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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new study further eases fears that the rotavirus vaccine might increase the risk of blocked bowels in infants — a concern that led to an earlier version of the vaccine being pulled from the market in the United States.
In the report on close to 800,000 doses of the vaccine, which protects against severe diarrhea, vaccinated babies were no more likely to end up in the hospital or emergency room with so-called intussusception — when one part of the intestine slides inside another like a telescope.
The findings jibe with a recent report that found that hospitalizations for the intestinal problem didn't significantly increase in babies after rotavirus vaccination became routine in 2007 (see Reuters Health story of January 5, 2012).
"We can't rule out that a low-level risk could exist," said researcher Irene Shui, from Harvard Medical School in Boston.
But, "our results do add to the message that even if there was a low-level risk of intussusception, the benefits of the vaccine far outweigh those risks," Shui told Reuters Health.
The initial version of the rotavirus vaccine was introduced in the U.S. in 1998 and pulled the next year following increased reports of intussusception. The thinking was that the vaccine, a weakened dose of the live virus, might occasionally stimulate an immune response in the intestinal tract and change its shape.
Two newer vaccines, taken orally, didn't increase those risks during pre-approval testing — but since have been linked to slightly higher-than-usual reports of bowel problems in Mexican and Australian infants.
To see if that would also apply in the U.S., researchers tracked babies recently given the RotaTeq vaccine, produced by Merck, between 2006 and 2010. They compared cases of intussusception in those infants to babies who didn't get the rotavirus vaccine during that time, and to intussusception hospitalizations in 2001 to 2005, before the vaccine was re-introduced — and found no differences.
In the first month after babies received any of the 787,000 vaccinations, there were 21 cases of intussusception, compared to the 20.9 that would have been expected with no vaccine, based on past records. And after 310,000 first doses of the vaccine, there were seven cases in the next month, compared to the predicted 5.7 cases.
Both of those small differences could have been due to chance, Shui's team reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association on Tuesday.
There were similar numbers of bowel problems in babies who did and didn't get the rotavirus vaccine in the late 2000's — but there were so few cases in either group that it was hard to compare specific situations, such as the risk of intussusception in the first week after a first vaccine dose.
The study was funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. One of the authors reported receiving research support from Merck in the study's conflicts of interest disclosure.
The researchers said their results can't rule out the possibility that a slightly increased risk would show up among a bigger sample of vaccinated babies.
"I think it's important for both parents and physicians to realize that vaccines like the rotavirus vaccine have had a tremendous public health benefit, but every treatment or vaccine has some risk," Shui said.
She said that the rotavirus vaccine has prevented up to 50,000 diarrhea hospitalizations each year in the U.S. If there was a small risk of intussusception, similar to that shown in other countries, it would translate to 40 to 60 extra cases of the bowel problem annually.
Dr. Joseph Zickafoose, a pediatrics and communicable diseases researcher at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and one of the authors of the earlier study, called the findings "very encouraging" and agreed that the balance of harms and benefits strongly favors vaccination.
The new study, he told Reuters Health, "should reassure families that the rotavirus vaccine is safe and that the benefits of preventing severe illness and ending up in the hospital outweigh any risks, which we don't seem to be finding."
SOURCE: bit.ly/hwxtTL Journal of the American Medical Association, online February 7, 2012.


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I'm sure Phil would be only too happy to make a guest appearance but I promise that, for logistical reasons, it won't happen in series 3. I've never written about Phil before but he is a top guy and great to be with on the road. We've spent many hours chatting (usually at airports) and he loves TAR. Funnily enough, behind the scenes, Allan reminds me of Phil (similar sense of humour) and they are both genuinely nice guys. I think they would get on famously.
1) Arrange for the host of the Amazing Race TV show, Phil Keoghan to stay at your hotel. Just when the crankies were about to set in as we packed ourselves like sardines into the hotel shuttle bus to endure the long flight home, who shows up but TV host Phil Keoghan from the Amazing Race. I couldnt have planned things any better if I had slipped his agent $1000. He stood around outside our van, chatting to his driver
and my daughter got take it all in within eight feet. I am now officially a hero for having taken her to Philadelphia. Wait till all her friends hear about this on Facebook!
How many frequent-flier miles do you have?I have three accounts with about half a million each. But I use my miles all the time. As fast as I fill them up, I'm using them.What's in your carry-on bag?I always travel with earplugs, an eye mask, noise-canceling headphones and my iPod. I always travel with my computer, a good book, a journal, some Sudoku and movies. . . . I really enjoy traveling because of the opportunity to escape communication. . . . I'm dreading that there may come a time when people are going to be allowed to use cellphones on planes. I think it's absolutely insane.How do you think you'd do as one of the racers?I have absolutely no desire to race around the world for a million dollars. It's not on my list of things to do before I die. . . . I enjoy watching these racers go around the world because I think it's unique for them. I like watching what they do and their reactions. I don't really want to subject myself to being under a microscope for 30-something days.One of the things "The Amazing Race" is known for is its pretty challenging detours and roadblocks. Are these activities selected because of a certain fear a racer may have?There have certainly been times -- because we know going into the race what people are afraid of -- where they end up facing those fears. But to me the best challenges are not necessarily things like bungee-jumping but the more indigenous challenges. Milking a camel, for instance. Pretty much all us can go bungee jumping somewhere. It's more predictable than finding out what happens when you take a bunch of Americans to Africa and ask them to milk a camel. That's so out there and so different that to me, the reactions, the television moments, are inherently more interesting.
Phil regretfully told them they were eliminated from the race but all was not lost as Phils dad offered them a big bear hug. Hes what this show needs. Now only if they would take him along to each and every pit stop and dress him up in that countrys native clothing. I can see him now in a matador costume saying, Bienvenido a Espana. Soy el padre de Phil! and wearing a beret with a greeting of Bienvenue en France! Je suis le père de Phil! One can never have enough Keoghan.
