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We made it to Montgomery yesterday to spend Thanksgiving with our families. The trip was pretty uneventful. Before we left Tulsa on Saturday, we took the kids to Sears to have their picture made with Santa Claus. Cate freaked out. She cried and cried, and we didn't get any pictures. She wouldn't take pictures with Santa, without Santa, in the other room with the festive background...she wasn't having it. So, after waisting basically an entire day in Tulsa (we could have left Friday afternoon if we hadn't stayed for the pictures), we hit the road. While we were driving, I got a phone call from my wonderful friend who was watching Baxter, our dog, on Saturday. She went to let him out, and he jumped the fence. She looked everywhere but wasn't able to find him. We made it into town on Sunday afternoon, and Will and Cate were very glad to see Gran and Papa. We got to visit with my brother and sister and have a great dinner together. My sweet friend has visited with our neighbors, driven around our neighborhood, etc. in an effort to find Baxter. Unfortunately, we still haven't had any contacts or news about him. We did put out a Home Again alert (the microchip thing), called our vet, and notified the local animal shelter. My friend is going by the shelter tomorrow to see if they have him. Cate is getting her hair cut tomorrow. It will only be her third hair cut ever. She is getting "a big girl bob." I'm really excited because I know how cute she's going to look. Then it's off to church for the traditional EHBC Thanksgiving dinner cooked by the one and only Al Steineker. After church I get to visit with my best friend Melanie and her husband. It's going to be a very busy week, but it will be a lot of fun. I'm excited that we're going to get to be together with all our families on Thanksgiving day. I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving celebration with your families and friends and that God blesses you with many things to be thankful for.
Thanksgiving 2009 - Part 1
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Minnie Mouse
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These are some pictures of Cate in her Minnie Mouse costume for Halloween. She LOVES Minnie Mouse. The first picture is the night before her class party - she just had to wear her ears. The second is one of her trying on her costume and checking it all out. The bottom picture is of her and some of her classmates in her preschool class during their Halloween party.
Times, they are a changin!
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Well, as I was informed on Thursday, I have 7 months and 3 weeks left of residency. Yes, I am excited. And I'm even more excited about starting my fellowship and spending my days at work doing what I truly love. This does, however, bring along with it a lot of change. This is what I'm not so excited about. Those of you who know me know I don't do so well with change. I'm excited to be in Little Rock, where we'll only be about 8 hours from Montgomery. We'll also have access to any and all doctors Will might need. I do have a few friends there, so that will make the transition easier as well. My biggest fear and concern right now is finding a house. You see, we have to find a house in the right neighborhood so Will can go to be best special ed public elementary school. This has proven to be difficult so far. All of the houses are small and expensive, not a good combination. We're praying for a 3 (preferably4) bedroom and 2 (or even 2.5) bathroom house with at least as much space as we have now (about 2000 sq.ft.). We'd love more space but I'm not going to press my luck. We also need a fenced back yard and a landlord that will allow pets. We're also having to deal with getting Will's schooling arranged from Tulsa. He's having testing done in March, and then we'll be trying to get the IEP meeting set up. This is all hard to do from 4 hours away. I'm praying that my attendings will be lenient and allow me to go to Little Rock when I need to. We'll also be traveling there over the next 3 months or so for Will's MRIs and neurosurgery and neurology appointments. I'm also praying God will provide a good preschool for Cate. She is doing so well in the one she's in now, and she really needs it for the socialization with other kids. Finally, we're praying God will provide a church home like we have here in Woodlake. God is going mighty things at Woodlake, and we love Pastor Jamie. We're really sad that we'll be leaving this summer, but are going to enjoy every minute of until we're gone. Then, we are believing God will provide the same thing for us in Little Rock. Please continue to pray for our family and all of these needs that I've mentioned. We love you all and appreciate your support more than you'll ever know. Hope to hear from you soon. And, hope you all have a happy Thanksgiving. Love you!


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Creative Spotlight on Creative Cloud Logo Redesign Artists Dvein
As we take some time to focus on video production, we wanted to spotlight individuals who are masters of all things animation, our Creative Cloud logo redesign artists Dvein.
Based out of Barcelona, Dvein is not your run of the mill production and design firm. They are a collective of three directors who love animation, design, and all things creative. Fernando Dominquez, Creative Director for Dvein, defined it best when he said, "It's a factory of all the things that you can imagine."
Creative Cloud assists the creative minds at Dvein in each and every step in their creative process. Beginning with initial sketches, they utilize Photoshop to take their ideas to a whole new level. Then, they use the power of Premier Pro or After Effects when they are ready to turn creations into animations.
The icing on the cake; Behance integration in Creative Cloud enables Dvein to better expose themselves to the design community and connect with international clients.
Get to know the FX pros that make up Dvein by checking out the videos below, and be sure to follow us on Facebook and Twitter for more video production news, tutorials, inspirational work and more.
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Let us call it "Thundersnow" — a Norwegian black metal band of a winter menace, which deposited 18-20 inches of drifting white stuff across the Northeast, canceled football in Philadelphia, and emasculated America.
And Philadelphians are pissed. Seriously pissed. From the drunken louts who invaded Jetro yesterday to unapologetic Iggles fan Gov. Ed Rendel, it appears only a handful of folks who were not scheduled to play in last night's game were the ones making the decision. For Inquirer writer Will Bunch, this was the epitome of sissy and an ideal moment to break out the Modern Family level of racial insensitivity to restore Pennsyltucky pride:
If we're not "a nanny state," then we've become a nation of overcautious risk managers, also known as wimps. They don't play American football in China, but I believe that if they did, not only would they have played this game, but 300,000 fans would have marched barefoot through the drifts for 15 miles to get to the stadium, drilling each other with advanced calculus problems as they walked.
Yeah! And they would have karate kicked their way through the 10-foot drifts!
In a few years, they'll come here and conquer what's left of America while we huddle on our TV-room couches to keep safe and warm, watching "A Christmas Story" on TBS for the ninth time after a forecast of flurries has canceled the entire NFL schedule.
Sound of a banged gong.
For those Chinese Eagles fans who instinctively showed up to last night's game, they'll be glad to know that the Eagles-Vikings will play on Tuesday night instead.
[PHOTO: Yong Kim (FIGURES!)/ Philly.com]


