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Nearly three-quarters of a century before the film "12 Years a Slave," a scathing indictment of slavery, was nominated for nine Academy Awards, Hattie McDaniel won a supporting actress Oscar for playing the loyal slave Mammy in 1939's "Gone With the Wind."
McDaniel was the first African American to win an Oscar and though her performance was beloved and paved the way for other minority actors, it was not without its detractors at the time. There was a similar reaction eight years later when James Baskett received an honorary Oscar for his role as Uncle Remus in Walt Disney's live action-animated musical "Song of the South." The NAACP and other civil rights groups criticized the performances and the films for presenting stereotyped and negative images of blacks.
Adilifu Nama, associate professor of African American Studies at Loyola Marymount University, said McDaniel's win was a significant achievement but one "loaded with a lot of political and racial issues given that the film was the classic archetype of the Mammy. The role is fundamentally a subservient role and is part of a film that is a Southern racial fantasy."
Sidney Poitier became the first black actor to win a competitive Oscar when he picked up the lead actor Academy Award for 1963's "Lilies of the Field." Poitier's win paved the way for other black actors and actresses in more recent decades, including Denzel Washington, Halle Berry and Morgan Freeman.
Todd Boyd, professor of critical studies at USC School of Cinematic Arts, believes that Poitier's win "marks a major transition" away from the archetype roles." But to Boyd many of the roles before and even after Poitier's breakthrough provided only a limited view of the black experience in America.
"The entirety of the history of African Americans in Hollywood has been problematic and I think, in some ways, still is," Boyd said. "A lot of people looked at those movies as sort of an authentic representation of what African Americans were like. It shaped the way African Americans were perceived."
This Oscar season has been a strong one for black-oriented films and performers, led by director Steve McQueen's acclaimed "12 Years a Slave." McQueen is nominated for best director and if he wins he would be the first black filmmaker to win that award. (He's only the third black filmmaker to be nominated following John Singleton for 1991's "Boyz N the Hood" and Lee Daniels for 2009's "Precious.")
Two of the harrowing drama's stars — Chiwetel Ejiofor and Lupita Nyong'o — are also up for Oscars in the lead actor and supporting actress categories. And Somali-born Barkhad Abdi is in contention for a supporting actor Oscar for "Captain Phillips."
A surprisingly large number of black performers helped pave the way with Oscar-winning and -nominated performances from McDaniel through Diahann Carroll, who earned her lead actress nomination in the 1974 comedy "Claudine." Besides being limited to certain stereotyped roles like maids and servants, a number of them faced real-life prejudice as well.
Here's a look those early pioneers.
Hattie McDaniel (1895-1952): "Gone With the Wind" (1939)
In her tearful Oscar acceptance speech, McDaniel said: "I sincerely hope I shall always be a credit to my race and the motion picture industry." But just a few months earlier, she and the film's other African American actors were barred from attending the premiere of the 1939 film in racially segregated Atlanta.
McDaniel consistently ran into criticism for perpetuating negative stereotypes in her role choices, which led her to say at one point, "I'd rather play a maid than be one."
McDaniel, who found success on the radio in the late 1940s in the comedy "Beulah," died in 1952. She wanted to be buried at Hollywood Memorial Park, now known as Hollywood Forever, but it had a restricted policy. There is now a memorial to her at the cemetery.
James Baskett (1904-48) "Song of the South" (1947)
The singer-dancer-actor, who played lawyer Gabby Gibson on the radio in "Amos 'n' Andy," won an honorary Oscar for "his able and heart-warming characterization of Uncle Remus, friend and story teller to children of the world, in Walt Disney's 'Song of the South.'" Baskett also introduced the Academy Award-winning song "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah."
The film, which is set in the South after the Civil War, raised the ire of civil rights groups such as the NAACP, which decried "the impression it gives of an idyllic master-slave relationship, which is a distortion of the facts." The last time Disney released the film was 1986.
Baskett, who like McDaniel wasn't allowed to attend the film's premiere in Atlanta, died a few months after receiving the Oscar from heart disease at the age of 44.
Ethel Waters (1896-1977) "Pinky" (1949)
Waters was already a legendary singer — she introduced "Stormy Weather" at the Cotton Club — when she earned a supporting actress nomination for Elia Kazan's 1949 drama "Pinky." She played Dicey, the warm-hearted Southern grandmother of a young woman (Jeanne Crain) who had passed for white in the North. Bosley Crowther wrote of Waters in the New York Times, "by playing the girl's old grandmother in a deeply benign and wistful way Ethel Waters endows this gentle lady with tremendous warmth and appeal."
Dorothy Dandridge (1922-65) "Carmen Jones" (1954)
One of cinema's great beauties, the singer-dancer-actress was the first African American to earn a lead actress Oscar nomination for her riveting turn in "Carmen Jones," Otto Preminger's 1954 reworking of Bizet's "Carmen." Dandridge made only a handful of films after "Carmen Jones" before her death from an accidental barbiturate overdose in 1965 at the age of 42.
Juanita Moore (1914-2014) "Imitation of Life" (1959)
The former dancer earned a supporting actor nomination for Douglas Sirk's lush 1959 melodrama "Imitation of Life," based on Fannie Hurst's novel, as a maid whose light-skinned daughter rejects her and her black roots: "If, by accident, we should ever pass on the street, please don't recognize me."
Though she appeared on TV and in such films as 1973's "The Mack" and was involved in theater in L.A., the nomination didn't open many doors. She told The Times in 2000 that she didn't work for a year after "Imitation of Life" because casting directors believed she wouldn't want to play any more servant roles. "What can you do?" she said. "They're not going to pay a lot of money for carrying a tray. That's all we did in movies back then."
Sidney Poitier (1927-) "The Defiant Ones" (1958); "Lilies of the Field" (1963)
The legendary actor and pioneering film director received a lead actor nomination for 1958's "The Defiant Ones," which revolved around two escaped prisoners — one black, one white (Tony Curtis) — who are shackled together. Poitier won the lead actor Oscar for 1963's charming "Lilies of the Field," as an itinerant handyman who builds a chapel for some East German nuns.
At the 2002 Academy Awards ceremony, Poitier received an Honorary Academy Award for his "extraordinary performances and unique presence on the screen and for representing the industry with dignity, style and intelligence."
Beah Richards (1920-2000) "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" (1967)
The veteran film and television actress received a supporting actress nomination for 1967's "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" for her poignant turn as the mother of an earnest young physician (Poitier) who must deal with the fact that her son's fiancee (Katharine Houghton) is white.
Rupert Crosse (1927-73) "The Reivers" (1969)
A member of the Actors Studio, who starred in John Cassavetes' first film, 1959's "Shadows," and his 1962 drama, "Too Late Blues," Crosse earned a supporting actor nomination for his funny turn opposite Steve McQueen in the bucolic 1969 adaptation of "The Reivers," directed by Mark Rydell. Crosse starred with Don Adams in the 1971-72 TV comedy "Partners" and died of cancer at the age of 45.