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Ever since coming up with my recipe for Black Bean Fudge a couple years ago, various bean fudges have been my go-to quick dessert. But surprisingly, I've never posted any other bean fudge recipes to the blog! So I decided it was time. The other day I came up with this recipe, a rich adzuki bean fudge with hints of cinnamon, chili powder, and Young Living tangerine essential oil, inspired by the flavors of Mexican chocolate. I took the fudge to a potluck at the ceramic studio where I take classes, and everyone loved it. Only a few pieces came home with me at the end of the night!
I'm including this recipe in this month's SOS Kitchen Challenge, which features the adzuki bean (a.k.a. aduki bean or azuki bean, or red bean, the list goes on). For all the details of the challenge, check out the rules HERE, then enter your recipe in the Linky. Ricki and I look forward to seeing all the great adzuki bean recipes you make this month!
Okay, back to the recipe at hand. For a light, alluring flavor in this fudge, I included tangerine essential oil (you could also use orange). While you could use orange extract instead, I'd highly recommend getting your hands on a bottle of these essential oils if you want to make this recipe. I use tangerine essential oil from Young Living, my favorite brand of high-quality, therapeutic grade, food grade essential oils. I use their oils everyday in cooking, in the bath, in the home, and for self-massage. The quality is beyond compare, and unlike other brands of essential oils, all of the Young Livingoils can be taken internally. They are more expensive than oils you'll find at your local health foods store, but their unsurpassed purity, superior quality, and high concentration means you'll get more bang for your buck.
The benefit of using essential oils culinarily is that you get therapeutic benefits and an intense flavor, without any additives, alcohol, sugar, or stabilizers. The unsurpassed purity and concentration of Young Living oils means you only need a drop or two added to an entire recipe. This is a great contrast to needed a full teaspoon of flavored extract! Many flavored extracts are more diluted, contain additives that may not agree with your diet, and the flavor may taste "fake".
Although I had already become addicted to using Young Living oils, after experiencing them in baking and cooking the last couple months, I'm truly in love. In fact, I love their product so much that I became an independent distributor. If you're interested in browsing the Young Living collection of essential oils, check out my distributor site.
Mexican Spice Adzuki Bean Fudge
yield approx. 24 pieces
I used Young Living Tangerine Essential Oil from in this recipe, which can be purchased here. Food-grade essential oils from Young Living are highly concentrated; you only need 1-2 drops for an entire recipe. If you prefer to use a culinary tangerine or orange flavored extract instead, which is less concentrated, start with 1/8-1/4 tsp, and add to taste.
For a totally sugar-free dessert, omit honey/maple/etc and use more stevia, to taste. The mixture will be a little dryer, so add 1-2 more Tbsp of nut/seed butter.
- 2 cups cooked adzuki beans
- 1/3 cup melted coconut oil
- 3 Tbsp maple syrup, agave nectar, honey (not vegan), brown rice syrup, or other natural liquid sweetener (this creates a dark, bittersweet-style fudge; if you prefer a sweeter flavor, add more)
- 2 Tbsp tahini or other seed/nut butter
- 1 tsp gluten-free pure vanilla extract
- 1/4 tsp plain or vanilla stevia liquid (I use NuNaturals Alcohol-Free Plain Stevia Liquid)
- 2 drops Young Living Orange or Tangerine Essential Oil (if using orang extract instead, see note above)
- 1/2 cup cocoa powder (or carob powder)
- 2 tsp ground cinnamon, plus more for dusting
- 1 tsp medium hot chili powder, plus more for dusting
- 1/8 tsp unrefined salt, plus more for dusting
Melt coconut oil over low heat until liquid. Place in a food processor with all other liquid ingredients, and process until beans are broken up. Then add remaining ingredients and process until mixture is combined and smooth, scraping sides as needed. Mixture will be very thick.
Spread into a plastic wrap-lined pan or dish, pressing down firmly. To smooth the top, fold over the plastic wrap and press down on top of the fudge (this works better than smoothing with a spoon or spatula). Then peel back plastic wrap and sprinkle with chili powder, cinnamon, and just a tiny pinch of salt. Then lightly cover with plastic wrap and chill until firm in the refrigerator. Slice into pieces of desired size and serve! Store leftovers in the fridge for up to a week (although it won't last that long).
A note on pans:
The size of the pan you use will yield different thicknesses of fudge. If you want thick fudge, a small or medium size loaf pan works great. If you prefer a thinner fudge, use a larger pan or dish. My favorite pan is the one that came with my toaster oven. I spread the fudge over about 2/3 of the pan, and even it out with the height of the sides. You could also free form the fudge on a plate, smoothing out the edges into a rectangle or square shape.
March SOS Kitchen Challenge: Adzuki Beans
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Judge strikes age restrictions for "morning after" pill
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NEW YORK The Food and Drug Administration must make emergency contraceptives available to girls of all ages within 30 days, a federal judge has ruled, saying the agency's decisions regarding the so-called morning-after pill were "arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable."
The ruling by U.S. District Judge Edward Korman came as the result of a lawsuit brought by reproductive-rights advocates, who had sought to remove age and other restrictions on the so-called "morning after" pill.
The Center for Reproductive Rights and other groups have argued that contraceptives are being held to a different and non-scientific standard than other drugs, and that politics has played a role in decision-making. Social conservatives have said the pill is tantamount to abortion.
The morning-after pill currently is available without a prescription only to those 17 and older who can prove their age. Younger teenagers must get a prescription.
In 2011 the Food and Drug Administration had been prepared to lift a controversial age limit and make Plan B One-Step -- the nation's first over-the-counter emergency contraceptive -- available for purchase by people of any age without a prescription.