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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Swimming with Ernest
Crowds went by and down the road to the water. And the noise around them did not stir them, each man alone with each other together. And it was a fine thing looking out over the water by one's self in that crowd.
The day had been cool before the sun, and we gathered by groups. Men in groups. Women in groups. Groups by age, the largest by far being men between 35 and 45. All these men with half a life behind and maybe less than half before, and lots of money between them; yet, all preparing to plunge in the lake and swim away from shore.
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another. To all these men, it seemed a noble thing to swim that morning. We don't kill our food to survive any more. We don't run with the tribe until the antelope falls from exhaustion. We of the suburbs do not even hunt for fun. We don't shoot big game anymore. We don't battle game fish.
Even war is not the same. My enemy and I will never see each other's eyes. I from my country will try to kill him from afar on a screen. Only when pressed will we send our youth to be boots on the ground while leader and leading class dine in safety. He from his will prefer to kill everyone except my soldiers--relief workers, journalists, secretaries in office buildings. He will immolate himself (or persuade his weak contemporary to do so) because believes this will hurt me above all else. Acting as we do, are we, then, men at all? Where the "grace under pressure?" In modern war . . . you will die like a dog for no good reason.
But we are men. We were not made for lives of safety and comfort and electrons entertaining us with the struggle of others on a Sunday afternoon. We were not made to be fearful or still. Our excess makes us that way--excess money carried in our garages and homes, excess food carried around our bellies, excess status carried between our ears. Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth. We were made for struggle, and ambition, for striving, for the fight, for the arena. If life does not provide it, we will create it for ourselves.
Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age. Reaching the middle of our years, we start to fear the arena is past. Then we search for grace under pressure and we'll reach almost anywhere looking to see it in ourselves. We try to be the heroes in our own narrative, for as you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
And it was so necessary that we stood with hundreds of our fellows, long before our sleeping, half-living friends stirred in bed. The dark was still upon us as we formed our ranks and our battalions. Commands rang out from the loudspeakers. The flag was saluted, the anthems sung. The dawn began and clouds took up the colors of from gray to pale purple to peach and then to gold. The hills looked out over the mirror lake and file upon file of hills beyond it. Group by group we took our place and came to the water, following the order to swim.
And once more we took to the struggle in the water, hundreds of men with perhaps less than half their lives before them. I moved forward in the surge while the man on the speakers shouted at us. The water was dark, soft and warm to the touch, and the air around our heads fresh and cool. Plants in the water brushed and grabbed my legs and the mud sucked me ankle deep.
I swam out hard and strong, head up at first and then pushing my face into the lake. At first, the air and water were good, smooth, and full. I breathed and blew and all was well. I swam with the group of men until I ran into one, tried to swim around, clocked another, and drank the brown, silty water. About 200 meters in, my shoulder ached from the unaccustomed wetsuit and I was just sick of the whole thing.
I choked, looked up and tried to keep myself on course. The far corner of the course seemed no closer, and I took a couple of breast strokes, as if there was something to be done other than swimming on. I don't enjoy swimming, and I am always looking to abbreviate the experience. But stopping would feel good temporarily. It does not solve the problem. Cycling is only allowed if you complete the swim. The more you half-ass it an complain to yourself, the longer it will take.
So, I looked for some way to swim that would account for the stress on my shoulders. I kept my head down for longer in order to make progress, and swam some off course. Lifting my head more often, I stayed on course, but swam slower. There is nothing heroic about a man swimming, except the finishing of the thing itself. So, nothing to do but keep going. Hercules or not, the manure in the Aegean stables still needs shoveling.
And shovel I did. Made the first turn far too slowly but glided around and swam for turn two. By now, faster swimmers from the wave behind had caught us up and I gave up more time trying to move outside to let them through. Again, trying to make distance between citing and a gimp shoulder made me swim like a drunken sailor. Correcting course, I finally made turn three.
More shoveling.
The waves at this race had some "slower" waves ahead and some "faster" waves behind, with a good alternation between male and female waves. By some freak of physics or combination of bell curves, I swam into a gathering of faster and slower swimmers all arriving around turn two at the same time, like bigger and smaller pieces of flotsam caught in an eddy. Again, I felt in the way, but could see the final buoys and the swim exit some 500 meters off. I pushed my face again into the lake, pulled hard, glided when I could, cited often, and tried to make this last bit count.
As the end came closer, it also came faster. No watch was on my wrist nor was one seen by me. I am what I am in the water. And I am not what I cannot be. Though always tempted to quit, finisher I will ever be, and finisher I was. Because man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
**I don't know what kind of literary dweeb thinks of Hemingway while waiting for a swim to start, but I did. So, I tried to write it down.**
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- 21stCenturyMom said...
In the annals of all too detailed race reports this one gets a thumbs up.
- Captain Cactus said...
I love the line "There is nothing heroic about a man swimming, except the finishing of the thing itself." I couldn't possibly agree more. That swim exit is always sweet though!
- CoachLiz said...
Hmm, I have never thought of Papa Hemingway before a race. I did think about some of Poe's work while I was fending off the sick feeling of dread in my stomach right before the gun went off at Buffalo Springs and I knew I would have to climb that crazy ass hill out of T1.
Right before IMAZ, I was chanelling my inner Walt Whitman as I was one with nature and water as I floated on the start line and I was able to transcend from knowing that not only was God with me on my journy to this place and time but that he would be with me in each wave that buoyed me through the swim, each gust of wind that pushed me along the bike course, and each twinkling star that lit my path on the run.
- Unknown said...
And yet, I'd prefer you channel someone else for the swim leg.
I feel so badly that at 200 metres you've had enough -- and it concerns me that you were feeling shoulder discomfort that early.
- Trishie said...
Beatifully written !
- Veeg said...
Loved loved loved this. And congrats on the PR!
- Trishie said...
Sorry to hear about Jenny :( Unfortunantly, I'm already set for accomodations.. my whole family is staying at the Wyndem. It's too late for her to cancel??


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You've seen all those statistics on people driving less. There hasn't really been an umbrella term for the idea of people cutting back on car use, and relying on different kinds of transportation. Until now.
In Cambridge, Mass., they call it "driving light." Here's how Jackie Douglas of the Liveable Streets Alliance explains it in a Forbes story that I wrote this weekend.
"It's not anti-car," Douglas said. "It's not about going car-free. It's a trend of families going down to one car, instead of having a car for everyone in the household. The one person in the household who needs the car uses it, and everyone else takes the bus, or walks, or uses a bike."
The figures for the Boston area are pretty stunning. In the rest of the country, cars are involved in about 84 percent of all trips. In metropolitan Boston, it's under 50 percent, according to Douglas. Car use has dropped so much that registrations are down 14 percent, and developers are building new projects with fewer parking spaces.
Now, Boston is special. It has the T, its subway/light rail system, it's very walkable, and pretty bike friendly, too. After all, this is where Zipcar was invented, and Boston has had the Hubway bike sharing system for two years now.
Based on the questions she's gotten from people interested in cutting back, Douglas thinks there's a lot more "driving light" going on all over the country than the experts have measured. After all, it doesn't mean giving up cars. It just means using them less.
I've spent a lot of time looking at the reasons why people are driving less, and from your comments, it sounds like a lot of you are doing so, as much as we all love automobiles.
So: are you "driving light?" Can you estimate how much your car use is down in the past few years? What are some of the ways you get around that don't involve your own car?
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by exercisebeforeknitting
1. What is/are your favorite yarn/s to knit with? What fibers do you absolutely *not* like?
I'm not really too picky about yarn. I like just about everything but old school Red Heart. Lately, I've been making lots of socks and baby stuff so washable yarn is GREAT. I was depressed when Lion Brand discontinued Cotton-Ease – that was a great washable cotton. I've been knitting a bunch with Knit Picks yarn – that's some of my favorite stuff too.
2. What do you use to store your needles/hooks in?
Several colored vases. I'm not very good about putting needles back into a case so the vases are easier for me.
3. How long have you been knitting? Would you consider your skill level to be beginner, intermediate or advanced?
Six years. Intermediate to advanced.
4. Do you have an Amazon or other online wish list?
Yes. An Amazon and Knit Picks wish lists. If you want the KP one, I'll have to email it to you. They aren't as sophisticated as Amazon.
5. What's your favorite scent? (for candles, bath products etc.)
I'm actually allergic to some body care products. As for scents, I like subtle ones.
6. Do you have a sweet tooth? Favorite candy?
Are you kidding? I'm pregnant! Twizzlers. Or anything with dark chocolate. I'm vegan so I don't eat dairy products. It's not an ethical thing – I'm just a vegetarian with a dairy allergy.
7. What other crafts or Do-It-Yourself things do you like to do? Do you spin?
I sew out of necessity but that is all.
8. What kind of music do you like? Can your computer/stereo play MP3s? (if your buddy wants to make you a CD)
Yes, I can play mp3s. I like everything but country.
9. What's your favorite color? Or–do you have a color family/season/palette you prefer? Any colors you just can't stand?
I don't really have a favorite color. I love bright colors. I don't really care for variegated yarn but that's my only real color preference.
10. What is your family situation? Do you have any pets?
I am married with 2 dogs and a baby due in August.
11. Do you wear scarves, hats, mittens or ponchos?
Scarves, hats and mittens but no ponchos.
12. What is/are your favorite item/s to knit?
It varies seasonally. In the warmer mos, I knit more baby stuff. When it gets cool, I pull out socks and mittens and sweaters.
13. What are you knitting right now?
Socks and baby sweaters.
14. Do you like to receive handmade gifts?
You bet!
15. Do you prefer straight or circular needles? Bamboo, aluminum, plastic?
I prefer straight needles but I use circs all the time too. My needles are either wood or plastic – I lose stitches on metal needles.
16. Do you own a yarn winder and/or swift?
17. How did you learn to knit?
My brother taught me.
18. How old is your oldest UFO?
First of all, I'm defining UFO as a project I still intend to finish… so by that definition, I'd say 6 mos.
19. What is your favorite holiday?
Fourth of July. I love summer and summer tomatoes!
20. Is there anything that you collect?
Other than yarn? Nope. I'm actively trying to clear out my house of junk. My husband is a pack rat. He's the collector.
21. Any books, yarns, needles or patterns out there you are dying to get your hands on? What knitting magazine subscriptions do you have?
I love all the Phildar magazines but they're hard to get unless you order them directly, which I do once a year, maybe. I could knit Knit Picks Shine yarn from now until the end of time. I've thought about getting the latest Nancy Bush sock book because I love Folk Socks. I haven't yet because I feel guilty buying it when there are more socks I want to make from Folk Socks. For the last year, I've been on a major stash diet (haven't bought yarn or books since Xmas) so I covet just about anything at this point! J
22. Are there any new techniques you'd like to learn?
I'd like to learn to steek but I'm way to chicken now. I have a Latvian Mitten book that I've been meaning to try out too. I love fair isle mittens.
23. Are you a sock knitter? What are your foot measurements?
You bet. Ankle: 7.75″. Heel – toe: 9.5″
24. When is your birthday? (mm/dd)
December 3.