James Earl Jones (1931-) "The Great White Hope" (1970)
The Tony and Emmy Award-winning actor and the voice of "Star Wars'" Darth Vader earned a lead actor nomination reprising his Broadway triumph in 1970's "The Great White Hope" as a black boxer who keeps winning over white opponents in the years prior to World War I. Three years ago, he earned an honorary Academy Award for "his legacy of consistent excellence and uncommon versatility."
Paul Winfield (1939-2004) "Sounder" (1972)
The dynamic Emmy Award-winning character actor who worked in film, theater and TV ("Picket Fences," "King," "Roots: The Next Generation") earned a lead actor nomination for 1972's family drama "Sounder," in which he played the loving sharecropper father Nathan Lee Morgan.
Cicely Tyson (1933-) "Sounder" (1972)
The legendary African American actress, who earned a Tony last year for "A Trip to Bountiful" and is best known for her Emmy Award-winning turn in the landmark 1974 TV movie "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman," received a lead actress nomination for "Sounder" as the resilient Rebecca Morgan, the wife of a sharecropper in Louisiana, circa early 1930s, who tries to keep her family together despite tremendous odds.
Diana Ross (1944-) "Lady Sings the Blues" (1972)
The chart-topping singer who came to fame as the lead singer of the Supremes, earned a lead actress nomination for her 1972 film debut in "Lady Sings the Blues," playing legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday.
Diahann Carroll (1935-) "Claudine" (1974)
Carroll actually made her film debut in 1954's "Carmen Jones" and was an established recording artist, Broadway star ("No Strings") and groundbreaking sitcom star ("Julia") when she earned a lead actress nomination for the charming 1974 romantic comedy "Claudine." She played the mother of six living in Harlem who finds love with a dashing garbage collector (James Earl Jones).


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The Grand Evoque.
The name sounds like it could be a lot of things: an important spiritual ritual, a video game character, a Buick… But in this case the Grand Evoque is something else entirely: a bigger version of the Land Rover Ranger Rover Evoque. (We hope that if the car comes to fruition, it won't be called the Land Rover Range Rover Grand Evoque. Horrible name!)
Autocar says Land Rover may already be considering up-sizing its Evoque mini-ute, a vehicle originally conceived to give Land Rover fans a smaller, more fuel efficient crossover option. A bigger fuel-saver sounds a bit counter-intuitive, no?
If Autocar is to be believed, the vehicle will slot between the Evoque and the Range Rover Sport and cater to the American and Chinese markets. And, knowing us, we'll probably buy the thing and then complain about how much it costs to fill the tank.
Buick, on the other hand, wants the 2012 LaCrosse to actually save people gas money. In addition to its 4-cylinder hybrid eAssist, which is said to achieve 37 mpg on the highway, Buick will offer a no-extra-cost 3.6-liter direct-injected V6 that increases horsepower to a stout 303 while keeping the 2011's 17 mpg city/23 highway rating.
Well done, Buick. Now you just gotta finally dump the LaCrosse name and replace it with something less 1990s.
Apparently, though, questionable naming strategies are the name (haha) of the game lately, with even Bugatti falling prey to its nonsense.
The long-expected Galibier, the follow-up to the Veyron, might not receive the very cool French moniker we've always known it as. Nope, instead Bugatti just might christen the beast the Royale. Instead of sounding like a menacing 800-hp, W16-wielding French madman, the car will succumb to a blasé name better suited for a leisurely stroll through the English countryside while listening to Beethoven.
Bugatti: I am not amused. (And yes, I know the significance of the Royale name in Bugatti's history. Still don't care.)
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Scheveningen Pier at sunset
With low tide, some rocks emerge from the water, on the beach of SCheveningen, and create a perfect foreground subject for the pier in the distance. It was the end of a warm and nice day, especially for mid October... Such a pity there were really no clouds in the sky, I would hae loved to see some turning gold at sunset!
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A wonderful winter sky makes for a great sunset on the island of Vulcano, the third largest island in the volcanic archipelago of Aeolian Islands. The volcanic sand on the beach gives a dark, black look, which contrasts with the blue sea, and the gold color of the sky at sunset.
Sunset in Tonnarella
This image perfectly represents the reason why I love Sicily, and Tonnarella... The sunset on the beach is always amazing, but when the setting sun paints the clouds of gold, that's when the magic happens
Piscina di Venere
Located at the very end of Capo Milazzo, Piscina di Venere is a small natural pool surrounded by a ring of rocks, and a idyllic spot from where to enjoy the sunset, especially on a partially clouded winter day.
Barbarian Figs
The sunset colors contrast with the green of the Barbaray Figs, one of the most typical plants in Sicily. On the horizon, the Eolian Islands. Capo Milazzo is beautiful at all times of the day, but it certainly gives its best during the golden hour.
The sunset on the beach at Torre Faro brought back wonderful memories of my childhood, and provided a terrific scene to photograph.
Sunset on Capo Milazzo
After a rainy day, I saw the sky was getting clear. It was my first day of holiday, and I know the place quite well, so I knew I had to go to this wonderful place to take some photos at sunset. The place did not delude me!
Cathedral Cove at Sunrise
When the first light of the morning starts to paint the sky in purple and gold, you want to be there too, and live the dream with open eyes
Sunset on Te Anau Lake
It was a beautiful night, with some friends met earlier that day joining me during this incredible sunset. I left my heart in New Zealand, and this is certainly one of the reasons for it.
Sunset on Nugget Point
The clouds create a dramatic scenery, while the sun sets behind the Catlins. The lighthouse at Nugget Point is a perfect place from where to enjoy the show.
Sunset near Fox River
A very small bay, on the West Coast of the New Zealandese Southern Island. Some rocks, the ocean, and some clouds running in the sky. The sun setting gives the final touch, and the moment become magical. Like a dream, just real.
Wharariki Beach
The marvelous colours of the sky after the sun has set behind the horizon, on the Wharariki Beach, in the wild northwestern coast of the South Island
Pukerua Bay
The sunset in Pukerua Bay was really amazing. On my 4th day in New Zealand, I eventually had a sunny day, and the sun setting in the Tasman Sea offered me an incredible show.
The reef
Submerged rocks keep the water calm, while the sun sets colouring the sky and the clouds. In the distance, the Kapiti Island. Not far from there, I had a wonderful dinner in a restaurant with an incredible view on the coast.
Kapiti Island
A view on the Kapiti Island, at sunset, from the mainland coast. After a whole day driving south from Auckland, I was rewarded with a wonderful sunset.
A beautiful day
I had just woke up, and by looking out from the window, I saw, in the first light of the dawn, beautiful clouds on the horizon. I knew by then, that it would have been an incredible sunrise.