But in December of that year Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius blocked the move, deciding that young girls shouldn't be able to buy it on their own. Sebelius said that while young girls are physically capable of bearing children, they might not properly understand how to use the emergency contraception without guidance from an adult.
President Barack Obama said at the time he supported Sebelius' decision.
In his ruling Judge Korman said Secretary Sebelius' directive to the FDA to reject Plan B One-Step for OTC sales "forced the agency to ride roughshod over the policies and practices that it has consistently applied in considering applications for switches in drug status to over-the-counter availability."
The judge said the FDA decided after 11 months, 47,000 public comments and hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars spent, that it did not need rulemaking on the subject.
"The plaintiffs should not be forced to endure, nor should the agency's misconduct be rewarded by, an exercise that permits the FDA to engage in further delay and obstruction," he wrote.
He said the case isn't about the potential misuse of the morning-after pill by 11-year-olds. He said the contraceptives would be among the safest drugs sold over-the-counter and the number of 11-year-olds likely to use the drugs was minuscule.
Four years ago, Korman was highly critical of the government's handling of the issue when he ordered the FDA to let 17-year-olds obtain the medication. At the time, he accused the government of letting "political considerations, delays and implausible justifications for decision-making" cloud the approval process.
Andrea Costello, an attorney with the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, called it "a landmark decision in terms of providing women and girls in the United States access to a safe and effective form of birth control."
F. Franklin Amanat, a lawyer for the government, said the Department of Justice has no immediate comment.
"We are reviewing the decision and evaluating the government's options," he said.
White House press secretary Jay Carney referred reporters' questions on the legal ruling to the Department of Justice during a Friday afternoon press conference. However, he added that the president supported Secretary Sebelius' earlier decision, and his position has not changed.
"He believes it was the right, common sense approach," said Carney.


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MoveOn.org ad opposes Syria strike
MoveOn.org, the progressive political action committee that backed Barack Obama's 2008 presidential bid, has released a new 30-second ad urging congress to oppose the president's proposed military strike against Syria.
The ad, which will air this week on MSNBC with an increased run around his address to the nation Tuesday, was previewed Sunday morning on ABC's "This Week."
Tying Syria to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the ad's narrator states: "What should Americans expect if we rush into Syria, alone, with no real plan for the consequences? We already know, it gets worse."
"Congress, most Americans oppose missile strikes in Syria. Don't lead us down this road again," the narrator says.
A MoveOn spokesperson told the Associated Press late Saturday night that it had spent in the "mid five figures" to run the ad. MoveOn also released a statement last week stating that it's 8 million members had voted "overwhelmingly" to oppose a military strike.


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Everton are determined that Leighton Baines will remain their player as Manchester United consider returning with a higher bid than the offer of around £12m that was refused for the left-back.
United made that bid some time ago, according to sources on Merseyside, and have yet to follow up their interest in a player who has been coveted at Old Trafford since last summer, when Sir Alex Ferguson, David Moyes's predecessor as manager, hoped to sign him.
Then, the view at Everton was that £18m was the minimum fee required for the executive to even countenance selling Baines, with the club perhaps reluctantly allowing the transfer for a price around £20m. With Baines now a year older at 28 and having only two years remaining on his contract his value has decreased to the extent that he could be sold for as low as £16m.
A year ago, the indication from the player's camp was that he would be open to considering the move. While Baines's representatives could not be reached on Friday, the sense is that it is now or never for him at Old Trafford, where he would be first choice ahead of Patrice Evra, a situation that would raise his hopes of dislodging Ashley Cole as England's left-back for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
Moyes's decision to renew United's interest has so far left Evra unmoved, with the 32-year-old currently of the mind to stay at the club while monitoring the situation as it develops. If Baines is signed then the Frenchman would consider a return to Monaco, his club for four years until his £5.5m move to United in 2006.
Moyes's first official day in charge is on Monday ahead of his new squad starting pre-season on Wednesday. With Wayne Rooney this weekend attending the Glastonbury festival – where he may bump into Baines who is also there – and Moyes having been away this week on holiday, the two are yet to meet for their first serious discussion on the striker's future. Rooney became unsettled last season due to patchy form and Ferguson's decision to play him out of position and drop him for key games.
Baines's manager at Everton, Roberto Martínez, hopes to start assembling his backroom staff in the wake of the impending exit of the assistant manager Steve Round, goalkeeping coach Chris Woods, Robbie Cooke, the chief scout, and possibly first-team coach Jimmy Lumsden – all of whom should join Moyes at United.
"For Roberto to bring in his team is absolutely what he wants to do and we want to support him on that," Robert Elston, the Everton chief executive, told evertonTV. "We are working hard to do that and I'm hoping in the near future that Roberto will have his team. He is also integrating into a very strong, solid team that already exists here. There is a real spirit at Finch Farm and a lot of experience. I know he will want to retain that Everton spirit but yes, he does want his own support team around him. We are working to make that happen and I'm sure we will succeed on that in the very near future."
Elstone hinted at the impending departures. "Whoever ultimately moves on to new pastures goes with our best wishes and our thanks for all their contribution they have made to Everton football club," he said.


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SALIDA — Forty years ago this week, two Colorado climbers pulled off a feat some thought impossible: a 2,500-foot ascent up the treacherous Painted Wall, a sheer cliff looming above the Black Canyon of the Gunnison River.
Choking down their own doubts and dodging rockfall, Bill Forrest and Kris Walker summited May 3, 1972, after nine days of climbing — the last four spent on the granite face.
"The wall had never been climbed, and it had been attempted by some of the best climbers in the country," says Forrest, 72, who lives in Salida. "It was a hard climb to make, and it wasn't in the bag until we topped out."
The Painted Wall involved 26 pitches, a pitch being the distance the lead climber ascends before belaying his partner. The fastest climbing is done when a team's pitches are as long as their rope, about 150 feet.
