceptible to because of his age and his 27 years in prison.
Government officials acknowledged for the first time yesterday that the illness forced soldiers to admit Mandela to a military hospital on Saturday, though they said politician was responding to treatment.
Mandela fought off a similar infection in 2011 and has a history of tuberculosis. Medical experts say respiratory illnesses like pneumonia striking a man his age are a serious matter that require care and monitoring.
"They call pneumonia `the old man's friend' because it is the thing that ultimately carries many people off," said Dr. Peter Openshaw, the director of the Center for Respiratory Infection at Imperial College's National Heart and Lung Institute in London. "What I guess they'll be doing is trying to find out exactly which type of infection it is and then to give it the most appropriate treatment. With modern antibiotics and investigation, then there's no reason a chest infection by itself should be untreatable."
The announcement ended speculation about what was troubling the ailing Mandela. His ongoing hospitalization has caused growing concern in South Africa, a nation of 50 million people that largely reveres Mandela for being the nation's first democratically elected president who sought to bring the country together after centuries of racial division.
The tests Mandela underwent at 1 Military Hospital near South Africa's capital, Pretoria, detected the lung infection, presidential spokesman Mac Maharaj said in a statement.
"Madiba is receiving appropriate treatment and he is responding to the treatment," Maharaj said, referring to Mandela by his clan name as many do in South Africa in a sign of affection.
In January 2011, Mandela was admitted to a Johannesburg hospital for what officials initially described as tests but what turned out to be an acute respiratory infection. The chaos that followed Mandela's stay at that public hospital, with journalists and the curious surrounding it and entering wards, saw the South African military take charge of his care and the government control the information about his health. In recent days many in the press and public have complained about the lack of concrete details that the government has released about Mandela's condition.
Mandela has a history with lung problems. He fell ill with tuberculosis in 1988 toward the tail-end of his prison years, after he had been moved from the notorious Robben Island and to another jail to ease the apartheid government's efforts to negotiate with him about a possible release. At first, doctors were uncertain why Mandela had a persistent cough that ultimately caused him to collapse during a meeting with his lawyer. After being taken to a Cape Town hospital, a doctor told him he had water in his lungs.
Mandela initially refused to believe the doctor, he wrote in his autobiography "Long Walk to Freedom."
"With a hint of annoyance, (the doctor) said, `Mandela, take a look at your chest,"' Mandela recounted. "He pointed out that one side of my chest was actually larger than the other."
Surgeons immediately cut into Mandela's chest and removed two liters (half a gallon) of liquid from his lungs, which tested positive for tuberculosis. Doctors at the time suggested Mandela contracted the disease from his damp prison cell.
About 1.4 million people worldwide die each year from tuberculosis, a bacterial infection which can stay dormant for years. It also can cause permanent lung damage, though in his autobiography Mandela says doctors caught it in time. However, tuberculosis can return to trouble those previously infected, properly treated or not, and previous damage could have been missed, Openshaw said.
Openshaw, who has not seen Mandela's medical records and spoke generally about treating patients, said pneumonia is the most likely respiratory illness to affect an elderly person, though others can strike as well. Doctors typically use antibiotics to treat such infections, though there needed to be care made in deciding how much of a dose to give an older patient.
And there's the challenge of treating a patient that a nation and many around the world remain anxiously worried about.
"It's particularly difficult if it's in a special patient, where you really have to be very careful to try not to overreact, but just to treat them as if they were any other patient," Openshaw said.
But the doctor later acknowledged the obvious: "It's very hard to the balance right (for) a special, special patient."
Mandela was a leader in the struggle against racist white rule in South Africa and once he emerged from 27 years in prison in 1990, he won worldwide acclaim for urging reconciliation. He won South Africa's first truly democratic elections in 1994, serving one five-year term. The Nobel laureate later retired from public life to live in his remote village of Qunu, in the Eastern Cape, and last made a public appearance when his country hosted the 2010 World Cup soccer tournament.
Mandela disengaged himself from the country's politics over the last decade but continued campaigning against HIV/AIDS. He has grown increasing frail in recent years.


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Federal agency has now acquired enough bullets to wage 30 year war
Paul Joseph Watson
February 7, 2013
The Department of Homeland Security is set to purchase a further 21.6 million rounds of ammunition to add to the 1.6 billion bullets it has already obtained over the course of the last 10 months alone, figures which have stoked concerns that the federal agency is preparing for civil unrest.
A solicitation posted yesterday on the Fed Bid website details how the bullets are required for the DHS Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Artesia, New Mexico.
The solicitation asks for 10 million pistol cartridge .40 caliber 165 Grain, jacketed Hollow point bullets (100 quantities of 100,000 rounds) and 10 million 9mm 115 grain jacketed hollow point bullets (100 quantities of 100,000 rounds).
The document also lists a requirement for 1.6 million pistol cartridge 9mm ball bullets (40 quantities of 40,000 rounds).
An approximation of how many rounds of ammunition the DHS has now secured over the last 10 months stands at around 1.625 billion. In March 2012, ATK announced that they had agreed to provide the DHS with a maximum of 450 million bullets over four years, a story that prompted questions about why the feds were buying ammunition in such large quantities. In September last year, the federal agency purchased a further 200 million bullets.
To put that in perspective, during the height of active battle operations in Iraq, US soldiers used 5.5 million rounds of ammunition a month. Extrapolating the figures, the DHS has purchased enough bullets over the last 10 months to wage a full scale war for almost 30 years.
Such massive quantities of ammo purchases have stoked fears that the agency is preparing for some kind of domestic unrest. In 2011, Department of Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano directed Immigration and Customs Enforcement to prepare for a mass influx of immigrants into the United States, calling for the plan to deal with the "shelter" and "processing" of large numbers of people.
The federal agency's primary concern is now centered around thwarting "homegrown terrorism," but information produced and used by the DHS to train its personnel routinely equates conservative political ideology with domestic extremism.
A study funded by the Department of Homeland Security that was leaked last year characterizes Americans who are "suspicious of centralized federal authority," and "reverent of individual liberty" as "extreme right-wing" terrorists.
In August 2012, the DHS censored information relating to the amount of bullets purchased by the federal agency on behalf of Immigration & Customs Enforcement, citing an "unusual and compelling urgency" to acquire the bullets, noting that there is a shortage of bullets which is threatening a situation that could cause "substantial safety issues for the government" should law enforcement officials not be adequately armed.
As we highlighted last month, the DHS' previous ammunition solicitation was awarded to Evian Group, an organization that was formed just five days before the announcement of the solicitation and appeared to be little more than a front organization since it didn't have a genuine physical address, a website, or even a phone number.
While Americans are being browbeaten with rhetoric about the necessity to give up semi-automatic firearms in the name of preventing school shootings, the federal government is arming itself to the teeth with both ammunition and guns. Last September, the DHS purchased no less than 7,000 fully automatic assault rifles, labeling them "Personal Defense Weapons."