Therefore, I took my camera with me, while going to work, and I stopped a few hundred meters from my workplace.
I had this image in my mind since months, already. Finally, I was able to be there with the right conditions... and it was really magical!


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Swansea v Chelsea
It's a big night in the Premier League tonight, with five of the top six clubs in action, including Chelsea who travel to the Liberty Stadium in Wales.
Fernando Torres will be looking for his first league goal since September - incidentally, against Swansea. John Terry and Frank Lampard both miss out.
Tottenham v Wigan
Tottenham meanwhile can strengthen their grip on 3rd place with a win against bottom of the table Wigan this evening.
Jermain Defoe and Aaron Lennon face late fitness tests, but Sandro and William Gallas have been declared fit and are in the Spurs squad.
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Liverpool are on a massive high following their cup exploits last week, knocking both Manchester clubs out of the FA Cup and Carling Cup.
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With David de Gea sick and Anders Lindegard injured, United have been forced to turn to Tomasz Kuszczak for tonight's game.
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Finally, spring migration has picked up the pace in bringing Point au Sable some new migratory birds! Right along the shoreline, we observed two Greater Yellowlegs (season's first!), Killdeer, Barn Swallows, Northern Rough-winged Swallows, Tree Swallows, and Purple Martins. A few Common Goldeneyes and Scaup were still foraging offshore along withCaspian Terns, American White Pelicans, Double-creasted Cormorant, Herring Gulls, and Canada Geese.
Of particular interest, we had a number of season's first species including: Blue-winged Warbler, Golden-winged Warbler, Blackburnian Warbler, Northern Parula, Yellow Warbler, Common Yellowthroat Warbler, Nashville Warbler, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Gray Catbird, Warbling Vireo, and Baltimore Oriole.
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My boyfriend and I have been dating for more than a year, 15 months to be exact. We lost our virginities to each other so you can imagine how much I love him. Problem is, I'm not sure he loves me the same anymore. I caught him checking out my friend's ass once but I let it slip. He also abused me vocally the other day, and we had a fight but later made up. Also, some days, he's all over me and he'll treat me like a princess. But the next day, he's not interested at all! I've tried so hard to talk things out with him but he avoids it. I don't know what I should do! He watches porn and masturbates, but that's not something I mind. What I do mind is the way he looks at other girls. He swears that I'm the one he's going to marry but I can't help but question it. COSMO, HELP :(
Nobody's perfect. You can demand monogamy but you can't demand that your boyfriend never notice a girl's ass. It's just gonna happen. You can, however, give him a quick elbow to the ribs and give him a hard time — but don't worry yourself too much. You two sound young; he probably doesn't even realize what he's doing. Tell him it's disrespectful but don't take his wandering eye too seriously unless there's something else going on.
In general, it sounds like you're feeling scared that your boyfriend might be thinking of moving on. If he's not giving you the attention and respect you need, tell him. I'd recommend a light touch — I'm not suggesting a blowout fight — but you should let him know that you respect yourself enough to demand more from him. But it's not clear to me that looking at other girls — especially if he's never slept with anyone else — is all that unusual. And every relationship has good days and bad days; nobody's the dream boyfriend every day. Remember that there are limits to what you can ask of any one person. Insecure relationships are like scabs; the more you pick at them, the nastier and more infected they get.
But please be careful. I'm concerned because you say he "abused me vocally." I don't have enough detail to judge how severe these arguments get but that phrase sets off warning bells. I'm not a fan of one-size-fits-all advice but I don't joke around about abuse: If you feel that you are being abused, you should leave. Now.
The guy I'm seeing wants me to go out and have sex or mess around with other guys, and then come back and tell him about it. He says I don't have to — I'm uncomfortable doing it — but I feel like if I don't, he'll lose interest. Should this be a deal breaker for me?
Your guy's fantasy — cuckoldry — is not uncommon. Remember those Tiger Woods texts? In one, he told a lover that he fantasized about her having sex with both Derek Jeter and David Boreanaz. If you'd like to read up, Susie Bright wrote this sharp post and Dan Savage has chronicled a whole canon of cuckoldry in his columns. The terrific writer Ada Calhoun — a pal of mine — even wrote about blurring the line of her marriage.
This kink can come from a lot of different places but the desire is typically masochistic: A guy feels like he's not enough for a woman so he enlists help to fulfill her. A guy worries that his woman will cheat on him, so he asks her to cheat, and when she comes back, he takes her return as proof of fidelity. A guy who's experienced the pain of being cheated on might get some kick out of feeling a controlled version of that pain again. A guy might feel like he doesn't deserve a woman and the affair would confirm that. A guy might be turned on by the thought of sex with another man and use his partner as a proxy. Or a guy might use cuckoldry as a proof of power: to humiliate and control a woman who threatens him.
As a fantasy, I suppose cuckoldry can serve its purpose — just like any other fantasy. But in practice, cuckoldry isn't a kink that can easily be folded into a healthy relationship. At its root, there's something self-destructive about it. Cuckoldry often pops up in fantasies, porn, and romance novels, but I'd argue that it's extremely rare as a part of a functioning relationship. In general, you've got to be wary of any kink that is almost always proposed by men — and nearly never suggested by women.
In your case, it just doesn't seem like this guy is thinking of your best interest. He might say you don't have to do it but that's clearly not how you feel: You feel threatened and pressured to do this or lose him. So tell him no — that it needs to remain a fantasy. Be firm. Don't say, "I'd feel uncomfortable…" Just deny him.
If he continues to pressure you? Yes, it's a deal breaker. Dump him. And don't sleep with someone else first and give him that pleasure. Just go.
We've been together almost two years and I can count with my fingers how many times I have heard him apologize. We fight probably more than most and when we fight, he only cares about himself. I know he loves me or else he wouldn't keep me around — he'd simply boot me out the door instead of fighting with me. But why is it easier for him to suck up in ways like letting me win a game or being lovey than simply saying "I'm sorry and I love you"?
Sometimes, when people don't apologize, it's because they're always right — like if they're Yoda or Gandalf. For everyone else, it's usually rooted in stubborn, fearful insecurity. As Yoda says, "Fear is the path to the dark side." For some people, admitting even a small mistake would spur some scary self-reflection that they just can't handle. And not saying sorry is often a power-trip play. It's an effective way to dominate in a relationship, if the other person always caves: Hold your ground and she loses hers. It's also a great way to ruin a relationship.
I'm sorry that I don't have an easy answer for you (See what I did there?). I would recommend that, on a good day when you're not in the middle of a fight, you talk to your boyfriend about why he won't apologize. As Yoda says, "Wars not make one great," so don't pick a fight. Without framing the conversation as an accusation, ask him how he feels about the way you argue. Without blaming him, ask him if he thinks there's a reason your fights get so ugly. Without threatening him, tell him how frustrated you get and explain why an occasional apology would matter so much to you. Tell him you're not looking for him to apologize for not apologizing: You just want to understand where he's coming from. If you try to understand him, it might be easier to get him to understand you.