"The 24th pitch was the hardest I'd ever done," Forrest says. "I came close to dying. I'll never forget that pitch. I still think about it now and then."
If the adventures of our youth become the legends of our old age, then Forrest has enough for a memoir longer than the Harvard Classics Five Foot Shelf of Books.
"I loved climbing," Forrest says. "It's not accurate to say it was everything to me, but it was a huge part of my life."
Forrest spent most of his youth in Colorado. He began climbing during a late-1950s Army hitch, where he was stationed in what was then West Germany. Blessed with raw talent and an iron will, mastery came early.
"I always liked doing first ascents," he says. "I owned one guidebook but didn't like reading it. I liked to scout my own routes."
By the time Forrest and Walker took on the Painted Wall, they already had major climbs under their belts, including El Capitan in Yosemite National Park and Longs Peak in Rocky Mountain National Park. Forrest's 1970 ascent of Longs' east face was the first solo ascent of the Diamond.
The Painted Wall is tricky, due to a lack of continuous crack systems and the frighteningly rotten rock. The expedition began April 22, when Forrest and Walker, who had scouted a promising route from Walker's photos, lugged their their gear down a half-mile, poison-ivy-choked gully to the gorge's bottom.
"We thought we had a good idea of the best line up, but once we were on the wall the exact details were different from what we expected," says Walker, 60, who lives in Bow, Wash., and runs Oceanid, which produces water-rescue craft. "No previous climber had gotten higher than 900 feet up the face."
Two days later after arriving, the pair began several days of up-and-down climbs. They took turns leading, setting pitons and climbing nuts by day and sleeping on the ground at night. By the following Saturday, with 800 feet of route-finding under their belts, they began the last three days of the climb, enduring a hail of rocks.
Forrest says there were many instances when he was "nearly petrified" by the risk.
"But we did it, and fewer than a handful of people have done the Painted Wall since," he says. "It's that hard."
Career-ending climb
Forrest's climbing career ended in 1993 during an attempt to climb Mount Everest. He came down with a savage case of amoebic dysentery that nearly killed him. In one week he lost 30 pounds off an already lean frame. The aftereffects plagued him for years.
"I could still climb, but not at the level I'd want to, so that part of my life is over," he says. Still, he retains the blockmason's grip of a man who once knocked out chinups with almost simian ease.
Forrest, a one-time graduate student in English, went on to found a mountaineering equipment company, which he has since sold. Among the innovations springing from his workshop were metal-framed snowshoes with non-skid teeth built into them.
Forrest still hikes, often with Rosa, his wife of 25 years. They have bagged all of Colorado's 54 fourteeners.
Asked what climbing gave him, Forrest is quick to answer. "Just a lifetime of adventure, tremendous friends and a lot of self-knowledge," he says. "Climbing for me is the finest sport in the world. It's a beautiful thing."
Walker says he would love to talk his old friend into a trek to Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.
"We were a great team," he says. "I hope we're still around for the 50th anniverary of the Painted Wall. How cool would that be?"
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Several weeks ago, a YouTube video of children acting out a suicide bombing mission was discovered on YouTube. The video takes place somewhere around the Afghanistan/Pakistan border; the children were determined to be part of a pashtun, or religious school, based on their clothing. It has since been picked up by the press – days later by the New York Times, and recently again by the BBC. In the video, young children – some perhaps no older than three – enact a suicide bombing mission in a game that we shall refer to here as "Suicide Bomber":
A brief synopsis: A child dressed as a bomber walks before a line of other children. He embraces his smiling friends as a final farewell – several of them grin at the camera. Then he proudly walks forward and confronts another boy dressed in white who, acting as a checkpoint officer, puts his hand up to signal 'Stop!' The first child lifts his clothes to reveal explosives and rushes forward towards the fleeing guard and three other boys in a cluster. One of the children (one of the victims, the boy dressed in yellow) throws up a huge cloud of dust and everyone collapses in a heap; the other boys rush up to see. The camera moves over them to focus on the faces and show the results of the attack. The child playing the bomber cannot contain his grin, but quickly becomes serious again. The music being played is a favorite war song of the Taliban about a young man going off to war and how good he looks while carrying his machinegun.
The press' coverage has interpreted the video as training children to become suicide bombers. UNICEF and other groups according to the BBC have rightly condemned the video while a Taliban spokesman, though denying they produced it and saying he was "saddened" that the children were playing this game, gave a propagandistic response that "they should do it because this is a war that was imposed upon us." The spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, stressed to the New York Times that they accept children as young as 18 to become suicide bombers, but this runs counter to reports and arrests of children – one as young as 14 – arrested for attempting to blow themselves up. So children suicide bombers is certainly something that our soldiers and the Afghan security forces are worried about, and – particularly given the recent trends in 'serious games' to teach soldiers and civilians new skills – is inevitably feared as a propagandistic training video. As the New York Times puts it, "the message is clear: This is something to aspire to."
But is the "message" of this game really that "clear"? One of the things that strikes me about this coverage is that the play itself is ambiguous, and yet most people have accepted this as a training video. One thing that appears missing from the discussion is the critical and historical perspective.
Simply put, children play games in war zones all the time – play appears to be essential to a child's well-being and as Brian Sutton-Smith tells us in his seminal Ambiguity of Play, the absence of play within children is a symptom of something terribly wrong with that child. Though is all too easy to think that play could not exist within such terrible circumstances it inevitably does – even within concentration camps.
George Eisen's 1990 book, Children and Play in the Holocaust: Games among the Shadows describes and analyzes several types of games that were played in the ghettos and concentration camps. One of these was "gate patrol" where children would reenact Jewish workers returning to camp, trying to smuggle food in under the watch of other children playing as guards. Yet another was "Klepsi Klepsi", or 'stealing', where one child would be blindfolded while the others would slap him as hard as they could and then when the blindfold was removed, playing innocent. The goal of the slapper was to escape punishment while the child who was slapped had to read the body language of the other children to identify who hit him.