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"Provocative and deeply engaging. . . . This is a spectacular story, and Miles tells it well. . . . Exciting reading." –The New York Times Book Review
"No one who reads it will be able to think about even the most familiar Biblical scenes in quite the same way." —Newsday
"The brilliance of Jack Miles's new book on Christ is that it manages to "make strange" the best-known story in history. . . . Stratlingly original." —The New Statesman
"As a way of seeing [God], Miles's book has great power and depth." –The New Yorker


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North End Grill's Bloody Smoky Recipe
In addition to vodka, this Mary gets a smoky finish from some Islay-style scotch. North End Grill uses the Laphroaig 10-year.
- Yield:serves 4
- Active time: 5 minutes
- Total time:5 minutes
- 16 ounces North End Grill Bloody Mary Mix
- 3 ounces Islay-style Scotch (such as Laphroaig)
- 3 ounces vodka
- Pickled onions
Combine bloody mary mix, scotch, and vodka in a pitcher filled with ice. Stir until well chilled. Serve in individual ice-filled glasses, garnished with pickled onions.


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I have some code which uses both ScaLAPACK and PARPACK. I originally wrote it in the days when PVM was the thing to use and then converted it to use MPI, but retained the BLACS interface to PARPACK.
Is there any point to using BLACS now? I have the PARPACK as defined in the latest arpack-ng package which can build the MPI interface but does not have an option to build the BLACS version although the source code is there.
I either need to make the BLACS version of the PARPACK library or else convert my user code calls from BLACS to MPI.
BLACS is defined as a standard interface to use - see http://www.netlib.org/blacs/ - but does that make sense now? Is MPI the defacto standard anyway?
I know that ScaLAPACK contains BLACS.
I have tried to search for discussion of this topic on this list, but have not found anything.


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For a post-secondary education junkie like me, my move to Québec couldn't have been better timed.
I left Ontario in June, amid inane ramblings emanating from the cerebral cortex of Glen Murray. His planned changes to Ontario's higher education sector were outlined in the leaked document, 3 Cubed, that had been widely panned in the winter of 2012. Not one to give up after a failure, Murray repackaged his scheme and tried to shop it around again in the summer. This rollercoaster ride was giving me ulcers. Imagining Murray actually implementing his changes and further destroying Ontario's higher education system made me want to throw my computer out of the window of my ninth floor office building and accidentally use such force that it would land on top of a bunch of dinosaur bones at the ROM, across the street. (With a good wind, maybe possible).
Luckily, Murray's ambitions were stronger than the belief in his convictions (like all great politicians) and he jumped ship as Minister to (hilariously) run for the leader of the Liberal party.
Since October, with the elementary and secondary teachers in the crosshairs of Dalton McGuinty, all has been quiet on the post-secondary education front in Ontario.
But not so for here. Québec politics has picked up the slack where Ontario left off.
After last year's mega doses of awesome, the combination of an election and the acceleration of semesters to catch students up who were on strike had the double effect of slowing down the student movement. Marois repealed Law 12 (Law 78) and replaced the tuition fee hike with an increase tied to inflation. For the students, both policies represented tangible and immediate victories of the work from the previous months.
The PQ is a party that is both populist and neoliberal. It bowed to the students demands not because its a party that fundamentally believes that higher education should not be bought and sold, but because the student movement made it possible for them to get elected. It was therefore impossible to immediately ignore their demands.
Once the new government settled down, though, the PQ implemented five per cent cuts, across the board, to university budgets.
With the victory of the student movement fresh in everyone's minds, the argument flowed that the cuts were necessary to make up for lost revenue in with the tuition fee increase. While not true, the argument can be made to seem logical, and therefore, convincing. And, with university presidents and many faculty having opposed the student strike, this policy preys on divisions that already exist within the sector and weaken the bargaining position of the sector as a whole.
Higher education in all provinces is underfunded and Québec is no exception. Though nowhere near as underfunded as many university presidents claim, the intentional further underfunding by the PQ is a regressive move. Here lies the break from populism to neoliberalism: get elected, implement regressive cuts.
They didn't stop there, though. They also cut the lifeblood of university research, FQRNT, by a whopping 30 per cent, after the applications for 2013 had already been submitted. This will fundamentally and abruptly alter research this year: professors will be expected to do just as much with less, fewer graduate students will be hired and competition will become more fierce among a group of people already competing for scare resources.
This, all while they host a summit on education to consult on the future of higher education in Québec. Similar to the Dog-and-Pony-Show of Bob Rae in Ontario in 2005, the PQ has let it be known that they prefer the current policy of tuition fees tied to inflation before the summit has finished its work.
So on the higher education continuum, so far, we have the Liberals trying to emulate the worst of Ontario's policies and gut the best of Québec's, which delivered them a shitkicking at the polls. Slightly to the left of them is the PQ who has basically tricked the electorate into believing they're the "progressive" choice of the lot.
With Québec solidaire the only party with the clearest and most progressive policy out there (free education at all stages of life), they occupy the left.
This leaves the CAQ who, of course, devises a plan that is even more schemey than had been proposed by the Liberals. They argue at the summit that Québec should create two tiers of universities: one elite and one common.
The elite schools will be able to set their tuition fees at any rate and grants and loans will fill in the gaps to ensure that McGill doesn't become overrun with rich Americans and Ontarians.
Of course, the only way that the state could actually do this is to significantly reduce the public funding offered to these schools. In Ontario, this idea floats around the tables of the Council of Ontario Universities too. Led by U of T president David Naylor, he argues for the creation of a funding model that would all U of T (and a few other schools) to deregulate their tuition fees, charge what the market can bear and become truly prestigious.
Unsurprisingly, the presidents of the the Brocks and Nipissings of the world tend to oppose these recommendations.
While Ontario is much closer to Québec in fulfilling this reality, both provinces would substantially damage their systems if they created a two-tiered system. (It's unclear if the CAQ is ideologically in favour of creating such an elite system, or if they showed up late on the day that right-wing policies were being handed out and they were given a shitty one.)
Either way, I suspect that the CAQ's dream of an elite Université Laval is about as likely as their likelihood of forming a majority government.
This is good news, but it doesn't mean that the CAQ should be ignored.
In a minority government situation, there is a high possibility for the proposal of strange, regressive policies to be developed, voted on and passed.
This is why the students' and faculty responses will be so important.


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13 March 2013 | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau
Stomach cancer is the second highest cause of cancer-related deaths globally, and the fourth most common cancer diagnosed worldwide
Singapore: Scientists at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne, Australia, have been awarded funding from Cancer Council NSW to support research that will further understanding of stomach cancer. Cancer Council NSW has contributed $590,000 towards the research.
Stomach cancer is the second highest cause of cancer-related deaths globally, and the fourth most common cancer diagnosed worldwide. In Australia, more than 2000 cases are diagnosed annually.
Dr Lorraine O'Reilly from the institute's Molecular Genetics of Cancer division will lead the research team, which aims to find ways of better detecting the early stages of stomach cancer. Most cases of stomach cancer were diagnosed at a late stage, when there were few effective treatment options available, Dr O'Reilly said. "We have been able to develop a new model which replicates all the stages of human stomach cancer, including how it spreads throughout the body," she said.
It is not well understood how stomach cancer begins, although several risk factors have been identified. These include inflammation of the stomach lining (gastritis), stomach ulcers, the blood disorder pernicious anaemia, the consumption of certain types of preserved or pickled foods, and inheriting stomach cancer risk genes. "This funding will allow us to look closely at each stage of stomach cancer, from its inception through to its metastatic spread throughout the body," Dr O'Reilly said. "One important aspect of stomach cancer development, which we will be focusing on, is the link between inflammation of the stomach lining and cancer development. We hope our research will lead to better ways to diagnose early stage stomach cancer, which can be successfully treated with surgery, and to determine better medications for treating the more advanced disease, particularly once it has spread beyond the stomach."
The research team will include Dr Marco Herold and Professor Andreas Strasser from the institute's Molecular Genetics of Cancer division, and Dr Tracy Putoczki and Associate Professor Matthais Ernst from the institute's Cell Signalling and Cell Death division, working in collaboration with Professor Paul Waring from the University of Melbourne, Professor Steve Gerondakis from the Australian Centre for Blood Diseases, Associate Professor Alex Boussioutas from the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Associate Professor Richard Ferrero from the Monash Institute of Medical Research, and international collaborator Dr Laure Dumoutier from the Catholic University, Brussels, Belgium.