Communication is obviously a problem here but it might not be entirely his fault. Ask him if there's anything you're doing when you argue that encourages him to shut down. If you find that trigger, you might be able to avoid it. For instance, if you're yelling, "You're such an asshole!", then he's not going to say, "Yep, I'm sorry I'm such an asshole," unless he's seriously sarcastic. But if you're more specific, maybe he could apologize for something more specific.
I'm also a bit worried about the way you're defining love. "I know he loves me," you write, "or else he wouldn't keep me around — he'd simply boot me out." There are a lot of kinds of love but I'm sure you deserve more proof of love than just that. If he's just tolerating you or if he just finds the relationship convenient, that shouldn't be enough for you. Half of this relationship is you — and you don't want to get stuck in a relationship that's built around his needs instead of your own just because you're afraid he'll break up with you.
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No answers from drug executive at hearing on meningitis
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Owner of New England Compounding Center cites Fifth Amendment
The Fifth Amendment protects against self-incrimination
32 people have died from contaminated drugs from the NECC
9:44PM EST November 14. 2012 - WASHINGTON — Barry Cadden, owner of the New England company whose contaminated drugs have sickened patients nationwide, repeatedly cited the Fifth Amendment on Wednesday, declining to answer lawmakers' questions about unsterile conditions at his plant and its culpability in recent meningitis-related deaths.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee's investigations subcommittee held the first in what is likely to be several hearings on the 461 cases of fungal meningitis tied to contaminated steroid drugs from the New England Compounding Center (NECC) in Framingham, Mass.
Thirty-two people have died.
"What explanation can you give to those who have lost their loved ones?" asked subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns, R-Fla.
Stearns told Cadden that his plant was guilty of "a massive failure of sterilization." Panel members cited reports about bugs and birds in the plant, and standing water that was breeding areas for bacteria.
Cadden, in citing the Fifth Amendment, said he was doing so on the advice of his attorneys.
Lawmakers also questioned Margaret Hamburg, Food and Drug Administration commissioner, about why the agency did not act against NECC in the mid-2000s, despite reports of dangerous conditions there. The FDA issued a warning letter to NECC in 2005 but went no further.
"This was a complete and utter failure on the part of your agency," Stearns told Hamburg.
Hamburg, who became FDA commissioner in 2009, repeatedly declined to give a yes-or-no answer to questions about whether the FDA could have shut down NECC, frustrating Republican members.
"Unfortunately, we have an unclear, fragmented regulatory framework," she said, adding that Congress needs to clarify the FDA's authority over large-scale, "non-traditional" compounders such as NECC.
Although the FDA has authority over prescription medicine, state agencies usually oversee small-scale compounders such as local druggists.
Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., said he found it ironic that Republicans complain of federal regulators stifling businesses until something like the meningitis outbreak occurs.
"Let's not lose sight of the wrongdoer as we go around blaming the regulators," Waxman said. "The regulators deserve blame, but the primary blame, in my mind, is the company."
Several Republican members, led by Rep. Joe Barton of Texas, told Hamburg the FDA needs to use authority it has rather than asking for new powers.
Joyce Lovelace, widow of Eddie Lovelace, 78, a Kentucky state judge who became the first victim of the outbreak on Sept. 17, said the regulatory failures left her family angry.
"I come here begging you to do something about this," she said. "I don't care what party — work together."


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Determine Position
GPS can be used to determine the position with a fair accuracy.
GPS requires you to be able to see the GPS satellites. If you are in a tunnel or on a subway this will not work.
Another way that might be considered to determine your position is using inertial navigation. If you know the position, speed and orientation precisely at a given time and you know all the accelerations and rotations done since that time you can compute the current location.
You need both accelerometers, and gyroscopes to determine your position by this method. Even disregarding budget, the current devices available are not good enough for this for any more than very short periods (seconds).
[1] is the datasheet for an example of the sort of accelerometer that might be put into the neo.
Accelerometers have a certain amount of noise.
This noise gives you severe positioning errors. An error of only a thousandth of a G gives an uncertainty of velocity of 10mm/s after a second, 1.2m/s after 2 minutes. This is 80m after 1 minute, 8Km after 10 minutes. The integrated gyroscopes are around as bad, and drift typically at degrees per minute.
Accelerometers have also been utilized creatively doing:
- drop detection
- over-engineered pedometers. Nokia have 'sports' mobiles with this feature.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Rio de Janeiro's famed Christ statue is being repaired after two fingers and its head were chipped during recent lightning storms.
Workers began examining the 125-foot (38-meter) Christ the Redeemer statue on Tuesday. After inspecting the damage up close, officials say it'll take about four months to repair.
The statue, which is perched atop a mountain and offering spectacular views of Rio, will remain open to tourists.
The right thumb of the statue was chipped during a violent storm last week, and its right middle finger and a spot on its head were damaged last month.
Officials say they'll place more lightning rods on the statue to try to prevent future damage.
The Christ was inaugurated in 1931 and underwent a $4 million renovation in 2010.


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1. John McKay, USC: Made eight appearances in the Rose Bowl, winning five. Four of those squads won national titles in 1962, '67, '72 and '74.
2. Woody Hayes, Ohio State: Made eight appearances in the Rose Bowl, including four in a row from '73 to '76. Of his five national championships, four came after Rose Bowl wins in 1954, '57, '68 and '70. His 1961 title with an 8-0-1 team came after a controversial vote by the school to decline a repeat Rose Bowl appearance in 1962.
3. Howard Jones, USC: Five Rose Bowl appearances – 1930, '32, '33, '39 and '40 – and five wins. Three of those teams won national championships.
4. Bo Schembechler, Michigan: He lost five straight Rose Bowls (1970, '72, '77, '78 and '79) before winning in 1981, and again in 1989. But add to that losses in 1983, '87 and '90. He retired from coach at age 60 after the last loss.
5. John Robinson, USC: His team won in all four of his appearances – 1977, '79, '80 and, after a stint in the NFL, in '96. The '79 team captured a share of the national championship.
6. Pete Carroll, USC: If you're eliminating the 2006 Rose Bowl loss to Texas in the national championship game because of subsequent NCAA penalties, then he won in his four official appearances with the Trojans, in 2004 (to capture an AP title), 2007, '08 and '09 (after losses knocked the Trojans out of a national title game).
7. Don James, Washington: The last of his four Rose Bowl wins in 1992 gave him a share of the national title with a 12-0 record. His Rose Bowl losses came in 1981 and '93, after which he retired, capping an appearance in three straight years.
8. Terry Donahue, UCLA: During his run of seven straight bowl wins between 1982 and '88 seasons, three of them came at the Rose Bowl. His only loss was in the '94 game.