Eisen describes these games as a reflection of the culture that surrounds them as well as an attempt to gain control over that environment:
Play provided the children with a "buffered learning," an activity frame in which one could learn to be safe in an abnormal situation, without worrying about being out of control. Thus children took into their lives naturally even the death that surrounded them. In spite of their elders' desperate efforts to shelter them from the atrocities, their games in the ghettos and camps reflected, inevitably, the surrounding horror.
Thus, "Klepsi Klepsi" might be seen as both a reflection of the brutality and conditions in which the children lived but also as a means of learning techniques that could help them, such as being able to identify who was guilty in a situation and how to hide guilt. In addition, it helped give the children an escape mechanism through imagination.
This puts "Suicide Bomber" in a slightly different light and highlights the ambiguity of the game. Is it, as the Taliban and the press want us to believe, a training video? Or is it the equivalent to "Klepsi Klepsi" and other ghetto and concentration camp games, as a means of finding means to cope with a horrible situation through the safety of play? The children in the video express joy and laughter, both at the absurdity of the situation and the presence of the camera. There is certainly an element of chaos within the dramatically billowing cloud of dust that would appeal to what Roger Caillois defined as ilinx, or vertigo, the form of play that finds joy in chaos, not unlike the dancing and tumbling of "Ring around the Rosie". (Of course there is also mimicry present here as well through the costumes and reenactment, and this is where the concerns of the authorities lie).
Here it is important to note that the cameraman's identity is unknown, though given height of the camera angle, it seems to be an adult man – probably the same person who added the Taliban song and posted it on YouTube. What is unclear, however, is whether the man is encouraging them to play this game or merely recording a game that was happening anyway.
The bottom line is that the play is ambiguous, and as a result, everyone finds their own interpretation, and the video put to serve the agenda of any party whether it be the Taliban, UNICEF, or police and security forces in Afghanistan. The one part of the discussion that is missing and that we ultimately will probably never know is what the children think of "Suicide Bomber". If there is one thing that is clear about the video though, it is that the children of Afghanistan and Pakistan – and likely in Iraq as well – will play "Suicide Bomber" because terrorism is a fact of life for them.


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Work has begun on the Servlet Expert Group to come up with a standard set of atoms for WebSocket applications in a Java EE environment. I'm not 100% convinced that the servlet spec is the best place to do this but I suppose it saves us the hassle of submitting another JSR and all the work that would entail. However, that's where the work is being done for now, so whatever. This is something I've naturally thought a lot about over the last couple of years as I've worked to implement and promote WebSockets so here is roughly how I would do it. There's a lot of "we have to have something in the servlet spec" comments floating around. I don't necessarily agree with that sentiment but there is one thing I would: support for the upgrade request header. This would have the servlet container automatically detect a request with this header. The container would then query the system for all implementations of upgrade request handlers registered. Then, based on which protocol each handler has said it deals with, hand off processing to that handler. At this point, the request is not necessarily in the servlet stack at all but a completely separate API that might not even be back by a JSR. This has multiple advantages in my mind.
- WebSockets uses this header and so this feature is already going to be needed for WebSockets to work.
- It provides a general hook and customization point at which developers can choose to extend the container without resorting to modifying the source of the container itself to handle the new protocol. More importantly, it does so in a standardized fashion allowing for portability at least among the higher levels of the API. Certain container specific code might be needed for such things as suspending/parking requests and the like. But these could easily be abstracted away such that the protocol logic itself could be fairly portable.
- This also decouples new APIs such as WebSockets from the constraints of the legacy(?) servlet API.
- Using this hook, someone could homebrew their own protocols using the upgrade mechanism and be able to integrate in to their container with little fuss.
Barring some tweaks here and there, that's all the servlet spec really needs to offer. So where does that leave WebSockets? Why, in its own JSR, of course! I really think it needs its own separate JSR with its own EG populated by folks who know and understand the technology. More importantly, this separate EG would feel less bound to make this new API consistent/compatible with the servlet API. While there is certainly a need for integration with the servlet spec for access to things like the session data, binding the two APIs would really hamstring the interesting things we could do with WebSockets. So what would all this look like? Let's look at some mostly java mockups.
First, the servlet side upgrade handler. It would look something like this. If you've used
@WebServlet, this should look familiar to you.
public @interface HttpUpgradeHandler {
* The name of the target protocol
String value() default {};
* The description of the handler
String description() default "";
* The display name of the handler
String displayName() default "";
And the interface exposed for implementations:
public interface UpgradeHandler {
public void doUpgrade(ServletRequest request, ServletResponse response) throws UpgradeException;
This provides a general mechanism for any application developer to register a new handler thus extending the functionality of the container without need for hacking the container itself. So what would one of these handlers look like? Maybe something like this:
@HttpUpgradeHandler(protocol ="websocket", urlPatterns={"/sample"})
public class SampleWebSocketContext extends WebSocketContext {
public void customizeHandshake(ServletRequest request, ServletResponse response) {
super.customizeHandshake(request, response);
// insert cookies here
public WebSocketContext createContext(ServletRequest request, ServletResponse response) {
return new SampleWebSocketContext(request, response);
private static class SampleWebSocket extends DefaultWebSocket {
private String userName;
public SampleWebSocketContext(ServletRequest request, ServletResponse response) {
super(request, response);
userName = request.getParameter("user");
public String getUserName() {
return userName;
By the time control gets handed off to
WebSocketContext, the appropriate headers requesting the upgrade have already been found and validated against name provided in the annotation. All that's left to do here is perform the actual upgrade. In this case, I added a method to customize the handshake for cases where, perhaps, the developer wants to add a header field or validate an existing header value. So what comes from the servlet specification is that annotation, the interface, and an exception. There might be more as details are hashed out, but that's about all I would say that the servlet specification should deliver. That paves the way for a WebSocket JSR export group to define its own atoms.