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I was going to make a toy for my grey with egg cartons, but I was concerned about salmonella from the eggs, and I didn't think there was any way to clean an egg carton.
Perhaps I could microwave it?
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Cardinals blanked by Mets in series opener
NEW YORK -- Manager Mike Matheny couldn't have asked for a lot more from Tyler Lyons' spot start -- except for some run support.
Lyons -- called up from Triple-A Memphis in the absence of Joe Kelly, who will miss about three starts with a strained left hamstring -- gave the Cardinals six innings in the opener of a four-game series on Monday, but they were shut out, 2-0, by Jenrry Mejia and three Mets relievers.
A hit batsman in the third and Lyons' throwing error in the sixth set the stage for the trouble created with RBI singles, the first by David Wright and the second by Travis d'Arnaud. One big swing could have taken care of all of that, but the Cardinals went 0-for-5 with runners in scoring position and left seven on base.
"You look at how we gave this game up today," said Matheny. "Two-out walks, a hit batsman, [Wright's] broken-bat hit. Then we get into a situation where we lead off with an error and two walks behind that. Things don't normally turn out that way, but I think the bigger story is our offense.
"A night like this you can blame on a lot of different things -- and a pitcher we hadn't seen a lot of is one of them -- but you have to make the most out of the few opportunities we are getting, and right now it's not happening."
A leadoff walk to Jhonny Peralta in the fifth was erased when shortstop Ruben Tejada made a diving stop, turned into a double play, on a smash up the middle by Jon Jay.
In the sixth, a second hit by Matt Carpenter and Allen Craig's looping single down the right-field line put runners on the corners with one out, but Mejia jammed Matt Holliday into hitting a popup and Matt Adams grounded out to second baseman Daniel Murphy.
In the seventh, when consecutive two-out walks to Jay and Ellis finished Mejia, Mets manager Terry Collins, with pinch-hitter Daniel Descalso announced, went to left-hander Scott Rice. So Matheny pulled Descalso for the right-handed-hitting Shane Robinson, who bounced out to third baseman Wright.
One inning later, Craig doubled to straightaway center with one out, but Carlos Torres struck out Holliday with a cutter and Adams with a curve. Even then the Cardinals still had one last tease in them. Yadier Molina led off the ninth with single off Kyle Farnsworth, who was seeking his first save of the season. But the next batter, Peralta, hit into a double play.
That sealed the loss for Lyons, who, to his credit, had pitched out of larger trouble in the sixth inning.
"Overall, it was OK," Lyons said about his ninth Major League start. "But it is tougher to swallow when you do a couple of things that kind of beat yourself. I throw that ball away, and it changes the whole complexion of that inning. I didn't get a very good grip on that ball is what it came down to. Just didn't take the time to get the grip I needed."
"[Lyons] did a nice job, got into a tough spot and worked out of it," said Matheny, "But the non-plays and free bases, they get us.
"When we are not hitting, those things really glare. I don't think it's going to be very frequent that happens to us. We're just going through a time without a lot of offense."
To shake some life into his offense, Matheny on Monday gave Kolten Wong the night off in favor of Mark Ellis, one day after resting the struggling Holliday, who is 5-for-26 on this trip.
"We can jump on [Holliday's] back when he gets it right," said Matheny. "Right now it is off just a little bit, but that guy threw a pretty good game out there.
"You are not going to pile up a lot of runs against good pitching. But I still put our offense up against anybody's."


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A new study suggests teens in military families whose relatives have been deployed to war zones are more likely to report depressive symptoms and suicidal thoughts.
University of Southern California researchers focused their research on seventh, ninth and eleventh graders, and found that those with military connections experience more sadness or hopelessness.
Using data from the 2011 California Healthy Kids Survey, they looked at how often teenagers reported feeling sad or hopeless.
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Walking and visiting with a professor today, she asked the name of my daughter. I indicated it was Aliza and she stated, "A good English name. You definitely look English, is it a family name?" We chatted a little longer before we separated, but it left me thinking, "Exactly what are my proportions of nationality?" Well, here they are. Even though I had always thought I was more German, I was wrong. I am more British.
Looking back 6 generations, I took each ancestor and assigned them 1/32 of my blood line (obviously). I then assigned them the nation to which their ancestors came from. Most of this generation were still in their native country so it was easy. My "US" line is only those designated that I do not definitively know which mother country they came from because they are so long in Virginia (at least to 1780). I debated about whether to lump the Saxon, Prussian, and Wuerttemberg lines because I am not lumping the Ireland, Wales, and English lines. I have provided a separate indication of my "German" and "British" lines.
3/16 – England – Sharp, Bailey, Stoker, Eames, Coley, Rogers
1/8 – Netherlands – Van Leeuwen, Weenig, Janzen, Van der Meij
1/8 – Saxony – Schneider, Andra, Knauke, Richter
1/8 – Wuerttemberg – Wanner, Schmid, Nuffer, Greiner
1/8 – US – Meredith, Shepherd, Graham and Miles lines
1/16 – Ireland – Donaldson, Todd
1/16 – Norway – Christiansen, Jorgensen
1/16 – Prussia – Jonas, Schumacher
1/16 – Sweden – Nelson (Nilsson), Benson (Bengtsson)
1/16 – Wales – Williams, Jordan
All together
5/16 – British
5/16 – German
I am willing to bet all 4 of my US lines were Wales and England. Therefore, 7/16 would be British. This is the largest percentage of them all, almost 50% of me is British! Maybe that is why I served a British mission (although none of my family came from within my mission).