9. John Cooper, ASU, Ohio State: A 2-0 record in Rose Bowl games, and the only coach to win one with two different teams – in 1987 with the Sun Devils and 10 years later with the Buckeyes.
10. Wade Wallace, Alabama, Duke: In his five Rose Bowl appearances, he was 2-0-1 with Alabama from 1926-31, then two more losses with Duke in 1939 and '42.


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A maze of deep gutters is just one of the highlights of diving the Coral Canyons. This dive site off Heron Island has countless gutters cutting in and out of the reef in depth from 15 metres to 20 metres. These canyons are decorated with pretty hard and soft corals, but divers will also see gorgonians and sea whips in the area. There are also many ledges to explore at the Coral Canyons, which are home to crayfish, squirrelfish and tasselled wobbegong sharks. While turtles, trevally, reef sharks, batfish and stingrays are common in the area, take some time to look for some of the smaller reef inhabitants. The Coral Canyons is a good place to see nudibranchs, octopus, shrimps, boxfish, lionfish and gobies.
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"Having preferences means having weaknesses." – Magnus Carlsen, currently the number one rated chess player in the world
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Over the years, Sarah and I have relied on Cascade Complete to get our dishes clean. We'd tried a lot of different dishwashing detergents, particularly when we were first living in apartments where a dishwasher was available, and we just found that Cascade Complete got our dishes cleaner. We didn't have to re-run loads. We didn't have to pre-wash dishes. We didn't have to worry about overloading. It just got the job done consistently – something we couldn't say about other dishwashing detergents.
Because of this, we just adopted a routine of buying Cascade Complete whenever we needed dishwashing detergent. We'd recognize the logo on the store shelf, find the best bargain on it we could, stack a coupon on top of that (usually), and head to the checkout.
Some time in 2010 – I think it may have been in the spring – I noticed that our dishes weren't getting very clean. They looked sort of dingy and they often would still have caked-on food or smudges on the glasses (with little kids, smudged glasses are a very common phenomenon).
After doing a bit of studying, I learned that Cascade Complete had removed the phosphates from their dishwashing detergent, making it much less effective and putting it almost exactly on par with other phosphate-free dishwashing detergents that cost substantially less to buy.
Simply put, we haven't used Cascade Complete in a year and a half. We either use a generic brand or a homemade mix. The brand on the bottle means little, after all – it's what's inside that washes your dishes.
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Companies work very hard to associate brands with certain things in our minds. Apple. Nike. Sony. Olive Garden. Each of those things – and countless others – causes us to picture certain things in our minds and often causes us to have certain assumptions about the products that carry those brand names on them.
For us, Cascade Complete was synonymous with "clean dishes," but that eventually proved not to be the case. Not because they changed the brand, but because they changed what was inside the box.
The label on the outside of the box doesn't mean you're going to always get the same thing inside the box.
What does that mean for us? Don't become attached to brands. The particular item that is on top of the heap right now might not necessarily be on top of the heap next year if a particular item changes its contents or a competitor produces a better product.
The product you once started buying because it was the best bang for the buck quite likely isn't the best bang for the buck any more.
I can easily recall a similar experience with a Sony Walkman during my childhood. When I was about eight, I had a secondhand one that was industrial strength. I used it for about six years until it was dropped into a lake. I wouldn't be surprised if someone were to dive into that lake and find a fully-functioning Sony Walkman.
I bought a replacement, expecting a similar durable product. It worked for about three months, then it started eating and shredding tapes. I attempted to turn it in under the warranty and just wound up battling Sony's customer service until it wasn't worth it any more.
The Sony name and the Walkman name meant very little. The product inside is what mattered.
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My solution to all of this is to just completely abandon any meaning when it comes to brand names. All they're useful for is making it easy to identify a certain item on the store shelf.
What I do instead is constantly watch for product reviews. I read publications like Consumer Reports and The Consumerist pretty faithfully and I simply watch for what their comparative studies suggest is the current best "bang for the buck." I stick with that for a while until an updated comparison comes out.
When I'm about to buy a more expensive product, I research it thoroughly, but the brand name doesn't mean a whole lot. If it's an electronic item, for instance, it's likely that it was made out of many of the same components in the same Chinese factory no matter what name is on the box. If it's a dishwashing detergent, the vast majority of the materials in the box are exactly the same. The small differences between the items have little to do with the name on the outside of the box.
All I care about are features and price. Those things matter far more than the name on the package.
I'm striving to apply the same philosophy to everything I see. Does it matter what car someone else bought? Not really. They just decided that it had the right set of features for them. I might not value those same features, but then again, I'm not the person spending the money. If I see someone driving a Jaguar, for example, all I can really conclude is that they have a different set of features that they care about in a car than I do.
I'm not defined by the brands that I buy, nor is anyone else. They're just stickers on the outside of an item that will ideally make my life a bit easier or more enjoyable. Nothing more, nothing less.


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The prestigious Concert Choir has performed both near and far, performing abroad in such countries as Spain, Italy and Austria.
This ensemble meets 4.5 hours per week and tours during the weekend before Thanksgiving and sometimes during spring break. Foreign tours occur during the break between semesters or during spring break.
Our performances have included:
- One of 17 university ensembles selected to perform on the Mozart Bicentennial "Masses in Concert" series in Alice Tully Hall of Lincoln Center.
- Performed J.S. Bach's St. John Passion for the Southern Division Convention of the American Choral Directors Association.
- Choir-in-residence for the Classical Music Seminar in Eisenstadt, Austria.
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HI! Im John Sirmon and Im a MFA student studying book arts. Aside from my love for books and paper I am an avid outdoors-man and gardener. After I finish my degree I hope to open my own business as a printer, publisher and paper fiber farmer focusing on publishing new authors and cultivating alternative fibers for other hand paper-makers around the country.


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MLB Notebook: McCutchen in elite company
Playing in his age-26 season in 1913, Tigers center fielder Ty Cobb batted .390 with a .467 on-base percentage and a .535 slugging percentage, giving himself -- with loads of room to spare -- .300/.400/.500 campaigns in both his age-25 and age-26 seasons.
The next center fielder to do this was Tris Speaker in 1913-14. It wouldn't happen again for a center fielder until 1940-41, when Joe DiMaggio accomplished the feat, and then the next achiever in this frame was DiMaggio's successor, Mickey Mantle, in 1957-58.
Playing in his age-26 season in 1913, Tigers center fielder Ty Cobb batted .390 with a .467 on-base percentage and a .535 slugging percentage, giving himself -- with loads of room to spare -- .300/.400/.500 campaigns in both his age-25 and age-26 seasons.
The next center fielder to do this was Tris Speaker in 1913-14. It wouldn't happen again for a center fielder until 1940-41, when Joe DiMaggio accomplished the feat, and then the next achiever in this frame was DiMaggio's successor, Mickey Mantle, in 1957-58.