Not entirely surprisingly, I imagine a WebSocket JSR would end up with something that approximates what I built in Grizzly. That said, there are certain ... rough points that need to be smoothed over but that can most easily be smoothed over by 1) an expert group and 2) user feedback. Still, here's how I see one approach at cracking this nut.
In Grizzly, we have a
WebSocketApplication which is the center of the developer's world when building WebSocket applications. I've recently come to prefer
WebSocketContext instead. It's largely semantic but whatever. This is where all the application logic, if there is any, would likely want to live. Between the
WebSocketContext and any potential custom implementation of
WebSocket, there's a lot of room of custom logic. But none of this is tied to the servlet spec beyond the initial use of the
ServletRequest and
ServletResponse which I think is key.
This separation allows the WebSocket JSR evolve without needing to worry about servlet evolution. More importantly, it allows innovation to happen without needing a JSR at all. Because there's a generic upgrade hand off, developers are free to extend their container in whatever crazy directions they choose. Imagine implementing a custom JMS transport over HTTP and tunneling through your web server. Or FTP. Or SNMP. Or some completely custom, proprietary protocol. This extension point takes the EE platform one huge step down the road of enabling developers to build applications on and extending the EE platform without the need for container specific hacks. It aslo, of course, paves the way for future JSRs to provide new functionality without extraneous requirements and constraints from external JSR lifecycles.
At the risk of repeating myself, I'd like to say again that this proposal is not perfect. It almost certainly has some corner cases I haven't thought of or addressed here. But it's at least along the lines of how I've been imagining something like this would work for the last couple of years. It's a start. I have the code I showed above and more in a git hub repository if you'd like to take a look in more detail. I'd love to hear any comments you might have.


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Not only is John Scalzi's "The Shadow War of the Night Dragons, Book One: The Dead City" a Hugo-nominated work of fiction, it is also a major cultural phenomenon. And now, you can watch someone named Mark Orshiro, of the famed "Mark Does Stuff" series of videos, do a dramatic reading of a huge chunk of it — without ever having read it or encountered it before. Because he'll do a reading of whatever you want on his Youtube channel for $25 a pop. "I hope it's porn!" he exclaims.
The results actually achieve something I'd thought impossible — making Scalzi's story even more screamingly funny. [Whatever, via Tor.com]


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In Hollywood Director, the cast does a scene backwards, and the B-52s perform in Greatest Hits of Weddings and sing Cash Bar.
Fun with Greg Proops, a goofy guy trying to be cool, Ryan as a strict dad with loser sons, Wayne's plastic surgery problems.
Ryan & Colin sell the CD Songs of Pregnancy, so Wayne & Chip Esten sing Screw Lamaze, Give Me the Epidural and Ooh, Placenta!
In News Flash, Colin reports as a male stripper dressed like a state cop, and in Hoedown Drew's a rock star with Greg Proops.
Wacky skits involve honeymooners who get roaches, the first fight between a man & a woman and a flirtatious female reporter.
Brad Sherwood, Batman, Miss Piggy & Kermit and baby Drew all make appearances, along with many silly euphemisms and clichés.
Greg Proops guests as Wayne serenades female bodybuilder Jane Tricker, and then in Party Quirks he is a sexy pinup model.
Ryan and Colin sell the CD Songs of Science Fiction while Wayne sings and dances in breakdance and jitterbug style.
Chip Esten joins college girls going wild, male models on a catwalk, Mr. Ed, Mr. Magoo, Mr. T., a sheriff and a scary outlaw.


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Welcome to Who Wants to Win a Million Dollars! Test your knowledge of math and science as you work your way to the million dollar level! Although the questions you will answer are real, the money, unfortunately, is not. You aren't playing for real money! Sorry!
Feel free to read the rules if you don't know how to play the game.
Curious of how other players are doing? Wondering if your high score is still a high score? Take a look at the list of recent winners, this month's high scores, last month's high scores, this year's high scores or last year's high scores!
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�We are lit from inside,� Jeff Walt reminds us, �with constant desire.� This fine first collection seems, indeed, illuminated in just this way. These poems are brave enough to stand right in the middle of longing and to sing about it, but it�s to Walt�s credit that his representation of desire is no simple thing. �Sweet desire has bruised/my lips and swells in my lucky mouth� he tells us in one poem. A less complicated vision might call desire merely sweet and lucky, or merely bruising; Jeff Walt sees it both ways, and the tension in theses poems makes them feel charged and alive. Here is a voice capable of rendering shame and joy, of representing sexuality without being simplistic or idealizing. The world revealed in these poems is one of blessings and trouble, of tender gestures flanked by violence, of the graceful and disfiguring imprints left upon us by all the ways we�re loved. These poems cleave to the difficult stuff of truth: not how we�re supposed to see or think or feel, but what it�s like to want, to be hurt, to lust, to love. Here�s as brave and resourceful a young poet as you could wish for, openhearted, naked but for the beautiful clothes of his language, and genuine to the core.�
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TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — A Libyan court on Thursday referred Moammar Gadhafi's son and more than 30 others to trial before a higher tribunal on charges ranging from murder to treason during the 2011 uprising, a senior prosecutor said.
Prosecutor Al-Seddik al-Sur said the court also decided to appoint defense lawyers for Gadhafi's son, Seif al-Islam, and the late dictator's intelligence chief, Abdullah al-Senoussi. He did not announce a date for the trial before the Criminal Court.
Al-Senoussi and al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi, Gadhafi's last prime minister, were among about 10 of the 38 Gadhafi-era officials to attend the hearing, held under tight security in the Libyan capital, Tripoli.