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Wii U reviews begin: Mario & Nintendo Land rated
Wii U is out across Europe from November 30th, and the console's first software reviews have arrived online courtesy of Games Master. Check out the scores and what was said below.
CVG reports that the reviews come from this week's issue of Games Master.
The issue awards Nintendo Land an 86/100 score and New Super Mario Bros. U an 82/100 – perhaps not the kind of stellar scoring one would expect from flagship console launch titles.
CVG adds that the Nintendo Land review stated it contains "some of the most innovative, raucous and party-fuelling fun we've ever had with a console."
On Mario, the magazine stated that it "bodes well for Mario's future Wii U outings".
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Designs become icons when they embody the time in which they were created. The Eames lounge chair represented a midcentury shift to a more casual home life when many people still held "tea times" in formal living rooms. The invention of the Aeron chair in the 1990's marked an era when a company could show that it cared about its employees by giving them the pinnacle in ergonomic seating. Today, with the launch of Herman Miller's Public Office Landscape furniture system, Fuseproject, the design firm run by Yves Béhar, hopes to capture the spirit of our networked lives in a collection of chairs, desks, and space shaping components.
"We're trying to reflect horizontality and creativity," says Béhar. "Today, it's not just the boss that gets a special chair. Because of improvements in materials and the way we approach design, everyone can have one. With the Public Office Landscape, we tried to capture this notion of collaboration and immediate access to ways of getting together." On the surface the collection is stylish and airy, but below the polished aesthetics the system reveals a lot about what it means to be a modern office worker.
When Béhar was assigned the project it came with a broad mandate—far beyond simply developing a cubicle system or a table to match his award winning Sayl chair. He was tasked with creating "the ultimate collaborative office environment" a challenging creative brief that required the team to ask big questions about the changing nature of work.
The team asked big questions about the changing nature of work.
The process started with discussions on the psychology of creativity, including Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's research on "flow" states. Market research uncovered surprising information, like the fact that 70% of office interactions occur at a desk. The team intuitively knew that in an age of noise canceling headphones, small groups could meet in a central work area without causing a disturbance. And as designers they decided it was time to minimize the use of foam in seating — its ergonomic benefits are suspect, it's environmental effects are negative, and it lacks style. After synthesizing their data and discussions, the Fuseproject team distilled their findings into three actionable themes.
First, was the recognition that the reason we still have offices in an age of ultralight laptops and Skype is that value is derived from collaboration. "The companies we work with are better at what they do and can work faster because people are collaborating more," says Béhar. "Putting people into close proximity is the way to enhance that value and to foster a culture that is constantly creating it." They seized on the notion that most interactions happen at a desk and redesigned them accordingly, creating "social pods" with spaces for visitors and an eye towards collaboration.
Second, was breaking down the outdated notion that there are only two kinds of professional space—desks and meeting rooms. Having to schedule meeting rooms weeks in advance is a flow killer—so the team turned interstitial spaces, places workers walk through and by, into distributed gathering spots. Variations in color and visual elements throughout the system give team members a change of scenery. "This notion of variety is important," says Béhar. "When I look around in my office there are a lot of different types of places to interact. If I want to have a low voice interaction I can go into a cafe configuration, If I want to brainstorm I can go into a social pod." The Public Office Landscape lives up to its name and transforms potential dead space into "moments of potential collaboration."
The timing of the project was fortuitous—Fuseproject was in the midst of moving into a new 22,000 square foot office giving them the rare opportunity to continuously experiment with designs and live with the prototypes, a process that yielded additional insights. The idea of mixing meeting and workspaces wasn't a part of the original vision, but a theme that evolved organically as the project progressed.
Finally, the system had to be flexible, in terms of how people work at their desks and the ability to pivot, literally in this case, by reorienting the office layout as needed. "We still think about furniture systems and office work in old ways," says Béhar. "One thing I didn't understand was why you had to buy a system for a specific layout and it only worked with that layout? Why don't we have a system that can be used in multiple configurations? Instead of coming up with prescriptive solutions we tried to accommodate different types of behavior." The fact that modern office workers primarily using laptops and personal cell phones also freed Fuseproject from having to deal with old design headaches, like minding Ethernet drops, freeing them up to imagine more mobile, social solutions.
The Public Office Landscape system is being displayed for the first time at NeoCon, the furniture industry's premier tradeshow, but, according to Béhar, has been a hit at Fuseproject. "We have two formal meeting rooms in our office for client presentation, but no one wants to use them for internal meetings anymore," he says. "Physical, enclosed meeting room have become unattractive for collaborative interaction."
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The Party of Silicon Valley?
Nate Silver had an interesting piece yesterday which concludes based on statistical evidence (as opposed to wishful thinking) that President Barack Obama and the Democrats had won the support of "80 or 90 percent of the best and the brightest minds in the information technology field," who reside and work in the San Francisco Bay Area and its peripheries. Some of the numbers that Silver provides:
- Obama won the nine counties in the Bay Area by margins ranging from 25 percentage points in Napa Valley to 42 percentage points in Santa Clara (and its Silicon Valley) to 71 (!) percentage points in San Francisco. Overall the difference in percentage points between Obama and Romney in the Bay Area was 49 percent compared to 22 percent in California.
- Republicans have been losing every county in the Bay Area by double-digit margin since 1988 with the margin of loss continuing to grow with each election.
- Among employees who work for Google, Apple, and eBay Obama collected between 89 percent to 97 percent of the itemized political contributions this year. Silver also refers to a study that indicates that between the two presidential candidates, Obama raised 83 percent of the funds among the ten American information technology companies featured on Fortune magazine's list of the 50 most admired companies.
Add to these figures the fact that Obama, according to a report on CNBC, carried eight of the ten richest of the counties in the nation, including Fairfax and Ludlum in Virginia, and it becomes clear that Romney's former chief strategist Stuart Stevens still doesn't get it, having made the case this week is that Obama and the Democrats had won thanks to the support of the underclass and minorities and by promoting a liberal agenda.
As I noted on this site, one of the minority groups that Obama won were Asian Americans whose median annual income is higher than that of whites in this country, and that Democrats are trending very well among educated and relatively affluent voters like these precisely because of the more liberal positions they advocate on social-cultural policy issues like abortion, gay marriage, and drug legalization.
Indeed, as Silver noted in his analysis, libertarian Republican candidate Ron Paul raised about $42,000 among Goggle workers, much more than the $25,000 that Romney collected, concluding that "perhaps a different kind of Republican candidate, one whose views on social policy were more in line with those of the Bay Area and the cultures of the leading companies there, could gather more support" among the Silicon Valley types.
It does indeed make a lot of sense for Republicans and libertarians to start promoting a "Silicon Valley Republican" brand that in theory could start attracting young, educated, and affluent voters into the GOP. But my guess is that such a strategy would face many obstacles.
While the libertarian agenda on social-cultural issues like drug legalization and gay marriage was advanced on November 6, there is no evidence of any growing support for libertarian economic positions in general, and among members of the "creative class" in places like the Silicon Valley or Fairfax County in particular. For example, I doubt very much that many of these voters share the more skeptical libertarian view on climate change or care a lot about the future of the Fed.
In any case, I am also very skeptical that the Republican Party is going to suddenly change its positions on abortion or drug legalization (although we may witness less ideological rigidness on gay rights). Liberal Democrats are better positioned now to push for more progressive legislation on these issues, while young voters now associate the Republican brand name with xenophobia, religious intolerance, gay-bashing, and war-mongering. In that context, a Silicon Valley Republican sounds to many of them like an oxymoron.