And then the line went cold, with no other center fielder joining that quartet in the next five decades. These four -- a set of individuals all universally acclaimed and regarded to be among the five or six greatest center fielders in the game's history -- now have someone else to look after, a player who is continually refining his game, expanding in the baseball consciousness and etching lines that draw applause while being exactly in line with what we have come to expect: the 2013 National League MVP, Andrew McCutchen.
After going .327/.400/.553 and leading the league in hits and times on base in 2012 (his age-25 season), McCutchen's encore performance in '13 showed declines in batting and slugging -- dropping to .317 and .508, respectively -- while witnessing a small upgrade in on-base percentage to .404. And if the more advanced stats reinforced similar constructs (his batting runs declined from 49 to 44, while his OPS+ in '13 was a 158 after a 162 in '12), the tones of the two seasons were significantly different.
In 2012, McCutchen used a brilliant first half to draft toward his final-number heights, entering the All-Star break with NL leads in batting (.362) and slugging (.625) and a third-place slot in on-base percentage (.414). Buoyed by such excellence, his Pirates were one of the more intriguing and surprising stories of that first half, holding a one-game lead in the NL Central. But as McCutchen slowed in the second half (posting a .289/.385/.475 line), his ballclub staggered and won just 40% of its games to plummet out of contention.
When the calendar flipped, the script did as well, and McCutchen finished the first half in '13 with an .847 OPS that was the 15th best in the NL (among players with at least 350 plate appearances). Then, as his Pirates won 55% of their second-half games, held course and reached the postseason for the first time since 1992, McCutchen was about as good as anyone in baseball.
Among the 99 Major League players with at least 250 plate appearances after the All-Star break, McCutchen tied for second in batting (.339), was second in on-base percentage (.441) and was second in slugging (.561), with his 1.001 OPS the third best, behind marks from Jayson Werth and Mike Trout. It was a nice narrative to offer to those deciding on the league MVP, and it helped give McCutchen that second straight .300/.400/.500 season.
It's not like .300/.400/.500 seasons -- for players of any age -- are being produced in every corner of MLB's game room these days, either. In 2012, McCutchen was one of only three players to finish the year having reached all three heights, joining Giants catcher Buster Posey and Tigers first baseman Prince Fielder. A total of three was the fewest in any season since 1992, and gave McCutchen a sparsely populated mountain from which to proclaim his excellence. This past season, the three-time All-Star was one of four players to get there, joining fellow NL'er Paul Goldschmidt and two superstars in the American League: the Tigers' Miguel Cabrera and the Angels' Trout. Alphabetizing the entire list over these past two seasons identifies one particularly notable fact -- that McCutchen is the only name to appear twice.
In baseball history, 23 players have posted .300/.400/.500 lines in both their age-25 and age-26 seasons, with McCutchen one of three active players to do it, joining Albert Pujols (in 2005-06) and Joey Votto (in 2009-10). Those two joined the club while manning first base, a claim shared by five others: Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, Johnny Mize, Hal Trosky and Frank Thomas.
Center sluggers
|Combined Slash
|Ty Cobb
|Tris Speaker
|Joe DiMaggio
|Mickey Mantle
|Andrew McCutchen
Only two other infielders -- second baseman Rogers Hornsby and shortstop Nomar Garciaparra -- are on the list of 23, with all of the other representatives having done this batting work while holding down primary positions in the outfield.
Corner outfielders make up nine other delegates: Ed Delahanty (LF), Mike Smith (LF), Jesse Burkett (LF), Babe Ruth (LF/RF), Kiki Cuyler (LF/RF), Paul Waner (RF), Mel Ott (RF), Frank Robinson (RF) and Bobby Abreu (RF).
Finally, there are the other four -- in addition to McCutchen -- in center. The combined lines for those five -- including two guys who won an MVP in their age-26 season (DiMaggio and McCutchen) are produced in the table.
Before Joe DiMaggio recorded the first plate appearance of his 1940 regular season, his career line featured a .341 batting average, a .397 on-base percentage and a .622 slugging percentage: numbers that seem (and are) special; no player other than DiMaggio (with a minimum of 2,000 plate appearances) has posted a slash line with those aggregate numbers (or better ones) in his age-21 through age-24 seasons.
And then in '40 and again in '41, he improved upon them. In '40, with his Yankees missing out on the pennant for the first time since DiMaggio joined the club, the perennial All-Star captured his second straight batting title, led the AL in OPS+ and posted a .352/.425/.626 line: a slash that would be exceeded in every respect in '41. Buoyed by that rather famous hit streak of 56 games, DiMaggio captured his second MVP in 1941 after authoring a .357/.440/.643 line. And if assembling the floor at .300/.400/.500 allowed McCutchen to join an exclusive community of players, raising the bar to just below where DiMaggio sits really limits membership.
From 1871-2013, these are the qualifying players to post a .350/.420/.620 line in both their age-25 and age-26 seasons -- Ruth, Hornsby and DiMaggio.
Three of a kind
|Age-25 Season
|Age-26 Season
|Babe Ruth
|Rogers Hornsby
|Joe DiMaggio
One of the most enjoyable elements of looking back on individual accomplishments within the past season resides in the opportunities to go casting. In this case, one starts with McCutchen and a pair of superb -- if not immediately jaw-dropping -- seasons. And from there, the myriad explorations can veer into any numbers of pockets and reveal any sorts of names. And before long, a century of baseball is uncovered and reviewed, and connections are found and developed.
In those ties, the forgotten (Smith) and the immediately recognizable (Cobb, DiMaggio, et al.) players stand alongside one another, adding layers of narrative. McCutchen may not have had the most eye-catching age-25 and age-26 seasons ever produced, but aligning his slash lines with his age does elevate him to a ritzy floor. It's fairly easy to look superficially at the MVP, at the prominence on a playoff team and say wow, but there is so much more to unearth and enjoy.
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Flu 1918 (Part 1 of 3) - Amanuensis Monday
Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another.
Thanks to John Newmark at Transylvanian Dutch for providing the idea for Amanuensis Monday.
Have you ever had one of those surprising moments when you found something, bing boom, that you thought was going to take forever? Something that rightly SHOULD have taken forever, but it didn't? I wasn't even looking for the information I found the day I found it. Genealogical serendipity. Most of the time--when I'm looking for Szerejko, or Kowalewski, or Radziewicz, or in this particular case Choronzak--that just doesn't happen.
Last spring I decided to try to find a little information on my "Aunt" Rose. Aunt Rose was actually my grandmother's adopted sister. My grandmother and my mother told me that Aunt Rose was taken in by my great-grandparents, Antoni and Ewa (Kowalewska) Bulak, when Rose's parents both died of the flu during the 1918 influenza pandemic. The story goes that Aunt Rose's parents died within two days of one another and left several children behind. The children were (using my mother's words) "farmed out" to other members of the Polish community of St. Mary's parish in Worcester, MA to be taken care of.