Seif al-Islam, held by a militia group that captured him as he attempted to flee to neighboring Niger in 2011, was not present.
Gadhafi, killed by the rebels, was in power for more than 40 years.
Underscoring Libya's lawlessness since the ouster of the Gadhafi regime, gunmen shot dead an air force colonel Thursday as he left his home in the eastern city of Benghazi, the birthplace of the 2011 revolt.
It was the latest in a spate of assassinations in Benghazi recently. The killings are blamed on militiamen who fought against Gadhafi's forces but now operate outside state control.
Security officials said Col. Adel Khalil al-Tawahi from Benghazi's Beninah air base died instantly when gunmen shot him in the chest and head. Air force personnel from that base joined rebel ranks during the early days of the 2011 uprising.
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Hello again, folks! It's time for this week's edition of Throwback Thursday! On this #TBT, we're showcasing Donald G. Mathews's Slavery and Methodism: A Chapter in American Morality, 1780-1845.
A 1780 conference of Methodist ministers identified slavery as an evil that went against humanity, God, and nature. When the Methodist Episcopal Church was officially organized in America four years later, it required its members to free their slaves or leave the congregation. But the church soon softened its stance; although slavery remained frowned upon, the church allowed the practice and set their own regulations in order to maintain their influence over white and black followers of the church and hold the institution together. Slavery and Methodism examines the six decades of religious turbulence that followed as the Methodist church struggled to maintain a precarious balance.
Called "essential reading for all students of American culture" by Choice, Mathews's book is an illuminating read for anyone interested in Southern history and emancipation.
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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Fatal Conspiracy - PS3
Release Date:October 26, 2010
Also on:PlayStation 3 PC Wii Xbox 360
Viewing USA:Also on UK.
This game needs a total overhaul and I hope the developers see that for this has a lot of potential and should have been a keeper. Crossing my fingers here.
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CSI: Fatal Conspiracy PS3 Review
There are only a few TV series which have a lasting appeal and a platform or genre that can withstand the test of time. Actually, only a handful of them could spawn spin offs as successfully as the CSI franchise. Billions of fans worldwide follow the show, no matter that it is criticised by the authorities as being overly dramatic and uses techniques not approved by law. Whatever! The fact is, this is the only way people can have their fun and entertainment and learn along the way.
Then comes along CSI: Fatal Conspiracy, a crime solving adventure that is interesting, gripping, challenging and twisted in a good and learning way. The game has a lot of chapters and numerous characters all based on the award winning show. The player has to solve each of the chapters and needs to be as tenacious in the search for clues as those guys on TV are. There is also a chance to interrogate the usual suspects. This may sound simple and non-challenging for the unfamiliar, but all CSI fans know that not everything they see is what it appears to be.
The gamer will find themselves in the middle of a crime scene for each of the chapters. Always there is a murder victim and always there are clues that the gamer needs to discover and string together to form a coherent theory of how the crime took place. After all the clues are recovered, there is a need to get to the lab. Take note, if the player does not successfully get all of the clues from the scene there is no way to solve the problem, or in this case the heinous crime.
Now that everything good has been written up about CSI: Fatal Conspiracy, I have to talk about the bad, and boy, it can be bad. The idea behind the game is fascinating and should have made the gameplay seriously fantastic, but the developers failed to follow through.
The controls and the interface are a trifle slow, to say the least. The cursor is sluggish which could be quite irritating when trying to get through the mess of clues. There is not freewill for the player, it is so rigid that I felt forced to do something which I did not want to do and I felt that this led me several times to do something wrong.
Then there is the mobile phone thing – most of the game is centered on the use of the mobile and there is a need to constantly use this. After a while I found that I did not have to depend on it the phone and its many features, so that was a lot of time wasted. Honestly, there is still a lot of stuff that needs to be improved for CSI: Fatal Conspiracy for the game sort of really became a victim of the shortcomings of the developers.
This game needs a total overhaul and I hope the developers see that for this has a lot of potential and should have been a keeper. Crossing my fingers here.


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An unpredictable market, rising fuel prices, and growing concern that inflation may trend higher as the economic recovery takes hold.
These are three good reasons to add inflation protection to your portfolio, says Mario DeRose, fixed income strategist with Edward Jones in New York.
"There's always a place in a portfolio to hedge against inflation, even in periods when inflation seems unlikely in the near term," says DeRose, noting that shocks in the market can cause consumer prices to spike without warning. "You have to be on guard."
Enter: Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities, or TIPS.
TIPS are government bonds issued by the U.S. Treasuryin maturities that range from five to 30 years.
Unlike conventional bonds, TIPS pay out a guaranteed "real" return; the principal is adjusted for inflation based on the Consumer Price Index, CPI, and semi-annual interest payments (the yield) are modified accordingly.
At maturity, investors receive either the inflation-adjusted principal or par value, face value, of the bond, whichever is greater.
As such, TIPS are used to hedge inflation, helping investors maintain purchasing power when the price of goods and services climbs, with the added benefit of providing downside protection during periods of deflation.
Such securities have served investors well over the last few years, as falling interest rates push bondprices higher.
The Barclays Treasury Inflation Protected Securities index, for example, produced a total return (which consists of the bond's income distributions plus any appreciation or depreciation in the price of the bond itself) of 13.6 percent in 2011, 6.3 percent the year before, and 11.4 percent in 2009. It is up roughly 2.5 percent this year.
The total return for the SPDR DB International Government Inflation-Protected Bond ETF, is also up roughly 8 percent year-to-date.
By comparison, conventional 10-year Treasury bonds returned 17 percent last year and 8.1 percent in 2010, on the heels of a nearly 10 percent loss in 2009.
Negative Yields
Due to demand from wary investors, however, the yield on TIPS is in negative territory; for 10-year TIPS the interest payments are hovering at negative 0.4 percent.