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Makes about 2 cups
2 large bunches of salad radishes, greens and roots attached
2 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon fine sea salt
3 cloves garlic, minced
1/4 cup gochujang (a fermented red chile paste), homemade or store-bought
1. Wash the radishes well, particularly the greens. Slice each radish in half lengthwise, leaving some of the greens attached to each half. In a large bowl, toss the radishes with the salt, really rubbing it into the radish bulbs and the greens. Cover with a drop lid or a plate and place a 1 1/2 -pound weight on top; let sit for 1 hour.
2. Rinse the radishes well under running water. Squeeze, squeeze, squeeze the greens with all your might, getting out all of the moisture possible. Return the radishes to the bowl and, using your hands, massage in the garlic and gochujang evenly. Press down firmly on the radishes to make them compact. Place a layer of plastic wrap directly, but loosely, on top of the pickle, leaving room for air to come in along the sides. Replace the drop lid or plate and weight. Cover bowl loosely with a kitchen towel to allow air in, and keep out insects and debris. Let the pickle sit in a cool, dark place for 2 to 3 days, until it has a pleasantly tangy, fermented aroma.
3. Toss the pickle to coat with the liquid. Pack it into a 1-pint jar. Your pickle is ready to eat. Refrigerated, it will keep for 3 months.
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Some students protested tuition increases. Some lamented cuts to the Bright Futures scholarship program. And some said they were only after the extra credit.
But when the 200 or so university students cheered, chanted and booed on the Capitol steps Thursday, they all seemed to have one common goal.
"Being a student means you've sometimes got to speak truth to power, and let them know where you stand," Rep. Darryl Rouson (D- St. Petersburg) said in preacher's cadence, drawing wild cheers from the crowd.
Many of the students were en route to Tallahassee before dawn, on busses from the state's 11 universities. Thirty-three attended from the University of South Florida.
The rally came at a time when tuition has hiked 60 percent in four years, said Michael Long, chairman of the Florida Student Association.
The proposed House budget would bump up tuition another 15 percent. The Senate's budget proposals are not yet released.
"We don't mind contributing to our education, as long as it's reasonable," he said.
The Florida Student Association, which organized the rally, handed out pamphlets with three legislative goals.
•Maintain the current level of state funding.
•Increase money for Bright Futures but strengthen qualification requirements.
•Reject proposals pending in the Legislature that would allow the governor to appoint the student member on the Board of Governors. Traditionally, Florida Student Association members elect the position.
Senate President Mike Haridopolos (R-Melbourne), in his speech, promised to protect Bright Futures and criticized former Legislatures for misspending money that could have gone toward education.
"For those who don't know, Florida has the fifth lowest tuition in the United States today," he said.
"Keep it that way!" a student shouted.
Frank Brogan, chancellor of the state university system, praised lawmakers for pushing degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (known as STEM).
"It will ensure that the next PalmPilot or BlackBerry isn't founded in California in the Silicon Valley," he said. "The next generation of technology will be right here in the Sunshine State."
Abdool Aziz, a USF biology senior, said he shares the sentiment but thinks politicians shouldn't go too far.
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Gustavo is a minor character who appears only in Book 1 of Breaking Dawn. He is married to Native Ticuna, Kaure, both of whom are housekeepers on Isle Esme.
He is portrayed by Sebastiao Lemos in the first movie adaptation of Breaking Dawn.
Breaking Dawn
In Breaking Dawn, Gustavo accompanies Kaure, his wife, as Bella and Edward Cullen's housekeepers while on their honeymoon on Isle Esme. He is portrayed as a polite and kind person who speaks Portuguese.
He feels often embarrassed by Kaure's superstitions and wants her to be more modern.
Physical appearance
Gustavo is a middle aged Brazilian who speaks Portuguese. He is mentioned to have a round body with copper skin, dark eyes and grayish hair. His face is wrinkled, like his wife. In the movie, he has a goatee.
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What's The Meaning?
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Colorado twin sisters Karen Sutton and Kimberly Hinton wanted to become commercial airline pilots. But when they applied for pilot positions with United Airlines, the twins met all the basic job requirements except one: Both are severely nearsighted. Although each has 20/20 vision with the aid of her glasses, United still refused to hire them. In response to the airline's decision, the sisters sued under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which prohibits discrimination against disabled people. But are they really disabled?
That's the question the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider when it took the case, after both the District Court and the Tenth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the airline. And on June 22, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in this case, in addition to two others, all raising the question of exactly who is entitled to ADA protection. In all three cases, the court issued rulings that narrow the definition of disability. According to the rulings, none of the plaintiffs--three with poor eyesight and one with high blood pressure--qualified for protection under the ADA.
So what does this mean for entrepreneurs? The decisions could make life easier for employers fraught with questionable lawsuits over alleged discrimination.
In the Sutton case, the sisters offered two arguments. First, they argued that although otherwise qualified for the job, they were actually disabled because of their eyesight, so the employer was obligated by law to provide reasonable accommodations. Second, they argued that they were "regarded" as disabled, which under the ADA qualifies people for protection just as much as actual disability.
On the first issue, the key question was whether the determination of disability should be made with or without reference to measures taken to mitigate the disability. That is, should the court consider whether the twins are disabled without the aid of their glasses, or with the benefits their glasses provide? The justices noted that the language of the ADA defines a disability as an impairment that "substantially limits one or more major life activities," not that it "could" or "might" limit them. Since the sisters applied for the job with their vision improved by corrective lenses, they did not qualify as disabled. Further, the justices noted, the ADA found that 43 million Americans have one or more physical or mental disability. But if everyone who needed glasses, a hearing aid, heart medication or other corrective device was classified as disabled, the group would include approximately 160 million people.
But were the twins denied employment because they were "regarded" as disabled? The sisters argued that the airline's vision requirement was based on myth and stereotype, and that it wrongly assumed they were substantially limited from the major life activity of working. The court disagreed, noting that the women were precluded from only one type of job, so the employer wasn't operating according to its belief in stereotypes. The ADA allows employers to prefer some physical attributes over others, so long as the discouraged attributes aren't actual disabilities.
Steven C. Bahls, dean of Capital University Law School in Columbus, Ohio, teaches entrepreneurship law. Freelance writer Jane Easter Bahls specializes in business and legal topics.
Who's Disabled?
The other two cases decided by the court concerned similar issues. In Oregon, a doctor erroneously certified that truck driver Hallie Kirkingburg, who is nearly blind in one eye, met Department of Transportation (DOT) standards for commercial truck drivers. With that assessment, Kirkingburg worked as a truck driver for two years for the supermarket chain Albertsons Inc. When his vision was correctly assessed in a subsequent physical, Albertsons discharged him, refusing to accept a DOT waiver of the vision standard. Kirkingburg sued under the ADA. Although the lower court ruled in favor of the employer, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that Kirkingburg had established a disability because his manner of seeing was "different" from the way most people see.
In accord with its decision in the Sutton case, the Supreme Court ruled that because Kirkingburg's mind had compensated for the impairment, he didn't qualify as being disabled under the ADA. Albertsons wasn't required by law to participate in the waiver program, which amounted to a DOT experiment.
The third case concerned Vaughn Murphy, a Kansas mechanic for UPS Inc. Murphy was discharged because high blood pressure precluded his meeting DOT health standards--a requirement because his job included test-driving the vehicles he repaired. The Supreme Court upheld the ruling of the Tenth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals that, because Murphy's high blood pressure was controlled by medication, he was not disabled. Nor was he regarded as disabled, because the reason for termination was his inability to obtain DOT health certification, not some perception that he wasn't capable of performing a broad range of jobs.
Court V. EEOC
"The ADA isn't meant to guarantee every individual the ability to get every job that's out there," says employment law specialist Jennifer Kearns, a partner with Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison LLP in San Diego. Kearns notes that the June 22 decisions are especially significant because the Supreme Court calls into question the interpretive guidelines promulgated to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). "We have the statute--the ADA--plus the whole body of EEOC guidelines and regulations," she says.
While employers have taken for granted that EEOC regulations have the force of law, the Supreme Court opinion specifically overruled one EEOC guideline by stating that the decision whether someone is disabled should take into account corrective measure. The court even stated that the EEOC's regulation to the contrary is "an impermissible interpretation of the ADA." On another issue, whether the EEOC's definition of "major life activity" includes working, the justices noted that they were not ruling on whether the regulations were valid. "I think that's a red flag for issues that are going to be litigated in the future," Kearns says.
Law professor Ruth Colker of The Ohio State University College of Law in Columbus and co-author of The Law of Disability Discrimination (Anderson Publishing), the leading casebook on the ADA, considers the rulings a watershed. She explains that the ADA only allows people to sue under the act if they meet the definition for being disabled. Anyone can sue over alleged discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, leaving it to the courts to decide whether or not discrimination took place. Under the ADA, however, people who don't meet the definition of being disabled aren't permitted to sue. "These decisions raise the threshold," says Colker, who contends the court's decision runs contrary to the intent of Congress in framing the ADA.
Fewer ADA Lawsuits
Irving Miller, an employment law attorney with Akerman, Senterfitt & Eidson in Miami, disagrees. "The framers of the ADA had the most altruistic motives in mind," he says. "They believed people with disabilities weren't getting access to the working world." But in practice, he contends, most of those who sue under the ADA aren't really disabled. "Anyone fired at work finds a way to tie it to some protected category."
"These decisions are going to cut down considerably on the number of frivolous lawsuits filed against employers by people with all kinds of phantom disabilities," predicts Miller, who worked for the EEOC for 15 years before entering private practice. He contends that the decisions will discourage plaintiffs' attorneys, who are typically paid a percentage of the damages, from taking disability discrimination cases that really have no merit.
So what's the message that employers need to consider? Experts offer the following observations:
- Be aware. "You definitely need to be aware of potential ADA issues," says Kearns. While businesses with 15 or fewer employees are presently not covered by the ADA, state laws may have lower thresholds. California's equivalent, for instance, applies to businesses with five or more employees.
- Don't assume. "The fact that someone has an impairment or needs correction doesn't mean he or she is disabled," Kearns adds. Nor does it mean this person isn't disabled. An employee taking medication for a heart problem might function normally, or might not be able to walk 10 steps without resting. Disability questions must be decided on a case-by-case basis.
- Expect fewer lawsuits. The Supreme Court precedent should discourage frivolous lawsuits over disabilities, without doing harm to those who genuinely need the protection of the ADA. For those cases that fall in between, Colker predicts employers will be in a stronger position for settlement.
- Consider appeals. "If your business has recently lost an ADA case, talk to a lawyer about appealing," Colker says. Because the rulings are an authoritative interpretation of existing law, prior cases could be affected if appealed now.
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26 July, 2017 – As devastating, traumatic and lonely stroke can be, there is a ton of positivity that can be explored during this stage of life journey which so many people fail to realize. They can learn to accept, appreciate and open themselves to a new world positive possibilities. Although staying active could be very difficult after the lightning bolt strike of stroke, survivors can be motivated to live a meaningful life.
Stroke survivor and author, Carol E. Yorke is gradually turning her experience to help and motivate other stroke survivors. Carol is the author the book, Brain Attack: Surviving a Stoke plus several adult coloring books. She has dedicated herself to using a different way to motivate and give people with stroke hope so they can stay healthy and active at all times.
Carol E. Yorke is presently seeking for funds via the crowd funding platform, Kickstarter, where she aims to raise money for her next project- Wheel Chair Travel Guide To Berlin. She hopes to use this as a strong message of hope and encourage other stroke patients that they can still conquer their fear, and go even to conquer the world.
Sharing her experience on Carol's can-do spirit, her Doctor comments, "Having known Carol and her courageous efforts to have a meaningful life following her stroke, reading her book was a joy to me. She is an inspiration and a model of how one can endure and thrive (not just survive) the life changing events caused by a stroke. Her message is clear and concise and invaluable to those who have had a stroke, their families, and friends."
She says further, "Beyond her inspirational and loving message, Carol lists helpful resources to make the road to recovery from a stroke less burdensome. I will have Carol's book in my office for patients and families to read – it speaks to the heart and soul at a level traditional medicine often overlooks."
About Carol E. White
In her full life, she spent 25 years working as a CPA in a variety of public In her full life, she spent 25 years working as a CPA in a variety of public accounting roles, was married 3 times and toured West Germany in 1975 with a 4-piece band called 'Hogwood."
But in 2009 Carol's busy life suddenly took a turn when she suffered a debilitating stroke. Since that day, she has devoted much of her time to supporting other stroke survivors and in April 2015 published her first book, Brain Attack: Surviving a Stroke.
Carol has also produced several adult coloring books which she has found to be very therapeutic.
When she isn't writing, Carol enjoys spending time with her many friends, her sister, and other family members. She hopes that she will one day be able to walk again, live in "real house," and travel the world independently.
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"The Giants win a game they probably shouldn't have."
--Duane Kuiper after Brian Wilson struck out Adam LaRoche.
'Tis true, 'tis true. The Giants walked nine guys, hit three, were 0-for-5 with runners in scoring position, hit into a double play, had a caught stealing by a pinch-runner, and made an error. Their offense consisted of a home run by the backup catcher and a bases-loaded pinch-walk from the benched-for-slumping first baseman. Mike Fontenot started at shortstop. Miguel Tejada got the call at third base with the injury to Pablo Sandoval, the club's hottest hitter. Buster Posey played first base. Jonathan Sanchez teetered on the brink of madness, or rather, I teetered on the brink of madness watching him, and still reeling a bit from all the weirdness, nearly went mad again watching Brian Wilson in the 9th. It was an ugly display by the starter and also by the closer, yet the Nationals only managed two hits and one (unearned) run! Thank goodness the middle guys were nearly perfect. There was some serious weirdness today in Washington as the Giants pulled off an improbable win.
Darren Ford got his first hit, a line drive up the middle just over the leaping Danny Espinosa at second base. He also nearly ran over Cody Ross in right field to catch a deep fly ball. It was fun to watch him jog all the way back to center field after the play. It's hard to fault a guy for trying too hard even if it did seem like he forgot there was another guy out there with a glove! He can sure move. His career minor league line is .268/.349/.374, which is not encouraging, but if he can contribute in the short term and "make things happen" as they say that can't be bad. The caught stealing was a perfect throw from Nats catcher Wilson Ramos.
I was happy to see Buster Posey get two hits, he needs to find his stroke. Mike Fontenot also got two hits. I expect we'll be seeing a lot more of him (it was his error that led to the unearned run, but it came on a high throw from Posey). Ryan Rohlinger was called up to fill the Panda's spot. Eli Whiteside deserves a nod for having a big day. Everyone on the bench is going to get called on in the coming weeks so they better be ready to contribute.
Matt Cain tomorrow. I'm hoping he's really boring, you know, lots of strikes and consecutive outs. I don't want any more high-wire acts. The Giants are a bit of a leaky boat, with some questionable patching material (Emmanuel Burriss?), and they need to stay afloat. They don't come home until the weekend and they don't have an off day until the 9th of May. I'm way past "torture" around here--that was so last year. No, I prefer "the grind." This year is a grind, a long, slow grind, like a goddamn glacier or something. Gird your loins for the long haul, me buckos, nothing is going to be easy or pretty in 2011.