When I started this search back last June all the information I had to go on was that Rose's maiden name was Chronzak or Choronzak. According to the census, I did find that Rose was living with my great-grandparents in 1920. While I was at the Worcester Public Library I checked the Worcester city directories hoping to get lucky and find death dates listed with the family's 1919 entry. No such luck. Next I asked a librarian if there were any Worcester statistics/information for flu deaths from the 1918 pandemic publicly available. No luck again. So much for the easy way.
From my research on the flu I knew that most deaths, at least in my geographical area, occurred during the fall of 1918. I decided to visually scan the microfilm of the Worcester Telegram for obituaries related to the flu starting in late September when the flu really started to take hold. I reviewed one issue of the daily paper. There were over fifty obituaries listed for that day alone! That trip to the library put the enormity of the flu pandemic in perspective for me. I suddenly realised this project was going to be tougher than I originally thought. Shortly after my library visit my family and I left for California for a good part of the summer. When we got back I moved on to other research.
Last Thursday I went to the library to do some research for a couple of hours. I had several projects in mind, and one of them was to look at the October 1918 issues of the Worcester Telegram. I thought I'd start systematically reviewing the microfilm starting with the October 1, 1918 issue. I loaded my microfilm onto the reader and reviewed the first issue on the roll. This is what I found on page 6:
Worcester Daily Telegram, Tuesday October 1, 1918, p. 6.POLISH PARISH MUCH AFFECTED BY GRIP
The spanish influenza epidemic has affected St. Marys Polish parish to a considerable extent. Half the parish members are confined to bed, according to report made late last night, by the rector, Boleslaus A. Bojanowski, who also said there were at least 600 church people with the malady.
He and Rev. Edmund Kempski, his assistant at the church, have been busy the past few days, administering the last rites of the Catholic church.
There have been quite a number of deaths the past week. One of the saddest cases was that of Mr. and Mrs. John Choronozak, Meade street, both buried Sunday afternoon in Notre Dame cemetery. The couple had been ill but a few days and they leave seven orphans, the eldest: 14 years of age. Three of the children are suffering with the "flu" in city hospital while the remaining four are cared for temporarily by friends of the family.
Much sympathy is extended Mr. and Mrs. J.J. Mendys and family, Richland street. The couple and three children are in a bad condition, all confined to their beds at the family home. They had called in physicians without avail. A man neighbor visited the home yesterday on business when he learned of the plight and he notified Rev. Fr. Bojanowski who, in turn secured a physician and other assistance.
There is no one to give permanent care, however, and both Mr. and Mrs. Mendys were in a critical state, last night having received the last rites of the church.
Rev. Fr. Bojanowski officiated at the funeral service of Aleck Sielski, 46 years old, another victim of the influenza, yesterday morning. He leaves a wife unable to work, and daughter, about 15 years old.
Another requiem mass will be celebrated this morning at 8:30 o'clock at the funeral of Constantin Skorodske, 44 years of age, who has been ill a week, and succumbed of pneumonia. He leaves a wife and five children.
There are many, many cases, Rev. Fr. Bojanowski said, where the parents and all the children are sick. Usually the Polish people have large families, and the scarcity of nurses has made it very hard on these households, thereby spreading the infection, it was said.
Flu 1918 (Part 2 of 3)
Flu 1918 (Part 3 of 3)
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- Lisa Wallen Logsdon said...
Wow Cynthia, what an awesome find...and one you weren't even really looking for! (Happened to me too a couple months back so I know how you feel). And a very interesting story! Looking forward to reading the rest......
- January 11, 2011 at 12:00 PM
- Nolichucky Roots said...
Amazing! What is remembered through generations as traumatic would likely be reflected in the local press. But to find it on your first roll - there's a geneafairy on your shoulder.
- January 11, 2011 at 2:50 PM
- Cynthia Shenette said...
Thank you ladies for your comments.
I was surprised the day I found this article. I was hoping to find an obit. I didn't expect to find an entire article. There was a geneafairy on my shoulder that day!
- January 14, 2011 at 10:31 AM
- Mark said...
Hello Cynthia,
Regarding the Choronzak family:
My name is Mark Chumsae of Shrewsbury MA, son of John (Choronzak)Chumsae. My father's parents were Josef & Antoinette (or Antonina)Choronzak. Upon their deaths in 1918, they left 7 orphaned children as follows:
John Chumsae, Frank Skinger,Sophie Shenkowski, Rose Miller, Catherine Goslow, Mary Bialeki & Stacia Mahoney.
The Chumsae family name originated when young John applied for a work permit and the person who processed the permit spelled his surname name incorrectly as 'Chumsae'.
To my knowlege, the Choronzaks were from Gorlice (or Galacia) Poland, an area in Poland that thru history, may have been located in Ukraine due to a shift in the border in the Carpathians.
I read with great interest the information you have researched and thank you for your efforts.
I would very much like to hear more from you. You may email me directly at: email@example.com
Best Regards,
- August 28, 2011 at 11:24 AM


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Famed Puerto Rican boxer Hector "Macho" Camacho is clinically brain dead, doctors said Thursday.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Famed Puerto Rican boxer Hector "Macho" Camacho is clinically brain dead, doctors said Thursday, but family members disagreed on whether to take him off life support and two of the fighter's aunts said later that relatives had agreed to wait two more days.
Dr. Ernesto Torres said doctors had no more medical tests to perform on Camacho, who was shot in the face Tuesday.
"We have done everything we could," said Torres, who is director of the Centro Medico trauma center in San Juan. "We have to tell the people of Puerto Rico and the entire world that Macho Camacho has died, he is brain dead."
He said at a news conference Thursday morning that Camacho's father indicated he wanted the boxer taken off life support and his organs donated, but other relatives opposed the idea.
One of the fighter's aunts, Aida Camacho, said Thursday evening that two of Camacho's sisters had asked to have two more days to spend with him, and other family members had agreed even though they felt it was time to give in.
"I'm a person of a lot of faith, and I believe in miracles, but science has spoken," she said.
Another aunt, Blanca Camacho, also said the family had agreed to the wishes of the two sisters from New York to hold off on ending life support. But, she added, "There's nothing left here. He's already dead."
Most of Camacho's relatives left the hospital by Thursday night without commenting.
About a dozen people stood vigil outside. One, Orvil Miller, a singer and actor, expressed sadness about Camacho's fate and recalled his admiration for the fighter's flamboyance.
Steve Tannenbaum, a friend and a former boxing agent for Camacho, said in a phone interview that he idolized Camacho as a boxer.
"He is one of the greatest small fighters that I have ever seen," he said.
Tannenbaum said he initially believed Camacho would survive. "He was almost like the indestructible man. He had so many troubles with the law, so many altercations in his life. It's a great shame."