Those buying today are willing to accept a negative yield because they believe inflation is likely to rise enough to compensate for the loss they're locking in and because they seek the safe haven that government backed bonds provide, says Christine Benz, director of personal finance for fund tracker Morningstar.
Though they're not the "screaming buy" they were in late 2008 and 2009, she notes, TIPS still play an important role in portfolio planning — particularly for retirees who feel the loss of buying power associated with higher inflation disproportionately.
"Retirees need to be sure they have adequate inflation protection, because they're not getting cost of living adjustments anymore through paychecks at work," she says. That, plus the fact that healthcare costs are climbing even faster than the overall rate of inflation, she says, makes higher prices harder to absorb.
CAUTION: Inflation Ahead
By most accounts, inflation is not a significant threat for 2012. (Though rising gas prices in January did give the CPI its biggest bump in four months.)
But David Darst, chief investment strategist for Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, says that could change if the Federal Reserve takes additional steps to jump start the lackluster economy.
"Like everyone else, we don't see inflation as a big overriding concern right now, but we are worried about it longer term," he says, noting that TIPS and TIPS funds are a "little rich" at present.
Mihir Worah, managing director of PIMCO investment firm, which specializes in fixed income securities, also notes in his 2012 Inflation Outlook report that the firm is taking a longer term bias "toward higher inflation."
"Faced with this possibility of higher inflation, many investors may need to examine their allocations to assets associated with real return potential, including Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities, TIPS, real estate, commodities and equities," he writes.
You can purchase TIPS, which are traditionally less volatile than other inflation hedges like commodities and currencies, directly from the U.S. Treasury.
Investment Options
But many opt for mutual fundsand exchange traded funds, ETFs, that invest in inflation-protected securities.
The advantage of TIPS funds is that many hold TIPS with varying maturities, which can help diversify your bond exposure. They also allow investors to automatically reinvest the income they earn.
For "cheap" and "plain vanilla" TIPS funds, Morningstar recommendsiShares Barclays TIPS Bond Fund and Vanguard's Inflation-Protected Securities Fund, along with PIMCO's actively managed Harbor Real Return Fund .
Because of the negative yield, however, Benz suggests dollar cost averaging into the position, or buying smaller increments over a period of six months to a year, rather than investing in TIPS as a lump sum.
"The typical investor's portfolio probably doesn't have enough inflation protection, but it seems like a good idea to tiptoe in rather than buying a huge chunk of TIPS at this juncture," she says.
Another note: TIPS, are exempt from state and local tax, but because you'll owe federal taxes on the interest income, they are best held in tax-sheltered retirement accounts, says Benz.
As an alternative, she adds, iBonds and certain target-date mutual funds, which are designed to become increasingly conservative as investors approach retirement, can also provide an element of inflation protection, noting Vanguard's Target Retirement Income has about a third of its fixed-income portfolio in a TIPS fund.
I-Bonds are savings bonds issued by the U.S. Treasury.
Its rate adjusts to track inflation and is guaranteed to never lose value, but they only pay income when you sell so you won't be getting an income stream as you would with TIPS.
I-Bonds also come with an income limit of $10,000 per person per year (and likely to go lower), which can be a drawback for those looking to insulate their portfolios sufficiently against inflation, says Benz.
How Much Should You Own?
It depends on your time horizon and appetite for risk, of course, but DeRose suggests an allocation of 5 percent to 10 percent in TIPS should be "more than enough protection" for the average investor.
Darst says a moderate high net worth investor may want less, somewhere on the order of 3 percent, while a more conservative investor can err higher, in the 6 percent to 8 percent range.
He notes the secret to building a well-balanced portfolio is being prepared for whatever the market may deliver.
"It's important to educate yourself on what TIPS are and how they work today, rather than waiting until after inflation picks up," says Darst.


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SAP IT Process Automation Powered by Cisco Software
Cisco's Intelligent Automation software helps our customers to achieve benefits such as lower TCO, greater efficiency, and greater business agility—without compromising stability, manageability, and security. Our automation software can be used for a broad range of IT processes, but we have a very unique and differentiated solution for the automation of SAP-related tasks. Last week, we announced a global reseller agreement that allows SAP to sell our Cisco Intelligent Automation for SAP software solution.
SAP views Cisco's software as the preferred data center automation tool for SAP customers, and they are branding and selling our solution as SAP IT Process Automation by Cisco . With nearly 42,000 SAP customers worldwide, this is a great new channel opportunity for our automation software—and a great complement to SAP Solution Manager and Run SAP methodology. It's also a powerful example of the strong partnership between Cisco and SAP to meet our customers' needs.
This video with my colleague Flint Brenton (senior vice president, Cisco Intelligent Automation Solutions) and Stephen Spears (senior vice president, SAP Application Lifecycle Management Software) provides an overview of the importance of this agreement and the value to SAP customers:
This solution will have a profound effect on data center efficiency and innovation for SAP customers, eliminating manual tasks for a wide range of operational processes. By automating and standardizing the execution of critical processes for IT operations and simplifying a variety of SAP-related tasks—from trouble-shooting to adhering to service level agreements—the software can help to transform the way that organizations manage their SAP environments.
Our automation solution integrates with a wide range of SAP solutions, including the SAP ERP application, SAP Solution Manager, the SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse application and the SAP HANA platform. And with SAP IT Process Automation by Cisco, customers can improve their operational efficiency and system reliability by standardizing processes across both SAP and non-SAP software. As a result, users can automate operations and maintenance activities for today's complex heterogeneous landscapes and cloud-based architectures.
This presentation provides more detail on how this works in practice, together with SAP's Application Lifecycle Management software:
In short, this is an exciting new development in the Cisco-SAP partnership with significant potential impact for SAP's customers. I encourage you to learn more about the Cisco and SAP relationship by visiting http://cisco.com/go/sap
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