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By far, the biggest news to come out of the X Games 15 woman's superpipe was the first ever 1080 to be thrown in a pipe contest by a female. Kelly Clark got a solid first run under her belt before she threw the 1080 into the mix. By her final run, which happened to be a victory lap, with some of the pressure relieved she brought it around with ease. Let's just say Kelly Clark is having a good season. Kaitlyn Farrington walked away with a silver medal after locking down her best score of the night in her first run. Elena Hight was able to walk away with a 3rd place finish. Aspen's crowd favorite Gretchen Bleiler looked solid despite her absences from the contest scene this year, but consistency proved to be a problem after she took a spill in each run. The first of which, she appeared to take a pretty hard blow to the head. Noticeably absent was Torah Bright who decided to save herself for the slopestyle event.
Kelly Clark has now taken women's snowboarding another step further. If Kelly can stay consistent with this 1080, in order for anyone to beat her, they are going to have to learn the trick themselves. In turn making the entire field progress with her. And for that, we tip our hats to Kelly Clark for leading the charge.
X Games 15 Womens Superpipe Results
1. Kelly Clark
2. Kaitlyn Farrington
3. Elena Hight
4. Soko Yamaoka
5. Queralt Castellet
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Whist is a fun way for people of all ages to stay mentally active and socially engaged, said John Gonsalves, the organizer of the Saturday night whist parties at the Bridgewater Senior Center.
Whist is a fun way for people of all ages to stay mentally active and socially engaged, said John Gonsalves, the organizer of the Saturday night whist parties at the Bridgewater Senior Center.
Gonsalves should know. The Taunton teacher has been playing the venerable card game since he was 14, when his aunt and uncle Arlene and John Gouveia of Taunton taught him the ropes.
Now, the three of them enjoy the bridge-like game together at the senior center and elsewhere.
But that's where the family resemblance stops.
John Gouveia, a retired custodian at Taunton High School, describes himself as a defensive player.
He said he likes to play it safe, not just in whist, but in life.
"I'm conservative," said Gouveia, decked out in a blue cardigan.
Not so for Gonsalves.
In life and in whist, he's a risk-taker, he said.
He likes to play the stock market, and he likes to get those trump cards out on the table.
"I go on the offensive," Gonsalves said.
Perhaps it's the influence of his aunt, a retired Taunton elementary teacher at St. Mary's and the Elizabeth Pole School.
"I don't know about life, but I am a risk taker in whist," Arlene Gouveia said.
Gonsalves said dozens of seniors from around the area turn out for the bi-weekly games, including residents of Lakeville, Taunton, Raynham, Plymouth and, of course, Bridgewater.
The atmosphere is lively, the hum of chatter and shuffling of cards filling the air.
It doesn't hurt that Gonsalves sweetens the pot with prizes, mainly non-perishable groceries, for the lucky winners.
Dorothea Reynolds, 82, of Bridgewater said she enjoys the excitement of game night.
Reynolds, the scorekeeper, stands guard over the five long tables of players with her trusty hole punch, marking players' cards after each round.
She's not tempted to play, she said. The view from the sidelines is just fine by her.
"I nibble on this and that, work the jigsaw puzzle in between and gossip. I get to catch up on all the latest stuff," Reynolds said.
Roger Proulx of Taunton said he looks forward to the whist parties, which run from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. officially, but often don't wind down until at least 9:30 p.m.
"It's a great bunch of people to hang out with. We all have something in common. We like to play whist," Proulx said.
Arlene Gouveia seconded that.
"It's a great pastime. We joke and tell stories. There's a lot of social interaction," she said.
Her husband said he's downright addicted to the game, which the couple has played for more than 50 years.
"I like the challenge of having a poor hand and seeing if I can win," John Gouveia said.
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Thai police shut down panel on Rohingya
Police in Thailand have shut down a forum organised by foreign journalists to discuss whether senior military officers in Myanmar should face justice for alleged human rights abuses committed by their forces.
About a dozen policemen have shown up ahead of the scheduled panel discussion at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand on Monday and ordered the panellists not to speak.
The scheduled speakers included Tun Khin, a prominent UK-based Rohingya activist; Kobsak Chutikul, a former Thai diplomat; and Kingsley Abbott, a representative of the International Commission of Jurists, a rights advocacy group.
Last month, a specially-appointed UN human rights team recommended that Myanmar military leaders should be prosecuted for genocide against the Rohingya. Critics of Burma's military have also accused it of carrying out ethnic cleansing and other war crimes.
Some 700,000 Rohingya fled across the border to Bangladesh after the army launched a counter-insurgency campaign in response to attacks by Rohingya militants last August.
The army, which for decades has been accused of violating the human rights of various ethnic minorities, denies having committed organised rights abuses.
Police at the Bangkok event handed over a letter requesting that the panel discussion on "Will Myanmar's Generals Ever Face Justice for International Crimes?" should be cancelled because it could damage national security, affect foreign relations and a give a third party the opportunity to create unrest.
However, policeman Thawatkiat Jindakuansanong told organisers: "We are not asking. We are ordering you to cancel the event."
It is believed to be the sixth time police have forced a cancellation of one of the group's programs since Thailand's military seized power from an elected government in 2014. Politically sensitive events in other venues have also been stopped.
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It's been fascinating to watch the cheerleading that's gone on since the announcement that the Graham family was selling The Washington Post to Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos.
When the announcement was made, the reaction from technologists and Web journalists was pretty reflexive. Many out there are describing Bezos as a savior, as the person who will finally help The Post get its digital act together. Lots of cheerleading about the possibilities with new packaging, and the "bold" business acumen of Bezos.
We've seen letters to Bezos from former Posties and declarations of hope from former Posties who worked for Bezos. We've seen a little finger-wagging from current Posties as well as a long parade of sentimentalism praising Don Graham, and reminiscing of a time gone by.
It seems we've seen both ends of the spectrum — cheerleading from technologists and other journalists who seem almost giddy that a rich tech guru will become a major media player — and those lamenting the end of an era.
Where's the healthy skepticism?
It's been hard to find. As another former employee of the Post Company (I worked at washingtonpost.com from 1996-2006) I'm also curious as to how this new transition will work out but I've hesitated to jump on the Bezos bandwagon.
There have been a few out there who have registered concerns. Jeff Jarvis tweeted: "One thing about Bezos and a newspaper: He is no proponent of openness. A more secretive tech company it's hard to find." And, Christopher Mims tweeted: "Jeff Bezos now owns both Washington Post, $600 million server cloud for CIA. That won't be a conflict of interest."
And, Felix Salmon pointed out some basic management issues that may not sit well at The Post: "It (Amazon) also employs, mostly indirectly, thousands of workers in warehouses around the world, picking and packaging the goods it sells; those workers are treated badly, and enjoy effectively zero slack in their working lives."
Yet, it's been difficult to hear any real analysis amongst the cacophony of cheerleaders saying Bezos will create a Post where the readers will finally get what they want (like with Amazon.) What exactly does that mean? More coverage of the Royals? More video of car chases? More shallow news of the weird?
There's been plenty of commentary about what a technologist like Bezos can bring to a company like The Washington Post. And, yes, after stagnating for the past 15 years, The Post will finally have to change its business model and those not on board with a "digital-first" mindset will not last long.
But, what about the journalism? Yes, The Post was a great newspaper but just because the delivery mode is changing doesn't mean the journalism should.
The real questions for Bezos have not been asked — or answered.
Will he invest in a timely, costly investigative pieces?
Will he devote time and resources to foreign reporting?
Will he re-open bureaus that have been closed in the past decade as cost-cutting measures?
Some have described Bezos as a bottom-line kind of guy, well the bottom-line is that good investigative journalism takes time and money. And, Bezos won't see much return on his investment, unless you can start quantifying "afflicting the comfortable" and holding government accountable.
Since the onset of Web journalism, there has been a wrestling match over the role of journalists and editors. The gatekeeping role has disappeared — no longer do journalists and editors determine what the user/consumer should read. The Great Decoupling, as JD Lasica put it. That unwillingness to give up the gatekeeping role and create new roles hurt The Post and many other news organizations.
But, it's beginning to feel like the pendulum needs to swing back a little. We live in a scary, secretive time where the idea of privacy is laughable and where the public, press, and judiciary all seem to support the right of the government to eavesdrop and collect information on the citizenry at will. Jay Rosen recently asked how we can get ourselves back to an informed citizenry.
Jeff Bezos can go a long way to doing that by investing in journalism. I think many are hoping he will. We'll see.