The 50-year-old Camacho was shot as he and a friend sat in a Ford Mustang parked outside a bar Tuesday night. Police spokesman Alex Diaz said officers found nine small bags of cocaine in the friend's pocket, and a 10th bag open inside the car. Camacho's friend, identified as 49-year-old Adrian Mojica Moreno, was killed in the attack.
Doctors had initially said Camacho was expected to survive, but his condition worsened and his heart stopped briefly overnight Tuesday, Torres said. The bullet entered his jaw and lodged in his shoulder after tearing through three of four main arteries in his neck, affecting blood flow through his brain, doctors said.
Camacho was born in Bayamon, a city within the San Juan metropolitan area, but he grew up mostly in New York's Harlem neighborhood, earning the nickname "the Harlem Heckler."
He won super lightweight, lightweight and junior welterweight world titles in the 1980s. Camacho had a career record of 79-6-3.


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Cardiovascular diseases and the search for more evidence
Daniel Day Lewis won an Oscar this year for his depiction of Abraham Lincoln's role in the abolition of slavery in the USA. As I watched Lincoln on the plane crossing the Atlantic, I wondered how many inequalities still exist in health and whether laws are the best way to reduce or abolish these inequalities.
Looking at just cardiovascular diseases, inequalities have been highlighted at local, regional, national and international levels, whether on the basis of gender, age, socioeconomic status or race. We have known about the major risk factors which cause cardiovascular disease for over 50 years, and yet some of these inequalities still pose significant challenges in many parts of the globe. An example from the UK is the recent study showing regional variations in mortality from cardiovascular disease in each electoral ward.
So do we not have enough evidence to act? Do we need to keep producing more research to show that inequalities and variations still exist? Of course, the answer is that we need to keep producing evidence, not just to understand the causes, "the causes of the causes" and in order to plan the best strategies to tackle these inequalities. Moreover, the evidence needs to be presented in new ways to reach the hearts and minds of policymakers in order to enact change.
In Circulation this week, Ezatti and colleagues consider the effect of macroeconomic changes on cardiovascular risk factors over time at the global level for hypertension, diabetes, hypercholesterolaemia and obesity. At the country level, systolic blood pressure, total cholesterol and body-mass index were positively associated with gross domestic product (GDP) and Western diet in 1980, whereas only total cholesterol remained positively associated with GDP in 2008. In an accompanying editorial, I make the point that existing surveillance systems for cardiovascular disease and its risk factors at global level are inadequate. This week, I am at the American Heart Association Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Prevention Meeting in New Orleans, learning about new data and new ways of presenting the data regarding cardiovascular diseases. Relating changes in cardiovascular disease to economic and macroeconomic change seems a promising strategy to get the attention of policymakers.
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"Thousands of clinical trials have not reported their results; some have not even been registered." All trials registered | All results reported
This is a problem.
A petition was launched today that calls on governments, regulators, and research bodies to put measures in place to register and report the methods and results of clinical trials. This initiative, led by Bad Science, Sense About Science, BMJ, James Lind Initiative and CEBM is important. This issue effects all of us: patients, researchers, clinicians, politicians, scientists, and industry.
The petition was followed with a rip roaring editorial by Iain Chalmers, Paul Glasziou and Fiona Godlee in the BMJ that calls for all trials to be registered and their results published. This excellent piece details the consequences of our collective abstention from action and provides advice to patients whom are invited to participate in clinical trials; name:
"Agree to participate in a clinical trial only if: (1) the study protocol has been registered and made publicly available; (2) the protocol refers to systematic reviews of existing evidence showing that the trial is justified; and (3) you receive a written assurance that the full study results will be published and sent to all participants who indicate that they wish to receive them."
Don't wait, sign the petition now.
After signing you can automatically share the message "I've just signed the #AllTrials petition for all trials registered and all results reported" on Twitter or Facebook.
Be proud you are taking a step for transparency and improving patient care. I know I am.
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Are you sitting comfortably?
For those interested in the history of medicine you may have heard of Jeremy Morris (1910-2009). Dr Morris was a Scottish epidemiologist who, during the 1950s, was involved in establishing the link between a lack of physical activity and increased cardiovascular risk. In his paper, published in The Lancet, Dr Morris and his colleagues teamed up with London Transport, The Post Office and The Treasury Medical Service. The London Transport Workers Study observed 31,000 men aged 35-64 employed as bus drivers and conductors. They found that you were more likely to suffer from coronary heart disease as a sedentary driver, than as a conductor who climbed the stairs of a double decker bus. This finding also reflected their data in postal workers who were less likely to suffer with coronary heart disease that desk based civil servants. Although a number of limitations of their work were acknowledged, it was clear that a link had been made and in 1996 these contributions were recognized when he was awarded the first International Olympic Committee Prize for Sport Sciences.
Over 60 years later the data linking physical inactivity with ill health continues. Last week researchers at The University of Leicester published a paper on the association between sedentary time in adults and the risk of diabetes, cardiovascular disease and death. They collected data from 18 individual studies. For each one they calculated the risk of ill health associated with the highest sedentary time versus the risk with the lowest, a relative risk (RR). They found a 112% increase in the relative risk of diabetes, a 147% increase in cardiovascular events and a 90% increase in the risk of cardiovascular mortality. With figures like that it's no wonder the results made the widespread public media. Of the 18 included studies the authors used for their analysis, 13 used TV viewing as their sedentary measure, which was interesting as the authors also stated in their introduction that TV viewing may not be a good representation of total sedentary time, perhaps suggesting it could be an over- or under- estimate. The other 5 studies used self-reporting of sedentary time which is notorious for having poor reliability. That said if someone asked you how much time you sit down in a day, do you think you were more likely to over or under estimate? The other interesting point was that the risk seemed independent upon how much activity you were doing outside the sedentary time. So even if you go to the gym for 1 hour, it's what you do with the other 23 hours that seem to count as well.
Despite some limitations, the paper adds to the work of Dr Morris and others, supporting the evidence linking physical inactivity and ill health.
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Sunday Sweets: Ribbons and Lace
This week I figured we'd take a break from the geek themes and instead feature some Sweets that showcase amazing piping skills. This kind of cake art is becoming pretty rare in these days of all-fondant cakes, so it's nice to be reminded of the painstaking talent that a lot of the more traditional bakers possess. The designs can be deceptively simple, but it takes a practiced hand and a lot of patience to get results like these.
First, let's start off with some lovely scroll work and piped pearls:
Here's a fondant-free example:
That's all hand-piped! Here, check out the detail:
This next one contains some mind-boggling string work. (String work uses royal icing, which hardens after it dries.) Just look at this:
I love the color on this next one:
And last is the most technically difficult of today's bunch:
For the scroll border, royal icing is layered on a flat surface, dried, and then carefully adhered to the base with more icing. Have I mentioned that this stuff is incredibly fragile? 'Cuz it is. I've been told that for a cake like this, you have to do the string work onsite; the slightest bump or jarring would cause them all the break right off.
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