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Why would chipmaker Intel want to commission science fiction authors to write stories? So that the technology-focused company can start thinking more in terms of user applications. The Tomorrow Project, a new anthology that Intel published online a few months back, aims to help Intel's engineers imagine how people will actually want to use technology in the future, so they can design better products.
It's a product of Intel's social science division, which BusinessWeek says
assesses technological trends by sending anthropologists and sociologists to hang out in living rooms, senior care centers, and hospitals. The logic behind the effort: Understand how technology is used and you're more likely to design chips people will buy.
Part of the division is Brian David Johnson, Intel's resident futurist, who spearheaded The Tomorrow Project. The video at left shows Johnson talking about the project and how it fits in to Intel's mission.
The contributors to the book include Douglas Rushkoff, along with Ray Hammond, Scarlett Thomas and Markus Heitz. (A second volume comes out in October.) The whole thing is available for download as a free PDF and a podcast. Here's how Rushkoff's story, "Last Day of Work" begins:
I'm finally doing it. Clocking out for the last time.
It's been twenty years since they began offering the package, close to a decade since the company's been down to just the skeletal observation crew, and over a year since it's been just me. Well, Curtis and me, but he wasn't every fully here, anyway, so when he left the office it was more like watching someone log off one network to join another.
And I'm looking forward to it, I really am. I just thought being the last one here would be a more notable achievement. At least more noted. An accomplishment as fame-worthy as something my father could have done. So while it is a significant human milestone, I'm sure of it, I just so happen to be doing it when nobody is around to care. I am the headline of every newspaper, the front page of every web site, and the message in everybody's inbox: Dr. Spiegel Turns Off the Lights.
Read the whole thing at the link. [The Tomorrow Project via Business Week]


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Activists protest Lakers Coach Phil Jackson's comments on Arizona's new immigration law
Activists outraged at comments made by Lakers Coach Phil Jackson that seem to back Arizona's controversial new immigration law plan to rally outside Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles before Monday's playoff opener against the Phoenix Suns.
"The way we look at it, Phil Jackson is supporting the Arizona law," said Mario Gonzalez, a longtime Lakers fan and rally organizer. "That's surprising. It caught us off guard. We want to find out where the team stands on the law."
John Black, the Lakers' vice president for public relations, did not respond to telephone messages seeking comment.
Sparking the furor are remarks made by Jackson to ESPN.com columnist J.A. Adande in which the Lakers coach seems to back the incendiary Arizona law, which allows local police to check citizens documents and arrest them if they don't have them.
"Am I crazy, or am I the only one that heard [the legislature] say, 'We just took the United States immigration law and adopted it to our state?'" Jackson said of the Arizona statute.
The Lakers coach then disputed the columnist's assertion that Arizona legislatures had "usurped" federal immigration law -- an allegation widely made by critics who say the law could lead to racial profiling of Latinos.
Supporters say the state law complements federal statutes and deny any intent to target Latinos.
"It's not usurping" federal law, Jackson replied, adding that the Arizona lawmakers "gave it some teeth to be able to enforce it."
Jackson, long known as a free spirit who in Adande's words "has showed lefty leanings in the past," also seems to chastise the Suns' management for its criticism of the Arizona law.
The Suns' owner and several players have publicly criticized the statute.
"I don't think teams should get involved in the political stuff," Jackson told the ESPN.com columnist. "If I heard it right, the American people are really for stronger immigration laws, if I'm not mistaken. Where we stand as basketball teams, we should let that kind of play out and let the political end of that go where it's going to go."
Gonzalez, the protest organizer, said Monday's rally was not meant as a call to boycott the Lakers or root against the L.A. squad in its push to repeat as league champions. Rather, he said, the action is aimed at condemning Jackson's apparent support for the Arizona law and clarifying Lakers management's opinion on the matter.
"We want to know the team and Phil Jackson's opinion on the law," Gonzalez said.
Supporters of the rally said they wanted to give Jackson and the Lakers the opportunity to clarify their position on the Arizona law. Activists voiced the hope that both the Lakers and Jackson would follow the Suns' example and come out against Arizona's plan.
"We want to give Phil Jackson the benefit of the doubt," said Nativo Lopez, head of the Mexican American Political Assn. "There are nuances here that Phil Jackson perhaps is not familiar with. He's an expert at basketball but not at immigration law."
-- Patrick J. McDonnell
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My primary research interest lies in animal communication and signalling behaviour. I am currently a postdoctoral researcher, investigating chimpanzee communicative behaviour within a cultural framework to contribute to our understanding of the behavioural flexibility of these animals. This work is conducted as part of the Pan African Programme: The Cultured Chimpanzee. My doctoral thesis investigated wild chimpanzee acoustic communication, where I also helped to develop a novel method for using vocalizations and auditory signals as a monitoring tool for primates living in a tropical rainforest. I continue to be interested in bridging the gap between behavioural research and applied conservation and hope to continue working on non-invasive monitoring methods.
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